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#Committee Meetings
Committee Minutes - 19 November 2018
Attendance: David McCall (Chair), David Jamieson (Hall Manager), Douglas Waddell (Treasurer), Val Bradbury, Martin Barrett, Richard Copson, Joanne Harris, Mike Riding, Davie Stitt (Councillor)
Apologies: Alan Dingle (Dep. Chair), Robert Kennedy, Frank Williamson, Ian Blake (Councillor)
Attendance and Apologies: As noted above
Minutes of previous meeting. Minutes accepted as a true representation of the meeting
Matters arising
David M organised collections on behalf of Poppy Scotland. Many thanks to all who donated, including at the Mariner, The Anchor, The Ark, Colvend shop, and the Clonyard. £88.25 was raised. This was added to the overall Dalbeattie total of £3,600
The road drains appear blocked around Merse Way and at the top of Kippford near the caravan park. Davie Stitt will again raise this with the Council
Various pot holes have recently been repaired.
Donations: Since the start of the new year (1st Sept), we have received 2 donations worth £160.
Hall Hire: The Dinwiddie’s paid £850 for their wedding last year.
Events: The Wine Tasting was great fun despite being attended by only 25 people. A net £86 was raised after paying the presenters for the wine, oatcakes, cheese and bread.
Car Park Contributions: £456 banked so far this year.
Hall Improvements / Outgoings: Repairs to the windows in the entrance hall cost £250 and other issues were noted. The hall repainting cost £4,371. Hedge cutting by the car park cost £156. The usual cleaning and electricity payments were made.
The Kipp: We received a £9,000 grant from Dumfries & Galloway Council. We paid out £1,099 for clearing the area above the top gate and improving drainage
Other Income: Just over £5 of interest received.
Outgoings: Nothing apart from the usual electricity and cleaning charges.
Cash Book Balance:As at today, general funds were approximately £24,030 and there was also approx. £13,026 earmarked for The Kipp.
Hall Manager’s Report
Awaiting a cost for the Christmas tree. Date of delivery to be confirmed.
Hall Refurb: Various quotes and samples have been sought for new curtains for the hall, both online and in stores in Glasgow, Carlisle and Dumfries. We have also extensively investigated using the donated curtains. It is generally agreed that we will move forward with new curtains as the donated ones present too many challenges around make, cost, and some damaged panels. David M to write to thank our donator for their thoughtfulness in offering curtains.
Website (www.kippfordvillage.org): We have been in talks with the UK Hydrographic Office about using tidal times on our website. They have agreed to grant us a free license to use the data next year. We will be launching a new mailing list to automatically email committee minutes to Kippford residents and owners
122 subscribers on the email list. Our Facebook page has 585 followers; 106 on Twitter; 198 on Instagram.
New bookings:
26 January – RNLI Soup and Sandwich
16/17 July – Private function
Up and coming Hall events
26 November – AGM
7 December – Carol Concert
Update form the Kipp Group
We have received £10k from SWEAT and £8k from the EON Robin Rigg fund.
We had applied to the LEADer fund for £32k however they have run out of funds. Richard is looking for alternatives. We still have an application going through with IPA for £44k.
We have received various quotes for the construction of a car parking area. Varying from £20k to £30k. Dyke repairs around £12-15k. Arboretum around £14k
Mike has placed an order for the native woodland trees. These are expected February/March. We need to do the mounding work on the land in preparation by the end of the year. We have £14k worth of trees from the Forestry Commission plus four years of £1,000 for maintenance of the trees.
Storm damage trees on the land are currently being dealt with.
Val to speak to Threave to seek assistance with tree planting. We will also ask local schools and the villagers to assist.
Regarding the damaged fencing – after repeated failed attempts to engage with Scottish Power (who damaged the fence), David M drove to Glasgow to move things forward with SP. He was passed on to SP Energy Network. A local manager spoke with David and they met. SPEN accepted they would repair fence and install new stakes.
Seawall Update
David M contacted resident Jack Nicholson to confirm we have spoken with the council, but they have no funds to undertake repairs. The KA can’t be responsible for council-maintained property.
D&G Council Resilience Team
David J mentioned that the D&G Resilience Team details needed updated with contacts in the village. Current he is on the list, but we should have one more. This list is used by D&G Council in the event of a disaster in the village – the hall to be used as a central hub for the village. It was agreed that David M would be added to the list.
The council are also seeking thoughts on our ability to store sand bags to assist with flooding in the village. We need to understand the quantity involved. David J will follow up. Can they deliver in advance of a flood warning, and remove later?
The Carol Concert is on the 7 December in the Village Hall. It was agreed that there would be no admission fee. Mulled wine and mince pies would be provided at the interval. David J to arrange.
AGM Preparation
Frank Williamson is stepping down from the committee due to ongoing work commitments. Val will seek nomination, as she was previous co-opted onto the committee. Dougie Waddell is stepping down as Treasurer and committee member after 8 year. The committee extend its thanks for all his work.
David J confirmed there had been no nominations received via email. David M confirmed that he and his wife had hand delivered 230 AGM notices to all households in the village. Emails had also been sent to all on the list.
AOCB
It was proposed that an area of The Kipp be named to mark the Centenary of the death of Lieutenant Archibald Douglas Chalmers who died in Selonika on 9 December 1918. The Chalmers family donated the Village Hall land and Car Park to the Villagers of Kippford in memory of their son. The land of The Kipp was also once owned by the Chalmers so it is a fitting tribute.
Meeting closed 8:25pm. Next meeting: 26 November 2018 (AGM)
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Synthesis and photoluminescent properties of new aza-indenofluorene derivatives
Su Jin Jung, Won Sam Kim, Byung Sun Park, Jae Kyun Lee, Jung Hwan Park, Kihang Choi, So Ha Lee
The carbazole derivatives 5a-h were synthesized by four steps involving Suzuki coupling of boronic acid 1 with 1-bromo-2-nitrobenzene, followed with the Cadogan ring closure reaction. Their UV and photoluminescence properties are also reported, and the compounds showed medium-to-strong photoluminescence between 370 and 446 nm at the concentration of 1 × 10-5 M CH2Cl2. Also, the X-ray structure of the carbazole derivative 6 was elucidated by an X-ray diffractometer.
Heteroatom Chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1002/hc.21058
Diffractometers
Jung, S. J., Kim, W. S., Park, B. S., Lee, J. K., Park, J. H., Choi, K., & Lee, S. H. (2013). Synthesis and photoluminescent properties of new aza-indenofluorene derivatives. Heteroatom Chemistry, 24(1), 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/hc.21058
Synthesis and photoluminescent properties of new aza-indenofluorene derivatives. / Jung, Su Jin; Kim, Won Sam; Park, Byung Sun; Lee, Jae Kyun; Park, Jung Hwan; Choi, Kihang; Lee, So Ha.
In: Heteroatom Chemistry, Vol. 24, No. 1, 01.01.2013, p. 18-24.
Jung, SJ, Kim, WS, Park, BS, Lee, JK, Park, JH, Choi, K & Lee, SH 2013, 'Synthesis and photoluminescent properties of new aza-indenofluorene derivatives', Heteroatom Chemistry, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 18-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/hc.21058
Jung SJ, Kim WS, Park BS, Lee JK, Park JH, Choi K et al. Synthesis and photoluminescent properties of new aza-indenofluorene derivatives. Heteroatom Chemistry. 2013 Jan 1;24(1):18-24. https://doi.org/10.1002/hc.21058
Jung, Su Jin ; Kim, Won Sam ; Park, Byung Sun ; Lee, Jae Kyun ; Park, Jung Hwan ; Choi, Kihang ; Lee, So Ha. / Synthesis and photoluminescent properties of new aza-indenofluorene derivatives. In: Heteroatom Chemistry. 2013 ; Vol. 24, No. 1. pp. 18-24.
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How Easily The Fickle Rich Are Swayed, Russell Brand Puts Down His Pitchfork
Posted on May 5, 2015 by johnny void | 284 Comments
It’s hardly surprising that Eddie Izzard, Alan Partridge and now even Russell Brand all want us to vote Labour. They are the people the modern Labour Party represents after all. Millionaires who feel a bit guilty about poverty and stuff but don’t want to change things too much. At least not so much that it might make an impact on their own cosseted lives.
Russell Brand will never face a Compulsory Jobs Guarantee, the latest mass workfare scheme that Labour plan to introduce. He will not have his income capped and be socially cleansed from his fashionable address like the families who will fall victim to Labour’s planned regional Benefit Caps. He had his time dicking about on benefits when he was young, unlike the 18-21 year olds who will face their benefits being removed completely if Labour win power this week.
It is this last policy that tells us everything about the direction of any future Labour government and the so-called help they plan to inflict on the poorest. Labour are planning to do just what Margaret Thatcher did to 16/17 year olds and implement a mass YTS style scheme for everybody under 21. In return for the pittance of benefits young people will face full-time compulsory training. Last time Labour did something like this, Tony Blair’s New Deal, this training quickly became workfare. The truth is that’s all they can afford to do. Real training, which leads to qualifications, costs a lot of money. It’s far cheaper to pay private sector sharks like A4e to bully young people into unpaid work placements.
If the Tories had announced in 2010 that they were going to end benefits completely for those under 21 there would have been outrage amongst the mainstream left. The Guardian and The Mirror would have run scathing headlines and ordered us to sign a petition. Trade union leader Len McClusky would have given a speech. Russell Brand would have made a youtube video. And that by the way is as angry as the middle classes get about anything which doesn’t affect them directly.
Labour’s mass workfare plans go way beyond anything the Tory Party have pledged and yet they have still been met with hordes of gushing celebrities and newspaper columnists demanding that we vote for them. Anything to keep the Tories out – who don’t really seem to know what they will do in the unlikely event they actually win this election except that they will carry on being bastards And they are bastards. Horrible fucking arseholes in fact. It is understandable that so many people would like to see the smug smirks wiped off their faces if they lose power this week. But life will not change for the poor if that happens.
Sometimes having an enemy that is open in their intentions is better than a fake friend who will stab you in the back. There is no doubt that a bunch of shambolic toffs embarking on reckless austerity policies has brought the questions of class and inequality back into UK politics in a way not seen in two decades. The resistance to these policies has been well targeted and quietly ferocious – and it has not come from celebrities or Labour Party stooges.
That resistance is why there were less people on workfare schemes in the latest month’s figures than there were in the last period of the Labour Government. It is why the number of people found ‘fit for work’ at sickness benefit assessments has plummeted from 60% in May 2010 to an all time low of 24% in the latest figures available. It is why Atos, the company carrying out these tests, abandoned their contract as their name became a dirty word associated with cruelty and incompetance. Benefit claimants and disabled people themselves did this, whilst the official opposition stood slack-jawed on the sidelines.
The danger of a Labour Government is that these inept traitors will be silent no longer. It will be all of them, from the Labour Party to the Daily Mail, against us. The regional benefit cap will be a tough choice, but necessary, we will be told by the people who once said they were on our side. The reformed work capability assessment and further tests for disability benefits will be a beacon of compassion, getting help to those who need it most and killing off the scroungers. Compulsory jobs that pay less then the minimum wage will become exciting opportunities. And benefit sanctions will be fair and only aimed at really lazy chavs who refuse to get a job.
That is what a vote for Labour means. Consent for the bastards to carry on as usual. Popular permission to escalate the attacks on social security. For Russell Brand – who called himself a revolutionary five minutes ago – to endorse this is both treason and boringly predictable. It is astonishing and even quite funny that as soon as a rich person publicly denounces capitalism then the leader of a main political party dashes round their house and steers them gently back onto the path of neo-liberalism. But it is a tragedy as well, at least for those who may have felt inspired by Brand’s crude radicalism. His message, before Ed’s intervention, was essentially along the right lines. They are all fucking wankers and only in it for themselves. That includes Russell Brand as well it turns out. Never trust a hippy, especially a rich one.
To send a real message vote for Class War, by the brick or the ballot.
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284 responses to “How Easily The Fickle Rich Are Swayed, Russell Brand Puts Down His Pitchfork”
Dave | May 5, 2015 at 1:25 pm | Reply
Brand’s change of heart makes a mockery of what he’s said in all his videos. More basically, the change contradicts the logic of what he previously said. I think he believes what he previously said, but for some absurd reason doesn’t realise, or doesn’t want to admit, that Labour are as much part of the neo-lib/neo-con agenda as the Tories. There is a strong tendency in people to want to believe in something, to have hope – it takes intellectual strength and experience to resist false hope. Unfortunately Brand hasn’t resisted that temptation.
jason smith | May 5, 2015 at 6:37 pm | Reply
the con’s/libdems/labour all have plans to “screw us over” so who are you going to vote for?
TCo | May 26, 2015 at 3:00 pm | Reply
I voted UKIP, which in terms of their stance on welfare probably wasn’t wise but at the very least was a vote against the usual suspects.
trouble24/7 | May 5, 2015 at 1:26 pm | Reply
The chauffeured man of the people
Oik | May 5, 2015 at 1:32 pm | Reply
‘Citizen Brand’, soon to be appearing in a celebrity only, reality TV interpretation of ‘Animal Farm.’
eeyorn | May 5, 2015 at 2:15 pm | Reply
Reblogged this on eeyorntails and commented:
Russell Brand changes his mind yet again. It makes you wonder if he has Attention Deficit Disorder
overburdenddonkey | May 5, 2015 at 2:19 pm | Reply
yep, they want to stay rich…and want to sprinkle the poor (precarious classes) with magic dust, so that we feel rich without actually being so….
they’re terrified of INFLATION, don’t really want wealth redistribution and bang on, as if, clever words cure poverty and/or the resultant suffering… (notwithstanding izzard left out the clever words, the curious see #wingsscotland and i’ve no idea what partridge has said)
Shit Article | May 5, 2015 at 2:29 pm | Reply
You guys are seeing what you want to see! if you’re stupid enough to think there will be a singular “revolution” to bring down capitalism and rebalance the world then you’re a fucking moron.
We need progressive change, and democracy via communities putting pressure on an elected government that listens to the people. Which is exactly what Russell is calling for.
RB has no reason to get involved, he could have sat back and lived pretty comfortably off the cash he has and quietly voted (or not) for whoever he wants.
Keep going with your small minded, short sighted bullshit tho… I’m sure that will get us the change we are all looking for!
see what we want to see what sort of rubbish is that?….if you think they’ll listen to us without political power driven by mass movement, then you haven’t been paying attention…i see that we are suffering mass poverty…i’m voting snp for progressive change and it’s labour that really needs to radically change….keir hardie must be burrelin’ in his grave….progressive change aint gonna happen without us pushing politics to the start line….yes with sharp political focus on ensuring reliable supplies of vitality giving vitals of life, for all…the scotpolrev has already begun…!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd_f6Pdm3o dennis canavan…
sibrydionmawr | May 5, 2015 at 10:58 pm | Reply
It always amuses me how the present day Labour Party claims some kind of connection with Keir Hardy. Keir Hardie, born in Scotland, and first ever elected Independent Labbour Party MP standing for Merthyr Tudful. The ILP was always a far more radical organisation than the Labour Party ever has been, even though the Labour Party eventually subsumed the ILP. If there are any political parties that deserve to see themselves as true
descendents of the ILP of Keir Hardie then they are more likely to be the likes of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party rather than that neo-liberal sell-out called the Labour Party.
overburdenddonkey | May 5, 2015 at 11:37 pm | Reply
smart cookie that leanne wood….
Big Mags fae thi scheme | May 6, 2015 at 7:01 am | Reply
You are voting SNP!? Seriously? Who would have thunk 😀
GORDON KEANE | May 5, 2015 at 11:42 pm | Reply
While Brand has some good points about the present political system, and about the poor, etc, etc, telling those same poor ppl not to vote as it won’t change nothing is when all sensible folks simply switch off. How can this idiot, for such he is, insist we don’t vote? And when the tories back get in to power because the poor didn’t vote, or the Independence Referendum in Scotland is lost, because some folks didn’t vote, then bitterly lament the outcome, and it results in things like the Bedroom Tax, and more workfare and sanctions, and so on….What’s our Russell gonna do ta help ?
I think he is out of his depths when it comes to matters political. If he is now telling everyone whom he told not to vote, to vote for the Red Tories, then, really, he should just give it all up now. He had his little fling in the real world. It was noted, but never taken seriously.
Mik Fielding | May 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm | Reply
At the present time the main thing is to oust the Tories. The ONLY way this can be done at the moment is to get Labour back in. OK, they are just the lesser of the two evils, but we have a better chance with them than with the Tory fascists.
Like it or not, there is no way the Green Party, for instance, could garner a majority vote, or any where near it. They are also far too inexperienced and naive even if they did.
What else do you recommend Johnny, armed rebellion and a descent into civil war??
untynewear | May 5, 2015 at 3:27 pm | Reply
The problem with that is that at the NEXT election the same thing will be said, and the election after that, ad infinitum.
Things will never change, and that will suit both Tories and Lab just fine.
Voting for SNP, Greens, TUSC, Class War, etc this time may not result in seats won, but a massive swing away from the traditional parties of all colours would be a quiet revolution in itself, and at least something to build on.
Also, I think it was only 65% of the electorate actually voted last time. If the abstaining 35% were to weigh in with their votes in favour of the smaller parties… could be interesting.
But you have to start somewhere. If not here and now… then when ?
Glad you said that. Saved me writing the same. Main thing being to oust the Tories? — such a position is too often the solace of the middle-class ‘radical’, sitting in his gentrified neighbourhood, thinking he is a socialist by voting Labour…. ignoring what Labour actually does, what it represents. Like you say, it all goes on and on with no sign of ending, and this is aided by the fraudulent idea that Labour represents a real opposition.
Matt Kemp | May 5, 2015 at 6:01 pm | Reply
I reckon we should be voting AND doing grassroots activism. Older folks have politicians running scared because they vote in huge numbers. Young people get shat on because they don’t. However, voting alone is worthless without people getting of their arses to shout about the things they care about, but also to learn about the things they care about. We need more engagement, not less, and voting is part of that. At this point, turfing out Dave is the most effective way of moving things forward.
W2W Defector | May 6, 2015 at 12:33 am | Reply
I totally agree. If enough people stand up and vote for the smaller parties we can all make a difference.
Bob Duncan | May 6, 2015 at 6:01 pm | Reply
“Voting for SNP…this time may not result in seats won” Really. have you been following the Polls. the SNP is on track to become the 3rd biggest party in the UK and hold the balance of power, which it will use to pull a minority Labour government to the left. That doesn’t sound like a protest vote to me – it sounds more like the start of a revolution..
Katherine Perlo | May 5, 2015 at 4:34 pm | Reply
The shadow Work & Pensions secretary, Rachel Reeves, would be insulted to hear her party described as ‘the lesser of the two evils’. You may recall her promise that Labour would be tougher on welfare than the Tories. She has also said ‘We’re not the party of people on benefits. We’re not the party to represent those who are out of work.’
Labour and the Tories are equally bad. I would not be physically capable of voting for either party, whatever tactical calculations were urged in favour of doing so.
Osanka | May 5, 2015 at 7:47 pm | Reply
Yeah, too many peeps thinking that if we all vote Labour they will get a few quid extra on their disability benefit or whatever, just enough ££s mind you, to buy their silence. Then they can say: “fuck this, I’m all right my disability benefits or whatever are safe”. You never know Labour might even try this on so the public don’t see any more peeps in wheelchairs queuing at food-banks… which will leave Labour free to put the boot really hard into those less likely to arouse public sympathy i.e young people, the unemployed, those without kids… and for Labour’s target group who are really going to suffer under Labour’s plans and for them life, if you can call it that, is going to be a hell of a lot worse than under the Tories. In a lot of ways Labour are actually worse, you could say ‘fairer’ than the Tories, in at least the Tories are less discriminate, and not politically correct in who they go after.
… you could say that the Tories are ‘fairer’..
plebrise | May 5, 2015 at 4:48 pm | Reply
QUOTE: The ONLY way [we can oust the Tories] is to get Labour back in.
MY REPLY: Not true. Just because a small party hasn’t won before – does NOT mean they never will. Sure, they won’t win overnight. But by voting for them we force NeolibLabour to give us more than half arsed promises if they want to stay. This will force them to improve.
More importantly we’ll build up new parties & jam the 2 party system. This will free us from feeling stuck between choosing the least horrible of 2 corruptive parties & enables up to give genuine parties a change & gradual parliamentary experience. This enables small parties to mature, gain experience & show us what they’re made of. Then if they’re good & remain uncorrupted – the voting masses will put them in charge. Give it 5 – 10 years.
Remember, Rome wasn’t built in one day. And neither are political movements.
Raining | May 5, 2015 at 7:29 pm | Reply
It’s attitudes like yours Mik that have us in the state we’re in. Labour will hardly be any better than the Tories, dedicated as they are to a neo-liberal strain of economics that basically shits on the poor and needy. They have signed up to all the Tories austerity figures of £30 billion! How is that going to help struggling people?.
Doesn’t have to be a majority vote. The more SNP, Green, Plaid Cymru MP’s that are elected, the more they can pressure and push for change and a better standard of politics in Westminster.
I used to vote Labour but i never will again as they have stabbed the true Labour people in the back constantly. Until they return to the far left of the spectrum they will never get my vote.. In fact even if they do they’ll never get my vote.
Go SNP! Red Tories out!
Greenwood4727 | May 6, 2015 at 7:21 am | Reply
the problem with the lesser of two evils.. is that its still EVIL..
The SNP (who are abhorrent but that’s beside the point) would never have been elected if everyone truly believed their only choice was the ‘lesser of two evils’ and that no smaller party could ever rise to the top. UKIP were third in total votes cast and the Greens got loads as well yet they only got two seats between them because of the stupid way the vote is decided. That’s not a minor result for them, that’s a clear message from a large amount of the electorate that they’re not happy with how things are.
Stepping Razor Sound Plate System | May 5, 2015 at 2:36 pm | Reply
No DWP Press Releases since 26th March 2015. Mr Brand is so full of shit, he always has been. Every one will be moaning by the end of the year that the election has still not been sorted out. These crappy deals the MPs are gonna try & sort out makes a mockery of the voters. The UK Voting System Not Fit For Purpose.
Bim Sherman – REVOLUTION mono – on U sound records roots reggae stepper 1982 10 inch
Donna Smith | May 5, 2015 at 2:51 pm | Reply
Don’t know very much about Russel Brand – think he hopped onto the bandwagon to get publicity when he helped those who had taken over a house on an estate. I for one, will switch over to another channel whenever he appears on the screen – let’s hit him in his pocket when the viewing ratings go down. Would not vote Labour if you paid me
Wayne Hickman | May 5, 2015 at 2:51 pm | Reply
You may knock Maggie’s Youth Training Schemes but I started my working life via them, they got me the experience and qualifications I needed to get where I am today, I’m not in very high paid job but I earn a living, a living that I can pay my bills with, puts food on my table in front of my kids, allows me to buy the things I want and I can even afford to buy my kids Christmas presents… The thing with today’s youth is they want it all right now and the big bad world just doesn’t work like that, why should employers have to pay over the odds for someone with absolutely no experience?? The sooner these kids realise that they are not worth the type of pay they’re after the better..
Another Fine Mess | May 5, 2015 at 4:37 pm | Reply
I’m not in very high paid job
Why don’t you get a better paid job then, even if it’s only slighty better paid? With your work history, experience and qualifications it shouldn’t be all that difficult. The UK is creating more jobs than the rest of Europe put together, according to the Selfservatives. There’s 745,000 ‘jobs’ on Universal Jobmatch and you only need just one of them!
why should employers have to pay over the odds for someone with absolutely no experience?
How come both my parents left school one day and started work the very next day. A couple of decades later I left school, applied for 2 jobs, and started paid work in 2 weeks. – No benefits, ‘training courses’, or forced unpaid work involved anywhere.
How did we manage 150+ years of industrial revolution without all this unpaid work especially for shelfstacking, it’s ridiculous.
Wayne Hickman | May 6, 2015 at 12:46 am | Reply
I don’t need a better paid job, I’m quite happy where I am… the grass isn’t always greener, and yes, you’re right I have no problems getting a job, I’m lucky to have a job where I’m always in demand, afterall there are only approx 50,000 of us in the country doing my job (MOT tester) and like your parents I started work the day after I left school, I went into the motor trade and I don’t know about other trades but even at the top the pay is low, apprentice wages are a pittance but in this trade it has always been that way because believe or not cars and engines are pretty complicated things and a lack of training/experience will more than likely end in somebody’s death, it’s takes 3 years of college to become “fully qualified” and then you still don’t know it all, a YTS or whatever you want to call it these days replacement for a fully qualifed/experienced mechanic just would not work, I’ve been in this trade for almost 26 years and it’s never going to change.. you break your back for ungrateful bosses, customers etc.. but for some reason we love doing it… by the way I’m not a tory voter and I’ll never vote for them in a million years… I grew up in a council estate household, I know first hand what it was like for my parents to struggle to make ends meet while Maggie was in charge so words like Selfseratives won’t wind me up but resonate with me.. as for 150 years of industrial revolution well there were workhouses for starters and also free education for all children didn’t exist until 1918.. life wasn’t all roses and it still isn’t, we all have to start somewhere and it usually starts with low pay…
wildswimmerpete | May 6, 2015 at 11:16 am | Reply
@Another Fine Mess
I’m a now retired electronics engineer but if I needed to find work there isn’t any in my area. I can (and do) work part-time as a freelance but that’s pin money. There isn’t enough work around to pay a full-time wage.
When Thatcher’s schemes were going, I overheard (and was perhaps meant to overhear, along with my fellow employees) the bosses deciding to ‘hire’ a YOP placement to fill a vacancy so that they wouldn’t have to pay. It was quite as brazen as that. They didn’t seem particularly worried about the prospective worker’s lack of experience.
So you were lucky, and now you’re promoting mass workfare instead of jobs that pay anything, let alone a living wage. You don’t realize how rare it is even to ‘earn a living’ without top-up means-tested benefits — that has become riches nowadays. And you think it’s too much to ask for.
YOPS was just a corrupt scheme to get young workers for nothing. The scheme was changed to the slightly less corrupt YTS scheme as a result of the scandal of YOPS that was widely seen at the time for what it was – just a scheme that employres could, and did exploit. The young people press ganged into taking up YOPS and YTS knew they were being exploited, and that didn’t help, as slave labour might seem like a good idea, but the quality of the work leaves a lot to be desired. I could never blame the young people being exploited by the likes of Tesco way back in the late 70s when these schemes first saw light of day (under, yes, you’ve guessed it, Labour with nary a murmur from the TUC unions) for making a mess of the job. There were no bar codes back then, so all items were individually priced with a label, which was often wrongly applied by the young people. They either put too high a price, or too low a price on the items, which, when obvuous, caused much mayhem at the tills, but when not so obvious must have cost the companies a lot of money.
Most young people want to work – they don’t mind starting at the bottom to gain experience and can work towards qualifications if they want. However, these training schemes are compulsory – are the people who will be training them qualified? When the Youth Opportunity Scheme was introduced there were lots of young people on it – I know for a fact that there were people attempting to train young people who were not qualified themselves. An absolute waste of time for young people. It will be private firms that are gaining free labour once again under the guise of any training scheme. Why don’t employers just give them a paid job and provide on-site training.
Sad to say that any ‘training’ on offer is likely to be NVQ crap that is delivered not in terms of quality, but in terms of cheapness of cost, and exists merely to indicate that the UK has a workforce that has lots of paper qualifications so that it can hold it’s head up when compared with countries like France and Germany.
Employers providing training would be a great idea, if it was regulated by an independent body and was well funded so that the training delivered was to an aceptable standard. But increasingly employers want workers who have been trained by the schools – sadly the Tories and Labour saps don’t seem to know that there is a difference between education and training.
I am a believer that education should be entirely about the benefits to the recipient of the education, first and foremost, and not about the creation of an ‘oven ready’ workforce that those in power want.
A truly educated workforce would work in it’s own interest, which could also be in the interests of the boss class, but equally not be in the interests of the exploiters if it didn’t also suit the workers. A truly educated and thinking workforce would be very scary to governments, and employers though.
McJob | May 6, 2015 at 6:44 am | Reply
It will be McTraining – a concept invented by a well-known fast-‘food’ chain. McTraining where the production process is broken down into discrete units and employers are ‘trained’ to do ONE specific task. This has many benefits for employers/business – it keeps employees low-skilled and less marketable, making it easier to retain staff – the employee ain’t going anywhere, and they don’t have any marketable skills to “sell” to a higher bidder. A highly-marketable skill-set that will command a good income wont be on offer. The only ‘training’ will be on offer will be the usual job centre/work programme fare of certificates in dish-washing, food hygiene and manual handling.
Vote for CLASS WAR... | May 5, 2015 at 3:05 pm | Reply
… BY THE BRICK OR THE BALLOT!!
Samuel Miller (@Hephaestus7) | May 5, 2015 at 3:09 pm | Reply
Iain Duncan Smith will be writing you a thank-you note for helping the Tories win this election.
The predominant focus of your blog is workfare so I fully understand your indignation at Labour’s policy. But you are willfully blind to Labour’s firm pledge to abolish the bedroom tax, which will greatly ameliorate the plight
of Britain’s sick and disabled.
The Tories have promised £12bn of further welfare cuts and other draconian measures, ensuring benefit claimants a worse fate under their regime than under Labour’s.
i wouldn’t worry, it’s highly likely that labour will get enough seats to form a govt with the help of other parties…imv, the only reason that the labour party are worth voting for is coz they’re NOT the tories in most peoples minds r.uk, and that also the snp/plaid/greens et al, might bring to them refreshing help….labour have already said that they’ll be tougher on welfare than the tories… http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/scottish-labour-leadership-crisis.html
timfrom | May 5, 2015 at 4:43 pm | Reply
I’ve always been a little unsure as to whether this means tougher on welfare CLAIMANTS or on the CAUSES (ie unemployment) of people needing welfare. Or am I just being naive? Whilst Labour have obviously decided that in the present climate (created by unopposed Tory propaganda) it would be electoral suicide to side with benefit claimants, it’s still possible once/if they win on Thursday we will see a change in that position. Of course, it’ll still be far from perfect, but they’re not shy of mentioning foodbanks and it would be pretty difficult to bemoan the need for them without also mentioning the main cause for that need (ie benefit sanctions). They would also have to come up with a pretty convincing apology for their piss-poor cowardice in not robustly refuting the “undeserving poor” rhetoric. One way of doing this would be to start any term of government with a proper purge of the New Labour/Progress tendency, but I ain’t holding my breath.
Perhaps I’m indulging in massive wishful-thinking, but where I live there’s only 4 candidates (Labour, Tory, Lib Dem & UKIP) standing in what is a Tory-held marginal, so there’s only one realistic choice of damaging the Tories and that’s to hold my nose and vote Labour. God, what a choice!
as the number of jobs has plummeted by 40% in 35yrs and over the last few yrs only 1in40 new jobs are full time, tax take has plummeted as has decent incomes for all…and the unlikely £bns/£trl investment in revitalizing the local economy, coz, lets be kind, shifted out of our wallets and moved offshore….moving from unpaking goods in ware houses and retail, to an economy where we make things…the only thing it can be/mean is tough on claimants, and kind on their portfolios… allofusfirst.org…
The problem is that I might vote with grave reservations for Lab, but my resevations are not registered, and my vote will be considered to endorse anything the party might do !00%.
How many who voted Bliar in to get rid of the Tories also voted for Iraq ?
Labour, elected with a majority, will broadly continue allong the same path, because they are broadly singing from the same hymn sheet.
Possibly the best result we can hope for this time around is for Labour in a coalition with parties that might restrain their excesses, which might just encourage the few remaining Lab MPs with any left leanings to come out and kick arse.
Sadly I wouldn’t be totally suprised if instead they chose a Lab/Lib pact (assume the Lib Dems still exist at the end of the week !) or even… Lab/Con ? Is it really so hard to believe that could happen ? I might have thought so nce, but now…
unty
a gov of ‘national unity’ has already been widely mooted, ukokbt, so i would not be surprised @ a lab/tory gov…
Samuel Miller said: “The Tories have promised £12bn of further welfare cuts and other draconian measures, ensuring benefit claimants a worse fate under their regime than under Labour’s.”
Sorry to burst your Labour party bubble Samuel but Rachel Reeves announced months ago that a Labour government were going to be “tougher on welfare than the tories” and also announced they didn’t want to represent anyone on benefits. You seem to be slightly mixed up.
But Labour have promised those same social security cuts themselves, They also propose to end ALL benefits to everyone under 21, and to increase workfare, and actually support the present sanctions system. Only they aim to be “fairer” with their sanctions! Not for nothing are ppl calling Labour the Red Tories. The only real major difference between the two of them being merely the color of ties they use!
GEOFF REYNOLDS | May 5, 2015 at 4:39 pm | Reply
…………..but Brand has 10 million followers
He has nearly 10 million Twitter followers; his YouTube interview with Ed Miliband received well over a million hits and counting; he is listened to by hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Britons, particularly young people who have been repeatedly kicked over the last few years. Russell Brand matters.
And however much bluff and bluster the Tories now pull – maybe more playground abuse from David Cameron, who called Brand a “joke” – his endorsement of Labour in England and Wales will worry them. More people have registered to vote than ever before: between the middle of March and the deadline to register, nearly 2.3 million registered, over 700,000 of them 24 years old or younger. In countless marginal seats, disillusioned voters who were either going to plump for a protest party or not vote at all could well decide whether we are ruled by David Cameron, George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith for another half a decade.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/04/russell-brand-endorsed-labour-tories-should-be-worried?CMP=share_btn_fb
Chris | May 5, 2015 at 5:42 pm | Reply
One prediction has Tories and Labour equally on about 270 seats on Thursday.
SNP could get 50 or 54 or even all 59 in Scotland.
Plaid Cymru should rise from its mere 3 seats to get more of the 40 seats in Wales. The Welsh do not realise that Plaid Cymru has saved the devolved NHS from England’s worst austerity cuts.
But the only way for us new pensioners from 2016 to be left with just £38 per week after 45 years work when the current pension is £113.10 per week or EVEN NIL STATE PENSION FOR LIFE.
See why at end of my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT, section, at:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
Is to bring 113 TUSC MPs in England.
All seats are marginals. The bulk of voters did not vote in 2010, which had the same voter turnout as 1918 after the carnage of the first world war.
Only TUSC OFFERS:
– Reverse rise in retirement age
– Pay Decent State pension (payable if remain in job or lose it)
– Pay £10 per hour living wage.
An MP can bring about a Statutory Instrument that gives 28 days notice and within 5 weeks of the election, laws can be amended to strip out the welfare cuts, the end of the state pension, and many other cruelties done by the Tories.
113 MPs bringing in an SI, would force Labour’s hands as well as the SNP (48 to 59 seats) and Plaid Cymru (3 or up to 40 seats) and maybe the DUP of Ulster (around 8 predicted seats), who also don’t like welfare cuts.
TUSC’s 113 MPs could have cut the Lib Dems (the only possible coalition partner to the Tories) even below the predicted 15 left from Thursday.
326 MP is the minimum threshold for a party or a group of parties to rule the UK parliament.
270 Labour, 113 TUSC, around 50 SNP, 3 or 40 Plaid Cymru, are well above that and would be a powerful coaltion that would lock the Tories out of power.
113 TUSC MPs would do the scrutiny of proving the deaths from welfare reform like no other party currently in power.
This is the Vote or Starve election.
This is the Vote or Work til you die or starve if you can’t in old age.
See how not voting means you Vote Tory.
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
It’d be impossible for Plaid Cymru to get more than 40 seats in Wales because there are only 40 seats in Wales! It’s unlikely that Plaid will make any significant gains, as Wales seems still to be rather wedded to the Labour Party. There are defections in many areas, but sadly that’s more towards UKIP than any other party. Plaid may take Llanelli and Ynys Môn, but it’s unlikely to have that much impact where it really matters, in the south east sort of within 30 miles radius of Cardiff where more than two thirds of the population lives. I’m not saying, that if Plaid gets it’s act together and starts promoting the same policies everywhere. At present it seems to support one thing in one location, and oppose that same one thing in a different area, depending on how support/opposition will affect it’s likely vote. Plaid is very much like the SNP in terms of it’s political make up, encompassing both the far left and the conservative right, (but not the proto-fascist right that it is often accused of harbouring – such is the illiteracy amongst much of the so called ‘internationalist’ left). To gain traction in the vital South East would require Plaid adopting a radical left stance in terms of policies, and they’d need to take over local authorities in order to prove that they can deliver. This is not beyond being a possibility, even in the south east, and since the late 60s Plaid has always seen healthy support in the South Wales Valleys, for example. In the end, Labour always seems to win the day, but now that the SNP is poised to make huge gains in Scotland, this may be the cue for Plaid to up it’s game, and also for people in South East Wales, (where the bulk of the population lives) to start to change allegiances.
QUOTE: It is astonishing… that as soon as a rich person publicly denounces capitalism then the leader of a main political party dashes round their house and steers them gently back onto the path of neo-liberalism.
Classic line, Johnny Void 🙂
Sums up whatever Owen Jones tries to brainwash us with that it’s “either Tory or Labour”. Of course our choices get narrowed to 2 most bribed atrocities – when Owen dismisses all small party candidates as “protest parties” – by not even naming them.
In a true democracy, I expect a newspaper to cover EVERY party standing for a general election. Followed by short description of their history, what they stand for, their candidates & how many votes they have. In addition it should state from where & how much money each of them receive in donations.
Have a missed something, or hasn’t any journalist bothered to do this simple list? Why do we only get to see 16 or so parties once we hit the ballots, whilst only reading about 5 of them in the newspapers?
Hmm, will he still be calling the SNP a ‘protest party’ after May 7th?
Not anu more it would appears.. Owen seems to want the SNP to do well in Scotland now.
General Elections every 4 months for the next 5 years. What is not fit for purpose !!!
You may have 10 million followers but not one of them are going to lift a finger more than that to act. Celebrity Political X Factor. Leave the country then, most people can`t afford to move country. Celebrity Failures.
To not have to face up to the DWP Deaths no one runs the country as leader because of the countless Elections over the next 2 years. Let`s string it out for 5 years we will only need an election every 6 months after the 1st 2 years. No one takes responsibility for the DWP & the DWP have halted press releases since 26th March 2015.
What do you mean that`s detrimental betting !!!
NoOppression | May 5, 2015 at 6:26 pm | Reply
Labour would of Stayed more Socialist had it Not been for the Long
Years of the Evil Tyrant Margaret Thatcher Jezebel of the British
Labour would of been an Improvement upon the Tories in the
2010 AD General Election and it is Important that Labour Wins
Not the Tories
The Tories plan Billions more Cuts if People are Stupid Enough to
Vote for them
The More Votes to get the Tories and Liberal Democrats out the
a short vid… http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=b2mW0uX-oyg labour party selling off the NHS…. Lucy Reynolds AFTER THE NHS uploaded by ATD today….
Good Examples of Nazi Racism and Brutality in Russia include Occupied Taganrog where during the Nazi Occupation there was a bench in Gorky Park which said Nur fuer Deutsche Only for Germans and the Usage of Children as Forced Blood Donors and also the Gully of Petrushino Massacre at which over 7,000 Soviet Citizens were Murdered by the Nazi Brutes
Better the Red Flag than the Genocide and Cruelty of Nazism
Labour did Not make Squatting in an Empty ” Residential ” Property
an ” Offence ” this has Happened under the Tories .
Every Vote Not Cast against the Tories and Liberal Democrats is a
Vote in their Favour
Nicolas Tennant | May 5, 2015 at 7:28 pm | Reply
I joined the Labour Party at the defeat of last election. I don’t agree with them blindly 100%. In fact i argue from within A LOT. I email my concerns and go to meetings as much as possible. This policy on Welfare especially riles me. But you know i will VOTE for them. I want the Tories our. But the work is only just beginning. A revolution that you want could be decades away. I havnt got that time. Though i applaud you x
I doubt it’s decades… Maybe a few years… Let’s see what happens in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland. Syrzia is in government in Greece, Podemos will probably do very well in Spain (already has 5 MEPs and it came from nothing only a very short while before the election). Ireland has an anti-water charge campaign involving thousands, a campaign that is about a lot more than just water, but that is the catalyst.
Labour are slightly a better choice than the Tories, but they won’t do anything that will overturn the neo-liberal austerity agenda that will continue to further enrich the already obscenely wealthy at the expense of all the rest.
I don’t think a revolution is decades away, but quite possibly coming in the next few years, but who knows when, as revolutions tend to be somewhat spontaneous affairs… I just hope that there isn’t a Bolshevik party somewhere in the wings waiting to hijack it from us… yes, I mean assorted Trots, Leninists and Marxists who only represent their own interests.
Paul | May 5, 2015 at 7:29 pm | Reply
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/05/revealed-coalition-plans-to-slash-welfare-for-sick-poor-young-and-disabled
Of course Labour colluded with a similar agenda and started the attack in the first place with welfare reform pre Tories.
southessexheckler | May 5, 2015 at 7:35 pm | Reply
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If any of you are thinking that Labour offer any viable alternative to the chinless toffs who have been running the show for the last five years, read this piece from The Void. Take your time, let it sink in and then draw your own conclusions… Hopefully, you’ll be joining us on the streets this summer:)
rick | May 5, 2015 at 9:11 pm | Reply
That Brand piece-of-shit obviously hasn’t spent years living on Value sardines,etc.
Any publicity is good publicity for Brand. If he’s so serious about ending the plight of the poor why does he not give all his wealth away to deserving causes? You don’t see him doing that do you?
Call me cynical, but i don’t trust millionaires like him pontificating about things like this.
Lucy | May 7, 2015 at 1:49 pm | Reply
Nor me Raining. The minute I see some rich celebrity type endorsing a cause, that’s the cue for me to turn away and puke Their hypocrisy sticks in my craw. I detest them. They are all over the world of animal rights and animal welfare and they make highlighting the truth almost impossible. Often they are actively (if naively) working against the very cause they support.
Ricky Gervais is a case in point. He’s done a lot of posing with animals and has someone running his Twitter account, spewing forth animal rights soundbites, jumping on the back of any cause his publicists think will garner him more followers/airtime (currently Canned Hunting & SeaWorld). He supports and has done big ad campaigns for PETA. PETA have a higher kill rate in their animal shelter than any other organisation in the USA. Yep, he supports them, but they steal and kill pets. What a fabulous chap he is.
I don’t believe that even one of these millionaire, media “personalities” has a genuine and informed commitment to the causes they leech onto and consequently, they have not one ounce of integrity either.
So the Tories will have to change their leader, Boris is in the running. Boris Tory – R. Brand Labour leader. Let`s have a poll on twitter. Much more modern now. The new person in the running has just won Celebrity Political X Factor. People will bore of voting once we have the 2nd Election in Sep 2015. The low turnout has spoken.
Lesley Lawson | May 5, 2015 at 10:30 pm | Reply
I think he has been clever to gain the attention of those who think they’re too cool to vote, then last minute unleash what everybody knows he was for anyway. Only Labour can get rid of the Tories. Only Labour would work for more affordable housing in London etc. Only Labour can stop the social cleansing of London.
Stepping Razor Sound Plate System | May 5, 2015 at 10:41 pm | Reply
It`s too late to register to vote, perhaps RB should have said it before the closing date to register to vote. What a humdinger.
Anon | May 5, 2015 at 10:43 pm | Reply
“Labour’s mass workfare plans go way beyond anything the Tory Party have pledged…”
Please may you qualify that statement, please.
The reality is that Labour have not said what the “training” is, where we know reading the Tory manifesto (pg 18) that the so-called Youth Allowance for 18-21 yr olds will *definitely* require “community work” (if not training, or an apprenticeship), with an end to housing benefit for this age group. The removal of HB for 18 -21 yr olds does not appear in the Labour manifesto, though there is talk of an ‘expectation’ to stay with parents here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/miliband-young-jobseekers-must-train-or-lose-their-benefits-9546966.html
The compulsory Job Guarantee, while still workfare, is at least paid, unlike the appalling CWP.
All other workfare schemes, Labour, we know, have kept silent on what will happen to those.
Point is not that the Labour offerings are any good (they are disgraceful!), but Jesus will every detail make the difference to people after Thursday, so it’s important to be right about it.
There is also the chance with Labour that UC, if not cancelled, will not continue in it’s current form (IDS has passed on a mess!), and the Bedroom Tax will be axed (on day 1 it has been claimed.)
Come Thursday people will have to choose, and the outcome will not be anything other than a Tory or Labour-led govt, so pure-minded principles are absolutely, bloody useless!
It’s going to have to be Labour-led govt., and the campaigning is going to have to get more aggressive.
sibrydionmawr | May 6, 2015 at 12:05 am | Reply
Okay, it looks like we might have some kind of Labour led government after Thursday that is, so it says, going to axe the Bedroom Tax, plus toss us a few extra crumbs. But how about we start our own campaign based on what we want?
We could start by demanding that sanctions are abolished, that anyone over the age of 18 is legally an adult, so should be treated as an adult, i.e. not ‘cut price’ deals in terms of benefits or not being allowed enough housing benefit/housing benefit at all so that they can get their own place, should they wish (disallowing rights to full housing benefit is a way of masking real housing need)
We could go further and present our own ideas about how the unemployed, the disabled and the sick should fare in our societies, or we could just decide to abolish the notion of separate subsistence benefits for just a narrow range of groups and decide that we want citizen’s income for all that basically abolishes the whole concept of unemployment once and for all.
I’m sure that many of us could ideas to a list like this, but the key is to be broad in appeal so as not to get bogged down in too much detail, with the associated risks of splits developing in the movement. They will inevitably happen down the line, so a broad list of acheivable things that would improve life for everyone is what to focus on in the short to medium term.
Katherine Perlo | May 6, 2015 at 9:54 am | Reply
A very good program. We must stick to such positive visions instead of being impressed by pathetic piecemeal reforms (even if Labour keeps its promises).
Parliament left hanging for ages with a hung parliament, while the hanging tree bows more. Anything to get out of Human Rights & Equality for disabled people. My wheelchair is left hanging because I didn`t put the brake on & am hung on hanging on in a hung wheelchair.
A6er | May 5, 2015 at 11:12 pm | Reply
Mr. Reckless | May 5, 2015 at 11:20 pm | Reply
British MPs not legitimate because they were elected in Scotland. 😦
nothings changed then, the scottish vote has never made any difference… except to crush the political aspirations of the scottish people, hmmm?!
and we all know what lit a fire under those aspirations don’t we….?
there’s no going back into our boxes noo…. 🙂
Mark Catlin | May 6, 2015 at 4:22 am | Reply
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Fellow JCP Sufferer/Customer | May 6, 2015 at 5:23 am | Reply
Excellent article, Johnny. Didn’t RB win the Nobel Peace Prize recently though? Or was it S*****er of the Year? Or was it the Plain English Campaign’s Foot in Mouth award for 2014?
Oh, it’s all so confusing…
Thomas | May 6, 2015 at 6:24 am | Reply
I don’t trust Labour but the Tories are even worse. If I vote TUSC then the voting system won’t let my vote get anywhere.
cameron is a smug fucker | May 6, 2015 at 8:42 am | Reply
That disingenuous, smug fucker Cameron mentioned the “note about no money”* TWICE to John Humphries on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning. Both times Humphries let it go unchallenged. Have interviewers just got fed up with challenging Cameron about this and like a spoilt kid who won’t give back the lollipop just let him slip it past. Or does Humphries and Co. think that we already know that its a crock and are just letting Cameron show himself up as the slippery cunt that he is?
* A RUNNING JOKE from one Chancellor to the next: “There is no money. We spent it all”.
The Sound of Summer | May 6, 2015 at 9:09 am | Reply
Great Article. It’s incredible how far the Labour party have fallen and the extent to which they have betrayed the working class. They can quite rightly be classed as Tory lite these days.
I will be voting Green in this election as they are now the strongest party with a left of centre outlook. Those of us on the left of the Green party are determined to bring about real change in a political system that is rotten to the core.
I find it incredible that the working class in the UK are so disengaged from politics that they just accept what is being done to them. The all tut and shake their heads but where is the class action??
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billy bob | May 6, 2015 at 9:21 am | Reply
Heres the reason the bastards don’t want to help fix the housing crisis.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/06/number-of-mps-who-earn-from-renting-out-property-rises-by-a-third
GEOFF REYNOLDS | May 6, 2015 at 9:57 am | Reply
“alas, the old labour guard, fighting for the poor and disabled”
After the furore over “Two Jags”‘ Prescott, the epithet “12 homes Meacher” could become a fresh embarrassment for Labour – not helped by the fact that Mr Meacher does not want to come clean on exactly how many homes he owns. His entry in the register of members’ interests says tersely “Flats let in London.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jan/20/politics.labour
jeremy | May 6, 2015 at 10:18 am | Reply
I see no future for most of the population after this election. Tories=Nazis; UKIP= Nazis; Labour = Nazis – there’s no REAL difference between them, they all aspire to the same things Rich= Good Poor=Bad
NoOppression | May 6, 2015 at 10:33 am | Reply
The 6th of May Mark’s the Anniversary of Richard Cromwell being Removed as Lord Protector in 1659 AD.
A Year Later in May 1660 AD King Charles II came back to England.
I Hope the British Electorate will Remove the Tories and Liberal Democrats from Office in the General Election of May the 7th 2015 AD
A Start has to be Made and that is with a Labour Government in
Grumbling will Not Solve Social InJustice should the Nasty Tories
get Back into Office upon the 7th of May 2015
overburdenddonkey | May 6, 2015 at 11:03 am | Reply
Not only #imwithnicola – more like #weareallwithnicola at M&Ds in Motherwell http://t.co/EF7nj6ijuF—
Grazer (@Grazer10) May 05, 2015
Annos | May 6, 2015 at 3:39 pm | Reply
“The polls and (most of) the forecasts are wrong. Ed Miliband will not be the next Prime Minister”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/shaun-lawson/polls-and-most-of-forecasts-are-wrong-ed-miliband-will-not-be-next-prime-min
Sammy Squirrel | May 6, 2015 at 4:26 pm | Reply
Utter Horse | May 6, 2015 at 2:33 pm | Reply
Jobs guarantee will mean standing. around in a. Charity shop for fucking sake of it.
Or wiping someone’s arse in a care home working as a ‘Care Assistant’ “No qualifications necessary as full training will be given.”
wessexsolidarity | May 6, 2015 at 2:41 pm | Reply
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David Folksman | May 6, 2015 at 2:48 pm | Reply
Stopped reading after “Millionaires who feel a bit guilty about poverty and stuff but don’t want to change things too much.” – because if you even read or followed anything brand says, you’d know the absolute falsehood of your attempt to compartmentalise him.
“Losing your home: one day at Coventry County Court”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/rebecca-omoniraoyekanmi/how-to-lose-your-home-one-day-at-coventry-county-court
“Jeremy Hunt smiles alongside man who said “NHS will be shown no mercy””
http://politicalscrapbook.net/2015/05/jeremy-hunt-pictured-alongside-mark-britnell-nhs-will-be-shown-no-mercy/
ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions
DNS – 1st May 2015
The Tory minister for disabled people appears to have accidentally admitted what many disabled activists feared: that a Conservative government would cut the out-of-work benefits of people with mental health conditions if they refused treatment.
In a debate broadcast on local radio, Mark Harper strongly suggested that people with mental health problems would be among the group with “long-term yet treatable” conditions who could be sanctioned if they refused treatment.
The pledge to review whether such sanctions should be introduced is included in the Tory manifesto, under a promise to “review how best to support those suffering from long-term yet treatable conditions, such as drug or alcohol addiction, or obesity, back into work”.
It adds: “People who might benefit from treatment should get the medical help they need so they can return to work.
“If they refuse a recommended treatment, we will review whether their benefits should be reduced.”
But the party has refused to confirm that people with mental health conditions would be among this group facing potential sanctions.
Disabled activists have described the plans as “wild, stupid”, “unconscionable”, and “highly dangerous”, while the Tory MP Dr Sarah Wollaston, who chaired the Commons health select committee in the last parliament, has said on Twitter that sanctions linked to medical treatment would be “unethical”.
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/election-2015-harper-suggests-backing-for-mental-health-treatment-sanctions/
Mark `Lazy` Harper Your Fired !!!!
Mikey Dread – Mental Slavery 1980
dirt under their feet | May 7, 2015 at 1:40 am | Reply
So they cut psychiatric services again and again, so that often those desperate for help can’t get it; and when there are far too many and increasing numbers of people with depression and anxiety-type conditions for it to be a policy to do more than hand out drugs and be maybe put on the list for some talking therapy… and suddenly there is going to be treatment available for all these people? How could that be achievable?
Really, the only part of such a scheme soon achievable is the sanctions part, and that’s all any of it would be aimed at anyway.
Meanwhile, number-one psychopath IDS (with associates) has been left at liberty insanely to damage as many people as he can manage to do.
If someone with a dangerous psychiatric condition murdered someone, there would be a big outcry about it, and loss of liberty. Yet we have someone enforcing policies which shorten the lives of thousands and more across the country, as well as directly leading to who-knows-how-many deaths, and the perpetrator has immunity from any charges. Nothing is done about it.
While the most effective treatment needed to improve many people’s mental health is to stop persecuting them into the grave. A treatment which actually is right now achievable. By – just stop doing it.
Wirral West MP Esther McVey pulls out of live radio interview in Liverpool city centre
Liverpool Echo – 28th April 2015
Employment Minister was due to be broadcast from LBC’s election Battle Bus in Liverpool ONE
Wirral West MP Esther McVey this morning pulled out of a live radio interview in Liverpool city centre.
Radio station LBC brought its election Battle Bus to Liverpool ONE as part of a countrywide tour ahead of polling day on May 7.
The public will be able to watch the show on live screens as it is aired between 7am to 10am outside John Lewis, with LBC reporters looking for Merseyside voters to express their opinions on the topics for debate.
Ms McVey, the Employment Minister, was due to be interviewed on the show, but ECHO reporter Joe Thomas – who is on board the Battle Bus – tweeted: “Last night’s rumour was correct and Esther McVey has pulled out of today’s live interview in Liverpool city centre.”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/wirral-west-mp-esther-mcvey-9132976
Esther McVile has said she wants to be PM, you have to win your seat first loser.
She’s only got one day to wait, then she’ll be a Previous Minister.
VOTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS & EQUALITY
All parties should be abiding by Disability Human Rights & Equality Laws. Not one party is standing up for Disabled people & their rights.
One Day To Go | May 6, 2015 at 4:16 pm | Reply
Thank fuck! 😀
Meanwhile……5 hours jobsearch 7 days a week. How the fuck is that even possible?
Cruise4 | May 6, 2015 at 4:45 pm | Reply
It’s easy people, you just stop doing what you do. Work is war on your K (conciousness), tax is takes, mort guage is a death sentence, currency is your energy which you give to them willingly. Invest in the internal. Vote with your heart. the elect-ion is in earn-est now and your destination depends on wisdom not repetition of foolishness. Many are going before others, and we wait for you to catch up. The miraculous awaits, when you wake up and realise it. In the meantime it’s hard and painful. Let’s make sure we are the last to need to take such drastic measures in our lives. Have some balls and walk away from ALL of it. Society is an embarrassment, and if you support any of this nonsense…
Lynn Guist | May 6, 2015 at 5:21 pm | Reply
mortgage = death debt mortgage = a measurement to death… not a lot of people know that 😉
It’s quite funny when you see people celebrating when they take out a MORT GAUGE lol
You guessed it | May 7, 2015 at 12:59 am | Reply
Most people do not understand the risk; to whit you live and work until you are late fifties+ and have have handed over all your money to the state, and If it all comes right the political parties will ruin everything in touch.
We know these wankers are gone by the 24’th C, so why not a Vulcan Lirpa? Asasinate these fools.
Disability is not a political issue, it is a Human Rights Issue.
The slavery & slave trading continues.
Seems the DWP have now become a private company that has its own rules. DWP PLC is out of the hand of politicians unless your a Tory.
The Tories own the DWP, but Atos & Maximus will have something to say about that.
Cash Cow PLC – 10,000 Disabled DWP Deaths PLC.
Back to real life & put politics down where it belongs in the gutter. Gutter press.
CoCoa Tea – Dance Inna Parliament – 2001
I can feel a new 2015 cut.
Dance Ina Parliament Genocide
Gazza | May 6, 2015 at 6:26 pm | Reply
OT: Workfare slavery and the loss of Ordinary Jobs to Same
If anyone was in doubt about the future of work check out:
http://workmustpay.com/2015/02/20/neverending/
another jobseeketr | May 6, 2015 at 7:06 pm | Reply
Is there another way of signing off JSA as trying to get through on the number is a nightmare and it costs a fortune.
Bernadette H | May 7, 2015 at 6:42 pm | Reply
Another jobseeker,
Go into the ‘office’ to sign of or, post ‘your signing of’ booklet not forgetting to fill in the appropriate page.
simplyradical | May 6, 2015 at 8:20 pm | Reply
I disagree with your verdict on Brand. He’s never been so villified since he started joining up with ordinary people to amplify their campaigns. He’s villified for saying ‘there’s no point in voting’ and now he’s villified for changing his mind and realising that actually, there is. His message isn’t vote labour and go back to bed – it’s vote labour and then hold them to account through massive mobilisation, direct action, and voting Green where you can! His model is a Labour party held to account by people power and other more radical parties – surely a bloody good thing!
nuggy | May 6, 2015 at 8:50 pm | Reply
i allways thought he was a berk anyway.
Gazza | May 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm | Reply
JV is critical of Mr Brand & for good reason.
However I must say his lastest youtube debunking the the Sun Newspaper & Cameron and the cronyism of that whole set of connected people is spot on.
Election up all nighters | May 6, 2015 at 11:15 pm | Reply
First result just declared:
Chingford and Woodford Green
Class War – GAIN 🙂
IDS is OUT 🙂
Cant Read a Watch or What?
SHUT IT..
Hackney residents lose vote despite registering before deadline
BBC – 6th May 2015
Voters in a London borough have lost their chance to take part in the election despite registering before the April deadline.
Hackney Council has told the BBC about 100 people will be unable to vote.
Claire Mason, a Hackney resident, said she was told the system probably could not process the number registering to vote in the week up to 20 April.
A council worker told her up to 20,000 people registered that week.
“He reiterated that I had to face the possibility that I could not vote, which is outrageous,” she said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32607289
“””Hackney Council said about 100 people were thought to be affected and issued a statement which said enabling people to vote was an “absolute priority”.
“Due to issues caused by the new Individual Electoral Registration system we did not receive some applications until late into the process, as details were cross checked by the Department for Work and Pensions, via the government’s new online registration service.”
It said voters did not need a polling card to vote, but just needed to give their name and address to staff at their polling station. “”””
No polling card very open to vote rigging.
Gerry Mander | May 7, 2015 at 3:31 pm | Reply
Yeah, bet a lot of non-voters will have voted for the Tories or UKIP!
watermelonbloke | May 7, 2015 at 1:04 am | Reply
Reblogged this on Neo-Feudal News.
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You guessed it | May 7, 2015 at 4:51 am | Reply
No polling card required has been in effect since before last time I voted (I presented my bank statement and Visa card). I was informed if somebody tried to vote a second time police would be informed, so its pretty blulddy risky what with prison terms as a likely sentence.
Having Voted to Get the Tories and Liberal Democrats Out of Office
and Not For UKIP Either I was netherless annoyed that people with Tory and
UKIP Rosettes were Able to be so close to the Polling Area and
try to ask for my Card Details
I Think this is an Utter Cheek
@NoOpp
it’s worse than that, it borders on electoral fraud. Please people, whatever else you do, please VOTE!!
A lot of us also have local elections today…so that’s TWO chances to make a point.
Taero | May 7, 2015 at 10:10 am | Reply
Maybe do a little research before you right an article like this, Russell brand does so much more than YouTube videos for less privileged people, he campaigns on the streets, donates 100% of the profits of his books and gigs and merch to his charities and campaigns that he’s supporting… And as for changing his stance on voting this election, read this: http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/7223266
taero
he gets to choose how to distribute his income…the poor precarious classes don’t….charity is an extremely poor way of redistribution of wealth…it is much better done in decent wages for all and/or a citizens income…. http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/monitoring/socialcharter/Conclusions/State/UKXX2_en.pdf benefits in the uk are manifestly inadequate…. a decent income, the preservation of human dignity are vital for health and wellbeing of the individual and our whole culture…
p s taero
if WCA, sanctions, and conditionality, were ended today that would have an immediate and beneficial affect on millions…don’t need to vote, for humanity to revival…
Well said. Interesting article. My opinion of Brand has just skyrocketed!
louiskasatkin1 | May 7, 2015 at 10:49 am | Reply
I’m pleased that it has now all been confirmed as a bit of a jejeune wind-up,situationist gag.Seriously the zitbuster generation are easily entranced by shiny baubles on social media.THEY are the ones who would actually end up putting another demagogue into power.
yep, never ceases to amaze ‘atheists’ who see themselves as gods and/or saints…
Having a Walk beginning of this Morning I saw to my Disgust a Tory Poster put on an disused/abandoned Building which Symbolised the Ruination of Great Britain under the ” Conservatives ” so I Tore it down and put it where it Belongs in the Rubbish Bin like Thatcherism in General
That is the 4th Poster Flyposted on an Empty/Disused/Abandoned Building whichI have Tore Down as it is an Insult to All the Poor who have Suffered under the Nutcase Tory Regime
Should the Tories Not Win a Majority and they Try to Hold Onto to
Power the Country Need’s to Get Out and Protest En Masse
Saying the Tories are Not Fit to Govern the UK and Demanding
that any Tory Coups to Stay in Office are Ended and the Tories
leave Downing Street
A Punter | May 7, 2015 at 11:45 am | Reply
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Mug Punter | May 7, 2015 at 12:15 pm | Reply
Spreadbetting has got the Cons slightly ahead in number of seats. Looks like a Labour wipe-out in Scotland. Jim Murphy must be shitting his breeks.
Latest: Labour minority government looking more likely
Buy Sell Updated
Conservative Election Seats
286.5 289.5 11:29:28
Labour Election Seats
SNP Election Seats
46.0 48.0 10:10:49
Heading should be Sell Buy Updated 🙂
Rob | May 7, 2015 at 12:21 pm | Reply
If we had PR we could all in the UK vote SNP. That would really have shown the labour party how little trust we have in them and how nasty and cruel the sanction regime is. We need labour supporters in Scotland to vote SNP to give a voice to the anti austerity groups.
Carol Vorderman | May 7, 2015 at 1:06 pm | Reply
LibsDems are on ~ 47 though. 288 + 47 = 335 . 326 is the magic number to form a government = another Con/Demn ‘coalition’? Lab + SNP would be ~ 15 short of 326. Mm.
Oops, LibDems are on ~ 24. 288 + 24 = 312. Not enough for Cameron to form a government. Mm…
So + 15 made up of Plaid Cymru, a Green, ?? would give Milliband a minority government.
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/05/06/its-neck-and-neck-and-times/ yougov don’t agree with you….
Mug Punter | May 7, 2015 at 1:37 pm | Reply
Spread-betting latest
Sell Buy Updated
we’ll know by fri am…
We will indeed. And if it was easy to make money at the bookies/on spread-betting we would all be millionaires. 😀
And it will be nice to know how much ££s we could have made if we had called this the correct way 🙂
Mori | May 8, 2015 at 12:06 pm | Reply
The financial bookies (spread-betting) called this one correct! If you had bought the Tories and sold Labour even as late as yesterday you would have made a tidy sum. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. As for the bookies – “Conservative majority a distant 10/1.” – at the moment Cameron only needs one to achieve this. What would have proved costly here was believing and putting any faith in those horse-shit polls.
Memo for next election: ignore those fucking polls. (of course they could be on the money next time round lol )
William Hill | May 8, 2015 at 11:37 pm |
There is something suspicious about these polls (an ‘investigation’ is now under-way lol) There aim is obviously to manipulate something; first thing that springs to mind is public opinion, but maybe it is more to manipulate betting/financial markets. If you had been influenced by these polls you would have lost your shirt.
And the bookies must have made a quid or too on the hung parliament betting.
Gam B Ler | May 7, 2015 at 3:10 pm | Reply
If those polls are correct and if you bought Labour and sold the Tories you would make a tidy profit. £1 on Labour and £1 on the Tories would net you £22 🙂 Or one weeks JSA at £73.10 would net £804.10 🙂 Can’t be that easy. 😀
Of course if something bad happens and it goes the other way you would lose your shirt 😀
Greenwood4727 | May 7, 2015 at 5:14 pm | Reply
but if it was a lot of money then you would have to tell the dole and they would stop your money,
William Hill | May 8, 2015 at 11:40 pm | Reply
Just look at your yougov poll – imagine if you had put the family farm on that!
ALL politicians are crooks, they should have limited time as a MP, before being banned for being ones.. they should be held accountable for any broken promises. in a true democracy there should be NO safe seats.. and all MP’s should have to be forced to take psychological testing to see if they are a psychopath/sociopath.. real people need to be in charge people with experience of reality. not the professional politicians we have the ones who have all the same qualifications all the same thoughts.. get rid of the political degrees and if you have one ban you from every being a member of parliament
Crooked as they come... | May 7, 2015 at 2:46 pm | Reply
Working class psychopaths become criminals; middle-class psychopaths become lawyers; upper-class psychopaths become politicians.
Just voted SNP – loads of people were on their way – holding their Polling cards. Pleased to note that there was a disabled ramp for people using wheel-chairs. First time I have ever been in a queue to vote!!!!!!
Nicola | May 7, 2015 at 3:25 pm | Reply
Many thanks you for your support, Donna!
yep, looking good, many reports of Q’s, and smiling snp voters…
Need to work until 8pm and then it’s the bottle of vino and up all night scenario – please God (if there is one) answer my prayers. I always pray to God in a crisis. lol xxx
Donna, I have already opened my vino!!!. Looking forward to us’ English’ being ruled by Scotland. What a great day, thus far.
Jim Murphy | May 7, 2015 at 3:40 pm | Reply
Thanks for nothing, Donna!
What’ll you do if you lose yer seat Jim?
town crier…. 🙂
Aye LOL! I hope it’s a night when the Labour party are given the warmest of welcomes! I know all Jim’s scaremongering about “All these polls for the SNP are great news for David Cameron because it means he stays in number 10” has been going constantly the last few weeks. But i just can’t bring myself to vote for the Labour party after what they’ve done.
I want to vote for something instead of against something. Labour to me are indeed ‘Red Tories’ as they basically are for the same cuts the Tories are for. But stretched out over a longer period of time i believe.
I’m just praying it comes through for the SNP tonight. I want a real thrashing for Labour to pay them back for what Murphy, Brown et al did on the run up to the referendum. I think tonight the chickens will come home to roost and Labour will learn a bitter lesson about treating Scotland like a ‘Branch Office’
Go SNP!
there’s chatter about him being supported by tory votes…!! which beguiles their cries of the snp being an undemocratic vote, coz they’re not a uk wide party…40+ seats will be good…the 52+, msm are claiming seems pie in the sky to me….
Did you see that interview thing he did on STV with Bernard Ponsonby the other night on Scotland Tonight? The classic politicians tactic was used by Murphy and he got away with it. He talked constantly over Bernard and wouldn’t let him get in to cross examine! Every time he tried to get in auld Jim was in full flight and was talking so quick the host couldn’t fire off any of his questions!
It actually was very annoying. Ponsonby was getting ready to nail him with some difficult question but couldn’t get an opening while Murphy’s tirade went on.
BTW OBD i agree with you on the seats. I don’t see it being over 50. There’s a lot of people who were undeclared and stuff so i don’t want to get my hopes up and then to be disappointed. All this talk that the SNP could win all 59 seats is just ridiculous.
lol – if you are Jim Murphy – I heard you years ago at a Planning Meeting – where I might add the public were not allowed to speak – I had to leave as I was laughing soooo much at what you had to say. I cannot believe that you have lasted in Politics – I would have sacked you instantly!!!!!
LOL! Auld Jim’s a laugh eh?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-scotland-32633029 exit polls suggests 58 snp seats……
Jim Murphy to Lose Seat | May 7, 2015 at 10:41 pm | Reply
Vote for CLASS WAR!!... | May 7, 2015 at 3:45 pm | Reply
We have a choice…BY THE BRICK OR THE BALLOT’ or ONLY THE RICHEST SURVIVE!!!
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It’s a bullying assertion of unearned moral superiority. Voting is fine. Go, vote. But stop saying that people who disagree about this should be stripped of their rights. Alternately, if you keep saying it, well, we have a pretty good idea of how much you respect the idea that fundamental rights are for everyone, not just people you happen to like and agree with.
anyway trend this #disturbingreports….
vote or not vote, i vote, who cares, do that and change what we can as well…we need some sort of admin and when admin gets too big for it’s boots we need to bring it down a peg or three…all i care for, are reliable supplies of vitality giving vitals of life for all….
“DWP PIP RISK ASSESSMENT ANALYSIS”
…………….A hastily cobbled together pack of lies by DWP nominated bureaucrats, paid to come up with what they were instructed…………..
Income and health are related,
with those on low incomes having higher rates of disease, ill
health and mortality than those on high incomes. Ho
wever, evidence is limited as to whether
a change in income has an effect on health. DLA is intended to provide a cash contribution
to the extra costs associated with disability and complements a range of support available to
disabled people, including inco
me replacement benefits for those who are unable to work. It
is therefore not expect
ed that reducing one source of suppor
t for disabled people with lesser
barriers to participation will
have an adverse impact on health.
It is possible that the policy could have positive
impacts on health if it leads to more disabled
people moving into work. Health impacts will be c
onsidered further as t
he detail of the policy
is developed.
………………SADLY, THE DEAD CAN’T TALK, BUT WE CAN SPEAK FOR THEM…………………..
GEOFF REYNOLDS | May 7, 2015 at 10:03 pm | Reply
“TRY CLICKING ON THE LINK BELOW, THE DWP ARE TRYING TO ERASE THE MURDER TRAIL”
Risk of negative impact
The proposed policy change initially focu
ses on working age recipients (16-64)
and so they are more likely to be affected.
As regards the knock-on effects of the
policy, those in receipt of Carer’s Allo
wance, aged 35-64 are particularly likely to
be affected by the introduction of
Personal Independence Payment.
This reform to DLA specifically focu
ses on those aged 16-64. More information on
how the needs of children aged 16 moving
from DLA to Personal Independence
Payment will be met is available in our consultation on the detailed design of
Personal Independence Payment:
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/consultations/2012/pip-
detailed-design.shtml
The effects on carers as a resu
lt of the introduction of the
new policy reflect the demographic
profile of this group.
………………..EVEN THE DISABILITY MINISTERS SIGNATURE DOES NOT APPEAR ON THE PIP RISK ASSESSMENT.
jason smith | May 7, 2015 at 10:24 pm | Reply
not surprised at all that his signature is missing from it.
who did you vote for Geoff?
Labour of course…………..
and i pray that they will link with the SNP, the only party with true socialist values, to bring this scum down……….
……………nice to see that the freedom of information tsar, CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM’S arse has finally collapsed…………..
He has finally instructed the DWP to explain the welfare reform deaths that he had previously helped to hide.
Strange how the threat of being an accomplice in acts like these can soften their resolve.
i can see another change in the role of Disability Minister, nobody wants to face the imminent investigations……………..
Hence the no-show of the DWP butchery department staff, Smith and MCvey, the Burke and Hare of the Tory administration….
Another Fine Mess | May 7, 2015 at 11:19 pm | Reply
No one commenting on the fake exit polls?
jason smith | May 8, 2015 at 12:00 am | Reply
it will be a very close call tbh , but i fear the worse and will be wakeing up with the conservatives(wankers) in power and 5 more years of hardship for the lower clases. in advance FU Tory twats
Every Lidl Helps | May 8, 2015 at 2:17 am | Reply
What the fuck is up with people? If the Exit Polls are to be believed, it looks like another 5 years of Tory shite!
I’m about to come off Carers Allowance because my mum died recently, and then it will be on to Universal Credit unless I can get a job beforehand.
I’m not in the mood for playing their fuckin’ sanctions cat and mouse games right now. God help me, and God help us all!
Fuck IDS and his bitch McVile!
Roland Bishop | May 8, 2015 at 3:34 am | Reply
jason smith | May 8, 2015 at 5:25 am | Reply
im sorry for your loss 😦
but as long as you are actively applying for any job that you have the skills to do then the monkeys at the jobcenter and no i dont mean the G4S rentacops. You will not get sanctioned. the ones who are getting sanctioned are those who miss appointments and do not give a good enough reason why they did not turn up or do not put enough effort in to “looking for work” I will have been unemployed for almost a year now in june, I have had around 15 interviews in that time, none have been bad with the feedback but even the low paid jobs such as order picking often turn me down for an interview. but i keep a record on line with universal jobmatch as i cant be fucked in writing it down in that shitty white book they give you and this seems to keep the monkeys happy.
those out of work are the ones getting fucked over by IDS with his hairbrained schemes that are not delivered on time.
Bullshit Polls | May 8, 2015 at 5:51 am | Reply
Yeah, CON majority now being predicted ffs
McVey lost her seat 😀
As did Danny Alexander
Jo Swinson 😀
jason.smith | May 8, 2015 at 6:46 am | Reply
twatface is on his way to london it would be funny as fuck if he lost now.
but sadly it looks like we have 5 more years of this cunt and his nasty party.
Annos | May 8, 2015 at 7:31 am | Reply
Get this….
Some in Labour (Blairites) are saying they have done so badly because Ed Miliband didn’t move the Labour party further to the right. There will now be a war within Labour.
You couldn’t make it up!!!.
ever notice that when ever that worm giddeion tilts his head to one side when he is being interviewed, add a bandanna and a gun in his hand tilted sideways and you have your very own tory gangsta
and what a bout that “recount” last time it was poll stations running out of ballot papers, and whats up with pudsy every time there is an election that part of the country allways has problems, shame on those who decided to go home rather than vote. you could have voted online or by post so dont blame the cues for not being able to vote. imo that makes you as spineless as the torys
jeremy | May 8, 2015 at 7:48 am | Reply
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-moment-esther-mcvey-lost-9211009
what sort of fucking country is it that leaves the nazi party in power????????????
tbh i am not surprised.. history is repeating itself
well if the SNP votes were all labour then then the current twats at #10 would be out on their asses.
overburdenddonkey | May 8, 2015 at 9:00 am | Reply
not true, labour let themselves down and why would we leave ourselves wide open to tory and/or labour rule after the indyref….we had to vote for our country….
sorry but as of now Scotland is still part of the united kingdom and this is what the government governs. once Scotland gets its interdependence Wales will be next along with Northern Ireland and Ireland.
infact lets split up the entire nation into States which have there own rules and taxes. then we can all become part of the united states of Europe which is where things are heading.
no need to be sorry, get your calculator out though…
Labour lost the election in England. Even if all the SNP seats had went to Labour they still wouldn’t have won. It’s clear the English vote Tory, we in Scotland vote SNP. We are not compatible and there will be a new referendum, probably sooner rather than later.
Any country that votes for a party that wants to have foodbanks, zero hour contracts and workfare is a country we want nothing to do with.
It’s time the Uk was split up.
Fen Tiger | May 8, 2015 at 8:28 am | Reply
Now that Fester McVile is out of a cushy job as IDS’ lackey, what’s the hope she will now have to sign in at her local job centre and be expected to look for work for 35 hrs a week and within six months be forced onto the work programme, being told what to do by her former boss?
KentAllard | May 8, 2015 at 8:43 am | Reply
I’m sure Fat Dave will find a cushy job to reward McVile, maybe a peerage.
I can’t believe the stupidity of the English. They’ve voted for five more years of a fat idle thicko as Prime Minister and a Chancellor who gets his advice from a crack fiend. They’ve voted to have human rights abolished, they’ve voted for higher rents, they’ve voted for higher utility and transport bills, they’ve voted for billionaires evading tax, they’ve voted not to have legal representation, they’ve voted for lower wages, they’ve voted for the state to interfere in their lives on an unprecedented scale through universal credit, they’ve voted for the destruction of the NHS, they’ve voted for the privatisation of anything the Tories can steal, they’ve voted for outsourcing and the loss of their own jobs, they’ve voted for the destruction of the welfare state, they’ve voted for ministers who piss away fortunes on failed projects that just happen to reward their supporters, they’ve voted for a party financed by non-dom billionaires, they’ve voted for a party that actually drives the poorest and most vulnerable to suicide.
This is what happens when you have an opposition party in name only. For five years Labour has said they’ll do the same as the Tories but be a little nicer about it when they should have been tearing apart every word from the government’s collection of crooks, liars and incompetents.
Five more years of this and even worse now Fat Dave knows how stupid the voters are. When’s the next Scottish referendum?
Forget another indyref, next move could be UDI. It’s already been mooted.
there will not be UDI, the requirement is over 60% of voters demanding indyscotref then and other triggers ie in out euref where scots vote to stay and r.uk vote to leave (even though the uk state cannot remove uk citizens, eu citizenship)….the snp have promised to represent all scot citizens regardless of party affiliations…
this stance is widely backed by the scottish people…there will be another indyref likely before 2020, subject to manifesto mandate @ the 2016 scotparl elections…
Kentallard
That’s about the best summing-up of this catastrophic result and it’s likely consequences that I’ve read. Couldn’t have put it better. The Tories played the Great British Public for morons who, as ever, duly obliged. Looks like it’s By The Brick, then! At least McVile got the bullet, but still, small comfort.
God help us all…
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damo | May 8, 2015 at 9:15 am | Reply
If your young and have a world skill a set of universal skills ….get out of hear ,canada,Australia,Brazil….go run ,get away from this repulsive country go and make a better life for yourselves come on run…run ..run…get out of htear as for the rest of us the poor the disabled the unemployed fasted your seatbelts put your armour on its gonna get realy ruff,realy ruff ….god bless
So much for Labour riding in to save us. But at least they removed McVile.
mibbie new job involving ermine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T0B7Fc3P6s mhairi black snp mp….
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Does anyone Think the General Election was Rigged and Why ?
you’ve been told often enough, one more time….there is a built in tory vested interest core voter pool… which is why blair was described as thatchers finest achievement, the only way he could win power was by buying into thatcherism…wishing no oppression will not work, that’s behaviourism…. one has to set oneself free (as is possible in a toxic culture), this is an action and not an act of role play….see cold comfort pingback, above your post….oppression is ingrained/rubbed/£ed into psyche…caused by constant abuse and no remedy caused by venting expression of trapped emotions…
GEOFF REYNOLDS | May 8, 2015 at 10:26 am | Reply
I definitely think that our security services have been utilised to bring about rigged voting.
It was evident in the Scottish referendum and made a good practice run for the ones held yesterday.
Any party having so much wealth and so many entitled members that would lose so much, will stop at nothing to gain dominance over it’s rivals……
The mood of the people is changing rapidly and the tory’s realise they are clinging on by a single thread that is becoming weaker, day by day.
You can control the media, but you cannot control the mood of those you wish to hush. We are a nation divided and the balance of power will be lost and won by the movement of the Scottish peoples choices.
You can live a life built upon lies but you ultimately have to grasp the truth at some point.
Accelerating backwards at an unprecedented speed is not the sign of a growing economy but that of abject failure.
The truly despicable, Esther the butcher, MCvey, got her comeuppance from those she laid to rest. 417 VOTES THAT RESONATE FROM BEYOND THE GRAVES OF THOSE SHE LAID TO REST.
Tomorrows headlines will feature the facts of what we thought were fiction.
…………..as for Miliband, he played straight into his opponents hands when distancing himself from the biggest ally he had, wee little Nicola………..
i live in a country where more than 50% of the voters, demand radical social change… the snp claim that they can deliver, they’ll be out on their ears if they don’t…the state only has the power that we give it….
Well, it IS tempting. It’s a bit too convenient for the Tories and the 1% to be true, isn’t it, considering how even the previous polls were. However, I suspect that can be explained by a shitload of people pussying out in the voting booth. The cunts.
Answer Braindead Nazi Britain it Seem’s Sadly
Particularly in England or should that be Evilland ?
The Scum who have Voted Tory are Collaborators with Misery and
Oppression and the Don’t Vote Brigade have been the Tories
I Notice that Scotland and Wales have more Common Sense than
England or should that be Evilland with the Nasty Tories ?
Greenwood4727 | May 8, 2015 at 10:31 am | Reply
we need a new way, i am talking about a brand new way not a copy of a bad system.. each area in a town has a person who everyone knows, have a jury duty random pick of people in that area (has to have lived there for at least 5 years), so no more professional politicians, but real people from all walks of life. they go into the town and theres a vote of who is best to represent that town, then that goes to a county area, then you get the best person from the county at each level people are KNOWN by the people in the town, and area.. and they havea direct contact with someone who live in that area, and knows the specific area and whats best for their town/county.. limit the amount of time a MP can be a MP, No more safe seats. add to that the ability to impeach and get rid of any one who brings politics into disrepute, and make is an offence to lie, a legal binding contract manifesto pledge.. if they cant make the pledge get a referrendum about it..give the power back to the people
MCVEY MURDERER | May 8, 2015 at 10:37 am | Reply
How breathtakingly astonishing to her seat-loser MvVey describe the election campaign as “brutal”. Brutal: a word often used to describe McVey’s sanctions! MvVey ranted on about “vile abuse”: “there have been calls on Twitter that I should be hanged from a lamppost”, accused John McDonnell MP of “threatening to send a mob to Liverpool to lynch me” and even had to audacity to complain about “graffiti sprayed on a wall”
Mr. Reckless | May 8, 2015 at 11:21 am | Reply
McVey was aware that she has lost parliamentary protection, she can not be allowed to evade justice in the anonymity of civvy street.
Breaking News | May 8, 2015 at 11:53 am | Reply
Huw Edwards on BBC News has just said that John McDonnell has just been in touch to say that he didn’t call for mass murderer and inveterate lair McVey to be lynched – “he was only reporting what other activists had said”.
I Do Notice that in Many Seats the Conservatives have Less than
50% of Votes Cast in their Favour
The Don’t Vote Just Grumble have been Good Friends to the Tories
The Liberal Democrats have lost Bath in Somerset
The Liberal Democrats propped up the Tories
Shame on Them
Stepping Razor Sound Plate System | May 8, 2015 at 10:49 am | Reply
Time for a General Strike – That`s what happens after a recession. No need for Unions to strike. You ain`t seen nothing yet. A dictatorship gets promotion to become a rogue state in Human Rights.
Wirral West is one Constituency in England that has some
Common Sense and Human Decency in Getting the Tories
I wonder what was the Percentage of People who did Not Bother
to Vote in the UK General Election 2015 and how many People
have been Turned Away at the Poll’s due to New Electoral
Good we can close all the Jobcentres down because everyone has a job now & there is no more unemployed people left.
“apprenticeships” are the torys version of labours “New Deal” and we all know how well that worked out.
Every Lidl Helps | May 8, 2015 at 1:22 pm | Reply
Thanks Jason for your kind words earlier.
This feels worse than 1992 when the people voted Major in. I mean even another Tory coalition government would have been a nightmare, but a fucking majority is insane!
Just wait for VAT to go up again. More zero hours contracts, workfare, sanctions, universal credit, the bedroom tax, etc….
Those self interested cunts will be screaming like fuck when their child tax credits start getting chopped!
I’m absolutely gutted for the poorest and most vulnerable in society today.
Full steam ahead for even more cuts. Dodgy Dave now outlawed in Europe, just what he wants. Many many more DWP deaths to come.
Over confidence means fuck ups at the DWP.
Donna Smith | May 8, 2015 at 11:10 am | Reply
I am absolutely “gutted” – I truly thought that people would vote the Tories out. Well, we will wait and see what good things SNP can bring to Westminster. I truly hope so.
Turkey Twister | May 8, 2015 at 12:42 pm | Reply
Cameron has now reached an overall majority – a ‘mandate’ to do whatever the fuck he likes – can’t see the SNP making much difference, if any.
So when are the DWP going to take me to court for defrauding the DWP out of £800,000 over the past …. years. I am still wanting on the DWP`s loop Holes of fraud. I will make a load of money in that job of defending myself. The Onus Is On The Burden Of Proof. Let`s get high profile in the media.
Cash Cow Rebellion.
DWP Slaughter Houses or DWP Slaughtered in Human Rights Breaches.
Bermondsey and Old Southwark got the Liberal Democrats Out
Some Common Sense
After all they Propped Up the Tories
Dodgy Dave the 10,000 DWP admitted deaths are the 1st thing you are going to lose on purpose & failures. No where too run nowhere to hide DWP Deaths.
The DWP thinks it has won the war on poverty. Wrong. Too over confident again.
Why are the DWP scared of me !!! Careful DWP your in litigation.
Now that the abled bodied people have had their go in trying to change things & it has not worked. Step back & now let the disabled people do their work in Human Rights & Equality Issues. Disability is not a political issue.
The door is open to kill off all disabled people in England with sanctions that are unlawful within the United Nations Community. Don`t say that I said Kill Disabled People because that will lead to another court case with the DWP fraud case. When will the DWP stop pussyfooting around & find me a job. There is no legal aid which makes no difference to me. I only speak to your lawyers DWP since I represent myself. So stop trying to talk to me DWP you are in litigation with your lawyers DWP.
What fools.
The Onus Is On The Burden Of Proof. The DWP have none. I have the proof so the onus is on me.
Lucy | May 8, 2015 at 12:03 pm | Reply
The turkeys voted for Christmas and they don’t realise that it is they who are the turkeys.
We are utterly fucked.
Oven Ready | May 8, 2015 at 12:12 pm | Reply
Like the turkeys on here posting and urging us to “Vote for CHRISTMAS!!”
Cameron just received the magic 326 seats – Cons now have an overall majority. The Tories now have a ‘mandate’ to do whatever the fuck they like.
Gleggy has just resigned. All falling like flies, the disabled are still here while they drop like flies.
Fast track stream rolling genocide of the disabled. Politics was the easy bit.
Now Ed has resigned.
poor soul i can feel his suffering from here…’we did nothing wrong it was the nasty voters wot did’….
Harriet Harman will lead the Labour Party further into political oblivion, they have not only lost the working class vote but the political plot across the uk.
if ever a PP needed to be wiped out tis red tories, yes and the blue tories….but if labour cannot get the precarious class vote, then they’re truly surplus to requirements….. same old crap though ‘we did nothing wrong they just didn’t listen to us…’….luckily hrs of vids tell a different story that it was them who didn’t listen, and arrogantly expected our votes…ie answer the question lady in ayr, pleads to murphy…’why did GB lie…over heart transplants etc!’ that’s wot did it, they did it to themselves, plain and simple…’once upon a time, in scotlandshire, north britain, there lived a lib dem, slabber, and a tory…..’ is the best story ending so far…. 🙂
HHarman?? best disband now imo….
Nigel has just resigned.
The disabled will be a harder fight dodgy dave.
Turkey Nuggets | May 8, 2015 at 12:48 pm | Reply
This is worth reading again. We have been had! Well, and truly stuffed!
The SNP have got to move where they fear to tread on to the stronger grandstand of nationalism.
KentAllard | May 8, 2015 at 1:36 pm | Reply
From One Foot In The Grave:
I couldn’t believe that last election result. It’s like hiring a man-eating shark as your children’s swimming instructor. [imitating parent] “Yes, I know it bit my baby’s head off last time, but I still think it deserves another chance.”
sibrydionmawr | May 8, 2015 at 2:13 pm | Reply
Though this result was entirely predictable, and we will never know whether it was Miliband’s craven refusal to even consider aligning with the SNP and others that persuaded people to not bother voting that effectively gave the Tories a majority. Disillusioned not to mention deranged former Labour voters voting for UKIP of course haven’t helped The question remains, what do we do now? The poor are now very much at the mercy of an all out Tory onslaught, and will no doubt bear the brunt of the planned budget cuts. As well as this, the Bedroom Tax remains, and also the imposition of Universal Credit that will see many of those who voted Tory/UKIP come under the conditionality of the Reich Labour Service (formerly known as the DWP). Talk about turkeys voting for Christmas.
It’s hard to be positive, and I for one, (living in a Wales where more than 25% of the seats are Tory, and where the vermin have actually gained) am feeling more than a little despondent. However, great things have happened in Scotland, and I am pleased for the Scottish people. I hope that Scotland will be a beacon of hope for the rest of us, and springboard of opposition to the Tory totalitarianism that is now bound to happen.
Bet Fred | May 8, 2015 at 4:13 pm | Reply
“entirely predictable”?! If it was “entirely predictable” you would be rolling in it 😀 😀
Mystic Meg | May 8, 2015 at 4:14 pm | Reply
P Power | May 8, 2015 at 11:30 pm | Reply
You should have put a wager on Cameron winning with a majority and on 330 seats – you would have got good odds on that 😀
Fen Tiger | May 8, 2015 at 2:14 pm | Reply
Now that the election bollcocks is over, can they all fucking stop with all that boring claptrap on the telly? I never voted and I never will as whoever is in power they all fuck it up for everybody not living in the Westminister bubble.
All politicians in whatever party all promise us one thing in order to get into power, but as soon as they get in power, they say and do the opposite to their election promises. Fucking liars and cheats the lot of them.
HOW THE FUCK CAN ANYONE SPEND 5 FUCKING HOURS PER DAY, EVERY FUCKING DAY, DOING FUCKING JOBSEARCH??? I AM GOING FUCKING INSANE!!!
RevSoc | May 8, 2015 at 3:25 pm | Reply
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Fellow JCP Sufferer/Customer | May 8, 2015 at 8:31 pm | Reply
I saw a poor guy being sanctioned a while ago for not recording anything in jobsearch on his UJM account. Thank goodness I use a paper JSD to keep my jobsearch record (as EVERYONE is entitled to do), refrain from logging into UJM when I’m merely browsing for jobs on it (as EVERYONE is entitled to do) and deny them access to my UJM account (as EVERYONE is entitled to do). In a way I’m glad Camoron has “swept to victory” as Labour have been exposed for many of the country as just another version of Tory. The storm will come soon and he will be at the centre of it.
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Rosa | May 13, 2015 at 11:52 am | Reply
How this article describes benefits under Labour is utter bullshit. The atmosphere has completely changed now, I was on the new deal under labour and was mostly supported in my training and in the arts and under a scheme I chose to be on, even got a decent job. Under the coalition Im hearing much more of sanctions, let alone the disability and atos. The good points raised by this author are ruined by this poisonous misinformation. I work with homeless and disadvantaged people – you are simply not right in saying things were worse under labour. And criticising a performer/celebrity like Brand with such venom- it just sounds small minded and envious. Yes, celebrities live in a bubble and will never have to face the hardships and reality that we do, but spouting this kind of hatred for someone who did a positive campaign for New Era residents and set up a cafe run by and for addicts – it just sounds small minded
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Wednesday, October 09, 2019 1:00 am
Council alters commission on request of firefighters
ROSA SALTER RODRIGUEZ | The Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne firefighters got some of what they've been urging when City Council voted Tuesday to revamp the composition of the department's Merit Commission, in part to bring it into conformance with state law.
After lengthy discussion, the council voted to scrap one ordinance proposal and two amendments to another.
The amendment members approved was advanced by Paul Ensley, R-1st, and would bring the board into conformity with state law by having City Council appoint one member.
Under Ensley's amendment, the mayor and the firefighters' union will have two appointments each. Both must choose representatives from two different political parties. The council will also have a second non-voting representative.
The proposed ordinances came after council representatives Russ Jehl, R-2nd, and Michael Barranda, R-at large, met with representatives of Mayor Tom Henry's administration, Fire Chief Eric Lahey and the union.
Barranda said he recognized the board has been the subject of “frustration and lack of trust” between the union and the city administration, including the fire chief.
The perception has been that mayoral appointees stacked the board, which is important because it has the power to promote, demote and fire department's employees, Barranda said.
Both Barranda and Council President John Crawford, R-at large, advanced amendments that did not come to a vote.
Ensley defended his amendment by saying it “keeps power closer to the people,” and Geoff Paddock, D-5th, said he was “prepared to support Councilman Ensley's proposal” – and did.
The discussion also secured a pledge by Lahey and the union to take a comprehensive look at the merit board's rules and come up with changes acceptable to both parties to be voted on by council by the end of the year.
Lahey said he was willing to work on the project, but also stressed that he had “never ever unfairly applied the merit rules. We're talking about language in the merit rules that the union thinks is unfair.”
Union President Capt. Jeremy Bush said after the meeting that with the ordinance and the merit rules proposal “we're taking steps in the right direction.”
He added: “Yes there has been some frustration. ... But this (new board composition) is what the state code outlines. That's what we advocated.”
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Gravity: A Molly Pseudo- Pseudo Route. Updated as of 11/03/2019
Feurox
Location: England, Oxfordshire
Post by Feurox » Sun Mar 15, 2015 4:28 pm
Gravity: Updated as of 11/03/2019
Evidently, this thread could prove to be a bit confusing if you stumble onto it without prior knowledge of this Molly Route. I'll try to make it simple with this Q and A that covers any questions.
Why are there two tables of contents?
Gravity is split into two versions. The first table below is the on-going route and the most recent. It is far more revised than the previous one, and, in my opinion, the better of the two works. The second table is the contents for my previous attempt at this. I started said route in March of 2015, and I like to think my work has transformed since then.
Will you be continuing the original route?
No. I felt like I had written myself into a corner, and was generally unhappy with the content. Despite my own feelings on it, I am eternally grateful to the comments that route has received - I hope my revised version doesn't disappoint you.
Why not start a new thread?
There are a few reasons for not starting a new thread. The first and most important one being that I would like to preserve the journey this route has thus-far taken. It has been nearly 5 years since I began writing about Molly, a lot longer if you count my attempts even before Gravity. For me, writing, especially in such a wonderful community as KS, is an experience worth preserving in it's entirety - and whilst I am unhappy with how this attempt turned out, I am not ashamed of it's content. The second reason for not starting a new thread is that, whilst I'm not sure how seriously the rule is taken, I don't want to create another thread after the 5 or so I already have in the Renai. If you'd like to read some of my one-shot or competition pieces, you can do so in this thread: Various Stuffs
What's different about this new route?
Other than my writing style, I have re-worked various elements of the plot and characters. In doing so, I think I've improved the foundation, but you'll have to decide that for yourself.
Who is Molly?
Molly is a girl in class 3-3 pictured here as the furthest character to the right, front row. She has two prosthetic legs, (C-legs) that are above the knee prosthetics.
My thanks, as always, go to anyone who enjoys reading this fic and to the KS development team. Some special mentions are:
Brythain and Lap, who have both been unquantifiable help in both an advice and proof-reading capacity. With any luck they'll continue to do so as this progresses, but if not, thank you for your help.
Craftyatom and Mirage, who perhaps unknowingly inspire me to write better. Your comments on the forum are always either funny or constructive, and it is greatly appreciated.
Zerebos and Gibzx, who I have come to consider close friends after first hearing from you in this very thread. I am grateful to have met you both.
Gravity (Ongoing)
...Like friends don't lie, and it all tastes the same in the dark.
PT1 PT2 PT3
...Is that the light at the far end of the tunnel, or just the train?
PT1 PT2
...Even broken hearts can tessellate.
...And if you need me, remember not to call.
Legacy Route (Abandoned)
I'd rather waltz than just walk through the forest.
Act 1: Chapter 1 Relativity (This post)
We're all made of stardust.
ACT 2 Constants and variables
There's a world of difference between what we see, and what is.
Act 2 chapter 1: Galaxies
Call back the cap-com, tick off the time bomb.
Act 2 chapter 2: Kamikaze
Oh comet come down, Kamikaze over me.
Act 2 chapter 3: Indigo
We're all indigo, walking out together in the afterglow.
Act 2 chapter 4: Spiralling
Out of my reach but always in my eyeline.
Act 2 Chapter 5: Crucifix
We all have our crosses
Act 2 Chapter 6: E.T
Trying to find the in-between
“I was not!” Taro protests, moving his good arm franticly to bat away my accusations, his not-so good arm resting limply in the sling draped from his neck. “Besides, you’d only know if you were looking too!”
“Girls are allowed to look! You’re a guy, it’s completely different!” I reply in my inside voice. A voice that Taro is incapable of using.
“Now how in any way is that fair?” his eyes widen. “You’re a sexist!”
In all honestly I don’t think he was looking, it’s just hilarious to see his reaction to even the most stupid of accusations.
“You were definitely looking Taro.” Suzu chimes in. Holding tightly on to the banister as we ascend the stair case to 3-3, just in case her head decides it’s time for a nap, the thrills of narcolepsy I suppose. She always stays just ahead of me on the staircase, not so that I can catch her if she does go dark, but because if she’s going to hell she has every intent to take me with her.
“Oh shut up you weren’t even awake!” Taro accuses, a stern frown plastered across his lips.
We reach the door of our homeroom, and decide to postpone the discussion about whether or not Taro was looking at the second year in the particularly tight top. Which is a damn shame because it’s been ages since he’s gotten this worked up, Suzu nudges me, reminding me that I’m on lunch duty, to which I remind Taro that HE’S the one on lunch duty and he groans acceptingly and moves to his seat at the back of the class to play on his phone until lessons start. Which considering Mutou isn’t already in, won’t be for a while.
I leave Suzu to take my seat, which luckily has a window view, but unluckily is right in front of our teacher’s desk. I don’t bother looking around at who’s here and who’s not, instead devoting my undivided attention to the squirrel on the tree just outside. I think its taunting me.
Oh squirrel, what I would give to be you.
About somewhere between late and incredibly late Mutou stumbles through the door with an incredibly scared looking boy in tow and begins the obligatory introductions. I look him over for any obvious disabilities. Arms? Check. Legs? Check. Facial features? Check, check, check and check. Maybe he’s diabetic? Well he’s a mystery I suppose. He’s got messy brown hair and the bit sticking up at the front immediately irritates me. He’s tall, well, taller than me I think, which isn’t a great feat I suppose. He has deep brown eyes that take up most of his face. I stare out the window, and only really hear his name.
Hisao Nakai. Meh that’s alright I suppose, I mean it’s not quite James bond. But it’s not bad.
He takes his seat behind me, and next to the pink boom-box. Having already lost a decent portion of the lesson, Mutou sets us some group work to do and Suzu drags her chair over to my desk, taking about as long as you’d expect from a girl who’s asleep more often than not. We wave Taro over who mutters under his breath that he wasn’t looking before pulling an over chewed pencil from his mouth and starting on the questions.
The work doesn’t prove too challenging for the 3 of us, and before long everyone is getting up for lunch. Suzu and I give Taro some money for our lunches, which he ‘Agreed’ to buy, and head outside for lunch. It’s not a bad day for Yamaku standards, sunny and warm with a fair few clouds to cloud watch.
Lying on a particularly soft patch of grass, Suzu swings her arm up into the air to point at a cloud. “That one looks like a-“Falling asleep mid-sentence, her arm flies back towards her face and hits her nose with a rather painful sounding thump. I lift my head up to check for any bleeding and luckily she’s not. I wander what she’s dreaming about, if anything. She said it’s normally just like she never passed out at all, so it must be terrifying when we move her. It still pretty funny though.
The festival’s coming up soon and it’s obvious the younger years are excited for the festival. Most people are doing something for it, like making stands or banners. Taro is meant to be cooking for a stall being how he’s the only member of the Yamaku cooking club, although knowing Taro, he definitely won't be doing anything. You’re meant to do things you’re good at for the Festival, you know, show of your skills. But I don’t think anybody would be particularly interested in a chemistry show, or watching me do complex algebra. And they certainly wouldn’t care to watch Suzu sleep for hours on end.
“Frog. Oh great, “Suzu mutters through the sleeve of her blouse. “Thanks for catching my arm by the way. You’re getting really good at it,” she says, a wide smirk across her face.
“Honestly, I don’t know how I have such fast reaction time,” I turn my head to face her. “Maybe I’m a ninja.”
“If you’re a ninja then I’m the queen of England.”
“Well you could pass for 80,” I remark, very proud of my comeback. I barely finish talking before I see a rolling Suzu headed straight for me. “Mphff! Get your ha- Mphh, hair, out of my mouth!” I laugh whilst spitting strands of sea-green hair out of my mouth.
Her leg tumbles into my prosthetic, making a clink sound and sending her reeling, clutching her knee brace. That she got after- Ahh actually, no. I’d rather not relive that.
“Take that!” I shout, giggling and rolling on my sides.
Before I can recover from my laughter Suzu mounts me and begins dropping her fists on me like a cartoon monster.
“You’re part robot, but I’ll still beat you with my pummel move!” She draws in a deep breath and then roars mightily. Well, semi-mightily.
“Well ladies, I hope we’re not interrupting anything.” Taro arrives perfectly timed, bearing gifts of lunch and-
“Uh Hey.”
“Hey, Sorry I was just making out with my girlfriend, you see we-“ Suzu begins to reply, but I cut her off by quickly throwing her off me.
“We’re not. No. No no. We’re straight. Well I am at least I don’t know about-“
“Don’t be like that, lover.” Suzu why? Why are you doing this?
The new guy, Nakai? Yeah Nakai. Looks to Taro as to what to do.
“Honestly man, I’d just get used to it,” Taro turns his attention to me and Suzu, “I rescued him from pink drills and the deaf destroyer.” The new guy visually flinches at Taro’s nicknames, and I see his eyes fixate on my legs, or lack thereof before he looks away in shame. “This is ‘Nakai but call me Hisao’ by the way.”
“Hi Hisao, I’m Suzu, I’m not into the whole last name thing. And this is my darling girlfriend, Molly Kapur but you can just call her sugar-“
“Will you cut that out?” I can feel my cheeks burning. “I’d rather you called me Molly, It’s nice to meet you.”
After that Incredibly awkward introduction, Taro sits down beside me, and Hisao beside him.
“Umm, where’s my curry bread slave?” Suzu asks Taro, having decided she’s had enough fun tormenting me for one day. She grabs the bread from Taro’s extended hand and without opening the plastic rapper shoves the top corner into her mouth. I take my bread from Taro, taking just a little more time and care than my colleague to open the packaging.
“So how do you like Yamaku Hisao?” Suzu is the first to break the silence.
“It’s,” There’s a pause as he takes in the question. “Different, I’m not exactly sure just yet.”
“Well that’s fair enough, it takes time to get used to, “Taro adds. “Are you sleeping on campus?”
“Yeah I am, though I haven’t seen my room yet.” Hisao seems a little more relaxed now, though to be honest that’s probably the company of Taro more than me and Suzu, who falls sideways into my lap as the lights go out inside her head.
“Is she okay? Should I get the nurse?” Hisao sits up. Which is a fair response. I remember the first time I saw her go dark. She was just sitting there and then suddenly she was face down in a bowl of rice. I panicked too.
“Ah no, it’s okay. She’s Narcoleptic, she’ll probably come back to us soon. “I explain in what I think is a calming voice. Or do I sound patronising? I really hope not.
“Oh.” He sighs. “I don’t think I’ll ever get used to this school you know.”
Lunch passes fairly quickly, with Taro asking Hisao questions like what his favourite subject is, which I learn is physics, and what his Hobbies are, which I learn is reading. Suzu wakes up looking up at me and explains to our newest member that, yes she falls asleep a lot and, no she’d rather not get drawn on. Before long it’s time for lessons, and the four of us start to head back to class.
“So there’s a festival coming up, it’s not a huge deal really, but if no one offers, we’d happily spend it with you.” Taro says, speaking for the whole group. Though it’s not a bad thing, I wouldn’t mind Hisao tagging along with us. After all he’s quite cute, and part of me wants to know more about him. Like why he’s even at Yamaku in the first place.
“Yeah hang with us man, who knows you might even pull.” Suzu teases, nudging him and winking in my general direction. Obviously wanting to make things awkward again. Well fine. Two can play at that game.
“I’ve heard Taro is quite the kisser Hisao.” I retort. Both Taro and Suzu blush. Hard.
Hisao just looks at me in confusion, “I uh don’t-“his eyes widen upon seeing Suzu’s face. “Ahh, so is it like that?” He smirks. His big brown eyes narrowing in a playful manner.
“Yes.” I say over Taro and Suzu. “Though good luck getting them to admit it.”
“Okay, I think this has gone far enough now Molls.” Suzu snickers, a tiny smile creeping onto her face. She punches me in the arm with all her sleepy might and we reach 3-3 before she can deliver her full barrage.
Is that what saved by the bell means? There wasn’t really a bell but I mean, I think that counts.
The lessons and days go by, with very little interesting happening in any of them. Saturday comes and the half day of lessons almost bore me to death. At this point the only thing keeping anybody going is the thought of the festival tomorrow. Nether the less, I survive the morning periods and wind up in the library, flipping through my chemistry notes. Alone. Because apparently Suzu and Taro had ‘project work’ due, though I’m almost one hundred percent sure that they’re just making out in the toilets. Hisao hasn’t really spoken to us, he probably got a better offer for the festival. Though I don’t know why it bothers me, he’s just the newest member of the Yamaku club. Still, I can’t help but feel a little down. Maybe I can talk to him after the festi-
“Hey, is Taro’s offer still valid for tomorrow?” The subject of my thoughts drags me out of my reverie. And sends me into a spluttering mess of replies and blushing.
“U-uh yeah, we’ll m-meet you outside the girl’s dorm building. “ Great. I sound like a delinquent. Why am stuttering? I never stutter. Get it together me. I take a steadying breath “Should we say about two-thirty?”
“That sounds good, I look forward to it. “The brown haired boy towering above me replies, rubbing the back of his head with his hand, clearly feeling awkward. A feeling he’ll have to share.
Right. So what now?
“Do you mind if I join you?” Well that’s unexpected. Surely he can think of something better to do than sit with the chemistry nerd in the quietest and most boring part of Yamaku.
“No I don’t mind, feel free,” I pat the bean bag to my right and he sits, surprised by its comfort. That one’s my favourite. He reaches into his bag and pulls out a rather worn looking book.
“You know it’s strange,” he starts, “I don’t usually see anyone in here except that shy girl from our class.”
“What Ikezawa? I don’t really know her but she seems nice.” I don’t know her is an understatement. Most days it’s like she doesn’t exist. She’s a bit like a chameleon actually, she just sort of blends in. Fades away.
“Is she getting bullied? I never see her talking to anyone.” His voice sounds like genuine concern, it’s sweet. Not even a week and he’s looking out for the underdog.
“No I don’t think it’s like that,” I close the cover of my book, holding the page with my thumb, and tilt my head up to look at him. “I mean, who would bully her? The kid with the cane? The girl without an eye? You can’t exactly bully when you’re in the same position,” He looks like he’s about to cut me off, but he doesn’t so I continue. “If she was being bullied, we would have done something to help her out, it’s just not like that. She prefers the solitude and you can’t get close to someone who keeps you further than a barge pole.”
He breaks eye contact for a minute and looks straight ahead, contemplating, then he returns his gaze to me. “Yeah, you’ve got a point. I barely spoke to her and she ran away from me. “
The next hour or so passes without much conversation, but plenty of awkward eye contact and blushing. I don’t even know why, I barely even know the guy. My phone lights up with a text from Suzu and I begrudgingly get up from my bean bag castle. A task, made difficult by my prosthetic legs.
“You’re leaving?” Hisao asks, getting to his feet himself.
“Yeah I promised I’d make Suzu dinner. It turns out that Flying squirrels do in fact exist.”
“If it’s any consolation, I would have probably said they didn’t as well.” He says, a smirk tugging at his lips.
“You should be the one cooking her dinner then.” I say with a wink. Feeling immediately stupid for winking, I start the walk back to the dorms. “Maybe you could convince Taro to cook you something if you’re hungry.” Only somewhat joking, Taro is a huge fan of cooking. A huge fan. Ha. Because he’s…Never mind.
Hisao laughs, unaware that Taro cooks. Quite honestly I can’t be bothered to explain it to him. Soon enough we reach the dorm buildings. Hisao raises his hand like he wants to say something.
“So, um. I’ll see you tomorrow then?” Oh. Was that it? It’s not quite as mysterious as I was hoping.
“Yeah, I look forward to it.” That’s no lie, I really do. And from the half smile he gives me I think he does too.
With the goodbyes done I turn on my metal heel and head back to the kitchen to become honouree slave of the evening to my narcoleptic overlord.
My Sea green alarm clock goes off at about ten thirty in the morning, yelling something about needing to pick an outfit for the festival in a couple of hours and about how I have a messy haired new boy to impress, before promptly passing out whilst I go for a shower.
When I return back to Suzu’s room, she has about 4 different outfits laid out and is pacing back and forth, lifting various items of clothing to the sky, commenting about the colour or shape or how cute it is. She eventually settles for a black and pink yukata with white petals across the right side up to her shoulder. Having decided what she’s wearing, we move on to me and head across to my room which is conveniently just opposite hers. After a quick scout through my clothes draws, Suzu finds a purple and white yukata for me, claiming that it goes with my eyes and that I look ‘drop dead gorgeous.’ A quick glance at the electronic clock on my desk reveals that it’s two-thirty-five.
Wait. Didn’t I tell Hisao two-thirty? Shit.
Practically dragging Suzu, we run down the staircase about as fast as our outfits will allow, which isn’t very fast. Almost tumbling to our demise at least twice, we reach the outside of our dormitory. We’re greeted by a rather handsome, sweater-vest wielding Hisao. And a less handsome, evening jacket clad Taro.
“Didn’t you know it’s rude to make a girl wait Suzu?” Taro says with a little chuckle.
“I’m glad you admit that you’re a girl,” Suzu says before sticking her tongue out at him. “Took you long enough you know.”
After a long awkward look over, Hisao opens his mouth to say something but Taro cuts him off.
“What Hisao is trying to say is that you look really good Molly.”
“I was getting there man,” Hisao pronounces with a half chuckle. “But yeah, you do look really nice.”
The festival is already in full swing with stands everywhere and hundreds of people walking from stand to stand. Clasping their hands in delight after winning a game, or pressing the palm into their face after losing one. It really is incredible.
We spend the next couple of hours pacing back of forth between games and other people. Bumping into Shizune and Misha far more than I’d have liked and receiving and angry glare each time. Something tells me she’ll be on my back for stealing the up and coming student council star. After what feels like no time at all, the sky begins to darken and the paper lanterns strung up around the Festival grounds begin to glow like fireflies. We end up sat on a bench just beside one of the many noodle stands. Making a group decision that now is a good a time as any for a little bit of late lunch, we hand over our money to Taro who gets up, promptly followed by the sleepy girl to my left.
Suzu gives me a wink and leaves with Taro to get our food, leaving just me and Hisao. Goddamn it why. Just why?
I tap a little rhythm on my prosthetics, trying to fill the awkward silence that has fallen on the two of us. Okay. It’s not working. Umm, Oh I know!
“So, are you settled in now?” I ask, tilting my head towards him in the friendliest way I can, or at least, that I think I can.
“Yeah I think so, I mean. I still find it kind of awkward sometimes, like. I dunno.” He trails off, his eyes fixated on my legs.
Hmm, that gives me an idea. I hope I’m not being too preachy by doing this.
“When I first got here I described people by their disability, and felt like crap for doing it. But you shouldn’t, it takes time to settle into life here. It’s not easy. Everyone here has just been dealt a shoddy hand, they’re all trying to get on with life.” I breathe, “Our disabilities are a part of who we are, they just shouldn’t define who we are. You know?” I hope he knows, that was a bit of a mouthful from some girl he’s barely spoken too.
“Yeah, “he looks up from my prosthetics to my face. “That helps a lot actually, I’m just worried that I’ll never get used to it is all.” For the first time I see his smile, his real smile. One that makes my stomach lurch forward at one hundred miles a minute. Feeling my cheeks begin to glow, I look down to the ground.
I’m glad he gets it though. “You will, it just takes time.” He seems to have lightened up a bit now. Maybe I did help. His eyes meet with mine, and I look away. Trying and failing to hold the smile from my lips. It feels really good to cheer someone up, especially when it’s a cute guy.
Suzu and taro get back holding a bowl of noodles in each hand, and I scoot along the bench to make room for them, which coincidentally means sitting closer to Hisao. And I won’t complain.
After slurping down the last of the overpriced and over-salted noodles, we start on the games of the festival. Taro wins a small teddy bear for throwing hoops, and Suzu wins an extra bruise for passing out whilst trying to play the spinner game. We jump from stand to stand, mostly losing in every game. When we get to the team games we split in two, me and Hisao versus Suzu and Taro. Needless to say, its slaughter. Me and Hisao not only win a free lunch courtesy of Taro, but win a plush cat from the rowing game after breaking the high score. Before long it’s almost pitch black and the firework display is about to start.
I whisper Suzu to text me when it’s over and make some excuse to the guys that I left something in my room.
I manage to get inside my dorm and slip my headphones on before the display starts. I draw the curtains and crank the volume up to max. I stare at the black screen of my phone and wipe my tears from it as they fall. After what feels like an eternity, my phone lights up.
I wipe my eyes and make sure I look presentable before leaving my room and returning to the guys.
“Oh Molly you missed it! That was amazing!” Hisao excitedly exclaims, to which Taro agrees.
“Ah damn, I can’t believe I missed it.” I say, trying to sound convincingly disappointed. “Well what should we do now?”
We check out the stalls that are still open, mostly losing in every game, and manage to convince Hisao to spend lunch with us from now on. He didn’t exactly need convincing, but still.
“Thanks for what you said earlier Molly, it really helped. “ Hisao says, his messy hair highlighted by the light of the moon. “It was fun hanging out with you.”
It’s almost pitch black but I can still see the dumb smile that spreads across his lips. It’s goofy, but I think I could get used to it.
“It was nothing, honestly. I’ll see you later yeah?” I reply, sounding maybe more eager than I had wanted.
“Yeah. I’d like that, goodnight Molly.”
The tired stumble back to dorm takes longer than it probably should, and my mind plays back the night like an old cassette. I don’t bother turning the lights on in my room, I just collapse onto the bed. Smile at the ceiling for making a new, cute friend, who knows maybe more.
And I cry as vivid colours dance behind my eyelids taking me away into nightmares.
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My Molly Route
Ekephrasis and Other Stories
Re: Gravity-Molly pseudo route [03/15/15]
Post by Mirage_GSM » Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:31 pm
Well, you're off to a good start.
With Taro and Molly you chose characters who aren't used all that often and even your Suzu is refreshingly different from the way she is depicted in other stories.
I enjoyed the dialogue and banter between your characters - that came out really well.
Yes, the pacing is quite fast, but I take it this is just the introductory chapter, so it will probably slow down a little from here on out.
There were a few typos but nothing I'd call a mistake except for this:
“If it’s any conciliation,
Probably should be "consolation"
One thing you might want to rethink is the Hollywood version of narcolepsy you are depicting here. I suggest you read the wikipedia article on narcolepsy (or an equivalent source of your choice) and then decide how realistic you want Suzu's condition to be.
brythain
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Post by brythain » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:31 pm
That was very enjoyable. Pleasant without excessive drama, strong characterisation without rubbing it in your face.
Errm,
clothe draws
should be 'clothes drawers', I'm thinking. Mirage_GSM is infecting me with the dreaded editorial eye virus.
Post-Yamaku, what happens? After The Dream is a mosaic that follows everyone to the (sometimes) bitter end.
Main Index (Complete)—Shizune/Lilly/Emi/Hanako/Rin/Misha + Miki + Natsume
Secondary Arcs: Rika/Mutou/Akira • Hideaki | Others (WIP): Straw—A Dream of Suzu • Sakura—The Kenji Saga.
"Much has been lost, and there is much left to lose." — Tim Powers, The Drawing of the Dark (1979)
AntonSlavik020
Post by AntonSlavik020 » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:53 pm
Agree with everything Mirage said. Really liked Taro, and Suzu's teasing was pretty funny too. Also, there was this...
Feurox wrote: He’s got messy brown hair and the bit sticking up at the front immediately irritates me.
I almost laughed out loud at this. My personal favorite line.
Also also, hurray for a Molly story! There aren't enough of those. I'll take her cute nerdiness over Miki's dislike of school work any day.
As a side-note, I had to drag myself away from Gravity Falls fanfics back to this site. Anyone who's seen the last two episodes knows why. Sorry if thats off topic, but I can't get them out of my mind.
Hanako=Shizune>Misha>Lilly>Rin>Emi
Hanako>Lilly>Rin>Emi>Shizune
transient wonders
Post by transient wonders » Sun Mar 15, 2015 8:55 pm
I'm not much of a literary critic like these guys but I have to say I really did love this story. Perhaps I'm a bit biased since I always did like Molly, Suzu, and Taro (screw Hisao though) but, in any case, it was very well-written and interesting. I didn't see many glaringly obvious typos or errors but there's one I have to point out...
Before long it’s almost bitch black and the firework display is about to start.
Bitch black should probably be pitch black... unless you really do mean bitch black...
Hanako/Emi/Rin > Lilly > Shizune
Nothing wrong with Lilly or Shizune but they can't beat best girl...s. I really need to be much more decisive...
I'd like to thank Sakura Trick for getting me addicted to yuri. Or maybe I should be cursing it.
HoneyBakedHam
Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA
Post by HoneyBakedHam » Sun Mar 15, 2015 11:44 pm
Damn, someone beat me to the bitch black typos.
The story is alright, overall. Some spacing errors with the quotation marks and little grammar errors, but that's Grammar Nazi level there and I don't touch that.
Thing I will go on about, however, is the flow. Some parts give enough meat to the story's bones and other spots are famished, if you get what I'm saying.
Post by Feurox » Mon Mar 16, 2015 1:26 pm
So thank you for all the feedback.
Thank you to Mirage and Brythain for the spelling. Errors have been fixed.
Well funny you should say that. This is something you should listen too. It also slightly (very very slightly) Inspired this route. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm7bTvTtXJg
Honestly, part of me wanted to leave it as bitch black. But it has been amended nevertheless.
Unfortunately the pacing in this chapter was an issue that I was aware off. Partly because i really wanted to finish act 1 in this chapter so I could move on to the second act where I have ultimate freedom. However, that's not to say its entirely due to that. Most of my pacing issues come from me as a writer. Hopefully practice will help me improve.
Post by brythain » Mon Mar 16, 2015 1:31 pm
Feurox wrote: Unfortunately the pacing in this chapter was an issue that I was aware off. Partly because i really wanted to finish act 1 in this chapter so I could move on to the second act where I have ultimate freedom. However, that's not to say its entirely due to that. Most of my pacing issues come from me as a writer. Hopefully practice will help me improve.
Wait wait wait, is this your first bout of practice?
I thought you already tried this before... with Precipitation.
Post by HoneyBakedHam » Mon Mar 16, 2015 1:32 pm
Hey, least you're not like me and wanna choke a story full of stuff. At least a few chapters, with the festival being the last one, for an Act 1 would've been enough.
Alpacalypse
Location: Britbongistan
Post by Alpacalypse » Mon Mar 16, 2015 1:43 pm
Molly doesn't get enough love on these forums. Nice to see a story with her as the MC.
Main criticism is that I would use something visual to indicate a time-skip, like an ellipses or something.
Besides that, nice work here *tips hat* please continue.
I am the harbinger of your destruction... By herbivorous, mountain dwelling quadrupeds... fear me
I also write now, apparently. Since everyone else does it, I'm putting it here
I have also discovered that I'm a decent proofreader. Anybody with SPaG problems is free to PM me their work for a thorough analysis and/or evisceration. Depends on how I'm feeling.
brythain wrote:
I still need more practise now let's just slide precipitation under the rug and try to forget it exists
Actually fun story. I had planned in converting that post into my own one shot thread, but honestly how amateur it was made me want to forget about it.
Gajzla
Post by Gajzla » Mon Mar 16, 2015 6:46 pm
I really enjoyed the banter, it helped to flush out the main characters quickly. One thing I would say is would Molly’s missing limbs not have more effect on her life? In the story she’s seen climbing and even hurrying down stairs without an apparent issue. As a brief introduction it seems fine to rush through details like that, but might seem odd if she suddenly becomes more aware of her disability in future chapters.
Looking forward to the next chapter.
My Fanfics:
Miki: Fragments [Chapter 38] posted 3/5/16
One Shot Thread
Some free inspiration.
"-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."
Gajzla wrote: I really enjoyed the banter, it helped to flush out the main characters quickly. One thing I would say is would Molly’s missing limbs not have more effect on her life? In the story she’s seen climbing and even hurrying down stairs without an apparent issue. As a brief introduction it seems fine to rush through details like that, but might seem odd if she suddenly becomes more aware of her disability in future chapters.
It's a very good point and one I'm addressing in my other chapters currently. She's missing her legs, but with molly (or my molly to be precise) her missing legs serve more as a reminder as to what she's been through. You can adapt to missing a limb, but can you live with what you've done? That sort of thing. It's always gonna be there, and I plan on having at as a part of her character. But it's more what they represent then what they are. I really hope that made sense. Thank you for the feedback though!
Post by Craftyatom » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:36 am
Alright, finally got around to being able to reply, so here I am: good job! I'll admit there were some issues early on, but those were mostly because of the spelling mistakes, which skewed my perception a little. Besides those (and unfortunately it's been a few days since I read so I don't know which have been fixed and which have not, I could read through again if you really want but I doubt there's anything egregious) the story itself felt nice, people have mentioned issues with pacing, but besides that it looks good.
The one qualm that I myself had, which nobody else has mentioned, is the extreme scarcity of commas. I know that I as a writer use far more commas than most would like, but reading through this story, there were so many places where a comma would've just made things flow better... Not just in dialogue, where it serves to represent natural pauses in conversation, but also in narration, because there were times where the words seemed to run together. My suggestion is to read through what you've written in your head, or even out loud, and look for places where a pause would make things flow easier.
Besides that, all the issues I have are things other people have raised already - checking that the narcolepsy is realistic, fixing the small number of spelling mistakes, and watching your pacing. I will say that the extra little spice you added to Molly's character at the end is fantstic, in my opinion - I think that this will become an absolute lynchpin of the story, simply because there are so many interesting possibilities, and because this certainly feels like the "Hisao will be an emotional bastion" type of story. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to seeing what you have to offer!
Post by Mirage_GSM » Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:07 pm
Alpacalypse wrote: Molly doesn't get enough love on these forums. Nice to see a story with her as the MC.
Ah, I knew there was something else I wanted to mention^^°
There are two instances in this chapter where you change scenes without any indication that you do so:
The lessons and days go by, with very little interesting happening in any of them.
My Sea green alarm clock goes off at about ten thirty in the morning,...
I suggest inserting something there to mark them. Personally I like asteriskses (or whatever the plural of that is) like above, but many other things will do as well.
Regarding how Molly's loss of legs might affect her - in my headcanon she lost her legs above the knees which would affect her a lot more, but we don't really know either way...
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Zagros mountains
‘Caught in those blizzards, parents had no choice but to abandon their children’
Thinking they had reached safety in Iran, Kurdish villagers were again attacked with chemical weapons. JAWAHIR HASSAN AHMAD lost one of her five children when an Iranian refugee camp she was living in was gassed by Iraqi jets.
‘Our bodies were freezing and icicles hung from our faces’
Facing relentless Iraqi poison gas attacks, thousands of Kurds fled through heavy rain and blizzards towards Iran. KHIDIR MUSA MOHAMMED AMEEN describes how he carried his nephew on his back for hours before realising the boy had frozen to death.
‘People described a smell of rotten apples but I knew it was a chemical gas’
There were very few trained medics able to treat gas victims after the Balisan valley attacks in 1987. DOCTOR ZYRIAN ABDUL YOUNIS was the only peshmerga doctor in a region stretching from Erbil to Iran.
‘Some abandoned their children even though they were still alive’
The chemical attacks against the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the flight of thousands of Kurds towards Iran have been likened to the apocalypse. Two of MIRIAM AHMED WSU’s children died as she fled barefoot in deep snow towards Iran.
‘“We must abandon our baby,” I told my wife, but she couldn’t let him die’
Peshmerga in the far north of Kurdistan fled with their families towards Iran to escape poison gas attacks. When his leader Masoud Barzani told him it was impossible to send support units, commander AMIN HUSSEIN AHMED realised there was no escape.
‘Some people even left their parents behind in the snow’
A massive Iraqi gas attack on the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) killed many peshmerga. SHORSH HAJI MUSTAFA RASOOL, an intelligence officer, was extraordinarily lucky to survive after his house was hit by gas shell which failed to explode.
‘We peshmerga decided to fight until we were dead men’
The launch of Iraq’s Anfal campaign against the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’ (PUK) headquarters changed the course of the Kurds’ war against the central government. KAMARAN ALI AMIN witnessed a gas attack that was so bad peshmerga in his unit threatened to commit suicide.
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Contra Costa-Hawkins (tags)
Excellent facts about the housing market post Costa-Hawkins, and why we must vote Yes on 10.
Important Eric McDavid Update (tags)
Eric's petition for a rehearing en banc has been denied
DoJ argues against net neutrality, says - trust us (tags)
By Nate Anderson | Published: September 06, 2007 - 03:53PM CT
Perspective on Palestine, by a UTLA member (tags)
There are many reasons why the cancellation of a meeting at UTLA on the Palestinian question is just wrong.
Court Hearing Tomorrow 7/26 (tags)
Hearing on USA Patriot Act and Humanitarian Aid Projects
The Absurdities Of Water Fluoridation (tags)
It would be totally cost-prohibitive to use pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride (the substance which has been tested) as a fluoridating agent for the public water supply. Water fluoridation is artificially cheap because, unknown to most people, the fluoridating agent is an unpurified hazardous waste product from the phosphate fertilizer industry.
Columbia U Protest Debates and Flag-Waving Jingoists (tags)
A couple of nights ago, the President again emphatically restated his deep caring for the Iraqi people by angrily chiding them with, “You WILL be liberated.”
ALF Press Officer Court Update (tags)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - The spokesman for a radical animal rights group asked a judge to throw out a search warrant that allowed Canada's anti-terrorism squad to raid his house on behalf of U.S. authorities. David Barbarash, spokesman for the Animal Liberation Front, claims the July raid on his Vancouver Island home by nine members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team amounted to harassment.
College Prankster Exposed: David Horowitz's Hollow Arguments and Racist Subtext (tags)
Rightwing provocateur David Horowitz got a lot of notice with an ad in college newspapers attacking the idea of reparations for slavery as "a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too." He succeeded in baiting campus newspapers and activists into intemperate responses, casting them in the role of un-American enemies of free speech and free thought & obscuring the underlying issue. The last thing he really wanted was for anyone to take his arguments seriously, since his arguments range from laughably foolish to laughably racist. None can withstand serious scrutiny.
COUP WATCH: John Ashcroft's speech at Bob Jones University -- From Red Rock Eat (tags)
When the Constitution was written, religious conservatives opposed it because, as everyone perfectly well understood, it did not create a Christian nation. Their arguments sound more or less identical to the arguments that their descendants make today, as for example in John Ashcroft's speech at Bob Jones University, enclosed.
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Crudo, She Tweeted: Olivia Laing’s “Crudo”
By Lauren Sarazen
“KATHY, BY WHICH I mean I, was getting married,” Olivia Laing writes. “Kathy, by which I mean I, had just got off a plane from New York.”
Known for her nonfiction, Olivia Laing has explored whether loneliness was inherent in creativity, the connection between writers and alcoholism, and walked the length of the River Ouse in which Virginia Woolf drowned herself in 1941. Crudo is her first work of fiction, written over seven weeks “in real time,” keeping pace with the fast-changing nature of the modern news cycle as events unfolded online.
Who is the protagonist? From the beginning, Laing is cagey. We’re in the head of a writer who may or may not be Kathy Acker. Though the punk troubadour of postmodernism died in 1997 from complications relating to breast cancer, Laing imagines Acker aged 40 in 2017. She’s living between America and the United Kingdom, on the precipice of getting married for the first time to a man 29 years her senior. She’s obsessed with Twitter and rattled by commitment.
There certainly is a lot of Acker in there. There are references to Great Expectations, Blood and Guts in High School, her Upper East Side upbringing, her “years in a strip joint in Times Square […] releasing her flat little fried-egg tits into the eyes of the world,” her breast cancer-induced double mastectomy. Centering the novel on Acker at all may seem like an odd choice if you’re unfamiliar with her own practice of pinching the lives of figures like Toulouse Lautrec, Don Quixote, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Yet there’s a healthy dose of Laing, too. After all, she is the “poster girl for female solitude.” She also wore Isabel Marant to be married the poet Ian Patterson, whose first marriage was to the “famous writer” Jenny Diski. Like her fictional Kathy, Laing also “insisted on Maria Callas because she didn’t operate via understatement” for her wedding ceremony. Kathy and her husband “talked about Crete,” for their honeymoon, and a glance at Laing’s Instagram will reveal her own honeymoon’s rocky beaches and turquoise Grecian seas. On the day of her wedding, Kathy arranges “a china platter that had once belonged to Doris Lessing,” an allusion to Diski, who was taken in by Lessing when she was 15 years old. Blending these two individuals, Laing floats between third and first person, seemingly unable to settle on a pronoun that suits her purposes.
Inspired, or perhaps horrified, by the current events of summer 2017, Laing began writing as an escape from another project. This escape quickly took form, walking the line between fiction and reality. This line is becoming ever blurrier. Crudo stands alongside Sheila Heti’s Motherhood, Rachel Cusk’s Kudos, and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The End, the final installment of My Struggle. And those are just a few standout examples of autofiction published this year. Even the term autofiction feels somewhat murky — just as subjective as the form it’s trying to clarify. Coined by French novelist Serge Doubrovsky in Fils, published in 1977, autofiction has a loose definition as “fiction, of events and facts strictly real,” while he argues that the main distinction between autofiction and autobiography is that “autobiography is a privilege reserved for the important people of this world, at the end of their lives, in a refined style.”
But potential lawsuits aside, where do we draw the line between what can safely be classified as fiction and what qualifies as autofiction? Technically there is no magic formula balancing fact and fiction until we reach an artistic equilibrium. Though false claims of veracity have had powerful consequences, as a quick Google search on James Frey or Clifford Irving might tell you, does a bit of truth in fiction really matter? At the opening of Calvin Trillin’s Floater, he gives readers a “Claimer” in place of a disclaimer, revealing that “the character of Andy Wolferman is based on John Gregory Dunne, though it tends to flatter. The other characters are fictional.” Sweetbitter novelist Stephanie Danler has been often asked whether there was a real Jake — her agent is still looking for him. Perhaps with Crudo, this distinction is more cut and dry. Kathy Acker remains within our cultural consciousness with her cult classic Blood and Guts in High School reissued as well as Chris Kraus’s After Kathy Acker: A Biography hitting shelves in 2017.
While it might be hyperbole to suggest that current events and modern life act as the catalyst — especially considering the long history of authors cribbing from their own lives — it is interesting that there’s less artifice in masking the aspects they’ve borrowed. There seems to be a direct correlation with social media’s practice of posting curated snippets, arguably blending our lives into a fictive narrative, and the rise of autofiction. We’re already primed. Even our news is fake now. With Crudo, Laing appropriates Twitter’s trademark intonation, writing in a flippant and conversational voice, concise to the point of discarding nonessential punctuation. The novel feels cathartic, written in the breathless rush of a Twitter thread. Even Laing’s choice to juxtapose images of Kathy’s upscale Tuscan holiday in Val d’Orcia alongside the mounting horror of the news cycle portrays the experience of scrolling.
Trump is never far behind. His asinine antics are reported through direct quotes from his Twitter feed. One stunning example of his hubris forms the epigraph and tells the reader exactly what kind of novel Crudo will be: “The cheap 12 inch sq. marble tiles behind speaker at UN always bothered me. I will replace with beautiful large marble slabs if they ask me.” As we read, Grenfell Tower burns; Trump fires Comey, “trashtalk[s] the FailingNewYorkTimes,” and provokes North Korea; Neo-Nazis with their “disgusting putrid horror-faces, Halloween mask America” march through Charlottesville, and people suggest that Holocaust “was a narrative that got fixed.” A start-up called Bodega aims to replace mom-and-pop shops with their glorified vending machines. “Twitter’s ABLAZE gurl,” a friend texts Kathy.
Yet current events are contrasted against quotidian life, which for Kathy means her impending nuptials — and her mounting anxiety over her relationship. As her wedding date approaches, she marks the days and hours like some kind of countdown to detonation. She is uncertain if she can commit to a single person or even a single place. She contemplates the practicality of rotating among three or four residences, as “she was happiest on her travels, like a clockwork toy, maybe happiest unpacking or booking a train ticket.”
Kathy also considers her “abnormal talent for withholding, as if she’d finally become one of the many men she’d chased across Berlin, London, San Diego.” One such man replies to her casual email as if she’d been hounding him relentlessly. “Disappearing now,” he wrote, ending their conversation. “I’m IN ANOTHER COUNTRY,” she shouts at her husband, appalled by his power play. “I HAVE ALREADY DISAPPEARED. Why does he always try and OUT-DISAPPEAR ME.” With the exception of her husband, her relationships are unequal, emotional “withholding” becomes the refrain. Whether it is acted out by ex-boyfriends, elusive sleep on a muggy night, or Kathy’s own behavior, withholding leaves her wholly unprepared for the compromise and tenderness of marriage. It becomes clear that Kathy “liked liars and evasive people, she liked seeing what they’d say, she liked being continually shocked surprised disappointed by the way they were never where she thought they’d be.” Even her affinity for living alone is a hurdle to overcome, but her love for her husband cracks her open like the crabs they smash to bits with an Ikea hammer over dinner, sifting through the shells for the meat. Waiting to board a flight, she realizes that she’d never really loved anyone, never mastered the art of opening herself up before. Travel can act as an escape hatch, but love can’t be tethered to a specific geographic pinpoint. No, “she was in [the world] now, she was boarding, there was nowhere to hide.”
Lauren Sarazen is currently pursuing a master’s in literature at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. She has contributed articles for publications such as Broadly, LensCulture, and Paste Magazine.
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Dark Fruit: A Cultural and Personal History of the Plum
By Anca L. Szilágyi
Eat, Memory
IN THE BEGINNING, there was găluşti cu prune — plum dumplings. My mother’s mother, in August, plum season, steaming up the kitchen, boiling them in a big pot. These were the days before summer camp, before air conditioning. An electrical storm was coming. She warned me not to turn on the television or switch on the light. I thought that if I even touched the window, there would be a blue electric shock. The dumplings that survived the boiling she fried in sugar and breadcrumbs. The disintegrated balls — white lumps of potato dough and misshapen chunks of plums — she set aside for me. The whole ones — perfect, round, sparkling — were for my parents.
A plum dumpling is a perfect universe: the first encounter with granular, sugary crumbs; the dense, substantial wrapping that you sink your teeth into; and the juicy, sweet, and sometimes tart Italian prune plum center that veers toward sublime.
One of the earliest stories to imprint on my mind was Leo Tolstoy’s 1875 fable for children, “The Plum Stone” (“Kostochka”). Vanya, seeing plums for the first time and finding their scent delicious, waits until he is alone and snatches one to eat before dinner. When his father asks who ate the plum, all the children, including Vanya, plead innocence. Vanya’s father says, “The fact that one of you has taken a plum is bad enough, but the worst thing is that there are stones in plums, and if you don’t know how to eat a plum and end up swallowing the stone, you’ll die before evening. That’s what I fear most.” Vanya blushes, then pales, and says, “I didn’t swallow it! I threw it out the window!” Everyone laughs as Vanya cries.
Five years after the fall of communism, my family visited Romania, the old country, for the first time since my parents left in the 1970s. We drove counterclockwise around the place, in a two-car caravan, starting and ending in Bucharest. On one of our last days, my father’s mother insisted we drive through the Carpathians in the pitch-black night, as she was eager to meet a friend the next day. I gripped the edge of my seat, watched the high beams of our cars skim the edges of steep cliffs, and then buried my head in my mother’s lap, hoping it would all be over soon. The next morning, safely away from the hairpin turns of the mountains and among rolling hills — farmland, orchard country — my grandmother asked my father to stop the car. There were no landmarks to indicate a meeting place. But as we stretched our legs, my grandmother waved at a figure in the distance, and a man’s flat cap emerged first from behind a hill. His tan arms clutched something to his chest and he rushed toward her with a sloshing Pepsi bottle full of clear liquid: tsuica. Homemade plum brandy. Moonshine. Into her suitcase it went, carefully transported back to the States so that it might properly “disinfect” us before each dinner.
Varieties of plum brandy in Eastern Europe abound: from the aforementioned tsuica, taken before every meal, to the Damson-derived Slivovitz of Serbia, to Hungary and Transylvania’s Pálinka, and to Albania’s raki, made at home from small red plums. In Lëpushë, Albania, a family of five is said to consume 250 liters of raki per year, and it is considered shameful to not be able to offer guests a drink. Slivovitz, most easily found in the United States, is strong but smooth, still retaining some sweetness from the plums. As for the moonshine in my grandmother’s Pepsi bottle? Prepare for a throat searing.
Romania is the fourth largest producer of plums in the world (after China, Serbia, and the United States), and 75 percent of Romanian plums become tsuica. Palinka and Hornica, tsuica twice or thrice distilled, are strong and flavorless but will result in a plume of warmth from stomach to skull.
Among the peasants of Maramureș, a bottle of Hornica is a traditional wedding present and an essential drink at weddings. To celebrate a wedding, there is a “gathering of the god children” where each couple offers their godparents a sack of flour, grain, corn, and plum brandy, and each godchild purchases two shot glasses of brandy for his or her spouse. At funerals, two shots are swilled — one for the living self and one for the soul of the deceased — but inebriation is frowned upon and considered shameful.
Slivovitz, free of grain, is a traditional drink at Passover. Fermented with ground-up bits of plum stones, it sports a nuttier flavor than tsuica, my ur-brandy. Slivovitz made a weekly appearance at my grandmother’s Sunday dinners. (She served Slivovitz in lieu of the illicit, unexportable tsuica, except, of course, when she returned from Romania with a certain Pepsi bottle.) My husband and I moved to Seattle in 2009; craving a taste of home, we asked at the neighborhood liquor store for Slivovitz and learned they no longer carried it. They used to, around Passover, but even then the demand was low. “Try the suburbs,” the clerk said. That’s where the Jews live now. We’d never felt so Jewish as we did living in Seattle. In New York and in Chicago (where my husband grew up), Jewishness was a given. In Seattle, I started to feel anthropological, as if I had to explain my culture every time it came up in conversation. For the first time, my Jewishness felt like an oddity.
Now obscure liquors are the rage. At Nue, a restaurant offering “international street food,” you can get a Dirty Diplomat cocktail, which includes Unicum, a plum-infused Hungarian aperitif in a vein of Jaeger. (I delighted at the opportunity to eat mititei, skinless grilled sausage, but found their interpretation too delicate, a bit precious — I prefer my mititei in a backwoods beer garden with a side of food poisoning.) Whenever we find Slivovitz at the liquor store, we buy a bottle and stick it in the freezer next to the vodka. We offer it at our annual Seder for Passover orphans, though some cringe at the spirit’s strength and opt for the familiar and/or kitschy Manischewitz, or better yet, a local Pinot Noir.
The brief interwar democracy in Romania saw peasants voting, according to Hugh Seton-Watson, for “benefits promised them, for personalities they knew, or for cash or tsuica.” Sandwiching this time of favors was violence, chaotic on one end, systemic on the other.
The city of Czernowitz, once a provincial capital in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and subsequently absorbed into Romania, the USSR, and, currently, the Ukraine, is the setting of Gregor von Rezzori’s memoir The Snows of Yesteryear. He depicts a fleeting image from the collapse of that empire in 1919. Drunken marauders raided abandoned army storehouses for decadent foodstuffs:
The revolutionary spirit of 1917 had degenerated into bloody madness […] Gangs of plunderers drifting about had already targeted the ration warehouses of the departed Austrian army as their first objective. Besmirched with lard and plum jam, totally inebriated and with their bellies full, the howling gangs of rabble staggered past our house; they were more or less held in check during the day but became menacing at night. (Trans. H. F. Broch de Rotherman.)
Even in that frightening scene of “bloody madness,” the phrase “besmirched with lard and plum jam” is alluring in its decadence, as if the lard and plum jam (and, quite possibly, plum brandy) partially inspired the rabble-rousing.
“[Y]ou’ll swallow your death,” warns the father in Herta Müller’s novel The Land of Green Plums (trans. Michael Hofmann). A former SS officer in communist Romania, he “keeps the graveyards deep in his throat […] His mouth drinks schnapps made from the darkest plums, and his songs for the Führer are heavy and drunken.” He warns the narrator not to eat unripe, green plums, but because she “wishes death” on her father, she “eats and thinks, This will kill me.”
As a university student, she watches police swipe green plums from trees, pocketing them, gobbling them. The police are depicted as childishly greedy, shortsighted, “lust[ing] after the sour taste of the poverty which had so recently ruled their lives,” feeding into and off of a poisonous system that requires their complicity. One friend of the narrator turns out to be a spy for the secret police; she suffers from a tumor at her breast, described as a “nut,” an image that recalls the deadly plum stones that are constantly swallowed yet never satisfy.
The compulsion to eat plums is sickening, the plums themselves toxic.
A peach is like your mother: It’s always there for you. A nectarine is like your girlfriend: It’s something really dear and special. A plum is like a harlot down the street: It’ll screw you every time.
— Joke circulated among California stone fruit growers about the difficulties in growing plums.
The average American consumer perceives plums to be “‘a little more adult, a little more gourmet’ than peaches or nectarines,” according to Chip Brantley, author of The Perfect Fruit. He discusses the pursuit of the ideal fruit through the development of pluots — a crossbred fruit that is mostly plum with some apricot thrown in. Interspecies plums also include plumcots, plucots, plumots, plutos, and plouts — but never, ever apricum.
Unlike apples, which grow with a more or less reliable standard of quality and flavor, plums are wildly variable risks: too much work and too often disappointing. The “black and red plum ghettos” of the modern American supermarkets resulted from years of failed experiments that narrowed the universe of the plum to a binary. Yet the black and red plums still disappoint.
U. P. Hedrick’s 1910 monograph The Plums of New York, published by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, laments numerous problems encountered by plum trees in the majority of the temperate United States: parasites like curculio (a weevil), black-knot, leaf-blight, and plum-pockets, the latter a disease causing fruit to become “misshapen” and “bladder like.”
In the 1889 Report by West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station, Dr. W. W. Brown writes: “I selected a goodly number of Japanese plums with two objects in view. First, to ascertain whether they could be grown in this [region], and secondly, whether they are curculii proof.” Rather than Brantley’s “black and red plum ghettos,” these agricultural reports catalog myriad varieties. Brown writes of Kelsey Agon, Boton, and Katonkin plums, distinct in growth, appearance, time of ripening, size, and color. He compares the Katonkin to the Wild Goose plum, but more delicious. He proclaims the Boton and Kelsey superior to native plums. He remarks upon the same difficulties faced by the California growers in Brantley’s book: unpredictable blooming, the ever-present danger of losing the crop.
The pursuit of the pluot arose from the desire for a superior fruit, one not prone to disappointment. Plums, too often, are not what you want them to be. Brantley notes that the discovery of powerful antioxidants in red-fleshed plums became a boon for beleaguered American plum growers. Marketers want to boast the plum’s edge on pomegranate’s antioxidant levels, jack up the price, and watch profits bubble up.
Indeed, the nutritional benefits of plums are many: high fiber, potassium, beta-carotene, and boron — which helps bone development, muscle coordination, and testosterone levels.
Want to work on your manliness? Eat a plum!
Warding off parasites or ulcers? Try one smoked.
Hedging against misfortune? Pickled plums are the way to go.
Keeping evil at bay? Plant a plum tree in the northeastern corner of your garden.
The antioxidants message was lost on the American public. Taste and appearance are more hotly pursued than health. The Plums of New York catalogs 1,500 varieties of Old World plums in that state, including a blue-skinned, green-fleshed Tragedy plum. Origin stories of the plum suggest that the Domestica, our most common plum species, spread to East Asia and Europe from the Caucasus Mountains and Caspian Sea via Mongols, Tartars, Turks, and Huns. Imagine riding your trusty horse with a pocketful of plums or a sapling at your bag. Imagine the thrill of eating a new kind of fruit, the unexpected color and texture of its flesh, the unexpected flavor of its juice.
Wild Plums
There is scarcely a region of the [United States] that has not its own wild plum; and each species shows a tendency to improve under cultivation.
— Plantguide.org
The Wild Goose plum, Prunus hortulana, is thought to originate in Kentucky and grows wild from Maryland to Texas. Also known as the creek plum and the hog plum, it grows on a tall, straight-limbed, thornless tree, with thin, flat oblong leaves (which can produce dyes ranging from green to dark gray) and thick-skinned juicy fruit.
John Voss and Virginia S. Eifert on Wild Goose Plums:
By August there are oval, coral-red, or yellow-red plums on the trees. Few are perfect; most have small white larvae inside, larvae which were deposited as eggs in the ovaries of the flowers long ago in April. The plums fall, are pecked by robins. The stony seeds are gathered by chipmunks and wood mice and squirrels who find the nut inside a toothsome morsel on a [winter’s] day.
Far, far away from Herta Müller and Tolstoy’s death nut.
Sloes, or blackthorns, or Prunus spinosa, boast a black skin with purple-blue waxy bloom. They are thin-fleshed and astringent, and sport a thorny bark and spiny branches. Across Northern Europe and Britain, the prickly shrub hedged cattle. The juice of sloes dyes linen reddish and washes out to pale blue.
Sloe sap, according to Shlomo Yitzhaki, medieval Talmudist and Tanakh commentator, was used to make ink for manuscripts. (He used the term prunellier.)
Stones of sloes have been found in ancient Swiss lake dwellings.
And in 1991, a 5,300-year-old mummy was found in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian-Italian border with sloes in his stomach. The mummy affectionately known as Ötzi died suddenly, either bashed in the head or killed by an arrow, and his undigested meal of sloes also included unleavened bread, deer meat, and moss, believed to be used as a food wrapper. He’d also taken a medicinal herb, hop hornbeam, suggesting he suffered from nausea or stomach ache.
Ötzi was not the only eater of sloes. Devourers of spinosa foliage include the emperor moth, the willow beauty, the White-pinion, the common emerald, the November moth, the mottled pug, the green pug, the brimstone moth, the hawthorn moth, and more.
Soaking sloes in gin results in sloe gin.
There’s “[t]he little beach plum of the Atlantic coast, the sloes of the Alleghanies [sic] and the South, the leathery-leaved Pacific plum, and the sand plum of the semi-arid plains.”
In East Asian art, “the plum is considered one of the ‘Three Friends of Winter’ with pine and bamboo, as well as a member of the noble ‘Four Gentlemen’ with the orchid, chrysanthemum, and bamboo.” Plums at their most refined.
The plum in Chinese poetry goes way back. The oldest plum poems, from the 11th to third centuries BCE, pre–Han Dynasty, refer to the fruit more than the tree or flowers. One early poem obsesses over falling plums. The speaker urges men to pick them up before they’re gone. Hans Fränkel, a German-American sinologist, child of Jewish refugees, husband to poet and calligrapher Chang Ch’ung-ho, and author of “The Plum Tree in Chinese Poetry,” posits that perhaps the plums are girls reaching maturity, or girls impatient for marriage.
No one wants a rotten plum.
Han Dynasty poems shift from fruit to wood. A strange gift of a plum branch to the King of Wei enchants Fränkel. Does it convey magic powers, he wonders? (I want to say yes. I want a magic staff of plum wood.)
Later, in the Six Dynasties period, we shift from wood to flowers, the plum blossom a gift sent to a distant friend or lover. Poems become more delicate still. They dwell on the reclusive gentleman scholar, hiding among his willows and chrysanthemums, contemplating plum blossoms in late winter.
The prince poet Hsiao Kang (503–551), later an emperor, writes a poem in which an ideal plum tree in a palace garden transforms into a woman, “fairy-lady white.” Two hundred years later, in another poem, an emperor’s concubine becomes the Plum Witch. Fruit to wood to blossom to the ethereal: bewitching spirits.
Twelfth century CE poets speak of chewing on fragrant blossoms, as if they are fruit.
The poet Su Shih writes in 1095 CE: “Nothing is left but falling blossoms sticking to the empty wine cup.”
Fairy Tale–Red Fruit
The best place in the United States to grow plums is the Mediterranean West Coast. California, the center of plum production in the United States, also hosts a bevy of experimentation in crossbreeding, that pursuit of the novel and the ideal. At Chez Panisse, one might order a nearly blue-fleshed Flavor King pluot, served simply in a copper bowl at the end of a $65 prix fixe meal. Brantley conjures the opulently named “Midnight Jewel” black-skinned pluot, a variety he is told he absolutely must try but which he cannot find. I imagine the “Midnight Jewel” stored in some illicit thieves’ cave.
Brantley describes red-fleshed “Blood Plum[s] of Satsuma,” “fairy tale–red” fruit so good-looking you devour them, Vanya-like.
I can hardly remember such a dark-fleshed fruit, but I can imagine it. It’s the idea that beguiles.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s composite “Four Seasons in One Head” (c. 1590) shows an old knobby soul, craggy with bark, woody warts, twiggy wisps, with branches reaching out of his head like antlers. Youthful cherries dangle from his ears and apples balance in the branches. Luminous green-gold grapes hang, juicy as the bark is dry. Beneath the apples, behind the cherries, two dark plums lurk, like a half-remembered dream nestled in the back of the mind. Thanks to modern super-sized fruit, I initially thought the prominent pink-hued orbs were plums, not apples. The plums, to me, are like a lesser-told story that is no less magical — perhaps more so in its rediscovery, because of its rediscovery. Not pomegranates, not apples, but plums as temptation.
I read Brantley’s descriptions of endlessly tested plum varietals and imagined taking a bite from the fruit on Arcimboldo’s composite head, the robust fruit I wrongly took for a plum. It would be neither delicate nor “fierce, spicy,” like one particular Israeli plum, but would have a hardier skin and a cakelike texture. I suppose if I were a breeder I’d try to cross the plum with a Saturn peach.
I hate to think of all the raw plums failing to meet my luscious ideal — tart plums, hard plums, mealy plums. Better to think of them in their more decadent old world iterations — dumplings, jam, brandy — the sort of products that elicit both rabble-rousing and decorous ritual.
The title recipe in Sylvia Boorman’s 1962 wild-foods cookbook Wild Plums in Brandy offers “a truly divine way of preparing a divine little plum”:
2 lbs plums
1 cup brandy
Wash the plums. Dip a needle into boiling water and prick each plum around where the stem joins it. Boil the sugar and water until you have clear syrup. Drop in the plums, boil for two minutes, and remove to china or Pyrex or stone dish. Cover tightly and let sit for 24–48 hours. The skins may come off; Boorman recommends leaving them in with the plums. Pour off the syrup into a saucepan and boil for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and put plums into sterilized jars and fill to the top with brandy and syrup and cover immediately. Boorman writes, “It is well to let them sit for three months […] And you will feel […] celestial after taking a dish of them.” Boiling wild plums in sugar and soaking them in brandy is perhaps a simpler method of ensuring flavor than the gamble of breeding fruit. And yet that method requires a certain kind of violence.
The World Seems More Real
M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf expounds upon how to live well during famine in wartime. (A high-end restaurant in Seattle is named after that book; I have no idea why.) Fisher writes of a prune roast so pungent and hearty, the world feels more real. Is my search for a perfect plum the search for something more real?
I long misremembered the magic fruit in C. S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew (1955), his novel explaining the origins of Narnia. In my plum zeal, I reread that book and found that the magic fruit is not a plum but an apple in a garden. (Of course.) Why had I thought of plums? Because the witch who steals and eats the fruit promising immortality is stained with dark red juice.
I found solace in the chapter titled “The Wood Between the Worlds,” about a liminal place full of trees and pools of water. Jump into a pool and find yourself on earth, or in Narnia, or in a dying world of tyrannical giants. Lewis writes:
You could almost feel the trees drinking the water up with their roots. This wood was very much alive. When he tried to describe it afterwards, Digory always said, “It was a rich place: as rich as plum cake.”
Grafting 250 varieties of heirloom stone fruit, most of which come from the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, artist Sam van Aken is developing trees that grow 40 types of fruit. (Does he know van Aken is the family name of Hieronymus Bosch, that fantastical grafter? Are they related?)
Van Aken hopes to conserve varieties which commercial growers avoid due to durability, size, taste, and appearance, the avoidance that results in Brantley’s “red and black plum ghettos.” In his project he discovered, for example, the unpopularity of yellow plums, and I have to wonder why yellow is so much less appealing than purple-black or dusky blue. Do yellow plums seem somehow anemic?
In Western religion, van Aken notes, the number 40 represents “a number beyond counting”: the ethereal concept for his art project. Depicting the tree in blossom certainly suggests abundance.
Petals so lush you want to bury your face in them.
Botticelli’s painting The Virgin and Child (1480, a.k.a. The Madonna of the Book) shows baby Jesus in Mary’s lap. Behind her, at the window: A blue expanse of sky dwarfing a row of twilit trees. Just behind his cherubic head: An abundance of cherries and luminous yellow plums. The cherries suggest blood, the plums the love between mother and son.
In our last days on that family trip to Romania in 1994, we stayed on the orchard of another friend of my grandmother’s. The walled orchard had been taken over by the Iron Guard in World War II, and then the Communist Party after that, and had only recently been repatriated. In the dark basement, old furniture and files remained in disarray.
I can see, in my mind’s eye, morning glories on the verandah and dusty green leaves on peach and plum trees. I can see, by a dried-out creek off of their property, not too far from a hard water plant, abundant blackberries, warm and heavy on the vine. It was August, plum season, but I can’t for the life of me remember seeing fruit on any of those trees.
My grandmother’s friend, whose wife owned the orchard, had been a television newscaster during the Communist regime. (My grandmother had met him when she translated Soviet articles for the Romanian press.) Driving through the woods, he took us to a monastery for a candlelit choral performance, then to a backwoods beer garden for Ursu and mititei. He was drunk on tsuica, his driving a wobbling nightmare.
Long after that night, I can’t help but wonder about the desire to numb oneself, and where it might come from. Had there been some guilt? He’d done well for himself, a cog in the propaganda machine like so many others. I can’t find his work from that time. But film reels show a bounty of fake foods on display for the dictator’s proud perusal. Behind mounds of bread and baskets of fruit, purveyors’ grins plastered wide in the camera’s light.
“At least in wartime,” goes a Romanian joke of the 1980s, “there was more to eat.”
Just before our visit, the villagers near the orchard vandalized its walls, broke bottles against it. My grandmother’s friends gave it up soon after repatriation. Had there been hostilities toward the orchard’s former residents? Had there been hostilities toward this old regime newscaster? How many villagers had owned a television?
Did they eat green plums in the 1980s?
In Seattle, plums catch that rare summer light that almost makes suffering through long gray winters worthwhile. Once, a man and his two young boys pulled a red wagon full of plums down the street, offering strangers fruit from their yard. I didn’t eat those red wagon plums but I did store them in my memory. I transported them to that old fruitless orchard I may never see again.
For a long time, I found the idea of sugar plums and plum pudding charming. And then I actually tried plum pudding (it contains no plums) and despaired at tarlike goop. There was no relation to the dumpling of my yesteryear with its sugar-dappled wrapping, its blue-skinned, red-tinged, yellow-fleshed center. A dancing fairy did not pirouette in my mouth. Yet I still love the idea of William Carlos Williams eating all the plums in the icebox. I still love the idea of little Jack Horner sticking his thumb in a pie and thinking himself (wrongly?) a good boy. I still imagine little Vanya hiding behind a curtain, about to sink his teeth into a stolen plum.
Drinking in Albania: Pieroni, Andrea. “People and Plants in Lëpushë.” Ethnobotany in the New Europe: People, Health and Wild Plant Resources. Ed. Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni, and Rajindra K. Puri. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Drinking in Maramureș: Kligman, Gail. The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Interwar Romania: Seton-Watson, Hugh. Eastern Europe Between the Wars, 1918–1941. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1945.
Farmers in California: Brantley, Chip. The Perfect Fruit: Good Breeding, Bad Seeds, and the Hunt for the Elusive Pluot. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Nutritional value: Walkowiak-Tomczak, Dorota. “Characteristics of Plums as Raw Material with Valuable Nutritive and Dietary Properties.” Polish Journal of Food & Nutrition Sciences, vol. 58, no.4, 2008, pp.401-405.
Types of plums: Julia Ellen Rogers. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America and to Their Uses and Cultivation. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905
Keeping evil at bay: “Plum.” East Asian Plants: A Cultural and Horticultural Guide. University of Kansas, n.d. Web.
The plum in Chinese poetry: Fränkel, Hans. “The Plum Tree in Chinese Poetry,” Asiatische Studien, vol. 6, 1952, pp. 88-115.
For Romania under Ceauşescu, cf. the documentary The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu, 2010.
Anca L. Szilágyi’s writing appears in Electric Literature, Gastronomica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the inaugural Artist Trust/Gar LaSalle Storyteller Award and is at work on a novel.
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Best of LifehackerBest of Lifehacker 2019
Everything We Learned About Vaping in 2019
Meghan Moravcik Walbert
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Best of Lifehacker Best of LifehackerWhether we’ve made a complicated recipe absurdly simple, illustrated how to survive a natural disaster, or explained a political crisis in terms even your great-grandma would understand, these are some of our favorite stories from the past year.
You might say that 2019 was not a good year for vaping. At the beginning of the year, vaping still enjoyed its status as a popular, potentially safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. That is, until we realized that certain types of vapes could cause sudden illness and even death.
While we’ve always maintained that e-cigarette use is not safe for developing brains, we have also found a couple of ways that vape smoke or a Juul charger could be helpful in very specific, random scenarios. Still, we started the year with a reminder to avoid vaping in front of your kids, the same way you’d avoid smoking cigarettes in front of them:
It is not safe to vape around your kids.
“The finding that a large majority of parents who use e-cigarettes permit vaping inside homes and cars is an alarming trend,” says Jeremy Drehmer, lead author of the report in this news release about the study. “We are concerned that parents have been misled by the marketing of vaping products and now believe that the aerosol produced by these products is harmless to children. Pediatric health care providers need to help set the record straight and inform parents that e-cigarette vapor is not safe for children.”
Do Not Vape Around Your Kids
A new study by MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) researchers found that many parents…
And then suddenly, in August, we began to read reports that more than 150 people with a history of vaping had come down with serious respiratory illnesses.
In the past two months, the CDC has collected 153 reports of “possible cases” of a severe lung illness. The concerning details are that the illness does not seem to be infectious (so, not caused by a virus or by bacteria) and that the patients all reported vaping before becoming sick.
Nicotine and THC (cannabis) vapes are both under suspicion. So far, there isn’t a particular product or device that’s been singled out.
Is Vaping Making People Sick?
The CDC recently announced that it’s found over 150 people with serious respiratory illnesses and a
That led us to once again warn parents about the practice—and offer some advice for how to talk to their teens about vaping:
Like with any other risky behavior, it’s important to create an on-going dialogue with your teens about vaping. Even if you don’t suspect they’ve tried it, they very likely have friends who vape. The American Lung Association has created a site called The Vape Talk with an assortment of helpful resources for parents, including:
Information on different types of e-cigarettes
The basics on e-cigarettes and their health consequences
A downloadable conversation guide
What Parents Need to Know About the Vaping Illness
You’ve likely always suspected that vaping wasn’t the healthiest habit for anyone, let alone…
Lifehacker Health Editor Beth Skwarecki examined whether the flavorings themselves within vapes are safe.
All this time, the makers of e-liquids and other vaping products haven’t necessarily had to prove that their ingredients are safe before selling them. It seems logical that flavorings should be harmless, but it turns out that many aren’t. Diacetyl, safe when used as a butter flavoring on popcorn, causes a respiratory condition now known as “popcorn lung” when inhaled. The vitamin E acetate that’s likely behind cases of the recent vaping illness isn’t dangerous to ingest, but it seems to be turning out that it’s fatal when inhaled. (Vitamin E acetate is not in most commercial flavored vapes; it seems to be mainly in black market THC vapes.)
Are Flavored Vapes Safe?
Just because a flavoring is safe to eat doesn’t mean it’s safe to inhale. But flavored vapes have…
And by November, we had confirmation that the vaping illness the CDC is calling EVALI is likely caused by vitamin E acetate, found mainly THC vapes, especially certain black-market cartridges.
A new technique for sampling lung fluid revealed that all of the patients tested—a convenience sample of 29 people from 10 states—had vitamin E acetate in their lungs.
There was no such consistent result for other chemicals that had been suspected of causing the illness, including “plant oils, petroleum distillates like mineral oil, MCT oil, and terpenes.”
82% of the samples included THC; 62% included nicotine. That means that some included both. Vitamin E acetate is known to be an additive in THC vapes, especially certain black-market cartridges. So far, the vaping illness has been identified in over 2,000 people from 49 states, with 39 deaths.
CDC Officially Confirms Vitamin E Acetate as Prime Suspect in Vaping Illnesses
The CDC announced today that they are finally on board with the leading theory about what’s causing
Considering all of that, you may be thinking, “Eh, maybe it’s time for me to quit.” If so, we’ve got advice for that, too:
You can chuck your juul in the trash in a fit of rage, but experts in quitting say that things tend to go better when you give the process some thought, and set a date (soon!) to quit.
It helps to know why you’re quitting. Take some time to think and maybe journal about it. Later on, you’ll be tempted to start again, because what good is quitting anyway if it makes you miserable? Have an answer ready to go. Better yet, make a list of your best reasons to quit and post it somewhere you’ll see often, like your phone’s lock screen.
How to Quit Vaping
Maybe you’re spooked by the outbreak of respiratory illness linked to vaping. Maybe you’re just…
And hey, now is as good a time as any to make such a resolution.
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the Sweet Spot of Summer pART Three.
An Ode to a Summer Lake: What could be more lovely, cool and fishy scented? Similar to an old rubber diving suit found out back in the storage shed, with the outboard motor, chain saw and oil canisters, it’s just a little too small but which, once on, makes One slightly more buoyant.
featuring Jason Krekel, Emil Nomel and Nery Arevalo.
On Wednesday afternoon in Hallowell, Our Friend King gave us a copy of the Maine Atlas, He has several to spare, it was then that We got the idea to follow the exact route to Moosehead Lake that We took in 1998, following Abbott Vaughn Meader, the Blue Bunny Himself, over backroads and lastly across a Logging Road to Rockwood, Maine. When You pull back onto the pavement, You’re looking right at Mount Kineo, a Pine-clad Monolith rising 1100 feet out of Moosehead Lake!
pointing to Moosehead Lake on the cover of the Gazetteer.
We stayed up talking with Bobby Watson and Don and listening to music, very tired but so thrilled to be in the Company We were in and excited about the next day’s adventure, which is the closest I get to a Spiritual Pilgrimage. We had left Flavor Bay, way down in Connecticut at first light on Wednesday morning, so We decided to sleep in a bit on Thursday and had a full breakfast with hot Coffee on Maranacook Lake with Bobby Watson and His Brother in Law, Don, also from Louisville, KY.
The Story behind all of this involves volumes worth of information and may some day be written down. My Love Affair with Maine started when I was three years old and traveled with my Mom and Grandmom to Monhegan Island, Maine, but the other part of the story probably comes out of Louisville, Kentucky, via Maine and points beyond, the Great Beyond and has to do with the meeting of three Fellows there in the very early days of the 1970s. Abbott Vaughn Meader, Bobby Watson and Tim Krekel, those three were how We got to Maine in 1998 and Whose Indomitable Spirits propelled Us forward to this point, here and now and around that table in Bobby Watson’s Camp late that Wednesday Night and on, across the Rivers and Valleys of Maine, up into the Lakes and Mountains Region: the Great North Woods!
Riding out of Maranacook, with Bellies full of breakfast and only the Map to guide Us, We drove through the rustic Maine country, lush green magic and little tables of stuff for Sale along the roadsides, fruits and produce, corn… corn everywhere. We dreamed of Lobster Rolls but didn’t stop for any. We stopped in Skowhegan, past the jack-leg over a spill-way and saw some Side-show ARTs by a Guy in a very old shop with City-Slickers talking to Him.
Freak Show Folk ART in Skowhegan Maine. We pulled over and went right in to see!
The sense of Adventure and Wild Freedom of the Sweet Spot of Summer guided Us further North, alongside the Kennebec River, which flows out of Moosehead Lake, through Hallowell and on to the Sea, truly mystical waters. We took the 201 from Skowhegan and stopped at a last Outpost before the vast, remote Forest surrounding Moosehead Lake, and ate sandwiches there, for Our luncheon. Just a little ways up the road, We took a right turn onto Capital Road and drove that Logging Road for over an hour of smooth dirt road riding, with only one Logging Truck that passed Us. We were thoroughly warned to get over if We saw a plume of dust rising in the distance and sure enough, We saw one, pulled off and waited for a high-speed Log Truck to roar by…
Old Timers would laugh at this load of skinny Trees. Before the Great North Woods were clear cut, back when Oak Trees 4 feet wide at the base grew there.
One more scenic stop as We passed the source of Long Pond and then on to Moosehead Lake, a pilgrimage is not meant to be quick and We were still hoping to get down in the Magic, Sparkling Waters there by the shore before the Warm Yellow Sun sank into the Pines in front of the Bogs, filled full of that even more Mystical Creature said to inhabit those areas: the Moose. First We had to stop and see Our Friend Liz Munster, of Munster, Spalding and Pickle Real Estate Developers at the mouth of the Moose River.
dark and flowing waters by the side of the old Logging Road.
At last Our accommodations were sorted out and We checked in to Cabin Five “Catch a Falling Star”, right on the shore of the Lake looking directly out at Mount Kineo. From my journal entry, dated August 7, 2014: I sit by Moosehead Lake at the Cabin #5. I’m at the Birches, which is filled with Guests
a drawing I made on the porch of Cabin V at the Birches REsort, Moosehead Lake, Maine.
and other drunken Folks, an odd assortment of Golf-types and Woodsmen, waiting for their supper. A speed boat takes off full-tilt from the dock, like a water-rocket, out into the open Lake. A small Squirrel or very large Chipmunk runs up and down the tree trunks and in front of the thicker ground covering that grows around the rocks at the edge of the water. Earlier, Krekel went swimming (it was too chilly for me after the Sun went down) and I collected smooth rocks on the little beach. A motor-boat and a pontoon boat both cross in front of me at various distances, causing ripples on the flat surface of the Lake. There was a rainbow on Mount Kineo as the Sun shown its last yellow rays. Kineo is green and huge in the foreground (about two miles directly across from Me) with a backdrop of purple, dark clouds. We came over from 201 on Capital road, it was a little over an hour off-road and it was smooth sailing the whole way. This Lake is so beautiful and such a magic spot. I am soaking it up. I had a Chicken-Caesar Salad to go and now a light rain begins to fall instantly from the Sky. When they say “it looks like rain” in Maine, You have about three minutes to find cover. Mount Kineo disappears into the encroaching mist, which will soon envelop this Northern edge of the Lake as well. The Mountain is fading into lavender. Its vivid green becomes unseen as if it’s just evaporating out there. The quiet here is only interrupted by drunkards and kids hollering.
Holy Mount Kineo in Moosehead Lake.
the Sweet Spot of Summer pART Too…
from my Journal Log:
Flavor Bay will carry You away on a cushion of Air, with or without Your flair. The bacon smell is growing wings and eggs will soon be cracking. Green deep loveliness, reflections on the water, purple clouds and bright blue sky and ripples where the fishes are. We had City Bill’s farm-fresh eggs and bacon, fish and toast for Breakfast. Also We, Meredith, Emil and I started working on a new song, as I mentioned earlier, last night.
Butterflies in the bushes, Ducks on the Pond, the Bass-boat Fishing overload, of which, I am not fond. Styro-foam House on the Hill, Big-time Stars live up there still. Tomato Plants are growing tall and magic ARTs hang on the wall. Big City Folks are SO busy, with the schedules that They made, while I am on my Lake-a-Day-Cycle, I’m just chillin’, not even getting paid… A dome of land, sea and sky, the Lake-a-Day-Cycle does not imply swimming (as previously mentioned), nor does it imply only one Lake per day. At its most wonder-full vibratory nature, there is both swimming and more than one Lake. I have started the Cycle properly by jumping in three times already into Flavor Bay!
Styro-Foam House overlooking Flavor Bay!
the Blue Bunny still casts a long shadow across the Great State of Maine!
“It’s Summertime now and I’ve got that itch… I’m gonna head North again. People from away just don’t understand, it’s better in the State of Maine!’ – from “Summer in the State of Maine” by the Dynamic ARTs League.
After Krekel and I left Hallowell, where We visited the Second Street Bed and Breakfast (I have a painting hanging there over the mantle in one of the common rooms, entitled “HOONs ina Yard”),
HOONs ina Yard 2004, featuring GaLoobe de Jamune and other HOONs in Jamaica (back-a-yard). Photo by Jason Krekel.
we headed out into the Country to Cobbosseecontee Lake for a Lobster dinner and Moon-light Pontoon Boat ride with Our Friend Joey Gange out there. Cobbossee is a favorite Lake of Ours and We were super-excited. On the way Jason made a call to Scotty Perrow, a drummer and Famous Sound Man, who was gonna loan Us some equipment to do the performances with the Blue Bunny ALL-Stars. We drove wildly down backroads and found Our way at last to the Gange Camp, which is made up mainly of old road signs…
Krekel and the Old Cobbossee Rail Road sign on the Gagne Camp, there.
Eating Our first Lobsters in Maine with Joey Gagne! They got Sports on the TV Set in the background, with the sound off.
We rode around in the darkness with no lights on on Joey’s Pontoon Boat, recreating a now-famous expedition that occurred in 1998. Krekel played Guitar on Old Favorites and We ALL sang along. We stayed out there in a Horse-shoe Cove for quite a while floating, singing and drinking beers.
Since We woke up at Flavor Bay that morning, and already swam in the Sea, then visited Cobbosseecontee Lake, it was time for Us to go to Our third Lake of that particular Wednesday and also Our final stop where We would spend the Night with a Great Fellow: Dancing Bobby Watson, up from Louisville, KY, for the whole Summer on Maranacook Lake, only a few minutes drive away by motorized-vehicle.
the Sweet Spot of Summer 2014!
Corn-on-the-Cobb is a staple of the Sweet Spot of Summer and eaten with almost every meal, coated generously in butter. We also had Lobster, Clams, Steak, Burgers, Sausage, Pasta and Caesar Salad (the best one I have ever had is at the Birches on Moosehead Lake in Maine). I built a super heavy-duty 16x8x4 foot Platform at Rhetorical Factory, We hosted the Lasters ART Family, We went to the Outrageous Universe REvival (my 15th in a row), I dropped off Ami Worthen at the Train Station to NYC, I went to Flavor Bay and began writing a New Song with Emil Nomel and Meredith DiMenna and did a few UPgrades to the painting I made there last Fall, I picked up Jason Krekel at the Train Station from NYC and went back to Flavor Bay, the next morning at first light, We set-out for Maine. We swam in the chilly Ocean at Ferry Beach and made it up to Hallowell, the Spiritual Capital of Maine by the Afternoon in a rain storm.
On Wednesday morning, July 30th, I left Asheville, NC, at Dawn’s early light, with Ami Worthen (one half of the Moodees). We made it to a favorite East Coast Breakfast spot: Tudor’s Biscuit World by 9:45am. Freshly fueled, We headed on up through West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania into Western NY by 5:00pm. We arrived at the Kevin Cole Farm in Panama, NY and began helping Maury Rosenberg (of Hypnotic Clambake) decorate for the 18th Annual OUR Fest. The OUR Fest came off without a hitch this year. Hypnotic Clambake, the Active Artists Alliance of Jamestown, NY and the Kevin Cole Farm of Panama, NY (and host for the second year of the Festival), teamed up to bring Us the 18th Annual OUR Fest. It may well have been the best OUR Fest ever, even though We sincerely missed many missing Old Friends. After the Festival We made Our way East toward New York City and Connecticut. As We rode the curving highway through the dense forests of Southern Central New York State, We experienced a one hundred-mile-wide down-pour. After about 6 and a half hours, We reached the Train Station where Ami would catch Her next leg of transportation, into New York City.
It is hard to write about the passing of the Sweet Spot of Summer. It is such a fleeting moment of pure velveteen loveliness. Like the flavored butter on the Corn-on-the-Cobb that runs down Your neck as You chew like an old-timey Typewriter, it melts away behind Us, bobbing out-of-sight in the foamy wake of a Pontoon Boat plying a dark Maine Lake.
After the OUR Fest, I began my portion of the Lake-a-Day-Cycle Tour, which has vague but elaborate rules (created by Me): the Lake–day–Cycle does not imply swimming in Lakes, nor does it imply just one Lake-a-Day. The Cycle may be achieved whether tethered to a floating dock or standing on the Shoreline. It looks like a can of Salmon over the Mountain right now and it’s reflecting in the Lake. Needless to say, the Lake-a-Day Cycle also does not imply a different Lake each day, just a Lake.
There is just too much information to publish only one Blog about this topic, which I realize is a little disjointed, however, please bear with Me and I’ll get more of it typed-out.
Ami surprised OUR Friend Lora P, a musician from Trumansburg, NY, the day after Her birthday by jumping from inside of a Barn as Her car passed slowly by!
Pretzels are a staple at the OUR Fest!
the Wizard behind the Hypnotic Clambake Album “Mayonaise” is also pretty good on the Bar-be-Que grill…
some of the ARTs created by the Lasters G.K. and C.M. for the Rhetorical Factory Presentation: “Meet the Lasters” on July 23rd, 2014.
Maury Rosenberg on Guitar (a rare performance) and Ami Worthen on the Piano at Steadman’s Little Corner Coffee House and Grill, there.
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Flat calm, Fil and Fried Fish.
Exploring and Dining in Hopkins, Belize.
Travels to Belize
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Krekprints Low Brow Art.
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Riordan Malone is more than a bodyguard. As an Elite Ops agent, he’s ripped, raged, and ready to rumble—a true warrior, inside and out. But no war zone can compare to the battle in Rory’s heart when he lays eyes on the only woman he’s ever loved—and thought he had lost forever. . .
HE’S EVERYTHING SHE NEEDS
As the daughter of a crime lord, Amara Resnova has endured the cruelty of her father’s enemies—and has tried to escape that world ever since. Now, she must reach out to the one man who saved her life, even if she’s never forgiven him for breaking her heart. But Amara is tougher today than she was then. She’s also more desirable to Rory—and dangerous to love. Can he protect her from her father’s enemies without surrendering to his own passions…or will love seal their fate for good?
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Six months later
She’d been told that West Texas in the spring wasn’t much different from West Texas in the fall, but as Amara Resnova pulled in the driveway of the small house outside Alpin, she felt she had to disagree with that summation.
Stretched out in front of the house with its wraparound porch was a lush green valley fed by a lazily running stream winding through it. Sunlight speared from the cloudless blue sky, bright and warm, spreading its heat in a comforting embrace.
And the charming little house sat just beneath the warming sunlight. Spreading out in front of it was the picturesque valley; behind it, the normal West Texas part-grass, part-scrub, potential-desert landscape that never failed to amaze her.
On a rising knoll stood a lone tree, thickly branched and heavily leafed, shading what appeared to be a small cemetery. Rather than looking desolate and lonely, that little plot of land with its surrounding black iron fence, appeared instead to keep watch over the land below it. As though those buried there kept a gentle eye on those who came after them.
As isolated as the property was, it should have appeared stark. Instead, an air of contentment and peace lay over it. As though the land, the house, the vibrant green of the valley, and the cemetery that overlooked it all, knew all there was about life and love and had locked all those secrets within it to sustain it.
Drawing in a deep breath to steady herself against the fears she hadn’t been able to push behind her even in such a lovely setting, Amara turned off the engine, forced her hands not to shake, and opened the door before stepping into the warmth that filled the valley.
It wasn’t a blazing heat, but rather a gentle wave that filled the air and wafted around her. And in it there was a strange sense of familiarity. A “been there before” feeling that had her heart racing, her mouth drying as she stared around and drew in the sights and whispered sounds of a land as yet untouched by civilized life.
Here, a person could see the stars at night rather than the city lights. The sound of the lonely coyote rather than the rush of traffic. Peace rather than a hectic race.
Here, perhaps, she could find some answers. And maybe there was a chance to find everything she’d lost.
Tugging the hem of her tank, she straightened it over the band of her jeans beneath the light denim jacket she wore as she walked slowly from the car to the stone path that led to the porch. The thick carpet of grass stretched from the valley to surround the house, but she’d noticed as she parked that it became sparser at the back. As though that carpet of green with its lazy stream could only struggle so far to embrace the weathered home.
The dark blue pickup parked at the side of the house attested that someone lived there. And she knew the vehicle belonged to the man those in town called Grandpops Malone.
Riordan Malone Sr. was grandfather to Riordan Malone the younger, she’d been told, when she stopped at the gas station and auto repair garage outside town that bore the name MALONE AND BLAKE—SERVICE AND REPAIR. There, she’d learned Riordan the younger was part owner but currently out at his “grandpops’” place.
Riordan.
That name haunted her dreams, her fantasies. Though the man in those dreams wasn’t an old man. The one who came to her in those nightly images was tall, strong, impossibly sexy.
As Amara forced herself to walk to the porch, she looked around, searching for the face, listening for the voice of a man she knew only in those dreams. The man she’d escaped her father’s protection to go search for.
Was he friend or foe?
Even she couldn’t answer that question, not fully. But for some reason, she couldn’t seem to help the need to learn which he would be.
As her foot lifted to the first step, the front door creaked, causing her to pause, to wait with bated breath as it slowly opened to reveal an aged, gray-haired gentleman she suspected was Riordan Sr., Grandpops.
In his worn loose jeans, well-washed white shirt with sleeves folded neatly back below his elbows, scuffed leather boots, and with that serene expression, the man looked as old and wise as the mountains themselves. And there was no doubt he was just as damn stubborn.
“Well, hello there.” The smile that lifted the corners of his mouth was reflected in his dark blue eyes. “Can I help ya, young lady?”
There was a whisper of a lyrical accent. Irish. Just a whisper though, not the full, male lilt she sometimes heard in memories that never fully revealed themselves.
“I’m looking…” She swallowed nervously. “I’m looking for Riordan Malone.”
His head tilted to the side, his thick graying hair neatly trimmed but giving a hint of the rogue he must have been in his youth.
“I’d say you’re looking for my grandson rather than myself,” he said gently. “He should be along in a bit. His da just called to say he’s done stole that wild pony again and headed this way.” A chuckle filled the air. “Come along up to the porch and sit with me till he arrives. That wild beast always gives a show when he comes barreling through the valley.”
Moving gingerly up the steps to the porch, she followed him to the comfortable-looking cushioned rockers that faced the valley.
“Does he steal ponies often?” She frowned as she sat down, feeling more off balance than she’d felt in her life—which was saying something considering the past six months.
“Just that wild-assed black son of a satan that took a liking to him.” He grinned back at her, his gnarled hands gripping the arms of the rocker loosely. “His da threatens to kill the beast every time Riordan takes it out. He swears it’s gonna kill the boy.”
That didn’t sound like the man she was searching for. But, everything she learned assured her this was the one place she was certain to find him.
“Ahh, here he comes now.” Fondness filled the old man’s tone as he motioned to the valley.
He appeared at first as no more than a storm of dust rising beyond the verdant green of the valley.
Amara watched, her heart racing as that trail of dust grew steadily closer.
It was an imposing sight, she had to admit.
A sensual, exhilarating sight.
The horse, black as midnight, neck extended, flying across the deserted landscape, was enough to hold the eye. But the sight of the man, bent low to the horse’s neck, black hair flying back from his face, riding without a saddle, was a bit more than simply imposing.
It was exhilarating.
Imposing and savage and wildly erotic.
Amara could feel her body responding to the sight, weakening, filling with a sensual lassitude she couldn’t combat.
“Be watching this now. That horse loves ta take him on a wild ride he does,” Grandpops said softly.
The horse flew over a gully as though he had wings, before jumping the stream, neck and legs extended as it went airborne for precious seconds. The animal then took a series of fences as though they were nothing, and as she stared, she felt she knew how those women felt from centuries past as they watched a conquering warrior bearing down on them.
When the horse flew over the fence that enclosed the house yard, Amara was certain there was no way it could pull up before slamming headfirst into the porch itself.
With no more than a few yards to spare, the beast came up on his hind legs, a triumphant equine scream filling the air before landing again and prancing about with pure high-spirited joy before finally settling.
And Riordan sat firm on the animal’s back the whole time, holding onto the horse’s mane rather than a bridle, thighs gripping the animal’s heaving sides as he stared at her with blazing, furious blue eyes before turning them on his grandfather.
The younger Riordan dismounted smoothly, the soles of his moccasined feet hitting the ground as he slapped the beast on the rump. It came up on its hind legs once more in another display of savage beauty as it reared up, pawed the air, then shot off back the way it came the second it landed.
Flying like the wind, strong legs launching it over the fence, the gully, then the stream before a trail of dust followed it around the bend of the mountain.
So much beauty, she thought. A display of savage male temper and strength, and no less showed in Riordan’s expression as he propped his hands on his lean waist and glared up at her where she sat next to his grandfather on the porch.
Well-worn denim encased his hips and legs, and the moccasins that covered his feet weren’t fringed or fancy, just well made. A black T-shirt stretched across a broad chest, emphasizing his muscular abs and making her fingers itch to remove it.
Yes, this was him. The savage who invaded her dreams, the fury who slashed at her nightmares. Vivid sapphire eyes, daunting features, proud, imposing. A man who knew his own demons as well as those that inhabited other men. Or women.
She rose slowly to her feet, aware of Riordan’s “grandpops” as he sat comfortably in his rocker, watching in interest.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” the words that passed from his lips caused her to flinch; their icy tone caused her heart to sink.
The tender tone, the edge of lust and hunger she’d dreamed of, was nowhere in sight.
His gaze raked over her and there was none of the sensual promise she’s seen in his eyes when he’d invaded her dreams, none of the dominant sensualist who tormented her with his touch in her fantasies.
She hadn’t expected this. This wild fury and enraged demand. He didn’t seem the least bit glad to see her, she had to admit. What made her think he would be? she wondered.
Was she wrong? Did she not know him?
She was certain she had to have known him, certain that somehow, someway, they must have meant something to each other. Could she have been so wrong?
“Riordan!” Grandpops’ surprised tone had a grimace contorting Riordan’s face.
Evidently the grandfather thought little of the grandson’s language.
“Grandpops, perhaps you should go back to Grant’s.” He turned to his grandfather, his voice firm. “Noah, Sabella, and the babies will be there in a bit.”
Grandpops continued to glower at him.
“I’m certain I can handle whatever language he wants to use, Mr. Malone,” she assured the older man. “I’m not exactly a stranger to it these days.”
Her father cursed more often, brooded more often, and Amara knew the situation she’d found herself in was weighing on him. If she didn’t do something, didn’t fix things, then she was terrified of what may happen. Of what her father would do to fix things himself.
“But can his grandmother?” The old man sounded disappointed rather than angry. “Remember whose home your using that language in, boy.”
Rising from his chair, Grandpops moved to the steps stiffly and made his way down, casting his grandson yet another warning glare.
“Drive carefully, Grandpops. No more racing with those Brickford boys,” Riordan stated as his grandfather passed by.
And Amara could have sworn she saw a gleeful grin tease at the older man’s lips. But he merely grunted as he passed.
A few moments later the truck started, and they watched Grandpops ease around the circular drive and onto the road that led to the small valley.
The silence that stretched between them was heavy—with his anger and her uncertainty.
As the truck took the curve around the rising hill, she turned back to Riordan and tucked her hands into the pockets of her light jacket, her fingers curling into fists.
She’d faked the last six months with friends and most of her family. Taking cues from her father and his assistant Nikolai, she’d smiled and faked her way through every damn meeting and gathering she’d been forced to attend until she slipped silently from her father’s estate the week before and, in essence, ran away from home.
Not that he was letting her run without giving chase. He and his men weren’t far behind her and she knew it. They’d almost caught up with her the night before, outside Houston. If she didn’t do something, if she didn’t find a way to eliminate the threat shadowing her, then her poppa could do something she may not be able to live with. And it was that decision that sent her running to Alpine and the man who shadowed her dreams.
She was here now. She’d found the man she’d gone searching for, and she knew the days of lying and pretending to be who she’d been six months before were over.
She lifted her head, straightened her shoulders, and stared up at him in determination.
“Whatever I did to you, I’m sorry,” she told him, miserably aware that if she’d offended him in the past, angered him, then there was the possibility it couldn’t be fixed with an apology. She hadn’t been the nicest person she could have been in the past.
His eyes narrowed on her before once again moving to sweep over the landscape. There was a tension that surrounded him, a steady watchfulness she’d noticed her father and Ilya always carried as well. That prepared and ready-for-action thing strong men always seemed to carry with them.
“Go home, Amara,” he told her when those brilliant eyes turned back to her. “Go back to daddy. This is no place for you.”
He knew her. He was angry, but for a second, she swore she saw something more in that flash of heat in his expression.
“No. Riordan, please.” He couldn’t make her leave. Not yet, not until he knew what was coming, because what was coming didn’t affect just her. She could sense it, her dreams assured her of it.
Turning, Riordan dismissed her just that easily and strode up the steps to the porch, leaving her to stand alone as the storm door slammed behind his retreating back.
Strange, but this feeling of “alone” didn’t seem nearly as unfamiliar as it should have.
Inhaling deeply, she followed him rather than doing as ordered. Not that she often did as she was ordered. That was probably how she found herself where she was now. Opening the door quietly, she stepped into the house, her gaze taking in the homey atmosphere of the large living area.
A comfortable leather couch, recliner, and matching chairs were grouped around a cold fireplace. The mantle held a variety of family pictures that she would have loved to have time to check out. The wood floor was smooth, aged with a sheen of time and caring.
There were more family pictures in frames on the wall, many appeared old and passed down through the years, the frames lovingly polished, the photos a bit faded from time.
As she stepped into the room, Riordan watched her silently, leaning against the wide doorframe into the kitchen, his arms crossed over his broad chest as he simply stared at her, his expression still and remote.
“What the hell are you doing here?” he asked, that rumble of his deep voice sending a stroke of sensation up her spine.
What was she doing here?
Trying to survive, to live.
“I need your help.” She had to force herself to say the words, and still they came out as barely more than a whisper. “Please, Riordan. I need your help.”
Six months.
For six bloody months this damn woman had tormented his dreams while asleep and his thoughts while awake. He’d given his life for her on a dark, blood-filled night, then again on an operating table, only to be told she never wanted to see him again when he’d been released. And now, two months after he’d returned to Texas, here she was.
Son of a bitch. Just when he thought he could get through a night without being tormented by her, she just showed up out of the blue. And it was all he could do not to touch her, to jerk her to him and show her exactly what she was dealing with in coming to him.
But, she’d been his weakness from the moment he’d met her, hadn’t she? From the second his gaze touched hers, she’d been the one woman he couldn’t get out his head. And God knew he’d fought it.
Tiny and delicate, she made a man want to wrap her in cotton and hide her away from the world. Resilient, stubborn, and independent, she made a man realize fast that she wouldn’t allow him to do so.
Her once-long, straight silky black hair was shorter now, courtesy of her abductors. At first jagged and close to her scalp, it had grown a good six inches or so and feathered around her delicate face becomingly. Piercing gray-blue eyes stared back at him, somberly.
Frightened.
Riordan straightened from the doorframe, his eyes narrowing on her. That was fear in her eyes, along with the uncertainty and the heat he always saw there.
“You need my help?” he couldn’t help the mockery that tinged his voice simply because it flooded every corner of his mind. “Strange, two months ago you never wanted to see my damn lying ass again. What changed?”
What had changed? For a moment, that question had her pausing.
God, if only she could tell him. She was damned if she knew herself what had changed. All she knew was that now, six months after she’d awakened, she was unable to remember what had happened or who had abducted her or what they had wanted. The nightmares had grown worse, the sense of imminent danger and panic that fueled them had become overwhelming. In each one, this man stood with his hand outstretched, his voice whispering to her, urging her to find him. To come to him.
She swallowed tightly, uncertain what to say, how to explain. She didn’t trust him, not by any means. But she didn’t trust anyone now. She didn’t know who to trust.
“I’m sorry.” But she was damned if she could remember telling him he wasn’t wanted.
No doubt she’d had a good reason. Savagely hewn, rough and sexy, and a cowboy to boot. No doubt he had a wandering eye and hands that had no idea how to be faithful. The one type of man she despised. But personal fidelity and the ability to protect weren’t always intimately acquainted, she’d since learned. The man who cheated on his wife and walked away from his children could also be the very man willing to give his life for that same woman, or those children.
Men had never made sense to her, even from an early age. But she didn’t need him to make sense to her, she needed him to fulfill the promise he made in her dreams and help her figure out who was determined to see her dead and why she was so certain it was someone she knew and loved.
“You’re sorry?” he snorted, flashing her a look filled with disgust. “Fine, go home and be sorry there. I don’t have time for it here.”
The panic was beginning to build inside her chest. It thundered through her veins and raced to her heart. If he made her leave, if he threw her out and forced her to run again, she was going to die, and she knew it.
“You promised you’d help me,” she snapped, her tone more demanding than she would like despite her uncertainty and the fact that the words tore from her almost involuntarily. “You swore it. You can’t renege now.”
Had he really promised, or had she just dreamed it? Was the memory of that dark little hole and the pain that filled her just another nightmare? Had he really been there, swearing he’d always save her, or had she just imagined it?
“Did I now?” Softly voiced, the question held that bit of Irish sexy, lyrical sound that she often heard in those fantasy dreams filled with pleasure rather than pain. “And when did that happen?”
She shook her head. Memory or nightmare?
“You swore you’d always be there if I needed you.” She fought to believe it was memory. “All I had to do was reach out to you. Well, dammit, I’m reaching out. Do you want me to beg too?”
She could see his hand outstretched, his expression somber, demanding. He wouldn’t come to her, she had to go to him.
Riordan felt as though his world had narrowed, that nothing existed but this moment, this woman, and the dreams that had haunted him. Dreams of her cries, her pleas that he come to her. And no matter how desperately he tried to reach her, she was always but a touch away. No matter how often he’d urged her to take his hand, to come to him, just reach out to him, she never did.
The dreams had become so insistent over the months, he’d actually contacted his former security team members who still worked for her father to check up on her.
All was well, he’d been told. Princess Resnova was still the princess, and the czar still protected her like the cherished daughter she would always be. And still, he dreamed, reached out to her, and urged her to take his hand.
I’ll always be here for you. Just reach out to me.
He hadn’t told her that, he’d whispered those words in a dream.
And son of a bitch if that wasn’t enough to make a man force himself not to shake in his boots.
“Why?” he demanded. “Why the hell do you need me when your father has over fifty protection agents, and every damn one of them is on call in case they’re needed to protect you? What the fuck do you need with me?”
Damn her. She’d waited six months to come to him. She’d let him lie in a hospital out of the country, half alive for weeks, and hadn’t once called or reached out him. Why the hell was she short circuiting his brain now?
“I need you to help me,” she whispered again. “I need someone I can trust with my life, Riordan, before I die because I don’t know anymore who’s a friend and who’s the enemy. But you might know. I need someone I can trust to watch my back while I figure out who the hell is trying to kill me and why.”
Kill her?
According to every source he had in her father’s organization, she was safe. The men at the farmhouse where they’d found her were all killed. The bodyguard they’d identified as being behind the abduction and her beating was dead as well.
“Your father’s men can protect you.” God help him. If he even tried, he’d get them both killed—because he wouldn’t be able to stay out of her bed.
She was shaking her head even as he spoke. “I don’t trust them. I don’t trust anyone.” Desperation filled her expression now. “You don’t understand, Riordan. All I have are these crazy dreams of you. Every nightmare I have you’re at my back, protecting me. That’s all I have because I don’t remember what happened before my abduction or the abduction itself. I’ve lost a year of my life and I don’t know why and I damn sure can’t force those memories back,” she cried out, fury filling her tone. “All I have are the nightmares and dreams, and the only person I can see, the only person I can trust in them is you. And by God, I want to know why.”
She faced him, fists clenched, anger flushing her face, but that was heat in her eyes. It wasn’t just nightmares she had, it wasn’t simply dreams.
It was this bond he could sense between them even as she stared back at him, furious, frightened.
And he’d waited long enough.
Taking the steps that separated them, he jerked her into his arms, his lips stilling her cries, his arms tightening around her, holding her to him.
Her lips parted in shock, and he took full advantage of it. He tasted her. Lips and tongue possessed her kiss, and he let his senses grow drunk on her.
Because somehow, someway, she’d shared not just her dreams with him, but those incredibly erotic fantasies that filled his head as well.
And now, he wanted a taste of all that passion, that feminine hunger and need he hadn’t nearly had enough of before her abduction.
Then they could discuss the rest.
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Open-access textbooks, journals, images, videos, and other educational resources has been one of the most exciting developments in academic scholarship during the last two decades. In response to the rising costs of academic publishing and higher education, many concerned scholars have decided to publish their work with open copyright licenses. These open access resources are free to everyone without hindrance of subscription fees, licensing terms, logins, contracts, and other barriers. They provide universal access to research and knowledge.
Faculty, below is a compilation of some of the most popular websites for open access textbooks and educational resources. If you are interested in learning more about how you can incorporate these resources into your course, please let a UI&U Librarian know. We would be happy to help.
Open Educational Resources, Open Textbooks
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights.
In some cases, that means you can download a resource and share it with colleagues and students. In other cases, you may be able to download a resource, edit it in some way, and then re-post it as a remixed work. How do you know your options? OER often have a Creative Commons license or other permission to let you know how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons’ growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER. -Website Description
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The Open Textbook Network (OTN) helps higher education institutions and systems advance the use of open textbooks and practices on their campuses. We maintain the Open Textbook Library, the premiere resource for peer-reviewed academic textbooks. All of our textbooks are free, openly licensed, and complete; their adoption creates a measurable, positive impact on student success. With our members, we move the open education conversation forward on local and national levels. -Website Description
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers…The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. All of these items have been contributed by the MERLOT member community, who have either authored the materials themselves, or who have discovered the materials, found them useful, and wished to share their enthusiasm for the materials with others in the teaching and learning community. -Website Description
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free. It’s all enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Some of our major resource collections include: 1,300 Free Online Courses from Top Universities, 1,150 Free Movies, Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc., 900 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free, 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices, MOOCs from Great Universities (Many With Certificates), Learn 46 Languages Online for Free: Spanish, Chinese, English & More, 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Video Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites & More. -Website Description
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TED-Ed is TED’s youth and education initiative. TED-Ed’s mission is to spark and celebrate the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Everything we do supports learning — from producing a growing library of original animated videos , to providing an international platform for teachers to create their own interactive lessons, to helping curious students around the globe bring TED to their schools and gain presentation literacy skills, to celebrating innovative leadership within TED-Ed’s global network of over 250,000 teachers. TED-Ed has grown from an idea worth spreading into an award-winning education platform that serves millions of teachers and students around the world every week. -Website Description
Creative Commons & Public Domain Pictures
Pictures can make a presentation or course come alive. So how can you find pictures that are copyright-safe and freely available? One strategy is to use pictures in the public domain or creative commons. Public domain images are out of copyright and have no restrictions about how they can be used. Creative commons images can be used in accordance with their creative commons license.
Popular websites for public domain images include the PublicDomainArchive and pixabay.
The Creative Commons Search is your portal to creative commons licensed images on popular websites like YouTube, Flickr, Google Images, Europeana, and Jamendo. Creative Commons Kiwi (short video about using Creative Commons)
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While most resources in the UI&U Library are not open access, they are freely available to the UI&U Academic Community. To access library resources, go to the library homepage and enter keywords in OneSearch. Search results can be limited by publication date (last few years), source type (ebooks and books), and availability to “available online (full text)”. Another strategy is to use the publisher limiter to limited to common textbook publishers such as Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Oxford, Cambridge, Open Textbook Library, and University Presses.
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Date: Wed, Oct 09, 2019
For your enjoyment, here is a comic about e-books from Jeffrey Koterba. The original can be found on jeffrey.koterba.com and is used with permission. As a kid, Jeff began drawing cartoons as an escape from the pandemonium surrounding him—a house filled with broken TVs his dad fixed and sold for extra money. A jazz drummer whose big dreams never panned out, his dad displayed tics—symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome, a condition Jeff inherited. From the canyons of electronics and discouragement great and small, emerged a young man determined to follow his creative spirit to grand heights. He found himself on a journey back to the father he once longed to escape. Inklings is an exuberant, heart-felt memoir infused with a uniquely irresistible optimism.
His memoir Inklings is available on Amazon.com.
Date: Sat, Sep 14, 2019
New Librarian Lisa Raney
Hello UI&U Students, Faculty and Staff!
My name is Lisa Raney and I am your new Electronic Resources Librarian. I am responsible for cataloging and managing the collection of electronic resources. As a member of the reference and instruction team, I am happy to answer any research questions you may have and help out with interlibrary loan requests.
I graduated with a Master’s of Library Science from the University of Kentucky. I will be splitting my time between UI&U and at the Cincinnati History Library & Archives, where I provide local history & genealogy research assistance.
In my free time I enjoy exploring the city, yoga, trivia, and hanging out with my cat, Panda.
Please feel free to contact me with any of your research needs! I can be reached via Lisa.Raney@myunion.edu or 513.487.1210, and am located at the Cincinnati headquarters.
Panda the Cat
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Posted By: Lisa Raney at 3:36 pm
Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2019
Logins, Links, and Troubleshooting
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MyUnion Username and Password
Union Institute & University has a single sign-on (SSO) application that allows students, faculty, and staff to access multiple resources with one set of login credentials. The library uses the same login and password that is used for CampusWeb and email.
If you reach a restricted library resource, the MyUnion login screen will appear and you will be prompted to enter your username and password (please see the image below). You can reset your username or reset your password in CampusWeb.
For assistance with your MyUnion username and password, contact the IT Help Desk.
Other Logins & Passwords
Many library databases include an option to create a personal database account with a login and password of your choice. We recommend not creating personal database accounts as these needlessly complicate your research. Below is an example of a personal database login that you can ignore.
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Starting Your Dissertation
Congratulations! You are nearing the end of your academic journey! Now comes the final challenge…writing your master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. There are many resources that will help you to plan, research and create your culminating work. Faculty supervisors, we’ve also included a few titles for you. Your UI&U Librarians have highlighted some favorites, but there are many more dissertation handbooks in OneSearch. We welcome any suggestions from students and faculty about other ebooks that would help to improve our collection, so please let us know of any helpful and interesting titles!
They Say, I Say
Available in audiobook format
“The New York Times best-selling book on academic writing―in use at more than 1,500 schools.
“They Say / I Say” identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves.” -Publisher
Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
Available in ebook and audiobook format
“Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read―and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword’s analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. Stylish Academic Writing showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.” -Publisher
Writing a Proposal for Your Dissertation: Guidelines and Examples. This user-friendly guide helps students get started on–and complete–a successful doctoral dissertation proposal by accessibly explaining the process and breaking it down into manageable steps. Steven R. Terrell demonstrates how to write each chapter of the proposal, including the problem statement, purpose statement, and research questions and hypotheses; literature review; and detailed plan for data collection and analysis. Of special utility, end-of-chapter exercises serve as building blocks for developing a full draft of an original proposal. Numerous case study examples are drawn from across the social, behavioral, and health science disciplines. Appendices present an exemplary proposal written three ways to encompass quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods designs. –Publisher’s description
Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation. Dissertations aren’t walls to scale or battles to fight; they are destinations along the path to a professional career. Destination Dissertation is a handbook that helps students successfully develop and complete their dissertations. It uses travel as a metaphor framing the process as an exciting trip of 29 steps that can be completed in less than nine months. Designed for use by students in all disciplines and for both quantitative and qualitative dissertations, the book shows concrete and efficient processes for completing those parts of the dissertation where students tend to get stuck, from conceptualizing a topic to editing the final work. It includes a wealth of real-life examples from throughout the dissertation process, such as creating the proposal and coding data. This time-tested method comes from the authors’ successful work at the Denver-based Scholars’ Retreat. –Publisher’s description
Doing a literature review by J. Knopf
Students entering a graduate program often encounter a new type of assignment that differs from the papers they had to write in high school or as college undergraduates: the literature review (also known as a critical review essay). Put briefly, a literature review summarizes and evaluates a body of writings about a specific topic. The need to conduct such reviews is by no means limited to graduate students; scholarly researchers generally carry out literature reviews throughout their research careers. In a world where the Internet has broadened the range of potentially relevant sources, however, doing a literature review can pose challenges even to an experienced researcher.In drafting this overview, I have incorporated some points made by Paul Pitman in a lecture delivered to students at the Naval Postgraduate School. I have also incorporated some suggestions contained in a handout prepared by John Odell for students in the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California. -Extract
Writing the literature review: A practical guide. by S. E. Efron & R. Ravid
This accessible text provides a roadmap for producing a high-quality literature review–an integral part of a successful thesis, dissertation, term paper, or grant proposal. Each step of searching for, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing prior studies is clearly explained and accompanied by user-friendly suggestions, organizational tips, vignettes, and examples of student work. Also featured are excerpts from peer-reviewed quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods articles. This is the first book to focus on crafting different types of reviews (systematic, traditional–narrative, or hermeneutic–phenomenological) that reflect the writer’s research question, methodological choices, and approaches to knowledge. It describes what all reviews have in common and highlights distinct characteristics of each type. The book includes dos and don’ts for evaluating studies and constructing an argument, and software suggestions for locating, organizing, and arranging sources. -Publisher’s Description
Revising your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors. The aftermath of graduate school can be particularly trying for those under pressure to publish their dissertations. Written with good cheer and jammed with information, this lively guide offers hard-to-find practical advice on successfully turning a dissertation into a book or journal articles that will appeal to publishers and readers. It will help prospective authors master writing and revision skills, better understand the publishing process, and increase their chances of getting their work into print. This edition features new tips and planning tables to facilitate project scheduling, and a new foreword by Sandford G. Thatcher, Director of Penn State University Press. –Publisher’s description
How to Write a Thesis By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis -Publisher’s Description Also Available as an Audiobook.
From Dissertation to Book. Since its publication in 2005, From Dissertation to Book has helped thousands of young academic authors get their books beyond the thesis committee and into the hands of interested publishers and general readers. Now revised and updated to reflect the evolution of scholarly publishing, this edition includes a new chapter arguing that the future of academic writing is in the hands of young scholars who must create work that meets the broader expectations of readers rather than the narrow requirements of academic committees… –Publisher’s description
Faculty Supervision
Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation Despite their and other stakeholders’ consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department’s doctoral program. Indeed, assessment, when done properly, can help departments achieve excellence by providing insight into a program’s strengths and weaknesses. This book and the groundbreaking study on which it is based is about making explicit to doctoral students the tacit “rules” for the assessment of the final of all final educational products—the dissertation… –Publisher’s description
Understanding Supervision and the PhD. Explores the experience of supervision and the PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience. –Publisher’s description
Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses. Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses is a practical, research-backed guide to creating a course that is valuable for both the student and the school. The book covers the design, administration, and teaching of capstone courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum, guiding departments seeking to add a capstone course, and allowing those who have one to compare it to others in the discipline. The ideas presented in the book are supported by regional and national surveys that help the reader understand what’s common, what’s exceptional, what works, and what doesn’t within capstone courses. -Publisher’s description
Additional Supervision Resources
Posted By: Susan at 9:30 am
Date: Wed, Aug 07, 2019
Engaging students online can be challenging. But these challenges also create opportunities to teach with new approaches. The library has compiled a selected bibliography of online teaching and pedagogy e-books. The ebooks below can be read by copying & pasting the title into OneSearch. If you have a favorite title you would like to see on this list, please let us know.
Excellent Online Teaching: Effective Strategies for a Successful Semester Online by Johnson 2017
Online Learning in Higher Education by Ghilay 2017
Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching: How to “Be There” for Distance Learners by Lehman and Conceição 2010
Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment by Bender 2012
The Online Teaching Survival Guide: Simple and Practical Pedagogical Tips by Boettcher & Conrad 2016
Digital Technologies in Higher Education: Sweeping Expectations and Actual Effects by Guri-Rozenblit 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the top source for news in post-secondary education. It brings you news stories of concerning faculty, administration and technology as well as academic news from around the global. You also have access to many blogs devoted to different aspects of the university experience (admissions, scholarly publishing or building and grounds) and also to the forums where you can connect with people involved in higher education around the country and around the world.
The UI&U Library provides access to the Chronicle without the additional step of logging on through the library. Simply go to chronicle.com. In the upper right hand corner, click log in. (Don’t subscribe! We’ve done that for you!). Then create a free account using your Union email. Please contact a librarian if you have questions or need assistance.
Date: Mon, Jul 29, 2019
Academic Writing and Publishing
Whether you are interested in publishing your research or just want to improve your academic writing skills, the UI&U Library is here to help. Check out the library’s newest e-books for tips on persuasive and effective writing, finding the right home for your research, and understanding the publishing process. You can also access additional publishing and writing resources in OneSearch.
They Say, I Say (audiobook)
“They Say / I Say” identifies the key rhetorical moves in academic writing, showing students how to frame their arguments in the larger context of what others have said and providing templates to help them make those moves. And, because these moves are central across all disciplines, the book includes chapters on writing in the sciences, writing in the social sciences, and―new to this edition―writing about literature.” -Publisher
Craft of Research
“With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique.” -Publisher
Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students
“Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated, it is designed to let teachers and students easily find the topics they need, both in the classroom and for self-study. The book consists of five parts: The Writing Process Elements of Writing Language Issues Vocabulary for Writing Writing Models The first part explains and practises every stage of essay writing, from choosing the best sources, reading and note-making, through to referencing and proofreading. The four remaining parts, organised alphabetically, can be taught in conjunction with the first part or used on a remedial basis. A progress check at the end of each part allows students to assess their learning. All units are fully cross-referenced, and a complete set of answers to the practice exercises is included. New topics in this edition include Writing in Groups, Written British and American English, and Writing Letters and Emails. In addition, the new interactive website has a full set of teaching notes as well as more challenging exercises, revision material and links to other sources. Additional features of the book include: Models provided for writing tasks such as case studies and essays Use of authentic academic texts from a wide range of disciplines Designed for self-study as well as classroom use Useful at both undergraduate and postgraduate level Glossary to explain technical terms, plus index Written to deal with the specific language issues faced by international students, this practical, user-friendly book is an invaluable guide to academic writing in English.” -Publisher
The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing
“The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing is a groundbreaking resource that offers emerging and experienced scholars from all disciplines a comprehensive review of the essential elements needed to craft scholarly papers and other writing suitable for submission to academic journals. The authors discuss the components of different types of manuscripts, explain the submission process, and offer readers suggestions for working with editors and coauthors, dealing with rejection, and rewriting and resubmitting their work. They include advice for developing quality writing skills, outline the fundamentals of a good review, and offer guidance for becoming an excellent manuscript reviewer.” -Publisher
Stylish Academic Writing
Essentials of Publishing Qualitative Research
“Getting a qualitative article or book published involves more than simply doing the research, writing it up, and sending it off. You also need to know how to navigate the social relations of presenting your work to the journal editor or book publisher—and how to craft your message to them—if you want to be successful. Written by a highly-respected publisher of qualitative research, this brief, practical resource shows you how to identify the right home for your work. It also guides you through the publications process– from crafting the abstract to writing, production, and marketing–once you’ve found the best publisher. The author -demystifies what publishers and journal editors do, how they make their decisions on qualitative articles, research studies, and methods. [Also] discusses edited books, how to publish from your dissertation, and when to consider open access and electronic publications. Includes case studies, appendixes, forms, and resources to help the aspiring academic” -Publisher
First Steps in Journal Article Writing
“This concise and practical volume guides the reader through the process of article writing for submission to scholarly journals. It provides helpful examples and clarification of the steps involved and will prove to be an invaluable resource for both novice and experienced researchers. Chapters include selecting a topic, proposal design, research design and methodological considerations, submitting an article for publication and the role of critical readers.” -Publisher
Publishing Journal Articles
“This accessible, informative and entertaining book provides practical strategies to help maximize the chances of success in getting your work published in the journal of your choice. It offers advice on vital topics such as: how to write and get the style right; what to select for publication; how to plan for success; how to cope with writer’s block; working with editors and reviewers; and how to cope with rejection. It is a must-have book for anyone seeking to write for successful journal publication.” -Publisher
Successful Academic Writing: A Complete Guide for Social and Behavioral Scientists
“Using rich examples and engaging pedagogical tools, this book equips students to master the challenges of academic writing in graduate school and beyond. The authors delve into nitty-gritty aspects of structure, style, and language, and offer a window onto the thought processes and strategies that strong writers rely on. Essential topics include how to: identify the audience for a particular piece of writing; craft a voice appropriate for a discipline-specific community of practice; compose the sections of a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods research article; select the right peer-reviewed journal for submitting an article; and navigate the publication process. Readers are also guided to build vital self-coaching skills in order to stay motivated and complete projects successfully.” -Publisher
Write it Up: Practical Strategies for Writing and Publishing Journal Articles
“How do you write good research articles — articles that are interesting, compelling, and easy to understand? How do you write papers that influence the field instead of falling into obscurity? Write It Up offers a practical and revealing look at how productive researchers write strong articles. The book’s guiding idea is that academics should write to make an impact, not just to get something published somewhere. Your work will be more influential if you approach it reflectively and strategically. Based on his experience as an author, journal editor, and reviewer, Paul Silvia offers systematic approaches to problems like picking journals; cultivating the right tone and style; managing collaborative projects and coauthors; crafting effective Introduction, Method, Results, and Discussion sections; and submitting and resubmitting papers to journals. With its light-hearted style and practical advice, Write It Up will help graduate students struggling with writing their first paper, early career professors who need advice on how to write better articles, and seasoned academic writers looking to refresh their writing strategy or style.” -Publisher
Writing Research Critically: Developing the Power to Make a Difference
“This is not a standard guide to writing a dissertation, thesis, project report, journal article or book. Rather, this book will help researchers who are dissatisfied with the typical recipe approaches to standardized forms of writing-up and want to explore how academic writing can be used to greater effect. Packed with examples from a range of writing projects (papers, dissertations, theses, reports, journal articles and books), this book provides a practical and refreshing way to approach and present research. Through case studies the authors offer a step-by-step guide from the early stages of planning a writing project, whether an undergraduate paper or a professional publication, to the polishing processes that make the difference between a merely descriptive account to an argument that intends to be critical and persuasive. This book will inspire a wide range of researchers from undergraduates to postgraduates, early career researchers and experienced professionals… and demonstrate how research can have more impact in the real world. -Publisher
The Productive Graduate Student Writer: How to Manage Your Time, Process, and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation and Get Published
This book is for graduate students–and others–who want to become more productive writers. It’s especially written for those who want to:
• increase their motivation, focus, and persistence to move a project to completion
• overcome procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies
• reduce (or write in spite of) their anxiety and fear of writing
• manage their time, work, energy (and advisor) for greater productivity
The process or craft of sustained writing is not a matter that’s taught to undergraduate or graduate students as part of their studies, leaving most at sea about how to start a practice that is central to a career in academe and vital in many other professional occupations.
This book grew out of conversations Jan Allen has held with her graduate students for over 30 years and reflects the fruit of the writing workshops and boot camps she has conducted at three universities, her own and numerous colleagues’ experiences with writing and advising, as well as the feedback she receives from her popular Productive Writer listserv.
While Jan Allen recognizes that writing is not an innate talent for most of us, she demonstrates that it is a process based on skills which we can identify, learn, practice and refine. She focuses both on the process and habits of writing as well as on helping you uncover what kind of writer are you, and reflect on your challenges and successes. With a light touch and an engaging sense of humor, she proposes strategies to overcome procrastination and distractions, and build a writing practice to enable you to become a more productive and prolific writer.
Jan Allen proposes that you read one of her succinct chapters – each devoted to a specific strategy or writing challenge – each day, or once a week. When you find one that increases your concentration, motivation or endurance, make it a habit. Try it for two weeks, charting the resulting increased productivity. It will become part of your repertoire of writing and productivity tools to which you can progressively add.
Date: Mon, Jun 03, 2019
New Cite Button!
Resources in OneSearch come with formatted APA, Chicago, and MLA citations that you can copy and paste into your research papers. Please note that citations are automatically formatted and need to be checked for accuracy. The library help center includes citation examples that you can use to check your citations.
Copy & paste the citation
Date: Wed, May 29, 2019
For Faculty: Library Links in Courses
Dear UI&U faculty member,
The last year has seen a sea change in online library security with an increasing number of library vendors changing their website addresses from http to the more secure https to prevent hacking and malware. Recently, the library has received student reports of library links, also known as permalinks, not correctly redirecting to https. Incorrect redirects and other ongoing permalink challenges have made them no longer a viable option for sharing library resources.
The Center for Teaching and Learning and the UI&U Library recommend that faculty members remove library permalinks and have students locate library resources on their own. We believe this approach will have many ongoing benefits, such as:
Encouraging students to improve their information literacy skills
Easier maintenance for faculty, staff, and librarians
Prevention of student distress caused by links to required readings not working
What Should Faculty Do?
If your course includes a link to a UI&U Library article, e-book, video, or other resource, please delete the library link and replace it with a (non-hyperlinked) message letting students know their required reading is available in the library.
Here are several different “available in the library” messages you can use. You are also welcome to create a customized message for your students.
First Example
Baker, S. (2011). Life after death: An activity to investigate the scientific, legal, & racial issues of the Henrietta Lacks story. The American Biology Teacher, 73(6), 337-340.
Available in the UI&U Library
Skloot, R. (2010). The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Broadway Books. doi:10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828bfecc
Second Example
The following required readings are available in the UI&U Library:
Third Example (Includes Search Instructions)
The following required readings are available in the UI&U Library.
To access: 1) open a new browser tab/window, 2) go to the UI&U Library homepage (https://library.myunion.edu or google UI&U Library), 3) copy & paste the title of the book, article, or video into the OneSearch search box, and 4) click the read online (or watch online) link to access the resource. If there are too many search results, try adding the author’s last name or quotation marks around the title e.g. “Moby Dick” Melville. When looking for a book chapter, search by the book’s title and use the table of contents to locate the chapter.
Embedded Videos
The UI&U Library subscribes to several video collections including: Alexander Street Press, Films on Demand, Kanopy, and Psychotherapy.net. These videos can be shared using an Available in the UI&U Library message or their embed codes (videos must be embedded to count towards instructional hours). Instructions for embedding videos are available on the library’s Resources in Courses page.
Some embedded videos are currently not displaying in CampusWeb. Our IT department is working on a solution to this issue. As a temporary workaround, please instruct your students to search directly for the video by title using the library’s OneSearch feature.
Content Outside the UI&U Library
Resources outside the UI&U Library are not affected by this change. This includes open educational content on YouTube and other websites.
We are requesting that faculty members review their courses and make the corrections as soon as possible. If you need assistance, please contact the library at 513-487-1487 or library@myunion.edu.
When Should a Direct Link Still be Used?
The library is now only recommending the use of direct links to library resources that are difficult to find in OneSearch. Please contact a librarian for assistance creating the direct link.
Why Are We Making this Change?
Permalinks are difficult to create and maintain
Redirects from HTTP to HTTPS can fail
When a permalink is copied from Microsoft Web Outlook into Microsoft Word, the link may reformat with Outlook login information
The displayed link text may be different from the underlying URL
Please contact a librarian if you would like more information on why we are recommending this change.
Your UI&U Librarians
Posted By: Susan at 3:58 pm
Spring has arrived. It’s a time of budding trees, sunshine, and getting ready for summer. It is also a great time for a “spring cleaning” of your internet browser. Complete the three steps below to ensure a better experience on the library website and every other website you visit.
Current Browser: Use a current internet browser such as Mozilla FireFox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge. (Microsoft has discontinued Internet Explorer.)
Update Browser: Take a few minutes to update your internet browser. This fixes many website problems and ensures a safer online experience. Learn how to update: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, or Microsoft Edge.
Clear Cache: Open your internet browser and then press Ctrl+Shift+Delete (Windows) or Command+Shift+Delete (Mac). The website Lifewire also has an excellent guide to clearing your cache.
If you need help with your internet browser, please contact a UI&U Librarian or the IT Help Desk for assistance.
Posted By: Susan at 12:42 pm
270 New Videos
The Films on Demand collection includes over 98,000 digital videos available to the Union Institute & University community for free. These videos can be streamed online and embedded in CampusWeb courses. The collection includes quality video productions from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Open University, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more. This month’s featured video is the Infant-Toddler Learning Environment.
Infant-Toddler Learning Environment
Infants and toddlers are born explorers and the environments in which they are cared for become their laboratory. This program includes real-life examples on how to create a supportive infant-toddler learning environment that invites children to explore their surroundings and supports their sensory-motor way of learning. -Film Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● counseling & social work ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● special education
Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2019
Dissertations and Theses in OneSearch
Looking for dissertations on your research topic? The library is pleased to announce that most ProQuest Dissertations and Theses are now available to read online directly from OneSearch.
Use the following steps to locate dissertations and theses:
Search by keywords, author name, or the title in OneSearch
In the left sidebar, select the Source Type “Dissertations/Theses.”
If missing, click the “show more” link in the source types section to see all options.
Click “Read online.”
Doctoral students should also search ProQuest’s Dissertations & Theses Global database as not all ProQuest dissertations are indexed in OneSearch. If you have questions, or would like research assistance, please contact your UI&U Librarians.
Date: Fri, Mar 08, 2019
Library Quotes & Jokes
Love books and libraries? We do too! Here are some library quotes and jokes for your enjoyment. If you have a funny quote or joke to add to the list, please let us know.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. -Richard Powers
Be nice to the archivist or she will erase you from history. -Anonymous
Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Librarians are good for circulation -Anonymous
Beauty is only a light switch away. -Graffiti in the Perkins Library of Duke University
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? -Keith Waterhouse
This is a library. Kids and adventurers welcome. All others stay out. -Dean Koontz
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. -Anne Herbert
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. -Peter Golkin
What building has the most stories? The library!
Flamingo Wallpaper Background by Karen Arnold (Creative Commons CC0 1.0)
The Films on Demand collection includes over 98,000 digital videos available to the Union Institute & University community for free. These videos can be streamed online and embedded in CampusWeb courses. The collection includes quality video productions from A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Open University, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more. This month’s featured video is the First Civilizations series.
First Civilizations Series
Having lived as mobile foragers for 99 percent of our time on Earth, why did humans set out on the road to civilization? How did they create villages, towns, cities, and states, and establish the blueprint for the modern world? First Civilizations identifies four cornerstones of civilization – war, religion, cities and trade – and explores each in the context of a different location, from Mexico, Guatemala, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, India, and Pakistan, to Oman, Morocco, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Unearth the latest archeological discoveries, test new theories, and uncover original information as dramatic reconstructions and computer graphics visualize the lost world of the first civilizations. In each of the four episodes, discover how our ancestors were motivated by the same impulses that persist today – the inevitability of war, a need for religion, the lure of the city, and a love of trade. -Film Description
Date: Mon, Feb 04, 2019
Polish your Professional Skills
Polish your email, phone, video conferencing, and other professional skills with these two videos from the library’s Films on Demand database. Interested in additional videos? The library has over 900 business education videos broken down into sub-collections for easy browsing. Sub-collections include: careers, communications, project management, diversity & ethics, leadership, and more.
Digital Communication Skills: Dos and Don’ts
From texting to email to video calls, digital technology has transformed how we communicate with each other. But in formal situations like at work or in school, which forms of communications are appropriate, and when? Viewers of this video, especially digital natives, may be surprised to discover that communicating isn’t just about sharing information—it’s creating it—and that the ways in which emails, texts or voice messages are composed and conveyed may make the difference in impressing or disappointing an employer or co-worker. Even for late adopters of digital technology, this video has important points on what you should do—and what you don’t want to do—when it comes to email, texting, video-conferencing and using the phone for business calls or voice mail. (28 minutes, 2015)
Business Etiquette: Professionalism 101
How should you balance social media and your job? What’s the best way to ask for a raise? Who should pick up the tab for a business lunch? In this program, both business experts and a focus group of young professionals advise viewers on the proper way to conduct oneself in different types of work-related situations. Among the many topics covered are nonverbal communication and “personal space,” handling dissatisfied callers, when and how to interrupt a busy colleague, composing professional e-mails, asking for a raise, and managing time effectively. The focus group also offers tips and anecdotes on what not to do at work. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. (30 minutes, 2012)
Date: Thu, Jan 10, 2019
New Library Login
The Union Institute & University has transitioned to a new single sign-on for email, CampusWeb, and the library. If you need assistance with your logon and password, please contact the IT Help Desk at 888-858-6466 or help@myunion.edu.
Date: Mon, Dec 03, 2018
Career & Job Search
Whether you are looking for a job or polishing your professional skills, the library has hundreds of resources that offer the knowledge and tools that you are looking for. The links below are shortcuts to some of the resources that will help you succeed:
Videos: the library collection includes over 500 career & job search videos, divided into the following categories: career fields, job success, job search, and career exploration.
Ebooks: there are many career and job search e-books available.
In addition to these resources be sure to take advantage of UI&U Career Services. Services include career counseling appointments, resume and cover letter assistance, practice interviews, additional career resources, assessments and more! Get in touch with your career counselor at CareerServices@myunion.edu / 800.861.6400, ext. 1190 or visit us on CampusWeb.
Date: Sun, Dec 02, 2018
You’ve finished the work, and you’re proud of it (as you should be!). But then you begin to wonder: now how do I get this thing published?
Whether you’re looking to sharpen your work through revision, focus on the craft of writing, learn the ins and outs of academic publishing, or focus on online writing, the UI&U Library has you covered. Below is a sample selection of titles to help you polish–and perhaps even publish–your work. For further assistance in accessing similar titles, please feel free to contact us.
From Dissertation to Book by Germano
The academic writer’s toolkit by Berger
Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books by Germano
Writing for Academic Journals by Murray
The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing by Rocco
View All Academic Publishing Ebooks in OneSearch
Mainstream Publishing
Indie Design: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book edited by Lupton
Book Publishing Encyclopedia: Tips & Resources for Authors and Publishers by Poynter
The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind Them by Hill and Power
Publishing Confidential: The Insider’s Guide to What it Really Takes to Land a Nonfiction Book Deal by Brown
View All Publishing Ebooks in OneSearch
Date: Thu, Nov 29, 2018
Smart shopping involves saving time and money by selecting the best product. You don’t want something that will fall apart within the year, and that requires product research.
The library collection includes magazines with product reviews, such as Consumer Reports and Wired.
To find product reviews, use the search box on the library homepage. Search for your product or product type, i.e. “coffee makers” (see search tips tutorial).
Once in OneSearch, limit the search results by adding the keyword “reviews” to the search box or specifying “Reviews” as the Source Type (limits to product reviews, book reviews, film reviews, etc.). You can narrow the search results further by limiting the publication date to the last few years.
Another great place for product research is Wirecutter, which is owned by the New York Times. “Wirecutter is a list of the best gear and gadgets for people who want to save the time and stress of figuring out what to buy. Whatever sort of thing you need—tableware or TV or air purifier—we make shopping for it easy by telling you the best one to get…our recommendations are made through vigorous reporting, interviewing, and testing by teams of veteran journalists, scientists, and researchers. Consider us a best-of list for everyday things; a curated gallery filled with only interesting, useful objects; a thank-you note to the designers and engineers who create the stuff that makes our lives better; a geeky friend with next-level research skills who tests everything they buy so you don’t have to. The point is to make buying great gear quickly easier so you can get on with living your life.”
So before you hit the sales, make sure you are getting the best value for your money with product reviews.
You Deserve a Librarian
The UI&U Librarians are committed to helping you succeed. We know that juggling life as a student is a challenge, and we want to make the library work for you. You deserve a librarian.
During regular library hours, you can contact a librarian by phone (513-487-1487) or email (library@myunion.edu). No appointment is needed. Regular hours are Monday through Friday, 9 am – 5 pm Eastern (6 am – 2 pm Pacific).
For assistance outside of regular hours, please schedule an appointment. We’ve made this easy to do by adding a scheduling form to the Ask a Librarian page.
We hope to hear from you soon!
Date: Thu, Oct 04, 2018
Fall Browser Cleaning
Fall has arrived. It’s a time of beautiful leaves, pumpkin spice coffee, woolly socks, and getting ready for winter. It is also a great time for a “fall cleaning” of your internet browser. Complete the three steps below to ensure a better experience on the library website and every other website you visit.
Date: Mon, Oct 01, 2018
Stay Current with Journals in your Field
Reading the top journals in your field is a great way to stay up-to-date, and the library is full of free, peer-reviewed journals!
Popular journals in the library’s collection include: Academy of Management Review, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Signs, Journal of Human Lactation, Police Chief, Research on Social Work Practice, and the American Political Science Review.
The library collection even includes popular magazines such as Oprah, The Smithsonian, and Consumer Reports.
Your librarians are ready to help you find the right journals for you, and to set-up alerts so new issues are delivered straight to your inbox! There is also a journals alert tutorial in the library’s help center with journal suggestions and instructions for creating an alert.
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2018
The Films on Demand collection includes over 53,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is the Dead Reckoning series.
Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and Justice from WW2 to the War on Terror Series
Popcorn – 46/365 by Joakim Wahlander (CC BY-NC 2.0)
From award-winning producer/writer/director Jonathan Silvers comes this three-part series, Dead Reckoning: War, Crime, and Justice from WW2 to the War on Terror, which reveals how the model of justice conceived by the Allies in the wake of the Second World War has evolved into a standard by which all conflicts are judged. However many decades and miles separate those conflicts and however inhumane the underlying crimes, all have been prosecuted according to protocols that the Allies devised for three unique situations: the determination of command responsibility; the pursuit of war criminals; and the accumulation of evidence and testimony at crime scenes. The series explores the origins of the Allied response to these unique situations, along with transformative conflicts and atrocities that have, for 70 years, shaped conceptions of war and peace. Taken as a whole, Dead Reckoning is an unprecedented inquiry into how justice has been secured – and occasionally denied – for crimes that continue to plague the world. -Film Description
Date: Thu, Sep 06, 2018
Zotero at UI&U
Have you heard of Zotero? Zotero is a powerful citation and research management tool that can save you time and help safe-guard your research. This program allows you to import citations and save PDFs of most resources to your personal Zotero Library. Your Zotero Library helps you organize research, link back to articles and webpages, and provides the information needed to create a bibliography and in-text citations. Zotero is compatible with Microsoft Word and LibreOffice, and using either of these programs, it will instantly generate citations formatted in thousands of styles.
Zotero Library
With the Zotero sync tool, you can access your research from any computer with an internet connection, and it is compatible with most major internet browsers. Perhaps best of all, Zotero is free to use. While this tool usually takes experienced researchers several days to learn, we highly recommend taking the time to master this resource if you are completing graduate-level research. If you are interested in using Zotero, please visit the UI&U help page for step-by-step instructions on creating a Zotero account. Your UI&U Librarians are also available for one-on-one training and assistance.
Date: Sun, Aug 05, 2018
New to Interlibrary Loan?
In addition to the many resources available from the UI&U Library, current students, faculty, and staff can request articles and book chapters using the library’s free Interlibrary Loan Service, ILLiad. With OneSearch, placing a request is easy. Just select “Request through interlibrary loan,” and OneSearch will fill in the citation information for you. Verify that the information is correct, and click Submit Request. If the library is able to borrow the article or book chapter, it will be delivered electronically to your email, usually within one week.
Note: The first time you use interlibrary loan, you will need to create an ILLiad account:
From the Library Website, select the Interlibrary Loan Tab.
Select “Create an Account or Place a Request.”
You will be directed to login using your Union ID# and password.
Next, enter your contact information, and select “Submit Information.”
Now, you are ready to begin using Interlibrary services! From this page, you can view outstanding requests, submit requests, and update your contact information, if needed. Need additional assistance? Check out the library’s Interlibrary Loan FAQs or Contact a Librarian.
Date: Thu, Aug 02, 2018
Celebrating National Breastfeeding Month
August is National Breastfeeding Month. Did you know that you can access many videos on breastfeeding promotion and general maternal health & wellness from the library? This month’s featured video, “Breastfeeding Overview,” is part of the Newborn Care Series, and is available from Films on Demand. In this video, viewers will “learn some of the benefits of breastfeeding your newborn, how to properly hold him or her, and attach her to your breast” (publisher’s description).
Each video in this series is around 5 minutes long, and covers topics on newborn care such as safely installing a car seat, developing a healthy sleep schedule, and addressing common health concerns.
The UI&U Films on Demand collection includes over 52,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses.
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video) ● social work ● special education
OneSearch Login
If you log into OneSearch, you’ll notice some changes to the interface and privacy settings.
The library’s OneSearch service is provided by the EBSCOhost company, which is why you will see the words “EBSCOhost” on the sign-in page. We realize this is confusing and have requested improvements to the sign-in page interface.
These changes will not affect the functionality of your EBSCOhost/OneSearch account and your login and password will remain the same. (The EBSCOhost/OneSearch account is a personal account you can create to save search results to folders. It is different from your MyUnion login that is used to access UI&U services OneSearch, interlibrary loan, student email, and CampusWeb.) If you cannot remember your EBSCOhost/OneSearch username, please contact a UI&U Librarian for assistance.
After logging in, you will also be asked to accept EBSCO’s new privacy policy. In accordance with the European Union data protection legislation, EBSCO has increased privacy and security settings, including: requiring strong passwords, transitioning to HTTPS, and expanding privacy controls. A complete description of the new privacy and security enhancements is available on EBSCO’s support site.
Please contact a UI&U Librarian if you have any questions or need assistance.
Date: Fri, Jun 08, 2018
OneSearch Quick Tips: Search Results Display
When using OneSearch, your default search results will display as a Brief View. This view shows the title and citation information for each result. If you want to quickly see the summary of a book or article from your search results page, change the result format to Standard by using the Page Options menu, found at the top of your Search Results. The Standard View displays the title and citation plus the first few lines of the abstract, when it’s available. The Detailed View will show the title, citation, and the full abstract. From the page options menu, you can also change the number of search results per page. If you want to save your display preferences, remember to sign in to your OneSearch Account.
Want to learn more? Check out the Library’s Search Tips Tutorial, or Contact a UI&U Librarian today.
Date: Fri, May 18, 2018
SWON Direct Lend Program
The UI&U Library is a member of the SouthWest Ohio and Neighboring Libraries (SWON) Consortium. Many member libraries in the Greater Cincinnati area participate in the SWON Direct Lend Program. This program allows current UI&U students, faculty, and staff who reside in the Greater Cincinnati area to check-out library materials from participating institutions.
If you are interested in using this service, contact the UI&U Library to request your lending card. We will create your card and work with you to determine which local libraries participate in the direct lending program.
Date: Thu, May 10, 2018
Formatted APA & MLA Citations
Did you know that the UI&U Library’s OneSearch provides formatted APA and MLA citations that you can copy and paste into your bibliography? Watch the video below to learn more about this amazing tool.
Find the article or book in OneSearch
Click the title to access the detailed record
Click the Cite button on toolbar
Date: Tue, May 01, 2018
The Films on Demand collection includes over 52,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm.
The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm
Directed and produced by seven-time Emmy® Award winner Amy Schatz, and featuring animation from award winning artist Jeff Scher, this 19-minute documentary shines a light on the tender relationship between an inquisitive American boy and his great-grandfather, a Polish-born Jew who lost both his parents to the Nazis, but was able to survive Auschwitz and make his way to America at the end of WWII. When 10-year-old Elliott asks his 90-year-old great-grandfather Jack about the number tattooed on his arm, the boy’s question sparks an intimate conversation about Jack’s life that embraces happy memories of childhood in Poland, the loss of his family, surviving the concentration camps, and finding a good and new life in America. Interwoven with haunting historical footage, photos, and hand-painted watercolor animation by Jeff Scher, The Number on Great-Grandpa’s Arm is both a heartbreaking story of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before and during the Holocaust, and a heartwarming story of a bond that reaches across generations. An introduction to the Holocaust for children, this gentle yet powerful family film centers on Elliott’s love for his beloved great-grandfather and his heartfelt wish to pass to future generations Jack’s memories and lessons from that terrible time, telling a story that must be told while survivors still remain to tell it. -Film Description
OneSearch Quick Tips: Phrase Searching
Looking for a specific article or e-book from the library? Try using a phrase search to quickly narrow your search results. A phrase search uses quotation marks to look for two or more words in the exact order you enter them. To conduct a phrase search, just place quotation marks around your search terms.
For example, the search “Leadership for a better world” will find this exact phrase rather than articles or books that mention the words leadership and world anywhere in the text. From your results, just select the full-text link underneath the title to access the item.
Phrase searches are also useful when searching for quotes or common names.
Date: Thu, Feb 15, 2018
Saving to OneSearch Folders
Resources in OneSearch can be saved to your OneSearch (or My EBSCOhost) account.
Warning: you must be signed in to permanently save resources. If not signed in, your resources will only be saved for that session and will disappear when you close your browser window. The UI&U Librarians recommend using alternative methods such as downloading or printing the PDF (please see the Saving & Organizing tutorial).
Sign in to OneSearch
1) Go to OneSearch
2) Click Sign In (top, right)
3) Login to your OneSearch (My EBSCOhost) account. If you do not have an account, click the “Create a new Account” link. Then create an account with a login and password of your choice.
Save to Folders
Each item in the search results will have a blue folder/plus mark icon. Click the icon to save. To see your saved resources, click the Folder icon (top, right).
Date: Tue, Feb 06, 2018
New Library Contact Information
The Union Institute & University Library has a new main phone number, 513-487-1487. We also have a new text number, 513-854-0542. The library’s email will remain the same, library@myunion.edu. This new contact information has been updated on the library website.
Faculty: if you need help updating library information in your online courses, please let us know and we would be happy to help.
As always, your friendly librarians remain committed to supporting you. Please contact us with any questions.
The UI&U Librarians
LexisNexis Academic Now Nexis Uni
As of November 28th, LexisNexis Academic is now Nexis Uni. While the coverage is the same, providing business, news, and legal information, Nexis Uni offers a more streamlined search experience. New features include more intuitive searching in addition to highly relevant filters and advanced search techniques. Search across the database or limit your results to specific content types such as news, law reviews, or company information. As well, from the home page, you can view the new “Discover Topics” section. Here, you will see curated discipline information on selected topics such as criminal justice and business. This is a great way to get started on your research or to quickly survey current information in the selected field. While you will still access most LexisNexis content from the library via OneSearch, you also have the option to create a free Lexis Uni account. With an account, you can customize the Nexis Uni homepage, save your searches, bookmark documents, and set up journal alerts. If you would like to learn more, please see Lexis Uni Help, available from the database homepage, or Contact a UI&U Librarian.
We are happy to provide you with a one-on-one tutorial or answer any questions you may have. Happy researching!
OneSearch Links Not Working?
If the “Find Full Text” or “Request through Interlibrary Loan” links in OneSearch are not working, try clearing your computer cookies. This should solve the problem.
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Dissertation, Thesis & Faculty Handbooks
Congratulations! You are nearing the end of your academic journey! Now comes the final challenge…writing your master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation. The UI&U Library has many resources that will help you to plan, research and create your culminating work. Faculty supervisors, we’ve also included a few titles for you. Your UI&U Librarians have highlighted some favorites, but there are many more theses and dissertation handbooks in OneSearch.
We welcome any suggestions from students and faculty about other ebooks that would help to improve our collection, so please let us know of any helpful and interesting titles!
How to Write a Thesis (Masters) How to Write a Thesis [by Rowena Murray] provides an invaluable resource to help students consider, plan and write their theses. The third edition of this best-selling and well loved book builds on the success of the second edition. –Publisher’s description
How to Write a Thesis (Doctoral) By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy’s most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he offered useful advice on all the steps involved in researching and writing a thesis — from choosing a topic to organizing a work schedule to writing the final draft. Now in its twenty-third edition in Italy and translated into seventeen languages, How to Write a Thesis has become a classic… -Publisher’s Description
Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation (Doctoral) Dissertations aren’t walls to scale or battles to fight; they are destinations along the path to a professional career. Destination Dissertation is a handbook that helps students successfully develop and complete their dissertations. It uses travel as a metaphor framing the process as an exciting trip of 29 steps that can be completed in less than nine months. Designed for use by students in all disciplines and for both quantitative and qualitative dissertations, the book shows concrete and efficient processes for completing those parts of the dissertation where students tend to get stuck, from conceptualizing a topic to editing the final work. It includes a wealth of real-life examples from throughout the dissertation process, such as creating the proposal and coding data. This time-tested method comes from the authors’ successful work at the Denver-based Scholars’ Retreat. –Publisher’s description
Revising your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors (Doctoral) The aftermath of graduate school can be particularly trying for those under pressure to publish their dissertations. Written with good cheer and jammed with information, this lively guide offers hard-to-find practical advice on successfully turning a dissertation into a book or journal articles that will appeal to publishers and readers. It will help prospective authors master writing and revision skills, better understand the publishing process, and increase their chances of getting their work into print. This edition features new tips and planning tables to facilitate project scheduling, and a new foreword by Sandford G. Thatcher, Director of Penn State University Press. –Publisher’s description
Making the Implicit Explicit: Creating Performance Expectations for the Dissertation (Faculty) Despite their and other stakeholders’ consistent demand for excellence, doctoral programs have rarely, if ever, been assessed in terms of the quality of the dissertations departments produce. Yet dissertations provide the most powerful, objective measure of the success of a department’s doctoral program. Indeed, assessment, when done properly, can help departments achieve excellence by providing insight into a program’s strengths and weaknesses. This book and the groundbreaking study on which it is based is about making explicit to doctoral students the tacit “rules” for the assessment of the final of all final educational products—the dissertation… –Publisher’s description
Understanding Supervision and the PhD (Faculty) Explores the experience of supervision and the PhD, drawing on a range of key viewpoints to further understanding of this complex educational experience. –Publisher’s description
Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses (Faculty) Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses is a practical, research-backed guide to creating a course that is valuable for both the student and the school. The book covers the design, administration, and teaching of capstone courses throughout the undergraduate curriculum, guiding departments seeking to add a capstone course, and allowing those who have one to compare it to others in the discipline. The ideas presented in the book are supported by regional and national surveys that help the reader understand what’s common, what’s exceptional, what works, and what doesn’t within capstone courses. -Publisher’s description
Date: Wed, Nov 01, 2017
The Library is for Our Staff, Too!
It is common knowledge that university libraries provide resources to support student learning and faculty research, but did you know that our library includes resources for university staff members, too? As a UI&U staff person, you have access to many online periodicals and magazines that can help you to develop professionally while an employee here. These so-called “trade journals” include articles that professionals in a wide variety of fields can read to stay current with best practices directly related to their work expertise. Here are just a few examples of these, all accessible 24 hours a day, every day, via our library website:
Professional Skills Videos
Free Subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education.The Chronicle of Higher Education is the top source for news in post-secondary education. It brings you news stories concerning faculty, administration and technology as well as academic news from around the globe. You also have access to many blogs devoted to different aspects of the university experience and also to the forums where you can connect with people involved in higher education around the country and around the world.As a member of the Union Institute & University community, you have complementary access to the Chronicle of Higher Education using your regular MyUnion username and password. Note: you can ignore the subscribe/login information in the top, right-hand corner of the Chronicle website. Creating a personal account is only needed for posting comments and subscribing to newsletters.
Admission, Registration & Retention
College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success
Handbook of Strategic Enrollment Management
Successful Registrar
Enrollment Management Report
Journal of College Admission
Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education: A Guide for Trustees, Leaders, and Aspiring Leaders of Two- and Four- Year Institutions
The Law of Higher Education
Change Leadership in Higher Education: A Practical Guide to Academic Transformation
Leadership for a Better World : Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership Development
Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference
More Resources for University Leaders
The New Advisor Guidebook: Mastering the Art of Academic Advising
Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College
Find more resources for academic advisors
Business Office & Finance
Business Practices in Higher Education: A Guide for Today’s Administrators
Higher Education, Fiscal Administration, and Budgeting
Disability in Higher Education: A Social Justice Approach
Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities
Disability Compliance for Higher Education
Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability
College Benchmarks for Tuition Discounting and Financial Aid
Federal Pell Grant Program: Elements, Issues, and Trends
Achieving Excellence in Human Resources Management: An Assessment of Human Resource Functions
Disability and Employer Practices: Research Across the Disciplines
HRMagazine
Instructional Design & Information Technology
Managing Information Technology Projects: Applying Project Management Strategies to Software, Hardware, and Integration Initiatives
Understanding by Design (2nd ed.)
A Guide to Online Course Design: Strategies for Student Success
Perspectives in Instructional Technology and Distance Education Series
Computers & Education Journal
Writing & Student Services
Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success
The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book
The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice
Writing Center Journal
Find more resources for academic tutors
Whether you are a staff member interested in reading more about the latest news and trends in your chosen field of work or a staff supervisor seeking to find convenient and budget-friendly ways to encourage those who work in your department to engage in professional development, our librarians are ready to help you find key professional journals (and e-books, too!) that can keep you at the forefront of your job knowledge. We can also help you to set up an RSS feed that will enable you to have selected articles of interest sent right to your email or mobile device automatically each time they are published.
Interested? Please contact a member of our library reference team at library@myunion.edu or by phone at 513-487-1487 so we can help you get started.
Matt Pappathan
UI&U Library Director
New eBooks Available
The UI&U library regularly purchases eBooks to support student research and course curricula. All eBooks are accessible via the library’s OneSearch tool. Check out some of our most recent additions.
CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES IN LEADERSHIP
Strategic Leadership Across Cultures: The GLOBE Study of CEO Leadership Behavior and Effectiveness in 24 Countries. Unique in its focus, methodology, and impact, [this title] is a must-have for those studying or practicing in the fields of global leadership, cross-cultural leadership, and organization studies. Reporting on research obtained during the third phase of the ten-year GLOBE project, the book examines strategic leadership effectiveness for executive and top-level management based on data from more than 1,000 CEOs and over 6,000 top management team members in 24 countries. Authors Robert J. House, Mary Sully de Luque, Peter Dorfman, Mansour Javidan, and Paul L. Hanges offer a series of propositions about executive leadership based on the unified theory —developed after the publication of the first GLOBE book—and empirically test these propositions. They provide evidence that leadership matters, executive leadership matters greatly, and that societal cultures influence the kind of leadership that is expected and effective—Publisher.
SUPERNATURAL IN LITERATURE
The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic. This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the “undead and still dead” include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime—Publisher.
Generosity. When Russell Stone becomes the teacher of a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence, he is both entranced and troubled. How can this refugee from terror radiate such bliss? Is it possible to be so open and alive without coming to serious harm? Soon, Thassa’s joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research has enabled him to announce his discovery of the genetic underpinnings of happiness. Thassa’s congenital optimism is severely tested by the growing media circus. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the world at large.—Publisher.
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15–October 15. This month’s featured videos, available from Films On Demand through UI&U Library, celebrate Hispanic culture, contributions, and history.
Habla y Vota
Habla y Vota is the fourteenth installment of HBO Latino’s award-winning Habla series, which comprises over 200 testimonials from U.S. Latinos – including celebrities, recognized professionals, and everyday Latinos – who’ve shared their funny, poignant, and honest stories about being Latino in the U.S. Featuring leading Latino celebrities and inspiring personalities and in order to raise the voice of the Hispanic community during the 2016 elections, Habla y Vota will be part of a bigger effort to reach Latinos and encourage voting in November. This one-hour non-partisan documentary special, in both English and Spanish, will feature Latino storytellers sharing their personal experiences directly to the camera for a national audience. -Films on Demand
Inner Borderlines: Visions of America Through the Eyes of Alejandro Morales
In April 2013, Spanish film maker Luis Mancha went to the University of California, Irvine to interview Alejandro Morales, an under-read Chicano author whose works present a vision of Southern California and America so different from the image that the United States projects abroad that Mancha felt compelled to make this documentary film. In it we follow Morales’ journey around Southern California as he tries to understand issues concerning the Latino population in California and the U.S. He and other Chicano/Latino academic experts discuss the first immigrants to California; how California was taken over by Anglo-Americans; how the city of Irvine came to be and its juxtaposition to Santa Ana; Barrios and “white flight;” Chicano literature; institutionalized racism and university barriers to ethnic studies programs; gang violence and the incarceration system; and future relations between the U.S. and Mexico. Also featuring Leo Chavez, María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco Lomelí, Belinda Campos, Raúl Fernandez, Mario García, Ellen McCracken, and Eleanor Guzman. -Films on Demand
Habla Texas Series
An entrepreneur. A mayor. A mariachi. These are just a few of the remarkable Latinos who share their personal stories in Habla Texas. Filmed entirely in San Antonio and Austin, this one-hour, two-part special is an enlightening an entertaining look at the ups and downs, highs and lows of being Latino in the Great State of Texas. An HBO Production. -Films on Demand
Latino American Series
This is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have for the past 500-plus years helped shape what is today the United States and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S. The series chronicles Latinos in the United States from the 1500’s to present day. It is a story of people, politics, and culture, intersecting with much that is central to the history of the United States while also going to places where standard U.S. histories do not tend to tread. Latino Americans relies on historical accounts and personal experiences to vividly tell the stories of early settlement, conquest and immigration; of tradition and reinvention; and of anguish and celebration, from the millions of people who come to the U.S. from Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, and countries in Central and South America. The programs are driven by the human dramas of individuals’ struggles and triumphs, successes and disappointments, featuring interviews with close to 100 Latinos from the worlds of politics, business, military, academia, literature, and pop culture, as well as deeply personal portraits of Latinos who lived through key chapters in American history. LATINO AMERICANS is the story of the gradual construction of a new American identity that connects and empowers millions of people today. -Public Broadcasting Series.
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● early childhood ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● social work ● special education
Thesis Turned Cookbook Helping Million+
What do eggs, dried beans, rice, oatmeal, yoghurt, and seasonal vegetables all have in common? They are food staples in Good and Cheap, a cookbook designed to help people live on $4/day. For her master’s thesis at New York University, Leanne Brown challenged herself to create affordable, healthy, and tasty meals for students, seniors, people on food stamps, and anyone else on a tight budget.
In her own words, “I wanted to make something that not only summed up the work I had done during my studies, but also had a useful life outside of academia…it bothered me that so many ideas for fixing the food system leave out the poor: it seemed like they didn’t have a voice in the food movement. I wanted to create a resource that would promote the joy of cooking and show just how delicious and inspiring a cheap meal can be if you cook it yourself.”
Her thesis turned kickstarter project has resulted in one million+ free or discounted cookbooks.
Mouthwatering recipes include:
Broiled Grapefruit
Cold (and Spicy?) Asian Noodles
Cornmeal Crusted Veggies
Brussels Sprout Hash and Eggs
Potato Leek Pizza
Black-Eyed Peas and Collards
Half-Veggie Burgers
Coconut Chocolate Cookies
Inspired to try out some of these recipes? You can download a free copy of Good & Cheap or purchase a print copy (and a second copy will be donated)
Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2017
The Oxford English Dictionary defines peer review as, “The process by which an academic journal passes a paper submitted for publication to independent experts for comments on its suitability and worth; refereeing.” Peer review a process that protects scholarship by confirming that the research and writing of a scholarly article is valid, original, of high quality, and relevant to the journal to which it has been submitted. Usually articles in a peer reviewed journal have been reviewed by 2-5 independent experts in the field. The most commonly used forms are single and double-blind methods of review, where either the author, or the reviewer, or both, do not know each others identities. That acts as a protection against favoritism.
How is a PRJ different than other magazines?
In journal world, there are basically three types of journals: scholarly (peer reviewed), popular, and trade. Popular journal names include Vogue, Popular Science, Time and Rolling Stone. Trade journals include such names as American Architect, Maritime Journal, and the Progressive Farmer, and are between popular and scholarly. Those two types include heavy advertising specifically aimed at their readership, usually in the profession in question, are written for a general population, and do not usually include notes or bibliographies. They are usually monthly, bi-weekly, or weekly.
PRJs, on the other hand, are written by credentialed experts in the field, use technical language specific to the subject, and are written for scholars, researchers and students. They are often bi-monthly or quarterly publications, and contain very little (but highly specialized) advertising. Examples of PRJs include Developmental Psychology, Journal of Personality Assessment, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, and Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. Keep in mind that just because a journal is a PRJ, editorials and book reviews are not necessarily peer reviewed.
How to Find Peer Reviewed Articles and Journals
There are three ways to narrow your searches.
The first method is to narrow your search results by Peer Reviewed in OneSearch or a database that offers that option. Just because the journal is peer reviewed, however, does not mean that everything contained inside is peer reviewed. Editorials, letters to the editor, and book reviews are generally not peer reviewed, so use caution when choosing your resources!
Secondly, use the Publication Search to find information about the journal. The journal’s detailed record page will list varied and useful information about the publication, including whether or not it is peer reviewed.
The third method is to find the official website of the journal that contains an article that you have found (this is an appropriate use of Google), and you should find your answer on the home page. An example of this is the ISHS website, which describes the content, the level of peer review that is adhered to, and offers links to their editorial board and publisher information as well.
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New Database Content in OneSearch
The content of two new databases has been added to OneSearch – PDQ and Open Textbook Library. Items from these databases will automatically populate in OneSearch results. If you would like to limit to them, you can use the “Results per Database” option on the left sidebar and check the box for the appropriate name. All items will have a Find Full Text link, which should take you to the full-text on their individual websites.
Produced by the National Cancer Institute, PDQ (Physician Data Query) is a comprehensive source of cancer information. It contains cancer information summaries on a wider range of topics; drug information summaries on many cancer related drugs and drug combinations; and dictionaries of general cancer terms, and genetics terms etc. All EDS customers may search over 14,000 PDQ records in EDS and access full text of those records on NCI platform. – Source: EBSCO
Open Textbook Library provides hundreds of textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. All EDS customers have full access to Open Textbook Library’s platform. – Source: EBSCO
Date: Thu, Jun 15, 2017
The UI&U Library contains millions of scholarly resources, and we know it can sometimes seem challenging to navigate through them. Luckily, library staff members are here to assist you by email (library@myunion.edu) or phone (513-487-1487). We welcome questions, so please let us know if you are struggling with anything. This is a no judgement zone.
After Hours Appointments
If you need assistance outside of regular hours, please schedule an appointment in advance and we would be happy to meet with you. We will work around your busy schedule.
Ebrary is now Ebook Central
On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, all ebook content previously hosted on ebrary will be moved to Ebook Central. The only changes will be the name of the database and some search features. You will still be able to use OneSearch to access all of our ebooks, including Ebook Central titles.
What will happen with links to ebrary?
Existing links to individual ebooks on ebrary and to the ebrary website will now redirect seamlessly to Ebook Central. This means that ebrary links within OneSearch and CampusWeb will now take you to Ebook Central. We will be working with faculty to update their ebrary links to Ebook Central links, but for now, redirects are in place.
What if I have saved content within ebrary?
If you had saved anything to your ebrary bookmarks prior to the switch, you will need to log in to Ebook Central and follow a few simple steps to transfer your bookmarks.
Contact a librarian if you need any help or have any questions about Ebook Central.
For more information on Ebook Central, check out the playlist of short help videos in YouTube.
Date: Mon, May 29, 2017
Pictures for Courses & Presentations
Pictures can make a presentation or course come alive. So how can you find pictures that are copyright-safe and freely available?
Artistic, Bright, Color, Colored, Colorful, Colors by PublicDomainImages Creative Commons CC0
One strategy is to use pictures in the public domain or creative commons. Public domain images are out of copyright and have no restrictions about how they can be used. Creative commons images can be used in accordance with their creative commons license.
The Creative Commons Search is your portal to creative commons licensed images on popular websites like YouTube, Flickr, Google Images, Europeana, and Jamendo.
The Films on Demand collection includes over 44,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is a Shakespearean drama.
In the tyrannical court of Athens, the pitiless dictator Theseus plans his wedding to Hippolyta, a prisoner of war, and young Hermia is sentenced to death by her own father. Meanwhile, in the rickety township on the hillside, amateur theatre group the Mechanicals rehearse, with all their comic rivalries. And beyond Athens, in the wild wood, dark forces are stirring… Celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare, Russell T Davies’ full-blooded adaptation has more attitude and invention than anything that’s gone before. This is a production for everyone, brought to life by an award-winning cast of established stars and exciting newcomers. It’s a dream that will never be forgotten. -Public Broadcasting Series
Find a Little Free Library Near You
Little Free Library is a non-profit organization that promotes neighborhood book sharing around the wor ld. You can start your own Little Free Library by installing and displaying a box where everyone is invited to take a book or leave a book! This promotes community conversations and helps foster reading and literacy. To find a Little Free Library near you, search their map.
Check out a few of the Little Free Library boxes that we found in our local communities!
Technical Services and Electronic Resources Librarian, Tina Beis, with a Little Free Library in Cincinnati, Ohio
A Little Free Library in Rabbit Hash, Kentucky found by Mary Amos, Senior Academic Technologist and Designer in the Center for Teaching and Learning
A Little Free Library spotted in Brattleboro, Vermont by Assistant Librarian for Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery, Klara Charlton
Reference Librarian, Susan Whitehead, found this Little Free Library in Montpelier, Vermont
A gnome gives this Little Free Library in Cincinnati some extra flair
There are many different ways to decorate a Little Free Library
UI&U Celebrates National Library Week!
Dear Union Community:
Union Institute & University together with the American Library Association (ALA) is celebrating National Library Week, April 9-15, 2017. This year’s theme is “Libraries Transform.”
This week of celebration offers a great time to remind you of the services available to you to transform your educational journey.
Check Out These Resources!
OneSearch – A new comprehensive search engine that allows students to search multiple databases simultaneously is available. OneSearch will yield results that include e-books, scholarly articles, doctoral dissertations, videos, and more, saving hours of preparation.
Multimedia and Videos – A variety of video and media databases, ranging from educational videos to copyright free images for presentations, are available that will make your assignments easier and more professional.
Welcome to the UI&U Library Video – A brief, five minute video introduces the UI&U Library, the library website, OneSearch, formatted citations, tutorials, and librarian assistance so that you can use the library efficiently and expertly.
Help Center – The Help Center offers a list of tutorials, guides, and tips to transform your educational journey. Click here and find out.
Personal service – Personal service is the hallmark of the library. Librarian assistance is available by email (library@myunion.edu), phone (513-487-1487), and video conference.
Work from the convenience of home – The library offers students flexibility and convenience that is only a click away. You don’t have to find a parking space, or physically search for books.
APA and MLA citations– Articles and ebooks in the library come with formatted APA and MLA citation styles. Databases have citation tools that will automatically format citations for your bibliography.
Stay current – Librarians can help you identify the top journals in your field. With database journal alerts, new journal issues will be delivered directly to your inbox. Get started today.
Interlibrary loan – An interlibrary loan is just a request away. Place an interlibrary loan request and we will get it from another library for free!
Career & job search – The library has hundreds of resources that offer the knowledge and tools to help you on your career & job search. Click here to view the many materials available to you.
Matthew Pappathan
Director of Library Services
Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017
Find UI&U Student Theses and Dissertations
Did you know that UI&U student theses and dissertations are available in OneSearch? You can find UI&U Bachelor’s and Master’s theses, as well as PhD and EdD dissertations with a single search.
Just follow the steps below:
1. Enter your keywords, student author name, or the title of the work into the OneSearch box.
2. On the results page, look for the UI&U Theses and Dissertations limiter on the left sidebar. It is located beneath Source Types.
3. Click on the arrow to view your options and then select your limiter: Dissertations, Bachelor of Arts Theses, or Master of Arts Theses.
4. Your result list will update and you can then click the View PDF Full Text link to access the document or click the blue title link to view the Detailed Record page and abstract.
Search Tip: If you are looking for UI&U M.A. Theses from a specific field of study, you can enter any of the following subject headings into OneSearch to retrieve relevant results:
M.A. final product—Creativity Studies
M.A. final product—Health & Wellness
M.A. final product—History & Culture
M.A. final product—Literature & Writing
M.A. final product—Leadership, Public Policy & Social Issues
If you have any questions or would like to set-up a research appointment, please contact your librarians.
Date: Thu, Mar 30, 2017
Learn About the Library in 5 Minutes
Welcome to the UI&U Library! This brief, five minute video introduces the UI&U Library, the library website, OneSearch, formatted citations, tutorials, and librarian assistance.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/wEDNhVrbNp8
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Send us your Suggestions
Do you have feedback for the UI&U Librarians? If so, we want to hear from you! Look in the website footer or OneSearch for a new Suggestion Box where you can send your thoughts.
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Date: Wed, Mar 15, 2017
New Ascent of Woman Video Series
The Films on Demand collection includes over 43,000 videos, which can be streamed online and added to CampusWeb courses. This month’s featured video is Nurturing Leadership.
The Ascent of Woman: A 10,000 Year Story Series
In this four-part series, Dr. Amanda Foreman traverses countries and continents to uncover and interrogate key stories of the strong, radical and revolutionary women that have made and changed the course of human history from 10,000 BC to the present day. The diverse characters she explores range from Mughal Empress Nur Jahan, who helped establish trade routes and pioneered the visual aesthetic of India, to American activist Margaret Sanger, who coined the term ‘birth control’ and developed the contraceptive pill. The series geographical reach is just as ambitious, covering everywhere from ancient Greece to medieval France; from first-century Vietnam to modern America. The Ascent of Woman argues that the history of women isn’t a straight line from Eve’s apple to Margaret Sanger’s Pill. Instead, over the past ten thousand years it has veered wildly between extremes of freedom and oppression, inclusion and exclusion. The reason is that the status of women is a barometer of a society’s tolerance, fairness and openness. A poor record on women’s rights goes hand-in-hand with low economic output and high levels of violence. For the next economic cycle to be the age of full participation, there has to be a woman-led revolution that unleashes the potential of all individuals. At stake are the goals of autonomy, authority, and agency for all women. -Publisher’s Description
Films on Demand (all videos) ● academic success ● anthropology ● business & economics ● career & job search ● childcare ● child & adolescent development ● criminal justice ● environmental science ● education (see also Education in Video) ● health, medicine, and wellness ● history ● leadership ● literature ● parenting & child development ● political science ● public health ● psychology & counseling (see also Counseling & Therapy in Video and Psychotherapy.net) ● social work ● special education
Learning how to craft sophisticated searches will decrease the amount of time you spend researching and improve the relevance of your search results. Visit the Search Tips tutorial in the Help Center to learn about combining concepts, OneSearch limiters, and developing your search.
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Open-Access Textbooks
The UI&U Library has added the SUNY Open Textbook collection to OneSearch.
“Open SUNY Textbooks is an open-access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York (SUNY) libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. All EDS customers may search Open SUNY Textbooks in EDS and access free full text on the SUNY platform” -EBSCO
This is a small collection of 25 titles right now; you can view them all here: http://textbooks.opensuny.org/browse/. The full text custom link will take our patrons to the Open SUNY website where they can download the book. All of the items in this collection are listed as ebooks in EBSCO. You can choose Open SUNY as a database/content provider limiter.
Open Access Textbooks are also available at:
MERLOT (select Material Type: Open Textbooks)
Bookboon.com
Keep the Memory Alive with Eyes on the Prize
Keep the Memory Alive!
Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America.
Through contemporary interviews and historic footage, the 14-part Eyes on the Prize series traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act, and from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates. –American Experience, PBS.org
Delsarte, Louis. (2010). Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Mural [Mural]. City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta. Retrieved from https://flic.kr/p/c7Fe8m Creative Commons BY-NC-ND. Image Cropped.
Awakenings (1954–1956): Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Fighting Back (1957–1962): States’ rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School, and again in James Meredith’s 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts — and integration is carried out.
Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961: Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. “Freedom Riders” also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.
No Easy Walk 1961–1963: The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, D.C., under King’s leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.
Mississippi—Is This America? (1963–1964): Mississippi’s grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
Bridge to Freedom (1965): A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but civil rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.
The Time Has Come (1964–1966): After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of black leaders listens. In the South, Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) move from “Freedom Now!” to “Black Power!” as the fabric of the traditional movement changes.
Two Societies (1965–1968): Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come north to help Chicago’s civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago’s powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising that lasts five days, leaving 43 people dead. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming “two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal.” President Lyndon Johnson, who appointed the commission, ignores the report.
Power! 1967–1968: The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain educational control of a Brooklyn school district but then lead them to a showdown with New York City’s teachers’ union.
Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964–1972): A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize black America. World heavyweight champion Cassius Clay challenges America to accept him as Muhammad Ali, a minister of Islam who refuses to fight in Vietnam. Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., fight to bring the growing black consciousness movement and their African heritage inside the walls of this prominent black institution. Black elected officials and community activists organize the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, in an attempt to create a unified black response to growing repression against the movement.
The Promised Land (1967–1968): Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People’s Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King’s death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.
A Nation of Law? (1968-1971): Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon’s call to “law and order,” stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York’s Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public’s attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.
The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980): In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.
Back to the Movement (1979-mid 1980s): Power and powerlessness. Miami’s black community — pummeled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment — explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city’s Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago’s first black mayor.
Librarians Who Changed History
Here is a list of 25 librarians who changed history for better and for worse from Laura Mulligan’s former OnlineBestColleges blog.
1. Ben Franklin: Ben Franklin didn’t sit behind a circulation desk and help college kids find research materials, but he is still a legitimate librarian. In 1731, Franklin and his philosophy group Junto organized the “Articles of Agreement,” which set up the nation’s first library. Their library, called The Library Company, was first meant to benefit only the members of Junto, so that they could share books on the issues they discussed during meetings. It was organized as a subscription library, and members of Junto payed a small fee to retrieve books.
Franklin was actually the second librarian, and the Company grew to include more books than most university libraries at the time, plus artifacts like coins and fossils. Over time, The Library Company granted access to members of the Second Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention and others.
2. Melvil Dewey: Founder of the Dewey Decimal System, Melvil Dewey was born in New York in 1851. While a student at Amherst College, he worked in the school library to support his living expenses and stayed on as a librarian after graduation. After experimenting with different cataloging and organization methods for library collections, Amherst College published his work A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library. Dewey has been named the “Father of Modern Librarianship” and even helped created the American Library Association in 1876.
3. Eratosthenes: The Greek scholar Eratosthenes discovered the system of latitude and longitude and made significant contributions to astronomy. Eratosthenes was also the chief librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria.
4. Saint Lawrence: As one of the patron saints of librarians, Saint Lawrence, or Lawrence of Rome, was a Catholic deacon who was killed by the Romans in 258 for refusing to turn over the collection of Christian treasures and documents he was entrusted to protect.
5. Mao Zedong: Mao Zedong, the man responsible for uniting China during the 1940s and 50s when he organized the People’s Republic of China, was a librarian. In 1918, Mao lived in Peking China as a young man, he was as assistant librarian at Peking University. The chief librarian at Peking University was a Marxist, and succeeded in converting Mao to communism.
6. Seyd Mohammad Khatami: Seyd Mohammad Khatami was the fifth president of Iran and a former Iran Minister of Culture. He is also a former head of the National Library and Archives Organisation of Iran. He is considered to be a reformist in Iranian culture and politics, supporting freedom of expression and foreign diplomacy.
7. Golda Meir: Golda Meir was the fourth prime minister of Israel, from 1969-1974. She was also one of the twenty-four who signed the Israeli declaration of independence in 1948; am ambassador to the Soviet Union; Minister of Labour from 1949-1956, and the inspiration for the Broadway play Golda, which starred Anne Bancroft. Before her distinguished political career, however, Golda Meir worked as a librarian.
8. J. Edgar Hoover: As the legendary director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover led domestic investigations from 1924-1972, as head of the Bureau of Investigation and when he founded the FBI in 1935. In his early life, however, Hoover went to night school at George Washington University and supported himself by working at the Library of Congress. There, he was a messenger, cataloguer and clerk. In 1919, Hoover left the Library of Congress and worked as a special assistant to the Attorney General.
9. John J. Beckley: John J. Beckley is recognized as being the first political campaign manager in the U.S. He was also the first Librarian of the United States Congress, serving from 1802-1807. In 1789, he was sponsored by James Madison to be the Clerk of the House and supported the new Republic party in 1792, backed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
10. Giacomo Casanova: The infamous spy, writer, diplomat and lover Casanova was born in Venice during the first half of the 18th century. Although he studied to become a priest at the University of Padua and the seminary of St. Cypria, Casanova is well-known for being a drinker and for having scandalous love affairs with numerous women. Later in life, he worked as a librarian for the Count of Waldstein in Dux, Bohemia.
11. Pope Pius XI, or Achille Ratti: Pope Pius XI served from 1929 -1939, during which time he established the feast of Christ the King and spoke out against social justice crimes and unethical financial corruption practices. Before he became pope, Ratti was a librarian and scholar, and at the Vatican, Pope Pius XI famously reorganized the archives.
12. David Hume: Scotsman David Hume contributed greatly to 18th century philosophy and economics, writing important works like Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and A Treatise on Human Nature. He was an anti-Mercantilist, and according to The New School, Hume “was also one of the better articulators of the Quantity Theory and the neutrality of money.” In 1752, Hume became a librarian at the Advocate’s Library in Edinburgh, where he wrote his famous History of England.
13. Marcel Duchamp: Marcel Duchamp is considered to be one of the most significant and influential modern artists of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp was born in the Haute-Normandie region in France, where he took drawing and painting classes as a child. In the early 1900s, Duchamp experimented with Cubism, nude works, and was active in the intellectual and artistic groups influencing the newest culture and trends in Paris at the time. Around 1912, Duchamp became tired of painting and worked as a librarian at the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genvieve, during which he devoted his time to math and physics experiments.
14. Lewis Carroll: The author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll’s real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Dodgson grew up in Cheshire and Yorkshire, England, and after graduating from Oxford with a B.A. in mathematics, he became a sub-librarian at Christ Church there. He left that position in 1857 to become a Mathematical Lecturer. Dodgson first told the story of Alice Adventures in Wonderland to the three daughters of the Dean of Christ Church, in 1862. The book was published three years later and continues to be a popular and significant work of fiction today.
15. Beverly Cleary: Popular children’s book author Beverly Cleary wrote the Ramona Quimby books and Henry Higgins books and has received three Newbery Medals. But before she became a celebrated author, Beverly grew up in a tiny town in Oregon, where her mother asked the State Library to send books to their farm. During the Depression, Beverly went to junior college in California and later attended the University of California at Berkeley. She then attended the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle, and became a children’s librarian.
16. Laura Bush: Former First Lady Laura Bush earned her Master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin after working as an elementary school teacher. As the First Lady of Texas, she supported George W. Bush’s campaigns and started her own public projects regarding education and literacy. When George W. Bush became President of the United States, Laura supported librarian recruitment initiatives and toured many libraries around the world.
17. Madeleine L’Engle: American author Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is still a popular book among junior high students and almost like a rite of passage for young fiction readers. She has won multiple Newbery Medals and other awards, but later in life, she served as the librarian and writer-in-residence at Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
18. Marcel Proust: At once one of the most celebrated and obscure novelists and critics of all time, Marcel Proust once decided to go to school to become a librarian. The French writer was born in 1871, and his most famous work, In Search of Lost Time is still studied today.
19. Jorge Luis Borges: Jorge Luis Borges is an Argentine writer who made significant contributions to fantasy literature in the 20th century. He shared the International Publishers’ Formentor Prize with Samuel Beckett and was a municipal librarian from 1939-1946 in Argentina, before getting fired by the Peron regime. One of his most famous short stories, “The Library of Babel,” depicts the universe as a huge library.
20. Joanna Cole: Joanna Cole’s The Magic School Bus series has served to educate and entertain elementary-aged children about the human body, space, and more. She has also worked as a librarian, a schoolteacher, book editor and writer/producer of the BBC children’s TV show Bod.
21. Jacob Grimm: Grimms’ Fairy Tales was first published in 1812, but the stories, including “Hansel and Gretel,” “Cinderella,” and “Snow White,” are still classic children’s stories constantly reinvented as plays, Disney movies and more. Jacob Grimm worked as a librarian in Kasel, after graduating with a law degree. During this time, Jacob and his brother Wilhelm collected German folk tales from ordinary citizens in hopes of uniting area kingdoms on the basis of sharing a similar culture.
22. Philip Larkin: English poet Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry. He began publishing poems in 1940 and was even offered the Poet Laureateship of England after the death of Sir John Betjeman, but he declined. Besides writing poetry and novels, Larkin worked as an assistant librarian at the University College of Leicester, a librarian at the University of Hull and was elected to the Board of the British Library in 1984, the same year he received an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford.
23. Stanley Kunitz: Stanley Kunitz is a celebrated American poet who was named the United States Poet Laureate in 2000. He has also been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Levinson Prize, the National Medal of the Arts, and more. Before being named the U.S. Poet Laureate, Kunitz was Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress from 1974-1976.
24. Jessamyn West: Jessamyn West is taking information science into the future with her website, librarian.net. Besides creating the Library 2.0 and “cool librarian” site, West served on the American Library Association Council and strongly promotes the freedom of speech and expression.
25. Nancy Pearl: Nancy Pearl is kind of like a celebrity librarian. She has an action figure and travels around the country giving lectures and spreading the good news of books. She started the trend of city-wide book clubs when she organized the “If All of Seattle Read the Same Book,” program in 1998. She also has a Women’s National Book Association Award, served as Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book, and wrote an immensely popular, best-selling book called Book Lust.
New Streaming Video Collection Available
Psychotherapy.net, a psychology-focused streaming video collection, is now available through the UI&U Library.
Psychotherapy.net “contains a plethora of resources that address the fundamental skills and approaches required for those beginning or advancing in a career in psychology-related professions. Many of these titles are clinical demonstrations with voiceover commentary. The collection is searchable by keyword, expert, therapeutic issue, and client population. The platform includes web tools: clip making, interactive running transcripts, a smart keyword search, and downloadable instructor’s manuals.” — Source: Psychotherapy.net
You can access Psychotherapy.net from the Videos link on the Library website. Records from Psychotherapy.net will also appear in your results when searching OneSearch.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a time to learn more about this resource, please contact a librarian.
Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2016
Locating Qualitative Research
Exam Time by Sofia GK (Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Locating qualitative research studies can be a challenge because the methodology is not usually indexed. However, using the right keywords can help you locate the research articles you need.
Here is a list of recommended keywords to include in your search:
Concept Suggested Keywords
Qualitative qualitative
Action Research “action research”
Case Study “case stud*”
Ethnographic ethnograph*
interview*
“semi-structured interview*”
“unstructured interview*”
Mixed Method
multimethod*
“multi method*”
“mixed method*”
“multistrategy research”
Phenomenology phenomenol*
quasi-experimental
pretest OR posttest
Date: Thu, Dec 08, 2016
Today we honor the Americans who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Every day we benefit from their service, so today, let us appreciate their sacrifice. Here are a few of their stories archived at StoryCorps:
Listen to additional veteran stories (select Veterans Stories under the collections tab) or explore the UI&U Library’s veteran resources: Videos (search for veterans) * Ebooks * Career & Job Hunt Ebooks
Union Institute & University will be celebrating our Veterans throughout the week by providing lunch at the Joseph House for Homeless Veterans and bringing cookies to Veteran partner organizations throughout the week. Stay informed on the Veterans Week Celebrations, via our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2016
Nurturing Leadership Video
Nurturing Leadership
Are leaders born, or made? This video shows that while certain personality traits may influence leadership abilities, there are also leadership qualities that can be learned and nurtured. Business leaders, politicians, coaches and others share their perceptions of what it takes to be a leader, relating to viewers that observing certain principles and adopting admirable behaviors can help develop leadership attributes. Integrity, honesty, dependability and the belief in an organization’s core values are showcased, along with the elements necessary to create a culture of excellence. A basic definition of leadership as the action of leading a group of people toward a common goal is the preface to the importance of creating a vision of the future—the true mark of a leader. Listening, teamwork, motivation and the ability to engage others in a cause are also presented as leadership qualities. Many modern-day or historical capsules of leadership bring to life the concept of developing the traits to become a leader. -publisher’s description
Proofreading Papers and Email with Text-to-Speech
The Microsoft Office 2010 Speak (text-to-speech) feature can be used to proofread papers in MS Word and emails in MS Outlook.
Add the Speak Icon (one time)
1) Open MS Word or Outlook
2) In the top, left-hand corner you will see several icons. Usually a save icon, undo/redo icons, and a black arrow pointing down, which is the Customize Quick Access Toolbar button.
3) Go to: Customize Quick Access Toolbar button > More Commands > Change default “Popular Commands” to “All Commands”
4) Scroll down and highlight the “Speak” option
5) Click “Add >>”
6) Click “OK” to return to the document
Use the Speak Button
1) Highlight the text you want read aloud or use the keyboard shortcut Control+A to highlight the entire document
2) Click the Speak button on the Quick Toolbar
To view a demonstration of the Speak tool, please watch the view below.
Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2016
New JSTOR Database
The UI&U Library is pleased to announce that a new database has been added to our collection, JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII. JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII complements research in subjects such as history, political science, sociology, art and art history, and language and literature. Over 15 countries are represented in its collection of international titles.
You can access the full text of this database collection from the JSTOR link on our Databases page or via OneSearch. The collection currently includes more than 744,000 total articles and 4.9 million pages. You can view a complete title and coverage list on the JSTOR website.
DOAJ: Free Articles for Life
The development of open-access journals has been one of the most exciting developments in academic scholarship during the last two decades. Open-access journals are free publications that are available to everyone without hindrance of subscription fees, logins, contracts, or other barriers. They provide universal access to research and knowledge.
Access to this journal content has been facilitated by the development of open access databases, most notably the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Maintained by the Infrastructure Services for Open Access, the database provides access to over 2 million journal articles from countries throughout the world. This is a multidisciplinary database with coverage in the arts, biology, business, environmental sciences, medicine, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and the social sciences. All journals are also peer-review or have editorial quality control, making DOAJ an excellent resource high quality, current research.
The Directory of Open Access Journals can be accessed from the databases link on the library homepage.
6 Ways the Library Helps You
The UI&U Librarians are committed to helping you succeed in your academic program. We know that juggling life as an adult student is a challenge, and we have compiled a list of ways we can make things easier. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you are struggling to use the library or find the resources you need. We are happy to help and will work around your schedule.
Contact a librarian by email (library@myunion.edu) or phone (513-487-1487).
Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2016
Career & Job Hunt Videos
Whether you are looking for a job or just polishing your professional skills, the library can help. The library’s multimedia collection includes over 400 Career & Job Search Videos in the Films on Demand database. Use the right column to narrow video results to one of the following areas: career exploration, career fields, job search skills, and job success skills.
At First Sight: The Shirl Jennings Story
“Sight is an amazing gift, and one which most of us learn from infancy, starting after birth when our eyes learn to focus. Through infancy, toddler years, and on into school years, our brains are trained to remember objects by how they look. The blind cannot do this. They use tactile sensations to identify and relate to everything.
When Shirl’s sight was restored, the visual overload was almost devastating. He had no idea what he was looking at and the task of learning it all was emotionally and mentally challenging, as well as a huge physical burden.
Barbara Jennings, Shirl’s wife, was determined that he could adjust to a life with sight and navigated unchartered waters to teach him everything – colors, alphabet, numerals, household objects, types of buildings and structural materials, trees and shurbs, animals, roads, railroads, airplanes, bridges, tunnels…the list was endless. There was always more for Shirl to learn.”- from atfirstsighthebook.com
Shirl Jennings creating art, courtesy of Barbara Jennings
The story of Barbara Jennings, a graduate of UI&U’s M.A. Psych program, and her late husband Shirl may be familiar to some of you, as their life story was given a glossy Hollywood adaptation in 1999 via the film At First Sight, starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino. But as with any life story, perhaps the best narrator is the one who has lived it; in this case, Shirl himself, who, alongside Barbara and Margery Phelps, created At First Sight, the Shirl Jennings Story: The story behind the MGM motion picture, which is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Aside from the book, Barbara has preserved her husband’s inspiring legacy by posting his gorgeous artwork on the At First Sight website. There is a great deal of beauty in the couple’s story and in the work Shirl created, and we hope that you will take the time to experience it for yourself.
Sun and Rays by Shirl Jennings, courtesy of atfirstsighthebook.com
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Date: Tue, Jul 19, 2016
10 Ways the Library Transforms your Academic Journey
Dear Students:
It’s National Library Week and this year’s theme is Libraries Transform. During this week of celebration, we want to share with you 10 ways the library can transform your academic journey.
1. Vast resources
Our library offers a growing collection of 150+ research databases, containing over 60,000 journals, 250,000 e-books, and millions of theses and dissertations from universities worldwide. Start searching here.
2. Trusted research
The library provides access to academic, scholarly resources that offer accurate information to support your research.
3. Personal service
We provide quality, friendly service. Our librarians are available to meet with you individually, and are willing to work around your busy schedule. Librarian assistance is available by email (library@myunion.edu) and phone (513-487-1487). Schedule your appointment today.
4. Work from the convenience of home
The library offers students flexibility and convenience that is only a click away. You don’t have to find a parking space, or physically search for books.
5. Citations made easy
Working with the APA or MLA citation styles? Our databases have citation tools that will automatically format citations for your bibliography.
6. Stay current
Librarians can help you identify the top journals in your field. With database journal alerts, new journal issues will be delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up today.
7. Interlibrary loan
Need a book or article that is not in the library? Place an interlibrary loan request and we will get it from another library for free!
8. Career & job search
Looking for a job or polishing your professional skills? The library has hundreds of resources that offer the knowledge and tools to help you on your search.
Don’t go it alone. Facing a daunting paper? Librarians are ready to help you think it through and find the sources you need to ace your assignment. Let’s start that project together.
10: Just for fun
We think research is fun. To help you improve your research skills and have fun, we developed a treasure hunt with six clues hidden throughout the library website.
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Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2016
Whether you are looking for a job or just polishing your professional skills, the library has hundreds of resources that offer the knowledge and tools that you are looking for. The links below are shortcuts to some of the resources that you need to succeed:
Ebooks: the library’s ebook collection covers many areas, such as: job searching, resume & cover letters, interviewing, business etiquette, communication, and more.
Career Transitions is an online career guidance center that will walk you through the job-search process from beginning to end. It offers a complete, personalized and guided experience from assessing strengths and interests, to exploring new opportunities, to ultimately improving the chances of landing a job. -Publisher’s Description, edited
In addition to these resources be sure to take advantage of UI&U Career Services. Services include career counseling appointments, resume and cover letter assistance, practice interviews, additional career resources, assessments and more! Get in touch with your career counselor at CareerServices@myunion.edu / 800.486.3116 X 2170 or visit us on CampusWeb.
This year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Black History Month! It was nationally recognized in the United States of America in 1976, but the seeds of inspiration were sown as early as 1915, by Carter G. Woodson, who began what is now called The Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
Giles B. Jackson (September 10, 1853– August 13, 1924), elycefeliz (CC BY 2.0)
The UI&U Library has many books about many aspects of African-American history, including the civil rights movement. Please peruse the sample titles in the carousel below…we have many more, and if you need any assistance finding anything in OneSearch, please feel free to contact a librarian right away!
If you have a moment, you may want to check out this playlist of TED Talks celebrating Black History Month as well.
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Google Like an Expert
Do you love Google? Interested in learning Google tricks? This HackCollege infographic includes search operators, keyboard shortcuts*, and other strategies for becoming a Google expert!
* Substitute the Control button for the Command button if you are using keyboard shortcuts in Windows.
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King
Powerful words inspire people to action, and Dr. Martin Luther King was a consummate speaker and speechwriter. As we celebrate and remember the work of Martin Luther King on Monday the 18th, consider taking a few moments to listen to his “I Have a Dream” speech, and his “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” address at the website: American Rhetoric.
While you’re there, check out some of the other Top 100 Speeches.
Robert F. Kennedy’s Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King.
Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “We Shall Overcome” speech
Barbara Jordan’s Keynote Address at the 1976 Democratic National Convention
The library will be closed on Monday the 18th in observance of the 87th birthday Martin Luther King, Jr. This marks the 30th year that this holiday has been celebrated.
M.L. King Mural 6058 Courtesy of Vince Mig
Foxtrot Wikipedia Comic
For your enjoyment, here is Wikipedia Comic by Foxtrot author Bill Amend. To find more fun Foxtrot comics, please visit Foxtrot.com! When your done, watch the video below to learn about the ways you CAN use Wikipedia as part of the research process.
© Bill Amend. Foxtrot Comics. Used with permission.
Using Wikipedia for Academic Research by Michael Baird (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Immigration? Gun Control? Read both sides.
U.S. opinion is highly polarized on a number of different political and social issues. These opinions are often based on a person’s individual biases without having been researched thoroughly, or many factors having been taken into consideration. Critical thinking and civil political discourse, however, demand that we actively explore and consider alternative perspectives.
Whether you are researching a topic out of personal interest, or required to include an opposing perspective in an academic paper, the UI&U Library’s Opposing Viewpoints in Context database can help you find the information necessary to provide a sound basis for the perspective that you are investigating. The database includes topic pages on a variety of issues such as gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage, capital punishment, nuclear energy, immigration, and more. Each topic page includes opposing viewpoints, reference materials, historical background information, journal articles, and statistics that you can use to begin your research.
Protest Against “Race Mixing” and U.S. Marshals Escort Bridges
The Opposing Viewpoints database can be accessed from the UI&U Library’s all databases page (go to: library homepage > databases link > scroll to the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database).
Predatory Publishers
Are you planning on publishing? Then you should be aware that not all academic publishers are reputable. One helpful tool in avoiding shady publishers is Beall’s List. Jeffrey Beall is a University of Colorado Librarian who maintains a list of “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.”
Here is Beall’s List of publishers to avoid.
To find reputable open access journals in your field, search the Directory of Open Access Journals.
The week of September 27 through October 3rd is the 31st Annual Banned Books Week! Since 1982, the American Library Association has been celebrating books that challenge our thinking. Join the UI&U Library in celebrating the freedom to read!
Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association
It’s part of our 1st amendment right to publish and have access to all types of material–not just the content that everyone agrees with. The decision to decide what material you read is up to YOU, not the government, not the library, not any other institution.
Did you know that in 2014, there were 426 book challenges issued across the country? And that’s just the challenges that were reported! Like many social injustices, many more incidents of banning occur without ever being reported. Even worse, people may choose to self-censor–not even put the book in a situation where outsiders might complain about it.
To explore more, check out the American Library Association’s timeline of banned books or their book challenges infographic.
ALA Infographic about 2014 Book Challenges
Make this your Best Term Yet
Would you like to become a better presenter? Better at organizing your time? Interested in finally mastering APA citations? The UI&U Library has many handbooks, videos, and other resources that can help make this your best term yet!
SUCCESS AS AN ONLINE STUDENT
Success as an online student: Strategies for effective learning by Fandl & Smith (ebook, 2014)
Online education for dummies by Johnson and Manning (ebook, 2009)
TEDTalks: Why we do what we do, and how we can do it better (video, 22 min., 2006)
Researching, reading, and writing (video, 12 minutes, 2009)
TEDTalks: 5ways to listen better by Treasure (video, 8 minutes, 2011)
Active listening: Improve your ability to listen and lead by Hoppe (ebook, 34-pages, 2006)
Brilliant public speaking (video, 60 minutes, 2010)
How to give a pretty good presentation: A speaking survival guide for the rest of us by Walker (ebook, 2010)
READING & REASONING
Active reading: Comprehension and rate (video, 11 min)
Reading, writing, and reasoning: A guide for students by Fairbairn & Winch (e-book)
Assumptions: Critical thinking (video, 26 min., 2009)
Credibility: Critical thinking (video, 39 min., 2009)
PLAGIARISM & CITATION
Plagiarism 2.0: Information ethics in the digital age (video, 21 min., 1997)
TEDEd: The punishable perils of plagiarism on TEDEd by D’Annunzio (video & lesson, 2013)
Ethical behaviour in the e-classroom: What the online student needs to know by Smith (ebook, 2013)
TEST TAKING
Test-taking strategies by Kesselman-Turkel & Peterson (e-book, 2004)
This Is a test…this Is only a test: Test-taking techniques (video, 30 min., 1992) *dated, but good suggestions
ORGANIZATION & TIME MANAGEMENT
Time management (video, 17 min., 1995) *dated, but good suggestions
Assignment calendar (video, 2 min., 1992)
Ten steps of writing for results (video, 4 min., 1991)
Good grammar for students by H. Jackson (e-book, 2005)
The craft of research (3rd ed.) by Booth, Colomb, & Williams (e-book, 2008)
Information literacy: The perils of online research (video, 21:37 min., 2006)
Copyright Self-Assessment Game for Faculty
Confused about copyright? Interested in learning more about the copyright-safe images, videos, and other resources available for your courses? The library’s Copyright for Online Courses page explains many of the complex issues surrounding copyright. These issues often pose a challenge for dedicated instructors who want to make their courses interesting using multimedia resources. We designed the page with the busy professor in mind. It focuses on the most common issues and questions that can occur in the online course environment.
The copyright page now includes a faculty self-assessment with 14 questions and a drag & drop game faculty can use to sharpen their knowledge about copyright. Enjoy!
Stay Up-to-Date with Library RSS
UI&U Librarians strive to provide interesting news announcements every week. During the past year, we highlighted: research tips, citation tools, new ebooks and videos, and much more. Although you can always view news announcements on the library homepage, you can now have them delivered directly to your inbox.
If you use an RSS feed reader like Outlook or feedly.com, you can add the UI&U Library news using this address: http://library.myunion.edu/feed
Add the UI&U Library RSS feed to Outlook*:
1. In MS Outlook, click the File tab.
2. Click Account Settings, and then click Account Settings.
3. On the RSS Feeds tab, click New.
4. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type http://library.myunion.edu/feed
5. Click Add.
* Instructions (in modified form) from MS Outlook support
Career Handbooks for Veterans
The library collection includes career handbooks for veterans, including several e-books we just purchased. The complete list can be viewed below.
Photo Credit: US Marine Corps by U.S. Department of Agriculture
Military-to-Civilian Career Transition Guide: The Essential Job Search Handbook for Service Members by Farley
While you’re interviewing for jobs, you’ll need to compare your job offers and choose the one that’s best for you and your family. Worksheets and advice in this book help point you in the right direction. And after you land that job, you can use this book’s advice to help you adjust to the civilian world of work. –Publisher Description
Expert Resumes for Military-to-Civilian Transitions by Enelow & Kursmark
Expert Resumes for Military-to-Civilian Transitions is a collection of superior professionally written resumes aimed at service members who are leaving the military and looking for a civilian job. This book gives resume strategies as well as 180 pages of sample resumes specifically written for people making the leap back into the private sector. –Publisher Description
Wounded Warrior Handbook: A Resource Guide for Returning Veterans by Philpot & Hill
The typical wounded soldier must complete and file twenty-two forms after an active-duty injury. To soldiers and their families coping with the shock and reality of the injuries, figuring out what to do next—even completing tasks that seem easy like submitting paperwork—can be overwhelming and confusing. The second edition of this popular resource guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect new policies, additional benefits, updated procedures, and changes to insurance, including traumatic injury insurance and social security disability insurance. New chapters cover veterans’ benefits in depth—which have seen significant changes in the last two years—and returning to active duty after an injury. –Publisher Description
Down Range: A Transitioning Veteran’s Career Guide to Life’s Next Phase by Murphy
Written by veterans who have successfully made the transition, Down Range offers career planning guidance to U.S. military veterans coming off active duty. This is NOT simply a guide to transitioning from the military to the civilian world. This is NOT a guide to getting a job. This book IS a guide to developing a post-military career, not just for the first few days, weeks, or months after active duty, but for the rest of your employed life. –Publisher Description
Hire Tactics by Stein & Wood
Things have changed, times have changed, and times are tough – especially if you’re a military veteran seeking employment in today’s economy. This essential guide is designed to help you succeed in your civilian job search. Written by a career military officer and a career expert, The Hire Tactics introduces a methodology that includes innovative tools that go far beyond the traditional resume and cover letter. You will learn how to define your value in civilian terms and employ the strategies and tactics necessary to differentiate yourself from the competition and successfully complete your job search mission. –Publisher Description
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John Legend dotes on piano-playing 1-year-old daughter
By: Patricia Jones AXS Contributor Dec 10, 2017
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John Legend has made a career out of entertaining audiences with his skillful piano playing and soulful singing. Now, it seems the R&B singer may have passed along his musical genes to his 1-year-old daughter, Luna. At his LVE Collection wine tasting, Legend spoke with Entertainment Tonight about parenting with pregnant wife Chrissy Teigen and watching his daughter come into her own.
He told ET that his hope is that Luna and her future sibling will follow their dreams and whatever they’re passionate about. The “All of Me” singer admitted that he’s excited to watch her discover new things and explore different interests, especially when they’re in his wheelhouse.
Legend said, “I love when Luna plays around with the piano, and I love when she plays with her little toy microphone that my friend bought her for her birthday. I get excited when it looks like she's following in my footsteps.”
In addition to raising a future Soul singer, the Grammy winner has been busy this year having toured over the summer on his “Darkness and Light” tour, announcing the arrival of a new baby, and recently hosting a tasting of his LVE Collection wines. The LVE Collection was created by Legend in partnership with Raymond Vineyards and the Boisset Collection. The wines have already received great reviews from Wine Spectator and Wine Enthusiast, in addition to the chardonnay winning a Wine & Culture award from the latter.
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Corn And Ethanol Producers Upset With Trump Admin
By Joshua Haiar • Oct 17, 2019
South Dakota corn growers and ethanol producers are frustrated that the Trump administration has rolled back the promise of an ethanol deal that was made earlier this month. The deal would have increased the demand for renewable fuels.
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a federal program that requires transportation fuel sold in the United States to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuels (ethanol). RFS sets the amount of ethanol that refiners must blend.
SD Corn Growers Welcome Trump Announcement
By Chris Laughery • Oct 7, 2019
SDCGA
In The Moment ... October 7, 2019 Show 674 Hour 2
The South Dakota Corn Growers Association welcomed President Donald Trump's announcement last week that he is directing the Environmental Protection Agency to follow the law and maintain the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Lisa Richardson, Executive Director of the South Dakota Corn Growers Association, talks about the changes and what this means for corn growers and ethanol producers in the state.
Proposed Renewable Fuel Standards Could Threaten SD Ethanol Industry
By David Scott • Aug 13, 2019
Kealey Bultena / SDPB
The Renewable Fuel Standard is a federal program authorized in 2005 requiring fuel sold in the United States to contain a certain amount of renewable fuel. A waiver program was put in place to help small refineries disproportionately affected by these programs. Some South Dakota corn producers say recent expansion of the waiver program under the Trump administration is having a negative impact on the state’s ag industry.
Scott Stahl is the Vice President of South Dakota Corn Growers. He says South Dakota has benefited from the renewable fuel industry.
Dusty Johnson Introduces FEEDD Act to Congress
By David Scott • Jun 18, 2019
The office of Dusty Johnson
Wet weather threatens regional corn and soybean production and the state’s livestock producers are concerned about providing feed for their cattle.
South Dakota’s Congressional Representative Dusty Johnson has introduced the FEEDD Act, a bill allowing farmers to harvest cover crops, used to hold soil in place, earlier in the year.
Johnson says plant prevention insurance claims are made when farmers are prevented from planting crops and they are expected to plant a cover crop on the unutilized acres.
South Dakota Corn Sets Two New Records
By Levi Gutz • Jan 17, 2017
South Dakota Corn Growers Association
South Dakota corn producers saw another record-breaking year in 2016. Officials say a combination of timely weather and planning led to the success.
South Dakota produced over 825 million bushels of corn in 2016 according to a US Department of Agriculture report. This is up 3% from last year’s production. It’s the second year in a row South Dakota has broken production and yield-per-acre records for multiple crops.
South Dakota soybeans reached over 255 million bushels for the year. This is a 9% increase from 2015 paired with a record 49 bushel per acre.
EPA Boosts Ethanol Market
By Levi Gutz • Dec 1, 2016
The Environmental Protection Agency is renewing efforts to give ethanol a bigger market. South Dakota officials see this as an opportunity for producers.
The EPA is requiring over 19 billion gallons of renewable fuels to be blended with gasoline by 2017. 15 billion of those gallons are corn based ethanol. The new resolution is actually the same as the EPA’s 2007 goal.
Ag Leaders Testify In Support Of Freight Rail Reform Law
By Erin Mairose • Aug 11, 2016
Erin Mairose
Some South Dakota Agriculture industry leaders say federal reforms are increasing the efficiency and transparency of the railroad system. They say the 2015 reforms help streamline rail freight regulations.
U.S. Senator John Thune held a hearing in Sioux Falls August 11th to listen to area businesses leaders and board members.
State leaders in Ag all voiced support of U.S. Senator John Thune’s Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2015.
Heat Wave Could Hurt Corn Yield
By Allie Knofczynski • Jul 19, 2016
Extension experts warn some of the state’s corn crop could fall victim to the hot, dry weather this week. The crop is now in a stage of pollination. Officials say excessive heat at this point in the season can affect corn yield for the year.
Agriculture experts worry the current drought and heat wave conditions in the state are not good for the corn crop. Jonathan Kleinjan is a crop production associate at SDSU.
“Heat in itself is not necessarily a big problem, it’s when you’re hot and dry at the same time," says Kleinjan.
Minimal Crop Damage from Cold Temps Expected
By Karl Gehrke • Sep 15, 2014
According to the latest report from the United State's Department of Agriculture, the nation’s corn and soybean farmers are expected to harvest record yields this year. Despite that strong forecast, there have been concerns that the recent, early cold weather in South Dakota could have a negative impact on the local harvest. State climatologist Dennis Todey joined Dakota Midday and said that even though a cool summer has delayed the maturation of the state's corn, the cold temperatures likely caused minimal damage.
Legacy of Corn Palace Continues
By Karl Gehrke • Jul 23, 2014
Mitchell Corn Palace
When Mitchell’s first Corn Palace was built in 1892, it was only one of at least 34 grain palaces in the Midwest from the 1880s to the 1930s. The current Mitchell Corn Palace was built in 1921 and it’s the only one of the “prairie palaces” that’s survived. The familiar Moorish-style minarets and turrets were added to the building’s roof in 1937 to recreate the look of the earlier corn palaces.
Researchers Continue to Expand Corn Potential
SDSU Extension
When farmers first arrived in Dakota Territory, they assumed the growing season was too short for corn and it was planted as a sod crop. But an agronomist writing in a 1909 report said that men who once scoffed are now buying South Dakota farms on which they expect to grow corn. That year, farmers in the state planted over two million acres of corn with a harvest of 65 million bushels.
Corn: Food, Fuel, And The Future
Although the first image that comes to mind when thinking of corn is a freshly buttered ear, most corn doesn’t make it to the dinner table. Whole-kernel sweet corn is only about one-percent of the crop. The rest of it is field corn. Some is processed for food ingredients, but it’s primarily used as livestock feed and ethanol.As demand for renewable fuel has grown in recent years, South Dakota has emerged as the fifth largest ethanol producing state with over a dozen biofuel plants.
Farming Conditions For South Dakotans
By Nathan Puhl • Jun 11, 2013
According to Laura Edwards, SDSU Extension Climate Field Specialist, "The state's soil moisture profile has benefited from the recent rains over the last two weeks, even though there have been some heavy events that generate a lot of runoff. The outlook shows potential for warmer conditions to return on the two-week timeframe as high pressure builds over the Plains, but we are wondering an active pattern on the north side of the state.
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breakout capability
Bibi’s Eleven Bogus Arguments on Iran
Published March 2, 2015 by Lara Friedman 3 Comments
by Lara Friedman On March 3, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress, where he is expected to make the case against a nuclear deal with Iran, at least a deal that could result from… Continue Reading
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IAEA Report Shows Iran Reduced Its Breakout Capacity
Published September 1, 2012 by Gareth Porter
via IPS News The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report made public Thursday reveals that Iran has actually reduced the amount of 20-percent enriched uranium available for any possible “breakout” to weapons grade enrichment over the last three months rather… Continue Reading
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CFR/IISS Book: War With Iran Would be “A Mistake”
Published November 23, 2010 by Ali Gharib 3 Comments
Steven Simon, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Dana Allin, Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs at the International Institute of Strategic Studies, just came out with a new book called The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel,… Continue Reading
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Iran’s envoy to IAEA: Nuke bombs would be a ‘strategic mistake’
Published November 1, 2010 by Ali Gharib
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s envoy to the United Nations’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, told a press conference that an Iranian nuclear bomb would be a “strategic mistake” and create a “disadvantageous situation” for Iran. Many Western governments insist… Continue Reading
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Hayden: Iran Breakout capability ‘worse than detonation’
Published October 28, 2010 by Ali Gharib 2 Comments
Former CIA chief Michael Hayden told a Washington think tank a few weeks back that Iran was not seeking to build a nuclear weapon, but merely acquire a so-called breakout capability — a nuclear program advanced enough that a bomb could… Continue Reading
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Title 4. Conservation and Natural Resources
Agency 15. Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Chapter 350. Fish: Gigs, Grab Hooks, Trotlines, Snares, Etc
4VAC15-350-10. Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; generally.
Except as otherwise provided by local legislation and with the specific exceptions provided in the sections appearing in this chapter, it shall be unlawful to take or attempt to take fish at any time by snagging, grabbing, snaring, and gigging; with a striking iron; and with the use of SCUBA (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) gear.
§§ 29.1-103, 29.1-501, and 29.1-502 of the Code of Virginia.
Derived from VR325-03-4 § 1, eff. July 1, 1970; amended, Virginia Register Volume 27, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2011.
4VAC15-350-20. Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; certain counties east of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
It shall be lawful to take nongame fish (daily creel (possession) and length limits for nongame fish are found in 4VAC15-320-25) at any time by snagging, grabbing, snaring, gigging, and with a striking iron in all waters of the following counties, except public impoundments, the Roanoke (Staunton) and Dan rivers, the James River in Goochland County and those waters stocked by the department: Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Campbell, Charlotte, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Goochland, Greensville, Halifax, Louisa, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Pittsylvania and Prince Edward.
Derived from VR325-03-4 § 2, eff. July 1, 1979; amended Virginia Register Volume 24, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2008.
4VAC15-350-30. Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; certain counties west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Except as otherwise provided by local legislation, it shall be lawful to take nongame fish (daily creel (possession) and length limits for nongame fish are found in 4VAC15-320-25) in the daytime by snagging, grabbing, snaring, gigging, and with a striking iron from April 1 through May 15, both dates inclusive, and October 1 through November 30, both dates inclusive, in the following waters: Buchanan County, all waters except Dismal River; Grayson County, New River; Lee County, Powell River; Russell County, Clinch River; Scott County, Clinch River and its tributaries; Tazewell County, Dry Run Creek; Washington County, Middle and South Forks of the Holston River; Wise County, Clinch River. The bag limit for taking suckers or red horse provided for in this section shall be 20 per day.
§§ 29.1-103, 29.1-501 and 29.1-502 of the Code of Virginia.
Derived from VR325-03-4 § 3, eff. July 1, 1988; amended, Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 5, eff. January 1, 2003; Volume 24, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2008.
4VAC15-350-40. Fish: Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; Wolf and Big Walker's creeks in Giles County.
It shall be lawful to fish in the waters of Wolf and Big Walker's creeks from the New River in Giles County to the Bland County line for carp and suckers during the month of April each year by the use of line and grab hook containing not more than three barbs.
§§ 29.1-501 and 29.1-502 of the Code of Virginia.
Derived from VR325-03-4 § 4.
4VAC15-350-50. Gigs, grab hooks, etc.; Walker's Creek, Wolf Creek and north fork of Holston River in Bland County.
In Bland County it shall be lawful to take carp and suckers at any time from the waters of Walker's Creek, Wolf Creek (except that section stocked with trout) and the north fork of the Holston River by use of grab hook with not more than three barbs.
4VAC15-350-60. Trotlines, juglines, or set poles.
A. Generally. Except as otherwise provided by local legislation and by subsections B and C of this section, and except on waters stocked with trout and within 600 feet of any dam, it shall be lawful to use trotlines, juglines (single hook, including one treble hook, and line attached to a float), or set poles for the purpose of taking nongame fish (daily creel (possession) and length limits for nongame fish are found in 4VAC15-320-25) and snapping turtles (limits for snapping turtles are found in 4VAC15-360-10), provided that no live bait is used. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, live bait other than game fish may be used on trotlines to take catfish in the Clinch River in the Counties of Russell, Scott, and Wise. Any person setting or in possession of a trotline, jugline, or set pole shall have it clearly marked by permanent means with his name, address, and telephone number, and is required to check all lines at least once each day, remove all fish and animals caught, and remove all lines when not in use. This requirement shall not apply to landowners on private ponds, nor to a bona fide tenant or lessee on private ponds within the bounds of land rented or leased, nor to anyone transporting any such device from its place of purchase.
B. Quantico Marine Reservation. It shall be unlawful to fish with trotlines in any waters within the confines of Quantico Marine Reservation.
C. Additional jugline requirements. Jugline sets (except as exempt under subsection A of this section) shall be restricted to 20 per angler and must be attended (within sight) by anglers at all times. Also, in addition to being labeled with the angler's name, address, and telephone number, jugs shall also be labeled with a reflective marker that encircles the jugs to allow for visibility at night.
Derived from VR325-03-4 § 6, eff. January 1, 1992; amended, Virginia Register Volume 13, Issue 5, eff. January 1, 1997; Volume 24, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2008; Volume 27, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2011; Volume 31, Issue 9, eff. January 1, 2015.
4VAC15-350-70. Taking of fish with bow and arrow or crossbow.
A. Season. Except as otherwise provided by local legislation or as posted, it shall be lawful to take common carp, northern snakehead, goldfish, and gar from the public inland waters of the Commonwealth, grass carp from public inland waters of the Commonwealth except department-owned or department-controlled lakes, and bowfin and catfish from below the fall line in tidal rivers of the Chesapeake Bay, except waters stocked with trout, by means of bow and arrow or crossbow.
B. Poison arrows or explosive-head arrows prohibited. It shall be unlawful to use poison arrows or arrows with explosive heads at any time for the purpose of taking common carp, grass carp, northern snakehead, bowfin, catfish, goldfish, or gar in the public inland waters of the Commonwealth.
C. Fishing license required. All persons taking fish in the manner described in this section shall be required to have a regular fishing license.
D. Creel limits. The creel limits for common carp, grass carp, northern snakehead, goldfish, and catfish shall be unlimited, provided that any angler taking northern snakehead immediately kill such fish and notify the department, as soon as practicable, of such actions and provided that any angler taking grass carp ensure that harvested fish are dead. The creel limit for bowfin and longnose gar shall be five fish per day.
Derived from VR325-03-4 § 7, eff. July 1, 1981; amended, Virginia Register Volume 13, Issue 5, eff. January 1, 1997; Volume 24, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2008; Volume 29, Issue 9, eff. January 1, 2013; Volume 33, Issue 10, eff. January 1, 2017; Volume 35, Issue 2, eff. January 1, 2019.
4VAC15-350-80. (Repealed.)
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Marking 100 years of women within the law
Posted byDominick Rios March 15, 2019 Leave a comment on Marking 100 years of women within the law
Last 12 months we celebrated ‘Vote a hundred,’ the anniversary of the primary ladies having the right to vote in parliamentary elections inside the UK and Ireland. Statues had been raised to the leaders of the suffrage movement – Millicent Fawcett in London, Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester. This year marks every other crucial centenary: a hundred years seeing that women’s access into the felony career. The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 allowed women to turn out to be solicitors, barristers, magistrates, and jurors for the primary time. It also enabled girls to enter different professions, such as accountancy and admitted girls to the higher ranks of the local carrier.
The act begins promisingly: ‘A man or woman shall now not be disqualified with the aid of intercourse or marriage from the workout of any public function, or from being appointed to or conserving any civil or judicial post, or from coming into or assuming or wearing on any civil career or vocation.’ It has now not been well remembered. This is because it eliminated barriers, instead of actively giving girls rights, so its impact was restricted. Women have been still hampered using limitations including the bar on married girls operating in many professions. The act additionally had provisos which averted women from coming into the overseas and diplomatic carrier and allowed judges to rent all-male juries. But how did it come to skip at all as early as 1919? It turned into handiest a 12 months because of the partial ladies’ franchise. The conflict had barely ended, with the peace settlement ongoing, trouble in Ireland, returning squaddies – there were many different political priorities. The 1919 act turned into a central authority bill delivered to kill off a more radical Labour celebration non-public member’s invoice. The Women’s Emancipation Bill might have not only allowed girls into the professions but additionally given girls the vote on equal terms as men and enabled women to sit down inside the Lords. All these problems have been left top notch after 1918, while the Representation of the People Act 1918 had given the vote to girls over 30 who met a minimum assets qualification. The Women’s Emancipation Bill handed the Commons however became killed off within the Lords. It turned into just too radical for the Conservative-dominated coalition government. The equal franchise needed to wait until 1928 and women could not sit down inside the Lords till 1958.
However, the access of girls into the professions was no longer so debatable through 1919. This turned into thanks to campaigning women in many previous years including Bertha Cave’s unsuccessful software to Gray’s Inn in 1903. Suffragette chief Christabel Pankhurst (pictured, center) had a regulation diploma however was not able to training; she famously defended herself and other suffragettes in a courtroom in 1908 following their arrest for setting up a ‘rush’ on Parliament and referred to as cabinet ministers as witnesses. The campaign for girls to go into the legal career culminated in the 1914 check case of Bebb v The Law Society, where it becomes discovered that girls couldn’t emerge as solicitors as they’d by no means been solicitors, and regulation in parliament turned into had to change this case. Supporters of Gwyneth Bebb and her fellow campaigners took up the cause in parliament, which include her legal suggest Lord Buckmaster in the Lords and Lord Robert Cecil in the Commons. Progress changed into initially gradual, with opposition to ladies’ suffrage still strong and conflict ongoing. However, after some women got the vote in 1918, the manner turned into clear to transport forward on other problems regarding girls’ rights, and in 1919 a Barristers and Solicitors (Qualification of Women) Bill surpassed thru the Lords with nearly no opposition. It changed into rendered pointless through the passage of the wider Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act. At the time Lord Buckmaster reassured the House that: ‘Nobody thinks that this bill goes to flood the legal profession with girls. It will enable some ladies, who’re specifically certified, to earn an honorable residing.’ The trouble of ladies in the professions changed into additionally discussed inside the Commons at some stage in the passage of the Women’s Emancipation Bill, wherein MPs from all events supported the idea of girls inside the law, many arguing they might bring a brand new perspective, especially inside the magistrates’ court docket. Coalition MP Captain Loseby, a schoolmaster and barrister, talked about his six ‘shabby genteel’ sisters who had the options handiest of being governesses, nurses or schoolmistresses, which have been honorable, however ‘underpaid, overworked and unwell-fed professions… all different avenues have been closed’. Parliamentary debate suggests a sea change in attitudes when you consider that 1914. Although no longer as radical as a few was hoping, the 1919 act was enormous. Previously girls had no function in courtroom apart from as defendants or witnesses; now they could argue instances, preside from the bench or weigh up proof in the jury box. The manner was open for Ada Summers to end up the first justice of the peace; for Carrie Morrison, Ivy Williams, Helena Normanton and other pioneers to go into the prison profession; and for ladies everywhere to serve on juries. The 1919 act became a prime leap forward. We have to consider and rejoice it 100 years on.
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OUR SAY: Don't give up on your dreams of a great job
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30th Apr 2018 5:00 AM
IT WAS inspiring to speak to Rex Peters last week and see his determination to find work.
The high unemployment rate in our region speaks for itself.
It's challenging to find work, even if you have a great resume and many skills.
Lots of people are applying for the same jobs and it doesn't make it easy.
But Mr Peters' story made it clear to me that if you are determined and persistent it will pay off, even if takes time.
He was prepared to stand out on the road with a 'work wanted' sign every morning until he found work.
He had found himself in a situation many would dread.
Having just bought his first house, Mr Peters found himself out of work and living on his savings.
It's a situation any one of us could find ourselves in.
I wonder how many of us would have the gumption to stand by the road and put ourselves out there every day like Mr Peters did, though.
He should be tremendously proud of himself and his courage.
Now he has found himself another job, which he will start today, which will allow him to hold on to his home.
To other jobseekers out there who are still looking, don't lose hope.
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Foxtel is an Australian pay television company, operating cable, direct broadcast satellite television and IPTV services. It was formed in 1995 through a joint venture established between News Corp (FOX) and Telstra (TEL). They employ 2,000 staff at Macquarie Park.
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Industry: Television
Staff: 2,000
Address: 5 Thomas Holt Drive, North Ryde NSW 2113
Ph: 131 999
Website: www.foxtel.com.au/
Foxtel is one of Australia’s most progressive and dynamic media companies, directly employing around 2,500 people, and delivering a diverse subscription television service to both regional and metropolitan areas over cable, satellite and broadband distribution.
We offer a better entertainment experience every day to each one of our 2.5 million subscribing homes through delivery of exclusive and inspiring programming across all genres, the world’s most popular channel brands, and investment in high quality local content.
As constant champions of innovation we have brought our customers:
The iQ personal video recorder
Australia’s largest HD channel offering, with 26 dedicated channels
FOX FOOTY Channel – for true AFL fans
The LONDON 2012 Olympic Games over 8 dedicated HD channels, plus a tablet app
Live and catch up TV on your tablet or other mobile device with Foxtel Go
Flexible access with our internet TV service Foxtel Play
In addition, the subscription television sector invests around $700 million every year in new and original Australian content.
Since creating a new national subscription television service, through the merging of Foxtel and Austar in 2012, Foxtel directly employs around 2,500 people and a further 2,000 workers are indirectly engaged in sales and installation services nationally.
The Foxtel Television Centre at North Ryde in Sydney is the headquarters of Foxtel's national subscription television operations and houses Foxtel’s television studios, broadcast operations and cable and satellite transmission facilities. Foxtel also operates two Customer Solutions Centres based at Moonee Ponds in Melbourne, and Robina on the Gold Coast.
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Are Tariff Worries Cutting into Business Investment?
"Nobody's model does a very good job of how uncertainty and hits to confidence affect behavior," says Deutsche Bank's Peter Hooper in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Count us as sympathetic to his viewpoint.
That's one reason why a few of us at the Atlanta Fed created a national survey of firms in collaboration with Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) elicits information about each firm's expectations and uncertainty regarding its own future capital expenditures, sales growth, employment, and costs.
A pressing issue at the moment is whether, and how, firms are reassessing their capital investment plans in light of recent tariff hikes and fears of more to come. By raising input costs, domestic tariff hikes undercut the business case for some investments. They can raise domestic investment in newly protected industries. Retaliatory tariff hikes by trading partners can also affect domestic investment by curtailing the demand for U.S. exports. An uncertain outlook for trade policy can cause firms in all industries to delay investments while they wait to see how trade policy disputes unfold.
Last month's SBU (previously known as our Survey of Business Executives) sheds some light on these matters. We first posed a simple question: "Have the recently announced tariff hikes or concerns about retaliation caused your firm to reassess its capital expenditure plans?" Yes, said about one-fifth of our respondents.
As exhibit 1 shows, the share of firms reassessing their capital plans because of tariff worries is higher for goods-producing firms than service-providers. It's 30 percent for manufacturers and 28 percent in retail & wholesale trade, transportation and warehousing. In contrast, it's only 14 percent among all service providers in our sample. These sectoral patterns make sense, given that manufacturing firms, for example, are more engaged in international commerce than most service providers.
We also asked firms how they are reassessing their capital expenditure plans in light of tariff worries. Exhibit 2 provides information on this issue. Among firms reassessing, 67 percent have placed some of their previously planned capital expenditures for 2018–19 "under review," 31 percent have "postponed" or "dropped" previously planned expenditures, 14 percent have "accelerated" their plans, and 2 percent (one firm) added new capital expenditures for 2018–19.
Finally, we asked firms how much tariff worries affect their previously planned capital expenditures. Among firms re-assessing, an average 60 percent of their capital expenditure plans are affected. The predominant form of reassessment is placing previously planned capital expenditures "under review."
Let's sum up: About one-fifth of firms in the July 2018 SBU say they are reassessing capital expenditure plans in light of tariff worries. Among this one-fifth, firms have reassessed an average 60 percent of capital expenditures previously planned for 2018–19. The main form of reassessment thus far is to place previously planned capital expenditures under review. Only 6 percent of the firms in our full sample report cutting or deferring previously planned capital expenditures in reaction to tariff worries. These findings suggest that tariff worries have had only a small negative effect on U.S. business investment to date.
Still, there are sound reasons for concern. First, 30 percent of manufacturing firms report reassessing capital expenditure plans because of tariff worries, and manufacturing is highly capital intensive. So the investment effects of trade policy frictions are concentrated in a sector that accounts for much of business investment. Second, 12 percent of the firms in our full sample report that they have placed previously planned capital expenditures under review. Third, trade policy tensions between the United States and China have only escalated since our survey went to field. The negative effects of tariff worries on U.S. business investment could easily grow.
By David Altig, executive vice president and research director in the Atlanta Fed's Research Department,
Nick Bloom, the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University,
Steven J. Davis, the William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics at the Chicago Booth School of Business and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Brent Meyer, a policy adviser and economist in the Atlanta Fed's Research Department, and
Nick Parker, the Atlanta Fed's director of surveys
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Windows 8 is now available
by Major Nelson • Oct 26, 2012 @ 8:12am
Today is a big day for everyone here at Microsoft, as Windows 8 and Surface is now available. If you haven’t had a chance to play around with Windows 8 yet, you should check out the Windows blog on what to expect. If you are an Xbox 360 owners will be using Windows 8 you have a lot of great stuff in store for you and I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few of them. Xbox is being delivered as the premium entertainment experience on Windows 8, with four Windows 8-style apps launching today: Xbox Games, Xbox Video, Xbox Music and Xbox SmartGlass. Xbox Games, Xbox Video and Xbox Music are preinstalled and the default experiences on Windows 8 and Xbox SmartGlass is available now as a free download in the Windows Store.
These apps will be available today on Windows 8 tablets and PCs and will become available on Windows Phone 8 when it ships.
Xbox SmartGlass
The power of companion scenarios come to life in new ways with Xbox SmartGlass, a new free Xbox app which enables your PC, tablet and phone to connect to your Xbox console in an intelligent way. Use your tablet to launch and navigate a movie on your TV and get rich details on the cast, crew and storyline. Pull the movie back to your tablet to finish watching it on the go. Use your phone or tablet as another great remote, and easily navigate your entertainment and menus by simple flicks, gestures and pinch and zoom.
Xbox Music is the ultimate all-in-one music service, and features free streaming music on Windows 8* and Windows RT devices, as well as the ability to buy songs and albums**, an Xbox Music Pass**, artist-based radio via Smart DJ, plus comprehensive discovery from one of the world’s largest music catalogs. It’s a brand-new service, built from the ground up to meet all your music needs across your tablet, PC, phone and TV. Xbox Music is one of three pre-installed Xbox apps in Windows 8.
With Xbox Video, you can browse and search the latest blockbuster movies and last night’s episode of your favorite TV shows, with more than 150,000 movies and TV shows available globally. You can buy a TV episode and rent or buy the movie of your choice. In addition to having access to the latest movies and TV shows, you can also see your videos in your local collection and play them back in a touch-optimized playback experience on your Windows 8 PC or tablet.
Back in August, I posted the list of the first wave of games coming in Windows 8. With Xbox on Windows 8, we created easy entry points into the types of entertainment that you’ll enjoy, including games. The Games app prominently features your Avatar, profile, friends and Gamerscore and allows you to explore your friends’ avatars, compare gamer stats and browse any of the top panels including Spotlight, Games Activity, Windows Games and Xbox Game Marketplace. Through these panels, learn about new games for your Windows 8 PC or tablet, or purchase digital Xbox 360 games and queue them to download on the console. The Games Activity Panel includes all of the games you own, with Xbox LIVE titles played on the console, phone and Windows to help you easily find games with Achievements, leaderboards and a connection to your friends on the Xbox LIVE service.
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*On Oct. 26, Xbox Music offers free streaming music on Windows 8 and Windows RT in: France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Spain, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Portugal, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S.
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Devghat is a town and village in Tanahu District in the Gandaki Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5786 people living in 1132 individual households.
The town is located at the junction of the Seti Gandaki and Krishna Gandaki rivers, and is one of the holiest places in Hindu mythology as well as a holy place for Hindu gods. Lying 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city of Narayangarh, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from Sauraha and 150 kilometres (93 mi) southwest of the capital Kathmandu, the area boasts many natural features due to its geography and climate including tropical forests, wild animals and birds.
Bus service is available from the Pokhara bus station in Narayangarh city while private taxis and cars can be hired in the city.
Devghat is home to various temples and caves of Hindu gods, goddesses, and saints including Goddess Sita’s cave, Bashistha Cave, Radha Krishna Temple, Harihara Temple, Galeshwor Temple, Sita Ram Temple, Laxmi Narayan Temple, Shankaracharya Temple, Bageshori Temple, Laxmi Narayan Divya Dham, Maula Kalika Temple, and Bishwa Shanti Dharmashala among others. Mahesh Sanyas, Hari Hara, Sharana Gati, Galeshwor, Radha Sarbeshwor Bhajan and Yogi Narahari Nath are ashrams where various religious activities are performed all year round. In Makar Sankranti, huge melas (gatherings) are observed each year making it one of the largest religious melas in Nepal. The date when this festival started remains unknown. Hindu pilgrims bathe at the junction of the Krishna Gandaki river well known for its rare ‘Saligram Sheela (holy stone), which Hindu devotees worship as Lord Vishnu.
Because of the historic “Panchadeval” both at Chakrawati complex in Tanahun part of Devghat and Bageshwori in Chitwan part of Devghat; there has been growing demand in local and national level to be listed in the World Heritage sites of UNESCO. Local peoples has increasing awareness to protect historic biodiversity and Saal forest in this area
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A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age
1. What book in this field has inspired you the most?
Gillian Darley’s marvellous cultural history of factories – Factory (Reaktion, 2004) gave me the starting point for my research. I was intrigued by a photograph in the book showing female employees at Cadbury in their garden at the factory in Bournville and wanted to know more. I found far more examples of factory gardens in Britain and the USA than I expected.
2. Did your research take you to any unexpected places?
Yes, Dayton, Ohio, which in the early 20th century was one of the leading industrial cities in the USA and is now one of most economically challenged cities in the USA. Also I went to Pullman, an industrial village near Chicago, now being gentrified, and the Hagley Research Library in Delaware which was astonishing in its scope, the beauty of its setting and the helpfulness of the staff.
4. What did you enjoy the most about writing your book?
Working with company archivists, particularly Jeff Opt and Curt Dalton at the National Cash Register Company archive at Dayton History and Sarah Foden, the Cadbury archivist at Bournville, near Birmingham.
5. What did you find hardest about writing your book?
Knowing when to stop re-writing and editing and be satisfied.
6. Is this your first published book, or have you had others published?
This is my first published book, although I have two book chapters. The first is about the American novelist Edith Wharton and her influential books on interior design and gardens, in Edith Wharton in Context (Edited by Laura Rattray Cambridge University Press. 2012). The second, in The Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Period (Bloomsbury, 2018) is a cultural history of furniture in public places in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
7. How did you feel when you saw your first published book?
Excited, proud and relieved!
8. Why did you choose to publish with MUP?
MUP has a strong reputation for high quality publishing in social and industrial history and art and design. I also heard over the academic grape vine that MUP has a good reputation for courteous treatment of authors. You have lived up to it, thank you!
9. Did you approach writing this book differently to any of your previous work?
I tried to write it to be accessible to a general audience as well as to academics.
10. Have you had time to think about your next research project yet? What are you working on now?
I am working with on a project called ‘The social landscape of industry’ starting with the High Wycombe furniture industry (working with High Wycombe Museum) and moving on to Stoke-on-Trent and south-west Birmingham. The project looks at the ways in which industries in ‘single- industry’ towns or regions shaped the local social life with their social welfare programmes, sports grounds and social centres.
A selection of fascinating images from inside the book, depicting corporate landscapes (click to enlarge),
The ‘Cadbury’s Angels’ resting in the Girls’ Grounds at Bournville, c. 1900. The girls reading a book reinforces the message of respectability and self-improvement in a high-status environment.
The girls’ Allotment Gardens near the Cadbury factory, Bournville, c.1910
Cadbury advertisement, early 1930s. Employees dressed for hygiene in the factory look down over the Men’s Recreation Ground from the roof of the Girls’ Grounds pavilion.
Dancing in the Girls’ Grounds at the Cadbury factory, 1920
A carefully composed photograph of tennis in the Girls’ Grounds at Cadbury, c.1910. Pavilions converted from the old stables of Bournbrook Hall overlook the court.
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The “right” $C^*$ algebraic proof of Bott Periodicity
In learning about the K-theory of $C^*$-algebras, I have encountered the following 3 proofs of Bott periodicity:
$\bullet$ An argument based on Moyal quantization found in "Elements of Noncommutative Geometry."
$\bullet$ An argument based on Toeplitz algebras in Murphy's book.
$\bullet$ A seemingly brute force (but elementary) argument in Rordam, Larsen and Laustsen's book where they prove a variety of density results about projections in matrix algebras.
Which of these proofs is the most "geometrical" in the sense that it has a nice geometric interpretation when we restrict our attention to commutative $C^*$-algebras? As a student interested in noncommutative topology and geometry, if I wanted to study one of these proofs in gory detail, which should it be?
If there are other proofs that are more geometrical or more essential for understanding the phenomenon of Bott periodicity, I would be happy to hear about those too.
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$\begingroup$ I would point any student to Max Karoubi's book. $\endgroup$ – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez May 24 '13 at 19:49
$\begingroup$ Certainly the arguments there would be the most geometrical. I guess I was hoping to see how "geometry" was present in a proof that worked for all $C^*$-algebras and not just topological spaces. $\endgroup$ – mkreisel May 24 '13 at 20:28
I opine that everyones favorite should be the proof using Toeplitz operators (as described in Higson-Roe); essentially due to Atiyah (in ''Bott periodicity and the index of elliptic operators''). In the commutative case, it is the cleanest and most memorable proof. It gives an explicit homotopy inverse to the Bott map as a map $\Omega U \to Z \times BU$ spaces). It is fairly elementary. It is directly linked to the Toeplitz index theorem (that relates the most elementary topological invariant, the winding number, to an index). The Toeplitz index theorem is, moreover, one of the building blocks of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. The proof can be generalized to the Real case. It sets the stage for Cuntz' proof of periodicity in $KK$-theory. There is one drawback that I am willing to take serious: there is, as far as I can see, no straightforward generalization to the Clifford-linear case.
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$\begingroup$ I would like to ask whether the proof presented in Higson-Roe can be used for Banach algebras instead of just $C^*$-algebras. In particular, I am wondering whether the part involving taking tensor products with the Toeplitz extension is still valid. $\endgroup$ – cyc Apr 14 '16 at 3:40
Probably the argument that you're looking for is based on the "Dirac / Dual Dirac" method. The idea is to exploit the product structure in KK-theory as much as possible - this makes the proof functorial in practically every possible way, and it suggests lots of generalizations (for instance, a variation on the argument can prove the Baum-Connes and analytic Novikov conjectures in a lot of cases). Here's the structure of the argument.
First, construct a "Dirac class" $\delta$ in the K-homology group $K^1(S\mathbb{C})$ and a "dual Dirac class" $\beta$ in the K-theory group $K_1(S\mathbb{C})$ ($S$ means suspension). The Dirac class is the K-homology class of the Dirac operator on $S^1$, or alternatively the K-homology class of the Toeplitz extension. The dual Dirac class is also known as the Bott class (because of it's role in this proof); it can be viewed as the K-theory class of the Clifford multiplication operator.
Second, prove that the map $K_0(\mathbb{C}) \to K_1(S\mathbb{C})$ given by multiplication by $\beta$ and the map $K_1(S\mathbb{C}) \to K_0(\mathbb{C})$ given by multiplication by $\delta$ are inverses and hence both are isomorphisms. This is a direct calculation, and it's really the meat of the proof. It can be reduced to the Toeplitz index theorem, for instance.
Third, simply observe that the map $K_0(A) \to K_1(SA)$ given by multiplication by $\beta$ is an isomorphism by naturality properties of K-theory products.
This is all worked out in a number of places; the expository paper "Group C*-algebras and K-theory" by Guentner and Higson or the textbook "Analytic K-homology" by Higson and Roe both provide this argument in some form, though both references demand some effort to get to the finish line. The first reference might be my favorite; as an added advantage, you'll learn the basics of E-theory along the way.
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$\begingroup$ Paul, are you claiming that $ \beta_{A}: {K_{0}}(A) \to {K_{1}}(S(A)) $’s being an isomorphism is an immediate abstract-nonsense consequence of the fact that both $ \beta_{\mathbb{C}}: {K_{0}}(\mathbb{C}) \to {K_{1}}(S(\mathbb{C})) $ and $ \delta_{\mathbb{C}}: {K_{1}}(S(\mathbb{C})) \to {K_{0}}(\mathbb{C}) $ are isomorphisms? I have an open question that is related to what you are saying here. $\endgroup$ – user36116 Jan 30 '14 at 2:36
There's a proof using the Heisenberg group due to Elliott, Natsume, and Nest (The Heisenberg group and K-theory, K-theory 7 (1993), 409-428). But I like the proof in Wegge-Olsen's book, which is based on the original commutative proof by Atiyah.
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Written By Jason 2020-01-06T14:00:00Z
Over the last couple of years there has been a noticeable progression in quality search results from Google's Image Search site. A decade ago one could be guaranteed to find what they were looking for within five to ten minutes. Five years ago a person might need about 15. Last year, after the most recent changes to the filters were released, the site became much more difficult to use. Today, it's just a presentation layer for two dozen stock photo sites that have invested heavily into tagging every picture in their catalogue with as many nouns and adjectives as they possibly can. 123rf, Alamy, iStockPhoto, Shutterstock and DreamsTime have completely SEO'd the heck out of their offerings, rendering Google's search mechanism ultimately useless; a modern-day AltaVista.
Some of the features I miss include being able to specify a minimum resolution. "Large" is typically anything but, as I generally seek resolutions that exceed 4000 pixels wide wherever possible. I'll scale the image down myself, but why settle for lower quality up front? The newer, simpler filters for location and source and age are also woefully inadequate for the task they're being asked to handle, which is terribly disappointing. There are options, of course, from Yahoo! to Bing to Flickr to Getty1, but none are quite as versatile as the old Google Image Search was.
This seems to be the standard with a lot of great websites, though. The tools start out far more powerful than anything else, then slowly degrade and stagnate to the point where it no longer makes sense to use them. It could be time for a whole bunch of hungry entrepreneurs to come up from the bottom and offer something new and interesting. We saw this in the late 90s and early 2000s when the big companies lost ground to Google, Amazon, Apple, and the like. Organisations become sluggish after two decades.
Getty Images is generally a great place for professional photos that will be used in print materials or something that will be seen by clients. I use them from time to time for personal and professional projects.
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WHO calls emergency meeting on yellow fever outbreak
The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting Thursday on the yellow fever outbreak that has hit hardest in Angola but risks spreading further if vaccinations are not ramped up.
Such meetings from the UN agency are often held before the declaration of an international health emergency, as happened amid the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and the current surge in neurological disorders linked to the spread of Zika virus in the Americas.
WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic told AFP the meeting had been called to underscore the severity of the yellow fever outbreak and to re-emphasise the need for mass vaccination against the viral disease.
As of May 12, Angola had reported 2,267 suspected yellow fever cases and 293 deaths in an outbreak that began in December and is most heavily concentrated in the capital Luanda.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has registered 44 suspected cases, both from a local outbreak and from patients who carried the virus from neighbouring Angola.
Eleven people have tested positive for yellow fever in China after returning from Angola, highlighting "the risk of international spread through non-immunised travellers," WHO has said.
Several cases have also been reported in Uganda.
The percentage of people immunised against yellow fever remains low in many parts of Africa, even though the vaccine is nearly 100 percent effective and relatively cheap.
WHO has sent 11.7 million doses to Angola and there are plans to vaccinate 2.2 million people in DR Congo.
WHO has pledged to beef up its emergency response systems after widespread criticism following the Ebola outbreak, with many experts saying it took the UN body far too long to sound a global alarm.
WHO: Yellow fever outbreak kills 178 in Angola
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The Strong, National Museum of Play
Posted on September 19, 2013 by Matthew Tyler-Jones
Before last week’s Decoding the Digital conference, I visited the National Museum of play at the Strong. There are a number of Strong endowed institutions in Rochester, including the university Hospital, but unlike the city’s other famous sons and benefactors, George Eastman of Kodak fame, and the Xerox corporation, none of the locals seemed to know who the Strong family was or how they made their money. In contrast to the technological marvels of photography and xerography, the Margaret Woodbury Strong fortune, it turns out, came from the manufacture of whips! Buggy-whips to be precise. Margaret’s family wisely invested some of their whip money in Kodak too, so their fortune grew with that company. She was a keen collector of dolls, who donated her collection, and an endowment, to create the museum.
Margaret Strong’s collection and money endowed the museum
The Strong actually now contains five institutions (or as they call them, play partners): the National Museum of Play; the National Toy Hall of Fame; the International Center for the History of Electronic Games; the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play; and, the American Journal of Play.
Downstairs the museum mostly resembles the Discovery Centres that grew around the world after (if I recall correctly) the creation of first in Boston: all sorts of opportunities for children from birth to 12(ish) to learn through play, and some handy interpretive panels for parents and other grown-ups to explain just how brilliant learning through play is.
A panel about play
These spaces included a recreation of Sesame Street, but my favorite gallery was the one inspired by comic books, which explored the history of superhero comics, told the stories of some of the classic super-heroes, and offered play experiences based on the theme. The super hero gallery also displayed some of the museum’s collection of classic comic books.
Part of the comic heroes gallery
I actually remember buying and reading this issue of Iron Man
But most of the collection-based displays were upstairs, away from the ludo-didactic spaces on the ground floor. The Toy all of Fame has been selecting toys annually since 1998. All the toys your expect are there: Lego, the Slinky, etc, but some of my favourite exhibits celebrate the play potential of the such brilliant inventions as “the stick” and “the card-board box.”
The Stick – in the Toy Hall of Fame (with marshmallows in a supporting role)
There’s a big gallery of games, exploring the history of boardgames of all sorts, and including table-top role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons too. Its funny to see the D&D Basic Set which I remember saving up for, excitedly buying, then being perplexed by, behind the glass of a display cabinet.
Part of the Role-Playing Games display
But I must admit I spend most time in the video games exhibit, which was not just a collection of vitrines containing historical items from the very first computer game console, SpaceWar and the “brown box” that was the prototype for Pong all the way up to the iPhone (or rather, not an actual iPhone but a label asking “How will the iPhone change video games?” which usefully dates the completion of this gallery to late 2007, early 2008). There was also plenty of video game arcade consoles and pin-ball machine to play, and a machine that sold you five tokens for a dollar.
So I happily played the brilliant Star Wars game, which I remember only ever seeing once on holiday in the US with my parents, in which you control your vector graphics X-wing to defeat a bunch of Tie-fighters and make a run on the Death Star tench to try and hit that infamous exhaust port. Back in Nevada when i was 11, I only had one chance to play that, and lost my last life in the trench. Finally the museum allowed me to have another go and this time, a little bit more experienced with playing video games, I managed to target the exhaust port on my second run and blow up the Death Star. Huzzah! I also managed to get on the high score table on Tempest, another vector graphics game I’d enjoyed in my youth.
Tempest, that’s me at number 4! (Of course they do get reset every day)
Margaret Strong’s own collection of dolls and toys (or at least those bits of it that didn’t appear in other themed galleries) was relegated to a rather dismal gallery about as far from the entrance as it was possible to be. But there was a lovely little space nearby exploring the cold war, entitled “When Barbie Married GI Joe.”
Those were the highlights, but there’s plenty more. Well worth a visit for anybody interested in play.
Oh, one more thing. Just inside the entrance, the museum cafe, is a recreated “diner.” My pre-visit googling had revealed that a local culinary “speciality” is the Garbage Plate (or, as the outlet that invented it rigorously protects its trademark, just Plate in most eateries). The diner at the museum offers one, and it was lunchtime, so I ordered a Plate consisting of “white hots”, saute potatoes, macaroni salad, onions and hot sauce.
A “plate” aka “Garbage Plate” is a Rochester speciality
My advice?
Don’t.
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Talk: House of Mogh
Someone want to tell me why the house is still called the House of Mogh even though Mogh has been dead for years? In most other cases, the house is named for its current head (the "House of Quark" is an apt, if ironic example).
Since Worf is apparently the senior surviving member of his house, shouldn't it be called the "House of Worf"?
Perhaps it's due the rather unusual circumstances around Mogh's death and Worf's subsequent Human upbringing. With Worf absent, and Kurn in cognito, there was no one left of the House of Mogh to whom the house could be attached. It would seem likely that the Klingons would have a ritual for "changing of the guard". They have one for everything else!
But the question is largely academic now since the House of Mogh (or Worf) is no more. Kurn joined the House of Noggra, and Worf and Alexander joined the House of Martok. -Andrew6-01-05 16:18 PDT
The House of Duras never became the House of Toral, either. Daibhid C 14:30, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Crest/medallion Edit
This article would be much more complete if it had a picture of the crest of the house of Mogh. It is typically seen on Worf's baldric, until replaced by that of the house of Martok. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.186.14.6 (talk).
Discovery season 1? Edit
Is it me, or is the Klingon woman that now bears the House of Mogh crest actually the same member of the High Council as one of the unidentified ones in DIS: "Battle at the Binary Stars". The guy on her right seems to be this one too. JagoAndLitefoot (talk) 05:04, February 2, 2019 (UTC)
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Man who removed his condom during sex with prostitute has been jailed for rape
Georgia DiebeliusWednesday 24 Apr 2019 12:19 pm
He was arrested on suspicion of rape the next day and forensic tests taken from the complainant matched Hogben’s DNA to a probability of one in a billion (Picture: BNPS)
A man has been jailed for 12 years for raping a sex worker by taking off a condom during intercourse.
Lee Hogben, 35, ignored his victim as she told him ‘I don’t do that – please no’ and threatened her when she tried to wriggle free.
He contacted his victim online through an adult work website where she specifically said clients must wear protection.
They met at the Royal Bath Hotel in his hometown Bournemouth, Dorset, on January 19 last year after agreeing a price for two hours – she never received the money.
Prosecutor Jodie Mittell said Hogben threatened the sex worker with violence when she resisted him.
The court heard the victim advertised her services on an adult work website. She specifically indicated online that all her clients must use protection when with her (Picture: BNPS)
She said: ‘Hogben went beyond what was consented to by removing the protection, which the complainant will say was a condition of intercourse.
‘She repeatedly protested, “I don’t do that – please, no”. She tried to wriggle away but he told her to stop. He told her he had beaten people up and robbed people.’
The victim eventually left the hotel, told police and Hogben was arrested the following day before being linked to the rape from DNA.
As he was sentenced after a trial he threatened to shoot judge Stephen Climie telling him ‘I’m coming for you. You’ll get a shotgun in the face at night.’
The victim told Bournemouth Crown Court that she had considered self-harm as a result of the rape.
Lee Hogben, 35, ignored his female victim’s repeated objections and carried on having unprotected sex with her in a hotel room at the Royal Bath Hotel (Picture: BNPS)
Hogden, who has a string of convictions for harassment and driving offences, was convicted of rape and two counts of assault.
He admitted threatening to destroy property, disclosing private photographs, breaching a restraining order and making a malicious communication in relation to another woman.
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Nick Robinson, mitigating, said the offences occurred when Hogben was in a ‘heightened emotional state’.
The defendant suffered years of sexual abuse while in care.
He said: ‘His coping mechanism is driving, violence, abuse and talking to people the way he talks about himself and to himself.’
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Rewards are given by the [[King]] as a gift to active hunters. The [[Hunter]] must enter a gift code (also known as a [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]]) in order to receive the '''King's Reward''' and continue playing. This prevents players from being able to use automated software that will cause a player to blow the [[Hunter's Horn]] even though the user is not actually playing actively.
King's Reward requires a Hunter to enter a 5- or 6-digit alphanumeric code to redeem the reward. While the reward is active and the code has yet to be entered.
King's Reward requires a Hunter to enter a 5- or 6-digit alphanumeric code to redeem the reward.
After entering the correct code, hunters receive gift of [[Gold]] from the [[King]]. The amount received is a random value taken from a range based on the Hunter's [[Hunter's Title|Rank]], with increasingly valuable average rewards. As the range gradually increases, it is occasionally possible to find a lower ranked player receiving better rewards.
Rewards are given by the King as a gift to active hunters. The Hunter must enter a gift code (also known as a CAPTCHA) in order to receive the King's Reward and continue playing. This prevents players from being able to use automated software that will cause a player to blow the Hunter's Horn even though the user is not actually playing actively.
After entering the correct code, hunters receive gift of Gold from the King. The amount received is a random value taken from a range based on the Hunter's Rank, with increasingly valuable average rewards. As the range gradually increases, it is occasionally possible to find a lower ranked player receiving better rewards.
It has been observed that the more tries a hunter takes to claim the king's reward, the lower the reward will be. However the reward value will gradually increase back to normal with more successful first-time attempts.
The reward occurs at random times. While a King's Reward is pending, a hunter cannot be taken on hunts by friends in his hunting group. However, hourly trap checks will continue. Once the hunter is inactive for a longer period of time, the reward timer is reset. The reset occurs regardless whether the King's Reward is currently pending or not. This keeps players from having to clear the code each time they log in.
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Mic McCreadie
Peaks and Troughs (of Love)
April 5, 2016 April 5, 2016 micmcc4752
Through last week there were a series of peaks and troughs and all relating to love. The peaks were events of happiness that were a privilege and honour to be invited to share. The troughs were the saddening effects of love and loss; of losing a love. It began with a trough when my darling wife Chrissie and I heard the devastating news that a dear friend, a kind, caring and considerate woman had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and might have only weeks left in this life. This devastating news was made all the more tragic because diagnosis had taken so long that the dear lady had now become much too weak to be considered safe for urgent and radical surgery. I was angered and appalled to think that cuts in the Health Care Budget had perhaps now forced G.P.s to carefully consider the costs involved when ordering tests such as X-Rays or M.R.I. Scans. Perhaps due to this financial consideration the illness had been allowed to develop into a much more malevolent form and the lady had become weaker and weaker due to her inability to take sufficient nourishment. Her husband with whom she has shared over 60 years of marriage was to lose his loving partner, to be left to cope without the one person he so clearly cherished and loved and there had not been nearly enough time to accept and prepare for this catastrophe even though the family were magnificent in their efforts to support them both. My wife, Chrissie, and I were of course determined to help in any way we could but how could we ever address the deep pain and suffering that was to be his and hers in the days ahead?
Then a few days later there came a peak when an dear old friend ‘way down St Just, announced she and her long term loving partner were getting married later in the year. Would I be the Entertainments Manager for this event, and sort musicians who could add their special magic to the proceedings? Yes indeed I could and I felt that this was a pleasure, a privilege and an honour to be selected as a chap who had the abilities not to say experience to manage such an event. Plus there was that life affirming declaration of love intrinsic and integral to the life-long commitment in the marriage ceremony. Nice, and it brought a warming rush of happiness to my work day. I began to ask around all the likely musical candidates while we waited for confirmation of the times and dates.
Later that same day this warming glow of happiness was quietly snuffed out when my dear wife Chrissie and I attended a funeral. The ceremony was for a beautiful, loving young woman, a mother of two young children and the soul mate of her husband, who had succumbed to another devastating illness. This all the more tragic because she’d suffered through the distressing effects of treatments and gained two remissions in her illness only for the tumours to return and take her away from her family and friends. It was harrowing to witness the tears and pain of the young children, to hear the hurt and grief in the eulogies spoken with such sincerity, from friends and her deeply grieving husband. His courage to stand before the congregation and to do right by his dearly beloved wife was heart warming, uplifting even but it was also so very, very tragic and sad. The service itself was uncomplicated and easy and the atmosphere of love and the loss so evident in gathered mourners was almost palpable. The young wife was interred in a wicker coffin, in the dunes behind the church in a graveyard overlooking the sea and beach she loved so well and the town she’d loved and lived in. A beautiful spot certainly, enhanced too with the copious family flowers, but occupied much too early . . .
Next day a contrasting peak at the wedding reception for my friends Chris Symons (nee Harden) and Alan Symons, or Al as he’s usually known.
Two fine people, both musicians, who found love at the most unlikeliest times of their lives. Alan perhaps resigned to a solitary life and Chris scanning new horizons and opportunities. They met at rehearsals with the musical group Poachers Moon up in Dorset where Chris was living with her two daughters Heather and Briony, and with a mutual, and passionate, interest in music they found these common factors brought them ever closer. Work led to laughter, laughter led to love and things just clicked as they sometimes do, into a fairy tale romance and a bunch of dreams came true.
They were married on Saturday 02nd April in the church at Paul and held a wedding reception in the Station House pub at Marazion in the company of friends and family and where Heather and Briony made such beautiful bridesmaids too! It was a privilege and an honour to be invited to take part in their celebrations and my wife Chrissie and I give thanks to all from our glad hearts.
We wished them both the very best of everything for their mutual futures, that they’d share a fantastic, long and luxurious honeymoon away up in the mountain glens and lochs of the majestic Scottish Highlands but also urged them to: “Hurry back – won’t you? There’s a lot of music to make and fun to be had in this developing year!“
From this happy occasion we made our way home via the hill top cemetery in the dunes to lay our flowers along with all the rest which were now carpeting the grave, beautiful, poignant and still. A sad and sobering reality . . .
Then . . .
The second occasion in which I felt privileged and honoured this week end was last night at the musical celebrations for my old friend Tony Franklin’s birthday.
This was held at The Punchbowl & Ladle, in Feock near Truro and I was truly surprised, but delighted, to be invited to host or M.C. the evening by Tony and Angela. Can’t think why they picked me but I suspect it was to divert any criticism or complaint away from themselves in case anything went awry, I was their (willing) sacrificial lamb or scapegoat I think. It didn’t matter anyway because the mood of the attendees was cheery, beery, happy and leery as is the case at most folk music events and I was not made aware of any complaints during the whole of the evening. There was a plethora of talents on display too. All the time served musicians, singers, poets, jig doll dancers were there in their numbers and all eager to honour the occasion with a performance. First up was Tony & Angela with Tony’s son David providing guitar accompaniment to Tony’s ukulele and Angela’s shakers. They soon had the room singing along with their rendition of “3 Little Birds” and that set the tenor of the night pretty well. John Langford aka The Fish, described as the King Folker, of the West Country scene (which description was rather hastily amended to Folker King) was on next and recited his latest poem before singing his own composition “Please Mr. St. Christopher” aided and abetted by myself and Adrian O’Reilly on guitars and harmony. We managed this in the key of ‘E’ but some time later John informed me he’d now remembered it was supposed to be sung in ‘G’ ! Thorn & Roses followed on and as usual gave a beautiful flavour to the evening’s festivities with their distinctive style and harmonies. I can’t remember the running order precisely because there was very little precision about it as some people arrived later than others and I had to juggle things to keep the light and shade, the flavours and the contrasts flowing smoothly (so I thought anyway!) I can tell you that, in no particular order, Kay Tanner sang “Can’t Help Loving That Man Of Mine” with style and panache. Tony Shaw overcame his recent hand surgery’s debilitation and sang as well as he ever did, even if he did feel his guitar playing wasn’t up to his own benchmark, no one else uttered complaint. I can state without exaggeration that Keith Marshall’s percussive skills awed the assembled audience and absolutely astonished me as he partnered the guitar genius of Pete Berryman. Di, stalwart of Dreamers Folk at Fourlanes (never say Di – she told me) sang us a fine song, Mike Smith brought us all into a rousing chorus with his version “Follow The Plough”. There was a break for a pasty supper and a chance for folk to catch up on news (and gossip no doubt) then an assembly of dancing dolls, all hand made by Tony Franklin were lined up to dance with music from Mike Smith and Mike O’Connor. This was to have been a photo opportunity too; it was hoped we could get one photo that would include all the dancing dolls and their owners but space prevented this and for this failure I do offer sincere apologies to both Tony and Angela: it was just impossible on this occasion. The second half was opened with a song from Robbie and Maureen Tatlow then Adrian O’Reilly and I were well received as we performed my own composition “Over There”. Nigel Morson gave us an hilarious Les Barker monologue and performed this with beautifully impeccable timing too. Mike Kessell brought us back to that well known and loved traditional resource with an old Scottish song, his son Toby had the place open mouthed in sheer admiration and maybe sheer disbelief as he skilfully manoeuvred his fingers around his accordion keys and had the place in an uproar of accord and appreciation (accordion to my mind anyway!) Pete Hunt sang a lovely Tony Deane song in memory of his late friend, Pete Reynolds reminded us how we all “Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside”, Jon Heslop had us all in voice, Mike O’Connor with his concertina sang two beautiful songs, David Franklin played some of his own compositions accompanied by none other than Keith Marshall and I reckon there might be a future meet for those two somehow. Then the lads from Rum and Shrub lined the bar so the folk who’d been stuck in the middle of the room could hear some music up close and they did their own inimitable thing in beautiful harmonic close order singing before Tony Franklin took the stage for the final phase to sing his own “Walking Round Cornwall” with the whole pub, even some of the bar staff, joining in with the chorus and Mike O’Connor adding to the proceedings with fiddle accompaniment. After this Roger Bryant – song-smith extraordinaire – led off with his own “Cornish Lads” and then, after Tony had thanked all and sundry, the evening then slowly descended into a general sing-a-round. It was a beautiful night, a rare event, a hark back to the days when pubs were the hubs for communities, news, assistance fun and socialising and I feel I can confidently state without fear of contradiction that it was thoroughly enjoyed by all who came and also all those who just happened to be using their local on that particular night (like my old bass playing band mate from “Big Dick & The Deviants”, David George.)
All that in the course of one week!
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Opinion: Muntu’s launch of ANT(s) is questionable at best!
If a leader loves you, he makes sure you build your house on rock – Ugandan Proverb
The official launch of the Alliance of National Transformation (ANT) happen today at Serena Hotel in Kampala. A massive launch with several of former prominent Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Members of Parliament. The ones who hasn’t been in the good grace of the current leadership of FDC. Therefore, it comes as no shocker who left the FDC and become ANTs representatives.
They call it an Interim leadership while awaiting time to conduct time to make a Party Constitution and so fourth. As anticipated the National Coordinator or the Chief is Mugisha Muntu. The man who has left FDC awhile back and tried to find his way, ever since. It would have been a sincere move if he believes in the principals he speaks of, if Winnie Kiiza or Alicia Alaso, even Yokas Biandi. We all know these people from FDC. It is like he salvaged the ones whose wasn’t in favour Patrick Oboi Amuriat and left the scene.
Not that I wish Muntu any trouble. No one deserves trouble, but the whole party is started on the premise that Muntu didn’t win the Party Presidency in the FDC. It is built on the same shaky ground as Amama Mbabazi’s lack of respect for the Sole Candidate in National Resistance Movement (NRM) and started his Political Pressure Group Go Forward before the General Election in 2016. Which failed and was a flustering attempt without party organization to be able to show strength at the polls. That even with a famous and well established political figure.
Clearly, the politician and former General Muntu knows this, ANT is just the newest launching pad of the man. It is really what it is and the others ones following in hope for a resurrection in their career. The words used today is something that is done before, the bravado and the whole play. It has been seen before, even Beti Kamya have tried it and lost her own party with time. She came out of FDC and made a Uganda Federal Alliance (UFA). Something that is in the wind now.
That is why its really special that he said this: “If we continue claiming that politics is dirty, who on earth do you think will clean it up; as Alliance for National Transformation, we intend to do so”. I will claim the ANT isn’t cleaning the politics, as the way it has gone out from the FDC. Even with the Consultation Meetings done in the shadows and without direct talk with the new leadership after losing the Presidency in the FDC. Then, trying to play the Republic for a fool, until he postponed the launch and the allowed for the registration of the “New Formation” or the now ANT.
We can play a fool, we can act like it doesn’t matter, but it does. Surely, others will celebrate like it means nothing and all well-wishes on the new journey for Muntu. However, if you don’t know the main reason for this escape. Than you are forgetting the one vital thing. He is only doing this, because he cannot be second in command. He couldn’t manage to be under POA. It wasn’t in him.
Therefore, anyone joining him. Know that he will not accept anyone under him. That will only be a pretext for his rise and his redemption. ANT is a launching pad, it is at the take-off stage, but who knows how this bird will fly. Peace.
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Neuroscience and psychology news and views.
Mental illness following The Exorcist
Horror movie The Exorcist remains one of cinema’s darkest and most frightening classics. So great was its power that rumours circulated about viewers running in fear, feinting, or even going mad after seeing the film. In fact, it caused such concern that it was discussed in the medical literature for its possible role in triggering mental illness.
In 1975 psychiatrist James Bozzuto wrote an article for the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease entitled ‘Cinematic Neurosis Following The Exorcist’ that reported four cases of previously untroubled people who seemed to develop psychiatric difficulties after watching the film.
I’ll return to the case reports in a moment, but it’s probably worth mentioning that Bozzuto was not alone in discussing the possible ‘destabilising’ effect of the film. In fact, his commentary was remarkably reserved in comparison to some of his contemporaries.
A 1974 Time magazine article quoted some of his less inhibited colleagues:
After seeing the film, two young Chicagoans required hospitalization. “They’re way out in leftfield,” said Dr. Louis Schlan, psychiatrist and medical director of Riveredge Hospital in Forest Park, Ill. “They see themselves possessed by Satan.”
Many others who have seen the film experience nightmares, hysteria and an undefined, but nevertheless profound apprehension. “It is dangerous for people with weak ego control,” explains Dr. Vladimir Piskacek, a Manhattan sociologist and psychiatrist, “but it would not cause psychosis.” Small children may suffer from hallucinations after seeing The Exorcist, but Dr. Piskacek doubts that the film would permanently impair even an immature mind.
Predictably, there are widespread objections to the film’s R rating, which permits youths under 17 to see it if accompanied by a parent. Manhattan Child Psychiatrist Hilde Mosse warns that the film provides a “deadly mixture of sex, violence and evil. The idea that we can solve our problems by magic instead of by rational solutions is destructive. I lived through this before Hitler came to power. He said, ‘Listen to the language of your pure Germanic blood, your unconscious.’ The Jews in Germany then became the devil to be exorcised. The only thing The Exorcist can do,” Dr. Mosse concludes emphatically, “is to pull young people down to a primitive level.”
With Hitler, hallucinating children and Satanic possession being invoked in relation to the film, it’s no wonder that people had anxieties about its influence.
Bozzuto’s explanation for his four case studies is perhaps a little mundane in comparison, but the influence of the media hysteria is plain to see.
One case is particularly striking, owing to gentleman’s florid magical thinking about the Devil and his possible malign influence.
Case 4. Mr. Lyle H. was a 24-year-old black male who initially came to the emergency room for three visits approximately 1 month after seeing “The Exorcist”. At that time, he complained of flashbacks and of getting “nervous”, especially with his two children and his wife; he was frightened that his 5-year-old daughter was possessed, had insomnia, and felt that certain people “looked strange”. He was given Vallium and referred to the Psychiatric Clinic. After being contacted for his first interview, he was fearful of coming for he felt that the therapist may have been involved with the Devil.
The patient stated that he knew little about the movie but had seen it discussed on a TV talk show before. He went with his wife and another couple. He was so upset during the movie that he had to walk out, and afterward he was frightened, feeling that the Devil “would come”. He had immediate insomnia, 15-pound weight loss over the past month, and numerous nightmares of vampires chasing women with himself interfering. He could not look people directly in the eye for fear he might imagine them to be devils…
Also, since seeing the movie, he complained of a stiff neck which he related to an identification with the girl in the movie. He was afraid to use a razor that his brother-in-law had given him because it might be stolen and it would imply he had done something wrong and would therefore be like the Devil.
Bozzuto suggests that each of his patients was already under significant pressure and the film was the last stressful straw that broke the camel’s back.
He also suggests, invoking the spirit of Freud, that the movie’s theme of losing control to the love-hate figure of the Devil may have had special significance for the four, each of which was apparently struggling with an ambivalent relationship.
According to Bozzuto, the similarity triggered repressed feelings, leading to an emotional crisis and a subsequent breakdown.
While the cases remain entirely anecdotal, it’s interesting that they made it into print at all, considering that almost all films have the potential to trigger emotional crises in some.
The fact that the issue of ‘Exorcist madness’ was considered serious enough to appear in a medical journal is more likely testament to the fact that the film touched a raw nerve in the America of the 1970s, than the fact that it raised the hackles of some of its audience members.
Link to PubMed entry for ‘Cinematic neurosis following The Exorcist’.
Link to Time article ‘Exorcist fever’.
Author vaughanbellPosted on May 25, 2008 Categories Integrating
5 thoughts on “Mental illness following The Exorcist”
Matthew Platte says:
I think I haven’t seen it. The book, however, creeped me out plenty, so that was why I didn’t see it when the movie first came out. I was working nights and not sleeping much and I do recall reading the entire book in one session. Since then, well, I guess I’m not that fond of horrorshow.
I went to ‘Wasp Woman’ when I was about 7 or 8 and had to leave the theater before the end of the film.
Probably the worst, though, was when I was a projectionist. The reel change for ‘Alien’ came just after the baby burst through the guy’s chest and I had to watch closely to catch the end-of-reel indicators. So there I am, all tense for the projector change-over that I knew was close when the creature burst out. Not sure how I managed to not flip out on that one, and it wasn’t exactly pleasant on subsequent showings either.
montereyham says:
Interesting post. However, I wonder whether you intended to say that the movie raised the hackles, rather than the heckles, of the audience…
Vaughan says:
Hi montereyham,
You’re quite right (now fixed!). I’m sure it did raise a few heckles as well, but that’s not quite what I intended to say.
Thanks for spotting that!
osofine says:
I think you meant “fainting” (losing consciousness for a short time because of a temporarily insufficient supply of oxygen to the brain), not “feinting” (pretending to throw a [punch or blow] in order to deceive or distract an opponent). What is up with all of the errors in this website? This is the only one I’ve commented on, but I have found at least one in each of the four random articles I’ve read in the past 20 minutes.
I saw The Exorcist when I was 4 years old and in the care of an irresponsible babysitter. I was traumatized by it. I remember being too afraid to go to bed afterwards; I was crying and terrified, and inconsolable. I think this movie is grotesque in its display of horrific events and phenomenon. It disgusts me, and not just because I have become an atheist in my adult years. Pure malevolence. Of note, I am presently diagnosed with a mental illness, although seeing that movie at age 4 was only one of many traumatic childhood experiences.
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Aftermath of Brumadinho Spill (source: Gazeta do Povo)
4 February 2019, 12.09pm EST
Three Canadian Mining Companies in Brazil Silent on Tailings Dam Structures following Brumadinho Disaster
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Following the tragic breach of the upstream tailings dam, “Dam 1” at Vale’s Córrego do Feijão Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil, MiningWatch Canada is concerned about the state of Canadian-operated tailings dams in Brazil.
According to the GRID-Arendal Report and an independent panel report following the 2014 Mount Polley tailings disaster in Canada, “upstream” or “cascading” dams are the most dangerous. This design builds dams inwards, with upper levels added partly on top of accumulated tailings, not a solid engineered base. Indeed, recent examples of catastrophic mine spills have come from these kinds of dam structures.
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MiningWatch contacted the companies with mines beyond post-feasibility stage, requesting they identify the dam-type present at or planned for their mines. Out of the nine companies contacted, responses were received from six. Three out of the six companies that responded are still storing wet tailings, but are using a variation of downstream and centreline construction methods. The other three are using dry stacking tailing storage.
The silence on the part of the three Canadian companies that have not yet responded is alarming. Between them, these companies have six operating mines and one in temporary suspension. Jaguar Mining’s (TSX- JAG) Cayete Complex in Minas Gerais (the State where both the Brumadinho and Mariana disasters occurred) houses two producing mines a mere 40km from the urban centre of Belo Horizonte. Its Turmalina mine is also in Minas Gerais. Aura Minerals (TSX-ORA) has been silent on its Pau-a-Pique and São Francisco mines.
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At MPA we have picked our top 5 innovations from Advanced Engineering 2017 that we think are going to change the future.
Advanced Engineering is Europe’s largest gathering of engineering professionals, with an abundance of exciting innovations from both the UK and abroad. They all present great insight into where the industry is heading. We’ve carefully selected our top 5 innovations at Advanced Engineering 2017. Which cover a variety of sectors within the industry.
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The AWT is designed specifically for the requirements of performance sport. Bringing the benefits of dynamic wind tunnel testing to more teams and riders by reducing the large expense incurred during wind tunnel testing. The AWT analyses bike design, rider position and clothing in a dynamic environment which mirrors real on-road conditions. The effect of cross winds, head winds and tail winds on the rider and equipment can be accurately modelled. Aerodynamics is pivotal in cycling. The less drag area a cyclist has, the easier it is for them to cut through the wind, resulting in less energy being expended. With miniscule margins, having that extra energy for the final push at the end of the race could be the difference between finishing 1st and finishing last.
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Luísa Maita blends samba, jazz, and electropop to mellow crowd
Hailed as one of Brazil’s most important young talents, Luísa Maita and her band blend electropop rhythms with the hypnotic beats and the syncopation of her native land. Deeply rooted in Afro-Brazilian, samba, bossa nova, and jazz, she takes it a step further with a sound that is both ethereal and grounded by the bass, with lyrics in English and Portuguese. Her first album Lero-Lero reached first place in sales on Amazon and iTunes in the Latin Music Category and you probably remember a couple of her tunes as part of the film Boyhood. She’s currently on tour for her second album Fio da memória, a record about love, yearning for freedom, struggle and renewal .
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Artist: Steve Kaufman
Title: Elephant Power
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Screen print Canvas
Size Framed 35.25' x 35.25'
Size: Unframed: 41.25' x 41.25'
Edition size: Unique (Kaufman's unique editions consisted of 1-5 pieces generally of these hand painted screen prints). Came directly from Steve Kaufman's former manager Paul Hayeland.
The piece is extremely bright and the canvas is in outstanding condition. The piece has been professionally mounted and framed. The framing was done using the hardboard method with reversible glue. Should you ever want to free up the canvas lightly heat with a hair drying and the piece will come off with no residue. What is great about this method and most popular with our customers is that it eliminates any fatigue in the stretch and gives a rich solid look as you can see from the pictures. Even though the technique costs more the framing.
Steve Kaufman is one of the most influential pop artists in U.S. history. His work appreciated for both its technical merit and its historical importance in pushing the pop art movement forward. Steve Kaufman single handedly transformed pop art from a discipline focused on ordinary object to art with social relevance. Even by artist standards, Steve Kaufman was an extremely precocious child. He held his first art show at his synagogue when he was only 8 years old, and works from that show are now hanging in the Jewish Holocaust Memorial in Brooklyn, New York. At age 12, Kaufman achieved his first commercial success when he was commissioned to paint custom pet rocks for the New York City Macys department store. Kaufman continued to experience success selling his art during his teens before enrolling in the famous New York institution the Parsons School of design.
Steve Kaufman met the American pop art pioneer Andy Warhol at Studio 54 in New York City. The two soon developed a friendship and working relationship where Kaufman served as Warhol’s assistant at his famous studio called “The factory.” Kaufman was heavily influenced by Warhol’s style. He and Warhol used many of the same mediums including, sculpture, photography, stained glass, mixed media and filmmaking, but his paintings and prints are by far the most famous. He is also famous for painting unusual objects, including Mercedes Benz and a Formula One Race Car. He is famous for painting celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Muhammed Ali, Marilyn Monroe, and Jackie Kennedy. He also produced a very successful screen print series of Cohiba cigars that remain some of Kaufman’s bestselling work today.
Early American pop art focused on making ordinary objects and images into works of art. Critics of pop art have criticized the school of art for being cold and lacking human emotion. While pop art was often injected with a sense of humor and an invitation for the audience to reflect on their value set, there was not much inherent personality in the paintings. Steve Kaufman’s art was a pioneer in changing the face or pop art to a more human one with added social relevance.
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Kyle Larson begins quest for elusive Chili Bowl Nationals title
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Kyle Larson‘s quest for his first Chili Bowl Nationals championship resumes tonight.
Larson, Alex Bowman and NBC Sports broadcaster Dillon Welch are among those scheduled to compete Tuesday, day two of the six-day event that concludes Saturday night at the River Spirit Expo Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
“There’s a handful of events throughout the year that get me excited, but the Chili Bowl is right up there at the top,” Larson said at a press conference Monday. “It’s hard to believe that this is my 13th year competing in this event. It’s pretty incredible. I look forward to it more and more each year.”
Larson finished second to Christopher Bell in last year’s Chili Bowl Nationals after being passed by Bell on the final lap.
“It took a few days, for sure, it took longer than any other race to get over that I’ve had in my career,” Larson said at Monday’s press conference of last year’s defeat. “I think when you go through defeats like that, it just makes you want it that much more and work harder to get better and probably, hopefully, someday when I do win, it’s going to make it feel that much more special. I would have obviously liked to (have won) but made a mistake and allowed Chris to get by and those are things you learn from. Hopefully, I don’t ever make that mistake again.”
On Monday night, 17-year-old Cannon McIntosh won his heat, qualifier and the feature to advance to Saturday’s main event. McIntosh drives for Keith Kunz Motorsports, which has won the last five Chili Bowl Nationals (Rico Abreu won in 2015-16 and Bell won from 2017-19).
Tyler Courtney finished second to also advance to Saturday night’s 55-lap A main.
NASCAR Xfinity driver Chase Briscoe finished ninth in Monday night’s feature race.
Had a super fast car all night and in the feature completely missed the setup. Live and learn. Ended up 9th, we will have some work to do come Saturday.
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When NASCAR drivers will qualify for Chili Bowl Nationals, event format
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By Daniel McFadinJan 13, 2020, 1:00 PM EST
This week brings the 34th Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which sees multiple NASCAR drivers among the roughly 359 entires for the event that runs from Jan. 13 -18.
The Chili Bowl has announced which night each driver is scheduled to participate in qualifying races.
Over the course of five nights, the top-two finishers from each A feature will lock themselves into Saturday’s 55-lap final race.
Each night of qualifying races begins at 6 p.m. ET.
Here’s when the NASCAR drivers will qualify.
Monday, Jan. 13 – Cummins Qualifying Night
Tuesday, Jan. 14 – Warren CAT Qualifying Night
NBC Sports reporter Dillon Welch
Wednesday, Jan. 15 – Hard Rock Casino Qualifying Night
Rico Abreu
Thursday, Jan. 16 – John Christner Trucking Qualifying Night
Christoper Bell
Friday, Jan. 17 – Vacuworx Global Qualifying Night
IndyCar driver Conor Daly
IndyCar and former Xfinity Series driver James Davison
Here is the event format for the Chili Bowl:
– Advancement from heat races to features is based upon passing points earned in heat race and qualifying races. Passing points are based upon car starting position when the yellow light goes out prior to the initial start of the heat or qualifying race.
– The 40 drivers earning the most passing points advance to four “A” qualifying races; drivers in passing points positions 41-68 will go to two C Main races. The two C Main races will have 16 cars, 12 laps in length.
– The top four cars in each C Main race will advance to the back of the B Main races, going 15 laps. (Top four from first C Main to back of first B Main, top four from second C Main to back of second B main)
– The lineup of each “A” Qualifying race will include an inversion of six cars. The top 24 cars in passing points will make the inversion. (The top point driver will start on row three of the first qualifying race, the No. 2 driver on row 3 of the second qualifying race, etc.)
– The four qualifying races will have 10 cars each with the top 16 in combined passing points from the heats and qualifying races advancing to the A Main.
– The balance of the cars (24) from the “A” qualifying races will advance to two 16 car B Mains. The top four in each B Main will advance to the A Main, going 30 laps.
– There will be 24 drivers in each preliminary night A feature
– The top two drivers in the preliminary A qualify for Saturday’s A Main.
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Gio Scelzi hopes to use Chili Bowl as springboard to NASCAR
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By Jerry BonkowskiJan 13, 2020, 11:00 AM EST
Giovanni Scelzi grew up the son of a four-time National Hot Rod Association champion, and has been making a significant name of his own racing dirt midgets and sprints, particularly in the World of Outlaws series.
But there’s another race series that the 18-year-old Scelzi – “Gio” for short – has his sights set upon: NASCAR.
If all goes well, Scelzi hopes to begin climbing the NASCAR ladder – perhaps as early as this year.
But first things first: the Fresno, California native is participating in this week’s Chili Bowl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He’s one of more than 350 entries that also includes good friend Kyle Larson, plus other NASCAR drivers including Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, J.J. Yeley, James Davison, Ryan Ellis, Ryan Newman, Justin Allgaier and Christopher Bell, who has won the Chili Bowl the last three years.
Scelzi isn’t the only aspiring NASCAR driver from the World of Outlaws. David Gravel, who is also competing in the Chili Bowl, recently signed a part-time Truck Series deal with GMS Racing.
Once the Chili Bowl concludes Saturday night, Scelzi, son of four-time NHRA champion Gary Scelzi, and younger brother of fellow sprint/midget car racer Dominic Scelzi, will then travel with Larson to Australia, where they’ll compete in several races, most notably the biggest event of the Australian sprint car season, The Classic, on Jan. 23-24.
Gio Scelzi after one of his nine wins last season. (Jason Tucker Photos)
Needless to say, all the time together with Larson will give the youngest Scelzi a chance to further pick his fellow Californian’s mind about how to reach and race in NASCAR.
“I love sprint car racing, that’s always where my heart will be,” Scelzi told NBC Sports last week. “It’s obviously what I grew up doing, dirt racing.
“I’ll still race sprint cars as much as I can, but in the next 5-10 years, I hope to get into Trucks and Xfinity to get towards NASCAR (Cup).”
Scelzi and his father have been working on getting Gio some seat time this year in the ARCA Menards Series West (formerly K&N Pro Series West).
“Hopefully this year or next year I’ll transition over to ARCA, which is a good stepping stone, do something along those lines and get my feet wet on pavement,” Gio Scelzi said. “I’ve done some testing the last year, just trying to see if that’s the direction I want to go.
“Nothing’s been announced yet, but I think something will be announced here pretty soon to hopefully go down that path.”
Even though their father was one of the most prolific drivers in NHRA history, Gio and his brother Dominic went in a different direction when they first started racing themselves.
Instead of the straight and narrow, they chose round and dirty, you might say.
“The hardest part of drag racing, there really is no way for a kid that can race anything before you’re 16,” Scelzi said. “That’s kind of the age where you can earn a license and are allowed to race under power and really learn how to race.
“But in dirt racing, there’s micro-sprints, outlaw karts, you name it, there’s all kind of kids classes you could do to learn how to race. My dad went to dirt races a lot in California and really enjoyed it, was good friends with (NASCAR Hall of Famer) Tony Stewart and (sprint car racer) Danny Lasoski, so he always had a friend base in dirt racing and that was a way to get me and my brother in a race car when we were really young.”
Dominic began racing go-karts at five years old and Gio began racing micro-sprints at 6 at their home track, Plaza Park Raceway in Visalia, Calif., about 30 miles from Fresno.
“I think sprint car racing is so unique from other forms of racing,” Gio Scelzi said. “With a 410 sprint car, around the United States, you have the World of Outlaws, the All-Stars (All Star Circuit of Champions), IRA (Sprint Series), Knoxville (Nationals), I mean there’s probably 20 or 30 race tracks racing on a given weekend, with the same rules package, the same kind of cars and there are very good race car drivers in their own region.
“With a sprint car, what I’ve done the last two years, I’ve been based in Indianapolis and race wherever we want. If we want to race in an All-Star race in Ohio, we can go there. If we want to race an Outlaw race in North Dakota, we can go there.
“There are so many different options with that same rules package that is such a simple, powerful, exciting race car, I don’t think there’s no other kind of professional racing where you can make a living at it that has that kind of atmosphere.
“If you’ve got the money and the motors to race, you can race every weekend. Just the World of Outlaws schedule is 95 races. Or you can race the All-Stars, which is 50 races, and then maybe 20 races in Outlaws when you want to. There’s so much freedom with a team where you want to go and where you want to race, I think that’s what makes it unique.”
Gio Scelzi in one of his midget races last season. (Jason Tucker Photos.)
The youngest Scelzi has steadily been making a name for himself in the sprint car dirt racing world. At the age of 16 in 2018, he became the youngest winner in World of Outlaws history. He also won his first USAC Midget race in just his sixth career start in the series.
And at 17 last season, he was the youngest winner in the Knoxville Raceway’s history when he won an All Star Circuit of Champions race there, one of the most notable outings in a season that saw Scelzi make 71 starts across several dirt racing series, earning nine wins, 23 top-five and 40 top-10 finishes.
This week is the second Chili Bowl for Scelzi. He did well in his first start in 2018, finishing sixth in his preliminary race, was second in the B Main and then was running in the top 10 in the week’s main event – until the motor in his midget car blew halfway through the race and he finished last in the 24-car field.
Scelzi is racing at the Chili Bowl — his first race of the week is this evening, which kicks off the Nationals’ six-night run at the Tulsa Expo Center — as part of the Toyota Development program with Chad Boat (son of former IndyCar driver Billy Boat). His teammates include Christopher Bell and NBC Sports reporter Dillon Welch.
“I’m excited for it,” Gio Scelzi told NBC Sports. “The Chili Bowl as an event is huge and keeps growing and growing and attracting more attention through NASCAR and all kinds of racing fans.
“There’s a lot of good race cars, it seems like every year more and more guys and good race car drivers all-around get a ride and want to participate.”
Here’s a video of Scelzi getting ready and then taking to the track for his first practice session Monday (video courtesy Toyota Racing Development):
https://nascar.nbcsports.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2020/01/Gio-Monday-Practice-30-seconds-1.mp4
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By Daniel McFadinJan 6, 2020, 11:30 AM EST
Next week will bring the 34th Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which sees multiple NASCAR drivers among the roughly 345 entires for the event that runs from Jan. 13 -18.
Over the course of five nights, the top-two finishers from each A feature will lock themselves into Saturday’s 55-lap race.
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Monday conveyed the concerns of the police department over the proposed Punjab police reforms during cabinet subcommittee meeting, attended by three high-ranking Punjab police officials representing Inspector General of Police (IGP), Punjab.
According to details, PM Imran Khan was told by the representatives of Punjab IGP that the police department did not want to be made answerable to the Home department, as was the case before 2002 Police Order.
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Free speech and religious liberty are two of America’s most cherished protections. But if the Organization of Islamic Cooperation gets its way, that could change not only in the United States, but around the world. The Muslim group is pushing a United Nations resolution that would criminalize criticism of religions.
Read: Odd News: Muslim Cleric Forbids Women To Touch Cucumbers
Frank Gaffney, president of the American Center for Security Policy, didn’t mince words against the group — likening the OIC to a “multi-national Muslim mafia.It is 57 states and Palestine that have come together to promote what is fundamentally the agenda that is known as Sharia,” he explained.
Read: Controversy: Could TLC’s “All American Muslim” Show Be Harmful?
Religious rights groups say the U.N. resolution is really designed to prevent criticism of Islam and give cover to Islamic Sharia-based blasphemy laws like those in Pakistan.
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Ritenour Works To Make Gifted Classrooms More Diverse
By Ryan Delaney • Nov 24, 2019
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In Ritenour School District, no single ethnicity makes up more than half of its students. But it has been facing a challenge that many districts across Missouri and the country share: Its gifted classrooms are whiter than the rest of the student population.
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 13, 2010 - Students aren't the only ones who get report cards -- school districts do too. And the latest numbers for some troubled school districts in the St. Louis area aren't encouraging.
The two Missouri districts in the area that have only provisional accreditation, Jennings and Normandy, still are far short from making the grade, preliminary numbers released Monday show. And the two districts that have been taken over by the state -- St. Louis and Riverview Gardens -- aren't improving either.
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: On the morning of Aug. 25, 1983, about 300 St. Louis children boarded buses for trips lasting as long as 45 minutes to schools in the Ritenour District. In some cities, the sight of black children headed for predominantly white schools in the suburbs had triggered anti-busing rallies and, in some instances, violence. But the 300 kids who rode to Ritenour schools that morning enjoyed a quiet and peaceful trip, which set the tone for the start of perhaps the largest and certainly one of the longest running school desegregation initiatives in the nation.
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Home » Budget Industry » Shanahan: Pentagon Needs to Learn from Industry to Develop Systems Faster
Shanahan: Pentagon Needs to Learn from Industry to Develop Systems Faster
By: Ben Werner
Defense Patrick M. Shanahan. DoD Photo
SAN DIEGO, Calif. –The Pentagon’s number two civilian says industry needs to develop the systems and programs the military doesn’t even know it needs yet.
When compared to the commercial sector, Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said the Department of Defense is slow in evaluating and acquiring the innovations created and adopted by the industrial base.
“The department shouldn’t be setting standards, industry should be setting standards,” Shanahan said speaking at the WEST 2018 conference.
As an example, Shanahan mentioned the department’s move to adopt cloud computing. He wants a system put in place that’s both useful now, but adaptable to future needs. Industry has used cloud computing for years, but the Department of Defense is still evaluating the technology.
In the meantime, Shanahan said redundancies exist that probably could be erased using cloud computing. He pointed out how each service branch has its own financial service system. A cloud computing system could reduce this, he said, saving both time and money.
“It isn’t just about moving to the cloud,” Shanahan said.
“The cloud is a huge enabler so that we can get to doing things across the department that industry has done for a long time that has enterprise-wide services.”
At the same time, Shanahan wants to ensure once a new technology is adopted, a legacy system is not still funded to accomplish the same task. This means also instilling in the department a sense that individual technologies or systems are not what’s important, rather the focus should be on what such technologies or systems accomplish.
“The cloud is not our goal,” Shanahan said.
“Our goal is to get a lot of the data into an environment where we can start making better decisions.”
He created a reform management group to focus the department on finding ways to save time and money in adopting new programs. Doing so, he said, is really at the core of the recently released National Defense Strategy.
“We must make our systems and products affordable,” Shanahan said.
“Our biggest opportunity is to be smarter and faster when it comes to the development of these programs.”
The military has the money to develop new technology. What he wants to do is develop a better understanding inside the Pentagon of how much things should cost and how to best define good.
“We have to get past everything is measured in improvement,” Shanahan said.
Shanahan recognized he’s asking a lot of industry. The military, he conceded, does not do what industry wants – integrate new products and services quickly, in a balanced manner with a predictable revenue stream. All too often, he said new systems and programs are bogged down in planning, increasing costs and ultimately decreasing their applicability when ultimately deployed.
“We know that you’re going to invest, it’s just we have to be very clear on how we want to integrate those investments and how we want to evolve certain capabilities,” he said.
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Media Liberals Really, Really Hate Thanksgiving
posted by Dan O'Donnell - Nov 25, 2019
Thanksgiving is a time to gather with family and friends and reflect on and give thanks for the blessings bestowed upon us…except, of course, for media liberals. Thanksgiving to them is yet another time to remind America how terrible it is; from its gluttony to its Neanderthal love of football to especially its genocidal founding.
Thanksgiving to them isn’t so much a holiday as a day of mourning.
In fact, CNN produced an in-depth report on a group of Native Americans in Plymouth, Massachusetts who actually do refer to Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning.
This theme, that America today is no better than it was 400 years ago, runs through news story after story, opinion piece after opinion piece—dozens in just the past few weeks alone—all reminding America that Thanksgiving, the most uniquely American of the major holidays, is actually a celebration of everything that’s wrong with America.
As MSNBC’s Joy Reid put it: "We are just over two weeks away from one of the most beloved American food holidays, Thanksgiving, where problematic actual history meets delicious cuisine."
National Public Radio is very concerned about how Thanksgiving is being taught in schools—specifically, that it only focuses on one moment of cultural unity and not how terrible European colonists were.
Time Magazine similarly focused on the need to change the way Thanksgiving is taught in schools in a lengthy piece entitled ‘I Was Teaching a Lot of Misconceptions.’ The Way American Kids Are Learning About the 'First Thanksgiving' Is Changing.
The New Yorker expands on this idea to inform its readers that it’s not just Thanksgiving, but the entire fall season that is problematic:
Autumn is the season for Native America. There are the cool nights and warm days of Indian summer and the genial query “What’s Indian about this weather?” More wearisome is the annual fight over the legacy of Christopher Columbus—a bold explorer dear to Italian-American communities, but someone who brought to this continent forms of slavery that would devastate indigenous populations for centuries. Football season is in full swing, and the team in the nation’s capital revels each week in a racist performance passed off as “just good fun.” As baseball season closes, one prays that Atlanta (or even semi-evolved Cleveland) will not advance to the World Series. Next up is Halloween, typically featuring “Native American Brave” and “Sexy Indian Princess” costumes. November brings Native American Heritage Month and tracks a smooth countdown to Thanksgiving. In the elementary-school curriculum, the holiday traditionally meant a pageant, with students in construction-paper headdresses and Pilgrim hats reënacting the original celebration. If today’s teachers aim for less pageantry and a slightly more complicated history, many students still complete an American education unsure about the place of Native people in the nation’s past—or in its present. Cap the season off with Thanksgiving, a turkey dinner, and a fable of interracial harmony. Is it any wonder that by the time the holiday arrives a lot of American Indian people are thankful that autumn is nearly over?
This line of thinking has even seeped into food blogs. San Francisco Chronicle food writer Soleil Ho writes in an essay entitled “Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?”
Though one could argue that Thanksgiving can and should be an apolitical occasion, the persistent retelling of history that occurs around the holiday is steeped in our national myth making. We still popularly romanticize the origin of the holiday — and by extension, the origin of the country — as one where pilgrims from Europe broke bread with Native Americans, who freely gave and gave until there was nothing left to give. I’m sure I’ll get more than a few email responses that speak to that fact.
Yet so much ink has been spilled and so much breath has been expended in service of clearing up the story of the holiday. As Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, writes, “Why should Native peoples celebrate Thanksgiving? Many Natives particularly in the New England area remember this attempted genocide as a factual part of their history and are reminded each year during the modern Thanksgiving.”
It’s not just news media that encourages this idea that America should be ashamed of Thanksgiving. This year, entertainment media has picked up this notion. On the ABC comedy Single Parents, a particularly woke teacher shows up unannounced at one of her students’ homes:
“The Simpsons” similarly expounded on the horrors of Thanksgiving by extending their annual “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween special to a Thanksgiving horror show and dressing up two aliens, Kang and Kodos, who constantly try to take over the world, as pilgrims.
You see? The colonists were just like aliens who invaded the planet and tried to kill as many people as they could. And Americans are still killing today. According to the Huffington Post, with Thanksgiving we’re even killing the planet itself.
In a particularly woke piece entitled “The Environmental Impact of Your Thanksgiving Dinner,” author Alexandra Emanuelli wonders:
How much damage are we doing with our epic Thanksgiving meal every year? We spoke with three researchers to find out more about Thanksgiving’s carbon footprint.
It turns out that your food isn’t the biggest holiday culprit of carbon dioxide emissions — traveling for the meal is.
No one should be discouraged from enjoying the holiday or celebrating with family and friends, but we’re here to provide insight into the ingredients and dishes that have the largest ecological impact. The researchers we interviewed shared suggestions and alternative ingredients that cause less environmental damage.
The biggest carbon impact is caused by people, not food, traveling extensive distances. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon determined that four people flying a 600-mile trip produces 10 times the emissions of the Thanksgiving meal. Driving is less detrimental, but American cars emit close to a pound of CO2 per mile driven. Orchi Banerjee, a recent graduate of the department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon, said, “It may help the environment if [your guests] stayed home and cooked their own meal.”
Sharing Thanksgiving with loved ones, you see, is problematic. Thanksgiving itself is problematic. It destroys the environment and celebrates the destruction of an entire culture. Rather than focus on a moment of unity in an entirely historically normal cultural clash, the modern American left wants to transform Thanksgiving into “Grievance Sharing”—less of a holiday to be celebrated than a marker of America’s evil to be shamed.
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Reflection: Defending Truth and Memory Photo Exhibit in the US/Mexico Borderland Region
Former accompanier Kayla Autumn Myers writes about the photography exhibit, “Defending Truth and Memory.” The exhibit traveled to Las Cruces, New Mexico, in February, 2018.
Visit our blog for more information about the exhibit and ways you can host it in your city!
This photography exhibit was more than photos printed and hung in a University Museum; it became a vibrational center that drew people together. The three-day-long series of events seemed to attract people who were searching for these spaces to share in a world defined by divisions. It created the opportunity to continue ancestral conversations of Indigenous solidarity and collaboration that were disrupted by colonization. Here, I will share a few of the most beautiful connections that I witnessed during the photography exhibit. These moments, strung together, create an impression of the experience as a whole.
Day 1: Shelter for Unaccompanied Minors near El Paso, TX
Rode, a Kakchiquel Photographer featured in the exhibit and Saba and SkiZero, Diné (Navajo) artists living in Las Cruces, walked into the largest room of the shelter where 90 youth sat waiting. To give some background, all of these youth were arrested by ICE at the border and deemed “unaccompanied minors.” They are between ages five and 17, are held without legal time-limit in detention at this shelter, and the majority have no access to legal council. At midnight on their 18th birthday if they are not reunited with family or adopted in the U.S., ICE comes to the shelter and takes them to adult detention. About 80% of these children are from Guatemala and almost all are Indigenous youth.
Rode stood and told his story, with gentleness and sincerity. He spoke of his own experiences losing home and family to violence and working hard to create a life. He spoke of his dedication to human rights and using his love of photography to bring liberation to Indigenous peoples, even donating a few large prints of his photos to be hung at the center. The youth leaned forward, starved for words from home, words of encouragement and truth to resonate with their lives. He told them never to lose their languages, knowledge, and tradition as Indigenous people who hold wisdom this world desperately needs.
Saba and SkiZero began to speak in Diné relating their own ancestral stories of colonization and genocide in North America. They related how their people travelled often to share with the Indigenous peoples of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador before there were borders. They told the youth that theirs is a journey of honor in the footsteps of their ancestors, even as they sat in detention in a country that rejects their humanity. Immigrant Rights are Indigenous Rights, and Saba and SkiZero stood courageously with the youth, their brothers and sisters.
One by one, young people started standing up and proudly introducing themselves in their Indigenous languages: Mam, Quiche, Kakchiquel…They stood despite the weight of oppression and racism, they stood with chins up and steady gazes. The room echoed with ancestral words that will not be silenced nor erased. The room vibrated with the sense of humanity and hope being restored to young hearts, if not for a moment.
Day 2: The Photography Exhibit Opening, New Mexico State University Museum in Las Cruces New Mexico
The opening was packed, so packed that many strained to hear Rode speaking from the back of the room. Yet, what struck me most was not the quantity of people, but the transformative conversations that the space birthed. For instance I met a young student who immigrated from Central America who was staring at one of Rode’s photos with ferocity. He had photographed people holding photos of loved ones who were disappeared. She had the same style of photos of her own loved ones, who had been murdered back home, murders that forced her and her mother to flee. Yet, she never knew there was a genocide or the causes of the violence that she fled- until that day. Now, she has a sense of solidarity with a movement of people who also survived violence and are demanding a just future. She came out of darkness, she said, and her future was irrevocably changed.
I met another young woman who was in tears, and took her to a quiet corner to talk. “For Indigenous people, the hits just keep coming!” she cried. As a young Diné student, she feels ignored and silenced on campus and in the larger society. The images resonated her own people’s desperate search for justice for missing and murdered native women and the historic trauma of the genocide in the United States. She could see her aunties and cousins in the faces looking back at her, and it broke her heart to see them in pain. Yet, it also gave her courage to see a representation of the struggle of Indigenous peoples, in the light of power and truth, on her University campus. “We are seen here” she told me. She wiped her tears and took a pen, writing on our response wall, “We may stand as one, but with the strength of 10,000 ancestors behind us.” Ancestral strength, transnational strength, intergenerational strength.
Day 3: Screen-Printing Party at Saba’s Barricade Culture Shop in Las Cruces, New Mexico
The room was full of music, people, food, and revolutionary t-shirts created by Saba. Before we ate the potluck the community had brought to honor Rode, the Piikani (Blackfoot) Elder and traditional leader Dr. Donald Pepion stood to speak. He thanked us all for being there, and told Rode that he would honor him with the traditional song of the warrior. Rode is, after all, a warrior for human rights, truth, and justice for all Indigenous peoples. In a clear voice, Dr. Pepion sang a blessing over Rode in his traditional way. We stood packed in that room of swirling murals and graffiti art, the pictographs of today, listening to a song millenia old. Feeling its strength in our own beings. He offered Rode a pin from his tribe and a strong hug, solidifying a connection across languages and borders. We spent all night looking at Saba and SkiZero’s prints and murals, eating, sharing, and becoming more human. The vibrations of that night lifted me to another level that has inspired my every step since then.
It all started with a file of breathtaking photos that I wanted to share with my community. It transformed into three days of transnational Indigenous solidarity. I was empowered with my purpose and place as a mixed-race Indigenous woman and return to these moments of high vibrations when I need the courage to continue in this dark society we live in. We are capable of rehumanizing ourselves and each other, of continuing the ancestral conversations we were always meant to have, of healing. We are capable of standing as one people, each with a powerhouse of ancestral support, to demand justice, equality, and peace in our world. In these moments, I knew it was so.
Although these three days were packed with so many activities, people, and stories, these moments were ones that give a full picture of how transformative it was. If you would like to host this exhibit in your own community, I would love to speak with you about making that a reality. The power of this exhibit continues.
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Death of a Seaman Maritime incidents on our coast
On Sunday, 3 June, at about 9.30am, an electrical officer aboard the Singapore flagged OOCL Kuala Lumpur was crushed to death. Image: the OOCL docked in Freemantle
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As the YM Efficiency limped into Port Botany, having lost eighty-three of the containers it was carrying off the New South Wales coast on 1 June, another serious maritime accident was unfolding even closer to Sydney shores.
On Sunday, 3 June, at about 9.30am, an electrical officer aboard the Singapore-flagged OOCL Kuala Lumpur was crushed to death. The incident occurred just 17 kilometres east of Cronulla as the ship was en route to Port Botany.
Most workplace fatalities get at least some mainstream coverage here. In contrast to the overboard containers accident, this fatality of a foreign worker in Australian territory, involved in the transportation of goods for our consumption, has only been reported in industry publications.
Reverend Un Tay, a chaplain with Anglican charity, Mission to Seafarers, has visited the OOCL Kuala Lumpur and spoken to the all Indian crew. Reverend Un Tay also spoke to some members of the crew aboard the YM Efficiency, as authorities investigate the containers mishap. He has given Neighbourhood an account of how each crew is coping.
“For different reasons, the crew on both ships were traumatised, and far from home,” Reverend Tay says. “While investigations were continuing into both accidents we were concerned to ensure the welfare of the crews wasn’t being overlooked.”
The electrician who died on the Kuala Lumpur had been carrying out repairs on the ship’s elevator, according to a spokesperson for the Australian Marine Safety Authority (AMSA). He was reported by the ship’s master to have been crushed between the lift door and shaft. He was 31 years old.
“I spent about 4 or 5 hours on board that Sunday afternoon,” Reverend Tay says. “Initially, they [the crew members] were quite hesitant because they were all shocked, quite traumatised. The chief cook was there because I was in the mess room. We spent almost an hour in silence, but finally he came to me and opened up. All of them were grieving and in shock. The cook said to me no one had touched the lunch he cooked that day.”
Seafarers spend up to twelve months at a time at sea. Reverend Tay says one crew member told him he just wanted to sign off (end his contract early) and go home. “A number of the crew had no SIM card, no way to call anyone,” he says. “We provided them with a global SIM card. It was a relief for them. They could make phone calls, use Facebook, Skype whatever… something they didn’t have access to on board.”
Reverend Tay says the International Transport Workers’ Federation arranged for a professional counsellor to go on board. Neighbourhood asked the ship’s charterer, OOCL, what support, including counselling, it arranged for the captain and crew but it did not respond to that specific question. It said it was working closely with the ship owner and local investigative authorities.
NSW Police have prepared a report for the coroner.
Reverend Tay made two unsuccessful attempts to go aboard the YM Efficiency after it docked at Port Botany. It was understandable, he says, given the captain was no doubt already dealing with a lot, including AMSA investigators wanting to know how scores of containers could end up in the ocean, and some of the contents wash up on our beaches. Waterfront workers, like players in a high-stakes game of Pick Up Sticks, have been going about the delicate task of unloading the remaining containers, which appear about to topple at any moment. On his third attempt, on 13 June, the chaplain encountered an AMSA officer on the gangway who put in a good word for him with the ship’s Second Mate. Soon he was in the messroom talking to some of the Chinese and Taiwanese crew. Reverend Tay speaks five languages, including Mandarin.
Crushed containers on the YM Efficiency. Photography by Reverend Un Tay
He says the crew were restrained, possibly under instructions from the Captain not to say too much. “Also,” he says, “there are cultural elements. Even if there is no fault, if something bad happens, it is a shameful thing.”
Despite having been six weeks at sea and, by then, a whole week in port and provisions running low, no one had been able to go ashore. “I don’t know why, probably because of the investigation,” Reverend Tay says. “But personally I thought it unfair for them. They needed some space, to come out, and unwind.”
Reverend Tay visited the ship again on 20 June and found that the crew have still not been ashore, two weeks after arriving.
An AMSA spokesperson says it has detained the ship as it assesses compliance with the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, and “that could take some time.” However, there is no AMSA direction restricting the crew from going ashore. Ships’ captains generally approve shore leave.
Seafarers are responsible for 99 per cent of imports into Australia. Their perilous existence goes largely unrecognised. Mission to Seafarers Sydney visits ships when in port, offers support and counselling. If and when seafarers are able to go ashore for a few hours, Mission to Seafarers offers free transportation for seafarers into the city and a dry land sanctuary.
It’s been a particularly rough month for seafarers along the New South Wales coast. Earlier this week, on 18 June, a large fire broke out on a bulk carrier at Port Kembla. The ship, Iron Chieftain, was carrying dolomite, used in iron and steel production. Blue Scope steel operates a major steel mill in Port Kembla. About one hundred firefighters attended the blaze. Fortunately, the 22 crew were evacuated and there are no reports of injury.
Update: Neighbourhood’s Ross Duncan reports that around 9pm tonight (Thursday 21.06.18) Reverend Tay has informed him that “eight seafarers from YM Efficiency went ashore earlier, brought into city on MTS bus. Great news.”
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Photo: Diaspora Estonians danced at Freedom Square before the Song Festival on Sunday. July 7, 2019. Author: Aili Vahtla/ERR
While not part of the official XXVII Song and XX Dance Festival program, more than 300 dancers from diaspora (väliseesti) Estonian troupes from around the world danced together at Freedom Square on Sunday, in a performance aptly titled "Ühendusmaa on Eestimaa" ("The Uniting Country is Estonia").
A total of 340 dancers from 25 folk dance troupes from 14 countries performed in Tallinn's public square, including from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, Canada, Australia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and Switzerland. The diaspora Estonians were joined by local ensembles Leigarid and Koidupuna.
It was a team at the Dance Festival Museum Foundation headed by Angela Arraste and Ülo Luht who first came up with the idea for a separate, dedicated folk dance performance during a diaspora Estonian dance teachers' training camp in Estonia last August.
A record number of diaspora Estonian folk dance troupes registered to dance at the XX Dance Festival this year — not all of whom made the final cut — and so it was decided to make it happen.
"The Uniting Country is Estonia" brought diaspora dance troupes from all over the world together for Sunday's joint performance. Each folk dance troupe has its own exciting story and traditions, which are passed on as Estonians living abroad get together in order to keep Estonian culture alive beyond the homeland.
In addition to their unique histories, each dance troupe has its own style as well, right down, occasionally, to how a specific dance is danced — just as is the case from village to village across Estonia itself.
At the conclusion of the performance, spectators were invited to join in for several dances as well.
"The Uniting Country is Estonia" was directed by Karmen Ong and Jaan Ulst.
Diaspora Estonian dancers make the news
The diaspora Estonians' performance also made "Aktuaalne kaamera," the Estonian-language evening news to air immediately following the conclusion of the second concert of the Song Festival on Sunday night.
"We understood that not everyone will be accepted to the Dance Festival anyway, but if they come here, if they can watch the final, dress rehearsal for the Dance Festival, if they can march in the Song and Dance Festival parade and can dance in their own performance here, then that's something already; then it's worth the rip," Luht said.
"We love to folk dance," Lili, a dancer from New York's Saare Vikat said, code-switching fluently between Estonian and English. "Once a month we go to the New York Estonian House and practice, and every time we do, we have a party."
"We get together once a week," Katrin, a dancer from an Irish-Estonian folk dance troupe, explained. "We travel pretty far, some even 90 kilometers, and we practice in Dublin. So that's once a week. And sometimes dance instructors will come from Estonia, and then we'll practice among ourselves; they teach us the dances, and then we dance them."
The XXVII Song and XX Dance Festival "My Fatherland is My Love" ("Minu Arm" in Estonian) began on Thursday, July 4 and ran through Sunday, July 7.
estonian diasporaestonian song and dance festival
Reinsalu: Estonia must strengthen ties with global diaspora community
Watch again: Full videos of the XXVII Song and XX Dance Festival 'My Love'
More than half million tune in to watch Song and Dance Festival
Peeter Perens: Song Festival the birth certificate of the Estonian people
Gallery: Song Festival Grounds nearly spotless by midday Monday
Gallery, videos: Second XXVII Song Festival concert 'My Love'
Gallery, video: XXVII Song Festival concert 'To the Teacher'
Gallery: 47,000 performers march in Song and Dance Festival parade
Gallery, full video: Final performance of XX Dance Festival
The Long Road to Laulu- ja Tantsupidu, Part 2: Europe and beyond
The Long Road to Laulu- ja Tantsupidu, Part 1: North America
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Premium Bond jackpot winners in Essex and Northamptonshire as September’s results are revealed
Two lucky Premium Bonds holders, from Essex and Northamptonshire respectively, have scooped September’s top prizes toasting the end of summer with a £1 million tax-free prize.
The pair become the 393rd and 394th Premium Bond holders to scoop the jackpot since the £1 million prize was introduced.
The woman from Essex purchased her winning Bond in May 2003 and currently has £31,575 invested. The winning Bond number is 033BV820007.
The woman from Northamptonshire becomes just the second Premium Bonds millionaire in the region. She currently has £50,000 invested and bought the winning Bond in August 2015. The winning Bond number is 254PS792183.
Both women will receive a personal visit from Agent Million who will break the good news. Essex has been fertile ground for Premium Bond millionaires in the past with this month’s winner being the 15th to have won the top prize, while the winner in Northamptonshire is only the second to be made a Premium Bonds millionaire by ERNIE – the last being almost a decade ago in November 2008.
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Unclaimed Premium Bond prizes
There are over 1.5 million unclaimed Premium Bond prizes, worth almost £60 million.
In Essex, unclaimed prizes date back to February 1964. The highest unclaimed prize in the county is £25,000, won in May 2014. This person has £2,325 invested and the winning Bond number is 135MM985708. There are also two £10,000 prizes and three £5,000 prizes in Essex waiting to be claimed. In total, there are around 40,500 unclaimed prizes in the county, worth nearly £1.6 million.
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Premium Bonds prizes may go unclaimed as a result of NS&I not being informed of changes to personal circumstances, such as a change in contact details or if Premium Bonds were bought for the customer as a child and they have subsequently lost track of them. Therefore, it is important to keep NS&I up to date if anything changes.
Getting paid directly into your bank account
#ERNIEmoments come in a variety of shapes and sizes, yet customers don’t need to receive a cheque through the post to enjoy that winning feeling. Nearly two million Premium Bond holders have opted to have their prizes paid directly into their bank account, including this month’s jackpot winner in Northamptonshire. Having future prizes paid directly into your bank account makes it easier for customers and means prize money is received sooner.
Customers can opt to have their prizes paid directly into their bank account, or to have their prizes automatically reinvested into their Premium Bonds account, as long as the total holding is below the maximum threshold of £50,000. More information about these options is available on the NS&I website.
Alun Williams continued:
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Register and manage your Premium Bonds account online
September 2018 prize draw breakdown
Value of prize
Number of prizes
£1,000,000 2
£100,000 5
£50,000 10
£5,000 98
£1,000 1,781
£500 5,343
£100 24,451
£50 24,451
£25 3,060,977
Total prize fund value
£89,099,575 Total number of prizes
In the September 2018 draw, a total of 3,117,186 prizes worth £89,099,575 will be paid out. There were 76,371,079,150 eligible Bonds for the draw.
Since the first draw in June 1957, ERNIE has drawn 413 million winning prizes, to the value of around £18.6 billion.
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The annual Premium Bonds prize fund rate is currently 1.40% and the odds of each individual Bond number winning any prize are 24,500 to 1.
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Premium Bonds millionaires in Essex, and Hereford and Worcester
A man from Hereford and Worcester, and a woman from Essex are celebrating the first official day of Summer as they have scooped the £1 million jackpot prizes in June’s Premium Bonds draw.
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PARADISE LOST AT EVE : TWO TOP EXECS RAIDED FROM BARNEYS JUMP SHIP
By Evelyn Nussenbaum
September 8, 2000 | 4:00am
Eve.com is losing two of the four Barneys executives it raided earlier this summer.
Lisa Gorevitz and Emilia Fabricant have left the cosmetics e-tailer – just two and a half months after they joined Tom Shull, the onetime Barneys chief executive who now runs Eve.com.
Fabricant, the former head of Barneys Co-op, will continue to consult for Eve.com.
Gorevitz, who ran Chelsea Passage before joining the dot-com world, is leaving to run Bergdorf Goodman’s Decorative Home Department. Neither could be reached for comment.
The two women left Barneys to join Eve.com in late June, along with Barneys Accessories Merchandiser Julie Levy and Men’s Wear Executive Kitty Nguyen. Levy and Nguyen are still at Eve.com.
“Although we’re disappointed, we’re thrilled for Lisa,” said Shull. “And we’re thrilled that Emilia will continue to work with us as a consultant to launch our women’s ready-to-wear-line sometime next year.”
A source close to the company told The Post that the launch of the women’s line had been delayed, which contributed to Fabricant’s decision to leave her full-time post.
But Shull said a late year 2001 launch had always been scheduled. Eve.com announced its expansion from cosmetics into women’s accessories and clothing earlier this year.
The IdeaLab!-owned company recruited Shull, who led Barneys out of bankruptcy, for his extensive retailing experience. Shull took over the top spot from founders Mariam Naficy and Varsha Rao.
He, in turn, recruited some of Barneys top merchandisers.
Eve.com expanded its offerings when it realized that selling only makeup on the Web was not feasible. Estee Lauder, which has the lion’s share of the so-called prestige market, has declined to sell its products to independent e-tailers.
Now it is launching its own Web site for all its brands, along with the existing Clinique, Origins and Bobbi Brown sites.
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Silent emergencies
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The Casamance conflict: out of sight, out of mind?
The humanitarian impact of neglect: Ugandas emergencies
Shabunda: the forgotten Kosovo
Russia, Chechnya and the international community
Manipulating humanitarian crisis in North Korea
India's volatile north-east
Échange Humanitaire No. 20 : Les situations durgence silencieuses
Aid responses to Afghanistan: learning from previous evaluations
The Strategic Framework Review: lessons for post-Taliban Afghanistan
Was international emergency relief aid in Kosovo 'humanitarian'?
Humanitarian action and private security companies
Mainstreaming disaster mitigation: findings of recent research
Benefitsharms analysis: a rights-based tool developed by CARE International
The refugee experience: a resource for aid workers
Reproductive health during conflict and displacement
Supporting livelihoods in situations of chronic conflict and political instability
The German humanitarian system
Medair and the ISO 9001 quality standard
Understanding conflict and evolving rights-based responses: CARE Internationals experience in Sierra Leone
The challenges to humanitarian action
Was international emergency relief aid in Kosovo ‘humanitarian’?
by Raymond Apthorpe May 2002
There are at least a dozen agency-commissioned evaluations of the international aid response in Kosovo, together with another three dozen essays and articles similarly evaluative in intent. Although their quality, credibility and coverage vary greatly, taken together they give a broad view of an aid response. This article assesses the key messages emerging from these evaluations, and asks whether the aid community can succeed in learning from them.
The principal message of these evaluations is that the international community NATO included lacked the capacity to respond rapidly to large-scale emergency needs. These evaluations also note a significant lack of professionalism. Even where they existed, training and guidelines were bypassed. Professional codes of conduct for behaviour in a complex emergency were either unknown, neglected or denied in the field. Instead, a sort of institutional amateurism ruled.
This lack of due professionalism extended to at best an ambiguous conceptualisation for operational purposes of what exactly a crisis (and different types of crisis) would and should connote for the organisations concerned. By some standards, no assistance emergency, as classically defined, actually occurred. The refugees were relatively better nourished, healthier and with better access to good resources (including remittances) than those in other emergencies. Furthermore, the quality of sanitation and environmental health interventions would probably not have been sufficient to prevent large-scale epidemics if the conflict had occurred in a more typical emergency context. Rather than emergency assistance, what was actually at stake was protection. Yet the emphasis on emergency assistance meant that no framework was in place in which even the ICRC could carry out its protection activities from March to June 1999. No provision for protection was available for civilians, either on the ground or from the air.
The evaluations of the aid response generally accept that NATOs contributions, for example in the form of the refugee camps soldiers built, were of great logistical importance. However, there was doubt as to whether they were built efficiently, as well as rapidly. Even members of the military accept that good construction guidelines were lacking. The Americans Camp Hope was quickly nicknamed Camp hope it doesnt rain (it did).
Weaker or contested messages
In addition to the messages that ring loud and clear, there are other signals which are weaker or more contested. All the evaluations comment on the large amounts of bilateral aid thrown at relief, not this time at development. Some see this as having created problems for a population that was already fully employed in reconstruction when the international community intervened. For a decade, Albanians in Kosovo had been forced to create their own parallel civil society, from kindergartens to health clinics, architecture schools and a vibrant independent media. Thus, interventions can be seen as peremptory, non-consultative and over-dependent on in-and-out commercial contractors; in a word, these interventions were debilitatingly dispossessing, rather than constructively supportive.
Conclusions about issues to do with human resources among the aid agencies were also less clear-cut. Where there is some evaluation of human resource management, little positive is said; one Kosovar employed by an international NGO reported to me that the organisation behaved just like the communist party, powerful, rich with resources, coming in from afar, and knowing only how to look after their own in this case foreign staff. Unprofessional personnel management appears to have been the norm, as in other emergencies, with a familiar pattern of short-term assignments, lack of appropriate training, lack of briefing on arrival and departure and, as ever, gender issues were reportedly forgotten again.
As in virtually all evaluations of all international emergencies, poor coordination is blamed for a lot. Also like most evaluations, analysis does not go much farther than that. Yet where serious comment is offered, some interesting questions are raised. Higher-level and strategic coordination was lacking, but did this in and of itself account for much in the pattern of the response overall, where good coordination was forthcoming at lower, more operational, levels? One or two of these evaluations suggest that this was not the case. None of these evaluations addresses the question of whether the high-level coordination role should have been assigned to UNHCR. UNHCR was heavily criticised from all angles. Arguably, a different division of responsibility, between the OSCE, WFP and OCHA, may have worked better.
Absences: the politics of the Kosovo crisis
Despite their merits, much is missing in these evaluations, and much is treated anecdotally or erroneously. Fundamentally, these evaluations generally failed to take into account the social and political dynamics of the conflict. This results in the humanitarianising of a crisis that is essentially political in nature. Even the word conflict is practically absent; instead, these evaluations tend to refer simply to the crises that the agencies in question perceived through the lens of their own mandates. On the rare occasions when these evaluations do speak about the conflict, this is labelled simply as ethnic. This kind of phoney analysis as to ethnicity in effect serves as a substitute for meaningful political analysis, or allows evaluations to evade politics altogether. Thus, these evaluations over-simplify the complexities of Serbo-Albanian tensions, while the politics of Western intervention and the role of NATO bombing in creating a regional humanitarian crisis are insufficiently analysed.
Was the aid intervention in Kosovo humanitarian?
The prejudiced use of the label humanitarian organisation in these management evaluations does not in itself help answer the question whether what these agencies actually did qualifies as humanitarian. Among other things, this depends on what this key term is taken to mean. By and large, however, these evaluations did not define the term. All of these independent evaluations treat supply-side agendas as if these pertain to donors only, and as if international NGOs did not have such organisation-driven agendas of their own, be they religious, social or even for that matter geopolitical.
If, in its narrowest meaning, to be humanitarian means to save threatened lives, did the international communitys intervention in Kosovo on balance save more lives than were threatened, jeopardised or extinguished? What is the brute arithmetic of the human lives lost and saved in this conflict? Unfortunately, this calculation is not available. NATOs decision to launch the air campaign and rule out the use of ground forces lifted a key constraint on Milosovic and saved NATO lives. But it failed to deter an even bloodier offensive against civilians in Kosovo. As for the distribution of emergency relief assistance, emergency aid for the most part failed to reach those not in the refugee camps, that is around two-thirds of the total refugee population in Macedonia, and an additional proportion in Albania. Moreover, two or three of the most convincing evaluations suggest that this crisis, as with others, was absorbed and managed largely by the refugees themselves.
Epilogue: and now Afghanistan
Will the international emergency response in Afghanistan turn out to be humanitarian? All these Kosovo questions are pertinent here. Once again, there is significant military involvement in the emergency, raising questions as to whether it is deserving of the label humanitarian. Any number of international NGOs are also involved. However, the problems for evaluations to address in Afghanistan are even more complex, given the unstable regional situation and the interplay of interests in the US. To what extent, and how effectively, will the victims of the war be reached, by the relief service agencies or units concerned, as well as by evaluators? Will the nature of the conflict be taken into account by agencies in their programmes? Will institutionalised amateurism rule again? Will human rights issues again be translated just into emergency assistance issues? Will the analysis that is brought to bear be sufficiently historically, socially, economically and ethically informed to be credible and useful? There will also of course once again be the gruesome arithmetic of lives and deaths to be done. Compared with how many lives are lost, how many were saved, and whose? And why did things have to turn out this way again?
Raymond Apthorpe is Visiting Professor at the Australian National University (ANU)s National Center for Development Studies, and a Research Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His e-mail addresses are: apthorpe@lycos.com; and RaymondApthorpe@cs.com. This article is based on an extract of a presentation made at the Collegium of Development Studies, Uppsala University, in May 2001.
M. Barutciski, Western Diplomacy and the Kosovo Refugee Crisis, Forced Migration Review, August 1999.
Peter Gowan, Making Sense of NATOs War on Yugoslavia, in Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (eds), Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias (New York: Socialist Register, 2000).
Adrian Wood, Raymond Apthorpe and John Borton (eds), Evaluating International Humanitarian Action: Reflections from Practitioners (London: Zed Books, 2001).
Kosovo evaluation reports held on the ALNAP Evaluative Reports Database
Reports restricted to ALNAP Members
J. Nagel Connolly and L. Larsen, An Evaluation of OFDAs Emergency Response Program in Kosovo, June 1999March 2000 (Washington DC: USAID/OFDA, June 2001)
P. G. Nembrini, Evaluation of the Water and Sanitation Program in Kosovo (Geneva: SDC, August 2001)
G. Kieffer, C. Paoli and M. Van Bruaene, Evaluation of the Coordination Between ECHO, Political Authorities, Military Forces and Other Donors During the Kosovo Crisis: Final Report (Brussels: ECHO, August 2000)
C. Capouillez, G. Kieffer and M. Van Bruaene, Evaluation of ECHO Action in the Republic of Montenegro following the Kosovo Crisis: Final Report (Brussels: ECHO, August 2000)
S. Jadavji, M. Van Bruaene and J. Welch, Evaluation of ECHO Action in the Republic of Albania following the Kosovo Crisis: Final Report (Brussels: ECHO, August 2000)
J. Alderson, E. Picard, S. Roeh and E. Rogier, Evaluation of the ECHO Actions in Serbia following the Kosovo Crisis: Final Report (Brussels: ECHO, August 2000)
J. Alderson, E. Picard, S. Roeh and E. Rogier, Evaluation of the ECHO Actions in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia following the Kosovo Crisis: Final Report (Brussels: ECHO, August 2000)
I. Agger, M. J. Alderson, M. S. de Boer and E. Sondorp, Evaluation of the ECHO Actions in Kosovo following the Kosovo Crisis: Final Report (Brussels: ECHO, August 2000)
O. Bakewell, W. Hume, R. Lavy and C. Piper, Tearfund Balkans Emergency Response April 1999July 2000 Evaluation (London: Tearfund, July 2000)
A. Paludan, Lessons Learnt from the Danish Refugee Councils Involvement in the Kosovo Crisis 19981999 (Copenhagen: DRC, November 1999)
F. Anema, M. Stone and H. Wissink, The Balkans Evaluation: An Examination of the Role of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movements Response to the Balkans Crisis (Geneva: ICRC/IFRC, March 2000)
M. Greene, K. Madi, R. Stevens and J. Telford, UNICEF Preparedness and Response in the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Emergency: A Joint UNICEF/DFID Evaluation (London: UNICEF/DFID, January 2000)
C. de Ville de Goyet and E. Sondorp, Internal Evaluation of WHO Response in Kosovo from June to December 1999 (Geneva: WHO, May 2001)
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J. Telford, Coordination in the 1999 Kosovo Refugee Emergency: The Emergency Management Group (EMG), Albania (London: DFID, January 2000)
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Home / Bible Commentaries / The People's Bible by Joseph Parker/ Isaiah
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker
Isaiah Isaiah 11
Calvin's Commentary
Gray's Commentary
The Knell of Doom
Isaiah 9:1 to Isaiah 10:4
There is a very striking expression in the Isaiah 9:11 : "The Lord shall set up the adversaries." "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Does God employ evil spirits, evil men? Is it true that he maketh the wrath of man to praise him, and that he restrains the remainder thereof, and keeps it back for use upon occasion? Does he use up the very hell which sin has made, turning its heat into uses intended for judgment and penalty, and through this process intended also for repentance and reclamation? It is a wonderful universe. "The Lord shall set up the adversaries." This accounts for many oppositions which otherwise would be without explanation. We wonder why such and such people should be opposed to us; on the face of the occasion there is nothing to account for the hostility; in fact, there may be possibly something which ought to operate in another direction, making them rather friends and comrades than enemies; yet there they are, in battle array, looking upon us jealously, speaking of us falsely, endeavouring to ensnare our steps, to frustrate our purposes, and to make our life a misery. Attempt to conciliate them, and all your approaches do but add to the malignity of their detestation. We are not to look upon these things as merely human, coming and going by an uncalculated law, an operation of chance or fortuity; we are to ask for discerning eyes that look beneath surfaces, and find the spring of causes. The people themselves, too, are at a loss to explain their hostility: they cannot give reasons in regular numeration, gathering themselves up into a final and representative reason; yet they know that their hearts are simply set against us in a deadly attitude. Ask them questions about this opposition, and they will confess themselves bewildered; they daily look round for causes, and find none; yet they say they cannot restrain the dislike, and they must force it into forms of opposition about whose urgency and determinateness there can be no mistake. How is all this? Is it not the Lord reigning even here? God means to chasten us, to make us feel that there are other people in the world beside ourselves, and that we have no right to all the room, and no claim that can be maintained to all the property. Thus we teach one another by sometimes opposing one another. We are brought to chastening and sobriety and refinement by attritions and oppositions that are, from a human point of view, utterly unaccountable. The Bible never hesitates to trace the whole set and meaning of providence to the Lord himself: he sends the plague, the pestilence, the darkness, all the flies and frogs that desolated old Egypt; he still is the Author of gale, and flood, and famine, and pestilence. We have amused ourselves by deceiving ourselves, by discovering a thousand secondary causes, and seeking, piously or impiously, to relieve providence of the responsibility of the great epidemic. Within given limits all we say may be perfectly true; we are great in phenomena, we have a genius in the arrangement of detail; but, after all, above all, and beneath all, is the mysterious life, the omnipotence of God, the judgment between right and wrong that plays upon the universe as upon an obedient instrument,—now evoking from it black frowning thunder, and now making it tremble with music that children love, and that sweetest mothers want all their babes to hear. Who can be so gentle, so condescending, so tender as the everlasting Father?
In this section we come upon a word which may be regarded as a refrain—"For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still" ( Isaiah 9:12). In the seventeenth verse the refrain is repeated; in the twenty-first verse we find it again; and once more ( Isaiah 10:4) the solemn words roll in upon our attention: "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." There must be some cause for this. Is the cause concealed? On the contrary, it is written in boldest capitals, so that the dimmest eyes may see it all, in every palpitating, burning syllable. Let us make ourselves acquainted with the cause, lest we judge God harshly by wondering that his hand should be stretched out in judgment rather than stretched out that he may touch the nations with a sceptre of mercy.
"The people turneth not unto him that smiteth them" ( Isaiah 9:13). That is one element of the cause of this judgment. They do not kiss the rod: they see it to be a rod only; they do not understand that judgment is the severe aspect of mercy, and that without mercy there could be no real judgment. There might be condemnation, destruction, annihilation, but "judgment" is a combined or compound term, involving in all its rich music every possible utterance of law and grace and song and hope. Why do we not turn to him who smites us, and kiss the rod; yea, kiss the hand that wields it? Why do we not say, Thy judgments are true and righteous altogether, thou Lord most High: health gone, chairs vacated, fireside emptied; all is right, and all is hard to bear: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord? Yea, the submissive heart may go further, and say, I have no right to any tittle that has been taken from me; it was really not mine; the mistake was that I thought it belonged to me, and that I could establish a claim to its proprietorship and retention: whereas I see now that I have nothing that I have not received, that I never had anything that was not given to me or lent to me, or of which I was not put in trust and stewardship. Thou hast taken it all away; I know it is not because I have prayed too much, but because I have sinned beyond measure. When a man thus kisses the hand that wields the rod, the rod blossoms, and God"s judgment becomes God"s grace.
"The leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed" ( Isaiah 9:16).
That is another explanation of the cause. The displeasure is not superficial or incidental, involving only a few of the weaker sort of people; the displeasure has attacked the very centres of social dignity, social thought, and social influence. The leaders have fallen: what can the followers do? Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen. In ancient times the people were accustomed to put the statues of their princes and leaders close to fountains and springing waters; they thought the association good, the alliance seemed to be natural and suggestive: for these men were fountains of pure water, springs of Wisdom of Solomon , and judgment, and righteousness; all their thought was clear as crystal, and the uprising of their life was as water that came from a rocky bed, untainted, refreshing. The idea was excellent. People who had such conceptions regarding their princes, leaders, and legislators were likely to yield themselves to whatever influence such mighty men exerted. When, therefore, the leader went astray, the whole procession followed him, because they had confidence in him. "I command, therefore," said one who spoke with authority, "that prayer be made for all men"—for princes, governors, rulers, magistrates, Judges , ministers of state, conductors of the journals of the time; for all men who have the eloquent tongue, the facile pen, moral, intellectual, social, that leadership may be purified, and that under a sanctified directorate the whole nation may move on in the direction of righteousness, equity, love of truth, moral frankness, and abounding, yea boundless, charity.
"Every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly"( Isaiah 9:17).
This is a continuation of the explanation of the cause of the divine judgment. Mark the completeness of the statement: it is "every one." We have read elsewhere, "There is none righteous, no, not one." We are familiar with the expression that the Lord looked down from heaven to see if there were any that were righteous and that did good, and whose thoughts were towards himself in all the simplicity of trust and in all the ardour of prayer, and he himself, reporting upon the moral state of the world, said, They have all turned aside. In our high confessions, sometimes perhaps thoughtlessly, yet after a moment"s reflection most thoughtfully, we have said, "All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way." "Every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly." Does not the word "folly" seem to be too weak a word with which to conclude that indictment? "Hypocrite," "evildoer," "folly"—does not the series run in the wrong direction? So it may appear in the translation, but the word for "folly" should be "blasphemy." "Every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh blasphemy:" the world has become brazen-faced in iniquity, shameless in sin; an oath shall now be uttered where once it would only have been whispered, and men shall speak openly of forbidden things as if they were talking the conventional language of the day. The devil drives his scholars fast; he does not keep school for nothing; he means to turn out experts; he listens to our profane rhetoric, and in proportion as we become eloquent in the utterance of his language does he give us prize, and certificate, and honour, and write down our names in the list of those who have taken high positions in the examinations of hell. "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still." That is right. If his anger had been turned away, he would not have been God; if his hand had not been stretched out, even farther and farther still in presence of such wickedness, then he would have forfeited his right to sit upon the throne of the universe. God cannot yield; righteousness can never compound; there is no compromise in truth: the whole controversy must be settled upon principles that are fundamental, all-involving, and eternal, and then it will be for ever settled.
The Lord will show how the judgment will take effect—"Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day" ( Isaiah 9:14). The explanation is given partly in Isaiah 9:15, "The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail." "Branch and rush"—the allusion is to the beauteous palm-tree: it shall be cut down notwithstanding its beauty; and the "rush"—the common growths round about it, entangled roots, poor miserable shrubs that crowd and cumber the earth—branch and rush cannot stand before God"s sword and fire: everything that is wrong goes down in a common destruction. Judgment obliterates our classifications. When judgment begins at the house of God, the meanest man and the loftiest go for nothing before the fire of that holy wrath. It is well that now and again all our classifications should be destroyed. We have made too much of them; we have designated this and that as reputable and respectable and good, whereas it was only relatively such, and not really. When God arises to shake terribly the earth, tower, and temple, and town, and meanest hut, all reel under the tremendous shock. "God is no respecter of persons." He will not spare the corrupt judge and punish the meaner criminals; rather will he say, The greater the criminal"s advantages the meaner is the criminal himself: he ought to have known better; he had every opportunity of knowing better; he sinned away his advantages, and therefore his downfall could be none to mitigate or deplore.
"The Lord shall have no joy in their young men" ( Isaiah 9:17).
The meaning is full of suggestion. God delights in the young. God has made the young a ministry of instruction and comfort to old age. God keeps the world young by keeping children in it, and helpless ones. But God shall cease to see in young men any hope for the future. Once he would have done Song of Solomon , saying, The young men will keep the world right: they are strong, they are pure-minded, they are enthusiastic; their youthful, sometimes exuberant, zeal and influence will keep things as they ought to be kept. But henceforth God withdraws from the young, and they become old; he takes from them his all-vitalising and all-blessing smile, and they wither as flowers die when the sun turns away.
Sin was to be left to be its own punishment. Here we come upon a paragraph full of mournful interest. The whole work shall be left to sin itself. "No man shall spare his brother" ( Isaiah 9:19). How often have we seen when men have fallen into wrong relations to God they have fallen also into wrong relations to one another; all pledges are broken up, all covenants are destroyed, all understandings as to concession and compromise and give-and-take,—all these things disappear, and man flies at the throat of man like wild beast at wild beast. How man can sink! Why can he sink so far? Because he has risen so high: the inverted tree we see in the calm lake indicates the height of that tree as it lifts itself up towards the welcoming and blessing sun. "He shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied" ( Isaiah 9:20). This is the mockery of God. This is how God taunts men. "They shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm." A man shall play the cannibal upon himself. Literally, every man shall fly at every other man"s arm, and every man shall be eating human flesh, for there is nothing else to eat.
Then, too, there is to be internecine war: Manasseh shall fly at Ephraim, and Ephraim at Prayer of Manasseh , and they who could agree upon nothing between themselves always agree in flying together against Judah. This is what wickedness will bring the world to—to murder, to mutual hatred and distrust, to perdition. We do not understand the power of wickedness, because at present, owing to religious thinking and action and moral civilisation, there are so many mitigating circumstances, so many relieving lights; but wickedness in itself let loose upon the earth, and the earth is no longer the abode of green thing, of fair flower, or singing bird, of mutual trust and love: it becomes a pandemonium. If we could consider this deeply, it would make us solemn. We do not consider it; we are prepared to allow it as a theory or a conjecture, but the realisation of it is kept far from us. The wicked man kills himself; puts his teeth into the flesh of his own arm, and gnaws it with the hunger of a wild beast. That is what wickedness comes to! It is not an intellectual error, not a slight and passing mistake, not a lapse of judgment, or a momentarily lamentable act of misconduct which can easily be repaired: the essence of wickedness is destruction. Wickedness would no sooner hesitate to kill a little child than to snap a flower. The thing that keeps the world from suicide is the providence of God. Were God to take away the restraining influences which are keeping society together, society would fall into mutual enmity, and the controversy could only end in mutual death. "For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still" ( Isaiah 9:21). Do not blame the judgment, blame the sin; do not say, How harsh is God, say, How corrupt, how blasphemous is man!
"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed" ( Isaiah 10:1).
The Lord"s voice is always for righteousness. What is it that is denounced? It is the very thing that is to be denounced evermore. There is nothing local or temporary in this cause of divine offence. The Lord is against all unrighteous decrees, unnatural alliances, and evil compacts. This is the very glory of the majesty of omnipotence, that it is enlisted against every form of evil and wrong. Then—"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed"—scribes or registrars who preserve all the forms of the court, and keep their pens busy upon the court register, writing down every case, and appearing to do the business correctly and thoughtfully; and yet all the while these very registrars were themselves plotting "to take away the right from the poor, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless." The court of law was turned into a means of robbery, as it is in nearly every country under the sun. The scribes who wrote down the law were men who secretly or overtly broke it; the judge used his ermine as a cloak, that under its concealment he might thrust his hand further into the property of those who had no helper. "For all this his anger is not turned away." Blessed be his name! Oh, burn thou against us all; mighty, awful, holy God, burn more and more, until we learn by fire what we can never learn by pity. The Lord speaks evermore for the poor, for the widow, for the fatherless, for the helpless. Here we pause, as we have often done before in these readings, to say, How grand is the moral tone of the Bible; how sweetly does God speak for truth and righteousness; how condescendingly does he enlist omnipotence on the side of innocent helplessness.
Now we come upon an awful irony:—
"What will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?" ( Isaiah 10:3).
This is more difficult to bear than was the fire of judgment—this spectral tone, this irony from behind the clouds, this mockery that makes our marrow cold. "What will ye do?" What is your last resource? When it becomes your turn to play in this great game, what move will you take? That hour comes in all life. For a long time men can be moving to and fro, and changing their position, and trying their policy, and deceiving even the very elect by the agility of their movements; but there comes a time when the last step must be taken, the last hand must be shown, the last declaration must be made. You have sinned away—so the impeachment would seem to say—the day of judgment; you have mocked righteousness; you have turned the sanctuary into a school of blasphemy; you have robbed the poor, the widow, the fatherless; you have trodden down every thing of beauty that God planted upon the earth, and you would have blackened the stars with night if your evil hands could have reached them! Now there has come the critical moment of agony, and the question Isaiah , "What will ye do?" Now for genius, now for the fine intellectual stroke, now for the stroke that will settle everything your own way—what is it? Open your right hand, and it contains emptiness; your left, and it is rich with nothingness. "What will ye do?" You have sworn every oath, and the very familiarity of your irreverence has turned your blasphemy stale. "What will ye do?" Bribe? You have nothing in the treasure-house, and your money is not current coin with this reckoning. "What will ye do?" Confess? Too late: that would be a coward"s trick. "What will ye do?" That same question occurs in the Christian books—"How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation?" That question is—HOW?
"The whole passage, from the fifth verse of chap. x. to the end of chap, xii, should be read together, beginning with the solemn denunciation, as the title to the whole, of "Woe to Asshur!" Assyria, in all its pride, was but a rod in the hands of Jehovah, and when the appointed work of judgment was done, the instrument of that judgment, worthless in itself, would be cast away and destroyed.... Then follows a description of the Assyrian"s march upon Jerusalem, which, says Delitzsch, "aesthetically considered, is one of the most magnificent that human poetry has ever produced." It is also very interesting to the reader of modern days, inasmuch as it clears up a difficulty which most earlier expositors had felt, and enables us by means of the Assyrian monuments to add another to the "undesigned" confirmations of Scripture. It has been usual to refer the account of this march to the history of Sennacherib, in Hezekiah"s later days, after the capture of Lachish [ 2 Kings 18:13-17; Isaiah 36:1-2]. But then, it has been remarked, Sennacherib advanced from the south-west, i.e. from the road leading to Egypt; while the route so vividly described by the prophet is from the north-east. Expositors therefore have generally contented themselves with calling the description "ideal." It depicts such an approach as the Assyrian king might have made, had he come from that quarter! But now we know that there was another invasion before that of Sennacherib."—Rev. S. G. Green, D.P.
Verses 5-34
The Burden of Assyria
Isaiah 10:5 to Isaiah 12:6
Anew section begins at Isaiah 10:5, and goes to Isaiah 12:6. The section deals with Assyria, and might be called in some sense "The Burden of Assyria." It is most difficult to understand. All annotators have been more or less perplexed by it. The translators have put in words with which to help themselves over literal difficulties. Sometimes Assyria seems to be speaking as the prophet himself, and sometimes the prophet seems to be speaking as if Assyria were uttering judgments upon wrong. All we can do is to endeavour to find some central line upon which can be strung all the wise and abiding words which history has proved to be just and useful.
In studying the history of Assyria as given in this section we shall see at least some principles of the divine government. Assyria itself is dead and gone; for us the vision in its literal detail is useless; it has taken its place in antique, grey history; but it is of infinite importance that we should trace the common line of providence, the abiding quantity of history, the thing that never changes, and thus feel that we are still under a government strong in righteousness and gracious in discipline. The thing always to be sought after is the abiding unit; the unit without which calculation is impossible: that we may discover with gracious certainty in a narrative so graphic and vivid as that which is given in the text. Let us say that God speaks by the mouth of the prophet, saying:—
"O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation" ( Isaiah 10:5).
The meaning might be this: "I will choose a staff with which I will chastise my people: I have fixed my choice upon Assyria; I will so use that proud nation that my people shall begin to fear that for their sin they shall be heavily dealt with: I will choose Assyria as an instrument of vengeance." We must not omit the reflection that this was a terrible thing for Assyria. What man likes to be an instrument through which righteousness will punish some other man? Who would willingly accept a calling and election so severe? The man himself may have nothing to avenge upon the one to whom he is sent as a judgment, and yet he is doing things without being able to explain them; as we have already seen, he is setting up hostilities which he can only partially defend and hardly at all explain:—
"I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets" ( Isaiah 10:6).
Thus nations are sent to do work they do not like. What are the nations but instruments in the hands of him who made them? So we are puzzled and perplexed by many an imperial policy; we do not like it, and yet still it proceeds to work out all its mysterious issues—now severe, now beneficent. We are in tumult and darkness and perplexity, thick and that cannot be disentangled; and how seldom we realise the fact that all this may be a divine movement, a clouding of the divine presence, and an outworking of divine and eternal purposes.
"Howbeit he meaneth not Song of Solomon , neither doth his heart think so" ( Isaiah 10:7).
Assyria does not know what he is going to do; he is quick at giving an explanation of his own action, but it does not occur to him that he is instrument, servant, mere errand-bearer to the King of glory. "He meaneth not Song of Solomon , neither doth his heart think Song of Solomon ,"—that is to say, it never occurs to him that he is an instrument of providence, that he has been selected in order that he might manifest divine judgments. We cannot tell what we are doing. Assyria said that it was in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few; he was simply a warrior; it did not enter into his conception that he was anything more than a conqueror, a proud destroyer, one before whose advent all nations quailed. Thus the Lord useth the pride of man. For a moment he gratifies human vanity; for a little while he allows man to proceed upon certain conceptions, that in the long run he may work out his own judgment, and illustrate and vindicate his own providence. If the action were within a definite time, then moral criticism might fall upon its enouncement; but the Lord speaks in circular periods, in complete lapses of time; all the ages lie in their nakedness before him when he declares judgment or blessing: his action, therefore, is not to be interrupted at some inferior point of punctuation, but is to be allowed to roll itself out in all its fulness, and when the unfoldment is complete the judgment may be pronounced. How many men there are just in the position of Assyria at this particular time! They lift up their hand, and nations tremble; they inflict a studied discourtesy, and all the land wonders why it should have been, and begins to predict unrest, unsettlement, war, and great ruin. The particular Prayer of Manasseh , seeing all this as the issue of his policy or his neglect, inflames himself with pride, burns with vanity, lifts himself up as if he would touch the stars, feels in all his blood the tingle of sovereignty. Poor fool! he does not know that he is like a saw which God has taken up to sever a piece of wood. The Lord knows what a man is; he knows all that is in Prayer of Manasseh , and he uses him for the education of Prayer of Manasseh , he employs one nation for the deliverance of another. The scheme of providence is a tessellated scheme, full of little pieces, marvellously related to one another, and no one can lay his hand upon a single point and say, This is all. There is no single point in divine providence; all history is consolidated; all the action of time means the grand significance that it issues in. We are to beware of temporary definitions and temporary conclusions. Any conclusion to which we can now come is open to the modification of to-morrow. Only God can conclude; only Christ can say, "It is finished!"
Assyria, then, begins to exult; he says:—
"For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?" ( Isaiah 9:8-9).
I have done all these things, and all that is yet to be done is part and parcel of the same triumph:—
"As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?" ( Isaiah 9:10-11).
This is intoxication; this is the wilderness of military vanity. The king of Assyria sees all things falling into his hands: he says, Calno shall be no more than Carchemish was; and Hamath shall be as Arpad, and Samaria as Damascus: as I have killed many, I will kill more; as I have subdued hitherto all along the line, so I will continue my work of subjugation until the whole series fall at my feet. Thus providence is unknown and misinterpreted; thus do men get hold of the wrong end of things, and talk idiotically. Assyria does not pause, and say, Why is this? is there more blood to be shed? are there more people to be trampled upon? This is hard work: I would the gods would save me from this execution. Then Assyria would have been a child of heaven. But who ever takes the events of life as chastening, instructing, and disciplining the mind? Who receives his wages in order that he may do good with the money? who accepts his rewards in order that he may encourage and deepen his gratitude? Let us pray for a right conception of providence. If we are sent on cruel errands, let us go about them diligently, but with a subtle reluctance that will import into our hardest judicial tones some gospel of God Assyria misunderstood providence, which we are doing every day; we are taking our influence, and magnifying it so as to feed our vanity, instead of accepting it as a trust, and asking God to be merciful to us even in the bestowment of power.
Now another section opens, a wholly distinct view looms upon the vision:—
"Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man" ( Isaiah 10:12-13).
I will choke him in his boasts. While his throat is inflamed with his own vanity I will lay my hand upon his, and murder him in the sight of heaven. Providence is a large term. It is not a government of fits and starts and spasms that are unrelated to one another; it is righteous, solemn, tranquil,—yea, tranquil though the detail, the immediate phenomena may be associated with tumult and riot and wantonness; within the whole action there is a zone of calm. We are not to misunderstand the clouds, though they be laden with snow. Where are they but in God"s hand? Beyond them the moon shines nightly without a flutter, and the sun holds his court all day without dread of the interruption of his sovereignty. All that may be within the eye-line is full of darkness, and tumult, and trouble; we are filled with distress because of what we see, but then we only see that which is as a handful of a very small space. All the tranquillities of the universe are undisturbed by the little thunder that roars and vibrates in the lower atmospheres. So is it with the purpose of God. Assyria shall be used to an end; he shall accomplish that end; but for his pride he shall be punished. All self-idolatry is punishment; all presumption comes to a bad end. Assyria said, "By the strength of my hand I have done it," and God shall prove that it was otherwise, that his poor little fist did nothing in the matter but as it was directed by the palm of omnipotence. Assyria said, "I am prudent," and God will turn his prudence to shame and confusion, for the whole scheme was not planned by his military wit; it was all laid out by him whose artillery is the starry heavens, and whose resources are his own infinity.
Then Assyria makes a figure. The metaphor is to be found in the following verse ( Isaiah 10:14)—
"And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped."
So Assyria represents himself as a gigantic fowler who had gone out and captured all the feathered tribes, and not one of them rebelled against his well-laid schemes. The image is graphic; the vanity of Assyria has made him for a moment poetical. How otherwise could the pagan mind think? When a man has both hands full, what else can he say but that he is rich? If all his schemes prosper, how other can he lay down on his own couch at night than as a prudent man? When not a line of his policy has failed, is he not at liberty to say, None moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped; I seemed to fasten all the birds like the eye of a basilisk; they all gave themselves up to me: behold, how great I Amos , and how my wonder eclipses the sun? The pagan mind must talk Song of Solomon , because it has no worthy centre; it does not calculate by the right standard or regulate by the one meridian; it can see no farther than itself: itself is its universe. Only when right conceptions of a religious kind enter the mind does the mind look round for deepest causes, and wonder, and pray, and say, Would God I could find out the reality of this case! things come too easily to me: surely God must be using me for some purpose I cannot understand; why do these eagles fall into my hand? how large they are and strong, with wings that were made to darken the sun; why do I capture them so easily? why does my business prosper more than my neighbour"s? he complains, and I proceed, adding store to store; other men devise plans, and they come to nothing; my policy always blossoms and fructifies, and comes back upon me a hundredfold: how is this? surely God is using me to an end, and I cannot tell what it is. O God, make me humble, calm, watchful; I do not wholly like this; I would there were more resistance to me; the very facility of my progress through a land of rock and mountain and darkness makes me feel that I am being impelled or lured, rather than walking by my voluntary motion and determination. This would be sacred talk, speech of salt; a sacrifice of the tongue acceptable unto God.
Then the Lord reasons thus:—
"Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood" ( Isaiah 10:15).
How satiric is God! Can sarcasm whet a keener edge than this? O Assyria, thou art but an iron axe with a wooden handle, and God has been using thee for smiting trees:—thou art but a sharp-toothed saw, which God himself has sharpened in order that he might cut with it a piece of timber: do not shake thyself against them that lift thee up; and, staff, forget not that thou art only wooden after all. So we are abased; yea, those who stand near the altar and speak the eloquence of God are told by a thousand angels that like themselves they are "but ministers": they have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of men.
And still further, God reduces the pride of those that lift themselves up against him—"The rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them" ( Isaiah 10:19). Even what is left is just sufficient to provoke contempt. A completer desolation would have been more a blessing, but to have two or three trees left out of a whole forest seems to add to the bitterness of the loss. The trees are a little number, and children please themselves by counting the number on their fingers; and the man whose trees they count was once the possessor of unmeasured forests: "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." Riches take to themselves wings, and flee away. The wicked have been in great power, and they have departed without telling whither they have gone; they have not left even the rustle of a wing behind them to indicate the direction of their flight. We have much now; upstairs and downstairs, all full; to-morrow every chamber will be emptied, and yet not a door will have been opened by human hand. Seal up your treasures; take wax, and plenty of it; melt it down, stamp it with your crest—frailest sign of vanity—and to-morrow will find you empty-handed, and you will open your mouth in wonder, and ask who did it; and the secret-keeping air, the confidant of God, will not allow even a little bird to tell you whither the property has gone. Use it well! Blessed is the true and faithful servant who toils and prays!
Then a word of hope. When could the Lord conclude a speech without some tone, gospel-like in its cheerfulness and tenderness and gentleness?
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God" ( Isaiah 10:20-21).
Where have we found that expression before—"the mighty God"? We found it only a chapter back, and in the sixth verse of the ninth chapter—"His name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God"—the same word in the Hebrew: what if it be the same God in reality, and that God be Christ? There shall be a remnant, and God can use that remnant as he can use seed for planting, for sowing, for purposes of raising a new generation, planting a new forest, holy unto himself.
This is the providence, then, under which we live. Facts prove it. We are under law and criticism of a moral kind: our conduct is examined, our motives are inquired into and pronounced upon by the just One; every morning is as a white throne set in the heavens; every noonday is as an eye of fire watching the ways of men; every night is a pavilion of rest, or an image of despair. The axe of heaven is lifted up against all the thick trees that suppose themselves to be independent of God. All moral loveliness is cherished as the pearl greater in value than all others. This is the economy under which we live! We are not left without law, judgment, supervision, criticism; every one of us must give an account of himself to God. "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing." If for a few years we grow towards strength, we soon turn the growing point, and go down into old age and weakness, that we may know ourselves to be but men. Life is a great triumph up to middle age, because the man may be always well; he may grow in strength and in prosperity, and he may represent himself as a successful fowler; but after that grey hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not, and presently men may say as he passes by, He stoops a little more; his memory will begin to be a little blurred and clouded, and though he can keep good reckoning, yet he must trust to paper more than he ever trusted before. If we plant vineyards and forests, and subdue wildernesses by generous culture, we die whilst we gaze on our success, and are buried under the very flowers which have rewarded our toil. This is the economy under which the nations have ever lived, and under which every little life works out its little day. If we do wrong a spectre touches us in the darkness, and makes us cold with fear. What is it? It is the right hand of God; it is the feeling of righteousness; it is the sign of justice. If we do right, all heaven broadens its glory over our heads, and fills the path we walk with flowers of light. This is the economy under which we live: let us not be fools, but wise, understanding all these claims and demands, owning their righteousness, and responding to their appeals. And the end? so near, always so near. We shall see all the meaning of sword and pestilence and grim famine, of cloud and storm and angry thunder, of love, and mercy, and hope, and gospel sacred with the blood of sacrifice. By-and-by, yet a little while, no cloud is eternal; it is but vapour after all, and the wind will cleanse it away. When the vision is declared we shall know that Righteousness is the security of the universe, hell the necessity of unrepented sin, and heaven is the God-built, eternal home of men who touched the atoning Saviour with the reverent, grateful hand of faith. History is in a great tumult: nation clashes against nation in the shock of war; man eats the flesh of the arm of Prayer of Manasseh , and grows the hungrier for his feast of blood; the poor are little counted of, the weak go to the wall; banners red as blood are being figured all over with lines of fire, with the motto, "Might is right." O Lord, how long? In reply to this question we are entitled to go back upon all the record of history, and trace the line of providence through the whole—a line now terrible as righteousness, now gracious as the love of Christ. The Lord reigneth!
Almighty God, we thank thee for the promise of all bright days; we rejoice that there is coming a time when cloud and storm will be done away, and peace and loveliness and glory shall crown all things: this is the end of thy government, this is the meaning of thy love. We accept it as such, and cheer ourselves meanwhile with this bright and glowing hope. Thou wilt come and rectify all things; thou wilt set up the standard of the sanctuary everywhere; righteousness shall be the base and rock on which things are built, and at the top of the pillar there shall be lily work, so that strength and beauty shall be in the house of the Lord. All things hurtful thou wilt subdue; all violent forces thou wilt control; all iniquity and unrighteousness thou wilt put down, and the Sabbath of the Lord shall dawn upon a reconciled and purified earth. This is our hope; this is the poetry that sings to us; this is the prophecy that makes us glad. Lord, how long? say thy saints in their groaning. Lord, how long? do they say again when the burden presses upon their failing strength. Yet thou knowest all things; the ages are in thy keeping and under thy direction; all time is God"s instrument, and he will use it for the advancement of all causes true and pure and righteous. Enable us to control our impatience, to subdue all impious eagerness, and to wait in sweet contentment and solid assurance, knowing that the Lord will come at his own time, and set up his kingdom, and rule over all, and we shall know his coming as the earth knows the summer. The years are all thine, and thou dost mete them out one by one; to no man dost thou give five years, to another two; thou givest to each man one year, one day, one breath; and herein dost thou teach us the uncertainty of life and its necessary brevity, and suggest to us the coming and final judgment of all things. May we redeem the time; may we make the most of it; may we turn every day into a Sabbath, and every Sabbath may we sanctify with redoubled sacrifice: thus our life shall grow into a Song of Solomon , thus even the night-time shall be vocal with praise, and thus shall we magnify thy name, and return unto thee manifold, because of the seed thou hast sown in good ground. Thou knowest the want of every heart, the pain of every life, the shadow which darkens every path, and the cold wind which chills all the pulses that beat within us; we will, therefore, leave ourselves in thine hand. We can tell thee nothing; thou dost search us and try us, and see if there be any wicked way in us, that thou mayest not destroy us, but lead us in the way everlasting. Thy will be done. Receive us into thine own hands; direct us by thine own Spirit; fill us with wisdom and understanding, and endow us with a sagacious mind. May ours be the highest Christian courage, fearing nothing, hoping all things, seeing no danger, dreading no foe, but constantly moving onward, with the dignity of conviction, and with the patience of those to whom is entrusted an immortal hope. Lord, bless the land. God save the Queen: establish her throne in righteousness, and may its canopy be as a banner of love. The Lord bless all the nations of the earth, for all the nations should be one empire, ruled by the Son of God. Blessed Jesus, thou art the propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world; for that world, therefore, do we pray, that every acre of it may be sown with gospel seed, that every handful of its soil may be consecrated by the touch of honest men, and that the whole world may be like a returned prodigal, received with joy and thankfulness into the family of the stars. Pity us in all our littleness; pardon us wherein our sin grows upon us like a rising mountain, and send comfort by thy Cross, Messiah, Emmanuel, Son of God! Amen.
Parker, Joseph. "Commentary on Isaiah 10:4". The People's Bible by Joseph Parker. http://odl.studylight.org/commentaries/jpb/isaiah-10.html. 1885-95.
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Immunohistochemical analysis of IgA expression differentiates IgG4-related disease from plasma cell-type Castleman disease
Akihiro Manabe, Takuro Igawa, Mai Takeuchi, Yuka Gion, Tadashi Yoshino, Yasuharu Sato
Graduate School of Health Sciences
Plasma cell-type Castleman disease (PCD) is often encountered when differentiating IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD). Given that serum IgA is often elevated in Castleman disease, we investigated whether IgA expression levels in histological specimens can be used to differentiate between the two diseases. Lymph node lesions obtained from 12 IgG4-RD and 11 PCD patients were analysed by immunohistochemistry with anti-IgG, -IgG4, and -IgA antibodies. In addition to all 12 cases of IgG4-RD, 8/11 cases (72.7 %) of PCD also met the diagnostic criteria of IgG4-RD (serum IgG4 ≥135 mg/dl and IgG4/IgG-positive cells ≥40 %). IgA-positive cells were sparsely and densely distributed in IgG4-RD and PCD cases, respectively. The median number of IgA-positive cells ± SD in all 12 cases of IgG4-RD was 31 ± 37 cells per three high-powered fields (3HPFs) (range 4–118 cells/3HPFs). In contrast, the median number of IgA-positive cells, which was significantly higher in all 11 cases of PCD, was 303 ± 238 cells/3HPFs (range 74–737 cells/3HPFs) (P <0.001). In conclusion, our findings indicate that in cases where serum analysis-based data are unavailable, anti-IgA immunostaining can be used for differential diagnosis of IgG4-RD.
Medical Molecular Morphology
Accepted/In press - Jul 20 2016
Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia
Plasma Cells
Immunoglobulin A
Immunoglobulin G
Hyper IL-6 syndrome
IgG4
IgG4-related disease
Plasma cell type Castleman disease
Manabe, A., Igawa, T., Takeuchi, M., Gion, Y., Yoshino, T., & Sato, Y. (Accepted/In press). Immunohistochemical analysis of IgA expression differentiates IgG4-related disease from plasma cell-type Castleman disease. Medical Molecular Morphology, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00795-016-0145-4
Immunohistochemical analysis of IgA expression differentiates IgG4-related disease from plasma cell-type Castleman disease. / Manabe, Akihiro; Igawa, Takuro; Takeuchi, Mai; Gion, Yuka; Yoshino, Tadashi; Sato, Yasuharu.
In: Medical Molecular Morphology, 20.07.2016, p. 1-8.
Manabe, A, Igawa, T, Takeuchi, M, Gion, Y, Yoshino, T & Sato, Y 2016, 'Immunohistochemical analysis of IgA expression differentiates IgG4-related disease from plasma cell-type Castleman disease', Medical Molecular Morphology, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00795-016-0145-4
Manabe A, Igawa T, Takeuchi M, Gion Y, Yoshino T, Sato Y. Immunohistochemical analysis of IgA expression differentiates IgG4-related disease from plasma cell-type Castleman disease. Medical Molecular Morphology. 2016 Jul 20;1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00795-016-0145-4
Manabe, Akihiro ; Igawa, Takuro ; Takeuchi, Mai ; Gion, Yuka ; Yoshino, Tadashi ; Sato, Yasuharu. / Immunohistochemical analysis of IgA expression differentiates IgG4-related disease from plasma cell-type Castleman disease. In: Medical Molecular Morphology. 2016 ; pp. 1-8.
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Book of the Week — Queen Moo’s Talisman
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When grief shall rend thy heart, seek thine own soul;
Shut out life’s din, and find that sacred goal.
Queen Moo’s Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851-1910)
New York: Peter Eckler, Publisher, 1902
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon was an English photographer, amateur archaeologist, traveler, and author. She was the daughter of Henry Dixon, a copperplate printer and photographer.
She travelled with her husband, Augustus Le Plongeon, to Mexico in 1873. They were early excavators of the ancient Mayan sites of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal.
While studying the artifacts at Chichén Itzá, the Le Plongeon’s pieced together a narrative of Queen Moo (the Mayan word for “macaw”), an ancient Mayan ruler, and her brother and consort Prince Chaacmol (“powerful warrior”). In November 1875, they unearthed a large statue and other artifacts near the Platform of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chichén Itzá, including a piece of jadeite that Augustus had set in a gold brooch. Alice wore the talisman for the rest of her life.
A talisman I give thee — jadeite green,
‘Twill ever lend thee intuition keen,
Its wearer may with love herself surround,
For with attractive force it doth abound.
Would one deceive, and traitor prove to thee,
His mind with this thou wilt quite plainly see.
Thro’ centuries this talisman can bind
Two souls — desiring this, the way thou ‘lt find.
But keep it sacredly for thee alone;
If thou lose this a foe will seize thy throne.
Even though the archaeological community was not receptive to the Le Plongeons’ theories about Queen Moo, Alice publisher her epic poem. In the introduction, the author discusses the connections, linguistic and cultural, her husband, made between the Maya empire, Egypt, India, Buddha, Brahma, the Ramayana, the Mediterranean, Africa, Greece, Peru, Siam; and the maypole dance — practiced in the Yucatan and the British Isles.
Referring to the Troano Codex and the Codex Cortesianus, he connected the word “CAN,” “the generic word for serpent,” found inscribed in ancient Yucatan ruins with the Khans of Asiatic nations. Dr. Plongeon interpreted inscriptions in both manuscripts as the story of a great flood caused by an earthquake, submerging a “great island in the Atlantic ocean,” suggesting that the Troano Codex dates the disappearance of the island 8,060 years before the writing of the manuscript. “Judging from Egyptian records, the cataclysms must have occurred between ten and eleven thousand years ago.”
The publisher’s prospectus described the work as “a dramatic…account of events which caused the dismemberment of the Maya empire, according to Maya [manuscripts], mural inscriptions and frescos at Chichén in Yucatan. Interesting data are also given concerning ancient rites and religious ideas of the Mayas, their belief in the immortality of the soul, its reincarnation in human form, and its power to manifest, while disembodied, to those in the flesh.”
At the back of the book is included several songs with music, words by Alice Le Plongeon and accompaniment by Ida Simmons.
Rare Books copy is inscribed by John O. Viking, a correspondent of Alice Le Plongeon’s, on the front free flyleaf, “From/John O. Viking/Ishpeming, Mich./April 30th 08/To Sister Benediction/ 8/28, 1950.”
An autographed letter from the author to Viking dated June 22nd in the original mailing envelope and regarding the purchasing of copies of Queen Moo, some Mayan vocabulary, and a few printer’s errors in her book, A Dream of Atlantis, mounted on front pastedown; a typed letter signed by the author to John O. Viking dated May 6th, 1908 regarding the possible publication of A Dream of Atlantis in the magazine The Word also laid in at rear; typed letter signed by an associate of the Theosophical Publishing Company of New York dated August 25th, 1910 addressed to Viking and informing him of Alice Le Plongeon’s death in original mailing envelope affixed to the rear pastedown.
John Olof Viking (b. 1874) was a Swedish-born writer who settled in Michigan with his family in 1882. He worked as a staff writer for the American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal. His articles also appeared in other publications, including Cloverland Magazine and Daily Mining Journal.
Frontispiece of the author with tissue guard captioned in red. Further illustrated with thirteen black-and-white numbered drawings and three headpieces. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound in publisher’s gray cloth lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Top edge gilt.
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William & Mary Tribe vs High Point Panthers - November 05, 2019 Recap
Tribe Tribe 1-0
Panthers Panthers 0-1
Tribe 30 40 70
Panthers 21 35 56
Scott leads William & Mary past High Point 70-56
HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) Thornton Scott had a career-high 22 points as William & Mary got past High Point 70-56 on Tuesday night in a season opener for both teams.
Scott shot 6 for 8 from beyond the 3-point arc.
Nathan Knight had 16 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks for the Tribe. Andy Van Vliet added 10 rebounds.
John-Michael Wright had 17 points for the Panthers. Eric Coleman Jr. added seven rebounds. Emmanuel Izunabor had three blocks.
William & Mary travels to play American on Friday. High Point takes on Wofford on the road on Saturday.
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Wait To Upgrade To Leopard
Nov 6th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General
Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer writes on his blog that Leopard “is not a good operating system release.”
Winer compares the Leopard update to Windows:
“It’s that unpleasant to use. It disappears for long periods of time. Systems that didn’t used to crash now crash regularly. On one system three hard disks were rendered unusable, and I lost a couple of full days restoring them (luckily I had good backups). The user interface is quirky. The new networking interface is a big step backward. The firewall moved and lost features! That’s simply never done, you don’t charge customers to remove features, esp security features. I think Apple doesn’t understand how many people depend seriously on their Macs.”
Our experience mirrors Winer’s. Leopard installed fine on an eMac, but lost many of our preferences on a iBook. Worst of all, Leopard bricked our Powerbook. The root of the problem we encountered updating our Powerbook appears to have been related to using passwords longer than 8 characters. That harkens back to Windows 3.1.
Winer’s experience and ours are far from unique. Others are pointing out bugs that could cause data loss and even comparing Leopard to Vista.
We didn’t lose any data from the updates because of backups, but we’ve lost a lot of time and haven’t been impressed by many of the tweaks to the OS and interface. The changes to the dock are a big step backward, the menu bar is borderline unreadable and the feature we were the most interested in, Time Machine, hasn’t proven to work reliably over our wireless network to a shared drive. In fact, Time Machine reminded us how much more capable third-party backup solutions for Macs were 10 years ago.
Because of the lack of compelling new features in Leopard and the inability to customize interface elements for better usabilty, you may want to wait until Leopard gets updated before you upgrade.
Update: We’re not the only ones suggesting waiting to upgrade to Leopard. Tony Celeste of Tom’s Guide writes “Mac OSX Leopard was released before it was ready. This operating system was not properly beta tested, and Apple’s customers are paying for it, with lost productivity and inoperative computers.”
Update 2: PC Week says Leopard is the new Vista, citing the unnecessary graphics glitz in Leopard, Leopard’s pointless interface “fixes”, like the excessive use of translucency (translucent menu bar, anyone) that can’t be disabled, and bundled apps that suck. We wouldn’t go that quite thatfar – but they make good points.
6 Responses to “Wait To Upgrade To Leopard”
Hunh! My wife and I have had no problems at all with Leopard on either her MacBook or my PPC Mac.
Glad it’s working for you. Do you think it offers any compelling reason to upgrade immediately?
Cali Lewis says:
Dave Winer is a hardcore developer, so it makes sense that he’ll be more critical than the rest of us.
Leopard has a few obvious, life-changing additions like Cover Flow and Quick Look, but for me it’s about all the tiny little changes that just make sense. There are so many that I discover a new one almost every day.
Yesterday, I clicked on a file name to change it. When you do that in Leopard, only the filename (not the extension) is highlighted. That’s brilliant and obvious and one of multitudes of little things that make Leopard a joy to use.
It isn’t bug free. I’ve had crashes, but it’s definitely worth the upgrade.
Perhaps there aren’t BIG compelling reasons to upgrade, but like Cali, I’d have to say there are numerous small tweaks that make it worth it.
I like Quick Look and Spaces a great deal.
Rob Blatt says:
Mail.app was a reason for me, alongside improvements to the OS. Spotlight is improved by leaps and bounds, Quick Look makes Preview obsolete imo, and networking amongst other Macs is much easier. The reason to upgrade is the evolution of the operating system.
Again though, I point out that you’re not using the term brick correctly. Another thought: you haven’t changed your password since 2002? That’s the only people that the password bug affects. /snark
I had issues with Leopard as an upgrade install../ several big ones. Lost years of photos thinking my backup was in good hands.
I did a downgrade to tiger… after speaking to a few people about it… the suggestion was to do a clean install… this was a big help.
Thus far no issues… save one: There seems to be issues with external drives. Since the clean install I received a prompt saying that a file name was too big when trying to add a file to an external volume – obviously this was not the case. Moments later when I tried I got an error code (-51 or -55 not sure which).
When this happened the first time under the initial upgrade install I went to Disk Utility and tried to verify permissions and Very Disk… it couldn’t complete the task.
This time I simply restarted the issue vanished before doing anything else.
My iMac 17 1.83 core duo 2gig ram is no doubt much more responsive than with Tiger. No official tests but it is not as sluggish. My Macbook pro 15 2.0 was painfully slow at startup under the upgrade install… the clean install made a big difference here too. I blink and there’s the desktop. Ah… that’s the way it should be.
I must agree with the author… no rush to upgrade. I was happy with Tiger. There are things in Leopard I am not please with and the “improvements” are not really helping when they don’t work well – time machine for example. The only thing it did was thus far was waste time.
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"Believing women getting out of the kitchen and into the culture…"
There is a world-wide movement to join religion in an ecumenical project to “”save” the planet and the people on it. It is well organized, well funded and broadly accepted all over the world. What will you do about it?
The Earth Charter Initiative
“The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a product of a decade-long, worldwide, cross cultural dialogue on common goals and shared values.”
~From the Earth Charter Initiative
Listen carefully to the lyrics in the background of this video. Sounds like they are creating a world-wide religious experience.
Take a look at where they are headed regarding religion.
ECI Religion and Spirituality
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Browse their website and see all of those already involved. Makes me think the end could be nearer than we think.
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US20090289924A1 - Mobile device and area-specific processing executing method - Google Patents
Mobile device and area-specific processing executing method Download PDF
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Hiroaki Takata
PFU Ltd
2008-05-23 Priority to JP2008-135923 priority Critical
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A mobile device includes a control unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device moves, wherein the control unit includes an icon displaying unit that displays the icon in the display area, an icon moving unit that moves the icon displayed, in the display area and based on the displacement of the physical value, an area determining unit that compares coordinates of the icon moved and displayed in the display area to the specific area to thereby determine whether the icon is in the specific area, and an area-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and executes the area-specific processing when the area determining unit determines that the icon is in the specific area.
The present invention relates to a mobile device and an area-specific processing executing method.
Conventionally, in an inspection of a car, an equipment device, or the like, an inspector brings drawings, inspection sheets, and the like to be used for the inspection into an inspection site to conduct the inspection. In recent years, an inspector uses a mobile device in which data of the drawings and the like is input to conduct the inspection without bringing the actual drawings and the like into the inspection site.
For example, JP-A-8-171414 discloses an equipment inspecting device including a main body storing drawing information and a mobile device having a keyboard. An inspector uses the drawing information sent from the main body to the mobile device to conduct an equipment inspection and inputs inspection results by using the keyboard of the mobile device.
JP-A-2004-310616 discloses an inspection system including a server storing inspection information and a mobile device having an operating unit such as a touch panel. An inspector uses the inspection information sent from the server to the mobile device to conduct an equipment inspection and operates the touch panel or the like to manage inspection results.
JP-A-2006-48584 discloses an equipment inspection support system including a host computer storing information related to equipment inspections and a plurality of mobile devices having touch panels. A plurality of inspectors refer to the information related to the equipment inspections sent from the host computer to the mobile devices to conduct the equipment inspections at different sites.
A mobile device that performs processing such as change of screen display in synchronization with displacement detected by an acceleration sensor is developed.
For example, in a mobile device described in JP-A-2002-297284, a displayed screen of the mobile device is scrolled or zoomed according to a direction of acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor mounted on the mobile device and at different velocities according to magnitude of the acceleration.
With the mobile devices described in JP-A-8-171414, JP-A-2004-310616, JP-A-2006-48584 and the like used in the conventional inspection systems, however, a user needs to operate an input unit such as the keyboard and the touch panel of the mobile device to input the inspection result. When one of hands of the user not holding the mobile device is busy, the user has to operate the mobile device with only the other hand, which makes input operation difficult.
With the mobile device described in JP-A-2002-297284 and the like and mounted with the conventional acceleration sensor, a user is able to perform operation such as input operation with one hand by operation such as shaking of the mobile device because of the acceleration sensor. However, amounts of displacement detected by the acceleration sensor are not visualized and therefore it is difficult for the user to grasp small movements of the mobile device, which causes errors in the input and the like.
It is an object of the present invention to at least partially solve the problems in the conventional technology.
A mobile device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a control unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device moves, wherein the storage unit includes an area storage unit that stores a specific area in a display area displayed in the display unit and an area-specific processing to be executed when an icon is in the specific area while associating them with each other, and the control unit includes an icon displaying unit that displays the icon in the display area of the display unit, an icon moving unit that moves the icon displayed by the icon displaying unit, in the display area and based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit, an area determining unit that compares coordinates of the icon moved by the icon moving unit and displayed in the display area to the specific area stored in the area storage unit to thereby determine whether the icon is in the specific area, and an area-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and stored in the area storage unit and executes the area-specific processing when the area determining unit determines that the icon is in the specific area.
An area-specific processing executing method according to another aspect of the present invention is executed by a mobile device including a control unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device moves, wherein the storage unit includes an area storage unit that stores a specific area in a display area displayed in the display unit and an area-specific processing to be executed when an icon is in the specific area while associating them with each other, and the method includes an icon displaying step of displaying the icon in the display area of the display unit, an icon moving step of moving, in the display area based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit, the icon displayed at the icon displaying step, an area determining step of comparing coordinates of the icon moved at the icon moving step and displayed in the display area to the specific area stored in the area storage unit to thereby determine whether the icon is in the specific area, and an area-specific processing executing step of retrieving the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and stored in the area storage unit and executes the area-specific processing when the area determining step determines that the icon is in the specific area wherein, the steps are executed by the control unit.
The above and other objects, features, advantages and technical and industrial significance of this invention will be better understood by reading the following detailed description of presently preferred embodiments of the invention, when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a basic processing of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a view showing one example of an icon 1 displayed in a display area of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a view showing one example of a specific area displayed in the display area of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a view showing one example of an area-specific processing;
FIG. 5 is a view showing one example of an obstacle 2 displayed in the display area of the present invention;
FIG. 6 is a view showing one example of the obstacle 2 displayed in the display area of the present invention;
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a numerical condition-specific processing;
FIG. 8 is a view showing the numerical condition-specific processing;
FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing one example of a configuration of a mobile device 100 according to the embodiment;
FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing one example of an area-specific processing executing processing according to the embodiment;
FIG. 11 is a view showing one example of a projective transformation according to the embodiment;
FIG. 12 is a view showing one example of the projective transformation according to the embodiment;
FIG. 13 is a conceptual diagram showing one example of a recording processing of a verification inspection according to the embodiment.
An embodiment of a mobile device and an area-specific processing executing method and a program according to the present invention will be explained below in detail based on the drawings. The embodiment does not limit the invention.
In a specific example described in the following embodiment, the mobile device of the invention is used as a device for displaying drawings (inspection drawings, inspection check sheets, and the like) used in an inspection and inputting inspection results. However, the mobile device of the invention can be similarly applied to other embodiments.
Overview of the Invention
The following outlines the present invention, and then, a configuration and processing of the present invention are explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 8. FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing a basic processing of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a view showing one example of an icon 1 displayed in a display area of the mobile device 100. FIG. 3 is a view showing one example of a specific area displayed in the display area of the mobile device 100. FIG. 4 is a view showing one example of an area-specific processing. FIGS. 5 and 6 are views showing one example of an obstacle 2 displayed in the display area of the mobile device 100. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing one example of a numerical condition-specific processing. FIG. 8 is a view showing one example of the numerical condition-specific processing.
The invention has schematically following basic features. In other word, the mobile device 100 comprises a control unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device 100 moves.
As shown in FIG. 1, the control unit of the mobile device 100 displays the icon 1 in the display area of the display unit (step SA-1).
Referring to FIG. 2, one example of an icon 1 displayed in a display area of the display unit will be explained below. In FIG. 2, as an example, the control unit of the mobile device 100 displays a drawing (e.g., a drawing of a substrate of a computer or the like to be inspected) used for the inspection as a background image and superimposes the icon 1 on the background image in the display area of the mobile device 100, the icon 1 moving based on displacement of a physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit.
As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may display the background image (e.g., a drawing of a portion to be inspected, a check sheet, or the like) in the display area. The control unit of the mobile device 100 may superimpose the icon 1 on the background image. The control unit of the mobile device 100 may display the icon 1 in a circular or spherical shape. The control unit of the mobile device 100 may display the icon 1 in a translucent color.
Referring back to FIG. 1, a displacement detecting unit 10 of the mobile device 100 detects the displacement of the physical value caused when the mobile device 100 moves (step SA-2). Here, the displacement detecting unit 10 of the mobile device 100 may be formed of an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope, or a magnetic sensor, for example, or a combination of any of them.
The “physical value” refers to a value (e.g., time, mass, velocity, scalar, or vector) that is inherent in an object to be measured and can be measured objectively. Examples of the physical value are acceleration and gravity acceleration in measurement using the acceleration sensor, angular velocity in measurement using the gyroscope, and intensity and direction of magnetic field in measurement using the magnetic sensor.
The control unit of the mobile device 100 moves the icon 1 in the display area and based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 (step SA-3). In other words, the control unit of the mobile device 100 calculates a direction, a distance, time, speed, and the like of movement based on the displacement in the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 and carries out image control to change coordinates of the icon 1 to be displayed in the display area of a display unit according to the calculated values. For example, when a user moves the mobile device 100 including the displacement detecting unit 10 formed of a triaxial acceleration sensor, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may calculate changes in a direction, a distance, time, speed, and the like of two-dimensional movement (on an X-Y plane, for example) in the display area of the display unit based on acceleration or gravity acceleration detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 and along each axis of three-dimensional axes expressed as X, Y, and Z axes and change coordinates of the icon 1 to be displayed in the display area according to the calculated values.
Referring again to FIG. 2, the movement of the icon 1 in the display area based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit of the mobile device 100 will be explained below.
As shown in FIG. 2, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may carry out image control to move the icon 1 displayed in an upper portion of the display area to a lower portion of the display area in synchronization with the displacement of the physical value (e.g., displacement of the acceleration caused by shaking operation of the mobile device 100 by the user from an upper position to a lower position) detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 of the mobile device 100.
Referring back to FIG. 1, an area-specific processing table 106 a that stores a specific area in a display area displayed in the display unit and an area-specific processing to be executed when an icon 1 is in the specific area while associating them with each other is stored in advance in the storage unit of the mobile device 100. The control unit of the mobile device 100 compares coordinates of the icon 1 moved and displayed in the display area to the specific area stored in the area-specific processing table 106 a to thereby determine whether the icon 1 is in the specific area (step SA-4).
The “specific area” refers to an area that occupies the whole or part of the display area displayed in the display unit and is associated with the area-specific processing. For the convenience of operation by the user, the specific area may be displayed in the display area.
The “area-specific processing” refers to processing executed by the control unit of the mobile device 100 when the icon 1 is in the specific area in the display area of the mobile device 100. For example, the area-specific processing may be input of determination results (e.g., pass or failure of the inspection) of the inspection conducted by the user.
Referring to FIG. 3, one example of the specific area displayed in the display area of the mobile device 100 will be explained below.
As shown in FIG. 3, for example, as the specific areas, a portion near a lower left corner (the lower left corner of the rectangular display area: a specific area a) of the display area of the display unit of the mobile device 100 and a portion near a lower right corner (the lower right corner of the rectangular display area: a specific area b) of the display area of the mobile device 100 are designated. In FIG. 3, the area-specific processing table 106 a stores, for the specific area a, information (e.g., coordinates of the specific area a) specifying the specific area a and the area-specific processing to be executed when the icon 1 is in the specific area a while associating them with each other and stores, for the specific area b, information (e.g., coordinates of the specific area b) specifying the specific area b and the area-specific processing to be executed when the icon 1 is in the specific area b while associating them with each other.
As shown in FIG. 3, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may determine that the icon 1 is in the specific area when all or at least part of the coordinates of the displayed icon 1 are included in the specific area in the display area.
The control unit of the mobile device 100 may change a display format of the icon 1 (e.g., color or shape of the icon 1) when it determines that the icon 1 is in the specific area in the display area. For example, when the user moves the icon 1 into the specific area in the display area of the mobile device 100, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may carry out image control to change the color of the icon 1 (e.g., from a translucent color to an opaque color, from yellow to blue or red, from a stripe pattern to a lattice pattern, or from illumination to blinking). As another example, when the user moves the icon 1 into the specific area in the display area of the mobile device 100, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may carry out image control to change the shape of the icon 1 (e.g., from a circle to a rectangle or from a small shape to a large shape). In the example shown in FIG. 3, the display format is changed to the lattice pattern when the icon 1 is moved into the specific area a and to the stripe pattern when the icon 1 is moved into the specific area b.
Referring back to FIG. 1, when the control unit of the mobile device 100 determines that the icon 1 is in the specific area (Yes at step SA-4), the control unit retrieves the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and stored in the area-specific processing table 106 a (step SA-5).
The control unit of the mobile device 100 executes a processing set by the area-specific processing retrieved (step SA-6).
Referring to FIG. 4, one example of an area-specific processing will be explained below.
As shown in FIG. 4, the control unit of the mobile device 100 may perform the area-specific processing, which is input of “pass of the inspection of the inspected object”, when the icon 1 is in the specific area a near the lower left corner of the display area while perform the area-specific processing, which is input of “failure of the inspection of the inspected object”, when the icon 1 is in the specific area b near the lower right corner of the display area. In other words, the user moves the mobile device 100 to move the icon 1 to thereby input the inspection result (pass or failure) of the desired inspected object to the mobile device 100.
Referring back to FIG. 1 again, when the control unit of the mobile device 100 determines that the icon 1 is not in the specific areas in the display area (NO at step SA-4), the control unit ends the processing and returns to step SA-2.
The control unit of the mobile device 100 may display an obstacle 2 in the display area and carry out image display control so that the icon 1 cannot move through the obstacle 2 in moving the icon 1 in the display area based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10.
Referring to FIGS. 5 and 6, one example of an obstacle 2 displayed in the display area of the mobile device 100 will be explained below.
Although the obstacle 2 in the display area of the mobile device 100 is expressed as a triangular shape in the example shown in FIG. 5, it may be in any shape that prevents movement of the icon 1 in the display area.
To put it concretely, in FIG. 5, for example, the obstacle 2 is displayed as the triangular shape in a middle position between the portion (specific area a) near the lower left corner and the portion (specific area b) near the lower right corner of the display area of the mobile device 100. To move the icon 1 from the portion (specific area a) near the lower left corner to the portion (specific area b) near the lower right corner, the user needs not only to operate the mobile device 100 to the left or right but also to move the icon 1 upward, from the left to the right, and then downward to get around the obstacle 2.
As shown in FIG. 6, obstacles 2-1 and 2-2 in the display area of the mobile device 100 may be displayed on boundaries between the specific areas 1 to 3 in the display area and associated with the pieces of area-specific processing, which is input of the determination results 1 to 3. As described above, according to the invention, any number of specific areas corresponding to the number of determination results may be displayed in the display area or any number of obstacles 2 may be disposed in any positions as partitions between the specific areas to prevent erroneous operation by the user.
To put it concretely, in FIG. 6, for example, the obstacles 2-1 and 2-2 are displayed as stick-like shapes on the boundaries between the specific areas 1 to 3 in the display area of the mobile device 100. To move the icon 1 into a different specific area, the user needs not only to operate the mobile device 100 upward or downward but also to move the icon 1 from the left to the right once, upward or downward, and then from the right to the left to get around the obstacles 2-1 and 2-2.
The storage unit of the mobile device 100 may store, as a numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c, numerical conditions of the displacement of the physical value and pieces of numerical condition-specific processing, each of which is executed when the displacement detecting unit 10 detects the displacement in the physical value satisfying the numerical condition, while associating them with each other. The control unit of the mobile device 100 compares the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 to the numerical condition stored in the storage unit to thereby determine whether the displacement of the physical value satisfies the numerical condition. If the control unit determines that the displacement satisfies the numerical condition, it may retrieve the numerical condition-specific processing corresponding to the numerical condition and stored in the storage unit and execute the numerical condition-specific processing.
The “numerical condition” refers to a reference numerical value, a reference range of numerical value, or the like. For example, to determine displacement of acceleration, the numerical condition may be 1) equal to or more/less than a threshold value (e.g., equal to or more than 5 m/s2, equal to or less than 0.3 m/s2), 2) in a certain range (e.g., in a range of 1 m/s2 to 3 m/s2), or 3) a specific value (e.g., 30 m/s2).
One example of the numerical condition-specific processing performed by the control unit of the mobile device 100 will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 7 and 8.
FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a numerical condition-specific processing performed by the mobile device 100.
First, as shown in FIG. 7, the displacement detecting unit 10 of the mobile device 100 detects the displacement of the physical value caused when the mobile device 100 moves (step SB-1).
Then, the control unit of the mobile device 100 compares the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 to the numerical condition stored in the storage unit to thereby determine whether the displacement of the physical value satisfies the numerical condition (step SB-2).
If the control unit of the mobile device 100 determines that the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 satisfies the numerical value (Yes at step SB-2), it retrieves the numerical condition-specific processing corresponding to the numerical condition and stored in the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c (step SB-3).
The control unit of the mobile device 100 executes the numerical condition-specific processing stored in the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c and ends the processing (step SB-4).
As shown in FIG. 8, when the user shakes the mobile device 100 over a certain or longer vertical distance at a certain or higher speed and the displacement detecting unit 10 detects the displacement of the physical value satisfying the numerical condition, the control unit may perform the numerical condition-specific processing such as change of the background image displayed in the display area of the mobile device 100 (e.g., change from “a drawing 1” to “a drawing 2”). As another example, when the user shakes the mobile device 100 over a certain or shorter horizontal distance at a certain or lower speed and the displacement detecting unit 10 detects the displacement of the physical value satisfying the numerical condition, the control unit may perform the numerical condition-specific processing such as recording of the inspection result. As still another example, when the user rotates the mobile device 100 in a horizontal direction at a certain or higher speed and the displacement detecting unit 10 detects the displacement of the physical value satisfying the numerical condition, the control unit may perform the numerical condition-specific processing such as a retry of recording of the inspection result.
Referring back to FIG. 7 again, when the control unit of the mobile device 100 determines that the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 does not satisfy the numerical condition (No at step SB-2), the control unit ends the processing.
Configuration of the Mobile Device 100
Referring to FIG. 9, configuration of a mobile device 100 will be explained. FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing one example of a configuration of the mobile device 100 according to the embodiment.
In FIG. 9, in general, the mobile device 100 is provided with a control unit 102 such as a CPU that integrally controls the entire mobile device 100, a communication control interface 104, an input/output control interface 108 connected to a display unit 114, an image taking unit 112, and the displacement detecting unit 10, and a storage unit 106 that stores various databases and tables, and the units are communicably connected through an optional communication channel. Further, the mobile device 100 may be communicatably connected to a network 300 via a communication device (not shown) realizing network communication (e.g., internet via a communication line), and connect be communicatably connected to a server 200 provided with a storage unit 206 via the network 300. A configuration of the server 200 will be described below.
In FIG. 9, the input/output control interface 108 controls the display unit 114, the image taking unit 112, and the displacement detecting unit 10 The display unit 114 is a display unit having a function of displaying the icon 1, the obstacle 2, the background image, and the like in the display area. For example, the display unit 114 may corresponds to a display made of liquid crystal, organic electro-luminescence, or the like. The displacement detecting unit 10 is a displacement detecting unit that detects the displacement of the physical value (e.g., acceleration, gravity acceleration, angular velocity, magnetic flux, direction, distance, angle, speed, time, or pressure) caused when the mobile device 100 moves. An example of the displacement detecting unit 10 is a sensor (e.g., a triaxial acceleration sensor, a gyroscope, or a magnetic sensor) having a function of changing the movement of the mobile device 100 into an electric signal. The image taking unit 112 is an image taking unit that takes an image of the portion to be inspected of the object to be inspected in the inspection or an image as proof of the inspection. For example, the image taking unit 112 is a video camera, a digital camera, or a web camera formed of a solid-state image sensor such as a charge coupled device (CCD) and a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS).
In FIG. 9, the various databases and tables (such as the area-specific processing table 106 a, a background information database 106 b, and the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c) stored in the storage unit 106 are storage units such as fixed disk devices, and store various programs, various tables, various databases, various file, the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10, and the like used in various processes.
Out of the respective components in the storage unit 106, the area-specific processing table 106 a is an area storage unit that stores the specific area occupying the whole or part of the display area and the area-specific processing such as input and output executed when the icon 1 is in the specific area while associating them with each other. For example, the area-specific processing table 106 a may store an area (e.g., lower left and right corners of the rectangular display area) in the display area set in advance by the user and input of the determination result (e.g., pass or failure of the inspection) of the inspection conducted by the user while associating them with each other.
The background information database 106 b is an image storage unit that stores images (e.g., the drawing, the inspection sheet, and specifications) of the object to be inspected in the inspection, the images being obtained in advance by reading by an image reading unit (not shown) such as a scanner by the user. The background information database 106 b may store the image such as the drawing of the object to be inspected or store a designated position on the object to be inspected and an image such as a drawing of a predetermined area of the object to be inspected while associating them with each other.
The numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c is a numerical condition storage unit that stores the numerical condition and the numerical condition-specific processing such as input or output while associating them with each other. The numerical condition is the reference numerical value or the reference range of numerical value of the displacement of the physical value (e.g., the acceleration and the angular velocity) caused when the user moves the mobile device 100. The numerical condition-specific processing is different from the area-specific processing executed when the displacement detecting unit 10 detects the displacement of the physical value satisfying the numerical condition as a result of moving of the mobile device 100 by the user. For example, the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c may store a range condition of the acceleration (e.g., an acceleration in a range of 5 m/s2 to 8 m/s2) in vertical movement of the mobile device 100 by the user and the processing such as change of the background image to be displayed in the display area of the mobile device 100 (e.g., change from the drawing of the object to be inspected to the inspection sheet stored in the background information database 106 b) while associating them with each other.
In FIG. 9, the control unit 102 includes an internal memory that stores a control program such as an operating system (OS), programs specifying various processing procedures, and necessary data and performs information processing for executing various pieces of processing by using these programs. The control unit 102 functionally and conceptually includes an icon displaying unit 102 a, an icon moving unit 102 b, an area determining unit 102 c, an area-specific processing executing unit 102 d, an icon display format changing unit 102 e, an obstacle displaying unit 102 f, a numerical condition determining unit 102 g, and a numerical condition-specific processing executing unit 102 h.
Out of these units, the icon displaying unit 102 a is an icon displaying unit that displays the icon 1 in the display area of the display unit 114. The storage unit 106 may store, in advance, any image data such as a circle and a sphere that forms the icon 1. The icon displaying unit 102 a may display the background image in the display area stored in advance in the storage unit 106 and display the icon 1 by superimposing it on the background image. The icon displaying unit 102 a can also display the icon 1 in a translucent color.
The icon moving unit 102 b is an icon moving unit that moves the icon 1, which is displayed by the icon displaying unit 102 a, in the display area based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10.
The area determining unit 102 c is an area determining unit that compares the coordinates of the icon 1 displayed in the display area and moved by the icon moving unit 102 b to the specific area stored in the area-specific processing table 106 a to thereby determine whether the icon 1 is in the specific area.
The area-specific processing executing unit 102 d is an area-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the area-specific processing stored in the area-specific processing table 106 a and corresponding to the specific area to execute the area-specific processing when the area determining unit 102 c determines that the icon 1 is in the specific area.
The icon display format changing unit 102 e is an icon display format changing unit that changes the display format of the icon 1 when the area determining unit 102 c determines that the icon 1 is in the specific area. The display format of the icon 1 may include the color or the shape of the icon 1.
The obstacle displaying unit 102 f is an obstacle displaying unit that displays the obstacle 2 in the display area of the display unit 114. The storage unit 106 may store, in advance, image data such as a triangle and a rectangle that forms the obstacle 2. The obstacle displaying unit 102 f displays the image data of the obstacle 2 in a predetermined position (e.g., a partition position of the specific area).
The numerical condition determining unit 102 g is a numerical condition determining unit that compares the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 to the numerical condition stored in the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c to each other to thereby determine whether the displacement of the physical value satisfies the numerical condition.
The numerical condition-specific processing executing unit 102 h is a numerical condition-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the numerical condition-specific processing stored in the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c and corresponding to the numerical condition to execute the numerical condition-specific processing when the numerical condition determining unit 102 g determines that the displacement satisfies the numerical condition.
In FIG. 9, the communication control interface 104 controls communication between the mobile device 100 and the network 300. That is to say, the communication control interface 104 has a function to communicate data to an external device such as the server 200 through a communication line. The network 300 has function of connecting the mobile device 100 with the external device such as the server 200, and may include internet, intranet, LAN (wired/wireless), public telephone network (analog/digital), or the like.
Configuration of the Server 200
A configuration of the server 200 will be explained in detail with reference to FIG. 9.
The server 200 is communicatably connected to the network 300 such as the internet thorough a communication device such as a router, and a wired or wireless communication line such as a dedicated line, is communicatably connected to the mobile device via the network 300, and is provided with the storage unit 206. The server 200 can be configured as WEB server, ASP server, and the like, and the hardware can be configured by an information processing device and the accessory devices such as existing personal computer, and workstation. Each function of the server 200 can be realized by a central processing unit (CPU) in the server 200, a disk device, an input device, an output device, a communication control interface, and the like, and a computer program etc. controlling these devices.
Here the storage unit 206 of the server 200 may record the inspection result of the inspected portion input by the area-specific processing executed by the area-specific processing executing unit 102 d of the mobile device 100 and the proof of the inspection of the inspected portion as the image taken by the image taking unit 112 when the user conducts the inspection in this embodiment. This is the end of the explanation of the structure of the server 200.
Area-Specific Processing Executing Processing
One example of an area-specific processing executing processing according to the embodiment will be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 10 to 13. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing one example of an area-specific processing executing processing according to the embodiment. FIGS. 11 and 12 are views showing one example of the projective transformation according to the embodiment. FIG. 13 is a conceptual diagram showing one example of a recording processing of a verification inspection according to the embodiment.
First, as shown in FIG. 10, the control unit 102 of the mobile device 100 controls the image taking unit 112 to thereby take an image of a position of the object to be inspected and pointed to by an inspector and a fingertip of the inspector pointing to the position (step SC-1). The control unit 102 of the mobile device 100 may perform projective transformation of the image of the inspected portion taken by the image taking unit 112 into an image taken from the front.
The projective transformation performed by the control unit 102 of the mobile device 100 is explained with reference to FIGS. 11 and 12.
The projective transformation performed by the control unit 102, for example, is executed by restoring the image photographed by the image taking unit 112 to an original state by using an inverse projective transformation. An example of the projective transformation is explained below. As shown in FIG. 11, when performing the projective transformation, a vanishing point of the image on an imaging plane 70 being an image plane photographed by the image taking unit 112 is obtained. For example, when an imaging plane shape 71 being an image shape on the imaging plane 70 is the rectangle as shown in FIG. 11, the two vanishing points S1 and S2 are obtained. The vanishing point is the point at which extended lines of two straight lines, which are formed parallel in an actual shape, cross to each other, when projecting a predetermined shape. By thus obtaining the vanishing point, an original size before the projection and the projective transformation parameters (a11 to a32) being the parameters when performing the projective transformation are obtained based on the vanishing point, and the projective transformation is performed using a following [Equation 1]. That is to say, the projective transformation is performed by obtaining a coordinate (u,v,1) after the projective transformation from a coordinate (x,y,1) before the projective transformation by the [Equation 1].
[ Equation 1 ] ( u v 1 ) = 1 a 31 x + a 32 + 1 ( a 11 a 12 a 13 a 21 a 22 a 23 a 31 a 32 1 ) ( x y 1 ) ( Equation 1 )
By thus performing the projective transformation on the coordinate of the imaging plane shape 71, which is the coordinate before the projective transformation, a projectively transformed shape 75, which is the shape after the projective transformation, may be obtained as shown in FIG. 12 by obtaining the coordinate after the projective transformation. The projectively transformed shape 75 is similar to an original shape 76, which is the shape when seeing the original imaged by the image taking unit 112 from the front direction, that is to say, the shape when seeing the imaged plane in the vertical direction. In place of the projective transformation, various conventional arts may be used.
Referring back to FIG. 10 again, the control unit 102 recognizes the position, on the object to be inspected, pointed to by the fingertip of the inspector (step SC-2).
Then, the control unit 102 compares a first image including at least part of the object to be inspected, obtained in advance by reading by the image reading unit such as the scanner by the user, and stored in the background information database 106 b to a second image obtained by the image taking unit 112 by processing by the control unit 102 at step SC-1 and including at least part of the object to be inspected and the fingertip of the inspector to thereby retrieve the designated position on the object to be inspected (step SC-3).
If a simple identifying mark (e.g., a red circular sticker) is stuck on the fingertip of the inspector, the control unit 102 may compare the first image including at least part of the object to be inspected, obtained in advance by reading by the image reading unit such as the scanner by the user, and stored in the background information database 106 b to the second image obtained by the image taking unit 112 by processing by the control unit 102 at step SC-1 and including at least part of the object to be inspected and the identifying mark to thereby retrieve the designated position on the object to be inspected based on the identifying mark.
If the background information database 106 b stores the images such as the drawing of the object to be inspected, the control unit 102 picks out an inspection drawing of a predetermined area including the designated position from the drawings stored in the background information database 106 b based on the designated position obtained by processing by the control unit 102 at step SC-3 to display the inspection drawing in the display area (step SC-4). In other words, the control unit 102 cuts out the drawing of the predetermined area including the designated position from the drawing and displays it in the display area based on the designated position obtained by the processing by the control unit 102 at step SC-3.
If the background information database 106 b stores the designated position on the object to be inspected and the image such as the drawing of the predetermined area of the object to be inspected while associating them with each other, the control unit 102 may retrieve drawing information of the predetermined area corresponding to the designated position obtained by the processing by the control unit 102 at step SC-3 and display it in the display area. In other words, the control unit 102 may call up the drawing of the predetermined area corresponding to the designated position obtained by the processing by the control unit 102 at step SC-3 and stored in the background information database 106 b and display it in the display area.
The icon displaying unit 102 a displays the icon 1 in the display area to perform input of the inspection result (step SC-5).
The control unit 102 controls the displacement detecting unit 10 to thereby detect displacement of acceleration caused by movement of the mobile device 100 by the inspector (step SC-6).
The numerical condition determining unit 102 g compares the displacement of the acceleration detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 to the numerical condition (e.g., a certain or lower acceleration in the horizontal direction of the mobile device 100) stored in the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c to thereby determine whether the displacement of the acceleration detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 satisfies the numerical condition (step SC-7).
When the numerical condition determining unit 102 g determines that the displacement of the acceleration detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 does not satisfy the numerical condition (No at step SC-7), the icon moving unit 102 b moves the icon 1 in the display area in synchronization with the displacement of the acceleration detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 (step SC-8).
The area determining unit 102 c compares coordinates of the icon 1 moved and displayed in the display area to the specific area stored in the area-specific processing table 106 a to thereby determine whether the icon 1 is in the specific area in the display area (step SC-9).
When the area determining unit 102 c determines that the icon 1 is in the specific area in the display area (Yes at step SC-9), the area-specific processing executing unit 102 d retrieves the area-specific processing stored in the area-specific processing table 106 a and corresponding to the specific area (step SC-10).
Then, the area-specific processing executing unit 102 d executes the input of the inspection result (e.g., pass or failure of the inspection), which is the retrieved area-specific processing, ends the processing, and returns to step SC-6 (step SC-11).
On the other hand, if the area determining unit 102 c determines that the icon 1 is not in the specific area in the display area (No at step SC-9), the control unit 102 ends the processing and returns to step SC-6.
When the numerical condition determining unit 102 g determines that the displacement of the acceleration detected by the displacement detecting unit 10 satisfies the numerical condition (Yes at step SC-7), the numerical condition-specific processing executing unit 102 h retrieves the numerical condition-specific processing stored in the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c and corresponding to the numerical condition (step SC-12).
Then, in response to the inspection result input at step SC-12, the numerical condition-specific processing executing unit 102 h executes recording processing of the inspection result (e.g., recording of the inspection result in the storage unit 106 of the mobile device 100), which is the retrieved numerical condition-specific processing (step SC-13), and ends the processing.
One example of a recording processing of a verification inspection performed by the control unit 102 will explained with reference to FIG. 13.
As shown in FIG. 13, if the inspector conducts recording of a result of a verification inspection, the control unit 102 of the mobile device 100 may control the image taking unit 112 of the mobile device 100 to thereby take an image of the inspected portion subjected to the verification inspection and add an inspection log (e.g., date and time of the image taking) to the image to form an inspection proof record. Then, the control unit 102 of the mobile device 100 may attach the inspection proof record to the inspection result to perform the recording processing of the inspection result.
As shown in FIG. 13, the control unit 102 of the mobile device 100 may send the inspection result and the like to the server 200 in the recording processing of the inspection result to record it in the storage unit 206 in the server 200. This is the end of the explanation of the structure of the recording processing of the verification inspection.
Other Embodiments
Although the invention has been described with respect to a specific embodiment for a complete and clear disclosure, the appended claims are not to be thus limited but are to be construed as embodying all modifications and alternative constructions that may occur to one skilled in the art which fairly fall within the basic teaching herein set forth.
All the automatic processes explained in the present embodiment can be, entirely or partially, carried out manually. Similarly, all the manual processes explained in the present embodiment can be, entirely or partially, carried out automatically by a known method.
The process procedures, the control procedures, specific names, information including registration data for each process and various parameters such as search conditions, display example, and database construction, mentioned in the description and drawings can be changed as required unless otherwise specified.
The constituent elements of the mobile device 100 are merely conceptual and may not necessarily physically resemble the structures shown in the drawings. For instance, the apparatus need not necessarily have the structure that is illustrated.
For example, the process functions performed by each device of the mobile device 100, especially the each process function performed by the control unit 102, can be entirely or partially realized by a central processing unit (CPU) and a computer program executed by the CPU or by a hardware using wired logic. The computer program, recorded on a recording medium to be described later, can be mechanically read by the mobile device 100 as the situation demands. In other words, the storage unit 106 such as read-only memory (ROM) or hard disk (HD) stores the computer program that can work in coordination with the operating system (OS) to issue commands to the CPU and cause the CPU to perform various processes. The computer program is first loaded to the random access memory (RAM), and forms a control unit in collaboration with the CPU.
Alternatively, the computer program can be stored in any application program server connected to the mobile device 100 via the network, and can be fully or partially loaded as the situation demands.
The computer-readable recording medium on which the computer program can be stored may be a portable type such as flexible disk, magneto optic (MO) disk, ROM, erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), compact disk-read-only memory (CD-ROM), digital versatile disk (DVD), or a communication medium that stores the computer program for a short term such as communication channels or carrier waves that transmit the computer program over networks such as local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and the Internet.
Computer program refers to a data processing method written in any computer language and written method, and can have software codes and binary codes in any format. The computer program can be a dispersed form in the form of a plurality of modules or libraries, or can perform various functions in collaboration with a different program such as the OS. Any known configuration in the each device according to the embodiment can be used for reading the recording medium. Similarly, any known process procedure for reading or installing the computer program can be used.
The storage unit 106, 206 are fixed disk devices such as RAM, ROM, and hard disk or flexible disk, optical disk, and store therein various programs, tables, databases (such as the area-specific processing table 106 a, the background information database 106 b, and the numerical condition-specific processing table 106 c), and files required for various processes.
The distribution and integration of the device are not limited to those illustrated in the figures. The device as a whole or in parts can be functionally or physically distributed or integrated in an arbitrary unit according to various attachments or how the device is to be used.
According to the present invention, when the user moves the mobile device 100, the icon 1 displayed in the display area is moved into the specific area in synchronization with the movement, and, as a result, the area-specific processing can be executed. In other words, the invention can visualize the displacement of the physical value, which is detected as a result of moving (e.g. shaking) of the mobile device 100 by the user, by using the icon 1 displayed in the display unit 114. The displacement is detected in the displacement detecting unit 10 such as an acceleration sensor, a gyroscope, or a magnetic sensor. In this way, the invention easily helps the user visually grasp small movements of the mobile device 100 by the user by using the icon 1, which reduces factors responsible for erroneous operation in the area-specific processing executed in synchronization with the movement of the icon 1 into the specific area.
The invention makes it possible to visualize movements of the mobile device 100 along three axes. As compared with devices using other sensors such as a uniaxial acceleration sensor, the invention makes it possible to improve usability in such a manner as to increase variations in pieces of input processing to the mobile device 100 to be executed based on the displacement of the physical value.
The invention makes it possible to easily, reliably, and visually grasp the movement of the icon 1 into the specific area in the display area, which improves efficiency of the input operation.
According to the present invention, the color or the shape (e.g., size or the shape) of the icon 1 displayed on a screen can be changed when the icon 1 is moved into the specific area in the display area, which further improves viewability. As a result, even in an outdoor inspection in which a screen is less viewable, for example, the invention helps recognize icon 1 indication and enhances working efficiency.
The invention makes it possible to check the background image (e.g., an image such as a drawing for the inspection and a check sheet) and operate the icon 1 simultaneously, which enhances the working efficiency.
The invention makes it possible to check the icon 1 and a background display at the same time, which improves the working efficiency. In other words, if the icon 1 is not translucent, it is necessary to move the icon 1 to another position to check a part of the background image on which the icon 1 is placed, which may cause the erroneous operation (e.g., the icon 1 may be moved into an unintended specific area and area-specific processing may be executed). The invention does not require unnecessary moving operations and reduces erroneous operations by improving viewability of the background image by displaying the icon 1 in the translucent color.
The invention makes it possible to dispose the obstacle 2 between the specific areas in the display area. By displaying the obstacle 2 as a partition between the specific areas, for example, the invention helps visually grasp a boundary between the specific areas. When the obstacle 2 is displayed as the partition between the specific areas, the invention requires the user to move the icon 1 to get around the specific obstacle in moving the icon 1 into a different area. Therefore, the invention makes it possible to prevent the icon 1 from moving into an unintended specific area, which increases reliability of the operation.
The invention makes it possible to smoothly control the movement of the icon 1. Because the icon 1 is in the circular or spherical shape in the invention, a distance from a center of gravity to an outer periphery of the icon 1 becomes constant. In this way, movement of the icon 1 in the display area is less likely to be changed and restricted by orientation of the icon 1. For example, with the invention, the icon 1 is constant in behavior irrespective of its orientation when the icon 1 collides with the same portion of the obstacle 2 from the same direction.
The invention makes it possible to execute the numerical condition-specific processing based on the movement satisfying the specific numerical condition and different from the area-specific processing based on the movement of the icon 1 into the specific area. As a result, the invention makes it possible to synchronously perform another piece of processing (numerical condition-specific processing) such as change of the background image, recording of the inspection result, and a retry when the user shakes the mobile device 100 strongly or lightly in a vertical direction, a horizontal direction, or a front-rear direction and the movement of the mobile device 100 is detected, the movement causing the displacement of the physical value satisfying the predetermined numerical condition (e.g., a threshold value, a range of numerical value, and a specific value).
Although the invention has been described with respect to specific embodiments for a complete and clear disclosure, the appended claims are not to be thus limited but are to be construed as embodying all modifications and alternative constructions that may occur to one skilled in the art that fairly fall within the basic teaching herein set forth.
1. A mobile device comprising: a control unit; a storage unit; a display unit; and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device moves, wherein
the storage unit includes:
an area storage unit that stores a specific area in a display area displayed in the display unit and an area-specific processing to be executed when an icon is in the specific area while associating them with each other, and
the control unit includes:
an icon displaying unit that displays the icon in the display area of the display unit;
an icon moving unit that moves the icon displayed by the icon displaying unit, in the display area and based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit;
an area determining unit that compares coordinates of the icon moved by the icon moving unit and displayed in the display area to the specific area stored in the area storage unit to thereby determine whether the icon is in the specific area; and
an area-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and stored in the area storage unit and executes the area-specific processing when the area determining unit determines that the icon is in the specific area.
2. The mobile device according to claim 1, wherein
the displacement detecting unit is a triaxial acceleration sensor and the physical value includes gravity acceleration or acceleration.
the control unit further includes:
an icon display format changing unit that changes a display format of the icon when the area determining unit determines that the icon is in the specific area.
the display format includes a color or a shape of the icon.
the icon displaying unit displays a background image in the display area and superimposes the icon on the background image.
the icon displaying unit displays the icon in a translucent color.
an obstacle displaying unit that displays an obstacle in the display area of the display unit, and
the icon moving unit performs image display control so that the icon is incapable of moving through the obstacle displayed by the obstacle displaying unit in moving the icon displayed by the icon displaying unit, in the display area and based on displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit.
the icon displaying unit displays the icon in a circular or spherical shape.
the storage unit further includes:
a numerical condition storage unit that stores a numerical condition of the displacement of the physical value and a numerical condition-specific processing to be executed when the displacement detecting unit detects the displacement of the physical value satisfying the numerical condition while associating them with each other, and
a numerical condition determining unit that compares the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit to the numerical condition stored in the numerical condition storage unit to thereby determine whether the displacement of the physical value satisfies the numerical condition; and
a numerical condition-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the numerical condition-specific processing stored in the numerical condition storage unit and corresponding to the numerical condition and executes the numerical condition-specific processing when the numerical condition determining unit determines that the displacement satisfies the numerical condition.
10. An area-specific processing executing method executed by a mobile device including: a control unit; a storage unit; a display unit; and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device moves, wherein
the method comprises:
an icon displaying step of displaying the icon in the display area of the display unit;
an icon moving step of moving, in the display area based on the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit, the icon displayed at the icon displaying step;
an area determining step of comparing coordinates of the icon moved at the icon moving step and displayed in the display area to the specific area stored in the area storage unit to thereby determine whether the icon is in the specific area; and
an area-specific processing executing step of retrieving the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and stored in the area storage unit and executes the area-specific processing when the area determining step determines that the icon is in the specific area
wherein, the steps are executed by the control unit.
11. The area-specific processing executing method according to claim 10, wherein
12. The area-specific processing executing method according to claim 10, further comprises:
an icon display format changing step of changing a display format of the icon when the area determining step determines that the icon is in the specific area.
the icon displaying step includes displaying a background image in the display area and superimposes the icon on the background image.
the icon displaying step includes displaying the icon in a translucent color.
an obstacle displaying step of displaying an obstacle in the display area of the display unit, wherein
the icon moving step includes performing image display control so that the icon is incapable of moving through the obstacle displayed at the obstacle displaying step in moving, in the display area based on displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit, the icon displayed at the icon displaying step.
the icon displaying step includes displaying the icon in a circular or spherical shape.
the method further comprises:
a numerical condition determining step of comparing the displacement of the physical value detected by the displacement detecting unit to the numerical condition stored in the numerical condition storage unit to thereby determine whether the displacement of the physical value satisfies the numerical condition; and
a numerical condition-specific processing executing step of retrieving the numerical condition-specific processing stored in the numerical condition storage unit and corresponding to the numerical condition and executes the numerical condition-specific processing when at the numerical condition determining step, determining that the displacement satisfies the numerical condition,
the steps being executed by the control unit.
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Method and apparatus for estimating talker distance Download PDF
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Sylvain J. Choisel
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H04R—LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; DEAF-AID SETS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS
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An audio capture device generates two microphone beam patterns with different directivity indices. The audio capture device may determine the position of a user relative to the audio capture device based on sounds detected by the separate microphone beam patterns. Accordingly, the audio capture device allows the determination of the position of the user without the complexity and cost of using a dedicated listening device and/or a camera. In particular, the audio capture device does not need to be immediately proximate to the user (e.g., held near the ear of the user) and may be used to immediately provide other services to the user (e.g., audio/video playback, telephony functions, etc.). The position of the user may include the measured distance between the audio capture device and the user, the proximity of the user relative to another device/object, and/or the orientation of the user relative to the audio capture device.
A system and method for estimating the distance between a microphone array and a user/talker using a set of microphone beams is described. Other embodiments are also described.
It is often useful to know the location of a user/talker relative to the boundaries of a room (e.g., walls) or relative to a device (e.g., a computer or loudspeaker). For example, this location information may be utilized for optimizing audio-visual rendering by a computing device. Traditionally, user location has been determined using one or more of 1) video tracking of the user and 2) acoustic triangulation using time of flight or signal strength of either radio or acoustic waves emitted or received by a device proximate to the user. However, both of these techniques suffer from complexity and coverage issues. In particular, video tracking can be costly and often has a limited coverage area while acoustic triangulation requires the user to carry an active device that emits and/or receives radio or acoustic waves.
In one embodiment, an audio capture device generates two microphone beam patterns with different directivity indices. The microphone beam patterns may be generated by a microphone array integrated within or otherwise coupled to the audio capture device (e.g., wired or wireless connections). Each of the beam patterns may detect sound produced by a user.
The audio capture device may determine the distance r separating the audio capture device/microphone array and the user using the sounds detected by the separate microphone beam patterns. Accordingly, the audio capture device allows the determination of the distance r without the complexity and cost of using a dedicated listening device and/or a camera. In particular, traditional acoustic measurement tools require two separate devices (e.g., a sound emitting device and a listening device). In contrast to these techniques, the above system and method allows the use of a single device (i.e., the audio capture device) that works in conjunction with sound produced by the user. Accordingly, the audio capture device does not need to be immediately proximate to the user (e.g., held near the ear of the user) and may be used to immediately provide other services to the user (e.g., audio/video playback, telephony functions, etc.).
Although described as a quantified distance value, in other embodiments the value of r may be used to determine general positioning of the user. For example, the value of r may be used to generally determine whether the user is proximate to the audio capture device or another object and/or the orientation of the user relative to the audio capture device (e.g., whether the user is speaking directly at the audio capture device).
The above summary does not include an exhaustive list of all aspects of the present invention. It is contemplated that the invention includes all systems and methods that can be practiced from all suitable combinations of the various aspects summarized above, as well as those disclosed in the Detailed Description below and particularly pointed out in the claims filed with the application. Such combinations have particular advantages not specifically recited in the above summary.
The embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example and not by way of limitation in the figures of the accompanying drawings in which like references indicate similar elements. It should be noted that references to “an” or “one” embodiment of the invention in this disclosure are not necessarily to the same embodiment, and they mean at least one.
FIG. 1 shows an audio capture device that captures sound from a user in a listening area according to one embodiment.
FIG. 2 shows a component diagram of the audio capture device according to one embodiment.
FIG. 3A shows the audio capture device generating a first microphone beam to capture sound produced by the user according to one embodiment.
FIG. 3B shows the audio capture device generating a second microphone beam to capture sound produced by the user according to one embodiment.
FIG. 3C shows the audio capture device simultaneously generating the first and second microphone beams to capture sound produced by the user according to one embodiment.
FIG. 4 shows a method for determining the positioning of the user according to one embodiment.
FIG. 5A shows an example dataset of values for r determined for separate blocks of sound produced by the user according to one embodiment.
FIG. 5B shows a smoothed value generated for the example dataset of values for r according to one embodiment.
FIG. 6 shows two values for r computed by separate audio capture devices according to one embodiment.
FIG. 7 shows a component diagram of a distance estimation unit according to one embodiment.
Several embodiments are described with reference to the appended drawings. While numerous details are set forth, it is understood that some embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these details. In other instances, well-known circuits, structures, and techniques have not been shown in detail so as not to obscure the understanding of this description.
FIG. 1 shows an audio capture device 101 that captures sound from a user 103. As shown, the audio capture device 101 may include a microphone array 105 that includes a plurality of microphones 107 for capturing sound emitted by the user 103. As will be described in greater detail below, the audio capture device 101 may estimate/determine the distance r between the user 103 and the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105 through the use of multiple microphone beam patterns with different directivity indexes. This estimated distance r may thereafter be used for adjusting one or more settings on the audio capture device 101 and/or another computing device.
In some embodiments, as described above, the value of r may be a distance value (e.g., a value in meters), which quantifies the specific distance separating the user 103 and the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105. However, in other embodiments, as will be discussed in greater detail below, the value of r may be used to generally determine the location and/or orientation of the user 103 relative to the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105. For example, the value for r may be used to determine 1) whether the user 103 is proximate to the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105 and/or proximate to another device; 2) whether the user 103 is located in a specific area of the listening area 100 (e.g., located at a kitchen table or located on a couch); and/or 3) whether the user 103 is facing and/or on axis with the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105. Accordingly, the value of r may be used to determine various pieces of location and orientation data for the user 103 with different levels of accuracy and/or granularity.
As shown in FIG. 1, the audio capture device 101 and the user 103 may be located in a listening area 100. The listening area 100 may be a room of any size within a house, commercial establishment, or any other structure. For example, the listening area 100 may be a home office of the user 103.
FIG. 2 shows a component diagram of the audio capture device 101 according to one embodiment. The audio capture device 101 may be any computing system that is capable of capturing sound from the user 103. For example, the audio capture device 101 may be a laptop computer, a desktop computer, a tablet computer, a video conferencing phone, a set-top box, a multimedia player, a gaming system, and/or a mobile device (e.g., cellular telephone or mobile media player). In some embodiments, the audio capture device 101 may be capable of outputting audio and video for the user 103. As will be described in greater detail below, the audio capture device 101 may estimate/determine the distance r between the user 103 and the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105 and based on this determined distance r, adjust parameters or settings of the audio capture device 101 and/or another device. Each element of the audio capture device 101 shown in FIG. 2 will now be described.
The audio capture device 101 may include a main system processor 201 and a memory unit 203. The processor 201 and memory unit 203 are generically used here to refer to any suitable combination of programmable data processing components and data storage that conduct the operations needed to implement the various functions and operations of the audio capture device 101. The processor 201 may be a special purpose processor such as an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a general purpose microprocessor, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), a digital signal controller, or a set of hardware logic structures (e.g., filters, arithmetic logic units, and dedicated state machines) while the memory unit 203 may refer to microelectronic, non-volatile random access memory. An operating system may be stored in the memory unit 203, along with application programs specific to the various functions of the audio capture device 101, which are to be run or executed by the processor 201 to perform the various functions of the audio capture device 101. For example, the memory unit 203 may include a distance estimation unit 205, which in conjunction with other hardware and software elements of the audio capture device 101, estimates the distance R between the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105 and the user 103 as will be described in further detail below.
As noted above, in one embodiment, the audio capture device 101 may include a microphone array 105. The microphone array 105 may be composed of two or more microphones 107 that sense sounds and convert these sensed sounds into electrical signals. The microphones 107 may be any type of acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor, including a MicroElectrical-Mechanical System (MEMS) microphone, a piezoelectric microphone, an electret condenser microphone, or a dynamic microphone. The microphones 107 in the microphone array 105 may utilize various filters that can control gain and phase across a range of frequencies (including possible use of delays) to provide a range of polar patterns, such as cardioid, omnidirectional, and figure-eight. The generated polar patterns alter the direction and area of sound captured in the vicinity of the audio capture device 101. In one embodiment, the polar patterns of the microphones 107 may vary continuously over time.
As shown in FIG. 3A and described in further detail below, the microphone array 105 may utilize a narrowly focused beam pattern 301 with a relatively high directivity or as shown in FIG. 3B, the microphone array 105 may utilize a wide beam pattern 303 with a comparatively low directivity. In one embodiment, these beam patterns 301 and 303 may be simultaneously generated by the audio capture device 101 as shown in FIG. 3C. Although the directivity indices of the beam patterns 301 and 303 may be different, the beam patterns may have similar or identical sensitivities on axis (i.e., in the look direction). Accordingly, each of the beam patterns 301 and 303 may simultaneously pick up sound produced by the user 103. As will be described in greater detail below, sounds picked-up by the beam patterns 301 and 303 may be used to estimate the distance r between the user 103 from the audio capture device 101 and/or the microphone array 105.
Although shown as including one microphone array 105, the audio capture device 101 may include any number of microphone arrays 105. Hereinafter, the audio capture device 101 will be described as including a single microphone array 105; however, as described above, it is understood that the audio capture device 101 may operate in a similar fashion with multiple microphone arrays 105.
In one embodiment, the audio capture device 101 may include a speaker 209 for outputting sound. As shown in FIG. 2, the speaker 209 may include multiple transducers 211 housed in a single cabinet. In this example, the speaker 209 has ten distinct transducers 211 evenly aligned in a row within a cabinet. Although shown as aligned is a flat plane or straight line, the transducers 211 may be aligned in a curved fashion along an arc. In other embodiments, different numbers of transducers 211 may be used with uniform or non-uniform spacing and alignment. For example, in some embodiments, a single transducer 211 may be installed in the speaker 209.
The transducers 211 may be any combination of full-range drivers, mid-range drivers, subwoofers, woofers, and tweeters. Each of the transducers 211 may use a lightweight diaphragm, or cone, connected to a rigid basket, or frame, via a flexible suspension that constrains a coil of wire (e.g., a voice coil) to move axially through a cylindrical magnetic gap. When an electrical audio signal is applied to the voice coil, a magnetic field is created by the electric current in the voice coil, making it a variable electromagnet. The coil and the transducers' 211 magnetic system interact, generating a mechanical force that causes the coil (and thus, the attached cone) to move back and forth, thereby reproducing sound under the control of the applied electrical audio signal coming from a source.
Each transducer 211 may be individually and separately driven to produce sound in response to separate and discrete audio signals. By allowing the transducers 211 in the speaker 209 to be individually and separately driven according to different parameters and settings (including filters which control delays, amplitude variations, and phase variations across the audio frequency range), the speaker 209 may produce numerous directivity patterns to simulate or better represent respective channels of sound program content played to the user 103.
Although shown as including one speaker 209, the audio capture device 101 may include any number of speakers 209. Hereinafter, the audio capture device 101 will be described as including a single speaker 209; however, as described above, it is understood that the audio capture device 101 may operate in a similar fashion with multiple speakers 209.
In one embodiment, the audio capture device 101 may include a communications interface 213 for communicating with other components over one or more connections. For example, the communications interface 213 may be capable of communicating using Bluetooth, the IEEE 802.11x suite of standards, IEEE 802.3, cellular Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), cellular Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), and/or Long Term Evolution (LTE). In one embodiment, the communications interface 213 facilitates the transmission/reception of video, audio, and other pieces of data.
The audio capture device 101 may include a video camera 215 to capture scenes proximate to the audio capture device 101. The video camera 215 may be any type of video capture device, including units that use charge-couple device (CCD) and/or complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel sensors.
In one embodiment, the video camera 215 may be capable of zooming in on a particular area proximate to the audio capture device 101. For example, the video camera 215 may be equipped with a zoom lens, which is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied. Alternatively or in addition to a mechanical zoom lens, the video camera 215 may be equipped with a digital zooming device, which decreases (narrows) the apparent angle of view of video captured by the video camera 215 by cropping the video to be centered on a desired segment of the captured video image. Through interpolation, this digital cropping generates a processed video image with the same aspect ratio as the original video.
In one embodiment, the audio capture device 101 may include a monitor 217 for displaying video. The monitor 217 may utilize any display technology, including a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, a plasma display panel, and/or an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel.
In one embodiment, the audio capture device 101 may include a video codec 219 for processing video signals. For example, the video codec 219 may process video signals received from the video camera 215 and video signals to be displayed on the monitor 217. The processing may include antialiasing, up-conversion, down-conversion, de-noising, and/or digital cropping/zooming.
In one embodiment, the audio capture device 101 may include an audio codec 221 for managing digital and analog audio signals. For example, the audio codec 221 may manage input audio signals received from the one or more microphones 107 in the microphone array 105 coupled to the audio codec 221. Management of audio signals received from the microphones 107 may include analog-to-digital conversion, echo cancellation, and general signal processing. Similarly, the audio codec 221 may manage audio signals for driving each transducer 211 in the speaker 209.
Although shown as integrated within the same casing as other components of the audio capture device 101, in some embodiments one or more of the microphone array 105, the speaker 209, the video camera 215, and the monitor 217 may be separate and coupled to the other components of the audio capture device 101 through wired or wireless connections. For example, one or more of the microphone array 105, the speaker 209, the video camera 215, and the monitor 217 may be coupled to other components of the audio capture device 101 through the communications interface 213.
As noted above, the memory unit 203 may store a distance estimation unit 205, which estimates the distance r between the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105 and the user 103. FIG. 4 shows a method 400 for estimating the distance r between the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105 and the user 103 according to one embodiment of the invention. The method 400 may be performed by one or more components of the audio capture device 101. For example, according to one embodiment, the operations may be performed by the distance estimation unit 205 in conjunction (as further shown in FIG. 7) with audio inputs received from one or more of the microphones 107 in the microphone array 105. Although described in relation to distance between the user 103 and the audio capture device 101/the microphone array 105, the value r may be used to generally determine the positioning of the user 103 relative to one or more objects or devices. For example, the value r may be used to determine general proximity of the user 103 to one or more objects and/or the orientation of the user 103 relative to the audio capture device 101. Each operation of the method 400 will be described by way of example below.
Although the operations in the method 400 are shown and described in a particular order, in other embodiments, the operations may be performed in another order. For example, in some embodiments, one or more of the operations in the method may be performed simultaneously or during overlapping time periods.
The method 400 may commence at operation 401 with the user 103 emitting sound. For example, the user 103 may utter a voice command to the audio capture device 101 (e.g., “System, please play music” or “System, please call Megan”). However, in other embodiments, the sound emitted at operation 401 may be based on a conversation with another individual and not directed at the audio capture device 101. For example, the user 103 may be communicating with another person in the vicinity of the audio capture device 101 and/or located at a remote location (e.g., communicating over a telephone connection).
Although described as sound emitted by a human user 103, in other embodiments, the sound emitted at operation 401 may be from any audio source for which the directivity index for the sound is known or is measurable.
Following the user 103 emitting sound at operation 401, at operation 403 the microphone array 105 may detect the emitted sound using two or more microphone beam patterns. For example, as shown in FIG. 3C, the microphone array 105 may simultaneously generate the beam patterns 301 and 303 for capturing sound generated by the user 103. In this embodiment, the directivity indexes of the beam patterns 301 and 303 are different. In particular, the directivity index for the beam pattern 301 is DI1 while the directivity index for the beam pattern 305 is DI2, where DI1>DI2. For example, DI1 may be 16 dB while DI2 may be 0 dB. The beam patterns 301 and 303 may correspond to the signals S1 and S2, respectively. The signals S1 and S2 represent sound captured by each of these beam patterns 301 and 303, respectively. Although the directivity indices DI1 and DI2 of the beam patterns 301 and 303 are different, the beam patterns may have similar or identical sensitivities on axis (i.e., in the look direction).
Following detection of sound at operation 403, operation 405, using the power level unit 705, may determine the power/pressure levels P1 and P2 for each of the signals S1 and S2, respectively. P1 and P2 may be calculated in blocks of audio such that distance r between the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105 and the user 103 may be determined for each individual audio block. This individual measurement of the levels P1 and P2 facilitates the calculation of numerous values for the distance r as described in greater detail below. In one embodiment, post processing may be applied to the plurality of estimates of r. For example, time smoothing and/or weighting based on strength of the signals S1 and S2 and/or voice activity detection in the signals S1 and S2 may be applied as described in greater detail below.
The levels P1 and P2 represent both direct and reverberant sound detected by each of the beam patterns 301 and 303, respectively. While the direct components composing each of P1 and P2 may be similar or identical based on identical sensitivities on axis with the user 103, the reverberant components composing each of P1 and P2 may be different based on the dissimilar shapes of the patterns 301 and 303. In particular, the levels P1 and P2 may be represented by the following equations:
P 1 =D+R 1
The power levels P1 and P2 may be calculated on either 1) the full bandwidth of human voice, 2) a limited frequency band where the distance r is found to be more accurate, 3) a limited frequency band where the directivity indices and properties of the listening area 100 (e.g., a constant c) are known, and/or 4) several frequency bands to account for the frequency dependency between directivity indices and properties of the listening area 100 (e.g., properties of the listening area 100 defined by a constant c).
At operation 407, the reverberation time T60 of the listening area 100 may be calculated using the reverberation time unit 701. T60 may be estimated by acoustical measurements and/or input from the user 103. The reverberation time T60 is defined as the time required for the level of sound to drop by 60 dB in the listening area 100. In one embodiment, the microphone array 105 may be used to measure the reverberation time T60 in the listening area 100. The reverberation time T60 does not need to be measured at a particular location in the listening area 100 (e.g., the location of the user 103) or with any particular beam pattern. The reverberation time T60 is a property of the listening area 100 and a function of frequency.
The reverberation time T60 may be measured using various processes and techniques. In one embodiment, an interrupted noise technique may be used to measure the reverberation time T60. In this technique, wide band noise is played and stopped abruptly. With the microphone array 105 and an amplifier connected to a set of constant percentage bandwidth filters such as octave band filters, followed by a set of ac-to-dc converters, which may be average or rms detectors, the decay time from the initial level down to −60 dB is measured. It may be difficult to achieve a full 60 dB of decay, and in some embodiments extrapolation from 20 dB or 30 dB of decay may be used. In one embodiment, the measurement may begin after the first 5 dB of decay.
In one embodiment, a transfer function measurement may be used to measure the reverberation time T60. In this technique, a stimulus-response system in which a test signal, such as a linear or log sine chirp, a maximum length stimulus signal, or other noise-like signal, is measured simultaneously in what is being sent and what is being measured with the microphone array 105. The quotient of these two signals is the transfer function. In one embodiment, this transfer function may be made a function of frequency and time and thus is able to make high resolution measurements. The reverberation time T60 may be derived from the transfer function. Accuracy may be improved by repeating the measurement sequentially from each of multiple speakers 209 and each of multiple microphone array 105 locations in the listening area 100.
In another embodiment, the reverberation time T60 may be estimated based on typical listening area 100 characteristics dynamics. For example, the audio capture device 101 may receive an estimated reverberation time T60 from an external device through the communications interface 213. The estimated reverberation time T60 may represent an average reverberation time T60 for a typical listening area 100.
At operation 409, the geometric volume V of the listening area 100 may be estimated using the listening area volume unit 703. The volume V may be estimated using any technique. For example, the volume V may be estimated using a video/still image capture device (e.g., the video camera 215), acoustical measurements through the use of the speaker 209 and the microphone array 105, input from the user 103, and/or any combination thereof.
Following the calculation of the levels P1 and P2, the reverberation time T60, and the volume V, operation 411 may estimate the distance r between the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105 and the user 103. The estimate of the distance r may be based on the power levels P1 and P2, the reverberation time T60, and the volume V. For example, the power P1 for the signal S1 corresponding to the beam pattern 301 may be represented by the following equation:
P 1 = 1 r 2 + c ( DI 1 × DI U )
Similarly, the power P2 for the signal S2 corresponding to the beam pattern 303 may be represented by the following equation:
In the above equations, r represents the distance between the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105 and the user 103, DIu is the directivity index of human voice, and c is a constant that describes characteristics of the listening area 100 in which the audio capture device 101 and user 103 are located. The value of DIu may be calculated as the average directivity index of sound emitted by humans by the user directivity index unit 707. In other embodiments, the value of DIu may be calculated specifically for the user 103. In one embodiment, the directivity index of human voice DIu may be predefined/preconfigured during construction or initialization of the audio capture device 101. Accordingly, in this embodiment, the directivity index of human voice DIu may be retrieved from memory without computation of the value of DIu during performance of the method 400.
In one embodiment, the constant c may be calculated based on the equation below:
c = 100 × π × T 60 V
As described above, T60 is the reverberation time of the listening area 100 in which the audio capture device 101 and the user 103 are located and V is the volume of the listening area 100.
Knowing P1, P2, and c, it follows that r may be represented by the equation below:
r = ( P 2 - P 1 ) × DI 1 × DI 2 × DI U c × ( P 1 × DI 1 - P 2 × DI 2 )
Accordingly, in one embodiment, based on the above equation, the distance r may be calculated. For example, power levels P1 and P2 may be 1.5 and 4, respectively, the DI1 and DI2 may be 4 (or 6 dB since DI1 is a power term and uses 10 log10(x)) and 1 (or 0 dB), respectively, DIu, which represents the directivity index of the human voice, may be 2 (or 3 dB), and the constant c for the listening area 100 may be 2. Based on these values, the distance r between the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105 and the user 103 may be determined to be 2.24 meters.
In one embodiment, the method 400 may continually determine values for r for separate segments/blocks of detected sounds from the user 103 as described above. For example, the method 400 may determine values for r over discrete time segments (e.g., 1 ms time segments of detected sound). FIG. 5A shows an example set of values of r for plotted over time. As shown, the values of r may vary even when the user 103 has not moved relative to the audio capture device 101. To generate an estimated value for r, the values computed over time may be smoothed. For example, as shown in FIG. 5B, an average, represented by the line 500, may be computed for the dataset. Accordingly, in this embodiment, the average/smoothed value for r may be used in place of the individual computed values for r.
Although described in relation to a quantifiable distance (e.g., r is represented in meters), the value for r may indicate whether the user 103 is located proximate to the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105 or is distant from the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. For example, one or more threshold values may be preset to determine the relative proximity of the user 103 in relation to the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. For instance, a proximity threshold may be preset to the value ten. Upon the computed value for r being less than or equal to the proximity threshold (e.g., r<=10), operation 411 may determine that the user 103 is located proximate to the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. Conversely, upon the computed value for r being greater than the proximity threshold (e.g., r>10), operation 411 may determine that the user 103 is not located proximate to the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. In other embodiments, the proximity threshold may be set to indicate whether the user 103 is located within the listening area 100 or outside the listening area 100.
Further, the location of the user 103 may be determined relative to other objects or devices. For example, values for r computed by one or more audio capture devices 101 may be used to estimate the location of the user 103 in the listening area 100. For instance, the value for r may indicate that the user 103 is located in a position in the listening area 100 occupied by a table or a couch. This determination may be based on values of r computed from a single audio capture device 101 or based on values from multiple audio capture devices 101 using triangulation.
Although described in relation to geometrical distance, in some embodiments the value of r may be used to indicate the orientation of the user 103 relative to the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. For example, an orientation threshold may be preset that indicates whether the user 103 is focused on the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. Similar to the examples provided above, upon the computed value for r being greater than the orientation threshold, operation 411 may determine that the user 103 is not focused on or is not speaking towards the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. In this situation, since the user 103 is not speaking towards the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105, the value for r may indicate that the user 103 is far from the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. However, operation 411 may attribute this apparent distance to the user 103 being turned away from the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. Conversely, upon the computed value for r being less than or equal to the orientation threshold, operation 411 may determine that the user 103 is focused or is speaking towards the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105.
Although described above with the use of two beam patterns 301 and 303, in other embodiments three or more beam patterns may be used. For example, in one embodiment, operation 403 may detect sound using three or more beam patterns. For instance, two or more of the beams may be focused in different directions. In this embodiment, operation 413 may analyze these differently directed beams to determine an estimated direction of the user 103 relative to the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105. In particular, the beams may be analyzed to determine a beam with the highest pressure/power level. This beam pattern with the highest pressure/power level may be assumed to be the direction of the user 103 relative to the audio capture device 101.
In one embodiment, operation 415 may adjust one or more settings of the audio capture device 101 or another system based on the estimated distance r determined at operation 411 and/or the direction of the user 103 determined at operation 413. For example, the audio capture device 101 may 1) adjust a zoom setting on the camera 215 based on the distance r, 2) adjust speaker beam direction, equalization, volume, and other audio settings based on the distance R, and/or 3) the device responding to a voice command based on the distance r. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, the audio capture devices 101A and 101B may independently perform one or more operations of the method 400 to determine the distance from or the orientation of the user 103 based on the calculated value r. For instance, the method 400 may be performed in relation to voice commands spoken by the user 103. In one embodiment, the devices 101A and 101E may compare values for r to determine 1) whether the user 103 is closer to the device 101A or is closer to the device 101B and/or 2) whether the user 103 is speaking towards the device 101A or the device 101B. On the basis of this determination, the devices 101A and 101B may determine which of devices 101A/101B will handle voice commands emitted by the user 103. For example, upon determining that the value r1 is less than the value r2, the devices 101A and 101B may determine that the user 103 is closer and/or is speaking to the device 101A. Accordingly, the voice commands spoken by the user 103 are likely directed to this device 101A and will be processed by the device 101A.
Although the above example is described in relation to communication between the devices 101A and 101E to determine which device 101A/101B is to handle voice commands, in other embodiments each device 101A/101B may independently make this determination. For example, the computed values for r generated by each of the devices 101A and 101E may be compared against thresholds as described above to determine whether the commands are intended for each device 101A/101B. On the basis of these comparisons, the devices 101A and 101E may independently determine whether voice commands are to be processed by each corresponding device 101A/101B.
As described above, the method 400 may determine the distance r separating the audio capture device 101/microphone array 105 and the user 103 using sounds detected by microphone beam patterns with different directivity indices. Accordingly, the above method 400 allows the determination of the distance r without the complexity and cost of using a dedicated listening device and/or a camera. In particular, traditional acoustic measurement tools require two separate devices (e.g., a sound emitting device and a listening device). In contrast to these techniques, the above system and method allows the use of a single device (i.e., the audio capture device 101) that works in conjunction with sound produced by the user 103. Accordingly, the audio capture device 101 does not need to be immediately proximate to the user 103 (e.g., held near the ear of the user 103) and may be used to immediately provide other services to the user 103 (e.g., audio/video playback, telephony functions, etc.).
Although described as beamforming using the microphone array 105, in one embodiment the distance r separating the audio capture device 101 and the user 103 may be determined using a plurality of microphones 107 that are not beamformed. In this embodiment, the microphones 107 integrated or otherwise communicatively coupled to the audio capture device 101 may have different directivities based on their placement/location on a diffracting object. For example, a first microphone 107 of the audio capture device 101 may be placed on a spherical cabinet and pointed at the user 101A while a second microphone 107 of the audio capture device 101 may be placed on the spherical cabinet and pointed away from the user 101A. Using the power levels P1 and P2 associated with each of the first and second microphones 107 based on sound detected from the user 101A, the distance r may be computed using the equations discussed above. In this embodiment, the directivity indices DI1 and DI2 may be based on the passive properties of sound diffraction around the spherical cabinet. Accordingly, in this embodiment, the distance r separating the audio capture device 101 and the user 103 may be determined using a plurality of microphones 107 that are not beamformed.
As explained above, an embodiment of the invention may be an article of manufacture in which a machine-readable medium (such as microelectronic memory) has stored thereon instructions which program one or more data processing components (generically referred to here as a “processor”) to perform the operations described above. In other embodiments, some of these operations might be performed by specific hardware components that contain hardwired logic (e.g., dedicated digital filter blocks and state machines). Those operations might alternatively be performed by any combination of programmed data processing components and fixed hardwired circuit components.
While certain embodiments have been described and shown in the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that such embodiments are merely illustrative of and not restrictive on the broad invention, and that the invention is not limited to the specific constructions and arrangements shown and described, since various other modifications may occur to those of ordinary skill in the art. The description is thus to be regarded as illustrative instead of limiting.
1. A method for determining positioning of a user in a listening area, comprising:
detecting, by an audio capture device using a first microphone beam pattern generated by the audio capture device, sound produced by the user, as a first beam signal;
detecting, by the audio capture device using a second microphone beam pattern generated by the audio capture device, the sound produced by the user, as a second beam signal, wherein the first beam pattern has a first directivity index and the second beam pattern has a second directivity index that is different from the first directivity index;
determining, by the audio capture device, a first power level of the first beam signal and a second power level of the second beam signal;
determining, by the audio capture device, a plurality of characteristics of the listening area; and
computing, by the audio capture device, distance between the user and the audio capture device as a function of the first power level of the first beam signal, the second power level of the second beam signal, the first directivity index, the second directivity index, and the plurality of characteristics of the listening area.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the computed distance is further a function of a directivity index of the user.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the computed distance is a first distance, the method further comprising:
identifying a second distance from the user to another device in the listening area; and
processing, by the audio capture device, the sound detected from the user in response to determining that the user is closer to the audio capture device than to said another device.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining whether the user is speaking directly at the audio capture device based on the computed distance.
processing, by the audio capture device, the sound detected from the user in response to determining that the user is speaking directly at the audio capture device.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of characteristics of the listening area comprise:
a reverberation time of lithe listening area in which the user and the audio capture device are located; and
a geometric volume of the listening area.
7. The method of claim 1 further comprising determining a proximity of the user relative to one or more objects based on the computed distance.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein computing distance between the user and the audio capture device comprises
generating a plurality of distance values for separate blocks of the sound produced by the user over time; and
smoothing the plurality of distance values generated over time to determine a smoothed distance value.
selecting the first microphone beam pattern from a plurality of microphone beams generated by the audio capture device based on power levels of beam signals generated by the plurality of microphone beams, wherein the microphone beam in the plurality of microphone beams with a highest power level is selected as the first microphone beam pattern.
10. A system for determining positioning of a user in a listening area, comprising:
an audio capture device to generate a first microphone beam pattern and a second microphone beam pattern, wherein the first microphone beam pattern detects sound as a first beam signal and the second microphone beam pattern detects the sound as a second beam signal, wherein the first microphone beam pattern has a first directivity index and the second microphone beam pattern has a second directivity index that is different from the first directivity index; and
a distance estimation unit to
determine a first power level of the first beam signal and a second power level of the second beam signal,
determine a plurality of characteristics of the listening area, and
compute distance between a sound source and the audio capture device as a function of the first power level of the first beam signal, the second power level of the second beam signal, the first directivity index, the second directivity index, and the set of characteristics of the listening area.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the plurality of characteristics of the listening area comprise:
a reverberation time of a listening area; and
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the distance estimation unit further determines a proximity of the user relative to one or more objects based on the computed distance.
13. The system of claim 10, wherein the distance estimation unit further determines whether the user is speaking directly at the audio capture device based on the computed distance.
14. The system of claim 10, wherein the distance estimation unit computes the distance by:
generating a plurality of distance values for separate blocks of the sound over time; and
15. The system of claim 10, wherein the computed distance is further a function of a directivity index of the sound source.
16. The system of claim 10, wherein the computed distance is a first distance wherein the audio capture device further identifies a second distance from the sound source to another device in the listening area, wherein the audio capture device processes the sound detected from the sound source in response to determining that the sound source is closer to the audio capture device than to another device based on a comparison between the first and second distances.
17. The system of claim 13, wherein the audio capture device processes the sound detected from the sound source in response to determining that the user is speaking directly at the audio capture device based on the computed distance.
18. The system of claim 10, wherein the audio capture device produces a plurality of microphone beams, wherein the distance estimation unit further selects the first microphone beam pattern from the plurality of microphone beams based on power levels of beam signals generated by the plurality of microphone beams, wherein the microphone beam in the set of microphone beams with a highest power level is selected as the first microphone beam pattern.
19. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method for determining positioning of a user in a listening area, comprising:
20. The medium of claim 19, wherein the computed distance is further a function of a directivity index of the user.
21. The medium of claim 19, wherein the computed distance is a first distance, the method further comprising:
22. The medium of claim 19 further comprising determining whether the user is speaking directly at the audio capture device based on the computed distance.
23. The medium of claim 22, further comprising:
24. The medium of claim 19, wherein the plurality of characteristics of the listening area comprise:
a reverberation time of the listening area in which the user and the audio capture device are located; and
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Swiss Army Man: a marooned man befriends a washed-up corpse, who turns out to be very useful for getting them back home in one piece. Both leads are very strong; Radcliffe turns in a superb physical performance paired with equally strong deadpan comic delivery. Paul Dano is also great to watch, but feels more like he’s cruising in his typecast weirdo role. Together, they have undeniably fun ‘bromance’ chemistry that really elevates the film. Tonally, “eclectic” doesn’t do this film justice: it’s creepy, uplifting, strange, beautiful, depressing, funny, weird, innocent, unique, entertaining, and batshit crazy – all at the same time. It shifts and shimmies between all of its quirky ideas so quickly that it stops you even thinking about how and why all of the surreal things are able to happen. It like the kind weird films you’d have expected to come out of Japan in the early 2000s, and most resembles cinematic oddities like Rubber, Happiness of the Katakuris, and a little bit of Be Kind Rewind. It feels like the filmmakers were really wanted to bring up some observations about our modern values and way of living… but because of all the farting, trouser compassing, and fart-based jet skiing & flying the film ends up avoiding any deep or meaningful insights altogether, coming across as superficial a ‘pop philosophy 101’ class. Swiss Army Man is truly a film like no other, and one which defies categorization; and it really does need to be seen to be believed… however, it does feel more like a collection of individually ‘cool’ ideas, jokes, and moments that would be better suited to a barnstorming music video, or more focused, upbeat, and magical short film.
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Interestingly, Radcliffe carved a niche of his own beyond Harry Potter mania…. He is therefore a flexible actor worthy of emulation….
Paragraph Film Reviews said: October 28, 201609:26
He really does a great job here. Doesn’t look too convincing in Imperium (from the trailer), but as long as he keeps going against his typecasting I’m sure there will be plenty more good roles like this thrown his way.
Nostra said: October 12, 201614:57
Saw this last week and really loved it. It takes the ugliest things and turns it into something beautiful!
Absolutely – never thought you could leave the cinema feeling happy and uplifted after the way the last 10 minutes or so turned out.
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Trump Effect: Major Charity Appears To Distance Itself From Anti-Immigration Groups, Report Says
The move comes amid increasing controversy about the groups that also support population control.
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Amid soaring controversy about donations to anti-immigration and population-control groups, a prominent charity in the South appears to be distancing itself from the organizations, according to the Atlanta Daily World.
A spokesman for the Foundation for the Carolinas described the foundation as politically neutral, and doles out dollars to outside groups based on recommendations from backers who give money to the foundation, notes the report:
“Community foundations do not pass judgment or take a political stance on our donors’ grantmaking” provided that the charities are legally registered as charities under section 501(c)3 of the federal tax laws, said Tara M. Keener, Vice President and Director for Marketing & Communications at the Foundation For The Carolinas, the report says.
The statement, however, appears to be in conflict with internal rules of the foundation that gives its leadership the final say about how to disburse dollars it receives from donors, writes Atlanta Daily World:
The statement – which appears at odds with the foundation’s internal guidelines over the control it has over its funding of outside groups – seems to underscore uneasiness among officials at the Foundation For The Carolinas, as it faces potential fallout over the money it has provided to the controversial groups, whose members have ratcheted up their rhetoric as President Donald Trump begins a crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
The organization’s uneasiness over the negative publicity is understandable, given the widely acclaimed role it plays in the world of philanthropy. With assets totaling $1.85 billion, the Foundation For The Carolinas has a decades-long record of giving to scholarship programs, church activities, museums, opera companies, homeless shelters and other worthy causes and institutions. More than that, the Foundation for the Carolinas is ranked among the nation’s top community foundations with board members from Fortune 500 companies.
The groups in question, according to the L.A. Times, include NumbersUSA, the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, which have been known to push for lower immigration levels. Beleaguered U. S. Attorney General Sessions,the report notes, has worked closely with them to stop legislation advancing a path to citizenship.
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Corporate media launches racist attack against Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges because she pointed at black guy
KSTP-TV, the Hubbard Broadcasting-owned ABC affiliate in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ran a racist smear piece against Minneapolis, Minnesota Mayor Betsy Hodges on one of their local newscasts earlier this week because she was filmed pointing at Navell Gordon, a black community activist affiliated with a group called Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, during a get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort in Minneapolis for the this year’s November elections.
KSTP has been the subject of frequent criticism since they ran that racist piece, in fact, the Twitter hashtag #pointergate has been trending non-stop on Twitter since not long after KSTP aired and published the piece. KSTP deserves to be criticized over this, in my opinion. This smear attack against Hodges is clearly racist, since KSTP wouldn’t have aired such a piece if the person she was pointing at was a white person like me.
KSTP responded to the criticism over their racist piece by claiming that they aired and published the piece because the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) asked them to do so. Given that most police officers in this country are more interested in hunting down black people than actually protecting and serving their communities these days, it’s even worse that KSTP admitted to being a public relations shop for the police department of Minnesota’s largest city.
It’s bad enough that there are tons of right-wing Republican politicians who launch Willie Horton-style attacks against Democratic candidates for public office. It’s even worse that the corporate media is doing the Willie Horton-style attacks against Democratic elected officials themselves. These kind of pieces by the corporate media do nothing but stir up racial tensions in this country.
Betsy Hodges is not a gangbanger, and for KSTP to effectively claim that she is amounts to nothing more than a racist attack against her. It’s about damn time that the corporate media got called out on their race-baiting and right-wing bias in a big way!
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Review: Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste
Banks’ debut does not simply think outside the box, it blows the box to smithereens and steals the box’s man in the process.
opinion byZACHARY BERNSTEIN
Smile, Chinese Democracy, Detox – the pop music world has never been a stranger to the frustration of the delayed album release. New York rapper and singer Azealia Banks’ Broke With Expensive Taste could have easily earned its own pedestal in such a dubious pantheon. Since she first took music blogs, dorm rooms, and block parties by storm in 2012 with the joyously vulgar earworm “212,” Banks has become mired in so many Twitter feuds and record-label publicity flaps that the release of her debut album seemed increasingly unlikely by the month. Instead, she has now presented us with one of the most explosive and intriguing hip-hop releases of the year. We should hardly be surprised — Banks has always demonstrated a precocious talent for confounding expectations.
With its unheralded crash-landing of a debut early last week, Broke With Expensive Taste and its promotional strategy have inevitably drawn a few comparisons to the commercial blockbuster of the year, Beyoncé.Broke is the anti-Beyoncé – a long-gestating album with flagging or nearly forgotten anticipation, the surprise release as afterthought. Musically and thematically, however, Broke With Expensive Taste serves as a perfect companion album to Beyoncé. As lyrically provocative, sexually brash, and stylistically eclectic as its more pop-oriented forbear, Broke is decidedly non-commercial, reveling in sonic detours and dizzying vocal delivery that were evidently too much for the executives at Interscope. Banks’ first full-length pulls off an impressive trick — a confrontational anti-pop record that also manages to be one of the year’s most accessible and melodically pleasing LPs.
Album opener “Idle Delilah” quickly establishes the album’s musical modus operandi — throw everything at the graffitied wall and see what sticks. Banks unleashes bongo drums, monkey screams, and an ice cream truck jingle of a steel drum hook, all while alternating between maddeningly sing-song vocals and her characteristically furious and venomous flow. Elsewhere, “Ice Princess” shifts gears seamlessly between an aggressive, bass-heavy beat and a four-on-the-floor chorus that would not sound out of place on the next Rihanna LP. On “Gimme A Chance,” Banks goes bilingual as she switches from English to Spanish while the song departs from its vintage vinyl-scratching hip hop sound in favor of a delirious horn-accented salsa breakdown. Bachata, acid house, surf-rock — it all blends together in a musical tableau as bizarre and multicultural as a ride on the L train of Banks’ hometown.
The album’s sonic schizophrenia complements Banks’ lyrics perfectly. Banks explores and deconstructs two classic tropes of hip-hop and R&B femininity – the street-tough gangster and the glamorous diva — two sides of the same coin immortalized in the album’s title itself. Rather than adopt either identity, Banks presents a multi-dimensional persona who “moves sexy in Dior” on “JFK” but threatens to rip challengers’ heads off and “send [them] to Jehovah” on “Yung Rapunxel.” “I be in the mirror looking luxe and plush” from “Desperado” presents the stark antithesis to the way she looks “heavy metal and reflective” on the aggressive track named as such. The very moniker of “Yung Rapunxel” epitomizes this dichotomy — Banks posits herself as a fairy tale princess in a six-story walkup with a phonetic perversion that belies the rapper’s penchant for eschewing and transcending stereotypes. Banks is content to contradict herself; she contains multitudes.
The Ariel Pink collaboration “Nude Beach A Go Go” (you read that correctly) must be heard to be believed. If a former Harlem theater student recording a beguilingly catchy Beach Boys-aping throwback sounds out of place, then that’s all part of Banks’ design. Offering her own spin on whitewashed 1960s surf culture, Banks unleashes a scathing condemnation of white appropriation of black culture as she chants “black women attraction, all the white girls join in the action.”
Admittedly, not all tracks hit with the same force. The album sags a bit in its second act, weighed down by tracks like “BBD” and “Wallace” that submerge themselves in a quagmire of murky beats and aggressive posturing. Banks’ lyrical delivery, often remarkably nimble and quick-witted, occasionally threatens to veer wildly off the rails, only to course-correct itself in the next twelve bars. “212,” the centerpiece of the record’s A side, still remains a highlight, serving as a triumphant middle-fingered reminder of why we loved this rapper so much in the first place. The fantastic Missy Elliott-cum-Disclosure hybrid “Chasing Time” is perhaps the most conventionally poppy track here with its repeated chorus and verse structure and its club-ready synths.
While other rappers may have ceded hook-slinging responsibilities to the (very capable) likes of Rita Ora or Sia, Azealia Banks sings her own melodies, rarely surrendering the mic over Broke’s hour-long runtime save one guest spot from Theophilius London on “JFK.” Her complete dominance over the sonic space of her debut reinforces Broke With Expensive Taste as a product singularly of her vision. The album is not a coronation – it could have quite easily been a more compact twelve tracks rather than a bloated sixteen. However, its arrival is most welcome, as reflected in the vocal sample of Hot 97’s Peter Rosenberg on “Desperado” — “Man, I’ve been waiting for Azealia Banks.” What Broke With Expensive Taste so forcefully reminds us is that we have all been waiting for Azealia Banks, even if we had briefly forgotten her in a haze of blogosphere backlash. Banks’ debut does not simply think outside the box — it blows the box to smithereens and steals the box’s man in the process. Bloggers and record executives, proceed with caution — no box, corporate or critical, can restrain a talent this promising and an id this formidable.
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Caroline Marful and Rachel Tung - Our Founder's Vision
How QFLIP Was Started
The story of how QFLIP was started is the perfect example of empowered women empowering women. In January 2015 during our first year at Queen’s, we attended a Principal’s Forum where Tricia Marwick, the first female Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, spoke about her journey to one of the top political positions in Scotland. Her story empowered us but also opened our eyes to the unique challenges women face in rising to influential positions in political spheres and beyond. Sitting down at dinner following her keynote, we reflected on the lack of young women in leadership positions on campus and the issues that faces women pursuing politics at all levels. We both agreed that there should be a bigger forum that raises awareness and spurs people to action in empowering women to be leaders in politics. And so after one speech and one dinner we did something about it.
While we are the founders, QFLIP was built by countless leaders and there are many voices to thank. We put out an open call on campus for individuals to join our inaugural executive team and were blown away with the passion and commitment we saw from the Queen’s community from that day onwards. This includes student societies, the Political Studies Department and our Professor Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, who taught us about women in politics for the very first time. Once we hired our inaugural executive team to whom our gratitude is endless, the planning began for the future of women leadership at Queen’s and beyond.
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What can the UK do to attract overseas students?
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Extracts from the article below. Complete article here – https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/jul/13/what-can-the-uk-do-to-attract-overseas-students-imitate-australia
Recognising higher education as a major export is essential if the sector is to compete in the global marketplace
A recent event of real importance to UK higher education has gone relatively unnoticed. When the Home Office expanded list of countries that will benefit from a streamlined Tier 4 application process, it made it far easier for students from 11 countries, including China, to get visas to study in the UK.
According to Ucas figures, 58,450 non-EU university applications were received as of January 2018 – the largest number ever recorded.
The National Statistics does not currently accurately track the sector’s performance(HE) making it harder to gauge the challenges and opportunities it faces and to compare it to competitor countries. ….. Adding education to the list would bring the vast contribution of this sector into sharper focus, particularly as it is believed to make the second largest contribution to the UK economy after financial services.
At present, every international graduate gets four months to find a job once they’ve completed their course. This is difficult for even the most skilled graduates, regardless of nationality. In Australia, all graduates are given two to four years.
The Home Office has expanded the list of countries from which students will be able to benefit from a streamlined application process. Students from an additional 11 countries, including China, will be able to provide a reduced level of documentation when applying for their Tier 4 visa. All students from these countries still need to meet all requirements under Tier 4 and UK Visas and Immigration reserves the right to request this evidence in full and will do so for a random sample of applications. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/716674/CCS207_CCS0618810832-1_HC1154_Web_Accessible.pdf
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Ray Brogden COO of Qualifi Awarding Organisation applauds the changes recently announced and encourages education providers to consider the potential benefits this can yield for their institution. Qualifi provides Ofqual regulated qualifications at levels 2 to 8 inclusive; eligible candidates (UK and EU) can utilise Advanced Learner Loans to cover the cost of their tuition fees when studying one of our Ofqual regulated qualifications at a recognised centre in England. Those colleges holding a Tier 4 sponsor licence can offer students access to Qualifi’s L3, 4 and 5 qualifications delivered within their institution prior to students progressing from L5 to final year honours degree studies at one of our partner universities. Alternatively, your college can provide blended learning delivery allowing international students to remain in their home country pending doing a final year honours degree Top Up (via attendance in the UK or through an in home country flying faculty arrangement enabled by Qualifi). For further information please contact Ray at ray@qualifi.net or visit the Qualifi website at https://qualifi.net/progression-routes/
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Yevade Subramaniam review
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One of the biggest cliché in Indian movies is the ‘coming of age’ story. It probably began with Dil Chahta Hai and continues unabated till today. They normally come in the form of a journey to some place, an experience or a death of someone the protagonist likes or loves. Yevade Subramaniam has all of this and tries its best to not be seen as one of those cliched movies. It works for me, because of a lot of reasons. Primary among them is Nani. He is a gift to Telugu Film Industry. A few years ago while talking about Nani, Rajamouli said that though he comes across as an instinctive actor, there goes a lot of thought behind that. Towards the end of the movie, Nani’s character says that people can realise what they want from life. For him it took a journey to Doodh Kashi to understand, whereas there are a lot of people who realise that by staying where they are. Nani is a lucky actor that he got to enact that scene. It’s not a first for him. He got to do the same in Pilla Zamindar too. When we sit down and think about it we can call it as luck, but to enact two similar kind of scenes and making the audience sway emotionally during both the scenes takes some doing. Nani cracks that.
All through the promotion for the movie, they spoke about how difficult it was for them to shoot in Himalayas. The 40 odd days shoot for the movie was a trip of self realisation for them, they said. Coming from movie actors, you have a chuckle to yourself, because you always feel that they tend to live their life in a bubble. On one of those promotional shows, Nani pleads people to watch the movie on a big screen because of the shoot that was done in the Himalayas. He was right. The place looks brilliant on the screen and full marks to the director and cinematographer for the same.
It is said that the director is the captain of the ship and how the actors perform is a thing entirely upto him. Case in point is Krishnam Raju. We have seen the man in movies like Billa and Rebel in the recent times and feel that the man is making a joke of himself in those movies. Watch him in this movie; He has two scenes, at best, and gives a performance that will be remembered for a long time to come. That he comes across looking so brilliant is because of the director and the dialogue writer.
Vijay Devarakonda, the guy who played the role of Rishi and Malavika Nair, as Anandi, shine in the movie. They look their part and in no sequence does it look like the actors went overboard. Everything in the movie was balanced and a reason for why it’s there. For example, in the first half, there is a sequence where Anandi wants to see the transformation of a caterpillar into a Butterfly and is told that it’s a rare occurrence. She is told by the lepidopterist in question that he himself hasn’t been a witness to one. Towards the end of the movie, Nani sees the transformation and shouts for Anandi. You half-predict that it is to show her the same, but nothing of that sort happens. Pemba, the guy who tries to guide the people on a trip to Doodh Kashi is hilarious and has a bit song for himself in the movie. The way he keeps asking for 100$ a day as his charge is comical. His role is given a proper ending too. Here too, the credit goes to the director because he doesn’t leave any loose ends in the movie.
Regardless of the box office fate of the movie, the director, Nag Ashwin is a huge find for the film industry. Bar Nani and some of the supporting cast, a lot of the faces are unknown people. When you see and sit down to think about the movie, the first thing that strikes you is the amount of thought the director has put in the movie. It’s not natural for me to see a screen filled to the last seat. That it was full for this movie was surprising for me as I have seen quite a few movies of stars going half empty. What must be more gladdening for the makers is the fact a lot of them were glued to the seats till ‘The End’ was flashed on the screen. That definitely was a first for me and talks for the director. It tells us that he had the people watching the movie engrossed.
The dialogue writer for the movie is another person who has to go far. In the age of Trivikram Srinivas, it’s difficult for some other person to make a mark. I hope this man does make a mark. Presence of actor is a different thing and a smashing presence of the same actor is a different thing. It is entirely due to the dialogue writer that we would remember the role played by Krishnam Raju in the movie. In one of the scenes, Krishnam Raju says, “Nenu dabbu sampadhinchatanaki pani cheyatledhu, nenu chessthunna pani ki dabbulu sampadhisthunannu”
When translated it means
I am not working to earn money. I am working and able to make money out of it.
When Nani meets Malavika over an extended period of time, he has a conversation with her.
Nani: Nuvvu edhi padthe adhi chesthavva? ( Do you do anything you want?)
Malavika: Edhi padthe adhi kadhu, edhi cheyyalanipisthe adhi chesthannu (not anything, but I do whatever I want to)
It takes a lot of courage to accept a movie like this when you are having an extended period of trough and not had a release for more than an year. It’s heartening to see Nani accepting the role because he is among the very few actors in the industry who could’ve done justice to this role. Hope he gets to ride the wave and reach the crest.
Nani is brilliant in the movie. He conveys every single emotion brilliantly in the movie. Ruthless person, an opportunist who is willing to wait for his work to be done, a persistent nag, changed person and a good human being- Nani puts across all these traits and convinces everybody watching the movie that he embodied all these traits well
Swapna Dutt needs to be equally commended as the producer of the movie for investing on the movie. If, as I think, she is the daughter of Ashwini Dutt, then it has to be said that the movies produced by his daughters, Priyanka Dutt being the other one, are always shot brilliantly. Baanam, Om Shanti and Sarocharu were their previous productions. This movie can be added to the list easily
Verdict: A good movie that has the capability to take everyone involved with the movie to the next level
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Summary Email Benchmarking Report 2018
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For many a day in 2004, three people sat Around a single desk in a small medical office — an office which functioned as the team’s conference room, lunch room, and idea heart. Backed by a little programming team in India, the trio (consisting of Benchmark Internet Group founder Curt Keller, his wife Denise, along with an SEO pro ) discussed ideas on how best to implement a deceptively simple concept. Simple email marketing. Many of the thoughts were beyond the resources of the fledgling company, but that didn’t stop Keller from moving ahead.
The first Customers of Benchmark Email were small businesses located in close proximity to Benchmark’s one-room HQ in Long Beach, CA. Keller and his team sold them on the use of email marketing, while working hard to create a very simple user interface which would be simple to operate. All the while, the business uses such innovative ideas as customizable templates and software which adapted to consumer needs. They also made certain from the outset that anyone who needed help would have rapid access to excellent customer support.
Benchmark Has continued to rise and advantagesper. Its present focus. Providing worldwide email advertising services to small and midsize businesses while continuing to honor a commitment to help children in need. This doesn’t indicate that Benchmark is a little-guys-only company, however; it has adhered to its core principle of adaptability and serves large organizations such as UNICEF and Kaiser-Permanente through its High Volume Enterprise plans.
Today, Benchmark serves upwards of 73,000 users from across the globe, however, the company has not forgotten its roots. Benchmark still keeps good relationships with little, locally-based companies. In reality, the organization supplies a full page of testimonials from local users of the program. You may read about Benchmark’s background and development here.
While most of the attributes Benchmark supplies Are on par with the rest of the business, one of the standout features of this ESP is the fact that most of its features come standard with every single account — including the free ones. Below are a few of Benchmark’s most noteworthy offerings.
· Countless Industry-Specific, Themed Templates. Benchmark offers all customers access to its library of over 400 templates. These are organized into 19 categories, some of which are tailored to particular industries like education, entertainment, and retail. There’s also a category for societal media-specific templates.
· Video Emails. Possibly the best-known benefit of Benchmark is its support for video mails. The business explains the advantages of this attribute here.
· Online Surveys. You’ll be able to create professional-looking online surveys using among Benchmark’s 6 templates. Post your survey on your site or construct it into an email.
· Dedicated Email Server. All Benchmark’s High Volume programs have a dedicated IP address to help increase deliverability rates. Users on other plans have the choice of paying for this service ($30/month) to boost their particular delivery stats. Read more about the benefits of dedicated servers here.
· Email Delivery Management. Benchmark’s email delivery management program is all about getting customers’ emails into inboxes. The company is a member of the Email Sender and Provider Coalition and works with ReturnPath, a leading email delivery and delivery support. The business also communicates with ISPs on its clients’ behalf. Email Benchmarking Report 2018
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· Mobile App. Benchmark’s mobile apps allow customers with an Apple device to get several functions on the street. They can access and add contacts, read reports, send videos through integration with a YouTube accounts, and even layout and send quick email blasts with one of 10 available templates. That is quite a little more than a number of other companies offer in their mobile programs, making them much more operational.
· Photo Editing. If the photos you intend to use on your email campaign are not perfectly sized or need some colour adjustment, you can use Benchmark’s integrated picture editor. This is a pretty handy feature if you do not have photoshop available.
· Code Editor. If you’ve got the know-how to work magic with HTML, Benchmark provides this ultra-customization option with which you may build your emails from scratch.
· Autoresponder. Each Benchmark client has the power to style around eight custom autoresponder messages. These could be scheduled as a series or occasion lead-up, or designed as annual messages like birthday or anniversary mails.
· Sign-Up Forms. The only way to become successful in email advertising is by way of growing your own list, and Benchmark actually promotes doing this through sign-up forms. The company bases its Free For Life account completely around site and Facebook sign-ups and supplies an easy-to-use tool to create customized templates for each medium.
· Inbox Checker. Since every email program is different and every web browser includes a signature style, making certain that your emails look great across the board is crucial. It is possible to use Inbox Checker to have a look at the way that your email displays in Gmail using Explorer and Outlook 3. Using the full program (which checks everything out of AOL to Yahoo, Explorer into Safari, mobile to PC) is a paid add-on provider, available for $14 each 100 checks.
· RSS-to-Email. Regular bloggers can create newsletters out of their blogs automatically through the RSS-to-Email feature, which works with any blog which handles an RSS-feed. Users simply need to establish a template and campaign inside Benchmark once.
· API Integration. An API (Application Program Interface) enables different software programs to communicate with one another with no formal plug connection. Benchmark’s API Integration feature allows users with XML-RPC, HTTP POST, or HTTP GET skills to retrieve data from some other programs which use JSON, XML, XML-RPC, or PHP serialization strings. In brief, this allows them to play three functions. Manage contact lists, handle campaigns and campaign sending, and assess data. The business explains this role in more detail here.
· Advanced Metrics. Benchmark provides both List Segmentation and AB Split Testing.
· Multiple-Language Interface. Benchmark is offered in seven languages. Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Signing up for a Benchmark account is fairly straightforward. After entering your name, email, contact number, and company name, you have to validate your email address. This is a five-minute process for me. Upon logging into my account (with the free plan) I was greeted by an attractive UI that gave me a very clear direction on the best way to make my first email campaign. Good beginning!
Email Campaign Creation
On its dashboard, Benchmark offers users five main choices. Emails, Automations, Contacts, Surveys, and Reports. To create a new campaign, go into the Emails section, then hit on the large blue”Create New Mail” button at the top right-hand corner. Email Benchmarking Report 2018
From there, you must decide If You Would like an RSS Or classic email message. It is possible to use Benchmark’s drag-and-drop editor, or move for more customization with the built-in code editor. If you’re someone who codes their own email, then my hat is off to you, but I am not personally gifted that way, so I moved with the drag-and-drop alternative.
I was motivated to enter a subject line for my Email and set up how much observation I wanted on the message, as well as if I wanted an automatic tweet once the campaign went out. The following task was to select which contacts I wanted to get the campaign. With that, I was eventually able to start building the email itself. If you would like to, you are able to assemble your personal email layouts employing a very intuitive editor. On the other hand, you can alter one of Benchmark’s templates, which are great, and much better than I was able to do on my own.
Sending the Email Campaign
If you are just Starting out, you can certainly do as I did and manually input contacts one at a time. However, for people who already have a listing, there are several ways to import it. You are able to upload a CSV, xls, or txt file right from the computer; import contacts directly from Salesforce.com, Hotmail, or Gmail accounts; or copy and paste large lists of contacts into a text type. When you make your Benchmark lists, they’ll appear on your dashboard, together with a Master Unsubscribe List.
The actual sending of the email is rather simple. Once you’ve completed all of your tweaks, you may save the email as a draft, send it immediately, or schedule a date and time for delivery. If you want to verify everything is well before distributing your email about the planet, it is possible to send it to your self to preview it as many as 10 times/day. I opted to program my email for delivery to view how timely the automated system would actually be. I advised my email for 2.45 and obtained it at 2.50, so while the timing was not exactly ideal, it was likely present in tolerance levels for most users. If you’re one of the more infrequent users who need on-the-minute email sending, then you might have to appear elsewhere. More worryingly, my email didn’t go to my main inbox but was mechanically sorted in my”promotions” folder. Definitely not perfect.
Mail Campaign Reporting
The first thing I Noticed about Benchmark email reports was something I would read in a few reviews. They’re really, really quickly. I mean lightning fast. Opens enroll in the Benchmark system virtually immediately. I’ve worked with a lot of different apps where these reports require hours or even days to appear.
Benchmark provides users with several key Pieces of information about each effort. The possibly most important statistic, the open speed, appears in both pie graph and numerical form. Additionally, Benchmark provides users with stats for clicks, forwards, bounces, unsubscribes, and misuse. Every stat further breaks down to the specific email addresses associated with a given activity. Users can export this data for additional analysis by means of a csv or xls file. There’s also a social media area which reports shares through Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, as well as a map that breaks down, by state, that opens your mails. Email Benchmarking Report 2018
Though all of the information Is Excellent and Necessary, it is not sufficient to sustain higher level marketers that want more info such as conversions, which hyperlinks were clicked, and revenue analysis. Though Google Analytics provides a lot of this information with proper integration, there might come a time when serious entrepreneurs need more info than Benchmark provides. Whether or not a small business will get to that point varies, of course, based on the company.
Specific Size Of Company
Benchmark designed its 3-tiered pricing Structure with the goal of serving everyone from the smallest kitchen-table startup to large email marketers. However, the organization’s main focus is on small to medium businesses, particularly those just starting out in email marketing. This is particularly reflected in the fact that clients subscribing to the moderate plans get unlimited mails, while bigger plans have limitations.
Integrations and Add-Ons
Benchmark Offers approximately 20 plug-ins and integrations. If you don’t observe the integration you want, there’s still hope. You can use the API or ask a integration by sending an email to [email protected]
· Benchmark Events — Benchmark Occasions is event marketing software designed to integrate fully with Benchmark Email. Launched in 2012, this program permits users to make and customize events, promote and market tickets, and monitor the success of their events via their Benchmark Email accounts. A variety of programs are available, including a free alternative.
· Salesforce.com — This integration enables users to import contacts directly into Benchmark and utilize Benchmark’s email system to maintain Salesforce customers engaged. Read our overview of Salesforce here.
· WordPress — Benchmark Email Lite is a WordPress plugin which permits users to quickly build an email viewer via their readers. The plugin can automatically produce email variations of blog posts and permits users to connect up to five Benchmark accounts.
· Highrise — Merges Highrise contacts using a Benchmark list. Read our overview of Highrisehere.
· Benchmark Power — This free plugin allows you to supply pictures for your Benchmark emails from locations throughout the web. Benchmark Power captures pictures you find and instantly uploads them to your Benchmark account for future usage.
· Flickr — Users with Flickr accounts may link Flickr to their Benchmark image galleries.
· Shopify — You can link a Shopify accounts to Benchmark and automatically add Shopify customers to Benchmark lists. You can even add contributors to various lists based on which products they bought. Read our review of Shopify here.
· PayPal — Users may add some of their PayPal clients to their own Benchmark email lists bylinking the account. Read our overview of Paypal here.
· Easy List — Know more about this simple list-making program and download it .
· WordPress — The ever-present blog and website builder offers an integration using Benchmark. Use it to send emails of your blog articles and also use the analytics to see how your subscribers react to them. Learn more here.
· Zapier — Gain entry to Zapier’s enormous integration library . Email Benchmarking Report 2018
Social Media Integrations
Because Of the integral connection between social media and email advertising, it’s important to look at the social networking features contained in Benchmark.
· Social Media Templates — One segment of Benchmark’s enormous email template listing consists of societal media-specific templates which directly promote your institution’s participation in social networking forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
· Facebook”Like” Button — Benchmark offers a very simple function which permits you to bring a Facebook”Just Like” button to your emails.
· Facebook Sign-Up Form — Benchmark provides easy-to-create sign-up forms (see”Characteristics” above) for both websites and Facebook fan pages, so you can convert followers to subscribers.
· Social Links within Mail — Once you connect your Benchmark account together with your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn accounts, you can add switches to each email that will direct your readers to each of your social networking pages.
Benchmark Email is a TRUSTe certified website. The company’s privacy policy can be seen here. Benchmark may utilize the personal information which you supply so as to send you newsletters and also for marketing purposes, but it doesn’t share or sell that information to other companies for their marketing purposes.
The Business also fully Complies with the U.S.-E.U. and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks concerning the selection of personal data from citizens of those nations. When customers provide credit card amounts to Benchmark, the business utilizes secure socket layer (SSL) protection to encrypt the info. The entire system is encrypted to ensure the security of all customers’ personal details.
Anti-Spam Policy and Protection
Like All legitimate ESPs, Benchmark takes junk seriously and summarizes a clear zero-tolerance coverage for any of their users hoping to engage in spam actions. The business is fully in compliance with the U.S. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Benchmark also takes several measures to preserve its standing as a spam-free provider, among them membership from the Email Sender and Provider Coalition. The business employs the app SpamAssassin to filter messages sent through its server.
To prevent users from Unknowingly sending spam-like materials, Benchmark supplies a spam test feature that looks for words commonly used in spam messages. It scores every email on a scale from 1 to 5; 5s are delegated to content that is likely to be blocked. In case of a high score, the program suggests”less spammy” alternatives. Individualized IP addresses also help large-volume senders reduce their spam amounts.
Client Service and Support
Benchmark Offers its users a lot of support resources. Customer support is generally responsive, with minimal waiting times. The website provides good learning resources, but can be opaque occasionally. Key information can be buried and difficult to locate, especially if you don’t know exactly what you’re searching for, especially when it comes to minute details about plans. As an example. The Free For Life plan comprises Benchmark branding on each email, however you won’t see that mentioned on the Free For Life page, not even at the fine print. Nor will you see it mentioned when you sign up. The only place it is mentioned is in the FAQ, here.
Here are some of the resources Benchmark offers. Email Benchmarking Report 2018
· Live Email and Support — Benchmark provides live one-on-one support through the following means.
· Email Support. Contact Benchmark at [email protected] or via the company’s contact form here. Accessible 24 hours Monday — Friday and limited hours on Saturday.
· Phone Support. You can reach Benchmark at 800-430-4095 (U.S.) or 001-562-252-3789 (all states ). Available weekdays from 6 am to 5 pm PT.
· Chat Support. Accessible almost 24 hours daily Monday — Friday and restricted hours on Saturday. Offered in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
· FAQ — Benchmark’s FAQ section is somewhat mislabeled because it’s closer to some QandA-format knowledge base than a normal FAQ. You will find more than 900 entries, sorted into 18 subjects ranging from”Getting Started” to”API.” Users may execute a keyword search of any topic (or sub-topic) or of the FAQ as a whole. One caveat. With such an extensive knowledge base, it is pretty much inevitable that some entries will be out of date. Some of the QandAs provide information that’s wholly inaccurate, so in some cases, you might need to contact assistance to hash things out.
· Video Tutorials and Webinars — Benchmark provides about two dozen movie tutorials that take users step by step through the features of this program. The company also offers a webinar called”Benchmark Mail Crash Course.” You may see it live each Friday at 10.00 a.m. PST or see the recorded version at any moment. You can even ask for a special webinar on quite a few different subjects. Live webinars comprise the chance to ask questions throughout the presentation.
· Email Marketing Manuals and Articles — You can find more in-depth details on email marketing generally, as well as the Benchmark program specifically, at the Manuals Section. These downloadable files also cover industry-specific troubles. Articles, similar to blogs, offer users guidance beyond that found in the FAQ section, but in shorter, more digestible chunks compared to the guides provide.
· Glossary of Email Marketing Terms — This can be a particularly helpful tool for those brand new to email marketing who feel absorbed by all the jargon. Benchmark gives a glossarywith 50 of the very popular email marketing terms from”above-the-fold” into”whitelists.”
· Blog and Newsletter — For current information about email marketing trends, check out Benchmark’s monthly newsletter, as well as its exceptionally active blog. All subscribers automatically gain access to current newsletters, and Benchmark also provides an archive of newsletter articles from November 2007-October 2012.
· Benchmark Community — Benchmark users may post their latest newsletters on message boards in the Benchmark Community. This forum allows users to discuss newsletter production strategies, vote for their favorite newsletters, and gain inspiration from additional Benchmark users.
Web-Based Or Locally-Installed
Benchmark is completely web-based and does not Require any installation on your PC.
Favorable Reviews and Testimonials
Benchmark Has a four-out-of-five star score on G2 Crowd, using a slightly better showing on GetApp and Capterra. 4.5 stars each. Email Benchmarking Report 2018
Some common points of compliments.
· Top Notch Support. This is perhaps the most common observation concerning Benchmark, and something I discovered for myself as well. People today are inclined to find support prompt and helpful, and a few say it is really the element that distinguishes Benchmark from its rivals. The business also receives praise for its website articles and videos.
· Characteristic Selection Across All Plans. Some customers praise the inclusion of attributes including AB analyzing and surveys from all plans; many firms charge extra for these attributes or just include them into their pricier plans.
· Benefits of Use. Users tend to find Benchmark’s interface incredibly user-friendly and intuitive. The program gathers praise from a wide assortment of demographics, from first-time ESP consumers to those who have attempted a variety of programs before settling Benchmark.
· Mobile Friendly Emails. Users were impressed with the mobile-friendly email design of Benchmark’s templates. Since more and more people access their email from mobile devices, this can be an increasingly important aspect to consider.
Negative Reviews and Complaints
I was not able to find many people who loathed Their Benchmark experience. But, I was able to discover a couple of complaints.
· Inconsistent Send-Times. Apparently a few users experienced a problem with Benchmark where their mails were sent hours when they were first scheduled. One customer theorized the issue might arise from lengthy lists of recipients. Not all customers of all Benchmark will have time-sensitive shipping demands, but others will. Should you want your emails to go out exactly whenever your program dictates, you might have to consider this situation.
· Buggy Social Media Integrations. I saw several user reviews that remarked the social networking integrations in Benchmark are not up to par.
· “Spammy” Templates. Some users were worried that Benchmark’s templates can feel like spam email, causing receivers to mark them as spam and not reading the contents. Since the entire purpose of an ESP would be to prevent this from occurring, this may be an issue. On the flip side, I never felt this way while searching through the template list, so it might not be the most legitimate of complaints.
Benchmark Offers a enormous variety of pricing strategies, including a totally free plan and a massive scale of paid plans which may service anywhere between 600 and 7,140,000 subscribers.
Free Plan.
Benchmark’s free programs do not require charge Cards, that is always refreshing. The only catch. There will be a small Benchmark emblem at the bottom of every email you send out. Of course, you may always opt to upgrade to a paid program if you don’t need the Benchmark branding. The free plan allows you to send up to 14000 emails to up to 2000 subscribers and provides you access to most but not all of Benchmark’s features record. Notable absences to the attributes list for free account include email automation and sub-accounts (enabling multiple users to get one Benchmark accounts ).
Paid Plans. Email Benchmarking Report 2018
Users with small contacts lists and restricted Monthly messages have the option of paying to get their email advertising based on the amount of mails they send every month.
o Medium Plans. 600-50,000 subscribers, $13.99-$254.99 per month
o Large Strategies. 55,000-100,000 subscribers, $285.99-$494.99 per month
o Extra Large Strategies. 125,000-1,000,000 subscribers, $659.99-$4,273.99 per month
o Massive Plans. 1,070,000-7,140,000 subscribers, $4,500-$29,200 a month
Benchmark accepts all Major credit cards and also allows you to pay through PayPal. They also offer a 25% reduction for nonprofits and educators.
Benchmark is a solid program. It is Simple to Use, Open to invention, and competitively priced. Its free options may just be the very best in the business for anybody who only wants to dip into email advertising (especially small, neighborhood companies ). For that matter, any Benchmark strategy can work well for a little company which perspectives email as a minor element of its marketing and does not have any desire to operate beyond the basics just yet.
If you are a small or maybe medium-sized Business trying to find a simple email advertising program using a multitude of great features, Benchmark is an excellent option. Even though there might come a time when you launch the program, it supplies a lot for the price, offers exceptional service, and the company appears to be sensitive to the needs of its users. You can’t ask for more.
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A congregation of deities in Himachal
By Vishal Gulati, IANS
MANDI - It will be a divine gathering! More than 200 gods and goddesses will ‘congregate’ here next week to participate in the centuries-old Mahashivratri Fair.
The week-long Mahashivratri Fair, one of the biggest traditional and religious festivals of the country, begins in Mandi March 3 — the day the festival is celebrated in the northern states - at the temple of Bhutnath, dedicated to Lord Shiva. The celebration of the festival dates back to 1526 when the town was founded during the rule of Ajbar Sen.
Sen had invited all the local deities to celebrate the founding of the new town. Since then, the assembly of deities during Mahashivratri has become an annual tradition.
“Over 215 gods and goddesses will participate in the week-long Mahashivratri festival,” Deputy Commissioner Amandeep Garg, who is also chief organiser of the fair, told IANS.
He said special arrangements have been made by the administration during the stay of the gods and goddesses at the Paddal ground in the town. They would start arriving March 1 and stay till the festival is over.
Prem Sharma, director of the state department of language, art and culture, said like the week-long Kullu Dussehra, which is celebrated in Kullu town, Mandi’s Mahashivratri also sees a congregation of the divine and the temporal.
Mandi, also known as ‘Chotti Kashi’ of Himachal Pradesh, is dotted by more than 60 temples. Prominent among them are those of Bhutnath, Triloki Nath, Jagannath, Tarna Devi and Jalpa Devi.
The rulers of Mandi state were devotees of Lord Shiva.
It is believed that ruler Ajbar Sen (1499-1534) saw in his dreams a cow offering milk to the image of Lord Shiva. His dreams turned into reality when he himself saw the cow offering its milk to the idol.
He then constructed a temple there in 1526 — the Bhutnath temple.
Simultaneously, the foundation of Mandi town was also laid and he shifted his capital here.
The actual fair begins the day after Mahashivratri. Every day the deities move in a colourful procession amid beating of drums and playing of ’shehnais’ to a specific temple for worship and later return to the Paddal ground.
During the first day of the fair, Lord Madho Rai, an incarnate of Lord Vishnu and the chief deity, leads the procession. The assembled deities follow him in beautifully decorated palanquins as per their protocol and assemble at the Bhutnath temple.
Three such processions, locally called Jaleb, are taken out on the opening, middle and concluding day of the fair.
The conduit between the mortals and the deities are the ‘gur’ - the traditional shamans of Himachal, who form the core of the communities’ spiritual sustenance. The ‘gur’ mediates between the people and the gods.
Thousands of devotees, including tourists from the US, Britain, Italy, France, Germany and Israel participate in the festivity.
During the festival, transactions worth millions of rupees take place. Kullu and Kinnauri shawls, handicrafts, carpets and dry fruits are a major attraction for the customers.
(Vishal Gulati can be contacted at [email protected])
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Tags: Himachal Pradesh, Mandi
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Molecular design for improved photovoltaic efficiency: band gap and absorption coefficient engineering
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Removing the adjacent thiophene groups around the acceptor core in low band gap polymers significantly enhances solar cell efficiency through increasing the optical absorption and raising the ionization potential of the polymer. © 2009 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Yu, Guihua; Hu, Liangbing; Vosgueritchian, Michael; Wang, Huiliang; Xie, Xing; McDonough, James R.; Cui, Xu; Cui, Yi; Bao, Zhenan (Nano Letters, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011-07-13) [Article]
Large scale energy storage system with low cost, high power, and long cycle life is crucial for addressing the energy problem when connected with renewable energy production. To realize grid-scale applications of the energy storage devices, there remain several key issues including the development of low-cost, high-performance materials that are environmentally friendly and compatible with low-temperature and large-scale processing. In this report, we demonstrate that solution-exfoliated graphene nanosheets (∼5 nm thickness) can be conformably coated from solution on three-dimensional, porous textiles support structures for high loading of active electrode materials and to facilitate the access of electrolytes to those materials. With further controlled electrodeposition of pseudocapacitive MnO2 nanomaterials, the hybrid graphene/MnO2-based textile yields high-capacitance performance with specific capacitance up to 315 F/g achieved. Moreover, we have successfully fabricated asymmetric electrochemical capacitors with graphene/MnO 2-textile as the positive electrode and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)-textile as the negative electrode in an aqueous Na 2SO4 electrolyte solution. These devices exhibit promising characteristics with a maximum power density of 110 kW/kg, an energy density of 12.5 Wh/kg, and excellent cycling performance of ∼95% capacitance retention over 5000 cycles. Such low-cost, high-performance energy textiles based on solution-processed graphene/MnO2 hierarchical nanostructures offer great promise in large-scale energy storage device applications. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
3,4-Disubstituted Polyalkylthiophenes for High-Performance Thin-Film Transistors and Photovoltaics
Ko, Sangwon; Verploegen, Eric; Hong, Sanghyun; Mondal, Rajib; Hoke, Eric T.; Toney, Michael F.; McGehee, Michael D.; Bao, Zhenan (Journal of the American Chemical Society, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2011-10-26) [Article]
We demonstrate that poly(3,4-dialkylterthiophenes) (P34ATs) have comparable transistor mobilities (0.17 cm2 V-1 s-1) and greater environmental stability (less degradation of on/off ratio) than regioregular poly(3-alkylthiophenes) (P3ATs). Unlike poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), P34ATs do not show a strong and distinct π-π stacking in X-ray diffraction. This suggests that a strong π-π stacking is not always necessary for high charge-carrier mobility and that other potential polymer packing motifs in addition to the edge-on structure (π-π stacking direction parallel to the substrate) can lead to a high carrier mobility. The high charge-carrier mobilities of the hexyl and octyl-substituted P34AT produce power conversion efficiencies of 4.2% in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices. An enhanced open-circuit voltage (0.716-0.771 eV) in P34AT solar cells relative to P3HT due to increased ionization potentials was observed. © 2011 American Chemical Society.
Anthradithiophene-Containing Copolymers for Thin-Film Transistors and Photovoltaic Cells
Jiang, Ying; Okamoto, Toshihiro; Becerril, Hector A.; Hong, Sanghyun; Tang, Ming Lee; Mayer, Alex C.; Parmer, Jack E.; McGehee, Michael D.; Bao, Zhenan (Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2010-08-10) [Article]
We synthesized anthradithiophene-cyclopentadithiophene conjugated copolymers via Stille coupling. The anthradithiophene core was verified to be superior in stability compared to pentacene toward Diels-Alder cycloaddition and therefore more compatible with fullerenes, acceptor material commonly used in bulk heterojunction (BHJ) photovoltaic cells. The polymers exhibit high film absorption coefficients of 105 cm-1, an order of magnitude higher than previously reported anthradithiophene-dialkylfluorene copolymers. Short-circuit currents exceeding 5 mA/cm2 and a BHJ device efficiency close to 1% were achieved when device morphology was improved with diiodooctane as a solvent additive. This is the highest power conversion efficiency achieved by an acene-containing polymer so far. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
Fused aromatic thienopyrazines: structure, properties and function
Mondal, Rajib; Ko, Sangwon; Bao, Zhenan (Journal of Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2010) [Article]
Recent development of a fused aromatic thieno[3.4-b]pyrazine system and their application in optoelectronic devices are reviewed. Introduction of a fused aromatic unit followed by side chain engineering, dramatically enhanced the charge carrier mobility in thin film transistor devices and mobilities up to 0.2 cm2/Vs were achieved. The optoelectronic properties of these fused aromatic thienopyrazine polymers (Eg = 1.3 to 1.6 eV, HOMO = -4.9 to -5.2 V) were tuned by introduction of various fused aromatic rings within thienopyrazine. By balancing the fundamental properties of these polymers, both high charge carrier mobilities and moderate PCEs in solar cells were achieved. Further, effects of copolymerizing units are discussed. Low band gap semiconducting polymer (Eg ∼ 1 eV) with high field effect mobility (0.044 cm2/Vs) was obtained using cyclopentadithiophene as copolymerizing unit. Finally, a molecular design approach to enhance the absorption coefficients is discussed, which resulted in improved power conversion efficiency in bulk heterojunction solar cells. © 2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Impact of regioregularity on thin-film transistor and photovoltaic cell performances of pentacene-containing polymers
Jiang, Ying; Hong, Sanghyun; Oh, Joon Hak; Mondal, Rajib; Okamoto, Toshihiro; Verploegen, Eric; Toney, Michael F.; McGehee, Michael D.; Bao, Zhenan (Journal of Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2012) [Article]
Regioregular pentacene-containing polymers were synthesized with alkylated bithiophene (BT) and cyclopentadithiophene (CPDT) as comonomers. Among them, 2,9-conjugated polymers PnBT-2,9 and PnCPDT-2,9 achieved the best performance in transistor and photovoltaic devices respectively. The former achieved the most highly ordered structures in thin films, yielding ambipolar transistor behavior with hole and electron mobilities up to 0.03 and 0.02 cm 2 V -1 s -1 on octadecylsilane-treated substrates. The latter achieved photovoltaic power conversion efficiencies up to 0.33%. The impact of regioregularity and direction of conjugation-extension (2,9 vs. 2,10), on thin-film order and device performance has been demonstrated for the pentacene-containing polymers for the first time, providing insight towards future functional material design. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Synthesis of Acenaphthyl and Phenanthrene Based Fused-Aromatic Thienopyrazine Co-Polymers for Photovoltaic and Thin Film Transistor Applications
Mondal, Rajib; Miyaki, Nobuyuki; Becerril, Hector A.; Norton, Joseph E.; Parmer, Jack; Mayer, Alex C.; Tang, Ming L.; Brédas, Jean-Luc; McGehee, Michael D.; Bao, Zhenan (Chemistry of Materials, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2009-08-11) [Article]
Dithiophene and fluorene co-polymers containing fused aromatic thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine moieties were synthesized for organic thin film transistor (OTFT) and organic photovoltaic (OPV) applications. Suzuki and Stille polycondensation reactions were used for the polymerization. The band gap (Eg) of the polymers was tuned in the range of 1.15-1.6 eV to match the solar spectrum. Density functional theory calculations were carried out to rationalize the low band gaps. These polymers showed field effect mobility (μ) as high as 0.2 cm2/(V.s) with an on/off ratio as high as 106 in OTFT devices. Interestingly, one polymer in this class also showed ambipolar charge transport. Power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 1.3% was achieved in bulk heterojunction solar cells, indicating that these materials are promising for OPV applications. © 2009 American Chemical Society.
Thiophene-rich fused-aromatic thienopyrazine acceptor for donor–acceptor low band-gap polymers for OTFT and polymer solar cell applications
Mondal, Rajib; Becerril, Hector A.; Verploegen, Eric; Kim, Dongwook; Norton, Joseph E.; Ko, Sangwon; Miyaki, Nobuyuki; Lee, Sangjun; Toney, Michael F.; Brédas, Jean-Luc; McGehee, Michael D.; Bao, Zhenan (Journal of Materials Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2010) [Article]
Thiophene enriched fused-aromatic thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine systems were designed and employed to produce low band gap polymers (Eg = 1.0-1.4 eV) when copolymerized with fluorene and cyclopentadithiophene. The copolymers are mainly investigated for organic thin film transistor and organic photovoltaic applications. Molecular packing in the thin films of these polymers was investigated using Grazing incidence X-ray Scattering. Although both fluorene and cyclopentadithiophene polymers follow similar face to face π-π stacking, the latter polymers show much smaller lamellar d-spacings due to side-chain interdigitation between the lamellae. This lead to the higher charge carrier mobilities in cyclopentadithiophene polymers (up to 0.044 cm2/V.s) compared to fluorene polymers (up to 8.1 × 10-3 cm2/V.s). Power conversion efficiency of 1.4% was achieved using fluorene copolymer in solar cells with a fullerene derivative as an acceptor. Although the cyclopentadithiophene polymers show lower band gaps with higher absorption coefficients compared to fluorene copolymers, but the power conversion efficiencies in solar cells of these polymers are low due to their low ionization potentials. © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2010.
Tuning the Optoelectronic Properties of Vinylene-Linked Donor−Acceptor Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaics
Ko, Sangwon; Mondal, Rajib; Risko, Chad; Lee, Jung Kyu; Hong, Sanghyun; McGehee, Michael D.; Brédas, Jean-Luc; Bao, Zhenan (Macromolecules, American Chemical Society (ACS), 2010-08-24) [Article]
Five new donor-acceptor copolymers containing the electron acceptor benzothiadiazole (BTZ) linked to the electron donors fluorene (FL) or cyclopentadithiophene (CPDT) via vinylene units were synthesized to study polymer structure-property relationships in organic photovoltaic devices. Both alternating (P) and random copolymers (P1-P4) were prepared via Suzuki and Stille polycondensations, respectively. The cyclopentadithiophene copolymers (P2 and P4) have smaller electrochemical band gaps (1.79 and 1.64 eV) compared to the fluorene-containing copolymers (2.08 and 1.95 eV for P1 and P3). However, the presence of CPDT raises the electrochemical HOMO energy levels (-4.83 and-4.91 eV for P2 and P4) compared to the FL copolymers (-5.06 and-5.15 eV for P1 and P3) leading to small open circuit voltages (Voc) in solar cells. The primary solution and thin-film UV-vis absorption peaks of P3 and P4, which do not contain alkylated thiophenes appended to the BTZ unit, are at lower energy and have larger absorption coefficients than their P1 and P2 counterparts. Detailed theoretical analyses of the geometric structure, electronic structure, and excited-state vertical transitions using density functional theory provide direct insight into the interplay between the structural modifications and resulting electronic and optical changes. A high molecular weight (Mn = 25 kg/mol) polymer with a large degree of polymerization (DPn = 21) was easily achieved for the random copolymer P1, leading to thin films with both a larger absorption coefficient and a larger hole mobility compared to the analogous alternating polymer P (Mn = 22 kg/mol, DPn = 18). An improved short circuit current and a power conversion efficiency up to 1.42% (Jsc = 5.82 mA/cm2, Voc = 0.765 V, and FF = 0.32) were achieved in bulk heterojunction solar cells based on P1. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
Sequentially solution-processed, nanostructured polymer photovoltaics using selective solvents
Kim, Do Hwan; Mei, Jianguo; Ayzner, Alexander L.; Schmidt, Kristin; Giri, Gaurav; Appleton, Anthony L.; Toney, Michael F.; Bao, Zhenan (Energy & Environmental Science, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2014) [Article]
We demonstrate high-performance sequentially solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 5% for blend films using a donor polymer based on the isoindigo-bithiophene repeat unit (PII2T-C10C8) and a fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C[71]-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM). This has been accomplished by systematically controlling the swelling and intermixing processes of the layer with various processing solvents during deposition of the fullerene. We find that among the solvents used for fullerene deposition that primarily swell but do not re-dissolve the polymer underlayer, there were significant microstructural differences between chloro and o-dichlorobenzene solvents (CB and ODCB, respectively). Specifically, we show that the polymer crystallite orientation distribution in films where ODCB was used to cast the fullerene is broad. This indicates that out-of-plane charge transport through a tortuous transport network is relatively efficient due to a large density of inter-grain connections. In contrast, using CB results in primarily edge-on oriented polymer crystallites, which leads to diminished out-of-plane charge transport. We correlate these microstructural differences with photocurrent measurements, which clearly show that casting the fullerene out of ODCB leads to significantly enhanced power conversion efficiencies. Thus, we believe that tuning the processing solvents used to cast the electron acceptor in sequentially-processed devices is a viable way to controllably tune the blend film microstructure. © 2014 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
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Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study
Brasso, K, Friis, S, Juel, K, Jørgensen, T & Iversen, P 1999, 'Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study' Urologic Oncology, bind 2, nr. 5/6, s. 253-256. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.pcan.4500378
Brasso, K., Friis, S., Juel, K., Jørgensen, T., & Iversen, P. (1999). Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study. Urologic Oncology, 2(5/6), 253-256. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.pcan.4500378
Brasso K, Friis S, Juel K, Jørgensen T, Iversen P. 1999. Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study. Urologic Oncology. 2(5/6):253-256. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.pcan.4500378
Brasso, K o.a.. "Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study". Urologic Oncology. 1999, 2(5/6). 253-256. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.pcan.4500378
Brasso K, Friis S, Juel K, Jørgensen T, Iversen P. Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study. Urologic Oncology. 1999;2(5/6):253-256. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.pcan.4500378
Brasso, K ; Friis, S ; Juel, K ; Jørgensen, T ; Iversen, P. / Morbidity in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer managed with non-curative intent. A population-based case-control study. I: Urologic Oncology. 1999 ; Bind 2, Nr. 5/6. s. 253-256.
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The Greek Passion (Opera North), Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 4****: by William Ruff
The Greek Passion (Opera North)
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ON’s Greek Passion: disturbing, puzzling, full of musical and dramatic energy
Opera North’s production of Martinu’s The Greek Passion is not for people who want a comfortable night at the theatre, who want to sit back, switch off their brains and let familiar music and escapist storylines wash over them. The Greek Passion is challenging on so many levels and poses serious questions about its meaning, morality and music – amongst many other things.
Even the few who thought they knew this opera beforehand will be surprised at how different Opera North’s version is. They have gone back to Martinu’s original ideas, only 30% of which ended up in the final version. So opera buffs in search of novelty will be in for a treat.
The basic story is the same, however. It’s set in Lykovrissi, a Greek village, and opens on Easter morning when the priest, Grigoris, gives out parts for the following year’s Passion play. As the opera unfolds we see how the roles (especially Manolios’ role as Christ and Katerina’s as Mary Magdalen) change the people who have been given them. Into this traditional, stable community, dominated by an authoritarian church, comes a large group of refugees whose homes have been burned by occupying forces.
How do the villagers respond – with compassion or hostility? Suffice it to say that the opera ends tragically and it raises hard questions about responses to displaced peoples through the ages. The refugees’ plea: ‘Give us what you have too much of’ is displayed on giant letters above the stage and make comparisons with current events inescapable (Opera North actually worked with refugees in Leeds to increase their empathy…).
The design is very striking. When the curtain rises, the set is dominated by raked stadium seating and a long table, starkly lit by neon tubes against heavy, dark material. The only colour in the production belongs to the Passion play costumes. The all-important Chorus is dressed in black and (significantly) they look the same whether they are playing villagers or refugees, emphasising the point that we are all human beings, whether we are haves or have-nots. As refugees the Chorus carries white, faceless effigies but it’s what the two communities have in common that is such a powerful element in this production, especially their passionate desperation. In both literal and symbolic ways this is a black-and-white, depersonalised world where it’s groups rather than individuals that count.
Martinu’s choral writing is vibrant and wide-ranging. Opera North’s Chorus act and sing their hearts out as they explore the complex relationship of the two communities. And the orchestra, under their conductor Garry Walker, rises to the challenge too. Martinu’s writing veers from harsh dissonance to quiet radiance, from folk music to wedding bands to bell-like solemnity. Opera North’s players are equal to it all.
The whole vast company is impressive, especially Nicky Spence as the Christ-inspired Manolios and Magdalena Molendowska as the complex Katerina. The village priest Grigoris and the refugee priest Fotis also play pivotal roles. However, this really is an opera about communities and the strength of the overall ensemble is this production’s most notable feature.
That said, I did wonder whether there were just too many ideas in the vision of Director Christopher Alden and Set Designer Charles Edwards. If an audience has to spend too much time decoding effigies, shirtless priests etc, it can be a tad distracting. But for audiences unafraid of a challenge ON’s resurrection of such an operatic rarity – as well as their harnessing of so much creative energy – presents a world which seems both strange and frighteningly familiar at the same time.
Priest Grigoris Stephen Gadd
Archon Jonathan Best
Captain Paul Gibson
Schoolmaster Ivan Sharpe
Father Ladas Jeremy Peaker
Kostandis Richard Mosley-Evans
Dimitri Christopher Nairne
Manolios Nicky Spence
Yannakos Paul Nilon
Michelis Rhodri Prys Jones
Panait Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
Andonis Campbell Russell
Nikolio Alex Banfield
Lenio Lorna James
Katerina Magdalena Molendowska
Old woman Hazel Croft
Priest Fotis John Savournin
Despinio Amy Freston
Old man Dean Robinson
Villagers and refugees Chorus of Opera North
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Conductor Garry Walker
Director Christopher Alden
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Lighting Designer Charles Edwards
Costume Designer Doey Lüthi
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A resilient, comprehensive approach to rural revitalization is urgently needed worldwide
Rural areas are in crisis. Rural residents make up 45 per cent of the world’s population but bear a disproportionate burden of poverty, malnutrition, and poor quality of life.
The global rural poverty rate is 17 percent (compared to 7 percent in urban areas). Rural people comprise 70 percent of the world’s extremely poor. Rural areas lag behind urban areas in reducing rates of child stunting (low height for age). Many rural environments lack basic services such as education; health; roads; water and sanitation; and suffer from rising pollution levels and dwindling natural resources. These challenges will only be exacerbated by climate change.
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Rural revitalization is essential to achieve this transformation, as IFPRI’s 2019 Global Food Policy Report clearly and forcibly outlines through a compelling set of concrete actions.
Although agricultural production is critical to rural economies, rural revitalization goes far beyond agriculture as it includes the development of non-farm opportunities and it makes cutting-edge technology and innovation the linchpins of rural economic growth. Rural revitalization can also dramatically improve rural residents’ access to basic services.
In Bangladesh, for example, improved rural roads reduced extreme poverty by 3 to 6 percent while boosting enrollment in secondary school for both boys and girls.
Rural revitalization can also improve rural governance, ensuring that local governments are held accountable in the delivery of high-quality services. China chose this approach when it announced a new strategy in 2018 to close the growing rural-urban income gap and improve quality of life in rural areas.
One essential driver of rural revitalization is rurbanomics, an approach that emphasizes the linkages between rural and urban economies. Growing urbanization in most countries enhances the importance of rural areas – by boosting demand for food, diverse diets, and goods and services that the rural economy can meet. Rurbanomics, therefore, frames rural and urban economies as equal partners. It empowers rural economies not only as drivers of food security but also as springboards for national, regional, and global value chains and as providers of quality environmental services.
Take for example, South Korea’s Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement) initiative in 1970s which invested in irrigation, agricultural inputs , electrification, and transportation in rural areas. As a result of these and other efforts, rural farm households’ income increased five fold between 1970 and 1979, helping them to catch up with their urban counterparts.
As the world faces new challenges like climate change and obesity, the rurbanomics approach can help to diversify agriculture and improve the health of all. Agricultural production in rural areas could shift to more nutritious and high-value foods, such as fruits, vegetables and animal-sourced foods, meeting the changing preferences of urban consumers. It can also provide higher incomes for rural producers.
Scientific and technological innovations could help retain the value of these nutritious products throughout the supply chain. In Nigeria, where 45 percent of food spoils due to lack of refrigeration, solar-powered cold stations protect fresh produce and also provide employment to rural women. Strengthening rural banking, insurance, and financial systems could reduce risks for farmers who want to diversify.
Ending hunger and malnutrition to achieve both the SDGs and climate goals requires us to initiate a range of evidence-based actions to advance rural revitalization in all regions of the world. They include:
Adoption of rurbanomics as an approach to strengthen rural-urban linkages – not only between rural areas and megacities, but also between small rural population centres.
Transforming agri-food systems to benefit both rural and urban areas. Agriculture must be seen as a business enterprise that can feed all.
Scaling-up agricultural productivity and investing in the rural non-farm economy to create wage-earning opportunities, particularly for poor, female- and youth-headed households.
Improving living conditions in rural areas, by providing better access to social safety nets and basic services and supporting a healthier and more climate-resilient environment. Multiple models exist of how to successfully and affordably provide these services, while improving the use of natural resources.
Reforming rural governance to improve accountability and outcomes through well-funded rural budgets, capable staff, and transparency.
We have just over a decade to meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to transform the day-to-day reality of billions of food- and nutrition-insecure people; while protecting the environment and natural resources upon which our planet depends.
Rural revitalization represents the most realistic way to achieve such a dramatic transformation to ensure that rural people and rural areas can thrive for generations to come.
August 14, 2018 photo by REUTERS/David Stanway shows a shed covered in solar panels at a farm in the Jurong eco-town in Jiangsu province, China.
This article by Shenggen Fan, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. and Achim Steiner, Administrator, the United Nations Development Programme in New York was originally published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Tuesday Tracks: Your Weekly New Music Discovery – March 6
Chloe Catajan
Every week, there’s a plethora of new music at our fingertips.
Artists on platforms such as Spotify and Bandcamp are plentiful, and the radio offers a steady deluge of new singles, but who has time to sort through all that? RIFF does!
We pooled our resources to find some of the best new singles from all genres and backgrounds, so you can find your newest earworm without all the drama. Enjoy this week’s hidden gems:
Tigers Jaw, “Window” — Longtime Tigers Jaw fans likely grew up with the band’s style. What originally started as angsty pop-punk has now developed into a refined, yet still powerful indie rock sound. But whether you’re an old listener or a new one, the meanings behind Tigers Jaw songs prove hard-hitting and timeless. The Scranton, Pennsylvania band’s latest single, “Window,” perfectly pairs a pensive melody, highlighted by organ chimes, with unshakably relatable lyrics: “I found myself in a darker place/ Afraid of change but more afraid to stay the same.” The music video nails the tune’s nostalgic undertones, too, set in a retro neon-lit roller rink. You can catch Tigers Jaw rolls on by The Catalyst on March 10.
Sidi Touré, “Heyyeya” — In Songhai, a dialect spoken by Mali, West Africa musician Sidi Touré, the expression “heyyeya” refers to celebrating a moment of pure beauty and happiness. Touré’s recent single of the same name carries out the meaning through spirited solo and group vocals, energized riffs and percussion parts that will without fail make you feel the beat. The track’s music video also personifies the expression as it features Touré and company all smiles, getting into the groove. “Heyyeya” comes off Touré’s upcoming record, Toubalbero, due March 23.
Lola Kirke, “Monster” — Lola Kirke channels her inner Charlotte from Lost in Translation in her new music video for single “Monster.” The clip features the Mozart in the City actress taking on Tokyo solo, trying to find her way in solitude and singing lyrics that call for company. “I can prove that I’m not so far gone/ But I’m not a monster/ Just someone who wants to belong,” she sings in the chorus. Make sure to watch until the end to see how things work out for Kirke. “Monster” will be a part of Kirke’s debut album, which will release later in the year.
Tracyanne & Danny, “Home & Dry” — Things change. The world keeps turning whether you want it to or not. Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura and Danny Coughlan of Crybaby get it. The two teamed up to create music and their first single, “Home & Dry,” offers a glimmer of hope for the times when life moves on too fast. As the lyrics find Campbell pondering change and fleeting time, dreamy guitar riffs, groovy percussion and whimsical woodwinds and horns file in. With its comforting charm, the song is just the pick-me-up for those weird shifts in life. “Home & Dry” is off the duo’s debut self-titled, due May 25.
Casey, “Bruise” — The latest song drop from Casey opens with a mesmerizingly pensive guitar intro. The track builds as vocalist Tom Weaver comes in. “Six years ago/ I developed a shake in my hands/ As they carried the weight of the love/ I was too young to understand,” Weaver hums, backed by drums that foreshadow something bigger to follow. The instrumentals hush, and suddenly, everything from Weaver’s singing to the clashing of cymbals grow into a roar. Much like the object of the title, “Bruise’s” presence begins subtly, but eventually erupts with color, and in the song’s case, emotion that cuts like a knife. The track is off Casey’s sophomore album Where I Go Where I Am Sleeping, out March 16.
Chloe’s Pick: This week, two releases stuck out to me, but for different reasons. “Window” by Tigers Jaw marks my first pick. Full disclosure: I’m already a big fan of the band, but its music video got me hooked on the song all over again. I never really go back to music videos, but I’ve probably re-watched this one more than once a day this week. All of its aesthetics stole my heart: the retro color-grading, the flashes of visual effects, the roller rink setting and honestly everything else.
I choose “Bruise” by Casey as my next pick because I really loved the way the song unfolds. You could feel the song’s meaning unravel into a powerful storm of emotions by the end. It definitely makes me look forward to see where the band goes with its sound in the rest of the album.
Follow editor Chloe Catajan at Instagram.com/riannachloe and Twitter.com/riannachloe.
Chloe Catajan is a concert photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area. When she's not in the photo pit or scribbling down notes, you can find her screaming along to every song from the crowd and probably getting a little too emotional over the music.
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Tag Archives: David Ruccio
The Common and the Forms of the Commune – Rethinking Marxism
Posted in Communism, Cultural studies, Economics, Marxism, Marxist Analysis, Marxist Theory, Memorial, News and Politics, Politics, Radical Economics
Tagged Alvaro Reyes, Anna Curcio, Antonio Negri, Biopolitics, Common, Commune, Communism, Community, Critical Education, Critical Pedagogy, David Ruccio, Deborah Jenson, Etienne Balibar, Federico Luisetti, Feudalism, Gigi Roggero, J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jack Amariglio, Julie Graham, Karl Marx, Kathi Weeks, Marx, Marx and Romanticism, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Memorial, Michael Hardt, Pedagogies of the Common, Political Economy, Politics, Radical Pedagogy, Rethinking Marxism, Solidarity, The Commons
Hilton Reading Postone
Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society Volume
22 Issue 3
http://www.informaworld/rm
Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE
JULIE GRAHAM (1945–2010)
The Common and the Forms of the Commune
Guest Editors’ Introduction: The Common and the Forms of the Commune
Anna Curcio and Ceren Özselçuk
On the Common, Universality, and Communism: A Conversation between
Étienne Balibar and Antonio Negri
Subjectivity, Class, and Marx’s “Forms of the Commune”
Jack Amariglio
The Common and Its Production
The Common in Communism
Five Theses on the Common
Gigi Roggero
Aras Özgün
Free Association/Means in Common
16beaver group
Commodity Fetishism and the Common
Rethinking Socialism: Community, Democracy, and Social Agency
Antonio Callari; David F. Ruccio
The Common without Copies, the International without Cosmopolitanism:
Marx against the Romanticism of Likeness
Deborah Jenson
The Nature of the Common
“Modes” of Community
Engendering Feudalism: Modes of Production Revisited
S. Charusheela
On Producing (the Concept of) Solidarity
Kenneth Surin
Pedagogies of the Common
Kathi Weeks
Difference in Common
Translating Difference and the Common
Anna Curcio
Jouissance and Antagonism in the Forms of the Commune: A Critique of Biopolitical Subjectivity
Yahya M. Madra; Ceren Özselçuk
Subjectivity and Visions of the Common
Alvaro Reyes
Rethinking Marxism: http://www.informaworld/rm
Development and Globalization: A Marxian Analysis
June 3, 2010 – 11:40 am
Posted in Academic Stuff, Books, Critical Theory, Economic History, Economics, Globalisation, History, Marxism, Marxist Analysis, Marxist Theory, Neoliberalism, Postmodernism, Radical Economics
Tagged Adam David Morton, Austerity, Capitalism, Class Analysis, David F. Ruccio, David Ruccio, Economics, Essentialism, Fordism, Geography, Geopolitics, George DeMartino, Global South, Globalisation, Globalization, Imperialism, Industrialization, John Pickles, Latin America, Lourdes Benaria, Marxian Analysis, Marxian Class Analysis, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Maurice Dobb, Neoliberalism, New Imperialism, Nicaraguan Revolution, Optimal Planning Theory, Political Economy, Politics, Post-Fordism, Postmodern Marxism, Postmodernism, Power, Radical Geography, Rethinking Marxism, Richar Wolff, Ruccio, Samir Amin, SAPs, social class, Social theory, Sociology, Stephen Resnick, The State, Third World, Third World Debt, Third World Development
A new book by David F Ruccio
• Price: £29.99 £26.99
• Binding/Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77226-6
• Publish Date: 28th September 2010
• Imprint: Routledge
• Pages: 320 pages
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Details at: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415772266/
Since the mid-1980s, David F. Ruccio has been developing a new framework of Marxian class analysis and applying it to various issues in socialist planning, Third World development, and capitalist globalization. The aim of this collection is to show, through a series of concrete examples, how Marxian class analysis can be used to challenge existing modes of thought and to produce new insights about the problems of capitalist development and the possibilities of imagining and creating non-capitalist economies.
The book consists of fifteen essays, plus an introductory chapter situating the author’s work in a larger intellectual and political context. The topics covered range from planning theory to the role of the state in the Nicaraguan Revolution, from radical theories of underdevelopment to the Third World debt crisis, and from a critical engagement with regulation theory to contemporary discussions of globalization and imperialism.
Foreword Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff
1. Rethinking Planning, Globalization, and Development from a Marxian Perspective Planning
2. Essentialism and Socialist Economic Planning: A Methodological Critique of Optimal Planning Theory
3. Planning and Class in Transitional Societies
4. The State and Planning in Nicaragua
5. Nicaragua: The State, Class, and Transition Development
6. Radical Theories of Development: Frank, the Modes of Production School, and Amin
7. The Costs of Austerity in Nicaragua: The Worker-Peasant Alliance, 1979-1987
8. When Failure Becomes Success: Class and the Debate over Stabilization and Adjustment
9. Power and Class: The Contribution of Radical Approaches to Debt and Development
10. Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World: Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives
11. ‘After’ Development: Reimagining Economy and Class
12. Reading Harold: Class Analysis, Capital Accumulation, and the Role of the Intellectual in Globalization
13. Fordism on a World Scale: International Dimensions of Regulation
14. Class Beyond the Nation-State
15. Global Fragments: Subjectivity and Class Politics in Discourses of Globalization
16. Globalization and Imperialism
David F. Ruccio is Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, USA and past editor of the journal Rethinking Marxism.
Observations and Comments on Development and Globalization: A Marxian Analysis
Development, and Globalization is anti-essentialist social theory at its very best. Whether re-reading socialist planning debates, economic and social development struggles in the global South, or capitalist and alter-capitalist theories of globalization, David Ruccio engages the contemporary conjuncture in fresh and exciting ways, demonstrating throughout the successes of the rethinking Marxism project and the immense potential and range of contemporary Marxian analysis. What Maurice Dobb did for twentieth-century critiques of socialist planning, capitalist development, and imperialist expansion, Ruccio redoubles for a new age of post-Communist and globalized political economy — John Pickles, Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor of International Studies and Chair of the Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of A History of Spaces: Cartographic Reason, Mapping, and the Geo-Coded World
David Ruccio is a central figure in the exciting and innovative “postmodern” school of Marxian thought. Through his own writing and his stewardship of the journal Rethinking Marxism he has contributed immensely to this tradition. In this collection, Ruccio draws together, sharpens, and extends central insights from that school of thought and applies them to debates over socialist planning, economic development, and globalization. The essays demonstrate the depth of Ruccio’s intellect and the range of his expertise, to be sure, while also conveying the power of the postmodern Marxian tradition in helping us to overcome the malaise that now affects much contemporary left scholarship about prospects for radical reform in the Global South. In Ruccio’s hands, Marxism emerges as a vibrant tradition that continues to generate new avenues of scholarship and practical politics in pursuit of a more just world. — George DeMartino, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and author of Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Whether one agrees or not with the basic premises and analysis of this book, it will provide an intellectual challenge to everyone. Focusing on issues related to planning, development and globalization, particularly in Latin America, Ruccio questions the prevailing wisdom in circles of both the Right and the Left. His privileging of class analysis provides the unifying thread to the wide variety of themes covered in the sixteen chapters. In our post-crisis search for new economic thinking and alternatives for social transformation, Ruccio’s book comes at a perfect time to contribute to the debates. — Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University and author of Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if All People Mattered
Pathbreaking in its originality and breathtaking in its coverage, the truly outstanding volume David Ruccio has delivered is indispensable in critiquing a variety of prevailing developmental paradigms. Rather than simplistically noting the ‘failures’ of capitalism, this book reveals how neoliberal development policies can be considered successful in terms of promoting the emergence and strengthening of capitalist class processes and the appropriation of surplus-value in Latin America and beyond. It is obligatory reading for scholars and students seeking to construct Marxian class analyses and to formulate alternatives to the world economy today. — Adam David Morton, University of Nottingham and author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy
New Marxian Times
April 5, 2009 – 4:46 pm
Posted in Call for Papers, Conferences, Journals, Marxism
Tagged Alternative Economics, Capitalism, Capitalist Crises, Capitalist Crisis, Communitry, Crisis, David Ruccio, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Hasil Berktay, Julie Graham, Karl Marx, Kathie Gibson, Martha Rossler, Marx, Marxism, Marxism and Ecology, Marxism and Ethics, Marxism and Nationalism, Nationalism, New Marxian Times, New Times, Partha Chaterjee, Rethinking Marxism, Richard McIntyre, Richard Wolff, Susan Feiner
Please join us at New Marxian Times Conference in November. The call for papers and more information can be found at: http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org/conf/index.php/gala/NewMarxianTimes
The Seventh International Conference
With: Partha Chaterjee, Martha Possler, Hasil Berktay, Rick Wolff, Julie Graham, Kathie Gibson, David Ruccio, Susan Feiner, Richard McIntyre, and hundreds of other activists, artists and academics.
Marxism and Nationalism
Labor Movements in New Times
Marxism and Ecology
Marxism and Ethics
Community/Alternative Economies
Marxism and the Crises of Capitalism
For more information: http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org
New Marxian Times Conference Committee
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Tag Archives: Street Nurse Cathy Crowe Toronto
Centre for the Study of Education and Work – Update 8th May 2011
Posted in Activism, Books, Centre for Education and Work, Crisis, Ecology, Economic History, Economics, Employment and Unemployment, Globalisation, Neoliberalism, News and Politics, Politics, Privatisation, Radical Economics, Trade unions, Videos
Tagged Activism, Anti-Austerity, Austerity, Bianca Mugyenyi, Books, Capital and Its Discontents, Capitalism, Capitalist Crisis, Cars, Cars and Capitalism, Cars and Economics, Cars and Wars, CCTV, Centre for the Study of Education and Work, Civil Liberties, Crisis, CSEW, Cyber-Surveillance, Data-Mining, David Harvey, David McNally, Doug Henwood, Ecological Disaster, Ecology, Economic Crisis, Economic History, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Employment, Greg Albo, GTWA, Internet Activism, John Bellamy Foster, Labor, Labour, Leo Panitch, Mike Davis, Mother Jones, Mother Jones Video, Murray Dobbin, Music, New Books on Capitalist Crisis, No Future, Noam Chomsky, OISE, Ontario, Ontario Farm Workers, Peter Sawchuk, Privatization, Racism, Radical Economics, Radical Thinkers, Ron Deibert, Sam Gindin, Sasha Lilley, Security, Stop Signs, Street Nurse Cathy Crowe Toronto, Tariq Ali, Toronto, Trade unions, Unemployment, University of Toronto, Ursula Huws, Videos, Videos on Politics, Vivek Chibber, Wage Theft, Work, Yves Engler
DYING FOR A HOME: FIGHTING FOR OUR SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Toronto Reference Library, Atrium
Yonge Street, north of Bloor
Join Toronto street nurse Cathy Crowe for a street-level perspective on the need for social housing and why we need social programs now more than ever. Crowe has been a street nurse in downtown Toronto for more than seventeen years and co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. Music provided by the Common Thread Community Choir. Hosted by Councillor Adam Vaughan.
STOP SIGNS: CARS AND CAPITALISM ON THE ROAD TO ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL DECAY
Bahen Centre, Room 1200
40 St. George St., Toronto
In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile: A quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight each other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn down, remade and planned with their needs as the overriding concern; wars are fought to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise them; cathedrals are built to worship them.
Drawing on their new book Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay, authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler will describe how the automobile’s ascendance is inextricably linked to capitalism and involved corporate malfeasance, political intrigue, backroom payoffs, media manipulation, racism, academic corruption, third world coups, secret armies, environmental destruction and war.
To locate this discussion in the Toronto context, local activist Jordy Cummings will describe the work of the campaign for Free and Accessible public transit, which is being spearheaded by the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly.
COUNCILLOR JOSH MATLOW’S TOWN HALL DEBATE ON GARBAGE PRIVATIZATION
Tuesday, May 10th 2011
North Toronto Collegiate Institute, 17 Broadway Ave – SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Councillor Josh Matlow will be holding a Town Hall debate on the garbage privatization issue which will be coming to City Council in mid-May, to ensure residents have an opportunity to become informed on both sides of this important issue. It will be moderated by TVO’s Steve Paikin and will feature Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, Chair of Toronto Public Works Committee and Hugh Mackenzie of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
For additional information, please contact Josh Matlow’s office at (416) 392-7906 or email councillor_matlow@toronto.ca
STOP WAGE THEFT! CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
7:00pm * FREE!
Beit Zatoun – 612 Markham Street
(Bathurst St. and Bloor St.)
Celebrate our shared resistance with performances by:
* Ruben ‘Beny’ Esguerra and New Tradition Drum and Dance live Afro-Colombian percussion
* Spoken word by Lishai
Hear from Workers’ Action Centre leaders on our fight to stop employers from stealing our wages.
Watch undercover footage of employers breaking the law, and see how workers are resisting through Bad Boss actions around the city.
Find Out how you can get involved!
Workers’ Action Centre is releasing a series of videos on wage theft. Watch the latest video at http://www.workersactioncentre.org
For more information: call Sonia at (416) 531-0778, ext. 221.
(UN)LAWFUL ACCESS: CYBER-SURVEILLANCE, SECURITY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
5:00pm- :00pm
Campbell Conference Facility
Munk School of Global Affairs, U of T
1 Devonshire Place
Join moderator Dr. Ron Deibert for an insightful and lively discussion into some of the most pressing social issues surrounding our rights and freedoms as cyber-surveillance becomes an ubiquitous part of our lives, on-line and off.
Digitally mediated surveillance is an increasingly prevalent, but still largely invisible, aspect of everyday life. As we work, play and negotiate public spaces, on-line and off, we produce a growing stream of personal digital data of interest to unseen others. CCTV cameras hosted by private and public actors survey and record our movements in public space, as well as in the workplace. Corporate interests track our behaviour as we navigate both social and transactional cyberspaces, data mining our digital doubles and packaging users as commodities for sale to the highest bidder. Governments continue to collect personal information on-line with unclear guidelines for retention and use, while law enforcement increasingly use internet technology to monitor not only criminals but activists and political dissidents as well, with worrisome implications for democracy.
Read more: http://www.digitallymediatedsurveillance.ca
NEXT GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GTWA: IN THE SPRING OF 2011 WILL STRUGGLE BLOOM?
Steelworkers Hall
25 Cecil Street, Toronto.
East side of Spadina south of College
As we exit the elections and the capitalist class continues to consolidate itself the attacks against working people will come quicker and stronger. The need for an organized resistance is greater than ever.
The Greater Toronto Workers’s Assembly (GTWA) was formed to contribute to this resistance at a time when we saw the tip of the iceberg of the “austerity” program. Looking back less than two years later our success at doing this has been both limited and mixed despite some of our successes. We need to examine the current context, our project and the challenges we face. Do we have the capacity, will and discipline to take on these challenges? Can we overcome the divisions, pressures and practices that divide us? Will we be able to help the struggle bloom?
All members and supporters are welcome. Members and supporters are encouraged to bring guests as observers.
Read more: http://www.workersassembly.ca/node/150
ANTI-AUSTERITY STRUGGLES AND THE CANADIAN ELECTION
From The Bullet
The precise political outcome of the May 2nd election may well have the NDP make an unprecedented electoral breakthrough in Canada and Quebec. This would be a major step in its long desire to displace the Liberals as the other dominant national party, partly to become something more like the Democratic Party in the U.S. and partly to become the alternate centrist political option like the British Labour Party and the German SPD. This is already what the NDP is in Western Canada and Nova Scotia. This needs to be placed in the context of an international political conjuncture where ruling class forces have, paradoxically, gained strength and momentum over the crisis to date; and set against the enduring institutional characteristics of the Canadian political and electoral systems that, if anything, the political parties and campaigns have reinforced.
ONTARIO FARM WORKERS ‘SHOCKED’ AS UNION BAN UPHELD
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a provincial ban on farm unions is constitutional, denying more than 80,000 Ontario farm workers the ability to unionize. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that a provincial ban on farm unions is constitutional, denying more than 80,000 Ontario farm workers the ability to unionize.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2011/04/29/supreme-court.html
MURRAY DOBBIN’S BLOG – A CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY. NOW WHAT?
There is no point dwelling on the obvious other than to simply reiterate it. The election of a Conservative majority government will usher in wrenching change in Canada and we will have to witness the worse that Stephen Harper has to offer. It remains to be seen whether or not Harper actually wants to stay around for another election to win it (and therefore not go too far in a first term), and solidify the dominance of his party as the new “natural governing party.” Or whether, as his personality disorder would suggest, he will in a spirit of vengeance against the country he detests, dismantle as much of the post-war social contract he can in four years of virtually absolute power.
Read more: http://murraydobbin.ca/2011/05/03/a-conservativ-majority-now-what/
From LBO News, Doug Henwood
Excellent collection of interviews … Perfect for teaching, or just reading. Order your copies here.
Sasha Lilley, Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult (PM Press, 2011)
Interviewees: Ellen Meiksins Wood, David Harvey, Doug Henwood, Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, Greg Albo, David McNally, John Bellamy Foster, Jason W Moore, Ursula Huws, Gillian Hart, Vivek Chibber, Mike Davis, Tariq Ali, John Sanbonmatsu, Andrej Grubacic, and Noam Chomsky.
Through a series of incisive conversations with some of the most eminent thinkers and political economists on the Left—including David Harvey, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Tariq Ali, and Noam Chomsky—Capital and Its Discontents illuminates the dynamic contradictions undergirding capitalism and the potential for its dethroning.
The book challenges conventional wisdom on the Left about the nature of globalization, neoliberalism and imperialism, as well as the agrarian question in the Global South. It probes deeply into the roots of the global economic meltdown, the role of debt and privatization in dampening social revolt, and considers capitalism’s dynamic ability to find ever new sources of accumulation—whether through imperial or ecological plunder or the commodification of previously unpaid female labor.
Read more: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=267
VIDEO – ONLY KNOWN RECORDING OF MOTHER JONES
You have to see the only known audio and video recording of Mother Jones. On what is believed to be her 100th birthday in 1930, the legendary union organizer is still full of fire for worker justice.
Watch the video: http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/05/03/only-known-videoaudio-of-mother-jones/
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Non-Financial Risk Disclosure: The Case of the UK’s Distressed Banks
Ismail Adelopo, Bristol Business School, Bristol UKFollow
This study investigates the narratives risk disclosures of the four British financial institutions that were adversely affected during the 2008 banking crisis. This investigation uses content analysis with the aid of Concordance software to explore the risk disclosure of these companies for the period 1998-2008. Risk disclosures in the Business Review sections of the annual reports of the banks were analysed into their historic and forward looking contents, and current firm performance was measured with respect to earnings per share (EPS) and dividend, while future performance was measured by growth in EPS, and positive time lag in EPS.
Consistent with its predictions, the study found a significant negative relationship between the extent of historic narrative disclosures and current and future firm performance, and a significant positive relationship between forward looking narrative risk disclosures and both current and future firm performance. Additional analysis shows that optimistic and pessimistic narrative risk disclosures are not significant in explaining current and future firm performance for these firms.
Findings from this study are important for users of the financial statements and regulators because they highlight an opportunity to detect warning signals for companies at risk of collapse. The study adds to the growing number of empirical investigations that provide alternative approaches to understanding business failures.
Adelopo, Ismail, Non-Financial Risk Disclosure: The Case of the UK’s Distressed Banks, Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal, 11(2), 2017, 23-42. doi:10.14453/aabfj.v11i2.3
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The Hard Call A brand new chapter set in the Wild Cards universe
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Olvastam
In 1946, an alien virus is accidentally unleashed that changes the world forever. Most of those infected die horribly, said to have drawn the Black Queen as their fated card. Ninety percent of those who survive mutate into Jokers – deformed, broken, hated, and feared. But a handful are lucky enough to become Aces, gaining superpowers that allow them to achieve almost anything the mind can conceive – both in dreams and in nightmares.
Sixty years later, an Ace named Croyd Crenson, better known as the Sleeper, is framed for the murder of a young nurse in New York City’s Jokertown. As Crenson investigates the killing to clear his name, he has to fight to stay awake, or else his unusual ability will change him into something else entirely.
Meanwhile, a group of teenagers in Whiteoak, Colorado, accidentally activate the dormant wild-card virus, wiping out nearly the entire town. As the teens are sent to the Jokertown clinic, they discover that not all Jokers are bad and not all Aces are good.
Set in the world of the novels edited by George R. R. Martin and featuring a brand-new set of characters, as well as appearances from many old favorites, Wild Cards: The Hard Call is an original story written specifically for comics that will enchant new readers and old fans alike.
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The Umbrella Academy 1. - Apocalypse Suite Gerard Way
Gerard Way - The Umbrella Academy 1. - Apocalypse Suite
In an inexplicable, worldwide event, forty-seven extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world." These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and deadly Eiffel Tower, piloted by the fearsome zombie-robot Gustave Eiffel. Nearly a decade later, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again.
The Umbrella Academy 2. - Dallas Gerard Way
Gerard Way - The Umbrella Academy 2. - Dallas
Times are tough for this dysfunctional family of superheroes. Following the near apocalypse created by one of their own and the death of their beloved mentor, Pogo, the team is despondent. So it's a great time for another catastrophic event to rouse them into action. Trouble is, each member of the team is distracted by some very real problems of their own. The White Violin is bedridden due to an unfortunate blow to the head. The Rumor has lost her voice - the source of her power. Spaceboy has eaten himself into a near-catatonic state, and while Number Five dives into some shady dealings at the dog track, The Kraken starts looking at his littlest brother as the key to unraveling a mysterious series of massacres... all leading to a blood-drenched face-off with maniacal assassins, and a plot to kill JFK!
Thor 1. J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski - Thor 1.
Not a clone! Not a robot! Not an imaginary story! The God of Thunder is officially BACK! You've waited for it, you've demanded it...and we say thee YEA! The Odinson comes roaring back to life in this highly anticipated saga by red-hot superstars J. Michael Straczynski (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and Olivier Copiel (HOUSE OF M)! But how does a god return from Raganarok? And what place will he find himself in a world torn by CIVIL WAR? Collecting THOR #1-6.
Annihilation 3. Keith Giffen - Christos Gage - Stuart Moore
Keith Giffen - Christos Gage - Stuart Moore - Annihilation 3.
The epic collection of the cosmic event concludes! One empire has fallen. Two heroes are dead. It all comes together here! Individually, the Silver Surfer, Super-Skrull, Ronan and Nova have faced down the Annihilation Wave...and lost! Now, they must unite those who remain or die by Annihilus' hand! The Annihilation has only begun! Plus: Get caught up on all the players in the Annihilation event - Annihilus, Nova, Ronan, the Silver Surfer, the Super-Skrull, Thanos and more - courtesy of the Xandarian Worldmind files of the Nova Corps! Collecting Annihilation #1-6, Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus #1-2, and the Annihilation: The Nova Corps Files handbook.
Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 4) 1. – New Guard... Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis - Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 4) 1. – New Guard: Emperor Quill
Peter Quill has abandoned the Guardians and his role as Star-Lord to be emperor of the Spartax! Now, Rocket has grabbed the reins as team leader - backed up by Drax, Venom, Groot, Kitty Pryde and brand-new Guardian Ben Grimm, the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing! But what could put the team into the crosshairs of Emperor Quill and his Imperial Guard? Another old face is back, too - but will it be a welcome return for Gamora, or have circumstances changed in the eight months she has been away? When friends like these cause complications for Rocket and the gang, who needs enemies? They don't, but they seem to attract them anyway. And the newest threat to the galaxy is a doozy. His name is Yotat the Destroyer - and he will have blood. Collecting Guardians of the Galaxy (2015) #1-5.
Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 3) 2. - Angela Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis - Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 3) 2. - Angela
Spinning out of the dramatic conclusion of Age of Ultron, dimensions collide and Heaven's most fearsome Angel arrives - and comes straight for the Guardians! Gamora, one of the galaxy's greatest warriors, holds a deadly secret that could bring down the entire team. And when Gamora battles Angela, the entire universe hangs in the balance! Then, the galaxy's most mismatched heroes find themselves at a crossroads when the effects of Infinity begin to rise. Can even the mysterious Angela's power help combat the fallout from Thanos' master plan? And what will it take for Star-Lord to betray the entire Marvel Universe? The biggest blockbuster hit of the year continues as critically acclaimed artists Sara Pichelli and Francesco Francavilla climb aboard...and comics legend Neil Gaiman joins the team in this one-of-a-kind comic book event! COLLECTING: Guardians of the Galaxy 4-10
Forever Red Margaret Stohl
Margaret Stohl - Forever Red
Enter the world of the Avengers' iconic master spy Natasha Romanoff is one of the world's most lethal assassins. Trained from a young age in the arts of death and deception, Natasha was given the title of Black Widow by Ivan Somodorov, her brutal teacher at the Red Room, Moscow's infamous academy for operatives. Ava Orlova is just trying to fit in as an average Brooklyn teenager, but her life has been anything but average.The daughter of a missing Russian quantum physicist, Ava was once subjected to a series of ruthless military experiments-until she was rescued by Black Widow and placed under S.H.I.E.L.D. protection. Ava has always longed to reconnect with her mysterious savior, but Black Widow isn't really the big sister type. Until now. When children all over Eastern Europe begin to go missing, and rumors of smuggled Red Room tech light up the dark net, Natasha suspects her old teacher has returned-and that Ava Orlova might be the only one who can stop him. To defeat the madman who threatens their future, Natasha and Ava must unravel their pasts. Only then will they discover the truth about the dark-eyed boy with an hourglass tattoo who haunts Ava's dreams. . . . Black Widow:Forever Red features all the heart-pounding adventure readers expect from Marvel, written by #1 New York Times best-selling author Margaret Stohl. Uncover a new side of the Marvel Universe that will thrill loyal fans and newcomers alike, as Stohl reveals the untold story of Black Widow for the very first time.
The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 1) - Kraven's Last... J. M. DeMatteis
J. M. DeMatteis - The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 1) - Kraven's Last Hunt - Fearful Symmetry
Writer J. M. DeMatteis and artist Mike Zeck craft the ultimate tale of revenge in this groundbreaking and legendary collection! Kraven the Hunter has stalked and killed every animal known to man. But there is one beast that has eluded him. One quarry that has mocked him at every turn: the wall-crawling web-slinger known as Spider-Man. And to prove that he is the hero's master, he will pull on his costume and become him... after he shoots and buries him six feet under! Collecting Web of Spider-Man 31-32, Amazing Spider-Man 293-294, and Spectacular Spider-Man 131-132.
Batman (vol. 2) 5. - Zero Year: Dark City Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder - Batman (vol. 2) 5. - Zero Year: Dark City
A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Before the Batcave and Robin, the Joker and the Batmobile ... there was ZERO YEAR. The Riddler has plunged Gotham City into darkness. How will a young Dark Knight bring his beloved hometown from the brink of chaos and madness and back into the light? From the critically acclaimed, New York Times #1 best-selling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, BATMAN VOL. 5: ZERO YEAR--DARK CITY is the concluding volume to Batman's origin story, as you've never seen it before. Collects Batman #25-27, 29-33.
House of M - The Incredible Hulk Peter David
Peter David - House of M - The Incredible Hulk
In the Australian outback, Bruce Banner has found a peace he's never known among a tribe of Aborigines. But when their safety is threatened by a battle between a sect of AIM and the ruling totalitarian mutant government, the Hulk is forced to intervene in a big way. A House of M tie-in as the aforementioned "House" discovers that there is one mortal in the entire world that can stand against it, and he's drawing an incredible line in the sand, setting a stage for an unprecedented showdown. The Hulk like you've never seen him before! Collects Incredible Hulk #83-87.
Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1) 1. - Power and Responsibility... Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis - Ultimate Spider-Man (vol. 1) 1. - Power and Responsibility
An outsider even amongst his own peers, high school student Peter Parker is a young man at the crossroads of destiny. Orphaned as a youth and raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May, Peter finds himself the target of a constant barrage of pranks perpetrated by school jock "Flash" Thompson and his burly bud, nicknamed "Kong". But when fate intercedes and Peter finds himself the recipient of strange and amazing powers, how long can our hero ignore the painful prodding? And when industrialist Norman Osborn takes a deadly "interest" in this development, will Peter be able to avoid a violent case of "corporate downsizing"? When backed into a corner, will our hero learn that with great power there must comegreat responsibility?
Batman (vol. 2) 4. - Zero Year: Secret City Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder - Batman (vol. 2) 4. - Zero Year: Secret City
In this first volume of the critically acclaimed ZERO YEAR storyline, the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo present an astonishing new vision of the Dark Knight's origin—and his first encounters with the Riddler, the Red Hood, and others! Before the era of superheroes began—before the Batman spread his wings to protect the innocent and punish evil—Gotham City's prodigal son, Bruce Wayne, had been missing for years. But this was exactly the cover of darkness Bruce needed. Patrolling Gotham's streets, in a series of disguises, he began a career as faceless vigilante. Collects BATMAN issues #21-#24.
Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 2) 3. - War of Kings... Dan Abnett - Andy Lenning
Dan Abnett - Andy Lenning - Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 2) 3. - War of Kings 2.
Can the Guardians stop the War of Kings? The silent king Black Bolt and the tyrant Vulcan square off in interstellar combat — with the Guardians stuck in the middle trying to restore the peace! With the Inhumans and Shi’Ar laying waste to entire planets, somebody has to stand up for the little guy — even if those somebodies include a walking tree, a talking dog and a rocket-firing raccoon! This second and final volume in the Guardians’ War of Kings crossover builds the action to a senses-shattering conclusion as new discoveries are made, old friends are betrayed, and the new Guardians stand shoulder-to-shoulder with legends! Collecting GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #13-19.
Wolverine - The Reckoning Daniel Way - Marjorie Liu
Daniel Way - Marjorie Liu - Wolverine - The Reckoning
His final confrontation with Romulus on the horizon, Wolverine reaches out to a friend to help him put to rest one of the greatest tragedies of his long, long life-the death of Mariko Yashida. And in DARK WOLVERINE, Daken's moment finally arrives. In one fell swoop, Daken plans to both destroy his father and achieve his destiny. The streets of Ankara run red with blood as Daken faces off against...Romulus! Collecting Wolverine Origins: #46-50, Dark Wolverine: #85-87.
Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 2) 2. - War of Kings... Dan Abnett - Andy Lanning
Dan Abnett - Andy Lanning - Guardians of the Galaxy (vol. 2) 2. - War of Kings 1.
If the Guardians have broken up, who will save the galaxy from the Church of Universal Truth, the Badoon and King Blastaar? First there was the cosmos saving. Then there was the betrayal. Now there’s the breakup. As Star-Lord’s squad head off on their own pursuits, a universe of innocents asks, “Where are our Guardians?” Fear not, helpless citizen of the stars, for a new team has risen and they are ready to put a beat down on any bad guys bent on destruction! These new Guardians include the brew-slurping Bug; the time-lost Major Victory, Gamora, the green-skinned assassin with mental issues; and an angry walking tree named Groot — all led by Rocket Raccon, a talking mammal with his raygun set on a hair-trigger. Just as the sabers begin rattling in the War of Kings, outer space’s elite cadre of saviors has seen better days. Feel guarded now? Collecting GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #7-12
Batman (vol. 2) - Night of the Owls Ismeretlen szerző
Ismeretlen szerző - Batman (vol. 2) - Night of the Owls
As evil spreads across Gotham City, Batman's allies, including Red Robin, Batwing, Robin, Batgirl, the Birds of Prey, Nightwing and even Catwoman find themselves in a battle coming from all sides. The Court of Owls have shown their hand, and it's up to the collective effort of these heroes, some more unlikely than others, in this sprawling tale of corruption and violence. This epic springs from the pen of Scott Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR and AMERICAN VAMPIRE, as well as creators Judd Winick, David Finch, Peter J. Tomasi, Pat Gleason, Tony Daniel, Scott Lobdell, Duane Swierczynski, JH Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray! This volume collects the following issues: Batman #8-11, Nightwing #8-9, All Star Western #9, Catwoman #9, Batgirl #9, Batman: Dark Knight #9, Batman and Robin #9, Birds of Prey #9, Red Hood and the Outlaws #9.
Captain America - Winter Soldier Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker - Captain America - Winter Soldier
For more than fifty years, the Soviets employed an undercover agent - an unstoppable, untraceable killer known as the Winter Soldier. His suspected identity? Bucky Barnes, Captain America's one-time partner, thought to have died in World War II. Now, the Winter Soldier is back, working for the ruthless General Lukin - who has obtained a functional Cosmic Cube, a weapon of limitless power that can bend reality itself. Vowing to end Lukin's reign of terror and destruction, Captain America relentlessly tracks the Cube - only to find himself face to face against the Winter Soldier. Will Cap be forced to batt le his resurrected partner so soon after finally learning the astonishing truth? COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA (2005) 1-9, 11-14
Captain America - Winter Soldier 1. Ed Brubaker
Ed Brubaker - Captain America - Winter Soldier 1.
Cap is awakened in the dead of the night by agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., who need the kind of help only he can provide. But the corpse he finds on the Heli-carrier brings him face-to-face with the unthinkable, and opens doors to terror and manipulation he never dreamed possible! Collects Captain America (2004) #1-7.
Uncanny Avengers (vol. 1.) 5. - AXIS Prelude Rick Remender
Rick Remender - Uncanny Avengers (vol. 1.) 5. - AXIS Prelude
The march to AXIS begins here as the Uncanny Avengers are reunited! The threat of Kang is over, but what are the repercussions? A dark secret is revealed in Genosha, Havok and his team are defeated at the hands of the sinister S-Men...and the Red Skull's revenge is now unstoppable. The great vanishing has begun, the Uncanny Avengers are too late...and Havok witnesses the Skull's greatest atrocity yet! Meanwhile, Magneto discovers the Skull's possession of his dead friend Charles Xavier's brain and powers and becomes determined to shut the villain's scheme down! Prepare for a Magneto vs. Red Skull blood match that will result in a terribly altered Marvel Universe! Plus: the Mojoverse gathers an all-new, all-creepy Avengers! It's the shocking debut of the Avengers of the Supernatural! COLLECTING: Uncanny Avengers 23-25, Magneto 9-10, Uncanny Avengers Annual 1
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10 Best Places to Camp Near Knoxville
by Amy Lynch
Max Patch, North Carolina. Jake Wheeler
Over the course of its history, the city of Knoxville has been through tremendous changes. From its rustic 18th century beginnings and deeply divided Civil War days to its postwar wholesaling and manufacturing boom, 1980s World Fair days and recent downtown revitalization, each new era seems to redefine its sense of place. One thing about Knoxville that just refuses to waver, though, is the natural beauty that surrounds it in every direction. From the lush state parks north and west of town to the Great Smoky Mountains and Cherokee National Forest flanking its southern and eastern reaches, there’s always an outdoor oasis nearby just waiting to be explored. Here are the 10 best places to camp within a few hours of town, from comfortable drive-in sites to overnight backpacking destinations that have to be experienced to be believed.
1. Cades Cove
Cades Cove is super easy to get in and out, and offers access to lots of fun outdoor activities. Dieter Weinelt
One of the hottest camping spots in the Smokies,Cades Cove encompasses a flora-filled valley peppered with historic structures from the 18th and 19th centuries, all within an 11-mile loop, that’s a popular place for hiking, biking, spotting wildlife, and more. There are almost 160 back-in and pull-through sites at Cades Cove. Rates start at $17 during walk-in season (November/December) and $20 from May through October.
2. Nolichucky Gorge Campground
Well-known for its whitewater adventures,Nolichucky Gorge Campground is an Appalachian paradise alongside the Nolichucky River, which connects Tennessee to its neighbor, North Carolina. Late spring, i.e., waterfall season, is popular among hikers and mountain bikers, while summer is ripe for paddling and tubing the river. Open campsites start at $10 per person here, while tent platforms run $14-16.
3. Round Mountain Campground
An hour and a half west of the city, just before the state border,Round Mountain Campground can be found deep in the Cherokee National Forest, high above almost every other campground in the area at 3,100 feet. Its mountain stream and dense flora keep it cool even in the heat of summer. Most of the sites are private, surrounded by mature trees. From the campground, you can easily access to the 2-mile Walnut Mountain Trail, the Max Patch trails, and the Appalachian Trail. The rates here begin at $7.
4. Norris Dam State Park
Norris Dam State Park is perfect for history buffs. Kevin Humphrey
Filled with 75 family-friendly campsites complete with hookups, grills, and even a laundromat,Norris Dam State Park offers lots of cultural education experiences, from the nearby Museum of Appalachia to a refurbished barn and grist mill giving a glimpse into pioneer life. There are 15 hiking trails at the park to explore, ranging from 0.3 miles to just under five miles, as well as boating at fishing on Norris Lake. Just a quick 30 minutes northwest of Knoxville in Rocky Top, Tennessee (just like the song), its rates start at $8.
5. Indian Boundary Recreation Area
Eighty miles south of the city, the campground atIndian Boundary Recreation Area in Tellico Plains offers another family-friendly option for a drive-in stay. The rec area’s pristine beach, fishing pier, and 3.6-mile trail around the lake make for a bevy of outdoor adventures. And don’t panic if you forgot something—the Indian Boundary Outpost has anything and everything that you might need to pick up. The campsite fees here begin at $20, including electricity. Just be sure to pack your food in bear-proof containers.
6. Del and Marte's Lilly Pad Campground
Mostly known as a climber’s campground, the privately-ownedObed Lily Pad is a quiet slice of paradise in Lancing, Tennessee, about an hour west of Knoxville. There are 40 acres available for camping, and about 70 sites (you can set up wherever you find a space), equidistant to Frozen Head State Park and the Catoosa Wildlife Management Area. Many a story has been shared around the campground’s main firepit, and Del and Marte charges guests just $5 per night.
7. Gee Creek
Like fishing? Rafting? Being in the water? You’ll love Gee Creek Campground. Alan Cressler
The Gee Creek Campground inHiwassee/Ocoee Scenic River State Park attracts river revelers with its proximity to the water and the fact that campers can can fall asleep to the calming sounds of the Hiwassee. Its 47 sites have their own fire rings, grills and tables and offer access to a free, centrally-located communal bathhouse. The rates start at $12. You can also pitch a tent above the Appalachia Powerhouse along the John Muir Trail.
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8. Big South Fork National Park
With no fewer than eight overnight hiking trails, the expanse of Big South Fork National Park’s wilderness is breathtaking, both for its inclusion of the famous John Muir Trail and its overall majesty. Theovernight trails range from 11 miles to just under 55 miles, making this a good spot for beginner and more experienced backpackers alike. Connect with the John Muir Trail or check out Angel Falls, one of the most popular sights in the park. An hour and a half northwest of Knoxville, the park requires backcountry permits, which start at $5 per person, depending on how many backpackers are heading in together.
9. Max Patch
Max Patch is one of the most popular spots in the area. Jake Wheeler
With the Appalachian Trail crossing through it,Max Patch is a 4,600-foot bald with a panoramic view of the Smokies to the southwest and the Black Mountains off to the east. Tucked into Pisgah National Forest just shy of the Tennessee/North Carolina border, its iconic status attracts curious day-use visitors as well as serious backpackers—no permits required. The clearing is the perfect place for a picnic and you can fish at the pond near the parking lot. Max Patch about an hour and a half drive east of the city.
10. Frozen Head State Park
The park has 50 miles of trails spread out across its 24,000 acres. Michael Hodge
Last but not least, an hour west of Knoxville in Wartburg, Tennessee,Frozen Head State Park spans over 24,000 acres of mountainous wilderness. Before heading out, stop by the observation deck for a full-circle view of both the Great Smoky Mountains and the Walden Ridge. While the park’s rustic drive-in sites are aplenty, it also accommodates backpackers navigating its 50 miles of trails via 10 backcountry sites. Rates begin at $14.
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Whats up with all the fear playing the Eagles? (1 Viewer)
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Saintsandcardinalsfan007
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I don't get it. We beat them by 41 points last time, yes, 41 points! I can't think of any other team this year that beat another team so badly this entire year. Do you know why we beat them so badly last time? Because they can't stop Brees passing game nor our running game. We ran and passed on them like a yoyo up and down and could have played our backups by the second quarter. In almost every position, they match up poorly against us. Yes, Foles will score more than 7 points unlike Wentz but Foles will not score more than 21 points in the dome and that includes garbage time. Foles doesn't play defense, Foles is not a God, nor does a team will themselves to victory over a much better team. For example, their secondary is so bad made up of third stringers and why Brees had a field day last time. Foles cannot will these third stringers to suddenly play like Deion Sanders. Its the exact same defense this time around. It makes for a great storyline like a movie, but this is real life, and in real life, the much better team wins as we will comfortably. No, it won't be by 41, I say around by 21 points. This is the best divisional matchup we could have hoped for.
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rajncajn
Lurker Extrodinaire
I kinda wanted the tougher matchup with Dallas because if we'd beaten them then I think it would be a big confidence builder that could very well take us to the Superbowl. But other than that I think we've got the best matchup we could ask for. I don't have fear playing the Eagles, but I know every game at this point is going to be a dog fight. This won't be the same team we faced before, but I do think they're our best chance at advancing.
...from a chicken, bugwit
It's just angst over:
1) whether or not we are healthy up front
2) last couple of games, with secondary getting torched and the downfield passing game being where Foles has had success in these playoff runs
3) Playoffs tend to be wild, tightly played games
I kind of preferred the matchup with Dallas at home, assuming we are close to healthy on the OL. I think we would show better against the Dallas D this time and I don't fear the Dallas offense at all, particularly in the Dome.
Philly with Foles if they play well has the potential to put up points and make the game up for grabs in the 4th quarter.
But, really, whoever you play in the playoffs, you have to be ready for 60 minutes of intensity.
Hall-of-Famer
We gonna smash them again and it won't be close. They didn't deserve it last year and they deserve it even less this year. I'm also tired of the run the score up thread and talk. So what if we did....do something about it. They're getting smashed sunday and their trashy fans will cry like babies.
NeverGiveUP2
Saint Lattimore said:
If you’re a long-time Saints fan...
That’s exactly where the fear comes from. But I have no fear. I’ve been to the mountain top. And I have seen the promised land. I have no fear. Like anybody I’d like 2 or 3 or 4 but it really doesn’t matter to me now.
Channeling my inner MLK. We gonna win it all. Relax
Saintsandcardinalsfan007 said:
The eagles werent able to exploit our o-line the first time nor will they be able to this time. If you go back and look at our game against the eagles, you can see Brees had time to throw and our running backs were able to run wild on them. I honestly cannot think of another team this year that beat another team as badly as we did to the Eagles and besides foles and sproles, it is the exact same team coming into the dome again and foles and sproles don't play defense.
Lets really analyze how great foles has been on his mini run this year. When he came in, they played the redskins twice, the rams, texans and Chicago in the playoffs. With the redskins, they were playing their third stringer who 5 weeks ago was couch surfing before getting a call to play in the NFL. Those games against the Redskins twice were a joke. Against the Rams, the Rams have been on a downward spiral one reason losing cooper but also the bigger reason is teams have figured out if you put pressure on Goth, he will fold like yesterday's newspaper. The eagles defense that is good is their front four and thats it. Against average qbs like Goth and Trubisky, that is enough for them to not play well. Goth was never able to take advantage of their weak secondary and average linebackers. against a good or great qb, meaning like Brees who is great, are able to shred the Eagles defense to pieces. What we also learned is that the great Chicago defense is not so great which I have stated before since in important games, they gave up over 30 points to both miami and the Giants and it showed in their inability to stop foles on that last drive including a fourth down play. and it wasn't like in these games, Foles lit it up. He had two ints in the Chicago game.
briddes
Pro-Bowler
I live in Eagle territory. I am not afraid of our team beating them. I am just tired of hearing about Saint Nick and how there will be a Nictory (no not misspelled) in New Orleans. Stations here talking about revenge for the game this year. One station has a package here, a road trip to New Orleans (wish I could go but I cannot afford it).
briddes said:
I live in Eagle territory. I am not afraid of our team beating them. I am just tired of hearing about Saint Nick and how there will be a Nictory (no not misspelled) in New Orleans. Stations here talking about revenge for the game this year. One station has a package here a road trip to New Orleans (wish I could go but I cannot afford it).
Revenge only works if you lost a close game. When you get beat down so badly by 41 points, all the bulletin points won't help them from losing bigtime again. So they can motivate themselves all they want to, but deep down inside, they know they aren't coming into the dome and beating us.
The exact same defense coming into the dome had every motivation to try to stop us when we kept piling on the points and couldn't do it. They won't be able to again.
NeutronSaint
Mmmm....Football
Gert Town
What makes me a little nervous is they have some nice offensive weapons. Jeffrey, Tatle aka the Saint Killer, Ertz, Goedert. They could potentially spread us out and really attack our secondary. With that said we can do the same to their secondary. Like most games whoever protects the QB the best will win this game. With that said, Foles had his year, this is our year!
renegadewa
Super Forum Fanatic
The Eagles secondary is still victim to what ailed them when the Saints played them the first time.
In yesterdays game against the Bears with what was supposed to be the Bears achilles heel (Mitch Trubisky) the Bears had 5 completions of over 20 yards including a 28 yarder on the last drive that resulted in the failed field goal attempt.
The Eagles pass rush didn't exactly terrorize Trubisky so if the Saints Oline can give Brees some time then he should be able to do his thing and make some throws down the field to take advantage of the 30th ranked pass defense with a pretty weak secondary.
SaintsFreak said:
well even last year, they had a lot of luck in the playoffs. Foles played horrible against the Falcons and if Ryan actually was even a little clutch, Falcons would have won that game and should have and ended the Eagles season already. Then the following week, they get to play MN who just won against us on that crazy bad miracle play. They did a study and it showed that teams that win a game in the last waning moments like when they shouldn't have won, comes out super flat the following week and almost always loses that game which MN did, came out flat the whole game. The game Foles did play well was against the pats in the superbowl so I give him credit there even though the pats had no defense that year. Even so, last year Eagles team had a potent running game which opened up the passing game for Foles and their secondary was very good as well as their front seven.
renegadewa said:
exactly, thats been my point and Foles is not going to somehow will their terrible defensive players to suddenly play like urlacher or deion sanders as some have suggested that Foles elevates that team so everyone plays out of their minds all of a sudden.
Jb25saints
It’s a playoff game. Everyone would still be nervous if we were playing the browns
Jb25saints said:
If you’re talking about browns with mayfield, heck, I would fear that game moreso than this game. We wouldn’t be able to beat the Browns by 41 points. They actually have a defense.
Saint Floyd said:
For most, I doubt it’s fear. More like caution. Everybody is good at this point, but if our boys avoid big mistakes and do their jobs, we should be in good shape. Leggo!
Also, not to bring really God into this but I read that some seem to think God is for whatever reason watching and protecting the foles led eagles team like he is some saint. Every team has players that believes in God. So God is not saying hey, this foles led team is my team of destiny because he happens to believe in God.
onanygivensunday
Well, they are the World Champions until they're not, correct?
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New whistleblower tsar only working for TWO DAYS a week but keeps £174,000 a year NHS job
08/01/2016 sharmilachowdhury 2 Comments
Daily Mirror 8 JAN 2016 BY ANDREW GREGORY
Dame Eileen Sills has been unveiled as country’s first ever National Guardian in the wake of the Mid Staffs scandal
National Guardian: Dame Eileen Sills is new whistleblower tsar
The Government’s new whistleblowing tsar only works two days a week and has kept her £174,000-a-year job at one of Britain’s busiest hospital trusts, it can be revealed.
Dame Eileen Sills was this week unveiled as the country’s first ever National Guardian to help “advise and support” whistleblowers across the NHS.
The post was a key recommendation of Sir Robert Francis, who chaired the Mid Staffs public inquiry into the worst scandal in the history of the NHS.
Yet the Daily Mirror can disclose that Dame Eileen will in fact be working just two days a week and still be doing her current £174,000-a-year NHS job.
Hailing her appointment on Thursday, Jeremy Hunt said he was “confident” Dame Eileen would “inspire the NHS to go even further in improving how staff can raise concerns without fear or discrimination.”
Honour: Eileen Sills is made a Dame by Prince William
And the Care Quality Commission, the NHS watchdog providing Dame Eileen with an office, said she would be “highly visible” in her new role.
Her duties will include supporting whistleblower guardians based in NHS trusts, sharing “good practice”, advising trusts and staff raising concerns.
In a press release, the CQC said: “As the National Guardian for the freedom to speak up, Dame Eileen will help to lead a cultural change…so that healthcare staff always feel confident and supported to raise concerns about patient care.”
But controversially she has been allowed to keep her senior role as Chief Nurse and Director of Patient Experience and Infection Control at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, as well as continuing to serve as a member of its board.
The only role Dame Eileen has stepped down from at the London trust is as its executive lead for Speaking Up Safely. The CQC said this was in order “to prevent any conflict of interests”.
When approached by the Daily Mirror, the trust confirmed Dame Eileen’s £174,000 annual salary would remain “unchanged”.
The Health Secretary has repeatedly vowed to “help those who raise safety concerns” in the NHS in order to “protect patients”.
Last year an independent review was held into whistleblowing in the health service. It was led by Sir Robert following his inquiry into the Mid Staffs scandal.
The whistleblowing inquiry found NHS staff who raised the alarm about dangerous practices were being ignored, bullied or even intimidated in a “climate of fear”.
A significant proportion of health workers were afraid to blow the whistle about poor patient care and safety failures in the NHS, the review discovered, and “shocking” accounts of whistleblowers’ treatment were uncovered.
Key post: Dame Eileen Sills will support whistleblowers in NHS
Following the inquiry, Mr Hunt personally backed the introduction of the role of a National Guardian and said whistleblowers would “have the government’s strong support”.
Dame Eileen is a highly experienced NHS professional. She has been a registered nurse for more than 30 years, has held several management and senior leadership posts, and was made a Dame in January last year.
But our revelation that she will maintain a separate £174,000-a-year NHS job, is likely to anger NHS staff, whistleblowers and campaigners.
Julie Bailey, who helped expose the horrific neglect at Mid Staffs which cost up to 1,400 lives, described the news as “disappointing”.
She also raised concerns that Dame Eileen, who has previously advised David Cameron and members of the cabinet on dementia, was an “insider”.
Ms Bailey, who set up campaign group Cure The NHS after her mother, Bella, 86, died at Stafford Hospital, said: “I suspect there will be very little change, appointing a part time insider, [it] hardly fills you with confidence.”
News Team International
Campaign: Julie Bailey set up Cure the NHS
She added: “Someone independent who would challenge and expose NHS bullies, was what I had in mind.”
A spokesman for Guy’s and St Thomas’ told the Daily Mirror Dame Eileen had “made room” to add the National Guardian role to her current brief and “remains committed to fulfilling all her professional obligations”.
But our revelations are likely to raise concerns over whether the Chief Nurse and Director of Patient Experience and Infection Control at a major NHS trust should be working elsewhere two days a week.
The website of Guy’s and St Thomas’ describes itself as being “among the UK’s busiest” trusts.
It comprises two of London’s best known hospitals, St Thomas’ Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, as well as Evelina London Children’s Hospital. The trust also provides hospital services in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham.
It sees two millions patients every year.
The Care Quality Commission will reimburse Guy’s and St Thomas’ £56,800 a year for Dame Eileen’s part-time role.
Roy Lilley, a health policy analyst and former NHS trust chairman, said the fact that the National Guardian for NHS whistleblowers would only be working part-time was “an affront to anyone who has suffered merely because they wanted to tell the truth about where they work”.
He added: “It waves two fingers at anyone reduced to tears by a thug of a boss, a shift from hell or has the misfortune to witness malpractice.”
Writing on his blog, he said: “Such is the importance of whistleblowing in the mind of the CQC they have appointed a part time chief guardian. Part time.”
He added: “Quite what has persuaded the board at Guy’s that they suddenly need only a part time chief nurse, director of patient experience and infection control is quite beyond me?
“What has persuaded the CQC the NHS needs only a part time boss of one of the most toxic issues in the NHS defies all explanation.”
Jeremy Hunt: Health Secretary is “confident” whistleblower tsar will inspire NHS staff
In a press release announcing her appointment this week, Dame Eileen said: “I fully appreciate that this is a very big and challenging role, but with the support of the staff who work in the NHS, I have no doubt that we can make the changes together that are needed to deliver a new culture of transparency and openness.”
She declined to comment further when approached by the Daily Mirror via Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
In a statement earlier this week, Mr Hunt said: “Dame Eileen has dedicated her career to improving the quality of care patients receive and I am confident as the National Guardian she will inspire the NHS to go even further in improving how staff can raise concerns without fear or discrimination.”
A spokesman for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust said: “We have every confidence in Eileen’s ability to balance the various demands of these two important roles.
“Her commitment to Guy’s and St Thomas’, our staff and our patients, remains as strong as ever and she will continue to perform her full duties as Chief Nurse of the Trust.
“We are proud that Eileen’s exceptional dedication to supporting patients and staff will now benefit other trusts around the country as National Guardian for the freedom to speak up.”
The spokesman added: “To make it possible to combine her roles, Eileen has stepped down from all other external NHS commitments, including as a senior nursing advisor at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and as Chair of the nurses group for the Shelford Group of leading NHS Foundation Trusts.”
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2 thoughts on “New whistleblower tsar only working for TWO DAYS a week but keeps £174,000 a year NHS job”
toocomplex4justice
This trust defended itself from my complaint of patient neglect at st Thomas’ by claiming to lose my notes and ambulance slip which I had obtained by a FOI act request. The trust lied about interviews with ambulance crew then tried to wriggle out when I was able to prove their lies by saying ” we meant to say we interviewed an ambulance crew not the ambulance crew” this was from patient experience at guys & St Thomas’ so cover ups and bullying is part of the culture there under the leadership of the now part time head of patient experience. Anyone who has ever visited St Thomas A+E will know about the journey injured and sick people have to make to get out of there. Yet the trust act all surprised that any harm could come to someone with walking difficulties. Plenty of people have to be carried out by friends and family. It’s a mile of featureless uphill ramps that take you to the middle of nowhere and people have died trying to get out.
Ah the torys another crocodile tears one from them a toothless zar oh my I wonder whot good it do has they quietly shut the door on the nhs jeff3
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Research/Representation
SHELLEY LONG
Derive à Roma | a memory project
“We understand urban space through construction of mental maps.”
— Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City
“Psychogeographic maps propose a fragmented, subjective, and temporal experience of the city as opposed to the seemingly omnipotent perspective of the plainmetric map… Mapping is used as a tactic to bring together personal narratives about urban space.”
— Alison Sant, Redefining the Basemap
“The sudden change of ambience in a street within the space of a few meters; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance, that is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and which has no relation to the physical contour of the terrain); the appealing or repelling character of certain places – these phenomena all seem to be neglected. In any case they are never envisaged as depending on causes that can be uncovered by careful analysis and turned into account.”
— Guy Debord, Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography
As a first time, non-religious, non-Italian or romantic language speaker making their first foray into one of the oldest cities in Western civilization, my experience of Rome has been at once journalistic, touristic, academic and touristic. Most importantly, it has been a personal journey through a diverse and scattered dynamic urban fabric void of modern urbanism. Tied together by a series of daily strolls led by our professor Daniel, serendipitous adventures in the afternoons, and sketching in my Moleskine, I have seen the city through a variety of overlapping journeys and lenses.
What follows in the chronicles of Derive à Roma are a narrative documentation of my feelings and experiences in written and visual form.
In the vein of the situationists and Guy Debord’s Naked City, our trips through the eternal city will result in a series of psychogeographic derives/drifts through the city that have culminated in the map shown above. Each journey will be mapped using open source GPS software on Google Maps to create a sense of distance travelled, and to quantify all of the winding streets into a circular narrative.
In the vein of James Lees-Milnes, one of England’s greatest diarists, I will document each day as a series of Roman Mornings further enriched by the medium of blogging, allowing me to make links and references to anything on the world wide web while augmenting my rambling journalistic writing with drawings and pictures.
In the vein of Themes I will address the following in my writings:
Memory and Monument
Religion, Sacred Belief, and the Symbol
Public Space & Water
Modernity and Modernism
Death and Romance
Lived, Perceived, and Conceived Space (Henri Lefebvre)
andiamo allora.
Derive History Mapping Psychogeography Rome Urban Geography Walking
Wilderness & Exodus: the Production of a National Landscape
Living Data Centre Baths
Cohabitation/Composite Structure
Site Study: Productive Landscapes in Toronto and New Orleans
NEW GROUND (for NOMA Louisiana Between Spaces)
Guaratiba Mangrove National Park
Dufferin Grove Redux – Framework for Community/City within a City (within a park)
Typology Study & Hybridization
The Dell: (Re)creational Heart of Nashville
Site Study: LaFarge Cement/Toronto Portlands
© 2020 SHELLEY LONG.
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Shiloh Singers December Reminder: It's a wonderful time of the year!!
December is really a wonderful time with busy schedules, shopping for the kids and grand kids, good food, enjoying the company of good friends and miracles past and present. I stand in awe of what so many Shiloh Singers and their many friends and helpers have accomplished this year. Singings from Washington, Missouri to Washington, Arkansas, two NWA Annual Sacred Harp Singing Conventions in Harrison and Springdale and one Singing School in connection with the fall convention lead by Rene Greene from Alabama. Members singing in Little Rock at a UALR art show reception and opening honoring Johnny Cash, who sang shape note songs as a boy. That's not the whole list, but you get the idea. Many of you sang at the eleven monthly singings since last December.
Hopefully the whole group is just as proud of all of your accomplishments during 2014 and can join the Shiloh Singers in Springdale in the General Store this Sunday, December 14, 2014 to celebrate at the things you've done and ring out the year with celebration and singing. Singing should start at 1:30 and continue until 4:00 P.M. We'll have coffee, and cold drinks. Singers are invited to bring Christmas cookies, fruit cake, or any of the usual "goodies" you would like to share. There's also the option of joining the usual crew of singers who will hold down a table at the Springdale AQ's Chicken House around noon on singing Sunday to be sure all present at lunch are fortified for a full afternoon of singing.
I know all of you are busy. I still haven't figured out how Dan scheduled four Christmas season concerts in one day but I admire Dan Brittain's stamina and the leadership he adds to any singing throughout the year. He and his baritone horn bring a new definition to wind power. Syd Caldwell has indicated we may expect some visitors. As always, visitors are welcome and invited to watch, pat their feet, and sing along and by singing learn a little bit about how people learned to sing 200 years ago. But I do hope all who can will join our early celebration of Christmas - the true meaning of Christmas - and share our Sacred Harp singing with each other on Sunday afternoon.
And for those younger singers, as the jolly old man in the red suit exclaimed as his sleigh and the reindeer rose out of sight...
Posted by BR549 at 11:30 PM
Labels: Monthly singing
January 12th, 2020 - 1:30 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. Shiloh Singers Monthly Singing in the Shiloh Meeting Hall at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale. Bring a few Christmas cookies to share as we sing.
January 26, 2020 - 1:30 until 3:30 P.M. - 4th Sunday Singing meets in the West Fork Library Hall, 210 Garfield Ave. in downtown West Fork. Visitors and potential new singers always welcomed. Another opportu-nity to share your Christmas cookies or fruitcake while we sing.
February 9, 2020 - 1:30 P.M. until 4:00 P.M. Shiloh Singers Monthly Singing in the Shiloh Meeting Hall at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, Springdale. Visitors and new singers always welcome.
February 23, 2020 - 1:30 until 3:30 P.M. 4th Sunday Singing meets in the West Fork Library Hall, 210 Garfield Ave. in downtown West Fork. Visitors and potential new singers always welcome.
The Shiloh Sacred Harp Singers of NW Arkansas normally sing on the 2nd Sunday of each month in the Shiloh Meeting Hall one block north of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History at 118 W. Johnson Avenue, Springdale, AR 72764. Check the calendar section above for our next singings. Our thanks to the Shiloh Museum for helping us preserve a pioneer singing tradition.
Dan Brittain - Chair, NW Arkansas Singing Convention & Director of Music:
pdan.brittain@gmail.com
Darryl Criss - Newsletter Editor: If you would like to receive our monthly newsletter via e-mail, please send an e-mail to the newsletter editor:
octave1965@gmail.com
Margaux Burleson - Web Pages: Please send Margaux any updates or information to be included on the website:
burlesonmargaux@gmail.com
B.R. Black - Tech Advisor Emeritus: If all else fails, please contact B.R at:
brt.black@gmail.com
Cory Winters is a good contact for information about any singing in Arkansas. Please contact Cory at:
wlee1987@hotmail.com
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Video: Sacred Harp Singing in the Ozarks
National Sacred Harp Resources
Sacred Harp Singing - Fasola.org Home Page
Fasola.org: Intro to Sacred Harp shape note singing
Fasola.org: Mailing Lists
Sacred Harp Publishing Co.
Sacred Harp Museum
Southern Field Records
Warren Steel's Univ. of Miss. Sacred Harp Site
Regional Singing Groups & Resources
Columbia Shape-Note Singers
Sacred Harp Singing in Georgia
St. Louis Shape Note Singers
Texas - Annual Sacred Harp Singings
Other Onine Resources
United Kingdom Sacred Harp and Shapenote Singing
Wikipedia: Sacred Harp
YouTube.com - Sacred Harp
Shiloh Singers December Reminder: It's a wonderful...
This work by Shiloh Sacred Harp Singers of NWA is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Our sincere thanks to Shannon Seyler, a former member of the Shiloh Singers and a fine alto, who developed the group's original website and gave us permission to use the "Who we are" and "FAQ" pages from that site. We wish Shannon and her husband all the best in their new home.
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Topic SQL Server Platforms
SubTopic SQL Server 2008 R2
Top seven things you don’t know about SQL Server 2008 R2
By now, everyone knows about PowerPivot and MDS. But while high-profile features like those have gotten most of the press, other changes to R2 have fallen under the radar.
Denny Cherry
Some consider SQL Server 2008 R2 a “business intelligence release” because the largest, most publicized changes cater to the BI functionality of the product. There’s a lot more to R2 than that, though. Here we’ll look at some of the less popular -- but no less important -- changes to the latest version of SQL Server.
1. Increased SQL Server Express database size
In the past, one of the main things that kept people from using the free version of SQL Server Express was the small database size. While SQL Server Express still has a maximum database size limit, it has been increased in SQL Server 2008 R2 by 150% (from 4 GB to 10 GB). This increase in size makes it possible for a much larger set of applications to use Express. It also allows applications that start on SQL Server Express to use the Express instance for a much longer period of time before being upgraded to one of the paid-for editions.
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2. Extended Protection
SQL Server 2008 R2’s Extended Protection feature uses service and channel binding to help prevent authentication relay attacks. Service binding is used to protect against luring attacks while channel binding helps with both luring and spoofing attacks. Since service binding requires more server resources, the protection mode you use should depend in part on the CPU requirements of each.
Extended Protection is available on Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 natively, though patches are available for download for other operating systems. The feature enhances the protection that already exists when using Windows Authentication.
3. Support for wildcard certificates with SSL encryption
In addition to supporting SSL encryption between the client and server where the SSL certificate is the same fully qualified domain name (FQDN) that the user connects to, support for wildcard certificates are now supported as well. This can help reduce SSL certificate costs and management overhead by allowing a single certificate to be used for the company website, webmail site, SQL Server and more. For instance, if a company needs to encrypt the connections to all SQL Servers, this can be done with a single SSL certificate instead of requiring one for each SQL Server.
4. Merge replication over IIS 7
When using merge replication between locations, you now have the option of using Internet Information Services (IIS) 7 as the listener for SQL Server. IIS 7 is configured on the publisher, and the subscribers connect to the IIS 7 installation and data replication. This is all protected by SSL encryption.
This great new feature allows for merge replication between two SQL Servers without exposing either to the public Internet. There is also no need for a VPN connection between the two sites. This makes it much easier for data to be replicated between two different companies without exposing either company’s network infrastructure to the other or the public Internet.
5. Collaboration and reuse within SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
SQL Server Reporting Services for R2 supports several new features to enable and enhance the existing collaboration and component reuse within the SSRS environment. This includes new report parts and shared datasets. The ability to reuse these components will greatly decrease the amount of time needed to create new reports. It should also increase the uniformity of reports throughout the enterprise as they can now use the exact same module.
6. New data source types
The SQL Server 2008 R2 release of SSRS supports three new data source types -- SQL Azure, Parallel Data Warehouse and a Microsoft SharePoint list. These new data sources let companies host their applications and databases in the Azure cloud while using their local SSRS infrastructure to run reports, implement report scheduling and automate file saving to network shares.
Similarly, support for the new SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse edition should allow Reporting Services to display reports from large enterprise data warehouses.
7. BIDS is backward compatible with SSRS 2008
The Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) for SSRS 2008 R2 can be made backward compatible with SSRS 2008 by setting the version within the Report Server project properties. This lets you use a single development environment instead of having to maintain a separate installation, as is the case with SQL Server 2005 and 2008. This backward compatibility allows companies to more easily deploy SSRS 2008 R2 as a separate environment without having to upgrade all the existing reports at the time of deployment.
As you can see, there’s a lot more to R2 than PowerPivot and the other major features currently getting most of the marketing love. Hopefully this has opened your eyes to the other great enhancements that have been made for SQL Server 2008 R2.
For more information on R2, visit our SQL Server 2008 R2 topic page and follow us on Twitter @SQLServerTT.
Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience managing SQL Server, including MySpace.com's over 175-million-user installation, one of the largest in the world. Denny's areas of expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, replication and troubleshooting. He currently holds several Microsoft certifications related to SQL Server and is a Microsoft MVP. Check out his blog at SQL Server with Mr. Denny.
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SeaWorld Orlando Announces Thrill Fest Ride Night
Ride your favorite coasters at the most thrilling time of day – nighttime!
Orlando, Fla. (August 7, 2018) – SeaWorld Orlando's first ever Thrill Fest Ride Night, on Friday, August 17th, 2018.
For High-Res Images: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/clew4nyd4y5f1gu/AAAgx8PgTo8EvThaQcK2YF8Da?dl=0
Ride your favorite coasters at the most thrilling time of day -- nighttime!
Orlando, Fla. (August 7, 2018) – Just in time for National Coaster Day, today SeaWorld Orlando announces a two week promotion “Thrill Fest” culminating on August 17 “Thrill Fest Ride Night” with extended park hours. Included in admission, guests can take the coaster challenge and ride all of their favorite thrills at SeaWorld Orlando: Manta, Mako, Kraken and Journey to Atlantis will stay open until midnight for coaster enthusiasts to enjoy.
• Ride Night Coaster Tech Talk—August 17
Go Behind-the-Scenes and experience an exclusive “Tech Talk” with our operations and maintenance leadership teams to see the Manta “coaster house.” This free program will be limited to 50 guests per tour and available on a first-come, first-serve basis at 1 pm and 2 pm on August 17. Guests must sign up at the Information and Reservation Counter in order to participate.
• Extended Happy Hour
Happy Hour at Sharks Underwater Grill and Flamecraft Bar will be extended until 11 pm on August 17 for “Thrill Fest Ride Night".
• Ride Photo Special Offer
Valid August 13th through 19th including “Thrill Fest Ride Night”, guests can purchase four ride photos for $25, redeemable at Adventure Photo in the park.
• Don’t forget Last Chance for Free Beer! – Now through Sept. 2
Do all of the thrills make you thirsty? SeaWorld has you covered! The free brews will be available all summer long through Sept. 2, 2018 from 10:30 a.m. to one hour before park close. Complimentary domestic and seasonal beers will be available to guests 21 years of age and older. Guests can visit Mama’s Pretzel Kitchen Patio and receive up to two complimentary 7-ounce beers per visit.
The best deal for guests is to purchase a 2 for $99.99 advance purchase ticket: Choose your thrill – enjoy a full day of coaster fun at SeaWorld Orlando, then choose a second park FREE: go extreme and double your coaster miles at Busch Gardens or dive in and brave the steepest multi-drop tower in Orlando at Aquatica. Guests can minimize wait times and maximize thrill times by purchasing a Quick Queue for front-of-line access to the open attractions.
For more information, park hours and to purchase tickets and passes, visit SeaWorldOrlando.com. Events and times are subject to change. Follow SeaWorld Orlando on Facebook, Instagram and the SeaWorld Orlando Blog for the latest park updates and information.
About SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Inc.
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment™ is a leading theme park and entertainment company providing experiences that matter and inspiring guests to protect animals and the wild wonders of our world. The company is one of the world’s foremost zoological organizations and a global leader in animal welfare, training, husbandry and veterinary care. The company collectively cares for what it believes is one of the largest zoological collections in the world and has helped lead advances in the care of animals. The company also rescues and rehabilitates marine and terrestrial animals that are ill, injured, orphaned or abandoned, with the goal of returning them to the wild. The SeaWorld® rescue team has helped more than 29,000 animals in need over the last 50 years.
The company owns or licenses a portfolio of recognized brands including SeaWorld, Busch Gardens® and Sea Rescue®. Over its more than 50-year history, the company has built a diversified portfolio of 12 destination and regional theme parks that are grouped in key markets across the United States, many of which showcase its one-of-a-kind zoological collection of over 800 species of animals. The company’s theme parks feature a diverse array of rides, shows and other attractions with broad demographic appeal which deliver memorable experiences and a strong value proposition for its guests.
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment is a wholly owned subsidiary of SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc., a publicly traded company. Visit www.seaworldentertainment.com for more information.
Thrill Fest Ride Night
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Al Franken Ads
By jfiore on July 21, 2008.
If you haven't been following the Al Franken/Norm Coleman race for US Senate, do yourself a favor and check out some of Al's ads here. I really enjoy their style: direct, informative, and with a twist of humor. Having read several of Al's books, I think he would make a great senator.
Hootworthy
I give you Senator Al Franken
Here is Al Franken being sworn in to the U. S. Senate: Do you remember The Ad? The ad that made everyone in Minnesota who kinda didn't like Norm Coleman go over the line and realize that Norm Coleman is the scum of the earth? You can read about that here but I'll summarize it for you briefly and…
Jesse Ventura to Coleman: "You are a hypocrite!"
I always liked Jesse. I didn't agree with about half of his policies, but I did not have the automated lefty knee jerk reaction against him that almost everyone I know had. Hey, he did after all, beat Norm Coleman in that governor's race! Of course, he also beat my candidate, Humphrey. But in so…
Norm Coleman is Going to Hell
Well, ok, there is no Hell. So we're just going to tell Norm the truth and he's going to think it's hell..... This item, from Tangled Up in Blue Guy (see THIS for more commentary) is absolutely outrageous. Unbelievable. Watch this piece of video from a Norm Coleman ad showing how Al Franken…
Gotta Love Politico - "Franken" puts Pawlenty in a jam.
Politico's Manu Raju wrote an interesting article on the Energizer Bunny Election in Minnesota yesterday. His analysis of the situation focused on the political bind that Minnesota's Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty seems likely to find himself in within the next month or two: if and when the…
I watched the video when he announced his candidacy. It was impressive. I contributed to his campaign, and I don't even live there.
By Mark P (not verified) on 22 Jul 2008 #permalink
Bill Bruford The Autobiography
What do you expect when you pick up an autobiography of a rock musician? Sex? Drugs? Rock-n-roll exploits with a chainsaw and a gallon of baby oil at the Ramada? Scandalous stories of band-mates and sundry hangers-on? You get virtually none of that in Bill Bruford The Autobiography. It's much…
Happy Birthday Bill Bruford
Master of the drum kit and poly-rhythmist Bill Bruford celebrates 60 years today. Well known among all manner of percussionists and drummers, Bruford's work spans 40 years from his early days with Yes, his tenure with several incarnations of King Crimson, and his own band, Earthworks, along with…
Is Total Cholesterol Misleading?
Under 200. That's the usual target for total cholesterol as reported in popular media. But are all 200s the same? I just received my profile from a recent blood test. Here's what it said. Total cholesterol: 204 LDL (bad cholesterol): 131.6 HDL (good cholesterol): 57 Triglycerides: 77 The total is…
Defar Breaks 5000m Indoor Record
Meseret Defar of Ethiopia ran 14:24.37 in Stockholm to break the women's 5000 meter indoor mark, lowering it by over 3 seconds. It is worth noting that this formidable run was performed on a track well short of the 200 meter indoor "standard" found in many colleges and universities, and thus…
Louie Bellson, RIP
Sad news for the drummers and jazz lovers on SciBlogs. Jazz drumming legend Louie Bellson passed away unexpectedly on Valentine's Day. Some details here. Update: Here's a short bio video with some nice bits of Louie playing and some rather unique kit layouts.
The Physics of a Fighter Jet Rainbow!
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== Other Volunteers ==
== Volunteers ==
Volunteers are needed to help prepare the playing area, man the registration desk and to help pack and clean after the event. Volunteers receive a free NASC T-shirt. Lunch is provided for those who assist with clean up on Wednesday.
To sign up, please complete the [https://scrabble.formstack.com/forms/2018nascvolunteer 2018 NASC Volunteer Form]
=== Thursday, August 2 ===
=== Friday, August 3 ===
Volunteers are needed to help with registration and check-in.
Volunteers are needed to help prepare the playing room for the tournament.
12:30 P.M.-3:00 P.M.
== Further Information ==
INFO ON THIS PAGE IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
The 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship will take place on August 4–8, 2018 at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, 153 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202. This webpage will be updated regularly as additional details became available.
1 Live Event Coverage
2.1 Eligibility
2.1.1 TWL Divisions
2.1.2 Collins Divisions
2.1.3 Information for International Players
2.2 Entry Fees
2.3 Division Changes
2.4 Refunds
2.5 Conditions
2.5.1 Rules, Code and Terms/Conditions
2.5.2 Minor Release
2.5.3 Player Bulletin
2.5.4 Equipment Required
2.5.5 Changes
3 Hotel/Travel Information
3.1 Hotel Registration
3.2 Hotel and Event Parking
3.3 Dining
3.4 Sightseeing
3.5 Roommate Wanted
3.6 Ride Wanted
3.7 Airport Transport Information
3.8 Buffalo Airport Shuttle
5 Local Club Meetings
5.1 Wednesday: Toronto, ON
5.2 Thursday: Buffalo, NY
5.3 Thursday: Mississauga, ON
6.1 Friday, August 3, 2018
6.2 Saturday, August 4, 2018
6.3 Sunday, August 5, 2018
6.4 Monday, August 6, 2018
6.5 Tuesday, August 7, 2018
6.6 Wednesday, August 8, 2018
7 The Rose Award
8 Other Donors
10 Prizes
13.1 Thursday, August 2
13.2 Friday, August 3
13.3.1 Clean and Pack
13.4 Unassigned Volunteers
14 Further Information
For continuously updated results from our event once it gets underway, please visit the LIVE COVERAGE section.
Online registration is open. A list of registered players is available on this website and on cross-tables.com. The rest of this section describes in detail the various terms and conditions of registration, most of which are also discussed on the registration form.
To play in the NASC, you must (1) be a NASPA member, and (2) have played in an officially sanctioned SCRABBLE tournament to earn an official tournament rating. If you live in the United States or Canada, that rating should be a NASPA rating; if you live elsewhere it may be a WESPA rating or other comparable national rating.
TWL Divisions
If you meet the eligibility criteria and wish to play using the Official Club and Tournament Word List 2016 (TWL), you may do so. Four TWL divisions will be offered, divided by Qualification Rating (QR), with unlimited play-up available. If your QR is 1800 or higher, or if you do not have a NASPA rating, you must play in Division 1. If your QR is in the range 1400–1799, you must play in Division 1 or 2. If your QR is in the range 1100–1399, you must play in Division 1, 2 or 3. If your QR is below 1100, you may play in any of the four divisions.
Your QR consists of the highest tournament rating attained at the end of any NASPA TWL-rated tournament (or segment of a split-rated tournament) which finished during the period from July 26, 2017 to July 26, 2018 (the start of last year's Championship to the close of registration). If you have a rating, but do not play during this period, your QR is your unchanged current rating.
Player division assignments will be reviewed after July 26, 2018 to ensure that everyone is registered in the correct division. If the division in which you registered is not one in which your QR permits you to play, we will automatically move you up to the lowest permissible division.
Collins Divisions
If you meet the eligibility criteria and prefer to play using the international Collins (CSW) lexicon, you may do so. If your Collins Qualification Rating (CQR) is 1500 or higher, you must play in Division 1. If it is 1499 or below, you may play in Division 1 or 2. Players who only have a WESPA rating will be permitted to play in Division 1 or 2 if that rating is 1399 or below. If there are fewer than 20 players registered in either division as of July 5, 2018, the divisions will be automatically combined into a single division.
Your CQR is the highest Collins tournament rating attained at the end of a NASPA CSW-rated tournament which finished during the period from July 26, 2017 to July 26, 2018 (the start of last year's Championship to the close of registration). If you had a NASPA CSW rating prior to this period, but did not play during the period, your qualifying rating is that unchanged rating. If you do not have a NASPA CSW rating, but have a NASPA TWL rating, your CQR is your TWL QR. The Collins division will be run using NASPA rules, except that the Collins lexicon will be used and the challenge penalty will be 5 points per word. The Collins division will be NASPA and WESPA rated.
If there will be two divisions, player division assignments will be reviewed after July 26, 2018 to ensure that everyone is registered in the correct division. If the division in which you registered is not one in which your CQR permits you to play, we will automatically move you up to the lowest permissible division.
Information for International Players
If you are thinking about travelling from overseas to play in this event for the first time, please read our 2018 NASC for Overseas Visitors page.
Again this year, there will again be one or two separate divisions of players using the Collins lexicon at the North American Scrabble Championship.
Players must have a NASPA, WESPA or other equivalent rating deemed acceptable by the Championship Committee prior to competing. Those players with only a WESPA rating will be allowed to compete in CSW2 division if that rating is 1399 or below. For participants with both NASPA and WESPA ratings, the NASPA rating will be used to determine eligibility for CSW2.
The Collins division will be run using NASPA rules, except that the Collins lexicon will be used and the challenge penalty will be 5 points per word. The Collins division will be NASPA and WESPA rated. Please see full information about the division in the section above.
The base entry fee for all divisions is $200.
Youths, defined as those whose 18th birthday is after August 8, 2018, may pay $100 to play in any division.
The above fees will be increased by $50 after May 31, 2018. For example, a player signing up on June 1, 2018 would pay $250.
Players accepted after the close of registration on July 26, 2018 must pay a $75 late penalty. For example, a youth signing up on July 30, 2018 would pay $225. Acceptance of registrants after July 26, 2018 is not guaranteed, and will generally only be permitted if it does not cause a division to be uneven.
Players not staying at the host hotel for the duration of the event must also pay a commuter/facility fee of $20 per day ($100 maximum). The commuter fee does not apply to those local to the Buffalo area. Verification of status as a hotel guest will be performed at registration/check-in and throughout the event. Players staying at the host hotel for only part of the event must pay the full commuter fee, and may then apply for a refund of $20 per day stayed at the host hotel (to a maximum of $100) after the conclusion of the event, by providing the Championship Committee with hotel confirmation number and dates of stay.
Fees payable are computed based on when (Eastern Time) funds are received in full. If you are not paying right away online at the moment when you register, please be sure to allow enough time for your mailed payment to reach us.
Division Changes
To change divisions after you have registered, please email the organizing committee at nsc@scrabbleplayers.org. Division changes are subject to the following conditions:
After registration closes on July 26, 2018, if your division change would increase the number of players who may potentially have to have byes (if you would make two divisions odd, or would make a larger division odd), you will be waitlisted until this is not the case.
A $25 fee will be charged to accommodate the division change.
If your rating rises above the limit for the division in which you registered, you will automatically be moved to the lowest division for which you qualify at no charge.
If you paid your tournament fees by credit card, any credit owing to you will be issued to your card; otherwise, we will mail a check to your membership address as shown in your member profile. No refunds will be issued after the refund deadlines described below.
All refunds are subject to a cancellation fee of $25.
If you decide you need to cancel your registration, we will refund your entry fee (and commuter fee, if applicable), if you so request by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on July 26, 2018.
Rules, Code and Terms/Conditions
By registering for the NASC, you agree to abide by the NASPA Tournament Rules and Code of Conduct, and agree to comply with the 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship Terms and Conditions. In particular, some games at this tournament, probably the highest Division 1 board without a Gibsonized player, will be annotated live. If you refuse to play a designated game with annotation, you will forfeit it, and may at the director’s discretion be assigned a spread penalty of −200 points.
Minor Release
A Minor Release and Consent Form will be required for all players under age 18 as of August 3, 2018, and may be downloaded and submitted in advance, or executed by a parent or guardian at registration.
Player Bulletin
Please read our Player Bulletin, and check it again for last-minute updates before you travel to the event.
Equipment Required
Participants in the 2018 North American Scrabble Championship are responsible for bringing all equipment necessary to play in the tournament. If neither player in a game has equipment available for their game, a double forfeit may be imposed.
The Championship Committee reserves the right to modify the above to account for unforeseen special circumstances.
See also our Google Map.
For information about airline discounts, please consult the player bulletin.
The official event hotel is the Hyatt Regency Buffalo at 2 Fountain Plaza, Buffalo, NY 14202 (phone: 716-856-1234). Players registering through our group link are eligible for our special rate of $139/night (up to quad occupancy; plus tax) at the event hotel; those who live outside of the Buffalo area and do not either book a room at the host hotel or book a room within our group block at one of the other hotels listed below, will pay a $100 facility fee to contribute the cost of the venue space.
Complimentary in-room wireless internet is included in our group rate. Hotel bookings at our group rate are subject to availability within our group rate block of rooms, and must be booked before July 21, 2018.
The Hyatt is immediately adjacent to the Convention Center, and is connected to it by an indoor walkway, with elevators available for players with mobility issues.
Hotel and Event Parking
The Hyatt Regency offers valet parking at standard hotel rates (currently $25/day). Hotel guests may also make use of the self parking lots in the vicinity of the hotel.
There are a number of self parking lots available to both hotel guests and commuters to the tournament. For a map of available lots, click here.
Daily parking rates at self parking lots vary. Based on the best available information, rates begin at $4 per day. To search for parking rates, visit BestParking.com and perform an address search using "153 Franklin Street" for the address.
Buffalo offers hundreds of restaurant options, with something to suit every taste. Explore the area's eateries at the Food and Dining Guide provided by www.visitbuffaloniagara.com.
The Buffalo Bisons minor league baseball team has home games vs. Gwinnett on August 7, 8 and 9.
Visit Buffalo Niagara shows the many things to do around town.
Shakespeare in Delaware Park
The Erie County Fair runs August 9-20.
The Spirit of Buffalo
Templeton Landing offers Buffalo Brew Wednesdays, from 6-10 p.m. Sample local brewers, and enjoy local specials.
The Lucille Ball Comedy Festival runs August 1-5.
The VIP Brewery Tour is offered on Thursdays at the Hotel Lafayette.
Helium Comedy Club
Old Falls Street features classic rock and dance bands on Friday nights from 7-10 p.m.
Roommate Wanted
If you need a roommate and would like a listing here, please complete the NASC Roommate Request Form and your request will be updated here.
IMPORTANT: When you get your roommate, please contact the committee so we can remove your listing.
Greg Rogers is looking for a male non-smoker to share a room. Please call Kirsten Klassen at 574-264-2857 or email KirstenLKlassen@gmail.com.
Ezekiel "Zee" Markwei is attending with a female friend and is seeking two others to share a quad occupancy room. You can reach Zee by email at ezekiel.markwei@gmail.com.
Ride Wanted
If you need a ride/rider to or from the tournament, and would like a listing here, please complete the NASC Ride Request Form.
IMPORTANT: When you get your ride/rider, please contact the committee so we can remove your listing.
Airport Transport Information
The nearest international airports to the tournament site are as follows. Note that airports with IATA codes beginning with Y are on the Canadian side of the international border, and that travel time does not include highly variable border-crossing delays.
BUF Buffalo Niagara 00:15 10 mi
IAG Niagara Falls 00:25 20 mi
ROC Greater Rochester 01:10 70 mi
YHM John C. Munro Hamilton 01:15 120 km
YYZ Toronto Pearson 01:30 150 km
YKF Region of Waterloo 01:50 170 km
YTZ Billy Bishop Toronto City 02:00 160 km
Buffalo Airport Shuttle
To play in the first round on Saturday morning, you must check in between 10:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. on Friday, August 3, 2018, at the NASC registration desk in the Convention Center lobby outside the playing area. You may ask a friend to check in for you by proxy, if you cannot check in in person. If possible, please email us at nsc@scrabbleplayers.org to notify us in advance of proxy arrangements. If you check in by proxy, but do not show up to play, then neither you nor your proxy will be permitted to check in by proxy at future events. If you do not check in before the desk closes at 7:00 P.M., you may join the championship in progress as soon as it is convenient for the pairings staff to add you back in; this may not take place before Sunday morning. No refund will be issued to latecomers.
When you check in, you will be given an announcement sheet. This is to reduce the number of announcements that have to be made on Saturday morning, so that the event can get underway quickly. You are responsible for familiarizing yourself with the announcements and tournament schedule.
Local Club Meetings
Players arriving early may wish to play warmup games at local clubs:
Wednesday: Toronto, ON
The Toronto SCRABBLE Club meets regularly at 4169 Bathurst Street, south of Sheppard Avenue West. See the club website for more information and directions; out-of-town visitors play for free.
Thursday: Buffalo, NY
The Buffalo SCRABBLE Club (No.456) meets on Thursday evenings.
Thursday: Mississauga, ON
The Mississauga SCRABBLE Club meets on Thursday evenings at 7:30 P.M.
This schedule for the 2018 North American SCRABBLE Championship may be modified to add new events, or possibly to change room locations. Also, until about a month before the event, it should be considered an early draft, with only the times for registration and the main event to be set in stone. Once the event begins, please check this schedule for changes at the beginning of each day.
For those arriving early in the region, see also the preceding section on local club meetings. Those looking for something to do between the NASC and the immediately following tournament in Niagara Falls, ON may wish to sign up for a half-marathon.
Unless otherwise indicated, all events take place at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center at 153 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY, 14202.
10:00 A.M.–7:00 P.M.
Registration (Lobby)
10:00 A.M.–11:30 P.M.
After hours room open (Room 106AD)
12:00 P.M.–4:00 P.M.
Early bird tournament, restricted to NASC Staff and other NASPA directors (Room 106BC)
4:30 P.M.–5:30 P.M.
Committee meeting for Division Leaders, Division Assistants, Auxiliary Staff (Boardroom)
8:30 A.M.–8:55 A.M.
Set up for play (North Exhibit Floor)
Announcements; Group Photos - School SCRABBLE Players (North Exhibit Floor)
9:10 A.M.–1:15 P.M.
Rounds 1–4 (North Exhibit Floor)
Canadian Committee lunch meetings (Room 109)
Announcements (North Exhibit Floor)
6:30 P.M.–10:00 P.M.
Advisory Board Dinner Meeting (TBA)
9:00 A.M.–11:30 P.M.
Trivia Contest (Room 106BC)
Group Photos - Past NASC Champions/Division Winners (North Exhibit Floor)
Rounds 8–11 (North Exhibit Floor)
Club/Director Committee and Rules Committee lunch meetings (Room 109)
Evening Musicale (Room 106BC)
Group Photo - NASC Staff (North Exhibit Floor)
Group Photo - New Yorkers (North Exhibit Floor)
Rounds 15–18 (North Exhibit Floor)
Tournament Committee and International Committee lunch meetings (Room 109)
Town Hall meeting (Room 106BC)
Group Photo - International Players (North Exhibit Floor)
Dictionary Committee lunch meeting (Room 109)
Director meeting (Room 106BC)
Prize Ceremony (Room 106BC)
Tear Down (North Exhibit Floor)
The Rose Award
Bob and Andi Schoenman, creators of Protiles, honor Rose Kreiswirth's memory. Rose was an expert Scrabble® player for over 30 years and cherished the game for its educational values. An accomplished player, Rose was as well known for her sense of fairness and her congeniality as she was for her competitiveness. The Rose Award will be awarded each year at the National SCRABBLE Championship to a female player who, in the opinion of the judges, best exemplifies the fierce competitiveness and compassion that we remember Rose for. Thank you, Bob and Andi Schoenman!
If you are interested in donating prizes to events at the championship, please email us at nsc@scrabbleplayers.org.
For information about sponsorship opportunities at the championship, please contact Chris Cree.
Full details about cash prizes, and anticipated merchandise prizes, will be posted on the prize table once they are available.
The NASC will be paired using tsh along the lines of past events, including Gibsonization on spread. After an initial phase of fixed pairings based on pre-event ratings, the top contenders are paired with each other, and everyone else is paired Swiss. These two groups, contenders and noncontenders, are paired with minimal repeats. For example, if there is no way to pair the contenders without at least one repeat, then they will be paired with one repeat.
The maximum number of contenders is 12 in Rounds 1-28, 8 in Round 29, 4 in Round 30 and 2 in Round 31. The contenders are further divided into a subgroup of leaders and non-leaders, if this can be done without increasing the number of required repeats while maintaining at least four players among the leaders. Leaders are paired by repeatedly having the top unpaired player play the lowest-ranked player that can catch up to them. Non-leaders are paired Swiss.
For further information about this pairing system, please refer to the section on Chew pairings in the tsh documentation.
Chris Cree
Assistant to the Director
Diane Moore
Activity Directors
Division leaders
Division 1:
Collins:
Division assistants
John Chew
Division 2/CSW:
Division 3/4:
Internet reporter
Internet photographer
Volunteers are needed to help prepare the playing area, man the registration desk and to help pack and clean after the event. Volunteers receive a free NASC T-shirt. Lunch is provided for those who assist with clean up on Wednesday. To sign up, please complete the 2018 NASC Volunteer Form
3:00 P.M.-5:30 P.M.
We need about 15 Clean and Pack volunteers to help collect and box NASPA tournament supplies to be shipped back to the storage facility after the awards ceremony on Wed., August 8, 2018.
Unassigned Volunteers
Following is a list of those who have volunteered, but do not yet have a specific assignment:
This page will be updated as the event draws nearer. If you have urgent questions about the event, please email us at nsc@scrabbleplayers.org.
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Yield Growth (BOSS.C) goes all in on #shroomboom with acquisition of recipes for Flourish Mushroom Labs
October 10, 2019 By Ethan Reyes
Yield Growth (BOSS.C) has decided not to proceed with the previously announced investment into Absolem Health, instead advancing with their own subsidiary, Flourish Mushroom Labs, which has completed its acquisition of edible mushroom formulas.
The global edible mushrooms market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7.95% and could reach USD$62B by 2023, according to Research and Markets.
We covered Absolem’s entry into the psychedelic/fungal space with our profile on Cambridge House’s XFuture conference which featured a number of soon-to-be public psychedelic treatment companies.
Penny White, CEO of Yield Growth, previously said her company intended to “use our alliance with Absolem as a launch pad to create assets for legal psychedelic medicine.”
The formulations include soups, teas, hot cocoa, elixirs and truffles. Flourish has engaged the developers to create additional products to add to the base catalogue and commercialize the formulas, going to market first with mushroom based soups and coffees.
–Yield Growth
Days after the article’s release, Yield put out a puzzling release stating their subsidiary, Flourish, was in talks to purchase a mushroom cookbook featuring nine recipes for teas, soups and self-care products despite the announced investment into Absolem, a company with its own line of mushroom-infused edibles.
In retrospect, we should’ve seen this coming, but shroomstocks.ca is still working on prying our third-eye open. Any readers with spare Turkey Tail can send it to our office on W. Georgia Street!
Flourish purchased their formulations for 120,000 shares of Yield Growth priced at $0.25 per share.
A fungi-enthusiast’s survivor guide
Turkey tail, lion’s mane, reishi, psilocybin…I just want some dang mushrooms, amirite? Here’s what you need to know the next time you’re in the checkout line trying to figure out which does what.
Cordyceps: A prominent component of traditional Chinese medicine, cordyceps are not actually mushrooms at all. The fungus is closely related to mushrooms and parasitizes larval hosts, growing out of their bodies and consuming them.
A 1998 study out of the Beijing Medical University Sports Institute aimed to validate longstanding claims of the fungi’s restorative properties. The double blind trial found mice given cordyceps “were able to swim significantly longer than the control groups,” showing a 73% increase in endurance.
Lion’s mane: This mushroom is touted as a countermand to anxiety and diminishing brain function by reducing inflammation. Amycenone, a compound within lion’s mane, has been found to have anti-depressive properties by the Chiba University Center in Japan.
These findings suggest that amycenone has antidepressant effects in LPS-induced inflammation model of depression. Therefore, amycenone could represent a potential supplement to prevent inflammation-related depression.
Reishi: With annual sales exceeding USD$2B, the reishi mushroom is the most famous of all medicinal mushrooms, according to Martin Powell’s “Medicinal Mushrooms, A Clinical Guide.”
G. lucidum shows “exceptionally high tyrosinase inhibition,” according to Powell, which may play a role in the reduction of Parkinson’s Disease.
I drink a reishi tea before bed and have felt much more refreshed since beginning my reishi regimen, though that’s purely anecdotal and hardly scientific.
Turkey tail: Known for its plumage-like shape, this mushroom may stimulate the human immune system and is actually approved in Japan as a supplementary treatment to conventional therapies in the treatment of cancer.
The mushroom may help repair immune cell damage caused by chemotherapy, and its immune-boosting properties making it a welcome addition to any cancer treatment.
A randomized clinical trial in Japan done between 1978 and 1981 included 751 patients who had surgery for gastric cancer. After surgery, patients received chemotherapy with or without PSK. On average, the patients who received chemotherapy and PSK lived longer than those who received chemotherapy alone.
Mushrooms, prostates and you
Earlier this week, Tohoku University in Japan suggested a link between eating plain-old mushrooms and a lower risk of prostate cancer.
The study tracked the outcomes of more than 36,000 Japanese men over a decade to investigate the health benefits of eating mushrooms.
In 2018, prostate cancer was the second most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in men after lung cancer, accounting for 14.5% of all diagnoses excluding melanoma.
“Test-tube studies and studies conducted on living organisms have shown that mushrooms have the potential to prevent prostate cancer,” said Shu Zhang, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Department of Health Informatics and Public Health at Tohoku University School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine in Japan, and lead author of the study.
The study found those who consumed mushrooms once or twice a week had an 8% lower risk of getting prostate cancer compared to those who ate mushrooms less than once per week. Participants who consumed mushrooms three or more times per week at a whoppin’ 17% lower risk than the lowest percentile group.
Run, Toad! You’re a precious cancer-fighting commodity now. | Source: giphy.com
Besides being a rich-source of vitamins and antioxidants, contains L-ergothioneine which is believed to mitigate oxidative stress, a cellular imbalance which can lead to chronic inflammation, a known cause of cancer, according to Zhang.
“Considering the average American consumes less than 5 grams of mushrooms per day, which is lower than that consumed by the participants in this study (7.6 g/day) one would expect that even a small increase in mushroom consumption to offer potential health benefits,” Zhang said.
–Ethan Reyes
Full disclosure: Yield Growth is an equity.guru marketing client.
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Ethan Reyes is a journalist, poet and screenwriter from Vancouver, B.C. His bylines have appeared in such publications as Macleans, the North Delta Reporter and XTRA!
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