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The Lands of Elgin
A choice of three differing length routes are available for this walk. All options take you along the seafront from Limekilns to Charlestown Harbour and then along a section of a disused railway before heading into Broomhall Estate, the ancestral home of the Earls of Elgin. The longer route goes inland before returning to the coast close to Rosyth whilst the medium and shorter routes head for Broomhall House. The medium route then joins the longer route for the final woodland and coastal section whilst the shorter route returns directly back to Limekilns.
Distance (long): 7.5 miles / 12 km
Ascent (long): 525 feet / 160 m
Distance (medium): 6.2 miles / 10 km
Ascent (medium): 500 feet / 150 m
Distance (short): 3.5 miles / 5.6 km
Ascent (short): 330 feet / 100m
Start / finish: Limekilns
Facilities: Parking in Limekilns car park on the promenade, buses to Limekilns, cafes and pubs in Limekilns and Charlestown.
Most of the walking is on paths and tracks with reasonable surfaces although a few unsurfaced sections on the long and medium routes may get muddy at times. From time to time some of the routes across the estate may be closed for shooting and information signs will be posted when this is the case. Dog owners please note that there are signs requesting dogs to be on leads on some sections of these walks. You should also take care to keep dogs on the path when walking through unfenced agricultural ground.
Old Railway Line, Charlestown
Charlestown Harbour
Broomhall Estate
From Limekilns car park on the seafront walk westwards along the road towards Charlestown to reach a fork in the road where you go left down Saltpans. You will soon reach Charlestown Harbour which it is worth spending a few minutes having a wander around. Immediately after the harbour are the remains of the limekilns on your right hand side.
Continue on along the road into a housing estate. If you want another view of the harbour, turn left and make a short detour. Otherwise, turn right to continue on to the end of West Harbour Road. At the end of the road a path leads into the woods. Follow this path, the Lyne Burn path, along the shore with views across to the MOD Crombie Pier.
Be careful not to trip over the railway lines which join the path. This old line is part of the Charlestown (or Elgin) railway built to serve the industry in the area. The railway itself if you follow it will take you to the MOD site but look out for a set of steps at NT 059 838 on your right hand side. Go up these steps and over a bridge passing through some more woodland and the back of a house before emerging at a road.
Walk up this road to its junction with the main road and turn right. This next section of road walking is not paved so take care and be alert to passing traffic.
At the end of the road where it turns right to go down to the village and harbour, turn left on to the Rocks Road. The old granary on your right hand side now houses the post office and shop. This section of the route is signed for a cycle route. When the road / cycle route turns left at NT 065 842, go right into Broomhall Estate. Note the sign at the gate about keeping dogs on leads.
Short (3.5 mile) and Medium (6.2 mile) options
At the junction with the estate road turn right. You now pass through the Broomhall Estate which is a working estate with some unfenced fields. There may be sheep in the fields. As you approach the big house there are a number of signs with arrows indicating a diversion route around the outside of the house.
Short (3.5 mile) option
Don’t follow the first arrow to the left but stay straight on and then follow an arrow to the right onto a path that diverts around the side of the house.
The path joins a track where you turn right through more woodland. You will probably spot pheasants around here. Stay on this track which will eventually bring you back towards Limekilns where it runs parallel to the road but high up on the cliffs.
At the end of the track you leave the estate at the Queens Hall / Bowling Club. Walk alongside the white cottages on your left hand side (keeping the parking area to your right) until you reach a gap in the wall with some shallow steps leading down to the main road. Turn left and walk back alongside the road to the starting point.
Medium (6.2 mile) option
Go left at the first arrow following the path that diverts around the front of the house. Then go left when you reach the estate road, passing through open fields until you reache the main Kincardine to Rosyth road at a lodge house. Take extreme care and cross the busy and fast road to reach the quieter road on the opposite side (slightly right). The next section of the walk follows the pavement along this road for for 600m. Turn right when you reach the trio of South Cottage, Mid Cottage and North Cottage, on to a farm access track with woodland to your right and fields to your left. After about 170m turn right into the woodland on an obvious path.
From this point the long and medium options use the same route back to Limekilns.
Long (7.5 mile) option
At the junction with the estate road, turn left. The estate road takes you past a house and over a railway bridge to meet the main A985 road. Turn left and walk along the off road cycle track until you reach the sign post for Pitliver. Take extreme care and cross the road which is fast and busy.
Once safely across the road walk up the quiet Pitliver road past a farm until you reach the entrance to Pitliver Estate. At this point go right through a gate onto a farm track. Note the sign on the gate regarding hens and keeping dogs on leads.This track leads through trees along the edges of fields and although unsurfaced is fairly dry underfoot until you reach a house (East Lodge on Ordnance Survey maps). At this point the track crosses a burn and turns right. Unfortunately as vehicles have been up the track to this point the surface becomes more uneven and muddier.
The track joins the public road at a poultry farm where you turn right. Use the pavement for 200m until you pass under a railway bridge and then turn immediately left onto a signed cycle track. The gravel surface of this track makes for dry underfoot conditions and the views are across open fields. When you reach Gallowridge Farm, keep left to follow the track around the outside of the farm and join the tarmac access road to the farm. There are views towards the spires of Dunfermline and at the end of the road where you meet the public road you should be able to spot Pittencrieff House and the glasshouses.
Turn right onto the road and walk along the pavement for about 350m round the corner to reach a farm road on your left with a purple arrow core path marker. Walk up this track to Wester Gellet Farm and again take note of the notices about dogs if you have a dog with you. Follow the purple arrows as they take you through the farm buildings and turn right.
If you are good with OS maps you may spot that there a few options for this next part of the walk. The route suggested below uses the core paths.
450m beyond the farm, where a woodland starts, a core path marker post points you to a path on the left at the side of the woodland.
Medium (6.2 mile) and Long (7.5 mile) Options
Follow the unsurfaced path for a pleasant walk through deciduous woodland. From time to time green arrow posts and purple arrow posts confirm you are on track but the path is easy to follow anyway. During the Summer months it might be an idea not to wear shorts as nettles line the path in a few places! Exit the woods via a wooden gateway with another purple arrow marker and continue onwards along the path. When you encounter a marker post that appears to point you to the right you need to stick to the obvious path which is straight on and is left of the marker post (a wee bit confusing).
The path takes you past Douglasbank Cemetery and joins a short section of road which will bring you to the A985. Again take extreme care as you cross this busy and fast road. Immediately opposite is a signed and surfaced cycle path.
This next section of the walk back to Limekilns is both a cycle path and part of the Fife Coastal Path so it is well used. The path takes you steeply downhill and offers a good view across Rosyth Dockyard to the Forth Bridges. A few sharp corners go round the edge of woodland and bring you to the sea front. You will pass the remains of Rosyth Old Church and its graveyard with Commonwealth war graves
An alternative route from the main road to Rosyth Old Church is via the Windylaw Coffin Road. This route starts from the main road slightly to the right of the coastal path route and is signed with a green signpost. This route is a mix of woodland and open fields taking you down to the seafront. When you reach the coastal path turn right to head back to Limekilns but if you want to have a look around the church go left.
The coastal path joins a road at Brucehaven Harbour on the outskirts of Limekilns. From here you can walk through the yacht club and follow a path in front of a wall, or you can go straight on staying with the cycle path which soon turns left to bring you back to the shore. Follow the cycle path for the final section of the walk along the sea front and back to the car park where you started.
3.5 mile route
View / download 3.5 mile route from Viewranger
View / download 3.5 mile route from Ordnance Survey
View / download 7.5 mile route from Viewranger.
View / download 7.5 mile route from Ordnance Survey.
© 2017 Fife Walking. All rights reserved. If using this route for a group or organised walk please credit Fife Walking as your source.
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Redefining...
Redefining Plus Size - Dressing the ‘Average’ Woman in Europe
The average woman in the UK is plus size (UK 16/EU 44), but she is woefully underserved. Forecast to account for 22 percent of the UK clothing market in 2022, the plus-size market is growing at a significantly faster rate than the rest of the fashion market. It is forecast to grow at a pace of 5-6 percent per annum between 2017- 2022, compared to 4-5 percent for womenswear over the same period, according to PwC data.
In other parts of Continental Europe, particularly in Germany, Italy and France, women are also having a difficult time finding clothes that have been made with them in mind.
The plus size market is in flux. Brands are taking small steps forward by putting bigger bodies in the fore. However, they are struggling to catch-up as this consumer becomes increasingly vocal and demanding in how she wants to dress.
In the past, retailers have cited increased expense, difficulties designing and lower sell through rates as excuses for not serving this customer better. However, treating the majority of consumers as an afterthought is a very risky move.
The US is still the clear leader in the plus size sector, but there is a misconception in other markets that the need to cater to a plus size customer is unique to the USA. People are getting bigger everywhere. In the UK and Germany, in particular, the rates of overweight people is now similar to the US. In most of Europe it is also increasing. Brands in the EU are realising this now and moving quickly to get up to speed in developing good plus size product. They are also recognising the need to have specialised skill sets and the right tools to create plus product successfully,” says Alvanon senior consultant and plus size specialist Alice Rodrigues.
As retailers and brands start to make more considered steps into the space, the scope of the challenge is becoming clear — from difficulties in understanding shape and fit-preference to difficulties around pattern grading.
“The more dimension and shape there is in the three-dimensional body you’re fitting on, the more pattern engineering is required to achieve a good fitting garment,” says Rodrigues.
“The balance and shape of plus garments is different to regular sizes; you can’t grade your way into plus; it must be developed independently of regular sizes. Often, the style lines or proportions may need to be changed slightly in translating a regular size garment to plus.”
She emphasises: “Brands entering into, or wanting to up their game in the plus market, ideally needs a dedicated product development and technical team. The skills required to successfully execute plus apparel are different to regular sizes. If their vendor base is unfamiliar with plus product, they need to anticipate and plan for a learning curve at the outset, including vendor on-boarding, blocks and grading.”
European brands should look to the US for inspiration on how better to serve this demographic. With years of experience in the plus size space many successful US brands have learnt how to best serve this key consumer sector.
Improving fit
For retailers opting to move into the space, one of the biggest challenges is how do we fit as many of our customers in the best way possible
For this group of consumers, going to a store can be an incredibly frustrating experience, with 72 percent of the millennial women surveyed at US event theCURVYcon 2019 saying they are unhappy with the products offered by retailers in their size.
Frustrations among this cohort take on many forms, but the most prevalent challenge is fit, with 61 percent of those surveyed saying that this is where they need to improve, while 34 percent said that the volume of items on offer needed to improve.
Alvanon CEO Janice Wang says: “Companies don’t fit on every single size, because we have to industrialise the way that clothing is made. But if retailers don’t have the data sets to make those mathematical algorithms, it’s very difficult for them.”
Similarly, Liz Muñoz, the CEO of plus size brand Torrid, said that when the business decided to go vertical, the most important thing was that it fitted young, sexy and cool. “The CEO before me said if that’s what you believe, go into the fit room and don’t come out until you have nailed fit. I did not come out for three and a half years. I must have fit 40,000 garments. I learned what worked. Every rule as a pattern maker had to be broken.”
As bodies get larger, assumptions about them become increasingly challenging as where fat sits varies by ethnicity and age.
Muñoz said: “We use Alvanon, who have been incredibly helpful in helping us understand that bigger girls are not always hourglass. I remember sitting with Alvanon and hearing that they had measured a lot of Latinas, and they discovered in their measurements that we are not hourglass, which means we put on weight in a lot of different places and this has been a huge influence for us.”
Similarly, Good American co-founder Emma Grede said that when she designed her first collection for the brand, she designed with an hourglass shape in mind and only used two fit models, but she has now evolved her strategy to have 10 fit models - to ensure that fit represents the different ways that fat falls on the body.
For businesses operating in this space, there is a clear opportunity to improve fit in a number of key areas. In the Alvanon survey 56 percent and 51 percent of millennial women say they find it difficult to buy bottoms and jeans, respectively.
Brands also need to help plus size women to understand their own body shape. Some 81 percent of the women’s bodies scanned did not match up with their self-professed body shape.
For retailers who use body shape as a means of helping women understand what will fit and suit them, this should come as a serious wake-up call. There is a tremendous amount of work that can be done in order to help women make better clothing choices while helping to reduce return rates.
While brands need to work on creating strategies that lead to better fitting products, they also need to work on communications strategies that help their customers to understand what their body shape actually looks like.
Designers creating for plus size women should look beyond products that seek to emphasise a largely non-existent hourglass shape. Rather they should recognise and celebrate the diversity of shapes that plus-size women’s bodies actually come in.
Create with individuality in mind
For businesses serving this customer, it’s important to ensure that strategies emphasise the same diversity of interest and taste as the rest of the market.
When asked what retailers could do to improve, one survey respondent simply said: “I just want the same styles as regular sizes.”
Retailers have an opportunity to step up for the average woman, who happens to be a size UK 16 (EU 44) and above, by normalising her experience and making her feel beautiful through the products they make.
When brands aren’t able to fit a garment properly, it has the capacity to harm the confidence and well-being of the women that they’re serving.
Muñoz said that if people are fussing with their garments all day, that is a constant reminder that there is something wrong with them, and “what we don’t say as big girls is: whoever made this is an idiot, they don’t know what they’re doing.” Instead, they blame themselves. “It was so incredibly important for us to figure that out, making that focus on fit, that meant women got to wear clothes that were young and sexy like they should be.”
When asked to define their style in their own words, theCURVYcon 2019 attendees responded with unique definitions, ranging from “minimalist hood goth”, to boho, conservative, cute, casual and trendy; this consumer is crying out for options that speak to their individual preferences.
Similarly, when asked what body parts they chose to emphasise, there was also a diversity of perspectives. Many women said their upper bodies, while others celebrate their bottoms, waists, legs and hips (chart on next page). For retailers and brands, this means that there is no one “right way” to design for this cohort, and strategies around fit will need to be developed alongside a true understanding of your customer’s preferences.
Innovative brands are working towards this, speaking on a panel at theCURVYcon 2019, Good American co-founder Emma Grede said: “We are in a time where we all talk about female empowerment, female choice, body positivity, but are still very dictated to in terms of what a plus size body should be allowed to wear.”
She said that being new to working in plus size meant that she didn’t have any preconceptions of what people might like. “What I found very quickly with Good American, was that the people with experience were the ones saying don’t do the lace-up jeans in a size 24, or do less. But it was the first thing to sell out — it was the customer voting for more daring, more fashion-forward items. The choice has always been made for me - the customer is there, she is voting for what she wants and it’s been an incredible education for us.”
Education becomes key
As the number of plus size consumers is set to continue to grow at twice the rate of the rest of the market, there need to be more designers who are able to design well for this community.
For instance, Wang says, that Alvanon has tried to give universities plus sized fit forms and the universities said they didn’t want them. “What does that say about their commitment to the next generation of plus size designers? If they could just take a plus mannequin to work with, that would least be a start.”
According to Alvanon data, in the last seven years, from 34 fashion schools globally, 963 forms were purchased, of which only 15 were plus size forms, making up only 1.5 percent of academic form sales.
The future of plus size will require more normalisation to prevent the average plus size woman feeling discriminated against when she goes to get dressed.
Dia + Co co-founder Nadia Boujarwah said the next chapter of life for the plus sector will not be to rely on the “courage of individual women”, but for the world to begin to change, so that “it does not require boldness and courage to go and live our lives fully.This is really about addressing sizes and making sure it’s not radical for us to be able to do all of the things we want to do.”
To achieve this, there will need to be systemic change from the industry across many fronts — not just in how we design. It will require businesses to extend how they view plus size from UK size 16/18-26 (EU 44/46-54) through to UK 30 (EU 58) and beyond.
For efforts in plus size to truly succeed, they will require businesses to think beyond product and to bring plus size women into their businesses and marketing across all kinds of roles.
Muñoz says that Torrid needs to work on, “inclusivity for real” which means it is listening to feedback from customers that say it doesn’t have bigger girls in its marketing, that it doesn’t have girls that are shaped like them. “Not everybody is hourglass, some women have a belly,” and businesses need to ensure that women can see: ‘how is this item going to look on me’?”
For Grede, this is already a reality for Good American, which photographs products on every size. This is something that she says has paid huge dividends for the business. “If a size 20 woman is coming onto the site, she doesn’t want to see an item on a size two,” Grede emphasises.
Additionally, retail strategies require that plus size women have associates that look like them and understand their specific needs in-store. Muñoz says that having women who understand the product and your body is “transformational”, explaining how she walked out of a Torrid store, having bought five dresses after 20 years of thinking they didn’t flatter her.
As retailers work to remain relevant through the retail apocalypse, knowing the reality of your customers true shape and preference remains key. Not doing so, means you’re leaving significant amounts of money on the table and risking alienating consumers.
“Every single woman should have the right to feel strong in her own body,” said Wang.
Five key takeaways
36 percent of women scanned thought they were hourglass, 0 percent were.
81 percent of self-identified body shapes did not match with body scans.
The plus size consumer has an individual personality and wants to feel catered to. Her tastes are as diverse as regular sized consumers.
Design educators need to lead by example and learn to design for plus size so they can teach the next generation.
The majority of women are plus sized; building successful strategies that service them is a significant business opportunity.
alvanon plus size
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Phone Box – Magdalen Place
As the photo (right) shows, the phone box at the top of Magdalen Place at its junction with Seafield Road is in poor shape.
Residents have complained to me about the lack of glass in many of the panels and the general poor condition of the box, including graffiti on it.
I have taken up the complaints with British Telecom.
Magdalen Place, Phone Boxes, Seafield Road
Ofcom : poor consultation by BT on phone box removals
As regular readers of this blog will know (see : http://www.dundeewestend.com/2008/09/phone-box-removal-lack-of-consultation.html), I complained to Ofcom regarding the fact that British Telecom has decided to remove two telephone boxes in the West End without actually bothering to consult anyone first – something I consider bad practice – whatever the merits or demerits of removing the boxes.
Ofcom seem to think that no consultation is OK (judging by the response below) which I view as detrimental, flying in the face of good consultative practice
Dear Councillor Macpherson
Thank you for your further email regarding the removal of a BT Public Call Box (PCB).
We note your dissatisfaction with the rules set around the removal of BT PCBs, in particular the definition of a ‘site’ under the rules. ‘Site’, in relation to a PCB, is defined as a walking distance of 400 metres from that PCB. This means that if there are two phone boxes within a 400 metres’ walk of each other, BT can take one away without consultation with the local authority.
You may be interested to know that Ofcom carried out a review of Universal Service Obligations in 2005/06 and as part of this review Ofcom consulted on this particular issue of a ‘site’ and invited views from all stakeholders. Previously ‘site’ in relation to a PCB was defined as a walking distance of 100 metres from that PCB. Following the review however, this definition was revised to a walking distance of 400 metres.
At the time of the review, Ofcom’s research was undertaken across a wide age range of consumers, including older consumers. It indicated that there was an urban/rural split in terms of expectations of distance in relation to a PCB. In general, a maximum five minutes’ walk was deemed reasonable in urban areas, and 20-30 minutes’ walk in rural areas. The research also indicated that there had been a growth in mobile ownership amongst the over 65s. During the review, Ofcom asked for views on whether the definition should be extended to 200, 300 or 400 metres. Most stakeholders who responded on this issue supported an increase in the definition. This coupled with changing commercial conditions in the PCB market (increase in mobile phone ownership amongst the over 65s), justified a change in the definition of site to any area within a walking distance of 400 metres from the PCB.
The statement can be found at:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/uso/statement/statement.pdf
Non confidential stakeholder response can be found at:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/uso/statement/responses/
Taking your second concern about the rules not taking into account local circumstances, under the current rules unitary authorities handling consultations hold the local veto and, although we do not lay down rules on how they should go about testing local views, we would expect them to consult other public organisations, such as parish/community councils or local community groups. Where written objections are made, reasons must be given for the objection. Factors that should be taken into consideration (although the list is not exhaustive) include: housing type in the area, the number of households in the area, PCB revenue, emergency calls and mobile phone coverage.
I hope this information proves helpful and helps clarify Ofcom’s position on the matter.
::Charlotte Cullen
Telecoms Team
::Ofcom
Ofcom initial response on phone box removal lack of consultation
I received the following response from Ofcom this afternoon; I await further feedback with interest!
Thank you for your email to Ofcom dated 24 September 2008.
As part of its Universal Service Obligation to supply basic, fixed line, telecommunications services across the UK, BT (along with Kingston Communications in the Hull area) is obligated to provide Public Call Boxes.
By way of some background, BT is required to ensure adequate coverage of public call boxes (PCB). During a review of Universal Service Obligations in 2005/06, Ofcom concluded that adequate coverage is best determined at a local level with district (or equivalent) councils holding the local veto. BT must follow rules set by Ofcom when they wish to remove a PCB from a site. ‘Site’, in relation to a PCB, is defined as a walking distance of 400 metres from that PCB. This means that if there are two phone boxes within 400 metres’ walk of each other, BT can take one away without following our rules. However, if they want to take away the last one as well, they have to follow an agreed process.
Our rules state that BT cannot remove the last PCB from a ‘site’ unless they have displayed a notice on the call box to notify the public, written to district council, metropolitan, unitary or equivalent council and have not received any written objections within a 90-day period. If the local body does make a written objection to BT within the fixed 90-day period, BT must not proceed with the removal or re-siting of the PCB. Where written objections are made, reasons must be given for the objection. Although we do not lay down rules on how local district councils (or equivalent councils) should go about testing local views, we would expect them to consult other public organisations, such as parish/community councils or local community groups.
We are naturally concerned if the two PCBs to which you refer are in fact PCBs that BT must consult on in accordance with our rules and if BT have subsequently failed to inform Dundee City Council about the proposed removals. We are, however, unable to comment further at this stage without knowing the intricacies of the case. We have taken up this matter with BT and will write to you again when we have further information.
I hope this information proves useful.
Phone Box Removal – lack of consultation
Yesterday, I issued a news release regarding the fact that British Telecom has decided to remove two telephone boxes in the West End without actually bothering to consult anyone first – something I consider bad practice – whatever the merits or demerits of removing the boxes. I print the news release below.
In response, BT has said to the Courier that it wrote to the City Council about removing boxes back in April. A case of spin over substance, I’m afraid, because the City Council’s Head of Planning had advised “… we were consulted on the removal of kiosks at the beginning of April and neither the kiosk at City Road or the one at Seafield Road were on the list supplied and therefore not passed to Cllr Macpherson for comment.”
It is simply good practice to consult with the community before taking action to remove phone boxes. It is clear, from what I have been advised that BT did not, contrary to the spin, consult on the removal of these particular boxes.
Personally I don’t think it is acceptable that there are any circumstances under which BT can simply avoid bothering to consult on phone box removal and I have therefore asked Ofcom to review BT’s practice of only consulting on the removal of some phone boxes and not others.
NEWS RELEASE : City Councillor’s concern over removal of phone boxes without any consultation
Dundee City Council’s Convener of Planning & Transport and councillor for the West End, Fraser Macpherson, tonight expressed concern about a practice by British Telecom of deciding to remove Dundee phone boxes without any public consultation whatsoever, calling it “extremely bad practice.”
Cllr Macpherson said that the situation had come to light in the case of two phone boxes in the West End Ward – at City Road and Seafield Road – where BT is removing two phone kiosks without recourse to the City Council, locally elected councillors or the public.
Cllr Macpherson said, “The removal of a phone box in City Road came to light only when I contacted BT recently about repairs required to the phone here, and in the case of the phone box in Seafield Road, the removal came to light only when BT wrote to Dundee City Council and West End Community Council saying the red telephone kiosk could be considered for the “Adopt a Kiosk” scheme after it is decommissioned by BT.
“I think everyone accepts that phone box usage is lower than before, given the number of households with phones nowadays and the advent of the mobile phone, and indeed some phone boxes have been subject to vandalism. However, it is extremely bad practice for BT to undertake removal of phone boxes without any public consultation.
“Where there is a proper consultation, it at least allows the local authority and local councillors to speak with local people about their views on phone box retention or otherwise – unfortunately in this case the BT approach is a “done deal” – no public consultation whatsoever.”
Cllr Macpherson, having complained to BT about the matter, has now written to Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries. In his letter, Cllr Macpherson writes:
“My complaint is that – whatever the merits or otherwise for their retention or removal – BT has failed to undertake any consultation with locally elected representatives, the local authority and the community about these proposals.
“The proposed removal of the City Road phone box only came to light when I reported a repair required to BT. In the case of the Seafield Road box, it only came to light when BT mentioned it to the City Council in relation to the “Adopt a Kiosk” scheme.
“I am deeply concerned that BT is removing these boxes without any consultation whatsoever. I would ask that you request BT immediately review this bad practice and I look forward to your response.”
City Road, Phone Boxes, Seafield Road
Perth Road and more on phone boxes …
Yesterday, got word from the shops on the north side of Perth Road just east of the Sinderins junction that Scottish & Southern Electric (the Hydro) had dug up the pavement near Ritchie’s Lane to put in services for the new business and has abandoned the job half done – hole in pavement and fallen barricades.
Anyway, contacted Planning & Transportation in the City Council who have chased up SSE who say they’ll try to finish the job off this afternoon.
Further update on the BT phone boxes. In response to my latest e-mail, the following has arrived, proving their system is absolutely hopeless – I think this is my fourth reference number!
“Your e-mail has been received successfully and has been allocated the following unique reference number **. Please quote this reference number if there is a further need to contact us.
BT eCustomer Services”
Perth Road, Phone Boxes
AGM, phone boxes, bus services
It was my local party AGM last night and having got the real business out of the way promptly, we had an enjoyable social evening thereafter. A number of people commented how good the West End Christmas Lights Switch-On was and how nice the tree looks this year.
Some time ago (long before this blog started!) a number of West End residents asked me about why there is no bus service to the Gallacher Retail Park – for someone on foot its a fair trek from the City Centre. At that time, City Council officers opened discussions with the retail park owners about this. I’ve now asked for an update. With the success of this retail park and new stores opening (most recently Borders bookstore) it would be good to see buses running there.
Lastly, you’ll recall from earlier blogs that I have raised with BT several complaints recently about the state of some local phone boxes – Logie Aveue, Magdalen Place – and in Milnbank Road where the box has its door missing – see right.
The method of reporting to BT (a form on their website) is less than satisfactory and all you get back is an automated response.
Having received complaints that BT has done nothing to fix the door at Milnbank Road, I e-mailed them and he’s the latest exchange – makes your heart sink rather :
ME TO BT:
Can you update me on position re this?
Also, the phone box in Milnbank Road Dundee I reported to you weeks ago is STILL missing its door – can you advise ASAP.
BT BACK TO ME:
Subject: Re: URGENT : From Cllr Macpherson, Dundee City Council
Dear Mr Macpherson,
Thank you for your e-mail dated the 6th of December, 2006 regarding your recent contact with BT.
Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to you and for any inconvenience this may have caused.
In response to your e-mail, I would request you to kindly elaborate your query and if it pertains to your BT account, please forward your account number as well. This information is needed for security reasons.
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Now it all makes tremendous sense why Chris Brown released a 2 disc 45 song album in 2017 called Heartbreak on a Full Moon, and he released almost no music in 2018. He potentially was fulfilling his prior contractual obligations and waiting out the time on its agreement. The music industry is a funny monster at times and have been playing artists almost since day one. Decades after its formation, and seeing what happened to those before themselves, artist have wised up. Chris Brown is one of those artist who have wised up. Realizing his power not only as an artist and song writer but also as a marketeer, he demanded his worth.
Yesterday (January 4th), Chris finalized and sign a very lucrative deal with RCA. The deal gives him a great deal of creative power with his music. Importantly, it also give him a great deal of ownership in his own art. In fact, the deal Chris signed with RCA has made him one of the youngest musicians to ever own any of his own master recordings. This deal in its face value will set an example for many of the artist who will come after Chris Brown, encouraging them not to settle for less. CONGRATS are in order to Chris Brown!!! This is truly a landmark deal.
RCA Records released a statement stating, “This new deal structure between Brown and RCA Records, will undoubtedly enhance the release of new Chris Brown music, content, and much more throughout 2019 and beyond.”
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The Portuguese has opened up on the winning mentality he is trying to get across to his players at Spurs amid an ongoing injury crisis
Jose Mourinho has expressed his belief that Tottenham must be more “strategic than philosophical” in order to develop a winning habit and challenge the elite.
Mourinho was drafted in to replace Mauricio Pochettino in the Spurs hot seat back in November, after almost a year out of work following his sacking at Manchester United.
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However, since losing 2-0 at home to Chelsea on December 22, Tottenham have only picked up one win in five matches, and now find themselves 11 points adrift of the Champions League places.
Spurs produced an improved display when league leaders Liverpool arrived in north London last Saturday, but still succumbed to a 1-0 defeat in the absence of first-choice striker Harry Kane, who has been ruled out of action until April with a hamstring injury.
Hugo Lloris, Moussa Sissoko, Ben Davies and Tanguy Ndombele also missed the match, with Mourinho admitting that he is having to adopt a pragmatic approach at Tottenham in order to “build something”.
“It helps to [always] have the mentality to win the next match. It doesn’t matter which competition it is, how many injuries we have or what you’re trying to be,” he told the Evening Standard.
“To have imagination, to be creative, to try to build something that can make you believe you can win the match, just like we were convinced we could beat Liverpool, that’s the way you create a winning mentality.
“You go for every game and you try, even if you have to be more strategic than philosophical. Philosophical is when you follow a certain philosophy and everything is in place to follow it.
“But another thing is when you’re in trouble and you have to be pragmatic, creative and try to build something. That’s what we did against Liverpool.”
Speaking ahead of an FA Cup third-round replay against Middlesbrough on Tuesday night, Mourinho added: “You have to try to give the players that winning mentality even when you are in a difficult situation like we are. And that’s what we want to do. So [on Tuesday] we try again, we try to win again.
“I think by the reaction of the fans against Liverpool, they understood that the players did everything in that game and they didn’t get what they deserve. For a team that loses a match, it’s a very good feeling.”
The Portuguese tactician went on to recall how his side performed in a 3-2 victory over West Ham on November 23, which marked his first appearance in the Tottenham dugout.
“You can talk about philosophy or you can talk about trying to achieve the maximum you can,” Mourinho said. “And you can try to do both at the same time which is what I tried to do since day one.
“I had two days of work and I think against West Ham we showed by glimpses — without that dynamic and autonomism — what we wanted to create. In this moment, it’s difficult. So let’s fight.”
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In 2006, Amazon was an E-commerce site building out its own IT infrastructure in order to sell more books. Now, AWS and EC2 are well-known acronyms to system administrators and developers across the globe looking to the public cloud to build and deploy web-scale applications. But how exactly did a book seller become a large cloud vendor?
Amazon’s web services business was devised in order to cut data center costs – a feat accomplished largely through the use of Linux and open source software, said Chris Schlaeger, director of kernel and operating systems at Amazon Web Services in his keynote talk at LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe today in Dusseldorf.
Founder Jeff Bezos “quickly realized that in order to be successful in the online business, he needed a sophisticated IT infrastructure,” Schlaeger said. But that required expensive proprietary infrastructure with enough capacity to handle peak holiday demand. Meanwhile, most of the time the machines were idle. By building their infrastructure with open source software and charging other sellers to use their unused infrastructure, Amazon could cover the up front cost of data center development.
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Home NFL Game Recaps Recap: Packers @ Giants Week 13
Recap: Packers @ Giants Week 13
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During week 13, the Green Bay Packers defeated the New York Giants by a score of 31-13. Here is the full recap of the Packers @ Giants game.
Giant Mistakes
The Packers began by preventing the Giants from producing points on their opening possession. Even a neutral zone infraction by Za’Darius Smith on 3rd-and-6 could not stop Green Bay’s defense from getting off of the field. On the ensuing 3rd-and-1, the Giants’ offensive line made a mistake in pass-protection and allowed Kenny Clark to get into the backfield unblocked. As a result, Saquon Barkley could do nothing as he suffered a tackle for loss.
Green (Bay) Means Go
Unlike the Giants’ first drive, the Packers performed perfect execution. On their second play from scrimmage, both Aaron Jones and Danny Vitale were left in to pass-protect. This allowed Aaron Rodgers the time to find Allen Lazard on a deep crossing route. Lazard did a great job of getting separation and making a diving catch for the 43 yard gain. For his part, Rodgers had excellent placement on the football, putting it in a spot where it could not be intercepted.
Matt LaFleur has made a clear effort to get Davante Adams the football. It was evident early as Adams received an end-around rush attempt as well as 2 targets on 3 of Rodgers’ pass attempts on this drive. That includes the initial TD of the game. It was a great play call designed to get Adams open. Starting in the left slot, Adams ran a crossing route. There were also two other crossing routes, one going in each direction. This cleared out coverage from the middle and allowed Adams to be open at the goal-line. Rodgers hit his target for the 7-0 lead.
The Giants got the ball back and had an immediate 3rd-and-short. Only this time, the Giants faked the run and Daniel Jones rolled out to his right and found Kaden Smith for the 1st-down reception.
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Jones converted a few clutch plays on this drive. On top of that initial 3rd down, the Giants also converted a 4th-and-5 attempt. It was an aggressive call by Pat Shurmur as the Giants were already in FG range. Deciding that 3 points were not enough, Shurmer made the right call as Jones found Darius Slayton for the completion and the drive continued. Three plays later, Jones hit Sterling Shepard in the end zone for the tying score. Kevin King was in tight coverage on the play as Shepard fooled in on an inside fake. King took the bait and Shepard blew past him to get to the end zone and catch the TD to make it a 7-7 game. It was actually Shepard’s first TD on the perimeter, as every other time he scored in his career it was in the slot. That’s another dubious distinction for King.
Sterling Shepard just scored the first touchdown of his career while lined up on the perimeter. Was a phenomenal route while playing in the snow. #Giants
— Mike Tagliere (@MikeTagliereNFL) December 1, 2019
The offensive explosion would not end quite yet as the Packers produced a scoring drive in response. It was not a long possession as it only lasted 5 plays. Once again, a big Lazard reception marked the drive. Only this time, instead of setting up the score, Lazard found the end zone himself.
As was the case with the Adams TD, LaFleur is designing route combinations where the slot receiver is the primary read. On this particular Lazard play, Adams was lined up on the outside. As a result, Lazard was 1-on-1 in the slot and he took advantage on his deep dig route.
This marked the 3rd straight TD drive in this game as Green Bay reclaimed their lead at 14-7 just before the end of the 1st quarter.
2nd Frame, 2nd Chance
For the Giants, the first quarter went about as well as they could have hoped. The offense moved the ball rather well in the snowy New York conditions. Plus they were only down by one score against an explosive Packers offense.
Getting the ball back, the Giants were able to move to about midfield. After letting Sterling Shepard get loose on his TD catch, Kevin King found some redemption. He was covering Darius Slayton with help over the top. King took advantage and undercut the back shoulder route and came up with the INT.
In several instances this season, King demonstrated his short memory by coming up with key plays after allowing a score. Whether that is a key tackle or a turnover King continues to ball even after making mistakes. That mentality is needed to play cornerback in the NFL.
Big Kicks
The Packers succeeded in scoring 3 points off of the turnover. A Jimmy Graham reception set up the offense inside the Giants 35-yard line. A 2-yard run by Jamaal Williams followed by 2 incompletions forced Green Bay to settle for 3 points. It was not the easiest situation with the wind blowing and the snow falling. Mason Crosby was unaffected as he knocked the ball through the uprights for the 47-yard FG. As a result, it became a two-score game at 17-7.
However, the Giants were not going away. Coming off of the INT, Daniel Jones looked sharp. A key 3rd-down-and-6 pass connected with Darius Slayton and started the drive. Another 3rd-and-6 came up and similarly to the opening drive, a Packers defender went offside and brought up a 3rd-and-1. This time it was Preston Smith who committed the infraction but yet again Green Bay held them. However, the Giants decided to go for it on 4th-down and Jones scrambled to get the 1st-down.
One aspect that was impressive on the part of the rookie quarterback was his pocket movement. Throughout this game, the Packers pass-rush provided pressure and Jones responded well by avoiding defenders and finding different throwing lanes to complete passes. When leaving the pocket to scramble, the young QB would keep his eyes downfield looking for open receivers. This demonstrates incredible poise as well as physical ability. At times, Jones rolled out and made accurate throws on the run. Other times, Jones stepped up and threw bullets with a defender in his face. That happened on an out route throw to Sterling Shepard for a 1st-down.
The Packers are usually the team with extended possession. However, it was the Giants drive that took up over 9 minutes of the 2nd quarter. They got close to Green Bay’s end zone but were forced to settle for a FG. At halftime, the score was 17-10 for the Packers.
Slow in the Snow
The 3rd quarter was far less explosive for both offenses. The Packers began the frame with the football, but could only gain one 1st-down before punting. The chains moved on another big play from Allen Lazard, this one a 23-yard reception. It would actually be the final reception for Lazard in this game. His 3 catches combined for 103 yards and 1 TD.
For their part, the Giants did put together a FG drive and the only points of the 3rd quarter. This drive included one of the few times that Tramon Williams was beaten bad this year. Cody Latimer was covered by him 1-on-1 and took him deep for a 43 yards reception. This was the Giants’ longest play from scrimmage in the game. Even though Williams was step-for-step with Latimer, the receiver had inside leverage a had great body positioning to make the key 3rd-down grab. The Giants would not get any closer and had to settle for a 45-yard FG to make it a 17-13 game.
Commanding Lead
The opening play from scrimmage on Green Bay’s ensuing drive ended up being a significant turning point. Davante Adams caught a deep pass to kick start the possession. While running after the catch he fumbled the football. Fortunately for the Packers, it ended up out of bounds before any Giants player could recover it. It was the 2nd time in this contest that a Green Bay fumbled out of bounds. The outlook of this game might be entirely different if either ball was recovered by the defense.
The Packers moved the ball well but were also aided by some penalties. Either way, this drive took up over 7 minutes. Early in the 4th, Aaron Rodgers found Adams in the end zone for his 2nd TD of the day. Part of the reason why Lazard was not a factor in the final frame was the Giants coverage adjustments. After his 3 big plays in this game, Lazard began to see extra attention. That happened on this TD as Lazard drew multiple defenders with him leaving Adams 1-on-1 with the defender in a trailing position. The Packers thus took a 24-13 lead.
Take Over with Turnovers
Down by only 11 with most of a quarter to play, the Giants still had the game within their grasp. Even in the snowy conditions, Daniel Jones was doing an excellent job of leading the offense. This particular possession began perfectly. Saquon Barkley had a himself a decent game on the ground. He especially found success when taking the ball outside, like on his game-high 16-yard run that got the Giants in Packers territory.
However, 3 plays later, Daniel Jones threw arguably his worse pass of the game. On 3rd-down, Sterling Shepard was open on a deep cross route. Unfortunately for the home team, Jones sailed the ball over Shepard’s head and right into the arms of deep safety Darnel Savage.
1sts in the 4th
The Packers would use that takeaway to extend their lead. Getting down the goal-line, Aaron Rodgers found Marcedes Lewis for the 1-yard score. It was Lewis’ first TD of the year and only his 2nd catch in the last 6 games.
Consequently, the Giants got the ball back and were now in desperation mode down 31-13. On the opening play of the drive, Jones rolled out to avoid the Kenny Clark-led pressure and found Da’Mari Scott for the 1st-down reception. It was Scott’s 1st catch of the season and it came at a clutch time.
However, that momentum was immediately wiped away with another turnover. Trying to capitalize on 1-on-1 matchups Jones saw Darius Slayton taking Williams deep. However, unlike on the Latimer catch, Williams found better body positioning and came down his Green Bay’s 3rd INT of the game. Jones slightly overthrew Slayton, and Williams was there to catch it.
This effectively ended the game. The Giants forced the Packers to punt off of the turnover, so no further damage was incurred. However, the Giants could not add any points to the scoreboard. While they got close to the end zone, Jones threw a 4th-down pass to Sterling Shepard incomplete. It was a turnover on downs and the Packers had a 31-13 victory.
With the win, Green Bay moves to 9-3 while the Giants fall to 2-10.
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The B30-C has a single cutaway and select spruce top with highly figured, quilted-maple back and sides. The guitar has an inlaid abalone soundhole, tortoise binding, and herringbone purfling. For additional charge, a Fishman 4-band onboard EQ was added [optional].
According to Rico, “People have always known us as electric-guitar innovators, but they ought to take a look at what we’re doing with our acoustic guitars, too. They have power, and project with clarity and tonal balance across the whole instrument. Our handmade acoustic guitars live up to ever expectation.” The B-Series is no longer available. If you have a B-series acoustic, then you have a rare guitar.
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MAdisen says:
i own an acoustic b.c rich model A-400, do you know any thing about that?
I own an old – I think from the 70s – BC Rich BW1000 acoustic. I’ve read online that these were made in Japan, and later Korea.
It has a beautiful sound, and is my favorite guitar, sounding better, to my ear, than a new Martin, or Gibson.
That said, it is not a valuable guitar. It has a painted fretboard, for example.
It has a bow, or belly back, which I think may help with its sound. I suppose they used Bernie’s design, built it by hand, but used cheaper materials to keep the cost down.
I would love to try one of the new B-series.
I have a BC Rich B30. mine was built in the 70’s and is not a re-issue. i am having a difficult time finding info on value of the guitar. Mine is almost identical to the one in the picture accept that the back and sides are currly maple.
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The premiere of Discovery has been delayed from January to May 2017.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/09/14/s...-may-2017/
Bryan Fuller steps down as Showrunner but will remain Executive Producer.....
http://screenrant.com/star-trek-discover...an-fuller/
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^That just doesn't sound good...
(10-26-2016, 10:13 PM)thecuddlyninja Wrote: [ -> ] ^That just doesn't sound good...
I don't know how I feel..... it seemed obvious from the beginning that Fuller (a current hot Hollywood property) had too many BIG projects on the go (American Gods!!!!) and maybe this is why production on Discovery has been delayed by six months....
....not too familiar with the newly announced show runners, but hopefully Fuller will still retain creative control over the project....
Anyway, here is a better, more detailed article from Variety.....
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/bryan-fu...201901398/
For those who enjoy speculation on Fuller departure...
Oh no! The writer of Batman Forever and Batman & Robin is stepping into a creative role. And they mention tension between Fuller and the network which is not good. He seemed so excited about his Star Trek vision so for me, this is deflating news. I don't know much about the new showrunners, though. Hopefully it's great but the loss of Fuller, the production delay plus Akiva Goldsman in a creative role make me nervous.
Zarius
At least they don't use money in the 23rd century...so no Federation Credit Card
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(10-27-2016, 08:12 AM)Zarius Wrote: [ -> ] At least they don't use money in the 23rd century...so no Federation Credit Card
HAHAHAHA I understood that reference
Casting news has been slowly trickling in....
Michelle Yeoh was announced a week or so ago as a Starfleet Captain on a ship other than the Discovery.
Anthony Rapp has been cast as the previously announced gay character, a Science Officer.
And cool news, the amazing Doug Jones will be playing a new alien officer character.
Still no news on the main lead or specific plot details.
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/29/sta...y-cast-gay
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The American Commissioners to the Baron von Thulemeier, 21 January 1785
to the Baron von Thulemeier
Passy Janry. 21st. 1785
We have received the letter you did us the honour to write us on the 10th day of December last.
We supposed that the principles contained in the project of a Treaty, which we had the honour to transmit you, were a virtual answer to the requisition in the last lines of your letter of the eighteenth of October. By the second & third Articles, the citizens & subjects of each power may frequent all the coasts & countries of the other and reside & trade there in all sorts of produce, manufactures or merchandises paying no greater duties than the most favoured nation. By the fourth Article each party shall have a right to carry their own produce, manufactures & merchandise in their own vessels to any parts of the dominions of the other where it shall be lawful for all the subjects or citizens of that other party to purchase them; and thence to take the produce, manufactures and merchandise of that other, which all the said citizens or subjects shall in like manner be free to sell them, paying in both cases such duties, charges & fees only as are or shall be paid by the most favoured nation.
But if by a city for the commerce of exchange between the merchants of the two nations, be meant a port more free than any intended in the said second third or fourth Articles, that is to say a port absolutely free from all duties and charges, or a port, where merchandize may be landed & stored and afterwards reembarked & exported without paying any imposts or duties, we submit to your consideration whether it will not be for the interests of Prussia that both Emden & Stetten at least should be made such: however should it be thought otherwise and we be still desired to elect one of the two ports, we should ask for time to communicate the proposition to Congress and to receive their instructions thereon.
We have the honour to be / With great consideration / And esteem / Your Excellencys / Most obedient and / Most humble Servants
B Franklin
T Jefferson
FC in David Humphreys’ hand (PCC, No. 116, f. 145–147); internal address: “His Excellency / The Baron de Thulemeier / Exvoy Exty from His Prussian Majesty / at the Hague.”
Thulemeier, Friedrich Wilhelm, Baron von
“The American Commissioners to the Baron von Thulemeier, 21 January 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-16-02-0292. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 16, February 1784–March 1785, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Robert Karachuk, Hobson Woodward, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara B. Sikes, Sara Martin, Sara Georgini, Amanda A. Mathews, and James T. Connolly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012, pp. 491–492.]
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Listen to and purchase Glenna’s debut album “A Long Time Comin”.
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Bradford’s Corner’s lineup is loaded with talent and industry credentials. Glenna Switzer (vocals and keyboards) has been nominated for 11 Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards, taking home three trophies: 2011 Country Person of the Year, 2012 Keyboard Player of the Year, and 2017 Roots Album of the Year for Long Time Comin’. Mark Penner (vocals, guitar) has 25 years of experience performing with and recording Western Canadian artists. He has been nominated for six SCMA Awards, including Switzer’s 2017 Roots Album of the Year, Long Time Comin.’ Corinne Newton (vocals, guitar) is a two time SCMA Award nominee, where Chasing Butterflies was up for 2016 Roots Album of the Year. Rounding out the lineup is Earl Harder (drums), whose backbeat ensures that feet are always cutting rug on the dancefloor. He is a seasoned veteran, having performed and recorded with Switzer and Penner and has shared the same stage as Dwight Yoakam and Charlie Major.
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Hot Spring Bathing
Day Tour to Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon from Reykjavik
Join the adventure on this magical South Coast tour to the majestic icebergs of Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon, one of the most beautiful and dramatic spots in the whole of Iceland. On your journey to Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon, you will be privy to a plethora of amazing natural sights; countless waterfalls cascade majestically down towering cliff faces, meadows of quintessential farmland sprawl to the shores of the Atlantic, gentle rivers trickle and slice the landscape. From your seat, you’ll feel as though you’ve entered a magical fantasy land, a world that almost defies the imagination. On top of all that, you will traverse the black sand deserts of Skeiðarársandur and Sólheimasandur. You will also pass through the charming fishing village of Vik, see the waterfalls Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss and even the highly popular Vatnajökull National Park, with its giant of a glacier and unique flora and fauna. At Jökulsárlón, you will be left speechless and enthralled at the sight of diamond-blue icebergs bobbing and moving gracefully through the water, the glacier tall and mighty in the background. Many of you might recognise the glacier from such films as Tomb Raider and James Bond: Die Another Day! If not, you’ll certainly recognise the feeling of peace and tranquillity that overcomes you on first sight of the icebergs. The sound of the icebergs rubbing and scraping against one another creates a satisfying groan, made all the more perfect by happy seals playing together in the water. You can also check out the shoreline, where the icebergs move off into the sea, creating fantastic photo opportunities! This is a holiday location you will never want to forget! So what are you waiting for? Don’t delay in booking this fantastic day tour across the beautiful landscapes of South Iceland, finally arriving at the tour highlight, Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. Check availability by choosing a date!
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The Circle of Iceland in Winter 8 Day Guided Adventure
Join this small group guided minibus tour, travelling the full circle around Iceland to explore and experience the country's most iconic natural attractions. This tour is tailored to travellers who are looking to maximise their vacation time, as well as those looking to experience the full breadth of Iceland's unmatched diversity. From the snow-wreathed mountains of the Eastfjords to the rugged, dried lava fields of the Snæfellsnes Peninsula, there's no telling of the adventure that awaits. Throughout this eight-day winter journey, you will visit numerous towns and coastal villages, scale glaciers, discover charming lakes, marvel at cascading waterfalls, and so much more. There is also ample opportunity to add extra excursions to your trip during the booking process. You can go glacier hiking up Sólheimajökull, venture into a lava tube at Vatnshellir Cave, go horse riding, or partake in the incredible chance to go inside an authentic ice cave. You will spend time in many of Iceland's national parks and nature reserves, including UNESCO World Heritage site Þingvellir and Vatnajökull National Park. For landscape photographers and nature lovers, these regions offer a fantastic opportunity to revel in Iceland's landscape and geology. This is a guided tour, meaning there will be plenty of opportunities to soak up the Icelandic culture, ask questions and garner a true understanding of the geological makeup and natural phenomena that make the country so attractive. Every night will conclude with a possible display of the celestial phenomenon, the Northern Lights. Their appearance can never be guaranteed, but exploring the country in wintertime is one of your best chances of spotting them. You will also retire to the best available accommodation available throughout your entire stay. So don't delay—hop on this fantastic guided bus excursion and you too can experience the best of Iceland's natural delights! Check availability by choosing a date.
Sep. - Apr.
Sightseeing Flight from Skaftafell | Pilot Special
Hop on this flight for a scenic 15 minute excursion over the Icelandic countryside: If you can't decide where to go, let the pilot decide! This is perfect for anyone who has simply too many locations on your wishlist: These experts can help. You'll start by arriving at Skaftafell Airport near the nature reserve, within Vatnajökull National Park. There are plenty of beautiful sights to enjoy, and your pilot will tell you all about the landscape below and help you get the best possible photos. Skaftafell is one of the most beloved areas of Iceland, having come back from the brink of extinction. Looking down at the lush trees, full of hiking trails that snake their way toward the glacier crawling over the landscape just above, you'd never guess that it was once an abandoned wasteland. You might see Hvannadalshnjukur, the highest peak of Oraefajokull volcanic glacier and the tallest peak in Iceland. Or the pilot might take you inland and soar across the rocky highlands, with glacial tongues, the moody heaths ringed with moss and blooming with purple lupine during the warmer months. On this tour, you call the shots. You get to experience Iceland from above and enjoy the tremendous scenery and contrasts between ice and fire, and during the summer between green mountains and thirsty valleys. Take this perfect opportunity if you can't make up your mind on where to go: Just sit back, relax and enjoy the view as the pilot chooses the route. Check availability by choosing a date.
Airplane Tour of Skeidararsandur Black Sands & Glacier
See Iceland’s natural wonders from above during this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, as you soar over the black sands and glaciers of the East in an aeroplane. If you want the chance to see the stark beauty of this volcanic island from the air, this is the tour for you. Your adventure begins in Skaftafell National Park, where you will meet up with your pilot at Skaftafell Airport and board your aircraft. Then, get ready to take flight and begin your excursion to the sky. You'll be flying over Skeiðarárjökull, a glacier tongue of Vatnajökull which is the most massive glacier in Iceland. Its meltwater gives birth to several streams that cut across the black sand plains of Skeiðarársandur. On the western edge of the glacier, meltwaters blocked by the ice of Vatnajökull have pooled into a small lake, cradled by this natural dam and stunning to look at from a bird's point of view. Skeiðarársandur is the most extensive sand plain in the world, caused by glacial meltwater pouring over the landscape and washing away any vegetation. It is haunting in its desolation, but also undeniably beautiful. Nature tries to find a way, and as the sands turn to mud and clay closest to the coast, large flocks of skua birds nest there each year during the warm summer months. It is hard to believe that all those colourful glacial rivers meandering across the dark volcanic sandy plains are not just part of an enormous abstract painting. The textures of the bluish and sometimes green, yellow or milky glacial waters twisting and swirling over deep black ash, are nothing but incredible. You'll also enjoy the tree-lined hills of Skaftafell Nature Reserve in the area near the takeoff point. It is a great favourite of hikers and campers who visit to contemplate the peaceful quiet of the glacier or meditate in the shadow of Hvannadalshnjúkur, Iceland's highest peak. You can also expect to see some of the scenic South Coast during takeoff and return to Skaftafell, gleaming with black cliffs and sandy beaches, seabirds circling overhead. Get going on a flight across the sweeping sands and glistening glaciers of Iceland. Check availability by choosing a date.
Grimsvotn Eruption Site | Flightseeing Tour
Take this incredible flight to Grímsvötn, Iceland's most frequently erupting volcano. With incredible views of Vatnajökull National Park, including its glaciers, hot springs and craters, this tour is not to be missed. Your flight leaves from the scenic Skaftafell Nature Reserve and takes approximately 45 minutes, providing you with ample time to drink in the magnificence of Vatnajökull glacier and the surrounding area. As you fly, you will see endless expanses of ancient ice, the peaks of volcanoes and the shadows of plunging valleys. When you reach Grímsvötn, you can marvel over its impressive crater. Due to the heat of the earth beneath, it is often filled with a pool of shockingly blue water amongst the powder white snow, with steam rising from its hot springs that are stunningly visible from above. Grímsvötn is a combination of subglacial lakes beneath the surface of the ice. As fascinating as these are, especially to microbiologists and geologists, it is the shimmering surface of the glacier, and the crater of the volcano, which make this tour so spectacular. Rest assured that your experienced pilot will provide an informative commentary about these unusual features, and tell you about the most recent eruptions. When Grímsvötn goes off, it usually does so with quite a bang. The greater 1783 Laki eruption is historically known to have changed the climate of Europe, being responsible for the deaths of 25% of Icelanders at the time. The ash cloud from the most recent eruption in 2011 rose to be nearly 20 kilometres tall, and the force of it was stronger than the notorious, plane-grounding 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull. Flying above a volcano with such history and immense potential power is an exhilarating experience not to be missed. So do not hesitate, book this flight of a lifetime now. Check availability by choosing a date.
Nupsstadaskogur to Skaftafell | 5-Day Trekking Tour in the Highlands
Join us on one of the great classic treks of Iceland. The tour offers some of Iceland's most unique landscapes on a trail not frequented by many. The trail takes you on a remarkable journey along the canyons of Núpsá river, over the Skeiðarárjökull glacier and to the gorgeous Norðurdalur valley. The path will also take you across the beautiful Skaftafell Mountains, over to Morsárdalur glacier valley and into Skaftafell in Vatnajökull National Park. Your adventure begins early in Reykjavík where you will meet your guide at BSI Bus Terminal and be transported to the beautiful Núpsstaðaskógur Valley. Here, you will start your hike into the canyon toward the unique twin waterfalls Tvílitihylur. You will put up camp in the canyon for the night. On the second day, you will ascend out of the canyon and onto the plains of Sléttur. Some of today's highlights are epic rock walls that reach up to 200 meters, otherworldly lava fields and fantastic glacier views of Skeiðarárjökull glacier. Your third day is glacier crossing day, where you will strap on your crampons and traverse Skeiðarárjökull glacier - a 10 km long glacier walk. When you reach solid ground in the Skaftafell area of Vatnajökull National Park, you're in probably the most impressive camping spot of the whole country, with panoramic views over several outlet glaciers and glacial lagoons with floating icebergs. This is where you will set camp for the night. Day four takes you to the beautiful Arctic birch forest of Bæjarstaðaskógur, with amazing views on the way there over colourful rhyolite mountains, as well as Hvannadalshnúkur, Iceland's highest mountain. Finally, on day five, you will explore the Skaftafell area further before catching the bus back to Reykjavík. Book this all-inclusive trip now while spots are still available, and experience Icelandic nature in a unique, immersive way. Check availability by choosing a date.
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Hewlett Packard to crack down on fake printers
Since 2011, the UAE authorities have seized over two million counterfeit printer parts
Published: June 07, 2012 00:00 By Jay B. Hilotin, Chief Reporter
Sham: Fake laser print cartridges seized from a manufacturer of bogus printing items Image Credit:
DUBAI Sophisticated manufacturers of fake printing items who have targeted the UAE as their operations hub will face relentless enforcement action, an Hewlett Packard official has warned.
The warning came following a series of raids in recent months that yielded millions of knockoff printing products, some of which look strikingly similar to the real items.
Ernest Azzam, HP’s laser and enterprise solutions business manager, said: “Countries such as the UAE… function as transport hubs for counterfeiters due to their large ports and extensive transportation links.”
Since 2011, the UAE authorities have seized over two million counterfeit components destined for HP printers alone. “That’s a significant figure and indicates that counterfeiters have targeted the UAE as a major focus of their operations. As the seizures indicate, HP and law enforcement agents are fighting back successfully.”
The official has also urged users to report counterfeiting incidents.
HP uses a free software that allows users to validate whether an installed ink cardridge is genuine or not.
An industry report shows counterfeits account for eight per cent of revenues from sales of imaging supplies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Research firm Gartner estimates that EMEA’s printer, copier and multi-functional product market stood at €14.4 billion (Dh66 billion) in 2008. HP announced on June 3 the largest seizure of counterfeit HP printing supplies, blamed for causing leaks and being prone to failure.
The US-based company, which established its anti-counterfeiting programme in the region in 2006, has announced that its second enforcement action this year yielded 850,000 illicit printing items. The official said counterfeits undermine the trust customers have in the original printing supplies.
“What is particularly frustrating,” said Azzam, “is that purchasers often believe they’re receiving original quality, but instead find themselves with inferior fakes.”
Surprisingly, he said that while counterfeit printer items mostly originate from Asia-Pacific, there’s an increasing number also originating from the Middle East as well as Eastern European countries. “Infringers are often running legitimate business with original printier supplies, but in parallel, they also distribute and sell counterfeit products.”
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US journalist held for ‘sending footage to Israel’
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Hi-tech hospital coming up in Dubai Silicon Oasis
77,375 square metre Fakeeh University Hospital will be equipped to handle around 700,000 patients and 20,000 surgeries annually
Published: January 31, 2018 16:22 By Sharmila Dhal, Chief Reporter
The Fakeeh University Hospital will be spread over 77,735 square metres Image Credit: Supplied
Dubai: A massive hospital offering secondary and tertiary medical services is coming up in Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) to cater to the growing population in the community and its surrounding areas.
The Fakeeh University Hospital, a state-of-the-art hospital and medical university project being developed at DSO’s integrated free zone Technology Park, will be ready by next December, Wafic Faraj, CEO of Dubai-based Emitac Healthcare Solutions (EHS), which will help set up the hospital, told XPRESS.
He said, “The hospital by Saudi Arabia’s leading healthcare provider Fakeeh Care will have a capacity to provide care to 700,000 patients annually with an estimated 40,000 admissions and 20,000 surgical operations. The project comprises three hospital buildings with interconnecting bridges, a car park and utilities block, spanning a built-up area of around 77,375 square metres over two basements and six floors above ground level.”
Faraj said the academic hospital will consist of nuclear medicine, imaging, morgue, radiology, endoscopy and emergency units, besides a surgery suite and catheterisation laboratory, as well as dedicated pediatrics and gynaecology sections.
He said, “This is the first hospital project in the DSO neighbourhood aimed at catering to the family healthcare and patient-centred requirements of the growing community of residents here and surrounding areas. The facility will drive academic advancement and extend quality medical services to support the local healthcare sector.”
He said Emitac Healthcare Solutions, which provides advanced medical technology solutions, will be bringing in its solutions in technology design and integration, implementation, training at Fakeeh Hospital. He said, “The hospital will have critical care solutions from Philips, a neuro navigation system from Brainlab and a total patient room solution from Hill-Rom, the medical industry’s pioneer in hospital beds, patient lifts and non-invasive therapeutic products.”
Wafic Faraj, CEO of Dubai-based Emitac Healthcare Solutions (EHS) Image Credit: Supplied
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BY CULLEN BIRD
BETTER GRADES FOR FARMERS
Research Shows Machine’s value in fusarium fight
A seed-sorting machine that can analyze grain kernels on a chemical level is opening new processing possibilities for Canadian grain farmers.
Swedish company BoMill has created the TriQ, a seed-sorter that uses near-infrared transmission (NIT) to measure the amount of crude protein in grain samples on a kernel-by-kernel basis. This sets BoMill’s machine apart from optical sorters, which analyze the outer colour of a grain sample.
The TriQ can sort grain into three fractions based on its protein content, at a rate of about three tonnes of grain an hour.
The University of Saskatchewan, in collaboration with the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi), bought the first TriQ sorter in Canada for a four-year research project at the feed facility in North Battleford, SK. Now into its final year, the project focuses on applications of the TriQ in salvaging grain from fusarium-infested samples.
Using the TriQ’s capabilities could mean a big difference for grain farmers whose fields are infested with fusarium, a fungus that attacks grain heads and leaves shrivelled, often toxic kernels. Since fusarium-damaged kernels have low protein content, the TriQ can tell the difference between good kernels and damaged ones.
“This year, fusarium’s been a killer,” said Rex Newkirk, vice-president of research and innovation at Cigi.
The Canadian Grain Commission recommends that harvested wheat at the elevator containing more than four per cent fusarium-damaged kernels be graded as unusable salvage because of the toxins that fusarium leaves behind. Fusarium policy differs between provinces, and Alberta has a zero-tolerance policy in seed for planting.
“We’ve taken several tonnes of each of the contaminated materials that have been graded salvage in these cases, and salvaged considerable amounts of grain to be resold,” said Tom Scott, research chair in feed processing at the University of Saskatchewan and principal investigator for the research project.
Scott added that with the TriQ it is possible to raise 70 to 80 per cent of a salvage-grade sample to grade No. 2, if not grade No. 1.
The TriQ sorts grain inside a large, spinning steel drum. Grain is poured into the drum via an auger. Centrifugal force pushes kernels into holes drilled into the inner surface of the drum. Those kernels are carried past an NIT sensor, which make rapid predictions of each kernel’s chemical profile at a rate of 24,000 kernels per second. Their protein content determined, the kernels are then ejected into three different tubes and carried out of the machine.
The TriQ can sort wheat, durum and barley, though each grain type requires a different custom-drilled drum.
Currently, the TriQ has been calibrated to measure crude protein, but the technology could feasibly be extended to measure other chemical properties, like starch, said Mary-Lou Swift, a feed quality research scientist at Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development.
The potential for the new technology is promising, but there might be cost-benefit issues, said Cam Dahl, president of Cereals Canada. Each unit costs around $350,000.
The units can run remotely and continuously, but at three tonnes per hour, scale of output may still be a problem.
However, Dahl said all technology starts that way, and costs are eventually driven down.
Newkirk thinks there could be immediate use for the TriQ in Canada.
“I can see this going into seed-cleaning plants right away,” he said. “It’s a significant financial investment, but the math works.”
Scott echoed Newkirk’s optimism.
“It’s starting to make grain an individual kernel commodity. And we’ve never, ever viewed grain as that before,” he said.
“Now you should be able to take any source of grain and develop it and produce very distinct fractions for different use, consistently.”
CROP DATA REPORTING PROJECT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED
A price transparency initiative meant to provide accurate and timely data for the Canadian grain market is officially underway, following an announcement at FarmTech Jan. 28 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Minister Gerry Ritz.
The tool, dubbed Price & Data Quotes (PDQ), will provide daily information on cash grain prices, as well as data on grain movement and trade (www.pdqinfo.ca).
The project was developed by the Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) and will be led by grain marketing consultant agency FARMCo. Up to $743,000 in project funds will come from AAFC’s AgriRisk Initiatives program.
“We saw this project as an opportunity to take a leadership role in improving price transparency in grain markets in Canada,” said Kent Erickson, AWC chairman. “We see the PDQ project as strategic and necessary for farmers to compete on the international stage.”
PDQ is meant to fill the information gap farmers and grain companies face now that the Canadian Wheat Board is no longer the single marketer for western Canadian grain. Unlike U.S. farmers, who have had to market their grain as basis traders for decades, Canadian grain farmers have only had a few years to learn about their new marketing opportunities.
Also unlike the U.S., Canada does not have a regularly updated source of price benchmark information for its own farmers.
Most of the data that stakeholders need is already out there, but it’s scattered and often out of date, said Russ Crawford, FARMCo vice-president.
“Price information is only good if it’s current,” Crawford said. “If you’re marketing something, you need to know what the price is right now. And if the prices that you’re seeing in the marketplace are two to three weeks old, they’re basically irrelevant for that purpose.”
Apart from data collected from organizations like Statistics Canada and the Canadian Grain Commission, the project will depend on voluntary disclosure by grain companies. To protect sensitive commercial information, pricing won’t be made available on an individual basis, Crawford said.
“The idea would be to normalize those prices into common grades and qualities, to create averages over areas and zones rather than individual locations,” he said.
The ultimate goal for the project is that it would be self-sustaining, through subscription and advertising.
The project is estimated to take 18 months. Once complete, it will likely go to public tender for a third party to operate, according to John De Pape, FARMCo president.
“This is meant to provide a resource not just to farmers, but also people who work with farmers,” he said.
NEW GRAINS ANSWER MARKET CALL
THE U.K. baking company Warburtons has selected and registered a new Hard Red Spring Wheat variety, AAC W1876, made by wheat breeders Ron DePauw and Richard Cuthbert of the Semiarid Prairie Agricultural Research Centre in Swift Current, SK. Meanwhile, Canada Malting Company is increasing its contracted acreage for Bentley malt, a sign of its good yield and consistency.
Both varieties are being commercially developed by Canterra Seeds. The Hard Red Spring Wheat was tested by Warburtons in both 2011 and 2012 and is similar in nature to AC Carberry. It stood out because of how well it worked in Warburtons’ baking process, said Adam Dyck, program manager at Warburtons Canada.
“It will take our quality up a notch,” he said. “This will go into our normal grist.”
Warburtons sponsored the new wheat through the registration process, and then partnered with Canterra to make it commercially viable for 2015.
“That’s allowed us to go from essentially a few kilograms of seed to many, many metric tonnes of product to be commercialized for spring 2015 planting,” said Brent Derkatch, director of operations and business development at Canterra.
“It’s very exciting. It’s always nice when we can respond to a market demand,” Cuthbert said.
The demand will rise for barley, as well, since Canada Malting Company has decided to grow its Bentley production to more than 40,000 acres.
Bentley was developed in 1996, and wound its way through the variety registration process before being registered in 2008, said Patricia Juskiw, a barley breeder who worked on Bentley for years. Her work followed Manuel Cortez’s initial crossings at the Lacombe Field Crop Development Centre.
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The Best Sennheiser Headphones
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Before we get into the best Sennheiser headphones, grab a snack, sit back and relax because..
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What I will bring you in this article
Notable companies
Now without further ado, let’s get rolling!!
Ah, Sennheiser. For me this is the biggest name in headphones. Sony, Beyerdynamic, HIFIMAN, Audeze, Grado, Shure, V-Moda, Samson, Philips, Oppo, Focal, Audio Technica, and AKG are all brands that I have come to really respect, but there is something about that Sennheiser name. What is it exactly? I’m not really sure myself, but when I think of the name, I think quality, transparency, and honesty more so than any other company.
It may be the fact that they rarely ever put out a bad product. In fact there’s really only been a few. The HD201 comes to mind as a complete dud, but other than that there are really no weak links. Couple that with them being the second oldest company in producing headphones (Beyerdynamic being the oldest), you can see why what they’re doing is so valuable. They have a long track record of making excellent products, and are responsible for the first ever open backed headphone!
Notable companies and their founding dates
Philips – 1891, but didn’t start offering headphones until recently. If you know the exact year, please let me know because I cannot find it online. 🙂
Beyerdynamic – 1924, and at the end of the 1930’s they developed the first pair of dynamic headphones.
Shure – 1925, but didn’t start offering around ear headphones until 2009.
Sennheiser – 1945. In 1968, they released the world’s first open headphones. This drastically altered the market, as they were able to cater to the demographic of people that wanted a more natural sound.
Sony – 1946
AKG – 1947
Grado – 1953, but didn’t offer headphones until 1991 which was 1 year after Joseph Grado retired, selling the company to his nephew John.
Audio Technica – 1962
Focal – 1979
Samson – 1986
Oppo – 2001
V-Moda – 2004
HIFIMAN – 2005
Audeze – 2008
If you have any more companies you would like me to add, also let me know!
The goal today is to narrow down some of Sennheisers best, and leave out the rest. I’m not big on exhaustive lists here at Home Studio Basics. One exception is The best audiophile headphones, as it’s necessary to include a longer list because of the more general nature of that article. Here, we are narrowing down Sennheiser cans specifically, so we can kind of omit models that don’t quite make the cut.
That said, these are definitively the best out of the bunch as far as I’m concerned. Because the times are always changing, expect this to be updated as new models come out, and/or I add to and take away. I want articles like these to always be relevant, so keep checking back for future revisions!
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Type: Open back.
Fit: Circumaural (over ear).
Impedance: 300 ohms. What is Headphone Impedance?
Sensitivity: 97 dB/mW. What is Sensitivity in Headphones?
Frequency response: 12Hz – 39000 kHz.
Material: Metal grilles, carbon fiber, velour ear pads, plastic.
Color: Speckled blue finish, black.
It’s hard to place anything above the HD600, in the Sennheiser category or otherwise. This headphone represents everything you could ever want or need, and it does so at a fair price. The important thing to remember is that above this price range, the law of diminishing returns will set in. I believe the 600 provides about 95% of what you’re missing in junk headphones, but if you want to experience that last 5%, you’ll pay for it dearly. The unfortunate part about high end audiophile cans is that the price is almost never justified when you get to a certain amount. I would place this number at around $600. Spend any more than that, and the increase in sound quality will only get smaller and smaller.
Luckily for you, I’m here to set the record straight. If you want to hear what you’ve been missing out on, the HD600 will show you in spades. All you’ll need is a good amp/DAC combo to pair up! How to choose a Headphone Amp!
Things to be aware of
The chord feels a bit cheap, but it’s not a deal breaker.
The headphones clamp very hard at first, which is pretty unanimous. They will loosen up over time, but to speed up the process you’ll need to stretch them over a few books if you’re impatient.
All parts are user replaceable, which adds to their value.
Be careful stretching them, as the headband has been known to snap under high pressure.
My Video Review
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Sennheiser HD 800/800S
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Fit: Circumaural (Over-ear).
Impedance: 300 Ohm. What is Headphone Impedance?
Frequency response: 6–51,000 Hz (-10 dB); 14–44,100 Hz (-3 dB).
Material: Alcantara, stainless steel, teflon, velour.
Headband: Metal.
Color: Black and Grey.
The HD800 is one of the more well known “expensive” headphones out there, as even some of the most casual consumers will know about it in some capacity. The great thing about these is that they will deliver to you 100% of the audiophile experience at about a grand. What’s even more, like Metal571 said in part 2 of his review (below), if you can get them for under about $700 it’s basically a steal. I know I said that above $600 a headphone is rarely worth the price. I think the HD800 is one of those exceptions. The 800S will run you a bit more, but you could always just buy these and EQ that treble spike down. The 800 is known for it’s excellent Soundstage, perhaps the best in the business, and overall provides you with an incredibly natural (if somewhat bright) overall sound. What is Soundstage?
The reason they are placed second behind the 600’s is that out of the box you will mostly likely want to EQ them in some form. The 600’s sound just about perfect as is, and it’s one of the main reasons why I always recommend them in nearly all circumstances.
Differences between the 800 & 800S
The only flaw in an otherwise perfect headphone was that 6k peak that everyone complained about in the original. With the 800S, Sennheiser listened to user feedback and dampened down the treble, which renders them just about flawless. They also changed the color to all black, which I personally like but your mileage may vary.
1. The 6k peak.
Credit to my boy @Metal571. Check him out on Twitter!
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Sennheiser HD558/598
Impedance: 50 ohms. What is Headphone Impedance?
Frequency response: 15 – 28,000 Hz.
Sensitivity: 112dB. What is Sensitivity in Headphones?
Material: Plastic, Velour.
Cable Detachable: Yes.
Another easy recommendation. If you’re wondering what an audiophile headphone sounds like, but don’t have the money to drop on a more expensive model, the 558 will get you most of the way there. These have an incredibly natural sound as well, but I find that with the foam/rubber strip mod it’s almost too relaxed for my tastes. Luckily you can easily take these apart and get to where the driver is, taking off the strips that kind of tame the overall signature down. Without these strips in place, the sound opens up considerably, rendering them much more exciting, intense, and lifelike. Now does that defeat the purpose of these? Not really. It adds a touch of bass, while also making them even more revealing. If you ask most people they will tell you the same.
How do the 598’s compare?
Overall, the sound of the 558 is just about the same as the 598 without the strips. IN fact, the overall sound without them is pretty similar, so I wouldn’t fork out the money for the 598 at this juncture. The 558 will do you just fine.
They are very lightweight, but don’t feel cheap per se.
Sub bass is lacking quite a bit. I wouldn’t buy these if you’re specifically looking for a hip-hop can, but they can work without the strips to nice effect.
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Type: Open back, dynamic.
Fit: Circumaural.
Impedance: 300 Ohm.
Frequency Response: 12Hz – 38.5kHz.
Material: Plastic, velour, some metal.
Color: Ivory, Brown.
The HD599’s are an updated version of the 598’s, with a bit better bass extension but a very similar overall sound to the HD598. They’re worth a look simply because they improve upon a few things while not regressing in anything really. The important thing to keep in mind though is that the differences between the 599 and 598 are about as negligible as the differences between the 558 and 598. Basically that means don’t stress over it. If you’re strapped for cash, I’m always going to recommend the 558 and tell you to take the rubber strips out because you’re getting basically the same sound out of them as you would with a 598.
They don’t have numbered adjustments on the side.
They sound very similar to an HD598.
All credit to @Metal571. Check him out on twitter!
Type: Open back. Closed back vs. Open back headphones.
Frequency response: 12 – 39000 Hz.
Material: OFC copper (kevlar reinforced), velour ear pads.
Color: Grey and Black metal flake finish.
The HD650 is very similar to the 600, but with less bass roll of and an overall warmer sound signature. So depending on the kind of sound you’re after, you may prefer this over the 600’s more sterile sound. Also, there’s less treble energy here, rendering them a fair amount dark. If the accused veil was ever correct, it’s probably the most apparent here. What is the Sennheiser Veil?
They may lull you to sleep they’re so relaxed.
They have less bass roll off than an HD600.
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Type: Open back, dynamic driver. What is a headphone driver?
Frequency Range: 10Hz – 42kHz.
Impedance: 150 Ohms.
Sensitivity: 105dB.
Max input power: Not specified.
Total Harmonic Distortion: <0.03%.
Connectors: 1/4″ stereo plug (straight).
Cable length: 9.8′ (3m).
Weight: 9.6 oz (272 g) (without cable).
The HD700 continues in the vein of the 800, but as the evvvilllll twin brother! HEH HEH HEH. It’s like Mario vs. Wario. The HD700’s are super articulate as well, but with a bit of a brighter treble overall. The graphs bear a striking resemblance to one another, and the HD700’s can be thought of as a cheaper alternative if you want to get your feet wet investing in a great Sennheiser can that’s not as amp picky as an 800. It’s 150 Ohm impedance will still require an amp of some sort to power optimally, but you’re not going to have to labor over which you choose.
One of the more interesting things about the 700 is that they are very polarizing. People either love or hate it, but I’m not sure entirely why. There’s nothing groundbreaking about it. It’s got a relatively flat frequency response, a super articulate bass, excellent mid-range, and bright treble. Nothing out of the ordinary, but people make a huge deal about the treble and I can’t figure out what the issue really is. The only thing that stands out is the mid-range does tend to bottom out a bit quicker after 1k, but that’s it. The sound as a whole is fantastic, and definitely worthy of a top spot in this article.
Could be a bit bright for some.
Video Review!
Credit to The Gaming Audiophile!
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Type: Closed back, dynamic.
Impedance: 54 Ohm.
Max input power: 500mW.
Connectors: 3.5mm with 1/4″ adapter
Cable Length: 3.3′ (1m) (Coiled), 10′ (3m) (Stretched)
The HD380 is the more exciting version of the 280, with more Soundstage, better padding/comfort, a bass and sub-bass that digs deeper and has better overall quality, a removable cable, and better instrument separation and a better overall sense of refinement. So why even include the 280’s in this list? Because I still think they are an important headphone in the line as far as mixing/mastering goes. If you disagree, let me know!
I would also say that the 280’s will do a bit better as a reference headphone, while the 380’s are more for pure enjoyment being a V-shaped kind of can.
They have a lot of plastic, but still have a good build.
They are meant to be used in studio, and don’t work well as a portable headphone.
Credit to @Metal571. Check him out on twitter!
Type: Closed Back.
Impedance: 64 Ohm. What is Headphone Impedance?
Frequency response: 8 – 25,000 Hz.
Material: Plastic, Faux Leather.
I had these puppies for awhile, and while I don’t particularly like them, I respect them for what they are. This is not a headphone meant for enjoyment. It’s a reference can that does it’s job excellently. Comfort and build are both great, but they will clamp rather hard at first. That said, these will likely always be on a short list for best entry level mixing/mastering in the closed back because of their ability to give you a blank stare, much like an HD600. In fact everything about these cans is fantastic except for one thing, which I will mention now:
1. The mid-bass is somewhat sucked out, which is really the only flaw in an otherwise great can. This is what keeps them from being perfect, because it kind of renders them lifeless at times.
Sennheiser HD25 Professional
Ratings/Price
Old Model – Amazon
New Model – Amazon
Differences between the old and new outlined below.
Color: Black with some Red.
Frequency Response: 16Hz-22kHz.
Type: Closed back. Closed back vs. Open back headphones.
Fit: Supra-aural (On-ear).
Plug: 3.5/6.35mm (1/4″) stereo.
Load Rating: 200 mW.
The HD25 is a legendary professional DJ headphone that has stood the test of time remarkably well. I would consider this a headphone for pure musical bliss, as it provides an intense, exciting, and crisp overall sound. Build wise, these are absolutely remarkable, and are probably the single most durable headphone I’ve ever owned. In fact, I did a stress test video and really put them through hell, and they still came out on top! More on that in the official review. 🙂
These will fatigue you after awhile, as the sound is very in your face.
Comfort isn’t the greatest.
My Video Review!
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Well I hope I haven’t overwhelmed you, but these are the headphones you should consider if shopping for a Sennheiser can specifically. So what do I recommend? Of course the HD600, as it represents everything a headphone should be. It has great articulation, instrument separation, and a natural sound with great Timbre. What is Timbre? It’s the audiophile standard, and has stood the test of time since 1997. How many headphones have remained relevant for that long? The fact that a 20+ year old headphone can remain not only relevant, but miles ahead of everything else, in such an ever changing, Attention deficit disorder market is a true testament to it’s quality and longevity.
Well that’s about it for today my friend! I hope you’ve enjoyed this article on the best Sennheiser headphones.
Questions? Comments? Requests? Did I miss the mark on something? Have a headphone you would like me to consider? One that should be omitted? Please let me know down below or Contact me!!
Which of these tickles your pickle? What about the HD600? I would love to hear from you. Until next time..
All the best and God bless,
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A Cacophony of Collective Nouns
Published by Joseph Hernandez
A pride of lions. A school of fish. A flamboyance of flamingos — yep.
I had a bee in my bonnet today (not a hive of them, mind you) about collective nouns. I love them. They’re poetic, they’re nonsensical, they’re fun to think about.
A shrewdness of apes. A parliament of owls or — alternatively, if you’re feeling more sinister than magisterial — a looming of them. A prickle (!) of hedgehogs (say hiya to my son, Hedgewig).
I can’t tell you why I’ve been thinking about collective nouns. I’ve been drowning in words lately, for all numbers of reasons, and so it was only a matter of time before I dove into collective nouns. According to this oldish article via Medium, there’s not really an answer as to where they come from, collective nouns just… are. Which is frustratingly vague! Apparently, there’s a paradox between actual popular usage and assumed common usage — aka, a text claims the thing is a thing, so it is — between how these things come to be. Linguists don’t quite know how to ascertain the origin, or if the thing — say, a murder of crows or a destruction of wild cats — will continue to be that thing down the line. It’s all poetry and chaos.
If you’re into other collective nouns, this Guardian piece features a bit of history behind some fun ones.
A zeal of zebras. A raft of otters. A cackle of hyenas. A bloat of hippos.
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On Citrus Season
Growing up, calamansi was my favorite little fruit. My mom used in so many Pinoy dishes — in our house, there was always a bit of calamansi steeped in some soy sauce, or sprinkled over garlic rice. The fruit was so sweet, the pith so tart and slightly bitter. When we didn’t buy it from the Filipino grocery store, my mom would just pluck some kumquat from our backyard tree — deceptively similar but different. It didn’t matter; I loved how either would explode with electricity upon biting into them. The kumquat tree didn’t fruit year-round, but eventually it would and I’d happily grab the little fork-caged fruit picker and collect some of the thumb-sized, oblong fruits. We even had tangerines, and a lemon tree, which only ever produced one sad lemon in the entire decade we lived in that house.
Scent is a time machine. Every time I smell a kumquat or a calamansi, a part of me returns to that bitter little house on Pepperwood, where I played with my brothers outside and talked to clouds, running under the citrus trees and squishing fallen suns beneath my feet. During grayer times — El Nino weather, getting grounded, puberty — I was confined to the dull little rooms, separated from my beloved tree, the outdoors, the sky. There, I wrote plaintive little stories about being a lonely little boy who liked other boys, or others about a lonely little boy who wanted to be loved by his dad on the other side of the wall. Zest and pith — they are inextricably linked in my mind.
But mostly, I remember the zest. I especially loved squeezing the little hearts of fruits between one finger at a time, my sharp, feral fingernails capturing a bit of sunshine under the claws. Later, I would sniff my hands to relieve myself of sadness. When it was citrus season — the only discernible season in Orange County — our kitchen housed sunshine, but that only meant the shadows elsewhere were cast in sharper relief.
I haven’t lived in California for 15 years, and I still think about those citrust trees, especially when New York’s grey, dishwater days of winter creep in. Luckily, I now have a slowly growing sweet little thing of a calamansi tree inching skyward in my bedroom; I’ve named her Clementine. The morning light is hers, and I can’t wait to taste it.
*Not my calamansi tree. Photo by Paul Hanaoka via Unsplash
Dispatch | 11.17.19
Raise your hand if you’re tired. That seems to be the current collective, universal state of things. Tiredness knows no creed, no political party, no religion. Tiredness is in the water, it runs to our marrow. And it shows no signs of abating.
As the world turns increasingly dark — from here in the U.S. to abroad (see Turkey, Hong Kong, Bolivia etc. etc. et al) — it’s hard to find relief from the news cycle. The impeachment hearings are must-see TV and social media is constantly alight; who even knows where we stand on Brexit? Hilarious memes and astrology posts bidding us to look into ourselves and the stars are barely a balm, but there’s so much tiredness to overcome.
And then there’s the domestic front! The dishes pile up, a mountain of laundry is never quite tackled, and my research/writing/pitching to-do lists get longer. I know it’s something of a cliche, but “adulting” is so much.
The reality is, there are some days I can’t bring myself out of bed, but please allow me a humble brag moment: When it comes to waking up, that particular morning act was made even harder when Ian splurged on great sheets, transforming our bed into a true refuge. And! The best gift we gave to ourselves this year was a robot vacuum — at least we never have to worry about our floors. I know, I know, capitalism. But! Good sheets, automated vacuuming, these things have been a boon for my mental clarity.
Also, the things below. Take care of yourselves out there.
I devoured Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions in a day. I was dumbstruck by the magical thinking, the childlike wonder of each microscopic poem.
“Why is it so hard, the sweetness of the heart of the cherry?
Is it because it must die or because it must carry on?”
I’ve been listening to Wild Words, by Nicole Gulotta, author of Eat This Poem, which has helped me a bit in terms of figuring out my writing headspace.
Ever since the finale episode of this season’s Great British Baking Show, I’ve been wanting to bake a chocolate cake. Well, I finally got around to it, baking Nigella Lawson’s chocolate raspberry pudding cake, from her cookbook How to Eat, which I found years ago on a stoop and never cooked out of. Not my first Nigella recipe, but frankly, it took me too long to flip through this book. Ian, on the other hand, has been cooking from another Brit’s tome, Nigel Slater’s Eat, which is a dream for any casual cook. We’ve had the book for a couple of years, too, and have rediscovered its simple charms. Also in our rotation, Cook’s Illustrated The Complete Cooking for Two — we’ve saved so much on food waste, alone.
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We Should All Be Forest Bathing
Lately, I’ve spent many weekend mornings wandering passed towering steel tracks and shuttered auto shops on the way to Highland Park.
Situated on the border of Queens and Brooklyn, Google Maps reveals its a large island of green surrounded by cemeteries of all kinds. Jewish, Christian, non-denominational. It’s not quite an escape from the city — the sounds of the Jackie Robinson expressway and nearby church bells commingle with those of the birds, insects, and wind in the trees — but walking the leaf-strewn paths allows me to ponder and process the current state of things. Wiki tells me that Highland Park is one of the tallest points in Brooklyn (makes sense, given the name), but more importantly, it’s a verdant escape from its humming urban surroundings. For me, it’s the perfect place to practice the art and science of forest bathing.
Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr. Qing Li
What is forest bathing?
I first heard about “forest bathing,” or shinrin-yoku in Japanese, from a podcast Hurry Slowly a couple of years ago. The idea is that by disconnecting from modern life — our phones, social media, the urban grind — for a set time in the week can vastly improve one’s mental and physical health. A recent article in Outside magazine reiterated many of the benefits of the increasingly studied field of forest medicine, while the tome, Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr. Qing Li, a Japanese doctor who helped jump-start the research years ago, confirms a lot of these facts. Basically, being in nature sets off positive biological responses in our bodies, namely a greater sense of calm and peace, which translates to lower blood pressure and heart rate; boosts in our immunity responses; even reduction of stress hormones. TL;DR: Trees are magical and good for us.
The former reservoir at Highland Park
How do you forest bathe?
And you don’t necessarily need a full, proper forest to benefit from forest bathing. A quiet park, a beach, a river, will all do — the entire point is to disconnect in nature, even for a little while. Even better? All the studies show you only need two hours spread out over a week to feel the benefits of a forest bathing session.
When we lived in Chicago, I was a big booster for the nature trail that ran near our neighborhood, along the North Branch of the Chicago River. About 3 miles in length, the trail ran north through a few parks and neighborhoods, home to ducklings and goslings in the spring time, Northwestern University rowers in the summer, and the odd heron here or there come fall. It was always my escape on Sundays, when I would walk the trail’s length while Ian was at work — it was a date I gave myself, weekly, permission to get out and breathe and think without the distraction and dread of a to-do list.
These days, I’ve traded the River for a park trail around the former Ridgewood reservoir. Parking myself on a concrete slab overlooking the water, with nothing before me but earth and sky — no headphones, podcasts, or other people’s voices — allows me an opportunity to really breathe. To take stock, to be kind to myself. To wonder.
I haven’t really had a chance to think about being laid off, at least, emotionally. I’m privileged enough to be booked and busy — with travel, with work, with coffee and cocktail meetings — but a full calendar has prevented me from reflecting about who I am without a job and who I want to be going forward.
Setting aside time every week to walk the 30 or so minutes to that concrete slab, where I journal, meditate, and write, is a gift to myself when I am buried under emails and tweets and deadlines. I’m still learning lessons from this city — can a homie ever just, like, chill for a sec? — but whenever I finally embrace my fullest, most anxious self, the city suddenly exhales, as if on my behalf. It decides to let up—like it sent out a some universal bat signal telling everyone to leave me the fuck alone. A quiet miracle, these moments, as the city gives me all the space I need to find my breath again. And then I exhale, too, and wait for the next day.
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WTF is Stock & Flow: On creating a daily blogging practice
So I kinda decided, arbitrarily, to blog everyday. I’m in a new life season — see last post — which means I’ve been more or less trying on new hats and seeing what fits; daily blogging feels like a worthy exercise to blow away some mental cobwebs.
I haven’t blogged regularly in, well, ever. For the last decade, give or take a couple of months, I’ve always written or edited for another publication, so personal blogging just felt indulgent. Unnecessary. Now I question that mindset: What if I had also been producing my own work all along? Where would I be as a writer?
Oh, I was always writing for myself, sure. Snippets of a journal entry here, a longer Facebook update or a tweet or a longer-than-advised Instagram caption. The quick dopamine hit of “publishing” that “content” was enough to keep me away from here, my platform (or whatever this website is). And then, last week or so, I came across author-illustrator Austin Kleon’s blog post about daily blogging, where he cites Robin Sloan’s adaptation of the economic ideas of flow and stock. Applied to blogging, Kleon/Sloan explain the idea thusly:
The idea started out from my anxiety about “stock and flow.” As Robin Sloan wrote seven years ago: flow is the feed (“It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that reminds people you exist.”) and stock is the durable stuff (“It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time.”)
I’d like to take that idea further, as I think there’s a key component missing between stock and flow in this definition: One gives you the impression you’re doing something, while the other is the long-game, which feels abstractly far-off. As we increasingly become a society of information and quick hits, in a few short years, we’ve already been conditioned towards leading more unexamined lives, in the name of flow. When I started to process these ideas, I had to take a breath. A professional media maker, even I was tricked into a mindless state in lieu of actual creativity.
There’s another side to this. As a journalist, I think about platform a lot, and how some of the current crisis in the journalism industry can be traced to trusting so much of distribution to third-party platforms (Facebook, Twitter) versus establishing a foundation and homebase (their own websites, for instance). Of course, this is fully a whole other essay, that’s still being explored by minds better than my own, but the general idea is that outsourcing links and content to social platforms gave those outlets power, and how discoursed was shaped. I’m all for the democratization of the internet, but algorithms have done much to shape stock/flow in terms of media literacy
De-platforming can affect indie writers and civilians, too, especially in the context of stock/flow: How many of our ideas are we just sending out into the social media ether, never to return to them, because we are so addicted to just sharing what comes across our mind, in that moment? What is lost when we no longer consider what we published? Are we just sharing fleeting moments, or are we giving up potential moments for further self-examination for the sake of a like or an emoji? “Flow is ephemeral, while stock sticks around,” writes Sloan. What are we putting stock in?
I had lunch with a long-time friend this week who is going through her own transition phase. We exchanged some thoughts about media, working independently, and what’s next; she’s going off to travel for three months, and god, do I envy her. In the meantime, I shared with her the idea of stock-and-flow in relation to my work, and she told me, “You’ve always had great ideas, and I never wanted to miss what you wrote on either FB or Instagram, but I always thought ‘why is he sharing this and not writing more instead?'”
That struck me silent.
Had my years-long candidness and honesty on social media really been a font of projects and ideas worth exploring? I mean, I’m smart enough to realize that likes, notifications, reactions, the timeline et al served to keep all of us users in the clutches of the site, but did I let myself fall into the trap, too? Did I get complacent?
Obviously, the answer is yes. After a lot of soul-searching, I’m going to focus on stock, not flow; like Kleon, I’m going to give this daily blogging a try, instead. I’ve already set up some apps and extensions like Freedom and “Block Facebook” on both my phone and computer, though I can’t quite quit Twitter — it’s where my friends and many freelance jobs/potential new editors are.
The hope is I can stretch my writing muscles a bit. Rediscover my voice. Experiment with new ideas and writing forms. After working for so many others over so many years — publications, editors — what is my voice, even?
Photo: “Library @ Orchard, Singapore” by Fahrul Azmi, via Unsplash
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On Transitions
A month ago, I was laid off.
An hour afterwards, I got to work — sending off resumes, messaging friends and colleagues, starting a newsletter, updating this website. I’ve kind of been at it since…
But was that a good idea? I’ve never had a transition phase in my life, not really. Even when I decided to move from California to Chicago, Chicago to New York, New York to Chicago and back again, my life has been a blur of decisions and action, decisions and action. I’m a master of abrupt moves and last-minute changes, somersaulting from one thing to the next. Even between jobs, I’ve only ever allowed myself a couple of days of rest; I could always find time for self-care later.
And this is true, even still, as I develop my routine for exercise, yoga, meditation, stillness. But I’m starting to think that carving out routine is merely a reaction to the upheaval I bring upon myself.
Of course, the layoff was not something I sought out (LOL I live in NYC, have you seen our cost-of-living?). But this transition, this liminal space I’ve been afforded, well, I’ve been reacting to it like I have in the past. Decision, action, decision, action. Everyone has told me what a blessing this transition may be, and yeah yeah, I hear you, but I also gotta get things done. It’s in my bones.
At least, that’s what I thought up until literally an hour ago, when I was journaling and pulling my tarot cards and otherwise being reflective about how I’ll go about the next few weeks in the job search/freelancing game. I finally listened to everyone: What if I slowed down and actually took time to ride this wave presented to me? What would that look like?
In the weeks since the layoff, I’ve traveled, and journaled, and even started taking podcasting classes at a Brooklyn media arts center. While all of that is good, it also all seems to come from my natural impulse to keep myself booked and busy. I realized that maybe, I’m afraid to reflect, afraid to be by myself.
Instead of filling up my calendar with projects and meetings and long-to-do lists, maybe I should be afraid for a little while.
Chicago, a Love Letter
I’m gonna miss Chicago.
I’m gonna miss the usual stuff, of course. Friends, routines, my cute apartment. But I’m also gonna miss so much small stuff.
My barista at the pie shop, who remembers my name and that I like my coffee black, so always fills the cup to the top. My minutes spent walking near the River’s north branch, watching bumbling ducklings in the spring or Northwestern’s sleek rowing team in the summer.
I’m gonna miss the slant of sunlight coming through my apartment at sunset, the way my plants bend towards that one window over the course of months, no matter how many times I rotate them.
How I always snag a seat on the Brown Line in the morning, or the chocolaty smell of the Blommer’s factory when I disembark at Merchandise Mart. The dogs and puppies running up the hill at Horner Park, or the jangly folk band at the Saturday farmers market playing to an audience of wiggling toddlers. Sunrise yoga in Millennium Park. Sunbathers at North Avenue, Osterman, 31st Street beaches. Tacos from Las Barrilitos, 12 a.m. cheeseburgers at Red Hot Ranch, any open bottle at Income Tax. Drinking canned wine on the River Walk during a summer heat wave. The Lake gets plenty of love, but for me, my heart belongs to the ever-moving, ever-changing River.
I’m gonna miss Chicagoans, polite but direct with zero fucks to give. Like how, on a snowy day this week, another barista from another coffee shop asked me if it was hot out, because I looked like a sweaty mess. Or the bedside manner of my dentist, who couldn’t hide their reaction to my toothbrushing technique. I won’t forget the busker trilling “Imagine” at the Dearborn Blue Line station, a bard of the underground whose message may never reach the surface. The crowd at a recent Cat Power show, swaying and feeling their way through her seminal “I Don’t Blame You.” The drag queens and artists of Berlin like Lucy Stoole and Kenzie Coulee, who turned the idea of a circus freakshow on its head with poise, and grace, and holy fuck, so much goddamn bravery, their glittering existence a fuck you to every bigoted asshole this country has ever produced.
There’s always a bend in the river worth exploring.
I’m gonna miss the Chicago Tribune, my home for the last 2 years, 11 months and 3 days. Tomorrow, I walk out of the Tribune newsroom for the last time, taking a new job back in New York City, where I lived and loved 5 years prior. For the second time in my life, I’ll be leaving the city I love most.
Except for a youthful interest in geology and marine biology, I’ve only ever wanted to be a journalist and writer — I’ve never known anything else. From joining the high school newspaper to running the college magazine to landing bylines in publications as an adult, it’s always been my life’s goal to write and nurture my curiosity. Working at the Tribune has given me that and more. I’ve strived for inclusivity, covering queer food and brown food and all food, ‘cuz everyone has to eat, as both a writer and an editor. I helped start a union! I’ve strived to bring diverse voices into the fold, tapping my artsy writer friends and colleagues Jessi Roti for a piece on a food-and-music fest serving Chicago’s West Side, or KT Hawbaker for an interview with queer POC creating their own platforms for food and stories. My incredible, kind, generous editor and friend, Joe Gray let me do anything and everything, from every wild idea (taste testing weird internet shit) to helping style test kitchen photo shoots. My friends Sade Carpenter, Adam Lukach, Jessi, Marissa Conrad, Grace Wong, KT, Dawn Rhodes, Ese Olumhense, Louisa Chu, Alison Bowen and countless others kept me sane. Mentors like Joe and critic Phil Vettel kept me sharp. Of course, shout-out to my Food & Dining team Louisa, Nick Kindelsperger, Grace, Jennifer Day, Josh Noel and Kasondra Van Treeck for being consistently curious and challenging.
Along the way, I wrote about a chef who ran away and joined the circus, how chefs are grappling with sexual harassment amid Me Too, the great sommelier scandal of 2018, how to host Friendsgiving, a personal essay on my immigrant upbringing, and in the last few weeks, started a wine column even I didn’t know would end because, well, resigning surprised even me. I edited hundreds of stories about food and restaurants and chefs and talent in this amazing, supportive, diverse city. I’ve attended journalism workshops and committee meetings and college lectures and leadership conferences, always to be a better journalist, a better citizen.
I’ve always tried, and I’ll always continue to. I don’t believe there’s any other way to exist.
On Monday, I’ll be back in New York for my first day as senior travel editor at Thrillist. I’ll have some time to officially move back East, but for now, I don’t know quite what to expect, but it’s a new bend in the river of my own life. I can’t wait to walk along it, through its rapids and its shallows.
It’ll be a new flow, and I’m ready for it to take me away. Until then, thank you for everything, Chicago.
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This week has felt like a decade. Between the midterm elections (I worked election night in the newsroom), yet another mass shooting, RBG breaking some ribs and near-continuous attacks on the free press, I’ve been high-key anxious all week.
There’s been some light, though: I finally got to write and publish a story about a question that’s been bugging me for ages, and got two cakes out of it, to boot. Alas, the photos accompanying the story are the last taken by my beloved camera before its internal sensors shattered. Besides work, I’ve been trying to stay afloat and manage my anxiety by staying off social media as much as possible, cooking at home and keeping things tidy (my favorite form of procrastination).
Cleaning out my fridge last week, I realized how much stuff we still had. I hate waste, so instead of ordering take out, I put together a big ol’ salad. Just as well, since I’ve been trying to work out more and curb my junk eating (hi, Halloween), but damn, do I hate salad. Salad is just not interesting to me, though I do love vegetables. It’s a paradox. Here, I roasted off some sweet potatoes in smoky gochujang, and tossed them with creamy Bulgarian feta, quick pickled shallots, pomegranate seeds and arugula. The still-warm potatoes lightly wilted the greens and melted the cheese, which made for a great balance in texture. When salad can be this laissez-faire, I’m all in.
It’s been fall for a minute, my favorite season. While a weekend getaway to Indiana two weekends ago provided a little bit of leaf-peeping, it wasn’t enough — I’ve been taking a lot of walks in the brisk, cold air to get my fill before winter comes. The below playlist is my attempt to capture the feeling.
I’m closing in on my Goodreads challenge of 50 books this year. Right now, I’m at 33, with some lessons learned along the way. Mainly, I’ve come to terms with putting down books that I’m just not getting into. Case in point, I got 60 pages into a memoir before I realized I was just not jiving with the author’s story. On the other hand, I tore through Dietland, which follows Plum Kettle as she confronts her fatness and society’s demons. An exploration of fatness (and shame culture), Dietland is also a revenge fantasy of women tearing down the patriarchy with disregard to the rules men have arbitrarily created. Highly recommend. PS: The Hoopla app is wonderful — sign in with your library card (you have one, right?) and you can download a ton of ebooks and comics, which is how I was turned on to Dietland in the first place.
With my anxiety on high, I’ve stopped listening to a number of daily news podcasts — I can’t subject myself to the deluge of information any more. The world sucks, I get it! Stepping back, even in this small way, is self-care. That said, if we’ve spoken about podcasts at all in the last year, I’ll have definitely recommended Thirst Aid Kit to you. Hosted by Bim Adewunmi and Nichole Perkins and now celebrating one year of lusting out loud, it’s a show that unapologetically explores desire and pop culture. Raucous, hilarious and so, so smart, Bim and Nichole explore the body of work (and bodies of werq) of celebrities, and how thirst can be so much more than just a pretty face — though obviously that’s a draw.
Richard Olney’s Infuriating Recipe for Mussels
In an attempt to clean up this blog, I took a look into my drafts. Reader, the terror of this particular corner of the internet strikes fear into my heart. The constant starts and the stops alone kill me! But *sigh*, therapy has taught me “done is better than perfect,” so in that vein, I’ll be publishing some of those drafts, as close to their “draft state” as I can reasonably stomach. Here, then, an entry from June 2015:
I’m a way-late bloomer when it comes to this food thing. I didn’t go to culinary school, teaching myself from mostly from home. And while I eat at restaurants, it’s usually because a place looks charming, not because of its star-power (though I do try to make it to those, too). My food heroes growing up were Sarah Moulton and Emeril, and then your Julia Childs, your Jacques Pepin. As an adult, I predictably gravitated toward the contessa herself, Ina Garten, like a gay moth to the brightest disco ball.
But I had no idea about Richard Olney. Then, over a year ago , I came across him twice in short order. I first encountered him in the words of John Birdsall’s essay, America, Your Food is So Gay, published in Lucky Peach’s Gender Issue. The piece shed light on the work of Craig Claiborne, James Beard and Olney, three gay men who were influential in shaping America’s food identity. With the exception of Beard and some bits about Claiborne, I otherwise had no idea, about Olney in particular.
Then there was Luke Barr’s Provence, 1970, a narrative weaving of letters between Barr’s great-aunt, the storied food writer M.F.K Fisher and her best pals Child and Beard during one fateful winter in Provence. Olney — a trained painter and self-trained cook in the French tradition — makes an appearance, the book’s main source of friction. What I gleaned didn’t paint him in the best of lights: snobbish, meticulous to the point of condescending… Frankly? He sounded kinda bitchy.
But he also knew his way around a kitchen. When I finished the book and put the essay away, I only thought of Olney peripherally, until Ian bought us the 40th anniversary edition of his book, Simple French Food.
Let’s just start by saying the title is anything but. “Simple” here does not mean a “set it and forget it” call to arms, but instead, a call for a simple list of immaculate ingredients prepped to the utmost of a cook’s ability, so that the food sings. It is a beautiful book, written in bitingly straightforward fashion with no sympathy for your lack of skills. In short, this book forces you to learn how to cook.
Ian cooked Olney’s “lobster dinner for two,” which included game hens, lobster and a raspberry coulis dessert from the French Menu Cookbook, which — duh — took a lot of work. When we picked up Simple, we thought we’d have a slightly easier time.
Not even remotely true.
Because there aren’t enough hours in a week and too many books to try, we’ve so far only really cooked one recipe: his mussels. You’d think this would be a hoot, as mussels are notoriously easy to prepare. Get your broth game correct and you’ll impart a wealth of flavors depending on your combo of aromatics, seasoning and broth-base. Folks will be impressed by the your Ina-level presentation of homey, elegant open shellfish swimming in bright, savory bath.
Let me reiterate: I. Love. Mussels. From Thai-style mussels, piquant spicy flavors of chiles commingling with creamy coconut milk and bright, citrusy lemongrass, to Belgian moules, with yeasty funky beer adding fruity, biscuity notes to the broth, or even French preparations, sing-songy with acidity from dry white wine, mussels in all forms are good. All easy to make.
Enter Olney.
His preparation of mussels—stuffed with spinach, hardboiled eggs and surprisingly, more mussels—reads simply on paper. There are very few ingredients, and the sauce is a quick preparation of butter, onions and pulpy tomatoes. It’s in the doing that you find out Olney is a real asshole.
Case in point? Bro had me stabbing open 50 or so fresh mussels, only to stuff them with their chopped up brethren, and then? AND THEN having me tie each bad boy up with twine. TWINE!
The elegance of mussels is the simplicity by which the dish basically builds itself. Got a bangin’ broth recipe you want to try? Whip it up any which way you like, add your mussels, wait until they open, and boom! Done. You’ve got a magical seafood dish with a rich liquid for sopping up with crusty, comforting baguette. If Olney were around, I would tell him to go fuck himself (not really, as I think he might be my type?) but I would argue against the merits of his prep.
It took me three goddamn hours to bring this dish to the table. By comparison, all of my other favorite mussel dishes take no more than 30 min, from shopping to slurping up the broth. And, to add insult to injury, the sauce wasn’t even in that good, and the stuffing we worked SO HARD to cram into the mussels I murdered with my knife just fell out into the broth anyway. Infuriatingly, we had the added task of UNWRAPPING our mussel packages that managed to stay open, instead of just, you know, EATING.
This recipe was an unnecessary exercise in rage.
While I respect what Olney has done for the culinary world, both as a cook and as a role model for aspiring LGBT food folks, if this was my first introduction to him, I’d chuck the book out the window.
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Instrumental A Guide to Bruce Hornsby’s Essential Weirdness Music
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If you think of Bruce Hornsby only as a mulleted late-‘80s smooth-rock lifer, making music somewhere off the coast of Sting’s solo career, then you haven’t been paying enough attention. A cursory sampling of the Virginia singer-songwriter’s new album Absolute Zero will evince how winding his journey has been since his 1986 breakthrough with the #1 hit “The Way It Is,” a song that’s remained ubiquitous enough over the years to give him an unjustified reputation as a one-hit wonder. From hyper-virtuosic jazz improvisations to traditional bluegrass to sample-heavy post-electronica, Hornsby’s long career is a lot stranger, more richly idiosyncratic, than that label would have you believe.
At times, Absolute Zero has a quality that recalls Hornsby’s formative work. “Cast-Off,” the album’s mournful lead single featuring Justin Vernon, reminds us how much of the Bon Iver songbook could be considered Hornsby fan fiction, and the Americana-tinged “Never in This House” could have reasonably been an outtake from Hornsby’s first album. But much of Absolute Zero is not “smooth” in the traditional sense. Hornsby’s intricate and impressionistic piano parts jut out at odd angles in the mix, the result of nearly 30 years of experimenting with 20th-century classical and avant-jazz styles—both playing them straightforwardly and incorporating borrowed elements into the pop song form.
You get a taste of the more bewildering side of Hornsby’s genre-bending tendencies here, too. “Voyager One,” a song about the satellite of the same name and the sordid future of the human race, combines classical minimalism, bluegrass fiddle rhythms, and swing in a way that is either totally anti-musical or a stroke of mad genius. “Echolocation,” a bass-less oddity about a lost man on the other side of a DUI charge, combines lonesome country blues with John Cage prepared piano samples.
“How did we get here?”, fans of classic rock radio might reasonably ask, after listening to this ambitious, bizarre, sometimes beautiful album. Truthfully, it’s not hard to make sense of if you realign any conceptions you might have had about Hornsby being an anodyne AM-radio crooner. Instead, think of him as he truly deserves to be considered: a huge, brilliant weirdo. This doesn’t only extend to his discography, mind you. Hornsby has remained a curious presence in broader pop culture, and an enigma personally as well. (Did you know he could have been an NBA star?) The following primer is designed to guide you through the strangest aspects of the Hornsby mythos, from well-known tidbits to largely forgotten artifacts.
His fame grew as the result of a Tupac song.
One of the best-known aspects of Bruce Hornsby’s career is pretty odd in itself. After the breakout success of his debut album The Way It Is-–which earned him a Best New Artist Grammy win in 1987—Hornsby’s cultural ubiquity was solidified for a new generation of music fans in the ‘90s, thanks to a sample in “Changes,” a mournful hit by the West Coast’s most notorious gangsta rapper. And it wasn’t just Tupac who used “The Way It Is,” Hornsby’s sole No. 1 single, for hip-hop source material. E-40 interpolated the track on 1996’s “Things’ll Never Change” and Mase would go on to use it on his 1999 Double Up cut “Same N*ggas.” Also check out MC Buzz B’s “Never Change” and this 2008 Snoop Dogg and Charlie Wilson collab. Who doesn’t love some Hornsby?
And don’t count Hornsby among the aging rockers who object to rappers sampling their tunes. (Like Steely Dan). Hornsby never met Tupac, but he claims to be a fan. In a 2011 interview, he said: “I was sort of floored by his creativity. I thought he was so clever, and really profound, and deep. There’s a lot of gravitas to Tupac’s music, to me.” He wasn’t even bothered that ‘pac shifted the central lyrics to the opposite of what Hornsby originally wrote. (“Things will never be the same” vs. “Some things will never change.”) “Yeah, well, that’s right, but I thought it was a positive message, I didn’t think it was a negative message,” he said. “And I must say I like the checks.”
Not only does Hornsby like “Hit ‘Em Up” (see the interview linked above), he has even tried his hand at rap-adjacent vocals himself. Check out, for example, the semi-intoned patter on the second side of his 1998 album Spirit Trail— somewhat redolent of the Barenaked Ladies—if you don’t believe me.—WINSTON COOK-WILSON
He played in the Grateful Dead.
Hornsby has always been a jammer: even “The Way It Is” features not one but two positively rippin’ piano solos. Still, non-devotees may be surprised that the smooth-pop don had a stint playing keys (and occasional accordion) in the Grateful Dead. Hornsby began sitting in with the long-running group in the late ‘80s, and came on as something like a full-time member in 1990, after the death of previous keyboardist Brent Mydland. The early ‘90s were not exactly the Dead’s artistic heyday, but Hornsby had his moments, sprinkling graceful melodic lines into the crevasses of the band’s jams, his spacious approach to the piano nicely complementing their richly polyphonic sound. Sometimes, they even let him do a little singing. (In addition to being an underrated player, he was a more traditionally powerful vocalist than either Jerry Garcia or Bob Weir.) You can hear him belt out a few lines in the middle of this rousing version of “Jack Straw” from 1991.
Hornsby was out by ‘92, choosing to focus on his music rather than commit to the Dead’s relentless road schedule, but the brief period evidently made an impact on him. He’s returned to the Dead songbook often since then, and sometimes to the band itself, playing with various post-Jerry projects, including the celebrated Fare Thee Well shows in 2015, the last time the band’s core surviving members all shared the same stage. He’s also worked plenty of Dead-ness into his own bizarro polyglot late-career music, both in a general jammy sensibility and in specific references to their catalog. The most jarring example of the latter category is surely “Sunflower Cat (Same Dour Cat) (Down With That),” a 1998 song that’s as patently insane as its title, setting Hornsby’s lite-FM melodies over vaguely hip-hop drums and what sounds like a sampled audience recording of the Dead classic “China Cat Sunflower.”—ANDY CUSH
He won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Recording in 1990.
From the very first notes of Hornsby’s debut album, the influence of bluegrass and American traditional music on his compositions was clear. The Hornsby fan must learn to love or choose to selectively ignore the proliferation of athletic mandolin strums and fiddle licks throughout his catalogue. Bruce’s true ‘grass transformation would come when he partnered with country hitmaker and world-class mandolin ripper Ricky Skaggs for an album in 2007. (More on that later.) But Hornsby was recognized as a champion of the style much earlier in his career. In 1990, he won a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Recording for a rollicking, banjo-driven reworking of his 1988 song “The Valley Road,” recorded with (why not?) the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, on an album of country music duets.—WCW
He played at Woodstock ‘99.
Woodstock ‘99 was a disaster in so many ways: Robby Krieger doing Doors songs with Creed, Limp Bizkit fans setting porta potties on fire, The String Cheese Incident, and rampant violence and abuse. It’s no wonder people tend to forget one of the weekend’s most anomalous details: a performance by Bruce Hornsby. But if you still own the best-selling live album from the festival, you can find the proof there: Hornsby, the hardest working man in show business, bringing up the rear on Disc 2 with a live version of his “Resting Place.” At this storied nu-metal world’s fair, it’s safe to say that Bruce was the only savage on the lineup busting out Keith-Jarrett-inspired piano solos. Was any band there having as much fun that weekend as Hornsby’s sprawling septet, ripping disgustingly proficient gospel-blues licks all over a 8-minute rendition of “The Way It Is”? It’s hard to imagine who. Sevendust?—WCW
He’s written roughly over 200 pieces of music for Spike Lee movies.
A fair amount of it must have gone unused, but as Hornsby noted in a new Stereogum session this week, he’s written a boatload of music for his friend Spike Lee’s films since they struck up a friendship in the early 1990s. Most people associate trumpeter Terence Blanchard with the sound of Lee’s movies, but Hornsby is one of Lee’s most crucial musical confidants. Full Hornsby scores can be heard in 2009’s Kobe Doin’ Work, 2011’s If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, 2012’s Red Hook Summer, and 2014’s Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. He also contributed music to 1995’s Clockers (a Grammy-nominated Chaka Khan duet!), 2000’s Bamboozled, and Lee’s 2013 Old Boy remake. And yes, folks: my dawgie Bruce turned in some tunes for the Spike-assisted video game NBA 2k16, too.—WCW
He’s a bit of a prankster.
Hornsby has a puckish streak, both musically and personally. If you were to conduct a simple Google search for his time in the Grateful Dead—let’s say, hypothetically, that you were doing research for a listicle about him—you would find that not one but two links on the first page of results are about various hijinx he pulled on his bandmates. Once, he says, he hired two bodyguard-sized guys to take the stage during “the most sensitive Weir ballad—I believe it was ‘Looks Like Rain’—to stand on either side of him, very closely, glowering at him as he sang.” And another time, Hornsby called Jerry Garcia, pretending to be a radio DJ that the two of them liked, and told the guitarist he was live on the air. He and Garcia apparently had a mutual appreciation for the art of the crank call. In this interview with Diablo magazine, Hornby says that Jerry turned him on to the Jerky Boys, ‘90s prankster dirtbags par excellence. Imagine Jerry late in his life, sitting in his room alone and cracking up to “You Kicked My Dog”—a weirdly poignant image, and one we wouldn’t have without Bruce.—AC
He plays insane medleys in concert.
In 2000, Bruce Hornsby released his first live album, a double-disc outing with his 2000s band The Noisemakers. Here Come the Noisemakers captured the band’s adventurous spirit, and stands as the definitive document of Hornsby’s jammy approach to live performance, which usually involves covers and offbeat musical humor incorporated into medleys with his own compositions. At one point on the album, he introduces “The Way It Is” with a long piano solo that incorporates George Gershwin’s 1935 Porgy and Bess standard “I Loves You Porgy,” and a piece by 20th-century composer Samuel Barber; later, he deploys a Bill Evans tune referencing 12-tone atonal music as a bridge into Spirit Trail’s working-class complaint “King of the Hill.” On the Noisemakers’ 2011 follow-up live album, Big Bruce riffs on avant-garde classical works by Charles Ives, Anton Webern, and Elliott Carter—all in the interest of playing nothing but the hits, of course.
There are plenty of videos of Hornsby in concert that will give you a taste of his aggressive style of pastiche. When playing “The Way It Is” at solo gigs these days, he often sticks a Bach invention in the middle of the song. In this 2015 performance (circa 8:50) of his biggest hit, he plays the main piano theme in the style of 18th-century counterpoint, like a molly-addled Glenn Gould. If you could rip the keys like Bruce, you’d probably show off this much too.—WCW
He made an experimental album inspired by Kid A in 2002.
In 2016, Hornsby explained that he was a big fan of “Everything In Its Right Place” and “Pyramid Song,” two of Radiohead’s most musically adventurous keyboard-driven compositions. Hornsby cited “Everything in Its Right Place” as the creative stimulus for “Sticks and Stones,” the opener of his 2002 full-length Big Swing Face, a experimental and heavily electronic album that bewildered Hornsby fans when it came out. The Radiohead influence doesn’t stop with the opening track: The feel of the “rain down, rain down” section of “Paranoid Android” is adopted for “The Chill,” for instance (complete with a solo by Grateful-Dead-adjacent guitarist Steven Kimrock). The rest of Big Swing Face embraces vestiges of the IDM and drum-and-bass music that was influencing Thom Yorke and the boys at the time, and also incorporates some fairly aggressive trip-hop beats (“Try Anything Once”).—WCW
He recorded a bluegrass version of Rick James’ “Super Freak” with Ricky Skaggs.
The nadir of Bruce Hornsby’s career came roughly 12 years ago, when this deeply cursed recording was released to the public. The John Anderson credited on backing vocals here, mind you, is the Nashville country hitmaker of the same name, not Jon Anderson from Yes (though with a wild-ass career like Hornsby’s, that certainly wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility).—WCW
He debuted an unheard Ornette Coleman composition on one of his albums.
One of the under-appreciated joys of Bruce’s Hornsby discography is his 2007 instrumental jazz studio outing, Camp Meeting. The line-up is a power trio, featuring virtuoso bassist Christian McBride and Jack DeJohnette, the renowned Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett sideman who ranks among the greatest jazz drummers ever. Hornsby got access to a tune that the legendary free-jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman never recorded, and debuted it as the opening track of Camp Meeting. It’s a big co-sign from a legend, and the recording, like the album, is unimpeachable proof of Hornsby’s myriad talent. A duo collaboration between Hornsby and Coleman, “Hop, Skip, & Jump,” was also released on a box set of unreleased recordings and rarities in 2006.—WCW
He plays a crucial role in the 2009 film World’s Greatest Dad, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams.
World’s Greatest Dad is an anomaly of a film, a pitch-black comedy directed by Bobcat Goldthwait about a school teacher (Robin Williams) who forges a touching suicide note to save his deadbeat teenage son’s legacy after he dies during autoerotic asphyxiation. One of the strangest elements of the film is that, to his son’s extreme chagrin, Williams’ character is a Hornsby obsessive. The result is a ton of Hornsby jokes, a soundtrack that is roughly half Hornsby songs, and a performance by the man himself during a climactic scene.—WCW
He claims he beat Allen Iverson in one-on-one basketball after helping him get out of jail.
In a recent interview with Uproxx, Hornsby acknowledged that the idea of him beating Allen Iverson at one-on-one basketball “seems completely ludicrous” and “not believable.” He’s not wrong. But it’s true, at least according to Hornsby himself, the “lots of witnesses” he claims were there, and the 2001 AI biography Only the Strong Survive, by veteran journalist Larry Platt, not the sort of guy who’d make something like that up. But it’s also true that the future NBA legend was still in high school when it happened, and that they weren’t exactly playing by the standard rule book. According to this Only the Strong Survive excerpt, Hornsby (who played high school ball himself) insisted on what he called “Piano Hands Rules,” which were meant to protect his precious ivory-ticklers. Possession automatically switched every time the offensive player took a shot, whether or not they made it, eliminating the possibility of a fight over a rebound. “I had one of those days where I couldn’t miss,” Hornsby said, and that was that.
How did the middle-aged singer-songwriter come to square off against the teen phenom in the first place? Iverson was already a local star in his Virginia hometown even as a high schooler, and Hornsby, a fellow Virginian, was aware of his reputation. In 1993, the young athlete was jailed for an alleged fight, which the musician considered a “serious miscarriage of justice.” Hornsby used his stature to lobby governor Doug Wilder for Iverson’s release, and Wilder granted Iverson clemency after four months in jail. Hornsby got a call from Iverson’s coach not long after, telling him that Iverson wanted to meet him and thank him for his help. Bruce Hornsby: not just a great pianist, not just a great ballplayer, but a great guy, too.—AC
He’s the inspiration for one of Veep’s best jokes.
Veep’s Kent “Grey Elvis” Davison (Gary Cole) is a robotic, seasoned D.C. operative ruled almost exclusively by data and algorithms rather than feelings or instinct. Whether he’s getting stalked by dead-eyed careerist sharks at his pilates class or trying and failing to flirt with VP Selina Meyer’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) chief scheduler Sue Wilson (Sufe Bradshaw). Although Kent’s demeanor is eerily even keeled, the rare flash of anger surfaces when he confronts his perpetually slimy former colleague turned morning show host Dan Egan over an egregious error Dan supposedly made during a broadcast. “You said on-air that Bruce Hornsby was a member of the Grateful Dead,” Kent told Dan after snatching the phone out of Rep. Jonah Ryan’s (Timothy Simons) hand. “He was a touring member from ’90 to ’92. He never officially joined.”—MAGGIE SEROTA
Now, we’ll end this the only way we know how: with a video of Hornsby, B.B. King, Lou Reed, and legendary guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter covering Bob Dylan’s “The Mighty Quinn” on Herbie Hancock’s ‘90s Showtime variety show—a cast of characters only Bruce could assemble.
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The central conceit of the proposed nuclear weapons deal with the Iran regime is a simple one: Iran’s mullahs can be trusted to act moderately and peacefully. It’s an idea that is hopeful, optimistic and enticing. It’s an idea propagated by the extensive lobbying and PR machine built up to support the mullahs in Tehran. It is an idea designed to reassure nervous Americans and provide political cover for wavering congressional lawmakers.
It is an idea fatally flawed.
The concept of trust is defined as a “firm belief in the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing; confidence or reliance.” In order for trust to work, it assumes that the party in question – in this case the religious theocracy ruling Iran – has either demonstrated an ability to be trusted or expressed a desire to be trusted and then lives up to it.
In the case of the mullahs, nothing could be further from the truth. In their every action, the Iran regime has demonstrated again and again that it cannot be a reliable partner in any international agreement.
On the nuclear issue alone, Iran regime signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty yet violated the terms of the treaty by engaging in nuclear weapons development prior to 2003 and through 2012, leading to the stockpiling of 20 percent enriched uranium and the development of related weapons programs such as warhead detonation and missile delivery design. The International Atomic Energy Agency has found Iran in non-compliance repeatedly over the past decade.
Putting the nuclear issue aside for a moment, Iran also signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, but moved forward in supporting the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad after he used chemical weapons on his own people. Interestingly enough, while the regime’s top mullah Ali Khamenei has issued a much-ballyhooed “fatwa” or religious edict proscribing the use of nuclear weapons, he did not rule out the development of those weapons, nor did he mention chemical or biological weapons.
For the Iran regime language and its nuances is vital to its aims which is why the proposed nuclear agreement is a paltry 159 pages and does even include two secret side deals with the IAEA. The SALT and START treaties between the U.S. and Soviet Union dwarf it with detailed provisions and requirements.
This explains why the regime has strenuously held out for a finite time limit in any further sanctions or limits on its nuclear development; the mullahs have the patience of Job and are content to outwait the rest of the world. The fact that the proposed deal has no further limitations after 10 years means Iranian regime is free to scale up to industrial capacity in enriching uranium. The fact that its centrifuges will not be destroyed – only unplugged and stored – allowing Iranian regime to keep its refining infrastructure intact.
All we have done is kick the can down the road for a decade and allow another administration and Congress to deal with the mess.
Oddly enough, those elected officials supporting the deal have basically placed their faith and re-election hopes in the hands of the mullahs. There can be no other interpretation of their support. They are betting on the mullahs which seems an inane act unless you consider the lobbying force the mullahs have deployed.
Michael Rubin in a piece for Commentary delves deeply into the financial support for the Iran lobby; looking specifically at the Ploughshares Fund which spreads its millions of dollars around to a number of regime supporters, including the National Iranian American Council. He also connects the dots of how many staffers and activists supporting the regime are funneled through groups and entities with close ties to the regime.
“Those staffing NIAC, for example, have always sought an end to sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Many had worked for Atieh Bahar, a Tehran-based consultancy close to former Iranian regime President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. They are not chameleons, changing their stripes to match their funders,” Rubin said.
“When NIAC policy director Reza Marashi, an Atieh Bahar alum, worked for the State Department during the George W. Bush years, he was not pro-democracy agenda, but was understood to be sympathetic to an embrace rather than isolation of Iran. Indeed, his persistent questions about the recipients of U.S. aid inside Iran raised security concerns,” he said. “Likewise, when NIAC received a couple hundred thousand dollars from the National Endowment for Democracy, Trita channeled it to organizations close to the Iranian government.”
Rubin lists the extensive donations made by Ploughshares to benefit regime supporters, including:
$210,000 to the Arms Control Association for “influencing…US policy toward Iran.”
$80,000 to the Atlantic Council to support the Iran Task Force and another $130,000 for the South Asian Program;
Funded the Center for New American Security to give “boot camps” to Congressional staffers “on the nature of Iran’s nuclear program,” in other words, to lobby them;
Underwrote the Friends Committee on National Legislation’s efforts “to support an integrated lobbying strategy to build support for pragmatic approaches to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue;”
$100,000 to J Street to “educate” on behalf of an Iran deal;
$150,000 to the National Iranian American Council for its advocacy on behalf of the Iran deal, not including money given individually to its staff;
$75,000 to National Security Network to “educate media and policymakers about policy options to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon;”
Blogger Jeffrey Lewis criticized and downplayed the Associated Press’ revelation about a side deal between Iran and the IAEA gutting verification by allowing Iran to test itself, but did not acknowledge a $75,000 gift to his home institution from Ploughshares;
The Aspen Institute also received Ploughshares money to educate Congressmen and senior staffers about Iran policy options, again, effectively to lobby them; and
$75,000 to Gulf-2000, a listserv run by former Carter Iran hand and “October Surprise” conspiracy theorist Gary Sick, who has used Gulf-2000 to become a “Journolist”-style clearing house to feed pro-Iran talking points to journalists.
All of these groups work in aligning the interests of the mullahs and in pressing for a deal that releases them of any obligations to change their behavior while setting the stage for turmoil down the road.
By Michael Tomlinson
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LL Cool J – “You’ll Rock” (Remix)
Thursday, November 18, 2010 -- by Hashmoder
In . . . . Rap 12-inch Trax, :: RAP HIPHOP (OLDSCHOOL & ROOTS), HOMEPAGE, MUSIC
The first time I heard LL Cool J was when I was at the movies. There he was …right before my eyes …making his first film debut in Krush Groove and literally performing to the audience for the first time his debut track I Can’t Live Without My Radio. It blew me away! By the time the release of his first album Radio made it to Starsounds record store in Toronto, Canada, I was one of the first to get a copy. The LP version of You’ll Rock is not as wicked as this remix posted here, but nonetheless it’s still good. I considered LL Cool J to be one of my first serious, solid and harder/core rappers in the music scene of 1985, as he was the first rapper/artist to be signed with Def Jam Recordings (hence, the story of Krush Groove movie was somewhat like the real story of how Def Jam got started).
Artist: LL Cool J
Title: You’ll Rock (Remix)
LL Cool J – “You’ll Rock” (Remix) (mp3)
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The Unknown DJ – “808 Beats”
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 -- by Hashmoder
This is one super sick track that defined the true meaning of techno-electro hiphop. Drum machine tight beats, rolling mechanical techno bassline, synth zip-zaps, reverse-then-slap-forward claps, synth pads, vocal erotic samples, synthetic scratching samples, really sweet processed orchestra stabs/hits, and serious rhymes. 808 Beats stands on its own plateau. Although The Unknown DJ raps about his 808 drum machine, but the drum machine sounds in this track aren’t from a Roland TR-808 at all …. not even close; but my best guess would be that they come from Oberheim DX or DMX.
Artist: The Unkown DJ
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Roxanne Shante – “Bite This”
Sunday, October 25, 2009 -- by Hashmoder
The first time I’ve ever heard of Roxanne Shante was in 1985 in 8th-grade at my boarding-school Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. At that time, I was listening to very few rap artists (such as Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five; Sugar Hill Gang, to name a few) and had only limited rap records/tapes in my personal music collection, considering that the Rap genre was practically unheard of in Canada where it also was very difficult to find any rap music at any Canadian record shop. Then one day, in early 1985, there was this Bahamian kid (who lived in the dorm-room next to mine) who played me his NYC underground rap mix-tape which he’d brought over from his trip to NYC …… and ….. OH MY GOD ….. the first track ….. blew my mind …..Roxanne Shante’s “Queen Of Rox” ….. harder-edge ….. drum machine beat/groove, scratches, one-shot stab hits and edgy rap vocals ….. slightly more hardcorish than any other rap I’ve ever heard before. When school was over for the Summer, I went back to England and ordered all of Shante’s 12-inch records from local record shop. Less two weeks later ….. I went to pick up my imported Shante records ….. the guy handed me the stuff with a nice surprise on top: Shante’s spanking-new latest release (UK release, mind you!) Bite This. The single so new …… that even Streetsounds (Electro-7 mix compilation) haven’t picked it up yet!
Here’s what I need you to do:
First, play this youtube video of Roxanne Shante’s “Queen Of Rox“
And then play Bite This tracks (Flash player below) and at the same time read her wiki and the next article The Story Behind The Story Behind The Roxanne Shante Story.
Roxanne Shante is known for improvising her rap lyrics on the spot …. recorded in one-takes.
Roxanne Shante – “Bite This” (Extended)…
Artist: Roxanne Shante
Title: Bite This (Extended)
Label: 10 Records
Beat Producer & Shante’s close friend: Marley Marl
Roxanne Shante – “Bite This” (mp3)
Roxanne Shante – “Dub This”…
Title: Dub This
Roxanne Shante – “Dub This” (mp3)
Roxanne Shante’s MySpace link ….. http://www.myspace.com/roxanneshante
Shante Wikipedia …. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxanne_Shanté
Marely Marl Widipedia …. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marley_Marl
The Story Behind The Story Behind The Roxanne Shante Story
YouTube Video: Roxanne Shante – “Queen Of Rox”…
Marley Marll -- Shante's beat producer and personal friend.
Tagged with: 10 Records • 1985 • Bite This (Dub This • Bite This (Extended) • hip hop • hiphop • Marely Marl • Marley Marl • oldschool • oldschool rap • Pickering College Newmarket Ontario • preschool • Queen Of Rox • rap • roots • Roxanne Roxanne • Roxanne Shante • UTFO
Davy DMX – “The DMX Will Rock”
Friday, October 23, 2009 -- by Hashmoder
I am so glad that I bought this 12-inch record back in 1985. It was purely accidental. I had no idea that I was buying a gem, but the cover, colors and the names of the label and artist were enough to convince me to make the purchase. Such a killer track. Both versions of this track are completely different and distinct from each other, as if not remixes at all. At that time, I was really into electro hiphop and finding a lot of 12-inch singles of that genre (in England of all places) was really hard, whereas most tracks were easy enough to find on compilation albums & cassettes like the Electro series released through UK’s renowned Streetsounds label. For the record, Davy’s “DMX” last name is derived from a very popular drum machine at that time — the Oberheim DMX (see picture caption somewhere below).
Davy DMX – “The DMX Will Rock” (Rap Mix)…
Artist: Davy DMX
Title: The DMX Will Rock (Rap Mix)
Davy DMX – “The DMX Will Rock” (Rap Mix) (mp3)
Davy DMX – “The DMX Will Rock” (Scratch Mix)…
Title: The DMX Will Rock (Scratch Mix)
Davy DMX – “The DMX Will Rock” (Scratch Mix) (mp3)
Davy DMX, circa 1984/85
Oberheim DMX drum machine.
Tagged with: 1985 • Davy DMX • DMX • hip hop • hiphop • Oberheim DMX • Oberheim DMX drum machine • oldschool electro hip hop • oldschool rap • preschool • preschool rap • roots • The DMX Will Rock (Rap Mix) • The DMX Will Rock (Scratch Mix) • Tuff City
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – “World War Three”
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 -- by Hashmoder
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Notice the name Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious. Just the six of them. Grandmaster Flash was not involved with this single. World War Three was a one-off singles released by Sugar Hill Records, available only on 12-inch single; it was not part of any full LP album by the full seven-member group. The B-side’s track “The Truth” is also available exclusively on this 12-inch.
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – “World War Three” (Side-A)…
Artist: Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
Title: World War Three
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – “World War Three” (mp3)
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – “The Truth” (Side-B)…
Title: The Truth
Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five – “The Truth” (mp3)
Myspace Link…
Melle Mel’s MySpace link ….. http://www.myspace.com/grandmastermellemel
Melle Mel…
Melvin Glover was the first rapper ever to call himself “MC”.[citation needed] Other Furious Five members included his brother Kid Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams) & Cowboy Keith Wiggins. While a member of the group, Cowboy created the term “Hip Hop” while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words “hip/hop/hip/hop” in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.[citation needed]
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five began recording for Enjoy Records and released “Supperrappin’” in 1979. They later moved on to Sugarhill Records and were popular on the R&B charts with party songs and the like. They released numerous singles, gaining a gold disc for “Freedom,” and also toured. In 1982 Melle Mel began to turn to more socially aware subject matter, in particular the Reagan administrations economic (Reaganomics) and drug policies, and their effect on the black community. A song entitled “The Message” became an instant classic and one of the first glimmers of conscientious hip-hop. Mel recorded a rap over session musician Duke Bootee’s instrumental track “The Jungle”. Some of Mel’s lyrics on “The Message” were taken directly from “Supperrappin’”, a song he had recorded three years earlier. Other than Melle Mel, no members of the Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five actually appear on the record. Bootee also contributed vocals (Rahiem was to later lyp-sync Bootee’s parts in the music video). “The Message” went platinum in less than a month and went on to become arguably the greatest record in Hip-Hop history. It was the first Hip-Hop record ever to be added to the United States National Archive of Historic Recordings. Mel would also go on to write songs about struggling life in New York City (“New York, New York”), and making it through life in general (“Survival (The Message 2)”). Grandmaster Flash split from the group after contract disputes between Mele Mel and their promoter Sylvia Robinson in regard to royalties for “The Message”. When Flash filed a lawsuit against Sugar Hill Records, their label, the factions of The Furious Five parted.
Mel became known as “Grandmaster Melle Mel” and the leader of the Furious Five. The group went on to produce the anti-drug song “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” (the unofficial music video was directed by then unknown film student Spike Lee & starred an unknown Laurence Fishburne). The record was falsely credited to Grandmaster + Melle Mel by Sugarhill Records in order to fool the public into thinking Grandmaster Flash had participated on the record. Mel then gained higher success appearing in the movie Beat Street, with a powerful song based on the movie’s title. He became the first rap artist ever to win a Grammy award for “Record of the Year” after performing a memorable rap on Chaka Khan’s smash hit song “I Feel for You” which introduced hip-hop to the mainstream R&B audience. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five had further hits with “Step Off”, “Pump Me Up”, “King of the Streets”, “Jesse”, and “Vice”, the latter being released on the soundtrack to the TV show Miami Vice. “Jesse” was a highly political song which urged people to vote for then presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
In 1988, after an almost 4 year layoff, Mel and Flash reunited and released the album “On The Strength”, but with up and coming new school artists such as Eric B. & Rakim, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, and Big Daddy Kane dominating the hip-hop market, the album failed miserably. Mel performed with The King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew on “King Holiday” aimed at having Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday declared a national holiday. Mel also performed with Artists United Against Apartheid on the anti-apartheid song Sun City aimed at discouraging other artists from performing in South Africa until that government ended its policy of apartheid. Mel ended the decade by winning two more Grammy awards for his work on Quincy Jones “Back On The Block” & “Q – The Autobiography of Quincy Jones” albums.
In 1996, he contributed vocals to the U.S. edition of Cher’s hit “One By One”. Their version is only available on the maxi CD format.
In 1997, Melle Mel signed to Straight Game Records and released Right Now. This album featured Scorpio from the Furious Five and Rondo. The album barely sold at all in the USA and the UK even though it marked the return of one of hip hop’s greatest. This album took more of a harder rap style to show the world that Mele Mel could stay with the times.
In 2001, he released the song “On Lock” with Rondo on the soundtrack of the movie Blazin under the name Die Hard. Die Hard released an album of the same name in 2002 on 7PRecords.
On November 14, 2006, Mel released a children’s book “The Portal In The Park”, which comes with a bonus CD of his rapped narration. Also in 2006, Melle Mel attended professional wrestling school and in 2007, stated in an interview with allhiphop.com that “I’m going to try to take some of John Cena’s money and get with WWE and do my thing”. Mel changed his name to “Mele Mel” & released his first ever solo album, Muscles on January 30, 2007. The first single and music video is “M3 – The New Message”.
On March 12, 2007, Melle Mel and The Furious Five (joined by DJ Grandmaster Flash) became the first rap group ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
On October 10, 2008 Mel appeared on Bronx based culinary adventure show ‘Bronx Flavor’ alongside host Baron ambrosia. In the episode entitled Night at the Bodega he appears as a spiritual mentor to sway the Baron from his over-indulgent ways and get him on the right path to success.
Sugar Hill Records…
Sugar Hill Records was the name of a rap music record label that was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Joe and Sylvia Robinson with Milton Malden and financial funding of Morris Levy, the owner of Roulette Records. Joe Robinson had parlayed a music publishing company that he established years before in New York into the All Platinum, Stang, and Turbo record labels prior to establishing the Sugar Hill label. Artists included his wife Sylvia, of Mickey and Sylvia (Love is Strange) fame, The Moments (Love on a Two Way Street), Brother to Brother, Shirley and Company (“Shame Shame Shame”), Linda Jones, Jack McDuff and Chuck Jackson.
The Sugar Hill label’s first record was “Rapper’s Delight” (1979) by The Sugarhill Gang, which was also the first Top 40 hip hop single. Afterwards The Sequence, Grandmaster Flash, Funky Four Plus One, Crash Crew, Kool Moe Dee, The West Street Mob, and Melle Mel joined the label. Sugar Hill’s in-house producer and arranger was Clifton “Jiggs” Chase. The in-house recording engineer was Steve Jerome. Al Goodman, leader of The Moments, ran the show and George Kerr was a major producer. Joe and Sylvia’s sons Joey and Leland were also active in the business.
In the early 1980s, the Robinsons bought Levy out. They enjoyed several years of success, including 26 Gold Records. They also pioneered the music video, with Sylvia producing several and a young Spike Lee making his first video production depicting the White Lines record. Joe Robinson was innovative in the business end. He was the first to introduce a cassette single. He also worked with TVS Television Network executive Tom Ficara to produce the Fresh Groove TV series to feature these music videos when MTV would not run them. The success of Fresh Groove forced MTV to establish Yo! MTV Raps, and rap music videos were now on a mainstream cable network.
However, a controversial distribution deal with MCA Records ended up in protracted litigation, and finally the label closed down in 1986.
In 1995, Rhino Records purchased all the released and unreleased masters owned by the Sugar Hill label.
In 2002, Sugar Hill Studios in Englewood, New Jersey were destroyed by a fire. “Rapper’s Delight”, “The Message”, and many other Sugar Hill hits were recorded there.
Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five. Melle Mel (far left). Grandmaster Flash (third from the left).
Melle Mel today.
World War Three Lyrics…2,1 1984 World War III
Life is a Game of Business
and in the end we sight (swear to god)
the new and old are bought and sold
and everybody thinks they’re right
War is a game of business
a game we shouldn’t play (swear to god)
cause men with guns killed all our sons
they blew us all away
They Called it
World (Paranoina!)
War (it’s Almost Over)
3 (Cause Nobody Hears what the People Say)
Realistcally the Bombs are ready
Technically, Nuclear by name
Capability of total Destruction
Radioactive death and flame
there is talk of a firey doom
prophesied since the dawn of time
in a world of bloodshed, mass confusion,
killer diseases, Pollution and Crime
Man is in Conflict with nature
and that is why there’s so much sin
mother nature’s delicate balance will fix it so nobody wins
in World (Catastrofic)
War (Reaganomic)
3 (and nobody hears what the people say)
World (it’s Atomic)
War (catastrofic)
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
A thousand miles away from home
a mortally wounded soldier dies
and on the blood stained battlefield
his life flashes before his eyes
before he dies the man saw jesus
and jesus christ took his hand
and on the soldier’s dying breath
the good lord took him to the promised land
cause there’s.. No (people living)
More (People Dying)
Pain (Everybody Disappeared)
Breakdown, Pain
1984, See the world at war
your darkest fears of reality are knockin’ down your door
drones and mutations, Clones and deviations
and there’s no one that can escape the nuclear revelation
the silver moon, the midnight stars, jupiter collides with mars
and out of the darkness spirits roar
to cast revenge on the earth once more
the leaders of the world are hypnotized
by wizards, dark and in disguise
brought to earth by an evil hand
to devour souls in a brand new land
they let the leader think that war brings peace
and out come the one with the mark of the beast
there’s evil behind closed doors
in the year of 1984
long ago and all too soon
2 different wars fought on the moon
one put (creators?) on it first
then we blew futher in the universe
both of these were nuclear wars
breaking universal laws
then falling stars and meteorites
dropped to earth by day and night
twisters, earthquakes, hurricanes
volcanos, drops and torrential rain
then one day, the UFO’s
came to see the whole world explode
we will pay the ultimate price
and a lesson is to be learned
when we play with nuclear fire
everybody’s gonna get burned
Pain! Pain! (so let the music play on)
Between the boundaries of time and space
was the planet earth and the human race
a world alive and centuries old
with veins of diamonds, silver and gold
snow capped mountains over looked the land
and the deep blue sea made love with the sand
full grown strands of evergreen hair
kissed the sky with a breath of air
where exotic fish once swam in the sea
and the eagles soared in the sky so free
but the foolish clan that walked the land
was the creature, that they called man
they’re cannibalistic, paranoid fools
tricking each other with games and rules
training their men to kill and fight
moving and stearing their mechanized might
only thought that man had in mind
was to conquer the world and the rest of mankind
and with the thought that they were right
they gave you permission to take a man’s life
the ones you killed fought just as hard
then you even had the nerve to pray to god
but god don’t wanna hear all your mess
when you ain’t the one that he laid to rest
the devil’s children with no disgrace
crushed and killed the human race
while they got rich off the games and war
what in the hell were you fighting for
a silly ass metal, a stupid parade
for all those innocent people you slaid
and after that, you couldn’t even get a job
cause fighting that war made you a slob
a seargeant and major, a corporal, Lieutenant
titles and positions were all invented
you, and me, and all this mess
are just a bunch of pieces in a game of chess
it’s all the same, a third world war
a blood thirsty massacre just like before
it’s genocide, three billion tears
feeding on a war every twenty years
then one day we heard the sound
of the whole damn world tumbling down
just one big boom, and what do you know
the world is a ghetto, high and low
crumbling buildings all around
man’s creation burned to the ground
chaos, panic, fear and pain
days of radioactive rain
grotesque figures burned alive
miraculously seem to survive
everything of reality is the science fiction on TV
mutant dog and sabertoothed rats
eat men with guns and baseball bats
the dead won’t die, the (rudie?) won’t cry
and everybody’s asking the question “why”
until swarms of millions walk from the city
and thousands more went underground below
with their head held down in their own pity
wondering where, they do not know
cause in this game we had a chance
but we blew it for cheap thrills and romance
maybe one day we’ll get another play
but until then remember what i say
Tagged with: 1985 • Furious Five • Grandmaster Flash • Grandmaster Melle Mel • hip hop • hiphop • Melle Mel • oldschool • preschool • rap • Rhino Records • roots • Sugar Hill Records • Sugar Hill Studios • The Furious Five • The Truth • World War Three
King Tee & Mixmaster Spade – “Ya Better Bring A Gun”
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 -- by Hashmoder
I got this 12-inch record in 1987 for the A-side track The Coolest by King Tee. When I got the chance at home to play what was on the B-side, I was blown away by Ya Better Bring A Gun and loved it a lot more than side-A’s track. The Coolest (A-side) was available on King Tee’s debut album Act Like A Fool, whereas the Ya Better Bring A Gun was not on the album but served only as a B-side exclusive to the 12-inch release. Music and sound-wise, Ya Better Bring a Gun makes reference to an even older style of rap’s funky origins — pay special attention to the style of rapping and the bassline riff. However, the lyrics are about modern violence/crime; only few hiphop artists at that time were rapping about stuff like that, such as Public Enemy and The Ghetto Boys.
King Tee & Mixmaster Spade- “Ya Better Bring A Gun” (B-side)…
Artist: King Tee & Mixmaster Spade
Title: Ya Better Bring A Gun
King Tee & Mixmaster Spade – “Ya Better Bring A Gun” (mp3)
[ VERSE 1: King Tee ]
They live on the street and they hustle for fame
Some kill for a livin, some sling cocaine
Because it’s now a lifestyle and a full-time job
And if you live in Compton, it’s like at McCobb
From block to block everybody’s bad
And if you don’t know where you’re at, then your life’s been had
Cause they walk in the street with intentions to meet
Some sappy lookin punk with Fila on his feet
And if you try to act tough, well Mr. Tough, you’re through
Cause everybody’s a family, if not, they’re a crew
I’m here to give some advice advice (Run!)
Cause if you’re ever in Compton, you better bring a gun
Yo, here come my homeboy Mixmaster Spade
Man, what’s up, man?
Hey man, ain’t you from Compton, man?
(Ah yeah)
Alright man, tell em what’s up, man
What you used to do
[ VERSE 2: Mixmaster Spade ]
I used to cut up the beat on the two turntables
Now I’m rappin on the mic, cause I’m willin and able
When I’m on the mic I take no slack
And everytime that you see me I’m tearin a gat
I got .380s and .22s
You messs with me, I’m gonna bust on you
I got a .357 and a M-16
They call me Master Spade, and Tee’s the King
Now Compton is the city where the homeboys stay
Rollin in a different car everyday
Can’t roll too hard, gotta watch my back
Cause if I don’t, I just might get jacked
Now Compton is a city of a lotta fun
(Can’t walk down the street
Can’t walk down the stree without my gun)
[ female voice ]
Now you know this just don’t make no kinda sense
Now the next place is kinda risky if you’re walkin with your mother
Y’all can get shot if she wears the wrong color
They’re all from the old school, nobody’s modern
The place I’m talkin ’bout is the Nickerson Gardens
You can get away with murder, cause they murdered the cops
Cause they said they tried to run a bumrush on Watts
But they took control, slingers walk real tall
While real down gangbangers write their set on the wall
If I was you I wouldn’t visit here, it’s like hell
And if you get robbed, who you gonna tell?
I’m only here for advice advice (run!)
And if you’re ever in Watts, you better bring a gun
Now you got a nice car with a brand-new paintin
Rag top convertable with all-gold Daytons
You decide to take a ride down the Crenshaw strip
You stop at the Fat Burgers to feed your lip
You got your sounds bumpin, playin Zapp and Vibe
A skeezer comes your way, you say, “Let’s take a ride”
So you’re cruisin Crenshaw with her, you’re goin to bail
A brown Cutlass pulls up, they put a gauge to your head
They say, “(Get our your car) if you value your life
(And leave your money) if you love your wife”
Now you’re standin in the street lookin like you’re on crack
And you say to yourself: I can’t believe I got jacked
You call the police because your car they stole
But when you get in touch with them, they put you on hold
Your car is gone, nothin could be done
So next time you cruise Crenshaw, YOU BETTER BRING A GUN!
Alright, I wanna thank Mixmaster Spade for comin out to rock with me
(And Greg Mack) the Mack Attack
And I also wanna thank J-Ro and Sweet Tooth for comin out rockin
(And DJ [Name])
And I wanna thank Scotty D, Cold-Crush Chris
And DJ Pooh, the Hip-Hop Gangster
(When he say beat em up he don’t be bluffin)
And oh yeah, I forgot somebody
Unknown!
(Yo man, who blew up that McDonald’s on Central and Rosecrans, dude?)
Tagged with: 1987 • Act Like A Fool • hip hop • hiphop • King Tee • Mixmaster Spade • oldschool • preschool • rap • roots • Techno Hop • TechnoHop • The Coolest • Ya Better Bring A Gun
Stetsasonic – “Talkin All That Jazz” (Dominoes Mix)
I am so happy for having bought this rare 12-inch (45 rpm) single in London back in 1988. When the original (album) version of Talkin All That Jazz was released internationally, it was an instant hit worldwide. There was an extended version released on 12-inch, but having lived in UK half my life and knowing how that country is big on several kinds of remixes/versions of the same single, this particular remix of Talkin All That Jazz (Dominoes Mix) was the best one. I remember hearing Dominoes Mix for the first time at Hippodrome nightclub (Picadilly Circus, London) in Fall-1988 …. oh man its bassline shook the roof, especially on that last note sustaining in the hook completing the measure (before the bassline lick repeats again on the one). Dominoes Mix is just steadier with a driving groove that is not as busy as the drums/bass in the original version, making it flow and kick more intensely.
Since Talkin All That Jazz is about sampling, it is worth noting that its bassline sample is taken a 1975 track “Dominoes (Falling Like)” by Donald Byrd which is a nice jazzy, funky fusion. This original track was provided by BeatElectric.Blogspot.com (thank you guys!).
Artist: Stetsasonic
Title: Talkin All That Jazz (Dominoes Mix)
Media Source: Recorded straight from 12-inch record to digital.
Stetsasonic – “Talkin All That Jazz” (Dominoes Mix) (mp3)
Tagged with: 1988 • Beat Electric • BeatElectric • Donald Byrd • Falling Like Dominoes • Funk • Fusion • hip hop • hiphop • Jazz • oldschool • preschool • rap • remix • roots • Stetsasonic • Talkin All That Jazz (Dominoes Mix)
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While the norm for most tracks go anywhere between 3:30 to 6:00 minutes in length, I prefer 15:00 minutes or longer, like the four seasons. Give me 4 long tracks to fill the hour, and I’ll be one very happy Iraqi. I love tracks that take me on long journeys through various movements. One of my all-time favorite synth-pop groups is PROPAGANDA from germany … who sound like twisted ABBA + Industrial + TechnoPop + Darkness. My favorite Proganda track is P:Machinery. I’ve taken two 12-inch vinyl versions of that track and conjoined them together as one … the way I want to listen to P:Machinery by:
Digitizing them into Protools; Spending two long months cleaning them up; Getting rid of every single scratch/pop/click; Restoring deteriorated sounds through various RE-SYNTHESIS processes and techniques; Splicing the tracks to separate clips; Re-arranging and layering clips to my taste; Throwing in my own synth-stabs, chops and other minor subtleties; Adding & automating series of chained top-notch effects throughout the mix, utilizing parameters some of you could not even pronounce ... thus resulting with more dynamic and reverberated DEPTH to the mix; Fattening the bottom-end; Widening overall stereo perception; and Mixing, engineering and mastering my version of P:Machinery the way I think it's supposed to be heard.
To my taste, P:Machinery sounds better than 'sick' ... more like master piece of shit which blasts sonically across the stereo-field ... not one element standing still but constantly moving all over the place.
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Man Parrish: Heatstroke Moments
Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it, Manny ( Man ) Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music. Helping to lay the foundation of electro, hip-hop, freestyle, and techno, as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those, Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the plugged-in disco-funk of Giorgio Moroder and the man-machine music of Kraftwerk with the beefed-up rhythms and cut’n'mix approach of nascent hip-hop. As a result, tracks like “Hip-Hop Be Bop (Don’t Stop)” and “Boogie Down Bronx” were period-defining works that provided the basic genetic material for everyone from Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys to Autechre and Andrea Parker — and they remain undisputed classics of early hip-hop and electro to this day.
Boogie Down Bronx (dub version)
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What made Trevor Horn’s productions stand out was his unique and genius production techniques and the heavy use of state-of-the-art pro-audio gear, which made him become the torch-bearer for the kind of technology-led pop music which was hip and incredibly disciplined. Trevor Horn’s 12-inch remixes were uniquely long (anywhere from 8 to 13 minutes in duration) and told stories which took the listeners through long instrumental journeys at the begenning of tracks until the climax is reached (around the 5/6 or 7 minute mark). After the climax, the original or alternate full vocal version of the track takes over from that point on to the end, lasting additional 3.5 to 5 minutes in length.
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Finding Abe and Ella’s price: Why are they recanting?
In yesterday’s post, we noted that in their efforts to evade the Awkward Question several of us have been asking them for the past month, Abe and Ella managed to score a beautifully executed own goal. The question (why did Ella not notice that her ex-husband and ex-partner both had gigantic “cult” tattoos in very private places?) seems to have caused some serious squirming and scrambling, until finally Abe blurted out that RD didn’t get his tattoo until after he’d left Ella; and Ella seems to have told American interviewer Nathan Stolpman that in fact, Mr Draper wasn’t actually in the cult after all:
(S)he mentioned that Mr. Draper, her ex-husband, was also involved with the cult, the Satanic cult. I’ve spoken with her now since and asked her about it and she says now she doesn’t believe that was the case and that was maybe something she was prompted into coming up with at the time when she was under duress.”
In fact, the notion that Mr Draper was not just “in” the cult, but was its major financial benefactor, has been put about by none other than the Defective Detective herself, Kristie Sue Costa.
In a blog post written on 28 April 2016, she states this very clearly:
So according to Kristie Sue, who of course takes her orders directly from the Gospel According to Abe and Ella,
There is one single person responsible for this entire Hampstead situation, drum roll please….
Ella Draper’s first husband. He is responsible for sending RD to Ella.
From the “Jean-Clement recording”,
“All three children are involved in the cult now. From two different men, who are cult members. She came to me, because she knew I didn’t, I wasn’t a weird guy. She knew there was something, I was clean. And she knew, in her heart, that I could help her. She didn’t know how. I didn’t know how. … Her first husband, he sent the second man to her. “
Why doesn’t anyone talk about this?
Mr. Draper & his wife (redacted) were in the same cult as RD. Mr Draper is supposedly the cult financier, which would make sense since he works in the banking industry.
Kristie Sue further hammers the point home: Mr Draper and RD were totes deffo not only in the cult together, but they shared poor foolish Ella around, as a kind of cultic brood mare.
So let’s see if we’ve got this straight. Mr Draper met Ella in Moscow while she was getting her masters in art history, got her pregnant and they moved to the UK. Away from her family, in a foreign land, she gave birth to their son (redacted). Got it.
Things didn’t work out so Mr and Mrs Draper divorced and Ella was left to raise their son.
Mr Draper then sends his cult buddy RD to Ella to produce more children, thus child A and child G. Knowing full well that RD was in his cult, Mr Draper must have known how abusive and sadistic RD was.
(Redacted), Ella’s first son with Mr Draper, was a witness firsthand to RD’s abusive ways.
What’cha gonna do, Kristie Sue?
You can see Kristie Sue’s dilemma here.
Her entire premise—that the alleged cult operates through some kind of insane “buddy” system, whereby members pass unwitting sexual partners around to one another to breed children for the cult—has now been completely demolished. If Mr Draper wasn’t in the cult, then he couldn’t have passed Ella along to RD. He couldn’t have introduced his wife and son to the cult. He couldn’t have financed the cult.
And to make matters worse, It’s now becoming clear that Ella was motivated to “revise” the hoax storyline not only by the fact that people were beginning to ask her uncomfortable questions about her ability to notice a great honking tattoo in a very unusual, very obvious place.
It would seem that Ella and Abe have another, even more pressing reason to remove Mr Draper, his current wife, and Ella’s eldest son from their filthy narrative.
It’s the money that matters
It all boils down to cash, or the lack thereof.
You see, when Ella and Mr Draper split up, Ella was able to wangle a rather generous spousal maintenance agreement from her ex. Since she and RD never married, the court order which states that Mr Draper must “pay or cause to be paid” a certain amount to his ex-wife has never been varied.
At some point in the past year, we believe that Mr Draper grew tired of supporting a woman who is a) a fugitive from UK police, and b) a nasty bitch who has seen fit to splash the names of his wife, his son, and himself across the internet, complete with false allegations that he is part of a paedophile/cannibal cult.
And so he did what any right-thinking person would do: he cut her off. We suspect that he wouldn’t have been able to just stop paying her, as he’d have been in violation of his court order (which some people do take seriously, Ella notwithstanding). However, there are ways to ensure that the money could be “caused to be paid”, such as putting it into a holding account which Ella could only claim if she were to return to the UK.
Which she definitely doesn’t want to do. Something about outstanding arrest warrants, we believe.
The long and short of it: Ella and Abe are completely, 100% skint.
And as it turns out, the readers of this blog can claim some of the credit for this sad state of affairs. Remember all those crowd-funding sites you protested? Those were to have been Abe and Ella’s financial lifeboat. And you, naughty Hoaxtead researchers that you are, torpedoed it to the bottom of the sea. Well done, all of you!
How much for that recantation?
Basically, Ella and Abe are in a very tough spot. They are broke, living in Spain, and all their grand plans for turning their hoax into a never-ending money fountain have fallen through. What to do?
Well, there’s always Mr Draper. Perhaps if they’re nice enough to him, and recant the part of their story that involves him, he might be persuaded to go back to paying Ella’s monthly stipend….
At this point, if it’s a choice between sticking to their story and starving, it seems that Ella is willing to sing like a canary. So in this new, improved version of the hoax, Mr Draper is completely innocent, not a cult member at all. Nor is his wife, nor his son.
That was all just a big misunderstanding, terribly sorry about that.
Oh, you say Ella and Abe not only gave out Mr Draper’s family’s personal information, but also their phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, and places of work and study? And that as a result of this, Charlotte Ward and her team of flying monkeys sent out defamatory, harassing emails to 75 of Mr Draper’s investment banking colleagues? A mere bagatelle! You know how it gets: you start making shit up, one thing leads to another, and next thing you know you’re involved in criminal harassment! Could happen to anyone, really!
The fact that Ella has just pulled out the underpinnings of the hoax and shown up her faithful followers like Kristie Sue for the gullible fools they are is immaterial. What matters to Ella and Abe at this point is cold, hard cash. And since none is forthcoming from the hoax, fuck the hoax…or at least this part of it. Those who believe in it will just have to cope.
The problem is, of course, that the internet never forgets. What does it matter at this point that Ella retracts the chunk of the hoax involving her ex-husband and his family? That material is still out there, still easily found, still working its evil way into the lives of its victims.
Let’s put it this way: if you were Mr Draper right now, would you be willing to let bygones be bygones and start handing your hard-earned cash to Ella and Abe?
Neither would we.
And as one of our commenters pointed out yesterday, starvation seems to be good for Ella’s memory. One wonders what else she might feel compelled to remember, as the grim reality of utter destitution sinks in.
03/06/2017 in Investigating the hoax. Tags: Abraham Christie, Ella Draper, Hampstead hoax, harassment, innocent victims, Kristie Sue Costa, lies
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85 thoughts on “Finding Abe and Ella’s price: Why are they recanting?”
I think you should drip feed the implications of this one really really slowly.
It certainly gets her off the hook (in her drug addled mind) when she’s asked “what about child number three?”
Yes, I think this is, as they say, the Big One.
Thankyou El C & not me 🙂 nor RD……. we have not wavered nor shied from the truth, nor tried to shield ourselves behind any belief label, nor pushed or pulled any others to become involved…. Everyone has joined in, at their leisure, measure and ability to aid and add. To balance the scales in what was potentially a runaway bandwagon….
Ooh, I think I’ll write to you. 🙂
In another part of Alt Media….. this… I don’t know much about those CW is speaking of, but he is speaking to Satanic Panic mongers, who probably aid the pgaters from the sound of it….
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Please do! 🙂
Philby's Lawyer says:
HAHAHA! Who loves ya Baby? Onward and Onward!
Here are a series of cropped/blurred images from seized CSA images. It’s ok to look at them, they are merely objects that were associated with the images. The idea here is – identify the objects, perhaps help locate and save a currently abused child.
I’m interested in image #8. Looks to me, like an old box-style camera such as a Browning. But I can’t say for sure. What do you think?
https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse
I knew from address it’d be OK to click.
I don’t think it’s the type of camera you mean. It looks like a modern vinyl type thing over a cardboard flimsy internal frame to me. A cube that needs to be propped up because it would just collapse. Maybe takes a camera inside? On top a popper?
I can’t explain really.
They are looking for the children aren’t they?
@YdychyncachuTracey – correct. They are hoping to trace the victims, who are believed to be ‘currently at risk’.
I think that may be a ring, sitting on top. My brother had a collection of old Browning camera’s, this is very reminiscent. Some had a small metal circle like that, (possible ring), on one side or another and not on the lens side. I think it was where you viewed the frame number through. Dunno.
Thanks for looking though 🙂
Nice digging, Your Howlness. You are one helluva detective and you’ve really got these pyschos on the back foot.
Defective Detective Costa sure could learn a thing or two from you (if she were capable of learning, that is). Case in point: her comment that “Draper is supposedly the cult financier, which would make sense since he works in the banking industry”. Really, Kris? That makes sense to you, does it? He works in a bank, ergo he must have access to hundreds of millions of pounds to fund an international child-trafficking cannibal cult? If he worked in a petrol station, would that mean he had his own fleets of tankers to do with as he pleased?
KSC Logic – it’s practically a brand name now.
LOL! I’m looking forward to hearing how she manages to justify Ella’s latest volte face. I’m sure it’ll be very…creative.
Great work, EC. And thank you to the person who tipped you off about the stipend situation. I’d love to see the look on Kristie Sue’s face round about now 😀
Brilliant spot by MKD: check out the hypocrisy of what Mel says between 13:53 and 21:02…
She absolutely cannot be held responsible for Hampstead hate mobs but we CAN be held responsible for Dutch hate mobs:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/abe-and-ella-answered-the-awkward-question-and-destroyed-their-own-hoax/comment-page-1/#comment-70730
Looking through those images was sad. Knowing they were a small section of a photograph or video of a child being abused. I was unable to identify any of the items they were showing.
Choice ! 🙂
Crikey my father was a banker so was I being lined up for The Cult?. Finance? (I couldn’t get a 10 quid loan from him but he was Scottish.) Not a Rothschild though. My childhood friend is now a well known TV actor and I stood on the picket lines for the miners in the 70s. Shake a family tree and a Jew drops out..my mother. My God- I just remembered- my child hood pal was also named Ricky but hated the name so had it changed when he became successful.
I have an aversion to tattoos !
Clearly the links are there and the dots need joining.
Was I MKUltra trained to be a Sooper Soldier and then made to forget? . Was I hunted in the Wiltshire woods with a young Angela Power-Disney?
Why do I huff & puff walking up a hill if I was a trained sniper by age 6?
It’s also so easy on the net joining those imaginary dots but when they become unglued as EC has forensically done, and the un-picking is done by one of the actual Cult promoters like Ella, surely Troofer heads will explode.
They’ll say she’s been got at. Visited by a Freemason Rothschild who has warned her she must back track or her beloved Abe will be buried alive in the sand
Below: a snap of my friend Ricky when he was 8 and at infant school. Nothing odd there surely.
“It’s a Slave Planet” says the lady sitting in the Gilt throne.
Bad luck Dave. The new improved Quell Enemy Gargoyles microwave rock transmitter (commonly know as a QEG) does not leave any mark on the victim’s body.
I told you to buy one of my (patent pending) microwave deflectors to use while computing but would you listen?
Rusty Nail says:
No paranoia there, then:
What on earth is Angela doing promoting CCN who are begging for money?
Angela was sacked by them despite paying them money and yet she supports them??
I don’t think Blondefru Glalax gets out much.
Odd name. Wonder what planet they are from?
I didn’t recognise any of the other items either.
I’ll have a think though.
“…watch the movie “The Matrix” and envision yourself in the blue pill world…”
Brilliant! Imagine that movies are reality, or rather that some people can’t tell the difference between fiction & reality, then you’ll understand DS – and Blondefru Glalax too.
Or, you could read the truth about DS and who is the real pedophile protector – right here:
http://www.dysgenics.com/2013/12/22/david-shurters-epic-fail/
“In Shurter’s pathetic excuse for a book, “Rabbit Hole”, he calls Walter Carlson and Mark Andersen, his friends! His convicted pedophile friends! Worse, he dismisses the testimony of the child victims in these cases as “no real evidence” and tries to portray these pedophile perpetrators as innocent victims of a conspiracy by the boys and their families…”
I thought I would have a look at Reddit. I had an idea the appeal might have been posted there. It seems people do have suggestions and are passing them to Europol.
There may be new sets of pictures released in due course.
So desperately sad. Some of the items are for babies or toddlers.
I’ll bookmark the appeal.
Alfred the Adequate. says:
I emailed someone who knows a lot about these things. With a quick note to Malclown that I’m quoting somebody else here, they point out that:
“The Box Brownie is one of the cameras that brought photography to the masses; it was built for that sole purpose. The roll films most of them used (and that are still used by very serious high end ‘art house’ professionals) were and still are about 70mm across.
Brownies were set up to produce a roughly 2 1/4″ Square or 2 1/4″ x 3 1/4” negatives which was normally just placed in direct contact with the paper to be printed i.e. not enlarged. The reason for that is there were no automated mini-labs for the mass market everything had to be enlarged via hand printing which is labour intensive. So for these $1 cameras and films (including developing and printing) they built them so as the negatives were big enough to make satisfactory contact prints. All of which means is a Brownie or similar is quite a bulky thing…. maybe 100mm x 120mm x 160mmm
http://www.brownie.camera/ – It’s not any of these or its rivals.
The Europol image?
Take that into an image manipulator like Photoshop or Gimp and blow it up to fill your screen… You’ll quickly see it’s some sort of Bakelite or black plastic control box, rather smaller than a Brownie. You can tell this because the quite common type of cables around it (which I think feed into the back) are ‘probably’ around 4mm-5mm diameter and roughly 6mm x 4mm for what looks like grey “twin screened” audio lead at the back.
What you’re taking to be a lens is in fact a control knob… 40s/50s/60/s style I think, it has an indicator ‘pip’ with a white painted dot to it and two ridges for grip. There is something about the Bakelite box that screams ‘Grundig’ or Eumig’ at me, but that’s just a hunch. Equally well the knob reminds me of those used on American ‘Philco’ radios of the 30s-50s.
Take into account here that, having seeded the idea of this being something to to with cameras ( and I think you’re on the right track) there will be a bit of cognitive bias at play here. But my best-guess is that object is a changeover switch or remote control for an old projector system…
If you watch an old movie you’ll often see every 20 or 40 minutes that two ‘flashes’ or ‘cup rings’ appear about 10seconds apart in the top-right hand side of the screen. This is because a reel of film only runs for 20 or (more usually) 40 minutes… And it’s necessary in a cinema, to maintain a continuous programme, two have two projectors set up so that as ‘reel one’ ends ‘reel two’ is lined up, ready to roll…
The projectionist, once reel 1 is running, lines up and ‘parks’ the second projector on the leader marks that are at the front of every reel. After about 20 or 40 minutes (depends on the reels) he starts watching the film closely. When he sees the first he ‘flash’ kicks on the motor of projector two, and at the second flash throws a switch that kills the lamp on projector 1 and turns on the lamp on projector 2…
If there’s a subsequent reel (you’ll often hear movies referred to as “three reelers” or “two reelers” he loads that onto projector 1 and so on… The audience see nothing (usually!). And the same switch very-often changes the audio feed from one projector to the other.
Believe it or not, back in the old days some people took all this seriously enough to set up home cinemas complete with projection booths at home. Another market was schools colleges and universities which often had ’16mm’ projection setups. Given the context here it’s reasonable to point out that there were such people a ‘mobile projectionists’ who would make most of their money running ‘horse racing nights’ at working mens clubs; sometimes with a sleazier sideline in ‘blue movies’.
So I ‘think’ – and this is just an educated guess – that what you’re looking at there is an amateur/home/education version of that very same idea. The metal ring will be to perch it upon a stand or fixing of some sort so that the contraption can be operated from an observation port in the projection booth rather than having to peer down the axis of the projector itself – in which case you risk getting your head in front of it!
Hope this helps… But it might be worthwhile seeing if there are forums for people that collect old cine/cinema equipment. They would have a better idea! Some might even be able to identify the make and model.” – End quote!
Thank you Alfred.
Our local A/V expert also points out that Europol might get on a little better if they employed analysts with enough sense to flip images round appropriately……..
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Yes, thanks to everyone 🙂
And Alfred, you are brilliant! I’m thinking now, the box is perhaps a form of timer for automated photo taking, capturing a series of images spaced at a specific interval without the abuser-photographer having to stop and click themselves. Hmmm…
Anna Raccoon says:
That is very creepy– Susan Melrose was the name used by Fiona of the forged letter in the original Duncroft allegations – allegedly her real name before she was adopted.
Justin, once again our local AV technician pipes in:
“The device Justin refers to is called an ‘intervalometer’ and one of that vintage would be quite a complex, large, electro-mechanical device as even cine cameras did not have electric triggers and would have been worked through a cable-release… Which takes quite a bit of effort to push reliably.
It would have required a large solenoid inside, a big high current transformer (or lead-acid battery) to drive it – and would probably have some some sort of ‘clock face’ arrangement to set the intervals. That box isn’t big enough. – The grey ‘twin screened’ at the back is most-likely audio, although some German equipment of the 60s did use a type of mains lead that looks similar… It’s almost certainly photographic in my opinion, and definitely quite old. German made or a Soviet clone would be my guess.”
Could someone be transferring old blue movies to video? And is that T-shirt generic or made for a particular event somewhere?
Well, here’s Susan Melrose, who is also known as Sheva Burton, and who posts here. I don’t think she’s been particularly secretive about who she is ever despite how it may appear using an alias to post.
An odd coincidence surely that someone picked that name/was also called Susan Melrose.
Biggles Nomo says:
I found this interesting. Those that would rather believe in some creepy Satanic cult abusing children, instead of living in reality. The flawed logic employed by promoters of the Hampstead case who live in a fantasy world where denial is a sign of guilt, adults never manipulate children into telling lurid stories of sexual abuse for their own perversions or agenda, that children never lie where abuse is concerned unless it is during retractions, which in that case is down to manipulation and a cover up, of course.
Dedicated to Kristie “We believe the children, but only when they are saying what we want to hear, we don’t believe the children when they say they were abused and tortured by a child abusing career criminal strung out on drugs, we want to send them back to their two abusers so Abe can film more pedo-sexual stories about sodomy for our viewing pleasure.” Sue Costa aka Kevin Bacon stunt double.
“ABSTRACT: Although the false allegation of child sexual abuse does not always start with a child, the child becomes the key to unlocking the mystery of why the allegations are made, and what validity, if any, should be given to the statements made by a young child. The following article is published in three parts: Part I deals with how we measure credibility. The legal competency of the child witness and the manner by which a child learns through the interrogation process is discussed. The conclusion is that children under age ten are incompetent and poor witnesses but attorneys should prepare carefully in these cases. Several practice tips are given.
The dogma of the child abuse industry is that children never lie about abuse. According to Dr. Roland Summit, in a paper entitled, The Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, children do not fabricate the kinds of explicit manipulations they divulge in complaints or interrogations, and “… very few children, no more than two or three per thousand, have ever been found to exaggerate or to invent claims of sexual molestation.”(1)
However, if a child recants, it is because they have been “manipulated” into telling something that is not true. This, of course suggests that children do not lie about child abuse but will lie if they deny sexual abuse. That means that all children can be pressured into telling a lie, but only to deny abuse. This obviously is nonsense and, yet, this nonsense has become the dogma of mental health professionals who frequently investigate these matters. The result is a Catch 22 situation for if a child says it didn’t happen, it happened.(2) This is consistent with another dogma of child abuse professionals. Since some abusers deny being abusers, anyone who denies being an abuser is an abuser, as are those who admit to being abusers. In fact, my experience shows that the more vehemently the client denies having abused, the stronger the presumption that he or she is guilty.
If children never lie about abuse, why is it that the figures show, as a minimum, 60 percent of all allegations are unsubstantiated and may be as high as 77 percent when associated with divorce and custody proceedings?(3,4)
If children never lie about abuse, why were over a hundred counts and all charges against five of seven defendants of the McMartin School dropped, and why were over a hundred counts and all charges against 24 of the 25 defendants dropped in Jordan, Minnesota?(5)
http://www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume1/j1_1_1.htm
“The Little Rascals Day Care Case in brief
In the beginning, in 1989, more than 90 children at the Little Rascals Day Care Center in Edenton, North Carolina, accused a total of 20 adults with 429 instances of sexual abuse over a three-year period. It may have all begun with one parent’s complaint about punishment given her child. Among the alleged perpetrators: the sheriff and mayor. But prosecutors would charge only Robin Byrum, Darlene Harris, Elizabeth “Betsy” Kelly, Robert “Bob” Kelly, Willard Scott Privott, Shelley Stone and Dawn Wilson – the Edenton 7.
Along with sodomy and beatings, allegations included a baby killed with a handgun, a child being hung upside down from a tree and being set on fire and countless other fantastic incidents involving spaceships, hot air balloons, pirate ships and trained sharks. By the time prosecutors dropped the last charges in 1997, Little Rascals had become North Carolina’s longest and most costly criminal trial. Prosecutors kept defendants jailed in hopes at least one would turn against their supposed co-conspirators. Remarkably, none did. Another shameful record: Five defendants had to wait longer to face their accusers in court than anyone else in North Carolina history.
Between 1991 and 1997, Ofra Bikel produced three extraordinary episodes on the Little Rascals case for the PBS series “Frontline.” Although “Innocence Lost” did not deter prosecutors, it exposed their tactics and fostered nationwide skepticism and dismay. With each passing year, the absurdity of the Little Rascals charges has become more obvious. But no admission of error has ever come from prosecutors, police, interviewers or parents. This site is devoted to the issues raised by this case.
“There is this idea that people of the 1980s were just not very bright or really superstitious or something like that. Back then, the people who questioned it were treated with suspicion. People would say, ‘Of course this is happening, what’s wrong with you?’ And it’s not like this is an anomaly in American history. In the ’50s, Commies were crawling out of the basement. This stuff goes back to Salem witch trials…
“The ritual abuse thing also became part of psychological culture. This idea that children don’t lie about these things became really entrenched for a while….
“It was a way to talk about actual abuse, I think. At the time, the idea that childhood abuse was mostly perpetrated by family members was too outrageous, too awful. People would rather believe that it was evil, Satan-worshipping strangers.”
– Dan Chaon, author of “Ill Will,” quoted by Joe Gross in the Austin American-Statesman
http://www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org/
“All it takes is what you’ve (or more likely ‘you’) got”? Perhaps?
Yes, when you continue to state the truth as you find it, over and over, eventually it begins to leave its mark. Bit like a water dripping onto a stone. 🙂
Apparently it’s a quote from someone called Marc Davis…… “All it takes is all you got”
https://goingthedistanceblog.com/2012/10/14/all-it-takes-is-all-you-got-marc-davis/
Wonder how Ella and Abe will feel when they realise that their latest dupe, Nathan Stupidman, is the source of this information about their sudden change of heart? Nathan, for his part, is no doubt quite proud to have been the person who helped take down the hoax. 🙂
Which interview/video was it in where the children say their brother does it too? The one where they supposedly lie, or the one where they are still supposedly telling the truth?
Working on that right now, Anna. 🙂
It’s so funny! I bet Ella told Nathan that, not expecting him to actually do the best job so far in terms of trying to piece together this piece of shit, and exploded the myth. Cue all the bits of interviews edited together she has ever done, repeating the LIE about Mr Draper over and over, including in ‘the list’? Was she still ‘under duress’ there? Nathan, you are my hero of the day, in a way, and at least you like cats. But now please do a video and explain why you believe anything Ella has ever alleged, based on her own revelation to you, now she is ‘realising’ or whatever happened to make her see sense. Wow, this is so big! EC, as ever, big thanks for all the work you do, bringing all the news to us in such a great way. Big clap to Mr Draper who has at last acted for the benefit of all.
I meant ‘best job so far’ by those that have interviewed Ella, of course.
Intelligent, thoughtful comments this man made here.
Yes, the Little Rascals case was another hoax, where therapists played a ludicrous part.
MADDA HAREE says:
Majick Koolaid made a super-funny vid on Sharter!! LOLOL
Yea lil ole me and my smart tv…..but I thought Bronny said I was RD ? One person I wouldn’t mind being is EC 🙂
Be thankful that we do not have to see the full photographs or videos. Full respect to law enforcement officers that do have to view these awful images in the hope that they will be able to identify either the perpetrator or the child. It certainly is a job that most people wouldn’t be able to do.
Excellent new video from JTH2N! 😀
How on earth can people think so much of Shurter. He is a man who has declared on video that he has murdered children. Do they just choose to overlook that comment? What is wrong with these people?
An excellent video, well put together and includes the latest information.
Ella we have the transcripts Draper says:
Brilliant, Norman!
On a completely different but equally hilarious note:
Abraham boasts he has NEVER, NEVER, never been interviewed by the police, then has to correct himself: ‘in this case’, LOL.
You published RD’s transcript, it’s only fair you let us see your own one too:
How amazing, when he is on the run from the police.
In this bit, Ella reveals SHE was interviewed by the police. For 3 Hours.
She complains that it is the interview that ‘they tried to scapegoat and blame Abraham him…..er..ah……eeek…er for what happened…’. Later she says: ‘we have the transcripts’ (of her 3 HOUR LONG police interview. Come on, Ella, fair playing field and all that, what else are you hiding? Show us the proof: You love publishing proof, don’t you? SHOW US YOUR POLICE INTERVIEW.
BTW if Ella is wanted, and Abraham encouraged her to flee from the police, helping her over the rooftops, is that a criminal offence?
Abe and Ella’s dominoes are starting to topple now and it is all their own doing.
oops. delete the bottom one pls?
It warms my heart to know that Abrella are not living the life of luxury in the sun. It’s no fun being skint where-ever you live. Great work by everyone at Hoaxtead Research for keeping much needed funds out of their grasping hands.
Very nice! 🙂
We have often asked why Ella has never revealed her Police interview, yet is happy to splatter the children’s ones all over YT. She is a nasty piece of work and is as guilty as Abe in everything that went on. She also stood by while Abe hit and coached her children.
Now she wants to change her story and say that her ex-husband was never in the Cult and doesn’t have genital tattoos. The woman is as transparent as Abe in her lies.
Yes, well done!
Go to the end of this video at 18:49 and listen to the complete idiocy of ET discussing the Hampstead case.
Bob's uncle says:
And this one, too:
Especially if it was Suffolk House, iirc, not Suffolk itself.
This video needs waaay more downvotes than it currently has https://youtu.be/pL-HpWMaCMM
An excellent point in that video: they claim everyone is in on the cult- police, local authorities, powerful politicians etc and yet Ella & Abe were able to flee the country as did cult promoter Sabine and even Belinda McKenzie.
And they all remain unscathed.
WTF? It’s jumped up 15 UPvotes since I posted this!
Breaking news. Incident on London Bridge.
YES, ANGELA – REALLY.
AND YOU POST THIS WITHIN ONE FUCKING HOUR OF THE ATTACK? #FFSREALLY?! 😮
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Mad-Moo’s latest. Zzzzzz…
At 1:40 she’s STILL claiming that 65 million Americans are homeless. That’s one in five, folks. Yup.
Bronny claimed that I was Danielle la Verité. LOL
Angie is a vicious, deluded nasty woman. She makes me sick.
no 7 looks like an early ebay reversing camera I had- basically a small video camera (meant for security etc) potted in a block of epoxy to waterproof it so it could be used outside
Down with the Perverts says:
What a horrible oxygen thief Angela Power Disney really is. These people only live for the next attack so they can vomit their opinions. I am surprised Angie has even been to a hospital lately as the last time she had an operation she said they tried to assasinate her. Angie you old hooker, nobody wants to assassinate you, you are nothing, a worthless child abuser, scammer and complete and utter liar who defames anti-child abuse campaigners like the heroic Sheva Burton.
When that post of Sheva’s campaigning was put on here earlier, it made me tear up, knowing that a long time genuine campaigner has been attacked by the lowest forms of bottom feeders like Angela.
I’m not the only one…… they seem to make a habit of just trying to discredit any, that might dispute their lies or simply be viewed as competition by them, in terms of donations or interest. Thankyou,
That is creepy….Ir was my second married name. I hope you’re as well as possible, Anna.
Crikey….. I need to find out exactly what/who concocted the fake Savile letter and address that, i think ?
My apologies again Sheva in case you don’t see my other apology on Twitter but I had a memory gremlin – the name I was thinking of was Susan Melling not Melrose – took me a while to find it but with the aid of my little friend Google…..
Thanyou Anna, I hadn’t meant for you to go to any trouble.
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Waitaki Whitestone Geopark
Waitaki Whitestone Geopark is seeking to be Australasia’s first Geopark.
This gives a glimpse of some of the attractions:
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No-one wins when bystanders hurt by strikes
The threatened strike by Air New Zealand workers has been averted.
Thank goodness.
Had it gone ahead, the strike for three days from next Friday would have disrupted flights for tens of thousands of travellers and a lot of freight.
The threat was enough to cause considerable angst to a lot of people and did the workers’ cause no good.
Any sympathy people might have had for their claims was more than outweighed by the stress and distress over the fears that planned travel for weddings, graduations, reunions, homecomings, work and Christmas was going to be impossible.
Unions do themselves and their workers no favours with these sorts of threats which take those of us old enough to remember back to the bad old days when strikes routinely upset travel plans.
The government must accept part of the blame too, as Barry Soper writes:
If politics is about perception, the perception is that the country’s going to hell in a trade union hand basket.
Parliament’s bear pit was on fire yesterday with the booming Gerry Brownlee lambasting the Government for returning New Zealand to cloth cap control by the unions with Air New Zealand engineers threatening to down tools for three days from December 21 (the strike threat was removed late last night).
National riled the Government saying there are now more strikes than there have been since Jacinda Ardern was at primary school. . .
It’s true when Ardern was at primary school 30 years ago the trade union movement was all powerful and battling a government that made the recent changes to workplace law look like a Sunday school picnic.. .
Now the muscle is again being flexed and if Labour’s feeling flustered, it’s got itself to blame.
Changes to the way the party selected its leader was taken away from its MPs six years ago and handed over to the party’s membership and its trade union affiliates who have 20 per cent of the vote, with caucus getting 40 and the rest going to paid-up card carriers. . .
Unions don’t only hold the voting power, they are major donors to Labour and they want their reward for that. But they put the government, and any sympathy the public might have for their members, at risk when bystanders are hurt by strikes.
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$2.63 and rising
Is this the most expensive petrol in the country?
Regular petrol in Wanaka yesterday cost $2.639, premium was more than $3 and diesel was $1.999.
The lower value of the New Zealand dollar is contributing to the rising price, but so too is the government’s new fuel tax.
It’s supposed to be levied only in Auckland but it’s appears to be spreading throughout the country.
And whether or not the tax is spreading north and south of Auckland, the pain of higher fuel prices is being felt nationwide.
All goods and services have a transport component, when the price of fuel increases, it put pressures on every single thing that is transported.
And the virtue signalling about the environment is cold comfort for those of us who will rarely if ever use Auckland’s public transport and have no public transport available locally.
This will be a tax too far for many people.
A government that talks about caring about child poverty needs to act to reduce the costs their parents can’t avoid.
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Who gets money from All Blacks’ tours?
All Blacks’ fans will be paying a high price for World Cup tickets.
Ticket prices for the All Blacks’ pool matches range between $536 for category A down to $134 for category D for the pool opener against South Africa, as well as the matches against Namibia and Italy. The contest against the repechage winner is slightly discounted at between $402 and $93.
Category A tickets comprise the bulk of the main stands running pitchside, while category D is essentially immediately behind the in-goal area.
The quarterfinals are priced the same as the All Blacks’ pool match against South Africa at between $536 and $134, while the semifinals will require you to fork out $938 for a category A tickets and the final $1340. . .
That final price tag is still less than we were quoted for tickets to the All Blacks vs Pumas in Argentina last year.
The first quote came back at several thousands dollars including accommodation in a five-star hotel.
We didn’t need five-star accommodation. The next price for a more modest hotel was still eye-watering.
I suggested another hotel where someone in our group already had a booking so we knew the price. When we subtracted the hotel from the quote that came back we would still have been paying around $1500 for a ticket to the game.
I gave up on trying to get tickets from New Zealand and asked an Argentinean friend to try for us.
She got us good seats for less than $300 – around five times less than the lowest price we were offered through All Black tours in New Zealand.
So who gets the difference between what the tickets cost and what fans are charged after costs and a reasonable profit are taken off?
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Travellers’ time saved
Departure cards for international travellers are being scrapped:
Travellers currently fill out a total of 6.5 million departure cards each year.
But Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri said the cards are no longer needed to account for all people crossing the New Zealand border.
She said they now have smarter systems which can identify information and travel movements electronically.
“Information captured by the departure cards is now mainly used for statistical purposes,” Ms Whaitiri said.
“Stats NZ has developed an alternative way to produce migration and tourism statistics, based on actual movements rather than passengers’ stated intentions on the departure cards.” . .
The requirement to fill out cards will be end in November.
The Government says it will save more than 100,000 hours of time and allow a faster and smoother process.
Each time I’ve passed through the electronic passport control I’ve wondered why there is still a requirement to fill in a departure card.
There isn’t any longer which will save travellers’ time and ought to also save the time and money that has been spent on processing them.
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Wool best to beat perma-stink
Scientists have proved what wool fans know – merino wool is the best fabric to beat the perma-stink:
When Rachel McQueen’s husband was training for a marathon, she noticed the smell emanating from his running clothes was much stronger and lingered longer in his polyester tops than if he had run in a merino wool top.
“I was repulsed,” said the textile scientist. Even freshly laundered, her husband’s polyester running tops still stunk. “The smell was as strong as if they had just been worn and I realized you can get perma-stink.”
McQueen, who has made it her mission to find the causes of perma-stink, conducted a study in which she compared the relationship between body odour and different fabrics. She had male volunteers wear test T-shirts, which had swatches of polyester, cotton and merino wool stitched to the underarm regions. They wore the shirts for two consecutive days and then the swatches were removed for testing. Smell tests using sensors were conducted on each fabric after one day, seven days and 28 days of storage.
“Polyester was by the far the most odorous,” she said. “Wool was the least smelly, and cotton was low to medium.”
The chemical odour-binding sites within fibres are key in determining the stink level, so McQueen focused her attention on the chemical makeup of fibres and how it affects odour retention.
She found that wool and cotton are hydrophilic and absorb more water than polyester.
“Wool is a fibre with an amorphous structure,” explained McQueen. “It has open spaces and is more porous than a synthetic fibre, so it can absorb a lot of sweat.”
That means that if odour molecules are trapped within wool or cotton, we can’t smell them as readily as we can with polyester, which has fewer chemical odour-binding sites.
To keep perma-stink at bay while being active, McQueen suggests the following:
Choose fabrics that have higher cotton or wool content.
“People are generally attuned to their own body odour. If you’re concerned, go with natural fibres,” said McQueen.
Wool went out of fashion, but the development of machine washable merino brought it back and its popularity has been enhanced by its environmental credentials.
Concerns over tiny particles of plastic from synthetic clothing getting to the ocean in washing water is turning the tide back to natural fabrics.
It’s a rare day when I don’t wear at least one layer of merino, it’s my preferred choice for exercising and I always wear it when travelling.
It’s warm when it’s cold, cool when it’s hot and, as science has proved, it’s the best to beat the perma-stink.
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#getnzonthemap
100%PureNZ is running a campaign to #getnzonthemap.
We found a map in Asunción, Paraguay last year and did out best to put New Zealand back where it belongs:
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Ear Protection & Drums. How Loud Is Too Loud?
Thread: Ear Protection & Drums. How Loud Is Too Loud?
raybbj
No need for an SPL meter. It you play in a live band, you need hearing protection. I played in a live band for 25 years and I ALWAYS played with industrial ear protectors (30 db reduction). It's a no brainer. I was the drummer. I would even wear my industrial ear muffs at live shows. My band mates would hate it that I would wear them because it didn't make me look like a cool rock n roller, but I didn't care. I had to protect my ears.
Plus, it really tightens up the sound. Get's rid of all the ear piercing, cymbals, vocal screams and guitar squeals and leaves nice tight, punch drums and bass.
VomitHatSteve
Hat STYLE. Not contents.
Originally Posted by Chili
The expanding foam ear plugs work well and they are really cheap. (Hint: don't buy them at Guitar Center)
I recommend a hardware store, in fact. A bag of several dozen ear plug costs $15.
Originally Posted by raybbj
I would even wear my industrial ear muffs at live shows. My band mates would hate it that I would wear them because it didn't make me look like a cool rock n roller, but I didn't care. I had to protect my ears.
You should probably accessorize your ear muffs. Drummer in generic ear protection? Boring and not very rock'n'roll. Drummer in shiny, bedazzled ear muffs? Kinda cool.
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Johnny Don't!
I will agree with; emphasize; and expand upon what a few others here have said:
1. If you are playing in a live band that rehearses in nearly any room with amps and a drummer (i.e., not headphone/IEM rehearsals), you need hearing protection, no question about it;
2. Forget the meters; it's a function of time, i.e., length of exposure. Sure, a really loud (120db or more, like a nearby thunderclap or gunshot from a pistol on the smaller side) but short sound can damage your hearing much more quickly than the same sound at a lower volume, but long-term exposure to even 75db (like a running lawn gas-powered lawnmower) of sound pressure can damage the nerves that comprise part of our hearing system. Noise is considered one of the most common occupational hazards of modern times, and that's just in general; think about about what that means for musicians.
I've been a professional musician (both touring and studio work/production/etc) for nearly 20 years, and I've used Westone custom earplugs the entire time. I can't recommend them enough. It'll cost ya, but they are worth every penny: my ears get sore from those cheapo foam earplugs meant for construction sites, and the foam cuts out way too much audio information. The Westone earplugs are a perfect fit; I can sleep with them in. Used to do it in the tour bus all the time. The filters they use are attenuated such that it's just like turning down the volume: it's an even cut across the frequency spectrum. The only drawback is the filters are pricey and are damaged or destroyed by moisture. I sweat like a whore in church when I play onstage, so when I was touring a lot, I went through a lot of filters. Thank you, sponsorship.
I know guys who are so protective of their ears, they wear earplugs when walking down the street in cities like Chicago or New York; they claim the sound of bus air brake systems damages their hearing. And if you're standing next to the drummer (especially on the ride side of the kit), that's a lot of potential hearing damage to protect yer ears from, mate. (And yes: I would say the sound of clanking/clattering shopping carts will definitely damage your hearing at certain frequencies over time.)
Have you ever heard a persistent ringing or high buzzing/whining in your ears that goes away after a short time? That's the last time you'll ever hear that specific frequency: it's the sound of that nerve dying. Those nerves rarely grow back, and if they do, it's at a snail's pace. That's how tinnitus starts.
So don't wait: use foam earplugs until you can get yer ears fitted for a proper pair of earplugs, and then protect them once you gots 'em.
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OMG, 115.7 dB! Every song was 115 point something, except one at 111.3dB, this reading was right next to me not at the kit. As well as that on one song she went absolutely ape whacking it and I could feel my ear getting aggravated badly by it. I didn't get this reading because I had accidentally pressed MIN on the meter instead of MAX and got the minimum reading instead. This would have been louder than 115 for sure! I will be getting ear protection for sure! I'll post what I get and how it feels to play with. I don't think I will be able to hear my vocal properly with the plugs :-( but we shall see!
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The Derby City
Good deal Gareth. Plus you now know that you are nowhere close to overloading the Spirit's 130dB limit, which was the original concern in your other post. It HAS to be just too high of a preamp setting if your are getting distorted recordings. Simple matter to turn down the knob or hit the pad, both of which should fix the problem
The SPL meter will also be handy when you play out. This past summer we had 3 major concert series locally, Bourbon and Beyond, Hometown Rising and Louder than Life. Each is a 3 day weekend concert, and there were a lot of poeple from neighborhoods complaining about the "noise" from the festival. In each case, the promoters could prove that they were staying within the sound levels specified, which were 105dB at the sound mixer position. It would probably be prudent to do a quick SPL check at your soundcheck, just to make sure you aren't assaulting the audience!
Thanks. The Aston worked like a dream this time and all I changed was using the -20dB setting. It was a bit further from the kit than the meter (and me) but not a lot so it would have got pretty much the same SPL. 105dB for a gig outside? OMG. It would be louder than that on stage if we played!
Remember that SPL drops 6dB every time you double distance, so you could do the math. The 105dB was at the mixing board, which is about 30-50 yards from the stage. It has to be that far back due to the majority of the sound coming from the flying PA speakers. I could hear the soundcheck of the drums at my house (about 3 miles away).
Originally Posted by Gareth Williams
I don't think I will be able to hear my vocal properly with the plugs :-( but we shall see!
Actually, plugging yer ears with those foam earplugs is a lot like plugging yer ear with a fingertip: it will make it easier to hear yer vocals when you are singing. I'd be more concerned about hearing your bandmates' playing with the construction earplugs than I would about hearing yer own singing.
That concert area looks pretty big Rich, but I was just wondering, when you said the 105dB is measured at the mixing board, which is about 30-50 yards from the stage, is that also 30-50 yards from the speakers? Like are the flying PA speakers at the stage, like at the side of the stage?
Johnny, I don’t like the foam plugs. I’ve tried them at work. They’re annoying and start to fall out by themselves. I think I have quite small ear holes! I’m going to try to find something that definitely won’t come out when I’m playing. As I play guitar I won’t have my hands free to fiddle with them.
I’ve been looking at a few, and watching some vids on YT about them. I also what to see what they’ve got in my local music shop as then I can actually see them properly before buying. I think it will take a bit of experimentation to find the best ones for me. As always with music gear it’s never straight forward! :-)
Try Westone, mate. Just Google it, they come right up. They partner with audiologists all over the country to provide the molds and all that jazz. Trust me, it's worth every penny.
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PONY CLUB: Sweet success for Sligo’s O’Connor
Riding the home-bred mare Oilean Honey, Elisa O’Connor wins Irish Pony Club/Mackey show jumping Classic at her first attempt
By Margie McLoone on 14 September 2018
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At Home with . . . Ursula O’Connor of Island View Riding Stables
"Sligo Now Magazine", June 2016, story and pictures by Cliodhna McGowan
Life locally has definitely been a wild Atlantic adventure for German born and raised Ursula (Uschi) O’Connor of Island View Riding Stables in Grange, north Sligo.
But when she’s not galloping across the beach to the O’Connor family’s private island with a band of tourists, teaching locals how to master the canter under the shadow of Benbulben’s majestic head, or helping take care of the farm’s 60 horses, she finds a little refuge from her busy life at her quiet sanctuary in Streedagh. This is the home she shares with husband Raymond and children Elisa, 17, and John Alfred, 13.
Settled in the home for the past three years now, it was a 10-year-long labour of love to build, doing it piecemeal as the couple could manage it financially.
“It’s been so worth it,” the amiable Bavarian native smiles. “But it’s still not completed - we have no garden.”
Luckily enough, nature’s own oasis is right outside the dormer bungalow's generous rear windows with green fields, in summer housing mares and their new-born foals and rustic stone walls punctuating beautiful mountain views. It really is picture perfect.
The attractive stone clad dormer bungalow has generous windows in its rear facing kitchen and conservatory which allow the seductive mountain views to creep indoors.
“It’s lovely to get up and have a beautiful view of the mountains. I still appreciate it every day I’m out there - the weather and the sea, you don’t grow tired of it,” Uschi comments. “I love that this house is calm and bright and warm. When you are out all day battling the elements it is lovely to come home into a warm comfortable space and relax.”
An accomplished artist, Ushci is actually a qualified art and English teacher and there are plenty of examples of her impressive artwork on display around the home. She even turned her hand to a striking horse mosaic in the guest bathroom.
And when she’s not busy at the farm, Uschi likes to cook to help her wind down from her busy day. Some of her native German dishes go down well with the family, such as kässpatzen, homemade noodles with cheese and onion or the delicious apple strudel dessert.
Back at the farm in Grange there’s definitely an air of old world charm about the place, with unspoiled mountain and sea views and a myriad of animals abound, from horses and ponies of all shapes and sizes to dogs, rabbits or chickens. The business is truly a family affair: from Granny Liz in the Kitchen to Raymond’s full time farm management, brother Seamus’s involvement with the cattle and the family’s sisters help looking after guests. Even the kids have to help out when things get busy. Teenager Elisa is a very talented up and coming show jumper while younger sibling John Alfred’s interest is very much in the farming side of things, his expertise being caring for and raising chickens.
During high summer the place is a hive of activity and you could forgive yourself for forgetting you are actually in Sligo, with the possibility of crossing paths with so many different nationalities. The stables get a portion of passing trade and there are guests who book for up to a week long break in Sligo on a special riding holiday where they stay local and eat locally too. Island View plays host mostly to visitors from continental Europe but they have come from as far away as the middle East or Asia.
And with the stables open every day of the year except for Christmas Day and Stephen’s Day there’s plenty of opportunity for locals to have their own mini break and get away on horseback for the day. There are day rides with a picnic to the family’s private island which is home to horses and cattle, shorter beach rides or lessons to brush up on that rising trot or even pop a jump or two. “When you’re on a beach ride it’s a complete getting away from it all,” explains Uschi. “There’s wonderful bird life and seals.”
And with flexibility for plenty of different ride options for ages 4 upwards and the possibility of 10 people being catered for in a group, it’s definitely an adventure in the making for anyone, even complete beginners on a spur of the moment whim. “You just pick up the phone and ring and an hour later you could be on a horse,” she explains.
The horses and ponies are generally quiet and dependable to ride, helped by the fact that they live quite a natural way of life in between their work. “The horses live out and when they are finished with their day’s work they can go out to the field and they can be a horse. They get to interact with each other and they can forget about people and tourists until the next day. They have that time for themselves where they can be in their natural environment,” Uschi explains.
They are trained well and Uschi knows each horse very well. “You need to know your horses and know what they can do, what they will do and what people suit them for riding.”
Another thing Uschi is careful about would be not to have the horses always gallop on the beach, so it doesn’t become an expectation for the animals. “We are quite strict that the beach is not just for running. “You have to be able to walk the horse comfortably on the beach without the horse getting giddy and excited,” she explains.
In fact, at Island View complete beginners can enjoy a beach ride for this very reason, helped along by the vast experience of the horses. “They can tell if there’s a beginner on their back and they just settle into a nice relaxed way of going.”
Island View has had plenty of elderly people ride with them. There is currently a 78-year-old who has regular lessons and the oldest lady who ever rode on the beach there was an 89-year-old Italian operatic diva, and a complete beginner. So enchanted was this famous operatic after fulfilling a bucket list wish that Uschi subsequently got herself an invite to the opera in Verona on the back of it.
Uschi started visiting Sligo in 1992 on her university summer holidays when she worked with Maggie Hedge at Moneygold Riding Stables and when that disbanded she continued to visit Sligo and help out at Island View.
“I fell in love with the place,” she says. “The mountains, the horses, and eventually the son. I kept coming back, there was something about Sligo. I think it’s the combination of the the sea and then the mountains, because I come from a mountainous area myself, and just the horses and the whole outdoor life, and everyone was so welcoming.”
A year’s college placement in Donegal town helped seal the romantic relationship with Raymond, and that was it.
Little did she know then that 17 years on she’d be be promoting this beautiful place to tourists herself as Regional Ambassador for the Wild Atlantic Way. She believes that this label has helped to promote Sligo overseas. “People tell me they’ve seen Ireland on the telly. It’s definitely created an awareness of the periphery of Europe and how beautiful it is. I see more people coming up to the NorthWest now,” she says.
But access is still a problem, she believes, with most of their tourists flying in to Dublin. “It’s a shame because none of the people coming to us can find flights from Knock that would suit them from where they are travelling from. That would help I think.”
High season is July and August when Uschi asserts things get “a bit mad”. She laments that things could be a little busier each side of that in the shoulder season.
To survive the long winter, the local side of the riding business continues and the centre takes in horses for training.
But the business owner warns that Sligo does need to protect its assets carefully. She herself is involved in the anti-fracking campaign “It’s something that would worry me for the future of this area. We need to look after our water, the beaches and the natural environment because I think that’s the biggest asset that Ireland has - the scenery and countryside and environment,” she explains.
Despite all the hard work that working with horses and running a farm and a riding centre involve, Uschi wouldn’t have it any other way.
“It’s very satisfying when you can give people something they crave,” she explains. “A lot of people have this bucket list of riding a horse on a beach - to be able to make that possible for them, that’s quite satisfying. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
Excerpt from Conor Pope, The Irish Times, July 5, 2013, Riders to the Sea ; Conor Pope Happily Leaves Civilisation Behind as He Treks on Horseback over Dunes and across Shallows to O'Connor's Island
'Trust your horse, he knows what he is doing," I am told as a beast called Bobble clamours over a rocky hill and plunges into ice- cold Atlantic waters with me perched precipitously on his back.
Well, I am glad one of us does.
I approach my first horseback adventure since I was a fearless teen with something close to terror - who knew horses were so big? - but I am calmed by the equanimity of my equine friend and I quickly settle into the saddle under the watchful gaze of Ursula Schweiger O'Connor, the owner of the Island View Riding Stables from where the trek sets off.
She runs a tight ship, does Ursula, and years of breeding horses and teaching people aged from four to 80 how to ride them have given her a most welcome serenity. …Read Full Article Here
'The Job Satisfaction is 100%' Article from My Farming week 2012 (Farmers' Journal Supplement) See article here
Ireland's Equestrian Magazine, written by Niamh O'Reilly, July 2012, featuring in Lifestyle section
Horse & Hound, 2009, 'A typical day at Island View Riding Stables' & 'Riding across the Emerald Isle'
Sligo Weekender Feature Women in Business, August 4, 2009, 'The woman who moved to Ireland for love'
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Trade Deals Signed, Now What?
On Thursday the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly ratified the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), an update to the 90’s-era NAFTA deal. The new pact is largely similar to NAFTA but has some key provisions to support U.S. auto manufacturers, protect the environment, and update intellectual property safeguards. U.S. dairy producers should also see increased exports, but the deal largely should leave commodities markets unaffected.
More crucially, on Wednesday, President Trump signed the Phase One Trade Agreement between the United States and China, a substantial move toward ending the trade war between the two countries.
The deal reduces some of the tariffs placed on Chinese goods in exchange for China updating its policies around intellectual property and agreeing to purchase more U.S. goods, especially farm products. Under the agreement, the Chinese are committing to nearly double their purchases of U.S. agricultural goods, which would be a substantial boost to U.S. farmers.
However, quickly after penning the deal, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said that China’s purchases would be driven by “market demand in China,” a worrying signal that they may not meet commitments.
Exacerbating a normal “buy the rumor, sell the fact” selloff, these comments sent agricultural markets tumbling, as the long-awaited deal may fall short of hopes. Soybeans, one of the markets most sensitive to Chinese demand, dropped over 20 cents per bushel to a one-month low, trading Friday for $9.25 per bushel.
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The highest housing starts in 13 years followed Thursday’s release of strong jobless claims numbers, Chinese industrial statistics, and the continued rally in stock index futures.
Specifically, December new home starts soared by 17% to 1.608 million, well above what analysts expected, and building permits rose by 1.416 million. Lumber prices have been on a sharp rise since July and surged to new highs Friday shortly after the data were released.
Continued low mortgage rates and strong employment drive the demand for housing and, hence, the price of 2x4 framing lumber. Copper too, used for electrical wiring has been rising during the same six-month period.
Though many pundits, elected officials, and analysts delight at these splendid statistics, others point out that the housing starts figures were skewed by large multi-family starts indicating that fewer and fewer folks can afford to buy a home. The late morning price of random length lumber for March delivery stood at $435 per thousand board feet.
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Fired Up: Cugino Forno Comes to Bailey Power Plant
During an extended tour of Italy five years ago, Joseph Ozbey ate lunch at L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, a pizzeria in Naples, made famous not only because of its legendary pizza, but because it was also featured in the film “Eat, Pray, Love,” starring Julia Roberts. The restaurant serves only two types of pizza Margherita or Marinara. A simple concept, but the restaurant made a big impression on Ozbey. In fact, he was so intrigued by the restaurant’s authenticity and preservation of tradition, Ozbey went back the same day for dinner. Only natural ingredients. No fancy toppings or elaborate menus.
A place where eating pizza is savored and appreciated.
Because of the pizzeria’s popularity, patrons take a number and wait, typically 40-45 minutes. While he waited, Ozbey shopped and explored the streets of old Naples and then returned for what he calls the ideal Neapolitan pizza—a delicious sauce, fresh basil and fresh mozzarella, and a slightly charred crust. Perfection. And it was this authentic dining experience in Naples, the birthplace of pizza, that inspired a restaurant nearly 4,800 miles away: Cugino Forno.
Ozbey and his cousins, Yilmaz Guver and Adam Aksoy, opened Cugino Forno at Revolution Mill in Greensboro in March 2017. Two years later, the cousins recently opened a second location in Winston-Salem. Located in Bailey Power Plant next to Incendiary Brewing Co., Cugino Forno brings authentic Neapolitan pizza to the Innovation Quarter and treats patrons to an Italian experience, but without the hefty price tag that comes with a transatlantic crossing.
When I see people leaving with a smile on their face, it just makes my day.
Joseph Ozbey
Why the Twin City? “The answer is actually very simple,” Ozbey says. “Our customers and our friends requested it. We received so many messages, phone calls, text messages and emails saying, ‘You should come to Winston,’ and so here we are.”
The cousins know that a great experience is about so much more than great, authentic Italian pizza (although they have that in spades). To them, inviting people to their restaurant is like inviting them into their homes, and they treat their customers like family.
“We wanted to start something where we could truly serve the best pizza and the best salads with the best customer service,” Ozbey says. “I want people to say ‘wow’ when they leave. ‘Wow’ with the food, ingredients, the customer service, the experience.”
Josephy Ozbey, Cugino Forno
An Italian Experience
Look for the Carolina-blue Vespa and two pastel-colored bicycles near the main entrance of Cugino Forno—a nod to scooter- and bike-friendly Naples.
“We really want people to feel like they’re in Italy when they come here,” Ozbey says. “But you don’t need to bring your passports. You don’t need to get a flight. It’s an escape.”
It’s no coincidence that both Cugino Forno locations are in renovated historic buildings. Ozbey’s vision, restaurants with character and charisma, wouldn’t work well in a modern space. The blemished walls invoke nostalgia, and Italy is after all, “Old Country.”
In Italian, cugino means cousin. Forno? It means oven, named for the focal point inside the 5,800-square-foot restaurant—two 7,000-pound wood-fired ovens, handmade in Naples. Fueled by hickory and oak, the ovens are never extinguished and with heat that reaches up to 1,100 degrees, pizzas are cooked in a remarkable 90 seconds—don’t blink, or you just might miss your dinner being cooked right in front of you.
The pizzeria’s walls are simply adorned with colorful flags and wide-screen TVs for soccer matches, giving the place a very European feel. A colorful row of soccer jerseys hangs from the ceiling while freshly split wood for the ovens sits near pallets of imported flour and an abundance of canned tomatoes.
“Our ingredients, I can confidently say, are the best ingredients money can buy from around the world,” Ozbey proudly states.
Most of those ingredients come directly from Naples and the surrounding area. The flour comes from a third-generation mill founded in 1924, and the San Marzano tomatoes are so delicious you can eat them right out of the can, according to Ozbey.
You’ll find 12 specialty pizzas on the menu, including classic Margeritha and Marinara. Meat lovers will enjoy the Supremo Italiano with pepperoni, Italian sausage and ham, but there’s also a veggie pizza and the Bianca with ricotta, basil, garlic and buffalo mozzarella, the mainstay ingredient for all of Cugino Forno’s pies.
For lighter fare, guests can try one of the salads such as the Verona with a fresh spring mix, a homemade apricot dressing, bleu cheese and blueberries, or the Caprese, a simple Italian salad sans greens with tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, fresh basil and olive oil.
And for dessert?
“Sometimes people talk more about our cannoli than our pizza,” Ozbey says with a laugh.
The ever-popular cannoli are made in-house, and cakes and cupcakes are made locally as well. And Italian ice cream lovers, will find imported gelato prominently displayed in a rotating freezer with an assortment of flavors.
But there’s more to Cugino Forno than its authentic Neapolitan pizza and desserts. Dining at Cugino Forno is an experience designed to encourage connections.
“Everything tastes better when people are together,” Ozbey says. “We want people to sit together. When I think of my childhood, all the good memories, everything great happened around the dining room table.”
Like the Greensboro location, patrons at Cugino Forno sit at long picnic-style tables designed for up to 10 people instead of more intimate seating. Ozbey says the arrangement works well because it sparks conversation, even friendships. It’s a scenario he sees frequently, especially when two families who don’t know each other sit at the same table or near each other.
“At first, the kids start talking to each other. Then, the moms and dads start talking to each other. I think that’s just amazing.”
Even the food is meant to be shared between families and friends, and the portions are generous.
“People are coming here with their hard-earned money,” Ozbey says. “They are expecting something nice, something good. We’d rather have people take food home or share it instead of wondering why the portions are small.”
In addition to ample seating inside the restaurant, there’s outdoor seating in the Coal Pit of the former power plant, an ideal location for people working and living in the Innovation Quarter and downtown Winston-Salem to each lunch or dinner and spend time with colleagues, friends and family. And with Incendiary Brewing Co. as a next-door neighbor, the location will undoubtedly become a hotspot for meeting new people.
The restaurant is not only a place for customers to make connections, but being a successful entrepreneur means fostering meaningful relationships, too. Ozbey is appreciative of not only the friendships he builds with customers, but also with his staff.
“If you open a business and hire 10 people, automatically, you add another 10 people to your family,” Ozbey says. “You become a family. They bring something different to your life … different cultures and backgrounds, and they are family.”
Owning his own business comes with risks, good days and bad days, but overall, Ozbey can’t imagine doing anything else, and his passion for Cugino Forno is evident. He loves what he does.
“When I see people coming here, having a delicious slice of pizza and leaving with a smile on their face, it just makes my day.”
Cugino Forno is open 11 am to 9 pm…or until they are out of dough. For more information, visit cuginoforno.com, follow them on Facebook and Instagram or call 336-448-0102.
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Bot or human?
Most websites can't tell – and that's a major security problem.
By Edward Pollitt on Apr 17 2019 12:06 PM
Australian website owners are clueless as to whether their sites are being accessed by humans or bots and it’s creating an unprecedented security threat.
Web security company Kasada has released its Bots Down Under report, giving insight into how bots are causing a spike in credential abuse attacks, which in 2018 represented the third-largest source of reported data breaches.
“Bot visibility” emerges as a significant factor in the report, with the revelation that 90% of Australia’s top 250 websites (according to Alexa rankings) are unable to differentiate a customer from a bot on login pages.
Additionally, 86% of the websites failed to detect a script loading the login page, leaving them vulnerable to “credential abuse” attacks.
This illustrated a lack of security controls in place to differentiate between human users and scripts, the report claims, and attributes these high results to the relative infancy of credential abuse attacks resulting in businesses not yet being adjusted.
It also hypothesises that businesses mistakenly believe that their web application firewall will prevent such attacks and that companies are relying on reactive controls such as password locks to prevent such attacks.
“Attacks, particularly credential abuse, have the capacity to comprise everything from a customer’s personal information to business and even national security,” said Kasada CEO Sam Crowther.
“As many aspects of our lives are global – and much of our information now lives online – this shift places tremendous emphasis on businesses to protect and defend against potential threats.”
The study also captured data from more than 100 attacks to gain insight into “bot geography”.
And the findings revealed that most credential abuse attacks are local, with 90% of the attacks sent via Australian ISP networks.
What’s the cost?
The report estimates that the average cost of a credential abuse attack now sits at around $2 million per breach, when time, compensation and customer churn are considered.
Additionally, the reputational damage of reporting data is now a significant ‘cost’ for impacted businesses.
Edward Pollitt
Edward Pollitt After starting as an intern for Information Age in 2017, Edward is now a full-time journalist with the publication. He covers a range of topics that relate to the technology sector, with a particular interest in start-ups, digital transformation and cyber security.
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Fungal and Parasitic Infections
Phlebotomus papatasi Saliva Inhibits Protein Phosphatase Activity and Nitric Oxide Production by Murine Macrophages
John Waitumbi, Alon Warburg
John Waitumbi
Department of Parasitology, The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Alon Warburg
Leishmania parasites, transmitted by phlebotomine sand flies, are obligate intracellular parasites of macrophages. The sand fly Phlebotomus papatasi is the vector of Leishmania major, a causative agent of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Old World, and its saliva exacerbates parasite proliferation and lesion growth in experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis. Here we show thatP. papatasi saliva contains a potent inhibitor of protein phosphatase 1 and protein phosphatase 2A of murine macrophages. We further demonstrate that P. papatasi saliva down regulates expression of the inducible nitric oxide synthase gene and reduces nitric oxide production in murine macrophages. Partial biochemical characterization of the protein phosphatase and nitric oxide inhibitor indicated that it is a small, ethanol-soluble molecule resistant to boiling, proteolysis, and DNase and RNase treatments. We suggest that the P. papatasi salivary protein phosphatase inhibitor interferes with the ability of activated macrophages to transmit signals to the nucleus, thereby preventing up regulation of the induced nitric oxide synthase gene and inhibiting the production of nitric oxide. Since nitric oxide is toxic to intracellular parasites, the salivary protein phosphatase inhibitor may be the mechanism by whichP. papatasi saliva exacerbates cutaneous leishmaniasis.
The leishmaniases are sand fly-borne parasitic diseases that affect large populations in the palaearctic and tropical regions of the world (1). Two major disease types, cutaneous and visceral, are recognized in humans. In cutaneous leishmaniasis, parasites are restricted to dermal lesions that develop at the site of the infectious bite and usually heal spontaneously (29). In the visceral form, parasites invade the spleen, liver, and bone marrow, causing a serious, life-threatening systemic disease (3).
Sand flies become infected with leishmaniae when they ingest blood containing parasitized macrophages (Mφ). In the alimentary canal of the phlebotomine sand fly, leishmaniae transform into, and develop as extracellular, flagellated promastigotes. They reproduce by binary fission and go through a series of developmental stages culminating with the generation of infective-stage metacyclic promastigotes that are inoculated into the vertebrate host’s skin as the female sand fly sucks blood (21). Once in the skin, parasites rapidly invade Mφ and replicate as intracellular amastigotes. Their entry into the Mφ and survival inside the phagolysosome are made possible by a number of strategies that subvert the Mφ’s scavenger functions (reviewed in references 8 and14). Despite these qualities, experimental inoculations with low doses of promastigotes fail to initiate infections in susceptible mouse strains. However, when similarly small numbers are inoculated by vector sand flies, infections flourish. Higher efficiency of transmission by vectors is a result of parasites being coinoculated with saliva.
Sand fly saliva has been shown to exacerbate experimental cutaneous lesions caused by several different Leishmania species (22, 25, 27, 30). This is probably a result of saliva inhibiting antigen presentation and reducing nitric oxide (NO) production by Leishmania-infected Mφ (9, 26) or enhancing interleukin-4 secretion by T lymphocytes (15). Most of the salivary factor(s) responsible for these phenomena have not been identified. One important molecule is undoubtedly maxadilan, a potent vasodilator that facilitates blood feeding by sand flies (13, 20). Maxadilan was also shown to modulate a number of immune functions in mice (18). However, maxadilan is found in the saliva of only one sand fly species, Lutzomyia longipalpis. Phlebotomus papatasi saliva, which exacerbates cutaneous leishmaniasis and reduces NO production, lacks maxadilan (29a).
The capacity of Mφ to respond to activation signals against intracellular pathogens during the nonimmune early phases of infection is crucial for determining whether the invading organisms proliferate or are eliminated (28). One strategy by which Mφ fight invasive organisms is via the production of the cytotoxic molecule NO (8, 14). In murine Mφ, the signaling process that leads to the activation of the induced nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) gene, and the subsequent production of NO is mediated by protein phosphatase 1 (PP-1) and PP-2A (4, 7). Here we report on the presence of a potent PP-1 and PP-2A inhibitor in the saliva of P. papatasi and its ability to down regulate the iNOS gene expression and inhibit NO production in activated murine Mφ.
Reagents.RPMI 1640 medium, fetal bovine serum, mouse recombinant gamma interferon (IFN-γ), okadaic acid (OA), the protein phosphatase (PP) assay kit, and the RNA isolation kit were purchased from GIBCO-BRL, Life Technologies. Ca2+- and Mg2+-free Hanks balanced salt solution (HBSS) and phenol-extracted Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were purchased from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, Mo.). [γ-32P]ATP (6,000 Ci/mmol) was purchased from Dupont NEN (Boston, Mass.). The reverse transcriptase (RT)-mediated PCR (RT-PCR) kit, Griess reagent, DNase I, and RNase A were purchased from Promega Corporation.
Sand fly rearing and collection of salivary gland lysate. P. papatasi was reared as described previously (17). Salivary glands from 3- to 6-day-old sand flies were dissected in Ca2+- and Mg2+-free HBSS and stored at −70°C. Before use, the glands were disrupted by repeated freeze-thawing in liquid nitrogen and centrifugation (10,000 ×g for 2 min). Complete disruption was verified microscopically, and the lysate was spun again at 10,000 ×g to pellet any debris.
Mice.Eight- to twelve-week-old C3H/HeN female mice were maintained in a National Institutes of Health-approved sterile pathogen-free animal facility.
Collection and culture of peritoneal exudate Mφ.Mφ were obtained from LPS-sensitive C3H/HeN inbred mice as described previously (7). Briefly, mice were stimulated with 2.0 ml of 3% thioglycolate injected intraperitoneally. Four days later, Mφ were harvested by peritoneal lavage using 10 ml of RPMI 1640 (GIBCO-BRL), washed in Ca2+- and Mg2+-free HBSS, and resuspended in RPMI 1640 containing 1% fetal bovine serum; 106 cells/well in 1.0 ml were seeded in 24-well plates. Mφ cultures were incubated at 37°C, 5% CO2, and 95% humidity for 90 min. To remove nonadherent cells, cultures were washed with serum-free RPMI 1640. Adherent Mφ were incubated in serum-free RPMI 1640 containing Mφ activators or inhibitors as described below.
For assessing iNOS gene expression, Mφ were activated by incubation for 8 h with LPS (25 ng/ml) and IFN-γ (25 U/ml) with or without saliva. For assessing NO production, activation of Mφ was achieved by incubation for 24 h with LPS (1 μg/ml) alone.
In vitro PP assay.About 2 × 107 adherent Mφ were washed in Ca2+- and Mg2+-free HBSS and lysed for 5 min on ice in 1 ml of lysis buffer (7). The cytoplasmic and nuclear fractions were separated by centrifugation at 1,000 × g for 2 min. The cytoplasmic fraction was aliquoted and immediately frozen at −70°C. PP activity in the extracts was determined (for 20 min at 34°C) by using a PP assay system (GIBCO) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. To distinguish between release of 32Pi and trichloroacetic acid-soluble 32P-labeled phosphopeptides, the 32Pi was complexed to ammonium molybdate and extracted with organic solvents (23). Various concentrations of sand fly salivary gland lysates or OA were incubated with Mφ extracts for 15 min at room temperature before the addition of 32P-labeled phosphorylase A.
To calculate PP-1 and PP-2A activity, 1.0 nM OA was added to the assay buffer. Since OA at this concentration totally inhibits PP-2A (50% inhibitory concentration [IC50] = 0.2 nM) in dilute Mφ extracts (2), the reduction in PP activity was attributed to PP-2A and the remaining activity was attributed to PP-1 (IC50 = 10 to 15 nM). To measure PP activity of the Mg2+-dependent PP-2C, the assay buffer contained 1 mM EGTA to inhibit PP-2B and contained 10 mM Mg2+ and 1 μM OA to inhibit PP-1 and PP-2A. To measure the activity of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent PP-2B, the assay buffer contained 0.1 mM Ca2+ and 0.5 μM OA.
Partial biochemical characterization of the PP-1 and PP-2A inhibitor.Salivary gland lysates were filtered in succession through membranes with different molecular size cutoffs (Amicon, Beverly, Mass.). The retentates and the filtrates were tested for inhibition of PP-1 and PP-2A activity and NO production as described above. To characterize the PP inhibitor component biochemically, salivary gland lysates were subjected to one of the following treatments: boiling for 10 min, proteolysis with trypsin (0.5 mg/ml) and chymotrypsin (0.5 mg/ml) at pH 7.5 and 37°C for 1 h followed by treatment with soybean trypsin inhibitor, proteolysis with proteinase K (100 μg/ml) for 3 h at 37°C followed by boiling for 10 min to inactivate the enzymes, or treatment with DNase 1 (10 U) and RNase A (10 μg/ml) at 37°C for 1 h. PP-1 and PP-2A inhibition was assayed as described above. Controls comprised all reaction components except the salivary gland lysates.
RNA isolation and RT-PCR.Total cellular RNA was extracted from control and treated cultures of Mφ by using a Trizol RNA isolation kit (GIBCO). Synthesis of the first-strand cDNA and the subsequent PCR were performed with an Access RT-PCR kit (Promega). Sense and antisense primers for the constitutively expressed hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HPRT) gene and iNOS mRNA were located on different exons to facilitate detection of possible contamination by genomic DNA (19). Two hundred nanograms of total RNA was used in 25 μl of RT-PCR buffer containing 1 mM MgSO4, 0.2 mM deoxynucleoside triphosphates, 50 pmol of sense and antisense primers, 1.25 U of avian myeloblastosis virus RT enzyme, and 1.25 U of Taq DNA polymerase. Reverse transcription was carried out at 48°C for 45 min followed by 40 amplification cycles of 94°C for 2 min, 60°C for 1 min, and 68°C for 2 min in a Biometra Thermocycler. The PCR products were electrophoresed on agarose gels and stained with ethidium bromide, and the UV image was captured and analyzed by using NIH Image computer graphics.
Nitrite analysis.The concentration of NO2 − that accumulated in the Mφ culture medium over 24 h was determined in a microplate assay using Griess reagent. Fifty microliters of the culture supernatant was mixed with an equal amount of 1% sulfanilamide in 5% phosphoric acid and incubated at room temperature for 5 min. Then 50 μl of 0.1%N-1-naphthylethylenediamine dihydrochloride in water was added, and the mixture was incubated for an additional 5 min. The absorbance at 550 nm was read with a microplate reader. NO2 − concentrations were determined by using sodium nitrite as a standard.
The Mφ cytosolic fraction exhibited high levels of PP activity, and dephosphorylation of 32P-phosphorylase A increased linearly up to a concentration of 40 μg of Mφ protein per ml (Fig.1, inset). Four enzymes, PP-1, PP-2A, PP-2B, and PP-2C, account for virtually all the phosphatase activity in mammalian cells (11). These enzymes can be differentiated biochemically on the basis of their sensitivity to specific inhibitors and divalent cation dependency (2, 4, 5). For example, OA reduces 50% of the PP-2A at a concentration of 0.2 nM (IC50 = 0.2 nM); complete inhibition is achieved at 1 nM. On the other hand, a 100-fold-higher concentration (10 to 15 nM) is required to inhibit PP-1. PP-2B is a Ca2+-dependent PP and is only weakly affected by OA. PP-2C is completely dependent on Mg2+ for activity and is uninhibited by OA. Therefore, to analyze the contribution of each of these four PPs to the total PP activity, we treated the Mφ cytosolic fraction with various concentrations of OA. At a concentration of 0.5 μM OA, in the presence of Ca2+ or Mg2+, no PP activity was detected, indicating that PP-2B and PP-2C were not significant contributors to overall PP activity. The addition of 1.0 nM OA to the Mφ cytosolic fraction inhibited activity by 21%. Since at this concentration OA inhibits all of the PP-2A activity, the remaining 79% was attributable to PP-1 (Fig. 2).
Inhibition of PP-1 and PP-2A activity by salivaryP. papatasi gland lysates. Mφ cytosolic fraction (12.5 μg/ml) was incubated with different concentrations of salivary gland lysate for 15 min at room temperature, and PP activity was assayed by using [γ-32P]ATP-labeled phosphorylase A as the substrate. Inset, PP activity from the cytosolic fraction of C3H/HeN mice Mφ as a function of Mφ-derived protein (1 mU = 1 nmol of phosphate released from phosphorylase A/min/ml).
PP-1 and PP-2A activity in Mφ cytosolic fraction. Column 1 shows total PP activity in 250 ng of untreated Mφ cytosolic fraction; column 2 shows complete PP-1 and PP-2A inhibition by 0.5 μM OA; column 3 shows PP-1 activity after inhibition of PP-2A with 1.0 nm OA; column 4 shows remaining activity after addition of twoP. papatasi salivary glands (gln); column 5 shows PP-1 activity after addition of two glands and 1.0 nm OA. Data shown are means ± standard deviations of three experiments.
P. papatasi saliva contains a powerful inhibitor of PP-1 and PP-2A. P. papatasi salivary gland lysates from male as well as female flies inhibited PP-1 and PP-2A activity in a dose-dependent manner (Fig. 1). An extract of two salivary glands (=1 μg of protein) was as potent as 12.5 nM OA (data not shown). To measure inhibition of PP-1 activity by saliva, assays were conducted in the presence of 1.0 nM OA and any inhibition below that produced by OA was attributed to inhibition of PP-1 (Fig. 2). Controls included sand fly washing solution, HBSS, and material extruded from sand flies during dissection. None had any inhibitory effect on Mφ PP activity.
Protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation reactions, mediated by protein kinases and PPs, respectively, trigger signal transduction events that control diverse cellular responses to both internal and external signals (4, 10). Here we demonstrate thatP. papatasi saliva contains a potent, dose-dependent inhibitor of PP-1 and PP-2A that is distinct from OA. While PP-2A is significantly more sensitive to inhibition by OA (2, 5), it is PP-1 that is more sensitive to P. papatasi saliva (Fig. 2). This is the first report demonstrating the ability of a blood-sucking insect’s saliva to specifically interfere with protein phosphorylation, a key process in eukaryotic cell signal transduction.
P. papatasi saliva inhibits expression of the iNOS gene.Levels of cellular NO are directly controlled by the production of iNOS enzyme. This is because availability of NO cannot be regulated by storage, release, or uptake (12). Indeed, in our experiments, normal resting Mφ did not express detectable levels of iNOS mRNA (data not shown). However, once activated with LPS, Mφ expressed very high levels of this gene (Fig.3).
Inhibition of iNOS mRNA expression by salivary gland lysates of P. papatasi. Mφ were treated for 8 h with IFN-γ (25 U/ml) and LPS (25 ng/ml) in the presence or absence of saliva. Total RNA was extracted, subjected to RT-PCR, electrophoresed, and analyzed by optical densitometry. Lanes 1 to 4, HPRT; lanes 5 to 8, iNOS. Lanes marked +S include saliva. Results are from one representative experiment of three. M, size markers.
The signaling process for the activation of the iNOS gene and the subsequent production of nitric oxide in murine Mφ is facilitated by PP-1 and PP-2A (7). Since saliva of P. papatasi inhibited PP-1 and PP-2A (Fig. 1 and 2), we used RT-PCR to examine whether expression of the iNOS gene in activated Mφ is inhibited by saliva. Results show that the addition of oneP. papatasi salivary gland to 106 Mφ caused a 50% reduction in iNOS mRNA (Fig. 3). The housekeeping geneHPRT was also amplified from each RNA preparation to enable comparisons of the PCR products in different samples.
P. papatasi saliva reduces NO production.We next examined whether the observed down regulation of the iNOS gene by saliva would result in less NO being produced. Mφ were incubated in serum-free RPMI 1640 containing IFN-γ and LPS with or without saliva. The NO2 − concentration was measured after 24 h. As little as 0.5 gland/ml of P. papatasisaliva caused a 30 to 40% reduction in NO2 −secretion by Mφ activated with either Leishmania parasites or LPS and IFN-γ (Fig. 4).
Inhibition of PP activity (A) and NO production (B) by whole P. papatasi saliva and by different size fractions obtained by filtration through molecular size cutoff filters. S, whole saliva; <3, <3-kDa filtrate; 100, 100-kDa retentate. (A) PP-1 and PP-2A inhibition assays were performed with 250 ng of untreated Mφ cytosolic fraction and two gland equivalents per assay. (B) For NO analysis, Mφ (106 cells/ml/well) were activated by using LPS in the presence of different fractions for 24 h. NO2 − was assayed as described in Materials and Methods. Data shown are means ± standard deviations of triplicate experiments.
While the propensity of sand fly saliva to inhibit NO production has been documented previously (9), our results show that this reduction is a result of saliva interfering with iNOS gene expression. This effect is probably generated via the inhibition of protein dephosphorylation events in mouse Mφ exposed to P. papatasi saliva.
In nature P. papatasi sand flies transmit cutaneous leishmaniasis by inoculating an estimated 10 to 700 Leishmania major promastigotes into the skin (31). However, experimental inoculation of susceptible mice with comparably low numbers of L. major promastigotes (100 to 500) does not cause disease but rather promotes immunity (6, 16). Why do low numbers of fly-transmitted parasites cause disease whereas syringe-inoculated parasites do not? It has been demonstrated thatP. papatasi salivary gland lysates enhance the development of cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions (26). One probable means by which saliva promotes parasite survival in Mφ is via the inhibition of NO production. Supportive evidence shows that inhibition of iNOS expression in the skins of chronically infected asymptotic resistant mice reactivates latent L. majorinfections (24). Therefore, the down regulation of iNOS expression and the resultant reduction in NO production caused byP. papatasi saliva may similarly promote proliferation of amastigotes.
Partial biochemical characterization of the salivary PP-1/2A inhibitor.For fractionation, 50 glands were lysed and spun filtered through Amicon microconcentrator filters as described in Materials and Methods. The retentate of the different filters and the 3-kDa filtrate were resuspended in HBSS, and two gland equivalents were used for the PP and NO assays. Only the 3-kDa filtrate showed inhibitory activity to PP-1/2A and NO (Fig. 4). The PP inhibition was dose dependent (data not shown). In addition, the PP-1/2A inhibitor was soluble in 100% ethanol. It was resistant to boiling for 10 min and was unaffected by proteases (trypsin and proteinase K) and nucleases (RNase and DNase). Hence, the PP-1/2A and NO inhibitory activities are probably mediated by the same small molecule (<3 kDa) which is neither a polypeptide nor a nucleic acid. Its exact characteristics await further clarification.
The data presented in this report illustrate the intricate nature of the mechanisms by which sand fly saliva enhances disease transmission. Pharmacologically active molecules, such as maxadilan in L. longipalpis or the described PP-1/2A inhibitor in P. papatasi saliva, probably evolved to facilitate blood feeding. However, as with many other biomolecules, salivary factors also exhibit other activities. In this case, Leishmania parasites have capitalized on the immunomodulatory effects of certain salivary factors to facilitate their establishment in the hostile environment of the vertebrate skin.
This research was supported in part by grant 363/96-1 from The Israel Science Foundation and by The Bruno Goldberg Foundation (grants to A.W.). Additional support was provided by National Institutes of Health grant AI36382 (to G. C. Lanzaro, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Tex.) and AID grant TA-MOU-96-C14-142. J.W. is the recipient of a Golda Meir postdoctoral fellowship.
We thank J. M. C. Ribeiro, J. Shlomai, and M. P. Barrett for many useful suggestions.
Received 20 October 1997.
Returned for modification 25 November 1997.
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In the Church there are many Portuguese inscriptions of 1866, 1871 and 1955, etc. According to one of these inscriptions in Portuguese, in one corner of the Church, Governor Senhor Dom Luis Caetano de Almeida ordered the sails of the Baptismal font in which he was baptized in the year 1708 and they were executed in the year 1742.
To reach the Church of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Panjim, one has to climb 100 steps arranged in a majestic fashion, for the Church sits majestically atop a hillock dominating the heart of the city and offering a bird’s eye view of the main square.
On the 8th of December, the feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception is celebrated at the Church in great pomp and religious fervor. The church is artfully lit at night and a lively fair occupies the entire church square. The feast of the Immaculate Conception is one of the major Christian festivals in Goa. The feast celebrates the belief in the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The feast is preceded by novenas for nine days. The day before the novenas begin is the fama wherein the priest blesses a banner which has the image of Our Lady. And on the feast day masses are held throughout the day with the feast mass sometime in the morning. After the feast mass, a procession is taken out which winds its way through the stalls before returning to the church. And the brass band which accompanies the procession brings back many a memory of the feasts gone by. After the evening mass, fireworks are displayed. Many people witnessed the dazzling fireworks as they have been doing for the last many years. A band plays festive music and enthralls the crowd in the late evening while the ubiquitous chanawalas and flower and wax candle sellers tug on sleeves to buy these items as the faithful entered the Church to seek blessings and favors of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception.
There is a 3 day fete where people from all walks of life come to witness the sheer splendor of the Church. There are stalls selling miniatures, souvenirs, handicrafts, garments, sweets, food and drink. The traditional hajekars who sell haje, kaddio-boddio, laddus, capam and grams, to vendors selling bed sheets, bedspreads and clothes are all to be seen during this feast.
Like how a candle placed in the dark, unites and emits a beautiful kaleidoscope of white, yellow and orange so does the Immaculate Conception Church resembles this against the backdrop of the black sky. As soon as evening sets in, this huge monument is transformed into a glowing specter. Complete with tiny electric bulbs, the entire Church is lit up in the eeriness of the night. During the feast the whole church is beautifully decorated inside and the exterior is very artfully lit. Its illuminated view is a visual feast to the eyes
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Written by: Matt Darst and Adam Isen
While the notion of “smart cities” traditionally encompasses improved digital information sharing and responsive governance to improve public services, the definition is ever evolving. Cities and their partner agencies, including non-profit organizations, continue to shape the idea of a smart city, expanding the concept in new and innovative ways.
Through “adaptive reuse,” the City of Indianapolis, Downtown Indy, Inc., and the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP) are seeking to reframe how we think about smart cities through the Street Reach Indy program. Street Reach Indy is a collaborative and sustainable effort to repurpose parking meters to end homelessness by funneling donations to services like housing and workforce assistance. As Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett noted recently, “Men and women struggling with homelessness deserve more than spare change.”
Instead of giving money directly to panhandlers, visitors to Downtown Indianapolis can feed their spare change into Street Reach Indy parking meters. Street Reach Indy harnesses the cumulative power of those individual donations to fund services that can make the biggest difference in the fight against homelessness.
Between September 2017 and September 2019, Street Reach Indy has raised over $250,000 to provide assistance to 485 individuals experiencing homelessness while increasing community engagement around the issue.
Conduent Transportation is proud to support Street Reach Indy. As the manager of curbside operations in Indianapolis, we’re uniquely positioned to help defray administrative costs. Through our ParkIndy program and partners like Flowbird, we’ve donated dozens of parking meters to the initiative. Further, we provide the labor to maintain meters, collect donations, and count coins on behalf of Street Reach Indy. We also worked with Parkmobile to enable pay-by-cell donations to benefit the campaign.
We also promote CHIP through direct donations and require our subcontractors to donate a percentage of their Indianapolis-based fees to support local charities. To date, these initiatives, including direct and in kind donations, have led to nearly $50,000 in donations to support Street Reach Indy.
In September, our ParkIndy program received the 2019 Community Collaborator Award from CHIP. The annual award recognized us for our efforts to support Street Reach Indy. We’re both honored and humbled by the award, and we’re excited to continue to support such a meaningful and life-changing endeavor.
If you’d like to make a difference in Indianapolis, please donate to support the Street Reach Indy program or sponsor a meter.
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How to help employees find meaning in their work
November 8, 2017 Richard Justenhoven
Meaningfulness drives performance
When we find our work meaningful and worthwhile, we’re likely to be more productive, feel greater commitment to and engagement with our employers and generally feel more satisfied overall with our jobs.
No wonder then that businesses want to know how to foster this sense of meaningfulness at work.
It seems that believing that the work you do has benefit to others – or ‘task significance’ – has a correlational link to finding work ‘meaningful’. But of course this correlational link doesn’t mean that task significance – or perceiving it is of benefit to others – causes the feelings of meaningfulness. That said, a new longitudinal study suggests if we see from the outset that our work has benefits to others, this leads us to viewing our work as increasingly meaningful.
In his research, Blake Allan asked university alumni to complete a survey about their job at three time points (initial benchmark, three months later, six months later). At each point, the participants were asked to rate their agreement with four statements about the ‘task significance’ of their work (ie it having benefit to others) – and also their agreement with six statements about how ‘meaningful’ they find their work to be.
Allan found that:
A greater belief in task significance at an earlier time point is followed by increasing ratings of work meaningfulness three months later – regardless of previous meaningfulness levels, and participants’ age, gender or social class.
But he also found that finding work to be more meaningful at an earlier time point was not associated with seeing it as more beneficial to others at later survey points.
There are clearly some limitations in this study; the participant group was made up predominantly of white people of higher social class but nonetheless it gives food for thought.
What does this mean for employers?
It’s clear that if, as employers, we help employees to see the benefit of their work and its impact on others from the get-go, it follows that they will over time find their work more meaningful. This, in turn, brings its own benefits to both the individual and the organisation.
There are many ways in which the direct link between a person’s work and its impact on others can be made. Let’s start getting creative – and making these links and encouraging direct contact between employees.
Allan, B. A. (2017). Task significance and meaningful work: A longitudinal study. Journal of Vocational Behavior. Volume 102, October 2017, Pages 174-182.
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Kruger’s millions – fair game?
Over the weekend, a Sunday Times report said government has agreed to pay out more than R1-billion to settle a land claim against the five-star Mala Mala reserve in Mpumalanga.
The report said the deal involves 15 000 people who live in several villages about 5km from the Kruger National Park.
This report was, as is the norm for that newspaper, high on adjectives and low on specifics. I quote:
"The Sunday Times understands that (Mala Mala owner Michael) Rattray and (Land Reform Minister Gugile) Nkwinti have already agreed on the terms of the deal about to be signed.
“Rattray's lawyer, Patrick Falconer, confirmed that 'the owners and the Minister are indeed in the same ballpark on the value of the land and improvements', but declined to specify an amount.”
I don't exactly trust the Sunday Times’ record with regard to the way they report issues of government generally. It was not so long ago that the paper reported (incorrectly) that Transnet had sold the land under the sea at Table Bay between Cape Town and Robben Island to investors from London and Dubai. I've been sceptical ever since.
So let us put aside the question of the accuracy of the report for now and ask the more crucial questions – what is the value of Mala Mala and how much should we taxpayers pay for it?
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Business Day reported in April that the current landowners value the land, which covers about 13 000 hectares, at just over R900m, or R70 000 per hectare. The report also said the Minister's department was prepared to pay R480 million.
The 13 000 hectares are to be shared among 15 000 people which works out to 8 500 square metres per person. This all sounds reasonable.
But here's my problem with these supposedly reasonable propositions: the land at Mala Mala is pretty worthless.
Think about it: I sell you 8 500 square metres of land in the Kruger Park for R59 000. What can you do with it?
You can't farm it because it has been allocated to the reserve. If you could farm it, there is unlikely to be a water source sufficient for agricultural needs. There is no electricity, no road infrastructure, no ready supply of labour…
So really, one needs to pool the land with all the others and continue operating Mala Mala as the internationally renowned business it is.
Which then begs the question: how much is that business worth?
There are 18 rooms, 7 suites, and 8 khayas at Mala Mala according to their website. Rooms at Mala Mala go for between R6 000 and R14 000 per night, according to the Sunday Times article.
Working on 33 total units at an average price of R10 000 per night assuming 50% occupancy throughout the year, I expect Mala Mala would earn R60 million for the year.
But wait! We have not yet paid for staff, electricity bill, water bill, wear and tear, maintenance, marketing, absenteeism, legal fees, transport – say, R20 million for that.
Plus, government wants to keep the current owners on in a management capacity. I expect their salaries to eat up a further R5 million per year.
So, my extremely optimistic projection for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization would be around R35 million per year.
Assuming I took 1 billion rand and lent it out at prime rate, I would earn 8,5% interest or R85 million per year. If I took only R411 million and lent it out at the same rate, I would earn my R35 million without the headache of needing to manage the business.
Either way, if I take R35 million per year and divide it among 15 000 owners, they each end up with R194 per month in income.
Really? We are busting a gut to undo the injustices of apartheid so that we can pay R194 per month to victims?
Even if Mala Mala generated R70 million a year, the amount per claimant is still less than R500 per month. Is it worth the effort?
There are two things in the world that smell like fish (says the old jungle saying). One of them is fish.
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The Division of Forestry and Natural Resources within the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design at West Virginia University (http://davis.wvu.edu), Morgantown, WV is pleased to invite applications for a nine-month tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Wildlife and Fisheries Resources (WFR) program. The position will focus on fisheries ecology with expertise in inland fisheries management and aquatic sciences. The position has a projected starting date of August 14, 2020.
Responsibilities : The successful candidate will teach the equivalent of approximately three courses per year. This will be fulfilled by team-teaching (50% each) the undergraduate Wildlife & Fisheries Techniques class and the undergraduate Advanced Wildlife and Fisheries Management (capstone) class annually. An undergraduate Fish Management course will be taught annually. Examples of other possible upper-level courses include Aquaculture, Ichthyology, Wildlife and Fisheries Population Ecology, and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology, according to the candidate's expertise and needs of the program. The candidate will be expected to develop a vibrant externally funded, nationally and internationally recognized research program that complements existing program strengths in wildlife and fisheries ecology. The incumbent will advise undergraduate students, mentor graduate students, and publish research results in refereed journals. The candidate will be expected to collaborate with federal and state resource agencies to promote long-term partnerships focused on fish conservation and water resources.
Program: The Wildlife and Fisheries Resources program at West Virginia University is one of five program areas in the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources (https://forestry.wvu.edu/). The program offers degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctoral levels. The program is housed within the Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design.
Location: The main campus of West Virginia University is located in Morgantown, a small city of 31,000 in the Appalachian Mountains on West Virginia's northern border adjacent to Pennsylvania. Morgantown was rated No. 1 Small City in America by BizJournals.com. Business Insider named Morgantown the ninth best college town in America. West Virginia University is the state's major research, doctoral degree granting, and land-grant institution and is one of only 130 institutions to hold a R1, or research very high status by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It serves over 29,000 students in 193-degree programs offered by 15 academic schools and colleges. The Division of Forestry and Natural Resources is home to more than 35 Faculty, and 600 undergraduate and graduate students. The Wildlife and Fisheries Resources Program is home to 250 undergraduate students and 35 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Additional information is available at https://forestry.wvu.edu/ .
Salary: Salary for the position is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Application: West Virginia University encourages applications from and nominations of women, disabled individuals, veterans, and members of minority groups. Applicants may apply for the position at http://careers.wvu.edu. Navigate to the position announcement by searching on the position title or the job number 11912 .
Upload the following documents to complete your application for this Assistant Professor Fisheries Biology/Ecology position:
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Inquiries for additional information to be directed to: Dr. Robert Burns (Robert.Burns@mail.wvu.edu) 304-293-6781.
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What Is a DIM Statement in Excel?
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DIM is a computer “word” in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), a special subset of Visual Basic built into Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office programs to develop macros.
DIM was part of the early versions of BASIC (Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) computer language developed by two mathematicians, John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtzasat Dartmouth College, in 1964.
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DIM originally stood for “Dimension” referring to the size of arrays (matrices of variables) or the type of variable used. More commonly, programmers refer to DIM as “declaring” the type of variable.
In versions of Visual Basic, including VBA in Excel, if the type of variable is not declared, it defaults to a “variant” type. When the code executes, if the program has to determine how to best use the variable, it may slow down the application.
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This 17-year-old Runs a Nonprofit to Help Provide Bikes to Needy Kids
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by: Ariel Min – Circa – It all started when Jeremy Clerc was 14. On a family vacation trip to Florida, Clerc met a man nicknamed “Jack the Bikeman,” who fixes thousands of bikes and gives them away to needy children. This left a strong impression on Clerc, so he decided to help.
Jack the Bikeman, whose real name is Jack Hairston, has been doing this for years from his shop in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“[Jack] explained to me that he would fix up these bicycles all year long for the end of the year to give them to children,” Clerc said.
Clerc started out by volunteering at the shop to help fix the bikes. But when he returned home to New York City, he decided to find a way to help financially.
Clerc came up with a business plan to sell some of the bikes Hairston fixed and return the profit to the charity. The result was Kidz on Bikes, the nonprofit he’s been running for the past three years.
Clerc said he has raised thousands of dollars for Hairston, not only through the bike sales, but also through fundraising events he’s hosted at his high school and other schools around New York.
“Living in the city my whole life, taking out my bicycle in Central Park was really my only escape to nature,” Clerc said.
He plans on taking his passion for bicycles and helping others to a bigger scale when he goes off to college later this year.
Last year, Jack and his team were able to give out around 1,400 bicycles to needy children during the holidays.
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Written by Jake Radio on December 8, 2019
Juice Wrld, the talented young rapper and singer whose career was just taking off, is dead after suffering a seizure in Chicago’s Midway airport … TMZ has learned.
Juice’s flight from California landed early Sunday morning and, after deplaning … witnesses tell us he suffered the seizure while walking through the airport. Law enforcement sources say he was bleeding from the mouth when paramedics got on scene.
We’re told Juice — real name Jarad Anthony Higgins — was still conscious when he was transported by Chicago Fire. However, he was pronounced dead a short time later at the hospital. The cause of death is unclear at this time.
Juice Wrld’s major-label career was just starting after he almost climbed to the top of the charts in 2018. His first huge hit came in summer 2018 with “Lucid Dreams” … which made it to #2.
His song, “All Girls Are the Same,” also became a hit when Lil Yachty was featured on the remix.
In fact, it was that song’s success that drew the attention of Interscope Records … which signed him to a multi-million dollar contract. One month after releasing his first studio album, “Goodbye & Good Riddance” … Juice released the 2-track EP, “Too Soon,” as a tribute to Lil Peep and XXXTentacion.
Juice also had a feature on Travis Scott‘s enormous “AstroWorld” album, singing the hook on the track, “No Bystanders.”
Higgins’ stage name was reportedly inspired by Tupac Shakur‘s performance in the 1992 film, “Juice.”
Juice Wrld just turned 21 last Monday.
4:03 PM PT — Footage of what appears to be Juice Wrld’s final moments in the air and finally on the ground is starting to surface, and the rapper seemed to be in good spirits before his death.
DJ Akademiks shared some video captured by guys who were on a private jet with Juice as he was airborne from L.A. to Chicago late Saturday night/early Sunday morning.
DJ Akademiks
✔@Akademiks
This was Juice Wrld as he got on the plane that took him to Chicago last night. He was in high spirits and looked happy.
12:51 PM – Dec 8, 2019
In the first video, you see Juice clowning around with his buddies … one of whom he throws water on as the guy’s fast asleep. He wasn’t mad about it though — all in good fun.
More footage of Juice Wrld on his private jet which was headed to Chicago. Seems like everything was good and everyone including him was in high spirits until he landed.
3:39 PM – Dec 8, 2019
A second video appears to show the crew landing at Chicago’s Midway airport, which would mark Juice’s actual last moments on this Earth. In the clip, you see him hanging out with one of his buds in the back — apparently fully conscious and alert as they look at something together — possibly a phone. Soon afterward, he would suffer a seizure and later die at the hospital.
9:55 AM PT — One of the songs on Juice’s “Too Soon” EP was called “Legends” and it has a pretty prophetic lyric. As we said, the track was about Lil Peep and XXXTentacion’s deaths. In the song, he raps, “What’s the 27 club? We ain’t making it past 21.”
The song and EP were released on June 19, 2018 … the day after XXX was murdered in South Florida. Juice Wrld and XXXTentacion recorded a track called, “where did u go?” … which was released in July 2018.
9:42 AM PT — Juice’s fellow artists are waking up to the shocking news. Lil Nas X posted about losing yet another “young talented rising” artist.
✔@LilNasX
rip juice. so sad how often this is happening lately to young talented rising artists.
9:09 AM – Dec 8, 2019
And, Camila Cabello had a single emoji reaction to Juice’s death.
✔@Camila_Cabello
#juicewrld
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Tie-down roper Shane Hanchey wins another round at Wrangler NFR
NFR Release - December 9, 2019
LAS VEGAS – Before the start of the 2019 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, tie-down roper Shane Hanchey had a good feeling about how things were going to unfold for him.
So far, the Sulphur, La., cowboy has been right.
Hanchey won his second round of the week, clocking a 7.5-second run in Round 4 before 16,813 spectators Sunday night at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Hanchey also won Round 1 with a 7.6-second time and placed second in Round 3 with a 7.1-second effort. The only blemish on Hanchey’s 2019 Wrangler NFR was his no-time in Round 2.
Hanchey remains the leader in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $185,389.
“I had a great calf,” Hanchey said. “I had to take others’ word for it because I didn’t think it was a great calf, but it was. Riley Pruitt ran him for the first run and Tyler Milligan tied him this morning and said, ‘I’ve been wanting to run that calf all week.’ That gave me some last-minute confidence before the grand entry, and I’m glad it worked out.”
Hanchey did his homework before making his Round 4 run.
“Since the reruns have started and these calves were roped in Round 1, you can watch a video and talk to other contestants because that’s what’s so cool about rodeo – we’re not competing against each other, we’re competing against and with the calf,” Hanchey said. “Riley gave me some good information, and it worked out. You’ve got to pay attention to them. You can’t just nod, go and react. Now that the reruns have started, you have a better idea what they’re going to do in the arena.”
Hanchey’s no stranger to success in Las Vegas. This is his 10th appearance at the Wrangler NFR, highlighted by his 2013 world championship. That year, Hanchey also set the average record with an 80.1-second time on 10 head.
However, Hanchey knows every NFR trip is different and mental toughness counts.
“All of us want to do well, not only for us but our families,” he said. “We’ve put an extended amount of pressure on ourselves, it can be a roller coaster for sure.
“My first thought is I want my horse to do well in the box and I want to get a good start. After that, roping the neck. For me, when I rope the neck, everything else is reaction. We’ve done so much it’s repetition and muscle memory.”
Stetson Wright adds to Wrangler NFR memories with second win
Bull rider Stetson Wright’s rookie season seems to get better with each passing day.
Wright, 20, won his second round of the Wrangler NFR, recording a 91-point ride on Painted Pony Championship Rodeo’s Holy Holly in Round 4.
Wright also was victorious in Round 1 with a 91-point trip on 4L & Diamond S Rodeo’s Monte Walsh.
“I guess I’m just drawing good, and everyone told me to quit using the word ‘lucky,’ but I feel like I am riding good, and tonight I told myself to finish,” Wright said.
Although competing in the Thomas & Mack Center can be nerve-wracking, Wright wasn’t going to let the magnitude of the moment faze him.
“Before my ride, I was loose and cool, and it was the least tense I’ve been,” Wright said. “I was joking and having fun, and everything felt good. I was joking around in the chute too, and just happy to be here. The last couple days I was making it a job and it’s not, it is to have fun.”
Counting ground money, Wright has earned $62,462 at the Finals. He is second in the world standings.
“It’s awesome,” he said. “I want to build a house after this year, but there’s no pressure since I’m young and I want to start a life on the ranch.”
Reigning five-time world champion Sage Kimzey remains the PRCA | RAM World Standings leader with $301,271.
Orin Larsen’s 90-point ride wins bareback riding
Before Sunday night, Orin Larsen had never matched up with Frontier Rodeo’s Night Fist.
Their first encounter together was memorable.
Larsen had a 90-point ride on Night Fist to win the round. He was a half-point away from tying the Round 4 Wrangler NFR record, shared by Will Lowe (set in 2004) and Ty Breuer (2017).
“Everyone I talked to in the dressing room was pretty pumped up that I had a good horse (Sunday night),” Larsen said. “That horse definitely didn’t fail. It fit my style and got in the air and was really showy. He hangs in the air and is just a good bucking horse, and I was glad to have him.”
After earning $26,231, Larsen moved from third to second in the PRCA | RAM World Standings with $211,789. He has earned $38,346 at the Wrangler NFR.
“When you are hot, you are hot, and when you are not, you are not,” Larsen said. “You just try and ride the high spots as long as you can. I’m not really thinking about the end result. I’m just focusing on the whole process. All 15 of us deserve to have a gold buckle by the end of the week. I’m just going to do my part and do a lot of praying, and if there’s a gold buckle by my name I will be stoked.”
Clayton Biglow leads the world standings with $219,452.
Bridger Chambers wins steer wrestling with 3.6-second run
Steer wrestler Bridger Chambers is developing quite a liking for the Wrangler NFR.
After earning $135,583 in his NFR debut last year, he’s not letting off the gas pedal in his return trip.
Chambers won Round 4 Sunday with a 3.6-second run. He’s earned $61,756 through four rounds at the NFR.
“Oh, man, that’s pretty exciting,” Chambers said about his first career Wrangler NFR round win and subsequent victory lap. “I don’t know how you can describe it to anybody, but I was just trying to soak it all in. It happens so fast, and I was just excited. It was a very special moment.”
Chambers is keeping things in perspective the remainder of the week as he chases a gold buckle.
“I guess the goal and game plan is to just run at every round and don’t back off,” Chambers said. “I don’t feel I have anything to lose, especially with the (broken) barrier in the mix. We’re going to keep running at them.”
Chambers is riding two-time Canadian Steer Wrestling Horse of the Year Tyson, owned by Curtis Cassidy, who is hazing for Chambers.
Ty Erickson leads the steer wrestling world standings with $174,273.
Saddle bronc rider Rusty Wright snares sixth career Wrangler NFR round win
Rusty Wright is making his fourth appearance at the Wrangler NFR, and the saddle bronc rider always seems to find success in the Thomas & Mack.
Wright won Round 4 with an 89.5-point ride on Diamond G Rodeos’ Miss Nancy for the sixth round win of his career.
“She almost bucked me off,” Wright said. “That horse jumped out there and has big, long jumps. It was feeling really good, and I felt tapped-off confident, so I went to try and go flash her up. As soon as I did that, she had a big, empty jump and threw her head back at me. It kind of got me loose a little bit, but she took her head back again and continued bucking. I was able to sit back down and finish it off pretty good.”
With his $26,231 payday, Wright is third in the world standings with $175,153.
“I felt like it was going to be pretty good, and I was really excited,” Wright said. “I didn’t know how many (points) I was going to be, I just knew I was dang sure going to place, and it felt awesome.
“I’d watched my little brother, Ryder, get on her in Norco, Calif., last year, and he was 88 on her. Then, this year, Spencer got on her in Norco and was 86. So they’d both won rodeos on it before, and that horse is in our circuit (Wilderness), so I’d seen it a lot. I’m not going to lie to you, I was really nervous and a little scared, because that horse bucks so hard and bucks a lot of guys off. But I knew, as long as I stayed back and lifted, things would work out.”
Rusty is hoping to use Round 4 as a springboard for the rest of the Wrangler NFR.
“It’s good to win any time, but it seems like after you win a round, your confidence goes through the roof and you just get the ball rolling,” he said. “It was rolling before, and it’s hopefully going to take off now. A little confidence does wonders.”
Zeke Thurston overtook Ryder Wright to take the lead in the world standings with $249,607.
Team ropers Masters/Harrison claim Round 4 crown
Chad Masters and Joseph Harrison set the pace in Round 4, capturing a victory with a 3.7-second run.
“I knew it was actually going to be fast and I knew I had a good steer,” said Masters, a two-time team roping header world champion (2007 and 2012). “I left early, and it wasn’t a picture-perfect run, but I am happy with the end result.”
The round win was welcomed by Masters and Harrison.
“It’s been since 2011 since I’d won a round and I’d been waiting on getting one,” Masters said.
Harrison, meanwhile, was celebrating his first career round record.
“I have been waiting for 24 steers to walk across the stage and get that buckle, and it’s finally happening,” he said.
Moving forward in Vegas, Masters and Harrison are hoping for more of the same.
“I’m afraid to say anything, but I hope that’s the start of it,” Masters said.
Harrison was more to the point
“I’ll ride that train!” he said.
Clay Smith and Jade Corkill are leading the respective header and heeler world standings.
Barrel racer Emily Miller wins her second round
Emily Miller is having quite the Wrangler NFR.
The barrel racer captured a victory in Round 1 and added another win Sunday in Round 4 with her 13.64-second run.
Miller moved into first place in the world standings with $196,991. She has earned $98,848 so far at the Wrangler NFR, the most of any contestant.
“(ProRodeo Hall of Famer) Joe (Beaver) made the comment the other day at the WPRA luncheon that, ‘It’s fun in Vegas, but it’s a lot more fun when you’re winning,’” Miller said. “I have to agree with him. It’s been a great four days, and we’ve really enjoyed it.”
Miller is riding her 9-year-old gelding, Chongo.
“You know, I think every run you just go out there and try to focus on what you’ve worked on all year, and that’s one (barrel) to the right, two to the left and leave them up,” Miller said. “He’s working outstanding, and I couldn’t be happier with him. As a rider, I feel like I failed him a bit on the first barrel, but that’s something I can fix. Luckily, he’s doing his job, so that’s huge.”
Even though Miller was the first barrel racer out Sunday, it didn’t rattle her nerves.
“I think you have to ride a little bit smarter the farther down on the ground you get because of the ruts and stuff, and you want to stay inside the tracks,” she said. “I’ve been more worried about the second and third barrels, but he’s staying super honest for me. He’s doing great, and I’m absolutely thrilled with how he’s working.”
All-around race getting interesting
Thanks to winning his second round in bull riding, Stetson Wright maintained his lead in the all-around standings.
Wright has $245,461 – $38,982 more than second-place Clay Smith, the reigning team roping header world champ. Tuf Cooper, the 2017 all-around world champ, is third with $195,986.
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Fourth Performance Results, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019
Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas
Bareback riding: 1. Orin Larsen, 90 points on Frontier Rodeo's Night Fist, $26,231; 2. Clint Laye, 88, $20,731; 3. (tie) Caleb Bennett and Ty Breuer, 87, $13,327 each; 5. (tie) Kaycee Feild and Trenten Montero, 86.5, $5,500 each; 7. (tie) Tilden Hooper, Austin Foss and Jake Brown, 86; 10. Steven Dent, 85.5; 11. Tim O'Connell, 85; 12. (tie) Clayton Biglow and Richmond Champion, 84; 14. Tanner Aus, 83.5; 15. Taylor Broussard, 82.5. Average standings: 1. Trenten Montero, 350 points on four head; 2. Tim O'Connell, 349.5; 3. Richmond Champion, 343.5; 4. Clayton Biglow, 342.5; 5. Kaycee Feild, 339; 6. Steven Dent, 337.5; 7. Clint Laye,334; 8. Tilden Hooper, 330; 9. (tie) Orin Larsen and Taylor Broussard, 329; 11. Caleb Bennett, 261 points on three; 12. Ty Breuer, 258; 13. Tanner Aus, 256; 14. Austin Foss, 253.5; 15. Jake Brown, 172.5 points on two. World standings: 1. Clayton Biglow, $219,452; 2. Orin Larsen, $211,789; 3. Kaycee Feild, $207,359; 4. Richmond Champion, $182,714; 5. Tim O'Connell, $161,668; 6. Tilden Hooper, $158,559; 7. Caleb Bennett, $154,184; 8. Clint Laye, $149,685; 9. Trenten Montero, $143,219; 10. Ty Breuer, $120,911; 11. Tanner Aus, $117,826; 12. Jake Brown, $105,068; 13. Steven Dent, $103,799; 14. Austin Foss, $102,895; 15. Taylor Broussard, $93,502.
Steer wrestling: 1. Bridger Chambers, 3.6 seconds, $26,231; 2. (tie) Ty Erickson and Cameron Morman, 3.7, $18,192 each; 4. J.D. Struxness, 3.9, $11,000; 5. Hunter Cure, 4.1, $6,769; 6. (tie) Scott Guenthner and Dakota Eldridge, 4.4, $2,115 each; 8. (tie) Stetson Jorgensen, Tyler Pearson and Matt Reeves, 4.5; 11. (tie) Tyler Waguespack and Will Lummus, 4.7; 13. Riley Duvall, 5.1; 14. Kyle Irwin, 9.8; 15. Tanner Brunner, NT. Average standings: 1. J.D. Struxness, 16.3 seconds on four head; 2. Tyler Waguespack, 16.7; 3. (tie) Matt Reeves and Cameron Morman, 18.1; 5. Riley Duvall, 20.4; 6. Hunter Cure, 21.5; 7. Bridger Chambers, 25.9; 8. Tyler Pearson, 27.9; 9. Dakota Eldridge, 28.7; 10. Stetson Jorgensen, 28.8; 11. Scott Guenthner, 34.3; 12. Kyle Irwin, 34.4; 13. Ty Erickson, 36.2; 14. Will Lummus, 13.1 seconds on three; 15. Tanner Brunner, 16.6 seconds on two. World standings: 1. Ty Erickson, $174,273; 2. Hunter Cure, $147,568; 3. Tyler Waguespack, $147,464; 4. J.D. Struxness, $145,150; 5. Bridger Chambers, $140,785; 6. Scott Guenthner, $130,661; 7. Stetson Jorgensen, $127,015; 8. Dakota Eldridge, $119,449; 9. Will Lummus, $115,998; 10. Tyler Pearson, $112,712; 11. Cameron Morman, $106,307; 12. Kyle Irwin, $97,703; 13. Matt Reeves, $96,259; 14. Riley Duvall, $95,963; 15. Tanner Brunner, $84,950.
Team roping: 1. Chad Masters/Joseph Harrison, 3.7 seconds, $26,231 each; 2. Coleman Proctor/Ryan Motes, 3.8, $20,731; 3. Luke Brown/Paul Eaves, 3.9, $15,654; 4. (tie) Clay Smith/Jade Corkill and Riley Minor/Brady Minor, 4.3, $8,885 each; 6. Brenten Hall/Chase Tryan, 4.4, $4,231; 7. Matt Sherwood/Hunter Koch, 5.0; 8. Jake Cooper/Caleb Anderson, 6.1; 9. Tyler Wade/Cole Davison, 9.1; 10. Tate Kirchenschlager/Tyler Worley, 9.7; 11. Kaleb Driggers/Junior Nogueira, 14.7; 12. Clay Tryan/Jake Long, Cody Snow/Wesley Thorp, Ty Blasingame/Travis Graves and Erich Rogers/Kyle Lockett, NT. Average standings: 1. Brenten Hall/Chase Tryan, 17.9 seconds on four head; 2. Matt Sherwood/Hunter Koch, 24.9; 3. Kaleb Driggers/Junior Nogueira, 28.7; 4. Chad Masters/Joseph Harrison, 28.8; 5. Tate Kirchenschlager/Tyler Worley, 38.8; 6. Jake Cooper/Caleb Anderson, 40.3; 7. Riley Minor/Brady Minor, 13.7 seconds on three; 8. Cody Snow/Wesley Thorp, 14.9; 9. Tyler Wade/Cole Davison, 16.8; 10. Luke Brown/Paul Eaves, 17.5; 11. Clay Smith/Jade Corkill, 18.1; 12. Erich Rogers/Kyle Lockett, 28.0; 13. Ty Blasingame/Travis Graves, 10.5 seconds on two; 14. Coleman Proctor/Ryan Motes, 22.8; 15. Clay Tryan/Jake Long, 4.6 seconds on one. World standings (headers): 1. Clay Smith, $195,628; 2. Kaleb Driggers, $153,558; 3. Chad Masters, $138,529; 4. Tyler Wade, $135,856; 5. Coleman Proctor, $135,049; 6. Brenten Hall, $134,888; 7. Riley Minor, $134,303; 8. Clay Tryan, $133,896; 9. Cody Snow, $120,707; 10. Luke Brown, $112,708; 11. Ty Blasingame, $111,490; 12. Matt Sherwood, $111,166; 13. Erich Rogers, $99,653; 14. Tate Kirchenschlager, $93,071; 15. Jake Cooper, $90,524; World standings (heelers): 1. Jade Corkill, $153,753; 2. Junior Nogueira, $150,877; 3. Joseph Harrison, $141,278; 4. Ryan Motes, $139,897; 5. Jake Long, $137,627; 6. Cole Davison, $134,371; 7. Brady Minor, $134,303; 8. Chase Tryan, $132,307; 9. Kyle Lockett, $124,384; 10. Hunter Koch, $119,269; 11. Paul Eaves, $117,216; 12. Travis Graves, $113,165; 13. Wesley Thorp, $112,950; 14. Caleb Anderson, $89,723; 15. Tyler Worley, $88,524.
Saddle bronc riding: 1. Rusty Wright, 89.5 points on Diamond G Rodeos' Miss Nancy, $26,231; 2. Spencer Wright, 84.5, $20,731; 3. Zeke Thurston, 83.5, $15,654; 4. Brody Cress, 81.5, $11,000; 5. Sterling Crawley, 80.5, $6,769; 6. Jacobs Crawley, 80, $4,231; 7. Ryder Wright, Chase Brooks, Jesse Wright, Mitch Pollock, Jake Watson, Dawson Hay, Colt Gordon and J.J. Elshere, NS; Bradley Harter, INJ. Average standings: 1. Rusty Wright, 340 points on four head; 2. Brody Cress, 333.5; 3. Zeke Thurston, 261 points on three; 4. Spencer Wright, 257.5; 5. Jacobs Crawley, 249; 6. Chase Brooks, 176 points on two; 7. Jesse Wright, 175; 8. Dawson Hay, 171.5; 9. Colt Gordon, 162; 10. Jake Watson, 87 points on one; 11. Ryder Wright, Bradley Harter and J.J. Elshere, 86.5; 14. Mitch Pollock, 84; 15. Sterling Crawley, 80.5. World standings: 1. Zeke Thurston, $249,607; 2. Ryder Wright, $234,488; 3. Rusty Wright, $175,153; 4. Spencer Wright, $163,669; 5. Chase Brooks, $159,847; 6. Brody Cress, $156,205; 7. Jacobs Crawley, $150,897; 8. Jesse Wright, $132,736; 9. Sterling Crawley, $131,197; 10. Bradley Harter, $127,543; 11. Dawson Hay, $125,965; 12. Jake Watson, $124,291; 13. J.J. Elshere, $119,004; 14. Mitch Pollock, $109,542; 15. Colt Gordon, $101,071.
Tie-down roping: 1. Shane Hanchey, 7.5 seconds, $26,231; 2. Riley Pruitt, 7.7, $20,731; 3. Marty Yates, 8.0, $15,654; 4. (tie) Haven Meged and Taylor Santos, 8.1, $8,885; 6. Cooper Martin, 8.7, $4,231; 7. (tie) Caleb Smidt and Tuf Cooper, 9.5; 9. Tyson Durfey, 10.1; 10. Rhen Richard, 10.2; 11. Tyler Milligan, 10.4; 12. Shad Mayfield, 14.1; 13. Ty Harris, Michael Otero and Adam Gray, NT. Average standings: 1. Taylor Santos, 32.8 seconds on four head; 2. Marty Yates, 33.1; 3. Haven Meged, 33.6; 4. Tuf Cooper, 34.0; 5. Tyson Durfey, 36.3; 6. (tie) Rhen Richard and Shad Mayfield, 39.7; 8. Cooper Martin, 43.2; 9. Tyler Milligan, 44.0; 10. Caleb Smidt, 44.6; 11. Riley Pruitt, 48.3; 12. Shane Hanchey, 22.2 seconds on three; 13. Michael Otero, 28.2; 14. Adam Gray, 37.4; 15. Ty Harris, 17.8 seconds on two. World standings: 1. Shane Hanchey, $185,389; 2. Haven Meged, $167,744; 3. Marty Yates, $162,085; 4. Taylor Santos, $150,753; 5. Caleb Smidt, $141,90; 6. Tuf Cooper, $141,823; 7. Tyson Durfey, $137,263; 8. Tyler Milligan, $134,974; 9. Riley Pruitt, $130,266; 10. Shad Mayfield, $127,075; 11. Ty Harris, $120,976; 12. Michael Otero, $111,924; 13. Adam Gray, $102,173; 14. Cooper Martin, $100,491; 15. Rhen Richard, $98,661.
Barrel racing: 1. Emily Miller, 13.64 seconds, $26,231; 2. Amberleigh Moore, 13.75, $20,731; 3. Jessica Routier, 13.77, $15,654; 4. Ivy Conrado-Saebens, 13.79, $11,000; 5. Ericka Nelson, 13.81, $6,769; 6. Hailey Kinsel, 13.88, $4,231; 7. Jennifer Sharp, 13.91; 8. Nellie Miller, 13.93; 9. Shali Lord, 14.03; 10. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, 14.05; 11. Lisa Lockhart, 14.06; 12. Lacinda Rose, 14.16; 13. Stevi Hillman, 19.04; 14. Dona Kay Rule, 19.06; 15. Cheyenne Wimberley, 23.84. Average standings: 1. Emily Miller, 54.64 seconds on four runs; 2. Jessica Routier, 55.48; 3. Lisa Lockhart, 55.55; 4. Ivy Conrado-Saebens, 55.59; 5. Nellie Miller, 55.82; 6. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, 55.91; 7. Shali Lord, 56.07; 8. Jennifer Sharp, 56.18; 9. Lacinda Rose, 56.89; 10. Hailey Kinsel, 60.23; 11. Dona Kay Rule, 60.51; 12. Ericka Nelson, 60.87; 13. Amberleigh Moore, 64.96; 14. Stevi Hillman, 65.73; 15. Cheyenne Wimberley, 71.44. World standings: 1. Emily Miller, $196,991; 2. Hailey Kinsel, $183,828; 3. Lisa Lockhart, $181,313; 4. Nellie Miller, $175,611; 5. Amberleigh Moore, $161,021; 6. Dona Kay Rule, $148,392; 7. Jessica Routier, $138,736; 8. Stevi Hillman, $130,989; 9. Ivy Conrado-Saebens, $125,269; 10. Brittany Pozzi Tonozzi, $122,273; 11. Shali Lord, $121,776; 12. Ericka Nelson, $110,202; 13. Jennifer Sharp, $107,254; 14. Cheyenne Wimberley, $100,361; 15. Lacinda Rose, $98,936.
Bull riding: 1. Stetson Wright, 91 points on Painted Pony Championship Rodeo's Holy Holly, $26,231; 2. Trey Benton III, 90, $20,731; 3. Boudreaux Campbell, 88, $15,654; 4. Sage Kimzey, 86.5, $11,000; 5. Trey Kimzey, 86, $6,769; 6. Jeff Askey, 85, $4,231; 7. Jordan Spears, 84; 8. Koby Radley, 82.5; 9. Tyler Bingham, 80; 10. Trevor Kastner, Josh Frost, Garrett Smith, Daylon Swearingen, Jordan Hansen and Clayton Sellars, NS. Average standings: 1. Boudreaux Campbell, 262 points on three head; 2. Koby Radley, 261; 3. Sage Kimzey, 258.5; 4. Stetson Wright, 183.5 points on two; 5. (tie) Jordan Hansen and Trey Benton III, 179.5; 7. Garrett Smith, 178.5; 8. Tyler Bingham, 170; 9. Jordan Spears, 166.5; 10. Trey Kimzey, 86 points on one; 11. Jeff Askey, 85; 12. Clayton Sellars, 84.5; 13. Trevor Kastner, Josh Frost and Daylon Swearingen, NS. World standings: 1. Sage Kimzey, $301,271; 2. Stetson Wright, $214,883; 3. Boudreaux Campbell, $196,143; 4. Trey Benton III, $175,996; 5. Garrett Smith, $171,769; 6. Jordan Hansen, $163,811; 7. Trevor Kastner, $159,100; 8. Koby Radley, $158,118; 9. Tyler Bingham, $153,181; 10. Clayton Sellars, $139,191; 11. Jordan Spears, $131,548; 12. Josh Frost, $129,561; 13. Jeff Askey, $127,925; 14. Trey Kimzey, $124,930; 15. Daylon Swearingen, $121,837.
All-Around Standings: 1. Stetson Wright, $245,461; 2. Clay Smith, $206,479; 3. Tuf Cooper, $195,986; 4. Caleb Smidt, $155,190; 5. Trevor Brazile, $129,754; 6. Landon McClaugherty, $112,119; 7. Steven Dent, $111,577; 8. Rhen Richard, $104,653; 9. Josh Frost, $92,732; 10. Daylon Swearingen, $80,920.
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High Physiological Concentrations of Progesterone Reverse Estradiol-Mediated Changes in Differentiation and Functions of Bone Marrow Derived Dendritic Cells
Fangming Xiu,
Affiliation McMaster Immunology Research Center, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Michael G. DeGroote Center for Learning and Discovery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5
Varun C. Anipindi,
Philip V. Nguyen,
Jeanette Boudreau,
Hong Liang,
Yonghong Wan,
Denis P. Snider,
Charu Kaushic
* E-mail: kaushic@mcmaster.ca
Fangming Xiu Varun C. Anipindi ... Charu Kaushic
Female sex steroids, estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4), play a key role in regulating immune responses in women, including dendritic cell (DC) development, and functions. Although the two hormones co-occur in the body of women throughout the reproductive years, no studies have explored their complex combinatorial effects on DCs, given their ability to regulate each other’s actions. We examined murine bone marrow derived dendritic cells (BMDC) differentiation and functions, in the presence of a wide range of physiological concentrations of each hormone, as well as the combination of the two hormones. E2 (10−12 to 10-8M) enhanced the differentiation of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs from BM precursor cells, and promoted the expression of CD40 and MHC Class-II, in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, P4 (10−9 to 10-5M) inhibited DC differentiation, but only at the highest concentrations. These effects on BMDCs were observed both in the presence or absence of LPS. When both hormones were combined, higher concentrations of P4, at levels seen in pregnancy (10-6M) reversed the E2 effects, regardless of the concentration of E2, especially in the absence of LPS. Functionally, antigen uptake was decreased and pro-inflammatory cytokines, IL-12, IL-1 and IL-6 production by CD11b+CD11c+ DCs, was increased in the presence of E2 and these effects were reversed by high concentrations of P4. Our results demonstrate the distinct effects of E2 and P4 on differentiation and functions of bone marrow myeloid DCs. The dominating effect of higher physiological concentrations of P4 provides insight into how DC functions could be modulated during pregnancy.
Citation: Xiu F, Anipindi VC, Nguyen PV, Boudreau J, Liang H, Wan Y, et al. (2016) High Physiological Concentrations of Progesterone Reverse Estradiol-Mediated Changes in Differentiation and Functions of Bone Marrow Derived Dendritic Cells. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0153304. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153304
Editor: Susan Kovats, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, UNITED STATES
Received: November 12, 2015; Accepted: March 28, 2016; Published: April 11, 2016
Copyright: © 2016 Xiu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: All relevant data are within the paper.
Funding: The work was supported by the following: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/193.html; and Ontario HIV Treatment Network, http://www.ohtn.on.ca/. Grants were awarded to CK. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in both innate and acquired immune responses [1] [2]. These cells are derived from hematopoietic stem cells and differentiate into myeloid and lymphoid-type lineages. Most peripheral tissues including mucosal epithelium, are seeded with myeloid lineage DCs, that express specific differentiation markers, dependent on the tissue type [3] [4]. The most common markers of the myeloid lineage DC are CD11c, CD11b, and CD103 [4]. Under normal homeostatic conditions, tissue DCs have a short lifespan, and are constantly replaced by fresh DC replenished from BM precursors. Under non-inflammatory conditions, tissue DCs are relatively immature in their ability to initiate adaptive immune responses. Because of their location at the internal and external body surface, and their ability to endocytose and process antigens from invading pathogens, the tissue DCs play a critical role during innate responses, as first responders to infection, and subsequently, following activation and migration to tissue-draining lymph nodes in directing and coordinating T cell responses. It therefore follows, that altered physiologic conditions, such as hormonal changes, stress, or injury can likely alter both the differentiation of DCs and their immune functions.
Sex hormones, estrogen (E2) and progesterone (P4) are known to alter immune function, including response to infection and autoimmune pathogenesis [5] [6] [7] [8,9]. Our own work has demonstrated that the quality of immune response to HSV-2 infection in mice is distinct based on the hormonal priming at time of immunization [8,9] [10]. This implied that both E2 and P4 influenced the type of immune responses initiated. We therefore decided to examine of the effects of E2 and P4 on dendritic cell differentiation and functions from BM precursors.
Work by others has looked separately at E2 and P4 for effects on DC development and function [7] [11]. Kovats and co-workers have demonstrated that E2 can preferentially direct differentiation of precursor cells into myeloid DCs, characterized by CD11c expression and moderate expression of CD11b, and then further promotes their differentiation to functional DC, in vitro [12] [13]. The functionally mature DCs promoted by E2, expressed higher levels of MHC II, CD40, and cytokines IL-12 and IL-6, and presented antigen to naïve CD4 T cells [12]. Others have focused on P4 effects on DC differentiation and immune function. P4 altered the cytokine profile of mature DC, typically inhibiting IL-6, IL-12 and TNF-α production [14] [7]. Other studies have indicated that progesterone increased in vitro differentiation of mouse DC from BM precursors [15], but that it inhibited in vitro maturation of DC, reducing MHC II and IL-12 expression [16]. Mature DCs from spleen of female mice have reduced cytokine secretion and co-stimulator expression during the progesterone-high time of the hormonal cycle [17]. Thus, opposing effects of E2 and P4 on DC maturation and function have been observed when the hormones are examined individually. However, no studies have examined effects of combining both hormones in physiologic ranges, given that these hormones are present in varying ratios at different times of the reproductive cycle as well as during pregnancy. Because the systemic levels of E2 and P4 are continuously modified in the female reproductive cycle, both the functions of DCs in active immune processes and the development of DC subsets from precursors, would be cyclically affected with changes in levels and combination of both E2 and P4. Conditions such as pregnancy with prolonged high progesterone levels may promote a prolonged state of altered DC function. Therefore, in this study we examined effect of each hormone separately and in combination and found that at high physiological concentrations, equivalent to those seen in pregnancy, P4 can reverse E2 effects on both differentiation and functions of DCs.
Cell culture medium and reagents
All the reagents except those specified, were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich (Oakville, Ontario, Canada). DCs were cultures in RPMI 1640 (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON, Canada) supplemented with 10% FBS (Hyclone, ThermoFisher Scientific, USA), 2mM glutamine, 100U penicillin/0.1mg streptomycin/ml, 10mM HEPES buffer, 50μM 2-ME and 1mM sodium pyruvate. Hormone-deficient medium was RPMI 1640 lacking phenol red (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON) and 10% of charcoal-dextran-treated FBS (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON) instead of regular FCS. Stock solution of water soluble E2 (10-3M) and P4 (10-2M) were prepared in PBS and stored at -80°C, thawed and diluted into BM culture at varying concentrations when needed. Stock solutions of ICI 182,780 (1mM) Sigma-Aldrich, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, RU-486 (0.1μM) (Sigma-Aldrich, Oakville, Ontario, Canada or AL082D06 (D06) (1mM) (Caledon Laboratory Chemicals, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada) were prepared in DMSO and diluted into BM cultures at varying concentrations in the presence of exogenous E2 and P4 respectively. Collagenase A, DNase I, FITC-Dextran (MW 40K) and LPS from Escherichia coli were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Recombinant murine GM-CSF was purchased from PeproTech (Rocky Hill, NJ, US) and stock solution of 400 μg/ml was stored at -80°C.
Animals and ovariectomy
Female C57BL/6 mice were purchased from Charles River Laboratories (St Constant, Quebec, Canada). All animals were housed maximum five per cage and maintained on a constant light: dark 12:12 cycle. 6–8 wk-old mice were bilaterally ovariectomized (OVX) under Ketamine (80mg/kg body mass)-xylazine (8mg/kg body mass) injectable anesthesia. Mice were allowed to recover for two weeks prior to being used for further experimentation. Estradiol receptor knockout (ERKO) C57BL/6 mice were kindly provided by Dr. Pierre Chambon (Université Louis Pasteur, France). ERKO mice were also ovariectomized, 2 weeks before use.
Animals were euthanized by CO2 inhalation, as per approved protocols. All animals in this study were housed at the McMaster Central Animal facility, and the protocols used were approved by the McMaster University Animal Research Ethics Board (AREB) as per AUP # 14-09-40 in accordance with Canadian Council of Animal Care (CCAC) guidelines.
Generation of DC from BM cells
BM cells were generated as described with slight modification[18]. BM cells were isolated from the femurs and tibiae of ovariectomized C57BL/6 mice and cultured in hormone-deficient RPMI 1640 with 40ng/ml of mouse GM-CSF. Total BM cells were seeded at 3x105 cells per ml in 2ml of media in a 24-well plate. On day 3, half of the culture media were removed and replaced with fresh hormone-deficient media containing 40ng/ml of GM-CSF. To activate DC, at day 6, LPS (5ng/ml, final concentration) was added into the culture for further 24 hr. BM cells were also isolated from ER knockout ovariectomized C57BL/6 mice and cultured as mentioned above.
Monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry
All antibodies for flow cytometry for DC markers and intracellular staining were obtained from BD Bioscience (Mississauga, Canada). They included APC-conjugated rat anti-mouse CD11a, PE-CY7-conjugated hamster anti-mouse CD11c, PE-conjugated rat anti-mouse CD40, FITC-conjugated rat anti-mouse I-Ab, APC-conjugated rat anti-mouse IL-12, IL-6 and TNF-α, and their respective isotype control antibodies. For DCs staining, cells were pre-incubated with Fc receptor blocker for 10 min at room temperature (RT), and then stained with antibodies against CD11b, CD11c, CD40 and MHCII in PBS containing 0.2% BSA. Labeled cells were run on a FACSCanto or LSRII flow cytometer and data were analyzed by FlowJo (v. 7.15) software.
E2 and P4 treatment of DC and blocking with antagonists
Varying doses of E2 (10-12M to 10-8M) or P4 (10−9 M to 10-5M) were added into first day of BMDC culture in a 24 well-plate, containing BMDCs at concentration of 3X105 cells/ml. To test if P4 inhibited E2’s effects, varying doses of P4 were added to the BMDC culture containing either 10-9M or 10-11M of E2 on the first day of culture. E2 and P4 were replenished at day 3 when media was changed. For sex hormone blocking experiments, varying doses of ICI 182 780 (1nM to 100nM) or RU-486 (100nM to 10μM) or AL082D06 (D06) (1uM to 100uM) were added at the beginning of the culture with 1nM of E2 or 1μM of P4 respectively. Addition of DMSO alone (0.15%, final concentration) to the BM culture was used as the control. At day 3, E2 and P4 and the antagonists were also replenished when media was changed.
Antigen uptake assay
Antigen uptake assay using FITC-Dextran as model antigen was performed as described [19]. On Day 5 of BMDC culture, FITC-Dextran (Sigma) was added to the BM culture at the final concentration of 200 μg/ml for 2 h at 37°C. Cells added with the same concentration of FITC-Dextran were pulsed at 0°C as the background control. Uptake was stopped by adding ice-cold FACS buffer followed by two washes. The cells from each group were collected and incubated for 10 min at room temperature with FcR blocker to block unspecific binding. Then the cells were stained with APC-conjugated anti-CD11b antibody, PE-CY7-conjugated anti-CD11c antibody. Internalization ability was evaluated at the percentage of FITC-positive cells gated on the CD11b+CD11c+DCs.
Measurement of cytokine production by multi-analyte cytokine assay
At day 6 or day 7, BM culture supernatants treated with varying doses of E2 or P4 or their combinations either with LPS or without LPS treatment were collected. The concentrations of IL-10, IL-1β, IL-6, TNFα, IL-12, IL-8 and IFNγ in these supernatants were determined by multiplex cytokine assay kit from Meso Scale Discovery (Gaithersburg, Maryland, US). TGF-β in these supernatants was determined by mouse TGF-β Quantikine ELISA kit from R&D systems (Minneapolis, MN, US). The concentrations (pg/ml, mean±SD) were normalized to the percentage of CD11b+ CD11c+ DCs in each treatment.
Intracellular staining of BMDC
Intracellular staining (ICS) of TNFα, IL-6 and IL-12p70 was performed according to the direction of ICS kit (BD Bioscience). BM cells were treated either with E2 (10-11M or 10-9M) or P4 (10-8M or 10-6M) or E2 plus P4 (10-11M E2 +10-6M P4 or 10-9M E2 + 10-6M P4). At day 6, LPS was added to the culture (final concentration, 5ng/ml) for further 24 hours. In the last 6 hours of LPS activation, 1 μl of GolgiPlug (BD Bioscience) (a protein transport inhibitor) was added into the culture for each well. Cells were harvested from each well. After Fc receptor blocking, cells were stained with antibodies for CD11c and CD11b. To do intracellular staining, pelleted cells were first resuspended with 250 μl Fixation/Permeabilization solution for 20 min at 4°C. Then, fixed and permeabilized cells were stained with antibodies for IL-6, IL-12p70 and TNF-α. 200,000 events per sample were collected with a BD LSRII and analyzed by FlowJo software.
All comparisons were performed by one way ANOVA analysis using GraphPad Prism version 4 (GraphPad Software, San Diego CA), with a P value ≤0.05 considered as statistically significant.
Contrasting effects of E2 and P4 on the differentiation of CD11b+ CD11c+ APCs in BM cell cultures
In order to exclude any influence of endogenous or exogenous hormones, we modified a previously described ex vivo culture system for GM-CSF-mediated generation of DC from bone marrow [20]. Bone marrow cells from ovariectomized mice were isolated and grown in medium containing charcoal-stripped serum that is devoid of lipophilic materials, including steroid hormones, which could directly affect the cultures. This approach excluded undefined effects of both endogenous and exogenous sex hormones.
Unfractionated BM cells were isolated from ovariectomized C57BL/6 female mice and cultured in steroid hormone-deficient media, containing 40ng/ml of GM-CSF, in the absence or the presence of 10-12M to 10-8M of E2. We used a wide range of E2 concentrations, based on known physiological concentrations in serum and those used in other studies. Serum concentrations of E2 vary between 10−11 and 10−10 M (20–60pg/ml) during mouse estrus cycle and can be as high as 0.5X 10−9 M during pregnancy [21] [22]. In humans, serum E2 levels during pregnancy peak around 1X10-9 M (350pg/ml) [23]. Many experimental studies test E2 concentrations in the 10−9 to 10−8 M range [21] [24] [25]. Therefore we examined the effect of entire range of E2 concentrations on BMDC. At day 6, all cells in culture were collected and stained with antibodies against CD11b and CD11c. As shown in Fig 1B, the percentage of double positive DC’s (CD11b+CD11c+) at the end of culture was approximately 25% of viable cells, in the absence of any sex hormones. However, addition of as little as 10-12M E2, increased the percentage of differentiated DC’s (CD11c+). This increase was dose-dependent, in the range of 10-12M to 10-10M, as doses above 10-10M did not further increase the fraction of DC’s (Fig 1B). The effect of E2 on DC differentiation was statistically significant over the whole range of concentrations tested (p<0.01 or <0.001) (Fig 1C and 1D). The addition of LPS to the culture on Day 6, increased the percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ DC at all the E2 concentrations tested by approximately 10% (Fig 1C). The effect of LPS appeared additive to the effect of E2. To exclude the possibility that the change in percentages was due to alterations in total number of viable cells, we calculated the number of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs at day 6 of the BMDC culture, using viable cell counts from those cultures. Data from this study indicated that total viable cell numbers varied little (variability range of <10%) over all E2 treatment groups (data not shown). In concurrence with the effects seen on the proportion of BMDCs, the effects of E2 on absolute DC numbers were significant as well (p<0.05 or 0.01), at all concentrations (Fig 1D).
Fig 1. Effects of E2 on the differentiation of DC from BM.
BM cell isolated from OVX mice were cultured in sex hormone-deficient medium with murine GM-CSF alone, or in the presence of varying concentrations of E2 (A, B, C, D). Initial gating for mononuclear cells is shown in (A). Data in (B, C, D) are from cells collected at end of culture, and stained with Abs for CD11b and CD11c. Representative dot plot data are shown in (B). Data for percentages of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs from cultures with different concentrations of E2 and treated with (dashed) or without (solid) LPS are shown in (C). Absolute numbers of CD11b+ CD11c+ DCs cultured with different concentrations of E2 are shown in (D). Data shown is Mean ± SD of 6 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by * p<0.05; **p<0.01; *** p<0.001 compared with untreated control.
Next, we determined the effects of P4 on differentiation of CD11b+CD11c+ APCs from BM. We used a wide dose range of P4, from 10-9M to 10-5M. The serum concentration of P4 during the reproductive cycle is between 10−9 to 10−8 M (2–20ng/ml), with highest levels seen in pregnancy, close to 10−6 M (300–400ng/ml) [23] [22] [21]. Levels of progesterone in reproductive tract tissues such as ovary and placenta can be 2–5 fold higher than serum levels [26,27]. Many studies use P4 levels of 10−6 to 10−5 M for their experiments [16] [24]. Therefore we examined the effects of P4 over this entire dose range. Our results show that for majority of the physiological concentrations tested (10−9 to10-7M), P4 had no effect on CD11b+CD11c+ APC differentiation. Only the highest doses of P4 (10-6M and 10-5M) could inhibit the percentage of differentiated APCs in culture and the decrease was only statistically significant at the highest concentration (Fig 2A and 2B). The decrease in differentiated APCs at highest concentration of P4 was also evident in cultures treated with LPS, where overall percentages of CD11b+CD11c+ APCs were increased, compared to cultures not treated with LPS (Fig 2B). Only the highest dose of P4 (10-5M) was seen to inhibit the APC numbers at the end of culture (Fig 2C).
Fig 2. Effects of P4 on the differentiation of APCs from BM.
BM cell isolated from OVX mice were cultured in sex hormone-deficient medium with murine GM-CSF alone, or in the presence of varying concentrations of P4. Data in (A, B, C) are from cells collected at end of culture, and stained with Abs for CD11b and CD11c. Initial gating for monocytes as shown in Fig 1A. Representative dot plot data are shown in (A). Percentages of CD11b+CD11c+ APCs from cultures grown in presence of different concentrations of P4, treated with (dashed) or without (solid) LPS are shown in (B). Absolute numbers of CD11b+ CD11c+ APCs cultured with P4 are shown in (C). Data show Mean ± SD of 6 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by * p<0.05; **p<0.01; *** p<0.001 compared with untreated control.
These initial data indicate that E2 and P4 have different effects on the differentiation of DC. Wide range of physiological concentrations of E2 (10−11 to 10-9M) promoted CD11b+CD11c+DCs differentiation from bone marrow. However, P4 for most part had very little effect on DC differentiation at physiological concentrations (10−9 to 10−6 M) and only the supraphysiological concentrations of P4 (10-5M) significantly inhibited CD11b+CD11c+ APC differentiation from bone marrow. Comparison of dose response data for percentages versus numbers of DC (Figs 1C, 1D and 2B, 2C), indicates close correlation between percentage increase or decrease and total cell numbers across the dose range of E2 and P4. This clearly showed that percentages of cells reflected accurately the actual numbers of DC in various cultures. Therefore, for convenience, data from subsequent experiments was analyzed and presented primarily as differences in the frequency of DC generated in E2 or P4 treated BM cells.
Contrasting Effects of E2 and P4 on BMDC differentiation in absence or presence of LPS
During the process of differentiation into mature DC, DCs undergo a number of phenotypic changes, including increased expression of CD40, CD80, CD86, ICAM-1 and MHC Class-II. To investigate the effects of E2 and P4 on DC differentiation, we chose CD40 and MHCII as the representative markers. On its own, E2 enhanced the frequency of DC expressing CD40, by a factor of 2, from approximately 4% to 8% (Fig 3A). However, the combination of LPS with E2, resulted in a high frequency (30–40%) of CD40 expressing DC, in an E2 dose-dependent manner. Similar to CD40, the percentage of MHCII expressing DCs was increased in the presence of E2, although the direct effects of E2 alone on frequency of MHCII+ cells were more prominent, increasing from baseline of 20% (no hormone) to peak levels of 40% at E2 concentration of 10-10M (Fig 3B). In the presence of both E2 and LPS, MHCII was expressed on more than 50% of DC. Concentrations at or above 10-9M E2 did not further enhance the frequency of CD40 or MHCII expressing DCs.
Fig 3. Effects of E2 and P4 on BM APC maturation.
BM cell isolated from OVX mice were cultured in sex hormone-deficient medium with murine GM-CSF alone, or in the presence of varying concentrations of E2 (A, B) or P4 (C, D). At end of culture, cells were collected and stained with Abs for CD11b, CD11c, MHC II and CD40 antibodies. Cell culture were treated with (dashed) or without (solid) LPS for last 24 hrs. Y axis represents the percentage of CD40+ (A, C) or MHCII+ (B, D) CD11b+CD11c+ DCs. Data shown are Mean± SD of 6 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by * p<0.05; **p<0.01 compared with untreated control.
In contrast to E2, low doses of P4 (10−9 and 10-8M) had no effect, whereas higher concentrations of P4 inhibited the percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ APCs expressing CD40 and MHCII (Fig 3C and 3D). The small fractions of MHCII and CD40 expressing cells (20% and 5% respectively) that differentiated in the BMDC cultures grown in the hormone-deficient media were further reduced by a factor of 2–3 in the presence of high dose of P4 (10−7 to 10−5 M). A similar dose-dependent inhibitory effect of P4 was seen with BM cells stimulated with LPS, although the overall percentage of CD40 and MHCII positive APCs was increased in the presence LPS compared to cultures not treated with LPS. The effects of P4 were statistically significant only at the highest doses, 10−6 M and 10−5 M.
Taken together, E2 and P4 had contrasting effects on DC differentiation. The whole range of doses of E2 increased the frequency of of CD40 and MHCII expressing CD11b+CD11c+ DCs. On the contrary, only high doses of P4, corresponding to pregnancy levels (10-6M) or supraphysiological (10-5M) decreased the frequency of CD11b+CD11c+ APCs. Given these effects, in subsequent experiments, we chose to examine the effect of the whole dose range of P4 (10−9 to 10-5M), in combination with either a low dose of E2 (10-11M) corresponding to physiological levels seen during normal reproductive cycle or high dose of E2 (10-9M) corresponding to levels during pregnancy[21]. In some experiments, we combined the two hormones either at the pregnancy concentrations (10-9M E2 with 10-6M P4) or those seen during normal reproductive cycle (10-11M E2 with 10-8M P4).
Pregnancy levels of P4 can reverse the effects of E2 on the frequency of differentiated BMDC, in the presence or absence of LPS
To better understand the role of the two sex hormones on DC differentiation and function, we investigated the combinatorial effects of E2 and P4. To this end, we added varying doses of P4 (from 10-9M to 10-5M) to either 10-11M (physiological) or 10-9M (high physiological, corresponding to pregnancy) of E2-treated BM cells on the first day of culture, in the presence or absence of LPS (Fig 4). The high doses of P4 corresponding to pregnancy level (10-6M) and supraphysiological level (10-5M) significantly decreased the percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs and inhibited the percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs expressing CD40 and MHCII, treated either with 10-11M (physiological) or 10-9M (pregnancy level) of E2. Interestingly, in the presence of LPS, supraphysiological dosages of P4 (10-5M) were required to reduce the frequency of mature DC expressing CD40 and MHCII, whereas 10−6 M of P4, corresponding to pregnancy levels, was sufficient to reduce the frequency of CD11b+CD11c+ cells. Thus, P4 was less effective in the presence of LPS at reversing E2-mediated differentiation of BMDC.
Fig 4. High doses of P4 reversed effects of E2 in presence or absence of LPS treatment.
BM cells isolated from OVX mice were cultured with GM-CSF in the presence of E2 at a low (10-11M) (A) or high (10-9M) (B) concentration with varying doses of P4 (10-9M to 10-5M), with (dashed) or without (solid) LPS. At the end of culture, cells were harvested and stained with Abs to detect CD11b, CD11c, CD40 and MHCII. Data are percentages of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs (top panels); percentages of CD40+/CD11b+CD11c+DCs (middle panels); and percentages of MHCII+/CD11b+CD11c+ DCs (bottom panels). Data shown are Mean ± SD of 6 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by *p<0.05; **p<0.01;*** p<0.001 compared with E2 only treated controls.
Effects of E2 and P4 on BMDC differentiation are mediated by binding with their respective receptors
To investigate if the effects of E2 or P4 are mediated through their respective receptors, we used estrogen receptor alpha knockout mice (ERKO) and receptor antagonists. As shown in Fig 5A, BM cells from ERKO mice did not respond to E2, showing no increase in frequency of CD11b+CD11c+ DC compared to BM cells from wild type mice. The specific antagonist for ER, ICI 182 780, was used to test if E2 increased BMDC differentiation by binding to its receptor. As shown in Fig 5B, as the amount of ICI 182 780 increased from 1 and 100 nM, the percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ DC decreased from over 60% to a background of ~20% (same level as BM cells without E2). The effect of progesterone was investigated using P4 receptor partial antagonist, RU-486. Because 10-6M of P4 did not significantly influence BM cell differentiation on its own (Fig 2), we used MHCII expression by mature BM APCs as a readout of P4 activity. As shown in the Fig 5C, as low as 1μM of RU-486 could reverse the inhibition of MHCII expression on P4-treated BM cells (p<0.01). Since the effect of P4 on MHCII expression was observed at higher concentrations, we decided to rule out that the effect could be due to P4 binding to glucocorticoid receptor (GR). 10-6M P4 was added to BM APCs in the presence of a GR-specific inhibitor (AL082D06), that has no known cross reactivity to any other steroid receptor [28]. In agreement with previous results, the percentage of BM APCs expressing MHCII was significantly decreased in P4 cultures, compared to hormone-naïve cultures (Fig 5D). Addition of different concentrations of D06 had no effect on percentage of BM cells expressing MHCII in presence of P4 (Fig 5D). These results demonstrated that the effects of E2 and P4 were specific to the hormones and mediated by binding with their respective receptors.
Fig 5. Effects of E2 and P4 on BM APC differentiation and maturation were mediated by their respective receptors.
BM cells isolated from OVX mice (B, C, D) or ER KO mice (A) were cultured with GM-CSF in the presence of 10-11M (A) or 10-9M E2 (A, B) or (10-6M) P4 (C, D). Varying concentrations of E2 inhibitor ICI 182 780 (B), P4 inhibitor RU-486 (C) or Glucocorticoid receptor AL082D06 (D) were used in E2- or P4-treated BM cultures, beginning at the first day of culture. At the end of culture, cells were collected and stained with antibodies against CD11b and CD11c (A, B) and plus MHC II (C, D). Percentage of CD11c+ cells are shown in (A, B) for E2 cultured cells and P4 cultured cells (C, D). Data show Mean ± SD of triplicate determination each time of 3 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by *p<0.05,** p<0.01, ***p<0.001 compared with untreated control.
Contrasting effects of E2 and P4 on antigen uptake of BMDC, pregnancy level concentrations of P4 inhibit E2 effects
High antigen uptake ability is a characteristic of DCs prior to their activation and maturation [2]. Since our results indicated that BMDC cultures treated with E2 contained higher frequency of DCs expressing MHCII and CD40, markers expressed on mature DCs, whereas treatment with high physiological concentrations of P4 resulted in lower frequency of DCs expressing MHCII and CD40, we next investigated the effects of E2 and P4 on antigen uptake by DCs. BM cells cultured for five-days and treated with varying doses of E2 and P4, or their combination at pregnancy level concentrations, were incubated with FITC-Dextran, a typical model antigen that is endocytosed by immature DCs via the mannose receptor, which is expressed at high levels on immature DC [29]. As shown in Fig 6A, in the absence of any sex hormones, 34.3% of BMDC showed FITC-Dextran uptake. With the addition of physiological dose (10-11M) and pregnancy level (10−9 M) of E2, the percentage of FITC-Dextran labeled cells decreased to 20.3% and 12.2% respectively (Fig 6A), consistent with differentiation of a larger fraction of BMDC expressing CD40 and MHC II under these conditions (Fig 3). In contrast, treatment with pregnancy concentrations (10-6M) of P4 (Fig 6A) significantly increased the percentage of BMDC that labeled with FITC-Dextran, indicating decreased differentiation and/or presence of immature DCs in P4 treated cultures. Interestingly, when treated with a combination of pregnancy levels of both hormones (10-9M of E2 with 10-6M of P4), the percentage of BMDC labeled with FITC-Dextran was increased compared to 10-9M E2 alone, indicating that the effect of E2 was moderated by P4, when both hormones are present in this combination. These results were consistent with the opposing effects of E2 and P4 (Fig 4), with P4 effect dominating in cultures where BMDCs were treated with combination of both hormones.
Fig 6. Effects of E2 and P4 on the uptake of FITC-Dextran by BMDC.
BM cells isolated from OVX mice were cultured with GM-CSF in the presence of E2 (10-11M and 10-9M) or P4 (10-8M and 10-6M) or 10-9M E2 + 10-6M P4 and FITC-Dextran (200μg/ml) was added to the culture on day 5 for further 2 hrs at 37°C. Negative control was FITC-Dextran added to BMDCs and incubated at 4°C for 2 hrs. Cells were collected and stained with antibodies for CD11b and CD11c. Percentage of FITC-Dextran-positive CD11b+CD11c+ DCs were obtained by gating on CD11b+CD11c+ DCs. Representative flow cytometry data are shown in (A) and corresponding data graph are shown in (B). Data shown are Mean ± SD from 4 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by *p<0.05; ** p<0.01; ***p<0.001 compared with untreated control or the comparison of combination treatment with single hormone treatment.
Differential effect of E2 and P4 on cytokine secretion from BMDC
To determine the profile of cytokine secretion from BMDC treated with sex hormones, we collected supernatants from LPS activated BMDC treated with E2, P4, or combination of E2 and P4. Cytokines were chosen to represent those known to be secreted by DCs and play an important role in their functions: IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, TNF-α, and TGF-β. We normalized the cytokine levels to the percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs in each treatment culture, in order to better correlate BMDC with cytokine profile. Low physiological concentration of E2 (10−11 M) was effective at increasing IL-12, IL10, IL-8, IL-6 and IL-1β secretion from BMDC cultures, whereas high physiological concentrations of P4, corresponding to pregnancy levels (10−6 M), decreased secretion of all of these cytokines (Fig 7). The only cytokine where the effect of hormones was reversed was TGF-β; E2 was inhibitory for production of TGF-β such that pregnancy levels of 10-9M E2 actually inhibited TGF-β below the level of cultures containing no sex hormones. Cultures treated with high concentration of P4, equivalent of pregnancy levels (10-6M), showed the highest amount of TGF-β compared to all other culture conditions. TNF-α regulation was also unique, such that low concentrations of both E2 and P4 did not alter TNF-α secretion, but higher concentrations of both hormones suppressed TNF-α. The enhancing effect of E2 on IL-10, IL-12, IL-8 and IL-6 did not increase beyond that seen at low physiological dose (10−11 M), even with 100-fold increase in E2 concentrations.
Fig 7. E2 and P4 induced different cytokine secretion profile from BMDCs.
BM cells isolated from OVX mice were cultured with GM-CSF in the presence of varying doses of E2 or P4. On day 6, 5ng/ml LPS was added to the culture for further 24h culture and supernatants were collected and cytokine concentrations were determined (IL-12, IL-10, IL-8, IL-10, TNF-α, IFN-γ and IL-1β) by multi-analyte cytokine and chemokine assays. TGF-β in the supernatants was determined by ELISA. The values (pg/ml, mean ±SD) were normalized to the percentage of CD11b+ CD11c+ DCs in each treatment. Data represent triplicate samples from 2 independent experiments. Statistical significance is indicated by *p<0.05; ** p<0.01; ***p<0.001 compared with untreated control.
The cytokine analysis of culture supernatants reflected overall cytokine secretion by all the cell types present in the cultures. To define more accurately that the source of cytokine secretion was dendritic cells, we performed intracellular staining for cytokines IL-12, TNF-α and IL-6 on CD11c+CD11b+ BMDC. Representative dot plot data and corresponding graphs are shown (Fig 8A–8D). E2 treatment significantly increased frequency of DCs producing IL-12, but high dose of P4 decreased the frequency of IL-12 producing DCs. This clearly paralleled the results found in supernatant measures of IL-12 (Fig 7).
Fig 8. High dose of P4 inhibited the cytokine secretion from E2-treated BMDCs.
BM cells isolated from OVX mice were cultured with GM-CSF in the presence of varying doses of E2 or P4 or combination of both. On day 6, 5ng/ml LPS was added to the culture for 24hrs. Culture treated with LPS alone (+LPS-E2) was negative control and untreated culture (-LPS -E2) was background. The protein transport inhibitor (BD Golgi Plug) was added for the last 6 hrs of culture. Cells were stained for intracellular IL-12, TNF- α and IL-6 with respective APC-conjugated antibodies. The top panel in A is gating scheme and isotype control. The rest of the panels in A are the percentage of IL-12-secreting CD11b+CD11c+ DCs by intracellular staining under experimental conditions. Percentage of CD11b+CD11c+ DCs positive for IL-12, TNF-α and IL-6 are showed in B, C and D, respectively. Data represent samples in triplicate from 2 independent determinations. *p<0.05; ** p<0.01; ***p<0.001 compared with non-hormone treated control or the comparison of combination treatment with single hormone treatment.
The graphic data of the frequencies of CD11c+CD11b+ BMDC secreting IL-6, and TNF-α showed a pattern generally similar to IL-12 (Fig 8C). Both high dose (10−9) and low dose (10-11M) of E2 increased BMDCs secreting IL-6, but only high dose of P4 (10-6M) decreased percentage of cells secreting IL-6 in the presence of low dose E2. For TNF-α, both low dose and high dose of E2 significantly decreased the frequency of cells secreting TNF-α (Fig 8D). In contrast, only high dose of P4 decreased TNF-α secreting cells on its own and in combination with low dose of E2.
Immune cells within the body are in constant contact with circulating hormones. While both female sex hormones, E2 and P4 co-occur throughout the reproductive years in a woman’s body, they have fluctuating concentration with E2 or P4 dominating at certain times of the reproductive cycle [21]. In addition, during pregnancy there is a prolonged period of P4 dominance at high concentrations [22]. Previous publications have illustrated the effects of either E2 or P4 on dendritic cells [30] [11]. All the studies so far have examined how E2 or P4 act on their own, and typically used one or two concentrations in the approximate physiologic range [25] [24] [16]. However, the interaction between these two hormones is very complex since they are present together, in vivo. While E2 and P4 have known synergistic effects, they can also antagonize each other since E2 upregulates P4 receptors and P4 can regulate ER [31] [32] [33]. Therefore, it is important to examine the combinatorial effect of these two hormones. We have now provided a full titration study of their individual effects on mouse BM progenitors, along with effect of combination of the two hormones at physiological concentrations that allow maximal effects on myeloid DC differentiation. Our data show clearly that E2 increases the differentiation of BM derived myeloid DC in vitro, at low physiological concentrations seen during normal reproductive cycle. Serum levels of E2 fluctuate between 10−11 to 10-10M (20–60 pg/ml) during the reproductive cycle, while P4 levels vary between 10−9 to 10−8 M (2–20 ng/ml) [21]. During pregnancy, serum E2 levels peak around 10-9M and P4 around 10-6M [22] [23]. Interestingly in follicular fluid and placenta, sites for local production of hormones in women, P4 levels have been reported to be as high as 9.8X10-6 M [26,27]. E2 increased differentiation of immature myeloid DC (CD11b+,CD11c+) from whole BM cell cultures at concentrations as low as 10-12M, with maximal effect (2–3 fold more than no hormone control) at 10-9M, in the presence or absence of LPS. LPS is a known stimulator of DC maturation in vitro and in vivo. A high percentage of the DCs generated in the presence of low E2 concentrations and LPS became functional DC with high CD40 and MHC Class-II expression along with secretion of cytokines such as IL-12, IL-10, and IL-1β. The reverse observations were found for BM cultures treated with P4 +/- LPS, at ranges from low physiologic to supraphysiologic (10−9–10−5 M). Frequency of CD11c+CD11b+ cells, percentage of cells expressing CD40 and MHCII and secreting cytokines decreased with high dosage of P4. More importantly, when combined at concentrations equivalent to those found in pregnancy, P4 inhibited the effects of E2. Thus our data indicates clearly that P4 is a regulator of the positive effects of E2 on myeloid DC differentiation and functions of BM precursors. Based on our data, one would predict increased differentiation of myeloid DCs of mature phenotype during estrogen-dominant stages and decrease in DC differentiation in progesterone-dominant stages. In agreement with this prediction, previous work has indicated that myeloid DC are present in large numbers during estrus in the mouse [34]. Similarly, previous studies have described the presence of a large number of immature DCs in the uterus of pregnant mice; whether this is a direct outcome of dominant progesterone levels seen during pregnancy remains to be proven in vivo [35].In this study we focused primarily on the effects of estradiol (E2) on DCs. However, in vivo, especially during pregnancy, levels of other estrogens, including estriol (E3) and estrone (E1) also increase significantly. However, similar to normal menstrual cycle, E2 is present in the highest concentration (peak levels 24ng/ml at week 35) throughout pregnancy, while E3 is the lowest (peak levels 6ng/ml at week 35) [36]. More interestingly, a comparison of total plasma level to free level showed that while E2 exists almost entirely in the unconjugated (free) form, estriol is present mostly in the inactive conjugated form compared to its total levels in plasma [36]. Other studies have confirmed these results [37]. Therefore, E2 is clearly responsible for majority of the estrogenic effects in pregnancy, whereas E3 is unable to exert much effect because it is predominantly conjugated. In addition to low free levels, E3 has been shown, in vitro, to have 12% the affinity of E2 for cytosolic ER [38]. In vivo studies in rats showed that E3 is a short acting compound with a brief duration of action and weak uterotrophic activity compared to E2 [38]. For these reasons, we limited our examination of estrogenic effects on DCs to E2.
A large body of work has focused on understanding the development, differentiation and functions of DCs using the protocol of BMDC cultures grown in presence of GMCSF with or without other cytokines and growth factors [39]. The large numbers of CD11c+ cells that differentiated under these conditions were considered to be pure myeloid DC population. However, a recent study identified heterogeneous groups of cells among the CD11c+ MHCII+ BMDCs, comprised of conventional myeloid DCs and monocyte derived macrophages [39]. Furthermore, both cell types underwent maturation with LPS, but responded differentially and showed distinct functional properties [39]. The study used CD135 and CD115 to define the subpopulations corresponding to DCs and macrophages, respectively. Since our studies were done prior to this work, we did not include any markers to distinguish whether we had mixed DCs and macrophages in our BMDC cultures. Therefore our results showing hormone effects on DCs need to be cautiously interpreted since the functional changes seen following different hormone treatments could be due to differential responses of DCs and macrophages. Nevertheless, since macrophages are present in abundant numbers in the uterus during normal cycle and make up 25–30% of the leukocytes in the decidua during pregnancy [40], understanding the differential effects of hormones on DCs compared to macrophages will be important for future studies.
In conclusion, we have addressed an existing gap in knowledge regarding the combinatorial effect of E2 and P4 on DC differentiation and function, given that under most physiological conditions these two hormones are present together. Our results indicate that while E2 effects dominate over lower physiological doses of P4 (10−9–10−8 M) such as those found during the reproductive cycle, while higher concentrations of P4 found in pregnancy (10-6M) have the dominant effect on BMDCs, decreasing their differentiation and moderating the production of inflammatory cytokines. These studies will provide a basis for better understanding of the regulation of DC differentiation and function by sex hormones.
Conceived and designed the experiments: FX CK. Performed the experiments: FX VA PN. Analyzed the data: FX CK DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB HL YW. Wrote the paper: FX CK DS.
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The head of a Sherman Oaks firm accused of bilking thousands of investors in a $1.3-billion Ponzi scheme was arrested Thursday along with two associates on federal criminal charges.
Robert Shapiro, 61, the owner of the Woodbridge Group of Cos., and two other company executives were accused of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and other violations of federal law in an indictment unsealed in the Southern District of Florida.
Shapiro, of Sherman Oaks, Dane R. Roseman, 35, of Encino and Ivan Acevedo, 42, of Chatsworth were arrested in California and pleaded not guilty in federal court in Los Angeles. Roseman and Acevedo were released on bond, while Shapiro remained in custody. (Shapiro should not be confused with L.A. celebrity attorney Robert L. Shapiro.)
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Residents concerned after continuous fires at vacant apartment complex
Posted 6:00 pm, October 16, 2019, by Emily Akins, Updated at 06:27PM, October 16, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) - Oklahoma City firefighters responded to fires six times over the last year at an abandoned apartment complex.
“The sky was lit up orange and I was probably 100 yards from it but you could smell the smoke. You could smell the smoke down here in my neighborhood,” said nearby resident Catherine Smith.
The most recent fires are just two days apart.
Crews responded to the complex off of NW 16th, first on Saturday and then again on Monday.
“It was a vagrant using fire to stay warm inside the structure, it’s likely that some of the other ones were the same cause,” said Battalion Chief Benny Fulkerson. “When you have this time of year, the weather starts to cool off, you know, people that don’t have a home are trying to get in somewhere to stay warm."
Smith lives just a few blocks away, and says because homeless people frequent the empty building the property has been worrying people in her neighborhood for years.
“It’s just become an absolute eyesore, and a hazard, and I’m afraid the next time it catches on fire somebody is going to get hurt or worse,” said Smith.
Oklahoma City officials tell News 4 since they don't own the property, there's not a lot they can do.
They do, however, fine the property owners for the cost of the trip every time departments have to respond.
Smith says it's not just the fires that are worrisome.
“We’ve had multiple thefts in the neighborhood, people coming through, I’ve had neighbors that have had plants stolen off their front porch,” Smith said. “I would like to see them torn down, just torn down, because if there’s another fire, somebody’s going to get hurt or worse.”
Fulkerson says in total the past six fires have caused about $305,000 in damage.
We spoke with the current owners, Brown Group Real Estates and Investments, based out of Oklahoma City.
General Manager Jackson Sinclair says their company is geared toward buying rundown properties and turning it in to affordable housing for low-income communities.
They are currently working on a different project, but these apartments are slated to be next in line.
They expect to start this project in 2020.
In the meantime, Sinclair says they are working with the fire department and are looking at additional measures to secure the property, such as new fencing.
The fire department and city officials remind citizens if you see someone going into a vacant structure, call an official and let them know.
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FDA Keeps Brand-Name Drugs On A Fast Path To Market ― Despite Manufacturing Concerns
By Sydney Lupkin November 5, 2019
(Hannah Norman/KHN Illustration; Getty Images)
This story also ran on Daily Beast. This story can be republished for free (details).
After unanimously voting to recommend a miraculous hepatitis C drug for approval in 2013, a panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration gushed about what they’d accomplished.
“I voted ‘yes’ because, quite simply, this is a game changer,” National Institutes of Health hepatologist Dr. Marc Ghany said of Sovaldi, Gilead Science’s new pill designed to cure most cases of hepatitis C within 12 weeks.
Dr. Lawrence Friedman, a professor at Harvard Medical School, called it his “favorite vote” as an FDA reviewer, according to the transcript.
What the panelists didn’t know was that the FDA’s drug quality inspectors had recommended against approval.
They issued a scathing 15-item disciplinary report after finding multiple violations at Gilead’s main U.S. drug testing laboratory, down the road from its headquarters in Foster City, Calif. Their findings criticized aspects of the quality control process from start to finish: Samples were improperly stored and catalogued; failures were not adequately reviewed; and results were vulnerable to tampering that could hide problems.
Gilead Foster City doesn’t manufacture drugs. Its job is to test samples from drug batches to ensure the pills don’t crumble or contain mold, glass or bacteria, or have too little of an active antiviral ingredient.
Recent news reports have focused public attention on poor quality control and contamination in the manufacturing of cheap generic drugs, particularly those made overseas. But even some of the newest, most expensive brand-name medicines have been plagued by quality and safety concerns during production, a Kaiser Health News analysis shows.
More disturbing, even when FDA inspectors flagged the potential danger and raised red flags internally, those problems were resolved with the agency in secret ― without a follow-up inspection ― and the drugs were approved for sale.
Erin Fox, who purchases medicines for University of Utah Health hospitals, said she was shocked to hear from KHN about manufacturing problems uncovered by authorities at the facilities that make brand-name products. “Either you’re following the rules or you’re not following the rules,” Fox said. “Maybe it’s just as bad for branded drugs.”
The pressure to get innovative drugs like Sovaldi into use is considerable, both because they offer new treatments for desperate patients and because the medicines are highly profitable.
Against that backdrop, the FDA has repeatedly found a way to approve brand-name drugs despite safety concerns at manufacturing facilities that had prompted inspectors to push to reject those drugs’ approval, an ongoing KHN investigation shows. This happened in 2018 with drugs for cancer, migraines, HIV and a rare disease, and 10 other times in recent years, federal records show. In such cases, how these issues were discussed, negotiated and ultimately resolved is not public record.
For example, inspectors found that facilities making immunotherapies and migraine treatments didn’t follow up when drug products showed evidence of bacteria, glass or other contaminants. At a Chinese plant making the new HIV drug Trogarzo, employees dismissed “black residue” found to be “non-dissolvable metal oxides,” assuming it “did not pose a significant risk,” federal records show.
Without a follow-up inspection to confirm drugmakers corrected the problems inspectors found, these medicines eventually were approved for sale, and at list prices as high as $189,000 a month for an average patient, according to health data firm Connecture. The cancer drug Lutathera was initially rejected over manufacturing problems at three plants but was approved a year later without a fresh inspection and was priced at $57,000 per vial.
John Avellanet, a consultant on FDA compliance, said data integrity problems, like those at Gilead’s lab in Foster City, should have sparked further investigation, because they raise the possibility of “deeper issues.”
Dr. Janet Woodcock, the director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said an inspector’s recommendation to withhold approval can be “dealt with” without a follow-up. Woodcock said the agency can’t comment on specifics, and companies are reluctant to discuss them because the details of the resolution are protected as a corporate trade secret.
“That doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with the drug,” Woodcock said.
Dinesh Thakur, a former drug-quality employee turned whistleblower, called the secrecy a “red flag.” A follow-up inspection is critical, he said: “I’ve seen many times paper commitments are made but never followed through.”
What worries Fox is that a faulty drug could get through and nobody would know.
“In general, very few people suspect that their medicine is the problem or their medicine is not working,” Fox said. “Unless you see black shavings or something horrible in the product itself, the drug is almost the last thing that would be suspect.”
The Market Beckons
If the FDA finds problems at preapproval inspections for generics, the agency is likely to deny approval and delay the drug’s launch until the next year’s review cycle, according to industry and agency experts.
In fact, just 12% of generics were approved the first time their sponsors submitted applications from 2015 through 2017.
The calculus appears different for heralded new therapies like Sovaldi. In 2018, 95% of novel drugs ― the newest of the new ― were approved on the first try, the FDA said.
Woodcock said the agency has “the same standards for all drugs,” but she emphasized that many of the manufacturing issues “are somewhat subjective.”
For new brand-name drugs, she said, the FDA “will work very closely with the company to … bring the manufacturing up to snuff.”
The manufacturer submits written responses and commits to resolve quality concerns, but the details are kept confidential.
An estimated 2.4 million Americans have hepatitis C and, before Sovaldi, treatment came with miserable side effects and a strong chance it wouldn’t work. Sovaldi promised up to a 90% cure rate, though it came with an eye-popping $84,000 price tag for a 12-week course, putting it out of reach for most patients and health care systems.
But corporate pressure to get such therapies into the marketplace is also considerable.
Pharmaceutical firms pay hefty fees for FDA review and lobby the agency to speed products to market. For Gilead, time lost is money.
“If approval of sofosbuvir were delayed, our anticipated revenues and our stock price would be adversely affected,” Gilead wrote in an SEC document filed Oct. 31, 2013, using the generic name for Sovaldi.
Since its debut in 2013, Sovaldi has been widely criticized for its price but recognized as a medical breakthrough. Gilead has never recalled it.
However, hundreds of patients who have taken the drug have voluntarily reported cancer or other complications to the FDA’s “adverse event” reporting database, including concerns that the treatment doesn’t always work. One in 5 Sovaldi patients and health care professionals who reported serious problems to federal regulators said the drug didn’t cure the patients’ hepatitis C.
“The FDA approved these products after a rigorous inspection process, and we are confident in the quality/compliance of these products,” Gilead spokeswoman Sonia Choi said.
Problems at Foster City
Gilead’s Foster City facility has been cited for an array of problems over the years. In 2012, FDA inspectors said the facility had failed to properly review how the HIV drugs Truvada and Atripla became contaminated with “blue glass” particles; some of that tainted batch was distributed. The company “made no attempt to recover” the contaminated drugs, according to FDA inspection records.
Gilead had just filed its application for Sovaldi’s approval when FDA inspectors arrived at Foster City for an unrelated inspection in April 2013. Inspectors slapped the facility with nine violations in what’s called a 483 document and said that the reliability of the site’s methods for testing things like purity were unproven and that its records were incomplete and disorganized, according to FDA inspection documents.
As a result, the FDA initially rejected two HIV drugs, Vitekta and Tybost. Gilead had to resubmit those applications, and it would take 18 months before the FDA approved them in late 2014.
On Sept. 19, 2013, FDA officials met to discuss Sovaldi with Woodcock, agency records show. Meeting minutes show inspectors recommended hitting Gilead Foster City with a formal warning letter based on the April inspection. (A warning letter is a disciplinary action from the FDA that typically includes a threat to withhold new approvals or place a foreign facility on import alert and refuse to accept its products for sale in the U.S.)
At the same meeting, FDA inspectors said their recommendation to approve Sovaldi would be “based on” removing an unnamed drug ingredient manufacturer from the application and “a determination that Gilead Foster City has an acceptable cGMP [current good manufacturing practices] status.”
Records show the FDA didn’t issue a warning letter or otherwise delay the approval process when Foster City failed its inspection.
Instead, the Sovaldi preapproval inspection started four days later and lasted two weeks. At the end, inspectors issued Foster City another 483, this time with 15 violations, formally outlining problems and requiring a written plan to fix them. Inspectors said they couldn’t recommend Sovaldi’s approval.
FDA officials gave Gilead two options during an Oct. 29 teleconference: Remove Foster City, a “major testing site” for Sovaldi, from the application, and use a third-party contractor instead; or use Foster City but hire another firm to monitor the site and sign off on its testing work.
Gilead was optimistic. “Based on recent communications with the FDA, we do not expect these [inspection] observations to delay approval of sofosbuvir,” the company said in its Oct. 31 SEC filing.
Gilead chose to replace the Foster City plant with a contract testing site, federal records show. By December, Sovaldi was approved for distribution, and the company soon announced its $1,000-per-pill price tag.
Not Just Generics
Recent media reports, and the ongoing recall of the widely used blood pressure medicine valsartan, have led consumers ― and members of Congress ― to question whether generics are manufactured safely. Valsartan pills made in China and India were found to contain cancer-causing impurities.
Branded-drug quality, in large part, has been spared from congressional scrutiny. But many factories ― overseas and in the U.S. ― make branded and generic drugs.
In January 2018, FDA inspectors hit a Korean manufacturing plant that makes Ajovy, a migraine drug, with a warning letter. With the problems still unresolved in April, an agency reviewer recommended withholding approval. When they returned in July, inspectors wanted to give the plant the worst possible classification: “Official Actions Indicated.” Among other problems, inspectors found that glass vials sometimes broke during the manufacturing process and that the facility lacked protocols to prevent the particles from getting into drug products. The FDA’s Office of Manufacturing Quality eventually downgraded the inspection to just “Voluntary Actions Indicated.”
The drug was approved in September 2018 and priced at $690 a month. FDA records indicate no further disciplinary action was taken. Teva, the maker of Ajovy, did not respond to requests for comment.
Similarly, when FDA inspectors visited a contract manufacturing facility in Indiana used to make Revcovi, which treats an autoimmune disease, they noted that a redacted drug lot had failed a sterility test because the vials tested positive for a bacterium called Delftia acidovorans, which can be detrimental even in people with healthy immune systems, studies show. But the drug-filling machine stayed in use after the contaminant was discovered, the FDA determined. Inspectors recommended withholding approval.
The drug was approved in October 2018 even after another inspection turned up problems, with a list price of $95,000 to $189,000 per month for an average patient, according to health care data firm Connecture.
Revcovi’s manufacturer, Leadiant Biosciences, said through an outside public relations firm that its contract manufacturer’s written responses to the FDA observations were considered “adequate” by two FDA offices, adding, “We do not have any more information to share with you at this time as pharmaceutical manufacturing processes are confidential.”
Problems with drugs can take years to discover ― and then only after patients are injured. So, many health researchers say, more caution is warranted.
“They’re doing so few of these [FDA] inspections pre-market,” said Diana Zuckerman, president of the nonprofit National Center for Health Research. “The least they can do is listen to the ones they’re doing.”
Sydney Lupkin: slupkin@kff.org, @slupkin
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A Mobile Application to Secure Land Tenure
Photo by: Gilles Paire, Shutterstock
Originally appeared on New America’s Future of Property Rights Blog.
As smartphones have become ubiquitous over the last decade, an ecosystem of mobile data collection apps has emerged, making the prospect of cheap, crowdsourced data collection more feasible than ever before. Most of these apps have been aimed at users in the developed world, where the use cases impose very different cost and accessibility requirements. An app that only runs on a late-model iPhone, for example, would be unsuitable for community mapping in the developing world no matter its functionality…
In her 2016 Master’s thesis An app for land administration: criteria, functional requirements and a prototype in Ethiopia [PDF], Julinda Dyil of the University of Twente examined 30 of these apps for their suitability for community mapping. The two fundamental requirements she identified were that the apps must be “designed to support poor people and communities” (pro-poor) and “designed to support management of land administration systems” (fit-for-use). Dyli breaks these two requirements down into sixteen criteria. Many of these overlap, and for the sake of simplicity we will distill them them down to four broad criteria:
1) Affordability
The app must be free or very inexpensive. If the purchase price or subscription fee is high, or if the app can only be run on an expensive phone, then it will not be suitable for community mapping.
2) Accessibility
The app must be simple and intuitive to use for people with limited education and literacy. If it is too complex to operate it will not fit into the sort of collaborative, inclusive methodology that is best able to guarantee fairness and transparency. The geospatial data cannot be abstract; it must be tied to a map that shows people what it corresponds to on the ground. The data produced must be in format that is easily shared and read by the different parties involved.
3) Adaptability
Different regions and jurisdictions have different requirements for land and tenure attribute information as well as GPS accuracy. The app must therefore be flexible in its ability to collect both kinds of data. It must be able to collect complex usage and tenure information across the continuum of rights. The app must include forms to enter attribute data, ideally ones that can be customized without programming. Compatibility with external GPS receivers is also important for simple adaptation to regional accuracy standards.
4) Accuracy
The integrity of the information collected must be high so that everyone involved in the process, from the landholder to the government land agency, has trust in the data. The accuracy of the GPS data should be high enough to satisfy legal standards in the area where the mapping takes place, but no higher if increased accuracy will impose greater costs.
Apps designed with these criteria in mind are already being used to record property rights, notably by USAID’s Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (MAST) program.
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Redundancies are devastating blow to Scotland’s heritage sector
The National Trust for Scotland risks damage to its long-term aims by pursuing short-term cost savings, Prospect has warned, after the conservation charity announced details of a restructure that could see up to 139 staff made redundant.
The union, which represents hundreds of specialists and support staff at NTS, has been working to ensure members’ jobs are protected, ever since the plans were first mooted in January. The stated intention has been to reduce running costs by 10% and simplify the management structure.
‘’Today’s announcement is a devastating blow to Scotland’s heritage sector,” said Prospect negotiator Ian Perth.
“Our members are already significantly stretched and continue to do valuable work for the charity in such difficult times.
“We are concerned that the trust’s proposals rely heavily on replacing full-time staff with contractors. Although a move like this can show short-term cost reductions, they risk damaging the trust in the long-term.”
Prospect has welcomed the commitment not to cut jobs at property locations, but fears the removal of vital central functions will lead to difficulties for members at trust properties.
Perth added: “Over the course of the 90-day consultation, which begins today, we will work with our members to ensure the Trust does everything possible to minimise compulsory redundancies.
“The trust has committed to fully engaging with Prospect throughout the consultation process and we intend to leave no stone unturned in an effort to support our members. We have sought a number of clarifications from the trust and are currently arranging a timetable for engagement.”
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The case for an A330neo
With the increasing possibility that Airbus will defer or even drop the A350-800, the case for an A330neo becomes much stronger. Absent the A358, Airbus has no effective competition to the Boeing 787-8. The current A330, which we will call the A330 Classic, is a very good airplane but it is not as fuel efficient as the 788. The Airbus argument that the A330 Classic is competitive is based on the most favorable of assumptions and rests in part on the key capital cost assumption and moderate fuel prices.
In a story on Friday Reuters confirmed our December 23 e-newsletter report (which subsequently was published at Leeham News and Comment December 29) that Airbus is seriously considering an A330neo. This certainly clears the air on this score.
Source: Airbus
Airbus argues that the lower capital cost offsets the higher operating costs of its A330s vs Boeing’s 787-8 and forthcoming 787-9.
The following table includes Airbus’ assumption as well as 2013 lease rates reported by the appraisal firm Collateral Verifications (CV). Airbus assumes a higher lease rate for the 787-8 than CV reports. CV does not yet have an estimated lease rate for the 787-9.
Current Market Value is the price an airplane can be expected to sell for in today’s environment. Current Base Value is the theoretical price in a stable supply-and-demand market.
Current Market Value
Current Base Value
Appraiser-reported Lease Rate
Airbus assumed Lease Rate
Source: CMV, CBV and Appraiser Lease rates from Collateral Verifications, May 2013, reference book.
The difference between Airbus’ estimate of the 787-8 lease and CV’s published lease rate is $230,000/mo, or $2.76m a year. Airbus assumes a 1% lease rate the CMV of the 787-8 but a .94% lease rate for its A330-200.
This $230,000/mo lease rate delta may well be the difference between advantage to Airbus or advantage to Boeing under the Airbus scenario.
Furthermore, we know of A330-300 lease rates of $1m, or $100,000 higher than the Airbus assumption vs its estimated lease rate of $1.25m for the 787-9.
Airbus is also making its assumptions over 2,000nm (routes intra-Asia, for example) and at $3/gal fuel. Fuel prices fluctuate, of course.
Our affiliate, Leeham Co EU in Europe, prepared the following analysis that is for fuel consumption only and does not evaluate other operating costs or capital costs. This analysis demonstrates that the A330 Classic falls well short of the 787-8/9 and the A350.
Thus, given the favorable capital cost variable Airbus uses to promote the current A330 family, it may be seen that this variable alone makes-or-breaks its argument.
The backlog for the A330 currently is only two years at present production rates. Airbus officials have said they expect the A330 to remain in production into the 2020 decade, but with a backlog at November 30 of just 251 and a production rate of 10/mo, Airbus currently has enough orders only through early 2016. If Airbus is to maintain production for another 10-15 years (i.e., 2013-2018), more than just creating a “regional” airliner option is required. This means NEO and/or reduced production rates.
In some respects, the A350 XWB and 787 are “too much airplane,” offering far more range than most carriers require. The 6,000nm A330-300 covers must trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific missions. The A330-200, at 7,200nm, has been evolving into a niche airplane; sales have tapered off in favor of the larger A333 with better seat mile costs.
Although some suggest that the A330neo is the original A350 concept that was rejected by the market, it is not. A350 V 1.0 included a new wing and new systems. We believe the A330neo would follow the example of the A320neo, with minimal changes required related to the engine and related structures. We also expect sharkets would be part of the package.
We expect activity to increase at Airbus and the engine makers as they evaluate the prospects of producing a neo.
Category: Airbus, Boeing
Tags: 787-8, 787-9, A330, A330-200, A330-300, A330neo, Airbus, Boeing
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Riddling the datapoints from the graph
for the 787-8 versus A330-200NEO I get:
~5% ( 8.29 / 8.73 ) difference in fuel / aircraft mile and
~0.7% ( 0.03415 / 0.0344 ) difference in fuel / seat mile.
What metric does the given 4% value reference?
If Airbus would use the very latest engine technologies* and an affordable, re-engineered and significantly lighter wing (i.e. less volume in the wing box means less structure etc.); a next generation A330 family (i.e. not really an A330neo) would not only equal the 787 in performance, but should surpass it by some margin.
* i.e. 2020 EIS and TSFC up to 10 percent better than the engines on the 787. In comparison the GE9X will be about 7-8 percent better than the GEnx in the TSFC department.
As for the wing, the current one on the A330 is rightsized. It already has a very high aspect ratio and much lower relative wing-loading than, for example, that of the 777-300ER.
However, the centre and outer wing box was designed to hold up to slightly more than 139,000 litres of fuel for the A340-300. The centre wing box alone can hold around 41,500 litres of fuel. In comparison, the fuel capacity for the A350-1000 is 156,000 litres, while for the A350-900 it’s reduced to 138,000 litres. Hence, the fuel capacity of a fully competitive A330neo is too large. Even the centre wing box on the A330 is longer than the one on the A350: 10 (fuselage) frames x 0.535m vs. 8 frames x 0.635m. The A330-200 has, of course, also a maximum fuel capacity of 139,000 litres of fuel, but only the tanker version will ever load the fuel tanks at maximum capacity.
For an A330neo not only to match the 787, but to surpass it, IMO Airbus should modify the wing. How?
First, the wing box should be reduced in size and volume. The centre wing box should be reduced in length by 2 frames, or even possibly by 3 frames (in the x-axis), as well as being reduced in volume between the engines. Thus, the forward spar on the revised wing would be near parallel to the aft spar inboard of the engines. Both the 787 and the A350 has a similar feature, but it’s most noticeable on the A380, where the front spar “separates” from the leading edge inboard of the inner engines
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In order to further reduce the weight, the centre spar should be removed (i.e. like the A350). Since the wing covers would be reduced in area, Airbus will have a clear option of making the entire wingbox in CFRP. That will reduce empty weight by some 7-8 tonnes. However, the wing would not be all new, since the movable surfaces etc would be retained from the current wing as well as landing gear, same engine distance from the aircraft centreline etc (i.e. on the 777X the engines are moved further outboard from the 777′s centreline).
Flightglobal article on the original A350 and the changes planned for the new wing:
The adoption of CFRP fore and aft spars for the outer wing (outboard of the composite centre wingbox) has enabled Airbus to delete the centre spar and revise the design of the metallic ribs, providing further weight reductions. The revamped wing also incorporates a simplified fuel system, with one large centre fuel tank extending into the outer wing flanked by a main wing tank each side, further reducing weight and improving operating efficiency. The tailplane trim tank has also been expanded, which improves centre-of-gravity management during flight.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/second-chance-the-a350-204138/
In contrast to the wing on the original A350, and as I’ve outlined, IMO the wing box and integrated tanks inboard of the engines should be reduced in volume and
structure, and thus weight.
2nd, this new generation A330 should be equipped with engine technologies at least as advanced as the GE9X, or upwards of 10 percent betterment in efficiency over that of the Trent-1000 and the GEnx engines, which BTW are no longer state-of-the-art. Incidentally, such engines would be perfect for an A380neo.
3rd, IMO the nose of the A350 (i.e. Section-11) could be integrated with the smaller circular A330 fuselage. Among other things, it would allow for a taller nose landing gear, 100 percent cockpit commonality with the A350 and better aerodynamics.
With all these improvements plus an all new cabin and larger windows, an A330NG family could have the following members:
A330-800: Same size as the A330-200, reduced MTOW (220 metric tonnes, optimised MLG); 8000nm range.
A330-900: Same size as the A330-300, MTOW of 242 metric tonnes; 8000nm range.
A330-1000: 10 frame stretch, MTOW of 242 metric tonnes; 7000nm range.
Hence, by using the very latest engine technologies (i.e. TSFC up to 10 percent better than the engines on the 787), and what would be an affordable, re-engineered wing, a next generation A330 family (i.e. not really an A330neo) would not only equal the 787 in performance, but surpass it by some margin.
You can’t be accuse of thinking small 😉
What you describe is a Boeing style NG version where everything changes exept for the bolts that attach the wings to the body and the basic cert.
This only makes sense if there is a major advantage in grandfathering an from an ancient certification base ( as with the 737NG ).
The A350 nose will imho not be a good aerodynamic fit to the 222″ fuselage.
What details of the A330 airframe do actually underperform in comparison to the newer designs ( and thus could really benefit from some cleanup/twiddling ) ?
Well, everything but 5 percent would have changed on the original A350. That’s not what I’m proposing. I’d reckon that the A330NG I’m talking about would have closer to 50 percent commonality with the current model. As for the wing, it would retain the movable suraces on the trailing edge, and on the leading edge outboard of the engines. The centre wing box would be all new, but the fuselage, most of the systems and empennage would largely remain the same except for the nose section (i.e. Section 11/12) if Airbus would elect to go with the A350 nose section.
From the Flightglobal article in the link above:
It is more than a year since Airbus showed its hand in the battle for the mid-size widebody market, unveiling the A350 as a major derivative of the A330 – then powered solely by General Electric GEnx engines – to compete against the all-new Boeing 787. Over the past 12 months, the new Airbus has undergone several significant design refinements. In its latest guise – shown to customers in November – the twinjet shares little more than 5% commonality with its predecessor.
As for re-using the A350 nose section on an A330NG; subsonic aircraft design has long since moved away from less efficient, pointed noses to more efficient flattened nose sections, which have better aerodynamics, in addition to maximising pressurised volume in the forward lower lobe. For Airbus, the A320 was the first model that introduced such a flattened nose section design, while for Boeing, the 787 was the first model that did not have a distinct and pointed nose.
AFAIK, the A330 and A350 are very similar dimensionally in the lower lobe. Hence, the nose section on the A350 and on an adapted A350 nose section for an A330NG, should be close to identical below the forward cabin floor, and between doors 1A and 1B. The fuselage tapering on the upper forward fuselage, between the cockpit windows and the A330 constant fuselage section, would be different on an A330NG than it is on the A350 (i.e. the one for an A330NG should be slightly shorter). Combined with a smaller wing box, the available volume for lower deck would increase by at least 2 LD3 positions.
What details of the A330 airframe do actually underperform in comparison to the newer designs ( and thus could really benefit from some cleanup/twiddling )
IMO, wing volume and the excess weights associated with such a large volume. I.e. on a LCA, the weight of the wing accounts for up to 40 percent of the manufacturers empty weight (MEW). Hence, a re-engineered wing — affordable if most of the movable surfaces from the current platform could be retained — would in addition to end-of-decade-state-of-the-art engines, IMO do wonders for an A330NG (i.e. not an A330neo).
empty volume has no weight 😉
Actually that excess volume is what “makes” the A330 light. ( as well as the A350 wing ).
Any data around for wing mass ( 787 A330 A350 ) ?
Yes, even that empty volume is full of nitrogen or plain air, and it still has some weight… 😉
I’ve got the wing weight for the A380, but not the aircraft in question.
Page 23 in this document:
http://www.akl.tu-darmstadt.de/media/arbeitskreis_luftverkehr/downloads_6/kolloquien/13kolloquium/05druckvorlage_morales.pdf
As for a thick wing root contributing to an altogether lighter wing, please do note that the front spar on the A380 wing is in the area of the wing’s maximum thickness. That’s not the case with the front spar on the A330 wing.
“filled with air”
think airship, neutral boyancy 😉
in a simplistic first order modeling the wing is a tapered I-Beam.
increasing web height allows reduction of the flange thickness for the same kind of load.
A more voluminous profile allows to build a lighter (and as a sideeffect stiffer ) wing. ( OT the touted as the future blended wing body should be stiffer than a 100 proof grog )
The modified wing would have the same external dimensions (i.e. wing area, wing root chord, same supercritical airfoil shape etc), and the same internal volume. However, it would have a significantly lower fuel capacity due to the smaller, less voluminous centre and outer wing tanks due to the re-arranged position of the front spars of the centre and outer wing boxes, inboard of the engines.
Just like the front spar on the A380 wing, the front spar on this A330NG would intersect the fuselage at a significantly higher angle than on the current wing. If the front spars on the A380 would largely have run parallel to the leading edge inboard of the inner engines, the centre wing box would truly have been humongous, and it would have had a much larger “footprint” in the lower lobe (i.e. less lower deck cargo volume etc.)..
john karmis
Wont Boeing be take weight off the 787-8 in the future? They have created sinificant weight saveings that have yet to be rolled into the 787-8. My guess is that once the current 787-8 backlog is cleared and the 787-10 is ready for production they will go back and knock significant weight off the 787-8 makeing even a A330neo uncompetitive.
Where is the shareholder value for that?
IMU they don’t have the money nor the resource to reduce weight much beyond spec as sold.
keesje
I think a A330 could have 10-15% better fuel efficiency then a A330 classic. GE says the GenX is up to 15% better then the CF6-80 that powers the A330 and 747-8i.
http://www.ge.com/tr/tr/assets/docs/GE-Turkey_Moving-Pillar_Hero-Secondart-Content_Airplane_Motor_Engineering.pdf
I guess a few percent can be gained by using a significantly larger fan. There is some ground clearance and the higher nose gear option can add inches. And the wing pylon of course, a A330 would need a new one anyway.
They once put an even bigger engine on that wing, on that position, a Trent 900 together with CFM56-5. It proves in terms of loads and engineering a lot is possible on the A330 wing.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4717/trent900ff011ht.jpg
Some drag and weight improvements you wouldn’t do if you hadn’t 3 years to design, produce and certify, are no doubt waiting to be implemented.
There is some span available for a better (CFD optimized) winglet, Sharklet, or A350 style tip. Not 4% better, because you replacing. But 1- 2% should be possible.
Altogether a 15% fuel enhancement over the A330 Classic doesn’t seems over optimist at all. We have some claims / graphs on A330 Classic vs 787 efficiency.
Projecting a 15% enhancement of the A330 on those A330 vs 787 claims, we enter a virtual no-go area, because the 787 is simply more efficient. It seems no one dares to challenge that, at this moment.
“It seems no one dares to challenge that, at this moment.”
I do! 😉
An all new, late-decade-state-of-the-art engine could have up to 25 percent better TSFC than the current market leading Trent-700 engine on the A330, and not just a 15 percent betterment in TSFC that the Trent-1000 would provide.
Boeing asked GE to produce an all new engine for the 777X that would have around 5 percent lower TSFC than the Trent-XWB engine, and incidentally, some 7-8 percent lower TSFC than the GEnx and TXWB engines.
Why shouldn’t Airbus ask for the same level of engine efficiency for an upgraded A330?
kc135topboom
Airbus is taking liberties with a lot of assumptions here. First they assume any A-330NEO/NG would have the same monthly lease rates as the current A-330CLASSIC. That alone is not realistic. Second they assume no improvements on the current GEnx-1B and Trent-1000 engines, or a possible future reengined B-787, or further improvements to the airplane itself. Both GE and RR have sold about 1000 engines for the B-787, and in the case of the GEnx, the B-747-8, too. So they both have recovered close to their development costs. Finally assuming a $3 USD price per US Gallon of fuel is also not realistic. While no one can predict the price of fuel in 2018, or later, I would expect fuel costs to be substantially higher than now, perhaps a $1 or more.
The 2013 listed price of the B-787-8 was $211.8M, the -9 was $249.5M, and the -10 was $288.7M.
http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/prices/index.page
The 2013 listed price of the A-33-200CLASSIC was $216.1M and the -300 was $239.4M.
http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/corporate-information/key-documents/?eID=dam_frontend_push&docID=14849
Interestingly, the A-332 actually is listed at $4.3M more than the B-788. While we know airlines don’t pay listed prices, and can get substantial discounts, the A-332 starts out in the hole by more than $4M USD. A B-788 sold with a 29% discount brings in about $150.4M. An A-332 needs to be sold at a 30.5% discount to get under the discounted B-788, at about $150.2M. That 1.5% difference may not sound like much in the discount wars between the two OEMs, but it piles up as more than one airplane is ordered under the sales contract.
Airbus’s assumptions just are not realistic
First they assume any A-330NEO/NG would have the same monthly lease rates as the current A-330CLASSIC. That alone is not realistic. Second they assume no improvements on the current GEnx-1B and Trent-1000 engines, or a possible future reengined B-787, or further improvements to the airplane itself. Both GE and RR have sold about 1000 engines for the B-787, and in the case of the GEnx, the B-747-8, too. So they both have recovered close to their development costs.
Not sure where you get all this, KC. Not from our post and not from the Airbus illustrations.
Taking liberties, forsooth!
purchases ~= performance * availability. + pinch of hype 😉
_Any_ kind of improvement will extend interest in the A330.
Now the combined order book for 787-8/9 hasn’t shown much movement
over the last 4 years ( 2008 ~= 2013 ). The -10 is imho out of scope here.
787 order swaps effectively mimmick the changeover of interest from the A330-200 to the -300. ( And maybe a bit of Mk1 shyness )
As long as 787-8/9 orders stay stagnant …
Aero Ninja
Topboom, the charts in Scott’s article are for the classic A330s. Airbus still officially claims there will be no A330 NEO and would hence not be releasing charts with NEO numbers.
flying frog
Do not bury PRATT on this issue!
“One should not walk away saying Pratt has focused on being only a single-aisle manufacturer,” said Saia (that was mid February 2013), who oversees Pratt & Whitney’s next-generation products. “We are heavily investing in technology for the wide-body thrust class and we continue to be very positive on taking a geared turbofan architecture up to 100,000 pounds of thrust.”
Now, PRATT has a unique opportunity with this 330 NEO
Market is more or less closed elsewhere:
– no way with BOEING, in bed with GE,
– no way with the 350, exclusive RR
And if the GTF is as good as the first purepower series seem to prove, this could be a game changing opportunity, helping the 330 NEO to nearly match the 787 fuel burn figures, and stay competitive in the 2020s reaching an undreamed of life prolongation
This would definitively help AIRBUS match BOEING volumes in the WB business, with 7/8 330 /month+ 14 350/month against 14 787 + 7/8 777
The ball is now in PRATT’s hands: they must be fast, the 330 GTF EIS should not be later than 2018.
The challenge is there !
The earlier post that GE are pushing for the A330 NEO using GEn-2 makes me think the real push from GE is to kill any P+W new large GTF. A GEn-2 on an A330 is just competing with a GEn-1 on a B787. I suspect they have estrapolated the 3% adv the PP-1000 is said to have over Leap-X to GEn-X vs PP-?000 and didn´t like the estimates they came up with. I can´t see Airbus rushing into a GEn2 NEO IF one or two years waiting gives them an engine with 5% better SFC, I wouldn´t be surprised if they were talking to P+W right now about what they can do. I also think they will want to put anything used on the A330 on the A380 as well, and I am not sure GE will want to do that. Could GE´s agreement with P+W on the GP-7200 stop GEn2 from being used on it as well??
Remember Airbus pushed the A350-1000 back to allow more time fror engine work, I could see them doing the same here. taking PP with EIS 2020 instead of GEn2 in 2018. Manage A330 production from 2016-2020 by selling A330 NEO slots tied to Classic slots.
Craig Papayanis
Airbus is playing the seat-number game again. Simple arithmetic, multiplying the “cabin length” times the “economy seats abreast” gives a measure of size. The following results size-wise (with 777-200ER being 100%)
777-200 – 100% (9 abreast)
777-300 – 121.1% (9 abreast)
777-8 – 124.4% (10 abreast)
787-8 – 87.5%
787-9 – 100.1%
787-10 – 111.5%
A330-200 – 82.7%
A350-900 – 107.0%
So, unlike the claims of Airbus, the A330-200 is quite a bit smaller than a 787-8, not same size. And the A330-300 is even smaller relatively than the 787-9, not 20 seats bigger. So all these “per seat” calculations are nonsense.
First, the length, for example, between the centre line on doors 1 and 4 is about 2.5m more on the A330-200 than the 787-8. 2nd, in an OEM standard configuration, “economy seats abreast” usually only starts “somewhere between” doors 2 and 3 on both the 787-8 and the A332. Hence, between doors 1 and “somewhere between doors 2 and 3 on the 787-8 and A332, the former has no added advantage for premium class passengers.
I would agree, though, that the A332 and the 787-8 are roughly equal in size, and that a seriously upgraded 8000 nm capable A330-800 and A330-900, would complement rather than compete with the A350-900 and A350-1000.
Nope. A330-200 reference layout has 36 B/C seats at 60inch, and 210 Y/C at 32in. Boeing has a similar layout provided in its 2006 ACAP of the B787-8. It features 36 61in seats, and 191 Y/C seats 8-abreast (227 in total). The economy cabin has ~23 rows, hence an increase to 9-abreast would yield about 20 additional passengers (some rows cannot be increased due to fuselage tapering and aisle width). Hence 250 seats.
The B787-8/9 was explicitly designed to have the capacity of the A330-200 and -300.
Another indicator: maximum capacity of the B787-8 is 375 seats (front to end 9-abr eco), the A330-200 can hold 380 seats (also 9-abreast).
UKair
What sort of metric are you using there? How about comparing cabin floor area for the 788 and A332 @ 232.2 and 237.6 m^2 respectively; & 789 and A333 @ 265.7 and 265.8 m^2 respectively. Can you show me how:
“the A330-200 is quite a bit smaller than a 787-8″ and ” the A330-300 is even smaller relatively than the 787-9″, even allowing for taper on the Airbus a/c?
Floor area is confusing because aircraft with more width per seat appear to have a bigger capacity than they actually do. They may have more comfort but not necessarily more capacity. Since the A350, 787 and current generation 777 are all essentially 9 abreast, I ignore the differences in cabin width and just compare cabin length. The 787-9 cabin is actually slightly longer than that of the 777-200. So us bigger. For the A330 I multiply cabin length by 8/9ths. It’s a crude measure but it tells me if people are paying games with seat counts.
I am sorry you feel confused with definition of the cabin area. You can play many games with the cabin definition. You clearly forgot the claims Boeing is making about the 748 arrangements.
I think that the big question here is, “Why does Airbus in two instances assume different lease rates from what the appraisers use?”
If they have some real metric for this, than these numbers would indicate that an A330 classic is already “better” than the 787 as far as overall costs are concerned. If they have just massaged the numbers to make the A330 look better, than it is a pretty clumsy effort on their part.
The important fact that cannot be ignored is that, irrespective of the operating cost numbers Airbus publishes, the A330 sales are slowing. It would seem that Airbus needs to make a physical improvement to the A330 if they wish to continue selling them for another 10 years.
Guys, why should Airbus build an aircraft that competes with its own aircraft (the A350)?. The 15% fuel burn improvement is far too optimistic. I would assume a modest 10% at best, and the A330 would come out still worse than the B787 and hence not strong on pricing.
Any investment would be better in the A350, giving the A350-800 a smaller wing.
My opinion remains strongly opposed to the A330NEO (sadly, would be a cool aircraft), because I cannot identify a good business case. “Regional” traffic is low utilisation, low value, low pricing. Airlines buy the A330 because it is cheap and available. Especially the latter matters. This advantage will be gone in a few years as the B787 program will have available delivery positions.
Near term A350xwb availability will be limited. Exessive acceleration of production ramp up is risky. delivering -900 and -1000 frames creates more revenue and satisfies demand that Boeing could jump in ( see 777 sales spike after -1000 delay announcement ).
Any improvement on the A330 should move the demand and production ramp over to the right presenting extra deliveries that do not cut into core A350 demand.
Also short term available A330 will probably cut into further 787-8/9 demand.
An A330 NEO would IMHO significantly boost the described mechanics.
opposed to the A330NEO because I cannot identify a good business case.
Timing, I guess. Right now there’s no near term availability on either the A350 or the 787. The only other source of medium twin aisles is the A330. By the 2020 decade this will change: the 787 (and maybe A350 derived planes) will be available and possibly cheaper. the A330 won’t be able to compete.
So, Airbus doesn’t need a NEO to sell the A330 now. By 2025, a NEO won’t be enough to sell the A330. There is perhaps a brief transition period around the turn of the decade where the prospect of an earlier A330 NEO beats a slightly later and perhaps more expensive 787. Someone suggested that Airbus could sell an additional 300 planes if it brings out an A330 NEO.
This suggests a number of things to me
– The A330 NEO is a short term and tactical program that takes advantage of a shortage of supply and an existing A330 industrial capacity.
– Modifications will be kept to an absolute minimum. Speed of development is key.
– Airbus needs a Plan D for its replacement of the A330 (The Airbus A350 Mk I, A350-800 XWB and A330 NEO all falling short long term).
– Plan D will need to be in place by 2025.
A ‘no’ will become a ‘yes’ if they can freeze the configuration and find an acceptable balance between the level of investment and the time to market. I am guessing the decision will be made this year.
The A330 will be sold out in ~3 years. Waste off money the scrap a perfectly fine productline with upgrade potential and an enthusiast lareg user group market.
Killing the 777 line would be equally stupid.
Will an A330NEO be allowed to match the 787 in fuel efficiency & beat it in ownership and capital costs? The numbers point in that direction. (engine -15%, source GE), wingtips, OEW reduction.. But everyone holds back making up the balance, even with good estimates available. Are we dealing with a holey cow?
Re-engining is something that awakes fantasies and blurs reality.
-15% SFC might be a number. I doubt it is the number of latest technology engine of current A330 versus a real life GEnx-2.
– the losses due to higher engine weight and drag will eat away a few percent. I would put the number on 10% if installed.
– OEW reductions? How and why? The A330 might even get a center landing gear, which is worth 1-1.5t OEW. I doubt there are any major opportunities for weight reduction.
The A330 might be a good deal in 2017 due to lack of alternatives. But try to convince a lessor to buy and re-lease you the aircraft which will be scrap metal after its initial lease period. Today they do it because the investment is small (90-100 Million USD of the line).
Airbus would get probably 10-20 Million USD extra per copy of the A330. That isn’t much compared to a program cost of 1.5 billion (A320 NEO is even more expensive).
Do not underestimate the effects on the overall airframe. It isn’t the DC8-61. Center of gravity, wing structure, handling.
Give it one downturn in demand and the A330 dies first.
mhalblaub
The price gap between A330-300 and A350-900 is about $35 million (with 25% discount assumed). With estimated $1 billion development costs for Airbus the A330NEO could still be $15 million cheaper than the A350 (just 50 .
Why should it be a problem for Airbus to sell A330 instead of A350 as long as the profit is OK? Why shouldn’t Airbus sell an A330-200NEO with less range compared to A350-800 but nearly identical fuel consumption. How many airlines really need the range?
The A330NEO-F could also defer the need for an A350-F.
The A330NEO could also be a good tranquilizer for delayed A350s.
The A330NEO is also a small option for delayed 777X.
Tell GE.
No otherwise you don’t make them bigger. Anyway you are replacing metal cowling by composites ones.
– OEW reductions? How and why?
Wings, controls, tails, interiors, piping, A340 dimensioned structure, things moved on during the last 25 years..
– The A330 might even get a center landing gear, which is worth 1-1.5t OEW.
– But try to convince a lessor to buy and re-lease you the aircraft which will be scrap metal after its initial lease period.
It just doesn’t work like that. How many A320s, A330, 737NG, 777 were sold during the last 2-3 years?
There are some potentials customers under the radar. Asian carriers for large cheap medium range aircraft, UPS and FEDEX with theri large Douglas and Airbus widebody fleets, Airforces looking for tanker transports, etc.
For good products / supply chains like the A330: if it works, don’t fix it. The ones who really think letting the A330 line is a smart move, is the Boeing team. It hurt the MD11, 767, 777-200s, Sonic Cruiser, KC767 and 787 margins. They want one for the firing range. http://www.beegc.org/ 😉
Come on, we went over this issue a 1000 times. Engine manufacturer gives vanilla numbers for his new super engine. Airframe integration is not his part of the job, you’ll never achieve the test bench numbers. The cowlings do not weight that much, regardless they are made from metal or composite.
Wings, controls, tails, interiors, piping, A340 dimensioned structure, things moved on during the last 25 years…
People may think that, some know it better. Actually, there is no trend identifiable. Any weight savings were eaten up by stronger specifications. People were good in building structures back in the 1960ies, there is no single innovation that made structures better – except materials (Al-Li isn’t that new, either). In some occasions better analysis models allows a right-sized structure, but that is usually due to better assessment of loads.
Yes, at which prices? Nearly exclusively B777-300ER were sold. A320 and B737NG are heavily discounted since the NEO/MAX were launched. A lessor might stem the bill, but only if it comes out cheap. An aircraft which isn’t best in class will see very bad financing deals.
I see the cheap medium range aircraft, but this has the least need for an update as the fuel bill will a small fraction of the cost.
Neutron73
Airbus, from the AW&ST article are not sold on the A330NEO (for reasons I have stated here before) and I doubt it will be built. I don’t think they can see an economic case for it, especially at the time it debuts, when it will be overwhelmed by A350 and B787, and will always be behind them in economics.
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This page lists the game research archives I’ve made publicly available on the Legends of Localization site. Each archive usually contains hundreds to thousands of screenshots, save files, and other documents. Generally, the screenshots come from two sources: a Japanese game and its English translation. The screenshots and data are lightly organized, but have received little or no curation.
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EarthBound (Japanese / English) [SFC/SNES]
Over 13,000 screenshots + 100 save-states from the Super Famicom and Super NES versions of MOTHER 2/EarthBound.
EarthBound Beginnings (Japanese / English) [FC/NES]
Over 4000 screenshots + 36 save files, covering both the original Japanese release and the long-unreleased English version.
Final Fantasy IV (English) [GBA]
Over 3000 screenshots from the North American version of Final Fantasy IV's GBA port.
Final Fantasy IV (English) [PS1]
Nearly 3000 screenshots from the English PS1 re-translation of Final Fantasy IV.
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Over 12,000 screenshots and 30 save files from the original Japanese, English, and Japanese "Easy Type" releases.
Mega Man (Japanese / English) [FC/NES]
Screenshots, comparisons, and save files from both versions of the original Rockman/Megaman game.
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132 side-by-side screenshots and 14 save-states from the original Japanese and English versions of Mega Man II.
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MOTHER 1+2 (MOTHER 2 only) [GBA]
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Persona 5 (English) [PS4]
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Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal (Bootleg Translation) [GBC]
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Super Mario RPG (English w/ Japanese Text) [SNES]
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Tales of Phantasia (English) [GBA]
450+ screenshots and 9 save files from the English GBA release. One super-EXP .ips patch file included.
The Legend of Zelda (Multiple Versions)
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Over 8000 crisp PNG screenshots, covering the full Japanese and English 3DS versions of the game.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Japanese / English) [SFC/SNES]
Over 1500 organized screenshots from the Japanese and English versions of the game.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Japanese) [Switch]
Over 13,000 screenshots from the Japanese Switch version of the game.
Xenoblade Chronicles (English) [Wii]
Over 100 hours of video footage from the English Wii version of the game.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (Japanese / English) [FDS/NES]
Over 1500 screenshots and 33 save states from the original Japanese FDS release and the English NES release. A side-by-side script PDF too.
Take a journey through the history of bad game translations, including crazy fighting game quotes!
You know how when couch potatoes watch sports, some get angry and yell at players as if they were genuine super-experts who could do better? That same thing happens with translators all the time, so my hope is that the Legends of Localization series will help explain what it's like to actually be in the translation trenches.
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Re: R: Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL
Sally Caves <[log in to unmask]>
Mangiat wrote:
> > Seriously, It's really good work. Bravo Sally!
> A thing I hate of English is that he randomly takes foreign words and uses
> them without thinking about their original meaning:
> Italian 'bravo' can be used only for men!!! It wouldn't be a nice thing say
> 'bravo' to a girl, even worse than 'brava' to a boy (the latter means that
> you are speaking to a gay boy, but to a *boy*; the former could mean only
> one thing: the girl is so rude that she resembles a man!)
> For women, we have 'brava':)
Hi, Luca! I wasn't offended... the thing about "borrowings" from one
into another is that they acquire the properties of the language they're
borrowed
into. This isn't merely a feature of English, by any means. I'm sure
or French or Welsh have borrowings from other languages that they then
gender to or provide initial mutation for (look at Welsh llyfr,
"book"... taken
from L. liber, the "b" suffers soft mutation... certainly not a feature
intended for it!). "Bravo, Sally, Chris, Tom, Dick, Harry," etc. in
has lost its gender implications. (Whereas I notice that you have given
to the word "English"... "A thing I hate of English is that HE...").
And besides,
it's being used not as an adjective, but as an adverb or an expletive.
left out the comma! BRAVO! "Great!"
I think it's interesting to see the foreign qualities of our languages
like this as we
hear from speakers of various tongues.
SALLY CAVES
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html (T. homepage)
http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/contents.html (all else)
http://english.uq.edu.au/mc/0003/languages.html
Niffodyr tweluenrem lis teuim an.
"The gods have retractible claws."
from _The Gospel of Bastet_
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68th US Secretary of State, Senator from Massachusetts
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A Senator from Massachusetts; born in Fitzsimons Army Hospital (Colorado), December 11, 1943; graduated, St. Pauls School, Concord, N.H., 1962;...
A Senator from Massachusetts; born in Fitzsimons Army Hospital (Colorado), December 11, 1943; graduated, St. Pauls School, Concord, N.H., 1962; graduated, Yale University 1966; served in the United States Navy 1966-1970, with service in Vietnam; graduated, Boston College Law School 1976; admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1976 and commenced practice in 1976; assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, Mass. 1977-1982; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts 1982-1984; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1984; subsequently appointed to the remainder of the term left vacant by the resignation of Paul Tsongas, and took the oath of office on January 2, 1985; reelected in 1990, 1996, 2002, and again in 2008, and served from January 2, 1985, until his resignation on February 1, 2013, to accept a Cabinet position; chair, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (One Hundredth Congress), Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship (One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 3-20, 2001; June 6, 2001-January 3, 2003], One Hundred Tenth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (One Hundred Eleventh to One Hundred Thirteenth [January 3, 2013-February 1, 2013] Congresses); was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 2004; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Barack Obama, 2013-.
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Kumiko for Beginners
The Kumiko for Beginners website is an ever-growing resource for people wanting to find out about getting started with the delicate side of traditional Japanese woodwork known as Kumiko.
Shoji and Kumiko Design: Book 1 The Basics by Desmond King
With a history dating back nearly a thousand years, shoji – translucent paper-backed sliding doors and screens – are an inherent part of Japanese tradition and culture; but their beauty and charm can equally be adapted to any Western home.
Shoji and Kumiko Design: Book 1 The Basics, the first of a planned series of books on shoji and the vast array of intricate patterns possible within the shoji frame, covers in detail all the basic skills and techniques needed for making traditional shoji. The shoji and patterns described in this book can be made with the tools found in any normal home workshop. Japanese tools are not essential.
Book 1 features:
Extensive information on the Japanese plane – the Kanna – and detailed instructions on adjusting a new Kanna, and how to maintain and use it so that it always performs at its peak.
Detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make three different kinds of shoji with progressively more complex Kumiko pattern arrangements. This includes a number of sawing and joinery exercises for you to complete so your frame and Kumiko joinery is accurate, firm and tight.
Explanations of different rail and stile joinery options and different structure and rail types so you can add variety to your own shoji designs.
A comprehensive explanation of Kumiko interval and pitch calculations that can be applied equally to the simplest or most complex pattern arrangements.
Detailed step-by-step instructions on making three Kumiko patterns, including four different methods of making the asa-no-ha pattern.
Numerous photographs and diagrams to complement the instructions and information.
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Updated on 13th June 2018
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by S C Gwynne
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last and greatest chief of the Comanches. Although readers may be more familiar with the tribal names Apache and Sioux, it was in fact the legendary fighting ability of the Comanches that determined just how and when the American West opened up. Comanche boys became adept bareback riders by age six; full Comanche braves were considered the best horsemen who ever rode. They were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. White settlers arriving in Texas from the eastern United States were surprised to find the frontier being rolled backward by Comanches incensed by the invasion of their tribal lands. Against this backdrop Gwynne presents the compelling drama of Cynthia Ann Parker, a nine-year-old girl who was kidnapped by Comanches in 1836. She grew to love her captors and became infamous as the "White Squaw" who refused to return until her tragic capture by Texas Rangers in 1860. More famous still was her son Quanah, a warrior who was never defeated and whose guerrilla wars in the Texas Panhandle made him a legend. S. C. Gwynne's account of these events is meticulously researched, intellectually provocative, and, above all, thrillingly told. Read Less
In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second is the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became ... Read More
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Being a Texan, I thoroughly enjoyed reading about events in Texas history - quite different than expressed in multiple John Ford movies...in this case, the truth is better than fiction...
The author is excellent in telling the story about a noble people - who were both peaceful and ruthless - and how early Texas dealt with opening the west for an expanding country...
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Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 3: Lifetime Achievement
Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer
Vol. 3: Lifetime Achievement
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #11-15.
Is the world ready for a pro-Spider-Man JJJ?! J. Jonah Jameson has a new job — as a shock jock. Spidey's post-secret-identity relationship with Jonah was already complicated, but this very controversial public embrace may put him over the edge! Which means it's bad timing for the Enforcers to come at him harder than ever! But Spidey isn't the only one getting attacked. Jonah himself is in deep trouble. Who, other than most of New York, would want to punish J. Jonah Jameson? Aunt May is in danger as well, and only Spider-Man can help her! You may think you know where a story like this is going, but you don't. Because Taskmaster and Black Ant are on the scene, and they don't have a problem with collateral damage!
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Collects Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #1-6. Spider-Man is the worst neighbor ever! There are always crazy villains and property damage and drama and...and he catches those villains. And he tries to fix the damage. And he helps carry your groceries. And actually that property damage keeps the rents down. You know what? Spider-Man is the best neighbor ever, and this book will give you
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Pact to develop herbal drugs
Trio take forward research leads
By G.S. Mudur in New Delhi
Published 1.01.19, 11:01 PM
Updated 1.01.19, 11:01 PM
Under Indian drug laws, herbal medicines that are formulated on the basis of ancient texts of traditional systems of medicine are exempt from the rigours of scientific assessment and human clinical trials
Three government agencies on Monday signalled their intentions to jointly develop multiple plant-based medicines to treat arthritis, diabetes, epilepsy, gastric ulcers, and neurodegenerative brain disorders, taking forward research leads already establish by their laboratories.
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the department of biotechnology (DBT) signed a trilateral pact to develop plant-based drugs, or phytopharmaceuticals, through rigorous scientific assessments of safety and efficacy and human clinical studies.
The CSIR has identified select promising compounds from Boswellia serrate (shallaki) for rheumatoid arthritis, cannabis for pain and epilepsy, Woodfordia fructicus (dhawai) for gastric ulcers and Withania somnifera (ashwagandha) for neurodegenerative diseases. The ICMR and the DBT have similarly identified compounds from Ficus cunia (khaina) for diabetes and Bacopa monnieri (brahmi) for cognitive dysfunction.
“Each of these candidate compounds fits into a class of drugs called phytopharmaceuticals — they will be assessed in exactly the same way as modern synthetic pharmaceutical compounds,” Ram Vishwakarma, director of the CSIR’s Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu, told The Telegraph.
Under Indian drug laws, herbal medicines that are formulated on the basis of ancient texts of traditional systems of medicine are exempt from the rigours of scientific assessment and human clinical trials.
The CSIR itself has in the past released such herb-based pharmaceutical compounds — such as a product that was claimed to enhance memory, another product claimed to treat asthma — with limited assessment and trials.
In the absence of rigorous science and clinical trials, such products have largely failed to draw significant interest from the medical community and become part of mainstream medicine.
“The lack of sufficient evidence through clinical trials had been a bottleneck in some earlier efforts,” a senior CSIR scientist who requested anonymity told The Telegraph. “This collaboration brings three agencies with specific strengths.”
Under the trilateral pact, CSIR’s laboratories will identify promising phytopharmaceuticals that could be positioned for product development through pre-clinical or animal-based pharmacological studies as well as safety and toxicity studies ahead of clinical studies.
The DBT would also help identify promising compounds from research underway in academic institutions across the country while the ICMR will help design protocols for human clinical studies, identify institutions where studies could be conducted and help prepare dossiers for submission to drug regulators.
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by Thomas J. Mertz | June 13, 2007 · 10:58 pm
Letter to Board of Education on High School Redesign
As part of my job, I recently attended a national conference from the Dept. of Education on effective transition for students with disabilities. A major part of the two-day conference focused on high school redesign and how the researched elements of redesign dovetail with what we also know is important to the successful transition of students with disabilities.
In looking at the national data, students in poverty, students of color and students with disabilities are all facing similar hurdles: lower than normal graduation rates, lower literacy levels when leaving school, less experience with rigorous coursework and lower employment rates (with corresponding lower wage levels).
As a member of the West High community, I want to applaud its success in implementing small learning communities and a rigorous core of courses for freshmen/sophs (along with freshman advisory, lunch-and-learn tutoring, noon clubs and other initiatives designed to engage students and elevate achievement). My sophomore, who has taken the embedded honors in English and Western Civ, in addition to an honors math sequence, has loved her classes, learned to think critically, shared perspectives with students from around the world and from all economic levels, and has appreciated making friends by having many classes with the same cadre of students in her SLC.
Likewise, West has long included students with disabilities in a wide range of general education courses. Its transition program has one of the highest success rates in Wisconsin, successfully developing jobs for students, preparing them for community living, and enrolling them in tech school and other post-secondary options. However, I continue to be concerned with what I see in all four Madison high schools (which data also shows is an issue nationwide):
— Very few African American, SE Asian and Latino students in college-prep courses. (A friend of my daughter’s says he has ONE African American student a classmate across all 7 hours of his day.)
— Lower attendance rates among students of color.
— Less engagement in extra-curriculars and in student leadership roles by students of color and students with disabilities (I don’t think any of the Student Government members at West are African American or have a significant disability. Students with disabilities often are not included on field trips or in other extra-curriculars outside of school unless a parent comes with, which isn’t age-appropriate for high schoolers).
— Different expectations for students based on race and disability. As a member of the district’s Equity Task Force, I reviewed comments from more than 400 community members. ALL demographic groups mentioned differing expectations for students based on race. Students I’ve talked with at West agree, saying students of color are much more likely to be stopped in the hallways. Likewise, parents I know from several high schools in town have been told their children with disabilities can’t take specific honors classes, despite high test scores and past success in high-level courses. One was told that the high school doesn’t provide accommodations in honors classes. The other was told students with significant physical disabilities don’t take “those” kind of classes.
Some aspects of high school redesign that I hope the grant writers can include in their application include:
— Mechanisms for ensuring high expectations for all students. This includes students with disabilities. We need to see a broader range of students in a variety of leadership positions in the school. I’ve heard there will be advisory committees for each high school as part of the grant. I hope that creative recruitment and supports will encourage a wide range of students, particularly students who have not been as successful in our high schools, to be part of these leadership teams.
— Increased effective guidance counseling for all students. Often, students with disaiblities and students who don’t seek out college prep guidance counseling don’t have as much access to career assessment/planning, interest/aptitude inventories, course planning, etc. I know West High has fabulous guidance counselors, but not nearly enough staff or time to do what they need to do.
— Disaggregation of the data to pinpoint our greatest challenges. What do we know from MMSD data about how each group of high schoolers is doing? What is our participation rate in activities for each demographic group? What are the dropout rates? Post-school employment rates? College-prep coursework rates? How many students in specific groups (including those with disabilities) are leaving school with a regular diploma? How many are prepared for secondary education? How many students with disabilities have access to general education courses?
— Effective and adequate professional development. Learning to teach in different ways is integral to high school redesign. General educators need resources to know how to differentiate and provide modifications/accommodations in classes for students with diverse needs: high flyers, English Language Learners, students with specific disabilities, students who are not initially engaged, etc. Special educators should have knowledge about course content involved in general education courses. Both sets of teachers need training on team teaching and collaborative planning. All teaching is moving away from lecture-driven, didactic and passive instruction toward more engagement, collaborative teamwork and critical thinking and problem-solving in the classroom. Teachers need the time and resources to learn and practice new teaching strategies.
— Effective leadership. Will all our high school leaders have access to professional development and other resources to ensure that their staff understand inclusion/disability/diversity/cultural issues?
— Finally, all students, including those with disabilities, will need to be active, engaged members of their small learning communities if high school redesign is really successful. Students with disabilities should be part of the entire school community, not segregated into one small learning community or teaching team. Students of all backgrounds and abilities should be represented in extra-curriculars, student leadership, and decision-making at the building level. We should see all students feeling welcome and included at dances, school events, in clubs and engaged with lunchtime activities. Last week, national author and trainer Dr. Francie Kendall visited the University to talk about the absolute importance of a diverse workforce. Her specialty is technical assistance to institutions of higher learning and she does a lot of consulting for UW-Madison. She talked about the economic cost (dollars and cents) of being a homogeneous institution. One comment that stuck with our group was that an employee who does not feel welcome in the workplace spends 40% of his/her productivity/energy on coping with workplace factors, rather than on his/her job. Likewise, she cited research showing that today’s businesses have found it too expensive to hire college grads who have not had experiences working with ALL demographic groups. The best solutions to business challenges come from groups who represent all different economic, social, cultural and ability backgrounds. Her comments on what businesses and universities have learned about how to be profitable and successful seemed especially germaine to what our high schools need to have in place to support tomorrow’s work force.
Beth Swedeen
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Tag: Britain
Well, Fancy That! No 3: Riding a Bicycle Doesn’t Always Have to be ‘FUN!’
Team Sky found it easier to cycle as a group to the shop to buy Cycling Weekly and Red Bull for Cavendish as apparently ‘Safety in Numbers’ really works in Britain.
Here’s a challenge for you – go to any shop selling newspapers and magazines and try to find anything of substance regarding bicycles as transport. Sure, you’ll find lots on the subject of cycle sport from time trialling to triathlon to mountain biking to leisure riding but nothing on just riding to the shops. That’s because it would be commercial suicide to attempt such a thing – cycling as transport should be a boring, humdrum activity as opposed to a particular ‘lifestyle’ or activity filled with thrills and spills requiring the purchase of specialist kit. In Britain however, we don’t do boring and humdrum. Cycling is all about ‘FUN!’ or ‘Olympic Legacy!’ if you like.
When I visited the Netherlands on a David Hembrow Study Tour last year, I baffled the locals by getting my camera out and taking photos of the cycle infrastructure (at least, I hope that’s why they looked baffled). They simply couldn’t grasp why someone would want to take pictures of something that was, to them, so boring and taken for granted, or photos of them doing such utterly routine stuff like going to a cafe to meet friends, going to school, or to the shop to top up a mobile phone. To be honest, my wife would have agreed with the Dutch. I’m going to be 40 in November.
The fact is, in Britain, going to a cafe to meet friends, or to school or to the shop to top up a mobile phone are not regular activities undertaken by bicycle. Cycling around a forest or seafront or reservoir are activities undertaken by bicycle because it’s ‘FUN’! And you can buy a magazine to assist with all the tips on high-tech equipment to ride and wear (including racks to mount your bicycles to your car to go to that forest or seafront or reservoir). After all, adults and children are advised to get training and read a large manual of advanced techniques before really tackling British roads to go to a cafe to meet friends, go to school or go to the shop to top up a mobile phone.
In the Netherlands [and I would imagine Denmark also], all this boring, humdrum bicycle as transport stuff goes on, and yet they still manage to have an intensive and varied cycle sport scene. They have Road Cycling and Cyclo-Cross and BMX and Track Cycling and Mountain Biking and Human Powered Vehicles (yes, dear Reader, I did write Mountain Biking). See? In cycling terms, even in Europe they know how to have ‘FUN’!!!
It would be easy at this point to say something along the lines of, ‘well, at least the Dutch and the Danes know where to draw the line between sport and transport’ but that would be the wrong, and blatantly untrue distinction to make. Whilst I was cycling around Groningen and Assen on their bicycle infrastructure, our group was frequently overtaken by individuals or groups of cheery club cyclists in full kit on road bikes. However, because we were going through towns and villages where any infrastructure and population was obviously at its most dense, I found that although they were travelling quicker than us, it was respectfully quicker. They were always travelling at what the Starship Enterprise would call ‘Impulse Power’. The distinction I found, and I stress this is based purely on what I observed, is that they were cycling as though they still had a debt of responsibility where people were, the same as motorists. If they just kept their legs ticking over at a not unpleasant speed [for them] they knew they would be able to open up the speed later in their ride (particularly as Dutch Infrastructure is about segregated ROUTES and not the usual British misinterpretation). The point I wish to make is that the bicycle infrastructure provided is suitable for everyone – not always perfect, but more pleasant and often more direct than the road. It’s perfectly possible to travel at speed too.
The Dutch and the Danes know how to have ‘FUN!’ But they also know how to get to the shops and their children to school correctly.
The problem Britain faces is multi faceted but I’m going to quickly focus on two; Firstly, is the fact that practically every piece of bicycle infrastructure designed and implemented to date is diabolical, and one cannot blame the hardened experienced ‘FUN!’ loving cyclist for being deeply sceptical. If motorways were designed in the same cavalier fashion with piecemeal budgets, minimal consultation and guidelines that are readily ignored, then both driving and cycling on specific infrastructure would be ‘FUN!’ but in a white-knuckle, terrifying fairground ride sort of way. I personally think that level of excitement should come from inside a library book as opposed to cycling to the library to get that book.
Second is the fact that we are spectacularly awful at separating the ‘sport’ from ‘transport’. Some Britons like to think that by cycling to work, they have left the ‘Rat Race’ but all they’ve done is lock themselves into new one of their own construction. Consumerism finds a new and unexpected outlet with all the kit, cameras and, thanks to applications such as Endomondo, a smart phone negates the need for a cycle computer telling the rider everything from average speed to how many calories were burned each trip. A daily gauntlet has been thrown for the quick and the brave with a great deal of risk taking. The thought of ‘Going Dutch’ or ‘Danish’ horrifies them as they cling to the some divine right to the road. A right that has been effectively lost to the majority already.
I personally believe that there needs to be a standard in bicycle infrastructure that acts as a quality benchmark as opposed to guidelines that currently exist which, although are quite good, are all too easily discarded in the name of budgets or just simple lack of understanding of the bicycle as a mode of transport. There needs to be continuity, quality and more than a nod to what has enjoyed proven success in Continental Europe. A Standard that is suitable for every type of bicycle and caters for every type of rider.
There should never be a magazine about mass cycling as transport because it should be the routine, everyday thing you do to get to equally routine activities or more exciting adventures that start as soon as you walk away from a safely locked bike. Mind you, if there was such a magazine, I’d probably subscribe to it. I’d keep it hidden from my wife though. One must maintain an image of ‘FUN!’
Author thecyclingjimPosted on August 26, 2012 August 26, 2012 Categories Campaigning & Advocacy, Cycling in BritainTags Bicycle, Britain, cycling, Cyclo-Cross, Dutch, Endomondo, Human-powered transport, Mountain biking, Netherlands, Sports9 Comments on Well, Fancy That! No 3: Riding a Bicycle Doesn’t Always Have to be ‘FUN!’
Well, Fancy That! No 2: Children will be Children
The Dutch even have bins like this by every school because they actually understand that children are lazy little sods…..sorry, I meant the future. That the children are our future. (Picture: David Hembrow – Go on his study tour and try this bin yourself – click on the picture for further details)
Just before I set off for David Hembrow’s Study Tour in The Netherlands late last year, people jokingly said to me, ‘don’t forget to put aero bars on your Dutch Bike’. I thought these were quasi-hilarious jibes about the aerodynamic qualities of my Dutch Bike or lack thereof. It wasn’t until I was enjoying a coffee and looking out of a delightful Dutch Bed & Breakfast window one morning that I actually understood what they meant – amongst the legions of young people cycling to school and college were bikes with aero bars fitted onto them. Although they were probably to assist in persistent headwinds (as some students cover quite a distance on their commutes from outlying suburbs and villages), they were also remarkably handy for resting ones arms on to use a smartphone for social networking – an essential pre-requisite to youth. Indeed the infrastructure provided allows all ages to cycle in groups and chat away which is social networking at its best. There were no shouts from motorists, and I assume no-one froths at the mouth in the local or national newspapers either. Basically, the Dutch have created an environment where their children can be children and don’t have to pay anything like the ultimate price if they make a mistake. I think that’s very honest, civilised and quite incredible.
This situation came at a cost. The Netherlands and the UK both saw widespread decline of the bicycle from the 1950’s as the car became the symbol of modernity. A lot of old cycle infrastructure was ripped out to make way for such progress. The result? In 1972, a total of 3264 people were killed on Dutch roads, and in 1973, 450 road deaths were of children, mostly travelling to and from school. Since that point, and partly due to the launch in 1973 of the ‘Stop De Kindermoord’ (‘Stop the Child Murder’) pressure group along with the OPEC fuel crisis, the Dutch gradually took the decision to return to the bicycle and acknowledge that the car has its place but people come first. Nearly 40 years on and Britain is still struggling with this concept to its detriment. More on ‘Stop de Kindermoord’ can be found here, here and from this excellent film.
If the Famous Five went for a bike ride in today’s Britain, they would find a landscape ripe for adventures, but not necessarily children’s adventures. If they were actually allowed out in the first place on their own, there would still be the odd patchwork quilt of fields and woods to enjoy (but not to play in of course. They’ll only create trouble). Swallows, Sparrows & The International Space Station would see our pubescent peloton venturing down country lanes due to their Hi-Viz and helmets. The motorists won’t of course as they steam through at jolly impolite speeds. Eventually, sweaty and defeated at trying to have adventures in a Britain ruined by ‘progress’, they head home for lashings of Ginger Beer. Or Crabbie’s, probably.
Look at that. No lights, no Hi-Viz, no helmets and I bet they don’t have any plastic bags to clean up after Timmy the Dog….
Another contentious area where child and adult Worlds collide is that of helmet compulsion. Annette Brooke MP is leading the latest well-meaning but misguided charge, no doubt following on from Bradley Wiggins, who uses his bicycle to win major sporting events as opposed to buying some milk or getting a library book. Before we take a glance into this emotive side issue, I’ll just give you my ‘official’ stance.
I fully appreciate why people feel compelled to wear cycle helmets in today’s hostile British road environment. However we must strive to create conditions where helmets and protective clothing are seen as irrelevant as opposed to essential. If adults currently feel compelled not just to wear cycle helmets and high visibility clothing but also to put surveillance measures on their helmets in the form of cameras, then what hope is there for our children wishing to simply cycle to school? It is not really the most cordial invite to a mode of transport that should be everyday, safe, even a bit boring and not classified as an extreme sport.
Even Evel Knievel paused for a moment to consider cycling around Guildford.
Note, that like the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain, or indeed CycleNation and CTC, I am not anti-helmet but anti-compulsion for cycling as transport. On this, all cycling groups stand united.
However I have a confession to make; when I cycle with my two and a half-year old son on the Dutch Bike, I put a helmet on him. I do this not because of safety concerns but because I feel that I look like a bad parent if I don’t with scathing looks and comments (mainly from people who don’t cycle yet but do like writing letters to local newspapers due to anger management issues from not cycling). I don’t wear a helmet for the simple reason that when I used to wear one when commuting from Morden to Camden Town in London, it was like a subconscious cloak of invincibility and I put myself in road positions that were, at best daring. At worst, lethal. I’ve often observed since that people who wear a helmet ride as though they need a helmet. Without a helmet, I don’t put myself or any passengers in that danger in the first place. Also when off the bike, my son has received more bumps to the head than Laurel & Hardy in his short toddling career. I assume I’m a bad parent for not keeping the helmet on him at all times but curiously no-one seems to be having a serious debate on this.
I’m now going to give out a piece of information that I think has been lost in this debate but it always helps to remind ourselves.
Children don’t always do what you tell them because they are children.
Imagine that helmets were made compulsory for children under the age of, say, 16. One day my son will want to cycle to a local shop to buy sweets, just like his Dad used to years and years and years and years and years ago. He may realise that his cycle helmet is upstairs in his bedroom and he just can’t be bothered to get it as the shop is only 5 minutes ride away. Even if I made him put it on, there’s nothing to stop him taking it off again when out of sight because it doesn’t look cool (or whatever the word is these days). If you didn’t do anything naughty or without your parents knowledge when you were younger, then you are deluding yourself. So, he cycles off without one and because putting helmets on everything and hoping for the best allows the powers that be to ignore the real issues of road safety, he gets hit by a real issue in the form of a car. Not only would we have the emotional turmoil of an injured child (or worse) but also the legal and social ramifications of him not having a helmet on. This to me is needless insanity, especially allied to the fact that the real answers for keeping children (and indeed all ages) safer, are a simple ferry trip away.
There is of course excellent cycle training available in this country. I did so well in my cycling proficiency in the late 1970’s, I got a copy of the Highway Code as a prize. The bicycle is a very liberating experience for a child and Bikeability (as it is now known) is enjoying a large takeup today. However, a report was published in March this year that you probably haven’t seen. It was written by transport consultancy, Steer Davies Gleave, for the Department for Transport called Cycling to School
This is from the conclusions,
‘Overall this report shows the level of children cycling to school in the last five years has remained stable. There have been small increases in the actual numbers of secondary school age children cycling to school between 2006 and 2011 across the UK. However, this has been almost matched by a very small decline in the proportion of primary school children cycling to school.’
Where there were rises in Secondary Schools, there had been a concentrated efforts on cycle training in the Primary Schools that feed the Secondary Schools in question. There are of course all kinds of variables & factors to take in account when viewing the data. Generally however, I believe that a lot of excellent training is going to waste. We can train all the children we like to cycle on our current road system but if it looks dangerous (especially to the parents) or there is one close pass from a motorist then that, as they say, is that. The bike heads off to the shed to come out maybe at officially sanctioned events such as the Sky Rides or Boris Johnson’s latest elegant parlour trick to avoid addressing the real road safety issues, ‘Ride London‘ – the biggest irony being that although a safe traffic free environment is created, helmets and hi-viz are de rigueur.
Here is a film by Mark Wagenbuur of children cycling to school in Culemborg in The Netherlands. I just want to show this as it deftly addresses the issues touched on in this post; no safety equipment (even students occasionally giving friends a lift in on their rear racks – could you imagine that happening here?!), cycling as groups for greater social safety and also quality time to chat and share gossip. Above all decent infrastructure, that goes where people need it to go, combined with 30kph roads to create segregated routes (ie routes that could not be completed or would take longer by car).
We have created a nation that is still debating 20mph where people live. A nation still debating curtailing someone’s right to drive like an idiot around others. A nation still building cycle infrastructure that is often a dangerous insult whilst ignoring examples that work probably due to fear of cost despite continuing to build ever more expensive and intimidating streetscapes. A nation that expects its young people to stick on a helmet, some hi-viz and hope for the best. I think that’s spineless, uncivilised and quite despicable.
Children will be children. It’s a pity that the adults are behaving even more childishly.
Well, Fancy That! No 1: Nice Things Cost Money
Author thecyclingjimPosted on August 13, 2012 February 12, 2018 Categories Campaigning & Advocacy, Cycling in BritainTags Bicycle helmet, Bradley Wiggins, Britain, children cycling, cycling, Department for Transport, Famous Five, London, Netherlands, Steer Davies Gleave, Stop De Kindermoord5 Comments on Well, Fancy That! No 2: Children will be Children
Localism for Dummies
A Wet Parliamentary Bike Ride
Last Tuesday morning, I put on my Cycling Embassy of Great Britain approved attire (just a regular suit for a regular activity) and attended the Annual All-Party Parliamentary Bike Ride, which is now in its twelfth year and is a prelude to Bike Week. Despite the wretched weather, there was a respectable turn out of MP’s (also in Cycling Embassy of Great Britain approved attire) including Norman Baker again (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport).
After the ride, we assembled in the Houses of Parliament to listen as Mr Baker spoke about how wonderful cycling is and took questions (I recorded it for YouTube and it should be going out shortly if you can contain your excitement). One of the key points he made was that cycle campaigners should not be afraid to approach Government Departments other than transport. This, in a way, makes sense; after all riding a bicycle is healthy so the Department for Health should be actively promoting it, it could get kids to school so the Department for Education should be actively promoting it and it is good for the economy where high quality infrastructure would bring rewards both locally and nationally to the exchequer so the Treasury should be actively promoting it. The problem is that we are pretty hopeless at the ‘high-quality infrastructure’ bit – the very thing that has been proven to have success overseas in getting the masses on their bicycles with increased subjective safety. So I guess that brings us back to the Department for Transport, who should be actively promoting it.
Cycling has always been about ‘Localism’ and ‘Big Society’ with local campaigners and activists that have been bashing their heads against the wall of local democracy for years (and for free). This, for me is where the problem lies; it’s all well and good giving local authorities ‘the right tools’ with devolved powers, but what if they don’t know what to do with them (or don’t even want to know). It’s like giving a group of primary school children ‘the right tools’ to design Britain’s successor to Trident – many will be keen as mustard and will give it their best shot. The results they come up with, whilst thankfully not feasible, will be all the more wonderful as a result and fascinating.
…and then it comes back down and blows everything up, Daddy. Next week we’re redesigning Bow Roundabout to give it lots of pretty lights….
The results that local authorities come up with for bicycles are usually far from wonderful and although we’d be fascinated to know how they arrived at their conclusions, local campaigners are usually locked out. It’s as though they are left staring through the railings at some sort of nightmare-ish Willy Wonka factory churning out pointless pavement conversions. Except their Council Tax helped pay for the nightmare.
Where ‘Transport’ and ‘Sustainable Transport’ collide (Worthing, West Sussex)
What’s worse is that when Councils across the land started to make austerity cuts, we didn’t need a crystal ball to predict that the position of Cycling Officer would be the first to go thereby cutting what is usually the only gateway between local campaign groups and the local authority. Worse still is that many councillors are actively hostile towards the humble bicycle, who view it as a symbol of non-aspiration to ferry the great unwashed along the gutter or an imposition to progress in their local area (particularly to the golf club). After all, bike parking doesn’t bring in parking fees, the most consistent issue in any local newspaper. In many cases, asking a Council to organise a consistent quality cycling policy is a bit like asking Nick Griffin to organise the Notting Hill Carnival.
I’m certainly not against localism. There are Local Authorities that are trying at the very least to understand the bicycle and just what a bewilderingly diverse mode of getting about their patch it is. But I personally believe that there has to be stronger guidance from Central Government in terms of consistent infrastructure standards, policy and funding which is at best piecemeal and often utterly soul-destroying for local campaigners. I still cannot fathom why ‘Transport’ and ‘Sustainable Transport’ are still treated as separate entities – We build a major road scheme and then apply the sustainable bits at the side or as an afterthought, which is why it needs to be integral to the Department for Transport, as opposed to a quango whose flame can be snuffed out as easily as Cycling England.
Everyone, from Local Authorities that haven’t yet realised the real benefits of the bicycle from more energised workforce & schoolchildren, better local business and increased tourism (or ‘Localism’) to local campaign groups (or ‘Big Society’) deserve far better than this.
Author thecyclingjimPosted on June 17, 2012 June 18, 2012 Categories Cycling in BritainTags Britain, cycling, Cycling England, Department for Transport, Local government, Norman Baker, Sustainable transport4 Comments on Localism for Dummies
Scenes From My Commute
Lancing Boat Club
I was cycling my merry way home this evening as I usually do along the seafront from Brighton to Worthing. The Sturmey Archer 3 speed was ticking away like a pacemaker made for Bez from Happy Mondays and the sea breeze was slowly caressing my slowly dwindling hair. Just outside Worthing on the edge of Lancing Beach, I normally encounter this…….
It’s obviously a skip, but it was placed right in the middle of the cycle path to prevent access to the neighbouring greensward by Gypsies and Travelling folk who are despised in Britain slightly more than cyclists, although it’s a very close call. The Daily Mail rule of thumb is that cyclists don’t pay Road Tax (which hasn’t existed since 1937) but Travellers don’t pay any tax (allegedly). We ignore the fact that Vodafone and other large corporations get away with not paying their fair share to the tune of billions because in modern Britain its just easier to pick on minorities. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I came across this…..
The structure on the left already had the seating stripped out to remove the homeless people who would sleep there occasionally and had been given a shiny new coat of red, white and blue, I assume due to the forthcoming Jubilee celebrations. In the patch of brown where the skip was there is now a shiny new blue sculptural bollard announcing that you are now entering or leaving Lancing Beach.
Unlike the other black columnar art installations you can see, there is nothing reflective at all on it. The picture above shows a bit more context – like the fact that cyclists following the path from Worthing have to do a 90 degree right turn (there is a high white wall just set back to the right) so as they accelerate away, provided they haven’t hit any oncoming cyclists or pedestrians, they can collide with the art installation. The words ‘Lancing Beach’ can be the last thing they remember as they gracefully slip into unconsciousness, with the gentle crashing of waves to keep them company. It’s all part of the rich kaleidoscope that is riding a bicycle in Britain.
Author thecyclingjimPosted on May 30, 2012 May 31, 2012 Categories Cycle Lanes - From Miracle to Merde, Cycling in BritainTags Bez, Brighton, Britain, cycling, daily mail, Happy Mondays, Lancing Beach, Sturmey Archer, worthing14 Comments on Scenes From My Commute
Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 6 – British Cycle Infrastructure
Apparently, Brooks also dabbled in Surrealism whilst developing their prototypes before they settled on a traditional leather saddle.
According to Wikipedia,
‘Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur…’
‘As they [Surrealists] developed their philosophy, they believed that Surrealism would advocate the idea that ordinary and depictive expressions are vital and important, but that the sense of their arrangement must be open to the full range of imagination…’
Although the epicentre of the Surrealist movement is cited as Paris immediately following, and as a reaction to The Great War, I would argue that Highways Authorities in Great Britain in the late 20th/early 21st centuries are a worthy successor through their Surrealist installations across the land, never short on elements of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non-sequiturs.
Ceci n’est pas une cyclepath
(Pease Pottage, West Sussex)
One would have thought it simple to design for the bicycle. After all it’s so simple, a child can use it. A surrealist juxtaposition forms because Britain excels in making the most complicated mode of transport simple and the simplest modes of transport complicated.
Warrington Cycle Campaign started it’s always entertaining ‘Cycle Facility of the Month’ back in March 2001. They even have a book out first published in November 2007 (proceeds to CTC’s worthy Cyclists Defence Fund). The problem is that it’s a few years on and highways authorities across the land either still haven’t got to grips with the bicycle, or simply see the bicycle as an imposition to ‘progress’, or are utterly hostile to the bicycle based on prejudices that really shouldn’t be lurking in any professional environment. Local cycle campaign groups are only usually consulted when the plans are programmed for construction so even if they object it’s too late. But at least Officials can then say that they’ve consulted with those ‘cyclists’ whilst rolling their eyes and ticking another box.
No funny caption, just marvel at the surreal incompetence (from ‘Facility of the Month – January 2012)
When a new road is constructed, motorists are drawn to it because it offers speed, directness & quality of surface. It is often touted as the ‘solution’ to a problem that nobody seems guilty of creating but that doesn’t matter anymore because thanks to the new road, the problem will never, ever occur again. Apparently. When a new cycle path is constructed, cyclists shy away from it because they don’t need surrealism on the way to work or school. They are often ponderous, indirect and are often barely converted pavements with poor sight lines, overgrown vegetation and of course pedestrians, who are probably wondering what they did to deserve such Hell.
There are four classifications of cycle infrastructure in Britain [as I see it based on observations at local cycle campaigning level]:
Usually a ‘Town Centre’ route from an outlying suburb where you may get to your end destination in under three days – Directional signs only. Inexplicable Dropped Kerbs also fall into this category.
Cheap and You Should Consider Yourselves Grateful
Usually a ‘Town Centre’ route from an outlying suburb where you may get to your end destination in under a day – Combination of directional and ‘Cyclists Dismount’ signs, some converted pavements and on road cycle-paths (paint only) – some of it possibly paid for by Section 106 money if it runs past a new development. Tactile paving is provided to catch bicycle tyres and trip the elderly (even more lethal in snow). This is to fulfill standards that the designer might have glanced at. These facilities are defied by lycra clad experienced cyclists who correctly and pointedly use the road next to it. They are often armed with cameras to record abuse from motorists who think they should be using something that Salvador Dali couldn’t have thought up even after an evening on Lambrini. Some ‘safe routes to schools’ often fall into this category – great ideas but the children still have to dress so they are visible from Neptune and are no match for a Land Rover containing children that are more important, apparently.
Ridiculously Expensive [According to Comments Section in Local Newspaper].
This is generally a scheme that has had money donated from an external source such as Sustrans. This fact of course goes straight over the heads of local newspaper letter writers and Wetherspoons Pub Frequenters who never let things like cold, hard facts get in the way of prejudice. Schemes vary from more expensive ‘Town Centre Links’ as mentioned above, ‘Railway Station links’ where at the end of a hard ride we are supposed to have a post-coital cigarette at seeing the amount of cycle parking provided (some of it under cover), converted paths through parks and lightly converted canal paths with strange gates at either end looking like the entrance to Narnia complete with dog walkers. Also Beeching-era railway lines that make great cycle paths by accident. These former railway lines will get incredibly muddy in winter but the thought of tarmac horrifies local residents who claim it urbanises the countryside. Although they’d think nothing of it being destroyed for a relief road it if it aided congestion.
F*ck me, HOW MUCH!!
The above phrase is often spoken by both cyclist and member of the general public, but for differing reasons. Still far, far cheaper than a road scheme, this is where we enter Grand Designs such as ‘Cycle Superhighways’. Although the latest iteration of Superhighway has proved to be incredibly successful, this is often the most tragic of categories as, particularly outside London, so much is often promised and some political will has been found before the cold hands of compromise and lobbying strangle the usefulness out of it, resulting in the worst possible outcomes. This category also includes well used segregated bi-directional cycle paths that are in reality for unbelievably narrow people or the population of Lilliput, often going from somewhere to nowhere because they aren’t part of a decent, coherant network. These are generally routes that people currently use and would use because they follow the desire lines for the commuting public. As a result, they are generally heavily trafficked and therefore the stakes (and costs) are considerably higher. A lot of the money would have been spent on Feasibility Studies alone.
And we still haven’t mastered junctions.
British Cycle Infrastructure is the result of the end users being treated like flies on a cow – consistently being swatted away as tiny annoyances and occasionally being given dung to feast on (that’s also cheap to purchase). If you look at a Dutch Streetscape, you are often under no illusion what local and national Government thinks of the bicycle. It is also easy to conclude what local and national British Governments think by looking at our streetscapes and this is yet another factor which, to the general public, makes the act of riding a bicycle as appealing as Badger Baiting with Peter Andre. This is yet another reason that makes the simple act of riding a bicycle continue to be seen as a peripheral, specialist and potentially dangerous activity (no movement ever got anywhere telling the general public how they should be feeling. If it looks dangerous, then that as they say is that).
Having said that, I do wish to acknowledge at this point that we do have excellent cycle training and trainers in this country doing invaluable work (often for free). I am making the argument that infrastructure done correctly would amplify their efforts a great deal. It’s also worth acknowledging the biggest irony that, thanks to organisations like CTC, there are reasonably good cycle infrastructure guidelines already out there.
I leave you with a film I made for the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain (our AGM is later this month – be there!!); the first three clips were shot on a David Hembrow Study Tour of Assen and Groningen whilst the final clip is of my everyday commute between Worthing and Brighton. When I arrived at the ferry port in the Netherlands, to make a train connection, I cycled the 37km from Hook of Holland to Rotterdam with a friend without consulting any maps or GPS and without hi-viz, helmets, hassle, fear or intimidation. Now think about the last time you rode a bicycle in the UK. Yes, surreal isn’t it?
Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 1: Class
Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 2: Culture of Fear
Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 3: DANGER!
Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 4: Driving is Easier
Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 5: Bicycle Maintenance
Author thecyclingjimPosted on May 14, 2012 November 10, 2017 Categories Cycle Lanes - From Miracle to Merde, Cycling in Britain, WHY PEOPLE IN THE UK DON'T CYCLETags Britain, CTC, cycling, Pease Pottage, Surrealism, sustrans, Warrington Cycle Campaign, West Sussex4 Comments on Why People in the UK Don’t Cycle No 6 – British Cycle Infrastructure
The Future. For Britain. In 1992. And now again, apparently.
I was cycling to work this morning through very thick sea mist. The ‘March winds’ have not really materialised here on the South Coast. The winds of change are definitely picking up however.
At the beginning of March, I went to Portcullis House to represent the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain at the Labour Cycling Summit, chaired by Ban Bradshaw MP and Maria Eagle MP (Shadow Secretary for Transport). This was triggered by The Times ‘Cities Fit for Cycling’ campaign. All the usual suspects were there from safety campaigners, road designers, local government and road users, including HGV operators. It was remarkably cordial and some good points were made such as the need for systemic change in the training of future engineers to stopping thinking car first and foremost. I made the following points:
That The Times ‘Cities Fit for Cycling’ campaign is an incredible effort that should be acknowledged for, at the very least, taking cycling issues ‘out there’ far, far beyond the realm of Cycling groups and internet chat rooms.
That current cycling infrastructure is great if you like ‘abstract art’ (always good to get an early laugh in).
If adults need to not only put on body armour to commute to work but also put surveillance measures on that armour, than what hope is there for our nations children wanting to cycle to school?
Whilst there’s a lot of incredibly hard work done in the name of Bikeability (which I personally believe should change it’s name back to ‘Cycling Proficiency’. It is a life skill, not a jolly sounding activity) along with Sustrans ‘Safe Routes to School’, there needs to be a quality network of routes to get the 98% considering cycling again through methods with proven success such as those used overseas. Otherwise, parents may indeed ride to school with their children but instead of going on to the shops they nip back and get the car out, due to lack of dedicated ongoing route, lack of subjective safety and the very act of riding a bicycle looking like an overly complicated specialist activity.
What was particularly pleasing was that there was no political point scoring and it was accepted that whatever happens from here on in, it is a cross party issue.
Last week, I went to the House of Commons to represent the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain at the launch of ‘The Summer of Cycling’ which any organisation, group, shop or magazine can support. All the usual suspects were there in cycling and cycle campaigning. “It’s always the same bloody people” someone quipped (and no, for a change it wasn’t me). It has a shiny new website that will develop as the week’s progress with a facebook page and twitter feed. The premise is simple; if everyone that rides a bicycle pledges to get someone who would not normally ride a bicycle to ride a bicycle then the amount of people riding bicycles would double. Simplest ideas are always the best and all that.
At this point, I would normally write something with distain about promotion being one of usual the soft options we always settle for in campaigning to the detriment of everything else because it’s cheap. However, it would be sheer lunacy to not to get some extra promotional mileage out of the Olympics being held in Britain this year, particularly with the success already achieved on road and track. It helps that Philip Darnton is at the helm. He not only has the uncanny ability to sniff out a fiver in a force nine gale – essential for cycling in Britain as it currently stands, but to amplify the meagre funding that cycling in Britain has come to expect through the years, with Cycling England being the classic example.
Summer of Cycling is run for the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group (on which the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain sits) and was created by 23 organisations late last year. It was confirmed at the meeting that Minister for Transport Norman Baker has pledged £20,000 for this venture (slightly less than the list price for a Volkswagen Tigua Crossover 2.0 TDi 140 BlueMotion 5 Door) with another £70,000 going to Bike Week (slightly less than the list price for a BMW 750i 4 Door Saloon).
This lunchtime marked the 2012 Budget delivered by George Osborne. Cycling is mentioned in the official document twice.
[The Government] is committed to tackling congestion, improving connectivity and supporting cycling in and around London. The Government will explore the case for using the Planning Act 2008 to streamline the planning process for the proposed additional river crossings in East London, for example at Silvertown, which will reduce peak period delays and congestion in the area……In addition, the Government will grant £15 million to TfL for investments in cycle safety, which will include improved provision for cyclists at junctions across the capital under consideration in TfL’s cycle safety junction review’
2.255 London cycle safety grant – The Government will allocate £15 million to TfL for investment in cycle safety. This will include improved provision for cyclists at junctions across the capital currently under consideration in TfL’s Cycle Safety Junction Review.
In the same document, £56 million is going to the Bexhill-Hastings link road. Which is slightly more relevant to me as I live in Sussex and not London. I’m not sure what the implications are for the rest of the country.
This very week, the idea of privatising the roads was presented in a speech by David Cameron to the Institute of Civil Engineers. Some commentators were quick to say on Twitter that it was just a smokescreen mainly to detract from the NHS and Social Care Bill and partly because there are many that are convinced that we have reached ‘peak car’. At War with the Motorist believes we shouldn’t worry as cyclists about it anyway as it will only affect Trunk Roads (Motorways in all but name) and Motorways. I personally believe that the Income Tax changes were the smokescreen and what we are actually seeing is a nation three years into a deep recession with a deeply car-centric Government that thinks ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ is a challenge as opposed to a warning.
I can’t help but feel that the proper stuff that will actually succeed in enabling consistent mass cycling is as far away as it ever has been. At least people are starting to listen now and act. High quality cycle infrastructure will cost serious money – nice things generally do. Surely it’s better to get the right measures in now and get to put an end to the well meaning but crap facilities being built in our name as opposed to seeing more roads being made increasingly unusable with no safe, quality alternative. Or new private or publically built roads having the usual dreadful or non-existent provision. It’s always cheaper to get it right at the design stage than to retro fit afterwards.
The winds of change are certainly blowing. But not quite hard enough to clear the mist yet.
Author thecyclingjimPosted on March 21, 2012 March 21, 2012 Categories CYCLING EMBASSY OF GREAT BRITAIN, Cycling in BritainTags All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, Bicycle safety, Britain, Crap Cycle Infrastructure, cycling, Cycling England, Labour, London, Olympics, Portcullis House, Summer of Cycling, Times, transport for london6 Comments on The Winds of Change
It appears that Lord Sugar is a bit bored now that he doesn’t have any apprentices to bully in the board room.
This from the nicely redesigned road.cc
“Lord Sugar has ignited a debate over whether cyclists in the UK, like those in some parts of the US, should be required to carry identification with police being given powers to confiscate the bicycles of those who fail to provide it, but the government has said it has no plans to do so.
The Amstrad founder and host of the BBC show The Apprentice, himself a keen cyclist and owner of a fleet of Pinarello bikes, was speaking yesterday during a debate in the House of Lords following a question about pavement cyclists tabled by Labour peer Lord Harrison.
Lord Sugar, who regularly cycles both in Britain and when saying at his other homes in both Spain and Florida, asked government transport spokesman Lord Atlee, “Is it mandatory for a cyclist using the roads to carry some form of identification on them?”
“In the United States of America we are told to carry identification with us so that the police can take action against people who are riding on pavements or jumping lights.
“If you don’t have identification with you, they confiscate your bike and it is up to you to go and get it back and pay a big fine.”
In reply, Lord Atlee, who is the grandson of the Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, said the government had no plans to introduce such a requirement…..”
Then he had a think about it in the Board Room and instead of pointing at people, he started typing instead..
“…On Twitter this morning, Lord Sugar expanded on his comments yesterday, saying: “Cyclists should carry some form of ID, so they can get nicked by police for jumping pavement or lights. Otherwise they just lie who they are.”
He added that carrying ID was also a good idea for cyclists “in case they get knocked off bike in serious accident that might render them unconscious” and that when out riding, he always carried ID, cash for a taxi and a phone.”
I like to think he’s just a naturally pragmatic man saying naturally pragmatic things. I unwittingly always carry ID for the simple reason that my Drivers’ Licence is in my wallet. Do read the full report as it has pragmatic comment from Lord Young & CTC’s Chris Peck too. Personally, I sincerely hope it doesn’t ignite a debate because we still live in a nation where some are having a little bit of trouble understanding that catering for something so thermodynamically simple, libertarian, egalitarian, that increases health and wellbeing (physical and mental) for all ages, colours, genders and creeds, empowering to the masses, that produces no emissions for future generations, less financially damaging to personal wallets and budgets for the NHS, road maintenance, policing (more people on bikes and on foot means safer communities) and returning civility, neighbourliness and localism might be quite a good thing.
Because we have nurtured and grown such a car-centric culture in Britain (hence for some inexplicable reason we still need to debate 20mph limits where people are and curtailing someone’s right to drive slightly less like a pillock), to mention an ‘out group’ like ‘cyclists’ is to crack open the tar and feathers. In Britain, stick someone who regards themselves as a normal, ‘respectable’ citizen in front of a computer and suddenly they’re suggesting Hanging for those lycra-lout, scruffy, unlit/ lit too bright, tax dodging, smug, sanctimonious ‘cyclists’ who ride within 20 metres of them. Yet when there’s a road crash in their locality involving motor vehicles (even with horrific consequences), their computers fall eerily silent. It’s just one of those sad things involving normal, ‘respectable’ citizens.
In the spirit of the Apprentice (I’m 40 next year so ‘Young Apprentice’ is probably a little ambitious) and sense of justice in the UK & US which is obviously high up in Lord Sugar’s mind, I would like to suggest to him a new product – I call it the Bicycle Observation In Local Environment Realm SUIT.
Very Visible. Unless of course your job involves picking oranges.
Like the bicycle, it’s a beautifully simple design and all the Cyclists details can be stencilled on the back. It’s machine washable (despite cyclists being ‘the unwashed’), available in all sizes, high-viz (shown here in ‘Amnesty Orange’) and the best way to identify a group of deviants that will break the law at any moment, you mark my words. I did my market research in the comments section of the Daily Mail and local newspaper websites as they seem to know everything. For cyclists, there’s no wondering about what to wear on the bike anymore – the downside being that the fit might clash with a Pinarello, Rapha will still make their own Suit for about £500 and British Cycle Chic websites may look a little bit samey after a while, even with more Dutch bikes.
What’s that? I’m fired? Thank you Lord Sugar.
Once again, here’s a film I made a while ago for the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain. In the final clip you might be able to see why [subjectively] some cyclists in Britain might favour the pavement at the moment, particularly with children. Happy cycling wherever you are.
Author thecyclingjimPosted on December 9, 2011 Categories Cycling in BritainTags Alan Sugar, Apprentice, Britain, cycling, Lord Sugar, Pinarello3 Comments on A Spoonful of Sugar
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Its holiday season and the sidewalks will soon be busy with shoppers galore. Apparently, city sidewalks and silver bells are on the minds of the Massachusetts Appeals Court as well.
On November 18, 2016, the Massachusetts Appeals Court decided in a split (2-1) decision that a private landowner abutting a public sidewalk did not have a duty to repair a defective sidewalk or to warn pedestrians or the city of the hazard.
The case involved an individual who tripped and fell on an uneven sidewalk adjacent to the John Hancock parking garage in Boston sustaining significant injuries as a result. The sidewalk was owned by the City of Boston. The sidewalk was adjacent to a commercial building. After the fall, the management company for the owner of the commercial building paid a contractor to eliminate the hazard by grinding down the sidewalk to prevent any further injuries.
No good deed goes unpunished. The owner of the commercial building and the management company were sued for negligent maintenance and/or oversight of the sidewalk and failure to warn. The Trial Court granted summary judgment in favor of the owner and management company holding that they owed no duty as they did not own the sidewalk. The Appeals Court affirmed that no duty existed as a matter of law, holding:
The duties of an owner of land abutting a sidewalk or other public way are limited. Our case law establishes that such an owner must only “refrain from using his land or maintaining conditions or structures thereon in a manner which will interfere with the safety and convenience of travelers on the public way. In other words, an owner is charged with the negative duty of refraining from creating an unsafe condition on the public way adjacent to his property, but no more.
Undeterred the Plaintiff pressed on arguing that the fact that the commercial owner and management company ground down the sidewalk after the accident showed that they exercised control over the sidewalk, which therefore created a duty. The Appeals Court acknowledged that a duty can be created in certain circumstances based on conduct and control, but rejected any duty based on the facts of this case. Specifically, the Appeals Court held:
Under some circumstances, “a duty of care may arise from the right to control land, even where the person held to such a duty does not own the land in question.” That general principle does not apply here for two reasons. First, the record contains no evidence concerning the existence of any legal right of control possessed by the defendants over the sidewalk, but merely an unopposed remedial action. Second, the city, which is the owner of the sidewalk here, is a public entity statutorily tasked with control of sidewalk maintenance and repair. Our conclusion also comports with the Commonwealth’s “elaborate and comprehensive statutory system” establishing municipal liability for injuries resulting from defects in public ways.
That being said, Justice Milkey filed a dissenting opinion suggesting that the issue of whether the law cited by the Appeals Court should be changed in the future should be addressed by the Supreme Judicial Court going forward. So the issue may soon be visited by the Supreme Judicial Court going forward.
So what are the takeaways for condominiums or property owners abutting public sidewalks.
Do not maintain them and do not exercise any control over them either pre- or post- accident.
If an issue is noticed about a sidewalk, contact the Town or City advising of the issue and requesting that it be addressed promptly, follow up and document, document, document the condition and the communication.
As the Court noted, don’t take any action on your property that affects the integrity of the sidewalk, as that may give rise to a duty.
Of course, the rules may change when the Supreme Judicial Court takes a further look at the law.
If you have any questions about the case or the law, don’t wait to see Ed Allcock on the sidewalk, e-mail him at eallcock@meeb.com.
For a copy of the decision [click here].
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Pamela Zoline or Pamela Lifton-Zoline is a writer and painter living in the United States in Garden City, NY: Doubleday, , pp. – Page, Alison. “‘The Heat Death of the Universe’ by Pamela Zoline: An Appreciation by Alison Page”. Pamela Zoline’s story The Heat Death of the Universe links the modern myths of science (entropy, etc.) as they are understood by the layman. The Heat Death of The Universe has 8 ratings and 2 reviews. Amanda said: So when Ballard did this in ‘The Atrocity Exhibition’ I was bamboozled, trying t.
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Sarah thinks from time to time; Sarah is occasionally visited with this thought; at times this thought comes upon Sarah, that there are things to be hoped for, accomplishments to be desired beyond the mere reproductions, mirror reproduction of one’s kind. Following Delany’s logic, to insist that Zoline uses thermodynamic theories as metaphors for seath social condition of domesticity is to exclude the possibility that her tale is about the heat death of the universe.
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What colour are Sarah Boyle’s eyes? However, I want to articulate more precisely what he labels “escape. Hniverse might be said that the importance and relevance of the story were lost on me, I don’t know.
Sign up using Facebook. A land Cunt Pink and Avocado Green, brassiered and girdled by monstrous complexities of Super Highways, a California endless and unceasing, embracing and transforming the entire globe, California, California! I believe we can assume that the story remains well-regarded today because plenty of people agree with Moorcock. While Moorcock prioritized literary merit, many feminists in science fiction prioritized social realism and relevance.
Waste is a chronic threat: Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent young wife and mother, educated at a fine Eastern college, proud of her growing family which keeps her busy and happy around the house. What definition of “science fiction” are they applying?
As an editor, Moorcock always wanted to publish more than just science fiction, including articles on real science:. This page was last edited on 4 Julyat Sarah wants genres to do more than reproduce texts of a singular type and she wants the female gender to do more than reproduce uncountable clone babies.
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Anatomy of Science Fiction. Always in dire financial straits, New Worlds relied univerae Arts Council grants, increasingly feeling the commercial backlash against the Avant-Garde movement as, for example, when Britain’s largest bookseller, W. Thus, my essay has come full circle, returning once again to the question of whether or not “Heat Death” can properly be included in a generic category called sf.
Published first published If it was sword and sorcery with rocket ships it would be a SciFi Mohs scale of 1.
Such judgments are not inconsequential for, as her mother-in-law reminds her, cleanliness is the grounds for epistemological agency: She cited diverse definitions, adding up to a field that’s as unrestricted as possible, accommodating for lf from quantum physics to magical realism.
I felt there was more I could do with the title. New Worlds founded in Britain in l had a small circulation and looked like any number of American pulp magazines. Zoline offers her enclaves as fluctuating, zolien containing, structures—structures that maintain the possibility of distinction at the same time as they postpone the icy death of homogenous identity.
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Even something as natural as Cunt Pink is rendered artifical by its capitalisation. In the end she feels entropy winning and she embraces it: Richard I heaf the best I could without digging into the introductions of other anthologies, which would probably be enjoyable but may be beyond my patience: Zoline renders these taxonomical projects as somewhat absurd when she describes Sarah’s attempts at labeling household objects, buying one of each kind of cleanser at the supermarket, or posting a labyrinth of definitions and slogans around the house.
Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe” consists of fifty-four numbered paragraphs describing California housewife Sarah Boyle’s domestic duties on the day of her child’s birthday.
In any case, Zoline answers her own question “can we any more postulate? I didn’t really enjoy reading it. Conveniently, the essay after “The Heat Death of the Universe” is available onlineso you can read it for yourselves; but here are some snippets that show what I’m referring to:. The Heat Death Of The Universe by Pamela Zoline New Worlds, Sarah Boyle is a vivacious and intelligent young wife and mother, educated at a fine Eastern college, proud of her growing family which keeps her busy and happy around the house.
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In SF, we must retain the margin to read this sentence in such a way that a planet, belonging to some woman, blew up. Gender and Science in Science Fiction Urbana: Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Despite the backlash against his ideals, he believes that bringing unconventional, untraditional elements to science fiction was good for the world of literature:. Among fans and editors concerned with feminist science fiction, there has often been an attitude similar to Moorcock’s – i.
On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre.
Carnell as editor of New Worlds. I do not take Delany’s description of these territorial disputes to be pejorative, but rather as an attempt to evoke the problematics in constructing a viable generic theory of sf. Inin response to criticism of women in sci-fi, Annalee Newitz wrote “The movement to “feminize” SF has resulted in an attenuation of what science fiction means,” but she dismisses this attenuation of the genre as unimportant compared to the material concerns of feminism.
Likewise the multiple metaphors. Sarah is trapped in a domestic order that insures her generative failure, yet this does not vitiate necessarily Zoline’s generic project.
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She later moved to the United States, where in she co-founded the Telluride Institute with her husband John Lifton and others. An example of feminist science-fiction writing. Clayton insists that this repetition is the necessary by-product of a genre theory that imagines itself as circular—be it a classical and “natural” circle or a new and improved hermeneutic one She opens her mouth. Samuel Delany explains how this alternate reading functions: The doctor says her body’s chaos, chaos, cells running wild all over, says Mrs.
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For those in the market for a more premium option. Love Hultén is the way to go. For a more generic type of experience, most major video game companies have you covered. Sony, Nintendo, SEGA, SNK, Konami, and others are offering a compact version of their classic consoles. Then there’s 8BitDo – an awesome brand that specializes in gaming gear that oozes style and just enough vintage aesthetics.
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The colourway screams Nintendo Entertainment System all the way and the buttons are the cherry on top. Instead of ones you find on a regular mouse, the left and right buttons are round and bright red. Meanwhile, the area where your thumb normally rests features a familiar directional pad as well. Even though it’s not obvious, the space between the two buttons is touch-sensitive for scrolling. The 8BitDo N30 wireless mouse boasts a 120-hour battery life on a single AA battery and a 10-meter range.
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Cross-party MP's warn Universal Credit reform could be disastrous for disabled people
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Scottish Government blocked from paying settled status fees to EU citizens
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Thursday, 8 Nov, 2018
Social workers' failings made stressful time worse for parents of dying baby
The parents of a dying baby suffered a "horrifically stressful" experience after social services failings deprived them of time with their child, an ombudsman has said.City of York Council social workers were accused of failing to properly review the case of the baby boy, whose parents were placed under strict…
Council under fire after boy was placed with foster carers without grandparents' knowledge
Council social services bosses have come under fire from a family court judge after a little boy was placed with foster carers when grandparents who might have offered a home were unaware of his existence.Judge Mary Lazarus has complained about a "wide-ranging composite set of failings" by staff at Kent…
Tuesday, 6 Nov, 2018
Engage: New social work regulator to strive for a 'more clear and transparent service'
Social Work now has a new champion, albeit in the unlikely guise of the new industry regulator. As part of the 2017 Children’s and Social Work Act, the Government introduced a new regulatory body in the form of Social Work England (SWE). The new body has powers to implement change…
Tuesday, 30 Oct, 2018
Council condemned over vulnerable teen left emaciated after being forced to live in tent
A social worker bought a homeless 17-year-old boy a tent to live in, a watchdog has found. Cornwall Council even provided the "vulnerable" teenager with a replacement tent after the first one started leaking. After approaching the council for help, the boy lived in the tent for five weeks, then…
Friday, 19 Oct, 2018
Webwatch: New Apps launched on Understanding Child Development for NI workforce
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council in partnership with Ulster University, Queen’s University Belfast and the Departments of Health and Education, developed a series of Understanding Child Development Apps. Social work is increasingly a mobile profession and the new Apps provide a response to the demands and pressures of this…
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Merge Well—How to Integrate an Acquisition
By: Jason Frankel | November 6, 2018
After a merger, integrating companies requires high levels of coordination from across the newly formed organization. Though integration is the final step in the M&A process, it can also be the most complex, involving leadership, operations, finance and change-management. Companies that manage to integrate smoothly will achieve their goals, whether that’s scale, strategic synergies or accelerated growth, with the least amount of distraction to the core business.
This April, Mainsail’s portfolio company, GTreasury, acquired Visual Risk, a treasury and risk management system based in Sydney, Australia. Mainsail’s Vice President Jason Frankel was at the helm of this merger, serving as Chief of Staff at GTreasury. In the process of doubling the company’s headcount and fusing two organizations on different continents, Jason identified a number of critical success factors that can be applied to most integrations following an acquisition:
Appoint an Integration Task Force
Acquisitions can create massive distractions from day-to-day workflow. To avoid that pitfall, assign specific people to lead the charge through the transition. Build a team that can align the strategy of the deal with the nitty-gritty applications of the acquisition, including the changes and emotions that will inevitably arise. Ideally this group is limited to 3-5 people from across several functions to limit the distraction factor and keep decision-making streamlined. Assign this group before the deal has been signed, so they can prepare and create capacity by delegating some of their day-to-day responsibilities.
Build a team that can align the strategy of the deal with the nitty-gritty applications of the acquisition.
Don’t Do Anything Without a Strong Finance Team
Before considering any acquisition, make the early investment in your finance team. It will save you time and money in the long run and provide the necessary skills to financially integrate the two companies.
At GTreasury, we recruited Brent Coles as our CFO a few months prior to the acquisition of Visual Risk. We also hired a U.S. Controller, FP&A Manager and an APAC Controller (hired shortly after close). While this represented a large investment in the team, the company has already seen significant returns on that investment as it quickly transformed into a financially savvy, data-driven organization.
Know Where You’re Going
At the outset, ask yourself: what is the objective of this acquisition? To boost market share? To bring in new products, services or intellectual property? Are we trying to vertically integrate, break into a new market or eliminate a competitor? Define the key objectives for your acquisition before your two companies blend into one. In addition, determine two to three goals to focus on immediately following the acquisition.
With Visual Risk, our key objectives were to 1) acquire a leading treasury risk management platform in the market and 2) acquire a strong team that we would otherwise have to hire ourselves. Following the acquisition, our focus areas have been to integrate the products and teams. Understand that you will not be able to do everything on your integration checklist at once, so prioritize two or three initial measures of success.
Blend Cultures with Care
In a merger, you’re not just blending companies—you’re blending cultures, each of which is engrained in and valued by its team. If not handled with care, cultural integration can lead to frustration, diminished output and disloyalty. That’s why it’s essential to prioritize people and their experience during an acquisition.
It’s essential to prioritize people and their experience during an acquisition.
When Chicago-based GTreasury acquired Sydney-based Visual Risk, two immediate cultural challenges sprang to the surface: the 8,000-mile separation and the fact that company headcount doubled in a single day, growing from about 80 to over 150 people. Though it remained a “small business,” this infusion of personalities had the potential to create wrinkles in what previously felt like a smooth operation. With the help of Shelley Wyka, GTreasury’s VP of People, the newly combined company built a Global Culture Committee to help the two organizations stay tightly connected.
Communicate—and Then Communicate Some More
Mergers and acquisitions can be disruptive to the company and create anxiety for employees. People will wonder: What does this acquisition mean to me? Will my day-to-day responsibilities change? Why did we acquire this company?
The only way to mitigate these concerns (and ensure integration success!) is to over communicate to your teams. Never assume your message is clear; rather, ensure it’s clear by remaining open and communicative.
Integrating two companies can be incredibly complicated and fraught with potential pitfalls. Increase your chances of a successful acquisition by putting the right team in place, being clear on objectives and communicating relentlessly throughout the process.
About Jason Frankel
Jason is a Vice President at Mainsail Partners and is responsible for sourcing, executing, and managing new investments. His area of focus is vertical software applications.
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The statements contained herein that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates, and projections about the industry and markets. Forward-looking statements contained herein are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks, uncertainties, and or forecasted in such forward-looking statements. Mainsail Partners is under no obligation, and does not intend, to update any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in the underlying assumptions or factors, new information, future events, or other changes.
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Xiaoming Zhang, PhD
Professor, Rochester, MN, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering
EmailZhang.Xiaoming@mayo.edu
Publication Year, Title (ascending)
Publication Year, Title(descending)
Vibrational power flow in a cylindrical shell
Zhang, X. & Zhang, W. H., 1990, In : American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP. 187, p. 23-28 6 p.
Elastic waves
Vibrational power flow in a periodically supported beam excited by a force at any position
The reduction of vibrational energy flow in a periodically supported beam
Zhang, X. & Zhang, W. H., Nov 22 1991, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 151, 1, p. 1-7 7 p.
Vibrational power flow in and sound radiation from a cylindrical shell immersed in acoustic medium
Zhang, X. & He, Z. Y., 1992, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP. Publ by ASME, Vol. 229. p. 107-111 5 p.
Acoustic waves
Acoustic intensity
Power Transmission in a Periodically Supported Infinite Beam Excited at a Single Point
Mead, D. J., White, R. G. & Zhang, X., Jan 27 1994, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 169, 4, p. 558-561 4 p.
harmonic analysis
Structural power flow analysis for a floating raft isolation system consisting of constrained damped beams
Li, T. Y., Zhang, X., Zuo, Y. T. & Xu, M. B., Apr 24 1997, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 202, 1, p. 47-54 8 p.
Green's function
Vibration power flow analysis on combined plates partially covered layer of discontinuous material
Li, T. & Zhang, X., May 1997, In : Shengxue Xuebao/Acta Acustica. 22, 3, p. 274-281 8 p.
viscoelastic damping
Laplace transformation
design optimization
Effect of an internal flow on the input power flow of a fluid-filled shell
Xu, M. & Zhang, X., 1998, In : Shengxue Xuebao/Acta Acustica. 23, 6, p. 509-514 6 p.
fluid filled shells
internal flow
cylindrical shells
Effect of an internal flow on the input vibration power flow of a thin cylindrical shell filled with fluid
Xu, M. & Zhang, X., 1998, Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE. ASME
On the characteristics of wave propagation in a thin cylindrical shell filled with fluid in terms of the vibration power flow
Wave propagation
Helmholtz equation
Space-harmonic analysis of fluid-loaded shells with periodical ring stiffeners
Periodic structures
Vibration power flow in a fluid-filled cylindrical shell
Xu, M. B. & Zhang, X., Dec 10 1998, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 218, 4, p. 587-598 12 p.
On the power flow and its transmission in a fluid-filled cylindrical pipe under the condition of forced vibration
Xu, M., Zhang, X. & Zhang, W., Jul 1 1999, In : Shengxue Xuebao/Acta Acustica. 24, 4, p. 391-399 9 p.
forced vibration
Helmholtz equations
pressure distribution
Space-harmonic analysis of input power flow in a periodically stiffened shell filled with fluid
Xu, M. B., Zhang, X. & Zhang, W. H., May 13 1999, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 222, 4, p. 531-546 16 p.
shell theory
The effect of wall joint on the vibrational power flow propagation in a fluid-filled shell
Xu, M. B., Zhang, X. & Zhang, W. H., Jul 15 1999, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 224, 3, p. 395-410 16 p.
Simulation of vibration and acoustic radiation of finite underwater cylindrical shells
Zhang, X., Liu, G. R. & Lam, K. Y., 2000, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Publication) DSC. Vol. 68. p. 121-126 6 p.
Vibrations (mechanical)
Acoustic fields
Coupled vibration analysis of fluid-filled cylindrical shells using the wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Liu, G. R. & Lam, K. Y., Mar 2001, In : Applied Acoustics. 62, 3, p. 229-243 15 p.
Frequency analysis of cylindrical panels using a wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Liu, G. R. & Lam, K. Y., May 2001, In : Applied Acoustics. 62, 5, p. 527-543 17 p.
Planforms
Vibration analysis of cross-ply laminated composite cylindrical shells using the wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Nov 2001, In : Applied Acoustics. 62, 11, p. 1221-1228 8 p.
Laminated composites
Vibration analysis of thin cylindrical shells using wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Liu, G. R. & Lam, K. Y., Jan 18 2001, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 239, 3, p. 397-403 7 p.
A new technique in ramp response for acoustic imaging of underwater objects
Zhang, X., Li, W. & Liu, G. R., Apr 2002, In : Applied Acoustics. 63, 4, p. 453-465 13 p.
Acoustic imaging
Frequency analysis of submerged cylindrical shells with the wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Jul 2002, In : International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 44, 7, p. 1259-1273 15 p.
Parametric analysis of frequency of rotating laminated composite cylindrical shells with the wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Mar 1 2002, In : Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 191, 19-20, p. 2029-2043 15 p.
Parametric studies of coupled vibration of cylindrical pipes conveying fluid with the wave propagation approach
Zhang, X., Feb 2002, In : Computers and Structures. 80, 3-4, p. 287-295 9 p.
Vibro-acoustography for modal analysis of arterial vessels
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2002, Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 2002-January. p. 513-516 4 p. 1029307
Elasticity Imaging Techniques
Modal analysis
Shear deformation
A coupled tube-tissue model for frequency calculation of arterial tubes with tissue
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2003, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Vol. 55. p. 107-108 2 p.
A model for vibration transmission of light-heavy structures
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M., Kinnick, R. R. & Greenleaf, J. F., Feb 2003, In : Applied Acoustics. 64, 2, p. 213-227 15 p.
A new imaging method for arterial tubes based on vibration measurement
Velocity measurement
Excitation and measurement of flexural waves in arterial vessels
Zhang, X., Kinnick, R. R., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2003, Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Yuhas, D. E. & Schneider, S. C. (eds.). Vol. 2. p. 1883-1886 4 p.
Elastic moduli
Modal analysis of a mechanical heart valve by vibro-acoustography
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M., Kinnick, R. R. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2003, Proceedings of the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Yuhas, D. E. & Schneider, S. C. (eds.). Vol. 2. p. 1392-1395 4 p.
Heart valve prostheses
Nondestructive examination
Noncontact ultrasound stimulated optical vibrometry study of coupled vibration of arterial tubes in fluids
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M., Kinnick, R. R. & Greenleaf, J. F., Mar 1 2003, In : Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113, 3, p. 1249-1257 9 p.
Reply to "comments on 'vibration analysis of thin cylindrical shells using wave propagation approach'"
Zhang, X., Jun 20 2003, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 253, 5, p. 1140-1142 3 p.
Shape identification of underwater objects using backscattered frequency signals
Liu, G. R., Li, W., Zhang, X. & Varadan, V. K., Jun 1 2003, In : Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 113, 6, p. 3146-3154 9 p.
ellipsoids
acoustic scattering
frequency ranges
Comparison of ultrasound radiation force and fluid pressure generated waves in arterial vessels
Zhang, X., Kinnick, R. R., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2004, Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Yuhas, M. P. (ed.). Vol. 2. p. 1243-1246 4 p.
Aging of materials
Detection of shear wave propagation in an artery using pulse echo ultrasound and Kalman filtering
Zheng, Y., Chen, S. D., Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2004, Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Yuhas, M. P. (ed.). Vol. 2. p. 1251-1253 3 p.
Shear waves
Experimental study of resonant frequency of thick rubber tubes
Zhang, X., Kinnick, R. R., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., Jun 7 2004, In : Journal of Sound and Vibration. 273, 3, p. 677-680 4 p.
Frequency dispersion of wave velocity in arterial vessels
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2004, 2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano. Vol. 2. p. 1347-1350 4 p.
Viscoelasticity
Inverse method for estimating elastic modulus of arterial walls
Zhang, X., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2004, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Yaffe, M. J. & Flynn, M. J. (eds.). 1 ed. Vol. 5368. p. 226-235 10 p.
Size identification of underwater objects from backscattering signals of arbitrary looking angles
Li, W., Liu, G. R. & Zhang, X., Sep 2004, In : Journal of Computational Acoustics. 12, 3, p. 301-317 17 p.
Backscattering
Inverse problems
Generation of ring resonant mode for measuring artery elastic modulus
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2005, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE. Walker, W. F. & Emelianov, S. Y. (eds.). Vol. 5750. p. 236-243 8 p. 27
Measurement of the propagation velocity of pulse wave generated by ultrasound in arteries
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2005, Advances in Bioengineering, BED. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Vol. 57. p. 69-70 2 p.
Noninvasive method for estimation of complex elastic modulus of arterial vessels
Zhang, X., Kinnick, R. R., Fatemi, M. & Greenleaf, J. F., Apr 2005, In : IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 52, 4, p. 642-651 10 p.
The effect of surrounding gelatin on ultrasound generated short pulse wave propagation in arteries
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2005, Proceedings - IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium. Vol. 2. p. 1376-1379 4 p. 1603110
Estimation of complex arterial elastic modulus from ring resonance excited by ultrasound radiation force
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., Dec 22 2006, In : Ultrasonics. 44, SUPPL.
Generation of a torsion wave and measuring its propagation velocity in the circumferential direction of arterial wall
Torsional stress
Measurement of wave velocity in arterial walls with ultrasound transducers
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., Nov 2006, In : Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology. 32, 11, p. 1655-1660 6 p.
Pulse Wave Analysis
Noninvasive estimation of local elastic modulus of arteries with the ring resonance measurement
Noninvasive generation and measurement of propagating waves in arterial walls
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., Feb 2006, In : Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 119, 2, p. 1238-1243 6 p.
arteriosclerosis
Resonance of rubber tubes generated by air force ultrasound transducers
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., 2006, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
The stiffening of arteries by the tissue-mimicking gelatin
Zhang, X. & Greenleaf, J. F., Aug 2006, In : IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. 53, 8, p. 1534-1539 6 p., 1665111.
stiffening
Contact Xiaoming Zhang, PhD
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SOMERSTAGE Musical Theatre School Presents
Annie JR. follows the story of an orphan named Annie living a “hard-knock life” at The New York City Municipal Orphanage run by the cruel Miss Hannigan. Annie dreams of being reunited with her parents and takes action to find them. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan's evil machinations, befriends President Franklin Roosevelt and finds a new family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary Grace Farrell and a lovable mutt named Sandy.
Tickets: £14, £10 Under 16
Based on “Little Orphan Annie”® By Permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Original Broadway Production Directed by Martin Charnin
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Music Theatre International, New York, NY, (212) 541-4684 mtishows.com
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3 Essential Tips For Happiness, According to Mario Batali
Chef Interviews
Mario Batali Advice
14 May, 2018 by Erin Cullum First Published: 12 May, 2017
Mario Batali shared some pretty awesome life tips in a recent interview with LinkedIn's Editor in Chief, Daniel Roth. With 28 restaurants and a co-hosted gig at ABC's The Chew, the world-renowned is a busy guy, to say the least. In order to stay positive, or power his happy, there are three things that Mario practices on a regular basis and that you can, too.
When asked about his daily routine, Mario noted that meditation is a key part of his life. "I get up at about five. Just about every day of my life. I box, or I play golf. Then I meditate. Meditation, if you don't do it, I recommend it. It's a way to find a calm little moment of you making sure that every stupid thing that happens to you every day doesn't piss you off."
Do Something You Love
"I would always suggest to anybody, if you can find something you love to do you're never at work. So my kids look at me and they see I'm happy all the time. Like stupid happy. And they're looking at me like, 'Dad, maybe I should get a job like yours.'"
Find Something You Love Cooking, and Make It a Lot
When someone asked Mario about the one thing he liked cooking, Mario said he is "consistently happy" to make any thin, dried pasta noodle with shellfish. "Could be linguini with clams. Or, say, black spaghetti with rock shrimp and chorizo," Daniel noted. Mario said, "Those are the things that, to me, sing the song the most of the product and the least of the chef," Batali explained. "As you get older, and older, and older, you less need chef intervention and are more impressed by the simplicity of the product and the product uniqueness itself."
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Donald Trump’s 2018 Ramadan Statement Is Much Better Than Last Year's
Donald Trump 2018 White House Ramadan Statement
17 May, 2018 by Najla Moussa
Ramadan is a time for gatherings and unity, and in the US, the White House Iftar has been a long-standing tradition that started in 1805 under Thomas Jefferson.
Last year, Trump broke from tradition by canceling the Iftar and giving a Ramadan speech that weirdly focused on America's stance to "defeat terrorists and their perverted ideology."
Not on topic, if you ask me. And at a time when anti-Muslim sentiments are at its highest, a White House-hosted Ramadan Iftar would give a clear message of support to the 3.45 million Muslims living in the US.
Well, word is that it might be back on. At least, according to those involved with interfaith diplomacy in DC, who believe the White House is in talks with the State Department about hosting an Iftar in June. However, when asked, the Deputy White House Press Secretary, Lindsay Walters, reportedly said that they have "no updates at this time," The Washington Post reported.
Whether that is fact or rumor, remains to be seen. But the Ramadan statement this year is definitely a step in the right direction. 2018's speech is a complete turnaround from 2017, in tone and manner. This time Trump said: "Ramadan reminds us of the richness Muslims add to the religious tapestry of American life. In the United States, we are all blessed to live under a Constitution that fosters religious liberty and respects religious practice. Our Constitution ensures Muslims can observe Ramadan in accordance with the dictates of conscience and unimpeded by government …
"As so many people unite to celebrate Ramadan, Melania and I join in the hope for a blessed month. Ramadan Mubarak."
Now that's more like it! Read the whole thing below:
With the rising of tonight's moon, I send my greetings and best wishes to all Muslims observing Ramadan in the United States and around the world.
During the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims commemorate the revelation of the Quran to the prophet Muhammad through fellowship and prayer. Many observe this holy time by fasting, performing acts of charity, reciting prayers, and reading the Quran.
Ramadan is a time of self-reflection intended to deepen one's spiritual growth and renew a sense of appreciation for the many blessings God provides. In this spirit of thanksgiving and reflection, those observing Ramadan can strengthen our communities, help those in need, and serve as good examples for how to live a holy life.
Ramadan reminds us of the richness Muslims add to the religious tapestry of American life. In the United States, we are all blessed to live under a Constitution that fosters religious liberty and respects religious practice. Our Constitution ensures Muslims can observe Ramadan in accordance with the dictates of conscience and unimpeded by government. By doing so, the Constitution also furnishes varied opportunities for all Americans to deepen their understanding of the human soul.
As so many people unite to celebrate Ramadan, Melania and I join in the hope for a blessed month. Ramadan Mubarak.
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DWP’s shame: Facts reveal how ministers duped the press
Posted by Mike Sivier in Benefits, Conservative Party, Corruption, Cost of living, Disability, Employment, Employment and Support Allowance, People, Politics, Poverty, UK
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Lest we forget: We know that, on average, 73 people died every week between January and November 2011 – after undergoing the DWP work capability assessment administered by Atos. Who knows how many are dying now?
Today the DWP finally released its press release claiming that huge numbers of people who wanted Employment and Support Allowance have been found fit for work instead.
Interestingly, the DWP story differs from that published by the BBC, even though the corporation must have used a version of the press release provided to it in advance.
In the BBC story, released on Saturday, “More than a million others withdrew their claims after interviews” – but the DWP press notice, released today, claims “More than a million others withdrew their claims before reaching a face-to-face assessment”.
In addition, the DWP release features a long section on its Disability Confident roadshow, and there is another statistic which claims that the proportion of disabled people in work has reached 45 per cent.
Disability Confident, designed “to encourage more employers to hire disabled people”, “to showcase the talents of disabled people and highlight their tremendous value to the British economy” is, on the face of it, a good idea.
But I wonder if it isn’t a smokescreen to hide how the DWP is pushing thousands of disabled people into saying they are self-employed and taking tax credits rather than ESA, in order to fudge the figures and make it seem as though good work is being done.
Vox Political reported on this before ,and it is worth adding that the BBC itself ran the original report that work advisers were pushing the jobless into self-employment.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive…
Of course, the best source of ESA-related statistics is on the iLegal site where the figures behind the press release have been picked apart by an expert who doesn’t have a vested interest in saving ministerial face.
They show that an average of 83 per cent of the 1,078,200 Incapacity claimants who were assessed qualified for ESA between October 2012 and May last year, while 88 per cent of the 1,332,300 ‘repeatedly assessed’ were re-qualifying.
While the DWP and the BBC have claimed 1.8 million people have magically disappeared from the Incapacity/ESA claimant count, the DWP’s own figures confirm that overall numbers have reduced by only 156,630 since May 2010.
The iLegal article makes it clear that “the claimant count is far from a static number; each month thousands of claimants come on and off all benefits”. But it seems clear that the BBC/DWP figure is a conflated total, simply adding up all new claims – rather than claimants – from 2008 onwards.
This is exactly why UK Statistics Authority chief Andrew Dilnot chastised the government after the Conservative Party released an almost-identical press release last year, using then-current (but still inaccurate) figures and not mentioning Disability Confident.
Let’s go back to the number of people found ‘fit for work’ after assessment. Has everybody forgotten the hammering that the government took during a debate on Atos’ handling of the Work Capability Assessment, exactly a year and a week ago today? If you have, don’t worry – you can read all about it here.
The debate demonstrated time after time that the work capability assessment, as devised by the DWP’s Conservative ministerial team and run by its employees at Atos, was not fit for purpose; that the overwhelming majority of those who had been found ‘fit for work’ were nothing of the sort; and that “this is a government that is perfectly happy with a system that is throwing thousands of sick and disabled people to the wolves”.
The government refused to listen. Then-Employment minister Mark Hoban (standing in, conspicuously, for Esther McVey, who was minister for the disabled at the time) said the independent reviews conducted by Professor Malcolm Harrington had identified areas of improvement and appropriate steps were being taken.
This claim was false. Out of 25 recommendations made by Professor Harrington in his year one review alone, almost two thirds were not fully and successfully implemented.
The government also claimed, repeatedly, that Prof Harrington had supported the migration of Incapacity Benefit claimants to ESA. When fellow blogger Sue Marsh contacted him for confirmation, he responded: “I NEVER—repeat–NEVER agreed to the IB migration. I would have preferred that it be delayed but by the time I said that, the political die had been cast. I then said that i would review progress of that during my reviews. The decision was political. I could not influence it. IS THAT CRYSTAL CLEAR?”
I’d say so – to everybody but the Coalition government.
A good reporter at the BBC would have had all this information to hand. They would have known that the work capability assessment was extremely controversial and had been shown, many times, to be unfit for purpose. They would have known that the government had been slapped down by the UK Statistics Authority after releasing an almost-identical press release last year. They absolutely should have known that other reporters in the same organisation had revealed that the DWP had been pushing disabled people into claiming they were self-employed in an effort to cook the books.
With all that information to hand, it begs the question: Why did they then go ahead with the propagandised misrepresentation of the facts that appeared on the BBC News website on Saturday?
And, before reporters at Business Standard (“A million Britons found lying for illness benefits“?), the Belfast Telegraph, International Business Times UK, Metro, The Times, Channel 4 News, Press TV, Descrier, SME Times, AoI Money, The Mirror, Gloucester Citizen, Huffington Post, Evening Standard, and especially the Daily Mail, whose article was hysterical in both senses of the term, allow me to ask…
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Labor Shortage Prompts Allina Health To Launch EMT Training Program
By Bill Hudson March 20, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Filed Under:Allina Health, Bill Hudson, EMT Training
ST. PAUL, Minn. (WCCO) — At an Allina Health ambulance base in the north metro, EMT and paramedic teams await their next call for help.
But both here and across the country, it’s getting harder to fill the vacancies brought on by retirements and a tight labor pool.
“Across the country, we’re seeing not as many people taking on EMT jobs and paramedic jobs,” said Joan Mellor, director of Allina EMS external affairs,
That’s why Allina is launching its own Emergency Medical Technician training school. It aims to train, certify and likely hire new EMTs to work for them.
The process will start with a boot camp to help interns overcome employment challenges, such as study habits, transportation and interview skills.
“What we’re doing is offering a paid internship so they go through a two-week boot camp to learn the skills to be successful,” Mellor said.
Beginning in June, the first class of 14 recruits will have all expenses paid, including books and supplies. The 120-hour EMT academy will then prepare them for the basic emergency medical skills that will be needed for entry level jobs in a demanding and crucial profession.
“So it’s kind of a combination of public safety and compassionate patient care, so we’re looking for good people,” Mellor said.
Candidates who can provide lifesaving care for medical emergencies, while helping Allina Health plug the shortage of first responders.
For information on Allina’s EMT application process visit its website.
Bill Hudson
Bill Hudson has been with WCCO-TV since 1989. The native of Elk River, Minn., says Channel 4 is the station he grew up with and aspired to work for....More from Bill Hudson
Jorge Gonzalez says:
Hours are horrible. Pay is horrible. Diseases eradicated 50+ years ago have returned. Paramedics are being exposed and infected with these third world illegal alien diseases.
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13 May 2014 / Vintage Tech
Breathing New (Composite) Life Into a Binatone Pong Console
Pong! What more could a young child want in 1978? Despite my formative years, I was already hooked on my friend’s magic-filled box of delights he described as a ‘TV Game’ (for ‘console’ was a word of the future). We would Pong, Pong and Pong some more. Then, in a rare moment of wish-fulfilment for a working-class lad from Liverpool, Santa brought me my very own TV Game, a Binatone no less!
Ah yes, Binatone, that stalwart of the “well, it does the job but it’s nothing special” area of the electronics market. Binatone, like many of its contemporaries, had bought into the AY-3-8500 integrated circuit. This little beauty from GI packed a handful of Pong-a-likes onto a single chip that handled input, switches and all video and audio output. Just a stick a few basic components around it to make sure it behaves itself and boom, you have a games console. Yes, 1977 and GI already had SoC nailed. This led to an avalanche of over 200 near-identical looking products that all played the exact same games.
I loved my Binatone and played it for hours, happily destroying my social life and any incidental exercise it may have brought me. Still, times move on and soon I was basking in the glory that was the flickery screen of my ZX81, my poor old Binatone left in the cupboard. One day, Dad took it to the farm so it could live out its days grazing in a sunlit field. At least I think that’s what he said.
Anyway, nostalgia got the better of me a few weeks ago and I located a lost and lonely TV Master Mark IV (for that was its model name – despite the fact there was never a Mark I, II or III) for the princely sum of 99p. Delightfully, following a clean-up, it sprang to life and challenged me to a game or forty.
There was only one problem, the picture. As I spend a frankly irresponsible amount of time cleaning up and repairing old computers, I have a couple of old CRTs that don’t mind creaky old signals from the 20th century. This allowed me to confirm that it was indeed working, but the analogue tuner on my usual LCD TV was barely able to lock on to the signal and if it did it looked terrible.
This would not do.
A lot of Internet searching later and to my surprise I found you could modify most AY-3-8500-based consoles to provide a composite output. This took a lot of looking around and experimentation, so I thought I would take the time to write up the procedure here. Best of all, you can perform this mod without disabling the RF output, so if you want to ‘keep it real’, you can.
Obvious Caveats:
You know which end of a soldering iron to hold
You won’t blame me for anything
1 x 9V – 5V Voltage Regulator (7805)
2 x Resistor – 75 ohms (metal film resistors preferred)
1 x Resistor – 750 ohms
1 x Transistor 2N3904 (or comparable)
1 x Low voltage diode 1N914 (or comparable)
1 x 100uF Electrolytic Capacitor / 16V
You’ll need some wires, stripboard and (if you like) phono connectors as well.
The AY-3-5800 works by generating three TV signals: The ‘field of play and scoreboard’ and the left and right bats. These need to be combined to produce the final signal. You also get a ‘sync’ pulse from one of the pins that the composite signal will need.
AY-3-8500 Pinout (Wikipedia)
So, we’re interested in Pins 6, 9, 10 & 24 for the screen, 16 for the sync and 3 for the sound.
We’ll find a point on the board where the signals are combined and tap off it. Also, we can get a feed from the 9V power and ground. However, as composite standard is 5V, we’ll need to step down the voltage accordingly. We can also get the audio output from the unit (it normally uses a built-in speaker) and create outputs for that as well.
Using your impressive stripboarding and soldering skills, create this circuit, designed by Manuel van Dyck:
Composite Output Circuit (http://www.pong-picture-page.de/)
I identified a point where all the signals were combined and took a line from that. I also took a line from the ‘sync’ pin.
A quick test showed a great (if slightly dim) composite signal. Time to do it properly. After an audio test, I got the drill out (gulp). I also took the opportunity to cut short the built-in coaxial cable and replace it with a phono plug in the front.
Carefully installing the stripboard, I soldered the phono plugs in (which was a real pain) and reassembled the unit. Audio requires nothing special, just connection to a phono plug and the ground.
My lovely little Binatone TV Master Mark IV has a new lease of life with a rock solid video picture (well, it’s no 4K but you get my meaning) and audio through the TV speakers as well. This will guarantee its operation for the foreseeable future as even upscaling to HDMI is trivial. Not bad for 1977’s finest.
Circuitry aside, it’s interesting that its analogue nature means the responsiveness of the games is amazing. Still very, very playable all these years later.
Inspiration (and good cold hard data) for this mod came from:
http://www.pong-picture-page.de/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1835
http://www.petervis.com/gallery/Toys_and_Games/binatone-tv-master-mk-4-composite-video-mod/binatone-tv-master-mk-4-composite-video-mod.html
My thanks to them both.
PJ Evans
— Mr PJ Evans —
Raspberry Pi + iPad Screen + iCade = Bartop
Re-Capping a ZX Spectrum
ZX Raspberry Version 2
Composite Modding the Atari 2600
Buoyed on by my successful project to add a composite video output to a 1976 Pong game, I decided to move to my next target, the Atari 2600. Now, this little beauty needs
Binatone Pong
The first computer game I ever owned was this Binatone ‘TV Master MK IV’ – a simple unit that could play the standard Pong variants with a pair of analogue paddles. Yes, it may
Mr PJ Evans
Mr PJ Evans © 2020
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Tag / WWF-Malaysia
December 27, 2017 by mondaymorgue
Take Action Now or Risk Losing our Iconic Wildlife
Asian tapir, bears, Carnivora, carnivores, Helarctos malayanus, human activities, Kelantan, Malayan sun bear, Malayan tapir, Malaysia, mammals, Peninsular Malaysia, Perissodactyla, roadkill, sun bear, Tapiridae, tapirs, Tapirus indicus, Terengganu, threats, Ursidae, West Malaysia, WWF-Malaysia
27th December 2017;
As WWF-Malaysia looks back at 2017, we are extremely saddened at the number of fatal incidents involving iconic and endangered species; including the most recent deaths of two Sun Bears (Helarctos malayanus) and a Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) on Christmas Eve (December 24, 2017).
In Peninsular Malaysia, a Sun Bear was killed in an accident along the East Coast Expressway 2 in Terengganu, while a Malayan Tapir was killed in another accident in Gua Musang, Kelantan. The tapir was also skinned and disfigured by a group of men who discovered the carcass the following day. We strongly condemn acts of wildlife crime such as this, where the carcass of an animal is mutilated without consideration.
It is also imperative to bear in mind that highways close to natural wildlife habitats are at high risk of accidents, and therefore, a higher rate of wildlife deaths, if precautions are not taken. We cannot emphasise enough the need for Malaysian drivers to be more vigilant and alert while driving in areas that are prone to wildlife crossings, to avoid more unfortunate incidents like these from happening.
In a separate incident in East Malaysia, another Sun Bear was discovered being sold in parts at a local market in Kuching. WWF-Malaysia urges the public once again to step away from consuming wild meat, particularly during festive celebrations, in an effort to preserve our unique wildlife. This act of responsible consumption will go a long way in protecting wild species such as the Sun Bear.
As an organisation dedicated to the conservation of biological diversity, a huge amount of our time is committed to empowering and encouraging positive change in the way we protect our planet – wildlife included. Despite all efforts from various organisations and government bodies, yet again, we as a nation, have failed to stand up for our Malaysian wildlife. If we do not take drastic measures to protect our wildlife now, we may lose them to extinction in the near future.
Dato’ Dr. Dionysius Sharma
Executive Director/CEO, WWF-Malaysia
Source: WWF-Malaysia
February 7, 2016 by mondaymorgue
Malaysia: Have strict protection of our forest corridors — WWF-Malaysia
big cats, Carnivora, carnivores, cats, Felidae, human activities, human-wildlife conflict, Malay Mail, Malayan tiger, Malaysia, mammals, Panthera tigris, Panthera tigris jacksoni, Peninsular Malaysia, roadkill, Terengganu, threats, tiger, West Malaysia, World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, WWF-Malaysia
7th February 2016;
WWF-Malaysia is saddened by the loss of another Malayan Tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni), the latest being a victim of a vehicle collision along the East Coast Expressway in Terengganu (“Malayan Tiger killed crossing East Coast Expressway,” The Star, February 6, 2016).
Tragically, this healthy female Tiger was later discovered to be pregnant with two cubs (“Malayan Tiger killed on East Coast Highway was pregnant,” The Star, February 6, 2016). Including these young casualties, this has brought the number of dead Tigers to five within the past three weeks alone — an unprecedented number within such a short time frame.
However, these are just the cases which have been recorded, as undoubtedly many more cases of Tiger poaching remains undetected. Unfortunately, the demise of even a single individual is a huge blow to the Tiger population, especially with recent evidence suggesting Malaysia only has about 250-340 Tigers left in the wild.
As the nation progresses towards being developed, the pressure on our natural resources particularly our forest will undoubtedly escalate with more infrastructure such as roads being built or expanded.
The construction of roads, particularly highways, has fragmented major forest complexes in Malaysia and has likely disrupted behavioural patterns and habitat use by large mammals, for example the elimination of Tigers on the western portion of the North-South highway.
Fragmentation caused by roads impedes movements and negatively affects wildlife through vehicular mortality. Unfortunately, mitigation measures using a science-based assessment to counter hindered permeability of Tigers and other wildlife between habitats fragmented by roads are lacking in Malaysia.
Recognising this gap, WWF-Malaysia carried out intensive wildlife habitat use surveys to be able to provide science-based criteria in recommending potential locations for wildlife crossings in Belum-Temengor forest complex in Perak.
This was able to aid the authorities in choosing where a viaduct should be placed in the area to facilitate movement of wildlife between forest patches. This was in fact the first study to identify Tiger crossings and core habitat corridors for mitigating the negative effects of a highway in Malaysia.
Malaysia already has the Central Forest Spine Masterplan for Ecological Linkages, a federal document which identifies 37 important forested linkages throughout Peninsular Malaysia and outlines measures to conserve/enhance their functionality.
However, since land is a state matter, there are varying degrees of success. Within WWF-Malaysia’s priority landscape of Belum-Temengor, various conservation initiatives by the government have been carried out within the corridor that flanks the East-West Highway — most prominently the gazettement of this area as a Permanent Reserved Forest and the construction of a viaduct for wildlife crossings.
Other corridors are not so fortunate, with some being lost completely due to development or the establishment of plantations. However, in some cases it is not too late to act.
If certain corridors are no longer suitable for wildlife crossings, alternative linkages should be identified and conserved for the long-term benefit of wildlife and our forests, which we ultimately depend on for water resources, fresh air and other ecosystem services such as flood prevention.
WWF-Malaysia calls for all relevant state governments to adhere to the Central Forest Spine Masterplan for Ecological Linkages. This includes implementing conservation measures along critical corridors such as providing legal protection for natural forests, and the construction of green infrastructure such as viaducts and elevated highways.
Enhancing linkages through the establishment of green infrastructure such as viaducts especially through robust science-based assessments will help Tigers and other wildlife safely cross roads, which will in turn aid their long term survival within the landscape.
Other measures such as warning signages and speed breakers at strategic locations will also help reduce the number of collisions between vehicles and wildlife. In the meantime, WWF-Malaysia advises motorists to adhere to the speed limits and be cautious of the surroundings when driving along roads flanked by forests.
Source: Malay Mail
June 26, 2014 by mondaymorgue
Malaysia: WWF-Malaysia is saddened by sawfish caught off Pulau Bruit
Borneo, Chondrichthyes, East Malaysia, elasmobranchs, fishes, fishing, human activities, largetooth sawfish, Malaysia, marine, overfishing, Pristidae, Pristiformes, Pristis microdon, Pristis pristis, rays, Sarawak, sawfishes, sharks and rays, threats, World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, WWF-Malaysia
26th June 2014;
World Wide Fund for Nature – Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) is saddened by the 300kg Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis) caught off Pulau Bruit, stating that the sawfish is a critically endangered species in the world.
In June 2007, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has approved trade restrictions for Sawfish because trade along with fishing pressure and habitat destruction were pushing them towards extinction.
The IUCN approved all seven Sawfish species in Appendix I banning all international commercial trade except for one species found in Australia, which was included in Appendix II (but only to allow trade in live animals to public aquaria for conservation purposes only).
Also known as carpenter sharks, Sawfish are large rays related to sharks, with distinctive toothed snouts. They are often traded for their fins, meat, unique toothed rostra (snouts), and as live animals for exhibition.
Their distinctive saw-like snouts are sold as souvenirs, curios, and ceremonial weapons, while other body parts such as skin, liver oil and bile are used in traditional medicines.
Little is still known about Sawfish, with population facts and figures being scarce, and there are very few sightings. [Source: Conservation Bite for Sawfish]
Global populations of every species of Sawfish are estimated to have fallen to less than 10% of their historic levels.
Just earlier this month, IUCN’s Shark Specialist Group (SSG) has released a global strategy to prevent extinction and promote recovery of Sawfishes.
To compliment the existing ban on commercial international sawfish trade, the strategy calls for national and regional actions to prohibit intentional killing of Sawfish, minimize mortality of accidental catches, protect sawfish habitats, and ensure effective enforcement of such safeguards.
The document also lays out actions associated with effective communications, capacity building, strategic research, and responsible husbandry, as well as fundraising to ensure implementation.
Source: Endangered Sawfish: IUCN Strategy Released as Global Protection Proposed].
The incident in Pulau Bruit, which WWF-Malaysia believes was unintentional, could have been avoided if fishermen are aware that the species is listed in the IUCN Red List, said conservation director Dr Sundari Ramakrishna.
However, she said, fishermen cannot continue to plea innocent all the time.
“They need to play their part in conservation by making it their business to fish sustainably, to know which species are common and rare, and make responsible choices by releasing live catch back into the sea.”
“WWF-Malaysia hoped that the incident in Pulau Bruit would serve as a lesson to all and moved the people from all walks of life to be more discerning when making their purchases for seafood,” she said.
When public are better informed and understand the impacts of our seafood choices, they will help shift our fisheries towards a more sustainable direction, added Dr Sundari.
The public can check out the status of fish species through WWF’s SOS Guide (Save Our Seafood) which aims at helping consumers make ocean-friendly decisions when it comes to their seafood.
The guide informs them which seafood is recommended, which to think twice about and which ones to avoid.
The guide is available in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin and can be downloaded from www.saveourseafood.my.
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Subject: Dow Jones Industrial Average Climbs 91 Points Today on Nike Stock Split News
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Dow Jones Industrial Average Climbs 91 Points Today on Nike Stock Split News
By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning • November 20, 2015
For Nov. 20, 2015, here's how the stock market did today, earnings reports, the top stock market news, and stocks to watch based on today's market moves…
How Did the Stock Market Do Today?
D ow Jones: 17,824.02; +91.27; +0.51%
S&P 500: 2,089.17; +7.93; +0.38%
Nasdaq: 5,104.92; +31.28; +0.62%
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished its best week in more than a month today, fueled by a 5.2% surge in Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) stock. The global shoe and apparel retailer announced that it has authorized a $12 billion stock buyback program and a two-for-one stock split. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department introduced new rules to deter U.S. companies from engaging in tax inversions, although Secretary Jack Lew admitted that the policies are unlikely to stop a very large merger in the pharmaceutical space that is near completion between Allergan Plc. (NYSE: AGN) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE).
Top Stock Market News Today
Stock Market News: Eight of 10 S&P sectors saw gains on Friday with healthcare stocks leading the way. Shares of Botox-maker Allergan Plc. (NYSE: AGN) gained more than 4.2% on deal rumors involving Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE). Meanwhile, shares of health insurers Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) and Anthem Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) added 4.2% and 1.9%, respectively, after the companies said their profitability has not been impacted by the Affordable Care Act.
Stimulus Watch: Earlier this morning, European Central Bank Mario Draghi announced that his team of policy makers are prepared to take action should their current strategy on monetary policy fail to stimulate the stagnate Eurozone economy. Many analysts project the euro could fall to parity with the U.S. dollar next year as monetary policy strategies of the Fed and the ECB appear to be heading in opposite directions.
Oil in Focus: Oil prices slipped again as concerns about oversupply continue to rattle trader sentiment. December WTI prices dipped 0.8% at $40.42 per barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil fell 0.1% to hit $44.11. High-volume stocks Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) fell 0.7% and 1.7% on the day, respectively. Shares of Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) were off more than 1.0%.
On Tap Next Week: On Monday, keep an eye out for a monthly update on existing home sales and a number of earnings reports. Companies set to report quarterly earnings include GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: PANW), Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN), and Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL).
Stocks to Watch: SQ, ANF, TSLA, GOOGL, INTU, GOOGL, MTCH
Stocks to Watch No. 1, SQ: Shares of Square Inc. (NYSE: SQ) jumped more than 42% during its first day of trading on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The mobile payment company opened trading at $9 but quickly shot up as investors continue to pile money into tech startups – even though this one has yet to report any revenue.
Stocks to Watch No. 2, ANF: Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) gained more than 26% after the company offered positive data to suggest that its turnaround is slowly working. The teen retailer said that quarterly same-store sales fell less than expected and its profit more than doubled as the teen apparel retailer boosted gross margin by offering fewer promotions and controlling costs. Despite the positive news, ANF's quarterly revenue has declined for 11 straight quarters.
Stocks to Watch No. 3: TSLA: Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. (Nasdaq: TSLA) fell about 1% on news that the company will voluntarily recall 90,000 Model S cars due to a single report indicating that the front seat belt was not functioning properly.
Stocks to Watch No. 4: GOOGL: Shares of Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, GOOGL), the parent company of search giant Google, added another 2.2% on news that it will launch a Chinese version of the Google Play smartphone app in 2016.
Stocks to Watch No. 5: INTU: Shares of Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) gained nearly 6.5% on news that the company reported stronger than expected first-quarter earnings. The maker of tax-management software reported more than $713 million in revenue, besting consensus expectations of $670 million. The company also hiked its full-year profit forecast.
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Why does Negan kill this character in TWD S07E08?
Earlier in the episode, we see Spencer return from a supply run and receive some commendation for it by one of Negan's men.
You look like shit, which means you fought for this. You did your jobs. You get it, and I like that. Negan likes that.
However, just before gutting Spencer, Negan says:
You know, I'm thinking, Spencer. I'm thinking how Rick threatened to kill me, how he clearly hates my guts. But he is out there right now, gathering shit for me to make sure I don't hurt any of the fine people that live here. He is swallowing his hate and getting [Chuckling] shit done. That takes guts. And then there's you The guy who waited for Rick to be gone so he could sneak over and talk to me to get me to do his dirty work, so he could take Rick's place. So I got to ask -- if you wanna take over, why not just kill Rick yourself and just take over? -- You know what I'm thinking? 'Cause I have a guess. [Whispering] It's because you got no guts. [Knife unsheathes] How embarrassing. There they are. They were inside you the whole time. You did have guts.
Its no secret that no-one at Alexandria or anywhere else loves Negan (including Spencer); except maybe the Saviours. In a world where humans/communities are constantly at each other's throats for supplies, superiority or other needs at some point or another, it's hard for me to understand why Spencer's hatred for Rick (given the death's in Spencer's family) is justifiable enough a reason to kill Spencer. Gregory at Hilltop is equally a coward while being in charge. So killing Spencer instead of putting him in command, just to humiliate Rick further doesn't sit well with me. The mere suggestion of it by Spencer would in my opinion take guts, as it definitely didn't seem as if Spencer meant Negan should kill Rick; unless it was his over confidence that brought about his death.
Francisco V.
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@FranciscoV. Presumably so, and in fact I did add a footnote asking if anyone thought of it as a spoiler, to edit it. Turns out, the very first edit removed the footnote but didn't alter the spoiler content. – akdsouza Jan 6 '17 at 3:51
Negan wants Rick in charge.
Rick is someone who will do what it takes to protect his people
Rick is willing to do hard work and swallow his hatred of Negan to get more supplies
Negan wants Rick and Alexandria to become complacent followers with a certain level of "trust" for him.
Don't discount the fact that Negan is a homicidal lunatic
More detailed explanation
I think this scene is explained better in the comics than the show. Negan is trying to build a sort of relationship with Rick and show him that while he is a tyrant, he is reasonable to those who learn to follow his rules. Rick is a strong leader and Negan sees that and knows that having Rick under his thumb would be incredibly valuable to him. Whereas a person like Spencer sneaks around trying to get others to do his own dirty work.
As Negan explains in the comic, he respects that Rick is swallowing his pride and hatred for Negan and is out doing what it takes to protect his people.
He also later explains to Rick that while his methods are screwed up, he is trying to show him that he's willing to be reasonable.
I've never read the comics, just followed the series on TV. Fair enough answer; thanks :) – akdsouza Jan 5 '17 at 7:02
Both men misjudged the other.
Negan came to the conclusion that Spencer would be a weak leader, unwilling to get his hands dirty and do what's necessary. He also thought that Spencer was asking him to kill Rick, who Negan considered a strong leader, according to his own values. So as he saw it, Negan was doing Rick a solid and sending a message about what kind of worker he values.
Spencer came to the conclusion that although Negan was a killer, he was also the kind of man his mother could have worked with, because he believed in re-building society as opposed to revelling in the chaos as most other TWD villains have. Therefore, he tried to appeal to Negan as a politician would. And while Negan was all about re-building civilisation, what Spencer didn't get that it was a civilisation being rebuilt in Negan's own image, according to his own special rules. Where politicians aren't valued.
I don't think Spencer actually wanted Rick dead. And while it's true that Rick probably is a better leader, it's not true that Spencer wasn't prepared to get his hands dirty and do what's necessary.
And actually, I would have liked to have seen a storyline where Spencer takes over and Rick is put into a secondary position, because while not as badass as Rick, Spencer was fairly charismatic, pragmatic, and again, not afraid to get his hands dirty - it's just that he wanted to play the long game with the Saviors. His whiny, "small" streak would probably have been negated by his taking control of the situation away from Rick for the time being, and he would have gotten on better with the Saviors (and possibly Negan) than Rick, who was constantly on the verge of losing his shit (PTSD?) because he was there when Abe and Glenn were killed. It may have worked better long-term.
But all Negan saw was a pampered-looking, fast-talking kid vs Rick the badass, and wrongly concluded that said kid was asking him to take said badass out for him (because Negan is a homicidal maniac himself), while all Spencer saw was a brutal, yet essentially reasonable, status quo adhering, same-civilisation-as-before-rebuilding guy who he, a politician, could deal with better than Rick, a short-sighted, reckless thug, ever could.
Spencer wasn't going to get his hands dirty in this case; like Negan said, he could've just killed Rick, instead he went to Negan to ask for help making him the leader. Rick is also not a short sighted reckless thug, you might have missed all the previous seasons where he took a bunch of decisions for the benefit of the group - including bending over to Negan all this time to protect the group until he could figure out a way to lead them all to freedom again. – Luciano Jul 7 '17 at 10:03
@Luciano "Rick is also not a short sighted reckless thug" I wasn't saying that he was - I was saying that that's how Spencer saw Rick, but despite that, I don't think Spencer actually wanted him dead. He just didn't want him in charge. Negan misunderstood him in that regard, because he's a homicidal lunatic himself. – user52718 Jul 7 '17 at 11:17
Oh clear. Although I don't think Negan misunderstood Spencer; what he is saying is that the best way to get Rick's place as leader is to kill him, not to come asking for it. – Luciano Jul 7 '17 at 14:58
@Luciano, You might be right - I just didn't think it was in Spencer's character. He was whiny, arrogant and grew resentful of Rick, but I interpret him as still living according to his mother's values, which were all about civilisation and politics (which is why he thought he and Negan were on the same page, more or less). So he was being slimy, but murder hadn't seemed to have even occurred to him - he's a pampered politician's son. – user52718 Jul 7 '17 at 15:17
So I thought he was asking for Negan's blessing/permission, and for Negan to deal with him instead of Rick from now on, and to tell Rick to just get over the change. To support this, Spencer actually looks shocked and tries to reply when Negan starts accusing him of not having the guts to kill Rick and just take over himself. I haven't got evidence for this - it's just how I interpreted the character. – user52718 Jul 7 '17 at 15:20
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Author : Wendell Jamieson
Genre : Family & Relationships
Kids ask the darndest questions—and the answers make for a “funny and fascinating”(Publishers Weekly) book. Wendell Jamieson’s son, Dean, has always had a penchant for asking odd questions. “Dad, what would hurt more—getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?” “Dad, why do policemen like donuts?” “Dad, does Mona Lisa wear shoes?” Because Dad is a newspaperman and city editor for The New York Times, he decided to seek out the real answers to Dean’s questions from top experts—movie directors and ship captains, brain surgeons and stabbing victims, a Buddhist monk and a bra fitter, and even Yoko Ono. Their father-son journey for answers to the tough—and weird—questions of life is a sometimes surprising, often hilarious, and always fascinating celebration of the value and beauty of childlike curiosity. Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book.
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My first serious thought about a scientific approach to politics was in Communist China. When the Communists seized China, the American Department of State, which was planning to recognize them, left its entire diplomatic establishment in place. At the time, I was a Vice Consul in Tientsin, so I found myself living under the Communists. While the Department of State was planning on recognizing the Communists, the Communist plans were obscure. In any event, they weren't going to recognize us in the Consulate General until formal relations were established between the two governments, so I had a great deal of leisure. As a man who then intended to spend his life as a political officer in the Department of State, I decided to fill in this time by reading political science. I rapidly realized, not only that the work was rather unsatisfactory from a scientific standpoint, but also that it didn't seem to have very much relevance to the Communist government under which I was then living. ! I was unable to solve the problem at the time, and after a number of vicissitudes which included service in Hong Kong and South Korea, neither of which was really a model of democracy, I resigned and switched over to an academic career primarily concerned with that mixture of economics and political science which we call Public Choice. Most of my work in Public Choice has dealt with democratic governments.
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This new technology may sound like science fiction, but soon it will actually be reality: bees will receive an early warning in their beehive when there is danger nearby. They will be given information about imminent weather changes that could endanger their colony. And they will be directed to certain flowers for pollination. An international research team led by the University of Graz is working to develop a „Smart City“ for bees that will help insects cope with adverse environmental influences. The EU project HIVEOPOLIS was recently launched with a funding volume of seven million euros. It is scheduled to run for five years.
Animals and robots can already communicate very well. The team around Thomas Schmickl, Professor of Zoology at the University of Graz and head of the Artificial Live Lab, has caused a worldwide sensation with this pioneer project. In a recent experiment, bees and zebrafish were able to communicate successfully with each other via robots, even over the hundreds of kilometres between Graz and Lausanne.
Now the scientists want to integrate their technology into the beehive. „Our goal is to provide insects with technologies that help them react in time to changes in the environment“, explains Schmickl. Currently, the habitats of honeybees are severely threatened, leading to massive death and serious disruption of entire ecosystems.
Sensors will be used to regulate the temperature in the honeycomb and thus optimise conditions for rearing the offspring. Digital maps will provide information on pesticides in potential food sources and send a warning to the hive. Robots will imitate the bee dance – which, incidentally, was deciphered by Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch at the University of Graz – in order to give information to the bee colony. „We want to influence the direction in which the insects make their pollination flights“, Schmickl explains. They have already investigated the possibilities of swarm control in a previous large-scale project called ASSISI.
The HIVEOPOLIS – i.e. „bee city“ – project is running until 2024 in cooperation with five partner universities – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Freie Universität Brüssel, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Lettland Landwirtschaftliche Universität, and the Bulgarian company Bee Smart Technologies OOD. Interest groups such as beekeepers, farmers, programmers, environmentalists and educators will be involved in the research and be able to contribute to the development of a smart hive.
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By OKOSUN DENNIS
It was end of the road for a commercial tricycle rider based in Owerri and a newly wed Abuja based trader as they have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos.
National Daily learnt that the suspects were held in respect of an unlawful importation of 6.390kg of substances that tested positive for heroin.
It was gathered that one of the suspected traffickers was caught on arrival from Kigali, Rwanda while the other was nabbed on arrival from Nairobi, Kenya and the drug was valued N575 million and was said to have been carefully hidden in their luggage.
According to the NDLEA Commander at the Lagos airport, Ahmadu Garba, gave the names of the suspects as Egwin Cajetan Chinedu, 32, who was caught with 3.900kg of heroin and King Sunday, 38, found in possession of 2.490kg of heroin.
Ahmadu, further disclosed that “Egwin arrived from Kigali on Rwand Airline flight while King Sunday imported the drug found on him from Nairobi during inward screening of passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight.”
National Daily, however, learnt that preliminary investigation by the Agency indicated that drug trafficking cartels are gradually changing their mode of operation by turning to African countries in sourcing narcotic drugs like heroin.
Confessing to the offence, Egwin Cajetan Chinedu, a bachelor said he needed money to repair his commercial tricycle while King Sunday who left his wife after four days of marriage on the guise of a business trip said that he needed money for his honeymoon and business.
Cajetan, further stated that he needed money to change the engine of his tricycle. “The engine of my tricycle which is my only source of livelihood is bad. While I was looking for money to fix it, I was introduced to the man that promised to pay me the sum of N400,000 on the condition that I will bring his drug from Kigali. I accepted the offer because nobody was willing to help me.
The class two Junior Secondary school dropout added that apart from the repairs, his house rent was due and his landlord had been asking for his money.
Lamenting his involvement, King Sunday said he erroneously took the decision to smuggle drugs. “I erroneously took the decision to smuggle drugs barely four days after my marriage. I was in need of money for my honeymoon and also for my business but I should not have involved myself in drug trafficking.
“My thinking was that I could smuggle the drug from Nairobi in two days without my wife knowing that I travelled out of the country. All my life, I have been upright in my transactions but this is a huge mistake and I regret my action” King stated.
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Col Muhammad Abdallah (rtd), expressed satisfaction with the arrest stressing that drug traffickers are now turning to African countries to smuggle heroin that is produced in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Thailand and other far away countries.
“The Agency successfully foiled their plan with the arrest and seizure of the drugs. Drug cartels thought it would be easy to smuggle the drugs into the country since heroin is not produced in Africa but I am happy that we are thinking far ahead of them. The Agency will continue to maintain this lead until they are completely dislodged” Abdallah stated.
National Daily further gathered that the suspects will be arraigned in court soon.
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Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It is used by millions of addicts around the world who are unable to overcome the urge to continue taking this drug every day of their lives—knowing that if they stop, they will face the horror of withdrawal.
Heroin facts
Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants. Milky, sap-like opium is first removed from the pod of the poppy flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin.
Most heroin is injected, creating additional risks for the user, who faces the danger of AIDS or other infection on top of the pain of addiction.
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Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.
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During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major problem in the United States. The “solution” was to provide opium addicts with a less potent and supposedly “non-addictive” substitute—morphine. Morphine addiction soon became a bigger problem than opium addiction.
As with opium, the morphine problem was solved by another “non-addictive” substitute—heroin, which proved to be even more addictive than morphine. With the heroin problem came yet another “non-addictive” substitute—the drug now known as methadone. First developed in 1937 by German scientists searching for a surgical painkiller, it was exported to the US and given the trade name “Dolophine” in 1947. Renamed methadone, the drug was soon being widely used as a treatment for heroin addiction. Unfortunately, it proved to be even more addictive than heroin.
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How Can Plasma and Proton Beams Be Used in Building Next Generation Particle Accelerators?
Allen Caldwell How Can Plasma and Proton Beams Be Used in Building Next Generation Particle Accelerators?
Allen Caldwell is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Garching, Germany and spokesperson for the AWAKE project, a Proton-driven-plasma-wakefield experiment situated at CERN. Before joining the MPI, he spent 15 years at Columbia University researching proton structure and related topics and was the spokesperson for the ZEUS experiment at the electron-proton collider HERA at DESY (German Electron Synchrotron) in Hamburg, Germany. Caldwell is also Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Munich where he teaches courses in probability, statistics and data analysis techniques.
Area of Research
Particle Physics, Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
Allen Caldwell and Chang Liu. "Target Density Normalization for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms." arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.7149 (2014). doi:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.7149.pdf.
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Allen Caldwell. "Collider Physics at High Energies and Low Luminosities." The European Physical Journal Special Topics 223 (2014): 1139-1143. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2014-02165-3.
Halina Abramowicz, Iris Abt, Leszek Adamczyk, Marek Adamus, R.L. Aggarwal, Stefano Antonelli, Ozan Arslan, Volodymyr Aushev, Yegor Aushev and Olena Bachynska. "Deep Inelastic Cross-Section Measurements at Large Y with the ZEUS Detector at HERA." Physical Review D 90 (2014): 27. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.072002.
Ralph W. Assmann, Richard G. Bingham, Thomas Bohl, Chiara Bracco, Andrew Butterworth, Allen Caldwell, Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Silvia Cipiccia, Eduard Feldbaumer and Ricardo A. Fonseca. "Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: A Path to the Future of High-Energy Particle Physics." Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 56 (2014): 084013. doi:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4823v2.pdf.
ZEUS Collaboration. "Measurement of High-Q2 Deep Inelastic Ep Scattering Cross Sections with a Longitudinally Polarised Positron Beam at HERA." Phys.Rev. D87 5 (2013): 052014.
Academic and Professional Positions
AWAKE Collaboration
Technical University of Munich (Technische Universität München)
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Max Planck Institute for Physics
Columbia University, New York
Nevis Laboratory
ZEUS Collaboration
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PhD in Physics
- Chair, ATHENA Review Committee, DESY (2015)
- Member, LSC Director Search Committee (2015)
- Member, CJPL Scientific Advisory Committee (since 2014)
- Member, Financial Oversight Board, Belle-II Collaboration (since 2013)
- Supervisory Board, Semiconductor Laboratory of the Max Planck Society Member, IZEST Science Advisory Board (since 2012)
- Member, Perspectives Committee of the CPT Section, Max Planck Society (since 2012)
- Member, International Review Committee, Institute of Particle Physics (2012)
- Organizing Committee, Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (2012)
- Visiting Committee for Scientific Programs, Fermi National (2011)
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- Project Leader, 'Neutrinos and Beyond' for Sonderforschungsbereich of the DFG (2006-2011)
- Max Planck Research Groups Selection Committee (2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2009-2010)
- Chair, GERDA Collaboration Board (2004-2011)
- Member, Experimental Program Advisory Committee, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (2002-2006)
- Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000)
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1995-1997)
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Wisconsin (2012)
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The greatest developments in particle physics have been achieved with the help of particle accelerators. To answer open questions on particles, even stronger accelerators are needed but conventional technology encounters limits. The new ‘plasma-wakefield acceleration’ technology is designed to build high performance accelerators that are more compact. As ALLEN CALDWELL explains, the basic idea is to generate a plasma wave that pushes the particles forward. As is shown in this video, energizing the plasma with a proton beam instead of a laser pulse allows to create an electric field of much longer distance.
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Proton-Driven Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration
Allen Caldwell, Konstantin Lotov, Alexander Pukhov and Frank Simon
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Allen Caldwell, Konstantin Lotov, Alexander Pukhov and Frank Simon. "Proton-Driven Plasma-Wakefield Acceleration." Nature Physics 5 (2009): 363-367.
Allen Caldwell, Erik Adli, Lígia Amorim, Robert Apsimon, T. Argyropoulos, Ralph Assmann, A.-M. Bachmann, F. Batsch, J. Bauche, Veronica K. Berglyd Olsen, Matteo Bernardini, Robert Binhgam, B. Biskup et al. "Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the Concept." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment (2016). doi:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09032v1.pdf.
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Episode Number: 10
Starring: Colin Morgan
Adetomiwa Edun
Nicholas Croucher
Enemy: Shrine Boy
Sir Elyan (possessed)
Setting: Camelot
Druid shrine
Writer: Howard Overman
Director: Jeremy Webb
Producer: Sara Hamill
Broadcast: 3 December 2011
Format: 1x45
Prod. Code: 4.10
Previous Story: Lancelot du Lac
Following Story: The Hunter's Heart
“I want you to bring me peace. You must right the wrong that was done to me.”
— Shrine Boy to Elyan
A Herald of the New Age is the tenth episode of the fourth series of Merlin which was first broadcast on the 3rd of December 2011.
Synopsis Edit
The Camelot Knights stumble across an eerie shrine deep in the forest, its chilling atmosphere betraying a dark history best left undisturbed.
But when Elyan ignores Merlin’s warning, his actions spark a chain of events more frightening than anyone could possibly have imagined… Can a grievous wrong be put right? Or will the past demons change the future forever?
While Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of Camelot are out in the forest, the group discover a Druid shrine, erected for the sake of a troubled soul of a young Druid boy unable to find peace due to its unjust death. Merlin, made uneasy by a strange presence, warns the others not to touch anything, but Elyan, thirsty since Gwaine had drunk all his water, drinks from a small well. However, in doing so, he disturbs and frees the tormented spirit.
Arthur uses Merlin as a training Dummy.
Later, Gaius explains that Merlin was right to be cautious of the shrine, explaining that the Druids would erect them to offer some level of peace to tormented soul unable to find peace in the other world. He explains that the magic used on a shrine is very delicate and easily disturbed and asks if any of the group touched anything since it would release the spirit. Unaware of Elyan's actions, Merlin says no one did and Gaius warns him not to go near the shrine again.
The Shrine Boy appears in front of Elyan
The spirit, dripping wet and deathly pale, begins to appear to Elyan, unseen by others. Initially he does not speak, first appearing to Elyan while he is in his bedroom, then begins to exert his influence on him during the knights' training session, causing him to fly into a rage. Having been told by Gwaine that salt at the foot of the bed would ward off evil spirits, Elyan desperately puts a ring of salt under his, which would later confirm to Merlin that Elyan had been possessed. The spirit, appearing a third time, then speaks to Elyan and tells him that he wants peace, but in order to get it Elyan had to kill the King to balance the injustice done to him while alive. Now under the spirit's power, Elyan agrees and goes to Arthur's rooms at night, attacking him. Although he catches Arthur off guard, Arthur's superior skill saves him and the guards come in, causing Elyan to flee.
Arthur wakes up
Merlin near the druid shrine
Whilst trying to escape the castle, Elyan is apprehended by the other Knights of the Round Table and thrown in the dungeons. The spirit reappears to tell him that he has failed him, which drives Elyan to torment. It is suspected that he was motivated by revenge for Arthur banishing his sister, and Agravaine tells Arthur he has to put him to death to show attempts on the King's life would be severely punished. Merlin, knowing that Elyan was not acting of his own accord, defends Elyan's case, leaving Arthur conflicted. Planning to exorcise the spirit, Merlin frees Elyan from the dungeon and tried to give him a sedative to allow him to try and remove the spirit, but the spirit warns Elyan and so he knocks Merlin out.
Gaius and Merlin return to the shrine to find clues on the spirit and Merlin is drawn to the well; his magic allows him to hear terrible wailing and the sounds of battle. He tells Gaius that something terrible had happened there and Gaius shows him a number of cross bow bolts he had found, which reveals that the camp must have been attacked.
Making his second attempt on Arthur's life, Elyan, armed with a crossbow, kills three knights. He fires at Arthur, but Arthur realises the danger in the nick of time and dodges the shot. Now completely under the spirit's power and speaking with the Druid boy's voice instead of Elyan's, he engages Arthur on in a sword fight. Arthur's skill again allows him to defeat Elyan. However, Arthur, having heard the child's voice instead of Elyan's, begins to realise that Merlin had been correct and that Elyan was in fact possessed. He then allows Elyan to flee.
Gaius explains to Arthur the tormented soul is seeking vengeance for its unjust death, which is preventing it from finding peace. He comments that when the Purge was at its height, Uther was merciless in his persecution of the Druids and many were killed, and that the boy may have been one of these.
Gaius informs Arthur that in order to appease the restless spirit, the perpetrator of the injustice done to it in life would have to atone for his crime. Believing Uther to have been responsible, Gaius tells Arthur he has no choice but to put Elyan to death since it is impossible for Uther to redeem himself due to his death.
Arthur Frees Druids
Arthur sets the druid child free
Arthur says nothing, but at night, he slips out of the castle, only to be tailed by Merlin. Arthur catches his servant, but allows him to accompany him. Arthur travels to the site of the shrine and summons the spirit. He kneels before it and casts aside his sword, then reveals that it had not been Uther who led the raid on the Druid camp, but he himself. Arthur, filled with remorse, explains how he had led it in youth and inexperience and was still haunted by the memory. Promising that the Druids would be treated with the respect they deserved in future, Arthur finally gives the child's spirit peace, and so the spirit forgives him. The spirit releases Elyan, who, confused and disoriented, then faints. Merlin then tells Arthur that Elyan will make a full recovery.
Main Cast Edit
Colin Morgan as Merlin
Bradley James as King Arthur
Richard Wilson as Gaius
Nathaniel Parker as Agravaine
Rupert Young as Sir Leon
Eoin Macken as Sir Gwaine
Recurring Cast Edit
Adetomiwa Edun as Sir Elyan
Tom Hopper as Sir Percival
Guest Cast Edit
Nicholas Croucher as Shrine Boy
Transcript Edit
View the transcript here.
Behind the Scene Edit
The scene of Elyan's escape from the dungeons, featuring Adetomiwa Edun and Colin Morgan was shoot in the depts of Pierrefonds while, outside in the square, another unit was shooting Princess Mithian's arrival.[1]
A dark secret of Arthur's is revealed. As a young knight he led a raid against the Druids, during which he lost control of his men. The entire camp was slaughtered under his command, an action which has haunted him ever since.
Due to Gwen's banishment in the previous episode, no female characters appear in this story.
This is the sixth episode not to feature Morgana (Katie McGrath), the others being 2x09 (The Lady of the Lake), 2x13 (The Last Dragonlord), 3x09 (Love in the Time of Dragons), 4x04 (Aithusa), and 4x08 (Lamia).
It is also the fourth episode not to feature Gwen (Angel Coulby), the others being 3x09 (Love in the Time of Dragons), 3x11 (The Sorcerer's Shadow), and 4x04 (Aithusa).
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Characters: Shrine Boy
Magic: Possession
Events: The Great Purge
The Darkest Hour • The Wicked Day • Aithusa • His Father's Son • A Servant of Two Masters • The Secret Sharer • Lamia • Lancelot du Lac • A Herald of the New Age • The Hunter's Heart • The Sword in the Stone
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Inspirations: AI and machine Creativity
Posted on February 21, 2018 by Mustang601
AARON is a painting robot made by Harold Cohen, capable of using and mixing real paints to create works on canvas. AARON displays a level of unpredictability; with even it’s creator not knowing what it will make. AARON is, however, not technically artificial intelligence, lying somewhere closer to a form of autonomous code. (Cohen, 2018)
Microsoft’s Drawing AI
Microsoft have designed a creative machine capable of making images of what it is told. The machine takes inputs in the form of text, which it then uses to determine what to create. The result is pixel-by-pixel generated images, sitting somewhere between photograph and painting. (Roach, 2018)
Cohen, H. (2018). Harold Cohen Online Publication. [online] Aaronshome.com. Available at: http://www.aaronshome.com/aaron/publications/index.html [Accessed 2 Feb. 2018].
Roach, J. (2018). Microsoft researchers build a bot that draws what you tell it to – The AI Blog. [online] The AI Blog. Available at: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/drawing-ai/ [Accessed 2 Feb. 2018].
Inspirations: The Art of Randomness
Conversations on Chaos
By fito_segrera
Markov Chain poetry from Randomness (Segrera, 2016)
Conversations on Chaos is an artwork based on representation of randomness. It consists of two main parts: A pendulum suspended over multiple electromagnetic oscillators. The software also implements the use of Markov Chains, enabling the system to create a human-like ‘voice’, and bringing meaning back into chaos. (Segrera, 2015) Together, this creates a system of ‘two machines that hold a dynamic conversation about chaos’. (Visnjic, 2018)
By Luigi Serafini, 1981
Excerpt from Codex Seraphinianus (Serafini and Notini, 1981)
Codex Seraphinianus is a book written in an invented language with no translation. It also has a collection of visuals; some familiar, some not. The format of the book is reminiscent of a guide book or scientific text. (Jones, 2018) The book could be interpreted as an introduction to an alien or alternate reality with influences from our own.
Neural Network Critters
By Eddie Lee
Video: Neural Network Critters! by Eddie Lee (Lee, 2017)
Neural Network Critters is a visual example of how neural networks can be used to make art. In this free program, a series of ‘critters’ are created. (Visnjic, 2018) The ones that are fittest (i.e. make it furthest through the maze) are asexually reproduced until they make it to the end of the maze. (Lee, 2018)
School for Poetic Computation (SFPC)
The School for Poetic Computation is a small school based in New York, that aims to bring together art and computing. (Sfpc.io, 2018)
Jones, J. (2018). An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published. [online] Open Culture. Available at: http://www.openculture.com/2017/09/an-introduction-to-the-codex-seraphinianus-the-strangest-book-ever-published.html [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Lee, E. (2018). Neural Network Critters by Eddie Lee. [online] itch.io. Available at: https://eddietree.itch.io/neural-critters [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Lee, E. (2017). Neural Network Critters – Vimeo. Available at: https://vimeo.com/225961685 [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Serafini, L. and Notini, S. (1981). Codex seraphinianus. New York: Abbeville Press, p.98.
Segrera, F. (2015). Conversations on Chaos. [online] Fii.to. Available at: http://fii.to/pages/conversations-on-chaos.html [Accessed 10 Feb. 2018].
Segrera, F. (2016). Conversations on Chaos. [image] Available at: http://www.creativeapplications.net/linux/conversations-on-chaos-by-fito-segrera/ [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Sfpc.io. (2018). SFPC | School for Poetic Computation. [online] Available at: http://sfpc.io [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Visnjic, F. (2018). Neural Network Critters by Eddie Lee. [online] CreativeApplications.Net. Available at: http://www.creativeapplications.net/news/neural-network-critters-by-eddie-lee/ [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Visnjic, F. (2018). Conversations On Chaos by Fito Segrera. [online] CreativeApplications.Net. Available at: http://www.creativeapplications.net/linux/conversations-on-chaos-by-fito-segrera/ [Accessed 11 Feb. 2018].
Interactive Artworks
Posted on February 7, 2018 by Mustang601
Pool of Fingerprints
By Euclid Masahiko Sati, Takashi Kiriyama, 2010
Fingerprint Scanner (Clauss, 2010)
In Pool of Fingerprints, users are invited to scan their own fingerprint into the piece. This mixes with all the fingerprints of other visitors, until it eventually returns to its owner. This piece is a reflection on individuality and their sense of presence. (Google Cultural Institute, 2010)
Transmart Miniascape
By Yasuaki Kakehi, 2012
Video: Transmart Miniascape by Yasuaki Kakehi (Kakehi, 2015)
Transmart Miniascape is an interactive and reactive artwork consisting of multiple glass panels containing pixels. These pixels are representative of the four seasons, and their appearance changes based on the surrounding area. (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], 2014)
Video: Through the Looking Glass by Yasuaki Kakehi (Kakehi, 2015)
Through the Looking Glass invites visitors to play a game of tabletop hockey against your own reflection. The piece defies the logic of mirrors, as the screens both sides of the mirror display different images! (NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], 2004)
Tablescape Plus
By Yasuaki Kakehi Takeshi Naemura and Mitsunori Matsushita, 2006
Video: Tablescape Plus, 2006 (Kakehi, 2016)
Tablescape Plus is a playful interface, allowing visitors to create their own stories with characters upon a screen. It blends physical objects with digital images. The physical objects can be manipulated by visitors, allowing them to move characters and objects together to form interactions or trigger movements. (Kakehi, 2016)
Clauss, N. (2010). Pool of Fingerprints – Fingerprint Scanner. [image] Available at: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/pool-of-fingerprints-details/KwFE71waZ4_t1g [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
Google Cultural Institute. (2010). Pool of Fingerprints/details – Euclid Masahiko Sato (b.1954, Japan) Takashi Kiriyama (b.1964, Japan) (Photo : Nils Clauss) – Google Arts & Culture. [online] Available at: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/pool-of-fingerprints-details/KwFE71waZ4_t1g [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
Kakehi, Y. (2016). Tabletop Plus. Available at: https://vimeo.com/124536961 [Accessed 8 Feb. 2018].
Kakehi, Y. (2015). Transmart Miniascape. Available at: https://vimeo.com/124540477 [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
Kakehi, Y. (2015). Through the Looking Glass. Available at: https://vimeo.com/81712999 [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]. (2014). ICC | “Transmart miniascape” – KAKEHI Yasuaki (2014). [online] Available at: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/works/transmart-miniascape/ [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]. (2004). ICC | “through the looking glass” (2004). [online] Available at: http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/works/through-the-looking-glass/ [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
Artworks from Code
Moon up close (Designboom, 2014)
Moon is an interactive installation piece created by Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei. It invites viewers from around the globe to draw and explore a digital “Moonscape”. (Feinstein, 2014)
Eliasson and Weiwei’s work is focused around community and the link between the online and offline world. (Austen, 2013)
Over the course of its 4 years of existence, Moon grew from simple doodles and drawings, to collaborations & clusters of work, such as the “Moon Elisa”, where multiple users came together to recreate the classic Mona Lisa painting. (Cembalest, 2013)
“The moon is interesting because it’s a not yet habitable space so it’s a fantastic place to put your dreams.” – Olafur Eliasson, on Moon (Feinstein, 2014)
Library of Babel
By Jonathan Basile
The Library of Babel is a website based on Borge’s “The Library of Babel” (Borges, 2018); a theoretical piece about a library containing every possible string of letters. It is theorized that the books contain every word that has ever been said and will ever be said, translations of every book ever written, and the true story of everyone’s death. (Basile, 2018)
A section of the Library of Babel (Basile, 2018)
The actual workings of the Library of Babel are quite complex – using randomized characters with an algorithm complex enough to create the same block of text within the same place in the library every time it is viewed. When a search is made for a specific string within the library, the program works backwards to calculate its position based on the random seed that would produce that output. (Basile, 2018)
Code Poetry
By Daniel Holden & Chris Kerr
Code Poetry is a collection of code-based pieces, each written in a different programming language with a different concept behind it. The collection was published into a book in 2016. (Holden and Kerr, 2018)
Some examples of the content of this book are as follows:
IRC (Markov Chain Poetry)
Markov chains are generated sequences based on probability. In this example, poetry is created by using strings generated from IRC logs. (Theorangeduck.com, 2018)
Similar: Create lyrics using markov chains
Water is a piece written in c++ that is styled in such a way to resemble rain clouds. When run, the code generates raindrops. (Holden and Kerr, 2018) Water is an interesting piece as it challenges the way we traditionally view and approach code.
Machine Learning Art
By William Anderson
Using Markov Chains and a collection of training images from the Bauhaus art movement, an artist was able to create new artworks in this iconic style. (Anderson, 2017)
Bauhaus art generated by AI (Anderson, 2017)
Anderson, W. (2017). Using Machine Learning to Make Art – Magenta. [online] Magenta. Available at: https://magenta.as/using-machine-learning-to-make-art-84df7d3bb911 [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
Anderson, W. (2017). Bauhaus Markov chain art. [image] Available at: https://magenta.as/using-machine-learning-to-make-art-84df7d3bb911 [Accessed 7 Feb. 2018].
Austen, K. (2013). Drawing on a moon brings out people’s best and worst. [online] New Scientist. Available at: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24702-drawing-on-a-moon-brings-out-peoples-best-and-worst/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
Basile, J. (2018). About. [online] Library of Babel. Available at: https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Basile, J. (2018). Library of Babel. [image] Available at: http://libraryofbabel.info/browse.cgi [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Basile, J. (2018). Theory – Grains of Sand. [online] Library of Babel. Available at: https://libraryofbabel.info/theory4.html [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Borges, J. (2018). The Library of Babel. [ebook] Available at: https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Designboom (2014). Moon close up. [image] Available at: https://www.designboom.com/art/ai-weiwei-olafur-eliasson-give-rise-to-moon-interactive-artwork-11-26-2013/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
Cembalest, R. (2013). How Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson Got 35,000 People to Draw on the Moon | ARTnews. [online] ARTnews. Available at: http://www.artnews.com/2013/12/19/how-ai-weiwei-and-olafur-eliasson-got-35000-people-to-draw-on-the-moon/ [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
Feinstein, L. (2014). Make Your Mark On The Moon With Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei. [online] Creators. Available at: https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/yp5zkj/make-your-mark-on-the-moon-with-olafur-eliasson-and-ai-weiwei [Accessed 30 Oct. 2017].
Holden, D. and Kerr, C. (2018). ./code –poetry. [online] Code-poetry.com. Available at: http://code-poetry.com/home [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Holden, D. and Kerr, C. (2018). water.c. [online] Code-poetry.com. Available at: http://code-poetry.com/water [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Holden, D. and Kerr, C. (2018). The code behind Water. [image] Available at: http://code-poetry.com/water [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Theorangeduck.com. (2018). 17 Line Markov Chain. [online] Available at: http://theorangeduck.com/page/17-line-markov-chain [Accessed 6 Feb. 2018].
Inspirational Art 2 – Projection Mapping
Projection Mapping – Catan/D&D
By Silverlight/Roll20
Projection mapping – D&D (Projection Mapping Central, 2018)
This projection mapping piece brings together tabletop gaming and projection mapping.This not only creates a more immersive enronment for players, it also provides tools for gamers, such as using real time tracking to calculate a character’s line of sight. (Sodhi, 2018)
Crystalline Chlorophyll
By Joseph Gray, 2009
Video: Crystalline Chlorophyll (Gray, 2009)
Crystalline Chlorophyll is an interactive sculpture that reacts to people in the space around it. During the course of an exhibition, the sculpture tracks motion in the room and transforms from an icy blue to a natural green.
The sculpture is built from card stock, but was originally designed in blender. The colour changing effects are achieved by two ceiling-mounted video projectors. (Gray, 2014)
Gray, J. (2009). Crystalline Chlorophyll. Available at: https://vimeo.com/6886025 [Accessed 31 Jan. 2018].
Gray, J. (2014). Crystalline Chlorophyll. [online] Grauwald Creative. Available at: http://grauwald.com/art/crystallinechlorophyll/ [Accessed 31 Jan. 2018].
Projection Mapping Central (2018). D&D Projection mapping. [image] Available at: http://projection-mapping.org/dungeons-dragons-projection-mapping/ [Accessed 31 Jan. 2018].
Sodhi, R. (2018). Dungeons & Dragons and Settlers of Catan with Projection Mapping -…. [online] Projection Mapping Central. Available at: http://projection-mapping.org/dungeons-dragons-projection-mapping/ [Accessed 31 Jan. 2018].
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An atmosphere of silence blanketed that arena etched into the mountainside as all in attendance fell into a hush.
The rules of the duel stated that each participant could only bring one weapon. As the white-haired woman stepped out into the arena carrying a single blue straight sword, her hair flowing in the breeze, every single on-looker became immediately fascinated with the sight of her, even those who knew her could only look on in stunned silence, as if caught up in the atmosphere of the moment.
As for the members of the audience who saw that the woman they knew eleven years ago hadn’t aged a day… Rather, they were shocked to see that she had somehow become even more stunningly beautiful in the intervening years.
Alice, the Emperor and his cronies, the Prime Minister, the Head Priest and even her father and brothers, all of them stunned.
Alice remembered the brutalized and tortured figure she had seen in the dungeon all those years ago. However, as Shirley’s form was projected in the sky over the arena using distant viewing magic, those looks now exceeded those that had driven her into a deep jealousy during the years of her childhood.
ーー”W-when I checked on her in the dungeon today, both her skin and hair were back to how they were before she got locked up!”
The words of the man who was the chief torturer over a decade ago surfaced in her mind. At the time she thought it was just a ridiculous lie, but now she could see that it was the honest truth.
That older sister of hers who was supposed to be thirty years old now appeared before her still bearing the youthful beauty that she envied all those years ago, how was she to react?
Her prideful mind wanted to believe that she wasn’t inferior, even now. But after ten years, her face had become unmistakably carved with the crow’s feet and wrinkles of age, paling horribly in comparison to the unblemished and soft looking skin that didn’t even seem to have a trace of makeup. Alice suddenly realized that the flame of jealousy burned in her heart after a long absence.
(This is impossible… Surely, it must be some kind of magic trick! That’s right, that Golden Witch…!)
Unable to accept that Shirley was utterly superior in terms of looks even now, Alice tried to run from reality.
But, somewhere deep down she understood it. That kind of youthful beauty wasn’t something that was passed down the lineage of the Earlgrey family, it was something impossible to attain without the favour of the Goddess.
“…..Albert-sama.”
“Wha-!? W-what’s wrong, Alice?”
As if evidence of this, Albert had leaned forward in his seat in order to catch a better view of the beautiful woman.
ー”Hm hmm… It’s been quite some time, but that hair and those eyes of hers are truly disgusting to behold… That said, it’s hard to disparage her face.”
ー”Look at that… I can’t resist that body… Do you think that His Majesty will give her to me as a slave once we win?”
Even though they’re sitting so close nearby, the nobles that supported Albert and Alice did nothing to suppress their animalistic desires as they stared at Shirley.
She remembered many of them. Alice shared her bed not just with many beautiful men, but also nobles she hoped to garner as allies, however many of them were completely listless in bed when they beheld her.
Hearing their crass whispering now, it seems like they prefer the voluptuous figure of Shirley that emphasized the chest… To put it bluntly, Alice’s small frame didn’t compare well at all.
(Still…! Even after eleven years…!)
As they made their way to their seats, Alice also saw Shirley’s twin daughters who had strongly inherited their mother’s good looks and it tore another hole in her heart.
Living life surrounded by a loving family. In every sense, Alice was supposed to live a more blessed life than Shirley. However that youthful face, that figure that charms the hearts of men without a single word and having such angelic looking children… All the things Alice wanted so desperately, she seemed to have.
The crystal at the end of the armrest attached to Albert’s seat… She stared at the magical tool that could activate the traps in the arena.
There wasn’t anyone nearby brave enough to point out that those eyes that were usually filled with confidence had become muddied like sludge.
The Sword Princess stood in the centre of the arena, holding her treasured sword. If Lumiliana is a Princess of the Sword… She now faced an opponent who could be called a Demon of the Sword.
The Empire’s strongest… In other words the world’s strongest, it was the view of the Emperor and all those in attendance that supported him that Shirley, a mere base adventurer, wouldn’t be able to stand up to Lumiliana at all.
(What is this? I can’t judge her skill at all.)
But at that time, Lumiliana was just confused. When you’ve reached her level, even at a young age, usually one can tell the capabilities of your opponent by judging their stance.
Having reached such a mastery in her craft, Lumiliana was an undeniable genius who could do such a thing, but as she stared at the glowing light of that blue sword… The woman who stood before her with the tip of Ig-Alima facing the dirt, she looked like a mere amateur, not a swordswoman, and she couldn’t grasp the true nature of her strength at all.
“…Shirley-sama. I honestly did not ever expect to face you in such a way, but to tell the truth, it was an opportunity I had always prayed for. Neither of us can hold back here, so let’s have a good match.”
There was no response. However, the tip of that blue sword shifted slightly.
“Henceforth, under the ordainment of the Goddess, our mother in the heavens, let victory or defeat be decided by the skill of those before us… Both sides, take your stance.”
When the cardinal lowers his arm, the battle will begin. Shirley and Lumiliana both gripped their blades.
“…Begin!”
Unexpectedly, the typical period in a duel where the opponents feel each other out didn’t happen.
“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
Lumiliana kicked off the stone floor with a burst of power and closed the distance between them at extreme speed. The eyes of the onlookers couldn’t keep up with the speed and it seemed like the battle was over in one flash, with Shirley having been slashed straight through the torso.
But, there wasn’t a single speck of blood. Not even a blemish on her white dress. Lumiliana didn’t know what to think… Then she turned her eyes down to that familiar sword of hers, noticing that most of everything above the hilt was gone.
As soon as she did, the sound of something piercing the stone floor echoed through the silent stadium. Canary and Asterios were the only people in the audience who knew immediately it was the missing blade.
“Tch!?”
Lumiliana retreated in a hurry.
It had been completely cut away. As if slicing through a blade of tall grass, her treasured sword had been completely sliced apart.
She recognized that it was a sword technique beyond human comprehension. Trying to seize the initiative and claim an early victory, she had fallen into the trap of misjudging her opponent. If Shirley had wanted to she could have ended Lumiliana’s life with that same stroke of her blade.
(Such speed…! But…!)
The curse of her blood doesn’t allow her to give in. She understands already that she’s completely outmatched by the swordswoman who stands in front of her, but she still hasn’t lost yet, so Lumiliana began to pour magical energy into her broken blade.
Then, as if held together by a magnet, the blade that was lodged into the stone flew out and combined back with the hilt of the sword.
“So, that was a magical weapon after all?”
“That’s right… A sword passed down by each generation of our house!”
She traced a circle in the air with the tip of the blade. In the next moment, a small whirlwind of sand and stone began to speed toward Shirley.
Without changing her expression, Shirley raised her blade. Then the storm of earth in front of her was bisected by two vertical slices of water and fire.
“Guh!?”
If it had touched her, flesh and bone would have been torn apart, but Shirley never froze up in fear and dodged the blows by rushing forward.
Even though she could only catch a glimpse of her shadow as she flashed towards her, Lumiliana managed to block the heavy blow aimed at her. But when Shirley’s strike was stopped by Lumiliana’s blade, a chance for the Sword Princess appeared as her blade began to spark with electricity.
An intense electric barrage lit up the area around Lumiliana. Although the shocks might not be the kind that would instantly atomize you like the dragon king’s attacks, if Shirley took one of those lightning strikes directly her movement would be dulled and she could taste defeat.
“The heirloom sword of the Regnard family… I remember now, I heard about it a long time ago.”
If all five elemental attributes are mastered any situation can be dealt with. It’s a tactical way of thinking that dates back to the very early days of magic development, but even in this modern era it still remains a powerful strategy.
And this was the sword that embodied that theory… 《The Command of Five Principles》, Clarent.
In ancient times it was a blade that was wielded by the Emperors themselves, a symbol of Imperial authority, but one day it was granted to a particularly meritorious knight, thus beginning the House of Regnard.
The blade was originally imbued with the power of earth attribute magic, but its true strength can only be brought out when enhanced with the flow of magical energy from its wielder, allowing it to unleash every type of elemental magic.
Both incredible talent and an almighty weapon… To compare her with an adventurer, it’s not hard to imagine her attaining the heights of an S-Rank. Merely looking at titles, anyone who didn’t know her would think that the B-Ranked Shirley wouldn’t stand a chance.
“AHHHHHH!?”
The swirling flames, the blasts of wind, the raging waters, the towering stone swords and the thunderstorm of electric shocks, with a single flow of movement she avoided them all and clashed blades with the knight once again.
A blade that struck as fast as sound without a single pause flashed mercilessly at Lumiliana. As a dazzling light show of sparks flew in the crashing together of their blades, it was all the Sword Princess could do to protect herself with her own sword.
“…I-Isn’t it too fast to see anything?”
“Mm… Same for me.”
“I thought maybe it would be easier to see it from a distance… But, to be honest, I don’t know what’s happening.”
As Sophie and Tio sat with the three rookie adventurers in seats on the Kingdom’s side of the arena, they watched the sword fight taking place before them at unbelievable speed, unable to comprehend the full scope of what they were seeing.
They couldn’t see the two figures that were duelling, only intermittent sparks flying in the maelstrom of elemental magic that engulfed the arena.
“Asterios-san… Can you follow this fight?”
“Yes. The two of them are living through their swords… Even if I can see their movements, I cannot truly grasp their art.”
It might seem like they’re just brazenly slashing away at each other, but the dance of constantly shifting offence and defence is something beautiful to behold for anyone who can see it. And in that performance, it was the knight who rivaled any S-Rank swordsman who was on the back foot.
In this kind of divine duel, Shirley should, by all means, be at a disadvantage. Only one weapon allowed, magic is freely able to be used, it seems like she’d be forced into surrender or a sure defeat.
The restriction to one weapon should be a bottleneck to her battle potential. Shirley’s signature style is to create copies of swords using magic, fighting in a way that let her use multiple blades disposably, sometimes even launching them as projectiles.
It is technically magic, but it looks to any onlooker like she’s simply using multiple weapons. Shirley herself decided not to use her most viable tactic, saying that she didn’t want to give anyone an excuse to doubt her victory after the fact, so she faced the Sword Princess with but one blade.
However, the strength of the Demonic White Sword was overwhelming. Lumiliana tried to put more distance between the two of them and launched more long range attacks, but they didn’t even scratch her as she ploughed through them, once again clashing in close quarters.
Lumiliana is certainly strong. Even if she faced the dragon king that Shirley cast down, she could well have defeated it in a protracted fight.
However, Shirley’s strength far surpassed any monster.
(I hadn’t noticed until now, but this opponent is far stronger than some knight guarding a princess should be. That witch probably knew full well.)
Why is it taking her so long to deal with a mere adventurer? Is what many of the nobility and hangers-on in the crowd were wondering, including the Imperial Knights who had been hollering and cheering the entire fight. On the Imperial side of the arena, the spectators weren’t truly aware of the situation, but two people in particular began to notice just how abnormal Shirley was.
(W-What’s going on!? She’s still running around even though the trap was activated…! A-Alice, what about you!?)
(I-It’s useless! It’s the same for me…!)
The Emperor and his wife whispered frantically to each other. Even though they were trying to activate the traps that would disable Shirley and grant them an immediate victory, her supernatural eyes had already long seen through the traps, rendering them essentially duds.
It would have been meaningless to inform the referee of the foul play. Although the swordswoman can see it, the magical effects of the traps are invisible to anyone else who sees them, this was how influential people in the past would get away with their cheating.
There were various effects such as trapping one’s foot to the floor, numbing the entire body or removing all sense of friction in an area, but all of them were useless.
――――Behold, Shirley. There are a lot of traps littered about, no?
――――Yes, I can see them all. It doesn’t seem like they intend to fight fairly.
In the presence of the strongest witch and the differing eyes that could see everything, such plotting is essentially worthless.
She could have removed the traps beforehand. But, her reason for doing so is very simple… For an opponent of Lumiliana’s level, dealing with the traps at the same time isn’t an issue.
An adventurer is defined by the struggles they face. So, Shirley fought against the top rate magical knight known as Lumiliana whilst destroying all the traps along the way.
Anything she caught in her eyes was at the mercy of her blade, even magic that has no physical form or shape. As soon as she saw the flow of energy begin to shift beneath her, she would slice it in half without even breaking her stride, completely neutering the trap before it even activated.
Plans, contraptions and abilities, none can stand up to her overwhelming force. When they saw her dash forward like that, Albert and Alice, as well as her opponent Lumiliana, began to truly grasp the true terror of what they were up against.
(She’s beyond human… Like some kind of monster…!)
The white swordswoman who could barely be seen with the naked eye as she moved had already transcended the natural laws of man. But, she’s a knight. The curse of her blood aside, as someone who served the princess she couldn’t lose.
“So… Take thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!!”
With the help of a summoned gale of wind she bought herself space once again, then began to imbue her blade with as much magic as she could for an all-out attack. Then, completely surrounding the arena without a single gap, massive fists made of earth and stone emerged from the ground.
Drilled into the rocks are cavities from which projectiles of ice and fire can shoot. The magic Lumiliana activated created a crossfire so complete that there wasn’t any hope of escaping without suffering serious damage.
No matter how inhuman her agility may be, if she’s forced into dodging all manner of projectiles an opening will present itself. If she tries to protect herself with a magical barrier, Lumiliana intends to rush her the moment she begins attempting to chant and strike her with a full power blow.
As the 17-year-old who stood at the apex of the nation’s martial arts stood in front of an enemy who threatened to shatter her self-confidence, Lumiliana realized that an avaricious desire for victory was beginning to overwhelm her heart.
(…I want to win!)
She was ashamed of it, but right now all she could focus on was the swordswoman before her eyes. As if in response to her surge of fighting spirit, the holes in the rocks began to fire bullets all at once.
If it hit her, the magic would be fatal. From the stands, she distinctly heard her daughters cry out. At that moment, Shirley unleashed one of the true abilities of her blade that she had kept hidden.
“Let the Stars Depart the Heavens, 《Blue Citadel of the Country》Ig-Alima.”
An object falling through the air will fly faster than a bird with wings due to momentum. The sapphire coloured sword whose name implies the defence of the nation, its true ability is to manipulate the speed of flying objects other than living things down to nothing.
From one-hundred to zero. With all momentum lost, the hail of bullets and the floating rocks they came from fell to the floor by the will of gravity.
“T-That’s…”
Even her final all-or-nothing attack was batted aside as if it were nothing. A fraction of a second after they hit the ground, Shirley suddenly flashed towards Lumiliana and swung Ig-Alima at her breast with indescribable speed.
“I-I messed up!?”
“Too slow.”
This may seem like a sudden change in subject, but the Imperial Palace is a symbol of Emperor Albert’s authority and majesty. When he sat the throne in that place, he truly felt the pride of being the man who sat astride the entire Empire, it was also where he had spent his honeymoon so it was filled with happy memories of his beloved wife.
Although it’s for different reasons than her husband, the palace is also a very important place for Alice. Dresses and jewellery crafted purely for herself, a blooming garden made only for herself, symbols of authority only for herself… It is a place where everything she had ever achieved since becoming the wife of the Crown Prince had been packed away.
That’s why… There were only a small handful of people who could fully accept the sight they now beheld in the Imperial Capital below as something more than an illusion straight away.
“KUHAHAHAHAHA! Be at ease, I’ve long since removed anyone in the vicinity with spatial magic! There’s no danger of human collateral!”
The witch’s roaring laughter filled the stunned stadium.
The palace that represented the Emperor’s might had been cut clean in two, blown into the sky by the force of the slash, who could accept such a ridiculous reality?
And even more than that, who could ever accept that it wasn’t some impossible natural disaster that had caused this, but instead a single technique by a single swordswoman?
“W-WHAT IS THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!?”
“M-My palace… My dresses… MY JEWEEEEEEEEEEEEEELS!?”
As she had swung it, Shirley’s blade had certainly passed straight through Lumiliana’s body. However the lady knight suffered no wound, she had simply been transfixed by the otherworldly power that stood before her, as the only thing that had actually been sliced was the massive palace in the distance.
She had developed this technique when she considered what she could do if her daughters were taken hostage. Assuming that a criminal held her daughter close, she worked on the skill in secret to be able to cut through and murder whoever threatened her daughter without doing her any harm.
Inhuman ability and motherly love, it was that fusion that gave birth to this impossible ability. The enigma of the Sword Demon who only cuts what she desires, 《The Severing Shadow》, that legend began here.
“…To think there was a swordswoman who could cleave a castle in two… The world sure is wide…”
At that time, Lumiliana truly understood. Although she had always strived to fulfil the role of a Sword Princess, that flowery title is nothing compared to the power before her, power that far better suits the title of a Demon.
“It wasn’t ‘Sword Princess’ but ‘Sword Demon’… To even think we could ever be rivals… I’m such a fool…”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about… Besides, I’m not interested in nicknames, they just seem to attach themselves to me somehow.”
“Ahaha… Somehow, when you say that… I feel defeated in more ways than one…”
Lumiliana self-reflected. The arrogance she had unwittingly carried in her heart had been shattered, her pride left completely in the dust. In the end losing was the best result, but having been so soundly defeated, how could she ever think that she was worthy of protecting Philia?
But, in a way, this was refreshing. In her mind she had stood at the peak, but now she has a new mountain to scale.
“That said… You took it easy on me, right…?”
Shirley didn’t answer, but that silence may as well have been an affirmation. She had wondered about it many times during the fight, but in the end, Shirley always had Lumiliana dancing in the palm of her hand, she could have finished the battle any time she pleased.
The only reason she didn’t was because of her intentions to cut the palace. She had manipulated Lumiliana to stand between herself and the palace directly so that she could cut both at the same time.
“…I had something I wanted to cut.”
Her quest for revenge had ended back then. But, she could never escape the smouldering flame that burned in the corner of her heart. Perhaps, just this once it was a good idea to get caught up in Canary’s whims, such were Shirley’s thoughts as she watched the upper part of the castle begin to fall to the ground.
“It may be selfish of me, but it’s truly refreshing being able to clear away a grudge.”
“So this fight was all just a sideshow to you cutting the castle…”
What a monster… Those words that were going to be spoken with awe, praise and frustration, never came out. Lumiliana’s unhurt body lost consciousness and fell to the ground at the same time that the broken palace smashed into the earth with a roaring thud.
Please think back to the prologue and the whole Kenki/Kenhime thing before you go “what the hell is Lumiliana talking about” on me.
Also, the volume isn’t over yet, one more chapter.
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Archus says:
oh yeah Alice is now almost middle-ages too huh….
She already has reached her middle ages
Yseris says:
She’s younger than Shirley by a year or two but looks much older than her actual age. Probably because of how much she sleeps around for status and never being satisfied with what she has.
Apple jam says:
Actually, that is quite correct. Women who sleeps with many different men, she would end up with sagging breast and loose and darkened vagina. Also, if you think about it, it wouldn’t be good if she had gotten pregnant with another man’s child, so most likely she had been using some work of anti pregnancy medicine or magic. And due to being a loose wh*re and thus constant use of such contraceptives, it might have been the cause of her infertility.
But what I’m most interested about is when Albert finds all the truths about Alice. After all, they have a priest from the theocracy, he should be able to use that lie detector magic. How wonderful it would be to see him in sheer amounts of despair. Specially when he realizes that he is in the presence of what could have been his faithful wife and their two children had he not betrayed her.
Can’t see him admitting that at this point. Would require him to actually realise he lost something important, instead of what he saw as worthless. Considering his personality don’t see it happening, or Alice changing at all either.
weeaboo says:
probably not hes just an idiot
What can i say… thanks for the chapter!! What an epic battle that ending with a castle been cut. Lol. I wonder where will the Emperor and Queen will sleep tonight (lol) 😂
Well, Alice sure has a lot of men she could crash onto for a night.
They would have plenty of other summer or winter palaces just sitting around
Some cheap inn… Or probably one of the **small** mansion they owned…
Woo!! What a way to cause destruction~ Great job Shirley!!!
Thank for the chapter
FEEL THE FEAR!!!
Thanks the update…
She havent event use most of her special magic on them haha that’s just a taste of it… well I know that guy and Alice will still try to get the daughters.
Yeah, but after this she’ll be able to legally kill them, if they do try…
Not only that, with the witch and a priest, they can even protest on the underhanded tactics that the empire has made.
Inhuman ability and motherly love.
Now here’s a lesson to the ragdoll emperor an bitch empress
I LIKE IT! WE WISH FOR MORE!
Her purpose for the duel: cut a castle in two, she thought she can win anytime so winning was the second priority. Truly what a sword demon would do. I wonder what will happen. It’s super anti climatic, I thought the empire would fall from a war, not from a clean cut of a sword
Tsuru says:
Yeah somehow it feels like the punishment to the ennemies was too light compared to what MC suffered at the beginning. Still, maybe there are more stuffs incoming to them ? Like the citizens revolting with the Princess or something.
Or Shirley cutting the magic that binds Albert to Alice making the cuck realise he married a thot. Like one of my friends who married a single mother once said “better marry a milf than a thot”.
Sadly, I don’t think she can change Albert so easily. Alice’s tactic is just using something like a ‘feel better and think less’ drug. That’s not something to “break” or “cut”, Albert really became stupid. To put it in another perspective, there is nothing decent left in him. Though he might be able to reform, but that would require a lot of pain, and time, so him getting back to Shirley is should be impossible, and disgusting if it does happen. Remember that he VERY easily fell to Alice tricks, maybe less than a month, so he’s just done. Personally I hope he never comes back, and just slowly dies in regret.
Remember that this novel isnt really focussed on revenge like nidome no yuusha.
Yoshami says:
but “some” are always appreciated
lyla3nox says:
it´s not really ´light´ if u think about it that way:
they destroyed (almost) everything that was important to Shirley
so she destroyed what was most important to them
just that those two only care about material things so it seems like it´s less
And there goes the castle.
ryosuke08 says:
Revenge achieved? Now back to fuwa fuwa days with Tio and Sophie?
Chz says:
It should teach douchebag emperor/empress a glimpse of Shirley power. If they still dont get it and I HOPE they still fool themself with their grand delusion, Shirley will razed the country to ashes and kill every noble and castrate the emperor
I’m getting some Sanger Zonvolt moments here. “I AM THE SWORD THAT SMITES THREATS TO MY DAUGHTERS! THERE IS NOTHING I CANNOT CUT! CHEEEEESSTOOOOO!!!” And there goes the castle, the symbol of Imperial Authority. Along with all the assets stored within.
Personally, I liked the way the author handled the traps; rather than trying to have Shirley play Lumiliana into the traps as they activated and reveal the Empire’s scheming, or even call them out and humiliate the Empire in front of the Cardinal, she straight-up cut through them and showed just how OP she really is.
Sol Day says:
If Shirley had played Lumiliana into the traps the Empire would properly? have played it of as the Kingdom cheating.
But yer I liked it too though I really wish I chould see Alberts and Alices faces when the castle fell^^
It does have a ring to it. A really big supper robot with a really big liquid metal sword riding a super robot horse, makes me think of the opening track of Conan the destroyer. And those two were op units themselves, whether you use them individually or as a combo.
To be honest, I’m sure Shirley could probably come close to emulating it; just with a dragon instead of a mecha horse, and a giant magic blade instead of a liquid-metal one. The only thing missing is a reason for Shirley to be cold-angry, or hot-blooded angry and yell while she smites.
The Severing Shadow
Anti-Fortress Mystic Sword Noble Phantasm
Rank A
Slice what need to be slice, and leave everything else alone…A blade of kindness and ruthlessness, sublimate into one. An image of motherly love, sharpen into a blade that could cut even a shadow of doubt…it prove everything she need to prove.
In a way, I’m kinda hoping this was a good enough wake up call for Albert. His so called Symbol of the Emperor’s Authority was just sliced cleanly in half by a single sword slash from such a distance by the very person he’s trying so hard to rob. If that palace was the reason he felt so invincible, watching it fall should directly tell him just how mortal he really is…
Hoping for a fool to learn I like that, but I doubt he will. And I mean Alice is there too and she is just stupid with jealousy.
In this kind of divine duel, Shirley should be all means be at a disadvantage.
> by all means
Too amazed by this scene to find anything else, sorry…
Now, I really wanna see the Empire’s reaction~ Will the Imperial Clown and his wife the Harlot continue trying to pull something? What about the Earlgray family? Do they regret tormenting her now? Hm? And all the people Shirley saved back then~ Are they scared, knowing what kind of monster they’ve betrayed? Hihihihi~
Yeah somehow it quite lacking as we didn’t see the bad guys suffer or react. But maybe it’s in the next chapter.
Same here kinda just sitting here rubbing my in joy and well it kinda cold too so… b-but mostly the joy part^^
*hands….
“Inhuman ability and motherly love” says it all.
Thanks for the **fight**!?
Looking forward to the next
Always like reading your translation very few mistake and non that make me go “urgh” and I have to read the line again^^
Excellent chapter thanks for the hard work !
WanderingShadow says:
The Emperor/Empress has lost their home, most of their possessions, their political power, and face (no physical trauma thou). The Princess most likely had plans laid ahead of time, most likely with Canary’s help, about what to do should the royal family loss a lot of power. So, the biggest question would be if the Emperor will still try something after the duel. And a castle/palace takes a lot of money and resources to build, the civilians are already under heavy tax, there may be an uprising or a coup led by the princess in the future.
Don’t worry about Philia, she is not living in the palace. It should be mentioned about 3-4 chapters ago, that she just visited the king, her dumb bro, in the palace.
Philia has been living with Lumiliana’s family for some time now.
For Canary is a good spectacle, and for their daughters a good example to follow… i can see they with each one of the sword of their mother as mementos…
But Sophie is trying to become a mage, not a warrior~
Tio’s fine, though, but who knows, maybe she’ll get her own Hero’s Toolbox and learn that Imaginative Alchemy thing so she can follow in her mother’s footsteps…
I bet that she cut more than just the castle she probably severed the curse within the sword princess.
Imagine yourself get cut in two like that damn castle by a power-governed enemy
– this post made by Shirley gang
Ty for the chappy~ A castle sliced in two. Nice one~ I kinda want Albert to realize who he has been with one way or another, I wanna taste the despair~ One more chappy in this vol? Hopefully it’s good, and not just a return with reactions from the other people.
In the past I found lines like “I love seeing despair in other people” very evil and villainous, but now, it changed, changed when the idiocy attacked the normality. Seeing the emperor, a person so stupid imbecile and arrogant that many villains would be ashamed, humiliated is so satisfying.
Shirley didn’t come for a duel, just to cut a little thing that annoyed her, just a little castle. It just sort of happens to be the main Palace of the Empire, by coincidence.
Now her daughters get to see the OP-ness of their mother.
P.S. Canary got a point in good now, but not enough. She didn’t send pictures of Shirley in maid outfit.
Will they tremble in fear Everytime they try to sleep after seeing Shirley can kill them easily after they tortured her?
Or will they say “sorry” to earn her Forgiveness?
They can say sorry, but at this point it’ll just be due to fear and not guilt or anything like that and, if you consider what they did to her, then no matter how much they try to apologise to her, there’s no way she’ll ever forgive them…
So that just leaves trembling in fear~
What a great battle. Thanks for the chapter
… I don’t get the author trying to say Lumilinana could also beat the Dragon King if she were to face off with it. Her feats clearly show she can’t if compared… I mean, she was stomped by Shirley in a 1v1 that Shirley could end at any moment even when faced with traps constantly trying to hamper her. Meanwhile, she took hours to beat the Dragon King even after activating one of the strongest abilities of both swords, while she also used the full power of her fighting style.
The author is just trying to play Luminiliana up to show how amazing Shirley is… It’s kinda sad, really… I get that she is an amazing swordswoman, but no need to say she can solo a dragon king, alright? Her feats clearly show that she can’t. She can’t even stop it from flying in the first place, which was one of Shirley’s cornerstones to win the fight.
It’s a minor qualm in all honesty, but it felt like a really forced commentary by the author… Me dislikey.
Can’t wait for the next arc though, no Albert being forcefully shown as excessively stupid, no Alice being shown as an excessively greedy whore, no Lumiliana being shown as stronger than her own feats say she is… Seriously, those side characters from this arc just annoy me to no end! >.<
She said that if she could prolong the battle, she COULD defeat him. She didn’t say that Lumiliana could DEFINITELY defeat him if they fought, but just that there is a chance that she could.
Remeber: the other two Dragon Kings that attacked back then were also repelled by S rank Adventurers, in other words had they not retreated, they would’ve fallen as well. Lumiliana herself is as strong as an S rank Adventurer, Beowulf is clearly not the type to run away, the girl can attack from a distance, so given the chance, she CAN knock Beowulf out of the sky and Beowulf himself has the mindset of a beast, so he doesn’t make any strategies when attacking and just charges forward with reckless abandon. I don’t see anything wrong with what author said…
PS: Protracted battle does not mean just a few short hours, it could easily last for the better part of the day, the whole day, multiple days, or in times of war, even months…
The Shirley was the only one that soloe’d a Dragon King for a reason, they other S-ranks can’t really compare.
The Dragon King can one shot her very easily and she doesn’t have the means to stopping his attacks like Shirley had… The difference in firepower and durability is just way too high.
Judging from what we saw of her battle with Shirley just now, she’d probably have a decent chance of surviving against the Ancient Dragon Shirley beated… The Dragon King though? Not a chance.
It’s a gross overstatement of Luminiliana’s capabilities just to highlight how OP Shirley is… And is unnecessary, we’re already very aware of how OP she is, which is why it kinda annoys me.
Wow, what a piece of art, the castle which the very symbol of the fools of the fool and harlot slut(which further explained) sliced by Shirley! Quite salty for my popcorns.
So, after legal way is a no-no, what will that fools do? I certainly don’t think he’ll go and take Sophie and Tio… scratch that, I think he will, and shamelessly after that kind of thing happened to his very symbol as a emperor sliced. Well, he’s fools of a fool as I said
babapo741 says:
it’s probably ger way of saying “I can destroy you all by myself if I want. You still wanna go?”
her*
So her real target is really the empire lol.
melisaartemis says:
Well… That’s a fun one. Not quite Excalibur but… The mental image of the castle slanting slowly before crashing down is good too 😉
It’s remain threw right into the sky though, so I would imagine it as like an invisible sledgehammer taking a swing as this lol
Blynn says:
It is Shirley whom cut the castle. It is me whom breathe of relieve and satisfaction
Hanif Al GP says:
Thank for update!
It’s amazing how Canary, a demon, looks like a saint compared to Alice.
Hibiki2gud says:
Ufff, that was hot.
I still low key wish she just murdered everyone but this will keep me a bit satisfied.
Thanks for the chapter again!
bosaner says:
THANKS ~~~ New CHAPTER 🙂
She cut a palace in two. I’m glad not all mothers are capable of that.
just now my mother cut my allowance in half…I think they are all capable if cutting something in to two…
N.r says:
A castle ? Not the emperor head ?
Sigh. Shirley just make excuse, she want to cut albert neck but her eyes got dust in.. so she change the target
boybun0154 says:
Thank you for the chapter :3
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Catalan leaders demand talks with Madrid as thousands protest again
Daniel BOSQUE
AFP October 20, 2019
Protesters formed a human chain between police and a sit-in, as the tourist hotspot reels from days of clashes following the jailing of separatist leaders
Protesters formed a human chain between police and a sit-in, as the tourist hotspot reels from days of clashes following the jailing of separatist leaders (AFP Photo/LLUIS GENE)
Barcelona (AFP) - Barcelona returned to relative calm after six days of demonstrations against the jailing of separatist leaders left hundreds injured in the tourist hotspot and pro-independence groups demanding new talks with the Spanish government.
At the Urquinaona square in the city centre dozens of pro-independence activists on Saturday formed a human chain between police and protesters following the previous night's clashes during which nearly 200 people were hurt.
"I reject all forms of violence, I have come here for peace," Carmen Fernandez, 65, told AFP.
But on the famous Las Ramblas, protesters set up barricades and lit fires before they were dispersed by police firing foam projectiles.
Overnight Friday, radical separatists had hurled rocks and fireworks at police who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Regional president Quim Torra Saturday called on the Spanish government to "fix today a day and hour to sit with us for unconditional talks."
His demand for "unconditional" negotiations, addressed to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, appeared to be aimed at ensuring that a referendum on independence, currently a non-starter for Madrid, was up for discussion.
The Spanish government replied that it had "always been open to dialogue in the framework of respect for the law".
It also called on Torra to condemn the violence, "which he has not done so far".
- 'Barcelona does not deserve this' -
Barcelona has been rocked all week by protests against a Spanish court's jailing of nine separatist leaders on sedition charges over the failed 2017 independence bid.
Emergency services said Saturday that 152 people had been injured in overnight clashes in Barcelona. Dozens more were hurt elsewhere in Catalonia, taking the total to 182.
Authorities had already reported 500 injured since protests started Monday.
The interior ministry said 83 people were detained in the overnight violence, in addition to 128 arrests police had reported previously.
"This can't go on, Barcelona does not deserve this," said Ada Colau, the city's leftist mayor on Saturday, condemning "all kinds of violence".
"All this is very sad, and is not helping our cause," said Assumpcio Segui, a 75-year old pro-independence pensioner.
Torra also urged demonstrators to remain calm. "The defence of rights and freedoms must always be expressed peacefully," he said.
While most marchers appeared peaceful, hordes of young protesters went on the rampage near the police headquarters earlier Saturday, igniting a huge blaze as police fired teargas to disperse them, an AFP correspondent said.
Other fires broke out near Plaza de Catalunya at the top of the tourist hotspot Las Ramblas.
Police vans fanned out around the city, sirens screaming as regional police warned people in a message in English on Twitter "not to approach" the city centre.
- 'Clasico' postponed -
On Friday, around half a million people had rallied in Barcelona, the biggest gathering since Monday's court ruling.
Thousands of "freedom marchers" from five regional towns had arrived in Barcelona the same day, which coincided with the general strike in a region that accounts for about a fifth of Spain's economic output.
That action prompted the cancellation of flights and the closure of shops, business and top tourist attractions, including the Sagrada Familia basilica.
With the region mired in chaos, football authorities cancelled the Barcelona and Real Madrid Clasico set for October 26 at the Camp Nou stadium.
Both clubs had reportedly refused an offer to hold the match in Madrid.
Monday's judgment by the Supreme Court has thrust the Catalan dispute to the heart of the political debate as Spain heads towards a fourth election in as many years on November 10.
Conservative Pablo Casado said his Popular Party would be a "dyke against the separatist challenge" while the centre-right Ciudadanos party called Torra a "public danger" who should be dismissed.
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NEWTON stabilized REMOTE heads proved versatile and practical on tour
4 NEWTONs in 3 different applications at 48 concerts in Europe and North America
Beyoncé and Jay-Z OTRII Tour 2018
By RailCam Robotic Systems, Rail Tracking Systems and Spidercam GmbH
The “On The Run 2″ (OTRII) tour took place between June and October 2018 with Beyoncé and Jay-Z doing 48 shows together across Europe and North America. At these big arena concerts, there were 17 cameras broadcasting the performances onto big screens behind the artists. 4 of these were controlled by NEWTONs, supplied by RailCam Robotic Systems, Rail Tracking Systems and Spidercam GmbH.
The cameras were mainly Grass Valley, a few Panasonic, and 5 of the 17 were remote controlled by stabilized heads, provided and operated by Railcam Robotic Systems, Rick Compeau and Brian Shield. “We are taking camera tracking systems that are typically used in live TV shows and making them road ready to do a concert tour, night after night, in all weather” Shield explained. “As the tour world grows bigger and bigger these screens are getting better and better so the visual quality has to be really good” noted Compeau. The stabilized heads they provided consisted of one Stab C, sliding in front of the center stage and 4 NEWTONs.
One NEWTON was located on the mobile center stage and followed the stage as it was elevated and travelled over the audience. Camera stabilization was necessary here because of the movement but also because of the powerful PA system and the bounce of the dancing performers.
Two NEWTONs were following the artists along the runways on telescopic tower-rails, manufactured by Rail Tracking Systems (RTS).
One NEWTON encircled the performers on a Spidercam Light 3D cable cam system. “Spidercam is a huge part of our show, it gets some amazing shots” commented Video Crew Chief, Ray Wszolek.
The NEWTONs proved reliable and were highly appreciated by the crew handling them. For example, the NEWTON camera cage saved a lot of time rigging, since the camera packages were stored balanced with the cages, and then could quickly be snapped on and off at each show, without balancing and tuning every time.
The touring production consisted of 60 trucks of gear as well as 24 buses for the artists and 240 people in the crew. With a stage 60 meters wide and 27 meters tall, on the highest point, it took them 3 days to build it on each location. At the back of the stage there were a 14 x 58-meter wall of video monitors which could slide outward and reveal a 5 x 4 grid of bays where performers could stand. From the main stage, 2 parallel 52-meter runways led out among the audience and the 20 x 5-meter center stage could raise into the air and slide out on top of the runways. This sliding bridge was developed especially for the tour and the whole stage solution provided Beyoncé, Jay-Z and the 16 dancers much freedom to move around the arena during the shows.
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Researchers Optimistic Over Experimental Lung Cancer Vaccine
Filed Under:Dr. Holly Phillips, Dr. Nasser Altorki, immune system, lung cancer, lung cancer vaccine, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian
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NEW YORK (CBS 2) – Researchers at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center have discovered a breakthrough experimental treatment for lung cancer.
The treatment is part of a lung cancer vaccine that exposes the body to a protein that the lung cancer produces. This protein production helps the body build up protection against the cancer that’s attacking it.
“It’s huge because it proves the concept of engaging the immune system in the fight against cancer and I cannot tell you how important that is,” Dr. Nasser Altorki told CBS 2’s Dr. Holly Phillips.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths throughout the world, and if the vaccine works, countless lives could be saved.
In a cancer that can return in many cases, the vaccine could help fight to keep the deadly disease away permanently for some patients.
Carol Terry went to her doctor for swollen ankles last year, but after listening to her breathing, her physician ordered an X-ray.
“I had an extremely large tumor,” Terry said.
Terry, who smoked for 45 years, had stage-two lung cancer. She had surgery to remove the tumor, and then underwent four rounds of debilitating chemotherapy. She then joined the new vaccine trial to stop the cancer from coming back.
With the few side effects that it produces, patients are able to do more. While it’s still experimental, early vaccine test results have been promising, and Terry said she is hopeful the vaccine will add years to her life.
“My youngest grandchild is 11. She was in a parade, so to see her dancing was wonderful and hopefully I’ll be there to see her grow up,” Terry said.
More than 400 centers worldwide are taking part in the study, and Dr. Altorki remains optimistic about its future.
“It changes completely the way we treat lung cancer, it’s a game changer,” Dr. Altorki said.
The vaccine is given as a series of injections over two years, and researchers at New York Presbyterian Medical Center are still enrolling patients.
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My father was dx with lung cancer stage IV and he’s undergoing chemo at this time. Please let me know what centers are still enrolling trail patients in Miami or if theres none here locally any other locations. I live praying everyday for a cure for my father and all others with cancer. My father has never smoked in his life. Please help me find him a location. May God bless you all.
My father was dx with lung cancer stage IV and he’s undergoing chemo at this time. Please let me know what centers are still enrolling trail patients in Miami or if theres none here locally any other locations. I live praying everyday for a cure for my father and all others with cancer. My father has never smoked in his life. Please help me find him a location. May God bless all you all.
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The Cubans had this figured out in 2008.
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After reports of the Naira slipping 10 percent this year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has decided to devalue the Naira against the dollar to stem the decline in its foreign reserves after defending the Naira for several weeks. Weaker oil prices have resulted in a decline in dollar revenue for Nigeria and has constrained the ability of the CBN to continue to defend the Naira and sustain the stability of the naira exchange rate,” Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the CBN Governor, disclosed the decision after a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee saying that the target band of the currency will now be 160-176 naira to the U.S. dollar, compared with 150-160 naira previously. The Naira was devalued was last in November 2011, when the band was changed to 145-150 naira to the dollar. Mr. Emefiele also said defending the Naira had led to dwindling foreign reserves and a more flexible exchange rate is the most viable option. Nigeria’s foreign reserves fell to a five-month low of $37.17 billion by Nov. 21, down 5.1 percent from the same time in October. The CBN also decided to increase the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) by 100 basis point, from 12 per cent to 13 per cent. This affects the rate at which banks borrow from the CBN to cover any cash shortfalls they may have. The higher the MPR, the higher the cost at which banks advance credit to their customers. The Governor also noted an increase in the Cash Reserve Ratio, which is a tool used to mop up excess liquidity or release funds needed for economic growth, from 15 to 20 per cent for the private sector. While the public sector’s CRR retains its level of 75 per cent.
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SP Superweek - HTML5 Edition
Starting from now, anyone playing the new HTML5 (Beta) version of the game will automatically get a 2x SP boost!
And once again, we urge you to post your feedback and bug reports in the HTML5 forums. It is utterly important that we get everything right!
Amok | 04.09.2015 | Reacties (22)
The HTML5 Beta is out!
Today is the day! Finally, the HTML5 version is officially out of alpha and into the beta phase!
So what does this mean? Most importantly, you can now play the HTML5 version and keep all your hard-earned SP, Elo, medals, CWs, all of that good stuff. Beta is connected to the same database as the main server, so all the stats are now shared. Chat is also fully synchronized between the two versions, so you can see all the messages from another server. You can even play both versions at the same time if you're into that kind of thing.
Those of you who are on Chrome probably already know that since the latest update, Silverlight (the plugin used by atWar) is no longer supported. Need not despair, however, since you still have an option to download the game and play it from your desktop (Windows). Alternatively, there is always the Beta version. And by the way, Silverlight is still supported by the majority of other browsers.
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Come and play HTML5 Alpha!
Play some games, check out the maps
And then visit this poll to tell us what you think
This is your last chance before the release of HTML5 Beta, so please report any bugs here
Sorry for the recent server problems
Please hold on, we've already sorted most of the issues. It always happens after the server move, takes some time to get everything right. Nothing to worry about!
Server move on 24.08 (UPDATE: All done!)
Due to the planned server move on Monday, both website and game will be unavailable from 19:00 until around 22:00. It might take a bit longer, but we're hoping it will actually take less than 3 hours. On a positive side, the new server will be around twice as fast as the current one. We apologize for the inconvenience caused!
EDIT: Times are all UK/GMT
EDIT2: Map & scenario editing is now temporarily disabled because of the move
EDIT3: atWar has successfully been relocated to its new home. Not all the maps are available as some are still being copied (should be completed by tomorrow afternoon)
EDIT4: All maps should now be available, editing has been re-enabled.
HTML5 alpha - now open for ranks 2+!
Also, alpha is now running on the most recent database snapshot, so it will have the latest stats and data from the main server.
Amok | 03.08.2015 | Reacties (7)
HTML5 Update
It's been almost a month already since we've opened atWar HTML5 Alpha for public testing.
During that time, there's been a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Many thanks go to our ever helpful testers! (alpha trooper trophies await)
Here's a quick breakdown of what's been done:
Total bugs reported: 207
Fixed: 147
Open: 60
Many of you must have noticed that it feels quite lonely in the HTML5 world, due to a low number of players in it.
So, here's a few things that we hope would change that:
Starting from today, the game chat is synchronized between both servers (Main and the HTML5 one). So you should be able to see messages from Main when in HTML5 and vice versa. These messages are prefixed with an arrow (→). You can also pr to players on another server.
We're opening alpha to rank 4+!
In the beginning of September, we'll transition into Beta and the HTML5 Beta server will be fully integrated with the main database, so all the SP/Elo/etc earned in it will be kept and reflected on the main website.
From the release of HTML5 Beta, both servers will continue running alongside, using the same database, for as long as it's needed and until the HTML5 version is fully functional and is ready to completely replace the current Silverlight version.
That's it for now! And those of you who haven't already seen the new HTML5 Alpha version are strongly encouraged to do so.
For the past 2 weeks we've been gradually adding more people to our HTML5 alpha testing. First the Mods, then Supporters and the additional 20 volunteers. Hundreds of bugs have already been found and most of them already fixed. Now we're granting access to all rank 10+ 8+ players - please use the GAMES and MAPS buttons in the top menu to enter and report any bugs you find on the new bug reports forum.
We've also created two new HTML5 version specific forums:
HTML5 discussion forum and
HTML5 bug reports forum
Ivan | 01.07.2015 | Reacties (44)
Alpha is coming!
HTML5 Version pre-alpha preview
Watch in HD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jck2a025x3o
New Game Over Screens Preview
For the new HTML5 version of the game we decided to update the game over screens, making them full screen and adding some animation. Everything is done entirely with images+css, including animation. Have a look:
Google Chrome and atWar
Being a loyal fan of Google Chrome from the very beginning, it was all the more unpleasant when it recently decided to disable Silverlight (and some other plugins, like Unity) by default. What it means for our players is one extra step, detailed here: http://atwar-game.com/home/faq.php?faq_id=46.
Annoying as it may be, things will get even worse in September, when Chrome will stop supporting these plugins altogether. Silverlight has been dying a slow death for a while now, and this would be the final nail in its coffin. What it means for us is that we need to roll out the new HTML5 version of the game before that, preferably already bug-free. We're now working extra hard to finish the alpha, to be released some time in June (hopefully). We're fully determined not to go down together with Silverlight and emerge from this debacle stronger than ever!
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Share-Swap Scheme From Reliance Retail Valued at $34 Billion
Posted on December 27, 2019 December 27, 2019 by nomionews
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has provided the shareholders of its subsidiary and mobile unit Reliance Retail to exchange their components using RIL shares.
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail, that conducts the nation’s biggest series of neighborhood supermarket shops and consumer electronics outlets, was valued at $34 billion (Rs 2.4 lakh crore) at a proposed share-swap strategy for investors.
“Each’Specified Shareholders’ will get 1 (1 ) RIL equity share for every 4 (Four) equity shares held by them according to the Record Date (Share Exchange Ratio),” said an announcement about the Reliance Retail site.
In August, RIL had stated it might record Reliance Retail about the stock exchanges in the subsequent five decades. Reliance Retail clocked net earnings of Rs 1.3 lakh crore this past year, and it has assembled a community of 10,901 shops.
RIL added it’s received requests from Reliance Retail workers holding equity shares for supplying them choices to depart and manage their holdings, such as by means of a list of their equity shares.
Although Reliance Retail on its site states it doesn’t have any program to get a record of its own equity shares on the securities market, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of RIL had last August reported that Reliance Retail will be recorded by 2024.
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Home Exploration UK Analyst and Guyanese Economist say high royalty rate could make Guyana...
UK Analyst and Guyanese Economist say high royalty rate could make Guyana less competitive
UK-based data analytics and consulting company GlobalData and a Guyanese Economist both say the scope for an upward adjustment in the royalty rate under Guyana’s current model Production Sharing Agreement is limited and warns that increasing this beyond a certain point could diminish the attractiveness of the country’s petroleum fiscal framework for investors.
Director of Guyana’s Department of Energy, Dr. Mark Bynoe, told Reuters in a recent interview that the South American country was preparing to raise the take of the government in future oil licences.
“Royalties will all have to be examined. We expect them to be higher than they currently are,” he told Reuters on the sidelines of an industry conference in London. Dr. Bynoe did however point out that “Currently, our position is that it wouldn’t affect existing contracts.”
Alessandro Bacci, Upstream Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, says increasing the royalty rate should be approached with caution particularly if Guyana would like to retain its regional competitiveness. “If Guyana goes ahead with its plan of increasing the royalties in its production sharing agreements (PSAs), the scope for adjustment will be limited if it wishes to retain its regional competitiveness. Under the current contract structure, Guyana may push its royalties up to a 5% rate from the current 2%. Beyond that threshold, it may diminish the attractiveness of the country’s petroleum fiscal framework for investors,” the analyst said.
In fact, Bacci said raising the royalty rate anywhere above 5% would make Guyana less competitive than its neighbours Brazil and Suriname.
“GlobalData assessed the profitability of a Guyanese offshore development at the 2% royalty rate applied to ExxonMobil-operated Stabroek license, and at increased royalty scenarios of 5%, 10%, and 15%. This assessment shows that raising the royalty rate above 5% could make potential returns under Guyana’s fiscal regime significantly less competitive than under the regimes of regional rivals, such as Brazil and Suriname,” Bacci stated.
Agreeing with this analysis, Guyanese Economist Bobby Gossai Jr. told OilNOW on Monday that increased royalty on the scale of 10% to 15% is not a feasible option. “I don’t think as a country we should be rushing towards 10 or 15 percent royalty. I believe that we should look at each case in a manner that will allow for us to maximise the royalties from it in the sense that we need to know the life of the field and we also need to know the development cost going in,” he said.
Both Bacci and Gossai Jr. agree that a sliding scale option for royalty is one that can be considered for implementation in future licences.
Gossai Jr., who is the former CEO of the Guyana Oil and Gas Association (GOGA), said the sliding scale could be based on the field size and development and the projected capacity of the equivalent barrels of oil. “The sliding scale approach should be done by field development or by PSAs,” he said, adding that the sliding scale should not just be applied to the level of production that is taking place, but it should also be correlated to the price of oil at a given point in time.
Bacci said Guyana could slightly increase the royalty rate while maintaining the current PSA structure or introduce the sliding scale with royalties increasing with profits.
“The current attractive framework attracted major oil companies such as ExxonMobil, Total, Tullow, Hess, Repsol and Anadarko, but, if fiscal changes make the regime less competitive, it could limit future exploration,” Bacci pointed out.
Royalty is not the only source of government take
“Since the initial negotiations with ExxonMobil, there has been a lot of attention on the royalty rate as if this were the only source of government take. However, this is a misrepresentation of the PSA structure. The reality is that the PSA model has a 75% cost recovery with the remaining 25% profit oil equally split between the licensees and Guyana. The minimum effective royalty rate paid to the government is 14.25% of the gross revenue. For Liza Phase 1 we expect to have a free cash flow for the government higher than 50%,” Bacci stated.
Gossai Jr. said one of the main factors besides government take that should be driving all considerations, is wanting to ensure that the investors get back their level of investment over time.
Just recently, the Dominican Republic in rolling out its first ever licensing round opted to go with no signing bonus. The licensing round aims at being competitive and offers what Alberto Reyes, the country’s vice minister for hydrocarbons, called “simple, competitive and transparent terms” of production-sharing contracts for potential investors. “We’re frontier exploration and are proposing top-quartile fiscal terms,” Reyes said during a Houston road show presentation. “There is no signing bonus, and the data [for blocks offered] is freely available, so the cost of entry is low. It’s a very low-risk scenario.”
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BBC Fires Danny Baker Over Racist Royal Baby Tweet – The New York Times
May 9, 2019 nedhamson
“To post a pic picturing a 3-day-old baby of mixed heritage as a monkey, then claim it was a joke?” she wrote in tweet. “That’s old-school prejudice and racism at its peak. And for a trusted broadcaster working at a public service broadcaster to feed that prejudice? It’s unacceptable.” Mr. Baker has been fired from broadcasting jobs before, including at Radio 5 Live. The station previously dropped him in 1997, after he said on a soccer show that he would understand if fans physically attacked a referee. But he appeared unrepentant after his dismissal on Thursday, describing the BBC’s phone call to inform him of the decision as “a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity.”
Valerie Plame, Outed C.I.A. Agent, Will Run for Congress in New Mexico
“My career in the C.I.A. was cut short by partisan politics, but I’m not done serving our country,” said Ms. Plame, who is running for the House as a Democrat.
The US replies to Spain on Venezuela: “We don’t do cowboy diplomacy”
he favors torture, water boarding opponents and selling trafficked children.
The United States has reacted to Spain’s criticism of the way it is handling the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, where a recent attempt by interim president Juan Guaidó to lead a military uprising against the government of Nicolás Maduro failed, triggering further violence.
This madness in Poland is spreading – free media, already under enormous pressure, now facing this: politician (from small right-wing party that supports the ruling party) wants a journalist prosecuted for a tweet of the rainbow Mary https://twitter.com/bart_wielinski/status/1126191947650162688 …
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Downes, P. & Cefai, C. (2019). “Strategic Clarity on Different Prevention Levels of School Bullying and Violence: Rethinking Peer Defenders and Selected Prevention”. Journal of School Violence.
Downes, P. (2019). Reconstructing agency in developmental and educational psychology: Inclusive Systems as Concentric Space. New York/London/New Delhi: Routledge
Downes, P. (2019). “Transition as a displacement from more fundamental system concerns: Distinguishing four different meanings of transition in education“. Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Downes, P. (2018). “Postscript – The Emotional-Relational Turn for Early School Leaving Prevention: Building on The Neglected Shadow for Inclusive Systems in and around Schools”. International Journal of Emotional Education, 10.
Downes, P., Anderson, J., Nairz-Wirth E. (2018). Editorial Conclusion: Developing conceptual understandings of transitions and policy implications. Special Issue, European Journal of Education, 53.
Downes, P. (2018). “An Emerging Paradigm of Structural Indicators to Examine System Supports for Children’s and Adolescents’ Education and Wellbeing”. Child Indicators Research, 11.
Cefai, C., Bartolo P. A., Cavioni. V., Downes, P. (2018). Strengthening Social and Emotional Education as a core curricular area across the EU: A review of the international evidence. NESET, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
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Elena Shev
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This blue-eyed actress - Elena Shev had a bright feature in Indian cinema. She could have been a rival to Sunny Leone Sunny Leone, a famous porn star, has recently ente >> Read More... , if got her break in Pooja Bhatt This chubby star of Bollywood had a different styl >> Read More... ’s film “Bad”. The film is delayed or scrapped still not known to viewers. Well, she bagged the role opposite Randeep Hooda.
Elena has hot looks and could be the most seducing actress of our time. As today, only sex and seduction character is making waves in Bollywood, she was aptly placed by Pooja Bhatt, who is also daughter of Mahesh Bhatt Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt created a niche for himself >> Read More... . The film Bad got into problems as Pooja Bhatt and director Prawaal Raman Prawaal Raman is an Indian movie chief and screenw >> Read More... had some professional problems. Pooja opted out of the film citing the reason that it was going to be high-budgeted one, and she had to opt out of the project. Well, what happens next is now within the industry circle, will the film see light of the day? Or will Elena get another break in Bollywood? It is a record that Pooja Bhatt had complimented the girl Elena, saying she was lucky star. There were gossips that Pooja told "foreign girls die to be in movies of Bollywood".
Not many knows that this sexy girl had her first break in a Malayalam film (2011), which was a Mammooty starrer film called in ‘Swapnamalika’. As she was a foreigner, she learnt Hindi before taking a debut in Bollywood, Before she came to India, she was fluent in Hindi and had a dream to act in movies. She was fascinated by Bollywood and the colors of India. Pooja Bhatt who brought the sexy queen Sunny Leone in Jism-2, and could well manage to bring another bombshell Elena for viewers.
Well, she has managed to follow the footsteps of Kareena Kapoor at least, who wrote a book on Fashion. She wrote a book- ‘’Agents Risky Liaison’’. The book highlights romance between powerful billionaire and gorgeous secret agent Angela. It is said that the talented director of ‘Bad’ was the first person to encourage her to write a book for Penguin. With true star quality and charming professional quality seen in this actress, when will she climb the ladder of success is still unknown.
Elena Kazan
This Moscow-born Elena always wanted to be a Bollywood girl. But she had no formal training in acting. She learnt to speak Hindi. All she could do is, to land up in Kolkata after finishing her degree in History and Politics from Whitman College, USA. While she was in Kolkata, she got a job in NGO. She met some Tollywood actors and got a break in Bengali cinema. Elena was a model and did some ramp shows too in Kolkata. She was offered a role by Kaushik Ganguly for a Bengali film “Rang Milanti”. Elena Kazan was born in Moscow, her mother, a nurse, and her father, an economics teacher. She is known to audiences worldwide for her role in English Film, Ruined Heart, where she played a leading female lead. Her first break was in Bengali cinema and she got three Bengali film offers so far. While she was in Kolkata, luckily she got a role in a Bengali film opposite Prasenjit Chatterjee. Her first debut was therefore in Bengali film Clerk opposite Prosenjit that released in 2010. In 2011, she acted in drama film, Gandhi to Hitler. She was also seen doing a cameo role in Agent Vinod that released in 2012. She got her biggest break in Hindi thriller film John Day, a thriller with big names like Naseerudin Shah and Randeep Hooda. She played the role of lover in the film “Ruined Heart” (English Film) which released in March 2015. With Bollywood importing actors from outside India, Elena Kazan finds a place in the heart of Indian audiences now. She is cast opposite Rohit Nayar in the film, Yun HI, which is a love story between a German girl and Indian boy. Her role as Czech gypsy girl in Prague opposite Chandan Roy Sanyal was the first female role for Elena. She got appreciation for Prague and did a good role in AASMA, as a Kashmiri girl. Elena is now content with her steady journey that she has taken in Bollywood.
Elli Avram shot to fame when she became a participant in the reality show Bigg Boss. Although she was not the winner, she went on to become a household name. Elli Avram is of Swedish origin and was born in 1990 in her home town of Stockholm. Elli Avram had wanted to make a career in Bollywood since her childhood as she carried a fondness for Indian culture. She took an active interest in music and dancing, and began her career as a member of a dance group known as Pardesi Dance Group back in Sweden. As part of the group, she performed on music from the Bollywood across Sweden. She also went on to star in local movies such as Forbjuden Frukt, where the played the role of the girlfriend of the leading man. She also participated in the Miss Greece contest in 2010, although did not win. In 2012, Elli moved to Mumbai and signed up for modeling assignments. She appeared in an advertisement in her early years with Akshay Kumar for Eveready Industries India. She also appeared in a television commercial for jewelry for another company. Post her success in Bigg Boss season 7, Elli was offerd the role in the movie Mickey Virus which was a thriller comedy based around the adventures of a digital hacker who was hired by the Mumbai police to solve a crime. At this point in time, Elli began to receive formal training in Hindi since she did not speak the language before.
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Castle Park View
Bouygues UK Contact
Group Size 6
Castle Park View is a new residential development in the centre of Bristol. It is adjacent to Castle Park- the site of a Saxon settlement and Castle.
In such a central and historical location, Castle Park View is a unique construction site, a large culvert runs through the centre of the site running from East to West, as a result of which the scheme has been designed around two main blocks. When completed, the high rise building will change the look of the current skyline across Bristol City Centre.
The development totals 375 Units.To the northern part of the site Block A, B & C encompassing Block A - a 10 storey tower, Block B - a 6 storey link block and Block C - a 26 storey tower. On this Northern Block there is an under-croft which allows for 36 parking spaces for the scheme along with plant rooms, refuse storage and cycling provision for 490 bicycles. To the Southern edge of the site lie Blocks D & E, Block D is 5 storeys and Block E is 6 & 7 storeys.
In addition to the residential units the scheme also provides a fitness suite, concierge and back of house offices and a number of communal spaces for use by the residents including a Party Room on the 26th Floor of Block C.
You will recieve a short presentation of the site, health and safety induction and PPE required for the site tour. The tour will be led by our one of our site team, who will guide you around the live construction site.
During March we will be completing the structural framing.
Address Castle Park View
BYUK Cabins
St Philip and St Jacob Church,
Tower Hill,
BS2 0ET
Our site is split into two by Tower Hill Road.
As you walk down Tower Hill Road, on the left, within the grounds of St Philip and St Jacob Church are our site cabins, with the entrance to our secuirty office for visitors. The constuction site is located opposite, on the right hand side of Tower Hill Road.
Length of Visit 50 Minutes
Maximum Group Size 6
School, college, dwp Open to groups and individuals
Minimum group size No minimum
Maximum group size 6 spaces
Disabled Access yes
Disabled access will be limited on site, please call us on 01454 455 890 to discuss special needs access for your visit.
Hannah Fincham
Glassfields Plot 2
Colston Hall, Bristol
Locking Parklands
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