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IRDR ICoE host city Wellington joins 100 Resilient Cities Network
Wellington undertaken by the Wellington region’s IRDR International Centre of Excellence for Community Resilience (IRDR ICoE CR) has won a bid to be part of the international network 100 Resilient Cities. Last year, The Rockefeller Foundation launched the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge (RC100) to help cities around the world become more resilient to physical, social and economic challenges.
Photo: http://www.100resilientcities.org
Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says this successful bid means increased access to expertise and resources here and overseas. “In the capital, we are clear and open about vulnerability to physical and economic risks and active in addressing them together with both private and public sectors. International recognition of our work is opening doors for the Council and our partners to learn from and contribute to international best practice so Wellington can be more resilient -for people’s survival, our sense of built heritage and for economic success. This is also an opportunity to profile the New Zealand firms and universities the Council is working with on the science and engineering of urban resilience. Our skills in resilience are a great way of attracting students, academics and increasing export markets for local expertise and inventions.”
Michael Berkowitz, President of 100 Resilient Cities, says “we selected Wellington because of its leaders’ commitment to resilience building and the innovative and proactive way they’ve been thinking about the challenges the city faces. We’re excited to get to work.”
Selected cities receive access to $US 1 million worth of expertise and resources including:
• funding to hire a Chief Resilience Officer
• assistance in developing a resilience strategy
• access to a platform of innovative private and public sector tools to help design and implement that strategy
• membership in the 100 Resilient Cities Network.
A thousand cities across six continents applied to be among the first 100 cities selected to receive technical support and resources over three years.
Being part of the Resilient City Network will bolster the current work being undertaken by the Wellington region’s International Centre of Excellence for Community Resilience – a partnership between the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office (WREMO) and the Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR).
“This is a tremendous opportunity to further develop and share our benchmark practices in the resilience space,” says WREMO Regional Manager, Bruce Pepperell. “We are looking forward to working with Wellington City, as well as local and international partners to continue improving connectedness and preparedness in our communities.”
This programme aligns with several natural hazards research projects in the region that are improving our understanding of the risk from natural hazard events and ways to build resilience. The Joint Centre for Disaster Research – a collaboration between Massey University and GNS Science – is leading an international programme of research on building community-driven resilience. The Centre’s Director, Professor David Johnston, who also serves as chair of the global IRDR Programme, welcomes this new initiative.
Examples of WCC’s initiatives and regional resilience partnerships include:
• the establishment of a building resilience team to work with the property sector on earthquake strengthening
• the award-winning Tsunami Blue Lines project
• Neighbours Day Aotearoa implementation
• world-leading asset management information systems
• the Wellington Regional Emergency Management Office (WREMO), a partnership between Wellington’s nine councils
• the International Centre of Excellence for Community Resilience, the UN supported IRDR (Integrated Research for Disaster Risk) initiative, based here in the Wellington Region.
• being the first New Zealand council to complete earthquake-prone assessment of all commercial pre-1976 buildings.
• It’s Our Fault research programme, led by GNS Science.
There is a growing emphasis both nationally and internationally on the need for cities to work together more closely. Melbourne and Christchurch were the first two cities in Oceania region accepted, and are now joined by Wellington and Sydney.
“Acceptance of the Council’s bid is recognition of the great work we are already doing in Wellington City and in the wider Wellington region to build resilience. Households, businesses and councils can’t be resilient separately and we can’t tackle huge challenges like climate change adaptation alone,” says Councillor Malcom Sparrow, Community Resilience Portfolio Leader.
Phil Reed, Office of the Mayor: (04) 801 3119, 021 247 9720
Bruce Pepperell, Regional Manager WREMO: 021 758 919
Professor David Johnston, JCDR: 027 452 400
Maxwell Young, 100 Resilient Cities: MYoung@100RC.org, +1-646-612-7142
http://www.100resilientcities.org
http://www.getprepared.org.nz/excellence
Source: WREMO news (slightly adapted)
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Litigiousness & Sycophancy.
Against Aristogeiton.
Regulating Sycophancy.
Sycophancy in Private Suits.
Sycophancy in Public Suites.
Manipulation & Exploitation.
Sycophancy and Attitudes to Litigation
Matthew R. Christ, edition of March 26, 2003
· Introduction ·
This article was originally written for the online discussion series “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context,” organized by Adriaan Lanni and sponsored by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies.
Read about the evidence
Aristophanes (Aristoph. Wasps).
Suggested Reading: Aristophanes, Wasps
Plot on a Map
Athens.
Athens gave birth not only to democratic legal process but also to a lively discussion of the proper role of law and litigation in the lives of the citizens of a democracy. While Athenians were committed to their system of popular courts and understood that litigation could be essential for preserving the “rights” and property of citizens and protecting the public interest, they were also acutely conscious that litigation could be abused and exploited for private ends. Like the citizens of modern democracies, Athenians had to come to terms with the fact that the legal process can be used not only as a means of obtaining justice but as a weapon for achieving narrowly selfish ends.
Matthew R. Christ, “Sycophancy and Attitudes to Litigation,” in Adriaan Lanni, ed., “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context” (Center for Hellenic Studies On-line Discussion Series). Republished in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of March 26, 2003. Contact: cwb@stoa.org.
© March 26, 2003, Matthew R. Christ. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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Advisory Role
Sun. October 28: The Nomadic People of Kentifrica
October 22, 2012 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Ancestral Heritage, Breen, Cal Arts, Co Production, CSPA, Duende, Group Exhibit, Hammer Museum, Hinkle, Kaos Films, Leimert Park, Multimedia Artist, Nomadic Cultures, Park Art, Performance Piece, Restoration Project, Studio Museum In Harlem, Travel Narratives, West Africa
LOS ANGELES – Look for our 1951 Spartan trailer at the Leimert Park Art Walk on Sunday, October 28 where multimedia artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle will present “Kentifrican Travel Narratives,” a performance piece exploring the nomadic cultures of Kentifrica, a continent where the history of Kentucky and the ancestral heritage of West Africa converge. The event will feature a concert with Kentifrican songs for safety on the road and other music performed on instruments made from and inspired by Kentifrican culture. A café with Kentifrican food will offer food to the public.
Kenyatta Hinkle (Cal Arts, M.F.A. ’12) was the youngest artist to participate this summer in the Hammer Museum’s “Made In L.A.” Her work is currently on display at a group exhibit, “BAILA con Duende”at Watts Towers (September, 2012 – January, 2012. ) In October, she will be at the Bindery Projects in St. Paul, MN. In November her work will be shown at another group exhibit at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Kentifrican Travel Narratives: Transversing Boundaries Leimert Park Art Walk Leimert Park Village, Los Angeles, CA 91804 map Sunday, October 28 – 12 pm – 4 pm This event is a co-production with Ben Caldwell’s Kaos Films
This post is part of a series documenting Sam Breen’a Spartan Restoration Project. Please see his first post here and check out the archive here. The CSPA is helping Sam by serving in an advisory role, offering modest support and featuring Sam’s Progress by syndicating his feed from http://spartantrailerrestoration.wordpress.com as part of our CSPA Supports Program.
Downsized: Real Stories of Homeless Children
April 29, 2012 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Aristocrat, Atlas, Breen, Concerted Effort, CSPA, Decision Making, Donations, Facing Foreclosure, Gaps, Gogo, Homeless Children, Indie, Inequality, Mobile Recording Studio, Restoration Project, Taking It To The Streets, Trailer Trash, Trailers, Unicef, Urban Future
Downsized: Real Stories of Homeless Children, A Multimedia Exhibit
Trailer Trash is taking it to the streets. We want to tell the stories of children living with their families in cars and trailers parked along the streets of Los Angeles. We’re also want to hear from children whose families are facing foreclosure. To get started, we need to buy a used van to tow our mobile recording studio – a 1972 Aristocrat trailer. Trailer Trash is a member of Fractured Atlas. Donations through our Indie GoGo Campaign are tax-deductible!
Our Mobile Recording Studio
CLICK HERE TO DONATE THROUGH INDIE GOGO
”…a concerted effort to place children’s rights at the centre of urban decision-making is the only way to narrow the gaps [of inequality] and build a more equitable and prosperous urban future.” -UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2012
Occupy The Hood
January 18, 2012 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Back Yard, Breen, Coldwell Bankers, CSPA, L A County Sheriff, Members, Residential Brokers, Restoration Project, Solidarity, Tents
About 15 members of Occupy L.A. set up tents in Bertha Herrera’s back yard. They were there in solidarity with Bertha when the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department broke into the house and carried out a court ordered eviction notice. A day later, the house is on sale by Coldwell Bankers Residential Brokers.
Trailer Sows Ground With Creative Seeds
January 12, 2012 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Block Party, Bob Dylan, Breen, Cornerstone Project, Creative, CSPA, Having Fun, Hunger Cycle, Kevin Robinson, Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie, Musician, Next Five Years, Poem, Rain, Restoration Project, Seeds, Video Booth, Woody Guthrie, World Premiere
The rain didn’t stop us from having fun on Sunday November 20 when our 1951 Spartan Trailer served as a video booth for people to record their stories about food access and equity at Cornerstone Theatre’s Block Party. The party was the last in a two-week series of events called Creative Seeds – performances, discussions and learning opportunities – that kicked off a major Cornerstone Project, The Hunger Cycle – nine world premiere plays that will be performed over the next five years. In preparation for a show we plan for July, Sam Breen performed Bob Dylan’s poem “Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie” accompanied by musician Kevin Robinson. Share YOUR stories of hunger and food at www.cornerstonetheater.org. Cornerstone will post them on their blog and use them to inspire their work on the Hunger Cycle.
Sam Breen Receives Investing In Artsts Grant
October 18, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Aluminum Skin, Art Project, Audiences, Banquette, Breen, Cci, Creative Path, Creative Process, CSPA, Indoor Performance, Innovation, Material Assistance, Networking, Organization Support, Performance Space, Performance Stage, Restoration Project, Trailer Tongue, Trailer Trash, Usa Projects
The Center for Cultural Innovation has awarded Sam Breen an Investing In Artists Grant, given to individual artists to acquire equipment or materials that will support them in their creative process. The $6,500 grant will be used to build a performance space inside the 1951 Spartan trailer that Sam has been working on since September, 2010. Thanks to CCI, Trailer Trash is able to engage Eddie Paul Industries to open up the trailer’s now-fixed front windows, making the indoor performance space accessible to outdoor audiences. The process requires considerable re-engineering, since it means cutting into the trailer’s aluminum skin the structure that gives the trailer 80% of its strength (see monocoque design.)
The banquette will be used for readings and discussions. It can fold away and become a small performance stage for indoor or outdoor audiences.
The work should be finished for up-coming performances this Fall, including one in December for the NOMAD Lab Art Project for kids. Like Sam, most artists pursue their work with little outside help – often by holding down low-paying, no benefits jobs. CCI understands that at certain points along an artists’ creative path, material and organization support can be critical. In addition to material assistance, CCI provides training organizational support and networking with organizations like USA Projects.
Help KPFK Go Solar
September 20, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Answering Machines, Breen, Composting Toilet, CSPA, Featured Music, Featuring Music, Food Truck, Food Trucks, Fundraising Event, Good Vibes, Green Energy, Home Appliances, Kpfk, MAcarthur park, Mobile Space, Restoration Project, Sergio Mielniczenko, Showcase Art, Trailer Trash
On Saturday Sept. 24, Trailer Trash will help power a KPFK fundraising event at MacArthur Park to help the radio station go solar. Bring your e-waste, enjoy some great food truck eats and listen to featured music. Then pay us a visit inside our 1951 Spartan that we’re restoring into a green and mobile space to showcase art. We’ll show you how we operate off-grid with solar. Get a preview of our composting toilet (Relax, it’s not hooked up yet!)
Saturday, 24 September
MacArthur Park in Los Angeles
corner of 7th and Park View St. (see map)
Bring along these items to donate to KPFK: computers, monitors, printers, scanners, copiers, routers, hubs, modems, peripherals, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, A/V equipment, cell phones, and answering machines No large home appliances like microwaves, refrigerators or air conditioners, please. For more info on KPFK’s solar plans, click here.
Featuring Music by KPFK’s Chuck Foster, Sergio Mielniczenko and DJ Boxy D! Raffle, Food Trucks, Good Vibes & Green Energy! Other participants: Lime Truck, Rebel Bites, Nomad on Wheels, ANEW, Grid Alternatives, Energy Upgrade California.
Modular Designs We Love
July 27, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Breen, CSPA, Design Ideas, Desk, Furniture, Kitchen Features, Lookout, Lounge Chair, Love, Restoration Project, Sci Arc, Storage, Wall Unit, Youtube Video
Boxetti wall unit incorpates desk, lounge chair and storage
We are always on the lookout for cool ways to conserve space; we’re especially interested in modular design ideas for furniture and fixtures that can fold into the wall or transform into something else. These ideas were shared with us by Dovid Feld, the SCI-Arc student who is design for our trailer was featured in a another post.
In the YouTube video below, Michael Harboun’s “Living Kitchen” features kichten fixtures made from nanobots, devices made from materials that transform along a programmed path then fold back into the wall when no longer needed:
Volunteers Take Center Stage In Trailer Restoration
July 21, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Angeles National Forest, Breen, Calarts, Center Stage, Closets, Coyote, CSPA, Kyoto University, Lizards, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Reactor, Outskirts, Plywood, Restoration Project, Santa Clarita, Spartan, Trailer Restoration, Trailer Trash, Wooden Strips
Sam and his cousin Sasuke make templates for plywood that will be used to cover the walls and ceiling.
With graduation over, work on the Trailer Trash restoration has heated up. The 1951 Spartan Royal Mansion left it’s CalArts home on June 15 and was towed 10 miles to a canyon on the the outskirts of Santa Clarita, where lizards and coyote are almost as plentiful as motorcycles rushing to the Angeles National Forest.
In June, Sam’s cousin, Sasuke, came from Japan to help out. A recent graduate in geology from Kyoto University, he spent a month working with Sam inside the trailer. (Sasuke has an interest in nuclear energy and hekept us posted on recent happenings at the Fukushima nuclear reactor.)
The task at hand was to the walls and ceiling. First, Sasuke attached wooden strips to along the ribs where the cabinets and closets will eventually be installed. Then he fashioned carboard templates which will be used as a pattern for the plywood that will cover the walls. The job isn’t as easy as it looks; it requires lots of measuring, precision and patience. Although he had little building experience, it is hard to imagine how Sam would have gotten the job done without Sasuke’s help!
If you are considering volunteering your time with The Trailer Trash Project, this slideshow might show you the kind of work we’re involved with now:
Hot Times at the Silver Bullet
July 19, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Angeles National Forest, Breen, Calarts, Cardboard, Coyote, CSPA, Geology, Hot Times, Kyoto University, Lizards, Outskirts, Restoration Project, Santa Clarita, Sasuke, Silver Bullet, Spartan, Studs, Trailer Trash, Wooden Strips
With graduation over, work on the Trailer Trash restoration has heated up. The 1951 Spartan Royal Mansion left it’s CalArts home on June 15 and was towed 10 miles to a canyon on the the outskirts of Santa Clarita, where lizards and coyote are almost as plentiful as motorcyclists roaring up the road to the Angeles National Forest.
Sam’s cousin, Sasuke Breen, came from Japan to help out. A recent graduate in geology from Kyoto University, he spent a month helping Sam get ready to install the walls and ceiling. He crafted and installed wooden strips to reinforce the studs on the walls and ceiling. Then he made cardboard templates for the walls and ceiling – not as easy as it looks. The job requires lots of measuring and patience. It’s hard to imagine how the job would have gotten done would have gotten done without Sasuke’s help.
Contemporary Art On Wheels
February 15, 2011 Spartan TrailerAdvisory Role, Alum, Art Gallery, Breen, Calarts, Contemporary Art, CSPA, Delivery Truck, Gallery Art, Gallery Photo, Hostess, Matthew Chase, Mobile Art, Ny Times, Nytimes, Photo Credit, Restoration Project, Santa Fe, Wellman, Wheels
Axle Contemporary's gallery on wheels. Photo credit: Matthew Chase-Daniel, published in the NYTimes Feb. 3, 2011.
CalArts alum Jerry Wellman and Matthew Chase-Daniel transformed a Hostess delivery truck into a mobile art gallery of contemporary art in Santa Fe, NM. Check out the story in the NY Times. See also Axel Contemporary’s web site.
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* [http://www.nintendoplayer.com/goonies/protos.htm nintendoplayer.com/goonies/protos.htm] - Nintendo Player - Prototype cartridge.
* [http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php/The_Goonies_II thealmightyguru.com/Games/Hacking/Wiki/index.php/The_Goonies_II] - NES Hacker Database.
* [https://tcrf.net/The_Goonies_II tcrf.net/The_Goonies_II] - The Cutting Room Floor.
The Goonies II is a platform adventure action game developed and published by Konami for the NES in 1987. It uses similar elements from the first Goonies game, but uses a more Metroidvania style approach.
I first saw The Goonies in an arcade, but never played it. Later, I saw The Goonies II in the The Official Nintendo Player's Guide and thought the game looked really cool. I rented it and got all the way to end (thanks to The Official Nintendo Players Guide), but didn't know how to open Annie's sealed cage at the end and had to return it. Years later, I played the game again got all the way to the end, and discovered all I needed to do was find one more key to unlock the cage!
I prefer the style of this game with more adventure and usability from the gear and gadgets, but overall, I think the first game is stronger due to how agonizing the 3D tunnels are.
3.1 Documentation
3.2 Maps
3.4 Videos
I have beat the NES game with 100% completion, though with a lot of hints from The Official Nintendo Players Guide.
There is a wide variety of items and weapons. While practically nothing from the movie is used in the game, it still captures the spirit of fun gear. The differing shoes are especially nice to get.
While the game is much larger than the first, a lot of the additions are just unnecessary busy work.
Some of the items in the rooms are hidden in a completely unintuitive manner, like when you have to hit an old lady several times with no change in her response before she gives you an item.
The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, part 1.
The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, blurb.
Shameless self-promotion.
youtube.com/watch?v=dSzdV1pQfl4 - Longplay.
English The Goonies II
Japanese グーニーズ2 フラッテリー最後の挑戦 Gunizu 2: Furatteri Saigo no Chosen The Goonies II: The Fratellis' Last Stand
nintendoplayer.com/goonies/protos.htm - Nintendo Player - Prototype cartridge.
tcrf.net/The_Goonies_II - The Cutting Room Floor.
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MOONSHINE TP VOL 01 (MR) [(W) Brian Azzarello (A/CA) Eduardo Risso]
(W) Brian Azzarello (A/CA) Eduardo Risso
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE NEW HIT SERIES From writer BRIAN AZZARELLO and artist, EDUARDO RISSO--the Eisner Award-winning creative team behind the crime classic, 100 Bullets--comes a brutal new series that puts a horror twist on a classic gangster tale!
Set deep in Appalachia during Prohibition, MOONSHINE tells the story of Lou Pirlo, a city-slick "torpedo" sent from New York City to negotiate a deal with the best moonshiner in West Virginia, Hiram Holt. Lou figures it a milk run, but what he doesn't figure is that Holt's just as cunning and ruthless as any NYC crime boss. Not only will Holt do anything for his illicit booze operation, he'll stop at nothing to protect a much darker, bloodier family secret.
Collects Issues 1-6
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Mountains and stones,
Lush meadows unshorn,
A river beyond,
Fields full of corn.
Out yonder, the village,
Its church and its graves,
Cottages here and there,
Low under their eaves.
Chill water springs.
A keen wind blows.
The nightingale sings.
And the women. . . they're like does!
Idlers in the shade,
Kept by their wives;
A plague on them all
For wasting their lives!
—ANTON ZAKO ÇAJUPI, My Village
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Artful dispatches from the places where we find ourselves
The violence of frenzy
The sound of roots
Summer’s lease
Hope and Expectation
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1.2 Living with the Seasons
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1.5 Bodies
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1.8 My Economy
1.9 Sharing Food
1.10 Coming and Going
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2.5 Sabbath
2.6 Local Government
2.7 Solastalgia
2.8 Borders & Boundaries
2.9 Play
By Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma Editorial May 1, 2017
The stories we don’t tell
“Don’t buy a house in Second Ward.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised when a pastor who was new to our community told me that she had heard this caution from members of her congregation.
On one hand, she was receiving sound financial advice. Second Ward, which is the south quadrant of a city divided into four by rivers, has a median home value that is half of what it is in First Ward, the neighborhood to the north. If you’re nearing retirement age and you have the ability to purchase a home in any part of the city, why would you choose a neighborhood where your investment is unlikely to grow, and may even shrink?
On the other hand, the historical context complicates the picture. Founded in 1872 in Second Ward, the pastor’s predominantly white, mainline congregation found itself struggling to know how to connect to a racially diverse, lower-income neighborhood as the world entered the twenty-first century. Around the year 2000, the church took a vote, launched a capital campaign, and moved to a new building on patch of former farmland north of town near a newer subdivision.
In 2003, unaware of the church’s relatively recent move, my husband Rob and I entered the picture when we moved to Three Rivers and responded to a warm invitation to check out the church’s monthly live music coffeehouse series. Before we knew it, we had been assigned to the new creation care committee and I was employed as the church’s office manager. Over the next few years, we experienced a high level of connection and growth: imbibing the rich words and rhythms of liturgical worship for the first time in our lives, debating current events in adult Sunday school, starting a fair trade store with critical support from many members of the congregation. Our growing awareness of the church’s history, which mirrored our own family’s geographic history on the south side of Chicago, existed in increasing tension with our love and gratitude for the people who were becoming family in our new home.
As it tends to do, the high energy of a major change waned for the church, and there was much parting of ways. For me and Rob, our move away from involvement with the church was concurrent with the efforts of the non-profit organization we work with to purchase and renovate the former Huss Elementary School, located just a couple of blocks from the church’s original historic building in Second Ward. We still enjoy our connections with several current and former members today, but for the most part, we’ve turned our attention south, putting down roots in the historic downtown district where we live, Second Ward where we farm, and Florence Township where we now attend church.
As I contemplate members of our former congregation—many of whom are still friends—reading these words, I feel a bit like I’m spilling the family secrets all over the Internet. It’s hard to know how to talk about these things, and it reminds me that borders and boundaries, the theme of the May issue of Topology, apply to geography as well as storytelling, memory, and emotions.
One of the themes of my friend David Dark’s book The Sacredness of Questioning Everything is how “to expand the space of the talkaboutable.” Translating this characteristic Dark-ism into practice, I think these kinds of stories—especially the ones we want to squirrel away in the darkest corner of the attic of memory—need to be told and re-told, including the bits that reveal our complicity and the parts that don’t reinforce a simplistic moral. To fail to do so is foolishness, while crossing the border into the tender, scary places can lead to wisdom. Dark writes,
Wisdom will often feel incongruous, incompatible with the fullness of our feelings that feel somehow right even when they function mostly to insulate us from the reality—the consequences—of our doings. Wisdom will not only not get through but will be held in lively contempt when our feelings are the primary measure of what we allow in. Wisdom will not be let in when we edit reality itself to suit our sense of self, when we’ve grown unaccustomed to receiving information that might call our lives into question.
Re-reading my version of the story here, I can see several things I edited out on first telling because of complicated feelings, including my failure to carry out the commitments I made with my promise of membership to our former congregation, and the priority of shared theology and praxis that Rob and I followed through the Second Ward neighborhood, right back out into the farm fields on the other side of town. We have our reasons, for sure, but we do well to interrogate our unease as a matter of routine. Dark writes,
…The Czech thinker/activist Jan Patoka once observed that history is life that no longer takes itself for granted…. I take this to be a call to ethical remembrance, to bring the difficult past into the space of the talkaboutable, and at the same time a summons to remember that today’s reigning dysfunction is not inevitable. In Patocka’s case, he would not live to see the culmination of his activist work in the Velvet Revolution of 1989, but his definition of history, as I understand it, is based in a determined liveliness that insists, again and again, that the way things are is not the way things have to be. Redemption draws nigh.
If we cannot practice the expansion of the talkaboutable with a highly localized, personal recollection of the past, how can we begin to live into a future founded on naming and articulating the passions that pound in our chests when we hear someone casually dismiss the Black Lives Matter movement, or blame poverty on bad choices, or espouse the necessity of military violence? Our collective ability to imagine and live into a different future is directly proportional to our ability to question the necessity, intent, and consequences of every border we observe, whether visible or invisible, geographical or psychological, individual or communal.
What would have happened if the church had stayed in Second Ward? It’s an interesting question to think about, though we can’t change the boundaries of the past. However, we can allow a truthful telling to reshape our map for the future, and maybe we’ll even end up finding a home in the last place we would have expected.
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This Bootylicious Building Was Inspired by Beyonce’s Shape
Category: Arts Tags: building / Hollywood / Musician / skyscrapers
This creative and curvaceous new building design was inspired by Beyonce's shape. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Wilma Oakes
By Wilma Oakes, July 10, 2015
A 68-story skyscraper inspired by Diva Beyonce’s bootylicious shape will be built. This curvaceous building will be erected in Melbourne, Australia’s CBD.
The building design was inspired by Beyonce’s film clip ‘Ghost’, where her body was wrapped in fabric.
Beyonce’s film clip ‘Ghost‘ was the inspiration behind this curvaceous building. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Dezeen Magazine wrote: “Australian firm Elenberg Fraser has won planning approval for a 226-meter-high Melbourne skyscraper that will feature a curvaceous form taken from a music video by Beyoncé.”
The skyscraper was inspired by Beyonce’s shape from her film clip ‘Ghost.’ (Screenshot/YouTube)
“The new Premiere Tower at 134 Spencer Street will boast a series of curves and bulges designed to make it as structurally efficient as possible,” Dezeen Magazine also wrote.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote: “Parametric modeling was used to design the building’s form, which dips in and out throughout the exterior of the skyscraper. No completion date has been announced.”
A completion date has not been announced yet. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Elenberg Fraser wrote: “This project is the culmination of our significant research into how to best work with individual site and climatic constraints, brought together using our new parametric modelling techniques. The complex form—a vertical cantilever—is actually the most effective way to redistribute the building’s mass, giving the best results in terms of structural dispersion, frequency oscillation, and wind requirements. Art and science? You betcha.”
Watch short news report on new Beyonce-shaped skyscraper:
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How Cloud-Based Gaming Could Kill Traditional Consoles
The Hawk Newsline | 25 Nov 2019 9:02 AM GMT
New Delhi: The arrival of Cloud-based game streaming services like Apple Arcade, Google Stadia and the upcoming Microsoft XCloud is all set to change the way people play games, thus threatening the very survival of traditional gaming industry ruled by consoles like Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation.
Cloud-based gaming is the new livestreaming trend after music and video. One big advantage of cloud gaming over the traditional one is lower cost of setup which can be played on smartphones, tablets, PCs and even TV.
A key advantage is that gaming enthusiasts can play with multiple players across multiple platforms with ease. The players are also introduced to leading world gaming championships such as Fortnite World Cup, Intel Extreme Masters and many more.
"Cloud gaming has become the future of the gaming industry; it could kill the traditional console. The advantage of Cloud gaming is that players would not rely on discs or need to download video games to play on high-powered PCs or gaming consoles such as Xbox or PlayStation," Marthesh Nagendra, Country Manager, India, Middle-East and SAARC, NETGEAR, told IANS.
India may see a $370 million gaming market by 2020, growing at more than 50 per cent year-on-year (YoY).
According to market research firm Newzoo, there are more than 2.5 billion gamers across the world now. Combined, they will spend $152.1 billion on games in 2019.
Revenues generated by the console segment will reach $61.1 billion in 2022, increasing by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 9.7 per cent.
With the increase in sizes of mobile display screens, better Internet speed and high-quality gaming routers, the gamer will enjoy frustration-free online and Cloud gaming by reducing lag and latency spikes.
"Internet and networking gadgets' advancement such as dual-band gigabit routers have also made decent contributions to Cloud-based gaming support. According to recent studies, the Cloud-based gaming market is set to grow to $8 billion in the year 2025 from $1 billion," said John Dong, Director, Tenda India, a leading provider of networking devices.
Three known tech giants — Apple, Google and Microsoft — are primarily pushing the limits to capture the Cloud-based video game subscription market.
Apple in September launched its subscription gaming service, Apple Arcade. The service, which is available for Rs 99 in India, works on iPhones, iPads, Apple TV and Mac systems. It allows up to six family members to share the same subscription for one monthly fee.
Taking on Apple Arcade, Google launched its gaming subscription service Google Stadia in November with 22 games on board.
Simultaneously, Tech giant Microsoft has finally launched Project xCloud game streaming service preview for Xbox users in the US, the UK and Korea.
Cloud allows users to play high-end games on low-end consoles which is cheaper for gaming companies, as they only pay for bandwidth actually used by their traffic.
One of the major benefits of Cloud-based gaming service is that the same game can be made available on multiple platforms and one can play any game on any device which it supports at any location.
(Md Waquar Haider can be reached at waquar.h@ians.in)
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Star Trek: The 50th Anniversary Collection
Earl March 26, 2017
In the early ’90s, I was positively obsessed with Star Trek music – every new movie score released, any new television soundtracks that came along, anything was a cause for celebration, because I was in “maximum Trekkie” mode, and there never seemed to be enough of it.
Fast-forward a bit to the 21st century, in an era where we’re starving for the seemingly perpetually-delayed first new Star Trek TV series in a decade…and yet we’re positively drowning in music from the franchise’s glory days. I’ve gone from “not being to get enough Star Trek music” to “how in the hell do I organize this huge glut of music when I rip the latest box set worth of CDs to my hard drive straight out of the mail?”
Not that I’m complaining. The 50th Anniversary Collection from La-La Land Records is a fine buffet line adding to the embarrassment of riches we’ve gotten since 2009, a year during which the first J.J. Abrams movie (and yes, its soundtrack) came along, revitalized Trek as a media juggernaut, and convinced new Paramount music executive Randy Spendlove that maybe, just maybe, he should license some of the gems from the Trek music vaults to these specialty soundtrack labels that are clamoring to release it.
Rather than a laser-like focus on any one series, this four-disc set tries to patch some holes, right some wrongs, and answer some fannish prayers. The first disc consists, mostly, of remastered selections from the original series, piece of music of which better copies have been found since La-La Land’s monumental 2012 box set release of every note of music recorded for classic Trek. There are a few new 1960s gems as well: Wilbur Hatch’s “bumper” music, played over still slides of the Enterprise and the Star Trek logo as the show went to commercial during its broadcast premieres, is something I don’t think I’ve ever heard before. An alternate take of a cue from Star Trek: The Motion Picture also appears, but the big takeaway from disc one is the dialogue-free version of the end credits from Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, a track which had previously only appeared on CD with the late Leonard Nimoy’s ethereal narration. Fans have been demanding this since Film Score Monthly released an otherwise complete Star Trek II score on CD in 2009, and at last, here it is.
The second disc, however, contains the box set’s biggest knock-me-over-with-a-feather surprises: virtually the entire music library from the 1973-74 Filmation animated Star Trek series, a segment of the franchise that’s often overlooked for no readily justifiable reason. These selections come courtesy not of a miraculous session tape find (stories have circulated for years about how the original tapes no longer exist), but from the box set’s restoration experts and producers painstakingly editing together all of the cues from the audio of the episodes themselves, meticulously splicing together dialogue-and-FX-free sections of music until they had the entire piece of music reconstructed. Fans have been trying to do this since the days of cassette tapes with moderate success, so to hear an expert reconstruction of this music is nothing short of amazing. (Sharp-eared Filmation fans will also recognize a lot of this music from its later reuse in the live-action series Jason Of Star Command.)
As the animated series’ music consists primarily of fairly short cues, the second disc is rounded out with Dennis McCarthy’s all-synth score from the PC game Star Trek: Borg (previously heard on a private-release CD sold by McCarthy himself) and something that I never would’ve anticipated hearing: new Ron Jones Star Trek music. Let me repeat, for emphasis: new Ron Jones Star Trek music. In 1991, Jones was effectively “let go” by the TNG producers for consistently pushing the bounds of both the show’s creative parameters and its music budget, and aside from scoring a couple of late ’90s computer games, Star Trek has been a thing that’s in Jones’ past…until he composed an original three-part concert suite that, free of having to match the timing or editing of film, simply conveys the spirit of Trek as Jones interpreted it. That music makes its debut as a recorded piece here, tacking a new coda onto Jones’ musical legacy with the franchise.
Discs three and four stay with TNG, offering highlights or nearly-complete scores from such episodes as Coming Of Age, Symbiosis, Contagion, The Bonding, The Hunted, Qpid, Tapestry, Parallels, and even the McCarthy-arranged cutdowns of Jerry Goldsmith’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture theme. There’s a nice slice of unreleased tracks from Jay Chattaway’s sophomore TNG effort, Tin Man (a score which, in many ways, he never topped); combined with the tracks released on CD by GNP Crescendo in the 1990s, you now have the entire score from Tin Man. The original synth demos for the Deep Space Nine and Voyager themes are heard for the first time, as well as the premiere of Jay Chattaway’s music from the “Klingon Encounter” ride at the much-missed Star Trek: The Experience attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton. A variety of source music is also made available – Q’s mariachi band from Deja Q, the Brahms string quartet piece from Sarek, and oddball source music from Voyager and Enterprise.
If nothing else on this box set has convinced you what a delightful dive into Trek’s musical deep cuts it is, the last track of the last disc should do it: it’s “Comminique (C)”, the piece of 1988 library techno music that graced TNG’s “next week” trailers in the early 1990s. Were thousands of Trek fans clamoring for this? Probably not, but La-La Land identified and licensed it for this set anyway.
The Star Trek 50th Anniversary Collection probably isn’t for the casual fan of Star Trek soundtracks. It’s for the obsessives, the diehards – the people who are still in “maximum Trekkie” mode and still can’t get enough of it.
Disc 1 – Star Trek: The Original Series
Third Season Theme Music – Main Title/End Title (soprano version, stereo) (1:14)
Love Scene (1:15)
Ship in Orbit (Big) (0:40)
Sad and Thoughtful on Captain’s Theme (2:30)
Captain Playoff No. 1 (Heavy) (0:08)
Smooth Neutral Ship Theme (0:41)
Playoff on M.T. Theme (0:23)
Fight on Captain’s Theme (1:50)
Captain Playoff No. 2 (Neutral—Slightly Ominous) (0:12)
Stingers (0:51)
New Sexy Exotic (2:17)
Captain Playoff No. 3 (Sad and Alone) (0:20)
Prime Specimen (“The Cage”) (3:13)
Monster Illusion (“The Cage”) (2:34)
Mr. Spock (“Captain’s Wig” From “The Naked Time”) (3:27)
The Big Go (“The Naked Time”) (2:30)
Mudd’s Perfidy (0:33)
Zap the Cap (1:34)
Zap the Cap take 1 (0:08)
Zap the Spaceship (1:28)
Ruk Attacks (1:41)
2nd Ruth (2:35)
No Mind / Tense Meeting / Tracking the Alien / The Question (2:31)
Survivors (1:42)
Bottled (1:52)
Monster Illusion (2:46)
Monster Illusion (tag) (0:10)
The Kibitzers (0:41)
Vina’s Punishment (1:54)
Vina’s Dance (1:53)
Wrong Think (0:43)
Act 1 Card (0:38)
Crippled Ship (0:55)
Speedy Reader (1:06)
End Title (0:24)
First Goner take 3 (0:48)
Dressing Down (0:08)
Monitor Gizzard (0:14)
Lazer Dazer (2:44)
Dodo Girl (0:09)
Drugged (1:23)
Mace Fight (0:59)
Down the Throat (1:13)
Arrows (1:25)
Bumper (broadcast edit) (0:06)
Bumpers (alternates) (0:25)
Paramount Television I.D. (0:05)
Paramount Television I.D. (alternate) (0:04)
Inner Workings (alternate mix) (4:03)
Star Trek II Epilogue / End Title (sans narration) (8:41)
Disc 2 – Star Trek: The Animated Series
Title Theme (1:01)
Captain’s Log (1:19)
Something Ahead (0:54)
Evasive Maneuvers (1:07)
Sensor Data (1:07)
Intercept Course (0:14)
Fire Phasers (0:50)
Enterprise Attacked (1:32)
Illogical (0:13)
Briefing (0:43)
On the Viewscreen (1:02)
New Heading (0:19)
Scanning (0:54)
Deflector Shields (0:19)
Red Alert (0:33)
Battle Stations (0:41)
Surprise (0:07)
Supplemental Log (0:49)
Kirk’s Command (1:11)
Sickbay (0:28)
Library Computer (0:44)
Full Power (0:28)
Approaching Coordinates (0:08)
The Bigger Meaning (1:15)
Trouble in Engineering (0:29)
Spock’s Analysis (0:42)
Enterprise Wins the Space Race (0:43)
McCoy’s Summary (0:16)
Just Another Stardate (0:39)
Ongoing Mission (0:18)
Title Theme (alternate mix) (1:01)
Sensor Data (alternate mix) (1:02)
Enterprise Attacked (alternate opening) (1:42)
Scanning (alternate mix) (0:54)
Turbolift Music (0:29)
Mr. Arex Lends an Extra Hand (0:38)
Fascinating (0:17)
Don’t Mess With M’Ress (0:22)
Oh My (0:17)
Spock’s Quick Analysis (0:22)
Yellow Alert (0:26)
Off Duty (0:15)
Suite: Stingers and Act-Out Music (2:03)
Music inspired by Star Trek – Ron Jones
The Ascent (7:43)
Meaning (2:27)
Pathway to the Stars (3:17)
Star Trek: Borg – Dennis McCarthy
Main Theme (1:02)
The Legend of the Borg (1:24)
Battle at Wolf 359 (2:58)
The Battle Rages (0:58)
Club Q (0:55)
I Am Berman of Borg (1:36)
Goldsmith Has Been Assimilated! (1:37)
Welcome to the Collective Cadet (2:22)
Searching the Borg Ship (2:20)
Time Is Running Out (1:17)
Escape From the Borg Collective (1:42)
Borg Hell (2:03)
You Will Be Assimilated, Have a Nice Day (2:21)
“Resistance Is Futile, My Ass!” / Finale (7:25)
End Titles (1:03)
Disc 3 – Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title (1st season, alternate take) (1:48)
Physics / Shuttle Fuss (3:35)
Air Bounce (2:04)
Competition (2:14)
Decisions (2:04)
Symbisos
Flares (3:04)
Four Out of Six (1:03)
Searchin’ (1:10)
Memories (1:19)
U.S.S. Yamato / Vaporized (1:22)
Floral Tea / Otis’ Revenge (2:07)
Romulan Misfire / Phasers / Escape / Goodbye Iconia (2:27)
Diversion (2:16)
The Bonding
Dad / Mom’s Double (2:04)
Release / Ceremonial Worf / Off Into Space (4:01)
Into the Pit (3:01)
Escape Artist / Melee (3:28)
Breakout (0:32)
Phased / Geordi (4:14)
Confronted / To the Stars (3:30)
Condemned (1:22)
Transfigurations
Lookin’ Fine (1:44)
Lazarus (3:48)
Choke Hold / Explanatory / El Ascencio (5:11)
Delusionary (4:08)
Saint Q (2:05)
It’s a Wonderful Life / Deja Vuosity / War Stories (3:18)
Instant Family (2:42)
Wolfman Riker (3:09)
Trailer music
Theme From Star Trek: The Motion Picture (30-second version) (0:33)
Theme From Star Trek (“Gene Roddenberry 1921–1991” unused alternate) (0:10)
Soft / Student (1:04)
Unique / Welcome / Data (0:48)
Problems / Land of Living (1:41)
Scared (broadcast version) (0:47)
One Way Trip (1:08)
All of It (0:57)
Deja Q
Tractor Moon / Hoisted (2:58)
La Paloma (traditional) (1:13)
Coffin Spike (0:45)
Captain’s Holiday
Planet Vegas (1:12)
Qpid
Hat Trick / Sir Guy / Nottingham Castle / Maid Marian (unused) / Betrayed (3:21)
To the Block / Swordplay / Game’s Over (4:16)
Adieu (1:04)
Plucking Three (0:13)
Elementary, Dear Data
Sherlock Tones (0:55)
Dead End / Turtleback (2:36)
Short Goodbye (1:21)
Holo Tolodo! (4:02)
Peace Dividends / Gloria / Blown Away (1:39)
Juke Boxer (3:29)
How High the Moon (3:36)
Moonlight Becomes You (2:55)
Unification II
Andorian Blues (0:37)
Aktuh and Maylota (0:49)
Melor Famigal (0:58)
Picard and Nella, Date #1 (Picard’s Cabin) (2:43)
Picard and Nella, Date #2 (Jefferies Tube) (2:22)
Sextet #1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 (II, Andante) (1:53)
Star Trek: The Experience
Klingon Encounter (4:24)
Borg Invasion 4D (7:22)
Main Title Demo (1:59)
Single Bridge Demo (2:24)
Lookover / Maiden Voyager (1:34)
Opera Alla Alienosity (1:11)
Dance-O-Matic (2:28)
Communique (C) (2:33)
Released by: La-La Land Record
Disc one total running time: 1:16:13
Disc two total running time: 1:17:23
Disc three total running time: 1:18:57
Disc four total running time: 1:18:57
Box set total running time: 5:16:50
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Shenandoah NP Maps for the iPhone Reviewed
The PATC recently debuted its first electronic map for the iPhone, an app called PATC Shenandoah that features full content of Maps 9, 10, and 11, covering Shenandoah National Park. I purchased this app and thought it would be useful to put together a review. [Note: I am a member of the PATC Maps Committee, though I had no input on this product.] At the same time that I purchased the PATC app I also bought the app from National Geographic's Trails Illustrated, entitled Park Maps. Here is a comparison; it is not intended to be comprehensive.
The PATC's January 2012 newsletter announced the new product, stating it features the following:
Full content of Maps 9, 10, and 11
GPS tracking of your location, even without WiFi or cell reception
Photos and descriptions for key locations throughout Shenandoah National Park
Navigation tools including distance, bearing, compass and location
Customized pins to record photos and locations along your hike
The app costs $4.99 and is currently only available for the iPhone - there is no Android version.
When purchasing the PATC Shenandoah app, I also came across and purchased National Geographic's Park Maps app, also listed at $4.99, though I was only charged $3.99. Maybe it was on sale?
PATC Shenandoah
Opening screen to PATC Shenandoah App
Signing onto the PATC Shenandoah app, the user is greeted by the same statement: "USE OF THIS APPLICATION IS AT THE USER'S OWN RISK." In order to get into the map, you need to click that you agree. Every time.
Every time you reopen the app
you get this screen...
Really? Does the PATC's lawyer require this in order to minimize PATC liability? I don't have to acknowledge this when I unfold a paper map. It is an irritant and serves no apparent purpose.
Once I get past that, a screen shows the entire SNP, along with at least 50 pins dropped in it.
The pins represent places of interest, where a photo can be accessed.
In standard iPhone. iPad, iPod manner, the user zooms into the desired section of the map using his/her index finger and thumb.
Eventually, a map looking like the NPS map given to Shenandoah visitors comes up.
When you scroll in a bit further, the familiar PATC map comes up. The PATC maps are actually updated more recently than the current versions of the print maps, as I noticed at least one trail (found within the Rapidan Wildlife Management Area adjoining the Park boundary) not on the latest edition of Map 10, covering the Central District.
I also placed this map on the family's first generation iPad. At first the maps looked like they would be fuzzy - indicating an iPhone app that had not really been produced for the iPad, but it came in clear once the maps came up, and it is overall a very good resolution.
Above is a comparison of the two maps, showing the Thornton Gap area of Shenandoah National Park. Note that there is a road to the Pass Mountain Hut that is only shown on the PATC map. Overall, the PATC map has better detail.
The PATC map also has a nice feature called the Line Tool, which allows me to estimate the length of a trail using my finger. And I love the option to locate where you are on a Shenandoah trail with the PATC app.
What the National Geographic app offers is more map. For Shenandoah, the NG app offers nearly all of Massanutten Mountain - really nice if you want to check out the interesting rock formations in Veach Gap or try hiking to Strickler Knob. But wait! There's more! NG includes not just Shenandoah, but maps of 20 National Parks, ranging from the really popular ones like Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite and Great Smoky Mountains, to less visited parks like Joshua Tree and Channel Islands. Just the thing to pass the time while waiting in line for lunch. The high def versions of these maps must be downloaded to the iPhone (no doubt so you don't use up all your memory), but I make due with a couple of well-used maps (Shenandoah and Grand Canyon) and a couple of others for dreaming, like Olympic. And even if you don't download the high def version, you can look at the standard issue NPS version of each park's map.
You must install the high def maps in the
National Geographic app, but you get a
boatload to choose from.
The PATC app came out in mid-March with a new update, allowing for sharing of custom markers with others who have the app, a bug fix, and a "revolutionary new feature" called trail navigation. This apparently determines the fastest route from the starting and ending locations that the user has defined.
Finally I should note that I have another app on my phone, called ATTrail 6. Though #6 does not cover much of Shenandoah - starting south of Roanoke, this app covers about 150 miles of the AT through the Calf Mountain Shelter in Shenandoah's South District. It is nice to have elevation profiles, which this app gives. But the app costs $2.00 for every 100-200 miles, dividing the AT up into 16 parts. And #6 has some bad data - although it lists the James River Foot Bridge, it does not show it on the map. It instead shows the older route used before the Foot Bridge was completed in 2000. A more recent AT reroute around Humpback Rock is also missing. Not recommended.
So which app do I recommend? If you are just hiking Shenandoah, there is no question that the PATC map is superior. But I am happy I got both. This way I can dream of returning to Glacier National Park.
Posted by Jeff M at 4:30 PM
virginiawilderness April 3, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Wow... yet another reason to buy an i Phone. Great write up. Cheers!
Wild Oak Trail Loop, March 15, 2012
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Being a Whangarei couple that keep a watchful eye on local politics, who also like to venture into other territory from time to time for comparisons, certainly has its upside. Our previous visit to Kaikohe was for a meeting on unitary authorities on March 18th. But on arriving at Thursday’s Far North District Council meeting we were introduced to a new system, situated to the left of reception, for signing visitors into the building. You type in your details, reason of and who you are visiting, sit in front of the screen, press click and presto out comes a visitor pass complete with photo. Certainly up with the play here, but wait there’s more. In the council chamber not only is there a good sound system and screens for presentations, but the audio/visual also has a live link to Northern Community Board Chairperson Fiona King in Kaitaia. How sensible, saving all that time travelling down to meetings, able to ask questions and make comments this enables Fiona to spend more time with her people. So much for all the song and dance in Whangarei, about Northland’s size when unitary authority debate is underway. There is no need for remoteness, with technology they could and may be in the future, controlled from the other side of the world. An inclusive type meeting with presentations from various groups up first, then it’s into the swing of a formal agenda under Mayor Wayne Brown’s flamboyant style. Visitors are welcomed to partake in refreshments becoming involved in a chat here and there with elected representatives and staff showing there is flair of open democracy. There is always good discussion and we appreciate the hospitality offered by our far north associates on our visits. We look forward to our next encounter.
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ON January 31 this year our world turned upside down and our lives changed forever when I lost my mum to cancer.
My mum, Krystyna Skellon
We had been planning a charity ball before she passed away and it was her hope to be able to be there on the night itself.
I decided to go ahead with the Wedding Dress Charity Ball in support of Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff and St David’s Hospice Care in Newport, following the care and support she received following her diagnosis in 2016.
My mum, Krystyna Skellon, who was 67, was my best friend and we were inseparable. She was an amazing mum, wife, sister and a proud and devoted grandmother-of-two. Her warm, generous spirit, smile and kind heart were infectious. Her kindness and generosity saw no bounds.
Though a trained a pattern-cutter, she later became an auxiliary nurse at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny where she worked until her retirement seven years ago. Her former colleagues described her as a lovely, selfless and caring nurse.
In April 2016, aged 66, she was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer that was sadly terminal.
I took leave from my job as a multi-media journalist at the South Wales Argus newspaper in Newport, South Wales to help my father care for her and eventually took the decision to leave in 2018 as her illness progressed.
With her brave and determined spirit and the support of her Consultant, Dr Kein Yim and his team, the amazing nurses at Velindre and at its Outreach Clinic at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, she underwent 17 sessions of palliative chemotherapy over 20 months in the hope that it would give her more time with her family and two young grandchildren that she so desperately wanted.
The nurses, staff and consultants at both hospitals surrounded my mum with kindness and compassion that I’ll never forget. Despite enduring gruelling chemotherapy treatments, the clinics were a place of laughter, hope, inspiration and support.
On my Wedding day in 2016
Over the months they became like family, supporting us as I planned my wedding during such a difficult time. They went above and beyond to arrange her treatment so that she could be at my wedding, attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace and enjoy a holiday to Cyprus.
She was also supported by St David’s Hospice Care, through home visits. The charity’s Hospice at Home service made it possible for her to be at home for her final days and we will always be grateful to those nurses who spent five nights at our home with us caring for her. This vital service for patients with life-limiting illnesses enabled her to leave hospital and spend her last days at home, as was her wish. To us, they are angels and there is no doubt we would not have coped without them.
The Velindre nurses and consultants looking after her, together with the hospice, provided care, kindness and compassion to my mum and our family that I will be eternally gratefully for.
Despite her great heart, courage and fortitude during treatment, she passed away at home surrounded by her family on January 31, 2018.
My husband and myself, were inspired to hold the ball after several guests at our wedding, held in Abergavenny in November 2016 said that they would love to re-live their wedding day memories by wearing their dresses one more time.
My mum made her own wedding dress in 1971 and we felt that a charity night giving brides the chance to unpack their dresses would be a good way to raise funds for two causes close to our hearts.
The theme for the ball is a big wedding celebration party.
Guests will be greeted by a red carpet, drinks on arrival, a three-course dinner, live and silent auction and raffle, a live music from resident pianist Richard Harris and his band, as well as a DJ.
“We hope to see brides who would love to wear their dress again and bring their families and friends from their big day. Anyone who has been a bridesmaid, mother or father of the groom/bride, ushers, grooms and lots of wedding guests wearing an array of fascinators and accessories.
“There has been a real wedding buzz this year, especially with the Royal Wedding in May and the forthcoming wedding of Princess Eugine. It would be lovely if the ball falls on the anniversary of a couple and make the night an extra special celebration.
“We would obviously love to raise as much as we possibly can for two causes close to our hearts and also to raise awareness of the services they provide and work that they do.”
Mum and I
We are looking for auction items, raffle prizes and sponsors. Whether it’s a florist sponsoring the table flowers, to favours and goodie bags for guests, a photographer, wedding cake or advertising. To get in touch email: info@wdball.com
For tickets visit www.WDBall.com or Facebook The Wedding Dress Ball @WDCBall and on Twitter @UnpackYourDress
To find out more about the charities visit:
www.velindrecc.wales.nhs.uk
www.stdavidshospicecare.org
Copyright © 2019 The Wedding Dress Charity Ball. All Rights Reserved
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Weather Glossary
Pacific Decadal Oscillation (Abbrev. PDO) - a recently described pattern of climate variation similar to ENSO though on a timescale of decades and not seasons. It is characterized by SST anomalies of one sign in the north-central Pacific and SST anomalies of another sign to the north and east near the Aleutians and the Gulf of Alaska. It primarily affects weather patterns and sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and northern Pacific Islands.
Palmer Drought Severity Index (Abbrev. PDSI) - an index used to gage the severity of drought conditions by using a water balance equation to track water supply and demand. This index is calculated weekly by the National Weather Service.
Pancake Ice In hydrologic terms, circular flat pieces of ice with a raised rim; the shape and rim are due to repeated collisions
Panhandle Hook Low pressure systems that originate in the panhandle region of Texas and Oklahoma which initially move east and then "hook" or recurve more northeast toward the upper Midwest or Great Lakes region. In winter, these systems usually deposit heavy snows north of their surface track. Thunderstorms may be found south of the track.
Parameter A subset of the group of evaluations that constitute each element of an observation.
Parapet Wall In hydrologic terms, a solid wall built along the top of the dam for ornament, safety, or to prevent overtopping
Parcel A volume of air small enough to contain uniform distribution of its meteorological properties and large enough to remain relatively self-contained and respond to all meteorological processes.
Parhelion The scientific name for sun dogs. Either of two colored luminous spots that appear at roughly 22 degrees on both sides of the sun at the same elevation. They are caused by the refraction of sunlight passing through ice crystals. They are most commonly seen during winter in the middle latitudes and are exclusively associated with cirriform clouds. They are also known as mock suns.
Partial Beam Filling A limitation of the rainfall estimation techniques used by NEXRAD. At far ranges from the radar, a storm may occupy only a portion of the radar beam (which may be several miles across). However, the radiation received by the radar antenna consists of the average reflectivity across the entire beam, so the reflectivity and associated rainfall rates are underestimated.
Partial-Duration Flood Series In hydrologic terms, a list of all flood peaks that exceed a chosen base stage or discharge, regardless of the number of peaks occurring in a year.
Particle Trajectory Model A computer sub-model that tracks the trajectories of multiple particles that are released into an atmospheric flow model.
Partly Cloudy When the predominant/average sky condition is covered 3/8 to 4/8 with opaque (not transparent) clouds. Same as Partly Sunny.
Partly Sunny When the predominant/average sky condition is covered 3/8 to 4/8 with opaque (not transparent) clouds. Same as Partly Cloudy.
Pascal The unit of pressure produced when one newton acts on one square meter (1 N/m2). It is abbreviated Pa.
PAT Pattern
PBL Probable
PC-GRIDDS PC-Gridded Interactive Display and Diagnostic System - Allows the forecaster to view fields of gridded model output in contour or vector format. By doing this, the forecaster can extract relevant information from the numerical model grid-point data.
PCPN Precipitation
PD Period
PDI Palmer Drought Index
PDMT Predominant
PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation - a recently described pattern of climate variation similar to ENSO though on a timescale of decades and not seasons. It is characterized by SST anomalies of one sign in the north-central Pacific and SST anomalies of another sign to the north and east near the Aleutians and the Gulf of Alaska. It primarily affects weather patterns and sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and northern Pacific Islands. Two main characteristics distinguish PDO from El Ni?ɬ�o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO): first, 20th century PDO "events" persisted for 20-to-30 years, while typical ENSO events persisted for 6 to 18 months; second, the climatic fingerprints of the PDO are most visible in the North Pacific/North American sector, while secondary signatures exist in the tropics- the opposite is true for ENSO. Several independent studies found evidence of just two full PDO cycles in the past century: cool" PDO regimes prevailed from 1890-1924 and again from 1947-1976, while "warm" PDO regimes dominated from 1925-1946 and from 1977 through (at least) the mid-1990's. Causes for the PDO are not currently known. Likewise, the potential predictability for this climate oscillation are not known.
PDS Watch [Slang] A Severe Thunderstorm Watch or Tornado Watch with Enhanced Wording ("THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION") issued by the Storm Prediction Center.
PDSI Palmer Drought Severity Index - an index used to gage the severity of drought conditions by using a water balance equation to track water supply and demand. This index is calculated weekly by the National Weather Service.
PDT Pacific Daylight Time
Peak Discharge In hydrologic terms, the rate of discharge of a volume of water passing a given location
Peak Gust The highest instantaneous wind speed observed or recorded.
Peak Pulse The amount of power transmitted by a radar during a given pulse. Note that because these pulses are widely spaced, the average power will be much smaller.
Peak Wind Speed The maximum instantaneous wind speed since the last observation that exceeded 25 knots.
Pendant Echo Radar signature generally similar to a hook echo, except that the hook shape is not as well defined.
Penetrating Top Same as Overshooting Top; a dome-like protrusion above a thunderstorm anvil, representing a very strong updraft and hence a higher potential for severe weather with that storm. A persistent and/or large overshooting top (anvil dome) often is present on a supercell. A short-lived overshooting top, or one that forms and dissipates in cycles, may indicate the presence of a pulse storm.
Penumbra In solar-terrestrial terms, the sunspot area that may surround the darker umbra or umbrae. It consists of linear bright and dark elements radial from the sunspot umbra.
Perched Groundwater In hydrologic terms, local saturated zones above the water table which exist above an impervious layer of limited extent.
Percolation In hydrologic terms, the movement of water, under hydrostatic pressure, through the interstices of a rock or soil, except the movement through large openings such as caves
Percolation Path In hydrologic terms, the course followed by water moving or percolating through any other permeable material, or under a dam which rests upon a permeable foundation.
Perennial Stream In hydrologic terms, a stream that flows all year round.
Perigee The closest distance between moon and earth or the earth and sun.
Perihelion The point on the annual orbit of a body (about the sun) that is closest to the sun; at present, the earth reaches this point on about 5 January. Opposite of aphelion.
Permafrost A layer of soil at varying depths below the surface in which the temperature has remained below freezing continuously from a few to several thousands of years.
Permeability In hydrologic terms, the ability of a material to transmit fluid through its pores when subjected to a difference in head.
Permeability Coefficient In hydrologic terms, the rate of flow of a fluid through a cross section of a porous mass under a unit hydraulic gradient, at a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
Permeameter In hydrologic terms, a laboratory instrument for determining permeability by measuring the discharge through a sample of the material when a known hydraulic head is applied.
Persistence Continuation of existing conditions. When a physical parameter varies slowly, the best prediction is often persistence
Persistence Forecast A forecast that the current weather condition will persist and that future weather will be the same as the present (e.g., if it is raining today, a forecast predicting rain tonight).
Perturbation Model A computer model used to calculate air pollution concentrations. A perturbation model produces a wind field from solutions to a simplified set of equations that describe atmospheric motions.
Pervious Zone In hydrologic terms, a part of the cross section of an embankment dam comprising material of high permeability
PFD QPF Discussion (issued by the HPC)
Phenomenological Model A computer model used to calculate air pollution concentrations. A phenomenological model focuses on an individual phenomenon, such as plume impingement or fumigation.
Phiezometer In hydrologic terms, an instrument used to measure pressure head in a conduit, tank, soil, etc. They are used in dams to measure the level of saturation.
Photochemical Smog Air pollution containing ozone and other reactive chemical compounds formed by the reaction of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons in the presence of sunlight.
Photosphere The intensely bright portion of the sun visible to the unaided eye; the "surface" of the sun. Reaching temperatures estimated at about 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit, it is the portion of the sun's atmosphere which emits continuous electromagnetic radiation.
Phreatic water In hydrologic terms, water within the earth that supplies wells and springs; water in the zone of saturation where all openings in rocks and soil are filled, the upper surface of which forms the water table. Also termed Groundwater.
PIBAL Pilot balloon. A small helium-filled meteorological balloon that is tracked as it rises through the atmosphere to determine how wind speed and direction change with altitude.
Pilot Balloon (Abbrev. PIBAL)- A small helium-filled meteorological balloon that is tracked as it rises through the atmosphere to determine how wind speed and direction change with altitude.
Pilot Report (Abbrev. PIREP)- A report of inflight weather by an aircraft pilot or crew member. A complete coded report includes the following information in this order: location and/or extent of reported weather phenomenon: type of aircraft (only with reports turbulence or icing).
Pingo A large frost mound of more than one-year duration.
PIREP Pilot Report. A report of inflight weather by an aircraft pilot or crew member. A complete coded report includes the following information in this order: location and/or extent of reported weather phenomenon: type of aircraft (only with reports turbulence or icing).
Pitot Tube In hydrologic terms, a device for measuring the velocity of flowing water using the velocity head of the stream as an index of velocity. It consists essentially of an orifice held to a point upstream in the water, connected with a tube in which the rise of water due to velocity head may be observed and measured. It also may be constructed with an upstream and downstream orifice, with two water columns, in which case the difference in height of water column in the tubes is the index of velocity.
PL Ice pellets (sleet)
Plage In solar-terrestrial terms, an extended emission feature of an active region that exists from the emergence of the first magnetic flux until the widely scattered remnant magnetic fields merge with the background.
Plage Corridor In solar-terrestrial terms, a space in chromospheric plage lacking plage intensity, coinciding with polarity inversion line.
Plagenil In solar-terrestrial terms, spotless disc free of calcium plage.
Plan Position Indicator An acronym for Plan Position Indicator. A PPI displays radar data horizontally using a map projection. In PPI mode, the radar makes a 360-degree sweep with the antenna at a specific elevation angle. A PPI display is the familiar radar display shown on the television weather programs.
Planetary Boundary Layer The layer within the atmosphere between 1 km and the earth's surface where friction affects wind speed and wind direction.
Plasma Any ionized gas; that is, any gas containing ions and electrons.
Platform A generic radar term, often used to encompass the pedestal and antenna assembly; sometimes including the radar control, display and analysis hardware and software as well.
Plow Wind A term used in the midwestern United States to describe strong, straight-line winds associated with the downdrafts spreading out in advance of squall lines and thunderstorms. Resulting damage is usually confined to narrow zones like that caused by tornadoes; however, the winds are all in one direction (straight-line winds).
Plume Blight Visibility impairment caused by air pollution plumes aggregated from individual sources.
Plume Impingement The collision of a plume with topography that rises above the plume altitude; often a temporary condition that occurs as the plume sweeps by the face of a hill as the wind shifts.
Plume-dominated Fire A fire whose behavior is governed primarily by the local wind circulation produced in response to the strong convection above the fire rather than by the general wind.
Pluvial In hydrology, anything that is brought about directly by precipitation.
PMD Prognostic Discussion
PNA Pacific North American teleconnection
PNHDL Panhandle
PNS Public Information Statement - a narrative statement issued by a National Weather Service Forecast Office that can be used for:
1) A current or expected nonhazardous event of general interest to the public that can usually be covered with a single message (e.g., unusual atmospheric phenomena such as sun dogs, halos, rainbows, aurora borealis, lenticular clouds, and stories about a long-term dry/cold/wet/warm spell).
2) Public educational information and activities, such as storm safety rules, awareness activities, storm drills, etc.
3) Information regarding service changes, service limitations, interruptions due to reduced or lost power or equipment outages, or special information clarifying interpretation of NWS data. For example, this product may be used to inform users of radar equipment outages or special information clarifying interpretation of radar data originating from an unusual source which may be mistaken for precipitation (such as chaff drops, smoke plumes, etc., that produces echoes on the radar display.
POH Probability of Hail - a product from the NEXRAD hail detection algorithm that estimates the likelihood that hail is present in a storm.
Point Precipitation Precipitation at a particular site, in contrast to the mean precipitation over an area.
Point Source A pollutant source that can be treated in a dispersion model as though pollutants were emitted from a single point that is fixed in space. Example: the mouth of a smokestack. Compare area source and line source.
Polar Cap Absorption (PCA) In solar-terrestrial terms, an anomalous condition of the polar ionosphere whereby HF and VHF (3 - 300 MHz) radiowaves are absorbed, and LF and VLF (3 - 300 kHz) radiowaves are reflected at lower altitudes than normal. In practice, the absorption is inferred from the proton flux at energies greater than 10 MeV, so that PCAs and proton events are simultaneous. Transpolar radio paths may still be disturbed for days, up to weeks, following the end of a proton event.
Polar Front A semipermanent, semicontinuous front that separates tropical air masses from polar air masses.
Polar Jet Marked by a concentration of isotherms and strong vertical shear, this jet is the boundary between the polar air and the subtropical air. It often divides into two branches, the north and the south, and marks the high speed core of the prevailing westerlies. It is associated with the location and motion of the high and low pressure areas of the middle latitudes, and therefore, is variable in position, elevation, and wind speed. Its position tends to migrate south in the Northern Hemispheric winter and north in the summer, and its core winds increase during the winter and become less strong in the summer.
Polar Jet Stream Used interchangably with Polar Jet; a jet stream marked by a concentration of isotherms and strong vertical shear, this jet is the boundary between the polar air and the subtropical air. It often divides into two branches, the north and the south, and marks the high speed core of the prevailing westerlies. It is associated with the location and motion of the high and low pressure areas of the middle latitudes, and therefore, is variable in position, elevation, and wind speed. Its position tends to migrate south in the Northern Hemispheric winter and north in the summer, and its core winds increase during the winter and become less strong in the summer.
Polar Orbiting Satellite A weather satellite which travels over both poles each time it orbits the Earth. It orbits about 530 miles (850 km) above the Earth's surface. A satellite with an orbit nearly parallel to the earth's meridian lines which crosses the polar regions on each orbit.
Polarization Radar A radar which takes advantage of ways in which the transmitted waves' polarization affect the backscattering. Such radars may alternately transmit horizontal and vertically polarized beams, and measure differential reflectivity.
Pollutant Particles, gases, or liquid aerosols in the atmosphere which have an undesirable effect on humans or their surroundings. Something unfavorable to health and life that has been added to the environment.
Pondage In hydrologic terms,
(1) The holding back of water for later release for power development above the dam of a hydroelectric plant to
(a) equalize daily or weekly fluctuations of streamflow or
(b) to permit irregular hourly use of water by the wheels to care for fluctuations in the load demand.
(2) In general the holding back of water for later releases.
(3) The storage capacity available for the use of such water.
Ponding In hydrologic terms, in flat areas, runoff collects, or ponds in depression and cannot drain out. Flood waters must infiltrate slowly into the soil, evaporate, or be pumped out.
Pool The elevation of the surface of a body of water such as a lake. Specifically, the pool at a lock and dam or a reservoir is the elevation of the water surface immediately upstream from the dam.
Pool Height In hydrologic terms, the height of the water behind a dam. (Various datums may be used and various pool height may be used, e.g., conservation pool, flood control pool, etc.)
POP Probability of Precipitation
Popcorn Convection Slang for showers and thunderstorms that form on a scattered basis with little or no apparent organization, usually during the afternoon in response to diurnal heating. Individual thunderstorms typically are of the type sometimes referred to as air-mass thunderstorms: they are small, short-lived, very rarely severe, and they almost always dissipate near or just after sunset.
POPS Probability of Precipitation
Porosity In hydrologic terms,
(1) The ratio of pore volume to total volume of the formation. Sandy soils have large pores and a higher porosity than clays and other fine-grained soils.
(2) An index of the void characteristics of a soil or stream as pertaining to percolation; degree of previousness.
POS Positive
Positive Area The area on a sounding representing the layer in which a lifted parcel would be warmer than the environment; thus, the area between the environmental temperature profile and the path of the lifted parcel. Positive area is a measure of the energy available for convection; see CAPE.
Positive Cloud to Ground Lightning A CG flash that delivers positive charge to the ground, as opposed to the more common negative charge. Positive CGs have been found to occur more frequently in some severe thunderstorms. Their occurrence is detectable by most lightning detection networks, but visually it is not considered possible to distinguish between a positive CG and a negative CG. (Some claim to have observed a relationship between staccato lightning and positive CGs, but this relationship is as yet unproven.)
Positive Vorticity Advection (Abbrev. PVA) - Advection of higher values of vorticity into an area, which often is associated with upward motion (lifting) of the air. PVA typically is found in advance of disturbances aloft (i.e., shortwaves), and is a property which often enhances the potential for thunderstorm development.
Positive-tilt Trough An upper level system which is tilted to the east with increasing latitude (i.e., from southwest to northeast). A positive-tilt trough often is a sign of a weakening weather system, and generally is less likely to result in severe weather than a negative-tilt trough if all other factors are equal.
Post-Flare Loops In solar-terrestrial terms, a loop prominence system often seen after a major two-ribbon flare, which bridges the ribbons.
Post-storm Report A report issued by a local National Weather Service office summarizing the impact of a tropical cyclone on it's forecast area. These reports include information on observed winds, pressures, storm surges, rainfall, tornadoes, damage and casualties.
Potential Temperature The temperature a parcel of dry air would have if brought adiabatically (i.e., without transfer of heat or mass) to a standard pressure level of 1000 mb.
Potential Vorticity This plays an important role in the generation of vorticity in cyclogenesis, especially along the polar front. It is also very useful in tracing intrusions of stratospheric air deep into the troposphere in the vicinity of jet streaks.
Powder Snow Dry, loose, unconsolidated snow.
Power A radar equation to describe the amount of power that a radar emits.
P = I * V (or)
P = V2 / R (or)
P = I2 / R
where I is current (amps), V is voltage (volts), R is resistance (ohms), P is power (watts).
PPI Plan Position Indicator
PPINE Plan Position Indicates No Echoes, referring to the fact that a radar detects no precipitation within its range. An intensity-modulated display on which echo signals are shown in plain view with range and azimuth angle displayed in polar coordinates, forming a map-like display. Each PPI is taken at a single, fixed elevation angle, and thus forms a cone of coverage in space. PPIs may be run in sequence, creating a "volume scan".
PQPF Probabilistic QPF; a form of QPF (see below) that includes an assigned probability of occurrence for each numerical value in the forecast product.
PRBLTY Probability
PRBLY probably
PRCP Precipitation
Pre-Frontal Squall Line A line of thunderstorms that precedes an advancing cold front.
Pre-Frontal Trough An elongated area of relatively low pressure preceding a cold front that is usually associated with a shift in wind direction.
Pre-Hurricane Squall Line It is often the first serious indication that a hurricane is approaching. It is a generally a straight line and resembles a squall-line that occurs with a mid-latitude cold front. It is as much as 50 miles or even more before the first ragged rain echoes of the hurricane's bands and is usually about 100 to 200 miles ahead of the eye, but it has been observed to be as much as 500 miles ahead of the eye in the largest hurricanes.
PRECD Precede
Precipitable Water Measure of the depth of liquid water at the surface that would result after precipitating all of the water vapor in a vertical column over a given location, usually extending from the surface to 300 mb.
Precipitation The process where water vapor condenses in the atmosphere to form water droplets that fall to the Earth as rain, sleet, snow, hail, etc.
Precipitation Attenuation The loss of energy that radar beam experiences as it passes through an area of precipitation.
Precipitation Mode The standard, or default, operational mode of the WSR-88D. The radar automatically switches into precipitation mode from clear-air mode if the measured reflectivity exceeds a specific threshold value. The precipitation mode of NEXRAD is more sensitive than previous weather radars. The minimum detectable reflectivity in NEXRAD's precipitation mode is 5 dBZ, compared to 28 dBZ with the old WSR-57.
Precipitation Processing System The WSR-88D system that generates 1-hour running, 3-hourly, and running storm total precipitation accumulations. Five functional steps are performed to calculate the best estimate of precipitation: 1) development of a sectorized hybrid scan, 2) conversion to precipitation rate, 3) precipitation accumulation, 4) adjustment using rain gages, 5) product update.
Precision The accuracy with which a number can be represented, i.e., the number of digits used to represent a number.
Predominant Wind The wind that in the forecasters judgment generates (or is expected to generate) the local component of the significant sea conditions across the forecast area. This is the wind included in all marine forecast products.
Preliminary Report Now known as the "Tropical Cyclone Report". A report summarizing the life history and effects of an Atlantic or eastern Pacific tropical cyclone. It contains a summary of the cyclone life cycle and pertinent meteorological data, including the post-analysis best track (six-hourly positions and intensities) and other meteorological statistics. It also contains a description of damage and casualties the system produced, as well as information on forecasts and warnings associated with the cyclone. NHC writes a report on every tropical cyclone in its area of responsibility.
PRES Pressure
Prescribed Fire A management ignited or natural wildland fire that burns under specified conditions where the fire is confined to a predetermined area and produces the fire behavior and fire characteristics required to attain planned fire treatment and resource management objectives.
Present Movement The best estimate of the movement of the center of a tropical cyclone at a given time and given position. This estimate does not reflect the short-period, small scale oscillations of the cyclone center.
Present Weather The type of weather observed at the reporting time. These conditions may include types and intensity of precipitation such as light rain or heavy snow, as well as the condition of the air environment such as foggy, hazy or blowing dust.
Pressure The exertion of force upon a surface by a fluid (e.g., the atmosphere) in contact with it.
Pressure Altimeter An aneroid barometer calibrated to indicate altitude in feet instead of units of pressure. It is read accurately only in a standard atmosphere and when the correct altimeter setting is used.
Pressure Altitude The altitude in standard atmosphere at which a given pressure will be observed. It is the indicated altitude of a pressure altimeter at an altitude setting of 29.92 inches of mercury, and is therefore the indicated altitude above the 29.92 constant pressure surface.
Pressure Change The net difference between the barometric pressure at the beginning and ending of a specified interval of time, usually the three hour period preceding an observation.
Pressure Characteristic The pattern of the pressure change during the specified period of time, usually the three hour period preceding an observation. This is recorded in three categories: falling, rising, or steady.
Pressure Couplet It is an area where you have a high pressure area located adjacent to a low pressure area.
Pressure Falling Rapidly A decrease in station pressure at a rate of 0.06 inch of mercury or more per hour which totals 0.02 inch or more.
Pressure Gage A device for registering the pressure of solids, liquids, or gases. It may be graduated to register pressure in any units desired.
Pressure Gradient The amount of pressure change occurring over a given distance.
Pressure Gradient Force A three-dimensional force vector operating in the atmosphere that accelerates air parcels away from regions of high pressure and toward regions of low pressure in response to an air pressure gradient. Usually resolved into vertical and horizontal components.
Pressure Head Energy contained by fluid because of its pressure, usually expressed in feet of fluid (foot pounds per pound).
Pressure Ice Floating sea, river, or lake ice that has been deformed, altered, or forced upward in pressure ridges by the lateral stresses of any combination of wind, water currents, tides, waves, and surf.
Pressure Jump A sudden, sharp increase in atmospheric pressure, typically occurring along an active front and preceding a storm.
Pressure Rising Rapidly An increase in station pressure at a rate of 0.06 inch of mercury or more per hour which totals 0.02 inch or more.
Pressure Tendency The character and amount of atmospheric pressure change during a specified period of time, usually 3-hour period preceding an observation.
Pressure Unsteady A pressure that fluctuates by 0.03 inch of mercury or more from the mean pressure during the period of measurement.
Pressure-driven Channeling Channeling of wind in a valley by synoptic-scale pressure gradients superimposed along the valley's axis. Compare forced channeling.
Prevailing Visibility The visibility that is considered representative of conditions at the station; the greatest distance that can be seen throughout at least half the horizon circle, not necessarily continuous.
Prevailing Westerlies The westerly winds that dominant in middle latitudes.
Prevailing Winds A wind that consistently blows from one direction more than from any other.
Prevention of Significant Deterioration A program, specified in the Clean Air Act, whose goal is to prevent air quality from deteriorating significantly in areas of the country that are presently meeting the ambient air quality standards.
PRIM Primary
Primary Ambient Air Quality Standards Air quality standards designed to protect human health.
Primary Pollutant Substances that are pollutants immediately on entering the atmosphere. Compare secondary pollutant.
PRIN Principal
Probability A chance, or likelihood, that a certain event might happen.
Probability Forecast A forecast of the probability that one or more of a mutually exclusive set of weather conditions will occur.
Probability of Hail (Abbrev. POH) - a product from the NEXRAD hail detection algorithm that estimates the likelihood that hail is present in a storm.
Probability of Precipitation (Abbrev. PoP)- The probability that precipitation will be reported at a certain location during a specified period of time.
Probability of Thunderstorms The probability based on climatology that a thunderstorm will be reported at that location during a specified period of time.
Probability of Tropical Cyclone Conditio The probability, in percent, that the cyclone center will pass within 50 miles to the right or 75 miles to the left of the listed location within the indicated time period when looking at the coast in the direction of the cyclone's movement.
Product Resolution The smallest spatial increment or data element that is distinguishable in a given Doppler radar product.
Profiler An instrument designed to measure horizontal winds directly above its location, and thus measure the vertical wind profile. Profilers operate on the same principles as Doppler radar.
PROG Forecast (prognostication)
PROGGED Forecasted
Prognostic Discussion This Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC) discussion may include analysis of numerical and statistical models, meteorological circulation patterns and trends, and confidence factors. Reference is usually made to the manually produced 6- to 10-day Northern Hemisphere prognoses for mean 500 millibar heights and mean 500 millibar height anomalies. Discussions may also refer to the method of operational ensemble predictions.
Progressive Derecho Derecho characterized by a short curved squall line oriented nearly perpendicular to the mean wind direction with a bulge in the general direction of the mean flow. Downburst activity occurs along the bulging portion of the line. This type of derecho typically occurs in the warm season (May through August) and is most frequent in a zone extending from eastern South Dakota to the upper Ohio Valley. The severe wind storms typically begin during the afternoon and continue into the evening hours. Several hours typically pass between initial convection and the first wind damage report.
Prominence A term identifying cloud-like features in the solar atmosphere. The features appear as bright structures in the CORONA above the solar LIMB and as dark FILAMENTs when seen projected against the solar DISK
PROPA Propagation (movement)
Propagation 1. The movement of an atmospheric phenomenon. This term is frequently applied to the motion of thunderstorms into regions favorable for their continued development (into a maritime tropical airmass).
2. The transmission of electromagnetic energy as waves through or along a medium.
Property Protection Measures that are undertaken usually by property owners in order to prevent, or reduce flood damage. Property protection measures are often inexpensive for the community because they are implemented by or cost-shared with property owners. In many cases the buildings' appearance or use is unaffected, so these measurements are particularity appropriate for historical sites and landmarks. These measures include relocation and acquisition, flood proofing, and buying flood insurance.
Proton Solar activity levels with at least one high energy event (Class X Flares).
Proton Event In solar-terrestrial terms, the measurement of at least 10 protons/cm2/sec/steradian at energies greater than 10 MeV.
Proton Flare In solar-terrestrial terms, any flare producing significant fluxes of greater-than-10 MeV protons in the vicinity of the earth.
PRST Persist
PRVD Provide
PSBL Possible
Pseudo-Cold Front A boundary between a supercell's inflow region and the rear-flank downdraft (or RFD). It extends outward from the mesocyclone center, usually toward the south or southwest (but occasionally bows outward to the east or southeast in the case of an occluded mesocyclone), and is characterized by advancing of the downdraft air toward the inflow region. It is a particular form of gust front.
Pseudo-Warm Front A boundary between a supercell's inflow region and the forward-flank downdraft (or FFD). It extends outward from at or near the mesocyclone center, usually toward the east or southeast, and normally is either nearly stationary or moves northward or northeastward ahead of the mesocyclone.
PSG Passage
PST Pacific Standard Time
Psychrometer An instrument used to measure the water vapor content of the air; a hygrometer consisting essentially of two similar thermometers with the bulb of one being kept wet so that the cooling that results from evaporation makes it register a lower temperature than the dry one and with the difference between the readings constituting a measure of the dryness of the atmosphere
PTCHY Patchy
PTDY On a buoy report, Pressure Tendency is the sign (plus or minus) and the amount of pressure change (hPa) for a three hour period ending at the time of observation.
PTLY Partly
PTN Portion
PTWC Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, located in Honolulu, HI.
Public Information Statement A narrative statement issued by a National Weather Service Forecast Office that can be used for:
Public Severe Weather Outlook These are issued when the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Oklahoma anticipates an especially significant and/or widespread outbreak of severe weather. This outlook will stress the seriousness of the situation, defines the threat area, and provides information on the timing of the outbreak. The lead time on this outlook is normally less than 36 hours prior to the severe weather event.
Puddle In hydrologic terms,
(1) The act of compacting earth, soil clay, etc., by mixing them with water and rolling or tamping the mixture.
(2) A compact mass of earth, soil, clay, or a mixture of material, which has been compacted through the addition of water, rolling and tamping. This makes the material less permeable.
(3) A small pool of water, usually a few inches in depth and from several inches to several feet in it greatest dimension.
Puget Sound Convergence Zone A situation where wind forced around the Olympic Mountains converges over the Puget Sound. Causes extreme variability in weather conditions around Seattle, Washington with some areas of sunshine and others in clouds and rain.
Pulse A short burst of electromagnetic energy that a radar sends out in a straight line to detect a precipitation target. The straight line that this pulse travels along is called a radar beam.
Pulse Duration The time over which a radar pulse lasts. The pulse duration can be multiplied by the speed of light to determine the pulse length or pulse width.
Pulse Length The linear distance in range occupied by an individual pulse from a radar. h = c * t , where t is the duration of the transmitted pulse, c is the speed of light, h is the length of the pulse in space. Note, in the radar equation, the length h/2 is actually used for calculating pulse volume because we are only interested in signals that arrive back at the radar simultaneously. This is also called a pulse width.
Pulse Radar A type of radar, designed to facilitate range (distance) measurements, in which are transmitted energy emitted in periodic, brief transmission.
Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF) The amount of time between successive pulses, or bursts, of electromagnetic energy that is transmitted by a radar. The PRF determines the maximum range at which echoes can be detected and also the maximum radial velocity that can be detected by a Doppler radar.
Pulse Repetition Time (PRT) The time elapsed between pulses by the radar. This is also called the pulse interval.
Pulse Resolution Volume A discrete radar sampling volume, of dimensions (horizontal beamwidth * vertical beamwidth * 1 range gate).
Pulse Severe Thunderstorms Single cell thunderstorms which produce brief periods of severe weather (3/4 inch hail, wind gusts in the excess of 58 miles an hour, or a tornado).
Pulse Storm A thunderstorm within which a brief period (pulse) of strong updraft occurs, during and immediately after which the storm produces a short episode of severe weather. These storms generally are not tornado producers, but often produce large hail and/or damaging winds. See also overshooting top.
Pulse Width Same as Pulse Length; the linear distance in range occupied by an individual pulse from a radar. h = c * t , where t is the duration of the transmitted pulse, c is the speed of light, h is the length of the pulse in space. Note, in the radar equation, the length h/2 is actually used for calculating pulse volume because we are only interested in signals that arrive back at the radar simultaneously.
Pulse-Pair Processing Nickname for the technique of mean velocity estimation by calculation of the signal complex covariance argument. The calculation requires two consecutive pulses, hence "pulse-pair".
PVA Positive Vorticity Advection - the advection of higher values of vorticity into an area.
PVL Prevail
PW Precipitable Water - measure of the depth of liquid water at the surface that would result after precipitating all of the water vapor in a vertical column over a given location, usually extending from the surface to 300 mb.
PWAT Precipitable Water - measure of the depth of liquid water at the surface that would result after precipitating all of the water vapor in a vertical column over a given location, usually extending from the surface to 300 mb.
PWO Public Severe Weather Outlook
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The Latest: Dayton Reports Minor Injuries Only After Storms
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on damaging storms across the central United States (all times local):
Authorities in Dayton, Ohio, say a series of apparent tornadoes caused a few minor injuries but no reported fatalities within the city.
Dayton Fire Chief Jeffrey Payne called that "pretty miraculous" during a Tuesday morning briefing. Payne attributed the good news to people heeding early warnings about the storm.
Residents say sirens started going off around 10:30 p.m. Monday ahead of the storm.
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley urged residents to check on neighbors, especially those who are housebound.
Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein says a boil advisory has been issued for residents after the storms cut power to Dayton's pump stations. She says generators are being rushed in.
The storms caused severe damage in communities northwest of Dayton, where officials were still assessing damage, and also damaged at least 75 homes in Indiana.
The president has tweeted his support for tornado survivors in Oklahoma, where two people were killed and 29 were injured by a twister that struck a motel and mobile home park over the weekend.
Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that he spoke with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt from Japan and told him that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the "federal government are fully behind him and the great people of Oklahoma."
Emergency crews are going door-to-door checking homes in Indiana after damaging storms spawned apparent tornadoes in the state and in Ohio.
Madison County Emergency Management spokesman Todd Harmeson says least 75 homes were damaged in Pendleton and the nearby community of Huntsville. No serious injuries were reported in the area or other parts of the state where possible tornadoes hit Monday night.
Madison County authorities say roads in Pendleton, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis, are blocked with trees, downed power lines and utility poles. Pendleton High School is open as a shelter.
The National Weather Service says a survey team will investigate damage in Madison County and possibly in Henry County. Another team may survey damage in Tippecanoe County.
The energy company serving the Dayton, Ohio, area says at least 64,000 customers are without power following a series of apparent tornadoes.
Dayton Power & Light said in a tweet early Tuesday it was undertaking a "multi-day restoration effort" and urged customers to make emergency backup plans.
The National Weather Service reported earlier more than 70,000 outages across Ohio, affecting more than 5 million people.
The service confirmed Monday night that a "large and dangerous tornado" hit near Trotwood, Ohio, outside of Dayton.
The storm tore roofs off several apartment buildings in Trotwood.
Multiple schools are closed or starting late around Dayton following the storm damage.
The National Weather Service says there are more 70,000 power outages across the state of Ohio, affecting over 5 million people.
The service tweeted Tuesday morning that to send reports of outages via social media or email if possible.
It also says the tornado threat has "exited our area of responsibility."
The service confirmed Monday night that a "large and dangerous tornado" hit near Trotwood, Ohio, outside of Dayton. ___
An Indiana town was heavily damaged by storms, including reports of two tornados.
WRTV-TV reports that Madison County Emergency Management spokesman Todd Harmeson said Tuesday morning that, "We do not know at this time if this was a tornado, straight-line winds or what the cause was" of damage in Pendleton. He says there are several videos floating around that show funnel clouds but that the National Weather Service will make that determination.
Harmeson says residents should stay indoors due to energized downed powerlines on the ground. "We just believe at this time it is not safe," he said. He says an estimated 4,000 people are without power.
Pendleton residents being evacuated can go to the Pendleton High School cafeteria for shelter.
Pendleton is 35 miles (56 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is using snow plows to remove debris off an Ohio highway after a "large and dangerous" tornado hit the area late Monday.
Transportation spokesman Matt Bruning said its crews are using several plows to scrape debris off to the side of southbound Interstate 75, trying to get the highway reopened as soon as possible. "We'll do a more thorough cleaning after we get lanes opened," he told the Associated Press via text early Tuesday. He said tow trucks eventually will have to deal with damaged vehicles along the roadway, too. He said other crews are also clearing debris northwest of Dayton in Mercer and Darke counties. Trying to clear the debris in the middle of the night is a difficult task, complicated by darkness and downed power lines, Bruning said.
The National Weather Service confirmed Monday night that a "large and dangerous tornado" hit near Trotwood, Ohio, outside of Dayton.
This story has been corrected to show the tornado struck Ohio on Monday night, not Sunday.
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‘Hull have hit form at the right time… 39 points should be enough for us’
Michael Dawson says Hull have hit form at the right time and believes another nine points should be enough to secure Premier League survival.The Tigers started the year bottom of the table, having collected just 13 points from their opening 20 games, but have been rejuvenated since Marco Silva replaced Mike Phelan as manager.The 4-2 victory over Middlesbrough on Wednesday night was the club’s fifth in 11 games under Silva and has moved them out of the relegation zone for the first time since October.Hull now sit on 30 points having played 31 matches and captain Dawson is confident they can go on to retain their top-flight status.“It is about hitting form at the right time and with seven games to go that is something we have done,” he said, speaking to the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.“When the gaffer came in, we were bottom of the league and the majority of people had written us off.“Maybe 39 it could be to keep us up this year. With our run, certainly people will be looking over their shoulders now all the way up.“The teams all around us are going to be playing each other, so I’m thinking maybe 38 or 39 points is what we need.”All five of Hull’s wins under Silva have come at the KCOM Stadium, and Dawson has praised the impact the Portuguese coach has had on the club.“To stay in the Premier League home form is so vital and since he has come in it has been magnificent,” the defender said.“Confidence keeps building but there is an awful lot of work still to be done. Hopefully at the end of May we are still a Premier League team. That is our goal, it hasn’t changed from the start of the season, and we keep going.” read more
Real Madrid plotting move for Mbappe that will break world transfer record
MOST READ IN FOOTBALL Spurs investigation into alleged racial abuse of Rudiger is so far ‘inconclusive’ targets Liverpool transfer news live: Mbappe latest, Lille star wants to join Reds in future Chelsea fan arrested for allegedly racially abusing Heung-min Son Liverpool have also been mooted as a possible destination for Mbappe, although Jurgen Klopp has made his thoughts clear already on the prospect of that transfer happening.Speaking earlier this month, he said: “We have nothing to say about it to be honest, but [buying] this calibre of player is difficult!“I don’t think there is a club in the world that can buy Kylian Mbappe from PSG, that is how it is. And we are involved in that too.“We cannot do it, it is as easy as that. OK, from a sporting point of view, there are not a lot of reasons to not sign him, what a player he is.“But it is about the money of course. No chance. Absolutely no chance, sorry for killing that story!” latest appointed Any move for the world renowned superstar would smash the current world record transfer fee, which was also paid by PSG to sign Neymar from Barcelona for £198m.It is no surprise European giants such as Real are circling with Mbappe notching 69 goals and registering 36 assists in just 98 appearances for the French giants.According to Spanish publication Marca, PSG are already looking possible Mbappe replacements.Marca claim PSG officials have identified Barcelona forward Antoine Griezmann as the ideal player to fill the void should Mbappe depart.Diario Sport have also reported that PSG are interested in signing Vinicius Junior, who has struggled for game time under Real boss Zinedine Zidane this season. rookie error on target Strugglers Wigan hold Blackburn to goalless draw in Championship statement Top scorer in 2019: Messi, Mbappe and Sterling trailing Europe’s top marksman Ian Holloway thinks Arsenal have made a mistake in hiring Mikel Arteta AFP or licensors 1 Steve Round reveals how Mikel Arteta convinced him to join Arsenal staff update Kylian Mbappe has started the season excellently, scoring nine goals in 11 games Tony Cascarino backs Everton to sign two strikers for Carlo Ancelotti stalemate Real Madrid are reportedly eyeing a world record move to bring sought-after Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe to the Bernabeu.French newspaper Le Parisien claim the LaLiga giants are weighing up a staggering £343million (€400m) offer to prise the 20-year-old away from the Parc des Princes. read more
2016 WIAA football playoffs, Level 1 matchups announced
Stratford, Spencer/Columbus host opening-round games; Auburndale hits the roadBy Paul LeckerSports ReporterThe brackets have been released for the upcoming 2016 WIAA football playoffs, which will begin with Level 1 contests in seven divisions on Friday, Oct. 21.There will be four rounds of playoffs leading to the WIAA State Football Championships at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison on 17-18.Locally, Stratford (8-1) and Spencer/Columbus Catholic (7-2) are on the same side of the Division 5 bracket.Third-seed Stratford will host Colby (4-5), and Spencer/Columbus is the No. 4 seed in the bottom half of the bracket and will be at home in Spencer against Bonduel. Both games will be played Friday at 7 p.m.Should Spencer/Columbus win, it could set up a rematch of last year’s Division 5 state championship game against No. 1 seed Amherst in Level 2.In Division 6, Auburndale (4-5) will travel to Marawood Conference rival Marathon (8-1) for a Level 1 contest Friday at 7 p.m. Marathon beat Auburndale 45-7 on Oct. 7.(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)2016 WIAA State Football Playoffs — Level 1*All games will be Friday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m., unless otherwise notedDivision 1Group ANo. 8 Appleton North at No. 1 Bay PortNo. 5 D.C. Everest at No. 4 Wisconsin RapidsNo. 6 Chippewa Falls at No. 3 HudsonNo. 7 Green Bay Preble at No. 1 Stevens PointGroup BNo. 8 Milwaukee Vincent/Destiny at No. 1 KimberlyNo. 5 Neenah at No. 4 Appleton WestNo. 6 Milwaukee Morse-Marshall/Carmen/Juneau/Languages at No. 3 Milwaukee KingNo. 7 Milwaukee Washington/Sciences/Collegiate at No. 2 Fond du LacGroup CNo. 8 Madison La Follette at No. 1 Sun PrairieNo. 5 Middleton at No. 4 OconomowocNo. 6 Hartland Arrowhead at No. 3 VeronaNo. 7 Madison West at No. 2 Lake Geneva BadgerGroup DNo. 8 Milwaukee Hamilton/Audubon at No. 1 FranklinNo. 5 Kenosha Bradford/Reuther at No. 4 Oak CreekNo. 6 Kenosha Indian Trail at No. 3 Racine HorlickNo. 7 Milwaukee Riverside/Golda Meir at No. 2 Milwaukee MarquetteDivision 2Group ANo. 8 Wausau West at No. 1 MenomonieNo. 5 Ashwaubenon at No. 4 Green Bay SouthwestNo. 6 Pulaski at No. 3 HortonvilleNo. 7 Holmen at No. 2 SuperiorGroup BNo. 8 Wauwatosa West at No. 1 Brookfield CentralNo. 5 Oshkosh North at No. 4 HartfordNo. 6 Cedarburg at No. 3 Brookfield EaastNo. 7 Menomonee Falls at No. 2 MenashaGroup CNo. 8 DeForest at No. 1 WaunakeeNo. 5 Monona Grove at No. 4 WaterfordNo. 6 Stoughton at No. 3 Waukesha WestNo. 7 Watertown at No. 2 WilmotGroup DNo. 8 Milwaukee Bradley at No. 1 Mequon HomesteadNo. 5 Shorewood/Milwaukee Messmer at No. 4 GermantownNo. 6 Milwaukee Bay View/Lifelong Learning at No. 3 GreenfieldNo. 7 South Milwaukee at No. 2 Whitefish BayDivision 3Group ANo. 8 Merrill at No. 1 Rice LakeNo. 5 La Crosse Logan at No. 4 Hayward/Lac Courte OreillesNo. 6 Medford at No. 3 New RichmondNo. 7 Sparta at No. 2 OnalaskaGroup BNo. 8 Shawano at No. 1 Green Bay Notre DameNo. 5 Fox Valley Lutheran at No. 4 AntigoNo. 6 Waupaca at No. 3 West De PereNo. 7 Seymour at No. 2 Luxemburg-CascoGroup CNo. 8 Reedsburg at No. 1 MonroeNo. 5 Evansville/Albany at No. 4 Fort AtkinsonNo. 6 Jefferson at No. 3 PewaukeeNo. 7 Delavan-Darien at No. 2 Mount Horeb/BarneveldGroup DNo. 8 New Berlin West at No. 1 Waukesha Catholic MemorialNo. 5 Wisconsin Lutheran at No. 4 New Berlin EisenhowerNo. 6 Greendale at No. 3 PlymouthNo. 7 Port Washington at No. 2 KewaskumDivision 4Group ANo. 8 Altoona at No. 1 OsceolaNo. 5 Northwestern at No. 4 St. Croix CentralNo. 6 Nekoosa at No. 3 West SalemNo. 7 Amery at No. 2 Gale-Ettrick-TrempealeauGroup BNo. 8 Peshtigo at No. 1 Little ChuteNo. 5 Wrightstown at No. 4 Adams-FriendshipNo. 6 Appleton Xavier at No. 3 FreedomNo. 7 Omro at No. 2 BerlinGroup CNo. 8 Big Foot at No. 1 River ValleyNo. 5 Brodhead/Juda at No. 4 LodiNo. 6 Mauston at No. 3 Lake MillsNo. 7 East Troy at No. 2 PlattevilleGroup DNo. 8 Kohler/Sheboygan Lutheran/Sheboygan Christian at No. 1 Sheboygan FallsNo. 5 St. Francis at No. 4 KielNo. 6 Glendale Martin Luther at No. 3 University School of MilwaukeeNo. 7 Ripon at No. 2 Two RiversDivision 5Group ANo. 8 Cameron at No. 1 Stanley-BoydNo. 5 Bloomer at No. 4 Elk MoundNo. 6 Colby at No. 3 StratfordNo. 7 St. Croix Falls at No. 2 DurandGroup BNo. 8 Oconto at No. 1 AmherstNo. 5 Bonduel at No. 4 Spencer/Columbus Catholic (at Spencer)No. 6 Valders at No. 3 Winnebago LutheranNo. 7 Kewaunee at No. 2 Southern DoorGroup CNo. 8 Marshall at No. 1 ClintonNo. 5 New Glarus/Monticello at No. 4 ArcadiaNo. 6 Horicon/Hustisford at No. 3 LaconiaNo. 7 Westby at No. 2 LancasterGroup DNo. 8 Whitefish Bay Dominican at No. 1 ColumbusNo. 5 Kenosha St. Joseph at No. 4 Random LakeNo. 6 Brookfield Academy at No. 3 Racine St. Catherine’sNo. 7 Oostburg at No. 2 Cedar Grove-BelgiumDivision 6Group ANo. 8 Cochrane-Fountain City at No. 1 GrantsburgNo. 5 Glenwood City at No. 4 Spring ValleyNo. 6 Melrose-Mindoro at No. 3 Chetek-WeyerhaeuserNo. 7 Unity at No. 2 Eau Claire RegisGroup BNo. 8 Crandon at No. 1 ColemanNo. 5 Niagara/Goodman/Pembine at No. 4 Rib Lake/PrenticeNo. 6 Auburndale at No. 3 MarathonNo. 7 Wabeno/Laona at No. 2 AbbotsfordGroup CNo. 8 Brookwood at No. 1 DarlingtonNo. 5 Mineral Point at No. 4 FennimoreNo. 6 Cuba City at No. 3 MarkesanNo. 7 Waterloo at No. 2 Pecatonica/Argyle (at Argyle)Group DNo. 8 Manawa vs. No. 1 Fond du Lac St. Mary’s Springs at North Fond du LacNo. 5 Dodgeland at No. 4 Lake Country LutheranNo. 6 Racine Lutheran at No. 3 Iola-ScandinaviaNo. 7 Shiocton at No. 2 OzaukeeDivision 7Group ANo. 8 Chippewa Falls McDonell at No. 1 BangorNo. 5 Elmwood/Plum City vs. No. 4 De Soto at UW-La Crosse or La Crosse LoganNo. 6 Eleva-Strum at No. 3 Turtle LakeNo. 7 Clear Lake at No. 2 Pepin/AlmaGroup BNo. 8 Suring at No. 1 Wild RoseNo. 5 Wisconsin Rapids Assumption at No. 4 EdgarNo. 6 Owen-Withee at No. 3 HurleyNo. 7 Almond-Bancroft at No. 2 LoyalGroup CNo. 8 North Crawford at No. 1 IthacaNo. 5 Iowa-Grant at No. 4 HighlandNo. 6 Wauzeka-Steuben/Seneca at No. 3 Black HawkNo. 7 Potosi at No. 2 ShullsburgGroup DNo. 8 Tri-County at No. 1 Hilbert/StockbridgeNo. 5 New Lisbon at No. 4 RoyallNo. 6 Fall River at No. 3 Oshkosh LourdesNo. 7 Johnson Creek at No. 2 Cambria-Friesland read more
Football feast for SA fans
FNB Stadium is one of the legacies of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.(Image: Bongani Nkosi)The legacy of the 2010 Fifa World Cup will stand South Africa in good stead, as the country prepares to stage yet another spectacular football tournament, this time the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).South Africa received the nod to host Afcon 2017 after being pipped by Morocco for the 2015 event. The two were the only nations bidding after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) pulled out.The Confederation of African Football (Caf) announced its decision on 29 January in Lubumbashi, DRC, after evaluating bids from the two competing nations.The South African Football Association’s (Safa) delegation, comprising its president Kirsten Nematandani, vice president Danny Jordaan and outgoing CEO Leslie Sedibe, concluded their bid in a 45-minute presentation before Caf’s announcement, as did Morocco’s representatives.Safa wanted the 2015 rights as it felt the country is more than ready to host Afcon within the next four years.“Considering that we have all the resources in place, our preference was to host the tournament in 2015,” said Nematandani in a statement.The country’s 2010 Fifa World Cup infrastructure has been widely acclaimed. Dazzling venues like FNB in Soweto, Moses Mabhida in Durban, Nelson Mandela Bay in Port Elizabeth and the eye-catching Cape Town Stadium are part of the international tournament’s legacy for South Africa.Billions were spent on building new and reconstructing old stadiums. Even low-key provinces like Mpumalanga and Limpopo now have world-class venues.The 43 500-seater Mbombela Stadium in Mpumalanga was built at a cost of R1.5-billion (US$140-million). Peter Mokaba Stadium in Limpopo cost the tax-payer about R1.24-billion (US$150-million) and can accommodate more than 45 000 spectators.The football World Cup’s 64 matches were staged in 10 stadiums across eight of the nine provinces. With such a wealth of experience, South Africa will not find it difficult to prepare for 2017.“I think we’ll rely on the legacy of the World Cup. Our stadiums are in good condition,” said Safa’s spokesman Morio Sanyane in an interview.“Our roads are also good,” Sanyane added. “We did a great job in transporting people during the World Cup.”While main roads were transformed for the international spectacle, public transport also received a major boost in cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town, where efficient Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems were introduced.Road to 2017Though Safa lost the bid for 2015 Afcon, it does not feel hard done by Caf and has congratulated Morocco. “Safa has welcomed the decision of Caf,” Sanyane said.“We congratulate Morocco and wish them all the best in hosting this project of continental importance,” Nematandani said.Part of the preparations for the 2017 event will be to review Safa’s 2014 vision, a strategy that focuses on competitions like the 2012 Afcon in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea and the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil.“Our strategy has to incorporate various aspects that will lead to the successful hosting of the 2017 Afcon,” said Nematandani. “2017 may seem far away, but the work starts now so that we are better prepared come the time.”Safa has confirmed that they will bid for the 2014 Fifa Club World Cup tournament, whose 2010 edition was hosted by the United Arab Emirates last December.Preparing Bafana for gloryIn 2017 it will be exactly 21 years since South Africa hosted Afcon. The historic 1996 contest took place in the four host cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth, and national team Bafana Bafana snatched the top honours from Tunisia before 80 000 fans in magnificent style.But Bafana’s Afcon performance has slumped after their debut victory in the tournament. The best results the team has produced since then are runners up in 1998 and third places in 1999 and 2002. They went out in the first round in three Afcons between 2004 and 2008.Fans around the country were devastated when Bafana failed to qualify for the 2010 Afcon in Angola.However, the team started their 2012 qualifying matches rather well in 2010. Bafana, which beat France in the World Cup, went on to thump Niger 2-0 in their first Afcon qualifier at Mbombela Stadium in September 2010.They played to a 0-0 draw against Sierra Leone in an away match. The next qualifier is a contest against the resilient Egyptian team in March in South Africa.Bafana have four important home and away matches where they have to achieve top points to secure a place in next year’s tournament.Then it’s the race to qualify for the 2013 Afcon in Libya, and Bafana will also need to qualify for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. read more
Krunchd: Another URL Shortener… with an Interesting Twist
A Web Developer’s New Best Friend is the AI Wai… Why Tech Companies Need Simpler Terms of Servic… Top Reasons to Go With Managed WordPress Hosting rick turoczy 1 Tags:#Product Reviews#web 8 Best WordPress Hosting Solutions on the Market Here at ReadWriteWeb, we’re no strangers to URL shortening services. We use them all of the time – and we’re proponents of using something other than TinyURL. But with the vast array of URL shortening services out there, it generally takes something interesting to turn our heads. Now, a new URL shortener called Krunchd has done just that, by providing a feature that has less to do with shortening URLs and more to do with how we communicate with URLs on a regular basis.Like any number of services out there, Krunchd provides the prerequisite URL shortening functions: a way to customize your link with a memorable phrase (of up to 12 characters), tagging, and, of course, the shortened URL. What makes Krunchd special is how many URLs it allows you to shorten at once. You see, with Krunchd, you’re not just shortening one URL, you’re crunching (pun intended) an entire list of URLs into one short URL. It’s a concept similar to Agglom. Only instead of using browser tabs, it brings the recipient to a list of URLs you’d like to share. Example? Let’s say I want to share the Twitter accounts for the RWW writers. Usually, I’d have to send a bunch of separate links, but with Krunchd, it just takes this one URL.Granted, this isn’t technological rocket surgery, but conceptually, it’s an interesting take on the problem of sharing URLs with your peers. What’s more, it’s taking into consideration the way many of us share URLs today. We’re not always sharing multiple resources, but when we are, this approach makes a great deal of sense.As an added bonus – given that the service is new – early users also gain the benefit of getting a really short URL. The service is currently auto-generating URLs that only add 2 additional characters to the Krunchd URL.While the idea is thoughtful, there is one obvious drawback to Krunchd. And it’s something that will likely prevent me from using it: they require you to provide an email address to use the service. There is no privacy policy posted, so I’ve no idea what they’re doing with this information. Even more importantly, I’ve no idea why they think they need it. That said, the next time you have a bunch of URLs that you have to share, it may be worth giving Krunchd a try – if the email address thing doesn’t bug you.[UPDATE] Krunchd has removed the email requirement, indicating that it is only necessary if you’re interested in modifying your list of URLs in the future. They have also added a privacy statement. Related Posts read more
There’s No Such Thing as a “Datasexual”
Why Tech Companies Need Simpler Terms of Servic… 8 Best WordPress Hosting Solutions on the Market joe brockmeier 1 You can’t work in the tech industry without suffering buzzwords and marketing speak. But for anyone with an interest in big data, the term “datasexual” goes well past buzzword territory to wandering in the weeds of silliness.The attempt to coin the term comes from Dominic Basulto, who wrote a piece on personal data called “Meet the Urban Datasexual.” The title has two glaring problems. First, Basulto doesn’t distinguish between urban, suburban or rural. There’s no reason someone with an interest in the quantified self – the concept of self-knowledge through self-tracking – couldn’t be a suburbanite or a farmer.Not an Honest DescriptionThat’s a minor quibble, though. The big gripe is the attempt to coin the term “datasexual.” A portmanteau can be useful, but not when it’s dishonest. “Quantified self” might not roll off the tongue, but it’s plenty descriptive of people who are interested in tracking their lives. You could call it “egodata” to make it a bit snappier, as that’s more descriptive and a play on “geo data.” But quantified self, or QS, does the job nicely.There’s nothing necessarily sexual about QS. Yes, Basulto is attempting to piggyback on the term “metrosexual,” but the quantified self is almost entirely unrelated.Unfortunate terms aside, Basulto does have a point buried in the post, which is this: “Just as elements of the metrosexual movement eventually found their way into the fashion mainstream, the whole datasexual craze is starting to tip into the mainstream. All of us – not just the datasexuals of today – will soon be equipped with a breathtaking array of digital devices and sensors from ‘cool’ companies like Apple and Nike.”Personal Data Is Going MainstreamThe quantified-self movement is likely to continue its ongoing move into the mainstream. Basulto is wrong that there’s an “obsession” for recording “everything about their personal lives.” The Placeme app he refers to is a bit more extreme than most folks are likely to want. But apps like Runkeeper are already finding adoption outside hardcore data nerds and quantified-self enthusiasts. And our phones are already equipped with a “breathtaking array” of sensors, and if that’s not enough there’s plenty more to be had. The Fitbit, for instance, comes to mind.It’s also worth noting that many of the folks adopting apps like Runkeeper probably aren’t thinking in terms of data (and certainly not sexual). Data geeks are helping to enable apps that push data consumption into the mainstream, but the mainstream isn’t getting into data per se – no more than mainstream acceptance of the Internet meant immersing themselves in HTTP.But use and consumption of personal data is going mainstream, and it’s a major opportunity for companies that know how to collect, analyze, interpret and present useful data in a meaningful way. It’s also going to be a challenge for mainstream users who, so far, haven’t spent much time thinking about data and privacy. But that’s a different topic for a different day.Image courtesy of Shutterstock. Top Reasons to Go With Managed WordPress Hosting Related Posts A Web Developer’s New Best Friend is the AI Wai… Tags:#Analysis#Big Data#cloud#privacy read more
Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, elsewhere
Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, elsewhereYou are here: In Snap’s latest earnings report released earlier this week, Snapchat’s parent company showed signs that it’s been able to withstand the war that Facebook and Facebook-owned Instagram have waged on its flagship and corresponding ad business. And now it’s going after their advertisers.Snap has rolled out a program offering free credits to brands that have recently bought vertical video ads from Instagram, Facebook and any other digital ad seller, including Pinterest, ad networks and even digital billboards, a company spokesperson said on Friday, confirming Recode’s earlier report.Advertisers can apply for the free credits through a form on Snapchat’s site. To be eligible, an advertiser must not have run ads on Snapchat previously and must provide proof that it ran a vertical video ad campaign elsewhere within the past three months.If approved, the advertiser will receive credits to use on Snapchat’s vertical video Snap Ads that will be valued in the range of several hundred dollars, according to the Snap spokesperson who declined to provide exact amounts.There are no minimum spending requirements or other conditions attached to how advertisers spend their ad credits, other than the fact that they can only be used to purchase Snap Ads, the spokesperson said.On the one hand Snap is making an offensive maneuver. By offering an effectively free trial to its rivals’ advertisers, it is looking to persuade those brands that their money may be better spent on its inventory. That argument could be buoyed by Facebook’s ever-increasing ad prices, though Snap would need to prove that it can provide advertisers’ a similar, if not better, return on their investments than Facebook. To that end, Snap has done a lot of work in the past year to be able to tie its ads to actual business results, including tracing its ads to store visits, comparing its ads’ impact on sales against ads on other platforms and rolling out a conversion tracking tool.On the other hand, Snap is also playing defense. Its flagship app was the first to popularize vertical as the mobile-native video format. But the format has since been adopted by Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and even publishers’ sites and apps. That relative prevalence has diluted some of Snap’s unique sales proposition and, more importantly, made it so that advertisers investing in vertical video in order to appeal to mobile viewers are not limited to running it on Snapchat and can place it elsewhere where they may receive more eyeballs. Just as Instagram Stories has made it so that people interested in the Stories format don’t need to open Snapchat to use it, the same is true for brands interested in buying vertical video ads. But if a brand has already bought a vertical video ad elsewhere, has been hesitant to try its hand at Snapchat but now can at zero cost, what’s the risk?For Snap the risk would be giving away its inventory for free instead of finding a buyer for it. But Snapchat remains such a shiny new toy for many advertisers, that it’s likely the app has more unfilled inventory than it knows what to do with, so it’s placing a short-term bet in hopes of a long-term boost to its business.From our sponsors: Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, elsewhere HomeDigital MarketingSnap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, elsewhere Posted on 10th February 2018Digital Marketing FacebookshareTwittertweetGoogle+share Related postsLytics now integrates with Google Marketing Platform to enable customer data-informed campaigns14th December 2019The California Consumer Privacy Act goes live in a few short weeks — Are you ready?14th December 2019ML 2019121313th December 2019Global email benchmark report finds email isn’t dead – it’s essential13th December 20192019 benchmark report: brand vs. non-brand traffic in Google Shopping12th December 2019Keep your LinkedIn advertising strategy focused in 202012th December 2019 read more
Why knee injuries often don’t heal
If you fall on the ski slopes or slip on a patch of ice, you’ll probably be better off if you break your leg than if you rip the cartilage in your knee. Unlike bones, your cartilage is never going to regrow or heal, according to a new study based in part on fallout from past nuclear explosions.“The surgeons who do joint replacements should not be afraid,” says study co-author and rheumatologist Michael Kjær of the University of Copenhagen. “They are going to be in business for some time.”As plenty of athletes and weekend warriors can attest, damaged knee cartilage is reluctant to mend. 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The amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere surged in the 1950s because of above-ground nuclear weapons testing, but it declined rapidly after a 1963 treaty banned these explosions. Measuring the abundance of the isotope can reveal how old a molecule is. If the molecule is continually being replaced, it should appear young—the quantity of carbon-14 should be close to current levels in the atmosphere. But if the molecule remains stable for a long time and isn’t swapped out, its carbon-14 content should match the atmospheric levels from when it was made.Kjær’s team measured carbon-14 levels in knee cartilage from one donated body and from 22 patients born before the year 2000 who had undergone knee replacement surgery. Some of these people were getting new knees because they suffered from osteoarthritis. Others had healthy joints but needed replacements because of bone tumors. The researchers analyzed cartilage from the middle of the knee joint, which endures the most strain, and from the edge of the joint, which carries a lighter load.Carbon-14 levels in the subjects’ knee collagen—the protein that provides cartilage’s tensile strength—corresponded to atmospheric levels from when they were 8 to 13 years old, suggesting that they didn’t produce new collagen after they became adults, the team reports online today in Science Translational Medicine. One of the patients, for example, was born in 1935 and had little carbon-14. Collagen from patients born in the 1950s, by contrast, showed the largest amounts of the isotope, reflecting the rapid rise in atmospheric carbon-14 after nuclear tests began.In some previous studies, scientists saw an increase in collagen synthesis in patients with osteoarthritis, which could represent the joint’s attempt to repair itself. But Kjær’s team didn’t detect this effect. An explanation for this difference, the scientists suggest, is that previous studies used indirect measures of collagen turnover in the joints. Even in the areas of the joint that are under the most stress, adults didn’t make new collagen, the team found.Although researchers have tried several approaches to induce regrowth of knee cartilage, such as inserting stem cells or slivers of healthy cartilage into the joint, they haven’t worked. Developing methods to prevent cartilage from deteriorating might be more successful, Kjær says.The study highlights the importance of protecting our cartilage, agrees cartilage biologist Richard Loeser of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, who wasn’t connected to the research.“You need to take care of your joints while you are young,” he says. “Once you have damage to the cartilage, it’s not going to repair itself.” read more
Boxing: DAZN in talks to sign Gennady Golovkin
Advertisement AdvertisementGennady Golovkin might have lost his middleweight crowns to Canelo Alvarez in a hard-fought fight last month and his contract with HBO might have expired, he is still one of the biggest free agents in Boxing. The fight generated 1.1 million pay-per-view buys, fewer than the 1.3 million from their controversial split draw in September 2017.According to a report from RingTV, former middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is now in advanced talks with DAZN to join their streaming platform, per their industry sources.DAZN earlier this month signed Canelo Alvarez in what was described as the biggest contracts in sports history. He signed an 11-fight, a 5-year deal which is worth $365 Million and the first fight in his contract starts on Dec.15 when he fights Rocky Fielding for the WBA Middleweight title.It also makes sense for Golovkin to sign with DAZN considering, they now have three of the four middleweight titles under their stable. The most recent addition was WBO middleweight champion, Demetrius Andrade.Also, a contract with DAZN could mean a trilogy fight with Canelo Alvarez which was a massive hit amongst fight fans as both fights were able to eclipse a million PPV buys and both fights generated a gate of $27 Million and $24 Million respectively, making it the 3rd and 4th biggest boxing gate of all time.Also Read-Boxing: Canelo Alvarez to face Rocky Fielding at Madison Square Garden on Dec.15 read more
Everton aiming to appoint Marco Silva after sacking Sam Allardyce
Share on Messenger Wretched football, erroneous boasts: Sam Allardyce was an Everton misfit Share on Twitter news Reuse this content Share via Email Share on WhatsApp Sam Allardyce Read more Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Topics Brands, technical director at PSV Eindhoven since 2010, has been confirmed as the new director of football, with Walsh paying the price for a disastrous recruitment policy. Everton have coveted the 56-year-old Brands since last summer, with his work in identifying young talent and helping PSV to the Dutch title three times in the past four seasons making him a target for several Premier League clubs.“We need to be competing for honours against the Premier League elite,” said Brands. “It is no straightforward challenge but this must be our motivation each and every day. It is only a challenge such as this which could have persuaded me to leave PSV.”Barrett-Baxendale confirmed that Walsh, who arrived from Leicester in July 2016, had left Everton. She said: “On behalf of the board and Mr Moshiri I’d also like to express our thanks to Steve Walsh.”Moshiri’s first choice to replace Allardyce is former Hull and Watford manager Silva, who was sacked by the Vicarage Road club in January after a dramatic downturn in results. That followed what Watford claimed was an “unwarranted approach” by Everton that affected the focus and results of the Portuguese coach.Watford have made a complaint to the Premier League over Everton’s alleged illegal approach and talks over a compensation package between the clubs have failed to reach an agreement. While Silva is out of contract and technically available to replace Allardyce, the dispute over Everton’s approach complicates that process and could lead to arbitration.Everton officials are expected to reopen talks with their Watford counterparts this week in an attempt to resolve the matter and have already opened discussions with Silva’s representatives as they attempt to make a swift appointment. Share on Facebook Everton Everton have ended Sam Allardyce’s miserable six-month spell as manager and have made contact with Marco Silva’s representatives after identifying the Portuguese as their choice to replace him.In a day of major change at Goodison Park, Marcel Brands was appointed director of football to replace Steve Walsh, who has also left the club.Allardyce met Farhad Moshiri, Everton’s major shareholder, at 8.30am on Wednesday in London and was told in a brief discussion that he did not feature in the club’s long-term plans. The 63-year-old had another year remaining on the 18-month contract he signed when succeeding Ronald Koeman last November and, as he obtained a deal with no break clause, he is expected to leave with a £6m payoff. He will have made around £9m for six months’ work. The Fiver: sign up and get our daily football email. The former England manager, sacked by Everton on the day he could have been announcing the country’s World Cup squad, guided the team from 13th to eighth in the Premier League following a turbulent start to the season under Koeman and then the caretaker manager, David Unsworth. His managerial style never endeared him to Everton supporters, however, and there was mounting hostility towards Allardyce over the final months of the season.“On behalf of the chairman, board of directors and Mr Moshiri, I’d like to thank Sam for the job he has done at Everton over the last seven months,” read a statement from the club’s soon-to-be new chief executive, Professor Denise Barrett-Baxendale. “Sam was brought in at a challenging time last season to provide us with some stability and we are grateful to him for doing that.“However, we have made the decision that, as part of our longer-term plan, we will be appointing a new manager this summer and will be commencing this process immediately. Again, we’d like to place on record our sincere thanks to Sam for his work with us over the last few months and wish him well for the future.”Allardyce’s backroom team of Sammy Lee, Craig Shakespeare and the goalkeeping coach Martyn Margetson have also left as the club undertakes another expensive overhaul of its management structure. The next manager will be the third appointed by Moshiri since he acquired a 49.9% stake in Everton February 2016 with Roberto Martínez, a manager he inherited, Koeman and Allardyce also departing with lucrative payoffs for their poor performances. read more
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Geo Targeting 101: What Marketers Should Know About The Future Of Search
04 Aug Geo Targeting 101: What Marketers Should Know About The Future Of Search
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Voice and image search are on the rise. Here’s how brick-and-mortar businesses can get ready.
By Lauryn Chamberlain
From geo-targeting to voice search, technology is opening up a world of possibilities for marketers. But it’s also complicated, as new capabilities and use cases seem to emerge every day.
With the goal of breaking down some of the most important concepts to provide a better understanding of the basics — and a jumping off point for exploring how far the power of location may take us — we introduce the next installment of our GeoMarketing 101 series: what marketers need to know about the future of search.
How Search Has Changed
Early in the smartphone era, “search” still meant something relatively simple for marketers: A consumer would type a query into a search engine (usually Google), and the results page would display a list of relevant website results as blue links. The goal for businesses, then, was to show up in this list of results through paid (search ads) or unpaid (SEO tactics like ranking for specific keywords, etc) means.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is still of critical importance for marketers — especially for local businesses, who live and die by their ability to be discovered online by consumers in the area: In fact, approximately 80 percent of US internet users prefer to turn to a search engine to find or look up information about local businesses.
But search has changed since these (relatively recent) days in which a query would result in a list of webpages. Today, “search is intelligent — and when you search for things, you get direct, structured answers,” said Howard Lerman, CEO at Yext in a keynote earlier this year. (full disclosure: Yext is GeoMarketing’s parent company. More details on that relationship here).
Essentially, if a consumer searches for “new car,” they don’t simply see links — they see the knowledge card, with prices, configurations, features of cars for sale, and more, all seamlessly. Similarly, if someone Googles groceries or banks, they get maps back; Google now assumes someone is looking for a place if they search for something present in the physical world.
This evolution in how search results are displayed is only one half of the puzzle. The other major change on the horizon is how people are reaching this information, period: 20 percent of searches within the Google app are by voice, and the volume of voice searches is growing across the board — particularly those facilitated by intelligent assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. In this year’s 2016 Internet Trends report, venture capitalist analyst Mary Meeker cited Google Trends statistics that keywords associated with “voice-related commands” have risen 35x since 2008, when Apple and Google first unveiled their respective speech-activated controls, and continue to climb.
One more key “future of search” statistic for marketers to take into account: By 2020, an estimated 50 percent of searches will come from images and voice.
The Evolution Of SEO
So, how can marketers drive foot traffic in the age of intelligent search — and be prepared for what’s coming next?
As we’ve written in the past, brick-and-mortar retailers might begin with three ways to think about being present in the key moments when people are searching for something to do or buy, as presented by Lerman and Google’s Biran Kalaria at Retail Week Live:
Think about the entities fundamental to your business. “You need to be in the knowledge graph,” Lerman said. This means that a restaurant, for example, needs to list its menu and locations — so that that Google will then know its menu items and the eatery will shows up in the results if a consumer searches for “pancakes.” Similarly, for a bank, the fundamental entities might be branches and ATM locations. It’s about being listed comprehensively and accurately in all of the relevant categories so as to be discoverable; and, of course, the SEO basics of listing correct address, name, and phone number still matter.
Think about ‘deep knowledge.’ Consider all of the attributes that drive intelligent search. It’s not enough to show up in a search for “Tesco;” a supermarket needs to show up if a consumer makes a voice search for “groceries,” for example. Think about all the paths that consumers take when searching on mobile, with voice search, and more in order to show up in “unbranded” situations.
Think about where your consumers are in terms of services and platforms. Do they search on Google? Do they use Snapchat, or are they more likely to be on Instagram — or both? Alexa? Are they using Uber? Businesses today need to push their information to all of these digital services; it’s not enough to just put it on the web.
Going beyond this, how can marketers think about the near future, in which intelligent assistants may be responsible for providing even more answers to consumers — and in which image search matters, too?
“Brands [need to get their] underlying data layer ready for consumption by these devices,” J. Walter Thompson’s Elizabeth Cherian told GeoMarketing in a conversation at Cannes Lions. “It’s like the new SEO. The question is, how do you build into your product and services such as the voice assistance sees you as the best option? That’s something we think brands should be thinking about right now.”
In the near future, “could there be paid recommendation? Could you, as a brand, pay to have a voice assistant recommend your brand? Especially when there isn’t that bond already formed [with a particular brand],” Cherian suggested.
In the meantime, though, physical businesses can focus on, as Cherian said, readying their underlying data layer — making sure that they’re up to date on all SEO best practices, ensuring correct and current listings, and utilizing effective visuals — so that they’re discoverable whether searches are made by text, voice, or image.
“Just like mobile didn’t kill the desktop, apps didn’t kill the browser, the mix of visual, voice, and text will combine in ways that are natural extensions of user behavior,” said Bing Ads’ Purna Virji. “We’ll use those tools depending on the specific need and situation at the moment.”
Read more about the future of search:
How Will Visual And Voice Search Evolve?
As Social, Voice, And Visual Search Rises, YP Finds That Websites Remain ‘Foundational’ For Locals
Geo 101: What Is Voice Search
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A Massive Multiplayer Crossover in the form of a MMORPG made by Cartoon Network. Planet Fusion, a living planet made out of a green, gooey substance, has attacked Earth, and it's up to you, a bunch of Animesque versions of characters from Cartoon Network franchises, and many, many other people to stop the alien invaders. The game has a simple but effective equipment system arming you with Guns, Swords, Bombs, Guitars, Frisbees, and other items to defeat the opposition, while giving you shirts, pants, and shoes to protect yourself, while masks, helmets and capes/backwear are just for show.
However, the biggest change to the MMO formula came with Nanos, miniature versions of Cartoon Network characters that are gained on level-up instead of stat bonuses. You can have three nanos with you at all times, and each has three abilities, of which each can only use one, granting you a variety of different layouts and choices, such as having Numbuh Two provide super speed, the ability to warp back to specific locations in dungeons, or increased money gain upon defeating enemies.
Can be played here
And there's a wiki!
The game itself can be considered a who's who of Cartoon Network's original characters. Here is a list of series represented by characters in the story:
Toonami (The characters, like TOM, themselves, not the shows from the block)
Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy
Codename: Kids Next Door
Megas XLR
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
Ben 10 and Ben 10 Alien Force (The NPCs carry their Alien Force appearances)
The Secret Saturdays
Regular Show (The NPCs haven't been added yet, but you can see Mordecai and Rigby Nanos in bubbles at Mount Neverest and the aforementioned Rigby Nano is now available by a codeword)
The Amazing World of Gumball (The NPCs haven't been added yet, but you can get a Gumball Watterson Nano through a passcode)
With everything BUT Mike Lu and Og, Sheep in The Big City, Robotomy, Problem Solverz, and Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?, showing up in some other way.
This game provides examples of:
Abnormal Ammo: Mushroom spores to teddy bears, depending on the weapon.
Allegedly Free Game: It was until April 19th, 2010.
Animesque: Done to pretty much everyone to a slight degree in an attempt to unify art styles, but done most obviously (which is to say, really obviously) to the Powerpuffs and to Dexter. Reaction to the Puffs has been mixed, but the new, older, richer-and-Tony-Stark-like Dexter... uh, doesn't have any female detractors, at any rate.
Antagonist in Mourning: After giving Buttercup amnesia in a deadly fight, Mojo Jojo displays a... surprising amount of guilt.
Anti Poop Socking: Upon gaining a certain amount of experience, both experience and money gained after that point is reduced by 50%, then dropped to 0%. It resets to 100% the following day. They've since removed the 0% feature, but it will still drop to 50%.
BFS: The Rex Nano has a skill literally called "Big Freakin' Sword".
Child Soldiers: The KND, Urban Rangers, Powerpuff Girls and, of course, the players.
Now they're teenagers, though. Did they raise the age limit to 18?
Well there WAS that plot point in the show about some KND members staying in the KND after turning into teens.
Crisis Crossover
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Billy, who actually helps out A LOT in the final stretch of the game.
Darker and Edgier: The whole game is slightly darker than the cartoons it's based off of, or at least those that weren't already dark.
Musical example: In the CGI intro that shows up when you first access the site, a portion of an instrumental version of Thursday's "Jet Black New Year" plays in the latter half. In the original version, the first half had a portion of an instrumental of Mastodon's "Crystal Skull".
Lighter and Softer: They advertise this game as "Warcraft-Lite done right".
Death Is a Slap on The Wrist: All it costs you is half the stamina of your current Nanos and cancels any benefits you might have had active (gumballs). It helps that Death is a character from one of the shows.
Disney Death: Buttercup
And don't forget the brave sacrifice of Runty. So what's for lunch?
Drama-Preserving Handicap: Megas has been trapped by fusion matter, hence why Coop can't just blow the crap out of Fuse's minions. Ben's Omnitrix also doesn't work due to interference. The rest can be chalked up to simple Gameplay and Story Segregation.
Dueling Games: Sorta. Considering that Cartoon Network is rivals with Nickelodeon, compare the plot of this game to that of the fourth Nicktoons Unite! game, Globs of Doom (which was released three months before FusionFall).
Eldritch Abomination: Lord Fuse. Even more so when you find out he's the literal mind of the living planet causing all this mess.
Everything's Worse with Bears: Did we mention the bears wield a jackhammer for an arm?
Gameplay and Story Integration: Defeated Lord Fuse, but wondering why he's still around next raid? Simple really. He's actually the physical avatar of the Genius Loci of Planet Fusion, so while defeating him is severely annoying, he just regenerates.
Giant Poofy Sleeves: Blossom
Gonk: Eddy
Hey, It's That Voice!: Most, if not all, of the characters' original voice actors reprise their roles. A notable exception is the late Mako Iwamatsu (voice of Aku), but his replacement would have you think he came back from the dead just to voice him again--yes, the impersonation is that good.
Improbable Weapon User: Any fan of the Kids Next Door knows that this trope is going to come into play at one point or another.
Magic Skirt: The Powerpuff Girls wear them. There's also several versions girl characters can wear. True to the trope, they never go high enough for anything to be seen. Failing the trope, this only applies when the camera is straight. Aim it up and it no longer works. It also fails horribly when using a scooter-type vehicle, as the seated position of a character causes the skirt to be oriented vertically. However, all that's there is a blackened waist area, as if they were trying to make shorts but just got lazy and painted the skin.
In one of the later updates, you can see shorts under some of the shorter skirts if you aim the camera juuuust right.
Massive Multiplayer Crossover
Misplaced Wildlife: In a way. In the future, Eduardo hangs out in the cul-de-sac, and Samurai Jack hangs out in the junkyard.
It may be to play up the crossover element and it's not unusual to see characters from several shows hanging out in one location, but Juniper Lee is in the middle of Nowhere while Grim holds court in her hometown of Orchid Bay.
Due to the lack of Camp Lazlo characters, others fill the void (e.g, the Toiletnator and May hang out in Camp Kidney, Flapjack is in Leaky Lake, and Gwen can be found on Pimpleback Mountain).
Mythology Gag: Any fan of the shows the game represents will see at least five of these for each series.
No Export for You: The game has been "coming soon" to parts of Asia and the South Pacific for a looooonnnnng time.
Off-Model: The Nanos, intended to have the cartoonish look that most of their NPC counterparts lost.
Progressively Prettier: Debatable. Compare Flapjack in his original cartoon to Flapjack here.
Rule of Cool: The only reason Samurai Jack is within walking distance of Megas XLR in the Future Zone.
Shout-Out: The game's unique naming system opens up quite literally a universe several universes brim full of possibilities in regards to this trope. My personal favorite? Xan Fireant.
Story Relevant Age Up: Dexter, the Powerpuff Girls, and the members of Sector V are in their (pre)teen years.
Temporal Paradox: The nanos were created with information the player (if they joined before early 2011) brought back from a Bad Future, which no longer exists because everyone was better able to fight Fuse now... because of that technology from a time that doesn't exist anymore.
Timey-Wimey Ball: Until February 2011, the opening segment took place in a post-apocalyptic future the player was sent to due to a Deedee-induced time travel accident. Now the opening is just basic training and the Timey-Wimey Ball seems to have been removed--except there are still references to the Nano tech coming from the future. And CN's offical in-universe reason for the new intro segment? Due to the heroes' efforts, that future no longer exists.
Warp Whistle: Flying Monkeys, courtesy of Mojo Jojo, and the KND's S.C.A.M.P.E.R. (which warps you between regions instead of just areas within the same region).
What Could Have Been: Originally, Ben was going to be in his child form, but it was replaced with his 15-16 year old incarnation before release. However, Kid!Ben is slated to be a Nano in the future.
Vilgax was also to be based on his original counterpart, but they changed it to his Alien Force counterpart. Like with Ben, though, Vilgax's nano still bears resemblance to his original look.
What Does This Button Do?: The mistress of this trope, Dee Dee, sends you into the future because of this.
At least in the old tutorial.
X Meets Y: World of Warcraft meets Cartoon Network meets Earthbound.
Or possibly Cartoon Network meets Toontown Online meets Persona 4.
Maybe Kingdom Hearts switches Disney for Cartoon Network?
Zettai Ryouiki: All three Powerpuff Girls.
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Work, Horror Animated Films, The Renaissance Age of Animation,
Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see, this our town of Halloween!
Released to cinemas in 1993, this stop-motion animation film produced and conceived by Tim Burton, though actually scripted by Caroline Thompson and directed by Henry Selick (as Burton himself was busy with Batman Returns at the time), starts with the citizens of Halloween Town celebrating (you guessed it) Halloween in the grandest fashion possible, due to their love of (all right, unnerving obsession with) scaring everyone senseless. However, Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, has grown rather tired of the same old thing, and yearns for something new in his life.
After the current year's celebration of Halloween, the morose Jack goes for a long walk out of town, where he happens to walk into several portals that lead to all the other holiday towns. Immediately attracted by the Christmas tree shaped one, he ventures into Christmas Town. There he discovers the wonders of the bright and jolly, and becomes obsessed with understanding Christmas.
He returns to Halloween town and informs the townsfolk of Christmas, but both his and their understanding of the holiday is limited by their experience of Halloween. In a Perspective Flip of the typical Christmas Special plot of "monsters try to steal Christmas," Jack declares with perfectly good intentions that he will take over Christmas duties for the year, sending some somewhat homicidal children to kidnap "Sandy Claws" for an enforced vacation.
The whole town groups together to create Christmas but Sally the rag doll, who is secretly in love with Jack, has a vision that it will be a disaster. She's right, of course.
Throw all that in with a boogie man fashioned from a burlap sack filled with insects, rousing musical numbers, Nightmare Fuel abounds for the young ones and some truly brilliant imagery and directing, and you get the now classic film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Starting in 2006, it's gotten a theatrical re-release once a year at Halloween time, with a somewhat disappointingly light-handed makeover into a 3D Movie. Compare Coraline, which is from the same director. The difference likely has to do with the fact that Coraline was intended to be a 3-D film from the time it began filming. The 3-D version of The Nightmare Before Christmas was retrofitted approximately thirteen years after its original release.
It has a ridiculously large and well-documented article on Wikipedia. Seriously, just look at it. It also has a fan website called the Pumpkin Patch.
The series would later gain a sequel in video game form on the Play Station 2 titled Oogie's Revenge and a prequel, The Pumpkin King on the Game Boy Advance. Halloween Town and Jack alsos appear in almost every game in the Kingdom Hearts series. Disneyland has added movie-themed attractions in the Haunted Mansion just in time for Halloween in the past years.
Now has a character sheet and Fan Fic Recommendations.
The Film provides examples of:
3D Movie: The theatrical re-release.
Action Film Quiet Drama Scene: Several, but one that takes the cake is Sally picking the flower which transforms into a tiny Christmas tree, and then tragically bursts into flames right before her eyes.
Adaptation Expansion: Nightmare was originally a poem by Burton, with the only named characters being Jack, Zero, and Santa.
An Aesop: Several, most of which are rather family-unfriendly.
The movie illustrates that good intentions pave the road to Hell...
"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence".
"Look before you leap" strained through a mesh made of "make sure you know what you're doing."
"Jack's Lament" has a coat of "fame is overrated" painted over it.
Be Yourself.
A change of scenery is a terrific cure for burnout. Or that being leader in one area doesn't mean you can take over anything that catches your eye.
A Deconstruction of the classic Disney Aesop "You can be whatever you dream to be".
Your best friend is the one who'll tell you the truth about yourself.
Affably Evil: Lock, Shock and Barrel.
Ambiguously Gay: The Mayor. He is voiced by Glenn Shadix, who was openly gay. Also, the vampires.
Jack himself could qualify if it weren't for Sally.
See Camp Straight for Jack.
Maybe Jack's bi? Oh, wait . . .
Then there's that one monster. You know, the one that was going to make a hat out of a rat. Have you heard its voice?
You mean the Harlequin Demon?
That character's voiced by Greg Proops, incidentally. From Whose Line Is It Anyway? A show that had lots of Ho Yay.
Animated Musical
Anthropomorphic Personification: Jack could possibly be the Personification of Halloween.
Applied Mathematics: Jack puts a number of unconventional "equations" on a blackboard to try and understand Christmas.
Asskicking Equals Authority: Jack is the Pumpkin King not just because he's the scariest creature, but because he's also the toughest.
Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny: "What's this?!", is pretty much the unintentional embodiment of this trope.
Jack having ADD is actually a fairly popular fan theory.
Babies Ever After: Not in the film proper, but on the original film soundtrack released in 1993, as well as the subsequent re-release "Nightmare Revisited", there's a epilogue poem where Santa visits Jack and Jack has "four or five skeleton children at hand, playing strange tunes in their xylophone band." Of course, there is much debate on whether they are Jack and Sally's kids and how they could have them, since, you know, they're dead.
He's dead. She's a rag doll.
This still begs the question of how they made kids. Though "made" may be the right word, since they might have been constructed like Sally and the skeleton reindeer.
Bad Santa: Jack, albeit unwittingly.
Beneath the Mask: To the citizens of Halloweentown, Jack's the charismatic, self-confident, terrifying Pumpkin King. What they don't know is that Jack is very unhappy and bored about doing the same thing every year and longs for something different. Then he discovers Christmastown . . .
Big Damn Heroes: "Hello, Oogie!" Badass. Of course, it's unusual that you have a BDH moment where the bad situation is the hero's fault in the first place, but even so.
The Big Guy: Easy to overlook due to his bean-pole physique, but when one really sizes him up to his surroundings, Jack appears to be around 7-8 feet tall!
Bilingual Bonus: Jack's ghost-dog's name is Zero. In Japanese, Zero can be translated as "Rei", which can also mean "Ghost".
Black and Gray Morality: Jack apparently has no qualms about kidnapping, but he's still a much better person then Oogie, a sadistic torturer who likes to gamble with other people's lives (he even cheats in the gambling).
Then again, kidnapping may be a perfectly acceptable part of Halloweentown. Other than that, it's less that Jack is "gray" than he is "lacking in common sense".
Blessed with Suck: Jack. He's the King of Halloween, yet it's always about Halloween, every single day, which is problematic when you want something different. Taking a break is not an option, as shown when Jack disappears for only two days, everyone is in a panic. Also, Jack seems to not be able to give the crown to anyone else if he wanted ("But who here would ever understand/That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin/Would tire of his crown, if they only understood/He'd give it all up if he only could . . . "), so he's stuck with the job. And if the scenes after "This Is Halloween" is any indication, due to being the biggest in-universe celebrity, Jack can't even having a decent conversation with anyone. And who knows how long Jack's been doing the Halloween job? He could be Really Seven Hundred Years Old for all we know. When you think about it, you can't blame the guy for desperately wanting to try out Christmas.
The Blind Leading the Blind: Jack: "At least they're excited but they don't understand this Christmas thing."
Blue and Orange Morality: The people of Halloweentown are macabre, disturbing, and scary, and enjoy things that are dangerous and unpleasant to regular people, but that's just because it's their nature. In their world, these things are all quite positive.
This, of course, is the primary source of conflict in the movie, because although the Halloween creatures think they understand Christmas, it's pretty much impossible for them to do so. Not even Jack really gets it.
A Skeleton and His Ghost Dog
BSOD Song: "Poor Jack" starts out this way.
It can also count as both a Dark Reprise and Triumphant Reprise of "Jack's Lament".
Camp Straight: Jack. Hell, at the end of "Making Christmas", he even swings his hips.
Cash Cow Franchise: Oh yes!
What makes this even more annoying is that some people buy the stuff to look Goth or Emo, not because they actually seen the movie.
Ironically, Tim Burton seemed to try to prevent this to an extent, by refusing to do sequels and ruin the integrity of the movie for fans.
Cassandra Truth: Sally tries to tell Jack that his Christmas will be a disaster. Guess what happens.
CCG Importance Dissonance
Cheshire Cat Grin: Jack has this mixed with Slasher Smile as his default smile. Sally gets a good one when she tricks the doctor into eating the poisoned soup.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Christmas Town, Halloween Town, "The Normal World", and the Forest all have different color palettes, making them easier to distinguish from one another.
Comforting Comforter: Sally takes the time to tuck Dr Finklestein in after she drugs him unconscious so she can leave.
Comically Missing the Point: Things might have gone more smoothly if Jack and the Halloweentown citizens actually understood Christmas...
One could interpret Jack's "misunderstanding" as him continuing to "give the people what they want", as he stated at the end of the Town Meeting Song.
Some people feel that Goths wearing TNBC clothes are Comically Missing the Point. These people obviously have never encountered Perky Goths, who match Jack's personality and love of the macabre PERFECTLY.
Cover Version: As part of the 2006 re-release marketing thing, Nightmare Revisited was released. It is a full album's worth of covers of varying quality.
Creepy Long Fingers: Jack.
Crowd Song: "This Is Halloween", "The Town Meeting Song", "Making Christmas", and "Finale/Reprise".
Curiosity Causes Conversion: Deconstructed, as this didn't turn out so well.
Danny Elfman: Who else?
He's also the singing voice for Jack.
Dark Is Not Evil: Although the denizens of Halloween Town are folks you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley (because they arose from the muck puddles at the bottom of said alley), they clearly aren't intending to be harmful, just scary (with the exception of Oogie Boogie and his posse.)
"It's our job but we're not mean/in this town of Halloween..."
In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Jack even tells Sora that the citizens of Halloween Town enjoy scaring people, not hurting them.
Take a drink every time a Nightmare wick is on a trope that's normally for villains. Take two if it is mentioned that the example isn't evil.
The Dead Have Eyes: Jack has no problem seeing and hearing, though he obviously has no eyes or ears.
Deadpan Snarker: Jack does this a couple times.
Doctor Finklestein: Curiosity killed the cat, you know.
Jack: I know.
This troper was under the impression that Jack, being dead already and thus not able to be hurt, and being a Nightmare Fetishist sounded and was actually excited about the prospect.
Death by Irony: Oogie planned to make Santa and later Sally into snake-and-spider stew and ends up having all his bugs fall into the concoction, becoming stew himself.
Death Glare: When Jack arrives at Oogie Boogie's place, he's pretty pissed already, but when Jack hears Sally scream (thus telling him that she was down there), he gives a Death Glare that pretty much signed Oogie's death warrant. A slightly scarier example is when Oogie's bugs are falling into the pit, Jack's facial expression quite clearly says, "You deserve this."
Defanged Horrors: Outright stated (in the first song) that the people of the town love to scare, but have no malicious feelings towards people. Of course, their creepy Boogieman (whom even the Halloween folks avoid!) and his rather cowardly cronies are quite the exception. Even though Lock, Shock, and Barrel claim to only work for Oogie out of fear, they sure do show pleasure at the thoughts of mauling 'Sandy Claws' in their star song...
Deliberately Monochrome: According to the special features of the DVD re-release, Halloweentown was made with this Trope in mind.
Dem Bones: Jack, aka Bone Daddy and the doctor's Undead Reindeer Fleet, not to mention the hangman skeletons in the tree during the opening song, and the tortured luminescent singing skeletons in Boogie's place.
Didn't Think This Through: Oogie and the gunmen. Note that when he hits the button for the saw, a thread gets caught...
Jack counts too. Let's have a town who has only known scares for their afterlife take over a cheerful holiday that you barely understand. Real brilliant idea, there.
Disney Death: Jack. Fortunately, he recovers, which makes Oogie ticked off.
Oogie: J-J-J-Jack! But they said you were dead. You must be double dead!
Disney Villain Death: Oogie Boogie ends up like this when his sack is torn.
The Dog Was the Mastermind: Averted, It was originally planned that Dr. Finklestein was actually Oogie Boogie's true identity, leaving Jack Skellington confused, but it was cut because apparently Tim Burton acknowledged the reveal would have been too confusing.
Don't You Like It: Basically the reaction of Jack's Christmas.
Dressed in Layers: When Jack rips off his Santa costume, he has his normal tuxedo on underneath.
Dutch Angle: Several, from the subtle to the very obvious. Granted that it's a Tim Burton-produced film.
Early-Bird Cameo: Jack appears in Tim Burton's 1982 short stop-motion film Vincent and as a skull on top of Beetlejuice's carnival hat.
Also in the skeleton pirate scene in James and the Giant Peach.
Efficient Displacement: When Jack hits the Christmas Town sign and falls into a foot of snow.
Enfant Terrible: A trio of them: Lock, Shock, and Barrel, three professional trick or treaters and kidnappers.
Eureka Moment: "Jack's Obsession" leads to one. Jack even shouts "EUREKA!"
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Subverted, since the people of Halloween Town are not actually evil; however, their innate inability to really understand the concept or point of Christmas is a big part of the reason that Jack's plans don't pan out.
Evil Laugh: Jack has a nice one--as his natural laugh. A reminder that he is a resident of Halloween Town.
Played straight with Oogie Boogie at the end of his Villain Song.
Evil Sounds Deep: Oogie Boogie.
Jack plays with this trope, as when he's being extra creepy, his voice goes an octave lower. His regular voice is more or less normal, but there are also times when he gets really shrill.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Sally's (Or possibly Finklestein's) potions, and Jack's books take this to a ridiculous extreme.
Face Palm: Jack does this after Lock, Shock, and Barrel brings back the Easter Bunny instead of Santa and start fighting over it.
Faux Affably Evil: Again, Oogie Boogie.
Final Love Duet: Jack and Sally.
Foil: Some believe that Jack and Oogie are foils to each other, the former being thin, artistic, and thoughtful, the latter fat, rude, and sadistic.
Sally might also be a foil for Jack, since he's outgoing, energetic, loud, and usually enthusiastic while she's shy, reserved, quiet and usually sad.
Jack could also be a foil for The Grinch, the latter stealing Christmas to ruin it but ends up saving it via a Heel Face Turn and the former taking over Christmas with good intentions but screwing it up royally.
For the Evulz: Oogie Boogie's motivation. During his Villain Song he carefreely sing out that he does all the bad things because "It's much more fun" when "lives are on the line".
Foreshadowing: In-story, there's Sally's premonition with the burning Christmas tree. In cinematic technique, there's Jack's first visit to Christmastown in the song "What's This?" Among other things, we see him unintentionally smashing a snowflake, destroying a snowman and scaring a little sleeping elf - a taster of the unwitting destruction that Jack's curiosity in Christmas will bring.
When he's trying to understand Christmas scientifically, he attempts to cut a paper snowflake and finds that he's made a spider.
The rest of the same scene. His attempts to understand the paraphernalia of Christmas only results in the items of his experiments being destroyed. "Jack's Obsession" also ends with him smashing several Christmas ornaments, and causing a string of lights to explode.
During the Town Hall meeting in which Jack reveals the inhabitants of Halloweentown what Christmas is, the Mayor says. cheerfully, "This will be the most terrifying Christmas ever!", to which Jack automatically corrects him. Probably unintentional, but considering the events of the climax of the movie, probably not.
Forgotten Phlebotinum: Oogie Boogie has the ability to suck in everything like a gigantic vacuum, which is how he recaptured Santa and Sally. He never thought to use this in his battle against Jack Skellington, though this is somewhat justified, as Oogie was trying to get away from Jack. Still could have eaten him, though.
Four-Fingered Hands: Jack is the most notable since he's humanoid - avoided with Sally. All the others get away with it because they're not really humanoid. Except for the mayor *shudder*.
Some of the human children have four-fingered hands as well.
Also avoided on Jack's part in the animated short on the DVD of the Nightmare Before Christmas poem (narrated by Christopher Lee for extra awesome points).
Getting Crap Past the Radar: Well, first there's the whole Show Some Leg thing, then after "This Is Halloween" when everyone is heaping praise on Jack, the short witch gets a little....affectionate....with Jack's leg (though that could be this troper's gutter-minded imagination).
Also, did anyone else think that when Jack revealed himself to Oogie, that the way Jack was keeping himself on the platform was a bit suggestive? And there's Oogie's Shout-Out comment to Santa, which sounds pretty rape-y both out and in context.
Oogie: And now with your permission, I'm going to do my stuff.
Santa: What are you going to do?
Oogie: I'm going to do the best I can...
And then there's the question of why Dr. Finklestein made Sally...
Girl Notices First
Gone Horribly Wrong: Poor Jack, all he wanted was to try his hand at another holiday . . . .
Also, after Finklestein awakens from Sally poisoning him for the fourth time in a little over a month he reacts to his doorbell the same way any hung over person would react to a loud noise.
Guile Heroine/The Smart Girl: Sally uses her brain most of all to get out of tight spots.
Halloweentown: The Trope Namer!
Heel Realization: In "Poor Jack".
He Who Must Not Be Seen: The faces of the adults in the human world are not shown.
Also Oogie Boogie, who appears as the shadow on the moon in This is Halloween and as a shadow on the wall in Kidnap the Sandy Claws, but he himself doesn't appear in the...uh...stitching...until his own song.
Heroes Love Dogs
Hero Antagonist: Sally.
Heroic BSOD: Jack undergoes two, once during "Jack's Lament" and again once he realizes that he was accidentally ruining Christmas for the entire human realm.
Heroes Want Redheads: Jack and Sally, obviously.
Hive Mind: Oogie Boogie is made of insects and worms and yet he manages to move, speak and do all kinds of evil stuff. It's debatable if there is a Hive Queen (if there is, it's probably a little, white, earwig-like bug).
This is confirmed in Oogie's Revenge.
Homage: Halloweentown looks an awful lot like Holstenwall.
Hufflepuff House: The holiday dimensions besides Halloween Town and Christmas Town
I Am What I Am: After his disaster at being Santa Claus, Jack finally realizes what his true calling is, as he sums it up in five words: I AM THE PUMPKIN KING!
Idiot Hero: Jack is probably one of the more Justified Trope examples, as his idiotic moments come from not being an idiot, but from either not understanding concepts outside of Halloween (the whole Christmas fiasco, thinking the shells were fireworks, etc.) or being so excited for Christmas that he doesn't listen to reason (Sally and her prediction). The only thing he does that is just plain stupid is trusting Lock, Shock, and Barrel to take care of Santa Claus.
The Igor: Mad Scientist Doctor Finkelstein has one. He likes doggy treats.
Impairment Shot: Used after Jack runs face-first into a candy-cane-striped pole. And when Santa first sets eyes on Halloween Town, having been roughly hauled out of a sack previously.
In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Oh, it was Tim Burton by the way. (Conceived rather than written, to be exact; it was expanded by others.)
This trope combined with the advertising ("From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas") inadvertently caused people who aren't aware of Henry Selick's involvement with Nightmare to think that Coraline was directed by Burton (it was Selick who directed that film too).
And Neil Gaiman was not happy about this.
Incendiary Exponent: Jack sets himself on fire, while dressed as a scarecrow, at the end of "This Is Halloween". Naturally, it is one of the most awesome entrances in Disney history.
Incoming Ham: "Well, well, well! What have we here? Santa Claus?! Ha! Oooooh, I'm really scared!"
Ironic Echo: The first time Jack sings "And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King" (during Jack's Lament), he is angsting over how Halloween has stopped being special to him. The second time (during the second half of Poor Jack) he is getting over his angst about ruining Christmas and how Halloween isn't special to him anymore.
Irony: You know how loads of hateers contribute their dislike of this movie because of all the merchandise at Hot Topic? Considering Jack's reaction to the way the Halloweentown citizens ("Thank you. Thank you! Very much!!") it's highly likely that Jack would hate all the merchandise at Hot Topic too.
"I Want" Song: "Jack's Lament"
Also counts as an "I Am" Song, as he describes how he is the Master of Fright and a Demon of Light, amongst other things.
It can be divided verse-by-verse into each of those. The verses in common time are almost entirely self-description while the slower, 3/4 time verses are "I Want" verses.
"What's This" counts as well. It climaxes with the line "I want it! Oh I want it! Oh I want it for my own!"
Karma Houdini: Lock, Shock and Barrel
Well, there was a scene immediately before the final battle where Jack gives them exactly what's coming to them, but it was cut for timing reasons.
Also, keep in mind that they are, or at least appear to be, a bunch of small children.
In the movie, they leave and bring back help to rescue Jack and Sally, and their line refers back to that deleted scene.
Lock, Shock and Barrel: Here he is! Alive! Just like we said!
Ironically, a line in "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" suggests that Lock, Shock, and Barrel didn't expect a Karma Houdini:
Shock: Think now/If we blow him up to smithereens/We may lose some pieces and then...
Shock & Lock: Jack will beat us black and green!
Subverted if you play Kingdom Hearts, you can kick their asses personally there.
Skeletons Prefer Boxes: Jack is obsessed with the concept of a "present" (particularly in Kingdom Hearts II), but doesn't understand that the present is what's INSIDE the pretty wrapped box with the bow.
The Kindnapper: Jack Skellington has part of his being a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant. His way of indulging himself in his new passion for Christmas not only involves planning to run the show himself, but kidnapping the one who already does to enable his doing so. And he sees it as a favor for Santa, too! Despite Jack's unquestionable status as The Hero, though, his kindnapping is clearly shown as not being a good thing, especially because of what it leads to...
Santa: (bursts out of the bag) Let me out! (the Halloween Town citizens gasp in awe)
Jack Skellington: Sandy Claws - in person. What a pleasure to meet you. (prepares to shake but then looks down when their HANDS touch)
Jack Skellington: Wh - ! Why, you have hands! You don't have claws at all!
'Santa: (dazed) Where am I?
'Jack Skellington: Surprised, are you? You don't have to worry about another Christmas this year.
Santa: Wh-what?
'Jack Skellington: Consider this a vacation, Sandy. A reward. It's your turn to take it easy.
Santa: B-But there must be some mistake!
Jack Skellington: See that he's comfortable... (the minions start to close up the bag, but then stop) Just a second, fellas! Of course! That's what I'm missing! (takes Santa's hat)
Santa: B-But...
Jack Skellington: (as he's putting on the hat) Thanks.
Santa: Hang on - you just can't - (has the bag thrown over him again) - Hold on! Where are we going now?
Large Ham: Oogie Boogie. Jack is a bit more subtle, but still can be pretty hammy.
It's kind of par for the course when one lives in Halloween Town.
Who ever said being a Large Ham was a bad thing?
The mayor. "The king of Halloween has been blown to smitherEEEns!!! Skeleton Jack is now a PILE of Dust!"
Last-Minute Hookup: Jack and Sally.
Leitmotif: "This Is Halloween" for the citizens of Halloweentown and "Kidnap The Sandy Claws" for Lock, Shock, and Barrel.
Lightning Can Do Anything: Like bringing skeletal reindeer to life and in the prequel game heal Jack.
Limited Wardrobe: The only time Jack ever changed out of his tuxedo is, of course, when he imitates Santa Claus (well, and one scene when he's in bed and wearing off-white pajamas, but that's only for a couple of minutes). Possibly even taken Up to Eleven, since in "Poor Jack", when Jack declares that HE IS THE PUMPKIN KING!!!, he rips off the tatters of his Santa outfit to reveal that he's been wearing his tux underneath the suit all this time. Sally also wears the same dress throughout the film, though considering that either she's locked up by Dr. Finklestein or stalking Jack, this is more justified. Both cases are also justified with the fact that it would be needlessly complicated to have Stop Motion characters wear different clothes.
May double as My Suit Is Also Super, the Sandy Claws costume is tattered, but Jack's tux is fine under it.
Living Toys: Most of the toys which Jack delivered were actually these.
The Lost Woods: the Hinterlands
A Love to Dismember: Perhaps the only unwitting example yet - see Show Some Leg below.
Made of Iron: Jack manages to get shot down by flak guns without being blown to pieces. This could be justified, however, by the coffin sleigh taking most of the blow. However, this does not explain how at least a mile-high fall onto a stone angel didn't break any of his bones (the impact from the fall did seem to be strong enough to knock off his jawbone, however). This all still could be justified by the fact that Jack's undead, so he would not feel pain, if it weren't for an earlier scene where Sally accidentally pokes Jack's finger with a needle, and he yelps in pain. It's a little confusing.
He was caught by an angel.
We also see Zero fly over and reattach his jaw, which seems to revive him. It's possible he reassembled him entirely, offscreen.
He's an Anthropomorphic Personification. He's probably very hard to kill, especially with mortal weapons. Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like Hell.
Mad Scientist: Doctor Finkelstein.
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: In the "artificial creation" sense of "daughter", with an Overprotective Dad. Or perhaps he created her with plans to woo her.
Magic Pants: Jack's outfit may count. Note when he rises out of the fountain and his collar visibly straightens. When Jack is shot down, the Sandy Claws outfit is shredded, but the tux is completely unscathed.
Magic Versus Science: Sort of. Note that Santa can do magic (flying reindeer, flying away at the end followed by a trail of sparkly magic stuff), while Jack's way of going at Christmas is more scientific (employing Dr. Finklestein, reading books on the Scientific Method).
However, Jack can and does do magic in his own realm. It's probably a question of spheres of influence: Jack has no power over Christmas, so he has to use different tools than Santa.
Malevolent Masked Men: Subverted. As trick-or-treaters, Lock, Shock and Barrel wear costume masks all the time, but in their introductory scene they take them off, revealing faces that look exactly the same as (or worse than) their masks.
Meaningful Background Event: While Oogie Boogie is taunting Sally and Santa Claus, if you look behind him, you can see Jack Skellington sneaking into the lair all spider-like.
Doubles as a Chekhov's Skill in the scene immediately following.
Meaningful Name: Most likely unintentional, but one of the meanings of "Jack"? Supplanter.
More likely a reference to jack o'lanterns.
Melancholy Moon
Memetic Outfit: Jack's pin-striped tuxedo and bat bow-tie; also Sally's dress. Both have even been made available as Halloween costumes for adults through the Disney company.
Memetic Sex God: Everyone's necrophiliac for Jack Skellington. All hail to the Pumpkin Pimp.
This may possibly even be an in-universe example, considering how the citizens act about Jack.[1]
Mind Screw: "This Is Halloween". It's so surreal that bats have strings attached to them.
Minion Shipping: Lock and Shock.
Very Squicky for those who believe Lock, Shock and Barrel are siblings.
Could be worse: Some people like to ship Jack/Shock. She's usually aged up, but still...
Worse still, the same people who put Jack and Shock together usually end up pairing Sally with Barrel (or sometimes Lock, but it's usually Barrel). Also usually aged up, but still doesn't seem right when you consider that Sally hardly interacted with Boogie's Boys.
Modest Royalty: Jack, the Pumpkin King. He wears a snappy tuxedo, but no crown or other royal insignia.
Royals Who Actually Do Something
Both apply equally to Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
Moment Killer: The Mayor near the end, with a spotlight.
Monster Clown: One of the recurring townsfolk. Subverted in that he is not actually evil
Mood Swinger: Jack Skellington. Until the third act, he is either depressed, extremely enthusiastic, or concentrating intensely on his obsession. He is at his calmest only at the end, during his and Sally's duet.
The Multiverse: There's apparently a dimension for every holiday celebrated in America (though it's not clear if any of these dimensions consist of much more than one town).
Must Make Amends: Basically, Jack and Oogie's fight is about Jack trying to fix things.
My God, What Have I Done?: At the start of the song "Poor Jack."
My Hero Zero
My Name Is Not Durwood: Jack, and by extension everyone in Halloween Town, calls Santa Claus "Sandy Claws". In a deleted scene and in the dialogue when Jack first meets Santa, it's shown that Jack took the "Claws" part literally.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Santa Claus is in trouble and Christmas is ruined. Three guesses to who is responsible. First two don't count.
Nightmare Face: Expected from the King of Halloween.
Then there's that scary face Jack does to scare Lock, Shock and Barrel into doing their job right.
And "the clown with the tear-away face"...
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Jack. The entire town consists of Nightmare Fetishists, but even Jack's attempts at innocent merriment turn scary.
No Name Given: The Mayor (though some of the merch calls him Hizzonor). Most of the citizens also seem to not have names (The Clown With The-Tear-Away-Face, The Wolf Man, etc). Awesomely used with one off-screen horror who proclaims "I am the "who" when you call "Who's there?"".
No Peripheral Vision: After Oogie Boogie realizes that the knife-wielding king cards wasn't going to stop Jack from kicking his ass, Oogie pulls a rope that stops the murderous cards. Jack goes for Oogie, never noticing the gun-wielding gambling game cowboy skeletons approaching to his left and nearly getting shot. However, considering that Jack doesn't have proper eyeballs, it's entirely possible that Jack really doesn't have peripheral vision, therefore justifying him not seeing the weapons.
There's a less WMG-y reason he didn't see the gunmen: Jack was focused solely on whooping Oogie's stitched behind, so he just didn't notice the gunmen. It isn't the first time in the movie that Jack's tuned out everything other than his goal to the detriment of his own health.
Noodle Incident: In "Jack's Lament", some of the lyrics are thus: "To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky! And I'm known throughout England and France!"
Noodle People
Oblivious to Love: Jack -- though to be fair, the only overt gesture Sally is seen to make is easily explained by the fact that they're friends (which they clearly are). And he does catch on eventually.
Offscreen Teleportation: When Jack goes to rescue Sally and Santa from Oogie Boogie. Last we see Jack before the Final Battle, he was sneaking in behind Oogie's back, quite a ways away from the platform where Santa and Sally were. With the way the scene is set up, it would have been impossible for Jack to get to the platform without Oogie seeing him, no matter what sneaking skills being the Pumpkin King would get you.
Maybe Jack's powers operate on Rule of Scary?
Oh Crap: Jack, when he realize that those shells are not fireworks. "They're trying to hit us!"
Oogie gets two big ones: 1) when he sees Jack on the platform instead of Sally and Santa and 2) when Jack pulls the thread that keeps him together. He has several smaller one as Jack passes each of his deathtraps, but these may be feigned, as he always has another trap ready.
Oh My Gods: Inverted, as during "Poor Jack", Jack refers to God twice ("And, by God, I really tasted something swell!" "And, by God, I'm really going to give it all my might!").
Only Sane Man: Sally seems to be the only denizen of Halloween Town who even approaches the realization that people don't want to be scared or attacked on Christmas.
Santa Claus: "The next time you get the urge to take over someone else's holiday, I'd listen to her. She's the only one who makes any sense in this insane asylum!"
Only Sane Woman: Sally correctly predicts that Jack Skellington will turn Christmas into a disaster.
Opening Chorus: "This Is Halloween".
Opening Narration: Narrated by Santa, and this would have qualified for Book Ends if they had kept the epilogue noted under Babies Ever After. (The ending narration can be heard on the soundtrack, and it's read by Patrick Stewart for extra awesome points.)
Our Demons Are Different: There's the stereotypical Devil for one (though him being The Devil is probably unlikely), and Jack in "Jack's Lament" says he's a "Demon Of Light," indicating he's some sort of Noble Demon. In some of the foreign dubs, Jack actually declares himself the Devil. There's also the Harlequin Demon.
Our Hero Is Dead: Used with the Halloweentown citizens when Jack's flying sleigh is shot down in the human world.
Our Monsters Are Different: Basically every resident of Halloween Town is some kind of horrible monster, yet nearly all of them are pretty much good-natured in their own way. The creepy nature they all have is just how they are, as they don't technically mean to bring harm to anyone...unless you ask for it.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Jack must have been really delusional if he thought a red suit and deep voice would hide the fact that he's a seven-foot tall skeleton trying to be Santa.
Pretty sure that's been attempted more than once...
Pass the Popcorn: In a deleted scene, Lock, Shock, and Barrel grab candy, pop, and -- yes -- popcorn to eat while they watch Oogie tormenting Sandy and Sally. This scene was deleted due to both timing issues and that Burton and Selick feel that having Lock, Shock, and Barrel enjoying Sandy and Sally's torture would put the trio beyond just "playful tricksters" to "evil little bastards" [2].
Perky Goth: Jack, if not most of the citizens of Halloween Town.
Pieta Plagiarism: Nearing the end of the film, Jack lies defeated in the arms of a graveyard statue of an angel.
Planet of Hats: Every (American) holiday has an entire alternate reality devoted to that one holiday.
Maybe holidays from other countries are in a different part of the forest.
Power Trio: Lock is in the middle role, with female Shock being the smartest and Barrel as the dumb one who gets smacked, or The Radar, depending on who you ask.
Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: "Hello, Oogie."
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "How dare you treat my friends so shamefully!"
Precognition: Sally has a vision representing Jack's Christmas going to hell by a Christmas Tree going up into flames. It's unclear if this is a one-time thing or not; however, she does remark to Jack that she had a vision, and the implication seems to be that this has happened before.
Punctuated for Emphasis: WHAT! IS! THIS! * smack*
Putting a Hand Over His Mouth: Sally's disembodied hand does this to Santa Claus when she's rescuing him.
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Lock, Shock, and Barrel.
The Radar: Barrel. Maybe.
Rage Against the Reflection: When Sally tries to talk Jack out of Subbing for Santa by showing a picture of Jack as the Pumpkin King, Jack simply takes the picture and breaks it over his knee.
Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Sally usually manages to duck this, but a number of fans still ignore the major role she plays in the story to bash her feminine appearance or call her Dr. Finklestein's sex toy.
Recycled Trailer Music : The song "What's This?" is used in lots of trailer. The trailers for the movie itself were scored with John Williams' theme to Hook and "The End" from Edward Scissorhands.
Red Alert: Occurs twice, when Jack goes missing (he's in Christmas Town) and while he's delivering toys on Christmas Eve.
Refrain From Assuming: "Jack's Lament" is sometimes referred to as "The Pumpkin King" or simply "Jack's Song". [3]
The Renaissance Age of Animation
Santa Claus: The unwitting MacGuffin is the king of Christmas Town.
Saving Christmas: Subverted in that the hero is the one to kidnap Santa, but then played straight after things go pear-shaped.
Scary Black Man: Oogie Boogie's voice actor is black, but as he is a sentient sack of insects, he himself has no actual race.
This has drawn criticism from Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, who says that the usage of the heroes using "whitespeak" and the villain using "blackspeak" is racist profiling.
Mild bad grammar is considered "blackspeak"?
Scary Scorpions: The box of scorpions Shock plans to give as a "gift" to Santa in order to capture him.
This troper thought the scorpions were suppose to represent her, Lock, and Barrel.
We'll send a present to his door/Upon there'll be a note to read/Now, in the box we'll wait and hide/Until his curiosity/Entices him to look inside/And then we'll have him/One, two, three!
The Scientific Method: Jack has a book about the subject, apparently keeping it under his pillow.
Screw Yourself: Not only does the wife Dr. Finklestein made for himself look like a female version of himself, he gave her half of his own brain. Jack's shocked expression upon seeing them is pretty understandable, really.
Shout-Out: Oogie and Santa echo a line from the Betty Boop cartoon "The Old Man of the Mountain", which stars Cab Calloway, the inspiration for Oogie Boogie. Oogie's gyrating dance bears a strong resemblance to that of the Walrus rotoscoped over Calloway in the Betty cartoon "Minne the Moocher."
Santa: "What are you going to do?"
Oogie: "I'm going to do the best I can . . ."
Some of the toys are the same ones as seen in Batman Returns and two of the Real World kids are wearing pajamas with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck on them.
Probably unintentional, but the scarecrow outfit Jack wears in the beginning sequence looks like an evil version of Jack PumpkinHead.
A deliberate one to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, when Zero turns his nose red and moves to the head of the sleigh team to guide them through the fog.
To Shakespeare in "Jack's Lament": "And since I am dead, I can take off my head/ To recite Shakespearean quotations."
The title itself is a Shout-Out/Punny Name to the classic Christmas poem "The Night Before Christmas".
Show Some Leg: Played with: Sally shows off a bit of leg to attract Oogie's attention, but it later turns out the leg is unattached, serving to distract Oogie while the rest of Sally unties Santa.
Simple Score of Sadness: "Sally's Song".
Slasher Smile: Oogie Boogie and Barrel. Jack's is a borderline between a Slasher Smile and a Cheshire Cat Grin.
Snow Means Love: Jack and Sally kiss on the snow-covered Spiral Hill.
The Song Before the Storm: "Making Christmas".
Spiritual Successor: Corpse Bride. Made even more obvious by the fact that its trailer ended up with Recycled Trailer Music from this film.
Stalker with a Crush: Sally is a good-natured version, which leads to...
Stalking Is Love: It's not played out straight though, since while most of the examples find out and are flattered rather then creeped out, Jack never finds out that Sally stalked him. Then again, he's such a Nightmare Fetishist he probably would love it.
Considering everyone in the town is a Nightmare Fetishist, it's very probable that in Halloweentown stalking actually is a way to show love.
Stop Motion: It's even widely believed to be the first full-length three-dimensional stop-motion feature, but according to Wikipedia, this is not the case.
Subbing for Santa: Inverted.
Take That: "I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!" The DVD Commentary and the Mayor's actual two-faced head draws parallels with the Mayor to two-faced politicians.
Tear Off Your Face: There's a clown with a tear-away face.
That Man Is Dead: "But you're the Pumpkin King!" "Not anymore!" *breaks picture* "I feel so much better now!" Makes one wonder what Jack's long-term plans for Christmas were . . .
There Are No Therapists: Seriously, just look at Jack. He's dealing with both depression and a mid-[4] crisis, and possibly bi-polar disorder and ADD. The bone man is in desperate need of a therapist.
Theme Tune Cameo: The Mayor finds "This Is Halloween" so catchy, we find him humming it later as he brings Jack the plans for next year's Halloween.
Traveling Pipe Bulge: Santa's little trip to Oogie Boogie's lair.
Triumphant Reprise: At least two: "This Is Halloween" and "Sally's Song" both get them.
Along with "What's This?"
Two-Faced: The Mayor, who literally has two faces -- one colorful and happy, one ashen and distressed. It's more of a facial mood ring than a split personality, though.
Ultimate Authority Mayor: The mayor. Justified as there really isn't any higher authority that exists in... where ever the hell Halloweentown is. And Jack does all the real work anyway.
Up to Eleven: How scary is Oogie? He even scares the other people in Halloweentown! Oogie Boogie is scary because he's the only one in Halloween Town who would ever think of using violence against other people.
Further Fridge Brilliance is Oogie's reaction to Jack's return in the BDH moment above. Oogie's afraid of Jack, who doesn't need violence to be scary, and doesn't need it to beat Oogie.
Vague Age: Jack. He seems to be in his late twenties-early thirties, yet since he's Dem Bones, he could always be Really Seven Hundred Years Old.
How about Oogie? Honestly, how can anyone tell exactly how old that guy is?
Villainous Lament: "Jack's Lament" and the first half of "Poor Jack", though this trope is subverted by Jack not being evil.
Villain Song: "Oogie Boogie's Song". Keep in mind, it's sung by Ken Page, the same fellow who voiced King Gator in All Dogs Go to Heaven and played Old Deuteronomy in the video version of Cats. As such, it's amazing.
A second one, for the Quirky Miniboss Squad, is "Kidnap the Sandy Claws."
Visual Pun: The Mayor is two-faced.
Weird Moon/Sun: The moon is pretty big and doesn't have any craters, while the sun has the face of a jack-o-lantern.
What the Hell, Hero?: Santa gives Jack a hefty chewing-out when he comes to apologize. In the original poem, he's much more understanding (possibly because he hadn't just escaped from a sapient burlap sack gloating about how it intended to turn him into stew and eat him).
Yet there are quite a few fans that thought that Santa was oh so mean to poor Jack. This Jack fangirl actually used to think so too, but after thinking about it, wouldn't you be a bit pissed at the guy who fucked up your holiday and nearly got you eaten? And note, fangirls, that Santa didn't know Jack told Lock, Shock, and Barrel not to send him down to Oogie.
Not to mention that Santa was still understanding enough to bring snow to Halloweentown, so Jack's dream that everyone could understand Christmas came true.
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The unnamed city Jack visits.
Halloweentown counts too.
Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Jack and Sally able to walk, talk, can feel pain, and even implied to have a need for nourishment? Why not. Jack and Sally having children, particularly through being able to have sex? The fandom is divided by this. Some say why not, while others think Jack and Sally either lack certain parts for successful reproduction or shouldn't have kids at all. And this isn't getting into the Squick/Fetish Fuel aspect of the argument . . .
Also, Jack is lit on fire at the begining of the film without expressing any sign of pain and later falls hundreds of feet, landing hard enough to knock off his jaw bone, yet he still says "ow" when he pricks his finger on a needle.
The Worm That Walks: Oogie Boogie.
You Are Grounded: Dr. Finklestein to Sally constantly. This is the source of the friction in their relationship.
↑ Anyone else thought that when Jack was trying to get away from the Halloweentown citizens, it sounded like Jack thought he was going to get raped? "Thank you. Thank you! Very much!"
↑ okay, they didn't say bastards, but the point is still there
↑ the latter not making any sense, as most of the songs are sung by Jack.
↑ life
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Repeated extinction and reversal learning of an approach response supports an arousal-mediated learning model
Christopher A. Podlesnik, Federico Sanabria
We assessed the effects of repeated extinction and reversals of two conditional stimuli (CS+/CS-) on an appetitive conditioned approach response in rats. Three results were observed that could not be accounted for by a simple linear operator model such as the one proposed by Rescorla and Wagner (1972): (1) responding to a CS- declined faster when a CS+ was simultaneously extinguished; (2) reacquisition of pre-extinction performance recovered rapidly within one session; and (3) reversal of CS+/CS- contingencies resulted in a more rapid recovery to the current CS- (former CS+) than the current CS+, accompanied by a slower acquisition of performance to the current CS+. An arousal parameter that mediates learning was introduced to a linear operator model to account for these effects. The arousal-mediated learning model adequately fit the data and predicted data from a second experiment with different rats in which only repeated reversals of CS+/CS- were assessed. According to this arousal-mediated learning model, learning is accelerated by US-elicited arousal and it slows down in the absence of US. Because arousal varies faster than conditioning, the model accounts for the decline in responding during extinction mainly through a reduction in arousal, not a change in learning. By preserving learning during extinction, the model is able to account for relapse effects like rapid reacquisition, renewal, and reinstatement.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.005
Reversal Learning
conditioned behavior
Psychological Extinction
Nose poke
Pavlovian conditioned approach
Podlesnik, C. A., & Sanabria, F. (2011). Repeated extinction and reversal learning of an approach response supports an arousal-mediated learning model. Behavioural Processes, 87(1), 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.005
Repeated extinction and reversal learning of an approach response supports an arousal-mediated learning model. / Podlesnik, Christopher A.; Sanabria, Federico.
In: Behavioural Processes, Vol. 87, No. 1, 05.2011, p. 125-134.
Podlesnik, CA & Sanabria, F 2011, 'Repeated extinction and reversal learning of an approach response supports an arousal-mediated learning model', Behavioural Processes, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.005
Podlesnik CA, Sanabria F. Repeated extinction and reversal learning of an approach response supports an arousal-mediated learning model. Behavioural Processes. 2011 May;87(1):125-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2010.12.005
Podlesnik, Christopher A. ; Sanabria, Federico. / Repeated extinction and reversal learning of an approach response supports an arousal-mediated learning model. In: Behavioural Processes. 2011 ; Vol. 87, No. 1. pp. 125-134.
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Christopher and His Kind
September 16, 2019 / Nicholas / 2 Comments
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In 1938, when he was only 34, Christopher Isherwood published his first autobiography, Lions and Shadows, about his schoolboy days at Cambridge with W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and other rising literary stars. I think that alone reveals quite a bit about his character, cocky, a little vain (I mean look at that title), writing a personal history before he’s even halfway through his 30s. Or maybe it tells us more about his method. Isherwood was an endlessly attentive and remarkably perceptive observer, and those he observed regularly found their way into his work, albeit by different names. So perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that someone so young might have so much to say about their life. But trust me, it’s also because he was cocky and vain if his depiction of himself in Christopher and His Kind is anything to go by.
Isherwood didn’t write Christopher and His Kind until his 70s, and it picks up more or less where Lions and Shadows leaves off, documenting his ten year emigration from England to California. In 1929 Isherwood had been living in Germany, enjoying the wild, sexually liberated nightlife he depicted so vividly in Goodbye to Berlin, but the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party forced him and his german boyfriend Heinz Neddermeyer to flee the country. Isherwood then spends the next decade bouncing around Europe, desperately trying to wrest Heinz from the legal clutches of his homeland. Isherwood depicts his journey with the help of his usual perspicacity and detailed journals from the time, writing about his younger self in the third person and giving his story a literary sheen not often associated with autobiography.
The reason I started this post talking about Lions and Shadows is that Isherwood mentions it frequently in Christopher and His Kind, mostly with regret. What he regrets is his thorough erasure of any mention of homosexuality from a book purported to be autobiographical, and that’s part of his motivation to create this newer one. Isherwood’s young Isherwood is quite a character. An absolute diva, but in an endearing way, cocky, vain, and probably a genius. Faultlessly loyal to his friends, adventurous, highly emotional, and very privileged. His travels were exciting and unpredictable, it was rarely clear which exotic location he’d end up at next, and, not already being familiar with his history, I was never sure what the outcome of his odyssey might be. I don’t have much more to say about this one, an author of Isherwood’s caliber simply speaks for himself.
Also, I would like to formally apologize for using the word perspicacity, but it was too good an opportunity to pass up.
May 14, 2019 September 3, 2019 / Nicholas / Leave a comment
by Christopher Isherwood
Normally I write my own summaries for these posts, but I like blurb from the Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition too much:
“Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge―but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.”
Christopher Isherwood is best known for his novel Goodbye to Berlin, which, through a series of adaptations, eventually became the famous musical Cabaret, but he is also, in my opinion, one of the most interesting and talented English writers of the 20th century. Isherwood seems to have known almost everyone who was anyone in the english literary world, and slept with half of them. He travelled extensively around Europe, barely escaping Germany before the start of WWII, before finally emigrating to the United States where he lived with his lover, Don Bachardy, until he died in 1986.
When it came to writing, Isherwood was an exacting craftsman, and A Single Man may very well be the most skillfully composed of all the books that have or will appear on this website. In fewer than 200 pages of accessible, insightful, and dignified prose, Isherwood depicts a day in a life, not of a gay man, but simply of a man. He does so with quiet pride, never apologizing to or asking forgiveness or even mercy from, a disapproving society. A Single Man is about age, grief, sexuality, culture, and time, but more than anything it is a contemplation of life as an outsider.
Fun fact: Isherwood and the poet W.H. Auden were lifelong besties and slept together on and off for pretty much their entire lives. They was bangin’, a lot.
Isherwood (left) and Auden (right)
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Do you ever say, “MySpace is sooo ugly?” This blog’s for you…
Look at the stats lately?
I love reading articles like this one and this one because it’s fun to see tech people try to understand why MySpace could thrive while being so "ugly." Similarly, in the the big Facebook lovefest over the last few months, I’ve had many conversations where people are shocked to hear how far MySpace is still far ahead on stats. For example:
MySpace has 2.2X the users of Facebook
MySpace has 1.4X the pageviews per visitor
MySpace has 85% more time on site than Facebook
etc, etc.
The reason why these numbers surprise people is simple: Silicon Valley people aren’t MySpace users. I’ve come to believe that Silicon Valley has a deeply emotional dislike of MySpace, which has nothing to do with the numbers. We (the Silicon Valley "we") don’t understand the aesthetics or the use cases around MySpace, which is likely driven by demographics, education level, etc.
Aesthetics and "Googley"-ness
In particular, I’m amused by folks I talk to that insist on every product being "Googley." What I mean by that is:
Well, it’s great when you are trying to solve a problem, but what if you are trying to waste time? How do you make a time-wasting experience, in which the process (wasting time) directly translates to the outcome (time wasted)? In that case, you might prefer:
Lots of options – perceived as complicated
Entertaining – perceived as lacking a point
Layers of complexity – perceived as difficult
A couple example of this is to compare a process like checking into a hotel, which is directed and should be simple and easy, versus the design of a mall. In the hotel check-in, you want a polished and fast experience – get me from point A to point B. In a mall, you want to give people a lot of options, like eating or shopping or sitting around talking or whatever. In fact, to make a mall googley is exactly the opposite of what you want to do.
That’s partly why social networks tend to be a mishmash of a bunch of random, vaguely related features, rather than a clean flow that gets you from point A to point B.
Should social networks be social utilities?
Let’s go back to the aesthetics of MySpace, which is what everyone complains about. Instead of all the blinged-out profiles, which are basically Geocities 2.0, should social networks look like the "social utility" that Facebook bills itself out as? It absolutely looks cleaner and is more googley. In fact, a subtle distinction is that the profiles on Facebook are much more viewer-friendly, versus creator-friendly, whereas MySpace is arguably the opposite.
Interestingly enough, now with all the Facebook apps, you see people pimping out their profiles as much as they can – and I bet you that a very common tech support request at Facebook is "how can i change the color of my background?"
So going back to the aesthetics, I’ve always enjoyed making offline analogies to online behaviors since technology changes but people stay the same.
To me, MySpace looks like something very familiar – do you know what these are?
Scrapbooking and decoration as consumer behavior
If you’re not familiar, this is called scrapbooking and it’s basically photo albums++:
Read the Wikipedia article here
It’s a $2,500,000,000 (that’s a B) industry
The claim is that 1 in 3 households has a scrapbooker
… and finally, yes, people really do spend upwards of 40-60 hours per scrapbook making them look like that. It’s like offline Geocities… er, MySpace.
The demographic for this skews heavily female, but spans both teenagers to older, and is definitely has a lot of people in Middle America doing it. There are some religious linkages in there as well.
The MySpace and scrapbook aesthetic is very distinctive, and could be summarized as:
Mixed media (video/music/pictures/text for MySpace)
Disjointed look and feel from page-to-page or section-to-section
Flowery decorations including non-ironic use of cheesy imagery
Very people-centric (not information centric)
I don’t know about you, but this is not really how I use these sites. I tend to use these sites more as communication "tools" and crave functionality. And if you’re reading this blog, you’re probably like me. But the rest of the world is not like us, and that’s the problem.
As I’ve done research talking to dozens of MySpace users and people who
do artistic crafts like the above, I’ve come to the understanding that
this is what users want to do. This is how they want their profiles to look.
And it shocks me that for all the "openness"-loving, democratic culture
that the Bay Area has, there’s clearly a lot of snobbery when it comes
down to design and aesthetics.
I’m interested to see how people in the Bay Area think about MySpace over time. In the near-term, I’m going to try to immerse myself in all the things that are popular but derided here, such as:
Forums like Something Awful + GenMay
Dr. Phil books
Oprah books
Any personal self-help book
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We drove the Mercedes-AMG E 43 4MATIC Saloon: your sporting star in city dress…
March 23, 2017 Posted in Car Tests
There are few brands which possess the art of combining sportiness with outstanding comfort and present it in a package which is the ultimate in workmanship and quality, and on top of that design a body which evokes the panache and pedigree of the legendary star.
Mercedes has succeeded again to do all this in the latest E 43 AMG, and we spent some very memorable days with it, reaching great heights in automotive experience.
Indeed, this AMG 43 takes you into a different world. The world of perfection and sportiness. Already when you see the car, it impresses with excellent proportions, stylish AMG wheels and grille, just the right amount of ornamentation and chrome accents. Its shape evokes exactly what it wants to be, a powerful, well built quality sedan.
All this is masterfully continued in the interior. Wooden inserts in door panels and dashboard alternate with lacquered surfaces, which are mainly found in the centre console. The familiar Mercedes knobs and handles are found, also honed to perfection in touch and functionality over the years.
Essential information for the sporting driver: oil temperature of both engine and gearbox…
The virtual age of electronics has also entered Mercedes, and of course the dashboard instrumentation is now virtual, with dials and telltale instruments very well styled in character with the car and its engineering excellence. The information is very well laid out, and one sees immediately that test drivers, ergonomic and medical specialists as well as engineers have given it considerable thought when it came to presenting all the important information.
So is the driven speed and the chosen gear for instance immediately into your line of sight, presented with larger digital lettering inside the instrument cluster.
Velvet power
The heart of any car is its engine, and this I of course certainly true for this AMG thoroughbred. Just start it up and the slightly higher idling speed when cold puts you totally in the mood. The delicious six cylinder sound of this three liter V6 transports your mind already before you even started moving. Of course, state of the art technology is humming along here. What to think of two superchargers, now further enlarged, which boosts the power of this unit to 295 kW (401 hp) at beautiful sounding 6100 rpm. Further refined software of course helps also here. Plenty of pulling power from lower revs too: not less than 250 Nm is already available from 2500 rpm, and this over a wide rev range to 5000 rpm.
Does this AMG have supercar performance? It comes very close indeed: 0 to 100 is absolved in 4,6 seconds. Top speed is electronically limited of course, to 250 km/h.
The engine breathes state of the art engineering know how. For instance, NANOSLIDE® coating of the cylinder liners is also used in the Formula 1 V-6 hybrid turbo engines from MERCEDES-AMG PETRONAS. Especially tough and therefore wear-resistant, this coating also reduces friction, thereby contributing to higher efficiency. The same applies to the spray-guided multiple injection with up to 200 bar fuel pressure. To top it all off, the AMG power unit can be identified by the engine cover with red aluminium insert and AMG lettering.
A delightful transmission too…
This marvelous engine I coupled to a nine speed 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission, which the Mercedes-AMG developers have tuned specifically for a more dynamic driving experience. They significantly shortened the shift times of the 9-speed transmission by means of a dedicated software application. By skipping gears during downshifts, the 9G-TRONIC enables fast interim bursts of speed. With a defined ignition intervention, the double-declutching function allows more spirited and faster gear changes in the drive modes “Sport”, “Sport Plus” and “Manual”.
“Manual” mode can be selected using a specific button in the centre console, with the symbol “M” and two gears. Indeed, don’t move your elbows or hands too enthusiastically around in the neighborhood of the centre console, as you may push accidently this button. You find yourselves then suddenly in this manual mode, and you can now only change gears using the standard paddle shifters on the steering wheel. Moreover, the transmission stays in the selected gear and does not automatically shift up when the engine speed reaches the limiter. Be warned! Of course, everything turns back to normal when you push this button again…
AMG Performance 4MATIC for (very) spirited handling
Electronics also have found their way into suspension years ago. In this AMG the engineers have taken this to an art. Because not only the way the gearbox and engine perform is influenced by the drive modes, this goes too for the suspension. But already the basic setting for the standard-specification AMG Performance 4MATIC permanent all-wheel drive in the E 43 4MATIC Saloon is well honed and balanced. Indeed, there is a rear-biased torque split of 31 percent on the front axle and 69 percent on the rear axle built in. This configuration provides for enhanced driving dynamics and higher lateral acceleration on the road as well as improved traction when accelerating.
In order to adjust and fine tune the balance of the torque split for each model, the Mercedes engineers have the single-stage transfer case of the four-wheel drive system flange-mounted to the 9G‑TRONIC as a separate system. So it is actually an add-on solution which allows total flexibility. Of course, the new system has reduced friction and also a lower weight. Its compact design additionally means that it does not entail any space restrictions for passengers or luggage.
Not less than five dynamic modes…
Indeed, with the five DYNAMIC SELECT drive modes “Eco”, “Comfort”, “Sport”, “Sport Plus” and “Individual”, the driver can tailor the characteristics of the E 43 4MATIC models to suit personal preferences. The available range extends from efficient and comfortable to very sporty. As we said, this modifies key parameters, such as the response of the engine, transmission, suspension and steering.
The DYNAMIC SELECT “Sport” and “Sport Plus” drive modes trigger for instance a more agile accelerator pedal characteristic curve with direct set-up and gearshifts with shorter shift times and double-declutching function on downshifts. The increased idling speed in “Sport Plus” mode additionally enables the vehicle to move off particularly quickly while ensuring faster acceleration from rest.
But then comes the suspension. The multi-chamber air suspension system with a sporty spring/damper set-up and continuously variable damping gives you excellent vehicle dynamics. A harder spring rate, for example when cornering and braking, effectively reduces body roll. The elastokinematics of both axles have been designed to be more rigid in general. All these measures improve agility, and boost the dynamics.
The damping at each wheel is automatically adjusted to suit the current driving situation and the condition of the road. This is done rapidly and precisely, using two separate valves for the rebound and compression forces in the dampers. The damping characteristics can also be preselected in three modes, “Comfort”, “Sport” and “Sport Plus”, allowing a wider spread between excellent long-distance comfort and sporty driving dynamics. We are more comfort oriented, so we used the “Comfort” setting most of the time, but let it be said, that the suspension adjusts in a split second when you decide to put your foot down or tackle that upcoming corner with verve.
Thanks to pneumatic self-levelling at the front and rear axle, the E 43 4MATIC maintains a constant ride height regardless of the vehicle load. To increase ground clearance, for example to negotiate steep entrances into underground car parks or on ramps, the vehicle level can be raised at the touch of a button when the engine is running, either when stationary or on the move. This is good for your expensive AMG alloy wheels! Of course, the level is lowered automatically when driving at higher speeds…
A speed–sensitive sports steering
The electromechanical speed-sensitive sports steering features – noblesse oblige – a variable ratio on the E 43 4MATIC Saloon (also the Estate version of course). It also has a precise, highly authentic feedback. Steering power assistance is available in a choice of two modes – “Comfort” or “Sport”. The relevant characteristics are automatically activated depending on the selected DYNAMIC SELECT transmission mode or can be personalised in “Individual” mode. Manual torque is increased in “Sport” mode, providing more feedback on driving conditions.
The Burmeister sound system is of course state of the art…
And a compound braking system
The E 43 4MATIC comes with vented compound brake discs. They are also cross-drilled and measure 360 x 36 mm with 4-piston fixed callipers and AMG lettering at the front, while 360 x 26 mm cross-drilled and vented discs with single-piston floating calipers being fitted at the rear.
Needless to say that superb stopping power is the result…
You will always have a good eye in this Mercedes…
A formidable Mercedes E Class, achieving masterfully the absolute heights of automotive pleasure which a saloon car can possibly offer. All presented in a timelessly styled, superbly finished and quality built body, with last but not least a driveline and engine which is honed to absolute perfection. Superlatives are indeed the only way to describe it all. With its five driving modes, this AMG gem will suit and fit you like a glove, and you can of course also choose your very own individual setting. The beauty is also, that it is a six cylinder three liter. It doesn’t take much imagination to hear, when you rev it up, the typical Mercedes six cylinder staccato of the 300 SL, the 300 S Panamericana or Le Mans winner. Only you are catapulted – literally – in the electronic age a good six decades later…
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2020 Tokyo Olympics could cost much more than anticipated
Eric He
Yahoo Sports Contributor
Yahoo Sports 20 December 2019
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo could cost more than expected. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP) (Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images)
A report from the National Audit Board of Japan found that costs for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be substantially higher than the projected $7.3 billion that was announced when Tokyo won the bid in 2013.
The audit, released Friday, was separate from an updated budget put out by organizers that showed $12.6 billion in costs — an amount unchanged from last year.
Varying estimates
According to the Associated Press:
The audit lists an added $9.7 billion (1.06 trillion yen) it says are Olympic-related costs that have not been included. In addition, the city of Tokyo has previously said it would spend another $7.4 billion (810 trillion yen) on Olympic-related projects.
But the respected Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei and the daily Asahi calculated Olympic costs could reach $28 billion. Organizers claimed that the audit included broad expenditures that may not be relevant to the Games.
“As in the previous year, their report did not classify the cost of these items and activities based on their direct relevance to the Games,” organizers told the Associated Press. “It aggregated a wide range of projects that could be seen as contributing to the Games, including those that were implemented without regard to the Games.”
The report in the audit called for Olympic organizers to be more transparent in disclosing information regarding costs.
The Olympics seem to be popular in Japan, with the AP reporting that ticket demands are approximately 20 times over supply. But public money is being used to pay for the Games. Outside of $5.6 billion from a privately-funded budget, Japan is on the hook for costs such as the construction of the national stadium and athletes village.
Cost overrun is not a shock
That the Olympics are projected to go over budget is no surprise. In the modern era, host cities have built lavish stadiums and rolled out the red carpet for the world to see, but find themselves on the hook for expenses after the Games end.
The Council on Foreign Relations found that every Olympic host city since 1996 has incurred an increase in final cost compared to the original budget. Pyeongchang, South Korea, was responsible for $13 billion after hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics, about $6 billion more than projected.
The Tokyo Games, which begin July 24 and end Aug. 9, appear to be no exception.
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Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
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Now That I've Found You, Book One
Millions of readers/listeners have fallen in love with the San Francisco and Seattle Sullivans. Now get ready to fall head over heels for the New York Sullivans!
World-renowned artist Drake Sullivan doesn't paint women. Ever. Not when he knows all too well just how destructive painter/muse relationships can be. But on the day Rosa Bouchard walks onto the cliffs outside his Montauk cottage, Drake is so captivated that he can't stop himself from bringing her to life on canvas.
Shocked and horrified by the nude photos of her that have just hit the Internet, reality TV star Rosa's every instinct is to run from her Miami home and hide. After driving all night, she ends up in Montauk, New York, where she doesn't know a soul and plans to lie low until she can figure out how to deal with the media firestorm - and her own mother, who seems all too happy to sell out Rosa's happiness for more fame, more fans, and more money. The very last thing Rosa expects is to find, and to fall for, a sinfully sexy man like Drake Sullivan.
Drake has never felt this way about anything he's painted...and he's definitely never felt this way about a woman. When they kiss, everything but sweet, breathless desire melts away. But can he convince Rosa to trust - and to love - again after such a devastating betrayal?
Since I Fell for You, Book Two
Suzanne Sullivan doesn't need a bodyguard. After all, she's one of the most successful digital security specialists in the world―so she can most certainly take care of herself despite the problems she's been running into lately. Unfortunately, her three brothers don't agree. So when Mr. Way-Too-Handsome shows up bound and determined to protect her, whether she wants him there or not, sparks definitely start to fly. Because she has absolutely no intention of falling for the bodyguard she never wanted in the first place...
Roman Huson has vowed to do whatever it takes to protect Suzanne Sullivan from harm. And her brothers would kill him for so much as looking at her the wrong way. The only problem is that he's never been hired to work for anyone so beautiful, or brilliant, before. Between trying to keep up with her―and working like hell to keep from kissing her breathless―he's up against the most difficult challenge of his life. Especially when it turns out that the passion, and connection, between them is hotter than anything he's ever known...
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Alec Sullivan has always believed he has it all. A billion-dollar private aviation business. A penthouse apartment in New York City. Beautiful women who know better than to expect him ever to fall in love. And great siblings for whom he'd do anything. But when Alec's business partner passes away and leaves everything to a daughter Alec never knew about, in an instant everything in his life turns upside down - all because of Cordelia.
Cordelia always thought she was perfectly happy with her life. She owns a garden store she loves, lives in a pretty little cottage in the same town as her adoptive parents, and figures there's plenty of time to meet Mr. Right. But she never counted on becoming the surprise heir to a fortune - or on meeting a man like Alec Sullivan. A shockingly sexy billionaire who makes her heart race and melt all at the same time.
Neither Alec nor Cordelia plans on getting any closer than they have to. Only, how can either of them fight this kind of heat, this depth of desire? And when Cordelia needs Alec's support, it's pure instinct for him to be there for her. But when it's her turn to help him confront his deepest pain, will Alec let her in? Or will he push her away, just as he's pushed away everyone who's loved him for the past 30 years....
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Bella Andre is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of “The Sullivans”, “The Morrisons” and “The Maverick Billionaires” series.
Having sold more than 7 million books, Bella Andre's novels have been #1 bestsellers around the world and have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists 64 times. She has been the #1 Ranked Author at Amazon (on a top 10 list that included Nora Roberts, JK Rowling, James Patterson and Stephen King). Apple iBooks named her one of their “Bestselling Authors of All Time” (alongside Nicholas Sparks, Nora Roberts and EL James). And Publishers Weekly named Oak Press, the publishing company she created to publish her own books, the Fastest-Growing Independent Publisher in the US. After signing a groundbreaking 7-figure print-only deal with Harlequin MIRA, Bella's “The Sullivans” series is being released in paperback in the US, Canada, and Australia.
Known for “sensual, empowered stories enveloped in heady romance” (Publishers Weekly), her books have been Cosmopolitan Magazine “Red Hot Reads” twice and have been translated into ten languages. Winner of the Award of Excellence, The Washington Post called her “One of the top writers in America”; and she has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and TIME Magazine. A graduate of Stanford University, she has given keynote speeches at publishing conferences from Copenhagen to Berlin to San Francisco, including a standing-room-only keynote at Book Expo America in New York City.
Bella also writes the New York Times bestselling Four Weddings and a Fiasco series as Lucy Kevin. Her “sweet” contemporary romances also include the new USA Today bestselling Walker Island series written as Lucy Kevin.
If not behind her computer, you can find her reading her favorite authors, hiking, swimming or laughing. Married with two children, Bella splits her time between the Northern California wine country and a 100-year-old log cabin in the Adirondacks.
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Eva Kaminsky is a New York born and NYC based actor and narrator. A 2014 Audie nominee, she has recorded over 150 audiobooks in many different genres ranging from Romance to Young Adult. Eva can often be heard on TV and radio commercials for such products as Intel, Publix, Neulasta and Tide, and spent her earlier years in the world of animation voicing characters for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh, among many others. Recent recurring and guest appearances on television include Chicago Med, Billions, Madam Secretary, Madoff, Blindspot, and The Blacklist, and on the larger screen she can be seen in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Three Generations, and Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. She has spent over 20 years working in the theatre, both on and Off Broadway, and extensively in regional theatres all over the country.
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Flip Diving is one such game that puts you atop a steep cliffside where you'll launch yourself from a platform to gather stars and perform diving tricks while landing with as little splash as possible in the water.
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As much fun as it looks to go cliff diving or jumping into deep water from great heights in any capacity, I am just too much of a chicken to actually give the sport a try. I don't think I'll ever be an adrenaline junkie like some people in my life, so I tend to stick to daring and exciting video games to help me live vicariously through the characters. Flip Diving is simple to play and offers easy controls so that any member of the family can enjoy playing.
Amazing Graphics
The first thing to catch my eye in the play store was how impressive the graphics appeared in Flip Diving. After downloading the game and starting out on the first platform, I was pleasantly surprised at how detailed the graphics were in the background of each level.
On top of having impressively detailed graphics, the game also features a hilarious ragdoll physics system that will leave you in stitches as you laugh at the sometimes knee-slapping way in which your diver lands in the water or tumbles through the air and onto rocks.
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Unlike many games that focus on physics and stunts, you'll actually have several unique divers to choose from before you take your spot on the platform.
There are quite a few characters that simply look like male and female divers, and then there are divers like the giant penguin and teddy bear-suited people who tend to lose their heads if you aren't careful.
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Bisphosphonate associated osteonecrosis of the jaw
By Mark G. Ferrara, MD
Axial and coronal computed tomography (CT) images of the maxillofacial bones (Figures 2 and 3) demonstrate extensive cortical destruction, osteosclerosis, cortical thickening, and fragmentation of the right maxilla, which extends into the frontal process of the zygomatic bone and pterygoid plates. The anterior wall of the maxillary sinus, as well as the palatine process, are mildly depressed, and the lateral and medial walls of the sinus are fragmented, with several bony sequestra present within the sinus cavity. There is sparing of the orbital floor. There is an oroantral fistula, mucosal thickening of the maxillary sinus, and a small amount of soft tissue gas extending from the fragmented sinus. A small amount of soft tissue fluid is noted within the right cheek; however, there is no evidence of soft tissue infection. An incidental note was made of a left maxillary sinus mucus retention cyst, with an otherwise spared contralateral maxilla. The mandible (not shown) was uninvolved.
Bisphosphonate associated osteonecrosis of the jaw (BON) is defined as the unexpected development of necrotic bone in the oral cavity of a patient who is receiving bisphosphonate treatment and has not received radiotherapy to the head and neck. BON is an evolving complication whose incidence has steadily increased since the clinical use of bisphosphonates in oncology was first approved and their intravenous use in treating patients with bone metastasis was introduced in 1995.1 The first bisphosphonate treatment of patients with osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ) was reported in 1997.2 Since then, more than 2,000 cases have been reported to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).3 Although long familiar to those in oral and maxillofacial surgery and dental circles, BON was not yet well known in radiology at the time of this writing. However, its recognition is essential to patient management, as timely diagnosis can impact patient morbidity considerably.
The bisphosphonates, which are non-metabolized synthetic analogs of pyrophosphate synthetase, function through their inhibition of osseous resorption via suppression of osteoclast activity. The use and efficacy of these agents (intravenously administered pamidronate, zoledronate, ibandronate), in concurrence with antineoplastic chemotherapy, has been well documented in the treatment of bone pain, moderate to severe hypercalcemia, and other skeletal complications associated with such malignancies as metastatic breast cancer and multiple myeloma. Indeed, the indications for these agents have more recently been extended to include osteolytic lesions arising from any solid tumor (e.g., prostate and lung). Additional uses include osteoporosis (orally administered alendronate and risedronate), Paget’s disease, osteogenesis imperfecta, and fibrous dysplasia. 2,4,5
The incidence of BON has been reported to range from 2% to 12% of individuals treated with nitrogen containing bisphosphonates — most commonly, those patients being treated for multiple myeloma.6–9 In a systematic review of 368 published cases of BON by Woo et al., a prevalence of 6% to 10% was estimated in patients undergoing treatment for malignancy with bisphosphonates. This review also found that 94% of cases occurred in patients who were receiving intravenous bisphosphonate therapy for multiple myeloma and metastatic disease to the skeleton.6,8,9 This likely reflects a combination of the higher incidence of involvement of the mandible and maxilla in multiple myeloma relative to that of breast cancer or other solid tumor osseous metastasis, and the tendency of bisphosphonates to accumulate in regions of high bone turnover. Dimopoulos et al., in an analysis of 202 patients undergoing bisphosphonate therapy for multiple myeloma, demonstrated that the particular bisphosphonate being utilized and the mean duration of exposure play a statistically significant role in the development of ONJ. Of the 15 patients who developed BON in this series, only 1 was undergoing therapy with pamidronate alone, whereas the remainder were undergoing therapy with zoledronate alone, or zoledronate in combination with pamidronate or ibandronate. The median time between exposure and onset was 39 months in those who developed osteonecrosis, a time which was shown to be more than halved when zoledronic acid was used alone.10 The initial onset of oral lesions following bisphosphonate therapy has, however, been shown to manifest as early as 46 months.2,5,9 The intravenous use of compounds containing an aminoterminal group (e.g., pamidronate) or a nitrogen containing side chain (e.g., zoledronic acid) has been reported to pose the highest risk; however, this condition has also been reported, albeit less frequently, in individuals undertaking oral bisphosphonate therapy for osteoporosis.1
Bisphosphonates, which bind avidly to exposed bone mineral around resorbing osteoclasts with subsequent internalization by the osteoclasts,5 have demonstrated their efficacy through a number of mechanisms to include induction of osteoclast apoptosis, alterations in enzymatic function of osteoclasts, and incorporation of the molecule into the hydroxyapatite matrix, with resultant modification in bone micro-architecture.3 More recently, these compounds have additionally shown potent anti-angiogenic properties via their ability to appreciably reduce circulating levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), with inhibition of bone blood flow ultimately responsible for bone resorption and loss, creating an ideal milieu for the subsequent development of osteonecrosis.3,4,11 Direct apoptosis of tumor cells, adhesional inhibition of malignant cells to, and over, bone matrix in vitro, and inhibition of various metalloproteinases involved in cancer growth and metastasis in vitro have also been shown.1,3,4,11
Presenting symptoms have been reported relatively consistently throughout the literature, with patients typically complaining of a painful, “nonhealing” extraction socket or exposed bone with progression to sequestrum formation associated with localized swelling and purulent discharge.4,5 Although surgical extractions/jaw trauma and radiotherapy have commonly been identified as predisposing factors for osteonecrosis, there are reports of spontaneous exposures and necrosis of the alveolar bone,12 as shown by Ruggiero et al., where 9 of 63 patients (14%) had no history of recent dentoalveolar procedures, yet presented with spontaneous bony exposure and alveolar bone necrosis.
BON may remain asymptomatic for weeks or months; it is often recognized solely by exposed bone in the oral cavity. Patients may become symptomatic following a secondary infection or trauma to adjacent and/or opposing normal soft tissues, from the irregular surfaces created by the exposed bone. Unfortunately, a diagnosis is usually not established until the disease is well advanced, as patients usually do not present until osteonecrosis has already become symptomatic.4
Because the body does not metabolize bisphosphonates, which have a bone half-life ranging from several months to years and accumulate specifically in active bony sites with increased osteoclastic activity, it has been postulated that the skeleton acts as a reservoir where high concentrations of the compounds are maintained for extended periods of time. This could explain why osteonecrosis appears after long-term treatment and why it persists, and even progresses, in cases where bisphosphonate treatment has been discontinued.5,6,8,11,12
What, then, explains the predilection of this condition for the jaw and its greater incidence in those who have experienced previous surgical extractions and/or jaw trauma? Several theories suggest ONJ likely results from a combination of the induction of osteoclast and oral mucosa keratinocyte apoptosis, and the inhibitory effects upon VEGF. This combination, the thinking goes, results in the inability of hypodynamic and hypovascular bone to meet increased demand for repair and remodeling, owing to the innate, continual physiologic stress (mastication), iatrogenic trauma (tooth extraction or denture injury), or dental infection within an environment laden with oral flora bacteria.13,12 The chemotherapeutic agents and steroid preparations taken by these patients also influence wound healing and, therefore, necessitate consideration as possible etiologic factors. 1,5
In the vast majority of literature reviewed at the time of this writing, disease involvement was consistently more prevalent in the mandible than the maxilla (hence, the alternative terminology, “bisphosphonate associated osteonecrosis of the mandible”). Involvement of the maxilla, however, is not infrequent despite its collateral circulation and rich vascular supply. Ruggerio et al. demonstrated that, in contrast with patients who typically develop osteoradionecrosis of the jaw, maxilla involvement was common in bisphosphonate therapy, representing 24 of 63 patients (38%) in their sample population.5 Migliorati et al. even suggest that, in BON, the maxilla is affected much more commonly than the mandible. 9
A recent study by Chiandussi et al. employed conventional radiography, CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and a 99-Tcm-MDP3-phase bone scan on each of 11 individuals with BON in an effort to describe the features of each modality and aid the prompt recognition of the condition.
The investigators concluded that although panoramic plain radiography offers good specificity in distinguishing osteonecrosis from other pathologies, and is further exceeded by both CT and MRI, none of the modalities is able to differentiate bisphosphonate induced osteonecrosis of the jaw from other well established causes of exposed bone in the jaw, such as osteoradionecrosis (which also shares strikingly similar clinical features with BON), osteonecrosis secondary to osteomyelitis, or steroid induced osteonecrosis (the latter being an uncommon occurrence).4,5 CT, including multiplanar reformatting (MPR), as was undertaken in this particular case, has shown its utility in defining the features and extent of both osseous and soft tissue involvement of this process. In select circumstances, MRI has been able to further augment diagnosis by establishing the degree of soft tissue involvement. Scintigraphy has also been shown to be a very sensitive modality; therefore, it has been suggested as a potential screening tool to detect subclinical disease in patients undergoing bisphosphonate therapy.1,4
Bisphosphonate associated osteonecrosis of the jaw represents a serious side effect of bisphosphonate administration. Although treatment regimens, including discontinuation of the offending drug, surgical debridement/sequestrectomy, hyperbaric oxygen, and longterm antibiotic therapy have been advocated, a universally accepted, standardized treatment protocol for BON had not yet been adopted at the time of this writing, as none of these treatments alone, or in combination, had proven consistently efficacious. Consequently, the focus rests on prevention and early detection, as timely diagnosis can influence disease outcome considerably.
Migliorati CA, Siegel MA, Elting LS. Bisphosphonateassociated osteonecrosis: a longterm complication of bisphosphonate treatment. Lancet Oncol. 2006;7:508-514.
Dimitrakopoulos I, Magopoulos C, Karakasis D. Bisphosphonateinduced avascular osteonecrosis of the jaws: a clinical report of 11 cases. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006;35:588-593.
Assael LA. A Time for Perspective on Bisphosphonates. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006;64:877-879.
Chiandussi S, Biasotto M, Dore F et al. Clinical and diagnostic imaging of bisphosphonateassociated osteonecrosis of the jaws. Dentomaxillofac Radiol. 2006;35:236-243.
Ruggiero SL, Mehrotra B, Rosenberg TJ et al. Osteonecrosis of the jaws associated with the use of bisphosphonates: a review of 63 cases. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2004;62:527-534.
Ashcroft J. Bisphosphonates and phossyjaw: breathing new life into an old problem. Lancet Oncol. 2006;7:447-449.
Bamias A, Kastritis E, Bamia C et al. Osteonecrosis of the Jaw in Cancer After Treatment With Bisphosphonates: Incidence and Risk Factors. J Clin Oncol. 2005;23:8580-8587.
Delibasi T, Altundag K, Kanlioglu Y. Why osteonecrosis of the jaw after bisphosphonates treatment is more frequent in multiple myeloma than in solid tumors. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2006;64:995-996.
Woo SB, Hellstein JW, Kalmar JR. Systematic Review: Bisphosphonates and Osteonecrosis of the Jaws. Ann Intern Med. 2006;144:753-761.
Dimopoulos MA, Kastritis E, Anagnostopoulos A et al. Osteonecrosis of the jaw in patients with multiple myeloma treated with bisphosphonates: evidence of increased risk after treatment with zoledronic acid. Haematologica 2006; 91:968971. 2006;91:968-971.
Merigo E, Manfredi M, Meleti M et al. Jaw bone necrosis without previous dental extractions associated with the use of bisphosphonates (pamidronate and zoledronate): a fourcase report. J Oral Pathol Med. 2005; 34:613-617.
Leite AF, Figueiredo PT, Melo NS et al. Bisphosphonateassociated osteonecrosis of the jaws. Report of a case and literature review. Oral Surg Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2006;102:1421.
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PES-Architects have been responsible for a significant amount of the constructed area at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport as well as the design, co-ordination and implementation of various master-plans and strategic plans, both within the terminal and around it.
The original terminal building at Helsinki-Vantaa airport designed by architects Keijo Ström and Olavi Tuomisto was completed in 1969, and since then the airport has rapidly expanded. Firstly with the completion of Ruokosuo Architects’ terminal in 1992 and then due to Finland joining the European Union in 1995 the new international terminal designed by PES-Architects.
Built between in a V shape between the existing terminals the primary purpose of the building was to accommodate the general growth in air traffic but especially that from EU counties. The now iconic triangular terminal building brought the airport into the 21st Century.
Along with the construction of the new terminal PES-Architects have over seen the reorganisation of all of the land-side area in front of the terminal, in 2001 the alterations and additions carried out in accordance to the Schengen treaty, and in 2002 the renovated of airports baggage handling system and the installation of a 100% luggage surveillance system. In addition to these passenger related alterations PES-Architects have co-ordinated the comprehensive modernisation and expansion of the airports technical support facilities, spaces for operative personnel and administrative offices.
In 2002, a new stage of development started at the airport, with the completion of a third runway. In 2004 PES-Architects completed the construction of the new extension of the non- Schengen part of the terminal. In 2009 Parviainen Architects add to this by completing the Non-Schengen Terminal. In 2012 PES-Architects completed the comprehensive renovation of the 1969 portion of the terminal which completed the modernization of the western section of terminal T2.
Currently PES-Architects are coordinating the construction of the airports link to the Kehärata ring rail line to Helsinki City Centre, developing designs for the extension of terminal T1 and carrying out a comprehensive overhaul of the terminals retail spaces.
Helsinki-Vantaa airport, terminal area facilities in brief:
Facility Designer Completed Original international terminal (Ström and Tuomisto Architects) 1969 Terminal expanded (Ström and Tuomisto Architects) 1983 Parking garage P2, 2000 cars (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1989 Domestic Terminal (Ruokosuo Architects) 1992 Parking Garage P3A, 2100 cars (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1994 International terminal, first phase (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1996 International terminal, second phase (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1999 Parking Garage P5, 2000 cars (KVA Architects) 2000 Arrangements for Schengen traffic (Pekka Salminen Architects) 2001 Third runway (CAA Finland) 2002 Second control tower concept (not built) (Pekka Salminen Architects) 2003 Terminal extension (non Schengen) (Pekka Salminen Architects) 2004 Non-Schengen Terminal (Parviainen Architects) 2009 Parking Garage P3B, 2100 cars (PES Architects) 2009 Extension to T1 (Preliminary Design) (PES Architects) 2011- Renovation/reorganization T2 (PES Architects) 2012 Connection to Kehärata (PES Architects) 2015-
Terminal Area land use plan (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1987 Commercial Space strategy (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1992 Airport Master Plan 2020 (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1993 Airside Master Plan (Pekka Salminen Architects) 1999 Terminal T2 (International Terminal) Phase 1 1996 / Phase 2 1999
In 1999 PES-Architects completed the two phase development of the main terminal complex at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. Phase one comprised the flight control tower, passenger waiting areas, terminal hotel, congress centre and other commercial facilities. Phase two included the new arrival and departure halls and baggage handling facilities, with both phases totalling 47500m².
Located at the crossing of runway one and two and linking both the old international and domestic terminals the new terminal took on a V shape formation with the main departures and arrivals hall forming a dynamic wedge in the centre. The resulting triangular shape has been adopted as the foundation for the architectural language used throughout the project.
In addition to the main shape of the building, this triangular theme has been repeated throughout the plan of the interior spaces and the air control tower as well as appearing in the structure of both the new departure hall and in the tall glass-walled air intake tower. It has also been made evident in various details such as the triangular granite floor pattern and the triangular suspended ceiling panels in the transit area.
The triangular departure hall is the most important space both functionally and architecturally. It is covered with a slightly curved triangular space truss supported on three columns, with a wedge-shaped top rising up to a height of 17 meters. This spacious hall forms the focal space of the whole terminal complex, guiding passengers through the security control area to the gateway lobby on the air-side.
Two wooden sculptures rising to a height of eight meters are situated in the “greeters” lobby, creating a natural meeting place for passengers where created by sculptor Martti Aiha and were realized as part of the government sponsored "Time for Wood" project.
The support structure detailing for the tilted glass walls facing the apron as well as certain other details from the original terminal building of 1969, a fine airport terminal of its time, was adapted for use in the new international terminal. Overall, the solutions used in the original terminal were a limiting factor in the new terminal’s design, but it was deemed appropriate that the original terminal remain as a clearly defined mass with no part of the new terminal competing with it, but rather, due to its functional nature those parts joining to it remaining as an intermediary element.
The entire transit area is lit with the aid of large, triangular skylight prisms, through which both daylight and artificial light is reflected into the interior of the terminal. The air control tower and the triangular glass prism skylights of the Gateway Hall can be seen from the air as an avarian flying wedge, forming the symbolic image for the airport as a whole.
Terminal Extension for Non-Schengen traffic 2004
The powerful growth of air traffic in particular traffic to Asia in the late 90’s resulted in a need to expand the passenger terminal areas dedicated to long distance travel from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. The L shaped extension to the west of the 1969 terminal involved the significant enlargement of the airport’s security screening and passport control areas, the expansion of existing waiting areas and commercial services and the construction of two new departure gates. In total 8630m² was built and 2060m² of the old terminal was renovated.
Built using pre-fabricated steel frame elements the extension was mostly built over two floors with underground cellar facilities. Security and passport control, waiting lounges and outdoor bus and service yards were located on ground level. The second floor planned around a central Avenue consisted of commercial spaces and passenger lounges, with air-condition plants located above.
The design objective for the project where determined by the new terminal completed in 1999 and included establishing clear passenger routes with easy orientation and the creation of a relaxed environment, where travellers feel comfortable and where services are easy to find.
The colour scheme for the new and renovated areas follows on from the 1999 terminal was subdued but the details were carefully worked out with light-toned “Scandinavian” wood being extensively used for wall surfaces and furnishings and a combination of Chinese and Finnish granite being used on the floors. Special attention was given to the design of the specialty shops with the creation of wood and glass display cases which open onto the central Avenue.
Renovation and reorganisation of original international terminal 2009-2012
The complete renovation of the original 1969 international terminal included the rationalisation and modernisation of all retail spaces as well as security and check-in facilities on the main concourse level which totalled 12,800m².
Over the forty years that the terminal has been in operation a wide variety of changes had been made to its interior. The renovation therefore gave an opportunity to correct some of the more intrusive alterations and to reopen its long facades looking towards the air-side and land-side. It also allowed the original parquet floor to be revealed and for the concrete columns to be highlight. In addition there was a total overhaul of the HVAC and lighting facilities and the creation of a new unifying ceiling element.
Extension to current Terminal 1, (on hold) 2011
As the number of airline operators continues to expand along with the amount of air traffic to Asia there is a growing need for an increase number of gates at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. To provide these an extension to the current T1 (built in 1992) terminal has been developed. This new extension will be linked directly to the terminal and extend it up until the Finavia office building to the south. This new element will be both harmonious and will create a new entrance icon for those travellers departing the airport.
The new terminal complex will contain all of its own functions including extensive retail spaces, 3 new passenger bridges and 4 new bus gates, but it will share a renovated entrance and exit from the existing terminal as well as modernised check-in and baggage handling facilities. The total new build area will be 17790m² and those renovated will be 4190m².
In terms of architecture the biggest change of the design has been how to continue the façade of the current T1 terminal built in 1992. In terms of the airport technical facilities the challenge has been how to produce high quality architecture at minimal cost with absolutely minimal hindrance on the continued operation of the terminal.
According to a passenger satisfaction survey carried out by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Helsinki-Vantaa Airport has been ranked among the world’s best airports many years in a row.
Helsinki Vantaa Airport’s rankings: - 1997: Best in Europe (IATA) - 1998: Best in the world (IATA) - 1999: Best in the world by size (IATA), Golden Key (The Association for Finnish Work) - 2000: Best in the world by size (IATA), Best in Europe (IATA), Service Excellence Award (Airport World Magazine) - 2001: Service Excellence Award (Airport World Magazine) - 2002: Service Excellence Award (Airport World Magazine) - 2004: Best in the world by size (Aetra), Second best in Europe (Aetra) - 2005: Third best in the world by size (Aetra), Third best in Europe (Aetra) - 2006: Third best in the world by size (ASQ), Third best in Europe (ASQ), Second best in Europe (Skytrax), World’s best security processing (Skytrax), Golden Pillow Award (Sleeping in Airports), Award of Excellence (Air Cargo World) - 2007: Third best in Europe (ASQ), Second best Airport in the world in baggage delivery (Skytrax), Best in Europe (Reader's Digest) - 2008: Fifth best in the world (Wanderlust Magazine), Ninth best in the world (Skytrax), Third best in the world in baggage delivery (Skytrax) - 2009: Best in the world in baggage delivery (Skytrax), Best airport in the world (Monocle Magazine) - 2010: Best airport in the Northern Europe (Skytrax), Airport of the Year in Finland (Finavia), Best airport to make a connection (Monocle) - 2011: Best lounge in the world (Priority Pass), Best airport in Europe to make a connection (Monocle) - 2012: Best airport in social media (SimpliFlying)
1994: The Domestic Parking Garage received the Concrete Construction Prize of Finland
1999: The International Terminal T2 received the Steel Construction Prize of Finland
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Traces of Archaic Mitochondrial Lineages Persist in Austronesian-Speaking Formosan Populations
Jean A Trejaut, Toomas Kivisild, Jun Hun Loo, Chien Liang Lee, et al
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/962631"], "description"=>"<p>The tree is based on sequences of HVS-I (16024–16390) and a coding region segment covering 9,793 to 10,899 bps. Haplogroup defining HVS-II mutations were manually added after the generation of the network. Additional coding region mutations, ascertained through complete mtDNA sequencing of an individual of each subclade of the haplogroup defined by the mutation, were used to generate the network and are shown in blue. All nps are numbered according to reference sequence [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b71\" target=\"_blank\">71</a>]. Mutations in italic indicate back conversions. Nucleotide change is specified only for transversions. Node areas are proportional to haplotype frequencies of the pooled nine tribes. The population codes are as follows: A, Atayal; B, Bunun; M, Amis; P, Paiwan; R, Rukai; S, Saisiat; U, Puyuma; T, Tsou; and Y, Yami. CRS = Cambridge reference sequence [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b70\" target=\"_blank\">70</a>].</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["drawn", "median-joining", "96", "mtdna", "haplotypes", "observed", "taiwanese"], "article_id"=>632601, "categories"=>["Ecology", "Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Jean A Trejaut", "Toomas Kivisild", "Jun Hun Loo", "Chien Liang Lee", "Chun Lin He", "Chia Jung Hsu", "Zheng Yuan Li", "Marie Lin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247.g002", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>4, "page_views"=>43, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Tree_Drawn_from_a_Median_Joining_Network_of_96_mtDNA_Haplotypes_Observed_in_Nine_Indigenous_Taiwanese_Populations_/632601", "title"=>"Tree Drawn from a Median-Joining Network of 96 mtDNA Haplotypes Observed in Nine Indigenous Taiwanese Populations", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-22 09:05:35"}
{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/473022"], "description"=>"<div><p>Genetic affinities between aboriginal Taiwanese and populations from Oceania and Southeast Asia have previously been explored through analyses of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), Y chromosomal DNA, and human leukocyte antigen loci. Recent genetic studies have supported the “slow boat” and “entangled bank” models according to which the Polynesian migration can be seen as an expansion from Melanesia without any major direct genetic thread leading back to its initiation from Taiwan. We assessed mtDNA variation in 640 individuals from nine tribes of the central mountain ranges and east coast regions of Taiwan. In contrast to the Han populations, the tribes showed a low frequency of haplogroups D4 and G, and an absence of haplogroups A, C, Z, M9, and M10. Also, more than 85% of the maternal lineages were nested within haplogroups B4, B5a, F1a, F3b, E, and M7. Although indicating a common origin of the populations of insular Southeast Asia and Oceania, most mtDNA lineages in Taiwanese aboriginal populations are grouped separately from those found in China and the Taiwan general (Han) population, suggesting a prevalence in the Taiwanese aboriginal gene pool of its initial late Pleistocene settlers. Interestingly, from complete mtDNA sequencing information, most B4a lineages were associated with three coding region substitutions, defining a new subclade, B4a1a, that endorses the origin of Polynesian migration from Taiwan. Coalescence times of B4a1a were 13.2 ± 3.8 thousand years (or 9.3 ± 2.5 thousand years in Papuans and Polynesians). Considering the lack of a common specific Y chromosomal element shared by the Taiwanese aboriginals and Polynesians, the mtDNA evidence provided here is also consistent with the suggestion that the proto-Oceanic societies would have been mainly matrilocal.</p> </div>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["traces", "archaic", "mitochondrial", "lineages", "austronesian-speaking", "formosan", "populations"], "article_id"=>153196, "categories"=>["Ecology", "Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Jean A Trejaut", "Toomas Kivisild", "Jun Hun Loo", "Chien Liang Lee", "Chun Lin He", "Chia Jung Hsu", "Zheng Yuan Li", "Marie Lin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>2, "page_views"=>16, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/Traces_of_Archaic_Mitochondrial_Lineages_Persist_in_Austronesian_Speaking_Formosan_Populations/153196", "title"=>"Traces of Archaic Mitochondrial Lineages Persist in Austronesian-Speaking Formosan Populations", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-01-20 11:29:30"}
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{"files"=>["https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/962741"], "description"=>"<p>Principal components map obtained from a matrix of haplogroup frequencies in nine Taiwan indigenous tribes (<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-t001\" target=\"_blank\">Table 1</a>), northern and southern Chinese [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b34\" target=\"_blank\">34</a>], Taiwan urban population (Minnan and Hakka) [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b29\" target=\"_blank\">29</a>], Japan [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b73\" target=\"_blank\">73</a>], Korea [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b33\" target=\"_blank\">33</a>], Luzon [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b12\" target=\"_blank\">12</a>], Moluccas [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b14\" target=\"_blank\">14</a>], Indonesia, Ryukyu [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b42\" target=\"_blank\">42</a>] Malaysia, South Vietnam, the Philippines [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b20\" target=\"_blank\">20</a>], and Thai [<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b45\" target=\"_blank\">45</a>,<a href=\"http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247#pbio-0030247-b46\" target=\"_blank\">46</a>]. Austronesian-speaking populations are represented by circles, non–Austronesian-speaking populations by stars.</p>", "links"=>[], "tags"=>["components"], "article_id"=>632710, "categories"=>["Ecology", "Genetics", "Evolutionary Biology"], "users"=>["Jean A Trejaut", "Toomas Kivisild", "Jun Hun Loo", "Chien Liang Lee", "Chun Lin He", "Chia Jung Hsu", "Zheng Yuan Li", "Marie Lin"], "doi"=>"https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030247.g003", "stats"=>{"downloads"=>1, "page_views"=>6, "likes"=>0}, "figshare_url"=>"https://figshare.com/articles/_Principal_Components_Analysis_/632710", "title"=>"Principal Components Analysis", "pos_in_sequence"=>0, "defined_type"=>1, "published_date"=>"2013-02-22 09:06:24"}
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Graphic Novels: More than Capes and Cowls
By John Reinhart , April 29, 2013 09:02 AM
Browsing my local bookstore last weekend, I stumbled across three volumes in Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking Sandman series.
"Do you have other graphic novels?" I asked the nearest clerk.
" Graphic novels?" She looked perplexed.
"Yeah," I said, holding up a Gaiman cover. "Like these?"
"Oh." More confusion. "I thought those were comic books."
Tell an adult story via text and sequential art, and chances are most people will see it as a comic book on steroids. But a graphic novel is much more than that. And these days it may not even be fiction: Modern graphic "novels" present all manner of true-life stories, from the plight of Saharan refugees (Journa lism by Joe Sacco ) to a gay woman grappling with her sexual identity (Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ) to a Vietnamese family assimilating in the United States (Vietnamerica by G. B. Tran ).
We're a long way from supervillians intent on world domination here, people. Check out, for example, Will Eisner's A Contract with God: It explores a man's loss of faith after the death of his adopted daughter-a layered subject you might be surprised to encounter outside the works of Philip Roth or Louise Erdrich.
Equally intricate is Maus, in which Art Spiegelman interviews his father about his experiences as a Polish survivor of the Holocaust. The result is a blend of history, memoir, and fiction so powerful and c omplex it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 (a first for a graphic novel).
With new graphic novels hitting bookstore shelves each week, I hope to use this space to help you tour this undiscovered country. I hope you'll join me for a wide-ranging dialogue about one of my favorite mediums: Which graphic novels do you like? And why?
Full disclosure: I'm a bit biased when it comes to artwork. If I like the art in a graphic novel, odds are I'm going to like the story line too. If I don't like the art, well-even Dickens would have a hard time winning me over.
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In my next post we'll look at Chris Ware's Building Stories, which many critics deemed one of 2012's finest novels (of any kind). In the weeks after that we'll page through works by Neil Gaiman, Joe Kubert, Hope Larson, Joe Sacco-and any others you'd like to see here.
Native Kansan John Reinhart is a comic-book devotee, foodie, runner, and cyclist. You can follow his reading life at bibliobloggin.blogspot.com or on Twitter @bibliobaggins.
Cover of the Kitchen Sink Press edition of A Contract With God with permission from the Will Eisner estate.
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Updated: Article now links to more recent guidelines.
What is ESSA?
Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA), formerly know as the Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science (AAESS), is a professional organisation which is committed to establishing, promoting and defending the career paths of tertiary trained exercise and sports science practitioners, who are in turn committed to best practice and client well-being. The central tenet of our profession is that:
“Exercise and Sports Science is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and enhancement of human movement in the broadest sense, including general physical activity pursuits such as goal oriented fitness regimens and recreational sport as well as elite sport and the area of performance enhancement. It includes the knowledge, methods and applications of sub-disciplines (ie. exercise physiology, biomechanics, motor control and motor development, exercise and sport psychology) as well as how they interact”.
AAESS was officially founded in 1991, and changed its trading name to ESSA in 2010. It was founded to meet the professional needs of exercise and sports scientists in Australia. It is directed by an Executive Board comprised of leading academics and practitioners in these fields and is supported by a growing number of regional chapters throughout Australia.
AAESS Pty Ltd (trading as ESSA) is an incorporated body and its constitution has been registered with the Australian Securities Commission.
Why is ESSA needed?
Current research emphatically confirms the importance of regular moderate physical activity for public health. Authorities that recognise and support these findings include World Health Organisation (Position Statement 1995), the US Surgeon General (Position Statement 1996 – CDC), the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (1997) and American College of Sports Medicineand the American Heart Association (2007) .
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As a result, there is considerable interest in the exercise and sports science fields from within the government/public and private sectors.
Responsible advocacy of broad based public participation in physical activity necessarily requires that professional service providers are available.
ESSA members are qualified to comprehensively assess an individuals exercise capacity and can ensure that participation is safe and achieves the optimum outcomes for all sectors of the population.
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Critical iPhone security bug allows hackers to install spy apps without you ever knowing
Chris Smith @chris_writes
It’s common knowledge that the iPhone is safer than Android when it comes to certain hacks. But that doesn’t mean talented hackers can’t trick Apple’s operating system, and a new security bug seems to prove just that. The recently discovered issue might not affect a large number of users yet, but it has massive potential for hackers because of the way it operates: It fools the iPhone into downloading a malicious app that replicates an actual app on your phone that it then covertly replaces. The malicious app can then be used by hackers for various purposes without the iPhone user’s knowledge.
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The apps looks and perform like the real thing, researchers from FireEye told Business Insider, but they have components that can activate additional silent functions, such as spying on conversations or uploading personal data to a server that’s also controlled by attackers.
Such fake apps have already been found in the wild and have been replicating popular apps including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Skype and others.
However, the key thing you need to know about this security threat is that it acts together with a phishing email or message. In other words, to download the malicious apps, one would have to click on a particular link in an email or message.
This is actually where hackers managed to bypass Apple’s security with this “Masque” attack. As users click on the link, the iPhone is fooled into believing it connects to the App Store.
“If you can be tricked into clicking on a link on your phone to install an application then any of your apps could be replaced with a malicious version. It could look identical to the standard app but have extra functionality,” FireEye global technical lead Simon Mullis said. “Once installed, the new malicious application can hijack the communications used by legitimate apps and steal information, such as login credentials.”
The Masque attack has been discovered in information taken from security firm Hacking Team, which develops surveillance tools for governmental agencies. The Hacking Team was ironically hacked itself recently and its attackers walked away with 400GB of data.
It’s not clear how many iPhone users have been affected by the security bug, but the number is apparently “small.” In addition to hackers looking to use iPhone owners for personal gain with the help of Masque, spy agencies around the world might put it to use against potential targets.
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One Amazing Human Is Making Sure This Tiny Bulldog Doesn’t Give Up On Living A Happy Life
Arin Greenwood
One recent morning, Kiki the bulldog woke up in a puddle of her own waste. She could barely stand.
“I thought this was her goodbye,” says Skip Van Der Marliere, founder of Southern California Bulldog Rescue.
It’s just one of the many times Kiki’s been rushed to the vet, since Skip took the pup in about two months ago.
It’s just one of the many times she’s pulled through.
Her rescuers think Kiki’s former owners kept her in a crate in a garage for most of her early life — so terribly confined, that she developed scoliosis. And that’s the most easily treated of her conditions.
Her previous owner gave her up in May. She was in shockingly bad shape: malnourished and thin, with big infected bed sores, and two types of serious, untreated autoimmune diseases — one affecting her painfully raw and infected skin, the other her bowels.
“She was able to still walk, though that was even painful because of blistering sores on the bottom of her paws,” says Skip. “Despite her health issues, she was still always interested in what was going on around her and liked human contact.”
Skip has been trying hard to keep Kiki alive, to get her well enough to enjoy this new life she’s been given.
Even after all the trips to the vet, Kiki’s skin problems are still acute, and she’s having a hard time putting on weight. Her conditions feed on each other; Kiki can’t take the steroids or stem cell treatments that might help her bald, irritated skin until her bowel issues are under control, and those have been tough to manage.
So Skip is trying out some “novel meats” he hopes she may be able to tolerate, like duck and rabbit.
For Kiki’s skin, there are lots of medicated baths, and nice gentle scrubbings with all kinds of different brushes — tooth brushes, makeup brushes, anything soft that might afford the little dog some relief.
And while Kiki isn’t always in the mood for a bath — she’s crazy about the attention, which she probably didn’t get a lot of, before.
“She just lays still when you pet her and scratch her now. You can tell she loves it,” he says.
Kiki still isn’t really well. She doesn’t have much energy, and doesn’t show interest in toys or treats.
If she becomes critically ill again — if she needs oxygen, or surgery — Skip and his husband will not put her through that.
But despite the ups and downs, that’s not now.
“It’s not her time to go,” says Skip.
Not long ago, Kiki’s fur started to grow in on her right front paw.
And the other day, Skip saw her trying to get up on the couch. She didn’t quite make it, but it filled him with joy to witness Kiki making a decision, to see her want something.
“It’s the baby steps forward that tell us we are doing good for her and she’s getting better,” says Skip. “She’s happy.”
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Terence Davis began receiving contract offers at halftime of his first Vegas Summer League game in July. Davis finished the game with 22 points and five three-pointers just days after going undrafted in June.
Within hours after the game, Davis had a guaranteed contract with the Toronto Raptors.
"I had to make sure nobody was looking over my shoulder reading my texts," agent Adam Pensack said. "Several of the teams I was texting with were sitting near me and I didn't want them to see the conversations I was having about TD. It was a very unique situation."
In addition to Davis, the Raptors also have Fred VanVleet and Chris Boucher as key contributors who went undrafted.
"You're seeing more undrafted guys contribute, and I think a possible reason is the difference between the 25th player in the draft and the 95th player is getting thinner," said Nick Nurse. "It makes player development and using your G League team important factors."
The Raptors believe Raptors 905's 2017 G League title with VanVleet and Siakam playing large roles was a key element of the franchise winning an NBA title in 2019.
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Plenty of dramaArtificial Intelligence loses its Head According to an internal Microsoft announcement, Executive Vice President Harry Shum, a 23-year Microsoft vetera…
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According to an internal Microsoft announcement, Executive Vice President Harry Shum, a 23-year Microsoft veteran and the head of Microsoft AI and Research, is leaving the company in February 2020. He was responsible for driving the company’s overall AI strategy and forward-looking research and development efforts.
Dr. Shum is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow for his contributions to computer vision and computer graphics. He joined Microsoft Research in 1996 as a researcher based in Redmond and moved to Beijing in 1998 as one of the founding members of Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia).
In a note about the transition, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees:
"Harry has had a profound impact on Microsoft. His contributions in the fields of computer science and AI leave a legacy and a strong foundation for future innovation. I want to thank him for his leadership and partnership, and for all he has done for Microsoft."
There's no word on what's next for Shum. He will be continuing as an advisor to Satya Nadella and company founder Bill Gates.
Kevin Scott, the company’s Chief Technology Officer since early 2017, will be taking on Shum's responsibilities in addition to his existing ones, effective immediately.
Microsoft Teams vs. Slack vs. Numbers
Microsoft has shared that it has hit the 20 million daily active user (DAU) milestone for Teams. Last month, Teams customers participated in more than 27 million voice or video meetings and performed over 220 million open, edit, or download actions on files stored in Teams.
Teams' biggest rival, Slack, passed 12 million daily active users in October 2019 – although it launched much before, in 2013. Slack has argued that DAUs don't reflect user engagement with its users spending more than nine hours a day connected to Slack and more than 90 minutes per day actively using it.
A Microsoft spokesperson told Mary Jo Foley that Microsoft defines DAU as "the maximum daily users performing an intentional action in the last 28-day period across the desktop client, mobile client and web client." Microsoft does not count "passive actions like auto boot, minimizing a screen, or closing the app" in calculating DAU.
Slack wasn’t too happy with the attention Teams got and took the opportunity to tweet about the similarities between its own ad and Microsoft's 'The Art of Teamwork' ad. Megan Quinn, general partner of an early investor in Slack, joined in by retweeting an old post - "not all DAUs are created equal". The post included a screenshot of the top rising 'related queries' for Teams on Google Trends, most of which point to users abandoning Teams.
Of course, between all this, Slack’s stock went down by 8.35%.
In a blog post, Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365, shared that the company partnered with IDEO, a global design company, and researched successful workplace teams to create a new digital curriculum built around the five attributes of a successful team. The research findings are also used to refine Microsoft Teams.
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Microsoft is planning to integrate Google services like Gmail, Drive, and Calendar to Outlook.com on the web. The company was apparently testing the integration on some accounts, and Florian B on Twitter was able to access it.
There’s a quick setup process to link your Google Account to a Microsoft Account that you use for Outlook.com and your Gmail email, Google Calendar appointments, and Drive files are displayed inside Outlook.com – separately, that is.
A Microsoft spokesperson told The Verge that the company cannot comment on exactly when all the users will get access to this new feature but confirmed that they’re experimenting with a small set of Outlook.com users to learn and gather feedback.
At the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference, Windows Central’s Daniel Rubino sat with the head of Cortana at Microsoft to learn about the assistant's new Office job and why AI may finally have a purpose.
After a bit of an identity crisis in the last few years and Microsoft’s failure to push it as a consumer option, Cortana is now finding its groove. Andrew Shuman, Corporate Vice President of Cortana, talked about the new path forward for smart AI and Cortana.
If you are an old Windows user like yours truly (sorry, millennials!), you’d remember the PowerToys that helped power users back in the day tune and enhance their Windows experience for that extra pinch of productivity. These set of freeware, unsupported utilities debuted as a Windows 95 project but gained prominence and widespread popularity with its second iteration for Windows XP.
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Social media allows a “democratization of grief” for everyone to speak about their experiences with the deceased, in comparison to a traditional funeral setting in which only family members are the primary storytellers. Claire Boston | Multimedia Journalist
Gravestones used to be the central place to mourn the deceased. In this virtual age, social media pages have become a new “burial site” of sorts, according to Dr. Candi Cann., a BIC and religion department professor. Cann published a book about memorialization of the dead in the contemporary world in 2014, based on her death research.
“People tend to talk to the dead on social media as though they were still present,” Cann said. “That actually occurred before; people would go to the gravestone and talk to the dead there.”
Cann said the main difference between mourning online versus in cemeteries is the presence of an audience.
“One of the great things about social media is it gives you a place to mourn and to express your grief in a way that you can come together in a virtual community that allows you to actually express your grief while you continue your daily life,” Cann said. “You still go to work and to school, but now you have a place where you can express your grief.”
Social media provides a virtual platform, which is helpful for people lacking a physical place to mourn. Cann said social media posting can help people feel validated and claim “their status as a mourner.”
There are no federal requirements for bereavement leave. According to Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), any workplace provisions are granted and defined by individual companies.
Baylor Human Resources Bereavement Leave provides paid time off for staff who have lost immediate family members. The amount of time allotted depends on the relationship. Baylor’s Absence Policy allows students to make up missed classwork “in the event of serious illness, accident, or death in the family.”
In the case of a staff or student death, University Chaplain and Dean of Spiritual Life and Missions Burt Burleson is notified in order to communicate the news to all those who need to be informed. Burleson said the Spiritual Life office will look at organizations, roommates, people from their department and other social circles to determine who to inform.
Burleson said Ronda Kruse, assistant to the university chaplain, searches Facebook to gather more information about the deceased.
“Almost immediately now, you’re going to see students expressing their grief and their gratitude for this person,” Burleson said. “Pretty quickly you can get a picture of a person’s life by the things that are being posted.”
Cann said social media allows a “democratization of grief” for everyone to speak about their experiences with the deceased, in comparison to a traditional funeral setting in which only family members are the primary storytellers.
“Social media has disrupted traditional notions of hierarchy,” Cann said. “It gives everyone a voice and everyone a platform.”
Burleson described social media as a collaborative eulogy. The medium allows grievers to minister to one another in a new, more intimate way, according to Burleson. He said people attended funerals and sent cards, but storytelling typically only occurred between closest friends and family before social media. Posts provide a medium for people to share their unique experiences with the deceased.
“To me, it’s about a person beginning to experience again the narrative of someone’s life — for a parent or a loved one, to begin to know how much they mattered in the world and the ways in which they mattered in the world,” Burleson said.
Cann said the danger of exclusively mourning online is a dissonance from physical reality.
“I think part of acknowledging death is sitting in the presence of the deceased and really acknowledging their absence,” Cann said. “The material world incorporates their absence. The virtual world does not always do that. That’s the problem.”
Cann said young people are most comfortable expressing their grief online, because they associate more closely with their social media page than a gravesite.
“I think younger people are more comfortable using social media to mourn death, because they’ve grown up with this technology,” Cann said. “For someone who was an adult when the internet was created, they tend to find it very strange and see it as an interruption of their daily life.”
Cann said traditional forms of memorialization allowed people to “silo themselves from death.” Posts expressing grief appear on social media feeds without prior warning or consent.
“That was surprising for a lot of adults, because that disrupted the hierarchy and the way they traditionally grieved,” Cann said.
The West has a culture of death denial, according to Cann. The Gerontologist, an Oxford academic research publication, wrote that dying in 21st century America, “which once was viewed as natural and expected,” is now viewed as “unwelcome” because of advances in medical care.
“Continued improvements in medical technology fuel the temptation to ignore its limits and elude the distress of facing these limits,” according to The Gerontologist. “The possibility for technological rescue from death supports denial and creates a defiant attitude about death and dying.”
Cann said incorporating mourning and grief into our everyday lives helps society to acknowledge death.
“Everybody dies, but I think we don’t prepare people for that,” Cann said. “I like to say the dead refuse to be ignored. They will find a place in our lives, whether we want them to or not.”
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Congratulations to Vancouver’s Renée Saklikar whose much-shortlisted and bestselling Children of Air India (Nightwood) was chosen best poetry book in Canada by the Canadian Author’s Association on June 21. For the recent Dorothy Livesay Poetry at the B.C. Bo0k Prizes, Saklikar’s shortlisted title was nipped at the wire by Jordan Abel’s A Place of Scraps (Talonbooks) but she should consider this national award more than adequate compensation. The CAA poetry award winner receives $2,000 and a silver medal.
Children of Air India has already sold out one printing and now looks like it’s headed for a third printing—no mean feat for poesy in this day and age… Of course it doesn’t hurt that she approaches book promotion like the final week of a provincial election campaign ably abetted by her spouse Adrian Dix, who must be enjoying that elusive taste of victory.
Renée Sarojini Saklikar was 23 years old when her aunt and uncle were murdered on June 23, 1985, in the bombing of Air India Flight 182. In her first book of poems, children of air india: un/authorized exhibits and interjections, Saklikar presents a powerful and deeply personal collection. These poems offer a fresh perspective on a heartbreaking chapter in Canada’s history—the bombing of Air India Flight 182, which killed all 329 passengers and crew, including 82 children under the age of 13.
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“Lambert is not the kind of doctor who puts Humpty back together. He’s the kind who roots around in your brains ’til they dribble out your mouth.”—Billy Livingstone
If you’re hankering for some gritty fiction by Vancouver poet and novelist Billy Livingstone you can read a sample of her upcoming novel for free at Hazlitt magazine http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/feature/watch-night. Hazlitt, the online zine run by Random Canada, has a series where it asks fiction writers to do a story based on “the
trashiest, most lurid, or just bizarre stories of the moment and writes a short story inspired by same.” Billie took off on a documentary called Oxyana about this town in West Virginia where all anyone does is score Oxycontin. She got into the swing of it and decided to expand it into her next novel, due out next year.
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BC-celebrated National Aboriginal Day on Saturday, June 21, and the whole of June is designated as National Aboriginal Month. Prepare by the First Nations public library community and now in its 10th year, the First Nations Community Reads list for 2013–2014 includes some books by BC authors Richard Wagamese, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Stella Calahasen.
You can support the First Nation Communities Read by purchasing some or all of the 2013–2014 featured titles from GoodMinds, the program’s official wholesaler.
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tactical decisions
Hi, and welcome to my first post for the Armpit Games blog.
Here I will talk about game design in general, and the things I learn by developing and publishing Dungeon Bash – a mobile game I am currently working on.
DECISIONS, DECISIONS, DECISIONS…. imagine Im having a Steve Balmer-like rant (but less sweaty).
The significant decisions your game offers the player are the most important factor in game design. Of any type of game – tabletop, computer, or otherwise. I imagine a game as being a cannon constantly firing a stream of decisions at the player. When the rate of decisions slows, or the decisions become meaningless, then the fun stops.
By ‘significant’ decisions I mean those that have an impact on how the game plays out. Whether it involves success at ‘solving’ the game, or the direction of the narrative, or achieving certain goals, or just plain survival. This is the reason ‘game balance’ in conflict-type games is so important. If the game is too easy, or too hard, no matter what decision the player makes, it wont affect the outcome. They will win or lose no matter what choice they make.
So the best place to start when analyzing your game is to list the decisions that it forces the player to make, and when it does so. For instance, Dungeon Bash is mostly about making a constant stream of tactical decisions. Decisions about when to attack, when to run, do I use this now or save it for latter, do I group tight or spread out, order of march when in corridors of exiting a level, which character would benefit most from equipping this item, who should tank and who should flank, etc, etc, etc… Dungeon Bash is a turn-based game and it is at its best when one decision can mean the difference between victory and disaster.
Decisions can also lose their significance once the player becomes familliar with them. The first time a particular level in a puzzle game is played, it is new and the decisions being made cause the player to engage and think. But once the puzzle is solved, the replay value of that level diminishes rapidly.
In Dungeon Bash, decisions are kept fresh by providing variety – each time you play it offers a different team of three characters so that the player has to learn how best to handle that particular combination. Every level is programatically generated so the player cant anticipate the lay of the land. And there is a very large number of monsters to encounter, that will appear alone, in mixed groups, or swarms of the identical creatures. All of this is aimed at forcing the player to make significant decisions as frequently as possible, by placing the characters in an endless variety of tactical situations.
You should try to categorize and describe games in terms of the decisions it offers. Dungeon Bash is largely tactical and resource management. A puzzle game offers logical and spatial decisions. A story-based game should offer chances to affect the ongoing narrative. Multiplayer games involving alliances or factions revolve around making trust and communication decisions.
In analyzing your own game, you can look at your list of decisions and decide:
Is this decision significant? If not, how can it be made so, or should I just get rid of it?
Are there situations in the game where the player makes no significant decisions for long periods? How can I reduce the length of those periods, or introduce new decision-making into them?
Keep your decision-cannon firing big, bold decisions at the player as fast as it can!
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged computer games, DECISIONS, dungeon bash, game design, game development, mobile games, tactical decisions on January 20, 2014 by stefoid. 3 Comments
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Was Youtube’s Christmas Crypto Purge Illegal?
2020-1-2 09:12 pm Crypto Currencies World 35 Print this Page 0 0
This article considers the legal implications of Youtube’s notorious purge of crypto channels on Christmas Eve. What legal context induces Youtube and other social media giants to operate as they do? The article does not explore whether it is morally proper to terminate a contract without cause or explanation and to threaten people’s livelihoods; it is not. Nor are political implications, such as Youtube’s liberal bias, discussed. The legal factors context surrounding Google’s Youtube purge are important. Users should know what is happening and why.
Also read: Youtube ‘Christmas Purge’ Has Content Creators Pointing to These Alternate Platforms
On Christmas Eve, Bitcoin.com contributor Graham Smith warned, “At least six crypto Youtube channels have reported in recent hours that their content is being removed under the site’s ‘harmful and dangerous’ policy, with one popular channel claiming Youtube pointed to a ‘sale of regulated goods’.” The purged channels received no warning, no plausible explanation. Presumably, the “harmful and dangerous” policy so vaguely referenced by Youtube was an alleged violation of Section 17(b) of the Securities Act of 1933.
It shall be unlawful for any person … to publish, give publicity to, or circulate any notice, circular, advertisement, newspaper, article, letter, investment service, or communication which, though not purporting to offer a security for sale, describes such security for a consideration received or to be received, directly or indirectly, from an issuer, underwriter, or dealer, without fully disclosing the receipt, whether past or prospective, of such consideration and the amount thereof [italics added].
The original purpose of Section 17(b) was to make it illegal for anyone to promote a stock without disclosing any consideration they may have received from an issuer, underwriter, or dealer in the stock.
The Christmas Purge is not the first time Google has removed crypto material. In June 2018, Google followed Facebook’s lead in banning crypto-related advertising. CNBC reported, “Even companies with legitimate cryptocurrency offerings won’t be allowed to serve ads through any of Google’s ad products, which place advertising on its own sites as well as third-party websites.” The legality of crypto and the reputation of the advertiser were irrelevant. Three months later, Google’s outright ban ended, but a new policy was instated. Forbes explained, “regulated cryptocurrency exchanges” could “buy ads in the U.S. and Japan … Ads for initial coin offerings (ICOs), wallets, and trading advice will remain banned … with the updated policy applying to advertisers all over the world, though the ads will only run in the U.S. and Japan.” The stated reason for the ban and restriction was a desire to shut down illegal activities connected to crypto for which Google could have been liable.
Happy Christmas, the Purge Is Over
The Christmas Purge now seems to be resolved and the channels restored—at least, according to Youtube. But Chris Dunn, owner of a channel with more than 200,000 subscribers, claims that his videos have not been completely restored; other crypto Youtubers echo this complaint and some report an inability to post new videos or to insert links within the ones they do put up. Meanwhile, Youtube ascribes the incident to an “error.”
Even those without complaints should note Youtube’s new Terms of Service (November 11, 2019). “Youtube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if Youtube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable.” Most centralized social media have similar terms.
What is the legal context of such authoritarianism?
Publisher or Platform?
The key question is “publisher or platform?”
A publisher edits and controls the material it issues, which means it assumes legal liability. Under the traditional common law for defamation, for example, a publisher who issues the defamatory statement of another party can bear the same legal liability as the party himself. This is because the publisher has the knowledge, ability, and opportunity to control what appears.
For years, Facebook has described itself as a platform—that is, an array of services, tools, and products through which other parties independently create and publish content. Except for minimal and common sense restrictions, such as the prohibition of illegal activity, Facebook claimed it did not edit or control content. It was a platform or a distribution mechanism. A platform is no more legally responsible for the content it hosts than a phone company is responsible for the content of conversations that flow over its lines.
This immunity comes from Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, subtitled “Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material.” It reads, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” The provision provides all interactive online services with broad immunity from tort liability that could arise due to material posted by a third party.
Establishing Where Liability Lies
The legal difference between a platform (a distributor) and a publisher is significant and centers on the issue of liability. The Digital Media Law Project explained, “Distributor liability is much more limited. Newsstands, bookstores, and libraries are generally not held liable for the content of the material that they distribute. The concern is that it would be impossible for distributors to read every publication before they sell or distribute it, and that as a result, distributors would engage in excessive self-censorship. In addition, it would be very hard for distributors to know whether something is actionable defamation; after all, speech must be false to be defamatory.” A publisher could be liable.
Social media—platform or publisher?—was the gist of an early court battle over online content. The case revolved around defamatory statements made by posters on a bulletin board: Cubby v. CompuServe, Inc. (1991). Subscribers to Compuserve could access over 150 forums that were managed by third parties. When the so-called “Rumorville” forum was sued for defamation, Compuserve claimed to enjoy the immunity of a distributor because it did not review posts before they appeared. The court agreed and dismissed the case.
But the Compuserve ruling did not create settled law. In Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy (1995), a court found that a computer network did exercise editorial control over messages through its content guidelines and software screening filter. Prodigy was found legally liable for content on its site.
The Digital Media Law Project commented on the conflicting decisions. “The perverse upshot of the CompuServe and Stratton decisions was that any effort by an online information provider to restrict or edit user-submitted content on its site faced a much higher risk of liability if it failed to eliminate all defamatory material than if it simply didn’t try to control or edit the content of third parties at all.” Social media is in the tense position of wishing to be legally viewed as a platform while exercising the control vested in a publisher. Facebook and its ilk try to straddle the fence, with a foot planted on either side. The footing is not solid.
For one thing, the situation is more complicated. On civil liability, for example, the current Section 230 includes a “good Samaritan clause” that states, “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”
Social media does not incur civil liability for exercising “good faith” efforts to patrol content, at least in theory. But the civil immunity is not absolute, and courts have shown a tendency to chip away at the broad protection. In Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc., for example, the court found that a failure to comply with promises to remove material could invalidate Section 230 protection.
Besides which, many accusations against crypto are criminal, not civil.
Social Media’s Schizophrenia
Since the civil liability of social media is evolving law, the greatest safety resides in being a “platform” rather than “publisher.” But as the media grows in wealth, influence, and arrogance, the lines blur.
According to Bloomberg Business, Susan Wojcicki, Youtube’s chief executive officer, has been “trying to traverse an almost impossible tightrope: nurture a growing community of demanding creators, while pledging to police troubling videos … The efforts pleased almost no one and highlighted an existential quandary. Every time Youtube tries to fix something, the company, an arm of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, risks losing the neutrality that it needs to thrive.” The neutrality comes from acting as a platform. And yet, Youtube also acts as a publisher by censoring material. When caught doing so, Youtube reverts to being a platform again by ascribing the “mistake” to a computer glitch, human error or act of God.
Facebook is similarly schizophrenic; that is, it wants the legal protections of a platform while functioning as a publisher. Facebook has been leaning more openly toward a publisher status, however.
In April 2019, while testifying before a Senate hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that his company “is responsible for the content.” In response, Senator Ted Cruz spelled out the legal implications of this statement by asking Zuckerberg, “Are you a First Amendment speaker expressing your views [a publisher], or are you a neutral public forum allowing everyone to speak [a platform]? … The predicate for Section 230 immunity under the CDA is that you’re a neutral public forum.” Cruz’s question must have been for the record because Zuckerberg was surely familiar with the legal distinction.
Of more significance: Facebook represented itself as a First Amendment speaker—a publisher—in a 2018 court proceeding. The Guardian reported, “In a small courtroom in California … attorneys for the social media company … repeatedly argued, [Facebook] is a publisher, and … makes editorial decisions, which are protected by the first amendment.”
Complying with the demands the state makes upon a publisher is costly, inconvenient, and disempowering; but demands are happening more and more. Bloomberg Business reported on just one policy the state has imposed on Youtube for 2020:
Youtube’s approach to kids. A landmark privacy settlement this year with the Federal Trade Commission is forcing Youtube to split its massive site in two. Every clip, starting in January, must be designated as “made for kids” or not. The overhaul puts billions of ad dollars at stake and has sparked panic among creators, who also now face new legal risk. The company isn’t offering creators legal advice or ways to salvage their businesses. It isn’t even defining what a “made for kids” video is on Youtube.
Youtube will pass on the cost of compliance to the user, of course. One cost will be the arbitrary suspension of “suspicious” accounts—suspicious by the unstated or vague definition of the social media company. If some simply “offensive” accounts fall victim, so be it.
Social media does not have to be this way. It should not involve the exercise of arbitrary power over dutiful customers. The unthinking or biased bureaucracy of the giants results from several factors. The companies are highly centralized, which makes them unresponsive and autocratic. They are financially supported by the state through tax grants and privileges, contracts and exemptions; in short, they do not need to provide a competitive service in the marketplace. They strip privacy away from users in order to sell it or share it with the state—neither of which benefits users.
The function and legal context of the social media giants is not likely to change, except for the worse. The solution is obvious, however. Graham Smith presented it out in “Youtube ‘Christmas Purge’ Has Content Creators Pointing to These Alternate Platforms.” These crypto-powered video sharing platforms deserve an immediate look before the social media giants oblige content creators and their fans to adopt them en masse.
What are your thoughts on Youtube’s Christmas crypto purge? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Our Vain Toils
Julian Castro dropped his copy of “Paso a Paso” and staggered, like a punch-drunk boxer, catching himself with one arm against a wall. It was as if he felt Hillary Clinton cross his name from her list of potential vice presidential candidates to flank her this summer. She doesn’t need him anymore: Republican voters turned their back on the Democrats’ greatest threat by choosing Donald Trump over the young, Spanish-speaking, Marco Rubio–a man bludgeoned with a one-word caricature of his reasonable approach to immigration reform– “amnesty.” With John Kasich facing practically no chance at winning the nomination, the GOP advances two candidates whose immigration proposals will drive Hispanics into the warm, welcoming arms of the Democrat Party. They were ours to lose, and we gave them away.
Corey Booker, too, stamped his foot. Clinton need not contact him to consolidate the black vote. Ted Cruz demonstrates no interest in courting black voters, and the remaining alternatives are two, old white men–the most popular of whom encourages violence against Black Lives Matter protesters, while perfunctorily denouncing his white supremacist support. The Democrats can relax a bit now. The Christian conservative blacks who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 can tap the screen one more time, and make history again. Our efforts to attract these voters, in light of the GOP postmortem–vanity.
Barack Obama scoffs smugly as he looks at the election results. He shakes his head and puffs out his chest as he prepares to publicly shame Senate Republicans for refusing to hold any confirmation hearings on Antonin Scalia’s replacement.Mitch McConnell’s brave declaration of defiance presupposed much better odds of a Republican winning the White House in November. That presupposition vaporized with Rubio’s exit from the nomination race. Obama gleefully spent much of his presidency winding up the impotent Republican mob, only to see them embarrass themselves, cannibalize themselves, and show themselves for what they really are–disorganized reactionaries draped in the thin, tattered, wisps of an intellectualism long past. From Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk, from Brent Bozell to Bill Buckley; all roads lead to “The Donald” now, or to his minion, Ted Cruz. Now, Obama may nominate a Supreme Court justice as liberal as he pleases. Senate recalcitrance only postpones the inevitable: a liberal will replace Nino whether chosen by Obama or Clinton. Even better, Mitch McConnell suffers another crushing public humiliation. His bravery–vanity.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg chases her nighttime cocktail of colorful pills with a rich, blood-red table wine. She lies on her back, staring at the ceiling waiting to be overcome by sleep, either of the temporary or metaphorical variety. Warmed by the wine, she smiles as she watches the Republican vultures leave their perch above her bed. They will starve after all. “Go find carrion elsewhere! Feast upon the rotting elephant flesh, from the bodies senselessly trampled in the stampede.”
“I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun…”
Consider the sacrifice of millions of patriots who formed this conservative movement which has; together with its political vehicle, the Republican Party; freed millions of unfortunate black slaves from bondage, lead the fight for women’s suffrage, reduced the number of babies murdered in the womb, created the Americans with Disabilities Act, saved countless lives by supporting strong and just law enforcement tactics.
“…seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool?”
We leave our toil to a man who sided with the Democrats while we weathered attacks in the name of conservative principles. We leave our toil to a man who does not know what conservatism actually means.
“…Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair…”
Posted on March 15, 2016 March 15, 2016 Categories 2016 Election, UncategorizedTags 2016 Election, conservative, Democrat, Donald Trump, florida, Hillary Clinton, john kasich, julian castro, Marco Rubio, Republican, ruth bader ginsburg, Supreme Court, Ted Cruz
Ryan’s Reformicons Lead the Way
In an election year, politicians tend to be light on policy specifics (closer to Donald Trump’s platitudes than to Mitt Romney’s 59-point jobs plan). That’s because revealing too much too soon creates a target that opponents can attack for a longer period of time. Paul Ryan recognized this in 2012 when Romney approached him about joining the presidential ticket.
“When he [Romney] asked me, I said, ‘you do realize that I’m the guy with all the budget cuts. If you put me on the ticket, you own this budget.'”
Romney accepted Ryan, budget cuts and all, but lost the 2012 election anyway.
This time around, Speaker Ryan looks to push a congressional reform agenda he describes as “propositional” not “oppositional.” His goal is to have a tangible plan laid out this spring–before the 2016 general election. In other words, whoever becomes the Republican nominee will own Ryan’s congressional agenda.
“I want our party to be the party of opportunity, upward mobility and the party with better ideas for fighting poverty…[and] since I want our party to be that, it goes without saying I want the House Republicans to do that, as well.”
Inspired by the late Jack Kemp, Ryan addresses poverty, an issue on which Republicans have traditionally led from behind. Preliminary insights suggest that the Speaker wants to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and to consolidate the sprawling federal funding for various poverty initiatives into “opportunity grants” that can be managed by the states. In addition to the poverty proposals, Ryan’s reform priorities include erecting a sturdier firewall to prevent an overactive executive from usurping Congress’ legislative duties.
But will Paul Ryan’s reform agenda burden the Republican presidential nominee? That depends on who wins the nomination, of course.
Ryan’s tone competes with the angry voices vowing to buck “establishment RINOs” who “don’t fight back” against “amnesty.” On the presidential campaign trail, this tonal divide is clear: Governors Jeb Bush and John Kasich join Senator Marco Rubio in Ryan’s eagerness to transform the GOP from loyal opposition party into a forward leaning majority party. In fact, when Ryan held a three day retreat in Baltimore to discuss the 2016 agenda, each of these gentlemen attended. Notably absent from the retreat, the two candidates most identified by anger, Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz.
“Let’s be frank about it: Paul does not want Donald Trump or Ted Cruz speaking for the party,” says one Republican leadership source, who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
Herein lies the problem. Many Republicans believe that Democrats benefit by framing their policies in an affirmative fashion. Democrats want to “give” people health insurance. They want to “give” people free college education. They want to “give” women the right to choose an abortion. Republicans, on the other hand, appear to be “against” healthcare, free college and reproductive choice. Most voters want more of everything, not less. This puts Republicans at a disadvantage, unless we learn to reframe the conversation.
Marco Rubio, John Kasich, and Jeb Bush, appeal to the Republican mainstream because they speak in terms of aspiration and optimism. They speak with the very tone Paul Ryan would like to advance. By contrast, Ted Cruz regularly uses verbs like “annihilate,” “destroy,” and “dismantle.” Donald Trump’s ban on Muslim visitors and immigrants, his staunch desire to erect a physical barrier to immigration, and his promise to punish businesses who choose to operate in a friendlier climate, all use threatening language that does not advance a positive view of conservatism.
Speaker Ryan understands that he and Mitt Romney won the 2012 election on issues, but lost on empathy. He understands Jack Kemp’s axiom: “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” That is why Ryan is working tirelessly to unite the Republican Party and grow it, by showing the country what positive politics looks like.
If we nominate the wrong candidate, though, we may do more than lose the election–we may significantly damage the conservative movement.
Posted on February 12, 2016 Categories 2016 Election, Public PolicyTags 2016 Election, Congress, Donald Trump, House of Representatives, jack kemp, Jeb Bush, john kasich, Marco Rubio, paul ryan, Ted Cruz
Marco’s Meltdown. Republican Rancor. And the Futility of Negativity.
Without a doubt, Senator Marco Rubio performed poorly in the first part of the New Hampshire debate. Even he admits it. Governors Chris Christie and Jeb Bush spent the days after the Iowa Caucus openly declaring war on Rubio’s ascendant campaign–questioning Rubio’s conservative convictions and casting him as a stereotypical politician meticulously crafted by Frank Luntz focus groups. In the Saturday debate, the only debate between the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire primary, Christie led the way in battering Rubio–sending the young senator into a Howard Hughes loop of repetition that earned him well-deserved booing.
The Granite State cast its votes. No candidate came close to Donald Trump’s decisive victory; least of all, Marco Rubio, who fell from second to a fifth place finish. In spite of Rubio’s impressively broad collection of endorsements, his supporters must consider whether New Hampshire represents a minor setback, or if the wax on Rubio’s wings have melted. As Republicans consider this and reevaluate the landscape, looking forward to South Carolina, a nagging question still remains: Who benefited from the debate attacks?
Governor Christie fueled the attacks on Rubio, arguing that America’s electing a smooth-talking, first-term senator in 2008 led to the dire straits the country finds itself in now. Therefore, he argues, a vote for Rubio would be a vote for a similar outcome.
Forget, for now, the superficiality of the argument (which I address in the “On Rubio’s Experience” section of a prior article). Even had Christie not dropped out of the race after the primary, would the attack have helped him at all? His attacks on Rand Paul didn’t help him. Nor did he gain from his routine, categorical attacks on senators, which always led him into his own “memorized 25-second speech” about the difference between being a senator and being a governor–a speech that always ended with a dark and disturbing promise about not letting Hillary Clinton within 15 feet of the White House.
Governor Bush turned on his protegee during the New Hampshire debate when asked why he’s flip-flopping on his view of Rubio’s qualifications to be president.
“Marco Rubio is a gifted, gifted politician,” Bush said, “and he may have the skills to be a President of the United States, but we’ve tried it the old way with Barack Obama, with soaring eloquence and…we didn’t get a leader we got someone who wants to divide the country up.”
Let’s examine Bush’s causation-correlation fallacy: Barack Obama used soaring rhetoric and eloquence to win his party’s nomination, and then proceeded to divide the country as president. Therefore, because Marco Rubio speaks eloquently, we should not vote for him to win our party’s nomination for fear that if he wins the presidency, he will do the same.
Bush’s absurdities didn’t end there. The former governor, brother of the last Republican president and son of the Republican president prior, went on to attack Rubio in an interview with Glenn Thrush arguing that the son of a maid and a bartender had “never been challenged in his life.”
Despite this, Bush only earned about 1,200 more votes than Rubio–amounting to his campaign spending more than $1,200 per vote.
So did the attacks work? Sure, if the goal was to harm Rubio’s ascendancy. But did how did they serve the attackers? The Party? The voters?
Of course, none of these people benefited from the scurrilous attacks, except maybe Rubio, himself. Perhaps his debate performance will make him more self-aware. Maybe he will learn how to better take heat and recover. Maybe–but only if he learned some important lessons from the event.
Clearly, for example, Rubio does not handle attacks well. He responds to petty slights in kind: calling Rand Paul an isolationist, criticizing Christie for New Jersey’s credit downgrades and for not returning fast enough to his state after a snowstorm, etc. Only once did he successfully parry an attack, and that was from Jeb Bush in a much earlier Iowa debate. Perhaps, Rubio simply does not like going after other Republicans. Whether or not that is the case, he can benefit from this weakness by remembering that he bested Bush by taking the high road. Going forward, he can expect to sustain more friendly fire. If Rubio learns that he does best when he stays above the fray, he will have benefited from this experience.
Similarly, Rubio must become more self-aware. He hopefully understands that his response to Christie’s charges was self-defeating. Not only did he play into Christie’s narrative, but he also focused on Barack Obama–someone who will not be on the ballot in 2016. This went against the inspirational tenor of his campaign. If, instead, Rubio learns to stay focused on the challenges of tomorrow, rather than the politicians of yesterday, he will have benefited from this experience.
As the Republican race stands now, negativity reigns supreme: Trump insults everyone, Cruz does as well, and Bush does no better. Only Governor Kasich, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio have focused their campaigns on defeating the Democrats and improving the country. If Rubio can remain optimistic and positive, he will solidify himself as the most electable Republican, and the party and American voters will have benefited from this experience.
Posted on February 11, 2016 Categories 2016 ElectionTags chris christie, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, new hampshire, Republicans
Sour Grapes, Slings and Arrows
Governors Jeb Bush and Chris Christie join forces with Senator Ted Cruz to attack the most popular Republican running for president in 2016–Marco Rubio. Both Bush and Christie struggle to get campaign momentum, and hope New Hampshire will offer a breath of new life and an end to the donor hemorrhaging. Senator Cruz, on the other hand, appears to have wounded Donald Trump’s candidacy by beating him in Iowa, and expects–as many do–that Trump’s time atop the field will wane as voting continues. His next most credible threat comes from Rubio, the consensus candidate who has been scooping up high profile endorsements–even from former 2016 contenders. For Rubio’s part, he must decide how to respond to the attacks: either by breaking with the aspirational tone of his campaign to return fire at his detractors, or by rising above the noise in hopes that his strategy will continue to bear fruit as his competitors fall away.
Rubio’s choice will be evident beginning with the only debate between the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. What should also be evident is how weak and petty his attackers’ cases purport to be. Christie and Bush plan to attack Rubio’s inexperience–a route the more junior senator, Cruz, cannot pursue. Cruz, in his typical fashion, wishes to score points by attacking Rubio’s immigration stance. Assuming Rubio remains poised and positive, none of these attacks should draw blood.
On Rubio’s Experience
If Republicans should have learned anything from Barack Obama’s candidacy and presidency, it should have been that inexperience is an overrated line of attack. For starters, the attack failed when employed by Senator John McCain in 2008 and by Governor Mitt Romney in 2012. Especially in an election year in which the media narrative names 2016 the year of the outsider. Rubio can turn the inexperience argument into a derivative of Ben Carson’s and Carly Fiorina’s speeches about career politicians’ culpability for America’s woes.
More to the point, though, inexperience has not harmed the Obama presidency. None of Obama’s most egregious acts resulted from his lack of experience. Rather, his worldview is to blame. Inexperience did not lead to the failed Stimulus Package–a belief in big government did. Inexperience did not lead to the Affordable Care Act–a belief in big government did. Obama’s failed foreign policy did not result from a lack of executive experience. Instead, he was led by the liberal belief that America should be less involved in world events.
Marco Rubio’s lack of executive experience says nothing about what matters most–his conservative convictions. A conservative as experienced as Barack Obama was in 2007 can still offer hope to a movement looking to turn the country in a better direction.
On Immigration
Senator Cruz’ attacks on immigration will likely fall flat for a few reasons. First, Rubio is right in insisting that the 12 million illegal immigrants to this country cannot be deported. The cost to detain, try and ultimately deport costs too much money for very little (if any) benefit. Furthermore, the economic costs of uprooting large swaths of the American workforce and home owners only compounds the impossibility of such a policy. Senator Cruz either knows this, and is promising to do so anyway (lying), or does not know this–making him stupid. Cruz is not stupid, but he does have a reputation for bending the truth for political gain.
Secondly, Rubio’s approach to immigration varies neither from Christie’s nor from Bush’s. Rubio can easily deflect Cruz’ criticism by using his enemies as a shield.
Thirdly, immigration ranks much lower on the list of issues most pressing to Americans at large than it does on Republicans’ priority list. New Hampshire; being less conservative than Iowa, and being a state that allows independents to vote in the primary; likely will not punish Rubio for whatever heresy he has committed on this issue.
Finally, Rubio has claimed to have learned his lesson from the Gang of 8 experience (which, incidentally passed in the Senate, unlike any legislation Ted Cruz was a part of). His stance on immigration falls within the mainstream of the Republican Party and within the country on a whole.
The attacks on Rubio have been loathsome, not just because they threaten to damage him if he becomes the nominee, but also because they lower the stature of some very good conservative patriots. Governor Christie has so much to boast about without resorting to negativity. Bush, too, possesses unmatched substance and intelligence to continue to bring to the conservative cause and the Republican Party. These attacks are beneath him, especially as Rubio’s mentor. The Republican Party–indeed the nation–needs unity now, more than ever. Republicans can neither win nor govern effectively without unity. Attacking a young, rising star will do more damage to the party, the attackers’ reputations, and to the country than perhaps Rubio’s detractors realize.
Posted on February 6, 2016 Categories 2016 ElectionTags 2016 Election, chris christie, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz
The Art of the Pointless
Is politics still the “art of the possible?” In America, today, it appears as if politics has become the art of the pointless. Congress finally passed a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, along with a defunding of Planned Parenthood, and sent it to President Barack Obama–for veto. None of the lawmakers who supported the bill thought the president would sign it, but Republican constituents would have still demanded it be done. John Boehner’s House of Representatives passed an ACA repeal about 40 times, knowing the Senate would never bring the bill to a vote.
Why fight unwinnable battles? Apparently, futility is good politics.
Donald Trump sits atop the Republican polls, a seemingly unstoppable force–at least until actual votes are cast. His plan to fix the immigration crisis consists of building a giant wall along our Southern border and “making Mexico pay for it.” The wall will cost upwards of $20B, face eminent domain challenges across multiple states, and will do nothing to staunch the sizeable minority of immigrants who fly into America and overstay their VISAs. In short, it’ll never happen.
No matter. Mr. Trump’s supporters also like his policy proposal to curb domestic terror attacks by restricting immigrants and visitors who confess to being Muslim. If you ignore that a cunning jihadist can lie about his religious orientation and gain access into his target, the idea is almost plausible. Except that such a policy would run so far afoul of the law that crafting the language of the legislation would be an exercise in futility.
Perhaps Donald Trump isn’t such a viable candidate.
Luckily, then, there’s Ted Cruz–the Senator from Texas who led a government shutdown that did not (because it could not) achieve the goal he intended. Then again, Cruz’ goal may have been to raise money for himself, in which case, the government shutdown worked perfectly. In the last debate, Mr. Cruz ended a sharp spat with Marco Rubio by saying that he would not support a path to legal status for the tens of millions of undocumented workers already living in the United States. Refusing such a path means either accepting the status quo, a broken immigration system, or deporting each of the illegal immigrants.
Deporting 12 million illegal immigrants would cost somewhere between $166B and $285B. These figures neglect the less tangible costs of businesses closing, industries taking a serious hit, and the bad press we would receive as we broke up families to send more than 32,000 people out of the country every day. Imagine how the photographs from the largest forced migration from America will adorn future liberal history textbooks.
It will never happen, though. That won’t stop Cruz from suckering people into believing in impossibilities to his self-serving ends.
Before concluding that futility politics exists solely on the right, turn your attention to President Obama’s executive orders on firearms. Look, too, to his “common sense” policy prescriptions–none of which would have done a thing to stop any of the recent mass shootings or curb gun deaths, as most are the result of suicides. Still, though, gun control measures soothe Democrats’ consciences.
Both Democrat Presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, propose to make college tuition free, at least for students attending state schools. The cost of such a plan begins at more than $70B annually. This wouldn’t be a good investment even if it weren’t paying to send people to college who can already afford to go by their own means.
Combine this idea with Sanders’ plan for universal health insurance (Medicare expansion), his federal jobs programs for disadvantaged youth, his $1T infrastructure policy, and his expansion of Social Security benefits, and the likelihood of any of these plans coming to fruition matches that of Ammon Bundy’s standoff ending in his victory.
If American voters are so frustrated with politicians, why do we settle for and insist upon feel-good, doomed-to-fail, kamikaze, gestural politics?
Posted on January 9, 2016 Categories 2016 Election, Public PolicyTags 2016 Election, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Donald Trump, Education, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Marco Rubio, Obamacare, Republican, Ted Cruz
Can Marco Do the Job?
In the CNBC debate, Governor Jeb Bush damaged his campaign by attacking Senator Marco Rubio’s missed votes. In part, Bush harmed himself by taking a picayune line of attack. After all, would you notice if one of your U.S. Senators was missing 30% of his or her votes? We live in political gridlock that renders pointless much of Congress’ activities. The second reason his attack harmed his campaign lies in the characteristically deft manner in which Rubio answered the charge. Like a man punching at the air after sustaining a staggering uppercut, Bush parroted the criticism of Rubio’s missed votes for days afterward, even as his poll numbers fell inversely to Rubio’s. Now, with a more solid footing, the bloody-nosed Bush insists upon taking down his protege with attacks on his youth and inexperience. This new line of attack reveals an unbecoming characteristic Jeb shares with his brother, George–mulishness in the face of failure. Attacking Rubio’s inexperience can only work if Republicans demonstrate that we have similarly failed to learn from Barack Obama’s presidency that experience has very little bearing on political success.
To be sure, judging a senator’s tangible accomplishments proves a difficult task. Senators’ primary responsibilities include participating in committees, crafting legislation, analyzing policy and voting. To that end, Rubio served on the Senate Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee; the Committee on Foreign Relations; the Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship; and the Select Committee on Intelligence. He worked with Mike Lee to craft a tax plan and worked with seven other senators to create a comprehensive immigration plan. In short, he’s been hard at work.
Furthermore, Governor Bush cannot be allowed to escape his own words in 2012, when he urged Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, to consider Senator Rubio for the vice president position.
“Marco Rubio is my favorite [choice],” Bush told Charlie Rose in a PBS interview. “He has more experience than Barack Obama had when he ran, and…he’s certainly got the intelligent acumen and fortitude to be a good president.”
Bush made these remarks when Rubio had even less experience than he has now. But, regardless of whether one believes that Mr. Rubio possesses enough governmental experience to be president, the very nature of the question neglects one of the most important lessons of the Obama presidency: governmental experience doesn’t matter.
Barack Obama ascended to the presidency after voting “present” throughout his short stint as Illinois’ junior senator. In office, Obama passed sweeping health insurance reform, redefined marriage, named two Supreme Court justices and filled the federal judiciaries with liberal judges. His lack of experience, in other words, did nothing to prevent him from serving the leftist agenda. Similarly, whatever experience Mr. Rubio has (or lacks) in 2016 will be irrelevant as he stares down 31 of 50 Republican governors, 68 of 98 Republican controlled state legislative houses, and a Republican House and Senate.
What should matter most to Republicans, and to Mr. Bush in particular, are the nominee’s values. More important than an incoming president knowing where the payroll department is located, is a president who knows that an expansive federal government shrinks individual freedom, that American retreat invites anti-American advances, and that expanding opportunity for all Americans will help us grow our way out of our economic stagnation and general malaise.
Again, Rubio meets these criteria.
As the campaign goes forth, I hope that Mr. Bush abandons his inane attacks on Rubio. At least, if Bush refrains from doing so in the upcoming debates, he can avoid suffering further embarrassing tongue-lashings from a man he named “the most articulate conservative elected official on the scene today.”
Posted on November 10, 2015 Categories 2016 ElectionTags 2016 Election, Barack Obama, Democrats, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Politics, Republicans
Hey, Democrats: Check Your Privilege!
Any upwardly mobile black American can tell you that to succeed, we must be twice as good as our competitors. That’s because historically, the very institutions that worked as gatekeepers to certain avenues of success worked especially hard at discriminating against us. Successful blacks recognize discrimination, swim upstream against it, and achieve in spite of it. Unsuccessful blacks too often use injustice as an excuse for underperformance and bad choices. While both groups may openly castigate this discrimination, one group acts, while the other simply complains. What does this have to do with the CNBC Republican Debate, you might ask.
By every measure, the CNBC hosts conducted an awful debate: John Harwood snidely asked Donald Trump if he was running “a comic book version of a presidential campaign.” He also sarcastically asked Carly Fiorina, who, like the rest of her Republican competitors, wants to greatly simplify the tax code, if she intended to shorten the tax code by “using really small type.” Carl Quintanilla badgered Marco Rubio for missing votes, asking, “do you hate your job?”
The moderators’ disrespect and contempt for conservative Republicans oozed through in every exchange–so much so, that the audience frequently booed them.
Compare this treatment to that which the Democrats receive on a regular basis. When did Anderson Cooper, in the CNN debate, ask if Bernie Sanders was running a “comic book campaign?” Did anyone challenge the math behind any of the Democrats’ tax plans or schemes to provide health care and college for “free?” Is Marco Rubio more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? Quintanilla challenged the premise of Rubio’s candidacy, asking if he was seeking higher office simply to placate an unchecked ego. How would Mrs. Clinton answer that question? We’ll never know.
In the liberal vernacular of race relations, this phenomenon is called white privilege. The idea is, whites enjoy less scrutiny and benefit disproportionately from favorable treatment. Blacks who decry white privilege are shouted down, told they are imagining things, or are simply ignored. Nevertheless, the results of privilege manifest themselves plainly, and to overcome this obstacle, blacks must work extra hard.
Similarly, Democrats benefit from institutionalized privilege. Carly Fiorina faces tough scrutiny for her time manning the helm of HP during an economic downturn, while Hillary Clinton earns lavish praise for the easier task of winning a Senate seat in liberal New York. Acclaimed neurosurgeon, Ben Carson, parries relentless media attacks on his intelligence, while Bernie Sanders receives no questioning about his honeymoon to the Soviet Union–a nation that worked to murder Americans as it had so many of its own people.
Without a doubt, media scrutiny represents the greatest struggle a candidate must overcome to achieve political success. In a free society, such should be the case. In this free society, one political party enjoys a pass–liberal privilege. Ask the gatekeepers, like Eric Altermann, about liberal media privilege, and they hedge and obfuscate and insist that discrimination is in the eye of the beholder.
So be it, bigots.
Republican, Booker T. Washington, famously writes in “Up from Slavery” that “success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” Americans instinctively know the truth in this timeless statement. Republicans should, therefore, keep this in mind as we move forward. While the media works, as Rubio puts it, as the Democrats’ Super PAC, we cannot forget that a Republican president will be facing this very same hostile liberal media while in office. Simply complaining about discrimination, rather than working to succeed in spite of it is a recipe for defeat and victimization. Instead, I urge Republicans to rest assured that as we weather these storms of media discrimination, our nominee will be that much stronger than the Democrats’, because he or she will have had to work twice as hard.
Posted on October 29, 2015 November 17, 2015 Categories 2016 Election, News Commentary / Current Events, Race / Class / Gender / SocioeconomicsTags 2016 Election, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, CNBC, Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio, News and Commentary, Republican Debate1 Comment on Hey, Democrats: Check Your Privilege!
GOP Nomination Debate 1: My Ranking from Best to Worst (First Place)
For the first GOP presidential nomination debate, I tweeted my assessment of the candidates’ performance from strongest to weakest. I came to this conclusion by judging which candidates best helped themselves. Because each candidate faces different challenges, what each must do to raise his profile varies. My assessment of the best performers and my rationale follows, beginning with the strongest:
1st Place: Senator Marco Rubio
Rubio entered the race with one of the strongest announcements of candidacy of any of the Republican contenders. In it, Rubio speaks passionately about his love of America, his duty to serve her, and his commitment to moving the country forward by tackling some of the trenchant political problems the nation faces.
Since his announcement, he has weathered scurrilous attacks from the New York Times about his wife’s speeding tickets and about his modest home. Besides these simplistic criticisms, though, Rubio has run a very effective and substantive campaign, avoiding gaffes and has maintaining an optimistic, energetic and thoughtful stance thus far. In an address before the Council of Foreign Relations, Rubio impressed attendees and pundits with his encyclopedic knowledge of foreign affairs, and with his clear-eyed prescriptions for future American foreign policy objectives.
Unfortunately, none of this has translated into bumper campaign funds. The Rubio campaign has been lost in the shuffle among strong contenders better connected to substantial donors. To make matters worse, Florida law precludes a candidate from appearing twice on a ballot, so Mr. Rubio forfeits his Senate seat by running for president. For Rubio, as for the other candidates, the nomination debates represent the greatest opportunity to attract positive attention, money and momentum.
In such a talented field of candidates, Rubio needed to do three things to win the debates: First, he needed to remain substantive, positive and passionate. Second, Rubio needed to stand out from field as offering something unique that will lead the party to success in the general election. Third, Rubio needed to appear less robotic–more human. To the third point, his smooth style puts Republicans, like me, at ease. I don’t worry that he will say something regretful. On the other hand, I have heard him criticized as being too smooth–too savvy–unrelatable.
By my assessment, Rubio won the debate by achieving each of these goals, however, to varying degrees of success. Rubio handled each question directed to him with impeccable poise and with optimism. He demonstrated his usual command of issues, and his refreshing willingness to answer questions directly, even before he’d pivot. When prompted to break with his political mentor, Governor Jeb Bush, Rubio wisely refused the bait. Bush, who offers much of what Rubio does, except in regards to age and executive experience, provided a less commanding performance (which I will discuss later), allowing Rubio the ability to stand apart from his most similar contender. Finally, Rubio’s wit, particularly his jab at the Democrat Party’s difficulty fielding a single good candidate, served to humanize him.
He easily achieved the first objective, but only moderately achieved the other two because the distraction of Donald Trump, and the plethora of candidates, muted Rubio’s chances to outshine some of his other competitors. Still, though, Rubio’s thoughtful campaign continued to impress on the debate stage. For the first debate, avoiding a meltdown can be as advantageous as achieving campaign goals. By my estimation, Mr. Rubio served his cause well.
Posted on September 17, 2015 September 16, 2015 Categories 2016 ElectionTags 2016 Election, GOP, Marco Rubio, Republican, Republicans
Republicans’ Trump Card…is a Joker
Say What You Will, Donald Trump is a Republican Nightmare
“[Donald Trump is] the personification of the Republican id, saying forthrightly the things most of them want to finesse, embodying their worst impulses, and doing it all with a spectacular if unwarranted confidence. Other Republicans may recoil from him, but when they look at Donald Trump, they’re only looking at a version of themselves.”
Before I criticize The Week’s Paul Waldman for writing an insulting article predicated on his ability to read Republicans’ minds, I must admit that I concur. However, concurrence does not equal agreement. If your cat tells you that fish tastes delicious, you may think you agree. When the two of you discuss why you like the taste; your cat highlighting how much he loves the taste of the fins, crunchy pin bones, scales and blood; you learn the definition of concurrence.
So, is Donald Trump the GOP’s id? In many ways, yes. Just look at his polling: Real Clear Politics’ poll average shows Trump ahead of Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Rick Santorum, Governor Rick Perry, and Carly Fiorina. Each of these candidates has earned serious attention for their campaigns because each has shown dedicated support to conservatism and to the Republican Party. Governor George Pataki, another announced GOP candidate, does not even register on RCP’s poll average. Clearly, many conservatives like what Trump offers. They even prefer him to many serious candidates.
Trump’s visceral disgust for Mexico and South America resonates with many Republicans even while others are trying to broaden the party’s appeal among Latinos. While most Republicans may say that they do not feel as harshly as Trump’s clearly racist rhetoric suggests, the xenophobic writings of Pat Buchanan, Michelle Malkin, and most recently, Ann Coulter (author of “Adios, America”), enjoys large audiences among conservatives.
Even Trump’s remarks on trade with China impressed Republicans in spite of the fact that his policy prescriptions run contrary to the free market principles that conservatives champion.
Waldman goes astray, eating halibut guts, when he tries to elucidate what Republicans truly believe. “It is the investors and inheritors…to whom we must attend–showering them with favors, relieving their burdens, tiptoeing around their tender feelings–for they are truly the best of us,” Waldman writes, mischaracterizing Republican arguments against the Democrat’s punitive tax schemes. He goes on to compare Trump’s self-aggrandizement to Republican belief in American exceptionalism–a ridiculous comparison. Finally, he finishes by comparing Republican ideas to the Birther quackery that Trump pedalled for years. Again, Waldman seems to know Republicans about as much as Trump knows subtlety.
Still, though, his piece offers some sobering insight, if we, Republicans, can be smart enough to benefit. That Mr. Trump; who donated copious amounts of money to Democrats, took cheap shots at other GOP candidates and pundits, paid actors to cheer on his 2016 presidential announcement, and publicly grifted foolish people with the Obama birth certificate fraud; polls better among Republicans than so many of our serious candidates, brings shame upon our party. If, in fact, Trump represents our collective id, though, we are not completely doomed. We’re humans, after all. We are not ruled completely by our ids. We have to rely on our superegos to deal with the problems posed by Mr. Trump, and elect a respectable nominee.
The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that one exists. In Trump, troubles abound: He’s garnered enough attention, on name recognition alone, to crowd out serious candidates from the debates. He’s prideful enough to recklessly spoil the GOP field by hurling insults and baseless charges, damaging the eventual nominee ahead of the general election. He’s wealthy enough to launch a third party campaign that could siphon votes away from the eventual Republican candidate. He could cause all of this mayhem without losing a wink of sleep. Donald Trump is a liability.
The next step is for Republican candidates to deal with him in a way that doesn’t raise his profile or his inclination to launch a third party bid. On the debate stage, Rick Wilson, a national Republican media consultant and campaign adviser, offers solid advice. Republican candidates, Wilson argues, must engage with Mr. Trump in a very delicate fashion that keeps interactions to a minimum, but doesn’t ignore him. Ignoring Trump could create the outsider vs. insider (establishment) dynamic that could play in his favor.
Finally, Republicans inclined to vote for, volunteer for, or donate to Donald Trump should be seriously dissuaded. Irresponsible conservative news outlets will treat him favorably because his controversial status boosts ratings. But serious coverage doesn’t equal serious ideas. Remind Trump supporters that he is an unprincipled fraud. David Graham, writing in The Atlantic, points out that Trump may not last beyond mid-October because disclosing his financial worth–a worth he claims is 9 billion dollars–will reveal that he is lying.
Whether or not Trump represents the GOP id, this nightmare scenario can only be defeated by our superego.
Posted on June 19, 2015 Categories 2016 ElectionTags 2016 Election, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, current events, Democrat, Democrats, Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Republican, Republicans, RNC1 Comment on Republicans’ Trump Card…is a Joker
3 Reasons Why Republicans Should Keep an Open Mind about Jeb
After months of Hamlet-like vacillation, John Ellis (Jeb) Bush decides to join the 2016 Presidential race. The leader among all of the declared and undeclared Republican presidential candidates, Bush offers something most of the candidates do not–executive experience running a state that the GOP must win in order to win the 2016 election. Still though, many Republicans remain skeptical of Mr. Bush, some flatly refusing to vote for “another Bush.” Here are 3 reasons why Republicans should keep an open mind about the Jeb Bush candidacy.
Reason One: Jeb Bush Joins the Race Enjoying Advantages the Other Candidates Envy
Martin O’Malley, Carly Fiorina, and Ben Carson share a common first hurdle to a successful White House bid–earning widespread name recognition. For some candidates, their relative obscurity serves them well: Senator Marco Rubio, for example, can define himself on his own terms. Martin O’Malley, on the other hand, struggles to get any attention at all. For Jeb Bush, name recognition cuts both ways: on the one hand, Bush enjoys the benefits of belonging to a respected political family that Americans feel as if they know. After all, the only Republicans to win the White House since Ronald Reagan were Bushes. Still, though,Jeb must make the case that he is his own man, worthy of the job on his own merits, not just because of his last name. That task represents an opportunity similar to Senator Rubio’s.
Being from such a successful political family brings with it two more important advantages–networking and money. Leading up to his announcement, Bush has been cobbling together an enviable campaign team of big names like Danny Diaz, Heather Larrison, and Alex Lundry. Many of these people worked on Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign and worked for George W. Bush as well.
Heather Larrison leads Bush’s dynamic fundraising team that has been greatly outpacing his rivals’. Mr. Rubio, also from Florida, has been struggling to build his fundraising base upon Florida donors, because Bush’s influence in the state is deeper and wider-reaching. In fact, whichever candidate performs worse in Florida’s winner take all primary will likely end his White House bid immediately thereafter.
Name recognition, deep political networks and strong fundraising abilities are important aspects to running a winning campaign.
Reason Two: America Values Individual Accomplishment More than Bloodlines
By far, the most braindead “argument” against a Jeb Bush presidential run (and in fairness, against Hillary Clinton as well) is “Not Another Bush.” This reticence to support Mr. Bush purely based on his last name indicates immaturity and irrational thinking. For those of us who have siblings, would it be fair to say that knowing one of you is the same as knowing the other? Do you think the same as your siblings on all matters? Do you think the same as your father on all matters? Most matters?
Most bothersome about the “Not Another Bush” line, is that it runs contrary to America’s greatest ideal, that which sets us apart from our European kin: America values the individual more than the bloodline. And we should continue to do so. Betraying that idea betrays the notion that anyone can “make it” in America if he or she just works hard and plays by the rules.
By this standard, Jeb Bush has earned his right to be taken seriously along with the other candidates because he governed Florida successfully and conservatively. At present, he appears to be an upstanding man with a good family (all families face challenges, of course). He holds his own policy positions that may vary from his brother and father, and still fall within the conservative spectrum. On these elements should he be judged, not on his family lineage.
Reason Three: Jeb Bush Falls within the GOP Mainstream
The 2016 GOP candidate will surely need the support from the broadest coalitions of the conservative movement. He or she will need to speak most of all to social conservatives, economic conservatives, and defense-minded conservatives. On the issues most important to these constituencies, Jeb Bush falls within the mainstream. Unlike George Pataki, Bush holds a consistent record opposing abortion. Unlike Mike Huckabee, Bush does not need to defend himself against allegations of reliance on federal funds during his governorship. Unlike Rand Paul, Bush speaks clearly about reinstating a forward-leaning foreign policy.
Furthermore, for Bush’s conservative bona fides, he strikes a moderate tone–an important ingredient for any GOP candidate to win the general election.
Without a doubt, Mr. Bush faces a list of challenges and formidable candidates in his 2016 bid. While he leads the pack in most polls, his lead wanes–most notably, in Florida. Still, though, Bush represents a serious candidate in whom Republicans can take pride. A welcome addition to the large field of candidates, Jeb Bush deserves serious consideration in his own right.
Posted on June 16, 2015 Categories 2016 ElectionTags 2016 Election, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, conservative, current events, Democrat, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, liberal, Marco Rubio, News and Commentary, Politics, Presidential Race, Rand Paul, Republican, Republicans, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz1 Comment on 3 Reasons Why Republicans Should Keep an Open Mind about Jeb
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Does Honoring Cockfighting Mean Legalization Is Next?
A few days ago, I wrote a post about some Hawaii politicians wanting to recognize cockfighting as a “cultural activity.” Sadly, on Monday, the House Tourism, Culture and International Affairs Committee passed the resolution in a 4-2 vote, moving it to the House Judiciary Committee.
One of those voting against the resolution saw the absurdity of lawmakers honoring an activity that has been against the law for over a century. “We’re sending mixed messages,” said Rep. James Tokioka of Kauai, quoted in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. “Why do we pass it if we’re not going to get to the next step?”
The “next step” Tokioka is referring to is legalization. And the cockfighters are salivating at that possibility. “We are tired of being arrested. The thing is when we practice our culture, they come and arrest us,” said Pat Royos, using the term “culture” rather loosely. She and her husband raise roosters to fight to the death. “Maybe it could lead to legalization but it is a long process, a slow process,” said Royos told KITV news. “But, hey, we have been waiting this long. It has been over a hundred years, so what’s a couple more years.”
It’s not just for cultural reasons some lovers of bloodsport want cockfighting legalized. Think of the financial bonanza! “We lost the sugar cane. We lost the pineapple. What we have now is, we are depending on tourists … Why not legalize chicken fighting?” asked Oahu resident George Senen. Hey, George, while we’re at it, lets legalize prostitution as well, especially underage prostitution. Why let Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries corner the sex tour market? Perhaps he would be interested to know some animal lovers on Facebook are already discussing boycotting Hawaii because of the cockfighting resolution.
I could go on quoting the cockfighters all night. Some of my favorites involve people who say they hate being seen as criminals because they like to gamble on cockfights, even though both cockfighting and gambling are illegal in Hawaii, meaning they are criminals.
Fortunately for island roosters, the chances of cockfighting being legalized are pretty slim. There were about 260 public written testimonies against the resolution honoring cockfighting, versus only about 20 in favor. A Ward Research poll once found that most people in Hawaii oppose cockfighting as cruel (91 percent) and agree it should be illegal (82 percent). This echoes similar polls from new Mexico and Louisiana, the last states to outlaw cockfighting. In each of the two states, according to survey data released by Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals, more than 80 percent of voters supported banning the practice.
While legalization is extremely unlikely, the fact that even a small number of lawmakers would support cockfighting, combined with the misplaced passions of the small but vocal minority of Hawaii bloodsport enthusiasts, is still troubling. It could very well mean Hawaii’s already very lax laws against cockfighting (i.e., it’s one of only 11 states in which the activity is not a felony) are not going to get tougher. As long as our politicians are willing to pander to those who try to rationalize an illegal and immoral act as an expression of culture, Hawaii’s animal cruelty laws will remain little more than a joke.
Postscript: Tuesday evening it was reported that the Hawaii State House of Representatives scuttled the pro-cockfighting resolution by sending it back to committee. According to the Honolulu Advertiser, Rep. Joey Manahan, who sponsored the resolution, is “disappointed the measure didn’t advance because cockfighting enthusiasts put so much effort and enthusiasm into getting official recognition from Hawaii’s elected officials … Manahan says he will consider reviving the issue next year.”
Photo credit: Thomas Pix
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Ben Penglase
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Loyola University Chicago
Images and resources
Some of my recent publications are:
“Pacifying the Empire of Love: Sport, Spectacle and Security in Rio de Janeiro,” Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies (special issue: Pacification, Violence and Geographies of Class and Race in Rio de Janeiro), 4(2): 254-282. PacifyingtheEmpireofLove-Brasiliana-4-2-2016
“Invading the Favela: Echoes of Police Practices among Brazil’s Urban Poor.” In Policing and Contemporary Governance: The Anthropology of Police in Practice, William Garriott, ed. Palgrave Macmillan.
“Lost bullets: fetishes of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” Anthropological Quarterly, 84(20):411-438.AQ-LostBullets-final
“States of Insecurity,” in Victoria Bernal, ed. Contemporary Cultures, Global Connections: Anthropology for the 21st Century. Cognella Press. (reprint of 2009 article)
“The Owner of the Hill: Masculinity and Drug-Trafficker Power in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 15(2):317-337. Penglase-OwneroftheHill-JLACA-final
“States of Insecurity: everyday emergencies, public secrets and drug trafficker power in a Brazilian favela,” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 32(1): 407-423. Penglase-StatesofInsecurity-Final
“The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship: the Comando Vermelho and the Birth of ‘Narco-Culture’ in Rio de Janeiro,” The Luso-Brazilian Review, 45(1): 118-145. Penglase-BastardChild-LBR
“Barbarians on the Beach: media narratives of violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” Crime Media Culture, 3(3): 305-325. Penglase-CMC
“The Shutdown of Rio de Janeiro: the Poetics of Drug Trafficker Violence, Anthropology Today, 21(5): 3-6. penglaseanthtoday
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Logo Bowl: Best NFL Logos Based On Design
When the NFL started in 1920, there were only 11 teams, the league was known as the American Professional Football Association, being a pro football player was less lucrative than being a blue collar worker, and some of the earlier NFL logos looked like this:
CLEVELAND BROWNS (1959 – 1969)
Today, we stand at 32 teams across the country, the NFL is the most popular professional league in America, yearly revenue sits just over a hefty $9 billion dollars, and NFL logos look like this:
CLEVELAND BROWNS (2015 – present)
Hold on a minute!
This massive machine of sportsmanship and fanaticism has logos that are football helmets?
Yep, and that’s after even a recent rebranding (sorry, Browns fans).
But wait, we’re here to talk about the good NFL logos.
I know, “good,” especially when it comes to design, can be a pretty subjective thing. Luckily, we have design-savvy folks at Brandfolder who have written extensively about design and logo trends. With their expert input, this list of top NFL logos by division was born.
Like a regular football season, each NFL team competes against others in their division. There can only be one division champion.
NFL logos are measured by:
How technically-sound and modern the design is
The relevancy to the brand
References the heritage of the team or team’s city
The best and worst divisions are called out. We even picked out the two top logos to face off in a hypothetical NFL Logo Super Bowl.
AFC EAST WINNER: New England Patriots (2000 – present)
Hate on the Pats and call them cheaters all you want but the New England team is within regulations when it comes to their logo. It’s not easy to incorporate red, white, blue, and a star in a design while keeping it unique. Negative space is used on the left of the logo to make this graphic seem like it’s charging onward towards football freedom.
AFC WEST WINNER: Denver Broncos (1997 – present)
You might think the Broncos won because we’re a Denver-based company. But look at this logo and tell me you can’t feel the wind whipping through the fiery mane of this majestic steed? The aggressive facial features balance out the easy-going lines of the mane and rounded top line of the Bronco for a logo that feels grounded and free-spirited at the same time.
AFC NORTH WINNER: Pittsburgh Steelers (2002 – present)
Confession time: I used to be a Steelers fan. But I took my old bias out of the picture and did my best to evaluate the AFC North group as objectively as possible. The Steelers logo does a great job of paying homage to the heritage of Pittsburgh by incorporating the U.S. Steel logo (it is the Steel City, after all). The interplay of the three diamond shapes makes this sports logo as classic as they come.
AFC SOUTH WINNER: Houston Texans (2002 – present)
Again, here’s a logo that feels fresh, modern, and fierce while using the classic red, white, and blue combo. Whereas the Patriots logo used the white star as an add-on to the brim of the Patriot’s hat, the Texans feature it as the bold eye on the Longhorn. The curvature of the entire animal makes it feel like it’s rearing its head back, about to charge right off the screen. Bonus points for using negative space to create a strong “T” shape in the middle of the Houston Texans logo.
AFC SOUTH RUNNER-UP: Tennessee Titans (1999 – present)
Can we just call this the good blazing emblem of the South and call it a day? The strong pick-like “T” anchors the logo. The usage of red as an accent color in the three stars and trailing flames contrasts against the blue hues to make the shadowed “T” pop.
NFC EAST WINNER: Philadelphia Eagles (1996 – present)
The Philadelphia Eagles may not have the most thought-provoking logo, but it beat out the rest of the NFC East by a mile. The grey adds dimension and motion while the Eagles green outlines and brings together the whole logo. The four-color combo highlights the strength of this bird of prey, making it look like it’s about to swoop down and attack the gridiron.
NFC WEST WINNER: Seattle Seahawks (2012 – present)
It was just last year that the Native mask that inspired the Seahawks current logo was in display in Seattle. The strong beak and brow lines play with the intricate, sweeping strokes at the back of the face to create a fierce and tribal-like aesthetic. The forward lean of the logo mimics the feeling of movement, while the green eye is the finishing touch that makes other logos in envious.
NFC WEST RUNNER-UP: St. Louis Rams (2000 – present)
The St. Louis Rams logo uses the complimentary colors of navy, tan, and white for a grounded graphic. It achieves balance with curves and sharp angles, while the stacking of the three colors on the front of the ramming animal focuses the eye. Tilt your head slightly to the right and you’ll notice the near snarl of the ram, as if it’s just about to make contact with its opponent.
NFC NORTH WINNER: Minnesota Vikings (2013 – present)
The Minnesota Vikings logo may not be the most modern of them, but strong lines and an “easy get” graphic makes for a classic and stoic aesthetic. Surprisingly, this version is fairly recent. Compared to the older Viking logo, this one has bolder lines that help the features stand out more and a subtle forward angle to help Mr. Viking Man seem more imposing. The black accents on the tips and base of the horns adds just enough dimension for a nice finishing touch.
NFC SOUTH WINNER: New Orlean Saints (2000 – present)
Utilizing the historic fleur-de-lis as their logo, the New Orlean Saints pay tribute to the rich heritage of the Big Easy. Striking the difficult balance of simple yet complex, this NFL logo is both recognizable and easy to scale. This makes it perfect for helmets, jerseys, fields, or bodies.
NFC SOUTH RUNNER-UP: Atlanta Falcons (2003 – present)
Another bird of prey, the Atlanta Falcons logo features the devilish combo of red and black as their primary colors. These two hues paired together can incite feelings of aggression and boldness. While the design is flat and is not the best example of showcasing a bird in flight, the designer did something that this writer secretly loves: they hid a “F” in the logo.
BEST OVERALL DIVISION: AFC South
WORST OVERALL DIVISION: NFC North
NFL LOGOS SUPER BOWL CONTENDERS: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS VS. HOUSTON TEXANS
Patriots versus Texans. We might as well call this the Battle of the Red, White, and Blue. Both logos beat out the competition with their modern takes on essentially the American flag. There’s the natural sense of movement, the excellent uses of negative space, and both logos are prime examples of simple design stripped down to the core message.
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How is 802.11ax different than previous wireless standards?
By Ben Thomas, Director of Solutions Technical Marketing
Ben ThomasDirector of Solutions Technical Marketing
Ben Thomas has been in the networking industry for more than 20 years, running networks and working for vendors as an Systems Engineer, Consulting Systems Engineer, and Distinguished Systems Engineer....
Most networking groups have a wireless guy, maybe two – you might be that person. For years, the rest of the campus network group hasn’t really had to think about what they plugged into the network. Give them a gig port, PoE, probably set up a VLAN and that’s it, wireless sorted.
Because when it all came down to it, it didn’t matter how many wireless users connected to the access point because only one device, the client or the access point, could transmit at one time and a single wireless client is not going to tax a gig port. In fact, the more clients there are on an AP, the less traffic ends up on the wire since they spend more time trying to get a timeslot to transmit, like the seagulls in “Finding Nemo” yelling “Mine, mine, mine.”
We’re Headed to a New Tipping Point
Now everyone is talking about 802.11ax, or Wi-Fi 6 as the marketing people are calling it, and it might be time to start caring about what’s plugged into the network. Multi-User MIMO has been enhanced in 802.11ax and access points are coming soon that will be capable of talking to eight clients as once.
802.11ax also borrowed a protocol from LTE, OFDMA, that lets the AP divide up a channel into chunks and transmit to lots of clients at once. Today, similar to 802.11ac, these enhancements only work from the AP to the client (downlink), but in the near future traffic from the client to the AP (uplink) also will be supported. Once that happens, it will be possible for more than 30 clients to all receive data at the same time and then all transmit data back to the network at the same time. Even though 802.11ax isn’t full-duplex, it’s starting to sound more like switching and less like bridging.
More available bandwidth always seems to translate to more bandwidth used. 802.11ax is likely the beginning of the tipping point where access points start to need more than a 1 Gbps network port if we don’t want them to drop traffic.
802.11ax is promising to deliver at least a four times more performance than the previous generation of wireless. Denser deployments with a growing number of wireless clients means the wired access layer could transition to more of a wireless aggregation with a dozen or more high-capacity high-performance APs homing back to every wiring closet. 10-Gbps backhaul from the access layer might be safe for now, but 802.11ax may be the beginning of the end of gig links on the edge.
What to learn more about 802.11ax multi-user performance enhancements? Read "802.11ax – Wait, Did We Just Build a Wireless Switch?"
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Farming on the BBC
27 March, 2014 in News by Greta Bertram | No comments
MERL P DX289 PH1/668. Ewes and lambs in the lambing pen, Kiddington, Oxfordshire. Taken by Eric Guy.
In the last of MERL’s seminars in the ‘Untouchable England’ series last week, Ollie spoke about MERL on the BBC in the 1950s. Over the past few days I’ve come to notice how many programmes there are about farming on the BBC at the moment. I’m a lifelong Radio4 fan and, although I’m not normally up in time for Farming Today, I am (although I’m not sure whether I should be admitting it) a regular listener of The Archers. I don’t normally get the chance to watch much TV, but last week I came across a programme on BBC2 called The Hill Farm, which follows Gareth Wyn Jones and his family for a year on their hill farm in North Wales (a far cry from the type of farming there is in the are I grew up in – in the flat Fens surrounded by fields full of sugar beet). And this week I’ve made my first foray into BBC2’s Lambing Live (16 million sheep will be born in the UK this spring), this year following the Dykes Family on the farm in Scotland.
I probably sound very ignorant and very naïve, which I don’t deny (rural crafts rather than farming are my area of expertise at MERL). I’ve found both programmes really fascinating, and they’ve brought to life lots of the objects, terms and practices that I’ve come across during my two years at MERL – such as tupping, drenching and hefting (which Ollie wrote a blog post on back when we started the Sense of Place project). And I do like Kate Humble’s bobble hat! I’ve also really appreciated the fact that The Hill Farm doesn’t shy away from the bloody, brutal and very ‘real’ side of farming that is undoubtedly not really thought about by most of us (the total farming labour force in the UK in 2006 was 534,000 out of a population of 60.6 million).
Both programmes show the importance of community, and especially of family, in the running of many farms – as does The Archers. I discovered today that 2014 has been officially named by the United Nations as the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) – and it is estimated that there are 500 million family farms (those that rely primarily on family members for labour and management) across the globe. The UN states that the initiative “aims to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farming by focusing world attention on its significant role in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, in particular in rural areas.”
And if that wasn’t enough, there’s also Countryfile on BBC1 on Sunday evenings, which regularly attracts more than 5 million viewers! It’s great to see that there is such a public interest in rural matters – and I hope that programmes like these really do help us better understand the important role that farming plays in all of our lives.
Tags: BBC, Countryfile, International Year of Family Farming, IYFF, lambing, Lambing Live, MERL, Museum of English Rural Life, The Archers, The Hill Farm, United Nations
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Library staff recommendation: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
By Alan Watts
Greenfield Open Stacks 128 W34
Based on the concept of a book of secret knowledge that is passed down from generation to generation, Alan Watts’ The Book combines Vedanta philosophy with a Western perspective to identify the taboo of the modern era. He contends that the Western, individual ego has become too focused on individuality, thus blinding it to its own connections with people and the environment, and the necessary dualisms that shape the world. It’s a thought-provoking and challenging thesis which can sometimes be elusive and slippery. However, as Watts’s insights gradually take hold and come to light, it can prove to be an enriching one as well.
On Display: The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy
By Nick Bantock
Greenfield Library Special Collections 823.914 G875b
v. 1 – Griffin & Sabine
v. 2 – Sabine’s Notebook
v. 3 – The Golden Mean
It all begins when Griffin Moss receives a postcard in his London studio from a complete stranger, Sabine Strohem, a woman half-a-world away who claims to have visions of his paintings as he makes them. And so begins a unique and unusual correspondence as these two would-be lovers try to understand their strange circumstances, and are continually thwarted as they attempt to meet each other face-to-face.
Instead of a typical narrative, Nick Bantock employs postcards and letters to tell his story, matched with evocative and surreal imagery made with mixed media and collage. This approach turns the books themselves into art objects, and asks the readers to become participants in the story as well, as they remove, read, and fold up the letters that Ms. Strohem and Mr. Moss would be reading.
In this age of texts, Facebook, and an ailing postal system, Griffin & Sabine shows how a mundane means of communication can resonate with mystery and wonder. One may be tempted to see Bantock’s story as an artifact of an ‘older age,’ but the real challenge is to find the same possibilities within our current forms of communication, and to transcend them to rediscover the human emotions that we are trying to reveal to each other.
Due to the physical nature of The Griffn & Sabine Trilogy, these books can only be read in the library. Please see one of the staff members or librarians at the Circulation Desk for further details.
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UArts Libraries Work-Study Students are Honors Students
We are very pleased and proud to recognize Greenfield Library work-study students Sarah Gantt and Haylee Warner for their acceptance into the UArts Honors Program.
Sarah Gantt (left) and Haylee Warner, UArts Libraries work-study employees and UArts Honors Program participants
Sarah is a sophomore painting major who worked in the library last year and was a great asset to our Fall 2012 Open House event, and Haylee is a freshman in the UArts School of Dance and is interested in how libraries and dance can interconnect. Sarah and Haylee happen to be excellent employees as well as excellent students. The honors program requires them to maintain a GPA of 3.75, do honors-enriched coursework, and provide community service. We think they’re up to the task.
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Works of fiction and art titles are included in the selection of available books; you may just discover your literary paramour.
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Though the 2008 Dodge Viper is loved for its stunning performance, its two-seat interior is where it gets criticism. Though it's been improved for this year, reviewers still don't feel the cabin measures up. "Inside, it's Spartan," says the Detroit News.
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As previously mentioned, a major complaint is the difficulty of exiting and entering the low-slung car. "Getting in and out is a gymnastic exercise of hurdling the door sill and ducking under the low roof," says Car and Driver. The Chicago Tribune adds, "With Viper you fall in and are pried out. High Viper door sills make entry and exit more suited to the folks jumping the hurdles in the Olympics."
Most agree that the level of interior equipment in the Viper is almost laughable. "Not that it makes a difference in a contest where adrenaline matters most, but the Viper -- in the grand Viper tradition -- lacks any sort of creature comforts beyond the ubiquitous air-conditioning and power windows," says Edmunds. Edmunds also notes that the comparable Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is not only cheaper, but "it's also packed with gadgets and gizmos that make it a more usable car."
The Viper offers almost no electronic systems -- meaning no traction control, stability control or cruise control. Cars.com says the lack of cruise control "makes all kinds of sense, really, because it would be easy to go into a turn and lose control before there was time to shut it off and take over. Still, I find cruise helps me keep from inadvertently creeping above the speed limit. With the electronic throttles, cruise would add little cost and practically no weight."
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Vicious attacks on Michael Mann: More smears from Mark Steyn and Anthony Watts' lynch mob
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Today Anthony Watts is promoting Mark Steyn's last ditch attempt to discredit one of the world's leading climate scientists. Professor Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Meteorology and Director, Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. Mark Steyn is an ex-smut columnist turned smut blogger, who arguably viciously defamed Professor Michael Mann (any others?) and is now being sued by Professor Mann. Anthony Watts is a blogger who promotes climate conspiracy theories of the ugly kind, and falsely accuses scientists of fraud and more.
Note: I've added an addendum about the contents of the book below. [Sou 7:52 pm 13 August 2015]
The Hockey Stick
In 1998 a paper by Professors Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes was published in Nature - hereafter called MBH98. The paper had the title: "Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries". In that paper was a figure that was to become a symbol of global warming, even getting a name - the hockey stick. Below is Figure 5b, the Hockey Stick, from MBH98:
Figure 5 Time reconstructions (solid lines) along with raw data (dashed lines). ... b, for Northern Hemisphere mean temperature (NH) in 8C. In both cases, the zero line corresponds to the 1902–80 calibration mean of the quantity. For b raw data are shown up to 1995 and positive and negative 2j uncertainty limits are shown by the light dotted lines surrounding the solid reconstruction, calculated as described in the Methods section. Source: MBH98.
This was one of the early attempts to reconstruct temperatures of the recent past at the global level. The above chart was only for the northern hemisphere. The chart below shows the distribution of the annually resolved data used by the scientists. It included dendroclimatic, ice core/ice melt and coral proxies:
Figure 1 Data used in this study. a, Distribution of annual-resolution proxy indicators used in this study. Dendroclimatic reconstructions are indicated by ‘tree’symbols, ice core/ice melt proxies by ‘star’symbols and coral records by ‘C’ symbols. Long historical records and instrumental ‘grid-points’ series are shown by squares (temperature) or diamonds (precipitation). Groups of ‘þ’ symbols indicate principal components of dense tree-ring sub-networks, with the number of such symbols indicating the number of retained principal components. Sites are shown dating back to at least 1820 (red),1800 (blue-green),1750 (green),1600 (blue) and 1400 (black). Certain sites (for example, the Quelccaya ice core) consist of multiple proxy indicators (for example, multiple cores, and both d18O isotope and accumulation measurements). Source: MBH98
This work was rightly seen as important because it helped to put what is happening now in the context of past climate. (Google Scholar shows MBH98 has been cited 1,804 times.) While it wasn't the first reconstruction of past temperatures, it was arguably the first very detailed global temperature reconstruction of the recent past. Since then there have been many more studies by these researchers and others, building on many more proxy indicators of surface temperature around the world, which extended and refined this work. Below is a compilation of reconstructions from the latest IPCC report, AR5, which shows hemispheric and global surface temperature reconstructions going back over the past 2,000 years. While the reconstructions have been refined since 1998, they still show a similar hockey stick shape to that early paper from seventeen years ago, MBH98. Click to enlarge as always:
Figure 5.7: Reconstructed (a) Northern Hemisphere and (b) Southern Hemisphere, and (c) global annual temperatures during the last 2000 years. Individual reconstructions (see Appendix 5.A.1 for further information about each one) are shown as indicated in the legends, grouped by colour according to their spatial representation (red: land-only all latitudes; orange: land-only extra-tropical latitudes; light blue: land and sea extra-tropical latitudes; dark blue: land and sea all latitudes) and instrumental temperatures shown in black (HadCRUT4 land and sea, and CRUTEM4 land-only; Morice et al., 2012). All series represent anomalies (°C) from the 1881–1980 mean (horizontal dashed line) and have been smoothed with a filter that reduces variations on timescales less than ~50 years. Source: IPCC
The first hockey stick was, probably correctly, viewed in some quarters as a real threat to the anti-science, anti-mitigation movement. These are immoral people. People who want the world to continue with unfettered burning of fossil fuels, endangering society. People who are willing to sacrifice the well-being of their fellow human beings, their children and their grandchildren and all future generations. Their motives were various - some did it for ideological reasons. Anthony Watts did it because he didn't want to pay tax. Others dispute climate science arguably because that's what they are employed to do. There are dedicated denier organisations who pay people (and get freebies from more) to cast doubt on established science that they see as contrary to their aims. The backers of deniers probably also have mixed motives - pure profit for fossil fuel companies and ideology for others (rampant capitalism/libertarian anarchy gone wild). For some it seemed to be more personal - perhaps professional jealousy mixed with ideology.
A two-fold immoral tactic: reject science and falsely defame scientists
The tactic is two-fold. One tactic has been to try to disprove the science. MBH98 and subsequent papers on temperature reconstructions were endlessly scrutinised, pulled apart and every tiny calculation was nitpicked. If a flaw or error was discovered it was magnified out of all proportion. The authors themselves did a lot more work. They published minor corrections and published uncertainties. They examined many more proxies from many more locations around the world.
The papers from these and other scientists kept coming. The efforts of deniers to find fault were swamped and obliterated by science itself. All the following research showed the same big picture. In recent years global surface temperature has been rising faster than at any time in the past two thousand years. As reconstructions went back further in time, it became more and more obvious that global surface temperatures are approaching or exceeding those of any time since civilisation began, more than 10,000 years ago.
The other part of the tactic is much simpler and rewarding. It has been to demonise the scientists themselves. Rather than diffuse the effort, deniers tend to focus on just a handful of scientists, one by one. In particular the lead author of MBH98, Professor Michael Mann. Michael Mann calls this the Serengeti Strategy. Now that it's been named and recognised, it has lost some of its power.
Everyone from conspiracy bloggers to contrarian scientists piled on smear attacks. Professor Mann has documented some of these efforts in a book:
Similar tactics had been used on other climate scientists in the past, such as Dr Ben Santer and Dr James Hansen and many others. There were a couple of years when the focus shifted to smearing Professor Phil Jones, following the theft of emails from his university. As bad as all those smear campaigns were, it's arguable that there has not been such a long-lived, sustained and concerted attack on any single climate scientist as there has been against Professor Michael Mann.
People rally to thwart the evil attacks
Climate scientists rallied with concerned citizens. People who recognise the dangers of climate change. People who recognise the evil behind the attacks on science and scientists. A fund was established to help scientists defend themselves against defamation and attacks on their integrity: The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. At least one lawsuit has been successful. Dr Andrew Weaver sued the National Post and Financial Post and won: in a "serious case of defamation". Blogger Anthony Watts, who until that time had been posting smear articles frequently, laid low for a bit.
Professor Michael Mann is no pussy cat. The attacks did not have the desired effect of getting him to quit his science. (Deniers sometimes count on the fact that scientists are professionals from prestigious universities and research institutes. Unlike deniers, they tend not to engage in gutter warfare. Deniers thought they had free rein to make up lies about scientists and misrepresent their work.) The incessant attacks on prominent scientists have probably stopped some scientists from speaking out. Some of them even extend olive branches to their defamers. However many other people have rallied, despite the personal cost to them and their families. Professor Mann did not set out to become a hero of climate science. It was deniers and defamers who forced him into that role. And he has become a star.
When he was compared with a child molester, and accused of fraud, Professor Mann sued. The case is against The National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI is a libertarian lobby group), Rand Simberg of CEI, and Mark Steyn an author formerly from the National Review (last published December 2013). The case is at an appeal stage, and will probably take a while to make its way through the courts, so the personal cost to Professor Mann is great. He is undeterred. He knows that he is not just standing up for himself, he has become a symbol of climate scientists and science everywhere. A true hero.
Anthony Watts' smear campaign resurrected
The reason I'm writing this article now is, you guessed it, denier blogger Anthony Watts is touting a vanity-published book by Mark Steyn (archived here). Mark Steyn is one of the villains. Unlike the other defendents, Mark Steyn seems intent on adding to his own destruction. He is undoubtedly adding ammunition for Michael Mann's lawyers to fire. Even the title of his book shrieks of unfettered malice toward Professor Mann and could be viewed as explicitly libelous: "A Disgrace to the Profession: the world's scientists in their own words on Michael Mann, his hockey stick, and their damage to science." Here is a quote from Mark Steyn's latest article on the subject (archived here):
This first volume in the series looks at Mann, the hockey stick's dramatic rise, its trashing of history, mishandling of data and risible statistical processes, and the bigger issues that arose in its wake: the politicization and then corruption of science, and the thuggish retaliation meted out to scientists brave enough to question it. But I wanted to be fair to Mann, so at the end I do find a couple of people willing to put in a good word for him, even if one of them is former IPCC honcho and disgraced sex fiend Dr Rajendra Pantsdowni.
It does look as if Mark Steyn is thumbing his nose at the court, though he is more circumspect than he was in his article that prompted the defamation suit.
Anthony Watts himself was also careful not to write anything that would be likely to get him sued. He stuck to promoting the book and posting quotes from the book itself. He has been pretty careful in recent months, more cautious than he used to be. He probably doesn't want to lose his house or worse.
As shown above, there are now dozens of hockey sticks from multiple scientists. There are numerous independent studies, using a lot of different types of temperature proxies (indicators of temperature), from many scientists. Yet Mark Steyn and his immoral supporters are focused on defaming just one of these scientists - Professor Michael Mann. Greg Laden has already demolished the "selling point" quotes that Mark Steyn put forward. If they are any guide then the book is an example of quote-mining climate scientists, quotes from other defamers and deniers, and a blatant attempt to further defame one of the world's leading climate scientists.
What would be great would be to see some of the other defamers sued. Now that Josh has involved himself formally, will he also be sued? Anthony Watts has highlighted a section in Mark Steyn's book where he quotes Judith Curry - who appears to have a personal grudge against Professor Mann. Is she happy to open up the possibility of her being sued? She is a supporter of Mark Steyn so probably yes. I doubt she'd get the support of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. She'd be on her own. (She might get lucky, like Anthony Watts - in that lawyers might advise against suing someone of little means.)
Michael Mann on Michael Mann and his work
Below is a video from Denial101 MOOC, in which Michael Mann talks about his work and more. It's a rare chance to see a long interview with a leading climate scientist, talking about the science, and what is wrong with denier arguments:
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Addendum - what does the book contain?
In the comments, Jack Savage asked if anyone had bothered to read Mark Steyn's "book" yet. This is my reply, with a couple of minor edits. If the following is anything to go by, most of the quotes are probably unrelated to the Michael Mann and his work, and most of them are probably from deniers:
Jack, I don't know for sure if anyone's bothered to read it, although I expect Michael Mann's lawyers will do so. Some people at WUWT claim to have been reading it, but haven't said much about the contents.
Anthony claimed to have spent a day with it, but didn't have anything to show for it except a couple of images. So I can't say whether he got to read it or whether he just took a couple of snapshots then spent the rest of the day walking around gripping it tightly to his heart.
Of the quotes Anthony posted in his article:
One was from an article by denier/lobbyist James Taylor on the website of the denier lobby group, the Heartland Institute, in which he attributed a quote about Professor Jones (not Michael Mann) to William Sprigg. The quote was based on a misunderstanding of an email snippet from the emails stolen from CRU.
Another was from a known climate science denier, Petr Chylek, which he probably got from the website of another denier lobby group, the GWPF. That quote had nothing to do with Michael Mann either. The article was about the stolen emails.
Another was from another known science denier, Vincent Courtillot. It had the word "Mann" in it, but I couldn't find the quote using Google, so I don't know where it came from.
There was some stuff from Judith Curry, who seems to have been harbouring a personal grudge against Michael Mann (since at least 2010) - for unknown reasons.
If you want more, without having to fork out any money, there's a link to an article by Greg Laden in the "further reading" section, where he checked out some quotes as well, and found them wanting.
I can't imagine there is anything in it that would damage Michael Mann, but I do expect it will have a lot of material that will damage Mark Steyn.
The comments are much as you'd expect, though the mods took their eye off the ball and let one or two comments from more rational people through.
starzmom points out the likely motivation for the book, with no regard by Mark Steyn for the fact that its publication will probably help prove the case against him.
Buying the book will help Mark pay his large and growing legal bills, too.
Bob Diaz indulges in conspiracist ideation, wrongly imagining that Professor Mann must have something to hide. This is the "something must be wrong" and possible "nefarious intent" criteria for conspiracist thinking, described in Recurrent Fury:
This raises an interesting problem, Michael Mann can sue, BUT doing so means that he can be forced to testify under oath. In a civil case, you can be forced to testify. This could bring up some rather embarrassing things he has to answer.
PiperPaul echoes Bob's overly vivid imagination:
I think that’s what everyone’s waiting for!
Tony Rohl is a denier of the nasty kind, wishing ill on one of the world's leading climate scientists:
I hope Steyn bankrupts the mighty Mann
It's interesting to see deniers in their true colours. Tony Brown aka climatereason is another nasty denier, who wants to spread Mark Steyn's smear to politicians and non-government organisations. He usually likes to pretend he's a nice bloke. One of the decent deniers who is just after facts. He's clearly not. He's a lover of false gossip of the worst kind - a spreader of lying muck:
It would be useful to reissue the cartoons with relevant quotes as postcards that could be sent to MP’s, Senators, NGO’s etc.
Tonyb
This is how smear attacks work. Pile lie upon lie. jim wrongly claims that science and scientists are silent. They aren't. jim is promoting a version of the Serengeti Strategy, where deniers want to isolate one scientist from the many. It doesn't work so well these days. Scientists defend their own now. Heck, this was one of the main motivations behind the establishment of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund.
Even worse, the silence of the whole climate community puts the whole community in the position of supporting Man’s fraud by their silence. That silence shows that the entire climate alarm research industry if thoroughly corrupt.
cnxtim is one of the stalwarts of Anthony Watts' lynch mob.
I don’t need a book to see how corrupt this fellow is.
It is quite wrong to allow Mann and the rest of the CAGW brigade to be described as belonging to a profession.
Given they ignore the accepted scientific method and language, they have no place in the company of scientists who do adhere, OR doctors who ignore their Hippocratic Oath, Lawyers, who defraud or engineers who scam with phoney designs or work.
The entire ratbag army and the politicians and journalists who support and promote them should “tarred and feathered” then run out of town…
PaulH quotes from Mark Steyn's blog. If it's all like this he won't just be adding to the swag of evidence collated by Michael Mann's lawyers, he's also setting out to make himself an enemy of the court and the entire US judicial system, calling it a "septic tank". Perhaps Mark Steyn is wanting to lose - I don't know what he could hope to achieve by seeking to lose his case.
Mark Steyn’s blog posting about his book:
https://archive.is/7wzRa [replaced direct link with archived verson - Sou]
“A guy can’t sit around waiting for litigious fake Nobel Laureates to agree to discovery and deposition. So, with the Mann vs Steyn Trial of the Century currently stalled in the choked septic tank of the DC court system, I figured I might as well put some of the mountain of case research clogging up the office into a brand new book – all about the most famous “science” graph of the 21st century and the man who invented it.”
It’s on my reading list. :-)
warrenlb got a lot of flack from WUWT readers for this comment. He was accused of being Russell Seitz - I'd say that's wrong. His writing style is very different. (See Greg Laden's unmasking of the quotes Warren mentioned.)
Steyn chose three quotes as promo material to represent the book’s contents. One of the scientists has recently co-authored a paper confirming Mann’s hockey stick graph, and notes that his quote only appears damning because it lacks all context. A second has worked on a major paper that also confirmed Mann’s hockey stick graph, and has stated that the attacks on Mann “have no justification.” The third quote is from a physicist who doesn’t work on climate change, so he can’t accurately be described as one of Mann’s scientific peers.
For all his quote mining, it seems like the best Steyn could do when it came to finding criticisms from Mann’s peers is write up two quotes from scientists who agree with Mann’s findings and one from someone who’s not a climate scientist at all. Looks like Steyn’s efforts here fall as flat as the handle on Mann’s hockey stick.
fobdangerclose is one sick little puppy:
Mark Steyn is not just up against Mike Mann and his Climate Change/Global Warming/CO2 kills lie, he is up against the whole of the Media/Tax and Spend Two Party Evil Money Cult in Washington D.C..
All of it lie based, thus they can not allow any of the foundation of their lies to fail or the whole of all the walls will come tumbling down.
Adam from Kansas is pretty disgusted. (Where are the WUWT mods? Oh, that's right - Smokey/dbstealey has been dropped.) Again, the comment was attacked by the regular lynch mob.
Seriously, an entire book devoted to attacking a person, does civility in science exist anymore?
Would the people on this blog sing the same tune if such a book was about a skeptic? This blog was better back in 2008 when there was a lot of general science discussion on the proper measurement of temperatures and the how the climate really worked.
Dahlquist's mind is so perversely twisted, he thinks that a scientist standing up to defamatory attacks is somehow "destroying careers".
When Mr. Mann destroys peoples careers and urges government wasting of taxpayers dollars, etc, etc…It is a well deserved counter attack and a peek at the truth.
wickedwenchfan reckons that the next book is going to "out" all the lukewarmers as well! Presumably Anthony Watts too. wickedwenchfan is a greenhouse effect denier, in case you missed it.
Sooner or later a second book is going to come out and it’s going to include you Mr Watts and Judith Curry and all the other Luke Warmers as well as the alarmists who doggedly hold to the notion that there is a “Greenhouse Effect”. Michael Mann has got what’s coming to him, but I advise you not to be so smug about it as the total extent of scientific incompetence is yet to be revealed.
Wayne Delbeke is spreading the love:
I am buying one for our Alberta Premier and one for our Alberta Environment Minister aka Minister of “Climate Change” aka Minister of Truth. (and one for me.)
Lemon thinks that "vexacious" (sic) litigation laws can be used by defamers to protect their right to tell whatever lies they want about anyone they want. They are wrong:
Doesnt the USA have the category of “vexacious litigator” to protect again such as Mann?
Mann, Michael E., Raymond S. Bradley, and Malcolm K. Hughes. "Global-scale temperature patterns and climate forcing over the past six centuries." Nature 392, no. 6678 (1998): 779-787. doi:10.1038/33859 (pdf here - and corrigendum here)
Mann, M.E., Bradley, R.S. and Hughes, M.K., "Northern Hemisphere Temperatures During the Past Millennium: Inferences, Uncertainties, and Limitations", Geophysical Research Letters, 26, 759-762, 1999. DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900070 (open access)
Mann, Michael E., Zhihua Zhang, Malcolm K. Hughes, Raymond S. Bradley, Sonya K. Miller, Scott Rutherford, and Fenbiao Ni. "Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 36 (2008): 13252-13257. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805721105 (open access)
List of publications by Professor Michael Mann
Complaint by Professor Michael Mann with exhibits (October 2012)
Serengeti Strategy - described by Gillian King on Thisness of a that
Mark Steyn’s Newest Attack On Michael Mann And The Hockey Stick - by Greg Laden
Why This Climate Scientist’s Libel Case Matters - Article about the lawsuit by the Union of Concerned Scientists
Myth vs. Fact Regarding the "Hockey Stick" - 2004 article by Michael Mann at RealClimate.org
Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind - 2010 article by Ben Santer at realclimate.org, about the nasty and false vilification he has endured from science attackers
Swift Boating, Stealth Budgeting, Unitary Executives - a 2006 article by James Hansen on attacks on himself and climate science
Debunking Misinformation About Stolen Climate Emails in the "Climategate" Manufactured Controversy - from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Labels: global surface temperature, hockey stick, Mark Steyn, Michael E Mann, Michael E. Mann
I agree, we need to stop the bullying in our climate debates. I write about that here: https://tonyhellerakastevengoddardisnotasociopath.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/settled-science-climate-change-bullying-on-the-rise/
tonyhellerakastevengoddardisnotasociopath
Fine that you promote your amusing blog here. But as you do this fairly regularly, PLEASE spend 2 minutes learning how to post a link correctly.
Prince Mishkin August 12, 2015 at 10:37 PM
Let's not forget that The Wuwters paid for Anthony Watts to schlep all the way over to England to confront Mann at a talk he gave in Bristol, and what did he do? Nothing. Not a word. He's only capable of sneering from behind his keyboard. An incompetent cowardly bully.
Joe August 13, 2015 at 5:10 AM
PG August 13, 2015 at 11:04 PM
Oh yes I remember, the Tamsin, Richard and Anthony giggle fest at Nic's joint. We need more of that stuff.
looʞ oɹez August 14, 2015 at 12:57 AM
I wouldn't go visit Watts, you know, that is one of the creepiest parts of the country. It gives me the jeebers every time I've been there. But I'm rather a bit psychic. He lives next door to old Hangtown, California. It's almost never talked about but supposedly they hired a crew of Chinese railroad builders to build a spur line from the Pacific Railroad and with a bonus. The Chinese finished the railroad tracks ahead of schedule and when it came time to collect the bonus the town hung them up by the neck.
Anyway, you know that Gold King mine waste spill the Wuwt'rs made so much noise about? Dr Paul Craig Roberts has a write up about that. How EPA might be cover for a corporatocracy. But everybody missed the fact that there are 22,000 abandoned mines just like it in that state and the EPA allows (allowed) them to dump.
New EPA rules allow mining operations to dump waste in waterways left over from Dubya.
This whole thing smells to high heaven, if I ever get some more time I'm going to do some investigation.
What a ridiculous criticism. Where someone lives means nothing at all.
Plus your geography is way off. Watts lives in Chico, CA in the Sacramento Valley, about 100 miles from the place you mention, Placerville.
Your tale of Chinese railway workers is almost certainly bogus. The Pacific Railway didn't go to either Chico or Placerville.
Comments like this don't help the climate debate.
looʞ oɹez August 15, 2015 at 12:32 PM
It was not being critical, it was just an observation. This country is more than 3,400 miles across. Been practically everywhere, those towns are not that far apart. I used to have to pull equipment out to that Hangtown motocross event. The old timer locals told me the story, maybe I don't relate everything quite like they said but more than one group told me that.
I was smitten with you folks, but as you all just get snippier with me. Since you cannot be yourself around here... C-ya, Mr Perfect, out...
"I wouldn't go visit Watts, you know, that is one of the creepiest parts of the country."
Watts lives in Chico and it's beautiful up here. I live in Chico too (born here) and I've never heard this crazy story you relate.
tonyb August 13, 2015 at 12:01 AM
You really need to differentiate between slightly tongue in cheek satirical comments-(cartoon postcards, what politician would read them?) and serious and unpleasant personal attacks on Dr Mann.
Can I remind you that I have defended Mann several times on WUWT and was eviscerated by Willis, amongst others, for my troubles. I have read many of his papers and looked thoroughly at the Hockey Stick and the spaghetti derivatives and respectfully compared them with Hubert Lambs work.
I do not think Dr Mann is by any means a great scientist but he is also not a bad one either
Millicent August 13, 2015 at 12:08 AM
I can't see anything in your comment to indicate satire, so I'm wondering how Sou is supposed to differentiate it from all the redneck stuff.
Sou August 13, 2015 at 12:11 AM
Call me disgusted, Tony, while I call BS. It's you who needs to think long and hard about lending support to the repugnant Mark Steyn, Anthony Watts and Josh - and about you thinking that decades of defamation of respected climate scientists is a joking matter.
I treat this latest comment of yours as akin to "I'm not really a bigot, some of my best friends are [insert your favourite bigotry here]".
I don't imagine for one nano-second that Professor Mann or anyone else gives tuppence for what you think. (I doubt that anyone on denier blogs cares what you think either.)
Denialists and the conspiracy nuts you hang with aren't worth the time of day. You all deserve each other.
Own your (hockey)shtick.
Or, if it makes you feel uncomfortable then stop doing it. Like I did.
Joe Public August 14, 2015 at 3:48 AM
"Denialists and the conspiracy nuts you hang with aren't worth the time of day. "
Then why create this post?
Prince Mishkin August 14, 2015 at 5:27 PM
I think this blog is aimed at the 'joe public' that might be swayed by the misinformation and chicanery that the denialists and conspiracy nuts get up to.
Perhaps what got Watts so hot under the collar was the fact that Michael Mann appeared on Bill Maher's popular HBO talk show a few days ago and got a chance to promote the second edition of a book he co-authored titled "Dire Predictions." (Although in typical Maher style the book was barely mentioned, but the talk was largely substantive on the science.)
-- Dennis
"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad." William Bernbach (sp)
marke August 13, 2015 at 1:07 AM
The tools of 'debate' which have arisen around this issue are rather fascinating.
For example: Do people genuinely think there is a deliberate 'Serengeti Strategy'? (Got a lovely ring to it, eh?)
That organised groups sit around, planning, "Hey, so and so's science looks a bit weak, and I note his hide is scruffy and he is limping on that offside fore-leg, let's draft him out of the herd and eviscerate him"... ?
Or is there a more likely scenario?
That an individual scientist's work became the poster child of a point of view, and that one scientist happened to have a rather self important style of presentation, and so some people found him easy to dislike as well as an ideal target for their feelings and opinions.
Serengeti strategy indeed. That certainly matches any conspiracy theories from the other side.
No i don't think most deniers are that smart. But that's what they do, isn't it, whether deliberately or not. It's typical behaviour of cowards and smear merchants - dumb ones as well as cunning ones.
Also, why am I not surprised that you would reject science because a particular scientist's appearance is not to your taste. That you think it's fine to compare a respected scientist to a child molester and accuse him of fraud because his talking style doesn't appeal to you.
Is that how you treat everyone you come across? You don't like the colour of their socks or the style of their watchband, so you think it's fine defame them?
Deniers really are contemptible beings.
Jammy Dodger August 13, 2015 at 2:29 AM
"... so some people found him easy to dislike as well as an ideal target for their feelings and opinions."
Roundly condemned by your own words marke. The lack of understanding deniers have about their actions and the consequences is just breathtaking. Do you really think this is some sort of justification for denier behaviour?
Look up the word "empathy" and contemplate its meaning.
KR August 13, 2015 at 3:56 AM
A deliberate strategy? For the most part, no, although I wouldn't discount deliberate methodologies for professional lobbyists like Michaels and Morano.
However, a simple ad hominem fallacy is one of the first fallbacks for people who have nothing else to say, and a series of ad hominem attacks that are (incorrectly) viewed in the denial echo chambers as actually evidential regarding climate change become the 'Serengeti Strategy' quite quickly - observed abuse leads to a perception of vulnerability which leads to more abuse which leads to...
Absolutely none of which has any relevance whatsoever to the science, as that argument is based on logical fallacies. But it seems to provide a perception with which denialists are quite comfortable.
John Mashey August 13, 2015 at 5:20 AM
Of course it is a deliberate strategy, and has been (in climate) for at least two decades,. but it's created by bloggers or anonymous nonperson commenters. See Figure 2.1 on p.10 of Crescendo to Climategate Cacophony (2010).
1) A few people in O5 (Front Groups) and O6 (think tanks), and in the red box (B1b, B2, B3, B4) select people to attack, and that gets fed to people in O7 (like James Inhofe, Jim Barton, Ken Cuccinelli)., and certain media help, such as the Wall Street Journal.
2) While it may have started even earlier, this was quite visible in 1996, with the singling out of Ben Santer for attack by Frederick Seitz (cofounder of George Marshall Institute, earlier well-paid by Big Tobacco for his help), with help from Fred Singer, a close ally.
See p.16 of CCC above.
(I know him: a fine scientist, and naturally rather quiet, but forced to become more outspoken given a decade of attacks.)
Ben was the Serengeti attackee for IPCC SAR.
For IPCC TAR, it was Mann.
a) MBH98 and MBH99 had 3 authors, Mann, Bradley and Hughes. Two of them were already senior, long-tenured professors ... who had been publishing on this topic for years. SO, of course, the attack focused on Mann (who was a postdoc when these were written, i.e., the most junior of the trio).
b) All this attack totally ignores the fact that there were other reconstructions ... that looked like hockey sticks. MBH98/99 had more proxies and included error bars, so it got especially used by IPCC. Had MBH98/99 not been published, the featured reconstruction likely would have been High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures(1998) Fig 7, p.11.
Actually, they were starting to look this way by Bradley and Jones(1993), as used in IPCC SAR.
See Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report pp.28-32 for the orchestration (by a few key fossil funded Washington think tanks) of the fraudulent Wegman Report;
Those include the "coaching sessions" for McIntyre+McKitrick, fortunately preserved by GMI.
I think the Serengeti attackee for AR4 was supposed to be Jon Overpeck, but they weren't particularly successful, although McIntyre certainly tried with the David Deming quote.
Cugel August 13, 2015 at 8:05 AM
An early target of the strategy was Rachel Carson, chosen victim from the environmentalist herd. Her gender no doubt played a part in the selection, as Mann's apparent nerdiness and inexperience no doubt did in his case. It's amusing that marke cites Mann's speaking style as a factor since it was the attacks on Mann which brought him to prominence in the first place. One might describe him as a monster of their own making. So glad he's our monster :)
Marke.
Give up the concern trolling and victim blaming.
It is getting old.
marke August 13, 2015 at 1:18 PM
Thanks for that effort, Harry.
As I said, "The tools of 'debate' which have arisen around this issue are rather fascinating."
Hi Sou,
Re "...you would reject science because a particular scientist's appearance is not to your taste..."
I was not stating my own opinion on anyone's appearance. I was simply stating a possible scenario which may not need a conspiracy to develop.
But, I am sure you knew that.
So .... I hereby conclude this is an adhom statement directed at me.
(after consulting my huge and recently assembled encyclopedia of troll classification and obfuscating debating techniques).
John Mashey,
I appreciate all the work you have put in (above and below, and on your linked articles). I will read your links further.
You are saying there is a conspiracy, and I find the detail interesting, as I come here to see both sides of the argument.
That I occasionally may highlight some detail is the old issue of; "....And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?... ".
My punishment for doing so is that I am relentlessly classified, but I can tolerate that.
That's a rare moment of insight on your part, marke. You should try it more often.
Let's build on the moment. Multiply that a thousand-fold, or a hundred thousand fold, and toss in allegations of fraud and fakery and comparisons to child molesters,, and imagine this has been happening to you with no let up for seventeen years or more. Then maybe, just maybe, you'll get some feeling for what scientists like Michael Mann and Ben Santer and others have to deal with daily. You might even get an awareness of how much strength of character these people have (though I won't count on it).
Maybe then you'll stop blaming the victim (as Harry pointed out) and look at things from a normal perspective rather than as a science denier. You might even get a glimpse of what Cugel was on about. That might never have heard of Michael Mann except for the fact that he's been singled out for attacks by deniers (aka the Serengeti Strategy). (I'll bet there are a lot of prominent climate scientists you've never heard of.)
I think it was Al Gore who pushed Mann up front and center by prominently placing a hockey stick in his presentations and book. The scant proxies of the 1400s and 1600s were always going to attract critics.
Attacks on Rachel Carson are absolutely astonishing and unreasonable. Her spotlighting of a rapidly developing 'poisoning of the environment' was very necessary, and very timely.
If there was a subsequent overreaction in some areas, and valuable advantages and opportunities were perhaps lost, that is simply the fault of grandstanding politicians and pedantic bureaucrats, not Rachel Carson.
OMG - now it's "algore is fat" and it's all his fault. How clichéd.
Marke - do you mean to say you really and truly can't see the attacks by disinformers and deniers on science (and scientists) for what they are? I find that very hard to believe. (I don't have expertise in cognitive science.)
You think wrong. You just can't help yourself, can you. Deniers like Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer were attacking MBH98 from the time it was published (in Michaels' case) and shortly after in the case of the other two, even weaving conspiratorial theories about it.
Al Gore didn't get active on the climate front in a big way for quite some time later AFAIK. An Inconvenient Truth was in 2006 I believe. (Are you from the USA that you give him so much sway?)
Ha ha! I had not noticed, but you are correct, Al has put on weight. That probably came with his rapidly developing affluence. (Though I am not sure that knowledge in any way is of value to this or any other debate).
And true, I am not fully up to speed on the time sequences of events associated with Mann's climb to fame, but I have no time to be researching it right now. I will have a look instead at the conspiracies highlighted by John Mashey.
By the way, I gather that you, too, see "...the attacks by disinformers and deniers on science (and scientists)..." as a conspiracy?
Of course there'd be people talking behind the scenes about what tack to take to stop government policy and slow the shift to renewables.
Mostly what you and I see, though, isn't planned or coordinated in the sense that someone like Anthony Watts would be involved. Oh, he gets his weekly missives from SEPP and the GWPF but he's not involved in writing them. Just posting them.
Bloggers like Anthony don't need to be involved in strategic planning. They'd be a hindrance, not a help. In any case, it would be much too risky to have dolts like Anthony or HockeySchtick involved. They are too unpredictable, and not very bright.
And it's not necessary. Once one denier posts something catchy, they all pick up on it. (One reason for this blog.)
The deniosphere is self-sustaining. Deniers and conspiracy nutters don't have too many places they can turn to, unlike normal people. So they congregate on a handful of conspiracy blogs and pat each other on the back that they've found people like them who reject science. No conspiracy needed. Most deniers are willing idiots, being swayed by denier memes because they fit their mental model.
There would be discussion in the "think tanks". That's why lobby groups call themselves "think tanks". They employ people to develop strategy. People are paid to lobby governments and they are expected to do this strategically. This includes swaying public opinion, not just swaying politicians.
As far as the idiots in cyberspace are concerned, all that's needed is for the occasional seed to be sown. Mostly denier blogs have a life of their own. They aren't controlled by anyone, they are useful disseminators though.
I mean who in their right mind (from a professional lobby group) would argue that global warming is caused by Russian steampipes, or insects? There's no conspiracy there - just normal denier idiocy.
As an example of a person primed to accept whatever denier meme is put in front of them, think about this.
Someone is told that Michael Mann has been subjected to vicious attacks since an early and important paper of his was published back in 1998.
His first reaction is that it's all Mann's fault because of the way he speaks (see video above). No evidence is proffered that people judge scientific evidence on the basis of the personal attributes of the scientist. Nor that there is a general view that Mike Mann's speaking style is unattractive. Neither evidence nor logic is necessary when it comes to blaming the victim.
His second reaction is that it's all Al Gore's fault because he promoted Mann's research. This leaves aside the fact that Al Gore promoted much more research than global surface temperatures. Again no fact-checking required before disseminating this unfounded view. No logic either. But it has to be the fault of someone other than the people doing the attacking.
He then gets distracted by the denier cliche "algore is fat therefore climate science is a hoax" and decides that
a) Al Gore has become more wealthy recently (has he?);
b) therefore he has got fatter.
Proferring no evidence for either a or b, and making an assumption that there is a high correlation between weight gain and excess wealth. This once again signifies that neither evidence or logic is a necessary prerequisite for some people to jump to a conclusion.
I'd say that the person described above is a prime sucker for denier memes, wouldn't you?
Again, the structure of all this, and the key players, were laid out in CCC and SSWR. I usually divide dismissive pseudoskpetics into 3 groups:
Pro's like Singer, Soon, Michaels, Balling, the Idso family, Rob Ferguson, etc. Doing this is their job.
Amateurs - most bloggers and commenters, who would be thrilled to be asked to speak at a Heartland conference.
Pro-Ams - may even get to speak, but don't really get paid much, if at all. They might aspire to be pro's, or not.
The conspiracies are amongst the pro's, a relatively small number, although one needs to add in some lobbyists whose names are often less visible. p.97- of the Crescendo document lists some key people,
One also needs to add key politicians, although they sometimes have staffers as cut-outs.
In "Strange Scholarship" look up Joe Barton, his staffer Peter Spencer, Jerry Coffey.
When Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield sent intimidating letters to M, B, and H, CEI's Myron Ebell (who'd brought Essex, McKitrick and McIntyre to Washington) ... had copies of the letters *before* they got to all the recipients and sent them (CCC p.166) over to William Perhach in the Bush White House. No conspiracy there.
Of course, some of this is only hinted at by documents that get leaked or occasional FOIAs that hit something ... but the behavior patterns are quite similar to that seen in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, where we *know* a lot more because we have 90M pages of internal documents.
Thanks, John. I know you've been tracking all this and it fits with what I know of advocacy organisations (not just denier lobby groups, but any group that plays an advocacy role of one sort or another. You can replace the word "conspiracy" with "strategy" if you like. Whatever, it's plans that don't get into the public arena for one reason or another.).
I view the speaker invitations to people like Anthony Watts and Willis Eschenbach as rewards. A cheap way to give them an incentive to keep up their good (?) work. It's probably seen as mildly important to stroke the egos of the drones, particularly if there are signs that their enthusiasm is flagging as I think has been happening these past few months. The solution? Give Anthony a meaningless award at the Heartland denier fest. If he gave up on WUWT it probably wouldn't be a great loss. Someone else would probably step up to fill the gap, if it was considered important. Probably it wouldn't matter too much. WUWT doesn't get mentioned in mainstream media these days, and Anthony only very rarely. And there are always "real" scientists like Judith Curry or, at a pinch, John Christy. The WUWT fans would spread out onto other blogs if no-one else took over WUWT.
I have a sense that the world is shifting though. (eg Shell leaving ALEC.) The game plan will need to shift as well, if deniers want to have any continuing influence. About Shell:
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/shell-leaves-ALEC-climate-0519
Why am I finding marke's statements disingenuous? He implies he has not heard the "Al Gore is fat" meme, he does not appear to be aware that Al Gore has always been wealthy and that he did not know the timeline of Michael Mann's hockey stick.
I think his innocence is either feigned and/or he is being willfully careless with his statements.
As an example of a person diverting a discussion, see Sou's reply:
My initial comment was about whether there is a deliberate 'Serengeti Strategy'. I presented an alternative scenario, which I consider more likely.
Then I followed up with the observation that if someone's work is widely publicized and held up as proof, he will of course become the focus of the dissenting debate. Whether it was entirely or partially due to Al Gore, whatever the state of his girth, is largely beside the point.
The state of Al Gore's waistline was brought up by you, and I responded in a light hearted and non judgmental way.
Has Al Gore recently become wealthier? Yes, Google "report-al-gores-net-worth-at-200-million".
Is obesity related to affluence? Yes, at least to a certain degree. (And to being a Pacific Islander). Google "Indexmundi obesity adult prevalence" for a country ranking.
At no stage did I state my personal feelings about Mann, or Al Gore.
I am somewhat concerned*, but not surprised, at the tone* of this debate.
(* Hat tip to Harry Twinotter).
So, Marke, you don't see that a person who took a path similar to yours is prone to being conned by deniers. Most other readers will have, I'm sure. (Perhaps another characteristic of denial is a lack of self-awareness.)
BTW - the fact that wealthy countries have an obesity problem isn't the point. You were talking about excessive wealth. You'd need to tie personal income (or assets if you like) to a measure of "fat". In particular, people who have had a recent increase in net worth similar to that of Al Gore, and compare them to the population at large. That is, shifting from rather well off to distinctly wealthy. (I'm not sure that BMI is the best measure, but it would do.)
He is looking fairly fit in this picture:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-05-06/gore-is-romney-rich-with-200-million-after-bush-defeat
PS I didn't discuss your personal feelings about Michael Mann, or Al Gore, did I? Your comments spoke volumes about the way your mind works.
Marke's done this trolling in the past, if memory serves correctly.
It's all moot though because the hockey stick is demonstrable fact, the warming of the planet is demonstrable fact, and the causation of this warming by human carbon emissions is demonstrable fact accepted by the overwhelming majority of world's best professional scientists.
Whatever Marke think's he's saying, it's irrelevant to the facts.
"... he will of course become the focus of the dissenting debate.."
Oh? Maybe you have back-pedalled a bit on your outrageous comment. Perhaps my earlier comment did register with you? Your lack of self-awareness gives you away. Let me remind you what you actually said:
Not quite so genteel as "dissenting debate" is it?
What's outrageous about that, Jammy?
It is self evident some have decided they dislike him, and I imagine that was not difficult for them.
And it is very, very obvious he became a focus for some venting their feelings and opinions.
You may be too sensitive for a discussion such as this, sir, if you cannot tolerate statements of fact.
That goes to the heart of your first error, marke. You've come full circle.
As someone said earlier, you'd probably never have heard of Michael Mann if deniers and disinformers hadn't attacked him and his work with such gusto. And they only did that because it's important science. It can't be ignored.
Some bad people want to hide or diminish the findings of climate science, because they regard them as a threat not just to their world view, but to their way of life.
The irony being that the longer we delay, as disinformers and deniers want, the bigger the threat to their way of life. Delays will mean higher costs of mitigation, adaptation, recovery from severe weather events, civil unrest, and mass migration (within and between countries) - because climate change will be worse the longer we delay.
Magma August 13, 2015 at 10:09 PM
Something you should realize about 'tone trolling' or 'concern trolling', marke, is that it stops working the instant any intended targets suspect its presence.
Not that it ever really works in the first place... it simply becomes twice as annoying. As far as I can tell the only people who think it's an effective tactic are the ones trying to use it.
Jammy Dodger August 13, 2015 at 10:17 PM
Keep your faux concern and faux rationalism and faux objectivity to yourself marke.
If you cannot see what is wrong with you using that statement to justify attacks on scientists you have a serious empathy problem. Statements like you are making are lapped up by the gullible and easily influenced to act as a mob, forgetting there is a human being is at the end of the vitriolic campaign. You can try and put on airs to pretend you are somehow detached from it but you are being part of it.
marke August 13, 2015 at 11:49 PM
"....The irony being that the longer we delay, as disinformers and deniers want, the bigger the threat ..."
The irony being, that developments towards renewable energy are ongoing as we speak, and the delays on moving towards carbon taxes and carbon trading give some slight improvement in the chances we may get it right.
The "Do something! Do Anything! But do it now!" approach may not be ideal.
I am not sure if any others here were involved with Kyoto Protocol projects, but my experience with a project was one of endless bureaucracy and huge costs and seeing massive financial losses for no purpose whatsoever.
MagmaAugust 13, 2015 at 10:09 PM
Thanks, Magma. Very useful. This information has been added to the debate classification database I am developing.
ligne August 14, 2015 at 2:50 AM
"The "Do something! Do Anything! But do it now!" approach may not be ideal."
of course it's not. ideally we would have started back when we first realised it was going to be a problem: we could have gradually eased in the necessary changes, taking the time to figure out what is most effective.
instead we've wasted 3 decades screaming about how it just can't possibly be true. now realisation is slowly dawning that we can't in fact keep ignoring reality forever, and that there's a huge amount that we needed to have done a long time.
so yeah, it's likely to be needlessly painful, and it's likely to be needlessly expensive, and we've got no-one but ourselves to blame.
"The "Do something! Do Anything! But do it now!"
And it is still slightly better than the "Do nothing Don't do anything. Never do anything" approach.
cRR Kampen August 14, 2015 at 6:49 PM
'a point of view'? Go away, climate revisionist.
Hi Kampen.
re 'point of view':
You don't think others have one?
Or do you think they are not entitled to one?
Which is it?
PL August 14, 2015 at 9:56 PM
@marke. What you said (about Mann) was "That an individual scientist's work became the poster child of a point of view, and that one scientist happened to have a rather self important style of presentation,..."
Modern warming rate and current temperature relative to the past is not a "point of view", it's a fact, confirmed many times over since MBH-98. You don't like Mann's style: fine. But his science is not a "point of view".
"That an individual scientist's work became the poster child of a point of view..."
This is what you said marke. CRR Kampen is quite clearly pointing out that scientific work is not a "point of view". And attacking a scientist on that basis is despicable. Your attempts to re-frame a scientific paper as something other than what it is is dishonest.
So your forced choice question, typical of deniers, is just fatuous and irrelevant.
Oh, thanks, all.
If it's a simple fact, then there is no need to discuss further.
I wonder why that was not obvious to me earlier?
We had better tell all those climate scientists to find new jobs, then.
Oh, what's that you say?
They still need to do a bit of work on the degree of warming? And the extent? And the other unexpected effects? And the likely effects physical changes will have on economies? And the timing? And the geographic variations? And the best methods of mitigation? And possibilities of adaptation?
..... And much, much, more?
Oh, I see.
Goodness me, some people do think they live in a lovely, well defined world.
jgnfld August 15, 2015 at 1:46 AM
Depends on what "it" is. No real scientific work is going on to establish whether evolution occurs and the point of whether evolution is occurring really does not merit "discussion". Rather a lot of research is going on that directly concerns evolution and does in fact merit "discussion".
The difference is that one discussion is a crank/denier discussion and the other discussion is a scientific one. What is "well defined" is whether there is a crank discussion or a scientific one.
And what did any of that have to do with anything else people were saying to you?
You are right that there is no point discussing with you further. You do not discuss, you just throw out random statements with no thought and no purpose.
I do not know why you think it is necessary to justify the campaign against Micheal Mann. You do not discuss it. You just give obscure hints of what you are thinking but do not quite close the deal so you can keep wriggling. That is not honest discussion.
What a plonker.
marke August 15, 2015 at 11:45 AM
It's barely worth the trouble, but here is the discussion outlined.
1. I queried whether there was really a 'Serengeti Strategy' (implying there is a conspiracy) and put up some thought as to why this may not be the case.
2. Some chose to interpret that as a personal attack on Michael Mann, some chose to start applying some cleverly contrived labels to me, some preferred to bring up (for some reason) Al Gore's waistline, some agreed there was not such a deliberate strategy, and John Mashey put up a pretty plausible explanation of how interested parties may develop strategic approaches behind the scenes and feed them into the media and public arena. (Hey, would the UN, World Bank, and potential carbon traders and beneficiaries of such have similar strategy meetings and ... etc etc? ..but ... let's not get sidetracked.)
3. Someone picked up on the phrase 'point of view' and explained it was not needed, as there is only one fact, which is already proven.
4. I then explained it is not quite so simple as that, there are myriad facets to the this issue and points of view must exist.
5. You then find the need to report confusion, insist we should really be talking about the campaign against Mann, and finally resort to name calling.
"It's barely worth the trouble"
I agree. But presumably you can stop any time you wish.
"It's barely worth the trouble ..."
I agree. So I will just cut to the important bit.
tonyb August 13, 2015 at 1:26 AM
I know nothing of Steyn and wait to see how the law suit works out.
I am surprised that you can't see the difference between a light hearted comment right at the start of the comments threat and the unpleasant ones that followed much later on . The 'satire' was that Josh's cartoons are exactly what Hubert Lambs Graphic was called that was used in the IPCC report prior to the Hockey stick, which is why I referenced him. I thought you might have got that one.
I met both Josh and Anthony Watts immediately prior to the Mann lecture in Bristol. Neither are the devils you believe, its just that they don't buy into the CAGW meme. Neither do I . In my case as I live in a country where our detailed records can demonstrate that, in our case at least, the Hockey stick can be put into context with earlier times.
Even the Met Office has now retreated from their earlier belief that the climate was virtually static until humanity interfered and Phil Jones is also more aware of natural variability than when he was carrying out his research in the 1990's.
I have never 'defamed' Dr Mann and there is no point in believing that all sceptics routinely belittle him or other climate scientists.
tonyb.
Tony, you don't need to keep providing evidence that you are nothing more than a denier who thinks defamation is fun and climate science is a hoax. So you think that a lowlife bully like Anthony Watts is a nice chap, just because you met him? That exonerates him from his accusing scientists of fraud and other appalling behaviour, and supporting a character as unsavoury as Mark Steyn? They are two of a kind, except Mark Steyn was more successful. That you admire a person like that no longer surprises me.
Don't give yourself airs as if you understand science - the evidence shows otherwise. (I very much doubt that the UK Met Office scientists thought that climate was ever static. The fact that some scientists pretend to tolerate hangers on like yourself is nothing to feel good about. They play nice to worse (and more important) people.)
Your original comment was contemptible. Your follow up comments only make me, and I expect others, think worse of you, not better.
CCHolley August 13, 2015 at 2:54 AM
The “natural variability” meme by the denier crowd is especially specious…as if natural variability can somehow explain the warming we have seen. Natural variability may be hard to predict, but it is not magic and the drivers of that variability are well understood and no, it cannot explain the current warming trend represented by Mann et al.
caerbannog August 13, 2015 at 3:44 AM
I love the way your buddies Anthony and Josh challenged Dr. Mann's science when they had an opportunity to interact with him in person. They sure showed him.
Tell them to keep up the good work!
jrkrideau August 13, 2015 at 4:05 AM
I am sure they did the best they were able.
Apparently, they spoke not a word. If that's their best, well....
"...Hubert Lambs Graphic was called that was used in the IPCC report prior to the Hockey stick*
This claim (a common false meme promoted by John Daly and resurrected by McIntyre & McKitrick and Singer&Avery, and then copied elsewhere)
is clear evidence of:
a) committed ignorance of the history OR
b) deliberate deceit
Maybe tonyb will tell us which?
Magma August 13, 2015 at 7:48 AM
@ John Mashey:
I'm not sure precisely what Tony Brown was trying to say in that comment about the 25-year-old schematic diagram in question. But to be fair, he has put thought and work into the matter.
The long slow thaw? December 11, 2011
John Mashey August 13, 2015 at 11:51 AM
Magma: "But to be fair, he has put thought and work into the matter."
Yes ... he did a lot of work, but somehow, he kept missing rather key items that disagreed with his narrative, or else he didn't actually read some of the things he cited.
Again, the false meme is that MBH98/99 was created to hide 1995 consensus that Lamb(1965) was global Truth ...
Lamb(1965) graph appeared in IPCC FAR (1990) Fig. 7.1(c), on p.202, surrounded by caveats, not in the SAR (1995).
See MedievalDeception 2015: Inhofe Drags Senate Back To Dark Ages, and FAR pp.199-203, annotated.
In tonyb's 2011 URL, he cited the right page, almost correctly, i.e., it's really Figure 7.1(c). Assume that's a typo.
"The 1965 version was substantially re-interpreted by the IPCC for their 1990 assessment and used on page 202 Figure7c as the basis for a global record. Figure 2 below shows the (unattributed) version of the graph used by the IPCC."
However, he then showed an image that was *not* the image from the FAR, see the Inhofe post for comparison.
The curve is the same, but somebody changed fonts, deleted (c),k and changed the (incorrect) "Years before Present" to "Year".
In academe, this sort of thing is called false citation, a form of falsification/fabrication.
With the wrong image, and no hint of the caveats, either tonyb
a) Did not have the FAR
b) Had the FAR, but ignored the surrounding text *on the same page*.
People should read that page and the others in 199-203 and see if they think the IPCC was claiming this was global and more than a schematic.
tonyb used an image identical to:
-John Daly, Western Fuels Association "science advisor" (2001), the first case I know that ascribed an edited version of the graph to the SAR. Then it was forgotten.
- Steve McIntyre 03/16/05, which also ascribed it to the SAR.
- Ross McKitrick, 04/04/05 (APEC), pp.4-5, which also ascribed it to SAR, although by July, got fixed.
- McIntyre & McKitrick 05/11/05, presentation for GMI, and the "blueprint" for Wegman Report, p.10. Gave IPCC 1995.
Amusingly, they also cited the (unsupported) Deming quote as being from Science 1995, rather than Journal of Scientific Exploration(2005), my favorite dog astrology journal.
- Wall St Journal, 06/21/05, Kyoto by Degrees (see Inhofe post), although by this time someone had *actually checked* and found that the curve had come from the FAR. Until then, it is quite obvious that none of the people had actually looked at the FAR or SAR, and even the WSJ didn't have the exact image, although they (falsely) claimed to.
I'll stop there with the history, although there are more...
Note that if Lamb(1965) was caveated in 1990, and long gone by 1995, the false narrative of "needed MBH to erase MWP" evaporates.
Now, back to tonyb's post:
a) He cited the right page, but not the right image, see FAR pp.199-203, annotated.
b) tonyb wrote:
" It would be useful to clarify what CET is and isn’t, as it is a fundamental measure being used in this current reconstruction. The instrumental record itself dates from 1659. ... The period prior to 1538 is outside the scope of this present paper."
That means that the Lamb MWP gets shown with no critical examination.
The actual CET record starts around 1659, Lamb *estimated* everything before that from rainfall and botanical records.
Lamb(1965) p.26 quite explicitly distinguishes between observed values and "analyst's opinion".
The Inhofe post includes a copy of Jones et al(2009) Fig 7.
tonyb wrote:
" In his graph (used within Figure 6) Lamb records considerable temperature variation with a decline from 1400, then a rise after 1500, with a further decline to the early 1600’s but with the coldest point in the late 1600’s."
Earlier, tonyb had admitted the instrumental record had started at 1659 ... and said pre-1538 was outside the scope ...
But that's all the putative MWP.
"Clearly this period of some 250 years, commencing 1500, is critical in understanding the influences on our climate, being centuries before the impact of man-made co2 become a serious issue. Referenced here is the official Cdiac data to 1750 showing the trivial emissions at the start date."
Here's CO2 from Law Dome.
LIA, such as it was: CO2 drop (Americas die-off into 1600AD + volcanoes + Maunder, etc) = a few centuries of cool, then the Industrial Revolution.
Humans had already diddled CO2 somewhat, since without us, we'd have been down around 250ppm pre-I-R.
Of course, Central England is not the world, and ice/snow-albedo feedback matter and work in both directions.
One would expect N Europe to have stronger swings than the NH or the Earth as a whole. People get confused by spaghetti graphs because they don't bother to read the papers and understand the geographies. Central England is pretty small, but 30-90degN is only 25% of the Earth, and that's what some reconstructions cover.
" The importance of CET as a broader temperature proxy is further enhanced by its longevity and the scrutiny it has subsequently received by academics because of this."
And once again shows the variant of Fig 7.1(c) ... but that graph is NOT CET, it is CET from 1659-onward, and "analyst's opinions" before that.
"4) The nature of the proxies used in MBH98 and 99 have inherent problems and have proved very controversial. ..."
After all, much of the "controversial" nature of the proxies came from someone (McIntyre) who wrote clear falsehoods regarding the graph and its origin.
5) Lamb gathered together a variety of forms of evidence in his reconstruction. The schematic of composite graphs seen in figure 16 and 17 -when compared to the reconstruction to 1538- seems to confirm with other research that Lamb’s view of climate history was broadly correct. ...
6) ...The sharp uptick in temperatures from the start of the 20Th Century is a likely artifact of computer modeling through over complex statistical interpretation of inadequate proxies."
The last I heard, the modern temperature record dates from ~1880, not computed from proxies.
All this might be summarized as Stoat's Adoration of the Lamb.
@magma, putting a lot of time and effort into surface temperatures in England should have given Tony some insight into climate science. The fact that after all these years he's still an apologist for bullies in the deniosphere - and is a science denier himself (and a nasty one once you scrape away the "sweet" veneer), puts him in the same category as other obsessive deniers. I have a very low tolerance for such people.
Tonyb challenged "there is no point in believing that all sceptics routinely belittle him or other climate scientists."
A google search of WUWT yields:
Michael Mann - About 8,070 results
Trenberth - About 7,760 results
John Cook - About 6,400 results
Gavin Schmidt - About 6,290 results
Lewandowsky = About 5,860 results
Santer - About 1,300 results
Don't imagine that most of those thousands of articles were singing the praises of those scientists.
(Where there were two words I put them between quote marks.)
For comparison, here are some more names, mostly from the other side of the spectrum:
Judith Curry - About 6,140 results
Tisdale - About 4,300 results
Eschenbach – About 4,250 results
Monckton - About 3,270 results
Lindzen - About 2,990 results
Michaels - About 1,630 results
Singer - About 1,410 results
Richard Muller - About 355 results
I thought briefly about commenting on WUWT, but the prospect was as appealing as having a swim in a sewage lagoon on a hot day.
Steyn's book may be mildly useful in a backhanded sort of way. If Mann wins his libel suit, as he should, it will demonstrate a pattern of ongoing malice and, one hopes, significantly increase damages assigned specifically against Steyn. In contrast CEI, the National Review and Rand Simberg have all been quiet for many months, likely on the advice of council.
And it may demonstrate just how much out of context quoting and cherry-picking is needed to fill a book, even with Mann being a prominent target for 17 years now. And it may add new names to the list of the scientists and engineers willing to speak out boldly and confidently about research areas they never worked in, like Nobel physics laureate (1973, quantum tunnelling) Ivar Giaever who decided climate science was bunk after spending half a day researching it on the Internet.
But I'll leave it to others to fund Steyn's legal costs by buying the book.
As I understand it Steyn is also acting on advice of counsel - he's representing himself.
Magma August 13, 2015 at 2:06 PM
He has lawyers again. But Steyn likely freed up years of time for the independent study of law by the simple act of dropping out of high school and not wasting a day at university.
I understand he's seen as an intellectual in certain circles a little to the right of the political center and a little to the left on the bell curve.
bill August 13, 2015 at 5:33 PM
'I understand he's seen as an intellectual in certain circles a little to the right of the political center and a little to the left on the bell curve.'
A formula Dunning and Kruger might appreciate; thanks for brightening my afternoon!
'They are two of a kind, except Mark Steyn was more successful. That you admire a person like that no longer surprises me.'
When did I ever say I admire Steyn? I said I knew nothing about him. The court case will decide who has right on their side. I have no idea what the outcome will be as I don't know the ins and outs of the reasons for the case nor Steyns defence.
Yes, the Met Office did think the climate was generally static until humanity greatly impacted it. The reference to that paragraph was dropped around 4 or 5 years ago.
The reference to that paragraph was dropped around 4 or 5 years ago.
Don't tell me tonyb. Let me guess. You cannot, therefore, provide a reference? Why do I get the overwhelming feeling that even if you provided a reference it would be yet another denier quote mine?
Stop digging, Tony. You're just making things worse for yourself. It was perfectly clear from Anthony's article that his article was just another cheap shot at defaming a scientist. As is usual for Anthony Watts. And claim you thought it was funny so you chimed in. It says all we need to know about you.
But now we know more. You think Anthony's a nice chap despite his bullying, defamatory articles, and his general nastiness - because he managed to refrain from behaving too badly when you met him. Don't pretend innocence.
And there's more. Only a committed denier, defamer or someone who is prone to conspiracy ideation would entertain the notion that the work of Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes is fraudulent. Similar results have been produced so many times by so many different people using many different proxies. But you knew that already didn't you.
As for the Met Office and static climate - do you really believe that scientists at the Met Office didn't know there were glacials and interglacials? You've an extreme case of science delusion, Tony.
You've hogged this thread enough and there's enough unpleasantness at WUWT without you carting your garbage over here. Take a break from HW for a few days or preferably longer. I will tolerate deniers to a point, but we don't need your kind.
By the way, in case there are any lurkers new to climate blogs who think I'm being too hard on Tony Brown. I'm not. He's a denier from way back who favours conspiracy and denier blogs, and who writes silly blog articles trying to prove that scientists "don't know nuffin'". So his pretence that he's an innocent is a sham. He knows the ropes. (See here and here and here.)
Joshua August 13, 2015 at 10:23 PM
Tony -
I don't really agree with Sou's take on you, but IMO you don't do yourself a favor with this kind of response:
==> "I said I knew nothing about him...."
I'ts simply implausible that with as much time as you spend in the climate-o-sphere," you aren't well-acquainted with Steyn's attacks on Mann and the broad-scale support for Steyn's attacks on Mann in the "skept-o-sphere."
Again, you do yourself no favors when you make highly implausible arguments while lending your voice to an onslaught of tribalism in the Steyn vs. Mann tribalism.
Similarly, here:
==> "I don't know the ins and outs of the reasons for the case nor Steyns defence."
I have little doubt that you know the broad stroke outlines of what is taking place and how it plays out in the climate-o-sphere. Downplaying that knowledge by saying that you don't know all the details looks like a disingenuous attempt to distance yourself from the ugliness that fills that thread that Sou's talking about.
joshua - Similar to my posting about marke being disingenuous about what he knows. Perhaps tonyb and marke are the same person?
I wonder what they think they gain by pretending they are not au fait with these topics?
Dodger -
In my experiences exchanging views with Tony - he does take a different approach than the vast majority of "skeptics" that I encounter.
For the most part, he leaves out the personal attacks. To a lesser but still notable extent, he leaves out the identity-aggression that I typically encounter. (It's reasonable, IMO, to question just how important those distinctions are...but I do think that they are meaningful to some extent.)
So in a sense I think that he has grounds to differentiate his approach from that of the more typical WUWT (or Climate Etc.) commenter - although still, I find his comments re the WUWT thread about the Steyn book to have a disingenuous feel about them.
That isn't to say that I think that he always shows accountability for the arguments that he makes, or never makes bad arguments.
Dan August 13, 2015 at 8:52 AM
I don't think lots more lawsuits is likely to be a productive or successful strategy, at least in the US. Mann's suit has a chance because CEI made fairly specific allegations of fraud in petitions to the EPA and the subsequent "Coalition for Responsible Regulation v. EPA" lawsuit. That makes it a lot harder for the defendants to argue the accusations were strictly "heat of the moment" protected political opinion, not factual claims. Most of the defendants (initially all of them) are trying anyway, but not with much success so far.
OTOH, invoking truth as an absolute defense (as Steyn seems to want) runs into the problem that the US Circuit Court of Appeals for DC has already rejected the allegations of fraud as unsubstantiated. As have the EPA, NSF, DOC, Penn, etc., which gives Mann a pretty strong argument for actual malice, if that is needed.
Without those specific facts, I doubt Mann would have even filed (his lawyers aren't idiots).
Thanks, Dan. I agree with you - pretty well all the way, but particularly the bit where you don't think there's much point in suing petty bloggers. I nearly left out that para, but figured I chose hyperbole in other parts, so why not leave that bit of over the top snark in there.
I have noticed that Anthony Watts is more cautious than he used to be (most of the time, with some exceptions). At least as far as Michael Mann goes. I think he is worried if he goes too far he might get sued. (He has even taking to deleting some of what are presumably extremely outrageous comments, which he would never have done a couple of years ago.)
john August 13, 2015 at 9:13 AM
The amount of time that Mann has had to waste due to continued harassment must be very annoying.
It is deplorable that our society has come to a situation where all scientists are being painted as somehow not believable.
I would expect the case to be found in favour of Mann no other finding stands the truth test..
jgnfld August 14, 2015 at 11:26 PM
Ahhh...the old "forced to admit" ploy over making sure precise legal language details are 100% unambiguous!!! Something tells me you haven't drafted many important legal papers!
Good grief Anonymous. Does your pettiness have no limit?
I have no idea how the court case will go, given the tortuous workings of the legal system and especially in the USA. But I suspect it will be in favour of Michael Mann.
If it does, will you reflect on your mean mindedness? Will you re-assess your outlook and perhaps become aware that you were just being led as part of a baying mob? Not a pretty sight.
MikeH August 13, 2015 at 11:08 AM
"He's just quoting other scientists ..."
You mean "He's just misquoting other scientists" via quote mining or by not providing context.
One of the scientists Dr Simon Tett actually co-authors articles with Professor Mann. :-)
Another is paleoclimatologist Eduardo Zorita, a co-author of the PAGES 2K study which confirmed the hockey stick.
The third, Jonathan Jones is not a climate scientist.
Steyn is a scientifically clueless far right ideologue who once again falls flat on his face because his attack on Mann is based on repeating largely malicious gossip from the climate crank blogs.
A lot like you.
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2015/06/22/mark-steyns-newest-attack-on-michael-mann-and-the-hockey-stick/
(Sorry for formatting, just copied from elsewhere.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_A._Jones
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jajones; http://nmr.physics.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.webcitation.org/6QzcwmYAx
‘People have asked why mainstream scientists are keeping silent on these issues. As a scientist who has largely kept silent, at least in public, I have more sympathy for silence than most people here. It's not for the obvious reason, that speaking out leads to immediate attacks, not just from Gavin and friends, but also from some of the more excitable commentators here. Far more importantly most scientists are reluctant to speak out on topics which are not their field. We tend to trust our colleagues, perhaps unreasonably so, and are also well aware that most scientific questions are considerably more complex than outsiders think, and that it is entirely possible that we have missed some subtle but critical point.
However, "hide the decline" is an entirely different matter. This is not a complicated technical matter on which reasonable people can disagree: it is a straightforward and blatant breach of the fundamental principles of honesty and self-criticism that lie at the heart of all true science. The significance of the divergence problem is immediately obvious, and seeking to hide it is quite simply wrong. The recent public statements by supposed leaders of UK science, declaring that hiding the decline is standard scientific practice are on a par with declarations that black is white and up is down. I don't know who they think they are speaking for, but they certainly aren't speaking for me.
I have watched Judy Curry with considerable interest since she first went public on her doubts about some aspects of climate science, an area where she is far more qualified than I am to have an opinion. Her latest post has clearly kicked up a remarkable furore, but she was right to make it. The decision to hide the decline, and the dogged refusal to admit that this was an error, has endangered the credibility of the whole of climate science. If the rot is not stopped then the credibility of the whole of science will eventually come into question.
Judy's decision to try to call a halt to this mess before it's too late is brave and good. So please cut her some slack; she has more than enough problems to deal with at the moment.
If you're wondering who I am, then you can find me at the Physics Department at Oxford University.’
http://www.webcitation.org/6QzdAi5pv
‘This is truly bizarre, and just shows how profoundly warped the climate science community has become. I make no judgement here on the correctness of the paper, but editors just don't resign because of things like this. …
Sure, my two controversies above never hit the popular press, but the arsenic stuff was discussed all over the place, far more than Spencer and Braswell.
What sort of weird warped world to climate scientists inhabit? How have they allowed themselves to move so far from comon sense? What is wrong with these guys?’
http://www.webcitation.org/6QzdJ6cs1
‘I did sign off on the copy after a couple of minor modifications which I requested. As I am saying on twitter I am definitely a sceptic of the "policy usefulness" of climate models, so I was happy for them to use the phrase in that context, rather than my usual "climate agnostic" self-description.’
My bio (which they haven't yet used) makes very clear that I am a scientist with wide ranging expertise, but no special expertise in climate science. A central part of my claim is that professional climate scientists are over confident about the quality of their work, but this is largely because all scientists are over confident about the quality of their own work. Outsiders, without the emotional commitment that working in a field inevitably brings, can take a much more objective view of things.’
Bert from Eltham August 13, 2015 at 4:48 PM
Could I just say that projection leads to delusion! Bert
Jack Savage August 13, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Er....so has anyone actually read Steyn's new book?
Good God no. Are you being serious?
Reading his book would contribute to his defence fund. It would be a boring repetition of worn out themes we have seen a hundred times before. And enough has been leaked to confirm that assessment is accurate.
Please do not come back with crazy ideas about balance and hearing the other person's side.
One was from an article by James Taylor on the website of the denier lobby group, the Heartland Institute, in which he attributed a quote about Professor Jones (not Michael Mann) to William Sprigg.
There was some stuff from Judith Curry, who has harboured a personal grudge against Michael Mann (since at least 2010) - for unknown reasons.
ligne August 13, 2015 at 8:55 PM
top tip: save the cost and embarrassment of buying Steyn's book by instead reading creationist screeds online, and mentally substituting "Mann" for "Darwin".
Hah, I remember Jack Savage from the numpty crap he posted on the Guardian website.
My fondest recollection was when he told us all that absolutely no birds in his garden had ever died because of his use of slug pellets. He was asked if he conducted the autopsies himself or left it to experts, but sadly at that moment he found he had urgent business to attend to, so we never found out.
Oh, and on every topic associated with the fossil fuel industry, he took the fossil fuel industry position.
Jack Savage August 30, 2015 at 12:13 AM
Alas, I do not remember you Millicent. Forgettable is as forgettable does.
However, I cannot imagine myself being drawn into an argument about slug pellets...having never used such a thing. I fear you may be mistaken on that "fond" recollection. My comment history there is still available if you wish to check.
I did indeed comment freely at the Grun until such time as I was banned from posting there after daring to suggest that the famous "2 degrees of warming means we are all fubar" was a figure that had no basis in science whatsoever.
I am amused but not surprised at the tide of vitriol unleashed upon the book here, despite the fact that no one has actually read it. It does rather take the sting and credibility out of any criticism, don't you think?
It is as though you all feared contamination or something.
Jammy Dodger August 30, 2015 at 12:37 AM
"It does rather take the sting and credibility out of any criticism, don't you think?"
No, not in the least. You seem to have lost touch with how weak, predictable and repetitious denier cant is.
Another denier rears his head.
Jack's "Tide of vitriol" is on par with Anthony Watt's use of the words "hate" and "anger", whenever he comes across anyone writing about science. It's denier-speak for "climate science is a hoax". Given it's on this thread, I'd say that Jack is just another denier who thinks "free speech" means he has the right to defame anyone he feels like whenever he feels like it. He's wrong.
PG August 13, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Sou said
The efforts of deniers to find fault were swamped and obliterated by science itself .
Science Itself a perfectly elegant name for a scientific publication, blog or biography.
You should register it today Sou
Vic August 13, 2015 at 9:36 PM
"the anti-science, anti-mitigation movement. These are immoral people. People who want the world to continue with unfettered burning of fossil fuels, endangering society. People who are willing to sacrifice the well-being of their fellow human beings, their children and their grandchildren and all future generations. Their motives were various - some did it for ideological reasons. Anthony Watts did it because he didn't want to pay tax. Others dispute climate science arguably because that's what they are employed to do. There are dedicated denier organisations who pay people (and get freebies from more) to cast doubt on established science that they see as contrary to their aims. The backers of deniers probably also have mixed motives - pure profit for fossil fuel companies and ideology for others (rampant capitalism/libertarian anarchy gone wild). For some it seemed to be more personal - perhaps professional jealousy mixed with ideology."
Hah, talking about conspiracy theories. Great argument, all that oppose you are evil, don't be this silly. You don't have the monopoly of being moral, don't be this arrogant.
I, as being opposed to radical changing our economic and energy policies, have lost any faith in your article from that paragraph onwards, because I know I am not evil, nor immoral, nor get paid for my opinions, and do wish my fellow human beings, my children and eventually grand children the best possible world,. Consequently I must conclude that your analysis is the product of the muddled thinking that fantasizes a good vs evil world that simply doesn't exist and is thus incomplete.
This climate change brings out the absolute worst in people, and that's true for both sides of the aisle.
I wouldn't know if you are part of a concerted effort to stop mitigation, Vic. You imply you're not and I'm happy to take you at your word. There are a lot of gullible people around. The wilfully ignorant, who probably aren't immoral as such. And the plain ignorant. These groups have been the subject of various cognitive, behavioural and public opinion studies. They strike some of us as weird, but in reality they are just normal human beings. (Humans have some irrational qualities. We aren't all rational all the time.)
Then there are a lot of people who don't get involved one way or another. Their concerns lie elsewhere.
The evil that I'm talking about are the people who know full well that what they are saying and doing is wrong and will cause harm, but do it regardless. That's immoral in anyone's book. No matter what you, as an individual "believe".
Vic August 13, 2015 at 11:46 PM
"The evil that I'm talking about are the people who know full well that what they are saying and doing is wrong and will cause harm, but do it regardless. That's immoral in anyone's book. No matter what you, as an individual "believe"."
You've watched too much television. The majority of people that oppose harsh actions on climate change are not willfully doing wrong. Marginalizing anyone with a different opinion to such caricatures as evil is unhelpful in this debate.
I agree that the majority of people who oppose action to mitigate global warming aren't wilfully doing wrong. As I said above.
There are also people who are wilfully doing wrong, and they are leading those unwilful people around by the nose. That's what is immoral.
I don't know what you regard as a debate.
People who feel marginalised after reading HW have other choices. They could try Curry's place or WUWT for example. Most of the people there are unwilfully doing the wrong thing, and they are able to rub shoulders with people who are wilfully doing wrong. Nice and cosy group hugs and all that..
I don't agree with your straw man arguments. Not to mention the ad hominems.
Opinions are fine, but irrelevant. It is the science that is relevant.
Conspiracy Theory? No, just a plain conspiracy. If anyone thinks organising and funding lobby groups to dishonestly oppose consensus science in the public arena is not a conspiracy, I am happy to hear counter-arguments.
Yeah, Harry. There are times, like when countering Vic's argument that deniers aren't doing anything *wilfully* wrong, that a person is sorely tempted to invoke Godwin's Law.
With some justification.
Sou.
The (pejorative) term "useful idiot" does spring to mind.
@Harry
What is my straw man argument? You don't know what you're talking about. Ad hominem, hardly.
If lobbying is legal and funding is publicly disclosed, it's not a conspiracy.
"... and funding is publicly disclosed,"
Is funding publicly disclosed? All of it? And transparently?
Two words: Donors + Trust
I will treat it as a serious question, although I suspect you know exactly what I am talking about.
"all that oppose you are evil" Straw man. Sou did not say "all", she qualified her statements to make it clear whom she was talking about.
"don't be this silly" Ad hominem, you are implying that Sou is silly.
"don't be this arrogant" Ad hominem, you are implying that Sou is arrogant.
"product of the muddled thinking" Ad hominem, you are implying that Sou's thinking is muddled.
"You've watched too much television" Ad hominem.
"Marginalizing anyone with a different opinion" Straw man. "Anyone" implies "all" which I commented on above.
There is a denial industry and it is covertly funded by vested interest (see Sou, immediately above).
"If lobbying is legal and funding is publicly disclosed, it's not a conspiracy."
The lobbying being legal with funding publicly disclosed (really?) does not in itself mean a conspiracy was not involved. The fact that lobby groups and some individual deniers avoid disclosing their source of funding is secrecy.
Mal Adapted August 17, 2015 at 7:01 AM
Harry Twinotter: "Conspiracy Theory? No, just a plain conspiracy. If anyone thinks organising and funding lobby groups to dishonestly oppose consensus science in the public arena is not a conspiracy, I am happy to hear counter-arguments."
Hmm, "conspiracy" has connotations of criminality, and secrecy to keep the crime from being discovered. In the USA though, short of actionable libel it's legal to deliberately manufacture and spread disinformation about climate science, and to fund same. And prior to a couple of recent court decisions, much of the funding was a matter of public record. Secrecy may help the professional disinformers and their benefactors avoid embarrassment, but they need not fear prosecution. In any case, they know they can rely on useful idiots like Vic here to carry their water and deflect attention from the man behind the curtain.
Mal Adapted
Hmm, "conspiracy" has connotations of criminality, and secrecy to keep the crime from being discovered.
Everything of course hinges on the definition of 'crime'. No laws are being broken, as you say. But as I imagine you suspect, posterity is likely to lean towards a moral rather than a legal interpretation of what we are doing.
Which of course includes our failure to tear down the curtain woven about itself by vested interest in time, despite our best efforts.
Mal Adapted.
I never mentioned criminality. Conspiracies are not necessarily criminal.
My point is the lobby groups and some pundits are engaged in a conspiracy because they try to keep their patrons secret.
I have to agree with Vic to an extent (the part about "radical changing our economic and energy policies" looks like a fairly often found, and poorly reasoned argument I see often being made by "skeptics"). The kind of motive-impugning, identity protective generalizing he points to is best left for "skeptics," IMO.
I don't think that your analyses are in any way served well by that kind of rhetoric. IMO, it's just a bad line of argumentation, Sou.
Why? Because the auto denialism expressed by Vic has worth?
Specify Joshua.
Joshua taking an academically respectful back seat in this debate has helped to relegate mitigation to the back seat. The Sous of this world have now grabbed the wheel. They are our best hope. Your constant calls for civility in the face of lies from Tol, Vic et al are bullshit. Respect is earned. Show us the rigour.
PG -
I am not calling for civility. That is a misreading. I don't particularly care about civility, nor about academic respectfulness.
I'm talking about what I consider to be fundamentally flawed arguments - where reasoning is biased by identity-protective mechanisms. I'm not taking issue with Sou's technical arguments, but with her broad-scale generalizations related to "morality." It's similar as with Judith, where I don't take issue with her technical arguments (I'm not in a position to do so), but with her broad-scale generalizations related to "integrity," and such.
Anthony Watts has a problem with the Pope declaring a day of prayer.
https://archive.is/D9SOv
The letter Anthony posted was full of religious-speak, but when you break it down, it was urging people to reflect on their obligation to care for the environment, as well as plan to act responsibly in that regard.
Anthony objected strongly and, given his approach to the environment (and ethics), one can understand why.
I think this is the same issue. Science is okay but step into the moral or ethical issues associated with decisions to cause harm or to minimise harm to people, societies and the planet as a whole, then it starts to make some people very uncomfortable. Whatever psycho-speak it's dressed up as - world view, mental models, "identity protection" and the like.
HW is not always the best place for people who want to feel comfortable, nor for the faint of heart.
Joshua August 14, 2015 at 12:08 AM
Sou -
I'll say it once again - since you seem to have repeated PG's mistaken impressions about what I'm saying.
In case it's what you were suggesting, I'm not "faint of heart," nor looking to HW as a place to "feel comfortable."
I also have no objection to "step[ing] into the moral or ethical issues" - and don't feel "uncomfortable" when someone does that. I am taking issue with the arguments that you're making about those moral and ethical issues: Your dismissal of the role of identity-protective mechanisms in arguments about moral and ethical issues would be a case in point.
To repeat - reverse engineering from perspective on climate change to judging morals and motivations is a very common, and flawed line of argumentation that is ubiquitous in the "skept-o-sphere." IMO, it is better left there.
I'm a bit slow sometimes. In this case, if my recent related comments (to you and Vic) are off base, then I haven't a clue what you're talking about Joshua.
"reverse engineering from perspective on climate change to judging morals and motivations is a very common, and flawed line of argumentation that is ubiquitous in the "skept-o-sphere." IMO, it is better left there."
Are you a mind reader Josh - how do you 'know' things like our objections to - say - a scientist being compared to a child molester is based on 'reverse engineering' from our preference for peer reviewed science?
Are you unable to make that kind of moral judgment yourself without determining first whether the scientists work is something you admire?
Magma August 14, 2015 at 12:33 AM
I believe joshua is referring to the overly-broad reference to "anti-science, anti-mitigation movement" as "immoral people".
Some undoubtedly are - personally I would classify some of the scientists-for-hire in that class (it would be a very short list) and more of the paid political and PR types. But they are certainly outnumbered by the misguided, the misinformed and the clueless.
My take on this from earlier this year: Different types of climate change deniers
It appears I misformatted the intended link. Here's the text version.
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/02/confessions-of-deniers-at-judith-currys.html?showComment=1424111093705#c4938266090617294628
Thanks, Magma. I think I've already covered that in my comments to Vic above. If you're right, then maybe Joshua missed my comments. If not, then I guess we're both in the dark.
I don't think there's much value in trying to work out whether a particular denier is incapable, irresponsible, unethical, immoral or screwed up. One can generalise about the immorality of people who knowingly spread disinformation for a living (or other personal benefit) however.
PG August 14, 2015 at 1:02 AM
@Magma
So what do you consider reasonable arguments against firm policies to combat global warming?
Can you think of none? And is that why you marginalize people that oppose you as " the misguided, the misinformed and the clueless."
I am a member of a generation that is collectively committing a crime of unimaginable proportions. Future generations will look back on us all with loathing.
@Millicent
Future generations will very likely be incredibly better off than we are, just like we have been. Last couple of decades saw the biggest improvements to mankind's lot ever. Don't be all dramatic hyperbole. Global warming isn't the first threat to progress we've had and won't be the last.
A bit disingenuous using dramatic hyperbole to criticise a person's use of dramatic hyperbole.
"Last couple of decades saw the biggest improvements to mankind's lot ever. Don't be all dramatic hyperbole.
Its hard to give any weight to your idea of the future when your view of the recent past is so utterly ignorant. Mankind saw a period of improvement to its lot that lasted for decades following WW2. That came to an end in a period coinciding - not altogether coincidentally - with the Dubya presidency. We have altogether too many drowned bodies floating in the world's oceans for anyone to say what you just said. The ignorance - or inhumanity - in your statement is profound.
The collapse of the planetary environment that we depend upon utterly is an unprecedented threat. And that is already underway. The only argument left is how far it will progress, and at the moment there is no sign at all it will be slowed down let alone halted.
The emergence of an incredibly powerful lobby, with trillions of dollars of fossil fuels to protect, and a willingness to encompass the deaths of billions to protect them is unprecedented, and its willingness to corrupt and eventually destroy our democracies to protect them is unprecedented.
Vic: "Future generations will very likely be incredibly better off than we are, just like we have been."
All care no responsibility.
Exactly why are people better off today? Is it more to do with sweat shops or clean air regs? Is it more because of public investment in education and family planning and immunisation, or is it the repeal of Glass–Steagall provisions? Which is better - scientific efforts and broad policies that will allow us to survive for generations to come, without detriment to the only home we have, Earth - or unfettered exploitation of limited resources?
This reminds me of something I read recently:
"The ecomodernists replace choices with an unyielding historical progression: their worldview demands that there can have been no past times in which people might have lived as well or better in their own terms than we live today."
http://dark-mountain.net/blog/dark-thoughts-on-ecomodernism-2/
Vic's a cornutopian who doesn't understand physics or palaeoclimate. Hence the nonsense.
Joshua: "I am taking issue with the arguments that you're making about those moral and ethical issues: Your dismissal of the role of identity-protective mechanisms in arguments about moral and ethical issues would be a case in point... reverse engineering from perspective on climate change to judging morals and motivations is a very common, and flawed line of argumentation that is ubiquitous in the "skept-o-sphere."
Joshua, I agree that ditto-heads who deny AGW because their friends and neighbors do aren't immoral in the way that cynical, self-interested AGW-deniers like Joe Bast or James Inhofe are. But in a democracy, every voter has the responsibility to put aside their identity-protective mechanisms and even their dreams of an ideal world, in favor of clear-eyed reasoning. That includes those who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 as much as it does those who keep returning Inhofe to the Senate.
When comparing the lopsided consensus of working climate scientists with the "perspective" that it's all a conspiracy to advance world socialism, there's really no moral quandary. AGW isn't a perspective, it's a reality, and anyone who denies the urgency of curtailing Tyndall gas emissions on the argument from consequences has abdicated his obligation to "my fellow human beings, my children and eventually grand children", his express wishes for "the best possible world" not withstanding. Scientific illiteracy doesn't excuse him either, even if he's well-meaning but feels he's supposed to be "skeptical". Failure to distinguish between scientific rigor and self-interested obfuscation isn't skeptical, it's just lazy.
Joshua, I consider you a genuine skeptic, but your reluctance to judge morals and motivations is puzzling. Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. It's not immoral to fool yourself, as long as the consequences of your self-deception fall only on you. But when the security of millions of people is at stake, self-deception is immoral whatever its motivation. I support Sou's refusal to give it the benefit of your doubts.
I'm not sure I understand your question, PG. Are you asking why I think that motive-impugning, identity protective generalizing is best left for "skeptics?"
In related news, Judith Curry stated yesterday that she has read Steyn's book and will be writing a post about it.
Given Curry's ongoing record of statements with respect to Mann and her kid-globe treatment of Steyn, it is easy to predict which way her bias will lie.
I wonder if she's quoted in the book?
"...Mann continues to fight the hockey wars not just by hucksterism but by attacking his opponents. This kind of behavior does not help keep the dangerous human caused climate change narrative alive, and at some point simply becomes pathological." Judith Curry, August 12, 2015
Curry's post is up. No idea why she is keen on piling on. She does present quite a lot of quotes. One has to wonder how many are taken completely out of context or do not accurately reflect the views of the person quoted.
No doubt someone will spend time tracking down the sources and annotating them.
It's a sorry state, really...
It reminds me of what deniers got up to with the stolen emails - quote-mining gone riot.
The quote from Wallace Broecker was from an article by Fred Pearce, (who lost a lot of credibility from the stance he took with the CRU theft). The article that Stein copied the quote from wasn't too bad for the time. It had these words at the end:
""The label was always a caricature and it became a stick to beat us with," Mann said later. Was it flawed research? Yes. Was it hyped by the IPCC? Yes. Has it been disproved? Despite all the efforts, no. So far, it has survived the ultimate scientific test of repeated replication."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/09/hockey-stick-michael-mann-steve-mcintyre
The quotes attributed to SkS were from the hacked forum (ie also stolen from a private forum). Robert Way was recently a co-author with Michael Mann so he can't think that badly of him.
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2015/07/surface-temperature-is-not-so-different.html
I doubt Judith knows what she's talking about when she thinks the book will be good for Stein. Wishful thinking on her part I'd say.
I'll speculate as to Curry's motives, without, I think, going too far out on a limb: personal animosity, professional jealousy, and a desire to burnish her faux "voice of moderation" credentials.
As for the quotes Curry cites, they appear to be the usual mix of comments from the unqualified or those working in other fields, critical snippets taken out of context, or critical comments about methodology and personalities taken from public or hacked private forums (SKS) and emails (CRU).
Much of this seems petty or dated. What is the acid test, the thing that matters? It is how well the first millennial-scale temperature reconstruction from MBH (1999) has held up over time. Comparison to more recent versions such as the PAGES 2k Consortium shows it has done quite well indeed.
As for Curry, having largely given up on climate science she is copying Steyn and dabbling in self-taught law:
"In light of these quotes by Ph.D scientists, does Mark Steyn have a strong defense against the charge of defamation for stating ‘fraudulent hockey stick’? This certainly looks to me like the basis of a strong defense. With regards to Steyn’s countersuit, if he makes a lot of money off this book, that would rather argue against large damages from his countersuit. JC message to AGW alarmists and Mann’s supporters: buy Steyn’s book, this will help diminish Steyn’s case against Mann for large damages."
dhogaza August 14, 2015 at 12:54 PM
Magma:
"I'll speculate as to Curry's motives, without, I think, going too far out on a limb: personal animosity, professional jealousy, and a desire to burnish her faux "voice of moderation" credentials."
All this became clear in her first "coming out" party at RealClimate. I think we're all familiar with that event? Anyway, she got into it with Gavin and others who took apart her Bishop Hill-inspired understanding of the true meaning of the contents of the ClimateGate theft. She made clear that it was Bishop Hill who opened her eyes to reality. Of course, this is about the time she was making a record of herself dissing Mann in ways that seemed as much envy of his accomplishments and awards as anything, awards lacking in her own career despite it being much longer.
Anyway, her blog efforts haven't really revealed any new information that wasn't revealed in that startling and revelatory thread at RC.
That Dr Curry article is terrible! It looks like she has rushed something out without thinking about it too much.
Another of her personal attacks on Michael Mann which she will be taken to task for.
dhogaza, I was aware of the basic story but hadn't previously read through the original exchanges from 2010. I notice that Sou was one of the very first to correctly predict Curry's future path, even while many were still scratching their heads in puzzlement or giving her the benefit of the doubt.
PG August 14, 2015 at 12:33 AM
Magma, Dr Judith Curry is now linking to the The Daily Caller because it caught her eye. This woman allows no depths to remain unfathomed.
Not Breitbart News though. Or not yet.
Garhighway August 14, 2015 at 12:04 PM
Well I guess all these old quotes explain why MBH 98 was refuted by all those later studies. Oh, wait! What's that you say? It hasn't been refuted? It's been confirmed? Huh.
bill August 14, 2015 at 12:57 PM
Oh, for God's sake, more disingenuous quote-mining! Dear Clown, your Climategate 4.0 will sink just as the last 2 have. Let's face it, you peaked in 2009, and are now well on the way down the slope to the dumpster of history.
And, yep, MBH 98 was quite the miracle, apparently - entirely wrong in every single conceivable way, and yet reinforced by every single attempt at replication. And, again , in case you haven't noticed, it's 2015...
Supposed MBH98/99 had never been written.
Anyone who understands how the IPCC works and can read would know.
(I got paper copies of TAR WG I-III when it came out, but everything is online these days.)
So, here's a quiz;
1) Which 1000-year reconstruction would have been featured?
2) What's he paper it came from?
3) Did it show a higher MWP or lower one than MBH99?
4) Compared to MBH99 was it generally higher (thus, a less striking difference between 1000-1900 and 1900-present) or lower (and even more striking difference)?
People who've actually studied this know offhand, but a hint is Fig 2.21.
Extra bonus:
4) Why is the comment about "extra-tropical" important?
John Mashey
Your quiz looks interesting and instructive. But a little bit cryptic. It might become clearer what you mean if I go and look at TAR WG1-III(?). I guess they may be a bit long.
In case I do not manage the time. I hope you provide the answers for me and others.
Thanks for that, John. (I guessed right, but did need to check to confirm it. I came across it somewhere else in the last few days, prob when researching this article.)
Next time I write about medieval warming I'll include that chart.
MBH98 (Mann, Bradley and Hughes) was published in April and went back to 1400AD.
1. 2) Jones et al(1998) "High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures.
That was published in May 1998, and went back to 1000AD.
That, plus some new data on CO2 issues convinced MBH to think they might be able to push their reconstruction further back, and they did:
MBH99 was in March 1999, and also went back to 1000AD.
3) Here's IPCC TAR WG I, Section 2, and here is Fig 2.21. The Jones line is ~purple. Click to expand.
During 1000-1400, you can see Jones was typically a bit lower than MBH99, hence there was even less of a warm MWP.
4) Later, Jones tended to dip deeper than MBH99 , so had it been featured, the rise from 1800s would have been even more striking.
4) MBH99 had more proxies, error bars, and included modern temperature measurements at the end ... as had been done in the SAR WG I PDF Fig 3.20, PDF p.189. Sorry, that's a huge file.
Jones was a Key Contributor, and Bradley was a Contributor.
Fig 3.20 was from Bradley and Jones(1993b), Fig 6, but in 1995 SAR they added a line for modern measurements, 3 years before MBH. Mann didn't invent that idea.
The extratropic comment in Fig 2.21 is important because people get confused with spaghetti graphs. They may differ by methodology, from specific proxy choices ... but for sure NH extratropic (usually 30+ degN) is only half of the NH, and one expects it to look jaggier than the full NH. I.e., one would expect MBH99, which was trying to cover the NH, to be smoother.
The Mann et al(1999) 30-70degN deleted the proxies nearer Equator, which made it more like extratropical studies.
The IPCC does assessment reports based on the latest and best literature they can find up to some date. Had MBH98/99 not existed, it's pretty obvious Jones etal(1998) would have still been there (and Briffa (2000), and they would have grafted modern measurements in, just as they did in 1995.
If one actually has the IPCC reports and tracks through chronologically, all this is just normal science getting better approximations to reality, arguing over details at the edges, comparing methods, etc, etc
All this stuff about fraud is of course *total nonsense*, mostly from people who:
a) Have total allegiance to the curve of Lamb(1965) with little understanding of what it means.
b) Have not studied the relevant papers.
c) Have not studied the relevant parts of IPCC reports.
d) Don't seem to understand the meaning of error bars on graphs.
e) Don't really understand the fact that MBH98/99s PCA method was one of the perfectly fine ways to do it. See Mann's HSCW book for explanation.
All this centering/decentering argument is for confusing people.
f) Don't understand the McIntyre+McKitrick(2005) flaws and then the 1:100 cherrypick by to produce selected graphs, which is all that most people would understand.
There's a lot of Dunning-Kruger around :-) combined with intense belief ... but that's good, as it shows people actually believed Steyn.
g) and who live in a fishbowl and only hear the same old, same old misinformation and myths
f) should be more widely known.
As far as I know, that critical observation was confined to Deep Climate's very insightful November 16, 2010 blog post and never made it into the literature.
And its title 'Replication and due diligence, Wegman style' isn't one that immediately suggests either McIntyre and McKintrick, MBH, or the famous hockey stick.
http://deepclimate.org/2010/11/16/replication-and-due-diligence-wegman-style/
f) Yes, plus good followups by Nick Stokes, especially the first:
Google: site:moyhu.blogspot.com wegman
That ought to be understandable to most people.
Phil Clarke August 16, 2015 at 10:46 PM
Steyn's book now sales rank #939 and tanking fast, the dream seems to be over ....
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Millicent August 17, 2015 at 6:20 AM
One of the commenters at Amazon.co.uk nailed it:
"The Greatest Gathering of Scientific Authorities Since Marie Antoinette Dined Alone"
Perhaps Heartland and/or the Koch brothers need to buy more copies of the book soon.. ;)
0^0
the quote debunking begins...
Steyn is going to kick Mann's ass in court.
Going to discuss why you think this, or are you just trolling?
Sou January 3, 2016 at 2:25 PM
Let sleeping trolls lie, Harry. (Double meaning intended.)
"It does look as if Mark Steyn is thumbing his nose at the court, though he is more circumspect than he was in his article that prompted the defamation suit."
Seeing as us lucky people down under are going to get a visit from Mark Steyn. He will be speaking at the IPA I believe.
Mark Steyn is practically begging the US courts to give him a hard time. I just watched his speech at the Heartland Institute in 2015. He also reconfirms he knows nothing about climate science.
I have to wonder, is he up to something? Or is his ego just out of control?
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Wendy’s Viral Marketing Victory (with a side of French fries)
Posted on October 8, 2019 by gmdirect
Some of my all-time favorite puzzling experiences have been part of roleplaying games, so it warms my heart to see more and more people discovering Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs. Not only are they a wonderful way to connect with friends and tell stories, but they inspire me to create new and innovative puzzles.
Both the Netflix series Stranger Things and the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory have helped bring roleplaying games to greater mainstream attention (as shows like Community and Freaks and Geeks did in the past), and now, even fast food chains are getting in on the pencil, paper, and dice-loaded pastime.
Yes, Wendy’s has created its own roleplaying game.
Feast of Legends is a self-contained roleplaying adventure that is both staggeringly detailed and shamelessly self-promotional. This NINETY-SEVEN page downloadable PDF contains the rules for building your character, equipment, rules, setting details, and different character classes (like the Order of the Frosty or the Order of the Spicy Chicken Sandwich), each with their own bonus abilities.
It’s actually a terrific introduction to roleplaying games as a whole, discussing concepts like how many actions you can take on a given turn, how combat works, and which dice to use.
They even created an online dice roller for you to use if you don’t own roleplaying dice!
(For RPG aficionados, the system is reminiscent of both D&D’s fourth and fifth edition rulesets, though not nearly as involved, obviously.)
Once you’ve created your character — an easy task, given the streamlined (but effective) character creation instructions in the first half of the handbook — there’s an entire campaign included to play through!
Yes, a five-part adventure awaits players willing to explore Freshtovia, battle the evildoers who seek to force frozen beef on people across the land, from Costa del Spicy to Roast Beach, from The Box to Biggie Vale.
Oh, you were curious about the shameless self-promotion? Trust me, we’re getting to that.
It starts with the setting — the mythical land of Freshtovia, in the realm of Beef’s Keep, where Queen Wendy requires your help to battle the monstrous threat of frozen beef. You can arm yourself with various implements (the spork caught my eye) as you prepare to do battle with the Ice Jester (a thinly veiled take on Ronald McDonald) and his minions, including violent versions of the Hamburglar (aka the Beef Bandit) and the Fry Guys.
Not only that, but there are rules regarding the bonuses you get for eating Wendy’s food while you play (as well as minuses for any characters eating from a different fast food chain during the game).
It’s seeded throughout the game, and on the website as well. On the page explaining how RPGs work, readers will find this text:
Beef’s Keep is a wide open world waiting for you to explore it. Make the world your own, expand your adventure, and most importantly, buy Wendy’s. Wait, we meant to say have fun. Also, buy Wendy’s.
As a writer and a content creator, I was a little disappointed to see that this voluminous and impressive PDF was lacking in one crucial detail: credits for all the hard work that must’ve gone into it.
Yes, there is a brief credit near the end — illustrations by Alex Lopez, maps by Collin Fogel — and a few signatures and identifying marks hidden in some of the art, but what about the writing? What about the well-crafted adventure? What of all the puns?!
I really had to go hunting in order to track down who exactly deserves the kudos for this engagingly ridiculous endeavor. The credit belongs to the company VMLY&R and their Wendy’s team, including @TonyMarin and @SmugKeck.
Designed to launch in time for New York Comic-Con — coinciding with a play-through on the popular webseries/podcast Critical Role — Feast of Legends seems like a rousing viral success.
Yes, there is naturally some pushback on the Internet — some for campaign donations made by the CEO of Wendy’s, some for how Wendy’s employees are treated — and some directed at the RPG itself, viewing it as a thinly-veiled propaganda tool (or an anti-union screed designed to brainwash the puny minds of roleplayers).
Politics and social issues aside, I’m calling this project a win. People that have never played a roleplaying game before have asked me about it, and roleplaying games in general are in the news because of this. If this brings more people into one of my favorite activities and opens up a new world of puzzles and games for them, then I thank Wendy’s for making that possible.
And yes, we’re probably going to end up playing this at the office at some point.
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Introducing New Players to Roleplaying Games!
Posted on July 3, 2018 by gmdirect
A month or so ago, there was a marvelous article on Amazing Tales about how to make your child’s first role-playing game amazing.
Although the article was geared toward introducing younger players to the world of roleplaying games, the advice can be easily adapted and expanded to include new players of all ages. So today, I thought I would take the five points introduced by Amazing Tales and do just that.
So if you’re a new or inexperienced game-runner / dungeon master, or if you’ve only run games for people with previous experience playing roleplaying games, this is the place for you.
(And this advice should fit no matter what sort of game you’re running. Is it classic Dungeons & Dragons? Supernatural? Zombie horror? Space adventure? Knights of the Round Table? Explorers? Pirates? Monster hunters? Modern spies? Thieves in the Victorian era? No matter what setting or characters, this advice is universal.)
#1 Keep cool
It’s easy for the person running a roleplaying game to have high expectations for themselves and the story they want to craft. You want your new players to have fun. You want them to immerse themselves in telling a story. You want them to be excited and come back for more.
But that’s a lot of pressure to put on yourself, and a stressed or nervous game master can lead to stressed or nervous players. So don’t set the bar so high. Sit back and let the players interact; sometimes, you can engineer a scenario that allows for this, like a tavern scene. Or you can create an instant threat and let them jump into the action and work together to solve a problem as a bonding experience.
Don’t be afraid to take opportunities to ask if anyone’s confused. A first game is introductory by nature, and if someone feels left behind early on, it can be hard to catch them up later, or to make them feel included if they’re not gelling with the other players.
Sometimes when I’m starting a new game with new players, I’ll hold what I call a “session zero,” a safe game before the game kicks off, where the characters can play in the environment, interact, and test out the actual mechanics of playing (particularly if there’s a magic system or some other aspect of the game that might not be intuitive).
#2 Keep it small
You want your players to feel immersed but not overwhelmed, so party size (the number of players) is an important consideration. I try to keep my number of new players to three or fewer, because it can be hard to give meaningful attention to a larger number of players. It’s like a classroom; you want the ratio of experienced voices to students to be as small as possible, so you can get that one-on-one time to answer questions and help them find their footing.
For me, the ideal group for a newcomer-heavy game is two (or three) new players, one (or two) experienced players, and myself running the game. That way, each new player is balanced by someone with greater experience. You can even have a buddy system to get them acclimated.
A smaller group also means less time for players to sit out while other players get the spotlight. Never let the new players feel shortchanged or like their voices aren’t as important as those of the more experienced players. After all, if you’re an experienced player, you’re going to feel more comfortable speaking up and venturing forward than a new player might.
[Image courtesy of Lewis Brown.]
#3 Say yes to their ideas
Now, obviously, you can’t say yes to every idea a player has or the story could descend into nonsense. But trust your players’ instincts.
Let them wander down the paths they find most interesting. It might not be the path you intended, and it might take them longer to get to the desired end point, but it’s always better for players to reach a story point organically, rather than railroading them to the place and time you want. Even new players can sense when they’re being strong-armed in a certain direction, and that can leave a bad taste in players’ mouths.
Be flexible. I’ve always found that, no matter how thoroughly I think I’ve mapped out an adventure, my players (both new and experienced) excel at finding paths I hadn’t considered. That requires me to be quick on my feet, and I enjoy the challenge of pitting my wits, improvisational skills, and imagination against those of my players.
A roleplaying game is like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel writ large… whenever possible, let them feel in control of their players, their story, and their destiny.
[Image from Stranger Things courtesy of The Verge.]
#4 Take them where they want to go
This might feel like a repeat of the previous note, but it’s not. This point is a reminder to always consider the characters your players are playing. What are their strengths? What goals do they have? What are they hoping to experience and accomplish?
Plenty of game runners, myself included, can get so wrapped up in the story WE want to tell that we forget that it might not mesh with the story our players want to participate in.
Give them moments to shine. Give the fighters a chance to fight, give the magicians opportunity to ply their craft, and give the puzzlers puzzles to solve. If characters have wings, let ’em fly.
[Image courtesy of Digital Trends.]
#5 Make the ending awesome
No matter how simple the adventure starts — a theft, a murder, the discovery of a treasure map, the descent into a trap-laden dungeon — make sure the ending is memorable. You want the quest, however short or long, to feel worthwhile.
You can try the old cliffhanger trick in the hopes of leaving them wanting more, but that can come back to bite you if the players are dissatisfied that their first adventure doesn’t feel complete. Instead, give them a sense of accomplishment.
Martin at Amazing Tales said it well:
Make sure your child’s first ever role-playing game features an epic ending. Face to face with the villain on a cliff edge as the counter ticks toward zero; returning the stolen jewels to the temple moments before sunset while pursued by ghosts; wrestling the controls of the star-ship from the pirate moments before it crashes into the sun. That kind of epic.
You don’t necessarily need to go epic, but certainly make it memorable. Nothing sells a big win like giving the bad guy a funny line before he turns to ash.
Here’s hoping this advice encourages aspiring dungeon masters and storytellers to get out there, find some players, and spin some marvelous adventure yarns. (Or maybe it’s inspired some new players to try roleplaying themselves!)
What’s your favorite memory from your early roleplay sessions, fellow puzzlers? (Either as a game runner or player.) Let us know in the comments section below!
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Gowling WLG is a UK-headquartered international law firm providing a full service to clients worldwide. Catseye were asked to help develop a programme to help newly qualified lawyers to step up to an increasingly busy workload, as the firm grew as a result of a merger, as well as bouncing back organically post-recession.
Upon achieving qualification, the career landscape for the new associates changes from being obviously sign-posted to being more ambiguous and self-determined. Their technical skills remain important, but are no longer the sole key to success in delivering value for themselves, their clients, and the firm. Catseye worked with their Head of L&D and other key stakeholders to design and deliver a solution.
Interviews with key WLG stakeholders revealed three key challenges the programme should address:
a desire to reinforce the psychological contract between the newly qualified (NQ) and the firm to increase levels of talent engagement
a need to bridge the differences between the predominantly Gen X leadership team, and the Gen Y NQ team to clarify mutual expectations
the L&D team were keen to show case best practice in the post-merger firm to demonstrate the power of great leader and peer-led learning
The solution included two workshops spaced eight months apart in different locations to reinforce inclusivity and provide sufficient space for active learning to happen. Areas to be explored included: self-confidence and resilience, commercial realities, managing expectations, receiving feedback, winning behaviours, building career capital, delivering great client service, professional standards inter alia. Much of the thinking was generated through small group work, with additional input from those just a year ahead of them as well as from relevant experts and senior leaders.
The NQ associates were reassured by the commonality of the challenges and concerns they shared and resolved to support each other as they grew. Other benefits identified included:
Less worrying leading to greater productivity
Stronger peer support mechanisms
Improved networks leading to better client service
Talent engagement and retention reinforced
The outputs from their thinking on motivational drivers were shared with the board to help foster better cross-generational leadership. The approach to the programme was repeated the following year.
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Abdel Aal in Italy to attend Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
No information reported so far about the topic that would be reviewed or discussed for the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly annual sessions
Sarah El-Sheikh February 6, 2017 Be the first to comment
Parliament Speaker, Ali Abdel Aal, headed on Sunday to participate in the annual session of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) which was scheduled to take place on Monday, according to state media.
Parliament Secretary General, Ahmed Saad El-Din, will also attend the assembly.
In July 2016, a delegation from the Egyptian parliament visited Rome to attend an EMPA meeting, in which they reviewed an initiative related to fighting terrorism and discussed updates in the investigation surrounding the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni.
The delegation was headed by the head of the parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Mohamed Al-Orabi.
Tarek El-Khouly, a member of parliament in the Foreign Affairs Committee, told Daily News Egypt that he does not expect Regeni’s case would be discussed during the EMPA’s annual session; however, no information has been reported so far about the topics that were reviewed or discussed.
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Citizens will pay actual fuel price in FY 2018/19 compared to 85% in FY 2017/18: MP - Daily News Egypt
Business Citizens will pay actual fuel price in FY 2018/19 compared to 85% in FY 2017/18: MP
Citizens will pay actual fuel price in FY 2018/19 compared to 85% in FY 2017/18: MP
MP Talaat Khalil demanded the dismissal of government for wasting EGP 500m allocated for fuel smart cards system
Abdel Razek Al-Shuwekhi July 11, 2017 Be the first to comment
The Egyptian citizen pays 85% of the actual fuel price in the current fiscal year (FY) of 2017/18, while the government will lift the fuel subsidies completely in FY 2018/19, according to member of parliament (MP) Talaat Khalil, a member of the Plan and Budget Committee in the House of Representatives.
Khalil told Daily News Egypt that the government’s decision to lift fuel subsidies and leave citizens to face the risks of oil price fluctuations globally is a “disaster” in light of the low income of Egyptians, which does not exceed $3,000 annually.
He pointed out that a litre of gasoline costs 36 piasters in Egypt, where there is an average income of $3,340 per year, while its price reaches $1.84 in Norway, where there is an average income of $94,000 annually.
According to the government’s financial statement to the House of Representatives in FY 2016/17, there was a special programme of gasoline smart cards worth EGP 500m to protect the poor from fuel price hikes, but the government abandoned the programme due to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) pressure, said Khalil.
He added that the fuel subsidies decreased to EGP 61.7bn in FY 2016/17, compared to EGP 93.9bn in the previous year, stressing that the petroleum subsidies decreased in an unprecedented manner.
Khalil deprecated the government’s tendency to leave the Egyptian citizen exposed to the fluctuations of world oil prices under the pretext of applying economic reform without increasing the people’s incomes, contrary to the government’s programme presented to the House of Representatives.
“I have presented an inquiry against the government of PM Sherif Ismail on 3 July, with the aim to dismiss it and apply a real economic reform away from randomisation and confusion,” he said.
He noted that the government could not manage the pound flotation efficiently. The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) decided to liberate the local currency in November, which increased the dollar price to EGP 20 per dollar at some point, leading to a wave of inflation up to 30%. Khalil said that the government expanded in internal and external borrowing in 2015/16, whereas the public debt reached EGP 2.99tn, compared to EGP 2tn in the previous year.
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Nesma Airlines targets 23.6% growth passenger traffic to and from Egypt in 2019: CEO
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IMF votes on second tranche of Egypt’s loan
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Inflation stabilizes at 30.9%, unchanged from May
Egyptians feel squeeze as austerity measures, inflation bite
Interest rate’s increase temporary, related to IMF loan: Egypt Support Coalition
Package of negative implications pending after hiking interest rate
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Mangusa Supermarkets
Hard work and strong faith
Business View Caribbean reports on Mangusa Supermarkets as part of our focus on best practices of Caribbean businesses.
Mangusa Supermarkets were founded by Belmira Sousa de Lira, and her husband, Francisco Gonçalves, Sr., two émigrés from Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, an archipelago comprising four islands off the northwest coast of Africa. They bought some land in Seru Grandi, Curaçao, and sold the vegetables they planted and harvested to a local grocery store.
The couple opened their first small store, a “toko” near the Janwe church called Maria Teresa in 1973. They supplied the store with produce from their land and supplemented the rest of what was needed with produce from the floating market. They found a second location on Cascoraweg and opened another store, called the Toko Mangusa, in 1977. In 1984, they expanded Toko Mangusa, which then became the Mangusa Minimarket. Five years later, after another expansion, it became the Mangusa Supermarket. In 1996, their eldest son, Francisco Jr., bought some lots and the family opened Mangusa Rio Canario, and finally, in 2011, the Mangusa Hypermarket on Cascoraweg opened its doors. Today, Mangusa Rio Canario has 180 employees, and Mangusa Hypermarket has 260.
Belmira and Francisco Sr. had five children – Francisco Jr., Jose, Paolo, Anita, and Gilberto – all of whom worked at the markets over the years. Francisco Jr., recounts that he began working when he was eight years old, and, at the time, his father paid him 10 guilders a week. “Later, as I got older, I earned 100 guilders a month,” he says.
The family attributes its success to hard work and strong faith, with Francisco Jr. offering a theory of that success that rests upon four pillars: “You need a good location; you need a good variety and assortment of products; you have to maintain good prices; and you have to provide good service. These are my keys to success in business.”
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Top MBA Colleges in Bhubaneshwar accepting ATMA score in 2017
Each year Careers360 ranks and rates the Top MBA Colleges in Bhubaneshwar accepting ATMA score. The ranking is based on factors like quality of students, research output, industry interface, publications, academic productivity and so on. Read more here - Ranking Methodology.
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Dennis P. Stolle
11 South Meridian Street
Email : dennis.stolle@btlaw.com
National trial strategist and psychologist Dr. Dennis Stolle is the president and a founder of ThemeVision LLC, a jury research and litigation consulting firm affiliated with Barnes & Thornburg. A cognitive scientist, Dennis is respected among leading trial lawyers, judges and academics across the country for his skill in trial consulting, jury research and legal psychology.
Dennis has studied the jury decision-making process and the psychology of trial strategy for more than two decades, and has interviewed more than 4,000 mock jurors. His clients include large companies and law firms, where he focuses on communicating to a lay jury the complex, big-picture issues in high-stakes litigation, such as MDLs, class actions, IP disputes and mass torts.
Dennis has led jury selections throughout the country. He has also conducted focus groups, mock trials and other empirical jury research in venues throughout the continental United States and Hawaii. Dennis is sought after to work with witnesses to prepare for key depositions and trial testimony. He is a member of multiple national defense teams for Fortune 500 companies across an array of industries, providing guidance regarding judicial and jury decision-making, theme development, jury selection, demonstrative evidence, and trial and settlement strategies.
Dennis is a prolific publisher and speaker on topics of legal psychology and jury decision-making. The Courts of Appeals in the Third Circuit and Ninth Circuit have relied upon his academic writings in published opinions. He is also a co-editor of a book on legal psychology, published by Carolina Academic Press and entitled, Practicing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Law as a Helping Profession. Favorable reviews of his book have been featured in the ABA Journal, New York Law Journal, Florida Bar Journal and Judicature. He has also given seminars on the impact that new media and the visual display of evidence can have on juries.
Moreover, Dennis is frequently contacted by journalists for his input on high-profile jury trials. He has been quoted in the Washington Post, New Jersey Lawyer, Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, New Jersey Law Journal, Indianapolis Star, Indiana Lawyer, Louisville Courier-Journal, and many other publications.
In addition to his consulting work as a trial strategist, Dennis has tried cases, led settlement negotiations, and worked with clients to develop communication strategies to implement with regulators, media and key stakeholders.
Professional and Community Involvement
Member, American Society of Trial Consultants
Member, American Psychology and Law Society
Subcommittee member, The Committee on Pattern Civil Jury Instructions of the Seventh Circuit
Member, HCC Advisory Board, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Department of Human-Centered Computing
Associate editor, American Psychology & Law Society News, 2012-2017
Chair, Media Arts & Sciences Advisory Board, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, Department of Human-Centered Computing, 2013
Barrister, Sagamore American Inn of Court, 2007-2011
Board member, Indianapolis Art Center, 2000
Franklin & Orinda M. Johnson Fellowship, 1997-98
American Psychology & Law Society, Graduate Student Research Grant, 1997
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1996
Frank & Marie Wheeler Fellowship, 1996-97
National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship, 1995-96
University of Nebraska Warden Foundation, Research Grant, 1995
Jessie R. Bergquist Law Scholarship, 1995
Vantine A. James Law Scholarship, 1995
University of Nebraska Regent's Scholarship, 1993-94
Dennis P. Stolle Partner
P : 317-231-7742
dennis.stolle@btlaw.com
University of Nebraska, Ph.D., 1998, research grant, National Science Foundation
University of Nebraska, J.D., with high distinction, 1997, research editor of Nebraska Law Review, Order of the Coif
University of Nebraska, M.S., summa cum laude, 1996
Saint Louis University, B.S., 1993
Nebraska (Inactive)
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
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Voir Dire: Getting the Information You Need, in the Courtroom and Before
Attorney Presentation - "I Paid a Premium for What?: New Insurance Coverage Ideas, New Exclusions, New Interpretations"
Attorney Presentation - "Getting Inside the Minds of Jurors: Winning Strategies for Voir Dire"
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Barnes & Thornburg Represents Simon Property Group in $204 Million Trial Victory
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Cannon County Rescue Squad
Cannon County Rescue Squad, Inc.
Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads
Michael Underhill 615.904.5002
Chief Operating Officer:
Tim Bell 615.849.2730
Saving Lives in Cannon County and Middle Tennessee Since 1978.
CCRS Annual Reports
About the Cannon County Rescue Squad, Inc.
Early Organization History
Services to the Community
Future of the Organization
CCRS Qualifications for Membership
CCRS Members
The Cannon County Rescue Squad, Inc. is responsible for the provision of primary rescue services to the citizens of Cannon County, Tennessee. Other services to County include vehicle extrication/rescue, emergency medical first response, medical stand-by, animal rescue/removal, land search/rescue, and water rescue/recovery. Extensive technical rescue assets are also provided. Our Rescue Teams have extensive training, equipment, and capabilities in cave/vertical/confined space operations, heavy/technical rescue (including farm accidents, airplane accidents, as well as trench collapses), water rescue, land based search operations, support services and disaster/medical operations.
Members of our Squad are also heavily involved with emergency/rescue education for Cannon County and the Tennessee Association of Rescue Squads (TARS). We have four State Certified TARS Level I Instructors. Our Instructors are certified to teach Basic Vehicle Extrication, Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC), Vanessa K. Free Driver's Training, Exposure Control Training, and Rural Search and Rescue Training. To contact us about training, please fill out the Contact Us section of our website.
The Cannon County Rescue Squad, Inc. is a non-profit emergency service organization formed in 1978. Since 1978, our Squad has been the only organization providing Rescue Services to all of Cannon County. We also respond in the Middle and Upper Cumberland Tennessee Regions through mutual aid agreements with other emergency departments and state agencies.
Our staff is composed completely of community volunteers. We have Members representing a cross-section of the community: from factor and construction workers to emergency medical providers and office professionals. The Squad has maintained a membership base of at least twenty volunteers for the past thirty years.
Our Members are what make our organization a great place to volunteer. Our Membership base has continued to grow throughout the years, and we generally have more than thirty active Members on the roster at any given time. We also have five retired Lifetime Members who represent nearly three quarters of a century of volunteer work with the Rescue Squad. Currently, we have members that have served the Squad and our County for over twenty years.
Once an applicant becomes a Member of the Squad he/she will begin an orientation process that will last up to one year. Members are required to obtain training in areas of emergency vehicle operations, vehicle extrication and exposure control. This training is conducted by certified instructors, all who are Members of the Squad. Members are also provided with training in areas such as land search and recue operations, water rescue and recovery, low and high angle rescue, etc.
There are many different areas of which to perform volunteer work with the Rescue Squad. Responding to emergency rescue calls represents the bulk of our work; however, vehicle maintenance, rescue education, finance and fundraising, community outreach and grant writing are all areas to volunteer your time. Your efforts will really make a difference in someone’s life. To learn more about volunteer opportunities with the Cannon County Rescue Squad, please fill out the “contact us” section of our website.
Help make a difference today.
We serve, so that others may live…
CCRS, Inc. 618 Lehman Street Woodbury, TN 37190
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CNN International Programming Highlights – July
This month’s programming highlights on CNN International, including shows such as The Global Energy Challenge, Supercharged and First Steps: 50 Years After Apollo 11:
Saturday 6th July at 0130 ET/ 0630 BST and 1430 ET/ 1930 BST
Sunday 7th July at 0730 ET/ 1230 BST
Saturday 13th July at 0730 ET/ 1230 BST
Sunday 14th July at 0130 ET and 1430 ET/ 1930 BST
On Business Traveller, CNN investigates the trend of “Business Leisure”, whereby holidays are added on to the end of a work trip.
On the programme, host Richard Quest tasks CNN’s Isa Soares with learning about how business leisure, or “Bleisure”, is changing approaches to business travel. In Copenhagen, the so called “happy capital”, Soares explores how technology is making travel easier and delves into the science, the psychology and the innovations behind happy travel.
The Global Energy Challenge
Thursday 4th July at 0330 ET/ 0830 BST, 0930 ET/ 1430 BST and 1530 ET/ 2000 BST
Saturday 6th July at 0830 ET/ 1330 BST
Monday 8th July at 0330 ET/ 0830 BST
Tuesday 9th July at 1230 ET/ 1730 BST
On The Global Energy Challenge, CNN’s John Defterios investigates the impact of India’s decades old decision to turn to coal as the cheapest, easiest way to power its economy and try to lift its citizens out of poverty. The programme explores how carbon dioxide emissions have skyrocketed, leaving New Delhi as the most polluted city on earth.
In 2019, India is at a major crossroads and faces major energy decisions – how does it rely less on imports and become more energy independent? Does its future continue to rely heavily on-air polluting fossil fuels, or does it lie with a more diverse energy mix based on greater use of renewables and cleaner coal plant technologies? How does it overcome the plight of having most of the world’s most polluted cities and meet its climate change targets?
In this programme, CNN explores India’s current energy challenges, and how one of the globe’s most populous countries aims to overcome them through sheer will, innovation and technological breakthroughs in the decades to come.
Thursday 4th July at 1230 ET/ 1730 BST
Saturday 6th July at 0230 ET/ 0730 BST, 0800 ET/ 1330 BST and 1730 ET/ 2230 BST
Sunday 7th July at 1230 ET/ 1730 BST and 2130 ET/ 0230 BST
In the latest episode of Supercharged, CNN’s Amanda Davies travels to Bern, Switzerland, to see how the country is adopting the electric revolution ahead of the Bern E-Prix.
Davies is joined by Audi Sport ABT Schaffler’s Lucas Di Grassi to drive the world’s largest fully-electric vehicle before taking a spin of the Bern circuit alongside Alejandro Agag, the chairman of Formula E.
Away from the circuit, Davies accompanies Panasonic Jaguar Racing’s Mitch Evans to experience bungee surfing – a sport and experience which is unique to Bern.
Quest’s World of Wonder
At the edge of a continent, an iconic city beckons. Pass through its golden gate and anything goes. This month, Quest’s World of Wonder is exploring the DNA of San Francisco, where radical ideas are born and thrive.
A city where hippies, and their summer of love, evolved into the revered and reviled tech industry. A place so scintillating that a local newspaper column captivated a global audience with its “Tales of the City”.
Join CNN’s Richard Quest as he finds magic in the hills of San Francisco.
First Steps: 50 Years After Apollo 11
Saturday 20th July at 0830 ET/ 1330 BST, 1130 ET/ 1630 BST, 1630 ET/ 2130 BST and 1030 ET/ 0330 BST
Sunday 21st July at 2030 ET/ 0130 BST
Monday 22nd July at 0430 ET/ 0930 BST
Tuesday 23rd July at 1230 ET/ 1730 BST
50 years after the moon landing, CNN International’s special documentary explores how the historic feat was accomplished.
Host, Dr Sanjay Gupta meets members of the Apollo 11 team and speaks to astronaut Michael Collins who travelled into space with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the iconic event.
Throughout the show, Dr Gupta learns how the Apollo 11 team were able to land on the moon while also examining the context and importance of one of the defining moments of the 20th century.
The Next Frontier: From the Moon to Mars
Sunday 28th July at 2030 ET/ 0130 BST
Monday 29th July at 0430 ET/ 0930 ET
Tuesday 30th July at 1230 ET/ 1730 BST
50 years ago, humans landed on the moon in what was a historic and monumental achievement. In this half-hour documentary special, CNN International looks at the future of space and what that could mean for everyone on earth.
CNN’s Dr Sanjay Gupta travels to Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to learn how NASA teams are working on a successful mission to the Red Planet.
During the programme, CNN asks how far away are we? What needs to happen to get there, and can humans even handle the trip?
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The Salvation Army Sheboygan's Small Wonders Learning Center Achieves 4-Star Rating
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Small Wonders Learning Center Achieves 4-Star Rating
SHEBOYGAN, WI (June 4, 2019) – The Small Wonders Learning Center operated by The Salvation Army Sheboygan increased their YoungStar rating to a 4-star level through elevated levels of quality in care. The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families established the YoungStar program in 2011 to evaluate child care centers on a scale of one to five. In order to achieve a 4-star level the Learning Center was measured across multiple quality standards and criteria for staff education, learning environment and curriculum, professional, health and well-being practices.
The Learning Center staff are committed to providing a secure, caring and enriched environment that promotes learning and development of the whole child. “I feel confident dropping my son off, knowing they sincerely care about his emotional and developmental well-being,” said parent Jessalynn Centifanto. Families looking for help finding child care can visit the Wisconsin Child Care Finder website at www.childcarefinder.wisconsin.gov to search thousands of YoungStar rated programs by location, star rating, and type of care.
ABOUT THE SMALL WONDERS LEARNING CENTER: The Small Wonders Learning Center is a Christian childcare center, providing high-quality, value based services. The Center is licensed by the State of Wisconsin and participates in the YoungStar quality rating system. It is open Monday through Friday, year-round from 5:30a.m. until 6:00p.m., and is licensed for care of 50 children ages 6 weeks through 12 years. Learn more at www.sasheboygan.org or call 920-457-4162.
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Volume 6, Issue 14; April 5, 2006: When You Aren't Supposed to Say: II
When You Aren't Supposed to Say: II
Most of us have information that's "company confidential," or possibly even more sensitive than that. Sometimes people who try to extract that information use techniques based on misdirection. Here are some of them.
When we possess information that's "company confidential" or politically sensitive, protecting it can be a challenge, because seekers of that information can be very clever and persistent. This is Part II of a catalog of the methods they use. See "When You Aren't Supposed to Say: I," Point Lookout for March 29, 2006, for methods based on special resources. This article examines techniques that use misdirection to prompt the target to disclose valuable information. Some examples:
Trust-building
By disclosing something that seems personal or sensitive, seekers can gain the trust of the target. They might offer information that disparages or even harms political foes. When you sense that someone trusts you too easily, consider the possibility that you're the target of a trust-building seeker of sensitive information.
Illusionists commonly use diversion tactics. In the workplace, what happened to Mike might be typical (see "When You Aren't Supposed to Say: I," Point Lookout for March 29, 2006), but even a fire drill provides opportunities.Using misdirection, seekers
of information induce
their targets to willingly
disclose valuable information
Flirtation, flattery, and romance
When deftly used, flirtation, flattery, and romance are especially effective with those who are vulnerable or naïve. Between socially incompatible types, and when initiated by the more adept of the pair, these tactics could be indicators of information-seeking.
By saying something that's wrong or incomplete, or by setting up the target to demonstrate superior knowledge, the seeker might induce the target to disclose sensitive information. Because many high achievers dislike being corrected or being shown to have inferior skill, accepting correction with little comment and no resistance could be an indicator of this tactic.
Disinterest
Feigning disinterest, either by interruption or by appearing to be distracted, the seeker presents a cue to the target that what was just said was unimportant. Alternatively, the seeker might focus on an unimportant detail of the conversation to mislead the target about what the real point of interest is.
Relationship-building
Cultivating friendship over a relatively long period of time, especially when accompanied by a flow of useful information from the seeker to the target, could be an indicator of this tactic. Those most vulnerable have few friends and might even be isolated by internal politics. Managers who allow isolated individuals to remain so are creating a vulnerability to this tactic.
By drawing the target into a secret relationship, the seeker forms a tight bond with the target. One famous example of this technique is Connie Chung's 1995 interview of Newt Gingrich's mother, in which she said, "Why don't you just whisper it to me, just between you and me?" When a seeker suggests confidentiality or secrecy, and revealing the information could be harmful to the target, the seeker could be using this technique.
The last group of tactics for uncovering sensitive information includes those that depend on inducing the target not to think critically. We'll explore them next time. Top Next Issue
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Some of these tactics, such as flirtation and bait, are even more effective when they're used in an indirect manner. See "The True Costs of Indirectness," Point Lookout for November 29, 2006, for more.
More articles on Effective Communication at Work:
Discussus Interruptus
You're chairing a meeting, and to your dismay, things get out of hand. People interrupt each other so often that nobody can complete a thought, and some people dominate the meeting. What can you do?
Shining Some Light on "Going Dark"
If you're a project manager, and a team member "goes dark" — disappears or refuses to report how things are going — project risks escalate dramatically. Getting current status becomes a top priority problem. What can you do?
Dismissive Gestures: I
Humans are nothing if not inventive. In the modern organization, where verbal insults are deprecated, we've developed hundreds of ways to insult each other silently (or nearly so). Here's part one of a catalog of non-verbal insults.
Listening to Ramblers
Ramblers are people who can't get to the point. They ramble, they get lost in detail, and listeners can't follow their logic, if there is any. How can you deal with ramblers while maintaining civility and decorum?
Interrupting Others in Meetings Safely: III
When we need to interrupt someone who's speaking in a meeting, we risk giving offense. Still, there are times when interrupting is in everyone's best interest. Here are some more techniques for interrupting in situations not addressed by the meeting's formal process.
See also Effective Communication at Work and Ethics at Work for more related articles.
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Mood: awake
I love Mission Hill.
Andy: "I am so sick of Ron. I totally hate that guy. He's like the worst manager ever."
Gwen: "Why don't you just attack him and get it over with?"
Andy: "I don't know - chalk it up to that unique mix of poverty and spinelessness. Without it, the service sector wouldn't exist."
I have this bizzarrely intense craving for chocolate chip cookies.
Also, why the hell am I still awake? o.O
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Film Festival continues
June 21, 2018 Movies
Arthouse distributors are wasting no time, two more superb movies from the Sydney Film Festival hit our screens this week. And there’s plenty more to come…
A lot of shocking things happen in writer-director Samuel Maoz’s anti-war drama, nominated as Israel’s contender for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. By far the worst (for me) was when architect Michael Feldman (Lior Ashkenazi) forcefully kicked his dog. Sure, he had reason to be upset – he and his wife Dafna (Sarah Adler) had just been informed by unctuous military officials arriving at their apartment’s door that their son Jonathan (Yonatan Shiray), a corporal in the Israeli Army, has been killed on active service. But all the poor animal was doing was trying to comfort his master in that soulfully empathetic way known only to man’s best friend. Worse, the dog forgives him, in return for an ungenerous and barely perceptible pat on the head.
Far more tragic events unfold, one of the most unexpected coming at the end of the first of the film’s three distinctly different acts. Lots of reviewers have revealed that, but this exceptionally accomplished drama – in which every scene is impeccably crafted as a complex puzzle, is best enjoyed knowing as little as possible. That surprise turns the story on its head, and next we go to the isolated border checkpoint Jonathan is guarding with three other soldiers. This is the funniest sequence (yes, incredibly – this laceratingly bleak movie can be called a comedy) and contains sudden bursts of absurdist levity. Strolling camels outnumber vehicles, the boys’ (the soldiers are barely out of their teens) accomodation is a container cabin slowly sinking into the sand and their only danger appears to be boredom and the constant threat of one of them breaking into mambo. Nothing happens here, until, of course, something does.
Then its back to Michael and Dafna some time later… They may be estranged by now, certainly grief-stricken and guilty about something, though their mood is lightened by smoking a joint. “I remember thinking I was going to be happy,” a stoned Dafna says in one of the poignant lines in the movie. But then Michael demonstrates another dance – yes a foxtrot which endlessly circles back to its original starting point. This third act is the most confusing, and even feels, for a while as the dope kicks in, light-headed. But wait for it, Maoz is keeping his hardest and most brutal kick until the very last frame. It’s a devastating scene, one which produced audible gasps at the festival screening I attended, and then a stunned silence before the inevitable applause. We should have been prepared, for everything in Moaz’s very clever script, which is all about guilt, loss and the absurdity of war was leading in this direction. This is bravura filmmaking – easily my favourite movie from the Festival, and an outstanding contender for the year’s best. What a pity its now only getting such a limited general release. MA15+ from June 21. Local cinemas are Dendy Newtown, Opera Quays, Palace Verona and Cremorne. ★★★★★ Watch the trailer here.
Brothers’ Nest
Shane Jacobson has been a busy man this year, though his two other 2018 releases (The BBQ and That’s Not My Dog), both comedies have been critical and box-office flops. He’d be forgiven for wanting to try something completely different, and in teaming up (as executive producer) with real-life brother Clayton Jacobson (as director) for this dark and violent family dramady, he sure has. Both also star in a tight, claustrophobic tale of two brothers planning a murder. We first meet them in the chilly pre dawn, approaching their old family home somewhere in rural Victoria, carefully staying hidden. They’re there to kill their stepfather Rodger (Kim Gyngell), make it look like suicide and so regain their inheritance lost by their mother’s (Lynette Curran) remarriage. While they wait for him at the house, there’s trouble – old issues and filial tensions surface, there’s some pathetically poor planning on top of a few unexpected visitors, including their terminally ill mum, and later Sarah Snook. All of this is wittily drawn out, razor-sharp and blackly funny in a Fargo-esque way. It’s also very tense.
True to his nice-guy image, Shane plays the brother (Terry) less committed to deed. A killer with a conscience! Hey, this is the knockabout everyman from Kenny, the loveable grandad who saves penguins (Oddball) and the public face of IGA supermarkets – how could he also be a cold-blooded thug who kills his own relatives for financial gain? Though he did after all, come along for the ride, even if he was a bit too thick (he comes across as more dim-witted than a man with scruples) to fully understand the profoundly amoral absurdity of what he’s doing. It’s a slow-burn and edgy ride through to the final bloody fireworks, but anyone who may be thinking that good sense and justice will prevail in the end (C’on Kenny, surely not?) just hasn’t been paying attention to the sort of pitch black, cynical dramas which are now popping up all over the place on both streaming TV and in arthouse cinemas. And the dastardly Jacobson bros have made a very worthy addition to that genre. MA15+ from June 21. Local cinemas include Dendy Newtown, Reading Auburn and George St. ★★★★ Watch the trailer here.
More standout festival films
Sure to be a hit locally, the high class lesbian soap Disobedience from A Fantastic Woman’s Sebastian Lelio is already on our screens, as is legendary Aussie horror writer-director Leigh Whannell’s new sci-fi Upgrade (yes, you’re right to distrust driverless cars). Both reviewed here.
The official competition prize-winner The Heiresses, another lesbian drama (this time from Paraguay) doesn’t have a release date yet. But it is on Palace Film’s list, so expect to see it soon. Palace scored a double win, their brilliantly caustic The Insult from Lebanon also won top spot in the Audience Awards. It’s due out on August 30.
Look out too for sexy potboiler The Second – the first Aussie feature film to be made by Stan. No lesbians – just two ladies, Rachel Blake and Susie Porter (below), who are very good friends… It’s getting a big screen release on July 5 and before turning up on the streaming service two weeks later.
No Date, No Signature, a searing Iranian drama sure to appeal to those who enjoyed A Separation is at Dendy Newton from July 12. Then on July 26 there’s Whitney (we’ll have a ticket giveaway for this latest look at the tragic singer’s life, so keep your eyeballs on this website); and in the same week the festival’s opener, The BreakerUppers once again proves those peculiar NZers, apart from being progressive and smart enough to elect Jacinda Ardern as PM, are very funny people indeed. August 2 brings us The Wife, followed closely on August 9 by a festival fave which sharply divided its audiences (all its screenings including the extra sessions were sold out) – Spike Lee’s Blackklansman.
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Dumb Quotes
He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
Charlie Daniels
Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer.
Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.
Gary Cohn
I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
That show Biggest Loser is a dumb show. If I wanted to see fat people struggle with their weight, I'd go to my family reunion!
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.
Maurice Gibb
To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do itYou play the guitar on the MTV.That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.Money for nothin' and chicks for free.Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do itLemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb.Maybe get a blister on your little finger;Maybe get a blister on your thumb.
I just sat there looking at television, sort of dumb and thought how horrible it was. I had -- the grand aspects of it did not occur to me -- I had no notion of this terrorist network that existed. I knew the were a lot of people in the world who didn't like us, but I had no idea that it was as well organized as it apparently is. That's one of the amazing facets of this terrible event: how well they did it. Incredible. The competence of these evil people.
We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The Loungs – Live Review
Cloud Sounds Presents – The Loungs, Onions and The Bong Squad
by Ellie O’Neill
Tonight is a night for celebration; this, after all, is not just the anniversary of the popular, delightfully unpretentious Cloud Sounds Presents, it is also the launch party of The Loungs new album, a chance to see what the Onions have been hiding away for, and début performance of The Bong Squad.
Generally, if you enjoy Cloud Sounds’ shows, you will love his gig nights. His dictatorial method of band selection means he only brings us the best of unsigned music. The Loungs and Onions are firm favourites, but The Bong Squad are brand new and when they admit to only having practised once before it becomes clear just how big a risk Ted is taking.
Considering their name, it is hardly surprising when they stop seconds after they start to seek out missing band member, Bluey, who has gone for a beer and a cig. Once everyone is back together, however, they do warm us up quite nicely. They play some sweet little songs which surprise the audience with sudden break outs where they lay down some pretty heavy rock beats. They’re well received, especially by those who look like they rolled up on a Harley Davidson.
Onions, who have been hibernating this winter, have not been spending their time idly. Rumour has it they are at work on a new album, and if the tunes they play tonight are anything to go by it is going to be one hell of a hit maker. There is a great deal of enthusiasm in their act, and like the snowdrops and daffodils which are pushing through the frozen earth outside, the Onions belt out a breath of spring air to the sleepy eyed crowd.
‘Word Of Mouth’, which is seemingly a song about a town’s monument, has some cheeky little suggestive lyrics which leave the crowd with a knowing smile, particularly when the lead singer growls out the great line, “Word of mouth, she goes all the way down.”
They’re are a hard act to follow, but this is the night of The Loungs. They have marketed their album artfully by using four very persuasive good fun girls who pester the crowd to buy Big Wow. The night may have started slowly, but by the time they begin the place is packed and everyone is looking forwards to a good old shake down. They play a brilliant mix of old and new tracks and from the new album, ’12 Hands’ and ‘Annie Hall’ going down particularly well.
The lead singer plays keyboard, and although they seem a little nervous, they are pouring their heart into this gig. Their efforts are appreciated; people climb on tables to get a better look and sofas are bounced on as people bop about to the tight harmonies.
Even when The Loungs play the quite cruelly titled, ‘I’m Going To Take Your Girl Away From You’, all the men in the crowd just carry on smiling with no awareness of the girl by their side who is smiling coyly in the direction of the band.
In an uncharacteristic display of enthusiasm, Cloud Sounds badgers them into playing a double encore with the full support of the audience. Apparently Cloud Sounds has lost his soundman for future nights but based on tonight, Ted still has a special talent for finding bands that are so original that they render comparisons impossible and unnecessary.
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I hear a rumour the reason the Onions album isn’t out yet is due to a rift between the band. Is that correct? I thought they said in a previous interview the album would be out by the summer, what’s taking so long? We want new onions tracks
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Most Anticipated Films of 2018
2017 was a big year for film, but more about that in a few weeks time. I want to talk about the upcoming films of 2018 that I’m looking forward to seeing.
Release Date: 26th January 2018
Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as the “Flare”. – from IMDb
Ever since The Scorch Trials adaptation came out, I’ve been waiting and waiting for The Death Cure to drop. Unfortunately, due to the star Dylan O’Brien being injured on set, the release date was pushed back nearly a year! We’ve had a three-year drought since the second movie was released, but now it seems like we finally will be getting the third movie in the franchise! Hurrah!
Release Date: 4th May 2018
The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. – from IMDb
We have been building up to Avengers: Infinity War for years now. Every Avengers film that gets released, there is some reference or credit scene that pieces the puzzle together for the final showdown for the Avengers. With an all-star cast and most of the characters coming together, this is set to be an amazing film!
Mary Stuart’s attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. – from IMDb
As you all know, I love Mary, Queen of Scots (thanks to Reign, tbh) and I’m fascinated by her and her place in history. Reign interpreted Mary’s life very differently to the biography I recently read by Margaret George, so I’m excited to see what take director Josie Rourke has on her life.
Release Date: 16th November 2018
The second installment of the ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ series which follows the adventures of Newt Scamander. – from IMDb
I have to preface this selection. I WAS excited about seeing the second Fantastic Beasts movie. Then, I heard that the studio had chosen not to re-cast Johnny Depp in light of his domestic violence against his then-wife Amber Heard. JK Rowling posted a very vague response to his continued involvement in the franchise, and whilst there may be legal injunctions to prevent her from speaking about certain things, the fact remains that Grindelwald had another face (Colin Farrell) for ninety percent of the first Fantastic Beasts film, and it would be easy to re-cast with another actor and write into the script that Grindelwald had changed his face yet again. Contractual obligations can be broken, for example, Kevin Spacey was fired from House of Cards due to sexual abuse. It can be done. Anyway, we’ll see what happens between now and when the film is released. But as of right now. I’m not happy.
In Depression-era London, a now-grown Jane and Michael Banks, along with Michael’s three children, are visited by the enigmatic Mary Poppins following a personal loss. Through her unique magical skills, and with the aid of her friend Jack, she helps the family rediscover the joy and wonder missing in their lives. – from IMDb
The original Mary Poppins film is one of my absolute favourite films of all time. I adore it. It fills me with so much joy, and when Saving Mr. Banks came out a few years ago I loved it even more. Now, Mary Poppins Returns, with Emily Blunt in the title role, (perfect casting by the way), and Lin-Manuel Miranda as a chim-chiminy cheerful chimney sweep, I can’t wait to watch this film next year and have the Mary Poppins legacy live on!
So these are the movies I’m looking forward to in 2018. Are you looking forward to any of these? Or have I missed a few good ones off the list? Let me know in the comments!
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2016 was a great year for films! I saw well over 30 thanks to Cineworld and their Unlimited card, which meant that I got to see a lot of good trailers for the films coming out 2017. Here are the ones I am most excited for!
These films are in no particular order.
An adaptation of the Disney fairy-tale about a monstrous prince and a young woman who fall in love. – from IMDb
Disney are going through a new phase of adapting all of their old animated classics into live action movies. It started with Alice in Wonderland, then Maleficent, and then was followed by Cinderella and the Jungle Book. I’m certainly not complaining, I love Disney movies, and this means I can relive the magic in the cinema all over again!
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. – from IMDb
Ryan Gosling. Emma Stone. Musical. LA.
King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword
Feature film version of the classic King Arthur story. – from IMDb
This one looks like an awesome action/adventure story reminiscent of Disney’s The Sword in the Stone, also a retelling of King Arthur, with Guy Ritchie directing and a screen writing credit. Ritchie most recently directed the Sherlock Holmes duology, two of my favourite films.
A group of high-school kids, who are infused with unique superpowers, harness their abilities in order to save the world. – from IMDb
You might think this is just another opportunity to exploit the nostalgia that has driven Marvel and DC to bulk release many films, with overpowering CGI and thin plots. You MIGHT think that. I personally love a good action/adventure film, especially when they involve a gang of misfit teenagers.
February 12 is just another day in Sam’s charmed life until it turns out to be her last. Stuck reliving her last day over one inexplicable week, Sam untangles the mystery around her death and discovers everything she’s in danger of losing. – from IMDb
Basically anything that Zoey Deutch touches, I’m there. I’m hoping this is going to be an awesome mash up between If I Stay and The Lovely Bones. This has been slated for release for a while, but I’m so glad we’re finally going to get a chance to see it!
So here are my top five films that are on my most anticipated list of 2017. Most of the ones that have been announced are within the first three to six months, so hopefully as we come into the beginning of 2017 there will be lots more announced.
Have I missed out one you’re excited for? Or is there a film on this list that gets you excited as me? Let me know in the comments!
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Book Adaptation List: Movie Edition
Books being adapted into movies is so common these days that I often assume that new cinema releases are based on a preexisting idea, whether that be a remake, an adaptation or a reboot. I personally love and loathe the ‘adaptation’ in equal measure. I love it because it allows me to see a favourite books of mine come alive on the big screen, which is always exciting. I also hate it, because it means that original scripts are being produced less and less, as there is no guarantee of a film’s success unless it already has a preexisting audience.
Having said that, there are some books that I (and the rest of Tumblr) often fantasize about being adapted, casting headcanons, creating manips and movie posters. So I thought I’d let you in on my top five books that I REALLY, REALLY want to be adapted into movies! (Unless they’re going to rubbish in which case, you’re alright.)
Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the “Great Perhaps” (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. – from Goodreads.com
Okay, so the good news is: LOOKING FOR ALASKA THE MOVIE IS HAPPENING. Bad news is, we don’t actually know when exactly it will be happening. BUT IT WILL BE HAPPENING. I have wanted and not wanted this movie to be a thing in equal measure. Looking for Alaska was my first John Green book, it made me realise WHY I wanted to be a writer and it’s still my all time favourite book nearly five years later.
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier. – from Goodreads.com
Apparently this is book is due to become a TV series (more on that topic later) which would also be awesome, but if it never gets off the ground I think this book would make a fantastic movie. With flashbacks, Hannah’s chilling voice over from the cassettes, I may just write the screenplay myself!
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If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be with her sweet British boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She certainly wouldn’t be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont, living with a weird roommate, and signed up for an exclusive, mysterious class called Special Topics in English. But life isn’t fair, and Reeve Maxfield is dead. – from Goodreads.com
Derived from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Meg Wolitzer paints a vivid picture of The Wooden Barn where Jam Gallahue is residing after the death of her boyfriend Reeve Maxfield. I think this book would make an excellent adaptation, especially since Jam is an unreliable narrator.
A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. – from Goodreads.com
An idyllic island off the coast of Maine and another unreliable narrator makes for a perfect film in my eyes. In fact, it’s another book-to-movie adaptation that is reportedly in development and I can’t wait!
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. – from Goodreads.com
Not only would I love to see Cinder be made into a movie, I want Scarlet, Cress and Winter to be adapted too! After the success of Into the Woods and Disney’s Live Action retellings, I’m sure a production company will snap up the rights in no time.
Let me know down in the comments the books you want to see being made into movies. Have I missed any good ones? Let me know.
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Stunning natural environment, friendly, laid back people, great hotels, apartments and villas for your accommodation, many restaurants, tavernas and fish restaurants for dining out, wonderful sandy beaches, many things to do, Polis region is the ideal place for those seeking active holidays in the nature.
Located on the north - west part of Cyprus, Polis Region is an area full of green, natural beauties, excellent sea and beaches. Polis still keeps its original Cypriot style, with many tranquil villages waiting to explore. The National Park of Akamas Peninsula is just a few kilometers away.
Modern Polis is built on the ruins of two ancient cities, Marion and Arsinoe, dating back almost 3000 years. Evidence of this reach, ancient history are found in the excavations in the region.
Myth of Aphrodite: According to the myth, Aphrodite, the Goddes of beauty and love used to meet her lover, Adonis in this idyllic area. Baths of Aphrodite (Loutra tis Afroditis) are located next to the town of Polis and is a very popular place to visit, among locals and visitors alike.
Climate: Polis climate is hot and dry during the summer and mild during the short winter. This wonderful climate makes Polis region a year-round holiday destination.
Marion - Arsinoe Archaeological Museum:Built in classic style, the museum opened in 1998 and hosts exhibits from the ancient cities of Marion and Arsinoe. Well worth a visit!
Central square of Polis Chrysochous: A traditional square with many restaurants and cafes. A perfect place to sit and enjoy your food or your drink.
Latchi harbour and Latchi Municipal Beach: The small harbour of Latchi is located about three kilometers from Polis. The area offers a lot of restaurants, but here is the place to taste fresh local fish, in one of many fish restaurants that abound in the area. Just next to the harbour is the organized municipal beach, a wonderful place for your bath. Latchi municipal beach is the only disabled - friendly beach, with a purposed built ramp which helps persons with mobility problems to enter easily and safely into the sea.
Akamas peninsula: The national park of Akamas is just next to Polis Chrysochous. From Polis you are able to explore this unique unspoilt area.
Baths of Aphrodite: On the same way as Akamas penisnula, is the place where Aphrodite met het lover Adonis, the Baths of Aphrodite. It is a very beautiful area in the nature and a short excursion nobody visiting the area should miss..
Explore the Akamas peninsula
The Akamas National Park lies on the west coast of Cyprus, a truly pictorial part of the island. It has an area coverage of 230 square kilometres containing valleys, gorges and wide sandy bays. The wildlife diversity is crucial for the ecology in the Mediterranean. In this spectacular environment there are 168 varieties of birds, 20 different reptiles, 16 species of butterfly and 12 different mammals not to mention its very rich variety of fauna. The important significance of the Akamas Peninsula has been duly noted; The European Council has included it in its Mediterranean Protection Programme. The Cyprus Government has yet to fully declare it as a National Park for tourist and local landowners reasons, although friends of the Earth and Green Peace are lobbying hard for it.
- The last coastal area in Cyprus to remain untouched by development
- A perfect haven for wildlife and flora
- A MUST for any keen walker or mountain biker
Boat along the Akamas (Blue Lagoon)
Blue lagoon is the most popular place of Akamas and thousands of people have visited it by boat. The crystal blue waters in this small bay are so clear, you can see all the way to the underlying sea bed. The water in this area of the Akamas Peninsula is so inviting and refreshing you will want to swim in this beautiful environment or go snorkeling and look around you underwater for metres on end.
- Choose an organised trip with a BBQ lunch cooked on board - book at the harbour
- Or hire a private speed boat - it's good value for a small group
- Don't forget your swimming costume for that dip in the blue lagoon!
- Tip: Local residents receive a discount - just ask at Latchi harbour when you book
Wine Route 1 (Laona Akamas)
ROUTE: Pafos, Mesogi, Tsada, Stroumbi, Kathikas, Akourdaleia, Pano Arodes,Kato Arodes, Ineia, Drouseia, Polis, Pegeia.
This route is in the north-western part of Cyprus. It is of unique interest, as it is not devoted exclusively to wine. In this area, the wine lover and the gourmet can visit four wineries and taste their varied and individualistic wines, in combination with the tasty specialities of Cypriot food. Tavernas, of which there are plenty along the route, will be sure not to disappoint. Together with these delicious attractions, the visitor may enjoy a unique geography, unlike anywhere else on the island. Travel along the main roads E701 and E709, which climb to elevations providing some fascinating views, with various greenery, substantial expanses of forest and a liberal lacing of vineyards combining to attract our attention. The outstanding feature of this unique wine zone is the Akamas peninsula. The diverse characteristics of the Akamas morphology, the flora and the wildlife rightfully make it a rare habitat. The visiting explorer/wine-lover truthfully has a feast for the eye, the ears, and the taste-buds.
Go on an adventure to Cedar valley & Stavros tis Psokas in Paphos Forest
The area is located in the northwest part of the Troodos mountain region. Its boundaries overlap with the boundaries of the Main Forest of Paphos, which represent 96% of the site. It covers a large area from sea level up to the peak of Tripylos at 1,352 metres. This particular area is the most important area of Cyprus for nesting raptors. It supports the highest number of breeding Bonelli's eagles and Goshawks.
Cedar Valley: A must for nature lovers, Cedar Valley in Tilliryan Troodos is a thing of beauty. However, the cedars in this secluded valley are no ordinary trees, but the indigenous Cyprus cedar - Cedrus brevifolia, a close relative of the famous cedars of Lebanon, and which number in the thousands here.
Stavros tis Psokas (Cyprus Mouflon): This area contains the Cypriot mouflon (a wild sheep, Ovis musimon, inhabiting the mountainous regions of Sardinia and Corsica, the male of which has large curving horns considered native and unique to Cyprus). This breed of animal was almost extinct during the 20th century, yet the moufflon is now healthily populated within the Paphos Forest, Cedar Valley, and particularly the Tripylos area. Near the Stavros tis Psokas Forest Station, there's a Moufflon enclosure near which will be featured in an upcoming blog post.
- A new tarmac road now takes the pain out of getting there (via Panagia)
- Make sure you walk up to Tripylos from the picnic site in Cedar valley - the views from 1362m are spectacular
- Stop at a monastery to sample the "home brew" (wine!) on the way back - Chrysorrogiatissa or Ayia Moni
- And stop in Panagia to see where Archbishop Makarios was born
Polis town
Located within a rich fertile plain in the foothills of the Troodos mountains, the small town of Polis, which in Greek simply means ‘town’, overlooks the beautiful bay, with its warm, clear and safe seas. With its quaint sandstone buildings around a pedestrianised town centre with its restaurants, bars and souvenir shops, it is a delightful place to hang out on a summer evening. Don’t miss the Church of Agios Andronikos near the town square, with its 16th century wall paintings, which for 400 years served as a mosque and today stands as a monument. The 18th century church of Agia Kyriaki is also interesting or the open-air naive sculptural exhibition. The small church of Agios Nikolaos in the pedestrian precinct is also used for Catholic masses. A small eucalyptus wood lies between the town and the sea, providing shade for a camping site by the beach. Polis is a 45 minute drive from Pafos airport and just over two hours from Nicosia.
Officially, the town’s full name is Polis Chryssochous, which means the ‘town of gold’, thanks to the nearby copper and gold mines. It is believed that Mycenaean Greeks first settled in the area about 3000 years ago, while legend has it that returning heroes from the Trojan war established a city here. One of Cyprus’ ten great city-kingdoms, called Marion, flourished here thanks to the nearby mines and the resulting trade. Marion had strong ties with Athens but subsequently fell to the Persians. When Kimon, the great Athenian general, tried to free Cyprus from the Persians, Marion was the first city he liberated. A statue in memory of Kimon stands in front of the Polis cultural centre. Later Marion was destroyed during the success struggle following Alexander the Great but was finally rebuilt by Ptolemy II who renamed it Arsinoe after his wife and sister. The Polis archaeological museum in the heart of the town has finds from Polis’ glorious past. The ruins of this great ancient city, Marion-Arsinoe, can be seen near the hospital.
- The Polis Archeological Museum is open every day and closed on Sunday.
Opening hours Monday - Friday: 8.00-16.00 Saturday: 9.00 - 15.00
Tickets € 2,50
- Agios Andronikos church, open only on Sunday 09:00 – 16:00, Entrance, free.
Polis Villages (Agrotourism)
The rest of the area is made up of a number of villages with varying degrees of charm and reasons to visit. Below is a list of the ones we have been to and any particular points of interest. There are many places to stay in these locations particularly villas.
On the road from Paphos to Polis, about 13 km before you reach Polis, there is a turning on the left which will take you to the little village of Miliou nestling on the Laona plateau. Right next door to the springs is the restored monastery of Agii Anargyri which is now being used as a spa hotel. The monastery was built in 1649 and is said to be one of the first ever on the island. It was founded by two brothers who used to care for the sick and dying without taking any payment for it. It is said that this is how the monastery got its name, from the Greek meaning ‘without payment’. Miliou is one of the smallest villages in Cyprus and has a population of about 60. It is also one of the greenest villages in the area, thanks to an abundant supply of spring water, surrounded by citrus groves, almond trees and vineyards. In early spring the almond blossom is a spectacular sight and the Orange and lemon trees are laden with fruit. With far-reaching mountain and valley views and unspoilt countryside, Miliou is a delightful rural setting, perfect for long walks and for those who love nature and bird watching as the village is renowned as a nesting site for nightingales.
Pomos is about 8 miles or so outside of Polis. It is a charming little village, with a number of restaurants. There is a small fishing harbour and spectacular views, and is a great place to spend the afternoon.
Neo Chorio is a short drive from Latchi, and is the entrance to the Akamas. It offers a number of places to eat, and lots of different types of accommodation. It provides stunning views of the coast and the Akamas. It is claimed by some of the locals that land here is the most expensive in Cyprus.
The picturesque village of Droushia with its traditional architecture, narrow streets, small coffee shops, museums and Byzantine churches largely preserves the genuine traditional community unaffected by modern day civilization. With 386 inhabitants, the village stands 600 meters above sea level in a unique island region, which is rich in natural wellness right at the outskirts of the famous Akamas peninsula. The village, situated at the Laona plateau and only 27 km from the town of Paphos and 10 km from Polis, is a lovely location with stunning seaside and mountain views. Due to its altitude, a cool breeze coming from the Akamas Peninsula refreshes the village. In fact, one legend suggests that the village derives its name from the Greek word “Drosia” meaning “cool and fresh”. If you are wondering what to do during your stay, you’ll be happy to know that there are plenty of sites and attractions to visit.
Drive up to Pomos & Pachyammos Villages (Saint Rafael Church)
The areas near the small villages of Pomos and Pachyammos are majestically beautiful and the mountains lead straight into the sea. Pomos village, hanging on the cliffs of west coast Cyprus, lies about 20 km afar from Polis Chrysochous, on the way to Akamas nature reserve. It is a laid back village very peaceful and quiet. It is ideal for those wanting to live the authentic Cyprus way of life, away from the hassle and bustle of tourist's resorts. This tranquil and calm area prides itself with amazing views of the coastline and sandy beaches, making it the ideal place for rest and relaxation. Pomos is one of the remaining unspoiled and undisturbed areas of Paphos. An ideal location to get away from it all.. The main point of interest is the impressive church of Agios Rafael in Pachyammos village, an important pilgrimage site for the faithful due to the belief in the miraculous curing powers of the saint.
Pachyammos Village Beach is an idyllic refuge for those seeking a remote and private stretch of bay to enjoy their day in tranquility.
Visit Latchi harbour
In the past few years due to its ever-growing facilities and amenities, Latchi has become a favorite stopping point after the Greek Isles and Turkey. Latchi is a small port in Cyprus where the fishermen bring in the fresh catch of the morning and supply those who are fortunate enough to have got up early that day. Taverns litter the dockside offering the local specialty “Fish Meze” and at a very affordable price, unlike some of the other harbours around the island.
- Take a stroll along the marina
- Sample some freshly caught fish in one of the tavernas.
Splash about in the warm waters of the Mediterranean indulging in all kinds of water sports. Go water skiing or wakeboarding, or just bounce along in the wake of the boat on a donut or a banana.
The steady predictable westerly winds make it a great place for windsurfing, or sailing and you could also try your hand at kitesurfing.
- Scuba diving in the clear waters along the Akamas
- Water ski behind a jet boat
- Maybe sea-kayaking or even paragliding?
- All these watersports can be found down in Latchi.
Stunning Sunset & Sunrise
The beautiful surroundings and marvellous sunsets and sunrises make this area a special place for holidays. The best sunset experiences in Polis region, in specific areas such us Akamas Peninsula, Latchi Beach, Argaka Beach, Droushia village and Neo Chorio village. Another favourite for a sunset view is the coastal area of Pomos & Pachyammos villages.
Anassa Hotel Cyprus
Droushia Heights Hotel Cyprus
Zening Resorts Cyprus
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Anassa Hotel
Enjoying a secluded hillside location, just 5 minutes’ drive from Latchi, Anassa Hotel features breathtaking sea views and a wealth of spa and leisure possibilities within a luxurious village setting.
Anassa Hotel combines tasteful decoration with elegant furnishings for a truly beautiful village-style setting. Luxurious rooms and suites are appointed with all modern comforts, including free wireless internet access. They also offer views of Anassa's beautiful garden.
Droushia Heights Hotel
Just 300 m from Chloraka Beach in Paphos, Meltemi offers elegantly decorated villas with balcony overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Surrounded by a lush garden, the villas feature their own private pool and a sun terrace with sun loungers. Free Wi-Fi is offered throughout.
The air-conditioned villas of Meltemi have wooden floors and feature well-chosen furnishings and bright colours...
Zening Resorts
Across Latchi Beach and among a lush, green hillside, Zening Resorts features 2 outdoor pools and 1 indoor pool, a hot tub and a tennis court. Specialized in yoga and meditation, it offers accommodation with Mediterranean Sea views.
Elegantly decorated with eclectic ethnic furnishings, pure cottons and oriental fabrics, all air-conditioned units open to a balcony or patio. Each has a mini fridge. Free WiFi is provided. Some units are designed according to an ecological concept...
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Charles Septimus Clarke Diaries
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Friday 1st It was a fine day, but threatening for rain. I gave the 2nd row of homestead beans a good watering.
Saturday 2nd It was fine during the day . There was a cricket match at Matakana, Omaha V the local club, Harry Ashton very kindly took Jane and me in his car. The others went in Tom Ashton’s lorry.
I went to have a yarn with Mr Richards, also went to consult Dr Whetter.
Matakana batted first and made 71 runs. W. Dunning made 38 runs not out. E. Y. Campbell 17 runs. J. Torkington bowled 6 wickets, A. R. Dunning 2, J. Dunning 1.
Omaha batter next and made 178 runs. E. Wyatt made 41 runs, A. R. Dunning 65 runs, J Wyatt 15, R. Harper 31.
Matakana 2nd innings made 138 runs, W. Dunning made 35 runs, E. Y. Campbell 34. C. Matthew 19, J. Matthew 15, D. Knaggs 14. R. Harper took 5 wickets. A. R. D. 2, J. D. 1, J. T. 1.
Sunday 3rd It rained a little after we came home last night and during the night, but very little rain fell as the ground was quite dry this morning, and it was a very fine day. Mrs Birdsall Snr & Mrs John Greenwood and Dolley’s two girls came up in the morning, had a look at all the gardens & Jane gave them morning tea. There was no service here to day.
Monday 4th It was a fine day. I sent a sample of my water to Dr Whetter and he sent me a bottle of medicine in the afternoon.
I took Dolly some beans and borrowed some papers. Jane gave my 2nd double row of Homestead beans a good soaking of water in the evening.
Tuesday 5th It was a fine day. I wrote a letter to Mr Elliott remingihis [sic: reminding] of Interest due. Also wrote letters to Jack and Lily, also sent a Weekly News. These will be posted tomorrow.
Wednesday 6th It was a fine day. I went down to Pats to take her [sic: Dolly] the last of the Peas. Also to return the papers I borrowed & to borrow others.
The Harry Ellises, Alf Rayners & Chittys were picnicing at the Domain, Jane joined them in the pm.
Thursday 7th There was a slight shower last night, but not enough to do any good .
Mrs Jas & Mrs Tom Ashton came to spend the day. Mrs Jas had not been here for 16 years.
Friday 8th It was a fine day. We heard this morning that Ralf Mieklejohn. eldest son of Lewis Meiklejohn had died last night of cancer. Jean who has been helping Mrs Jim Wyatt returned home for good. Received a cheque from Elliott & Holden for £9 . 10 . 0
in payment of interest to 6th December 1928.
Saturday 9th It was a very fine day. Warkworth show today. Jim, Jane & Jean went in Tom Ashtons lorry. Hector, Mildred and I were left at home. I took Dolly down some beans.
Sunday 10th It was a very fine day. Ralf Meiklejohn was buried to day at the Matakana cemetery at 1.30 pm, Jim & Jane went in Tom Ashton’s lorry . Revd Yule had held service in the hall in the morning.
I went to Leigh in Mr Hart’s car as he was going to hold service in the morning. Dr Chisholm accompanied Mr Hart, he was sent to Warkworth in temporary charge of the Hospital on the death of Dr East. He seems a fine young fellow. I first called on Mrs Gravatt who has been serived [?] ill, Mrs Harper was there. I next went to Mr Archie Dunnings where I had dinner. Mr & Mrs Chas Dunning were staying there, all of them went to the funeral, so I stayed there reading until church time. Revd Hart had service at 2.30, there was a fair congregation, Collection 13/9. I returned home in Mr Harts car, I had left a bag of vegetables in Jim Ds cream box.
Monday 11th It was a very fine day. I was very surprized and shocked to here of the death of my old friend George Wallace of Big Omaha who passed away at 9 pm last night, he has been ailing a short time, but I did not think it serious. His sons Gordon & Ken came from Auckland last night. I shall miss my old friend very much, as he and Mrs Wallace are the best friends I have ever had.
Tuesday 12th It was a very fine day. Mr Wallace was buried at Matakana cemetery at 2.30 this afternoon. The first part of the service was held in the house , Revd Yule officiated, many beautiful wreaths were placed on the grave, the Manager of the Gas Co and other friends in Auckland sent beautiful wreaths in glass shades.
Grace, Mr Ws brother from Te Aroha and other relations came from Auckland to the funeral. Jim & Jane went in Pats lorry. Mr & Mrs W. Dunning and Mr & Mrs C. Dunning called here after the funeral and had a look at the garden, the latter staid for tea, Grace also came here and staid all night.
Wednesday 13th It was a fine day. Grace returned to Auckland to day, she and Jane went in Pat’s lorry as far as the store and then walked to Big Omaha, called at L. Whitakers, Grace went to Kaipara Flats in the service car, Mrs Wallace is living at Laurence Whitakers, and she intends selling her place. I took some beans down to Dolly.
Thursday 14th It was a very fine day. Mr Tucker who had been mowing the grass in the domain came here for dinner. I was busy writing obituary notices of Mr Wallace and bereavement letters to Mrs W.
Friday 15th It was a very fine day. Hector It was a very fine day. Hector was not very well so he was lying down.
Mr & Mrs Harry Ellis came in the morning and staid the night.
Saturday 16th It was a very fine day. Matakana Show. Harry Ellis took Jim, Jane, Mildred & me in his car to the Show. Hector and Jean went in T. Ashton’s lorry. We had a picnic under the trees with the Wm Dunnings. I met a lot of old friends. There were a great number of people present . The live stock were very good also the exhibits in the hall.
Sunday 16th Another fine day. Harry & Mrs Ellis took Jim, Jane, Mildred & me in their car to Day’s Bay. Hector & Jean staid at home. Alf Rayner & family in their car joined us, also Ernest Cruickshank & wife from Tuakau in their car. also, Jes Chitty & wife from the Tongue farm in their farm also joined us.
We were a very large party for lunch. There is a very nice sandy beach here. Mr Jack Day has a very snug homestead near the beach, and Archie Custians homestead is in the same bay. There were several other cars there, and there [were] people playing tennis and bathing in the sea.
Monday 17th It was a very fine day. Henry & Mrs Ellis took Jim, Jane & Jean in their car to picnic at Goat Island. Hector and I remained at home.
Tuesday 18th It was a very fine day. There was a Matakana picnic in the domain, a quantity of children, parents and friends came in a number of cars, they had lunch & tea in the hall. There were races and games for the children and many bathed. We took down our lunch and [had] it under the trees with the W. Dunnings. The Ellis’ went down and had lunch with us and in the afternoon they went home in their car. I had a talk with Hughie Thompson and also with Mr E. Richards.
Wednesday 19th It was very dull in the morning and threatening for rain, but it cleared up and was a fine day.
The Wellsford Show was today. Mrs J. Greenwood was a judge, and Irwin showed his sheep. I went down to Pats to take some beans and to get a book and borrow a paper.
Thursday 20th It was very dull in the morning, but it turned out a very fine day. There was a cricket match at Warkworth, a team was coming from Auckland to play a team picked from the various clubs in Rodney County, the match was supposed to start at 10 am, all of us went in Tom Ashton’s lorry starting from here soon after 9 am and got to the ground before 10. The local players were present. The Aucklanders started to come in cars, but they had a break down this side of Puhoi, so the match did not start until nearly 12 oclock.
Auckland batted first and made 144 runs, Bowley the English coach was one of them. Rodney made 190 runs. N. Vipond made 53, T Came 25 and Mumford 20.
The Association entertained the cricketers to lunch & tea in the [blank space] and asked me to join them. There was a great crowd who came in cars to watch the game. I met many old friends and spent a very pleasant day. We did not arrive at home until 6.30 pm.
Friday 22nd It was a very dry day. May Dunning came up from Auckland by train today, she came to stay here. As the Leigh show is tomorrow we were busy getting exhibits ready. Jim [took] a lot of them to Leigh in Pats lorry.
Saturday 23rd It was a very fine day. The Diamond Jubilee of the Omaha & Pakiri Show was held at Leigh today. Pat Dunning took all of us and the remainder of our exhibits in Jack Walden’s lorry.
Live stock was cut out this year and in its place were three chopping competitions under the superintendance of Mr Hardy, the 1st prize of £10 for the 14 inch chop was won by Mr Hastie. The exhibits in the hall were numerous and of good quality , we missed the exhibits of fruit usually shown by Ernie Wyatt and Mr Whitaker who have died during the year. Mr J. Morrison judged the field and produce , also flowers, Mr S. Smith judged the fruit, Mrs J. Morrison judged the preserves and cookery, Mrs A. Warin judged the needlework.
Jim, Jane, Jean and Mildred exhibited and gained prizes. I put in 5 exhibits but did not get a prize. I wished to exhibit today as I am the only one alive who exhibited at the first show 60 years ago (1869).
Meals were supplied at the hotel and at Ab Wyatts boarding house.
I had dinner at Ab Wyatts and tea at Mrs Arch Dunnings, Jane, Mildred, May D and I returned home with Pat in the lorry, Jim, Jean and Hector remained for the dance.
Sunday 24th It was a very fine day. The body of young Donaldson who was drowned off Leigh harbour on Sunday 23rd December was picked up floating outside Leigh Harbour a few days ago [and] was placed in a coffin and taken to Warkworth to be buried in the Anglican cemetery. Revd Hart was to conduct the service, so there was no service here. Jane and May [went] to L. Whitakers at Big Omaha, and Laurence brought them home in his car.
Monday 25th It was a very fine day. Hector was hauling firewood. Mr Perks was down at Pats in the pm. I went down.
Tuesday 26th It was a very fine day. Mrs Evans, her twin children & her two sisters came in the afternoon, afterwards Alf Dunning came in this car and brought his two sisters Ivy and Ini – Jane gave them afternoon tea, when they were gone, Jane and May went to Whitakers.
Wednesday 27th It was a very fine day. I was shelling beans and making bags to put them in. Jean went as assistant at Mr T. H. Walden’s store.
Thursday 28th It was a very fine day. I was shelling beans & peas and putting them away.
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Who Are The Good Leadoff Men?
It seems obvious: Hitters who are fast and get on base alot. You also probably don't want someone who hits alot of HRs, since you want those guys to bat with runners on. So I tried to devise a stat that would capture this. Here it is:
(2B + 1.25*3B - HR + SB)/outs
In other words, how many times a player gets into scoring position per out. Since triples are worth about 25% more than 2B's according to run expectancy tables, I multiply them by 1.25. By dividing by outs, the ability to get on base is taken into account since if you make an out you don't reach base. Also, outs include caught stealing. By subtracting HRs I am saying that guys that hit alot of HRs, even though they may have other good leadoff traits, are "penalized" here, since they might be better suited to batting lower in the order. But I also ran the numbers without subtracting HRs (the correlation between the two different formulas for all the players in the study was about .86). The table below shows the top 15 from 2007 among players with 400+ PAs using both methods.
The players in the top 15 are probably not big surprises. But are they really that great at being leadoff men? Do they increase team runs by batting leadoff comapared to anyone else? To try to answer these questions, I turned to some analysis I did on lineups two years ago. You can read those articles here and here. In that research, I studied the impact on team scoring by what each slot in the lineup did. In the latter of those two articles, team runs per game was the dependent variable in a linear regression while walk%, hit%, extra-base%, SB per game and CS per game were the independent variables. The regression found a run value for each event and for each lineup slot.
I plugged in the values for those events for Jose Reyes for the number one slot to see what impact he would have on team runs per game. But I also did the same for Adam Dunn, a player who you probably would not think of as making a good leadoff man. In my rankings above, he is 208th out of 216 players. In fact, I tried both Reyes and Dunn in the leadoff slot and both in the clean up slot. The table below shows their relevant stats and the run values for each lineup slot.
If Reyes bats first, his numbers combine to make 1.326 while if Dunn bats 4th we get 1.453 (the regression had an intercept or constant equal to about -5, so to get a number for team runs per game I would have to plug in numbers for all slots, multiply things out then subtract 5-the numbers here are just individual contributions). So those two add up to 2.779. But what if Dunn batted first and Reyes batted 4th? Dunn gets 1.521 and Reyes gets 1.306 for a total of 2.827. That is actually better than having Reyes bat first and Dunn 4th. Your team would score .0485 more runs per game or about 7.86 more per season. The reason it happens this way is that Dunn walks more (101 vs. 30) and if you went to one of my links above, you can see that the run value for walks is highest for the leadoff slot.
Now if a team really tried this, Dunn might not get walked so much since he won't be as big a threat batting with the bases empty. But if the guys right behind him don't have much power and since he is not fast, they might walk him more. Reyes might not get as many extra base hits since some of his triples and doubles are a result of speed and with runners on base he might have someone clogging the bases. I looked at his career stats on that and the results are mixed. It is also possible that Dunn would not score on hits that would have scored Reyes and since some of Reyes' doubles are a result of speed more than hitting distance, his doubles might drive in fewer runs than Dunn's doubles. Would it make a 7.86 run difference over the course of a season? Maybe, but even if it did, it is still interesting that batting Dunn first and Reyes fourth, instead of vice-versa, does not seem to hurt scoring that much, even though Reyes is rated far better as a leadoff man by my measure (which seems to make some sense).
I also tried using David Pinto's optimal lineup finder, based on my lineup research. I set a lineup with Reyes batting first and Dunn 4th. Then I used Retrosheet data to fill in the rest of the lineup. I used the OBP & SLG of each lineup slot for the NL in 2007. This tool has two methods, each based on my two separate lineup studies that used different years. Having Reyes batting first and Dunn 4th with everyone else being league average for their slot generated 4.93 to 4.94 runs per game. But the tool in each case did find that Reyes should bat leadoff. In one case it had Dunn batting 4th which generated 5.04 runs per game. In the other case it had Dunn 2nd for 4.99 runs per game. In the two cases where I had Dunn first and Reyes 4th, the runs per game were 4.90 and 4.93 (as stated above, the reverse yielded 4.93 and 4.94).
Now that model did not include stealing. But again, even though Reyes batting first and Dunn 4th does better than vice-versa, it is not by much. If stealing were included in Pinto's tool, it would be a bigger difference. But recall that in the model with things broken down by hits, walks and extrabases, Dunn batting first did better.
Then I ran a simulation using the Star Simulator. I plugged in all the numbers for each lineup slot again using Retrosheet data (2007 NL). The simulation had the average team scoring about 754 runs per season, about 2% less than in real life. But it also had about 2% fewer ABs (maybe because it only does offense and does not have extra inning games). Then I put Reyes first and Dunn 4th. The team scored 793.8 runs per season. If it were reversed, it was 791.5. So the difference, although in favor of Reyes batting first, is only 1.8 runs over a season. Having Reyes bat first with an average cleanup hitter, it was 773.36. With Dunn batting leadoff it was 788.27! So having Adam Dunn instead of Jose Reyes as your leadoff hitter would means about 15 more runs per season.
If you go back to my earlier analysis, from the second table, if we just multiply out the impact of Dunn batting first and Reyes batting first, we get 1.52 for Dunn and 1.33 for Reyes. Over 162 games that difference of about .019 is about 31.6 runs!
This all seems to be about tradeoffs. Getting on base versus speed and having a high OBP guy bat lead off versus losing his power if he batted in the middle of the lineup. I am looking for a way to incorporate all those factors in to find the optimal leadoff man. So I tried one more thing. I calculated each guy's impact in batting leadoff (like the way I did using the second table). So each player has a leadoff impact. But even if someone gets a high score there, it might not be a good idea to bat them first since you might lose an even better score or impact from another slot they might bat in. So I found each guy's impact in all nine slots. Then that got subtracted from their leadoff impact.
Barry Bonds, for example, had a leadoff impact of 1.77. His impact in the number 2 slot was 1.72. So he is .05 better batting leadoff than 2nd. He was .23 better number at 1 than number 3. I did that all the way down to the number 9 slot. Here are all of Bonds' differences
That adds up to about 2.4. Then I added up all of those differences for each player and ranked them from highest to lowest. Remember, that I am taking into account not just how good they would be leading off, but how much better (or worse) they would be than batting elsewhere. Below are the top 15 leadoff men from last year, even taking into account what you would lose by not having them bat elsewhere (based on walks, hits, extrabases, SB and CS)
Jorge Posada
Jack Cust
Pat Burrell
Magglio Ordonez
Chipper Jones
Travis Hafner
Scott Hatteberg
Just to be complete, here are the top 15 (based on walks, hits, extrabases, SB and CS) while not adjusting for how well they would hit elsewhere. It is some of the same players as above,but not identical
Mark Teixeira
Chipper Jones And Batting .400
Both Tangotiger and Phil Birnbaum blogged about this after there was an article at Baseball Prospectus. One issue is what is Jones' "true" average. Here is my comment at Phil's site:
In the last 4 months last year, Jones batted .354. Just doing a cursory look at his Retrosheet stats, that comes pretty close to what his best 4 month period (within one season) might have been anytime in his career. But it was over only 353 ABs.
Anyway, combining the last 4 months from last year with this year, he has batted .378 over his last 580 ABs. And his yearly AVGs have been going up lately. Starting with 2004, here are his averages with his age
This does not seem like a normal aging/performance pattern. How unusual, I don't know. But I just wonder if something is going on or changing with this guy that makes it really hard to know his true ability.
So I decided to look at what .400 hitters were like in the past. There are two tables below, one for the guys from the 1800s and one for the guys since 1900. The tables show their age, the league average, their career average, their career average before the year they hit .400 and their average before the year they hit .400.
One thing you might notice is that the average age is about 27 for both groups. Jones is 36. Cobb batted .400 when he was 35 but the league average was .285 that year, much higher than the NL average this year of .259. Cobb also had batted .400 twice before, had a much higher career average than Jones and batted alot higher the year before.
Barnes batted .400 in 1876 but I think that was the year you bunt a ball that went foul before it got to third or first base and it was still a hit. Dunlap did it in the only year of the Union Association. Notice that Jones' career average and average last year are far below what was normal in the past for .400 hitters. Same for the league average. Those are all just simple averages and in the case of Joe Jackson, he had only 75 ABs in his previous year and 115 ABs previously in his career. Taking him out would not change things much, with the last two columns being .344 and .377.
Besides Cobb, the only other guy to bat .400 since 1900 while being at least 30 years old was Bill Terry. But he did when the league average was .303. So when it comes to age, leage average and previous performance, Jones is not even close to what .400 hitters were in the past. If he does it, it will be amazing. I will wonder how he did it.
Have Second Basemen Been Underpaid?
It seems like 2nd basemen get paid less than they should. In trying to explain player salaries when taking their hitting performance, position and free agent/arbitration status into account, I found that being a 2nd baseman had a negative impact. I was doing a study involving salaries looking for something else and I thought it would be a good idea to have dummy variables for the "skilled" positions. What I found is discussed below. If you are interested in this issue, you might want to read a couple of papers by Jahn K. Hakes and Raymond D. Sauer (one was published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives). References to those papers are at the end.
I looked at 5 years, 1985, 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005. I used regression analysis to predict each player's salary. The data set included all the players with 400+ plate appearances in that year. Here is the basic model or equation
SAL = Constant + b1*FA + b2*ARB + b3*2B + b4*SS + b5*3B + b6*CF + b7*C + b8*HITS + b9*XB + b10*BB
FA means the player had played long enough to be a free agent or had been granted free agency (in some cases I found that out from Retroseet). The salary data came from the SABR "Business of Baseball" site. Players with 3 years service (and some with 2) can be eligible for arbitration. So ARB is for those guys. Both FA and ARB are dummy variables, 1 or 0. The same is true for the "skill" positions. 2B is for second basemen, SS for shortstops and so on.
I broke down hitting performance into three variables: hits, extrabases(XB) and walks (BB). This measures 3 different types of abilities (as in the work of Hakes and Sauer). XB means 1 for a double, 2 for a triple and 3 for a HR or all bases over 1 on a hit. So there are three abilities: to get a hit, to hit for power and to get walks.
I actually ran two versions of the model. One was a linear regression and the other was non-linear, where I took the natural log of salary (called LOGSAL). The results are summarized in the tables below. The first table shows the linear results and the second one shows the non-linear results (LOGSAL). You can click on the tables to get a bigger version. The values for each variable are the coefficient estimates. * means it was significant at the 10% level, ** the 5% level and *** the 1% level. It is probably not a big surprise that FA, ARB, HITs, XB and BB are all very significant in both the linear and non-linear models. With higher r-squared values and F values, the non-linear model looks like a better fit.
Being a FA in 2005 meant about an extra $5.7 million in salary, everything else being equal, in the linear model. It is hard to see an exact value in the non-linear model for being a FA. But I simply changed the 1 to 0 for a few guys to see how their predicted salary would change. If Alex Rodriquez was not a FA (or eligible for ARB) in 2005, his predicted salary would have been just $1.1 million. The model predicted it would be $12.2 million. So, for him, being a free agent, meant an extra $11.1 million. For Brad Ausmus, it meant about $7.6 million (or almost all of his $8.3 million in salary). Since the regression is non-linear, the effect is not the same for everyone.
Now what about the 2nd basemen? The coefficient for them is negative in all years in the non-linear regression and negative in 4 of the 5 years for the linear regression. If being a 2nd basemen truly has no effect on salary, the odds of getting a negative sign all 5 years is 32 to 1. The only year it was positive in the linear model was 2000, and it only added about $60,000 in salary. It was only significant in one case, in the non-linear model in 2005. The coefficient is -.334, so it is hard to see the dollar value of the loss to being a 2nd basemen. The linear model shows it to be $996,000 (although it was not significant, with the p-value being .22). In the non-linear model, I switched the 1 to a 0 for all the 2nd basemen for 2005. For 11 out 20 of them, it meant a drop of more than $1 million (again, like the the FA case mentioned above for AROD and Ausmus, the effect is not the same for each player in the non-linear model). That is, if those guys had been in LF, RF or at 1B, they would be making about $1 million more. For 6 others, the drop was six figures but those were guys who had salaries under $1 million anyway, so it was big portion of their salary.
The story might not be that much different for some of the other skilled positions. The coefficient for CF was negative in all 5 years of the non-linear model. Same for 3B and it was significant in the year 2000. The results, however, for catchers (C) and SS are mixed. Sometimes negative, sometimes positive. But it looks like there has been a general tendency to underpay players at the skilled positions. In fact, in the non-linear regression, 20 of the 25 coefficients (5 per year for 5 years) are negative.
Here are the papers by Hakes and Sauer
An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis
he Moneyball Anomaly and Payroll Efficiency: A Further Investigation
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Should Sox Manager Guillen Have Been Upset?
After losing a third straight game to the Rays last Sunday, Guillen had a tirade, complaining about how players were not hitting and coming through with runners on base. Especially frustrating was scoring just 4 runs in the 3 losses and leaving 10 runners on base in a 4-3, 10 inning loss. He swore and wanted Sox GM Ken Williams to get some better players. But were the Sox underperforming?
Let's first look at what the Sox were expected to do and what they have been doing. The table below shows the OBP and SLG for the 9 Sox regulars and what they were projected to do in the Bill James Handbook.
Alexi Ramirez was not included because he did not have a projection in the book. A weighted average of the projected OBPs and SLGs is .343 and .460 (guys like Quentin and Swisher were projected for parks other than U. S. Cellular Field, so that is a problem, but I hope not too big). This year, the league OBP and SLG are lower than last year. For OBP, it has fallen from .338 to .330 and for SLG it has fallen from .423 to .402. So if we give the Sox the same declines for their projection, they end up wtih .335 and .439 for their projections. How many runs per game should that bring them?
Based on regression analysis of all teams from 2001-03,
R/G = 17.11*OBP + 11.13*SLG - 5.66
That predicts that the Sox should score 4.95 runs per game. Right now they are at 4.51. So that is almost half a run less per game than expected, a big disappointment. Their actual OBP and SLG right now are .330 and .416, also below projections. At those numbers, they should be scoring 4.62 runs per game but the actually are scoring 4.51. So that is a little lower than they should have, but nothing major.
Before the three game losing streak started in Tampa Bay about a week and a half ago, their OBP and SLG were about 0.324 and 0.416. So they should have been scoring 4.51 R/G while they were actually at 4.44. So the team was scoring about what they should have. So Guillen should not have been upset about scoring enough runs or leaving runners on base. He could have been upset about players not hitting up to expectations as shown above, but that is it. Also, the game they got shutout in in Tampa was started by Scott Kazmier, who went 7 IP and is one of the best pitchers in baseball. And Tampa has good pitching in general. Sometimes they will give up just 4 runs in three games. You can't go crazy when that happens.
On the flip side, the Sox have pitched better than expectations. Below are the ERAs for the Sox pitchers this year and their projections. Nick Masset is left out because he did not have projections in the book.
The weighted average of the projected ERAs for these pitchers is 4.45. But the league ERA is .37 lower this year than last year, so we can lower the prediction to 4.08. The Sox actually have a league leading 3.33 ERA, far lower than expected. So they are allowing .75 fewer earned runs than expected (and they were scoring .44 less than expected). So on balance, they are .31 ahead of expectations.
Are they winning the number of games they should this year based on their runs and runs allowed this year? They have scored 275 runs and allowed 226 runs. Using the Bill James "pythagorean projection," that works out to a .597 pct and 35.8 wins. They have won 34. So a bit of a disappointment, but not huge. Last week I showed that the Sox had won about 1 game less than expected based on their OPS differential.
As I stated above, the Sox were expected to be scoring 4.95 runs a game this year. Their expected ERA was 4.08. Add about .4 to that for unearned runs, and you get 4.48 runs allowed per game. Scoring that many runs and allowing that many runs would give them a .549 pct and about 33 wins, 1 less than they actually have. So overall, the Sox are doing about as well as expected when the season started and they are scoring about as many runs as they should based on their OBP and SLG. They are also winning pretty close to the number of games they should based on both OPS differential and runs and runs allowed. So what is there to complain about?
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HIMYM: Why The Fake Barney & Patrice Relationship Was Insulting To Fans
This entry was posted on January 28, 2013, in By Me, HIMYM, HIMYM quotes, How I Met Your Mother, Musings, plus size, plus size issues, plus size relationships, plus size TV, plus size women, Quotes, Strong Words, TV and tagged Barney, fake relationship, fans unhappy with HIMYM, fat jokes HIMYM, fat people on HIMYM, HIMYM, HIMYM continuity errors, HIMYM inconsistencies, How I Met Your Mother, making fun of fat people, over-correction, Patrice, plus size issues, sucks about HIMYM. Bookmark the permalink. 28 Comments
You all know that I love How I Met Your Mother. I have my issues with the show, though, and my main annoyance continues to be the metric ton of fat jokes that they’ve put out over the seasons. I covered this in my first in-depth HIMYM post, titled “How I Met Your Mother (And How I Know She Won’t Be Fat)”. So I’m not going to go into all that again, but everything there factors into my current dissatisfaction with season 8, episode 10 “The Over-Correction”.
Here’s what it comes down to: Barney would NEVER date Patrice seriously. NEVER. Beyond that, there is NO possible way that Ted, Lily, and Marshall would have actually believed that he was actually involved with Patrice. Therefore it is ridiculous that they were presented as falling for what is SO OBVIOUSLY a play. It was abundantly clear to fans that Patrice had to be a plot device to get Barney closer to Robin. He might act nice to her, or maybe even like her in a platonic way, but we all know that Barney regards “fatties” as permanent manatees (see S6E11 “The Mermaid Theory”). It is insulting to expect fans to buy this idea, even for one episode, given Barney’s well-documented distate for overweight people.
This Patrice plot would have perhaps been clever, or at least plausible, if not for the show’s history of hating on fat people. Barney’s denigration of fat people is an established character trait that he would not stray from. This episode was contrived to give Robin a chance to doubt his intentions, and seem crazy for doing it, and then the farce continues out until Robin’s jealousy makes her realize her true feelings for Barney. Robin is eventually given an intervention for her involvement in Barney and Patrice’s “relationship”, but she was in the right the whole time.
If Barney really were dating Patrice, seriously, he would want and need an intervention. Don’t believe me? Let’s jump back to just last season, when Barney forces all of his friends to swear a “broath” on the Bro Code (his personal equivalent to the Bible). He makes each of them promise not to interfere with his life, UNLESS:
“It’s an issue of health, national security, or he’s about to get up on a fatty.”
-S7E19 “The Broath”
In “The Over-Correction” it is clear that Ted, Lily, and Marshall are in direct violation of their sworn upon broath to Barney, because they didn’t attempt to interfere with the most heinous of scenarios: Barney hooking up with an overweight woman. The broath that Barney drafted clearly shows that getting “up on a fatty” is on the same level as a potential threat to his health and/or our national security. Hooking up with a fat chick is, to Barney, as taboo as contracting an STD or banging a terrorist. And if he won’t even “get up on” a fatty, can you really imagine him dating – or marrying – one?! The answer is no.
“Over 200 women, spanning six continents, 17 nationalities, 74 sexual positions, and not a single fatty. It’s impressive.”
-Jim Nantz via Barney’s imagination, evaluating his whoring around stats
-S5E102 “The Perfect Week”
“I am Mr. Charity. I frequently sleep with sixes, chubsters, over thirty’s. I am the Bill and Melinda Gates of the sympathy bang.”
-Barney, presumably lying, unless he has changed his standards drastically to allow for such charitable contributions.
-S6E124 “False Positive”
Barney’s abhorrence of fat women is so well-known that those two quotes are presented on some fan sites as contradictory errors in continuity. A later episode prompted even more confusion – season 5, episode 23 “The Wedding Bride”. At the end of this episode, we see a visual representation of the emotional baggage that people carry around with them. Various pieces of luggage were labeled as “MOM STILL DOES LAUNDRY”, “ONLY DATES GUYS IN A BAND”, etc. One hit particularly close to home for me (CUBS FAN) :) Three were labeled “SLEPT WITH BARNEY”; one among those three was carried by an overweight woman.
Fans were seriously thrown by this; how could it be??? The How I Met Your Mother Wiki page listed this scene under the “Goofs and Errors” for the episode:
“In Perfect Week, Jim Nantz claimed, that Barney never slept with a fatty. However in the last scene of this episode, one fat woman in the back carries a baggage called “Slept with Barney” (as some other women in this scene). One possible explanation is that the woman got fat after her encounter with Barney, allowing the statement to remain true.”
–http://how-i-met-your-mother.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wedding_Bride
The issue was also addressed on the fan site Be Awesome Instead. Comments for the article discussing “The Wedding Bride” episode noted:
Sharone: Hey did anyone else notice how in the end with the ‘luggage’ some fat chicks had ‘slept with barney’ as theirs…i mean it was funny…but did anyone else remember how barney has never, and will never sleep with a fat chick…
…it dissappointed [sic] me…but still a good episode.”
Aaron: “Maybe they are fat now… seeing as girls seems to loose [sic] a lot of self respect after Barney…”
Sharone: “I guess I could believe that, it is quite a stretch[if you saw them]. But at least it’s somthing [sic] to think about… haha thanks.”
–http://www.beawesomeinstead.com/how-i-met-your-mother/2010/the-wedding-bride-season-5-episode-23-discussion/
Redditors weighed in on this confusion in several different posts:
I always thought Barney said no fatties (Screenshot from the Wedding Bride episode)
submitted 1 year ago by MDevonL
[–]synaesthetist 28 points 1 year ago
Sounds terrible, but maybe he slept with her when she was at a lower weight?
[–]kattrinee 0 points 1 year ago
Barney.. the fattymaker.
[–]maip23 1 point 11 months ago
That’s possible, or it was
*to complete his sex list,
*he was super drunk and forgot
*she borrowed the bag from her hot roommate
[–]BigGreenYamo 5 points 1 year ago
She might have started binge eating after Barney broke her heart.
–http://www.reddit.com/r/HIMYM/comments/nggrk/i_always_thought_barney_said_no_fatties/
Must have really let go… (self.HIMYM)
submitted 7 days ago by Akumakei
Was watching some old episodes (Wow, when did I start thinking of season 5 as being ‘old’?) and noticed this in ‘The Wedding Bride.’ I’m pretty sure that earlier in the same season, in ‘The Perfect Week,’ Barney mentions having slept with “no fatties.”
I can’t bring myself to think Barney would lie.
[–]TheSecretExit Farhampton 19 points 7 days ago
Perhaps sleeping with Barney caused her to lose all self-esteem and thereby letting herself go.
[–]wrwight 3 points 7 days ago
But he is the Bill and Melinda Gates of the sympathy bang, including, among others, chubsters. Maybe this was a charity case. I wonder if you can write that off on your taxes..
[–]FromDaHood Self-five! 3 points 7 days ago
My assumption has always been that he slept with her years previously and never talked to her again. Seems pretty plausible considering the character.
[–]ZheK 2 points 7 days ago
He says he never slept with fatties. He might be lying.
[–]NeonCookies 2 points 6 days ago
Could be he slept with her while she was skinny and she has gotten fat since. Or he slept with her in between the two episodes.
[–]Tom_Foolery1993 1 point 5 days ago
Well Barney is a pathological liar. But he wouldn’t lie about some strange would he? Oh but he would. The perfect week, he says he hooked up with some French hairdresser or something but he then reveals it was an Applebee’s waitress or something.
[–]chef2deaf Seriously, don’t sleep on the gouda 2 points 3 days ago
in ‘False Positive’ in season 6 he says “I am Mr. Charity. I frequently sleep with sixes, chubsters, over thirty’s. I am the Bill and Melinda Gates of the sympathy bang.”
–http://www.reddit.com/r/HIMYM/comments/1680nd/must_have_really_let_go/
The only plausible conclusion that people have reached is of this woman gaining weight after sleeping with Barney. This was analyzed to such a degree precisely because it’s so contrary to Barney’s character.
Some will note that Barney burned the Playbook, and he has obviously changed his views on marriage and long-term relationships. Yes, that’s all true. But those changes took literally years to pan out, and we saw a ton of development leading up to his new perspective on such things. It took human interactions – with Robin, with Nora, with Quinn, and with the rest of the group – for Barney to progress into someone capable of commitment and monogamy.
Michael Arbeiter of Hollywood.com sums it up nicely:
It was interesting to see Barney adjust his ways for a few episodes in his involvement with Patrice. Even if we knew he’d be taking up with Robin ultimately, the ability to abandon his fixation on the supermodel figure was a welcome exhibition of growth for the character. But no such luck, no such growth — Barney adheres just as vehemently to his adolescent ideals about women and how to trick them into being with him. Unfortunately, Barney isn’t made out to be a villain here: How I Met Your Mother celebrates these elements of the role, rewarding him with a union with Robin that is meant to feel touching and triumphant.
We haven’t seen anything to indicate that Barney has reconsidered his stance regarding overweight women. Patrice could well be a starting step towards that, but she has always been presented as the butt of the joke. I think the scenes with Robin screaming at Patrice are hilarious. Seriously, I have been known to shout “NOBODY ASKED YOU PATRICE!!!” and then collapse into giggles. But those jokes were making fun of her for being naive, for being clingy, for being sweet to an annoying degree. I was comfortable laughing, because those are obviously fictional traits attributed to this character.
This episode, though, was a mockery of her size. They had to find someone who Robin wouldn’t believe Barney would date, and they did it in the most efficient way possible. The only other choices would have to be a really, really ugly girl (which would be a shitty plot in its own right), a senior citizen (but we have to remember that Barney has in fact slept with an old lady), or I guess someone who is super, super into commitment and marriage right away and that’s all she ever talks about.
Let’s be real here – if Patrice were thin and hot, Barney would have already tried to get up on her. She is a beautiful woman, and I think Barney would be able to see that if she were in a smaller package. Her gullible personality is practically begging for Barney to at least try to run a play on her, but it never happens. Why? Because she’s fat, of course. In the world of HIMYM, fat people like Patrice are not worthy of love or sexual interest.
Later, Arbeiter asks:
Why is that out of the question? Why can it only be optioned as a joke or a trick? Why do the people behind How I Met Your Mother have the same attitude on Barney dating Patrice as Barney himself, or his equally shallow friends Ted, Marshall, and Lily? “Of course Barney would never date Patrice,” How I Met Your Mother assures us. “Of course he can only see her as a cog in his process to win the prize that is Robin.” And what’s worse than the show’s insistence on this as the certainty is how unapologetic it is about the ordeal. How little an explanation it seems to feel is warranted for Patrice’s sole purpose as a means to an end.
Patrice is basically the female equivalent of Randy (S3E18 “Rebound Bro”), in terms of personality. They’re both obsessed with their cool co-workers, they’re both awkward and trying too hard to connect with others, and they’re both seemingly immune to direct insults. They are both rebound bros – they are both backup friends. They are the people you only hang out with – the people you use – when there’s absolutely nobody better around, or when you’re tricked into it. Their character similarities are striking, and I really want them to get together. It would be nice to see two underdog characters find love.
My point, though, is that even Randy is presented as a viable sexual prospect for women. Barney puts effort into getting him laid, and Robin considers him as a prospect when she’s feeling especially lonely. Patrice isn’t afforded the same treatment – because no one would believe that anyone on the show would see her as attractive.
It makes me wonder…if Patrice knew how Barney talked about fat people, would she still have wanted to help him? Probably yes. Robin is continuously horrible to her and Patrice is never deterred. But it seems mean to the character and actress to have her pretend to be a legitimate love interest for Barney.
I’ve made my peace with Barney as a fat hater. It’s part of his character, and his humor. I don’t love it, but I at least understand that the jokes are there because they represent an integral part of his personality. It bothers me more when someone like Marshall makes a fat joke, because he’s supposed to be a nice guy. Barney is supposed to be an asshole about these things, but now the writers have added insult to injury.
The only way these fat jokes aren’t a total dick move is if they are essential to Barney’s character. When you try to play it so that Barney is suddenly a-ok with fat chicks, you make all of his past comments even more insulting. Suddenly all those mean fat jokes that were dubbed necessary to his character are just mean fat jokes. If Barney had actually changed, it would be a perfectly acceptable (if distasteful, at least to some) method of showing character development. But Barney isn’t presented as having changed. Barney does not actually like Patrice. He does not actually love Patrice. He is using her, plain and simple.
Yes, Barney has evolved into a nicer, more sympathetic version of himself. But no, he has not evolved to the point where he is suddenly opening his dating pool up to the fatties. We know this for sure, because he immediately returns to making fat jokes in the next episode “Ring Up!” Barney has not changed, the show has not changed, and fat people are still there to be used. So why spend a whole episode pretending that anyone in the group would buy that?
Fuck that. It’s an insult to the characters, to the actors, and to the fans. Trying to make us buy this impossible concept pushes fans to disregard everything they know about Barney up to this point. Everything – EVERYTHING – that Robin says regarding this couple is absolutely true:
Robin: That Barney and Patrice thing is so bogus. He’s clearly trying to get back at me for rejecting him.
Robin: But seriously, what other reason would Barney have to date Patrice?
Ted: It’s an over correction.
Robin: How dare you! What is that?
Ted: Barney was engaged to Quinn, a stripper he never really trusted so he over corrects by dating her opposite, warm and nurturing Patrice.
Robin: Okay. Barney is so not for real about Patrice. Today he did the craziest, most clearly staged for my benefit thing ever.
Flashback to Robin’s work:
Barney: Hey Patrice, you ready for lunch?
Patrice: Sure!
Return to present
Robin: Right? Right? I mean, What’s next, birthday gifts? Wake up people, this is not an over correction, it’s fraud, and we need to keep trying to stop this.
Robin: She can’t see that Barney is using her, and it breaks my heart. You know, I love Patrice, we’re like sisters.
Ted: You’ve never gotten through even one exchange without screaming at her.
Robin: (screaming) Sisters fight Ted! But the bond is always there.
Lily: What are you doing here?
Robin: I came to get the Playbook so I could show Patrice who Barney really is.
Lily: Why can’t you just let them be happy?
Robin: Because they’re not really happy Lily!
Barney: Sometimes you fall for someone you’d never expect but that doesn’t make it wrong. Doesn’t everyone deserve to be happy?
Lily: I guess none of us thought of it that way.
Barney: Next rounds on me (walks away)
Robin: Wow.
Lily: I know.
Robin: Barney’s lost it, he needs an intervention.
Lily: Robin, after everything we’ve seen, do you still think Barney’s faking this?
Robin: No, but we have to stop it, Barney is not Barney anymore.
Ted: People change.
Robin: But not this fast and this drastically. This is a cry for help, okay. If I was out of control I would want you guys to help me. So what do you say, intervention?
Arbeiter’s conclusion is thought-provoking:
It’s unfortunate that How I Met Your Mother, a show that prides itself on being a celebration of love, is so restrictive with not only the achievement but the very pursuit of love. So disingenuous with its attitude on the idea of love. “It can only exist between people who look like this,” the show insists. “Everyone else in our universe is here to make sure those people get their love.” It’s not only Patrice who suffers here. The mentality propagated by this idea, and all of the multitudes of TV shows and movies that uphold the same themes, is dangerous. We can’t be left to forgive Barney and How I Met Your Mother, to subjugate and marginalize Patrice. The fact that we’re asked to do this so cavalierly is frightening. And the fact that many of us comply with this request is horrifying.
‘How I Met Your Mother’: Why Was a Real Barney/Patrice Romance Out of the Question?
It is really sad that a show about serendipity, about the right time and the right place, about true love above all else, is so intentionally mean-spirited towards many of their fans. How can we lose ourselves in the love story if we are constantly reminded that we don’t deserve the same in our own lives?
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Sara Vicky says:
I’ve never been a fan of Barney so his whole fake relationship with Patrice didn’t surprise or shock me ! I mean coming to women, the guy has always been a jerk. His character is funny sure, but i’m not always ok with his ways with them. The Patrice thing only emphasized for me how he’s clearly not my favorite himym character.
CorinaWrites says:
Yeah I am very conflicted regarding Barney. I don’t want to ever find him funny be he is funny, so often. I know it’s his part of his character to be such a jerk, but I wish his character development would have led him to being nicer by now. Like he’s supposed to be so different, but he’s still horrible when speaking of any woman he doesn’t find hot enough to hook up with. I would like the show so much more if it went in that direction. It’s a tiny step but given how every season has a plethora of fat jokes I’m not holding my breath.
Walking Eye says:
I agree with much of what you’ve said here. But I do have some qualms to address.
I think they were very positive at the end of the episode with Barney juxtaposing his “relationship” with Patrice and Marshall’s mom and Lily’s dad hooking up and just wanting to be happy. It was perfect.
Robin comes off as a complete bitch when it comes to Patrice.
I thought they showed Barney as reaching a real life moment where he was truly reflecting on his previous escapades. Of course, this was shown to be false a couple episodes later, but Patrice was shown positively and wanting to help.
As to whether Barney hooked up with “fatties”? Yeah, the dude is a liar. While he may say he wouldn’t f a fatty, we’ve seen him hook up with an old woman and a female body-builder. Barney’s nailed plenty of “fatties” but the show, unfortunately, doesn’t address it directly, IMO.
I think you are right about Barney and his lies. You can’t really trust anything he says regarding who he did or did not hook up with. Poor Patrice was excited to help, and I can’t decide if that makes it better or worse. She’s either oblivious to the insults or totally undeterred by them, I guess.
You are right in that Patrice is portrayed as a positive character, despite her weight. Maybe that’s why I feel like it is even more offensive…because they pretend they are all of a sudden cool with and respectful of overweight people even though they never have been before.
I’m not sure, I’m still considering this one.
Thank you for your comments, you have great insights and I hope to read more!
Ernie the Giant Chicken says:
Maybe it was another Barney…
Or just his boyfriend’s nickname.
Robin wasn’t being mean about Patrice being overweight, she was saying she knew BARNEY enough to know that he wouldn’t be interested in her… and from what I remember she never even made it about Patrice’s weight, she made it about the fact that Barney also knows that Patrice bothers Robin a lot.
Also, Patrice being a nice and sweet and positive character should not and does not make it more offensive. If she was overweight and made fun of and shown in a bad way for no other reason than being over weight.. THEN it would be offensive.
This was about a “friend” of Robin’s helping her out by going along with Barney’s plan. Would you have been offended with this same scenario if it was Robin’s plan and she enlisted Randy to help and pretend they were in a relationship?
I am an overweight women. But I don’t understand why people are taking this as offensive.
I agree with some of your points, but the fact that Robin was showing that dating Patrice was so out of character for Barney should not be an offensive thing… everyone who watches the show knows Barney is a total jerkw ehn it comes to women. This was not surprising at all.
Also when I watched it I did not at all assume this was some grand play to get Robin. I am a huge fan and I DID think there was a chance that he really had changed. But i’m not offended that he didnt. And it’s definitely not offensive in my opinion that Patrice is shown as willing to help. Randy would have done the same if the roles were reversed.
I feel that Robin KNOWS Barney wouldn’t be interested in Patrice – BECAUSE she’s fat. It doesn’t have to be said for us to understand it. Pretty much any woman is fair game to Barney, but he always shows his disgust when the woman isn’t traditionally beautiful (the old woman he slept with to ditch his overalls, the female body builder, etc). Patrice is traditionally beautiful, except for that she’s overweight.
Barney doesn’t care all that much about personality, but he is actively against being with a woman that he doesn’t consider attractive. He’s slept with stalkers, dumb girls, literally crazy women, etc. Patrice’s personality quirks aren’t the problem here. Everything he has said and done in the past 7 seasons indicates that he would consider Patrice a “fatty” that he wouldn’t be seen in public with.
I get what you’re saying, though, and I understand that not everyone interpreted it this way. I am honestly amazed that any long term fan would believe that Barney would actually be into Patrice, but I give you credit for being more open-minded about it than I was.
Randy would have done the same, true, but it would be different, because it has already been proven that the gang would believe Robin was actually with him. Now, obviously the actress playing Patrice doesn’t take issue with this. She did the scenes, so far be it for me to say that it’s unfair to her. It just sucks that they took basically the only female plus size character and used her solely as a device for Barney to get a skinny woman. And Patrice is so nice, and sweet, that it was easy to take advantage of her towards that end.
It’s like a bad 80s movie where the hot girl pretends to be into the dorky guy, but really she’s using him to get closer to some popular guy. The difference is that those movies usually end with the hot girl realizing how awesome the dorky guy really is. In this case, Barney didn’t have any discernable change of heart regarding fat women – he used Patrice, and then continued on with his fat jokes immediately afterwards.
I look at it like this – if I was friends with a very attractive woman, and her very attractive ex wanted my help to get her back, I would be glad to help. I’m a nice person, just like Patrice. But if I knew that the guy constantly mocked fat people, I wouldn’t be on board. Because it would be effing embarassing to pretend that I was his girlfriend when everyone that knows him is aware that he is disgusted by women like me. And I wouldn’t be so inclined to help someone that had been such a dick about all that. Patrice, much like myself, might still go along, for the sake of her friend. But that doesn’t just make it okay.
If they had made Barney change just a tiny bit more, into someone that perhaps doesn’t like looking at fat people but can refrain from talking shit about them, I think it would have worked. With all of his character development, it wouldn’t have been so hard. Imagine if Barney told Patrice, hey, you know what…I used to be really mean to women with your figure, but you’ve reminded me that they’re still actual people, so I’m going to try to be a nicer person from now. Or he could even be Barneyish and say, I never thought I could date a fat girl, but spending time with you has opened my eyes to how awesome you are.
That’s it. He doesn’t need to fall in love with her, but some acknowledgement would be nice. And Patrice is SO nice (and naive?) that she would probably have thanked him and given him a hug. I would have liked that type of ending better, but hey, to each their own.
Seriously, thank you for commenting. Not many people want to talk about this stuff and I love getting thoughtful comments to consider and respond to!
We all obviously knew that this was a ploy from the beginning. However, the fact that Barney is the one character who (arguably) has seen the most changes since the show began, it could just be a reflection on who he is becoming. All the things that past-Barney said don’t matter to him anymore. We slowly see him becoming more emotional and less shallow. We see that though Patrice is not an ideal match for him, he is able to cope well enough that it could seem plausible. This is just as much a way for Barney to break one rule than to break another, getting married. Barney is really the most mysterious character. He undergoes changes both drastically and dramaticallly. The way he is constantly becoming a better person is why we love him so much! His antics keep us guessing, and that is exactly how it should be.
I considered that when writing this article. The part that I can’t reconcile with, though, is that Barney continues making fat jokes post-Patrice. So it is clear that spending quality time with a nice plus size woman has not at all moved him towards being more respectful. I was really hoping her character would be presented as a foil that helps Barney to see what a jerk he is, but it didn’t really pan out like that. Maybe it is still to come, idk. I guess I’m just ready for that character change, or at least for less of an emphasis on the random shots at fat people. But he is now and always will be Barney, and hating on fat chicks might just be a core element of his personality.
Who the hell over analyses a show this way? Shut up, and enjoy the most fantastically, hilarious show on television! It’s petty and sad that you’ve taken that much thought and time into producing an essay on this one detail of the show. I think it’s great. It’s mixed things up so that it’s not just ‘same old, same old’, it’s unexpected and you, unless you’re a show writer which i highly doubt, have no idea what will come of it. Fyi people, it’s a show, it’s a fictional character, grow the hell up.
I won’t argue that I have spent a lot of time analyzing the show – but it’s not just for one essay “on this one detail”. I analyze EVERYTHING on this show. Seriously, if you spend any time on this blog it should be pretty obvious that I’ve analyzed the ever loving hell out of this show. Because it’s fun for me. I’m not sure why that upsets you so much – unless you’re a show writer, which I highly doubt… :)
I don’t think there’s anything immature about actually thinking while enjoying a show. Some people just want to watch without putting thought into it, and I get that. But I’m not one of those people, and that’s ok. I think part of being a true fan isn’t just accepting everything they put forth – if I don’t like it, or don’t understand it, I’m going to say something on this little platform I’ve created for myself here.
You do know you don’t HAVE to read my posts if they bother you, right? That being said, I’m glad that you commented. (Honestly!) Differences of opinion are what make the internet go round, so to speak, and your comment is a part of that. Isn’t it fun to be a part of this fascinating discourse?
B.ONE.Z the SpydaMonster says:
At first, I wasn’t happy to find out that Barney was just faking a relationship with Patrice to get closer to Robin. I too thought a real relationship with them would’ve been good because it would’ve been a great step forward for Barney’s character.
Look at the growth that he has gone through with each woman in the series:
-Barney started out as a notorious womanizer who would never consider a serious commitment.
-In his first run with Robin he realized it’s okay to have feelings for someone, and picked up the courage to be with her.
-Then with Nora he learned to be vulnerable around someone he loves.
-And with Quinn, he finally began to consider settling down and getting married.
I think a real relationship with Patrice would’ve been a great way to prove that Barney is finally putting his shallow ways behind him, and truly does desire a relationship that is not just based on looks or sex.
In the end though, I’m okay with idea of their fake relationship. It made for an amazing plot-twist in “The Final Page (Part 2)” when we found out it was just a play all along. And in the weeks leading up to it we were able to see Robin try to prove her love for Barney because ever since they broke up, it was always Barney who was making the moves to try and get them together.
I’m not sure how a real relationship with Barney and Patrice would have worked out, but I like to think if Barney really was going to propose to Patrice instead of Robin, and Robin tried to break it up, then Patrice would reject Barney and Barney would be upset at Robin leading to a period of awkwardness between the 2. I don’t know how the writers would have Barney ultimately propose to Robin, but under this scenario something would need to happen for the both of them to realize that they are perfect for each other.
But I’ll give the writers the benefit of the doubt because coming into season 8, we all thought it would be the final year for the show. Even the writers said themselves that they were writing the season as if it were the last. So by getting Barney and Robin engaged right away, they were just trying to tie up a loose end because the renewal for season 9 didn’t come until during the holiday break.
Those are all fair points about Patrice. I would have been satisfied with some conversation between her and Barney, or perhaps just Barney reflecting later to Ted, about how he usually treats women that look like her. Since it’s Barney, it could have been as straightforward as him saying, you know what Ted, I never thought fat chicks were worth anything at all. But it turns out they’re real people and you can actually be friends with them! And then Ted can be like, yes, congratulations on becoming slightly less of an evil monster.
Character progression, but still staying in line with the core elements of his personality, and a way to show some respect to a key player in Barney and Robin getting together.
Did you really think it was real, ever? I never did, and I just assumed other fans wouldn’t either. But, then again, I’ve had quite a few people find this post by searching for things like “why would Barney marry Patrice she’s so fat” and “fat girl Patrice as Barney’s wife wtf”.
That made me feel like my whole article was justified, in a way. :) I don’t want to give the writers a pass on this, because it’s consistent with how they’ve portrayed and discussed average looking women throughout the entire show. But I do accept that the question of a season 9 led to some weird placement and filler episodes.
B.ONE.Z says:
“Did you really think it was real, ever?” *shamefully* yes. -____-
i fell for the trap haha! even though it was considered a questionable pairing by most fans, like i said in the first comment, i thought they were using patrice for barney and robin’s character growth. i was expecting barney to prove he wasn’t shallow anymore, and i thought it was a good idea to have robin try to break them up. because that was her turn to prove her love for barney.
Don’t be ashamed, that just means you are perhaps less cynical about this sort of thing than I am. And it would have been an awesome way to show Barney’s character development, if it had been real. I know some people say that him working with Patrice shows he has matured, but I don’t really buy it. Barney has always been great at seeming nice when he is using someone towards his own end. I do think that Barney seemed to have an honest sense of affection for Patrice, but I don’t think that has impacted his actual character. I would guess that Barney still thinks all fat chicks are gross and useless, except maybe Patrice, but still he wouldn’t date her. Know what I mean?
BTSM says:
just forgot to click the check mark that says notify. =P
You’ve made some valid points, but I have to be honest: I never really thought of Patrice as a “fatty” until you mentioned it. I recognize that she’s not supermodel thin or anything, but she’s certainly not THAT large. I always thought it wasn’t believable that Barney was with her because of her obnoxious, clingy (although funny) nature. Plus, considering her history with Robin, it didn’t make since for him to start a relationship with Patrice unless it was a fake one with the intention of winning back Robin. However, I agree that fat jokes aren’t funny. People shouldn’t be put down for their weight. Whatever the case may be, this storyline wasn’t HIMYM’s finest moment. Still, I loved the show and enjoyed your insights! :)
Actually, you’re pretty stupid if you don’t have the sense of humour required to get those jokes. I myself once was a fat guy and I lost weight by starting a career in sports and I can strongly say I don’t like fat people, so I found all the HIMYM jokes hilarious.
Do you ever think before you speak (or in this case, write)?
who cares about fat jokes really ? the real annoyance is that this is not robins character at all she is a completely different person from the beginning of the show it’s obvious that the writers were lazy and didn’t want Ted with robin so they made her unavailable to him even though she was always disgusted with his actions and neither Barney nor robin should have ever pursued anything because it’s entirely disrespectful to Ted who was always in love with robin and then the final episode shows robin avoiding the gang because she is jealous and can’t bear to watch Ted the person she even says she should have ended up with after she says she didn’t love him , either the writers are extremely lazy or robin is a typical crazy woman who has no idea what she really wants. Also Barney is extremely messed up towards Ted by throwing it in his face that robin is marrying him and not Ted and that Ted should butt out even though Ted is nothing but a push over allowing his friends to do that to him , I just don’t think anyone would ever be that way , it was bad enough watching desperate Marshall fall for the only girl to ever sleep with him especially after she always tried to run away if things were tough he always took her back, I love the show but the writers changed the characters personalities so much that they would all be on medication for being so imbalanced
timawilliamson says:
They didn’t choose Patrice because Barney would never date her. They chose her because Robin hated her, and it added to the lie.
Nathália says:
I see your point, but Barney also said he was never going to get married
I would really love some opinions on this..
I’ve been watching aloot of himym.. currently on round two at season 6 Ep 1
And somethings just been bugging me during all of it.. is every so often I get abit triggerednon. Barnet -desire loving the show and even Barents. Character (of course) but my catalyst was during a mental discussion with myself about one thing..
Neil Patrick harris is gay and yes plays a ladies man..
But also plays a man whose extremely derogatory against women, constantly insulting?
I just would like a discussion so if anyone has an opinion :D
I haven’t watched the show since the finale, so I can’t say for sure. But when I think about it now I am much more bothered by Barney’s general mistreatment of women than I was when it aired. I think because today’s political climate shows how prevalent those chauvinistic mindsets actually are. So it’s more disturbing now because I realize it’s more accurate.
Barney- despite- *
This article sounds like it’s written by someone who has a very low self-esteem and has some serious body image issues. Every time I hear Patrice, all I think about is “NOBODY ASKED YOU PATRICE!!!” not how she is a fatty who is disliked by Barney.
Besides that Barney treats all women like a number (perfect week, perfect month etc.), yes even the ones that aren’t fat. So, you seem to highly exaggerate this. You’re basically asking someone who treats all women like crap to be nice to ‘fatties’. You see how that doesn’t make sense at all.
Your comment would have made more sense on my post about fat jokes on the show in general. Did you even read the article? It’s not about how Barney’s treatment of Patrice is insulting to fat people. It’s about how it is ridiculous to expect the audience to buy the premise of Barney and Patrice as a real couple.
You would know this if you read the article because I say:
“Here’s what it comes down to: Barney would NEVER date Patrice seriously. NEVER. Beyond that, there is NO possible way that Ted, Lily, and Marshall would have actually believed that he was actually involved with Patrice.”
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Stress Levels at Work for Irish Employees – Cork Business League Reaction
It was recently reported that Stress Levels at Work for Irish Employees has doubled. The Cork Business League aims to work with Companies & Organisations to reduce this over the next few years
As reported recently across many Media outlets*, a study by the Economic and Social Research Institute found that job stress among employees here in Ireland have increased from 8% in 2010 to 17% in 2015. We at the Cork Business League are going to work towards helping Cork companies to work with Employees through Soccer and corporate sport events to ensure that workers do not feel stressed in the workplace.
Over the coming 12-18 months, we hope to create initiatives across Cork and hopefully all industries both in the city and county to create positive attitudes in the work place. Be it to get Employees out on the pitch for a competitive 11-a-side soccer match or to create more tournaments that can feature all abilities and make playing sports enjoyable among colleagues.
Currently, this piece of work is in it’s very early planning stages for which we would love to get some feedback and thoughts on how best to reduce stress levels in work and ensure that no matter what job you may have, that playing soccer in the Cork Business League will benefit Employees, Companies & Industries across Cork.
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Chief Guest Mr. NR Narayana Murthy felicitates winners
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The Hebrides Revival 2
Off the west coast of Scotland is a small group of islands called the Hebrides. Between 1949 and 1952 a wide spread revival swept through these islands in answer to the prayers of God’s people. Instrumental in this revival was the evangelist Duncan Campbell. He came to the Isle of Lewis to conduct a two week evangelistic campaign and ended up staying two years. The following accounts are testimonies of the power of intercessory prayer during this mighty move of God.
Peggy & Christine Smith: They Prayed A Promise
In a small cottage by the roadside in the village of Barvas lived two elderly women, Peggy and Christine Smith. They were eighty-four and eighty-two years old. Peggy was blind and her sister almost bent double with arthritis. Unable to attend public worship, their humble cottage became a sanctuary where they met with God. To them came the promise: “I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground,” they pleaded this day and night in prayer. One night Peggy had a revelation, revival was coming and the church of her fathers would be crowded again with young people! She sent for the minister, the Rev. James Murray MacKay, and told him what God had shown her, asking him to call his elders and deacons together for special times of waiting upon God. In the same district a group of men praying in a barn experienced a foretaste of coming blessing. One night as they waited upon God a young deacon rose and read part of the twenty-fourth Psalm: “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His holy place? He that hath clean hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the Lord.” Turning to the others he said: “Brethren, it seems to me just so much humbug to be waiting and praying as we are, if we ourselves are not rightly related to God.” Then lifting his hands toward heaven he cried: “Oh God, are my hands clean? Is my heart pure?” He got no further, but fell prostrate to the floor. An awareness of God filled the barn and a stream of supernatural power was let lose in their lives. They had moved into a new sphere of God realization, believing implicitly in the promise of revival.
But before leaving Peggy and her sister, another story must be told which further illustrates the holy intimacy of this woman with her Lord. When the movement was at its height Peggy sent for Duncan, asking him to go to a small, isolated village to hold a meeting. The people of this village did not favor the revival and had already made clear their policy of noninvolvement. Duncan explained the situation to Peggy and told her that he questioned the wisdom of her request. “Besides,” he added, “I have no leadings to go to that place.” She turned in the direction of his voice, her sightless eyes seemed to penetrate his soul. “Mr. Campbell, if you were living as near to God as you ought to be, He would reveal His secrets to you also.” Duncan felt like a subordinate being reprimanded for defying his general. He humbly accepted the rebuke as from the Lord, and asked if he and Mr. MacKay could spend the morning in prayer with them. She agreed, and later as they knelt together in the cottage, Peggy prayed: “Lord, You remember what You told me this morning, that in this village You are going to save seven men who will become pillars in the church of my fathers. Lord, I have given Your message to Mr. Campbell and it seems he is not prepared to receive it. Oh Lord, give him wisdom, because he badly needs it!” “All right, Peggy, I’ll go to the village,” said Duncan when they had finished praying. She replied, “You’d better!” “And God will give you a congregation.” Arriving in the village at seven o’clock they found a large bungalow crowded to capacity with many assembled outside. Duncan gave out his text: “The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.” When he had finished preaching, a minister beckoned him to the end of the house to speak again to a number of people who were mourning over their sins – among them, Peggy’s seven men!
John: He Challenged God in Prayer
Opposition to the revival was being raised in other parts of the island. An evening was given to waiting upon God in the home of an elder. Around midnight Duncan turned to the local blacksmith: “John, I feel the time has come for you to pray.” With his cap in his hand John rose to pray, and in the middle of his prayer he paused, raised his right hand to heaven, and said: “Oh God, You made a promise to pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground, and, Lord, it’s not happening.” He paused again and then continued: “Lord, I don’t know how the others here stand in Your presence; I don’t know how the ministers stand, but, Lord, if I know anything about my own heart I stand before Thee as an empty vessel, thirsting for Thee and for a manifestation of Thy power.” He halted again and after a moment of tense silence cried: “Oh God, Your honor is at stake, and I now challenge You to fulfil your covenant engagement and do what you have promised to do.” Many who were present witnessed that at that moment the house shook. Dishes rattled in the sideboard, as wave after wave of Divine power swept through the building. A minister standing beside Duncan turned and said: “Mr. Campbell, an earth tremor!” But Duncan’s mind, however, was in the fourth chapter of Acts, where the early Christians were gathered in prayer and, we read: “When they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.”
Donald: The Boy Who Prayed
Among those converted the following night was a fifteen-year-old boy who became an outstanding helper in the revival. This lad became a “frontline” prayer-warrior. Duncan called at his home one day and found him on his knees in the barn with the Bible open before him. When interrupted he quietly said: “Excuse me a little, Mr. Campbell, I’m having an audience with the King.” Some of the most vivid outpourings of the Spirit during the revival came when he was asked to pray. In the police station in Barvas he stood up one night, simply clasped his hands together, and uttered one word – “Father.” Everyone was melted to tears as the Presence of God invaded the house. In Callenish, he prayed until the power of God laid hold on those who were dead in sins transforming them into living stones in the Church of Jesus Christ. But the most outstanding example of God’s anointing upon him was in Bernera, a small island off the coast of Lewis. Duncan was assisting at a Communion service; the atmosphere was heavy and preaching difficult, so he sent to Barvas for some of the men to come and assist in prayer. They prayed, but the spiritual bondage persisted, so much so that half way through his address Duncan stopped preaching. Just then he noticed this boy, visibly moved, under deep burden for souls. He thought: “That boy is in touch with God and living nearer to the Savior than I am.” So leaning over the pulpit he said: “Donald, will you lead us in prayer?” The lad rose to his feet and in his prayer made reference to the fourth chapter of Revelation, which he had been reading that morning: “Oh God, I seem to be gazing through the open door. I see the Lamb in the midst of the Throne, with the keys of death and of hell at His girdle.” He began to sob; then lifting his eyes toward heaven, cried: “O God, there is power there, let it loose!” With the force of a hurricane the Spirit of God swept into the building and the floodgates of heaven opened. The church resembled a battlefield. On one side many were prostrated over the seats weeping and sighing; on the other side some were affected by throwing their arms in the air in a rigid posture. God had come!
She Saw A Vision
God communicated to Peter His purpose to bless the household of Cornelius by means of a vision in a trance when His servant was praying. He used similar methods in Lewis. A young woman in particular repeatedly went into trances, in which she received messages concerning those in need which were passed on to Duncan. One night he was staying in Stornoway when this girl saw in a vision a woman in agony of soul twenty miles away. Duncan was informed that he ought to go and see her, and without any thought for his own rest or safety he motorcycled to the village and found it exactly as he had been told. The word he spoke brought deliverance, and introduced the troubled lady to the Savior. Not one message given by this girl through her trance-visions proved false. This was an aspect of the work which Duncan did not attempt to encourage or explain, but he recognized it was of God and refused to interfere with it, warning those who would associate it with satanic activity, that they were coming perilously near to committing the unpardonable sin.
The Praying Butcher
Duncan never left the island without visiting the praying men, who had meant so much to him in the revival, and with whom he had such affinity of spirit. He marveled at their discernment and worldwide vision in this far northwestern island. Calling to see one of them he arrived at the house to hear him in the barn praying for Greece. He could not understand what interest a butcher in Lewis could have in Greece. “How did you come to be praying for Greece today?”, he asked him later. “Do you know where Greece is?” “No, Mr. Campbell, but God knows, and He told me this morning to pray for Greece!” Two years later Duncan was introduced to a man in Dublin who told him the following story. He had gone to Greece on a business trip and was asked to speak to an assembly of Christians. The Spirit of God worked so powerfully that he continued preaching for a few weeks and phoned his brother in Ireland with instructions to look after the business until he returned. Duncan compared dates and discovered that the movement in Greece began on the same day that the butcher was praying in Bravas!
The price for heaven sent revival has never changed. Before the floods of Holy Ghost conviction could sweep across the Isles of The Hebrides, strong men were broken before God, travailing in agony of prayer through the long hours of the night for months. To do this, in spite of the demands of home and work, these men had to make time for waiting before God! This is perhaps the greatest problem besetting us today. We have all the modern luxuries of life to make work easier and yet we cannot make time to pray! What a tragic paradox! Dr. Wilbur Smith very aptly stated the matter when he said: “I never get time to pray – I’ve always got to make it!”
References Used:
Channel of Revival – A Biography of Duncan Campbell by Andrew A. Woolsey
When God Stepped Down From Heaven by Owen Murphy
From: A Revival Source Center
Author Cry for RevivalPosted on February 23, 2018
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Re: Led Zeppelin I, II, III
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Good morning everyone, I'd like to know why the remastered version of Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin II and Led Zeppelin III, all by Led Zeppelin of course, have been remuved...
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I just did a lookup and Zeppelin I, II, and III are still available to me. I did a lookup using a third party search service for the Spotify service, and all three releases are still showing available. What listening region are you currently in? If you use the Spotify desktop app and go to this Led Zeppelin I album page here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3ycjBixZf7S3WpC5WZhhUK is there a bubble window to the lower right hand that reads with a down arrow in it, 1 MORE RELEASE? Click the down arrow to show the other release, and this should take you to the Remastered release version of Led Zeppelin I. The releases of Zeppelin I, II, and III album pages all have this with a 1 MORE RELEASE available.
Just to help you locate these releases and make it a bit more easy for you, these links below should be the links to the remastered versions of Zeppelin I,II, and III:
I: https://open.spotify.com/album/1J8QW9qsMLx3staWaHpQmU
II: https://open.spotify.com/album/58MQ0PLijVHePUonQlK76Y
III: https://open.spotify.com/album/6P5QHz4XtxOmS5EuiGIPut
Any issues opening these up at all and/or playing?
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Rancho Esquon was originally part of a land grant given to Samuel Neal in 1859. At that time the ranch was called Esquon Rancho and consisted of 23,193 acres commencing at Clark Rd. to Old Highway 99E and parallel to Butte Creek. Neal primarily raised cattle, horses and sheep on this land. Very few grains were grown in this area at that time. The name Esquon originated from a tribe of Native Americans who lived along Butte Creek near what is known as Hell Town.
In 1918 E.L. Adams purchased Esquon Rancho and it became known as Adams Ranch. Aside from raising cattle, hogs and sheep, Mr. Adams began growing rice, becoming one of the first producers of rice in California. Mr. Adams’ rice operation began with a small field and over the years grew to over 2,000 acres of planted rice Many call him the “Father of the Rice Industry of California”.
In 1990 the ranch was purchased by Ken Hofmann and the name was changed to Rancho Esquon. Mr. Hofmann, who has a love for wildlife, began the development of the current 900+ acres of wildlife habitat. Over the years Rancho Esquon has planted more than 20,000 willow, cottonwood and oak trees. Ponds and channels have been constructed and during the fall of the year one is able to observe over 173 bird species including shorebirds, an abundance of migratory waterfowl, resident and migratory songbirds, and birds of prey.
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Rancho Esquon Inc. (REI) is a 9,000-acre full functioning rice and almond farm. All of the rice grown at REI is dried and stored at its onsite drying/storage facility. The facility can dry and store approx. 600,000 cwt per year.
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Rancho Esquon Inc. is home to 96 Wood Duck Boxes designed to create a safe nesting area for the waterfowl. In 2007, 817 wood duck eggs were counted and 451 were hatched in the wild at REI.
REI invites youth from the surrounding communities to use its resources for educational purposes. The Community Youth Center of Concord (CYC) and the California Waterfowl Association (CWA) frequently bring youth to the Ranch to educate them on wildlife, agriculture and environmental awareness.
REI and CYC have teamed up to bring inner city youth organizations to the Ranch. While at REI the youth enjoy fishing, swimming, educational games, hiking, bird watching and identification and many other outdoor activities not normally available to them.
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C ANON 7 - A LAWYER SHALL AT ALL TIMES UPHOLD THE and the highly irregular manner in which he passed the
lar manner in which he passed the Bar, WE have
INTEGRITY AND DIGNITY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND no other alternative but to order the SURRENDER OF HIS
SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF THE INTEGRATED BAR. ATTORNEY'S CERTIFICATE AND THE STRIKING OUT OF HIS
NAME FROM THE ROLL OF ATTORNEYS.
Rule 7.01 - A lawyer shall be answerable for knowingly making a false
statement or suppressing a material fact in connection with his application for
admission to the bar.
CASE NO. 2 / DIAO V. MARTINEZ / AC NO. 244, MARCH 29, 1963
Rule 7.02 - A lawyer shall not support the application for admission to the bar
of any person known by him to be unqualified in respect to character, FACTS: Telesforo Diao passed the bar in 1953. Two years later, Severino
education, or other relevant attribute. Martinez charged him with having falsely represented in his application for
such Bar examination that he had the requisite academic qualifications.
Rule 7.03 - A lawyer shall not engage in conduct that adversely reflects on Upon investigation, the Solicitor General found that contrary to the
his fitness to practice law, nor shall he whether in public or private life, allegations in Diao’s petition for examination, he had not completed his high
behave in a scandalous manner to the discredit of the legal profession. school training and he never attended Quisumbing College, nor obtained his
A.A. diploma therefrom, before taking up law subjects. Such was the
required pre-legal education prescribed by the Department of Private
Education. In his answer, Diao claims that although he had left high school in
CASE NO. 1 / IN RE: RAMON E. GALANG / AC NO. 1163, AUGUST 29, his third year, he entered the service of the U.S. Army and passed the
1975 General Classification Test given therein. The said test is alleged to be
equivalent to a high school diploma. Thus, the educational authorities
FACTS: Ramon Galang is a perennial bar candidate who flunked in considered his army service as the equivalent of 3rd and 4th year high
the 1969, 1967, 1966, 1964, 1963, and 1962 bar examinations with a grade school. Further, Diao asserts that he had obtained his A.A. title from Arellano
of 67.55%, 68.65%, 72.75%, 68.2%, 56.45% and 57.3%, respectively. He University in April, 1949. He says he was erroneously certified, due to
passed in the 1971 bar examinations with a grade of 74.15% by virtue of a confusion, as a graduate of Quisumbing College, in his school records.
Court of resolution making 74% as the passing mark for the 1971 bar
examinations. Oscar Landicho, who flunked the 1971, 1968, and 1967 bar ISSUE: WON Diao’s false representation that he had the required academic
examinations, invited the attention of the Court to the fact that the grade of qualifications to take the bar examinations a ground for revocation of his
Galang was raised in five subjects before the bar results were released. license to practice law.
Upon investigation, five examiners admitted having re-evaluated Galang's
notebook upon the representation to them by Bar Confidant Victorio Lanuevo HELD: YES. The applicant for the Bar examination must affirm under oath,
that they had the authority to do the same and that the examinee concerned "That previous to the study of law, he had successfully and satisfactorily
failed only their particular subject and/or was on the borderline of passing. completed the required pre-legal education as prescribed by the Department
Upon investigation by the NBI, it was found that Galang was a student in the of Private Education." Plainly, therefore, Telesforo Diao was not qualified to
School of Law of Manuel L. Quezon University, and that he was charged in take the bar examinations; but due to his false representations, he was
1959 with the crime of slight physical injuries committed against another allowed to take it, luckily passed it, and was thereafter admitted to the Bar.
student of the same university. Respondent Galang, in all his application to Such admission having been obtained under false pretenses must be, and is
take the bar examinations, did not make mention of this fact which he is hereby revoked. The fact that he hurdled the Bar examinations is immaterial.
required under the rules to do. Passing such examinations is not the only qualification to become an
attorney-at-law; taking the prescribed courses of legal study in the regular
ISSUE: WON respondent Galang’s concealment of his pending criminal case manner is equally essential.
for physical injuries is a ground for revocation of his license to practice law.
The Clerk is ordered to strike from the roll of attorneys, the name of
HELD: YES. Every applicant for admission as a member of the Bar is duty Telesforo A. Diao. And the latter is required to return his lawyer's
bound to lay before the Court all his involvement in any criminal case, diploma within thirty days.
pending or otherwise terminated, to enable the Court to fully ascertain or
determine applicant's moral character. Furthermore, as to what crime This explanation is not acceptable, for the reason that the "error" or
involves moral turpitude, is for the Supreme Court to determine. Hence, the "confusion" was obviously of his own making. Had his application disclosed
necessity of laying before or informing the Court of one's personal record — his having obtained A.A. from Arellano University, it would also have
whether he was criminally indicted, acquitted, convicted or the case disclosed that he got it in April, 1949, thereby showing that he began his law
dismissed or is still pending — becomes more compelling. The forms for studies (2nd semester of 1948-1949) six months before obtaining his
application to take the Bar examinations provided by the Supreme Court Associate in Arts degree.
beginning the year 1965 require the disclosure not only of criminal cases
involving moral turpitude filed or pending against the applicant but also of all
other criminal cases of which he has been accused. The concealment of an
attorney in his application to take the Bar examinations of the fact that he
had been charged with, or indicted for, an alleged crime, is a ground for
revocation of his license to practice law.
Under the circumstances in which respondent Ramon E. Galang,
alias Roman E. Galang, was allowed to take the Bar examinations
CASE NO. 3 / IN RE: CHARGES OF LILIAN F. VILLASANTA / GR present petition, petitioner prays that he be allowed to take his
AC-UNAV, APRIL 30, 1957 lawyers oath at the Court’s most convenient time.
FACTS: In 1939, respondent Hilarion Peralta married Rizalina ISSUE: WON petitioner Cuevas, Jr. should be allowed to take the
Valdez. In 1951, he courted the complainant Lilian Villasanta who fell lawyers’ oath despite his participation in the initiation rites which
in love with him. To have carnal knowledge of her, the respondent resulted in the death of a neophyte.
then procured a fake marriage contract, which was then a blank
document, and made the complainant sign it. Since then the HELD: YES. Petitioner’s discharge from probation and the various
complainant and the respondent lived together as husband and wife. certifications attesting to his righteous, peaceful and civic-oriented
Sometime later, the complainant insisted on a religious ratification of character prove that he has taken decisive steps to purge himself of
their marriage so the said ceremony was performed in Aparri by the his deficiency in moral character and atone for the unfortunate death
parish priest of said municipality. The priest no longer required the of the victim. The Court is prepared to give him the benefit of the
production of a marriage license because of the civil marriage doubt, taking judicial notice of the general tendency of the youth to
contract shown to him. After a while, complainant then discovered be rash, temerarious and uncalculating. Petitioner, however, is
that the respondent was previously married to someone else. Thus, exhorted to conduct himself beyond reproach at all times and to live
she filed the criminal action for a violation of Article 350 of the strictly according to his oath and the Code of Professional
Revised Penal Code in the CFI of Cagayan of which the respondent Responsibility. Further, the Court sincerely hopes that Mr. Cuevas,
was found guilty. Respondent also filed the present complaint for Jr., will continue with the assistance he has been giving to his
immorality which seeks to disqualify the respondent, a 1954 community. As a lawyer he will now be in a better position to render
successful bar candidate, from being admitted to the bar. legal and other services to the more unfortunate members of society.
ISSUE: WON respondent Hilarion Peralta engaged in immoral ACCORDINGLY, the Court hereby resolved to allow petitioner
conduct which is a ground for disqualification from being admitted to arthur m. Cuevas, jr., to take the lawyers oath and to sign the
the bar. roll of attorneys on a date to be set by the Court, subject to
the payment of appropriate fees.
HELD: YES. Respondent made a mockery of marriage which is a
sacred institution demanding respect and dignity. His conviction in Attaching thereto the Order of the RTC of Antique discharging him
the criminal case involves moral turpitude. The act of respondent in from his probation, and certifications attesting to his righteous,
contracting the second marriage (even his act in making love to peaceful and law abiding character issued by: (a) the Mayor of the
another woman while his first wife is still alive and their marriage still Municipality of Hamtic, Antique; (b) the Officer-in-Charge of Hamtic
valid and existing) is contrary to honesty, justice, decency, and Police Station; (c) the Sangguniang Kabataan of Pob. III, Hamtic,
morality. Thus lacking the good moral character required by the through its chairman and officers; (d) a member of the IBP Iloilo
Rules of Court, the respondent is disqualified from being admitted to Chapter; (e) the Parish Priest and Vicar General of St. Joseph
the bar. Cathedral, San Jose, Antique, and (f) the President of the Parish
Pastoral Council, Parish of Sta. Monica, Hamtic, Antique.
Thus lacking the good moral character required by the Rules
of Court, the respondent is hereby declared DISQUALIFIED
from being admitted to the bar.
CASE NO. 5 / SAMANIEGO V. FERRER / AC NO. 7022, JUNE 18,
CASE NO. 4 / IN RE: PETITION TO TAKE LAWYERS' OATH BY FACTS: Early in 1996, complainant Marjorie Samaniego met
ARTHUR M. CUEVAS / BM NO. 810, JANUARY 27, 1998 respondent Atty. Andrew Ferrer and the latter agreed to handle her
cases. Soon, Atty. Ferrer allegedly courted the complainant and the
FACTS: Petitioner Arthur Cuevas, Jr., recently passed the 1996 Bar two lived together as "husband and wife". In 1997, their daughter was
Examinations. His oath-taking was held in abeyance in view of a born, but their affair, however, ended in 2000. Since then, Atty. Ferrer
Court resolution which permitted him to take the Bar Examinations has failed to give support to their daughter. Thus, complainant filed
subject to the condition that should he pass the same, he shall not be this petition before the IBP against respondent Atty. for immorality,
allowed to take the lawyers’ oath pending approval of the Court due abandonment and willful refusal to give support to their daughter.
to his previous conviction for Reckless Imprudence Resulting In Complainant alleged that she knew that Atty. Ferrer was in a
Homicide. The conviction stemmed from petitioners participation in relationship but did not think he was already married. On the other
the initiation rites of the Lex Talionis Fraternitas, a fraternity in the hand, Atty. Ferrer manifested his willingness to support their
San Beda College of Law, sometime in September 1991, where Raul daughter. However, he prayed that the IBP consider Ms.
Camaligan, a neophyte. Thereafter, petitioner applied for and was Samaniego's complicity as she was acquainted with his wife and
granted probation. On May 16, 1995, he was discharged from children. He further reasoned that he found it unconscionable to
probation and his case was considered closed and terminated. In this abandon his wife and 10 children to cohabit with Ms. Samaniego.
ISSUE: WON Atty. Ferrer lacked the degree of morality required of a character and leading lives in accordance with the highest moral
member of the bar. standards of the community. A member of the bar and an officer of
the court is not only required to refrain from adulterous relationships
HELD: YES. As provided by the Code of Professional Responsibility or keeping a mistress but must also so behave himself as to avoid
under Canon, “ A lawyer shall at all times uphold the integrity and scandalizing the public by creating the impression that he is flouting
dignity of the legal profession and support the activities of the those moral standards. The fact that respondent’s philandering ways
integrated bar.” Rule 7.03 also provides that, “A lawyer shall not are far removed from the exercise of his profession would not save
engage in conduct that adversely reflects on his fitness to practice the day for him. For a lawyer may be suspended or disbarred for any
law, nor shall he, whether in public or private life, behave in a misconduct which, albeit unrelated to the actual practice of his
scandalous manner to the discredit of the legal profession.” Atty. profession, would show him to be unfit for the office and unworthy of
Ferrer admitted his extra-marital affair which ended in 2000. The the privileges with which his license and the law invest him. The
Court considered such illicit relation as a disgraceful and immoral grounds expressed in Section 27, Rule 138 of the Rules of Court are
conduct subject to disciplinary action. On another point, even though not limitative and are broad enough to cover any misconduct of a
the complainant was not entirely blameless, that one complicit in the lawyer in his professional or private capacity. Undoubtedly,
affair complained of immorality against her co-principal does not respondent’s act of leaving his wife and 12 children to cohabit and
make this case less serious since it is immaterial whether Ms. have children with another woman constitutes grossly immoral
Samaniego is in pari delicto. The Court's investigation is not about conduct.
Ms. Samaniego's acts but Atty. Ferrer's conduct as one of its officers
and his fitness to continue as a member of the Bar. Atty. Ponciano P. Arnobit is hereby DISBARRED.
Respondent Atty. Andrew V. Ferrer guilty of GROSS Immoral conduct has been described as that conduct which is so
IMMORALITY and, as recommended by the integrated bar of willful, flagrant, or shameless as to show indifference to the opinion
the philippines and the office of the bar confidant, SUSPEND of good and respectable members of the community. To be the basis
him from the practice of law for six (6) months effective upon of disciplinary action, such conduct must not only be immoral, but
notice hereof, with WARNING that the same or similar act in grossly immoral. That is, it must be so corrupt as to virtually
the future will be dealt with more severely. constitute a criminal act or so unprincipled as to be reprehensible to
a high degree or committed under such scandalous or revolting
We agree with the IBP on Atty. Ferrer's failure to give support to his circumstances as to shock the common sense of decency.
daughter with Ms. Samaniego. We also agree with the Office of the
Bar Confidant that Atty. Ferrer's affair with Ms. Samaniego showed CASE NO. 7 / ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY V. DELA CRUZ / AC NO
his lack of good moral character as a member of the bar. We 6010, AUGUST 28, 2006
dismiss, however, Ms. Samaniego's charge of abandonment since
Atty. Ferrer did not abandon them. He returned to his family. FACTS: Respondent Atty. Rolando Dela Cruz is a principal of Saint
Louis University-Laboratory High School (SLU-LHS). Faculty
CASE NO. 6 / ARNOBIT V. ARNOBIT / AC NO. 1481, OCTOBER 17, members and Staff of the aforementioned university filed a case for
2008 disbarment against respondent on grounds of gross misconduct,
grossly immoral conduct, and malpractice. On the charge of grossly
FACTS: Complainant Rebecca Arnobit and respondent Atty. immoral conduct, it was alleged that in 1982, respondent married
Ponciano Arnobit were married in 1942, and 12 children were born Teresita Rivera, but they separated in less than a year into the
out of this union. Rebecca allegedly supported respondent through marriage without seeking judicial recourse. Seven years after,
law school, and she continuously supported him until he passed the respondent married Mary Jane Pascua, who was also a faculty
bar examinations. In 1968, however, respondent left the conjugal member of SLU-LHS. When the second marriage was entered into,
home and started cohabiting with Benita Navarro, who later bore him however, respondent’s prior marriage with Teresita Rivera was still
four more children. Benita was then already married to Melecio subsisting. Then, in 1994, said second marriage was subsequently
Navarro, a fact which was allegedly known to the respondent. annulled for being bigamous. Then, on the charge of malpractice, it
Respondent’s infidelity, according to Rebecca, impelled her to file a was alleged that respondent notarized certain legal documents on
complaint for legal separation and support. A criminal case for different dates from 1988 to 1997, despite expiration of respondent’s
adultery against Benita and respondent later followed. In this present notarial commission in 1987.
case, Rebeca prays that the Court exercise its disciplinary power
over her husband on the grounds of Immorality and Abandonment. ISSUE: WON respondent’s act constitutes gross immoral conduct
which warrant disbarment
ISSUE: WON respondent Atty. Arnobit is guilty of immorality and
abandonment which is a ground for disbarment. HELD: NO. Section 27, Rule 138 of the Rules of Court cites grossly
immoral conduct as a ground for disbarment. The Court has laid
HELD: YES. As officers of the court, lawyers must not only in fact be down with a common definition of what constitutes immoral conduct,
of good moral character but must also be seen to be of good moral vis--vis, grossly immoral conduct. Immoral conduct is that conduct
which is willful, flagrant, or shameless, and which shows a moral assistance to those seeking relief against unfaithful or neglectful
indifference to the opinion of the good and respectable members of counsel.
the community and what is grossly immoral, that is, it must be so
corrupt and false as to constitute a criminal act or so unprincipled as
to be reprehensible to a high degree. Undoubtedly, respondent CANON 9 - A LAWYER SHALL NOT, DIRECTLY OR
exhibited a deplorable lack of that degree of morality required of him INDIRECTLY, ASSIST IN THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE
as a member of the Bar. In particular, he made a mockery of OF LAW.
marriage which is a sacred institution demanding respect and dignity.
His act of contracting a second marriage while the first marriage was
Rule 9.01 - A lawyer shall not delegate to any unqualified person the
still in place, is contrary to honesty, justice, decency and morality.
performance of any task which by law may only be performed by a
However, measured against the definition, the Court is not prepared
member of the bar in good standing.
to consider respondent’s act as grossly immoral.
Rule 9.02 - A lawyer shall not divide or stipulate to divide a fee for
Respondent Atty. Rolando Dela Cruz is SUSPENDED from the
legal services with persons not licensed to practice law, except:
practice of law for a period of two years, and another two
years for notarizing documents despite the expiration of his (a) Where there is a pre-existing agreement with a partner or
commission or a total of four years of suspension. associate that, upon the latter's death, money shall be paid over a
reasonable period of time to his estate or to persons specified in the
The uncontested assertions of the respondent belies any intention to
flaunt the law and the high moral standard of the legal profession, to agreement; or
wit:
(b) Where a lawyer undertakes to complete unfinished legal business
a. After his first failed marriage and prior to his second marriage or of a deceased lawyer; or
for a period of almost seven (7) years, he has not been romantically
involved with any woman; (c) Where a lawyer or law firm includes non-lawyer employees in a
b. His second marriage was a show of his noble intentions and total retirement plan even if the plan is based in whole or in part, on a
love for his wife, whom he described to be very intelligent person; profit sharing agreement.
c. He never absconded from his obligations to support his wife and
child;
d. He never disclaimed paternity over the child and husbandry with
relation to his wife; CASE NO. 8 / ULEP V. LEGAL CLINIC, INC. / BM NO. 553, JUNE
e. After the annulment of his second marriage, they have parted 17, 1993
ways when the mother and child went to Australia;
f. Since then up to now, respondent remained celibate. FACTS: Petitioner Mauricio Ulep seeks to prohibit respondent The
Legal Clinic from making advertisements pertaining to the exercise of
Other charges constituting respondents misconduct such as the
the law profession other than those allowed by law. Petitioner alleges
pending criminal case for child abuse allegedly committed by him
against a high school student filed before the Prosecutors Office of that the advertisements of the respondent are champterous,
Baguio City; the pending administrative case filed by the Teachers, unethical, demeaning of the law profession, and destructive of the
Staff, Students and Parents before an Investigating Board created by confidence of the community in the integrity of the members of the
SLU; and the pending labor case filed by SLU-LHS Faculty before bar and that, as a member of the legal profession, he is ashamed
the NLRC, Cordillera Administrative Region, on alleged illegal and offended by the said advertisements. In its answer, respondent
deduction of salary by respondent, need not be discussed, as they
claims that it is not engaged in the practice of law but in the rendering
are still pending before the proper forums. At such stages, the
presumption of innocence still prevails in favor of the of "legal support services" through paralegals with the use of modern
respondent. computers and electronic machines. Respondent further argues that
CANON 8 - A LAWYER SHALL CONDUCT HIMSELF WITH assuming that the services advertised are legal services, the act of
COURTESY, FAIRNESS AND CANDOR TOWARDS HIS advertising these services should be allowed supposedly.
PROFESSIONAL COLLEAGUES, AND SHALL AVOID
HARASSING TACTICS AGAINST OPPOSING COUNSEL. ISSUE: WON the services offered by respondent, The Legal Clinic,
Inc., as advertised by it, can be performed by paralegals in the
Rule 8.01 - A lawyer shall not, in his professional dealings, use
language which is abusive, offensive or otherwise improper. HELD: NO. In our jurisdiction, the services being offered by private
respondent which constitute practice of law cannot be performed by
Rule 8.02 - A lawyer shall not, directly or indirectly, encroach upon paralegals. Only a person duly admitted as a member of the bar, or
the professional employment of another lawyer, however, it is the hereafter admitted as such in accordance with the provisions of the
right of any lawyer, without fear or favor, to give proper advice and Rules of Court, and who is in good and regular standing, is entitled to
practice law. Public policy requires that the practice of law be limited
to those individuals found duly qualified in education and character. granted by respondent Judge. Subsequently, petitioner filed a
The permissive right conferred on the lawyers is an individual and Petition for Relief from Judgment alleging his discovery that Irineo
limited privilege subject to withdrawal if he fails to maintain proper Vida Jr., who prepared his Answer to the Complaint is not a member
standards of moral and professional conduct. The purpose is to of the Philippine Bar and that consequently, his rights had not been
protect the public, the court, the client and the bar from the adequately protected and his properties are in danger of being
incompetence or dishonesty of those unlicensed to practice law and confiscated and/or levied upon without due process of law.
not subject to the disciplinary control of the court.
ISSUE: WON the fact that petitioner was represented at the initial
The Court Resolved to RESTRAIN and ENJOIN herein stage of the litigation by a person who is not a member of the Bar
respondent, The Legal Clinic, Inc., from issuing or causing the amounted to a denial of petitioner's day in court.
publication or dissemination of any advertisement in any form,
and from conducting, directly or indirectly, any activity, HELD: NO. It should be noted that in the subsequent stages of the
operation or transaction proscribed by law or the Code of proceedings, after the rendition of the judgment by default, petitioner
Professional Ethics as indicated herein. was duly represented by bona fide members of the Bar in seeking a
reversal of the judgment for being contrary to law and jurisprudence
The practice of law is not limited to the conduct of cases in court. It and the existence of valid, legal and justifiable defenses. In other
includes legal advice and counsel, and the preparation of legal words, petitioner's rights had been amply protected in the
instruments and contract by which legal rights are secured, although proceedings before the trial and appellate courts as he was
such matter may or may not be pending in a court. The practice of subsequently assisted by counsel. Moreover, petitioner himself was
law, therefore, covers a wide range of activities in and out of court. at fault as the order of treatment as in default was predicated, not
Thus, the activities of respondent, as advertised, constitute "practice only on the alleged counsel's failure to attend the pretrial conference
of law." That fact that the corporation employs paralegals to carry out on April 6, 1972, but likewise on his own failure to attend the same,
its services is not controlling. What is important is that it is engaged without justifiable reason. To allow this petition due course is to
in the practice of law by virtue of the nature of the services it renders countenance further delay in a proceeding which has already taken
which thereby brings it within the ambit of the statutory prohibitions well over six years to resolve,
against the advertisements which it has caused to be published
Further, facts sufficiently establish that the main purpose of WHEREFORE, for lack of merit, the Petition for certiorari with
respondent is to serve as a one-stop-shop of sorts for various legal Preliminary Injunction is hereby dismissed. The law firm "Vida,
problems wherein a client may avail of legal services from simple Enriquez, Mercado & Associates" is hereby ordered to
documentation to complex litigation and corporate undertakings. explain, within 10 days from notice this Resolution, why Irineo
Most of these services are undoubtedly beyond the domain of W. Vida Jr. was permitted to sign the Answer when he is not a
paralegals, but rather, are exclusive functions of lawyers engaged in member of the Bar.
the practice of law.
CASE NO. 10 /PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF FREE LABOR
CASE NO. 9 / GUBALLA V. CAGUIOA / 78 SCRA 207, JULY 29, UNIONS V. BINALBAGAN ISABELA SUGAR CO. / 42 SCRA 302,
1977 NOVEMBER 29, 1971
FACTS: PetitionerJose Guballa is an operator of a public utility FACTS: Petitioners Enrique Entila and Victorino Tenazas were
vehicle which was involved, on October 1, 1971, in an accident complainants in the case of PAFLU et al. vs. Binalbagan Isabela
resulting to injuries sustained by private respondent Domingo Sugar Co., et al. After trial, the Court of Industrial Relations rendered
Forteza Jr. A complaint for damages was filed by Forteza against a decision ordering the reinstatement with backwages of the
petitioner with the CFI of Bulacan. An Answer thereto was filed on complainants. Thereafter, Cipriano Cid & Associates, counsel of
behalf of petitioner by Irineo Vida Jr., of the law firm of Vida Enriquez, record for the winning complainants, filed a notice of attorney's lien
Mercado & Associates. Because petitioner and counsel failed to equivalent to 30% of the total backwages. Atty. Atanacio Pacis also
appear at the pretrial conference on April 6, 1972, despite due notice, filed a similar notice for a reasonable amount. Complainants filed a
petitioner was treated as in default and private respondent was manifestation indicating their non-objection to an award of attorney's
allowed to present his evidence ex parte. Thereafter, a decision was fees for 25% of their backwages. On the same day, Quentin Muning
rendered by the trial court in favor of private respondent Forteza Jr. filed a "Petition for the Award of Services Rendered" equivalent to
Upon appeal, the Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the CFI. 20% of the backwages. Muning’s petition was opposed by Cipriano
Then, a Motion for Reconsideration was filed by petitioner, through a Cid & Associates the ground that he is not a lawyer. Subsequently,
different counsel, Atty. Isabelo Santos II. However the same was CIR awarded 25% of the backwages as compensation for
denied and the decision became final. A Motion for Execution was professional services rendered in the case, with the award of 10% to
later filed by private respondent with the lower Court which was Attys. Cipriano Cid & Associates, 10% to Quintin Muning, and 5% to
Atty. Atanacio Pacis. The award of 10% to Quintin Muning, who is not HELD: NO. Article 222 of the Labor Code, as amended by Section 3
a lawyer, is sought to be voided in the present petition. of PD 1691, states that non-lawyers may appear before the NLRC or
any labor arbiter only (1) if they represent themselves, or (2) if they
ISSUE: WON a non-lawyer may recover attorney's fees for legal represent their organization or the members thereof. While it may be
services rendered. true that Pulia was the authorized representative of private
respondents, he was a non-lawyer who did not fall in either of the
HELD: NO. It has been previously held by the Court that an
foregoing categories. Hence, by clear mandate of the law, he is not
agreement providing for the division of attorney's fees, whereby a
entitled to attorney's fees. Furthermore, the statutory rule that an
non-lawyer union president is allowed to share in said fees with
attorney shall be entitled to have and recover from his client a
lawyers, is condemned by Canon 34 of Legal Ethics and is immoral
reasonable compensation for his services necessarily imports the
and cannot be justified. An award by a court of attorney's fees is no
existence of an attorney-client relationship as a condition for the
less immoral in the absence of a contract, as in the present case.
recovery of attorney's fees, and such relationship cannot exist unless
The permission for a non-member of the bar to represent or appear
the client's representative is a lawyer.
or defend in court on behalf of a party-litigant does not by itself entitle
the representative to compensation for such representation. The WHEREFORE, the questioned judgment of respondent
award for attorney’s fees provided by law imports the existence of an National Labor Relations Commission is hereby MODIFIED by
attorney-client relationship. No one is entitled to recover deleting the awards for reimbursement of car wash expenses
compensation for services as an attorney at law unless he has been and attorney's fees and directing said public respondent to
duly admitted to practice and is an attorney in good standing at the order and effect the computation and payment by petitioners
time. of the refund for private respondent Domingo Maldigan's
deposits, plus legal interest thereon from the date of finality of
WHEREFORE, the orders under review are hereby set aside
this resolution up to the date of actual payment thereof.
insofar as they awarded 10% of the backwages as attorney's
fees for respondent Quintin Muning. Said orders are affirmed
in all other respects. Costs against respondent Muning.
CASE NO. 12 / CAMBALIZA V. CRISTOBAL-TENORIO / AC NO.
CASE NO. 11 / FIVE J TAXI V. NLRC / GR NO. 111474, AUGUST 22, 6290, JULY 14, 2004
FACTS:Complainant Ana Marie Cambaliza, a former employee of
FACTS: Private respondents Domingo Maldigan and Gilberto respondent Atty. Ana Luz Cristal-Tenorio, charged the latter with
Sabsalon were hired by the petitioner Five J Taxi as taxi drivers. As deceit, grossly immoral conduct, and malpractice or other gross
such, they worked for 4 days weekly on a 24-hour shifting schedule. misconduct in office. The complainant alleged that the respondent,
Aside from the daily "boundary" of P700.00 for air-conditioned taxi or among others, cooperated in the illegal practice of law by her
P450.00 for non-air-conditioned taxi, they were also required to pay husband, who is not a member of the Philippine Bar. Complainant
P20.00 for car washing, and to further make a P15.00 deposit to bolstered her claim by submitting: (1) the letterhead of Cristal-Tenorio
answer for any deficiency in their "boundary," for every actual Law Office where the name of Felicisimo Tenorio, Jr., is listed as a
working day. Sometime in 1989, Maldigan requested petitioners for senior partner; and (2) a Sagip Communication Radio Group
the reimbursement of his daily cash deposits for 2 years, but herein identification card signed by the respondent as Chairperson where
petitioners told him that not a single centavo was left of his deposits her husband is identified as Atty. Felicisimo Tenorio, Jr. She added
as such was spent on repairs. When Maldigan insisted on the that respondent’s husband even appeared in court hearings. Upon
reimbursement, petitioners terminated his services. Sabsalon, on his cross-examination, when confronted with the letterhead of Cristal-
part, claimed that his termination from employment was effected Tenorio Law Office bearing her signature, respondent admitted that
when he refused to pay for the washing of his taxi seat covers. Thus, Felicisimo Tenorio, Jr., is not a lawyer, but he and a certain Gerardo
private respondents filed a complaint with the Manila Arbitration Panghulan, who is also not a lawyer, are named as senior partners
Office of NLRC, which later dismissed said complaint. Upon appeal, because they have investments in her law office.
NLRC affirmed the ruling of the labor arbiter, but modified the
decision by ordering petitioners to pay private respondents their ISSUE: WON respondent is guilty of the charge of cooperating in the
accumulated deposits and car wash payments, plus interest thereon illegal practice of law by Felicisimo R. Tenorio, Jr.
at the legal rate from the date of promulgation of judgment to the
date of actual payment, and 10% of the total amount as and for HELD: YES. A lawyer who allows a non-member of the Bar to
attorney's fees. misrepresent himself as a lawyer and to practice law is guilty of
violating Canon 9 and Rule 9.01 of the Code of Professional
ISSUE: WON Guillermo Pulia, private respondents' authorized Responsibility. The term practice of law implies customarily or
representative and a non-lawyer, is entitled to attorney’s fees. habitually holding oneself out to the public as a lawyer for
compensation as a source of livelihood or in consideration of his
services. In this case, Felicisimo Tenorio, Jr., is not a lawyer, but he
holds himself out as one. His wife, the respondent herein, abetted signatures in the aforesaid exhibits is that the same could have been
and aided him in the unauthorized practice of the legal profession. effected by Atty. Beltran to show the Supreme Court that he
The lawyer’s duty to prevent, or at the very least not to assist in, the (respondent) was still illegally practicing law. As to the motion for
unauthorized practice of law is founded on public interest and policy. examination and analysis of respondent's signature, the Investigator,
Public policy requires that the practice of law be limited to those to afford respondent full opportunity to prove his defense, sought the
individuals found duly qualified in education and character. The assistance of the National Bureau of Investigation to compare
permissive right conferred on the lawyer is an individual and limited respondent's signature in the aforesaid exhibits with the signatures
privilege subject to withdrawal if he fails to maintain proper standards appearing in the pleadings that he filed in the Supreme Court, which
of moral and professional conduct. The purpose is to protect the latter signature he admits as genuine and as his own. The aforesaid
public, the court, the client, and the bar from the incompetence or documentary and testimonial evidence, as well as the above report of
dishonesty of those unlicensed to practice law and not subject to the the NBI, have clearly proved that respondent Abad is still practicing
disciplinary control of the Court. It devolves upon a lawyer to see that law despite the decision of this Court of March 28, 1983.
this purpose is attained.
ISSUES: WON Atty. Jacobe is liable in his collaboration with the
WHEREFORE, for culpable violation of Canon 9 and Rule respondent.
9.01 of the Code of Professional Responsibility, respondent
Atty. Ana Luz B. Cristal-Tenorio is hereby SUSPENDED from HELD: YES. He violated Canon 9 Rule 9.01 – A lawyer shall not
the practice of law for a period of six (6) months effective delegate to any unqualified person the performance of any task
immediately, with a warning that a repetition of the same or which by law may only be performed by a member of the Bar. in good
similar act in the future will be dealt with more severely. standing. A lawyer shall not assist anyone who is not a member of
the Bar to practice law in this country. Thus, he must not take as
Thus, the canons and ethics of the profession enjoin him not to partner or associate in his law firm a person who is not a lawyer, a
permit his professional services or his name to be used in aid of, or lawyer who has been disbarred and a lawyer who has been
to make possible the unauthorized practice of law by, any agency, suspended from practice of law. The lawyer who assists in an
personal or corporate. And, the law makes it a misbehavior on his unauthorized practice of law whether directly or indirectly is subject to
part, subject to disciplinary action, to aid a layman in the disciplinary action. Finally, Atty. Ruben A. Jacobe is required to
unauthorized practice of law. explain within ten (10) days from notice why he should not be
disciplined for collaborating and associating in the practice of the law
with the respondent who is not a member of the bar.
CASE NO. 13 / BELTRAN, JR. V. ABAD / BM NO. 139, OCTOBER
CASE NO. 14 / AGUIRRE V. RANA / BM NO. 1036, JUNE 10, 2003
FACTS: Court held respondent Elmo S. Abad, a successful bar
examinee but has not been admitted to the Philippine Bar, in FACTS: Respondent Edwin Rana passed the 2000 Bar
contempt of Court for unauthorized practice of law and he was fined Examinations. On May 21, 2001, one day before he took his oath as
P500.00 with subsidiary imprisonment in case he failed to pay the a member of the Philippine Bar, complainant Donna Marie Aguirre
fine. (121 SCRA 217). He paid the fine. Atty. Procopio S. Beltran, Jr., filed a petition charging respondent with unauthorized practice of law
the complainant, filed a MOTION TO CIRCULARIZE TO ALL METRO and grave misconduct. Complainant alleges that respondent, while
MANILA COURTS THE FACT THAT ELMO S. ABAD IS NOT not yet a lawyer, appeared as counsel before the Municipal Board of
AUTHORIZED TO PRACTICE LAW. The Report has found as a fact, Election Canvassers (MBEC) of Mandaon, Masbate wherein he filed
over the denials of the respondent under oath, that he signed with the MBEC a pleading dated May 19, 2001 that objected to the
Exhibits B, C, and D, and that he made appearances in Metro Manila inclusion of certain votes in the canvassing for the Office of Vice-
courts. This aspect opens the respondent to a charge for perjury. Mayor for and in behalf of Vice Mayoralty Candidate, George Bunan.
The Report also reveals that Atty. Ruben A. Jacobe collaborated with However, respondent claims that he decided to assist and advice
the respondent as counsels for Antonio S. Maravilla one of the Bunan, not as a lawyer, but as a person who knows the law.
accused in Criminal Case Nos. 26084, 26085 and 26086 of the Respondent admits signing the May 19, 2001 pleading, but he
Regional Trial Court of Quezon City. (Exhibit D.) Atty. Jacobe should explains that he did not sign the pleading as a lawyer or represented
be called to account for his association with the respondent. himself as an attorney in the pleading.
Respondent, when asked about the aforesaid motions, Exhibits "B" ISSUE: WON respondent is liable for indirect contempt of court for
and "D", and the signatures therein, denied that he filed the same having engaged in unauthorized practice of law.
and that the signatures therein are his. He also denied that he
appeared in the hearing in the afternoon of December 8, 1983 in the HELD: YES. The Court held that respondent was engaged in
said trial court. According to him, he was in Batangas at the time. He unauthorized practice of law when he appeared in the proceedings
also testified that the only explanation he could give regarding the before the MBEC and filed various pleadings, without license to do
so. The regulation of the practice of law is unquestionably strict. In IN VIEW WHEREOF, the notarial commission of Atty. Nestor
Beltran, Jr. v. Abad, a candidate passed the bar examinations but had Q. Quintana, if still existing, is hereby REVOKED, and he is
not taken his oath and signed the Roll of Attorneys. He was held in DISQUALIFIED from being commissioned as notary public for
contempt of court for practicing law even before his admission to the a period of two years. He is also SUSPENDED from the
Bar. Under Section 3 (e) of Rule 71 of the Rules of Court, a person practice of law for six months effective immediately, with a
who engages in the unauthorized practice of law is liable for indirect WARNING that the repetition of a similar violation will be dealt
contempt of court. True, respondent here passed the 2000 Bar with even more severely. He is DIRECTED to report the date
Examinations and took the lawyers oath. However, it is the signing in of his receipt of this Decision to enable this Court to
the Roll of Attorneys that finally makes one a full-fledged lawyer. The determine when his suspension shall take effect.
fact that respondent passed the bar examinations is immaterial.
Passing the bar is not the only qualification to become an attorney-at- After a careful review of the records and evidence, there is no doubt
law. Respondent should know that two essential requisites for that Atty. Quintana violated the 2004 Rules on Notarial Practice and
becoming a lawyer still had to be performed, namely: his lawyers the Code of Professional Responsibility when he committed the
oath to be administered by this Court and his signature in the Roll of following acts: (1) he notarized documents outside the area of his
Attorneys. commission as a notary public; (2) he performed notarial acts with an
expired commission; (3) he let his wife notarize documents in his
Edwin L. Rana is DENIED admission to the Philippine Bar. absence; and (4) he notarized a document where one of the
signatories therein was already dead at that time.
CASE NO. 15 / JUDGE LAQUINDANUM V. QUINTANA / AC NO.
7036, JUNE 29, 2009 1. Director of Lands v. Adorable
FACTS: Executive Judge Lily Lydia Laquindanum of the RTC of Facts: Adorable files a land claim before the Director of Lands. The
Midsayap, Cotabato filed an administrative case against Atty. Nestor case went to the CA for appeal. However, the war broke out. After the
Quintana for the latter’s act of performing notarial functions in war, Adorable files a reconstitution case before the SC believing that
the case was not resolved by the CA. Atty. Zamora, counsel of the
Midsayap, Cotabato, which is beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the
appellee of the case informed the Court that the case was already
commissioning court that issued his notarial commission, and for settled by the CA in favor of Adorable.
allowing his wife to do notarial acts in his absence. Upon
investigation, Judge Laquindanum allegedly discovered that it was Issue: WON the conduct of Atty. Zamora is proper.
Atty. Quintana’s wife who performed notarial acts whenever he was
out of the office as attested to by the Joint Affidavit executed by Held: Yes. The conduct of Atty. Zamora is proper.
Kristine Guro and Elenita Ballentes. For his part, Atty. Quintana The Court in this case praised Atty. Zamora’s conduct as the highest
standard of truthfulness, fair play and nobility as becomes of the
admitted that the evidence presented by Guro and Ballentes were
deserving member of the bar. Hence, the act of Atty. Zamora is
signed by his wife, but such were the result of an entrapment proper.
operation of Judge Laquindanum: to let somebody bring and have
them notarized by his wife, when they knew that his wife is not a 2. Carlet v. CA and Zarate
lawyer. He also denied the he authorized his wife to notarize
documents. According to him, he slapped his wife and told her to Facts: Carlet who is the Special Administrator of the Estate of Sevillo
stop doing it as it would ruin his profession. through Atty. Jimenez files before the Trial Court an action for
reconvenyance of property of Sevillo. Zarate then moved to dismiss
ISSUE: WON respondent Atty. Quintana is liable for the act of his such action invoking res judicata since it was the same facts that had
been settled by the trial court, CA and SC. The action was then
wife despite not having authorized the latter to notarize documents in dismissed by the Trial Court and ordered Atty. Jimenez regarding
his absence. forum-shopping. Atty. Jimenez then appealed it before the CA, but to
no avail.
HELD: YES. A person who is commissioned as a notary public takes
full responsibility for all the entries in his notarial register. Respondent Issue: WON the action of Atty. Jimenez is proper.
cannot take refuge claiming that it was his wife’s act and that he did
not authorize his wife to notarize documents. He is personally Held: No. The action of Atty. Jimenez is not proper.
accountable for the activities in his office as well as the acts of his Canon 10 of the Code of Professional Responsibility provides that “A
lawyer owes candor, fairness and good faith to the court”.
personnel including his wife, who acts as his secretary. Atty. Quintana
In the case at bar, the action of Atty Jimenez of filing a reconveyance
is personally accountable for the documents that he admitted were case despite his knowledge that there is finality of the case shows
signed by his wife. He cannot relieve himself of liability by passing that he does not have good faith towards the court.
the blame to his wife. He is, thus, guilty of violating Canon 9 of the Hence, his conduct is not proper.
Code of Professional Responsibility, which requires lawyers not to
directly or indirectly assist in the unauthorized practice of law.
The Insurance Life Assurance Co. Employees Assoc. v. reconsideration was submitted by him where the following paragraph
Insular Life Assurance Co. was stated:
Facts: The Employees Assoc. Files before the CIR a complaint for 6. Unfortunately for our people, it seems that many of our judicial
unfair labor practice against the Company. The CIR then dismissed authorities believe that they are the chosen messengers of God in all
such complaint. In its decision, CIR Judge Martinez misquoted a SC matters that come before them, and that no matter what the
decision in the case of Lopez Sr v. Chronicle Publication Employees circumstances are, their judgment is truly ordained by the Almighty
Ass’n: (1) 60 words of the paragraph quoted by Martinez do NOT unto eternity. Some seem to be constitutionally incapable of
appear in the original; considering that any emanation from their mind or pen could be the
(2) Martinez used “For it is settled that...”; the original reads, “For it product of unjudicial prejudice or unjudicial sympathy or favoritism for
must be remembered...” (3) Last sentence in the quoted paragraph of a party or an issue. Witness the recent absurdity of Judge Alikpala
Martinez is actually part of the immediately succeeding paragraph in daring to proceed to judge a motion to hold himself in contempt of
the SC decision. court — seemingly totally oblivious or uncomprehending of the
In the respondents’ brief, counsels for respondents quoted the CIR’s violation of moral principle involved — and also of Judge Geraldez
decision who refuses to inhibit himself in judging a criminal case against an
accused who is also his correspondent in two other cases. What is
Issue: Whether or not the Judge and the respondent’s counsel are the explanation for such mentality? Is it outright dishonesty? Lack of
liable for contempt. intelligence? Serious deficiency in moral comprehension? Or is it that
many of our government officials are just amoral?
Held: No. The Judge and the respondent’s counsel are not liable for
contempt. Scattered in his motion were other statements where he attacked the
In citing SC’s decisions and rulings, it is the bounden duty of courts, 1968 decision of the Supreme Court as false, erroneous, and illegal.
judges and lawyers to reproduce or copy the same word-for-word
and punctuation mark-for-punctuation mark. This In another motion, Atty. Santiago sought the inhibition of two
is because “only the decisions of this Honorable Court establish Justices: Justice Fred Castro, because allegedly, he is the brother of
jurisprudence or doctrines in this jurisdiction.” (Miranda v. Imperial). the vice president of the opposing party. And Chief Justice Roberto
However, there was good faith in both the Judge and the Concepcion because immediately after the 1968 decision, his son
respondent’s counsel, hence their action is not liable for contempt. was appointed to a significant position in the government. (Here Atty.
Santiago implied that the justices were not fair and that their decision
4. Del Rosario v. Chingcuanco and Imperio was influenced).
Facts: The CAR rendered a decision evicting Del Rosario from the In his defense, Atty. Santiago said that he originally deleted the
land which he leases from Imperio. However, the former refused to above paragraph and was only included due to inadvertence. But
vacate the land since the latter does not want to refund him of the that any rate, he averred that the language he used was necessary
improvement he had done to the property. Del Rosario, further, filed a to defend his client.
motion before the SC to stay such execution. Due this, Imperio filed a
petition to cite Del Rosario’s counsel in contempt since said counsel ISSUE: Whether or not Atty. Vicente Santiago is guilty of contempt.
quoted a non-existing SC decision. However, it was discovered that
such belief was brought by a mere typographical error. HELD: Yes. Lawyers are administrators of justice, oath-bound
servants of society, their first duty is not to their clients, as many
Issue: WON the conduct of Del Rosario’s counsel deserves a suppose, but to the administration of justice; to this, their clients’
disciplinary action. success is wholly subordinate; and their conduct ought to and must
be scrupulously observant of law and ethics. Thus, Santiago’s
Held: No. The conduct of Del Rosario’s counsel does not deserve a defense is not tenable.
disciplinary action.
In this case, the Court ruled that the name of the case was given A lawyer must avoid language that tend to create an atmosphere of
correctly and there was clearly no deception on the part of the distrust, of disbelief in the judicial system. A lawyer’s duties to the
counsel. Court have become common place. Really, there could hardly be any
Hence, the conduct of said counsel does not deserve a disciplinary valid excuse for lapses in the observance thereof.
Section 20(b), Rule 138 of the Rules of Court, in categorical terms,
SURIGAO MINERAL VS. CLORIBEL (31 SCRA 1 01/09/1970) spells out one such duty: ‘To observe and maintain the respect due to
the courts of justice and judicial officers.’
In Re: Contempt Proceedings Against Attorneys Vicente L.
Santiago, Jose Beltran Sotto, Graciano C. Regala and It is the duty of the lawyer to maintain towards the Courts a respectful
Associates, Erlito R. Uy, Juanito M. Caling; and Morton F. attitude, not for the sake of the temporary incumbent of the judicial
Meads office, but for the maintenance of its supreme importance.
In 1968, the Supreme Court promulgated a unanimous decision (24
SCRA 491; G.R. No. L-27072) which was not favorable to MacArthur Atty. Santiago was fined for his infractions.
International Minerals Co. The latter’s lawyer, Atty. Vicente Santiago
then filed a motion for reconsideration. Eventually, a third motion for
5. Munoz v. CA and Sutton
adverse claim by petitioner on said certificates for the properties
Facts: Sutton made some misrepresentations in the facts of the consolidated by the redemption price he paid for said properties. The
case where she seeks a review before the SC. private respondent filed a suit for the annulment of judgment in the
Court of appeals which ruled over the same.
Issue: WON such conduct deserves disciplinary action.
Held: Yes.The conduct of Atty. Sutton deserves disciplinary action. Issue: whether the petitioner is on solid ground on the reacquisition
Under the Canon 10 of the CPR, a lawyer shall owes candor and over the said properties.
honesty to the court.
In the case at bar, the fact that Atty. Sutton made false facts in her Ruling: By Atty. Canlas' own account, "due to lack of paying capacity
pleading for review in SC is a clear manifestation that she lacks of respondent Herrera, no financing entity was willing to extend him
candor for the court.
any loan with which to pay the redemption price of his mortgaged
Hence, her conduct warrants a disciplinary action.
properties and petitioner's P100,000.00 attorney's fees awarded in
6. Adez Realty v. CA the Compromise Judgment," a development that should have
tempered his demand for his fees. For obvious reasons, he placed
Facts: Atty. Dacanay made some intercalation in the decision of the his interests over and above those of his client, in opposition to his
Court of Appeals when he appealed before the SC. Due this, the oath to "conduct himself as a lawyer ... with all good fidelity ... to [his]
Court had suspended him indefinitely. Dacanay argued that it was his clients." The Court finds the occasion fit to stress that lawyering is not
client who made the intercalation and later on he admitted that his
a moneymaking venture and lawyers are not merchants, a
secretary made the intercalation on the document.
fundamental standard that has, as a matter of judicial notice, eluded
Issue: WON the conduct of Dacanay warrants a suspension. not a few law advocates. The petitioner's efforts partaking of a
shakedown" of his own client are not becoming of a lawyer and
Held: Yes. The conduct of Dacanay warrants suspension. certainly, do not speak well of his fealty to his oath to "delay no man
Rule 10.01 of the CPR provides that a lawyer shall not knowingly for money."
misquote or misrepresent the contents of the paper, language or the We are not, however, condoning the private respondent's own
argument of opposing counsel, or the text of a decision or authority.
shortcomings. In condemning Atty. Canlas monetarily, we cannot
In the case at bar, the fact that Atty. Dacanay made the intercalation
on the CA decision makes him liable under such rule. overlook the fact that the private respondent has not settled his
Hence, his conduct warrants a disciplinary action. liability for payment of the properties. To hold Atty. Canlas alone liable
for damages is to enrich said respondent at the expense of his
PATERNO R. CANLAS, petitioner,vs. lawyer. The parties must then set off their obligations against the
HON. COURT OF APPEALS, and FRANCISCO other.
HERRERA,respondents.
Facts: The private respondent own several parcels of land located in
Quezon City for which he is the registered owner. He secured loans
from L and R corporations and executed deeds of mortgage over the
parcels of land for the security of the same. Upon the maturity of said
loans, the firm initiated an extrajudicial foreclosure of the properties
in question after private respondent failed to pay until maturity. The
private respondent filed a complaint for injunction over the said
foreclosure and for redemption of the parcels of land. Two years after
the filing of the petition, private respondent and L and R corporation
entered into a compromise agreement that renders the former to be
insured another year for the said properties. Included in the
stipulations were the attorney’s fees amounting to Php 100,000.00.
The private respondent however, remained to be in turmoil when it
came to finances and was apparently unable to pay and secure the
attorney’s fees, more so the redemption liability. Relief was discussed
by petitioner and private respondent executed a document to redeem
the parcels of land and to register the same to his name.
Allegations were made by the private respondent claiming the
parcels of land to his name but without prior notice, the properties
were already registered under the petitioner’s name. The private
respondent calls for a review and for the court to act on the said
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With Gutierrez’s Departure, Dems Will Lose Leading Open Borders Crusader
REUTERS/Darren Ornitz
Will Racke Immigration and Foreign Policy Reporter
Democrats are a lock to retain Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s seat when the congressman ends his 25-year House tenure next year, but the party may have a bit more difficulty finding an equally influential and effective advocate for open borders.
Thanks to the egregiously gerrymandered 4th Congressional District of Illinois, Gutierrez has been safely ensconced in the House since 1993. Over nearly a quarter century in Congress, he has become one of the Democratic party’s most prominent voices for “immigration reform,” which in left-wing parlance means amnesty for illegal aliens and continued high levels of family-based immigration.
The 64-year-old Guitierrez has had a hand in nearly every Congressional proposal to increase immigration or extend protections to immigrants, legal and illegal, already in the country, according to a voting record compiled by NumbersUSA.
He has co-sponsored or backed numerous amnesty bills, including then-House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt’s 2002 proposal that would have given legal status to more than 6 million illegal aliens. That bill, which died in the House, would also have changed they way family reunification visas were capped, increasing chain migration by as many as 250,000 legal immigrants annually.
More recently, Gutierrez has been the Democrats’ point man on laying the groundwork for amnesty for illegal immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children. He voted in 2010 for the Dream Act, a bill pro-amnesty lawmakers have tried without success to pass for years that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of younger illegal immigrants. After the the Dream Act failed, Gutierrez urged then-President Obama to pursue an executive amnesty, which he did in 2012 with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Gutierrez stepped up his immigrantion advocacy after President Donald Trump took office, both before and after Trump decided in September to wind down the DACA program. He has been arrested three times protesting the administration’s immigration policies, and he called White House Chief of Staff and former Marine Corps General John Kelly a “disgrace to the uniform” for supporting Trump’s termination of DACA.
Gutierrez’s theatrics have earned him praise from liberal Democrats and immigration activists, on top of his cache in the Democratic Party as a heavyweight in the powerful Congressional Hispanic Caucus. His departure will leave big shoes to fill, mostly likely by a Chicago Democrat with little or no experience in national politics.
The leading candidates to run for Gutierrez’s seat are Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia and Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, according to the Chicago Tribune. Both politicians share many of Gutierrez’s positions on immigration, but they lack his stature in the Democratic Party.
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Freaking out over the disease that’s “coming for us”? Watch this!
August 29, 2014 By domani spero in Bugs, MEDical, Video of the Week Tags: Ebola, Ebola virus disease, John Green, YouTube
New video: In which the Internet tells me I have ebola, but I turn out to have meningitis. https://t.co/D7OvsSMa1R
— John Green (@realjohngreen) August 12, 2014
Ebola virus claims first European victim (cinewsnow.com)
No suspected case of Ebola virus disease in India, says Narendra Modi government (dnaindia.com)
No, The Man Tested for Ebola in NYC Does Not Have Ebola (gizmodo.com)
Fighting Ebola in Liberia: A lesson from Kikwit, Democratic Republic of Congo (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
How Ivory Coast is trying to halt Ebola (bbc.co.uk)
Ebola breaks out in new country (edition.cnn.com)
First He Went To The Hospital. Then He Felt The Worst Pain Of His Life. Then Things Got Weird. (upworthy.com)
Senegal confirms first case of Ebola virus (abc.net.au)
U.S. Embassy Dakar Issues Security Message on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Senegal
August 29, 2014 By domani spero in AF |Africa, Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Foreign Service, MEDical, Realities of the FS, Trends, U.S. Missions Tags: Ebola, Ebola Outbreak, Ebola virus disease, EVD, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Security Message, Senegal, Sierra Leone, US Embassy Dakar, WHO
— Domani Spero
Today, the U.S. Embassy in Dakar issued a security message to U.S. citizens in Senegal concerning the country’s first confirmed case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD):
On August 29, the Senegalese Minister of Health and Social Action (MOH) announced the country’s first confirmed case of EVD. At a press conference, the MOH reported that Guinean authorities reached out to Senegalese authorities to advise them about a young Guinean student who is confirmed to have the virus. The student is currently placed in isolation at a local hospital and is in stable condition. At this time, there are no other confirmed cases in Senegal. The Department of State is working with the government of Senegal, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor the situation.
#MSF experts train health workers in #Brussels headed to #Ebola projects http://t.co/O53iYQ9uuV pic.twitter.com/govBdFZPhG
— Doctors w/o Borders (@MSF_USA) August 28, 2014
On August 21, the government of Senegal has closed its borders with Guinea. It has also closed air and sea borders for aircraft and ships from Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
The State Department has previously issued travel warnings for two countries in the region – Liberia and Sierra Leone– and warned U.S. citizens against non-essential travel to these countries. Due to the lack of available medical resources in these countries and limited availability of medical evacuation options, the U.S. Department of State ordered the departure of family members residing with Embassy staff in Monrovia and in Freetown. (see U.S. Embassy Sierra Leone Now on Ordered Departure for Family Members #Ebola and U.S. Embassy Liberia Now on Ordered Departure For Family Members, New Travel Warning Issued).
Senegal confirms its 1st case of Ebola (sfgate.com)
Guinean student is first case of Ebola confirmed in Senegal (trust.org)
The BBC on the first Ebola case in Senegal (crofsblogs.typepad.com)
Nigeria closes schools over Ebola (bbc.co.uk)
State Dept Issues Travel Alert on Ebola-Related Screening and Travel Restrictions in West Africa
August 29, 2014 By domani spero in AF |Africa, Americans Abroad, Consular Work, Foreign Service, MEDical, Realities of the FS, State Department, Trends, U.S. Missions, USAID Tags: Bureau of Consular Affairs, CDC, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ebola, Ebola Outbreak, Ebola virus disease, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Travel Alert, USAID/OFDA
On August 28, the State Department issued a Travel Alert for screening and restrictions related to the Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa:
The Department of State alerts U.S. citizens to screening procedures, travel restrictions, and reduced aviation transportation options in response to the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. This Travel Alert will expire on February 27, 2015.
Due to an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the West African nations of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued Level 3 Travel Warnings for those three countries advising against non-essential travel and provided guidance to reduce the potential for spread of EVD. The CDC also issued a Level 2 Travel Alert for Nigeria to notify travelers of the Ebola outbreak in that country. The Bureau of Consular Affairs’ website prominently features an Ebola Fact Sheet and links to the CDC Health Travel Warnings, Travel Alert, and general guidance about Ebola.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and CDC have also published and provided interim guidance to public health authorities, airlines, and other partners in West Africa for evaluating risk of exposure of persons coming from countries affected by EVD. Measures can include screening, medical evaluation, movement restrictions up to 21 days, and infection control precautions. Travelers who exhibit symptoms indicative of possible Ebola infection may be prevented from boarding and restricted from traveling for the 21-day period. Please note neither the Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs nor the U.S. Embassy have authority over quarantine issues and cannot prevent a U.S. citizen from being quarantined should local health authorities require it. For questions about quarantine, please visit the CDC website that addresses quarantine and isolation issues.
The cost for a medical evacuation is very expensive. We encourage U.S. citizens travelling to Ebola-affected countries to purchase travel insurance that includes medical evacuation for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Policy holders should confirm the availability of medical care and evacuation services at their travel destinations prior to travel.
Some local, regional, and international air carriers have curtailed or temporarily suspended service to or from Ebola-affected countries. U.S. citizens planning travel to or from these countries, in accordance with the CDC Health Travel Warnings and Health Travel Alert, should contact their airline to verify seat availability, confirm departure schedules, inquire about screening procedures, and be aware of other airline options.
The Department is aware that some countries have put in place procedures relating to the travel of individuals from the affected countries, including complete travel bans. Changes to existing procedures may occur with little or no notice. Please consult your airline or the embassy of your destination country for additional information.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Our director @JeremyKonyndyk announces additional $5M in @USAID funding to help combat #EbolaOutbreak pic.twitter.com/gWbptQmZ6u
— USAID/OFDA (@theOFDA) August 27, 2014
According to the WHO’s Outbreak News, the total number of probable and confirmed cases in the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) as reported by the respective Ministries of Health of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone is 3069, with 1552 deaths. The World Health Organization reports that the outbreak continues to accelerate with more than 40% of the total number of cases occurring within the past 21 days. The overall case fatality rate is 52%.
A separate outbreak of Ebola virus disease not related to the four-country outbreak was laboratory-confirmed on August 26 by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC’s index case was a pregnant woman from a village who butchered a bush animal that had been killed and given to her by her husband. From July 28- August 18, 2014, a total of 24 suspected cases of haemorrhagic fever, including 13 deaths, have been identified in that outbreak.
As of this writing, Senegal also confirmed its first case of Ebola related to the four-country outbreak in West Africa.
Ebola Africa travel bans to be axed (bbc.co.uk)
Ebola: ‘Even worse than feared’ (edition.cnn.com)
DFA readies repatriation of OFWs, peacekeepers from Ebola-hit countries (businessmirror.com.ph)
Tweet of the Day: Visa That Saved a Mom’s Life
August 29, 2014 By domani spero in Ambassadors, Consular Work, Social Media, U.S. Missions, Visas Tags: Andrew Schapiro, Czech Republic, Tweet of the Day, US Embassy Prague
The tweet below is from Andrew Schapiro, the Ambassador-Designate to the Czech Republic who arrived in Prague on August 18, 2014 but yet to participate in official events pending the presentation of credentials per diplomatic protocol.
75 yrs ago this week: visa that saved my mother’s life issued by U.S. embassy #Prague in which I sit today. pic.twitter.com/VCiar0SKJw
— Andrew Schapiro (@AndySchapiro) August 27, 2014
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GHGSat-C1 and -C2, the next two microsatellites in the GHGSat constellation
Spacecraft Launch Sensor Complement References
In June 2016, GHGSat-D (Claire) was launched, becoming the first high-resolution microsatellite designed to measure greenhouse gas emissions from point sources, such as industrial facilities and power plants. The bus was provided by the UTIAS/SFL (University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies /Space Flight Laboratory) under contract to GHGSat Inc. of Montreal, Canada. Claire has successfully demonstrated greenhouse gas measurements around the world, and several such measurements of methane emissions have been released publicly in the last year. In order to extend the service capability and as a precursor to a full constellation, GHGSat-C1 and GHGSat-C2 are the next two microsatellites under development. 1)
With a mass of approximately 16 kg each, the design follows its predecessor Claire in leveraging SFL's Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO) bus. Bus platform modifications such as enhanced electromagnetic compatibility and hardware redundancy will result in increased performance and reliability. Enhancements to the payload include reduced stray light, onboard calibration capability, and additional radiation mitigation. Furthermore, the inclusion of an optical downlink as a technology demonstrator will result in greater data downlink capacity. These upgrades will be entirely accomplished with the same volume and power constraints as Claire. The development of the GHGSat-C1 and GHGSat-C2 satellites is currently underway and the first of the two is scheduled for launch at the beginning of 2019.
Mission objectives: GHGSat's idea started with the implementation of carbon cap-and-trade programs in various Canadian provinces and US states. 2) Several provinces in Canada have carbon pricing systems in place. British Columbia has had a carbon tax in place since 2008, and Quebec and Ontario adopted a cap-and-trade system in 2013 and 2017, respectively. The vision of GHGSat is to be the global standard for emissions across the world. The GHGSat microsatellites have a different observing strategy than other satellites on orbit with the capability of detecting carbon dioxide and methane. Whereas previous satellites have had spatial resolution on the order of kilometers, the spatial resolution of the GHGSat microsatellites is less than 50 m.
Background: The increase of atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG), such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) is one of the factors contributing to Earth's changing climate. Similar to other industrialized countries, in Canada carbon dioxide is the primary GHG emitted through human activities via the combustion of fossil fuels. The second highest emission is methane, sources of which include livestock, landfills, coal mines, and wastewater management. Canada takes significant steps to address climate change by implementing national plans to reduce GHG emissions and by transitioning to a clean growth economy. These goals flow down to all sectors of the economy and a report is submitted annually to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that includes estimates of the CO2 equivalent in six economic sectors, shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Canada's GHG emissions by economic sector, breakdown by IPCC (Inter-Governmental Panel for Climate Change) Sector 2015 3)
GHGSat-C1/-C2 Satellite Platform
In order to expand satellite system capacity after the successful launch of its demonstration satellite, GHGSat started the design of two (2) additional high-resolution satellites in January 2017, called GHGSat-C1 and GHGSat-C2 ,respectively. GHGSat-C1/-C2 are intended to have similar designs to GHGSat-D, while applying critical lessons learned to improve performance. 4)
In March 2017, UTIAS/SFL (University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies/Space Flight Laboratory) has been contracted by GHGSat Inc. of Montreal to develop the GHGSat-C1 and C2 greenhouse gas monitoring satellites. 5)
SFL has begun development of the GHGSat-C1 and C2 satellites at its Toronto facility with planned launches in late 2018 and early 2019, respectively. Serving as GHGSat's first two commercially operating satellites, they will be identical to each other but contain incremental, yet significant, enhancements from the demonstration mission.
The design phase for two new, high-resolution satellites was completed in 2017. Changes made to the payload include (Ref. 4):
• Improved stray light / ghosting mitigation
• Addition of onboard calibration features
• Improved radiation mitigation
• Optimized spectroscopy for primary instrument
• Replacement of secondary instrument
• Addition of experimental optical downlink
Overall, GHGSat expects an order-of-magnitude performance improvement from this design, within the same volume, mass and power constraints of the demonstration satellite (Ref. 1).
The Next Generation Earth Monitoring and Observation (NEMO) platform is SFL's first bus designed for microsatellite missions. This standard bus consists of two trays and six panels as seen in Figure 2. This supports a main payload mass of maximum 6 kg with an overall spacecraft mass ranging from 10-20 kg depending on secondary payloads and optional SFL avionics required to meet current and future missions. The GHGSat-C1 will have a mass of ~16 kg.
The nominal volume is 20 x 30 x 40 cm with a peak power between 50-100 W. Higher power is achieved through optional pre-deployed solar wings. The bus design supports a main payload of volume 8000 cm3 with a payload power of up to 45 W and 40% duty cycle.
The NEMO platform supports various ACS (Attitude Control Subsystem) sensors and actuators from sun sensors, magnetometer and rate sensors to magnetorquers and reaction wheels. This gives an ACS stability of approximately two degrees. When missions demands are higher, a star tracker can be used which increases ACS stability to about 10-60 arcseconds. The bus also supports GPS.
The typical NEMO platform uses an UHF uplink and S-band downlink. The standard uplink rate is 4 kbit/s with a downlink rate between 32 kbit/s and 2 Mbit/s. The platform can be further enhanced to use an S-band uplink.
Depending on deployed appendages, the NEMO platform is compatible with two SFL separation systems: the XPOD Duo and XPOD Delta. These separation systems are compatible with multiple launch vehicles.
Figure 2: GHGSat-D structure exploded view (image credit: UTIAS/SFL)
Improvements for GHGSat-C: The mechanical design of GHGSat-C1/-C2 has been constrained to match the design of GHGSat-D as closely as possible. Changes have been made due to upgrades in SFL hardware, updates to the primary payload, additions of new payloads, and to decrease the EMI sensitivity of the bus. The spacecraft exterior solid model is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: GHGSat-C1 exterior solid model (image credit: UTIAS/SFL)
SFL Hardware Upgrades: Several updates to the S-band transmitter have been implemented across all NEMO-class satellites to improve performance. Coaxial cables with improved shielding and filters between the transmitter and the antennas were added. These cables offer reduced insertion loss and, along with the higher powered S-band radio that has been baselined, will increase the transmit gain allowing for increases in data transfer using just S-band communications. These improvements have been proven during ground testing of other SFL spacecraft.
Firecode functionality has also been shifted from each individual onboard computer (OBC) to a separate firecode board, which interfaces with the radio and OBCs directly. This was done to further improve resilience to radiation-induced upsets. Additional upgrades to the OBC have been made but do not affect the mechanical interfaces within the bus.
A fourth reaction wheel has been added as a redundancy. It uses a skew orientation where it has control authority in all three of the principal spacecraft axes and thus can act as a backup. Figure 4 shows the four-wheel configuration.
Figure 4: Four reaction wheel configuration (image credit: UTIAS7SFL)
A permanent magnet has also been included to prevent an undesirable attitude where the payload face – one that has no solar panels – is locked in an attitude that faces the sun. This orientation would result in a power negative state until the satellite is commanded out of that attitude or environmental disturbances cause the satellite's attitude to drift. The magnet was sized to impart a permanent dipole to the satellite which would interact with Earth's magnetic field inducing a torque that would prevent it from getting stuck in that "sun-stare" attitude.
Addition of New Payloads: The addition of Darkstar has resulted in several changes to the GHGSat-C1/-C2 spacecraft. Mechanically speaking a new bracket needed to be designed to simultaneously ensure that the laser downlink had adequate line-of-sight to its ground station while maintaining a sufficient star tracker viewing angle to prevent impingement from the sun or Earth in nominal operations. A much larger cutout in the panel was required to accommodate this and a split panel design was implemented to facilitate both reducing the EMI sensitivity and ease of assembly as seen in Figure 5. By installing each part of the panel around Darkstar the actual size of the panel cutout was minimized reducing the effect of electromagnetic interference on the satellite avionics.
Figure 5: Split panel design to accommodate Darkstar (image credit: UTIAS/SFL)
Due to frequency conflicts between the Q8 processor high speed data transfer connection and other spacecraft components it was necessary to contain the board within an enclosure and shield the associated cabling to prevent undesired interferences. The addition of this payload posed some challenges because of extremely tight clearances especially with moving components such as the reaction wheels. The enclosure placement within the bus can be seen in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Q8 processor enclosure (image credit: UTIAS/SFL)
EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) Sensitivity Reduction: To further improve uplink sensitivity of the bus EMI gaskets were added to the primary spacecraft panels. Adjustments to the panel-to-panel and panel-to-tray interfaces were required to ensure there was sufficient material present for the gasket cutouts. Additionally, EMI gaskets were added to the UHF enclosure, as shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: EMI gaskets for UHF (shown in red) and panel-tray (shown in green), image credit: UTIAS/SFL
Future Constellation Plans: The second and third GHGSat microsatellites will assure continuity of observations and will expand GHGSat's customer capacity. More satellites will enable more frequent tracking of sites. GHGSat-C1/-C2 are the first two satellites in a planned constellation of GHG monitoring satellites.
Figure 8: Artist's rendition of the GHGSat-C1/-C2 on orbit (image credit: UTIAS/SFL, GHGSat)
Launch: The GHGSat-C1 microsatellite is scheduled for launch as a secondary payload in Q2 of 2019.
Orbit: Sun-synchronous orbit, altitude of ~500 km, LTDN (Local Time on Descending Node) of 10:30 hours.
Sensor complement (Imaging Spectrometer, Optical Downlink)
Imaging Spectrometer
The Imaging Spectrometer, operating in the SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) region, is based on a Fabry-Perot (FP) interferometer. The optical design of the instrument includes three lens groups, in addition to the Fabry-Perot interferometer, as well as beam folding mirrors required to fit the telescope within a microsatellite bus. The payload avionics includes a Q7 hybrid processor provided by Xiphos Systems Corporation.
GHGSat-D flew the first iteration of this payload, shown in Figure 9. Each target observation produces approximately 200,000 measurements of the atmospheric radiance in the SWIR region.
Figure 9: Photo of the GHGSat-D fully integrated payload (image credit: GHGSat)
Several changes were made to the payload for GHGSat-C1/-C2 to improve upon the performance of GHGSat-D. These include upgrades to further mitigate stray light, ghosting, spectral bandpass inefficiencies, and radiation effects.
Stray light is extra light observed by the optical payload which was not intended to be observed. During nominal satellite operations, it was determined that up to 5% stray light was encountered on GHGSat-D with much of that being from off-axis incoming light. To improve upon this, several elements of the optical system were redesigned.
Ghosting is rotated, reflected, zoomed, or translated copies of the intended image. To improve upon this, anti-reflective (AR) coatings were either updated or newly applied to various surfaces in the optical system.
The GHGSat-D payload restricted the incident spectral passband to a wavelength region between 1600-1700 nm, which was selected for the presence of spectral features of methane and carbon dioxide, as well as relatively little interference from other atmospheric species. However, attempting to capture both methane and carbon dioxide lines proved to be inefficient. Therefore, the passband was narrowed in order to focus on methane.
Radiation in the space environment affected the detector. To help increase the lifetime of the detector radiation shielding was introduced around the IR camera for GHGSat-C1/-C2.
GHGSat-D also had a cloud and aerosol camera secondary payload, which ultimately did not contribute significantly to the mission. Therefore it was replaced with a visible light auxiliary camera, providing higher resolution imagery to improve image alignment and georeferencing.
Darkstar (Experimental Optical Downlink)
The downlink is currently the system bottleneck, given that the payload can generate data faster than it can be downlinked to the ground. GHGSat-D, along with GHGSat-C1/-C2, have an S-band transmitter for downlinking payload data and satellite bus telemetry. This system can achieve downlink rates of up to 2 Mbit/s. GHGSat-C1/-C2 are therefore testing an experimental laser downlink system that is intended to achieve downlink rates of up to 1 Gbit/s. Designed by Sinclair Interplanetary, the wavelength of the laser is785 nm, in the near-IR range.
The optical downlink is built on the reverse side of the optical bench of an expanded Sinclair Interplanetary ST-16RT2 star tracker, shown in Figure 10. Its mass is less than 400 g and its outer dimensions are 100 x 68 x 68 mm.
Darkstar interfaces with a Q8 processor designed by Xiphos Systems Corporation. The Q8 processor is a new design and is also included on GHGSat-C1 in order to gain flight heritage. The Q8 is connected to the payload avionics via an Ethernet connection for high speed data transfer. Although the primary means of downlinking payload data will still be over the S-band transmitter, the connection between the Q8 and the payload avionics exists in order to test and characterize the optical downlink system with the large volume of data generated by the main payload.
Figure 10: Darkstar internal space terminal layout (image credit: Sinclair Interplanetary) 6)
1) Laura M. Bradbury, Michael Ligori, Robert Spina, Daniel Kekez, Pawel Lukaszynski, Robert E. Zee, Stephane Germain, "On-Orbit Greenhouse Gas Detection with the GHGSat Constellation," Proceedings of the 69th IAC (International Astronautical Congress) Bremen, Germany, 1-5 October 2018, paper: IAC-18.B4.4.8
2) Stephane Germain, Berke Durak, Jason McKeever, Vincent Latendresse, Cordell Grant, James J. Sloan, "Global Monitoring of Greenhouse Gas Emissions," Proceedings of the 30th Annual AIAA/USU SmallSat Conference, Logan UT, USA, August 6-11, 2016, paper: SSC16-III-11, URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/
viewcontent.cgi?article=3355&context=smallsat
3) "Canada's 7th National Communication and 3rd Biennial Report," Gatineau, QC: Environment and Climate Change Canada, 2017, URL: https://unfccc.int/files/national_reports/national_
communications_and_biennial_reports/application/pdf/82051493_canada-
nc7-br3-1-5108_eccc_can7thncomm3rdbi-report_en_04_web.pdf
4) "GHGSat-C1/C2," GHGSat, January 2017, URL: http://www.ghgsat.com/who-we-are/our-satellites/satellite-2/
5) "Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) to Develop Microsatellites for Greenhouse Gas Monitoring," UTIAS/SFL, 24 March 2017, URL: https://www.utias-sfl.net/?p=2541
6) Doug Sinclair, Kathleen Riesing, "The Rainbow Connection -Why Now is the Time for SmallSat Optical Downlinks," Proceedings of the 31st Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan UT, USA, Aug. 5-10, 2017, paper: SSC17-II-06, URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewc
ontent.cgi?article=3605&context=smallsat
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There is nothing worse than a bigot with a gun
June 12, 2016 June 12, 2016 7 Comments
❝ The attack on Orlando LGBT club Pulse on Saturday night was carried out – like so many mass shootings before it – with an assault rifle, of the “AR-15 type”. These weapons have the ability to fire hundreds of rounds per minute, spraying waves of hot lead and fire, giving the shooter the power to mete out death on an industrial scale.
The NRA and its supporters have fanatically lobbied to keep these weapons cheap, legal and easy to obtain, in spite of the fact that there is no sporting use for them. You can’t hunt deer with an assault rifle. Animal targets would vaporize if struck by a single round.
❝ Their utility in stopping a home invasion is questionable, but this is true of all guns. According to the FBI, for every case of “justifiable homicide” with a firearm in the US – that’s to say, a self-defense shooting – there are 32 murders, suicides or accidental gun deaths. The overwhelming weight of evidence says that the high rate of gun ownership in this country makes us less safe, not more…
❝ There are many people who insist they “need” a gun – particularly an assault weapon – to feel safe. But unless you are a marine in Fallujah or a Chicago SWAT cop, you don’t “need” anything of the sort. You want it, and not in any kind of reasonable way. It’s either because you’re a sociopath or you’re unreasonably afraid. Neither one of those states is a valid place from which to make the decision.
❝ Perhaps this moment will be a kind of tipping point where the US comes to its senses and starts placing some reasonable restrictions on the owning and trafficking of firearms. My hopes, however, are not high.
❝ After Sandy Hook – when we as a nation heaved a deep, sad sigh over the deaths of an entire schoolroom full of children, then looked away and did nothing – I’ve come to see my countrymen’s gun obsession as an unreasoning dependency, like an alcoholic steadily drinking herself to death.
I would like to believe that we’ll learn something from this, but in truth, the thing I think we’re mostly likely to learn is that when we’re in public – especially in previously safe spaces like gay bars and churches – we need to keep one eye constantly on the nearest exit and always be ready to run.
David Ferguson’s opinion in The GUARDIAN is sad but true. I don’t expect many of our nation’s newspapers to publish anything like it. They are run by cowards. I expect most electronic media – from TV talking heads to online pulpits – will not publish anything like it. They are run by cowards. I expect most politicians, office-holders by virtue of being elected by American citizens – the overwhelming majority of whom support regulated vetting of gun purchases, an end to the sale of assault weapons – will lack the courage and foresight to echo David Ferguson’s good sense. They are cowards.
I have been a gun owner for over 60 years. I don’t hunt anymore. No longer any interest in target shooting. I still own 3 guns – none of which are assault rifles. I support a return to that ban in a heartbeat. I would stand in line to vote for restrictive regulation, oversight and licensing for all guns. I would welcome the debate over details and limits because limits are needed in this nation which would rather protect bigots with guns than ordinary unarmed citizens.
Milestone: Iceland power plant turns carbon emissions to stone
Coauthor Sandra Snaebjornsdottir with test drill core showing carbonate
Scientists and engineers working at a major power plant in Iceland have shown for the first time that carbon dioxide emissions can be pumped into the earth and changed chemically to a solid within months — radically faster than anyone had predicted. The finding may help address a fear that so far has plagued the idea of capturing and storing CO2 underground: that emissions could seep back into the air or even explode out.
The Hellisheidi power plant is the world’s largest geothermal facility; it and a companion plant provide the energy for Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik, plus power for industry, by pumping up volcanically heated water to run turbines. But the process is not completely clean; it also brings up volcanic gases, including carbon dioxide and nasty-smelling hydrogen sulfide.
Under a pilot project called Carbfix, started in 2012, the plant began mixing the gases with the water pumped from below and reinjecting the solution into the volcanic basalt below. In nature, when basalt is exposed to carbon dioxide and water, a series of natural chemical reactions takes place, and the carbon precipitates out into a whitish, chalky mineral. But no one knew how fast this might happen if the process were harnessed for carbon storage. Previous studies have estimated that in most rocks, it would take hundreds or even thousands of years. In the basalt below Hellisheidi, 95 percent of the injected carbon was solidified within less than two years.
“This means that we can pump down large amounts of CO2 and store it in a very safe way over a very short period of time,” said study coauthor Martin Stute, a hydrologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “In the future, we could think of using this for power plants in places where there’s a lot of basalt — and there are many such places.” Basically all the world’s seafloors are made of the porous, blackish rock, as are about 10 percent of continental rocks.
Scientists have been tussling for years with the idea of so-called carbon capture and sequestration; the 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggests that without such technology, it may not be possible to limit global warming adequately. But up to now, projects have made little progress.
Now, we have a fresh start and perhaps a solution to some of the carbon produced by existing technology. If the process becomes efficient enough, affordable, it may be usable for removing unneeded CO2 from our atmosphere.
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Welcome to the Dulverton Weir & Leat Conservation Trust website.
The Dulverton Weir & Leat Conservation Trust (DWLCT) has emerged and grown from the efforts of local people and wider interest groups who have been working to save Dulverton’s medieval weir and leat from collapse, restore them to good condition and conserve them for future generations. We became registered as a Charitable Trust in 2016.
Both Dulverton Weir and the Leat are of significant national historic interest and form what is referred to by experts as an ‘Urban Watermill Landscape’. The leat has been recognised by some in academic circles as ‘the best preserved medieval leat in England’ and the weir is built using an oak stake and boulder technology, first introduced into the UK by the Normans and used throughout the medieval period.
There are three very interesting things about the Dulverton Urban Watermill Landscape:-
Firstly, its size; we know there were 6 mills in Dulverton in the 16th century, there were also 6 listed on the 1820 map of Dulverton. As late as 1832 the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia still listed the three main blanket manufacturing locations in England as being Leeds, Witney and Dulverton. The weir structure is about 160 yards long, and when the weir and leat were built it represented an enormous investment in ‘cutting edge’ water power technology. It is a little recognised fact that what we now refer to as ‘The Industrial Revolution’ (based on coal power) was actually the second industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution took place in medieval times and was based on water power. The historian Jean Gimpel called it a period of ‘the medieval genius of inventiveness’, leading to the harnessing of water power all over Europe…..and Dulverton was part of it.
Secondly, when the leat was built it stood in open ground outside the town. This was where all of the dirty and noisy industrial processes were carried out (for example the process of ‘fulling’ cloth was very noisy and required lots of water and urine). The original town of Dulverton was up the hill from the leat, starting approximately where the Town Hall now stands and stretching up the hill, past Sydenham Hall. It was only as Dulverton grew that the leat came to flow through the middle of the town.
Thirdly, the 1331 reference to milling in Dulverton mentions shares in a mill. The shares may well have been shares in the whole watermill system including the leat and weir that serviced the mills. This is the situation that existed at the Bazacle Urban Watermill System, near Toulouse in France, at about the same time. The historian Gimpel has famously traced the origins of the capitalist system back to this sort of arrangement.
The weir and leat are situated on the River Barle, a tributary of the River Exe, in Dulverton, a vibrant market town in Exmoor National Park, a favourite destination for large numbers of visitors.
Fed from the huge weir just to the north of the town, the leat flows right through Dulverton, presenting many vantage points for residents and visitors to view its beauty and marvel at the skill and ingenuity of the men and women who built it.
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Learn a bit more about what makes Dunedin Consort different
DUNEDIN CONSORT IS FOUNDED BY BEN PARRY AND SUSAN HAMILTON
JOHN BUTT JOINS AS CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BRINGING A RENEWED FOCUS TO BAROQUE MUSIC
OUR RECORDING OF HANDEL’S MESSIAH WINS A COVETED GRAMOPHONE AWARD
OUR RECORDING OF MOZART’S REQUIEM WINS A SECOND GRAMOPHONE AWARD!
TODAY THE FUTURE IS BRIGHTER THAN EVER
Dunedin Consort is Scotland’s Leading Baroque Ensemble. Whilst most art performing companies define themselves by their make up (an orchestra, an opera house, a dance troupe, a choir…) we define ourselves by the music we specialise in. We focus primarily (but not exclusively) in the music of the renaissance, baroque and early classical periods, which jointly span approximately 250 years from 1550-1790.
Some of the best known composers worked during this period, Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Monteverdi… These names are deeply ingrained in our musical heritage and most people have heard one of their pieces before.
But for us the period is only the beginning of the journey. What drives us is getting to the bone, how was it different back then? what did the composers really meant in that particular moment? Is the way we have learnt to do it today the way it was done back then? what is the historical context the piece was performed in? Why do it today? Is it relevant?
We of course believe that, yes, this music is still relevant (otherwise we wouldn’t do it) and that the challenges that arise during the journey reveal details about our cultural heritage and challenge preconceptions about how we approach music today.
Exploring the possible answers to all these questions is fascinating and for us, being able to share it with our audiences is worth the significant challenges that arise when we upturn old stones.
This historic and supremely important new recording restores Bach’s dramatic Passion to the setting for which it was designed.
Who is John Butt?
John Butt is both the brain of the Dunedin Consort and its heart. Since 2003, his musical ideas and research have not only shaped our work but influenced how many other musicians present theirs. He is particularly respected for his research into the music of the JS Bach.
He is a smart chap too. He is professor of music at Glasgow University, has written several books for Cambridge University Press and in 2013 was awarded the OBE for his services to music in Scotland.
Whether in rehearsal, on the stage or working with a group amateur singers, John’s personality is endlessly compelling and brings a unique sense of discovery and achievement to the music making process.
He lives in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, with his wife Sally and five children.
Read John’s Full Biography
John Butt is of that rare breed: a music academic who is also a genuinely thrilling performer. As one of the world’s foremost Bach scholars, he brings vigorous insight to the period ensemble he conducts from the harpsichord, the Edinburgh-based Dunedin Consort. But there’s flamboyancy and pathos in his musicianship, too, that always cuts to the heart of a work’s emotional drama.
Dunedin ranges from 3-4 Performers for our small Chamber Music programmes
TO 70 PERFORMERS OR MORE FOR OUR LARGE CHORAL WORKS
Who is the Dunedin Consort?
Many of our singers and instrumentalists have been working with us for years. Most of them are either Scottish or based in Scotland but Dunedin is a group of international scope and it is not rare to see musicians of many different nationalities involved in our concerts. What is important for us is that the artists involved are the best which ensures our audience enjoys some of the best music making around.
We also ask all our soloists to sing with and lead the choruses. This adds a soloistic element to our choruses which is quite unique but it also blurs the distinction between soloists and the larger ensemble. Whether a soloist appearing with us for the first time or whether it is one of our regular performers, everyone you see on the stage at one of our concerts is the Dunedin Consort.
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Is it a choir?
Dunedin Consort can certainly be a choir but it is much more than that.
Dunedin was initially founded in 1997 as a vocal ensemble but since 2003, when John Butt joined, the definition of what we are, moved from the simple make up of the ensemble (voices) to the music period it primarily focuses on; we call ourselves a Baroque Ensemble. Vocal music remains very much part of our remit but depending on the repertoire we want to perform we take various shapes and forms: A few string players with a vocal soloist, a vocal group of 5 singers, a quartet of soloists with full choir and orchestra, an instrumental group… The key issue always is the piece of music, its period, and the approach we take when researching and performing the music.
What is your approach?
One of the key things is that the instruments we use are so called period instruments. This means that our musicians use either original 18th Century instruments or replicas. String players use gut strings instead of the steel, metal ones you find nowadays, flutes are made out of wood instead of metal, oboes have 3 keys instead of the 2o-odd modern oboes have.
But it goes far deeper than the use of the tools. All our performers both singers and instrumentalist have spent years studying suitable techniques to use these instruments and perform this music. If you come to one of our concerts you will often find that the choir is perhaps a bit smaller than what you are used to and that they are always at the front. It is not what most people do these days but it does make a big difference to the music. The singers are further forward which means you can actually hear and understand what they are saying; the text gains far more clarity which in turn enhances the emotional impact of the music.
Then we go into really detailed analysis of the sources, the composers, the historical context, … Are you still awake?… the pitch, the function of the music…
We do this because it really does make a big difference to what the audience experiences.
OK, let us try explaining it a different way…
If Dunedin were a drink, it would be a smokey Islay whiskey;
The Spice Girls would be a carton of concentrated orange juice.
If Dunedin were a car it would be a classy vintage Stag;
The Berlin Philharmonic a big Audi number.
If Dunedin were a meal, it would be a slow cooked juicy Sunday roast;
Andre Rieu would be a microwave dinner.
I still don’t get it.
I think you need to come to one of our concerts to experience the real thing (words and fancy websites don’t really make it justice).
Bach: The Brandenburgs
Seven Last Words from the Cross – Inverness
The Brandenburgs – Seen and Heard International Review
A trumpeter’s Mount Everest — David Blackadder on Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Samson – Early Music Review
Samson – Record of the Month – BBC Music Magazine
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Nothington streaming new song “Don’t Have to Wait” off upcoming album “Borrowed Time”
Monday, August 22, 2011 at 9:05 AM (PST) by Travis
San Francisco punk rockers Nothington are streaming a great new song called “Don’t Have To Wait” off their upcoming album “Borrowed Time”, and you can click right here to check it out.
The song will hopefully keep fans of the band occupied until they release “Borrowed Time” on September 13th through Red Scare. The album is the first since 2009’s “Roads, Bridges, and Ruins”. They’ve also got an EP called “More Than Obvious” that was released this Summer.
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Josh Ballard8/22/2011 9:45 AM | Permalink
The new song is awesome, just what i expected from nothington!
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More tunes on the way, Josh!
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VIDEO: CBS staffer fired over ABC’s Epstein scandal makes surprising claim in Megyn Kelly interview
A CBS News employee, fired after ABC executives informed CBS she’d had access to a leaked hot mic video that revealed the Disney-owned network killed a Jeffrey Epstein scoop, says she did not leak the tape and was unfairly axed without being able to defend herself.
Ashley Bianco was a producer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” before joining “CBS This Morning” last month. Earlier this week, the controversial group Project Veritas published the damning video in which “20/20” and “GMA” anchor Amy Robach complained that her bosses killed a story that would have exposed the now-deceased child sex offender Epstein three years ago.
Bianco said she was fired by CBS after the network received a call from ABC informing her new boss that she once had access to the leaked video.
VIDEO: Airport apologizes after bizarre ‘Epstein Coverup’ broadcast
In an exclusive interview with former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, released on Friday, Bianco insisted that she is NOT the person who leaked the tape. “I’m not the whistleblower. I’m sorry to ABC, but the leaker is still inside,” she said.
Bianco said she had never communicated with anyone from Project Veritas. She explained that when Robach made her comments about the Epstein story being squashed, she was watching the news feed from her desk, and simply made a clip of the video and saved it in ABC’s internal system.
She is now distraught over being labeled as a “whistleblower” and a “leaker” and wonders if she’ll ever be able to get a job again in the news media.
WATCH the interview below:
Ashley Bianco, the woman fired by CBS for her role in the hot mic Amy Robach clip, sits down with me in an exclusive interview HERE: https://t.co/S3Nmfr3477
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) November 8, 2019
Liberals = FIRE … AIM … READY! Deep State at the networks fires innocent “whistleblower” in effort to protect top echelon LIBS!
CBS staffer fired over ABC’s Epstein scandal speaks out: ‘I’m not the whistleblower… the leaker is still inside’https://t.co/63DSYbnMvN
— MichaelTetrick (@MichaelTetrick) November 8, 2019
Rootietoot November 8th, 2019 at 8:42 pm
But when it’s their whistleblower shit you can’t even know who it is. They make up their own rules on being a whistleblower when it’s to their advantage. When it’s someone telling on them, hell all bets are off and forget all the laws and just fire them.
Raoul Ortega November 8th, 2019 at 11:50 pm
Hmmm… funny how the story is about a producer Being fired, not about the executives who were involved with squashing the story. One has to wonder about the executives and their link(s) to Epstein. The only real concern seems to be pushing his story out of the public eye…
Lori November 9th, 2019 at 1:10 am
These people seem to be so worried about their jobs and their big interviews but don’t seem to care too much about the victims of Epstein. I think the media is the real enemy to the people more than ever. I will never trust them ever. None of them.
Beverly LeRoux November 9th, 2019 at 7:53 am
When does the public get to see this damning video???? Why is the dirty mainstream media allowed to keep it under wraps?!? Release it NOW!!!!Ket the public see what Scum you all are!!!
Kathie November 9th, 2019 at 8:46 am
This really makes you stop and think WHO was behind her firing? Clinton’s?? CIA? Anyone who was afraid of being exposed. They are sending a very strong loud message that anyone who tries to bring the Epstein story out will be ruined. This girl is innocent. How big and wide us this corruption!!!
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December 3, 2014 By Sara Georgini in News, Recent Scholarship, Uncategorized Tags: 19th Century, Abraham Lincoln, American Revolution, Atlantic World, capitalism, Civil War, Constitution, cultural history, Early Republic, Gender, George Washington, Native Americans, Politics, Popular History, Print Culture, Publishing, race, religion, Slavery 8 Comments
Just in time for your holiday shopping list, here’s our preview of new titles—share your finds in the comments!
Grandma Moses, “Joy Ride,” 1953
Robert J. Andrews, The Journals of Jeffery Amherst, 1757-1763, Volume 1: The Daily and Personal Journals
Adam Arenson and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States
Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey, Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection
Andrew D. M. Beaumont, Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761
Brooke L. Blower and Mark Philip Bradley, eds., The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts after the Transnational Turn
Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown, Taming Lust: Crimes Against Nature in the Early Republic
Kyle T. Bulthius, Four Steeples over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations
Nathalie Dessens, Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans
Sara Fanning, Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement
Anne Sinkler Fishburne, Belvidere: A Plantation Memory, Commemorative Edition
Linford D. Fisher, J. Stanley Lemons, and Lucas Mason-Brown, Decoding Roger Williams: The Lost Essay of Rhode Island’s Founding Father
Raphael Brester Folsom, The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico
Eric Foner, Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
Mark Fortier, The Culture of Equity in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Britain and America
Thomas A. Foster, ed., Women in Early America
Paul Freedman, Joyce E. Chaplin, and Ken Albala, eds., Food in Time and Place:
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Cécile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo
Malcolm Gaskill, Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
Cassandra A. Good, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic
Katherine Grandjean, American Passage: The Communications Frontier in Early New England
Sean P. Harvey, Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation
Alexander B. Haskell, For God, King, and People: Forging Commonwealth Bonds in Renaissance Virginia
Ben Herzog, Revoking Citizenship: Expatriation in America from the Colonial Era to the War on Terror
Jonathan Horn, The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
William Huntting Howell, Against Self Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
John M. Hutchins, Coronado’s Well-Equipped Army: The Spanish Invasion of the American Southwest
Jaap Jacobs and L. H. Roper, eds., The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley
George Kateb, Lincoln’s Political Thought
Tracy Neal Leavelle, The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
Brian P. Luskey and Wendy Woloson, eds., Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
Fiona MacCarthy, Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and His Legacy, 1860–1960
Kevin P. McDonald, Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World
Robert Middlekauff, Washington’s Revolution: The Making of America’s First Leader
Robert Michael Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, Governments in Colonial Illinois Country
Amber D. Moulton, The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts
Matthew Mulcahy, Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean
Michael Leroy Oberg, Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Andrew Oliver, American Travelers on the Nile: Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
Lindsay O’Neill, The Opened Letter: Networking in the Early Modern British World
Jessica M. Parr, Inventing George Whitefield: Race, Revivalism, and the Making of a Religious Icon
Jessica Choppin Roney, Governed by a Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Decorah A. Rosen, Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood
Virginia Scharff, ed., Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
Ethan A. Schmidt, The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
Calvin Schermerhorn, The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860
John Howard Smith, The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725-1775
David O. Stewart, Madison’s Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
Abigail L. Swingen, Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
John R. Van Atta, Wolf by the Ears: The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Emily West, Enslaved Women in America: From Colonial Times to Emancipation
Glenn F. Williams, Dunmore’s War: The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
Lisa Wilson, A History of Stepfamilies in Early America
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Alec Rogers says:
I’d add Edward Larson’s The Return of George Washington, which covers his political activity during the critical period, convention and ratification.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/transition-years_820214.html
Kathleen (Kata) Bartoloni-Tuazon says:
A bit self-promoting, but I’d add my book, which focuses on the early Washington administration and attitudes toward the presidency & executive power in the political and popular cultures at the beginning of Constitutional governance: For Fear of an Elective King: George Washington and the Presidential Title Controversy of 1789 (Cornell, 2014). To get a taste, here’s a link to an op-ed I wrote for the Boston Globe, September 21, 2014: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/09/19/his-elective-highness-president-barack-obama/llWb9GSBFiIUp5ex1T6JCL/story.html?p1=Article_InThisSection_Bottom
sandvick says:
Reblogged this on DailyHistory.org and commented:
The Junto has a wonderful list of early American history books for the holidays. Check it out and see if some these books should be on your wish list.
Marc Bloch Party says:
Don’t forget Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton
Alex Jablonski says:
Eric Nelson’s “The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding” is worth a look, too. Previewed in a great forum on “Patriot Royalism” in the WMQ a few years back.
I’m very curious about that title. It seems that he’s making a very similar argument to Jack Greene’s in some respects.
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Old Night Vision Meets New
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In early December 2012, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a series of new views of the Earth at Night. It was not the first time such maps have been created, but the difference between the old view and the new is as clear as the difference between the two images above.
On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured the top image of city, village, and highway lights near Delhi, India. For comparison, the lower image shows the same area one night earlier, as observed by the Operational Line Scan (OLS) system on a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft.
Since the 1960s, the U.S. Air Force has operated DMSP satellites in order to observe clouds and other weather variables in key wavelengths of infrared and visible light. Since 1972, the DMSP satellites have included the Operational Linescan System (OLS), which gives weather forecasters some ability to see in the dark. It has been a highly successful sensor, but it is dependent on older technology with lower resolution than most scientists would like. And for many years, DMSP data were classified.
Through improved optics and “smart” sensing technology, the VIIRS “day-night band,” is significantly better than OLS at resolving fine details amidst the lights of human settlements and the glow of reflected moonlight. Each VIIRS pixel is a 742 square-meter box, compared to the 5-square kilometer footprint of OLS. The dynamic range—the ability to resolve lights of different brightness—is 250 times better with VIIRS. And since the VIIRS measurements are fully calibrated (unlike DMSP), scientists have the precision required to make quantitative measurements of clouds, heat sources, and other features.
“In contrast to the Operational Line Scan system, the imagery from the new day-night band is almost like a nearsighted person putting on glasses for the first time and looking at the Earth anew,” says Steve Miller, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. “VIIRS has allowed us to bring this coarse, blurry view of night lights into clearer focus. Now we can see things in such great detail and at such high precision that we’re really talking about a new kind of measurement.”
Unlike a film camera that captures a photograph in one exposure, VIIRS produces an image by repeatedly scanning a scene and resolving it as millions of individual picture elements, or pixels. The day-night band goes a step further, determining on-the-fly whether to use its low, medium, or high-gain mode. If a pixel is very bright, a low-gain mode on the sensor prevents the pixel from over-saturating. If the pixel is dark, the signal will be amplified.
“On a hand-held camera, there’s a nighttime setting where the shutter will stay open much longer than it would under daylight imaging conditions,” says Chris Elvidge, who leads the Earth Observation Group at NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center. “The day-night band is similar. It increases the exposure time—the amount of time that it’s collecting photons for pixels.”
Learn more about the VIIRS day-night band and nighttime imaging of Earth in our new feature story: Out of the Blue and Into the Black.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using Suomi NPP VIIRS and DMSP OLS data provided courtesy of Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center). Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
New images from Suomi NPP are an order of magnitude better than previous satellite views of city lights.
DMSP — OLS
Suomi NPP — VIIRS
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Satellite images of Earth at night have been a curiosity for the public and a tool of fundamental research for at least 25 years. They have provided a broad, beautiful picture, showing how humans have shaped the planet and lit up the darkness.
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