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Something Wonderful (#84 on AAR's Top 100 Romances)
An AAR Top 100 Romance
originally published on March 27, 2008
Like most romance readers, I have read many books by Judith McNaught and have loved several of them. When I think of the author, Paradise, Perfect, and A Kingdom of Dreams instantly pop into my mind as beloved favorites, yet I rarely think about my very first McNaught, Something Wonderful. In fact, I haven’t touched it since I read it that first time and so I thought I would have another go to figure out why that is. Mission accomplished. While I certainly liked the book, I just wasn’t as blown away as I have been by several of her others.
Alexandra Lawrence is a carefree, optimistic young woman who has the unfortunate burden of taking care of her eccentric household, which includes a deaf butler, a blind footman, a frequently drunk bottom-spanking uncle, and an overdramatic and bitter mother. Despite all this, Alex loves her life, seeing all the good in it. After attending her best friend’s brother’s birthday party, which is set up as a tournament, Alex rides home in her family’s old suit of armor, holding a shield and lance. From the road, a gunshot sounds, spooking Alex’s horse into careening towards the conflict. Jordan Townsende, the Duke of Hawthorne, is being held at gunpoint when a knight comes crashing out of the trees and flies headlong into one of his attackers. After the threat is neutralized, his rescuer faints. Jordan takes the young boy to an inn to call for a doctor, but while he is ministering to his unconscious friend, it becomes apparent that he is no boy.
After Jordan takes Alex home, her mother jumps on the fact that this duke has spent time with her 17-year-old daughter in a private room of a public inn. The whole family drops in on the Townsendes and demands that Jordan marry Alex because everyone in town believes she’s ruined. Surprisingly, Jordan doesn’t put up much of a battle and the two get married. His plan is to take Alex to his house in Devon and leave her there while he continues living as he always has. The two are only married for four days when Jordan suddenly goes missing. The authorities follow his trail and come to the conclusion that he is dead. Alex is crushed. She has no notion of Jordan’s rakish lifestyle or his plans for her, so she places her memories of him on a pedestal, reigns herself in, and lives solely to make the noble duke proud of her.
This image falls apart when Alex makes her bow to society. She is perfectly respectable, but her dreamy accounts of Jordan fall on amused ears and she soon becomes a comical outcast. Once again, she is crushed, feeling like she is letting down her late husband, until his cousin, Tony, finally explains what Jordan was really like. After suffering a bit of disillusionment, Alex changes back into herself. The intelligent, fun-loving, unconventional young woman suddenly becomes the toast of the ton. All the men want her and all the women want to be her. And miraculously, that’s when Jordan shows up again.
McNaught writes believable emotion, even if it is also extreme. Before Tony’s revelation, Alex was exceedingly naïve, but she was also young and idealistic. As for Jordan, after the truth comes out, his anger and jealousy felt real, yet at the same time fun to read. Several Big Misunderstandings take place, but this is one book where I found them very understandable, particularly the final one that leads to the climax. There are many sweet, funny, and just plain wonderful scenes spread throughout the novel that showcase McNaught’s ability to create charming moments.
However, there were aspects to the story that made it less than perfect. Or, should I say less than Perfect? Several issues were brought up and never really delved into again. Alex’s mother, who plays a key role in their marriage, disappears entirely. Jordan has had many lovers and intended to keep a mistress, but they never discuss fidelity. And the idea of Jordan going from thinking Alex is a boy, then a twelve-year-old girl, then a very physically immature young lady to suddenly being consumed with lust was hard to swallow. Luckily, the notion that he is completely captivated by her personality is not. It was also difficult to believe that what happened to Jordan during his absence would not be discussed more. He lived through a trying ordeal and I would expect there to be significant emotional ramifications, but those were never brought up. Finally, the ending was very rushed and certain aspects of it were unexplained.
Despite these drawbacks, Something Wonderful is a charming book with a feisty heroine (I loved the fact that she could fence with the best of them) and an enigmatic hero. I would have loved to include this book among my favorites by this author, but alas, that is not the case. However, I’m sure it’s among the favorites of other McNaught fans, which just goes to show what an amazing reach this author has.
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Book Type:
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AlwaysReading September 14, 2017 at 10:59 am - Reply
Something Wonderful was my first introduction to the historical romance genre and it used to be one of my favourites! I have such fond memories of reading this novel, and discussing it with my sister. I adored the heroine – I found her both endearing and endlessly entertaining. One of my favourite moments is the wedding night scene, which is somehow both hilarious and touching. Alex’s description of the rather risqué nightgown that she was meant to wear had me in stitches! However, like most historical romances written in 1980s, it has not fared quite so well with time. Re-reading this novel as an adult rather than a teenager, I now find Jordan’s cynicism and misogyny problematic and unwarranted, as I don’t believe it was justified by his back story. I also find his wilful and continual misunderstanding of Alex’s motives rather tiresome. Saying that, I still adore Alex, and despite the problems with the hero, I was still drawn into their charming and compelling love story.
Blackjack September 14, 2017 at 3:50 pm - Reply
I too really enjoyed this book years ago but do not think it has fared well over the years. The heroines in McNaught’s books tend to be too submissive and accepting of the hero’s at times flat out abusive behavior. McNaught handles the emotional depths of romance really well and her books are passionate and absorbing, but the stories honestly are sexist and hard to read today.
AlwaysReading September 15, 2017 at 5:51 am - Reply
It’s funny how our perceptions change as we get older! I agree completely. I really feel that in her novels, the onus is placed on the heroine to accept the hero’s abusive treatment. Whitney my Love is one of the worst books in that regard, I hated how Whitney was forced to justify her rape by Clayton. I also dislike the fact that all her heroes believe that women are essentially frivolous, weak and faithless, and her heroines are somehow depicted as being miraculous exceptions of their flawed gender. It suggests some internalised misogyny on Judith McNaught’s part.
Linda McNulty December 2, 2018 at 4:51 pm - Reply
I loved the book when it came out and it’s still one of my favorites! She was young but as she grew she got spunk. Jordan was damanged by a corrupt childhood but so were many of the men in her books. I personally was glad to read it again.
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Interview: How MOIN facilitates overseas money transfers with blockchain technology
Editor's Pick, Korea, Startups
by Margot Jung
Since late last year, fierce competition has been boiling among companies in the small-sum overseas remittance market. Though it used to be the case that overseas remittances were monopolized by banks, the Korean government opened its doors to general companies in July last year, which has inaugurated fierce competition. Consequently, any companies that meet certain criteria, including a net worth of over KRW 2 billion (USD 1.85 million), computer facilities, foreign exchange experts, FX networks, etc. are now able to offer overseas remittance services after acquiring a small-sum overseas remittance license.
MOIN is a fintech startup that responded to the trend and subsequently announced its penetration into the overseas money transfer market. The company obtained the overseas remittance license and resumed its suspended service on February 1, 2018. The company’s CEO, Seo Il-seok, founded MOIN in March 2016 after holding several positions, such as senior researcher in Samsung Electronics, credit officer in SoftBank Ventures Korea, and CIO of FuturePlay.
■ Establish a remittance system that does not need an intermediary bank with blockchain technology
– I’ve heard that your experience as an international student overseas had a certain amount of influence on your decision to start the company.
When I did my Master’s degree a decade ago, I received and sent some money overseas. The process required a lot of time and money and I, as a recipient, had no clue when to access the money. Once, my parents made a mistake by writing an inaccurate recipient bank code and I had to undergo some difficulties with the subsequent delay in the money transfer. To my surprise, it’s been 10 years but there has been almost no change in the system. How could it be possible for a financial service that deals with highly important, sensitive goods – money – to be operated in such an inefficient, unreasonable manner? As an IT person, I could not understand why and that motivated me to plunge into this business.
– How cheap and how fast is it?
Compared to your ordinary banking service, it is a minimum of 50% and a maximum of 80% cheaper. If you send a small amount of money–around KRW 400,000 to KRW 600,000 to Japan or China–the charges are less than KRW 10,000. If the amount is more than that you will be charged around 1.5 to 2% of your remittance for fees. As for duration, it may differ from country to country, however, it normally takes anywhere between 2 hours and 2 days for a successful delivery.
– What makes it possible?
Previously, overseas fund transfers were only allowed if they got through the SWIFT network, a cooperative communication society for international financial banks. The process gives rise to wire transfer charges and various fees as it goes through domestic, overseas, and intermediary banks. The SWIFT network also slows down the transfer speed. We do not rely on intermediary banks to transfer money overseas–we use blockchain technology. That refers to the method of sending money by converting Korean currency into cryptocurrency to an overseas exchange center and then converting them again into local currency.
– Is it possible to ensure reliable money transfers with all the massive price fluctuations associated with cryptocurrencies?
During times of volatile fluctuations, we might use foreign currencies we have, engage in cash transactions, or send multiple cases in a single transfer instead of using cryptocurrencies. We do not rely solely on cryptocurrency for transactions. We calculate the fastest, cheapest, and best method for each transaction to apply to remittance services. Companies may have different designs and choices of remittance mechanisms that suit their needs. It can be said that one of the most important capabilities in the business is to optimize and systemize this remittance algorithm and our greatest strength lies in the process of advancing this algorithm.
– Who is your major target customer?
International students and foreign workers. We especially target China, which has overwhelming transaction volumes in the field of individual money transfers. As of last year, China’s remittance volumes surpassed that of the U.S. and topped the list. When overseas money transfers were only allowed in the banking system, it often resulted in unlawful deals. Some money exchange counters in Daerim-dong and its neighboring areas even offered a remittance service due to overly inflated bank commissions. As such, our goal is to grow the market by legalizing these illegal markets outside the boundary of law.
■ For first generation of Korea’s global remittance companies, the greatest challenge is to break up people’s fixed idea of ‘banks as the only safe financial institution.’
-It was hard to find any companies specializing in overseas remittance services. It seems that you have a lot of unchartered territory to explore in many ways.
Seeing as it is a new market, opened with the amendment of the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act in July of last year, it is still immature. In the case of the U.S., there is already a global money transfer operator (hereinafter MTO), Western Union, which has 150 years of history. If we call them the first generation of MTOs, the online-based second generation of MTOs started to emerge around the early 2000’s. Mobile, blockchain-based businesses such as MOIN fall into the category of the third generation. Compared to other countries, it is a nascent business in Korea. There is no particular difficulty in being the forerunner at the absence of benchmarking cases or role models. However, as the law has just been revised, the remittance limits are not the same with banks. This is where I wish to see some improvement.
– What is the greatest challenge for you?
Though banks are also private businesses in a sense, the confidence the Korean people have in the banking system is unbelievable. It is not the same overseas. In the end, the most daunting challenge we face is to knock down the fixed idea that it is not safe to send money overseas through businesses rather than through banks. I gather it will be important for us to have other good players in the market to improve this widely held perception.
– Internet banks such as KaKao Bank launched overseas remittance services with cheaper charges. What is MOIN’s competitiveness?
Though they propose lower fees than existing banks, internet banks including Kakao Bank are, in the end, still banks. Banks are certainly restricted in their ability to lower their commissions and fees. Kakao Bank does not diverge significantly from the existing banks in terms of overseas money transfer methods. They use the SWIFT network offered by Citi Bank. That means, they would have to pay for exchange commissions and overseas receiving fees. If you use MOIN, you are not charged for any extra charges other than the 1.5% fees. And some banks, for example, the Japanese post office bank, do not allow individuals to transfer money to other banks as they do not use the SWIFT network.
For banks, overseas remittance is not their major source of income, but rather an additional service. I think their engagement with this particular sector of business will be somewhat different from those specializing in money transfer only. I do not regard banks as competitors but as co-op partners. At present, they rely on the SWIFT network, nevertheless, they could provide their customers with enhanced services by using a MOIN network.
■ The goal is to occupy 5% of the overseas money transfer market in Korea
– Are you planning to be solely devoted to overseas remittance service? Is there any other service you would like to expand?
I expect it would take several years to establish our business in the overseas remittance market. After solidifying our base, we plan to expand our business to payment services. The most troubling area for unicorn companies in terms of domestic and overseas commerce is a money transfer and payment field. Against the backdrop of an increasing number of people who purchase foreign goods directly, I predict that a business that could offer a solution to the problem will relish the enormous rise in value. We are internally planning some blockchain-based projects. The gist of these projects lies in placing the remittance records on the blockchains so as to avoid counterfeit or forgery.
-Any plans to penetrate into overseas markets?
In Europe, the UK is the hub of the overseas money transfer business. Prior to the advent of Brexit, around 80% to 90% of the European foreign exchange dealings took place in the London market. For that reason, MTOs originating in the UK occupy the entire region in the EU. On the other hand, the size of the Asian individual remittance market is around KRW 500 to 650 trillion with no leading player. While there are several big companies in Japan and a large market, they have a lot to improve in terms of service. At present, while we mainly target Japan and China, we will expand our business to Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, and other countries.
– Lastly, tell us about MOIN’s short-term, mid-term & long-term goals.
Basically, MOIN was founded to provide consumers with a solution to the difficulties they face in their financial activities. One of the problems identified is that of overseas remittance. In the short term, our objective is to occupy 5% of this market. In the long term, we would like to be an Asian version of PayPal. Initially, PayPal began as a money transfer service provider and now they are established as a global payment network. We are fully committed to make our own remittance and payment service that fits Asian cultures and economic situations.
（Top photo from MOIN）
This article, entitled “MOIN facilitates overseas money transfers with blockchain technology to bypass intermediary banks”, was written in Korean by Platum, translated by Flitto, edited by AllTechAsia.
Tags: blockchain, MOIN, money transfers
Margot Jung
Margot Jung is an editor at Platum and she writes for AllTechKorea. She not only covers stories on startups, but is also a member of a startup as well. She writes about startup news and IT trends in Korea and China. She does her best to deliver information that can be helpful to entrepreneurs, and writes easy to read articles.
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John Seabrook’s newest book is a synesthetic trip through the pop music of my formative years
A. Marvullo in Books, Music November 4, 2015 November 4, 2015 279 Words
In his newest book, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory, John Seabrook reports on what amounts to the last 25 years of pop music. Each chapter has Seabrook describing a song’s construction in one or two paragraphs, and each time I finish a passage, I’ll head to the writer’s web site, where he has built corresponding playlists. I’m reading this book now, and it’s slow-going.
Reading about and then listening to specific and memorable songs in this way is a fun exercise, and in the following passage lifted from the book, when Seabrook described the beginning of Britney Spears’s breakout hit with the words “Da Nah Nah,” I felt the earworm embed itself inside me, rendering me powerless, like it was 1999 all over again:
“Hit Me Baby (One More Time” is a song about obsession, and it takes all of two seconds to hook you, not once but twice, first with the swung triplet “Da Nah Nah” and then with that alluring growl-purr Britney emits with her first line, “Oh baby bay-bee.” Then the funky Cheiron backbeat kicks in, with drums that sound like percussion grenades. Next comes Tomas Lindberg’s wah-wah guitar lines, which signal to one’s inner disco hater that it can relax: it’s a rock song, after all. In terms of sheer sonic drama, “Hit Me Baby (One More Time)” belongs to the theatrical rock tradition of Queen, mixed with Mutt Lange’s work with Def Leppard. It marries melody and rhythm in a way that Denniz PoP had been seeking since his DJ days—a catchy pop song that doesn’t stop the dancing.
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Geriatrics > General Geriatrics
Turning Back the Learning Clock for Seniors
Cognitive, functional gains after learning multiple skills simultaneously
by Charles Bankhead Charles Bankhead, Senior Editor, MedPage Today July 18, 2019
Older adults who learned multiple new skills at the same time improved their cognitive function to the level of people 30 years younger, two small prospective studies showed.
After 3 months of learning in an "encouraging" classroom environment, the composite score on a battery of cognitive function tests improved significantly from baseline (P=0.003). Individual components of the assessment also improved significantly, particularly during the first 6 weeks.
The findings may have implications for long-term functional independence, which requires learning new skills to adapt to a changing environment, Rachel Wu, PhD, of the University of California Riverside, and coauthors reported online in the Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences.
"Learning is totally necessary, no matter how old you are," Wu told MedPage Today. "As the world changes -- with technological advances and things like that -- if you're not learning to keep up, you're going to be dependent on someone else."
The findings are complementary to those of other studies that focused on cognitive reserve and strategies to preserve or slow the decline of cognitive functioning with aging. However, the real payoff of "mental exercise" activities is maintenance of functional independence, said Wu. Previous research provided evidence of improved cognitive functioning in older adults who learned a new skill or who learned several skills in sequence. In general, the studies showed improvement only in abilities required for the skill.
In contrast, the natural learning experience of infancy to adulthood "mandates learning multiple real-world skills simultaneously," Wu and coauthors wrote. They hypothesized that the same approach would be feasible for older adults and would improve cognitive abilities and functional independence, even if the skills were not directly related to the cognitive and functional independence assessments.
"We wanted to put older adults back into the same learning environment as kids, which included having very good teachers, a very supportive environment, and learning a bunch of new things," said Wu. "How much is that environment actually driving development? We know that it drives development and growth early in the lifespan, because kids who don't go to school, who aren't in that kind of environment, also decline. I can see a lot of parallels between older adults who aren't learning as much and kids who aren't learning as much."
Participants and Methods
Investigators recruited healthy, community-dwelling older adults for two studies. The first included 15 participants, who were assigned to intervention and control groups. The second study included 27 individuals, all of whom participated in the intervention. Women accounted for two-thirds of participants in both studies, and the 42 total participants ranged in age from 58 to 86.
In the first study, participants in the intervention group learned Spanish, painting, and how to use an iPad. For the second study, investigators added music composition and drawing to the classes and randomly assigned participants to three of the five skills.
Study 1 lasted 15 weeks, and the second study was shortened to 12 weeks after consultation with the participants.
The intervention included three 2-hour classes weekly, consisting of lectures, class assignments, and group exercises. Additionally, Wu led an informal discussion session after the third class. People assigned to the control group in the first study did not attend classes or the discussions.
The class instructors were age 55 or older, degreed, and had teaching experience. Two of the three led classes in skills they had learned after retirement, reinforcing the idea that new skills can be learned later in life. They also had the option to sit in on classes they were not leading.
Participants in the first study completed a battery of tests at baseline, 8 weeks, and 15 weeks. The tests included assessments of working memory, cognitive control (how goals or plans influence behavior), and episodic memory (recalling a word list).
For the 27-person intervention study, the first assessment occurred 4 to 6 weeks prior to the intervention (baseline), then at the start of the intervention (pretest), and at 6 and 12 weeks. Investigators added two more measures of working memory, including a digit-sequence recall activity.
Participants in both studies completed a measure of functional independence (including questions about daily tasks).
In the first study, the intervention group showed significant improvement at the 6-week mark in composite cognitive scores, cognitive control, working memory, and episodic memory. At 3 months, cognitive control and episodic memory remained significantly improved versus baseline, whereas the composite score and working memory did not. The control group showed no significant improvement in any of the measures.
Results of the second intervention study showed significant improvement at 6 weeks in the composite score, cognitive control, and working memory but not digit recall . At the 3-month assessment, the composite and working memory scores remained significantly improved but not the other two.
Scores on the functional assessment improved in both studies. The intervention group in the first study improved from a mean of 74.23% at baseline to 86.19% at the end of the intervention, whereas the mean for the control group declined from 81.11% to 78.62%. The mean score in the second study improved from 82.46% to 88.27%.
Wu said the magnitude of improvement observed 6 weeks into the intervention put the older adults' cognitive abilities on par with those of people 30 years younger.
Principal support for the study came from the American Psychological Foundation Visionary Grant.
The authors reported having no relevant disclosures.
Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences
Source Reference: Leanos S, et al "The impact of learning multiple real-world skills on cognitive abilities and functional independence in healthy older adults" J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2019; DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbz084.
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Candy Crush Friends Saga New Version 1.27.6 APK Download
The new game Candy Crush Friends Saga from the Candy Crush Franchise. This game developed by King, it is Casual Section Game. And have a hundreds of levels. Your friends have been spread across Candy Kingdom. Join puzzle game 3 to find them.
GOOSE Candy Crush Friends Saga is the latest in the hyper successful lolly matching series. and New including features sweet new worlds in 3D it is amazing. This game completely free to play but some level in-game items will require payment with real money.
A surprise for a player, Let go see what is in it is in our tiffy first we have to help the player get there are you ready get in good to go tiffy.
Developed by: King
Requires for Android: 4.4 and up
Download Candy Crush Friends Saga APK
You slide sweets around to try and match three, to make them disappear. But, match more than three and you create a special powered up candy. These include wrapped ones which explode when matched, or little fish that swim across the board to clear lollies from a distance.
GOOSE Using these power candies is super important, because you only have a particular amount of moves to complete the objective and finish the level. For example, straight away you'll be shattering ice to free friendly gummy animals trapped underneath! RAD Having lots of different objectives mixes things up and makes the game really fun.
I like using my lolly matching skills to achieve different things. GOOSE Some of the modes can get pretty tricky, too, and you'll need to slow down and be strategic with every move. RAD In other match three style games I've played, I usually like modes with speedy gameplay and lots of score multipliers.
But the changing strategic focus level-to-level of Candy Crush Friends Saga really drew me in. GOOSE Yeah, it's really easy to get totally sucked into this, isn't it? Everything is so beautifully designed. It's a rich, sickly sweet world of sugary treats. There's even a dachshund made of donuts! The level select map is a 3D pathway through colourful candy worlds, such as Lemonade Lake and Chocolate Mountains.
I love how they've just gone to town with the theme, making it far more than just a typical match three game. RAD There's also different characters that you can play with - hence the name Friends Saga - and they each have a special ability. Once you match enough of their particular colour, they'll send a powered candy onto the board. For example, the little girl gives you fish, while the yeti provides wrapped candies.
The whole game looks good enough to eat! DARREN Ah, but remember, Rad - the only thing scarier than the spooky season is cavities! Uhhohhhoooh! RAD Oh, don't worry Darren - I don't think I can eat that much sugary sweets anyway! GOOSE well, you know what they say: too much of a good thing is can be a bad thing! And the same goes for playing Candy Crush Friends Saga.
There arr, of course, micro-transactions always on show here. Gold bars are the premium currency, and can be spent on more moves on individual maps if you run out, or more lives to keep playing if you've failed a number of maps. Lives do regenerate slowly, and even though you can only hold five at a time, I actually really liked this! It made it easy to put the game down so you don't keep playing.
Candy crush is insanely popular each and every time. We step onto any form of public transport, we can guarantee we're going to see at least one person playing on a version of Kings color-matching classic. That's how popular it is and this makes candy crush friends saga kind of interesting there are some little changes to the formula.
And a new lick of paint that everything feels instantly familiar it feels like candy crush 2.0 or at least a step in that direction. The core of the game remains, the same you switch the positions of shiny sweets creating matches of three or more candies of the same color. They then disappear from the board and more treats take their place. This time around though the characters in the game are represented in 3d they jog about leer through the screen at you and generally exists to a far higher.
That bit more poised and clean but that's hardly a surprise, the original candy crush is coming up on its sixth birthday now and it was never the best looking game to begin with and whether you love it, The series still sets the standard for free to play match stuff puzzlers and is clear that King has designed friends saga to try. And hold on to the pinnacle of that market for as long as possible.
And much more it feels like the series is finally starting to move on with the times. Is adding ideas from other genres and titles in order to do that all that being said there's not much in candy crush friends saga.They're safe and that's why, so many people pick them up and this isn't the King game that's gonna change your mind about the company.
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Dreamy Goat review
To call the Dreamy Goat app, developed by Arthur Lysenko for the iPhone and iPod touch, merely a game would be calling it a disservice. While it does feature some video game qualities, unlike other apps, Dreamy Goat’s strength is in its art and music design. As Goat, you must navigate through any of the seven available levels, with each level representing one of his dreams. Goat is in constant movement with the objective of this iPhone app differing based on which mode you play.
Dreamy Goat offers two modes: Sun and Zen, with each of the seven levels available in either mode. In Sun mode, your objective is to outrace the sun; this is accomplished by collecting items in your path or jumping on objects as they appear. If you fail to collect enough items or jump on enough objects, the sun shines bright and Goat wakes up, ending the dream. In Zen mode, the sun is absent, allowing you to take in each level’s visuals without the need to collect any items.
As one would expect, the controls for this app are simple and work well. Goat is constantly in motion and tapping the screen causes him to jump; if you continue tapping while jumping, Goat jumps higher and higher. Jumping is responsive and overall, the controls are easy to master even on your first playthrough.
Where Dreamy Goat excels is its visuals. Each of the seven dreams Goat can visit vary wildly in color. For example, one dream features light shades of cotton candy pink while one dream features dark blacks and greens. Each level features hand drawn artwork presented in a surreal fashion, almost like images from a children’s book.
While the animation for Goat is very basic, at most being only a few frames, it fits in well with the overall look of the application. Each of the seven dreams feature a large amount of artwork just for that level; this is where Zen mode comes in handy for those players who care more about the artwork than playing the app. The music is a great compliment to the visuals, with each dream featuring its own song, and each song being a soothing, calming melody that fits in well with the idea of exploring dreams.
Over the course of this review, performed on an iPhone 4 with version 5.1 software, Dreamy Goat ran perfectly with no problems to speak of.
Dreamy Goat is a hard application to review. In terms of gameplay, there isn’t a lot to do but in terms of artwork, Dreamy Goat is amazing. As a playable iPhone app, Dreamy Goat doesn’t hold up but as a visual experience, it’s definitely remarkable and worth experiencing.
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How are Japanese words written in English?
by altc_wp_admin | Jul 15, 2015 | Basic Information
Japanese can be written in English letters using a system called romanisation, which maps Japanese sounds onto the Latin alphabet.
There are several varieties of romanisation which produce slightly different versions of the same Japanese word due to differences in how they map to the sounds available in Japanese.
The most common system (particularly among English speakers) is Hepburn, but a different system called Kunrei-shiki is taught in schools and is often used to write Japanese names for passport. The English letters used for mapping Japanese sounds in the Hepburn system are a bit more intuitive than those used in Kunrei-shiki, so the romanisation of personal names may not always be what you expect.
松本 Matsumoto Matumoto
There are also several options for representing long vowel sounds, which can be dictated by style guides or convention rather than by the romanisation system in use.
大阪 Oosaka Oosaka? Ohsaka? Ōsaka?
The conventional English spelling ignores the long vowel and simply uses Osaka, which is also the case with Tokyo, where both “o” sounds are long vowels.
It’s not always feasible to ignore the long vowel though, as it can distinguish between two words.
おじさん ojisan ojisan (uncle, form of address for a adult man)
おじいさん ojiisan ojīsan/ojiisan (grandfather, form of address for an elderly man)
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In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to change the design of American coins and selected American sculptor and artist Augustus Saint-Gaudens for this makeover. Saint-Gaudens' work on the high-relief $20 gold piece is considered to be one of the most extraordinary pieces of art on any American coin.
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Illegal instances of the 1933 double eagle could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it would be illegal for a U.S. coin dealer to broker a deal with one of these coins. There is no other date of Saint-Gaudens double eagle that is worth a significant fraction of this extraordinary coin. A complete uncirculated set of all other Saint-Gaudens double eagles could be put together for just over three million dollars (less than half the price paid for the 1933), including the extremely rare, ultra-high relief, proof pattern. Without the rare pattern, the set would be less than $750,000.
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Plot At C1D2Bl, Near Panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy Temple ,Chigurupadu Village and Gram Panchayath, Atc
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Contact Details : Contact The Authorised Officer :8606448606 0866 2545844, bharathinagar@unionbankofindia.com, in working hours only
Borrower Name : M/s Latha enterprises
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Lot details : Equitable mortgage of 5 Yacant sites (Plot Nos,14,51,52,63,91)with a total extent of 1125.12 Sq.Yards situated at D.Nos 5-ClD,5-C1Dl,5-ClD2A&5-C1D2Bl,Near Panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy Temple ,Chigurupadu Village and Gram Panchayath, Atchempet mandal,Guntur District,held in the name of mrs. Vedurupaka Pushpa Chandrika.
Schedule of Property : Equitable mortgage of 5 vacant sites (Plot Nos,14,51,52,63,91)with a total extent of 1125.12 Sq.Yards situated at D.Nos 5-ClD,5-C1Dl,5-ClD2A&5-C1D2Bl,Near Panchamukhi Anjaneya Swamy Temple ,Chigurupadu Village and Gram Panchayath, Atchempet mandal,Guntur District,held in the name of mrs. Vedurupaka Pushpa Chandrika. Boundaries of the property: Item No.1:Plot No.14 (Extent of the site 244.44 sq yds ,East :plot no 15...........44.00 south :plot no 13..............50-00 West :40.wide road............33-00 North :40'wide Road........50-00 , Item No.2:Plot No.51 (Extent of the site 183.33sq yds East :plot no 64...........33.00 south :plot no 50..............50-00 West :40.wide road............33-00 North :52'wide Road........50-00,Item No.3:Plot No.52 (Extent of the site 244.44 sq yds East :plot no 63...........44.00 south :plot no 51..............50-00 West :40.wide road............50-00 North :40'wide Road........50-00,Item No 4 plot no 63 (Extent of the site 244.44 sq yds East :plot no 63...........44.00 south :plot no 64..............50-00 West :plot no 52.............44-00 North :40'wide Road........50-00,item no 5 :plot no 91 (Extent of the property 208.47 sq yds East :plot no 40'wide road...........33-050 south :plot no 92..............53-10 West :plot no 72.....33-00 . North :plot no 90 .........59-02
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Human Evolution - Tools
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Human Evolution & Tools
More information about stone tools
Human evolution is the biological and cultural development and change of our hominin ancestors to modern humans.
Sticks and stones picked up unaltered from the ground were probably the only implements used by the great apes and earliest human ancestors. Stones that were smashed and broken to give a jagged edge on one end became the first stone tools deliberately made by humans' ancestors. This type of tool is called an oldowan tool, after the tool-making industry in the Olduvai Gorge. Stones that have been struck repeatedly with another stone (the hammer stone) to remove flakes and give it a distinct shape belong to the acheulean tool industry. Later on, tools became more specialised, with more flakes being removed from stones and their edges worked more finely. These tools belong to the mousterian tool industry.
Acheulean: tool industry characterized by roughly made hand-axes found at St. Acheul, France. This type of toolmaking occurred about 1.5- 0.2mya.
Advanced reduction flaking: the production of a more specialized tool by accurately removing small flakes along the edge or faces of a flake.
bi-facial: having two worked sides
Chopper: a tool made by flaking the edge of a roundish stone on one side.
Core: the piece of stone or raw material from which flakes will be removed and which can be modified and used as a tool itself.
Final reduction flaking: the removal of small flakes from both surfaces of the flake, often by applying pressure with a sharp piece of wood or bone.
Flakes: the thin pieces of stone that have been removed from a core.
Hafting: the fixing of some tools to hafts or handles to make them more efficient to use. Deer antler and wood of many types was used to hold the tool which was sealed in place with gum cement or gum cement and twine bindings. Twine or animal sinew was used to bind the handle in several places and keep it firm.
Hammerstone: a stone which is used for making other tools, to detach flakes from a core by percussion or striking.
Initial reduction flaking: the chosen stone is held in one hand and struck forcefully with another hand-held stone, the hammerstone or the chosen stone is struck onto an anvil stone. This action will detach a flake that can be worked further and also results in a sharp edge on the chosen stone, making a chopper or core tool.
Mousterian: tool industry characterised by finely made hand-axes, blades and points found at Le Moustier, France. This type of tool-making occurred about 200,000-35,000 years ago.
Oldowan: tools from the tool-making industry in the Olduvai Gorge, Kenya. This type of toolmaking occurred about 2.5 - 2 mya.
Pecking, grinding and polishing: Pecking is a quick way of removing material from a piece of stone by chipping at it with another stone. Grinding is a way of shaping tools by rubbing them on sandstone abraders. Polishing smoothed and shaped tools by rubbing them against another rock with water and sand.
Hominid and hominin – what’s the difference?
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The first modern humans in Southeast Asia
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Examining the skulls of living apes and our extinct ancestors allows us to explore characteristics which reflect the evolutionary relationships in our family tree.
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Complex technology
Our ancestors have been using tools for many millions of years. As our ancestors’ intelligence increased, they developed the ability to make increasingly more complex stone, metal and other tools, create art and deliberately produce and sustain fire.
Humans are classified in the sub-group of primates known as the Great Apes.
Discovered in the 1990s, this is one of the earliest of our hominin ancestors yet discovered.
Archaeological evidence shows that modern humans had reached Southeast Asia by 70,000 years ago, however the oldest securely dated modern human remains are only about 40,000 years old.
The terms ‘hominid’ and ‘hominin’ are frequently used in human evolution.
Claimed as one of the most significant discoveries in the field of human evolution, the fossils possibly represent the oldest known human ancestor after the split of the human line from that of the chimpanzees. However, this is hotly debated.
Kenyanthropus platyops
The only species in this genus, this hominin lived about 3 million years ago. However, the species name is based on a distorted and fragmented skull and many debate its validity.
When and where did our species originate?
Our species, Homo sapiens, has now spread to all parts of the world but it's generally believed that we originated in Africa by about 200,000 years ago. We interacted with local archaic human populations as we colonised the globe.
Neanderthals co-existed with modern humans for long periods of time before eventually becoming extinct about 28,000 years ago. The unfortunate stereotype of these people as dim-witted and brutish cavemen still lingers in popular ideology but research has revealed a more nuanced picture.
This species is one of the best known of our ancestors.
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Motherson Sumi
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Germany's Leoni scraps 2019 profit target, unveils job cuts
German automotive cable and wiring system specialist Leoni has abandoned a 2019 profit target it issued just last month, unveiled job cuts as well as possible divestments and said its finance chief would quit.REUTERS | March 18, 2019, 11:30 IST
The company said it would cut about 2,000 jobs out of more than 90,000 globally at the group.
FRANKFURT: German automotive cable and wiring system specialist Leoni has abandoned a 2019 profit target it issued just last month, unveiled job cuts as well as possible divestments and said its finance chief would quit.
"The company is facing a continued challenging market environment, particularly in China," it said on Sunday, adding that demand from carmakers for its wiring systems had fallen significantly.
Leoni, which in February forecast 2019 earnings before interest and tax of between 100 million and 130 million euros ($147 million), down from 144 million euros in 2018, said it would no longer meet that target and would set a new goal.
As part of a restructuring plan it had already broadly outlined last year, the company said it would cut about 2,000 jobs out of more than 90,000 globally at the group.
"The developments at the end of fiscal 2018 and especially in the first two months of 2019 have made it clear that we must act even faster and more decisively to bring Leoni back on track," Chief Executive Aldo Kamper, who joined in September, said in a statement.
He and his team would now consider all options for businesses with annual sales of up to 500 million euros.
The corporate structure would be changed to a financial holding company with two divisions that are managed on a stand-alone basis.
CFO Karl Gadesmann resigned with immediate effect, with CEO Kamper taking over his responsibilities until a successor is found, Leoni added.
Reuters reported in December that Indian car wiring maker Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd was in early talks with Leoni over a possible merger, citing people close to the matter.
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Team Scotland
I walked from a community centre in south Edinburgh talking to a grandmother who’d just been at a public meeting I was talking at. She told me she’d never been involved in politics but that she’d been out putting leaflets through doors (the older generation always tell me its for their grandkids but I suspect they’ve been itching to do something subversive for ages…) “And I’ll tell you what” she told me conspiratorially “I’m not going back to my sofa when this is all over”.
She’s Team Scotland.
A man in his early 30s emailed me to say he’d been reading Common Weal stuff and articles on Bella and National Collective and he wrote (in his words) “I can’t remember being interested in politics like this, I’ve not been this excited since I was a teenager”.
He’s Team Scotland.
I spoke in Lasswade last week and on the panel with me was Jill Murphy of Business for Scotland. She admitted nervously to me before the meeting that this was only the second time in her life she’d spoken in public (the first time being the previous evening when she’d been heckled by Better Together activists). She started by telling the audience that she was nervous and hadn’t really done this before but that she thought it was too important so she had to get over her nerves and speak. She was great.
I did a debate in Broughton High School. Afterwards one of the sixth year pupils had to walk me back to get my jacket. She told me on the way that she had thought it was all too complicated and scary to make a decision on independence (I wonder who set up an organisation to encourage that reaction in citizens…). But she said she decided that she better get over it, get on the internet and read for herself. She’s not scared any more.
And I’ve got a pal locally I met in the street. He’s English, ex-army, doesn’t believe that wind turbines really work and believes that Scottish independence would be a complete disaster.
But he’s Team Scotland too.
The SNP has promised that the terms of Scotland’s independence will be negotiated by ‘Team Scotland’, an inclusive group not just made up of SNP politicians. Three cheers to that. But in my opinion the future of the SNP and the future of Scottish politics (in the event of a Yes vote) will be defined by how the SNP goes about creating a Team Scotland.
The Yes campaign has been carried by neither back-room strategists at Holyrood nor paid politicians. It has been carried by a mass of citizens who have set up local and national groups and worked incredibly hard (almost all unpaid). Politicians are keen on saying ‘it was the humble party worker who won it…’ – but they add an unspoken coda of “…by delivering our incredibly clever leaflets while we won the campaign in the TV studios’. Not this time. Citizens are out there delivering their own leaflets and devising and running their own local campaigns. The TV studios are, like the weather, a subject only mentioned when we fancy a moan about something predictably grim.
The UK chattering classes have been wondering what a real, mass grass-roots campaign might look like in modern, professionalised politics. Impotent is their usual conclusion. Well come on up and we’ll show you. The old feudal dance where councilor doths cap to MP, MP to Minister, Minister to Prime Minister and Prime Minister to corporate CEO may well continue apace even here in Scotland. But it’s not winning Scotland.
The cleverer of Scotland’s commentators and journalists have picked this up. They’re not yet sure how to respond (if news is being made in town halls, how do you report it?), but they’re starting to get it. The Marie Antoinette Media is meanwhile clueless, has no idea what is going on outside the window. “Let them eat this shit” they say while covering their front pages with mad lords and well-trained think tanks spewing out apocalypses no-one believes.
“Why. Isn’t. It. WORKING!” they fume, Alan Cochrane and David Torrance becoming more spiteful and less coherent with each word they write.
“Why. Won’t. These. Fucking. Scots. STAY DOWN!” bleat exasperated Westminster types who fully expect to watch citizens kneel by their fields in deference when the Ministerial limo approaches.
I have been all over the place talking in town halls. At each I’ll often catch up on the gossip from other speakers who’ve done other meetings. The number of people I’ve met here or anywhere else who want Scottish independence so we can quickly replicate Westminster’s system of feudal deference can be counted on the fingers of no hands. If there is anyone among the leadership of any political party in Scotland who thinks that we’re all just ‘useful idiots’ removing one political elite just so we can replace it with another, I suspect 2015 and 2016 are going to be a shock.
If the SNP thinks it might be ‘helpful’ to sort-of just write the first draft of a constitution they’ve promised the people can write themselves; if they think it might be safer just to leave it to professionals like themselves, very serious trouble lies ahead. People you might not expect and whom the SNP does not want as an enemy have already talked about rebellion.
There are lots of rumours about which of their opponents the SNP leadership is planning to invite to join its negotiating team – Danny Alexander, Jim Murphy, Gordon Brown, Alastair Darling. Someone even told me straight-faced that Lord George Robertson was going to get the call (though that was before his meltdown in New York). It is assumed that to the ‘cream’ of Scotland’s political class will be added a trade union baron, the CBI chief, a charity boss and church minister. The press release will call that Scotland.
Now I’m a big believer in the merits of learning your trade. I would have Scotland’s negotiations led by the best negotiators we can find. Some will be in political parties but many will be in trade unions, the business sector and the legal community. But – and this is a big but – while they may be the best team to negotiate, they are not Scotland. What they negotiate – not how but what – must reflect Scotland and not only its elite if we are to truly escape the politics of ‘Great’ Britain.
I’m going to ask some of our experts on participatory democracy if they will write something for us on how to construct a participative negotiating process. I think there should be some kind of ‘national council’ of people created in some way that reflects real Scotland, that this council should call on all ideas for how to create a new Scotland, it’s constitution, the fabric of its democracy. That it should produce proposals for negotiating positions – and that it is these proposals that form the basis of what our negotiating team negotiates.
As people start to see the hope of a Yes victory, there is much talk about post-Yes politics. There are three rough camps. One hopes to change the SNP into a radical reforming party. One hopes Labour will rediscover itself. And one hopes that a new political party will rise from the ashes of the debate. If the SNP cannot shake its centralising, top-down tendencies, if it begins the new Scotland as “welcome to the new boss, same as the old boss” then I predict an immediate flow of people towards the second two options. It is a flow that could quickly become a flood.
Demobbing an army and telling it: ‘thanks for your sacrifice, we’ve got it from here’ is a notoriously good way to get your head chopped off. If they hand the design of my country over to a ‘Team Scotland’ every member of which comes from the top five per cent of society, if it proceeds on the basis of ‘what would a corporate CEO do?’, if it seeks to stuff the military’s mouth with gold, if it chooses a currency union the terms of which suit only RBS, if it does SSE’s bidding and traps us in the UK’s dire energy market without discussion or debate, if it behaves like power always behaves, I’ll be reaching for my axe.
Oh citizens, it doesn’t have to be like this anymore. You are Team Scotland. Don’t wait. Pick up the ball and start running.
#indyref
#YesScot
By Robin McAlpine
Published on 16th April 2014
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Keef says:
The more you speak, the more sense you make son. And another thing, that idea you had about Scotland deciding where and to who in England they pay their share of the debt was just brilliant. I don’t see you on twitter. I wish you did find time to sow these seeds of thought to as many people as possible by occasionally dropping some of ‘thought bombs’ on there.
Keep up the sterling work. It is so inspiring to see your compassion married to common sense produce such egalitarian rhetoric.
I find myself in agreement with everything said here!
A useful way of proceeding could be to look to the Iceland model for crowd-writing a constitution (whilst learning from them about how to avoid the old elites usurping the end of the process).
Brian McGraw says:
Well said Robin!
Of Men and Markets says:
Reblogged this on Of Men and Markets and commented:
Robin McAlpine, laying out a new future with the sovereignty of the people at its heart.
210812a says:
Negotiations with the UK Government, post-independence will (mostly) be conducted by civil servants. Who are a rather more diverse and freethinking bunch than they’re usually given credit for being, if that helps.
Ashley HusbandPowton (@AshleyJHP) says:
I want Robin McAlpine on the negotiating team!!!
Interesting enough but I don’t recognise the SNP you seek to describe. But then again those who climb onto a team when it is beginning to win very often are not fully appreciative of the decades of effort and discipline by thousands of dedicated and unpaid enthusiasts that got it to this place. – and who have welcomed with very open arms everybody who has come to join the cause. It hasn’t always been right and it hasn’t always been clever but it has been dogged,determined and unbreakable in the face of massive opposition and I don’t enjoy being insulted by someone I thought was on the same side as I am. The elected government of an independent Scotland will determine how its constitution is written. It will seek wide opinion and wide agreement over a wide range of people
I agree with you Will! I must say that we don’t want the talk of in fighting before we even get Independence! Please give the SNP respect . We would not be in this position if it wasn’t for the SNP! Knowing the party I’m sure they will be inclusive after the referendum . They have said that.
Doug Daniel says:
“those who climb onto a team when it is beginning to win”
I hardly think that’s a fair description of Robin. Robin’s work with the Reid Foundation and the Common Weal has been pretty instrumental in getting people who weren’t already on board to back a Yes vote.
sean mcgee says:
Just a thought… Why does the ” elected government of an independent Scotland” or indeed anywhere have to be elected from the usual self selected elite? Can anyone give me one good reason why representatives should not be chosen by lot and thus be truly representative of age, class, education, race, disability etc?
John Purdie (@FiferJP) says:
Team Scotland is already in place with all the Yes groups throughout the country. Colin Fox made similar points at the Yes Benarty meeting on 14 March 2014. The video is available on http://www.yesbenarty.org on the events page (The bottom video as he talks about it during the question and answer session late on in the video – from about 1 hour 30 minutes onwards.) Colin says “on the 20th September there’s going to be a convention organised in Edinburgh … Saturday morning get yourselves to Edinburgh, because we’re not going to be demobilised, they’re not going to go to London and negotiate behind our backs … and that convention will make sure that the people of Scotland elect nominees to the negotiating team.”
Johnny come lately says:
Little bit hard on the SNP there. We are where we are because of their leadership and strategy. The party is up against the entire media, the British establishment, raw corporate power and a collection of mandarins, chancers and an assortment of people in the know and on the make, who will do and say almost anything to maintain the status quo. It has to be from the top down until after the referendum. Any disagreement, discourse or people being off message will be portrayed as disarray.
After the referendum that is a different matter. I would prefer the implementation of a standard off the shelf constitution, valid for a period of say 5 years, whilst civic Scotland outlines and agrees the proposals for a purely Scottish constitution. This would in the interim period give fast guidelines as to how the country will be governed and give citizens rights to challenge abuses.
Concerning the negotiations. There will have to be political representation of some sort. It must and can only be representatives of Scottish parties who are given a place at the negotiating table. This means no Labour, con or Lib Dem representatives’ as they are Westminster parties and will continue to be so until at least 2016. As for trade unionists they are no better (in my view) than the politicians and most are subservient to the UK organization. I have faith in the SNP leadership as I do beleive that they genuinley have the interests of Scotland at heart.
John Gourlay says:
We can start simple negotiations now by putting ideas up for question. To begin with I can not see all the negotiations being completely sorted out for at least ten years at least until the decommissioning of trident is worked out. But that is not as important as laying down a basic principle that neither Scotland nor the Remainder of the U K gain at the expense of the other. Once we accept this principle a lot more can be suggested and discussed.
While we certainly need to make sure people on the “losing side” (is there such a thing with a Yes vote? Well, those with vested interests, I suppose…) are involved in creating the new constitution, there are certain people that I would not welcome in a Team Scotland. Those who have been most prominent in the attempts to deceive the people of Scotland are not, in my opinion, the kind of people I trust to make the best case for Scotland. That includes people like Alistair Carmichael, Danny Alexander, and that Anas Sarwar.
I certainly agree with that! Include J Lamont . She has said she would stand in an iScotland!
manandboy says:
And what about Scotland’s very own unionist Scottish Establishment ?
pondbug says:
This is exactly what I’m hoping for too.
It fits with ideas of making local government more local and having proper devolution of power from parliament to local authorities and to communities.
For me the biggest danger in achieving independence is that we have the same old ‘bosses’ and ‘elites’ take control, so it is very encouraging to hear all these reports of people becoming active.
Yep, that’s why at the start of the year, for the first time in my life, I got up off my backside and joined my local Yes group. Great bunch of people from nearly all political persusions made me feel very wecome, despite me being a rank amateur at this business. So far so good, with most people I meet being positive, and hopefully going to vote Yes. And aye, I’m doing it for my great-grandchildren, but also for myself, as at least I will be able to say, that although a very small cog in a very large peoples movement, I did my bit, to make our country, Scotland, a better place to live, for all of us.
Winslie Gomez says:
Rod Robertson (@roddy1314) says:
Robin agree with so much here ,and also disagree with lots of it as well.
I have heard you speak many times in this Campaign and recently had the pleasure of a discussion in Johnstone.
I am of the left and proudly so ,however one of the recurring mistakes by the Left is the great ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
In recent times the Left made inroads into Holyrood then along comes the entire Tommy factor and the left splits into SSP and Solidarity and Scargill makes an appearance then Galloway pretending to be of the left.
It usually starts with some trivial point of order and before you know it all out war has been declared ripping up the movement and setting the Left back for ages.
There are some realities and the biggest one is this ,it has been the SNP virtually on its own that has taken us to here and now.
Yes many that before were not politicised or aware have now become active ,not because of Common Weal or, Solidarity ,or SSP or ,any other leftist group.
RIC would not have come into being without the heavy lifting of the SNP who for years carried the torch.
They remain in power and in a majority that was never meant to happen because all along the way they have kept their word to the Scottish people.
One of their setbacks along the way was the 79 group ,that set back the SNP for years that is reality and no colourful rewriting of history can change that fact.
So when the SNP say it will be inclusive and all sections of Scottish society will be included i trust them.
This close to the chance of Independence is not a time for our so called intellectual left to be creating any divisions where no strife exists.
Let us all keep our eye on the main prize otherwise the Unionists and their attack dogs in the MSM will absolutely and thoroughly dived and defeat us.
Remember who the enemy is ,it is not the SNP it is the ruling British establishmemnt and their corrupt vile curs in the finance sector and the MSM
The SNP ain’t broke, so let’s not fix it. ( in fact it’s working very well indeed.)
Until the SNP is broke, the Left should just keep quiet and put their shoulder back to the wheel.
Let’s get through the green light first.
Then we can decide either to go straight on or turn left or right.
But now is NOT the time to be even thinking about it.
So, Left, please take note.
There, that’s my tuppence worth.
I agree ! We haven’t even got Independence yet and some folk are creating dissent ! It’s been a long slow slog for the SNP , let’s at least give them time to enact their plans . They are the only ones for 80 years, who have had Scotland’s best at heart. When I joined nearly 40 years ago I knew there were different political views within the SNP but the goal was left of centre and Independence ! They are more left of centre now than Labour ! Let’s caw canny , support each other and vote YES !
I was trying to articulate how I felt about the ideas you expressed but Rod does it beautifully so I will add my voice to his asking for caution and for us not to set the post-independence cart before the independence-horse actually makes it to the finishing line in one piece.
Colin Dunn says:
If the SNP thinks it might be ‘helpful’ to sort-of just write the first draft of a constitution they’ve promised the people can write themselves; if they think it might be safer just to leave it to professionals like themselves, very serious trouble lies ahead. ”
There are very good reasons why a short-term constitution needs be in place as soon as possible after a Yes vote. Lallans Peat Worrier puts it best, I think . .
http://lallandspeatworrier.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/articles-of-disunion.html
yerkitbreeks says:
I have enjoyed Robin McAlpine’s contributions, but not this one, at a critical stage in the campaign when we need strong leadership – something we are privileged to have in the SNP – and a disciplined political party, sadly not something very visible in Labour.
Personally I will wait for a cock – up before sniping since so far we’ve been well served. Labour wants to decentralise power from Holyrood in the event of a NO which in effect will emasculate our Parliament and protect Westminster. Only after a YES should we seriously begin to work out a Scandic model or such like.
Alex Buchan says:
I think as part of applauding Team Scotland, we shouldn’t be afraid of also applauding Orkney Shetland and the Western Isles in getting more devolution within Scotland. I think it’s a mistake to see their efforts to get more powers as a threat. Of course, it is being used by others to try to bolster BT, but the principle of a modern Scotland that is proudly decentralised can only be good in reassuring everyone in Scotland that they have nothing to fear from independence. And not just the Isles, I think greater local control should be the principle we apply across the board. The charge that people are only swopping control from London for control from Edinburgh will be used by BT more and more between now and September and it is important that we don’t allow ourselves to be characterised in this way by BT.
I think if you lived in the some of the isles and were subject to their serial incompetence you would take a much more jaundiced approach to their empowerment.
16th April 2014 at 10:05 pm
From its first minority government to the current one with an overall majority, the SNP have run the country on a shoestring, paring away and reducing waste. Don’t let’s return to the Westminster model of profligacy, PPI, PPP and uncosted policy. The team we have now are professional, well qualified and dedicated. They may split to other parties of their choosing after independence, but I hope the electorate will see their qualities and re-elect them. We need a well-run democracy without the garden wall gossip, intrigue and sleaze that seems to pervade Westminster.
wanvote says:
Fantastic stuff from Robin, now we need ideas on how to enable all citizens of Scotland to be part of Team Scotland.
Allan Hosey says:
A fine article. For those suggesting this is too hard on the SNP, I beg to differ. The SNP cannot and will not be able to provide enough votes to deliver independence. They’ve been decent in government (although in my opinion some pretty major mistakes have been made) and the comparison with the last Labour / Lib Dem government in Holyrood is stark. But they aren’t getting a majority of votes in a high turnout election. The team negotiating the terms of our independence cannot be a handpicked SNP team, it must represent all of Scotland.
To win the vote the SNP have to be de-emphasised. They’re important but they’re not all the campaign. The reason why Better Together keep trying to say that this is just purely an SNP obsession isn’t because they’re stupid (although they are) it’s because identifying independence as a purely party matter stops those who have some sympathy for the idea of independence but a dislike of the SNP switching their vote. Strategically the SNP part in the Yes campaign has to be downplayed.
So the first part is winning the referendum. Everything is secondary to that at the moment.
But following a Yes vote an inclusive drafting of the constitution, and an inclusive negotiating team is not anti-SNP. It’s about building the nation. That has to start in the correct manner. And I hate to say it, but it must include some from Labour who have been the shrillest voices against, and it must include representation from the businesses who are fighting tooth and nail against independence. But it also must be subject to the scrutiny of the people and their participation too. We can’t have the basis of our independence built on vested interests looking out for their piece of the pie.
Post-yes is going to be fraught and it has to be about building consensus unless we think those who’ve lost will just disappear. That isn’t going to happen, and I (and I assume pretty much everyone else) don’t want it to happen. The new Scotland has to be for them as much as those who have voted Yes. The way to do that is by listening to them, including them in the process, and respecting them. The way to sow some deep-rooted division in our new nation is to ignore them.
I absolutely concur with this.
I agree completely that many more parties (not just political) than the SNP have to represented in a post-yes negotiation but why should that include people and organisations who have vehement in their opposition to the idea and, some would say, to the Scottish people on the whole during this campaign? The political parties of Scotland – Labour, LibDem, Green, Conservative, Socialist and SNP – need to be represented in the short term but we don’t need the likes of the Alexanders, Robertsons, Lamonts, Darlings & Browns getting their toe in when there are perfectly able members of those same parties who have not been so anti-Scotland in recent months. Likewise business needs a voice but why should that be the CBI which clearly does not speak for all businesses in Scotland.
But let’s win the referendum first,eh?
stewartbremner says:
The SNP have done a brilliant job, holding fast and making the referendum a reality. I don’t think any of us will ever forget that. However the Yes vote is going to be delivered by an unprecedented team of people across Scotland, from all walks of life and background. A great deal of this mass movement is made up of those of us who had lost all faith in the political establishment. At last, we are realising the power we did not know we had. To become the inclusive society we are working towards, means finding a new way to create a consensus that does not simply require the electorate to switch off after victory.
I have read of corporate structures across Europe, that include members of the workforce on the board of directors. If the grassroots Yes movement can be seen as the workforce of independence, then it is right and proper that it has fair, non-partisan, representation post-Sept 19th.
Interesting as always. I’m a lead Yes volunteer (as designated) and have sent over 1000 emails and have received over 1500, have housed over 100,000 leaflets/newspapers and other campaign materials before our teams have spread them over the area, been out working almost every Saturday morning for the last 18 months with many many brilliant, interesting, eclectic committed first time political volunteers. The above only represents a fraction of the work that has gone in to our local campaign.
I have also received less than 10 email from either MSP’s or MP’s. None of these was them starting a conversation, all were in response to us providing them advice. This is our campaign and we are winning it.
Marsha Scott says:
Love this piece, although I think all 3 options re political parties look good and are not mutually exclusive. Negotiating team for Scotland MUST be 50% women.
charlesobrien08 says:
My team Scotland well,me of course and you and your neighbours,my neighbours,I should say we will all be team Scotland.Good thought creating article.I always send it to Facebook,Twitter,Google,Linklin and a few other places,helps stimulate conversations.
I am thinking that the general election in 2015 the Yes vote winners will need to have 59 candidates who are wanting the best deal for Scotland. Since it is for our childrens future should we not have at least 30 women and representation from throughout our country. It would not be silly or divisive if we consider who we would want or should this be need now.
scottishmomus says:
For the first time in more years than I care to remember I feel positive about politics. I no longer want to talk party politics. People politics is how the Yes will win. And the urge is there. We know what is right and good. We all do. It is instilled in us. We have to let that be our guiding force. Unity not division.
Governments around the globe have disenfranchised their citizens by being answerable to banks and corporations, by pitting themselves against each other and dissolving the will and hope of their nations. They have lost any sight of what democracy should be. Westminster is just one of those.
We must not become another that blows the chance of real change through the potential for a new evolved democracy. Truly from the people. It is the people who are sick and tired and disgusted with the way politicians have conducted themselves in governments going back generations now, regardless of who was in/behind the seats of power.
Citizens the world over are looking for change. For a new type of government, where a new dialectic may begin.
If we become caught up in petty squabbles over existing party politics we lose sight of what this is about and what could be created here. Scotland’s citizens are the change. It is from the roots the rest will grow.
My heart goes out to the communities in the other parts of the UK who do not have this chance. Whose lives are also being torn in two by greed and the power of lobby. And not just the UK.
If we do this properly others may look to see that if Scotland can manage its own affairs in the face of all negativity and in a way that reflects the essence of democracy with representation across the board, then others may believe that they too can see change. And feel hope again in their lives. They may look to us as an example of what is possible with the will and the integrity to be better than what has been.
I hope for a brave new Scotland and for this opportunity to be part of creating a better world for all of us. For the here and now. And for our children and grandchildren. Without party politics and elitism becoming the norm. Please don’t let us blow this by becoming what we abhor.
Dave Coull says:
Of course it won’t be possible to tell all the folk who have been mobilised by this campaign “Thanks, you can go back to sleep now” on the 19th of September. Certainly so far as the Radical Independence Campaign is concerned, the very name says we want a radical kind of independence. Whoever is selected for the team to negotiate with Westminster, we should all be watching them like hawks. They will be answerable to both the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people. One thing of particular concern to me is Trident. Other things may be negotiable, the removal of Trident isn’t.
It is well established that most folk in Scotland oppose Trident. The YES vote in September will serve Trident’s eviction notice. Obviously we would much prefer that the next voyage the Trident submarines make is to a breakers’ yard. But we have no control over what the Westminster government decides.
So, they have a year and a half, from September 2014 to March 2016, in which to make other arrangements.
If the nukes are still in Scotland on March 23rd 2016, then TURN THEM OFF.
We know this can be done, and we know there are people with the expertise to do it.
Shifting an enormous naval vessel, a so-called “sub”marine, of a type that can get stuck on sandbanks unless it is in the very deepest of water at high tide, may take time; even shifting the missiles may take time; but it stands to reason that turning the warheads off is something that can be done within a matter of days.
It is something which is done on a regular basis anyway, as part of normal, regular servicing. The only difference is, they wouldn’t be getting turned back on again.
Not while they remain in Scotland, anyway.
An independent Scotland can comply with non-proliferation requirements, and demonstrate its intention of being a good global citizen, by ensuring that there are no functioning nuclear weapons in Scotland, as of day one of independence, and that there will never again be any functioning nuclear weapons based in Scotland.
This is a perfectly reasonable position and one which can win widespread support.Including,from people in the rest of the UK as well as from all peace campaigners internationally.
If, in the negotiations after the YES vote in September, anybody on the Scottish side in those negotiations should show the slightest sign of agreeing to some sort of fudge over Trident, then we should be be ready to to publicly demonstrate immediate rejection of that.
1st September 2014 at 6:02 pm
Insistence on the removal of Trident and the whole submarine-based nuclear outfit will be its death knell. They would not be able to afford it without Scottish oil revenues and there would be a NIMBY reaction to its placement in any English region. We in Scotland never had the opportunity of NIMBY. They called that democracy. The PR system of voting for the Holyrood parliament will ensure that a good mix of the YES parties will be represented there. I hope that no one party will break up the general consensus that Scotland needs to progress amongst the nations of the world.
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Review: ‘An unorthodox flow of images’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne Part 2
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Exhibition dates: 30th September – 12th November 2017
Curators: Naomi Cass and Pippa Milne
Living artists include: Laurence Aberhart, Brook Andrew, Rushdi Anwar, Warwick Baker, Paul Batt, Robert Billington, Christian Boltanski, Pat Brassington, Jane Brown, Daniel Bushaway, Sophie Calle, Murray Cammick, Christian Capurro, Steve Carr, Mohini Chandra, Miriam Charlie, Maree Clarke, Michael Cook, Bill Culbert, Christopher Day, Luc Delahaye, Ian Dodd, William Eggleston, Joyce Evans, Cherine Fahd, Fiona Foley, Juno Gemes, Simryn Gill, John Gollings, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Andy Guérif, Siri Hayes, Andrew Hazewinkel, Lisa Hilli, Eliza Hutchison, Therese Keogh, Leah King-Smith, Katrin Koenning, O Philip Korczynski, Mac Lawrence, Kirsten Lyttle, Jack Mannix, Jesse Marlow, Georgie Mattingley, Tracey Moffatt, Daido Moriyama, Harry Nankin, Jan Nelson, Phuong Ngo.
Historic photographers: Hippolyte Bayard (180-1887), Charles Bayliss (1850-1897), Bernd and Hilla Becher (Bernd Becher 1931-2007, Hilla Becher 1934-2015), Lisa Bellear (1962-2006), James E. Bray (1832-1891), Jeff Carter (1928-2010), Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953), Olive Cotton (1911-2003), Peter Dombrovskis (1995-1996), Max Dupain (1911-1992), Walker Evans (1903-1975), Sue Ford (1943-2009), Marti Friedlander (1928-2016), Kate Gollings (1943-2017), André Kertész (1894-1985), J. W. Lindt (1845-1926), W. H. Moffitt (1888-1948), David Moore (1927-2003), Michael Riley (1960-2004), Robert Rooney (1937-2017), Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006), Mark Strizic (1928 -2012), Ingeborg Tyssen (1945-2002), Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Charles Woolley (1834-1922).
(1) J W Lindt (1845-1926)
Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla
Courtesy State Library Victoria, Pictures Collection
Thought to be the first press photograph in Australia, this shows Joe Byrne, a member of the Kelly Gang, strung up for documentation days after his death, which followed the siege at Glenrowan. Byrne is displayed for an unknown photographer and the painter Julian Ashton who is standing to the left with possibly a sketchbook under his arm. Lindt’s photograph captures not only the spectacle of Byrne’s body but the contingent of documentarians who arrived from Melbourne to record and widely disseminate the event for public edification.
I was a curatorial interlocutor for this exhibition so it was very interesting to see this exhibition in the flesh.
An unorthodox flow of images is a strong exhibition, splendidly brought to fruition by curators Naomi Cass and Pippa Milne at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne. To be able to bring so many themes, images, ideas and people together through a network of enabling, and a network of images, is an impressive achievement.
The exhibition explores the notion of connectivity between images in our media saturated world – across context, time and space. “With a nod to networked image viewing behaviour and image sharing – in one long line – the flow also impersonates the form of a sentence.” While the viewer makes their own flows through the works on view, they must interpret the interpolation of images (much like a remark interjected in a conversation) in order to understand their underlying patterns of connection. Like Deleuze and Guattari’s horizontal rhizome theory1 – where the viewer is offered a new way of seeing: that of infinite plateaus, nomadic thought and multiple choices – here the relationship between the photograph and its beholder as a confrontation between self and other, and the dynamic relation between time, subjectivity, memory and loss is investigated … with the viewer becoming an intermediary in an endless flow of non-hierarchical images/consciousness.
In this throng of dialects, the exhibition meanders through different “sections” which are undefined in terms of their beginning and end. The starting point for this flow is the public demonstration of trauma for the edification of society (the photographs of the aftermath of the siege of Ned Kelly and his gang at Glenrowan), notably what is thought to be the first press photograph in Australia, J W Lindt’s Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla (1880, above), and the flow then gathers its associations through concepts such as studio work, the gaze, disruption, truth, performance and traces, to name just a few. The exhibition ceaselessly establishes connections between semiotic chains, organisations of power and contextual circumstances, moving forward and backwards in time and space, jumping across the gallery walls, linking any point to any point if the beholder so desires. In this sense (that of an expanded way of thinking laterally to create a democracy of sight and understanding), the exhibition succeeds in fostering connections, offering multiple entryways into the flow of images that proposes a new cultural norm.
For Deleuze and Guattari these assemblages (of images in this case), “… are the processes by which various configurations of linked components function in an intersection with each other, a process that can be both productive and disruptive. Any such process involves a territorialization; there is a double movement where something accumulates meanings (re-territorialization), but does so co-extensively with a de-territorialization where the same thing is disinvested of meanings.”2 Now here’s the rub (or the trade-off if you like) of this exhibition, for everything in life is a trade-off: the accumulation of new meaning that such a flow of images creates is balanced by what has been lost. Both an accumulation and disinvestment of meaning.
I have a feeling that in such a flow of images the emotion and presence of the subject has been lost, subsumed into a networked, hypermedia flow where, “images become more and more layered until they are architectural in design, until their relationship to the context from which they have grown cannot be talked about through the simple models offered by referentiality, or by attributions of cause and effect.”3 The linear perspective developed during the Renaissance and its attendant evidence of truth/objective reality (the logic of immediacy) is disrupted. It is no longer about being there, about the desire for presence, but about a logic of hypermediacy that privileges fragmentation, process, and performance. Of course, immediacy / hypermediacy are part of a whole and are not exclusionary to each other. But here contemporary art, and in particular contemporary photography, keeps coming back to the surface, redefining conceptual and aesthetic spaces.
This is where I was plainly unmoved by the whole exhibition. Conceptually and intellectually the exhibition is very strong but sequentially and, more importantly, emotionally – the flow of images failed to engage me. The dissociative association proposed – like a dissociative identity disorder – ultimately becomes a form of ill/literation, in which the images seem drained of their passion, a degenerative illness in which all images loose their presence and power. In a media saturated world what does it mean to pluck these images from a variable spatio-temporal dimensionality and sequence them together and hope they give meaning to each other? Ultimately, it’s a mental exercise of identity organisation that is pure construct.
Further, this (re)iteration is a repetition that is supposed to bring you successively closer to the solution of a problem: what is the relevance of the stream of image consciousness in contemporary society? What happens to the referentiality and presence of the individual image?
With this in mind, let us return to the first image in the flow of images, J W Lindt’s Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla (1880, above). Here Byrne is displayed for an unknown photographer and the painter Julian Ashton who is standing to the left with possibly a sketchbook under his arm. Amongst other things, the image is by a photographer taking a photograph of another photographer taking a photograph of the body of Joe Byrne. Immediately, the triangular relationship of camera / subject / viewer (cause and effect) is disrupted with the addition of the second photographer. There is a doubling of space and time within this one image, as we imagine the image the photographer in the photograph would have taken. And then we can see two variations of that internal photograph: Photographer unknown Joe Byrne’s Body, Benalla Gaol, 29 June 1880 (below) and William J. Burman’s Joe Byrne’s Body, Benalla Gaol, 29 June 1880 (1880, below) which 1/ appears to solve who the “photographer unknown” is (unless Burman purchase the rights to use another’s photographers’ negatives); and 2/ is a more tightly framed image than the first iteration. If you look at the top of the head in the second image the hair goes over the metal hinge of the door behind… so the photographer (the same one) has moved closer and dropped the height of the camera, so that the camera looks up more, at the body.
Other details fascinate. The ring on the left finger of Joe Byrne; his stripped shirt; the rope under his arms used to help support his weight; the rope disappearing out of picture to help string him up; and questions such as, how did they get his left hand to stay in that position? This is also, “an image of an audience as much as a portrait of the deceased … Members of the public are also documented; children, men – trackers perhaps, bearing witness to the public display of retribution that was intended to restore social order.” To the left we have what is presumably the photographers’ coat hung on a tree; a man wiping his nose with his thumb; and Aboriginal man; and a boy looking at the camera. Through his silhouette the Aboriginal man can probably be identified as Tracker Johnny, one of five trackers who helped track Ned Kelly, and we can see a portrait of him in an albumen photograph held by the Queensland Police Museum (1880, below). A picture of the ‘Other’, both outsiders, the outlaw and the Aboriginal, detailing the social order. The blurred image of the boy looking at the camera shows the length of the time exposure for the glass plate, but it is his “Janus-faced” visage that I am fascinated with… as he both looks forwards and backwards in time. Whilst most images within An unorthodox flow of images are conceptually grounded, they also evidence only one direct meaning in relationship to themselves within that network, “each one connected to those on either side,” – from point to point to point. Conversely, in this image the interpretation is open-ended, WITHIN THE ONE IMAGE. It is a network all of its own. I also remember, emotionally, the other images of the burnt out Glenrowan Inn, the place where the rails were taken up (I was there!), the bodies in the coffins, the preparation for the photograph of the Kelly Gang Armour laid out in a muddy field for documentation, and the burnt to a cinder, charred remains rescued from the ashes of the Glenrowan Inn laid out on a piece of wood. There is a physicality to these photographs, and an emotional charge, that no other photograph in this exhibition matches. I think, then, not of Joe Bryne’s lifeless body and its/the photographs morbidity, but of him as a younger man – standing legs crossed, one hand on hip, the other resting on the surface of a table, imagining his touch on that table in reality – a son, an outlaw, a living being.
I wish the curators had been braver. I wish that they had given these images more chance to breathe. I wish they had cut the number of images and sequenced them so that the space between them (what Minor White calls ice/fire, that frisson of space between two images that adds to their juxtaposed meaning) provided opportunity for a more emotional engagement with what was being presented. Yes, this is a strong exhibition but it could have been so much more powerful if the flow had not just meandered through the sentence, but cried out, and declaimed, and was quiet. Where was the punctum? Where was the life blood of the party, if only disappearing in a contiguous flow of images.
Dr Marcus Bunyan for Art Blart
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Wood, Aylish. “Fresh Kill: Information technologies as sites of resistance,” in Munt, Sally (ed.,). Technospaces: Inside the New Media. London: Continuum, 2001, p. 166
Burnett, Ron. Cultures of Vision: Images, Media, & the Imaginary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 137-138.
Many thankx to the CCP for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. The numbers in brackets refer to the number of the image in the field guide. The text is also taken from the field guide to the exhibition.
An unorthodox flow of images commences with what is known as the first press photograph in Australia and unfurls through historic, press, portraiture, popular and art photography, some in their intended material form and others as reproductions. An unbroken thread connects this line of still and moving images, each tied to those on either side through visual, conceptual, temporal, material or circumstantial links.
This is a proposition about photography now. Relationships between images are sometimes real, and sometimes promiscuous. Unorthodox brings new contexts to existing artworks whilst celebrating the materiality of real photographs, in real time and critically, honouring the shared democratic experience of the public gallery space. (Text from the CCP website)
J W Lindt (1845-1926)
Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla (details)
(2) Photographer unknown
Joe Byrne’s Body, Benalla Gaol, 29 June
Photographic print from glass plate
© Collection of Joyce Evans
This image appears to the one of the images taken by the photographer in J. W. Lindt’s Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla 1880 (above)
William J. Burman (1814-1890)
Joe Byrne’s Body, Benalla Gaol, 29 June 1880
At 209 Bourke Street, East Melbourne 1878 – 1888
Albumen carte de visite
6.5 × 10.5 cm
This image appears to the one of the images taken by the photographer in J. W. Lindt’s Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla 1880.
Unknown photographer
Untitled [Portrait of Tracker Johnny from Maryborough District one of five trackers who helped track Ned Kelly] (detail, not in exhibition)
Albumen photograph
Non-commercial – Share Alike (cc)
(3) J. E. Bray (1832-1891)
Kelly Gang Armour
Albumen cabinet portrait
“As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.” ~ Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
(4) Unknown photographer
Place where rails were taken up by Kelly gang
The Glenrowan Inn after the Kelly Siege
Charred remains from Kelly gang siege
In her comments on a related photograph by Bray, Helen Ennis writes, “What you see pictured, presumably as part of the official documentation are the thoroughly blackened remains of either Dan Kelly or Steve Hart… Relatives raked what remained of the bodies… from the ashes of the Glenrowan Inn. These were then photographed before family members took them home on horseback and buried them. … [These photographs] also underscore the brutality and barbarism of the post-mortem photographs – the violence physically enacted on the body in the first instance and then visually in terms of the photographic representation.”
Helen Ennis. “Portraiture in extremis” in Photogenic Essays/Photography/CCP 2000-2004, Daniel Palmer (ed.), 2005, CCP, pp. 23-39, p 34.
Untitled [“McDonnell’s Tavern opposite Railway Station, remains of Dan Kelly and Hart in coffins”]
W. E. (William Edward) Barnes (1841-1916)
Steve Hart (1859-1880) (front and verso, not in exhibition)
Steve Hart (1859-1880) (not in exhibition)
(9) Piero della Francesca (1415-1492)
Flagellation of Christ
Oil and tempera on wood, reproduced as digital print on wallpaper
58.4 × 81.5 cm, reproduced at 20 × 30 cm
The meaning of della Francesca’s Flagellation and exact identity of the three foreground figures in fifteenth century dress, is widely contested. In the context of this flow of images, the painting represents the pubic display of suffering as punishment, for the edification of society. In both J.W. Lindt’s documentary photograph and the possibly allegorical Flagellation, the broken body of Joe Byrne and that of Christ are isolated from other figures and subject of conversation and debate by gathered figures. Other formal similarities include framing of the tableau into shallow and deep space the organising role of architecture in signifying the key subject.
(10) Joosep Martinson
Police Hostage Situation Developing at the Lindt Café in Sydney
Digital print on wallpaper
The scene outside the Lindt Cafe siege, caught by the photojournalist in a moment of public trauma. This bears formal resemblance to J.W. Lindt’s photograph of Joe Byrne, and even further back to Piero della Francesca.
(13) Tracey Moffatt
I made a camera
photolithograph
38 × 43 cm, edition 201 of 750
Returning to J.W. Lindt’s photograph – in particular the hooded central figure photographing Joe Byrne – Tracey Moffatt’s picturing of children role-playing calls to mind the colonial photographer’s anthropological gesture.
(14) Siri Hayes
In the far reaches of the familiar
C-type print
88 × 70 cm, exhibition print
Courtesy the artist
The photographer’s hood is the photographer.
(15) Janina Green
Digital version of a hand-coloured work in early Photoshop
Courtesy the artist and M.33, Melbourne
(16) Georgie Mattingly
Portrait IV (After Arthroplasty)
Hand-tinted silver gelatin print
Unique hand print
The photographer’s hood has become a meat-worker’s protective gear, tenderly hand-coloured. [And spattered with blood ~ Marcus]
(17) Lisa Hilli (Makurategete Vunatarai (clan) Gunantuna / Tolai People, Papua New Guinea)
In a Bind
Pigment print on cotton rag
‘The woven material that hoods the artist’s identity is a reference to collected Pacific artefacts, which are usually of a practical nature. Magimagi is a plaited coconut fibre used for reinforcing architectural structures and body adornment within the Pacific. Here it emphasises the artist’s feeling of being bound by derogatory Western and anthropological labels used by museums and the erasure of Pacific bodies and narratives within public displays of Pacific materiality.’ ~ Lisa Hilli 2017, in an email to the curator
In an era of ‘tumbling’ images, An unorthodox flow of images presents visual culture in a novel way: commencing with Australia’s first press photograph, 150 images unfurl in flowing, a-historical sequences throughout the gallery. Each work is connected to the one before through formal, conceptual or material links.
An unorthodox flow of images draws upon the photographic image in its many forms, from significant historical photographs by major Australian artists, such as J.W. Lindt, Olive Cotton and Max Dupain, through to contemporary international and Australian artists, such as Tracey Moffatt, Michael Parekowhai, Christian Boltanski and Daido Moriyama. This exhibition brings early career artists into the flow, including Georgie Mattingley, Jack Mannix and James Tylor.
Celebrating the breadth of photographic technologies from analogue through to digital, including hand made prints, a hand-held stereoscope, early use of Photoshop, iPhone videos and holography, An unorthodox flow of images propels the viewer through a novel encounter with technology, art, and the act of looking. Rather than a definitive narrative, this exhibition is a proposition about relationships between images: sometimes real and sometimes promiscuous, and is inevitably open to alternative readings. Contemporary culture necessitates quick, networked visual literacy. So viewers are invited to make their own readings of this unorthodox flow.
Akin to how images are experienced in our personal lives and perhaps to how artists are influenced by the multiverse of photography, this extraordinary gathering also includes spirited incursions from other kinds of images – rare prints of grizzly 19th century photojournalism abuts contemporary video first shared on Instagram, and surrealist French cinema nestles in with Australian image-makers.
This exhibition aims to bring new contexts to existing artworks to highlight networked image-viewing behaviour, whilst honouring the materiality of real photographs, in real time and critically, honouring the shared democratic experience of the public gallery space. An unorthodox flow of images is presented as part of the 2017 Melbourne Festival.
Press release from the CCP
Plein air explorers
108 × 135 cm, edition 4 of 6
Collection of Jason Smith
An artist’s studio in the landscape.
(31) Robyn Stacey
Wendy and Brett Whiteley’s Library
From the series Dark Wonder
110 × 159 cm, edition of 5 + 3 artist proofs
Courtesy the artist and Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane
The landscape brought into the studio by a camera obscura. Robyn Stacey captures the perfect moment of light and clarity, in this instance, also turning the egg-object into an orb of light.
(37) Pat Brassington
Pigment print
75 × 60 cm, edition of 8,
Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne and Bett Gallery, Hobart
Two orbs, a positive and a negative space.
(38) Anne Noble
Ruby’s Room 10
Courtesy the artist and Two Rooms Gallery Auckland
(42) Daido Moriyama
Silver gelatin print
(43) Leah King-Smith
From the series Patterns of connection
102 × 102 cm, edition 6 of 25
‘I was seeing the old photographs as both sacred family documents on one hand, and testaments of the early brutal days of white settlement on the other. I was thus wrestling with anger, resentment, powerlessness and guilt while at the same time encountering a sense of deep connectedness, of belonging and power in working with images of my fellow Indigenous human beings.’ ~ L King-Smith, White apron, black hands, Brisbane City Hall Gallery, 1994, p. 7. In this series, the artist superimposes the colonial portrait onto images of the subject’s own landscape, returning the dispossessed to country.
Unorthodox: a field guide
We could have started anywhere. Perhaps every image ever made connects with another image in some way. But, we have begun with what is known as the first press photograph in Australia – a grisly depiction of Kelly Gang member Joe Byrne, strung up some days after his execution, for a group of onlookers, including a group of documentarians who came in by train to record the event: a painter and several photographers. This is an image of an audience as much as a portrait of the deceased. A hooded photographer bends to his tripod, and a
painter waits in line. Perhaps a seminal moment between competing technologies of record, magnificently captured by colonial photographer, J. W. Lindt (1845-1926): this is as decisive a moment as current technology permitted. Members of the public are also documented; children, men – trackers perhaps, bearing witness to the public display of retribution that was intended to restore social order.
From here, Unorthodox draws a thread of images together, each one connected to those on either side, whether through visual, conceptual, temporal, material or circumstantial ties, or by something even more diffuse and smoky – some images just conjure others, without a concrete reason for their bond. Spanning the entire gallery space, nearly 150 images unfurl with links that move through historic, press, portraiture, popular and art photography.
You are invited to wander through CCPs nautilus galleries, and make what you will of this flow because unlike a chain of custody, there is no singular narrative or forensic link: you are invited to explore not just connections between works but to see individual works in a new light.
At the core of this exhibition is an attempt to lay bare the way that images inform and seep into everyday life, underpinning the way that we see, interpret and understand the world. With a nod to networked image viewing behaviour and image sharing – in one long line – the flow also impersonates the form of a sentence.
The act of looking. Looking is a process, informed by context – where and when we see something, and what surrounds it. Here, images are unbuckled from their original context, indeed there are no museum labels on the wall. But this is often the way when viewing images on the internet, or reproduced in books, referenced in ads, reenacted in fashion shoots, or reinterpreted by artists. The notion of reproductions within photography is slippery, made more so by the rapid circulation of images whereby we sometimes only know certain originals through their reproductions. In this exhibition, sometimes we have the original images, at others we proffer ‘reproductions’, setting out a swathe of contemporary and historical approaches to the craft of photography and video, unhampered by traditional constraints of what we can or cannot show within a non-collecting contemporary art space.
This exhibition moves through a number of notional chapters, for example visual connections can be made between orbs made by soap bubbles (no. 32, 34) and moons (no. 33); eyes (no. 40, 41, 42), gaping mouths (no. 37), the balletic body in space (no. 45); and light from orbs (no. 44, 46) and then moonlight on the ocean (no. 47), which tumbles into salty connections, with photographs exposed by the light of the moon through seawater (no. 48) connecting to an image of salt mines (no. 50), and on to salt prints (no. 51).
We have been influenced by observing how audiences view exhibitions, traversing the space, seemingly drawing connections, making their own flows through works on view. In spite of its indexicality to the world, photography is particularly open to multiple readings due to its reproducibility and its vulnerability to manipulation. A key to this permeability is the intention of the photographer, which can become opaque over time. For example, installation artist Christian Boltanski’s found photograph (no. 137) has been taken out of its time and context
so as to mean something quite different from what the photographer intended.
Importantly, due to their multiple readings, many works could be equally effective if placed in other sections of the exhibition. For example, of the many places to position Leah King-Smith’s Untitled #3 (no. 43), we have elected to locate it amongst compositions that include orbs. However, it is also a staged work; a constructed or collaged photograph; it embodies an Indigenous artist returning the colonial gaze and, due to the age of her source photograph, it represents a deceased person. And, in her own words King-Smith is responding to the trauma of settlement. ‘I was thus wrestling with anger, resentment, powerlessness… while at the same time encountering a sense of deep connectedness, of belonging and power in working with images of my fellow Indigenous human beings.’
A curious process indeed, we have been open to many repositories of images while gathering this flow – from our work with artists at CCP; to childhood memories of images and personal encounters with photography and video; to our trawling of the Internet and books; as well as conversations with writers, artists and collectors. From these stores, we have also considered which works were available in their material form, as opposed to reproductions on wallpaper, postcards and record covers. While we exhibit a broad timespan and multiple technologies, our primary desire as a contemporary art space is to create new contexts for the exhibition of contemporary photography and video.
Unorthodox is a proposition about relationships between images: sometimes real and sometimes promiscuous, and is inevitably open to alternative readings. It brings new contexts to existing artworks whilst celebrating the materiality of real photographs, in real time and critically, honouring the shared democratic experience of the public gallery space.
Naomi Cass and Pippa Milne
(62) Brook Andrew
I Split Your Gaze
1997, printed 2005
Courtesy the artist and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels
(63) Brassaï
Young couple wearing a two-in-one suit at Bal De La Montagne Saint-Genevieve
Reproduced as digital print on wallpaper
23.2 × 15.9 cm, reproduced at 24.5 × 19 cm
(64) William Yang
from the series Self Portraits
Inkjet print, edition 2 of 30
(65) Sue Ford (1943-2009)
Lyn and Carol
Silver gelatin print, edition 3 of 5
Courtesy Sue Ford Archive
(76) Harold Cazneaux (1878-1953)
In the following two works, a critical change of title by the artist reveals what, alone, the eye cannot see. This photograph had already achieved iconic status as a symbol of the noble Australian landscape when, following the loss of his son who died aged 21 at Tobruk in 1941, Cazneaux flipped the negative and presented the image under the new title Spirit of Endurance. The tree is now classified on the National Trust of South Australia’s Register of Significant Trees.
(77) Jeff Carter (1928-2010)
The Eunuch, Marree, South Australia
Changing a title can dramatically alter the meaning of an image. This work has had several titles:
Morning Break 1964;
Dreaming in the sun at Marree, outside the towns single store 1966;
At times there is not too much to do except just sit in the sun… 1968;
‘Pompey’ a well known resident of Marree;
and finally The Eunuch, Marree, South Australia 2000
Under early titles, the photograph appeared to be a simple portrait of “Pompey”, a local Aboriginal man in Marree who worked at the town’s bakery. The final title draws viewers’ attention away from what might have seemed to be the man’s relaxed approach to life, and towards the violence enacted on Aboriginal communities in castrating young boys.
(82) Photographer undisclosed
Persons Of Interest – ASIO surveillance images
‘Frank Hardy under awning Caption: Author Frank Hardy shelters under an awning, in the doorway of the Building Workers Industrial Union, 535 George St, Sydney, August 1955’
C-type prints
22 × 29 cm each
The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) employed photographers to spy on Australian citizens. The photographs which were annotated to indicate persons of interest, were retained by ASIO along with other forms of material gathered through espionage.
(85) Luc Delahaye
L’Autre (detail)
Book published by Phaidon Press, London
In the footsteps of Walker Evans’ classic candid series, Rapid Transit 1956
(94) David Moore (1927-2003)
Migrants arriving in Sydney
35.7 × 47 cm
In 2015, Judy Annear said of this famous photograph: “It’s great to consider that it’s not actually what it seems.” Years after the photo was published, it emerged that four of the passengers in it were not migrants but Sydneysiders returning home from holiday.
(95) Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006)
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Digital print on wallpaper, reproduced at 20 × 25 cm
While not present at the the raising of the first flag over Iwo Jima, Rosenthal witnessed the raising of the replacement flag. Some maintain that this Pulitzer Prize winning photograph was staged, while others hold that it depicts the replacement of the first flag with a larger one.
(103) Charles Kerry (1857-1928)
Aboriginal Chief
13.7 × 8.5 cm
No name or details are recorded of this sitter from Barron River, QLD. He was a member of the touring Wild West Aboriginal troupe, which staged corroborees, weapon skills and tableaux of notorious encounters between armed Native Police and unarmed local communities.
(104) Brook Andrew
Sexy and Dangerous
Computer-generated colour transparency on transparent synthetic polymer resin, included here as postcard of artwork
original 146.0 × 95.6 cm, included here at 15.3 × 10.5 cm
The artist is represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney; and Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris and Brussels
(116) William Eggleston
Untitled (glass on plane)
(117) Bill Culbert
Small glass pouring Light, France
Silver gelatin print, edition of 25
Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Hopkinson Mossman Gallery, Auckland
(118) Olive Cotton
Teacup Ballet
Courtesy Tony Lee
(119) David Moore (1927-2003)
Sisters of Charity
(120) Bernd and Hilla Becher (Bernd Becher 1931-2007, Hilla Becher 1934-2015)
Kies-und Schotterwerke (Gravel Plants)
(123) Max Dupain (Australian, 1911-1992)
Backyard, Forster, New South Wales
(138) Joyce Evans
Budapest Festival
(145) Jeff Wall
A sudden gust of wind (after Hokusai)
Transparency on lightbox, included here as postcard of artwork
250 × 397 × 34 cm, included here at 15.3 × 10.5 cm
Artist is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery; Gagosian; and White Cube Gallery
(147) Masayoshi Sukita
David Bowie – Heroes
Record cover
Sukita: In gesture and gaze, Sukita’s photograph for David Bowie’s 1977 cover harks back 60 years to Weimar Republic artist, Erich Heckel’s 1917 painting, Roquairol, which is in Bowie’s art collection.
(148) Francis Alÿs
Railings (Fitzroy square)
4.03 min.
Francis Alÿs website
We posit Fitzroy Square at this point; in honour of your journey through this unorthodox flow of images.
Centre for Contemporary Photography
404 George St, Fitzroy
T: + 61 3 9417 1549
Sunday, 1pm – 5pm
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Exhibition: ‘An unorthodox flow of images’ at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne Part 1
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Installation photographs of the exhibition
The installation photographs (some of the 148 images in the exhibition) proceed in spatial order, in the flow that they appear in the gallery spaces. The numbers in brackets refer to the number of the image in the field guide. The text is also taken from the field guide to the exhibition. Review to follow in the next posting.
Many thankx to the CCP for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. All installation photographs © Dr Marcus Bunyan, the artists and the CCP.
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Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne with at right, wallpaper of J. W. Lindt’s Body of Joe Byrne, member of the Kelly Gang, hung up for photography, Benalla 1880, to open the exhibition
J W Lindt: Thought to be the first press photograph in Australia, this shows Joe Byrne, a member of the Kelly Gang, strung up for documentation days after his death, which followed the siege at Glenrowan. Byrne is displayed for an unknown photographer and the painter Julian Ashton who is standing to the left with possibly a sketchbook under his arm. Lindt’s photograph captures not only the spectacle of Byrne’s body but the contingent of documentarians who arrived from Melbourne to record and widely disseminate the event for public edification.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (3) J. E. Bray’s Kelly Gang Armour 1880 cabinet card © Collection of Joyce Evans
J. E. Bray: “As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.” ~ Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (7) J. E. Bray’s Untitled [“McDonnell’s Tavern opposite Railway Station, remains of Dan Kelly and Hart in coffins”] 1880 cabinet card (right) and (8) a photograph by an unknown photographer Hunters of Ned Kelly 1880 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (13) Tracey Moffatt’s I Made a Camera 2003
Moffatt: Returning to J.W. Lindt’s photograph – in particular the hooded central figure photographing Joe Byrne – Tracey Moffatt’s picturing of children role-playing calls to mind the colonial photographer’s anthropological gesture.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (14) Siri Hayes’ In the far reaches of the familiar 2011 (right) and (15) Janina Green’s Self Portrait 1996 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (15) Janina Green’s Self Portrait 1996
Green: Although celebrated for her hand coloured prints, this is in fact made with the second version of Photoshop.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (16) Georgie Mattingley’s Portrait IV (After Arthroplasty) 2016 (right) and (17) Lisa Hilli’s In a Bind 2015 (middle)
Mattingley: The photographer’s hood has become a meat-worker’s protective gear, tenderly hand-coloured.
Hilli: ‘The woven material that hoods the artist’s identity is a reference to collected Pacific artefacts, which are usually of a practical nature. Magimagi is a plaited coconut fibre used for reinforcing architectural structures and body adornment within the Pacific. Here it emphasises the artist’s feeling of being bound by derogatory Western and anthropological labels used by museums and the erasure of Pacific bodies and narratives within public displays of Pacific materiality.’ ~ Lisa Hilli 2017, in an email to the curator
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (18) Fiona Pardington’s Saul 1986 (right), (19) Fiona MacDonald’s 12 Artists 1987 (postcard, middle), and (20) Jack Mannix’s Still Life, Footscray 2013 (left)
Pardington: A portrait of Joe Makea in his beekeeper’s helmet.
MacDonald: A vintage Victorian Centre for Photography (VCP) postcard, prior to its change of name to CCP.
Mannix: A vanitas is a still life artwork which includes various symbolic objects designed to remind the viewer of their mortality and of the worthlessness of worldly goods and pleasures.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (27) Wolfgang Sievers’ The writer Jean Campbell, in her flat in East Melbourne 1950 (right); (26) André Kertész’s Chez Mondrian, Paris 1926 (middle top); (28) Gisèle Freund’s Vita Sackville-West 1938 (middle bottom); and (29) Anne Zahalka’s Home #3 (mirror) 1998 (left)
Sievers: Wolfgang’s inscription on the back of this particular print reads: The writer Jean Campbell in her near-eastern flat with her portrait by Lina Bryans.
Kertész: A studio is site for the artist’s gathering of images.
Freund: Vita Sackville-West’s writing studio was in an Elizabethan tower at Sissinghurst in Kent, overlooking her famous white garden. It remains, exactly as she left it.
Zahalka: The boundary between home and studio is often blurred when an artist has a small child.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (30) Siri Hayes’ Plein air explorers 2008
Hayes: An artist’s studio in the landscape.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (31) Robyn Stacey’s Wendy and Brett Whiteley’s Library from the series Dark Wonder 2016
Stacey: The landscape brought into the studio by a camera obscura. Robyn Stacey captures the perfect moment of light and clarity, in this instance, also turning the egg-object into an orb of light.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (33) NASA Images’ A lunar disc as seen from the Apollo 15 spacecraft 1971 (top); (34) Steve Carr’s Smoke Bubble No. 30 2010 (right); and (35) National Geographic Vol. 174, No.6, December 1988 (left)
Carr: Smoke filled soap orb, reminiscent of a planet.
National Geographic: The subtitle to this special 1988 issue of National Geographic, which has a holographic front and back cover is: “As We Begin Our Second Century, the Geographic Asks: Can Man Save this Fragile Earth?”
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (39) Jesse Marlow’s Santa 2002
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (44) Susan Fereday’s Köln 2016
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (49) W. H. Moffitt’s Beach Scene, Collard #3 c. 1944
W. H. Moffitt: The bromoil process was invented in 1907 by Englishman C. Wellbourne Piper. A bromoil print is simply a black and white photograph printed on a suitable photographic paper from which the silver image is removed and lithography inks applied.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (51) Sarah Brown’s Quietly 2017 (right); (52) Robert Billington’s Narrabeen Baths 1994 (middle bottom); and (53) Trent Parke’s Untitled #92 1999-2000 (middle top)
Brown: The salted paper technique was created in the mid-1830s by Henry Fox Talbot. He made what he called “sensitive paper for “photogenic drawing” by wetting a sheet of writing paper with a weak solution of ordinary table salt, blotting and drying it, then brushing one side with a strong solution of silver nitrate.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (55) Charles Bayliss’ Ngarrindjeri people, Chowilla Station, Lower Murray River, South Australia 1886 (right) and (56) Anne Noble’s Antarctic diorama, Polaria Centre, Tromso, Norway 2005 (left)
Bayliss: Water looks like glass in this colonial photograph where the subjects perform for Bayliss. “Bayliss here re-creates a ‘native fishing scene’ tableau, reminiscent of a museum diorama.”
Noble: Water is glass in this diorama; photographed as if it were from nature.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (55) Charles Bayliss’ Ngarrindjeri people, Chowilla Station, Lower Murray River, South Australia 1886
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (58) Andrew Hazewinkel’s Staring together at the stars, #1 2013 (right); (59) Ian Dodd’s Wet Hair 1974 (second right); (60) Juno Gemes’ One with the Land 1978 (middle); (61) David Rosetzky’s Milo 2017 (upper left); and (62) Brook Andrew’s I Split Your Gaze 1997 (left)
Gemes: The subtitle to this photograph in some collections reads: ‘waiting for the sacred fish the Dunya and Wanra to come in, Mornington Island, Queensland’.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (64) William Yang’s Alter Ego 2000 (centre right)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (65) Sue Ford’s Lyn and Carol 1961 (right)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (67) a stereoscope by an unknown photographer titled Affection c. 1882
Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N. H. (publisher): In the stereoscope, the double image combines to create the illusion of three-dimensional space. Compelled to make meaning from disrupted information, the brain merges two slightly different images into a seemingly single three-dimensional image.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (68) a photograph by an unknown photographer (Courret Hermanos Fotografía – Eugenio Courret 1841 – c. 1900) titled Lima Tapadas c. 1887
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (76) Harold Cazneaux’s Spirit of Endurance 1937
Cazneaux: In the following two works, a critical change of title by the artist reveals what, alone, the eye cannot see. This photograph had already achieved iconic status as a symbol of the noble Australian landscape when, following the loss of his son who died aged 21 at Tobruk in 1941, Cazneaux flipped the negative and presented the image under the new title Spirit of Endurance. The tree is now classified on the National Trust of South Australia’s Register of Significant Trees.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (77) Jeff Carter’s The Eunuch, Marree, South Australia 1964 (NB. note reflections in the image from the gallery)
Carter: Changing a title can dramatically alter the meaning of an image. This work has had several titles:
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (78) Lisa Bellear’s The Black GST Protest at Camp Sovereignty 2006
Bellear (Minjungbul/Goernpil/Noonuccal/Kanak): Is the demonstrator leading the policeman? Is the policeman arresting this demonstrator? Or is this tenderness between two men? This is a photograph of a photograph. As was her practice, Lisa Bellear always gave the original to her subject.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (82) photographer undisclosed ASIO surveillance images 1949-1980
ASIO: The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) employed photographers to spy on Australian citizens. The photographs which were annotated to indicate persons of interest, were retained by ASIO along with other forms of material gathered through espionage.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (83) O. Philip Korczynski’s Unwanted Witness and Run 1980s
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (85) pages from Luc Delahaye’s book L’Autre 1999
Delahaye: In the footsteps of Walker Evans’ classic candid series, Rapid Transit 1956.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (88) Tracey Lamb’s Surveillance Image #3 2015
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (89) Walker Evans’ Family Snapshots on Farmhouse Wall 1936 (right) with (91) Photographer unknown Lee family portrait before the funeral c. 1920 (top left); and (92) Photographer unknown Lee family portrait with portrait of dead father added c. 1920 (bottom left)
Evans: During his celebrated work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression, Walker Evans secretly removed these photographs from the home of his subject, and seemingly hurriedly pinned them to the exterior wall of the house, and photographed them without permission.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (90) photographer unknown In memoriam album 1991
Memoriam: Double exposure enables the impossible in this personal memorial album.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (91) Photographer unknown Lee family portrait before the funeral c. 1920 (top) and (92) photographer unknown Lee family portrait with portrait of dead father added c. 1920 (bottom)
Funeral: When the family photographer arrived at the Lee home – the day of grandfather’s funeral – he asked them to pose with smiles so that, in the absence of a family portrait, he could create a composite portrait, which was given to the family some days later.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (93) Kate Gollings’ Lee family portrait 1986 (right) and (94) David Moore’s Migrants arriving in Sydney 1966 (left)
Gollings: A studio portrait of the Lee family, some 60 years following the previous two photographs. The young man is now grandfather. Still the photographer continues to craft the family, in this case through positioning the subjects, in ways which may or may not reflect actual family relationships.
Moore: In 2015, Judy Annear said of this famous photograph: “It’s great to consider that it’s not actually what it seems.” Years after the photo was published, it emerged that four of the passengers in it were not migrants but Sydneysiders returning home from holiday.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (98) Hippolyte Bayard’s Self-portrait as a Drowned Man 1840 (right); (99) J. W. Lindt’s Untitled (Seated Aboriginal man holding Boomerangs) c. 1874 (top middle); (100) J. W. Lindt’s Untitled (Aboriginal man with Snake) c. 1875 (bottom middle); and (101) Charles Woolley’s Truccanini, last female Aborigine of Tasmania with shell necklace 1886 (left)
Bayard: With its telling title, this staged image is the first instance of intentional photographic fakery, made in protest by Bayard because he felt aggrieved that his role in the invention of photography was unrecognised.
Lindt: For white colonialists, photography became “a vehicle for recording new and exotic lands and informing the ‘unexotic’ Europe of the strange landscape, flora, fauna, and people. In the case of the postcard print fashion from around 1900; to entice tourists to cruise to [exotic] places … Ultimately and blatantly however, photography became another tool of colonialism, to label, control, dehumanise and disempower their subjects who could only reply in defiant gaze at the lens controlled by someone else.” ~ Djon Mundine from Fiona Foley: River of Corn, exh. cat. University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA, 2001
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (101) Charles Woolley’s Truccanini, last female Aborigine of Tasmania with shell necklace 1886 (right); (102) Christian Thompson’s (Bidjara) Untitled (self portrait) Image No 1 from Emotional Striptease 2003 (middle); (103) Charles Kerry’s Aboriginal Chief c. 1901-1907 (top left); and (104) Brook Andrew’s Sexy and Dangerous 1996 (bottom left)
Thompson: Contemporary Indigenous artists return the colonial photographer’s gaze. “For Indigenous people the camera’s central role has been in transforming but really stereotyping our cultures.” In more recent times, “Indigenous people have moved behind the camera, firstly replacing the documenter, then creatively reinterpreting their photographic history.” ~ Djon Mundine from Fiona Foley: River of Corn, exh. cat. University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA, 2001
Kerry: No name or details are recorded of this sitter from Barron River, QLD. He was a member of the touring Wild West Aboriginal troupe, which staged corroborees, weapon skills and tableaux of notorious encounters between armed Native Police and unarmed local communities.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (105) Fiona Foley’s (Badtjala) Wild Times Call 2 2001 (right); (106) Murray Cammick’s Bob Marley p owhiri, White Heron Hotel, April 1979 1979 (second right); and (107) Kirsten Lyttle’s (Waikato, Tainui A Whiro, Ngāti Tahinga) Twilled Work 2013 (middle left)
Foley: Referencing Hollywood’s representation of the Wild West, Fiona Foley stands with Seminole Indians.
Lyttle: This is woven using the Maori raranga (plaiting) technique for making kete whakario (decorated baskets). According to Mick Pendergrast, the pattern is not named, but attributed to Te Hikapuhi, (Ngati Pikiao), late 19th Century. ~ Pendergrast, M (1984), Raranga Whakairo, Coromandel Press, NZ, pattern 19.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (107) Kirsten Lyttle’s (Waikato, Tainui A Whiro, Ngāti Tahinga) Twilled Work 2013 (right) and (108) Michael Riley’s (Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi) Maria 1985 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (109) Maree Clarke’s (Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, BoonWurrung) Nan’s House (detail of installation) 2017 (right); (110) photographer unknown Writer, Andre Malraux poses in his house of the Boulogne near Paris working at his book Le Musee Imaginaire or Imaginary Museum 2nd volume 1953 (middle top); and (111) Clare Rae’s Law Library 2016 (bottom left)
Clarke: This work is currently on display at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, as a hologram of the artist’s grandmother’s house, as remembered by the artist.
Unknown: ‘The imaginary museum’ or ‘the museum without walls’ (as it is often translated) is a collection reflecting Andre Malraux’s eurocentric conception of art history.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (117) Bill Culbert’s Small glass pouring Light, France 1997 (right) and (119) David Moore’s Sisters of Charity 1956 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (119) David Moore’s Sisters of Charity 1956 (bottom right); (118) Olive Cotton’s Teacup Ballet c. 1935 (top right); and (120) Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Kies-und Schotterwerke (Gravel Plants) 2006 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (120) Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Kies-und Schotterwerke (Gravel Plants) 2006
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (120) Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Kies-und Schotterwerke (Gravel Plants) 2006 (right) and (121) Robert Rooney’s Garments: 3 December – 19 March 1973 1973 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (122) Helen Grace’s Time and motion study #1 ‘Women seem to adapt to repetitive-type tasks…’ 1980, printed 2011 (detail)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (122) Helen Grace’s Time and motion study #1 ‘Women seem to adapt to repetitive-type tasks…’ 1980, printed 2011 (detail, right) and (123) Max Dupain’s Backyard Forster 1940 (left)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (123) Max Dupain’s Backyard Forster 1940 (right) and (124) Marie Shannon’s Pussy 2016 (left)
Shannon: Also a trace of the cat.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (127) Mac Lawrence’s Five raised fingers 2016
Lawrence: Watery trace.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (136) Simon Terrill’s Arsenal vs Fenerbahce 2009
Terrill: The long exposure leaves only a trace of the football crowd, that has disappeared for the day.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (137) Christian Boltanski’s L’ecole de la Große Hamburger Straße, Berlin 1938 1993
Boltanski: Photography records the passing or death of a particular moment. This is a photograph of a Jewish School in Berlin in 1938.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (138) Joyce Evans’ Budapest Festival 1949 (top) and (139) photographer unknown Nina Dumbadze, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR, world champion in discus throwing from the series Women of the Soviet Georgia c. 1953 (bottom)
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (139) photographer unknown Nina Dumbadze, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR, world champion in discus throwing from the series Women of the Soviet Georgia c. 1953
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (141) Harry Burrell’s Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger, cover image for The Australian Magazine 1958, September, Vol 12, No 11 1958
Burrell: Published in this museum journal, there is now some contention as to whether Burrell’s series of photographs of the extinct thylacine were made from life, or staged using a taxidermied animal.
Installation view of the exhibition An Unorthodox Flow of Images at the CCP, Melbourne showing (148) Francis Alÿs’ Fitzroy Square 2004 (video stills)
Exhibition: 'Primrose - Russian Colour Photography' at Foam, Amsterdam
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artsbeatamanda June 28, 2018 Authors, Books, Literature
County making a killing
Crime writer Tony R Cox (pictured with his latest book) investigates Derbyshire’s deadly attraction for artsbeat
What is it about Derbyshire that nurtures such strong, current productivity in crime fiction, the most popular genre?
Crime fiction exists only where there is a belief in the power of good over evil, where the hero will always defeat the villain.
Why is Derbyshire such a special county for authors who love a good murder?
I asked the opinions of several authors who base their novels in and around the county or live here: Sarah Ward, who has had three crime fiction novels published; Steven Dunne, whose Reaper series continues to reap plaudits; Roz Watkins, whose A Devil’s Dice has been optioned for a TV film and was The Times’ crime book of the month for April; and Jo Jakeman, whose debut, Sticks and Stones, is about to be published.
I have just had my third thriller, Vinyl Junkie, published by Fahrenheit Press.
The answer, it seems, is a combination of two factors: the disparity of the landscape and the people.
In reality murders are infrequent; in the world of crime fiction, murder and death are the core factors. They share the same element of the human psyche: killing can be brutally physical, accidental or cold-blooded – the reader still ends up with a dead body.
Derbyshire is unique. Nowhere else has a Dark Peak and a White Peak, Dales, heavy engineering and industry,
ex-mining areas, flowing meadows and hills, a network of major rivers and canals, grand country houses and is, of course, the home of the Industrial Revolution.
The people have been shaped by this terrain. Derbyshire is composed not of amorphous masses and commuters, but of close-knit communities, even in Derby and larger towns.
Perhaps Sarah summed it up: “Derbyshire is a safe community and when something horrible happens that community clings together.”
And Roz echoes this with her belief that personal life will inevitably weave its way into fiction, with one of her experiences being an unpleasant incident in which she thought her dog had unearthed human remains.
Stephen Booth, the ‘godfather’ of Derbyshire Noir with his Cooper and Fry series, has mined the geography, culture and heritage of the county, and probably deserves an award for promoting tourism.
Steven Dunne has a deep affection for the county: “Derbyshire is the perfect home for a dark thriller because it provides a compelling contrast between a busy modern city like Derby and the peace of the Peak District, and my detective, DI Brook, moves between the two.
“The contrast provides light and shade, reflecting good and evil and the two sides of the human psyche but, interestingly, their roles are interchangeable, the Peaks being equally capable of brooding menace.”
Jo Jakeman supports this analysis: “As a writer it’s easy to be inspired by the landscape and the people of Derbyshire. As readers, it’s nice to read about places you know, but, equally, for those who don’t know Derbyshire, these books paint such a good picture (albeit, with so many dead bodies).”
My Simon Jardine thriller series feeds off my experiences as a cub reporter on the Derby Telegraph in the 70s. I hope to capture the places and activities, and my characters embody the constant evolution. By using crime fiction as my vehicle I can transport the reader into an era that isn’t just violent murder, but a time of love and happiness as well as drugs and greed. Derby was a microcosm of life: it was a bustling large town, but it comprised, and still does, separate and diverse communities.
Why Derbyshire Noir? Probably because a beautiful, exciting county attracts the very best authors. It’s as simple as that.
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Opera director ready for Buxton
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Max Metz, Jr., MA, Museum Education (G'18) is Manager of School and Teacher Programs in the Learning Programs Department at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. Before moving to Chicago, he finished his degree at Tufts while serving as the Manager and Educator at the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds of Historic Newton in Newton. In his position, Max manages programs including teacher in-service trainings, a science educator conference, dissections and water testing labs for students at Shedd and at their schools, and a series of tablet-based, exhibit-based learning programs used in the aquarium galleries. Max says, "I am inspired daily by K-12 educators throughout the region who have been able to utilize programming we've created to enrich the lives of their students, and who have given us feedback so we can better align with the needs of their students, families, and colleagues. I have also been fortunate to use my professional network of colleagues and friends made during the Tufts program to heighten the best parts of my position and to commiserate in some of the more difficult situations."
Graduate Receives PECASE Award
PhD in Engineering Education ('11) alum Christopher G. Wright was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineering (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology. Christopher's research was recognized for extending the engineering field's understanding of the different ways in which African-American males at various junctures (e.g., elementary, secondary, and post-secondary) develop engineering competencies and positive identities.
Graduate Achieves Tenure at Purdue
PhD in Engineering Education ('09) Graduate Morgan Hynes reflects about his time at Tufts and achieving tenure at the Purdue School of Engineering: "I credit my success in achieving tenure to pursuing ideas that I was passionate about. My work focuses on broadening the context of engineering to broaden participation in engineering, especially for those traditionally underrepresented in engineering, which has me focus on how to get younger students excited about what they’re doing. Both my PhD advisors, Bárbara Brizuela and Chris Rogers, modeled being passionate and excited about their work, and I knew I wanted to emulate that in my career. I hope that as I continue my career, I will continue to pursue my passions and provide those types of opportunities to the students I teach and advise."
Congratulations, Tom!
M.A.T. in Math alumnus (2016) and Noyce fellow Tom Snarsky recently published a chapbook of poems entitled Threshold with Another New Calligraphy, a small press based out of Chicago (and run by a fellow teacher!). The poems in Threshold take as their subject the creation of meaningful time in the face of many pressures to cut out that time, especially in our relationships with others. (Tom is also engaged to be married in August 2019, to yet another fellow teacher!) The poetry dovetails nicely with Tom's new role as the advisor for the Malden High School Literary Society, who publish student writing every year in their publication The Oracle. Read More.
Alumna Works to Educate About Race
Jenn Hare, M.A.T. '13, teaches high school history at the Science Leadership Academy at Beeber in Philadelphia and recently started a group with colleagues called Building Anti-Racist White Educators. When asked about her work, she states: "We created a monthly Inquiry Series that any educator in the country can use to facilitate monthly discussions in their schools about race and fighting white supremacy. Our goal is to get as many white educators as possible to reflect on their practice through the lens of race, work to notice and correct their racial biases, and create actively anti-racist curricula and classroom practices." Check out their work or read an article about their work written by co-founder Charlie McGeehan in Teaching Tolerance. Great work, Jenn!
Alumna Lama Jaber awarded CAREER Grant from National Science Foundation
Lama Jaber, who earned her Ph.D. in Science Education from Tufts in 2014 and is currently teaching at Florida State University, was recently awarded a CAREER Grant from the National Science Foundation for her project, "Cultivating Teachers' Epistemic Empathy to Promote Responsive Teaching." CAREER Grants are "the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations."
Learn more about the CAREER Grant and Lama's project.
Art Educator Featured in Boston Voyager
Melanie Blood, M.A.T. in Art Education '11, was recently written up in the Boston Voyager. In the article, when asked about her work, she states, "My inspiration has shifted a bit since I became an educator. I am continually inspired by my everyday environment as a white female teacher in one of the largest urban schools on the East Coast. This culturally wealthy but economically challenged and often traumatized world is one that I am constantly navigating. My role and my place in this equation is one that I both value and constantly reflect upon. This space is where my narratives are born, where inspiration is attained and where my creativity flourishes - to me, this is what sets me apart from other artists."
Read about her success and career as an artist and an art educator.
Double Jumbo Roxana Woudstra, M.A. in Educational Studies '14, named as the new Director of Graduate Admissions!
Double Jumbo Tom Snarsky, M.A.T. in Math '16, Selected as a Knowles Science Teaching Foundation 2016 Teaching Fellow
UT Knoxville professor and Tufts STEM Ph.D. alumnus Christopher Wright awarded NSF early career award
Alumnus Will Schwartz testified on the Common Core and STEM education at the MA Joint Committee on Education
Patricia Romeo, Art Education M.A.T. alumna, and former Department Administrator, exhibit work.
"Mental Museum: The Post Baccalaureate Program Spring Show"
Featuring work by the following artists: Thalia Berard, Andrew K. Pepper, Jane Dietrich, Cece Jiao, James Esdaile, Katherine Hunt, Adrienne Elyse Meyers, Lindsay Mannix, Morgan Lani, Alyssa Pomfrey, Patricia Romeo, Rachel Schwemin, Lindsay York, Moon Hee Kim, Zora Li, Aisulu Nurmaganbetova, and Molly Paul.
The Department deeply regrets the loss of Caitlin Clavette, M.A.T. '07, an art teacher and our former student.
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The Importance of Effective Board Evaluation
Board effectiveness goes to the heart of success. Without a high functioning board, a company will never truly be able to reach its potential. But without evaluating your board’s behaviour and processes regularly how will you know how effective it is or where improvements are needed? We take a look at the importance of board evaluation, the guidance available and highlight some questions all boards should consider.
Why Board evaluation matters
It allows Boards to look inwardly and identify areas for improvement
Provides assurance to stakeholders and shareholders that the Board is effective
Helps to ensure that discussions and decision-making are effective
Helps the Board stay on track to achieve the company’s strategic objectives
Allows Boards to review and improve their diversity and skill base
Helps inform succession planning
What should an evaluation do?
Effective evaluation can help Boards review and improve its:
Processes (including decision making)
Are evaluations carried out regularly as recommended? Is the appointment of evaluators transparent?
Minerva Analytics in their recent Regulatory Briefing, [1]found that “despite the 2005 European Union recommendation that boards should conduct an annual evaluation, many European companies have not followed through” with an even lower number of companies conducting external evaluations. They also found a problem with the quality of disclosure, with most only stating that an evaluation had been conducted, but no details on the outcomes and any actions taken to improve effectiveness. There was also a “lack of disclosure provided on evaluation when compared to the information provided on other board advisors” (such as external auditors, recruitment firms or remuneration advisors). “This means stakeholders do not have the information on hand to assess the quality and effectiveness of evaluators”.
There is a general concern that the lack of guidance on board evaluation means that good governance is not always achieved in this area. Board evaluation can become another box-ticking exercise rather than leading to genuine progress and improvements. To that end, last summer shortly after the publication of the new UK Governance Code, the Government asked ICSA: The Governance Institute to convene a group to review the quality and effectiveness of board evaluations.[2]The end objective of this is to establish a code of practice for external board evaluations. Such a code will no doubt lead to vast improvements in this area.
As the Minerva report succinctly puts it “for evaluation to be effective it should produce an outcome with follow-up actions that willincrease board effectiveness.” Whilst we await the establishment of a Code of Practice in this area, we take a look at how the FRC Guidance on Board Effectiveness[3]might be used by Boards to internally evaluate their effectiveness.
Board Effectiveness
The Guidance was published alongside the new UK Corporate Governance code last summer and although it is not mandatory, it contains suggestions of good practice. Although the Code (and therefore the guidance) is applicable to all companies with a premium listing in the UK, its contents can be adapted by all companies regardless of type and size who are seeking to achieve high levels of governance and effectiveness.
Boards that want to maximise success should “focus on continually improving their effectiveness” and give considerable attention to the behaviours that they display, individually and as a group, remembering that they are setting “the tone from the top”.
The Guidance contains useful introspective questions for Boards – smaller company boards, those not ‘covered’ by the UK Governance Code and perhaps not in a position to appoint external facilitators would benefit from considering some of the questions included within the Guidance. Questions such as:
What proportion of board time is spent on financial performance management versus other areas of strategic importance?
Is the balance between the focus on immediate issues and long-term success appropriate?
Is sufficient board time allocated to idea generation, opportunity identification and innovation?
How will we assess and measure the impact of our decisions on financial performance, the value for shareholders and the impact on key stakeholders?
How do we articulate and communicate what we consider to be acceptable business practices?
The last few years has seen increased focus on the importance of culture and values as key pillars of good governance and fundamental to maximising success. Therefore, there is lots of focus within the Guidance on values and culture, and how Boards can be effective at monitoring this. Any evaluation should look at how well the Board lives the ‘values’ and monitors culture throughout the organisation.
The Guidance states that focus on culture needs to be continuous. Some questions to consider:
How do we demonstrate ethical leadership and display the behaviours we expect from others?
To what extent is our own way of operating a reflection of the values we are promoting? Can we give good and bad examples?
Is the board clear on what sort of culture is needed to underpin the company’s purpose and its long-term success?
You may want to consider asking others (such as staff) their thoughts during an internal evaluation:
What does the workforce say about ‘the tone from the top’ and the ‘tone from the middle’?
Any valuable evaluation should look at the decision-making processes of the Board. How a Board receives information, discusses and ultimately makes a decision is crucial to its effectiveness.
The Guidance advises that Boards can minimise the risk of poor decisions by investing time in the design of their decision-making policies and processes, including the contribution of committees and obtaining input from key stakeholders and expert opinions when necessary.
Questions Board’s should ask themselves about decision-making include:
Does the board have a clear idea of the success criteria related to a particular decision?
What are we doing to test key decisions for alignment with values? Can we give examples and explain how this was considered?
What are the risks that the decision could encourage undesirable behaviours or send the wrong message?
Can we explain how the impact on key stakeholders has been taken into account?
Effective stakeholder engagement
The Guidance further covers how the Board can effectively engage with shareholders of all sizes and other key stakeholders. An evaluation should look at how well the Board engages with other interested groups.
Questions for Boards around stakeholder engagement include:
Can we describe how stakeholders are prioritised and why?
What are the key concerns of our workforce, our suppliers and our customers, and how are we addressing them?
Does the workforce consider that customers and suppliers are treated fairly and that the company cares about its impact on the environment and community?
The Board may also wish to refer to The Stakeholder Voice in Board Decision Making, issued jointly by ICSA: The Governance Institute and The Investment Association, for detailed guidance on how to build stakeholder considerations into board discussions.[4]
Division of responsibilities
An evaluation of the Board’s effectiveness should look at the different roles of Role of Chair; Committees; Senior independent director (if you have one); executive directors; and non-executives and whether they are contributing effectively to the Boards output.
According to the Guidance, the chair is pivotal in creating the conditions for overall board and individual director effectiveness, setting clear expectations concerning the style and tone of board discussions, ensuring the board has effective decision-making processes and applies sufficient challenge to major proposals.
The chief executive’s relationship with the chair is also a key influence on board effectiveness and should be looked at during evaluation.
Effective information
Key to the effectiveness of the Board and its ability to make decisions is receiving appropriate information.
Board papers and supporting information should:
be accurate, clear, comprehensive and up-to-date;
• contain a summary of the contents of any paper; and
• inform the director what is expected of them on that issue
Composition and succession planning
The Board should regularly review the skills required, identify the gaps, develop transparent appointment criteria and inform succession planning.
Evaluating performance
Looking at the evaluation itself, the Guidance states that the chair has overall responsibility for the process, and should select an effective approach, involving the senior independent director (if there is one) as appropriate.
Whether facilitated externally or internally, evaluations should be rigorous and should result in clear actions for improvement.
The Guidance includes a substantial (though not exhaustive) list of areas that could be included in an evaluation:
the mix of skills, experience and knowledge on the board, in the context of developing and delivering the strategy, the challenges and opportunities, and the principal risks facing the company;
clarity of, and leadership given to, the purpose, direction and values of the company;
succession and development plans;
how the board works together as a unit, and the tone set by the chair and the chief executive;
key board relationships, particularly chair/chief executive, chair/ senior independent director, chair/company secretary and executive/non-executive directors;
effectiveness of individual directors;
effectiveness of board committees, and how they are connected with the main board;
quality of the general information provided on the company and its performance;
quality and timing of papers and presentations to the board;
quality of discussions around individual proposals and time allowed;
process the chair uses to ensure sufficient debate for major decisions or contentious issues;
effectiveness of the company secretary/secretariat;
clarity of the decision-making processes and authorities, possibly drawing on key decisions made over the year;
processes for identifying and reviewing risks; and
how the board communicates with, and listens and responds to, shareholders and other key stakeholders.
The frequency and thoroughness of your Board evaluation will depend on the size and type of your company, but all boards should take time to review their effectiveness and processes to ensure maximum benefit to the company’s success.
Help where you need it
Bridgehouse Company Secretaries are brilliantly placed to help with all your governance needs. For advice on your internal or external board evaluation and to get in touch click here
[1]Minerva Analytics, Regulatory Briefing, Board Evaluation in Europe, February 2019 (https://www.manifest.co.uk/downloads/minerva-briefing-board-evaluation-in-europe-2019/)
[2]https://www.icsa.org.uk/about-us/press-office/news-releases/icsa-to-review-the-quality-and-effectiveness-of-board-evaluations
[3]https://www.frc.org.uk/getattachment/61232f60-a338-471b-ba5a-bfed25219147/2018-Guidance-on-Board-Effectiveness-FINAL.PDF
[4]https://www.icsa.org.uk/assets/files/free-guidance-notes/the-stakeholder-voice-in-Board-Decision-Making-09-2017.pdf
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Black Girl Magic: Meet The 19 African-American Women Elected As Judges
Texas – Though Houston and Harris County make up one of the most ethnically and racially diverse metro areas in the country, that hasn’t always been reflected in its judges. But the region recently took a big step towards representation when it elected an additional 17 African-American women to the bench, bringing the total number of African-American women judges in the county to a record 19.
Erica Hughes is the presiding judge for Harris County Criminal Court-at-Law Number 3. Hughes is a former Army lawyer who still serves in the Texas Army National Guard. She’s one of the Houston 19, the group that has also come to call themselves, “Harris County Black Girl Magic.”
“A few of us are on the same floor, so of course we would see each other every day,” Hughes says. “So, it’s great to have them available and accessible and so close.” Shannon Baldwin, the presiding judge of Harris County Criminal Court-at-Law Number 4, shares Hughes’ courtroom.
Last year, the Harris County Democratic Party held a meet-and-greet that included every candidate for every office on its slate. The candidates packed into a small room and introduced themselves one-by-one by their name and office they were running for. At that point, Baldwin says no one suggested running as a group.
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“Once we moved past the primary election, we realized that there was this great phenomenon, if you will, a large number of African-American women running for judge,” Baldwin says. That’s when it occurred to them to get together, “We thought it would be a motivating factor to our voting base.”
The phrase “Black Girls Are Magic” had been circulating on social media for at least five years. “The idea of ‘Black Girl Magic’ in and of itself is just a celebration of the accomplishments of African-American women in various sectors within society, and typically those where we’re underrepresented, such as the judiciary here in Harris County,” says Judge Tonya Jones.
A promotional photo captured the message, showing all 19 candidates – dressed in black, suggesting judges’ robes – in a courtroom at Texas Southern University’s Thurgood Marshall School of Law.
“I’ve even had parents that tell me that their daughters took the picture that we had and they framed it, and it’s actually on their wall in their bedroom,” says Judge Cassandra Holleman, explaining that throughout the campaign, voters constantly told her how inspirational they found the image.
There were other factors that played into the victory of the 19. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke lost the state to Republican Ted Cruz, but he carried Harris County by 17 points.
“Obviously, we benefited from straight-ticket voting,” Judge Shannon Baldwin says. “Even more so, we benefited from Beto O’Rourke and what he was able to accomplish in Harris County. But let it not go unnoticed that the 19 worked exceptionally hard.”
The fact is, a big reason Houston and its suburbs have been trending blue is because they’re so diverse, a phenomenon across the country. This cycle, Harris County also saw record numbers of Hispanic-American, Asian-American and LGBT candidates. And the more such candidates win, the more it encourages younger people of diverse backgrounds to believe they can do the same.
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Posted on May 23, 2013 by binarythis
Following hot on the heels of Foucault Explained with Hipsters, here’s JB’s Gender Trouble explained in Socratic dialogue style. With cats.
All page references from Butler, J. (1990 [2008: 1999]). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York; London: Routledge.
Got any more ideas for philosophy/sociology/gender theory you’d like to see explained in comic form? Let me know in the comments below.
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Eliza Vinaigrette on October 18, 2018 at 3:57 AM said:
Thank you for this explanation! I am a german student of the English language and need Butler’s theory for my masters thesis. However, it helped me a lot, now I understand what is going on and it is not actually that complicated as I thought it would be. Thanks!!
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Victoria on March 28, 2017 at 12:47 AM said:
Thank you for this! Makes me feel much less dumb. 🙂 After three failed attempts to finish Gender Trouble, I think I’ll just imagine myself as the cat next time. Hope it’ll work, claws crossed.
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Elaine Siobhán on May 4, 2016 at 10:29 AM said:
You are an absolute lifesaver! I have an exam on this tomorrow. Thank you so much 🙂
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jsbielicki on August 8, 2015 at 4:39 PM said:
Reblogged this on psychosputnik.
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th0rtilla on July 1, 2015 at 5:24 AM said:
Reblogged this on Some loser with a blog and commented:
Part of me hates Butler, but the other part of me adores her for fucking things up
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jmu on June 12, 2015 at 8:58 PM said:
lines of flight?
Matthew Iakov Liberman on January 23, 2016 at 9:50 AM said:
lines of flight in comic form would be a godsend
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The Arbourist on May 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM said:
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Well, it makes it a little more clear…
London is Fem on May 10, 2015 at 2:52 AM said:
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stefrozitis on April 8, 2015 at 10:10 PM said:
Oh I love this. I keep coming back here. I keep sharing this with people. I keep reading it and loving it. I mean I love Butler. I love cats. (actually I dont think I had evenread judith butler before I accidentally stumbled upon this but now I have!!!
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Maria Dmitrienko on March 9, 2015 at 12:12 AM said:
This is literally the only thing getting me through this essay right now. You are a godly being.
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startedindecember on February 11, 2015 at 9:47 PM said:
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Thank you for making “reading Butler” cute! Awww cats, I love cats ❤
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shakespearescholarinprogress on November 28, 2014 at 11:35 PM said:
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Judith Butler: ace.
Judith Butler with cats? Even better!
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veganchiq on October 25, 2014 at 12:48 AM said:
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ylvie on October 13, 2014 at 8:13 PM said:
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Hat zwar nix mit Konsum zu tun, ist aber trotzdem lustig.
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Sandra S. on May 15, 2014 at 2:18 AM said:
Any chance you could explain Lacan’s theory of Sexuation this way? It’s killing me. Thanks for the JB explanation by the way, I’m using her in my dissertation, but reading it is HARD. It’s nice to check whether I’m actually getting it or not. With Cats.
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dlattanzi on February 28, 2014 at 12:16 PM said:
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Charles Campos on February 27, 2014 at 3:58 AM said:
Firestone’s “Dialectic of Sex” explained with doge.
binarythis on February 27, 2014 at 7:16 AM said:
Ha that would be amazing, but perhaps a disservice to Shulamith? Doge in conversation with Shulie?
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oscar on December 12, 2013 at 11:14 AM said:
“Butler”, like “gender”, DOESNT EXIST , Subjects are a cultural construct . So I dont see the point in talking about anything
Rachel on December 12, 2013 at 7:20 AM said:
First, this is fantastic. I have been recently doing research on Butler’s theory of performativity, and this illustration nails it. Secondly, I agree that Deluze and/or Gramsci would be a wonderful follow-up.
rosarioaparis on December 11, 2013 at 3:31 PM said:
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ek on November 26, 2013 at 7:51 AM said:
Gramsci (hegemony, organic intellectuals, etc.)! Bourdieu (habitus and the structuring structures…)!
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feministnonfiction on November 15, 2013 at 11:57 AM said:
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This is a must-read for anyone struggling with Judith Butler. It is super helpful!
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typicallypeculiar on November 7, 2013 at 6:05 PM said:
What about Discursive Formation? It sure gave me a hard time during my first year of English and American Studies so it would probably be useful for many of your readers!
Elizabethe Payne on October 20, 2013 at 2:24 PM said:
History of Sexuality!!
And then Habermas!!
kittens on October 17, 2013 at 6:44 AM said:
Heya i’m for the first time here. I found this board and I find It truly useful & it helped me out a lot.
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sonali17 on October 2, 2013 at 1:48 PM said:
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Here’s something to prime you for Thursday’s reading.
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srwright607 on July 16, 2013 at 1:47 PM said:
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Katerina on June 17, 2013 at 9:45 PM said:
Derrida on Deconstruction! What an awesome project you have created! Well done…I’m so happy I ran into this.
sylviamzz on June 18, 2013 at 1:59 AM said:
Where is the one about Derrida on Deconstruction? I really, really want to read that.
It was actually my suggestion to the author of the blog. I don’t think there is one yet.
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Sascha on June 15, 2013 at 6:53 PM said:
This oen was so fun that I’d like you to explain ANYTHING in comic!
Kara Kaufman on June 13, 2013 at 1:27 AM said:
These cartoons are great! How about Wittgenstein’s Language Games?
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DavidWebster on May 28, 2013 at 6:19 AM said:
Reblogged this on Dispirited and commented:
A bit off topic – but hard to resist..
Bambi Lobdell on May 28, 2013 at 3:51 AM said:
Love how you zeroed in on the toughest concepts! Mostly it’s the wording that throws my students. Can you do West and Zimmerman’s essay “Doing Gender”?
Harry on May 27, 2013 at 8:59 PM said:
Badiou’s subtractive ontology vis à vis (post-)Cantorian set theory
Syra on May 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM said:
I find this really hard to understand. Can you add side notes explaining the jargon? I haven’t read Judith Butler, so I can assure you that this isn’t very readable to someone who doesn’t have a background in reading her theories.
For example, what does it mean that gender is “styles of the flesh” that “congeal over time”? That means nothing to me.
binarythis on May 27, 2013 at 11:34 AM said:
All credit here has to go to Butler, whose complex ideas cannot be reduced to a 2-page cat comic. You can access Gender Trouble here though: http://autof.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/butler-judith-gender-trouble-feminism-and-the-subversion-of-identity-1990.pdf
Philippa on August 3, 2013 at 12:25 AM said:
Aren’t we doing Butler out of her royalties if we get the book from here?
binarythis on August 3, 2013 at 10:14 AM said:
Yes, buy the book people!
Emma Campbell on May 27, 2013 at 7:27 AM said:
Ranciere’s Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, in Pugs
Stef on May 26, 2013 at 11:30 PM said:
This is very cool 🙂
Writty on May 26, 2013 at 7:02 PM said:
Oh, please—can you explain logical paradox theory for those of us who aren’t mathematicians?
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casualeric on May 26, 2013 at 3:13 PM said:
You make a fellow linguist proud
TheGirl on May 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM said:
See…even the cats can get it!
ChrisCQC on May 26, 2013 at 12:17 PM said:
Reblogged this on CrazyQueerClassicist and commented:
Since unabridged Judith Butler hurts people’s brains…have some philosophical cats.
The Femmetastic Feminist on May 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM said:
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BSPhD on May 26, 2013 at 7:54 AM said:
Lacan.
Maria on May 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM said:
Maria here. I also try to collect, use and promote what’s relevant to educators, so I’ll take the opportunity to share the links…about pedagogy and curriculum, school leadership and management, education policy and practices, specialised programs for girls and boys, critical literacy and media, bullying and violence, self esteem and assertiveness, body image and eating disorders, sexuality and relationships, domestic and caring responsibilities, subject choice and career paths.
There’s the Association of Women Educators website http://www.awe.asn.au and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-Women-Educators/205030579508722?ref=hl
I also put together the AWE’s exciting, accessible, and colourful journal, REDRESS, as a labour of love, and would appreciate any and all kinds of ideas and contributions. View info, join and subscribe here http://www.awe.asn.au/drupal/content/redress Some of your site visitors might be interested in joining our register of speakers and consultants http://www.awe.asn.au/drupal/content/speakers-and-consultants
I’m a worker and activist in a few other arenas, and a PhD student researching feminist policy activism and agency with/in the Australian education bureaucracy. See http://www.teachjustice.com.au I’ve just recently created this site to host a private forum for my research group, as one of my formal research methods, so decided to open a community forum as well, and provide lists of resources too. Feel free to join the community forum and respond to some items and general questions I’ve posted there, or post your own burning issue or inspiration : )
Looking forward to some great new connections. Please browse and share anything from our/my sites.
Thanks again for providing this
Cheers, Maria Delaney
Visit the forum – Love and Justice http://teachjustice.com.au/forums/topic/love-and-justice-2/
..reflecting on this lovely definition of feminism, by bell hooks, and listening to one of my new favourite songs. Please post your own favourite inspirations in response. Enjoy.
“… we have allowed patriarchal mass media to represent the entire movement (feminism) based on hatred rather than in love. Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politic. The soul of our politics is the commitment to end domination. Love can never take root in a relationship based on domination and coercion. … When we accept that true love is rooted in recognition and acceptance, that love combines acknowledgment, care, responsibility, commitment and knowledge, we understand there can be no love without justice. With that awareness comes the understanding that love has the power to transform us, giving us the strength to oppose domination. To choose feminist politics, then, is to choose love”
(Bell Hooks, Feminism is for Everybody, Passionate Politics, South End Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003).
Check this out – Love And Justice Women’s Anthem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HpCmdLRuF8
Here’s more from bell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQUuHFKP-9s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-XVTzBMvQ
Keith on May 25, 2013 at 9:03 AM said:
Cats would never ask such stupid questions and this still fails to make Judith Butler intelligible to cats. In the first place cats would ask: why do humans expect us to perform this category called gender when most of us have been neutered? We have more important things to worry about, like food…
Amy R. Grenier on May 25, 2013 at 3:55 AM said:
You are my new hero. ❤
Lilace Mellin Guignard on May 25, 2013 at 3:03 AM said:
Wonderful! How about ecofeminism explained by/to wolves or some other sexy megafauna. Val Plumwood’s Feminism and the Mastery of Nature is a great base text. You have till fall when I teach again 🙂 Seriously, it would be fantastic to have!
psy on May 25, 2013 at 2:57 AM said:
This is just an essay with random pictures scattered around it. You could have used pictures of giraffes, or tea kettles, and it would have the same effect.
This is actually harder to read than if you had just used paragraphs.
Sylvia on May 25, 2013 at 2:01 AM said:
I agree with the ginger cat in the last frame: Awesome! I would love to see Derrida’s concept of the reader as co-creator with the author explained with cats, too.
Alexandra Kokoli on May 25, 2013 at 1:14 AM said:
Deleuze with birds and Freud with wolves, please.
Flo me la on May 24, 2013 at 10:41 PM said:
Mouffe+hegemony with… guinea pigs? Cool hats?
Heideggerian terminology (like being-in-the-world)!
walker444 on November 24, 2013 at 11:20 PM said:
negative potential on May 24, 2013 at 9:23 PM said:
Value-Form and communization theory explained with corgis.
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Melissa on May 24, 2013 at 8:22 PM said:
I never comment, but, this is the best the
internet has to offer.
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memesis on May 24, 2013 at 7:49 PM said:
Actually the quote “sex is always already gender” is taken out of context as it is meant as a reply not to biological theorists but to absolutist or non-relational/non-positional theories of self and society which feminist anthropologists at the time claimed were sexist (See some of the authors she cites, e.g. Chodorow, Strathern or Haraway). In fact, Butler (1993) finds the notion of ‘constructivism’ a banal truism (p. 8) and not revolutionary enough to counter the nature:female and culture:male bias of socio-cultural anthropology, where the male as culture inscribes gender onto the muted female body as sex (See p. 5 for Butler’s critique of attempts to reduce sex to gender). Butler is pro-sex; she does not deny the materiality of sexed bodies nor the existence of a pre-discursive subject before the performative “I” (Note that she clearly distinguishes between sex and “sex” and I and “I”)… so I’m not sure if I’ll agree with the statement that ‘there is no do-er behind the deed’… even though Butler does seem to get carried away with this line of thought at times. Lastly, which I think this comic got right, Butler does not claim that gender cannot be a “choice” (albeit a rather limited one) or that ‘sex’ or ‘gender’ is always deterministic as she does leave some room for agency within its structural bounds.
Great effort! I hope the visitors to this blog will be inspired to do a close reading of the actual texts though.
j. on May 25, 2013 at 12:26 AM said:
wait…you just called Strathern nonrelational? what?
Hmm… I think Strathern considers herself a ‘feminist anthropologist’, doesn’t she…
j. on May 29, 2013 at 2:53 PM said:
i guess i am confused by how you are using the word ‘relation.’ Strathern has published numerous articles on relationality, including a small book called “the relation.” she is widely cited as a founder of ‘relational anthropology.’
i’m looking at the strathern references in gender trouble and the haraway references in bodies that matter…and i’m really not finding anything disagreeable (or anything about relational/nonrelational) being said about either author. if there’s a different point of reference, i’d be interested in finding it.
memesis on May 31, 2013 at 10:20 PM said:
Actually what I meant was that feminist anthropologists in the early 1990s were saying that socio-cultural anthropology at that time was absolutist or non-relational and that Butler was just responding to that criticism in her discussion of the nature/culture distinction, not that she was criticizing either Haraway or Strathern.
Oh shucks. The last message I typed vanished. Anyway I was saying that Strathern published a piece in 1987 about how feminism and anthropology stood in oppositional relation to one another and how feminism back was an oppositional stance rather than a substantive theory. I guess that has changed now. I think there was this huge backlash within American Anthropology at the time to the ‘Writing Culture’ anthology (Marcus and Clifford, 1986) and the project of ‘experimental ethnography’ in general. Apparently a group of anthropologists who called themselves ‘feminist ethnographers’ (e.g. Lila Abu-Lughod, Ruth Behar, Kirin Narayan, Kamala Visweswaran) were miffed that ‘Writing Culture’ lacked contributions by women and citations to ethnographies written by women. In the introduction to ‘Gendered Fields’ (Bell and Caplan, 1993), it was suggested that anthropology at the time, as reflective of a universal ‘male’ standpoint, had an absolutist, non-relational standpoint as opposed to the relational standpoint of women. I guess Butler disagreed with feminist theory at the time, which posited a natural inclination towards relationality for women but not men. So Butler might have intended a critique of these particular feminist theories in addition to the nature/culture=sex/gender bias attributed to male-authored socio-cultural anthropology by feminist theorists themselves.
binarythis on May 25, 2013 at 12:22 PM said:
Thanks Memesis, I hope this encourages people to read more Butler too. I created this comic for my second-year gender studies students last year, to help them through Gender Trouble. For more on Butler you can check out my post: https://binarythis.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/convoluted-schmonvoluted-the-value-of-complex-ideas/
Amy on May 24, 2013 at 3:31 PM said:
Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, explained with welsh corgis!
nada on May 24, 2013 at 2:26 PM said:
Max Stirner for cats
especially appropriate
sonia on May 24, 2013 at 12:26 PM said:
awesome indeed! theoretical catphilia at its best!
Diego on May 24, 2013 at 9:31 AM said:
Derrida!
PS: that was totally awesome,
Christina on June 5, 2013 at 4:50 AM said:
Yes, Derrida, please!
beth on May 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM said:
Catharine MacKinnon!!!!!!
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Cori Wong on May 24, 2013 at 7:49 AM said:
This is fantastic! Great job. 🙂
chuck on May 24, 2013 at 7:48 AM said:
Nicole on May 24, 2013 at 7:37 AM said:
amazing, thnx! how about affect theory? or “becoming” in Deleuze?
vanessa c on November 28, 2013 at 2:06 AM said:
especially becoming animal
maybe with ponies?
nojhan on May 24, 2013 at 7:30 AM said:
> Got any more ideas for philosophy/sociology/gender theory you’d like to see explained in comic form?
Yes: the dependent origination of the self in buddhism. Closely related to the concepts explained in this page, as you may know (but 2500 years old).
aarahman on May 24, 2013 at 2:40 PM said:
Yes! Yes!!
shreyailaanasuya on May 24, 2013 at 7:24 AM said:
Bahaha! This is brilliant. Next: Epistemology of the Closet pls!
Lydia on May 28, 2013 at 10:51 AM said:
Clare Mackay on May 24, 2013 at 6:57 AM said:
Foucault on madness in comic form would be good! Trying to understand it at the moment!
Boots on May 24, 2013 at 5:14 AM said:
Marxism/Socialism Explained by Cats!
Tachi on May 24, 2013 at 3:38 AM said:
Please do terrorist assemblages!
Caitlin Starr on May 28, 2013 at 2:07 AM said:
Oh yes, please! I’ve read it twice and it makes my head spin.
N B on May 28, 2013 at 1:25 PM said:
That’s right, because the book says the same thing over and over again, no wonder your head spins over and over again.
binarythis on October 3, 2013 at 9:05 PM said:
I should totally do this! I love Puar 🙂
j. on May 24, 2013 at 2:41 AM said:
deleuze!
barfolumu on December 13, 2013 at 1:30 AM said:
If you could I’d really like the difference between the paralogical and logical uses of the three syntheses explained… especially in regard to the conjunctive synthesis. I never really got how that related to the “So that’s what I wanted!”
Or — WTF is a plateau?
An explanation of the third synthesis would be nice — in both its paralogical and legitimate uses.
Or the socius.
Or, WTF is a plateau?
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Adaptive Phage Therapeutics Hosts Book Launch Event for ‘The Perfect Predator’
This past weekend marked the launch of ‘The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir’. Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech in Gaithersburg, MD, hosted the event.
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Trial to determine if government liable for Harvey flooding
By Miya Shay
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A trial that could determine whether thousands of Harris County homeowners can get compensation from the federal government got underway this week in downtown Houston.
The two-week trial is focusing on 13 flooded properties serving as test cases to determine whether the federal government would be liable for damages.
Todd Banker is among the 13.
"It was a pretty good financial setback, and in our family, it's significant to my daughter's future," said Banker, who was saving money so his special needs daughter can receive necessary care as she grows up.
"We had water for a week and came back after remediation, started construction, and there's still work to do, so we lived on the second floor," Banker recalled.
Banker, like the other plaintiffs, lived in west Harris County, where homes were flooded from the Addicks and Barker reservoirs during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
Residents allege their properties became storage facilities used by the federal government to hold water from the two dams run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"Our goal is to win this case. If the government sees they've lost this case, they need to come to these senses and settle. Settle all these cases," said Vuk Vujasinovic, one of several lawyers with clients involved. "The government has known for decades that if we get a big enough rain event, they're going to flood thousands and thousands of homes that are behind those dams."
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, representing the federal government, say flooding from a storm of Harvey's size was "inevitable."
Harvey caused an estimated $125 billion in damage in Texas and flooded thousands of Houston-area homes.
Judge Charles Lettow, whose regular bench is located in Washington D.C., is in Houston specifically for this bench trial. On Wednesday, attorneys are expected to take the judge to places where the plaintiffs live to show him the scale of the flooding.
If the 13 test cases prevail, it would pave the way for many more flood victims to potentially receive financial settlements.
"We're hoping some compensation will come out of it because we lost a great deal," said Richard Buckingham, whose family lived in a hotel for nine months until their home was repairs. "Things we can not replace, that money will not replace."
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Algol 68 – A Retrospective
Overload Journal #148 - December 2018 + Programming Topics Author: Daniel James
Algol 68 has influenced programming languages in many ways. Daniel James reminds us just how many.
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the inception of the Algorithmic Language Algol 68 – the first programming language I ever learned, back in 1974 when I first encountered these things called computers, as an undergraduate.
I wrote ‘inception’ … perhaps a little background overview is required.
Nowadays we have more programming languages than you can shake the proverbial stick at, and computers that can shake the stick for you, but in the early 1960s there were really only three major languages available: COBOL for business programming, and FORTRAN and Algol for scientific work (LISP was also around, and deserves an honourable mention, but I’d hesitate to call it ‘major’). The latter two were designed with slightly different goals in mind: FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was developed at IBM specifically for programming computers, while Algol (ALGOrithmic Language), developed by a European and American team at ETH Zurich, was designed also to enable the expression of algorithms in a concise but human-readable form.
FORTRAN was the more widely used – in part because it had IBM behind it, but also because it was seen as the more portable language. The designers of Algol decided not to specify standard input and output operations as they felt that language implementers were better placed to define these facilities for the platform on which they were working. This meant that each new implementation of Algol had its own non-portable i/o functions, and this lack of portability had an impact on the acceptance of Algol.
As the 1960s progressed, a number of new languages appeared and the existing languages were further developed. The IFIP Algol Working Group 2.1 [Wikipedia-1] was formed in 1962 to design a replacement for Algol 60 that was then code-named Algol X. Many ideas were discussed, some in the light of experience of similar features in other languages, but no complete implementation of any proposed candidate for Algol X was produced before the language was formally accepted. This acceptance came when the WG 2.1 members met in December 1968 and voted to accept the language specification [Original] as it then stood, without ever seeing a working prototype. This is the language that became known as Algol 68.
Their decision was by no means unanimous, with some of the committee saying that the language had become over-complex and had lost the simplicity of Algol 60. Some of these famously went on to publish their dissent as the ‘Minority Report’ [Minority], in which they claimed that the language was a failure.
The style of the language reports deserves a mention. The reports are written using a two-level grammar in which the first level defines a meta-language, and the second defines Algol 68 in that meta-language. This style is known as a Van Wijngaarden grammar, after Adriaan van Wijngaarden who invented it and was also instrumental in bringing about the final design of Algol 68. The style of the reports also accounts for their legendary impenetrability to the casual reader.
In July 1970 a conference to discuss Algol 68 implementation [Peck70] took place. While many of the delegates presented papers that discussed the difficulty of implementation of the new language, the small team from the Royal Radar Establishment presented their working compiler for a substantially complete subset of the language that they called Algol 68-R [Wikipedia-2]. Algol68-R was already in daily use for production code on the ICL 1907F computer at RRE, where it had replaced Algol 60 for new development. The Algol 68-R compiler was later distributed without charge by ICL to other users of 1900-series hardware, and it was this compiler that I first used when I went to University.
Development of Algol 68 continued into the 1970s and a revised edition of the Algol 68 Report [Revised] was published in 1975. The team at RRE (by then known as the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment) produced a new version of their compiler called Algol 68-RS, which ran on, among other things, the newer ICL 2900-series mainframes and Dec VAX minicomputers.
So, what sort of language is Algol 68? I’m going to talk mostly about the language of the Revised Report because it is a little more complete than the original language and has fewer idiosyncrasies, but the differences are slight and mainly cosmetic.
An expression-oriented, block-structured, procedural language
Algol 68 is an ‘expression-oriented’ language in that almost every statement – what the Revised Report calls a unit (the original report used the term ‘unitary clause’) – delivers a value, and so can be treated as an expression. Every expression can also legally be used as a statement. If a unit has no value to deliver, it returns the special type VOID. If an expression that yields a value but doesn’t do anything with it, such as
appears as a statement on its own, the compiler is likely to offer a warning that the result is to be discarded, but the code is legal.
Declarations aren’t classed as units, and aren’t expressions. A sequence consisting of units or declarations and units separated by semicolons is called a series (originally ‘serial clause’) and has the value of its last unit. Note that the semicolon is a separator, not a terminator: there shouldn’t be one after the last unit in a series.
Algol 68 is a block-structured language in that a program is composed from nested lexical blocks. Each new block introduces a lexical scope that limits the lifetime and visibility of constructs declared within that scope. Each new scope inherits from any containing scope. A block – and everything it contains – is syntactically a unit whose value is the value of the last statement in the block.
A block may simply be one or more statements enclosed between BEGIN and END, or may be a conditional such as IF or CASE, or a loop.
Algol 68 is a procedural language in that its programs are built-up from procedures. A procedure in Algol 68 may be a function that returns a result, or may be a pure procedure that returns no result, in which case its return type is specified as VOID. The body of a procedure is a unit.
As is the case in Algol 60 and some other languages (such as Pascal), but not C or C++ (at least until lambda functions were introduced in C++11) procedures in Algol 68 do not have to be declared at the outermost lexical scope but can be declared within a program block, even a block of another procedure.
Algol 68 also supports user-defined operators, which are defined identically to procedures except that operators can have only one or two arguments. The user can set the priority (from 1 to 9) of an operator symbol, and can define new operator symbols. Operators can be overloaded, however, while procedures cannot.
Basic types
Data types in Algol 68 are called MODEs. The MODEs provided as standard are mostly unsurprising (see Table 1).
INT Signed Integer. Single machine word.
REAL Single-precision floating point number.
COMPL Complex number.
BITS Binary value, packed Booleans.
BYTES Packed characters (provided for efficiency on architectures that are not byte-addressable, such as the ICL1900)
All of the above modes may be prefixed with LONG or LONG LONG to get double or higher precision, depending on the implementation.
CHAR Character. Implementation defined representation.
BOOL Boolean value
Additional MODEs are defined in terms of these simple types. A MODE declaration associates an identifier with a MODE as an alias for the full definition.
Derived types
Algol 68 supports reference types using the REF keyword, so a reference to an INT type would be written REF INT. Syntactically Algol 68 references are more like C pointers than Java references, and they can be set to a null value which is written NIL.
Algol 68 uses the term ‘name’ when talking about anything that has a reference type. This term is equivalent to ‘lvalue’ in C, and means that a value can be assigned to it. The term ‘identifier’ is used to refer to symbolic names used in source code.
References can be compared for equality using the built-in IS and ISNT operations.
Algol 68 supports single- and multi-dimensional arrays. Subscripts are written between square brackets.
MODE MATRIX = [1:5,1:5] REAL
The lower bound of an array defaults to 1, but may be any value less than the upper bound – even negative. An array ‘knows’ its bounds, and these can be queried at runtime using LWB and UPB. Like Algol 60 and C (but unlike FORTRAN) Algol 68 stores arrays in row major order.
Arrays can be flexible. The built-in STRING datatype is defined as a flexible array of character values:
MODE STRING = FLEX [1:0] CHAR
Arrays can be sliced. If r is a [1:10]INT then r[3:7] is a [1:5]INT.
The use of flexible arrays implies the use of dynamic (heap) allocation. No explicit deallocation is necessary as this is managed using garbage collection.
Data structures are defined with the keyword STRUCT. For example the standard type COMPL is defined as:
MODE COMPL = STRUCT( REAL re, im )
Fields of a structure are selected using the OF keyword (not an operator):
re OF complexvalue
A structure type may not contain members of that type, but may contain references to that type, so it is possible to write linked lists, binary trees, etc. Listing 1 shows how this may be used to implement linked list functionality.
# (Unordered) Linked List example #
# Demonstrates using HEAP storage #
MODE ELEMENT = STRING;
MODE NODE =
STRUCT ( ELEMENT value, REF NODE next );
MODE LIST = REF NODE;
LIST empty = NIL;
# Add an element to the end of the list #
PROC append = ( REF LIST list, ELEMENT val ) VOID:
IF list IS empty
list := HEAP NODE := ( val, empty )
REF LIST tail := list;
WHILE next OF tail ISNT empty
tail := next OF tail
OD;
next OF tail := HEAP NODE := ( val, empty )
# Add an element to the beginning of the list #
PROC prepend =
( REF LIST list, ELEMENT val ) VOID:
list := HEAP NODE := ( val, list )
# Print the list out - using a loop #
PROC print list = ( LIST start ) VOID:
IF start ISNT empty
REF NODE ptr := start;
print(( "-- ", value OF ptr, newline ));
next OF ptr ISNT empty
ptr := next OF ptr
print(( "End of list", newline ))
# Print the list out - using recursion #
PROC print list recursively = ( LIST start ) VOID:
IF start IS empty
print(( "-- ", value OF start, newline ));
print list recursively( next OF start )
The identifiers given to the fields of a structure are part of its type, so two structures containing the same types of fields but with different field names would not be the same type.
Unions are defined with the keyword UNION.
MODE STRINT = UNION( STRING, INT )
An Algol 68 union ‘knows’ the type of its current value, and this may be queried at runtime.
Declaration and assignment
A declaration associates an identifier with some value, and uses the ‘equals’ symbol =. The following introduces a new identifier called ultimate answer that represents the integer value 42:
INT ultimate answer = 42
Note that white space is not significant within an identifier, so this could equally well be written ultimateanswer or ulti mate answ er.
A variable can be created simply by naming it and its type:
REAL half pi
The example above introduces a new identifier half pi and associates it with the storage for a variable in the current scope. This is shorthand for:
REF REAL half pi = LOC REAL
which says that half pi is a constant identifier that represents a reference to a REAL and is initialized to some location allocated on the stack. Although this long form is used by a lot of the early Algol 68 literature, it isn’t really necessary. It is a bit like saying that the declaration of a float variable in C++ is equivalent to:
float & half_pi =
*(float*)alloca( sizeof(float) );
It does, however introduce the concept of a generator. In the example above, LOC REAL is a generator that allocates local (stack-based) storage for a REAL variable. Whilst it is never necessary to use this long form with the explicit LOC generator to create storage for a local variable, the use of a HEAP generator is the only way to allocate variables on the heap.
A value can be assigned to a variable using the ‘becomes’ symbol := in what Algol 68 calls an ‘assignation statement’.
half pi := pi/2
Declaration and initialization can be combined into a single statement:
REAL half pi := pi/2
Note that pi is a built-in constant of type REAL (higher precision versions – long pi, etc. – also exist).
The difference between the constant declaration (using the ‘equals’ symbol, =) and the declaration and initialization of a variable (using the ‘becomes’ symbol, :=) is slight, and they are easy to confuse.
Algol 68 also provides ‘updating’ operators like PLUSAB (‘PLUS And Becomes’) which can be abbreviated +:=. This syntax has been adopted by many other languages since.
Conditions are supported by the choice statements, IF and CASE. These are identical in structure but the IF statement bases its selection on a BOOL value, while the CASE bases its on an INT value:
IF boolvalue THEN some expression ELSE other expression FI
CASE intvalue IN expr1, expr2, …, exprN OUT another expr ESAC
IN and OUT are CASE’s equivalents of THEN and ELSE. ELIF and OUSE are provided as shorthand forms of ELSE IF and OUT CASE.
That these really are equivalent constructions becomes more apparent when we learn that a BOOL value can be converted to an INT using the ABS operation, and that ABS TRUE has the value 1, while ABS FALSE is 0.
As with all statements in Algol 68, a choice statement may return a value, the value returned is the value of whatever expression is chosen (so long as all the expressions return the same MODE). While C and some other languages have a ‘ternary operator’ that allows one of two values to be used depending on some boolean condition. Algol 68 has no need of such a construction because the structure of the language allows an ordinary IF statement to be used.
This allows for constructions like:
days in month :=
CASE month OF date IN
IF is leap year( year OF date ) THEN 29 ELSE 28
FI,
IF and CASE introduce lexical scopes, just as BEGIN does. The scope ends with the closing FI or ESAC statement.
Spelling IF and CASE backwards to indicate the end of the block that they introduce is a device that Algol 68 uses in a number of places. The use of FI and ESAC has been adopted in some other languages, notably in the Bourne shell, while still more have taken up the idea but opted for keywords such as ENDIF – perhaps we should be grateful that END is not spelt NIGEB in Algol 68!
It’s interesting that C++17 introduces new ‘if with initializer’ [P0305R0] and ‘switch with initializer’ features that let one declare variables in the condition part of an if or switch statement that have the scope of the whole statement. This enables one to write things like:
if( int val = get_value(); is_valid( val ) )
do_stuff_with( val );
which is directly equivalent to the Algol 68 code
IF INT val := get value(); is valid ( val )
do stuff with( val )
except that the Algol 68 form is more general.
Note that with the Algol 68 CASE statement there is no possibility that one case can run on into the next (even should you want it to) so there is need for any break-type statement, as in C (nor does the language support one).
Loops are supported by the very versatile Algol 68 DO loop, which has the general form:
FOR counter FROM start BY step TO stop WHILE
DO something OD
Everything here is optional, apart from the DO something OD part, which is the loop itself, the other parts just provide conditions that control the termination of the loop.
The counter, if present, is an integer whose scope is limited to the loop; by default it counts from 1 in increments of 1 but that can be changed using the FROM and BY parts. The loop terminates when the variable reaches the stop value, if specified, or when the condition becomes true … otherwise it will run for ever. The counter cannot be assigned to within the loop – it is not a variable but an INT constant that is re-created with a new value each time around the loop.
The condition of a loop including a WHILE part is syntactically a series of declarations and statements. This syntax caters for cases in which all or part of the body of the loop is to be executed before the WHILE condition is evaluated.
WHILE INT n; read( n ); is valid input( n )
DO process( n ) OD
If the whole of the loop is to be executed before the test (as with a do ... while loop in C, for example) the do-nothing operation SKIP can be used to satisfy the syntactic requirement for one or more statements between DO and OD. The Algol 68 DO loop offers all the varieties of loop control that are provided by the for, while, and do ... while constructions in C but with greater flexibility.
Unlike most other constructions in Algol 68, a loop does not return a result.
Here are some examples. These also show three forms of COMMENT, and a call to the built-in print function. Note that the call to print uses two sets of parentheses because multiple values are being printed; the inner pair belong to the representation of the single argument, which is in effect an array of UNIONs of various types.
# Zero all elements of ar from lower to upper
bound #
FOR index FROM LWB ar TO UPB ar DO
ar[index] := 0
CO enhance a until it is greater than some
threshhold CO
FOR i WHILE a < threshhold DO
print( ( "After ", i, " iterations a is ", a,
newline ) );
a := enhance( a )
COMMENT sound an alarm 10 times COMMENT
TO 10 DO sound alarm OD
For completeness, and to annoy purists, Algol 68 also supports GOTO.
Algol 68 procedures take a number of parameters, possibly zero, and return a result or VOID. A procedure is defined like so:
PROC twice as much = (INT i) INT: i+i
This defines a procedure named twice as much which takes a single integer parameter by value, and returns an integer result. The body of this procedure is a single statement and so doesn’t need to be enclosed in a block, but most procedures do.
In this definition, the procedure denotation (INT i) INT: i+1 is assigned to the identifier twice as much, which therefore has the mode PROC (INT) INT. As with data quantities, though, the procedure body could be assigned to a procedure variable identifier
PROC operation := (INT i) INT: i+i
We could then, elsewhere in the program, change the value of that procedure:
operation := (INT foo) INT: 3*foo+7
Listing 2 shows another example of a function denotation being used as a lambda.
# Print a table of values #
# print a table of values of f(angle) #
# for angle from start to stop (degrees) #
PROC print trig =
( REAL start, REAL stop,
PROC (REAL) REAL f ) VOID:
REAL val := start;
printf( $" Deg |"$ );
FOR i FROM 0 TO 9 DO printf(( $z-d.dx,b(l,x)$,
i/10, i=9 )) OD;
printf( $5"-" "+" 71"-"l$ );
FOR col FROM 0 WHILE val < stop
IF col MOD 10 = 0
printf(( $zd.d" | "$, val ))
printf(( $+d.3d,b(l,x)$, f((val*pi)/180),
col MOD 10 = 9 ));
val +:= 1
# Print a table of sin(x) using the built-in
sin function #
print(( newline, "Printing sin x", newline ));
print trig( 0, 90, sin );
# Print a table of sin^2(x)+cos^2(x) using a lambda #
print(( newline, "Printing sin^2 x + cos x",
newline ));
print trig( 0, 90, (REAL n) REAL: sin(n)^2+cos(n))
The procedure body that we assign in this way is effectively a lambda function. No special syntax is needed for lambda, the functionality is a natural consequence of the design of the language.
Transput
Transput is the word used in the Algol 68 reports to refer to both input and output.
One of the big shortcomings that was recognized in Algol 60 was its lack of any standardized i/o system. The designers of Algol 68 addressed this lack by introducing a standard system for both formatted and formatless output. We have already seen the procedure print, which accepts any simple argument and outputs it in a standard way. This tends not to be very pretty as, for example, numbers are output in their maximum width and precision. This output can be tamed somewhat using built-in functions whole, fixed, and float that convert numbers to strings with specified width and precision.
There is also a system for formatted output that gives the programmer complete control over the format of the output by means of a format designator. This is similar to the format string of C’s printf, but is a special Algol68 FORMAT type, delimited by $ characters, and can be evaluated at compile-time for efficiency. A FORMAT consists of one or more ‘pictures’, separated by commas, each of which describes the layout of a single item.
Formatless input and output are achieved using the functions put and get. We have already seen the print function, which is equivalent to put but always uses the default standard output channel called stand out (similar to cout in C), there is also a read function that is equivalent to get using stand in. Formatted i/o uses putf and getf (and printf and readf).
These three produce identical output on stand out:
put( stand out, (i, blank, r, newline ));
print(( i, blank, r, newline ));
printf(( $gx,gl$, i, r ))
If i is an integer with the value 42 and r is a REAL with the value 22/7 then this would produce three identical lines of:
+42 +3.14285714285714e +0
In the put and print cases, the list of items to be printed are enclosed in brackets because they are conceptually an array of values to be output. These include blank and newline, which are PROC(REF FILE) VOID functions that are called to manipulate the output stream.
In the printf case, the argument list begins with a FORMAT containing two pictures using g tags meaning that the values should be printed in the same default format as is used for formatless output, and x and l tags that supply the blank and newline.
Printing values without formatting is not the point of formatted output, of course, and one might more typically see something like
printf(( $4z-dx,+3d.5dl$, i, r ))
The format string contains two pictures. The first depicts an integer with 4 digits that will be printed as blanks if they are all leading zeros (four z tags) followed by one digit that will always be visible (a d tag) and a space (x tag), with a sign character that will be a blank if the value is positive immediately to the left of the first non-zero digit (- tag) and then a blank (x tag). The second picture depicts a real number with a sign always shown (+ tag), and with three digits (three d tags) before and five digits after (five d tags) a decimal point (. tag), and then a newline (l tag).
With the values of i and r above, this would produce:
42 +003.14286
Listing 2 shows some examples of formatted output.
In the Revised Report, Algol 68 is written in lower-case letters, with keywords emphasized in bold. Text files holding program source to be read by compilers don’t provide a mechanism for the representation of bold text, so keywords are typically written in upper-case, as I have done here. The original Algol 68-R compiler ran on ICL 1900 computers, which had a basic character set of only 64 characters. Lower-case characters were available only through a complicated system of shift prefixes, and weren’t used in programming. In Algol 68-R, keywords were distinguished from identifiers by enclosing them in single quotes, which was called ‘quote stropping’.
'BEGIN'
'INT' I := 42;
PRINT(( I, NEWLINE ))
'END'
Other upper-case systems used ‘dot stropping’, in which a keyword was prefixed with a dot character.
I’ve deliberately chosen a rather ‘wordy’ notation for the examples in most places in this article, but it is worth noting that Algol68 provides symbolic short forms for many operations. For example the pseudo-operators IS and ISNT can be written :=: and :/=: and the MOD operator can be written %*.
Algol 68 also allows round brackets to be used for BEGIN and END … or to look at it another way, Algol 68 treats any expression in round brackets as a BEGIN/END block.
Round brackets can also be used for IF, FI, CASE, and ESAC; vertical bar characters for THEN, ELSE, IN, and OUT, and vertical bar followed by a colon for ELIF and OUSE. It is usually clearer to spell things out, but the short forms can be useful when writing a one-liner.
Algol 68 has been implemented on quite a variety of hardware platforms. There’s a good summary in the Wikipedia article [Wikipedia-3] and a lot of detail on the Software Preservation Society’s Algol 68 page [SPS]. In its heyday there were several implementations written in different countries – including the UK, the US, the Netherlands, and Russia – and supporting a wide range of hardware architectures. It was never as widely used as FORTRAN or COBOL, but it had a significant following.
Algol 68 was also the basis for a number of other languages, including the S3 job-control language of the VME/B operating system of ICL 2900 series mainframes, and influenced a good many more.
Most implementations of Algol 68 are no longer in use, as they were developed for computer architectures that are now obsolete. Some are still accessible in one form or another, for example the Algol-68R compiler can still be run under a GEORGE 3 emulator [GEORGE], part of the Algol 68RS compiler survives as the front end of the Algol 68 to C translator [A68TOC] from the ELLA project developed at RSRE and has been Open-Sourced, one of the two implementations named Algol 68S has been ported to a number of more modern platforms and Open-Sourced. A more recent implementation from 2001, Algol 68 Genie [van der Meer16], runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems and is Open Source; if you run a Debian-derived Linux distro such as Ubuntu or Raspbian you will find it in the standard repository.
Algol 68 has always had the undeserved reputation of being a large, complex, language for mainframe computers only. The language is actually smaller than C [Henney18], and certainly much smaller than many modern languages. I find it pleasingly ironic that the language I was always told would never catch on because it was too big for any but the largest of computers runs nicely on a Raspberry Pi Zero, on battery power, sitting on the palm of my hand – but perhaps that says more about developments in hardware in the last 50 years than it does about software.
Algol 68 has influenced many other languages, many of which are still in widespread use today.
The influence of Algol 68 on C is clear, and Algol 68 is referred to many times by Bjarne Stroustrup when describing the development of C++ [Stroustrup94]. Indeed, Stroustrup notes [Stroustrup13] that “… my ideal when I started on C++ was ‘Algol 68 with Classes’ rather than ‘C with Classes’.”
Finally, no discussion of programming languages would be complete without an implementation of FizzBuzz, so I present a modest example in Listing 3. Note here that in Algol 68 the AND operator between two BOOL values does not short-circuit – that is, both BOOL terms are fully evaluated even if the first is found to yield FALSE. Many implementations provide an alternative short-circuiting form usually called ANDF or ANDTH (for ‘and false’ or ‘and then’).
# Fizzbuzz in Algol68 #
print(( "Fizzbuzz from 1 to 100", newline ));
PROC fizz = (INT n) BOOL:
IF n MOD 3 = 0 THEN print( "fizz" ); TRUE ELSE FALSE FI;
PROC buzz = (INT n) BOOL:
IF n MOD 5 = 0 THEN print( "buzz" ); TRUE ELSE FALSE FI;
FOR i TO 100
IF NOT fizz( i ) AND NOT buzz( i )
print( whole( i, 0 ) )
newline( standout )
[A68TOC] The ELLA and A68toC source is available from: https://cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring02/G22.3130-001/ella/
[GEORGE] Algol 68-R included with the GEORGE 3 Emulator on the BCS Software Preservation and Machine Emulation pages. http://sw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/g3/index.html
[Henney18] Kevlin Henney. Procedural Programming: It’s Back? It Never Went Away. From the 2018 ACCU Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrY6xrWp3Gs This talk has a good 10-minute account of Algol 68 from about 12 minutes in.
[Minority] Published in the Algol Bulletin, archived online at:http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/algol/algol_bulletin/A31/P111.HTM
[Original] The original report can be found here, scanned to PDF (without OCR): http://web.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/Algol68-Report.pdf
[P0305R0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0305r0.html
[Peck70] Peck, J.E.L., ed. (1970), Proceedings of the IFIP working conference on ALGOL 68 Implementation, Munich: North-Holland, ISBN 0-7204-2045-8. Available online at: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/paper/ALGOL_68-Implementation.pdf
[Revised] Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 68. Edited by van Wijngaarden, et al. Springer-Verlag (1976). An HTML version is available at: https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.post.algol-68-revised-report.html
[SPS] The Software Preservation Society pages on Algol 68http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/algol68impl/
[Stroustrup94] Bjarne Stroustrup. The Design and Evolution of C++. Addison Wesley (1994).
[Stroustrup13] Bjarne Stroustrup. The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition. Addison Wesley (2013). Sec. 1.2.2.
[van der Meer16] Algol 68 Genie. Marcel van der Veer. https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html
[Wikipedia-1] IFIP Working Group 2.1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFIP_Working_Group_2.1
[Wikipedia-2] ALGOL 68-R: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68-R
[Wikipedia-3]AlLGOL 68: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68
Daniel James Daniel James has carried on programming in a variety of languages ever since that first brush with Algol 68 in 1974, and the sparkle has never quite worn off. He sometimes wonders how his life would have turned out if the friend who introduced him to computing had been a FORTRAN user, as all good scientists were supposed to be.
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USCHO.com Fan Forum | board.uscho.com > College Hockey > Men's Division II and III > New Poll Predictons for non-existent 1/3 Poll
View Full Version : New Poll Predictons for non-existent 1/3 Poll
PrezdeJohnson09
I'm 99.8 percent sure there are no ballots this week...
Just for fun...this is what I came up with.
1.St. Norbert
2.Williams
3.Oswego
4.Bowdoin
5.Manhattanville
6.Gustavus Adolphus
7.Norwich
8.Geneseo
9.Hamline
10.Adrian
11.MSOE
12.Castleton
13.Utica
14.St. Thomas
15.Plattsburgh
Manhattanville is in fifth place in the ECAC West and should be around 5th in the country....
Russell Jaslow
In which case you would be 99.8% incorrect.
Thanks Russell :)
The D1 poll is up now. I would expect the D3 poll should be following shortly.
Yup. The deadline was 2 p.m. I'd expect to see something within the next 30 minutes.
12 minutes later...here we are:
USCHO.com Division III Men's Poll
Minneapolis, Minn./January 3, 2011
Team (First Place) Record Pts Last Week
1 St. Norbert (12) 11-2-0 291 2
2 Oswego ( 5) 13-2-0 272 1
3 Williams ( 3) 7-0-1 271 3
4 Bowdoin 6-1-0 224 5
5 Gustavus Adolphus 9-3-1 189 6
6 Manhattanville 10-3-1 183 10
7 Norwich 6-3-1 175 4
8 Geneseo 8-3-2 149 8
9 Adrian 9-3-0 118 7
10 Hamline 7-3-1 101 12
11 Milwaukee School of Engineering 9-2-0 95 9
12 Castleton 8-2-0 72 14
13 Utica 9-4-0 70 12
14 Neumann 7-4-2 50 11
15 Hobart 7-3-1 36 NR
Others Receiving Votes: Plattsburgh 32, St. Thomas 23,
Wisconsin-Superior 15, Wisconsin-Stout 12,
Wisconsin-Eau Claire 10, Plymouth State 4, Amherst 3,
Curry 2, Massachusetts-Dartmouth 2, Hamilton 1
The USCHO.com Poll is compiled weekly and consists of 20 voters, including 18 coaches of Division III programs and two men's hockey writers. USCHO.com provides in-depth coverage of college hockey.
PLATTY DOESN'T CRACK THE TOP 15 AGAIN?! Gesh.
I really am confused now. Plattsburgh has won six in a row and just beat Neuman (ranked #11 at the time). They also beat Norwich (ranked #1 at the time). Of their 4 losses, 1 is to #2 Oswego in a close game and to #8 Genesseo (1st game of the reg season). This leaves the other two losses to unranked Buff State and Morrisville, both conference opponents who are notorious for pulling out wins when it is not expected. If anyone can explain this, please do.
I'm as perplexed as you guys are. Apparently the pollsters just haven't forgiven Platty's poor start for whatever reason. It's quite shocking honestly because when you have a name like Plattsburgh, Middlebury, Norwich, St. Norbert you often are given a lot of leeway one way or the other in polls like this, Hence how Middlebury was still receiving votes at 2-4.
norm1909
Agreed, but it does go against the norm for this poll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxBxq4VNoIk&feature=related).
hockeyjunkie10
At the end of the day the polls are fun for us to debate and see where our team is at but they are relatively meaningless. Plattsburgh may still be out of the poll but nobody wants to face them in the playoffs, just like nobody wants to face a Hobart team at #15 or Utica at #13.
There are a lot of very good teams (nobody has emerged as truly great just yet, IMHO) and the relative parity makes for an exciting next couple months of DIII hockey.
Happy New Year, Boys!
Agreed. I can't remember a year where we have had so many teams pick up losses so quickly and now start to stockpile them.
The #1 team in the nation has two losses and almost every other ranked team has around 2-4. That's incredible.
IF (and that's a big IF) Plattsburgh defeats Norwich tomorrow night for the second time and handles Elmira Saturday...you would think they could crack the top 15.
P.S- I think Plattsburgh's winning streak is at seven, not six.
Jaslow, did you have Plattsburgh in the top 15? If not, what is your reasoning?
hahaha you can't put him on the spot like that!
That's an awfully tough sweep, but at least both games are at home.
I'd put Plattsburgh in the top 10 if they swept the next two games.
You are correct, it started with St Johns in the Prime Link!
NUProf
If you look at my computer rankings (shameless plug) you can see that the top teams are very close together, while the teams on the bottom are pretty stretched in the negative direction. It's the classical negative skew. 68 ratings points separate positions 1 and 10, while 131 points separate positions 68 and 77. Lots of good teams, but none are great. There are also a few truly awful teams.
puckrfactor
Can someone please tell me why all the love for Gustavus? What have they done to deserve a #6 ranking?
Because they were in the finals two years ago and had another darn good season last year. They started out ranked pretty high despite losing Lopes and Martinson, which I didn't understand and they have been fortunate that when they have lost, the teams around them have also lost so they have stayed right about where they started the year.
It's just the way the polls work. You reap the benefits from what you did last year until you grossly prove otherwise. Look at what Norwich has done so far this year. Who have they beat? No one and they have lost to every good team they have played. If they didn't win the national championship last year, they'd be a borderline top 15 team right now.
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Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2007 - 2009)
ATWT: December Discussion
By Actor87, December 1, 2009 in Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2007 - 2009)
Actor87
College Cowboy
I can't stand GM's version of Dusty. So emotionless and thuggish. Give him a grill, a sideways trucker cap, and some jeans that fall to his knees and he'd actually look like they write him.
OKAY....Is anyone else going to agree with me that Monday's show started off funky? I said it before, and I'll say it again. It started off like it was the continuation of some epic cliffhanger Friday, but it wasn't. Is that not strange to anyone else??
Now...on to current events:
Peejy weejy, I'm surprised you aren't marching your happy little ass to Brooklyn to french kiss the writer who was in charge of the CarJack dialogue today!!! The bathtub memories? The sexy-as-freakin-hell countdown? *shiver* UBER-phenomenal!!! :D
Anyone else notice Alison's line flub at the beginning? She said Casey's great-great-grandfather gave Nancy the ring...but it was his great grandfather. (Or who knows...maybe it was a writing error.)
I wonder if Tom Pelphrey did any research into Anthony Herrera's past performances. (I know some actors like to plunge into long-established character roles without even looking at past portrayers' work, and make the role "their own" *ahem*Grayson*ahem*, but I'm hoping Tom P. had better sense.) I thought he did pretty good on the "I'm really James, just younger" persuasion today. His words sounded like something James would say, and he said it the way AH would say it. I'm not sure if it was Tom P.'s acting, or the writing, but whatever it was...it was convincing.
*sigh* Seems like just yesterday when we used to see actual NYE celebrations in Oakdale. Instead, this year...we get a blackout and a whole bunch of stories that are slowly sinking. Minus the steamy, uber-sexy CarJack countdown, of course.
It makes me REALLY sad to think that these are the last Christmas & New Years shows for ATWT. They did pretty good with the Christmas Eve show, but that was about it. We never saw Bob & Kim's house like promised, and we never saw Nancy (until a week later when she handed her heirloom ring down to her great grandson, who's marrying the daughter of the woman her son had an affair with). We never saw whole families (with both present and cameo-appearance past characters) celebrating the holiday together. For New Year's, all we got was Paul/Meg drama (go figure), Craig trying his best to ruin the moment for both CarJack AND their loyal fanbase, PornQueen Alison swearing off sex with horndogCasey until their wedding day, and WhatsHerFace and DustDiddy boinking in the dark. What a great way to remember the last December of ATWT! (NOT!)
Saving ATWT
I should make clear what I meant about the keeping of older vets on contract doing the show more harm than good. World Turns has a tiny budget; thus, they need to spend money on actors who TPTB plan to actually use and write for. I love Kim, Bob, Lisa and the gang but Goutman will never feature them. Maybe some of this money could have been used to put characters like Cady and Jen Landon on contract--younger actors are the future of any program.
How do you guys think a story like Nancy's second marriage and the alzheimer's go over in 2010? This worked in the 1980's, before the demos game, but would it be popular today? I loved the story but am not sure if it would work on any show today. The world has changed a lot since I was a kid.
JellicleCat
Quinn who? Behold the Real queen of B&B
As far as I know Cady herself doesn't want a contract, and Jennifer Landon left of her own free will when her contract expired just like Jesse Lee Soffer did.
If they want to save money how about stop adding new characters that they don't use instead. Adam, Mason, Dani, Audrey, Ralph, Matt all come and went for no apparent reason.
No for some reason, I never found Holmes Tom sexy in the least....but that could be coming off my love of tall hunk of lurve Gregg Marx...and I hate to admit it, but I used to find Deas sexy as Tom...and I have never felt Deas was anything but a freaky ass troll on GL! I did think that Marx brought sexiness to Tom, and he had a nice sense of humor. I have to say, Holmes always comes off as a boring stiff to me, and the "banter," that Marland used to write was the perfect combination of a writer with no sense of humor with an actor who can't deliver comedy. (I remember a scene where Holmes and HBS were on a plane and they were supposed to be cracking wise over airplane food but it came off so, not funny at all.) Actually, come to think of it, the only Tom who really was good at comedy WAS Deas (and this is coming from a die hard Buzz Cooper hater.)
If they were going to take the vets off contract they should spend the money on writers instead of getting people like Cady McClain on contract. Good writing brings in the viewers, not any one particular or set of actors. Take a look at GL and their gutting of their vets and their destruction of their families..the show was a mess and Wheeler had to take this weird group of characters and glomp them all together at the very end to make it look like there was still a family feel to the show. I think the main problem with the P & G soaps (which are the only ones I watched) is that they used to be writers shows for better or worse (I had problem with both the Dobsons and Marland but it definatley was THEIR show when they were there and much stronger because of it. Now they get the cheapest writers and stick to repeating the same stories over and over as they are afraid of trying anything new.
Nancy's love story they would never write now..though the demos were important back in the day (and funny enough,the demos were better back then when they just told friggen stories.) My own personal opinion is that they should have left her single .. Marland threw her into that romance way too fast after Chris' death and well, I thought the actor playing her love was kind of uh, not the type Nancy would go for. The alzheimers thing,well, maybe it could have worked if Marland lived though I dont think how it could have. It seemed to be one of those Marland stories where he decided to be "socially relevant," and write an "issue," story. Alzheimers is a painful, horrible disease that can take years to take someone. I really didnt need to see Nancy putting diapers on Mac...Which brings me to another point, soaps shouldnt bite off more then they can chew...they obviously cant write diseases realtisically as we dont want to see someone linger away with alzheimers or cancer. So since you cant actually show the reality of the story, just dont do it. If you have to sanitize the story, dont do it at all. Putting Mac out of his misery and by extension the audience was the only thing I can credit that particular creative team with.
Mitch, you are totally right. Instead of bringing in all the stars..ABC groupies..they should have spent the money on better writers. Great stories bring in viewers not any particular actor or actress.
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Peejy weejy, I'm surprised you aren't marching your happy little ass to Brooklyn to french kiss the writer who was in charge of the CarJack dialogue today!!! The bathtub memories? The sexy-as-freakin-hell countdown? *shiver* UBER-phenomenal!!!
Now that you mention it...I did have that feeling on Monday--like I'd missed a show, but knew I hadn't. We entered into the middle of a Damian/Paul and Mick/Babs convos.
If I'm not gushy enough about Carjack---well, lookey lookey who's along for the ride---Craigy-poo, Man of the White Wrinkled Ass. Craig=Buzzkill. Of course they were uber-sexy. But I think I'll hold off on the frenching until I get something more tangible than smokey looks in the near darkness. Thank God for Susan Dansby---she's the only one who could've scripted something as innocuous as a countdown and made it seem thrilling. As if at "one", they suddenly realized they'd been given another chance with each other.
Yeah...caught that Ali added an extra "great" in there. My guess was it's on Marnie, not the writing.
I know Cady personally and she wanted a contract. This is one of the few fringe benefits of working as a bartender in NYC. As for as Landon, she gave an interview hinting that Goutman no longer wanted her.
I agree that story trumps actor; however, both of these actors were important parts of the canvas and were also part of that effort to build Carly a family. Since Maura is a big part of the show, the idea of her having kin around is logical. Also, I think Cady played a great bitch and played well against Hunt Block. They were dating at the time so maybe this was why they had so much chem.
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Which brings me to another point, soaps shouldnt bite off more then they can chew...they obviously cant write diseases realtisically as we dont want to see someone linger away with alzheimers or cancer. So since you cant actually show the reality of the story, just dont do it. If you have to sanitize the story, dont do it at all.
I don't think viewers need to see the whole reality of the story. As long as there is some realism, that's probably enough for those watching. Many people at home probably know what these diseases are like and they are fine with a truncated version on a soap. If soaps only stayed with brutal realism than we'd still be in the days of the "mystery disease" where someone looks gorgeous yet passes away of some unknown ailment.
I think Marland did a relatively good job of showing illnesses and raising awareness of them without being too excessive. Like Casey's story.
that Marland used to write was the perfect combination of a writer with no sense of humor
I thought there was humor during Marland's run, just not a big blatant kind. It was more quiet.
I have to wonder how much of the Tom humor people consider the best is more from Deas himself. I never saw a lot of comedy with Marx in the role, and the Holmes Tom had more couple banter. A lot of the crazier stuff was also what Deas did as Buzz. There was a moment in the 83 Christmas episode where Tom was pretending to put ornaments on his ears as earrings -- that must have been something the actor did. They did have a funny moment where he gave an ornament of an angelic female cop.
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La Déesse Noire: The Black Goddess
Mariana Gabrielle
Sired by a British peer, born of a paramour to Indian royalty, Kali Matai has been destined since birth to enthrall England’s most powerful noblemen—though she hadn’t counted on becoming their pawn. Finding herself under the control of ruthless men, who will not be moved by her legendary allure, she has no choice but to use her beauty toward their malicious and clandestine ends.
When those she holds most dear are placed in peril by backroom political dealings, she enlists some of the most formidable lords in England to thwart her enemies. But even with the help of the prominent gentlemen she has captivated, securing Kali’s freedom, her family, and the man she loves, will require her protectors stop at nothing to fulfill her desires.
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lfdykes , 02/09/2018
Amazing and Beautiful
Another story by Mariana Gabrielle that I will remember for a long time. This tale swept me away into a different world with characters that came alive off the pages. I felt invested in their lives and at a point or two I felt my heart breaking. But I digress. Kali Matai, was born in India to a British peer and a mother who was given to him a paramour. Kali was raised a tawaif, as her mother and would only entertain those of the highest rank. Her father, Lord Birchbright, abandons her mother and their two girls to go back to England and pursue his agenda of power. When her mother passes away, Kali and her sister come to England and there she meets her father who is determined to control her in all ways.
Kali becomes a pawn to secure financial success to her father by becoming a mistress to men he directs. I truly loved Kali and her goodness and strength that she maintained even when she was pushed to the limit. She was beautiful and desired by all men, but her intelligence and dignity were her strengths.
The main two men in her life, Fitz and Rook, both peers, pulled at my senses. I could feel the emotions coming through the pages as deep down she loved Fitz but her position did not allow her to display those feelings. When Fitz left her to marry as his position required, my heart broke for her. As she became consigned to do as her father required and entertain other men, she kept her grace and head held high and moved forward. Then came Rook.
When she spent time with him, I felt her life may change and there could be a future. Rook was really in love with Kali I think from the moment he met her and came to realize he treasured her honesty and intelligence. There were many twist and turns that were skillfully written that I could not turn the pages fast enough.
It is difficult to express enough how the books I have read by this author have moved me. Skillfully written and addressing issues of class and ethnic differences, the author pulls you into the story. The ending made me wanting more and knowing this book will go to the top of my favorite ever read. My heart is happy
Teri Donaldson , 04/28/2016
Beautiful and breathtaking!
I started this book last night and just finished it this afternoon. It was fabulous!
I won't go into the plot as it is detailed in the book's description as well as by the other reviewers.
I will say this. The author, Mariana Gabrielle, has written yet another beautiful and breathtaking story. It's a tale that brings each of the characters to life in your mind. From the clear descriptions of each, I have a vivid image of each of the characters, from their clothing to their physical traits. You can feel the passion of Kali's dances, marvel at the magnificent jewels given to her by men wanting more than a dance, and fall in love with two wonderful men, Fitz and Rook, just as Kali did.
I just kept flipping the pages, racing to the end. Yet, I did not want it to end. I'm hoping that there is a sequel planned for the story of the rest of Kali's life.
Random Gemini , 03/12/2016
She Never Disappoints
Superbly written and a departure from other novels in the genre entirely. It's an excellent story that takes on really tough issues that other novels in this genre tend to ignore, particularly the racism that was the order of the day for this period. Mariana Gabrielle's novels never fail to be more than "just" a romance novel. This is no exception. If you're looking for "more" like I was, look no further.
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Legends and lyrics
von Adelaide Anne Procter
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LEGENDS AND LYRICS.
BY ADELAIDE ANNE PKOCTEB.
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Opinions Of The Pkess. "The tenderness, the devotional feeling, and the resigned sadness, which characterize her poems, are not uncommon in the writings of Englishwomen; but the " Legends and Lyrics" possess the rarer merits of just thought and of natural fancy, and of language always graceful and correct, while in some passages it may be called felicitous. If the author devotes herself to the career on which she has entered, she may probably attain a high reputation; and even at present there is only one living poetess with whom she ought to fear competition."—
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"This is no make-believe book. It entitles Miss Procter to a place of her own among those who sing out of the fulness of a thoughtful heart, and not merely because they have the restless brain and glib tongue of the mocking-bird."—Aihenceum.
"This modest 'Book of Verses' by a poet's daughter is remarkable for its simplicity and truth."—Examiner.
"Miss Procter inherits those lyrical graces of her father, which, fortunately for a community which at length is learning to sing, have been more or less felt by all the world. Like him, too, she feels for the poor, and can sing of their rights, as he did long before he was followed in the same admirable direction by the admirable Thomas Hood, the requote having been given, perhaps to both, by Charles Lamb, in his verses on the different funerals of rich and poor."—Leader.
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Pottermore expected to close and launch new website with premium memberships
A map of J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. (Pottermore Publishing)
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Pottermore (the digital footprint of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowing) and Warner Bros. announced a joint venture to launch a new digital experience, according to an announcement made Friday. But a new report from MuggleNet signals that the move will create a premium service that has some Harry Potter fans worried.
“Over the coming months we will be packing up our box of quizzes, fun features and articles, and moving them to WizardingWorld.com,” Pottermore said in an email sent out to site members on Friday.
It sounds like the change will effectively close Pottermore as we know it and replace it with a new website called Wizarding World Digital.
The new site will include experiences that pull resources from the Harry Potter eBooks and digital audiobooks (owned by Pottermore) as well as the Wizarding World films (owned by Warner Bros.) The change is expected to take place in a couple of days.
User accounts and data will move from Pottermore to Wizarding World Digital.
The email didn’t specify whether or not the service would be free or paid, but an anonymous tip given to MuggleNet claims that the service will include a “Gold premium membership.”
Here are some of the benefits Gold members will receive, according to the report:
Access to contests
Access to “member-only fan events” at Wizarding World locations
“Incredible digital experiences”
Priority booking for tickets to ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’
An original podcast and video series
Exclusive member-only merchandise
MuggleNet also reports that there will be a “welcome kit” for paid members that will include: an interactive journal themed to your house, a collectible pin and a print of J.K. Rowling’s first sketch of Hogwarts. Read MuggleNet’s full report here.
Pottermore and Warner Bros. have yet to comment on the report. There’s been no word as to how much a premium membership would cost and how much content will be placed behind the paywall.
Some Harry Potter fans took to Twitter to discuss the development and the response seems negative thus far.
https://twitter.com/mymuseisabitch/status/1127957655107063808
.@pottermore will close (as we know it) and all the content will be transferred to a new website: The Wizarding World Digital. It's a shame, all the permalinks to Rowling's writing will be lost.
— The Rowling Library (@rowlinglibrary) May 13, 2019
And I pray that @jk_rowling is not part of this and that she has the power to save Pottermore. I am totally disgusted and very disappointed.
— Bairbre ☘️⚡️🇨🇦 (@Ceillimiss) May 13, 2019
Pottermore, which has seen a major change in the past, has become something of a controversial point for fans. The closure of its key features is unfortunate, as many saw Pottermore as the official outlet to discover one’s wand, Hogwarts house and patronus. However, the fact that user data will be transferred to Wizarding World Digital signals that those features may still exist on the new site. What isn’t clear is whether or not they’ll be behind a paywall.
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39–41 West 23rd in NYC Features a Bright White & Metallic Brown Glaze Combination
June 14, 2018 /in Blog, Residential /by Jimmy Scamacca
39–41 West 23rd Street is a new building currently under construction in New York City’s Flatiron District. The architects at COOKFOX have designed a cutting edge residential building in the midst of many historic buildings, an area that is synonymous with New York’s architectural identity. The 22-story apartment building will feature 38 units and a 50 space parking garage. The first 9 floors are the base of the building, the remaining 13 floors rise in a cantilevered section facing outward and beyond the neighboring buildings, providing an unforgettable view of the area.
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By Yusef on 16 January 2019
‘Never Alone’: A sociological standpoint, part 1 – who’s watching?
In the first instalment of a 3-part review, volunteer blogger Yusef takes a close look at the themes of surveillance in our exhibition Never Alone.
The 1980s had ‘Satanic panic’; the 1990s had violent video games; 2016 had ‘killer clowns’. To label the increasing interconnectedness of today’s globalised world as the beginning of a ‘moral panic’ would not be entirely accurate, but to argue it has raised concern would be more than fair—consider Black Mirror’s portrayal of a dystopian future where rapid technological advancement is often a catalyst for chaos. Today’s technology may have significant societal implications that we, as a society of iPhone users and CCTV stars, are currently oblivious to. Enter Never Alone, an exhibition at Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum which asks the question: what happens when everything is connected?
Opened in November 2018, Never Alone is a powerful and thought-provoking reflection on a modern, increasingly connected society. It explores how the culture of surveillance first developed and how today’s smart devices have brought it to unprecedented heights.
Never Alone takes you through the past and present of surveillance in a journey as insightful as it is occasionally uncomfortable. The exhibition features a 1964 photograph from London’s Oxford Street, showing a man operating a sole surveillance camera—a huge contrast to the 2011 statistic referenced in the caption, which estimates you are seen on CCTV cameras up to 70 times a day in the UK.
CCTV in Oxford Street, Ron Burton, 20 November 1964. Daily Herald/Science Museum © Mirrorpix
A 2016 survey by the British Security Industry Authority revealed there could be as many as 5.9 million cameras in the country—equating to one CCTV camera for every 11 citizens—with an article from Get Licensed claiming this makes the United Kingdom ‘the leading country in the world for surveillance of its own citizens’.
Displayed on one of the colourful walls of Never Alone, you’ll find a panel fittingly titled ‘I Spy With My Little Eye’. It asks a question that perfectly encompasses one of the main themes of the exhibition: ‘how much of your daily life do you want recorded, in return for feeling secure?’
What Never Alone does so successfully is give us the wider historical context of the surveillance that pervades every corner of modern-day Britain. We might think of this as a very 21st-century phenomenon, but Never Alone tells us the advent of the very first cameras in the 1800s led people to the realisation that ‘they could be used for surveillance’. In the 1880s, the emergence of cheaper and smaller cameras created a boom in so-called ‘detective cameras’, ‘models you could hide or [which] were disguised for secret photos’.
Stirn’s waistcoat camera, 1886 © Science Museum Group Collection
We are then met with a humorous piece of evidence which informs us of the concern this caused—the sheet music from Victorian-era comedian Dan Leno’s 1892 ‘smash hit’, ‘Detective Camera’. It features lyrics such as:
No matter what you do or say, I’ve got you on the spot
A house on fire’s very warm, you’ll find me twice as hot
Sheet music for ‘Detective Camera’ sung by Dan Leno, 1892, H.G. Banks © Science Museum Group Collection
So the concerns we have today about surveillance have, in fact, existed for generations. Another vintage item on display in Never Alone is Stirn’s waistcoat camera, described as ‘one of the first to take discreet photos’. The caption tells us how, in 1890, the Torquay Times and South Devon Advertiser voiced their opinion on the controversial technology:
If everyone becomes the possessor of a ‘demon’ no one will be safe.
Never Alone leads us to question whether, over a century later, we still possess those same ‘demons’ in a new form. In exchange for the convenience of smartphones and virtual assistants, we submit to facial recognition, volunteer our fingerprints and allow our voices to be recorded. Will we continue to make such Faustian pacts with our internet-connected devices, or will concerns about privacy make us more cautious?
Never Alone is open at the National Science and Media Museum until 10 February 2019.
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7 comments on “‘Never Alone’: A sociological standpoint, part 1 – who’s watching?”
Excellent piece! Really well written and insightful. Looking forward to the next part already!
S. Hussain says:
A very detailed and thorough piece. An extremely interesting read. You have an informed and cohesive written style that engages the reader throughout. A much needed analysis of today’s society that seems hostage to the ever growing social media phenomenon.
Zahida says:
Thought provoking and well articulated article.
There’s always a price to pay. If you want peace of mind and security be prepared to give up some of your privacy. Is it worth it?
Very interesting and well written piece
Ruthann says:
Very well researched and written and also impressed by correct spelling and punctuation which I thought was dying out, with all this technology taking over. Well done
Muj says:
Brilliant piece, really well thought out and articulated perfectly.
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Sony unveils two new PlayStation VR bundles just in time for the holidays
Who's surprised?
Earlier today, Sony tore the wrapping off two new PlayStation VR bundles which will be arriving in stores within just a few weeks — just in time for the holiday season, of course. Starting at $299.99, these bundles both include two games along with the PS VR Headset and PS Camera. Though the price is comparable with previous PS VR bundles, these options include two games whereas many of the previous bundles for this hardware at these prices only included one.
Sony kicked off its announcement with the Creed: Rise to Glory and Superhot VR Bundle. Not only will it include both of those exciting VR games, but you'll also receive the PS VR Headset, PS Camera, and two PlayStation Move controllers with its purchase. It's worth noting however that Superhot will only be included as a digital download. The bundle will become available to buy beginning September 25 at an MSRP of $349.99 and is currently available for pre-order via Amazon.
If those games don't seem right for you, or if the price is just a bit steep, the PS VR Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Moss Bundle is also releasing soon at an MSRP of $299.99. Both Astro Bot Rescue Mission and Moss will come with the bundle, though Moss will be included as a digital download. Unlike the bundle above, this option won't include any PlayStation Move controllers, though it will be available for purchase just a few days later on October 2.
You'll also receive the PS VR Demo Disc 2.0 with either purchase which offers demos of 13 great VR games.
See at Amazon
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Tom Slick
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Tom Slick was one of three segments in the half-hour show, George of the Jungle. The other segments included Super Chicken, and the show’s self-titled feature segment George of the Jungle. Each of the segments was 6–7 minutes in length.
Upstanding competitor and all around good sport Tom Slick took part in racing events all over the globe, accompanied and cheered on by his girlfriend Marigold and the grandmotherly but sassy Gertie Growler. He competed in a vehicle called the Thunderbolt Grease-Slapper, which he converted beyond recognition prior to every race to suit the conditions of the race, forming such unlikely vehicles as a submarine, hot air balloon, motorized skateboard, etc. in addition to all forms of standard road racer. Never far from the action, Marigold or Gertie occasionally rode shotgun during the races.
In the racing world, Tom was a fan favorite, greeted by a cheer of enthusiasm whenever he was announced. Marigold was Tom’s biggest supporter and completely smitten with him, even though Tom’s devotion to his sport made him oblivious to her gestures of romance. Unfazed by Tom’s inattention, Marigold interpreted his most humdrum of statements as signs of affection.
As if the normal dangers of racing weren’t enough, Tom had to contend with at least one cheater and spoilsport in every competition. His most frequent opponent (in fact, the only opponent who appeared in more than one episode) was Baron Otto Matic and his simpleminded henchman Clutcher. Tom Slick’s unwavering optimism and resourcefulness in the face of adversity (with an occasional timely assist by Marigold and Gertie) insured that the Baron was no more successful in carrying out his dirty tricks than any of the other competitors. Whenever his plans went awry, or just for good measure, the Baron reinforced his bad guy status by clobbering Clutcher with a wrench, whether or not any fault lay with Clutcher.
Despite obstacles thrown in his path by the machinations of rival racers, Tom managed at the last moment to win every race he entered, making him perhaps the most successful racer in the history of the sport.
OOHhh.. the mornings of yore.
From each characters theme song, to the corny last words it was funny. Even today I google Saturday morning cartoon playlists and click on George and Tom and Super Chicken just to sing along . ‘Watch out for than tree!”
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High Crimes and Misdemeanors: What Constitutes an Impeachable Offense?
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Professor Keith Whittington, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, and Duke Law Professor Walter Dellinger will be discussing the Impeachment Clause, specifically focusing on what conduct constitutes an impeachable offense. After Professors Whittington and Dellinger provide brief remarks, Duke Law Professor Guy Charles will moderate a discussion with both panelists before inviting questions from the audience at the very end. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society, and the Program in Public Law. For more information, please contact Brent McKnight at brent.mcknight@duke.edu.
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Leaping sectors in a single bound
The transition from the private sector into an executive role in the federal public service is not easy. Though generally accepted estimates suggest that only five to seven percent of the executives (EX level) currently in the public service came from outside the federal government, by one account, 25 to 40 percent of the individuals who made the transition departed within the first two years on the job.
This is perhaps surprising, given that there is an increasing recognition within the public service of the demographic need for, and the value delivered by, executives from outside. They bring not only new ideas and fresh thinking, but also outside perspectives from the communities, industries and groups the federal government services through its 140 departments and agencies.
Odgers Berndtson asked 35 executives in the public service to discuss the difficulties and risks associated with executives making the transition into the public sector. Twenty-five of these individuals had arrived in their EX-level roles from “outside.” The remaining ten executives were senior level career public servants (most were assistant deputy ministers) who had observed these transitions from within the public service. They were uniquely positioned to discuss the skills and attributes needed to succeed and to impart knowledge gained from witnessing successful – and failed – transitions.
The lessons learned and proposed coping strategies are useful for managers from outside as well as existing and recently promoted members of the EX group.
Skills and attributes
The research showed that the competencies needed to excel in the public service are similar to those needed in the private sector. There were, however, some key differences. Below are the top essential skills and attributes needed to fit and succeed in the public service culture:
Given that the public service lacks some of the management levers available in the private sector, it is essential to have well-developed abilities and a personal interest in leadership best practices. Firing under-performers, for example, is very difficult and essentially not an option. Top performers can choose to leave poor managers by moving to new positions elsewhere in the public service. Combine these two factors with the rigid compensation structure and a limited “pay at risk” component and you have a recipe that makes inspiring leadership the first ingredient in finding success in your executive role in the public service.
Communication and people skills
Decisions and workflow occur through consensus and collaboration, not command and control. For an initiative to progress and succeed, you need to achieve buy-in from individuals and groups within your department and elsewhere in the public service. To achieve that, you need to possess outstanding and adaptable communication and influencing skills.
An open mind
While it might seem trite, this attribute was by far the top answer when we asked executives, “What does it take to make the transition a success?” Part of the challenge is that people lacking an open mind have difficulty realizing this shortcoming. You will need to leave your preconceptions and ego at the door, embrace your ignorance and open yourself up to accept, understand and work within the system as it is.
An open mind will allow you to ask the right questions, avoid excessive frustration, and understand the processes and rules in order to work with colleagues to achieve change. Sentences starting with, “In the private sector we…” should be reconsidered.
Patience and discipline
The timeframes in the public service are typically much longer than the horizons in the private sector. Inserted between the massive, long-term projects are intermittent, adrenalin-inducing sprints created by issues demanding immediate attention from all those involved. The sense of urgency around issues is heightened due to the “public accountability” nature of the public service and the very real potential for your challenge to land on the front page of The Globe & Mail.
You must be able to ramp-up and deal with urgent issues as needed but continue to have the patience and discipline to return and focus on your long-term priorities. Human resources, procurement and administration take much longer than what you are accustomed to in the private sector. Accept it, be patient and work with the system to advance your agenda and obtain what is needed.
Differences that trip the unprepared
Inherent differences between the private and public sectors do exist. Executives looking to make the leap from one to the other will have a better chance of success if they acknowledge and understand the four main differences that became apparent from the results of our conversations.
1. The fundamental driver
In the private sector, profit is the driver. In the public service, the fundamental driver is to advise and answer to the elected government and together serve Canadians. Consequently, you must have a strong desire to serve and make a difference to our country. Also, this is not a transition you make for the money. Many of the executives involved in our study experienced a 40 to 50 percent compensation reduction when they made the switch.
The communication style in the public service differs slightly from that found in the private sector. This was cited often by executives who have experience in both environments. Communication within the public service can be less directive. The private sector’s “Do this and get it back to me by Wednesday,” could sound more like “Have you considered….” The need for consensus and collaboration highlights the need for less directive-centered communications. Respect, relationships, avoiding confrontation, protracted timeframes and a desire to never burn bridges were cited as potential reasons to explain this difference.
3. Public accountability
In the private sector there is very little concern that an email you write to a co-worker will end up in a newspaper through an access to information request. Funded by the taxpayers, the public service is accountable to Canadians and as such needs to operate transparently. Working in an environment open to public scrutiny takes some getting used to. Everything is recorded. Details of meetings, contracts, projects and initiatives could be requested by anyone at anytime under the Access to Information Act.
4. Process and administration
A common complaint of the public service by executives with experience in both worlds is the amount of red tape, rules and bureaucracy that exists. However, when people complain about the processes they are often failing to take into consideration the many necessary reasons for the existence of the rules and structure. The accountability and transparency that the public demands makes these rules, processes and administration necessary. It is fair to say that most processes in general could be improved and streamlined, but given the sheer size and complexity of the public service it is not an easy endeavor. The executive who enjoys success in this environment does so because he or she has accepted, rather than become disheartened by, this reality.
The size, scope and diversity of the federal government have always caused private sector executives to consider the public service in times of transition. The recent economic times, the predictability of remuneration packages and relative job security in government institutions has increased this interest.
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Let’s Rumble
Posted on February 2, 2019 by Paul
WWE held their annual Royal Rumble event last Sunday night, at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. It was a fun night that seemed to satisfy the appetite of fans, especially those in attendance, thanks to a heart-stopping Royal Rumble Burger.
Would you eat it? I wouldn’t. Especially if I have to sit there for six hours.
It rarely happens, but I enjoy when wrestling occurs inside baseball stadiums. It’s a throwback to the early aughts when WrestleMania X-Seven was held at the Astrodome in Houston; WrestleMania X8 at SkyDome in Toronto, and WrestleMania XIX at Safeco Field in Seattle.
Still can't get over the incredible atmosphere at @WWE #RoyalRumble. Feels like it came and went way too quickly. pic.twitter.com/dT3eqc5SPp
— Chase Field (@ChaseField) January 31, 2019
It’s just a cozier-looking environment than a football stadium. Also, I’m a fan of when the really long aisle has a bend in it. The superstars entered through the dugout on Sunday, which gave it a Tokyo Dome-Wrestle Kingdom feel.
The Royal Rumble is the start of a two-month road to WrestleMania and is headlined by two Royal Rumble matches – one for the men, and one for the women.
To the uninitiated, a Royal Rumble match consists of 30 participants. The match starts with 2 superstars in the ring and every 90 seconds, a new competitor joins the fray. You’re eliminated when you go over the top rope and both feet touch the ground.
The last superstar standing gets to challenge for the championship of their choosing at WrestleMania, thus securing themselves a main event spot at the biggest show of the year.
Let’s start with the women’s match because I find their storylines more interesting at this point.
Drawing #1 was Lacey Evans, who was making her in-ring debut on the main roster. Out second was Natalya – member of the Hart wrestling family dynasty. That made sense to me.
Lacey wasn’t as smooth as she could’ve been because making your debut in front of 48,000 people is probably terrifying, but having a veteran like Natalya in there helped.
This was only the second year the women have had their own royal rumble match. Last year was mainly devoted to bringing back women from the past to share in the historic moment.
I’m glad none of them came back this year, though. Yeah, it’s always nice to see them, but they weren’t needed. Instead, we got a glimpse of the future with multiple call-ups from NXT (the developmental brand).
I was impressed by Rhea Ripley, who is somehow only 22-years-old. Whenever they decide to bring her over from NXT UK, she’s going to cause quite a commotion.
Also impressive was Kacy Catanzaro, who you may or may not know as a competitor from American Ninja Warrior. She did a handstand on the top rope, and then switched the way she was facing, which was a move I’ve only ever seen done at the Olympics on the parallel/uneven bars.
And then she found herself on the floor, but her feet hadn’t touched the ground, so she ninja’d her way back in the ring.
.@KacyCatanzaro staying alive!
➡️ https://t.co/ePt5TzD6sU pic.twitter.com/hD10hE1ZT2
— TDE Wrestling (@totaldivaseps) January 28, 2019
I’m a fan. She probably has a lengthy run in NXT ahead of her before moving up to the main roster, but either way, the future is bright.
Another fun part of the rumble was when Zelina Vega was hiding under the ring, until Hornswoggle – a leprechaun who lives under the ring, but was released by WWE a few years ago – appeared and chased her away.
pic.twitter.com/7LgYLxbK9h
— Wrestling Without Context (@wresnocontext) January 28, 2019
That clip just gave some of you nightmares, I can sense it.
Before I get to the end of the match, let me tell you about “The Man”, Becky Lynch.
Becky Lynch is the best thing in professional wrestling right now. She’s turning into the Stone Cold Steve Austin of this generation, which is perfectly fine with everybody.
The first match of the night saw Becky face Asuka for the SmackDown Women’s Championship. Becky lost, which meant she’d probably find her way into the rumble later on, but we didn’t know how.
Fast forward to the royal rumble match. Lana comes out at #28, but can’t put any weight on her left foot, which was injured on the pre-show when she got involved in her husband’s match.
So while Lana is crumpling in the arms of the medical staff, out comes Becky Lynch to take her spot in the rumble. And the place went nuts.
Slight change of plans…@LanaWWE is out.
THE MAN @BeckyLynchWWE is IN!!! #RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/gwqppQ9bdu
— WWE (@WWE) January 28, 2019
In the end, the match came down to Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch, as any wrestling fan could’ve predicted. Becky tossed Charlotte out, winning the match and sending herself to WrestleMania to face Ronda Rousey.
The Becky and Ronda rivalry has been brewing since last November, when they were supposed to face each other at Survivor Series. However, Nia Jax broke Becky’s face (quite literally) ahead of the event, and Charlotte faced Ronda instead – a match everyone thought would take place at WrestleMania.
Ronnie, wish The Man a happy birthday you little weirdo. pic.twitter.com/Tei29bCRRI
— The Man (@BeckyLynchWWE) January 30, 2019
But Becky Lynch has catapulted herself to the top of the WWE and the match everyone wants to see now is her against Ronda Rousey, which should/will be the first time the main event of WrestleMania has been a women’s match.
There are conflicting internet rumours that say Charlotte will eventually be added to the match. I hope that doesn’t happen because she’s not needed.
A year ago, Ric Flair’s daughter vs. Ronda Rousey would’ve been the biggest thing. Now, it’s not.
I’d much rather see Charlotte face Asuka, because if she doesn’t, I have no clue who’s worthy of facing Asuka. Maybe Kairi Sane from NXT? But then that throws a wrench in my plans for a Japanese faction consisting of: Asuka, Kairi Sane, and Io Shirai. #FantasyBooking
Also, with the WWE introducing Women’s Tag Team Championships at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view in a few weeks, it’s possible that Bayley and Sasha Banks could win those.
And then at the end of WrestleMania, we could potentially have Becky, Charlotte, Bayley, and Sasha in the ring holding up their championships, while flashing the Four Horsewomen sign – a distinction they gave themselves will in NXT many years ago.
That’s important, because Ronda Rousey also claims to be apart of a Four Horsewomen faction with three of her MMA pals, who are all still in NXT.
It’s slowly starting to be teased, with Sasha holding up the four fingers in front of Ronda after their match at the Royal Rumble. Becky and Bayley subtly held them up too, the next night on RAW.
Somewhere down the line, the Four Horsewomen of WWE will face the Four Horsewomen of MMA. I just don’t know how soon.
All in all, the women’s royal rumble accomplished what it was supposed to. There was maybe too much sitting in corners and not enough attempts at throwing opponents over the top rope, but that’s also a complaint I have for the men’s rumble.
On to the men’s royal rumble match. I’ll do this one in bullet points, until the end.
Jeff Jarrett showing up did nothing for me, since he wasn’t around when I started watching wrestling.
The New Day needs to do something more serious than their current schtick.
Samoa Joe deserves a championship.
No Way Jose lasting two seconds in the match was exactly how long he should’ve been in it.
Pete Dunne is fantastic.
Andrade is a star.
It was good to see Johnny Gargano get called up from NXT for the rumble. His wife, Candace LeRae, also debuted in the women’s match. That must’ve been fun for them.
Yes.. I did a lot of cool stuff this past weekend.. but to be able to share the moment and watch @CandiceLeRae enter the Rumble will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart.
(Credit to @AriyaDaivariWWE for snapping this picture without me knowing.) pic.twitter.com/SqX8w5BFJO
— Johnny Gargano (@JohnnyGargano) January 28, 2019
Bobby Lashley came out at #26 and lasted 12 seconds. His elimination looked sketchy to me. I’m not sure if he messed up, but either way, he was gone.
But not so fast because this is wrestling and the heels have to get their heat back. I’ll explain what that means at another time.
So he grabs fan-favourite and Jesus lookalike, Seth Rollins, pulls him out of the ring (but not over the top rope) and sends him through an announce table at ringside.
Yay, wrestling!
Lashley giving Seth Rollins a well deserved break…. through the table #RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/6U9yDuqLtf
— WWE Critics (@WWECritics) January 28, 2019
I’m tired of spots like this in matches. We all know that whoever goes through the table will stay out there for 10-15 minutes, be “forgotten” about by the commentators who are standing five feet away, and then make a miraculous comeback at the end of the match.
Spoiler: Seth Rollins ended up winning the match, which I’m happy with, but I would’ve preferred he stayed in the ring the entire time.
YOUR ROYAL RUMBLE WINNER: SETH ROLLINS#RoyalRumble pic.twitter.com/nAzMU07H0j
— Bleacher Report WWE (@BR_WWE) January 28, 2019
But the best moment of the men’s rumble match was when R-Truth came out at #30 and was attacked from behind by a woman – Nia Jax.
Nia then entered the match and eliminated Mustafa Ali, before receiving a super kick from Dolph Ziggler, a 619 from Rey Mysterio, and an RKO from Randy Orton.
Basically, she received the signature move from three of the company’s top performers.
THIS. JUST. HAPPENED. 😱😱😱😱 #RoyalRumble@NiaJaxWWE @RandyOrton @reymysterio @HEELZiggler pic.twitter.com/8Qydqkbui3
This was the first time in about a decade that men had delivered offensive maneuvers on a woman in the WWE. Now, by no means do I condone men hitting women, and neither do the WWE.
However, this is professional wrestling. It’s a performance art. It’s a different world than the one we live in and has come a long way since 20 years ago. I know many of you won’t understand and say this is terrible, but it’s not.
Nia Jax, who is hated by fans, came out looking like a million bucks after that display. And if this slowly opens the door for the return of inter-gender matches, I’m all for it.
I mentioned Candice LeRae earlier – she made a career on the independent wrestling scene, fighting men. When she was signed by the WWE last year, she mentioned inter-gender wrestling as something she hoped would be featured again.
She might get her wish.
So, Seth Rollins is going on to WrestleMania to face Brock Lesnar. I’m tired of Lesnar and hope he goes away. He disappears with the championship for months, leaving the television show in ruins.
I’m done with that nonsense. It’s been going on for too long.
As for the other matches on the card, here are my quick thoughts on them:
I love that Daniel Bryan is considered a heel for telling the fans they eat too much bad food and that we’re all killing the planet by being wasteful. It’s the best.
Rowan?
Shane McMahon is doing shooting star presses off the top rope at the age of 49. What?
I have so much more I could say, including stuff about the new wrestling promotion, All Elite Wrestling, but I’ll save that for another post.
I know 99.8% of my readers have no interest in professional wrestling, so if you’ve made it this far, thank you!
Hopefully you found this to be somewhat entertaining, if not educational. I’ve never put so much effort into a post.
I’d love to hear your thoughts about anything I just wrote, or didn’t write, whether you’re a wrestling fan or not. Please share your perspective!
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17 Responses to Let’s Rumble
I am waiting for Wrestlemania to come to Atlanta in the Mercedes Benz Stadium. That would be an epic spectacle. I do agree the baseball stadiums offer maximum crowd size with some coziness.
That would be really cool location. I could see them going there in 2020.
Enjoyed the write-up Paul. Thanks for that. Royal Rumble sounded pretty solid. I didn’t see it but it looked really interesting. Forgive me for being dumb but how did you watch it? Was it on PPV? How much? Do you need to buy WWE Network as an option on your cable TV? I have AT&T U-Verse and I’m not even sure it was available.
The WWE Network would be the way to watch, since the ~$10 monthly fee (free for the first month) is way cheaper than ordering the PPV. Honestly though, people upload the events to YouTube and just mess around with the sound or size of the video to get around the copyrights, so that’s also an option I guess lol
I’ll look into adding the WWE Network on my U-Verse cable for the upcoming Wrestlemania. Thanks for the info!
Jokerswild says:
Royal Rumble, the road to Mania was somewhat enjoyable. The women matches are starting to overshadow the men’s matches which is a step up for the division. The woman’s rumble became a given when Becky list to Askua which I thought she should have anyway. They need to push Askua back up top. I like Lacey Evans but I’m impressed with Kairi Saine and Crazy Nikki Cross, hopefully they don’t become wasted talent. The return of Hornswaggle is always a site to see. I feel Sasha carried Rhonda through that match, but the right decision was made because I’m hoping Becky takes the belt from Rhonda while Askua avenges her Wrestlemania loss against Flair. Until we see the battle of the four horsewomen that is, hint the sign Banks keeps throwing up. Great article!!
I like Nikki Cross, too. She’s one of the only women who has a real wrestling persona, whereas the others are just distinctly good or bad. I’m curious where this Becky injury storyline is going. If it’s to make her a bigger underdog heading into WrestleMania, I think that’s a waste of time. Interested to see where the 4 horsewomen thing goes when all is said and done. Thanks for the comment!
I agree, few women have that it factor to me and Cross and Askua stand out. The Lynch storyline is taking a Steve Austin storyline turn but I see a battle with the horsewomen coming to surface with Ronda going heel. Great article. Hoping for a Wyatt return soon.
Ariel Lynn says:
While the athleticism & action (&, too often, injuries from falling badly) of WWE is very real, it’s scripted. The punches aren’t landing. The hits & flips & drops are timed to minimize impact on both parties. Basically, it’s gymnastics with the added fun of story lines & throwing people (& chairs) about.
As such, the guys “hitting” Nia was, in my book, freaking AWESOME. It hinted at a mixed gender Royal Rumble. Well, for women as tough & bad as Nia, that is. She’s bigger than Rey Mysterio & the woman can clearly hold her own.
Damn it. I screwed up my formatting. 🤦♀️
Oh yes, I’m well aware the moves are done safely. It’s just they avoided inter-gender matches for so long because they switched to a PG rating and in a world where everything offends everyone, people who don’t know wrestling will see it as “Hey! They’re endorsing men beating up women!”
I’d love to see Nia take on the men. I feel like she could put on some really good matches with them.
I could see men fighting women – specifically, their scripts calling for the men to pick physical fights with the women – could be offensive. It’s not unreasonable, in our current societal climate, to find men hitting women offensive.
But, I think Nia is totally different. She can certainly hold her own &, to be frank & with all the respect in the world, she looks like a big, solid oak tree up against sickly twigs in the women’s matches.
I’m a Ronda Fan But was she in wrestling before MMA??! And is that normal that MMA fighters end up wrestling?!! I feel like they’re two different worlds with one being way too bloody and one being way too scripted… that’s a drastic career change no? Especially if you suck at acting lol I don’t know. I don’t know the TRUTH behind wrestling but it def seems pretty fake? I could be 100 percent wrong! Don’t kill me. Lol
Nope, her MMA career ended and she transitioned to wrestling which is what a bunch of MMA people seem to be doing since they get to a point where they’re no longer good enough to fight and being brutalized isn’t worth it, so they switch to wrestling where people aren’t trying to kill each other. Oh wrestling is fake, as in the results are pre-determined and that they’re not actually punching each other in the face (it just looks like they are). But there is a physicality to it and they do kill their bodies over time, but it’s still better than getting your brains smashed in in MMA.
Lol!!! I didn’t know she quit MMA! I liked her but that’s true! It’s not healthy! Good for her? I don’t know. And thanks for confirming that for me! You know you always wonder but don’t want to ask a fan because sometimes people get so sensitive when anyone questions a sport! Lol sheeeep!!!
Yeah she left because she started losing and once you lose too often, it’s better to walk away and not ruin the legacy. Lol I’m here to educate!
Edumacation! Lol thank you! You’re so RESOURCEFUL!!!
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A Prayer Unanswered Meets Rebecca Strauss
“God Please Watch Out For Him”
But What Happens When This Prayer Is Not Answered?
Fay Rackley, holding an image of her deceased grandson Kenneth Keith Rackley
Massachusetts – the state with the lowest gun-violence-related deaths in The United States, has long forgotten about its bereaved mothers in the wake of its safety success. While many have turned a blind eye to Boston’s gun violence victims, Waltham resident Rebecca Strauss is as disturbed as ever. With a hunger to help and a professional orchestra at her disposal, Strauss combined her passions to comfort the community.
With a warm smile and an unwavering trust in an unknown freshman, journalist in training at Brandeis University, Strauss selflessly sacrificed her Thursday morning to introduce me to members of the support group, Legacy Lives On. I was met by four African-American women, harbouring years of distress in their luminescent faces and immense strength in their cheerful eyes.
“Just give us the hope and the faith that our loved one will live on forever,” Fay chanted as if repeated countless times before. I was hurled into a new world, pacing breathlessly around my subjects with a camera and recorder. Slowly, their unfamiliar faces vanished as they shared each powerful, intimate story; they spoke individually of the deceased as well as their personal struggles. Many expressed concern for their mental health following the premature death of a family member. “My family members don’t really reach out to me, they never took me serious because … I didn’t get hysterical,” explained one woman. Others spoke of their battles with past drug and alcohol abuse as a method of freeing themselves from their painful realities.
While Rebecca helps heal the Legacy Family through music, they return the favour.
One month later, I joined friends and family of the Legacy Family at Rebecca’s concert – “Harmony and Hope: Responding to Violence with Music.”
” It’s like god sent you (Rebecca) from somewhere. It’s like something that hurts so bad, but when we come to you, you give us a chance to let it out and let it go. ” – Fay Rackley
In the final moments of that memorable morning, one Legacy member expressed her gratitude; she explained that my interest in their hardships “brightens your day, cause to go home you know someone cared.”
They were no longer strangers. They were no longer the forgotten. Rebecca gave them a voice.
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Story Pitch 2: Staff Upset Regarding Opening of Dunkin Donuts in Upper Usdan?
Dunkin Donuts opened a new location at Brandeis University; the branch is now located in Upper Usdan. While many enthusiastically anticipated its opening, it seemed employees of nearby coffee venders were not as enthused. Employees at Brandeis’ Starbucks surveyed customers regarding their perception of the coffee at Dunkin Donuts, often adding that they were dissatisfied with its “watery” taste. One employee explained that the coffee was cheap and Starbucks’ was of a higher quality. Potential interviewees include employees at both Starbucks and Dunking Donuts. The report aims to better understand the apparent tension between the employees of both venders.
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The Boston Women’s March rallied over 135,000 distressed protestors. The event organizers originally estimated a turnout of 25,000, however, their calculations were quickly proved incorrect – by the 17th of January, 60,000 had registered for the march. Unsurprisingly, Trump tweeted, “I don’t always agree” in response to the protests, however recognized “the rights of people to express their views. Hypocritically, Trump proceeded to ban EPA employees from from publishing press releases and more generally communicating with the public.
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Vivienne CWatson29 April 2016
Beyond Academia: Working in social and market research
5th May 2016 – 5:30pm – 6:30pm
‘Beyond Academia’ is a new programme designed to give researchers a focused insight into specific career areas within industry.
Two employers will give a short presentation about the work they do in their organisation. The employers who are presenting have a PhD allowing them to give a view point from a researcher’s perspective. The presentations will be followed by a short networking session allowing you to speak to the employers and ask any questions you might have.
Dr Marco Bonzanini, Data Scientist, Elevate Direct
Marco Bonzanini is a Data Scientist based in London. After a few years working as software engineer and lecturer in the private sector in Italy, he took a Master in Advanced Methods in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He completed a PhD in Information Retrieval at the same institute, where he defended his thesis in 2014. His research interests include intelligent search applications and natural language processing. After his time in academia, he moved back to industry where he tries to merge the best of both worlds. Active in the PyData community, he’s now working on his first book about Data Mining applied to Social Media (PacktPub, 2016).
Dr Neil Stevenson, Senior Research Executive, Ipsos Connect (Ipsos MORI)
Neil Stevenson is originally from New Zealand where he studied Political Science and History at the University of Auckland and then a Masters in Political Communication. He completed his PhD at the University of Westminster in 2015 on the production of political talk television shows in America, the UK, and Australia. Neil worked at the think-tank Demos in 2014 where he researched ethno-cultural integration in the UK. After that he joined Ipsos MORI, a market research agency, to work in a specialist qualitative team that helps media, technology and government clients wrestle with their business problems and better understand people.
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Chris Penny’s Communications Internship at Portland Press
SophiaDonaldson25 April 2016
Internships, placements, work shadowing….when it comes to selecting a career they’re all great ways to ‘try before you buy’. Some UCL PhD programmes contain a mandatory placement period, a few months where students must do something unrelated to their research. These prove invaluable to the students involved, so in this series of posts we hope to spread the career knowledge by speaking to three PhDs about their placement experiences.
Interview by Shadae Samuels, Placements and Vacancies Officer, UCL Careers.
Image taken from Chris Garcia.
Chris Penny is a current PhD student with the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Programme. He is based in Sandip Patel’s lab and his PhD project is studying the molecular physiology and signalling functions of an intracellular ion channel. Through Chris’ project he was able to experience writing papers and reviews, which piqued his interest in potentially pursuing a career in publishing. This made publishing the perfect option for his PIPS placement to provide him with the opportunity to gain new skills and find out as much as possible about the industry. Chris secured a 12 week placement with Portland Press, a leading provider of high-quality publishing and knowledge dissemination solutions. He was supervised by the Executive Editor, Clare Curtis.
How did Chris secure his PIPS with Portland Press?
Chris initially researched a large number of publishing houses, he speculatively sent his CV and cover letter; he would then follow up his application with a phone call to the organisation. He found this approach was quite time-consuming and did not yield a high response, so Chris reached out to his own network for contacts in the publishing industry. Luckily Chris had a friend who previously worked at Portland Press Ltd and they put him in touch with a member of the editorial team. Chris organised an interview, and he was offered an internship starting a few months later. Chris would advise anyone applying for internships to utilise their contacts and be persistent in following up with the organisation. Having a contact in the organisation really helps with getting your application noticed!
What did the company look for in a placement student?
Portland Press wanted someone who was enthusiastic, willing to learn, and able to ‘have a go’ at a variety of tasks, some of which were mundane and others that would be more challenging. It was good to have someone who had little or no experience in the publishing industry so that they did not arrive with any preconceived ideas. The only requirement they had was for the intern to have scientific knowledge.
What did Chris do on his placement?
Portland Press is the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, and produces the Biochemical Journal and Clinical Science, among other titles. It is a really exciting time to work there, with both the Society and the Press going through a number of changes to their look, systems and processes. Chris’ role mainly consisted of qualitative and quantitative data analysis, building upon his lab skills in the context of publishing. This included carrying out extensive citation analysis, looking at which research is high profile and which areas could be improved. Helping with the peer review submitted articles, Chris was able to generate strategies for expanding the research that is published by Portland Press, and he helped with commissioning experts to write the hot topics of the week.
What did Chris gain from the experience?
The placement was an opportunity for Chris to experience the other side of academic publishing. From the placement Chris gained commercial awareness, which he found particularly useful as this experience is very difficult to come by during a PhD. He improved on his analytical skills, market research skills by soliciting reviews, launching new content and searching for peer reviewers. Chris broadened his scientific interests as he was exposed to research in areas he was almost completely unaware of previously.
How did the placement contribute to Portland Press?
Portland Press is going through a period of significant change both in organisational structure and in processes. The work Chris undertook provided some foundations for future development of the department, and helped the creation of an overall strategy. The Biochemical Society is committed to the advancement of science for academics and students. Part of its ethos is to foster education and student opportunities. Therefore being part of the BBSRC PhD placement programme was the perfect way to meet this for Portland Press.
Has the placement influenced Chris’s career direction?
Since the start of his PhD Chris always wanted to go into post-doctoral work, however he enjoyed the editorial and strategic aspects of his placement. Therefore Chris would certainly consider joining an editorial board while in academia if possible, but would also consider working in publishing outside of academia. Chris has a better understanding of the publishing industry and hopes the experience will come in handy for articles he will publish in the future.
If you’re a UCL PhD or researcher wondering how to secure work experience or a more permanent post, book an appointment to speak with one of our advisers. And for advertised opportunities check out UCL Talent Bank and JobOnline.
Tags: Careers case study, placement case study, placements, science careers, science publishing
Elpida’s career journey from a PhD to becoming Engineering Education Developer & Coordinator at UCL
Elpida Makrygianni has a PhD in Computer Science and Electronic & Electrical Engineering and now works as an Engineering Education Developer & Coordinator at UCL. Elpida spoke to UCL Careers about her post-PhD career.
Tell us about your job.
My job focuses on developing and managing a comprehensive suite of engineering engagement and education programmes for children and young people aged 5 -19 years old from London and across the UK. Central to my role is the development of a Pre-19 engagement strategy, which increases access and widens diversity in every sense, where engineering is seen as intrinsically worthwhile and relevant to young people from all walks of life. Through our programmes we seek to change the stereotyped perceptions of suitable choices and careers in young people – both girls and boys – their teachers, parents, carers and youth workers, by raising awareness of the exciting and wide-ranging careers in engineering.
How did you move from a PhD to your current role?
After studying computer science and engineering with genetics, social science and economics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, my passion for research led me to a PhD in Artificial Intelligent Systems mapping China’s economic growth. In the first year of my PhD, I took on a role as a teaching assistant for undergraduate students and research assistant on EU projects. Being a doctoral student was one of the most exciting, transformative yet stressful periods of my life. When I finished my PhD, I took a six-month break and travelled around Europe. In 2008, I returned to the UK and started working for the Gates Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation on science and technology educational projects in the UK, US and China. In 2011, I was offered a job opportunity as a consultant for the UK Department for Education to design training and educational materials for school pupils with autism. Before moving to UCL, I worked at Cambridge University researching the role of STEM education in schools across the country in rural and urban areas.
What does an average working day look like?
Each working day is very different, from visiting schools, to running activities and events, to designing new programmes, working with staff and students on existing and new activities, talking at conferences, writing articles and grant proposals, meeting and working with industry partners to supporting schools with bespoke tailored programmes. Most of my time is spent out of the office. My schedule is usually quite demanding and I am always on the move so maintaining a happy, healthy work life balance is extremely important for me.
How does your PhD help you in your job?
My doctoral studies allowed me to develop good project management, communication and writing skills but also knowledge on engineering education. The choices made during my PhD and throughout my career path, also tested my ability to adapt, achieve and be effective with different teams and work environments. In addition, it encouraged me to be brave when selecting exciting new roles – that might have seemed out of my reach at first – greatly increasing my self-confidence in the process.
What are the best things about your job?
The most fascinating part of my job is working with staff and students to create exciting activities based on cutting edge research conducted at the labs with a strong social context or environmental focus. I am constantly given a unique opportunity to learn about advances in areas of engineering while meeting extraordinary individuals conducting research in our faculty. Inspiring pupils about engineering and enabling them to develop their problem-solving skills, knowledge and self-confidence, while sparking their creativity and curiosity around STEM careers and degrees is what makes my job very special.
What are the downsides?
There are no real downsides or big challenges in my role, but working with a network of over 400 schools, thousands of pupils and 500 academics and students can be quite overwhelming and extremely busy at times. This pace of work can be invigorating for some people and discouraging for others.
What tips would you give researchers wanting to move into the same, or similar, role?
Researchers wanting to move into this field will need to be quite entrepreneurial, independent, good time-managers and communicators as well as qualified and experienced in the fields of engineering and social science. Work experience or working as an assistant can be an excellent way to find out if a role is for you or not.
Tags: Careers case study, Computer Science, engineering, public engagement
Bookings open for Life Science Sector Employer Fair for UCL Researchers
Life Science Sector: Employer Fair and one-to-one sessions for PhDs and Researchers
27th April 2016 from 11:00 to 16:00
The aim of this event is to help PhD and other research students with their career planning by providing an opportunity to meet employers from the Life Science sector.
The event will begin with an intimate fair which will have a few select organisations. Many of the employers present will be PhD holders themselves. The fair will be followed by one-to-one sessions that will allow you to discuss any questions you might have in further detail with a specific employer on a one on one basis.
Companies attending:
DDB Remedy
Cambridge Healthcare Research
Coulter Partners
Ernst & Young (EY)
Immunocore
JA Kemp
L.E.K. Consulting
Lucozade Ribena Suntory (LRS)
National Institute for Biological Standards and Control(NIBSC)
To find out more information about the companies attending go to:http://courses.grad.ucl.ac.uk/course-details.pht?course_ID=2234
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Tags: Employer fair, Health Sector, life science
Alice Lui’s Festival Experience at Science Museum
SophiaDonaldson8 April 2016
Image taken from Allan Watt.
Alice Lui is a current PhD student with the London Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Programme; based in Saul Purton’s lab her PhD project is studying the synthesis of fungible biofuels in cyanobacteria. Alice initially wanted to gain experience in science communications to reach the wider public beyond academia. The placement team brokered a relationship with the Science Museum who offered exclusive roles to PIPS students, one of which was the chance to work at one of their upcoming festivals. This was the perfect opportunity for Alice to gain experience in science communication to a wider audience, she applied and was offered the position after having an interview. She was supervised by the Assistant Content Developer, Pippa Hough.
How did Alice secure her placement with Science Museum?
The placements team was aware that Science Museum were interested in taking on UCL students as interns so we got in touch and informed them of BBSRC/LIDo programme. They were keen to host such students on a placement and offered two exclusive PIPS opportunities, Alice sent her CV and cover letter to Science Museum, and she was then invited to an interview and then offered the position to begin shortly after.
What was The Science Museum looking for in their placement student?
The Science Museum wanted a student who would be able to work to tight deadlines, has excellent research skills, and would be able to handle a lot of changes! Alice’s expertise in synthetic biology and bio-sciences in general really stood out in her application/interview as this would be helpful in translating complicated research papers.
What did Alice do on her placement?
The main focus of Alice’s placement was to research and develop the scientific content for the ‘You Have Been Upgraded’ festival on the topic of human enhancement technologies. Her time was spent mostly on researching the area of human enhancement and synthetic biology. She contacted academics, artists and individuals involved in this area of research and interviewed them about their work and whether they would be interested in being involved in the festival. Alice also researched possible demonstrations that could be shown during the festival. During the week leading up to the festival, Alice helped with setting up the festival space. During the festival Alice supported the scientists and interacted with the public, she was also responsible for researching possible objects that could feature in the museum.
What did Alice gain from the experience?
The main thing Alice gained from her placement was the confidence to communicate! She improved on her communication skills as she was communicating with people outside the industry and therefore had to learn how to engage a lay audience. This was extremely valuable to her especially if she decides to embark on a career outside of academia. Alice learned the importance of being organised which improved her time management skills.
How did the placement contribute to The Science Museum?
Alice’s ability to think fast on her feet and problem solve on the go really helped the festival run as smoothly as it did. Alice also did general research around contemporary science topics that fed into events and small exhibitions the department produces. Her work on finding an object to represent a case on Ebola was particularly helpful! Overall she proved how valuable it is to have an intern which is something the team has not done before and there are excited to have their next LIDo intern.
Did the placement influence Alice’s career plans?
Although Alice is still uncertain about her future job prospects the placement has made Alice realise how important job satisfaction and your wellbeing is. She is therefore considering different types of opportunities. Alice may consider a role in Science Communication following her PhD as she gained a lot of confidence in communicating with a wider audience.
Tags: Careers case study, placement case study, placements, public engagement, science careers, science communication
What is Data Science and how can you get into it? Tips from a Data Scientist
Vivienne CWatson1 April 2016
Shaun Gupta has a MSci in Physics from UCL and a PhD in Particle Physics from Oxford. He tells us how he started his career in Data Science and what being a Data Scientist is like.
I am currently employed as a Data Scientist at a startup called Row Analytics. Data Science is an emerging field, and it involves using a mixture of coding and statistical analysis to answer questions using big datasets. The company is very small (less than 10 people), which means my role actually covers a wide range of different activities in addition to just Data Science. It is an exciting place to work as I am helping to build the company from the ground up, in a sector that is still relatively new and constantly evolving.
After undertaking an MSci in Physics at UCL, I pursued a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Oxford. During my final year, I spent a month taking part in the 2015 Science to Data Science (S2DS) bootcamp, based in London. The school was a pivotal opportunity to learn more about the emerging field of Data Science, and showed me how relevant my skill set was in industry. As part of the school, I spent time working on an exciting project with my current employer Row Analytics, who offered me a full-time position once the school was over.
As the company is currently very small, I tend to perform a variety of tasks as part of my job. My time at the moment is split between helping to set up an infrastructure in the cloud on AWS, setting up and configuration databases (noSQL and graph based), building a web application (both front and server backend), writing programs to scrape unstructured data, and performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) on the data.
In essence, my role is very similar to what I did during my PhD, only using data from a different source. As a result many of the techniques and practices I learnt during my PhD are useful in doing my job. These include programming, problem solving skills, strong mathematical skills, statistical analysis techniques including knowledge of learning algorithms, and the ability to work independently in a research driven way to develop new ideas/products.
I enjoy working in a constantly evolving field with many opportunities to get involved in new projects and learn about new cutting edge techniques. I also find it exciting working for a company at such an early stage in its development, and being involved in shaping its future. I am also lucky in how flexible my work is, with the ability to work from home a couple of days a week.
As the role involves a lot of coding, a lot of time can be spent fixing bugs. Also a lot more time is spent working with the data and structuring it in the correct way for analysis than one may expect initially.
Data Science is a new and exciting sector that is rapidly growing, and so now is the perfect time to get involved. I would say solid programming skills coupled with good analytical ability is key. Therefore, I would advise to brush up on your coding skills in languages such as Python and R, and your knowledge of statistics. Attempting challenges on sites such as Kaggle is a useful way to do this. Attending a school such as S2DS will help you to learn more about the industry, and get involved in real world applications of Data Science with companies. There are also many meet-ups around London and boot-camps that are worth attending.
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Tags: Careers case study, Data Science, Data Scientist, Row Analytics
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Why some people are mosquito magnets
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By Cari Nierenberg
Some folks seem to be magnets for mosquitoes, while others rarely get bitten. What makes the little buggers single you out and not the guy or gal you’re standing next to at the Memorial Day backyard barbecue?
The two most important reasons a mosquito is attracted to you have to do with sight and smell, says Jonathan Day, a professor of medical entomology at the University of Florida in Vero Beach. Lab studies suggest that 20 percent of people are high attractor types, he says.
Mosquitoes are highly visual, especially later in the afternoon, and their first mode of search for humans is through vision, explains Day. People dressed in dark colors — black, navy blue, red — stand out and movement is another cue.
Once the mosquito keys in on a promising visual target, she (and it’s always “she” — only the ladies bite) then picks up on smell. The main attractor is your rate of carbon dioxide production with every exhale you take.
Those with higher metabolic rates produce more carbon dioxide, as do larger people and pregnant women. Although carbon dioxide is the primary attractant, other secondary smells coming from your skin or breath mark you as a good landing spot.
Lactic acid (given off while exercising), acetone (a chemical released in your breath), and estradiol (a breakdown product of estrogen) can all be released at varying concentrations and lure in mosquitoes, says Day. Your body temperature, or warmth, can also make a difference. Mosquitoes may flock to pregnant women because of their extra body heat.
But with more than 350 compounds isolated from odors produced by human skin, researchers have barely scratched the surface behind a mosquito’s preference for certain people, says Joseph Conlon, a medical entomologist and the technical advisor to the American Mosquito Control Association.
Although it may all boil down to human odor and genetics — studies of twins have revealed they tend to be attractive or repellant to mosquitoes in the same measure — it’s more complicated than that, suggests Conlon.
He says the latest thinking is that it might not be about what makes people more attractive to mosquitoes, but what makes them not as repellant. It could be that individuals who get less bites produce chemicals on their skin that make them more repellant and cover up smells that mosquitoes find attractive.
Mosquitoes don’t bite you for food, since they feed off plant nectar, Conlon explains. Females suck your blood to get a protein needed to develop their eggs, which can then send more pesky insects into the world to annoy you.
But keep this in mind when you’re outdoors this summer: Mosquitoes are more attracted to people after they drink a 12-ounce beer. It could be that people breathe a little harder after a cold one or their skin is a little warmer, suggests Conlon. But that won’t stop him from having a brewski, even though he considers himself a mosquito magnet.
Here are more fun facts about mosquitoes and bites provided by our experts:
Eating bananas will not attract mosquitoes and taking vitamin B-12 will not repel them; these are old wives’ tales.
Some mosquito species are leg and ankle biters; they cue into the stinky smell of bacteria on your feet.
Other species prefer the head, neck and arms perhaps because of the warmth, smells emitted by your skin, and closeness to carbon dioxide released by your mouth.
The size of a mosquito bite welt has nothing to do with the amount of blood taken and everything to do with how your immune system responds to the saliva introduced by the mosquito into your skin.
The more times you get bitten by a particular species of mosquito, the less most people react to that species over time. The bad news? There’s more than 3,000 species worldwide.
*Story provided by Bodyodd on msnbc complete story – http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/27/6732427-why-some-people-are-mosquito-magnets
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FCA US blasts dealership racketeering suit as ‘baseless’
by byte clay
Pulling no punches, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US (FCA US) slammed a racketeering lawsuit filed yesterday calling it “nothing more than the product of two disgruntled dealers who have failed to perform their obligations under agreements they signed with FCA U.S.”
Tuesday, the Napleton Auto Group, an automotive dealer chain with more than 50 stores in four states, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, alleging sales falsification, strong-arm tactics, and other actions. The dealerships named in the suit include the auto group’s Chrysler Jeep Dodge RAM dealerships in Arlington Heights, Ill., and in Lake Park, Fla. Its suit claimed, among other things, that the automaker conspired with dealers to inflate the carmaker’s sales reports. Further, the suit alleges the automaker offered dealers money to handle the report falsification.
FCA lambasted the dealerships, saying they failed to provide evidence supporting the claims before the filing of the suit. “Notwithstanding numerous requests to provide evidence of this alleged activity, the plaintiffs have refused to substantiate the claims … FCA US carried out an investigation of the facts, and has determined that these allegations are baseless, and plaintiffs were notified of this fact before they filed suit,” the automaker said in a statement.
The suit alleges dealers were paid to report false sales on the last day of the sales reporting month. After the sales were booked and reported, the dealerships then “backed them out” or canceled them (unwinding them is the industry parlance). Each sale was canceled “before the factory warranty on the vehicles could be processed and start to run,” said Automotive News today.
The trade paper pointed out that sometimes manufacturers, to encourage churn and drive higher sales, often dangle bonuses and other incentives to dealers who increase new-vehicle orders or quickly sell out of older models on a lot.
Continuing its attempt to savage the dealer, FCA accused the dealership of threatening suit if it wasn’t awarded FCA sales points. At this time, the Napleton group operates more than 50 dealerships in Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri, representing 32 franchises.
“This lawsuit is nothing more than the product of two disgruntled dealers who have failed to perform their obligations under the dealer agreements they signed sith FCA US,” the automaker emphasized. “They have consistently failed to perform since at least 2012 and have also used the threat of litigations over the last several months in a wrongful attempt to compel FCA US to reserve special treatment for them, including the allocation of additional open points in the U.S. FCA network,” the automaker stated emphatically. Interestingly, FCA implies that two separate dealers were making the allegation, instead of one dealer group.
Edward Napleton, dealer-principal, declined comment on the suit. In the suit, the Napleton group alleges that the dealer was offered $20,000 to report falsely sales of vehicles. He turned down the deal and told the automaker to stop the practice. Instead, FCA went on to other, more cooperative dealers.
FCA said it would not be intimidated by the racketeering lawsuit. The automaker, in a rare display of pique at the media, said that it found “it unfortunate and disappointing that reputable media would be willing to be used in questionable litigation practices without a full understanding of the facts.”
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Supporting game changing groups who share our commitment to creativity, community and industry sustainability is at the core of Cinereach’s organizational support. Through financial and professional tools and resources, Cinereach seeks to aid the work of these groups. Below is a list of organizations we have supported, click on each to read more about them and how you can support their efforts.
BlackStar Film Festival
The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual celebration of the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global communities of color, showcasing films by black, brown and indigenous people from around the world.
The Borscht Corp.
Borscht is a nonprofit with the simple mission to redefine cinema in Miami. Local filmmakers created Borscht in response to the lack of regional infrastructure and support, empowering artists to tell fresh Miami stories.
Detroit Narrative Agency
The stories we tell about a place form a kind of DNA — shaping what that place is and what it can become.For too long, the stories that circulate about Detroit have defined it as broken, violent, and in need of saving from itself. In recent years, and especially since Detroit’s emergence from bankruptcy in 2014, we see a new strand of stories about Detroit: stories of resurgence led by white billionaires, scrappy entrepreneurs, and pioneering artists. Invisible from that narrative is the Detroit that was saving itself along, the Detroit that is pushing back against marginalization and erasure, the Detroit that has a vision for the future based in liberation and justice.The Detroit Narrative Agency is amplifying that Detroit, incubating quality and compelling stories that will shift the dominant narratives about this place towards liberation and justice. Our current fellowship program is supporting a cohort of Black and Brown filmmakers in Detroit to develop short films and accompanying community impact strategies.
Indie Memphis
Mission: Create community through independent film and support the development of filmmakers. We fulfill our mission through the following four programs:
• Annual Film Festival
• Weekly Film Series
• Artist Development
• Youth Film Program
New Negress Film Society
The New Negress Film Society is a core collective of black women filmmakers whose priority is to create community and spaces for support, exhibition and consciousness-raising. The group is formed by Chanelle Aponte Pearson, Nuotama Bodomo, Dyani Douze, Ja’Tovia Gary, Stefani Saintonge and Yvonne Michelle Shirley.
The New Orleans Film Society discovers, cultivates, and amplifies diverse voices of filmmakers who tell the stories of our time. We produce the Oscar-qualifying New Orleans Film Festival annually and invest year-round in building a vibrant film culture in the South to share transformative cinematic experiences with audiences, and connect dynamic filmmakers to career-advancing resources.
SFFilm
SFFILM champions the world’s finest films and filmmakers through programs anchored in and inspired by the spirit and values of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Stockade Works
Stockade Works is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the further potential of film and tech in the Hudson Valley.
Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film, media, and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.
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Virtual Reality On Board
Virtual reality and other unusual entertainment on board
British Airways continues to expand the range of on-board entertainment services-virtual reality glasses will be available to first-class passengers of flights from London to New York. They will be able to use them to watch movies from the on-Board entertainment system or to meditate.
As was noted in British Airways, the main task of virtual reality glasses is to help people suffering from aerophobia. The device provides access to a range of therapeutic programs, including guided meditation and sound therapy, which will help calm down all those who experience fear of flying on airplanes. During long flights You can also watch documentary or feature films and TV programs for every taste in 2D, 3D or even 360°.
Virgin America decided to appease fearful passengers in another way. They have developed an exquisite interior design. Spectacular lighting enhances the impression that allows passengers to feel the luxury of VIP-class and completely forget about their discomfort which is associated with the flight. On the screen which is built into the back of each seat, the passenger can comfortably watch movies and use the chat to contact with any of the passengers in the aircraft what is very convenient if You are with friends or your family is flying in different places.
Malaysia Airlines passengers can entertain themselves by watching TV and playing video games but most of them prefer to spend time in the duty-free store of the airline which is located directly on the plane, buying designer accessories, alcoholic beverages and many other pleasant things.
And we will finish again with British Airways, it in honor of the 50th anniversary of the popular hero of English children's books and cartoons - Paddington bear, gives entertaining game sets with a notebook, thimble dolls and markers to all its little air passengers.
If suddenly the delay or cancellation of the flight did not allow You to enjoy staying in duty-free on board of the aircraft and You had a long time for waiting for the next flight - feel free to contact us and we will achieve compensation from the airline for You.
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Arctic Portal (Opens in a new Window)
The Arctic Portal is a comprehensive gateway to Arctic information and data on the internet, increasing information sharing and co-operation among Arctic stakeholders and granting exposure to Arctic related information and data. The interactive map allows user to select and view specific layers of climate variables, including boreholes, permafrost classification, permafrost extent, details on the active layer, sea ice extent, and historical climate. Additionally, static maps of sea ice, flora and fauna are available for download.
Current and Historical Weather Conditions Map for Alberta (Opens in a new Window)
The Current and Historical Weather Conditions Map for Alberta contains an interactive display of temperature, dew point, wind speed, humidity, and radiation observed at various stations across Alberta in real time. Users can filter by location/region and date. Data is available in hourly, daily, monthly and yearly resolutions. Data is presented in mapped form only.
Data at NSIDC (Opens in a new Window)
Data at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is a large repository of datasets that describe historical cryosphere information. Datasets available include temperature, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, sea ice, sea moisture, and snow. Historical data are available as point and gridded data.
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Historical Data (Opens in a new Window)
The Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC)'s Historical Data contains historical temperature, precipitation, wind and weather, measured daily and hourly by stations across the country. Data can be searched by station name, province, or proximity to user. Data are presented in tabular format and available for download as comma-separated-value formats.
Meteorological Data (Opens in a new Window)
Meteorological Data contains historical observations of weather, rainfall, solar radiation, monthly temperature, and dry bulb temperature. These hourly data are derived from daily or monthly files within the Meteorological Service of Canada's Historical Dataset. Data are available from 1992 onwards in tabular format.
Marine Environmental Data Service
Weather Conditions and Reports (Opens in a new Window)
The Weather Conditions and Reports database contains historical climate data at various scales from across Manitoba. About 109 stations monitor air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, wind speed/wind direction and soil temperature. In addition to regular weather and soil reports, users can access more specialized tools, including disease and crop condition reports. Data are available in tabular, mapped, and report formats.
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Two opportunities to fight two pipelines
August 2, 2019 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
If your climate anxieties are acting up, and you can spare ten minutes or ten bucks, here’s your chance.
TEN MINUTES:
National Grid is seeking approval to construct and operate the E37 natural gas pipeline that would cut through Papscanee Island on the Mahicannituck (Hudson) River. In addition to contributing to fossil-fueled climate change, this pipeline would desecrate a sacred place: Papscanee Island, named for a prominent Mohican chief, is a culturally significant part of the homelands of the Stockbridge Munsee-Mohican people. The island holds the bones of their ancestors, the artifacts of their villages, and the memory of their fertile maize mounds. Papscanee Island is recorded in the National Register of Historic Places because of its cultural significance to the Muh-he-con-neok (Mohican) “People of the Waters That Are Never Still.”
Please contact Kathleen H. Burgess, Secretary of NY Public Service Commission, at secretary@dps.ny.gov to urge the commission to block the pipeline. Reference “Case 19-T-0069” in your correspondence.
TEN BUCKS:
People fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia have been imprisoned, with bail set in the tens of thousands.
If you have money to spare, share it with them here.
Climate Anxiety Counseling at PVDFest: Guest Artists, Postcards Against the Plant, and more
June 7, 2019 / kjschapira
I’ll be at the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in Burnside Park for PVDFest tomorrow, starting at 12pm and going as long as I can (probably till dark, anyway).
In addition to listening and talking with you about climate and other anxieties, I will also have postcards that you can fill out for RI DEM, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Energy Facility Siting Board to register your objections to the fracked-gas power plant in Burrillville. (The EFSB is no longer officially taking public comments, but they can’t unsee a postcard.) The postcards will be addressed and stamped, and I can put them in the mailbox for you if you like–all you’ll have to do is write a comment explaining why this plant should not be built.
If you talk with me, you’ll be able to take home a little piece of art featuring a Rhode Island organism–sometimes with an action suggestion, if that’s where our conversation leads. I drew a bunch of them, like this one in honor of World Oceans Day (phytoplankton exhale between 1/2 and 3/4 of the oxygen we breathe).
[Image: drawing of phytoplankton species Ceratium furca, found in Narragansett Bay.]
For PVDFest, I’ll also be giving out organism drawings donated by these other artists:
May Babcock (who also donated handmade paper!) drew ajidamoo, aka Eastern chipmunk.
Zaidee Everett drew a marbled salamander.
Julia Gualtieri drew a big brown bat.
CJ Jimenez drew a cecropia moth.
James Kuo drew a pickerel frog.
These and other beautiful portraits of our nonhuman neighbors could go home with you if you come talk to me tomorrow. I hope you will accept this invitation for connection and action.
Rally Tonight, 5/30: Stop the Burrillville Power Plant!
May 30, 2019 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
Rally to stop a fracked-gas power plant in northern RI and protect the water, air, forest, and livable climate!
6-8pm TONIGHT (5/30)
Rhode Island State House
If you haven’t yet signed this petition against the plant, please do (especially if you can’t make it tonight). In both of these cases, it’s good to have lots of people. Burrillville BASE, the FANG Collective, the Burrillville Land Trust/No New Power Plant and many more people and groups have worked extremely hard for a long time to stop this disastrous project. Let’s follow up on the work they have done and are still doing. Hope to see you there.
Climate Anxiety Counseling in June 2019!
If you have anxieties about climate change and its effects, you can come talk with me at these times and places in Providence. These are the ones that are for sure right now; I will add more if I can set up more.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park (opposite Kennedy Plaza)
Thursday, June 6th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Saturday, June 8th, starting at 12pm and going till… in Burnside Park as part of PVDFest
Wednesday, June 12th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Thursday, June 13th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Friday, June 14th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Saturday, June 15th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Sunday, June 16th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Monday, June 17th, 2-5pm, Burnside Park
Wednesday, June 19th, 2-6pm, Sankofa World Market (275 Elmwood Ave)
Wednesday, June 26th, 2-6pm, Sankofa World Market
(I’ll also be at the Sankofa World Market in July and August!)
If you come and talk to me, I’ll listen, ask you some questions, possibly make some suggestions and give you a little piece of art to keep, featuring one of our nonhuman RI neighbors.
You can also mark your worries about specific places on a map of the state and nearby waters.
If you want me to come to your Rhode Island town (or even further afield, up to a point), email me at my gmail address, publiclycomplex, or talk to me on Twitter. (Climate Anxiety Counseling has a Facebook page too but I don’t use it very much.)
Some other things that are coming this summer and that I’ll post more about soon:
*Write to the Energy Facilities Siting Board and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to stop Invenergy’s fracked-gas power plant in Burrillville! You’ll be able to fill them out at the counseling booth, and I will send them in for you; you can also do them online for the EFSB (a petition with explanations and a comment that you can adapt) and RI DEM (instructions for submitting comments and the email address where you should send them).
*GUEST COUNSELORS! If you would like to be one, please let me know.
*Climate anxiety support group? Maybe? A couple of people have told me they’re interested; let me know if you’re interested too.
Fight Fossil Fuels in RI TONIGHT
October 16, 2018 October 16, 2018 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
No LNG in PVD, Burrillville Against Spectra Expansion, the Mashapaug Nahaganset Tribe and others are asking people to speak out against Governor Raimondo’s support of fossil fuel projects, and urge a change of course, at her fundraiser TONIGHT (10/16), 5-7pm, 60 Dorrance St, Providence.
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo is running for re-election, and Rhode Island needs her to actively oppose the two fossil fuel projects proposed for our state. Here is a very full statement of what her priorities have been and why they need to change, from the groups opposing these projects. From the statement:
You have told us to “trust the process” with the power plant. But the process is not a neutral one. Your administration, through various advisory opinions submitted to the Energy Facility Siting Board, has issued several reports that support the project and ignore serious concerns. With the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources even claiming that the construction of the power plant, which would produce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to putting 763,562 cars a year on the road, would be a good thing in the fight against climate change.
For both National Grid’s proposed LNG facility and Invenergy’s proposed power plant, free and prior consent was not reached with the indigenous nations whose land these projects would be built on. This includes your Administration ignoring the Mashapaug Nahaganset Tribe’s December 2017 cease and desist order demanding the halt of the LNG permitting process.
In addition to these local impacts, both of these projects would continue our region’s dependence on fossil fuels and would contribute to global climate change. A report from the United Nations released on October 8th stated that our civilization only has twelve years to confront the climate crisis before the crisis spirals out of control, with devastating impacts. To remain silent, or supportive of these fossil fuel projects proposed for Rhode Island, would mean that you are complicit in the violence and destruction of the climate crisis.
With key permitting decisions coming up for both the LNG facility and the power plant, now is the time for you to do what is right and speak out against these projects. In our opposition to these projects we have always been honest, direct and transparent. We now ask the same from you. We urge you to listen to the people of Providence and Burrillville, and to listen to the people of Rhode Island. The health and well being of your constituents, and your legacy, is on the line.
Please come out tonight, if you can.
Flood the Statehouse!
June 6, 2018 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
Tell Governor Raimondo #NoLNGinPVD!
TODAY, 4pm, Rhode Island Statehouse rotunda (the big room when you go inside)
No LNG in PVD is not only concerned with National Greed’s Liquefied Natural Gas Liquefaction export facility. It is unnecessary, unsafe and costly, but as seen by a malfunctioning port alarm, the recent natural gas explosion on Allens Ave and the state’s unwillingness to look at the cumulative dangers of the Port, whether or not this facility is built, the Southside and Washington Park are in danger and unprepared for an extreme weather event and subsequent flood. Both sides of Allens Ave. are overflowing with toxic, explosive facilities: National Grid, Shell, Univar, the scrapyards. All of these are on the wrong side of the hurricane barrier and adjacent to overburdened working-class communities of color.
As storms become more frequent and seas rise, the people living near the Port are in more danger with each passing day. Join us to tell Governor Raimondo and the other leaders of this state that they must stop the LNG plant, end fossil fuel infrastructure in Rhode Island and begin the process of making the Port a safe place to live.
No LNG in PVD: Water Quality Hearing 1/31/18, 6-9pm
January 31, 2018 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
The last chance to publicly testify against the proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the Southside of Providence is TONIGHT, 6-9pm, at the Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium (1 Avenue of the Arts, Providence).
Talking points are here, or you can find your own ways to say that this plant is dangerous, toxic, environmentally racist, and bad for Providence and Rhode Island.
Please come.
No LNG in PVD: Petition, Call-In, Hearing
December 8, 2017 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
The latest turn of events in the fight against the liquefied natural gas plant that National Grid wants to build in South Providence is that the chair of one of the evaluating agencies, the Coastal Resources Management Council, has demonstrated bias and holds conflicts of interest that make it impossible for her to make an impartial determination in a case involving both environmental racism and National Grid. Seven elected officials, 19 organizations and multiple Rhode Island residents are calling for CRMC Council Chair Jennifer Cervenka’s resignation.
If you want to help fight unethical conduct, environmental racism and climate change, and you live in Rhode Island, you can help by signing and sharing this petition, by calling Governor Raimondo (who appointed Ms. Cervenka), and by coming to the third CRMC hearing on Tuesday, December 12, at 5pm in the Department of Administration Cafeteria at One Capitol Hill.
No LNG in PVD: Call the Governor / CRMC Hearing
November 12, 2017 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
This Tuesday, there are three things you can do to fight the fracked-gas liquefaction facility that National Grid wants to build on the Southside of Providence.
Call Governor Raimondo , (401) 222-2080, and tell her to publicly oppose National Grid’s proposed liquefaction facility. Details and a potential script are at the link. You can also just call that number, give your name and address, say “I’m calling to ask the Governor to publicly oppose National Grid’s proposed liquefaction facility,” thank the staffer, and hang up.
Come to the first Coastal Resources Management Council hearing, 5pm on Tuesday, One Capitol Hill, Department of Administration Cafeteria. Come prepared to speak or just support. We’ll have lists of talking points to share if anyone wants them. The CRMC is considering whether to grant one of the permits that National Grid would need; let’s show them why they should not do that.
Donate to No LNG in PVD’s legal fundraiser, if you haven’t already.
Every person who has ever said to me at the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth that you feel helpless–here are three ways to help.
No LNG in PVD: Coastal Resources Management Council hearing 11/14
November 3, 2017 / kjschapira / Leave a comment
Department of Administration Cafeteria
One Capitol Hill (across from the State House), Providence
Bring a sign that says “No LNG in PVD” or the climate justice/environmental justice message of your choice. Details of what we’re fighting and why are at the link. If you know you can’t make it, but have a little money to share, it would be so good if you could donate to the legal fund.
Let’s stop this before it happens.
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MINI CREATES WORLD’S FIRST MINI LIVING BUILDING IN SHANGHAI.
As urbanisation continues to gather pace, attractive living spaces in large cities are becoming increasingly sparse. Indeed, more people than ever are living within a shrinking footprint. With MINI LIVING, MINI is addressing these developments and creating the first co-living project in China. MINI is working with Chinese project developer Nova Property Investment Co. to transform an unused industrial complex in the Jing’An district of Shanghai into a multi-layered co-living initiative made up of apartments, working spaces and cultural/leisure offerings. The conversion work is slated to begin before the end of this year.
Launched in 2016, MINI LIVING has explored new kinds of living concepts which seek to maximise quality of life within minimal spaces – all in keeping with the brand’s “Creative Use of Space” motto. The project in Shanghai sees MINI translating the concept idea encapsulated by its previous installations into an actual building project for the first time. A former paint factory will be transformed into an urban hotspot with generous space for working, interaction and living. Here, MINI LIVING will offer apartments, bookable workspaces and services such as vehicles for shared use as part of a concept enabling maximum personal flexibility and optimum use of space. The MINI LIVING idea that we get more when we share applies not only to the building’s residents but those of the city as a whole. Indeed, parts of the MINI LIVING complex will be accessible to the wider public.
“MINI has always been an urban brand. It not only has its finger on the pulse of the city, it injects that pulse with extra energy,” explains Peter Schwarzenbauer, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, responsible for MINI, Rolls-Royce, BMW Motorrad, Customer Experience and Digital Business Innovation BMW Group. “At MINI we are also well versed in the intelligent use of space; back in 1959 the classic Mini was already maximising the experience available within a very small footprint. MINI LIVING brings this know-how from the vehicles we drive into the places where we live. We are rethinking the idea of living space in the city and developing attrctive, need-oriented living concepts. Our aim here is to offer an extremely high quality of life within an extremely small area.” Peter Schwarzenbauer signed the contract with Nova Property at the MINI Urban Matters brand event in Shanghai at the start of November.
MINI LIVING is about more than where you live.
The MINI LIVING project in Shanghai is based on an innovative co-living concept. In an up-and-coming area of the well developed Jing'An district in the centre of the city, a cluster of six buildings will be turned into a vibrant urban neighbourhood. MINI LIVING will become a home for singles, sharers and families on short, medium-term and extended tenancies. The design and therefore the character of the apartment interiors is international, modern and clean, and features references to the history of Shanghai. However, living in an apartment that occupies only a small surface area in no way means going without. Anything that doesn’t fit inside the apartments (activities or objects) can be accommodated in the adjacent spaces.
MINI LIVING offers room to experience community as well. Generously sized lobbies provide an excellent place to just hang out, while exhibition areas and a food market invite a closer look. The available facilities also include gardens, play areas, shops and restaurants, which people living elsewhere in Shanghai will be welcome to access too. MINI LIVING is keen to promote social interaction, not only among the residents themselves but with people from other parts of the city. After all, one of the key aims of MINI LIVING is to bring people together and encourage shared experiences.
In addition to the space itself, the project also comprises additional services that can be accessed digitally. For example, residents can make restaurant reservations, book room cleaning and service, order food and rent mobility options. So MINI LIVING not only demonstrates how space can be used in an intelligent way, it also offers scope for individualisation and a range of digital services.
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Notable reports from yesterday’s storm
Jared Smith / April 20, 2019 at 3:15 PM
Straight-line winds were the order of the day for the Charleston area from an intense squall line that moved through the Southeast yesterday.
Needless to say, we had quite the severe weather event this afternoon. So far we've sent out 147 storm reports. Fortunately, as far as we know there were no injuries as a result of the weather in our area. #gawx #scwx pic.twitter.com/IhC39EmO8n
— NWS Charleston, SC (@NWSCharlestonSC) April 20, 2019
Despite several tornado warnings, surveys from the Charleston forecast office have yielded all straight-line wind damage. (There have been at least three tornadoes confirmed by the Columbia office as of this writing, though.) In all, the Charleston weather forecast office has issued over 150 storm reports from yesterday’s event for its county warning area (which includes southeast Georgia). Here are some of the fairly notable ones:
81 MPH gust reported at the Charleston Branch Pilots Association just ahead of the squall line at 2:51 PM. (The anemometer is sited about 80 feet up.)
68 MPH gust was measured at the WeatherFlow Shutes Folly sensor around 2:55 PM.
63 MPH gust was measured by a docked NOAA ship at 2:55 PM.
A tractor trailer was blown over on the Don Holt Bridge by strong non-thunderstorm winds around 1PM.
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Several reports of downed trees in Planters Pointe and Dunes West in Mt. Pleasant. A NWS employee near there reported a limb through a car windshield.
Someone on James Island had a mailbox blown away.
A couple trees went down on I-26 around Ridgeville and Harleyville.
For a full accounting of yesterday’s storm reports, keep an eye on the Iowa Mesonet Storm Report Viewer.
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Climate Denial Crock of the Week
with Peter Sinclair
At Heartland: Doddering Deniers Delusional Death Grip
Someone went to this summer’s Heartland Climate Denial conference so we wouldn’t have to. I post above my report from a 2012 meeting in Chicago.
I understand sales of the “I Heart CO2” Catheters were brisk this year.
In These Times:
There’s no need to worry about reducing the greenhouse gases driving climate change—all that carbon dioxide is actually “greening the planet.” The Green New Deal, on the other hand, would send the country back to the stone age, or at least the pre-industrial era. Those were among the eye-popping and often-conflicting views expressed yesterday at the Heartland Institute’s 13th International Climate Change Conference, a gathering of climate change deniers that took place at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House.
The vast majority of the world’s climate scientists agree that climate change could prove devastating to life as we know it unless we take swift and sweeping action to decarbonize the economy . But those “wild predictions have been pronouncedly exaggerated,” according to the British gadfly Lord Christopher Monckton, who holds the title 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.
One of the more colorful figures in the climate denial universe, Monckton ticked off a list of problems scientists have linked to climate change that Monckton says we really don’t need to worry about. According to him, the world is seeing less, not more, drought; sea levels are falling not rising; forest fires are causing less damage; hurricane activity is decreasing, too; and carbon dioxide is actually improving the global environment by “greening” places like Australia’s Great Sandy Desert. “That’s why we need more CO2, because it greens the planet,” he declared.
Other conference panelists joined Monckton in cycling through a series of theories long debunked by peer-reviewed science. Some believe, like Monckton, that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are growing but provide more benefits than threats. (One Heritage Foundation official went so far as to suggest carbon dioxide emitters should get paid a subsidy rather than face the kind of carbon tax scheme policymakers have discussed; of course, the oil industry already does receive billions in subsidies.) Others argued that CO2 levels are in fact not rising, while still others say we should be more concerned about a coming ice age.
“The real problem is we have a lot more to worry about with global cooling than with global warming,” said Rodger Bezdek, an energy analyst and Heartland policy advisor.
If the speakers and audience members don’t all agree on why we shouldn’t worry about climate change, the few hundred people assembled in a hotel ballroom yesterday do share a number of other ideas: chiefly, that the fossil fuel industry is under unfair attack and deserves public support, while the Green New Deal is a totalitarian communist plot to steal American liberties and cast the world into “energy poverty.”
Kevin D. Dayaratna, a senior statistician at the Heritage Foundation, told the audience the Left had already begun to take control of the country and would continue its authoritarian advance with a Green New Deal.
On the surface, times would seem to be good for Heartland and the climate change denial movement, with the world’s most prominent climate change denier living in the White House. President Donald Trump has run with many of this group’s longtime demands such as withdrawing the United States from the United Nations’ Paris climate accord and rolling back Obama-era pollution rules.
But the evidence has never been stronger that climate change is already happening and will have increasingly catastrophic impacts on human civilization (not to mention other species) unless the world takes action. Meanwhile, the surprisingly fierce rise of children activists demanding climate action has boosted public concern worldwide and helped sweep progressive politicians supporting a Green New Deal into U.S. Congress.
This may be part of why climate denialists (who prefer to be called “climate realists”) appear to be struggling to remain relevant and attract younger followers. Yesterday’s speakers and audience members were overwhelmingly old, white and male. After the first panel session, there were so many white-haired men waiting for the men’s room that a long line snaked out the door, past the gold-plated trash bins embossed with the Trump name. The line for the women’s room, by contrast, was significantly shorter.
To recruit younger generations, one audience member suggested warning them that Green New Deal supporters want to take their iPhones away and return the country to a time before electricity—never mind that electricity, in the form of solar and wind, is central to the Green New Deal proposal. (Of course, panelists and audiences expressed extreme skepticism about renewables, as well.)
Not only does the climate denial movement appear in danger of aging out, raising funds is getting more difficult. Traditionally funded by fossil fuel companies, Heartland’s oil and gas money has dried up in recent years as the scientific consensus around climate change has grown stronger, putting oil and gas companies under pressure from shareholders and the public to stop funding groups that deny the problem.
Earlier this year the libertarian Cato Institute disbanded its climate denial program, the Center for the Study of Science. And yesterday’s Heartland conference had fewer than half the number of speakers and panelists as its first International Climate Change Conference in 2008. The number of sponsoring organizations has also fallen by more than half since 2008.
Despite these developments, climate change denialism continues to get more than its fair share of media coverage, according to an analysis by the Public Citizen published Wednesday to coincide with the conference. The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization found that media coverage of climate denial by Heartland, Heritage and three other think tanks increased from 2014 to 2018.
“The mounds of scientific evidence … should lead to a radical decline in the influence of climate deniers in the media,” Allison Fisher, outreach program director for Public Citizen’s climate program, said in a press release. “Amazingly, coverage of the deniers’ messages has risen over the past five years as the climate crisis has worsened, with much of it being uncritical.”
It seems possible to conceive of a time, not all that far off in the future, when the effects of climate change will become so evident and frequent that denying it’s happening will no longer be an option. But that’s hardly a comforting thought.
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12 Responses to “At Heartland: Doddering Deniers Delusional Death Grip”
jimbills Says:
‘There’s no need to worry about reducing the greenhouse gases driving climate change—all that carbon dioxide is actually “greening the planet.” The Green New Deal, on the other hand, would send the country back to the stone age, or at least the pre-industrial era. Those were among the eye-popping and often-conflicting views expressed yesterday at the Heartland….’
They haven’t changed their message much in a decade, have they? Just add the ‘Green New Deal’ fear-mongering.
dumboldguy Says:
Heartland and all the people associated with it are a sad joke. Unfortunately, there are still too many too many politicians, greedy rich, and just plain ignorant Trump voters listening to them.
grindupbaker Says:
You can hear William Happer confidently inform at 8:54 to 9:04 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9UlF8hkhs that all plants consist only of the elements hydrogen (H), carbon (C) and oxygen (O) in various combinations. I’m not making that up. He says that. This guy is clearly a well-studied expert in organic chemistry, agricultural science and nutritional science who really knows what it takes to produce a thriving species of Life consisting of lumps of wet coal.
rhymeswithgoalie Says:
He just doesn’t like dieticians telling him to eat his vegetables.
D’oh! …dietitians…
mboli Says:
My favorite quote is from the promotional web posting before the conference:
“The conference will feature the courageous men and women who spoke the truth about climate change during the height of the global warming scare. Now, many of them are advising the new administration or joining it in senior positions.”
https://www.heartland.org/events/events/13th-international-conference-on-climate-change
Listen, it takes courage and soul-searching to accept a massively-overpaid Yes Man job because science shows that persons who do nothing whatsoever that’s worthwhile in the slightest with their lives are subject to depression & suicide. You can’t argue with science.
Persons who do nothing whatsoever that’s worthwhile in the slightest with their lives are subject to depression & suicide ONLY if they are self aware enough to become depressed and then suicidal. These doddering delusionals will likely never reach that point—-they’re too happy whoring and cashing their paychecks.
A thought—-if the word could be spread that Heartland headquarters was really a secret huge combined mosque, synagogue, abortion clinic, and socialist party headquarters, do you think some RWNJ’s would be driven to shoot it up? Now that would be ironic.
How can you people stand reading that stuff?
Mind-blowing isn’t it? mboli’s quote is typical of the lying bullshit that pervades everything Heartland prints. I read the Heartland BS far less often than I used to—it IS hard to take.
Jennfer Gandy Says:
I’m not denying that climate change isn’t happening. I’m denying what is causing the problem. CO2 is an essential element in our atmosphere that we need for plants to produce oxygen, without oxygen, there will be no life on this planet! Man is not smart enough to screw around with something that is vital to all life! If you go sucking up the CO2 out of our atmosphere, man will not know when to stop! There are other greenhouse gases. H2O makes up 60% of greenhouse gases. I guess now you want suck up all the water vaper in the air, then we will never get any rain! There many other things that are causing climate change, not just one Quit demonizing a vital element essential for life for politcal gains. Why don’t you just suck up all the oxygen out of the atmosphere instead and kill everything on this planet and be done with it.
greenman3610 Says:
I saving this one for the pure 100 proof distillation of stupidity that it is, right from the first self-contradictory double negative. Thanks for this one.
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A Tough Debut for Tony
Steph Curry’s tremendous Web.com Tour debut last year at the Ellie Mae Classic was such a success that many believed it would open the door for more famous athletes to participate in other professional tournaments in the future. However, after Tony Romo’s lacklustre performance at the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, one has to think that that door is probably closing quickly. Romo was given a sponsor’s exemption for the tournament and finished dead last in the 132-man field, six shots behind the nearest amateur competitor. He opened the tournament with a somewhat respectable round of 77, but things went sideways in a hurry on Friday morning when the former quarterback rattled off six consecutive bogeys to start his second round. Romo went on to shoot an 82 and missed the cut by 16 strokes. “I lipped out three or four putts early, some short putts that kind of got me a little bit pressing,” Romo said. “I just didn’t hit the irons very good today. The back nine is 4000 yards, so when you’re not hitting those [fairways], well you’re going to have tough shots.”
If you regularly comb the internet for golf stories like we do, then you have probably come across your fair share of golf cart heist stories. But how many times can you recall reading about a golf cart that has withstood numerous theft attempts? That has been the case for a decrepit maintenance cart at Sterling Farms Golf Course in Stamford, Connecticut, which has been unsuccessfully targeted by thieves on four separate occasions! The most recent attempt occurred on March 15th, when surveillance cameras showed a man in a Ford pick-up truck trying to tie the cart to the back of his vehicle and drive away with it. Fortunately, the cart was chained to a rock on the property and the rope snapped during the incident. The cart did sustain $1000 worth of damage, including two busted tail lights and a detached steering column. And since the incident, several golf club employees have fittingly started referring to the cart as “Frankenstein” for both its grotesque appearance and its unique ability to keep coming back from the dead!
Swing of the Week
Dustin Johnson may have hit the most behemoth drive in the history of golf last week at the WGC-Dell Match Play when he uncorked a 489-yard howitzer on the 12th hole of the Austin Country Club on Friday evening! Unfortunately, there is no footage of the drive. But, the circuit did tweet out this incredible graphic of the shot to help put DJ’s mind-boggling distance into perspective.
Golf Animal of the Week
A ‘dancing’ kangaroo, mesmerised by a flag, has delighted golfers in Queensland. #9News https://t.co/XMt4d82S6M pic.twitter.com/r6YJNoHEOR
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For some time now, Bubba Watson has been one of the best escape artists on the PGA Tour. But this fairway bunker shot right up against the lip of the bunker in his Saturday match against Brian Harmon would have made even Harry Houdini blush. Incredible!
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Molly Jane Zuckerman
Deadline for Implementing Indian Central Bank’s Ban on Crypto Dealings Ends
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) deadline to implement ban to stop dealing with all crypto-related accounts expires Thursday, July 5, local news outlet The Times of India reports. The Supreme Court had also ruled earlier this week not to grant interim relief to those affected by the upcoming ban.
Panjak Jain, who works in Indian blockchain and crypto communities as an investor and an advisor, tweeted on July 3 that “it’s unfortunate, but India’s Supreme court refused to stay the @RBI’s limitation on regulated entities from working w/ #crypto businesses.” Jain added that the “silver lining” is that the central bank has to provide their reasoning for the ban in one week.
At the beginning of April, RBI announced that they would no longer be providing services to people or businesses that dealt in cryptocurrencies — which is not the same as a general ban on crypto.
India’s Supreme Court then denied a May injunction against RBI’s crypto dealings-ban sought by eleven different crypto-related businesses, adding a week later that no further petitions against the RBI ban can be filed in the High Court. India’s Supreme Court has reportedly set the date for the hearing on the existing petitions for July 20.
Today’s deadline to implement the ban means that Indian citizens will no longer be able to buy and sell cryptocurrencies on exchanges, but will instead need to use peer-to-peer networks, The Times of India writes. If an Indian citizen wants to exchange crypto to fiat, then they will need to then use marketplace exchanges.
Additionally, crypto exchanges and companies will not be able to receive loans from banks in India.
One direct result of the ban is that Indian cryptocurrency exchange Zebpay announced on July 4 that it would be freezing Indian rupee deposits and withdrawals before the ban came into effect.
Jason A. Williams, a partner at Morgan Creek Digital Assets, also tweeted about the Supreme Court upholding RBI’s ban:
“This decision puts India at a tremendous strategic disadvantage regarding innovation around Blockchain
India Trashed Rupee notes to expose corruption. They banned crypto to control the people.”
The crypto markets have seen a small slump today, which could be attributed to the news from India. Bitcoin (BTC) has dipped below $6,500, at around $6,470 by press time and down a little less than 3 percent over a 24 hour period. Ethereum (ETH) is trading for around $461, down a little less than one percent over a 24 hour period by press time.
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2019 to 2020: Insiders, Outsiders and Experimenters in Crypto Regulation, Part 2
Zachary Kelman
Binance Crypto Exchange Adds Support for Australian Dollars and Thai Baht
China’s Central Bank Completes Top-Later Design and Joint Tests of Planned CBDC
Huobi Exchange Partners With UAE Real Estate Firm to Enable Crypto Payments
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MIT and Harvard: When Elite Institutions Hack & Open Knowledge
By Aurore Dandoy, François-Xavier de Vaujany and Annie Passalacqua
MIT hackathon, 2014.
Mason Marino, Che-Wei Wang, Andrew Whitacre / Flickr, CC BY
Aurore Dandoy, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL; Annie Passalacqua, HEC Montréal et François-Xavier de Vaujany, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
As researchers and/or entrepreneurs, we have been absorbing cultural knowledge of collaboration, entrepreneurship, coworker and maker movements for a number of years. We often face and hear about how to become disruptive by two keywords: opening and hacking. Between July 25 and 28, 2018, we co-created a rich learning expedition organized by the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS), at MIT and Harvard University, in Cambridge (Massachusetts). This alternative academic network focuses on topics about new work practices inspired by open science and citizen science cultures.
The starting point of our learning expedition was our astonishment: How can elite institutions (in particular, MIT and Harvard University) and an elite territory originate key collaborative practices and ideology such as hacking, open knowledge and open innovation? How to combine search for excellence, global leadership and selectivity with horizontal, transgressive, underground cultures of hacking and opening knowledge? Our objective was to understand this paradox with a set of planned and improvised visits and meetings (see the OWEE protocol) focused on MIT and Harvard University. Is it possible to be both conformist and transgressive?
We want first to share some astonishments before focusing on key moments and encounters we see as provisional answers to our initial question. We will thus not detail all trip and everything that happened but we want to share here some selected afterthoughts.
Three general astonishments about Harvard University and MIT
We found three practices particularly striking both at MIT and Harvard University and their relationship with opening and hacking knowledge.
Our first was observing how much students (undergraduate, graduate, master and PhD students) and their theses and projects were made visible and valuated by the institutions. Through this, we do not only mean rewarding them and evaluating them (e.g. with awards), but truly putting them at forefront of what the university is and does. At the MIT Museum, we participate in the Idea Hub workshop named Hypercube, which was part of a masters thesis from by the Media Lab. In many parts of MIT, students’ work is exhibited, part of the storytelling or simply visible on or from the street.
Hypercube workshop.
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Secondly, we were surprised that at a time of global tensions and an obsession for security, there was also a great openness in the semi-public and public spaces. It was easy to simply enter, meet people, ask questions, walk around, and have chance encounters. Even if a lot of doors inside were (hopefully) closed and secured, most places were truly open to the city, its movements, its events, its ideas. Literally, those two campuses are open to citizens.
In continuation to this, the third element we found surprising was serendipity. It felt to be a reality here we could almost touch. It was very easy to connect, move from one meeting to another, and collaborate. But here there was a surprise in the surprise: this has nothing to do with fashionable collaborative spaces nor with a particular urbanism. The Wyss Institute we visited or the Broad Institute do not appear at all as decompartmentalised, coworking-like or makerspace-like places. Their offices, meeting rooms and labs are extremely traditional (see pictures below). Nonetheless, collaborative practices occur. We were really surprised by how easy it was to meet and have by chance encounters (e.g. with a person who collaborated to the vaccine against cancer).
Left: Lobby of the Wyss Institut at Harvard. Right: Entrance of the Broad Institute at MIT.
Five key moments in our exploration of opening and hacking knowledge
To introduce and shed light on the identified paradox, we would like here to share five relevant moments of the learning expedition.
A transgressive interdisciplinary place: the Wyss Institute at Harvard
The first encounter we would like to communicate happened at the Wyss Institute “for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University”. This interdisciplinary place is inspired by nature. It uses biological principles or metaphors to innovate in the health sector. Our meeting took place in the morning of day two of our learning expedition. Two researchers, among whom the founding director of the Institute Donald Ingber, presented us the institute, its activities and organization. The institute adventure started right after the 2008 financial crisis with a $125 million donation. Being both inside and outside of Harvard is obviously an interstitiality which foster innovative collaborations. Can a university accept and host such transgressive attempts? Wouldn’t it be possible to host all those research activities inside a traditional department? Specificities of the organization seem to be based on autonomy, trust and close work with practitioners. Elsewhere, this would probably mean being on one personal academic territory or another. Wyss Institute appears to be a more neutral zone.
MIT tour storytelling: all about hacking culture
The second moment we would like to point out is the official campus tour of MIT (we also did Harvard official campus tour). Tours are key practices in the life of American universities. The meeting point of MIT campus tour was at the entrance of the main building with the famous dome. Our guide was a young undergraduate interested in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Extremely mature, with an already assured sense of public speaking, she produced the story-telling of the tour with a lot of practical, scientific and historical details. We learned everything about the facilities, accommodation, recruitment, history, teaching and research activities of MIT. But most of all, we learned about MIT culture. Two enlightened moments of the tour were focused on hack culture of MIT and they happened to be the two key parts of tour: a stop in front of the most emblematic place and the last stop in front of the iconic hacked police car. In both cases, she put the stress on the importance of small transgressions inside MIT community, impertinence and sense of humor embodied by hacks and hacking culture (see pictures below). We were particularly surprised to see and hear all these official narratives precisely about the topic of our learning expedition. This was beyond our expectations.
An intriguing iconic hackers space in the middle of the night
The third moment we would like to share is our chance to visit a hackerspace. At the end of day 2, we were looking for Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC), an iconic, mythological place in hackers’ history, and incidentally, makers’ history. After three wrong places, we finally found the door and building in late evening. But it was closed. We did not see any way to come or call inside and we were waiting seated outside, waiting for someone entering or leaving the place. One of us went on the other side of the street and noticed something that looked like a makerspace with bikes and strange objects suspended in a big room. We went on the other side and knocked at a grimy window through which we guessed the presence of people inside. This was a lovely moment (see pictures below). Six makers (four men and two women) were working on a prototype of a small electric bike for an event the next day. We had a spontaneous conversation with one of them about the place, what it does, how membership was granted, how it was related to MIT teaching. The atmosphere was cool, warm and open. We came from nowhere, it was the evening and the street was already dark, but we felt really welcome. Indeed, TMRC was in the room next to the makerspace, so we also took time looking at it.
GAFAM unconventional open-office spaces
The fourth moment happened on the third day. We wanted to look also at more entrepreneurial and independent places. After visiting Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC) and before WeWork office spaces, we went to a GAFAM (fantasy name) office we spotted the day before, walking down the street. After discussion at welcome desk we did not manage to get in touch with anyone and were simply close to leaving when an employee left the building from the other entrance. He probably heard us speaking French and stopped. One of us asked him if he was part of the company, one thing to another, and he soon he invited us to visit their offices the next day. As we agreed to during the registration process, we cannot explain here what we saw, but again, we were surprised by the fluidity of everything here. Moving from a dream, a possibility to a concrete encounter.
A makerspace for social inclusion and innovation: D-Lab
The last and fifth moment was the visit of D-Lab. This unit is about social inclusion and social innovation. The main idea of the projects they work on is to co-produce with worldwide communities tools they need. Numerous accomplishment of the place were exhibited in the corridor: corn seller, mechanical washing machine, water treatment system… All largely based on material and handed-gestures. Our guide, who accepted to lead the visit just for us, deepened the story-telling of the projects and gave us opportunity to touch and to watch their experimentations in action. We were again surprised by the place’s openness. Everything was done to perform and materialise local activities for visitors. The inside was turned toward visitors. Because of another appointment, he trusted us to finish the tour alone and take a few pictures. Even the makerspace room was open to public, with simply a yellow line on the ground that needed to not be crossed for security reasons.
From encounters to learning: what did we bring back from Cambridge?
What about the initial paradox? Far from a barrier, the tension we stressed appear as a driver, an energy for the place. MIT and Harvard launch standards they both maintain and transgress in a polite, transparent, community-grounded way. Hacking alone in the dark, just for oneself is not enough. Community and society feedbacks are always expected. All campus and territory is a powerful storytelling machine. All world of worldwide science, technique and entrepreneurship is expected to be at MIT and Harvard. And in this summer we can testify that we experienced it crossing MIT campus and walking on Harvard campus. We saw big groups of children and teenagers coming to dream about MIT and Harvard. We ourselves dreamt of duplicating this tremendous spirit in our own institutions.
So, what will be our memory of this learning expedition whose two thirds of the people and places we visited have been improvised (see the OWEE protocol)? A big machine made to make one’s eyes shine. A funny, energic, largely outdoor and beyond any walls place likely to make dream any brilliant teenager and researcher who do want to participate to create a brave new world.
We thank all of our guides who opened their doors to us and answered our questions with passion and kindness. And we hope that might lead to cross-Atlantic open collaboration.
Aurore Dandoy, Assistant researcher, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL; Annie Passalacqua, Business Development Strategist, HEC Montréal et François-Xavier de Vaujany, Professeur, PSL-Université Paris-Dauphine (DRM), Université Paris Dauphine – PSL
La version originale de cet article a été publiée sur The Conversation.
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Tag: The Tall Man
New Motion Poster for THE TALL MAN Starring Jessica Biel
by Dave Trumbore August 13, 2012
While the summer has been awash with big action films, a heaping help of sci-fi and a trio of superhero movies, The Tall Man is coming to lead us into the fall. Director Pascal Laugier’s horror thriller centers on Julia …
Watch Jessica Biel in Action in this New Clip from THE TALL MAN
by Dave Trumbore August 1, 2012
Before you go to the theater to watch Jessica Biel in action in Len Wiseman’s Total Recall remake this weekend, check her out in this clip from Pascal Laugier’s horror thriller, The Tall Man. Biel plays a small town nurse who …
THE TALL MAN International Trailer and Poster
by Dave Trumbore June 29, 2012
If you missed yesterday’s poster for director Pascal Laugier’s horror mystery The Tall Man, you’re in luck: today we have a brand new poster along with an international trailer. The picture stars Jessica Biel (The Illusionist) as Julia Denning, a …
New Posters from THE CAMPAIGN, PREMIUM RUSH, THE TALL MAN and GOATS
Today’s poster round-up features comedy, action and horror. What more could you want? The Campaign, starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as political opponents, opens August 10th. Goats, based on the Mark Jude Poirier novel and starring David Duchovny and …
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, THE TALL MAN and PITCH PERFECT All Get Release Dates
by Dave Trumbore May 24, 2012
Check out the new release dates for the following films: The Tall Man, a horror/mystery/thriller starring Jessica Biel (The A-Team) and Jodelle Ferland (Silent Hill), will open August 31st, 2012. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, starring Emma Watson (Harry …
SXSW Midnighters Line-Up Announced; Includes V/H/S, JOHN DIES AT THE END, and IRON SKY
by Matt Goldberg February 8, 2012
SXSW has announced their “Midnighters” line-up for this year’s film festival. The section includes Sundance premieres V/H/S (my review) and Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End, plus other exciting entries like Austin Chick’s Girls Against Boys, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s …
Casting Call: Terrence Howard May Get It On as Marvin Gaye, Jessica Biel Hunts THE TALL MAN,…
by Brendan Bettinger May 16, 2010
Iron Man 2 may have shut him out, but Terrence Howard is in talks for the high profile role of Marvin Gaye in Cameron Crowe’s planned biopic of the renowned soul singer. Howard commented, “Nothing’s been signed on paper yet. …
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Robert Coover, Noir (2010)
Coover, Robert, Noir: A Novel, Outlook Press, 2010. 192 pp
Noir at Goodreads
Noir at IBList
An unusual entry for Friday's Forgotten Books, Coover's short novel Noir is not only recent, but (outside of France) never garnered a large audience, left many Coover fans disappointed and mystery readers unfamiliar with Coover's approach, confused. Hopefully in time the work will garner a greater slice of the general audience, along with better appreciation. For more of Friday's Forgotten Books, please visit Patti Abbott's blog.
Robert Coover's postmodern detective novel Noir is not a parody nor a satire of the noir detective mystery, though it does contain elements of both. Instead it is an examination of the sub-genre and its relationship with the reader, proposing that the genre is a wholly artificial fabrication designed to elude even the cleverest of deductive readers.
The novel is composed entirely in the second person, and follows the "you," private investigator Philip M. Noir, during an investigation of a widow's former husband and some shady dealings in which he might have been involved. Second person is placed amid a semi-surreal narrative in all its exaggerated noirish glory, and by creating an incompetent protagonist destined to fail and refering to him as "you," Coover seems to be making the point that the reader makes a poor detective. His comment on the genre is that whatever the outcome and whatever the mystery, its plot connections are fabricated and unreal, so how is a reader to piece together something that simply is not there? "What's the connection?" the narrator asks. "No idea. Connections probably an illusion... Illusory connection." (113) The links throughout the novel that bring us from one plot point to another and toward its eventual convenient conclusion do not exist: we are brought to that conclusion via artificial craft and not deductive logic: "Some knots, like the twist your thumped brain's in now, cannot be untangled." (186) The reader is destined to fail as detective because the mystery is intertwined in such a way that no reader can piece its parts into a cohesive whole.
Moreover, the novel is filled with distractions, character delineations and back stories that are interesting, even fascinating (such as the tattooed prostitute), yet have no place in the story as a whole. The novel is filled with these sidebars, and are among the more entertaining points of the work. In any mystery distractions serve to confuse the reader, leading them on false trails and overstuffing the brain with needless detail. Coover makes light of this in his wild ramblings on underworld dealings and Noir's own absurd past experiences.
And Noir's experiences are more than just distractions.
The novel's title embodies the whole: Noir is both genre and character, and the two are expertly encapsulated in the whole. Coover brings together all the elements of classic noir from both book and film: its damsels and thugs and hard-living detective and urban sprawl, and also its language, the secondary settings from dockyards to alleys, and its filmic details with foreboding shadows and lights filtered through slats of cheap office window blinds. More than genre, Noir is character. Protagonist Philip M. Noir is such a presence that his character is elevated above the plot. We are not reading about this particular case, but rather about a man, a caricature who has faced many cases, many hardships, though in essence each one is like the other. Our detective, however, is altered from standard detective hero to substandard incompetent, and aside from its commentary on the mystery reader and the unsolvable tangled plot, the transformation makes for a great comedy.
Coover's final point, in that jumbled resolution pointing at a thousand possibilities, indicates that the solution is not inevitable, that despite plotting and character solutions are interchangeable, any possibility can be made reality. This reminds me of my disappointment as a kid when the movie Clue was released, advertising three different endings. Even at that young age I pointed out to my mother, a mystery lover, that any mystery with three possible endings can't be a good mystery since one resolution can so easily be exchanged with another. At a young age I did not realize that the three endings, aside from being a good marketing concept as different theatres advertised different endings, follows the tradition of mock mysteries heightened in the 1970s by Neil Simon's Murder by Death and The Cheap Detective, is among the main points of such a parody. Coover's work is different in that not only does it poke fun, but it even approaches its subject academically, deconstructing the flaws, twisting them inside-out, and inserting them into this great mish-mash.
Commentary and examination aside, Coover creates a novel that is fun, energetic and genuinely hilarious. His language is precise, capturing the rough-edged detective voice while managing silliness and humour. The use of familiar settings, stock character types with names like Fingers and Rats, an arch enemy police chief named Detective Blue, shady drinking holes, an office with its couch that makes up our supposed hero's bedroom, and so on, are made utterly fresh in the stew that Coover has concocted. The plot converges on a somewhat hallucinatory finale that has confused many readers, and yet is mostly clear if read closely. Readers expecting a traditional denouement should, after only a few paragraphs, understand that Coover is headed in a completely non-traditional direction, and by non-traditional in the sense of a detective novel, this essentially means that the mystery is not quite solved, not quite explained, which is understandable since the mystery itself is never quite made clear.
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Beecholme Survivors Interim Report
Posted on 2018, October, 21 by cathy fox blog on Child Abuse
It is with mixed emotions that I blog the Report into child abuse at Beecholme Childrens Home.
Horror of course at so many people in trusted positions abusing vulnerable innocent children.
However I am heartened that a group of survivors have managed to form a survivors group, hold it together, take on the authorities that abused them and publish a Report outlining and documenting that abuse.
They have revealed truths that no one can deny.
They have exposed this abuse in the face of obstruction from the Councils and Police involved, notably unhelpful and hence named and shamed are Surrey Police and Wandsworth Council.
The Report is a huge achievement by Beecholme survivors.
It is hard to even set up a survivors group for an area or place of abuse and very few groups have written a report, so huge congratulations to Beecholme survivors.
The link to the report is here Beecholme Survivors Interim Report Through the Iron Gates To The Cottages of Hell [1] [open office document] or the full text is below. If anyone needs the Report in different format, leave a message in comments or email me and we will try and sort it into a different format.
If you wish to contact Beecholme survivors via email beecholmesurvivorsandjustices@gmail.com
My previous blogs on Beecholme
2018 Jan 2017 CathyFoxBlog Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group Letter [2]
2017 Dec 5 cathy fox blog Beecholme – Wandsworth Council wrong to say they had no Child Abuse Reports [3]
2017 Oct 31 cathy fox blog Beecholme Survivors – please get in touch [4]
2017 Aug 5 cathy fox blog Child Abuse at Beecholme Childrens Home, Banstead, Surrey [5]
2017 July 9 cathy fox blog #CSASurvivors Stories 3 – James Reeves Story [6]
I must mention in particular Graeme Sergeant. Graeme has not only set up and managed the group (with help of others of course, but it is a lonely place sometimes leading from the front) but has authored the report. All this whilst having family illness. My respect to him.
Beecholme: A Children’s Village of Hope or a place of industrial scale Sexual Abuse
By Graeme Sergeant (BSc BioScience, Hons)
Through the Iron Gates to the
Cottages of Hell
Beecholme: a children’s Village. This is the group’s interim report on the abuses carried out in the name of Wandsworth Council previously known as The London County Council
They were supposed to protect the children, the innocent and the vulnerable. Far from offering protection it fed these innocent children into a world of sleaze, beatings, starvation, physical, emotional and sexual abuse.
In certain cases it then passed these children into the privately run boarding out and foster homes of unlicensed and unregulated establishments. Local Authorities took over responsibility for the running of these establishments after 1965. They gave a lot of these people licenses to run new homes and they did this without carrying out any checks on the individuals concerned.
This covered up the abuses and in certain cases it assisted the sadistic, the paedophiles and the sexual aggressors to thrive and the State and Local Authority machine destroyed records
Shame on them and those that try to deny justice to the Beecholme Survivors.
1a. Beecholme Survivors Group – Aim of this report
1b. The Councils, staff and disciplinary rules
1c. The History of Beecholme
1d. Beecholme Song
1e. Beecholme Cottages
1f. Beecholme Children
SURVIVORS STORIES
2a. Non-Survivors – R.I.P
PAEDOPHILES AND CHILD ABUSE
3a. What is Child Abuse and what is a Paedophile?
3b. Child on child sexual abuse
3c. Was there Paedophiles in Beecholme?
3d. Senior Staff/The Abusers
3e. Was there Political visitors to Beecholme?
WHAT IS THE TRUTH/ALLEGATIONS
POLICE INQUIRIES
THE CASE FOR JUSTICE AND REPARATIONS
COMPENSATION OR REPARATIONS
REDRESS SCHEME
THE REPORTS AUTHOR
What is evident when you start to write a report about abuse at Beecholme and what surprises me most is the depravity of man. An innocent child thrust into a world of trust and belief suddenly find them self in a world of violence and sexual depravity.
“ A day is a long time in Child’s Life “
Let us with absolute humility and profound admiration dedicate this report to thousands of children who attended Beecholme from its inception in 1880, until it closed in 1974.
Every Child who went through this home during the published dates were victims of a system that badly let them down,
Going forward, we place our faith and hope that justice will finally prevail.
In the 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World we pay silent homage to the 83 young boys from Beecholme (Banstead Residential Schools) who gave the Ultimate sacrifice.
1a. Beecholme Survivors Group – Aim of this report:
The basic aim of this interim report is to highlight the levels of abuse carried out at Beecholme in the name of both the London County Council and subsequently Wandsworth Council.
Other London Borough Councils sent children to this and other establishments. Did London County Council and Wandsworth Council contribute to the institutional child abuse carried out in the different cottages?
Was there abject failure by senior management of both organisations and were there other agencies instrumental in this pattern of behaviour, which seems to have been perpetrated at every level and was encouraged by staff at every level?
What was the relationship between the management and staff and what was the basis of the transfer of staff from the London County Council between 1963 and 1965 after the changes in Local Government?
As an organisation we did not take full statements but we looked at and collated the levels of abuse against each person. As part of this study we have to look at and dissect the standard of staff and the levels of supervision of each cottage. We must look at the interaction between the different government agencies that not only resulted in very few convictions for child abuse, but whether there was a complete breakdown in the management and whether, as seems apparent, there was a cover up of the mismanagement of the abuse at Beecholme?
The interim report will focus on the failures of Wandsworth Council to investigate or follow up on any reports of child sexual abuse at the homes. We will also question the roles of the newly formed children’s departments and other parts of the council that contributed to the mistrust.
We will also try to examine and discover why the council commissioned a report into abuse at Beecholme? Why was the report was buried by Wandsworth Council ?
Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group currently has approximately 400 members and our numbers are growing slowly. One of the reason for the relatively small increases is that, we believe, some survivors are embarrassed to reveal they were sent to Beecholme. Others are amongst those who after a fifty year gap have revealed and are still revealing the extent of the treatment they received at the home.
In this interim report no survivor will be identified and everything will be kept confidential except the levels of the abuse which needs to show the amounts of not only sexual abuse but the bullying, beatings and starvation that was prevalent at Beecholme.
In this interim report we name the perpetrators of some of the abuse and it is the author’s belief that it is important the names are revealed in the belief it might encourage more survivors to come forward.
The main aim of this interim report is to highlight the levels of abuse, the standard of care and the complete disregard of the welfare of each child. The other main aim is a complete and unreserved apology and a level of reparations and redress for the collective failures and injuries inflicted by the abuse, either short or on a long term basis. This abuse covers physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, beatings, neglect and/or psychological abuse and racial abuse that our members would have suffered.
1b. The Councils:
ILEA – The Inner London Education Authority was established when the Greater London Council (GLC) replaced the London County Council as the principal local authority for London in 1965. The LCC had taken over responsibility for education in Inner London from the London School Board in 1904.
Wandsworth Council – Past and Present: This introduction prints into the consciousness of the people reading this interim report, the rules of London County Council. One assumes that the same rules were implemented after Wandsworth Council took over the home in 1965.
Disciplinary rules – Council Staff: The disciplinary rules that are applicable to each staff member are found in the conditions of service that are referred to in paragraph 3. Any breaches of these disciplinary rules would render you subject to disciplinary action as set out in the paragraph below. Gross Misconduct is defined as an action by you that is of a very serious nature that the authority can no longer tolerate. Any allegation of gross misconduct will normally lead to suspension from work whilst the allegation is investigated. If, after a full investigation the allegations are proven, you could be dismissed with or without notice.
Examples of Gross Misconduct are not limited to the list below:
Acts of physical abuse on a staff member or child.
Sexual misconduct at work
Disclosure of confidential information
Malicious damage to Council or Local Authority Property
The taking of bribes or inducements
Any criminal convictions that results from your employment or outside of your employment
A serious breach of any safety rules.
Theft of property from the Council, Local Authority or any person in your care
Any falsification of your qualifications or experience that would allow you to obtain a pecuniary advantage in gaining employment or promotion.
The falsification of any records, including staff timesheets.
Judging by the poor staff conduct at Beecholme and other homes, including house parents at Beecholme assisted by Wandsworth Council, who came into contact or had a negative effect on many children’s day to day lives it is right to say a lot more people should have faced the most serious charges of gross misconduct.
So why, with these rules, were perverts, paedophiles, bullies and sadistic individuals that liked abusing children allowed to work and thrive in this climate?
Unfortunately we cannot look at the role of the Child Care Officer due to the Blair Government’s decision to close the files for an extended period on the pretence of protecting the Child abuse victim when in effect they have protected past and present members of all sections in our society. As a group, we think that this is a separate and distinct level of abuse, that was purposely aimed at certain children. Beecholme had been earmarked for closure for a number of years due to its size and the amount of land that could be sold for a commercial price.
After the transfer from the London County Council to the Wandsworth Borough Council the idea to speed up the closure of the large residential homes began. Beecholme, which had already been earmarked by the old LCC, started to run down operations and the amount of residents fell with only six councils sending children. Then in 1973, just 12 months before it shut, only children from Wandsworth could be sent here.
Wandsworth Town Hall.
Each of the cottages at Beecholme had basements and when the home was finally shut in 1974 it was discovered that each basement held a massive amount of records but Wandsworth Officials did not want to store these records. Thousands of the homes records were burnt during the twelve months it took to demolish Beecholme.
Wandsworth Borough Council was at first ruled by a Labour Council. In 1978 the political outlook changed and this was the time of the state’s retreat from providing fully for its citizens. At first a moderately run council was usurped by Christopher Chope (now An MP and a Sir) who was right wing and he was assisted by other Councillors and Council officials.
At this time it is obvious that rather than look after the old children’s homes or records, it set out with the tacit authority of the Tory Council to deliberately start a system of selling off assets without any thought and the privatisation of council services.
As part of these changes, the group is assuming, and the Council refuses point blank and denies, that the council at any time tendered out back office functions but in a book (Britain and the World, pages 294-302.Edinburgh University Press) it points out that Wandsworth Council were the pioneers or the infantry leading the Thatcher charge for privatisation. Under Chope, the council sacked a 1000 staff and started closing facilities for both children and old people.
In a freedom of information request by the group the Council stated that no legal or back office work was tendered out, yet the book ‘Britain and the World’ (pages 294-3020) states that when Wandsworth tendered out the back office functions and legal work it actually ended up costing more than the in-house team.
So it is quite right to assume that Wandsworth Council, its Councilor’s and officials took no notice of looking after records or keeping records safe. How is it possible that officials were not absent minded or overworked but they acted in a completely negligent way assisted by the elected Councillors whose only object in life was to destroy Public Services and serve Thatcher.
So with a reckless abandonment they set out to sell off as much of the councils properties as possible and destroyed thousands of Beecholme records. They allowed this to happen without any thought and this seems to be evident in the actions of Christopher Chope (MP in later life) who believes that it was ok to film up girls skirts. So does this man’s attitude show that whilst leading Wandsworth Council, he showed or exhibited the same wanton attitude towards child sexual abuse that was endemic at Beecholme and other homes.
Extract from Journal (Britain and the World)
“ I remember one senior official standing within earshot of the author while rashly telling elected Councillors over the telephone that it should be possible to ensure that a forthcoming tender would go the way the Conservative led council wanted. Thus ensuring a lower bid than the in house team.”
So yes, the group believes that there was or could have been corrupt practices in play at every level of the council’s operation. We believe it is imperative that the current council instigates an investigation into the actions of senior officials and members of the council at this time.
1c. The History of the Beecholme:
The beginning of the residential home system led to the opening of scores of these cottage homes around the suburbs of London. It started in 1876 when the guardians of the poor laws in the two adjoining parishes of St Mary Abbot and St Luke in Chelsea purchased two parcels of land, which in total amounted to over 140 acres, with about 100 acres being used as agricultural land with the main idea that each home would be run on a self-sufficiency basis. The children’s home was completely built and opened in 1880, a further four new houses for children were added in 1881.
After it opened, the home thrived as it was a new innovation on how to treat children who before had been in housed in barrack type accommodation. The cost of keeping a child on a daily basis was 7 shilling and six and half pence daily. The home was housing nearly 700 children at this time. The home, by its very nature and how it was setup was run along the lines of being a self-sufficient community with all needs taken care off.
In the 1930’s the Board of Guardians handed over responsibility of the home to the London County Council and all poor law homes and institutions were handed over to local county councils. The part of the London County Council that took over running the home was the Education Department who operated and was responsible until 1949.
As part of the changing attitudes to child care and a need for a more integrated management structure, in 1948,the Children’s Act became law which resulted in all councils setting up Children’s Departments yet for the next five years it was still operated as a Residential School. Children of secondary school age had been sent to secondary schools in the Surrey County Council area as they were undersubscribed. As staff retired more changes were introduced and in the early 1950’s the little primary school was split off from the home itself. As part of the process of change the houses started to be given more and more autonomy. This system of change continued even after the London County Council was abolished and the home, with others, were transferred to the newly formed Wandsworth Borough Council.
The transfer of the London County Council responsibility of these homes to the newly formed boroughs resulted in management changes to the running of the different institutions. At the top was the Director of Social Services, who reported to the Social Services Committee who delegated the powers of the day to day running to the Superintendent, who subsequently gave other powers to his Deputy, with the Matron, the Deputy Matron and the Assistant Matron. From the new organisational structure it is easy to see how it was made even easier for the paedophiles to operate and flourish.
1d. The Beecholme School Song
Hurrah for the Banstead School, the school of breezy downs
We pass our ways in the open ways, afar from the reek of towns.
And whether we work or play, the lesson we learn is the same.
There is a moldy dump down Beecholme way
Where we get bossed about fifty times a day
Egg and bacon we don’t see, we get sawdust in our tea
That’s why were gradually fading away
The teachers are real barmy, The matrons are real mad
And poor old Banner, the man sometimes looks real.
1e. Beecholme Cottages:
Acacia, Almond, Ash, Beech, Cedar, Chestnut, Drake, Elm, Fir, Hazel, Jasmine, Kerria, Laburnum, Laurel, Larch, Lavender, Lime, Maple, Oak, Pine, Rendall, Rowan, Thistle, Willow.
There were also other houses for staff, workshops and offices plus the church, swimming pool and the school
Each of the cottages were for different children, Some boys, some mixed and some just girls. Others were for different religions and Children with special educational needs. Then as time went on, some homes were used exclusively for black children.
As this system was used exclusively, whole families, some large, were all split up across different homes and depending on someone’s perception of you, you could find yourself in any one of these cottages. The London County Council were beginning to develop different strategies on how to deal with children with different educational needs, including the labeled education subnormal.
1f. The Beecholme Children:
The children sent to Beecholme before 1965 came from across the whole of the London region. After 1965 the takeover by the London Borough of Wandsworth resulted in the children being admitted to Beecholme, being restricted to only a few of the newly formed London Boroughs: Camden, Wandsworth, Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council. This system operated until 1973 when only Wandsworth sent children to be admitted to Beecholme.
In the early days of the residential homes Beecholme’s roll was about 700
and over the years this resulted in falling rolls until finally 1974, just before closure. As the cottages were emptied and closed down the population could be counted in the tens and not hundreds. Over the years hundreds, maybe more, perverts and bullies were able to operate and flourish This abuse was spread between the sexes and children were abused by both men and woman.
The home had 23 cottages, each one unique in its operation and in a strange way home to a mixed bag of children. Each child had their own story, a story of poor parenting, neglect and in some cases abuse. One of the strangest things behind each child is that prior to 1965, most of London could and would send children to the home. Yet after 1965, only about six London Boroughs sent children to Beecholme. The other connections along these lines is that after 1965 the first Children’s Officer and his assistant sent staff to the six councils. Is this a strange coincidence or a deliberate act that enabled a London wide cover up of abuse at children’s homes.
This investigation and report will look into the roles of staff at these boroughs and what they knew. One of the biggest problems was the six Council’s refusal to engage in meaningful dialogue or to provide information on the staff transferred.
One of the main reasons was the closure of records to us or any other group.
Here follows some of the survivors stories, which have been abridged:
Survivor F.M.
As part of the investigation into abuse at Beecholme, we were contacted by the above survivor who was in Drake house and told of us of the abuse he had suffered at the hands of Pete Mactavish.
(Survivor F.M. advised us that Wandsworth Council had paid him £25000.00 pounds to settle his claim for being abused at Beecholme. Wandsworth have been given the opportunity to comment and Freedom of Information requests have been submitted.)
Survivor A.M.
Was a lad badly treated at every home he was sent to, beaten, bullied and abused in many of the Beecholme Cottages. Attached to the end of this report in the appendix section are Alan’s own diary records from Beecholme.
Survivor G.S.
At the age of 3 I was thrust into a world of authority, a world that was alien to me. I was 10 on my release, with my siblings, from care. Because of racism we were sent to live with our father and his housekeeper.
What is hard about this was I had always assumed I was at Shirley Oaks. I had a father who denied the existence of my birth mother, a man who hid his past, I never saw my mother Rita alive again after the age of 5. The authorities conspired to deny Rita access to us children on what Grounds ( Racism).
Survivor J.K.
I as in Beecholme, between 1951 and 1954. Mainly in Maple House. Miss Quinlan was the housemother and I was subject to Physical abuse because of a speech impediment, Each day you had to do chores and Quinlan ran the house with a rod of iron. She meted out punishments if you did not do as you were told quickly enough.
Depending on your misbehavior you could be made to clean the outside washrooms and the other children’s shoes, Beatings were given for the least little thing.
Survivor P.S
Explained that as a child at Beecholme, he witnessed sexual abuse happening, I was placed in Rowan cottage. The cottage was run by a Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, who were very fond of calling children in this house retarded and then subjecting them to both Physical and verbal abuse. Children were starved and beaten for almost anything and these beatings were carried out by the house parents and the extra staff in each cottage.
I was then moved to the Laburnum cottage but I have no memory of this cottage, except that it was a harsh place.After sometime in Ash I was moved again, this time to ash Cottage where a Mr. and Mrs. Reed were the house-parents, Gordon Reed was a violent individual and for the majority of the time I was in Ash. I was both subject to very violent abuse and Reed was always fond of using abusive language towards us children.
I was then moved to Cedar Cottage where the Longs were the house- parents. I witnessed during my time in Cedar that long would molest children almost daily. Ted Long used to love rubbing himself against you whilst trapping you in the corner. I had first come along Ted Long in Rowan Cottage.
Survivor M.M.
I was at Beecholme and I was abused. During my time there I suffered abuse in every cottage I was in. I was in Rowan, Laburnum, Larch, Ash, Lime and Beech. If you argued they would put you in cottages with Bullies and Perverts.
Survivor H.D
Whilst I was in the home I witnessed sexual activity between children and adults.
Survivor G.J
Whilst I was at the home I was on various occasions placed on a man’s knee where, now i am older, I realise he had an erection and he lifted me up and down rubbing me on this hard thing. After a time he would start groaning. I never knew or understood why until I got older.
Survivor B.I.
I was taken to Beecholme where I was placed in Drake House, in around 1962. After a period of time the staff started showing their true colours and I was touched inappropriately by a tall woman and a woman I can only remember as Joyce. This happened more than once. During my time at Beecholme I was bullied, beaten and starved. One time I was grabbed at the side of Drake House and badly beaten by Pete Mactavish. Life was harsh and a lot of the children were bullies and loved to beat up the younger or vulnerable children. Some of the children even carried out sexual abuse on other children.
Survivor H.J
I think I might of been one of the lucky ones as I was only in care a short while but also because I was never sexually abused by an adult. Unfortunately, there was child on child sexual abuse and I have never forgotten the experience. The boy who abused me lived in a cottage across the avenue. when I first met him he seemed really nice. We would play on the rope swing together but then it happened. he said we were going to play hospitals. He was the doctor and he need to examine me and told me to lie down. He pushed my dress up and pulled down my knickers. I told him to stop but he wouldn’t and started touching me around my genital area. At this point I started crying. I told him I would tell on him. He said they would not believe me and as he was older they would believe him. On another occasion we went into the trees and he told me to stand against a tree where he made me spread my legs. I obeyed him as I had become scared of his behaviour. At this point he pulled down his trousers and pants and rubbed his penis up against me. I was shaking and started to sob. After I would not stop sobbing he told me pull my knickers up. When another incident happened he did not pull down my knickers. He removed his trousers and pants and told me to touch his penis which he nicknamed his dingle. I did not like this idea so he took my hand and placed it on his penis. I stood motionless. I was scared so he showed me what to do with his hand, placing my hand once again on his penis and told me to play with it. Not long after this I was returned to my mother’s care but due to this and other experiences whilst at Beecholme I have been a sickly person and I have suffered from a certain amount mental health issues. My experiences at Beecholme also meant that I could not for a very long time have a normal relationship with a man.
Survivor S.M
I was in Fir House in the early 1960’s which was being run by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd. On my first day in care Mrs. Lloyd physically attacked one of my brothers. I went to stick up for my brother and was then attacked by Mr. Lloyd. He kneed me in the back and slapped my head. He then threw me to the floor. We were then punished by being made to sit in a cold bath for an hour. When the Lloyds were away another lady came in to run the house, she used to like hitting us with spoons. One time she locked me in a cupboard and beat me with a Bamboo stick. I was sexually abused by at least three other older boys. Most nights I was subject to sexual attacks and it also happened if you went to the outside washroom, you ran the risk of a sexual attack, It seemed to me that these boys carried out the sexual attacks at the behest of members of staff. After one very vicious attack I was left with a badly cut head,
Survivor P.R.
I was placed in Thistle House and I was abused by a Mr Grey, I reported Mr Grey to the police and then I was moved to another institution. I have suffered health issues for most of my life.
Survivor J.L
I was in Beecholme where I was at various times taken in to a room which had long mirrors around it ,I believe that I was being watched and even filmed. I was Sexually abused and I have suffered health issues and I have attempted suicide in my most darkest moments.
Survivor B.Y
I was in Almond House during my time in Beecholme. My House Parents were Mr. and Mrs. Heard, When I was about 8 an older boy around the age of 13 came in to the dormitory and sexually abused me. This boy abused me more than once, He seemed to be a man to me. Mr. Heard would inspect the girls underwear and if it was dirty he would verbally abuse you tell you that you were no good. Mr. Heard used to beat you with a belt. Looking back it seems he took a certain delight in acting this way. Over my lifetime I have suffered physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse. I remember being made to stand naked in a freezing cold washroom with other boys and girls. Everybody used to share bathwater.
Survivor E.T.
My first thoughts on being sent to Beecholme was how large the home was. At this time it spread over about 30 acres. I was at first in Pine house where after a time I noticed that a young lad was being woken up night after night. I did ask him once and he explained, Auntie Margaret used to like him cuddling up to her in bed. About three weeks later it happened to me and Auntie Margaret said I would not need any clothes. I had my penis played with by this auntie and it became erect. After what I know now as a climax she placed my hand on her vagina and told me to start rubbing. One of the problems with Beecholme was not only that a majority of staff were abusive but that a certain amount of the children were in to abusing other children. I will not name the lad here but suffice to say, the staff were inadequate at protecting children. After sometime in Beecholme I was moved to Lime House which was run under the tender mercies of Ted Long and his wife. Ted would always tell you that the bathroom door must be left open for safety reasons. One time Ted Long, without reason lunged at me and shoved his hand down my trousers. He was trying to get at my penis. I have no doubt of this. Ted Long did succeed in molesting me later on in my time at Beecholme after he had grabbed my testicles a few times. Ted Long and his wife were physical people and as a very large man he could easily control any of the children and he would belt you when he liked and whereever he liked. If you broke any of the major rules at Beecholme you could find yourself sent to the Superintendent. Once he told me to bend over the chair where he then pulled down my trousers and pants down, so I was then naked from the waist down. After this the superintendent took hold of my genitals and started to slap my bare behind. It seemed he got a form of sexual gratification from spanking boys. One other girl I knew was CV, who committed Suicide at Beecholme. Rumour’s were, one of the staff had molested her and got her pregnant.
Survivor M.A
I was a resident of Beecholme between the years 1958 until about 1967. During that time I was put in to three different houses. Cedar, Beech and Thistle. My time at Beecholme was not pleasant and I was often racially abused by another child. On more than one occasion I was sexually abused by one of the senior management and the same person sexually abused me whilst we were staying at a holiday camp. My time in Thistle was not nice and I was constantly abused by Mrs. Grey. At times she would beat me, wake me up and make me clean all the other shoes in the house. On other occasions she would belittle me during my periods. Another time Mr. Grey made me lie down between the beds in the boys dorm. He then got on top of me and told the boys in the dorm to watch me whilst he showed them how to do it. I was scared of what was happening but this was only a fraction of the abuse I suffered.
Survivor JR
My name is JR. I was born in 1946. I was in a children’s home called Beecholme in Banstead, Surrey. I was in a house in the children’s home called Jasmine. I think I was 7 years old. I had spent younger years in foster care with the Porters. My foster dad wasn’t involved in abuse as far as I can remember. It’s the only thing I remember about foster carer’s except on one birthday my foster dad bought me a brown 3 wheel tricycle. I can remember standing on the kitchen table just a cloth nappy on being abused by women and grown up children, being locked in some cupboard for hours every day that’s all I can remember from foster care.
My next memory is Beecholme, Jasmine house. I was taken there by a woman who handed me over to the House Mistress of that house. That woman who took me to Jasmine House was my mother. The next time we would meet was when I was 12. I was shown into a dining room then stripped naked, was beaten on my bottom hard by the House Mistress, Miss Cullen. I was then taken into a large bathroom with 2 baths end to end. The bathroom was crowded with other naked boys and girls, one bath was for boys, the other was for girls. The water was never changed. There were 2 other female staff in there; one Miss Malden, the other Miss Kilbane (who was lovely throughout my stay and had no hand in any off my abuses). After bath, we were marched out up the stairs to our dormitories. It must have been not more than 20 minutes later, I remember being pulled roughly out of my bed by a man who took my nightshirt off and took me downstairs. I was told to face the wall opposite a room which was occupied by people. Every time any one came out of that room I was slapped hard on my bare bum. I was standing facing the wall for what seemed like ages, then I heard people leaving the room and going out the front door. I was then blindfolded and taken into that room and sexually assaulted by 2 people. One tried to bugger me but stopped when I screamed. Next I remember something hard being put in my mouth. I was crying and shaking with fear, I was so scared. I was told to suck on the thing in my mouth, but was whacked round the head. I heard one person say “He’s no good – his teeth are digging in”. I was then taken back to my dormitory and put into bed, told not to look round or I would get it. The person removed the blindfold. I was frozen, scared, crying. Then I heard the door shut. I lay there scared to move. I must have fallen asleep. We were woken up by Miss Malden, the other staff member. I tried to speak to her but she would not listen to me. I tried to talk to Miss Cullen who seemed in charge of Jasmine House. She pulled me into her office and told me ”Children who lie are sent away to bad places. Is that what you want?”. I remember saying “No Miss”. I know they had a school there but can’t seem to think about that. I remember we were all at our tables for tea. After tea, Miss Cullen used to put her chair in the middle of the dining room floor and call us boys to stand in line. She then would one-by-one strip us and spank our bottoms hard in front of the girls. This happened every night after tea, 7 days of every week. Other times at dinner, puddings were served. 10 times while I was there they served figs and custard. I was eating a fig it was horrible and I was sick all over my pudding, and was forced to eat it. Other times I was sick over figs and custard, Miss Kilbane (when she saw Miss Cullen go) would come and remove it and give me a cuddle. She seemed helpless and – I don’t know – I’m sure a few times she had tears in her eyes.
I never saw men in the house during the day, only at nights when they used to take me downstairs and repeat their abuse. God knows how many other boys there were abused like me, at nights. It was no good complaining, no one would listen to me. One day I was told I was leaving to be taken to another children’s home. I was picked up by car by a LCC Social Worker. I was driven to Hutton Children’s Residential Home, in Shenfield, Essex. I was taken into a large house, called Thames. All the other houses were named after rivers. I was never sexually abused there by any staff members. Though one boy was, in a different house and his abuser Mr. Brabbon was sentenced to six month prison. Whilst there, somehow some of us were invited to the Billy Cotton Band Show Christmas party, which was shown on BBC television. I was one of the kids who went. It was late 1950’s or early 1960’s. I can remember being seated at the tables full of food. There was Russ Conway, a woman singer and my abuser Alan Breeze. I didn’t know his name at the time. I asked Russ Conway his name. It happened in the men’s toilets. I was in there when Alan Breeze said “You going to toilet?”. I said “Yes”. “Let me help you.” he said and started touching my penis. He had his hand down my trousers holding my bum. I was trying to pull away, when someone else entered the toilet. I think he saw what was happening and he pulled me away, and sent me out of the toilet. As I left I complained to someone – a man – about what happened. He told me to go away and sit down, which I did. I was so upset and angry. I tried telling Billy Cotton but couldn’t get near him or Russ Conway anymore. I tried to tell staff at the home, but they laughed and walked away.
From that day, I was totally confused and felt alone. It got so bad I was taken to The Maudsley hospital, who after listening to my story told the person who took me there they wanted to keep me in. On hearing that, I ran out of the hospital and was found by my taker outside a big hospital opposite. I was crying and said “No one believes me! I am not staying in that place!”. I was taken back to the home and put on antidepressants. I have never forgotten my abuse – it still haunts me to this day.
The above is the full testimony of James Reeves, abused at Beecholme, never believed and moved to another home in Essex ( Hutton Residential), another notorious home on the paedophile circuit .
JR is now getting into his latter years but he is a tireless campaigner against all or any abuse of children. James is a man let down by a system that was set up to protect him and thousands of young impressionable children across many, many years.
Survivor GS
As part of the treats given to us, residents were to be taken out to Showbiz 11 games. These were where we thought treats but what we did not know was that some of the paedophile staff members were taking us to be abused at will on the pretense of a treat. On arriving at the game we would be seated near the Showbiz team, and after the game ended we would be sat on the knees of these minor celebrities and ex footballers, whose knees we would be sat on whilst they rubbed themselves against us. Then whoever was selected would be taken somewhere quiet and undressed and forced to carry out sexual acts of an oral nature.
*Survivor f. stated to us that at one of these games he was buggered by two men.*
Survivor P
Stated he was stripped naked and a man started rubbing his penis, then the man told him to rub his. Then he was beaten with a belt and had his mouth forced down on to the man’s penis.
Survivor A.M
Was a lad badly treated at every home he was sent to be, beaten, bullied and abused in many of the Beecholme Cottages.
2a. Non- Survivors – R.I.P:
Non-Survivor – Gale Parsons (Deceased). (Also Known as Gale Booth):
Who was Gale Parsons? She was the product of an affair between a public school girl and an unknown father, known only to Gale’s mother. She was abandoned at six months old into an uncaring care system. She ended up like lots of children at Beecholme. She was remembered as a sweet innocent young lady who was allowed by the senior management to spiral downward where she ended up going through remand homes, reformatory school and finally prison (Holloway). Everyone who came in to contact with Gale knew her as a loving, caring intelligent young lady who, if she had been properly cared for would have been a credit to everyone. Instead she was found in a dirty, seedy basement DEAD, having taken an overdose of heroin. A ,Man Alive, programme followed Gale to her death, and subsequent funeral. One lady who always stood by Gale, “Nancy David” stated that Gales funeral was not about her but to assuage the guilt of her mother and grandparents. The question which needs to be asked of first the Beecholme Authorities and then finally the senior management of both the London County Council and Wandsworth; why was this child sent through a system that had no checks or balances? Gale was let down by her mother first, then multiple agencies and the establishment who allowed her to slide into addiction.
Gale Parsons died of an overdose due to neglect and a lack of care.
Was Gale a victim of sexual abuse by the senior management at the home and was she further abused as she went through the Justice System? We will never know for sure but what we do know is she was badly let down.
So why was Gale sent through a system where she ended her life with a drugs overdose? Where are the records of her incarceration? The details of her crimes? What happened to her records from Beecholme and the details of how she disrupted the other children.?
Non-survivor – V. C.
Committed suicide after being abused at Beecholme,
It has been stated to the group that V.C was abused by members of the senior management. We are looking for details of V.C’s life but again these are sealed for an extended period.
Non-survivor – S.Y
After being abused at Beecholme had a life cut short
Were the senior management blind or just complicit in the sexual abuse of children in their care. At this time children had to be seen and not heard. Any complaint was met with a bashing and to complain about child abuse, or even an attempt, would move you on to another institution or reform school or an asylum.
Every survivor of Beecholme carries the anger of these events as they have a direct result or influence over many lives.
Child abuse or the mistreatment of a child or children manifests itself in a physical, sexual or psychological mistreatment of the child. This is predominantly carried out by adults and in a lot of cases by adults in authority. This abuse can be carried out in the home, or children’s home or other organisations, schools or communities where children interact with adults.
The word paedophile comes from the Greek alphabet and roughly translates as friendly love, or friendship. The word paedophile is used to cover adults with a sexual or other interest in young, prepubescent children aged under 13 or younger.
Nepiophilia is an interest in even younger children, with another subgroup Hebephilia can be defined as individuals with a sexual interest in children aged between 11 to 14.
We hope to show that adults with each of the above interests not only operated at Beecholme but operated in the other homes run by the Local Authorities. All types of predators with the above definition operated at Beecholme and liked to operate racial profiling, abusing children with all manner of disabilities where lots of these children were wrongly classified as maladjusted.
Wandsworth Council had a legal obligation to protect the children to the age of 16 and then subsequently 18. We can argue that any of the staff or uncles or aunties who indulged in sexual practices with children up to the ages of 18 are guilty of paedophilia. We will identify these people in the reports as paedophiles.
3b. Child-on-child sexual abuse?
Is a form of sexual abuse in which a prepubescent child is sexually abused by one or more other children or adolescents and in which no adult is directly involved. While this includes when one of the children uses physical force, threats, trickery or emotional manipulation to elicit cooperation, it also can include non-coercive situations where initiator proposes or starts a sexual act that the victim does not understand the nature of and simply goes along with, not comprehending its implications or what the consequences might be. Child-on-child sexual abuse is differentiated from normative sexual play or anatomical curiosity and exploration (e.g. “playing doctor“) because child-on-child sexual abuse is an overt and deliberate action directed at sexual stimulation, including orgasm. When sexual abuse is perpetrated by one sibling upon another, it is known as “inter sibling abuse“. When victims grow up, they often have distorted recall of the act, such as thinking it was consensual or that they were the abused child
. Child on Child abuse, I have been very shocked at this and I cannot quite understand it, how children abuse each other. Life it seems is no stranger to this sort of behaviour and rather than be quite a rare occurrence it is quite a frequent event.
At Beecholme the outside wash houses and the old bomb shelters was where some of the perpetrators of this abuse carried out the deeds. This could have been a simple sex act carried out orally but in other cases it was male and female rape.
Were the authorities aware of this and just turned a blind eye, in some cases staff, including house parents would put the children up to these sexual acts. In most cottages children of both sexes were paraded naked through the cottages, frequently bathed together at different ages and then forced to perform sex acts on each other.
Most of the children were too young to even know what they were doing let alone realising that this was wrong. We have been given names of one group of individuals who were responsible for some of these acts of abuse whilst they were resident at Beecholme. We are not naming them in the report as that may remind them of something they did but have shut out.
As time has gone on the amount of victims claiming abuse at Beecholme dwindles as old age and serious illness claims a few each year. Yet as a group we are determined that Justice must be done and that it is seen to be done. Are we the victims of this continued abuse over many years not entitled to receive a full written apology from the council that assumed responsibility from the London County Council in 1965.
London County Council and Wandsworth Council’s Child Care Officers or Welfare Officers as they are now called were in part responsible for the neglect and abuse of children in their care.
Our group justification in believing that Wandsworth was an unsafe environment for children in care was discovering that a like-minded group of individuals set up an organisation in a run-down flat in Brixton. Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL) was set up in the 1970’s. Whether this was coincidence or not, it is around this time that Social Services Departments took over the running of the children’s homes across the new London Boroughs. The Paedophile Information Exchange Group (PIE), a sister organisation to the (PAL) was completely brazen in its operations and tried to promote, by various means, the virtue of paedophilia and the abuse of children, especially the benefit of a captured audience of children in care.
“The organisation observed that teachers, clergyman, scoutmasters and youth workers, social workers and residential care workers were particularly drawn to the joys of child love. “Paedophiles are naturally drawn to working with children, especially vulnerable children in residential homes. The paedophile will show above the necessary care and devotion to the children in their care. By preying on the child’s problems and vulnerabilities they are able to groom the child of either sex. If the proper checks and bans were put in place this would reduce the amount of adults wanting to work in this field.
Would a proper vetting system in the 1930’s onwards have resulted in less child abuse? Paedophiles could remain hidden in plain sight, whilst being protected by their immediate supervisors and senior management at every level.
The records of paedophile behaviour by staff at Shirley Oaks are relevant and comes across in staff records and reports. In the early 1950’s Clifford Heap was employed at Beecholme and he, along with Thomas Hart and Edward Pearce started the 1st Banstead Scout Group. It is alleged that these gentleman had an unnatural interest for young boys and girls. Heap was convicted at Shirley oaks so there is no reason to believe he was not a paedophile beforehand.
Was there a paedophile ring operating at Beecholme and across the London County Council homes system and were these paedophile rings transferred with the homes to the newly formed London Boroughs.
Was there was any celebrity involvement at any level operating in the homes. Jimmy Savile and friends were known to visit the home?
Was there any paedophile behaviour at Showbiz Eleven games,?
When given any publicity, the Paedophile Information Exchange would try to justify its doctrine, even though it’s hidden agenda was to be able to have sexual relationships with children, They always presented the case as an argument that they were protecting children in their care. In this interim report and any subsequent report it will hopefully show that they showed a criminal disregard of the law and if they could not get their own way they would revert to criminal deception and cover ups to further their perverted practices. Probably the lack of references or vetting led to this and other opportunities for paedophiles to have access to any number of children and subject them to abuse.
In the dark labyrinth of child paedophiles at Beecholme there was a list of both men and/or women willing and able to carry out abuse at the home. This list could be similar to the membership of any paedophile group. This included teachers at the in-house primary school, house parents, casual staff and any number of the aunts and uncles who visited and took children out. They were, in most of these homes, poorly vetted or were they given the jobs purposely so that they could carry out their sick perversions. Finally we have to look at the culpability of the senior staff from Wandsworth Council, the Superintendents who ran these home autonomously from the local council and who were able to employ who they liked.
It is perfectly clear that when the home reverted to control by Wandsworth Council the council failed in its duty to carry out proper inspections of the cottages or the staff. Hopefully our investigation and report will show that the senior children’s staff at council level could have been complicit in the operation of abuse at Beecholme.
When one starts out to write a report like this, a part of your life that you would rather forget, it is hard in many ways. One has to revisit the dark days of Beecholme. Survivors for a long period of time have buried memories into a compartment and in the majority of cases these have now been re-opened.
The issues surrounding this report are complex and compounded by the unbelievable amount of sexual abuse that was discovered as being carried out at the home, The abuse, it seems, was on an almost industrial scale. The report is further hampered by the amount of records that were destroyed by Wandsworth Council before and after the home was closed.
We are further hampered in the report by the 100 year banning order imposed on most records. The other major obstacle is the lack of records kept by Wandsworth Council from those times. This lack of records has only hampered our research but has not stopped us.
Wandsworth Council have admitted that they carried out an internal report on the abuse at Beecholme in the 1960’s. This report was sent to Surrey Police but has been denied to us, stating the Data protection Act. As part of this report we have tried to obtain access to as many care records as possible but in the majority of cases these reports were incomplete with pages and even legal documents removed to protect individuals or the council.
One of the most distressing parts of these care records is the amount of times that the following phrases are used. “ told fantastic tales”, “made things up”, “liked to steal”. Each one of these other phrases we believe covers up the abuse. Children who informed the staff were beaten, moved on or in the most extreme cases put into asylums.
The London Paedophile Network.
3d. Senior Staff and Abusers List:
Our report, it is hoped, highlights that in most cases staff at every level were able to be abusers with impunity as they never believed that anything would, or could, be revealed either then or in the future. The changes in the law in the 1990’s started to open these organisations up to public scrutiny but it was the introduction and the rapid expansion of the internet that has allowed our investigation and the search for records to go forward at such a brisk pace.
We hope this report will highlight the extent of the Wandsworth Council ineptitude and blatant neglect of children. This report will concentrate on the time period between 1930 and its closure in 1974. Our approach has been to speak to as many people as possible and carry out our investigations with the help of very many brave individuals.
As part of the report it is necessary to look at other homes in the control of Wandsworth Council, Earlsfield House and Hartfield House. We also have tried to look into the roles of the following: Private Foster homes and Boarding Out homes, which were unlicensed and unregulated institutions, We, like others, need to look at whether the “Welfare Officer” was involved with sending children to these homes or whether there was corrupt practice higher up in the management chain.
Since the Beecholme Survivors Group was formed it has been the mission of the group to uncover the truth. Why this abuse could thrive and why the Head or Senior Management of the organisations sat on their hands and did nothing.
Beecholme seems to have been a mass exporter of paedophiles to other homes.
Heap, who was convicted at Shirley Oaks, started at Beecholme in the late 1940’s and left Beecholme around early 1953. Along with Pearce and Hart he started the 1st Banstead Scouts which was finally closed down by the Scouts Association after the conviction of Mr Harry Grey.
At present the roles of both Hart and Pearce are subject to a certain amount of speculation but various children who were sent from Earlsfield House by (Sherwood Jones) to either Beecholme or Shirley Oaks have given evidence that Hart, whilst running Earlsfield house, used to like touching up the younger girls whilst they stood by his desk.
Pearce has been identified by children at Beecholme and after Beecholme he moved to the London Borough of Islington and became head of Children’s Services.
Holman, who had a nervous breakdown whilst superintendent at Shirley Oaks. During his time was in charge of hundreds, if not thousands of children. Lives of children across these two homes were ruined by the levels of abuse this man allowed others to carry out. An even bigger crime is that he was a Justice of the Peace when he carried out attacks and abused children. Don Thomas who took over from Holman was also employed at Beecholme and worked with Clifford Heap.
Other paedophiles identified by the group and who are named below only make up a very small fraction of the staff who were identified as carrying out abuse at the home. Don Thomas, who took over running Shirley Oaks from Holman previously worked with Heap at another home in the 1950’s. Heap was at Beecholme during this period so it is safe to assume that they knew each other and worked together or abused together in different places.
In our report, and it is necessary to point out that there is a major theme running through this report, is that the senior management at Beecholme were not only active facilitators of abuse but a high percentage were paedophiles. It is obvious that abuse on an industrial scale was carried out from a very early time at Beecholme and some of our members were at Beecholme in the 1940’s when Heap arrived to work at Beecholme. We have discovered that the introduction of social aunts and uncles was instrumented by Heap and it seems became a growing theme across the homes operated by Wandsworth Council.
As part of a directive by the old authority the London County Council that ‘warned against the introduction of strangers’ it was agreed across the authority that friendless children should be boarded out, that is, fostered. The LCC report added that the Superintendents of these homes should be on their guard and aware of introducing strangers to have temporary care of children and must be carefully watched.
Following another directive from the London County Council ‘to employ more House Fathers to be employed alongside their wives, to try to recreate a family structure’, this directive was designed to try to give a better view of staff but what it actually accomplished was the introduction of another set of adults who, in the main, were not vetted or checked. Some of these ancillary staff who became House Parents went on to abuse children in their care.
Philip Temple was another person identified as a paedophile who carried out swimming lessons at both homes. He was convicted and sentenced to 12 years,
Mr and Mrs Hillman of Cedar house were sacked in the 1960’s for child cruelty and they were not the first or last that operated inside Beecholme.
Harry Grey was a Houseparent and a Scout Master, he was convicted and sent to prison in 1971. Once he was arrested the 1st Banstead Scouts was closed down. (Hart, Heap and Pearce operated from the same group so the 1st Banstead scouts had a long history of paedophile behavior.
Barry Fitzgerald was another abuser identified as working at Beecholme and convicted at Shirley Oaks.
Many members have identified the Superintendent from the 1950’s as a man who abused his position and carried out various sexual acts on underage girls. He has been identified by many independent reports.
Mr and Mrs Farmer (House parents of Drake House) were identified by different members as having carried out many degrading acts including getting children to walk around the house naked, touching girls and boys and getting them into the bath together.
As the list grows, the Deputy Superintendent from the 1950’s has also been identified as a perpetrator of abuse.
Granny Grace was a relief member of staff who is accused of being bully who delighted in carrying out vicious beatings and other forms of abuse.
The Matron LH has been identified by different survivors who said she carried out beatings, bullying and abuse.
Pete Mactavish has been identified as a man who had a sadistic streak and liked nothing better than to give a child a beating then rub himself up against you.
This list is not a finished list but a snapshot of the levels of abuse carried out at Beecholme
Edward Pearce Paedophile Beecholme
Hannah Pearce Abuser Beecholme
Thomas Hart, Paedophile Beecholme, Earlsfield House, Shirley Oaks
Barbara Hart.
Assisted her husband at every home Facilitator
Clifford Heap Paedophile Beecholme, Shirley Oaks, Blue Star House, Islington Council
Alice Heap
Assisted her husband, we do not believe she did not know what was going on in every home or organisation that her and her husband worked in Beecholme
Superintendent B
Various eye witness statements and Independent survivors, have accused him off improper behaviour with girls.
( I walked into his office without knocking and he was giving her one) Survivor M. (This is only one of a number of complaints about the superintendent) Abuser Beecholme
Edward Long
Various Survivors complain about his behaviour.
( I was thrown in the bath) Survivor A, (He trapped me in the office and liked rubbing up against me) Survivor B.
He has also been accused of encouraging certain children to abuse other children.( We cannot name the individual as he is subject to the Surrey Police Investigation). Paedophile Beecholme
Harry Grey
Beecholme He interfered with children whilst he was in charge of a cottage and abused his position whilst a scoutmaster he was in charge of ( Scouts Association shutdown 1st Banstead Scouts.) Scouts Association refuses to cooperate with the Wandsworth Survivors Network)
Convicted and Jailed in 1971 Paedophile
Cecil Farmer
Would parade you through the house naked, loved to put you in the bath naked with girls and get you to rub each other.
Would spank you on your bare backside
Survivor F (The House-parents took great delight in walking you naked through the house, taking you out of your bed.
Survivor Y. “I was dragged out of bed and taken to a cupboard where i was locked in. After sometime, I was pulled out taken to a room where an unknown man forced me to carry out a sex act, hitting me afterwards Paedophile Housefather (Drake)
Gladys Farmer Facilitated abuse
Auntie C
Put survivor in her bed and made him carry out oral sex – Loved to bend you over and spank you Abuser
Uncle D – , After being stood on a table naked in the kitchen in front of both men and woman, some were picked taken in to another room, could either be by a male or female, then made to carry out oral sex. Paedophile
LH (Matron) Carried out attacks on children herself and watched while others beat children Abuser
Catherine Kilbane Abuser
Stella Hosegood (Hume)
(Married Donald Hosegood. Paedophile. (There is no reason to discount that she probably abused children at Beecholme. Abuser/Facilitator Beecholme,
Shirley Oaks
William Hook- (Swimming Instructor) Paedophile Beecholme/Shirley Oaks Convicted
Peter Mactavish – Was made House Parent of Lavender House, This house near the end of Beecholme was being exclusively used for Black Children. Various survivors have stated what went on in this house. Racism it seems was prevalent across the London County Council estate and continued under the management of Wandsworth Council. Paedophile
Peggy Mactavish – Helped her husband to bully and beat children Bully/Facilitor
Mr and Mrs Hillman – Various survivors have accused this pair of being bullies. ( Mr Hillman was sacked in 1956 for child cruelty) Bullies Cedar
Bill Mccready – Used to beat children) Bully
Marjorie c Pelly – survivors have given statements that this was a bully, abuser and a very evil woman. Abuser/Bully
Barry Fitzgerald – Started his career at Beecholme, abused children at swimming pool with others. Went to work at Shirley Oaks where he carried on the abuse. Abuser Beecholme, Shirley Oaks
Ted Waller
Visiting Auntie and Uncle
Survivor (u,) stated they used to take me to their house and get me to play with them. Abusers Drake
Mr and Mrs Reed (House Parents) Bullies/Abusers
Mr and Mrs Lloyd ( House Parents) Bullies/Abusers
Malden.. Auntie in various houses, bully, who used to enjoy beating the children. Bully
3e. Were there were any political visitors to Beecholme?
We have received an anonymous tip that a paedophile ring was operating out of Banstead Police Station at this time. (We have made inquiries to both the Metropolitan Police and Surrey Police who assumed responsibility for the home in 2000). There is reason to believe that the arch pervert Cyril Smith used to frequent various children’s homes across the London area.
So what is the truth? Was there a network of paedophiles and perverts that were assisted by politicians and others to molest and abuse children at will? From the 1930’s onwards the London County Council took over a lot of the Child Protection policies from the Poor law guardians and other organisations.
Was this admirable extension or proper organisation good in theory, but bad in practice? Did the new London County Council organisation attract paedophiles or deliberately go out to recruit them? Thousands of children who were in need of care were put in the way of adults whose sexual pleasure was gratified by having a constant stream of new victims.
The names of known paedophiles and politicians that have been convicted since 1930 is endless and it cannot be a coincidence. Was it just a natural extension to the behaviour of the rich and powerful who had control of most of the wealth and power in the UK.
At present we have connections from Wandsworth, Lambeth, Islington Camden, Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We see no point at this stage in naming people from the 1930’s as even the police are not investigating before 1950.
Allegation that a prosecution against a government official who was in possession of indecent images of children was not pursued following instruction from senior officers and lawyers
Allegation that an investigation into a paedophile ring in south-west London in the 1970’s was shut down prematurely on instruction of senior or high-ranking officers.
Allegation that an MP was only charged with specimen charges for child sex offences and not more numerous or serious offences.
Allegation that paperwork and evidence relating to child sex offences involving an MP disappeared and the MP was released without charge
Allegation of a failure to investigate child sex offences involving an MP due to instructions from senior or high-ranking officers.
Allegations about attempts by Special Branch in the 1970’s to interfere in an investigation that would have revealed an MP to be involved in child sex offences
Allegation an investigation into a west London paedophile ring in the 1980’s had evidence removed and was threatened with closure by senior officer if it uncovered evidence against VIPs
Allegation that an MP was arrested and then released without charge on the instruction of senior officers following an investigation into a south London paedophile ring in the 1980’s. Also alleges officers were threatened with breaking the Official Secrets Act if they spoke of the events.
Allegation that an investigation into child sex abuse in central London in the 1980’s was halted when it became apparent that an MP was involved.
Allegation that an investigation into child sex offences committed by an MP was taken over by officers from Special Branch and then not progressed.
Allegation that an officer serving with the MPS was involved in a paedophile ring in north London and that evidence was covered up by Special Branch.
Allegation that intelligence was provided by a witness, during a separate investigation, indicating an MP was involved in child sex abuse and that this was not investigated. (Essex)
4a. What are the allegations against Wandsworth Council.
As a group, we have searched to find out where do we start and as individuals we ask ourselves why us, but who else. All children are innocent to everything that happened to them. One reads stories of these abuses against children and cannot believe that political figures from both parties let us go to homes, reception homes, then these very Cottage homes operated by one large authority.
So the question we put out to the current officials of Wandsworth Council; over the years have any of the organisations who ran and managed Beecholme ever provided at any time a level of care that each individual person should expect or want, or need.
In our answer about Wandsworth Council we had no alternative than to say NO. As we came to this report late it has been nearly impossible for us to obtain or read the reports on Beecholme or look at the internal abuse report commissioned by Wandsworth about the levels of abuse.
The lack of Integrity shown by Wandsworth Council and Surrey Police leaves this report bereft of a certain level of detail but eyewitness reports and information we have seen leads us to believe a level of negligent management that goes to the top of the council.
Whilst we have spent time considering the serious failures of Wandsworth Council and the employees of Beecholme to instigate and carry out a level of care that was their duty to provide, we have developed a working theory that Beecholme Children’s village was infected with an infection, a virus. In this our interim report and in any future or final report that may or may not be published on the events or happenings at Beecholme, the word or explanation of virus will be printed in bold:
A virus is:
An infective agent able to multiply only within the living cells of the host
Beecholme Children’s Village
A group of persons who willfully infect children with their agenda that facilitates abuse.
An infectious disease that has been caused by a virus
A harmful or corrupt influence
Paedophiles that operate in a ring that infiltrates an institution by developing a paedophile ring that quiets the management and allows abusers to act with impunity and abuse at will.
During the period of this report, we have had to look into Wandsworth’s Council responsibility into the abuses carried out at Beecholme. It is obvious that following the transfer to Wandsworth from the London County Council, the information we have is that the level of incompetence and poor management identified certain structural weaknesses in the levels of management of the home. What seems to have been endemic at the time up to 1974 was a lack of training of staff at every level.
Even though training courses were gradually being introduced, we were a long way from the customary checks and balances that are now in place. Whether there was cover ups and if Wandsworth was in the business of cover ups, it would have been a far reaching one that may have infected every level of the management of the Wandsworth homes. Looking back or forward, was there misconduct in public office by the officials? This is and would be difficult to prove. It is our belief that with the overwhelming evidence against the council there has been a cover up.
There have been internal reports about Beecholme by the Council. Did the Metropolitan Police who ran the Banstead Station until the year 2000 investigate and arrest Harry Grey? Were there any internal police reports? The Metropolitan Police say no, but have so far not responded to our Freedom of Information request.
With the Council and the police denying the existence of any reports or arrests for abuse, plus the extension of the rules to shut all reports or records of abuse for a 100 years, the group has been stopped in getting to the truth but we are meeting with a Government Minister later this year to ask about the opening of these records.
The truth it seems is that Council Officials and even Councillors could have been involved in corrupt practices, it could and should be argued that history will show that instead of putting the needs of the children first or its constituents it chose to ignore them and ride roughshod over the rights of children in organised covers ups that protected the perverts.
The level of the deceit within the Wandsworth council, was so ingrained in the structures of the management at every level that without thought or thinking allowed a tunnel of abuse where children were sent or handed over to homes where the paedophiles and abusers acted with impunity. These people who were supposed to look after and care for the children were encouraged in their behaviour by a complete lack of interest at senior levels and this allowed these monsters to act with impunity. So behind the facade of change for the better from 1965 until the homes closure in 1974 Beecholme may have been a place of debauchery and was in effect a well-run home for perverts and paedophiles.
Through the level of inquires carried out by the Metropolitan Police and the 33 Local Authorities, we are unable to get an accurate figure but Wandsworth carried out its own report about abuse at Beecholme in the 1960’s. (Wandsworth refuse to give us a copy).
Surrey police are currently carrying out a report into abuse at Beecholme under operation Brockhurst run out of the Complex Abuse Unit at Woking Police Station.
Investigation into the Allegation of Child Sexual Abuse – Monkton Street (1988)
Review of Events and Circumstances Associated with Changes to Services at a Home Providing Residential Respite Care for Children with Disabilities (2000) (also known as the Chestnut Report)
(1).Operation Middleton Interim Report (2000)
(2).Operation Middleton Second Interim Report (2001)
(3).Operation Middleton Third Interim Report (2002)
(4).Children’s Homes in Lambeth Enquiry 1998 – 2003 Summary (also known as the CHILE Report) The Lambeth Independent Child Protection Inquiry (1999) (also known as the Barratt Interim Report).
Operation Yewtree.
(1).BBC Investigation into Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and others.
(2).Education department investigation into Jimmy Saville visiting Schools and Hospitals from 1960
(3) NHS Investigation into Saville and his behavior in various Hospitals and rehabilitation homes.
(4) Paedophile Information Exchange: Operation Cayacos (Peter Righton)
We should also point out that Surrey Police are themselves under Investigation for the poor way they have dealt with earlier child abuse allegations. We do not have any confidence in Surrey Police or the way they are investigating the abuse claims from Beecholme.
Above is just a very small sample of how many inquiries or investigations have been carried out across the old London County Council area and the institutions, it must run into the thousands. As survivors of Beecholme it is an eye opener to look in the mirror and think, we were one of an infinite number that will never be known.
We put a Freedom of Information request in to find out about the number of Child Abuse Inquiries that had been undertaken by the Metropolitan Police across London between 1950 and 1974. The response from the Metropolitan Police was that it would cost the group £450.00 to carry out the search.
So we altered the nature of our Inquiry to just Banstead Police station where the group had received reports of a paedophile ring operating out of the above police station. Also that Survivors had made complaints of abuse to the police but no records have been found. (These were anonymous tips so the authenticity the group cannot vouch for).
We have also received information that a previous Chief Constable of Surrey Police, now head of the National Crime Agency, refused to instigate child abuse enquiries into historic abuse allegations.
In most cases of historical sexual abuse claims, the claimant is invariably faced with a number of obstacles that a court has to decide to what level the experiences, as a child, have interfered with the claimants adult life and whether it affected his or her behaviour, including any criminal behaviour during this lifetime..
As a survivor group, we recognise that the courts have a limited amount of scope to accurately assess the impact of the injury on each person individually. We hope that we can show properly any damage to the survivor on a collective and any collateral damage in comparison to someone who has had a normal upbringing and adult life. Only then will it be possible to accurately assess the levels of damage that each person has suffered.
As judges have become more educated and informed on what impact child abuse has on all individual children and that it is wrong to discount any damages simply because a person may have suffered similar problems in later life, We believe this could be relevant to individuals who were at the home but not abused.
It would not be a fair assumption to believe that a child could have suffered these outcomes regardless of the level of abuse, it would be the same as stating that a person who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder from serving in war zones could of easily have the same problems from normal work related stress.
Any chances for a child in a care home setting to benefit from social mobility, however remote the chances are must not be excluded from them irrespective of how low the chances of this happening are. The lack of chances they had in life are not the fault of the children but the complete responsibility of the Management of these homes and there corporate bosses.
The defense normally put forward by most defendants in child sexual abuse cases tends to discriminate against the children. The point we are making that in the majority of cases adults are free to make choices that affect their lives at every level, any action causes a reaction and an adult bears that responsibility for what he does.
Judges, juries and other child protection authorities are now more aware of the devastating effects that sexual advances and acts carried out by or to the child as they grow into adult life. Each child is different and will suffer through a lack of opportunity, a dislike or hatred of authority. In a lot of cases the abused child will have a blighted education. To enable a child abused in care to reach its full potential they must receive extra help.
In the case of Beecholme, which closed its doors in 1974 completely but in the end only had a few resident children living there. The survivors of the abuse in the home are now reaching older age and others are suffering from poor health, whilst others are spread across the old commonwealth. Others are suffering from mental health issues that need to be assessed properly for the levels of impact on the child’s life.
If a child has suffered a collective trauma due to the homes failure at every level it is not for the council or the courts to decide what each child could have attained or the potential for each child by adopting the law of probability. What has to be decided is what could the child have attained if they had not be abused in a home under the management of Wandsworth Council.
If a parent neglected or did not properly look after a child in their care that child was removed by the state under the auspices of the local authority for their own protection. And in some cases of bullying, starvation or other parental abuse the parent or guardian was sent to prison. After this the children were sent to homes where paedophiles acted at will and in some cases with the knowledge of senior officials who carried out a system of high level cover ups.
If those in authority could not, or in most cases would not, realistically look after and guarantee the safety of the children then the question must be asked as to whether the child should of been placed in care in the first place. Only then could Wandsworth Council and the state be able to forgive themselves and absolve themselves of any blame in the beatings, starvation and sexual abuse that went on, on an industrial scale and contributed to many problems as these children left Beecholme.
As a group we are made up of different people.
Some want justice and a level of compensation
Some are ex-residents who have never spoken to anyone about the abuse and want justice and compensation.
Others are ex-residents sitting anonymously watching developments who just want compensation
Some ex-residents who were abused and told adults but the adults did nothing.
So that there can be no misunderstandings the groups legal team of Charles Dereham and Charlotte Attwood of Verisona Law have started sending claims to Wandsworth Council and for the avoidance of doubt, each member of the group is willing to give evidence in court against the council.
We have discovered that survivors, some Child Care Officers and others informed the authorities about the abuse but nothing was ever done or investigated so from 1950 until it closed in 1974 the staff who were employed or mandated by the state to look after the children failed in their duty of care to look after these children. This failure to carry out a duty of care towards the children was compounded by a management team, some of whom were obviously perverts, paedophiles and abusers. This meant over the years they would ensure that all, or the majority of staff employed by them, were off a like mind or had sympathy for the lifestyle these staff followed. These staff were of a substandard level and of a criminal type who never had the best interest of children as there mindset.
After the 1963 local government act and as the newly expanded Wandsworth Council set up a new Child Care organisation under the leadership of Ted Higgins, they shadowed the staff and started transferring staff to the new organisation, a full inspection of the assets and liabilities it was to inherit was undertaken. A complete and full independent inquiry and report should have been carried out and Beecholme should have been closed sooner rather than later. So any child still at Beecholme on transfer after 1965 was still being abused and the new organisation in these homes was the same as under the London County council.
As an organisation, the Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group has had to consider its options and which level of litigation to follow.
We will be presenting this report to Wandsworth Council along with some individual case studies so that the council can investigate and find out why they failed the children in their care, then jointly explore avenues to provide justice and an acceptable level of compensation.
Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group is providing cases to Verisona law, who have started sending these individual claims to Wandsworth Council. We will bring litigation against any council or organisation that holds a responsibility for the standard and lack of a level of care and provide an acceptable level of compensation for the abuse each child suffered, irrespective of whether the survivor is dead or alive, with Wandsworth Council being the main litigant.
As a starting point, we must be able to prove that the claimants are able to prove that each individual was
Themselves physically and/or sexually abused and/or neglected while under the care of the Defendant at Beecholme/Earlsfield House/Hartfield House children’s home or were injured
By witnessing the physical or sexual abuse of other residents at Beecholme Children’s Home or
We ask the following questions:
Is the Defendant(s) vicariously liable for the actions of the individuals who perpetrated and carried out the abuse
Is the Defendant(s) a public authority under the auspices and explanation of the Human Rights Act (1998)?
What level of damages would be acceptable or what is the appropriate level(s) of general damages, past losses, future losses and if appropriate, Human Rights damages for the claimants?
As a group we feel it is a better and more cost effective way to start litigation with a claim against Wandsworth Council. This is rather than engaging in individual claims and the associated level of costs to the public purse. We feel that justice is better served by hearing every claim as one entity as some claims are more severe than others. The judging of the failures of the Beecholme Management and by its very extension Wandsworth Council, plus other government organisations that failed to supply a level of care that each child required.
It is the groups view that bearing in mind the passage of time and the age of many of the staff that may be still alive, the idea that any more convictions would be forthcoming are nigh impossible to expect.
When control of Beecholme was transferred to Wandsworth, all obligations and liabilities were set out in the transfer document giving them full responsibility for any past and present actions which took place at the home. There was a supreme court ruling in 2007 and again in 2016 that the councils were responsible for all prior failings of previous authorities. This leaves Wandsworth with the responsibility for the failings during the years from 1930 until the changeover in 1965. The failings during this period and subsequently the failings of Wandsworth Council leave a Group Litigation the best way forward. As part of the recompense and justice for each individual would be a full recognition of the hurt and harm caused by the Management of the home at all levels.
It is obvious to us as a group that in any future litigation we must rely on the testimony of survivors who have first-hand experience and the collaborative evidence of each person from Beecholme. We must also look at the collective role of Child Care officers who through neglect, indifference and too heavy a workload. allowed the collective abuse of children by beatings, starvation and sexual abuse which resulted in a very dysfunctional childhood that had a major impact on each child’s subsequent life.
If any of the above options fail or for some reason or cannot be pursued, we reserve our right to undertake any other action needed to obtain justice for every Beecholme Resident.
We will where necessary search every available place, organisation or the internet and print and publish every accusation of abuse against any individual. We will also ensure that the name of every alleged abuser or paedophile is also published as part of the expose. This will be done to ensure that the correct levels of justice and compensation is awarded to each survivor.
The Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group will seek to be awarded by Wandsworth Council a level of Compensation, reparations and redress for the many and continued failures of first the London County council and finally Wandsworth Council.
As a group we will be also seeking redress compensation that will enable the group to provide enough services for at least 3 years after the closing date of any compensation award.
Our reparations must ensure a level that each survivor is happy with. We reserve the right to amend or alter any of the claims as required by events.
It is our intention to seek reparations for every child from birth until the age of 16 who were sexually abused or any other form of neglect that was carried out at Beecholme by any member of staff or other individuals starting in the 1930’s and carried on until the home closed in 1974. The level of this sexual depravity is not limited to a few individuals. ( Clifford Heap)
The Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group will seek reparations for all children that were placed in the homes or educational establishments that catered for children adjudged to have been maladjusted. We have identified members of staff in these cottages who acted in a sadistic nature and caught a form of sexual gratification out of that behaviour.
In our evidence we point out the levels of bullying that was carried out on a daily basis. The information we have is that even though there was a ban on corporal punishment, sadistic bullying and beatings were carried out on a daily basis. Sexual abuse has been mentioned by some survivors. ( This is subject to further investigation).
The Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group will be seeking reparations and complete acknowledgment from the institutions of how badly children were let down once a child reached 15/16/18, depending on time or year. They were thrown out onto the street where some were picked up by some of the perverts or paedophiles who operated out of Beecholme and pimped out, both boys and girls. Some of the children graduated to the Wimpy Bar and amusement arcades at Victoria where they were led into a life on the streets and prostitution.
In the event that the survivor is deceased, we will seek compensation for the survivor to be passed to the surviving family members.
As a group The Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group will seek a level of compensation or reparations that amply compensate for the failure of the council to investigate any or all claims of sexual abuse in the home. Wandsworth council should acknowledge its failure to investigate and protect children in its care. If any of this neglect was of a criminal nature then the level of compensation should be at a higher level. The council should seek advice from the police on whether charges can be bought against any individual who carried out or neglected to act on any information that was told to them.
Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group will seek to obtain a level of compensation for the lack of certain staff integrity and the lack of proper background checks or vetting carried out between 1930 and 1974 and the complete failure to check any member of full time staff, part time staff, casual staff and visitors and the social Aunts and Uncles who had free range of these homes.
Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group will also look at the racism issues to claim reparations and compensation, After our investigation it was discovered that at one time black children were sent to one particular cottage under a sadistic bully.
As the final claim for compensation and reparations against Wandsworth Council in its failure to protect children from sexual abuse, at certain times individuals were arrested and charged with sexual abuse (Harry Grey, 1971) Also bullies were allowed to flourish and keep their jobs whilst children were labeled as story-tellers and liars. ( in my sisters case, teller of fantastic stories and a thief)
As part of our claim for reparations and compensation Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group are seeking justice for the children shipped out by the management after reporting sexual abuse.
As a group it is necessary for us on behalf of all survivors, and families of the abused to have acknowledged the unimaginable harm, damage and trauma caused at a level. Every survivor has been significantly disadvantaged and has experienced high levels of unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, also poor physical and mental health and in the majority of cases have not reached the potential they should have. We believe that each survivor should get a level of compensation that will enable them to have a decent level of expectation. Every child thought they were being given a pass into a better life but they never expected to be abused again. These survivors were abused or neglected in their own home where they expected to be safe. Instead they were put at the mercy of perverts who were protected by the establishment. In most cases, one hell was swapped for another. Some survivors lives after leaving Beecholme just went from bad to worse.
What this report shows and demonstrates is that some children could have avoided further abuse or trauma if just one person in the employment of Wandsworth Council took a hand in their care before they were released. Why, after 1965 did Wandsworth not put in place a leaving care scheme? If they had, this would or could have saved some of them from a life on the streets. Wandsworth like many other authorities sought to lie and cover up the levels and amount of abuse.
Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group seeks to obtain compensation or reparations for the children who were denied access or a family life by the actions of any part of the Wandsworth legal team.
8 REDRESS SCHEME
Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group are of the opinion that a full redress scheme would be the best case of compensation and justice for each survivor. Any scheme implemented must address as a starting point, were you resident in one of the cottages where abuse was carried out. The scheme must also recognise the level of abuse suffered by each survivor, what impact it had on the survivors life and life chances. Also any redress scheme must also look to help the survivor face their fears and their futures. As a starting point it is recommended to Wandsworth Council that the report (Historical Abuse, What Survivors want from Redress) Professor Patricia Lundy,Ulster University,2010 ) This report suggests that the following should be included.
Acknowledgment and Apology
Counselling and Wellbeing service provision
Monuments and Memory Projects
Reparation and Family Reunification
Intergenerational Issues
A level off payment in Compensation to allow the group to continue working for Wandsworth Children’s homes survivors ( A Compensation Payment per Survivor).
In seeking a redress scheme we must seek that each person gets a basic payment, with a top up payment for the level of abuse suffered in any Wandsworth Children’s home, this should also include the unregulated and unlicensed boarding out homes.
Another part of the redress scheme must ensure that no survivor can lose any access to, or any of the benefits they currently qualify for. The group as a whole will look into how this can be achieved for each survivor.
In conclusion it is groups position that each ex-resident of Beecholme must get a full written and individual apology that ensures they feel justice has been obtained. Our inability to get Wandsworth to the table is part of the problem.
It is our belief that along with Surrey Police they have deliberately covered up and prevaricated as much as they can to stop us getting at the truth. They have hidden abuse reports and destroyed records over a number of years. The police have been deliberately obtuse by at first pretending to be keeping us informed but then changing the goalposts in which they now treat each person as an individual and use the exemption they are allowed. As a group we have sought to work and cooperate with everybody, but to no avail. Some groups have not cooperated whilst others have ignored requests from us for help.
The other councils involved in this are Camden, Westminster, Islington, Royal Borough Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham. Each one of these Councils sent children to Beecholme, How many of these councils have abuse reports? Each council is extremely guilty of a gigantic cover up and neglect of each child at a very high level. These Councils have once again cooperated with Surrey Police but have ignored requests to talk to us.
Each of the six councils which include Wandsworth have been negligent and have allowed the sexual abuse of children on an industrial scale. Are there other hidden reports these councils carried out? or did they at any time undertake any investigations into the abuse at Beecholme. We have first-hand reports from various survivors who were sent to Beecholme. Why did six Heads of Child Services in six of the new London Boroughs allow the neglect and sexual abuse of children that they sent to Beecholme.
We are happy to state that initial meetings took place with the following councils, Camden, Islington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Wandsworth and Hammersmith and Fulham.
We have also requested new meetings to look at further cooperation between us and the councils.
Camden, Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Islington are also complicit in the cover up of the levels of abuse at Beecholme.
We conclude this report by stating that Wandsworth are guilty of allowing sexual abuse, neglect, beatings, starvation and a cover up.
So where does the conclusion for Beecholme begin, does it begin with the complicit behaviour of the senior management of the London County Council or the new senior management from the six newly enlarged councils or Wandsworth Council alone who assumed responsibility alone for its day to day affairs after 1965.
No, the responsibility lies with each authority and management during its operation from 1930 onwards until its closure in 1974. In the1930’s the newly formed or expanded London County Council were responsible. This responsibility we have split on a 50/50 basis between the politicians and the Management. The blame lies in the standard and levels of education or training off the staff. Such was t8. at this time that one could safely assume that staff were picked on their ability to control the children in their care.
Children were controlled by different measures, the majority being beatings, starvation and very harsh treatment. The other methods of control were the perverts and paedophiles that were allowed to operate in these homes and cottages.
The numbers of staff and visitors who took advantage of the lax security or care or concern for children cannot be measured at all but must number in the high hundreds or low thousands. Children were forced to call everybody Auntie and Uncle and on numerous occasions the children were taken advantage off by these individuals. (in a sexual or physical way).
So let us return to the running of Beecholme, the children’s village was operated by senior management consisting of a Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent and other supporting and ancillary staff operating out of a central office. After this came the House Parent or Parents with casual staff
and others helping to run each cottage. Plus, the home had students and volunteers visiting the homes at different times. So in essence each cottage operated in a semi- autonomous fashion where what went on behind closed doors, stayed behind those doors. This does not mean that the senior management were above such levels of poor behaviour.
As part of this investigation we looked at the role of the senior management and especially Geoffrey Banner and whether he was a paedophile. In the cause of our investigation various individuals and family members of the deceased have said that they had been sexually abused by the superintendent. We do believe these actions happened as they have been verified by different survivors. Geoffrey Banner was also fond of delivering a good spanking. We cannot verify or prove one hundred per cent as to whether or how much sexual abuse was carried out or instigated by Geoffrey Banner who was abusing his position of power.
In looking at the person above and investigating the extent of the management cover up, it is impossible to believe they did not engage in these sexual perversions or know it was going on. To what extent and how high into the politicians of the London County Council and Wandsworth is now and can only be conjecture, but it is evident that the sexual abuse was on an industrial scale and covered up by the establishment.
So Ted Long, Pete Mactavish, Clifford Heap, Thomas Hart, Edward Pearce, xxxxx xxxxx, xxxxx xxxxx, Ethel Farmer, Cecil Farmer, and others carried out certain acts of violence towards children and young people. This list is not exhaustive as it would probably number more pages than the report.
As we looked further into the very dark practices and treatment of young girls at Beecholme, we have to mention VC and Gale Parsons (Booth).VC committed suicide and Gale died of a heroin overdose,
All these deaths can be attributable to the treatment of each girl whilst at Beecholme. Our information is that each girl was sexually abused whilst at Beecholme. In the case of young Gale, was her poor behaviour and disruption down to her or to adults sexually abusing her. So this part ends with the responsibility for the sexual and physical abuse laid squarely at the feet of Councillors.
Let us turn now to what is now classified as a Welfare Officer/Social Worker, for some unknown reason our society has moved to a system where a three year Social Worker degree seems to give you the keys to the Kingdom. My first social worker “ Murial Tanner” was a well-educated middle class lady who saw through my father and had the measure of him My father moved house, Miss Tanner was promoted and we then had a succession of Child Care Officers who had no real interest in the children they were looking after.
So it is to this that we look at now, in the majority of case reports were poor and rather than properly inspect places or bedrooms they did nothing. They just filed a report saying everything was OK, All of us had a variety of these officers in our lives and every one of us can relay stories about them in the main. The majority were very poor and did nothing. If a child complained they would be moved on elsewhere. How does a “ Margaret Quigley” run a home with about 20/30 children with no checks whatsoever, then in 1965 how does the newly formed Wandsworth Council give her a license for a home with 10 children. Who covered this up? Was Ted Higgins involved in these decisions?
Our investigation has been hampered by the following groups, Surrey Police and Wandsworth Council. Plus we must also look at the roles off all six councils that sent children to be abused in all its many forms whilst in their care.
(We wish to thank Miss Katrina Waite from Wandsworth for her unstinting patience in trying to find out the information we requested.)
( We also wish to thank Kahlah Ravnett and the staff of Islington Council for their help in the compilation of this report).
( We wish to also thank Miss Georgia Gould and her staff at Camden Council for the help and assistance they have provided).
( We would also like to thank, Angela Flahive and the support staff of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster Council).
Our biggest condemnation goes to the Hammersmith and Fulham Council and Surrey Police who have both been obstructive and refused to provide us with the information we needed. It is forty three years since the home closed, surely it is time in a so called open and transparent democracy that the light of TRUTH should be shined into the dark recesses of the Children’s Homes that were, in the majority of cases, sweet shops for perverts and paedophiles.
We would like to add that Hammersmith and Fulham Council never returned a letter and point blankly refused to meet.
So let us close the report in the knowledge that no longer can Wandsworth claim ignorance about the children abused at Beecholme, or the ongoing effects that each child’s abuse had on the lives they have lived.
Justice is only served when it is acknowledged by the Authority dispensing it.
Let me finally thank my wife Lee, who has been constantly by my side, who is fighting the hardest battle of her life, who has heard things that has happened to me and others. No person should have to listen to the levels of abuse that were suffered by our survivors at Beecholme. So my thanks to her patience and understanding have no end.
For every survivor who has suffered because of Beecholme
Children will be seen and not Heard:
This was the watchword of our youth.
Beecholme Report, has been written and
published by the Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group
TM who has kept me sane and been a great friend
KS who brightens my mood every time I speak to her and without whose help we could not have written the report.
SP whose knowledge has been fantastic
ML a wonderful friend and helper
JR A very genuine individual, who has suffered more than most.
C, Thank You
SC, a great friend and who gets my heartfelt thanks.
TW an unflinching fighter for survivors
CFB who has been unstinting in his help and friendship.
To every Beecholme Survivor who has come forward and helped move us closer to Justice.
. THE REPORTS AUTHOR
Graeme Sergeant was at Cuckfield Nursery in 1958 and arrived at Beecholme in 1959 moving on to boarding out home in 1962, Gayfere House, On his arrival in Beecholme he was placed in Drake House under the House Parents Mr. and Mrs. Farmer who ran a degrading operation.
When the Farmers left Drake House a succession of part time or casual staff were employed to run the home until Eva Knight was appointed just before he was moved. On various occasions he was dragged out of bed, taken downstairs and locked in a cupboard. He then taken out and paraded naked in the kitchen in front of both men and woman whilst it was decided who he would go with. He was abused by both men and woman and made to carry out various sexual acts for the gratification of both men and woman. (He was never raped or buggered).
He was beaten badly on more than one occasion, being thrown against an iron towel rail, having his head dunked down a toilet then spanked hard. On being sent to the new home he was again sexually abused by strangers and members of staff. Gayfere House disappeared in 1965 and the house and Margaret Quigley, one of the staff members and had previously worked at Beecholme, disappeared. After a battle he obtained the rather underhanded behaviour of Wandsworth Council in that they licensed Margaret Quigley to run a home with up to 10 children.
Wandsworth Council in 1965 then committed the ultimate act of racism in that as his mother had a relationship with a black man, she was immediately left out of decisions. The London County Council ‘forgot’ to tell his mother that the divorce hearing was three months earlier. This decision denied him a relationship with Rita, his mother. Hence, he never saw her alive again. He had two extra sisters who he never knew so a relationship with then was impossible.
He went on to have a very successful life being married for over 42 years and having children and 8 grandchildren. He tried numerous jobs and moved about eleven times, including a stint of working in South Africa.
After tracing his mother and discovering her death and getting hold of his care records, he discovered that what he had been led to believe was true, turned out to be false. His father had been not only the instigator but he was assisted by the authorities in his dealings. His father had always said very little, but had told him he had been in Shirley Oaks, when in effect he had been in Beecholme and he also knew about the sisters.
So it was this that led him to start the group and the fact that we have identified a system of institutional abuse at Beecholme and it was instigated at management level. We must also look at the extent of any cover.
The Sanctuary for the Abused [A] has advice on how to prevent triggers.
National Association for People Abused in Childhood [B] has a freephone helpline and has links to local support groups.
One in Four [C]
Havoca [D].
Useful post on Triggers [E] from SurvivorsJustice [F] blog.
Jim Hoppers pages on Mindfulness [G] and Meditation [H] may be useful.
Hwaairfan blog An Indigenous Australian Approach to Healing Trauma [J]
Survivors UK for victims and survivors of male rape or the sexual abuse of men [K]
Voicing CSA group [L] helps arrange survivors meetings in your area
A Prescription for me blog Various emotional support links [M]
Fresh Start Foundation Scottish not for profit group, helping child sexual abuse victims & survivors [N]
[1] Beechwood Survivors Interim Report Through the Iron Gates To The Cottages of Hell
[2] 2018 Jan 2017 CathyFoxBlog Beecholme Survivors and Justice Group Letter https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/beecholme-survivors-and-justice-group-letter/
[3] 2017 Dec 5 cathy fox blog Beecholme – Wandsworth Council wrong to say they had no Child Abuse Reports https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/beecholme-wandsworth-council-wrong-to-say-they-had-no-child-abuse-reports/
[4] 2017 Oct 31 cathy fox blog Beecholme Survivors – please get in touch https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/beecholme-survivors-please-get-in-touch/
[5] 2017 Aug 5 cathy fox blog Child Abuse at Beecholme Childrens Home, Banstead, Surrey https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/child-abuse-at-beecholme-childrens-home-banstead-surrey/
[6] 2017 July 9 cathy fox blog #CSASurvivors Stories 3 – James Reeves Story https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/csasurvivors-stories-3-james-reeves-story/
[A] Sanctuary for the Abused http://abusesanctuary.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/for-survivors-coping-with-triggers-if.html
[B] NAPAC http://www.napac.org.uk/
[C] One in Four http://www.oneinfour.org.uk/
[D] Havoca http://www.havoca.org/HAVOCA_home.htm
[E] SurvivorsJustice Triggers post http://survivorsjustice.com/2014/02/26/triggers-what-are-they-and-how-do-we-work-through-them/
[F] SurvivorsJustice Blog http://survivorsjustice.com/
[G] Jim Hopper Mindfulness http://www.jimhopper.com/mindfulness/
[H] Jim Hopper Meditation http://www.jimhopper.com/mindfulness/#cultivate
[J] 2016 Jan 5 Hwaairfan blog An Indigenous Australian Approach to Healing Trauma https://hwaairfan.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/an-indigenous-australian-approach-to-healing-trauma/
[K] Survivors UK website for victims and survivors of male rape or the sexual abuse of men https://www.survivorsuk.org/ and twitter https://twitter.com/SurvivorsUK
[L] Voicing CSA website – http://voicingcsa.uk/ helps arrange survivors meetings in your area. Voicing CSA supports the IICSA and VSCP and works to help adult survivors of child sexual abuse find their voice
[M] A Prescription for me blog Various emotional support links https://aprescriptionforme.wordpress.com/help/#emotionalsupport
[N] Fresh Start Foundation Scottish not for profit group, helping child sexual abuse victims & survivors to achieve Truth & Justice and to support their recovery. http://www.freshstartfoundation.co.uk/ Twitter @SurvivorsSoS Facebook https://www.facebook.com/survivorssupportline/
This is all written in good faith but if there is anything that needs to be corrected or you wish to write to me please email cathyfox@zoho.com quoting the article title
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” – Edmund Burke
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.” Charles Peguy
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every time we act in the face of fear, we dilute it’s power and increase our confidence – via Gary Havener
Only the small secrets need to be protected, the large ones are kept secret by public incredulity – Marshall McLuhan
Let justice be done though the heavens fall – Fiat justitia ruat cælum
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This is fantastic work by all involved, and much power to them by the release of all this data of abuse they have suffered whilst most vulnerable. It is unimaginable the fear and helplessness they must have felt. I wish you all that many tender and joyous experiences shall now fill your life as part recompense in some way – and many thanks to Cathy for posting this too. This now needs all the publicity and recognition it may gather.
2018, November, 5 at 6:16 pm
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beecholmesurvivorsandjustice says:
2018, November, 25 at 6:55 pm
Well done James. A Beecholme Survivor. January 25th meeting. We look forward to seeing you if you can make it
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Soot Optical Diagnostic Development and Application to Turbulent Non-Premixed Buoyant Flames
Crosland, Brian Michael
This thesis details the development and application of laser-based optical diagnostics capable of measuring soot volume fraction, mean aggregate radius of gyration and primary particle size in turbulent flames. Research focussed on techniques suitable for making instantaneous measurements in turbulent flames, initially investigating a 2D auto-compensating laser-induced incandescence (2D-AC-LII) diagnostic prior to developing a unique combined AC-LII and elastic light scattering (ELS) system, which was used in subsequent experiments. Comprehensive Monte Carlo-based uncertainty analyses performed on each system indicated that the imprecise knowledge of soot properties was the largest source of uncertainty for all measurements. Use of a newly-developed ELS calibration method allowed a reduction in uncertainties resulting from calibration and instrument noise. The AC-LII/ELS technique was applied to turbulent buoyant non-premixed flames relevant to solution gas flares used throughout the upstream energy industry, resulting in several important insights. First, the results demonstrate that decreases in soot volume fraction seen near the flame tip are attributable to increased flame intermittency rather than decreases in soot volume fraction within soot-bearing structures, providing support for a recent suggestion from the literature that this could occur in momentum-dominated flames and further extending it to the buoyancy-dominated flames studied here. Secondly, and contrary to a suggestion in the literature for momentum-dominated flames, the current results indicate that soot-bearing structures oxidize very rapidly or not at all, rather than being preferentially oxidized in structures with low soot volume fraction. Thirdly, soot aggregate size was found to vary linearly with residence time, and trends for a wide range of flames collapsed when residence times were offset to account for implied variations in soot inception height. Finally, considering the large range of flow rates and burner diameters investigated, it is significant that measured quantities among all turbulent buoyant flame conditions were well-correlated when scaled in the axial direction by either flame length or residence time. The body of work presented here has provided new insights into the sooting behaviour of turbulent buoyant non-premixed flames and has made significant contributions to the development of diagnostic tools that will facilitate future investigations in a range of flame configurations.
Co-author and Co-supervisor:
Johnson, Matthew R.
Thomson, Kevin A.
Engineering, Mechanical
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HAIM and CHVRCHES’ Lauren Mayberry had a silly chat, which they thankfully recorded — listen
Pop elite discusses GIFs, concert snafus, and more
on July 27, 2015, 1:05pm
During some downtime at Pitchfork Music Festival earlier this month, HAIM and CHVRCHES frontwoman Lauren Mayberry got together to hang out backstage. As friends usually do, they all proceeded to shoot the shit, discussing fun topics like the proper pronunciation of “GIF,” awesome hairstyles, and what it’s like to be hit in the face with a beachball while performing on-stage. The Talkhouse podcast was on hand to catch all the chatter and you can stream the entire conversation below.
Despite traveling in the same circles — they both contributed to the Lorde-curated soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt. 1 — HAIM and CHVRCHES have yet to actually collaborate. The closest thing to a joint track was CHVRCHES’ cover of “Falling”, which is certainly worth a revisit.
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jednakże Englisch:
1. however
You are wrong, however.
Nutella is not very well known in Japan. However, in America and Europe it's a popular spread and various sized jars of Nutella may be seen lined up inside many grocery stores and supermarkets.
In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.
All of his friends were body pillows, and all of hers were dolls; so they bonded over their fondness for animating the inanimate. However, because they were not inanimate objects but people with complex emotions, their relationship was sometimes strained.
The future progressive tense is used when expressing events and action in progress at some future point, however the example sentence cannot be understood in that way.
That's correct. In Japanese, ウエートレス corresponds both to the English "waitress" and "weightless". However, "waitress" is the more usual meaning.
I have one of my friends who graduated from university and became a fine public servant. Once he told me that what he had learned from school had been useless. However, what little philosophy he had learned proved to be of great benefit.
We're not going to get there in time, however fast we drive. He had always been a successful businessman. Recently, however, things have not been going well for him.
However, what's interesting is that whilst there are people whose computer use has become a problem, there are also people who have recovered from illness because of using computers.
Oh my. However much it's just a P.E. class; if you don't face it in real earnest, then when it comes to a real fight it won't do you any good.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Lojban is designed to be unambiguous in orthography, phonology, morphology, and grammar. Lojban semantics, however, must support the same breadth of human thought as natural languages.
When he openly declared he would marry Pablo, he almost gave his grandmother a heart attack and made his aunt's eyes burst out of their sockets; however, his little sister beamed with pride.
Nowadays, however, calculators can be used freely in school examinations, and already in many schools the only sound to be heard during a math exam is the sound of children tapping on their calculators.
Englisch Wort "jednakże"(however) tritt in Sätzen auf:
Lekcja 7.11.2017 - slownictwo do pisania
Z matury próbnej rozszerzonej 2015/16
Gateway 3: Człowiek, podróżowanie i turystyka
our life - dział 5 new matura success pre-intermed...
Linking Words – English Vocabulary; Spójniki – sło...
2. nevertheless
I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting nevertheless.
What you said was true. It was, nevertheless, a little unkind.
Nevertheless, the topic is worth discussing.
It is nevertheless a good sentence.
The stories that circulated about the old graveyard were contradictory, but nevertheless made your heart freeze.
Nevertheless, many are choosing early retirement.
You cannot compare the strength of a man to that of a tiger, but nevertheless, the tiger is still the inferior creature.
I don't know Spanish, but with the help of a Spanish-German dictionary, I nevertheless understood your letter to some extent.
I am tired; nevertheless, I must finish my homework.
We're quite insignificant, but awesome nevertheless.
Nevertheless, devout conversation on spiritual things helps no little with spiritual progress.
He didn't tell me why he'd been late, but I knew it nevertheless
The words however, nevertheless, and therefore are extremely useful...
1. Nevertheless, accidents still occur. 2. The building is guarded around the clock, but robberies occur nevertheless. 3. It’s a difficult race. Nevertheless, about 1,000 runners participate every year.
This is an intelligent man; nevertheless, he is not competent in this domain. / I agree with you; nevertheless, I'd like to add some details.
Englisch Wort "jednakże"(nevertheless) tritt in Sätzen auf:
technologie informacyjno-komunikacyjne
69. Dziwne zwyczaje
Michal -F-4-2014
3. though
It's expensive though.
Even though computer programmers may use semicolons every day, nowadays most people only use semicolons for emoticons.
Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.
Cesar Chavez asked that strikers remain non-violent even though farm owners and their supporters sometimes used violence.
Though Tom's English seems quite good at times, he doesn't seem to know his limitations and it's impossible to convince him that he's wrong when he makes a mistake.
You're an arrogant dirty foreigner who claims your dictionary is correct even though you don't understand the nuances of Japanese.
Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.
Though it is true that every normal human being is able to use language, it is misleading to compare this with his ability to eat, sleep, or walk.
His style (if you were to call it that) was excessively (though I run the risk of hypocrisy) parenthetical (pardon the pun).
I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake, though all the World sees them to be in downright nonsense.
How many men are there that wear a coat that cost a hundred francs, and carry a diamond in the head of their cane, and dine for twenty-five SOUS for all that! It seems as though we could never pay enough for the pleasures of vanity.
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Englisch Wort "jednakże"(though) tritt in Sätzen auf:
Unit 2 f Healthy eating p. 34
S3, Wednesday, 15.07.2015
NV GF 10.01.2014
A66 08.04.2014
4. nonetheless
You may not believe it, but it is nonetheless true.
Not the most elegant way to go, but accidental nonetheless.
I lost the game but I told myself that I had improved a lot nonetheless.
Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn and the poem which it is based on share a dreamy, ethereal, but nonetheless passionate feel.
Whoever may oppose my plan, I will carry it out nonetheless.
Though he was poor, he was nonetheless happy.
She went on hoping nonetheless because there was no news from her husband.
Englisch Wort "jednakże"(nonetheless) tritt in Sätzen auf:
Opowiadanie - przydatne zwroty
Navigate Unit 4
5. Notwithstanding
she is a charming person, her opinions notwithstanding
Notwithstanding some minor financial problems, the company has had a successful year. Movie quote: This is what you do the best your recent legal mishap notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding the low price, I wouldn't buy it. We went to the beach, the rain notwithstanding.
She accepted our offer notwithstanding.
Notwithstanding some members' objections, I think we must go ahead with the plan. Injuries notwithstanding, the team won the semifinal
notwithstanding the evidence the consensus is that the jury will not reach a verdict
Englisch Wort "jednakże"(Notwithstanding) tritt in Sätzen auf:
Angielski v-2
andere Wörter beginnend mit "J(die Empfänger)
jeden Englisch
jedenaście Englisch
jednak Englisch
jednorazowy Englisch
jedwab Englisch
jedynak Englisch
jednakże in anderen Wörterbüchern
jednakże in Arabisch
jednakże Tschechisch
jednakże Deutsch
jednakże Spanisch
jednakże Französisch
jednakże Hindi
jednakże Indonesier
jednakże Italienisch
jednakże georgisch
jednakże Litauisch
jednakże Holländisch
jednakże Norwegisch
jednakże Portugiesisch
jednakże Rumänisch
jednakże Russisch
jednakże Slowakisch
jednakże Schwedisch
jednakże kreuzten Beinen
jednakże in Vietnamesisch
jednakże Chinesisch
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West Palm Beach boasts a proud Spring Training history. Both the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals now call West Palm Beach their Spring Training home. Opened in 2017, The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches is located at 5444 Haverhill Road in West Palm Beach.
The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, Florida (Photo Courtesy of Pete Kerzel)
Since 1998, the Miami Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals have play their Spring Training home games at Roger Dean Stadium in nearby Jupiter Florida. Located at 4751 Main Street, Roger Dean Stadium is just 12 miles north of The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.
Roger Dean Stadium, Jupiter Florida,
Spring Training in West Palm Beach dates back to at least 1928. The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches and Roger Dean Stadium both were preceded by two other now-lost ballparks, Connie Mack Field and West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium.
Connie Mack Field (Photo – The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee)
West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Complex (Postcard Holley Studio, Palm Beach Florida)
Connie Mack Field (formerly Municipal Athletic Field (1924 to 1926) and Wright Field 1927 to 1952)) was located approximately seven miles southeast of The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches at the intersection of Tamarind Avenue and Okeechobee Boulevard.
Intersection of Okeechobee Blvd. and Tamarind Avenue, Former Site of Connie Mack Field.
Connie Mack Field was the spring training home of the St. Louis Browns from 1928 to 1936, and the Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics from 1946 to 1962. Previously, the Athletics had trained in Florida at Durkee Field (later renamed J. P. Small Memorial Park) in Jacksonville, Florida, from 1914 to 1918, and Terry Park in Fort Myers, Florida, from 1925 to 1936.
Bobby Shantz at Connie Mack Field circa 1950’s during Philadelphia Athletics Spring Training
Connie Mack Field also was home to the West Palm Beach Indians, who played in the Florida East Coast League from 1940 to 1942, the Florida International League from 1946 to 1955, and the Florida State League in 1955. In 1956 the Florida State League West Palm Beach Sun Chiefs played at Connie Mack Field, and from 1965 to 1968 the Florida State League West Palm Beach Braves played their home games at the ballpark.
Connie Mack Field Grandstand (Photo – The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee)
Demolished in 1992, the former grandstand site is now a parking garage for the Kravitz Center for the Performing Arts.
Entrance to Kravis Center Parking Garage, Iris Street, Former Site of Connie Mack Field
The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee has memorialized the ballpark with a display located near the elevators on the first floor of the Kravis Center Parking Garage.
Display About Connie Mack Field Located on Level 1 of the Kravis Center Garage – The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee
The display includes photographs of the ballpark, two of which are reproduced above (with attribution to The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee).
Photos of Connie Mack Field – The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee)
Home plate is marked with a plaque just to the south the Kravitz Center Parking Garage.
Home Plate Looking Toward Pitchers Mound, Former Site of Connie Mack Field, Located Adjacent To Kravis Center Parking Lot, West Palm Beach, Florida
A significant portion of the former infield is now a storm water retention pond.
Former Site of Connie Mack Field, Infield Near the Intersection of Okeechobee Blvd. and Tamarind Avenue,
The former left field line paralleled Okeechobee Boulevard.
Okeechobee Blvd. Looking East , Former Site of Connie Mack Field Left Field Line
Center field was located at the northeast corner of Okeechobee Boulevard and Tamarind Avenue.
Former Site of Connie Mack Field, Center Field Near the Intersection of Okeechobee Blvd. and Tamarind Avenue
The plaque honoring the location of home plate states “Connie Mack Field (Wright Field) This monument marks the exact location of home plate. The concrete base that supports this plaque is the original base set in 1924. Some of the great players who batted here Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, & Ted Williams. Go ahead step up to the plate.”
Home Plate Marker, Former Site of Connie Mack Field, Located Adjacent To Kravis Center Parking Lot, West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium was located just five miles southeast of The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, at 715 Hank Aaron Drive.
Doyle Alelxander, Circa Early 1970s, West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium
Municipal Stadium was the spring training home of the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves from 1963 to 1997, and the Montreal Expos from 1969 to 1972 and 1981 to 1997. Previously, the Braves had trained in Florida at Waterfront Park in St. Petersburg, Florida, from 1922 to 1937, and McKechnie Field (now LECOM Park), in Bradenton, Florida, from 1938 to 1940, and 1948 to 1962.
Batting Tunnels, Municipal Stadium, West Palm Beach, Florida (Postcard Montreal Expos)
The stadium complex included four playing fields in addition to the stadium structure.
Aerial View of Municipal Stadium, West Palm Beach, Florida (Postcard Montreal Expos)
In addition to Spring Training, West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium was the home of the Florida State League West Palm Beach Expos from 1969 to 1997 and the Senior Professional Baseball Association West Palm Beach Tropics from 1989 to 1990.
West Palm Beach Expos 1987 Program
Demolished in 2002, the former ballpark site is now a Home Depot and Cameron Estates, a gated housing development.
Home Depot Parking Lot Entrance, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Parking Lot Behind Grandstand
The entrance to the former stadium complex is on Hank Aaron Drive, where it intersects North Congress Avenue.
Intersection of Hank Aaron Drive and Congress Drive, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium
The grandstand was located near the entrance to the Home Depot off Hank Aaron Drive.
Entrance to Home Depot Off Hank Aaron Drive, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Grandstand and Infield
Back Entrance To Home Depot From Hank Aaron Drive, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium First Base Grandstand
Home plate was located approximately in the back lot behind the Home Depot.
Home Depot Back Lot Looking West, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Home Plate
Al Bumbry, Circa Early 1970s, West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium
The right field line paralleled Hank Aaron Drive.
Hank Aaron Drive Looking South Along former right field line of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium
A portion of Cameron Estates, behind the Home Depot, now occupies the former right field.
Cameron Estates, Private Drive Off Hank Aaron Drive, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Right Field
Center field was located in the northeast section of Cameron Estates, behind the Home Depot back lot.
Cameron Estates on Left and Home Depot Back Lot on Right, Looking East, Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Center Field
Cameron Estates also envelops portions of the former practice fields that sat to the south of the stadium structure.
Entrance to Cameron Estates, former site of Former Site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium Practice Fields
One distinctive landmark that remains just northeast of the former site of West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium is the former West Palm Beach Auditorium, now the West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center.
West Palm Beach Christian Convention Center
Although both Connie Mack Field and West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium are now lost ballparks, The Remembering Connie Mack Field Committee has done a wonderful job of memorializing the history and former site of Connie Mack Field. Perhaps a similar group will take it upon itself to memorialize West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium as well. These ballparks are significant to the history of baseball in Florida, for both their Spring Training games and the minor league teams that played at those ballparks.
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Exclusive Interview with Elena Kats-Chernin
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This week debussycat had the chance to speak with Elena Kats-Chernin about her upcoming concert with the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra (tonight and tomorrow night at the Strathfield Town Hall – for more info click here). A household name in Australia, Elena Kats-Chernin is one of our nation’s most celebrated modern musicians and leading composers whose output includes orchestral works, operas, chamber and solo pieces, as well as music for dance, film, and theatre. The Strathfield Symphony Orchestra commissioned Kats-Chernin to compose the Redmyre Suite in 2009 to celebrate its 40th anniversary, and it has been revised for these concerts.
You can view the programme here and book tickets here.
Kats-Chernin on composing
It goes without saying that the life of a composer is intensely creative and solitary in some respects. Kats-Chernin tells me she spends days composing millions of little notes and making constant changes to her work. Requiring only her piano, her manuscript paper, a pen and her mind, Kats-Chernin’s compositions are highly original and spontaneous, reflecting her unique idiom and personal history. Once upon a time, she might have cited Ravel and Bach as influences, however these days she draws inspiration from just about anything, whether ‘a conversation, a story or even something she has eaten’.
I have to ask Kats-Chernin what it is like to be a composer in Australia. Did she ever consider moving elsewhere? Her answer is a resounding “no” – Australia is and always has been the place for her. She laughs and tells me that composers are not fond of change. Constantly busy with new compositions, Kats-Chernin is glad to be surrounded by friends and family here in Sydney.
The story behind the Redmyre Suite
During our interview, Kats-Chernin reveals a little of her thinking behind the Redmyre Suite. I am intrigued to find out that the Redmyre Suite, named after Redmyre Street (being the street on which the orchestra meets for rehearsal every week) is inspired by the Orchestra itself. Kats-Chernin seeks to pay tribute to its members past and present, as well as the noble sacrifice of amateur artists who meet and practice in their free time, all for the love of music.
A preview of the Redmyre Suite
In short, the Suite is a celebratory piece inspired by community and place. Tonight I will be listening for Kats-Chernin’s characteristic rhythmic pulsation and distinctive melodic/harmonic language as well as the celebratory brass chords that she tells me will open the final movement. She also tells me to listen for the sound of ‘trains hurtling along the tracks’, reminding the audience of Strathfield’s famous train station – a significant and central landmark for community members both within and without Strathfield.
Finally, whilst Kats-Chernin’s inspiration these days is very much the fruit of her own ideas and personal experiences, there are a handful of references to Chopin and Bach in the Redmyre Suite. Whilst the references to Bach are more overt, you will have to listen more closely for motifs inspired by Chopin’s Etude No. 3 in the opening movement.
Why Rowing for Rivendell?
The proceeds of the concert will be used to buy a rowing machine for Rivendell, Adolescent & Family Mental Health Services at Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord. For Elena Kats-Chernin, the cause is one close to her heart as her middle son Alex suffers from schizophrenia.
Rowing for Rivendell will be a unique opportunity to witness one of Australia’s most famous musicians perform and hear the much anticipated revised Redmyre Suite. Book now to experience Kats-Chernin’s celebrated music and contribute to a cause that is close to her heart.
© Sabina Chitty 2011, debussycat Sydney classical music guide
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Strathfield Symphony Orchestra – Rowing for Rivendell
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Great music for a great cause! Elena Kats-Chernin performs with the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra
Strathfield Symphony presents Elena Kats-Chernin as soloist and Geoffrey Gartner conducting sensational music on 24 & 25 June at Strathfield Town Hall at 7pm (note early start). Book now!
Programme “Preludes”– Elena will open the concert with some of her best known pieces for solo keyboard in an informal setting at 7pm while you enjoy a
complimentary drink
Kats-Chernin “Redmyre Suite”- commissioned by the Orchestra in 2009 and revised for these concerts
Kats-Chernin “Mater” – arranged for full orchestra for these performances
Dvorak – Symphony No 6 in D major
Join us for a wonderful evening including an auction of some unique signed posters and manucripts.
The proceeds will be used to buy a rowing machine for Rivendell, Adolescent & Family Mental Health Services at Thomas Walker Hospital, Concord.
For sponsorships and donations (including entry by donation) please contact Bruce Lane brucelane@optusnet.com.au 0411 550 006
Would you like to be in the FIRST EIGHT? Join Elena and others as Principal Sponsors and meet Elena with refreshments at interval. Contact Bruce Lane for details.
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Q&A with ChorusOz® soloist Warwick Fyfe
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ChorusOz is an exciting opportunity for choristers from across Australia and abroad to come together in an annual choral weekend and bring to life one of the greatest works in choral repertoire. The results are always spectacular. Bass Warwick Fyfe is a soloist who will be performing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with this year’s ChorusOz on Sunday 12 June 6pm at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House. To register to be a part of this year’s ChorusOZ click here. To book tickets click here.
Q&A with Warwick Fyfe
Q1) Have you performed this work before? If yes, which movements do you think the audience will enjoy the most? If no, what are your thoughts about doing this piece for the first time?
I have never performed this work though it has always loomed in my mind like a mighty, distant peak visible through the mists. Performing it for the first time will be an opportunity to immerse myself in a work which has daunted some great conductors as being almost too sublime to approach. I have had epiphanic, coup de foudre moments with great works when I’ve heard them, as a humble audience member, for the first time live, as distinct from on CD. Some works only reveal their treasures when one has abided with them for a good while. Be that as it may, having only ever listened to the Missa Solemnis on CD, I feel it is a work I’ve yet to experience properly.
Q2) What do you think about standing onstage with a chorus of 800 voices?
I expect it will be a mighty sound! I was in a similarly proportioned chorus in 1988 when I was involved in a Mahler 8 in Canberra.
Q3) From your perspective how does Beethoven stand in the context of full choral repertoire?
If he’d written nothing for concerted voices but the final movement of his 9th Symphony, it alone would have qualified him to be regarded as one of the Titans of choral writing. But then there’s the vastly proportioned testimony of the Missa Solemnis too. As a singer, I can see the justice of the criticism that his writing for voices is sometimes awkward, but the effect is sublime.
Q4) What are your impressions of the ChorusOz public choral training programme?
Based on the Mozart Requiem I was a soloist in a few years ago, I sense an enthusiasm from the participants so strong it bubbles over. Nothing could be more salutary for the health of society than such an intense engagement with high art.
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Apps of the Year, 2004
Six weeks late but better than never, here are my favorite new Mac apps from 2004. The rules are simple: these are the apps released last year that I like best.
Interarchy 7
Affrus 1.0
SpamSieve 2.2
BBEdit 8.0
Plus a few others that deserve mention.
File transfer apps constitute a very crowded class of Mac software. I’m not sure of any other category where there are so many reasonably serious contenders. But at the top of the heap are two: Panic’s Transmit, and Stairways Software’s Interarchy. My hunch — based mostly on people I know personally, and thus a small sample size — is that Transmit users tend to be younger and/or newer Mac users; whereas Interarchy users tend to be older and longer-term Mac users.
Interarchy’s roots go back at least as far as December 1993, when Peter N Lewis released Anarchie 1.0 — which was before the Mac OS even offered built-in support for TCP/IP networking. (The “archie” in “Anarchie” comes from Archie, a long-since forgotten search engine for public FTP servers.) Anarchie’s primary rival during the System 7 era was Jim Matthews’s Fetch, which Matthews originally developed in 1989 as an in-house tool for use at Dartmouth College.
Anarchie and Fetch were both terrific apps — small, fast, and stable. Both offered robust support for then-new Mac technologies such as AppleScript and the Drag Manager (yes, that’s right, a decade ago, good drag-and-drop support was a high-end feature). Their primary difference, to my mind at least, was in terms of their windowing metaphors. Anarchie worked like the Finder, creating a new window to display the contents of each FTP directory you opened. Fetch worked like a browser, using a single window for each connection.
As much as I was (and remain) an enormous fan of the old Finder’s “each folder opens in its own window” metaphor, for remote file access via a protocol such as FTP, I’ve always preferred the single-window metaphor. Thus, for most of the ’90s, I was predominantly a Fetch man.
Back in 2000, when Stairways changed the name of the app from Anarchie to Interarchy, they also changed the scope of what the app did. Rather than focusing solely on FTP, they turned the app into a sort of Swiss Army knife networking toolkit, rolling together into one app several other network diagnostic utilities which Stairways had previously developed as separate apps. Some of the features were minor (e.g. support for the finger: protocol), and others were quite powerful (e.g. a network traffic monitor that can record all incoming and outgoing network traffic to your machine).
The other big change in the move from Anarchie to Interarchy was that the entire user interface became skinnable, via plug-in packages they called “magic wands”. It was, more or less, analogous to the skinnable UIs of music-player apps like SoundJam and Audion. I considered it utterly silly, and apparently so did others — Stairways quietly de-emphasized “wands” in subsequent Interarchy releases. This lack of focus led me to lose interest in Interarchy as an FTP app. Or more specifically, it led me to stick with my copy of Anarchie 3.
Starting around 2001, my use of Fetch waned as well, as the sites I worked on began switching from FTP to SFTP. (Even today, Fetch doesn’t support SFTP, although it is slated for the next major release.) The first app I used for SFTP was MacSFTP, a relatively unheralded little gem by Jean-Pierre Stierlin. Later on, I switched to Panic’s Transmit, version 2 of which was rewritten specifically for Mac OS X. Transmit certainly has a more polished UI than MacSFTP, and also offers more features and a bit more configurability. However, MacSFTP offers a much better AppleScript interface than does Transmit.
Thus, for most of 2003, I used Transmit for GUI access to SFTP, and MacSFTP for automating a few tasks via AppleScript.
Enter Interarchy 7
When Interarchy 7 was released last year, I was intrigued. It too had been rewritten specifically for Mac OS X (and in a very nice gesture, Stairways made Interarchy 6.3 — the last version that ran on Mac OS 9 — available as a free download). Here are the features that made me decide to give Interarchy 7 a shot:
It now defaults to a browser-style interface, exactly what I prefer for a file-transfer app. (But there’s a preference to always open folders in new windows, if that’s what you prefer.)
Aesthetically, it instantly struck me as a very well-done Aqua app; the Interarchy web site has a page full of screenshots to prove it.
Interarchy 7 supports tabs, very similar to those in Safari. (In fact, if you tweak Safari’s nib file to turn off the brushed metal theme, Interarchy’s tabs are nearly identical to Safari’s.) ⌘T creates a new empty tab, ⌘-double-click opens a directory in a new tab.
Interarchy’s list view supports hierarchical disclosure triangles, much like the Finder’s. I’ve wanted disclosure triangles for S/FTP list views for years; now that I have them in Interarchy, I use them nearly every day.
Column and icon views, much like the Finder. I tend to use list view almost exclusively, but you can pretty much view files however you like with Interarchy 7.
Plus, Interarchy 7 offers all of the things previous versions were well-known for:
Fast, reliable network connections. New connections open quickly; open connections never drop.
Terrific AppleScript support, including recordability. Anarchie and Interarchy have always had superior AppleScript support.
Pretty good documentation.
Great support for remote file editors (i.e. “opening” files in BBEdit (or another text editor) over SFTP), including the ability to open files for editing by double-clicking on them.
Low resource use. (As I write this, I’ve had Interarchy running non-stop for several days, with two or three connection windows and up to 10 tabs; it’s only using 5.5 MB of private memory.)
Fast, easy-to-configure, easy-to-invoke mirroring to sync local and remote folders.
New single-user licenses for Interarchy start at $39 (USD) — about $10-15 more than most competing apps, but it’s easily worth the premium. Plus, upgrade pricing is generous — I upgraded from Anarchie 3 for just $19, a pittance considering I hadn’t sent Stairways a dime since 1999.
What’s great about Interarchy isn’t that it has tons of features (although it does), but that its features are so well done. It’s the attention to detail that makes Interarchy a pleasure to use. In almost every way, it simply works exactly how I expect and want an S/FTP client to work.
The end result is that since I switched to Interarchy 7 last March, it’s the first time I’ve been satisfied with a file-transfer app in nearly 10 years.
Late Night Software’s flagship product is Script Debugger, far and away the best AppleScript editor — and, of course, debugger — available.
Last March, Late Night released Affrus 1.0, a $99 (USD) editor and debugger for Perl. It is both simple and powerful. Its basic operation is exactly what you’d expect (especially if you’ve ever used Script Debugger):
Perl scripts are displayed with highly configurable syntax coloring, as well as function navigation. Perl’s syntax is highly flexible, which makes it notoriously difficult for other software to parse; Affrus does a fine job.
Debugging is controlled via the normal conventions of an IDE debugger: you can set breakpoints, step into or over subroutine calls, step into modules, and pretty much step through each line of your scripts from beginning to end.
While debugging, it’s easy to observe the contents of complex data structures (such as, say, a hash of hashes).
A command-line ‘affrus’ tool acts as a stand-in for Perl, accepting parameters as well as STDIN; the only difference from calling the regular ‘perl’ tool is that your script opens in Affrus for debugging. This makes it a cinch to invoke.
Plus — and this is not surprising given its pedigree — Affrus is itself a wonderfully scriptable application via AppleScript. (Although it would be a nice touch if you could script it using Perl, too. E.g. something analogous to BBEdit’s Unix Filters, for modifying the text content of a window.)
If $99 strikes you as a lot of money to pay for a text editor that just does Perl, you either don’t need a Perl debugger or you’re missing the point. While Affrus can indeed serve as a fine text editor for writing Perl, it is in no way intended as a replacement for a general text editor. In fact, Affrus supports BBEdit and TextWrangler as external editors (and conversely, BBEdit and TextWrangler support Affrus as the target of their #! menu’s “Run in Debugger” command).
The point of Affrus is debugging, and no other editor for Mac OS X offers what Affrus does. The ‘perl’ command line tool offers its own debugging mode, of course, and if you like it, well, you can save your money for something else. To me, the point of Perl’s built-in debugger is that it allows something such as Affrus to be built on top of it; prior to Affrus, I typically “debugged” my Perl code the old-fashioned way — by sprinkling extra print statements wherever I wanted to observe data values in my code.
If you write a lot of Perl, Affrus, quite simply, can save you a tremendous amount of time. And if you’re writing Perl professionally, that time is money.
Outstanding Help
It’s also worth mentioning that Affrus ships with extraordinary documentation. This isn’t surprising, considering that it was written by Matt Neuburg, whom I consider the best technical writer in the business. But what is surprising is the nature and format of the documentation. First, Affrus ships with a 37-page PDF document, titled “Getting Started With Affrus”. It’s well-written and does exactly what its title claims.
But where Affrus’s documentation enters a league of its own is its help. Yes, the help files — the documentation you access via the Help menu, which consists of HTML files displayed in the Mac OS X Help Center application. The sort of help files which, if you’re like most Mac users, especially the sort of technically savvy ones who might be interested in something as esoteric as a debugger for Perl, you completely ignore. Help is ignored because it tends to utterly suck. (Apple, I am looking in your direction.)
Ignoring Affrus’s help would be tragic, because it not only doesn’t suck, it is quite simply the finest software documentation I have every encountered. It’s not just that it’s well-written, detailed, accurate, and complete. It’s that it truly takes advantage of the nature of hypertext. It is cross-referenced and cross-linked out the ying-yang. If you have a specific question, it is easy to find the answer and jump to it directly. (And every question I’ve ever had about Affrus is answered in the help documentation.) But if you want to read the documentation linearly, from beginning to end, it’s easy to do that too.
Affrus’s help isn’t just good when compared against the deplorable state of your average help book (“Help isn’t available for >insert app name<”) — it’s just plain great by any standard.
(If you’re a technical writer, I urge you to download the Affrus demo and examine its help, even if you have no interest in using Affrus. Even better, Mr. Neuburg wrote an article for O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter describing how Affrus’s help was produced using Tinderbox.)
It Is, However, a One-Point-Oh
I recommend Affrus wholeheartedly, but that’s not to say it doesn’t have plenty of room for improvement. There are only two types of 1.0 products: those which ship with missing features, and those which never actually ship.
Two big features are missing from Affrus 1.0:
Debugging CGI scripts
Support for debugging languages other than Perl
But for what it’s worth, Late Night Software’s Mark Alldritt has acknowledged both of these as features he’d like to add in the future. Regarding CGI debugging:
There are three forms of CGI debugging that I’m trying to provide for in future versions of Affrus:
apache CGI debugging
mod_perl debugging
CGI simulation with the Affrus UI
Regarding support for other languages:
Affrus is designed to support multiple languages. We had to pick one to focus on for a 1.0 release and we chose Perl, but in a future version we are going to offer Python (so far, we have received a vast number of requests for Python support and only a few for Ruby).
Simon Cozens wrote a more feature-oriented review of Affrus for Perl.com back in May.
Late Night Software is currently offering a bundle: Affrus 1.0 and Script Debugger 3.0 for $239 (USD) — which saves you $49 off their regular prices.
Michael Tsai’s SpamSieve epitomizes the idea of utility software that does one thing, and does it well. What SpamSieve does is identify spam in your email, and it does so with accuracy that approaches perfection.
SpamSieve 2.2 was released in August, ostensibly as a relatively minor feature to SpamSieve 2.x. My results with 2.2 (and continuing up through the current 2.2.4 release) have been a decided and noticeable increase in accuracy. SpamSieve went from great to really great.
From September through now, its overall accuracy has steadily increased from around 99.5 percent to 99.8 percent. More importantly, when it’s wrong, especially regarding false positives (good messages incorrectly flagged as spam), it tends to only err with edge cases. E.g. a thrice-forwarded joke from a mouth-breathing Hotmail user.
Here are my stats from 1 December 2004 through 14 February 2005:
Filtered Mail
7960 Good Messages
16469 Spam Messages (67%)
215 Spam Messages Per Day
SpamSieve Accuracy
29 False Positives
29 False Negatives (50%)
In addition to 2.2’s even-better general accuracy, another change in my use of SpamSieve in 2004 led to a significant improvement in its overall effectiveness. What I did was switch to labeling messages differently based on their scores assigned by SpamSieve. By default, my email client (Mailsmith) treats SpamSieve’s scoring as binary — each message is flagged as spam or not-spam.
However, using AppleScripts available for download from Mr. Tsai’s web site, you can instead access the raw scores SpamSieve assigns to each message: a number ranging from 0 (not spammy at all) to 100 (smells like spam from a mile away).
So I have a filter in Mailsmith that runs an AppleScript against each incoming message. The script gets each message’s spam score from SpamSieve. If the score is less than 50, the message is considered not-spam. If the score is 91 or higher, it’s considered spam, assigned a custom message label, and moved to my spam box. But if the score is between 50 and 90, it’s considered suspected spam. These messages are still moved to my spam box, but they’re assigned a different message label than higher-scoring spam.
I keep my spam box sorted by label; thus, I can easily scan through my “suspect” spam messages once or twice a day.
This is an incredibly powerful technique — mainly because SpamSieve 2.2 has gotten so much better about assigning very high scores to most spam messages.
For example, at this moment, I have about two days’ worth of spam in my spam box: 372 messages. Of those, only 13 messages are labeled as “suspected” spam; the other 359 were scored at 91 or higher.
I only manually review my suspected spam. That means in two days, I’ve only needed to glance at 14 messages — 13 spams and one false positive. It was easy to spot the false positive, because I only had to pick it out from around a dozen messages.
In the six months or so that I’ve been using this technique, I’ve found only one false positive that came in with a score 91 or higher — a ticket confirmation message from Southwest Airlines, from whom I’d never before purchased tickets. I found the message in my spam box because I looked for it when it didn’t appear in my inbox a few minutes after I completed the transaction on Southwest’s web site. It’s certainly possible that there have been other such high-scoring false positives that I didn’t detect, but if so, it was never anything important.
In short, by using AppleScript, you can get SpamSieve to offer a response other than just “spam” or “not spam” — you can find out when it’s a “maybe”. By only reviewing the maybes, I’ve cut down tremendously on the amount of spam I need to review manually.
This is where I’ve found SpamSieve 2.2’s accuracy to be most improved over SpamSieve 2.1 and earlier. It now assigns the vast majority of my spam very high scores, whereas in previous versions, many more messages that were indeed spam were flagged with lower scores — which meant I had many more messages that I needed to review manually before trashing them.
I interviewed Michael Tsai in September 2003.
I wrote an extensive review of BBEdit 8 shortly after it shipped in September, and I don’t really have much to add above what I wrote then. It’s a terrific update to my all-time favorite app.
Three other apps deserve mention:
NetNewsWire 2.0
OmniWeb 5
I would have included both Quicksilver and NetNewsWire 2 on the list, if not for the fact that both are technically in “beta”. I put that in quotes because in both cases, we’re talking about public betas that are in such widespread use that they stretch the concept of beta software to the limits of credibility.
E.g., in NetNewsWire’s case, in the month of February to date, 46 percent of the hits to my main RSS feed are from people using 2.0 “betas” of NetNewsWire or NetNewsWire Lite; only 30 percent are using NetNewsWire 1.0.x. (And yes, NetNewsWire’s combined market share is that high among DF readers.) I’m not sure how it can be a “beta” if more people are using it than are using the non-beta 1.0.x releases.
Private betas are another matter, but I’m seriously questioning whether it’s worth making a distinction between public betas and release software. If next year I assemble a list of apps of the year for 2005, I may well decide that public betas are fair game for inclusion. My thinking for not including them as betas is that they ought to count for the year in which they come out of beta — but of course, that assumes Quicksilver is ever going to come out of “beta”.
As for OmniWeb 5, I spent much of 2004 using it as my primary web browser. I was effusive with praise for many of its features in my initial review of the OmniWeb 5.0 public beta, and it only got better as a proper (non-beta) release.
However, a few weeks ago I bit the bullet and switched back to Safari. Quite simply, the reason was performance. Safari feels much faster than OmniWeb, and it tends to use much less memory.
This might not matter for people with faster CPUs and/or more RAM than in my iBook, but for me, the result was that OmniWeb felt a bit slow whenever I had more than a handful of open windows — which is pretty much all time. Not super-slow — more like the way the entire UI in Mac OS X 10.0 felt slow. Mouse clicks taking an extra fraction of a second to register, that sort of thing.
It’s also the case that I prefer Safari’s page rendering. OmniWeb plays strange games with certain fonts (Bitstream Vera Sans italic, for example, gets an extra dose of faux-italic slanting applied when displayed in OmniWeb), and worst of all, it insists upon anti-aliasing Monaco 9 and 10, which is just wrong.
The Omni Group’s modified version of WebCore is a very good renderer, but it’s not as good as the standard Web Kit renderer.
What I miss most about OmniWeb:
Per-site display preferences
Automatic saving and restoring of state on quit and launch
AppleScript access to tabs
The ability to drag tabs between windows, or to rearrange their order within a single window
It’s quite possible that if my main Mac were a G5 with 1 GB or more of RAM, OmniWeb 5 would have made the list. But it’s not, and so it didn’t.
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Celeste Crouch has lived in Litchfield Park for almost 40 years and my three children grew up here and attended local schools. Litchfield Park has a very special history and Mr. Paul Litchfield, the Founder, was a very special man. After reading the Thesis from 1948 written by Susan Smith on the early History of this area I was hooked.
Celeste founded the Litchfield Park Historical Society in the Fall of 2000 and the first Organizational Meeting was held in March of 2001. With the help of Ruth Byrnes, early resident of Litchfield Park, and now an active member of the Glendale Historical Society, we wrote a Mission Statement and By-Laws. Local residents, Peggy & Dick Vasiloff, are from Akron, Ohio where the Goodyear Tire Rubber Company has its headquarters. While there they visited the University of Akron where our early archives are stored and brought back pictures and copies of our early history. With this great information we were able to get started with the history we needed as Goodyear Corp. was very good at taking pictures and keeping history. Since this time we have added many pictures and more history through the years.
In November of 2013 a Book on the early history of Litchfield Park was published by Arcadia Publishers in their Images of America series. It is now available in local area stores.
Litchfield Park Historical Society Speakers Series (September 3rd 10:00 a.m.)
Celeste Crouch, General Topics
Litchfield Park Historical Society Speakers Series A History of The Church at Litchfield Park Tuesday, September 3 10:00 a.m. The Church at Litchfield Park, Souers Hall 300 N. Old Litchfield Rd Litchfield Park, AZ 85340 Litchfield…
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SW Cotton Company’s Labor Force
The Southwest Cotton Company provided the labor to create a new landscape in the area. They built 154 miles of roads and drilled dozens of wells and made concrete irrigation ditches. They laid gas lines and built electrical connectors.
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Litchfield Park was selected by APRA
The City of Litchfield Park is pleased to share that Arizona Parks & Recreation Association (APRA) selected our Centennial Celebration as this year’s Outstanding Community Special Event for populations under 25,000.
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100 Year Celebration coming in 2017
Litchfield Park has become known for its award winning special events, concerts, festivals, and celebrations that take place over the year. Of the more than twenty events annually the City has been honored for their 25th Anniversary of Incorporation event, Christmas in the Park,
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Because of the influence of WWII, Litchfield Park was changed from a small group of labor camps in the desert to a modern village whose inhabitants had most of the conveniences of a larger city.
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Litchfield Park Cattle
The cattle were kept 100-200 per pen and there were so many pens if they were stretched end to end they would be six miles long. A railroad spur came right up to the pens for ease of delivery and pick up. Their automatic feed system could feed up to 600 cattle at one time.
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Scientific Agriculture
An evolution of farming methods and techniques were underway at this time. The Southwest Cotton Company served as an agriculture laboratory in the trial and development of new types of farm equipment.
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Litchfield Park Early Churches
The Southwest Cotton Company brought many farm laborers into the area to harvest cotton. Over 2,500 men were brought in from Mexico and the surrounding areas. This influx of new families created a need for many new services into the area.
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The Wigwam Litchfield Park, Arizona
The Wigwam opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1929 as a public resort with 13 rooms to accommodate 24 guests. Upon check-in everyone was assigned a horse as it was considered a Dude Ranch.
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touching the sky to save the world
About the novel Flickers of Fortune. About the future and precognition.
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Seeking the Heart of the Song
On March 14, 2015 November 6, 2015 By Sherrie CroninIn music
I’m getting d4 ready for publication at Smashwords.com. This always takes longer than I think it will. The formatting requirements are more rigorous than those at Amazon.com and with my first three books I gave up and had a very nice people at Stunning Books handle the formatting for me. It was money well spent, to be honest, but I’m a stubborn sort and I was determined to learn to do it myself eventually.
The other issue with Smashwords is checking the links, and removing any that Smashwords affiliates will not allow. Usually forbidden links involve direct connections to other booksellers such as Amazon. This is a problem for me because the electronic versions of all of my novels contain references to nine songs, intended to be a sort of soundtrack featuring some of the favorite music of the main character in the novel. When I publish the books on Kindle, I insert a link to the Amazon.com location where my readers can listen to the music. At Smashwords, this link has to go.
I’ve experimented with other solutions. I want my readers to appreciate and possibly buy music from these artists and I am mentioning the songs in my book because I really like them. For my first novels, I had the Smashwords link take the reader to a webpage or at least a good fan page for that musician. When I ran into problems finding suitable links for some, I tried connecting to a performance of the song on You Tube.
With d4 I’ve taken this a step further. For each of the songs, I’ve tried to find a live performance that I think shows a little of a the personality of the singer and the band. I’ve had a lot of fun seeking these out. Often the quality isn’t as good as the more glossy clips, but I’ve picked each video for a reason. I just love Ellie Goulding’s very human introduction to her song “Lights” at Coachella 2014. Hopefully you will too. An excerpt from the book follows.
The work portion of the trip would all be at the end, so Ariel tried to enjoy the beginning of her little vacation. She packed a few good books and her warmest clothes, and delighted in a window seat as she watched the late afternoon sun set on her way into Iceland. She found a favorite song on her mp3 player and listened to the pretty shimmer of Ellie Goulding’s voice singing “Lights” as the giant Vatnajökull glacier gleamed beneath her when the plane dipped below the clouds. Ariel thought that perhaps she had never seen anything so beautiful as the various shades of blues that glistened off of the ice in the light of a sun moving low in the winter sky while the song played softly in her mind.
She joined her group at the Reykjavik airport for the evening flight on to Nuuk. The small band of mostly Icelandic travelers was quiet, but friendly, and she felt thankful to live in both a time and place where a woman could easily travel alone. Nuuk was just a quick stopover, and the next morning they boarded the pint-sized plane for Ilulissat, the main tourist destination in Greenland.
Ariel stepped off the plane to her first view of the barren rocks mottled with bright colored lichens that make up the tundra. She had never set foot inside of the Arctic Circle before. Tiny flickers and flashes erupted as her boot touched the ground.
My premonitions are stronger here, she noticed with surprise. The cold dry air? The earth’s magnetic field? There had to be a reason. She added it to her list of things to try to figure out later.
The fact is that I started each of my novels off with a special song. Click to read about x0’s “Time After Time“, y1’s “A Whole New World“, z2’s “Fame“, and c3’s “A Texas Kind of Way“.
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How happy would you be if you knew what tomorrow would bring?
How much more complicated would your choices be? Meet a young woman who has this gift and follow along as she struggles to balance joy in her own life with her sense of duty to others.
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Mancubus (Doom 2016)
A mancubus.
This article is about the monster in Doom (2016). For other games, see:
Mancubus
Mancubus (Doom 3)
Mancubus (Doom Eternal)
The mancubus makes another return in the 2016 Doom game, retaining most of the characteristics of its classic and Doom 3 forebears while introducing new characteristics which combine to make it one of the game's most serious threats. Still capable of firing powerful blasts from twin arm cannons, this incarnation of the monster is also equipped with a long-range flamethrower that can deal constant damage. Uniquely, it is also highly mobile - while still a relatively slow walker, it can jump up and down ledges to give chase. It also possesses a powerful ground pound attack which it will rely on if the player comes into melee range, causing significant damage over a broad area. Differences in appearance from its predecessors include a cyclopean head build with a single prominent green eye, and an ovoid, vertically oriented mouth which is lined with sharp teeth.
An even more powerful and well-defended version of the monster also exists in the form of the cyber-mancubus, which has been enhanced using UAC technology.
1 Tactical analysis
1.1 Infighting
2 Attacks
3 Glory kills
Health: ?
Chainsaw Fuel Usage: 5
The mancubus's fireballs lose accuracy at long range, making it preferable to engage it from a safe distance while strafing around it. In close quarters, it will try to use its ground pound to force the player back before following up with its flamethrowers, so it should not be engaged up close unless you have the chainsaw sufficiently fueled.
While a considerable portion of the mancubus's body is armored, its head, back, and stomach are fully exposed to attack. The mancubus's stomach is its main weakness, and if killed by a shot to the stomach it will explode and damage nearby demons. A fully charged shot from the Gauss cannon is enough to accomplish this in most cases.
Infighting[edit]
Mancubi seem to prefer fighting revenants if they are present.
Attacks[edit]
Too Young To Die
Melee Quake (AOE) ~13 ~25 ~45 ~75
Plasma Barrage 12.5 25 43.5 74.5
Glory kills[edit]
Two glory kills are currently known to exist against the mancubus:
The creature's exposed heart may be ripped out and stuffed down its throat. It will stagger around for a short period before collapsing and bursting open in an animation reminiscent of the original's death.
A tube leading between the monster's arm cannon and the fuel pack on its back can be ripped out of its gasket, allowing fuel to escape and cause the beast to be engulfed in flames.
Lore[edit]
The mancubus is said to have a foul, nauseating odor due to its diet of rancid flesh which continues to decompose inside the creature's body. Its innards are volatile, flammable, and highly toxic. At maturity, the monster's hands become covered with a chitinous growth and the tissue inside the barrel-like protrusion rots. The noxious fluids can then be spewed from the arm cannons under pressure, causing ignition, giving the demon biological flamethrowers. Mancubi are given light armor at maturity as well, but they always outgrow it due to their ravenous appetites.
Their peculiar biology is also their greatest weakness - the skin surrounding their bellies is easily pierced, and when exposed to air their internal organs violently explode, showering a considerable area with their poisonous remains.
According to the @DOOM twitter account, id Software's developers referred to the placement of a mancubus in a narrow hallway as a "fat guy in a little coat,"[1] which is a reference to a scene in the 1995 comedy movie Tommy Boy starring the late Chris Farley in which Tommy destroys Richard's suit coat by putting it on and splitting it after singing this line as a song several times.[2]
Sources[edit]
http://www.burningconcept.com/DOOM/doom-bestiary.html
↑ @DOOM (23 March 2018). "Fun fact: When placing a Mancubus in a tight hallway, we often refer to it as a 'fat guy in a little coat.'." Twitter. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
↑ Movieclips (6 October 2011). "Tommy Boy (5/10) Movie CLIP - Fat Guy in a Little Coat (1995) HD." YouTube. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
Monsters from Doom (2016)
Demons: Baron of Hell • Cacodemon • Cyber-mancubus • Hell knight • Hell razer • Imp • Lost soul • Mancubus • Pinky • Revenant • Spectre • Summoner
Zombies: Possessed • Possessed engineer • Possessed scientist • Possessed security • Possessed soldier • Possessed worker • Unwilling
Bosses: Cyberdemon • Hell guard • Spider Mastermind
Multiplayer-only: Harvester • Prowler
Mechanics: Gore nest
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A Brief on John Kelly and Save Our Surf
BORN in 1919, John Kelly arrived in Honolulu at age 4 with his widely known artist parents to stay for a year - and never left! They fell in love with the Native Hawaiian people, their beautiful non-privatized sharing culture, lands and, especially for John Jr., their ocean environment and skills. His mother and father enshrined Native Hawaiians in their physical beauty and heritage in works of art leaving son John Jr. from the 60's on, to motivate and mobilize two generations of Hawaii's youth in defence of the islands' once pristine natural environment, its indigenous people, their heritage of skills and resources.
And what was the setting? Thousands of greedy foreigners had come to Hawai'i in the 1800's with but one imported aim: the competitive privatization of land, labor, love and resources! To achieve wealth and control, they slyly christianized and cultivated high chiefs in the name of colonial religious imagery. After stealing all the Hawaiian lands, they overthrew the sovereign Hawaiian nation with corporate intrigue, guns and military force. Today, Hawai'i has by far the highest cost of living in the U.S., its worst housing crisis, jails jammed with thousands of suffering poor, stifling urban pollution of air, land, streams and coastal waters, and more — all from the motives of private wealth of a few large landowners and corporations with the help of money-hungry stooges in and out of governments. The peoples' contrasting theme: Fight Back!
Achieving fame but not fortune in WWII. John Kelly was honored in the name of the President of the United States "For heroism and outstanding performance of duty" in an extremely hazardous skin diving operation at 70 feet depth and awarded the rare Navy and Marine Corps Medal. After the war, John graduated from Juilliard School of Music returning home with his anthropologist wife Marion, and two lovely daughters. A skilled diver and surf rider from the late '20's on and later, a lifeguard, familiar with the ocean heritage and skills of ancient Hawaiians, John made the first big-wave gun in 1934, invented the hydro in 1960 — the first modern board to combine speed and maneuverability on big waves with which he, with two friends, opened up and named Himalaya's 40-foot waves — and is still riding big summer and winter surfs at 79 in '98. In the mid-'60's, John and his teenage pals formed Save Our Surf, the wise, skilled and demonstrative movement of thousands that stopped 27 major coastal projects-for-private-profits threatening surfing and fishing reefs on all the islands. Choosing cooperation rather than competition, SOS achieves unparalleled environmental victories with the theme "Respect the intelligence of the people, get the facts to them and help the people develop an action program. — in short: EDUCATE, ORGANIZE and CONFRONT!
Hawaii--History--1959-
Kelly, John, 1919-2007 (John M. Kelly, Jr.)
Kelly, John, “A Brief on John Kelly and Save Our Surf,” UHM Library Digital Image Collections, accessed January 21, 2020, https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/show/31224.
I had the honor of working with John and SOS back in 1970-73. We collected soil samples from development sites, occupied valleys, surveyed surf sites statewide, printed newspapers, bodysurfed Black Point, reshaped the surfing industry, worked to end apartied for South African Surfers, rallied thousands of surfers at the State capital building ground floor, and listened to the music in Hawaii as it changed while cruising around in John's old 1939 beige Chevy. by Steve "Sippy" Sipman (ssipman@gmail.com) at 2007-09-08 06:56:28
My dear friend, I will surely miss our talks. Thank you for sharing SOS, and the why's and how's of double haul canoe building. I would never have known the essence of watching Master carver Puloto at the bow of the Iosepa in Laie had you not explain the ancient reasoning. Ever since, I have lived the aesthetic balance in my daily life. You will surely be missed, aloha. by Luwella Leonardi (Phonicsworks@gmail.com) at 2007-11-17 22:56:02
I met John several times. The first time was the most memorable because, after seeing "Surfing for Life" I dragged my reluctant mother and step-father to the Kelly's house at Black Point in 2001. My parents were skeptical about arriving unannounced, but I had heard that the Kelly's were fine with greeting complete strangers who were curious to hear more about John's adventures in surfing and activism. We knocked on the door, and sure enough, Marion greeted us with a friendly smile. She introduced us to John, who spent the next hour or two showing us the printing press and flyers like you have on display here, telling us stories about surfing, the war, and Save Our Surf. He was so full of enthusiasm and life, especially recalling the stories from long ago. Even though we realized pretty quickly that he was losing much of his short-term memory to Alzheimer's disease (my grandfather had the same condition), it did not matter at all that day, as he spent the afternoon entertaining us with his stories from long ago. by Matt Dunlap (mattdunl@gmail.com) at 2007-12-06 22:59:38
working on an NHD paper about him and SOS what are some important details to include by Jon K (jonathankieffer98@gmail.com) at 2014-10-01 09:42:48
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New DCN report offers insights on programmatic marketplace
January 7, 2020 Rande Price, Research Director – DCN
Digital Content Next (DCN) has released a strategic advertising report, TRUSTX Programmatic Market Insights Report, which offers learnings on the mechanisms, practices, and performance in play in the programmatic market. The report is based on interviews with publishers as well as insights from the teams at DCN and TRUSTX – DCN’s cooperative and private marketplace launched in 2016. It gathers insights from publishers and distills best practices to help educate and drive a positive industry discussion in the programmatic ecosystem.
Publishers report that there is an overall institutional resistance to adopting a cost-per viewable model at scale within a media ecosystem predicated on low CPMs and often low-quality content. The report also uncovers some high-level insights into the programmatic market and offers an insider’s view into programmatic practices.
Supply-Path Optimization (SPO) and Demand-Side-Platform (DSP) Throttling
Two specific industry practice noted by publishers include:
This practice occurs when DSPs exclude an SSP’s bid based on bidding history in order to increase the likelihood that a bid will win. DSPs favor the SSPs with the highest number of queries per second (QPS). This enables DSP supply path optimization intelligence to “learn” how to win.
These SPO algorithms can be a barrier for smaller, newer SSP entrants. SPO algorithms, as they are designed today, favor established, larger scale SSPs. Increased visibility into the opaque ad tech ecosystem was cited as one of the most valuable benefits of participating in TRUSTX. Publishers believe that transparency is critical to strengthen the digital advertising market.
Hidden Reselling
It is not uncommon for SSPs to leverage indirect buying channels (other ad networks and exchanges) to tap into unsold inventory. These additional supply-chain interactions, through what are known as resellers, increase non-working media costs to buyers (additional ad-tech taxes), and diminish revenue to publishers. Reseller routes to premium publisher inventory are typically invisible to buyers, and sometimes not visible to sellers. (Note that TRUSTX does not permit any resellers in its supply-chain; all buyers get a direct path to all publishers.)
While publishers agree that TRUSTX has advanced the programmatic marketplace, they also see opportunity to further evolve marketplace dynamics. This includes marketing officers and agency executives directing their buyers to spend only in premium programmatic environments that are based on value-driven economics rather than auction-based systems predicated on cheap CPMs and cost
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March 25, 2019 Michael Tuminello, VP of Publisher Products—IAS
Maybe this is true everywhere. But in the northeast, we’ve reached the time of the year when nearly everyone has had just about enough of winter and is eager for warmer days. And, with OTT buds starting to bloom and brand safety and other concerns driving brands to invest with trusted partners, premium digital publishers may also be wondering if their long cold winter of online advertising could see signs of warming.
A recent report from MediaRadar, indicated that programmatic ad spend from a number of advertisers shrunk year-over-year from 2017 to 2018. While some brands may have become more reluctant to spend money in programmatic, directing funds out of the programmatic ecosystem is typically a temporary measure. Advertisers are building their internal expertise and seeking ways to get the benefits of programmatic (such as automation and the ability to leverage their increasing store of customer data) without the downside of low or unknown media quality. Emarketer has predicted increasing momentum towards private marketplace or programmatic direct deals through 2020. This reflects advertiser expectations that trusted publisher partnerships will best meet the demand for quality inventory.
Market Pressure
In addition to the growing sophistication of buyers, other trends in the marketplace are also conspiring to shift advertiser spend to premium publishers. Increasing consumer interest in privacy and data governance, kicked off by initiatives like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act, will make it harder for lesser-known inventory providers to use targeting and consumer data to win brand dollars.
The rise of OTT gives premium publishers a unique carrot for digital ad buyers. This makes it difficult for lesser-known publishers to access inventory at scale across this new channel, unless there are significant changes to the ecosystem that empower smaller players. Given that publishers see the nascent OTT market as the first major bulkhead in winning the dollars currently devoted to linear TV, it’s unlikely that we’ll see the market open up to anywhere near the degree we have seen with mobile or desktop advertising. The winning platforms – companies like Apple, Amazon, and Roku – and the winning publishers – the major broadcasters and other household names for video content – are likely to keep the market under tight rein.
Value Matters & Values Matter
However, the wild card in this whole equation is the degree to which advertisers can feel confident that they are getting what they pay for. This applies not only to audience reach, but also a quality playback experience, meaning a viewable, brand-safe, and non-fraudulent impression. Without transparency on inventory quality, advertisers will continue to seesaw between investing in digital and pulling back spend to put it into other channels, as we have seen over the course of the last few years.
Transparency lays the foundation for trust between buyer and seller, and it is difficult for buyers and sellers to work together to establish this trust if they are relying on numbers from two different sources. All too often, publishers measure using one set of numbers while advertisers are using another. This inevitably results in discrepancies. It is difficult for publishers and advertisers to work together to support a transparent marketplace when they are measuring using two different methodologies. Standardizing on a single set of numbers on the buy and sell-side could also reduce the number of calls to supporting vendors’ ad code. It also makes it easier for buyers and sellers to work together to streamline the technology, reducing latency and other issues.
Standards and Issues
The good news is that the industry has never been in a better position to solve the problem of transparent cross-screen measurement. We as an industry have for the first time introduced measurement-specific ad standards. Most notably, these include the Open Measurement initiative, including the Open Measurement SDK, and Open Measurement for web. Prior measurement efforts piggybacked on technical standards like VPAID and MRAID, which were introduced to support rich media, not to provide accurate reporting on inventory quality. Having a standard designed expressly to support measurement that works across all devices is a great development.
We need to move the industry towards a single technical standard for measurement. We must get publishers and advertisers on board to utilize a common methodology to measure inventory quality. And we need to tackle measurement issues head on when they arise. This proactive approach is surely preferable to finger pointing and fighting over makegoods.
Now we are at the point where it’s either springtime or more cold lean years for publishers whose content deserves better. We can let dozens of competing proprietary approaches fragment the nascent digital TV ad industry. Or we can agree not to let that happen and work together to align the buy-side, sell-side, and the standards used for measurement. The outcome of that decision could mean the difference between five years to a fully digital ecosystem – or 15.
Michael Tuminello is VP of Publisher Products at Integral Ad Science. He works to ensure premium publishers inventory achieves its full value potential. He plays an active role in helping to develop and improve industry standards. Michael is a two-time winner of the IAB Service Excellence award (2015 and 2019), as well as the MMA Smarties award for individual contribution to the mobile advertising industry. He was previously a Product Leader at Innovid, Sizmek, and Unicast.
ad fraud, digital advertising, programmatic, supporter, transparency
Malware and redirects: Publishers need to protect customers now more than ever
March 1, 2019 Steve Stup, CRO—The Media Trust
As the programmatic revolution reaches its potential, bad actors continue to find innovative ways to exploit the system. The technological advances to increase advertising efficiency are the same ones targeted by bad actors who are incentivized to move at a faster pace in order to keep their revenue streams flowing. The result is an endless scourge of malware and auto redirects that threaten the viability of the overall digital advertising supply chain and the relationship the industry has with the end consumer.
Programmatic provides a green field to bad actors, who consistently evolve their attacks, bypassing defenses and attacking publishers and their digital customers. Once thought the answer to publisher woes, malware blockers have proven to be a short-term fix. Unfortunately, malware incidents have almost doubled since the solution’s relatively recent introduction. Clearly, something has to change. That’s why smart publishers are calling in the experts and forming a joint task force between their Ad Ops and the IT/security teams to combat the problem together.
Bad ads aren’t your only problem
Digital ads are not the only security issue that publishers need to watch. Digital publisher businesses have diversified their revenue streams, evolving from advertising-only models to introduce subscription services and merchandise stores such as the ones hosted by most major news outlets, like The New York Times, NBC, and the The Washington Post. These new revenue channels introduce a new significant security risk for publishers due to the storing of personal data and credit card information.
Publishers are an even more tantalizing target for cybercrime groups, especially those behind large-scale malicious campaigns like Magecart, ShapeShifter-3PC, and ICEPick-3PC. Cybercriminals increasingly use the digital ad supply chain targeting payment pages to steal personal data and payment card information. Publishers trust that the payment processing vendor provides perfect security. However, time and again, these vendors are compromised, either through a direct hack, employee error, outdated code or misapplied patches. Even worse, when a breach happens, the customer will hold the publisher accountable. Headline grabbing news regarding major breaches in the past year focus on the brand, not the vendor. That makes sense since the brand has the relationship with the consumer.
Cybercrime groups zero in on vulnerabilities in third-party code in the digital environment to execute their attacks. Digital ads serve as delivery vehicles for third-party code. Publishers also rely on third-party code to optimize and monetize the user experience. Beyond ad-related platforms, the use of analytics, content delivery systems, video platforms, and widgets carry the risk of being compromised, exposing the website and its users to harm. One recent example is the havoc wreaked by the JuiceChecker malware, which utilized vulnerabilities in third-party code to enable smart malware delivery, which evaded multiple detection efforts including malware blockers.
Interdepartmental partnership
These complicated scenarios leave publishers with difficult choices. While using ads and other types of third-party code help to generate more revenue, they also expose them customer base to more vulnerable code, ready to be exploited by cybercriminals who know how to find and exploit weaknesses. Exposing customers to these threats have long-term consequences. Failure to strike an appropriate balance between revenue and security kills the user experience and creates situations where customers don’t return.
Clearly, a modified approach is necessary if the balance is to be struck correctly. This approach involves bringing product and IT/security teams into the ad/revenue operations fold. An interdepartmental culture is already being fostered by many publishers in order to stay on the right side of legislation such as the EU’s GDPR and California’s upcoming Consumer Privacy Protection Act.
The need for digital security expertise
Moving forward, advertising and revenue operations must work with both product and IT/security teams to review publishers’ existing vendor relationships and strategize how to drive revenue without sacrificing security. Internal security teams are experts in the latest threats and can help develop a comprehensive plan to protect the digital environment and deliver a better user experience.
The ability to successfully generate revenue through multiple revenue streams is important. It is up to the revenue teams to engage with the security experts within your organization to make sure the Internet remains a safe place for advertisers, businesses, and users alike.
Steve Stup is responsible for developing and overseeing the revenue and product strategy at The Media Trust. Previously, he ran digital strategy as the General Manager at The Washington Post. In this capacity, he was pivotal in the publication’s digital transformation effort and served on the leadership team that helped position it as one of the most innovative digital publishers in the industry. He led teams responsible for driving product strategy, ad innovation, and revenue operations. Prior to that, he was in technology sales at Lexis Nexis, and other recognized brands. He received his MBA from The George Washington University and is an alum of Virginia Tech.
digital advertising, programmatic, supporter
What is OTT?
November 13, 2018 Dana Ghavami, CEO—Spotible
Are you down with OTT? Yeah, you know me.
O is for ‘Over’. T is for ‘the’. The last T? Well, it’s not that simple.
What exactly is the ‘Top’? You probably haven’t heard two people define OTT alike. In fact, lately it has come to mean everything Other Than Traditional.
So, let’s start from the top, with a multiple-choice question:
(a) STB: the set top box with your cable subscription and remote control using a private cable network also known as an MVPD (multichannel video programming distributor). These days, consumers can also stream their favorite content like Netflix via apps integrated with their STB. A lot of streaming content can also be accessed via Xbox and PlayStation gaming consoles that increasingly take centerstage in living rooms.
(b) STV: the smart TV. No longer just a screen, these televisions are equipped with an operating system (e.g. Android TV) so that they can connect to the public Internet network and directly stream content. Moreover, CTV (connected TV) streaming devices like Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku, connect TVs to the Internet to stream consumers’ favorite content onto any TV no matter its IQ.
(c) iOS, Apple mobile Apps, and Android Apps on Google Play. These apps allow consumers to stream content on mobile phones anytime, anywhere. Users can also directly “cast” or project from a smartphone to televisions, which allows the mobile to serve as the new universal remote. And let’s not forget how many people stream video over the Internet onto laptop, desktops, and tablet.
(d) All of the above. Or, DTC- Direct to Consumer. This is the right choice and what it’s all about. Essentially, it’s all about the direct distribution of video content to consumers over the Internet, no matter how its accessed whether by streaming device, gaming console, Smart TV, mobile device, computer or STB. No cable company/private network required.
What’s not OTT
Often, there is confusion about PTV (Programmatic TV) — which is the enablement of digital data capabilities for greater audience insights than GRP (Gross Rating Points) and reports in real-time instead of months. There’s also its subset ATV (Addressable TV), which accomplishes one-to-one digital targeting capability. PTV and ATV improve the targeting and reporting capabilities of both OTT and traditional linear TV.
For broadcasters and video creators, OTT offers a direct relationship (and possibly content subscriptions) with consumers outside of the cable TV universe. But like OTT itself, the Internet-delivered video market is acronym-riddled and complex. A good grasp of the basics will help you understand the many opportunities ahead when viewership of various OTT video services will overtake traditional broadcast TV. This is predicted to happen within the next 5 years, according to a recent OTT Video Services Study.
In addition, revenues in the Global OTT market will increase to $18 billion in 2019, more than doubling the market from just three years ago. This has massive implications not only for those who produce content, but for agencies, advertisers, and technology providers as well. As companies in this space begin to assess how they will address this massive paradigm shift, it’s a good time to get familiar with the OTT opportunity.
OTT, programmatic, streaming video
What building a digital media agency has taught us about navigating programmatic
September 17, 2018 Adam Cahill, CEO & Founder – Anagram
For the first time, spending on digital advertising is greater than television. To experienced advertising professionals, the news didn’t come as a surprise. But its impact is significant for myriad reasons: in 2017, While industry watchers saw this coming for years, it still signifies a monumental shift in the ad business. And all of the players in the ecosystem – brands, agencies and ad tech companies – are scrambling to evolve to accommodate new requirements.
It was with these challenges in mind, and recognizing that digital advertising is now more than 20 years old – IAB/PWC tracks spending to 1996 – that my agency, Anagram, launched in 2015. Our guiding principles from day one have been to focus strictly on programmatic buying. We balance both creative and data inputs in our approach, and embrace transparency. We define requirements based on a campaign’s goals; select the best channels / exchanges / systems for the job; and then execute / monitor / optimize the media buys.
The most significant differences between programmatic and traditional media buying are the reliance on systems and software, amount of performance data available, and an advertiser’s ability to make adjustments on-the-fly (i.e., “mid-flight”). While these options present advertisers with varied new opportunities for performance improvement, they also increase their potential risk exposure by way of wayward spending, fraud, and visibility.
In addition to our guiding principles, we have defined three complementary axioms that continue to govern our company’s direction and behaviors, which we hope will help others better navigate programmatic.
1. ‘Digital-First’ Is No Longer Optional
Based strictly on costs, implementation speed, and flexibility, a ‘digital-first’ approach is a no-brainer. When comparing TV, print and radio options to digital in each of these areas, digital comes out on top.
But that’s only part of the story. A genuine ‘digital-first’ strategic mindset requires significant cultural and business process implications as well. As corporate brands have worked furiously to embrace this approach, the legacy advertising agency business model has lagged to adjust.
What’s worked for us is that we’ve taken the valuable components of the old ad agency structure – talent and creative chops – and fuse them with new agency requirements (technology, data management, speed-to-market) to establish a stronger foundation. This includes a new way to manage staffing, methodology, and partnerships.
2. ‘Integrated Marketing’ is Easy to Say and Difficult to Realize
Big data, for all of its benefits, has also introduced a litany of challenges into the marketer’s day-to-day activities. While the media landscape has fragmented exponentially over the past decade, it has also created an overflow of data (which has resulted in introducing terms like ‘data lakes’ into the marketer’s lexicon) that requires management and analysis. Additionally, the “big three” issues that have been front-and-center in the digital ad business for several years now – viewability, fraud, and transparency – are now on the radars of non-marketing executives. So, marketers must be prepared to involve CEOs and even CEOs in big data discussions.
One way to tackle these “omni-channel” (another popular buzzword) challenges is through integrated analytics dashboards. But these require the incorporation of data from “walled gardens” like Facebook, Amazon, and Google. While difficult to acquire and organize, once wrangled, provide a vital component to solutions that help create an orderly view of the world, and simplify analysis and marketing mix allocations.
3. If You’re Not Confused, You’re Not Paying Attention
While market consolidation in the marketing technology is inevitable – according to one estimate there are more than 5,000 companies in the category – it’s not going to happen in a meaningful way for several years, or perhaps even a decade. For every mammoth, deep-pocketed concern like Adobe, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, there are hundreds of pesky (and often well-funded) startups flooding the market. It is critical not only to rely on a trusted suite of proven technologies to deliver client solutions, but also to constantly evaluate new market entrants, because this market moves fast.
Long-Term Keys to Success: Focus & Adaptability
I’m proud of the progress that Anagram has made in the few short years since our inception. But I know there’s still a lot of work to be done. Staying committed to the core plan, while at the same time being flexible to accommodate evolving marketing conditions, will be an ongoing challenge. But we believe this is how all agencies will need to operate in order to thrive in the new marketing environment. Buckle up!
Adam Cahill is the President of Digilant US and CEO of Anagram, a Boston-based programmatic agency. A 20-year veteran of the digital industry, he went allin on programmatic in 2009, launching one of the first agency trading desks. Before joining Digilant, Adam founded Anagram, a digital media consultancy built for the modern marketing era. Previously, he served as Chief Digital Officer at Hill Holliday and SVP/General Manager of Carat in Boston. Adam has been named a Media All-Star by Adweek, a Media Maven by the Ad Club, and has led teams that have twice been named Media Agency of the Year.
Industry-Research | Revenue
Programmatic spend continues to surge in 2018
August 29, 2018 Todd Krizelman, CEO – MediaRadar
It’s predicted that more than $46 billion in ad dollars will be spent on programmatic advertising in the United States this year, with 86.2% of all digital display ads bought programmatically by 2020. But who is spending the most on programmatic? MediaRadar dove in to find the answers. By analyzing thousands of brands, with ads placed programmatically in Q1 of 2018, we discovered which companies are spending more, which are spending top dollar, plus so much more.
75% of all brands running ads online buy programmatically
A whopping three quarters of brands studied had purchased some form of an ad programmatically in Q1 of 2018. Findings such as these prove that, despite transparency concerns, advertisers are continuing to invest in programmatic.
Even more compelling is that, in the wake of major brand safety controversies (e.g. YouTube’s controversial content woes), advertisers are still purchasing programmatic video. In fact, the number of brands running programmatic video have nearly doubled compared to the previous year.
Amazon leads the way in programmatic ad buys
Big brands are buying programmatically and Amazon is leading the space. Amazon was found to be the biggest programmatic spender by far. The online retailer alone accounted for 10% of the total spend of the top-50 programmatic advertisers in Q1 of 2018, spending one and a half times more than the next biggest programmatic spender, Microsoft.
In order of high to low, the top-10 programmatic advertisers in Q1 of 2018 were:
Amazon has always been a big spender when it comes to marketing efforts. In 2016 it was reported that Amazon spent more on advertising than Walmart Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., The Home Depot Inc., and The Kroger Company combined. A large portion of that ad budget was dedicated to programmatic too.
The players remain the same
An impressive 94% of the top-50 programmatic spenders in Q1 of 2017 ended up buying programmatically again in Q1 of this year. The list of companies that renewed include Walmart, Microsoft, and Verizon Wireless.
Despite escalating talk about brand safety, the programmatic market has remained mostly stable, year-over-year. Significant changes in the form of exits or reduced spending have been few and far between. Not to mention, the implementation of safeguard tech like whitelist and blacklist technologies have shown brands that programmatic is actively changing for the better; becoming more brand safe and transparent with every update.
The bottomline is that most advertisers prefer programmatic for transacting online media and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. No matter the controversy, brands appear to value the rewards of programmatic more than they fear the repercussions. Amazon’s increasingly large investments in programmatic are a testament to its popularity and power in the advertising market.
Todd Krizelman (@ToddKrizelman ) is Co-Founder and CEO of MediaRadar (@MediaRadar). Growing up near the epicenter of technological innovation in Palo Alto, California encouraged him to become an entrepreneur and co-found of one of the world’s first social media sites, theGlobe.com. Krizelman also held leadership positions at Bertelsmann’s Gruner + Jahr and Random House. With his expertise in ad sales and innovation, Krizelman joined veteran web architect, Jesse Keller, to found MediaRadar in 2007.
Post-GDPR, are data clean rooms the answer to accessing walled gardens?
August 15, 2018 Karen Moked, Vice President of Marketing–Digilant
As of May 25, 2018, Google announced that DoubleClick users will be unable to rely on cookies or mobile device IDs to connect impressions, clicks and site activities from DoubleClick logs. Instead, they will be limited to Google’s own Ads Data Hub for those metrics.
For some, this means that they are satisfied to stay within the Google stack. But not every brand’s solution will be and should be limited to Google. If media buyers want to analyze their spend outside of Google’s platform and offer up any attribution, then just using Google won’t work.
“Some marketers who spend 75 percent or more of their budgets on Google will be fine just letting Google do the analytics,” says Alice Sylvester of Sequent Partners.
Google wasn’t the only one to lock down its platform. In response to the combined pressure of GDPR and the Cambridge Analytica scandals (related to handling of personal information), Facebook decided that it would shut down ad tools called “Partner Categories” powered by outside data brokers. Those tools let Facebook advertisers target ads at people based on third-party data such as their offline purchasing history.
This means advertisers will have access only to their own data, and data Facebook collects itself. If an advertiser wants to pull campaign-level insights to inform future campaigns, or use the data for the basis of an attribution model, then they are out of luck.
Introduction of Data Clean Rooms
Data clean rooms allow large inventory partners like Facebook and Google to share customer information with brands, while still maintaining strict controls. Data clean rooms were named for the completely airtight rooms where microchips and other sensitive materials get made. In this case, the rooms enable a shared environment between two or more companies that are completely secure from external access (no wifi), and where each company decides the level of visibility to their data. This eliminates – or severely restricts – the possibility of data leakage (which is what happened with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica).
“We and a partner combine a data set with very specific rules and controls around how each party can operate within the shared environment,” said Scott Shapiro, a product marketing director for measurement at Facebook, who noted that Facebook didn’t invent the clean-room concept.
The driving force behind the concept is to create a safe space where data can be shared and manipulated without leaving the inventory partner’s environment. Specifically for Facebook, a brand can create an audience based on first-party data – like a list of email addresses – and then push that list into Facebook, match it, and grab a copy which they can later combine with their data as the basis for attribution, measurement, and modeling.
How it happens in reality is that an advertiser will load a clean or wiped laptop or device that has never been connected to the Internet with that advertiser’s first party data, which in most cases is an email list. A second clean computer is loaded by Facebook or Google with impression-level and non-personally identifiable information (“PII”) campaign data.
Maybe, The Answer to Scaling The Walled Gardens?
For advertisers with reams of data and substantial programmatic advertising budgets, this is a great opportunity to scale the otherwise elusive walled gardens. Data clean rooms create a safe environment for data providers to share marketing information that brands need and crave to model future media buys and advertising strategies. If managed properly, with appropriate methods and standards, this technique would allow brands to really understand their walled-garden ad spends within the larger marketing ecosystem. For both advertisers and publishers alike, the stakes are high in the post-GDPR world of data governance, and there is no room for unintended data sharing because consequences are severe.
Marketers have been eager to get more insights out of Facebook and other walled gardens, but it remains to be seen how aggressively brands and agencies will use data clean rooms to make the most of the spending with the largest inventory providers (e.g., Google, Facebook).
There are two prevailing views for what the future holds:
Glass half-empty: These same inventory providers lack a compelling incentive to play well with others in clean rooms, beyond delivering another level of customer service in a marketplace they continue to dominate.
Glass half-full: It’s been a daunting year or more for the industry category, with virtually continuous coverage related to privacy violations, bad actors influencing politics, and fraud and transparency challenges. The ‘clean room’ concept may be a half-step that the duopoly can get behind, if only as a signal of good faith to the industry.
There is also the overriding issue of what kind of manpower (likely significant) would be involved to make the clean room option a viable reality. The usefulness of data in this kind of an environment may also be somewhat limited No matter, though: The data clean room concept is one that’s getting some attention. And, considering its appeal among the dearth of options out there that seem appealing to all the affected players – brands, agencies and inventory providers – it could be one that ends up getting traction.
Karen Moked is the Vice President of Marketing at Digilant, a programmatic media company in Boston. A veteran of the advertising and technology industries, she previously worked for Akamai and O’Reilly Media. Karen is a graduate of MBA-ESG in Paris and York University in Toronto. Connect with her on LinkedIn and Twitter.
data, GDPR, programmatic
Here’s how to maximize the value of your PMP
July 30, 2018 Mike Kim, VP Product Management, Optimization—Integral Ad Science
For publishers, programmatic offers the opportunity to monetize and package inventory more efficiently than traditional direct deals. For some, it is a place to more effectively sell run of site (ROS) inventory. Others place blocks of premium inventory up for auction to generate revenue without the time, expense, and overhead of negotiating a direct sale. However, while programmatic has opened the door to greater efficiency and a new stream of incremental revenue, it’s also created challenges for premium publishers who want to protect user experience and exercise some control over the type of creative that appears on their pages.
For a growing number of publishers, this means turning to private marketplaces (PMPs). PMPs offer the efficiency of programmatic exchanges in a more controlled environment for premium advertisers. In this post, we’ll attempt to offer some tips to help publishers take advantage of what PMPs have to offer. But first, just what is a private marketplace and how is it different from an open exchange?
What’s a PMP?
Private Marketplaces are exclusive inventory packages offered to buyers via a deal ID. This Deal ID acts as a key to a private auction, or automated access to an inventory pool with pre-negotiated terms. PMPs make it easier for publishers, sell-side platforms (SSPs), and networks to set aside specific inventory packages and sell them to a pre-defined group of buyers. For advertisers, PMPs offer access to premium inventory in a closed environment before it’s made available to the open market.
Through a PMP, publishers can work more directly with advertisers without sacrificing the efficiency of programmatic automation. They also offer publishers the opportunity to build tailored packages of premium inventory and bundled custom audiences, which can fetch a higher price from advertisers than the same inventory might elicit on an open exchange. Most importantly in the age of ad blocking, PMPs give publishers a chance to offer their inventory to a vetted selection of premium advertisers. This ensures that quality content is matched with quality ad creative that won’t compromise user experience.
A PMP can be built and curated by a single publisher, or parent company of premium publishers, and can offer different deal types including first-look offerings or pre-negotiated rates. Supply-side platforms (SSPs), on the other hand, provide premium publishers with lower scale for video with an opportunity to monetize their inventory at a higher CPM by grouping it with like properties. Often how the deals are packaged and the specific inventory they contain can impact publishers’ bottom line. Below are some best practices for maximizing the value of your PMP.
Tips to make the most of your PMP
Use an automated solution to optimize for viewability
A growing number of buyers are turning to PMPs to meet stringent viewability requirements. Major media-buying powerhouse Group M has gone so far as to release its own custom viewability standards, which are more rigorous than those of the MRC. Inventory that meets these more rigorous standards is the gateway to securing advertising dollars from premium brands like Unilever and Volvo. Optimizing your inventory to meet those viewability demands and building PMP packages around viewability thresholds is a great way to maximize incremental revenue and ensure that you’re able to charge buyers for the true value of your inventory.
Optimize for brand safety to score global brand dollars
A tumultuous news cycle, the rise of fake news, and the proliferation of unsafe content on social platforms has led to a major industry-wide focus on brand safety. Buyers across the board have prioritized brand-safe inventory for their digital campaigns to avoid finding themselves on the wrong side of a social media mob. UM Worldwide recently appointed a global brand safety officer, elevating the challenge of finding brand safe inventory to the C-suite. However, brand safety is subjective. Different brands have different sensitivities, and different regions have different ideas of what constitutes a risky placement. Using an optimization tool to create content category packages allows publishers to capture diverse brands and global advertiser dollars with their featured content.
Work directly with buyers to understand their needs
PMPs combine the efficiency of a programmatic transaction with the intimacy and trust of a direct deal. That means the publishers who value user experience can control which advertising partners have access to their inventory. However, that communication and vetting is a two-way street. Work directly with the buyers participating in your private marketplace to identify their needs. Just because your PMP focuses on high-viewability inventory packages doesn’t mean that advertisers aren’t also looking for packages that are low in fraud. Understanding these needs and packaging your inventory toward them can provide a competitive advantage in securing additional premium brand dollars.
brand safety, digital advertising, programmatic, supporter
6 Business questions to consider before investing in programmatic advertising
July 17, 2018 Margaret Farmakis. VP—Sovrn Services
Having worked for an email data company in a previous life, I’m used to the predictions that people love to make about the death of a specific marketing channel. Remember when Slack was going to kill email or Google+ was going to kill Facebook? We all know how those worked out.
With GDPR now in effect, I’ve been hearing a lot of predictions about the impending demise of programmatic advertising. What’s ironic is that greater transparency and protection of consumer privacy rights are very positive steps forward for the industry. So, for publishers who’ve never invested in programmatic, now is actually a great time to do so.
That being said, as with any investment of time, money and resources, companies should arm themselves with as much information as possible; consider what’s best for their business (instead of focusing on what everyone else is doing); and make sure that they understand the potential benefits and drawbacks of making such an investment.
Here are six business questions for publishers to consider before investing in programmatic:
1. What are your goals?
This may seem obvious, but beyond making money, it’s important for publishers to clarify exactly what success looks like and define their desired outcomes. In addition to a new revenue stream, do your programmatic goals include: gaining insights into your audience data and behaviors? Exposing your inventory to a new set of buyers? Expanding brand recognition? Gathering data to build a business case for a larger investment? Or perhaps you are considering using programmatic to drive ecommerce activity? Each of those goals requires a different approach, so it’s important to define the “why” before focusing on the “how.”
2. How much does the user experience matter?
Too often we see publishers making trade-offs with the quality of their user experience in favor of displaying more ads or using ad formats that aren’t in-line with IAB or Coalition for Better Ads standards. It can be tempting to forgo best practices when revenue is the only metric that matters (which it shouldn’t be).
Your users—and their willingness to visit and spend time on your site on a consistent basis—are even more valuable. That’s why it’s important to ensure you have a responsive site with load times of three seconds or less (Google shows quicker-loading mobile pages higher up in its search results) and a design that is uncluttered and easy to scroll and click-through. Don’t let first-order thinking trump what’s best for your users.
3. What is your biggest fear?
Before investing in anything new, it’s a good idea to go through a fear-setting exercise. Tim Ferris has a great template that he designed to be used for working through personal and life decisions, and it can also be applied to business decisions. This includes:
Defining your fear (what is the worst thing that could happen);
Outlining what steps you could take to prevent the worst possible outcome;
If the worst outcome happens, defining the steps you would take to repair the damage; and
Determining the short- and long-term costs of taking no action at all and sticking with the status quo.
For most publishers, this exercise would likely involve fears related to ad quality or fraud issues. If that’s the case, consider using anti-malware software (like Confiant), which can help prevent malvertising. It’s not foolproof, so to repair the damage, publishers should have a plan for investigating and taking down these ads. For example, have a segment of super users you can rely on to report issues and test fixes. And work with reputable partners who have rigorous approval standards in place and will be responsive to your support requests.
4. Are you taking a collaborative or siloed approach?
If you’re a larger publisher, you may have the budget to invest in creating fully-staffed teams to focus on sales, ad ops, and editorial. If so, don’t make the mistake of running those teams in silos with little to no opportunity for cross-functional collaboration.
When it comes to programmatic advertising, everything is connected, and shared goals are critical for successful outcomes. Decisions involving how your inventory is sold and trafficked and the page(s) it’s displayed on require ongoing and frequent communication between the sales, ad ops and editorial teams to ensure the best possible results. For successful collaboration to take place, it’s important to define the dependencies between teams and how each individual team contributes to the bigger picture of increasing user engagement through producing original content that also displays relevant advertising.
5. How important is testing and optimization?
I don’t know of a single marketing channel where the marketer doesn’t gain performance improvements by adopting a learning cycle of testing, adjusting, and optimizing. Often, the whole point of investing in a new channel is to gather data you didn’t have before. Then you can use the data to test a variety of hypotheses that result in varying degrees of ROI. This means it’s important to consider if you have the tools, resources and tolerance for continually tweaking what’s working (and what isn’t) to produce the best possible results and get the highest return possible on your investment. It’s an art and a science and it takes time to perfect, but it’s worth it.
6. What type of company do you want to work with?
The ad tech space is full of companies providing a wide variety of products and services for publishers. Not all of them will suit your needs or align with your business practices, so it’s important to do your research. Pay particular attention to claims that seem too good to be true (for example, promises of 100% fill rates). Ask questions about a company’s support model (for example, what are the average response times, how are requests prioritized, and what is the coverage model on weekends and holidays).
It’s also important to understand how each company is (or isn’t) compliant with the various US and international data collection and privacy laws governing digital advertising (i.e., GDPR, COPPA, PIPEDA, CAN-SPAM, etc.) and whether they’ve implemented the bare minimum for compliance or adhere to both “the spirit and the letter” of the law. For example, Sovrn is the only exchange offering a free Consent Management Platform (CMP) to help publishers with GDPR compliance, instead of putting the burden on the publisher to figure out how to be compliant on their own.
According to eMarketer’s “US Programmatic Ad Spending Forecast 2018,” almost $47 billion will go to programmatic advertising this year. And, by 2020 programmatic will account for 86.2% of digital display spend. Now is a great time to explore if programmatic is worth investing in for your business. Start by focusing on what makes your content and audience unique, your tolerance for risk, your desired outcomes and what you want to learn.
digital advertising, GDPR, programmatic, supporter
Post-GDPR impact: Programmatic remains strong in the U.S.
July 17, 2018 Todd Krizelman, CEO – MediaRadar
Long before GDPR took effect in May, both publishers and advertisers tried to install safeguards to prepare for its impact on industry practices. We’ve seen some of the effects already. Email marketing distribution lists have shrunk. Companies are re-evaluating and optimizing the data they collect to increase data privacy and consumer trust. Some publishers are even blocking access to EU-based residents altogether.
But how has GDPR affected the ways advertisers buy? It’s been reported that programmatic purchases have plummeted in the EU since GDPR has gone into effect. Companies now need to prove they have user permissions, which becomes tricky if you’re selling advertising on websites where you have no ownership or control. We’re aware of certain firms whose revenues are down from 33% to 50%, in just the past 30 days, presumably due to lagging compliance.
Here at MediaRadar, however, we evaluated programmatic ad spend in the U.S. The impact isn’t nearly as drastic as some may have believed.
Number of brands buying programmatic is up
Surprisingly, our own data found that the number of brands purchasing programmatically in the U.S. has increased since April. This shows that brands still value the convenience of programmatic purchases, even with the new regulations. It’s important to note that this increase in programmatic interest actually came prior to GDPR. From January to May of 2018, we saw 86,695 brands purchase programmatic ads, with the number of brands increasing month over month.
Direct buys are increasing at an even greater rate
From January to May of this year, digital advertising has surged. During this period, the number of brands that purchase programmatically increased, yet direct buying also grew, and at a much faster rate. Because of this, the total percent of programmatic purchases among all digital ad buys has actually decreased. In Q1 of 2018, 61% of ads were placed programmatically. Since then, that percentage has dipped to 59% in April, and to 58% in May, despite programmatic strength.
In looking at the big picture, we found that the rate of programmatic ad buying has been largely flat in the U.S. year-to-date. Digital advertising as a whole is thriving, regardless of GDPR implementation. This proves that the increase in programmatic spend can be attributed to the overall popularity of digital, as opposed to programmatic itself. We believe this trend in the U.S. will continue. Programmatic will remain popular among advertisers, barring a wave unexpected GDPR violations as a result.
Marketing | Perspectives
Programmatic is not just for media buyers. What the rest of us need to know
July 11, 2018 Raquel Rosenthal, CEO – Digilant US
It’s a message we’ve been hearing percolate through the industry now for years: programmatic is the future of advertising. Brands, in search of more control over their media buying activity, have embraced technology-based approaches that promise efficiency, precision, flexibility, and superior ROI. Warts and all — and there are plenty, ranging from flat-out false value propositions to rampant fraud and monopolistic marketplace control by actor behaving badly — programmatic is here to stay.
Media planners and buyers have arrived at this conclusion, however begrudgingly. But other participants in the advertising ecosystem — designers, copywriters, developers, and publishers — are wading into programmatic territory in earnest now as well. Here’s what they need to know about programmatic.
Audiences Increasingly Rely on Programmatic-Driven Experiences
Digital users — across desktops, laptops, tablets and smartphones — increasingly expect tailored experiences, from both independent and sponsored content. And the most the efficient way to deliver custom experiences is via programmatic platforms.
For progressive advertising professionals, this is a welcomed opportunity (more on that later). Technology companies and developers benefit from this market evolution via an increased need for their solutions and services. Publishers, however, don’t have much of a choice in this regard. In order to encourage engagement, and minimize the deployment of inhibitive tools such as ad blockers, user experience must be a paramount consideration. Content providers that deliver optimal UX — which includes unobtrusive but effective advertising, such as native tactics — will win in the long run.
Dynamic Ad Creative Is a Genuine Game-Changer
One of the underlying historical maxims of the ad business has been its aim to distribute messages “to the right person, at the right time, at the right cost.” Though this has typically been more aspirational than realistic (and a regular source of frustration for creative professionals in particular) technology-enabled advertising does genuinely provide the opportunity for more specific customization.
To be sure, as a broader umbrella category, “digital marketing” was a step in the right direction on the road to customization (and what will eventually be widespread “personalization”). But due to a combination of hypergrowth conditions and the lack of internal structures to accommodate customization, the industry as a whole has lagged in this regard. As a recent BCG analysis explains, “Within both agencies and publishers, organizational silos with little cross-functional interaction lead to excessive work and rework, including costly handovers, long wait times, and fragmented decision making.”
Programmatic seems poised to serve as the bridge to genuine, industry-wide progress on the customization front. In a few short years, most campaigns will adjust art and messaging to accommodate fluid factors such as time of day, geography, demographics, user interests and behaviors, and the like. This will almost certainly improve campaign performance. It will also impact the underlying cost structure of campaign delivery. This will require more creative labor, for example, so the net ROI effect remains to be seen.
The Programmatic Train Has Left The Station
Like “digital” before it, programmatic will likely lose its specific designation over the next decade, and morph into a marketing channel line item or equivalent. But until it does, it will continue to be popular fodder for industry publications and conferences. And not without good reason. Most estimates peg the U.S. programmatic marketplace in the tens of billions of dollars annually, and growing in the double-digit range. eMarketer sizes the market at $46 billion in 2018, and comprising more than 80% of the entire digital display category, and a major factor in mobile advertising.
That said, in spite of its formidable size and growth forecast, all is not well in the programmatic category, and brands, publishers, and vendors alike are scrambling to address problems related to the big three challenges: fraud, transparency, and viewability. To wit, also according to eMarketer analysis: programmatic growth through 2020 will be driven by “private setups, such as private marketplaces (PMPs) and programmatic direct transactions, as buyers continue to be wary of the open markets’ transparency and quality issues”. [Disclosure: DCN is involved in one such marketplace, TrustX.]
It’s both an exciting and terrifying time to be part of the advertising business. Brand, publishers, and agencies alike are scrambling to navigate the constantly shifting terrain that’s characterized by tens of thousands of vendors competing for share and voice. Programmatic is one of the driving forces of disruption and upheaval in our industry today, and will play a big role in shaping the industry for years to come.
Raquel Rosenthal is the Chief Executive Officer of Digilant US, a programmatic marketing company headquartered in Boston. A digital industry veteran, she’s held various senior positions at Digilant, DataXu, AudienceScience, and DoubleClick. Raquel splits time between Dallas and New York City, and holds a B.S. from Ithaca College.
How UPDAY’s unique blend of human and algorithmic intelligence delivers value to consumers, and the bottom line
June 27, 2018 Peggy Anne Salz, Founder and Lead Analyst—Mobile Groove
The blind reliance on algorithms to sort and target content has resulted in a tidal wave of fake news. The resulting consumer sentiment is that all companies, not just Facebook, should guarantee greater transparency and accountability around the content they produce and the audiences they reach. While we have an opportunity to improve how we use technology to weed out disinformation, we also have a responsibility to invest in human effort to ensure the spread of high-quality news, not low-quality content.
UPDAY has embraced this view. The mobile news app owned by digital publishing house Axel Springer pairs machine learning with human judgment to deliver users personalized news and information aligned with their explicit preferences and implicit requirements. Operating in 16 countries across Europe, UPDAY has established eight editorial “hubs” where teams of local journalists review content from the top news sources to pick top stories and news consumers will genuinely appreciate.
Peggy Anne Salz – mobile analyst and content marketing strategist at MobileGroove – catches up with UPDAY CEO Peter Würtenberger to discuss how the company’s approach to news curation and aggregation has allowed it to build partnerships with publishers, deepen engagement with users, and optimize content delivery to a plethora of devices and platforms.
PAS: AI and algorithms have a legitimate role to play in matching audiences with information they will likely appreciate. But we also see what happens when judgment is left to the machines. How do you maintain a balance?
PW: Fake news happened because companies relied 100% on technology, and this is what we have avoided at UPDAY from the start. Part of it is because, unlike the Apple, Facebook, and Google, we come from the newspaper business where journalists are the most valuable resource, not an overhead. Axel Springer is one of the leading publishers in the western world, selling over 1.5 million copies of the Bild newspaper daily. This was possible because we relied on journalists. At UPDAY, rather than leave news decisions to algorithms, we combine the intelligence of machines with human judgment to deliver personalized news that doesn’t trap audiences in a filter bubble.
The algorithm aggregates news—what you want to know—by understanding your personal interests and preferences out of approximately 300 hand-picked sources per country. There’s a dedicated team of Content Engineers that carefully checks each source in each country before integrating it into our source set. The human—in our case, eight editorial hubs in Europe where editorial teams on the ground curate news and information – judges and delivers what audiences need to know. This is the news of the day that matters, and we rely on a team of trained journalists in their fields to make this call. It’s about serving up the best of both worlds, the best of what technology and humans can offer when they work together.
PAS: You are aggregating content from original sources and packaging it with the help of personalization for your users. Tell me about your audience and their usage.
PW: The feedback we have from our users since day one is that they feel safe and confident that they are reading what really matters to them. This tells me that a user-centric approach to deliver the perfect and personalized mix of stories is working out very well. Users are engaging with UPDAY and highly appreciate the variety of our media brands. Our sources include the top 100 publishers in each of the markets where we are operating in.
We launched UPDAY in March 2016 and last year we counted around 10 million users. Today we have more than 20 million users spread across 16 countries, which makes us the fastest growing news app in Europe. A user session is around 5 minutes. We have more than 3 billion page impressions per month. And we aggregate more than 3,500 sources.
By the way, the publisher also gets a massive amount of traffic from UPDAY, and in some cases 10% even 15% of their mobile traffic comes from Upday. We aggregate their content—snippets with headlines and some body text from the publisher which they provide as part of the RSS feed—and, when the user clicks on the story, we send them directly to the property of that publisher. This is what publishers appreciate most. Unlike Facebook, which keeps all interaction and news consumption in its ecosystem, we drive traffic to publishers.
PAS: You deliver personalized news across over a dozen countries and languages. Do you rely on translations and localization to keep it relevant, or is there something else at play?
PW: We don’t translate any of the content, because that wouldn’t serve the user’s interest. Instead, we serve the users with their local sources in the local language. Our local team of journalists—the quality control, so to speak—is responsible for selecting the 30 to 40 most important top news stories per day and curating them, so they appear in the top news section we show to the user.
Clearly, this isn’t the way all media companies approach localization. Some agencies prefer to translate content from English to Spanish, for example, in order to serve it to large audiences. But we don’t believe this is the right way. In our view, it’s a better experience to source the local sources and media brands in the local language. And that’s the beauty of UPDAY—and now we see that other products and offers are changing to do it this way, too. I can only say we have been doing it like this for over two years and it’s great to see how others are understanding why this is the better way to deliver news and now come up with similar offerings.
PAS: You have engineered the algorithm that you pair with the human intelligence of your editorial hubs to deliver personalized news. How does this combination work to ensure the delivery of more relevant advertising alongside this news content?
PW: Our editorial competence and the understanding of the user behavior enabled us developing an offering that addresses various needs of the advertisers and brands. UPDAY offers a premium user experience with a flow of content and integrated native advertising which does not disturb the flow. It’s not a layer ad that users see and click it away. It’s in the natural stream of the news stream, showing every sixth card on average. It’s also the approach that kicked our monetization forth.
We started with an offering for so called direct sales – premium formats adjusted to the needs of our clients. We talked to clients and agencies and they booked display ads and video ads. At all times, our priority was to develop an advertising offering that enhances, not interrupts the user experience, where we could be the platform that brings advertisers closer to users. Our understanding of the users’ interests plays a crucial role here.
We also integrated a programmatic technology into UPDAY. It became the second phase of UPDAY’s advertising. But we established our capabilities as an SSP. We did this together with AppNexus and with Google. We started with programmatic native advertising that was perfectly aligned with our content. On UPDAY every news card has a photo, a headline, and text— native advertising looks similar to that and attracts the users with a great strength. Together with the data, it boosts our capabilities to deliver the right advertising in the right moment to the right user.
PAS: So, what are you seeing –and what are the lessons for other media companies that seek to monetize their assets and audiences?
PW: Our click rates are beyond expectation because our experience pairs human sense with data intelligence. We are seeing between 0.5% and 0.8% for display and more than 1% for native ads – regarding formats which are non-intrusive and integrated in the flow of UPDAY news. We’ve also seen native campaigns where we get between 5% and 6% click-through thank to our optimization measures. Overall, this is far above the industry standard, which hovers at around 0.1%.
It’s a combination of our human salespeople with our ad tech that leads to a success. We have teams that go to the companies and brands and say, “Hey, we have a high-quality, Europe-wide platform which is a perfect place for your marketing communication.” Once the brands realize there is more than Facebook, they are on board. We are running direct campaigns for SEAT in five major markets as a result. This is premium advertising with higher CPMs on a high-quality platform. We rely on human teams to understand what brands want to communicate and work with them—and really show them–what is possible on our platform. It’s a dual play between people and a constantly developed advertising product, and that is the play that gets advertising right.
If I look out at many media companies out there, they are still filling their pages with what they have been showing for last 20 years. It’s nothing more than a copy of the first page in their newspaper. Advertising is similar. It overwhelms the user with too many blinking parts, banners and annoying interruptions. This is a mistake, and so many content companies are still stuck in this rut. I would recommend content companies change this by introducing more user-friendliness and personalization into what they offer and how they deliver it. For the companies that make the algorithms—the Facebooks and Googles that read the user signals to personalize the content and advertising—they should look for ways to introduce a human touch and ‘humanize’ their tech because that is what they are lacking. It’s got to be user first —and the advertising needs to be highly personal and highly relevant.
PAS: You are also aligned with technology and your partnership Samsung is evolving to take you beyond the smartphone. What are the new opportunities on the horizon?
PW: It started out as a strategic partnership between Axel Springer, an expert in journalism, news, and creating a digital information brand, and Samsung, an expert in engineering and building devices. We pair our learnings from the news business and our learning algorithm with Samsung’s leadership position in devices and distribution. Remember, globally Samsung is far bigger than Apple.
However, it’s not just about having a larger share of the smartphone market. It’s about the breadth of devices and platforms where we can provide news content. We are already on the smart watch, and we are also the news source on the Family Hub that Samsung enables on its smart refrigerators. Most recently, Samsung has integrated our news app on their ambient QLED TV screens. These are screens that just turn on when you pass them, and UPDAY news is what consumers will see when they interact with that screen – across 12 countries in Europe.
Now other industries are contacting us. The car industry is asking us to develop an integration for smart cars to deliver personalized news in the car. We are thinking about how we can provide news in this environment, and it’s clear that the news we aggregate will also have to be read out-loud to the consumer.
PAS: But that also brings challenges as humans can’t scale, and your editorial team will have to…
PW: It has to be scalable. And you do this by making sure all the content comes from a single platform. If we were to start building content data platforms for each of the platforms we serve — for smartphones, watches, fridges and now TV — we would be dead from the sheer complexity of it. All those different devices and platforms must be served from the same content engine, from the same algorithm engine, and from the same journalists who are curating the content. This is what we have built and manage.
It’s one content platform, and you see the same content — even the same headline — on all four platforms. But it will get more complicated when we add voice—and voice is coming. It’s very early in the market, and there are great text-to-speech engines around, but this is just the beginning. Some of our main challenges will be: How to deliver the most relevant content in the most convenient and appealing way to the audience? There are legal issues to solve and we have to consider ways to monetize most efficiently, of course.
Print media was disrupted by the Internet and mobile is disrupting online. Now voice is poised to disrupt everything we as an industry have known or done so far. The best preparation for a media company is to be paranoid. Watch everything, experiment everywhere and execute on the ideas with potential. It’s why we maintain and motivate a startup culture in our company determined to stay alert and always be open to drastic change. It’s better we disrupt ourselves from within than risk being disrupted by a trend or technology beyond our vision.
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Essays, Reviews and Interviews
TitleSourceAuthor/EditorDateTopic
What is our role?DomusDavid Chipperfield4.12.2019Role of the architect
Can David Chipperfield’s new gallery in Berlin reconcile past and present?Financial TimesEdwin Heathcote25.7.2019James Simon Galerie
David Chipperfield's Berlin temple: 'Like ascending to the realm of the gods'The GuardianOlly Wainwright8.7.2019James Simon Galerie
A cultural missionAV Monograph 209-210Deyan Sudjic1.2019Cultural
On material abstractionAV Monograph 209-210Richard Ingersoll1.2019Materiality
Urban livingAV Monograph 209-210Deborah Berke1.2019Housing
Social ClimbersRIBA JournalHugh Pearman20.12.2018Hoxton Press
Hallelujah, it’s a total makeoverThe Sunday TimesWaldemar Januszczak20.5.2018Royal Academy of Arts
New light for old masters: revamp for jewel in the crown of British artThe ObserverRowan Moore13.5.2018Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Academy expansion reveals hidden life of art schoolsThe GuardianOliver Wainwright13.5.2018Royal Academy of Arts
David Chipperfield: “Architecture is in a sort of crisis”Financial TimesJan Dalley4.5.2018General
The RIBA is letting the profession down over BrexitThe Architects' JournalDavid Chipperfield25.4.2018UK / EU
The Neue Nationalgalerie: the Refurbishment of a Modern MonumentDocomomoMartijn Jaspers17.7.2017Neue Nationalgalerie
Open Letter on EU nationals in the GuardianThe GuardianDavid Chipperfield15.5.2017UK / EU
Straight LinesWish Magazine (The Australian)Luke Slattery8.4.2017General
Picture of my lifeWeltkunstDavid Chipperfield24.2.2017General
Lasst die Künstler ranSüddeutsche ZeitungOkwui Enwezor28.1.2017Haus der Kunst
Is the building guilty?The Architects' JournalDavid Chipperfield24.1.2017Haus der Kunst
How David Chipperfield plans to remodel the Royal Academy of ArtsEvening StandardRobert Bevan15.12.2016Royal Academy of Arts
Die Sanierung der Neuen NationalgalerieBauweltSebastian Redecke9.12.2016Neue Nationalgalerie
A comment on the EU referendumThe Architects' JournalDavid Chipperfield 31.3.2016UK
Ein Gebäude zu entwerfen ist kinderleichtSüddeutsche Zeitung - MagazinSven Michaelsen25.9.2015General
Berlin hat fast zu viel GeschichteICON / Welt am SonntagPaul Smith3.5.2015Berlin
Plattenbauten sind hässlich, aber hilfreichDie WeltUlf Poschardt2.5.2015Berlin
Office building Moganshan Road, HangzhouAIA AwardsAlison Brooks28.4.2015Office building Moganshan Road
David Chipperfield entwirft Museum in der WüsteBerliner ZeitungMartina Doering14.4.2015Naga Museum Sudan
The embedded nomadSikkens FoundationChristian Rapp29.3.2015General
'Island life' - a letter to the editorThe Architectural ReviewDavid Chipperfield12.2014Museum Island Masterplan
Form vs Function. Mies und das Museum.speechDavid Chipperfield27.11.2014Neue Nationalgalerie
Falling Walls conferencespeechDavid Chipperfield8.11.2014Neue Nationalgalerie
Modern classicThe Architects' JournalEllis Woodman16.5.2014One Pancras Square
When did we decide beautiful cities were a thing of the past?The GuardianDavid Chipperfield27.3.2014General
Shaping the cityFinancial TimesDavid Chipperfield10.3.2014General
The Back StoryBuilding Design Ellis Woodman14.2.2014Joachimstraße 11
Jagged edgeThe Architectural ReviewRaymund Ryan11.2.2014Museo Jumex
Elegant in die Lücke eingepasstNeue Zürcher ZeitungJürgen Tietz6.1.2014Joachimstraße 11
Modern MasterThe SpectatorWilliam Cook5.12.2013General
A solid achievementFinancial TimesEdwin Heathcote22.11.2013Museo Jumex
Photos of Chipperfield’s buildings cannot convey their transformational powerThe Architects’ JournalRory Olcayto6.11.2013General
Simple, Ordinary, ComplexDavid Chipperfield Architects (2013)Fulvio Irace2013General
A German PerspectiveDavid Chipperfield Architects (2013)Bernhard Schulz2013General
Only in Germany do citizens’ action groups and even professionals in the field insist so vehemently that new buildings be designed in a contemporary architectural idiom. It would, however, be a mistake to infer from this that there are more surviving old buildings, against which contemporary architecture would have a hard time asserting itself. The reverse is the case, of course. Germany lost far more of its historical architecture than its European neighbours during World War II, and even more so during the subsequent period of reconstruction, which was nearly always understood and used as an opportunity to build entirely new structures.
A German Perspective
Only in Germany do citizens’ action groups and even professionals in the field insist so vehemently that new buildings be designed in a contemporary architectural idiom. It would, however, be a mistake to infer from this that there are more surviving old buildings, against which contemporary architecture would have a hard time asserting itself. The reverse is the case, of course. Germany lost far more of its historical architecture than its European neighbours during World War II, and even more so during the subsequent period of reconstruction, which was nearly always understood and used as an opportunity to build entirely new structures. Nevertheless, the ideology of modernism – overstated in the demand that every period should and must express itself exclusively in its own formal idiom – has retained its validity here. The debates over the restoration or even complete reconstruction of historical buildings have always triggered an irreconcilable conflict between modernists and traditionalists – to put it simply – no matter whether they concern a rapidly changing metropolis like Berlin or a comparatively serene community such as Hildesheim or Halle.
In this difficult country, where debates are always more ideological than pragmatic in nature, David Chipperfield has enjoyed undisputed appreciation. Today, after a remarkable series of wide-ranging projects, he is praised by all sides as an important representative of his field. He is considered neither a modernist nor a traditionalist, and certainly not narrow-minded, but rather a defender of architecture for its own sake, someone guided by common sense more than dogma – an attitude we Germans admire in the English, but for which, revealingly, there is no equivalent phrase in our language. It is generally agreed that the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island – which is refurbishment, reconstruction and new design in equal measure – is a masterpiece that constitutes a model and scarcely attainable standard for any architectural brief that is even remotely comparable to it. The approval for the building ultimately realised was unprecedented, not despite but precisely because of the fact that the planning for how to deal with the wartime ruin of the Neues Museum was so controversial and, at times, an intense feud. The result persuaded everyone, even the project’s harshest critics.
An architect may not necessarily be comfortable receiving praise for a building that was originally the work of another and, despite complementary restoration, will remain so. Chipperfield in particular is not interested in virtuoso landmark preservation, even when the result, as in the case of the Neues Museum, appears to be just that. Rather, he seeks the connection to history or, more accurately, the continuity of historicity, understanding the past as a tradition that also continues into the present. He is concerned with finding expression for the awareness that architecture is never entirely new, but is based on continuity and hence on fundamental principles. That applies above all to tectonics as an ‘art of assembling’, as defined by Gottfried Semper. And indeed Chipperfield frequently displays the interaction of load and support, of pillar and beam, of vertical and horizontal. Moreover, all architecture is inserted into a context shaped by earlier events. This is not necessarily limited to the immediate architectural context – it can just as easily be the intellectual framework into which the new work has to assert itself.
One outstanding example of this is the Museum of Modern Literature in the Swabian town of Marbach. This town has great symbolic power as the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller and the home of the German Literature Archive. It has changed considerably since German literature went from being an object of admiration to one of critical examination, since ‘national literature’ was replaced by modernism and the literature of exile, condemned by the Nazi regime. Providing these movements of the twentieth century with their own institution was the brief when designing the Museum of Modern Literature on its exposed sloping site. The new building expanded the National Schiller Museum’s forecourt, creating a plaza with the Literature Archive. If that were not traditionalist enough, Chipperfield gave his design echoes of an ancient temple, of a building on a pedestal with a roof resting on supports, above another section set back from the supports. These supports, however, are not columns but square pillars; the roof is flat, without a cornice or a gable, and the pedestal is not the same on all sides but compensates for the slope, into which a lower storey has been inserted on the valley side. Seen from here, the building appears to be a two-storey structure that plays down the initial temple association formed when approached from the other side. The building – which is neither symmetrical along an axis nor in the arrangement of the rooms inside – produces a strange tension with its intended function. That is because modern German literature – which was initially not understood, condemned even, only to achieve recognition later – has a relationship with the land of its language that is anything but unscathed. The break-up of the nation, both in a cultural and a political sense – a fundamental theme of the nineteenth century in Germany – returned in the twentieth, albeit in a highly negative way. Dedicating a building that takes up traditional forms and reformulates them in its own way to this particular literary era is necessarily a perplexing undertaking.
At the same time, Chipperfield achieves something quite astonishing with this building. He manages to reconcile – and to express it with pathos – Germany with the tradition, or rather with the continuity, of architecture. The building invites the re-examination and reconsideration of traditions that had played a large role in the birth of modern German architecture – one need only think of Alfred Messel, Peter Behrens and the connection to architecture ‘around 1800’. Indeed, such an understanding of tradition in general was compromised by the Nazi period, as embodied in the work of Paul Troost and Albert Speer. After World War II, everything traditional, and certainly everything monumental, was considered contaminated. Only an exile like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe could be forgiven for designing his Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the late 1960s like a temple and even establishing a connection to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who had been almost entirely forgotten again in Mies’ day.
This does not mean that Chipperfield has only explored this kind of architectural idiom in Germany. The design for Marbach has a precursor in an unrealised proposal from 1999 for the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid. There too the museum was intended to be open facing a sloping terrain on the side, and there too it was to be accessed from above, enabling visitors to see the layout of the rooms as they descended. Similarly, the roof was to be supported by regularly arranged square pillars. But it makes a difference whether a building with such a design is built in Madrid or in Marbach. A design for Marbach cannot be considered independently of Germany’s architectural history, nor certainly of the history of its subject matter. That a manuscript unpublished during its author’s lifetime, and which he wished to be condemned to oblivion, like that of Franz Kafka’s The Trial, should be housed in such a place is not only the triumph of modernism over its detractors but also an act of reconciliation between the Germans and their own fraught history.
This may suggest more meaning and interpretation than the architect would ever claim himself. After all, the slender supports on which the roof in Marbach rests, for example, turn out to be a recurring element in his oeuvre, albeit used in very different ways. When the Museum Folkwang in Essen was being built – much larger than the old building – there were steel supports that articulated the façades of the building and especially the slightly protruding entrance pavilion. The addition’s programme is dedicated to modernist art, which had particularly suffered in Essen under the Nazi regime, but while the building’s restoration by means of calculated acquisitions and reacquisitions represented an outstanding achievement of the post-war era, the viewer is not overwhelmed by any overarching architectural statement. Looking at the sheer functionality of the new rooms and the restrained exterior view of the building, not even its intended purpose as a museum jumps out. What does strike the visitor is the quality of the architecture, which is entirely subordinate to the art shown in it. An addition from 1960 had to make way for Chipperfield’s building, a principle about which he has commented: ‘There is nothing worse than tearing down a building only to replace it with something that isn’t better.’ The decision to demolish the 1960s building was, in his view, ‘a brave one’.
Removing the idea of meaning in the sense of architecture parlante from the specifically German context, one could point to the project currently in development for a museum in Naga in the Sudanese desert. This rectangular hall, which is made rhythmic by a terraced roof, scarcely represents more than the archetypal form of a museum, merely a way of holding objects to protect them from the weather. The construction of massive pillars and beams lends the Naga Museum an archaic look appropriate to the excavation site of an ancient culture in a timeless, inhospitable place. The fact that the buildings from this site, such as the very unusual temple of Hathor from the Hellenistic period, had been reconstructed by the Berlin excavation team – that is, by means of classical anastylosis, which even the dogmatic Venice Charter allows – makes this design even more expressive. At the same time, it reveals a characteristic aspect of an attitude toward design that has often been called ‘minimalist’: returning to basic elements of architecture. The results preserve the continuity of architectural history in a new form without imitating it or, as in post-modernism, ironically quoting it.
Neither imitation nor irony characterises the concept for the Neues Museum either. Chipperfield himself uses the term ‘soft restoration’ to describe an approach that changes from room to room, even from detail to detail. Whereas the other museum buildings on the Museum Island – which were, it should be said, damaged far less and had already been restored to operation – were either reconstructed faithfully with respect to the original (e.g. the Alte Nationalgalerie) or an almost seamless blend of historical elements with contemporary additions (e.g. the Bode Museum), every visitor to the Neues Museum will recognise what is old and what is new, what is damaged, repaired, restored and replaced.
And yet the result is not dissonance but, on the contrary, a harmony of emotional – once one might have said spiritual – power. It is not the fact that the war damage remains visible that is crucial; indeed, the overused concept of simply ‘leaving the wound exposed’ is not embraced by the team. Certainly, the transitions from surviving and restored areas are recognisable, for example in the case of the wall frescoes, which were by and large destroyed. But this is done more in the spirit of John Ruskin’s theory of the monument, which emphasises the ‘picturesque’ aspect of decay. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who as Prussia’s head architect was responsible for historical preservation, was concerned more about the architectural heritage of the Middle Ages and therefore tended to focus on reinforcing the structure. Chipperfield is perhaps more like Ruskin than Schinkel in this respect, although this does not mean that he does not feel a connection to Schinkel’s buildings.
It is precisely the juxtaposition of the preserved, restored and replaced – confusing as it may be at first glance – and the ‘picturesque’ that makes the Neues Museum so eloquent. The building speaks a double truth: the truth about destruction but also about the architecture of Friedrich August Stüler, which cannot be restored to its original state of around 1850 but can no longer decay into a mere ruin, as was the case for half a century after 1945. The Neues Museum as designed by Chipperfield and his team tells its story, and hence that of Germany, across a century and a half; it tells of an ambition to teach that was the reason it was established, of the progress of scholarship on antiquity, of terrible destruction, of neglect and loss, and finally of a rapprochement with this very history, which can only be taken as a whole. It also tells of the renewal of architectural forms that has taken place during this period and presents its new construction, the north-west wing, self-confidently and without false modesty.
A building designed at the same time as the Neues Museum but completed years before greets it across a side arm of the Spree, and thus seems like a kind of prologue to the Neues Museum. The gallery building ‘Am Kupfergraben 10’ is constructed of the same bricks as the Neues Museum, only here they are not exposed but rather washed with a light slurry. The lintels are concrete beams emphasising the tectonic principle of loading and bearing. This building is, of course, a completely contemporary structure. It stands out powerfully against both the Wilhelmine-era building on the one side and what appears to be a late Baroque building on the other. The irregularly arranged windows of different sizes make their function evident: directing light of varying intensity to specific exhibition spaces. If Chipperfield intended this building to demonstrate that in addition to the restoration work on the museum he could be very modern, and also wanted to say that the choice of materials says nothing about the modernity of a building (as Schinkel had proved before him using simple brick), then the gallery building ‘Am Kupfergraben 10’ is powerful evidence of this.
In the case of the Neues Museum, however, another level of meaning comes to the fore. It could be called an act of reconciliation, had the word itself in connection with the German past not been so discredited. The tribute paid to this building by the large visitor numbers and the naturalness with which it is perceived in its heterogeneous manifestations between preservation and new construction underscore this interpretation. The past never goes away, it cannot be denied, but it leads into the present, which claims and is granted its own place. Moreover, the state of the building corresponds to that of the objects displayed within it. These witnesses of past cultures also bear traces of their historicity, with cracks, fractures and missing pieces. They are precious not only as products of earlier eras but as documents of transience and preservation, as objects of our historical awareness. Rarely does architecture reveal itself as an intellectual achievement as it does in the design of the Neues Museum. ‘For me, an architect has to have an attitude towards life, not buildings,’ says Chipperfield. ‘If something has meaning, it speaks to us, to both our expectations and our memories.’
This sort of permeation of ideas is always tied to the specific architectural brief for Chipperfield. The opposite of a dogmatist, the opposite of a signature architect, he reproduces an immediately identifiable type for everyone and every client. His oeuvre is characterised by great diversity, in the dimensions, the forms, the materials and even the palette, though he seldom employs colours. The buildings are, however, characterised by a concentration on the essential aspect of the given task, the given plan for the space. The Miesian ‘less is more’ is also a guideline for him, but not dogmatically so in the sense of a formal asceticism driven to the extreme. Consider the large staircase in the Neues Museum, which was constructed of concrete elements as a deliberate contrast to the destroyed original behind it – albeit very carefully produced concrete: on the one hand, it is an example of optical reduction; on the other, it surprises with lavish details such as the wonderfully shaped handrails. It illustrates for his own outlook something that Chipperfield said about Schinkel and Mies: ‘The connection between these two is a particular type of classicism, one of great refinement.’
By ‘Schinkel and Mies’ he is of course referring to the two museum buildings that bridge nearly a century and a half: the Altes Museum and the Neue Nationalgalerie. No one building on Museum Island can ignore Schinkel’s museum. Chipperfield too alludes to Schinkel’s Altes Museum: ‘The extraordinary thing about the balcony is that Schinkel managed to bring the public garden [Lustgarten] into the museum,’ he once explained. ‘There is a wonderful drawing by his studio of a man and a youth on the balcony. They are in the museum, without having opened a single door. We made use of this invention by Schinkel for the James Simon Gallery.’ The future entrance building to the Museum Island – named after James Simon, the greatest and most selfless patron Berlin has ever known – adopts for its slender supports the motif of the colonnade that Stüler once constructed to visually connect Schinkel’s museum and his own building. With its terrace leading up an open stairway and directly into the museum, and with the columned hall on a tall pedestal facing the water, Chipperfield has translated for our time this Schinkelian idea of dovetailing interior and exterior. Admittedly, Schinkel’s longing for Italy that resonates in this idea may not always be supported by Berlin’s weather.
Reduction means dispensing with the superfluous. Many have pointed to Chipperfield’s early works in Japan: Gotoh Museum, near Tokyo, and the Toyota Auto Building in Kyoto, both of which feature exposed concrete that causes the volume to stand out unmitigated.
In one of his most recent projects – an ensemble of buildings for his own practice in a section of old Berlin characterised by small lots and commercial buildings from the imperial era – this asceticism of materials and formal idiom returns. It must be said, however, that the individual, staggered buildings conceal very distinct solutions for the floor plan. For his first building in Berlin, a private house in the affluent bourgeois neighbourhood of Dahlem, Chipperfield had interlocking spaces of different dimensions, especially in height. For a moment, it is reminiscent of Adolf Loos’ ‘Raumplan’, but without the opulence of expensive materials.
If anything, for Chipperfield the reverse is true: the practice is able to employ ordinary materials in a way that they not only seem precious but actually become so. They are elevated, in the sense of being appropriate. In that respect he resembles Schinkel, who exalted profane brick – the dominant construction material in humble Prussia – and made it his preferred material. For the Neues Museum, bricks from demolished buildings were used, not out of frugality but in order to harmonise the restorations – in the Egyptian Courtyard or the new South Dome Room, for example – with the existing architecture and also out of concern for craftsmanship.
This quality provides one key to understanding his architecture, and the Neues Museum can once again serve as evidence. The South Dome Room, the remains of which were removed during the East German era – had to be recreated. It was built of bricks, not as an identical pendant to the North Dome Room, which survived, albeit with its painted decorations heavily damaged, but with its geometry intact. Out of the square substructure rises, without transition, a cupola with a glass-covered oculus. The imperceptible transition from square to circle in the exposed masonry could not have been calculated by a computer; it depended on the experience and skill of the masons. The result – as spectacular as it is, and as much as it is appreciated by visitors – is almost a homage to the act of building.
Careful craftsmanship, to put it mildly, is neither required nor practised in all countries. It was not least the international modernism of the inter-war period that made it part of its programme that new buildings should have a limited useful life – which suited profit-minded commercial investors and real estate entrepreneurs very well. Thirty years, roughly the duration of a generation, seemed adequate for a building’s lifespan, after which it could make room for new demands and uses. David Chipperfield did not have an easy time in his native country with his ambition for quality. It seems that other countries with better developed craft traditions, such as Germany and Japan, were more understanding. Naturally, Switzerland should be mentioned as well, where his practice is currently involved in planning the extension to the Kunsthaus Zurich. The Swiss sense of quality and what Chipperfield calls ‘refinement’ is well developed, and not just since the minimalists of the Basel School distinguished themselves in this respect.
With an eye to his Swiss colleagues, Chipperfield’s feeling for vernacular architecture should be mentioned. (At the same time, ‘vernacular’ is difficult to translate into German, especially as the word volkstümlich has an unpleasant ring, not least due to the word’s usage by the Nazis.) What can ‘vernacular’ still mean today, after a century of modernism, a century of urbanisation, a century of concrete being available everywhere? It can only be a memory, according to Chipperfield, who based his early River & Rowing Museum in Henle-on-Thames, begun in 1989, on the silhouette of the boathouses and barns there – understandably, as the museum’s collection included the long hulls kept in the boathouses. And yet we see more than a nod to local forms and common materials in the wood panelling of the building. The fact that the museum building had to be placed on a ground sill elevated on concrete supports to protect it from flood waters, and is reached by stairs, made it the kind of museum temple that Schinkel so emphatically illustrated with his design of the Altes Museum.
Chipperfield has all sorts of materials at his disposal: concrete, metal, glass, brick and wood. Nothing is prejudged ‘high’ or ‘low’. His extension to the cemetery on the island of San Michele in Venice is an example. The new tomb walls are executed in concrete – exposed, of course, and very much in contrast to the marble cladding that has been common in Italy since time immemorial. Perhaps concrete – because of its all but unlimited plasticity – is the architect’s favourite material. Especially since concrete can be formed and joined like ancient stone slabs, as in the Neues Museum. The antithesis of such tectonics – and Chipperfield unites a number of apparent antitheses in his work – can be seen in Wakefield in West Yorkshire, northern England. The Hepworth Wakefield, which is dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, who was born there, is composed of a group of irregularly formed, angular building blocks that have been forced together into a highly serrated whole, with roofs of different heights that slope in different directions. The building sits on a promontory in the middle of the River Calder, which on one side plunges over a weir to dramatic effect. It is a highly sculptural building, suited to the artist it honours, who is considered one of the protagonists of modernism in the conservative Britain of the inter-war period. Anyone looking at the buildings in this city, hit hard by the de-industrialisation of the north, can imagine what it means to create such a masterpiece of design and execution. Much the same could be said of Margate in the south of England, where a gallery, Turner Contemporary, marks a turning point in the prolonged death throes of a once loved seaside resort.
Why museums and galleries again and again? Chipperfield is not a museum architect but rather the architect of several museums, which represent a relatively small part of his work. Museums have, however, become a sought-after commission today, because, having long since been liberated of their traditional formal idiom of the classical and sublime, they offer great latitude to the architect’s creative imagination. At the same time, museums are points of crystallisation for society, buildings in which the self-image of a place can be expressed. Discussions about such building projects proceed accordingly – at least in Germany, where the economic agendas for building a museum play a more limited role compared to elsewhere.
Architecture is an intellectual activity, and design has to be preceded by thinking. ‘What I find really great about Germany is the way debates are held here. I know of no other country in which people debate and argue with such intensity and on such a high intellectual level,’ said Chipperfield, looking back over more than twelve years working on the Neues Museum with the many, many people involved. It is difficult to imagine a better compliment for what was in truth at times a bitter debate over this building project in particular, and over the approach to historical heritage in general. It is, like all compliments, perhaps too flattering. If we take it with a pinch of salt, however, it proves to have an honest core that architecture would benefit from considering. To paraphrase Chipperfield’s words, it is not primarily about buildings but about attitudes towards life. It is about the role that architecture can play therein.
By Bernhard Schulz
David Chipperfield Architects (2013)
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All the electric bikes need to have the best braking system to keep them safe for all users. With this quality E-bike, you are assured of a safe ride thanks to the front and rear disk brakes. This makes it easier to stop the bike even when at a higher speed. Besides this, the bike also lasts for years due to the high-strength carbon steel used in the construction. This makes it a great investment for anyone looking for the best electric bike.
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The LT or long travel line that Haibike is one of the most interesting developments in electric mountain biking in quite some time. I’ve chosen the FullSeven LT 4.0 because I wanted to show you another quality, low-cost option. The FullSeven line is built a little less aggressively than the AllMtn series, but still functions as a great all-around mountain bike for those riders who want to hit fire roads, and maybe the occasional single-track trail. The coolest thing about the LT line is that it costs exactly the same as the standard FullSeven line that comes with 120mm of travel. You can upgrade to 150mm on any FullSeven bike for no extra cost.
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This was a problem that Schiltknect pondered constantly and tinkered with. Electric hub-motors are becoming widely used, but he considered them out of the question because…as a professional electrical engineer, he knew that the lower RPMs of the hubs were not the most efficient way to power any machine, and they were also noticeably heavy. For an E-mountain bike, he knew he wanted high efficiency and minimum weight.
The HITHOT H1 from Addmotor is the second bike in this list. It is cheaper than the Cyrusher XF800 because its motor and battery are less powerful but the bike, in no way, lacks in quality. Considering the price and quality of the components, Addmotor has done an amazing job. Riding this bike is fun and playful, and it will match the expectations of every budget shopper.
Prodeco V5 Phantom X Lite 9 Speed Folding Electric Bicycle is a lightweight and well-balanced bike that is suitable for all adventurers, campers, and sports enthusiasts. It gives an outstanding and smooth performance with a 300-watt motor. It is an eye-catching bike that looks fabulous in black color. Plus, you can carry it with you by simply folding it.
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Electric bicycles offer the same great benefits as traditional bicycles and remove many of the roadblocks and challenges that people face with traditional pedal-powered bikes. With help of an electric motor you can get where you need to be faster, climb hills effortlessly and significantly reduce your carbon footprint. Also e-bikes don’t require registration, license plates, or insurance. So how come the electric bikes are have not taken over the world by now? The real problem—even now that e-bikes have been available for years—is cost.
How Do Pedal Assist E Bikes Work
It is important to note that the less power you use while riding your e-bike, the longer the battery will last, makes sense right? All of the pedal-assist drive units we tested also have smartphone apps that can be used to customize your support settings and such changes may allow for more or less range on your electric mountain bike. Specialized's Mission Control app has a feature that lets you set a predetermined route, and the app then regulates the motor's support to ensure power lasts to finish your ride.
With different degrees of assistance at your fingertips, riders of varying fitness levels are easily accommodated on the same ride too. Which, depending on who’s setting the pace, can bring a social aspect back to big days out, because you can all ride together and the assistance from the motor makes it that much easier to string a coherent sentence together even on the steepest climbs.
Ego 26” bike is perfect for everyday commute. It features a 500W motor with 10AH lithium-ion battery. The E-go 26″ allows up to 20 miles with a speed up to 20 MPH. The design has a large display for speed and distance, as well as the battery life. Built with an aluminum frame with built-in battery, seat post suspension and Shimano gears. This bike is really one of the best cheap electric bikes on the market.
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The Ghost SL AMR scored relatively well in this metric, with a small digital display mounted by the stem. Both the Rocky Mountain Instinct Powerplay and the Giant Trance E+ 2 Pro fell short of the bar set by the competition with their all-in-one shifter/display units. The Giant outperforms the Rocky Mountain here, but both attempts at LED displays integrated into the control unit are more challenging to read than digital displays.
As with anything, there is still room for improvement. There is no handlebar mounted digital display, and the only way to tell your speed is to mount a phone or bike computer to the bars. Specialized has changed the location of their battery charge and output mode display, however, which is now conveniently located on the top tube where you can see it while riding. The new motor is an improvement over the previous, but it still lags a little in engagement compared to the competition and the climbing performance is hampered by the drive unit's slightly more abrupt cutoff. Overall though, the Specialized still proved to be the test team's favorite for its versatility and well-rounded performance. We loved it, and we think you will too.
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Electric bikes in the UK tend to come with either Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) or Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries. In China, on the other hand, lead acid batteries are still the most common ones used. In 2014 – according to the China Bicycle Association / IdTechEx – 35 million eBikes were sold on the Chinese market, and just 2.8 million of them had lithium battery.
He put in countless hours of work designing the drive system, motor, and controller. One challenge was addressing how the high motor torque would affect the ultra-light frame he chose, a Scott Scale made from carbon-fiber which was outfitted with the lightest components available on the market. Schiltnecht named his creation the Montanara Volta (Volted Mountaineer), and it weighed in at an incredibly light 7.66 kilograms…including a 240 watt-hour battery.
It’s important to note that because this is an electric bike, not all trails are legally accessible. You’ll need to check with the federal, state, or local land management agency in charge of the trails you want to ride to see if it’s possible. You may also face some resistance from holier-than-though cyclist types. Those guys are best avoided anyway, and the glowing LEDs on the down tube should at least help you identify them quicker.
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There's much less of a sensation of the Electrified S2 'fighting back' once you hit 15.5mph, as well. That's helped by the automatic 2-speed gear box, although this does take some getting used to. Because its cogs are very different sizes you can end up with all sorts of cadence problems as it auto-shifts from high back to low. With practice you can avoid this, or of course you could in theory fit a second cog that's closer in size to the first.
The Trek Powerfly's Bosch Purion shifter and display unit was easy to read and had a bright screen, but was in a less visible location on the left side of the handlebar. The Bulls E-Stream has a similar system to the Trek, but with better button ergonomics and more information available on the display on separate screens. Our Editor's Choice Award winner, the Specialized Turbo Levo Comp scored the lowest in this rating due to the lack of a handlebar mounted display and a less user-friendly charging connection.
Swagtron Swagcycle folding electric bike is a commuter’s dream bike. It has three riding modes: throttle only, pedaling mode and the assisted mode. This foldable electric bike has a 36V Li-ion battery. With a single charge of the battery, you can reach 18 miles. If you go out of the battery power, it can easily be recharged in 3-4 hours. Need to mention one of it’s best options that this bike is foldable. This bike looks great and rides even better.
Sharonerd- it depends really on what electric kit you are looking at. At my shop, we encourage customers to invest in the more expensive and higher quality products that will and do last longer than lower quality lower priced products because they are simply made with better materials. The comments above that talk about 3 years on kit do tend to be the lower quality kit's life spans and even if you maintain them, the sad truth is that after 3 years, the company's reselling the lower quality product tend to not be around any more to enable you to invest in a new battery. Or the product itself has been sunseted and no spare parts are around. This can be true of the higher priced products too, but more so on the lower end.
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In addition to this, it is easier to transport and store. It has a foldable design and with the lightweight design, you will find it more reliable. Other than this, the bike also features the Shimano 7-speed transmission system, which makes it elementary to shift the speed. The two-mode bike can function as an assisted bike and electric bike at the same time. It provides a longer runtime due to the 36V 8Ah lithium-ion battery.
Bosch’s flagship mountain bike system uses a mini drive ring with internal gearing to send its power to the drivetrain. There’s some resistance in the system over 25km/h, but when you first press down on the pedals there’s an impressive surge of power, and it offers good support over a wide cadence range. Its size has an impact on the width of the cranks (the Q-factor) as well as the chainstay length of the frame, and it’s not the lightest system on the market at 4kg for the motor. On the other hand, Bosch is the most established player on the market, and its system has proven itself over many years.
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The 250W e-bike is very powerful and able to deliver a speed of 25 km/h. With this, you will find it great for riding long distances. Other than this, it also has an 8Ah battery, which guarantees a longer runtime. It features a powerful headlight that makes the bike great for night riding. Lastly, the ergonomic bike is very safe due to the efficient braking system.
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Even with cheaper or heavier bikes, once you accept that you are really meant to pedal gently and let the motor do the work, non-speed freaks will get into it. E-bikes are great for commuting and for places that aren't pancake flat. They'll pull you away from the lights quickly, iron out hills and stop you getting sweaty, so you can bin the Lycra and ride in jeans, a suit, or a winter coat.
What Is The Best Electric Bicycle On The Market
Besides the fact that Ghost is indeed a very good bike, there is one huge reason that we decided to add it to this list and that is customer support. Guys at Ride1Up are awesome and really passionate about their brand and what they are doing, so you can be sure that they will be there for you to provide all the assistance you need with your Ride1Up bike, and answer all the questions you have. And the orders ship almost overnight, which means there is no months of waiting for your bike to arrive, as it’s often the case with some other manufacturers. If you are not looking just for the cheapest option, but you want real value for your money this is THE bike to buy for less than $1000. And we also recommend that you take a look at other bikes from Ride1Up lineup as well.
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The final appearance of both the FullSeven and the Yamaha PW-X on the countdown. This top notch 27.5″ wheeled shred sled is another perfect fire road rider for the intermediate rider looking to step their game up. One thing I didn’t mention before but I wanted to let you all know is that I think the FullSeven geometry this year allows the bikes to be more accessible to riders of all sizes. Traditionally, most companies offer one or two options for female riders. Haibike does offer the FullLife models, but the FullSeven series by and large offers better components and a very similar geometry. I think that’s great.
Do You Need A License To Ride An Electric Bike
Mountain biking is all about having fun, right? About getting out there, enjoying the great outdoors, exercising your body and freeing your mind. So what if we told you there was a type of bike that lets you ride further, faster, and have even more fun? One that even made you LOL on the climbs? You’d still have to work for your rewards, but by assisting your efforts, it allowed you to wring every little drop of enjoyment out of your rides.
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Achesin electric mountain bike is designed with an ergonomic design that makes it very stable and easy to ride. Like most of the mountain bikes, this one is built with a good double-layered aluminum alloy wheel which makes it easy to maneuver, lightweight and durable. With its powerful motor and battery system, you can easily cover between 25 to 50 kilometers depending on the nature of the terrain.
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Not the best bike but good for what it is. 250watt. not enough power even for small hills on its own and does not do 15/hr even on flat ground. battery looses power when cold but still works. Over all so far, dispite the above I give it 4 stars because it is what you would excpect in a cheap bike and it does work. There is no braket for the headlight tho so be warned you will have to improvise on that.
Do Electric Bikes Need A Licence
Key to Ebike success is that it rides like a bike first and foremost. You ride it like it was meant to be ridden, impressive. I started riding an ebike (Levo) about 6 months ago (although nowhere near your skill level) and have never ridden so much during the week, enjoyed every ride so much and looked so forward to rides as I currently do. Great Vids mate, keep it up!
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The bike looks a no different than a regular mountain bike. The 36 V, 8Ah Li-Ion battery is very cleverly designed and disguised as a thermos, so you will not be able to tell whether this is an e-bicycle or a regular one unless you get really close. It is very nicely build, and pretty sturdy; the frame is 100% alloy and the front fork is made with high-grade carbon steel. The bike itself weighs about 45 lbs.
With most ebikes the choice of motor defines aspects of the frame geometry and to a lesser degree the suspension characteristics of the bike. Not with new Rock Mountain Altitude Powerplay. With its bespoke motor Rocky has been able to design an ebike that reflects the ride quality of a highly evolved 150mm trail bike. With instant power pickup, extended battery life and streamline proportions it’s not just the handling of the Rocky that will get you charged up for riding. It’s the best bike in this test by some margin, but we had an issue with the motor momentarily cutting and raising questions over it’s reliability.
What Are The Classes Of E Bikes
X-Treme Scooters Folding Electric Mountain E-Bike offers a comfortable ride with front and rear suspension. It is an ideal bike for the college students, campers, and anyone who wants a portable and lightweight mode of transportation. This E-bike works on a motor of 300 watts. The best thing about this bike is it allows you to fold it after reaching the destination. It gives you a speed of about 20 mph with a 7-speed Shimano tourney gears. You can adjust the seat according to your ease.
Jan, I disagree with your carry as a prime reason/not be looking at e bikes. My primary reason for an e assist is age and medical problems. Carting a heavy bike around, trying to lift it onto a vehicle would not work, and riding from home is not a possibility. I know there are light-weight e bikes out there. Price, within reason, is not a big concern. Need a 2018 update. E bikes are common in Europe, will eventually be more mainstream in the US.
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The major reason I want a lightweight e-bike is so that I can largely ride it as a regular bike and only occasionally use the assist and so that I won’t notice quite so much when the battery runs out of juice going up a hill. Other reasons I want a lightweight e-bike: so that I can easily lift it onto the bus bike rack; so that I can hang the front tire on the bike hooks in our light rail trains; so that I can put it on a car rack; so that I can occasionally carry it up stairs.
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Ito Jakuchu
“Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Ito Jakuchu”
by Yukio Lippit (Author), Shirono Seiji (Photographer), Ota Aya (Contributor), Oka Yasuhiro (Contributor), Hayakawa Yasuhiro (Contributor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; Second Printing edition (April 15, 2012)
Dimensions: 9.6 x 1 x 11 inches
Description: A much-anticipated harbinger of spring, the cherry blossom is also exemplary of the Japanese artistic aesthetic a delight in simple, natural beauty and an attentiveness to the changing seasons. Spring 2012 will mark the centennial of Japan’s gift of three thousand cherry trees to Washington, DC, and this sumptuously illustrated catalogue is the companion to a celebratory exhibition at the National Gallery of Art featuring the work of Ito Jakuchu.Jakuchu (1716–1800), a wealthy wholesaler and talented painter, is, in Japan, the most recognized artist of the premodern era. His thirty-scroll set of bird-and-flower paintings titled Colorful Realm of Living Beings is a renowned cultural treasure, one of the most beautiful and skilled examples of how the natural world is depicted and symbolized in Japanese art. Presenting gorgeous flora and fauna in meticulous detail, the scrolls are reunited here with Jakuchu’s triptych of the Buddha Sakyamuni
Paul Binnie
“Paul Binnie: A Dialogue with the Past”
The First 100 Japanese Prints
Eric van den Ing
In this ground breaking book the career and work of contemporary woodblock print artist Paul Binnie (b.1967) is presented. Binnie’s complete Japanese prints are illustrated in colour and many other reference photographs are provided as well, ensuring that the reader is given an insight into his working methods and his sources of inspiration. The in-depth essay provide the context of the more than 100 prints Binnie has made to date. An indispensable book for all those interested in 20th century Japanese woodblock prints and the very newest prints being created today.
The Female Image
“The Female Image - 20th Century Japanese Prints of Japanese Beauties”
Shinji Hamanaka and Amy Reigle Newland
Published by Hotei Publishing, 2000.
216 pp. 280 color illustrations.
Hardback, 9 x 12 in.
The female image is a comprehensive survey of the genre of bijinga (‘prints of beautiful women’) produced in the Shin hanga tradition that evolved in the early 20th century. This bilingual (Japanese/English) publication is lavishly illustrated with works from Japanese, European and American public and private collections. Prints by major artists such as Hashiguchi Goyo (1880-1921), Torii Kotondo (1900-76) and Ito Shinsui (1898-1972) are included, as are examples from more obscure print designers which have rarely been reproduced.
Designed for Pleasure
“Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860”
Editors: Julia Meech and Jane Oliver
Publisher: Asia Society/Japanese Art Society of America/ University of Washington Press, April 2008
Price: $375 plus postage
Designed for Pleasure brings together paintings, prints, and illustrated books featuring images known as ukiyo-e, or pictures of the floating world. The carefully selected images present the principals of that realm—the actor, the artist, the courtesan, the poet, the publisher, the patron—and they also reveal the confluences and contradictions in a time of enormous social, cultural, and economic change in Japan.
This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo (modern Tokyo) during the period between 1680 and 1860, when Japan transformed itself from an agrarian to a booming commercial economy. By 1710, Edo was the largest city in the world, with a population of over a million. We know so much about this time in part because of the vast body of imagery created and treasured by succeeding generations. The artists and writers held a looking glass up to their heady world and, in the process, to themselves. Fads and fashions proliferated, and this highly literate, consumer-driven society insisted on being up to date. Innovative color printing techniques fed the demand for ever-new information.
Print publishers, mindful of a business opportunity, also responded to the clamor for representations of the public’s cherished heroes. Their stables of artists not only produced mass-market prints and books, but used their connections in the literary salons of the day to secure commissions from the wealthy and elite for luxury paintings and printed works.
Building on the existing body of ukiyo-e scholarship, a team of renowned experts presents a new perspective and an expanded view of the visual culture of Edo Japan and the way in which art became more accessible to a new class beyond the ruling elite. The volume authors showcase individuals—adding to the already substantial scholarship on Hokusai, Hiroshige, and Utamaro—including the father of ukiyo-e, Hishikawa Moronobu; the artist and publisher Okumura Masanobu; the color innovator Suzuki Harunobu; the master publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo; and the brilliant painter Katsukawa Shunsho. Rather than focus on one artist, one school, or one artistic medium, Designed for Pleasure presents the best of ukiyo-e, in their three primary manifestations: paintings, prints, and illustrated books.
Julia Meech is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan and the editor of Impressions, the journal of the Japanese Art Society of America. Jane Oliver is an editor and consultant in Asian art. Other contributors include John T. Carpenter, Timothy Clark, Julie Nelson Davis, Allen Hockley, Donald Jenkins, David Pollack, Sarah E. Thompson, and David Waterhouse.
“Daniel Kelly: An American Artist in Japan”
by Daniel Kelly
Foreword by Banana Yoshimoto
Commentary by Hollis Goodall
Kyoto-based artist Daniel Kelly has won international renown for his portrayal of Japanese themes in arrestingly unconventional forms. His paintings and prints of people, fish, paper lanterns, and landscapes are noteworthy for their innovative textures and materials, and for their physical impact-from some of the largest woodblock prints in Japan to “wall sculptures” that seem ready to explode from the wall on which they hang. His work has attracted the attention of leading art museums around the world and is held by a variety of prestigious institutions including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the British Museum.
Daniel Kelly: An American Artist In Japan chronicles Kelly’s journey as an artist from his arrival in Kyoto in the late 1970s to the present day.
Full-page, full-color reproductions of eighty-five of his most important works from this period are accompanied by a comprehensive, illustrated catalogue raisonne of all his editioned prints from 1977 to 2009, making this volume a must-have for collectors, students, and anyone with an interest in portrayals of Japan through contemporary art.
Size: 280×228 mm, 990 g
Pages: 128 full color, 86 color plates of selected works.
“Tom Wesselmann The Late Prints: Still Life, Nude, Landscape”
Exhibition catalogue, November 2013
Text by Marco Livingstone
A 60 page catalogue with 25 full colour illustrations, full print documentation and biography
Published by Alan Cristea Gallery, 2013
Will Barnet
“Will Barnet: A Catalogue Raisonne 1931–2005 - Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts, Serigraphs”
by Joann Moser
8 x 9.5 in.
223 Illustrations
Intro by Joann Moser, acknowledgments by Will Barnett, ix, (3), 92 pp., photo frontis in color of Barnett, 223 ills.(much color), alphabetical index of prints, 8vo., folded wraps.
Price: $125 - Hardcover, $95 - Softcover
Mikio Watanabe
“Mikio Watanabe Maniere Noire 1998-2005 / Catalogue Raisonne II – Deluxe Edition with the mezzotint Aise”
The Deluxe Edition covers Mikio Watanabe’s work from 1998-2005, text in English, French and Japanese with Gilbert Lescaulx.
Hard cover book showing 261 prints executed between 1998 and 2005.
Detailed description of the mezzotint process and comments about the artist’s work.
In French, Japanese and English.
Includes the mezzotint Aise.
Boxed, with rice paper book jacket.
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“Mikio Watanabe Maniere Noire 1998-2005 (Catalogue Raisonne II) – Deluxe Edition with the mezzotints Recontre and Pensee”
The Deluxe Edition covers Mikio Watanabes’s work from 1998-2005, text in English, French and Japanese with Gilbert Lescaulx.
Includes the mezzotints Pensee and Recontre.
Silk covered box and hand made paper book jacket with embossing.
6.75 x 4.875 in.
Robert Kipniss
“Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950 - 1964”
by Marshall Price (Author), Robin Magowan (Author), Robert Kipniss (Artist)
12.3 x 10.5 x 0.9 inches
Published by The Artist Book Foundation (November 30, 2013)
Marshall N. Price is curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Academy Museum, New York. Award-winning poet Robin Magowan is based in Santa Fe. Among his numerous books are a travel collection, an autobiography, and volumes of poetry.
Price: $75 autographed + $12.95 shipping and handling
“Robert Kipniss – A Working Artist’s Life”
by Robert Kipniss
Price: $50 autographed + $7.95 shipping.
“Robert Kipniss Intaglios 1982 – 2004”
Intro and documentation by Trudie A. Grace, essay by Thomas Piche Jr.
Published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2004.
183 pages, 156 color illustrations.
Price: $60, Signed: $100
Robert Kipniss has been widely known for several decades as a painter and printmaker producing works evocative of intense contemplation and rendered with extraordinary technical facility. Part of Kipniss’s reputation lies in his frequent use of the mezzotint technique in a highly personal manner that involves showing the action of the hand in the intimate act of drawing. While his choices of subject matter-landscapes, views of houses, and still lifes-link him to representational art, Kipniss’s distillation of forms produces formal interactions that often verge on the abstract.
Robert Kipniss: Intaglios 1982-2004 reproduces 139 intaglio prints including mezzotints, drypoints, roulette prints, and etchings. Hand colored mezzotints, drawings, and paintings are also illustrated. Kipniss’s intaglios are found in many of the foremost public and private collections in the United States and Europe.
Thomas Piché, Jr., is former senior curator at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Dr. Trudie A. Grace, former associate curator of the National Academy of Design, New York City, is curator of the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum, Cold Spring, New York and lectures on art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
“Robert Kipniss: Intaglios 1982-2004; Deluxe Edition”
183 pages, 156 color illustrations in cloth slipcase with embossed title in both the slipcase and binding.
Hardbound deluxe edition with two artist signed prints; Interior w/mountain, 2004 and Nocturne w/six trees, 2004, created specifically for this edition.
Deluxe edition size: 150 + 25 artist proofs
Signed and numbered.
“Interior with mountain”
“Nocturne w/ six trees”
“Robert Kipniss Paintings 1950 – 2005”
Forward by: E. John Bullard, essay by Richard J. Boyle.
This stunning monograph of the paintings of Robert Kipniss is the culmination of nearly forty years work. His paintings, like his print work, are evocative of intense contemplation and rendered with extraordinary techincal facility. While Kipniss’s choice of subject matter varies from landscape to still life to a mixture of structures and natural forms they all share a sense of mystery, grace and quiet solitude. Although linked to representational art, Kipniss’s paintings produce formal interactions that often verge on the abstract. His work can be found in major collections in the United States and Europe.
“Robert Kipniss: Paintings 1950 – 2005; Deluxe Edition”
Foreword by: E. John Bullard, essay by Richard J. Boyle.
148 pages, 102 color illustrations, cloth cover in slipcase with embossed title in both the slip case and binding.
Deluxe edition with one artist signed print; Silver Morning, 2007, created specifically for this edition.
Deluxe edition size: 300 signed and numbered copies + 25 artist proofs. Signed and numbered.
“Silver Morning”
6 3/8 x 4 1/2 in.
“A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
In 1981, Robert Kipniss was asked to illustrate a bi-lingual publication of the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke by C.F. MacIntyre. The result was the beautiful suite of ten black and white lithographic prints, bound into the limited edition of 2000 copies, published by The Limited Edition Club. The effect is described by Dr. Karl Lunde in his book, Kipniss: The Graphic Works; i.e. In these lithographs the artist makes tangible the elegiac poetry of the piercing beauty of landscape when experienced alone, and holds it in poignant solitude for our contemplation…Kipniss’s prints represent the emergence of purity and wonder. These poetic landscapes and objects are dreams which lead us to discover the special unity of man and nature.
In the artistry of Robert Kipniss and Rainer Maria Rilke, man’s relation to the universal is a vital concern, though one expresses himself in the written work and the other in a graphic medium that has no language but the universal. The ten lithographs that Kipniss has made for the Selected Poems of Rilke evolve from years of communion by the artist with Rilke’s poetry – specifically with his favorite translations, the MacIntyre versions. [1]
A rarely available, limited publication of boxed sets of A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, printed in colors, published concurrently with the limited edition of the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. These colored suites, published in 1981, inscribed and signed by the artist and boxed along with the associated poems by Rilke in an edition of 120 with 15 A.P.’s and 10 H.C.’s.
[1] The Monthly Letter of The Limited Edition Club, January 1981, Number 518.
“The Poems from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
“Lament from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithograph
Inscribed and signed
“Initiation from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
“The Neighbor from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Color Lithographs
each 2 3/8 x 3 in.
“Summer Rain from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
“A Woman's Fate from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
“The Parks from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
“Leda from A Suite of Ten Lithographs drawn by Robert Kipniss for the Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke”
Eight Parts Full: A Life in the Tokyo Art Trade A Memoir by Sakamoto Goro
Publisher: Japanese Art Society of America
Price: $75 plus postage
“Anita Klein - Through the Looking Glass”
A fully illustrated 120 page book with introductory essays by Molly Mackey and Vincent Eames.
Published to coincide with a groundbreaking solo show across two central London venues,
‘Through the Looking Glass‘ is a visual celebration of an artist’s life lived in two very different
cultures, and features over 70 full colour reproductions of Anita’s latest paintings and prints.
Published by Five Leaves with support from the Arts Council.
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Sia Hit Up Diplo For Some "No-Strings Sex" So It Wouldn't Ruin Their Business Relationship
2020-01-14 | Ping Daniele | EDM ARTIST
A new feature on Diplo in GQ published today revealed more about Diplo & Sia’s relationship than was previously known. The two collaborated along with Labrinth in 2019 on the super group LSD and their accompanying debut album, Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Present… LSD.
The feature included testimonials from many people close to Diplo or who’ve worked with him, including Sia.
“Much our relationship is just being spent trying not to have sex so that we wouldn’t ruin our business relationship because he’s super-duper hot,” Sia told GQ. “This year I wrote him a text, and I said, ‘Hey, listen, you’re like one five people that I’m sexually attracted to, and now that I’ve decided to be single for the rest my life and I just adopted a son, I don’t have time for a relationship .… If you’re interested in some no-strings sex, then hit me up.’”
We’re all for open and honest discourse on sexual relationships, and Sia definitely deserves props for shooting her shot and being upfront about boundaries. She didn’t reveal if Diplo took her up on the fer.
“He doesn’t think that he’s good enough at anything. He has crazy low self-esteem,” she continued, also calling him “the sweetest thing in the world” but “one the most insecure boys I’ve ever met.”
“It’s so interesting, because he’s one the most talented and attractive people in the world. But he doesn’t know it.”
You can read the full prile on Diplo here.
Ping Daniele
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Successful management of intractable cryptosporidial diarrhea with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue
Louis M. Weiss, Ora Burstein, Michael Landor, Larry Bernstein, Louis M. Weiss, Murray Wittner
A 38-year-old man with AIDS and intractable large-volume diarrhea due to a cryptosporidial infection was successfully treated with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue. The volume of diarrhea, 10-12 liters with 8-13 movements per day, was reduced to three to four semi-formed to formed stools per day when the patient was treated with 400 μg intravenous octreotide daily. The patient's intravenous hyperalimentation was discontinued and he returned to oral feeding. He quickly regained his normal weight and has now resumed his normal activites. For those patients who cannot tolerate subcutaneous administration, intravenous octreotide therapy may not only be life-saving but may also markedly increase the quality of life. Roxithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, was also administered to this patient with cryptosporidiosis but efficacy was not demonstrated.
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Weiss, L. M., Burstein, O., Landor, M., Bernstein, L., Weiss, L. M., & Wittner, M. (1991). Successful management of intractable cryptosporidial diarrhea with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue. AIDS, 5(6), 765-767.
Successful management of intractable cryptosporidial diarrhea with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue. / Weiss, Louis M.; Burstein, Ora; Landor, Michael; Bernstein, Larry; Weiss, Louis M.; Wittner, Murray.
In: AIDS, Vol. 5, No. 6, 06.1991, p. 765-767.
Weiss, LM, Burstein, O, Landor, M, Bernstein, L, Weiss, LM & Wittner, M 1991, 'Successful management of intractable cryptosporidial diarrhea with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue', AIDS, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 765-767.
Weiss LM, Burstein O, Landor M, Bernstein L, Weiss LM, Wittner M. Successful management of intractable cryptosporidial diarrhea with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue. AIDS. 1991 Jun;5(6):765-767.
Weiss, Louis M. ; Burstein, Ora ; Landor, Michael ; Bernstein, Larry ; Weiss, Louis M. ; Wittner, Murray. / Successful management of intractable cryptosporidial diarrhea with intravenous octreotide, a somatostatin analogue. In: AIDS. 1991 ; Vol. 5, No. 6. pp. 765-767.
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Path to St. Peter ad Vincula Part VII – F
Posted on March 14, 2015 by jodmcp
The fall of Anne Boleyn will never be fully understood or explained. Her descent appears to have happened so quickly as to baffle scholars and lay-people alike. Most likely it was the result of many factors that came to head all at once: the revenge of Cromwell for past slights, the political situation — both domestic and international — the religious circumstances and the disillusionment of King Henry.
Henry’s role in Anne’s demise, often described as that of an innocent victim–a righteous man who, when presented with the facts of his adulterous wife, follows the letter of the law and allows officialdom to prosecute her as appropriate. Rumors spread that there were spies in her household and that “the King hates the Queen, because she has not presented him with an heir to the realm, nor was there any prospect of her so doing” (Stevenson 1312). Henry, frustrated by a politically active, argumentative wife, saw Anne’s demise as the only way out. Divorce was not enough, nor was execution. Henry’s rage required both punishments inflicted on Anne along with the defamation of her character.
No rumor was considered too fanciful to believe. Stories circulated that the honor Anne had acquired to join the royal court in France stemmed from the fact that at “fifteen she sinned first with her father’s butler, and then with his chaplain, and forthwith was sent to France” (Sander 25). While in France, Anne was supposed to have been the lover of many couriers and “her conversation hath been so loose and base” (Harpsfield 253) and her behavior “so rank and common” (Friedmann 298) that understandably she was “audacious and licentious in the prosecution of her detestable and abominable vices” (Gairdner X 54).
There was no end to the implied and declared evils of Anne by the Spanish Ambassador, Eustace Chapuys. He claimed her to be a seductress and murderess, “whose importunate and malignant cravings are well known” (de Gayangos 1133). Convinced that Anne would try to poison Queen Katherine and Princess Mary, Chapuys reported that although the “Queen has no fears, but is marvelously concerned for the Princess” (Gairdner VI 351). Added to the speculation that Anne tried to murder members of the royal family, there was laid the charge of her role in the deaths of public figures. Bishop Fisher of Rochester and Sir Thomas More were “both inscribed on the black-list of the revengeful mistress, who never rested from her ill offices toward them, until their heads had fallen” (Herbert, Henry 171).
“Yet did not our King love her at first”(Herbert, Edward 285). Although Henry was touted as a hero of the Protestant cause and liberator of the English peoples, he also was blamed for how he “stained the purity of his action by intermingling with it a weak passion for a foolish and bad woman, and bitterly he had to suffer for his mistake” (Froude 324). “A long catalog of misdeeds had been registered…” It was puzzling to many that Henry did not realize Anne had “worn a mask so long” and never gave Henry “occasion for dissatisfaction. Incidents must have occurred in the details of daily life, if not to rouse his suspicions, yet to have let him see that the woman for whom he had fought so fierce a battle had never been worthy what she had cost him” (Froude 402).
These sentiments are very different from when Anne was at her heyday; yet, all was not as it seemed as observed by Jean du Bellay, Bishop of Bayonne, Ambassador from France on December 9, 1528. “I see they mean to accustom the people by degrees to endure her, so that when the great blow comes it may not be thought strange. However, the people remain quite hardened, and I think they would do more if they had more power; but great order is continually taken” (Brewer IV 5016).
Hence a severe ordinance was issued “against any that spoke ill of her; which shut people’s mouths when they knew what ought not to be concealed.” Anne could do as she pleased and “if perhaps taken with the love of some favored person, she could treat her friends according to her pleasure, owing to the ordinance. But that law could not secure to her lasting friendships, and the King daily cooled in his affection” (Gairdner X 1036). Therefore, with the King’s new policies and his actions, such as the execution of More, causing so much hostility toward Anne Boleyn, the Crown’s agents were kept busy trying to preserve public order and ensure the people would accept the new edicts. Records show several examples of the investigations into many reported violations. Although the punishments are not always documented, below are brief summaries of some of the charges against those of all stations of life.
In April of 1532 Charles Brandon’s kinsman, William Peninthum was assaulted and killed by the men in the service of the Duke of Norfolk. When Thomas Cromwell investigated it came to light that the root of the trouble came from “opprobrious language uttered against Madam Anne by his Majesty’s sister, the Duchess of Suffolk, Queen Dowager of France” (Brown IV 761).
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Mary, Dowager Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk.
Edward Earl of Derby and Sir Henry Farington wrote a letter to Henry VIII concerning the widespread discontent over his marriage to Anne Boleyn. The men informed Henry that they felt compelled to send a letter of the examinations they had made of various witnesses because of “the discharge of our duties” (Ellis 42). Sir Edward and Sir Farington “perceyve your graces pleasor is that a lewde and noghty priest inhabytyng in thise partyes, who hathe of late reported and spoken befor and in the audyence of certeyn persons sundry and diverse unfyttyng and sklaunderous words, aswell by your Highnes as by the Quenes grace” (Ellis 42). They assured Henry that they “have called befor us suche persons whose names and dsposicions hereafter do enue; and the same persons did examyn upon ther othes at Ley in the Countie of Lancaster” (Ellis 43).
In 1533 a Warwickshire priest called Anne “a harlot and maintainer of heretics” and expressed the hope that “she would be burned at Smithfield” (Haigh 141).
Evidently, in Lancashire, when Sir Richard Clerke, a vicar at Leigh, read out the proclamation declaring Katherine of Aragon as Princess Dowager, “Sir Jamys Harrison priest hering the said proclamacion, said that Quene Katharyn was Quene, And that Nan Bullen whuld not be Quene, nor the King to be no King but on his bering” (Ellis 43). Substantiated by many witnesses, a more strongly worded exclamation was related that “Sir Jamys said I will take non for Quene but Quene Katharin; who the devell made Nan Bullen that hoore Quene, for I will never take her for Quene, and the King on his bering” (Ellis 44).
Katharine of Aragon
A scuffle between an ostler of the White Horse in Cambridge with a customer, Henry Kilby, in May of 1534 did not go unnoticed by the authorities. During a discussion over the religious changes occurring in the country, the inn worker declared that “this business had never been if the king had not married Anne Boleyn” (Wilson). He was duly reported after blows were exchanged between the two men.
Sir Walter Stonor described, in a letter to Master Secretary Cromwell, the affidavit presented by John Dawson of Watlyngton in June of 1534. Dawson and a William Goode, the constable, documented a conversation which took place between Mrs. Burgyn of Watlington in Oxfordshire and her midwife, Joan Hammulden. It was alleged that while in labor Burgyn praised Hammulden by saying that “for her honesty and cunning … she might be midwife to the Queen of England, if it were Queen Catherine, and if it were Queen Anne she was too good to be her midwife, for she was a whore and a harlot for her living” (Elton 279). Mrs. Burgyn counter claimed that Joan replied that “it was never merry in England since there was three queens in it and …there would be fewer shortly” (Gairdner VII 840).
On 20 August 1535, the high constable of South Brent, John Gillinge, and John Buckett informed Thomas Clerk and William Vowell that “David Leonard, hooper, an Irishman, had said, ‘God save king Henry and queen Katharine his wedded wife, and Anne at his pleasure, for whom all England shall rue” (Gairdner IX 136).
In 1535, Margaret Chaunseler (of Suffolk) earned notoriety by calling Queen Anne “a goggle-eyed whore” (Elton 137) and a lay brother of Roche Abbey thought that Anne was not the queen but ‘Anne the bawd’ (Haigh 141).
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No slander was deemed too outrageous to be believed. As Chapuys succinctly said to his emperor, “These things are monstrous and difficult to believe yet, the obstinacy of the King and malice of this cursed woman everything may be apprehended” (Gairdner VII 726). While not prosecuted in any way, Eustace Chapuys continued his diplomatic campaigned against Anne. In May 1536, he wrote to Monseigneur de Granvelle describing Anne as “the English Messalina, or Agrippina” (Gairdner X 54). For an interesting article on Agrippina see Romm, James. “The Woman Who Would Rule Rome.” History Today 64.4 (2014): 10-16. Print. Meanwhile, all the time Anne was being protected against these raucous mutterings, her descent was in progress. Many at Court were watching and waiting.
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Burundians are one of the communities with which RET has worked for since inception. The economic, social and ethnic conflicts, which the country has experienced since the 1970s, have displaced hundreds of thousands of people and rendered a whole generation of young people vulnerable. It was in 2002, already 13 years ago, that RET established its first project in Tanzania a country that had received a great number of Burundian refugees.
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Education in Haiti
Education standards in Haiti are extremely low. [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles/Haiti.pdf Haiti country profile] . Library of Congress Federal Research Division (May 2006). "This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain."] Haiti’s literacy rate of about 53 percent (55 percent for males and 51 percent for females) falls well below the 90 percent average literacy rate for Latin American and Caribbean countries. Under President Aristide, some improvements have been made. In 1997 the government passed a 10-year education plan, with the goal of universal access to quality schools. The national education budget increased from 9 percent of the national budget in 1997 to 22 percent in 2000, which paid for programs to provide school lunches, uniforms, and bus transportation. Additionally, in 2002 the government began a literacy campaign, facilitated by 30,000 literacy monitors and the distribution of 700,000 literacy manuals. Overall, school attendance rose from 20 percent in 1994 to 64 percent in 2000. Even with these improvements, however, the country still faces severe shortages in educational supplies and qualified teachers, and the rural population remains vastly underrepresented in the country’s classrooms. Currently, most Haitian schools are private rather than state-funded. International private schools (run by Canada, France, or the United States) and church-run schools educate 90 percent of students.
Haiti counts 15,200 primary schools, of which 90% are non-public and managed by the communities, religious organizations or NGOs. [cite news | title=Education: Overview | url =http://www.usaid.gov/ht/education.htm | work =United States Agency for International Development | accessdate = 2007-11-15] The enrollment rate for primary school is 67%, of which less than 30% reach 6th grade. Secondary schools enroll 20% of eligible-age children.
The educational system of Haiti is based on the French system. Higher education is provided by universities and other public and private institutions. It is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Education in Haiti; Primary Education | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.buildingwithbooks.org/intra/Intl_Programs/profile_Haiti.html | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-11-15 | language = ]
A list of universities in Haiti includes:
*Université Caraïbe (CUC)
*Université d'État d'Haïti (UEH)
*Université Notre Dame d'Haïti (UNDH)
*"Université Chrétienne du Nord d'Haïti" (UCNH)
*"Université Lumière" / MEBSH
*"Université Quisqueya" (UNIQ)
*"Université Roi Henri Christophe"
*"Université Publique de l'Artibonite aux Gonaïves" (UPAG)
*"Université Publique du Nord au Cap-Haïtien" (UPNCH)
*"Université Publique du Sud au Cayes" (UPSAC)
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Haiti — Republic of Haiti République d Haïti (French) Repiblik Ayiti … Wikipedia
Haiti — Haïti Repiblik Ayiti (ht) République d Haïti (fr) … Wikipédia en Français
HAÏTI — L’île d’Haïti ou Ayti – son nom indigène – occupe après Cuba la deuxième place par sa superficie (76 484 km2) dans les Caraïbes insulaires. Habitée par les indigènes taino, elle fut dévastée par les conquistadores espagnols après la «découverte»… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Haiti — • An island of the Greater Antilles Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Haiti Haiti † C … Catholic encyclopedia
Education in the United States — of America U.S. Department of Education Secretary Deputy Secretary Arne Duncan Anthony Miller … Wikipedia
Education in Cuba — National education budget (2002) Budget $2752 million CP ($246 CP per capita)[1] General Details Primary Languages Spanish … Wikipedia
Haiti — /hay tee/, n. 1. Formerly, Hayti. a republic in the West Indies occupying the W part of the island of Hispaniola. 6,611,407; 10,714 sq. mi. (27,750 sq. km). Cap.: Port au Prince. 2. Also, Hayti. a former name of Hispaniola. * * * Haiti… … Universalium
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Modern Yurt by Zach Both
This Modern Yurt is a project designed by Zach Both. “Tell someone you?re building a yurt and half the time you?ll watch as a look of confusion washes over their face. ?What?s a yurt"!? they?ll often reply. Despite my inclination to tell people to imagine a wood-framed circus tent, the yurt is actually a unique structure with a rich history that stretches back thousands of years. The yurt has been altered and adapted in many ways since its earliest invention, but the basic principles have stayed the same.” Photography by Bryan Aulick.
“There is some debate about what is considered a yurt and what is not. The definition I?ve developed is a circular structure that consists of lattice walls and a roof built with rafters that adjoin to a center ring. This definition is inclusive of ancient yurts built 2000 years ago and many modern yurts being produced today. There are structures that may be confused for a yurt but do not fit within this definition. I would consider these buildings ?yurt-inspired,? and they often already have a name of their own. Am I going to call out everyone who makes this common mistake" Not likely. But let?s celebrate what these different structures actually are instead of throwing them all into one bin labeled” ?yurts.? The post Modern Yurt by Zach Both appeared first on MyHouseIdea.
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Analyzing Social Aspect of Fertility, Regional Fertility Differentials and Challenges to Effective Population Control Mechanism in Africa
Autor: Mikki • January 8, 2018 • 1,835 Words (8 Pages) • 157 Views
Religious factor; One of the population policy recommendations in Africa is the increased use of family planning methods in order to help control the population; but it is worth noting that various religious bodies majorly the Catholic Church has been criticizing the modern contraception as not recommended and against religious doctrine. Due to this religious teachings, majority of the followers are not practicing family planning methods, hence, subjects population policymakers into a greater challenge to effective population control given that family planning especially contraception has been given a rule of thumb by various government in Africa as one of the appropriate way of population control mechanism.
National Population Agencies in Africa are not effective to promptly deal with population problems. According to National Population Council in Ghana (1994), some twenty- five years after National Population Policy was first promulgated, the country’s population growth still remain at an unacceptably high level, and the population factor continues to act as a serious impediment to the country match towards economic modernization, sustainable development and eradication of poverty. There is need for a political organization, especially international or local agencies which are effective that would work towards coordination of activities towards population growth. There is need for fertility oriented population policies if they are to yield.
Maternal and Child Health; According to WHO (2006), while the main thrust of strategies in the area of MCH in almost all Africa countries is to reduce high infant mortality, childhood and maternal morbidity and mortality rates especially in the rural and sub-urban area, using the most cost-effective strategies within the context of the Primary Healthcare Programmes, incidences of child or infant mortality still persist. Hence high mortality rate is countered by high fertility in this particular context. To reduce chances of infant mortality rate in Africa so that effective population control mechanism to be realized, safe motherhood programmes should be expanded and implemented to help reduce the incidence of high risk births and also to intensify effort to raise the educational level of females through both formal and non-formal means to help reduce mortality rate.
Socio-economic factors as a challenge to effective Population Control mechanisms. Low income level in a given society affects access to healthcare facilities hence this can increase mortality rate among different ages. The existence of poverty and famine among different population also affects population control policies formulation because; they trigger immigration and emigration from one region to another. Famine also cause malnutrition among different population hence leads to high mortality rates. In order for effective population control mechanism to be achieved in Africa, effort should be made to promote, develop and sustain the informal sector to play a vital role in employment generation and thereby contribute to the alleviation of poverty and National Health Insurance Scheme to be implemented to ensure that the majority of the population including the poor, have access to good medical care.
HIV/Aids pandemic and other killer diseases; while various nations of Africa are struggling to enhance population control for socio-economic development towards realization of sustainable development goals and objectives, various killer diseases like HIV/Aids, Ebola and Cancer among other diseases become a challenge to effective population control. First, a lot of resources and financial support are channeled to help control these diseases through provision of healthcare facilities, drugs and welfare development facilities in return; there is lack of sufficient funds from the government to help implement these population policies in Africa (WHO, 2006).
Availability of contraceptives in the society and unmet need for family planning; in most developed countries according to Go et al(1995), factors significant for reduction of fertility include availability of contraceptives. Modern contraceptives are a cheap way to reduce maternal deaths from dangerous abortion. They free parents from the burden of unwanted pregnancies and they help to create lower fertility, high income societies that benefit everyone. Difficulties in accessing contraception therefore affect population control; hence the government should provide them universally given that issues of abortion and sterilization are illegal in almost all Africa countries that have explicit policies, yet experiences in Western countries show that abortion is crucial component to limit trends of fertility level. Some women also use contraceptives with aim of spacing their families but not actually to control birth.
In conclusion, there is no doubt that the population problems in Africa are real and challenging. The impact of the effect of high birth and death rate, increasing population sizes and density, rapid population growth and increasing dependency burden all translates into greater demand for Africa government in productive activities which in turn accentuate the problem of unemployment, underemployment, persistent poverty, urban slums, crime, mortality rates and political unrest. To the extent that population variables influence development, Africa should enhance effective population control mechanisms to achieve both socio-economic and sustainable development goals and objectives.
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EON Reality Reveals New Features in Update to AVR Platform
The latest update to EON Reality’s AVR Platform includes multi-user functionality, interaction recording, and more new features for maximizing efficiency and managing accounts.
Today we announce a major update for the AVR Platform featuring useful changes to all three featured products as well as the brand new AVR Web Portal to bring them all together.
Creator AVR’s Interaction Recording feature now allows users to take lesson creation a step further. By recording their movements and interactions with objects in the app — along with the pre-existing voiceover option — educators of all types can now go into significantly more detail and precision during their interactive lessons.
Additionally, the new collaboration feature in Creator AVR allows both teachers and students to add more than one user to their educational sessions. With a simple email invitation, two or more students or trainees can experience the same lesson at the same time, making it ideal for both group studying and instructors looking to teach more efficiently.
The brand new AVR Web Portal allows users to access and control all three services on the AVR Platform through a single sign-on. Once logged into their account, users can manage team members, trainers, trainees, and everyone’s various roles and content permissions.
The AVR Web Portal also allows Virtual Trainer users to launch remote training sessions directly from their browser as either a trainer or a trainee. This allows training lessons to be taught from anywhere in the world at anytime, opening up the benefits of Virtual Trainer to anyone with an internet connection. Trainers on a desktop and trainees in virtual reality can now see, speak, and interact with each other entirely over the web.
AR Assist also brings in some powerful new features such as improved Microsoft Hololens support and Vuforia’s model targeting feature, which allows digital twins to overlay with their physical counterparts in real time. Now, users can see digital adjustments, expansions, and detailed views that would be inaccessible on the physical model itself.
Thanks to a new partnership with 3D model marketplace CGTrader, users of the AVR Platform will now have access to a massive supply of pre-existing 3D models to easily add into their own apps. The new pairing could prove exceptionally useful for educators and other Creator AVR users who may not have the means to design their own virtual reality objects, as they will now have even more tools at their disposal for quickly developing new experiences in a matter of minutes.
For the users who have their own content, the new SAP Conversion Tool now allows them to bring file types such as Maya, Autocad, Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio-Max, OBJ, and more directly into the AVR Platform with a single click. By moving their CAD files directly into the AVR Platform, moving from production to training in Virtual Trainer is faster than ever before.
Contact a sales representative at EON Reality today for more information about the AVR Platform’s new features.
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130 megawatts (d.c.) / 105 megawatts (a.c.)
Nevertire, central west NSW
Development Approved 5th July 2017
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We never tire of solar power opportunities
The cotton-growing Nevertire region has excellent solar irradiation combined with a strong electricity network - and will soon be the home of our largest solar project. Using proven single-axis tracking solar modules, the project is expected to deliver amongst Australias lowest-cost solar power.
Developed in partnership with UK firm Island Green Power, the 105 Megawatt (a.c.) solar power project has now secured its Development Approvals and is targeted for construction in 2018.
Nevertire Solar is located 4 hours west of Sydney
Epuron Island GP Management Pty Ltd is proposing to construct a 105MW (a.c) solar farm at Nevertire, NSW. The solar farm would be located approximately 1km west from Nevertire and would be accessed from the Mitchell Highway. The project would generate renewable electricity which will feed into the national electricity grid.
The project would use standard, flat solar photovoltaic (“PV”) modules. These are the same type of modules commonly used on residential rooftops. The modules would either be ‘fixed’ mounted or ‘tracking’. Tracking frames move every minute or so in order to ensure that the modules are always facing the sun. The panels would be mounted on steel frames and these pile driven into the ground, requiring minimal ground disturbance. A transmission line (colocated where possible) would connect the solar farm to the existing substation within Nevertire.
The Development Consent for the project was granted by the Minister for Planning on the 5th of July 2017 which means that the construction of the Nevertire Solar Farm is set to commence by the end of the year.
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Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Mike Doyle (D-PA-18) released the following statement in response to reports of inhumane conditions in detention centers for migrants and asylum-seekers at our southern border.
I, like many Americans, have been shocked and angered by the conditions reported in detention facilities at the border. The cruelty displayed by the Trump Administration undermines the values and morals of our country.
The heart-wrenching images we’ve seen are the direct result of the Trump Administration’s policies to press criminal charges against everyone who crosses the border – and to detain refugees while they await court hearings.
I have pushed – and will continue to push – for an end to these inhumane policies, and to require Customs and Border Patrol to meet basic humanitarian standards in all its detention facilities. I will also be closely monitoring the House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing this week that will investigate the separation and treatment of migrant children at the southern border.
We must do everything in our power to hold the individuals who have created these conditions accountable. Our nation has been made great by the contributions of refugees and immigrants, and we are laid low when we turn our back on that proud tradition.
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Chevrolet announces the next generation Corvette will debut 07.18.19. A camouflaged next generation Corvette travels down 7th Avenue near Times Square Thursday, April 11, 2019 in New York, New York. (Photo by Jennifer Altman for Chevrolet)Chevrolet
The C8 Corvette has finally been given a release location to go along with the July 18 date, the extremely anticipated mid-engine revolution will be revealed in California, not at a major auto show.
According to MidEngineCorvetteForum, lucky customers have received personal invitations to join media at the reveal which will take place in Orange County, California.
On July 18th, 2019, we’ll finally be able to see what has been cooking in Chevrolet’s kitchen for so long, and we are seriously hungry for some mid-engined American burgers… I mean sports cars. Chevrolet knows we’re frothing at the mouth, so they’ve released a few appetizers in the form of a sound check in front of the Corvette museum, and an aperitif video.
The wonderful sounds are rumoured to be courtesy of the 6.2-litre LT1 V8 found in the current C7 Stingray. We assume that Chevrolet will reveal the base model, which is expected to carry on the Stingray name. While the motor currently makes 455 horsepower in the C7, it is expected to be upgraded to reach 500 horsepower in the C8. Along with the base model, the 5.5-litre DOHC flat-plane crank V8 could make its way to the sports car making 600 horsepower, as well as a twin-turbo version with 800 horsepower, and some of the wilder rumours suggest a 1,000 horsepower hybrid version – just make sure you order the brown seats.
We’re guessing that Chevrolet will also stick to tradition with the mid-engined Corvette and offer a removable targa top, as it’s done with pretty much every model in its history, so it makes sense for the vehicle to be revealed in sunny California, the birthplace of American hot rodding.
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Is Blue Bird Corporation (BLBD) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds?
Does Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD) represent a good buying opportunity at the moment? Let’s quickly check the hedge fund interest towards the company. Hedge fund firms constantly search out bright intellectuals and highly-experienced employees and throw away millions of dollars on satellite photos and other research activities, so it is no wonder why they tend to generate millions in profits each year. It is also true that some hedge fund players fail inconceivably on some occasions, but net net their stock picks have been generating superior risk-adjusted returns on average over the years.
Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD) was in 7 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the third quarter of 2019. BLBD shareholders have witnessed an increase in support from the world's most elite money managers lately. There were 5 hedge funds in our database with BLBD positions at the end of the previous quarter. Our calculations also showed that BLBD isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). Video: Click the image to watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.
Today there are a large number of metrics shareholders put to use to value stocks. Two of the most underrated metrics are hedge fund and insider trading sentiment. Our experts have shown that, historically, those who follow the top picks of the top money managers can outclass their index-focused peers by a superb margin (see the details here).
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What have hedge funds been doing with Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD)?
At Q3's end, a total of 7 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 40% from the previous quarter. Below, you can check out the change in hedge fund sentiment towards BLBD over the last 17 quarters. With the smart money's sentiment swirling, there exists a select group of notable hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings considerably (or already accumulated large positions).
The largest stake in Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD) was held by Osterweis Capital Management, which reported holding $24.2 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by Spitfire Capital with a $18.1 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Renaissance Technologies, Engine Capital, and Citadel Investment Group. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Spitfire Capital allocated the biggest weight to Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD), around 23.42% of its 13F portfolio. Osterweis Capital Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 1.77 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to BLBD.
As one would reasonably expect, specific money managers were breaking ground themselves. Winton Capital Management, managed by David Harding, established the most outsized position in Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD). Winton Capital Management had $0.6 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Roger Ibbotson's Zebra Capital Management also initiated a $0.2 million position during the quarter.
Let's go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD). We will take a look at Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE:STG), Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACHN), TransMedics Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMDX), and Loop Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:LOOP). This group of stocks' market valuations resemble BLBD's market valuation.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position STG,1,885,0 ACHN,18,82556,4 TMDX,4,94901,-3 LOOP,2,408,1 Average,6.25,44688,0.5 [/table]
As you can see these stocks had an average of 6.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $45 million. That figure was $57 million in BLBD's case. Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACHN) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Sunlands Technology Group (NYSE:STG) is the least popular one with only 1 bullish hedge fund positions. Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on BLBD, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned 6.9% during the first two months of the fourth quarter and outperformed the market as well.
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Strategic Storytelling: Maximum Impact in a Digital World
Columbia University, Columbia Business School
New York June 11-12, 2020 2 days
Storytelling has always been central to human experience – it's how we explain and make sense of the world. But today, as media-savvy audiences begin to tune out advertising messages while searching for ever-more-immersive entertainment experiences, the way businesses and professionals need to communicate is changing. Led by best-selling author Frank Rose and offered in partnership with Columbia University School of the Arts, Strategic Storytelling introduces the concept of “story thinking” and shows how it can be used to achieve maximum impact in a digital world.
As a member of Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab, Rose is helping to pioneer a new understanding of narrative and its role in the digital age. Research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology has shown that stories are typically more effective at changing people’s minds than rational argument. This means that people — leaders in particular — need to view the world in narrative terms, not as a thesis to be argued or a pitch to be made but as a story to be told. Because stories provide a structure for reality and a key to understanding, because they play to the emotions and rely upon empathy, story thinking is a powerful tool.
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The Strategic Storytelling Model™: Four Levels of Engagement
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BUNDLE: Leading Through Influence
NYU Stern School of Business
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Negotiations and politics are inherent realities of every workplace. The two courses included in Leading Through Influence bundle will enhance your negotiation skills and office politics acumen, positioning yourself as a valuable leader within your organization. Learn the strategies and technical skills needed to resolve conflicts, obtain more successful outcomes and increase productivity during this five-day program.
Improving Interpersonal Communication
Saint Mary's University, Sobey School of Business
Halifax June 1-2, 2020 2 days
Your success in whatever role you take on is highly influenced by your ability to communicate your thoughts, needs, and concerns in such a way that the recipient is open and able to understand them.
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In this seminar we will explore the communication process identifying when to use what mode, pitfalls and traps to avoid, including assessing your particular style/preferences and determining areas for you to further develop. We will work on how to build rapport, an essential element in promoting understanding. Finally, we’ll identify techniques in developing positive confrontation skills and delivering feedback to improve and build on new and existing relationships.
Performance Through People
Ashridge Strategic Management Centre
Berkhamsted June 1-5, 2020 5 days
Have you ever wanted to go back in time to change how a situation or conversation played out? What would you do differently to create a better, more productive result? On this course, you will get to do exactly that and learn from our faculty who have mastered the art of influencing in the workplace as consultants, directors, and vice presidents-long before they became academics.
The Performance Through People course will teach you how to motivate, delegate, and coach for success. You'll leave aware of your impact on others and be able to encourage confident, effective communication in your team.
AMCTO Communicating Value
The Ivey Academy
Toronto June 1-3, 2020 3 days
This customized executive education program teaches participants how to communicate information using data and storytelling to influence and persuade decision makers.
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The dynamic curriculum includes evening sessions with guest speakers, and opportunities to network with colleagues from across the sector.
Leading and Motivating Dispersed Teams
The University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business
Austin June 2-3, 2020 2 days
In the digital age, people are traveling less and meeting face-to-face less frequently with their fellow team members and leaders. Virtual teams are already a fact of the global marketplace as companies leverage global talent, and technology facilitates better communication. Acquire critical skills leaders and members of a virtual team need for creating, maintaining and motivating successful virtual teams. Effectively navigate the challenges and obstacles related to working virtually. Draw from recent research to identify a two-stage model of distance leadership. Develop a plan to more effectively work with and lead teams who don't share a physical space.
Professional Speechwriting
Georgetown University, Georgetown School of Continuing Studies
Washington, D.C. June 3-5, 2020 3 days
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Public processes can become gridlocked when dealing with the impacts of opposition damaging credibility. Tap into the latest research through this two-day course. Be empowered to support your organisation to achieve successful community engagement outcomes. You will learn new ways of thinking, skills and strategies to apply during both the planning period and in-the-moment public consultation.
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Waiver Wire Report: Call to Arms
May 2, 2014 December 25, 2016 Jim Finch
Over the past month there is a good chance that your waiver wire has been picked cleaner than a Thanksgiving turkey. Looking at the waiver wire in one of my leagues, the top ranked hitters available are 4 catchers, Alberto Callaspo, Mark Reynolds, a few more catchers, Gerardo Parra, and Derek Dietrich. Yea, not much. Looking for arms and it’s basically the same story. Alfredo Simon was just dropped (for some reason) along with Aaron Harang (for good reason), but after that you’ve got Mike Leake, Dallas Keuchel, Chris Young, Henderson Alvarez and a cast of others. That’s the way it should be if you are in a competitive league, out with the dead weight and in with the rosterable waiver wire players. Not every league is like this though, so some of you might be fortunate enough to have some good players to choose from. Speaking of…
Tyler Skaggs (Angels): Skaggs is owned in 76% of CBS & 75% of Fantrax leagues, but for some reason he gets no love in Yahoo leagues (26% ownership) or ESPN (20% ownership). I realize he’s not the strikeout machine owners look for, but he has other qualities. He’s had 4 quality starts in five tries (the other was 4 runs in 7 innings which wasn’t bad) and has also gone 7 or more innings in 4 of 5 (none less than 6). A few too many walks were given up in a few games but 9 in 31 innings (2.31 BB/9) is very respectable. Add in a GB% of 50, 6.94 H/9 and you get a WHIP of 1.03. Skaggs only has 2 wins but it’s not for a lack of trying. With a sold team behind him and spacious home park, what’s not to like. If he’s still available in your league I’d grab him. I’d rather own Skaggs than an overachiever like Aaron Harang
Tanner Roark (Nationals): Roark is owned in 63% of CBS and 69% of Fantrax leagues, but his ownership falls to 32% in Yahoo and 9% in ESPN. Just like Skaggs, he owns the same 4 quality starts in 5 tries as Skaggs, 9 walks in 32.2 innings (2.48 BB/9), 2 wins and an unimpressive but not bad strikeout total. He also plays in a spacious home park and has a better than average team hitting behind him (even without Zimmerman & Harper). Roark’s ERA is .60 lower than Skaggs, currently sitting at 2.76 along with a 1.16 WHIP. His GB% is close to 50 and his LD% is only 14; while his numbers may come up a little, they are sustainable. Sometimes people just want to sit and wait to see if the start is for real. Many did that last year with Bartolo Colon, but the ones that said screw it and picked him up reaped the rewards. It’s your move.
Collin McHugh (Astros): He’s no Jose Fernandez and he pitches for the Astros, but any pitcher with an ERA & WHIP below .60 after 2 starts and a minor league K/9 of 8.70 deserves a look. The 26-year-old McHugh was crushed on his first two attempts to break into the majors with the Mets & Rockies the past two years, but that happens to a lot of rookies. Maybe the third time is a charm? For those of you who are unfamiliar with McHugh:
G GS IP ERA WHIP HR/9 H/9 BB/9 K/9 BB/K
130 111 653 3.36 1.26 0.50 8.61 2.74 8.70 0.32
Not overly impressive, but a few things stand out. First is the walk rate; while his final minor league total was 2.74 it was lower than that last year (pitching in the PCL no less). Second is his home run rate and if that carries over to the majors, there won’t be many leaving the park. Finally there is the strikeouts (631 in 653 innings). All of these are a recipe for success and could make McHugh a decent back-end starter. On the other side of the coin, he has a FB% close to 55 over his first two games. It’s a small sample size but something worth monitoring. He also pitches for the Astros so wins could be hard to come by unless he continues to give them 7+ innings of one run ball. C.M. isn’t supposed to be this good, but just because he wasn’t a highly touted rookie (or even a ranked rookie) doesn’t mean he can’t be a useful major leaguer. He’s got the Mariners, Orioles, Rangers & Angels next. I can’t condone or condemn starting him, but rostering him just in case he’s successful is recommended.
Currently Available in 51% of CBS (Up from 8% last week), 72% of Yahoo, 64% of ESPN and 43% of Fantrax leagues
SP Marcus Stroman (Blue Jays): The Jays lined up his start with Dustin McGowan leading everyone to believe he would be the next in line. McGowan received a stay of execution with his last game, but the writing is on the wall. James Happ is back and the Jays claim to be going with a 6 man rotation, but that won’t last. Even if Happ stays in the rotation & McGowan goes to the pen, Happ has done little to exude confidence. In AAA this season Stroman has allowed only 5 runs over 26.2 innings with 36 K’s, an ERA of 1.69 ERA & 1.09 WHIP. He holds a 3.02 ERA and 1.14 WHIP over 158 innings in the minors (oh, and 188 strikeouts). He was ranked the #52 prospect by MLB.com and is the #2 prospect in the Blue Jays farm system. He’s not the best pitching prospect in the minors, but he’s the closest to making an impact now. He could get off to a hot start or he could flop. If he comes out throwing heat, wouldn’t you rather it be on your team? This one calls for a preemptive strike on your part if you have a spare roster spot (I made room for him where I could).
Currently available in 50% of CBS, 89% of Yahoo, 99% of ESPN and 67% of Fantrax leagues
SP Alex Meyer (Twins): Just like Stroman, this is another potential preemptive strike. Meyer is currently the top pitching prospect for the Twins, and there is NOBODY standing in the way of his promotion except the Twins. Kyle Gibson leads the staff in ERA with a 4.34, everyone else is over 5.0 and deserves to be shot fired. In 5 starts this year, Meyer has a 2.70 ERA, a 1.12 WHIP and 35 K’s in 26.2 innings. The WHIP is a little deceiving since he has 11 walks (walks have always been a problem), but a 7.04 H/9 has helped keep things in check. Unlike Stroman, Meyer’s call up is not imminent, but when the players wives start wearing bags over their heads the Twins may not have a choice. A June call up would be a reasonable assumption, but since this is the Twins that call up could come tomorrow or next year. If you have a deep bench or minor league slot, Meyer is someone to consider. If not, just add him to your watch list and be ready to jump when the time is right.
Currently Available in 86% of CBS, 99% of Yahoo & ESPN and 73% of Fantrax leagues
Johan Santana (Orioles): Just seeing if you’re paying attention, nothing to see here.
Drew Hutchison (Blue Jays): This was one of the first pitchers I recommended to start the season; after six starts he seems to be coming along quite nicely, even with the few hiccups. Hutch has 38 strikeouts in 35 innings, but all those K’s are clouded by the 3.82 ERA, 1.27 WHIP and 1 win. Don’t let those numbers fool you, he’s better than that. Hutchison was one of the league leaders this spring for strike out rates and he is currently sitting in the top 10. Once that ERA & WHIP come down a few ticks maybe people will take notice. The trust and use of his secondary pitches (mainly his changeup) will only hasten his success, and with that will come wins as the Blue Jays are ranked 8th in scoring runs. Depending on where you play will determine if he’s available to you, and if so you may want to trade in your bottom pitcher.
Currently Available in 45% of CBS & Fantrax and 81% of Yahoo leagues
Matt Harrison (Rangers): Lets get one thing clear, you’re not picking up Harrison for strikeouts. Harrison is here to give you wins and an ERA in the low 3’s. The WHIP won’t be anything to write home about, but it’s not something that will kill you. He looked good in his first game back after returning from back surgery. His final line was 6 innings, 3 hits, 2 earned runs and 4 K’s. That’s the kind of line you’ll get from Harrison on average; nothing fancy, just good solid numbers. Sometimes that’s all you need at the back-end of your rotation, and it’s these type of steady unimpressive performers that often get overlooked. If you’ve been playing musical pitchers with the back half of your staff, Harrison deserves a look.
Currently available in 60% of CBS, 90% of Yahoo and 53% of Fantrax leagues
If you’re in need of a closer and Joe Smith (recommended last week) is still available in your league (approximately 60% owned in all leagues), he should be your grab. If all of the current closers are taken, here are a few names you might want to take a flyer on.
Hector Rondon (Cubs): The Cubs closer role is in flux and Pedro Strop would like you to think he is the man, good for Pedro. Unfortunately, that will not be the case if Rondon has anything to do with it. The former starter turned relief pitcher has been plagued by bad health in the past, but stayed relatively healthy last year coming out of the pen. His overall numbers weren’t impressive, but there is plenty of room to grow. With 1 earned run and 15 K’s in 13.1 innings, Rondon seems poised to take the closer reigns. Before the announcement becomes official, fantasy owners should act now. Don’t worry about opportunities, even closers on bad teams get saves.
Carlos Torres (Mets): Jose Valverde wasn’t the answer. Kyle Farnsworth is the current closer, but in name only and he’s on a short leash. Torres is the only logical choice here (which means that Matsuzaka could get a shot soon). After failed attempts over the years as a starter, Torres seems to have found his niche in the pen. He’s basically abandoned all his secondary pitches and is going strictly with a four seam fastball & cutter. Both pitches sit in the 89-91 MPH range which is 1 MPH more than last year. That’s not a lot of gas for a closer, but it’s working for now. Both ZiPS and Streamer predict bad things are coming for Torres as far as ERA & WHIP are concerned, but if he takes over the closer role he will still deliver solid K’s and save numbers. People rostered John Axford in 2012 despite his horrid season; Torres will be better than that, but that’s all I can guarantee.
Picking up players is fine and dandy, but you’ll need to drop someone in order to make your acquisition. Might I suggest the following players.
R.A. Dickey was given a pass last year, but this year there is little room for patience. He’s 39 (which isn’t old for a knuckleballer), he’s having trouble getting past 6 innings and when he gets hit, he gets hit hard. He’ll still get you K’s, but are they worth the potential damage to your ERA & WHIP. He’s owned in over 65% of leagues, but I think that’s too much. Trade him if you can, but don’t feel bad letting him go for a younger player with upside.
Aaron Harang had a great start to the season, and if he were pitching for the Cardinals I might be inclined to believe it was for real. You’re looking at a career 1.35 WHIP, a BAA 100 points higher than he is currently showing, average strikeout numbers and an ERA that will finish anywhere between borderline acceptable and abysmal. You got a great month for the soon to be 36-year-old, drop him now and let someone else have him while he declines (sabotage your opponent).
Tim Lincecum is a tough pill to swallow, but 2011 was a long time ago. OK not really, but the past 2 years have been horrible and this year is looking the same. Just like Dickey he is still delivering very good strikeout numbers, but unlike Dickey he has a hard time getting TO 6 innings let along past 6. 61+% ownership is too much for a fading star and nostalgia doesn’t mean anything in fantasy.
Ricky Nolasco is owned in less than 29% of leagues. My question is, What is Wrong with 29% of you. Take out the trash already.
Jim Johnson owners are still holding out hope. Unlike other teams, Oakland isn’t afraid to bench their bigger contract players if they are not producing which is exactly what happened here. Even if he gets his job back he’s not going to come close to 50 saves (he’d be lucky to see 30 at best). He doesn’t get the strikeouts, his WHIP is mediocre at best and he’s been very hittable since last year. Move on to Luke Gregorson (available in 66% of Yahoo leagues), he won’t get you the k’s either, but he won’t hurt your peripherals.
There are some pitchers that look like they should be dropped; I’m going to say hold but keep them on a short leash.
Clay Buchholz is screaming drop me and nobody would blame you if you did. The guy we saw last year was an aberration, he’s not coming back. That leaves the man we saw in 2010/2011 or the other guy we saw in 2009/2012. The former can be a useful commodity while the latter is no better than Felix Doubront. Do what you have to do here.
Danny Salazar was on many sleeper lists coming into the season, but I think somebody forgot to wake him. There were signs of life his last game out, a 1 run 8 inning gem with 8 K’s, that one game brought his ERA down to almost 6.0 (ughh). This could be the start of something or maybe he was just due. He was drafted high enough that some patience is warranted.
Hiroki Kuroda has put up roughly the same numbers for the past 4 years so don’t overreact to the slow start. Then again he is 39 and the final 2 months last year were a disaster. His Fly ball and HR/FB% is up for the second year in a row, not a good sign for a guy with no heat in a pitcher’s park. I have a soft spot for Kuroda, but I don’t know if I could defend him if he were on my roster.
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10 thoughts on “Waiver Wire Report: Call to Arms”
Great stuff, as always. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for reading Max
Rob Adams says:
I cut bait with Dickey in one league and Kuroda in another this week. At this point, I’d rather have Gee, Niese, Mejia, or Colon than these guys right now, and that’s just from the Mets.
I can see taking flyers on 3 of those guys, but for me Colon is sitting between the drop me and give me one more chance column. He did great the past 2 years, far beyond what any of us could have hoped for, but this Colon is looking like the player we saw when he pitched his final 2 years with the Angels.
I suppose if I’m being honest with myself, I wouldn’t rather have Colon than Kuroda or Dickey either, but I would rather have a spot to stream pitchers than Kuroda or Dickey. As a side note, I’m pretty sure I figured out how to tell if Dickey is going to have a good game or not. If he’s on my bench, he pitches well. If he’s in my lineup, he’s awful.
Tommy Landseadel says:
Can you let us know when you have Dickey on your bench so that we can make our lineup decisions accordingly?
Stormin' Norman says:
I wouldn’t drop Johnson, especially when Melvin said he was in line for a save opp. Oakland’s gonna win games, and his past few games have been solid. If you didn’t drop him when he lost the job, why drop him when he’s on the precipice of regaining it?
How many times have we seen a manager say he was going to give a pitcher another chance or that a hitter was going to receive more playing time and have it fail to come to fruition. Melvin said he could be in line for saves, but in the same breath he said he would continue to use the closer by committee strategy. You know what you get in football when you have 3 running backs sharing carries, 3 players that aren’t worth using in fantasy. You can hold out hope, but don’t get your hopes up.
Great read as usual and great advice. Trade question;
12 team head to head POINTS keeper league
His Alex Gordon, Martin Prado and Matt Cain for my
Ian Desmond, Nick Castellanos, and Cole Hamels…
Already rolling with Reyes and Bogaerts at SS and 3rd, but Prado could help at a number of spots. I need an extra outfielder since I only have Adam Jones, Pence and Allen Craig active (waiting on Polanco to get the call)
We use 2 utility slots. One is Neil Walker, one is Morneau. Good deal or not? i feel the pitchers wash out and I like Cain to bounce back in AT&T park more than Hamels at Citizens Bank. Prado is a 2nd half player and i already have good keepers so i can afford to give Castellanos. And Desmond is killing me with his K’s since its a points league. I may lose some stats a bit with Gordon, but he is not the negative stat hound that Desmond seems to be in a points league.
On a related note, worth it to drop Neil Walker for Saltalamacchia since Cano is my starting 2B? Could use some pop. I feel like I ran with Walker’s hot streak….
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Predictions on Discontinuing Sets and their Secondary Market Value
.93 is the point where i suddenly would get interested in buying a bionicle.
TheLoneTensor MericaMember Posts: 3,950
That's 93 cents too much for me.
Jk, no offense you Bionicle fans :)
Shib UKMember Posts: 5,247
catwrangler said:
I wondered if it was a possessive too. Here you sometimes hear people say they're going to Tesco's, or Marks & Spencer's...
In the UK it's definitely possessive, which is often the result of some large shops being from a family name, e.g Sainsbury's - here the 's is correct as it is saying J Sainsbury's Shop, however people then start assing the s to other supermarkets - I'm sure a lot of people would swear blind that Tesco is actually called Tescos.
Bricklover18 PA, USAMember Posts: 720
I'm not a bionicle fan either but for that price I am.
BrickDancer Dunes of TatooineMember Posts: 3,639
Never cared before, but at just under a buck, Bionicle might actually be worth their price. So just dipped into my local Walmart to see if they happened to have this set at $0.93. But of course they didn't and not only that, they had 0 Bionicle sets at all. Guess my neighborhood as whole doesn't care about them either.
monstblitz Alexandria, VAMember Posts: 595
Meh, still wouldn't touch Bionicle at that price. I think I'd have to be paid $5 to take a set home.
I got a free Hero Factory once a year or so ago. Took it for the giant gold shield part. Still haven't found a good use for it but I am sure inspiration will strike one day.
Is it this one?
Found it in a recent Craigslist haul. Also no clue what to do with it...
Brickamore USAMember Posts: 56
monstblitz said:
I added one of these to my cart to round out a Bricklink order last year. I had the idea to put in the throne room of the castle I've been meaning to build.
It's from a knights kingdom buildable figure from the early 2000s I think it's from the king.
No, that is from King Mathias (#2)
Farmer_John USA - 4,035 Miles from 62 West Wallaby St., Wigan, Lancashire, UKMember Posts: 2,404
It's all in how you look at it. Hero Factory sets are great IF they have parts like Part #92222. Those parts are going for a mint in the aftermarket due to their rarity and use in the #5004590 Bat-pod.
This one from 'Rocka':
Farmer_John said:
Is that a common occurrence?
I have to admit, that Hero Factory Fleas Bee's Knees Sneeze set is the only Bionicle set I've ever purchased. And only because of the shield parts for the Bat-Pod, and they happened to be on clearance at TRU.
Like you, I did purchase a couple HF Fleas Bee's Knees Sneeze sets for the Bat-Pod parts. At one point a few years ago, my kids were into the theme so I have a few HF sets lying around that I got on clearance that were never given out as gifts (set #7158 comes to mind).
But if I saw a stack of HF Fleas sets or set #7158 (for the wheels) on clearance for half price, I probably wouldn't pass up grabbing a couple.
What about an RHCP Fleas knees?
SumoLego said:
Hero Factor is not Bionicle... No more than Police is Fire...
I think we are just nitpicking.
From Wikipedia, which is on the internet, so it must be true:
"Premiering in the summer of 2010, the theme was created in response to the decision to close down production of the formerly-popular Lego construction theme Bionicle and acted as a successor."
I think even the informed AFOL would approach Hero Factory as not dissimilar than Bionicle.
I probably am.
Knights' Kingdom II was a successor to Classic Castle- would anyone here vouch for it being very similar? Or that good?
Wow, some people take their Bionicle seriously.
^^ They are all Castle Lego, so yes.
(Police and Fire are both City.)
Yes, yes I do. ;)
I just have three normal release sets left, as well as some silly battery pack sets and such.
So in perusing the [email protected] website, I noticed that the #75920-1 - Raptor Escape is nowhere to be found. I'm sure (as an exclusive) it's been long gone from Wal-Mart and the Lego Retail Store.
Thoughts on whether it's "exclusivity" will command higher values. Or is the theme in general going to wane once the sequel comes our, or if Lego opts to do another in-house dinosaur-themed release.
Brickpicker indicates 2x RRP, but I generally find their values all over the place.
I haven't seen the Raptor Escape set anywhere for sometime now...maybe a year? Last I checked, it was about 2X RRP as you indicated. Dinosaurs-themed sets seem to do better only after they've been gone for awhile and kids want dinosaurs again. I would expect the JW sets to do okay after EOL since there's supposed to be a JW 2 movie released in the next couple of years.
The main reason people purchase the two raptor sets are (obviously) the raptors, which are unique across both sets. The Raptor Escape set has Delta and Echo; the Raptor Rampage set has Blue and Charlie. Of course anyone trying to collect all four raptors needs to purchase the Raptor Escape set (which is essentially gone). What's interesting is that when I purchased each of the four individual raptors on BL, the most expense one was "Blue," which is from a set that is still available. The two raptors from the Raptor Escape set were on par with Charlie from the Raptor Rampage set.
monkeyhanger Member Posts: 2,852
Not sure the JW sets will do well, more of a want for kids than AFOLs and there are plenty of cheap copies of the dinosaurs kicking around on ebay and Amazon.
AustinPowers GermanyMember Posts: 278
Bricklover18 said:
Wonder if the app is right for once
Well, it might be right, but it sure can't calculate.
Or how does a price drop from 29.99 to 0.93 equate to a saving of 6.01 ???
sklamb speaker of American EnglishMember Posts: 489
The set is on sale at [email protected] for exactly that $6.01 discount...and IMO definitely worth 93 cents, if not more, given all the transparent details. Still baffled at where the 0.93 price came from, though.
peted76 UKMember Posts: 11
How long do you think te Big Ben set will be available for? I'm pegging this for a collectible set in a couple of years and I just wonder how long it'll be available for in the lego shop based on other similar sets?
msanders Member Posts: 928
peted76 said:
1 to 6+ years, give or take a few... ;-)
I managed to score three at a local Walmart just before Christmas. They check all of my boxes for "this is gonna cost too much to buy later."
Were you looking for one? As I said, I got two extras.
i suppose ninjago demand will go up when the movie hits (sep 2016 ?) ?
do you think ninjago sets will peak in value when the movie hits, after the movie hits or just before the movie starts ?
Aanchir United StatesMember Posts: 2,823
Tough to say. From what we've heard, the Ninjago movie seems to be a separate continuity from the previous story arcs (like how the live-action Transformers and TMNT movies are separate from their respective TV shows), and I have a feeling that as with The LEGO Movie, most of the essential scenes, vehicles, and props will be newly designed for the movie rather than plucked from the backlog of existing Ninjago sets. With that in mind, I'm not sure how many people the movie would compel to pay inflated aftermarket prices on old sets when they could pay RRP for new ones that play a bigger role in the movie.
What The LEGO Movie did seem to have a lot of was previously-designed minifigures. Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Minifigures Series 6 Lady Liberty, Minifigures Series 2 Vampire, Minifigures Series 1 Clown, Lando Calrissian, etc. I'm sure the LEGO Ninjago movie will also have familiar figs as background characters, cameos, and crowd-filler, but there's no way to reliably predict which figs exactly will see increased demand until we at least have a trailer.
pharmjod 1,170 miles to Wall Drug, USAMember Posts: 2,887
The only ninjago sets I currently have for investment are battle for ninjago city and wu dragon. All of them were purchased for 50-75% off. I like them because they also appeal somewhat to adults. The building is a great looking Asian themed structure regardless of theme.
i heard that there will be an old villain coming back in the movie .
leaning out of the window now and saying it will be garmadon!
SithLord196 Member Posts: 1,157
Catching up on a few pages...
PA weather is PA weather.
My local minor league baseball team actually has the best winning percentage in professional baseball at 69.7% from what I understand.
As for actual back on topic, I'm okay with Bionicle and have a few of them. The fire and ice ones definitely seem the most popular, at least around here.
Regarding pricing, I also have to deal with 6% sales tax and I find it obnoxious, but it is what it is. The Brick Bank is really hard to convince myself to get. Even with the new pieces in it, I just don't see the purpose of the price increase, especially since it's non licensed. Maybe when the next double VIP points rolls around I'll pull the trigger, but the price increases do seem to be becoming steeper and more frequent from my perspective.
I'm curious as to how City resells. I'm asking because my local closing KMart had a stack of about 10+ of the 4x4 Off Roader ( #60115 ) last weekend on Saturday. They were 40% off. I went back to grab one this past Friday and the whole stack was gone even though the discount was the same. Just seemed surprising to me. I ended up getting the set at a 20% discount from my local Lego Store anyway because I had to use the extra 100 VIP points coupon before it expires, but I was still surprised the stack sold out that quick.
dougts Oregon, USAMember Posts: 4,129
^ my experiences with City sets are not great. the vast majority of them either get replaced by something very very similar within 2-3 years, or there's something else in City that's close enough to keep the prices depressed. At any one time, there's 50-100 City sets still available in the primary market - which is way more than enough to provide plenty of options for most buyers, who aren't even necessary looking for a specific set.
There are certainly winners to be found #3222 was a big one (though might not be now, since they essentially just released a replacement). Some of the $100+ sets were decent winners, though the last two years or so hasn't seen the same gains as the prior years.
As for the 4x4 off-roader. Probably not going to lose money at 40% off, but not sure you would make all that much either, after factoring in fees, costs, etc. There are always plenty of 4x4 type vehicles released. what they are towing changes, but the vehicles are mostly clones year after year.
Regarding pricing, I also have to deal with 6% sales tax and I find it obnoxious, but it is what it is.
Six percent would be nice; we have a 10% sales tax in our state.
I don't actually do any reselling, I was just curious, and it sounds about what my thoughts were on it.
I just found it odd that a relatively minor set that there seemed to be not much interest in would have an entire stack of 10+ disappear in 6 days.
I'm not going to complain about the 6% sales tax, it could be worse.
goshe7 Columbus, Ohio, USAMember Posts: 515
There is the possibility that someone purchased them all for a charitable donation. Someone who is an AFOL and wants to give less privileged kids the chance to be exposed to LEGO. These days a regular shopper will rarely find a 40% discount until sets go on clearance. Less desirable sets from a resale perspective would still be a great opportunity for this approach.
There are also plenty of reselling strategies out there. Some are quite happy to churn through dozens of sales at a few dollars profit on each sale.
CupIsHalfEmpty CanadaMember Posts: 547
Ironically I was just looking at that set because it's one of the only sets that has 11211 in green
Maybe somebody bought to part out. Look on bricklink for somebody in your area with 20 green 11211's for sale.
It's just not a usual occurrence in this area. The discount came from the fact that that particular KMart is closing.
True, the sales tax could be worse. It's not nearly as bad as our roads for example.
(Meant as a joke.)
^ Maybe just the bridges and overpasses.
Yodalicious DagobahMember Posts: 1,366
I saw these resurface at one of my local Walmarts months after they had first disappeared. I picked up 2 (already had 1 to complete the theme). It was the first set that wasn't a polybag that I'd picked up as an investment. Exclusive, dinosaurs, gone fairly quickly. Good enough for me. But it also checks the final box for me which is just as important...if it doesn't do much in the aftermarket, I can enlarge my raptor pen and add to my raptor population. I don't resell, but mostly get doubles of anything to trade in the future. But if I'm buying anything with that intent, it must be something I can use if I never actually get rid of it.
There's a bridge northeast of where I'm at along a state highway that crosses an interstate, and about a year ago a section of the concrete wall on one side fell off. It still hasn't been fixed, with jersey barriers being put up around the hole instead.
^there's a walking bridge in my town that was recently inspected by the state, and it was immediately shut down. Apparently it was structurally deficient and could collapse at any time. People used the bridge for their daily travel!
They're actually rebuilding an entire bridge near me that was a secondary exit point for the city. It seems to be going slower than expected as lane closures that were advertised for the highway it goes over have not occurred (they're still working on the section that goes over the river), and they stopped warning about them too. Hopefully it doesn't affect my commute at all whenever they get around to it.
The bigger problem is if/when they start working on the major exit point of the city and fixing its two bridges across the river and the highway (which also doubles as an interchange for said highway). That's going to a huge traffic disaster most likely.
I was just looking at the latest going rate for a couple of sealed sets I own and I have a question. A new UCS Tie Advance #10175 is going for ~$1000 on BL right now (asking price) while used versions are lagging behind at ~$500. While Imperial Flagship is ~$700 new and ~$600 used.
Question is, what are the main drivers of the difference between new and used sets? I suppose availability of used sets is a factor, but are there other things?
Looks like IF's value doesn't take a huge hit if I opened and built it, while with #10175 I would be much better off selling it and buying a used one for my enjoyment...
^Collectability of the set/theme is the differentiator. Collectors of Pirate theme tend to actually build the sets and not too interested in keeping them MISB for long term collection. As opposed to Star Wars sets, especially UCS, where the MISB type actually have its own audience of collectors separate from those who like to build their UCS sets. Hence why you have the largest disparity between Used vs. New in #10179 UCS Falcon, at ~$1,800 Used vs. ~$4,000 New. As if it's not even the same set or linked together in some way at more than 2x difference.
But I'm utterly shocked that the TIE Advanced made it to that $1K mark, considering in 2012 it was only around $175 Used vs. $350 New at best.
Ma1234 Member Posts: 693
Playmobil got a Ghostubsters license. I bet existing LEGO sets are carved out, but I certainly wouldn't expect the theme to expand.
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Physics and Mathematics
Tests of General Relativity
By Boydstun, May 5, 2011 in Physics and Mathematics
Boydstun 183
Real Name:Stephen Boydstun
Current status of the tests of GR is presented by Clifford Will in:
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment
This review is at the site Living Reviews in Relativity. All of the papers there are by qualified physicists, and all are available for full-text download free of charge. This is a site I can endorse, along with the Einstein Online site linked in post #5.
StrictlyLogical 410
Somewhat on topic... is there any alternative interpretation/visualization of GR and/or SR which avoids reification of space-time? I'd be interested in reading about it/them.
SL,
There are concretely real relations in the world, and among such relations are the physical relations of space and time. They are more than the relations of abstract geometry or topology, for not all of those have the honor of being instantiated physically in some particular physical situation that is being scientifically comprehended. To say that some geometric abstract spacetime is what is being encountered in some concrete situation is to say the relations in that structure are concretely real relations in that situation.
Do you agree that there are such things as concretely real relations? To say Yes to that is not to say those concrete relations are concrete entities. Is that what you mean by reification of spacetime, taking a relation for an entity?
I think the entity way of looking at physical spacetime might be what is called the substantival view in philosophy of physics today, in contrast to a purely relationalist view. Two good books on these different interpretations and related issues are:
World Enough and Space-Time
What Spacetime Explains
Graham Nerlich
I don’t know if you have heard the GR saying for the layman: “Spacetime curvature tells mass-energy how to move; mass-energy tells spacetime how to curve.” I expect a purely relational case for spacetime might be made even in this dynamic. But I personally would not start with a presumption that a purely relational case for spacetime can be made, and that a substantival account is up-front an error, specifically a reification.
Posted July 8, 2014 (edited)
Thanks for the reply Stephen.
I am still trying to figure out how I conceive of relationships/relations.
The relationship between entities is not inherent in either of the individual entities which has the relationship so as such it is not IN the things individually.
Certainly the relationship is real in that I can identify the relationship and even in some cases quantify it. What I identify as the "relationship" is causally linked to different outcomes. Pushing a thing "towards" another thing leads to an interaction. Pushing a thing "away" does not. The relationship I perceive has consequences in reality.
Now, I would say relationships are objective in the sense that I identify them FROM reality, and they are not irrelevant to or independent of reality, hence they are not only in the mind. They are not subjective.
The tough part comes when I am tempted to consider whether relationships "as such" are IN reality. I think perhaps my working categorization of "as such" is causing some of my difficulty.
In my final analysis (currently... I am still working on it) I am conceiving of a relationship as
1. a property in reality attributable to the entities together (i.e. not to each indiidual entity)
2. which property is characterizable by the various causal consequences
So an entity A "to the left" of B is a property in reality of "A AND B", such that (i.e. this is what it means to be "to the left of" ... and this is a very rough imprecise definition for illustration only) imparting a rightward motion to A leads to A and B interacting... occupying the same line of sight... etc. To be clear, I am conceiving of the relationship between A and B, regardless of the words I use to define it, as being exactly all the causally linked possible outcomes for A and B, and their interaction with each other or me... I wish I had far better words for this.
I want to say there is nothing more to the relationship than the possible material consequences of that relationship. (Then I start mentally digressing ... what about entities?... cannot they be defined the same way?...then perhaps the only difference between attributes categorised as "relationship" versus "entity" is whether the properties are indivisible or spread across multiples...)
As you can see I am still working on it.
Thanks for the references to the books.
Edited July 8, 2014 by StrictlyLogical
Plasmatic 124
Stephen said:
There are concretely real relations in the world, and among such relations are the physical relations of space and time
In what ontology is time physical and how is this ontology justified?
SL asked:
is there any alternative interpretation/visualization of GR and/or SR which avoids reification of space-time?
To which you responded:
Stephen, this is a reification of time. Calling time "a concrete relation" is exactly that. The real question is, by what method does one justify this reification? In the philosophy of science this is the debate over theoretical entities in the scientific realism debate. Whether or not such "instantiation" is ontologically actual is the whole debate. Particularly what epistemology justifies a theoretical entity. "Concrete relations" is simply a way of saying moving entities interact. Without the mind grasping these relations there are just entities moving. Abstract geometry and topology are linguistic-conceptual methods and can be used to represent fantasies like any other language. If I said "Spider-Man is instantiated physically in some particular physical situation that is being scientifically comprehended" any rational person would reject this claim on the basis that it is a reification of a mental construct. Time is epistemological method for Oism. Do you have direct criticisms of the Oist view of time?
Edited July 8, 2014 by Plasmatic
SL said:
The tough part comes when I am tempted to consider whether relationships "as such" are IN reality.
This is central to the debate over what is ontologically objective vs epistemological tools of method.
Stephen, if you'd rather I could start another thread, or the three of us could have a group PM on the topic so as to not disrupt your thread.
Scrutiny of BICEP2 evidence of cosmic inflation and primordial gravitational waves suggests signals could come from dust in our own galaxy. Science News follow-up is here. Further report from the Planck survey later this year may clear the BICEP2 proposed discovery or take it down.
Report from Planck indicates BICEP2 data cannot be taken as support for gravitational waves: BICEP Claim Was Wrong.
Planck also yields new date of first stars, resolving earlier discrepancy between Hubble and WMAP indications.
Edited February 6, 2015 by Boydstun
Testing the Equivalence Principle
A fundamental postulate elaborated in general relativity is that inertial mass and gravitational mass are the same or at least directly proportional to each other. That is the equivalence principle. The sameness of the two masses is a proposition recognized in Newton’s mechanics. The mass in the second law F=ma is inertial mass. The force F on the left is identified and quantified for a variety of cases in our world. For example, the restoring force of a spring set into elastic response to a stretch or compression of the spring is quantified as in direct proportionality to the displacement. Plugging in that –kx for F (where k is a constant and the minus sign since indicates the restoring force is opposite the direction of stretch or compression), we get a differential equation because the acceleration a is a (twice-over) derivative of displacement x with respect to time. Solving that differential equation gives equations reflecting the time course of displacements of the spring after its release from the initial stretch or compression, that is, the solution of this differential equation charts the oscillations of the spring. Where the case is one for electrostatics or electrodynamics or fluid mechanics we have a distinct expression to plug in for F in each case, and we proceed to solve the resulting differential equation of Newton’s second law to get equations of motion, that is, to get the patterns of motion distinctive of each sort of case. Better yet we use the fundamental differential equations of the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian formulations of classical, Newtonian mechanics, and these will reveal more easily the patterns of motion of somewhat more complicated cases such as an assembly of springs coupled together. Inertial mass will enter these equations also. With the illumination of special relativity, inertial mass becomes not simply a constant amount for a body, but becomes a specific function of relative velocity and the vacuum velocity of light. That function yields a negligibly different value of the inertial mass from the mass value of that body at rest (the old Newtonian inertial mass value) for the many practical cases with velocities far below light velocity.
I said that sameness of inertial and gravitational mass is an element in Newtonian mechanics. Gravitational mass appears in Newton’s expression for F in the case of gravitational attraction. Newton argued that the strength of the gravitational attraction between the sun and the earth is given by a constant multiplied by the mass of the sun multiplied by the mass of the earth and divided by the distance separating them squared, and he takes these masses as the same as inertial masses of those bodies. That’s what allows us to cancel the mass of the earth in ma with the mass of the earth in the gravitational expression for F on the other side of the second-law equation, which cancellation leaves us with a differential equation alleged true for gravitational force exerted by the sun on the earth, which was extensively supported as true by the empirical success of the equations of motion yielded as solutions to that differential equation.
The preceding is only from off the top of my head from studies forty years ago, so please forgive me if I’ve gotten anything somewhat off the mark. As I recall its contours, also: In Einstein’s mind, extending his relativity principle of frame-independence of the form of physical laws from the (special-relativity) case of frames in uniform relative motion (constant relative velocity) to the case of frames having a constant non-zero relative acceleration brings consideration of his gedanken that a person confined to a chamber with no information about what is going on outside it, but only able to determine that he and the chamber are undergoing a constant acceleration, would not be able to tell (using accelerometers and strain gauges, let us suppose) whether he was pressed against the floor by gravity of the earth or whether he and the chamber were in field-free space undergoing a constant value of acceleration by a rocket propulsion. The gravitational case is equivalent to the inertial case provided gravitational mass is equivalent to inertial mass. Einstein was able to cast gravitational force as effect of curved spacetime geometry because of that equivalence.
Sorry for all the gaps and opacity of the preceding paragraph, but I cannot afford to pause to open some books for improvement at this time. With that sketchy background, we come to this note’s headline, experimental tests of the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass. The issue of Science for 6 March 2015 has a nice article on these tests. It reminds us of Galileo’s proposition that objects of different materials, but having the same mass (as measured by a balance or other scale, I suppose), would fall to the earth at the same rate. They would have the same value of constant acceleration. (That proposition is rather less famous than his proposition that bodies of different masses fall at the same rate.) The article includes survey of tests of the equivalence going back to Newton and right up to three kinds of tests given the postulate by physicists today. The ways in which these current tests do indeed test the equivalence principle are somewhat complex ways to be sure. One is along Galileo’s line for testing material-independence of gravitational attraction, dropping objects from heights.
About a year from now, a satellite will blast into orbit to perform the legendary test more precisely than Galileo could have imagined.
Rather than dropping things to the ground, the Drag-Compensated Micro-Satellite for Observation of the Equivalence Principle (MicroSCOPE) will contain two free-floating weights of different materials and will monitor whether one feels a stronger tug from the Earth’s gravity than the other. If so, the result would sink general relativity, Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity.
I underscore, as ever we must, that in science we continue to test fundamental postulates of even highly successful theories, not only ramifications of the theory when its fundamental postulates are joined with additional conjectures.
100 Years of Relativity: Space-Time Structure – Einstein and Beyond - Abhay Ashtekar, editor
General Relativity and Gravitation: A Centennial Perspective - Abhay Ashtekar et al., editors
2 October 1915 is the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s paper presenting his theory of General Relativity. Here is a good commemorative presentation about him and his work and our continuing development and experimental tests of General Relativity: Gary Horowitz
Advanced LIGO began listening yesterday.*
Edited September 19, 2015 by Boydstun
On December 23, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Boydstun said:
Einstein was the first to realize, in 1916, that his GR equations predicted the existence of gravitational waves under certain conditions. Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor obtained strong indirect evidence in 1981 for the existence of gravitational waves by observing a reduction in orbital energy from an orbiting pulsar system in the amount predicted by GR for dissipation of that energy in such a system were the energy carried away in gravitational waves.
LIGO aims to detect gravitational waves directly using laser interferometers sited far apart in the US mainland. The sensitivity of the LIGO detectors so far has been only enough to detect gravitational waves resulting from pulsar collapses (a big though rare event) at distances from us wherein hundreds of centuries could go by without a collapse. No waves have been detected at this sensitivity. LIGO is now being enhanced to achieve a sensitivity to binary-pulsar collapses in space much farther from us wherein the total volume would have hundreds of collapses each year. The advanced LIGO* is scheduled to get to work in 2016.
For a look at future interferometer detectors operating from outer space capable of detecting gravitational waves so pervasive that they could be used to infer activities inside the event horizon of a black hole or to infer conditions in the part of the cosmic expansion before the universe lighted up with what is now known as the cosmic background radiation, see the cover article of the October 2013 issue of Scientific American, authored by Ross Andersen.
Direct detection of gravitational waves by LIGO announced today.
Edited February 12, 2016 by Boydstun
AlexL reacted to this
“Had J. Robert Oppenheimer not led the US effort to build the atomic bomb, he might still have been remembered for figuring out [1939] how a black hole could form. . . .”
Landmark papers in classical general relativity, after Einstein’s 1915, are presently available here.
The following book is marvelous.
The Road to Relativity -
The History and Meaning of Einstein’s “The Foundations of General Relativity”
Gutfreund and Renn (Princeton 2015)
There is an Introduction telling the story of Einstein’s journey to the theory, and there is a Postscript summarizing developments to the present. The fantastic thing is what lies between those two. That is a reproduction page by page of Einstein’s manuscript for the classic 1915 paper. Each page of the manuscript is shown on the left page in this book, and on the facing, right page is annotation, an explanation in English of what is going on. Look at the Table of Contents. The manuscript pages are to the left in the table. The title questions shown for each MS page (questions formulated by Gutfreund and Renn) and their answers pertain to that part of the MS; these are explained and put into historical background context by Gutfreund and Renn on those right pages. This is a great way to get hold, serious hold, of the theory. There is an English translation of the manuscript at the end of this book.
Ayn Rand's 1936 novel We the Living opens in Petrograd 1922. She lived there at that time (age 17, at university), and so did Alexander Friedmann (age 34, died 3 years later).
Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe Expand
Friedmann Equations
Edited May 23, 2016 by Boydstun
Probing data from the LIGO black hole merger events for Planck-scale structure at event horizon of classical general relativity: December 2016
(Associates of the distinguished Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Got Gold? - Gravitational-Waves and Gamma from Collision of Two Neutron Stars Inform
Edited October 16, 2017 by Boydstun
Pulsar and Companions Will Put GENERAL RELATIVITY to the Test - Clifford Will (1/6/14)
Science News - 2/3/18 - “The complex orbital dance of the three former stars conforms to a rule known as the strong equivalence principle, researchers reported January 10. That agreement limits theories predicting Einstein’s general theory of relativity should fail at some level.” That is, this measurement puts a tighter constraint on theories unifying quantum field theory with general relativity by supposing the strong equivalence principle does not hold at sufficiently small scales.
The Confrontation between GENERAL RELATIVITY and Experiment - Clifford Will (3/28/14)
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Serial Thinker
Location:Pennsylvania
Keep posting these please, I always read these updates.
William Hobba 0
Real Name:Bill Hobba
On 2/9/2018 at 11:07 PM, Grames said:
One thing that hasn't been emphasized here is that modern presentations of SR based of symmetry are rather difficult to refute:
http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~yakovenk/teaching/Lorentz.pdf
Of course physics is an experimental science and its ultimate validation is experiment not theory. But it does show if its wrong some of our basic notions about the world would be wrong - which would be a very very interesting and surprising thing.
That''s SR - what about GR. That's actually quite interesting. In SR where t is the proper time the principle of inertia implies a particle moves that maximizes the proper time when you integrate it along the path it follows. If dt is a infinitesimal amount of proper time in turns out dt = Nuv dXu dXv and the path is the one that maximizes the integral dt = Nuv dXu dXv - this is called the principle of maximal time. That's in the usual Cartesian coordinates and time as usually measured. But you can mathematically transform to general coordinates so Nuv dXu dXv becomes Guv dXu dXv when dXu are the new generalized coordinates and Guv is called the metric.
This means Guv acts like a field - determining the motion of a particle. One of the principles of physics is you can derive field changes by whats called the principle of least action. OK lets apply that to Guv. Here we make use of a very interesting theorem called Lovelock's Theroem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelock's_theorem
That shows that GR ie the Einstein Field Equations are the only solutions.
If you are not a math type just in a general way accept what I said above.
If you want the gory detail see the following by Lovelock and Rund:
https://www.amazon.com/Tensors-Differential-Variational-Principles-Mathematics/dp/0486658406
Now the question is where does the Equivalence principle enter into it. Its not that easy to answer. Also it raises the same issue as SR. If GR is wrong some of out basic notions would be wrong.
Edited June 19, 2018 by William Hobba
Thanks, Grames. Thanks, Bill Hobba.
Famaey, Khoury, and Penco 2018
“The observed tightness of the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation (MDAR) poses a finetuning challenge to current models of galaxy formation. We propose that this relation could arise from collisional interactions between baryons and dark matter (DM) particles, without the need for modification of gravity or ad hoc feedback processes.”
Berezhiani, Khoury, and Wang 2016
“Cosmic acceleration is widely believed to require either a source of negative pressure (i.e., dark energy), or a modification of gravity, which necessarily implies new degrees of freedom beyond those of Einstein gravity. In this paper we present a third possibility, using only dark matter and ordinary matter.”
This note is not on experimental tests, but links to some big-picture physics.
It happened that when I was briefly in graduate school in physics at Chicago, it was the centennial of Einstein’s birth. Among the speakers who came over in our celebratory year, was this man, who in my lifetime was a light of the world.
QM + GR
Beginning?
This note too is not on experimental tests, but this seems a fair place to put it.
Since Stephen Hawking made the theoretical discovery of particle/anti-particle pair production at the event horizon of black holes, many couldn’t help but think he was touching some key to future profound unification of quantum mechanics and relativity. For Hawking had drawn that conclusion we know as Hawking Radiation by doing quantum field theory in the spacetime structure at the event horizon. This possible key seems to be taking further tantalizing shape by recent work on quantum chaos effects in black holes.
Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity
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Four Senses: Touch Smell Taste Sound
A blog to share our interests of Food & Drink, Audio Entertainment and Exploring our City! Experience Sydney vicariously through our journal, or get out there and try them all for yourself! The world is your playground!
TV Recommendations- Employable Me
by touchsmelltastesound
Please allow me to stray away from our regular posting cycle just for a week, as I’d like to recommend this 3 part documentary series which can be accessed from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) free streaming service iView.
At work we’re embarking for the first time to actively seek candidates with disability, which is fantastic! As everyone in society deserves the right to have access to equal employment opportunities, thus they can realise their full potential and make a livelihood for themselves. Yeah? Agreed?
So I was more open minded to watch ‘Employable Me’ when my wife suggested to watch it as she had seen a TV advert teasing the release of series 2, while series 1 was available right now on iView. To be honest with you, in the past I would have been hesitant in watching this, as these topics are always confronting and challenges your pre-conceptions; and in the evenings when I’m chilling, I just want to be entertained by shows, I don’t want to be made uncomfortable, with the truth. But since I was performing some tasks at work to assist the team tasked with achieving our Equity & Diversity goals, I thought it prudent that I watched this to get into the right head-space.
Employable Me (methinks word-play on the Universal film Despicable Me) originally was a British program which aired on BBC2 to much acclaim; before Canada produced their own version which aired on AMI-TV; and the ABC joined the party by producing its own version in 2018, with season 2 dropping on 9 April.
Australia’s version of Employable Me is produced by Northern Pictures, which features stories from 9 young individuals (split into 3 groups of 3- 60 min episodes), with neuro-diverse conditions such as autism, Asperger’s, Tourette’s, and Fragile X Syndromes. Within the given time, the show first introduces each individual so we the viewer can get to know them as people; before learning of their work/career experiences/histories/aspirations; then leading to an outing- to ‘cold call’ on some potential employers (often to little success); which segues to individual meetings with experts to either uncover their hidden talents, or collaborating with a job coach to increase their chances to land a suitable role; until the final 15 mins is spent looping back around to another perspective employer who gives them a limited duration work trial. By the end of the episode, there is a sense of closure for the viewer, as when they show the final images of each person, in captions it updates us as to where each of them have progressed months after filming had concluded, i.e. landed full-time employment, or was still seeking.
For me I found the show incredibly insightful, as often times we have heard of these conditions, but realistically we don’t actually know much about them at all. Sure, rightfully or wrongfully so popular culture has occasionally brought to prominence some conditions, i.e. Deuce Bigalow’s depiction of Tourette Syndrome and The Good Doctor’s depiction of one on the autism spectrum- which in a way has shed light and generated conversations about these conditions; however obviously they have swayed us to think of these conditions in a certain way. And it’s only when you meet real people with these lived experiences, that has now changed my understanding of how these conditions actually impact the individual, and how individuals are able to work around these conditions.
The show was put together wonderfully, as it really allowed for each individual’s unique character to shine through first and foremost; and it was both honest, while showcasing each of them in a positive and heart-warming light. There definitely weren’t any cringing moments here, if anything I found myself smiling for most of the show as the individuals were guys/gals you could really warm to, and see yourself getting behind. So the show Employable Me has both educated me, changed me, and surprisingly entertained me as well! Definitely worth viewing if you’re a person who is always looking to self-improve and to be more empathetic.
And trying to be objective, the two critiques of the show I had was that this season at least, the focus was only on neuro conditions; when other overseas versions covered a wider range of disabilities- it would be nice to see a more diverse selection of people next time (although we might just see that in season 2). And the last critique, was that it was really interesting to see how autism and Asperger’s only means that the brain is wired differently from the norm. And who is to say that the way that their mental circuitry is wired, is wired incorrectly- when you watch the show you’ll see that each of them have incredible minds and an amazing ability to store and retrieve memories which puts the 99% of us to absolute shame. For some, within their area of expertise, it was almost like asking ‘Google’, as they could tell you the answer straight away- so who is to say that they aren’t the top 1% and we the majority are the bottom 99%? Ok, ok, I’m coming to my point of criticism……… My critique of this, is that the show depicts that the vast majority of disabled people have a hidden skill- which off-sets and can be exploited by an employer. However what if you’re in that 99% of people, and then later in life you acquire an injury or disease which leaves you permanently disabled? If enough of us watch Employable Me, we might be led to believe that every disabled guy and girl has this near super-power, but what if they really don’t have a special skill to begin with, and then become disabled? The show does set a very high bar for others to meet, which I’m thinking is a little bit unfair to set the expectations so high, when realistically the majority may not be able to meet this lofty pedestal. It just makes that task of finding work, that much harder when 8 of 9 were shown to possess near genius levels of mental power. I think this could have been avoided if the chosen individuals did represent a wider representation of disabilities, so I guess this links in with critique no. 1.
So yeah, aside from these issues, the show is truly worthwhile! I’m usually recommending shows from Netflix, and I’m aware that not everyone has a subscription- but iView is totally free to use (if you’re in Australia), so no excuses for Sydney-siders not to be watching this! Definitely worth 3 hours of your time.
For more information about the Australian version of Employable me, click HERE! And to watch immediately from ABC iView, click here!
P.S. Since writing this post, Season 2 episode 1 has aired on the ABC, in this season they do follow a more diverse array of people and the outcomes are probably more reflective of the reality for disabled job seekers i.e. that unfortunately there isn’t always a happy ending.
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‘I don’t care if I was burning’: Heroic uncle rescues his 8-year-old niece from a house fire
Posted 9:09 PM, July 8, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire
ABERDEEN, Wash. – This super-uncle ran straight into a burning building to save his 8-year-old niece when a fire broke out at their home.
Derrick Byrd, 20, says he has fourth-, third- and second-degree burns but does not regret any of the steps he took to save his niece.
“I don’t care if I was burning,” Byrd said. “I just wanted to make sure I got her out.”
His face, neck, arms and back are covered in gauze as he recovers in a specialized care unit at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
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When the fire started early Thursday at the home in Aberdeen, Washington, Byrd’s sister and her three children were trapped in a second-floor room.
Byrd ran through the flames to get outside so he could catch his niece and two nephews as they jumped from the windows. The two boys, 6-year-old Junior and 4-year-old Rory, made the jump, but Mercedes was too scared.
Suddenly, Byrd’s sister Kayla fell to the ground, and Mercedes fell backward into the home.
Byrd said he did not stop to think; he ran back into the burning home to save his niece. He grabbed Mercedes and took his shirt off to wrap around her face so she would not inhale smoke.
This left Byrd’s back exposed to the flames, causing fourth-degree burns and nerve damage, but he said he would do anything for the children.
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“I spend most my days off with my nieces and nephews,” he said. “Mercedes is already an uncle’s girl.”
Kayla and the two boys are doing fine. Byrd expects to be moved to Grays Harbor Community Hospital, near Aberdeen, this week.
Fire investigators have not determined the cause of the blaze, according to CNN affiliate KOMO, but they believe that it started on the second floor.
The Aberdeen Police Department estimates that there was $268,000 worth of damage to the structure and its contents. Neighbors have started a food, clothing and toy drive for the family, KOMO reports.
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Books, Film and Media
Film, DVD, and TV
T. A. Gardner
General of the Forums
I watched season 1 of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency after seeing a random episode on Netflix.
If season 2 is anything like 1, it's going to be totally off the hook, insane like watching a show where all the characters are Doctor Who on acid. It premiers tonight at 6 pm here. I hope they did it justice after season 1.
MarkV
Originally posted by T. A. Gardner View Post
Is this yet another case where the US has taken a great BBC production (2012) and screwed it up?
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe (H G Wells)
Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Friedrich von Schiller)
I've seen the clips for it, and they didn't raise my interest level enough to want to watch it. Frankly, the history of film is overloaded with the inept secret agent/detective/spy/assassin genre, with nothing that will ever surpass the original Get Smart.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Who is watching the watchers?
OMFG is so much better than the drivel on the new Star Dreck or Orville! It is Douglas Adams (aka Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) on acid. They packed an hour of insane WTF, with a capital WTF into that show.
The American southern sheriff... "I don't want to get into a high speed conversation with you..." Priceless..
The female assassin right after killing three people and talking to the only survivor... "I wanted to kill you, but I didn't. How'd you like to be my girlfriend?"
Watching one of the bad guy's henchmen using a spell book and a wand and messing it up was like so Harry Potter parody stupid. Then, the girl he was going to use it on makes it work by accident...
It isn't some spy-type show. I really can't place it anywhere because it goes everywhere and nowhere all at once.
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ACG Forums - General Staff
When the US reworks a British TV show we often get a different take. I saw the actors for "Being Human" on British TV and they looked much more like the characters they were supposed to play. The American version was too much like a Bro-romance for my taste.
What can I say about Dirk Gently? I keep expecting some more of the Lords of the Rings to come dancing on at any second.
I miss Red Dwarf and Black Adder!
Pruitt, you are truly an expert! Kelt06
Have you been struck by the jawbone of an ASS lately?
by Khepesh "This is the logic of Pruitt"
Well, this time it's right. It is British absurdity and American insanity all rolled into some sort of crunchy taco sushi roll served as fast food...
The new episode was even more insane than the first.
Dirk escapes from the secret government prison by apparently wetting his bed...
There were great lines of insanity in between...
Prisoner in a taxi with a Corgi held by "the government:" "I might help if there was some quid pro quo..."
Government guy "...I don't speak Spanish..."
The sheriff... "This is my deputy..."
(Female) deputy... "Hi, five days sober..."
Hida Akechi
Hey, TA, I watched the first season of Gently and enjoyed it. And, so far, I'm loving the new season. It's quirky enough to keep me interested, and unpredictable enough to be entertaining.
The First Amendment applies to SMS, Emails, Blogs, online news, the Fourth applies to your cell phone, computer, and your car, but the Second only applies to muskets?
I gave this one up - too screwy even for TV.
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The only way any of this makes sense
MrcMumble Posts: 161 ★
August 2017 in General Discussion
Ok so kabam still makes a decent amount of money each quarter (at least as of 08/16/17). So where does all the money go? Other than paying staff, it sure doesn't end up being spent on the game upkeep.
My guess is they are losing the marvel licensing deal within the next couple of years, forcing them to drastically increase the release of 6*s and other content way faster than it would have / should have been. Milking every last cent they can from people before the loss of the license and / or just completely implodes. Meanwhile gearing up for the next scam of a mobile game and starting the cycle all over again with a different franchise.
And seeing how mods just delete posts and hand out warnings, which is exactly what they will do to this. How about respond and just close the thread? This in no way violates Tos, it's a genuine concern I am voicing with the intent of gaining feedback from the community; the very definition of a forum. Alas, regardless of all that this will be deleted soon and yet another unwarranted warning handed out.
Palanthrax Posts: 530 ★★★
I'm as unhappy about the announcement of 6* champs as you are (and everyone else, by the sound of it) but this conspiracy theory is unfounded.
Netmarble owns this game now, Netmarble also owns Marvel Future Fight, so they're using the license on two very popular games and they're making a whole lot of money for both themselves and Marvel. There is literally no business argument for closing either game, and certainly not giving up the license.
I do have a conspiracy theory of my own, however. These changes feel "forced" indeed, they feel rushed. I believe the suits at Netmarble are behind the drive to introduce 6* champs. And guess what the star limit is in Marvel Future Fight? Yup, 6*.
The introduction of 6* champs now doesn't make any sense at all, even to the group of players Kabam have said they're trying to please. This is purely revenue driven. It could backfire spectacularly, however.
Though highly speculatory, it's not completely unfounded. Licensing IP's are extremely expensive, especially one of marvels prowess. It's possible they crunched numbers and realised it wasn't enough profit to run both games of the same IP, so they grab what they can that's left on the contract and let it die.
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You prefer the space under the rug.
I was thinking bridge, not rug.
What happens to these people if Trump bombs? I am hoping this is a dead cat bounce for this brand of conservatism. Of course, I am known to be wrong.
What happens is they'll make excuses for him for four years, probably blame Obama for handing off a **** ton of issues plaguing the nation, probably blame Clinton somehow too, Democrats, liberals, the media.... basically everyone but the guy who sold them a bill of goods.
Just look at this place and it's obvious some are in that mode already.
Wow! This is awesome.
Trump to Plan Victory Tour Rallies in Swing-Trump States!
It actually says he plans to do this victory lap in all/only the states he won. So much for reaching across the aisle. Also, how about the people in the blue zones who voted for him? They don't count?
Let's seem him do this again next June. Might be a different vibe from the audiences.
ONLY the states he won, you mean like MOST of them?
Originally posted by Basura
Yep, even more enthusiastic.
Boltsnow
Akita....Ultimate Family Protector
I heard, but haven't confirmed, that Trump's progress so far is 2-4 weeks ahead of where Obama was in 2008. But that was the Messiah, Trump is the Devil.
That happens when you have an extremely small pool to chose from. Either many DON"T want to work under Trump or he's already ruled them out because they were Never Trumpers. Surprised it's even taking as long as it has seeing how little he has wanting to work for him. Not exactly a lot of resumes to read.
Originally posted by Boltsnow View Post
He thought it was take your daughter to work day when he met with Japan's PM. If that's any indication, I bet he'll try to just
keep it in the family.
I heard, but not confirmed, that there's a lot of chaos in the transition team and they have to vet their own people to only select the hard-core loyalists aka b***k*****s. And the alt-netters.
It's convenient to have your daughter on hand for those meetings with foreign leaders when she's running your business in those foreign countries.
Chargers8491
Trump for all that is wholly please select General Mattis as the next SECDEF.
Proud father of my new adopted Bolt "T-Rex"....
Good point. Isn't it hilarious that Obama dreamers go all google-eyed at his mediocre, at best, delivery on his promise but are already criticizing Trump for what he has even begun yet. I think this may comprise the "negotiation' phrase of the grief process.
Yea but if you listen to the BS slandering liberal media Trump's campaign is in disarray....
It took Oboso 3 weeks before he picked his 1st cabinet member.
Originally posted by Chargers8491 View Post
Washington (CNN) — Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump's preferred choice for National Security Advisor, was running a company that was lobbying on behalf of foreign clients even as he was receiving classified intelligence briefings during the campaign.
The revelation comes as the Trump camp has taken a series steps to curb the involvement of lobbyists in the presidential transition efforts.
Robert Kelley, a former chief counsel to the House National Security Subcommittee and current general counsel and principal at the Flynn Intel Group, filed a lobbying disclosure report with Congress on September 15.
According to the official document, Kelley was working on behalf of Innovo BV, a Dutch firm owned by Turkish businessman, Kamil Ekim Alptekin.
Alptekin told CNN in an email that the firm works to strengthen "the transatlantic relationship and Turkey's future in that alliance."
But while Alptekin acknowledged having a commercial relationship with the Flynn Intel Group, he told CNN that Flynn himself "does not work on my contract."
He also adamantly denied any connection to the Turkish government.
Kelley's connection to the Flynn Intel Group and Alptekin were first reported in the Daily Caller.
Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Elijah Cummings sent a letter to Trump transition chair Mike Pence expressing concerns over Flynn's "apparent conflict of interest."
"President-elect Trump promised during his campaign that he would 'drain the swamp,' but his top national security advisor is Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, whose firm is reportedly being paid to lobby the U.S. Government by a close ally of Turkey's president," the Maryland Democrat wrote. "It is unclear how Lt. Gen. Flynn was reportedly allowed into intelligence briefings during the campaign despite these apparent conflicts of interest."
Trump's transition responded to questions about the lobbying effort with a statement Friday, saying that Flynn's career was within his right as a "private citizen."
However, the fact that Flynn was overseeing a company that was lobbying on behalf of foreign clients at the same time he was attending classified briefings alongside Trump seems to complicate the transition, especially given Trump's stated goal of "draining the swamp" in Washington.
Flynn, who as America's top military intelligence officer was already privy to volumes of classified material, is obligated to not share that information with any outside entity.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politi...sor/index.html
It seems that conservatives have no issue with this as long as it is conservatives doing it.
"That's different".
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