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Bitcoin hits $13,000 on Zimbabwe exchange
by Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN November 16, 2017: 11:50 AM ET
Zimbabwe's economy in crisis
Political turmoil and an apparent coup have pushed the price of Bitcoin as high as $13,000 on a digital currency exchange in Zimbabwe -- nearly twice the going rate in global markets.
Demand surged on Golix, which appears to be the only local Bitcoin exchange, after military leaders put 93-year-old leader Robert Mugabe under house arrest.
Bitcoin has long commanded higher prices in Zimbabwe, which scrapped its own currency in 2009 after years of hyperinflation made it worthless.
But the appearance of tanks on the streets of the capital Harare have pushed the price gap even wider. Bitcoin was trading on international exchanges for roughly $7,500 on Thursday.
The digital currency was quoted more broadly in line with world prices in online market places that allow buyers and sellers in Zimbabwe to deal directly with each other.
Related: Mugabe's exit is 'a done deal' but Zimbabwe is still in limbo
Elevated Bitcoin prices in Zimbabwe appear to be the result of the country's dysfunctional economy and mismatched supply and demand.
Since 2009, business in the country has been conducted in a number of foreign currencies, but exchange rates on the thriving black market are highly distorted. Dollars are in short supply, and strict capital controls are in place.
Last year, the country started printing bond notes -- backed by U.S dollars -- in a bid to ease a chronic shortage of cash. But many Zimbabweans worry they are a backdoor to the reintroduction of a local currency that would be doomed to massive devaluation.
"In Zimbabwe, you are very limited with what you can do with the money in your bank account," Golix says on its website. "Bitcoin is better than the money we're using now."
Related: How Robert Mugabe killed one of Africa's richest economies
There is also the problem that local demand for Bitcoin far outstrips supply.
Only 16 Bitcoin have been traded on Golix over the past 24 hours, and 160 over the previous month.
Bitcoins are created through "mining" -- a process in which computers race to solve complex math problem, and winners are rewarded with chunks of the digital currency.
Mining requires huge amounts of electricity, and Golix says that energy prices in the region are simply too high to make the process cost effective.
Related: What is Bitcoin?
"Bitcoin in circulation in Africa comes from people who bought it at an exchange elsewhere," the exchange says on its website.
Supply is likely remain low, however. Golix doesn't allow Bitcoin sellers to take their money away in cash.
CNNMoney (London) First published November 16, 2017: 9:55 AM ET
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Remote Sensing of Coastal and Inland Waters: Water Quality and Ecosystems Research
Liane S. Guild, Primary Advisor
Liane.S.Guild@nasa.gov
Worldwide, coastal marine ecosystems are exposed to land-based sources of pollution and sedimentation from anthropogenic activities including agriculture and coastal development. Ocean color products from satellite sensors provide information on chlorophyll (phytoplankton pigment), sediments, and colored dissolved organic material. Further, ship-based in-water measurements and emerging airborne measurements provide in situ data for the vicarious calibration of current and next-generation satellite ocean color sensors, including simulation of the Decadal Survey Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Designated Observable that is in Mission Study Phase. Further, these observations support validation and testing of existing and new algorithms for coastal and inland waters. NASA airborne missions over Monterey Bay, CA, (as well as San Francisco Bay and inland water bodies) in conjunction with ship-based measurements have demonstrated novel above- and in-water measurement capabilities supporting a combined airborne sensor approach (imaging spectrometer, microradiometers, and a sun photometer), focused flights with the radiometers for calibration and validation of high altitude airborne flights and satellite ocean color data. The results characterize coastal atmospheric and aquatic properties through an end-to-end assessment of image acquisition, atmospheric correction, algorithm application, plus sea-truth observations from state-of-the-art instrument systems.
There are many properties of biological interest in the coastal ocean, e.g., coral reefs, kelp beds, river plumes, and phytoplankton including harmful algal blooms (HABs), and similar targets at the land/sea interface (e.g. estuaries, coastal lakes). Measurements of these features are important for understanding coastal ecosystems dynamics, water quality, the linkages with land-based sources of pollution, and impacts (e.g., climate change) in coastal regions. However, there are remote sensing challenges in coastal areas and particularly regarding accurate retrieval of ocean color and benthic ecosystem reflectance as well as atmospheric correction. In coastal areas, there are highly variable radiance signals (deep water to the coastal edge) and there are higher signal (SNR) requirement over water than for land targets. For atmospheric correction, aerosol and trace gas plumes from continental sources complicate the task of atmospheric correction and there are challenges using current algorithms for coastal regions.
We seek candidates with expertise in the following topic areas and with applicable expertise in radiometry and optics (e.g., field spectroscopy, ship-based bio-optical measurements and sampling), atmospheric correction (e.g., satellite and airborne data, imaging spectrometer), coastal and inland waters algorithms, satellite (and airborne) remote sensing data processing, coding expertise (e.g., IDL, MATLAB, Python, etc.) and interest in pursuing research:
Aligned work with the NASA Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) Mission Study and relevant airborne simulations for SBG - Use of existing and developing algorithms for coastal aquatics research (e.g., water quality and ecosystems) that utilize existing and new satellite and airborne data as well as synthetic datasets.
Atmospheric correction in coastal areas – Design a research project for exploring existing atmospheric correction approaches using airborne data and in-situ measurements.
Airborne remote sensing of coastal waters and ecosystems – Develop research topics (water quality and coastal ecosystems) utilizing existing airborne data in coastal California and planning new airborne missions.
Airborne instrument radiometry (including sun photometry) and algorithm development supporting airborne mission flight plans/concepts, data acquisition, data output, and data analyses and algorithms supporting coastal remote sensing research including water quality (water-leaving radiance), deriving aerosol optical depth, and ecosystems (e.g., kelp, coral reefs).
Note: Excellent proficiency in communication and writing in English is required.
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Architect’s immigration call postpones attempting shooting trial
By Rebecca Rosenberg
August 6, 2014 | 2:00am
Kon Jang is accused of making a plot to murder his coworkers. Steven Hirsch
The Manhattan trial for the Korean architect arrested for allegedly plotting to shoot up his Soho design firm was put on hold Tuesday after he was rounded up by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials at his home the night before.
Kon Jang, 35, is now locked up in Essex County jail awaiting deportation, said his lawyer, Howard Myerowitz.
“It’s possible the trial won’t be finished and he’ll be deported,” Myerowitz said. “It’s unfortunate. He wanted to fight this charge and clear his name.”
Sodam Ha — Jang’s married ex-mistress and former supervisor at CetraRuddy, an architectural firm — testified Monday that Jang devised a plot to kill his co-workers after she dumped him.
But the defense countered Ha made it up when Jang threatened to disclose their tryst to her husband.
“Here is perfect confirmation for our case,” Myerowitz said. “Our theory was that she did this to get him picked up and thrown out of the country, and look — that’s exactly what happened.”
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George Franklin Henson
March 04, 1916 - December 15, 2010
Obituary for George Franklin Henson
George Franklin Henson, 94, died Wednesday, December 15 at White Oak Manor in Rutherfordton. A native of Rutherford County, he was a son of the late Cofer and Jessie Sutton Henson. He was retired from Bridges Auto Parts in Forest City and a World War II Army veteran. He was a member of Alexander Baptist Church and the Bechtler Mint Knife Club.
He is survived by his wife, Polly Powell Henson of Rutherfordton; daughter Janine Dodson of Forest City; son Rick Henson of Forest City; 5 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.
Services will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hospice of Rutherford County, PO Box 336, Forest City, NC 28043.
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Middle River Regional Jail
Middle River Regional Jail, VA Inmate Search, Visitation Hours
350 Technology Drive, Staunton, VA, 24401
Middle River Regional Jail offender locator: Who's in jail, Status, Charges, Booking Number, Booking #, Release Date, FileNo, Court, Inmate List, Arrest Records, Last Name, Mugshots, Document Type, Booking Date, Description, Information Recorded, Charges, Eye Color, Marriage and Divorce Records, Bookings, Arrests, Amount, Bond, Charge.
Built-in 2003, the Middle River Regional Jail is a medium-security detention center located in Staunton, Virginia. This facility currently has a capacity of 902 inmates. The Middle River Regional Jail’s mission is to keep the public safe through custody and control of inmates while maintaining a safe, humane, and secure environment for inmates, staff, and the community.
Middle River Regional Jail provides its inmates basic services including meals, medical and mental health care, clothing and linens, laundry, visitation, mail and telephone privileges, recreation, religious programs, and access to courts and attorneys.
Middle River Regional Jail operations are overseen by Jail Captain. The other roles at this facility include four Sergeants, 22 full-time jailers, and five part-time jailers.
Staunton - General Information
Independent City County
How to Find Someone in Middle River Regional Jail
If you are looking for an inmate who is serving time at Middle River Regional Jail, search for him or her on this link which is provided by the Independent City County Sheriff’s Department. When you find the inmate you are looking for, click on his or her name, and you will see the information you are looking for.
Inmates at Middle River Regional Jail may receive only metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4" x 6" as mail. Writing must be in pencil or blue or black ink. Any other mail will be returned to the sender.
Inmate mail can be addressed as follows:
Inmate Name
C/O Middle River Regional Jail
Photos may be sent to inmates, but they will be checked to make sure they do not contain nudity, violence, or are gang-related. Hand-drawn pictures from children are allowed, but they must not contain with glitter, glue or tape.
Magazines and books are not allowed to be sent to inmates, with the exception of religious material.
You can send money to an inmate in Middle River Regional Jail via a money order. Make sure it is made out to the inmate and you can either drop it off at the jail or send it through the mail. Money can also be deposited to the inmate’s account in person with either cash or a credit card by the use of the kiosk located in the jail lobby. There is a fee of $2.50 per transaction.
More than likely, inmates will apply money they receive to their commissary account. Commissary is a jail “store” that sells snacks, candy, playing cards, board games, hygiene products, and more.
Inmates at Middle River Regional Jail are given three meals a day, but they also are allowed to purchase snacks and drinks from the commissary if they have money available on their account.
Inmates booked into the Middle River Regional Jail have access to payphones managed by Paytel Communications from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. Inmates are not allowed to receive phone calls.
If you have problems receiving calls from the Jail, contact 540-245-5420.
Visitation at Middle River Regional Jail is Monday through Friday 9 AM-6 PM.
Visitors must be on the inmate’s requested visitation sheet and have a valid state-issued ID (minors excluded) or a valid United States Passport. Visits are held in a small room that has about five telephones, which inmates and visitors talk into and see each other through a glass window. All visitations are monitored by staff.
Here are some other things to remember:
No cell phones are allowed during the visit to Middle River Regional Jail.
No visitors can be added to the visitation the day of visitation.
You must schedule your visits 24 hours in advance.
Visitation is Monday through Sunday from 9 am to 8 pm.
Visits can also be set up by video.
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Political Campaigns, US Government
Dispute between AIDS Nonprofit and Government Funder Gets Personal
Larry Kaplan
February 12, 2014; Los Angeles Times
A “long-simmering animosity between two Los Angeles political figures reached new heights this week when their bad blood surfaced in a footnote attached to a federal judge’s ruling,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
The judge’s footnote referenced “vitriolic” remarks made by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) president Michael Weinstein about Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. The two men have feuded on and off for years, even though they share the same progressive politics.
The foundation had sued the County of Los Angeles in 2012, accusing it of using audits of their contracts to retaliate for criticisms of the county and for advocating policies the county’s leadership opposed. The two entities have continuously argued over contract and billing disputes, questions about patient care at its clinics, and a successful ballot measure, bankrolled by AHF in 2012, to require condoms in adult films.
The lawsuit arose out of an audit by the county, which claimed the foundation had overcharged $1.7 million for its AIDS services by billing for costs that should have been allocated to other sources. The judge did not rule on which side was correct, only saying that the county has the right to audit its contractors.
Weinstein, defending his political tactics, told the paper that regardless of who was billed for the costs, the money was spent serving patients: “We would not have gotten to where we are today if we hadn’t fought like hell on behalf of our clients and our mission.”
A U.S. District judge ruled for the county this week. “Rather than a sincere attempt to vindicate their First Amendment rights,” the paper quotes the judge saying, “the court fears that plaintiffs instituted this action in an effort to obtain a tactical advantage in their ongoing political battles.”
To illustrate his conclusion, he included an excerpt from an email Weinstein sent to a foundation staff member shortly before the suit was filed:
“It is time to take the gloves off,” Weinstein wrote, according to the written decision reported in the Times, “We need to go after Zev [Yaroslavsky] directly and hard. He is the real power behind our problems with the county on porn, the audit and fee-for-service. Plus he is a lame duck and an arrogant jerk. His Berman-Waxman power base is dead and he and others need to be taught a lesson. The voters are with us.”
The article added that Weinstein wanted AHF to call for the resignations of both Los Angeles County’s public health director and the manager of its sexually transmitted disease programs.
Sup. Yaroslavsky told the Times that the ruling was a “complete vindication” of the county’s position. “Contrary to some high-minded First Amendment motivation, he’s shown to be a thug,” Yaroslavsky said of Weinstein. “He’s used his nonprofit organization in a crass and bullying political way to get his way, which is to avoid being held accountable.”
“Anyone who attends virtually any Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting knows who the thug is,” Weinstein said of the supervisor. He added that he would appeal the ruling and continue fighting the retaliation issue in a similar lawsuit in state court.
Weinstein is well known in civic and AIDS circles in Southern California; he is considered a dynamic and passionate advocate for his clients, and AHF is one of the largest and most effective AIDS agencies in the world (it has programs overseas, but is best known locally for its chain of successful thrift shops), with an annual budget north of $140 million. But he also has a reputation for being overly strident and abrasive.
Yaroslavsky, who is retiring this year, is a veteran local politician from Los Angeles’ affluent west side, closely aligned with retiring U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman, who has held office—starting on the city council—for nearly 40 years. He is highly respected as an expert in local government finance and popular in his district, with a reputation as a no-nonsense type.
While it’s essential for nonprofits to strenuously advocate for their causes and their clients, how aggressively that is done, and whether or not you take on powerful elected officials—let alone sue them—is a matter for debate, and should always be carefully deliberated internally before launching on a strategy. Nonprofit Quarterly wrote last fall about a conservation nonprofit in Wisconsin that lost its state funding because it was a leading critic of the governor.
The county and foundation have a contentious yet symbiotic relationship—the classic “bad marriage.” In California, counties are primarily responsible for funding health services, but outsource many of them. The two are also fighting a suit alleging that the county improperly awarded sole source contracts to other service providers; and the foundation has already won two earlier suits over another contract.—Larry Kaplan
Larry Kaplan is a consultant based in Los Angeles. He describes himself as passionate about urban communities and social justice. He helps non-profit organizations leverage governmental and community relations to advocate for their causes, advance their missions, reach their fundraising goals and achieve their program objectives. He has built and maintained elected officials’ offices, managed political campaigns, helped public agencies increase their effectiveness, and advised private companies and associations on their philanthropic and civic responsibilities.
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463. Ben Lee – “Something to Remember Me By”
As John Hughes demonstrated in his classic teen flicks, those couple of years from a 16 to 18 years of age can be truly formative and transformative for all.
Benny Lee’s second album (recorded around his 18th birthday) is a case in point. The leap from his debut is substantial.
He sticks to the acoustic strumming while chronicling of his mix of adolescent ‘dramas’, and encounters with celebrities (he does appear to have had a Ferris Bueller-like ability to wangle his way into the centre of everything).
The cockiness of the debut is now much more justified as he has developed a passable voice and a diversity of styles that showcases his strong songwriting.
Now there are at least six or seven highly memorable tracks, with catchy melodies and neat takes on relatively clichéd topics (e.g. End of the World).
His ‘love/lust’ songs are wonderfully John-Hughes-ish, in their rosiness and plotlines:
In some ways, Lee was a good decade ahead of his time, with highly self-obsessed takes on his role as a songwriter (New Song, Career Choice, End of an Era). It’s like he’s tweeting (or maybe blogging) on CD!
This is my go-to Lee album and a worthy solo-driving album, especially the 18 track version I own (I think it’s the Aussie version).
File under: Worth your recognition
Posted in L, Oz Artists
Tagged album review, Australian music, Ben Lee, CD review, music, music review
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Bannock – Toronto (Canada)
Bannock is one of the unique and innovative restaurants in the Oliver & Bonacini portfolio, renowned in Canada and especially Ontario. The creation of Peter Oliver and Michael Bonacini, Bannock is a Canadian comfort food restaurant and café enviably located in Hudson’s Bay flagship store in downtown Toronto.
The café is a great place to grab a quick sandwich, salad, pastry or coffee but the restaurant, past the centrally located open kitchen, is the place to be. The beautifully designed space is stunning and lends a real Canadian feel with its sweeping ceiling of interlocking hemlock boards reclaimed from a 150-year-old wharf in Lake Ontario. White washed pine, concrete imprinted with planks, banquettes, wooden chairs, marble tables, a communal table and atmospheric lighting all contribute to the modern Canadian aesthetic.
However, it’s not all style over substance. Bannock offers Canadian comfort food at its best. Although the restaurant is named after the traditional Scottish flatbread adapted by early Canadian settlers and indigenous peoples, the bread is their own take on bannock and is the inspiration for some of their menu items, such as the sandwiches and pizzas.
“Bannock’s honest approach to food is rooted in familiar, wholesome ingredients that are reflective of Canada’s rich regional and cultural diversity, delivered in an innovative and playful way”. (Official website)
Paulo and I couldn’t pass up Bannock’s excellent poutine so we shared a portion as our starter. Made with skin-on fries from Yukon Gold potatoes smothered in artisanal cheese curds and chicken gravy, there was so much to love in this classic Canadian dish. A sprinkling of spring onions and rosemary added some colour and elevated the poutine to posh status.
My son has been ordering the Roast Duck Poutine Pizza for at least five years now and we are always relieved to see it on the menu. Long may it continue! The pizza featured a thin bannock-type crust with enough “chew” in the thickness to give it substance. The dough was embedded with spring onions for extra flavour. My son didn’t mind the spring onions in the base but he did ask to skip the caramelised onions on top. I am certain the sweetness of the onions would have complemented the succulent shredded duck but to each his own. The crowning glory was Bannock’s magnificent poutine with its mound of tasty fries, squeaky cheese curds and mouth-watering gravy.
Paulo and I loved the sound of the Chef’s Feature Pizza on bannock crust, topped with chilli con carne, onions, cheese, coriander, sour cream and a fried egg for good measure! It sounded a bit insane but we went with it and we were very glad. It was absolutely delicious and we hope it becomes a permanent fixture on the menu.
A visit to Bannock is always a must when we visit Toronto and it’s wonderful to see that the same level of impeccable food and friendly service is being maintained. We tend to go for lunch as it’s the perfect fuel for a day of sightseeing but I’d like to return in the evening. With cocktail names like Muskoka Mule, A Canadian In Mexico, Northern Light and Prairie Peach contributing to Bannock’s Canadiana theme, it’s the perfect excuse to return and linger over a leisurely dinner.
The owners, managers or staff did not invite me to visit this establishment and were unaware that my experience would be the basis of a written review. It is based on my experience at my own cost and I did not receive compensation for my review.
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Nothing to sneeze at: Employees are coming into work sick
Home/Benefits and Compensation, Engagement, Healthcare, HR Leadership, Wellness/Nothing to sneeze at: Employees are coming into work sick
Workers say they are still heading into the office even when they feel cold or flu symptoms.
The flu shot signs can be seen at all the pharmacy stores. Workers around the country are feeling the temperatures dropping. As the seasons change, and more employees feel they might be coming down with the bug, where are they going?
Well, they’re still coming into the office.
According to recent data from staffing firm Accountemps, 90% of professionals admitted they’ve at least sometimes come to the office with cold or flu symptoms. Of those respondents, 33% always go to work even when they’re under the weather.
“Whether it’s due to large workloads, pressure from the boss or because they can’t afford to take time off, it’s all too common for employees to come to the office feeling sick when they really should be resting,” says Michael Steinitz, senior executive director of Accountemps, a division of Robert Half.
Related: One-size-fits-all wellness programs don’t work
Dovetailing with Accountemps data, a recent Office Pulse study also found nearly eight out of 10 employees claim to have caught a cold at work. Further, those in larger offices were much more likely to report catching a cold at work, as more bodies mean more opportunities to set off a chain of sniffles at surrounding desks.
And it’s not just office size that can put you at risk of getting sick—where you sit also makes a difference. While the safety of four closed walls can keep out germs, those working in an open-floor plan were especially vulnerable.
According to Office Pulse, employees say they’ve caught a cold at work when working:
In an open floor plan (84%)
In a cubicle (78%)
In their own office (75%)
At a shared table (61%)
In addition to location, the study found generational differences in an employee’s approach to coming into work sick.
Related: Here’s why employees hate open-plan office spaces
While most workers of any generation said only “severe” symptoms like a fever or chills would sideline them, 7% of baby boomers would skip for “mild” symptoms like grogginess, a headache or an achy body, compared to 6% of Gen X and 5% of millennials.
In addition, workers on average use up to 2.8 sick days per year. Boomers took the fewest days off, with 2.1, while millennials and women of any generation missed the most days, with an average of three.
“Staying home when you’ve got a cold or the flu is the best way to avoid spreading germs to others and fight the illness faster,” adds Accountemps’ Steinitz.
And managers and executives can help create that culture by setting an example from the top.
“Bosses should set an example by taking time off when they’re under the weather, encouraging employees to do the same and offering those with minor ailments the ability to work from home,” he said. “Bringing in temporary professionals can keep assignments on track during staff absences.”
Nick Otto is HRE’s senior digital editor. He is a professional communicator with more than a decade of demonstrated accomplishments in newspaper and trade publishing. He has spent the past five years covering the employee benefits space and holds bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or follow him on twitter @Ottografs.
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Old Ain't Dead
Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
Tag: State of Affairs
Brain Dump: State of Affairs, Ghostbusters, After the Wedding, Five Days
It’s a brain dump day. Random stuff falls from my head in bits and pieces.
Courtney B. Vance and Alfre Woodard in State of Affairs
Why do men married to powerful women always get portrayed in the media as whiney, needy irritations? A powerful man probably didn’t get where he is without a good spouse behind him. Why should a powerful woman get where she is without a good spouse behind her? Enough with this whiney-husband-of-a-woman-in-power trope. Come on State of Affairs , you can do better.
Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy
All female Ghostbusters . Yes! To the men who had the nerve to say that this ruins Ghostbusters for them, I say, “Sod off, you dozy pillocks!” Oops, I’ve been watching too many British dramas.
Sidse Babett Knudsen and Mads Mikkelsen in After the Wedding
I watched After the Wedding on Netflix. The original title is Efter brylluppet. I enjoyed it very much. It’s an interesting plot and well acted. The film is in a mix of Danish, Swedish, Hindi and English. Part of it takes place in India, part in Denmark. The main character is played by Mads Mikkelsen, but I decided to watch it because of the wonderful Sidse Babett Knudsen. If you enjoy foreign films, you may like this one. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in 2007.
Thanks to A Celtic-Dragon’s Blog for turning me on to Five Days . This British mystery series, written by Gwyneth Hughes, had a season in 2007 and another in 2010. Each series is 5 separate days from a police case. There are wonderful actors: Penelope Wilton, David Oyelowo, Janet McTeer, Hugh Bonneville, Suranne Jones, Anne Reid, Nina Sosanya and many others. I didn’t find anywhere that you can stream it, but Five Days, series 1 is available from Amazon on DVD.
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Brain Dump: Stalker, State of Affairs, Madam Secretary, The Fosters, Switched at Birth
A brain dump is little bits of this and that. Excess baggage from my brain. If you have thoughts on anything I mention, please feel free to dump your brain in the comments.
Maggie Q in Stalker
I’m happy to see that Stalker continues to mix it up between male and female stalkers and male and female victims. Beth Davis (Maggie Q) is finally going to open up about her own stalker and her own past. This aspect of the show gives Maggie Q a chance to show off some expanded acting skills, too.
State of Affairs and Madam Secretary
Katherine Heigl in State of Affairs and Téa Leoni in Madam Secretary
Wow! These two women – Charleston Tucker (Katherine Heigl) and Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) – can work miracles. They can do anything that needs doing anywhere in the world. What I’m saying is the plot lines in these shows are a little grandiose. Come on writers, you know plausibility is a virtue in a plot. However, I’m loving the characters. I’m still waiting for Alfre Woodard to get her name dropped during the promos, but I’m happy her role puts her in so many scenes.
What I’m liking about the female characters in Stalker , State of Affairs and Madam Secretary is that they are strong and powerful, but also completely female.
The Fosters Christmas Special
Sherri Saum as Lena Adams in The Fosters
The Fosters Christmas special is available early if you watch using the ABC Family app instead of waiting for the show to air on network TV. I have to say it made a complete mess of me because I cried all the way through. I cried because Lena (Sherri Saum) and Stef (Teri Polo) were fighting, I cried about the wonderful way that Lena talked to Jude (Hayden Byerly) about being a half sibling. I cried when Stef got so mad at her mom (Annie Potts). I cried when Stef’s mom gave the kids college money for Christmas. All that crying made me very happy. Everything about The Fosters makes me happy. “Thank you for the tears I’ve cried.”
Switched at Birth Christmas Special
Katie Leclerc and Vanessa Marano in Switched at Birth
This show is also available early using the ABC Family app.
Switched at Birth pulled a Christmas miracle switch. Bay (Vanessa Marano) and Daphne (Katie Leclerc) were switched back to their right parents. Everything was different and wrong and a mess, but Bay and Daphne knew it. Of course, they switch it back to being with the wrong parents. A tired plot, but I love this show. Switching characters gives everyone a chance to make their persona completely different, which is entertaining for me. It reminds me that these people are acting.
No matter how much we love a character, it’s good to be reminded that the person playing the character is acting. Oh shit! That means Jennifer Beals isn’t really Bette Porter and Anna Silk isn’t really Bo Dennis. Damn!
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on December 5, 2014 December 5, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Alfre Woodard, Anna Silk, Annie Potts, brain dump, Hayden Byerly, Jennifer Beals, Katherine Heigl, Katie Leclerc, Madam Secretary, Maggie Q, Sherri Saum, Stalker, State of Affairs, Switched at Birth, Tea Leoni, Teri Polo, The Fosters, Vanessa Marano2 Comments on Brain Dump: Stalker, State of Affairs, Madam Secretary, The Fosters, Switched at Birth
Brain Dump: Elementary, The Fall, State of Affairs
Short thoughts on lots of unrelated media. That’s a brain dump.
Lucy Liu looks great but does Dr. Joan Watson dress like this?
In Elementary , I like Watson (Lucy Liu) being off in her own place with a hunky guy in her bed. I’m not sure I like the flirty little outfits she’s taken to wearing. The clothes aren’t quite serious enough. Maybe the whole clothing makeover and hunky guy in the bed routine have to do with the fact that Watson is so pissed off with Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller). Think she’ll ever forgive him for running off to London for 8 months?
The Fall stars Gillian Anderson
Season 2 of The Fall is now showing in the UK. Netflix announced that it will stream season 2 for North American audiences beginning January 16, 2015. Thank you, Netflix for making the trip over the pond so speedy! This cerebral series stars Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. Here’s the official blurb about the new season.
Following Season 1’s gripping cliff-hanger and despite Gibson and Spector never actually meeting on screen, the chemistry between the two characters was electric and the escalating rivalry became the lynchpin of the first season and left the audience crying out for more. This critically-acclaimed series picks up immediately from where series one left off, with Gibson in pursuit of Spector. A personal link from Spector’s past opens up some clues for Gibson but provokes Spector in a way that threatens to jeopardize the whole investigation. Gibson is forced to take ever greater risks but the closer she comes to capturing him, the more Spector trespasses into her private world, delighting in taunting and provoking her. As the net gradually tightens around him he becomes psychologically ever more dangerous and destructive.
I’m planning to review season 2 after it’s been on Netflix for a few days and people have had time to watch it.
Katherine Heigl and Alfre Woodard in State of Affairs
State of Affairs has me all worked up and I haven’t seen the first episode yet. Why am I worked up? Because the ads show Katherine Heigl and Alfre Woodard working together, but when the ad is over the only name that gets mentioned is Katherine Heigl.
What is Alfre Woodard – invisible? Alfre Woodard has 106 acting credits listed on IMDB, compared with Katherine Heigl’s 40. Woodard has a ton more acting awards than Heigl has.
But let’s only mention the pretty blonde lady in the ads, okay? That seems really fair.
Just the other day I saw an interesting article at Business Insider saying the way Firefly was promoted basically ruined the show’s chances for success. It’s Amazing How Badly Fox Screwed Up Joss Whedon’s ‘Firefly.’ I hope State of Affairs isn’t doing the same thing.
Aggravation aside, I will be watching when State of Affairs begins tonight. Fingers crossed that the show is better than the promos for the show.
Alfre Woodard photo by Johnson C. Smith University
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on November 16, 2014 November 17, 2014 Categories TV seriesTags Alfre Woodard, Elementary, Firefly, Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, Jonny Lee Miller, Joss Whedon, Katherine Heigl, Lucy Liu, State of Affairs, The FallLeave a comment on Brain Dump: Elementary, The Fall, State of Affairs
Upcoming TV Series with Female Leads
New TV series in the works with women in the lead or co-lead roles look very good. Some start as soon as summer, some are scheduled for fall.
Starting in June on TNT is Murder in the First , which stars Teye Diggs and Kathleen Robertson. Kathleen Robertson may not continue throughout the series as lead, because she’s only in 7 of the 9 episodes that comprise the first season, but it’s worth checking out. Murder in the First is a Steven Bochco production. Bochco has a long string of successful police dramas behind him, including NYPD Blue , Hill Street Blues , and LA Law .
Also coming to TNT, but not until fall or possibly 2015 is the new Jennifer Beals supernatural medical drama Proof . Proof also stars Matthew Modine and Joe Morton. The series is produced by Kyra Sedgwick. Of everything that’s coming, and a lot of it looks really good, I’m very excited about seeing Jennifer Beals back on my TV every week.
Jennifer seems excited about working with Matthew Modine.
O, the glamour! Shooting in the lovely rain with the exquisite @MatthewModine. #GoodTimes #Proof pic.twitter.com/5dO3W3lIMj
— Jennifer Beals (@jenniferbeals) March 26, 2014
TNT announced casting Julia Stiles in a legal drama called Guilt by Association but I haven’t seen any follow up news about the pilot being picked up.
Red Band Society is a remake of a Spanish series. Octavia Spencer leads the cast of this tale about teenagers living in a pediatric wing of a hospital. It will be on Fox.
Fox also scheduled Empire starring Taraji P. Hanson and Terrance Howard. This series is about a family who runs a hip hop empire. The music is supposed to be excellent, if you’re a hip hop fan. The show is by Lee Daniels and features many well-known African American actors including Gabourey Sidibe.
Another new show with a woman of color in the lead is Shonda Rhimes new drama, How to Get Away with Murder . Viola Davis will star in this legal thriller as a criminal defense professor who gets tangled up in a murder plot. Anything Shonda Rhimes does is going to make a big impression. This one should be a hit for ABC for sure.
NBC brings us State of Affairs starring Katherine Heigl as a CIA Agent who reports to the U.S. President. The President is Alfre Woodard, who is one of my all-time favorites. These two should be fabulous together.
Another political drama on NBC is Odyssey . It stars Anna Friel as a soldier. Odyssey is described as a sprawling international conspiracy that ties together three very different characters – a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a young political activist. The other two characters in this threesome are played by Peter Facinelli and Jake Robinson.
TV is where women are making a mark these days, and these upcoming shows are part of that trend. Do any of these shows look especially interesting to you? What are you planning to watch? Did I miss anything new with a female lead?
Author Virginia DeBoltPosted on May 9, 2014 Categories News, TV seriesTags Alfre Woodard, Anna Friel, Gabourey Sidibe, Guilt by Association, How to Get Away with Murder, Jake Robinson, Jennifer Beals, Joe Morton, Julia Stiles, Katherine Heigl, Kathleen Robertson, Kyra Sedgwick, Lee Daniels, Matthew Modine, Murder in the First, Octavia Spencer, Odyssey, Peter Facinelli, Proof, Red Band Society, Shonda Rhimes, State of Affairs, Steven Bochco, Teye Diggs, Viola Davis3 Comments on Upcoming TV Series with Female Leads
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Lubbock’s List: The Original ‘Must-Read’ List
This post is a break from “our usual programming” to look at a surprisingly modern phenomenon in publishing: “must-read lists.” Included below is probably the most famous example, with links to free copies of over 100 books, mostly classics.
“The choice of books, like that of friends, is a serious duty.”
—Sir John Lubbock.
What Did People Read in Victorian Times?
I came across something in F. W. Boreham’s Ships of Pearl the other day, where he mentioned in passing that Sir John Lubbock had created a list of 100 books that anyone should read if they want to think of themselves as “well-read.” Out of pure curiosity, I found the list online, and I wanted to take a closer look at what’s there. Note: The list was partially reported in The Spectator on the day the speech was given in 1886, but it was later published fully with comments (and a few changes) in a book by Sir John Lubbock (see chapter 4 of The Pleasures of Life).
F. W. Boreham, who informed me of the list, read many of the philosophers, historians, playwrights, and poets on this list. I would guess that he read close to half of the works on this list. The list, therefore, is a pretty strong indicator of what was popular then. It is interesting to think that a preacher in the 1910s and 1920s might be reading substantially the same literature as the layman, whereas today I would expect that I have almost no books in common with the library of non-churchgoers.
Three books on this list that were hugely influential, but are rarely explored today, would be: Boswell’s Life of Johnson (seminal in the field of biography), Keble’s Christian Year (popularized 365-day devotionals), and Smiles’ Self-Help (foundational to the modern genre of self-help).
The Widespread Influence of Lubbock’s List
Lubbock’s list was originally presented to the Working Men’s College in London, of which he was the principal from 1883 to 1899. Notably, the list set working-class men running for the Classics: Lubbock had high praise not just for Plato and Homer, but Plutarch, Xenophon, and Epictetus, names the mere mention of which would set most Americans yawning today. Lubbock also comments about omitting novels, modern historians (all “kings and queens . . . dates of battles and wars”), and modern science (“so rapidly progressive”).
This list also set off a chain reaction in English literary circles: first, of comments and criticisms; then, of scholars and academies creating their own lists; thirdly, of publishers creating series like Great Books, which were very successful into the first decades of the twentieth century.
The Purpose of the List
In a way, Lubbock’s list is the original ‘must-read’ list, but it is not by any means a list of his personal favorites. If you’re surprised by what’s there (a Victorian MP recommending the Qurʼān?), note Lubbock’s comment:
I drew up the list, not as that of the hundred best books, but, which is very different, of those which have been most frequently recommended as best worth reading.
On the Qurʼān, for instance, he writes:
The Koran, like the Analects of Confucius, will to most of us derive its principal interest from the effect it has exercised, and still exercises, on so many millions of our fellow-men. I doubt whether in any other respect it will seem to repay perusal, and to most persons probably certain extracts, not too numerous, would appear sufficient.
Nabeel Qureshi, though, would point out the cultural mismatch of making an analogy between Christians’ view of the Bible and Muslims’ views of the Qurʼān—especially noting the orality of many Muslim-majority cultures, and the recentness of widespread literacy.
More Like a Hundred-ish
The list is purported to be “a hundred,” but many of the “books” listed are either volume sets or series, and as listed it even exceeds 100 works, so that the actual number of “books” here is about 189 (!) by my count. (Some are very short, though, right?)
I’ve linked all of them to Project Gutenberg for reference. Out of all 100+ works, less than 10 were not on Project Gutenberg, which is a tribute to the enduring popularity of the books that Lubbock chose.
The Holy Bible (Latin) (Spanish) (Swedish)
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (German)
Aristotle’s Ethics (Greek: NE vol 1, NE vol 2)
The Analects of Confucius
St Hilaire’s Le Bouddha et sa religion . . . is not on Project Gutenberg but it is available here and (in French) here
Wake’s Apostolic Fathers . . . is not on Project Gutenberg but it is available here
Thos. à Kempis’ Imitation of Christ (French)
Confessions of St. Augustine (Dr. Pusey) (Latin)
The Koran (portions of)
Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Comte’s Catechism of Positive Philosophy . . . is not on Project Gutenberg but you can read it here
Pascal’s Pensées [“Thoughts”]
Butler’s Analogy of Religion
Taylor’s Holy Living and Dying . . . is not on Project Gutenberg but you can read it here
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Finnish)
Keble’s Christian Year
Plato’s Dialogues; at any rate, the Apology (Greek), Phædo (Finnish) (Greek), and Republic (Greek)
Xenophon’s Memorabilia [listed twice]
Aristotle’s Politics
Demosthenes’ De Corona [“On the Crown,” excerpt from The Public Orations of Demosthenes, vol. 1]
Cicero’s De Officiis (Latin), De Amicitia [“On Friendship”], and De Senectute [“On Old Age”] (Latin) [the first two are available in English as Treatises on Friendship and Old Age; De Senectute is in English here]
Plutarch’s Lives (Greek) (4 volumes)
Berkeley’s Human Knowledge
Descartes’s Discours sur la Méthode
Locke’s On the Conduct of the Understanding . . . isn’t on Project Gutenberg but you can read it here and here and here
Homer’s Iliad (French) (Greek) (Latin) (Spanish) and Odyssey (Finnish) (French) (Greek) (Latin) (Spanish) (Swedish)
Hesiod (Latin) (?)
Virgil (Finnish) (Latin) (Scots) (?)
Epitomized in Talboy Wheeler’s History of India, vols i and ii: Maha Bharata (5 volumes), Ramayana
Firdusi’s Shahnameh [an excerpt from The Persian Literature, vol 1]
The Nibelungenlied (only available in German)
Malory’s Morte d’Arthur
The Sheking [The Shi King] . . . is not on Project Gutenberg but you can read it here
Kalidasa’s Sakuntala or The Lost Ring
Aeschylus’s Prometheus [excerpt of Tragedies and Fragments] (Greek)
Aeschylus’s Trilogy (Greek) (Swedish)
Sophocles’s Oedipus (Dutch)
Euripides’s Medea
Aristophanes’s The Knights and Clouds (Greek) [both are excerpts from Eleven Comedies vol 1]
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (Italian) (“perhaps in Morris’ edition; or, if expurgated, in C. Clarke’s, or Mrs. Haweis'”)
Shakespeare (8 volumes)
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Lycidas, Comus, and minor poems [Lycidas and Comus are included with the minor poems]
Dante’s Divina Commedia (Cary’s tr.) (Longfellow’s tr.) (Finnish) (Friulian) (German) (Italian) (Spanish)
Spenser’s Fairie Queen (1?)
Dryden’s Poems [vol 1 and vol 2] (2 volumes)
Scott’s Poems [such as The Lady of the Lake, Marmion, ?]
Wordsworth (Mr Arnold’s selection) [Wordsworth’s complete poetical works is in 8 volumes . . . presumably Lubbock means Selected Poems of William Wordsworth]
Pope’s Essay on Criticism
Essay on Man
Rape of the Lock [portion from Rape of the Lock and Other Poems]
Byron’s Childe Harold
Gray [largest selection seems to be in Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett]
Herodotus [vol 1 and vol 2] (Greek: vol 1 and vol 2)
Xenophon’s Anabasis (Greek)
Thucydides (Greek)
Tacitus’s Germania (Finnish) (French) (German)
Livy (4 volumes)
Gibbon’s Decline and Fall (6 volumes)
Hume’s History of England (3 volumes)
Grote’s History of Greece (12 volumes!)
Carlyle’s French Revolution (3 volumes)
Green’s Short History of England . . . is surprisingly not on Project Gutenberg but it is here [and Green’s 8-volume “long” history of England is on Gutenberg here]
Lewes’s History of Philosophy . . . is not on Project Gutenberg but it is here: vol 1 and vol 2
Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (Dutch) (Finnish) (French)
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
Cervante’s Don Quixote (Finnish)
Boswell’s Life of Johnson (2 volumes)
Molière (?) [his complete works are 10 volumes in English]
Schiller’s William Tell
Sheridan’s The Critic, School for Scandal, and The Rivals
Carlyle’s Past and Present
Bacon’s Novum Organum
Smith’s Wealth of Nations (part of)
Mill’s Political Economy
Cook’s Voyages
Humboldt’s Travels [vol 1, vol 2, vol 3] (3 volumes)
White’s Natural History of Selborne
Darwin’s Origin of Species
Naturalist’s Voyage [i.e. The Voyage of the Beagle]
Mill’s Logic
Bacon’s Essays
Montaigne’s Essays (Finnish) (French)
Hume’s Essays
Macaulay’s Essays (6 volumes)
Addison’s Essays
Emerson’s Essays
Burke’s Select Works
Smiles’s Self-Help
Voltaire’s Zadig (Finnish) (French) (Spanish) and Micromegas (Spanish)
Goethe’s Faust (German), and Autobiography (2 volumes)
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
Thackeray’s Pendennis
Dickens’ Pickwick
Dickens’ David Copperfield
Lytton’s Last Days of Pompeii
George Eliot’s Adam Bede
Kingsley’s Westward Ho!
Scott’s Novels [28 volumes!!]: The Abbot; Anne of Geierstein [vol 1 and vol 2]; The Antiquary; The Betrothed; [Bizarro was not in print at the time that J. L. created his list]; The Black Dwarf; The Bride of Lammermoor (Finnish) (Italian); Castle Dangerous [portion of Waverley Novels vol. 12]; Count Robert of Paris [portion of Waverley Novels vol. 12]; The Fair Maid of Perth; The Fortunes of Nigel; Guy Mannering; The Heart of Midlothian; Ivanhoe (Dutch); Kenilworth; A Legend of Montrose; The Monastery; Old Mortality; Peveril of the Peak; The Pirate; Quentin Durward; Redgauntlet; Rob Roy (French); Saint Ronan’s Well; [The Siege of Malta had not been fully printed at the time J. L. created his list]; The Talisman (Dutch); Waverley (Finnish); Woodstock.
[Selections from the Writings of Ruskin (added in 1930 edition)]
[Ruskin’s Modern Painters (added in 1930 edition)] (5 volumes)
Note: Previous Lubbock lists had included:
Southey’s Thalaba the Destroyer, The Curse of Kehama (vol 1 and vol 2)
Lucretius [“less generally suitable than most of the others in the list”]
Miss Austen’s Emma, or Pride and Prejudice [Lubbock omitted them, commenting that English novelists were “somewhat over-represented”]
Locke’s Human Understanding (vol 1 and vol 2) [apparently mistaken for Conduct of the Understanding in some lists, since the titles are so similar]
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Free Andrew Murray PDFs
Although almost all of Andrew Murray’s 45 books have been in print recently, most readers don’t realize how old they are because of his simple and pointed language. (Not to mention all the updated editions!) Murray was born in 1828 and died in 1917, which means everything published during his lifetime has entered the public domain.
Below is a list of all of the best PDFs available on the Internet Archive. (Those with asterisks are highly recommended.)
Abide in Christ: Thoughts on the Blessed Life of Fellowship with the Son of God
Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses
The Children for Christ
The Christian Life (preached Sept. 1895, Toronto)***
The Cross of Christ (excerpt from The Blood of the Cross)
The Dearth of Conversions (booklet)
Divine Healing: A Series of Addresses
Faith in the Power of God
The Full Blessing of Pentecost: The One Thing Needful
Helps to Intercession (booklet)
Have Mercy upon Me: The Prayer of the Penitent in the Fifty-First Psalm Explained and Applied
The Holiest of All: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews
Holy in Christ: Thoughts on the Calling of God’s Children to Be Holy as He Is Holy
Humility: The Beauty of Holiness***
In My Name (booklet)
The Inner Chamber and the Inner Life
Jesus Himself: Two Addresses
The Key to the Missionary Problem: Thoughts Suggested by the Report of the Ecumenical Missionary Conference, Held in New York, April 1900
Like Christ: Thoughts on the Blessed Life of Conformity to the Son of God (sequel to Abide in Christ)
The Lord’s Table: A Help to the Right Observance of the Holy Supper
Lord, Teach Us to Pray (excerpt from With Christ in the School of Prayer)
Love Made Perfect (booklet)
The Master’s Indwelling (preached Aug. 1895, Northfield)
The Ministry of Intercession: A Plea for More Prayer***
Money: Thoughts for God’s Stewards
The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ
The Power of the Blood of Jesus
The Prayer Life: The Inner Chamber and the Deepest Secret of Pentecost
The Prophet-Priest: Four Addresses Delivered at Mildmay Conference, 1895
The School of Obedience (Addresses at the Students’ Convention at Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 28-31, 1898)
The Spirit of Christ: Thoughts on the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Believer and the Church
The Spiritual Life: A Series of Lectures Delivered before the Students of the Moody Bible Institute
The State of the Church: A Plea for More Prayer
The Supreme Need: In Response to a Call to the Church, in Mrs. Head’s Booklet, “The Forgotten Friend”
Thy Will Be Done: The Blessedness of a Life in the Will of God
The True Vine: Meditations for a Month on John 15:1-5***
The Two Covenants and the Second Blessing
Wholly for God: The True Christian Life: A Series of Extracts from the Writings of William Law (edited by Andrew Murray)
Why Do You Not Believe?
With Christ in the School of Prayer: Thoughts on Our Training for the Ministry of Intercession***
Working for God (sequel to Waiting on God)
Looking for a complete list of Andrew Murray’s books? You’ll find that here.
This entry was posted in Ebooks, Free ebooks and tagged Andrew Murray, Devotional, Dutch authors, Free ebooks, South African authors on June 12, 2019 by Pioneer Library.
Free George MacDonald Books
George MacDonald was a Scottish preacher and author who holds today a profound unseen influence in the genres of theology and fantasy. His realistic fiction was a blend of romance and theology; he also had his own way of telling “fairy stories,” which helped popularize fantasy as a genre.
MacDonald passed away in 1905, so everything published by him in his lifetime is out of copyright. Here is where you can read his works for free:
Free George MacDonald books (PDF) on the Internet Archive (50+)
Free George MacDonald books in the Kindle Store (40+)
Free George MacDonald audiobooks on LibriVox (40+)
Free George MacDonald books on ManyBooks
Free George MacDonald books on the Online Books Page (60+)
Free George MacDonald books on Project Gutenberg (50+)
This entry was posted in Ebooks, Free ebooks and tagged Free ebooks, George MacDonald, Scottish authors on May 30, 2019 by Pioneer Library.
Free George MacDonald PDFs
The following is a complete list of George MacDonald’s books that are available for free in PDF format from the Internet Archive. Abridged titles are given in parentheses.
Adela Cathcart, containing “The Light Princess”, “The Shadows”, and other short stories
Alec Forbes of Howglen (= The Maiden’s Bequest)
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (★★★★★)
At the Back of the North Wind
Beautiful Thoughts from George MacDonald (compilation)
Cheerful Words from the Writing of George MacDonald (compilation)
David Elginbrod (= The Tutor’s First Love)
Dealings with the Fairies, containing “The Golden Key”, “The Light Princess”, “The Shadows”, and other short stories
Diary of an Old Soul (★★★★)
“The Disciple” and Other Poems
A Dish of Orts (essays)
Donal Grant (= The Shepherd’s Castle), a sequel to Sir Gibbie
Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems
The Elect Lady (= The Landlady’s Master)
England’s Antiphon (a history of religious poetry)
Far Above Rubies
The Flight of the Shadow
The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (= Stephen Archer and Other Tales)
Guild Court: A London Story (= The Prodigal Apprentice)
Gutta Percha Willie, the Working Genius (= The Genius of Willie MacMichael)
Heather and Snow (= The Peasant Girl’s Dream) (★★★)
“A Hidden Life” and Other Poems
Home Again: A Tale (= The Poet’s Homecoming)
The Hope of the Gospel (★★★★)
Lilith: A Romance
Malcolm (updated under the same title)
The Marquis of Lossie (= The Marquis’ Secret), the sequel of Malcolm (★★★★)
Mary Marston (= A Daughter’s Devotion or The Shopkeeper’s Daughter)
The Miracles of Our Lord (sermons) (★★★★★)
Paul Faber, Surgeon (= The Lady’s Confession), a sequel to Thomas Wingfold, Curate
Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women (★★★)
The Portent
The Princess and the Goblin (★★★★★)
The Princess and Curdie, a sequel to The Princess and the Goblin (★★★★★)
Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root
Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood (= The Boyhood of Ranald Bannerman)
Robert Falconer (= The Musician’s Quest) (★★★★★)
A Rough Shaking (= The Wanderings of Clare Skymer)
St. George and St. Michael
Salted with Fire (= The Minister’s Restoration)
Scotch Songs and Ballads
The Seaboard Parish, a sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (★★★★★)
Sir Gibbie (= The Baronet’s Song) (★★★★★)
Thomas Wingfold, Curate (= The Curate’s Awakening) (★★★★★)
There and Back (= The Baron’s Apprenticeship), a sequel to Paul Faber, Surgeon (★★★★★)
The Threefold Cord: Poems by Three Friends
The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study With the Test of the Folio of 1623
Unspoken Sermons (1st series, 2nd series, 3rd series) (★★★★★)
The Vicar’s Daughter, a sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood and The Seaboard Parish
Warlock o’ Glenwarlock (= Castle Warlock and The Laird’s Inheritance)
Weighed and Wanting (= The Gentlewoman’s Choice) (★★★)
What’s Mine’s Mine (= The Highlander’s Last Song)
Wilfrid Cumbermede
The Wise Woman: A Parable (= “The Lost Princess: A Double Story” or “A Double Story”)
Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem
Although all of George MacDonald’s works are out of copyright, this list does not include everything he has written. If you want a more complete list, you can check out our Complete Bibliography of George MacDonald.
This entry was posted in Ebooks, Free ebooks and tagged 19th century fiction, 19th century poets, Free ebooks, George MacDonald, Scottish authors on May 29, 2019 by Pioneer Library.
Free books by Samuel M. Zwemer
Samuel M. Zwemer worked as a pioneer missionary in Iraq, Bahrain, and Egypt, but his most lasting influence was through his conferences and books. He worked tirelessly as a missions mobilizer to make Christians aware of the challenges and opportunities of missions among Muslims.
The following list links to free PDFs of Zwemer’s books from several sources, many of them prepared by the Zwemer Center or by muhammadanism.org.
Across the World of Islam
Arabia: The Cradle of Islam (4th Edition)
Call to Prayer (site down)
Childhood in the Moslem World
The Cross Above the Crescent (site down)
Daylight in the Harem (with Annie van Sommer)
The Disintegration of Islam
Evangelism Today: Message Not Method
The Glory of the Cross (Arabic Translation)
The Glory of the Manger
The Golden Milestone
Heirs of the Prophets
The Influence of Animism on Islam
Into All the World
Islam, A Challenge to Faith (2nd Edition) (German Translation)
Islam and Missions (editor & contributor)
The Law of Apostasy in Islam
Lucknow, 1911
The Mohammedan World of Today (with E. M. Wherry)
Mohammed or Christ. (Fleming H. Revell edition)
The Moslem Christ
The Moslem Doctrine of God
The Moslem World (revised for students from Islam, A Challenge to Faith)
A Moslem Seeker After God (Arabic Translation)
The Nearer and Farther East (with Arthur J. Brown)
Our Muslim Sisters (editor & contributor)
Raymond Lull: First Missionary to the Muslims (Spanish Translation)
The Solitary Throne
Sons of Adam: Studies of Old Testament Characters in New Testament Light
Taking Hold of God
Thinking Missions with Christ (3rd Edition)
Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children (with Amy E. Zwemer)
The Unoccupied Mission Fields of Africa and Asia
Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country (with Amy E. Zwemer)
This list only includes full-length books. For an exhaustive list of Samuel M. Zwemer’s publications, see our bibliography for Samuel Zwemer.
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Free books by G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton wrote books of essays, poetry, criticism, drama, and lay theology. C. S. Lewis was profoundly affected by Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man, and it would be difficult to calculate Chesterton’s obvious inspiration in the works and lives of both Lewis and Tolkien.
Because Chesterton was promoted to glory in 1936, nearly everything published in his name is out of copyright, and you can get a vast quantity of them for free in almost any digital format you want.
Free G. K. Chesterton books in the Kindle Store (30+)
Free G. K. Chesterton books on Project Gutenberg (70+)
Free G. K. Chesterton books on LibriVox (40+ full audiobooks)
This entry was posted in Ebooks, Free ebooks and tagged Free ebooks, G. K. Chesterton on May 21, 2019 by Pioneer Library.
Free Missionary Biographies (150+)
For publishing purposes, I created a database of hundreds of missionary biographies. Here are links to the 183 of them that are available for free online. Several websites assisted in the creation of this list, especially the Internet Archive, missiology.org.uk, and Wholesome Words.
These links can be searched and sorted by country or author on AirTable.
The Parish of the Pines by Thomas D. Whittles (1873-?)
The Harvest of the Sea: A Tale of Both Sides of the Atlantic by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940)
Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1865-1940)
Amid Greenland Snows: The Early History of Arctic Missions by Jesse Page (1805-1883)
Memoir of William Knibb: Missionary in Jamaica by John Howard Hinton (1791-1873)
Missions among Native Americans
An Historical Account of the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Containing Their Foundation, Proceedings and the Success of Their Missionaries in the British Colonies to the Year 1728 by David Humphreys (1689-1740)
A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences, of that faithful minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman by John Woolman (1720-1772)
The Triumph of the Reformed Religion in America: The Life of the Renowned John Eliot by Cotton Mather (1663-1728)
An Account of the Life of the Late Rev. David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
By Canoe and Dog-Train: Among the Cree and Salteaux Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
On the Indian Trail: Stories of Missionary Work among the Cree and Salteaux Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Camp-Fires by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
Oowikapun: Or, How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
Indian Life in the Great North-West by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
The Battle of the Bears: Life in the North Land by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
The Apostle of the North: Rev. James Evans by Egerton Ryerson Young (1840-1909)
Mirabilia Dei Inter Indicos, or, The Rise and Progress of a Remarkable Work of Grace amongst a Number of the Indians in the Provinces of New-Jersey and Pennsylvania, Justly Representied in a Journal Kept by Order of the Honourable Society (in Scotland) for Propagating Christian Knowledge by David Brainerd (1718-1747)
Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd by Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), David Brainerd (1718-1747), Sereno Edwards Dwight (1786-1850)
David Brainerd, the Apostle of the North American Indians by Jesse Page (1805-1883)
Brief Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New England, in the Year 1670 by John Eliot (1604-1690)
A Voice from South America by Captain Allen Francis Gardiner (1794-1851)
South America: The Dark Continent by Emilio Olsson
Captain Allen Gardiner of Patagonia: The Dauntless Sailor Missionary by Jesse Page (1805-1883)
The Story of Commander Allen Gardiner by John William Marsh (1822-1882), Waite H. Stirling
A Thousand Miles in a Dug-Out: Being the Narrative of a Journey of Investigation among the Red-Skin Indians of Central Brazil by Frederick Charles Glass (1871-1960)
Adventures with the Bible in Brazil by Frederick Charles Glass (1871-1960)
In the Tropics: Scenes and Incidents of West Indian Life by Jabez Marrat (1833-1909)
Memoir of Mrs. Stallybrass, Wife of the Rev. Edward Stallybrass, Missionary to Siberia by Edward Stallybrass
Jonas King: Missionary to Syria and Greece by F. E. H. Haines
The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa by William Taylor (1821-1902)
Africa Waiting or The Problem of Africa’s Evangelisation by Douglas Montagu Thornton (1873-1907)
Back to the Long Grass: My Link with Livingstone by Daniel Crawford (1870-1926)
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone (1813-1873)
Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa by David Livingstone (1813-1873)
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa by Horace Waller
Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger; with a Narrative of a Voyage Down That River to Its Termination by Richard Lander, John Lander
Central Africa Revisited: A 16,000 Mile Tour Thoughout the Fields of the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Congo, Sudan and Egypt by Daniel Morison Miller (1888-1965)
Garenganze; or, Seven Years Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa by Frederick Stanley Arnot (1858-1914)
The Life and Explorations of Frederick Stanley Arnot, F.R.G.S. by Ernest Baker
The Personal Life of David Livingstone: Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family by William Garden Blaikie (1820-1899)
Alfred Saker: The Pioneer of the Cameroons by Emily Martha Saker (b. 1849)
Congo River Region
Pioneering on the Congo by William Holman Bentley (1855-1905)
Life on the Congo by William Holman Bentley (1855-1905)
W. Holman Bentley: The Life and Labours of a Congo Pioneer, By His Widow by H. M. Bentley
John Ludwig Krapf: Explorer-Missionary of Northeastern Africa by Paul Edward Kretzmann (1883-1965)
Eclipse in Ethiopia and Its Corona Glory by Esmé Ritchie Rice
In the Heart of Savagedom: Reminiscences of Life and Adventure during a Quarter of a Century of Pioneering Missionary Labours in the Wilds of East Equatorial Africa by Eva Stuart Watt
Through Lands That Were Dark. Being a Record of a Year’s Missionary Journey in Africa and Madagascar by F. H. Hawkins (1863-1936)
Madagascar: Its Mission and Its Martyrs by Ebenezer Prout
The Martyrs’ Isle: or, Madagascar: The Country, the People, and the Missions by Annie Sharman
The Life of Robert Laws of Livingstonia by William Pringle Livingstone (b. 1864)
Reminiscences of Livingstonia by Robert Laws (1851-1934)
Streams in the Desert: A Picture of Life in Livingstonia by James Horne Morrison (1872-1947)
The Romance of the Black River: The Story of the C.M.S. Nigeria Mission by F. Deaville Walker
Seven Years in Sierra Leone by Arthur Tappan Pierson (1837-1911)
South Africa & Botswana
Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country, in South Africa by Captain Allen Francis Gardiner (1794-1851)
Christina Forsyth of Fingoland: The Story of the Loneliest Woman in Africa by William Pringle Livingstone (b. 1864)
Missionary Labors and Scenes in Southern Africa by Robert Moffat (1795-1883)
Robert Moffat: African Missionary by Jabez Marrat (1833-1909)
Stewart of Lovedale by James Wells
Dawn in the Dark Continent by James Stewart (1831-1905)
New Frontiers in the Central Sudan by C. Gordon Beacham
Seven Sevens of Years and a Jubilee: The Story of the Sudan Interior Mission by Rowland V. Bingham (1872-1942)
Two Kings of Uganda by Robert Pickering Ashe (1857-1944)
The Last Journals of Bishop Hannington by Edwin Collas Dawson (1849-1925)
James Hannington, First Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa: A History of His Life and Work (1847-1885) by Edwin Collas Dawson (1849-1925)
Bishop Hannington and the Story of the Uganda Mission by William Grinton Berry (1873-1926)
Mackay of the Great Lake by Constance Evelyn Padwick (1886- )
Mackay of Uganda: The Missionary Engineer by Mary Yule
Uganda’s White Man of Work by Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (b. 1876)
Chronicles of Uganda by Robert Pickering Ashe (1857-1944)
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
Christians of the Copperbelt: The Growth of the Church in Northern Rhodesia by John Vernon Taylor
The Way of the White Fields in Rhodesia: A Survey of Christian Enterprise in Northern and Southern Rhodesia by Edwin W. Smith (1876-1957)
Kamil Abdul Messiah by Kamil Abdulmasih (d. 1892)
The Gospel in North Africa by John Rutherford (1816-1866)
I. Lilias Trotter, Founder of the Algiers Mission Band by Blanche Anne Frances Pigott (1849-1930)
Pioneering in Morocco: A Record of Seven Years’ Medical Mission Work in the Palace and the Hut by Robert Kerr (d. 1918)
Egypt & Sudan
A Master-Builder on the Nile: Being a Record of the Life and Aims of John Hogg, Christian Missionary by Rena L. Hogg
Douglas M. Thornton: A Study in Missionary Ideals and Methods by William Henry Temple Gairdner (1873-1928)
W.H.T.G. to His Friends by William Henry Temple Gairdner (1873-1928)
The Changing Sudan by W. Wilson Cash
The Sudan: A Short Compendium of Facts and Figures about the Land of Darkness by H. Karl Kumm (1874-1930)
Iraq & the Gulf
The History of the Arabian Mission by Alfred DeWitt Mason
Levant (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, etc.)
Christian Researches in the Mediterrannean, from 1815 to 1820, in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society by William Jowett, James Connor
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French by Herbert Alfred Birks
Lethaby of Moab: A Record of Missionary Adventure, Peril and Toil by Thomas Durley
Ventures among the Arabs: 13 Years of Pioneer Missionary Life in Arabia by Archibald Forder (1863-1934)
Fifty-Three Years in Syria: The Autobiography of Henry H. Jessup by Henry Harris Jessup (1832-1910)
Bible Works in Bible Lands: or, Events in the History of the Syria Mission by Isaac Bird (1793-1876)
Memoir of the Rev. Pliny Fisk by Alvan Bond (1793-1882)
Raymund Lull: First Missionary to the Moslems by Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867-1952)
Memorials of the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer by Robert Sinker (1838-1913)
Journals and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn by S. Wilberforce
A Memoir of the Rev. Henry Martyn by John Sargent (1780-1833)
Henry Martyn of India and Persia by Jesse Page (1805-1883)
Bengal as a Field of Missions by Mrs. MacLeod Wylie
The Cobra’s Den by Jacob Chamberlain (1835-1908)
Men of Might in India Missions: Their Leaders and Their Epochs, 1706-1899 by Helen Harriet Holcomb
Life and Times of Carey, Marshman and Ward by John Clark Marshman (1794-1877)
History of the Tranquebar Mission by Johannes Ferdinand Fenger (1805-1861)
In the Tiger Jungle and Other Stories of Missionary Work among the Telugus of India by Jacob Chamberlain (1835-1908)
Biographical Sketches of Joshua Marshman by John Fenwick
Things As They Are: Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
A Memoir of Mrs. Margaret Wilson by John Wilson (1804-1875)
Memoir of William Carey by Eustace Carey
The Missionary’s Wife, or, A Brief Account of Mrs. Loveless of Madras; the First American Missionary to Foreign Lands by Richard Knill
Travels in North India by John Cameron Lowrie (1808-1900)
Two Years in Upper India by John Cameron Lowrie (1808-1900)
Two Standard Bearers in the East: Sketches of Dr. Duff and Dr. Wilson by Jabez Marrat (1833-1909)
Memoirs of Mrs. Louisa A. Lowrie : wife of the Rev. John C. Lowrie, missionary to Northern India, who died at Calcutta, Nov. 21st, 1833, aged 24 years by Ashbel Green Fairchild (1795-1864)
An Heroic Bishop: The Life-Story of French of Lahore by Eugene Stock (1836-1928)
Robert Clark of the Panjab: Pioneer and Missionary Statesman by Henry Martyn Clark (1857-1916)
Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon)
One Hundred Years in Ceylon: The Centenary Volume of the Church Missionary Society in Ceylon 1818-1918 by John William Balding
Extracts from the Journal and Correspondence of the Late Mrs. M. M. Clough, Wife of the Rev. Benjamin Clough, Missionary in Ceylon by Adam Clarke, Benjamin Clough, Margaret Morley Clough (1803-1827)
Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Harvard Late of the Wesleyan Mission to Ceylon and India with Extracts from Her Diary and Correspondence by William Martin Harvard
Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, and 1833, with Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands by Charles Gutzlaff
A Sound of Abundance of Rain by Campbell Naismith Moody (1866-1940)
The War and Missions in the East by A. J. MacDonald (1887-1959)
Not Unto Us: A Record of Twenty-One Years’ Missionary Service by Harry Grattan Guinness (1835-1910)
Memoir of William C. Burns, Missionary to China by Islay Burns (1817-1872)
Memoir of the Life and Brief Ministry of the Rev. David Sandeman, Missionary to China by Andrew Alexander Bonar (1810-1892)
A Retrospect by James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)
Three Decades of the China Inland Mission, 1865-1895 by James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905)
Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Soul by Howard Taylor
The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission with Portraits and Map by Marshall Broomhall (1866-1937)
Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God by Howard Taylor
A Maker of New Japan: Joseph Hardy Neesima, President of Doshisha University, Kyoto by Jerome Dean Davis (1838-1910)
Life and Letters of Joseph Hardy Neesima by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
More about the Mongols by James Gilmour (1843-1891)
James Gilmour of Mongolia by James Gilmour (1843-1891), Richard Lovett (1851-1904)
Taiwan (formerly Formosa)
The Saints of Formosa by Campbell Naismith Moody (1866-1940)
The Heathen Heart: An Account of the Reception of the Gospel among the Chinese of Formosa by Campbell Naismith Moody (1866-1940)
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple by Susanna Carson “Susie” Rijnhart (1868-1908)
Myanmar (formerly Burma)
The Gospel in Burma by Mrs. MacLeod Wylie
An Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Empire by Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826)
Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson by Francis Wayland
The Apostle of Burma: A Memoir of Adoniram Judson, D.D. by Jabez Marrat (1833-1909)
Heroes of the South Seas by Martha Burr Banks
Memoir of Mrs. Mary Mercy Ellis, Wife of Rev. William Ellis, Missionary in the South Seas and Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society by William Ellis (1794-1872)
John Williams, the Shipbuilder by Basil Joseph Mathews (1879-1951)
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprise in the South Sea Islands by John Williams (1796-1839)
Memoirs of the Rev. John Williams, Missionary to Polynesia by Ebenezer Prout
James Calvert: or, From Dark to Dawn in Fiji by R. Vernon
James Calvert of Fiji by George Stringer Rowe (1830-1913)
The Story of Fiji by James Calvert (1813-1892)
Memoir of Mary Calvert by George Stringer Rowe (1830-1913)
The Life of John Hunt, Missionary to the Cannibals by George Stringer Rowe (1830-1913)
John Hunt: Pioneer Missionary and Saint by Joseph Nettleton
Fiji and the Fijians by James Calvert (1813-1892), Thomas Williams (1815-1891), George Stringer Rowe (1830-1913)
Bishop Selwyn of New Zealand, and of Lichfield: A Sketch of His Life and Work with Some Further Gleanings from His Letters, Sermons, and Speeches by George Herbert Curteis (1824-1894)
Among the Maoris; or, Daybreak in New Zealand: A Record of the Labours of Samuel Marsden, Bishop Selwyn, and Others by Jesse Page (1805-1883)
Memoirs of the life and labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Parramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales: and of his early connexion with the missions to New Zealand and Tahiti by John Buxton Marsden (1803-1870)
A Short Account of the Character and Labours of the Rev. S. Marsden by William Woolls
Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand, performed in the years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Rev. S. Marsden by John Liddiard Nicholas
James Chalmers: Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea by William Robson
Tamate: The Life and Adventures of a Christian Hero by Richard Lovett (1851-1904)
Greatheart of Papua: James Chalmers by W. P. Nairne
These Thirty Years: The Story of the RBMU by Harry Guinness (1835-1910)
Bishop Patteson: Martyr of Melanesia by Jesse Page (1805-1883)
Life of John Coleridge Patteson, Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901)
Tonga & French Polynesia
Tonga and the Friendly Islands by Sarah Stock Farmer
Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides)
The Story of John G. Paton: Thirty Years with South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton (1824-1907)
Saints and Savages: The Story of Five Years in the New Hebrides by Robert Lamb
Memoirs of British Female Missionaries by Thomas Timpson (1790-1860)
The Unoccupied Mission Fields of Africa and Asia by Samuel Marinus Zwemer (1867-1952)
A History of Moravian Missions by Joseph Edmund Hutton (1838-1937)
Moravian Missions: Twelve Lectures by Augustus C. Thompson (1812-1901)
A History of Wesleyan Missions in All Parts of the World from Their Commencement to the Present Time by William Moister (1808-1891)
An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens in Which the State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered by William Carey (1761-1834)
Conquests of the Cross: A Record of Missionary Work throughout the World by Edwin Hodder (1837-1904)
The History of the Church MIssionary Society: Its Environment, Its Men and Its Work by Eugene Stock (1836-1928)
The Romance of Missionary Heroism: True Stories of the Intrepid Bravery and Stirring Adventures of Missionaries with Uncivilized Man, Wild Beasts and the Forces of Nature in All Parts of the World by John Chisholm Lambert (1857-1917)
A History of Christian Missions during the Middle Ages by George Frederick Maclear (1833-1902)
The Advance Guard: 200 Years of Moravian Missions, 1732-1932 by Anonymous
Memories of the Mission Field by Christine Isabel Tinling (1869-1943)
Journal of Voyages and Travels by Daniel Tyerman, George Bonnet
Twelve Mighty Missionaries by Esthme Ethelind Enock (1874-1947)
Heroes of Missionary Enterprise by Claud Field
Giants of the Missionary Trail: The Life Stories of Eight Men Who Defied Death and Demons by Eugene Myers Harrison
The Missionary Heroes of Africa by James Horne Morrison (1872-1947)
Three Martyrs of the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1828-1896)
On the Trail of the Pioneers: A Sketch of the Missions of the United Free Church of Scotland by James Horne Morrison (1872-1947)
Region classifications are based on those used by the Joshua Project.
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Digital Business Framework: Shaping Engineering Education for Next-Gen in the Era of Digital Economy
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Victor Taratukhin Stanford University orcid.org/0000-0002-7619-9269
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Victor Taratukhin received his Ph.D. in Engineering Design in 1998 and Ph.D. in Computing Sciences and Engineering in 2002. Victor was a Lecturer in Decision Engineering and Module Leader (IT for Product Realization) at Cranfield University, UK (2001-2004), SAP University Alliances Program Director (2004-2012). He is Managing Director, Competence Center ERP at European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS), University of Muenster, Germany (2012-present) and Visiting Professor at Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR).
Currently teaching at Stanford
ME 310I: The Essential Elements of New Product Development: Business and Industry Perspectives
Anastasiia Baryshnikova National Research University Higher School of Economics orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-1288
Master's student at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod
Head of Business Analysis Department, Association of Electronic Trading Platforms, Russia
Yury V. Kupriyanov National Research University Higher School of Economics orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-0264
Deputy professor at Department of Business and Management, School of Business Informatics in National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia, Moscow
Country Manager for Russia/CIS region of global academic prorgam SAP University Alliances
Jörg Becker
Prof. Dr. h.c. Jörg Becker, University of Muenster
Positions currently held:
• Vice-Rector for strategic planning and quality assurance of University of Muenster
• Academic Director of the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS)
• Visiting Professor at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA, University of Tartu, Estonia, Vienna Business School, Austria, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, Business School Turku, Finland
• Managing Director of the Institute for Information Systems at University of Muenster
• Full Professor for Information Systems and Information Management at University of Muenster
External functions
• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB)"
• Editor of the Journal "Information & Management" Editor of the Business Process Management Journal Editor of the Journal "Wirtschaftsinformatik"
• Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• Member of the German Academic Association for Business Research (VHB)
• Member of the German Society for Informatics (GI) Editor of the Journal "Business and Information Systems Engineering"
12 MSc and 6 PhD engineering students from six different universities were engaged in design thinking session and were offered to tackle a challenge of creating a communication channel effectively bridging together international IT company (Industry partner), customers and partners) and academia in the new paradigm of Digital Business Framework.
Key ideas generated by students referred to creating a web-portal and mobile application which will provide social-media type of communication between Industry and Academia.
This platform will allow businesses to deploy information about ongoing research projects, calls for participation for academia and in its turn could identify opportunities to join industry projects, position its areas of expertise and get better involved in understanding trends for educating future of workforce. The framework describes here the main steps towards stable, successful, long-term university-industry cooperation. The framework is industry-oriented, meaning that the process is initiated by the enterprise partner.
The success factors that the industry partner needs to consider are also defined.
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Taratukhin, V., & Baryshnikova, A., & Kupriyanov, Y. V., & Becker, J. (2016, June), Digital Business Framework: Shaping Engineering Education for Next-Gen in the Era of Digital Economy Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26840
Taratukhin, V., & Baryshnikova, A., & Kupriyanov, Y. V., & Becker, J. (2016, June), Digital Business Framework: Shaping Engineering Education for Next-Gen in the Era of Digital Economy Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26840
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Victor Taratukhin, Anastasiia Baryshnikova, Yury V. Kupriyanov, and Jörg Becker. "Digital Business Framework: Shaping Engineering Education for Next-Gen in the Era of Digital Economy". 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June. ASEE Conferences, 2016. https://peer.asee.org/26840 Internet. 21 Jan, 2020
Victor Taratukhin, Anastasiia Baryshnikova, Yury V. Kupriyanov, and Jörg Becker.
"Digital Business Framework: Shaping Engineering Education for Next-Gen in the Era of Digital Economy".
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Why People Swear
Rather than establishing his place in a group, Spock's swearing in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" humorously demonstrates that he does not belong.
In early childhood, crying is an acceptable way to show emotion and relieve stress and anxiety. As children, (especially boys) grow up, Western society discourages them from crying, particularly in public. People still need an outlet for strong emotions, and that's where swearing often comes in.
A lot of people think of swearing as an instinctive response to something painful and unexpected (like hitting your head on an open cabinet door) or something frustrating and upsetting (like being stuck in traffic on the way to a job interview). This is one of the most common uses for swearing, and many researchers believe that it helps relieve stress and blow off steam, like crying does for small children.
Beyond angry or upset words said in the heat of the moment, swearing does a lot of work in social interactions. In the past, researchers have theorized that men swear to create a masculine identity and women swear to be more like men. More recent studies, however, theorize that women swear in part because they are emulating women they admire [ref].
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Swearing vs. Cursing
A lot of people use the words "swearing" and "cursing" interchangeably. Some language experts, however, differentiate between the two. Swearing involves using profane oaths or invoking the name of a deity to give a statement more power or believability. Cursing takes aim at something specific, wishing for or trying to cause a target's misfortune.
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People also swear because they feel they are expected to or because swearing has become a habit. But just because swearing plays all these roles doesn't mean it's socially acceptable, or even legal. In the next sections, we'll look at social and legal responses to swearing.
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Detained By US, Mexican Journalist Fears Death If Deported
Emilio Gutierrez Soto fled to the United States a decade ago after articles he wrote alleging corruption in the Mexican military caused his name to land on a hit list. December 11, 2017 at 10:18 pm
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HUDHUD DIARIES
BLOW BY BLOW ACCOUNT
The wind had started fanning anxiety gently a day prior to the cyclone that was heading towards the East Coast. The intermittent burst of gust that subsided and rose again reminded me of labour pains. I recalled bracing for a similar situation last year—securing windows, putting away garden chairs, and stocking up candles in anticipation of the storm. Cyclone Phailin (that hit Odisha instead, exactly a year ago) turned out to be a damp squib—no gales or gusts of wind, only suffocating stillness. Cyclones, originating in the Bay of Bengal, are an annual feature on the East Coast, but none had touched Visakhapatnam since 1890. They invariably altered course and made landfall either north of Andhra Pradesh and/or into Odisha or south towards Tamil Nadu. A sense of déjà vu prevailed this time too.
There were announcements and advisories prohibiting people to step out of their homes from 7 a.m. onwards. At 9 a.m. Hudhud began fluttering. Winds picked up and were soon accompanied by rains. Being on the first floor, I was under the impression that we would be safe from water ingress. How wrong I was! Rain water started seeping in from underneath the doors and windows and soon a part of our living room and kitchen began flooding. In the initial enthusiasm I got after the water with vengeance, proud of my achievement of beating it at the game. Three hours of lashing winds and rains had us holed up in my son’s room which was on the leeward side of the wind. The flood inside our home had won. The bolted windows seemed vulnerable and we started tying them up for additional backup. India Meteorology Department had predicted that landfall would be anytime 9 – 12. Not aware of such things we expected that the cyclone would hit hardest when ‘landfall’ takes place.
Sunday noon
But by 12 o'clock it was all over. People heaved a sigh of relief, got out of their houses, exchanged notes, surveyed the damage (few trees had toppled), and set about clearing the water inside their homes. I remember thinking, ‘it wasn't that bad after all’.
And then—at 2 p.m.—the fury unleashed. Suddenly, a stray gust of wind came rushing in and before we could comprehend what was happening it attained ferocity and we were in the eye of the storm. The tandav that began then went on unabated for the next ten hours. Windows rattled, glass panes smashed, awnings went flying through air like missiles, roof tiles were flung about and onto cars parked outside; the wind itself, howled and whistled, moaned and groaned. I have never experienced a cyclone before but a sixth sense told me that the wind speed must be 200 kph. I learnt later that the gusts measured 220! This time the winds came from the opposite direction and we sat huddled in our bedroom, waiting for it to end, hoping and praying that the roof over our heads stayed put. It dawned on us then that landfall was the lull before the storm!
Those ten hours can be best described by Rachel Carson’s portrayal of formation of oceans in her seminal book, The Sea around us: “As soon as the earth’s crust began to cool the rains began to fall. Never have there been such rains since that time. They fell continuously, day and night… They poured into the waiting ocean basins, or falling upon the continental masses, drained away to become sea.” Only this did not feel like a beginning, but the end of the World!
Stressed out by the suspense and with nothing to do but wait it out in the darkness that had enveloped us we drifted into a drowse. By the time we woke up the next morning the wind had died down. The scene outside was overwhelming. Everything around us lay in shambles. Electric poles and mobile towers had keeled over, so had lamp-posts. All around us we could see buildings—naked and exposed—which until now had been cloaked in green cover. Trees were razed to ground, some bent and broken—the winds had shorn them of their foliage. Even the low-lying shrubs and hills looked bald. It was exactly what a newspaper described it: a war zone. But what struck me most was the silence. ‘Sannata’ as the Hindi word describes it aptly.
There was no electricity, no water, no fuel, and essential items such as milk and bread and Maggi (some success story this) dried up instantly. We would have to rely on our larder with its provisions and dry foodstuff for the next few days. Mercifully, we still had the cooking gas.
Roof tiles and awnings blown off
Only sticks and twigs
The first lesson I learnt in this natural disaster was the importance of water and its indispensability. We could live without electricity, sweltering in the heat, but it was unimaginable to go on without water. On the first day, post-cyclone, my son scooped mugs full of rainwater—collected on the terrace—into the overhead tank. We did not have the luxury of waiting for clean water. With no fresh water flowing through taps we were back to basics—to buckets and cans.
Somewhere, a source of water was discovered (we were told that gravity aided its flow at that water point) which was tapped by all. Navy’s is a hierarchical structure, but for once you found everyone standing in line for water with no privilege for rank or position. The second lesson: Crisis such as this can be a great leveller.
If you can't have water, drink coke; if you can't have coke, drink champagne. That was the situation in many of our homes. The bar was choc-a-bloc and there was no dearth of good company after sun down!
I have seen natural disasters played out on television news and what struck me odd was how people went about salvaging their possessions. I would wonder how could anyone think of something so trivial as picking up meagre items from debris after such life-threatening calamity; do possessions matter more than one’s life? But now I realize that it is when you can hold onto the most inconsequential or smallest thing in life, find comfort in it, you feel ‘alive’.
We were lucky: we had few broken windows, a damaged washing machine, dish antenna beyond repair, and some soaked-to-bones wooden furniture, books, clothes and mattresses. We did not have the hurricane pass through our living room stranding us in the bedroom and severing access to the kitchen like our neighbours! We were spared the ordeal of holding onto entrance doors for dear life. People had their cars smashed, air conditioners sucked out, garage gates gouged out, front doors coming off their hinges, grilled windows detaching from their frames, glass panes shattering sending shards into the house, rooftop water cisterns and solar panels blown off. Even more unfortunate were the denizens of Yarada village from where come our domestic helpers and security guards. Their entire rations of rice and modest belongings rotted in water as they did not have a roof left over their heads.
True to the military motto of ‘Service before Self’, the Indian Navy jumped headlong into relief and rescue work in town, in setting up community kitchens for Vizagites, and getting electricity and airport services operational. In the absence of menfolk, in Dolphin Hill—a naval enclave of more than 1000 families, women soldiered on regardless. Mothers with children in tow were seen ferrying water bucket by bucket on Scooty from a central water point. This while being the 'handymen', tackling ‘cleanship’ of home and neighbourhood, and providing food for the family—some with babies, small children, and aging parents.
Not the ones to be cornered or pinned down, the ladies also found an innovative pastime to while away the gloomy evenings: spontaneous tea parties by candlelight extending right up to dinner time.
A fantastic symbiotic relationship surfaced between the DH community and the Yarada denizens that saw each other get on to their feet quicker than would have been possible otherwise.
On Dolphin Hill, we were cut off from the outside world. Of course, we had our parent service—the Indian Navy to look after us. But for all practical purposes we were quarantined. The entire 10-km stretch from our residences to the main gate at the base of the hill was unrecognisable. Hillsides had eroded and trees had blocked the roads at every bend. With roads carved out of hills to make way for this residential colony there was already threat of landslides; this will only get worse come summer of 2015.
For a day, the fallen trees remained green but soon the landscape has started resembling a ravaged savannah. With the tree cover gone, the sun bears down harsh and the glare is unbearable. The dry bush poses a fresh hazard: that of forest fire. Fireworks have been banned this Diwali; not a bad thing at all, I would say.
We now stare into smoggy winters and sultry summers. What horrors of climate calamities wait ahead, no one knows. Some suspect that cyclonic disturbances will only rise with the rise in temperature and absence of carbon sinks. The industrial pollutants now have no buffer and we are all the more at the mercy of greenhouse gases and coal dust.
It is ironical that in all these years Vizag was shielded from cyclones by this very Dolphin (Nose) Hill!
What saved us from Hudhud’s wrath as we were holed up in our bedroom was the ficus right outside the window. It had spread indiscriminately like a giant darkening my room but providing privacy. That day it bore the onslaught throughout— twisting, turning, contorting, and protesting; not a leaf was left on its dense crown. It stood its ground and kept our windows on.
A similar feat was enacted by the coconut trees outside the living room windows. The twin palms had blocked my bayview, earlier. If it were not for them, I would have a brilliant view of the bay from the low-lying windows from the luxury of my couch. This day they took the lashing, swayed this way and that, but did not yield.
The ficus and the coconut—both of Indian nativity and antiquity—had saved the day for us. Ironically, I now get an uninterrupted view of the Bay (it looks forlorn) from my living room window and the patio, but I miss the trees. On DH, trees survived due to their flexibility as they are of relatively recent vintage, but the veterans of Naval Park (some more than 50 years old) at the base of the hill were uprooted viciously.
BEFORE: Ficus outside my bedroom window
AFTER: Not a single leaf left
The biggest casualty of this cyclone was the trees. Vizag has lost 80% of its green cover according to an estimate. I feel a tremendous sense of bereavement at this loss. I hope people realise that Vizag’s trees were sacrificed in the process of protecting the buildings and the people. But now the city lies defenceless. It will be years before the green lungs emerge robust enough to protect us from the industrial pollution that is Vizag’s bane. The hill took pride in being a 'silence zone', but now noise pollution is making itself heard. Without trees as shock absorbers, I am suddenly more aware of clattering vehicles and braking buses.
Artificial plantation, at best, has been a controversial issue. Usually, exotics such as copperpod or eucalyptus are preferred for swift greening results but their roots are not strong and they are water guzzlers. It is the native banyans, neem, mangoes and coconut that are good for the soil and the habitat. Naturalist M. Krishnan believed that afforestation was not necessarily a good idea; a denuded forest or hillside is best left to its own devices for it to regenerate to its original vegetation. It is not trees alone, but even shrubs and scrub that hold soil together and prevent erosion.
Given the circumstances I am not sure what the best solution is. But it is heartening to see that most of the standing trees have started sprouting leaves. The same spirit of resilience is evident among men and women who have risen up to the task of rebuilding their lives.
In the aftermath, bird calls fell conspicuously silent, but their presence is being felt like never before. A plum-headed parakeet strayed from its flock and was walking dazed under the staircase. A young bunting—or was it a juvenile munia—wandered into our verandah flapping exhausted, seemingly, after a long flight. A mynah was curiously examining her regular shrub trying to assess the damage. “What were the birds trying to salvage?” I wondered.
The ficus outside my window had been home to two pairs of spotted owlets. Now there are only three and they have shifted camp to a thicket by the compound wall. In the harsh daylight, in the absence of natural shade, the pixies take refuge in a hollow pipe embedded in the wall. Territorial and spunky, they have been shooing away crow pheasants and treepies—birds twice their size—from their territory with a belligerence that belies their size.
BEFORE: Spotted owlet on ficus
AFTER: Shifted base to a nearby thicket
Bluejays, shrikes, shikras, treepies and even the usually skulking coucals can be seen perched atop tree skeletons. I saw a paradise flycatcher wander about openly which is a rare sight indeed. Like insects and rodents, they have been flushed out of their habitats. It is ironical, but I have photographed more birds in the last ten days than what I have seen in the past one and a half year of my birdwatching here!
With no place to hide they are exposed, but they also seem to be more trusting of humans now. After trees, they were the hardest hit in the Hudhud havoc. Newspaper reports tell us that nearly 30,000 birds perished in that gale. Even more ironic is the fact that Hudhud, the ogre that preyed on the birds, was named after a gentle, hoopoe-like bird !
When it returns it is the incessant chattering of the mynahs that breaks the spell of doom first, reassuring us. The chirp, chip, and caw of the birds ring out like a balm.
The other comforting sound after the stunning silence was that of hack-saw cutting fallen trees and the voices of men at work. All of us chipped in with shramdan in clearing the avenues and public spaces. It was a humbling and numbing experience. Gandhiji’s words came to mind: “Intellectual work is important and has an undoubted place in the scheme of life. But what I insist on is the necessity of physical labour. No man, I claim, ought to be free from that obligation. It will serve to improve even the quality of his intellectual output.” Physical labour of this kind has been missing from our lives in excessive pursuit of an intellectual path.
Normal life as we knew it seems distant. No walk, no run, no gym, and no swim—there is simply no time; even the trail and pool are not open for these activities anymore. More time is spent in doing household chores. I am relearning the art of cooking fresh meals in view of shortage of provisions and absence of refrigeration.
Clean potable water has become a luxury. We have to filter and boil water for drinking and cooking; for other household jobs we manage with a mucky, smelly cocktail. Water now is conserved like never before. Milk is still rationed and so is electricity. No television, no washing machine, no air conditioners, and no computer or cell phone connectivity. I, for one (can't say the same of my family), do not miss electricity as much as I miss the sense of security of life. We have a roof over our heads, we survived, but something changed forever that day.
Day after day, we wake up despondent to a treeless existence at the mercy of the elements. We have to deal with new menace in the form of rats and stray monkeys. DH has had civet cats, porcupines, monitor lizards, and mongoose, but no monkeys. Wildlife from other wilderness areas of the city and outskirts has taken a hit and animals that survived would naturally be looking for ‘greener’ pastures. Snake-bites are on the rise, we hear. Snakes too are bound to wander about listlessly. In the event snakebite is a real danger, but I fear for their safety more. Butterflies have all but vanished. DH's biodiversity has taken a beating.
And yet, in a strange sense, I feel privileged to have been in the eye of the storm. I felt that Nature had honoured me by showing its ‘other’ side. Till now, I had been basking in its beauty and glory, now it let me into its fury.
HUDHUD – THE METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENON
Newspaper reports proclaim Hudhud to be the first urban cyclone disaster. Given that tropical cyclones originate in the Bay of Bengal regularly and that East Coast falls in the line of its ire every year, Vizag has surprisingly escaped unscathed for nearly 125 years! The city’s unique topography and the feature of Dolphin Nose Hill are touted to be reasons for this.
The fall of the pressure at the centre of this ‘very severe cyclone’ (Category 4 Hurricane) was 950 millibar. Seamen tell us that, at sea, when the barometer starts showing a dip below 1000 their hearts start racing. They know that—to use a Conradian phrase—"uncommonly dirty weather" is round the corner.
During the cyclonic winds, I recall a moment when suddenly out of the blue, the rough weather—lashing winds and rain—cleared and a shaft of pure sunlight streamed through. It seemed unnatural and out of place, almost surreal... some sort of divine intervention. But in technical terms it was nothing as fancy. This was literally the eye. Wikipedia tells me, in strong tropical cyclones, the eye is characterized by light winds and clear skies, surrounded on all sides by a towering, symmetric eyewall. The eye of Hudhud was narrow, approximately 20 kms, which is another indication of the severity of the storm. I wouldn't have dared to peek outside to check the cylindrical eyewall!
BEFORE AND AFTER PHOTOGRAPHS
A spotted owlet seeks shade from the sun
Posted by Padmaja Parulkar at 10:05 PM
Labels: bay, biodiversity, Birds, Coast, Cyclone, Hill, hurricane, India, Natural disaster, sea, South India, storm, trees, typhoon
Gauri October 25, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Excellent article Padmaja! Especially your "before-after" photographs speak a lot. Newspapers and channels could not tell these inside stories. My best wishes to you and the community to get your life back to normal ASAP.
ESSESS October 25, 2014 at 5:36 PM
Hi Paddy. Welcome back. I would wonder and imagine what you'll are going through but now I realise I have a poor imagination. You Guy have really seen the fury of nature which humans have been inviting upon themselves, for a while now. May be now you folks can coin a new term " Woman hath no fury like the wrath of hudhud". I am sure you folks will surprise yourself with the speed with which you all will bring life to normal. Of course life would never be the same again. It never is after we lose a very 'dear one'. For you folks it surely is akin to that. But then God only tests those who He knows can withstand. We all are with you. Our prayers are with each one of you. I am sure and I hope I am correct, that all of you must have realised that the next moment is so unpredictable and yet we attach immense priority to material things. Hudhud, I hope, has made people realise the value of lie and relationships.
On a lighter note I will say two things to bring a smile to your lips.
One, thanks to Hudhud, folks in Mumbai were saved of its cousin Srikant. MHS was relieved.
Second I did not know you were 'carrying' last year. At least these words could be interpreted thus- "The intermittent burst of gust that subsided and rose again reminded me of labour pains. I recalled bracing for a similar situation last year".
To conclude I am grateful to Almighty that all of you are fine and I look forward to meeting all my friends from Vizag soon. Till then we all wish you well and God speed in the rebuilding process- both for intangible and tangible domains. God Bless Vizag.
Vinay Dabholkar October 26, 2014 at 10:01 PM
Great article Padmaja. Gives a glimpse of the situation. Can't imagine what Srikant and team must have been busy with. All the best.
Shubhra October 27, 2014 at 10:43 AM
Padmaja, I could never imagine the extent of damage until I read your blog. Thanks for the insight. Makes us appreciate the little little good things about life!
Suraksha Giri October 27, 2014 at 1:15 PM
I am from Vizag. Apart from monetary assistance ( CM fund Andhra Bank) Is there a collection drive for good clothing, saris, kurtas etc. appreciate if you can connect me to an agency working on this.
Hi,my email is surakshagiri@gmail.com.
indiaone October 27, 2014 at 7:26 PM
Madam, Congatulations for this excellent blog. It can be used as a guide for the common people as to what they should expect from a cyclone of this magnitude.
parwatisingari October 28, 2014 at 9:49 AM
Really liked your presentation. The before and after shots were great the best however was the Owl.
Heart breaking.....i have such happy memories of my two years of living in DH. Every word that you've written is a picture....of devastation,of helplessness,of the ferocity of Nature and yet at the same time of resilience and brotherhood! The wounds wreaked by the cyclone will take a long time to heal. Take care.
Ajai Shukla October 29, 2014 at 8:41 AM
Thanks for that very detailed account, which gives a real sense of what it is like to live through a cyclone.
I think you'll be surprised at how quickly Vizag turns green again. Nature is resilient.
Padmaja Parulkar December 18, 2018 at 3:36 PM
- Vice Admiral Manohar Awati (retd) via email to me:
"What does Paddy do, what has she been up to ? She does a lot and has been up to a good deal during a day on Dolphin's Nose. The devastation wrought by Cyclone Hoodoo or whatever it was tabbed, has passed and the earth and Nature are restoring themselves, as they always do bringing happiness, even gaiety to her humans wherever we are. Paddy has that rare quality and power to observe this gentle restoration through her fellow beings, all about her. A rare advantage, used so beautifully to acquaint us ordinaries with Nature's pervasive beauty, kind and gentle ways. Paddy is Her messenger to us, unnatural hedons. Sit up and take note of Paddy's doings if you wish to be Natural, get a little out of this, otherwise, meaningless existence."
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Pairs Trading of Two Assets with Uncertainty in Co-Integration's Level of Mean Reversion
International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Forthcoming
NYU Tandon Research Paper No. 2762512
31 Pages Posted: 18 Apr 2016 Last revised: 27 Jun 2017
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Sangmin Lee
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering - Department of Finance and Risk Engineering
Andrew Papanicolaou
NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Finance and Risk Engineering
Date Written: April 11, 2016
This paper considers a stochastic control problem derived from a model for pairs trading under incomplete information. We decompose an individual asset’s drift into two parts: an industry drift plus some additional stochasticity. The extra stochasticity may be unobserved, which means the investor has only partial information. We solve the control problem under both full and partial information for utility function U(x) = x^{1−γ}/(1−γ), and we make comparisons. We show the existence of stable solution to the associated matrix Riccati equations in both cases for γ > 1, but for 0 < γ < 1 there remains potential for infinite value functions in finite time. Also, we quantify the expected loss in utility due to partial information, and present a numerical study to illustrate the contribution of this paper.
Keywords: Pairs trading, Co-integration, Kalman filter, Partial Information, Stochastic Control
Lee, Sangmin and Papanicolaou, Andrew, Pairs Trading of Two Assets with Uncertainty in Co-Integration's Level of Mean Reversion (April 11, 2016). International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Forthcoming; NYU Tandon Research Paper No. 2762512. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2762512 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2762512
Sangmin Lee (Contact Author)
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering - Department of Finance and Risk Engineering ( email )
NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Department of Finance and Risk Engineering ( email )
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Imfinzi is first immunotherapy to show both significant survival benefit and improved, durable responses in extensive-stage small cell lung cancer
Category: Antibodies
In the Phase III CASPIAN trial Imfinzi at a fixed, convenient dose improved survival with either a cisplatin or carboplatin chemotherapy backbone
LONDON, UK I September 09, 2019 I AstraZeneca today presented detailed results from the Phase III CASPIAN trial, showing Imfinzi (durvalumab) significantly improved overall survival (OS) in patients with previously-untreated extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC).
Imfinzi in combination with four cycles of standard-of-care (SoC) chemotherapy (etoposide with either cisplatin or carboplatin) demonstrated a statistically-significant and clinically-meaningful improvement in OS vs. SoC consisting of up to six cycles of chemotherapy and optional prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI).
The risk of death was reduced by 27% (equal to a hazard ratio of 0.73), with median OS of 13.0 months for Imfinzi plus chemotherapy vs. 10.3 months for SoC. Results showed a prolonged OS benefit with an estimated 33.9% of patients alive at 18 months following treatment with Imfinzi plus chemotherapy vs. 24.7% of patients following SoC.
Across all efficacy endpoints, benefits were observed in patients treated with Imfinzi plus chemotherapy vs. SoC. Results showed a significantly higher progression-free survival (PFS) rate at 12 months (17.5% vs. 4.7%), a 10.3% increase in confirmed objective response rate (ORR) (67.9% vs. 57.6%), and improved duration of response (DOR) at 12 months (22.7% vs. 6.3%).
The results were presented at the Presidential Symposium of the IASLC 2019 World Conference on Lung Cancer hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in Barcelona, Spain.
José Baselga, Executive Vice President, Oncology R&D said: “We are encouraged to see more than a third of small cell lung cancer patients treated with Imfinzi plus chemotherapy alive at the 18-month landmark, which is remarkable given the aggressive nature of the disease. It is also noteworthy that these results may enable physicians to choose Imfinzi in combination with either cisplatin or carboplatin chemotherapy backbones. We look forward to working with regulatory authorities to bring Imfinzi to patients with small cell lung cancer around the world as soon as possible.”
Luis Paz-Ares, MD, Ph.D., Chair, Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain and principal investigator in the Phase III CASPIAN trial said: “Patients have had limited treatment options for small cell lung cancer, a devastating disease where the five-year survival rate has been as low as 6%. The significant survival benefit demonstrated with Imfinzi combined with only four cycles of a choice of chemotherapy compared to a robust control arm, provides evidence and hope of a new treatment option for these patients.”
SCLC is an aggressive, fast-growing cancer that recurs and progresses rapidly despite initial response to platinum-based chemotherapy.1
EP + Imfinzii
OS (primary endpoint)ii
Number of deaths (%) 155 (57.8%) 181 (67.3%)
Hazard ratio
(95% CI)
0.73 (0.591, 0.909)
p-value 0.0047
Median in months
OS rate (18 months) 33.9% 24.7%
PFS (secondary endpoint)ii,iii
Number (%) of patients with event 226 (84.3%) 233 (86.6%)
PFS rate (12 months) 17.5% 4.7%
ORR (secondary endpoint)ii,iv
Number (%) of patients with response 182 (67.9%) 155 (57.6%)
DOR at 12 months (secondary endpoint) 22.7% 6.3%
i Etoposide plus investigator choice of cisplatin or carboplatin chemotherapy.
ii The data cut-off date for analysis of OS, PFS and ORR was 11 March 2019.
iii PFS was not formally tested for statistical significance.
iv Confirmed responses according to investigator assessment per RECIST v1.1.
The safety and tolerability of Imfinzi in combination with SoC etoposide and platinum-based chemotherapy was consistent with previous trials. Results showed that 61.5% of patients experienced a Grade 3 or 4 AE with Imfinzi plus SoC (all causes) vs. 62.4% with SoC, and patients discontinuing treatment due to AEs were similar between arms (9.4% vs. 9.4%).
Imfinzi is also being tested following concurrent chemoradiation therapy in limited-stage SCLC in the Phase III ADRIATIC trial.
Imfinzi is approved in the curative-intent setting of unresectable, Stage III non-small cell lung cancer after chemoradiotherapy in 49 countries, including the US, Japan and across the EU, based on the Phase III PACIFIC trial.
About CASPIAN
The CASPIAN trial is a randomised, open-label, multi-centre, global, Phase III trial in the 1st-line treatment of patients with extensive-stage SCLC. The trial compared Imfinzi in combination with etoposide and either cisplatin or carboplatin chemotherapy, or Imfinzi, tremelimumab and chemotherapy vs. chemotherapy alone. In the experimental arms, patients were treated with up to four cycles of chemotherapy. In comparison, the control arm allowed up to six cycles of chemotherapy and optional PCI. The trial will continue to the final analysis of OS for the combination of Imfinzi, tremelimumab and chemotherapy.
The trial is being conducted in more than 200 centres across 22 countries, including in the US, Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East. The primary endpoint is OS.
About small cell lung cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women and accounts for about one-fifth of all cancer deaths.2 Lung cancer is broadly split into NSCLC and SCLC, with about 15% classified as SCLC.3 About three quarters of SCLC patients are diagnosed with extensive-stage disease, in which the cancer has spread widely through the lung or to other parts of the body. Prognosis is particularly poor, as only 6% of all SCLC patients will be alive five years after diagnosis.4
About Imfinzi
Imfinzi (durvalumab) is a human monoclonal antibody that binds to PD-L1 and blocks the interaction of PD-L1 with PD-1 and CD80, countering the tumour's immune-evading tactics and releasing the inhibition of immune responses.
Imfinzi is also approved for previously-treated patients with advanced bladder cancer in 10 countries, including the US.
As part of a broad development programme, Imfinzi is also being tested as a monotherapy and in combination with tremelimumab, an anti-CTLA4 monoclonal antibody and potential new medicine, as a treatment for patients with NSCLC, small cell lung cancer, bladder cancer, head and neck cancer, liver cancer, cervical cancer, biliary tract cancer and other solid tumours.
About AstraZeneca in lung cancer
AstraZeneca has a comprehensive portfolio of approved and potential new medicines in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of different forms of lung cancer spanning several stages of disease, lines of therapy and modes of action. We aim to address the unmet needs of patients with EGFR-mutated tumours as a genetic driver of disease, which occur in 10-15% of NSCLC patients in the US and EU and 30-40% of NSCLC patients in Asia, with our approved medicines Iressa (gefitinib) and Tagrisso (osimertinib), and ongoing Phase III trials ADAURA, LAURA, FLAURA and FLAURA2 as well as the Phase II combination trials SAVANNAH and ORCHARD.5-7
Our extensive late-stage Immuno-Oncology programme focuses on lung cancer patients without a targetable genetic mutation which represents approximately three-quarters of all patients with lung cancer.8 Imfinzi (durvalumab), an anti-PDL1 antibody, is in development for patients with advanced disease (Phase III trials POSEIDON, PEARL, and CASPIAN) and for patients in earlier stages of disease including potentially-curative settings (Phase III trials AEGEAN, PACIFIC-2, ADRIATIC, ADJUVANT BR.31, PACIFIC-4, and PACIFIC-5) both as monotherapy and in combination with tremelimumab and/or chemotherapy.
About AstraZeneca’s approach to Immuno-Oncology (IO)
IO is a therapeutic approach designed to stimulate the body’s immune system to attack tumours. Our IO portfolio is anchored by immunotherapies that have been designed to overcome anti-tumour immune suppression. We believe that IO-based therapies offer the potential for life-changing cancer treatments for the clear majority of patients.
We are pursuing a comprehensive clinical-trial programme that includes Imfinzi (anti-PDL1) as monotherapy and in combination with tremelimumab (anti-CTLA4) in multiple tumour types, stages of disease, and lines of therapy, using the PD-L1 biomarker as a decision-making tool to define the best potential treatment path for a patient. In addition, the ability to combine our IO portfolio with radiation, chemotherapy, small targeted molecules from across our Oncology pipeline, and from our research partners, may provide new treatment options across a broad range of tumours.
About AstraZeneca in oncology
AstraZeneca has a deep-rooted heritage in oncology and offers a quickly-growing portfolio of new medicines that has the potential to transform patients’ lives and the Company’s future. With at least six new medicines to be launched between 2014 and 2020, and a broad pipeline of small molecules and biologics in development, the Company is committed to advance oncology as a key growth driver for AstraZeneca focused on lung, ovarian, breast and blood cancers. In addition to AstraZeneca’s main capabilities, the Company is actively pursuing innovative partnerships and investments that accelerate the delivery of our strategy, as illustrated by the investment in Acerta Pharma in haematology.
By harnessing the power of four scientific platforms – Immuno-Oncology, Tumour Drivers and Resistance, DNA Damage Response and Antibody Drug Conjugates – and by championing the development of personalised combinations, AstraZeneca has the vision to redefine cancer treatment and, one day, eliminate cancer as a cause of death.
About AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas - Oncology, CVRM and Respiratory. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. For more information, please visit astrazeneca.com and follow us on Twitter @AstraZeneca.
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2. World Health Organization. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available at http://globocan.iarc.fr/Pages/fact_sheets_population.aspx. Accessed May 2019.
3. LUNGevity Foundation. Types of Lung Cancer. Available at https://lungevity.org/for-patients-caregivers/lung-cancer-101/types-of-lung-cancer. Accessed May 2019.
4. Cancer.Net. Lung Cancer - Small Cell. Available at https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/33776/view-all. Accessed May 2019.
5. Szumera-Ciećkiewicz A, et al. EGFR Mutation Testing on Cytological and Histological Samples in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: a Polish, Single Institution Study and Systematic Review of European Incidence. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2013:6;2800-12. Accessed July 2019.
6. Keedy VL, et al. American Society of Clinical Oncology Provisional Clinical Opinion: Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Mutation Testing for Patients with Advanced Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Considering First-Line EGFR Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Therapy. J Clin Oncol. 2011:29;2121-27. Accessed July 2019.
7. Ellison G, et al. EGFR Mutation Testing in Lung Cancer: a Review of Available Methods and Their Use for Analysis of Tumour Tissue and Cytology Samples. J Clin Pathol. 2013:66;79-89. Accessed July 2019.
8. Pakkala, S, et al. Personalized therapy for lung cancer: striking a moving target. JCI Insight. 2018;3(15):e120858.
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By Esther Elizabeth Suson February 19, 2016 Election 2016, Primary Debates2016 Elections, 2016 New Hampshire Primary, Presidential Primaries
The New Hampshire Primary is the first state primary to be conducted, by state law. This primary, along with the Iowa caucus, sets the tone for the rest of the state primaries and caucuses. This is illustrated by the fact that the Iowa caucus resulted in four candidates dropping out.
One was GOP candidate Mike Huckabee, who tweeted that he was “officially suspending” his campaign. GOP candidates Rand Paul and Rick Santorum followed soon after. The other was Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley, who had consistently trailed in the polls behind Hillary Clinton (winner of the Iowa caucus) and Bernie Sanders.
The New Hampshire primary was just as deadly. After the primary results were out, GOP candidate Chris Christie withdrew from the presidential race. Carly Fiorina, a consistently strong undercard candidate, withdrew from the Republican candidates shortly after. They were joined by Jim Gilmore, leaving 6 GOP presidential candidates out of the original 17.
Recap of the 2016 New Hampshire Primary
The winners of this primary were Donald Trump for the Republicans, and Bernie Sanders for the Democrats. The primary was a particular victory for Trump, who was beaten in the Iowa caucus by Ted Cruz despite predicting an easy win. John Kasich was second in the polls, surprising those who assumed Ted Cruz and Donald Trump would be neck-and-neck this presidential race. Ted Cruz finished 3rd in the New Hampshire primary. On the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders passed Hillary Clinton by a substantial margin, 60% to 39%. Clinton had won the Iowa caucus by a very slim margin, 49.9% to Sanders’ 49.6%.
What the 2016 New Hampshire Primary Tells Us
The GOP May Not Want a ‘Milder’ Trump
Ted Cruz passed Ben Carson as second in the polls after the Paris Terror Attacks. Analysts believed that voters were beginning to swing towards candidates with political experience such as Cruz and Marco Rubio, taking support away from the candidates who had run on their non-political backgrounds, such as Donald Trump and Carson. Ted Cruz’s political strategy so far seems to be to present himself as a milder alternative to Donald Trump.
Ted Cruz was the first to speak out in support of Donald Trump’s immigration policies, shortly after Trump first declared his candidacy for president under the Republican banner. It was a bold move, when the GOP campaigns did not yet reflect the freer rhetoric that entered with Trump. Cruz and Trump also hold many of the same policy platforms on, say, immigration.
However, Trump’s incendiary comments, such as that on banning Muslims from the United States, made Cruz seem “sane” and therefore more acceptable as a candidate. The national polls entering the primaries also consistently showed that Cruz was second to Trump nationally. Since Rubio consistently ranked behind Cruz, casual analysis would make him the automatic replacement.
However, John Kasich stole second place from Ted Cruz in this 2016 New Hampshire primary, sending all the analysts back to their desks to find out what they missed. Kasich had spent most of his time in New Hampshire while his competition criss-crossed the country campaigning. He was partly considered an insignificant competitor because of this. After all, New Hampshire is only one of the 50 states, despite being an important swing state.
However, Kasich stunned the nation with his win, and drew eyes to him, nationally and internationally. It drew attention to his largely positive campaign messages, and to the fact that he was a potential bright light among the other candidates, who were notably pessimistic in message. The fact that he was an underdog competitor, and the surprise of his win, will aid his campaign if he can build on the momentum. Kasich’s strategic targeting of states also speaks well for his choice of campaign advisors, and for his own skills as potential President of the United States.
Trump is a Strong Contender
When Trump decided not to join the 2016 New Hampshire primary, analyses on the outcome of his campaign flew fast and thick. For most of them, that this was the last debate before the Iowa caucus should have made him more cautious about his campaign style. Ideally, he should have been on the stage to remind Republican voters why he was still the best choice for Republican nominee, even after the Iowa loss. This, they predicted, was the chance of the other Republicans to take hold of the stage and drag it away from Trump.
However, despite all of that, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary. Only by a little over a third, but it was still enough of a majority to show how split the voters were over the other candidates. What this proved was that Trump was still a very strong contender in his own right. The other Republican competitors, and the Establishment GOP, have much more to accomplish if they want to knock him out of the race.
Democratic Socialism is Gaining Interest, if not Acceptance
When the presidential campaign race started, Bernie Sanders was almost immediately written off as a candidate because of his economic views. A Gallup Poll released in June 2015 showed that the least number of people, nationwide, would vote for a Socialist presidential candidate. They would vote for a Muslim, a homosexual, or an atheist, before they would vote for a Socialist.
However, Bernie Sanders continued to climb in the poll nationally. From a difference of 12% to 48% with Hillary Clinton in March-April 2015, he had closed it to 36% to 53% before the 2016 election season started. And now, with an undeniable 10-point win over Clinton in the 2016 New Hampshire primary, Sanders is proving himself a threat to the Clinton campaign despite–or because of–his democratic socialist stand.
As recently as 2011, Americans still had a largely negative view of Socialism. In fact, just after the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ rallies, the negative perception of Socialism was at 60%, while the positive perception was only at 31%. While the Gallup poll in June showed better numbers, that 47% of Americans would vote for a Socialist president, it did not seem to be encouraging. However, as the presidential campaign continues, it is becoming clear that Sanders is being listened to; and that democratic socialism may gain new life in this season.
First of all, that this presidential race is going to be much more confusing than it looks. As contenders drop out of the lists, values will become more and more of an issue, and voters will become more and more aggressive in their personal campaigns for their preferred presidential candidates. As the next primaries and caucuses draw nearer, we can only wait and see how the candidates will meet or defy our expectations–again and again.
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$24K electric motorcycle revealed at CES
Damon Motorcycles has unveiled its flagship product, the Hypersport, at CES 2020. The Hypersport is an electric superbike outfitted with Damon’s cutting-edge CoPilot advanced warning system powered by BlackBerry QNX technology, setting a new standard in motorcycle safety, awareness and connectivity for a new generation of motorcyclists. The critically acclaimed Hypersport is the most anticipated electric motorcycle of 2020 and has already received a CES 2020 “Best in Innovation” award. The official unveiling of the Hypersport takes place at 10a.m. PST in BlackBerry’s booth #7515, North Hall. Preorders for the Hypersport will also open to the public online at damonmotorcycles.com.
The Damon Hypersport redefines what an electric motorcycle is and should be, offering well over 200hp and 200nm of torque delivered at zero rpm, a top speed of 200mph and a range of more than 200 highway miles per charge. Pricing begins at $24,995 before state and federal EV tax credits.
To see the Damon Hypersport in action, watch this video.
“We’re on a mission to unleash the full potential of personal mobility for the world’s commuters, while reducing rider incidents on the road,” said Jay Giraud, co-founder and CEO, Damon Motorcycles. “To address this, we spent the last three years developing an AI-powered, fully connected, e-motorcycle platform that incorporates CoPilot, our proprietary 360º warning system. By building it on BlackBerry’s best-in-class technology that is safety certified, Damon motorcycles will be the safest, most advanced electric motorcycles on the market.”
The Damon Hypersport delivers a new level of motorcycle performance, safety and comfort with its CoPilot 360º advanced warning system, which uses cameras, radar and other sensors to alert riders to threats. Featuring an onboard neural net, these same sensors also collect and tag traffic behavior, road conditions and rider intent data. With its embedded 4G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity suite, Damon aggregates this data in the cloud to improve overall system performance with over-the-air updates sent back to each Damon motorcycle. Like Tesla, updates are approved by each Hypersport’s owner before going live onboard.
“We prioritized data-driven thinking at the epicenter of the company, employing radical innovations in sensor fusion, robotics and AI,” said Dom Kwong, co-founder and CTO, Damon Motorcycles. “This level of deep learning and connectivity are unprecedented, ensuring each rider a smarter, safer and connected ride; not only for individuals but for entire communities, with the goal to reduce incidents worldwide.”
To coincide with the Hypersport’s unveiling, Damon and BlackBerry are presenting the #FutureOfMotorcycling Interactive Experience, a rideable, leaning stationary motorcycle that uses virtual reality to give attendees a hands-on showcase of the Hypersport’s unique features including:
CoPilot Advanced Warning System powered by Blackberry QNX technology that uses radar, cameras and non-visual sensors to track the speed, direction and velocity of up to 64 moving objects around the motorcycle.
Shift – Damon’s patented rider ergonomics that lets riders electronically adjust the Hypersport’s riding position while in motion.
Hypersport’s powerful all-electric performance.
Hypersport’s embedded 4G connectivity and onboard AI.
The #FutureOfMotorcycling Interactive Experience will be open to all CES attendees in the BlackBerry booth #7515 from January 7–10, 2019. CES attendees can book a time slot to experience it by visiting damonmotorcycles.com/VR.
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OCR does Mario!! Super Mario 64: Portrait of a Plumber is the 48th FREE community arrangement album published by OverClocked ReMix and arranges music from the legendary Nintendo 64 launch title Super Mario 64.
Portrait of a Plumber features 21 tracks arranged by 16 artists that re-envision the original compositions of Koji Kondo in a variety of styles.
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Director: Nutritious (Justin Medford)
Super Mario 64 is an iconic game in many ways. It first introduced us to a three-dimensional Mario. It featured revolutionary controls and gameplay for its time. To this day, it is still a popular title for classic game enthusiasts and speed runners. What's not always recognized or remembered by the broader public is the masterpiece that is Koji Kondo's soundtrack. Though relatively short by today's standards, each theme evokes the feeling and experience of the stage that they are set in. From the upbeat Bob-omb Battlefield music to the calming melodies of "Dire, Dire Docks," even the casual player is likely to recognize these catchy tunes.
I'm incredibly proud to have the opportunity to direct this effort. This album has been a long time coming as we experienced ebbs and flows in progress and times where we questioned whether it would ever come to completion at all.
Though I joined soon after the project's inception as a remixer, I eventually would become the 4th director to take on the project. I'd like to take the time to recognize the previous directors who, without their hard work laying the foundation, this project never would've come to fruition: First, POCKETMAN, who was the project founder and original director. Also, thanks to Fishy & assistant director Sole Signal, who took over after POCKETMAN's departure.
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1-01 - The Strange Green Pipe
Arranged by: Mikeaudio
Source: Opening, File Select, Koopa's Road, Inside the Castle Walls
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Mikeaudio
When I started this mix, I was trying to go for an overture of sorts that summarized the mood of Mario during his journey within this character prop we always see as the green pipe in the Super Mario Bros. games. In many ways, this mix is centered on the green pipe itself and how Mario interacts with it. Within the song production and arrangement, I tried to incorporate moods and moments such as suspense, mystery, clumsiness, and nostalgia. In the Super Mario 64 gameplay, there were many moments of comedy, alongside moments of "Am I going the right way?" to "CRAP, WHAT DO I DO?" I wanted to bring that feel to the arrangement itself, and being that I completed this mix years ago, I am quite surprised that I did as well as I did back then, though there are definitely some things I would change, but at the same time leaving them the same captures the state of mind I was in and also my train of thought for this mix. The Mario 64 soundtrack is one that I am very fond of, and apart from this album project, I will indeed be revisiting it again. :)
1-02 - The Third Dimension
Arranged by: halc
Source: Title Theme
Comments for 1-02 - The Third Dimension
halc
At last, here's my take on the classic SMB theme (or more specifically, SM64's title theme). I used to think it was pretty cool. Then "The Life and Death of the Mario Bros." was posted, and I was no longer impressed with myself. Maybe you guys will still like it though! :P
Jokes aside, I had a lot of fun making this track, and (even though it took FOREVER :P) I'm glad to have been a part of the album!
1-03 - Roads to Everywhere
Arranged by: Argle
Source: File Select
Comments for 1-03 - Roads to Everywhere
Argle
I was excited to contribute to this long-running project, to help inch it towards completion. I tried to keep the organic instrumentation of the original while expanding on the short theme in various ways.
1-04 - Peach's House Party
Arranged by: Sir Jordanius
Source: Inside the Castle Walls
Comments for 1-04 - Peach's House Party
Sir Jordanius
Next to the Flat Notes project, this was actually the very first thing that I participated in when I finally went from lurker to ninja/occasional-musicdudeman... kind of funny how it ended up being one of the latter-end projects to come out that I was involved with. XD
Anyways, looking back in hindsight the first few WIPs of this were unbearably-awful and daaayum near un-listenable. So the song really speaks for itself (it's obviously a montage of my original ideas being revisited with my more recent production level-ups), but I'd really like to express my thanks and gratitude to the entire project team for bearing with me while I was going through my... intense nooberific "compress and hi-pass the FUUU-- out of everything!!" phase.
I might actually still be going through that phase... >_>
Thanks, and enjoy.
Mamma mia, or whatever.
1-05 - Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb-omb
Arranged by: Theory of N
Source: Super Mario 64 Main Theme
Comments for 1-05 - Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb-omb
Theory of N
Funny story behind this one. Way back in '07 when POCKETMAN started this Super Mario 64 project up, I auditioned for a track on this album (specifically "Lethal Lava Land") and got shot down because my music was terrible. Looking back, I completely agree with the decision to reject my audition. Fast forward to about a month ago. 9-bit Blizzard had recently been released and WillRock seemed to have taken a liking to my track, so he suggested me to Nutritious to take his place remixing the main theme. If that's not a testament to progress, I don't know what is!
As for the mix, I've always been a fan of the more liberal side of arrangement and while I've wanted to remix this source for the longest time, I couldn't get much more than a straight cover until now. The best way I came up with to shake myself of cover-itis was to basically take the main melody and completely obliterate the harmonic context. This is probably one of the most inconsistently styled, eclectic remixes I've done to date, but I feel that it all fits together really well and I absolutely love the final product.
1-06 - Through the Flames
Arranged by: Nutritious
Source: Lethal Lava Land
Comments for 1-06 - Through the Flames
This track is really special to me as a musician, because it was a song that I felt proved to myself that I could do my own music arrangement and succeed. Disclaimer: incoming TL;DR back-story.
This album project started way back in early 2007, which is around the time I started attempting music creation & composition as a serious hobby. I've always loved the music from Mario 64. I took an interest in joining the project later that year, but the only available song at the time was "Lethal Lava Land." While this definitely wasn't my favorite track from the game and wouldn't normally be my first choice to remix, I saw that the track was open on the project and had some sudden inspiration that pushed me forward. It's not the most accessible source by any means, but I came up with an idea for an orchestral take on the theme and was able to claim the track. The fact that I now had a project commitment and that my music was recognized as being a high-enough quality for an album pushed me to go ahead and invest in purchasing music software to really commit to the hobby.
Once completed, I submitted the track to OC ReMix and it passed the judges panel, making it my first accepted remix. Ironically, due to the fact of it being on this project, which was delayed for so long, up until now it has remained unreleased despite my having many other songs released through the website.
Due to the original song having a progressive, almost aimless style arrangement, I chose to focus on specific melody parts and expand upon them. The original track doesn't seem to have any normal time signature or natural progression to the song, but instead sounds like a collection of instruments playing (seemingly) random notes around a general theme. An Indian coworker of mine pointed out that it's a type of classical Indian music (though I forget the name of the genre). Anyway, because of this, it was a very difficult song to remix and the themes used might not be readily apparent.
I aimed for a movie score feel for my song, putting out my best effort though utilizing free sample sets at the time. While the song certainly shows its age and doesn't reflect my currently ability level, I remain quite proud of it as my first real music arrangement achievement.
1-07 - Supersnowman
Arranged by: Electric Concerto
Source: Snow Mountain
Comments for 1-07 - Supersnowman
Electric Concerto
A track that I think really expresses the style I aim for, but it was also a tough track to mix. I think it came out alright and interprets the idea behind the original song.
1-08 - Hush Hour
Arranged by: Sir Jordanius, G-Mixer
Source: Slider
Comments for 1-08 - Hush Hour
G-Mixer
Jordanius did a good job. I made other sounds. It was a good remix.
When I first eyeballed the project thread back in 2010, my initial claims were for "Inside the Castle Walls" AND "Slider," but several sources got hot-potatoe'd around often and I hadn't reached level 54 in beatsmithing just yet...
Fast-forward to 2012, and the track opened up again for grabs. I grabbed the phone and dialed "G" for G-Mixer, and he helped me give birth to this traffic/road-rage-inspired arrangement.
G-Mixer's a cool dude... and I'm an even cooler dude, so if you like cool dudes getting together to make babies... um...
Just listen to the dang song.
1-09 - Find the Red Coin
Arranged by: Sole Signal
Source: Cave Dungeon
Comments for 1-09 - Find the Red Coin
Sole Signal
This track represents nostalgia in song form for me: my favorite game of all time, and one of my favorite levels. This track was completed over about two weeks of work after I decided that I wanted to try a different spin on this source, unique from its counterpart "Grab the Blue Coin!" which is also on the project. Was trying to create a chill downtempo groove, with a focus on bass and the breakbeat.
1-10 - Wings to the Sky
Source: Powerful Mario
Comments for 1-10 - Wings to the Sky
another typical halc mix you say? well, perhaps so. it does have chiptunes, zelda-strings, sound effects, and a cheap pseudo-fadeout ending... with an extra dose of untz and boom-wah. please to enjoy. :]
1-11 - Devastation's Duel
Arranged by: Sole Signal, Fishy
Source: Koopa's Theme, Koopa's Road, Ultimate Koopa
Comments for 1-11 - Devastation's Duel
Got another rocking mix for you guys which serves as a sequel to my "Devastation's Doorway" OC ReMix a while back. As seems to be the usual case ("Day's End," "Malevolent Mansion"), I was nearly finished with the song when I decided I needed some guitar to push it even more. Fishy was kind enough to step in with some killer guitar work that really lends it authenticity.
The completion of this remix marks another original track that I knew just had to be remixed. The bridge ties in the "Bowser's Road" theme, and the final battle theme makes a short appearance as well. This is the second part of the three-part Mario 64 trilogy I worked on ("Bowser's Road," "Bowser's Theme," and the "Staff Roll" theme).
I threw a ton of different styles into this track: orchestral, rock, glitch drums, heavy drums, and even some jazz. Enjoy. Thanks for listening! :)
Greg was working on this track for the project and suddenly decided it needed some guitar love, so I obliged. The song was actually too low for my guitar, so I had to use my whammy pedal to detune, giving it a slightly lo-fi sound that worked nicely. It's an undeniably badass remix of a badass tune and one of the heavier tracks on the project, which I'm sure lots of people will like.
2-01 - Sunken Secrets
Arranged by: Fishy
Source: Dire, Dire Docks
Comments for 2-01 - Sunken Secrets
This was started way back during my Reason days, and subsequently abandoned for reasons I cannot fathom in favour of several other far less fun arrangements. I think I was feeling the pressure of picking the most popular track or something, I dunno. I realized the first version was probably the best and redid it fairly recently. Apart from the drums, piano and solo at the end, it's more or less unchanged from 2008 - which still surprises me.
It's my favourite blend of conservative structure with subtle layers of expansion, and I hope you enjoy.
2-02 - Boo's Cues
Arranged by: Fratto, Nutritious
Source: Haunted House
Comments for 2-02 - Boo's Cues
Taking on the most difficult source track on the project, Fratto definitely had his work cut out for him. Early on in the project, he managed to come up with some excellent arrangement ideas based around the progression of the vocal drone from the "Haunted House" theme. The piano nails down the progression while orchestral brass instruments expand upon the chords to create a melody line. Needing some additional writing and production assistance to fill out the arrangement, Brian sought a collaborator on the project. I had an idea to bring it to a full-fledged haunted house track complete with creepy orchestra and various SFX work. It's a fantastic arrangement from Brian that I hope I managed to fully realize with the live ambient concept approach.
2-03 - junkie
Arranged by: prophetik
Comments for 2-03 - junkie
prophetik
this is an arrangement of the theme from super mario 64. i arranged it for nine voices (4+4+1 soloist). there isn't a huge amount of rearrangement - i basically just took the parts and transcribed them, and then added a mixed-meter section.
i was tired, don't blame me for the lyrics. i make joek mix.
2-04 - Prog Mario
Arranged by: Brandon Strader
Source: Metallic Mario
Comments for 2-04 - Prog Mario
Brandon Strader
I bet you were expecting metal... that's too obvious! I called this "Prog Mario," but it's inspired more by funk. I got the chance to do this song super late in the SM64 project timeline. Unfortunately, John Revoredo was moving away and couldn't find his session files for me to help out, so I ended up taking the claim with his blessing. I am happy and thankful that it worked out and I was able to do the song for the album.
I wanted a live feel, like if a band were sitting in a room jamming this. Lots of sweet wah pedal, even on the bass guitar. It amplifies the funk. The parts are pretty similar to the source, but stretched to fit in 7/8 and, eventually, 6/4 and 5/4 time signatures. Had to add a couple synth solos so it wouldn't be boring and some "harmonies" to the source lead in the chorus.
2-05 - Mari-O-Round
Arranged by: The Coop
Source: Merry-Go-Round
Comments for 2-05 - Mari-O-Round
I remember joining this project a long time ago and picking one of the few remaining songs, which happened to be a rather short one ("Merry-Go-Round"). I had an idea for it to be a four-piece, got it down, and presented it. Sadly, in time, the end result wasn't up to snuff production-wise, and I wound up stepping down so that someone else could give the song a try.
I think it was about two years later, a couple of others had given the song a whirl, but they wound up dropping it. As such, the song was still unremixed, and there was even a possibility that it could be dropped from the project by that time. So, I tried again with some new samples courtesy of the newest version of Music Creator (5 at the time). With some tweaking, feedback from the project leads, and all that good stuff, the song actually ended up being included, despite its rather short duration.
Now, I've never played Mario 64. I know, I know... that's a sin in some circles. But I just never did. So while I don't have any real memories of, or history with, the game, I was still happy to take part in the project. And happier still, that I ended up being able to be a part of the finished product. So with another roller coaster ride behind it, I hope everyone enjoys "Mari-O-Round."
2-06 - Grab the Blue Coin!
Comments for 2-06 - Grab the Blue Coin!
This was my first crack at the classic underground theme that has retained that signature bassline back from the NES version. The N64 version developed the theme but gave it a great ambient feel. My version with this remix takes some liberties, namely using the classic bassline often in half time, while devoting sections of the track to each motif from the original.
The experimental nature of the remix led me to decide to create another take on the theme, in the track "Find the Red Coin" on this same project.
2-07 - Perilous Pathway
Source: Koopa's Road
Comments for 2-07 - Perilous Pathway
I took on this source as my personal music style was somewhere in transition between drum 'n' bass and dubstep, which is definitely reflected in the finished project. The "Bowser's Road" theme has a sort of understated menacing energy and I decided to really bring it out full blast. I hope you enjoy.
2-08 - So Long-eh, Bowser!
Arranged by: Scaredsim
Source: Ultimate Koopa
Comments for 2-08 - So Long-eh, Bowser!
Scaredsim was someone who submitted a completed mix early on in the project, which puts this in the "classic mix" status among some of its peers. In his vision for the song that represents Bowser's final form, Simon opts for heavy piano work and a rock drumkit to get the job done. While not quite as intense as some of the other Bowser-related tracks on the album, this mix certainly manages to convey the menace in Bowser's theme and is a great conclusion to the tension that builds up throughout the album.
2-09 - See You Next Time
Source: Staff Roll
Comments for 2-09 - See You Next Time
This is another SM64 track that I've always wanted to remix, which intentionally turned out similar to my "Day's End" track. Especially with this source, I wanted to keep the feel of the original, though also not just being a sample upgrade. This has been 98% complete since early 2011 and thankfully survived two workstation changes with the arrangement mostly intact. Originally, I had envisioned this remix as the final chapter of some sort of "Devastation's Doorway" -- "Devastation's Duel" -- "See You Next Time" connection. (The "D" alliteration didn't work with this one.) I hope it's enjoyed half as much as I enjoyed producing it!
2-10 - Do Piranha Plants Dream of Electric Italians?
Arranged by: Tuberz McGee
Source: Piranha Plant's Lullaby
Comments for 2-10 - Do Piranha Plants Dream of Electric Italians?
Tuberz McGee
I saw that this project was missing a mix for this track and, being the egotistical twit who needs to wedge his way into every possible project ever, I decided to take it on. I always enjoyed the track even if I only heard the first 2 seconds of it (before waking up the piranha plants), being the impatient child I am. I decided to take it on with a very French approach, utilising music boxes, accordions and guitars that I reversed the audio of.
I learned this song backwards.
NEVER. AGAIN.
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"Tiny-Huge Island"
ApplFruit
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"Sexy Mario"
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"Portrait of a Plumber" Alternate Cover, Album Logo
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"Portrait of a Plumber" Cover
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Tray, Edits
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"Metal Mario: Through the Jet Stream"
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JP5806535B2 - Semiconductor device and power conversion device using the same - Google Patents
Semiconductor device and power conversion device using the same Download PDF
JP5806535B2 JP2011158595A JP2011158595A JP5806535B2 JP 5806535 B2 JP5806535 B2 JP 5806535B2 JP 2011158595 A JP2011158595 A JP 2011158595A JP 2011158595 A JP2011158595 A JP 2011158595A JP 5806535 B2 JP5806535 B2 JP 5806535B2
semiconductor layer
conductive layer
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JP2013026365A (en
渡邉 聡
聡 渡邉
正樹 白石
鈴木 弘
弘 鈴木
森 睦宏
株式会社 日立パワーデバイス
2011-07-20 Application filed by 株式会社 日立パワーデバイス, 株式会社 日立パワーデバイス filed Critical 株式会社 日立パワーデバイス
2011-07-20 Priority to JP2011158595A priority Critical patent/JP5806535B2/en
H01L29/70—Bipolar devices
H01L29/72—Transistor-type devices, i.e. able to continuously respond to applied control signals
H01L29/739—Transistor-type devices, i.e. able to continuously respond to applied control signals controlled by field-effect, e.g. bipolar static induction transistors [BSIT]
H01L29/7393—Insulated gate bipolar mode transistors, i.e. IGBT; IGT; COMFET
H01L29/7395—Vertical transistors, e.g. vertical IGBT
H01L29/7396—Vertical transistors, e.g. vertical IGBT with a non planar surface, e.g. with a non planar gate or with a trench or recess or pillar in the surface of the emitter, base or collector region for improving current density or short circuiting the emitter and base regions
H01L29/7397—Vertical transistors, e.g. vertical IGBT with a non planar surface, e.g. with a non planar gate or with a trench or recess or pillar in the surface of the emitter, base or collector region for improving current density or short circuiting the emitter and base regions and a gate structure lying on a slanted or vertical surface or formed in a groove, e.g. trench gate IGBT
H01L29/0684—Semiconductor bodies ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor characterised by their shape; characterised by the shapes, relative sizes, or dispositions of the semiconductor regions ; characterised by the concentration or distribution of impurities within semiconductor regions characterised by the shape, relative sizes or dispositions of the semiconductor regions or junctions between the regions
H01L29/0692—Surface layout
H01L29/0696—Surface layout of cellular field-effect devices, e.g. multicellular DMOS transistors or IGBTs
H01L29/40—Electrodes ; Multistep manufacturing processes therefor
H01L29/402—Field plates
H01L29/407—Recessed field plates, e.g. trench field plates, buried field plates
H01L29/66007—Multistep manufacturing processes
H01L29/66075—Multistep manufacturing processes of devices having semiconductor bodies comprising group 14 or group 13/15 materials
H01L29/66227—Multistep manufacturing processes of devices having semiconductor bodies comprising group 14 or group 13/15 materials the devices being controllable only by the electric current supplied or the electric potential applied, to an electrode which does not carry the current to be rectified, amplified or switched, e.g. three-terminal devices
H01L29/66234—Bipolar junction transistors [BJT]
H01L29/66325—Bipolar junction transistors [BJT] controlled by field-effect, e.g. insulated gate bipolar transistors [IGBT]
H01L29/66333—Vertical insulated gate bipolar transistors
H01L29/66348—Vertical insulated gate bipolar transistors with a recessed gate
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device and a power conversion device using the same, and more particularly to a semiconductor device suitable for an insulated gate bipolar transistor (hereinafter abbreviated as IGBT) having a trench insulated gate structure and the same. It is related with the power converter used.
An IGBT is a switching element that controls a current flowing between a collector electrode and an emitter electrode by a voltage applied to a gate electrode. The power that the IGBT can control ranges from tens of watts to hundreds of thousands of watts, and the switching frequency ranges from tens of hertz to over 100 kilohertz, so it can be used from small power devices such as home air conditioners and microwave ovens to railways. It is widely used for high-power equipment such as inverters in steelworks.
IGBTs are required to have low loss in order to increase the efficiency of these electric power devices, and reduction of conduction loss and switching loss is required. At the same time, in order to prevent problems such as EMC noise, malfunction, and motor dielectric breakdown, it is required to be able to control dv / dt, which is the rate of change of output voltage with time, according to application specifications.
In addition, a structure in which trench insulating gates are arranged at different intervals, a channel is formed at a narrower trench interval, and a p-type well layer is formed at a wider trench interval is accompanied by a decrease in device breakdown voltage. Patent Document 1 discloses an IGBT technology that reduces the input capacitance of a gate, reduces switching loss, has low on-state voltage, and low saturation current.
Further, by adopting a structure in which the floating well region does not exist, the capacitance between GC (gate and collector) is small, the capacitance ratio between the capacitance between GE (gate and emitter) and the capacitance between GC is large, the switching speed is high, and the switching loss. Patent Document 2 discloses an IGBT technology that has a small ON-state and high ON-state injection efficiency.
JP 2000-307116 A JP-A-2005-327806
However, in the conventional IGBT described in Patent Document 1, when the IGBT is turned on, the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage of the IGBT, or the voltage in the diode of the arm when the IGBT is used as a power conversion device. There may be a problem that the controllability of the time change rate dV / dt is lowered.
In addition, the formation of a wide trench causes a high step, which makes it difficult to manufacture and design.
In addition, when the manufacturing method described in Patent Document 2 is used, crystal defects may occur due to epitaxial growth covering the insulating film, and high leakage current may occur due to crystal defects. Furthermore, there is a problem that the substrate cost increases because the number of substrate forming steps increases.
Therefore, the present invention solves such problems, and the object of the present invention is to combine low loss, high withstand voltage, and ease of control of the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage. It is to provide an easy IGBT.
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is configured as follows.
That is, the semiconductor device of the present invention includes a first conductivity type first semiconductor layer, a second conductivity type second semiconductor layer formed on one surface of the first semiconductor layer, and the first semiconductor layer. A trench formed on a surface opposite to the second semiconductor layer; a semiconductor protrusion having a side surface sandwiched between the trenches on the remaining surface of the first semiconductor layer; and a surface selectively formed on the surface of the semiconductor protrusion A third semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type having a higher impurity concentration than the first semiconductor layer selectively formed on the surface of the third semiconductor layer. A gate insulating layer provided along a part of the inner wall of the trench, a first interlayer insulating layer provided along a remaining region of the inner wall of the trench, and at least a part of the gate insulating layer A first conductive layer opposed to the fourth semiconductor layer through the first interlayer A second conductive layer formed on a surface of the edge layer; a second interlayer insulating layer covering at least a part of the surface of the second conductive layer; and at least a part of the third semiconductor layer and a fourth layer. A third conductive layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the fourth semiconductor layer; a contact portion electrically connecting the third conductive layer and the third semiconductor layer; includes a fourth conductive layer formed on the surface of the semiconductor layer, wherein the portion of the surface of the semiconductor raised portions Ri said first semiconductor layer der, the wall portion of the third semiconductor layer is said first conductive layer It is characterized by covering the periphery of the.
Moreover, the power converter device of this invention is equipped with the said semiconductor device, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.
As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide an IGBT that has both low loss, high breakdown voltage, and easy control of the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage, and is easy to manufacture.
It is a figure which shows the planar arrangement | positioning in AA 'surface of FIGS. 2-4 of IGBT1 of the semiconductor device which is 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the BB 'surface in FIG. It is sectional drawing of CC 'surface in FIG. It is sectional drawing of the DD 'surface in FIG. It is a figure which shows the manufacturing process of IGBT1 of the semiconductor device which is 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a characteristic view which shows the calculation result of the breakdown voltage between the collector-emitter in the OFF state of IGBT1 of the semiconductor device which is 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of IGBT2 of the semiconductor device which is 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of IGBT2B which is a modification of the semiconductor device which is 2nd Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows planar arrangement | positioning in AA 'surface of FIG. 10 of IGBT3 of the semiconductor device which is 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the DD 'surface in FIG. It is a figure which shows planar arrangement | positioning in the AA 'surface of FIG. 12, FIG. 13 of IGBT3B which is a modification of the semiconductor device which is 3rd Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing of CC 'surface in FIG. It is sectional drawing of the DD 'surface in FIG. It is a figure which shows planar arrangement | positioning in AA 'surface of FIG. 15, FIG. 16 of IGBT4 of the semiconductor device which is 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is sectional drawing of the DD 'surface in FIG. It is sectional drawing of the EE 'surface in FIG. It is a figure which shows the planar arrangement | positioning in the AA 'surface of IGBT4B which is the modification 1 of the semiconductor device which is 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the plane arrangement | positioning in the AA 'surface of IGBT4C which is the modification 2 of the semiconductor device which is 4th Embodiment of this invention. It is a perspective view of the section which shows the structure of IGBT11 of the 1st example as reference comparison. It is a figure which shows the calculation waveform of the collector-emitter voltage Vce at the time of turn-on in IGBT11 of the 1st example as reference comparison. It is a figure which shows the example of the calculation waveform of the collector-emitter voltage Vce during the turn-on operation | movement in IGBT1 of the semiconductor device which is 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows planar arrangement | positioning in AA 'surface of FIGS. 23-25 of IGBT12 of the 2nd example as reference comparison. It is sectional drawing of the BB 'surface in FIG. It is sectional drawing of CC 'surface in FIG. It is sectional drawing of the DD 'surface in FIG. It is a figure which shows the manufacturing process assumed in IGBT12 (FIGS. 23-25) of the 2nd example as reference comparison. It is sectional drawing which shows the structure of IGBT13 of the 3rd example as reference comparison. It is a circuit diagram which shows the structure of the power converter device which is 5th Embodiment of this invention.
Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described.
(First Embodiment / IGBT1)
The IGBT 1 of the semiconductor device according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a planar arrangement on the AA ′ plane of FIGS. 2 to 4 of the IGBT 1 according to the first embodiment.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the BB ′ plane in FIG.
3 shows a cross-sectional view of the CC ′ plane in FIG.
4 shows a cross-sectional view of the DD ′ plane in FIG.
<< Configuration of Semiconductor Device IGBT1 >>
1 to 4, the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment includes an n − drift layer (first semiconductor layer) 100, a p base layer (third semiconductor layer) 101, an n + source (fourth semiconductor layer) 102, and a trench 103. , Semiconductor convex portion 104, gate insulating layer 105, gate electrode (first conductive layer) 106, first interlayer insulating layer 107, field plate (second conductive layer) 108, second interlayer insulating layer 109, contact portion 110, emitter It has an electrode (third conductive layer) 111, an n buffer layer 112, a p collector layer (second semiconductor layer) 113, and a collector electrode (fourth conductive layer) 114.
The emitter terminal 115, the gate terminal 116, and the collector terminal 117 are virtual terminals for representing electrical connection.
In the cross-sectional view of FIG. 2, the p collector layer 113 that is the second conductive (p) type second semiconductor layer is one surface of the n − drift layer 100 that is the first conductive (n) type first semiconductor layer. Is formed. The collector electrode 114 as the fourth conductive layer is formed on the surface of the p collector layer 113. An n buffer layer 112, which is a fifth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type, is formed between the n − drift layer 100 and the p collector layer 113.
Note that the n buffer layer 112 is preferably provided, but is not an essential element.
Further, the trench 103 and the semiconductor convex portion 104 are formed on the surface of the n − drift layer 100 on the opposite side to the p collector layer 113. The side surface of the semiconductor convex portion 104 is sandwiched between the trenches 103.
The p base layer 101 that is the second semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type is selectively formed on a part of the surface of the semiconductor protrusion 104. The n + source 102 is selectively formed on a part of the surface of the p base layer 101. The n + source 102 is in contact with the side surface of the trench 103.
The semiconductor convex portion 104 may include a plurality of semiconductor layers. That is, the semiconductor protrusion 104 can be configured by a combination of the n − drift layer 100, the p base layer 101, the n + source 102, and the like.
The gate insulating layer 105 is formed along a part of the inner wall of the trench 103. The gate electrode 106 that is the first conductive layer is formed on the surface of the gate insulating layer 105. At least a part of the gate insulating layer 105 is sandwiched between the gate electrode 106 and the n + source 102.
The first interlayer insulating layer 107 is formed along the remaining region of the inner wall of the trench 103. The field plate 108 as the second conductive layer is formed on the surface of the first interlayer insulating layer 107. The second interlayer insulating layer 109 covers the remaining surface of the gate electrode 106 and the remaining surface of the field plate 108.
Although FIG. 2 shows an example in which polysilicon that is a p-type conductive layer is used, polysilicon of an n-type conductive layer may be used.
The contact portion 110 is a region for electrically connecting the p base layer 101 and the emitter electrode 111, and is formed on the surface of the p base layer 101. The emitter electrode 111 that is the third conductive layer is formed on the surface of the contact portion 110, the n + source 102, and the second interlayer insulating layer 109. The emitter electrode 111 is brought into contact with the surface of the n + source 102 are n + source 102 electrically connected to the. Further, the emitter electrode 111 is also electrically connected in contact with the n + source 102 in the contact portion 110.
In the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment, the contact portion 110 is illustrated using the same type of conductive material as the emitter electrode 111, but a conductive material different from the emitter electrode 111, a semiconductor, or their You may be comprised by the combination.
Further, as shown in FIG. 1, in the planar arrangement of the first embodiment, the n + source 102 is divided by the contact part 110, but a part of the n + source 102 is connected through the contact part. It may be.
With this configuration, the device operates as an insulated gate bipolar transistor. That is, by controlling the gate electrode 106 with the gate terminal 116, the p base layer 101 becomes conductive, and the emitter terminal 115 connected to the n + source 102 and the collector terminal 117 connected to the p collector layer 113. A controlled current flows during this period.
Detailed actions will be added later.
Moreover, the other element in FIGS. 1-4 is a component for materializing IGBT1 as a device.
<About the various effects of the first embodiment (IGBT1)>
Various effects produced by adopting the above-described configuration of the first embodiment will be described below.
<< First effect of the first embodiment (IGBT1) >>
The first effect of the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment is low loss. As shown in FIG. 1, in the planar arrangement of the IGBT 1, the trenches 103 are arranged in a stripe shape. The trenches 103 and the semiconductor convex portions 104 are alternately arranged on the extension line in the major axis direction of the trench 103, and the n + source 102 is arranged in a part of the semiconductor convex portions 104. In the long-axis direction of the trench 103, the relationship of width L 2 of the width L 1 and the trench 103 of the semiconductor raised portion 104 is L 1 <L 2. The purpose is to reduce the on-voltage of the IGBT 1. Details are described below.
In the cross-sectional view shown in FIG. 2, when the gate voltage applied to the gate electrode 106 increases, the IGBT 1 becomes conductive.
At this time, an electron channel is formed in the vicinity of the gate insulating layer 105 of the p base layer 101, and an electron current flows from the n + source 102 toward the collector electrode 114. At the same time, a hole current flows from the p collector layer 113 toward the emitter electrode 111.
A part of the hole current flows under the trench 103, passes near the electron channel, and flows into the emitter electrode 111. This hole current passing under the trench 103 has the effect of increasing the electron current flowing out of the channel. As a result, the on-voltage of the IGBT 1 is reduced.
Thus, in FIG. 1, by the L 2 longer than L 1, since the hole current passing under the trench 103 increases, the effect of reducing the on-voltage of the IGBT1 increases. A typical ratio between L 1 and L 2 is 1: 2 to 1:10.
<< Second effect of the first embodiment (IGBT1), part 1 >>
The second effect of the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment is that it is easy to make.
As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 which are cross sections of CC ′ and DD ′ in FIG. 1, the trenches 103 and the semiconductor protrusions 104 are alternately arranged in the minor axis direction of the trench 103.
Its purpose is to facilitate manufacturing and design by eliminating the structural steps of the IGBT. Details are described below.
FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an outline of an example of a manufacturing process of the IGBT 1 according to the first embodiment.
The IGBT 1 of the first embodiment uses a silicon n - substrate as shown in FIG. The n − drift layer 100 in FIGS. 1 to 4 corresponds to the n − substrate (100) in FIG.
In the step shown in FIG. 5B, the resist is patterned, and the trench 103 and the semiconductor protrusion 104 are formed by etching of silicon.
In the step shown in FIG. 5C, the gate insulating layer 105 and the first interlayer insulating layer 107 are formed by thermal oxidation.
In the step shown in FIG. 5D, polysilicon is deposited.
In the step shown in FIG. 5E, the polysilicon is divided by etching, and the gate electrode 106 and the field plate 108 are formed.
In the step shown in FIG. 5F, the second interlayer insulating layer 109 is formed by depositing an oxide film.
In the step shown in FIG. 5G, part of the second interlayer insulating layer 109 and part of the gate electrode 106 are etched, and the p base layer 101 and the n + source 102 are formed by separate ion implantation and annealing, respectively. Is done.
In the step shown in FIG. 5H, an oxide film is deposited.
At this time, the second interlayer insulating layer 109 is formed again in a part of the region etched in FIG.
In the step shown in FIG. 5I, the contact part 110 is formed by etching a part of the second interlayer insulating layer 109 and a part of the semiconductor convex part 104.
In the step shown in FIG. 5 (j), the emitter electrode 111 is deposited, the n buffer layer 112 and the p collector layer 113 are formed on the back surface by separate ion implantation and annealing, the collector electrode 114 is deposited, and the IGBT 1 is formed. Complete.
As shown in FIG. 3, narrow width trenches 103 and semiconductor protrusions 104 are alternately arranged in the CC ′ cross section of FIG. 1 showing the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment. The width W 2 along the short axis of the trench 103 is arranged to be less than 2 times the polysilicon deposition thickness.
Accordingly, in the step of FIG. 5D, the trench 103 is almost completely filled with the oxide film and the polysilicon, and thus a high step of 1 μm or more does not occur.
Therefore, since the problem due to the above-described step does not occur, there is an effect that manufacture and design are facilitated. Although not limited, since the typical polysilicon deposition thickness is 1 to 2 μm, the width W 2 of the trench 103 is desirably 4 μm or less.
By using the configuration as described above, several problems derived from the steps in the IGBT 12 as a second example as a reference comparison, which will be described below, do not occur.
(IGBT as reference comparison, part 1)
22 to 25 are diagrams showing the structure of the IGBT 12 of the second example as a reference comparison. The first example as a reference comparison will be described later.
FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a planar arrangement of the IGBT 12 on the AA ′ plane in FIGS. 23 to 25. In FIG. 22, a region indicated by reference numeral 151 is a space (region) generated by a step. Reference numeral 152 denotes a trench region.
FIG. 24 is a cross-sectional view of the CC ′ plane in FIG. 25 is a cross-sectional view of the DD ′ plane in FIG.
FIG. 23 is a cross-sectional view of the BB ′ surface in FIG. 22 of the IGBT 12 as a second example as a reference comparison.
For example, as shown in FIG. 23, when a wide trench 152 is arranged in the IGBT 12, a step 153 is generated on the surface of the emitter electrode 111 due to the step of the trench 152. The step of the emitter electrode 111 may cause a defect in a wiring process with an external terminal by wire bonding or the like. Therefore, it is desirable that the emitter electrode 111 be planarized.
Another problem derived from the step is related to processing of a resist used for photolithography in the manufacturing process of the IGBT.
FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating a manufacturing process assumed in the IGBT 12 (FIGS. 22 to 25) of the second example as a reference comparison.
For example, in the step of forming the gate electrode 106 and the field plate 108 shown in FIG. 26E, the resist on the trench 152 becomes thicker and the resist on the semiconductor convex portion 104 tends to become thinner as the step becomes higher.
Therefore, in the IGBT shown in FIGS. 22 to 25, the resist may break between the trench 152 and the semiconductor convex portion 104. Alternatively, the exposure of the thick resist on the trench 152 may be insufficient and a defect due to the resist residue may occur. If the resist is thickened and the exposure conditions are strengthened to prevent such defects, the accuracy of the processing dimension is lowered, and fine design becomes difficult. From the above, it is desirable that the level difference be low in the IGBT manufacturing process. A typical allowable step is 1 to 3 μm.
In the IGBT 1 according to the first embodiment, defects in the wiring process with the external terminal caused by the step in the IGBT 12 of the second example as a reference comparison as described above, and defects due to resist disconnection or resist residues in the manufacturing process are present. Is alleviated.
<< Third effect of the first embodiment (IGBT1), part 1 >>
The third effect of the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment is that the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage can be easily controlled during the turn-on operation.
As shown in FIG. 2, the surface of the gate electrode 106 opposite to the p base layer 101 faces the second interlayer insulating layer 109 and the field plate 108. With such a configuration, for example, the parasitic capacitance of the gate insulating layer 105 is reduced as compared with the IGBT 11 (FIG. 19) of the first example as a reference comparison.
Thereby, the feedback capacitance between the gate and the collector is reduced.
Furthermore, since there is no floating p layer 180 used in the IGBT 11 (FIG. 19) of the first example as a reference comparison shown in FIG. 19, an increase in gate potential during the turn-on operation is reduced. Therefore, it is easy to control the time change rate dV / dt of the voltage, which is the first problem described above.
A more detailed description of the IGBT 11 (FIG. 19) of the first example as a reference comparison will be described later.
Further, as shown in FIG. 3, in the cross-sectional structure of the CC ′ surface of the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment, the semiconductor convex portion 104 sandwiched between the field plates 108 is composed of an n − drift layer 100. Yes.
Therefore, since the floating p layer is not used, a transient rise in the gate potential can be reduced during the turn-on operation of the IGBT 1, and the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage of the IGBT 1 and the diode (503, FIG. 28). Control becomes easier.
FIG. 21 shows an example of a calculated waveform of the collector-emitter voltage Vce during the turn-on operation of the IGBT 1 of the semiconductor device according to the first embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 21, the time change rate dVce / dt of the collector-emitter voltage Vce is controlled by changing the gate resistance.
(IGBT as a reference comparison, part 2)
FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a calculated waveform of the collector-emitter voltage Vce at the time of turn-on in the IGBT 11 (FIG. 19) of the first example as a reference comparison.
As shown in FIG. 20, even when the gate resistance is changed, there is a period during which dVce / dt does not change and cannot be controlled.
Details of this phenomenon will be described later.
As described above, since the floating p layer 180 (FIG. 19) in the IGBT 11 (FIG. 19) of the first example as a reference comparison does not exist in the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment, the gate resistance is changed. The time change rate dV / dt of the voltage of the IGBT 1 and the diode (503, FIG. 28) can be easily controlled, and there is an effect of ensuring the reliability as the power conversion device.
<< Fourth Effect of First Embodiment (IGBT1) >>
The fourth effect of the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment is to have a high breakdown voltage.
FIG. 6 is a characteristic diagram showing the calculation result of the breakdown voltage between the collector and the emitter in the off state of the IGBT 1 of the semiconductor device according to the first embodiment of the present invention, and the semiconductor convex portion on the CC ′ plane shown in FIG. An example of a calculation result of a withstand voltage for a width W 1 of 104 is shown.
In FIG. 6, the horizontal axis is the trench interval W 1 corresponding to the semiconductor protrusion 104, and the unit is μm. The vertical axis indicates the standardized breakdown voltage with reference to the breakdown voltage when the trench spacing exceeds 35 μm and the breakdown voltage becomes constant, and the unit is a. u (Arbitrary Unit, arbitrary unit).
As shown in FIG. 6, in an IGBT with a rated voltage of 600 V to 3300 V, the breakdown voltage is almost constant when W 1 > 35 μm. When W 1 ≦ 35 μm, the smaller the W 1, the higher the breakdown voltage. Accordingly, in order to ensure a high breakdown voltage, W 1 is desirably 35 μm or less.
From the above, IGBT 1 of the first embodiment, it is possible to easily set the trench distance W 1 to 35μm or less, ensuring high withstand voltage.
Incidentally, when the trench distance W 1 corresponding to the semiconductor raised portion 104 increases the breakdown voltage is lowered, the equipotential lines are concentrated at the corners of the bottom of the trench, because the electric field strength is increased.
As described above, the IGBT 1 according to the first embodiment has the effects of facilitating the manufacture, as well as low loss, high breakdown voltage, and easy control of the output voltage time change rate dV / dt.
(Second Embodiment / IGBT2)
Next, the IGBT 2 of the semiconductor device according to the second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing the configuration of the IGBT 2 of the semiconductor device according to the second embodiment, and shows an example of a cross-sectional structure corresponding to the BB ′ plane of FIG.
7 differs from FIG. 2 in a gate electrode 200 (first conductive layer), a second interlayer insulating layer 109, and a third interlayer insulating layer 201. The elements denoted by other reference numerals have the same configurations, operations, and functions as the elements denoted by the same reference numerals as in FIGS.
In the IGBT 2, a part of the gate electrode 200 covers at least a part of the surface of the second interlayer insulating layer 109. The surface of the gate electrode 200 is covered with a third interlayer insulating layer 201, and the surface of the third interlayer insulating layer 201 is covered with an emitter electrode 111.
The purpose of the IGBT 2 of the second embodiment is to suppress oscillation of voltage and current during turn-on and turn-off operations. This will be described in detail below.
In the IGBT 2 of the second embodiment, since the gate electrode 200 is formed on the second interlayer insulating layer 109, the area can be increased and the wiring resistance of the gate electrode 200 can be reduced. By reducing the wiring resistance of the gate electrode 200, the delay time until the gate voltage signal reaches all the gate electrodes 200 in the plane of the IGBT can be reduced.
Further, in-plane variations in the delay time of the gate voltage may cause voltage or current oscillation during the turn-on / turn-off operation of the IGBT. Therefore, the IGBT 2 of the second embodiment can suppress oscillation by reducing the wiring resistance of the gate electrode 200.
<< Configuration of Semiconductor Device IGBT2B which is a Modified Example of Second Embodiment >>
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a configuration of an IGBT 2B that is a modification of the semiconductor device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
The semiconductor device IGBT2B (FIG. 8) in the modification is different from the IGBT2 (FIG. 7) in that a part of the emitter electrode 111 is in contact with and electrically connected to the field plate 108 as shown in FIG. It is.
As a result, the field plate 108 has the same potential as the emitter electrode 111, so that the characteristics are stabilized.
8 differs from FIG. 7 in the structure relating to the emitter electrode 111 and the field plate 108 as described above. The elements denoted by other reference numerals have the same configuration, operation, and function as the elements denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG.
(Third Embodiment / IGBT3)
IGBT3 of the semiconductor device which is 3rd Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated with reference to FIG. 9, FIG.
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a planar arrangement on the AA ′ plane in FIG. 10 of the IGBT 3 of the semiconductor device according to the third embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a cross-sectional view of the DD ′ plane in FIG.
9 are the same as the cross-sectional views of FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively.
In FIG. 9, the p base layer 301 covers the periphery of the gate electrode 106 with the gate insulating layer 105 interposed therebetween.
The purpose is to prevent a channel having a plurality of different thresholds from being formed on the gate sidewall 300 facing the minor axis direction of the trench 103 in the on state of the IGBT 3 and to improve the breakdown tolerance. Details are described below.
The threshold voltage of the IGBT varies depending on the impurity concentration of the p base layer. The impurity concentration of the p base layer may have a non-constant distribution in the depth direction (that is, in the direction perpendicular to the paper surface of FIG. 1 or FIG. 9).
Therefore, when the gate electrode 106 and a part of the gate insulating layer 105 are not covered with the p base layer 101 as in the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment shown in FIG. In the meantime, a plurality of lateral channels having different threshold values (that is, channels in a direction parallel to the paper surface of FIG. 1) may be formed.
In an IGBT having a plurality of threshold values, current concentrates at the time of turn-off, and the breakdown tolerance may be reduced.
The IGBT 3 of the third embodiment has an effect of preventing a lateral channel from being formed in the gate side wall 301 by covering the gate side wall 300 with the p base layer 301. Therefore, the IGBT 3 does not have a plurality of threshold voltages, and thus has an effect of improving the breakdown tolerance during turn-off.
9 and 10 are different from FIGS. 1 and 4 in the structure relating to the p base layer 301 and the gate side wall 300. Elements with other reference numerals have the same configurations, functions, and functions as those with the same reference numerals as those in FIGS.
<< Configuration of Semiconductor Device IGBT3B which is a Modified Example of Third Embodiment >>
IGBT3B of the semiconductor device in the modification of 3rd Embodiment is demonstrated with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a planar arrangement on the AA ′ plane of FIGS. 12 and 13 of the IGBT 3B according to the third embodiment.
FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view of the CC ′ plane in FIG.
Note that the cross-sectional view of the BB ′ plane in FIG. 11 is the same as the cross-sectional view of FIG.
The IGBT 3B has an effect of preventing the lateral channel from being formed by the contact portion 302 covering the gate sidewall portion 300 and improving the breakdown tolerance at the time of turn-off. At this time, the gate electrode 200 between the trenches is divided in the BB ′ cross section. Therefore, the gate electrode 200 between the trenches is connected at the upper portion of the field plate 108 as shown in FIG. Further, the gate electrode 200 in the BB ′ cross section is different from the gate electrode 106 in FIG. In FIG. 13, an emitter electrode 111 is embedded in the contact portion (302).
11, 12, and 13 are different from FIGS. 9, 3, and 10 in the structure relating to the contact portion 302 and the gate electrode 200. The elements denoted by other reference numerals have the same configurations, operations, and functions as the elements denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIGS. 9, 3, and 10, and thus description thereof is omitted.
(Fourth embodiment / IGBT4)
IGBT4 of the semiconductor device which is 4th Embodiment of this invention is demonstrated with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a planar arrangement of the IGBT 4 of the semiconductor device according to the fourth embodiment on the AA ′ plane in FIGS. 15 and 16.
FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view of the EE ′ plane in FIG.
14 are the same as the cross-sectional views of FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively.
As shown in FIG. 14, the IGBT 4 of the fourth embodiment has a trench 400 formed in a loop shape in a planar arrangement. The purpose is to achieve a high rated current and reduce the on-voltage.
The IGBT 4 is equivalent to a configuration in which both ends of two adjacent trenches 103 are connected in the planar arrangement of the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment shown in FIG. Therefore, the IGBT 4 can make the n + source 102 facing the gate electrode 106 across the gate insulating layer 105 longer than the IGBT 1 of the first embodiment.
Saturation current is proportional to the total length of length W S of the n + source 102 shown in FIG. 14, IGBT 4 of the fourth embodiment, the first embodiment structures other than the arrangement of the trenches are equally designed Compared with IGBT1, the saturation current can be increased.
Therefore, since the upper limit of the current of the IGBT 4 increases, a high rated current can be realized. Further, since the injection of electrons from the channel increases, the on-voltage is also reduced.
14 to 16 is different from FIGS. 1 to 4 and FIGS. 9 to 13 in the structure related to the trench 400. The elements with other reference numerals have the same configurations, functions, and functions as the elements with the same reference numerals as those of FIGS. 1 to 4 and FIGS.
<< Configuration of Semiconductor Device IGBT4B which is a First Modification of Fourth Embodiment >>
FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a planar arrangement of an IGBT 4B that is Modification 1 of the semiconductor device according to the fourth embodiment.
The IGBT 4B shown in FIG. 17 has a configuration in which a trench 401 equivalent to a further connection of the loop-like trench 400 in the IGBT 4 shown in FIG. 14 is arranged in a ladder shape.
Note that FIG. 17 is different from FIGS. 1 to 4 and FIGS. 9 to 16 in the structure related to the trench 401. Elements denoted by other reference numerals have the same configurations, functions, and functions as those denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIGS. 1 to 4 and FIGS.
<< Configuration of Semiconductor Device IGBT4C as Second Modification of Fourth Embodiment >>
FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating a planar arrangement of an IGBT 4C which is a second modification of the semiconductor device according to the fourth embodiment.
The IGBT 4C shown in FIG. 18 has a configuration in which the trenches 402 are arranged in a bellows shape.
18 is different from FIGS. 1 to 4 and FIGS. 9 to 17 in the structure related to the trench 402. Elements denoted by other reference numerals have the same configurations, operations, and functions as those denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIGS. 1 to 4 and FIGS.
(5th Embodiment and power converter device)
FIG. 28 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration of a power conversion device according to the fifth embodiment of the present invention, which is a power conversion device employing the IGBT described in each of the above-described embodiments.
In FIG. 28, two IGBTs 502 are connected in series, and are connected between input terminals 504 and 505 for supplying DC power.
Three pairs of these two IGBTs 502 connected in series are provided. Output lines are taken out from the connection points of the IGBTs 502 formed by connecting the two pairs of three pairs in series, and connected to output terminals 506, 507, and 508, respectively.
The gate electrodes of a total of six IGBTs 502 each including three pairs and two pairs are connected to the gate drive circuit 501 respectively. The six IGBTs 502 are connected to free-wheeling diodes 503, respectively.
DC power between the input terminals 504 and 505 is converted into variable voltage and variable frequency three-phase AC power by the six IGBTs 502 whose pulse width is controlled by the six gate driving circuits 501 and output. It is output to terminals 506, 507, and 508.
Therefore, the circuit of FIG. 28 constitutes an inverter circuit that converts DC power into three-phase AC power of variable voltage and variable frequency, that is, a power converter.
The IGBT which is the semiconductor device of the first to fourth embodiments is applied to the IGBT 502 in FIG. Thereby, low loss and high reliability of the power conversion device can be realized.
In addition, although the power converter device of 5th Embodiment shown in FIG. 28 demonstrated the inverter circuit, IGBT which is a semiconductor device of 1st-4th embodiment also about other power converter devices, such as a converter and a chopper. It can be applied and the same effect based on it can be obtained.
(Other embodiments)
In addition, this invention is not limited to above-described embodiment, Various modifications are included. The above-described embodiment has been described in detail for easy understanding of the present invention, and is not necessarily limited to the one having all the configurations described.
For example, in the first embodiment, the dimensions in the shape of each element described above are examples, and the present invention is not limited to this.
In each of the embodiments described above, the first conductivity type is n-type and the second conductivity type is p-type. However, in the present invention, the first conductivity type is p-type and the second conductivity type is n-type. The same holds true.
In each of the embodiments described above, polysilicon is used as the material for the gate electrode and the field plate, but another conductive material may be used.
The present invention can be applied not only to the IGBT but also to a semiconductor device having a trench gate structure.
Further, a part of the configuration of an embodiment can be replaced with the configuration of another embodiment, and the configuration of another embodiment can be added to the configuration of an embodiment.
In addition, it is possible to add, delete, and replace other configurations for a part of the configuration of each embodiment. In addition, the electrical wiring indicates what is considered necessary for the description, and does not necessarily indicate all electrical wiring on the product.
The explanation in the above (IGBT as reference comparison, part 2) will be supplemented below.
FIG. 19 is a perspective view of a cross section showing the structure of the IGBT 11 of the first example as a reference comparison.
In FIG. 19, there is a floating p layer 180.
In this case, when the IGBT is turned on, a hole current transiently flows into the floating p layer 180, and the potential of the floating p layer 180 rises. At this time, since the displacement current flows to the gate electrode 106 through the parasitic capacitance of the gate insulating layer 105, the gate potential also rises. As the gate potential rises, the time rate of change dIc / dt of the collector current increases, and the switching speed of the IGBT and the diode of the arm is accelerated. The amount of holes that transiently flow into the floating p layer 180 is mainly determined by the internal structure of the semiconductor and is difficult to control with an external gate resistance. As a result, as shown in FIG. 20 described above, there occurs a period in which the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage of the IGBT and the time change rate dV / dt of the output voltage of the diode of the counter arm cannot be controlled by the gate resistance.
22 to 25 show the structure of the IGBT 12 of the second example as a reference comparison. This structure and problems are as described above in (IGBT as reference comparison, part 1).
FIG. 27 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of the IGBT 13 of the third example as a reference comparison.
In FIG. 27, there is an insulating region 264, which is formed by using a semiconductor substrate in which a thick insulating film is embedded in advance. Then, there is a step of epitaxial growth until the surface of the insulating region 264 is covered.
In this case, there is a possibility that a crystal defect is generated by epitaxial growth covering the insulating film, and a high leak current is generated by the crystal defect. Furthermore, since a new process for forming a semiconductor substrate in which a thick insulating film is embedded in advance is increased, the substrate cost is increased.
100 n − drift layer (first semiconductor layer), silicon substrate 101, 301 p base layer (third semiconductor layer)
102 n + source (fourth semiconductor layer)
103, 152, 400, 401, 402 Trench 104 Semiconductor convex portion 105 Gate insulating layer 106, 200 Gate electrode (first conductive layer)
107 first interlayer insulating film 108 field plate (second conductive layer)
109 Second interlayer insulating layer 110, 302 Contact portion 111 Emitter electrode (third conductive layer)
112 n buffer layer 113 p collector layer (second semiconductor layer)
114 Collector electrode (fourth conductive layer)
115 Emitter terminal 116 Gate terminal 117 Collector terminal 151 Space generated by a step 153 Step 180 Floating p layer 201 Third layer insulating layer 264 Insulating region 300 Gate side wall 501 Gate drive circuit 502 IGBT
503 Diode 504, 505 Input terminal 506, 507, 508 Output terminal IGBT1, IGBT2, IGBT2B, IGBT3, IGBT3B, IGBT4, IGBT4B, IGBT4C, IGBT11, IGBT12, IGBT13 Semiconductor device (IGBT)
A first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type;
A second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type formed on one surface of the first semiconductor layer;
A trench formed on a surface of the first semiconductor layer opposite to the second semiconductor layer;
A semiconductor protrusion having a side surface sandwiched between the trenches on the remaining surface of the first semiconductor layer;
A third semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type selectively formed on the surface of the semiconductor convex portion;
A fourth semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type selectively formed on a surface of the third semiconductor layer and having a higher impurity concentration than the first semiconductor layer;
A gate insulating layer provided along a portion of the inner wall of the trench;
A first interlayer insulating layer provided along the remaining region of the inner wall of the trench;
A first conductive layer at least partially facing the fourth semiconductor layer via the gate insulating layer;
A second conductive layer formed on a surface of the first interlayer insulating layer;
A second interlayer insulating layer at least partly covering the surface of at least part of the second conductive layer;
A third conductive layer formed at least partially on the surfaces of the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer and electrically connected to the fourth semiconductor layer;
A contact portion for electrically connecting the third conductive layer and the third semiconductor layer;
A fourth conductive layer formed on the surface of the second semiconductor layer;
Said portion of the surface of the semiconductor raised portions Ri said first semiconductor layer der,
The semiconductor device, wherein the third semiconductor layer covers the periphery of the wall portion of the first conductive layer .
A third interlayer insulating layer at least partly covering the surface of at least part of the first conductive layer;
A third conductive layer formed at least partially on the surfaces of the third semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer;
At least a portion of the first conductive layer covers a surface of at least a portion of the second interlayer insulating layer;
At least a portion of the third conductive layer covers a surface of at least a portion of the third interlayer insulating layer;
The semiconductor device according to claim 2, wherein a part of the third conductive layer and a part of the second conductive layer are in contact with each other and are electrically connected.
4. The semiconductor according to claim 1, wherein a width of the trench is larger than a width of the semiconductor protrusion in a direction in which the trench and the fourth semiconductor layer are adjacent to each other. 5. apparatus.
The semiconductor device according to claim 1, wherein the contact portion covers a wall portion of the first conductive layer.
A power conversion device comprising the semiconductor device according to any one of claims 1 to 5 .
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TW201006272A - Method and apparatus for maintaining communications connections over a distributed wireless network - Google Patents
Method and apparatus for maintaining communications connections over a distributed wireless network Download PDF
TW201006272A
TW201006272A TW098100071A TW98100071A TW201006272A TW 201006272 A TW201006272 A TW 201006272A TW 098100071 A TW098100071 A TW 098100071A TW 98100071 A TW98100071 A TW 98100071A TW 201006272 A TW201006272 A TW 201006272A
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TWI531263B (en
Andrew T Thorstensen
Brian D Mcmanus
2009-01-05 Application filed by Ibm filed Critical Ibm
2010-02-01 Publication of TW201006272A publication Critical patent/TW201006272A/en
2016-04-21 Publication of TWI531263B publication Critical patent/TWI531263B/en
H04W36/00—Hand-off or reselection arrangements
H04W36/24—Reselection being triggered by specific parameters used to improve the performance of a single terminal
H04W36/30—Reselection being triggered by specific parameters used to improve the performance of a single terminal by measured or perceived connection quality data
H04W40/00—Communication routing or communication path finding
H04W40/02—Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
H04W40/04—Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on wireless node resources
H04W40/08—Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing based on wireless node resources based on transmission power
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H04W8/26—Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
H04W84/10—Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
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A mobile wireless device connects to a network of multiple wireless transceiver stations using a protocol in which a connection is established with a particular transceiver station. If the mobile device moves out of range of the original station, the connection is passed to another station, which then impersonates the original station, without dropping the connection. Preferably, the original station provides a virtual Media Access Control (MAC) address to identify itself when the connection is established, and this virtual MAC address is passed to any successor station. Preferably, the station monitors signal strength and automatically passes the connection by polling its neighbors upon determining that signal strength is getting weak.
201006272 VI. Description of the Invention: [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to the use of a wireless communication network, and in particular to the case where the relative signal strength at the user end changes (eg, the client is mobile) Maintain a wireless communication connection between the server's decentralized network and the client. [Prior Art] In the second half of the twentieth century, a phenomenon called the information revolution began. Although the information revolution is a broader historical development than any event or machine in scope, only digital computers can be the representative of the information revolution. The development of computer systems is undoubtedly a revolution. Every year, computer systems are faster, store more data, and provide more applications to their users. At the same time, the cost of computing resources has been declining, making information that was too expensive years ago to be collected, stored, and processed now economically manipulated via computers. As product design, manufacturing processes, resource scheduling, management trivia, and many other factors become more efficient, reduced information processing costs drive productivity growth with the snowball effect. Communication at all levels is an essential part of the information revolution. Not only should people be able to communicate over long distances (by telephone 'radio, etc.) immediately, directly and without restrictions, digital computing devices should be able to communicate with each other. The reduction in computational cost and the full availability of digital devices have led to a surge in the amount of information stored in such devices. This amount of information dwarfs the storage capabilities of any device, necessitating the promotion of extensive access to information stored in different computer systems. In order to improve information access, various technologies have been developed for allowing devices to communicate with each other and exchange information. Perhaps the most prominent example of this decentralized computing is the World Wide Web (often simply referred to as "web"), a collection of resources that are made available throughout the world using the Internet. School-age children to the elderly They are learning to use the World Wide Web and easily find almost unlimited kinds of information in their homes or workplaces. Businesses, governments, organizations and even ordinary people publish information on the Global Information Network, so that anything worth knowing can be expected now. It can be transmitted somewhere on the Global Information Network. Early communication media (whether for human voice or digital data) usually rely on fixed communication stations. But as the need to communicate information grows, it enables communication with mobile communication devices. It becomes apparent that it is desirable. Mobile communication may involve communication between a pair of isolated mobile devices, but in particular it is necessary to enable mobile communication devices to be linked to a large network with a series of wired and/or wireless chains. The mobile communication device is coupled to many other devices (mobile or fixed). These communications A prominent example is a cellular mobile phone that connects to a global telephone network, through which the global telephone network may make a phone call or receive a phone call from another mobile or landline telephone that is available almost anywhere in the world. Another prominent example is a laptop, palm or other mobile digital computing device connected to the Internet via a wireless connection (eg, an IEEE 802.u protocol connection) whereby the mobile computing device can be accessed via the Internet Send data to and receive data from any other device in the world that is pure to the Internet. Wireless Internet, (4) telephone and other wireless network connections usually follow a common paradigm. Due to the larger bandwidth 'the backbone of the network' Typically fixed-right values such as steel 136588.doc 201006272 lines, fiber optic cables, etc., ^ ^ Transmission media, extending between fixed routers or other network nodes. A plurality of wireless transceiver stations in a fixedly dispersed location are coupled to the tangible transmission media network. +... ^ ^ A mother radio transceiver has separate ranges for the = line intrusion communication. In order to connect to the network, the mobile wireless device determines the range of wireless transceivers in accordance with the protocol established = and establishes a connection with the wireless transceiver station. Ideally, the wireless transceiver is clamped to provide coverage of the desired area, such that the mobile device is within the scope of at least such a transceiver station, regardless of where the mobile device is currently located anywhere in the desired coverage area. For a defined category of communication protocol, the mobile device (referred to as the client) discovers the appropriate wireless transceiver station and establishes a connection with its particular station (serving as a feeder). As part of the agreement - the client addresses the communication to the particular wireless transceiver station with which it is connected... Once the connection is established, the client is free to move around within the range of the transceiver and the connection will be maintained. However, if the client s _ out of the transceiver station with which the connection is established, the connection can be disconnected 'although the device can be within the range of different transceivers' unless the applicable protocol and the wireless device smash the connection, the user then proceeds A new connection to the new transceiver station must be re-established. This problem of losing connectivity when mobile devices move out of range is well known in the mobile phone industry, where there are certain special agreements that will be connected to a mobile phone tower when the mobile phone moves out of the range of the tower with which it was originally connected. ) handed over to the other. Under the IEEE 802.11 agreement and certain similar agreements, the range of transceivers is usually shorter, and therefore the restrictions on mobility are potentially more stringent. However, since mobile devices are usually used in a fixed manner, this situation is accepted under most conditions in 136588.doc 201006272. That is, the laptop can be brought from one to another, but it is typically placed on the table during use and remains in place during the special communication session. Therefore, the relatively short I& surrounding of the transceiver station is usually not p (four). When the user wishes to start the session, he finds the transceiver station in the range and stays in the position for the duration of the session. There are many reasons why it is desirable to provide a continuous wireless connection that is not limited to the scope of any particular wireless transceiver station (not necessarily fully understood). First, the connection is cut off as a whisker, even if it does not occur at a frequency sufficient to make communication impossible or impractical. Second, although digital computing devices that use relatively short range ships 211 or similar wireless connections are typically operated in a fixed manner, they are not always fixed and sometimes require a connection to be maintained while the digital computing device is moving. More importantly, extending the range of the wireless transceiver station to reduce the frequency of disconnection has undue side effects. It means that the larger coverage overlaps or that each transceiver supports a larger number of devices, or both. These conditions limit the bandwidth supported by the network, since each wireless transceiver station must support a large area, i.e., an area with many devices within its scope. In other words, a larger number of transceiver stations each having a smaller coverage area can generally support a higher communication bandwidth than a smaller number of stations each having a larger coverage area. As the number of mobile communication devices increases and the amount of data transmitted to and from mobile devices increases, 'the need to find a way to communicate with mobile devices', which supports the larger bandwidth of data transmission and the comparison between people and devices: Degree of freedom. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 136588.doc 201006272 Mobile wireless attack uses a protocol-connected network of multiple wireless transceiver stations to establish a connection with a particular transceiver station. If the mobile device moves out of range of the wireless transceiver station with which it is connected, the connection is transferred from one wireless transceiver station to the other. The other party then loosens the original wireless transceiver station to the mobile wireless device without disconnecting the connection. In the preferred embodiment, when establishing an initial connection with a mobile wireless device as a client, the wireless transceiver station (as a server) generates a virtual media access control (MAC) address to identify itself to the client. The UE then considers the connection between itself and the device identified by the virtual MAC address, that is, all outgoing wireless transmissions are addressed to the virtual MAC address and the incoming transmission is identified as coming from Address. The server station continuously or periodically monitors the signal strength of the connection. Once it is determined that the signal is weak (indicating that the mobile client can move out of range), the server station requests its neighboring server station to report the signal strength with the client." Each neighboring station then briefly assumes the task of the original station and attempts to communicate with the client. Communication. If the attempt is successful, the signal strength at the neighboring station is evaluated and reported to the original requesting server station. Alternatively, each neighbor station continuously monitors the signal strength of all wireless devices within its range and reports based on the new proximity monitoring. After receiving one or more reports, the original server can then determine that the neighboring server has a better wireless connection. In this case, it requests the proximity server to assume the connection service. The proximity server then - uses the virtual MAC address generated by the original server when making the connection to assume the connection service. This process of forwarding a connection to another proximity server can continue indefinitely. The invention is not limited to any particular network application, but in the exemplary embodiment 136S88.doc -8 - 201006272 'the wireless transceiver station is connected to the internet and provides the internet connection to the mobile wireless device, which can be ( For example) laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) or other devices. Providing continuous wireless connectivity to mobile clients from multiple wireless transceivers (as servers) makes it practical to use transceivers with small individual coverage areas, thereby increasing the potential supported by the server's network Communication bandwidth. That is, in general, when the total number of mobile clients is fixed, each of the smaller number of stations in the small coverage area supports a larger number of stations than the smaller number of stations supporting the larger coverage area. width. A smaller coverage area generally means that each station supports a smaller number of clients, and thus can provide a larger bandwidth to each client. In addition, although a greater number of transceivers may be necessary, the reduction in the required range of wireless transceivers will offset the cost of the additional transceivers. In fact, the short range and the possibility of using mass-produced commodity equipment as a transceiver station is ample proof that it can provide a wireless network that is constructed in the long run and that is cheaper to maintain. An additional benefit is that since the transceiver station is closer to &', the client typically does not have to transmit signals over long distances and therefore there is a potential to reduce power consumption within the client. At the same time, the continuous wireless connection technique in accordance with the preferred embodiment does not require any changes to the conventional client, and the users do not know that the server connection is forwarding to a different physical transceiver device. As a result, this network supports and continues to support client devices that are already in use. The details of the structure and operation of the present invention are best understood by referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein the same reference numerals refer to the same parts. [Embodiment] Referring to the drawings, wherein like numerals refer to the same parts in the several figures, the same parts 136588.doc 201006272, FIG. 1 is a high-level illustration of an exemplary network environment in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, which shows even when acting Some of the major components involved in a system in which a wireless device moves out of the wireless transceiver station still automatically maintains a network connection with the mobile wireless device. As shown in FIG. 1, the network 101 is coupled to a network access device 1-4 that can also function as a controller, which in turn is coupled to a plurality of wireless transceivers each having a different physical location. i 〇 2A_c (generally referred to herein as feature 102). Although three transceiver stations are shown for purposes of illustration in Figure 1, it should be understood that the number of stations can vary and will generally be more. The mobile wireless device 103 communicates with one or more of the transceiver stations 1 〇 2 by wireless transmission to store the network 101. Network 101 can be any network used to transfer information from one device to another. In an exemplary embodiment, network 1.1 is an internet network. In this exemplary embodiment, each transceiver station i 02 accesses the network 101 via the common network access device 1. However, or perhaps each of the 1 2 direct access networks or access to different individual network access devices, as shown in Figure j by a dotted line extending between each of the ports 2 and the network 101 Trace the edge. The mobile wireless device can be any mobile digital data device for communicating over the Internet, such as a laptop, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and the like. Although an exemplary network environment is disclosed, the invention is not limited to this environment. In the preferred embodiment, each of the wireless transceiver stations 102 has a different fixed physical location (although fixed, but occasionally repositionable). The station is preferably coupled to the network access device 104 by a physical key such as a copper wire, a fiber optic cable, etc. However, the station may be coupled to the network access device 104 via a wireless connection. For simplicity of illustration, these connections are shown in Figure 1 as straight 136588.doc -10- 201006272. However, it should be understood that the wireless transceiver station may be via __ or multiple other devices and links (all of which are , some or none - can be used for wireless access to the network access device. In addition, although the location of the wireless transceiver station is preferably fixed 'but the station itself can be mobile. , each wireless transceiver (four) 2 communicates between peers independently of the identity and location of other transceiver stations (adjacent transceiver stations) operating within range, as described in more detail herein. However, in order to be with the device 103 The wireless connection is switched from one transceiver station to the other, and the network access device 1() 4 or a separate device acting as a controller may maintain information about the neighbors. The wireless device 103 is established by a predefined protocol. Wireless communication session (this article Known as "connection") and then transmitting and/or receiving information while the connection is in effect, communicating with the wireless transceiver station 12. If the connection is lost for any reason, it must be re-established. In a preferred embodiment In the middle, the information is exchanged between the wireless device 103 and the transceiver station 1〇2, and each packet has a header containing the scent identification information, although it is not necessary to be based on the protocol of the packet. The current known or later development requirements can be used. Any suitable wireless transmission technology and protocol for establishing a connection between two devices. For example, the 802.11 protocol can be used. Figure 2 is a wireless communication for communicating with one or more mobile wireless devices in accordance with a preferred embodiment. A high level block diagram of the main components of the transceiver station 102. The wireless transceiver station 102 includes a programmable processor 201 that executes a control program 211 resident in the internal random access memory 202 to substantially control the operation of the station. Further comprising a network interface 136588.doc -11- 201006272 2〇3 for communicating with the network 101, a wireless transceiver interface for adapting the wireless transceiver 2〇4, and The wireless transceivers 〇5, which receive and transmit wireless communications, are all under the control of the processor 201. One or more communication buses 2〇6 support communication between various electronic components. Rows 2〇6 may actually be a plurality of busbars, busbar interfaces, and associated components, but are represented as a single entity for clarity in Figure 2. Memory 202 contains a plurality of processor executable instructions. The control program gas 211 & when executed on the processor 2G1, controls the operation of the wireless slave station φ. The memory 202 preferably includes at least a portion that is protected from data loss in the event of a power outage in the station. Depending on the design, the memory can have a type that is physically non-volatile (eg, read-only memory (difficult) or flash memory), or can be protected by a backup battery or other method without data loss. . The control program 211 is preferably stored in this h of the memory. Or 'the wireless transceiver station 102 can include a separate non-volatile storage device (not shown), such as a rotary disk drive storage device, a control program and other necessary data stored on the storage device and optionally from the storage device Loaded into memory 202. The hidden body 202it step includes buffering for receiving temporary state data and for buffering one or more buffers 222, 223 ΓΑ % „ for illustrative purposes, but understanding the actual number ι change) The data is used for transmission of one part, which can be boasted that the station is protected or can be unprotected (volatile) memory. The temporary status data is more than the list of 224, including the list of neighbors... All adjacent wireless stations in the communication range of the line station; and the active connection (C〇nneet-Table) 225, identify all currently active connections. 136588.doc -12· 201006272 More details explain c〇nnect_Table 225 e, system: 2U performs all the custom functions normally required to control the type of wireless reception: the control program, the various components and the mobile wireless device _ 以° to establish a connection, maintain the state of the connection buffer (from the network or from the mobile device) and retransmit the buffered data to the network or mobile device. The control program can also include various Any of the auxiliary functions, such as, shifting and error recovery, collection and reporting of usage data, etc. In addition to these conventional features, the control program 211 includes means for moving out (or moving to the mobile device) Maintaining the wireless connection-group function in the case of its range of wireless transceivers. These functions include the proximity discovery function 212, the virtual MAC generator 213, the connection delivery function (1), and the connection reception function 215 'more details in this article. Describing its operation β While a certain number of programs, functions, and other entities are shown in the memory 202, it should be understood that these are shown for illustrative purposes only and that the number and type of such entities may vary. There are other software and hardware components of the station 102 that are not required to understand the present invention. Additionally, while the software components of Figure 2 are conceptually shown as being resident in the memory 2〇2, it should be understood that some of these components may also Stored elsewhere (for example, on a storage (not shown)) and loaded into memory 2〇2 as needed. In addition, it should be understood that the conceptual representation of Figure 2 does not imply any suggestion The memory organization model, and the station 1 2 may use a single address space virtual memory or may use multiple virtual address spaces that overlap. Although the wireless transceiver station 102 is described and illustrated herein as being primarily or exclusively acting as a wireless pass. A dedicated digital device for the pipeline, but the wireless transceiver station can alternatively be embodied as a general-purpose digital computer system with appropriate programming to provide the functionality described herein and having a suitable hardware communication interface. The concept description of the Connect_Table 225 in accordance with the preferred embodiment is shown in more detail. The Connect_Table 225 contains a variable number of entries 301, each of which corresponds to a separate active connection with a single mobile wireless device, the single mobile wireless The device is currently served by a wireless transceiver station 102 that acts as a server. The entries in the Connect_Table 225 are generated and removed as the connection to a particular wireless device is generated and disconnected. Each entry contains various status data required to maintain and service connections. In particular, in the preferred embodiment, each entry contains an identifier 302 of the server station 102 associated with the connection and an identifier 303 of the mobile wireless device (user). In the preferred embodiment, the identifier 302 is the virtual media access control (MAC) address currently associated with the station 102 used to maintain the connection, although other identifiers may be used. The identifier 303 is the actual MAC address that is permanently assigned to the mobile wireless device. The MAC address is the unique hardware number assigned to the device at the time of manufacture and is used by some LAN protocols at the lower level to uniquely specify the device. The virtual MAC address is data that simulates the actual MAC address in form and function, but is not permanently fixed to a particular device and can be passed to different devices, as explained more fully herein. The MAC address is used for wireless communication that is addressed from one device to another.
The Connect_Table entry 301 further contains the initial signal strength 304 of the connection, i.e., the signal strength of the connection as perceived by the wireless transceiver station 102 when the connection is established. The Connect_Table entry 301 can optionally contain additional signal strengths for determining recent history and trends of signal strength. 136588.doc -14- 201006272 305 'For example, one or more recent signal strength measurements, signal strengths, and time Derivatives, etc. The Connect_Table entry 301 can further include various other status profiles available for service connections, some or all of which may be optional. For example, 'Connect_Table may contain connection parameter data 306' for identifying protocols and variables, transmission speeds, or other connection parameters 'buffer indicator 307' for identifying temporary hold in buffers 222, 223 for transmission to the network Information on the road 1 or mobile wireless device 1 ; 3; account processing data 308, such as connection time, accumulated transmission data, etc. 'for fee-based connection services; and the like. Connect_Table 225 is conceptually illustrated and described herein as a table. However, this description does not imply that C〇nnect_Table occupies a contiguous address in memory or any particular data structure or organization. C〇nnect_Table can be organized into, for example, a binary tree, a collection association table, a linked list, or any suitable form. It is expected that unless a very small number of connections are processed at any one time, the Connect_Table should be configured to quickly index the entries based on the MAC address associated with the connection, allowing for a quick determination of whether incoming communication is intended for the station 102. As is well known, each wireless transceiver station 1 2 can communicate with mobile wireless devices within a range of stations. The station configuration allows the range of different transceivers to overlap to some extent. 4 is a simplified illustration of a plurality of stations and corresponding transceiver ranges shown as overlapping of circles 401A-G (generally referred to herein as features 401). Collectively, transceiver ranges 401A-G are provided as coverage areas 402 for all ranges of unions. Preferably, there is sufficient range overlap to provide coverage to the mobile wireless device located anywhere within the desired coverage area. The number of transceivers in the coverage area can vary and will typically be much more. According to a preferred embodiment of the present month, the mobile wireless device acting as the client uses an agreement such as IEEE 802.11 to establish an initial connection with a single-wireless transceiver station as a feeder of the transceiver network. The data is exchanged with each other by including a unique identifier (e.g., a MAC address) of the destination station in each transmitted packet. The client mobile device then considers the connection between itself and the device identified by the feeder identifier obtained when the connection is established, that is, all outgoing wireless carriers from the subscriber are addressed to this identifier. And the incoming transmission is identified as coming from this identifier. Preferably, the identifier of the server station is a virtual MAC address that emulates the actual MAC address in form and function but is not fixed to any particular device. If the client mobile device # leaves the _ of the wireless transceiver station with which it is connected, the wireless transceiver station connected from the network is transmitted to the other. The new wireless transceiver station then acts as the original wireless transceiver station without disconnecting the connection by taking the identity of the original wireless transceiver station for the mobile wireless device. That is, the new feeder responds to any transmission from the client addressed to the identifier (virtual MAC) established for the original connection and uses this virtual mac to communicate with the user. Each server station monitors the signal strength of its connections and, once it is determined that any signal is weak, passes the test to the adjacent server station. This is accomplished by requesting the adjacent feeder station to attempt to reach the client, evaluating the signal strength of the various neighboring connections and selecting a successor server station based on the evaluated signal strength. The subsequent wireless transceiver station feeder then acts as the original wireless transceiver to assume the identity of the original wireless transceiver, without disconnecting the connection (4) 136588.doc • 16 - 201006272 Start the wireless transceiver. That is, the successor server responds to any transmission from the client addressed to the identifier (virtual mac) established for the original connection and uses this virtual MAC to communicate with the client. When the client moves around the network, the subsequent wireless transceiver can continuously transfer the virtual MAC to another subsequent wireless transceiver. 5 is a high-level flow diagram of a general process of receiving and processing wireless communications in a server wireless transceiver station 1 2 in accordance with a preferred embodiment. Referring to FIG. 5, the process of controlling wireless communications is in a wait state at step 501. Waiting for the wireless_ transceiver 205 to receive the incoming data packet. Depending on the design and protocol parameters' Wireless transceiver station 205 may be capable of receiving data at multiple transmission frequencies simultaneously, such that the transmissions may overlap, but for clarity of explanation and explanation herein it is assumed that the packets arrive one after the other. When a packet is received, a determination is made as to whether the received packet is expected to be used to receive (detect) its server. This determination is represented in Figure 5 as block 502 and is shown in more detail in Figure 6. Referring to FIG. 6, which is a flowchart for explaining a decision process for determining whether a received packet is expected to be used by a server, the server station detects a packet to be transmitted from another wireless transmitter and parses the incoming packet. The key data needed to determine the destination is taken (step 601). If the destination identifier (better MAC address) in the packet header is the same as the MAC address of the server (ie, the permanent MAC address fixedly assigned to the server station), then step 6〇2 is used. , γι branches and determines that the packet is intended for this server (steps 6〇6). Otherwise, the branch is taken to step 603. In this case, if the destination identifier (MAC address) in the packet header is a special value (such as a null value) indicating a broadcast transmission intended for all recipients, then from step 603, γ, branch And it is determined that the I36588.doc 17 201006272 packet is intended for this server (step 606). If the destination MAC address is neither the permanent MAC address of the server station nor the special broadcast MAC address value (from the 'Ν' branch of step 603), the server determines whether the destination MAC address of the packet and the sender are Corresponding to the destination MAC address and sender of some active connections in which the sender (the client) is using the virtual MAC address to communicate with the server station. The Connect_Table 225 is accessed to determine the destination MAC address and whether the sender corresponds to the destination MAC address and sender of any active connections listed in the Connect_Table. Preferably, the Connect_Table has an indexing mechanism for determining whether a given MAC address corresponds to any of the entries in the table, VMAC 302, although this may alternatively be accomplished by scanning the input. If the destination MAC address in the packet does not correspond to any of the active connection entries VMAC 302 in the Connect_Table, then the 'Ν' branch is taken from step 604 and the packet is not expected to be used for the server station, Thereby causing the packet to be ignored (step 607). If the destination MAC address corresponds to one or more entries in the table (from the 'Y' branch of step 604), the server determines if the sender's MAC address is equivalent to each of the inputs in the table. The MAC address of the client 303 of the entry (step 605). Again, there may be an indexing mechanism for determining this, or it may be determined by scanning all applicable entries. If there is a match, the •Y' branch is taken from step 605 and it is determined that the packet is intended for use with this server (step 606). If there is no match, the 'Ν' branch is taken from step 605 and the packet is ignored thereafter (step 607). It should be observed that in the preferred embodiment, the virtual MAC address does not have to be unique, and in order to determine if the communication is intended for the server station, it should match 136588.doc -18- 201006272 to activate the virtual mac address and MAC of the client. Both address addresses may either produce an identifier of some form that is unique to a particular connection, such that only one match is needed. Referring again to Figure 5, the determination of the packet as described above with reference to Figure 6 is not intended for the server station causing the use of step 502, N, branch, and the server returns to step 〇1 to wait for the next-packet. If it is determined that the packet is intended for use in the server station, then step 502 is employed, γ, branch, and then the packet is processed appropriately (:
5〇3) » Since the server station 102 typically acts as a conduit for communication using the network ι〇ι, processing packets received from the mobile wireless device typically involves retransmitting the packet to the other of the network to the network 1〇1 device. However, there are some special exceptions that will be processed in the server station 1G2 and not transmitted to the network. For example, 'some communications are associated with maintaining a connection, such as establishing their communication for the initial connection' or signaling the mobile client to log out, or using a "crawling" device connection to determine if the connection is Communication still in effect. In addition, in a preferred implementation, in order to find that it is immediately adjacent (four) near and in order to transfer the connection from the other to the 'wireless transceiver' can communicate directly with each other, as described herein. If the mobile device (8) from the user terminal is not received to the packet (the station acts as a wireless transceiver), then step 504 is adopted, N, the branch and the station wait for the next-packet. Otherwise, adopt, γ, branch, And the server evaluates the received signal strength of the received signal using any conventional or subsequent development techniques to produce a merit indicating the relative strength of the signal (step 5〇5). If the connection is a new connection (ie, if the received packet is received) To establish the initial connection - part, the stem is self-step, Υ, branch), then the estimated signal strength value ^ I36588.doc -19- 201006272 can be applied to the initial signal of the Connect-Table input Degree field 3〇4 (step 507) 〇 If the connection is not a new connection but logout communication, then step 5〇8 is adopted, γ, branch, and the corresponding connection input item 3〇1 is removed from Connect_Table 225 (Step 512). The connection must then be re-established to communicate with the server station again. If the connection is not new and the packet is not logged out (ie, the packet is one of the communication sessions), then step 5〇8 is used. , N, branch. In this case, the server station makes a determination as to whether to attempt to pass the connection or "deliver" to another server station (step 509). The determination of whether to hand over the connection involves at step 505 The current signal strength as assessed by the premises, and may be simple or complex. In a simple embodiment, the current signal strength value is compared to a single threshold, which is a predetermined fixed threshold and is evaluated when initially connected. The minimum value of the signal strength, which is stored in the initial signal strength field 304. The predetermined solid threshold is based on known typical characteristics of the mobile device, the location of the servo station, etc., and is used to prevent when the signal strength is good. Unnecessary handover attempts, while triggering such handover attempts when the signal strength becomes critical but before it is completely lost. The reason for using the predetermined threshold and the minimum of the initial signal strength is that the mobile client is initially based on this signal strength. The connection is chosen, so it is probably best available. More complex determinations may involve considering any of a variety of other factors. For example, if the handover of the connection has recently been tried and failed, then it may be desirable to have a delay period. Preventing another attempt during the period. The length of the delay period can be fixed, or can vary depending on the observed rate of change in the signal strength of multiple past samples. The threshold can also be seen in the signal strength. 136588.doc 201006272 The rate of change (which indicates how fast the mobile client moves) changes. The threshold can also be changed depending on how busy the station is. For example, if the station is very busy, the lower threshold for handing over the connection can be used, so that the burden of serving the high-traffic user is equalized to some extent. . If it is determined that no attempt is made to hand over, then from step 509, N, the branch is taken, and the server returns to wait for the next packet. Otherwise, the server will attempt to hand over the connection to the neighboring server station. This handover process, as performed by connection delivery function 215, is represented in Figure 5 as step 510 and is shown in more detail in Figure 7. Regardless of whether the handover is successful or not, the server then returns to step 5〇1 to wait for the next packet. Referring to Figure 7, the handover attempt begins with the selection of a neighboring server list from the neighbor list 224 (step 701). The selection may be random, but in one embodiment the signal strength data 305 in the join table entry 301 includes the most recent signal strength reported by each neighbor in the previous handover attempt. In this embodiment, the neighbors are selected in the order of the most recent signal strength to increase the probability of finding an appropriate handover immediately. The server station then sends a request addressed to the neighbor (i.e., the neighbor's fixed mac address) requesting the neighbor to report the signal strength between the neighbor and the client (step 702). This request includes the client's mac address and the virtual MAC address used by the current server to service the connection. The proximity feeder receives the request and grabs the connection of the client mobile device (step 703). "Crawling "User-side connection means sending a short message to the client' request response. When the proximity server grabs the connection of the client, it uses the virtual MAC address identification used by the current server for the service connection. Its 136588.doc •21· 201006272 body' thus effectively plays the current server. For the client, the grab connection request appears to come from the current server. The neighbor can temporarily put the input in its Connect a Table. The crawl connection response is recognized as being intended for its use or some other mechanism for identifying the crawl connection response may be used. If the client is within range of the neighbor and receives the grab connection signal, then it borrows The response is answered by a capture connection response addressed to the virtual MAC address used by the current server. The neighboring server waits for this response and, if a response is received within the expected time period, evaluates the signal strength of the response (steps) 704). If no response is received within the expected time period, the neighbor ❹ infers that the mobile client is out of range and the signal strength is evaluated to be zero. In the event that the neighbor responds to the requesting current server, the signal strength of the transmission from the mobile client is reported (step 7〇5). In an alternate embodiment, each wireless station continues to monitor the mobile wireless device within its communication range. Signal strength. In response to the request for signal strength transmitted at step 7.2, the neighboring station reports the signal strength based on the recent monitoring data, and thus does not have to grab the connection of the mobile client as described above to determine the signal strength. This alternate embodiment is illustrated in FIG. 5 as step 511512. As shown in FIG. 5, when the station receives communications from the wireless client and determines that the communication is not intended for itself (from step 502, branch), The signal strength of the received communication is still evaluated (step 511), and the evaluation signal strength is stored in an appropriate data structure (not shown) that associates the recent signal strength of the communication with the mobile wireless device (step 512) Preferably, the signal strength data is aging such that the neighbor does not report outdated signal strength data. - Received a request for signal strength 'Proximity The strength of the most recent communication with the mobile client is found with reference to the appropriate data structure at 136588.doc -22- 201006272, and the signal strength is reported based on information in the data structure. This alternative embodiment has reduced crawl connection activity and further reduction The advantage of the time required to respond to requests for signal strength data. However, it requires each device to evaluate and maintain signal strength data for any device within its range, regardless of whether the station is connected to the device, and thus impose additional processing burdens In addition, if the evaluation signal strength requires communication between the station and the mobile wireless device, it may not be appropriate. The current server receives a response from the neighbor to report the signal strength (steps 7〇6). The signal strength is the strongest signal received so far in the handover attempt, then gamma, branch is used from step 707; the strongest signal received so far is updated (step 708); and it is determined whether the connection is handed over to the proximity servo just reported. (step 709). At step 707, steps 708 and 709 are bypassed if the received signal is not the strongest to date. Step 709 indicates whether to abandon the further crawl connection request for each neighbor and select the neighbor of the response just answered. Preferably, this determination is comparable to comparing the signal strength of the neighbors just reported to a fixed predetermined threshold, although this determination may involve greater complexity. Although some other neighbors that are not polled will theoretically be possible with better signal strength, step 7〇9 reduces the amount of grab connections where a fairly good signal has been found. In an alternate embodiment, step 7〇9 is skipped altogether and the decision to hand over the connection is not made until all neighbors have reported. If it is determined that the further grab connection is to be abandoned, then step Y is taken from step 709, branching to step 712; otherwise, the process continues to step 71 0. At step 710, if there are more neighbors on the list, then γ|minutes 136588.doc -23- 201006272 branches to step 701 ' and the next neighbor is selected for the connection of the client. When all neighbors have grabbed the connection of the client and reported the result, step 710 is employed, N, branch. After all neighbors have been polled (from step 710, N, branch), the current feeder determines whether to hand over the connection to the neighbor reporting the strongest signal (step 711). This determination may be equivalent to simply comparing the signal strength reported by the neighbor with the strongest signal to the signal strength recently evaluated in the current server, thereby selecting a station with a stronger signal, however, in the preferred embodiment, It is determined that the current server will be slightly advantageous by multiplying the current server signal strength by a fixed coefficient greater than one (eg, 1.25) and comparing the product to the unadjusted signal strength of the neighbors. The reason for this adjustment is that it reduces the oscillating handover of the connection, where the mobile client is approximately equidistant between the two servo stations. Or other factors may be introduced into the determination process. If it is determined at step 711 that the connection is not to be handed over, then the N, branch and connection delivery function 2M returns an unsuccessful result, meaning that the current (four) device will continue to process the connection. If it is determined that the connection is to be handed over, then step 711 is used to "use", branch, and the current word server transmits the connection delivery request to the selected neighbor (step (4) 2). The connection delivery request contains any necessary information for the connection from the c_eet-input entry, and in detail contains the virtual MAC address for the service connection and the MAC address of the mobile client. The current feeding service H (four) enters the appropriate message to connect (4) to the network access device 1〇4 (step 7) 3). In a preferred implementation, the network access device maintains a status table for all time-of-day connections from the wireless device to the network, the status table including the current processing wireless transceiver station for accessing the mobile wireless device 136588.doc 201006272 Alias (such as a fixed MAC address). Upon receipt of this message, the network access device changes the identifier of the wireless transceiver station to the identifier of the neighboring station to which the connection is being transferred. Thereafter, if any packet is received from the network in the network access device 104 and its destination is the mobile wireless device 103 of the connected body, then the packets are routed to the neighboring station instead of the current station. In the event that the wireless transceiver station 102 is not coupled to the common network access device 104, an alternate method can be used to route incoming communications from the network to the mobile wireless device. For example, a current wireless transceiver station can forward a packet to a neighboring station for transmission to a mobile device via a wireless link or via a wired network connection. Alternatively, a forwarding mechanism can exist at a higher level of the network for Change the routing of the packet. After the connection is handed over to the neighbor as described above with respect to steps 712 and 713 and the handover message is transmitted to the network access device, the current server continues from the server
The Connect_Table removes the corresponding connection entry 3〇1 (step 714). The current server will thereafter ignore any wireless transmissions it receives from the mobile wireless device unless the connection is returned to it in the same manner. Once the connection has been successfully delivered, the connection delivery function then returns. When the proximity server receives the connection delivery request sent by the current server in step 712, it generates a corresponding entry in its Connect_Table that copies the virtual MAC address and mobile client previously used by the current server. The MAC address (step 715). The neighbor then acts as the original server to the client by responding to any wireless transmission from a particular client addressed to a particular virtual MAC address. Figure 8 illustrates the process of initially establishing a connection between a mobile wireless device and network 101 using a wireless transceiver. Depending on the applicable agreement, this can be done in the 134588.doc -25- 201006272 server start broadcast or client start broadcast. In the server start broadcast illustrated as the left branch, the server station generates its own virtual MAC address (step 801) and periodically broadcasts its availability to serve the mobile client device's availability broadcast including the server's virtual mac Address (step 802). In the client initiated broadcast, the mobile wireless client broadcasts a request for service to any of the servers in the listening range, the broadcast including the fixed MAC address of the mobile client (step 803). Any server receiving the broadcast responds by generating a virtual MAC address to identify itself to the client (step 804) and transmits the availability message to the mobile client, which is addressed to the mobile client (step 8〇) 5). The mobile client can receive multiple server availability broadcasts (step 802) or availability messages (steps 8〇5) from a plurality of individual servers. The client selects one of the servers to service the connection and sends a connection request to the server addressed to the virtual MAC address of the selected server (steps 8-6). The server responds by establishing a connection, which in particular includes updating c〇nnect_Tabie to include an entry corresponding to the connection (steps 8-7). The server further establishes a connection with the network 101 by generating a connection request to the network access device 1〇4 on behalf of the user (step 808) » regardless of the step 801 or step 804, the virtual MAC address is like any Other MAC address-like identifiers, and appear to the client as the MAC address of its server station. The virtual MAC address is not a fixed MAC address of the server station, it is still used for some communications (e.g., between server stations or between network access devices 1.4 and server stations). Preferably, when the client tries to connect, the virtual river person (the address is locally unique), J36588.doc • 26-201006272, that is, if multiple servers provide separate virtual mac addresses to the client There should be no duplication in such addresses. Uniqueness does not have to be determined to mathematical certainty; rather, it is only desirable to avoid duplication, since at a minimum an action will be required to resolve the existence of a repetitive address. There are several possible ways in which A VMAC may be provided. In a simple embodiment, 'each server station has its own fixed MAC address assigned to it and a single virtual MAC address, which is unique. Although the connection is established, the VMAC can be passed to the other The server, but the server always uses the same VMAC to establish a connection. In an alternate embodiment, the server randomly generates a virtual MAC address from the pool of virtual MAC addresses shared by all servers, which is large enough to It is impossible to repeat. Even if the connection is not established, it should recognize some communication from the user during the initial connection process. This can be done in any of a variety of ways. For example If the client initiates the connection by broadcasting a availability request (which is shown as a branch starting from step 803), the server may place the temporary entry in the Connect_Table when responding at step 8〇5, the temporary The entry includes the client MAC and the server VMAC. The server will then recognize the connection request sent by the client in step 806. Alternatively, additional testing can be included in the procedure of Figure 6 to identify the client connection request. For example, if The incoming packet is the packet requesting the connection and it is addressed to the VMAC generated by the server, which will be recognized as the packet intended for this server, even if the entry is not in the Connect_Table. In the preferred embodiment 'Every A wireless transceiver station automatically discovers the identity of its immediate neighboring station by the inter-stage polling process performed by the proximity discovery function 212. Figure 9 is a flow diagram illustrating the process of discovery of neighboring stations in the same class 136588.doc -27 - 201006272 Fig. 9, shown on the left side of the figure, shows various implementations in a wireless transceiver station that attempts to discover neighbors (specified in this article "A„) And, on the right side of the figure, the steps performed by the neighboring stations that have been discovered (for the purpose of clarity, the station "B" is shown in the text). In the preferred embodiment, it is called from time to time in the station (stage a). The neighbor discovers the sequence to determine a set of active wireless transceivers that are physically close enough to communicate with them. In step 901 'the neighbor discovery process intervenes, which waits for a trigger event. The trigger event handles (five) passes 'i. Periodically, the current process is performed. Since the purpose is usually to find the location of the relatively static transceiver station, it is not necessary to trigger the discovery process from time to time. For example, one hour, or even one day or longer, the frequency can be transmitted frequently. If the station itself is acting, it will usually be necessary to trigger the discovery process at a faster frequency. The triggering event may also or alternatively be based on some known changes to the configuration of the transceiver station. For example, if it is known that there is a power outage or some other event that can affect the configuration, then this event can trigger the neighbor discovery process. When the proximity discovery process is triggered by a triggering event, the transceiver that attempts to discover its neighbor (A"A" broadcasts ndghb〇r_polling_request on its wireless transmitter (step 902). This broadcast will be within the communication range. Any Taiwan "B" (ie, neighboring station) receives the neighbor__p〇iiing_reqUest and addresses it to any particular station; it uses some special destination station identifiers or other characters. The protocol device indicates that it is broadcast ( That is, it is expected to be used for all acceptances. The neighb〇r_P〇lling_request contains the identification of the transmission station "A" although other identifiers can be used, the identifier is preferably the transmission station "A" 136588.doc -28· 201006272 The actual fixed MAC address (ie, not the virtual MAC address). As shown in the right line of Figure 9, the neighboring station within the communication range "B" receives the broadcast neighbor-p〇lling_request (step 9〇3). "B" in response to neighb〇r_p〇lling_reqUest by transmitting the ndghb〇r polI_received message (step 904) 'The neighbor_p〇ll_receive(j message addressed to station A) Contains the identifier (better MAC address) of the neighboring station (ie, station "B) that transmits it. The station "B" then checks its own neighbor list 224 to determine if the station "A" is On its neighbor list (step 905). If not, the list is obviously outdated and after a short wait interval (steps 9〇6), the neighbor discovery process is triggered in the station"B" to update the neighbor of the station "B" The checklist (steps 9〇7). The station"B" is short to wait for the station"A" to complete its original neighbor discovery process before triggering the neighbor discovery process. Preferably, the neighbor discovery process is triggered instead of simply Taiwan "A" added to the list of neighbors of the ''B'. This is the reason - it is impossible to determine that the two can communicate with each other. The fact that the "B" can be received from the Taiwan "A" is not necessarily meant to be And vice versa. By triggering the neighbor discovery process in Taiwan "B" to update the list of neighbors of the station "B" only when it is possible to verify the two-way material to include the station "Α" β should be noted in this way If the new station is added to the wireless network By performing the neighbor discovery process, the process will be discovered in each of its neighbors == corresponding neighbors, thus automatically updating the (four) near-neighbor list. Although for the sake of clarity of the description only the graphs ^ , Α , and A are not listed once, it should be understood that each station of the station τ receiving broadcast (neighbor polling request) repeats steps 903-907. Since σ can try to transmit the respective neighb〇r_p〇ll-received message to the station "A", therefore I36588.doc •29- 201006272 needs to use any conflict resolution now known or later developed Agreement or technology. The station "A" receives each of the 啪(8) poll-received messages transmitted from the neighboring station (step 908). There may be a plurality of such neighbor-p〇lLreceived messages. For each received in the station a" The neighbor•P〇U_received message, station, Α" will attempt to determine the signal strength of the received pass k and assign the merit to the signal strength using any known or later developed technique (steps 9-9). When sufficient time has elapsed to receive all responses to polls of neighbors, the station "A" generates a new neighbor list 224 containing entries corresponding to the station (from which it receives responses to polls of neighbors) ( Step 910). Each entry in the neighbor list 224 preferably includes an identifier of the neighboring station (such as a MAC ID) and a merit of the signal strength assigned to the neighboring station. The list of neighbors is preferably in the order of signal strength. The neighbor discovery process in the station "A" is then completed, and the neighbor discovery process returns to the idle state of step 901 to wait for the next trigger event. In a preferred embodiment, each wireless transceiver station is capable of communicating with its immediate vicinity by wireless communication. In the example of Figure 4, it will be observed that most of the stations are outside the range of their nearest neighbors. The range illustrated in Figure 4 is the scope for communicating with mobile wireless devices. Typically, the mobile wireless device is expected to transmit at a lower power than the transceiver within the wireless transceiver station, and/or may be located in a localized area of poor reception such that the range for communicating with the mobile wireless device is more limited. If the transceivers are in direct communication with each other, the expected communication range is usually large. In the example of Figure 4, each transceiver station is capable of communicating directly with any of the neighboring stations having a range of transceivers 136588.doc -30- 201006272 401 that overlaps its own range by wireless communication. Therefore, a transceiver having a range of 4 〇 1 £ can directly communicate with a station having a range of 4 〇 1 Β, 401 C, 401 D, 401 F, and 401 G, even if none of the stations are located within the transceiver range 401 。. Although a preferred embodiment, this is not a requirement. If direct station-to-station communication does not have a significantly larger range than station-to-work device communication, it is possible to alternatively place the transceiver station physically closer together, thereby having a larger overlap range. As a further alternative, it would be possible to use the network 1〇1 or use a separate network support station to communicate with the station. It will eventually be possible to manage multiple transceiver stations using separate devices acting as controllers, such as network access devices 1〇4, such that inter-stage communication between transceiver stations is not used. In a preferred embodiment, by requesting each neighbor to report the signal strength with the mobile radio beta (by fetching the mobile device's connection, or by monitoring the signal strength when not connected) and comparing the neighbors The signal strength of the response received by the station and the current signal strength determine the alternative transceiver station. This method has the advantage that it can be implemented by conventional hardware and does not require knowledge of the location of the mobile device. However, an appropriate successor transceiver station can be determined by other methods. For example, 5, if the transceiver station can determine the relative direction of the mobile device, it can estimate its location, and thus determine the appropriate neighbors without neighbor polling. Similarly, if the mobile device is equipped with global positioning capabilities, then transceiving σ can "request the mobile device's current global location, and thus determine the appropriate neighbors. Other alternatives may be possible. It is to be understood that the exchange of information is described herein in a simplified manner, and that some additional steps, such as confirmation, combinations of multiple packets in a string, etc., may be required or used in accordance with applicable protocols. 136588.doc 31 201006272 The connection technique = a preferred embodiment for the method of automatic maintenance and mobile wireless device description and may be included in the round 5 to Figure 9 and the above variations. Except for the discussion. In particular, it should be recognized that the steps that may change the execution of certain steps may be optional or may differ from the manner described herein, some steps may be combined, and the like. In the embodiment, the polygon 802.u protocol is used to operate the digital device (4), however, 'the invention is not necessarily limited to this specific protocol, and is used to require the connection to be established by the specific identifier identified by the corresponding identifier: Any wireless protocol between the present invention can be used for wireless communication with a mobile phone including a mobile wireless device, although some existing protocols (a special telephone protocol) are provided for maintaining a connection when the mobile device moves out of range of the wireless transceiver station. alternative method. The present invention has the advantage of not requiring changes to existing wireless devices, since the transceiver acts as a server and the transceiver does not need to know that it is currently communicating with a different station. Generally, the usual program executed in order to carry out the described embodiments of the present invention is implemented as part of the operation - in part or as part of a special program, to implement a program, object, module or instruction sequence. This is referred to herein as a computer program % computer program typically containing instructions that are read and executed by one or more processors in a computer system or other digital device of the present invention. These instructions cause the devices or systems to perform the steps necessary to perform the steps or to produce the various aspects of the present invention. Furthermore, although the invention has been and will be described hereinafter in the context of a fully operational computer system or other digital data device, the various embodiments of the present invention can be distributed in a computer readable medium. A program product embodied in any of a variety of forms, and the invention is equally applicable regardless of the particular type of media used. In addition, any of a variety of transmission techniques can be used to distribute the program or download the program to or from a computer readable medium. Examples of computer readable media include, but are not limited to, volatile and non-volatile memory devices, floppy disks, hard drives, CD-ROMs, DVDs, magnetic tape, and the like. An example of a computer readable medium is illustrated in Figure 2 as memory 2〇2. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been disclosed in connection with the embodiments of the invention, it will be understood that BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a high level illustration of the main components of a network environment for maintaining a connection to a mobile wireless device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a high level block diagram of the major components of a wireless transceiver station for communicating with one or more mobile wireless devices in accordance with a preferred embodiment. Figure 3 is a conceptual illustration showing, in more detail, a connection data structure for maintaining connection state data in accordance with a preferred embodiment. 4 is a simplified illustration of the range of overlapping transceivers for a plurality of wireless transceiver stations in accordance with a preferred embodiment. 5 is a high level flow diagram of the general process of receiving and processing wireless communications in a server wireless transceiver station in accordance with a preferred embodiment. 6 is a flow diagram illustrating a decision process for determining whether a received wireless transmission is intended to be used by a server station for detecting it, in accordance with a preferred embodiment. 136588.doc -33^ 201006272 Figure 7 is a flow diagram illustrating the process of connecting or "delivering" from a wireless transceiver to a nearby wireless transceiver station in cooperation with a wireless device in accordance with a preferred embodiment. To illustrate a process for initially establishing a connection between a mobile wireless device and a network using a wireless transceiver station in accordance with a preferred embodiment. FIG. 9 is a flow diagram illustrating a process of discovery between adjacent inter-stage transceivers in accordance with a preferred embodiment. [Main Component Symbol Description] 101 Network 102A-C Wireless Transceiver 103 Mobile Wireless Device 104 Network Access Device/Controller 201 Programmable Processor 202 Internal Random Access Memory 203 Network Interface 204 Wireless Transceiver Interface 205 Wireless Transceiver 206 Communication Bus 211 Control Program 212 Neighbor Discovery Function 213 Virtual MAC Generator 214 Connection Delivery Function 215 Connection Receive Function 221 Temporary Status Data
136588.doc -34- 201006272 222 Buffer 223 Buffer 224 Neighbor List 225 Active Connection Table 301 Connect_Table Entry 302 Server Desk Identifier 303 Mobile Wireless Device (User Side) Identifier 304 Initial Signal Strength 305 Additional Signal Strength Data 306 Connection Parameter Data 307 Buffering Indicators 308 Account Processing Data 401A-G Transceiver Range I36588.doc - 35 -
201006272 VII. Patent Application Range: 1. A method for a service-mobile wireless device, comprising the steps of: establishing a connection between a mobile wireless device and a first wireless transceiver station according to a wireless communication protocol, the connection being Providing a communication service to the mobile wireless device; automatically determining, by the m-line transceiver station, a wireless signal for communicating with the mobile wireless device that is better than a wireless signal of the first wireless transceiver station for communicating with the mobile wireless device ;
In response to the automatic determining step, the connection is automatically transferred from the first wireless transceiver station to the second wireless transceiver station, the second wireless transceiver station thereafter acting as the first wireless transceiver station to provide the communication service via the connection To the mobile wireless device. 2) The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication protocol is a packet-based agreement. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically determining a wireless signal of a second wireless transceiver station for communicating with the mobile wireless device is greater than a wireless signal of the first wireless transceiver station for communicating with the mobile wireless device Preferably, the step comprises the steps of: automatically determining, at each of the plurality of neighboring stations, a respective signal strength for communicating with the mobile wireless device; and automatically comparing the respective determined by the determining step The signal strength is associated with a current signal strength for communication with the mobile wireless device of the first wireless transceiver station. 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of automatically determining a respective signal strength at each of the plurality of neighboring stations 136588.doc 201006272 comprises the steps of: requesting each of the plurality of neighboring stations to attempt The mobile wireless device communicates, assessing one of the communications to identify the signal strength and (iv) Μ (4) the strength report to the first wireless transceiver station. 5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of: broadcasting a poll by wireless transmission from the first wireless transceiver station and receiving a separate polling from each of the plurality of neighboring wireless transceiver stations The identity of the plurality of neighboring wireless transceiver stations is automatically determined in response. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication service comprises access to the Internet. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein each wireless communication in accordance with the wireless communication protocol includes a destination identifier that identifies the device for which the communication is intended to be used. 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the destination identifier comprises a media access control (MAC) address; wherein the step of establishing a connection comprises providing a virtual MAC address to the mobile wireless device, the a wireless transceiver station responsive to communication from the mobile wireless device addressed to the virtual MAC address; and the step of automatically transmitting the connection from the first wireless transceiver station to the second wireless transceiver station includes the virtual The mac address is provided to the second wireless transceiver station. The second wireless transceiver station thereafter responds to communication from the mobile wireless device addressed to the virtual MAC address to play the first wireless transceiver station. 136588.doc -2 · 201006272 9. A first wireless transceiver station for a service mobile wireless device, comprising: a wireless transceiver for communicating with a mobile wireless device using a wireless communication protocol, wherein the wireless communication is in accordance with Agreement to establish a wireless communication connection between the two devices by providing device identifiers of the two devices 'wireless communication thereafter including one device identifier of a destination device; and • a control function 'automatically monitoring and Each of the plurality of active connections of the mobile wireless device, for each of the active connections, automatically determining a wireless signal for communication with the respective mobile wireless device by a different wireless transceiver station Whether it is better than the wireless signal of the first wireless transceiver station for communicating with the respective mobile wireless device 'and in response to determining that a different wireless transceiver station has a better wireless signal' The first wireless transceiver station automatically transmits to the different wireless transceiver station having a better wireless signal, the different wireless The transceiver station thereafter acts as the first wireless transceiver station having the active wireless connection to provide the communication service to the respective mobile wireless device via the respective active connection. 10. The first wireless transceiver station of claim 9, wherein the device identifier comprises a media access control (MAC) address; wherein the first wireless transceiver station provides a separate virtual MAC address to Each of the mobile wireless devices is coupled to each of the plurality of mobile wireless devices, the first wireless transceiver station responsive to the respective ones from the destination address to the respective virtual MAc address Communication with a mobile wireless device; and 136588.doc 201006272 wherein the first wireless transceiver station connects the respective wireless transceivers by providing the respective virtual MAC address to the different wireless transceiver station having a better wireless signal Passing itself to the respective different wireless transceivers having a better wireless signal, the different wireless transceivers thereafter responding to communications from the respective mobile wireless devices addressed to the respective virtual MAC addresses to play the first Wireless transceiver station. 11. The first wireless transceiver station of claim 9, wherein the control function further comprises a proximity discovery function for broadcasting a poll and self-complexing by wireless transmission from the first wireless transceiver station Each of the neighboring wireless transceivers automatically determines the identity of the plurality of neighboring wireless transceiver stations by receiving a respective polling response. The first wireless transceiver station of claim 9, further comprising a network interface for communicating with a network, the network being separate from the wireless transceiver, the wireless transceiver station providing access to the network To the plurality of mobile wireless devices. A decentralized device for a service mobile wireless device, comprising: a plurality of wireless transceiver stations coupled to a network and using a common wireless communication protocol for communicating with a mobile wireless device to support such operations Access by the wireless device to the network, wherein a wireless communication connection between the two devices is established by providing device identifiers of the two devices according to the common wireless communication protocol, the wireless communication thereafter including a destination One of the device identifiers; each of the wireless transceiver stations includes a connection transfer function for each of a plurality of active connections with the respective mobile wireless devices 136588.doc -4- 201006272 automatic ground Among the plurality of wireless transceiver stations, whether the wireless signal used by the different wireless transceiver stations to communicate with the respective mobile wireless device is for communicating with the respective mobile I-line device than the wireless transceiver station having the time connection The wireless signal is better, and in response to the determination - different wireless transceivers have - better wireless signals, connecting the respective functions from The wireless transceiver station having the active connection is automatically transferred to a wireless transceiver station that has a different wireless signal, the different wireless transceiver station thereafter acting as a wireless communication transceiver with (four) active towel wireless connection to communicate the communication The service is provided to the respective mobile wireless device via the respective active connection. 14. The decentralized device of claim 13, wherein the device identifier comprises a media access control (MAC) address; wherein each of the wireless transceiver stations provides a wireless action by providing a respective virtual MAC address to a mobile device And establishing, by the device, a separate active connection with the respective mobile wireless device, the respective wireless transceiver station responsive to communication from the respective mobile wireless device addressed to the virtual MAC address; and each of the wireless The transceiver station transmits the respective connection from itself to the different wireless transceiver having a better wireless signal by providing the respective virtual mac address to the different wireless transceiver station having a better wireless signal The different wireless transceivers thereafter respond to communications from the respective mobile wireless devices addressed to the respective virtual MAC addresses to act as the respective wireless transceivers that communicate the respective connections. 15. The decentralized device of claim 13 wherein each of the wireless transceiver stations further comprises a proximity discovery function broadcast by polling with the transmission from the wireless transceiver station 136588.doc 201006272 - polling and self-complex Automatically determining the identity of the plurality of neighboring wireless transceiver stations in a neighboring wireless transceiver station. 16. An electrical touch program product for operating a service mobile wireless device, comprising: " A plurality of processor executable fingers of a wireless transceiver station recorded on a computer readable medium. Wherein the & order is executed by at least one processor of the at least one digital data device, the device performing the following steps: establishing a connection between a mobile wireless device and a first wireless transceiver station in accordance with a wireless communication protocol 'The connection is for providing a communication service to the mobile wireless device; automatically determining _ the wireless signal of the second wireless transceiver station for communicating with the mobile wireless device is used for wireless communication with the mobile terminal The wireless signal of the device communication is better; in response to the automatic determining step, the connection is automatically transmitted from the first wireless transceiver station to the f-second wireless transceiver station, and the second wireless transceiver station thereafter acts as the first wireless transceiver station The communication service is provided to the mobile wireless device via the connection. 17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the device to perform the following steps: broadcasting a poll by wireless transmission from the first wireless transceiver station and each of the plurality of neighboring wireless transceiver stations One automatically determines the identity of the plurality of neighboring wireless transceiver stations by receiving a respective polling response. 18. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein each wireless communication in accordance with the wireless communication protocol 136588.doc 201006272 includes a destination identifier identifying one of the devices that the communication is intended for. 19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the destination identifier comprises a media access control (MAC) address; wherein the step of establishing a connection comprises providing a virtual MAC address to the mobile wireless device. The first wireless transceiver station is responsive to communication from the mobile wireless device addressed to the virtual MAC address; and the step of automatically transmitting the connection from the first wireless transceiver station to the second wireless transceiver station includes The virtual mac address is provided to the second wireless transceiver station. The second wireless transceiver station thereafter responds to communication from the mobile wireless device addressed to the virtual MAC address to play the first wireless transceiver station. 20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the wireless signal of a second wireless transceiver station for communicating with the mobile wireless device is automatically determined to be wireless for communication with the mobile wireless device of the first wireless transceiver station Preferably, the step of the signal comprises the steps of: automatically requesting each of the plurality of neighboring stations to report a respective signal strength for communicating with the mobile wireless device; and comparing the respective signals determined by the determining step The strength is associated with a current signal strength for communication with the mobile wireless device of the first wireless transceiver station. 136588.doc
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Engaged Mobility LLC
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B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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A system and method for wirelessly generating a roster of drivers and passengers in transportation vehicles. A driver's or passenger's smartphone can communicate using short-range communications with the vehicle, or a smartphone in the vehicle, so that the ID associated with the phone can be linked to a vehicle ID, date and time stamped, and stored in a log or database. Any unauthorized person can be refused admittance (by not permitting the vehicle to start or otherwise being denied the right to be a driver or passenger). A downloaded application is used for this purpose. The invention also can include a secure, remote database as well as a mobile device such as a smartphone running the application, a wireless receiver/transmitter in the vehicle, and a wireless communication network such as a cellular network.
The present invention relates generally to the field of transportation and more particularly to a system and method for automatically generating a roster of who plans to drive, who is currently driving, who has driven, and a list of passengers for a particular vehicle.
2. Description of the Problem
There are many instances where it would be valuable to track who has driven a vehicle and/or who has ridden in it as a passenger. This is especially true with vehicles that need location and/or data tracking. This can include commercial and fleet vehicles as well as rental and other vehicles such as van pools, car sharing, school buses, other buses, taxis and private vehicles. While in many cases, a vehicle is an automobile, truck or van, it may also be an aircraft, watercraft, train or any other vehicle that has a driver or can carry passengers. In some cases, the vehicle may be an autonomous vehicle with no driver. In a commercial setting, while the monitoring and tracking of fleet vehicles has been the subject of significant automation, the remaining tasks of identifying who takes out a vehicle and maintaining a passenger manifest can often be a cumbersome, time-consuming process in which the driver has to fill out forms and also get a key at a specific location or administrative office. This can take a lot of time and is open to human error.
Certain vehicles, whether passenger cars, vans, buses, even planes and trains, often have a list of authorized drivers, or pilots, and also a list of passengers. Passengers can be part of a known group (herein, those registered on a “passenger roster network,”), or, unknown, or a guest. Unknown riders can be invited to register on the passenger roster network.
The manual process of rostering the vehicle, i.e., recording the name(s) or other identification of the driver (pilot, engineer, etc.) as well as all possible passengers can be tedious and error-prone. It is especially difficult to accomplish in vehicles where passengers may ingress or egress mid-route as part of the normal service, or where drivers may change in-route.
It would be advantageous to have a system and method that could automatically and wirelessly roster a vehicle in real-time as drivers or passengers enter or leave the vehicle. This can be done with modern wireless technology. With wireless communication from a mobile device that is logically connected to the device owner's identity, this process can become easier, faster and less complicated while at the same time adding security.
The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically, and wirelessly, generating and keeping a roster of drivers and passengers in transportation vehicles. A vehicle occupant recognition module may operate by recognizing a driver's or passenger's cellular telephone or smartphone. The wireless device, for example, a smartphone, can communicate using short-range communications, for example BLUETOOTH™ or RFID that can be detected within the vehicle so that the ID associated with the phone and corresponding to the occupant, can be dynamically associated to a vehicle ID, date- and time-stamped when first recognized or for some interval of time. The associations are stored in a log or database.
In some embodiments, the vehicle occupant recognition module may comprise cameras that monitor the driver's seat and/or passenger area(s) and use face recognition software or services to make identifications of the vehicle occupants. Face recognition by the vehicle occupant recognition module can verify or supplant identifications made using short-range communication channels (e.g., BLUETOOTH, RFID).
In some embodiments, an unauthorized person can be refused transport by not permitting the vehicle to start, or otherwise being denied the capability of being a driver, and in some cases further being denied being a passenger. Thus, the system can provide improved security in addition to improved record keeping.
In other embodiments, a driver and/or passenger's smartphone may have an application or access to a web site tailored to interact with the vehicle occupant recognition module or rostering system. Such interactions may include any of enrolling a new user, which may include registering a photograph; registering a national ID, such as a passport or driver's license, communicating the phone ID to the occupant recognition module, verifying a user (e.g., by entering a PIN code, password, or other security measure, which could be biometric). The rostering system further comprises access to a secure, remote database with a mobile device (such as a smartphone), in-vehicle computer, or other (e.g., desktop) computer running the application, a wireless receiver/transmitter in the vehicle allowing connection to the remote portions of the rostering system, and uses a wireless communication network such as a cellular network. Communication between the smartphone and the vehicle can be via short-range communications.
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FIG. 1 shows a diagram of an embodiment of the rostering system of the present invention used with a motor vehicle having an installed roster capability.
FIG. 2 shows a possible time-sequence chart of events taking place when a driver enters a vehicle.
FIG. 3 shows a possible time-sequence chart of events taking place when a passenger enters a vehicle.
FIG. 4 shows a diagram of an embodiment that uses a “data mule” technique.
FIG. 5 shows an example of records stored in a remote database.
FIG. 6 shows a block diagram of a vehicle on-board rostering system.
Drawings and illustrations have been presented to aid in understanding the present invention. The scope of the present invention is not limited to what is shown in the figures.
The present invention relates to a system and method for automatically generating and keeping a roster of drivers and passengers in transportation vehicles. By vehicle, we mean any road or off-road vehicle, aircraft, train, watercraft or any other means of transportation of any type, including heavy equipment, such as cranes. The present invention includes an occupant recognition module able to determine drivers and/or passengers in a vehicle, date and time stamp in records stored in a log or database the occupants recognized. Further, in some embodiments, an unauthorized person can be refused admittance or transport, e.g. by not permitting the vehicle to start if the driver is not authorized, or if a passenger is not authorized, or otherwise being denied access as a driver or passenger. In some embodiments, this may include unlocking the vehicle, so that only recognized, authorized individuals can open the vehicle with the occupant recognition module.
In a preferred embodiment, the occupant recognition module transacts with a driver's or passenger's cellular telephone or smartphone and communicates using short-range communications so that the ID associated with the phone (e.g., a media access control, or “MAC” address, BLUETOOTH™ device address, or “BDADDR” or other unique identifier associated with the phone) can be dynamically associated with a vehicle ID as an occupancy record. Over time, the occupancy records of a vehicle constitute its roster.
In an alternative embodiment, cameras may monitor the driver's position (e.g., driver's seat) and/or may monitor the passenger area(s).
By passenger, we mean any person or animal or living thing that can be identified. By driver, we mean any person capable, authorized, and positioned (e.g., seated) to operate the corresponding vehicle including an operator, pilot, engineer, conductor, captain or the like. Thus, by only registering capable individuals as drivers, only authorizing their use of particular vehicles, the rostering system can determine when a vehicle is being driven by a capable, authorized individual.
Some embodiments further limit driving access to only registered drivers, for example by disallowing the vehicle to start unless an authorized driver is detected. In some embodiments, an unauthorized person can be refused transport as a passenger by not permitting the vehicle to start, or otherwise flagging access by an unauthorized passenger (e.g., an audible or visible warning). Thus, the system can provide improved security in addition to improved record keeping.
In a preferred embodiment, the present invention uses a driver or passenger's smartphone with a downloaded application that can be tailored to this purpose. The preferred embodiment also can include a secure, remote database as well as a mobile device such as a smartphone running the application, a wireless receiver/transmitter in the vehicle, and a wireless communication network such as a cellular network. Communication between the smartphone and the vehicle can be via short-range communications such as BLUETOOTH™ or other technique.
Certain vehicles, whether passenger cars, vans, buses, planes and trains, often have a list of authorized drivers, or pilots, and also a list of passengers. Passengers can be part of a known group, or be unknown, or a guest. The passenger can be invited to or required to download an application and immediately use their smartphone to register on the passenger roster network. It is known in the art that owner's of mobile devices can securely tie their identity to their device by virtue of a password and also by biometrics. Several companies, such as Apple Inc. of Cupertino, Calif. with their Touch ID fingerprint reader in their iPhone 6 smartphone, and LaserLock Technologies of Washington, D.C. with their VerifyMe™ smartphone application, offer ways to connect the identity of a person to their mobile device using biometrics, such as fingerprint, facial recognition, voice recognition, and the like. Although there can be exceptions, such as the case of a stolen or found phone, it is true with a very high confidence level that a mobile device carried into a vehicle is probably being carried by its authenticated owner. This could be confirmed by having a password or personal identification number (PIN), in either case a token that the owner knows, is also required to register a mobile device in a vehicle, and whether this is required would be a matter of policy.
Once the ownership is created and verified, the mobile device can be used by the owner as an ID token that can wirelessly communicate with an on-board device and transmit data, such as a digital certificate, which was sent to the owner's mobile device over a wireless network. This certificate can be used to open a car door or enable the vehicle to be driven.
A particular embodiment of the present invention both allows access to a vehicle by a driver, and registers non-drivers, i.e., passengers that enter and exit the vehicle. This process includes location and date- and time-stamp along with the secure ID of one or more of the mobile device bearers. The combination of passenger identification, authentication, permission, location, entry and exit of a vehicle is very valuable data for many classes of transportation asset owners, from parents who let their children take out the family car, to a school, or a corporation or government agency that wants to track drivers and passengers who travel in their vehicles.
Typically, when a driver or passenger enters the vehicle, the ID data acquired from their smartphone is sent to a remote server that can access a remote database of rules as to when driver or passenger's access is allowed or denied. The rules could also reflect the route and expected time required to execute the route, and stations along the route. For example, that database can contain the names and other ID information of authorized drivers (pilots, engineers, captains, etc.), and it can contain an allowed passenger list. In some embodiments of the invention, arbitrary passengers are allowed to ride. In this case, new passengers can simply be added to the roster with date/time stamps as they enter or leave the vehicle. Any other pertinent information, such as destinations, can also be stored in the database.
FIG. 1 shows a diagram of one example embodiment of the present invention that uses a smartphone in communication with a vehicle, and the vehicle in communication with a remote server and database. A potential rider 1 possessing a cellular telephone or smartphone 2 approaches a vehicle 4 in order to enter the vehicle. The smartphone 2 communicates wirelessly 3 with the vehicle 4 using a low power local communication system like BLUETOOTH™, and more particularly with either a computer or telematics system 9 in the vehicle 4. In turn, the telematics system 9 communicates over a network 6, e.g., comprising the Internet, with a remote server 7 by using a wireless connection 5 such as the cellular telephone system. The remote server 7 has access to a remote database 8 where the identity of the person 1 or telephone 2 can be ascertained, and the fact that the person is riding can be logged.
It is not certain that every rider approaching a vehicle will have a mobile device with wireless communication, such as a smartphone 2 having BLUETOOTH™, near-field communications (NFC), and/or other wireless capability. Nor must every rider have downloaded the passenger roster application into their smartphone, which is designed to communicate wirelessly with an on-board computer or telematics system 9. Therefore, an employee or guest, as potential rider 1, who wishes to travel in vehicle 4 could receive a physical wireless tag, token or dongle, such as an RFID tag 10, that is securely tied to their identity by virtue of a driver's license, or passport, or some other acceptable photo ID. The token could also be a tag or bracelet (as shown) to be worn by the passenger during travel.
If the potential passengers do have a smartphone 2, the roster application could be sent to them by the authorizing entity, or could be transmitted to their device via near field communication, such as “tap and share” known in the art. In this way, the on-board device could first transfer the mobile phone application to a new passenger or driver and then, in the next step, accept that person as a passenger in the vehicle. Once the roster application is resident on the mobile phone, it can be carried to other vehicles as an ID token.
The on-board computer or telematics system 9 can include a BLUETOOTH™ or near-field communication (NFC) or some other wireless transmission capability 3, a local memory chip, clock, a form of external wireless communication, such as a cellular modem, a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, and in some embodiments, a secure connection to access to the operation of the vehicle. In a preferred embodiment, the on-board device 9 can be integrated into the dashboard and internal operations of the vehicle. Examples of systems suitable to be adapted to incorporate the present invention include vehicle dashboard systems such as ENTUNE™ by Toyota, or ONSTAR™ by General Motors, and SYNC™ by Ford and others.
However, the proposed manufacturer integration of the present invention could take a long time. Therefore, a device 9 can also be provided with all of the above features. Such a device could be powered by a battery of its own, or by connection to a power source in the vehicle. Such a device may be mounted such that any passenger in the vehicle can wirelessly communicate with the on-board device 9, or touch the device 9 with their mobile device. Device 9 could be present strictly to monitor the passengers and entry and exit events and locations, but in other embodiments could be connected to the vehicle in such a fashion as to be able to control (or inhibit) the operations of the vehicle, in this way being able to allow only authenticated drivers and passengers to travel in the vehicle. The device might also prevent the vehicle from starting or moving if an unregistered or unexpected individual is at the wheel, or if a passenger with a different destination is in the vehicle, or if a passenger without a security clearance is in a vehicle headed for a secure area.
This might serve to limit the number of passengers, or the types of passengers, or not allow a vehicle to leave with passengers who are not intending to go to the same destination. The application may advise a passenger (or likewise, a driver) accordingly: “Hello, Jim. Sorry, but you are on the wrong bus. This bus is headed to New Haven. You are going to West Haven.”
In another embodiment, the on-board device 9 has a GPS and wireless communication, such as BLUETOOTH™ and NFC; however, does not have a wireless modem, perhaps for cost reasons. In this embodiment, one or more traveler's mobile device 2 could act as a data carrier, or data “mule” as described in the present inventors' patent Ser. No. 13/429,439 filed Mar. 26, 2012 entitled “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING AND ACCESSING A VEHICLE FUELING STATION, INCLUDING AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION”
This technique of allowing multiple, redundant, individual carriers of data back to the secure, remote database, can be more robust than a single cellular modem transmitting from the vehicle.
The vehicle typically needs to have a local communication connection available, to which any passenger in the vehicle running the application would automatically connect (e.g., via BLUETOOTH™) so to be registered as a passenger, as there can only be one driver in a typical motor vehicle. For watercraft and aircraft there can be multiple “pilots” and the application can be configured to handle this if intended for “multi-pilot” vehicles. Thus, by virtue of existing mobile devices, existing BLUETOOTH™ technology in mobile devices and in vehicles, mobile device cameras, and a mobile device application, the present invention offers a method for securely gathering and communicating data about drivers and passengers in a “transportation” event that could be combined with other vehicle location, date and time information to give a clear picture of specific vehicle, driver and passenger identification and movement. The information can be carried and sent back to the secure, remote server and database by any device that is running the application and is in communication with the vehicle or driver or any passenger. It is possible that the same data is sent several time to the remote, secure server and the redundancy is parsed and removed at a back-end server.
FIG. 2 shows a driver registration transaction process 150, illustrating events that can occur when a driver enters a vehicle. In this example, the person 1 in FIG. 1 is to be the driver of vehicle 4. The driver's smartphone 2 or other device 10, represented in FIG. 2 by vertical line 100, communicates with the vehicle 4, represented by line 101, which in turn communicates with a remote server 7, represented by line 102 over a network. As the driver approaches the vehicle, the driver's smartphone 2 pairs up or otherwise links 103 with the vehicle. The vehicle interrogates 104 the driver's phone and demands ID. The ID can be stored in the phone, or more preferred, taken at that time such as a fingerprint or other biometric ID. The driver's phone returns 105 the ID to the vehicle. The vehicle then sends a request 106 to a remote server. The remote server checks if the driver is allowed to drive this particular vehicle at this time. If so, the remote server returns an authorization 107 to the vehicle. The vehicle's installed system then unlocks or otherwise enables 108 the vehicle for driving. The remote server is notified 109 whereupon it logs the vehicle, driver, date, time, location and any other relevant information. The vehicle also sends a clearance 110 to the driver's phone notifying that the vehicle is enabled and ready to drive. In some embodiments of the present invention, the driver might also be required to prove that he or she is in condition to drive, for example by blowing into a breathalyzer installed in the vehicle, or taking an alertness test, before the vehicle enables 108 itself for driving. A bad report in this case would not only keep the vehicle disabled, but also send a message reporting the fact to the remote server.
FIG. 3 shows a passenger registration transaction process 250, illustrating events that can occur when a passenger enters a vehicle 4. The passenger's smartphone 2 or other device 10, represented by line 200, communicates with the on-board device in vehicle 4, represented by line 201, which in turn communicates with a remote server 7, represented by line 202, over a network. As the passenger approaches the vehicle, the passenger's smartphone pairs or otherwise links 203 with the vehicle, or a dongle carried by the passenger notifies the vehicle of the passenger's approach. The vehicle interrogates 204 the passenger's phone or dongle and demands ID. The ID can be stored in the phone or dongle, or more preferred, taken at that time such as a fingerprint or other biometric ID. The passenger's phone returns 205 the ID to the vehicle. The vehicle then sends a request 206 to a remote server. The remote server checks if the passenger is allowed to ride in this particular vehicle at this time. If so, the remote server returns an authorization 207 to the vehicle. The remote server is notified 208 whereupon it logs the vehicle, driver, date, time, location and any other relevant information concerning the passenger. The vehicle also sends a clearance 209 to the passenger's phone notifying that the passenger can board. Likewise, a clearance 210 may be sent to the driver (the driver's smartphone is not shown in FIG. 3).
In another and least expensive embodiment shown in FIG. 4, there is no required on-board device. This embodiment uses a data “mule”. The driver 13 is running the authorized roster application on his smartphone 11. Smartphone 11 communicates with server 7 using a wireless connection 5 (e.g., the cellular telephone system). Driver 13 designates that he is the driver. He connects smartphone 11 with the vehicle BLUETOOTH™ system (not shown in FIG. 4) and is then known to be in the vehicle 4. This information is date and time stamped. The process can also include facial recognition via a photographic image from the driver's smartphone 11. This photographic image can be taken from a either forward or reverse camera on the smartphone and can also be a short video clip of the driver, and passengers, if any. There can be a simple smartphone holder (not shown) on the dashboard, to hold smartphone 11 in position while it intermittently takes images of the occupants from the front center of the vehicle looking back into the cabin. Capture of facial images and facial recognition processing are not required for the roster system of the present invention to work, but when added, provide additional information about the driver, and passenger(s), if any. In this simplest embodiment the driver's mobile device 11 acts as the on-board device and simply needs to be running a version of the roster application. The smartphone 2 of a passenger 1 in FIG. 4 communicates over wireless connection 3 with the driver's smartphone 11 in accordance with passenger registration transaction process 250 of FIG. 3, with smartphone 11 performing in the role of the on-board computer represented by line 201. With respect to the driver registration transaction process 150 of FIG. 2, the driver's smartphone 11 takes on both roles of the smartphone represented by line 100 and the on-board device in vehicle 4, represented by line 101, with the result that transactions 106, 107, and 109 are conducted between the server 7 and smartphone 11.
In another embodiment, there is also no need for local communication, such as BLUETOOTH™, between the vehicle 4 and smartphone 11 (or 2). Secure identification of the vehicle 4 can be handled optically by taking a picture of, or otherwise scanning, indicia such as a barcode, quick response (QR) code, the vehicle license plate, or the like, that identifies the vehicle. Smartphone barcode scanning and license plate recognition are well known in the art. The barcode scan of the vehicle by at least one person, such as the driver or any passenger running the application, will suffice. This data, along with GPS reading, or other location data from the one or more smartphones running the application or in wireless contact with at least one phone in the vehicle that is running the application, can give location and vehicle identification along with a date and time stamp. This data can then be merged with more optical data from driver and passenger facial images captured by at least one smartphone, preferably the driver's, and these facial images along with location data from at least one or a multiple of smartphones in the vehicle and date and time stamps, provide adequate information to the remote server.
For the data “mule” method, this information is carried by one mobile device (or more, for redundancy) running the application. Images of driver and passenger faces can be taken intermittently, and the system is fully programmable and flexible. Facial images can be directed to any of several databases for identification, either a database voluntarily subscribed to by passengers such as fleet drivers or other employees, or to other databases such as police, or military databases. In a secure access setting, the vehicle itself may wirelessly project, or broadcast, using an RF system, the identification of the driver and passengers it is carrying. Facial recognition cameras at the access point might photograph the interior of the vehicle in order to verify the broadcasted roster.
The images can be taken openly or discretely, voluntarily or surreptitiously, depending on the policy of the entity that owns the vehicle. In this embodiment, there is only need for a single, unique identifier of the vehicle, such as a barcode or other indicia, one passenger, preferably the driver, and in some cases only the driver, a smartphone with a camera that is running the roster application, some data storage capability common to most smartphones, and a cell phone network connection, which can be delayed or real-time.
For convenience, a centrally located “high on the dashboard” holder for the smartphone running the application can be provided. Other smartphones running the application, and carried by any of the passengers, can also be gathering optical data from different angles within the vehicle adding to the robustness of the identification process. Smartphones can also be facing out of the vehicle, and can be triggered to capture images and date and time stamps based upon reaching a specific location, on imaging a scene or light pattern outside the vehicle, such as a bridge or tunnel or intersection, and can also be based on location as determined by at least one of the smartphones in the vehicle.
FIG. 5 shows possible records that can be stored in the remote database. A passenger permit record 310 may comprise the passenger name 311; a code 312, such as a number or hash for that passenger; identification information 313, e.g., a social security number or driver's license number; biometric information 314, which can be representative of actual biometric data, or a pointer to a separate biometrics file 316; and permit information 315, which can be the actual permit data, or a pointer to a permit file 317. The permit file 317 gives the allowed trips that passenger is permitted to take along with dates and the like. When a passenger actually boards a vehicle, a trip record 300 can be created. This contains the passenger's name 301, date 302, time 303, vehicle ID 304, pick up location 305, and destination 306. The end-of-trip time or arrival time 307 can also be entered to close the record. While FIG. 5 shows examples of a database, any database and any records or entries are within the scope of the present invention.
FIG. 6 shows one example embodiment for an on-board vehicle rostering module 400. This unit is either temporarily or permanently mounted or located in the vehicle 4. It includes a processor 401 which can be a microcontroller, microprocessor, PC or other computer or processing unit. The processor 401 interfaces with memory 402. This may be RAM, ROM, Flash, Disk or any other type of memory. The memory 402 may be located in the processor 401, or it may be external. The processor 401 is in electrical communication with a short-range wireless communication module 404, for example a BLUETOOTH™ communication module. When the wireless system is radio, the communication system 404 has one or more antennae 405.
The processor 401 can optionally communicate through a vehicle interface 403 and connector 406 with a vehicle computer system or telematics system. In such an embodiment, the vehicle telematics system can provide wide area communication (e.g., cellular data services as in wireless connection 5 in FIG. 1), location (e.g., via the vehicle's GPS), and navigation.
The on-board rostering system 400 can optionally include a GPS receiver 407 with a GPS antenna 408. This allows the on-board unit 400 to independently determine location. The memory 402 may contain map or location information. The processor 401 may be connected to one or more cameras 410 in the vehicle. This connection can be wired or wireless.
Memory 402 may also store audio greetings or announcements to be played though a speaker 409. The in-vehicle experience can include a voice that greets the passengers by first name, first and last name, or an anonymous recognition if a passenger does not wish his or her name announced. This salutation from the in-vehicle device can be both for passengers entering or exiting the vehicle. The acknowledgment could be as simple as a beep. Further, passengers could listen to the driving, piloting history of the driver or pilot. Such information could also be relayed to a passenger's smartphone. Such reports could also be offered for the history of the vehicle itself. Based on each passenger's profile, and company policy, information about each passenger could also be shared with the driver and among the other passengers. Contact information could be voluntarily shared via the application, using well-known interfaces such as “tap and share”. The passenger name information either comes through the vehicle via its own cellular modem from server 202 (e.g., at step 207 in FIG. 3), or can come from the passenger's smartphone 200 when the passenger is first entering a vehicle (e.g., at step 205 in FIG. 3). This also applies in the data “mule” case, where the driver's smartphone 11 is used for the vehicle's role (i.e., line 201). This initial event would happen each time a passenger communicates for the first time with the in-vehicle, roster device. If the device is moved from one vehicle to another, the passenger list remains resident within the vehicle device, but now the device knows that it is associated (paired) with a new vehicle, based on a new vehicle ID number obtained by direct communication with the vehicle.
The data “mule” technique is particularly valuable in vehicles that do not have internal cellular modem contact with a remote network, or for customers who do not want to pay for an in-vehicle device that includes a cellular modem and the corresponding fees required for that data connection. The data “mule” in-vehicle device only needs to have “local” (short-ranged) wireless connections, for example via BLUETOOTH™. Such connections can include the vehicle's on-board system, thus representing the rostering device's current association with a vehicle, and each passenger's smartphone or other mobile device. The passenger connection can be unambiguously initiated with a “tap and share” connection that can include a unique digital certificate, which technology is known in the art.
Embodiments of the present invention use a plurality of local communication enabled devices, such as BLUETOOTH™, installed in vehicles. Passengers can register and pick up secure, encrypted occupancy records (e.g., passenger permit record 310, or trip record 300) from any in-vehicle device and then data “mule” that passenger occupancy data to server 7: the passenger's name, facial image(s), other biometrics, such as fingerprints, vehicle identification, date and time stamp and location(s) back to the network and a remote server. They can also data “mule” this data for other passengers.
The present invention can also get driver's/pilot's records when passengers arrive on-board. “That is how Roster looks out for you.” “We research safety records and statistics for the informed passenger”. Or, the system can give a “Risk factor” from 1 to 10, or unknown, for travel someone is about to undertake.
The present invention can be used to verify car sharing and get special discounts, or be part of a discount or loyalty program. The vehicle and driver can also automatically be tied to an entry/exit or fueling event based on time stamp and location from GPS contained in the in-vehicle device. The system could also include and project access information for passengers in a vehicle approaching an access point. This could also be tied to a License Plate Recognition (LPR) system. The LPR system matches in-vehicle device ID and the data the vehicle broadcasts containing driver and passengers ID's.
In some embodiments, the on-board device can be moved from vehicle to vehicle, if desired. If the vehicle does not give a unique ID code automatically via local communication, or machine-readable indicia are not available to be scanned by the device, then a unique code can be keyed in as part of inter-vehicle transfer.
For example, the device can be sent a code describing which vehicle it is now in, or, a preferred embodiment, the device can pair and bond with a vehicle's installed local communication system, much in the same way a smartphone can pair with a vehicle's microphone and speakers for hands-free telephony. Once this is done, the device is bonded to that vehicle until it is removed and becomes a receiver/transmitter for the next, current target vehicle to record all of the data about the driver and passengers, such as their itinerary and when they entered or exited the vehicle.
The present invention is also a valuable tool for driver-less, autonomous vehicles as access and passenger information and tracking will be required in many cases.
In general, the on-board rostering system uses portable telephones for ID capture, and may use cameras and face recognition. Communication is with a secure, remote database. The system can manage drivers and/or passengers. In some embodiments, the vehicle will not start or otherwise function if the driver or another occupant is not authorized. In some cases, the system will communicate that a seat is occupied, by virtue of a seat “weight” sensor, which is known in the transportation industry, but the occupant has not been identified or recognized by the system. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be allowed to proceed and merely log the information; in other embodiments, departure may be prohibited until an identification of the occupant can be successfully completed. Several descriptions and illustrations have been presented to aid in understanding the present invention. One with skill in the art will realize that numerous changes and variations may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. Each of these changes and variations is within the scope of the present invention.
1. A method of automatically generating a roster of drivers and passengers for a particular vehicle comprising:
establishing communication between a driver or passenger's telephone and the vehicle when the driver or passenger approaches the vehicle;
demanding personal ID information from said driver or passenger;
receiving personal ID information via said communication from the telephone;
verifying the personal ID information with a remote computer accessing a remote database;
prohibiting the driver from driving the vehicle, or the passenger from riding in the vehicle, when the personal ID information is insufficient or incorrect to grant access according to a stored set of access rules.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said communication is short-range wireless communication.
3. The method of claim 2 wherein said communication is by BLUETOOTH™.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said personal ID information includes biometric data.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said personal ID information includes a photographic image.
6. The method of claim 4 wherein said biometric data is measured in response to said demanding.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein said communication with the vehicle is established using a wireless device carried by said driver.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein said prohibiting includes disabling said vehicle.
9. The method of claim 1 further comprising requiring said driver approaching the vehicle to also take a test showing capability to drive the vehicle.
10. A system for generating and maintaining a roster of drivers and passengers for a particular vehicle comprising:
a first, short-range communications system acting in cooperation with a processor in said vehicle, said processor in the vehicle also cooperating with a second communications system adapted to allow communication between said processor and a remote server over a network;
a wireless application comprising executable instructions adapted to be downloaded into a smartphone carried by a driver or passenger, said wireless application executing said instructions on the smartphone adapted to access personal ID data from that smartphone, and wirelessly communicate said personal ID data to the processor in the vehicle when the driver or passenger is in proximity to said vehicle;
said processor in the vehicle configured to communicate the personal ID data over said second communications system to the remote server, and configured to receive from the remote server access authorization to said vehicle;
said processor in the vehicle adapted to either allow or deny access to said vehicle to either the driver or the passenger.
11. The system of claim 10 wherein said personal ID data includes biometric data.
12. The system of claim 10 wherein said personal ID data includes a photographic image.
13. The system of claim 10 wherein said short-range communications is BLUETOOTH™.
14. The system of claim 11 wherein said wireless application in the smartphone requires measuring said biometric data before communicating said ID.
15. The system of claim 10 wherein said second communications system uses a cellular telephone network.
16. A method of automatically generating a roster of drivers and passengers for a particular vehicle comprising:
prohibiting the driver from driving the vehicle, or the passenger from riding in the vehicle, when the personal ID information is insufficient or incorrect to grant access according to a stored set of access rules;
wherein said personal ID information includes biometric data; and,
wherein said prohibiting includes disabling said vehicle.
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Muddy Maxine Waters: What a Riot
Michelle Malkin · Apr. 26, 2017
Are you freaking kidding me? Thirteen-term Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Beltway barnacle permanently affixed to USS Government, is now the fresh-faced “rock star” of the Democratic Party.
“Auntie Maxine” is stoking the resistance, inspiring millenials, combating hate, crusading against corruption and invoking the counterinsurgent cry to “stay woke!”
I do not have enough guffaws to give.
This new spokesmodel for civility and clean government has stoked division and exploited taxpayers for decades.
Change agent? She has served on the Democratic National Committee since 1980 — when the Atari 2600 was cutting-edge, Kim Kardashian was a newborn, and Al Franken was hamming it up on “Saturday Night Live.”
Waters has spent 37 years in office — many of those years as head of the Congressional Black Caucus — promising to make life better for constituents in economically ravaged South Central Los Angeles.
What do the denizens of her district have to show for it? Staggering levels of persistent unemployment, poverty and gang violence as the 25th anniversary of the LA riots looms this coming weekend.
What does Rep. Waters have to show for it?
She’s earned a lifetime of left-wing adoration for whitewashing the deadly riots as a “rebellion,” excusing the week-long shooting, looting and arson orgy as “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration,” and coddling Crips and Bloods gang members — with whom she performed the Electric Slide as part of her “fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression.”
I covered Waters in the early 1990s as an editorial writer and columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. Her federally funded Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center was a gang-infested boondoggle.
She embraced Damian Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at white truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over the bloodied innocent bystander.
And she and her family personally profited from her rise to racially demagogic power.
She owns a tony mansion in predominantly white Hancock Park, several miles outside her congressional district.
She secured an ambassadorship to the Bahamas for her husband, a former pro football player and car salesman whose main qualification was having traveled to the island for a vacation.
Her daughter, Karen, has scooped up nearly $650,000 in payments from Mama Waters’ slate mailer operation for her federal campaign committee since 2006, the Washington Free Beacon reported this week. And Mama Waters owes her well-heeled daughter an additional $108,000.
Waters also mau-maued the House Veterans Committee into hiring two black staffers.
And she walked away with a slap on the wrist from the toothless House Ethics Committee in 2012 after being charged with multiple ethics violations related to her meddling in minority-owned OneUnited Bank.
Reminder for all the new fangirls and fanboys suffering from Maxi-mnesia: Her husband, Sidney, was an investor in one of the banks that merged into OneUnited. As stockholders, they profited handsomely from their relationship with the bank.
It was a mutually beneficial relationship. After Waters’ office personally intervened and lobbied the Treasury Department in 2008, OneUnited received $12 million in federal TARP bailout money — despite another government agency concluding that the bank operated “without effective underwriting standards” and engaged “in speculative investment practices.” After the federal bailout of Fannie/Freddie, OneUnited’s stock in the government-sponsored enterprises plunged to a value estimated at less than $5 million. Only through Waters’ intervention was OneUnited able to secure an emergency meeting with the Treasury and then-Secretary Henry Paulson.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president, reported that Waters’ friend and fellow California Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren helped delay her scheduled 2010 House ethics trial on the matter by stalling subpoenas and improperly firing two attorneys working on the investigation. Six of 10 House Ethics panel members quit the case in 2012 over questions about their partiality. An outside investigator absolved Waters of any wrongdoing.
The newfound Maxine Waters Fan Club might want to know that Waters’ government cronyism and self-dealing earned her a “Most Corrupt member of Congress” designation from the left-wing Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington five times — in 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2017.
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In Pinellas County, Florida resides Pinellas Community Female Release Center.
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Here in the Pinellas Community Female Release Center offenders will either be housed in celled type of settings or dormitory type of settings.
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On January 14, 2019 January 14, 2019 By ErraticErrata
“A horse and fall was all it took
For every last to take the hook
Now the kitchen’s full of cooks,
And the pot it is boiling
Crown of this, crown of that
They all chase after the hat
Princess said she has a right
Princess said it’d be a fight
So princesses are all aflight,
The wheel spins us all around
Up and north, south and down
Ebb or flow, we’ll still drown,
All of this for a hat,
While the pot it is boiling.”
-“Too Many Cooks”, a Proceran folk song written and grown popular during the civil war
The wolves were at the gate.
Cordelia Hasenbach, First Prince of Procer, Prince of Rhenia and Princess of Salia, Warden of the same West that was currently burning to the ground, did not wonder when it had all gone wrong. She was not an unintelligent woman, and so believed she’d already identified the point of failure with accuracy: the moment where she’d assumed Keter would remain quiescent. She hadn’t, though, not truly. Cordelia had believed there might be an increase in raids coming from the Kingdom of the Dead, perhaps a tentative incursion into the Alamans lakelands. That was the very reason she’d forced through the Highest Assembly the very unpopular taxes that had funded the restoration of all major fortresses north of Brabant, that she’d taken only a meager portion of the armies of the lakeside Alamans principalities and her Lycaonese kinsmen. There would be burning, she’d thought, there would be bleeding. But the borders would hold until the grim business of pacifying the east was done and full attention could be turned to the evil that lay behind the walls of Keter. In a word, she had assumed the Hidden Horror was a fool.
There was a young man at her Salian court by the name of Gabriel, a commoner who’d had the benefit of an education in letters by the House of Light. He had, several years ago, penned an interesting treatise called Fulcrums of History. A repudiation of sorts to the looming presence of On Rule over Proceran politics at the highest rung. It argued, rather eloquently, that disaster came to empires by an accumulation of smaller factors that drained the life out of them instead of through failures of will or cleverness, as the author of On Rule had argued. It had been, Cordelia felt, an attempt to explain the resounding brutality of the civil war by a scholar who had been born in its aftermath. It had concluded by arguing that the solution to such degradation was ‘an injection of fresh vitality’, in this case personified by Cordelia herself leading the traditionally aloof Lycaonese south to force an end to the wars. The conclusion was not as well written as the rest, and largely flattery directed at her in hope of an appointment. He had obtained it, though the flattery had not been the reason. Anyone displaying the sharp insight of the earlier chapters could and should be used by her administration.
She thought of that treatise, sometimes. To apply the logic behind it to her current situation, for there had been a clear accumulation of factors over the last few years. Strength and coin spent influencing foreign wars in Callow and the League. Erosion of her authority over the Tenth Crusade, by both Proceran factionalism and the prominent role of the Chosen, followed by the bruising strategic defeats of the Battle of the Camps and the assault on Red Flower Vales. Once the cracks were there, they had only broadened. Tensions within the Great Alliance grew. The Levantines had been less than eager to defend the heartlands of the Principate, even against Wasteland legions. A trail of burnt cities and granaries from Bayeux to Iserre had been the consequence of that, further weakening her standing within the very alliance she had assembled. Further disaster struck at Thalassina, with the Warlock obliterating the better part of the Ashuran war fleets along with the city he’d come to defend. Worse, the Chosen had now decided to buck worldy authority entirely: the Saint of Swords had openly admitted Procer was to be the pyre birthing her better world, and now the Grey Pilgrim had refused her order to immediately slay the Black Knight instead of capturing him.
The heroes could no longer be relied on. They would, from now, oscillate between being useful but uncontrolled battlefield assets and major strategic liabilities. The rulers of Dominion of Levant, her nominal allies and comrades-in-arms, were now attempting to twist her arms for better concessions after a war they were currently losing. Magon Hadast and the Thalassocracy of Ashur, her sole remaining solid ally, had been inflicted two vicious setbacks in a row. The disaster at Thalassina could have been recovered from, but the League of Free Cities had smelled the blood in the air and finally sallied out. The League’s fleet – essentially the Nicaean fleet with what few ships the other seaside cities could spare – had torched the last war ships of Ashur and sacked the city behind them. The Thalassocracy had effectively been evicted from the sea, and in a matter of months the blockade around its island would start causing major food shortages. There was a very real possibility that Ashur would have to capitulate within the year, else it would simply wither on the vine. Worse, the Hierarch had sent out armies as well, the full muster of the League. Still, had even a losing battle been given by her southern army down in Tenerife, the situation would have been salvageable.
Instead her entire net of spies in the League had somehow missed that the entire host had gone into the Waning Woods, only managing to warn her the army had disappeared off the surface of Creation a week before it reappeared on the outskirts of the Principality of Iserre. Cordelia did not consider herself to be faint of heart, yet she almost shivered at the notion of taking an army through that murderous patch of trees. How much of their army had they lost, passing through? A tenth, a quarter? Half? There was not a single creature of flower in the Waning Woods that was not violently hostile to the existence of humans on Creation. Regardless of the… practicalities involved there, however, the southern Principate had now turned into a strategic nightmare. The First Prince was no great general but even she could see as much. The twenty-thousand strong army she’d stationed in Tenerife to avoid this very outcome was now marching north in all haste, but the map splayed in front of Cordelia betrayed a stark situation. Were the Alliance forces not staggered, not dispersed, they would have held the advantage. Instead it was bloody chaos.
The surviving Legions of Terror, bereft of the Carrion Lord but still under the command of the infamous Marshal Grem One-Eye, had fled into northern Iserre. Their supply situation, her generals assured her, would soon turn dangerous: they were marching through lands they’d already thoroughly pillaged on their way south. They were still around eighteen thousand hardened veterans, including a dragon, led by one of the finest military officers of the age. Behind them, split in two staggered armies, eighty thousand Levantines were in hot pursuit. If reunited, Cordelia believed they could crush the Praesi. But they were not, with a few weeks of distance between them and no way to join up without allowing the Legions to slip the noose. Behind the armies of the Dominion, the host of the League followed. Reports on their numbers fluctuated with every message: fifty thousand, forty, more than a hundred. A brave Iserran outrider had come close enough to find out some of the ‘soldiers’ were actually scarecrows held up by gargoyles, which had the reek of the Tyrant’s scheming. Far behind all these, her southern army of twenty thousand was exhausting its soldiers to collapse trying to arrive in time. The situation in the region was not impossible to salvage, but the dangers were obvious.
Cordelia was unwilling to gamble the fate of the Principate on such odds, and so she had taken action: she’d ordered general conscription in Salia. The bottom of the barrel was being scraped raw, but she’d put together twenty thousand levies. Had she further enforced the decree, or even broadened it to neighbouring principalities, she could have easily tripled that amount. There was, unfortunately, no point in doing so. There were no armaments for the conscripts to use, and dwarven representatives had flatly refused any further sale without even bothering to explain why. Giving reasons to humans was, presumably, beneath their dignity. This entire debacle had the ugly reek of Catherine Foundling’s meddling about it. If there was one saving grace to this entire debacle, it was that the Highest Assembly had finally understood how close to the edge the Principate had come: without even need for her prompting, the personal armies of every single royal not already at war had been sent to reinforce her levies. It would still be a month before the last arrived, but her twenty thousand would swell to forty and gain a bevy of princes and princesses along with badly needed professional officers. Strategic considerations now dictated that the moment this army was readied it was so be sent by ship down to the coast of Iserre, where it could reinforce the Levantines against the Praesi and link up with the others field armies before giving battle to the invading League of Free Cities. Cordelia had that very command drafted on parchment and staring back at her from the surface of her bureau, awaiting only her signature. The fair-haired woman watched her inkwell for a long, silent moment. She did not reach for the quill, instead rising to her feet.
The wolves were at the gate, but not only in war-torn Iserre. Woe, Cordelia. Woe to the north and to the south. Agnes’ words were branded into her mind, the constant reminder that if she made even a single mistake the Principate would end. The First Prince of Procer tread softly until she stood by the tall glass panes of her personal solar, a magnificent view of Salia spread out below her. Frost touched the glass, and the city as well. First snow had already come, though it had melted quickly enough under the sun. The next fall would remain a little longer, and so it would continue until a thorough blanket of pale was draped over the capital. Fingers larger than was considered fashionable in a courtier, much less royalty, pressed against the cold glass. A taste of the north, a taste of home. Rhenia would be as much ice as stone, by now, fresh sets of fortifications being made out of a mixture of frost and gravel. The winds at night would be so loud they’d drown out even the howling of the packs roving the mountains. Her lips tightened, her throat closed up. Pressed against her heart, beneath the Rhenian blue dress she wore, was the last letter her kinsman Friedrich Papenheim would ever write her. She’d had to excuse herself, when she first read it. It would not do to weep in front of even her most trusted.
“I should not,” she whispered against the window, her breath blooming in fog.
She did it anyway, once more. Trembling fingers claimed the parchment and she looked upon Friedrich’s rough scrawl of a calligraphy. He’d never thought much of letters, not that many of her people did, and the words were as rough as the man had been.
I sent the young south. We will hold as long we can.
I am sorry. I cannot do more.
Dawn is in your hands, Cordelia.
We will meet again come the last summer.
Her eyes burned with tears she did not allow herself to shed. Hannoven had fallen before she ever received the letter, the man who wrote it dead and ash. She’d loved Friedrich, she thought in the same way she still loved her uncle. Trust and comfort and bonds of blood sacred to them both. He could have been the heir to Hannoven, had Uncle Klaus not named her that, and a lesser man would have resented her for it. She still remembered when she’d been fourteen, the announcement fresh, and she’d met him for the first time since. He’d smiled, rough hands pressing a bracelet into her palm. Not a single dark glance, not a single harsh word. Only a slip of leather with ratling teeth affixed, all carved with old Lycaonese blessings. For luck, he’d smiled. In the years since then, Cordelia had bought and been gifted some of the finest jewelry in Procer. On all of Calernia, truly speaking. And still, under the dress at her coronation as First Prince of Procer, ratling teeth had dug into her wrist. Gold, gold could be found everywhere in the world. Freely given affection could not. The First Prince of Procer wiped her eyes, grateful she’d already done away with her cosmetics for the day. The letter was slid back against her heart, weighing more than parchment ever should.
Across the rest of Lycaonese lands, cities and towns and villages would empty. The old and the young would flee into the mountains, and the rest of her people would prepare for war. Ploughshares beat into swords, cutlery melted into spears. Tables would be hacked up for wooden shields and lovingly tended-to mail come down from mantles. The Enemy was coming and her people would march to meet it at the passes, as they had unflinchingly since the days the word Lycaonese first meant something. Cordelia fingers curled angrily against the glass. Impotently. They could not stand alone. They were brave and they were strong and they were more than anyone had the right to ask of them, but they could not stand alone against the endless hordes of the Dead King. They needed reinforcements, they needed the south to raise its banners and come stand with them. And it was her duty to see to that, wasn’t it? There had never been a First Prince of Lycaonese birth before her, and there might never be again. The Dead King had come to wage full war on the Principate of Procer for the first time since its founding, and only now did while a Hasenbach sat the throne. She owed it to her blood, to her home, to her honour to abandon all this southern madness and march north to stand against the horror that would devour all the world.
“And I am going to fail you,” she whispered brokenly.
Because victory south meant taking all that remained of the Grand Alliance to fight the Dead King. Because the Chosen had held Cleves until Princess Malanza’s army arrived to reinforce them and the principality still stood. Because Hainaut’s coast was swarming with the dead, but she had ordered her uncle to take it back instead of returning to fight for his own home. And mine. She’d met the eyes of man who’d been father to her since she was a girl, and told him that if he disobeyed her orders and marched his soldiers home instead she would have to order him seized for treason. There would be no coming back from that, she knew. She’d seen the lay of it in his face. But in the end, all four principalities of her people could be taken by the Enemy without much greater cost than soldiers and mines. If the Kingdom of the Dead broke into the heartlands of Procer, its already ravaged farmlands, the entire realm would starve through winter. Hunger would kill a hundredfold the work of soldiers. Because even alone, you will stand long enough to save the rest of Procer and the Alamans will not. She was abandoning everything she had ever loved for the sake of people who still called her a savage behind her back. Who mere months ago had been plotting to destroy her.
“Because we must,” Cordelia bitterly said.
Using the words of the line whose duty she was failing to justify that very failure. She was damned, just as the hard-eyed warlord in Callow had warned she would be. Let me be damned, then, she thought. The wolves were at the gate, gathering in ravening packs. Summer friends and bitter foes, a procession of the viperous and the apathetic. Heroes who would bring salvation with a torch, villains cloaked in murder and madness. Let them all come, baying for the end of Procer. If she had to war against all the world to save her people, she would. The Warden of the West walked to her desk, dipped the quill and signed the fucking order. Before it even dried she had another scroll unfolded, her feathered quill dancing across. Dredge it out, she wrote. Prepare it. Fire against fire. The Augur had found a path through, narrow as it was, and it began with a corpse that was not a corpse beneath the waters of the lake at the heart of Procer. The Ashurans, it was said, had called on a masked and hallowed presence at the Battle of Thalassina. Cordelia Hasenbach would call on a lot worse if she had to.
Dawn was in her hands, and she would not let it fail.
The Empire was dying a slow, messy death.
Alchemical concoctions had allowed Malicia to resist the call of sleep beyond what even her Name would allow, though she knew there would eventually be a price to pay for that. It was still necessary, for rare was the hour that must not be spent dragging her wayward realm back from the suicide it was so utterly intent on committing. It was grim, thankless work, moreso now than ever before: two blows had come in quick succession, and as a result her authority was thinning. Thalassina had, to her still raw grief, been the first. The woman named Alaya had wept over the loss of her old friend, when she’d heard the news. Wekesa had been dear to her in a way that very few people had ever matched or surpassed – only one, if she was to be honest with herself – and to lose him over what should have been such a simple matter… But while the Dread Empress of Praes could afford most luxuries known to Creation, time to mourn was not one of them. Not when Warlock’s last blaze of vengeful glory had wiped out a city of nearly one hundred and fifty thousand people, along with her realm’s largest and most prosperous sea port.
There were survivors, a meager thirty thousand or so. Whatever Wekesa had used affected them, for within a day of fleeing the city ruins they’d begun to wildly mutate. Eyes and cysts growing over skin, teeth turning to stone, even a case of hair turning into straw. Malicia ordered a quarantine for the refugees, uncertain if the affliction would spread, but it turned out pointless. Every last one of them was dead within a week, seemingly cooked from the inside by the fading remnants of Wekesa’s sorcery left inside them.
As far as her agents had been able to determine, there had been only a single survivor to that catastrophe: the Hierophant. Young Masego had been observed to walk out of the wreckage in ash-covered robes, and her attempts to contact the boy had not gone well. The first messengers she’d sent on foot, and once they came within a hundred yards of him their heads had simply caved in. She’d ordered scrying rituals, after that. Of the ten mages she’d used, only one had survived the backlash. Healers managed to stop the screaming before the vocal chords gave, though there would be no salvaging the eyes that had rotten and fallen out from their sockets. That survivor had babbled about a ‘sea of death’, not coherent enough for a more comprehensive report, and bitten through her tongue before the night was out. Necromancy had revealed the dead woman’s soul to be even more damaged than the corpse, which worried Malicia a great deal. Even Warlock at his peak had resorted to rituals and specialized tools to tinker with souls. His son evidently need not, and was shambling his way back to Callow through unknown means: he would frequently disappear for a few days at a time before her agents caught sight of him again, moving too quickly for it to be purely on foot.
There was going to be a reckoning in that, and the best she could hope for was that it would be Ashur that’d bear the cost of it.
Thalassina alone would have been a crisis. High Lord Idriss had been one of her closest political allies for decades, the wealth of his holdings and his remarkable breadth of indebted of great use in keeping the influence of Tasia Sahelian and the Truebloods at bay. Malicia had never counted the man a friend, but she had respected him and made good use of his ambitions. In the wake of the dissolution of the Truebloods and the marginalization of Wolof, whose latest High Lord she had bound to her too deeply for anything but complete subservience, she’d been preparing to set him up as the natural rival to the Moderates led by High Lady Abreha of Aksum. Competition over court appointments would have neatly neutered both of them and kept them busy while Malicia set to laying the groundwork for what the Empire was to become. Instead Idriss was gone, along with most of Thalassina, and Abreha Mirembe was now the second most powerful individual in Praes. The sack of Nok and the destruction of the only other seaport of the Wasteland had dealt crippling blows to Malicia’s prestige, which had already been steadily eroding under the constant Ashuran coastal raids.
From Wekesa’s death, she had inherited the stuff or rebellion: the Thalassocracy was no longer raiding, which allowed household troops and legions to withdraw, and doubts were now being raised as to her ability to successfully defend Praes. If not for her treaty with the Dead King, there would have been a coup attempt by now. As it was, overwhelming pressure was mounting at court for High Lady Abreha to be named her Chancellor. If she did not swiftly act to suppress dissent, the situation would grow out of control. Her most direct tool in this should have been the Legions of Terror, of course, but as things stood Malicia knew they could not be used. Sitting calmly in her seat at the table where the Dark Council was usually held, the Dread Empress of Praes watched the kneeling Soninke mage before her and idly tapped a finger against the wooden table’s surface. Ime stood at her side, her spymistress a shadow silent and still.
“It is confirmed, Your Most Dreadful Majesty,” the young man said. “Foramen has fallen.”
“Of that much I was aware,” Malicia sharply replied. “Elaborate.”
“As of two days ago, a goblin army of imprecise size – at least ten thousand, less than fifty – attacked the city after sending a vanguard of infiltrators over what we now believe to be at least a month,” the imperial mage hastily said. “They attacked under cover of night, after having slain the watchmen on duty and opening the gates. The city was fully occupied by morning, after which the goblins seized control of the city wards and cut off our ability to scry.”
Not a single bit of news that Ime had not already brought her as of the morning the city was occupied. She truly had been too lax on the contingent of messenger mages directly sworn to the Tower, she thought. While their primary duty was to serve as couriers for orders, they’d also been granted funds to acquire and pass on local information from wherever they were posted. A way to keep a finger on the pulse of the Empire without ever leaving Ater. Yet if the best they could offer her was what half of Praes knew two days after Malicia learned of it, perhaps their funding needed to be reassessed.
“Do you have anything else to report?” the Empress mildly added.
The young mage hesitated.
“Rumours have begun to spread in Okoro and Kahtan that these foreign attacks are being used as a veiled knife by Your Most Dreadful Majesty to eliminate the High Lords entirely,” he finally said. “Our branch officers in these cities believe the whispers are too widespread to be of natural provenance.”
Malicia’s eyes narrowed the slightest bit. That was, in fact, fresh news. Perhaps mere discipline would suffice, then.
“You are dismissed,” she said.
The Imperial mage rose only to bow, and retreated from the room backwards with his eyes fixed on the floor. The Sentinels quietly closed the door behind him, and the Empress leaned back against her seat.
“Abreha prepares for a serious challenge, it seems,” Malicia said after a moment.
Ime finally stirred to movement, sliding into the seat at her left.
“It was inevitable the moment Thalassina happened,” the spymistress said. “Foramen just handed her the opportunity on a silver platter.”
They both knew why the rumours being spread were much more dangerous than they seemed at first glance. Ime’s agents had obtained greater detail of what had taken place in Foramen after it fell. High Lady Amina Banu had been skinned alive along with every other member of her line in the city before being drawn and quartered before the eyes of the entire city. Revenge for Dread Emperor Nihilis fashioning a leather cloak out from the hide of the matrons that refused to surrender when he crushed the Fourth Goblin Rebellion, or so they claimed. As the leaders of every single goblin rebellion in the last six hundred years had committed a variation of the same empty atrocity, Malicia could note that there had been a great deal more revenge taken than injury done. Unfortunately, the Banu of Foramen and the Kebdana of Thalassina had both been effectively ended as a bloodline. Oh, some distant relatives could be rustled up – the Banu in particular had been a tribe before a line, and were famously more a family thicket than tree – but that thorough an extermination would end them as political entities for generations. More than that, for the Kebdana. Foramen could be taken back, but it was dubious that Thalassina could ever be rebuilt given the toxicity of the former city’s emplacement.
Two High Lord lines centuries old destroyed in the span of a year. High Lady Abreha would find many willing ears, when she cast Malicia in the role of one trying to exterminate the highest rung of Wasteland aristocracy.
“She needs to die,” the Empress said. “And quickly.”
“The Eyes are already exploring possible avenues,” Ime replied without missing a beat. “Though she was a viciously paranoid old bat before taking a swing at the Tower, so the odds are not in our favour.”
Malicia closed her eyes, mind unfolding. Angles, angles, there were always angles. The knife that took the killing blow need not be hers.
“Her agents at court,” she said slowly. “Have they been preparing petition?”
“We’ve confirmed four,” Ime said. “I believe the one requesting that she be formally summoned to the Tower to answer for tax irregularities is the one she’ll truly back.”
Casting herself as being attacked by the throne while ensuring she was in Ater to gather support. Not the most inspired of opening moves, but then Abreha had always preferred boldness to elegance.
“Have our people change the text for one of the red herrings just before presentation,” Malicia ordered, opening her eyes. “High Lady Abreha will request a formal mandate and court title, for the sake of stabilizing Praes in the midst of war.”
“Overreach would give us an excuse to swat her around,” the spymistress reluctantly agreed.
“Swat?” Malicia smiled. “Nothing of the sort, Ime. How does one kill a lion without a spear?”
Her spymistress simply raised an eyebrow.
“Throw a cut of meat,” the Dread Empress of Praes said, “halfway between it and a bear.”
She drummer her fingers thoughtfully against the table.
“We will grant this petition, for we have great trust in the loyalty of dearest Abreha,” she lightly continued. “As the Blessed Isle is still formally an Imperial territory, granting governorship over it is my right. Given the unfortunate refugee situation, it is evident there is great need of a stabilizing influence there.”
Ime let out a low whistle.
“That gets her household troops at the Callowan border,” she noted. “And nobody else will want to get tangled up there, so support will cool down. The reaction in Laure is the real danger.”
“Have the regency informed that its protest over Praesi refugee incursions were duly noted, and I have appointed a governor to remedy the situation,” Malicia said. “Of course, High Lady Abreha’s mandate ends at the border. Should she provoke the Kingdom of Callow, it is not on the behalf of the Tower and any punishment doled out by the regency would not be taken as an act of war between our realms.”
“Should such a provocation be arranged?” Ime asked, raising an eyebrow.
“Prepare one,” the Empress said. “I will not pull the trigger unless it is made necessary.”
There was a beat of silence.
“My Empress,” the spymistress finally said.
“You have doubts,” Malicia noted.
“Callow just slapped us across the face,” Ime reminded her. “There was a signed royal decree recognizing the independence of the ‘Confederation of the Grey Eyries’ before the city had even fallen.”
With Catherine’s own signature, which the Empress suspected had by now been used more often by Hakram Deadhand than the woman herself.
“The Matrons must have reached out to them months ago. And it’s only a matter of time until barges carrying munitions and goblin steel start sailing across the Wasaliti to equip the Army of Callow. They’re effectively funding a rebellion against the Tower, though Gods only know how they got a loan from the dwarves.”
“Given Catherine’s continued absence, I imagine an amount of brutal murder was involved,” the Empress drily said. “Though that is ultimately irrelevant. The Legions of Terror will move to blockade Foramen. Neither munitions, steel nor gold will flow. The bargain will remain entirely ink.”
“We’re in no shape to fight against Callow,” Ime quietly said. “We are divided, bloodied and beset with a goblin rebellion.”
“Callow is in no shape to fight against us,” Malicia replied, and raised a hand before her spymistress could object. “Marshal Juniper has raised a significant army, but it cannot move east. If the Black Queen still somehow seeks alignment with the ailing Grand Alliance, it must participate in the campaign against the Dead King. If she seeks to kill Cordelia’s grand design instead, it will fall on Salia instead and decapitate the Principate by surprise. Both offensives would be of great scale, and she has neither the manpower nor the resources to engage in war on two fronts.”
Silence reigned for a moment after the mild tirade, the other woman refraining from contradicting her. Ime – Lindimi Sahelian, once, before she’d cast that name aside – was aging. No amount of potions, rituals or cosmetics could truly hide it anymore. Her skin was wrinkling, her body losing its spryness. Even a branch Sahelian could expect to live a few decades longer than the average Praesi, but time would catch up eventually. Part of Malicia grieved that. Part of Malicia had to begin considering a replacement. She read hesitation, on Ime’s face. No, not hesitation. Reluctance. There were very few subjects where she had not given her spymistress to speak her mind fully and openly. Not even Lindimi’s participation in the slaughter of Amadeus’ kin when still served the Heir was warded subject, though it was one to be approached with care.
“Say it,” Malicia ordered.
Ime’s lips thinned.
“You have not spoken to the Black Queen face to face since Akua’s Folly,” she slowly said. “I do not think you truly grasp the woman we’re dealing with anymore.”
“A crown will not change her nature,” the Empress said.
“What happened in Liesse did,” Ime replied. “She reminds me…”
Reluctance again.
“… she reminds me of Nefarious,” the spymistress finished quietly. “After the Wizard of the West broke his power. There’s a sickness in her, Malicia, and it has little kinship with reason.”
It had been many years, since Alaya had last thought of Dread Emperor Nefarious. In a way, that’d been a deeper victory than simply killing the wretched man – she had grown beyond him, the wounds and the fear and the pain. She’d not hidden from remembrance of him, she’d simply let him disappear into utter irrelevance.
“Winter can be predicted,” Malicia said. “Rooted as it is in what she once was.”
“She’s unstable,” Ime flatly said. “And I’m afraid of her. We all should be. She threw a bloody lake at the crusaders, and that was her being diplomatic. If that pretence is discarded, what will we be facing? You speak of armies, but I think of a mountain falling from the sky above Ater. Of Okoro drowned by an ocean unleashed. She’s not the Carrion Lord’s apprentice anymore, Malicia. She’d a vicious, angry thing bearing a fairy court’s worth of power and I deeply mislike the risk of us making her feel cornered. She may yet come out with teeth and claw, damning all else.”
Where was this fear a year ago? Yet the Empress knew the answer. It had not yet come to fruit, because a year ago Wekesa had still been alive and poorly inclined towards the Black Queen. How quickly slight wounds had turned to mortal ones, Malicia thought. Procer was being smothered by the armies of the dead, Ashur strangled by the fleets of the League and the hosts of Levant were embroiled in the mess that had been made of Iserre, headed for doom or crippling. All three nations sworn to end her, bleeding out in broad daylight. And yet Praes was dying as well, by wounds of its own making. The Matrons to the south, High Lady Abreha to the north. Legions she held only by the barest of leashes, one that could only be tugged by causing mutinous sentiment in the aftermath, and with the coming of winter the Imperial granaries would have to be opened lest there be food riots. The grain would run out, eventually. And to the far west, someone had taken Amadeus from her.
She was alone. There was no one else that would – that could – avoid disaster.
Left to scheme on their own, when the granaries ebbed low the High Lords would begin musing war on Callow to acquire its own reserves. The goblins would not end the border of their rebellion at Foramen unless they were made to. And the moment collapse seemed inevitable, some clans of orcs would begin eyeing the weakened lands to the south of the steppes for plunder as they had under the reign of her predecessor. Some would stay loyal, but all that would accomplish was civil war among the Clans. She had to avoid reaching the tipping point, whatever the cost. For if she succeeded? If she asserted true control once more? Then she had won this war, and all the wars that would follow. The Grand Alliance would break. The League of Free Cities would either collapse into squabbling or by trying to keep the Thalassocracy contained. And Callow would have a choice: uneasy alliance with the Tower, or standing alone against a Kingdom of the Dead that had just devoured most the west. It always came down to survival, didn’t it? Outlasting what you could not beat.
“I am,” Malicia said, “the ruler of Praes.”
“So you are,” Ime murmured.
“Let us teach them once more,” Dread Empress Malicia, First of Her Name, “precisely what that means.”
The Empire might be dying, but these lands were no stranger the walking dead.
Somewhere in eastern Iserre, under a full moon, a flicker of flame parted the night. It died quick enough, leaving behind only the cherry-red end of a lit pipe. The young woman holding it breathed in deep of smoke before blowing out a shoddy ring. Pearly white teeth were bared under moonlight, afterwards.
“Let’s try this again, shall we?” Catherine Foundling said.
Behind her, streaming out of an ink-black gate, a sea of raised sigils poured out in utter silence. Obsidian and iron, furs and mail, spears and swords and things stranger still.
For the first time in many years, the Empire Ever Dark was at war with something other than itself.
Peregrine II
Chapter 1: Visitation
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Hate to bother you, but was there ever an announcement of the winners of the great popularity contest?
Catherine, and Dread Emperor Irritant
Yeah, we all love you and are happy for your return, but WHERE. IS. INDRANI?
On her to Callow most likely.
I imagine they’ve gotten news of Wekesa, and she’s looking for Masego.
I assume she’s occupying a new role directly under the Queen of Callow. Or maybe on top the Queen.
not just indrani. most of the characters pretty much disapeared from book 4. Can’t wait to see them again
Wasn’t Ime’s real name Sabra Niri, with kinship to the High Lord of Okoro?
Why is it suddenly Lindimi Sahelian, a relative of the ruling line of Wolof?
It was stated as such in Book 4 chapter 5: Interests.
{“Sabra Niri,” I said, tone caressing the words, and she shivered. “I was surprised, to learn of your kinship to the High Lord of Okoro.”
Her name had been learned, not given, and this made difference. It was still a foothold. Fear spread in her mind like a drop of ink in water. Thinned, yes, but contaminating every part of her. I could taste it, even through this thin link of sympathetic sorcery.}
And there was a foothold, so it can’t be that it was a wrong name. Otherwise, Catherine’s Fae Power wouldn’t have taken her. Ime was even shown later on as being stressed over the matter.
Good Start as expected things are going poorly for Cordelia and Malicia. Though unless Cat is about to attack Malicia might be able to weather the storm since she mostly directly has to put down a Goblin Revolt. And heck the Goblin Revolt might even help her a bit since I doubt the Goblins know precisely which cities are loyal to Malicia and which oppose her.
I’d give the goblins more credit than that. They might be in cahoots with the new High Lord already.
Agreed. I have no doubt whatsoever that the old bats know a lot of what is going down.
Nah, at most, they are planning to backstab any High Lord they work with for specific mutual advantage against others – they have a lot of hate for the High Lords.
If the Matriarchs are planning to work with anyone, it’ll most likely be Cat – after all, she may be a Callowan half-Wallerspawn, but she’s Amadeus’s protege, already has the only Goblin Colony outside of the Eyries, actively hates the High Lords, and isn’t going to continue High Lord policies as regards the orcs or goblins.
Cordelia is also getting an unexpected boon, since Cat is bringing a whole empire full of demigods to fight Neshamah. That will probably distract him from destroying her childhood home.
She brought them to Iserre, so she’s either extracting Black, or gating whatever army is willing to side with her (hopefully the one from Free Cities) north to fight the undead.
Good point. Her last interactions with both the Sve Noc and the dwarves seem to indicate she intends to take the fight to the Kingdom of the Dead, but that’s not that close to Iserre. Maybe she wants to link up with Black’s army (with or without knowing he’s no longer with them)?
She wants to take the fight to the Kingdom of the Dead eventually, but first she needs assurance from Cordelia that they will leave the Drow alone there and stop their invasion of Callow. So I think the first thing she’ll do is make a display of force. Though actually, she may just be there to pull Black out of Procer like she mentioned she’d do, since I don’t think she knows he’s been captured yet.
Maybe. I don’t know why Sve Noc would sanction this expedition, but such is the nature of time skips.
I suspect Sve Noc delegated the entire thing to Catherine. I mean, the entire reason she agreed to come to the surface was that Catherine gave off the impression of knowing what was going on up there, and also incidentally the impression of being overall fairly trustworthy and genuinely invested in her plan of having the drow cork in the Dead King. And not get massacred by the dwarves. Which is the extent of Sve Noc’s own ambitions re: this whole mess.
So, y’know, that.
Pretty sure not getting drowned in dwarves was a huge factor, as was finding a place for her people.
I just think she’d have some questions about making a stop on the way there to fight some of Cat’s surface enemies when Neshamah is already going to be a terrible opponent.
I mean, it’s not like she doesn’t know Cat’s got her own interest involved.
And I see Cat’s soujourn to Iserre as part of her plan to gather forces against the Dead King, which, y’know, is going to help the drow die less in the process.
And really, “they are enemies right now, we need to bloody them so they want to be friends” is going to make more sense to her than “If we help them I’m sure they’ll change their minds” anyway
the Matrons know EXACTLY who’s loyal and who isn’t
IT’S BACK
IT’S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
Well, it’s been proven that Warlock literally nuked the city.
Also, Cat, you horrifying little creature, how I’ve missed you.
I think you might be more right than you think. Keter’s Law, right? Warlock ascended to godhood, and that means that he’d release a bunch of waste magic into the environment. We know that the Dead King nuked a city when he ascended, so it makes sense that Warlock would as well.
He didn’t really ascend, just drew on truly inhuman amounts of power, but I think you’re right that most of the death and destruction was from the Due. Though I am curious how, or if, Masego was excluded from the damage.
It was a specific condition of the command Warlock gave to the power he’d gathered, I imagine, seeing as how it was the point. “Destroy everything except Masego”. It went haywire from there, but the core objective was kept to.
Masego has a Name; those people always get special treatment
I mean, Masego killed people with proximity and maimed the souls of those who scried him because of a “sea of death”. Who says he actually was unaffected?
…also, uh. A good point 😡
“A blind boy treading through a dead city, carrying the deaths with him – lash and ladder, into ever deeper darkness.”
That’s one of Hierarch’s visions from the Book 4 epilogue. I think it’s about Masego and that he somehow harvested the dead from Thalassina, either their souls, the power from their death, or both.
Welcome back! This is much more what I expected, bravo 👏.
OK — out of Cordelia and Malicia, I don’t know which is going to head for the headache pills faster upon discovering the full extent of the souvenirs Cat brought back from her trip abroad.
Amadeus, who I dearly hope is still in the land of the breathing, however… He might bust a rib trying to simply chuckle instead of rolling on the floor in laughter.
Cordelia and Malicia (or at least Ime) are likely to be relieved, at least to a point.
Cordelia, because Cat is bringing a whole empire of Drow to sucker punch the Dead King. Malicia (or at least Ime), because Cat is no longer a deranged fae, and thus less of a liability.
Malicia has no real way of not knowing Catherine is no longer a fae. We also don’t know what the fuck her new abilities actually entail – she’s clearly somehow bought the loyalty of the Drow, so unless the Night has given her the ability to keep the title of Queen of Winter but none of its power (or unless Akua magically counts as “Duchess of Winter” for the tiny shard she still holds), Catherine clearly has a new ability more than equal to Winter if it’s still holding her entire court in check.
That, or she just holds the respect of them cause their god said to.
Pretty sure Cat has the Drow because she bargained with Sve Noc to lead the Drow to a new home in the Kingdom of the Dead.
Plus she seems to be some kind of high priestess of Sve Noc (priestess of the priestess? I guess we need a new name for the gals), which gives her influence over the Drow even if her raw power doesn’t make them obey.
No, if anything Malicia should start to get worried.
She wasn’t afraid of Cat because Cat was Winter and thus follows a certain pattern as is Fae nature.
However, now that Cat is back to ‘gloriously mortal’? Nobody is going to predict her plan so easily anymore, especially not when she’s got a whole new Name, or an equivalent to it, to her.
Heck, given that Cat’s Goddesses are not exactly a fan of either Above (who shun them, branding them as Evil) or Below (the whole rigged deal), I think there’s a lot of room for beating the crap out of both sides (specifically the Heroes on one side, Dead King on the other)
Pretty sure they’re still at least nominally on the side of Below. And yes, I agree, but it does make her both more amenable to negotiation and much more stab-able.
That’s the fun part of the side of the Below: it’s very, very nominal in nature 😀
Until you are manipulated into a cage fight with a demigod.
That’s the unfun part.
They will be scared shitless, the only relieve will come from the fact that they won’t face annihilation, but let’s not forget that they hate not being in control (Malicia is so obsessed to the point of her paranoia leading her to take measures to get power without relying on Amadeus, yet it was the thing that caused him to get at odds with her, thus beginning her fall).
Accepting that Catherine is the one who can help her save her people is going to be a pill hard to swallow for Cordelia, but she will do it, because she actually loves her people and because an alliance with Cat would assure her a position of dominance in Procer.
And yeah, Amadeus will laugh like a madman proud of his daughter. Or he would probably stare not-smugly at whoever is around in such a way that loops back to being smug.
Now the thing to wait for is Neshamah and Bard’s reactions.
There’s also the fact the cat is also bringing along the newborn god she helped create. That is probably going to cause a few people some concern.
Cordelia has no particular reason to worry immediately since Catherine’s ire is pointed towards Praes for now which implies that Catherine sees Procer as less of a threat and also less of an enemy than Praes. Since Catherine has, in the past, actually offered alliance, the implication is that Catherine sees common ground with Procer and despite the fact that things may have changed since then, unless Cordelia sends a missive and is turned down with prejudice, the beleaguered First Prince might still hope for a renegotiated non-aggression pact between her state and Callow.
She won’t lose anything anymore, not when the state is decimated by fighting Neshamah; depending on how much damage there is, she might actually be able to claim a diplomatic triumph if she can pull off a peaceful resolution and/or aid from Catherine.
So Malicia, really, is more worried, because Malicia has too many problems to deal with already while Cordelia can at least take comfort in the fact that both attacks are not happening at once.
Ah, I misread the last part. Somehow I thought “Empire Ever Dark” referred to Praes not being at war with Callow for forty years.
In that case, well, if diplomatic attempts fall through I think Cordelia will probably faint.
Well Cordelia has plenty of reason to worry. Masego’s Parents are dead cause Cordelia and her Grand Alliance/Crusade. So is Masego really going to say sure Cat lets sign a Liesse Accords with them? I seriously doubt it. Also there is nothing that keeps Cordelia especially safe.
Malicia has her Deal with the Dead King that no one really knows the details off. So even if the Goblins keep pushing, its doubtful they can go all they way to the Tower and even if they do. The matrons seems smart enough to not want to trigger that clause. Same for the High Lords and Ladies, they want for now a Chancellor, not a new Empress or Emperor for the same reason.
So I say short term Cordelia is in serious trouble. But she is pretty good if she weathers the current crisis. Malicia though is more concerned midterm to longterm. Malicia has basically until the Dead King is dealt with to sure up her position.
Dread Empress: “Cat can’t attack us she only has one army and she would need two.”. Cat: “It’s nice to have an extra army of all powerful demigods to attack thing with.”
Poor Neshamah won’t know what hit him.
…who am I kidding, he was probably watching the whole adventure and eating popcorn.
Knowing him this whole little war is just a way to gather reading material for the next few millennia before the cork pops.
The Empress really tends to underestimate Cat. It’s a persistent failing, and a very dangerous one.
Admittedly, Bard does too, which is possibly the only thing that might save this situation.
The Bard might be underestimating Cat, but we really have no way of knowing. However, considering she orchestrated the creation of Sve Noc and seems to have lots of ways of knowing things, I wouldn’t put planning this out of the realm of possibility. We don’t know what her end game is, and we definitely don’t know what she knows.
The only estimation of Cat Bard has expressed was what she said to Neshamah.
Who, er, might be her friend, but is not exactly her ally.
Bard’s a lying liar who lies. We don’t have enough data to guess what she /really/ thinks of Catherine and her plan. The consequences of her actions so far have been, on a long-term strategic plane, actually somewhat aligned with Cat’s goals: both First Liesse and Second Liesse were horrifying catastrophes (one narrowly averted), but Cat ended up hugely politically profiting from both. And thanks to Bard’s meddling in the Free Cities, didn’t end up saddled with narrative suicide in the form of keeping Akua’s fortress.
I don’t think it’s an accident, or that Bard is just that incompetent. I think this means that Catherine’s successes fit into her plans quite well.
It’s, uh.
Seconded! The Bard is a red herring in a bullshit sandwich wrapped in mystery-meat fried fin fibbing oil served with a hefty portion of misdirection fries.
…I just realized there’s a third army in that mess, and that’s the Legions. Sure, they aren’t Catherine’s SPECIFICALLY, but she’s the person who can gate them out of there………
Should be interesting conversation since both Scribe and Grem hate her for giving their Black Knight “but a flesh wound”.
All would be forgiven if she plays an instrumental role in his rescue.
I’m looking forward to it a whole lot.
We don’t know if she can still gate though…
She didn’t seem to have gone through Arcadia to march the drows…
They are using a gate, it’s just a gate of Night rather than Arcadia. The full implications of that are unknown.
Cat obtained the boon of travelling through Arcadia unimpeeded from the Monarchs of the Far. Since it was Cat who got this and not the Queen of Winter she can probably still do this but by powering the gates with night.
Cat got the boon of traveling through Arcadia unimpeded, but she has to get there first. Her ability to /open/ gates was not part of the deal, it was Winter power.
Winter wasn’t erased, it was merged with Night. Cat just used an ink black gate to bring her drow forces to eastern Iserre. Why are we having this debate when she literally just used a gate in this very chapter?
There’s a bit of a time issue there. The Levantine armies still haven’t caught the Legions, and the region through which they’re chasing each other is much smaller than the distance from Everdark to Iserre, and she would have started later than that merry chase began.
Admittedly it’s possible that between the Night and the underground passages that dwarves opened to them, they managed to go not through Arcadia. That brings us back around to the same point though: if the dwarves were willing to let the drow through their territory to far south from the war they’re actually supposed to be fighting (against the Dead King), they might as well let the Legions through, too.
When did the dwarves grant Cat military access through their territories? It wasn’t mentioned in any of the negotiations far as I’m aware.
tijayarnie
I need to know everyones reaction to the Drow
Should be interesting seeing as the Drow has traditionally been aligned with Below.
Are the Princes and Priests of Procer against the ropes enough to accept Catherine’s aid? She did say she wanted to join the Grand Alliance? Will Hanno and the Pilgrim’s band stand side by side with the Army of Darkness or will they pull a Praesi and sharpen their blades while the Enemy is at the gates?
Woo this is gonna be good….
Considering Hanno’s Free Cities adventures with the Tyrant and also with Bard, but also particularly considering his origins – being unwilling to condemn his mother who literally put a curse of Below on government officials – I’m guessing he’s going to stand with Cat fully willingly.
1. His mother was being lynched for crimes she didn’t commit, and
2. Hanno wasn’t a hero at the time.
She, ah, did commit the crime, though.
She was being marginalized and shunned for no bigger crime then being Praesi, yes, but then she absolutely DID call on Below’s debt to her for a lifetime of worship, killing herself and calling down a curse on Ashuran officials. She DID do that.
And Hanno was asked if he would renounce her actions, and he said that he wouldn’t, and that’s how his journey /started/. That’s what /led/ to him bing a hero.
I think you misread something. She called on Below’s debt BECAUSE SHE WAS ABOUT TO BE LYNCHED.
I think you are misremembering.
“anno knew his family was not wealthy enough that they would have been able to afford a driftwood funeral for Father, that his body would have never been set on a raft for the eastern tide to take back to the faraway home of all Ashurans, but that it would not even be buried in consecrated grounds wounded him. The Gods Above would know their own, and the soul of a good man would be brought at their side, but for profane earth to be the tomb of his own father was a shameful thing. The priests laid blessing upon the whole mine and spoke the names of the lost, but that was as much to allow work to resume as to honour the dead.”
^^^ the actual injury was the lack of grave for Hanno’s father.
“Without Father, his mother would be expelled from Barcalid District and sent into quarantined grounds. ”
“He asked her, then, if she wanted to go home. She told him his father had been home, and that it was now beyond her reach. The morning after, he found her gone when he rose.”
It was not lynching that was coming, just being expelled, and she was not focused on that part, Hanno himself was.
“It was instinct that had him find her but it came too late. The same committee that had left his father to mass grave was attending the districts where pensions were due to widows and widowers, and on that day that had come to Barcalid.
“Gods of my ancestors, grant me due,” Zoya of Thalassina snarled, throwing the tile at their feet. “Blood for blood, life for life. Let every breath be a torment, every night a terror, every pleasure turn to insipid ash. Let them have no rest or peace until my love lies in the grave he earned. I curse you to this with my last breath.””
Bolding mine.
Zoya of Thalassina was pissed at injustice towards her husband, not towards herself.
She turned to Below to remedy that injustice.
And Hanno failed to condemn her for that.
Considering how Catherine’s plans normally result in everyone losing (including her), I think she might twist Cordelia’s arm (or break it) before she helps her.
I also believe just the mere fact that Cat will gate out the Legions will screw Cordelia over since she just sent several large army groups to NOT the Dead King Front, and now they are functionally hundreds of miles from being useful.
If Catherine goes and knocks out Praes before engaging Dead King, she improves her bargaining position. The Grand Alliance can theoretically take another couple of months slugging it out with the Dead King, and Cat or Callow owes them no favors.
I mean, sure, BUT, you’re bargaining position can be improved even further by “You see all these armies of yours that are in the wrong place? Give me treaty and a Black Knight, and I will give you transport.
Cat WOULD break Cordelia’s arm gladly, I imagine, in the literal personal sense, but I don’t think she would take it out on Procer. Not after losing Winter and being utterly horrified by the decisions she’d made while holding it. Under influence or not, I predict that Cat’s going to counterbalance her strengthehed ties to Below (being a priestess of an Evil goddess and all that) by a renewed dedication to lowercase good.
She’ll twist everyone’s arm precisely as much as needed so that people she’s trying to help would, y’know, stop fighting her, and get the accurate idea that accepting help good and fighting drow bad.
Same. An interlude of every ruler’s reaction to the news “and Catherine Foundling now has an army of Drow” would be a thing of beauty.
bad nombre
And new, completely unknown powers with a foreboding theme 🙂
Huzzah. Cat is back.
Malicia has badly misjudged Cat. Ime isn’t entirely right (as far as her information goes) but she’s not wrong, either. Backing Cat into a corner generally ends badly for everyone involved, unless they’re either Ascended or well on the path, ie, the Dead King or Sve Noc … Malicia is nowhere near that level on a good day. And Malicia is not having a good day, and isn’t likely to have one that isn’t bad anytime soon.
Cat is invading Procer … how much does she know about what’s been going on while she’s been underground?
Also … very interested in what Cat can do these days beyond light her own pipe.
I guess she wields night now?
Ime’s relation to akua seems like it will be important too
In Malicia’s defense, no one was expecting Fakerine to turn back into Cat. Or for her to somehow recruit the effing Drow into something reassembling an army.
Cat was never not Cat.
And it’s not like even a “Fakerine” being backed into a corner by Malicia is somehow an improvement over backing Cat into a corner.
Remember, as Ime says, Winter Queen Cat dropped a lake on the Proceran Crusaders when she was (a) being “diplomatic” and (b) very carefully trying to limit the damage she did so that a diplomatic resolution would still be viable and (c) trying to work around a dozen Heroes. WQCat doesn’t have those restrictions when she’s dealing with Malicia. And while Cat hates Procerans, it’s not like she is any more fond of Praesi, especially Malicia, especially post-Folly.
And, the only reason Cat’s megagate was stopped and messed Cat up in the process? Grey Pilgrim pulled a miracle out of his ass. Malicia isn’t going to get a miracle, and if Cat were to pull another megagate, she’d disconnect from it before it could be broken … if it can be broken quickly without a Miracle or Mage-Name.
Cat recruiting the Drow to enter the surface is actually kind of a mixed blessing for Malicia – sure, it gives Cat an army she didn’t have, but it also means Cat’s less likely to be in a position where she has to go all out and/or pull a Bonfire-type operation against Praes.
Well, Cat admitted she wasn’t herself when hollowed out and filled with the stuff of Winter. Plus Warlock thought so, and he was quite knowledgeable about such things.
As for the backing into a corner, Malicia started her career facing powerful, deranged villains. I believe that’s mostly what she was counting on – such villains tend to self destruct eventually.
Of course, she was playing with fire. I agree harrying Fakerine was a dangerous game, and that Cat being back is good news for everyone. It’s just that Malicia’s position was better thought out than you made it out to be.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure Cat does not hate Procerans. She just hates Procer’s tendency to invade neighbors (more specifically, Callow).
To be fair though, All Cat has to do to fuck over Praes is burn the Green Stretch, and retreat to Callow for a defensive war. Malica would be dethroned in a brutal civil war that would eat itself alive.
This is with or without a mega gate that could or not be blocked or broken through spells and magecraft.
My take on this is that the mortal soul and Winter are different substrata. Cat’s soul was imprinted onto Winter as a simulation of a mortal soul. But it was an imperfect simulation so she drifted away from how a mortal would think.
Whether or not Cat was herself depends on how one feels about simulations. I’m inclined to say that Winter!Cat was still Cat because she hadn’t held her mantle long enough to entirely lose herself. Every day she drifted further into being Winter with some minor affectations and a mortal past.
I think the Dead King knew how to ascend with a perfect simulation of his original soul within his new mantle… and I think Masego will be able to do that too. His mastery of souls and insight into divinity point to this.
Queen of Winter!Catherine was not “not Catherine”. That’s the excuse she tries to make for herself but everyone tells her she’s full of shit immediately.
…everyone? Warlock seemed to think so. And he hated her.
Also, that’s not what I got from that conversation with Sve Noc. So who are you basing this on?
Catherine was “fake” in the same way somebody who is drunk or high is “fake”. To put it another way, she was in an altered state, true; but, when they are in a manic or depressive part of their cycle, somebody with bipolar disorder is still themselves, however differently they act.
That definitely was Cat… with her brain on Winter rather than on Squire. Or on what she’s on now, which is Night (once removed).
That is not what Warlock seemed to indicate on the subject. Or what Cat seemed to indicate on the subject. There was *some* Cat in there, but mostly she was a mold into which wintery goodness was poured as filling.
Apparently you’ve never been near a drug-induced psychosis. Altered states are tricky and profound things. And, it’s not a lie that “the chemicals made me do it”, but how what was done was done? Still shaped by the underlying personality, however different others think the outcome.
You’re still you, even with a lesion-riddled, dementing brain that can’t make even three quarters of the connections it used to. Generally not a you people who knew the whole you enjoy being around, and thus won’t consider that you to be still be you, but however much warped and reduced… that crumbling framework is still you.
Just as you are not the kid you were because you’ve added and lost bits. But, that kid and you? You.
How different do you have to be from “you” until you aren’t you anymore? Were Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde truly the same person? Physically you’re you, and your personality is going to inform your changed persona, but I think a strong argument could be made both ways, that you’re no longer you and that you are still you.
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were literally the same person, the entire book repeatedly beats you with the fact over the head. Hyde IS Jekyll, he’s the bad side of Jekyll, the side Jekyll tried and failed to get rid of. Jekyll and Hyde is at least partially about how you can’t just run away from the bad side of you by pretending it doesn’t exist. Just like Catherine was absolutely told that she can’t run away from the things she was capable of, the things she’s still capable of, by blaming it all on Winter.
In any case, Warlock didn’t say Catherine wasn’t Catherine, he was quibbling about trivial stuff like whether or not she’s human and arguing about souls. Trying to argue that ‘w-winter was corrupting you h-haha’ is bullshit, it’s like saying that the carefree, fun-loving prince who put on the crown isn’t the prince anymore because now he has to act with the authority and weight of a king. It IS him. He’s changed. We call it growing up in real life.
Catherine is the one who chose to put on the Crown of Winter. She’s the one who planned to get the Title from the Duke of Violent Squalls, she’s the one who decided to fuck the consequences and let loose the dam. People have always commented on how Catherine is no longer the girl who chased after Black’s shadow, even less the girl who was sure that she was in the right, no longer someone that her old self would emphasise with. That doesn’t make it ‘not her’. In life, there are choices you make that lead you down roads where you are changed utterly – you could argue that *every* road you could take will do so. Catherine happened to take one where there’s outside influence, but unless you want to argue that Black’s mentoring made her “fake”, and the changes she went through during the war games made her “fake”, and Second Liesse made her “fake”, Winter Sovereign Catherine is fully Catherine.
In any case, I’m completely unconvinced that Winter, without the alienation from overuse that got shoved onto Akua eventually at any rate, actually affected her logic. Sve Noc actually calls her out on this, you need decades, centuries for that to actually start melting your mind. Cat’s had it for maybe a year, it’d be a wonder if she had gain so much as an inclination towards blue clothing. Catherine’s responses were generally vicious while she was the Winter Queen. They were also generally reasonable, and the things she’s most horrified about are also things that have near-direct parallels in our own history done by great empires and respected leaders.
Even decomposed and three thousand years forgotten, your physical remains are… what remains of you. 🙂 To cease being you requires a rewrite and reboot of reality by, say, something like a specialist demon that eradicates everything of a thing for a living. Merely a different take on you due to damage or change is still you. However heartbreaking the change to those around you (and even to your own dismay).
Simple as. 🙂 Change happens to you as you go along, and it can be fantastic, horrible or both.
It’s more like there was an actress playing Cat than that Cat was drugged out. If a doppelganger studies one superficially, then wears one’s skin, is it really the same person? I would say not.
That first one was Warlock’s opinion.
Masego disagreed, and Masego was proven to be right when ripping away Winter left old Cat behind. She was still there, just… under influence.
Considering Cat’s size relative to Winter, I believe it safe to assume that what was there was mostly Winter taking a Cat-like demeanor.
Sve Noc, Akua, and Masego all say to varying degrees that Warlock is full of shit. We’ve been shown that Warlock is neither infallible nor the pinnacle of magic, and considering that Masego has the ability to fuck with souls directly without rituals, Akua used a fae soul as a power source for her flying city and is was merged with Winter, and Sve Noc is a pseudodeific entity with thousands of years of brute-forced knowledge dealing with the collective souls of her entire species, I’d take their opinion over his.
Also, “an actress playing Catherine” doesn’t even make sense. What happened to the original one? Do you actually buy the idea that the original one straight up died? Did Sve Noc bring her back to life? Is she just a triple zombie now?
Catherine being influenced or controlled was literally something she made up to excuse herself and it’s immediately swatted down by someone who knows way more about how fae mantles work and little reason to lie to her.
I think Sve Noc had a much higher bar for ‘influence’ than Catherine did, not giving a fuck about the little things (like making fae eat their fingers) that left Catherine horrified. That, and the whole ‘human vs drow’ thing.
Catherine is /tangibly/ different after she accepts the mantle, and it was getting fairly unsettling.
And yeah Catherine did literally die and get remade in the stuff of Winter, during Second Liesse. The question of whether the copy is equivalent to the original is like the existential horror of Star Trek transportalizers excuse me warp pads or whatever they were called. Warlock had one opinion on it, Masego has another, and Masego’s is better founded.
Hum, actually Masego had a good reason to consider Wekesa to be full of shit on the matter: remember the little incident during the northern crusade campaign when Saint cut Catherine’s mantle and she went temporarily mortal, to the point of resuming normal bodily functions? It was Catherine’s /non/-existence, rather than her existence, that was the trick played on Creation. Masego knew that.
Masego doesn’t so much refute warlock as deny him. He accepts Warlock’s reasoning and evidence, but denies the conclusion.
Sve Noc was arguing over whether Cat is culpable for her double’s actions. Of course, we know in the end she chose not to kill her, which is endorsement that Cat as she is now is not, in fact, very culpable for them.
And Akua… is Akua. She’ll say whatever she needs to get ahead. Plus, she’s not exactly known for her restraint and wisdom with regards to the consequences of consorting with otherworldly beings and/or removing one’s soul from one’s body.
As for the original, she was, effectively, dead. Now she’s back, as she did once before.
Although it is undeniable that Cat was influenced by the Mantle of Winter, I find the notion that she’s not responsible for what she did during that time rather insulting. It seems like a cheap cop-out to avoid dealing with issues caused by Cat’s descent towards, for the lack of a better word, villainy. It’s not an honest change of heart, it’s just a reset.
There was much more Winter in there than Cat. Plus, Cat did a lot of bad before this.
And that’s where our views start to differ.
I agree with RanVor on this.
“I was drunk” is not a good excuse for hitting someone while driving, because you fucking chose to drink. In fact, drinking and driving is an offense unto itself.
Catherine is responsible for everything she did while after Winter’s influence, because killing a Duke of Winter to take his power was /her/ brilliant idea, and every single step she took since then was a fairly informed decision.
On that note though, Cat didn’t really fuck that much shit up while under Winter’s influence. She took oaths and kept Vivienne close for a reason – she was a very careful drunk driver XD
The influence was there, but because Catherine was aware of that fact – even though she couldn’t /feel/ all of it – she kept it at bay.
She was like a drunk driver who refuses to go over 10 kmph because she knows she’s drunk and would rather slow to a crawl than hit someone.
Catherine is fully responsible for everything she did while under Winter’s influence.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a difference between her actions and mindset with or without it.
Malicia’s about to learn that Winter!Cat was not the scariest Cat can be 😀
Making people eat their fingers? Look, to begin with, the fae aren’t exactly human. It’s debatable whether or not they can’t just regrow said fingers and are too terrified of Catherine to do it, since it’s meant to send a message.
“Tangibly” different? Howso? Because it looks to me like any other story of the weight of the crown and somesuch. Nothing she does is actually unreasonable, except the idiotic way she refused to learn to use her mantle correctly, and that seemed more like a “and man grew proud” thing, or a reflection of how Catherine knows less than nothing about magic.
“existential horror of Star Trek”
It’s just the Ship question and it’s hardly existential horror. Though philosophy has a lot to say on the matter, what’s agreed upon is the fact that it doesn’t actually matter, it’s mostly an academic point. At what point does the ship become a new ship, well, at what point does the captain actually care, you know? Catherine was clearly in control. You can argue that all of her fae tricks made her more than human but on a mental level she wasn’t somehow being puppeted by Winter. She’s the one who decided to take on Winter and then decided to break the dam, WQ Catherine was as much a “fake” Catherine as Angry Catherine or Horny Catherine are fake.
We know Fae can’t regrow body parts because of the precedent of Larat’s eye. He wouldn’t be that pissed at Ranger if he could simply regrow it.
It’s hard to tell the specific examples of Winter influencing Catherine, but IMHO, the entire tone of the story changed in Book 4. Sure, some of that was maturity / weight of the throne, but note how differently she feels once Winter is gone. I’d compare it to depression, to a degree: making things matter /less/, blunting her passion, cooling her fire in every respect except the most dangerous ones.
Her /empathy/ is gone or blunted, the most immediate reason people care about things. Catherine is an empathetic person, counterbalancing the cold reason at the heart of her: she simply feels bad at seeing others suffer, even if she can shut it down. It’s a different thing than caring about someone personally, it’s the immediate feeling when something is /right in front of you/.
As a fae, Catherine kept her /morals/ – the more abstract reasoning of what is right and wrong, and she kept her /attachments/. Empathy though, the thing she used to figure out what her morals were in the first place? She needed fucking Indrani of all people to tell her that she was crossing lines, and Indrani punches empathy in the face every time she meets it.
Catherine reacts less to the world around her, in Book 4. There’s a lot more calculation and a lot less emotion to her POV, compared to early Book 3 before she got Winter (which I believe started tangibly influencing her immediately).
She still manages to grow and develop, even through Winter. That’s what makes this confusing: Catherine in the last six chapters of Book 4 is not the same Catherine as in the first chapters of Book 3. She’s not the same Catherine as in the immediately preceding chapters either, though.
Well, Cat’s whole deal with the dwarves (for the dwarves to allow all the drow to leave) was that they’d be going to fight the only real threat to the dwarves – the Dead King.
She is still invading Procer technically – and first reactions to her host should be rather amusing – but she’s almost certainly going to offer to help Cordelia.
Cat’s going to want Amadeus back in one piece and with his soul properly attached and unaltered, cities are just so breakable, you know.
Hey, it’s not like the Principate can bitch about a veritable army of demigods showing up on their doorstep unannounced. After all, this is just an “expeditionary” force.
How did Ime not know about Malicia’s meeting with Cat in Keter?
They absolutely did speak.
Thus the “face to face” caveat – Malicia was there via flesh puppet.
And a scrying link somehow counts as more ‘face to face’ than a meat puppet?
zenanii
Through a meat puppet. Not face to face.
Face to face, not through a meat puppet or a scrying link, Malicia and Catherine hadn’t seen each other since Catherine was in Ater at the beginning of Book 2.
Sure, their conversation during Akua’s Folly, which Ime refers to, was specifically through a scrying link and not a meat puppet, but I’m not sure what kind of feedback a scrying link has that a meat puppet doesn’t. It should be the other way round if anything.
Now let the madness begins!
Ooh. Seems promising. Though I wonder whether Cat intends to stay on the campaign in the west instead of returning home to help her beleaguered adjutant and conscience.
Also, I wonder how she’ll react when news of what happened to Masego on his family trip. At the very least, Indrani will want to go keep the man company.
…of couse, that assumes Masego is actually making his way to Callow as opposed to a beeline for Cat.
Well, Callow didn’t get set on fire in her absence, so they can’t be /that/ beleaguered! They can handle it! It’s not like there are interpersonal issues that Catherine blithely ignored between them or any fun news waiting for her about their resolution or anything…
I have no idea where this is going.
To be fair to Catherine there, there wasn’t anything she could have done about said interpersonal issues.
She could have, like, talked to them more and had them talk to each other before sending them off to fix the country together.
Hindsight is 20/20.
Right? I wonder how Cat is going to react when she returns to find Hakram has -1 hand. Plus whatever changes Vivienne has been through.
“You did WHAT?! Admittedly I have little to no room to talk here, but,”
“How could you lose a hand?! At least I have a habit of growing back, replacing or jury rigging a cheat to cover what I wind up missing! You’ve not picked that trick up, yet: don’t use it again until you do!”
;u;
A corpse that is not a corpse in a lake, I think the Bard mentioned that angel in a talk with The Lone Swordsman. I wonder how much night Cat will get when she kills it.
I imagine it’s more a demon that went missing.
No way that’s a demon; the Heroes and her own Church would turn on her in a heartbeat if she’s trying to use a demon.
I think it might be a sleeping deity, only brought to the field when Procer is in dire straits. Or it could be a legendary Named Wizard, the same Wizard that once fought with Triumphant that resulted in the Titan’s Pond being formed.
Or the Sve Noc who is now a god.
I’m pretty sure it is. Look at her thoughts. “Let me be damned, then.” “Fire against fire.” Now consider that Procer was playing pretty heavily into the villain role during the invasion of Callow, and I’m pretty sure that Below is angling to get her a Villain Name, most likely that of her distant ancestor who fought against Neshamah prior to his ascension – the Witch Queen.
I figure using an angel’s corpse as a tool counts as damning to someone as Pure in some respects as Cordelia is
That corpse was in the lake Hengest, the one Liesse was built by. The corpse in the lake Iserre may also be an angel, but that would be repetitive. My money is on something remaining from the Old Iserre, the city that was sunk into the lake by the dwarves.
There was the angel that the White Knight summoned in Salia when the First Prince was going to give children as tribute
The Rebel Knight, I think, not White.
Shaerick 68
“The first messengers she’d sent on foot, and once they came within a hundred yards of him their heads had simply caved in.”
Oh, how I’ve missed this. Welcome back, EE!
They had eyes on the inside ;D
That’s what happens when you’re too busy doing stuff to realise the frenzy metre is about to end you. xD
Typo thread:
so be sent-> to be sent
Cordelia fingers -> Cordelia’s fingers stuff or rebellion->stuff of rebellion
given her spymistress to speak-> given her spymistress leave to speak
She’d a vicious -> She’s a vicious
I like the opening, but as one of the people who was not at all a fan of what ended up happening with Catherine and the Drow at the end of the previous book, I really think that long-term it’s gonna depend on what Catherine ends up becoming – having her ‘revert’ to being a priestess/follower indebted to a god directly would be a massive setback, imo.
But I suppose we’ll wait and see.
Who wants to guess how many chapters/interludes in we’ll be when we finally find out what happened to Idrani?
Catherine should mention her in chapter one, I really don’t think she won’t at least say what Indrani is doing or whether she is alive or dead.
I really, really hope Indrani is alright.
If she wasn’t, Catherine wouldn’t be so cheerful talking to the dwarves.
Major character deaths have impact in guide. If Indrani was dead we’d already know.
No one. Absolutely no one will see her coming.
Not sure what Catherine will do Iserre. Is she going to take the city before the League does? Grem is also heading down there. Iserre is bound to be interesting as too many armies are converging on it.
Grem is heading out of there, actually, and the Levantines may have already passed it in their pursuit. If I had to guess, she couldn’t scry from underground and was heading for Black, and is going to gate north the highest bidder.
Right, so the Legions under Grem and the Levantines are moving away from Iserre. Catherine brought a fully armed Drow army with her. A little bit of an overkill just to pick up Amadeus I think. She might be there for something else.
I think she’s there to pick up Black, his remaining legion, and make a ridiculous public announcement about the drow in front of as many witnesses as physically possible.
I wonder what her reaction will be when she learns dear old Pilgrim has taken Black prisoner…
Meh, Black (probably) escaped. She’s probably going to be too busy trying to figure out where Black wandered off to.
“Uuuuugh. I take my eyes off him for five minutes and this is what happens. Fine, dear teacher, take care of your own stupid business while I’m busy saving your people from your sideways backfire of a plan. Ta-ta, try to be alive next time we meet”
As many important witnesses as physically possible. How would Tyrant and Hierarch possible miss this?
She would need to give Kairos some notice. Refreshments and a comfy chair take time to magic up. 🙂
If she can’t scry underground how does she know where Black even is?
I wonder if this leads credence to my theory that Warlock and his Husband made Masego with magic and that Masego is actually half Devil or Demon Cause Masego is moving in a weird way, at unnatural rates and seems to be passively rekting any human that gets close.
I think it’s probably the blow-back of literally tugging a god’s hand to slap down their own people.
“Hierophant” is the equivalent of “Archmage” for Clerics in D&D (“Warlock”, in case you’re wondering, refers to a type of spellcaster who makes pacts with demons). Trying to scry an archmage without his knowledge or against his will is a poor idea at the best of times.
Also, moving in a weird way sort of implied to me that he was either flying or teleporting.
“But teleporting is impossible!”
Well, Hierophants are known for their miracles…
Atagan
I assumed he is kinda in autopilot using gates to make short jumps and with some kind of automatic/subconscious defence against everything thats not a friend
Really I wonder how “teleporting” works in this setting.
In D&D, teleporting technically takes you through the Astral Plane across an arbitrary distance, but that’s because the Astral Plane is the place you go when you’re nowhere else, it’s the representation of the “place between places”. That said, going through Arcadia is, well, it’s suspiciously similar. More like ethereal travel but I wouldn’t really be surprised if Masego realised the inherent similarities.
It’s been mentioned that teleporting is impossible, as is generating matter out of nowhere, but since both of them can be emulated in 1000 ways the distinction is largely academic.
Oh, and Masego sure did make wooden pillars appear out of nowhere when pulling his binding trick, Catherine actually commented on how utterly terrifying it was that he could do that suddenly.
It’s equally possible he’s /actually/ teleporting here and not using some kind of extradismensional shortcut…
Just finished first week back to college, tired as all hell. Saw this chapter and all my fatigue washed away, replaced with pure, octane-fueled hype. Thank you so much for being back.
>How quickly slight wounds had turned to mortal ones, Malicia thought.
Gee. Really Malicia? I’m sure the Allied powers thought the same regarding Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles right when Germany shoved a spiked gauntlet (WW2) up their ass.
So warlock sacrificed himself and an entire city of over a hundred thousand souls for his sons survival. It’s confirmed that hierophant can affect the souls of his targets even through scrying. Didn’t dread emperor revenant also sacrifice that many souls for apotheosis? It looks like masego has gotten quite a power up.
Masego witnessed the power of Above and Below. Only a sliver of each, but as someone whose power is to usurp miracles… Well, he’s probably almost as strong as WinterCat was. Stronger even, since he knows what to do with it. I suspect he may have let that one mage last long enough to deliver a message.
Warlock doesn’t seem to have “sacrificed” the people who were killed, at least in the magical sense, just included them in the blast radius because he couldn’t really give a damn.
You know I find it dubious how Akua is largely hated for killing a hundred thousand in Liesse, but Warlock is given a pass despite doing essentially the same thing. It really does matter whose side you’re shown.
The reasoning behind it matters a little too. Akua did it because she needed an army. Warlock did it because he had more power than he could control and considered literally everyone except Masego acceptable losses. Including his husband. So it was a cold & calculated decision for power vs a last act to save his son.
Akua’s slaughter was a calm and calculated plan carried out over a large amount of time.
Wekesa’s last act was an act of desperation and self-sacrifice, as well as sacrifice of one of two people he loved most in the world for the sake of the other.
One was an atrocity, the other a tragedy.
That said, Wekesa was also 100% a horrible person, and loving him and crying about him doesn’t stop me from knowing that.
And Akua being a mass-murderer doesn’t stop me from loving her and wishing her all the best.
So, y’know, nuances.
I dunno man, I would rather know that my murder at least was a step on the path towards greatness than know that it was literally just an accident haha sorry bro. Maybe that’s just me though but like, if I have to die anyway I’d like it to at least have been useful.
Ravenfrost
blind boy treading through a dead city, carrying the deaths with him – lash and ladder, into ever deeper darkness.
I think Masego took the 100k souls with him and that’s the reason for his power up and soul manipulation.
He’s looking for his father’s soul in all the mess.
So any bets on how the Warden of the West (Is that a Name now? That sentence looks like she’s taken a Name.) is going to react to Cat appearing out of nowhere with an army of ridiculously powerful drow, declaring war on the Dead King, and probably asking for a truce until the world stops burning? …Because I think she may have an aneurysm and die. Because this is ridiculous even by Cat’s standards. …Then again having seen it happen I suppose that makes sense. I have no idea how she pulled this off even having witnessed it.
Nope, never will be a name either.
Why do you think so?
A Name is a Role. Warden of the West sounds like a Role, but is more of a formal title for the First Prince, which, as repeatedly reinforced, will never be a Name for the reasons that Procerians believe more in the might of many than in the might of One.
These titles simply do not have the cultural groove to become Names.
But getting a Name without realizing that it is happening is reinforced by both Vivienne and the *SPOILER for the current Extra Chapter Peregrine II*.
I think with the degree of disaster currently happening in Procer, Warden of the West might have gone from a ceremonial title to a very real thing in the minds of people, putting it on track to being a Name.
The phrasing in the chapter certainly suggests that.
Malicia thinks that a legion blockade will prevent the exchange between the goblins and Callow? Catherine can open portals and she knows this–Ime knows this. I can understand them failing to consider the Drows but this? There is no excuse for the two of them to miss this. They’re supposed to be smart.
I sincerely doubt that the goblin Matriarchs will trust a portal anywhere near their caves.
But they control Foramen now
I wish theres a map so i can see how truly fucked bitch princess is. Also it seems the player start summoning god to the table
https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/maps/
Where is Iserre on this map: https://practicalguidetoevil.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/continent-map.pdf
Near the center of the continent
Well, nice to see that, for a change, everyone else is getting as much crap as Cat has been.
Though at this rate, the entire continent is likely to be entirely depopulated to the point of collapse whatever happens…
I can’t help but feel Praes has been dealt a mortal blow with the permenant loss of it’s major port – even if it survives the current crisis, that catastrophy seems like it will spell long-term disaster for the nation that was already dancing on the edge of a starvation cycle. And, of course, desperate people with a penchant for insane sorcery equals what could be a rather nasty final lashing out before the end,
They’re going to need to rely on Callow!
The Praes/Callow united nation is going to be real… but it won’t be the Tower in charge.
The Callowan Conquest of Praes.
Doesn’t really matter to Black which way it goes, does it? As long as it holds, he’s fine with the outcome XD
HandyCapped
You know Erratic is back when this story is suddenly number one on top web fiction.
New Book on my birthday? Hell yeah!
This is my understanding:
Night and Winter got merged into one and are now either. This provided the necessary power for Sve Noc to ascend to godhood.
Cat is no longer a fae noble but a mortal human again. As compensation she’s now the (high) priestess of Sve Noc, which gives her nearly full access to their power (what do we call that? Winternight? Nightwinter? Ninter? Wight?^^). Technically she should be able to use it as the Mighty do, which means she hasn’t become any weaker and luckily she learned all their skills while she was down there. The primary advantages are that her mind is her own again, usage of more power won’t turn her into a cliché villain and she’s no longer affected by wards.
That is a major upgrade, even factoring in that her human body is limping again. It’s a bit unclear what role Akua plays now. She’s a soul bound to Cat’s cloak, but has since been empowered by Winter and by Night. She’s not alive again… I think. But… what is she now?
Imagine the fun and chaos when someone prepares to take on the Queen of Winter and instead the Black Queen arrives, wrapped in Night and followed by an army of Sigils. This is going to be so epic.
Now she simply has to rescue Black, pick up the marauding legions, secure the goblins and then kick everyone’s ass to bring peace to the continent. Should be a piece of cake. 😉
Re-uniting the Woe is next on the agenda. Perhaps Hakram would enjoy a Hand of Night to go with his Deadhand? Perhaps Masego would enjoy being hugged by Cat and Indrani? Perhaps Thief would enjoy giving up all the responsibility of a regent to Cat?
Pretty sure Vivienne is transitioning to a Name Adivor, Regent, Heiress or something in that general direction. The hints where there: How she started changing again (or never stopped), and how she lead a spy network instead of thieving about; and for some time was the direct advisor to the Queen.
She is positioned as a successor to the title, and probably Name. Basically all is missing is the Black Queen’s seal. Hakram may even stay with her, but there I am unsure. Perhaps if Cathrine ordered him to stay as an Adjutant to Queen Vivienne.
Then the new Murder-Squad would be Cathrine, Masego, Indrani, Akua, Hakram/X (because the Five Man Band is a thing)
X -> Black, Ivar, … no more names that seem plausible.
Vivienne ending up with the Name of Heiress would be delightfully ironic, however unlikely it may be…
Yeah, Thief will transition to a hero ruler name. Physical chages has already manifested and she is becoming more regal in appearance. Cat will hand over the queenship to her and objections to Callow joining the grand alliance will all but disappear since Callow will now be ruled by hero. Cat will remain as the neccesary evil of the nation to deal with the ugly things they are faced with.
Fimbulwinter 🙂
Wait. I’m not sure I’m thinking of the right mythological winter. Is fimbulwinter associated with sunless days or am I thinking of the wrong apocalypse winter?
Thanks for the Birthday gift, and for the great story
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NetOp strengthens focus on Education as it goes back to School
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Company hires Education expert and pre-releases NetOp School 5.5 at the BETT show 2008
2nd January 2008, Reading, UK; As NetOp Tech Ltd - a wholly owned subsidiary of Danish IT company Danware - prepares to pre-release NetOp School version 5.5 at the BETT show in January 2008, it has employed Peter Claxton to strengthen its focus on the Education sector for the year ahead.
With over 20 years of Educational ICT experience under his belt, Peter’s arrival will provide the company with specific industry experience and contacts, as well as creating a dedicated point of contact for channel partners working or hoping to join the reseller network in this area.
“Over the last few years, schools have spent well over £350 million on curriculum software without really maximising their investment. I’m really excited to be working with NetOp School, as I feel that it’s the classroom management tool all teachers have been looking for to do just that“ said Peter Claxton, Educational Business Development Manager at NetOp.
Peter has worked in a number of educational-focussed roles after training as an ICT teacher, providing advice to Local Authorities, and also to businesses worldwide including; LEGO, AVP (one of the largest software distributors in the UK) and most recently Steljes, where he headed up Software Business Development.
“Peter’s expertise is going to be a great asset to our customers, and will allow us to work closely with our key educational channel partners,” said Mike Kibblewhite, Managing Director of NetOp.
Peter and the rest of the NetOp team will be attending the BETT show, held on January 9 – 12 at London’s Olympia, on stand G69. NetOp will be using a fully recycled and reusable stand to create the ‘NetOp High School’ environment, which will demonstrate how its solutions support safe, fun, interactive learning in ICT classrooms.
There will be regular pre-view demonstrations of NetOp School 5.5 on the stand, the latest version of the company’s flagship solution, which is used by over a third of secondary schools in the UK.
Journalists wishing to arrange an interview or demonstration should contact;
Vikki Chowney, Six Degrees Ltd
Email: vikki.chowney@sixdegreespr.com
About NetOp
NetOp Tech Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Danware A/S, which develops and markets software based on NetOp technology. This technology enables swift, secure, and seamless transfer of screens, sound, and data between two or more computers.
The company has three business areas: NetOp Remote Management, NetOp Education, and NetOp Security. NetOp Remote Control makes it possible to remotely control one or more computers; NetOp School is used for computer-based classroom training; NetOp Netfilter is an internet filter and NetOp Process Control limits the applications and programs that can execute on a user's computer.
Danware products are sold in more than 80 countries worldwide, and in 2006 turnover was approximately DKK 97.93m. Danware is listed in Copenhagen and forms part of the SmallCap+ index.
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Indonesia AirAsia QZ140: Singapore (Changi Airport Terminal 4) to Padang (Minangkabau International Airport) by Airbus A320-200
28 May, 2018 RailTravel Station Flight Reviews, Indonesia, Padang, RailTravel Eats, RailTravel Guides, Singapore, Trip Reports 2 comments
Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ140 has been terminated.
There are no more non-stop flights between Singapore and Padang.
Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ140 is a new flight from Singapore to Padang, launched on 9 February 2018, departing once daily. This new flight and destination was launched together with Medan, with a Medan-based plane operating the KNO-SIN-PDG-SIN-KNO route. I booked my tickets last year, predicting the travel dates to be in time to coincide with the opening of the Minangkabau Express airport train to the city, and I’m glad to say that it was almost perfect.
Unfortunately, this was also to be my last flight on board QZ140 as the flight has been terminated effective 17 May 2018. QZ140 flew for the last time on 16 May 2018.
Check-in was at Row 4 as usual.
Printing out my boarding pass from the FAST Check-in Kiosk.
My souvenir for my first and last QZ140 flight.
Once immigration and security clearance was done, I checked the flight departure screens around for my gate.
Hmm, Gate G1. Time to use the shortcut directly there instead of walking through the duty-free shops.
For Gates G1 to G5, do not trust the signs around.
Instead, head towards the GST Refund and iShop Changi counters which seem to be like a dead end.
There is a corridor beside it without any signage, which looks somewhat like a service corridor, but it’s actually accessible for everyone.
Upon entering it and turning left, you’ll pass by some toilets.
And in a few seconds, you are right between Gates G4 and G5.
Now that you know of this shortcut, you can potentially get from the departure driveway to the gate in around 5 minutes – if you know of the gate already.
With a little bit of time before my flight, I decided to roam around the terminal first.
The thin strip of glass above is where the “famous” T4 Viewing Mall in the public area is situated.
Unfortunately, you can’t really view much from up there, unless you plan to view the departure transit area instead of planes.
I decided to head up to the Peranakan Gallery which is somehow not really promoted yet.
The Peranakan Gallery is located on the same Mezzanine Level as the International Food Hall, the Cathay Pacific Lounge and the Blossom – SATS & Plaza Premium Lounge.
The facade of the Peranakan Gallery.
The insides of a typical Peranakan house back in the days.
Identity and Diaspora explores the origin and spread of Peranakan or ‘local born’ communities in the Southeast Asia region through photographs.
Architecture and Household provides a semi-contextual recreation of the interior of a Peranakan home and its furnishings.
Fashion and Textiles showcases an iconic aspect of Peranakan fashion and
style, with various sarong kebayas on display.
Though I’m not sure if these FS/LS/CS/IFS-style kebayas are making this exhibition a little confusing.
The Modern Peranakan looks at the impact of the Peranakans on contemporary Singapore art, design and the performing arts.
This section includes modern and historical examples of “nyonyaware”.
The Peranakan Gallery is presented by the Peranakan Museum (located at Armenian Street), blending into the heritage and culture theme at Terminal 4.
Below the Peranakan Gallery lies the Steel in Bloom centerpiece for the indoor garden.
Beside it, there’s a pretty upscale washroom with a shortcut to Gate G10.
Possibly the second-best airport washroom in the world (with the best being the Peranakan-themed one at the Heritage Zone), this washroom comes with high ceilings and premium furnishing to boot.
The urinals come with an art piece hung on the wall.
Some cubicles also have additional facilities such as child seats or with additional handrails for the less mobile.
All toilet bowls are Japanese-style which opens up and lights up to greet you as you enter the cubicle. Seats can also be heated with an in-built washer and dryer. You may control the functions of the seat on the control panel on the right as you sit down.
The sink area also comes with tall mirrors and individual paper towel dispensers.
Don’t forget to give your cleaner the highest rating possible as you exit the washroom.
With the impending departure time, I started the 8-minute walk back to Gate G1.
Got to the gate around 30 minutes before departure time.
Hmm, not many passengers queuing to board the aircraft.
Hello and goodbye to QZ140 being flashed on the screens.
Heading for the Automated Boarding Gates. However, for some reason, the system can’t detect my face well even though I’ve already used the Automated Immigration to enter the transit area, with the screen telling me to proceed to the counter beside for me to get checked as per normal.
PK-AXU ready for the QZ140 flight to Padang.
Ending the petals trail on the aerobridge.
Hmm, not much people on board too.
The legroom available on the plane.
Some souvenirs at a discount on board.
The cabin crew prepares for the safety briefing for this empty flight. No wonder the flight has been terminated.
Pushing back from the gate.
Lots of room for everybody on board.
Taxiing out of Terminal 4 to the runway.
Goodbye Singapore and the future Terminal 5 (which I’m going to try to avoid funding with the new airport tax).
Turning southeast towards Indonesia.
The overview of Changi Airport and the surroundings.
Goodbye Singapore.
It was an uneventful smooth cruise to Padang.
Since I’m on a flight to Padang, what better meal to start the trip with than a Nasi Padang? Prebooked this for S$4.
The Nasi Padang set comes with beef rendang, cassava leaves, ikan bilis and green sambal. Tasted alright, but for AirAsia food, I think the Chicken Lasagna or Nasi Lemak might fare better.
The view of the very empty QZ140 flight from the rear.
Approaching Padang Minangkabau International Airport from the sea.
Passing over Alai.
Basko Grand Mall as seen from above.
Approaching Padang Minangkabau International Airport.
Touched down at Padang Minangkabau International Airport.
Making a u-turn on the runway to head back to the terminal.
Turning into the terminal.
An AirAsia plane heading to the end of the runway to take-off to Kuala Lumpur as AK402.
Minangkabau International Airport is designed like a rumah bagonjong, similar to the traditional homes of Minangkabau.
Disembarking from the empty plane.
The plane parked at Gate 2 for international flights, which offers a good view of the linkway to the Minangkabau International Airport Railway Station.
Goodbye QZ140, you will be missed.
Heading down for immigration and customs clearance.
Once out of the customs area, it’s a left turn to the main purpose of the trip – getting on board the new Minangkabau Express airport train to the city.
Overall, Indonesia AirAsia QZ140 was a simple and fuss-free flight to get from Singapore to Padang in just under an hour (actual flying time). It was a rather comfortable flight too – great for me, the passenger, but probably not good at all for Indonesia AirAsia’s revenue. I would really love to do this trip again as I did not manage to cover Divre II on this trip in full, and will fly here again definitely, but for now, I have to stick with the new arrangement AirAsia has for me for my next flight instead of completing the journey in just an hour.
Hopefully, if Padang becomes more developed, Indonesia AirAsia will reconsider reinstating the non-stop Singapore – Padang flight back.
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In recent years, the State Pension age (SPA) has increased from 60 to 65 and beyond. The rise to 66 for both sexes is currently in progress and the age will increase yet again in the following decades with increases to age 68 already in law.
The Centre of Social Justice (CSJ), the think tank that first proposed Universal Credit, suggested the SPA should go up to 75 in its latest report back in August. Founded by Iain Duncan Smith, CSJ proposed that the SPA should be raised to 70 by 2028 and then 75 by 2035.
At the time of publication, both men and women will reach the age of 66 before they can draw their State Pension from October 2020.
The report was the response to the think tank finding ‘serious concerns’ about an increase in life expectancy and decrease in fertility rates, meaning that older people make up a growing proportion of the population.
The report says: ‘If we expect [the State Pension] to continue in the future along with the full functioning of public services… the UK’s fiscal balance must be corrected’.
The report also stated that: ‘In 2018, less than half of the UK population were in work the year before they were eligible for State Pension. As the population continues to age and scheduled rises in the SPA take place, this gap is likely to grow.’
According to CSJ, raising the SPA would ensure that the Old Age Dependency Ratio (OADR) remains in the 20 to 25 range in the next 20 years. OADR measures the ratio between the elderly population and is the number of people over 65 years old for every 100 people aged between 16 and 64. This type of ratio predicts increasing levels of economic dependency in the future.
The CSJ report notes: ‘While this might seem contrary to a long-standing compassionate attitude to an older generation that have paid their way in the world and deserve to be looked after, we do not believe it should be. Working longer has the potential to improve health and wellbeing, increase retirement savings and ensure the full functioning of public services for all.’
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Soc Sci Med
, 60 (9), 1927-35
Beyond Blame: Cultural Barriers to Medical Incident Reporting
Justin J Waring 1
1 Dept. Applied Social Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. jj_waring@hotmail.com
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.055
Justin J Waring. Soc Sci Med. May 2005
The paper explores the attitudes of medical physicians towards adverse incident reporting in health care, with particular focus on the inhibiting factors or barriers to participation. It is recognised that there are major barriers to medical reporting, such as the 'culture of blame'. There are, however, few detailed qualitative accounts of medical culture as it relates to incident reporting. Drawing on a 2-year qualitative case study in the UK, this paper presents data gathered from 28 semi-structured interviews with specialist physicians. The findings suggest that blame certainly inhibits medical reporting, but other cultural issues were also significant. It was commonly accepted by doctors that errors are an 'inevitable' and potentially unmanageable feature of medical work and incident reporting was therefore 'pointless'. It was also found that reporting was discouraged by an anti-bureaucratic sentiment and rejection of excessive administrative duties. Doctors were also apprehensive about the increased potential for managers and non-physicians to engage in the regulation of medical quality through the use of incident data. The paper argues that the promotion of incident reporting must engage with more than the ubiquitous 'culture of blame' and instead address the 'culture of medicine', especially as it relates to the collegial and professional control of quality.
Attitudes of Doctors and Nurses Towards Incident Reporting: A Qualitative Analysis
MJ Kingston et al. Med J Aust 181 (1), 36-9. 2004. PMID 15233611.
Strategies to improve incident reporting must address cultural issues.
Conceptualisation of Socio-Technical Integrated Information Technology Solutions to Improve Incident Reporting Through Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: A Qualitative Study of Junior Doctors
KC Yee. Stud Health Technol Inform 130, 269-78. 2007. PMID 17917200.
Medical errors are common, especially within the acute healthcare delivery. The identification of systemic factors associated with adverse events and the construction of …
Identifying, Understanding and Overcoming Barriers to Medication Error Reporting in Hospitals: A Focus Group Study
N Hartnell et al. BMJ Qual Saf 21 (5), 361-8. May 2012. PMID 22389018.
Study results may lead to a better understanding of the barriers to medication error reporting, why these barriers exist and what can be done to successfully overcome the …
Healthcare Safety Committee in Japan: Mandatory Accountability Reporting System and Punishment
S Nagamatsu et al. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 22 (2), 199-206. Apr 2009. PMID 19390246. - Review
The new system of investigating medical adverse events in Japan allows for incident reports to be utilized in court. This has led to widespread fear of prosecution and de …
When Bad Things Happen: Adverse Event Reporting and Disclosure as Patient Safety and Risk Management Tools in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
SM Donn et al. Am J Perinatol 29 (1), 65-70. Jan 2012. PMID 21833897. - Review
The Institute of Medicine has recommended a change in culture from "name and blame" to patient safety. This will require system redesign to identify and address errors, e …
Using a Second Stakeholder-Driven Variance Reporting System Improves Pediatric Perioperative Safety
AL Kawaguchi et al. Pediatr Qual Saf 4 (5), e220. 2019. PMID 31745523.
The handwritten, stakeholder-driven variance reporting system was essential to identify local and system issues that would not have been identified by the computerized va …
An Evaluation of Patient Safety Culture in a Secondary Care Setting in Kuwait
H Alqattan et al. J Taibah Univ Med Sci 13 (3), 272-280. 2018. PMID 31435334.
This study demonstrates that patient safety is perceived differently by medical staff members from different countries of origin, professional groups, and age groups. The …
Three Zones of Cultural Competency: Surface Competency, Bias Twilight, and the Confronting Midnight Zone
T Jowsey. BMC Med Educ 19 (1), 306. 2019. PMID 31409358.
I suggest surface cultural competency is somewhat easier to see, teach and reach than the bias twilight or confronting midnight zones. But it is these deeper zones that c …
Drug Administration Errors Among Anesthesiologists: The Burden in India - A Questionnaire-Based Survey
SJ Annie et al. J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol 35 (2), 220-226. Apr-Jun 2019. PMID 31303712.
Majority of our respondents have experienced drug administration error at some point in their career. A small yet important proportion of these errors have caused morbidi …
Building Usability Knowledge for Health Information Technology: A Usability-Oriented Analysis of Incident Reports
R Marcilly et al. Appl Clin Inform 10 (3), 395-408. May 2019. PMID 31189203.
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Category Archives: School Visits
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Caloundra School Talk
Posted on 18/04/2010 by Blake
The group was smallest we have spoken to, only 16 students but all are studying aerospace so it was right up their alley. You could see the interest in the young mens eyes as I spoke to them about this awesome hobby. I have no doubt that there will be few wanting to get into the hobby.
We ended up launching the 'ol Patriot which went perfectly as possible, landing just few meters from the launch pad.
There was few questions that we answered to the best of our ability.
It was nice to see the principal there listening too and seemed genuinely interested asking many questions himself. Actually the funny thing is that towards the end he told my wife he "better get back to work" and then appearing back in few minutes !! It shows what was more interesting. Also the deputy principal turned up and others. Thank's to Bruce who spoke to them at length. I had a head cold and and voice started to give up so that was much appreciated mate.
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Pine Rivers High School
Petar and I were fortunate enough to visit Pine Rivers High School as the first group for 2010.
We did a presentation for a selection of yr10 students on space exploration and the history of the moon landing following a discussion on rocketry. This was to end their section of lessons on astronomy.
With a little bit of wind around it was touch and go on whether to have a launch, however with their great field and last minute wind drop, we managed to fire two rockets which as always gave the students and staff great inspiration.
Petar and Blake were fortunate enough to visit Pine Rivers High School as the first school group for 2010.
Petar and Blake did a presentation for a selection of Year 10 students on space exploration and the history of the moon landing following a discussion on rocketry. This was to end their section of lessons on astronomy.
Mountain Creek State School Visit
A teacher from Mountain Creek State School (located near Mooloolaba on the QLD Sunshine Coast) had been in contact with the Queensland Rocketry Society since February 2009. Regular discussions culminated to this very special rocketry day on Wednesday 2nd December. Students from two classes had built total of 56 rockets that were supplied by Suburban Rocketry earlier in the year. The 2nd December was the big day that everyone had been looking forward to – launch day!
Ari Piirainen, Petar Nikolic and Blake Nikolic headed off to Mountain Creek State School just after 7:00am in order to arrive by 9am. It was going to be a long day, helping 56 students to prepare and check their rockets for launch. The weather was quite windy but manageable, with cloud cover helping to keep the temperature down.
Proceedings started as a few of the classes got a brief lecture about rocketry from Petar and Ari.
Ari was the designated Range Safety Office (RSO), but unfortunately, Blake had to take over this role later on as Ari wasn’t feeling very well. Meanwhile, Petar and Blake were helping the students fold parachutes, pack wadding, load motors, install igniters and mount the prepared rockets on the launch pads. Rockets were launching continuously from two launch pads located on the school oval.
Although none of the students had ever built or flown any rockets before, we were totally surprised to achieve a flight success rate of around 80%.
Class after class kept coming to watch the launches. You could hear the countdown being called from everyone around the oval. Over 1,200 students attend Mountain Creek State School and at least half of them came to witness the rocket launching action.
We managed to launch all 56 rockets in about two and half hours, including all pre-flight preparations and recovery. The whole day ran real smoothly. Ari, Blake and Petar didn’t get home until 4:00pm that afternoon. I was a full day and really worth the volunteer effort.
Two local newspapers reported this special event, and there’s no doubt about what many of the students were talking about over the dinner that night.
The Queensland Rocketry Society visited 11 schools in 2009. The club’s school visitation program is destined to be even bigger in 2010!
Beaudesert Primary School Visit
On Friday 27th November, Petar Nikolic and Blake Nikolic had the pleasure of presenting a talk to the Year 3 students of Beaudesert Primary about rockets and space travel.
We were impressed by the enthusiasm shown by the students, their attentiveness and how well behaved they were. The students had been studying a unit on space travel and rockets. The effort the students have put into this project and enjoyment shown by them is indeed a credit to the motivation provided by Leonie Armstrong and her fellow year 3 teachers.
The students made a variety of model rockets that were propelled by air, water and chemical power. Some students even made costumes as scientists or astronauts. After our presentation and live firing of some model rockets, the students demonstrated to us how their rockets worked. The morning’s activities culminated in a morning tea consisting of food with a space theme.
This obviously was a wonderful and meaningful learning experience for the students. Petar is a retired science/maths teacher. In his words: “It is pleasing to see the work of the dedicated staff at Beaudesert Primary. I thank Leonie for contacting us and allowing us to be part of this enriching experience.”
Loganlea High School Vist
Petar spoke about the history of space travel using models of the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle. Blake showed the students how model rockets work. The students were very responsive and asked some great questions.
The oohs and ahs as the rockets were launched after the students did the countdown is always great to hear.
One of the teacher’s present is very keen to start a rocket club at the school next year. We look forward to helping him in this endeavour.
Faith Lutheran College Visit
On Friday 30th October, Ari Piirainen, Blake Nikolic, George Dobson and Brendan Pratt travelled over to Faith Lutheran College at Victoria Point to deliver another rocketry presentation to the local school students.
Over 500 students and staff came to hear about various rocketry topics. Another 100 students wanted to attend but couldn't make it due to some other activity. This was our biggest school audience to date.
Each representative from the Queensland Rocketry Society answered dozens of questions from the young enquiring minds. We also had a privilege of joining all the teachers for morning tea. They really made us fell welcome! This is another school which basically can't wait to get a rocketry programme up and going.
The deputy principal of Faith Lutheran College, who arranged this visit has also invited Ari to speak on 17th November at an upcoming Rotary Club. This is a special night where the member’s families are tending and will have an opportunity to hear all about this awesome hobby!
The QRS Visits to local schools in April and May
A teacher from the Chisholm Catholic College of Cornubia invited the Queensland Rocketry Society to deliver a presentation on Friday 24th April '09 to about 10 of his students who study physics. When Ari, Blake, George and Petar arrived, the teacher invited other teachers who were also interested in attending. All of a sudden, about 120 students their teachers joined the presentation.
Petar delivered an excellent presentation on rockets, which includes many topics from the Apollo moon landing to the space shuttle. Meanwhile, Ari set-up an Estes Patriot for a launch on an Estes B6-4 motor. As soon as Petar finished his presentation all the students joined in the counted down and the Patriot leapt into the sky, accompanied by loud cheers and clapping.
Next Ari showed the students a range of hobby rockets from low-power up to high-power, including his recently completed Intimidator-4. Petar explained some more about how model rockets work while Ari set-up the Patriot for another launch; this time on bigger motor, an Estes C6-3. The second launch prompted even louder applause and lots of "Wow's" from the senior students. Although this was the conclusion of the official presentation, some of the teachers had one-on-one conversations about rocketry for another half an hour.
It was another rewarding experience and the students obviously enjoyed it very much!
On Wednesday 6th May '09, Ari, Blake, Pavi Brendan and Petar visited Flagstone Community College to deliver a similar presentation to four teachers and about 150 students. A photographer from the local Jimboomba Times newspaper also came along to capture the story in writing and photographs.
Petar delivered his usual fantastic presentations and Ari orchestrated two launches of the Estes Patriot just before it started to drizzle with light rain. Amazingly, the heavy rain held off just long enough for us to finish our presentation and demonstration launches.
If you would like the Queensland Rocketry Society to visit your local school to deliver an educational presentation about rockets, including a demonstration of a model rocket, please telephone Mr Ari Piirainen on 0412 650 682.
Bribie Island High School Visit
A model of the various parts of the space shuttle was also shown and explained. This was followed by demonstrations of water powered, air powered and chemical powered rockets.
It was great to see how keen the students were about our demonstration as many in depth questions were asked by them.
The behaviour of the students was a credit to their school and teachers.
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The woo is out there
Aliens did it...
Face on Mars
Norwegian Spiral
The Kolbrin
... and ran away
Didit fallacy
Dogon people
Fiction over fact
Pseudohistory
How it didn't happen
2012 apocalypse
Descent from antiquity
Mohenjo-daro
Noah's Ark sightings
Protochronism
“”Ancient Aliens is some of the most noxious sludge in television's bottomless chum bucket. Actual experts are brought in to deliver sound bites that are twisted and taken out of context while fanatics are given free reign[sic]. Fiction is presented as fact, and real scientific research is so grossly misrepresented that I can only conclude that the program is actively lying to viewers. To present the show as a documentary, on a non-fiction network, is a loathsome move by the History Channel spinoff.
—Brian Switek[1]
Ancient Aliens is a "documentary" series on the PseudoHistory Channel which premiered in April of 2010. The History Channel also screened a two-hour documentary of the same name in 2009.
Unsurprisingly – given that Ancient Aliens is just a rehash of ancient astronauts crankery, courtesy of Erich von Däniken – Däniken himself appears sweatily frequently in most episodes.
Ancient Aliens now airs about every other minute, even outshining Pwn Pawn Stars in network executive love.[2]
1 Ancient Alien Theory
2 Episode guide
2.1 Pilot and Season 1
2.2 Season 2
Ancient Alien Theory[edit]
Re-branded as the Ancient Alien Theory, abusing the word theory in the process, von Däniken and Giorgio A. Tsoukalos set out to show how humanity achieved very little without the assistance of aliens. While it could be more accurately be described as the Ancient Alien Hypothesis, it could be even more accurately described as the Ancient Alien Ass-pull.
The History Channel describes the "theory" as such:
According to ancient alien theorists, extraterrestrials with superior knowledge of science and engineering landed on Earth thousands of years ago, sharing their expertise with early civilizations and forever changing the course of human history. But how did this concept develop, and is there any evidence to support it?"[3]
Um, let's see — No!
There is a slow progression of technologies stretching back over much of human history and prehistory, none of which seems to have been "sparked" by some sudden influx of previously unknown technology or knowledge.
The process of toolmaking, for instance, has progressed from simply using available "found objects" to make obtaining food easier (throwing rocks, using wood as cudgels) through altering them crudely to make them more effective—flint knapping, sharpening relatively straight and strong bits of wood to the point of making spears, etc. The history of stone tools has been traced back for 2.6 million years.[4] It's hard to trace the history of wooden tools because they rot and don't fossilize, but chimpanzees have been observed making wooden tools and weapons, so human tool use probably didn't require any sudden mental increase or other revelation.[5] The gradual discovery of metals and ways to work them into implements has no obvious "aliens landed and told us to dig iron ore and smelt it into high-grade steel" moment; each advance is marked by incremental progress from manipulating gold, which doesn't even require heat to be workable, to the exploitation of copper and tin, to those requiring higher temperatures and more specialised tools.[6]
We invented the wheel, probably many times, and continue to reinvent it at simple levels when needed. Early wheels were probably used for making pottery and later adapted to chariots; this doesn't suggest a lightning bolt moment of discovery but a gradual process of experimentation and adaptation.[7] We captured fire, and eventually not only tamed it but learned to produce and control it.
We domesticated plants and animals, simple step by simple step, from basic seed-gathering and planting (which almost by accident results in the best seeds falling to earth near where people live, after plants are gathered and brought there to eat), through selective breeding for desirable traits, to the point where we now literally alter the genetic structure of living organisms for our convenience.
We slowly learned basic hygiene (God hates shrimp!) and healing arts, resulting in our eventual understanding of how diseases propagate and the ability to perform microsurgery to save or extend lives. No step shows any particular need for space aliens to move us ahead.
We developed means of written communication, from what was probably the work of braggers on cave walls, through simple pictographs, to abstract symbolic representation of spoken languages, enabling us to share more and more of what we have learned about our planet and our universe, more rapidly and more effectively with every improvement.
We developed many ways to communicate with other humans at long distances, from smoke signals, to telegraph lines, cell phones and the Internet without the help of aliens. We created mass media to spread ideas worldwide.
We developed morality as a way to remind us to treat everyone equally and with respect. We also created religion to try to explain some of the hard-to-answer questions in life, and to reinforce the agricultural, hunting, tool-making, and hygienic practices we created.[note 1] These ideas helped humans to live and work together in groups, from bands of hunters and gatherers, to vast civilizations and metropolises. This came without the help of aliens. Also, out of morality came basic human rights, which we use to try to ensure justice around the world.
We developed a means of transportation to get from one place to another, from traveling on foot, to riding horses, cars, boats, planes, and spacecraft. We even went to the Moon without alien advice or intervention (despite all claims to the contrary).
We found out that we can use tools and special technology to predict the weather and when (some) natural disasters would happen, which has helped save thousands of lives around the world. We also had ways to prevent man-made disasters and violence by creating laws to prevent environmental abuse and peace treaties to prevent wars with other countries.
Episode guide[edit]
As the show recycles a lot of material already in circulation by various nuts "researchers", it's no wonder that RationalWiki already covers some of the claims.
Pilot and Season 1[edit]
Ancient Aliens: Chariots, Gods & Beyond (March 2009) was the original stand-alone "TV special". It's considered the pilot episode of the series (number 0 in the official episode numbering).
The Evidence (April 2010) was the first episode of the series proper.
The Visitors (April 2010) among other things repeats the story about the Dogon people's alleged advanced astronomical knowledge about Sirius and claims that the Hopi's Kachina were aliens.
The Mission (May 2010) tries to answer the pertinent question, "Why in FSM's name would aliens come to Earth?". Mentioned are the Anunnaki (shameless gold-diggers!), cattle mutilations (Earth offers the tastiest cow anus!), crop circles and crystal skulls.
Closer Encounters (May 2010) interprets various historical texts as UFO sightings. Apparently, Christopher Columbus reported lights in the sky alien spacecraft…
The Return (May 2010) crosses from just asking questions about "paleocontact" into pure modern UFOnuttery about Roswell and the Battle of Los Angeles and speculations about what a modern contact would look like. The SETI project gets covered.
Season 2[edit]
Mysterious Places (October 2010) deals with various alleged UFO hotspots, such as the Bermuda triangle. Quick, someone alert X-COM! Scramble the Interceptors!
Gods and Aliens (November 2010) repeats the staple claim that various legends about gods giving stuff to humans were inspired by alien visitations.
Underwater Worlds (November 2010) deals with various "sunken cities", essentially recycling alleged evidence for the Atlantis/Lemuria/Mu mythos in the "ancient astronaut" context. By the way, this is a pattern that repeats in the AA literature: previous writings explaining various "mysteries" with Atlantis and ancient advanced civilizations get re-purposed as evidence for ancient contact with advanced aliens.
Underground Aliens (November 2010) is another mash-up, with tales of various old subterranean places and myths of underground beings getting spliced with the Dulce base conspiracy theory. Base assaults are a pain in the ass, so it's understandable why X-COM are taking their time with that one...
Aliens and the Third Reich (November 2010) claims that Nazi Germany reverse-engineered alien technology to create Nazi UFOs. The Second World War is definitely not ancient history, but again, the show airs on The Hitler Channel…
Alien Tech (December 2010) deals with alleged descriptions of ancient uses of advanced technology, as well as the usual "humans couldn't have done X without outside help, therefore aliensdidit." Oh, and David Hatcher Childress gets to describe in detail how the army of Alexander the Great was dive-bombed by flying saucers (which didn't happen — the story is a modern fabrication[8])
Angels and Aliens (December 2010) is exactly what its title says: various accounts of angel apparitions are actually due to extraterrestrial visitations, not superstition and religious fanaticism.
Unexplained Structures (December 2010) once again tries to explain various ancient archaeological sites with alien interference.
Alien Devastations (December 2010) deals with disasters described in the Bible and other ancient texts, including the Biblical story of the Great Flood and Noah. As you can guess: aliensdidit.
Alien Contacts (December 2010) claims that various mythical and historical figures, including Moses and Joan of Arc, were contactees. The Rendlesham Forest incident is thrown in for good measure, providing again a mash-up of speculative pseudo-history and modern UFO-nuttery.
Also known as the "Aliens and X" season.
Aliens and the Old West (July 2011) shamelessly uses the Cowboys & Aliens movie as a intro to a mixed bag of "Old West" stories interpreted as evidence for alien visitation. Guys, one can get why you would think that Native American myths were relevant, but the 1800s are not "ancient" in any sensible meaning of the word. It takes about a half an hour to get to something actually having to do with the old west.
Aliens and Monsters (August 2011) in one sentence: every hybrid animal in every mythology ever is evidence for ancient alien genetic engineering. This is another old theme among AA advocates.
Aliens and Sacred Places (August 2011) sets out to piss off most devout members of all three Abrahamic religions by claiming that the holy sites in Jerusalem and the Kaaba mark the places of alien visitation. The list includes also the Ajanta Caves in India, the monolithic rock-cut churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia and the temple in Baalbek in Lebanon, another persistent meme in ancient advanced civilizations/ancient aliens writings.
Aliens and Temples of Gold (August 2011) claims that aliens apparently love gold even more than humans do (well, it doesn't say it directly, but…). In addition to the usual stuff about ancient gold-working civilizations, European alchemy, the philosopher's stone and the Holy Grail are thrown into the mix.
Aliens and Mysterious Rituals (August 2011) returns to reinterpreting various religious practices and rituals as evidence for contact with aliens. Do not watch if you are an ethnographer, Native American sick of European-Americans talking shit about your culture, amateur or professional medievalist, devout Catholic or… pagan (Beltane will never be the same…)
Aliens and Ancient Engineers (September 2011) plays the "humans couldn't have built that" riff yet again.
Aliens, Plagues and Epidemics (September 2011) blames extraterrestrial pathogens for pretty much every major pandemic in recorded history, including the medieval plague and the Spanish influenza epidemic during WWI. This turns into another crossover with modern woo, this time by mentioning Morgellons disease.
Aliens and Lost Worlds (September 2011) claims that various ancient civilizations were ruled by aliens. Among the purported evidence are the statues on Easter Island, skull deformation and the Garden of Eden story.
Aliens and Deadly Weapons (September 2011) turns up the "humans are dumb" vibe to 11. King Arthur's Excalibur? Alien power sword. Various other mythical weapons? a) Totally existed, b) were created by aliens. Greek fire? Gift by aliens. Chinese gunpowder? Aliens.
Aliens and Evil Places (September 2011) is another attempt to shoehorn a grab-bag of "mysteries" into the ancient aliens "theory". Covered are the Japanese "suicide forest" Aokigahara, the Dyatlov Pass incident (complete with an overblown account), and some other creepy places.
Aliens and The Founding Fathers (October 2011) gives a new meaning to "American exceptionalism", covering the Washington, D.C. street design conspiracy theory.
Aliens and Deadly Cults (October 2011) demonstrates a perverse circularity: it tries to draw a connection between "death cults" and aliens by using the Heaven's Gate cult suicides, a tragedy grounded in a large part by the same type of credulity and misinformation shows like Ancient Aliens help to spread.
Aliens and the Secret Code (October 2011) tells bare-faced lies about geographical alignments in an attempt to convince us that medieval Scandinavian settlers knew all about Egyptian pyramids.
Aliens and the Undead (October 2011) is exactly what it says: mummies, zombies and vampires, therefore ALIENS!
Aliens, Gods and Heroes (November 2011)
Aliens and the Creation of Man (November 2011) …make it stop…
By now, the standard talking points of AA advocates have been mostly exhausted, so the desperate scrambling for original material is producing increasingly silly results…
The Mayan Conspiracy (February 2012) looks at examples of Mayan art and finds lots of pictures of aliens
The Doomsday Prophecies (February 2012) jumps on the 2012 prophecy bandwagon. To be fair, AAers wrote shit about the Mesoamerican long-count calendar before the current wave and may have been partially responsible for it.
The Greys (February 2012) are those Greys, yes. Remind me, am I watching Ancient Aliens or The X-Files?
Aliens and Mega-Disasters (March 2012) blames aliens for the Great Flood and suggests UFOs in volcanoes destroyed other civilisations.[9]
The NASA Connection (March 2012) is yet another attempt to shoehorn existing conspiracy theories into the AA narrative. Claims that NASA was founded by Nazis, which is as demonstrably untrue as most else that Mike Bara claims.
The Mystery of Puma Punku (March 2012) returns to the classic approach to AA and focuses on an ancient megalithic ruin, Puma Punku in Bolivia. It would make sense to make similar episodes about the places covered in the previous seasons, but sense seems to be in short supply, as this was followed by…
Aliens and Bigfoot (March 2012) is exactly what it sounds like, sprinkled with some AA classics about various mythical figures (Goliath, the Nephilim, Enkidu) being human-alien hybrids.
The Da Vinci Conspiracy (April 2012) gets on Dan Brown's turf. Leonardo was a genius ahead of his time? He had contact with aliens!
The Time Travelers (April 2012) is yet another exercise in "let's rip off another form of woo as evidence for ours", this time — the "time traveler hypothesis" in ufology, which claims that UFOs are time machines from Earth's future instead of alien spaceships.
Aliens and Dinosaurs (May 2012) strays into YEC territory by speculating about human-dinosaur coexistence. Mentioned are the Angkor Wat dinosaur, the Ica stones and the Paluxy River tracks. Oh, and aliens wiped out the dinosaurs.
Secrets of the Pyramids (December 2012) travels the world looking at pyramids, which are clear evidence of aliens one of the best ways of heaping stones on top of each other without them falling down. Also suggests the Chinese have hidden pyramids, pyramids are really alien power plants, and much more nonsense.[10]
Aliens and Cover Ups (December 2012) investigates why we don't all know about the crucial role aliens played in our past
Alien Power Plants (January 2013) because ancient people needed alien power sources to do anything
Destination Orion (January 2013) suggests ancient civilizations were mysteriously fascinated with the large, bright, and distinctive constellation Orion
The Einstein Factor (January 2013) in which Albert Einstein and other people got their ideas from aliens rather than by synthesizing and building upon the theories of earlier thinkers as science actually works
Secrets of the Tombs (January 2013) which just for a change discusses ancient Egypt, as well as other familiar topics
Prophets and Prophesies (February 2013) discussing Joseph Smith of Mormonism and Elijah off of the Bible, amongst other prophets.[11]
Beyond Nazca (February 2013)
Strange Abductions (February 2013) discussing Travis Walton, supposedly abducted by aliens in 1975.[12]
The Von Daniken Legacy (April 2013) The ancient alien team practically just start having sex with Erich Von Däniken right there on the spot, just some straight up good ol' fashion jerking.
The Viking Gods (April 2013), because Vikings saw aliens too. A lame attempt to cash in on History Channel actually getting viewers from an actual history related show.
The Monoliths (April 2013) Easter Island etc
The Power of Three (September 2013) The episode which doubles as an attempt to cash in on their New Age fanbase by attempting Numerology In this case finding the number 3 everywhere, which of course means aliens.
The Crystal Skulls (October 2013) The team of great minds discusses the fake hoax skulls made by a woman to promote a bo- I mean the secret codes to unlock super knowledge!
The Anunnaki Connection (October 2013)
Magic of the Gods (October 2013)
The Satan Conspiracy (October 2013)
Alien Operations (November 2013)
Emperors, Kings and Pharaohs (November 2013)
Mysterious Relics (November 2013)
Aliens and Forbidden Islands (November 2013)
Aliens and The Lost Ark (December 2013) Them alien boys open the ark and melt all of our ears off. Call Indy!
Aliens and Mysterious Mountains (December 2013)
Aliens and Stargates (January 2014)
Aliens in America (January 2014)
The Star Children (February 2014)
Forbidden Caves (October 2014)
Mysteries of the Sphinx (November 2014)
Aliens Among Us (November 2014)
The Genius Factor (November 2014)
Secrets of the Mummies (November 2014)
Alien Resurrections (December 2014)
Alien Messages (December 2014)
The Great Flood (December 2014)
Aliens and the Civil War (April 2015)
Hidden Pyramids (April 2015)
The Vanishings (April 2015)
The Alien Agenda (May 2015)
Aliens B.C. (July 2015)
NASA's Secret Agenda (July 2015)
Aliens and Robots (August 2015)
Dark Forces (August 2015)
The Alien Evolution (August 2015)
The Other Earth (August 2015)
Creatures of the Deep (September 2015)
Among the talking heads that have appeared on the show as "experts" are:
Mike Bara, coauthor of Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA with Richard Hoagland (either a symptom, or one of the reasons why seasons 3 and 4 left the well-worn tracks of classic AA arguments and strayed into straight UFO nuttery)
Robert Bauval, of Orion Correlation Theory fame
Bill Birnes
John Brandenburg, a physicist pushing the idea of an ancient thermonuclear war on Mars
David Hatcher Childress (sometimes just David Childress)[13]
Philip Coppens
Michael Cremo
Erich von Däniken
Steven Greer, of The Disclosure Project fame
Linda Moulton Howe, keeper of earthfiles.com
Sean David Morton, credited as a theologian ("con-man" wouldn't have looked good)
George Noory, of "Coast to Coast AM" fame
Nancy Red Star, an alleged Native American, author of Star Ancestors
Giorgio Tsoukalos, all around alien "expert"
Ancient Aliens Debunked, a counter-documentary available for free
Farouk El-Baz
Schlockumentary, of which this is a classic example
Official page on the site of the History Channel
The Idiocy, Fabrications and Lies of Ancient Aliens, Smithsonian Magazine
The genetic “proof” for ancient aliens, BlagHag, March 2012. A biologist's view on some of the genetics in the show. Also contains an Ancient Aliens drinking game that will probably give you alcohol poisoning if practiced as suggested.
Ancient Aliens category on Jason Colavito's blog contains his reviews of many AA episodes (starting from the last few episodes of Season 3)
Ancient Aliens Episode Scripts — the complete scripts
See the Wikipedia article on Ancient Aliens. Includes episode summaries.
↑ The Jewish and Muslim taboos against pork, for instance, came about because pigs were unsuited to the climate in the ancient Middle East, and would ravage the ecosystem as an invasive species. Notably, this taboo was dropped by most European-dwelling Christians save for the Seventh-Day Adventists, and maintained by Ethiopian Orthodox and some Coptic Christians who live in climates similar to that of the Fertile Crescent.
↑ The Idiocy, Fabrications and Lies of Ancient Aliens: The History Channel presents self-appointed challengers of science who take on the idea that aliens caused the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs by Brian Switek (May 11, 2012) Smithsonian.com.
↑ Is such a thing even possible? YES IT IS
↑ History.com: Ancient Aliens
↑ Stone Tools, Smithsonian Institute
↑ Chimpanzee hunting tools, Science News for Students, Mar 2, 2007
↑ See the Wikipedia article on Metalworking.
↑ A Salute to the Wheel, Smithsonian.com
↑ J. Antonio Huneeus, December 20, 2011, Deconstructing the Alexander the Great UFO story, from Open Minds
↑ Review of Ancient Aliens S04E04: Aliens and Mega-Disasters, Jason Colavito
↑ Probing Ancient Aliens: The Secrets of the Pyramids - S4E11, Stitcher
↑ Ancient Aliens, Radio Times
↑ "Strange Abductions", Ancient Aliens, IMDb
↑ Jason Colavito, 2012, David Childress and the Aliens
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Pune Cantonment Board to take back leased properties
A probe by the PCB properties department has found out that dozens of properties, some of whose leases had expired as many as 55 years ago, are still occupied and used, often for purpose other than the one agreed with the PCBShiladitya Pandit | TNN | March 04, 2016, 17:32 IST
PUNE: The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has decided to take back about two dozen properties- both residential and commercial- whose lease has expired and the lessees have not replied to notices sent by the board.
All properties in the civil area of the Pune Cantonment are managed by the PCB and owned by the ministry of defence, through establishments like the Defence Estates Officer. Civilians can use it only on periodic leases from the PCB, and any and all modifications to the property must also be approved by the PCB, including change of purposes.
A probe by the PCB properties department has found out that dozens of properties, some of whose leases had expired as many as 55 years ago, are still occupied and used, often for purpose other than the one agreed with the PCB.
"We had put out a number of notices in newspapers seeking a meeting with those who leased the properties and told them to submit all required documents to renew the lease. But very few responded to the notice," said PCB chief executive officer Sanjeev Kumar.
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Autism /
L.A. Rescorla (Leslie), Given, C., Glynn, S., M.Y. Ivanova (Masha), T.M. Achenbach (Thomas), N. Bilenberg (Niels), G. Bjarnadottir (Gudrun), C. Capron (Christiane), De Pauw, S., Dias, P., et al. A. Dobrean (Anca), D?pfner, M., M. Duyme (Michel), C.E. Eapen (Chundamannil Eapen), N. Erol (Nese), Esmaeili, E., L. Ezpeleta (Lourdes), A. Frigerio (Alessandra), D.S.S. Fung (Daniel), Gon?alves, M., Guomundsson, H, S.-F. Jeng (Suh-Fang), R. Jusiené (Roma), Y.-A. Kim (Young-Ah), S. Kristensen (Solvejg), J. Liu (Jianghong), F. Lecannelier (Felipe), P. Leung (Patrick), B.C. Machado (Bárbara César), R. Montirosso (Rosario), K.-J. Oh, Y.P. Ooi (Yoon Phaik), Pl?ck, J., R. Pomalima (Rolando), J. Pranvera (Jetishi), K. Schmeck (Klaus), M. Shahini (Mimoza), da Silva, J, Z. Simsek (Zynep), A. Sourander (Andre), J. Valverde (José), van der, J., Van, K., Erasmus, F.C.V., Y.-T. Wu (Yen-Tzu), S. Yurdusen (Sema) and S.R. Zubrick (Stephen)
International comparisons of autism spectrum disorder behaviors in preschoolers rated by parents and caregivers/teachers
Autism , Volume 23 - Issue 8 p. 2043- 2054
This study tested international similarities and differences in scores on a scale comprising 12 items identified by international mental health experts as being very consistent with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) category of autism spectrum disorder. Participants were 19,850 preschoolers in 24 societies rated by parents on the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1½–5; 10,521 preschoolers from 15 societies rated by caregivers/teachers on the Caregiver–Teacher Report Form, and 7380 children from 13 societies rated by both types of informant. Rank ordering of the items with respect to base rates and mean ratings was more similar across societies for parent ratings than caregiver/teacher ratings, especially with respect to the items tapping restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. Items 80. Strange behavior; 63. Repeatedly rocks head or body; 67. Seems unresponsive to affection; and 98. Withdrawn, doesn’t get involved with others had low base rates in these population samples across societies and types of informants, suggesting that they may be particularly discriminating for identifying autism spectrum disorder in young children. Cross-informant agreement was stronger for the items tapping social communication and interaction problems than restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. The findings support the feasibility of international use of the scale for autism spectrum disorder screening in population samples.
Keywords autism spectrum disorder, Caregiver-Teacher Report Form, Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1½–5, international comparisons, preschoolers
Persistent URL dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361319839151, hdl.handle.net/1765/120542
Journal Autism
Rescorla, L.A, Given, C., Glynn, S., Ivanova, M.Y, Achenbach, T.M, Bilenberg, N, … Zubrick, S.R. (2019). International comparisons of autism spectrum disorder behaviors in preschoolers rated by parents and caregivers/teachers. Autism, 23(8), 2043–2054. doi:10.1177/1362361319839151
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Personal relevance in story reading: a research review.
Anezka Kuzmicov, Katalin Balint
Communication Science
Network Institute
Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC)
In the past century, emotional responses to literary narratives were regarded as unsystematic, personal and unphilosophical, and therefore largely excluded from scholarly discourse. With the recent cognitive turn in the humanities (Kukkonen & Caracciolo 2014; Caracciolo 2016), however, scholars are increasingly willing to consider the question of actual readers’ responses to literary texts. Theories of emotions in reading have become more sophisticated (Miall 2011; Mar et al. 2011), acknowledging that responding emotionally can help readers better understand and appreciate literature (Robinson 2007). Importantly, these theories also acknowledge the role of individual differences in the personal histories and belief systems of readers as part of their explanations of how emotions emerge. This review article focuses on an undertheorized facilitator of emergent emotions in response to narrative, namely, personal relevance. Thus, it deals with the general mechanics of narrative processing, but with a particular focus on the individual reader, forging connections between humanities and science perspectives on reading.
Poetics Today
Literary Text
Reader Response
Kuzmicov, A., & Balint, K. (Accepted/In press). Personal relevance in story reading: a research review. Poetics Today, 40(3), 429-451.
Kuzmicov, Anezka ; Balint, Katalin. / Personal relevance in story reading: a research review. In: Poetics Today. 2019 ; Vol. 40, No. 3. pp. 429-451.
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N2 - In the past century, emotional responses to literary narratives were regarded as unsystematic, personal and unphilosophical, and therefore largely excluded from scholarly discourse. With the recent cognitive turn in the humanities (Kukkonen & Caracciolo 2014; Caracciolo 2016), however, scholars are increasingly willing to consider the question of actual readers’ responses to literary texts. Theories of emotions in reading have become more sophisticated (Miall 2011; Mar et al. 2011), acknowledging that responding emotionally can help readers better understand and appreciate literature (Robinson 2007). Importantly, these theories also acknowledge the role of individual differences in the personal histories and belief systems of readers as part of their explanations of how emotions emerge. This review article focuses on an undertheorized facilitator of emergent emotions in response to narrative, namely, personal relevance. Thus, it deals with the general mechanics of narrative processing, but with a particular focus on the individual reader, forging connections between humanities and science perspectives on reading.
AB - In the past century, emotional responses to literary narratives were regarded as unsystematic, personal and unphilosophical, and therefore largely excluded from scholarly discourse. With the recent cognitive turn in the humanities (Kukkonen & Caracciolo 2014; Caracciolo 2016), however, scholars are increasingly willing to consider the question of actual readers’ responses to literary texts. Theories of emotions in reading have become more sophisticated (Miall 2011; Mar et al. 2011), acknowledging that responding emotionally can help readers better understand and appreciate literature (Robinson 2007). Importantly, these theories also acknowledge the role of individual differences in the personal histories and belief systems of readers as part of their explanations of how emotions emerge. This review article focuses on an undertheorized facilitator of emergent emotions in response to narrative, namely, personal relevance. Thus, it deals with the general mechanics of narrative processing, but with a particular focus on the individual reader, forging connections between humanities and science perspectives on reading.
JO - Poetics Today
JF - Poetics Today
Kuzmicov A, Balint K. Personal relevance in story reading: a research review. Poetics Today. 2019;40(3):429-451.
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> Graham Mills
Professor Graham Mills
Professor of Environmental Analytical Chemistry
Field performance of seven passive sampling devices for monitoring of hydrophobic substances
Allan, I., Booij, K., Paschke, A., Vrana, B., Professor Graham Mills & Professor Richard Greenwood, 2009, In : Environmental Science & Technology. 43, 14, p. 5383-5390 8 p.
Meeting report - 3rd International Passive Sampling Workshop and related satellites
Professor Graham Mills, Professor Richard Greenwood, Vrana, B. & Ocelka, T., 2009, In : Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 11, p. 1911-1914 4 p.
Monitoring heavy metals using passive sampling devices
Professor Graham Mills, Allan, I., Guigues, N., Knutsson, J., Holmberg, A. & Professor Richard Greenwood, 2009, Rapid chemical and biological techniques for water monitoring. Gonzalez, C., Greenwood, R. & Quevauviller, P. (eds.). Chichester: Wiley, p. 243-262 20 p.
N-(pyrrole-2-carboxyl) glycine a diagnostic marker of hyperprolinaemia type II: Mass spectra of trimethylsilyl derivatives
Walker, V. & Professor Graham Mills, 2009, In : Clinica Chimica Acta. 405, 1-2, p. 153-154
Potential applications of passive sampling for monitoring non-polar industrial pollutants in the aqueous environment in support of REACH
Professor Richard Greenwood, Professor Graham Mills & Vrana, B., 2009, In : Journal of Chromatography A. 1216, 3, p. 631-639 9 p.
The potential of passive sampling to support regulatory monitoring of the chemical quality of environmental waters
Professor Graham Mills, Vrana, B. & Professor Richard Greenwood, 2009, Rapid chemical and biological techniques for water monitoring. Gonzalez, C., Greenwood, R. & Quevauviller, P. (eds.). Chichester: Wiley, p. 53-70
Workshop report - KNAPPE (European Union Sixth Framework Project) final meeting
Professor Richard Greenwood, Professor Graham Mills & Roig, B., 2009, In : Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 11, p. 21-22 2 p.
Field performance of the Chemcatcher passive sampler for monitoring hydrophobic organic pollutants in surface water
Vrana, B., Mills, G. A., Leonards, P. E. G., Kotterman, M., Weideborg, M., Hajslova, J., Kocourek, V., Tomaniova, M., Pulkrabova, J., Suchanova, M. & 4 others, Hajkova, K., Herve, S., Ahkola, H. & Professor Richard Greenwood, 2010, In : Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 12, 4, p. 863-872
Monitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Portsmouth Harbour, United Kingdom, using the Chemcatcher® passive sampling devices
Lobpreis, T., Lopuchin, E., Vrana, B., Dercova, K., Professor Graham Mills & Professor Richard Greenwood, 2010, In : Acta Chimica Slovaca. 3, 1, p. 81-94 14 p.
Recent developments in the use of passive sampling devices for monitoring pollutants in water
Professor Graham Mills, Aguilar-Martinez, R., Professor Richard Greenwood, Allan, I., Bruemmer, J., Knutsson, J. & Vrana, B., 2010, Handbook of sample preparation. Lord, H. & Pawliszyn, J. (eds.). New York: Wiley, p. 343-363
Recommendations on research and development
Professor Richard Greenwood, Clark, J., Professor Graham Mills, Deswarte, F., Summerton, L., Touraud, E. & Roig, B., 2010, Pharmaceuticals in the environment: current knowledge and need assessment to reduce presence and impact. Roig, B. (ed.). London: IWA Publishing, p. 169-190 22 p.
Short-term exposure testing of six different passive samplers for the monitoring of hydrophobic contaminants in water
Allan, I., Booij, K., Paschke, A., Vrana, B., Professor Graham Mills & Professor Richard Greenwood, Mar 2010, In : Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 12, 3, p. 696-703 8 p.
Passive sampling technologies
Professor Graham Mills, Professor Gary Fones, Booij, K. & Professor Richard Greenwood, 2011, Chemical marine monitoring: policy framework and analytical trends. Quevauviller, P., Roose, P. & Verreet, G. (eds.). Chichester: Wiley, p. 397-432 36 p.
Measurement of environmental pollutants using passive sampling devices – a commentary on the current state of the art
Professor Graham Mills, Professor Richard Greenwood, Vrana, B., Allan, I. J. & Ocelka, T., 1 Jan 2011, In : Journal of Environmental Monitoring. 13, 11, p. 2979-2982
Active ulcerative colitis is associated with altered fatty acid precursor availability for the eicosanoid synthetic pathway
Pearl, D. S., Gullick, D., Bruemmer, J., Dr James Brown, Professor Jan Shute, Professor Graham Mills & Trebble, T. M., 1 Apr 2011, In : Gut. 60, Suppl 1, p. A213-A214
Progress in sample extraction
Pawliszyn, J., Lee, H. K. & Professor Graham Mills, 1 Dec 2011, In : Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 30, 11, p. 1699-1701
A review of in situ methods and sensors for monitoring the marine environment
Professor Graham Mills & Professor Gary Fones, 2012, In : Sensor Review. 32, 1, p. 17-28 12 p.
Celebrating 25 years of Biomedical Chromatography: a report on the Royal Society of Chemistry, Separation Science Group Meeting, held at the Wellcome Centre, London, 25-26 November 2011
Professor Graham Mills & Flanagan, R. J., 1 Mar 2012, In : Biomedical Chromatography. 26, 3, p. 273-275
Use of In-Situ Methods
Professor Richard Greenwood, Professor Graham Mills, Professor Gary Fones & Kramer, K. J. M., 16 Apr 2012, Chemical Marine Monitoring: Policy Framework and Analytical Trends. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 285-311 27 p.
Screening of Pollutants in Water Samples and Extracts from Passive Samplers using LC–MS and GC–MS
Gravell, A., Professor Graham Mills & Civil, W., 1 Aug 2012, In : LCGC Europe. 25, 8, p. 404-416
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Welcome to White Bluff ...
The town of White Bluff is located in Dickson County.
The location of White Bluff has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<1>
A typical abbreviation for White Bluff: White Blf. (or less commonly used: White Bluf.)
From the Census Estimates for 2018, White Bluff has a population of 3,606 people<2> (see below for details).
White Bluff is 780 feet [238 m] above sea level.<3>.
Time Zone: White Bluff lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Note: If you travel east from White Bluff, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).
Population Details ...
At the time of the 2010 Census, White Bluff had a population of 3,206 people (which is 6.46% of the total population of Dickson County). This makes White Bluff the county's 2nd most populous community.
The population of White Bluff represents 0.05% of the population of Tennessee (which has 6,346,105 people), making it the state's 129th most populous community.
With a 2010 count of 3,206 people, the population of White Bluff increased 49.67% from the 2000 Census (which had a count of 2,142 people).
Taken from the 2018 Census Estimates, White Bluff had an population of 3,606 people. This is an increase of 12.48% since the 2010 Census (or an increase of 68.35% since the 2000 Census).
More information can be found on the Census Page for White Bluff.
Communities Also Named White Bluff ...
Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are 5 communities that are also named White Bluff - they are located in Arkansas (2), Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for White Bluff.
Our Genealogy Helper Page ...
We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.
We have a list of cemeteries that are in the area around White Bluff. If available, we provide a satellite view of the cemetery.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of White Bluff. Our list includes information such as whether the community had a post office or railroad service in 1895.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around White Bluff.
These sections can be found on our Genealogy Helper Page for White Bluff:
TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for White Bluff ...
Looking for more information about White Bluff? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.
In addition to the Tourism page for White Bluff, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for White Bluff.
Communities near White Bluff ...
A sample of nearby communities can be found below.
Cheap Hill [Map]
Lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<4> to the North (N) of White Bluff
Located in Cheatham County
Dickson [Map]
Lies 10 miles [16.1 km] to the West (W) of White Bluff
Fairview [Map]
Lies 8 miles [12.9 km] to the South (S) of White Bluff
Located in Williamson County
Forest Hills [Map]
Lies 19 miles [30.6 km] to the East (E) of White Bluff
Located in Davidson County
Ashland City [Map]
Lies 13 miles [20.9 km] to the Northeast (NE) of White Bluff
Belle Meade [Map]
Lies 18 miles [29 km] to the East (E) of White Bluff
Kingston Springs [Map]
Lies 4 miles [6.4 km] to the East (E) of White Bluff
Pegram [Map]
Lies 7 miles [11.3 km] to the East (E) of White Bluff
Loriland [Map]
Charlotte [Map]
Lies 10 miles [16.1 km] to the Northwest (NW) of White Bluff
To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Nearby Page for White Bluff.
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Footnotes ...
<1> The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we have found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2> Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for White Bluff.
<3> The elevation is an estimate for the area around White Bluff - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4> Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- White Bluff) to Point B.
If you need the driving distance, we recommend that you use one of the Mapping Services listed on our Map Page for White Bluff. Since we usually use Google Maps for our own planning, we've provided the following link for your convenience: Google Map and Driving Directions starting from White Bluff
Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in White Bluff. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.1025, Longitude: -87.1828 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for White Bluff have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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Is a Luminary Possible These Days?
Robert Motherwell lamented that the best art is done in affirmation (as in Classical Greece and the Renaissance), but that modern life is so disgustingly materialistic and conforming that artists had to go negative. On second thought, it’s been over fifty years of this”anti” stuff, and enough’s enough.
Motherwell and other abstract artists insisted on the indvidual’s unique expression and on non-materialistic subject matter. Pop artists ramped up the focus on individuality and celebrity. Today celebrity status and individualistic routines are the norm. The question looms: How can anything, whether family, team, or whole people, hope to progress if everyone is being their own person and disregarding the good of the whole?
Over half a century of being against; and the nation is still quite materialistic. Perhaps a better strategy, as admirable as Motherwell’s art and ideas were, would have been for artists to pull society in a positive direction. As much as artists contribute to individualism and cynicism, to such a degree do they reflect cancer, whose cells think only of themselves, making war with the good of the whole body.
Yet, in a time as pluralistic and celebratory of the individual as ours, who could possibly stand up as a model for unity? Searching the word processor’s thesaurus for “hero,” the following response appeared “no meaning found.” Indeed! Who could be a hero to us, who live in a world unique in the history of the human race?
Can anyone be a guide in these times? Such a person would likely have had a strong democratic experience. That person would also have to live in a world at least somewhat multinational, to appreciate the need to respect differences. Being an artist would help, for the role of the artist as both outside the mainstream and yet an influence on that mainstream is a difficult role to appreciate. The beliefs of that person would need a strong foundation, or we might find ourselves following the whims of a false prophet. Finally, the person would have to be more a luminary than a hero. We might accept someone to illuminate the way, but likely would not want to slavishly follow some leader, no matter how heroic.
Where’s Waldo? Exactly! Waldo Emerson (he did not like to be called Ralph after he matured) rebelled against his doctrinaire training, understood how, as an American, he was different from the past, yet sought, and found, a center. He was a rebel with a cause. He was an artist who expressed himself without being snarky. He was different, yet he respected others and affirmed their shared nature. As society and its artists struggle to express individualism without tearing apart the commonweal, Waldo Emerson can show the way.
Frederick Turner, in an article in the May 2003 Smithsonian, writes:
A gift seems to have been granted to certain people in the moments in history we call renaissance. One can hear the gift in the voice of that time—a confident exuberance, accepting the tragic aspect of life, but also full of hope and belief; capable of a genial irony but devoid of cynicism and academic intellectual vanity. It is a voice that more cynical or exhausted ages find annoying.
Emerson’s “exuberance,” his affirmation, accepted tragedy. It was just a part of nature. Not the nature of a clockwork-like destiny into which puny humans were merely dust in the gears, but a nature of experimentation and chance and, especially, a nature that included us. “Nature who made the mason, made the house,” Emerson claimed We are not set against nature, nor above it. Therefore, we are not set against others or above them. This understanding that if we are wise in understanding all of nature we have a unified heart could inspire a modern renaissance. Environmentalists (Henry David Thoreau), feminists (Margaret Fuller), and abolitionists (Bronson Alcott) were Emerson’s disciples. Yet, it is hard to imagine Emerson accepting the contemparary extreme left or right, or swallowing the negative personalization of modern politics.
What can artists learn from this poet and creative thinker? Certainly not commandments nor doctrine. Yet, in this fractured and self-glorifying age, we might learn that there is a kinship. We can be creative and different, yet still affirm. Emerson’s take on the artist’s role within nature might be seen as similar to a jazz musician. If you are jamming, you have to listen to what’s going on before you toot your own horn. So, we ?listen.? And then shout out.
©2004 Robert Stanley
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COURAGE MY LOVE
Drop New Single “Slow Motion”
Check out the premiere of the “Slow Motion” video here (Post & Share)
Canadian alternative pop-rockers Courage My Love have released their new single “Slow Motion,” which is now available on all DSPs.
Consisting of twin sisters Mercedes Arn-Horn (guitar / synth / vocals),
Phoenix Arn-Horn (drums / programming / vocals) and Brandon Lockwood (bass / guitar), the trio’s new track was produced by Phoenix in the band’s home studio.
Stream the track here: https://cml.lnk.to/SlowMotion.
“Slow Motion” is the third in a string of self-produced songs/videos that will eventually encompass a visual EP to be released in early 2020.
Mercedes developed the concept and co-directed the accompanying music video, which just premiered at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lLsQBwFrg (Post & Share).
“Originally SLOW MOTION was supposed to be a love song.
At first glance, the lyrics are about noticing someone from across the room, being caught in the moment and falling in love at first sight.
But I wanted to explore a darker theme that cuts a little deeper with the music video.
I was inspired by a term used in addiction circles called “the pink cloud”, which refers to a phenomenon in one’s recovery process after a recovering addict detoxes for the first time and experiences this surreal, short-lived form of happiness.
Addiction is a heavy theme in SLOW MOTION’s video.
I think in this day and age we’re addicted to a lot of things… social media being a very obvious example currently.
Many who try to analyze a social media addiction will simply chalk it up to vanity or narcissism, but I think of it a little differently.
We’re addicted to the endorphins we experience while scrolling through memories, highlights, likes, comments, etc.
We crave that artificial connection we feel online that we struggle to experience in the real world.
We yearn for acceptance. validation, popularity, community.
Even more than that we love to escape from our own sad reality and create a version of ourselves that appears to the world how we wish to be seen.
We create a version of reality where we don’t have to live with our insecurities, at least for a little while.
Maybe this superficial reality is our own pink cloud after a detox from real real… or maybe it’s the drug we use to escape from it.
I think a lot of people can relate to feeling overwhelmed, depressed, lonely, scared of how quickly our lives seem to pass us by.
A lot of us would prefer to be blissfully ignorant to the atrocities of the world we live in, even if it means surrendering true individuality, privacy, freedom of choice, etc.
Many companies and organizations recognize this, and prey on our weaknesses so they can profit from them in exchange for a welcome distraction from our lives.
Our lives are basically one long terrifying episode of Black Mirror.
The Infinitum Pharmaceuticals storyline represents my perception of these companies, under the guise of a helping hand, providing a lifeboat to those who are drowning… at a cost. They provide a radical miracle pill that advertises it can solve all your problems, make you happier, slow down your rare, fleeting moments of joy, all the while insidiously catering to your own delusions and desires to keep you hooked.
I wanted to juxtapose lyrics that seem very happy on a surface level with visuals that are very sad at their core.
SLOW MOTION is meant to be a Courage My Love social commentary that reveals the true nature of how it feels to be alive in 2019, under the boot of major corporations, targeted ads, and algorithms.”
Courage My Love is a Juno Award-nominated band whose videos have garnered over 8 million views, has graced the cover of Canadian Musician and was named one of “100 Bands You Need To Know” by Alternative Press. Tours with acts such as Simple Plan, As It Is, Icon For Hire and appearances on Vans Warped Tour have helped cement their status as one of the music scene’s most compelling live acts.
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Comrades Marathon in Stats and Medals
July 30, 2019 July 30, 2019 by Mike Clyne
In addition to my race report I have also gathered the stats from Comrades 2019. It is worth taking a look at these and the ones in my Comrades 2018 report to compare them.
Don’t forget you are comparing an Up run (2019) against a Down run (2018). The former was 86.830km and the latter 90.184km. My estimate was that weather conditions were broadly similar – relatively benign compared to stories I have heard from previous years.
I think that it is interesting that some measures like starter / finisher percentage was virtually the same but the finish times for each of the half hour segments indicated slower times overall (not surprising – those hills are SO hard!).
Anyway – grab a coffee and delve in!
Comrades 2019 Stats
Comrades Entries, Starters and Finishers
Number of entries – 24,593 (23,419 in 2018)
Number that qualified (by running a sub 4h50 marathon before May 2019) – 21,600 (21,273 in 2018)
Number that started the race – 19,103 (19,058 in 2018)
Number that finished the race before the 12h00 cutoff – 16,445 (16,477 in 2018)
Percentage finishers – 86.08% (86.45% in 2018)
Male / Female Finishers
Number of female finishers: 3,055 (18.6%)
Number of male finishers: 13,383 (81.4%)
Oldest finisher: 77 years 149 days (Male); 70 years 236 days (Female)
Youngest finisher: 20 years 290 days (Male); 21 years 205 days (Female)
Age range of Comrades 2019 finishers
70-74 16 15 1
60-64 375 339 36
55-59 862 736 126
50-54 1,686 1,427 259
45-49 2,788 2.313 475
20-24 115 91 24
Comrades medals awarded
20 Gold medals – first 10 men and first 10 women
8 Wally Hayward medals for Male 11th position to 5h59m59s (10 in 2018)
20 Isavel Roche-Kelly medals for Female finishers in position 11 to 7h29m59s -these were awarded for the first time in 2019
540 Silver medals for 6h00m00s to 7h29m59s (588 awarded in 2018)
2,364 Bill Rowan medals for 7h30m00s to 8h59m59s (2,492 awarded in 2018)
2,813 Robert Mtshali medals for 9h00m00s to 9h59m59s (these were awarded for the first time in 2019)
4,274 Bronze medals – 10h00m00s to 10h59m59s (7,454 awarded in 2018 for finishers 9h00m00s to 10h59m59s)
6,400 Vic Clapham medals – 11h00m00s to 12h00m00s (5,913 awarded in 2018)
2,777 Back to Back medals (awarded to any finisher who finished their first Comrades in 2018 and then completed it in 2019)
Range of Comrades finishing times:
5h – 6h: 20 people (20 in 2018)
6h00 – 6h30: 40 (48 in 2018)
6h30 – 7h00: 136 (148 in 2018)
8h30 – 9h00: 1,253 (1,340 in 2018)
9h30 – 10h00: 1,859 (1,792 in 2018)
10h00 – 10h30: 1,631 (1,742 in 2018)
Top ten countries for finishers:
Great Britain 251
Zimbabwe 154
Swaziland 53
Number of different countries represented in the finishers (including the above) 72
Comrades Medals
Comrades is, I believe, unique in that they offer such a wide array of medals to the finishers. Any finisher medal is an achievement but there is a lot of kudos to looking further up the field and getting the medals awarded to the faster finishers.
As I wrote in my report last year, one of the traditions is that the size and design of medals doesn’t change much from the original races 95+ years ago.
In the first ever Comrades marathon Silver medals were awarded to all those who finished the race, these only bore the name Comrades Marathon and the finishers name and time. Hermes (as he is on the medal today) was introduced in 1922.
Silver medals were an ongoing tradition until 1931 when top 6 were then awarded a gold medal.
There are 9 different medals awarded at the race:
Gold Medal for the top 10 men and women. – First awarded in 1931 to top 6 men & changed to top 10 men in 1972. 1982 first gold medal in Female race, increased to 3 in 1983, 5 in 1995 & 10 in 1998.
Wally Hayward Medal (gold outer ring, silver inner ring) for position 11 to sub-6hr cut-off
The gold medal (left) and the Wally Hayward (right)
Isavelle Roche-Kelly Medal (gold outer ring, silver inner ring) for female position 11 to sub-7hr30 cut-off (introduced in 2019)
Silver Medal from 6hrs to sub-7hr30
The Isavelle Roche-Kelly (left) and the Silver (right)
Bill Rowan Medal (silver outer ring, bronze inner ring) from 7hr30 to sub-9hr cut-off (introduced in 2000)
Robert Mtshali Medal from 9hrs to sub-10hrs (introduced in 2019)
Bronze Medal from 10hrs to sub-11hrs (Introduced in 1972)
Robert Mtshali (left), Bill Rowan (top right) and Bronze (bottom right)
Vic Clapham Medal (copper) 11 to 12hrs (named after Race Founder & introduced in 2003)
Back to Back Medal for Novice runners who complete 2 consecutive runs, Up & Down (introduced in 2005)
Vic Clapham (left) and Back to Back (right)
All medals are attached to a black and yellow striped ribbon with a year bar depicting the year the medal was won.
Find out more about Comrades and how to enter next year HERE.
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4th Circuit Finds Section 10(b) Scienter Allegations Sufficient with No Motive in Zak v. Chelsea Therapeutics
In Zak v. Chelsea Therapeutics Int’l, No. 13-2370, a split Fourth Circuit panel found allegations of securities fraud sufficient in a putative section 10(b) class action. The district court dismissed the complaint for failing to make allegations sufficient to support a strong inference of scienter under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) standard. The majority of the panel reversed, despite an apparent lack of facts showing any real objective for the alleged fraud. The opinion is available here: Zak v. Chelsea Therapeutics Intl.
The case involved a now-common fact situation in securities class actions against pharmaceutical companies. Chelsea was trying to gain approval for a drug treatment for “symptomatic neurogenic orthostatic hypotension,” which is “a condition in which a dramatic drop in blood pressure occurs when a person stands.” During the course of testing for the efficacy of the drug, Chelsea executives expressed optimism about how the tests were going, and for the prospect of getting the drug approved by the FDA. At the same time, the actual testing showed mixed results. One trial was successful and others were inconclusive. All of the trial results were disclosed, however. A meeting with FDA officials was also inconclusive — they indicated that the application for the drug could move forward on the basis of the one study, which was short-term, but that it was an obstacle to approval that other studies had not shown the drug’s efficacy over a longer period. Management optimistically described this conversation as the officials agreeing that the application could move forward on the basis of the one successful trial.
There were other instances of management expressing overly-optimistic views on the approval of the drug, without also acknowledging that there were serious obstacles. One of these included the contents of an FDA staff report. Management received this report, in which a staffer recommended that the drug not be approved, 8 days before it was publicly disclosed. The company’s published description of the report said it raised questions about the sufficiency of the support for approval of the drug, but failed to state that the staffer recommended against approval. The stock price nevertheless declined 38%. The press release also provided the web address to obtain to actual report when it was released by the FDA, which occurred 8 days later. At that time, the stock price declined an additional 21%.
Three days later, an FDA advisory committee recommended approval of the drug in a non-binding recommendation. The FDA itself, however, ultimately declined to approve the drug a little over a month later.
One interesting aspect of the case is the district court’s use of Chelsea’s public SEC filings in its consideration of whether these facts adequately pled scienter under the PSLRA. The defendants submitted SEC proxy and Form 4 filings to show that there was no evidence that management or directors tried to take advantage of any arguably misleading statements by cashing out their stock. Although the complaint did not plead insider stock sales as a motive for the fraud, the court took judicial notice of the SEC filings and based its decision in part on the lack of evidence of efforts to profit on any of the alleged misrepresentations or omissions in the complaint.
The entire 4th Circuit panel agreed that this was improper. The opinion acknowledges the commonly accepted rule that on a motion to dismiss, the court can consider materials outside of the complaint if they are incorporated by reference or implicated by the allegations in the complaint. But, since insider stock trading was never alleged in the complaint, it found judicial notice of materials addressed to that issue was improper.
The majority of the panel went on the conclude that the allegations of repeatedly optimistic statements about the drug approval process which left out key developments suggesting approval was in doubt were enough to support the required strong inference of scienter. Two things are important about this. First, it comes from the 4th Circuit, which rarely sees a class action complaint it thinks is sufficient. Second, it allows a complaint to proceed on the basis of a fraud which, at least from the descriptions in the opinion, shows absolutely to motivation for committing the alleged fraud. Usually, fraudulent misrepresentations or omissions are part of an effort to obtain some advantage from the misleading disclosures. Here, there is no such apparent motive. That may be why the district court went beyond the complaint to the trading data. Surely a fraud must have an objective — but none is apparent here. This is especially so as to the most troublesome of the alleged misleading disclosures: the misleading description of the staff report about possible approval of the drug. Since the report itself was going to be published about a week after the company’s press release about it, and the press release provided the web address for someone to read the actual report one week later, what is the purported object of a fraudulent description of that document, which would last only a week. There appears to be none, since no action during that period suggests an effort to take advantage of the misleading disclosure.
Perhaps this goes more to the issue of materiality than scienter, which, as we have seen before, can be interrelated (see 1st Circuit: Scienter Not Alleged Where Materiality Is Questionable and Regulatory Violations Remain in Doubt). But it would seem to encompass both; how do you find a strong inference of intent to defraud in the absence of any apparent motive?
Dissenting Judge Thacker certainly had problems with finding fraudulent conduct alleged here. He reminded the court that even if recklessness can be sufficient to support scienter — and he reiterated that the Supreme Court still has not accepted that theory (slip op. at 33 n.2) — in the 4th Circuit i”we insist that the recklessness must be ‘severe’ — that is, ‘a slightly lesser species of intentional misconduct.'” Slip op. at 35. He argued that the company’s statements were not “literally” inaccurate, and there was enough support for management to express an optimistic view without committing fraud. He concluded : “Today’s decision clears the way for more litigation, heightening the risk that shareholders will exploit the judicial process to extract settlements from corporations they chose to fund. This is exactly what Congress sought to prevent when it enacted the PSLRA.” Slip op. at 43.
This case is a very close call. Based on the fact descriptions in the opinion, it looks like management erred on the side of optimism, and may have elevated wish above reality, putting the best light on everything while hoping for approval of the drug. It should give us pause on the fraud issue that the advisory committee actually did recommend approval of the drug, even with the alleged shortcomings of the trial studies. In the end, it is the absence of any apparent planned gain or advantage from the alleged misleading disclosures that suggests to me that whatever happened here, intentional fraud was not what it was about, especially under the high scienter pleading standard of the PSLRA.
In any event, the class plaintiffs seem to have some serious uphill fighting on the materiality front.
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1st Circuit: Scienter Not Alleged Where Materiality Is Questionable and Regulatory Violations Remain in Doubt
The recent First Circuit decision in Fire and Police Pension Ass’n v. Abiomed, Inc., No. 14-1502, is noteworthy for its unusual mix of scienter and materiality analysis to affirm dismissal of a section 10(b) securities class action. Ultimately, the court affirmed dismissal for the lack of sufficient scienter allegations under the heightened pleading standard of the Private Litigation Securities Reform Act (PSLRA), but it was the court’s mixing of scienter and materiality considerations that provokes interest. The court also made it clear that a securities fraud claim cannot be based on an alleged failure to disclose misconduct while the resolution of the matters at issue with regulators remain uncertain. A copy of the opinion is available here: Fire and Police Pension Ass’n v. Abiomed Inc.
The claims were founded on allegations that Abiomed, Inc., which sells medical devices, made misrepresentations about the Impella 2.5, a micro heart pump, which was Abiomed’s most important product. The alleged misrepresentations and omissions related to interactions between Abiomed and the FDA regarding marketing used to promote the Impella 2.5, and the possible promotion of off “off-label” uses of the device, that is, uses for purposes beyond those approved by the FDA.
The gist of the complaint was that Abiomed failed to disclose in its SEC filings several FDA communications warning about possible marketing and advertising improprieties, and failed to disclose that its revenues from the sales of that device were achieved in violation of FDA rules. After ongoing communications between Abiomed and the FDA in 2010-2012, two things occurred. In November 2012, Abiomed disclosed that federal prosecutors were investigating Abiomed’s promotional and marketing practices and published revised revenue projections, which was followed by a significant decline in stock price. And in February 2013, the FDA gave Abiomed a “Close-Out Letter” stating its concerns had been adequately addressed by the company, and afterward, the stock price recovered its earlier losses.
The court noted that although it was “far from clear” that “plaintiffs plausibly alleged that “defendants made false or misleading statements which had a material effect on Abiomed’s stock price,” it was affirming the district court’s ruling that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently allege that defendants made those statements with a “conscious intent to defraud or ‘a high degree of recklessness.’” Slip op. at 4 (quoting ACA Fin. Guar. Corp. v. Advest, Inc., 512 F.3d 46, 58 (1st Cir. 2008)).
The court’s consideration of the materiality of the alleged misstatements played a significant role in its scienter analysis. The court wrote:
We do address the strength of the materiality of the statements because “[t]he question of whether a plaintiff has pled facts supporting a strong inference of scienter has an obvious connection to the question of the extent to which the omitted information is material.” . . . “If it is questionable whether a fact is material or its materiality is marginal, that tends to undercut the argument that defendants acted with the requisite intent or extreme recklessness in not disclosing the fact.” . . . The materiality of the impugned omission here — Abiomed’s failure to state that some of the increased revenues were due to off-label marketing — is marginal at best. Plaintiffs’ contention that the omission would have mattered to a reasonable investor depends on a long chain of inferences, most of which are not sufficiently substantiated by the allegations in the complaint.
Slip op. at 29 (citations omitted). The court also took note that Abiomed’s disclosures explicitly warned about the FDA’s marketing concerns, including disclosures that concerns raised in FDA Warning Letters could have serious consequences. Id. at 31-32.
Defense counsel should take particular note of the court’s response to the allegation that “Abiomed should have affirmatively admitted widespread wrongdoing rather than stating that the outcome of its regulatory back-and-forth with the FDA was uncertain.” Slip op. at 32. Class action complaints often allege fraud based on a failure to disclose that matters involving regulatory uncertainty (or other uncertainties) should have been disclosed as company shortcomings. But the court here correctly noted that this approach would improperly mandate potentially misleading disclosures of uncertain future events:
That would be a perverse result; such an admission would have been misleading, since the off-label marketing issues had the potential to be resolved with no adverse action from the FDA. We made a similar point in In re Boston Scientific Corp. Securities Litigation, 686 F.3d 21 (1st Cir. 2012), where we noted that “a company may behave ‘irresponsibly’ if it issues an ominous warning about an uncertain risk that ‘had not yet been adequately investigated.’” Id. at 31. … There must be some room for give and take between a regulated entity and its regulator.
The opinion also addresses allegations of statements by so-called “confidential witnesses,” whose statements about the company’s operations did not support scienter because the alleged roles of these persons did not put them in a position to provide information about the knowledge and intent of company management. See id. at 35-36. The court likewise found allegations of stock sales by insiders insufficient to support scienter because the facts alleged did not show unusual or suspicious trading. See id. at 36-38.
But the two key takeaways from this opinion are: (1) that even without showing alleged misrepresentations were immaterial as a matter of law – which is often tough on a motion to dismiss – defendants can use doubts about materiality to support arguments that scienter is not sufficiently supported under the PSLRA standard; and (2) that allegations of failure to disclose regulatory concerns fall short of fraud when the matters are being actively discussed with law enforcement authorities and it remains uncertain whether they can be resolved without any enforcement action.
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On Electromagnetic Shielding in Composite Aircraft: An Applied Electromagnetic Approach
Bombardier Aeronautique-Mohammad Danish Khan
Effectiveness of current electromagnetic shielding techniques in composite aircraft has been called into question several times before and is a subject of interest and research in the aerospace industry. We present an analytical approach to understand the issues in detail. It was found using first order approximations that a panel with Aluminum expanded metallic foil (ExMF) along with carbon fiber plies used on composite aircraft provides fair albeit lower electromagnetic shielding from source frequencies of a few KHz until well into MHz range when compared to an aluminum panel used on metallic aircraft.This was primarily attributed to relatively large skin depth value at low frequencies which was due to: a) low electrical conductivity of aluminum ExMF when compared to bulk aluminum; b) low electrical conductivity of resin impregnated carbon fiber layers and; c) very thin layer of aluminum ExMF used.It was also found that as source frequency goes higher (between 800 MHz to 18 GHz range), fields penetrate through the aluminum ExMF and although they may get attenuated by the CFRP plies however, shielding effectiveness…
Select Flex Track One Sided One Up Assembly
Flex Track One Sided One Up Assembly
Boeing Co.-Riley HansonSmith, Alan Merkley
The Boeing Company is striving to improve quality and reduce defects and injuries through the implementation of lightweight “Right Sized” automated drill and fasten equipment. This has lead to the factory adopting Boeing developed and supplier built flex track drill and countersink machines for drilling fuselage circumferential joins, wing panel to spar and wing splice stringers. The natural evolution of this technology is the addition of fastener installation to enable One Up Assembly. The critical component of One Up Assembly is keeping the joint squeezed tightly together to prevent burrs and debris at the interface. Traditionally this is done by two-sided machines providing concentric clamp up around the hole while it is being drilled. It was proposed that for stiff structure, the joint could be held together by beginning adjacent to a tack fastener, and assemble the joint sequentially using the adjacent hole clamp up from the previous hole to keep the joint clamped up. This process would significantly decrease the costs and complexity that is usually associated with two sided equipment involved in One…
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Modern Hybrid Systems for Critical Needs
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For 70 years Yardney has been a leader in specialty battery and energy systems for military, space, avionics, weapon systems and undersea vehicles. In addition to battery systems, Yardney also delivers hybrid systems for ground, space, undersea and avionic applications. The beauty of hybrid systems, combining energy sources such as batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and solar, is that they can be used to optimize energy and power density, and with proper design, the systems can also lead to longevity of components and an overall cost savings. For ground applications, utilization of hybrid systems can assist in conservation of fuel by making vehicle applications more efficient. For space applications, satisfying pulses can be improved by a capacitor and battery hybrid energy storage system. To optimize aircraft performance and decrease operating costs, avionics are beginning to move towards more electric aircrafts (MEA). This embraces the concept of utilizing electrical power for driving aircraft subsystems currently powered by mechanical means. An important part of this concept is the development and demonstration of a hybrid (battery-capacitor) system of appropriate…
Select E7000 ARJ -Manual Flexible Tooling for Horizontal Riveting System
E7000 ARJ -Manual Flexible Tooling for Horizontal Riveting System
Electroimpact-Nicholas Lum
Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corp.-Qun Luo
Electroimpact has designed and manufactured a flexible tooling system for the E7000-ARJ horizontal panel riveter. This tooling design accommodates panel sizes from 3.5m to 10m long, with a variety of straight and tapered curvatures. The tooling is re-configured manually and utilizes removable index plates that can be adapted to accommodate new panel types.This type of tooling is ideal for value-conscious applications where a single machine must process a large range of panel styles. Electroimpact is currently using this system to tool 17 different styles of pre-tacked panels on a single E7000-ARJ machine. This flexible system does not require large removable form boards or custom frames that index one type of panel. Instead it uses 4 form boards that are permanently mounted to the picture frame by linear rails, allowing them to index anywhere along the 10m working envelope. Each form board holds several rail mounted surface indexes that are adjusted to accommodate different panel curvatures.All index locations on the form boards and the sliding indexes are set by lightweight, removable, aluminum index plates. This allows…
Select Jet Engine Fuel System Integration in Aircraft Environment - Methodology for Pressure Surge Simulation through Model-Based System Engineering
Jet Engine Fuel System Integration in Aircraft Environment - Methodology for Pressure Surge Simulation through Model-Based System Engineering
Airbus Operations SAS-Matthieu Hutchison, Yannick Sommerer, Olivier Verseux, Eric Desmet
Siemens PLM Software-Grégoire Lenoble, Umberto Badiali
An Airbus methodology for the assessment of accurate fuel pressure surge at early program stages in the complete aircraft and engine environment based on joint collaboration with LMS Engineering is presented. The aim is to comfort the prediction of the fuel pressure spike generated by an engine shutdown in order to avoid late airframe fuel system redesign and secure the aircraft entry-into-service.
Select Real Time Path Correction of Industrial Robots with Direct End-Effector Feedback from a Laser Tracker
Real Time Path Correction of Industrial Robots with Direct End-Effector Feedback from a Laser Tracker
New River Kinematics-Santiago Droll
In contemporary industries the demand for very accurate robots is continuously growing. Yet, robot vendors are limited in the achievable accuracy of their robots, as they have no means to provide a direct end-effector feedback. Therefore, most approaches aim to identify an accurate model of the robotic system, thus providing compensation factors to correct the deflections. Models, however, are unable to represent the real physical system in a sufficient manner for path correction. The non-linearities in robotic systems are difficult to model and the dynamics cannot be neglected. A better approach is, therefore, to use direct end-effector position and orientation feedback from an external sensor as, e.g. a Leica laser tracker. The measured data can directly be compared to the nominal data from the path interpolator. Hence, the data are independent of the kinematic robot model. The residual errors can be used to calculate correction values in Cartesian space, which are mapped to each individual robot joint, thus providing a fast path correction algorithm. The evaluation of this procedure has shown that it enables the…
Select Implementing Determinate Assembly for the Leading Edge Sub-Assembly of Aircraft Wing Manufacture
Implementing Determinate Assembly for the Leading Edge Sub-Assembly of Aircraft Wing Manufacture
Airbus Operations Ltd.-Marcus Rafla
University of Nottingham-Lucas Irving, Svetan Ratchev, Atanas Popov
The replacement for the current single-aisle aircraft will need to be manufactured at a rate significantly higher that of current production. One way that production rate can be increased is by reducing the processing time for assembly operations. This paper presents research that was applied to the build philosophy of the leading edge of a laminar flow European wing demonstrator. The paper describes the implementation of determinate assembly for the rib to bracket assembly interface.By optimising the diametric and the positional tolerances of the holes on the two bracket types and ribs, determinate assembly was successfully implemented. The bracket to rib interface is now secured with no tooling or post processes other than inserting and tightening the fastener. This will reduce the tooling costs and eliminates the need for local drilling, de-burring and re-assembly of the bracket to rib interface, reducing the cycle time of the operation.Ultimately, self-indexing components mean that the there is more flexibility as to what point in production the bracket can be attached to the rib. This allows for a reduction…
Select Universal Interrogator Approach to Optical Sensors for Aircraft Applications
Universal Interrogator Approach to Optical Sensors for Aircraft Applications
Oxsensis, Ltd.-Ralf D. Pechstedt
Recently, there has been an increasing interest in Fiber Optic Sensors (FOS) for aircraft applications. Many of the FOS are based on different transducer mechanisms and hence, employ sensor-specific readout systems. However, for ease of maintenance and cost saving purposes, a ‘universal interrogator’ that can be used with at least a large sub-group of sensors is the preferred option for deployment in aircraft.Oxsensis has been developing sensors for harsh environments with focus on land based gas-turbine monitoring and combustion control and more recently is also looking at applying its technology to other areas such as Aerospace and Oil & Gas. In this paper we report on recent progress on the development of a number of FOS and how these could find application in aircraft with a ‘universal interrogator’ concept in mind.
Select Robot Accuracy: Offline Compensation (EU COMET Project)
Robot Accuracy: Offline Compensation (EU COMET Project)
Nikon Metrology-Roger Holden, Paul Lightowler, Simon Andreou
The 30 month COMET project aims to overcome the challenges facing European manufacturing industries by developing innovative machining systems that are flexible, reliable and predictable with an average of 30% cost efficiency savings in comparison to machine tools. From a conceptual point of view, industrial robot technology could provide an excellent base for machining being both flexible and cost efficient. However, industrial robots lack absolute positioning accuracy, are unable to reject disturbances in terms of process forces and lack reliable programming and simulation tools to ensure right first time machining, once production commences. These three critical limitations currently prevent the use of robots in typical machining applications. The COMET project is co-funded by the European Commission as part of the European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP) adopted in 2008. The EERP proposes the launch of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in three sectors, one of them being Factories of the Future (FoF). Factories of the Future is a EUR 1.2 billion program in which the European Commission and industry are collaborating in research to support the development and…
Select Roll and Pitch Produced During an Uneven Wing Deployment of a Hybrid Projectile
Roll and Pitch Produced During an Uneven Wing Deployment of a Hybrid Projectile
West Virginia Univ.-Jay Wilhelm, Joseph Close
Uneven wing deployment of a Hybrid Projectile (HP), an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that is ballistically launched and then transforms, was investigated to determine the amount of roll and pitch produced during wing deployment. During testing of an HP prototype, it was noticed that sometimes the projectile began to slightly roll after the wings were deployed shortly after apogee. In this study, an analytical investigation was done to determine how the projectile body dynamics would be affected by the wings being deployed improperly. Improper and uneven wing deployment situations were investigated throughout the course of this study. The first analyzed was a single wing delaying to open. The second was if only one wing was to lock into a positive angle of incidence. The roll characteristics when both wings were deployed but only one was locked into an angle of incidence resulted in a steady state roll rate of 4.5 degrees per second. It is imperative to ensure that an HP wing deployment mechanism must be designed to deploy as evenly as possible.
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Classmate Sent to Prison for Shooting and Killing Former San Angelo Central Football Player
Classmate Sent to Prison for Shooting and Killing Former San Angelo Central Football Player [1]
By Yantis Green | Jul. 17, 2019 10:18 pm
SAN ANGELO, TX -- A former San Angelo Central High School football player was shot in the head at a residence on Edmund Blvd [2]. in July 2017 and Wednesday in a Tom Green County courtroom another Central High football player was sent to prison for the killing.
Xavior Arzola, 21, pleaded guilty to second degree felony manslaughter in District Judge Ben Woodward's court. The second degree felony is punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. Arzola could've been placed on deferred adjudication. He was also charged with tampering with physical evidence but that charge was abandoned by the prosecution in exchange for his guilty plea.
As we reported earlier [3], Arzola was at a party in a residence in the 1800 block of Edmund Blvd. in west San Angelo on July 19, 2017 with Victor Omar Duarte and several others. According to court documents and testimony, the party began earlier in the day at the Angelo Place Apartments. Arzola was drinking alcohol and using cocaine, xanax, and marijuana. At some point early in the morning, Arzola pulled out a Glock .40 caliber handgun and was showing it to the partiers. Testimony showed he placed the handgun on the bar. He later picked up the handgun, racked the slide putting a bullet in the chamber, and pointed it at Duarte and the gun went off killing Duarte.
In court testimony today, the impression was that Arzola was a veteran member of the San Angelo Central Bobcats football team. Coach Brent Davis clarified that Arzola worked out with the team for maybe a week but was never considered a member of the team. Duarte, however, did suit up and play for the Bobcats.
Testimony showed Arzola then left the scene and disposed of the handgun which is why he was charged with tampering with physical evidence.
Assistant District Attorney Brent Ratekin had no recommended sentence so the prosecution and defense presented witnesses and evidence to Judge Woodward who would assess punishment in a unified trial.
Here's how the trial unfolded Wednesday:
Ratekin called San Angelo Police officer Thomas Gibson to the witness stand. Gibson testified that a female who was at the house called 9-1-1 and he was dispatched for a possible shooting.
Police forced their way into the house and found Duarte lying in a pool of blood on the floor in the kitchen. Gibson testified that he saw the gunshot wound to the head and the blood on the floor. Apparently he had been deceased for some time. As he described the scene, several members of Duarte's family cried and moaned in the courtroom.
Ratekin then presented photos of the scene into evidence. He handed the photos to the judge so the victim's family didn't have to see them.
Next on the witness stand was Trinidad Dehoyos who went to school with Arzola and Duarte. All three were friends at Central High School. Dehoyos testified that the party started at Angelo Place Apartments by the swimming pool. He said they were drinking beer and doing drugs, "with us it was coke (cocaine)" for two to three hours. Dehoyos testified he saw Arzola with the handgun and it just went off.
Dehoyos told the court Arzola panicked and they all left. He said Christian Castro drove them to an apartment complex where Arzola got rid of the gun.
Then Ratekin called SAPD Criminial Investigation Division investigator Adrian Castro to the stand. Detective Castro, who is not related to Christian Castro, interviewed Christian who was arrested for transporting Arzola from the crime scene. Castro testified that they went to the location where the handgun had been disposed of but couldn't find the gun. Castro says investigators found two magazines and some ammunition, but not the guns. In fact, the handgun used in the killing was never found.
Detective Castro testified he attended Duarte's autopsy and the medical examiner found the bullet entered the victim's head through his left ear and exited through the right rear of his head. Castro said Arzola is shorter than Duarte, so he would've had to be holding the handgun above his head and pointing in down toward Duarte's head for the bullet to have traveled the path it did.
Castro testified that Arzola had an extensive criminal history. Arzola pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana in 2016 in Kansas City, Missouri where his parents live.
After he killed Duarte, he was arrested in San Angelo for illegal possession of a firearm and possession of cocaine.
Detective Castro testified that when officers went to arrest Arzola, he was at a residence on Rainey street in west San Angelo. When police arrived, Arzola went into a shed on the property to "smoke a blunt," to calm down. Police eventually had to go into the shed to arrest Arzola.
Assistant DA Ratekin then called Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division Trooper Michael Sams. Sams testified he was working undercover observing an apartment where a known drug dealer was selling drugs in San Angelo. He testified he watched a vehicle drive up to the apartment and Arzola got out of the car, went inside, and left within a few minutes. He followed the vehicle that was eventually stopped by law enforcement. Arzola was in the back seat where officers found a baggie of cocaine. Arzola was out on bond at the time for the shooting and was arrested for possession of a controlled substance.
Then Ratekin called Duarte's mother to the stand. Debra Dehoyos described her son as full of life and an athlete who loved playing football at Central High School. She testified that her son played defensive back and on special teams. He graduated and was about to attend Angelo State University. She trembled and cried on the witness stand and that triggered several other family members in the courtroom to cry as well.
Ratekin then rested his case. Judge Woodward ordered a break in the trial for lunch and the proceeding began again shortly after 1 p.m.
Defense attorney Nathan Butler then called his first witness; Arzola's mother Melinda Taylor. She testified that Arzola didn't grow up around guns and had no experience with them. Taylor said her son was a good kid and a good student. "It was an accident. He's not a bad kid; he's not a criminal. He doesn't deserve prison." She said.
Under cross examination, Taylor said Arzola just wanted an opportunity to right his wrongs. Assistant DA Ratekin said Arzola violated his bond by getting arrested for illegally possessing a firearm and drug possession and was sent back to jail.
Defense attorney Butler then called Arzola's stepfather to the witness stand. Terrance Taylor told the judge he was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter because he drove drunk, got into a crash and his female passenger was killed. Taylor told the judge Arzola has a strong support group in his family and they will take care of him back home in Kansas City if he is put on probation.
Butler then put Arzola's younger brother Elijah Arzola on the stand. The 20-year-old said his big brother was a good person and a good football player. Elijah said his brother would be good on probation. "It was just a mistake, it was accidental." Elijah told the judge. "He needs another chance!" an excited Taylor said.
Both sides rested and the trial moved into closing arguments. Ratekin went first. He told the judge, "I don't envy the court's position. How do you compensate for the death of a child?" he asked rhetorically. Ratekin said probation is not appropriate for a death involving drugs, alcohol and a firearm. "We still don't know where the gun is and he still lies about it."
Ratekin told the judge that Arzola's actions show he was worried about himself and not the victim. "The defendant is eligible for probation, but is he worthy of probation?" Ratekin said Arzola continued to offend while he was out on bond and wouldn't be able to complete the terms of deferred adjudication probation.
In his closing remarks, defense attorney Butler said, "We've already had one tragedy in the death of (Duarte). Sending Arzola to prison would be another tragedy." Butler described the killing as an accident, a tragic accident. "He was a 19-year-old kid. He's terrified; he's freaked out and he just panicked." Butler asked Judge Woodward to place Arzola on deferred adjudication probation.
Assistant DA Ratekin then closed by telling the judge that Duarte was the victim, not Arzola and that justice required Arzola be sent to prison so the Duarte family could have some closure.
Judge Woodward recessed for about 45 minutes to consider the evidence in the case before passing sentence.
When he reconvened the trial, the judge said these are not easy cases and that it was a tragedy but an accident only in the broadest sense of the word.
Judge Woodward said Arzola's actions since the killing were not remorseful.
Woodward then sentenced Xavior Arzola to 11 years in prison and ordered him to pay court costs and restitution in the amount of $5,993.68. Woodward also determined there was a finding of the use of a deadly weapon which means Arzola must spend at least half his sentence in prison before he would be eligible for parole.
Duarte's oldest sister then read an emotionally charged victim impact statement to the court. Arzola looked back over his left shoulder at her as she tearfully read the statement. "You are a coward." She read.
Xavior Arzola was then taken into custody by bailiffs and taken to the Tom Green County jail to begin his sentence. He was credited for time served.
July 17, 2019 10:41 p.m. — Clarification was added about Arzola's membership on the San Angelo Central Football Team. In court testimony today, the impression was that Arzola was a veteran member of the San Angelo Central Bobcats football team. Coach Brent Davis clarified that Arzola worked out with the team for maybe a week but was never considered a member of the team. Duarte, however, did suit up and play for the Bobcats.
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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin backs ‘startup generator’ Antler
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Antler, the self-described “global startup generator” and early stage venture capital firm, has raised an additional $50 million for its funds in Amsterdam, London, New York, Stockholm, Sydney, Nairobi and Singapore.
Notable new investors include Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Elaine Saverin; investor and philanthropist Christen Sveeas (via Kistefos); Canica International; and the innovative Japanese financial services company, Credit Saison.
Founded in 2018 by Magnus Grimeland (co-founder of Zalora, which sold to Global Fashion Group), and initially launched in Singapore, Antler runs a company builder program in multiple locations, not entirely dissimilar to London headquartered Entrepreneur First, which pioneered the pre-team, pre-idea model of talent investing.
Like EF, Antler invites applicants to apply to its various programs with the aim of helping them find a co-founder and settle on a new startup idea. It provides a stipend for the first two months to cover participants basic living costs, and then pre-seed funding. Later-stage capital is also available for successful companies. In order to provide this funding, Antler has local funds in each geography.
“At Antler, we aim to work with exceptional people regardless of their industry or specialization, as long as they have a clear spike, drive and grit,” Grimeland tells TechCrunch. “We also specifically aim at diverse cohorts, to mix great technologists, product builders and operators. This includes extremely strong people who’ve been part of building great technology companies before, such as Spotify, iZettle, Grab or Lazada, or sold their previous startups”.
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Darcy & Elizabeth: A Season of Courtship
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Sharon Lathan
The Good, The Bad, and The Unread
The extraordinary love and romance of Darcy and Lizzy continues in this third book of Ms. Lathan’s Darcy Saga, and this time we experience their passionate love affair up close and personal, spending more time with this wonderful couple on their own instead of surrounded by family and friends, though we still get a good dose of the intriguing Darcy and Bennet families.
The best part of this series for me is the way Darcy is becoming more and more outgoing because of his wife and his love for her. Lizzy is a natural when it comes to wit and socializing, her intelligence shining, and people gravitate to her just to be part of what she has to offer. Though Darcy is reticent about mixing in crowds of any kind, he is learning little by little how to let go and revel in the small enjoyments in life. I thoroughly enjoyed his scavenger hunt for Lizzy on her birthday, totally endearing and romantic. Darcy is definitely growing into himself.
A trip to the ocean turns out to be relaxing and also quite romantic for the Darcys. They spend a week doing nothing but lazing about the shore, making friends, swimming, taking fun side trips, and, of course, making love whenever the mood strikes. Ms. Lathan has done an extremely terrific job in her research, as is shown by not only the wealth of historical information in this book but also shown by the little nuggets of detail that make Darcy and Lizzy’s trip that much more interesting. There are other lesser trips too, but this particular one is a main part of the story and my favorite.
Of course, there is much concerning Lizzy’s pregnancy throughout the book, and once again it’s Darcy who pulls at the heartstrings. Like Lizzy, I fell more in love with the man every time he speaks to his son as he caresses Lizzy’s rounded belly, every time he rubs her back when he knows she hurts after a long day, every time he tells his wife how much he loves her for giving him such a precious gift.
And when the big day arrives bringing Baby Darcy into the world, Darcy again is right there for Lizzy, doing anything and everything necessary for her and their son during a very long labor. Another favorite part of the story for me is the aftermath of the baby’s birth, Lizzy and Darcy counting fingers and toes, not able to take their eyes off of him, Darcy cooing in that voice we all use when holding an infant, Lizzy nervous about leaving her son even for the length of dinnertime, and a whole host of other similarly delightful tidbits.
Darcy and Elizabeth’s families are well represented at different points in the book, with Darcy’s Uncle George being the main draw for me. He is one of those larger-than-life characters you can’t help but like. The scenes between him and Darcy are extra special, as are those when he delivers the baby. I hope he’s a character that will continue to pop in and out throughout the rest of the series.
As terrific as the historical aspect of this series is, as fun as it is having Darcy family and friends together for whatever reason, as intriguing as the mishaps, little tiffs, and other circumstances throughout are, it’s the love, the romance between these two characters that outshines it all, and Ms. Lathan has kept that front and center and kept it true to these characters who are loved the world over. Darcy and Lizzy are the epitome of that love and romance as Ms. Lathan first envisioned them and has now written them in her interpretation of their life together. I doubt anyone could have done it much better. Not even Jane Austen herself.
Awaiting Diana
Another highly romantic and delightfully easy to read offering from Sharon Lathan. Once again, we are invited into the lives of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and his lovely wife, Elizabeth and what a dreamy and loving journey it is…
The love birds are off on some adventures together (which are not only enjoyable reading, but full of historical tidbits. You will learn something about this era in History)and are also looking forward to the arrival of their first-born child. Also present, as in the previous novels, are the supremely handled cast of supporting characters that Mrs. Lathan has given us to enjoy almost as much as Darcy and Lizzy. From family members to newly introduced friends, we get to visit with all of them. I remain an ardent fan of Dr. Darcy as I think he is a wonderfully imagined and unusual character. Dr. Darcy is a much-needed anchor and family link in the life of Fitzwilliam Darcy. The scenes between the two men are touching and will make you fall for both characters even more.
Among the most touching and vivid scenes in book are the birthing scenes and arrival of the Darcy baby. Mrs. Lathan draws on her real life knowledge both as a Mother and as a RN who works with newborn babies to bring us right there with Lizzy. If you have had a baby, you can relate and if you haven’t had a baby, you will have a very good idea of what giving birth is like. A word of caution though….your partner likely has *no hope* of living up to the example that Darcy sets as an impending father. He’s amazing. The birthing scenes and the scenes directly after are some of the most endearing and well written of any book I have read in this genre. Expertly executed and unforgettable!
Through it all, the characters remain true to their core personalities. Darcy still reverts to being stern and ill-humored at times. Elizabeth is still lively, impertinent and manages to bring out the best in Darcy when he needs it most. At the center of this story are an iconic couple who have captured the hearts of readers for decades. Their story continues with the Darcy Saga in a very romantic, sweet and uplifting fashion. You just cannot help but love these characters as they are written by this author. Sharon Lathan has a true vision for the Darcys in a happy and highly amorous marriage that she never deviates from. It is a nice diversion from some of the unhappy and delusional places we sometimes find this couple in other renderings of their story.
Well researched, lovingly crafted and beautifully written! Happy reading Darcy fans!!
One Literature Nut
In this third novel, we pick back up with Darcy and Elizabeth waiting for their first baby. Much of the novel surrounds the journey that Elizabeth now takes as a much loved wife of Fitzwilliam Darcy, with her place at Pemberley and at Darcy’s side. The couple enjoy as much love and passion as in the previous two novels, yet in a deeper, more endearing way. While sensual, their bond is one of abiding love that finds them vacationing along the beautiful eastern coast, reveling in sea and sand together. While there, they encounter a woman who determines she must have Darcy for herself. It’s not a huge storyline, but one that I found quite fun, in that Darcy was repulsed, and Elizabeth was beyond protective. It just turned into a great scene, spelling out their style as a couple.
While most of the book is filled with leisurely days and enjoyable scenes of a loving couple and “nesting,” as they wait for their first child, the crux of the novel surrounded the birth of their first baby. As a reader you feel certain that Elizabeth will fare well, but there is an underlying anxiety in waiting for the moment. Will all be well, and will mother and child both come out healthy and happy in the end?
I happen to be a real fan of Sharon Lathan’s novels and writing style. Honestly, I feel very comfortable with her writing, and trust in the sentence structure to carry me through a beautiful story. It is interesting to me how her personal voice adds that second level to the romantic story, making it even sweeter. The experiences that Darcy and Elizabeth share are fun to witness, and although the birth of the baby seems to take an agonizingly long time to get to, there is a “real time” feeling about the story. There really isn’t a complication to be resolved, outside of the birth of the baby, so much of our reading time is spent in high anticipation for the big moment. We get to trip along with the Darcys, viewing their loving relationship like a great voyeur, reveling in their breathless love and happiness. After all, who doesn’t want a relationship filled with such depths of love and devotion? Yes, it touched off my romantic side. Sigh. Once again, the novel does have scenes of a sensual nature, but not as graphic as in many romance novels today.
As always, I loved reading Lathan’s third novel. The joy in this read is in the ramblings down seaside coasts and forest trails; the joy comes in the love and the pain. In some very simple ways, lovers of Pride and Prejudice have already imagined such sweet and loving scenes as painted for us in the pages of these novels, but here we get to sit back and enjoy their story as it unfolds. I really felt that this novel started to feel more like they were starting to slip into their settled roles, yet still filled with love. I enjoyed watching them relax into their marriage, and continue down the path towards becoming a great family. This was a great third installment, and I can already hardly wait for the fourth!
This Book For Free
What a fantastic ending to this trilogy. Ms. Lathan captured Mr. Darcy perfectly. The Mr. Darcy, as performed by Matthew Macfadyen. Every single time Mr. Darcy speaks to Lizzy in this book, I get the shivers. This particular Mr. Darcy (Macfadyen) has the sexiest voice, IMHO.
This book opens with a journal from Mr. Darcy’s Uncle, Dr. Darcy. He’s a very engaging old man. He’s quite entertaining and lovable. So, on this prologue, you get snippets of Dr. Darcy’s life, Anne and Mary’s love story. I think it’s inspired. I laughed my head off imagining Lady Catherine’s face when Dr. Penaflor started with his genealogy details. Poor Lady C!
Darcy and Lizzy travel to the sea, and you can see that Elizabeth is as spirited as ever. I love that scene in the dining room with a particular lady. It just melts my heart how Darcy is as romantic as ever. There was this riddle game he concocted to celebrate their 1 year anniversary. It’s truly awesome. This book is quite scorching! I wish the series would continue. (Author note: It is continuing!) This is one of the most enjoyable adaptations I have read.
Queen of Happy Endings
In this third book in the series the Darcys return to Pemberley after their eventful time in London, take a seaside holiday and then celebrate the birth of their first child the day before their first wedding anniversary. It is full of the beautiful, sensual romance that you know to expect from this wonderful series.
My favourite chapter in this book is without a doubt Chapter 17 which is the birth of the baby. It was so engaging and emotional that I cried several times whilst reading it. It was interesting and full of all the birth details, for those of us who love that sort of thing. I also enjoyed the announcement of Mary Bennet’s engagement as well as news of the Bingleys expecting their first baby. The novel ends just prior to Christmas so I imagine the next book will open with the Christmas celebrations with family, friends, and the new baby.??Now I have to say I found the third book a little harder to get into than I did the previous two and I think that is because it began with many letters from a minor character. It also seemed that there were a lot more letters in this book than others or maybe I’ve just forgotten, some were interesting and some I found not so interesting.
I will end my review with a quote that really sums up the tone of all the novels: “I love you, my Elizabeth. You are my soul, my blood and bone, my very life.”
A Bibliophile’s Bookshelf
I adore having a Sharon Lathan book delivered to my mailbox. Having read two of her books, I automatically know I’m in for a treat like no other. I usually settle down with a cup of tea and my favorite ginger snaps and immerse myself in exquisite regency reading.
This is exactly how I spent my weekend, devouring the latest novel by Sharon Lathan. My Dearest Mr Darcy continues on the story of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam as they celebrate the birth of their son, Alexander, and come around full circle in celebrating their second Christmas together. I love the way Sharon writes the characters of Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam. Of all the Pride and Prejudice characters they are by far my favorites. As such, I can be inclined to be a little critical as to how authors portray them. After all Jane Austen wrote them best as the proud Fitzwilliam Darcy and the outspoken Elizabeth Bennet, destined for a life together.
However, Sharon never gives me a reason to be critical. She writes all the characters so flawlessly that I sometimes wonder that the story isn’t written by Jane Austen herself. Not only does she write Jane Austen’s characters very well, she breathes new life and depth into them. Had Jane Austen written more novels about Elizabeth and Darcy I would like to think she would write them as being the passionate lovers, as portrayed in My Dearest Mr Darcy.
My Dearest Mr Darcy is a treasure to be appreciated and loved by fans of Jane Austen and regency romance. In times of there being too many classic-mash-ups, such as Pride, Prejudice and Zombies, I think fans will adore the simple elegance that this beautiful novel. I highly recommend all fans race out and pick up this beautiful novel today.
Kelli Crowe Reviews
Reading My Dearest Mr. Darcy was like being welcomed into the home of dear friends who I have come to know over a series of 3 books. The fact that the home was Pemberley made it that much better.
Elizabeth and Darcy are finishing their first year of marriage and are still learning to be husband and wife. I like how Lathan injects moments of misunderstanding and pride into their mostly blissful relationship. It adds tension into a story line where you already know the guy wins the girl. Even though I love the romantic notion of riding off into the sunset together, I kinda like the idea that they may, at some point, argue about where they parked the horse.
Elizabeth’s transition into becoming “Mrs. Darcy” to her new peers, her old friends from home, her staff and those who depend on her for their living is interesting to see both in books 2 and 3. All does not go smoothly. Dr. George Darcy continues to play an important role in the story line as well as offer a lot of humor. He fits so well into narrative that I consider him one of Jane Austen’s own that she just never mentioned. Lathan uses Dr. Darcy and Lady Underwood, etc, to reveal to the reader much information about medicine, social structure and politics during Regency England. Who is Lady Underwood? Just part of my favorite scene in the book.
The book begins with journal entries by Dr. Darcy that reach back to his arrival during the middle of book 2. However, it is interlaced so with new details and perspectives, that I couldn’t find any bit that I would suggest to leave out. The journal entries are followed by a series of letters from Jane, Mr. Bennet, Mary and Lydia. It is interesting to start the book this way because letters do play an important role in Pride and Prejudice. They are also a very important way that much of Jane Austen’s personal life is revealed to us today.
However, when chapter 3 began, that is when I felt the like the story really got started. The tone is set right away was romantic. I think I awwww’d right out loud. Much of the story finds the Darcys traveling. Mrs. Lathan packed in so much detail about the local areas and the historic sites that they saw, I think I could use this book as a travel guide. I don’t know if the details are accurate, but as long as Mr. Darcy is reciting them to me, who cares? There are illnesses and separations. All in all, the plot moves quickly and a lot of it is driven by dialogue. I like that.
As I have said in previous Sharon Lathan book reviews, I think one of Lathan’s strong points is the ability to continue generating these wonderful moments; both big and small. Darcy as a tour guide, “Anywhere but East,” the pearls, swimming…I could go on but I don’t want to give these scenes all away. She doesn’t just take you from big scene to big scene, but pays attention to the characters on the way there. Lathan’s originality is in the detail and depth of her story. I don’t know where Darcy and Elizabeth are headed, but I want to be there for it.
I have read this series 4 times. As someone who was very skeptical of the inspiration during the first book, I found myself unable to stop reading long enough to review these books individually. I think that is really the best sort of recommendation.
Good Books, Bad Books by Bridget
The Darcy’s lives are going in directions I don’t think of them expected. A baby on the way, a marriage that’s still so very new and a love that’s more powerful than just about anything. Whereas the first book was about the very beginning of their marriage and them getting to know each other and the second book was about them traveling, MDMD is more about them getting ready for their new baby and how they go about doing it. Ms. Lathan works with babies in her real life and you can see that in how she writes about the Darcy’s preparation for their new arrival. Where most books only hint at the baby and then boom it’s there, she really goes into detail about not only Lizzie’s physical changes, but also the emotional ones that both she and Darcy are going through. Ms. Lathan also makes the Darcy’s pretty forward-thinking and progressive when it comes to how they want to handle the birth. I’m thankful that this book doesn’t have anything bad happening to Lizzie like the first 2 books did.
There are two things I really enjoy about Ms. Lathan’s books. One-the true expression of feeling between Lizzie and Fitzwilliam. Their love is something you really believe in. You want them to be happy and to live a long, fulfilling life together. Two-the secondary characters. There are quite a few of them and usually I’d find myself confused, but she’s able to pull it off. My favorite secondary character is Fitzwilliam’s Uncle. His uncle is a doctor who spent many years in India and whose past is rather tragic. He’s going to be there for the delivery of the baby and the way he interacts with both Lizzie and Darcy brings some much-needed humor to the story.
The end will bring a tear to your eyes, especially if you’ve invested your time into this world that Ms. Lathan has created. To see how powerful and meaningful the end is and what it does to bring the two of them even closer together…*sigh* All in all, I have to give two big thumbs up to Sharon. She did an excellent job…again and I can’t wait to see where she takes this family that I’ve come to love.
Once Upon a Romance
Darcy and Elizabeth have not yet been married a year and are awaiting the arrival of their first child. Before the baby arrives, Darcy decides to take a vacation by the sea with Elizabeth, and they grow even closer. Unfortunately, there is a scheming woman with an eye for the handsome Darcy, who tries to cause problems.
My Dearest Mr. Darcy is a snapshot of a brief period in time experienced by two of the most beloved characters in literature. Ms. Lathan incorporates wonderful period details and many of the characters seen in Pride and Prejudice make a reappearance, as well as, several interesting new characters. This reader, particularly, liked Darcy’s eccentric uncle George, who is a Doctor who practiced in India and wears Indian garb. This story is first and foremost about the developing relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth, and Ms. Lathan does a great job of telling that story in a believable manner. I defy anyone not to fall further in love with Darcy after reading this book, and Elizabeth acts in ways that are truthful to her established character from Pride and Prejudice.
Lovers of Pride and Prejudice should enjoy My Dearest Mr. Darcy, because it is essentially a feel-good read. However, if the reader dislikes spicy sex scenes, she might give this sequel a miss.
Anna’s Book Blog
Elizabeth and Darcy’s first year of marriage is coming to an end and they both are finding that they are more in love with each other than they ever thought. But Darcy learns that there are still many things to learn about Elizabeth and that he can still be surprised.
The Darcy Saga is another first for me. It’s the third book in the series, but definitely easy to follow. Loving Pride and Prejudice myself, I have to say read this story was a treat. Revisiting such beloved characters, peaking in on what their life has brought them. A heartfelt enjoyable story filled with passion and warmth. Beautifully written. You can tell just how much the author loves the story and the characters. If you’re a fan of Pride and Prejudice and ever wondered what happen to Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy after the book ended, The Darcy Saga is the perfect series to indulge in.
Rundpinne
Sharon Lathan takes up where Jane Austen left off and regales the reader with her third novel in The Darcy Saga. My Dearest Mr. Darcy is a brilliantly woven tale picking up where Pride and Prejudice left off, almost a year into the marriage of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy. All the characters are present, those loveable and not so loveable, making the Darcy’s first two years of marriage an intriguing affair. This novel stands quite well on its own merits, as I have not read the previous two Lathan novels, however knowledge of Pride and Prejudice is required to understand the subtle undercurrents of the numerous relationships. The novel centers on the upcoming birth of the Darcy’s first child adding in some delightful exploits and a few unexpected twists. Most noted is the deep-seated adoration and unflinching love Mr. Darcy and Lizzy have for each other. While the moments are touching I found the more subtle romance of Jane Austen’s novel to be more comfortable for me. Placing my prejudices aside, Lathan’s novel is exquisitely told with a brilliant flourish of language and so rich in detail, that one would be hard pressed to set this novel down. My Dear Mr. Darcy makes for a fabulous afternoon of reading.
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Wonder what happened after The Darcy’s wed? My Dearest Mr Darcy will answer that and delight fans everywhere.
Welcome back to the world of the Darcy’s; much has changed since Darcy and Elizabeth celebrated their union. Elizabeth is expecting and Darcy is even more in love with Elizabeth. As they set out for a new adventure that has it’s own share of complications, the story grasps at your heart-strings, waiting to see what happens next.
With correspondence running rapid through the story you get a peek into the lives of the Bennet’s, Collins, and more to see how life has treated them. Of course Elizabeth is still head strong and Darcy lights up the pages as usual. I thought this was an endearing continuation of an already timeless classic. Must read for fans of Pride and Prejudice.
Sia McKye’s Thoughts Over Coffee
Sharon’s stories are fun forays into Regency England with one of the most famous couples in Romance. You’re immersed in the world of the time and living with the Darcy’s. Most of the conflict is the natural inner conflict of two adults adjusting to being married. Add a dab of family issues, problems with friends, a couple of scoops of adventure, and you have the life of the Darcy’s, Lathan style.
Lizzy is feisty, which she would need to be with a man of Darcy’s character. Lizzy is not a modern woman of our time dressed in costume, spouting Regency dialog, as is the case with many historicals today. Elizabeth Bennett Darcy is written as a woman of the era, yet she is still a strong woman. She has a great sense of humor (which we do pick up a bit from Austen’s original story), she makes me smile and laugh. I admire her strong streak of loyalty and love for her family and her friends—and of course a deep love for Darcy.
What I like is the depth Sharon brings to Darcy. In Austen’s stories, Darcy is almost two dimensional… in Sharon’s stories we catch a glimpse of what’s under the surface of the reserve and we see his heart. Most definitely three-dimensional character with a deep love of family and a very strong streak of responsibility for those he considers his. Overall, the Darcy Saga is a beautiful example of Happy Ever After.
Elizabeth, Mistress of Pemberley, and her husband Darcy are so happy to be together. Their life as man and wife could not be happier. When they have their first child, they find that their love for each other grows even more. Taking trips and celebrating life together, these two have a precious love that readers everywhere will envy.
I used to hate romance books. I thought that I just wasn’t a fan of the mooshy stuff, but come to find out, I hated them because I wanted a love like that and I was convinced that was only possible in fiction. Then, I got together with my husband and I learned that true love isn’t fiction and that it is the best emotion in the universe. Now, with my blindness removed, I am able to fully enjoy books like this one.
Libby’s Library
Sometimes I wonder just how many stories can be written about the Darcys, but obviously they are limitless and I never seem to tire of them!
My Dearest Mr. Darcy picks up where Loving Mr. Darcy ends. Elizabeth and Darcy become more and more in love with each other as each day passes. This is one of the things that I really like about Lathan’s writings. Love conquers all. For all their wealth and prestige, Elizabeth and her dashing husband take delight in the simplest of things and thrill in each others joy. Fitzwilliam sees so many familiar things anew, through his adoring wife’s eyes: Lizzy’s first bare footed walk in the sand along the ocean’s shore… her surprising enjoyment of horse racing (and the betting too)… the ever-growing relationship of Elizabeth and Georgiana. Lizzy never stops being astounded by her husband’s dashing looks, his widespread knowledge of everything imaginable, his tenderness, and adoration of those he loves. Add in their travels, extended families, and the addition to their household, makes My Dearest Mr. Darcy another fantastic addition to any Austen Lovers Library!
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Once again we find our lovers in the throes of what else but love. However; I think this novel may be my favorite so far because it shows so much more than their love.
My Dearest Mr. Darcy is packed with love, histories behind beloved characters and even some scandals to boot. I couldn’t help but once again fall right back into Pemberley and become part of the family once more. I believe it’s the author’s writing style but you feel a sense of belonging to the Darcy’s world that I haven’t experienced in other Pride & Prejudice sequels. And once again I give a great deal of credit to the strong characters who by themselves could stand alone and are furthermore enhanced through Lathan’s third book. I truly relished the emergence of George as a main character he adds life and knowledge to the novel. Not to mention he’s a little bit of a comedian and I couldn’t help but smile if he were on the page I was reading. Confession time: I think although I love Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam; George is my new favorite and I wish he were my uncle!
I’ve enjoyed my time with the Darcy’s through the authors eyes immensely. It seems sad to know I have to wait for the next book to be released. This trilogy made me remember the first time I read Pride and Prejudice and renewed my love for all things Darcy. And I really enjoyed the way the author keeps the books authentic and realistic. She truly does a magnificent job capturing Austen’s beloved characters and I can’t wait to read what’s next for my favorite couple!
If you enjoy novels that extrapolate on the love story of Lizzie Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Sharon Lathan’s books, My Dearest Mr. Darcy will surely entertain. I enjoyed this the most because in My Dearest Mr. Darcy, Lathan tells the story partly from Dr. George Darcy’s point of view. Dr. George Darcy is Fitzwilliam’s uncle who lived and worked in India for years and as he writes to Jharna, his love, about his impressions of England and his family during this first visit in decades, Dr. Darcy brings a lively and interesting perspective. I enjoyed reading Dr. Darcy’s observations of how Fitzwilliam Darcy had changed and his view on the relationship between Lizzie and Darcy.
I don’t want to give anything away, but the other passages that I enjoyed involved (1) a snob who is finally put in her place and is made speechless and (2) the comeuppance of a lady who oversteps. If you want a quiet escape into the period and people of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, you may want to give My Dearest Mr. Darcy a try.
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Kratom: A So-Called Legal Opioid
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Henkin DR, Sullivan B, and Smith JS. Kratom: A So-Called Legal Opioid. J Gen Intern Med 2019; 34(2):S570-S571.
J Gen Intern Med
Learning Objective #1: Familiarize the reader of the substance called kratom Learning Objective #2: Assessment and management of intoxication, withdrawal and detoxification of kratom Recognize the legality and regulation of kratom in the U.S. CASE: We present a case of a 25 year old male who presented to an inpatient rehabilitation and detoxification center requesting help for an addiction to kratom. He disclosed a history of IV heroin use 2 years earlier, which he stated he was able to wean himself from using kratom. He endorsed ingesting kratom powder up to 40 grams twice daily for the last 2 years. The patient recognized his tolerance and ultimately his addiction, but attempting to quit "cold turkey" caused him to develop symptoms of myalgias, chills, diarrhea, rhinorrhea, arthralgias and fatigue. Given his apparent tolerance and withdrawal symptoms similar to that of a true opioid withdrawal, he was managed with a buprenorphine taper, which adequately allowed him to successfully complete detoxification. IMPACT/DISCUSSION: The substance called kratom has recently gained more recognition on the streets and in admissions to detoxification centers. Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) is a plant indigenous to Southeast Asia and Thailand. At different concentrations of its leaves, ingestion will produce both stimulant and opioid-like effects, with studies showing its mode of action by binding mu opioid receptors. One online "Kratom User Guide" suggests that 1-5 grams elicit a stimulant effect and higher doses of 5-15 grams cause opioid-like effects. Intoxication at higher doses in long-term users or in acute toxicity has been reported to cause seizures and hepatotoxicity. The CDC has even traced kratom to a multi-state outbreak of salmonella. There is a noticeable increase in the number of articles referencing kratom, as well as an increasing amount of vendors and general information websites for kratom in the past few years which may suggest a greater overall demand. Conclusion: Kratom is an addictive substance whose use has actually been outlawed in many Southeast Asian countries. In the US, kratom is legally regulated as an herbal product under US law, FDA and DEA policies, and is therefore considered a legal substance in the United States. That being said, the Drugs and Chemicals of Concern list states, "There is no legitimate medical use for kratom in the U.S." In 2016, the DEA planned to classify kratom as a schedule I drug; however the DEA received significant challenges from the public and ended up releasing a withdrawal of notice of intent. In the time of writing this, kratom is still not a scheduled drug. As it remains easily accessible in local tobacco shops and online, we must be aware of its existence and use pattern as well as its effects, abuse potential and addictive properties.
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13 January 2020 12:50pm
By Daniel Smith
Artemis XIV secures 5.5 world title after exciting final day in Pittwater
Artemis XIV wins the 5.5 world title
© Robert Deaves
Artemis XIV (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Anders Pedersen) have won the 2020 5.5 Metre World Championship at the Royal Prince Alfred YC, in Newport, Australia, after a thrilling final day of racing.
New Moon II (BAH 24, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) ends up second on equal points with Ali Baba (BAH 23, Craig Symonette, Flavio Marrazi, Will Alloway).
On a day in which everyone had their chances, and the left side kept on giving, the race wins went to Prettynama (GER 79, Max Müller, Mark Dangel, Wiebe de Witte) and John B (BAH 22, Gavin McKinney, Mathias Dahlman, Lars Horn Johannessen).
While the forecast was not far off, the day promised more than it delivered with clearing skies, rising temperatures and a north-easterly breeze. However in contrast to previous days the nor'eastlerly never rose above 8-10 knots and spent most of the day struggling to build to more than 6-7 knots. However it was a great day on the water, more so after Sunday's cold and wet conditions and was a great end to a fabulous championship.
Highlights Day 5
New Moon II
After being called on the course side in the first race of the day, Race 6, Ali Baba succeeded in returning and then being fastest to the top mark. Followed by Artemis XIV, they then followed the pressure out to the right, only to have the left come in strong. Leading the left pack were Prettynama, who then held onto the lead downwind to win the race by less than a boatlength from Ali Baba and Zicca (SUI 201, Tobias Isler, Rob Schrivenor, Will MacKenzie). Artemis XIV fared worse and ended up fifth across the line, which meant the championship would go down to the final race.
While most favoured the left again in Race 7, Ali Baba headed right after a bad start. Only Ali Baba could now beat Artemis XIV to the title, so they followed and kept close to the Bahamian team. When the fleet came back together they were both mid fleet. It looked like game over. Ali Baba showed exceptional speed to climb to fifth, but couldn't get near to the leaders. John B led the race at every mark to score their first win of the championship while the others scrabbled for every point, as the podium places were extremely tight. Girls on Film (GBR 40, Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Andrew Mills) looked to have the initial advantage and were second at the gate. However New Moon II initiated a tacking dual up the final beat and coming into the line there was nothing to separate the two boats. In a photo finish, New Moon II crossed just inches ahead of Girls on Film, enough to take the silver for the second year running, while fifth for Ali Baba was enough for the bronze, on equal points with New Moon II.
Peter Vlasov, from New Moon II said, "Very exciting. There were five boats that could make it onto the podium and so it went. Kristian knew that if he came fourth or less then that would seal the world championship for him. And then the battle really began during the end of race one today leading into Race 2, because it was all down to the wire. Whoever ended up ahead was going to win silver and bronze."
"For us it was exciting because it was all tacking duals. Our fellow Bahamian, Gavin McKinney decided to declared World War Three which we promptly won, and then we got into this tacking dual at the very end, leading up to the finish with Morty (Girls on Film) and his cool crew and we are talking millimetres. We crossed the finish line ahead of Morty by maybe 10 cm. It was beautiful. We are very excited to have fought for this silver medal."
"I am happy to say that this was an awesome world championship. I don't know what we are going to have to invent to come back to Sydney, very soon. Something very good."
Top three crews
Will Alloway, from Ali Baba, said, "We had a good first race. We led round the top mark and then got a bit unfortunate on the second beat and finished second. We had two bad starts today, but good comebacks in both races."
"On the last race we messed up the start again and hot the right and managed to catch the guys up downwind and had good racing. Our whole strategy was to go left just to get the pressure coming down the course, but we were forced to tack out right and slowly work our way back to the left. The guys did a great job getting the boat going."
"I got involved with Craig through Flavio [Marazzi]. I sail with Flavio on the GT32, the hydro-foiling cat. Then I did the Alpen Cup on Garda and enjoyed that and decided to do the worlds out here. It's been a great couple of weeks, training before the worlds as well."
It is his first year in 5.5s, and the second event. "I am really enjoying sailing them. The boats are super tweaky. The moderns are very similar in boatspeed, so almost a one-design class. But it's really nice sailing them with a bit of development mixed in, providing very exciting and fun racing."
Start of Race 6
For Kristian Nergaard, this win is his tenth world title, but nerves still played a part.
"Of course we were nervous going into the last race. We are not that strong in the light airs and with the lumpy stiff and we had to protect, but fortunately we had a third as our throw out going into today and that was important for us."
"In the first race we were more concerned about New Moon II, they were closer to us, but we were with them and then we were on the right side, which was wrong. So we got a fifth in that race, and that was OK, so what it came down to in the end before the last if Ali Baba had won the last and we were fifth or worse, he would have won. So we just wanted to be around him at the start and we both got a bad start. We were second row. So we stayed with him and stayed close to him."
He paid tribute to his crew. "Johan has been sailing for so many years, Solings, Olympics, and very experienced, so just a great crew to have. And Anders, with his experience now, in the Finn and going to the Olympics in a few months, was also great to have on the boat. He had to learn of course as he had not done that much, but he came round nicely and was a good part of the team."
"It was a good team. Very happy about the boys, very happy about the series and of course wining the words again is great.. Very happy to do that."
About the organisation over the last two weeks, "I was here in 1991 and sailed with my father and Australia has always been a nice place to come back to. It is beautiful, nice weather and nice challenging conditions. It was windy in the beginning and we liked that and when it was light and lumpy it was more challenging for us, but generally we got all types of conditions that you would need at a world championship. I must say to the organisers with the PRO, that it was a very professional team. I haven't really seen that in a long time. So they held a really nice regatta and everything has been done and well organised at the yacht club and its just been very nice. I think the Australians really did a good job."
"I've been with the class for some time, but right now I see that there is more guys coming into the class, there are more boats being built and there is quite a bit of interest and I think that there are going to get more than 20 moderns at future world championships, so that is good. It's definitely at a good place right now and I think we will see a lot of good sailors coming into the class and lot of interest in the class.."
In the whole 76-year history of the 5.5 Metre, only one skipper has ever won back to back titles in both the Scandinavian Gold Cup and the world championship - Kristian Neergard. Now he has repeated that feat and a word of warning for those looking to take over his mantle - next year's events will be at his home club in Hankø, Norway.
Final results (after 7 races)
1 Artemis XIV (NOR 57, Kristian Nergaard, Johan Barne, Anders Pedersen) 15
2 New Moon II (BAH 24, Mark Holowesko, Christoph Burger, Peter Vlasov) 19
3 Ali Baba (BAH 23, Craig Symonette, Flavio Marrazi, Will Alloway) 19
4 John B (BAH 22, Gavin McKinney, Mathias Dahlman, Lars Horn Johannessen) 22
5 Girls on Film (GBR 40, Peter Morton, Andrew Palfrey, Andrew Mills) 22
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I was George Szell’s concertmaster
By norman lebrecht
Listen to Anthea Kreston’s new podcast with Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri String quartet. Between trying his hand as a soloist and forming the quartet in Marlboro, he earned his keep at the Cleveland Orchestra.
‘My heroes are all Europeans,’ he confides.
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Esther Cavett says:
==‘My heroes are all Europeans,’ he confides.
And not, for example, Isaac Stern !
Most Americans are European including Isaac Stern.
PeterSD says:
Well, he does mention Stern in passing, among the “great” musicians his wife has photographed…
Freddynyc says:
Wouldn’t doubt if he were one of Stern’s targets back in the day – being young, American and up and coming. These are qualities that threatened his massive ego and fueled his paranoia…..
Ruben Greenberg says:
A magnificent violinist and who writes about the experience of playing music; of a life in music, more eloquently and poetically than Mr. Steinhardt? My hero is American: Arnold Steinhard.
Anthea kreston says:
That was one of the most amazing experiences, to be able to talk to him. He is, indeed, a hero to many, for his musicianship as well as as a teacher and human. A beautiful man.
Amos says:
For 4-5 years (1958-1962?) he was the Assistant Concertmaster. During his tenure in Cleveland, Mr. Gingold and Mr. Druian were the Concertmasters.
Yes this is absolutely true, Amos, and we state this exactly as you mention in the podcast. Somehow the SD crew got cross-messaged on the title. Thanks for the clarification.
Mr. Steinhardt has never claimed to have been the concertmaster and in print has been complimentary of Mr. Gingold. Regardless he was a prominent member of what many of us view as an orchestra without peer. His post-CO work as a musician and author are, in the best sense of the phrase, also of the highest order.
Basset Horn says:
He was assistant/associate concertmaster, never the concertmaster in Cleveland
Petros Linardos says:
Is there any European counterpart to Marlboro?
I think there is something kindof similar in Poland. I can’t remember the name.
A magnificent violinist and nobody writes about the experience of making music and about a life in music as well as Arnold Steinhardt. My heroe is American and is Arnold Steinhardt.
Arnold Steinhardt is a wonderful musician with a marvellous tone but I think violinists like Midori Must not be overlooked.
Good idea for a future podcast!
NYMike says:
Arnold was an ass’t. concertmaster in Cleveland, not concertmaster.
David K. Nelson says:
Very interesting, thanks for the link and the opportunity to hear this. But I do remember when the Guarneri was the hot new quartet in concert and on recordings, that it was regarded by most as modern and sleek and “American” in sound and style, as was the Juilliard, compared to those old Europeans in the Budapest SQ (who in turn had probably been regarded as modern and sleek in sound and style compared to the Arnold Rosé SQ or the Flonzaley SQ, who in turn … and so it goes).
With all due respect, the sound of the Juilliard and Guarneri were quite different with the former much more “American”. Also as I recall upon his passing Mr. Steinhardt acquired Josef Roisman’s violin. Clearly, the sound is the violinist’s but the influence seems undeniable.
TS Schurk says:
Steinhardt was never Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra. He was Assistant Concertmaster, sitting next to Concertmaster Josef Gingold. Steinhardt held that position for about 5 seasons.
Phillip Rose says:
I WAS GEORGE SZELL’S CONCERTMASTER.
He never was, and never claimed to be. (Perhaps there is a subeditor writing these misleading/incorrect headlines?)
Yes he was assistant, we talk about in the interview. It’s a mistake in the headline.
Westfan says:
This was a lovely interview. The Guarneri were the first quartet I ever heard in person, as a high school kid at Interlochen. Bought their Ravel/Debussy album afterwards. Left a huge impression on me, a non string player. Thanks for posting this link.
Beautiful man
Jeremy Wardle says:
Well done to Anthea K for producing such a wonderful talk !
There are another 10 in the series – you can find them on SoundCloud – https://m.soundcloud.com/user-866151632-154262214/sets/pierre-boulez-saal-quartet – it was such an inspiring week to be able to talk to Arditti, Ebene, Günter Pichler, and a bunch more. Hagen Quartet!!!
Lady Weidenfeld says:
What a joy to hear Arnold’s voice in such an excellent interview! It brought back a host of memories from the early days of the Guarneri Quartet to the present! It has been a joy and a privilege to count him as a dear friend through those decades and the unique sound of the Quartet remains for ever in my ears bringing back the excitement of their visits to London and later to Spain and Portugal when I brought them there. Michael and David are sadly no longer with us, but it was a joy for Menahem Pressler and me to meet Arnold for tea just two months ago and reminisce! Arnold please get writing your Key of Strawberry again — we miss it! You are a great violinist, a wonderful writer and a very special human being!
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Jarrett J. Krosoczka, School Nutrition Association and Random House Children’s Books Announce School Lunch Superhero Day!
Contact: Diane Pratt-Heavner
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD (April 24, 2013) – On Friday, May 3rd, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author and illustrator of the popular LUNCH LADY graphic novel series, is teaming up with the School Nutrition Association and Random House Children’s Books to launch School Lunch Superhero Day, a celebration that offers students nationwide an opportunity to give thanks to the school nutrition professionals who feed 31 million students every day.
Inspired by his own childhood School Lunch Superhero, Jean J. Cariglia, Jarrett J. Krosoczka created the popular LUNCH LADY series of graphic novels for kids, starring a crime-fighting school nutrition professional and her faithful sidekick, Betty. “Over the years since the Lunch Lady books made their debut, I’ve seen so many wonderful acts of kindness brought on by kids for their school lunch staff,” says Krosoczka. “I’m thrilled to establish an annual holiday when kids across the country can let their school lunch staff know how much they appreciate what’s being done for them on a daily basis.”
School Lunch Superhero Day encourages schools to honor the men and women working in their cafeterias and show their appreciation with cards, bouquets and special recognition for their kind service. Creative ideas, downloads and details are available at www.SchoolLunchSuperheroDay.com.
“Too often, school nutrition professionals, their hard work and dedication to the children they serve go unrecognized,” said School Nutrition Association President Sandra Ford, SNS. “School Lunch Superhero Day gives students and schools an opportunity to spotlight their school nutrition staff and thank them for the healthy meals they serve and for making the cafeteria a fun and welcoming place for students.”
Last fall, School Lunch Superheroes took on a new challenge. New federal nutrition standards for school meals require cafeterias to offer larger servings and a wider variety of fruits and vegetables, switch to whole grains and limit the sodium, calories and saturated fat in each meal. School nutrition professionals have been mixing up the menu and getting students excited about trying the new, healthier choices in school lunch, all while navigating students’ special dietary needs.
The School Nutrition Association reports countless ways in which School Lunch Superheroes show their strengths:
At Coulter Grove Intermediate School in Tennessee, Patty Morris is beloved by all her students. Her cafeteria manager reports “Patty greets everyone with warmth and enthusiasm. She knows her students so well that she can tell what fruits and vegetables they enjoy and they trust her when she encourages them to try something new. Our students love her. When she worked at the high school she was often given honors from the student body and individual students. Many have come back years later to visit our school and seek out Patty.”
Rhonda Caron, at Cooperative Middle School in New Hampshire is known for her efforts to make healthy choices appealing for students. Her manager says, “Rhonda shows her creative side by preparing and showcasing our beautiful vegetable and fruit bars, arranging side salads and deli sandwiches in a way that is not only visually appealing, but super colorful and eye popping!”
In Missouri, Dawn Lehmann of Seckman Middle School and Loretta Beck of Simpson Elementary, realized that many students and families in their community don’t know the fundamentals of cooking. They worked together to develop a class designed to teach the art and love of cooking and promote a healthier way of eating. On Thursdays after wrapping up their work in their school cafeterias, the two team up to teach the two hour class for 4th-6th graders.
As part of SNA’s recent National School Breakfast Week student writing contest, one fifth grader from Dublin Consolidated School in New Hampshire honored his school cafeteria manager. “If I could enjoy school breakfast [with anyone] in the world, it would be our school lunch lady, Miss Lorie. I would pick her because she does so many good things for the students of DCS. Like gives us homemade Christmas ordements [sic], and makes out of this world muffins! And I would just like to thank her for all she does.”
The latest title in the LUNCH LADY series, LUNCH LADY AND THE VIDEO GAME VILLAIN (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / On sale April 23, 2013), is available now, with the tenth and final LUNCH LADY AND THE SCHOOLWIDE SCUFFLE (On sale December 24, 2013) to follow.
About Jarrett J. Krosoczka: Jarrett J. Krosoczka is a two-time winner of the Children’s Choice Book Award for the Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year, and is author and illustrator of twenty books including the Lunch Lady graphic novel series and the just released Platypus Police Squad middle-grade series. Jarrett’s TED Talk on his journey from boy to artist can be viewed on the TED website. He is also the host of The Book Report with JJK on SiriusXM’s Kids’ Place Live, a twice-a-month segment celebrating authors, books and reading. His work has been recommended by national publications such as NPR, Newsweek, The New York Times and USA Today and his Punk Farm picture book and Lunch Lady series are in development to be feature films. Jarrett lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife, two daughters, and their dog, Ralph Macchio.
About School Nutrition Association: School Nutrition Association is a national, non-profit professional organization representing 55,000 school nutrition professionals across the country. Founded in 1946, SNA and its members are dedicated to making healthy school meals and nutrition education available to all students. School Lunch Superhero Day will kick off SNA’s annual School Nutrition Employee Week (May 6-10, 2013), recognizing the many contributions of school nutrition professionals. To find out more about today’s school meals, visit www.TrayTalk.org.
Random House Children’s Books: Random House Children’s Books is the world’s largest English-language children’s trade book publisher. Creating books for toddlers through young adult readers, in all formats from board books to activity books to picture books, novels, ebooks, and apps, the imprints of Random House Children’s Books bring together award-winning authors and illustrators, world-famous franchise characters, and multimillion-copy series. The company’s website, Kids @ Random (www.randomhousekids.com) offers an array of activities, games, and resources for children, teens, parents, and educators. Random House Children’s Books is a division of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann, a leading international media company.
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Mary Van Akin / mvanakin@randomhouse.com / 212-572-6014 / Associate Publicist / Random House Children’s Books
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How to Shape Rough Quartz Crystals Into Shards
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How Can I Tell the Difference Between Fluorite & Quartz?
By Tracy Barnhart
Quartz is the most common mineral in the Earth’s crust. Well-formed crystals occur in clusters, geodes and veins. On the Mohs hardness scale of one (softest) to ten (hardest), quartz ranks a seven, meaning that it is quite hard. While many varieties of quartz exist, the most well-known is called “Rock Crystal” which is often colorless with a glassy luster. Quartz crystals have no cleavage; therefore, the crystals do not break along the crystal face. If broken, quartz exhibits a conchoidal fracture. Because of the fracture, quartz crystals will break into sharp pieces.
Don your safety gear. At a minimum, you should wear safety glasses and a particulate mask. Gloves and a full mask can protect your skin from cuts.
Wrap the quartz crystals in a towel. Use old towels because they will likely tear because of the sharp crystal edges.
Place the wrapped crystals on a hard surface such as a concrete sidewalk or patio. Choose a spot that can withstand a strong force from a hammer and where you are not concerned with scratching the surface.
Hit the crystals with the rock hammer. To create the small shard size, you will likely need to strike the crystals repeatedly. If necessary, unwrap the crystals after your initial break and re-wrap the large pieces to repeat the process. The natural fracture of the rock creates smaller shards of quartz as you continue to break the crystals. The benefit of using the rock hammer is that you can control the force that you exert on the crystals, thus controlling the size of the shards.
Use care when handling the quartz crystal shards; they may be very sharp.
Mindat.org: Quartz
Tracy Barnhart is an earth science expert. A professional geologist with over 16 years of technical writing experience, she has expanded her writing skills to include instructional articles on business, parenting, finance and science. She has Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in geology from Furman University and the University of South Carolina.
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Eric Ambler · 11/09/2012
There’s a British colloquialism I like, “taking the piss,” which refers to a type of unreasonable antagonism that’s usually intended to provoke an emotional reaction. The Comedy is basically a 90-minute workshop on this concept, an acerbic character study starring Tim Heidecker (TV’s Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job)
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When you hear the names Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, you immediately think of the crazy duo who brought us films like their most recent, Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie. What you don’t think of is a provocative indie Sundance film entitled The Comedy. The title makes you think this film
THE COMEDY Teaser: Tim and Eric Get Dramatic
Via /Film, we have the debuting teaser trailer for Rick Alverson’s The Comedy, a disconcerting portrait of white male privilege that reportedly challenged the Sundance walkout record when it bowed at the festival earlier this year. The teaser doesn’t try to hide its reputation – the first featured quote is
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Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy: Hearings Before the United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Third Session, on Dec. 20-23, 28, 29, 1920
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Painter Bros Now Franchising
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Tories gain in Scottish elections, but not enough to beat the dominant SNP
by Raymie Kiernan
Published Tue 9 May 2017
Nicola Sturgeon's Scottish National Party remains dominant in Scotland, despite Tory gains (Pic: First Minister of Scotland/Flickr)
The Tories came second in last week’s Scottish local council elections and proclaimed themselves the sole winners.
There is no doubt that the Tories had a good election in Scotland.
But they’re still less popular in Scotland than they were under hated former leader Margaret Thatcher.
And the Scottish National Party (SNP) easily topped the poll with 431 seats. The Tories’ 276 seats came mainly at Labour’s expense, not the SNP’s.
The Tories gained by successfully posing as the party of the British union, and to a lesser extent the party of Brexit. “Only the Tories could stop another independence referendum,” was their key argument.
But was the vote the resounding rejection of independence that much of the media claimed?
If that was true, the 17 council areas with higher than average No votes in the 2014 referendum should have recorded losses for the SNP. Only ten of them did.
And the 12 above average Yes areas in 2014 should have seen big gains for the SNP. But in four of them it suffered losses.
The common thread between these losses for the SNP is that it was the majority party—or part of a coalition council—making cuts.
It is also implementing austerity as the Scottish government.
The SNP emerged as the largest party in nine councils in the 2012 council elections. Only four of these were the same this time.
The SNP is now the largest party in 16 councils, overtaking Labour in many of them.
But the big shift was from Labour to Tory. Labour lost heaviest in the big cities and working class areas. In only one out of 32 councils did Labour move forward—and it only gained one seat.
Labour lost around ten seats or more in seven councils, including Glasgow and Edinburgh. Of these, only in Glasgow did the SNP gain more than the Tories.
And only in Edinburgh, where the SNP ran the council along with Labour, did the SNP suffer a loss.
A number of socialist candidates stood for the Scottish Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). The best result was in Dundee's Maryfield ward where Stuart Fairweather won 250 votes (6.1 percent) for Dundee Against Cuts - TUSC. Socialist Worker supporter Angela McCormick received 62 votes in Glasgow's Canal ward.
Castlemilk Against Austerity activist Cathy Milligan won 744 votes in Glasgow's Linn ward.
Independence was a big factor in the election, and will be again on 8 June. But it’s foolish to think it is the only dynamic at play.
In truth there was not a huge change in terms of the proportion of seats held by pro or anti independence parties.
The danger is the general election in Scotland is fought purely on whether you support “nationalists” or “unionists”.
Neither represent working class interests. The more socialists can make the debate about class and rejecting Tory rule as well as independence the better it will be for the struggles after the election.
Tue 9 May 2017, 14:23 BST
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[Streaming]: Jochen Tiberius Koch – “Astoria” (excerpts)
German artist shares new music
Jochen Tiberius Koch is a German composer and musician. One year his first full-length, he announced the release of a new album. Astoria will be out on January 17th, 2020 via Schole Records. His previous album was produced from the inspiration from the best American non-fiction book “Walden – Life in the Woods”, and his new album is also produced with the similar concept.
According to the press release, This album tells a story about the history of “Astoria”, a hotel built in 1915 located at Leipzig, Germany. The building was damaged during the war and air raid, but it has been refurbished brilliantly then became as the most beautiful building in the country. The music tells a story, how it was affected from the political issues and survived during the period of division and reunification of the country, until the closure of the hotel. Also, this story also can be read from the CD booklet.
Excerpts are available below.
Astoria by Jochen Tiberius Koch
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Home › Blog › GDPR is for Everyone – Why All Businesses Need A Data Privacy Policy
GDPR is for Everyone – Why All Businesses Need A Data Privacy Policy
Posted on September 24, 2018 by George Crump
Many IT Planners look at the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as a distinctly European problem. The reality is the GDPR and regulations like it, impact businesses around the world. GDPR impacts any business that does business in the EU, and many countries are adopting legislation that is very similar to this regulation. In the US for example, California recently passed the Consumer Privacy Act, which has much in common with GDPR.
From a data perspective, GDPR and similar legislation make two processes critical within an organization; data protection and data retention. Unique to these regulations is the focus on the protection and retention of data belonging to users and customers even after those customers have signed a usage agreement.
The data protection components of these regulations are straightforward. They require that the organization must protect all customer and user data and that it must all be recoverable. A challenge in these regulations is their use of language like “in a timely manner”, but they don’t define what “timely” means.
Understanding Data Retention and Privacy
A data retention policy defines how long an organization will keep data. Data privacy defines how an organization will ensure who has access to the organization’s or a users’ data. Regulations like GDPR present a new challenge to data retention and privacy policies. These regulations allow the user or customer to demand that an organization remove all data that it may be storing about the user or customer.
Often called “the right to be forgotten”, these policies are essentially retention policies in reverse. The organization, instead of making sure it always stores a copy of data, now has to make sure that it removes and never stores another copy of that user’s data again. It has to redesign its backup architecture to respond to requests like “delete John Smith from every backup and archive.”
The Problem with Backup and Data Privacy
Executing a data privacy request requires an organization to have granular detail of the data it stores. The problem is that most backup solutions, for years, have protected data in bulk. In most modern backup applications organizations use today backup data is stored as an image of a volume or a server. Image backups are more efficient at data transfer than most other forms of backup, especially when protecting hundreds of thousands files. While most data protection solutions can extract individual files from an image backup, searching across multiple image backups for every instance of a particular group of files is almost impossible.
The Problem with Data Management
The granular, discrete access to specific sets of files and making sure those files are retained, or not, is typically the responsibility of a data management or archiving solution. The first problem with counting on a data management solution to enable an organization to comply with GDPR like data privacy demands is most organizations don’t have a data management solution. These organizations count on backups for their data retention needs, which won’t meet the GDPR requirement. The second problem is that data management solutions don’t provide data protection so the organization has to implement, manage and monitor at least two separate solutions.
Data Management with Integrated Protection
The answer for organizations is to look for solutions that integrate data protection and data management into a single solution. The solution will still need to provide very rapid backup performance while having the granularity to search across those backups to find specific data patterns that need to be either retained for a long period of time or deleted.
In our next blog, solving “The Right To Be Forgotten” Problem”, we’ll discuss how organizations can address the this problem and how data management and data protection software needs to change to better meet these demands.
About George Crump
Twelve years ago George Crump founded Storage Switzerland with one simple goal; to educate IT professionals about all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought after public speaker. With over 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS and SAN, Virtualization, Cloud and Enterprise Flash. Prior to founding Storage Switzerland he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators where he was in charge of technology testing, integration and product selection.
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By: Ruthven Todd, Paul Galdone
"An amusing combination of comical cat story and science fiction for the youngest fans, made even more amusing by the artist's interpretation of a cat in a space suit." — Horn Book
A little gray kitten with a taste for adventure stows away on an airplane, and the daring stunt turns out to be his first step toward becoming … Space Cat! The plane's pilot, Captain Fred Stone, names his fuzzy new friend Flyball and welcomes him to an experimental station set up in the middle of the desert. Flyball enjoys supervising the station's workers and takes particular interest in the big rocket ship that he's not allowed to explore. Regardless of the rules, the kitty is determined to hitch another ride, and before you know it, Flyball's wearing a custom-made pressurized suit and headed for the Moon.
This new edition of a charmingly illustrated storybook from 1952 is the first of a four-book series starring the intrepid feline known as Space Cat. Young readers will delight in taking a look at space exploration from Flyball's point of view and following his escapades across the solar system.
Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1952 edition.
Author/Editor Ruthven Todd, Paul Galdone
Space Cat Visits Venus
Stinker from Space
Stinker's Return
Space Cat Meets Mars
Space Cat and the Kittens
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Why celebrating good leadership matters
Vanessa Stoykov, creator, No More Practice
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I recently undertook the task of being a judge for the Women in Finance Awards. To be honest, at the time, it was hours of work assessing entries and a day of phone calls with finalists. It was a squeeze into an already packed schedule, which I must admit I did grumble a little about at the time.
But then a funny thing happened. I started reading the submissions and talking to the finalists, and then I realised something. The passion, dedication and extreme smarts so many of these people had put into their work was inspiring.
Even better, I attended the awards night (along with 1000 others) with my friend Connie Mckeage, who was nominated for CEO of the Year (a category I can assure you I did not judge!). Now I have experienced first-hand the work, dedication and wisdom Connie has. Her business, OneVue, acquired No More Practice Education earlier
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Even better, I attended the awards night (along with 1000 others) with my friend Connie Mckeage, who was nominated for CEO of the Year (a category I can assure you I did not judge!). Now I have experienced first-hand the work, dedication and wisdom Connie has. Her business, OneVue, acquired No More Practice Education earlier this year. I have seen the hours Connie puts in (more than anyone I know) the care she takes with the little things, the way she knows the names of more than 300 people that work for OneVue, and the intense drive she has to grow the business and serve the market as the name behind many of the biggest brands in the market.
She does not seek publicity or accolades (someone else nominated her for the award), and she has happily said her job is to make other businesses and people shine. She is someone who does not need an award to know how much she has achieved.
But then something amazing happened on the night. Connie did win, it did matter, and she delivered a speech that was powerful - about inclusion, and about driving change. It made an impact and the room was buzzing. And I saw Connie connect with people –both men and women, with her message of the need for leaders to change the dynamics of our industry, one individual at a time.
The winner of the Fintech of the Year award, Catriona Wallace, CEO of Flamingo AI said she was only the second woman to list a Fintech company on the Australian Stock Exchange. And it was hard (she said something far more descriptive, but I won’t affect the spam filters to repeat it!). And then she said something equally powerful – that the first to do so was Connie. Catriona had looked up to Connie and she then called Connie to the stage to share her award with her. Catriona recognised the importance of creating positive role models, role models not focused on why something could not be achieved but rather women celebrating what has been achieved.
In that moment I realised how important it was to have fearless leadership that others can follow. To be an example of what can be done, rather than what cannot. And how this should be celebrated so that others can witness it, and one day have the courage to follow.
So I commend Momentum Media for hosting these awards and what they represent. While I am lucky enough to work first hand with someone of Connie’s calibre, so many are not. To highlight and celebrate great leadership is something we need to do more of as we rebuild our industry out of the ashes of the Royal Commission.
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Stanley Durall, the notorious director of a series of intense erotic dramas, is returning to his debut movie, God’s Lonely Woman, to provide an audio commentary for the film’s first Blu-ray release since it was banned in the 1970s. It’s clear from his commentary that Stanley committed a series of transgressions against his lead actresses during production, transgressions which had serious consequences for everyone involved – everyone except him. But will he finally be punished for his past behaviour?
The second film by Sam Ashurst (Frankenstein’s Creature), A Little More Flesh is a bold and incendiary exploration of misogyny and the male gaze.
Starring: Elf Lyons (Edinburgh Comedy Award finalist), Hazel Townsend (Philippe Gaulier graduate), Dane Baptiste (Sunny D, Live At The Apollo), Gabriel Thomson (My Family), Rob Kemp (The Elvis Dead), and James Swanton (Frankenstein’s Creature).
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SGW Artificial Turf Featured on June 6 Episode of “Homergency”
June 12, 2012 /0 Comments/in Giving Back, Press, Synthetic Grass Warehouse /by SGW Staff
SGW turfs may not get as much as television exposure this summer as, say, the Kardashians. But the best-selling brand of synthetic grass is getting lots of camera time, landing guest-star roles with product placement in two home-improvement series.
In the June 6 episode of “Homergency” on SKTV at SheKnows.com, a leading website for women, a homeowner in Phoenix, Arizona receives a charitable total makeover starring a beautiful backyard with 2,000 square feet of SGW lawn.
Michelle Capuzano, 32, is a single mother and special education teacher dedicated to providing for her son, David. He was born prematurely, weighing 2 pounds, 6 ounces; now age 15, David has constantly struggled with health issues, including 31 brain surgeries. Michelle, who has received masters’ degrees from Arizona State University, works with at-risk children facing challenges similar to her son — and was overjoyed at the happy ending on “Homergency.”
“When I saw the new lawn in the backyard I just lost it,” Michelle said. “We’ve had our years of tough times, and therapy has taught us to imagine yourself in a peaceful place. With the turf, our yard is that place.
“David is allergic to real grass. But now he can be a kid in his back yard. This was an amazing gift.”
SGW’s Majestic turf steals the show in an outdoor living area do-over on DIY Network’s “Kitchen Crashers,” premiering July 9.
Each week, host Alison Victoria and other In this show, “Kitchen Crashers” comes to the rescue of a random homeowner shopping in Henderson, Nevada, outside Las Vegas. A “green” conversion for an outdoor living space is prescribed; Damon Long, a designer, specifies synthetic grass for its beauty and long-lasting, maintenance-free aspects.
“Kitchen Crashers” host Alison Victoria (who supervised a $160 million expansion of the Silverton Casino Hotel in Las Vegas and designed a unit for Chicago’s Trump Tower in Chicago), with other designer and contractor professionals, surprises do-it-yourselfers at home-improvement stores; follows them home; and transforms their underwhelming environment into a dazzling showstopper. In this episode, “Kitchen Crashers” rescues a homeowner in Henderson, Nevada, and a “green” conversion for an outdoor living space is prescribed.
Spoiler alert: SGW’s Majestic synthetic grass is chosen for its long-lasting, maintenance-free beauty. According to “Kitchen Crashers” producer Nikki Frakes, “The results were fantastic.”
The SGW turf will also be showcased and linked at DIY’s online marketplace.
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Super tactical droids
Separatist battle droid models
Baktoid Combat Automata[1]
Tactical droid[2]
Masculine programming[3]
E-5 blaster rifle[4]
Agamar Separatist holdout[5]
Kanan Jarrus: "I think the commander's a super tactical droid."
Rex: "Ah, you're right. He is."
Ezra Bridger: "Is that bad?"
Rex: "It's really bad. That droid's extremely intelligent."
―Kanan Jarrus, Captain Rex, and Ezra Bridger[src]
Super tactical droids were advanced tactical droids that had command capabilities during the Clone Wars, acting as generals of the Separatist Droid Army. One such droid was Kalani, who was in command of the Confederacy of Independent Systems forces during their occupation of Onderon.[6]
They would often resort to threats and torture as interrogation routes. These droids were created to analyze a battle, calculate a possible battle-winning solution, and a time frame to carry out their plan. Being programmed with Separatist beliefs, they ruled through fear and through the lack of courage and hope in their victims and specifically "freedom from the tyranny of the republic."[5] Although Super Tactical Droids were not directly involved in combat, they were able to effectively use self-defense and an E-5 blaster rifle. Being programmed for success, they are willing to kill for the advancement of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.[source?]
Building off their predecessors, the T-series tactical droid, they had a much more robotic inflection to their voices, as well a larger, more imposing and more damage-resistant body. These droids were also able to better process and adapt to sudden changes and unexpected complications and have more variables in their calculations. Although better than those before them, flaws in their programming were still prevalent. These included the difficulty to see approaches and plans that differ from their own, and the overconfidence in the Confederacy of Independent Systems and its army.[source?]
Super tactical droids were created in response to the T-series tactical droid's failure to adapt.[7] Used in the Confederacy of Independent Systems' military forces during the Clone Wars, they were highly intelligent, strategic, and masterful commanders in the Droid Army.[2] The super tactical droids were seen as very dangerous to veteran officers.[source?]
Clone Wars Edit
"Luckily, their [T-series tactical droid's] lack of adaptability led to the introduction of—you guessed it—super tactical droids. Despite their self-proclaimed superiority, these upgraded units still couldn't find a to win the war."
―R0-GR[src]
In 20 BBY,[8] Separatist leader, Count Dooku dispatched General Kalani to assist King Sanjay Rash's forces in dealing with the rebels of Onderon.[3] During this time, he worked alongside the Royal Militia's commander, General Tandin as they attempted to capture the rebels in Iziz. However, Tandin and his forces then defected and assisted the rebels in freeing Ramsis Dendup during their escape to the highlands.[9] When the rebels were able to defeat the droid gunships, Kalani was then ordered to retreat with his forces to Agamar, despite Rash's objections. Kalani then executed Rash.[4]
Aut-O on the bridge of his flagship.
Another super tactical droid, Aut-O was stationed aboard a Providence-class dreadnought. However, he was destroyed by R2-D2.[10] Another one was given command of a commandeered Venator-class Star Destroyer with the mission to destroy the Republic strategy conference on Valor station in the Carida system. However, when the buzz droids failed in stopping D-Squad, the super tactical droid and it's crew were destroyed before they were able to complete their mission.[11]
Another super tactical droid, Kraken, served as second-in-command to Admiral Trench. Kraken then attempted to take a captured clone trooper CT-5385 to Count Dooku. However, he was stopped by General Skywalker and two of his 501st Legion troopers. He was then destroyed by Skywalker when he refused to answer his questions.[12] However, he was then rebuilt and commanded the Separatist forces during the invasion of Scipio alongside Dooku.[13] Kraken continued to serve under Dooku aboard his command ship, even when his master, Lord Sidious, demanded his presence.[14]
A super tactical droid then accompanied General Grievous to Utapau aboard a Separatist supply ship to secure the shipment of a enormous Kyber crystal. However, it was destroyed when the Jedi caused the crystal to explode.[15]
Age of the Empire Edit
After the Clone Wars ended, the Galactic Republic transformed into the Galactic Empire and the Separatist Council was assassinated by Darth Vader, who then used the Council's equipment to send a shutdown signal to the droid army. However, Kalani, who was stationed on Agamar at the time with a battle droid garrison, assumed the shutdown command was nothing more than a Republic trick so he ignored it and did not relay to the droids under his command.[5]
Kalani holding Rex's helmet
Years later, Captain Rex, Lasat Garazeb Orrelios, Jedi Kanan Jarrus and his Padawan Ezra Bridger arrived on Agamar, looking to find weapons and explosives for the rebellion. Kalani had his forces capture them and bring them to him so that he could play a little "war game" with them so that he could "end" the Clone Wars his way. Kalani holds Zeb hostage while Rex, Kanan and Ezra fight through his troops. After defeating waves of battle droids and making their way to the command center, Rex, Kanan and Ezra ordered Kalani to surrender. Kalani refused, but Ezra convinced him that neither the Republic nor the Separatists won the war and the Republic became the Empire. When the Empire arrived on Agamar, Kalani agreed to help the rebels escape. While the droids and Zeb attacked the stormtroopers and AT-DP's, Kalani had five droids fire at Ezra and Kanan who redirected their shots at proton bombs underneath the AT-AT's, destroying one of them in the process. The droids and the rebels made their escape in three Sheathipede-class transport shuttles, one being destroyed in the process. Kalani bid farewell to the rebels but refused to join them, believing that they had less than a 1% chance of successfully overthrowing the Empire.[5]
R0-GR, the B1 battle droid who wrote droidography
During the New Republic Era, R0-GR, a B1 battle droid who had been part of the Separatist Army and was currently serving in the Resistance, wrote a book entitled Droidography, which complied facts about various droid models. He hoped would educate people on droids, and 2 of the droid models R0-GR covered were the T-series and super tactical droids. After listing grievances he had about the T-series, the B1 noted that the super tactical droids were introduced because of their predecessor's lack of adaptability. He mentioned that, while these upgraded commanders believed themselves to be superior, they failed to win the Clone Wars. R0-GR also wrote that he had heard that some super tactical droids did not admit defeat and ran battle scenarios for years, making him think they were "sore losers."[7]
Star Wars: Galactic Defense
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Front Runners" (First appearance) (Appears in hologram)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Soft War"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Tipping Points"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Secret Weapons"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Point of No Return"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Unknown"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Crisis at the Heart"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Sacrifice"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "The Big Bang"
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Unfinished Business"
Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir 1
Star Wars Rebels – "The Last Battle"
"Front Runners" - The Clone Wars Episode Guide on StarWars.com (First identified as Super tactical droid)
"The Soft War" - The Clone Wars Episode Guide on StarWars.com
"The Unknown" - The Clone Wars Episode Guide on StarWars.com
General Kalani in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
General Tandin in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
Onderon rebels in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
Onderon in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
Separatist encryption module in the Encyclopedia (link now obsolete; backup link)
Star Wars Rebels: "Revenge of the Droid Army" on StarWars.com
Agamar in the Databank (backup link)
General Kalani in the Databank (backup link)
Super Tactical Droid in the Databank (backup link)
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↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – "Front Runners"
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3
↑ 7.0 7.1 Star Wars: Droidography
↑ Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
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St. Cecilia’s Parish has an extensive Mission Ministry. Begun by Msgr. Sammon 50 years ago, the program is still thriving due to the dedication of members of our parish who use the blue envelope every month to donate money. We sincerely thank all of you who are so generous. Whether you give a dollar or more is not so important as the fact that you care. We know that all missionaries around the world pray for you and your loved ones. They in turn ask for your prayers as well as donations. Prayer is the strength of the missionary’s life.
At the present time, we support 36 missions in 18 foreign countries and one in the USA. We have: Guatemala-2, El Salvador-2, Haiti-1, Columbia-1, Ecuador-1, Nigeria-2, Central Africa-1, Ethiopia-1, Kenya-2, Tanzania-1, Belarus-1, Russia-2, Hungary-1, India-10, Bangladesh-1, Thailand-1, Philippines-1, New Guinea-3, USA-1.
St. Rose de Lima Mission Group also support two missions, one in Nicaragua and one in Guatemala with their own fund raising activities.
Besides the blue envelopes, we raise funds by selling the Entertainment 2010 Books outside of church during the month of October. The cost is still $ 35.00 and that is a good deal for all who travel and eat out. From the finest restaurants to the fast food restaurants, a bargain can be had. Rent-a-car coupons are useful also. In addition the Books have coupons for so many shopping stores here in our community. Consider a Book and help the Missions as well as your family.
In November we will have a Bake Sale and Tupperware Party combined in the parish hall. More info on that in the Parish Bulletin in Nov.
Last June we sent every missionary a survey sheet asking them to fill it out with information about their Ministry. Many have responded and shared what their greatest needs are, how they use the money we send, where they are from originally and how long they have been in the missions. We have received many replies and will share them with you. Our next meeting will be Nov. 17th in Modular 2 at 7pm. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
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Hello From Ethiopia,
I can’t believe how quickly the time has gone by since my last email. Since I last wrote I have begun teaching at the Comboni High School and I have a new kitten (Gabby). Unfortunately, Gabby thinks the computer key board is a play toy, so I the only way I can work at home is to put her in the bedroom.
The Newest Member of the Family
I’ve attached pictures of Gabby, she is now twelve weeks old and seems to be settling in quite well. I named her after one of the patron saints of Ethiopia, Gabriel. In fact both Saint Gabriel and Michael have a feast day every month of the year in the Orthodox Church. Gabby is using the litter box with my homemade kitty litter! However, her food has been more challenging, you can’t buy cat food in Ethiopia so I’ve been trying to develop a dry cat food mixed with tuna that will be to her liking. Actually, she has become an expert at separating the homemade dry food from the tuna fish that I mix it with. So now I’m trying a mix of tuna and rice. Mark says I’m in danger of turning her into an American cat!
Teaching at Comboni High School
I have started teaching Ethics to 11th graders and I love it. It has been a wonderful contrast to my work at the Vicariate. I work at the school on Monday and Tuesday and teach five classes. I am also overseeing the reading club which you can read about below. There really isn’t a curriculum for Ethics so I have a lot of freedom in developing my lesson plans. That can be both good and bad, right now I am spending a great deal of time just trying to prepare each week for class and to adjust as I figure out what works and what doesn’t. My poor students, I told them they will have to suffer through my first year as a teacher!
I have over 200 students — I now have so much more respect for my teachers and what it takes to review 200 assignments in a week and return them to the students with meaningful comments. The class size is about 50 which is large by American standards but is considered small by Ethiopian standards. The Government schools might have between 70 to 90 students in each class. The students are wonderful — very respectful but so much more reserved than American kids. I’m hoping that little by little they will feel more comfortable asking questions and talking. As one of my first assignments I asked them to write down two topics or questions they would like to see covered in the Ethics course. Some of their responses are below.
Ideas from Students about what I should cover in Ethics/Moral Development/Character Development:
“Much more from where you come from.”
“What is the pre-condition to being a popular person.”
“When to have a girlfriend.”
“What is the most challenging thing in America during our age.”
“The habit of work in your country (USA). Because your country is the most developed we must share these useful habits.”
“How do I become a famous person?”
“Discuss U.S.A. famous persons.”
“Having in mind that you have lots of experiences, I’m very eager to learn from you clues to solve our problems.”
“How to fix things up when we are in a different world that most of the people are not.”
I also had several students list marital-sex as a topic, and one brave soul who even asked about pre-marital sex.
You can see by the topics above that many of the students have very high expectations of me. I will almost certainly disappoint them when they find-out that not only do I not have all of the answers, but that America doesn’t have all of the answers either.
Monday October 10 was the feast of Daniel Comboni. There was an assembly at school to celebrate and to recognize the top students from last year. Sister Daniella (School Director) asked me to speak about Daniel Comboni and what it means to me to be a Comboni Lay Missionary. It was nice to reflect on Comboni’s legacy and to see his dream being realized, almost 150 years later, through all of the students at Comboni High School.
Visit to Dadim
During the week of October 4 I was able to make a quick trip back to Dadim located in the Borana zone. The Supplementary Feeding program began in early September and as of October 10 the Dadim health team has screened over 2,900 children under 5 and pregnant and lacting women. We found that over 30% of the women screened are actually being admitted with moderate to severe malnutrition, while approximately 8% of the under 5 children are being admitted. The lower percentage of malnourished children may be due to the fact that the norm among the Borana people is to feed their children first. Anecdotally, the Dadim health workers have noted that mothers are proud when their child does not need to be admitted into the program.
Maggie, my next door neighbor and a fellow Comboni missionary, has gone to Dadim to help get the SFP program started and she will stay until early November. I have included some of her great photos from the outreach sites. While I was in Dadim I was able to visit their school and to see the School Lunch Program in action. The good news from Dadim is that they got rain while I was visiting and they have had several more days of rain since then. Even with just a little rain the grass grows and the cattle are able to graze and provide milk. We are hopeful that we will begin to see a decrease in the number of malnutrition cases over the next few months. The best news for us would be if we had to shut down the feeding program early because people are able to feed themselves.
The Reading Club Saga
I copied this from my journal entry dated October 4, 2011:
“I always vowed that I would not be one of those tight-lipped white women that seem to appear in almost every movie that takes place in Africa. Alas, today I was that tight-lipped white woman.
I have been working on an outdoor bulletin board for the Reading Club at the Comboni High School where I’m teaching. So, after hours of finding, cutting out, and laminating big letters and graphics I was ready to actually do the bulletin board. Unfortunately, I’m leaving tomorrow morning for Dadim and the bulletin board has to be done before Monday. The bulletin board is wood covered with felt so you need to nail the letters to the board. This is where things began to go wrong. I was not able to use the hammer and nails; instead I had to have Aggiso (the maintenance man) come with me to nail things up on the board.
I had envisioned that I would be able to measure and carefully place each of my lovingly crafted letters before anything would be permanently nailed to the bulletin board. But speed for Aggiso trumped my perfectionism. So I did my best and while the board wasn’t quite symmetrical it was adequate. But then came the final issue which sent me over the edge — I went from progressive easy going foreigner to tight-lipped white woman. In addition to the letters, I had a non-laminated notice that needed to be posted and I had left exactly enough space on the bulletin board where I wanted the notice to go. Aggiso then informed me that we couldn’t nail the notice, instead we had to put something up where we could use push-pins to attach the notice. “Great,” I said. Aggiso then proceeded to bring out a push-pin board that was about twice the size of the space I had left on the bulletin board. And he was ready to just nail the push-pin board onto the bulletin board and cover-up some of my letters! “Absolutely not!” I said. I made him take down the one set of letters and redo them.
It was at this moment that I saw myself and the situation. Here was an Ethopian man trying to remove nails and not damage laminated construction-paper letters. And about a foot behind him stood a white woman, in her prim skirt, with her arms crossed in front of her, and a grim expression on her face. In that moment I saw myself and it was everything I don’t want to be — imperious, arrogant, and impatient. I forced myself to relax my posture, unfold my arms and to quit clenching my jaw. I then went and helped Aggiso remove the letters and renail them, and I told him how much I appreciated his help. But I wonder how many times, when I’m tired or preoccupied, I do not catch myself.
Actually, the situation was a bit comical. It was American perfectionism hitting up against an Ethiopian culture that doesn’t see the value in spending much time on finishing touches. Mark told me I would probably have had a heart attack if I’d had to oversee the painting of my house. What I know is that there are some days when my best efforts to go-with-the-flow and to let things “be” fall woefully short.”
The good news is that 20 kids volunteered to work in the library each afternoon to run the Reading Club. Sister Daniella said that there were only six kids who volunteered last year. I told her that I am crediting my great bulletin board for the increase in volunteers. Although, I think it’s more likely that the kids are excited to meet someone from America.
As a side note, I learned that Ethiopians don’t typically assign human characteristics to inanimate objects. So my dancing book graphic with legs, arms and a smile was greeted with perplexity. One of the teachers, to be polite, told me how nice it was but you could see that he was not only baffled but a bit scared by the dancing book.
Article for Nigrizia Magazine
Mark, Maggie and I wrote an article about our experience in Dadim along with some of our pictures. It was originally written for Nigrizia the Italian Comboni Magazine. Since then we’ve learned that the article will also appear in Spain, the U.S. and Canada. Overall, the three of us feel like we’ve been blessed to be together in Ethiopiaand to represent the North American Comboni Lay Missionary program. The article follows:
You have probably seen much media coverage in these last weeks on the expanding drought and famine situation in the Horn of Africa, perhaps especially focused on the most desperate areas of Somalia. I am living here in the Horn along with my wife, Maggie Banga and fellow lay missionary, Tracy Doyle. The three of us are Comboni Lay Missionaries serving in the Diocese (Vicariate) of Awassa in the south of Ethiopia, and God has steered us (or maybe pushed us!) into action alongside our Ethiopian colleagues to help respond to the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding. We thought we’d share what we are seeing here, particularly in the worst-hit Borana zone.
The Borana zone is located in the arid southern lowlands of Ethiopia with Kenya to the south. As of July 2011, the UN has declared this region a full “emergency” drought area. The scoop is this: there has been a complete loss of rain since March 2010 with people now spending 3-5 hours accessing water; massive livestock deaths with over 300,000 cattle dead due to low pasture; full crop failure this year means no agricultural products; 16,800 students have dropped out of school as their families are on the move in search of water and grazing lands; increased numbers of malaria and dysentery (people choose to drink unsafe water over no water); many moderately and severely malnourished including over 15,000 children under 5 years and pregnant/lactating women. This all means the situation is grave indeed.
For the Borana people, who live a semi-nomadic pastoralist lifestyle, their wealth is their livestock (camels, cattle, sheep & goats) and every aspect of life revolves around them. Livestock is the main source of income and food, mostly from milk. The Borana have developed complex societal rules to manage access and sustainable development of their two most precious resources: grass and water. But after two consecutive failed rainy seasons, they have reached their limit. People say that as the cattle grow plump so do the Borana people and as the cattle waste away, so do the people – which is what is currently happening.
In July, the Diocese of Awassa, which serves the Borana zone, formed an emergency taskforce team mandated to plan and manage the emergency response of the Catholic Church in Borana zone. Tracy and I are part of this team. Since July, time has moved like lightning.
The Diocese of Awassa has straight away launched 2 emergency programs and others will follow. The first is a school feeding program to keep our 1100 Borana children both fed and in school continuing their education. The second is what people call a ‘targeted supplementary feeding program’ which involves screening, monitoring and distributing special food to medically treat those who are most severely malnourished (the program will target children under 5 and pregnant/breastfeeding women). This program will be delivered through the Dadim Catholic Health Centre which serves 28,000 pastoralist people through a network of community based outreach sites. My wife Maggie who is a Naturopathic Doctor has been transferred to Dadim to help get this program off the ground. Given the situation of the people, the remoteness, the horrible roads and the extent of need, the challenges will be many. But the three Sisters of Charity who run the clinic and the whole health team (almost all of whom are local Borana) all have big hearts so this spirit of service will fuel them. Everyone is praying for rain and also hoping that with many partners pushing forward a strong intervention, a full famine will be averted.
A few weeks ago, Tracy visited the family of Ato Torre, an elder in a small Borana village. Upon entering their small mud and stick hut, Ato Torre said that they would normally offer milk, but that they did not have any. He then showed her that their grain stores are now empty, the cattle are wasting and everything they had planted has died because there was no rain during the last rainy season. But despite this gloomy picture, he went on to say that “We are not experiencing famine yet, but it seems to be coming our way from Kenya.” He then added: “I know God will save our village.” Whether his village is ‘saved’ through the generosity flowing from so many people around the world or whether the rains begin to fall tomorrow, either way it is in God’s hands.
As for Maggie, Tracy and me, we will continue our best to persevere through our particular vocations. Facing a mix of desperation and hope, this pushes us to cling to Jesus, to fix our eyes solely upon him. Somehow then it becomes perfectly clear what to do, even if it is difficult. These days, it seems as if the pages of the Gospel are shining brightly, illuminating a road map of how to act, of how to love, especially when looking directly into the eyes of our suffering sisters and brothers.
– Mark & Maggie Banga, Tracy Doyle
I know this has been a long email. Thank-you for all of your support and prayers.
– Tracy
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What is an ITO? Difference between an ICO and an ITO
An ITO stands for “Initial Token Offering”, a process which is seen to be equivalent to an ICO. The first generation of digital assets were crypto-coins like Bitcoin, Litecoin etc. Coins have been used as a digital medium of doing transactions in an elegant encrypted way. The next generation of digital assets is the tokens, which cover a broader purpose of use. However, it's hard to differentiate between these terms as they are broadly used in an interchangeable manner.
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Foreign Trade Association Becomes amfori, Embraces Trade with Purpose
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Between a growing global population — which is estimated to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 — rapid urbanization and climate change, shifting agricultural to a more sustainable model is essential for safeguarding the future of our food system. Startups in the United States and Singapore are ready to rise to the challenge, championing food sustainability through new technologies and infrastructure solutions designed with urban environments in mind.
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 29, 2018 at 9:04am
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Real Story: Destroying Trump
and Protecting liar-Clinton
by David Limbaugh
Tuesday Top Headlines
by Political Editors: Five most inspiring lines from President Trump’s Memorial Day speech at Arlington Cemetery (PJ Media)
USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor closed indefinitely (Fox News)
Trump hits China with broad limits on tech investment, moves forward with $50 billion in tariffs ahead of key trade meeting (The Washington Post)
Venezuela releases U.S. prisoner (CBS News)
Russia seething: Poland wants permanent U.S. military base, willing to pay $2 billion for it (The Washington Times)
Trump signs Dodd-Frank rollback (The Hill)
DHS scolds Congress, approves 15,000 foreign workers (The Washington Times)
Leftists tweet out pictures of suffering illegal immigrant children to target Trump but the pics were from the liar-nObama years (The Daily Wire)
White House cracks down on unions with executive orders (Government Executive)
Eight people killed, 25 wounded in bloody weekend in Chicago (Fox News)
Here’s why every company changed their privacy policy this month (Washington Examiner)
Irish pro-lifers after abortion referendum defeat: ‘We Fight On’ (CNS News)
Starbucks closes for bias training: “It won’t be a rubber stamp” (CBS News)
Policy: Every state’s economic future lies with school reform (American Enterprise Institute)
Policy: China, Taiwan, and the threat to U.S. interests (American Enterprise Institute) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56227?utm_medium=email&utm_sour...
The Great Unmasking
by Clarice Feldman
{ americanthinker.com } ~ I'm not talking about the unmasking of persons caught up in the liar-nObama administration's illegal surveillance... of everyone connected with Trump and his campaign. For that, there's been more than sufficient evidence. If you need more while we wait for the OIG reports, here are some excellent summaries: Sharyl Attkisson's timeline of the events and Mark Steyn's review: As I think most persons paying attention now realize, the investigation into foreign interference with the 2016 election was created as a cover for domestic interference with the 2016 election. ... Brennan and Clapper and Comey and McCabe. They took tools designed to combat America's foreign enemies and used them against their own citizens and their political opposition. It was an intentional subversion of the electoral process conducted at the highest level by agencies with almost unlimited power. And, if they get away with it, they will do it again, and again and again. That's what Brennan's telling us on Twitter, and Clapper on "The View": Yeah? So what? Whatcha gonna do about it? Good question...
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/the_great_unmaskin...
Democrats, Media Deny Reality of FBI Spy on Trump Campaign
by libertyheadlines.com
{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ Rep. scum-Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the Democrats attempted Thursday to deny President Donald Trump’s claims of “Spygate”... after they emerged from a bipartisan briefing about the FBI’s investigation into his 2016 campaign. Following their lead, the mainstream media have labeled “Spygate” a “conspiracy theory” — even though liar-nObama administration officials like former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have admitted to the spying. scum-Schiff, the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, emerged from Thursday’s briefing to read a statement on behalf of the Democratic Party leadership in Congress, attacking Trump’s claims... scum-Schiff has always been a liar. https://www.libertyheadlines.com/democrats-media-deny-reality-of-fb...
Everything The FBI Knows Today
About Trump/Russia They Knew In 2016
by J.E. Dyer
{ lidblog.com } ~ In a post on 23 May, we looked at the 9 days in January of 2017 when the liar-nObama administration became the deep state... That post showed who was involved in using federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies against the incoming Trump administration. This post, emphasizes a single point, one whose import requires a stand-alone focus to absorb. It is just this: in 2016, the FBI already knew everything it was going to know. From the means of intelligence available to it, they knew whether Trump and his closest connections had nefarious or even just questionable links to Russians or people connected with Russians. There is a tendency to imagine that an ongoing “investigation,” such as Robert Mueller’s in the present day, must be uncovering new information about links to Russians. People have a mental idea, likewise, that something like the Carter Page FISA surveillance, which was authorized in October 2016, allowed the FBI to start looking at things that happened in October 2016...So this Mueller investigation is a waste of taxpayer money.
https://lidblog.com/fbi-knew-2016/
Swift Injustice: The Case of Tommy Robinson
by Bruce Bawer
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The very first time I set foot in London, back in my early twenties... I kicked up into an adrenaline high that lasted for the entire week of my visit. Never, in later years, did any other place ever have such an impact on me -- not Paris, not Rome. Yes, Rome was a cradle of Western civilization, and Paris a hub of Western culture -- but Britain was the place where the values of the Anglosphere, above all a dedication to freedom, had fully taken form. Without Britain, there would have been no U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitution, or Bill of Rights. In recent years, alas, Britain has deviated from its commitment to liberty. Foreign critics of Islam, such as the American scholar Robert Spencer, and for a time, even the Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders have been barred from the country. Now, at least one prominent native critic of Islam, Tommy Robinson, has been repeatedly harassed by the police, railroaded by the courts, and left unprotected by prison officials who have allowed Muslim inmates to beat him senseless. Clearly, British authorities view Robinson as a troublemaker and would like nothing more than to see him give up his fight, leave the country as Ayaan Hirsi Ali left the Netherlands, or get killed by a jihadist as happened to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12378/tommy-robinson-injustice
Mark Levin CRUSHES Judge Napolitano / A President can NOT be indicted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meHDJtrX_Pc
Mark Levin GOES OFF on Trey Gowdy, Lindsey Graham, Mueller, & more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJq5EgHqDo
Mark Levin BLISTERS scum-Adam Schiff & Bob Mueller - Hannity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFTp2uZJzA4
Sen. Grassley, basically calls Chuck clown-Schumer a liar, as he blasts CNN, Comey & The fake media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAhRdhfcVwg&t=1s
Nunes: I'm not playing anymore. It's contempt then impeachment for Wray & Rosenstein on Wed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j-JdsrGKU4
Justice w/ Judge Jeanine 5/27/18 | Fox News Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cJfM32JNk
{ townhall.com } ~ You don't need to believe that the special counsel investigating President Donald Trump is a terrible person to conclude that the liar-nObama administration and liar-Clinton machine and later their holdovers during the Trump administration politicized and weaponized federal agencies to protect liar-Hillary Clinton and damage Trump.
So if you just can't shake your instinct that Robert Mueller is the epitome of virtue and professionalism, hold fast to it, but consider the litany of facts that prove serious and abundant malfeasance on the part of the liar-Obama/ liar-Clinton "deep state" actors.
The Department of Justice, especially the FBI, bent over backward to protect liar-Clinton and bent over forward to harm Trump. Despite those efforts, the stubborn facts have emerged, thanks to patriots relentlessly pursuing the truth. More will be revealed as the liar-nObama/ liar-Clinton glass house continues to shatter, but there's already enough to make an objective person gasp. If liar-Clinton had won the election, this evidence would have remained buried, and the power-abusing left would have been emboldened to continue to thwart the rule of law and target its opponents. Before you say it's preposterous that liar-nObama or liar-Clinton would have politicized and weaponized government agencies, remember the actions of Obama's IRS and EPA.
As for protecting liar-Clinton, consider this partial list:
--Then-FBI Director James Comey wrote a letter exonerating her in advance of interviewing her and other key witnesses
--Comey presented a strong case against her yet shielded her from prosecution.
--Comey claimed that Christopher Steele's dossier was not an indispensable part of the FISA warrant application, when everyone has admitted it was. He said he didn't know that the liar-Clintons had paid for the dossier.
--Comey earlier said there was no spying against Trump and later said there was but the "informants" were carefully regulated.
--The FBI gave immunity like candy in the liar-Clinton case and allowed two fact witnesses to sit in on the belated liar-Clinton interview as her lawyers.
--The FBI claimed to have lost five months' worth of texts between adulterous FBI honchos Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, which the inspector general found in less than a week.
--Then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately withliar-Bill Clinton while liar-Hillary was under investigation. Lynch instructed Comey to refer to the liar-Clinton investigation as a "matter" instead of an investigation.
--Strzok texted Page after Trump and liar-Clinton became the nominees, "Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE" -- meaning "midyear exam," the FBI's code word for the liar-Clinton email probe. Page responded, "It sure does." They were desperate to wrap up the liar-Clinton investigation to prevent Trump's election. Page was legal counsel to then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The lovebirds noted that liar-nObama wanted "to know everything." As Newt Gingrich said, with all that was going on under his watch, it's inconceivable that liar-nObama and his adviser Valerie Jarrett didn't know about it.
As for stopping, removing or disabling Trump, consider this partial list:
--The FBI planted a spy or spies in the Trump campaign with no real evidence beyond wishful thinking, anecdotal minutiae and hearsay rumors that there was any nefarious connection between the campaign and Russia. It appears these spies were there not just to eavesdrop but to lure the Trump campaign into the very conduct they were pretending to investigate -- trying to "honey-trap" them.
--The government opened a counterintelligence investigation against Trump without any evidence of a crime.
--Based on a disgraceful leak from Comey, the DOJ appointed a special counsel to investigate the Trump campaign without any evidence of a crime and without specifying any crime in the appointment memo -- and such specificity is required by law. Recognizing this, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein surreptitiously amended his appointment memo, but he still won't reveal its content to congressional investigators.
--The FBI deceived the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court four times by presenting the Steele dossier, paid for by the liar-Clinton machine and based on unsubstantiated opposition research, as legitimate evidence and disclosing none of its origins to the court. It also fraudulently presented a news article sourced to the same Christopher Steele as corroborating the dossier. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requires substantiated evidence; it's a strict standard because of the extraordinary encroachments on privacy it entails. The FBI also concealed from the court that Steele had been fired by the FBI.
--The government has been stonewalling and scapegoating Rep. Devin Nunes and other congressional investigators for jeopardizing national security in demanding that documents be unredacted. Invariably, when the redactions are removed, we see that no security interests were involved but that the government was seeking to conceal embarrassing actions of government officials. The government slandered Nunes for outing the FBI mole, whose existence it had previously deceitfully denied, when it leaked facts facilitating his outing.
--The liar-nObama administration engaged in unprecedented and egregious unmaskings.
--Five or six DOJ/FBI officials have been fired, demoted or reassigned.
--The FBI agents didn't believe that Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, lied to them, yet the special counsel pressured him into a guilty plea.
--Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied to Congress but later denied he had lied, claiming he was thinking about something other than what he was being questioned about. That would be lame from any witness, but from a man of Clapper's caliber, it is stunning. Clapper also said, disingenuously, that the government's intent was not to spy on the Trump camp but to find out what Russia was doing. Then why did the government try to entrap campaign members, and why did Clapper earlier deny there were spies in the campaign? If the government's goal was to protect the campaigns from Russian influence, why didn't it plant spies in the Clinton campaign, as well? Why didn't it warn the Trump campaign of the possible interference -- unless its goal was to damage Trump and protect liar-Clinton, as opposed to safeguarding national security?
--The liar-nObama administration opened up a Logan Act case against the campaign opponent (Trump) of its would-be successor ( liar-Clinton). This is unprecedented and astonishing.
--The liar-nObama holdouts in the DOJ and FBI are still stonewalling and misrepresenting the facts -- especially as to the origin of the Trump investigation.
That liar-Hillary Clinton wasn't disciplined or prosecuted for her security breaches and deliberately destroying relevant evidence, among other things, is beyond disturbing. That Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the presidency at this point seems fantastical.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2018/05/25/the-real-story-destroying-trump-and-protecting-clinton-n2484168?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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Comment by Rudy Tirre on May 29, 2018 at 11:19am
Thanks Bonnie
Comment by Bonnie Somer on May 29, 2018 at 10:58am
truth is truth this is a great post
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Alibaba doubles down on enterprise transformation with A100 program
|In Heavy Hitters, With Chinese Characteristics
|By Emma Lee
Daniel Zhang, CEO of Alibaba Group. (Image credit: Alibaba)
Alibaba recently launched an initiative that it says will help companies of all sizes, across a wide array of industries, embrace digital transformation.
The program, dubbed A100, marks another step by Hangzhou-based Alibaba Group to expand its footprint beyond new retail, and represents the latest shift to enterprise-facing tech, which recently has been gaining momentum in China.
A100 will be powered by Alibaba Business Operating System, a term used by the company to refer to its amalgamation of technology services, including online marketplaces like Taobao and Tmall, payment tool Alipay, logistics Cainiao, cloud computing Alibaba Cloud, and productivity tool DingTalk.
“This is a continuation of a race to snap up leading retailers and lock them into Alibaba or Tencent’s service ecosystems,” says Michael Norris, strategy and research manager of AgencyChina, referring to the program and similar enterprise-focused initiatives by Chinese tech giants.
Deborah Weinswig, CEO and founder of Coresight Research, says she expects A100 to help Alibaba foster its relationship with brands and retailers even more closely.
“Since Alibaba already is dominating the online retail space, it is trying to leverage on this strength, to get an even tighter bonding with the brands and retailers,” says Weinswig.
A100 debuted late last week at the Alibaba One Business Conference, which took place in the hometown of the e-commerce giant.
At the event, Daniel Zhang, chief executive officer of Alibaba Group named 11 key elements for enterprises to realize transformation in the digital era, namely: branding, product development, sales, marketing, channel management, manufacturing, customer services, finance, logistics and supply chain, organizational structure, and communication management.
Toby Xu, vice president of Alibaba Group and head of the A100 program said that while many of customer-facing companies in China have already embraced digitalization, for corporate-facing companies the process is more difficult given the complexity of enterprise environments.
(Image credit: Alibaba)
“The name, A100, symbolizes Alibaba’s goal of providing digitized solutions to a large number of companies,” says Xu. The plan is initially to take a focused, step-by-step approach targeting a defined number of industries, before later expanding the scope of A100’s application to a broader array of industries.
Xu says Alibaba has developed a strong set of technological capacities in running various services under its brand. “We want to share these capacities to with our partners, helping them to improve work efficiency and generate value,” he says.
Norris says that when we look at the 11 different areas where Alibaba is proposing to offer digital transformation services, it can be seen that the group is looking to help brands digitize their entire supply and value chain.
Enterprise gains momentum
The enterprise tech is picking up pace in China. Alibaba rival Tencent, which has its core services in consumer-faced gaming and social networking, upgraded its organizational structure to focus on enterprise services and cloud last year. Early stage startups are catching up too with their innovative ideas.
One of the major reasons that driving the shift is a changing mindset of small- and medium-sized businesses operators, according to Kuantai Yeh, partner at Qiming Venture Partners, said at a recent demo day of Shanghai-based startup accelerator Chinaccelerator.
They are more “willing” to pay for software as a service (SaaS) experiences primarily because these new SaaS companies were leveraging new technologies of AI and cloud computing to “add more value.”
The transition also comes as more Chinese tech companies expand overseas, especially to Southeast Asian markets. Alibaba Cloud now has 49 availability zones across 18 economic centers globally, while Tencent Cloud zones in on Asian markets with a second center in India. This means Chinese tech companies offering enterprise-focused services will increasingly come into direct competition with international brands such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), IBM, and Google. Intensified competition from Chinese companies could also impact productivity tools such as Slack and Salesforce.
At the Hangzhou event, special attention was paid to Alibaba’s brand-oriented e-commerce platform Tmall and productivity tool DingTalk.
By digging into big data, Tmall’s innovation center is helping over 600 brands to develop nearly 400 products, of which around half become top sellers three months after launch, according to Jet Jing, President of Tmall.
Meanwhile, DingTalk streamlines internal communication and organizational structures for companies. “If Alibaba’s ecosystem gets bigger, then that should bring benefits for DingTalk, especially in the sphere of retail,” says Weinswig of Coresight Research. “But that doesn’t mean DingTalk will be the winner in the battle between it and WeChat Work in the enterprise environment, because there are many types of enterprise businesses other than retail.”
Industries that are not directly related to new retail such as hotel, and food and beverage, will continue to use WeChat Work for their businesses, she says. “So it will be a very delineated market and Alibaba is poised to dominate in retail space,” Weinswig adds.
New retail and beyond
Dustin Jones, a managing director with Fung Retailing Group, a retailing enterprise that represents over 30 foreign brands in the Chinese market, says its partnership with Alibaba Group will help Fung Retailing to gain deeper marketing insights. Jones cites the geo-targeting of consumers and brands, and marrying them together, as an example.
“We do not only say ‘We know these consumers will like these brands.’ It’s deeper and more powerful than that,” says Jones. “We know these consumers will like this brand, and will like this product from this brand, and will like this color, this size in this location at this time.”
To be sure, the trend is not confined just to Alibaba. JD is pursuing a similar strategy under the banner of “unbounded retail,” while Meituan-Dianping also joined the battle to offer its own offline concept stores.
Alibaba’s A100 pits its new retail ecosystem against what Tencent and JD have been building through acquisitions and partnerships. Combined, Tencent and Alibaba spent $12 billion on retail-focused merger and acquisition activity between 2017 and 2018, according to Norris at AgencyChina.
The first batch of customers for A100’s rollout includes global brands like Starbucks, Nestlé as well as Chinese snack brand, Bestore.
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Relationships and Sex Education: making it LGBT+ inclusive
Youth Board member Lucy explores the challenges LGBT+ young people can face when learning about healthy and unhealthy relationships and what can be done to make this experience more inclusive.
Published: January 25, 2019 12:30 pm
Relationships are difficult to navigate (there’s a reason everyone writes songs about that). But for an LGBT+ identifying person, figuring out relationships and the emotions that come with them can be even more complicated (unfortunately, not very many people write songs about that). Sadly, there is very little awareness of the challenges non-heterosexual/cisgender people can face in relationships. This can mean that if the relationship becomes unhealthy, or abusive, people might not realise. It also means that, a lot of the time, people do not feel able to seek support or talk to others about what they are experiencing.
What does a healthy or unhealthy LGBT+ relationship look like?
The good news is, healthy relationships don’t discriminate! Relationships full of mutual respect can exist between people of any gender or sexual orientation. However, sadly, unhealthy traits and abuse can also happen in any relationship.
There are some challenges that are specific to LGBT+ people in relationships. For example:
someone they are in a relationship with threatening to ‘out’ them (i.e. tell other people about their sexual orientation/gender identity) as a way to manipulate them
someone making them feel that their sexual or gender identity isn’t ‘real’ or isn’t valid. For example, someone may purposefully not use their chosen pronouns, or say that bisexuality doesn’t exist.
someone telling them that their abusive behaviour is just a normal part of a same-sex relationship
not having any safety net or place of support to turn to, because the people close to them do not accept their sexual orientation or gender identity.
It’s really important that people understand, and know how to talk about, these issues – so that LGBT+ people can recognise if behaviour is abusive, but also so that there is a better understanding generally of what it means to be LGBT+ identifying.
How many LGBT+ people experience relationship abuse?
Research by the charity Stonewall shows that:
1 in 4 lesbian or bisexual women have experienced abuse in a relationship
49% of gay or bisexual men have experienced at least one example of domestic abuse from a partner or family member since the age of 16
The lack of understanding and discussion around trans issues means that figures for relationship abuse are not so easily found. However the Scottish Transgender Alliance estimates that a shocking 80% of trans people have experienced abuse from a partner or ex-partner.
These figures show us that LGBT+ people are not safe from abuse and unhealthy behaviours – so why are they so often left out of the conversation about these issues?
What’s Tender doing to help?
Luckily, Tender are on it. They’ve recently received funding from Hackney to deliver four projects to young people in Hackney over the next twelve months – with a special focus on LGBT+ young people. The 5 week projects focus on healthy relationships, and will support young people to identify what it means to be in a healthy/unhealthy relationship, identify early warning signs of abuse, and learn more about the support services available to them and their peers.
This project will help to broaden these conversations to make sure that they address additional barriers/vulnerabilities that so many young people face. It will look at what it means to be LGBT+, the stigma and attitudes that can condone abuse or prevent someone from seeking support, and at the additional support services that are available.
The projects will be delivered to various groups, including LGBT+ identifying groups, and will raise awareness on the importance of equality – exploring what it means to be an ally and to safely challenge normalised discrimination and hate speech.
As part of the five week project, groups will create resources and campaign materials which will then be displayed at a celebration event in April. The event will bring the various different groups together, as well as their peers, family members, and other organisations.
There is still a huge amount of work to be done to increase people’s understandings of healthy relationships generally: the conversation about healthy relationships has a long way to go. Including LGBT+ issues in these conversations is vital – but it’s not enough just not to discriminate. We must also acknowledge specific issues faced by people who are not heterosexual and we must champion LGBT+ people.
Written by Tender Youth Board member Lucy.
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(b 1982, Heckmondwike UK) is based in London, working with moving image and performance. Her work considers the interplay of multiple social dynamics that constitute subjects along particular socio-political formations. These narrative based pieces, often deadpan and neurotic, are frequently generated through conversation and collaboration with others.
Rehana Zaman, workshop, 2014.
Rehana Zaman, How Does an Invisible Boy Disappear, video still, 2018
Rehana Zaman, Lourdes, video still, 2018
Rehana Zaman, Tell me the story Of all these things, 2016. Video Still. Tenderpixel.
Rehana Zaman, Tell me the story Of all these things, Part 2 (2016). HD video. Tenderpixel.
Rehana Zaman, Tell me the story Of all these things (2016). Installation view. Tenderpixel.
Rehana Zaman, Sharla Shabana Sojourner Selena, 2016. Video still.
Rehana Zaman, Five, 2014. Video Still.
Rehana Zaman, Five, 2014. Installation view, Peckham Multiplex, London.
Rehana Zaman, Some Women Other Women and all the Bittermen, 2014. Installation view, The Tetley, Leeds, UK.
Rehana Zaman, Some Women Other Women and all the Bittermen, 2014. Video still.
Rehana Zaman, Where's Lefty? 2014. C-type print, Collaged image using found photograph of beer brewing vessel from Tetley Brewery archive.
Rehana Zaman, I, I, I, I, and I, 2013. Video still
Rehana Zaman, I, I, I, I, and I, 2013. Installation view at Studio Voltaire, London.
Rehana Zaman, I, I, I, I, and I, 2013. Video still.
Rehana Zaman, What an artist dies in me/ Exit the Emperor Nero, 2013. Installation view, Outpost, Norwich.
Rehana Zaman, What an artist dies in me/ Exit the Emperor Nero, 2013. Video still.
Rehana Zaman, Baalbek, 2014. C-type print.
Rehana Zaman, Like an Iron Maiden Trapped Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 2010. Installation view, Tenderpixel, 2014.
Rehana Zaman, Like an Iron Maiden Trapped Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 2010; Iron Maiden (Ambridge), 2011. Installation view, Tenderpixel, 2014.
Rehana Zaman, Iron Maiden (Ambridge), 2011, video still.
Rehana Zaman, Like an Iron Maiden Trapped Between a Rock and a Hard Place, 2010. Video still.
Projects at Tenderpixel
Tell me the story Of all these things
Acting Truthfully Under the Circumstances
Feiko Beckers, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Jacopo Miliani, Timothy Ivison and Julia Tcharfas, Rehana Zaman
14 November to 20 December 2014
Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Rehana Zaman in conversation
Chaired by Louise Shelley
Wednesday, 3 December 2014, 7 to 9pm
Art Rotterdam Projections
6 to 9 February 2014
Things You Think in Order
Giles Bailey, Tom Crawford, Camilla Wills, Rehana Zaman
6 September to 5 October 2013
Rehana Zaman (b 1982, Heckmondwike UK) is based in London. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London and completed her MFA in Fine Art at the same place in 2011.
She was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 2017; a British Council research grant with Museo de Art Carrillo Gil, Mexico City in 2015 and a Gasworks International Fellowship to Beirut in 2013. Zaman was a LUX Associate Artist in 2012/2013. She is a lecturer on the BA Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include solo exhibition at Grand Union, Birmingham, UK (upcoming in 2019); the Kochi Muziris Biennale, IN (upcoming in 2018/2019); 14th Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (2018); Speaking Nearby, CCA Glasgow (2018); Tell me the story Of all these things, Tenderpixel, London (2016/2017); Material Art Fair IV with Syndicate, Mexico City MX (2017); Giantess, StudioRCA, London UK (2016); Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen, commissioned by The Tetley, Leeds UK (2014); I, I, I, I and I, Art Rotterdam Projections NL with Tenderpixel (2014); What an Artist Dies in Me / Exit the Emperor Nero, Outpost, Norwich UK (2013) and I, I, I, I and I, commissioned by Studio Voltaire, London UK (2013).
Recent and upcoming group exhibitions and screenings include the Liverpool Biennale, UK (2018); 18th Seoul International New Media Festival, South Korea (2018); Oberhausen Film Festival, DE (2018); Tell me a story Of All these things, featured film on MUBI, UK, Europe and Canada (2018); Open City Docs Festival, London, UK (2018); Policy Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham UK (2017); The Problem of Perspective: Interwoven Histories, Pavilion, Leeds UK (2017); Shades of Opacity, Jerwood Gallery, London UK (2016); Dry Goods, Cologne DE (2016); Artist Moving Image Film Festival, ICA, London UK (2016); exhaust, Contemporary Art Tasmania AU (2016); Marcel Tarelkin / Rehana Zaman, Joint Venture, Dusseldorf DE (2015); OFF-Biennale Budapest, Tranzit, Budapest HU (2015); Acting Truthfully Under the Circumstances, Tenderpixel, London UK (2015); Some Women, Other Women and all the Bittermen, Konsthall C, Stockholm SE (2015); Things You Think in Order, Tenderpixel, London UK (2013); Home Theatre, Baro, São Paulo BR (2013), The GDR Goes On!, The Showroom, London UK (2012); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London UK (2012); We Love You, Limoncello, London UK (2012); and Other People’s Problems, Project Space Leeds UK (2011).
She is frequently invited to devise and deliver workshops, talks and events for groups and organisations such as UP Projects with Flat Time House, J4DW, Studio Voltaire’s The Syllabus, RCA, UCL, Birkbeck, London, Funen Academy, Denmark and Royal Institute of Art, Sweden.
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Best substitutes to iPhone 6S plus
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In quick succession to the alternatives we presented to you for the iPhone 6S, we would now be bringing to the best alternatives for the iPhone 6S plus, the phone which re-introduces the form factor carried by the iPhone 6.
So sit tight as we bring to you a compiled list of such high-class, large-screened handset substitutes to the much-acknowledged iPhone 6S plus. We promise that this would help you in choosing a phone in an affordable price range and which would benefit you just as much as any higher-end phone would.
This phablet installment in the Samsung franchise and has all the features of a high-end phone. This phone, in all senses is a ‘large screened smartphone’. With a cutting edge hardware and with Samsung’s own octa-core, 2.1 GHz processor which is 64-bit and is empowered by Exynos 7420, this phablet comes with 4GB of RAM, a sleek 16 MP camera and a 5.7” display.
Moreover, the resolution offered by this smartphone is truly impressive. 1220 x 2560 is the resolution offered by Galaxy Note 5. All these features make it worthy of being a substitute to the much hyped, iPhone 6S Plus.
The most recent entrant in the phablet domain is now Motorola. The Moto X Style comes with a display as wide and as big as the galaxy note 5. The display stands at a huge 5.7”. This piece has a screen to body ratio of 76 per cent which implies that the device is actually smaller which would make it really difficult to use with a single hand.
The main power of this phone lies in its customizability. You get various colour options and a solid hardware – 1.8 GHz, hexa-core Snapdragon 808 SoC, 3 GM of RAM, a 5.7″ display showcasing a 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution, and a 21 MP camera.
This leathery flagship phone is a true portrayer of class when it comes to achieving a level of sophistication in parallel with smartness in the context of smartphones. It’s ideal screen to body ratio gives it a compact build. This piece has display of 5.5”, slightly less than the Moto X Style, but considering it’s robust hardware, that is hardly of any significance.
This has a 1.8 GHz, hexa-core Snapdragon 808 SoC, 3 GM of RAM, a 5.5″ display housing a 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution, and a 16 MP camera. Such diverse hardware features make it all the more reason to substitute the iPhone 6S Plus.
With a decent screen to body ratio and a 2.5D AMOLED touch screen panel, this phone stands apart from all other on this list. It is as if this piece’s screen panel waterfalls seamlessly to it’s side. It is very thin which proves to be advantageous as it gives the piece an ultra-thin look. It’s thickness stands at just 2.6 mm.
Moreover, the Huawei Mate S has a distinguished Force Touch feature(similar to the Apple’s 3D touch). This also has a full HD display and the phablet is powered by Huawei’s newest Kirin 935 chip-set integrated with 3GB of RAM. All in all, this piece is an ideal substitution to the Apple’s flagship phone, the iPhone 6S Plus.
So, did you like our list of substitutes to the iPhone 6S Plus?. If yes, go buy them as soon as possible.
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In Oregon, one college tries to make a home for ‘Dreamers’
You could say Ana Maldonado goes out of her way to get to Portland Community College’s new DREAM Center.
First she walks, then takes light rail, then a bus. That brings her to the PCC campus closest to her house. There she meets another student, Ignacio Garcia, and they carpool to another PCC campus one more hour away.
Why does Maldonado — an immigrant recipient of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — go to all this trouble?
“To learn how to use my voice,” she explained. “I’ve never felt so much support before as I do this year because of the DREAM Center.”
The DREAM Center appears to be the first of its kind at any institution of higher education in Oregon. When it opened Jan. 22, it arrived on a wave of support in the Pacific Northwest but amid roiling waters nationally over the Obama administration program that shielded young immigrants from deportation.
PCC President Mark Mitsui said the center reflected the wishes and philosophy of the PCC Board of Directors, which in December 2016 declared the school a “sanctuary” institution.
“It certainly is consistent with our values, our mission as an institution, and you can even argue that it is embedded within the historic mission of community colleges,” Mitsui said.
The center is simple — the sparsely decorated Room 101 of Building 2 of the PCC Rock Creek campus. It features cubicles, a school clock and a bank of computers underneath a large banner, “DREAMers Resource Center,” festooned with two monarch butterflies.
The beautiful insects have been a symbol of immigrants for decades due to their ability to migrate across the U.S.-Mexico border, and they have often been adopted by “Dreamers.” It’s not lost on some that the monarchs are being reviewed for addition to the list of federally protected endangered species.
One recent day at the center, Maldonado joined fellow DACA recipients Garcia and Keidy Caballero and talked about the challenges they face. DACA’s fate is uncertain. President Trump moved to end its protections by March 5, but a federal judge has stayed that move. Efforts to protect Dreamers legislatively have stalled in Congress.
As Maldonado, Garcia and Caballero spoke, their words were often weighted with an emotion that contrasted with peals of laughter and lively discussions coming from several students working with mentors. There was obvious camaraderie, and language see-sawed between guttural English and mellifluous Spanish.
Garcia said his sense of having to struggle harder than other students started on his first day at the college, during new student orientation.
Garcia said he was brusquely told to “just fill out your FAFSA,” a financial aid form.
“But I’m not able to submit my FAFSA,” he said. “They didn’t know what DACA was. I had to explain it to them.”
Led by coordinator Jhoana Monroy and Multicultural Center coordinator Liliana Luna, the center offers legal services, assists with DACA paperwork and provides a host of services, including career and academic counseling.
Portland has sometimes been called America’s whitest big city, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t broad support for Dreamers here.
In the Pacific Northwest, the center is a dot on a timeline of “sanctuary” declarations that have pushed back against the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies. With 90,000 students and four campuses, PCC is the largest institution of higher education in Oregon.
Many polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans support Dreamers staying put. That’s a clear mandate, says PCC President Mitsui.
Still, the continuing political limbo has Luna, who calls herself “DACA-mented,” feeling a weariness that surpasses even droopy-eyelid college standards.
Liliana Luna helps run the center for “Dreamers” at Portland Community College’s Rock Creek campus.
“I cannot explain to you how exhausted I feel,” she said. “Physically, mentally, emotionally.”
While Maldonado hopes to someday be a teacher, Garcia a computer scientist and Caballero a nurse, Luna is in a master’s program to become a therapist helping Spanish-speaking immigrants.
Brought by her parents on a plane at age 15 to the U.S. to escape cartels in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Luna cried “the whole way here,” she said. She still wonders what happened to her beloved box of Barbie dolls since she heard the home was taken over by a cartel.
She’s finely tuned then to what she calls “a constant battle, a constant attack” that DACA recipients struggle with.
“I was having a conversation with students [at the center] about how a lot of us might go through depression or anxiety without knowing about it,” Luna said.
Asked about the possibility of immigration agents raiding the center, which also serves DACA recipients’ families, Luna shared a thought that invokes her violence-filled past in Mexico — “I remember seeing a lot of my friends dying” — and her adopted country’s horrific pattern of school shootings.
“What I am more concerned about is racist people that are going to come and shoot us,” Luna said. DACA recipients are “very visible,” she said. “I do feel that we’re targets to a lot of people.”
She’s already been a target for ridicule. After she appeared in a local news story about the center, Luna received a stream of offensive, racist threats and was reported to immigration authorities even though she’s a legal resident, thanks to DACA.
Luna shared screenshots that included racist caricatures showing Trump holding up a puppet with stereotypically Mexican features. She received messages like this one: “Ms. Luna. You know it’s illegal to be here. You have to apply. Also you know Muslims follow a cause to take over and kill. Right?”
Such violent thoughts seem far away from the suburban Rock Creek campus. It’s a peaceful place, a stone’s throw from farm fields and nurseries, in which the region’s history of migrant farmworkers is echoed in many students’ chestnut brown hair and the campus center’s “Farm Cafe.”
College officials say they have no statistics on how many students are in DACA. Luna estimates the group numbers 300 to 400 among the college’s 90,000 students and “maybe 200” at the Rock Creek campus.
There are about 689,000 DACA recipients nationwide. The Migration Policy Institute, an independent think tank, estimates that about 10,000 Oregon residents are in the program.
DACA recipients overwhelmingly hail from Mexico and Central America, a group that includes Garcia, Caballero and Maldonado.
All three say they cherish their roots in Mesoamerica, but feel some sense of distance. Caballero hasn’t been back to her native Honduras since she was brought here 12 years ago. Maldonado hasn’t been back to Mexico since she was brought here nine years ago. Garcia went back to Mexico just once, he said, to visit a sick grandmother.
That trip to Oaxaca, his first in 17 years, showed just how American the bespectacled computer science student has become — culturally if not legally. Occasionally, he said, he couldn’t understand his grandmother’s indigenous Zapotec, or family members’ speedy, slang-filled Spanish.
Now, the new center, Garcia said, offers “like, kind of a family.” Another way to understand it: Consider the “R” in the DREAM acronym (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors), first coined for the original bipartisan congressional bill in 2001: relief.
“It was just nice to see people that looked like me,” Garcia said of his first visit after the center’s opening. “I didn’t have to explain what DACA was. I didn’t have to explain my struggle, because they already knew, because they’ve gone through it. And that was like the [first] moment when I felt like I belonged to PCC, like I mattered.”
This story was first published in the Los Angeles Times.
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Pastor Tunde Bakare Makes A List Of 'The True Enemies Of Nigeria'
The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare on Sunday disclosed the true enemies in Nigeria. Bakare in a statement on his verified Twitter page said the true enemies are found in every level of government, from the local to the state to the federal levels, and in every arm of government in Nigeria. He noted that those who partake of the loot, celebrate looters are the true enemies among the people. Bakare urged Nigerians in this new decade to stand up against the true enemies highlighted in his statement at all levels rather than attack journalists who criticize the government. The statement read: “A few days from now, on January 15, we will observe Armed Forces Day; a day earmarked to honour Nigeria’s fallen heroes in commemoration of the end of the Nigerian Civil War. “Fellow Nigerians, the true enemies of our nation are found at every level of government, from the local to the state to the federal levels, and in every arm of government. They can also be found on the streets, in households and in the marketplace. “As it is with the leadership, so it is with the citizenry. Leaders and citizens have their citizenship in common; they are drawn from among us and are a reflection of our basest instincts or our highest ideals at every level of government. “In Nigeria, the vast majority of our people regularly take turns perpetuating the cycle of corruption either as beneficiaries or benefactors. “These enemies in citizens’ clothing are those who choose to be spectators while the nation goes down the drain on their watch; those perverts on the pulpit who hide under togas of godliness to manipulate the vulnerable;those economic behemoths who window dress their underhandedness with filth-lanthropy; those who are perpetually “not on seat” because they can’t “come and go and die; “Those who partake of loot and celebrate looters from the same ethnic group or religious organisation; those who say of the looters, “We know say na thief, but this thief na our thief.” These are the true enemies of Nigeria. “At the local level of government, the true enemies of our nation are those agents of oppression who place excruciating multiple tax burdens on often defenceless Nigerians. “At the state level, the true enemies of Nigeria are those state governments that feed fat on unaccounted-for security votes; those who deploy the paraphernalia of office in their selfish interests rather than in the service of the people. “Those who connive with zonal political oligarchs to personalise and privatise the state; those who deploy the force of state to quell dissent, those who give critics an excuse to postulate that if state governments are already abusing the little power they currently wield, what will they do if we devolve yet more powers to them? These power-drunk state officials are the true enemies of Nigeria. “At the zonal level, the enemies of Nigeria are those who have perverted their influence and turned the states within their zones of influence into personal estatesThey are the political puppeteers who rig the system to enthrone their stooges and use them to corner resources and opportunities. “They are the political bandits and pseudo-democrats who are maniacal in merchandising the will of the people, from masterminding vote-buying to engineering seemingly spontaneous outbreaks of political violence. These are the true enemies of Nigeria. “At the federal level, the true enemies of Nigeria are in every arm of government. In the judiciary, they are judges who pervert justice and auction judgements to the highest bidder. “In the legislature, they are those legislators who rob the nation “under the guise of constituency projects” and are quick to pass laws that undermine our national freedoms, thereby threatening our national stability. “In the executive arm of government, the enemies of our nation are those who deploy the machinery of state against hapless citizens; those who serve self rather than the people. “These are the true enemies that we must stand up against, not the angry young fellow who throws salvos at Mr President hoping to get a few retweets not the journalist who stares the government squarely in the face,and certainly not the dissenting voice in the midst of sycophants. “The thrust of the new decade that commences this year 2020 must be to, once again, come together as one people, to wrest the soul of Nigeria from the jaws of the bear and the mouth of the lion, and to begin to build a great nation.”
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It’s common knowledge that driving while impaired on drugs or alcohol (DWI) is a crime. When a DWI results in serious injury to another person, it’s referred to as intoxication assault. Intoxication assault is an incredibly serious offense under Texas law. If convicted, you could face felony charges.
Intoxication assault can lead to serious injuries that require extensive medical treatment. Because of this, the District Attorney’s Office is highly pressured to prosecute the crime to the fullest extent of the law. Don’t wait in uncertainty for another moment. If you or someone you know has been charged with intoxication assault, it’s imperative that you contact an experienced criminal defense attorney.
Attorney for Intoxication Assault in Houston, Texas
If you have been charged with intoxication assault, it’s important that you understand the full legal ramifications of the crime. Intoxication assault can result in steep fines and possible prison time. In addition, you could have your license suspended and an ignition interlock device installed on your vehicle.
It’s crucial you have a defense plan to fight these charges. Contact an experienced criminal defense attorney at Flood Lewis & Associates, Inc. today. Our attorneys are experienced and have represented numerous people with DWI charges. We will outline your legal options, inform you throughout the process and provide the best possible defense for you.
Call us now at (713) 224-5529 to schedule a consultation today. We accept clients throughout the greater Harris County area including Tomball, Bellaire, Houston, Cypress and Pasadena.
Overview of Intoxication Assault in Texas
Intoxication Assault Under Texas Law
Texas Penalties for Intoxication Assault
How Does Texas Define Intoxication?
Intoxication Manslaughter Penalties
It’s illegal to drive under the influence of drugs or alcohol in Texas. If an accident leads to serious injury, the crime could be reclassified as intoxication assault. Texas Penal Code § 49.07 states the elements for intoxication assault that must be proven at trial include:
The defendant was operating a motor vehicle intoxicated; and
The defendant’s intoxicated state caused serious bodily injury to another person.
Intoxication assault doesn’t just include traditional motor vehicles. You can be charged with intoxication assault while operating an aircraft, watercraft or assembling an amusement park ride.
Texas law defines serious bodily injury as any injury that causes a risk of death or serious permanent disfigurement, protracted loss or impaired function of a body part. Examples of a serious bodily injury include amputated limbs, severe brain injury or extreme facial disfigurement.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states Texas had the highest number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2016. This has caused the state of Texas to impose harsh penalties for those whose DWI lead to serious injury or death.
Intoxication assault is a third-degree felony, which is punishable by:
Up to 10 years in prison; and
A possible fine of up to $10,000
Additionally, the court is required to impose a minimum two-year jail sentence. Certain factors can enhance your penalties. If your DWI resulted in traumatic brain injury which caused the victim to be in a persistent vegetative state, you may be facing a second-degree felony.
The penalties for a second-degree felony include:
How is Intoxication Defined Under Texas Law?
The state of Texas defines intoxication in two ways; blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) or an assessment of your physical and mental faculties. Typically, law enforcement will use chemical testing to analyze your blood-alcohol concentration. These tests include blood analysis, breath analysis and urinalysis.
Texas Penal Code § 49.01 measures BAC by number of grams of alcohol per:
100 milliliters of blood;
67 milliliters of urine; or
210 liters of breath.
Texas considers a BAC of .08 to official limit for intoxication. People who are tested with a BAC of .08 or higher will be arrested for driving under the influence. However, law enforcement doesn’t only rely on chemical testing to evaluate a person’s impairment level. In some cases, police officers may use field sobriety testing to assess a person’s physical and mental faculties.
Only standardized field sobriety tests by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) are considered admissible in court. These tests include the horizontal gaze nystagmus, walk-and-turn, and the one-leg stand. Police officers may ask the offender to perform these tests so they can evaluate their impairment level.
Intoxication Manslaughter
If your DWI accident resulted in the death of another person, you could be charged with intoxication manslaughter. Even if the death was caused by a mistake or was on accident. Intoxication manslaughter is a serious offense that can result in a second-degree felony.
Texas DWI Laws – Visit the official website for Texas Legislature to find more information surrounding intoxication assault. Access the statutes to learn more about intoxication manslaughter, public intoxication and other alcohol-related offenses.
DUI Fatal and Injury Statistics – Visit the official website for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to learn more about DWI crashes in Texas. Access the document to learn the number of fatal crashes, accidents with serious injury and non-incapacitating DWI accidents in 2017.
Lawyer for Intoxication Assault in Harris County
Texas driving statistics show that the state has an ongoing issue with drunk driving. This means that law enforcement on high alert for DWI offenders. In cases where serious bodily injury occurs, it’s guaranteed the courts will try everything to aggressively prosecute the crime. If you or someone you know has been charged with intoxication assault, it’s important you contact an experienced criminal defense attorney.
Call the attorneys at Flood Lewis & Associates, Inc. today to assess your charges. We are experienced in all types of DWI charges, including intoxication assault. Tyler Flood, our managing attorney, has been designated as an ACS-CHAL Lawyer-Scientists, meaning he has an in-depth understanding of the science behind DWI cases. He can utilize his resources, knowledge and experience to help you mount a strong defense.
Contact us today at (713) 224-5529 for a case consultation. We accept clients throughout all parts of the Houston area and surrounding communities including Tomball, Bellaire, Pasadena, and West University Place.
This article was last updated on March 8th, 2019.
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The November meeting of Baddow & Galleywood U3A was well attended and we were pleased to welcome Barry Willden who came to tell us about becoming a magistrate. He began by giving us some history about the Justice system in our country which started about 650 years ago, in the time of Edward III.
The Justices of the Peace were titled landowners and this was when areas of England were divided into ‘Hundreds’. In later years County towns held Petty Sessions for minor offences four times a year and these became ‘The County Quarter Sessions’. In the mid 1800s formal court rooms were established, usually in Pubs and Inns!! Once we arrived in the 20th Century county courts were formally established and in 1919 the first female magistrate was appointed.
From the 1970’s magistrates were selected from applicants from the local community. They are unpaid volunteers who receive minimal expenses and are expected to be available for service most days of the year apart from national holidays. Questions were asked about how people were chosen for Jury Service and how the Magistrate and Jury finally decide on the verdict.
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Maida Babson Adams American garden collection, circa 1960-1994
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Archives of American Gardens
The Maida Babson Adams American Garden Collection documents the work of Molly Adams, a free-lance garden photographer who photographed hundreds of private and public gardens, many of them in the mid-Atlantic region, from the late 1950s through the mid-1990s. It includes slides, photographic prints, negatives and transparencies. A significant number of images document the work of landscape designers Nelva M. Weber, Alice Recknagel Ireys, and Friede Stege. Roughly 50 gardens do not have an identified location. Some images have captions and other information written on them.
The Maida Babson Adams American Gardens Collection includes a total of 7,606 images documenting close to 400 gardens photographed by Molly Adams from the 1950s to the 1990s. Although most images document gardens in New Jersey, the collection also includes gardens in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania. While the vast majority of gardens in the collection are private, there are also some public gardens and venues like the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in New Jersey, the International Flower Show in New York City, and the White House in Washington, D.C. A number of gardens were photographed during organized garden or horticultural tours or annual meetings of the Garden Club of America. A significant number of images document the work of landscape designers Alice Ireys, Nelva Weber, and Friede Stege. Approximately 85 gardens in the collection are unidentified as to their location and/or client. Relatively few images are captioned or dated; Adams often labeled a film envelope or back of a photograph or contact sheet with just a client surname and the designer (if it was Ireys, Weber, or Stege). In some cases, additional information about a garden's location or owner's full name was gleaned from the finding aids for the Alice Recknagel Ireys Papers or the Nelva Weber Papers. Some images were accompanied by clippings from newspapers or magazines that featured one or more related images by Adams; most of these clippings date from the 1950s and 1960s. There is also a file of general clippings of Adams' work; many of these do not identify the garden that is shown.
Most of the images are black and white, though there are a number taken in color. Adams' contact sheets and photo envelopes were sometimes marked with cropping marks or photo developing notes respectively.
Molly (Maida Babson) Adams (1918 - 2003) had a 40+ year career as a nationally recognized free-lance garden and wildlife photographer and conservationist. Her images were published under the name "Molly Adams." Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey and lived over fifty years in Mendham Township, New Jersey. As a teenager she became interested in photography; she later attended the New York Institute of Photography and became a member of the New York Camera Club.
Her photographs were featured in numerous newspapers and magazines including the "New York Times," "New York Herald Tribune," "House Beautiful," "Horticulture," "Home Garden," and "Audubon." During the Kennedy administration, she photographed the White House Rose Garden; these photographs were later published in "Flower Grower."
Adams provided hundreds of photographs for "How to Plan and Plant Your Own Property" (1967) by landscape architect Alice Recknagel Ireys and "How to Plan Your Own Home Landscape" (1976) by landscape designer Nelva M. Weber. Her images were also published in books including "The Reader's Digest Practical Guide to Home Landscaping," and "The Complete Illustrated Book of Garden Magic." Adams also occasionally wrote garden-themed articles. A longtime member in the Somerset Hills (NJ) Garden Club, which is part of the Garden Club of America, Adams once served as the latter's official photographer.
In the 1960's Adams' photographs drew attention to conservation issues related to the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern New Jersey. These widely publicized photographs rallied public support against the proposed destruction of the Great Swamp for the construction of an airport. Adams was also active as a member of the Mendham Township Environmental Commission and the North Jersey Conservation Foundation. In the 1980's she was awarded the Buckley Medal of Merit for Horticultural Achievement by the Garden Club of America for her photographs used in the postcard campaign "Save Our Vanishing Wild Flowers."
The North Jersey History & Genealogy Center at The Morristown & Morris Township Library in New Jersey has a collection of images by Molly Adams showcasing nature scenes and birds.
Given that Adams often photographed multiple gardens on a single roll of film, it is not always evident where one job ended and another began. In addition, numerous images in the collection were not labelled by Adams as to the garden owner or location. As a result, there are a number of instances in the Maida Babson Adams American Garden Collection where images have been inadvertently misidentified. Misidentified images are subject to correction as their proper identification is discovered.
Meaghan McCarthy
Adams' family donated her collection of garden images to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Gardens after her death in 2003.
Access to original images by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens.
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, Maida Babson Adams American garden collection.
The Alice Recknagel Ireys Papers in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, include photographs by Molly Adams.
The Nelva Weber Papers in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library in Ithaca, New York, likely include photographs by Molly Adams.
Molly Adams' image collection was sorted and arranged by a member of the Garden Club of America prior to its being donated to the Archives of American Gardens in 2003. A group of images showcasing nature scenes and birds was donated to the North Jersey History & Genealogy Center at The Morristown & Morris Township Library in New Jersey. The Archives of American Gardens received the remaining body of images featuring gardens arranged according to client or garden name.
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Hans Groenhoff Photographic Collection
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Groenhoff, Hans
5.27 Cubic feet
41 boxes
National Air and Space Museum Archives
Hans Groenhoff (1906-1985) was a celebrated American aviation photographer from the 1930s through the 1960s, also working as a pilot, journalist, editor, correspondent, and—in his retirement years—as an aviation tourism publicist for the Bahamas. This collection of 25,550 images consists of Groenhoff's collection of negatives and transparencies, spanning his career from 1933 to 1975.
This collection consists of Groenhoff's collection of negatives and transparencies, spanning his career from 1933 to 1975, and includes images of military and civilian aircraft and events, glider and sailplane activities, air shows and races, airlines and airports, weather (clouds) and aerial images.
Series 1: 1962 Acquisition, approximately 24,250 images; photography made by Groenhoff in the period 1933 to 1962, consists of mixed medium format black-and-white negative single-sheet or cut-frame roll film (Subseries 1, HGA), 35mm black-and-white roll film (Subseries 2, HGD), and mixed medium format color transparency (positive) film (Subseries 3, HGC), as well as black-and-white print enlargements made by the Smithsonian of selected images. Also included in this series are a small number of posed portraits of Groenhoff at work.
Series 2: 1984 Acquisition (HGB), approximately 1,300 images; photography made by Groenhoff in the 1960s and 1970s, primarily during his employment with the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, consists of mixed format black-and-white and color roll film and a small number of 35mm color slides.
Series 3: "Focus On Flight" Exhibit and Book Materials. This small series consists of mixed materials (copy photography and documents) used in the creation of the NASM exhibit,
Focus on Flight: Four Decades of Aerial Photography (Rudy Arnold and Hans Groenhoff)
(November 1984 through September 1985), and the related book by curator E. T. (Tim) Wooldridge,
Focus on Flight: The Aviation Photography of Hans Groenhoff
, published for the National Air and Space Museum by Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, D.C.), 1985.
Hans Groenhoff (1906-1985) was born and educated in Germany, but emigrated to the United States in 1927. Residing in New York City, Groenhoff pursued his interest in aviation and photography. Following in the footsteps of his brother Günther, a famous aviator and pioneer glider pilot in Germany, Hans Groenhoff became an active glider pilot in the nearby Elmira, New York, area, nurturing a lifelong fascination with clouds and aerial photography. Groenhoff's photography career took off when he inherited two cameras following the death of his brother in a glider accident in 1932; he went on to work as a photographer, journalist, editor, and correspondent, with his photographs and articles published in mainstream magazines such as
, as well as aviation publications such as
Air Trails Pictorial
Sportsman Pilot
Aero Digest
, and especially
Flying and Popular Aviation
, for whom he was a regular correspondent. Groenhoff also shot advertising and publicity photography for aircraft manufacturers and the U.S. Army Air Forces. Following the death of his first wife, Fridel Barth, in 1954, Groenhoff moved to the Miami, Florida, area to take advantage of better weather for photographing aircraft. In 1956, Groenhoff married Frances Semman, who assisted him in his work. In his retirement years, Groenhoff was employed by the Bahamas Government to promote the Islands as a tourist destination for private and sport aviation, founding their popular "Bahamas Flying Treasure Hunt" events which ran annually for several years.
Hans Groenhoff's aviation photography career is documented in the book
by E. T. Woodridge (Smithsonian Institution, 1985).
Initial arrangement and description by Kristine L. Kaske-Martin, 2005.
Encoded by Rihoko Ueno, January 2012.
Revised arrangement and description by Melissa A. N. Keiser, 2019.
Melissa A. N. Keiser
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Hans Groenhoff, Purchase, 1962, 1984, NASM.XXXX.0359, NASM
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
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Physical access to film originals (negatives, transparencies, and slides) requires notice a minimum of two business days in advance of visit to allow for retrieval of materials from cold storage.
Hans Groenhoff Photographic Collection, Acc. XXXX.0359, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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Whitney Museum of American Art (7)
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Maltsby, Portia
Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
100 cubic feet
Audio and video documentation of concerts, lectures, seminars, and colloquia on African American historical and cultural topics including gospel music, African American religion, jazz music, and the civil rights movement. Photographs are primarily documentation of the programs, rather than earlier, historic images. Includes archival original, magn...
National Visionary Leadership Project 2003
National Visionary Leadership Project
0.25 Linear feet (1 box)
5 video recordings (5 VHS 1/2" video recordings)
This collection contains five videotaped oral history interviews conducted in partnership with the National Visionary Leadership Project and the Anacostia Community Museum's Education Department in 2003. Interviewees include Georgette Seabrooke Powell,William Langford,Louise Daniel Hutchinson, Jeannine Clark, and Charles H. Clark.
Oral history interviews with John Frederick Gates Clarke
Clarke, J. F. Gates (John Frederick Gates), 1905-1990 interviewee
16 audiotapes (Reference copies). 25 digital .mp3 files (Reference copies).
The Smithsonian Institution Archives began its Oral History Program in 1973. The purpose of the program is to supplement the written documentation of the Archives' record and manuscript collections with an Oral History Collection, focusing on the history of the Institution, research by its scholars, and contributions of its staff. Program ...
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Design and Construction
107.16 cu. ft. (105 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (2 tall document boxes)
Record Unit 638
This record unit consists of project files documenting the repairs, improvement, and renovation of existing Smithsonian buildings. The records include memoranda with Smithsonian offices, correspondence with contractors, blueprints, cost analyses, specifications, and photographs. Buildings and museums documented in this collection include: the...
Maryette Charlton papers
Charlton, Maryette
80.6 Linear feet
0.34 Gigabytes
AAA.charmary
Archives of American Art
The papers of filmmaker, photographer, painter, printmaker, teacher, and arts advocate Maryette Charlton measure 81 linear feet and date from circa 1890 to 2013. This particularly rich collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, writings, 30 diaries, teaching files, professional and project files, major film project files, artist research files, exhibition files, printed material, scrapbooks, artwork, 22 sketchbooks, extensive photographic materials, numerous sound and film recordings, a digitized sound recording, and an unintegrated later addition to the papers containing additional biographical materials, journals, correspondence, subject files, printed materials, and scattered photographs.
Perls Galleries records
Perls Galleries
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The records of the Perls Galleries measure 79.6 linear feet and date from 1937 to 1997. Founded by Klaus Perls in 1937 and operating until 1997, the gallery dealt primarily in modern French art and the artwork of Alexander Calder. Found within the records are extensive correspondence (circa 44 linear feet) with artists, dealers, galleries, museums, and collectors; photographs and negatives of inventory and other artwork; exhibition files, scattered financial records; and exhibition catalogs and clippings.
Curatorial Records
National Museum of the American Indian, Curatorial Office
17 cu. ft. (17 record storage boxes)
Accession 08-029
This accession consists of records which document the activities of the curatorial staff of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Subjects covered include the exhibition master plan, workshops, repatriation, exhibitions, councils, collections management, collection research, conservation treatment, budgetary matters, and research....
National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director
These records are the administrative files of the Office of the Director, National Museum of Natural History. Most of the records date from the late-to-mid 1950s. Those records created prior to 1959 are the records of the Director of the United States National Museum, although they are records relating primarily to that segment of the U. ...
38.69 cu. ft. (38 record storage boxes) (1 16x20 box)
This accession includes records documenting the production of the Archives of American Art Journal (Volumes 24-26). Materials include Editor's records such as correspondence, publications, notes, grant proposals, agreements, budget summaries, photographs, and reports. Also included in this accession are records which document the administrati...
Anacostia Oral History Project
bulk 1975-1975
140 sound recordings (72 sound cassettes ; 68 sound disk CD-Rs)
58 electronic discs (dvd) (58 data disk DVD-Rs)
2 Linear feet
The Anacostia Oral History Project Collection contains oral history interviews with 55 individuals who either grew up in or spent a considerable amount of time in the neighborhood. Interviewees discuss their memories of Anacostia dating back to the 1890s and points of focus include education, occupations, transportation, geographic boundaries, and ...
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As part of the product rollout, the company is also launching a new website that contains product information along with a purchasing shop.
Midas Creature was developed by Jiayi Chong, a former Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios whose experience includes working on many feature films, including Toy Story 3, Wall-E, UP, Brave, and Monsters University. Chong’s role at Pixar spanned ten years and involved developing physics simulation tools and engines, including simulations for rigid body dynamics, deformable solids, cloth, hair, fluid dynamics, and skin simulation tools. In his role as Technical Director of Animation for Midas Touch, Chong leads his team on creating cutting-edge animation pipeline and service, such as Midas Creature, that is made available to both internal projects as well as licensing partners.
“Midas Creature is the ideal pipeline for game developers and anyone else looking for a more powerful, efficient, and easy-to-use 2D animation process,” said Kevin He, CEO of Midas Touch Interactive. “The Directable Automated Animation Engine of Midas Creature allows you to create animations you might have previously thought impossible with key frame or flash animation. This includes motion like hair and cloth fluttering in the wind, as well as 3D-to-2D Mocap transfer.”
Video game developers and others can use Midas Creature’s powerful Skeletal Rigging and Animation tools to build, pose, warp, and bring their art to life. These tools are made to streamline the user’s workflow, reducing time and money spent while maintaining high-quality results.
“We’re very excited to have Jiayi on our team as he brings tremendous passion and expertise,” continued He, “which he utilizes to build and implement our next-gen AI driven physics based animation pipeline helping to further establish Midas Touch Interactive as a burgeoning immersive entertainment technology expert developing cost effective and deeply interactive content creation services.”
Midas Creature caters to 2D developers of all sizes with its “Creature Enterprise” and “Creature Indie” levels. Enterprise is a premium offering that gives users everything they need to get started using Creature for their company and projects. This is the full-featured version of the tool and gives users a license for Sprite Bump, a normal mapping tool that gives 3D lighting effects to 2D images. Unlimited support tickets are included in the Enterprise package. And for first-year Enterprise customers, a Creature Lead Engineer will offer one hour a month of feedback on their projects. “Creature Enterprise” is offered as a subscription, renewed annually.
Indie is designed for small-scale development teams who prefer more flexibility without an annual commitment, while still offering product complete features and support for indie teams to realize their animation needs. The “Creature Indie” license is available to those with less than $100,000 in gross revenues in the current year, and can be purchased for $19.99 per seat for a 30-day license and to be renewed month-by-month. Committed to inspiring young and aspiring creative developers, Midas Touch is also offering students a version of Midas Creature that allows them (with proof of enrollment/student ID) to use the tool free for one month.
Midas Creature is a blend of traditional tools and new technologies. Both premium levels will have comprehensive customer support to aid user needs. Early adopters have used Midas Creature and seen positive benefits, including a 10x increase in speed of art pipeline performance (source PlayStudios).
Midas Creature is available at the shop page: http://www.creature.midasphysics.com/shop
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Train2Game News Marmalade 2D Kit
Marmalade Technologies releases latest version of Marmalade 2D Kit as part of Marmalade Platform 8.5
First introduced in Marmalade Platform 8.3 in March, Marmalade 2D Kit offers an advanced editor and runtime to make creation of engaging and dynamic 2D content both intuitive and fast.
“We have been working hard to improve the editor’s appearance, user experience and functionality, based on feedback from users,” says Adalberto Bruno, CTO at Marmalade Technologies. “With this latest release, our significant investment in this technology puts advanced capabilities in the hands of all Marmalade developers, offering a highly competitive feature set at no additional cost.”
Marmalade Technologies’ in-house game development team, Marmalade Game Studio, makes extensive use of Marmalade 2D Kit to power the entire UI on one of their latest titles, RIZE: Zombies, currently in soft launch.
“Having an editor focused on the specific needs of 2D content creation was a huge productivity boost, allowing rapid iteration and experimentation to fine-tune the UX in RIZE: Zombies,” says Laura Cheng, Producer at Marmalade Game Studio. “We are also seeing growing interest and uptake by other studios, helping us to continue to focus on the features that matter most to users,” adds Ryan Gilmour, Head of Product Management.
In addition to an all-new version of Marmalade 2D Kit, Marmalade Platform 8.5 also brings official support for OpenAL, opening up opportunities for developers to add immersive 3D sound to their apps using a simple, extensible model.
“OpenAL support continues to expand the number of out-of-the-box open source technologies available to our developers,” continues Ryan. “And by building on our platform abstraction we are able to offer this powerful middleware to all platforms simultaneously, including those not supported by alternative implementations of OpenAL.”
Rounding out Marmalade Platform 8.5, developers targeting Windows can now take full advantage of live tiles in their Marmalade apps and both new and existing Extension Development Kit users will benefit from enhanced documentation covering creating and debugging extensions.
Marmalade Platform 8.5, the latest version of the Marmalade Platform, complete with Marmalade 2D Kit, is available now from the Developer area of the Marmalade website.
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Train2Game News: Unity 4.3 released
Posted on November 13, 2013 by Train2Game Blogger Team
Unity Technologies have released version 4.3 of the Unity multi-platform engine and development tools.
The important update includes the highly anticipated dedicated 2D development tools, huge additions to the Mecanim animation system, an upgrade to the re-written Umbra 3 occlusion culling, and much more.
While Unity has been used to create thousands of excellent 2D games, Unity 4.3 introduces new 2D development tools and metaphors specifically designed to streamline 2D workflow. Manipulating and optimizing 2D assets is made easier with the addition of a new Sprite Texture import mode, automated atlasing, an optimized 2D rendering, and drag-and-drop functionality for scene creation. Box2D physics have been integrated into Unity for better performance, stability, and smaller game builds. Additionally, polygon collider generation from sprite textures means quicker creation of accurate, but fully editable, physical collider meshes for refined physical response between objects in a scene.
In addition Unity’s signature character animation suite becomes more powerful with support for Blend Shapes, used to accurately and realistically blend complex geometry between model states, giving animators the ability to create, among other things, believable emotional facial animation.
On top of high-end improvements to character animation, Mecanim is now fully integrated with the Animation Window and its new dopesheet functionality. Support for animating simple scene elements, 2D sprite animations, camera settings, and more to make Mecanim an all-purpose animation solution.
The final big update for Unity is that Occlusion Culling in Unity has been rewritten for the upgrade to Umbra 3. Among other benefits, baking is much faster and generates much more accurate and better performing results. Rapid iteration allows for much more sophisticated environments containing highly detailed graphical content.
“4.3 is a huge update in the history of Unity,” said David Helgason, CEO, Unity Technologies. “The addition of 2D tools is an important milestone that will help developers make incredible 2D games, and with major improvements to Mecanim and greatly increased performance, this is a weighty, productive update that we’re thrilled to release.”
You can download Unity 4.3 and start creating games straight away from http://unity3d.com/unity/download
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Posted on August 30, 2013 by Train2Game Blogger Team
It’s the end of the week so it’s time for the games industry news round up.
Unity Technologies unveiled new 2D tools and workflow for the Unity engine and editor to meet increased demand for features designed to address the specific challenges of creating 2D games. Now in beta, the first iteration of the 2D tools, many of which are included in the free version of Unity, will be released with the Unity 4.3 update this fall. The charge to improve workflow begins with the introduction of a dedicated scene view, which includes specialized 2D scene manipulation tools. Scene view can be toggled between the traditional view or set as the default when creating a project. Importing, manipulating, and working with 2D assets are made easier with the addition of a new sprite texture importer type, automated atlasing, and dedicated 2D renderer component. Adding 2D art to a scene is as easy as dragging a sprite from the asset library into the scene where Unity will then automatically create an object. If you are a fan of 2D games and work with Unity you now have no excuses to get a game out there!
Wizards of the Coast announced that the Magic 2014 – Duels of the Planeswalkers Expansion will release on September 18, 2013. Adding depth to the latest installment of the wildly popular Duels of the Planeswalkers franchise, the Magic 2014 Expansion will give players the opportunity to explore new planes, fight new enemies and face new challenges. Just like the full game the expansion will be available on Xbox LIVE Arcade, PC via Steam, PlayStation Network, iPad, and Android via Google Play and the Amazon App Store. The new expansions includes; five new decks, new campaign levels, five new challenges and more persona portraits.
Activision Publishing, Inc., in association with Nickelodeon and developer Red Fly Studio, announced, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows – a new, team-based, third-person action-brawler debuting on the Xbox Live online entertainment network from Microsoft for Xbox 360 as a part of the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade 2013, and on Windows PC via Steam. Starring Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows puts the focus on combat, characters, and co-op. Its swift and tactile fighting system affords players dynamic choices on the battlefield, rewarding successful combo flourishes, expert counterattacks, and brutal takedowns. The Turtles’ full range of personalities are on display throughout this original story in the TMNT universe, bringing humour and attitude to the unfolding narrative and influencing each character’s unique fighting style. The game will be released on September 25.
NEXON Europe had the pleasure to announce that global pop sensation, media personality and all-round gentleman, PSY, is appearing in the enormously successful online free-to-play games MapleStory and Combat Arms. PSY took the world by storm with his hit single Gangnam Style, inspiring everyone from news readers to the UN Secretary General to join in with his unique brand of K-pop humour. Over a billion YouTube views and global chart domination is not enough for the dance phenomenon however; starting this month and following another huge hit single, Gentleman, PSY will be bringing his outrageous personality to NEXON Europe’s most popular titles.
Steve Ballmer is to retire as Microsoft CEO within the next year, the company revealed, adding credence to the rumours of a management reshuffle which accompanied Don Mattrick’s departure earlier this year. Ballmer will oversee the choice of his successor before taking retirement and remain as CEO during that process. The Microsoft board has appointed a special committee chaired by lead independent director John Thompson and including chairman of the Board Bill Gates, chairman of the Audit Committee Chuck Noski and chairman of the Compensation Committee Steve Luczo. Microsoft has said that it will be looking both internally and externally for candidates.
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Tag Archives: Indie Game Development
Train2Game News: Microsoft allowing self publishing on Xbox One
Microsoft have announced they will allow self publishing for indie titles on the Xbox One. This is excellent news for Train2Game students.
Microsoft have also announced that each console can be used as a development kit, much like the way that Apple devices can be used as such.
Here’s the official statement from Xbox corporate VP, Marc Whitten:
“Our vision is that every person can be a creator. That every Xbox One can be used for development. That every game and experience can take advantage of all of the features of Xbox One and Xbox LIVE. This means self-publishing. This means Kinect, the cloud, achievements. This means great discoverability on Xbox LIVE. We’ll have more details on the program and the timeline at Gamescom in August.”
Whitten also told Kotaku that dev kit functionality will not be available at launch, but will be added ‘at a later date’.
This dispells all concerns of the accessibility and exposure of indie game on Xbox One, Whitten promises they will live on the Xbox Live Marketplace with the major titles.
Whitten explains “Of course there will be different pivots inside of that. There will be everything from what are we curating, kind of like spotlight content, to the normal discoverability stuff like recommendations, what’s trending, what’s got a lot of engagement on the platform. But you shouldn’t think of it as there’s an indie area and a non-indie area.”
With this announcement it opens up an entirely new indie market for Train2Game students and Student Studios with all the features of the Xbox One, allowing you to get creative with features such as Kinect and the Cloud.
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Minecraft developer Mojang open to publishing games by other indie studios
Minecraft is hugely popular on the Train2Game forum, with at the time of writing, the dedicated Minecraft thread almost on its 70th page. The success of the title thrust indie developer Mojang into the limelight to such an extent they had to hire various extra staff.
This includes business development director Daniel Kaplan who recently spoke exclusively to GamesIndustry.biz and revealed a little about what life is like behind the scenes at Mojang.
“We are in a great spot right now, we can basically do whatever we want to. The hardest thing for us right now is to say “no” to all the deals we’re being offered.” Said Kaplan. “There are tonnes of opportunities out there for us right now. But we have to wait it out and figure out what’s the best thing for us to do.
“We get requests every week, it’s quite hard to sort them out, to figure out, okay, this is what we’re going to do. If you take one path then you can’t take the other, you know?”
Kaplan said that Monjang is interested in publishing games by other indie developers – it’s something that many Train2Game students would surely jump at the chance to be a part of if the opportunity ever came up.
“We hope to help people, to keep them involved in the process and create a successful game, to make sure people know about their games so they can create better games later on by themselves. So we’ll see how well we can work that position.”
The idea of helping up and coming games industry talent echoes calls from Peter Molyneux for the industry to offer more support to newcomers, as reported by the Train2Game blog. Molyneux also said that Minecraft is his favourite game of the decade.
Even with the increased in size of Mojang, the developers still feel that working in small teams is the best way to go about creating games. According to Kaplan, just three people are working on new Mojang title Scrolls.
“The biggest team is the Scrolls team, but that’s just three people, it’s still very small. We like to work in small teams, because we believe we can make decisions faster, or have shorter meetings, more creative freedom for the teams. So they’re small but very multitalented.”
And despite finding himself as an icon amongst the gaming community – including with Train2Game students – Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson – is still involved with programming on a full-time basis.
“He’s working full time, he wants a 100 per cent focus on coding. As far as he’s concerned, he doesn’t want to be going to any meetings at all so he can just sit down and code. He’s working 40 hours a week, just like we do, so he’s very active in the company.”
Kaplan added that Mojang are also open to the idea of producing games for consoles.
“We’re always looking for new platforms, and consoles are very interesting for us, obviously. There are huge possibilities for us there. But I try to believe that Minecraft will be looked at just like Doom was. That created the first FPS game, if Minecraft is the first game to start a genre of voxel engine, sand box games, whatever you want to call them, we’ll be really proud of it.”
Minecraft has been downloaded over two million times, and last month the Train2Game blog reported that the full-game will be released in November.
So Train2Game, what are your thoughts on the possibily of Mojang publishing games by other studios? Do you think it’d provide a massive boost for indie developers? And are you pleased to see that despite his success, Notch is still focused on coding?
Leave your comments here on the Train2Game blog, or on the Train2Game forum.
[Source: GamesIndustry.biz]
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THE Destination For Everything NASCAR Home Tracks
Justin Kern – Founder
Casey Kern – Editor/Videographer
Josh Ranger – Langley Speedway Correspondent
Jesse Vaughan – Podcast
Graphics – B5 Designs
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Category Archives: Super Late Model
Pollard, McCarty Muscle Into CARS Tour Victory Lane at Motor Mile
Posted on May 21, 2019 by twrpress Leave a comment
RADFORD, VA – The Heritage Truck Centers 250 was the first time the CARS Tour visited Motor Mile Speedway since 2015, and Saturday night’s action made up for the long hiatus when Bubba Pollard and Bobby McCarty muscled their way to Edelbrock Victory Lane. For Pollard, it was his third tour win this season and the first for McCarty in nearly a year.
Matt Craig claimed the Mahle Pistons Pole Award and led the field to the green flag in the opening race of the night. Second place starter Bubba Pollard nosed ahead of Craig to lead lap one before the Kannapolis, N.C, retook the top spot on lap two and held it for over a third of the race.
Pollard began to show his speed on lap 47 when he bypassed Craig for the top spot, but Craig found a way back around on lap 59. The pair continued to trade blows, moving each other out of the way multiple times before Pollard ultimately took the lead for the final time on lap 78 after a caution for Mike Speeney’s problems in turn three.
Despite Pollard’s late-race dominance, Craig threw everything at the No. 26 Ford when he attempted to outduel Pollard on a lap 114 restart. Having none of it, race control thwarted his work when the restart was called back as a jumped restart and reattempted with Pollard on the inside lane where he motored away after the green flag.
Pollard extended his lead to a .686-second advantage at the checkered flag, beating Craig, Stephen Nasse, Tate Fogleman and Kodie Conner to the line.
“When you drive good stuff, got good people behind you, they make it easy on you,” said Pollard in Edelbrock Victory Lane when asked about how he has pulled off three wins so far this season.
“When you drive me dirty, I’m going to drive you back dirty, and that’s all there is to it,” he continued when prompted about the battle with Matt Craig. “When you run me up the racetrack, I’m going to let you know it. It could have been a lot cleaner than what it was, and it wasn’t. It’s part of racing if he wants to drive like that. You’re looking at a new Bubba Pollard. I’ve kinda been easy on people, kind of just rolled with the flow, but I ain’t taking no [expletive] off nobody no more. If you touch that 26 car, you’re gonna be ready for it.”
Four years ago, Josh Berry picked up his first CARS Tour win at Motor Mile Speedway and picked up where he left off by rocketing to the Hedgecock Racing Pole Position during qualifying. As expected, he shot to the lead early over second place starter Deac McCaskill.
The opening two-thirds of the race was exceptionally clean, with two caution flags on laps 40 and 80 thrown by rule according to the series’ competition caution policy. After lap 80, however, things got crazy when Taylor Gray lost control exiting turn four which started a massive chain reaction melee that collected at least ten cars in one fashion or another. Multiple drivers were eliminated from the race afterward.
Bobby McCarty, who had moved to second during the opening two stints, challenged Josh Berry on the restart but was unable to steal to the top spot despite a quick outside lane at Motor Mile. A slew of late-race accidents including four cautions in the final scheduled 25 laps, gave McCarty multiple opportunities to bypass Berry but none of them yielded any results.
Josh Berry took the white flag after 124 laps and appeared to be en route to his 16th career when Brandon Pierce sent Ryan Repko for a spin in turn two, forcing officials to throw the yellow before the leader had taken the checkered flag, prompting a green-white-checkered restart.
On the initial attempt, Berry bypassed McCarty in turn three, but washed up the track allowing McCarty to drive to his inside in turn one. The two made contact, and Berry went spinning up the track, handing McCarty the race lead and relegating Berry to the tail.
The second attempt at a finish saw McCarty choose the high line for his restart lane, while Justin Carroll started underneath. The pair leaned on each other while others pushed and shoved behind them. They took the white flag in a near dead heat and made the final circuit door-to-door before racing off turn four to the checkered flag where Bobby McCarty edged out Carroll in a photo finish of .029 seconds. Sammy Smith, Brandon Pierce, and Tommy Lemons, Jr., rounded out the top five.
“I really hate that with the 88, I really do, he knows I don’t race that way,” McCarty said after thanking his crew in Edelbrock Victory Lane. “He was trying to pinch me, and I was trying to run him up a little bit, and we hit wheels. It yanked the wheel right out of my hand. I’ve never wrecked nobody for a win, I never have and I never will, that was just a racing incident. Hopefully he and I can talk about it and come to an agreement. But, like I said, a big thank you to everyone at Nelson Motorsports. My wife and son are here, and it’s he first time they’ve come in a long time, so this is a really cool moment for me.
“When that [lap 124] caution came out, I was worried, because they can cause a lot of problems,” he continued when asked about the setup for the finish. “You never know how these restarts are going to play out. Josh didn’t get to the throttle really good coming out of four, and I was able to pull the crossover and we got position on him and that was unfortunate and I really hate that happened. I didn’t know whether to take the inside or the outside on the last restart because I was losing forward drive and that’s where the 88 was killing us. I felt like if someone was on our outside, I wasn’t going to be able to get the throttle down. We took the outside, Justin’s a really hard racer, he races hard but he races clean, and I hope the fans enjoyed that show.”
The next event for the CARS Racing Tour will take place June 8 at Langley Speedway, the Who’s Your Driver 125, a standalone event for the late model stock cars with support from three local divisions at a highly-competitive .395-mile layout on the east coast of Virginia.
For more information on the CARS Tour, visit their website at CARSRacingTour.com, or follow them on Facebook (@CARSTour), Twitter (@CARSTour), Instagram (@cars_tour), and Snapchat (@carstour). The series also has its own YouTube channel, Roku channel (available through its TV website), and a new publicly available Amazon FireTV app released this week.
THE FINISHES
CARS Super Late Model Tour
Heritage Truck Centers 250
Motor Mile Speedway – May 18, 2019
POS NUM DRIVER LAPS REASON OUT
1. 26P Bubba Pollard 125
2. 54 Matt Craig 125
3. 51 Stephen Nasse 125
4. 8 Tate Fogleman 125
5. 45 Kodie Conner 125
6. 17B Josh Brock 125
7. 49 Jeff Batten 125
8. 24 Colin Garrett 125
9. 14 Jared Fryar 125
10. 6S Brandon Setzer 125
11. 37 Dan Speeney 125
12. 74 Ryan Moore 125
13. 34 Nolan Pope 125
14. 51B Amber Balcaen 125
15. 21 Toni Breidinger 124
16. 6 Matt Wallace 123
17. 16 Molly Helmuth 114 Accident
18. 50 Jett Noland 113 Brakes
19. 17 Mike Speeney 77 Accident
20. 96 Josh Reeves 52 Mechanical
21. 21J Trey Jarrell 46 Mechanical
22. 33 Preston Peltier 45 Mechanical
23. 2 Jared Irvan 40 Brakes
24. 7 Justin Crider 0 DNS
25. 40 Tovia Grynewicz 0 DNS
26. 00 Anthony Cataldi 0 DNS
27. 5 Spencer Wauters 0 Withdrew
1. 22 Bobby McCarty 127
2. 57 Justin Carroll 127
3. 12 Sammy Smith 127
4. 2 Brandon Pierce 127
5. 27 Tommy Lemons, Jr. 127
6. 16 Chad McCumbee 127
7. 08 Deac McCaskill 12
8. 81 Mini Tyrrell 127
9. 63 Tyler Matthews 127
10. 74 Ronald Hill 127
11. 1 Craig Moore 127
12. 17 Taylor Gray 127
13. 17P Stacy Puryear 127
14. 88 Josh Berry 127
15. 14 Ryan Repko 127
16. 77 Trevor Ward 126
17. 19C Jessica Cann 124
18. 51 Matt Cox 121
19. 98 Adam Lemke 108 Accident
20. 99 Layne Riggs 100 Accident
21. 54 Drew Dollar 81 Accident
22. 23 Terrry Brooks, Jr. 81 Accident
23. 25 Zack St. Onge 81 Accident
24. 22K Derek Kale 81 Accident
25. 4 Jonathan Findley 80 Accident
26. 07 Camden Gullie 80 Accident
27. 19 Cameron Bowen 37 Mechanical
28. 1P Brody Pope 33 Mechanical
Myrtle Beach CARS Tour Victory Super Sweet For Fultz and Walker
Posted on March 29, 2018 by twrpress Leave a comment
Photo: CARS Tour Press Release
MOORESVILLE, NC – It really isn’t a dream for Chris Walker. The long-time car owner in late model and ProCup circles is still pinching himself every morning since his team picked up their first win in the BakerDist.com 200 at Myrtle Beach Speedway on Saturday, the opening super late model race of the season for the CARS Response Energy Tour.
“This morning when I woke up, the check and the trophy are sitting on my fireplace mantle, but it still hasn’t sunk in,” Walker admitted. “That first one, it’s hard to top it.”
For many outside of the team’s inner circle, it was hard to believe the race was his first win in nearly a decade of car ownership. Most team owners who have had the litany of drivers in their machines as Walker has routinely are associated with winning. And though he had been close, it never happened before. “I’ve owned cars from back around ’09 in the Hedgecock late model days and Alex Yontz has driven for me, Brandon Butler, Tommy Lemons, Clay Rogers and others, but I don’t think you’ll ever top this one unless we move up and run Trucks or something like that,” the 33-year old car owner said. “That’s what so many people couldn’t believe. My close friends knew that was my first one. Other people, they knew we had ProCup cars before and I’ve been with people who’ve
“I’ve owned cars from back around ’09 in the Hedgecock late model days and Alex Yontz has driven for me, Brandon Butler, Tommy Lemons, Clay Rogers and others, but I don’t think you’ll ever top this one unless we move up and run Trucks or something like that,” the 33-year old car owner said. “That’s what so many people couldn’t believe. My close friends knew that was my first one. Other people, they knew we had ProCup cars before and I’ve been with people who’ve won, and to be a winning owner for the first time, I don’t think you’ll ever top that. It means the world to me. Me and Fultz hung out last night, and he’s won a ton of races, but I think he sees in me how excited I am.”The end result was the product of a weekend’s worth of work with a piecemeal team. In a period when many teams have paid crews dedicated to making their car perform, Walker’s crew was all-volunteer and a group of friends he and Fultz
The end result was the product of a weekend’s worth of work with a piecemeal team. In a period when many teams have paid crews dedicated to making their car perform, Walker’s crew was all-volunteer and a group of friends he and Fultz mingle with away from the track. Yes, their careers are involved in professional motorsports positions during any other weekend, but the schedules lined up to create the crew they used this past weekend. “The weekend went really smooth from tech to Saturday, getting through tech and getting tires and all of that stuff,” driver Jeff Fultz said of the weekend. “We had no issues with really anything. The car was brand new, so we had a few little things because it was new, normal stuff, but other than that I can’t say we had any issues at all. We build the cars and put them together, and they’re just built right.”
“The weekend went really smooth from tech to Saturday, getting through tech and getting tires and all of that stuff,” driver Jeff Fultz said of the weekend. “We had no issues with really anything. The car was brand new, so we had a few little things because it was new, normal stuff, but other than that I can’t say we had any issues at all. We build the cars and put them together, and they’re just built right.”During the week, Fultz runs and manages Fury Racecars, the chassis builder for Walker Motorsports, so he has intricate knowledge of each car the business creates, Walker’s included. Because of this, the 46-year old has semi-retired from the driver’s seat, racing part-time as his schedule allows with customers often needing his assistance on race weekends.
During the week, Fultz runs and manages Fury Racecars, the chassis builder for Walker Motorsports, so he has intricate knowledge of each car the business creates, Walker’s included. Because of this, the 46-year old has semi-retired from the driver’s seat, racing part-time as his schedule allows with customers often needing his assistance on race weekends. When the opportunity came from Walker to race at Myrtle Beach, one of his favorite tracks, Fultz jumped on it.
When the opportunity came from Walker to race at Myrtle Beach, one of his favorite tracks, Fultz jumped on it.”It probably took four or five laps to get back into the swing of things, but it’s one of those places I probably excel better at,” Fultz explained. “I like driving it, it’s a place I sorta adapted to, even in All-Pro. It’s one of my favorite places to race because you have different driving styles and you have to be smoother and manage the car. It’s kind of like a chess game when you’re racing at Myrtle Beach. It can play out different ways. It’s such a fun place and it really suits what I like.”
“It probably took four or five laps to get back into the swing of things, but it’s one of those places I probably excel better at,” Fultz explained. “I like driving it, it’s a place I sorta adapted to, even in All-Pro. It’s one of my favorite places to race because you have different driving styles and you have to be smoother and manage the car. It’s kind of like a chess game when you’re racing at Myrtle Beach. It can play out different ways. It’s such a fun place and it really suits what I like.”After the completion of Fivestar Bodies Knockout Qualifying, Fultz found himself the fastest car in the field for the 100-lap, $10,000-to-win race in his first outing with the team. Because of the multi-round format, he started the race in third, but it took only a minute until the No. 54 was out front. From that point forward, Fultz led the majority of the race up until the lap 70
After the completion of Fivestar Bodies Knockout Qualifying, Fultz found himself the fastest car in the field for the 100-lap, $10,000-to-win race in his first outing with the team. Because of the multi-round format, he started the race in third, but it took only a minute until the No. 54 was out front. From that point forward, Fultz led the majority of the race up until the lap 70 break for tires.”I ran just hard enough to where I wasn’t hurting the tires at all,” Fultz said of the first 70 laps of the race. “Trying not to abuse the tires was all I was trying to do. If someone wanted to push a little harder, I would just let ’em go. Preston tried to, and I pushed a little harder but still wasn’t hurting the tires. I know what it feels like when grip starts fading or if you’re sliding them. I think we all could’ve run a little faster without hurting them, especially getting new tires. I really would have raced a little harder, but it played out that way which was a lucky thing.”
“I ran just hard enough to where I wasn’t hurting the tires at all,” Fultz said of the first 70 laps of the race. “Trying not to abuse the tires was all I was trying to do. If someone wanted to push a little harder, I would just let ’em go. Preston tried to, and I pushed a little harder but still wasn’t hurting the tires. I know what it feels like when grip starts fading or if you’re sliding them. I think we all could’ve run a little faster without hurting them, especially getting new tires. I really would have raced a little harder, but it played out that way which was a lucky thing.”Walker also knew Fultz was good at tire management, likely the best in the field, but had some nervous energy entering the break.
Walker also knew Fultz was good at tire management, likely the best in the field, but had some nervous energy entering the break.”I was pretty emotional, still, with 30 laps to go at the break,” Walker said. “Weeder did a good job on the tires and gave him what he wanted, but it was a matter of how tight it was going to get with the right sides only. We had to go out low [on air pressure
“I was pretty emotional, still, with 30 laps to go at the break,” Walker said. “Weeder did a good job on the tires and gave him what he wanted, but it was a matter of how tight it was going to get with the right sides only. We had to go out low [on air pressure], but didn’t know what it would do when they built up some heat. When we jacked up the left side and Weeder said the left rear still had the centerline in it, then I knew he knew he’d been saving. When we knew that, I knew we had a pretty good piece, all we did was put some tape on the grille and cleaned it. I knew then it was good to go, I just didn’t know if he was going to stretch it out or if there was going to be a lot of cautions or if Raphael or Craig were going to come flying back up. You didn’t know who had rode because the pace was really, really slow.”Upon the green flag to resume the race, Fultz and the Walker Motorsports crew were full speed ahead. Knowing the race had been slower than normal up to that point, everyone was aware things would likely pick up rather quickly on the abrasive half-mile at Myrtle Beach Speedway. One one of the restarts, Fultz had a mental lapse and nearly cost himself the race.
Upon the green flag to resume the race, Fultz and the Walker Motorsports crew were full speed ahead. Knowing the race had been slower than normal up to that point, everyone was aware things would likely pick up rather quickly on the abrasive half-mile at Myrtle Beach Speedway. One one of the restarts, Fultz had a mental lapse and nearly cost himself the race.”I was nervous, almost with every caution,” Walker said. “Like, one time, he got to the white line and got confused on where to start because CARS has a little different way of restarting, so when he launched I was hoping it didn’t get us put to the rear of the field just for that, they said that was our warning. I would say I was nervous the whole time.”
“I was nervous, almost with every caution,” Walker said. “Like, one time, he got to the white line and got confused on where to start because CARS has a little different way of restarting, so when he launched I was hoping it didn’t get us put to the rear of the field just for that, they said that was our warning. I would say I was nervous the whole time.”Walker’s nerves continued for another 30 laps until Fultz cruised underneath the white flag, en route to what appeared to be a relatively easy win. Seconds later, again, a small mental mistake nearly cost the team victory within sight of the checkered flag.
Walker’s nerves continued for another 30 laps until Fultz cruised underneath the white flag, en route to what appeared to be a relatively easy win. Seconds later, again, a small mental mistake nearly cost the team victory within sight of the checkered flag.”There was never an ‘oh crap,’ until turn three on the last lap, and I just got in too low, and I never do that,” Fultz recalled of the final circuit. “I almost slipped up. If it would’ve been anyone but Chandler (Smith) there, they would’ve run into me. I had to stop it so I wouldn’t give up too much of the bottom. Then, I spun the tires all the way up to the
“There was never an ‘oh crap,’ until turn three on the last lap, and I just got in too low, and I never do that,” Fultz recalled of the final circuit. “I almost slipped up. If it would’ve been anyone but Chandler (Smith) there, they would’ve run into me. I had to stop it so I wouldn’t give up too much of the bottom. Then, I spun the tires all the way up to the start finish line and it looked like he got a good run. He raced me clean, but if I was racing someone else I would’ve been a little bit more nervous they would’ve run into the back of me or something like that.”Walker recalled those moments in real-time, thinking back to everything which came together to make it happen.
Walker recalled those moments in real-time, thinking back to everything which came together to make it happen.”That’s when all the emotions hit,” he said. “Fultz just got in the zone, and Fritz up there talking to him in his ear is really good. He just had to get up on the wheel, and I think that’s what he did. I felt like Chandler would race him, but not dump him to get the win. He had ’em, he just parked it in the center when it got tight, and he barely caught him at the end. His emotions were high too, I know he was feeling exactly what I was feeling. He worked all night Wednesday night by himself at the shop, and we worked around the clock the last three weeks because they were busy over there already building cars and putting clips on. He’s selling cars, talking to customers, traveling with Steven (Wallace), every weekend he’s raced. So, I think me and him had pretty much the same emotion. We both put everything we had into it.”
“That’s when all the emotions hit,” he said. “Fultz just got in the zone, and Fritz up there talking to him in his ear is really good. He just had to get up on the wheel, and I think that’s what he did. I felt like Chandler would race him, but not dump him to get the win. He had ’em, he just parked it in the center when it got tight, and he barely caught him at the end. His emotions were high too, I know he was feeling exactly what I was feeling. He worked all night Wednesday night by himself at the shop, and we worked around the clock the last three weeks because they were busy over there already building cars and putting clips on. He’s selling cars, talking to customers, traveling with Steven (Wallace), every weekend he’s raced. So, I think me and him had pretty much the same emotion. We both put everything we had into it.””You do lose a little bit when you get a bit older, but I still get in cars quite a bit,” Fultz said, laughing off the moniker he’s been given as an ‘old man’ in the car. “This just shows how much the program is built here to help our customers. I still love to do it, if I just had to show up and race a car, I’d do it all day in any series. When you have to do everything – work on the car, build ’em, worry about business, worry about this, this, and make a living, we’ve kind of gone past it. This still gives me the drive to do it, and keeps a little bit of that fire inside because I love helping our customers, too.”
“You do lose a little bit when you get a bit older, but I still get in cars quite a bit,” Fultz said, laughing off the moniker he’s been given as an ‘old man’ in the car. “This just shows how much the program is built here to help our customers. I still love to do it, if I just had to show up and race a car, I’d do it all day in any series. When you have to do everything – work on the car, build ’em, worry about business, worry about this, this, and make a living, we’ve kind of gone past it. This still gives me the drive to do it, and keeps a little bit of that fire inside because I love helping our customers, too.”And for Walker, that’s exactly what he needed.
And for Walker, that’s exactly what he needed.”I just build the car and love to go racing,” Walker said. “I don’t want to drive and don’t care
“I just build the car and love to go racing,” Walker said. “I don’t want to drive and don’t care to. I would rather put him in it, or if we can rent it, because there’s no more house cars at Fury, that’s fine. If we can go play and have fun, like this one because it all worked out, that’s fine too. We’re all good friends off the track, go out to eat together, hang out, call, whether racing or not. I think the knowledge is what got us there. Without our core guys, sure, it was a fluke win, but with Fultz, Fritz, Mike Darne, Weeder — everyone together put us there.”I couldn’t talk,” Walker said in reference to the end of the race. “I stayed up on top of the pit box because we had enough people to change tires and pit the car. It was emotional, and that’s why I sat on the pit box because it wasn’t going to do me any good to work on it. All I did was clean the grille screen. Anything else, I get too nervous because that’s like my baby out there. I have a lot tied up in that car and it has the best of everything you can get, the latest and greatest. Walking down pit road, I don’t think it hit. When he first pulled up, that’s when I started crying. Then, here came everyone, and it was just emotional. I gave it all I had and we kind of put the group of us together, and since we’re all friends on and off the track, I think that’s what meant more to me than anything. It still really hasn’t sunk in. Everyone’s called, texted, emailed, it just hasn’t really sunk in yet. It
“I couldn’t talk,” Walker said in reference to the end of the race. “I stayed up on top of the pit box because we had enough people to change tires and pit the car. It was emotional, and that’s why I sat on the pit box because it wasn’t going to do me any good to work on it. All I did was clean the grille screen. Anything else, I get too nervous because that’s like my baby out there. I have a lot tied up in that car and it has the best of everything you can get, the latest and greatest. Walking down pit road, I don’t think it hit. When he first pulled up, that’s when I started crying. Then, here came everyone, and it was just emotional. I gave it all I had and we kind of put the group of us together, and since we’re all friends on and off the track, I think that’s what meant more to me than anything. It still really hasn’t sunk in. Everyone’s called, texted, emailed, it just hasn’t really sunk in yet. It kinda, sorta has, but not yet.” While the story is one for storybooks and Hollywood movies, this tale is real. In a sense, Walker is a throwback to old-school car owners who do it for the love of the sport and the
While the story is one for storybooks and Hollywood movies, this tale is real. In a sense, Walker is a throwback to old-school car owners who do it for the love of the sport and the comraderie of their buddies. Although he and Fultz have been friends for years, it was an otherwise casual conversation which lit the fire for what has already been a successful partnership.”He called me up after I sold him some furniture and said, ‘Man, if you wanna go racing, I can put it together.’ It took longer than we wanted it to, but it paid off.”
“He called me up after I sold him some furniture and said, ‘Man, if you wanna go racing, I can put it together.’ It took longer than we wanted it to, but it paid off.”
For more information on Walker Motorsports, visit their website at ChrisWalkerMotorsports.com, follow them on Facebook (@ChrisWalkerMotorsportsInc), Twitter (@CWMTeam), and Instagram (@WalkerMotorsports).
Driver Jeff Fultz can also be found on various social media including Facebook (@JeffFultzRacing), Twitter (@JeffFultz) and Instagram (@JeffFultz).
CARS Response Energy Tour Returns to Dual Division Format at Myrtle Beach with $10,000 on the Line for Super Late Models
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Mooresville, NC – The 2018 season for the CARS Response Energy Tour kicks into high gear with the season kick-off for the Super Late Model division next weekend March 24th at Myrtle Beach (SC) Speedway. The $10,000 to win Bakerdist.com 200 pres. by Honeywell is expected to draw a hefty car count to the half-mile beachside South Carolina track.
The race will feature 100 green flag laps of racing for both divisions, however; the Super Late Model feature will feature a six-tire strategy element, with a four-minute break for tires and adjustment on lap 70 of 100. While all teams in attendance know that name of the game at Myrtle Beach is tire conservation, the element of the two tire change could really mix things up in the final thirty laps.
A few of the early entries include Raphael Lessard, now driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports. Lessard will compete full time on the tour in hopes of becoming the first driver in CARS history to win two championship titles. Jared Fryar transitions from the Late Model Stock division to the Super Late Models for the 2018 season. The Trinity, NC driver captured a Late Model Stock victory a season ago at Dominion Raceway. Preston Peltier will travel from his home, now located in snowy Colorado, to pilot the #33 Newton Concrete Chevrolet for the Roger Lee Newton owned team. Series newcomer Molly Hulmuth will also travel from “out West”, as she makes her series debut driving for Will Jones in 2018. Ryan Moore is another driver in the fold that comes to the Beach to make his series debut.
In addition to the Super Late Models, the Late Model Stock Cars will be in action as well, getting the tour back to its traditional two premier division format. Bobby McCarty, with his big win at Tri-County, carries all kinds of momentum into the race. However; the early favorite for the 100 lap race has to be JR Motorsports driver Josh Berry. Berry won the 2016 CARS Tour event and did the same last year at the track’s own Myrtle Beach 400 race in November. Several local drivers like Matt Cox will be taking advantage of the Staubli Hometown Hero Awards, receiving free Hoosier tires for competing against the touring stars. The addition of the track regulars can’t be ignored as Sam Yarbrough in 2015, schooled the series regulars at his home track enroot the race win.
Fans planning on making a weekend of it at the Beach can take advantage of free infield camping with purchase of a pit pass. Not camping, but want to watch the race from the infield? A special combo of two general admission tickets and one infield parking pass is also available for $50. For a complete listing of ticket options and prices, as well as the complete event schedule can be found by visit http://www.carsracingtour.com.
For additional information on the CARS Response Energy Tout and its Late Model Stock and Super Late Model divisions visit http://www.carsracingtour.com. Be sure to stay active and social with the tour by liking “CARS Tour” on Facebook, following @CARSTour on Twitter, and scrolling through photos on Instagram cars_tour. Additional series information can be obtained by calling the CARS Response Energy Tour series office, located in Mooresville, NC, at 704.662.9212.
Tate Fogleman Dominates Super Late Model Portion of 2017 Thanksgiving Classic
Posted on November 27, 2017 by Justin Kern Leave a comment
Tate Folgeman celebrates getting out of the car in SNMP victory lane during the 2017 Thanksgiving Classic (Justin Kern/TheWeeklyRacer.com)
Lucama, NC – Tate Fogleman had something to prove this weekend at Southern National Motorsports Park in the seventh running of the Thanksgiving Classic. Though he was not the fastest car in single-car qualifying Saturday evening – that honor was bestowed upon Danny O’Quinn Jr. when he was the only driver to cusp the fourteen-second brack.
Folgeman, however, flexed his muscles early and often taking the lead from O’Quinn before the field returned to the start-finish line. He would be tested five different times throughout the race when the field was slowed due to the caution flag. Folgeman was money on every restart and retained his position at the front of the field each time.
Second through well, the rest of the field saw some pretty interesting battles throughout the 125-lap feature. Tim Hollis might have been the biggest mover through the entire event as he started shotgun on the field after failing to lay a lap down in qualifying. He would battle his way up to as high as fourth place during the race but would ultimately fall back to seventh when the checkered flew
Jody Meesmer clearly earned the “Tough Break Award” if there was one. Jody took the green flag in the sixth position and it was an uphill battle from there. Running as high as third during the feature, Meesmer had possible engine/carb issues that brought out the afternoons first caution. He would later make contact with Bronson Butcher that caused pretty substantial cosmetic damage. He would later bring out another caution, indirectly of course, due to debris falling off his car.
No one would have anything for Folgeman in the closing laps and he would go on to take home the hardware.
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Super Late Model Results
#8 Tate Folgeman; 125
#16r Bronson Butcher; 125
#7 Taylor Stricklin; 125
#16 Lucas Jones; 125
#2 Darrell Gilchrist; 125
#96 Danny O’Quinn Jr.; 125
#22 Tim Hollis; 125
#98 Jody Meesmer; 78
Cole Rouse, Josh Berry Winners Durings CARS Tour Race to Remeber 250
Posted on August 29, 2017 by Justin Kern Leave a comment
CONCORD, NC – During a night dedicated to the memory of fallen soldiers and first responders from the region, Cole Rouse and Josh Berry were remembered by departing fans as winners during the Race To Remember 250 at Concord Speedway on Saturday night. Both drivers improved their championship hopes with the victories with one race remaining in the series schedule.
Preston Peltier stole the Mahle Pistons Pole Award with his last-minute qualifying effort during Fivestar Bodies Knockout Qualifying, earning him the right to lead the field to the green flag. He set the pace for only two circuits until Cole Rouse took over the point and led from lap 3 until lap 36.
On a lap 37 restart, former series champion Cole Timm snagged the point from fellow Toyota driver Rouse but he also was only there for a short time until Rouse retook the top spot on lap 43.
A caution for debris on lap 79 set up a restart with Peltier, who had been stalking Rouse most of the race, alongside of the No. 51 as the field came to green. A former winner at Concord throughout the years in various sanctions, Peltier motored his way around Rouse two laps after the restart, visibly using more than others had in order to keep the point.
Tyler Ankrum’s car lost a hub on lap 93 and pounded the turn two wall, an accident which allowed Rouse another shot at Peltier on the restart. Sideways and using more track than Rouse, Peltier was able to hold the point until the waning laps of the event when Rouse began to up the pressure on the No. 33 of Peltier.
The pair dueled side-by-side for a handful of laps before Rouse used the bumper to move Peltier, skating through to take the lead with only five laps to go. He proceeded to pull away to his second career series win, a victory which vaulted him from second into the top spot in the point standings going into the South Boston finale on October 14.
Peltier, Christian Eckes, Matt Wallace and Matt Craig rounded out the top five finishers in one of the most competitive super late model races the tour has seen at Concord’s half-mile layout.
“What was going through my head was that it was going to be the last lap when, if I wasn’t already past him, I was just going to have to hit him and move him,” Rouse admitted in victory lane. “I had to do it for these guys, we’ve had so many taken away from us this year, so I’m really happy for these guys and that we could get it done today.
“He started to fall off a bit, so once I got past him I wasn’t really worried since we were about 10 car lengths past him,” he continued when asked about the move to get the lead and its championship implications. “South Boston wasn’t on our schedule, but we’re going to have to make it part of our schedule now. We’ll be happy to get there, and it’ll be a new racetrack.”
LATE MODEL STOCK CAR
The final box score of the late model stock car feature may make the race look tame, but from the moments prior to the green flag, it was anything but calm.
Deac McCaskill captured his ninth career Hedgecock Racing Pole Award, moving his series-leading record ahead by another mark. Following qualifying, however, McCaskill and team discovered a leaking tire on his machine, forcing the team to change it and placing him to the rear of the field by series rules.
By virtue of his cousin’s misfortune, Bradley McCaskill led the field to green alongside of Josh Berry. Both former winners at Concord, McCaskill shot out to the early race lead and set the pace until a lap 54 caution for a spin immediately in front of him in turn two.
Berry gave McCaskill fits on the ensuing restart, ultimately passing the No. 07 car for the lead on lap 58 after a side-by-side fight in front of the healthy crowd at Concord. Berry’s teammate and championship rival Anthony Alfredo was involved in an incident in turn one which brought out the second caution in a rash of yellow fever on lap 69, setting up another restart with McCaskill beside Berry.
Josh Berry kept the lead on the restart, but two laps later McCaskill and Justin Carroll made contact entering turn three, sending McCaskill for a spin which ultimately collected a number of other cars and appeared to eliminate the No. 07 from the event after hard contact by Evan Swilling squarely on the rear end. Miraculously, McCaskill was able to continue while Swilling was finished for the night.
After five additional cautions between laps 76 and 113, the race came down to a 12-lap shootout with Berry leading and young Brandon Grosso, with Deac McCaskill and others immediately behind. Exercising his veteran prowess, Berry executed another flawless restart to assert himself as the dominant car.
The JR Motorsports driver cruised to his 12th career series win by 1.018 seconds over Grosso, McCaskill, Tommy Lemons and Cody Haskins. The victory allowed Berry to bypass teammate Alfredo in the standings and close to within single digits of Layne Riggs entering the season finale on October 14 at South Boston Speedway.
“It’s so tough, I can’t put it into words how tough it is on those restarts and you see it on Sunday,” Berry admitted after the race in Edelbrock Victory Lane. “Nine out of ten restarts you can be perfect, but the one that you don’t is the one that everyone remembers you for, so I was just trying to be perfect and do my job. We had a great racecar. I wasn’t sure how good we were going to be, but it obviously paid off. Deac had trouble before the race, and I know he would’ve been tough to beat, but that’s how it goes.
“He’s young and hungry, and I’ve been in that situation, so at that point whatever would’ve happened, I wouldn’t have been surprised,” he continued when asked about Brandon Grosso and his career-best run immediately behind him. “He raced me clean and raced me hard, but he’s improved a lot over the season and his day is coming, for sure.”
While the race win was the story of the night, Berry and the JR Motorsports team were already thinking down the road.
“Last week at Hickory wasn’t good for us in the point situation, but I’m not going to go down without a fight,” he reiterated to those in attendance. “We’re going to keep after it, we’re going to work hard, and we’re going to be ready at South Boston. South Boston is a wild card. I haven’t raced there since it’s been repaved, but I have won there on the old pavement. It’s going to be a totally different animal. We proved tonight we’re not going away and those guys are going to have to run good to beat us because we’re going to be up front.”
The CARS Tour visits South Boston Speedway on October 14 for the series finale, the first time the tour has visited the facility. Located just north of Orange County Speedway, the recently repaved .400-mile oval will host both divisions in the SoBo 250 in six weeks’ time.
For more information on the CARS Tour, visit their website at http://www.carsracingtour.com. Fresh content and updates can also be found on the series Facebook page (@carstour), Twitter (@carstour), Instagram (@cars_tour), Snapchat (@carstour) and Youtube channel (/carstour). The series Roku app is also available for installation to see live and on-demand events by following the instructions available at http://www.carstour.tv.
– Justin Carroll was a contender for the win in the late model stock car race, but had misfortune fall his way while racing in the lead pack. Contact with Bradley McCaskill earned him the privilege of a HANS throw from Bradley McCaskill, a toss which landed on the right side door of the No. 57 car. Perhaps unrelated, Carroll was forced to pit road a few laps later with a loose exhaust pipe as it hung outside the passenger-side door of his Ford, a problem which ultimately eliminated him from contention.
– Championship contender Anthony Alfredo was involved in a crash with Jared Fryar on lap 92, an incident which eliminated both drivers from the race. Alfredo suffered the worst fate in the championship fight, losing nine points to Layne Riggs by virtue of his 17th place finish.
– At the beginning of the season, super late model winner Cole Rouse had full intentions of running twelve super late model races with Kyle Busch Motorsports, presumably with the CARS Tour. As the season wore on, the team changed their approach slightly, but Rouse found two one-off races with owners mid-season to continue his pursuit of the title, a move which has proven to be beneficial entering the season finale. Before Saturday, South Boston was not on the team’s schedule, but given the circumstances in which they enter that event, it’s extremely likely that Kyle Busch Motorsports will field a No. 51 Toyota for Rouse at South Boston in pursuit of their first series championship.
– Dozens of fallen military heroes and veterans, along with first responders, were honored by teams and the CARS Tour during the event. Each car carried the name of someone who paid the ultimate price for their country in addition to various branches of service and charity organizations. In an emotional pre-race moment, late model stock polesitter Deac McCaskill was given the dogtags of his soldier from a family member to carry with him during the Race To Remember 250.
THE FINISHES:
Race To Remember 250
Concord Speedway – August 26, 2017
1. 51 Cole Rouse 125
2. 33 Preston Peltier 125
3. 15 Christian Eckes 125
4. 6 Matt Wallace 125
6. 34 Nolan Pope 125
7. 87 Matt Thomas 125
8. 4 Brandon Setzer 125
10. 58 Tyler Ankrum 93 Accident
11. 57 Cole Timm 86 Mechanical
12. 37 Dan Speeney 79 Mechanical
13. 7 Tyler Church 43 Mechanical
1. 88b Josh Berry 125
2. 32 Brandon Grosso 125
3. 08 Deac McCaskill 125
5. 2 Cody Haskins 125
6. 12m Austin McDaniel 125
7. 24 Craig Stallard 125
8. 99 Layne Riggs 125
9. 23 Terry Brooks, Jr. 125
11. 07 Bradley McCaskill 116 Mechanical
12. 18g Ty Gibbs 111 Accident
13. 88 Chris Davis 111 Accident
14. 74 Ronald Hill 93 Accident
15. 12g Andrew Garcia 93 Accident
16. 81 Jared Fryar 92 Accident
17. 8 Anthony Alfredo 92 Accident
18. 28 Chris Hudspeth 89 Accident
19. 57 Justin Carroll 76 Mechanical
20. 18 Evan Swilling 71 Accident
21. 96 Danny O’Quinn, Jr. 70 Mechanical
SAM ARD, DICK TRICKLE VISIT VICTORY LANE AT HICKORY IN THROWBACK 276 WITH FOGLEMAN & CARROLL
Posted on August 7, 2017 by twrpress Leave a comment
Photo: Kyle Tretow / CARS Tour
NEWTON, NC – Though both legends of the sport have since passed on to the great racetrack in the sky, Sam Ard and Dick Trickle visited victory lane for presumably the final time on Saturday night during the CARS Tour Throwback 276 at Hickory Motor Speedway. Racing cars with the same schemes as the the legends, Tate Fogleman (Ard) won his first career super late model race while Justin Carroll (Trickle) thrilled the near-capacity crowd en route to his first career series win.
Matt Craig blistered the Hickory layout for another Mahle Pistons Pole Award to start the surreal Saturday at Hickory. Appropriately, his family has been around the sport for decades with drivers like Clay Rogers and Jeff Fultz, and it appeared Craig was channeling their skills during most of the 138-lap contest racing toward an apparent victory.
The racing gods, however, had different ideas during the caution-free event. Fogleman took advantage of a break in traffic and a fading handle on the No. 54 car to move the No. 00 Thomas Brothers Country Ham Ford to the lead on lap 113. Craig attempted to move the Fogleman ride up the track two corners later but failed in his attempt, eventually falling 5 seconds behind Fogleman in the final 26 laps.
For the first, and likely the final, time in history, the Sam Ard No. 00 cruised the Edelbrock Victory Lane at Hickory Motor Speedway, a track which was vital to Ard’s success in the NASCAR Xfinity Series’ early years. Appropriately, it was a Fogleman who drove it there. Tate’s father, Jay Fogleman, worked and drove for Sam Ard once his driving career concluded, making victory lane very bittersweet.
“I know we got strung out there, and we got caught in lapped traffic,” Fogleman said after the race. “I was thinking back to the last race when got together with Lessard and was kinda thinking we were impatient then, so I tried to wait and plan the right move. When I got around him, I was praying. I didn’t want a caution to come out, that was the last thing I wanted to see. I can’t thank Solid Rock Carriers enough for letting us run this car, it’s unbelievable to take Sam Ard to victory lane. It’s a guy my dad looked up to, and with the stories he has told me, he became someone I looked up to, as well. It’s just unbelievable, I don’t know what to say.”
A short track legend in his own right, Tate’s father Jay was overcome with emotion.
“Sam did a lot for me. If it wasn’t for him, I would’ve never driven what was a Busch car back then. He just gave a broke kid a chance, and I worked for Sam, and…” the elder Fogleman trailed off while visibly fighting back tears. “It’s…. a good deal”
Matt Craig held on for second over Brandon Setzer, Bubba Pollard, and Tyler Ankrum, the only five cars on the lead lap.
The late model stock field was filled with throwback schemes on nearly every car, making their portion of the Throwback 276 exceptionally special for fans and racers alike.
The “Flying 11” of Layne Riggs captured the Hedgecock Pole and led the opening laps despite a handful of early cautions, one of which eliminated Stefan Parsons’ and Craig Moore’s throwback rides when they collided after sliding in oil laid down by Ty Gibbs’ car when its engine erupted in smoke in turn three.
Riggs continued to show the way through lap 58 when Justin Carroll, who made four total practice laps on Saturday afternoon, worked his way around Riggs for his first lead of the night.Carroll was up front when the largest incident of the night occurred. Second place driver Ryan Repko failed to come up to speed initially on a lap 94 restart and caused a chain reaction which severely damaged the cars of pre-race favorite Josh Berry, Jared Fryar, Riggs, Brandon Grosso and others.
Carroll was up front when the largest incident of the night occurred. Second place driver Ryan Repko failed to come up to speed initially on a lap 94 restart and caused a chain reaction which severely damaged the cars of pre-race favorite Josh Berry, Jared Fryar, Riggs, Brandon Grosso and others.A subsequent slip by Carroll on a lap 98 restart allowed Austin McDaniel, running a gold Bobby Allison throwback scheme, to take the lead for the first time of the night. McDaniel fought off multiple charges from Carroll as the laps began to wind down, but a caution on lap 111 set the stage for one of the most epic races in the history of Hickory Motor Speedway.
A subsequent slip by Carroll on a lap 98 restart allowed Austin McDaniel, running a gold Bobby Allison throwback scheme, to take the lead for the first time of the night. McDaniel fought off multiple charges from Carroll as the laps began to wind down, but a caution on lap 111 set the stage for one of the most epic races in the history of Hickory Motor Speedway.Over the course of the final 27 laps, Carroll, McDaniel and Anthony Alfredo waged a three-wide battle for the race lead where multiple
Over the course of the final 27 laps, Carroll, McDaniel and Anthony Alfredo waged a three-wide battle for the race lead where multiple instance of bumper tag were initiated, the trio found themselves three-wide for the race lead, and on more than one occasion sparks flew from the competitors involved. The near-capacity crowd at Hickory rose to its feet as the leaders bumped, banged and fought to take home the trophy. McDaniel finally bounced off the turn two wall with less than five laps to go, allowing Carroll the go-ahead to his first CARS Tour victory.
Carroll, driving the Dick Trickle/Junie Donlavey tribute, captured his first series win at the same track where the “White Knight” Trickle captured his first NASCAR Xfinity Series triumph.“You have no idea, oh my gosh, I think that was Dick driving because I don’t know if Justin Carroll was in that racecar, but Dick was definitely with me,” Carroll admitted in a tone of disbelief in victory lane. “He won over 1000 short track races, and I’m not sure if I want to take the ’90’ off the car now, but we had such an awesome car today. Yesterday, we didn’t even practice, but we knew we had a good car. I can’t thank that guy over there, Jason Stanley, enough because we’ve worked really hard on this car and we’ve been
“You have no idea, oh my gosh, I think that was Dick driving because I don’t know if Justin Carroll was in that racecar, but Dick was definitely with me,” Carroll admitted in a tone of disbelief in victory lane. “He won over 1000 short track races, and I’m not sure if I want to take the ’90’ off the car now, but we had such an awesome car today. Yesterday, we didn’t even practice, but we knew we had a good car. I can’t thank that guy over there, Jason Stanley, enough because we’ve worked really hard on this car and we’ve been really, really good and really fast everywhere we go. To finally get a CARS Tour win, in a crazy race like that, I don’t think the fans could get any better of a show than that. That was the best racing I’ve ever been a part of, and if I was a fan, that’d be one of the best races I’ve ever seen.
know, because the pressure was really getting to me racing against Austin McDaniel and Anthony Alfredo who won both the twins here earlier in the year. This is awesome.”
Alfredo, McDaniel, Brandon Grosso in a Dale Jarrett throwback, and Ryan Repko rounded out the top five finishers. 18 of the 23 late model stock starters honored a team, owner, driver or other portion of racing history with their paint schemes.
The CARS Tour visits Concord Speedway for the Race to Remember 250 on August 26, the penultimate race of the series’ third season. A pre-race concert highlights the day at 6pm with racing scheduled to begin at 8 pm.
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-25 teams started the event with throwback paint schemes on their cars. Two others were unable to make the event for various reasons but had also committed to throwback schemes on their machines.
-The Landon Huffman team took home an extra $250 for the “Best Appearing Crew” award with his father’s former Goody’s Dash Series crew uniforms, hats, and more. They were followed closely by the Kyle Beattie Racing team who donned full 1960s style, bright white uniforms, slicked back hair and matching shoes to go with the Ned Jarrett scheme on their No. 11 Ford.
-Anthony Alfredo, who entered the race five points out of the lead and tied with his JR Motorsports teammate Josh Berry for second in the series standings, unofficially took over the late model stock points lead by three over Layne Riggs.
-With his misfortunate mid-race, Cole Rouse also found himself on the wrong side of the points battle entering the final two races. The Kyle Busch Motorsports driver entered the Throwback 276 only 13 points ahead of Brandon Setzer but a mechanical failure on his Toyota relegated him to an 18th place finish, allowing Setzer to re-take the lead in the standings by a scant two points.
-Most fans were curious why the event was an oddly-numbered 276 laps. The reason is simple. The last Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race run at Hickory, won by Tiny Lund, ran 276 laps, a distance of 100 miles around the .363-mile layout.
Hickory Motor Speedway – August 5, 2017
1. 00 Tate Fogleman 138
4. 26 Bubba Pollard 138
5. 58 Tyler Ankrum 138
6. 7 Tyler Church 137
7. 33 Bradley McCaskill 137
10. 17 Mike Speeney 137
12. 88 Garrett Jones 137
13. 87 Matt Thomas 137
14. 55 Hailie Deegan 136
15. 21 Riley Thornton 136
16. 57 Cole Timm 136
17. 11 Roy Hayes III 135
18. 51 Cole Rouse 97 Mechanical
19. 99 John Gustafson 42 Parked
2. 8 Anthony Alfredo 138
3. 12 Austin McDaniel 138
5. 14 Ryan Repko 138
6. 1 Dexter Canipe, Jr. 138
7. 96 Danny O’Quinn, Jr. 138
9. 37 Landon Huffman 138
10. 11R Layne Riggs 138
11. 3 Deac McCaskill 138
13. 44 Jared Fryar 138
14. 28 Chris Hudspeth 138
15. 4 Annabeth Barnes-Crum 138
17. 82 Justin Johnson 111 Mechanical
18. 27 Tommy Lemons, Jr. 90 Mechanical
19. 11G Ty Gibbs 27 Engine
20. 55 Stefan Parsons 27 Accident
22. 22 Craig Moore 27 Accident
23. 51 Robert Tyler 20 Mechanical
Matt Craig Dominates for PASS Victory at Southern National
Posted on July 31, 2017 by twrpress Leave a comment
LUCAMA, NC – Matt Craig took the lead from Matt Wallace on lap 28 of Saturday night’s 150 lap PASS South Super Late Model race and never looked back, as he scored his second Southern National win of the year in dominant fashion.
Craig, who has enjoyed plenty of success at Southern National with two wins in the Pro Late Model Series last year along with a PASS South win earlier this year, performed a sweep of the PASS South Series with his victory on Saturday.
“That’s really cool to sweep the season in PASS, both races,” Craig said after the race. “The car has just been phenomenal. We have a good setup under our piece right now and I think it was a good race. I wish we had a few more cautions there, got strung and my car kept getting a little better and some other ones were fading. It was a lot of fun. I love this track a whole bunch and hope we come back here next year.”
Early in the race, Matt Wallace pulled away with a big lead, until the caution came out for rain, erasing Craig’s deficit to Wallace. Craig, who had been saving tires, was able to get by and then pull away. He would go on to survive a series of late race restarts to pick up the win, his fourth win of the season in PASS South competition.
“We were just letting off at the flagstand,” Craig explained. “He was running a little hard and I’ve done it before. It takes a while to learn your lesson about that. With five to go, I wasn’t real worried. My crew was giving me the lap times and we felt safe.”
Maine driver Dave Farrington finished the race in second while fellow northern driver Trevor Sanborn was third. Rounding out the top-five were Jared Fryar and veteran Jay Fogleman.
Gary Ledbetter, Jr. dominated in the 50 lap Mid-Atlantic Street Stock feature race to score the victory in convincing fashion. Much like Craig had to do in the Super Late Model race, Ledbetter survived a series of late race restarts and held on for the victory.
“You try to save as much tire as you can for cautions at the end if you have any,” Ledbetter said. “We saved enough where it helped out and worked out for us. I knew the car was good, but a restart worries you. Bobby [Templeton] ran me clean. He’s a good driver. Still, you never know, five to go, sometimes people are hungrier than others.”
Tumbleton finished in second while Ricky Locklair, Jr. finished third, Sonny Schoffen was fourth and Jeff Melton finished fifth.
Southern National Motorsports Park resumes its regular season on Friday night, August 4th with the #StottStrong195 presented by Solid Rock Carriers out of LaGrange, North Carolina, headlined by twin Late Model Stock Car races. Chargers, Mini Stocks, Legends, Bandoleros and Any Cars will also be in action in a memorial race for Ashley Stott, a longtime supporter of Southern National Motorsports Park.
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PASS Super Late Model
1. Matt Craig
2. Dave Farrington
3. Trevor Sanborn
4. Jared Fryar
5. Jay Fogleman
6. Joe Graf, Jr.
7. Kodie Conner
8. Tate Foleman
9. Sarah Cornett-Ching
10. Matt Wallace
11. Roy Hayes, III
12. Eddie Fatscher
13. Jody Measamer
14. Will Bristle
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1. Gary Ledbetter, Jr.
2. Bobby Tumbleton, III
3. Ricky Locklair, Jr.
4. Sonny Schoffen
5. Jeff Melton
6. Gary Ledbetter, Sr.
7. Kevin Ellis
8. David Thomas
9. Kevin Benton
10. Wayne Locklair
11. Greg Barnette
12. Chuck Ison
13. Wesley Scott
14. Michael Worthington
15. James Horner, Jr.
16. Ron Flynn
17. Kyle Lynch
18. Ricky Locklair, Sr.
19. Anthony Yarborough
20. Larry Isenhower
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Dodgers Still Discussing J.T. Realmuto, Apparently
Published on January 23, 2019 January 26, 2019 by Dennis Schlossman
Just when some fans think the Dodgers are zeroing in on a certain right-handed hitting, free agent outfielder, another rumor surfaces and throws everybody for a loop.
Smack dab in the middle of all the Hall of Fame proceedings on Tuesday, Joe Frisaro of MLB.com published a column noting that Los Angeles is continuing discussions with the Marlins about a potential deal for All-Star catcher J.T. Realmuto.
This time, however, Miami is apparently asking for a package centered around minor league catcher Keibert Ruiz.
In much of the chatter before Christmas, the Marlins were believed to have wanted Cody Bellinger as the centerpiece of a prospective deal.
Frisaro states that as many as 14 different clubs have been engaged in talks surrounding Realmuto. According to his report, the Dodgers, Rays, Padres, Astros, Braves and Reds are believed to be the most active.
As far as catchers go, Realmuto’s numbers speak for themselves. Last year, he slashed .277/.340/.484 with 30 doubles, 21 long balls and 74 RBI. And, he threw out 21 of 55 would-be base-stealers—a number almost better than Yasmani Grandal and Austin Barnes combined. All those numbers led to a 4.3 WAR, which was tops for all MLB catchers.
Steamer has the 27-year-old Oklahoma native projected for a 3.6 WAR in 2019, slashing .267/.323/.436 with 16 long balls and 58 RBI over 125 games.
Realmuto is set to earn $5.9 million during the 2019 season and remains under team control through 2020.
The 20-year-old Ruiz is currently ranked as the second-best prospect in the Los Angeles system, according to MLB Pipeline. He spent all his time at Double-A Tulsa last year, where he hit .268/.328/.401 with 12 long balls in an extremely pitcher-friendly Texas League. The switch-hitting native of Venezuela was named to the club’s 40-man roster in November, which means he’s almost guaranteed big league action in September of 2019. We took an in-depth look at Ruiz as recently as last March.
In spite of Ruiz’s many accolades, though, some pundits still have Will Smith with the higher ceiling. Smith is a significantly better athlete than most catchers, with many scouts giving him plus grades for his speed and quickness, much like Barnes. Offensively, Smith was impressive at the Double-A level last year, but struggled down the stretch when he was promoted to Triple-A Oklahoma City.
Recently, we took a close look at Smith after he was named the best defensive player in the Los Angeles minor league system.
It may also be worth noting that along with Ruiz, the Marlins could conceivably be asking for the inclusion of Barnes. Fisaro indicated that there are only two catchers on the entire Miami 40-man roster—Realmuto and Chad Wallach.
The 27-year-old Wallach is the son of Miami bench coach Tim Wallach and played 15 big league games for the Fish last season, going 8-for-45 with a homer and a double.
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Like Scoop, I believe any player who comes from a place where the spotlight is dimmer and steps on the field at Dodger Stadium where it shines so much brighter, does not produce great numbers. Especially if AF trades for him. One guy who got better here was Turner, but he came from the Mets as a free agent and reinvented himself. Rarely has a player come to LA and improved. Machado regressed and was no where near the player he was in Baltimore. Freese, for the time he was with the team was an exception. He played very well, and probably should have had more opportunities. Granderson and Reddick stunk up the joint. I personally would not trade Ruiz, who is just turning 20 for a 2 year rental. The kids upside is tremendous. Smith, maybe. The Dodgers are deep at the position in the minors. That does not mean you weaken the position by trading the best prospect. What it all boils down to is how comfortable is AF with the deal and what does Miami want back? Ruiz for Realmuto straight up? Or what other pieces do they have in mind. Talk is cheap. Andrew is cheaper.
It’s true that some guys fade under the big lights but others get better. Not saying the JTR isn’t one of the former but I don’t think you can assume that his performance would regress if we got him. That said, I’m not giving up a 20 year old who has performed way above his age everywhere he’s been for a 27 year old with only 2 years of control and who, by some standards, is not that much better than Grandal. I’m guessing that someone else will give them more than we will but I am positive Realmuto won’t start the year with the Marlins. I’d be fine with getting him but only at the right prospect cost.
Not always true but has surfaced a lot at Dodger Stadium. One guy I do remember as not being affected by it much was Gary Sheffield. He continued to put up numbers where ever he played. But the rest of the guys in the Piazza trade folded.
Stevebendodger says:
Realmuto is the perfect player for this dodger team. He is a strong defender has a great arm and hits left hand pitching and is a strong contact hitter.
He also makes very little money. We also have at least 3 other prospects who have the potential to make the club in the next few yrs.
So, you would trade a 20 year old who would figure in the fortunes of many seasons of Dodger baseball for a 2 year rental? He is making 9 million this year and that would go up a lot in 2020 after arbitration if he had a decent year. Plus he is not a great hitter against LHP and that’s what the Dodgers really need. Cartaya is at least 3 or 4 years away. The kid is 17. Smith is probably ready defensively, but his bat is still a huge question mark, and Wong is a couple of years behind these guys. I would not trade Ruiz, for him, but maybe Smith.
If Smith has the “higher ceiling” why isn’t he the second ranked prospect in our system?
I don’t think I’m buying this. But what do I know? Only what I read and what I read is Ruiz grades out at B+ and Smith at B- Ruiz is 20, Smith is 23. Maybe things have changed, but until I read differently I keep Ruiz. Give them Smith and Gonsolin. Both are ready now.
Crazy thing is, I don’t ever remember Friedman shipping out a legit Top 10 prospect. Yusniel Diaz may have been one, but many felt he was at the beginning of a decline. Friedman seems to know what he’s doing in trades. His risk factor stays low, although sometimes it prevents him from snagging some of the higher-profile players. Realmuto may end up being one of them.
It would be nice to know if Realmuto would be open to an extension. He’s 28 in March. 5 years takes him to 32. 5 years takes Ruiz to 25. How about those two splitting innings until about 2023? We could trade Barnes, if not to Miami directly then try the prospects we could get or a three way.
Wasn’t Calhoun a top 10 guy when he went to Texas? cannot remember….
Yes, I think you are correct. I could be mistaken, but I don’t think he’s making too much noise on the Texas farm.
I don’t think Smith and Gonsolin will get it done. Someone will do better than that. Maybe Smith and May.
Personally, I think I’d deal Ruiz before I parted ways with May.
How about Muncy, Taylor and Morrow. They didn’t seem too bothered by the bright lights of LA. If AF gives up Ruiz then it’s a big change in his philosophy of keeping his top prospects or he doesn’t value Ruiz as much as others
First off Morrow is a pitcher. Pitching in a pitching friendly park, plus he was a pretty talented guy before he came to LA. Taylor was less than impressive his first year with the team. He re-invented himself and had a decent 2017, and then regressed a lot in 2018. Muncy had a good year. Let’s see if he can keep it up. Lot less pressure being a guy who has never done much at the MLB level than being an established player trying to justify a contract or a trade. Just check on players who came to LA and never were close to what they were somewhere else and we are talking some big names. Machado, as I mentioned was no where near the player he was in Baltimore. Had he hit the same way, the Dodgers might have cruised to the division instead of barely winning it. Reddick was the absolute picture of futility. Boog Powell came over and hit no homers at all. Same with Jim Thome. Darryl Strawberry was no where near what he was is NY. He had a decent 1st season and then was not worth the money he was being paid. I can go on and on. Dodger Stadium is a hard place to be a great hitter. That’s why since the Dodgers moved to LA they have had exactly 2 batting champions, and it was the same guy twice, Tommy Davis, and no one has even come close to winning it since 1963. That’s fact, not fiction.
Besides this is what the 219th Dodger rumor of winter. I’ll believe it when its official
So bear you must be happy with Friedman and his reluctance to sign expensive free agents!
Happy? I get it that he is reluctant to do that. I just feel and always have that he does not target the best available player. He signs a lot of reclamation projects and guys with iffy medical issues. Just go back over all the time he has been here. He never shoots for the stars in the off season, and his midseason trades have had the obvious mixed results. Name on single player he has brought to the team that was exciting to watch. This team is extremely boring to watch. The brand of all or nothing hitting gets really old really fast. Why do you think their RISP is so pitiful? That’s this teams mantra. We will see if the new hitting coach changes that philosophy. And he is still dumpster diving. The player he signed to a minor league deal yesterday proves that. I call it grasping at straws when you do not have the guts to pull the trigger on something that actually might IMPROVE a pretty pedestrian offense as it stands right of this moment.
And therefore his propensity to dumpster dive!
I am sick and tired of hearing about Realmuto. I’m to the point where I hope they don’t trade for him even if the asking price comes down. I think Ruiz and Smith both could very well end up being just as good or better. JTR is terrible against lefties also so how does that fit our need of a solid righty bat?
Realmuto wouldn’t catch everyday. Roberts always split it up by hitting Barnes, or maybe Martin now, against southpaws.
Well I’ve been in Dodger stadium for the last 2 playoffs and it’s been the farthest thing from boring! Not the WS can’t afford that!! Boring is being eliminated by September and not playing any meaningful games. Bear you are one tough guy to please!
Friedman has signed the best 2 players available at the trade deadline the last 2 years. Both all stars. I put out a list of the top 10 free agents the past 3 years a week ago. It’s a sad list mostly flops. Who did you want him to sign from that group? The only guy who might significantly improve our club this year is Harper. He wants 10-350 which could cripple your ability to sign our young stars in the future with no clear consistent evidence that he really is a superstar and besides your owners won’t let you sign him anyway! Be specific what do you want him to do
First off he did not sign the 2 best players available at the deadline, he traded for them. Big difference. He gave up 5 players for Machado, and got a .270 hitter in the exchange, not the .320 hitter he traded for. Darvish may have been the best arm available at the trade deadline, but he in no way was needed. They were cruising and would have won the division without him unless you really believe his 4 wins in 7 decisions was a difference maker. Darvish had not been an all star for quite a while. You do not have to sign Harper to be successful at signing a free agent. You do the diligence that needs to be done and you fill your holes and needs. Is that frippen specific enough for you? They do not need Harper. That was a pipe dream from the get go and I knew there was no way that AF would sign that guy. I am not the one who was calling for that. The playoffs may have been exciting for you, and I am glad you enjoyed them. But it was painful to watch how the Dodgers offense floundered and was totally over matched in the World Series. There were a few games in the NLCS that were not exactly fun to watch either. What you may find exciting, others may not. It gets old watching Taylor rack up strikeouts at the pace he did. Oh yeah, once in a while he had a decent game, but watching him flail away was almost as bad as having to watch Grandal kill so many rally’s with terrible at bats. The Dodgers had huge holes at catcher and in the bullpen. So far he has traded for a couple of BP guys and signed one free agent for that role, maybe that works, and maybe it does not. We will see how those guys pan out in spring. He CREATED a need by trading a large portion of his RH production in a salary dump that according to every story I read was supposed to open up enough salary to allow him to get Harper, or re-sign Machado. Signing Harper would not fix that hole, retaining Machado would have, but they have Seager coming back, so that’s not happening. He brings back a 36 year old catcher who had maybe the worst season of his career last year to add to a guy who never found his rhythm at bat last year. They addressed the bullpen, have been involved in more rumors than can be believed and still have not replaced the power lost in the salary dump. Realmuto is not going to replace all that by himself. They still are lefty heavy, and basically they still are a team of utility players in a city that loves it’s stars. That’s why everyone was pushing for Harper. I am not the only one who complains about the way AF does things, it just seems like it because I always say what is on my mind. I am also not the only person who thinks baseball today is a lot more boring than it used to be. Hard to please? Not really. Sign a player or trade for one that makes sense and I will be all in. But Friedman rarely does that kind of deal. It will take a lot more than just one move to make me believe in the guy. He is what he is, and the game has changed. To me, not for the better.
I get what Bear is driving at. This platooning, and 3 true outcome all-or-nothing approach is often tough for old school guys to watch. We played, and coached, a different game. Our All Stars the last few years have mostly been pitchers – Kershaw and Jansen every year, obviously neither out there every night. Last year it was just Jansen and Kemp. Sometimes it feels like we win with smoke and mirrors. But that said, going to the World Series two years in a row is pretty exciting.
Having Seager back might help with excitement. Having Bellinger, Taylor and Barnes return to ‘17 levels will help. If Muncy can hit 35 and OPS .973 again. We can light it up if everybody plays well. But Puig, Kemp, and Grandal, all All Stars, are all gone. and to date nobody of note has replaced them.
My biggest concern, as I’ve stated before, is management may be content knowing they can win the West as is. They don’t HAVE to increase payroll to make the playoffs. We’ve been Kastenrated. We may be in the playoffs 14 of 15 years with 1 Championship to show for it. Wonder what year that will be? 2019? Doubt it.
Am I the only one here who has enjoyed 6 straight division titles and 2 straight World Series? Sure I’m disappointed we didn’t get a WS title but I don’t think management sucks, the manager sucks and the players are boring because of a missed WS!
And be specific bear what trade or signing makes sence to you
what move or moves would you like to see Friedman make, bear, at this point, is their a move that you think will make us a better team, that you could live with the cost, in $ or prospects?
Rich S. says:
And Scoop I realize it’s a different game today. I remember the days when you got into your opponents bullpen it was game over. Today you have guys pitching the 5th inning with better stuff than the starter. Bullpen guys throwing 100 mph. The shifts today. If you pull the ball on the ground you’re out 90% of the time. It’s almost impossible to put 3 hits together to score against playoff caliber teams. Hence launch angles and all of that. But it’s still a great game and the Dodgers are one of the best playing it!
I recognize the changes Rich and accept them with the following exceptions: 1. strikeouts. With 2 strikes protect and put the ball in play. You bat .000 on every strikeout. Put the ball in play and you might get on. 2. Learn how to bunt and go the other way. Mickey Mantle won a batting title in ‘56 because he could bunt. He hit over .500 when bunting. In my opinion there is no excuse for hitting .250 into a shift when you can hit .500 going the other way.
We led the league in scoring. Only an idiot would argue against the process that did that. I miss the run game (steals, hit and run) and I miss defense fundamentals. To watch bases being surrendered because players don’t hit cutoffs and don’t back up bases is maddening to me. But again, I accept what is.
Rich, I’m on your side of the fence, but I respect, and like bears passion and opinion. The one thing I will say in a negative light against the Dodgers goes more towards ownership, at this point it looks like they are starting to cut payroll when we all know they have money. We are not San Diego, or Milwaukee we are the second largest market, with the highest attendance, and the largest television package. It pisses me off that they are acting like we can’t afford to exceed the luxury cap.
OK….a better team. Trade for another pitcher that is a true ace. Kluber would be nice. That gives you 3 really good starting pitchers and takes a lot of the load away from the bullpen, IF, they change the mind set of the starters from just going 5 innings and then turning it over to the pen. 6 plus should be the goal of every starter. It also makes the rotation less lefty heavy in a division where most of the power hitters are RH. Settle on a REGULAR 2nd baseman. Be it Taylor, who I think is the obvious choice or Kike, who I believe has way more value as a reserve. Make deals from a position of strength, not because you are so thin you have a need. Trade Muncy while his value is high. I personally believe that he will not come close to repeating last years numbers, and the guy is not a kid. I also think playing him at first base weakens the defense. Seager is coming back from an arm injury. He is not going to be making accurate throws to first all the time, and Muncy is not a great scoop and catch player, which Bellinger is. Go with a more set lineup. The platooning is ok if you constantly have guys injured, and it keeps some players fresh, but it also tends to get players out of rhythm. Part of the FO problem is that Friedman is working under the guidelines to keep the payroll under the CBT. I get it. So, if you are going to sign the low risk high reward guys as he has a tendency to do, then look for players who have been pretty decent in their splits and who are not just one dimensional players. I mentioned Grossman. He would not cost much, and he is a pretty decent hitter against LHP, which as we all know is a Dodger Achilles heel. The more stability you have in your lineup, the better off you are, especially up the middle. It has been a while since LA has had that. They can afford to go over the cap Keith, they just do not want to. I also think they are in some trouble with both MLB and concerning some of their money deals. They are worried about losing draft picks if they sign a guy like Pollock. So veer away from that and go another way with a player who is cheaper, but has skills. Unfortunately, the OF market is a little thin this year. If you do trade Joc, get a RH hitting OF for him if at all possible. It all depends on availability. One guy suggested trading for Abreu from the Sox. Bonafide RH power hitter and decent first baseman who allows you to put your fastest player in CF and keep the defense decent. Either play Verdugo or trade him. The bullpen has a lot of options and there are a few players who are out of options this year. If they show they are not going to make the team, use them as trade bait to secure needs or depth, or even trade them now. AF is always doing deals like that anyway. I don’t have all the answers. None of us do. But Rich, if you are just satisfied with winning division titles and just getting to the World Series, I am really sorry for you. I expect them to win when they get there and play at a higher level than in the regular season. All Dodger fans should expect that. Rolling over and playing dead like they did in the series last year is just not fun to watch.
I’m with you Keith. I thought last year we came in under the cap to get a reset and sign Harper. But it’s not just the Dodgers. The Cubs have done nothing. Boston has been trying to trade Bradley to reduce payroll and get back down. No Kimbrel signing. They dont have a closer. And the Yankees aren’t in on Harper or Machado. Houston has been quiet. They don’t even have a starting 5. The owners are up to something!
Rich S.still says:
Thx bear for putting some ideas out there. Of course I’m not satisfied with losing WS. Ive been very disappointed. But I gotta keep things in perspective. It’s been an exiting ride. Better than the other 29 teams in baseball not Houston or Boston. We’re close. I’d love to get Kluber but they want outfielders. That means Verdugo and maybe 2 more top prospects. May and Ferguson? Are you willing to give up that much? Then you have to put together a package with Pederson to get a big righty bat. That’s a lot of top 10 prospects. I’d still like to make a run at Osuna. Big upside if healthy
Exiting is right..they exited bot WS without a win. I think you meant exciting. May and Ferguson, no, one of them yes. Just like Verdugo, they are prospects. They have proven nothing at the MLB level. Ferguson to me would be the one to keep. He did a fine job out of the pen last year. But they can always deal for an outfielder and flip him to the Indians.
Dodgers reportedly in agreement with Pollock. Terms unknown.
Really! wow……You would think that he would be too expensive for AF’s blood. But he can hit leadoff and is an excellent CF.
Heyman is reporting it is for 55 million plus. Not sure how many years. Pending his physical. Do Dodgers give him #11> ?
I think the only way I would include verdugo in a trade is if they sign Harper, which none of us think they will do. Why do you think the cards would trade osuna? I hadn’t heard any rumors.
Cards have Ozuna, and they aren’t trading him. Not sure who Rich is referring to, maybe Roberto Osuna?
I think he is referring to ozona from the cards.
Sorry, ozuna
Jeff has been right all along, haniger solves all the problems, and we all know Dipoto would trade his own mother, I wonder what it would take to make him say yes.
A 6 WAR team controlled player? Start with Bellinger then add some prospects.
Ozuna is in final year of his contact w Cards. Was injured last year. Do not think Cards love him. Id make an offer of JOC and a few prospects. If healthy could have a huge upside. I think Haniger would cost a fortune bc he has some years of control but yea I’d love to get him
The Cards are competing this year. They aren’t going to trade Ozuna unless he’s not producing. If he lights it up again they will try to extend him or make a QO next winter.
I would at least make a phone call to St Louis about Jose Martinez. He’s terrible defensively but you can hide him between 1B and LF and he gives you a legitimate righty bat with some pop.
The dodgers checked in on Martinez early, but it didn’t go anywhere.
Yeah Rich the owners are up to something, the mlpa better figure something out,I heard the other day that the players percentage of gross revenues is all the way down to 40%, not that many years ago it was in the mid 50s, at those kind of #s you can’t tell me the owners aren’t making good profits.
It will be interesting to see what Friedman comes up with
A.J. Pollock seems to be the biggest name we can expect to get based on payroll. I’m still 100% certain Friedman has been told he’s not allowed to go over the $206 mil luxury tax so that gives the Fodgers about $20 million in salary to play with. You need to take at least $5 mil of that away just for Maeda’s expected contract bonuses so you’re left with around $15 million. Signing Pollock would take every penny of the remaining balance so you’d just about havevto trade someone like Joc who is making $5 mil this year. I would love a true leadoff hitter to come on board so I’m willing to give the 1st round pick if we can get a decent deal on Pollock. At the same time I’d be ok going into the season asvthe team stands right now. Maybe add one more reliever on a cheap 1 year deal like Adam Warren or Oliver Perez.
I heard a rumor that Ryan Madsen will be signing very soon. Scary, because Friedman absolutely loves that dude.
He likes the guy because at heart AF is nothing more than a glorified garbage collector.
He is way over the hill. I can’t believe Oliver Perez is still available. He had a 1.39 ERA last year.
They are not adding much unless they clear a little more roster space. There is one spot open right now. Kelly will not be wearing # 56. He is now wearing # 17. Pics of him in his new uni while helping out at a grocery chain were seen on Twitter. Pomeranz signs for 1.5 with the guys up north. Blake Gailen, the outfielder who signed a minor league deal with LA, lefty hitter, once hit .400 in the minors according to his bio. And he is Lancaster’s all time HR leader.
I was born in Lancaster, PA.
Isn’t that Amish country? Lebanon Levi lol
Amish Country is pretty much limited to the southern part of Lancaster County. Lebanon is one county above Lancaster. I live right on the edge of the mountains in Mifflin County now. No bayous up this way. 😉
Yeah we don’t have too many Amish down south. I used to watch that show Amish Mafia, Lancaster is a beautiful place it seems.
Beats Philadelphia, that’s for sure.
Ozuna had work done on his shoulder this off season and he has been rehabbing in the DR instead of working with the Cards people. They aren’t happy and I’m sure would trade him in a second for Joc, but shoulder injuries sometimes take a year or two to come back from. That’s a gamble even AF might not want to take.
Ozuna is another headcase which is why Miami basically gave him away. No way I touch him.
Sounds like garbage to me. Go for it AF
That’s enough to put him on the no go list for me
Hey Dennis, I was born in Philly!
Whereabouts? I went to Temple from 1988-92. Pretty much lived there the whole time.
I was born in Germantown hospital. Moved when I was 2. Don’t remember much
That’s cool. After Temple joined the A-10 and mandated scholarships, I got cut from the baseball team. At that point, I joined a fraternity and started playing rugby. From there on out, I lived in one of those lovely row homes on 15th and Diamond Streets. 🙂
Pats or Geno’s?
I always preferred Geno’s. It may sound strange, but I’m sort of dating a girl who lives down on South 6th Street now. Rekindled romance from college. So I actually get down to South Phila often.
Still, Pat’s ain’t too shabby at all.
I haven’t been back in about 7-8 years now. Took my family back for a weekend when we were back in NYC. Lots of fun!
5 different projections sites show Ozuna with 25 and 90+, OPSn over .800. Even hurt he hit as well, or better, than Pederson. He’s an every day player, for the Cards anyway. Probably not here. If he’s available, and frankly I doubt it, I’d consider that trade. Is this just a fantasy or did somebody read it somewhere?
No I was just playing GM. If they’re set on trading JOC I’d rather put a package together to get a big righty bat that can help us win this year rather than prospects. I know Ozuna is in his walk year but it sounds like there could be other issues with him. I’d at least make a phone call and check him out
Oh. Sure, no harm in asking.
I wonder if we are still interested in Castellanos. He’s in a walk year too, and I believe more likely to be available than Ozuna. Actually I read something a month ago about him that at the time made sense…. we acquire him and flip him to Cleveland for Kluber. Indians need outfield help, though Castellanos isn’t much of a defender. He can hack and every team needs that.
If we survived Kemp in left field last year I think we’d love to have his bat in our lineup in left. And I don’t think he would cost us much.
His numbers are based on playing right field. He had 10 assists out there, which I find notable. His RF was above league average according to BR but his UZR at fangraphs sucks. I don’t know why that is, but I think if he’s in left field his numbers would be better. I also think he’d probably be expensive as other teams will bid on a bat like his. A 130 wRC+ is right there with Votto and Arenado. It’s a MLB Top 20 number.
Nothing brewing yet. It is amazing how many twits on Twitter make comments and yet have no knowledge of how it all works. Dodgers are carrying Taylor and Bellinger as infielders. Not outfielders, since those are their natural positions. But these clowns keep insisting we have 6 outfielders. What they have is a bunch of position players who can play multiple positions. The only guys on the 40 man who do not play more than one spot are Toles, Verdugo, Pederson, Ruiz, Gale. Every one else on the roster can play multiple spots. Barnes has even played LF before as did Martin when he was younger. Pomeranz signed by Faidi to a 1 year deal. 20 days to pitchers and catchers. Got a baseball card yesterday of Bill Sharman. Yep, the former Laker coach and NBA HOFer who did a stint for a while in the Brooklyn Dodgers farm system. How time has changed note…..on this day in 1950, Jackie Robinson signed the richest contract in Brooklyn Dodger history when he signed a deal for………..35,000.00 dollars. How times have changed…..that barely buys him a new car today.
So, how do we all feel about the Pollock signing?
Depends on the particulars
I’m seeing 4/50 or 4/55 with incentives and an opt out. Like I said earlier this week, I knew AF would have someone new for Fan Fest this weekend. That’s the only reason they did the deal this week. 🙂 So, do we trade Joc now or trade Verdugo in a deal for Kluber or JTR?
Thanks for the info. I’m sitting down at lunch and enjoying my food a little more than my phone. 😉
Heyman is saying 4/50 with incentives. I am down with it. RH pop and a guy who can hit leadoff. Good defensive guy in CF. Means that Muncy can be had for the right deal along with Pederson. I move Belli to 1st permanently. He is the best option there.
Cubs signed reliever Brad Brach. Maybe things are heating up. There is also a blurb floating that Harper might make his choice this week.
If the deal is more than 50 million, D-Backs get a compensory pick AFTER the 1st round. The Dodgers do not lose a pick. The signing would put them right up against the 206 Tax cap figure.
I would be surprised if another deal doesn’t follow this one. I assume that Joc, Muncy or Verdugo are about to be shipped somewhere. I would think that Pollock would get most of the playing time in center and I completely agree that Bellinger should move to first. I’m ambivalent about center vs first but a corner outfield position vs first is a slam dunk. Move Belli to first. Glad to see you’re OK with the signing Bear. Have some Butterscotch Schnapps to celebrate!
Boy this working for a living gets in the way of following the Dodgers. I like the Pollock signing and I agree with you Jeff I think old AF has another move in him. Does he go for another righty batbin left, Realmuto or Kluber? What do u guys think?
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OK, it's Monday so here’s a thread about climate change, the lack of political action in response to it, why climate change deniers are irrelevant, and why Australia taking action on climate change is vital for our economic survival.
It’s probably going to be a long thread so I’m going to give it a name. It’s called… THE GAME OF CHICKEN.
I’m not going to get into a discussion of whether anthropogenic global warming is a threat to us. Any reasonable assessment of the scientific consensus bears that out. Institutions that need to look to the future without bias already factor climate change into their calculations.
Reserve banks, investment banks, economic forecasters, insurance companies, emergency services. All factor climate change into their calculations, and none agree with the anonymous blokes online who want to argue about medieval warming periods.
Australians (and FWIW, Americans) want action on climate change. Polls bear this out again and again. Somewhere in the order of 80% of Australians and 70% of Americans want action on climate change. This includes majorities of all major political parties in both countries.
So why isn’t democracy delivering on this? Will of the people and all that. It's hard to imagine any other issue where such overwhelming public support has been met with such total political inaction.
It’s often said that money makes the world go round, but that’s not exactly true. Global politics is based on power and energy, not money.
The Wall Street whiz-kids might make billions pushing virtual money here and there, but it’s all underpinned not by gold by energy. Since the industrial revolution that has meant coal, and more recently oil and gas too.
We’ve got to jump back in time a little to get a fuller picture of what I mean here, so please bear with me.
WWII ostensibly began when Germany invaded Poland. That invasion is most often explained by Germany’s desire of ‘Lebensraum’.
That’s true, but most historical education glosses over the fact that for a decade previous Poland and Germany had been embroiled in… a trade war. Primarily involving coal exports. It was known as the German-Polish Customs War.
Poland at that time was the fifth largest coal producing nation on earth, and had recently concluded construction of a railway line for bringing its coal to the Baltic Sea.
In the Pacific, Japan’s entry into the war is often considered to be about imperialism. That is also true, but most ignore that from 1939 the US began a series of economic measures against a rising Japan to stifle its economic growth, and its military campaign in China.
The US froze Japanese assets and confiscated corporate profits. But the strongest of these measures was shutting off Japan’s oil. The US was Japan’s major supplier of oil and without oil, Japan couldn’t function. As Japan’s Foreign Minister at the time put to their US ambassador:
“[E]conomic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer. [O]ur Empire, to save its very life, must take measures to secure the raw materials of the South Seas.”
The attack on Pearl Harbour came just a few months later.
This isn’t intended to be a justification for aggression, but rather an illustration of the fact that the geopolitics and economics of war and commerce are always based on power and energy.
In medieval Europe the power of a state might have been measured in bushels of wheat. In ancient Japan, feudal houses were ranked by their wealth in koku of rice. In post-industrial times we talk in barrels of oil, or tonnes of coal and bcm of gas.
In the old days the machines of war ran on bread and rice. These days they require different fuel. So how do countries in the modern day ensure their energy needs?
The two major players in the world today are obviously the US and China.
Most of China’s imported coal and natural gas comes from Australia. Most of its oil comes from Russia and the Middle East. This is important, as China has now surpassed the US as the world’s largest importer of oil.
Where China gets its energy from is THE big issue for global security. China’s need for Middle Eastern oil has increased dramatically. This is important, as it raises the stakes of this volatile region even higher. Something we’re seeing happen right now.
China’s 3 largest oil partners in the region are Saudi Arabia, Iraq and… Iran. Of course, there’s little that the US can say about Saudi Arabia. MBS could dismember a journalist on Fifth Avenue and still not lose US support, such is Saudi Arabia’s strategic importance.
Iraq obviously has already been a target, but the strategic escalation of tensions with Iran is a calculated campaign for the US, and particularly Trump.
Trump gets a war footing for re-election, the US tackles an uncooperative state in the ME, and they weaken China both economically and militarily in the process. China is the #1 destination for Iranian oil.
For its part, the US imports oil from Mexico, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and increasingly Africa.
China has for years invested hugely in Africa in return for access to oil. They’re fearful of the amount of influence that the US holds over Middle Eastern oil and while Africa doesn’t have a huge amount of oil, China needs to diversify its oil access.
I bet now you’re thinking that we’re getting a long way away from climate change, and that just illustrates the size of the issue and why we’re not seeing climate action.
What we’re seeing instead is THE GAME OF CHICKEN.
An enormous geopolitical standoff where nobody wants to be the first to blink. The US and China are racing toward each other in a huge economic arms race fuelled by… well, fuel. Currently both economies (like most others) run on coal, oil and gas.
China’s strategy is to push its manufacturing-based economy faster and harder through export. It does so by controlling its labour markets and currency.
Manufacturing obviously requires huge amounts of power for operating factories, transporting goods etc.
The US on the other hand, has adopted a strategy of trying to slow China’s growth. It does this through everything from intellectual property pressures, agitating on currency, and most recently a trade war.
A big difference between the China/US approaches is that the US sees its access to fossil fuels as a huge strategic advantage. And it is. The US holds huge sway in the Middle East, and have better relations with their energy partners (Mexico, Canada etc.) than China does.
The replacement of NAFTA with USMCA was more about oil and energy security than it was about selling American dairy and corn.
China OTOH relies on nations like Australia, Turkmenistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq for its energy. Africa is important strategically for the future, but at the moment its output is small.
The US is hoping it will outlast China’s boom, and it needs fossil fuels to do that. If the US moves away from fossil fuels, it gives up the strategic advantage of access to oil it’s spent nearly a century cultivating.
China still needs fossil fuels to push its manufacturing sector. It can’t afford to slow its economy by transitioning its energy right now.
But the strawman misdirection of “what’s the point of doing something on climate change when China isn’t doing anything” is ridiculous.
China might be the world’s largest carbon emitter, but the US is the second - and per capita it far exceeds China’s emissions. The big difference is China is doing something. The US isn’t.
China is THE world leader on investment into renewables. It’s responsible for somewhere between a third and half of all global investment in renewable energy technologies every year.
It absolutely suits China’s purpose to switch to renewables (when the time is right) because its energy independence would remove the US strategic advantage.
Of course as soon as that happens we have a whole raft of new issues to deal with. If the incumbent global power of the US can’t control China through tariffs or throttling energy access, how do they do it?
(Hint: It’s bombs.)
The greatest danger for us all (aside from the heat death of the world) is that the US plan isn’t really going all that well. The US hasn’t managed to slow China’s economy as much as it would like, and Trump blinked on trade before 2020, but that’s a story for another thread.
If the US loses THE GAME OF CHICKEN properly, that’s where the bombs come in. There have already been hundreds of events that could have triggered a US-China (read: World) War if the economic conditions were right.
North Korea missile tests. China’s treatment of Uighurs. The South China Sea. Trade war escalations. Most recently Suleimani’s assassination. Chickenhawk politicians see the deaths of millions that would come as acceptable collateral. The sociopathic ones don’t even care.
None of this is new info, but it’s important to spell it out because it’s the backdrop of why we aren’t seeing climate action. Yes, this has all just been background. Sorry.
The US won’t do anything on climate change. Ever. It thinks it has to keep playing the fossil fuel game because it was the one that set the rules.
It would be like convincing a 7-foot NBA player going up against a jockey where the stakes are life and death to agree to a horse race instead of a dunk comp.
China is actually trying to change the game with renewable investment, but won’t move away from fossil fuels while still under economic threat from the US.
Please note how none of this has to do with online heroes who want to argue about CO2 levels in the Cambrian period. Only the internet’s biggest idiots think that climate change is a hoax or that the scientific consensus is somehow unclear.
The (plainly obvious) reason we aren’t seeing climate action is that no country thinks it can rejig the energy dependence of its economy without falling behind its economic geopolitical competitors.
This is the global context we need to understand climate inaction. But here in Australia the issue is a little different.
We’re not as involved in THE GAME OF CHICKEN as we think. The US and China are staring each other down and we’re out here on the fringe trying to make as much money as we can before it comes to a head.
Our problem is that through election-cycle short-sightedness we aren’t planning for the future. And haven’t been doing so for a long time.
It starts with our broken domestic energy system.
The National Electricity Market began about 20 years ago and was supposed to regulate our patchwork system of privatised electricity generation, transmission and sales with the effect of driving down prices.
Without getting into too much detail, it has been a disaster. The NEM broke up our energy system, and also broke our energy system.
In Australia we have near perfect conditions for all forms energy production - traditional AND renewable - and we suck incredibly badly at it all.
We are the world’s biggest net exporter of both coal and gas and yet we have the some of the most expensive and least reliable electricity in the world.
Modern Australia has essentially a dumb, resources-based economy. We let people pull stuff out of the ground and sell it. That's our business. But it’s also a successful one for now. Coal, iron ore and LNG saved us from the worst of the GFC.
Our resources boom has been a gift for the Australian economy, but what we did with it was foolish in the extreme. Australia licences private companies to exploit our resources which has made a small number of mining companies and individuals fantastically wealthy. That's nice.
Of course, it made a lot of the rest of us wealthy as well. FIFO truck drivers on $300K, homeowners riding a massive property boom etc. It stuffed the public purse with royalty cash (although not as much as it could/should have).
There were downsides, however, and we don’t often talk about them. Rising costs and a high dollar hurt export-based sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and services.
How are farmers doing these days? How many long-standing food, textile businesses have failed in the past decade? These aren’t victims of the resources boom directly, but the economic conditions the resources boom helped create hurt them immensely.
These depressed sectors only further isolated our economic reliance on resources, and particularly on fossil fuel exports. Resources underpin our prosperity today. But what about tomorrow?
The world is inevitably moving away from the very resources Australia relies on. And we’ve done nothing to protect ourselves. We are STILL doing nothing to protect ourselves.
The US and China might be playing a GAME OF CHICKEN with each other, but we’re playing it with a brick wall. We’re hurtling down a dead-end street and not even trying to stop or turn.
Successive governments went on spending sprees with the superprofits from the resources boom. Conservative governments spent them on tax cuts. Progressive governments on services. Which of these you think is good/bad depends on your politics, but it’s not really relevant.
The point is, what neither party chose to spend it on was future-proofing our energy sector or our economy.
We now have a dumb, resources-based economy, fewer options for growing other sectors, and less chance of restructuring it all. The market for our major economic driver is contracting.
Contrast this with Norway, who since its (oil-based) resources boom began in the 1960s has squirrelled away a war chest (the National Petroleum Fund) of nearly a trillion dollars in specific preparation for a post-oil world.
Imagine if instead of spending our resources money on electioneering, we’d worked towards re-nationalising our failed privatised electricity sector.
Imagine if we’d used re-nationalisation to ACTUALLY drive down power prices, and transition our generation toward more reliable, renewable or even nuclear power (don't @ me).
Imagine if we’d spent it addressing the reality that the effects of climate change will weaken the Australian economy much more than many other countries. As it stands, the cost of the coming decades of heatwave, drought and fire will ruin us.
Imagine if we invested the profits from resources boom into becoming a world leader in renewable energy, bolstering a service, manufacturing and technology-based economy that prepares us for the post-fossil fuel world that is inevitably coming.
At the moment we’re like a music store depending on CD sales when the writing is on the wall that streaming is the future. Nobody in politics has the stomach to do what’s needed.
We could have used the money we made from coal to prepare ourselves for a future without it. But we didn’t.
The “what Australia does is irrelevant because we are only 1% of global emissions” brigade miss the point entirely. Australia is in a UNIQUE AND PERFECT position to do something about climate change.
We are (relatively) energy secure. We are wealthy. We have vital trade ties with both the US and China. We already co-exist with two superpowers, disproving the Highlander “there can be only one” mentality that will lead us to war and ruin, both environmentally and economically.
We have perfect conditions for renewable energy generation. We have a comparatively small energy footprint, meaning that the investment required for achieving results is also comparatively small.
There is no better place in the world to prove that transitioning to renewable energy is possible, and profitable, while also securing our domestic energy market and modernising our economy. Wins all around.
The only thing lacking is economic sense, and political courage.
Something to think about while our country burns. [END]
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If you think it’s ridiculous that people refuse to accept the 97% of climate scientists that agree on anthropogenic global warming, try explaining that 100% of food scientists agree that MSG is safe.
In that vein, here’s a short list of ways MSG could improve global food and health beyond just making things tastier (which it does).
1. Reduction of salt intake. Seasoning with MSG produces some similar flavour enhancing properties to salt, but at one-third the sodium by volume. Sodium is a major factor in heart disease, which is the No. 1 killer of both men and women in the developed world.
Amazing that as a nation we have managed to produce some of the most unbearable coffee snobs the world has ever seen, and yet nobody really even knows what a macchiato is.
People who want coffee with milk but not a whole lot of milk used to order macchiatos. Then we started calling people who make coffee baristas and they got drunk with power and started giving people macchiatos that were a shot with like a teaspoon of foam on top.
So then the coffee-with-a-little-bit-of-milk people started ordering long macchiatos and nobody could even work out what that was.
When people discuss a "Sugar Tax" they should really think about it less as a way of forcing people to eat less of a thing they don't like, and more as a way of enabling government to raise revenue by taxation of basic needs.
Since the dawn of civilisation from Roman Empire and the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, through to the French Gabelle and British colonialism in India, taxing salt has been a tool of authoritarian control of retail commerce, but don't worry I'm sure a sugar tax will be just fine.
A few more thoughts on a "sugar tax". This will be a (likely moderately long) thread.
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[#Thread] Welcome to night of the long threads part two, this one's on #Algeria. A few of you got in touch (@fatenaggad & @OpenAlgeriaOrg) to ask about the trend #كلنا_زغماتي , which translates as "we are all Zeghmati". Belkacem Zeghmati was appointed Attorney general earlier
2/ this year. However, Zeghmati is at odds with the country's judges after they went on strike after a huge reshuffle. The strike threatens the #December12 elections in Algeria, which are being opposed by the opposition who believe it will just lead to the continuation of an
3/ elite junta. So essentially, the hashtag "we are all Zeghmati" is seen as supporting the status quo, a quasi military government that doesn't represent the democratic demands by many Algerians. Anyway, next up is the analysis, which will add to a great one by @AymeneZermane
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@chikenyelum
Here's a #thread on the Nigeria Fraud system, it's structure and the link between Invictus Obi, Mompha, and many still at large.
Good evening!
Let me start the thread by describing something you all know about the University.
In UNN for instance, we've Faculties, Departments, Institutes and Units.
There's a faculty for physical sciences, a faculty for arts, a faculty for biological sciences, a faculty for medical sciences amongst many others.
GreatGameIndia
@GreatGameIndia
It has been suggested that Private Equity firm KKR is responsible for #CafeCoffeDay founder #VGSiddhartha's suicide.
The firm has come under scanner in our research in many aspects of National Security as well.
Here is a thread on the various operations of KKR in India
As per the report MO of foreign PE firms like KKR is to borrow money from Indian Banks at 8-9% and then lend it to Indian businesses at a whopping 20-25% - the high rates of interest makes it difficult for native business to survive or remain profitable to repay the lenders.
KKR is the second largest foreign PE investor in #CCD with 6.07% (1.28 crore shares) after selling approx 4.25% in Feb 2018, making at the time 10.3%. Foreign investors together hold 22.35% stake in #CafeCoffeeDay valued at Rs 724 crore.
IndoPacific_SCS_Info
@IndoPac_Info
#Australia Calls on #China to Release Detained Writer - It strongly rebuked Beijing on Friday for detaining one of its citizens, a writer who has called for liberalization in China, expressing concern over his welfare and calling for his release. nytimes.com/2019/07/19/wor…
Australia was “deeply disappointed” to learn that Yang Hengjun, a Chinese-born Australian who has been in custody since January, had been placed in criminal detention, Marise Payne, the country’s foreign minister, said in a statement.
“We have asked for clarification regarding the reasons for Dr. Yang’s detention,” she said. “If he is being detained for his political views, then he should be released.”
Nervana Mahmoud
@Nervana_1
#Thread on AJ+ Holocaust denial that triggered wide outrage.
Denying or downplaying the #Holocaust is not new. It has been a recurring theme by AJ arabic since its establishment. 1/
AJ has continued to recycle myth that number of #Holocaust victims is debatable, deny extermination & has accused Zionist movement of benefiting from it.
AJ+, however, always claimed it is different, but n reality, it is run by the same leftists/Islamists who deny Holocaust 2/
What I find hilarious is how some top Israeli journalists have convinced themselves for years that appearing in AJ will help bringing peace and fight antisemitism.
What a naive thinking 3/
Ayla Ferrone
@AylaFerrone
Here is a #thread for the May 14th court proceedings in the trial for #NXIVM leader Keith Raniere. These are my notes after reading through the transcripts provided by court.
Court begins with an immediate sidebar which is redacted from the transcripts. After a discussion the jury is brought in and the judge explains an alternate juror was sick and they would adjourn for the day. The attorneys still have some things to discuss, however.
A discussion starts by assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza. She says some materials have to do with things recovered during a search warrant at Nancy Salzman’s home at 3 Oregon Trail when Raniere was arrested.
#facebook #December12 #VGSiddhartha #judges #Palestinian #HealthyLiving #Apartheid #PoliciaDeInvestigaciones #travelingwhilequeer #Climate #ArmadadeChile #plazabaquedano #homophobic #guanacos #CafeCoffeDay #twitter #AvenidaRamonFreire #juventudxclima #EstoEstaPasandoEnChile #JNUViolence #Alameda #10DaysLaunchChallenge #Cavancha #Brexit #microaggression
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Photos – FIA WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone 2013
I was at Silverstone in April for the European Le Mans Series and FIA World Endurance Championship weekend. I took along a new zoom lens to its first motorsport event, and by Sunday I think I was getting the hang of it!
I’ve attended the 6 Hours (and predecessor 1000km) for the last few years, this year it was moved from Autumn to Spring with the expected change in conditions. Saturday’s ELMS was run in torrential rain. Thankfully Sunday was much brighter and was mostly free of rain, but again the thermometers flattered to deceive, and while it was warmer than the day before it still felt much colder than readings indicated. In previous years I did it as a day trip but with the addition of ELMS I decided to stay in Northampton to see both races, and also to attend Sunday’s pit walk.
Saturday – See my post about Saturday’s European Le Mans Series race here.
Sunday April 14th – FIA World Endurance Championship
The first order of business was to get to the pitwalk. This was easier said than done. The free shuttle buses were few and far between and it took a good 30 or 40 minutes to walk from the Abbey/ex-Bridge area to the new Wing paddock complex, as there is no crossing point nearby. All this walking meant I missed the day’s Formula 3 race which happened at the same time, though I did bump into these guys. Was it worth the effort? Definitely.
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Author Pat WPosted on 29 June 2013 5 July 2013 Categories 2013, races attended, WECTags FIA WEC, races attended, Silverstone, Silverstone 6 Hours, sportscars5 Comments on Photos – FIA WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone 2013
Photos – ELMS 3 Hours of Silverstone 2013
I was at Silverstone in April for the European Le Mans Series and FIA World Endurance Championship weekend. I took along a new zoom lens to its first motorsport event, although Saturday was a bit of a washout.
Saturday April 13th – European Le Mans
Saturday was very cold and only got colder, until the rain arrived at which point it got even colder but also very, very wet causing racing to be abandoned for the day. I spent the ELMS and WEC qualifying sessions on the grass bank between Maggotts and Village, before ensconcing myself in the Woodcote stand for the 3-hour ELMS race, trying to stay warm. Thermometers may have read 9 or 10C but with windchill it felt like 5C at best, 1 or 2C by the end.
Formula 3 Europe:
I only saw one Euro F3 race but it was good, lots of passing albeit not much of it near me. Harry Tinknell (blue car) is local to me so I was rooting for him, he was leading for a while but fell back to 3rd I think it was at the end.
ELMS:
The ELMS race was good as well. I’d call it a traditional race, not the sort you see very often any more. Everyone had slicks for the start but as the formation lap got under way it started raining! Half the field pitted straight away but mysteriously half of them did not, and it cost them dearly as the Safety Car came out. Big gaps then appeared in the field as the conditions worsened but it wasn’t boring – quite the opposite, over two hours a lot of cars went sliding and spinning off, or had drivers uncomfortable with the conditions, so the order was changing quite a lot despite the gaps.
Eventually the rain got so bad everyone was running around in 2nd-gear to avoid aquaplaning, the Safety Car was called out but even after 20 minutes a lot of the field still hadn’t caught up with it, they were being so cautious! After a good 30 or 40 minutes under SC the red flags came out to end the race half an hour early. At the time, freezing in the stands too stubborn to move while the track was live but so cold I wished it ended, I thought it was a good idea. But looking back I almost wish the SC hadn’t have come out let alone the reds flown, everyone was going slowly for the conditions and it would’ve been interesting to see who made the best of it.
I was sat in the stands with Carole @revs_rule, and after the race was stopped we made a beeline to my car and to Silverstone village for a hot meal and cup of tea in the White Horse pub, which were very nice indeed.
More photos from Saturday are at Picasa. As I say, I was still getting used to the new lens and with the cold and rain it was quite tricky anyway!
My next post is about Sunday’s World Endurance race.
Author Pat WPosted on 22 June 2013 5 July 2013 Categories 2013, ELMS, races attendedTags 2013, ELMS, European Le Mans Series, races attended, Silverstone, sportscar2 Comments on Photos – ELMS 3 Hours of Silverstone 2013
MotoGP to BT Sport in 2014 (IndyCar & NASCAR too)
UK TV coverage of MotoGP will be switching to the new BT Sport channels from the 2014 season. IndyCar will also be on those channels later this season. I’ll focus on MotoGP as that is by far the bigger series in terms of fans and ratings.
Err, What?
BT Sport is a new venture from the telecoms company after it bought ESPN UK & Ireland, which itself grew out of the ashes of Setanta Sports. The line-up will be BT Sport 1 and BT Sport 2 – each with HD and SD simulcasts – and the existing ESPN channel will be retained, but it’ll be run by BT instead of ESPN. The existing ESPN Classic and ESPN America will be discontinued. MotorsTV has moved on the Sky EPG to make way.
Is this a good thing? The elephant in the room is Sky Sports, the dominant player in subscription-TV sports. If Setanta nor the mighty ESPN could make it work against Sky, could BT, despite little experience operating linear TV? BT already offer an on-demand service via IPTV (it beat Sky to that by a couple of years), could that make the difference?
Given Thursday’s announcements they are certainly giving it a damn good try!
No Free-To-Air MotoGP
Now for the bad news for many – no more BBC or Eurosport MotoGP coverage.
The free-to0-air* BBC2 airs all races live, and Moto2 and Moto3 races, and MotoGP qualifying, are live online and on the red button.
* excluding the Licence Fee but since everyone has to pay it anyway it is moot.
British Eurosport – but I believe not many other branches of Eurosport across the continent – air all sessions live for all 3 classes apart from the MotoGP race, which is delayed to give BBC2 the priority. Eurosport only requires a £5 extra fee on Sky (along with a whole host of other channels in the Entertainment Extra pack), and is on a fairly reasonable tier on Virgin Media cable TV, I think? It also has a very affordable web and app presence costing only £2.99/mth which is how I watch it.
The sharing agreement was set up in 2009 specifically to boost ratings by giving priority to the more widely available BBC2. It seems priorities have changed at Dorna!
As of now the only UK TV coverage is exclusive to BT. Sadly this means, unless a highlights deal is announced, MotoGP will no longer be available on free-to-air to the whole population.
This is a huge loss for MotoGP’s UK fans. I am sure Dorna took this option for their own reasons, possibly financial. The BT deal will inevitably result in far lower viewing figures. BBC2 gets about 1 million people per race, this is sometimes higher than F1 races on Sky! BT would be doing extremely well to reach 20% of that and it might be more like 10%.
There are some people who will get it free-to-air, effectively. More on that in a minute.
What MotoGP Will They Air?
Everything. All sessions and races will be covered live. Tthey’ll be covered live from site and from a London studio, perhaps they’ll send one or two pit reporters (and crew) and keep the presenting team at home? That’s a backwards step, the interaction you get from Matt Roberts, and previously Suzi Perry, is very much worth the investment. Talking heads sitting in a remote studio is not interesting to me.
What is interesting is the promise of extra programming between races, they’ve not given specifics but I imagine that might include profiles of legends of the sport, insights into GP history, a tour of a team HQ.
How.. And How Much?
First things first – the hook: If you have BT Broadband you will be able to get BT Sport’s channels as a free extra. I’m a BT Broadband subscriber so this makes me quite happy! Effectively MotoGP remains ‘free-to-air’ if you are already with BT.
There are those who complain it isn’t “free” but that is only valid if you are now with a competitor at a lower rate – you’ll end up paying more by switching. That’s fair enough. For those of us already paying BT’s higher rates, this offer makes those prices better value. I’m paying them anyway so anything extra is a bonus. Ok it isn’t ‘free’, it is a new feature that makes my higher cost more bearable. Believe me I was seriously considering switching away at the end of my contract and this deal will heavily influence my decision.
Don’t have BT Broadband? A subscription costs £12 per month or £15 for HD but at the moment you can only get it on Sky.
Here are the four options. They say three but there are four, I consider the web player to be separate from the app. There’s a possible fifth.
Option 1) Sky. If you have Sky you can ring up BT and give them your viewing card number. You DO NOT have to be an existing BT customer – the difference is only in cost. If you are with BTB you’ll get Sport free, if you’re not you’ll be charged £12 or £15. Seemingly you can only get it direct from BT (don’t call Sky), I bet this is to check you’re a broadband customer which Sky wouldn’t know.
Option 2) BT TV. BT have a couple of TV options of their own. You’ll need their broadband to get either.
They want you to get YouView but that requires some hoops to be jumped: You need to have BT Infinity (“superfast broadband” as they call it), their fibre-optic system which is slowly rolling out across the country.
If like many people you currently can’t get Infinity you can have BT Vision instead. For that you will need normal BT Broadband, or ADSL as most of us may know it. There appear to be no other restrictions on getting Vision. (Annoyingly there’s also a Vision-branded section on YouView – don’t confuse the two).
BT Sport will be delivered by encrypted Freeview channel needing a viewing card in exactly the same way ESPN is currently, but it’ll be the SD channels only and there’s a £10 fee for the card.
Update – more details here.
Both systems are focused on ‘On Demand’ services so I hope BT Sport content will appear there for free.
Option 3) Web Player. Seems to be BT subs only. Go to btsport.com and login with a MyBT username (the one you use to look bills). A big concern here is the use of unreliable Microsoft Silverlight which is my main bugbear with ITV Player.
Option 4) App for tablet or smartphone again needing a BT login.
I hope options 3 and 4 become available to non-subscribers. If BT are serious about bringing sport to the masses at lower rates than Sky, they would surely allow people to subscribe only to the web player and/or the app.
Potential Option 5) Virgin Media cable TV. No deal has been agreed right now but you can bet they are working on it.
Away from BT, another option for fans is the VideoPass on MotoGP.com – real diehards only though, a standard pass costs £85 per year or £21/month! A ‘MultiScreen’ pass is £30/mth.
Existing ESPN subscriber? I’m pretty sure I saw that your subscription will only run until ESPN changes hands at the end of July. If that means you have unused months I suggest you ask ESPN for a refund.
Depends on what you have already.
++ for anybody with BT broadband and a Sky dish or YouView. Just ring BT and get all this stuff for free. If you currently pay for ESPN you’ll save £10-15 per month.
+ for anybody with BT broadband but no Sky dish. You (and I) will get the web player and the app for no extra fee. Most of us are perfectly used to watching BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, 4OD or Eurosport Player so this is a very good thing for us.
~ for people with Sky but not BT. £12-£15 isn’t going to break the bank if you only want BT Sport, but if you want Sky Sports too it’ll soon mount up. If you pay for Sky Sports and ESPN right now nothing will really change, a sport or two will have moved from one place to another as they do every year.
– for those who can and would pay for BT and/or Sky but are currently with other providers – switching is a hassle.
— if you can only afford one set of premium sports channels, do you choose Sky for F1, or BT for MotoGP & IndyCar? It’ll fall on your preference of racing and other sports.
— for anybody without BT or Sky and are unwilling or unable to switch for whatever reason. Cost is likely the main reason as both BT and Sky are expensive. There are a lot of people who just can’t afford it.
MotoGP’s ratings are going to drop substantially in 2014. ESPN’s ratings at the moment are dire and that will not change for a while. Even Sky Sports, the market leader in subscription sport, usually has poor ratings compared to Free-To-Air.
The increase in shoulder programming is a good thing – will anybody watch it?
I applaud BT for not only allowing their current customers access for no further fee – remember how often people complain the sweet deals are only for new customers – and also for keeping the monthly cost at a minimal level for non-broadband customers.
On a Personal Level
I have BT Broadband with BT Vision TV – unfortunately the Freeview part is broken so I can’t get ESPN, but even if the box worked I live in a transmission blackspot – if you pick up a main transmitter you see all Freeview channels but if you use a local repeater transmitter you only see half of them. Guess where I live! I must get an engineer to move the aerial.
I should be able to see a lot On Demand for free with Vision which is good. Anything I want live I can see on my PC or iPad for no extra charge, also brilliant.
Alternatives? I’m in a rented property so I can’t have a Sky dish – I might be allowed at this address but who’s to say how long I’ll be here and if my next landlord would let me? I also live well outside Virgin’s cabled area. These are the reasons I went for BTV in the first place.
Is this deal any good for you? Let me know! It certainly feels better than the Sky F1 deal but is that because I’m now used to that idea, is it because I know I’m getting availability for no extra cost?
IndyCar – BT seem to have taken over ESPN’s current IndyCar deal right off the bat, from channel launch this August. Good news. IndyCar fans were faced with having no coverage at all so it is a very different position to MotoGP which is reducing viewers. I’m *VERY* happy to finally be able to watch one of my favourite series completely legally for the first time since 2002!
NASCAR – There has been mention of NASCAR which I presume to be the 1-hour highlights show of the Sprint Cup. Time will tell. If so it might even mean I’ll stay with Cup for a season for the first time.
At the moment that seems it for motorsport but anything could change between now and the 2014 season.
Football, football, and more football: English Premier League, Scottish Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Europa League, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, MLS, English Women’s League.
English Premiership Rugby. WTA tennis. Red Bull ‘extreme sports’ (interestingly including Red Bull Crashed Ice!). UFC. And these from the head of digital production: “Our confirmed list of US sports: college basketball, Indy car, NASCAR, college football, MLB, Red Bull, MLS.”
It seems like a very decent line-up if you like those sorts of things. I’m not too into the different types of football so I wouldn’t pay for the channels, but since they are free-to-me I might dip into a few things to see if I like them!
Author Pat WPosted on 10 May 2013 10 May 2013 Categories 2013, 2014, broadcasting, economy, fans, TVTags 2014, broadcasting, BT Sport, IndyCar, MotoGP, TV5 Comments on MotoGP to BT Sport in 2014 (IndyCar & NASCAR too)
All You Need To Know: 2013 FIA WEC Silverstone 6 Hours
Are you going to Silverstone this weekend for the 6 Hours of Silverstone? I wrote a little guide ahead of last year’s race and I thought I’d do the same again this year.
It should be an interesting change in dynamic with the race having moved to April from a mid-season August, it has now become the opening round of the series. It’ll be our first chance to see the competitiveness of the teams and drivers particularly those that did not make the trip to Sebring in March. The weather and temperature will be other factors to consider, though in fairness they may not be too different to the years the race took place in September.
Racing This Weekend
FIA WEC, ELMS, and FIA European F3.
The FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) is a world series for the cars and stars of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and 2013 is the second year of the revived championship. Four classes of car compete on the track at the same time, two sets of ‘prototypes’ and two sets of GTs. This weekend features a six hour race on Sunday.
The European Le Mans Series is a regional series also linked to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It also has four classes, two of which are identical to those in the WEC and two are ‘entry level’ in nature. This weekend they’ll race for three hours on Saturday afternoon.
FIA European Formula 3 is a single-seater category for aspiring drivers, if F1 is the top tier of single-seater racing then F3 is the 3rd-tier. In reality the talent from F3 graduates into all types of racing including WEC and the like. They will have two races on Saturday and another one first thing on Sunday.
Tickets! You could get a 3-day weekend ticket for £35 in advance and they should still only be £40 on the gate, obviously single-day tickets would be lower!
Appropriate clothing! It is April – expect a mixture of sun and showers. It also a cold Spring so bring a thick jumper and a coat. It’ll be hard to choose between a heavy coat for warmth or an anorak to stay dry so put both in the car and decide when you get there! Bear in mind Silverstone can feel cold on a warm day so if the day is cool already, be ready. Bring a hat too. And sun cream! Seriously!
Shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Although Silverstone spent a lot of money on path improvements around the start/finish straight, and that area really does look impressive now, they don’t extend around the whole track and in any case you might not want to go where the paths go. With all the rain we’ve had the ground will be muddy.
A radio! When the cars are running you will struggle to hear the PA system around much of the track so you will need a radio tuned to 87.7FM Radio Le Mans, and a supply of batteries.
You might also want a camera, with a supply of batteries.
Andy Blackmore’s Spotter Guides. You might want to print these: FIA WEC – ELMS Wait as late as you can as they’re being updated.
Bring food or plenty of money to buy some. I usually buy my lunch on site. Silverstone’s food sellers have markedly improved in quality over the years, unfortunately they can now make a hefty dent in your wallet. At least it isn’t as pricey as Goodwood! Don’t bank on getting anything on your way back to your car though, they’re all packing up by then.
On the plus side, parking is free and very simple. Go along Dadford Road all the way down, past the main entrance until you get to the 2nd roundabout and turn left there signposted Public Parking. You’ll discover you are near the end of the Wing, by Club corner. Follow the people wearing orange or yellow and they’ll have you at a nice spot barely five minutes walk from the gate, which is about a half minute’s walk from the track. Obviously if you have to queue to buy a ticket it’ll be longer, but if you’ve brought your ticket with you, you can be out of your car and trackside within 10 minutes if you want to be. I usually follow my ritual of getting a cup of tea first, maybe a bacon roll!
If you don’t feel like walking the track there are free buses circulating the perimeter road, also visiting the pitlane, so you can still make that journey to Becketts or the Hangar Straight if you want to.
A lot of the grandstands will be open for no extra fee. Not all of them are open all weekend, Sunday is the day with most availability.
WEC teams will be based at the Wing paddock. ELMS and F3 teams will be based at the National paddock (the old pits).
Want To Watch The F1 Race Too?
Greedy so and so, but, me too! And there’s good news – if you can get to Silverstone early enough, the Paddock Diner in the National paddock will be open from 7.30am Sunday and they will be showing the Chinese GP on their TV screens. That race starts at 8am and should run until about 9.30. Racing starts at Silverstone at 9.15am on Sunday with F3, by then you should have a sense of whether it is worth staying for the end of the F1.
Info from the most excellent FIA WEC Twitter feed which you should definitely follow.
9.00am – 10.00am ELMS Practice
10.15am – 10.55am F3 Practice
11am – 11.40am F3 Practice
12.25pm – 1.55pm WEC Practice
2.10pm – 3.10pm ELMS Practice
3.25pm – 4.10pm F3 Qualifying
4.30pm – 6pm WEC Practice
9.00am – 10.00am WEC Practice
10.20am – 10.55am F3 Race 1
11.10am – 11.30am – ELMS Qualifying – LMGTE & GTC classes
11.35am – 11.55am – ELMS Qualifying – LMP2 & LMPC classes
12.10pm – 12.30pm – WEC Qualifying – LMGTE Pro & LMGTE Am classes
12.40pm – 1.00pm – WEC Qualifying – LMP1 & LMP2 classes
1.20pm – 1.55pm – F3 Race 2
2.20pm – 2.40pm – ELMS Grid Walk
3.00pm – 6.00pm ELMS Race
9.15am – 9.50am – F3 Race 3
10.00am – 10.45am – WEC Pit Walk & Autograph Session
11.10am – 11.40am – WEC Grid Walk
12.00pm – 6.00pm – WEC Race
When you leave I recommend allowing time to watch the podium ceremonies. Each of the four classes gets their own podium ceremony. Not only is it good to show your appreciation to the drivers it is a great way to let the car park empty before you hit the road. All traffic merges together into a single road and that means everything backs up, it takes a long time to get out, so instead of stressing in your car you might as well stick around for 20 minutes to congratulate all of the class winners.
I’ll be tweeting from @toomuchracing throughout the weekend for as long as signal and battery allow, unless it is too cold to use it! And do remember to follow @FIAWEC as well.
Author Pat WPosted on 11 April 2013 11 April 2013 Categories 2013, ELMS, races attended, WECTags 2013, ELMS, FIA WEC, races attended, Silverstone, sportscars
Thoughts on F1: 2013 Australian Grand Prix
F1 is back! I’m so glad the waiting is over. Apparently not glad enough – I slept through the first 15 minutes as I’m an idiot who can’t abandon a race in progress, I’d started following Sebring so I couldn’t stop, I had to see the end! At 2.45am. Not ideal when F1 started at 6am. I really did intend to watch F1 after a short sleep then go back to bed afterwards, but it didn’t happen.
Never mind. I watched the extended highlights instead. The name ‘highlights’ does it a disservice, there wasn’t much cut out of the Sky show I watched and even less from the BBC show I watched just minutes ago before writing this post. I do think the BBC version was superior in every way, but Sky’s show only had half the time to prepare it as it went out at 11am rather than the BBC’s 2pm. We have an interesting choice between speed and quality, and I do like competitive choice.
Was the race any good?
It wasn’t a classic race but it wasn’t boring by any stretch. It was interesting, in the same way I said Sebring was interesting – for racing geeks like us there was enough to think about. For casual fans it might’ve been easy to think it was just cars going around, but for the rest of us, if you followed what was going on it was a very interesting race. Races can be very interesting without being nail-biting and this was one of them.
There was passing too, in the early phase of the race, through the midfield during the race, and not only on the victims of the current supplier’s tyre degradation.
When Vettel and the pair of Ferraris scampered away into the lead I thought the race was already over. Oh, ye of little faith. Within a few laps, the Lotus of Kimi Räikkönen closed in on them. It turns out at this track in these conditions the Red Bull wasn’t a match for the Ferrari on tyre degradation and both were outclassed by the Lotus, specifically that Lotus because the other one wasn’t anywhere to be found. I was so pleased Kimi started reeling them in because then I knew we’d have a decent race.
Felipe Massa had a great day. If he is able to carry this on in to the next races, suddenly we might have two Ferraris in contention for regular podium finishes if not wins and that’ll transform the Constructors’ battle too.
Adrian Sutil was the other man I was very impressed with, I’d never rated him highly and I’ve been proven wrong. To take a year out and then not only put in a solid drive but also race hard, fair and professionally with those around him – a good drive slightly ruined by the red supersofts suffering higher degradation than the team expected on a rubbered-in track at the end of the race.
Finally a word for Jules Bianchi, the man I thought should’ve been in that Force India seat was easily the class of the ‘young teams’.
Early Form
Sam Collins of Racecar Engineering mentioned in the RLM F1 preview that he was very impressed with the Lotus and they’d not only win races but the Championship, too. I scoffed at such ideas and I still think a title, either title, is a long shot. I’m not scoffing any more at the thought of multiple race wins – sure I thought one or two, but now.. unless RBR and Ferrari get a handle on tyres Lotus could bag a few more at the other street-based venues. We must wait to see the form on a permanent race track.
The McLaren seems to be a dog of a car, for a McLaren. I’m astonished they turned out a car this bad. Early indications are that the Mercedes is pretty good relative to last year and Hamilton seems very comfortable with his new team – I bet that’s aided by seeing his old one struggling so suddenly.
The Force India is looking promising as well, they just need to sort out the tyre strategy. Sauber seemed to be nowhere but we only have one car to guide us after Hülkenberg’s DNS, all we can say is Gutierrez received practically no TV attention at all. Toro Rosso seem to have a strange car, Ricciardo was dreadfully slow early on but then he and Vergne both set Fastest Lap later on, again we’ll have to see how it behaves on a more normal track. Williams really are in the deep doo-doo.
We have to be careful, though. This was only one race and Albert Park is a famously unreliable barometer of performance. This weekend is the vastly different challenge of the Sepang circuit, a very fast, wide, flowing circuit in the damp heat of Malaysia with the potential (certainty?) of wet weather in late afternoon, when the F1 sessions will be running.
Even at Sepang we may not get a true picture, it’ll be clearer than now but we’ll have to wait until China for a true picture, perhaps not until Bahrain, then when the teams get to Europe there are usually a host of upgrades in time for Spain and Monaco before the real order is established.
The Malaysian GP at Sepang is this weekend. Don’t forget the opening round of IndyCar also this weekend.
Author Pat WPosted on 21 March 2013 1 April 2013 Categories 2013, F1, Race ReviewTags 2013, Albert Park, Australian GP, F1, Formula 1
Thoughts on Sportscars: 2013 12 Hours of Sebring (ALMS)
Sebring wasn’t a classic race this year, rather than being exciting as some past years it was a case of being interesting in terms of who was fast, who was slow, who was reliable and who was not. I can’t say it was compelling enough to hold the attention for the twelve hours, or even for the ten hours I watched (there were a few long spells of simple lappery), but in this tough economic climate, and in a transition year before a major change to the race with the series merger you can’t really ask for big grids and close racing in each class.
The prototypes battle fell flat early on and in fairness that was expected before the race started. The focus fell on the two GT classes which did a good job of keeping things interesting, and there was a late battle in the PC class as well. With only an hour or two to go each of these three classes were led by something like 10 or 15 seconds! Tiny margins given the distances covered, a mistake on the track or by a pit crew would’ve turned it around.
I had other commitments in the afternoon and wasn’t able to join the coverage until 90 minutes into the race. I watched the rest, although I also dipped into the Red Bull Crashed Ice finale (I found myself unable to concentrate on that), and the delayed F1 qualifying.
I was watching the ALMS.com feed so their server problems were disappointing – I was happy they had the usual Hindhaugh & Shaw presentation and a solid pit crew. The ALMS Twitter feed claimed this race had 4x the viewers as last year, a statistic I find surprising considering last year’s race doubled as the inaugural WEC round, with a far deeper field. Compared to that race, with the ALMS struggling lately, this year’s race was always going to look a little weak in comparison to 2012’s so the increased viewership was interesting to see.
Through The Classes
Audi dominated as everybody expected they would. There was a little fight amongst themselves but it was nothing compared to a battle with another manufacturer team, there was the definite sense they were tiptoeing around each other whenever they were racing – the right thing to do under the circumstances.
The real race in P1 was among the four-car “petrol/independent class” but Dyson Racing encountered problems with their Lola-Mazda, and Muscle Milk Pickett’s HPD was penalised (stop and hold for 60 seconds) following “avoidable contact”, when Klaus Graf and a PC-car collided. This was a shame as they were fairly evenly matched with the two Rebellion Lola-Toyotas, perhaps the Pickett car had the edge (perhaps thanks to their drivers and their circuit knowledge).
So this race was spoiled by a couple of happenings but that doesn’t mean Rebellion didn’t earn it, they were fast and kept their nose clean. I’m glad they’re keeping a car in the ALMS in addition to their two in WEC this year.
The DeltaWing, run by a completely different team to last year and with completely different technical partners, failed to impress after running slower than the PC class pace before an engine failure ended their day early.
Five entries in this class, all top-drawer quality but sadly the race was effectively over by halfway. Level 5’s pair of HPDs were in control, it was always going to be tough to beat their star driver line-up of Marino Franchitti, Simon Pagenaud, and Ryans Hunter-Reay and Briscoe.
Extreme Speed did a good job learning their own pair of HPDs after moving from Ferraris in the GT class, although Ed Brown in particular seemed to struggle with his car with multiple spins and the other, faster car was delayed with mechanical issues. ESM will work on it, they’ll get there.
After splitting the HPDs right down the middle in qualifying, the lone Greaves Motorsport Zytek-Nissan wasn’t able to keep up with Level 5 in the race – which surprised me I have to say. I’m not sure if they encountered any problems.
It was a hard-fought battle in the single-make class, the lead changing handle multiple times throughout the race. Most of this 7-car field was competitive and there wasn’t any way of picking a winner, even when it eventually distilled down to two cars you couldn’t call it, it was still a race as Ostella hunted down Marcelli for the win which is the opposite of what I would’ve predicted! This class is going to be a lot of fun this year.
As expected the GT class proved a dogfight, though I have to say it seemed much cleaner than the wheel-banging of past years, which is impressive given how hard they were all pushing.
The main race was between the Corvettes and the Risi Ferrari, that classic battle between marques. Interloping from time to time were the likes of the Viper, the new BMW Z4 and even the Falken Tire Porsche, which given the struggles of Porsche teams everywhere wasn’t supposed to be near the front. The variety bodes well for a very exciting season.
The Ferrari had better range, the ‘Vette perhaps the better speed over a stint. Despite electrical issues and a penalty for pitlane speeding (caused by temporarily having no limiter) the no.4 Corvette fought back to win by just 3 seconds from the Ferrari, however that was arguably only because Matteo Malucelli’s stellar drive faltered under intense pressure from the yellow ‘Vette.
The Vipers fell back after a while as did the promising new BMW Z4 which had an impressive debut – though as both are running with exemptions for engines that are way too big for the regs, I was quietly pleased they lost (even though they have very cool cars).
Feelgood result of the race was the Falken Porsche, I thought they were a way behind earlier on but they came back to finish 3rd.
Notable absentees were the Aston Martins which suffered car trouble fairly early on and were forced to treat the rest of the race as a test, a very rapid test in which they set the class fastest lap, hinting at what might’ve been.
It is a sign of these economic times that so many top quality drivers – and teams – are in the low-cost spec class supposedly for entry-level entrants. The benefit for the class is the ridiculously close race! When you have Jeroen Bleekemolen, Sean Edwards, Damian Faulkner, Sascha Maassen, and Spencer Pumpelly you can’t say the class is lacking in talent. The result then depends how good the amateur, ‘gentlemen’ drivers are, and if they’re as evenly matched as they are here you have a race on your hands! Even deep into the race the top half dozen were split by 20 seconds or less. It was only in the very late stages that it got a bit split up. An under-reported, much-knocked class (and I’m fully guilty of that) which should continue to see some great racing this year.
Stars of the Race
I’d never heard of David Ostella or Matteo Malucelli so I was tremendously impressed by their performances. Malucelli put in a near-flawless performance for Risi Ferrari, whenever I looked at T&S he was in the car, his only fault being a little kind to the Corvette as it attacked him in the late stages of the race and that’s just down to inexperience of Sebring. Ostella on the other hand seemed to warm to the race the more it went on, culminating in a fantastic PC-class race-winning pass against Kyle Marcelli, who is no pushover.
If you weren’t paying attention to the laptimes of AMR after their long, long delays, you might’ve missed Bruno Senna’s speed in the car. Some suggested he wouldn’t be suited to GT racing. Wrong!
Kuba Giermaziak seems to be the real deal, too.
There were a few controversial stewarding decisions. Some of the faster guys were a little impatient when lapping slower cars. Some were racing incidents, others were the fault of the slower guy wandering all over the road, yet it was always the faster guy that would get the penalty. McNish was definitely unfairly penalised. Graf’s penalty was less clear cut and both opinions were flying around Twitter – I thought the PC car stayed wide and braked early to let Graf through, which Graf may have misread or not expected – a racing incident but under ALMS rules Graf got the penalty for braking too late, ‘avoidable contact’.
The ALMS moves on to the vastly different challenge of a 2-hour race on the short Long Beach street course, one month from now.
Next year’s 12 Hours of Sebring will be part of the brave new world of United SportsCar Racing.
Author Pat WPosted on 20 March 2013 1 April 2013 Categories 2013, IMSA, Race ReviewTags 2013, American Le Mans Series, IMSA, Race Review, Sebring, sportscar
2013 F1 Preview
The 2013 F1 season starts just hours away with the Australian GP. Before the race starts (and before the resumption of the interrupted qualifying session), here are a few thoughts about the upcoming season.
As well as reading this, do listen to the Sidepodcast Season Preview Megamix. I joined several other listeners in submitting voicemails/recordings with predictions for the season ahead!
The new tech regs come in next season and that means 2013’s cars are much like 2012’s cars. Therefore I don’t see a big change in performance compared to last year. There might be a team that assigned more of a priority to this season than another team. Obviously there will be differences as there are from year to year anyway, it isn’t like they are carrying over the same car (in most cases) so there is scope for a bit of a shuffling.
I think the Championship will ultimately settle down to another contest between Vettel and Alonso. The Ferrari seems better sorted so far this year than it was a year ago. Alonso is my tip for the Championship.
Among the teams, I am convinced Red Bull will again win the Constructor’s title, Seb will undoubtedly score bundles of points but the difference will come from the other seat. Webber vs Perez vs Massa should result in Webber winning that little battle but it obviously depends on what mood they are in (especially Massa) and the performance of the cars.
I thought Button should be up there but after his complaints from Friday practice that may not turn out to be the case. Perhaps they are just ‘managing expectations’. In any event, even if they are back a bit, McLaren are the best team at developing from a poor situation and by the midseason they should be scoring podium finishes and wins – unfortunately for them this seems to now be a recurring theme, certainly over the last few years.
The burning questions are whether Mercedes, Lotus, Sauber or Force India will take a step forward or are they regrouping for 2014? From the early running in Melbourne it looks like Mercedes have made a nice step, at least in wet conditions! Will they still be there in the dry? Perhaps. Fast but maybe a bit fragile. I reckon Hamilton will get a win or two, Rosberg may also bag one too. It’ll be more competitive than last year.
Sam Collins of Racecar Engineering is adamant the Lotus is a car to watch. I am not so sure, I’ve not seen it tearing up the racetracks so far but I’d like them to do well. I do think they’ll score at least one win and it’ll be Kimi that does it. The Sauber is also a very tidy car and last year’s could’ve won a race or two with more experienced or faster drivers – if they’ve produced another fast car could Nico H. be the man to take a win? I think he can.
I’m not sure we’ll see a big change from Force India. The car looks no different and what’s going on with the money? Will it dry up? They could be looking at next year.
The other interesting thing about the midfield is their choices about when to ditch 2013 and look forward. With completely new rules there is a great chance to move forward, so if you are underperforming this year you will reach a point when you feel it is better to abandon it, do what you can with this car and throw the kitchen sink at the next one.
Lower Midfield
Williams should stay ahead of Toro Rosso, but they’ll be vying with each other to stay out of the Q1 drop zone alongside the two slow teams. I’d like to wish Williams would improve but I don’t think it’ll be this year.
At The Back
Marussia and Caterham will again be at the back and it seems by just as big a margin as before, which is a surprise. Perhaps they are just treading water with another bad car while they put a concerted effort into the 2014 cars. That’s potentially what I would do in their position, but they have to be careful to make a car good enough to beat the 107% qualifying rule.
I like the look of Bianchi. He got screwed out of the Force India seat when Mr Sutil turned up with bags of money, something Jules didn’t really deserve. These teams have four seats and three of them are filled with rookies, which is a terrible idea. You always want one experienced driver to work with. Pic should use his year of experience to beat them but he’ll be up against Bianchi. The other two will be nowhere.
Much like last year we’ll see some fantastic races, some mediocre races, and some absolutely terrible ‘races’ where we wonder what the point is (hello Korea). With any luck some of the good ones will be in surprising places – last year nobody expected Valencia or Abu Dhabi to be worth watching but they turned out to be among the best of the season!
Last year wasn’t a classic season (as some F1 media seem to claim) but neither was it a terrible season (as others seem to claim, particularly among sportscar media). I think we’ll see much the same this year. A mixed year of good races and bad, fortunes changing as the year goes on. That’s fine. That’s perfectly normal and I don’t think anyone can be unhappy with that. If it develops into a genuine classic then so much the better!
Author Pat WPosted on 16 March 2013 Categories 2013, F1Tags 2013, F1, Formula 1
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It's time to party like it's 1998 because today marks the release date for Resident Evil 2 remake on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Capcom has released a complete reimagining of the survival horror classic. Gone are the static cameras and PlayStation 1 era visuals. In their place is an over-the-shoulder perspective, plenty of gorey 2019-era visuals, and more puzzles than you can shake a diamond shaped key at.
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New Screens and Trailer for End of Zoe and Not a Hero for Resident Evil 7 DLCs
Capcom released some hot new media today for the upcoming Resident Evil 7 DLCs: End of Zoe and Not a Hero. We're talking about new screenshots and a new "Tape" that focuses on Redfield.
The trailer and screens introduce some new glimpses into End of Zoe, featuring a mysterious outdoorsman named Joe who lives along the bank of the marshes and has a chance encounter with Zoe that sets both their fates in motion. The new assets also showcase the free Not a Hero DLC, featuring the return
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A new and actually first ever trailer for Resident Evil 7's free "Not a Hero" DLC came out today from Capcom. For those who wanted some more action in their Resident Evil 7, well it looks like your wish is coming true.
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Hey, remember the end of Resident Evil 7 where you went, "wait, what?" And then the tease at the very end said there was going to be some new DLC coming that starred Chris Redfield. But then that DLC was postponed for what seems like forever.
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Capcom announced that their upcoming and free DLC for Resident Evil 7, Not a Hero, has been delayed. The DLC was originally slated to come out this Spring but they have decided to continue working on it saying that it's "not good enough to meet high expectations."
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Tags: 2018 NFL Season, Featured, Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers
Aaron Rodgers Ain’t Going Out Like That
The Green Bay Packers may not be all that. That was clear on Monday night. But Aaron Rodgers is all that.
The Packers gave up 30 points to a San Francisco 49ers team led by C.J. Beathard at home. They did what they needed to do, however. The Packers put up 10 unanswered late in the fourth quarter, capped by Mason Crosby’s game-winning field goal for a 33-30 win.
It was Rodgers who gutted it out and drove the Packers to the win, of course.
QB1 threw for 425 yards, two touchdowns and no picks. He did that without receivers Randall Cobb and Geronimo Allison, both of whom have now been out for multiple weeks.
Davante Adams was once again huge, catching 10 for 132 yards and both of those touchdowns.
Tight end Jimmy Graham finally had his breakout game with 104 yards. The Packers obviously made it a point to get him involved early and often. Rookie Marquez Valdes-Scantling continued to look great with 103 yards and Equanimeous St. Brown had a huge catch in crunch time.
The defense wasn’t quite there though. The pass rush certainly wasn’t there. The Packers had just two sacks on the night and Nick Perry continues to be a no-show.
The defensive highlights were no doubt defensive tackle Kenny Clark with seven tackles and a sack and cornerback Kevin King, who came up with the late interception that allowed Rodgers to work his magic.
And let’s give it up to Crosby, who came back from one of the most disastrous weeks a kicker could ever have to knock in four field goals, including a game winner.
To be honest, we don’t love this Packers team right now, but we do know this. You don’t count QB1 out. If that guy has an opportunity to win a game, he’s probably going to do it.
Legion Of Boom Dead;Rodgers: Bromance With Sherman
Man… Fuck Bryan Bulaga Already!
john October 15, 2018
I mean, Perry had 3 defended passes tonight. Not exactly no show.
Disposableh3ro October 16, 2018
At critical times as well…
Icebowl October 16, 2018
Otherwise 55 minutes of crap – especially from the Swiss-Cheese Secondary…..
Whiners running game was explosive and only fizzled when they stopped outside runs…
Without the Dick Sherman gift we’d be talking about a 2-3-1 team…
Btw : Why are teams not figuring out 3-TE package = running play ? Even announcers last week were picking up on it….
Larry October 16, 2018
Easy to bat down passes when you stand still cause you can’t rush the QB.
Ferris October 15, 2018
What else has to happen for Brice to hit the pine or the street? I saw like 5 minutes of this game but while I was watching he got smoked.
TyKo Steamboat October 15, 2018
Bulaga will always be good for a false start & a mid-game injury. A real china doll
& why do Nick Perry & Randall Cobb get paid so much?
On a bright side, I thought Fat Mike called a good game in terms of off balance plays. Finally. It was at least unpredictable & with speed
NachoDan October 15, 2018
Nick Perry batted three balls, that’s 300% more than Mike Daniels did of anything.
PF4L October 16, 2018
They weren’t sacks, or run stuffs, but knocking down passes is kind of like making a play. I was so shocked i had chest pains and called 911 with heart attack symptoms. My heart can’t take that kind of excitement.
Because he’s unable to get to the QB.
I mean batted down passes is impressive and all but the only reason he could do that was because he’s unable to get the guy throwing it.
Yeah its a nice play but I’d argue they count more as bad plays from Beathard. It actually concerns me more than anything that he’s not even getting pressures on him.
Doug Phillips October 16, 2018
At least 3 balls, maybe 4. Including one on the 49ers last possession that ended with the INT.
M. Supernaw October 15, 2018
I’ve got a question for everyone, I’m sure it’s been asked/talked about but it was apparent again today. Does anyone remember the last special teams play (not a field goal or extra point) that the packers weren’t flagged on? I swear every punt, kick or anything I see a block in the back or a hold. Today it was the unsportsmanlike conduct that almost killed us were it not for Kevin King’s interception. Then there was the holding call on the play that never even left the end zone. Idk who Ron Zook is sucking off to keep his job but he must give a hell of a hummer for the special teams unit to have that much penalty trouble that never gets corrected
PackAttack October 15, 2018
You can throw whatever cliche at the wall you want after this one, “a win is a win”, but this is not a good football team on any level whatsoever right now and that includes Aaron Rodgers who said it best tonight, “this kind of play isn’t going to get it done against our next opponents”. If any thoughtful minded Packer fan thinks that this win (if you want to call it that) paired with the recent play vs Detroit, Buffalo and Washington (three of the weaker teams in the league right now) is going to carry substance going into games against Los Angeles, New England and at Minnesota — you are in a for a long fucking month. The Packers were out played for essentially 3-quarters (at home) by one of the worst teams in the NFL (and a backup QB), they were smoked by a very average, and last place, Detroit team and were basically embarrassed by a pretty average Washington offense. Now you go on the road against quite possibly the two best teams (and offenses) in the NFL with a laundry list of problems and very few solutions in sight…..
* Aaron Rodgers is a master of greatness, there’s no doubt about his talent, but what in the hell is going on with him in the pocket these last 3 weeks? Let’s stop using his injured knee as an excuse (I’m sick of hearing about that) he’s clearly moving well enough to run for almost 90 yards in 4 games. He’s missing throws to wide open receivers, tonight he had multiple options open in the red zone and chose to run with it (hurt or not that’s no excuse for not keying on open receivers and holding onto to the ball like this is 2008 again), he’s either back to not trusting the young receivers or being too conservative by holding the ball for too long or making poor reads. It’s not all on the WR’s. If the Packers would play, and move the ball, the way they do in the 4th Q as they would in the 2nd and 3rd Q they’d be undefeated right now.
* Why is Jamaal Williams still touching the ball on offense? Why? He’s averaging 3.7 yards per/carry and gives you virtually nothing in the passing game. Aaron Jones is the most electric runner on the roster but he can’t fucking catch or pass block to save his life and to be honest I can see why he doesn’t play more. Tonight he ran the wrong route twice before being removed from the shotgun formation. I can see Jones and Montgomery garnering most of the time but but why Williams? This RB tandem/musical chairs phiasco is just an epic disaster on every front — pick an every down guy and let him find a rhythm and consistency with the offense
* Kentrell Brice – As we serious with this guy as a starting safety in the NFL? There are better guys on the street than this piece of shit. He grades out at as the #67th safety in the league!!! So Josh Jones seriously isn’t any better than a guy who grades out lower than most backups? He reminds me of Ladarius Gunter getting dusted on virtually every single play but yet nobody seems to care enough to acknowledge it
* Clay Matthews – Holy Shit. I don’t even know what to say anymore. Just wow. Just keep reliving 2010 when this guy was actually relevant — it was only 8 years ago. He’s only the #98 ranked edge rusher in the league right now (look it up) it’s comical at this point, just a clown show for Clay to collect a check and a smile
* Reggie Gilbert, Dean Lowry, Nick Perry (I won’t even mention the other guy) are just incredibly underwhelming in every way possible. They play with very little passion and get pushed around by very average offensive lines and get run over by very average running backs. I have no idea how this unit is going to stop Todd Gurley or Sony Michel — the OLB’s can’t set the edge, there is no push up front, there’s no playmakers on this unit who can really carry the defense. Martinez, Daniels and Clark are your only guys on defense that are competent defenders in the NFL —- unfortunately they don’t have the talent to make up for the rest of the unit. This defense has given up (for the exception of the putrid Buffalo Bills offense) 30+ points to Detroit, SF and Washington (none of them rank inside the Top 15 in total offense in the league)
* Breeland and Alexander better be the next coming of Deion Sanders and Rod Woodson if they think these two can cover-up for the putrid talent of Brice, Tony Brown, Whitehead and even Kevin King (who played well tonight but still grades out as one of the worst d-backs in the league), Tramon is good but you can’t have him covering #1’s on the outside like he did tonight, not going to fly
* Finally Mike fucking McCarthy — another pathetic playcalling effort from Fat Mike, but give him the credit for what happened in the final 1:55 seconds (he earned it….right). Did you know that NFL teams who pass on 1st Downs (with regularity) are the Chiefs, Rams, Saints and Patriots (all top-5 offenses in the NFL) and Mike is still near the bottom when it comes to running the football on 1st and 10, which is now known statistically to be a back breaker for sequencing plays on offense because the avg run play in the NFL goes for 3.3 yards on 1st and 10 while a 1st down pass goes for 7.1 per/avg in the NFL, the rest of the league apparently knows this and has taken note of this except for Mike who continues to be as predictable as possible when it comes to his playcalling running more than 65% of the time on 1st and 10. He really fooled Shannahan tonight with those bootlegs, until they caught onto what Mike was doing and he proceeded to call more of them getting Rodgers sacked in the process. Mike’s got all the right answers, I’m sure he’ll have them all for LA, New England and Minnesota on the road
Savage57 October 16, 2018
I got to watch a pretty entertaining football game the Packers found a way to win.
Too bad you missed it.
V October 16, 2018
PackAttack is mostly right here. I also wonder why we don’t use more motion pre snap. Seems like the better offenses in the league still have a man in motion to draw the defense to one side but we never seem to do it. Anyone know why?
Kato October 16, 2018
Not to mention motion can cue you in to the type of coverage the defense is playing (zone, man, ect.)
Good points
“If the Packers would play, and move the ball, the way they do in the 4th Q as they would in the 2nd and 3rd Q they’d be undefeated right now.” – Totally agree..
If the Packers had Jordy Nelson in this game they would have scored 50 points
Skinny October 16, 2018
San Fran gave it away. They could have ran the ball up our ass all game and won by at least 10 points if they didn’t get stupid at the end. They always have had a great offensive line though. Those fucking guys draft men to play that position. Staley is such a beast. McGlinchey is in the same mold. God damn I wish we had a line like that. Our defense is a shit show. What was the cushion for our DBs on WRs last night at least 7 yards? Jesus Christ.
They were scared of getting beat deep. Goodwin has speed. Tells me they don’t have confidence in Brice whatsoever
eduardo October 16, 2018
Anyone else notice HHCD? Guy just stands around and never hits anyone. What a frickin joke of a player.
Zwoeger October 16, 2018
You mean like when he and another guy were admirering that tacle breaking td stead of Martinezed him? No no one saw that. Was his first time ever not being aware of what is going on.
That dude would be riding the pine if her were on my team. Wait…he wouldn’t be on my team.
They just need to play sandlot football on offense. Taking the play sheet out of fried chicken greasy fingers McCarthy is the only way they move the ball now. Go no huddle and let Rodgers throw it to anyone who is open. Was it me or did the SF pass rush look like 4 LT’s out there…block anyone much? 0-3 next 3 games…what it is going to take to get McCarthy fired? One more wasted year of Rodgers. In 3 years when McCarthy either has a heart attack or gets fired GB will win the SB with their new coach and everyone who is a GB fan will say…”Why didn’t they get rid of that idiot sooner?” Then GB will be the Denver Broncos with a stiff at QB like the 80s with David Whitehurst. Been spoiled by HOF QB play for 25 years. And 2 rings to show for it.
To me, as great as Aaron Rodgers was in the 4th last night, he looks like he’s back to his 2015 form. AKA Jordy Nelson got hurt and he didn’t trust anyone. The last two weeks it’s been all about Davante and Jimmy Graham for him right now. He can be ok just with those two guys but the offense was most explosive when Aaron jones was in the backfield and Rodgers spread the ball around. Look no further than the last drive, that back shoulder sideline throw to St. Brown was literally the same play he’d have run with jordy here. When you force him to make quick decisions he’s the best QB in football, that’s why our 2 minute offense is so unstoppable. He just has to get out of his own head and trust these guys. Sure they’ll fuck up sometimes but it’s better than holding on to the ball and getting plastered when the right side of the line can’t hold a block for more than 3 seconds.
And seriously what the hell is with the offensive playcalling? If you know your line is weak why are you constantly calling plays that require time in the pocket when you know the time isn’t gonna be there? And with all of these receivers hurt how about showing something new on offense? Maybe Montgomery and Jones in the backfield together? I could make a whole playbook with the skill set those two have. We all know by now that Jamaal Williams is basically playing fullback right? He should only be on the field to pass block and for short yardage situations. Idk why we keep treating him like an every down back. Let him play to his strengths (which are those of a fullback) and he’ll shine. If my dumb ass can think of this idk why a group of seasoned nfl coaches can’t
Its funny you bring up Rodgers not trusting people. I think that is part of the reason they decided to part with Jordy. They thought that Rodgers looked Jordy’s way too much and didn’t develop chemistry with the other receivers. Jordy is nearly finished. Rodgers needs to be able to work with other receivers. Brees has done it in New Orleans. The injuries to Cobb and Allison honestly might be the best thing to have happened to this offense. It forced Rodgers to throw to these other guys. The rookies combined for 5 for 132. Not bad at all.
In the long run I think they will be better moving on from Nelson. I have almost nothing but fond memories of him and definitely would still love to see him catching balls from Rodgers but the offense will be better off in a couple years, especially if they have a change in coaching and a new playcaller that will bring a fresh modern scheme in
Every time they showed the P O S HC on TV last night I wanted to puke. McCarthy is a fucking moron! Jones has a couple of great runs and then back to his fucked up rotation BS! Any HC who understands football would make Jones a focus of the offense. But, not the fat asshole with gravy for brains. 2 weeks to design an obvious run the ball control the clock offense or the Rams will hang 50 on this putrid D. WE all know it won’t happen.
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Special Presidential Investigative Team Rubbished Conflict Of Interest Reports
Posted on October 10, 2018 by Varney Dukuly Leave a comment
The Technical Committee of the Special Presidential Investigative Team probing the ongoing saga missing billions of Liberian dollars has rubbished report of conflict of interest on the part of any of its members.
The committee, according to a release wants to assure the public that in any situation of conflict of interest on the part of any member, said member will be removed from the investigation.
Recently the chairman of the group under the banner “Concerned Citizens United to Bring Back Our Money” called on Alex Cuffy of the Special Presidential Investigative Team to recuse himself from the ongoing investigation over the missing currency.
Martin Kollie accused Mr. Alex Cuffy of being a brother to Celia Cuffy, the former boss of the National Port Authority whose regime the newly printed bank notes were reportedly brought into the country.
Alex Cuffy is the current head of the Financial Intelligent Unit and coordinator of the Special Presidential Investigative Team probing the disappearance of the 16 billions of Liberian dollars.
Mr. Kollie in a live Facebook broadcast on the weekend asserted that the likes of Alex Cuffy and others lack the requisite independent to expose the facts, because of their personal association with those who are linked.
But the Committee indicated that such information is false and misleading and stress that the Technical Committee of the Presidential Investigative Team is pleased with all of its members.
The release added that at no time did the committee state that it does not welcome the inclusion of international institutions on the investigative team.
“While the committee welcomes the government’s inclusion to the investigation team of other institutions and invitation to international institutions, we want to assure the public that we have the capacity, integrity and tenacity to conduct and conclude this investigation.” The release discloses.
Meanwhile, the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission says its attention has been drawn to media reports questioning the credibility and integrity of the LACC regarding its lead role into the ongoing investigation over reports of missing money.
The LACC in a statement issued in Monrovia Tuesday said the media has been reporting the commission cannot conduct an unbiased investigation on grounds that the spouse of one of its commissioners is named a person of interest.Cllr. Augustine Toe is the husband to Mrs. E. Grisby-Toe of the Central Bank of Liberia.
The Commission pointed out that Cllr. Toe as Co-Chair of the LACC does not form part of any investigation.
In an attempt to avoid conflict of interest, the statement says Cllr. Toe wrote the commission, asking for his recusal in keeping with best international practices.
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Class Enemy
BAM Award Winners: Most Overlooked Picture
Posted on January 20, 2014 by bernardovillela
This is the category that was designed to replace Most Underrated Picture. Essentially the move was in the offing for a few years. With my prior selections of both Toast and Kauwboy, I was starting to pick films that were more unheard of rather than underestimated. I became more interested in championing a smaller film that touting a film “wrongly” assessed or dismissed. Hence the change in name.
2016 The River Thief
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2014 Stations of the Cross
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Thankful for World Cinema- Class Enemy (2013)
Posted on November 20, 2013 by bernardovillela
For an introduction to Thankful for World Cinema please go here.
Class Enemy (2013)
Class Enemy, which is Slovenia’s official selection for Best Foreign Language film, tells a tale of a high school class that singles out its new German teacher (Played by Igor Samobor) as the party responsible for their classmate’s suicide (Sabina played by Dasa Cupevski). The film picks up right as their favorite teacher, whom Robert (Samobor) is replacing, is going out on maternity leave and follows the back-and-forth struggle between the three main factions (teacher, students and administration) throughout the school year consistently adding layers to the characters, and conflicts.
On the surface this seems like the kind of concept that might run out steam and run into redundancy, fallacies or tedium but through that consistent layering either of single characters, a faction or the central struggle; the film remains riveting throughout. Furthermore, it achieves that level of tension by refusing to turn a judgmental eye on any particular party and refusing to color its personages in either black or white, but, ultimately shades them all in grays. In the end, not to put too fine a point on it, the “mystery” is left a bit gray also.
This feat is even more impressive when you consider the fact that when dealing with subject matters such as teenage suicide, student-teacher relations, or any of the myriad ancillary topics this film addresses it can be easy to be callous. However, this film is written and directed with enough finesse such that it conveys the truths as each individual character sees it without disrespecting opposing opinions. Perhaps the best exchanges with regards to this occur with the school’s headmaster. Robert is called in to see her when the conflicts are still relatively tepid and he is befuddled asking something to the effect of “They were offended by that?” To which the headmaster answers: “Welcome, to the 21st Century, Robert.”
That is perhaps the most perfectly crafted line of the film. It’s something that is true regardless of what your vantage point is. It’s not trying to make things like teen suicide or bullying smaller, but merely addressing another truth. The film is similarly adept at having its characters differentiated and not necessarily always holding politically correct opinions. The characters express said opinions earnestly and due to performance and writing the intent is always clear. In a film structured in part as a generational clash there needs to be such understanding and conflicting perspectives for it to work. Even something as youth-centric as The Breakfast Club had good insights into the few authority figures, the adults, and had them not always agree. “The kids haven’t changed, Vern, you have” the Janitor tells the principal there, and while that may usually be true, perhaps this tale stumbled onto a slightly different angle: with the same impetuousness as always the kids here are lead to say something they never vocalized before.
While this is a drama built on a fulcrum which all other events spring off and feed on persistently it does continue and escalate from there. Characters progress and regress; step forward and back, and come to grips with things at different times especially in light of some developments that come to the fore later on.
Perhaps one of the most interesting choices in this film is use of language. Since the German class is the main battleground it allows cultural norms to be more frequently a talking point. Robert is one of those hardline teachers who will not allow the native tongue to be spoken in his class; this was a method that was more often used as a threat in my education and rarely implemented. This fact makes much of the dialogue in the film German, which, of course, puts more of an onus on the performers, but allows for other affectations like repeated, exaggerated use of the term Nazi, and other perceptions; as well as a focus on the works of Thomas Mann.
As may have been intimated earlier, the fact that this is a film ostensibly about teenage high school rebellion does not minimize the drama, or the feat that this film is. I hope the allusion to The Breakfast Club would allude to that too. However, while this may deal with darker, more modern themes with less of a light at the end of the tunnel, less of an end to that tunnel really; it is a similarly insightful piece on themes essentially omnipresent; allowing it an introspection, gravitas and expiation of adolescent and educator frustrations alike.
Clearly a tale such as this could not hope to work as well as it would like to without great performances throughout the cast. Clearly, first and foremost would be Igor Samobor as Robert. There is a certain enigmatic magnetism to his performance that allows you wonder as to his character’s precise motivations at times, information that is eventually disseminated; and he plays the villainous-type (to those who still remember their studious days and tendencies well) to a tee. Among the students there are also many great turns: Dasa Cupevski’s screentime is short but memorable; Voranc Boh’s Luka is usually the leader and an effective agitator of the youthful rebellion; perhaps most impressive in his rather divided nature is Jan Zupancic in his portrayal of Tadej. Then there is Doroteja Nadrah who fades in and out of prominence as a character, but is no less impressive.
Class Enemy, when all is said and done, is basically everything you want out of a dramatic piece. It tackles difficult dramatic questions and does not shy away from exploration without concrete answers, but instead knows that better films usually take the journey well; exploring and changing their characters along the way, and more importantly, it understands that the best dramas aren’t about victors or where they audience sides, but how much we enjoy watching them engage in battle.
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Honeywell restates commitment to CSR, donates to orphanages
As part of its corporate social responsibility programmes, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc has made products and cash donations to some orphanage homes. The foremost producer of wheat based products also restated its commitment to positively impact on humanity by giving back to the society through effective CSR activities.
Managing Director, Mr. Lanre Jaiyeola, who stated this during a visit to some orphanage homes in Lagos and Ogun States where the company donated its products, noted that Honeywell Flour Mills will continue to support good cause in the society especially those that have direct impact on human development.
Jaiyeola, represented by Tomi Otudeko, Head Innovation and Sustenance, Honeywell Group noted that Honeywell will continue to seize opportunity to make its impact felt in the society, listing such opportunities to include support provided sporting events, entrepreneurship programs, vulnerable groups, etc. “It is our own way of adding value to the people that we believe should have needs within the society, and our own way to alleviate poverty, suffering in the land,” he said.
Among beneficiaries of latest gestures are the SOS Village, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, Little Saints Orphanage and Bethesda Home for the Blind, in Lagos.
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