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Subaru Isle of Man Challenge - TT Record Atempt
One of the best shorts I've seen in a long time, thrilling film, especially for the Subaru fans out there. Here's the description they gave:
Subaru of America, Inc. has released a new YouTube video of the 2011 Subaru WRX STI setting an all-time course record for the historic Isle of Man TT Mountain Course. The 5 minute 25 second video highlights in graphic detail the speed and drama surrounding rally driver Mark Higgins' lap that averaged 115.356 MPH. After the run, Higgins talks through the "moment" at Brey Hill when he momentarily loses, and then regains, control of the WRX STI at more than 150 MPH.
Driving a US specification 2011 Subaru WRX STI, Higgins achieved speeds of 162 MPH and a lapped time of 19 minutes 37 seconds over the 37-mile track, navigating more than 200 corners.
"This is one of the most daunting tracks I have ever driven, and the most terrifying," said Higgins, a Manx native. "We were only able to get two practice runs and on our second practice I had the biggest "moment" of my career. We had a passenger on the run and so coming into Bray Hill at more than 150 MPH, the extra weight compressed the suspension more than on previous runs and shifted the Subaru to the left and then right as I corrected--it was a real tank slapper. The whole thing went by so quickly that we never slowed below 110 MPH, and then we were back on the power. It was amazing and the helicopter shots really show just how hairy it really was."
The WRX STI was a production US spec car running a standard 305 HP turbocharged boxer engine. Some safety modifications were made. The Subaru was equipped with a Lifeline fire suppression system, Hockley Motorsports roll cage, motordrive competition seats, Mintex brake pads (but stock calipers and rotors), and a louder open exhaust to warn spectators of the on-coming car. The speed limiter was turned off to allow a higher maximum speed; off-the shelf Tien springs and dampers were added to accommodate the numerous high-speed jumps on the circuit, sending the WRX STI almost four feet off the ground. The car ran on street legal Pirelli P Zero Trofeo tires.
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I can only imagine how Mark Higgins felt at the height of such achievement, but I'm sure no lesser man is going to do it again anytime soon. Nice showing for the Subaru WRX STI, too.
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Nissan Skyline GTR Build
Dyno Tune Engine ECU to 400 WHP
Engine Compression Test
How-to Contest a Ticket
Oil Pump Problems
Jack Lifting & Jack Stands
Engine Removal
Turbo Swap & Engine Overhaul
Engine Assembly & Rebuild
Trick: Broken Manifold Stud Fix
Twin Turbo Shuffle Surge Mod
Professional Fuel Injector Cleaner
Intercooler Sprayer
Steering Wheel Swap Upgrade
Swaybars, Understeer & Oversteer
Wire Tuck and Clean Engine Bay
Used & Second-hand Buyers Guide
Exhaust System Overhaul
Speedometer Cable Replacement
Charcoal Emissions Canister Delete
Custom Dash Cluster & Console
Blow-off Valve Rebuild & Service
Steering & Suspension Overhaul
Stop Rust with Chassis Protection
Delete HICAS 4-Wheel Steering
Battery Relocation to Trunk
Ignition Coil-pack Testing
Bleeding ATTESA AWD System
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RB26DETT Engine Assembly and Rebuild How to Guide for the RB26 Twin Turbo Motor
First things first; we’ll start with the HKS oil pump. (The author uses an upgraded oil pump, take a look at this very detailed technical article about: Why the Nissan Oil Pump Fails) Here are two shots of the housing and rotor cover, all cleaned up and ready to install. In addition to having much larger gears than the stock pump, the HKS pump also has ducts to bring oil to the rear of the rotors, as well. This greatly improves oil flow into the pump, reducing cavitation.
Author Note:Matt of MJR Performance sent us an emailwith details on this write up. This is not the only way to assemble the RB26 motor, there are many different thoughts and ideas, but this is just one way of doing it, as always, follow this guide at your own risk.
You can see the inlet duct for the rear of the rotors on the left. I guess it could be called a “bridge port”. There’s some scuffing from the rotors, but nothing you can feel with a fingernail. Even then, this pump has so much volume over a s…
Nissan Skyline GTR Oil Pump Failure Problems
These Japanese super cars had a common problem that would often lead to the self-destruction of the motor. The Achilles Heel of the Skyline RB26 motor is the oil pump, I personally caught this issue on my own Second GTR (Build Story) leading me to replace it with a new one . This wasn't a problem on all Skylines, only the GTR's made between 1989 and 1991, after 1991 Nissan fixed the issue. Most people will tell you the problem is the width of the drive on the oil pump gears, they say the engagement area is too small, while that may be true (by appearance), it also isn't the 100% exactly correct answer... The real problem is on the nose of the crank, the clearance between the nose of the crank and the part that drives the oil pump inner gear was too loose. The inner circumference of the oil pump inner drive gear was actually too much larger than the outer total circumference of the crank nose. The extra play had no effect on the motor at low RPM, but at high…
Nissan RB26 Engine Removal Guide - Pulling the Motor out of a GTR
This Guide will walk you through the key steps for pulling an engine from a car, whether you're doing a rebuild or motor swap, you'll see step-by-step how I removed this RB26 Engine and got it back together perfectly. The same method I followed here will make working on ANY car fool-proof!
Start by getting a note book, a sharpie marker, Ziploc plastic baggies and masking tape. There are so many connectors, nuts and bolts to keep track of when pulling the engine from the GTR, and believing you can remember where everything goes by heart is a foolish assumption for a first timer. I am assuming this tear down is down from a first timers perspective, so everything will be as detailed as possible. This is by no means the quickest way to remove the engine, nor is it 100% easier then any other way, but this is how I managed to get it done, It didn't cost me an arm and a leg, and everything worked perfectly once all was said and done.
The # 1 rule is: "If you remove it, or unpl…
Removing HICAS Delete 4 Wheel Steering How to Guide
The HICAS system is Nissans' attempt at a super-handling 4 wheel steering type of thing, for anyone who's driven a car with 4 wheel steering in any sort of spirited driving, you realize pretty quickly that its less of an aid and more of a downfall.
You see, driving faster than 80 km/hr the system will become active, and as you turn around a corner or make quick steering changes, the rear wheels will turn one degree in and out, for a total three degree sweep while you're driving. This system works really well if you want to change lanes really fast, but if you're more into putting the car sideways in a four-wheeled power slide, then the HICAS will become your worst enemy.
As the rear end steps out, the HICAS activates to counter the rear end slide, but because you expected the rear end to come out you've already begun to counter steer. So as you turn the wheel, the HICAS turns the rear wheels, and undoes what you've just done! Suddenly you're swerving wildly a…
How to Wire Tuck your Engine Bay and Clean the Grime
With any car that's been on the road a decade or two, there's bound to be an abundance of dirt and grime in the engine bay, one of the cheapest things you can do to improve the look and condition of the car is to tidy up the engine bay. There are varying degrees of engine bay clean-up, at the basic end you can use a degreaser and a rag to clean as much as possible. I opted for a more extreme clean, since I had the engine out of the car, this allowed me to do much more.
There is an awful lot of stuff in the engine compartment, that really doesn't need to be there, so to start things off I relocated the battery to the trunk. A full procedure for that can be found here in this technical article: Battery Relocation
The next thing to go and be moved to the trunk was the windshield washer fluid reservoir bottle. At the same time you can reroute the wiring harness to be hidden near the front rad support using tie-wraps. The exact procedure for the washer bottle is outlined in the t…
RB26 Engine Turbo swap Upgrade and Engine Overhaul Guide
RB26 Engine Turbo Swap & External OverhaulThis guide picks up where the Pulling the RB26 Engine walk-through left off. Having just separated the transmission from the engine, we now look to remove the old turbos and then set up the new ones. There is a lot of patience needed to do this, as there are a many fragile parts. It does take quite some time to complete this, maybe even a day or two if its your first time. First thing to do is remove any intake piping that may still be attached, put it off to the side. There is an array of metal and vacuum hoses just above the heat shields, and it wraps around the back-side of the engine, remember to label each line that you disconnect.There is also the water feed line, which spans the length of both heat shields, these lines have been heat cycled for 20 years - and unless you plan to replace with stainless steel braided lines (as I have done) - then you need to be very careful when removing the lines or they will crack, as in the picture b…
Custom Interior Instrument Cluster and Dash Console Gauges Racing Seats and Steering Wheel and Electronics Controllers
As part of the campaign to update the interior, and make it more functional many people modify the center console to better suit their needs. Fortunately, Nissan had the foresight for this and accommodated its fans by making the center console exactly 3 DIN units stacked on top of each other. The climate control unit is also exactly one DIN large and can be relocated to any number of places.
We start by removing the gear shift knob and the shifter boot, this gives you access to 4 screws, which when removed will allow the center console trim to come off. From there, depending on your own set up, you can remove the triple gauges, the stereo, the climate control, all the brackets, and ashtray and cigarette lighter.
My plan involved a lot of wiring, and custom work. I wanted to install 2 Defi Gauges for water and oil temperature, the Defi control unit, a stereo (later on) and the Greddy turbo timer. I also wanted to relocate the climate control unit. So with everything out of the way I star…
AWD service Bleeding ATTESA pump system
When I needed to bleed the ATESSA All Wheel Drive system during an overhaul on the Never Ending R32 GTR Epic Build Story, I found a particularly good walk-through on the forums, and from Tyndago's site. So this is a combination from both. (RBS14 on GTRc and Tyndago). You need Nissan ATF fluid for this application, or any equivalent.
Step 1: Fill the tank 30 mm above MAX line. The tank is located in right rear of your trunk.
Step 2: Open the air bleeder on the oil pump. Crack it open until there is no more air coming out and you get fluid dripping. This air bleeder is located on the pump on top of the rear diff. Bleeder is on right side. Can’t miss it.
Step 3: After you tighten up that bleeder go and turn the ignition on. Don’t start the car just turn the key to IGN (Ignition).
Step 4: You need to unclip the air bleeder connector. This is a white clip located under the dash on the right side behind your kick panel" Opposite side of your ECU" Might be a good idea to un screw …
Subaru BRZ First Look at Modifications and Track Racing
Recently came across a first hand customer review of the new BRZ done by someone who's actually using the car exactly the way it was intended to be used. Modified, right off the bat and put through its paces on a track! The story below is from the perspective of the owner, enjoy...
He also covers: How-To Change Suspension on Subaru BRZ
A forum member snagged this pic of my car sold in the dealership a week before I picked it up. I live in Baton Rouge, LA and the car is in Manchester, NH. It's going to be a long trip to get it home. Photo taken June 8thish.
The first BRZ I ever saw in person was mine. I was astounded at how.. acceptable the interior was. Honestly, I expected it to be half-assed in person, but the real deal blew me away. Nothing insane, but no significant punches pulled. Que heart fluttering. The next few days will be visiting friends in the northeast. June 15th.
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Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff to Partner with Richard Childress Racing
Herbal Brand joins No. 2 and No. 62 Nationwide Series teams as primary sponsor for five races in 2014
Contact: Katey Hawbaker
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WELCOME, N.C. (March 17, 2014) – Richard Childress Racing announced today that Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff will serve as a primary sponsor for five races this season with NASCAR Nationwide Series drivers Brian Scott and Brendan Gaughan.
Scott and his No. 2 team will wear the company’s colors at Iowa Speedway on May 18, Indianapolis Motor Speedway on July 26, Richmond International Raceway on September 6 and Kansas Speedway on October 4. Gaughan and the No. 62 team will support the tobacco-free smokeless brand at Texas Motor Speedway on November 1. In addition to the five-race primary sponsorship, Smokey Mountain will also have an associate-sponsorship presence on both the No. 2 and No. 62 Camaros throughout the 2014 season.
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The 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade
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Largo House INspection. Tents within the grounds (Malpy Gaj) visible.
There are so many myths about how and when the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade (1 Samodzielna Brygada Spadochronowa) came into existence. After studying extensive documents and accounts, I believe the following account to be closest to the truth.
One thing is very clear though, the combination of the 4th Polish Cadre Rifle Brigade and their time at RAF Ringway near Manchester was the absolute foundation of how the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade came into existence.
Let's now consider the history:
General Sosabowski Leaves France For The UK
In 1940 France was taken over by the Nazis. General Sosabowski (who ran an artillery training school there), leaves France on 20th June 1940 (around 6000 soldiers left with him) and arrives via the frigate “Abderpool” into Plymouth on 22 June 1940.
The reason the crossing took so long was because the ship sailed out into the Atlantic (to avoid German U-boats) and headed inwards to England, not the shortest route but one that foiled the u-boats.
There, General Sosabowski catches a train to Glasgow (it would appear the troops also went by train). At Glasgow the troops camp out at a local school before being relocated to Biggar, Scotland.
On 9th July 1940 the men of the 4th Infantry Division (who had fought in France) were then re-organised into the 4th Cadre Rifle Brigade.
Some of them relocate again to Elioch Castle near Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire to end up training as Ciochiemni. In the war, the British Army easily acquired property for training purposes from landowners etc so this was not unusual to do.
The Ciochemni Beginnings
At this point, General Sosabowski also sets up a saboteur unit at Inverlochie Castle on the west coast of Scotland. These will be trained, sent to Poland and specialise in espionage, sabotage and silent murder.
We don't know if this group was ever directly sent to Largo House, Upper Largo, Fife and then Audley End, but the concept itself was born with this unit.
The 4th Polish Cadre Rifle Brigade
In October 1940 the troop unit at Elioch Castle is renamed to "4th Officers Cadre Brigade" or The 4th Polish Cadre Rifle Brigade and they move to Largo House In Fife and set about defending the East Neuk Coastline from Buckhaven to Crail, in Fife, by digging trenches, putting concrete bollards in etc.
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General Sosabowski and General Anders At Largo house 1941
The troops though were often left to languish, with no plan of how to deploy them, they sat around waiting to be re-assigned. Discipline, as well as low morale, were a huge problem. Absences without leave, fights, drunkenness, boredom and frustration were everyday issues at the camp.
This was made worse by operations being planned for, trained for, then abandoned. General Sosabowski would have witnessed this issue with moral and it would have concerned him greatly.
He himself was regarded as a difficult and demanding man, He was not loved by the men, in fact the men fell into 2 camps, those that were pro-Sikorski and those that were pro-Sosabowski. But the men feared and respected him because he would do anything that they asked of him.
The First Trip To RAF Ringway
In February 1941, the London office tells General Sosabowski that he can send 20 officers to do a four-week parachute training course at an airborne training centre in Cheshire – The Ringway Airfield, AKA "RAF Ringway" (now the site of Manchester International Airport).
The men came back enthused but admitted that they were being asked to do things beyond their strength. They also struggled with the British system of training that disregarded rank, the poles felt this was disrespectful.
General Sosabowski started to realise that here they were, in the UK, getting nowhere, whilst poles back home were actively fighting the Germans.
The Parachute Regiment Is Conceived
According to his book, he was alone in the YMCA in Leven, Fife, thinking about this when he decided they had to be far more pro-active about it and made up his mind to form a Polish Parachute Brigade.
He decided that the 20 men who had come back from RAF Ringway would act as unit heroes, encouraging others to try it out. Some sources say all the parachutists were volunteers, however, General Sosabowski in his book indicates that some were conscripted in because "bravery was not optional".
Officially, his unit was The 4th Polish Cadre Rifle Brigade and was there to defend the Firth of Forth from invaders, however unofficially they were starting to organise and train as a parachute Cadre Brigade.
General Sikorski inspect the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade At Largo House
According to the book "Audley End, Station 43", most of the initial Cichociemni came from the initial volunteers that parachuted at Kincraig point, Earlsferry, Fife, in other words, the 4th Polish Cadre Rifle Brigade.
Inspection of the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade At Largo House
Some of the troops at the transit camp in Auchtertool, Fife, join his parachute regiment and are then added to with other Polish army units, formed in the USSR, and evacuated through the Middle East to the camp as well as other volunteers from other parts of the world including volunteers from the 2nd Grenadier Battalion.
RAF Ringway, Manchester, 1940/41
Since 1940 RAF Ringway had been the venue for RAF parachute training. It is most likely the first Cichociemni ("The Silent Killers") were trained there , with final training at Audley End "Station 43", (and not Largo House, Fife) because the first members of the Cichociemni landed in occupied Poland the night of February 15 to 16, 1941 which was before training at Largo House was underway as that commenced June 1941.
On 15 February 1941 RAF Ringway became an independent parachute training school and this in turn allowed General Sosabowski to send his troops there for training.
By mid 1941 it was noted that the Polish soldiers that trained there were weak from malnutrition, years of imprisonment in soviet labour camps along with a higher than average age for a paratrooper. So the need for a specific training regime for them to be formed was recognized.
It was at this point that Largo House in Upper Largo, Fife, was secured as the training grounds for them, initially being the 4th Polish Cadre Rifle Brigade who trained there.
The training at Ringway involved going to a large hanger called "Kilkenny's Circus" where they would be grouped up then transported to Tatton Park where there was a balloon whose rise and fall was controlled by a winch on a lorry. There was usually a YMCA van supplying hot food and drinks there as well.
The British Control Of The Parachute Brigade
Inspection of the 1st independent Polish Parachute Brigade 23 Sept 1942 at Leven;
It took till 1943 before the British confirmed the status of the Parachute Brigade, the British then sought to take control of the unit by having it under their command but General Sosabowski resisted it.
On June 6 1944, following an ultimatum, General Sosabowski conceded and the Brigade then started getting funding and new equipment.
In August 1944, they were ready for battle and in Sept 1944 went to Arnheim in Operation Market Garden.
Disbanding Of The 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade
On 30 June 1947 the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade was disbanded. The "Polish Paratroopers Association" then came into being and then renamed as the "Polish Airbourne Forces Association".
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How do institutions assess barriers to volunteering?
Staffordshire University Students Union
If you’re looking at barriers to volunteering, having a critical eye on your service using Gaskin’s eight pressure points may be a useful exercise (particularly with a focus group!) It isn’t wholly accurate for SU volunteering as we cover so much, but very useful to know and adapt for yourselves.
The eight pressure points are:
Image and appeal of volunteering
Methods of recruiting volunteers
Recruitment and application process
Induction into volunteering
Training for volunteers
Overall management
Ethos and culture of organisation
Support and supervision
The idea being if a volunteer feels these eight points are done well, then they will have confidence in the service and the idea of volunteering and theoretically be a long term volunteer! More info can be found on the report: A Choice Blend, by Gaskin
The report Exploring Impacts of Volunteering on University Students in London offers some insight
UELSU
Use this survey
What is the status of RAG (society, programme, etc) and how is it administered?
University of Derby Students' Union
At Derby we separated RAG off as a Standing Committee (along with d:one our radio station and dusted our magazine) two years ago and as Societies and Activities Coordinator I oversee the support of RAG. Generally it works quite well for us as our RAG was small and we are still building the culture up of RAG. It allows us to give them more guidance/support and as we recruit the committee through an interview process we are more able to ensure it is led by the best people for the job. You can find the committee recruitment handbook here.
Staffordshire University Students' Union
Our RAG is now written in to our constitution so even though they exist as a society (like our student media groups, also written into our constitution) we support them as a society but try to encourage them to be the ideas people. They function as a society but use a lot of the resources of the volunteer scheme and work closely with us for support as they are very small at the moment.
Hull University Union
We have RAG as a standing committee at Hull. It sits in the Community Zone and is supported by the VP Community sabb and the Student Activities Co-ordinator. All money raised by students, whether societies, teams, RAG committee etc. is paid in and donated through the RAG account so we can keep track of how much money has been raised by students at the university. The Chair RAG is voted in as part of the student officer elections in February. I don’t know if it’s the case with you, but here all societies are required to charge a joining fee to members so for us it wouldn’t be fair to require people to pay out in order to raise money.
What models or methods of monitoring and evaluation do you use for student-led projects?
NCCPE
Have written a guide to Student-Led Project Evaluation.
Is working with NEF (new Economics Foundation) on a wider piece of work around impact of students’ union, and one of the elements they’re designing is a way that students’ union can assess their impact in the community.
The research objectives are:
· To develop a research methodology and framework that allows SUs to measure and demonstrate impact;
· Build capacity within NUS and SUs so that they can use and roll out this methodology without relying on outside consultants in the longer term;
· Provide an analysis of the data on outcomes from this research with particular reference to how this data can be used to ensure sustainability, improve financial stability, enhance reputation and communicate the public benefit of SUs.
The first element of the framework should be ready by the start of the 2013-14 academic year.
Work with students to develop custom monitoring and evaluation toolkits for each project, which students fill in and submit to staff on a monthly basis. The information collected is used to help with funding bids and to measure community impact. The evaluations are based are Children in Need evaluation tools. Two sample toolkits can be found here.
Use the Social Return on Investment Model. They also make use of NCVO resources, including the Impacts Pyramid.
Asks all students who receive SU funding to fill in a form in relation to their project's impact , which can be found here.
They also require that students design and complete their own monitoring and evaluation system, whcih is generally a combination of budget sheets, a feedback form for clients and volunteers, and some more creative methods (eg: getting young children to make drawings about their favourite parts or creating before and after photo montages). This is supported by training in budget management and monitoring and evaluation.
With regard to budgets, students bank through the SU but must update their own budgets. They create their budget sheets from a template at the first training session. All the budgets are kept online so that the SU can check on them or pass them on to new students if the ones in charge suddenly disappear.
In terms of monitoring and evaluation, we ask that all forms and results are either stored on our surveymonkey account, or on Google Drive and shared with us. In this way we can see results as they come in. For all other feedback the coordinators seek out or receive, we ask that they document it and send it along with their periodic reports.
What social networking do universities use to support student volunteering?
Use Facebook and Twitter as a way of informing students of latest opportunities and events that may be of interest to them. They have the two linked so that by updating Twitter (@mlpvolunteering) Facebook is automatically updated. Having experimented with different ways what they have found works best is to have a fan page set up. They currently have over 500 students, who have joined it. Staff don't use their personal accounts.
Leeds Metropolitan University
Use Facebook and various blog sites. They have a Facebook fan page and also each group of volunteers set up a group page - this is sometimes a much better way to keep in touch than email! They moderate people's comments on the FB fan page from time to time just in case. Generally they‘ve found Twitter to be too much effort but the library and SU use it and have a live feed into the student portal. They also use blogs. Click here for an example. They're really useful for volunteers, who go overseas but for some projects they‘ve had to slightly edit references to things that didn't seem appropriate like volunteering with terrible hangovers! Also they have a Health and Safety team, who have sometimes picked up on issues that they've noticed in photos! This isn't really social networking but meetomatic is brilliant for organising dates for meetings with the students. It’s similar to doodle.
Click here for their brilliant guide to Twitter. Bear in mind, only last week Twitter have released a new version (#newtwitter) so this is slightly out of date.
Use social networking for the university's peer welcoming, buddying and mentoring scheme - Peer Connections – (group and page). They give guidance to volunteers, who are connected to fellow students to do not add them as friends but instead get them to join the group page and keep in touch that way. This is less risky from the point of view of the volunteer as they are not then in a situation of disclosing personal info to people they hardly know and maintains an appropriate boundary. If volunteers want to use it between them that is a personal decision.
Use both Facebook and Twitter. In Facebook they started with a group. When pages were introduced, they tried to “migrate” and bring all the group members to become fans of the page. Now, they mostly use the page, which gets updated from Twitter using TweetDeck (more info on TweetDeck in the Student Hubs Twitter guide above). Click here for a small document summarising the purpose and use of Facebook & Twitter and how they could be applied to the university’s Department of Student Services. The university’s Faculty of Computing also uses Second Life. They have an island and provide some useful information for prospective and current students. The volunteering team are considering ways of engaging with Second Life but they’ve only just started on it.
University of Cumbria Students' Union
See their Facebook group here.
What level of child protection training do you offer to volunteers and how do you offer it?
Lancaster University Student’s Union
Safeguarding professional from Lancashire County Council delivers training to staff members each year. From this, we then devise our own training to deliver to all 700 students that volunteer with children and young people (and vulnerable adults where necessary). This training is also agreed to by the head teachers/DSPs of the local schools that we work with.
You can find a copy of the slides we use for this training, along with our Safeguarding Policy, on our website. Please note though that these slides are only used as a visual aid to content we deliver, rather than covering everything (for example, there are a lot of ‘dilemmas’ and scenarios missing from those slides).
Student Community Action, Durham University
We provide a Level 1 Online Child Safeguarding course to all of our volunteers who are working with children. We access this through the local council, who offer the course to all voluntary groups in the area.
Pro: The course was already established so it requires very little work on our behalf.
Con: We don’t administer the sign ups ourselves, we have to email them to the course administrator in the council, which does make keeping track of completions difficult.
I don’t know whether your local council offers a similar thing, but I do know of other councils around the UK who do, so it may be worth checking with them if it’s something you are interested in.
Sussex Students’ Union
EduCare for Education provides an online training course. Each module is followed by a set of questions and students can only get to the next module after completing the previous one.
The good thing about this site is that you can check who completed the course and what percentage they got right.
Here's the link for more info:
http://www.educareforeducation.com/
Oxford Hub
We ask students to do an online child protection course, offered through the local safeguarding children board. We liaise directly with the council lead on Child Safeguarding, and work with him to ensure that all our processes and procedures are adequate. We have recently discussed with him the need to develop two different levels of child safeguarding training – one on basic safeguarding awareness for all volunteers and a more advanced course for project coordinators, focussing particularly on whistleblowing and supervision of other volunteers. We are working with him to develop this training and will pay for it be delivered to our project coordinators.
Where can we find up to date stats and info about the benefits of student volunteering?
There are various reports and studies which detail the impact of student volunteering and the positive benefits for students in terms of skills and employability:
http://www.nus.org.uk/Global/CBI_NUS_Employability%20report_May%202011.pdf
http://vinspired.com/uploads/admin_assets/datas/4/original/attitudes_and_perceptions.pdf
There are similar findings here: http://vinspired.org/resources/9
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/about/vinspired-students/about-our-project/research/bursting-bubble
Duke of Edinburgh Awards – How do different unis work with them?
‘We don’t actually run D of E here but I do have a local contact who supervises the Gold Award and he usually comes to our Volunteering Fair to recruit directly (presumably looking for those that completed Silver whilst at school).’
‘Some time ago our VC asked me to look at setting something up here. Various meetings ensued with a local College who run a D of E scheme (to see how it was set up there) then with our Pro-V-C and various staff members. The upshot was everyone seemed keen but no-one wanted ownership. It ended up falling to me to set up but it’s not wholly my remit. Also, it would have needed office space, resources and a dedicated member of staff to administer. I did a quick survey of students who would be interested in taking up the scheme and there was good feedback. Also, some staff members who could volunteer as expedition supervisors etc. Overall, it was clearly a job in itself to co-ordinate / administrate and would require a paid member of staff.’
‘As a University and Students’ Union we have decided not to take on the Duke of Edinburgh offer this year. Despite it being a well known and accredited programme with plenty of support, the want from our students appears quite low at this point to take on the registration fee and cost of another member of staff solely for Duke of Edinburgh.
The main reasons are:
·The Duke of Edinburgh awards are only open to those under 25 (which doesn’t cover our mature student population who are very active at our Students’ Union).
·Each award takes almost two University years to complete (as many students use their summer months for holidays/ work- they also noted that the staff member would not work the summer period so any students with questions over summer would not be able to get a response)- The Gold Award if you haven’t done any awards previously has a breakdown of 12 months, 12 months and 18 months for the three skills.
·From speaking to others supporting the award at their University of FE College, those students that take on the DofE have previously done awards or looking to finish off their awards.
·The cost to the student (joining an exercise club/society or activity class, the cost of the expedition, potential cost of the skill, the residential at Gold as well as living costs as a student) seems to be fairly large for the average student.
Therefore at this point we are unable to take on the Duke of Edinburgh award but we will certainly direct any students interested to their nearest Duke of Edinburgh centre, if anyone does take on the offer that is currently on the table please let us know how you get on as we would be interested to look over anything in future if this proves successful.’
What’s the best way to track external volunteering activities?
‘This year we introduced a new application process to track statistics.
We advertise on behalf of external charities on our website, however, when a student applies the initial application comes directly to us, we then forward the student an application form (if the organisation has one) or we send it directly to the organisation.
Following this we add them onto our database with a reminder date set for a week later; we follow it up with a quick phone call to see how they have got on. I know this is an additional administrative step, but once we developed a routine it has its benefits! In addition to recording volunteering hours, we can record specific statistics and also develop a personalised relationship with our student volunteers and organisations.’
‘When I started my current role I had the same tracking problem. I worked with our IT team to develop an interactive database of opportunities that tracks involvement. It now also has an hours logging/impact functionality that you can use to generate certificates. It’s now available for sale as Stripe XVS through an external company (Stripe Solutions). Sadly I do not get a commission!!
Organisations have to log in to post adverts and also to collect the details of students who have applied. They reply to them through the system so you have a record of that initial contact. Organisations that leave people waiting too long for replies or don’t get back to our students at all get blacklisted (a rather dramatic term for the rather polite but stern email I send them!)
It also has push button report functionality which is handy when the funders are demanding up to date stats.’
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Theodore H. Fleming
No Species Is an Island
Bats, Cacti, and Secrets of the Sonoran Desert
By Theodore H. Fleming; Illustrated by Kim Kanoa Duffek
No Species Is an Island describes the surprising results of Theodore H. Fleming’s eleven-year study of pollination biology in Sonora, Mexico, in the most biologically diverse desert in the world. These discoveries serve as a primer on how to conduct ecological research, and offer important conservation lessons for us all. Fleming offers an insightful look at how field ecologists work, and the often big surprises that come from looking carefully at a natural world where no species stands alone.
Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists
Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
Edited by Theodore H. Fleming and Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
By Theodore H. Fleming and Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
Although cacti such as the saguaro and organ pipe have come to define the Sonoran Desert for many people, they represent some 170 species of columnar cacti found in many parts of the Americas. These giant plants are so dominant in some ecosystems that many species of animals rely on them for food and shelter. They are pollinated by ...
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Directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb (1979)
Back in the 80s every Sunday's newspaper would have a TV schedule and in the back there would be a list of movies with brief summaries. My weekly ritual would be scouring this section for films rated AO, adults only, these were the films of late night that would've come on Cinemax, Showtime and the Movie Channel. Not HBO though, they suck. One weekend a friend of mine spent the night and we stayed up late and hit pay dirt with the Movie Channel presentation of She's 19 and Ready, so was she ready, are you? Let's find out!
"Give me some Sugar Baby."
"Say, you're better than a St. Bernard!"
The "She" in this film is Eva, a happy-go-lucky gal on a ski trip with her so called boyfriend Claus but there is another skier at the resort named Stefan that has his eye on Eva. Stefan fakes a sprained ankle to get her alone for a little fooling around. Now we have a love triangle of epic proportions. Claus and Stefan come so close to sealing the deal with her but always find a way to cock block each other at every turn. In one situation they all wind up in bed together and she even tells them because she can't make up her mind she'll just have to have both of them. The next morning I was under the false pretense that finally everybody had a little bit of fun, but as it turns out the boys just can't share and wake up pissed off with a case of blue balls.
"Sorry Eva, we won't cross the streams."
Time now for the real adventure to begin! Eva receives a phone call from her sister Britta that their uncle Jack has passed away and has left them a taxi service in Japan and restaurants in Manila. Eva and her horny boy toys go to Japan while her sister goes to Manila. Excited about this so called new found wealth they party like rock stars to celebrate! and even get to see the German "Abba" Dschinghis Khan performing none other than their hit song Dschinghis Khan. When they finally check out the taxi business they come to realize it's nothing more than a bunch of old bums with rickshaws and her uncle actually owes them money. The only dude that speaks English takes Eva's passport and tells her she won't get it back until she pays the debt. Things aren't any better in Manila, even though Britta is hooking up with the local lover boy the restaurants are a sham too. Gee, uncle Jack sure was an asshole.
"Play Moskau the rap version!"
After selling the last of their valuables they gamble trying to win the money they'll need to pay the so-called taxi service. They lose! But a certain rich fatty has a queer eye for the straight guy, Claus. Fatty has two lovely ladies that are his assistants make a $3000 deal with Stefan that he'll gets to spend the night with Claus.It's all a big mix up and Stefan thinks the girls want to pay him and his buddy for sex. They take the money and go to the meeting place where they think they're going to have the time of their life but realize that they're going to be corn holed by a Japanese Jabba the Hutt. Here's where karma begins to pay off. A child beggar who they have been helping out on their trip follows them around and he storms the place with his friend. They beat the shit out of Fatty's bodyguards so they can all escape.It was like watching two "Short Rounds"( from Temple of Doom, but you knew that) in action in a Benny Hill episode. They all meet up and head to Manila where they learn that the restaurants are just a bunch of food carts. While in Manila Eva almost gets raped by that Latin lover, Claus and Stefan have competitions, battling for her love and despite being "19 and ready" she still remains untouched.
"Who will be on top?"
"Say hello to our little Japanese friend!"
"I just want to be loved, is that so wrong!"
She's 19 and Ready is a fun time capsule, a 1979 sex comedy from Germany actually titled Sunnyboy and Sugarbaby but there are three characters so who is actually the Sunnyboy in the film. The Gerhard Heinz soundtrack is also awesome. and while in Japan it showcases Come and See Hong Kong and when in Manila we are treated to the romantic Manila Sunrise but the song that stuck with me my whole life was the reoccurring theme Be My Lover song by Sandy Lee(it never leaves your head). Some music is recycled from Jess Franco's Bloody Moon which is pretty sweet.. It used to make me sad thinking I would never hear this epic music ever again but out of nowhere JMP Music has released a five Volume collection of Gerhard Heinz that you can now download!!!
"She's 19 and Ready" OST tracks from Amazon
Gerhard Heinz Vol. 1,2,3
Gerhard Heinz Vol. 4,5
These are no longer available here but contact JMP Music through their YT page
Yup, another Cold shower, :(
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Sally Anthony feat. Crooked I - "So Long (Remix)"
FROM: http://www.thebossboard.com/article.php?newid=502
Quote: Long Beach's Crooked I continues to display his incredible versatility as an emcee with every verse that he drops. Recently, the West Coast legend appeared on a very unexpected remix to display his reach as an artist.
In October of 2009, singer and songwriter Sally Anthony released her new album Goodbye through Gracie Productions and EMI. The pop-oriented album quickly climbed it's way up Billboard's Heatseekers chart and moved over 20,000 units. Sally's latest single which is titled So Long has found rotation on over 125 radio stations and received over 100,000 views online. Due to the song's heavy criticism of the Bush administration and other political controversies, it was only natural that Crooked I was recruited to offer his views on the topic. It is no secret that Crooked I has been very vocal on his views about the United States' current social and political structure with releases such as The Block Obama mixtape series. Crooked I continues to voice his opinions on Sally's remix to So Long and certainly does not censor his content. Whether or not you agree with Crooked I's opinions and statements on this song, there is no doubt that you can appreciate his honesty. We encourage everyone to check out this highly informative record by visiting Sally's official MySpace page using the link included below.
While many B.O.S.S. Board readers are generally Hip Hop fans, we encourage everyone to check out Sally Anthony's album Goodbye. Sally's heart and soul were put into creating this project and it certainly reflects through her music. The project can be previewed by visiting major digital retailers such as Amazon or iTunes. In the mean time, please keep it locked to The B.O.S.S. Board for further Crooked I related material.
Original post...
Came across this the other day, great track. Crooked did a remix of the original.
Sally Anthony - Been So Long (Crooked I Remix) CDQ
http://usershare.net/2DopeBoyz/8xfcqprqevi2
REF: http://www.myspace.com/sallyanthonypage
Young Boss
sweet find!
Good work Aaron, I never heard of this one.
It makes you wonder how many other joints like this are out there that were never advertised.
veeznutz420
This is ridiculous! Where is this from? Just a remix?
I just gave this a spin, crazy!
dalj93
OMFG this is fucking crazy! He needs a lot more tracks like this lol!
Wow sick track, love these types of tunes
Damn, amazing record. Love hearin Crooked spit shit like this
Snake Eyez
Chewee
Effex can u get some info about this one.. it's dope!
props Pene
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LOCAL RULES FOR AA DIVISION
Little League Baseball (LLB) has established rules and regulations that govern Little League operations and games. These rules are contained in the Official Little League Rulebook (a/k/a the “Green Book”) that each manager and coach receives at the beginning of each season. Managers/coaches are responsible for reading and being familiar with the rules and regulations of the game, including conduct and behavior.
Local rules provide modifications or additions (as permitted), or reinforcement of rules established by LLB. Local rules provide flexibility to suit the needs and objectives of the community and Weston Little League. All Weston local rules remain in force when playing games in Weston, including against other leagues.
Little League Baseball and Weston local rules are to be consistently enforced at all times. Managers/coaches are not given the flexibility to modify, change, or otherwise adjust the rules of play.
As a condition of service to the league, all managers, coaches, Board members, and any other volunteers or hired worker who provides regular service to the league and/or has repetitive access to or contact with players or teams must complete a Volunteer Application and undergo a LL background check.
AA DIVISION STRUCTURE AND GAME RULES:
All second graders are assigned to the AA division.
Primary Purpose: To focus on skills development.
Competitiveness: Some aspects of competition are introduced, but we do not keep score, standings or hold playoffs.
Pitching: Modified coach/kid pitch format. Coach pitch in innings 1-3-5, with kid pitch in even innings. Kid pitches up to a strike out or four balls. After four balls, the coach steps in to pitch to the batter (the batter’s coach should pitch). If the coach takes over pitching to a batter, the count resets and then ends when the batter either hits the ball or strikes out. There are no walks, but there are “called strikes” (this applies to both kid pitch and coach pitch – called strikes must be obvious, with benefit of the doubt given to the batter on borderline pitches).
Fielding: Teams are permitted to utilize ten players in the field while on defense. The tenth fielder must play in the outfield (left, left center, right center, and right). Every effort should be made to ensure that the outfielders play in their assigned positions and do no encroach on the infield positions (i.e., assigning a short centerfielder who covers second base is not permitted).
Hitting: Everybody bats through the order (“continuous batting order”) until either three outs are achieved or everyone on a team has batted, whichever occurs first. Players who arrive at the field after a game begins shall be inserted at the end of the batting order. Coaches should rotate batting orders each game so no player always bats last/first. Bunting is NOT allowed in this division. A batter can only advance to first base on a ball hit in the infield, even if it passes through to the outfield. A batter is NOT considered out if he/she fouls off the final pitch – it must be a “swing and miss” or called third strike.
Practices & Games: Each weekend, each team is scheduled to have one practice and one game. There are no required activities during the week.
Team Placement: Players are placed on teams based on coach selection, with Board oversight and approval to ensure equally balanced teams.
Season Goals: Players will have reinforced the skills learned in the A division along with watching the runner in front of you, understanding force outs and covering second base when the ball is hit to the left or right side.
Only approved volunteers and players can be on the bench/in the dugout. Teams are limited to one manager/head coach, and two additional assistant coaches. Unless they are in the game, players must be on the bench. No parents or non-player children are permitted in the dugouts/bench areas.
Players and parents: no standing behind the backstop during a game.
Check the field before the start of each game for hazards (e.g., glass).
Players must wear long pants for games and practices – no shorts allowed.
Batters, base runners, and players who are base coaches must wear helmets.
Thrown bats by a batter results in a warning first and then an automatic out on the second infraction.
Players cannot use a batting donut. No swinging in the on-deck circle or in the fenced areas of dugouts. Players may take a practice swing(s) before he/she gets into the batter’s box. Exception: before the start of an inning, the first player to bat is allowed to take warmup swings outside of the dugout in foul territory.
To the extent a coach seeks to introduce players to catching, all male catchers must wear a cup made of metal, fiber or plastic, and a long-model chest protector.
All catcher’s masks must have dangling throat guards – no exceptions!
Base Running
Stealing is NOT permitted in this division.
There is NO tagging up on balls caught by the defense in this division.
Runners are NOT permitted to advance on an overthrow. We want to encourage fielders to attempt the throws!
If a batter/runner is called out on base, they must come off the field. Coaches, please enforce this!
On balls hit to the outfield, runners must stop at the base they are approaching after the ball enters the diamond (e.g., if the runner is past second base and before third when the ball enters the infield, he/she may only advance to third). The first and third base coaches will control this rule.
Read and understand the Green Book rules on interference (impeding a fielder trying to make a play) and obstruction (impeding a base runner). Example: players cannot apply a fake tag.
No head first sliding running to a base is permitted. Head first sliding is permitted only when going back to a base.
Foul lines are in fair territory.
Running to first base – Player should run to the right of the foul line and listen to the first base coach before committing to 2nd base. Runners must return at once to first base after overrunning or over-sliding that base. If player turns toward the infield and, in the coaches’ judgment, make an attempt to go to second, he/she can be tagged out.
A runner is out if the runner does not slide or attempt to and successfully get around a fielder (including the catcher) who has the ball and is waiting to make the tag. A runner is out if the runner does not slide or attempt to and successfully get around a fielder (including a catcher) who is waiting to receive a thrown ball that is already in flight and half way to the fielder. The determination of the progress of the ball is to be made in the coaches’ discretion.
A fielder (including the catcher) may not block a base (including home plate) unless the fielder is in possession of the ball. If the defensive player blocks the base/plate or baseline clearly without possession of the ball, obstruction shall be called, the runner is safe, and a delayed dead ball shall be called.
The purpose of these rules is to avoid collisions and promote the safety of our players. Any effort to intentionally make physical contact with a player from the opposing team with the intent to harm the opposing player may, in the discretion of the coaches, result in a warning or the ejection of the offending player from the game.
If a base runner is unable to run, the preceding player in the batting order (who is not on base) may run for the injured player. Special pinch runners are not permitted.
Equal Playing Time/Rotation of Positions
All players must play an equal number of innings and, where not possible, only one inning differential will be allowed (with two exceptions: poor attendance; or poor attitude issues). Coaches may invoke the exceptions for poor attendance or poor attitude only with the prior approval of the President and Player Agent. All AA players must play an equal number of innings in the infield and must be rotated through all positions, taking safety/ability into account when necessary. Please keep in mind this is an instructional league in which we want to focus on fun and instruction, as opposed to winning and losing.
Duration of Game
Total time for games, including any warm-up, is 2 hours. There is no set number of innings, but a new inning should not start unless both coaches fell the full inning can be completed before time expires.
Please feel free to contact Mike Komar or Nathan Klatt with any questions. Thank you coaches for volunteering and PLEASE FOLLOW THESE RULES - NO VARIATIONS ALLOWED.
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METZ Automat
By Lisa Sookraj
Automat's 12 tracks — worthy of a legit noise complaint — give new meaning to the term "summer bangers."
METZ are well-respected for their abrasive ruckus of atmospheric punk. This collection of non-album singles, B-sides and rarities serves as a reminder of how skilfully they've crafted and delivered it with unwavering power over the past decade.
Tracks are full of short fuses, live wires and rusty edges, driven by dynamic rhythms that pummel and guitars that grate, inflected with fierce feedback and maddened vocals. The live METZ sound — a mind-bending experience that shreds and restores — is sacred. Automat feels like a gift to fans that value this and all things visceral, rough and raw.
The journey starts with the three pre-debut seven-inch singles that forged the band's signature sound. "Soft Whiteout" chugs to irregular time, strewn with hard stops, as guitars drawl and sprawl, careening into a wash of raw noise that spills from one speaker to the next. The epic "Ripped on the Fence" loses itself in a sea of static space rock, while riffs stretch and hang on companion track "Dry Up." "Automat" amps up the post-punk, creating a retro sci-fi feel with robotic chanting.
These unapologetically authentic offerings are balanced with several from the band's comparatively tidier self-titled LP era. The unholy marriage of mayhem and hookery on the infectiously melodic "Dirty Shirt" and "Leave Me Out" begs to be bowed to.
This trend continuing on the latest single here ("Pure Auto," "Eraser") and beyond (Strange Peace) suggests METZ are unlikely to lose their edge any time soon. (Sub Pop)
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Bills Top Vikings in Final Pre-Season Game
The Vikings rested their first-teamers and many of their 2nd-teamers in their final preseason game which turned out to be a 27-23 loss at Buffalo against the Bills.
Kyle Sloter started the game at quarterback and played into the 2nd half. He threw for 163 yards and a touchdown with 1 interception. D'Angelo Henderson ran for 59 yards on 16 carries and Brandon Dillion had 5 catches for 48 yards for the Vikings.
The place kicking battle between Dan Bailey and Kaare Vedvik may had taken focus. Bailey was 2-2 on field goals including a 54-yarder while Vedvik was 1-2 on field goals including a 36-yard missed field goal.
The Vikings need to cut their roster down to 53 by Saturday. Minnesota will open the season Sunday September 8 at noon at home against Atlanta. Hear the game on WJON with the pregame at 11am.
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Categories: Minnesota Vikings, nfl football, Sports, Sports News
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Art & Design Achievements
Any student achievement in fine art, literature, fashion, graphic design, music, or culinary arts; cool exhibitions, or design festivals organized by a college or institute etc.
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NBCCD Alumna/Instructor Melissa LeBlanc: Characterizing Clay
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Monica Memory. Let that name sink in. How fitting that an artist with such an evocative name is in the business of making little memories. Each earring, each pendant, each pocket mirror is a tiny perfect illustration. Her work is reminiscent of childhood – bright and cute and bringing a smile to the lips every…
NBCCD graduate Vincent Briggs: Designing Identity
Vincent Briggs was once known by a different name. In high school he kept to himself, spending more time in the library than with other students. He “tried to be invisible, and did a reasonably good job of it.” Fast forward to today. Vincent is a presence in any room, wearing spectacular handmade garments that…
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At a recent workshop, Brigitte Clavette held a bowl aloft and declared, “Now you can save your own life.” That sounds dramatic, but when it comes to teaching jewellery and metal arts at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (NBCCD), Clavette takes her work seriously. “That bowl was hammered from a six-inch metal…
Michael Rurka: The Digital Nomad
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GAME program partnership between Brock University and Niagara College teaches students about design and production of video games
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College of the North Atlantic student, alumna, and faculty member nominated for East Coast Music Association awards
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Fleming College and Sheridan College sign new pathway agreement for art and design students
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from Fleming College: “Fleming College and Sheridan College have signed a new agreement that provides a pathway from a Fleming diploma to the Honours Bachelor of Craft and Design (BC&D) degree at Sheridan. The agreement applies to eligible graduates of Fleming’s Visual and Creative Arts Diploma program who have specialized in fibre arts, glassblowing or…
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from the press release: “The one thing Jackie Penev knew she wanted to do after high school was play volleyball. After graduating, she entered an education program at a local college and made the varsity team. Only a few months into the season, however, Jackie developed a severe throat infection that prevented her from playing…
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from Vancouver Island University: “Happy Silver Anniversary, VIU BA! Twenty-five years ago, Malaspina College offered its first Bachelor of Arts program (Liberal Studies) in partnership with the University of Victoria. In 1996, the institution, which had then become Malaspina University-College, began offering homegrown BA degrees in a range of subjects. Today, as Vancouver Island University,…
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from the Red Deer Advocate: “Art doesn’t have to be serious — so how about catching some stand-up comedy or wacky printmaking at February’s First Friday gallery openings in Red Deer? Described as a combination of historical printmaking, pop culture “and a little bit of insanity,” the Making a Good First Impression exhibit is on at the…
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from the Regina Leader-Post: “A hundred years ago this summer, the painter Tom Thomson died in Ontario’s Algonquin Park. His artistic legacy is unquestioned. Barely five years of serious painting during the First World War produced works, like The West Wind and Northern River, that still inspire the Canadian imagination of wilderness. His contemporary admirers…
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Anasthasia More has always known what she wanted to do. She wanted to come to NBCCD for many years and now she is finally here, studying in the 2-year Diploma in Ceramics. But she’s not here to do functional pottery. Anasthasia is here to increase her skills and knowledge for making porcelain ball jointed dolls.…
Cumberland College calendar promotes Indigenous art
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from the Melfort Journal: “A new calendar for 2017 is promoting the work of Indigenous artists young and old while also promoting education. The calendar was created by Cumberland College, who is partnering with the North East School Division. “We want to acknowledge and celebrate the work of our Indigenous students,” said Brenda Mellon, Manager…
Northwest Community College receives donation of Indigenous art
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from the press release: “It was a momentous event for First Nations Fine Arts students on December 8, 2016 when two carvings, crafted by Freda Diesing herself, were donated to the art studio at Northwest Community College. Donors Kelsey Wiebe (on behalf of her grandparents, Jim & Jane Christison) and Corey Bulpitt, presented a Wolf…
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Selkirk College Hairstyling grad finds successful, passion-filled career in Vancouver
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Cambrian College Graphic Design students benefit from partnership with local businesses
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from the Sudbury Star: “Cambrian College Graphic Design students will be earning credits and pay cheques at the same time thanks to a partnership with four local businesses. The partnership was announced on January 13 between Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program; its applied research arm, Cambrian Innovates, and the Ontario Centres for Excellence VEBTA program. …
Selkirk College professor brings the art and culture of graphic novels to students:
from the Nelson Star: “Once condemned as a dangerous force of moral degradation, comics and graphic novels have come to be recognized as important cultural texts. “I’ve always been interested in popular culture as an expression of our deepest desires,” said Nelson professor Renée Jackson-Harper. “Graphic novels like Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and David B’s Epileptic,…
Emily Carr University graduate exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver
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from The Source, a forum for diversity: “In the upcoming exhibitions, running from Jan. 13–Mar.17 at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Wild Child and The Quantified Self Poems redress our preoccupation with labeling. “The two projects are conflated in some ways,” says Taşdelen. Always curious, the Emily Carr University graduate approaches his ideas through research – first through the…
Student-powered OddBird Studio has a remarkable year
The third-year Bachelor of Game Design students who fuel OddBird Studio entered the 2016 fall term at Sheridan in the same whirlwind manner that has characterized much of their past year as indie developers. They spent the first week of September in Seattle, showcasing their debut game Arrow Heads at PAX West – one of…
Sheridan signs historic agreement with Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre
from the press release: “Sheridan College took part last week in a Commercial Signing Ceremony held in Shanghai, China, and witnessed by the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of International Trade. The agreement, signed by Michael Rubinoff, Associate Dean of Visual and Performing Arts at Sheridan, and Yang Shaolin, General Manager of the Shanghai Dramatic…
Contemporary Artist Kent Monkman
from Ovation, Sheridan’s Alumni Magazine: “It’s easy to be drawn into Kent Monkman’s paintings. He seduces the viewer with beautiful, richly colourful works, often depicting romantic 19th century western landscapes. But a closer look reveals images of violence and oppression central to the artist’s revisionist version of North American aboriginal history. Of Cree descent, Monkman…
Les finissants d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy s’exposent
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants finissants du programme d’Arts visuels du Cégep de Sainte-Foy exposeront leurs œuvres dans le hall du pavillon des arts et du design du Cégep, dès le 27 mai. Le vernissage de l’exposition intitulée Callipyge aura lieu le vendredi 27 mai dès 17 h, une occasion rêvée de rencontrer la…
Les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy récompensés à l’Exposition de Design industriel 2016
du communiqué de presse : « Du 20 au 26 mai dernier, la Galerie Espaces Parenthèse du Cégep de Sainte-Foy accueillait l’exposition des finissants en Design industriel du Cégep de Sainte-Foy. Les finissants, au nombre de 16 cette année, en ont mis plein la vue aux visiteurs. Lors du vernissage, le mercredi 25 mai, plusieurs prix ont été…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy fête une Semaine Shakespeare
du communiqué de presse : « Du 7 au 11 novembre, tous les étudiants du Cégep de Sainte-Foy vibreront au rythme de Shakespeare, dans le cadre du 400e anniversaire de la mort du célèbre auteur. La semaine thématique organisée conjointement par les quatre disciplines de la formation générale (Français, Philosophie, Éducation physique et Anglais) propose aux étudiants…
Le Cégep de Sainte-Foy forme une nouvelle génération de graphistes avec le STUDIO Jeune coop
du communiqué de presse : « Favoriser l’insertion professionnelle de la prochaine génération de graphistes et développer les aptitudes entrepreneuriales de ces derniers, voilà les objectifs que vise la toute nouvelle coopérative scolaire du programme de Graphisme du Cégep de Sainte-Foy : Le STUDIO jeune coop. Unique au Québec, cette coopérative scolaire permet à quelque 32 étudiants de…
Les étudiants du Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les Marchands
du communiqué de presse : « Pour sa 38e saison de théâtre d’excellence, le Cégep Limoilou présente la pièce Les marchands du 23 au 25 novembre, à 19 h 30, à la salle Sylvain-Lelièvre. Une représentation de jour aura lieu le vendredi 25 novembre à 13 h 15. Les marchands est un texte de Joël Pommerat, mis en scène par Joanie Lehoux. Produit par…
Le Cégep Limoilou fête le succès du premier Show Mode socio
du communiqué de presse : « La première édition du Show Mode socio qui s’est déroulé le 23 novembre dernier au campus de Charlesbourg, fut un beau succès! Plus de 40 étudiants se sont mobilisés pour ce projet socio qui a été chapeauté par des étudiants de 3e année en gestion hôtelière : Coralie Blairon, Jennifer Chabot-Plourde, Myriam Dostie, Jean-Michel…
Le Cégep Limoilou lance un tout nouveau programme AEC Artiste 3D
du communiqué de presse : « Une toute nouvelle AEC Artiste 3D voit le jour au Cégep Limoilou pour répondre aux besoins de l’industrie. Les cours débuteront dès le 27 février prochain. C’est donc le temps de s’inscrire ! Les artistes 3D créeront les environnements et l’ambiance d’une scène, pour le cinéma ou la télé, par exemple,…
Le Collège Vanier ouvre une nouvelle librairie coopérative
du communiqué de presse : « Le Collège Vanier est fier d’annoncer que l’ouverture officielle de Jake’s Co-op, la librairie coopérative du cégep, s’est déroulée le 7 décembre 2016. La nouvelle librairie est gérée par la coopérative étudiante et est membre de la Fédération québécoise de coopératives en milieux scolaires (FQCMS). L’équipe de la librairie avait du…
Le Cégep régional de Lanaudière met en vedette les étudiants et enseignants du département de Musique
du communiqué de presse : « Les étudiants et les enseignants en Musique du Cégep à Joliette ont connu un automne haut en couleur. Plusieurs spectacles donnés, présence radiophonique et télévisuelle, participation à des événements de grande importance; c’est la tête haute et le cœur rempli de fierté qu’ils terminent cette session d’automne 2016. Lors de la partie d’ouverture de…
Le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles lance une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts
du communiqué de presse : « C’est avec beaucoup d’enthousiasme que le Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles annonce la mise en place d’une nouvelle version du programme d’Arts, lettres et communication entre les Campus de Carleton-sur-Mer et des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, dès l’automne 2017. De la côte…aux Îles! Ce programme proposera une approche multidisciplinaire mettant de…
Les étudiants en journalisme de La Cité récompensés lors de la soirée « Reportages vidéastes 2016 »
du communiqué de presse : « La soirée de «Reportages vidéastes 2016» a récompensé des étudiants en journalisme lors d’une présentation qui s’est déroulée à l’amphithéâtre de La Cité. Douze reportages réalisés dans le cadre du cours Atelier de Journalisme Télé 1 ont été présentés. Chaque étudiant a effectué la recherche, la couverture, le tournage, le montage et la…
Vancouver Island University Culinary Arts grads find rewarding careers with luxury hotels
from the press release: “Vancouver Island University (VIU) Culinary Arts program graduate Perry Assu is living his dream. For fun, he snowboards down some of the finest slopes in the world at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort and for work, he cooks up fine culinary creations in the luxurious Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Assu, 19, who…
Former St. Clair College Graphic Art students launch cathartic exhibit in Southern Ontario
St. Clair College
from The Windsor Star: Artist Dave Mutnjakovic started drawing as a cathartic way to deal with the challenges of living with Crohn’s disease. “I nearly died when I was 14 because I was misdiagnosed,” said Mutnjakovic. “Suddenly I started drawing and it poured out of me for six years.” Now 34, he works as an…
Red River College’s training restaurant is quickly becoming a culinary hub on Winnipeg’s hot new food scene
from Maclean’s: “It started with Deer + Almond in 2012. The small-plate restaurant popped up on Princess Street in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, offering a new option to downtown office workers and hip university students. Then, King and Bannatyne’s sandwiches drew lunchtime crowds. Next, Bronuts and Chosabi opened side by side in 2015, each tempting diners…
Architectural Technologies students learn both building sciences and interior design at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s Architectural Technologies program incorporates interior design, building sciences, drafting methods, and geometry in a practical trades program. from Maclean’s: “Back in the ’70s they were known merely as draftsmen: people hunched over tables using pencils and mechanical tools to churn out blueprints for architects and contractors. But an evolutionary educational process has spawned…
Durham College Music Business Administration grad makes it to Top 40 with debut single
from Maclean’s: “Sarah Mark didn’t realize just how much she had learned in college until she got her first Top 40 hit on the radio. Granted, she had barely finished college when that happened. Her debut single “Tun Up,” a jaunty R&B summertime pop anthem, started getting serious airtime on Canadian radio stations just as…
Emily Carr University of Art and Design grad turns technicolour paintings and love of baking into edible works of art
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
from The Globe and Mail: “What colours come to mind when you think of a dimly lit parking garage in the heart of an urban city centre, a Saskatchewan sunset at the beginning of autumn or a big, creamy scoop of Saskatoon berry ice cream? A visual artist and pastry chef in San Francisco, Leah…
Red River College mechanical engineer designs handlebar adaptation for Canadian paralympian
Red River College mechanical engineer designs a handlebar adaptation for Canadian competing in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. from CBC: “When Chantal Givens raced Sunday at the Paralympic Games, she had a piece of Winnipeg along for the ride. The three-time Canadian paratriathlon champion, who competed in the sport’s Paralympic debut in Rio, was born missing her left hand. In an effort to…
Yukon College artistic collaboration explores climate change in northern communities
A collaborative project from Yukon College art students looks to tackle climate change through multimedia: from Maclean’s: “A collaboration between Yukon College’s school of visual arts in Dawson City, its Yukon Research Centre in Whitehorse and the University of Saskatchewan is adding a human dimension to the science of climate change. “We are trying to…
Giant pinhole camera offers a new experience for photography students
Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD)
An associate professor from Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) developed a giant pinhole camera to offer students a view of how a camera works from the inside: from Maclean’s: “Think back to high school photography class and recall the pinhole camera. Remember nothing? A quick refresher: “When light comes into any light-tight chamber,…
Cambrian College Graphic Design grad earns top award in RGD Student Awards Competition
from the press release: “An outstanding graduate of Cambrian College’s Graphic Design program has been recognized for excellence in visual communication and design, earning top awards through the RGD Student Awards competition. Neli Nenkova’s winning work was selected by judges from the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and was featured at the annual DesignThinkers conference held in Toronto in November 2016. Nenkova…
Former student at Emily Carr University on display at Heritage Hall in Vancouver
Paintings by Lan Yao, a former art student at Emily Carr University, on display at the Shiny Fuzzy Muddy show at Heritage Hall in Vancouver. from The Squamish Chief: “Squamish’s Lan Yao never really found the opportunity to produce art on her own time when she worked in 3D animation in Vancouver. But, in recent…
Lethbridge College adds new way of designing to its Interior Design Technology program
Lethbridge College Interior Design Technology program launches virtual-reality component to help both students and clients better visual projects. from the Lethbridge Herald: “There’s a new way of designing, and students at Lethbridge College are getting the chance to explore it firsthand. Students in the Interior Design Technology (IDT) program are getting the opportunity to work…
George Brown College opens another BIM Visionarium lab
George Brown College opens its second Building Information Modelling (BIM) lab to help students develop digital skills in building design and modelling. from the press release: “The BIM Visionarium officially opened on Nov. 25, 2016 at the Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies at Casa Loma Campus – the second space of its kind at the campus. BIM technology…
Vancouver Art Gallery exhibit features artists from Emily Carr University
An new exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Ambivalent Pleasures, features artists with ties to Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Of the 40 artists exhibited, 26 are either faculty or alumni of the University! The exhibit presents Surrealist strategies, a range of approaches to abstraction, and concepts which address today’s social contexts. from…
Seneca College partners with CFC and AGO on ground-breaking virtual reality exhibit
Seneca College’s School of Creative Arts and Animation, the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) partner on Small Wonders: The Gothic Boxwood Miniatures exhibit to showcase rare boxwood carvings in 3D. from the press release: “The Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab), Seneca’s School of Creative Arts and Animation and the Art…
ACAD receives prestigious art & design designation
Alberta College of Art and Design
from the press release: “ACAD is pleased to announce that it has received the National Association of Schools of Art and Design’s (NASAD) designation of Substantial Equivalency – their highest designation for a post-secondary institution not located in the United States. The institution is the only independent art, craft and design post-secondary institution in Canada…
George Brown College signs agreements with Design schools in Ireland and Italy
George brown college launches two exciting new opportunities for art & design students to further their education abroad, both with the Institute or Art, Design and Technology (IADT) in Ireland and with Politecnico di Milano in Italy. from the press release: “The creation of this opportunity is a significant announcement – not only for us,…
Okanagan College once again hosts Short Story Contest to encourage young writers
A challenge has been issued to local writers: go big on creativity while short on time. Okanagan College’s English department is once again inviting up-and-coming writers to step out of their comfort zones and into the frenzied creative world of the popular 3-Hour Short Story Contest, returning Saturday, Nov. 5 at all four campuses. The…
Centennial College unveils new Culinary Arts Centre
In fall 2016, Centennial College unveiled its new Culinary Arts Centre, complete with seven kitchen labs, a teaching restaurant and nine new classrooms that can accommodate 600 students. from Centennial College: “The striking new building takes the shape of a quadrangle with a central courtyard to allow natural light to reach all of the residence…
Fleming College receives design award for Haliburton school rebranding
from the press release: “The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) is recognizing the transformation and rebranding of Fleming College’s Haliburton School of Art + Design (HSAD) with a prestigious design award. Fleming College will receive an RGD In-House Design Award of Distinction at the Association’s upcoming DesignThinkers conference in Toronto on Nov. 4. Formerly known as…
Medicine Hat College art installation raises awareness for MMIW across Canada
In 2016, Medicine Hat College hosted its first ever REDress Project, an art installation in which red dress are hung around campus in order to raise awareness and memorialize the missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) across Canada. from Medicine Hat News: “A simple but beautiful red dress that’s easy to put on. It’s the…
UFV Library literary arts project displays “human books” to bust stereotypes
UFV’s unique literary arts project aims to display a Human Library that builds on personal experiences and outward appearances to challenge prejudices on campus. from the UFV blog: “Our mission is to present unique experiences that challenge peoples’ understanding of stereotypes and educate people on diversity,” says Lisa Morry, a UFV library technician and part of…
Four institutions sign transfer agreement for Arts students
Capilano University, Douglas College, Langara College, Okanagan College
from the press release: “Four post-secondary providers have made it easier for college transfer students to complete a bachelor of arts at Capilano University. The University recently signed agreements to enable Douglas, Langara and Okanagan college students to transfer seamlessly into year three of Capilano University’s bachelor of Arts with a major in Liberal Studies.…
College of the Rockies hosts “Repatriation as Reconciliation” art presentation
College of the Rockies was pleased to host a unique presentation from University of Victoria professor, Dr. Andrea Walsh, entitled ‘Repatriation as Reconciliation: Children’s Art from the Alberni Indian Residential School’. from the press release: “A visual anthropologist specializing in 20th century and contemporary aboriginal art, Dr. Walsh is interested in collections of objects and images…
Great Plains College students weld metal art for can’t miss-auction
Great Plains College
Great Plains College’s unique metal-art auction showcases student art achievements. as profiled in Maclean’s: “Chad Hittel, 21, has to step up his A game. Since he graduated in 2014 from the pre-employment welding certificate program at Great Plains College (GPC), Hittel always donates a piece of metal art to the program’s annual fundraising auction. In…
Niagara College excels in Culinary Arts
from the press release: Niagara College’s Junior Culinary Team Canada proved that it has the recipe for success, winning a gold medal in its first of two competitions at the 2016 Culinary Olympics. The team from Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine Institute competed in its first competition at the IKA /Culinary Olympics in Erfurt,…
University of the Fraser Valley launches “Bachelor of Arts 2.0”
from the press release: “The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is reshaping the venerable Bachelor of Arts degree, the foundation of many university graduates’ education. The new BA is linked to UFV’s key learning outcomes and emphasizes four core competencies as well as personal and social responsibility, and adds a mandatory online ePortfolio that highlights the…
MITT GPTech program thrives through industry collaboration
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology
Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology’s (MITT) Graphic and Print Technician (GPTech) program not only provides students a learning experience which spans the continuum from design to ship-ready product; it also gets them hands-on experience with bona fide industry tools, including a large-format printer which Hamilton says is “in huge demand” these days. This is…
Candace Sanderson: The Sculptor
Grande Prairie Regional College
Candace Sanderson did not give herself a ‘Plan B’ when she made the decision to pursue her creative passion full time in 2012. “I always knew I wanted to be an artist even from a young age,” says Sanderson in work boots, with bright eyes and her hair pulled back into a braid that falls…
Collection et Créations sous influences
« Créations sous influences » est un projet qui existe depuis 10 ans. Ce projet, qui est une initiative du département d’Arts, lettres et communication du Cégep de Lanaudière à L’Assomption, a pour objectif de permettre à des étudiants de travailler sous la direction d’artistes professionnels. Depuis 2006, une cinquantaine d’étudiants ont ainsi produit une vingtaine…
OFFF Tour Québec
Le OFFF Tour Québec, créé par le Département de techniques d’intégration multimédia du cégep Édouard-Montpetit, est un événement annuel d’envergure internationale regroupant des centaines d’amateurs et de professionnels du domaine de la création numérique. Sur place, les participants assistent aux prestations d’artistes de renom des quatre coins du monde qui présentent le fruit de leur…
Holland College student trades hockey stick for paint brush
Three years ago, Dylan McQuaid’s résumé would have led one to expect that the 20-year-old would pursue a career in business or sports. After several years of playing hockey – the last three in the Maritime Junior-A Hockey League and the Island Junior Hockey League – he seemed destined to follow the path of many…
St. Clair College’s Jason Fabok
Windsor, Ontario born Jason Fabok is a graduated from St. Clair College’s Tradigital Animation program in 2007 and was honoured as an Alumni of Distinction in 2014! Fabok has carried his passion for creative pursuits since he was a young boy. A fan of television cartoons, he enjoyed drawing the characters and watching them come…
Le design responsable du Collège LaSalle
Collège LaSalle
Le Collège LaSalle de Montréal “a pour mission d’offrir une éducation qualifiante de haute qualité en réponse aux besoins du marché du travail et à ceux du développement des individus, dans un contexte de mondialisation”. À l’aide de divers intervenants du milieu de la mode, les étudiants en Design sont appelés à développer leurs connaissances…
Native Arts and Culture Alumni: Amy Malbeuf
Portage College will be hosting a Visiting Artist Presentation in which accomplished alumni speak to students of the program from which they graduated. Recently, alumna Amy Malbeuf was invited to return to the College for a presentation to the public and for the students of the Native Arts and Culture Program. Having alumni return to the…
I am my Ancestors…My Ancestors are me
Amber Weasel Head is a visual artist, a student in Portage College’s Social Work program, and a graduate of the College’s Aboriginal Art Certificate program and its Artisan Entrepreneurship Diploma program. “I am my Ancestors… My Ancestors are me” tells her story: “This film is about my connection with my ancestors. I am the first…
Hairdressing Fantasy Competition
North West College
North West College offers the full breadth of Adult learning opportunities, one of which is a pre-employment certificate program in Hairstyling, teaching students to perform techniques on hair, wigs, hairpieces, skin and nails. Each year, the Hairstyling students are challenged to compete in a Fantasy Competition. Judged by a panel of experts, students submit mannequins finished…
Career training and culture coalesce at MITT
When the Downtown Winnipeg Biz put out a call for street banners to celebrate the Year of the Monkey (“Fire Monkey”), students in Jan Hamilton’s Graphic and Print Technician program (GPTech) at Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology answered the call, submitting 22 amazing designs. One of those designs – by MITT student Zhiling (Lucia)…
Lakeland College Interior Design student a double winner in design competitions
Sydney Melnyk still can’t believe she’s a double winner in student design competitions. “It’s pretty crazy; I can hardly believe it,” says the Lakeland College alumna of winning first place in two National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) design competitions: the 2015-16 Charette Design Competition and the 2015-16 Schoolhouse Charm Student Design Competition. Competing against…
Camosun College’s Comic Arts Festival celebrates the artistry of visual storytelling
Camosun College in Victoria, BC, delivers a nationally unique certificate program in Comics and Graphic Novels each year to approximately 30 students. The one-of-a-kind program was created for students who have a desire to learn the language of visual storytelling, and focuses on skills-based learning for six career paths: comic book creation (print & online),…
“Carrying On” Indigenous Art Exhibition 2016
Portage College students from the Native Arts and Culture program were successfully juried into the “Carrying On” Indigenous Art exhibition at the Alberta Craft Council Discovery Gallery last year from June 18th to July 23rd, 2016. The show was also part of The Works Art and Design Festival in Edmonton, which is presented by The…
Fanshawe collaborates on motion capture suit for Parkinson’s patients
Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology
Fanshawe College has collaborated with researchers at Movement Disorder Diagnostic Technologies Inc. (MDDT), a locally-based medical device company to create a prototype of a motion-capture suit and tremor arm sleeve to be used in the diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s patients. MDDT collaborated with Fanshawe’s School of Design to create a prototype suit that can…
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance
The Medicine Hat College Conservatory of Music and Dance is an important contributor to the Southern Alberta arts community – one that also enjoys the distinction of being one of the institution’s eldest programming areas, opening its doors shortly after the College was founded in 1965. On an annual basis, almost 1,000 multi-generational students enrol…
Full Blood Moon Entertainment: Films that Shifts Perspectives
They call themselves “The Four Horsemen.” They have more to do with film-making than the apocalypse, but the four gentlemen who make up Full Blood Moon Entertainment Inc. are working hard to create a global shift nonetheless. Today, however, they are taking a break at their shared alma mater. Sitting in dark suits in the…
Kelsi McInnes found her calling
Before Kelsi McInnes became a music therapist she first had to discover the profession existed. It all started when the Manning, AB, native was working in part-time respite care as a university student. Her client was a little girl with spinal muscular atrophy. McInnes found it incredibly fulfilling to help improve the well-being of another…
Dalen Landis is a man of many talents
As a photographer, landscape painter, custom tiler, videographer, music-festival organizer and now, professional beer brewer, Dalen Landis is not kidding when he says “I have my fingers in a few different pots.” This morning his fingers are busy filling kegs with fresh Redwillow Falls Amber Ale. A co-owner of Grain Bin Brewing, Landis has also…
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AFL Trade Wrap Day 8: Tom Scully, Steven May, Tim Kelly and more
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The 2018 AFL trade period is set for a barnstorming finish tomorrow, with a number of small moves on day eight of the player movement window setting the scene for high drama ahead of the 8:30pm (AEDT) deadline.
The biggest deadline of the day came right before the final siren, with Tom Scully completing his shock move to the Hawks for just a 2019 fourth-round draft pick – which Hawthorn had acquired earlier in the day in a separate trade.
It had long been rumoured that Scully’s move to Glenferrie may come at a shockingly low price as the Giants look to ease salary cap pressure – with former Port Adelaide star Kane Cornes calling on the AFL to intervene with the perennial powerhouses got their hands on Scully at a crazy price.
But a 2019 fourth-rounder had seemed unfathomable – with the move widely criticised on social media by fans and analysts alike.
The players in contention for Socceroos selection in the Asian Cup
The A-League is back and many Australian football players are looking to prove their worth in the league. Many are wanting to show that they stand out and could provide x-factor to the Australian national side come January. There are many Aussies overseas in Europe and Asia proving that they can be an important piece […]
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Do Australian cricket fans really understand Virat Kohli?
If anecdotal expressions of dislike towards Virat Kohli are an accurate reflection of broader Australia’s attitude towards him, the Indian captain is potentially the most hated person in the country right now. Perhaps even more so after his team completed a resilient and resolute victory at Adelaide Oval on Monday. For many, it was another […]
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GWS list manager Jason McCartney seemed to hint on Trade Radio, however, that the club had grave concerns on whether Scully would ever get back to his best after a horrific ankle injury that ended his season in round two – which could explain why they let him go for such a low price.
The Hawks were involved in the other late move of the day, with numerous sources reporting they’d offloaded Taylor Duryea to the Western Bulldogs for a fourth-round pick.
Editor’s note: Paperwork for this trade was officially lodged after publishing.
Alastair Clarkson’s side have done it again. (Image: AAP Image/Joe Castro)
The whirlwind finish breathed much-needed life into a day that, while not short of player movements, offered somewhat little in the way of big developments.
Aside from rumours that Fremantle football boss Peter Bell was in discussions with Brisbane over Lachie Neale for much of the day, no progress was made on that long-awaited move.
Similarly, the Dockers are understood to be in a stalemate with GWS over Rory Lobb, as are Essendon – who are looking to pry Dylan Shiel away from Homebush.
While those deals are still likely to be completed by the time the trade period wraps up tomorrow, it’s not looking as good for some of the other potential deals out there.
Despite Brisbane publically acknowledging Dayne Beams’ desire to return home, it’s looking unlikely Collingwood will be able to present the Lions with an enticing enough deal, especially after they re-signed seven players to contract extensions, with Brisbane reportedly seeking a ready-made player in return.
Tim Kelly’s request to join the Eagles looks increasingly likely to be denied as well, with Geelong seemingly holding very firm on their asking price of a top-ten draft pick, and West Coast appearing to make no effort to score one from a rival club.
While Steven May indicated he was happy to join any Victorian club this offseason, it looks as if the stalemates over Jesse Hogan and Lobb will stop that move from happening – whether it’s the Demons he joins or not.
There were, however, a number of smaller deals that did cross the line – the first being Aaron Hall crossing from Gold Coast to North Melbourne for pick 68.
The Suns forwarded that pick onto the Adelaide Crows for a future fourth-round selection, and the Crows then forwarded it on again to Richmond in exchange for wantaway small forward Tyson Stengle.
Gold Coast were busy once more, sending pick 59 down to Geelong in exchange for out-of-favour midfielder George Horlin-Smith, while they also picked up ex-Fremantle player Sam Collins as one of their special assistance selections.
With a lot of dominoes still yet to fall, we’re sure to be in for another thrilling finish to the trade period tomorrow.
Stormers draw with Crusaders in thriller
The Stormers have snatched a 19-19 Super Rugby draw with the Canterbury Crusaders on the last kick of the game to cap a thrilling fightback. Jean-Luc du Plessis has slotted a penalty for the struggling Stormers with the last kick of the game to ensure a thrilling 19-19 draw against Super Rugby log leaders the […]
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We're back in action! Thanks to the wonders of Ares filesharing, I now have episodes 6-12 (Episodes 1-5 as well, but I had already covered those) of the now-cancelled ABC show. Episode 13 is airing for Americans on ABC this week, I should have it by next Monday.
In episode 6, everything changes as a seemingly minor decision Hopper makes has massive consequences. He finds Quarry Guy. He identifies the Jane Doe. Yet now Chad is killed at an ATM, skinheads in a van are chasing after Damien, and the fingerprint on the hourglass brings up some mysteries of its own. It's also found that Hopper's sister has some connection with the conspiracy, as she's who shoots Chad at the bank machine, and at the end of the episode we see her at the quarry as Quarry Guy is executed by his superiors.
First the answered questions:
Miguel Dominguez is a Latin Disciple, and an infamous one...he's like the Boogeyman for Latin Disciples, named Eceddie Eurone(sp?), the "Crying Man" (boogeyman), who can "kill you in your dreams".
Jane Doe is Isabella Cortez, whose mother has gone crazy after her disappearance. She worked at a high and fancy club.
Quarry Guy's name is "Detwiller"(sp?), who was the manager at the fancy club that Isabella worked at. Hopper knows where he lives, got details on his family, all sorts of interesting and helpful stuff.
Andrea still takes Eddie to rehab every day, but apparently isn't calling anymore. Hopper's change continues to work from day to day.
And only two extremely major unanswered questions:
What does Hopper's sister have to do with anything? How much does she know? How much of this is she in on?
Who's the other man in the car who gives Jennifer the speech about the difference between warnings and examples?
Apparently this was the last episode to be seen in the U.S. (Global stopped airing after episode 5), and I gotta tell you this would be a bitch of a way to end the series if it wasn't for the magic of streaming video on the internet. Thanks technology!
Update, 3:21pm: The first two minutes of Episode 7 show that the next day is going to be filled with examining the license plate of Boss Guy as well as the consequences of the "rules" of the day...Hopper's body doesn't revert back.
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Wat Phra Yai
This is located on a rocky island that is incorporated in the northern end of Koh Samui. It houses a 15-meter high Buddha Statue from the modern Buddha in Mara posture with the beautiful island sky surrounding him. Before visitors can go into the area with all the statue, they should don the appropriate traditional clothing to the area.
Na Muang Waterfalls
While Koh Samui has numerous waterfalls, the Na Muang waterfalls located inland are the most beautiful because they are perfect for doing things like swimming, exploring, climbing, or going on a picnic. The bottom of the first waterfall can be reached using the "staircases" made by the tree roots and rocks, as well as at the base is really a large natural pool where the water is cool and refreshing. The second waterfall is all about half an hour away and is known as Namtok Na Muang or "purple waterfalls" as the rocks contain shades of purple. In between the two is the Na Muang Safari Park where you may see monkey shows and continue elephant rides.
Chaweng Beach
There is a lot of exciting activity with this popular spot. You are able to go swimming or just relax on its beautiful sandy beaches flanked by clear and cool waters. Yet another thing that the area is recognized for is its cabaret shows, or more specifically its kathoey cabaret shows that feature transgender women or effeminate males who dress and perform in classic cabaret or Thai dancing garb. The shows usually feature the dancers lip syncing to popular music and sometimes performing detailed choreography, making for the enjoyable experience that is full of glitz and glam.
Hin Ta and Hin Yai
They are also known as "Grandfather and Grandmother Rocks." These rocks are incredibly named because their natural formations look just like female and male genitalia. The website can easily give someone with a sense of humor a giggle, and also the local legend that you simply will hear from locals of methods they happened could also lead to an interesting trip.
Samui Aquarium and Tiger Show
It is really an aquarium where you may see many of the local wildlife of your area. Many of the marine every day life is in the Gulf of Thailand like tiger sharks, manta rays, nurse sharks, various tropical fish, and many more. The zoo inside features many animals like monkeys, otters and other birds, with the main attractions being the leopards and tigers who take the stage inside a live show. You can also pay some extra to have the picture taken along with them.
Samui Institute of Thai Culinary Arts
For those that tire of heavily basic activities or people who would like to experience everything local fare is offering can attend some classes around this popular cooking school. SITCA offers courses that are a couple of hours long to generate a multicourse meal. A number of the items covered within the class include learning about local ingredients and the ways to create intricate floral designs using various carving techniques on local vegetables and fruits. Students may also be given a complementary instructional DVD to enable them to practice the strategies at home or elsewhere.
Within the interior hills from the island, you can have these beautiful religious structures occur a luscious jungle. Originally made by a fruit farmer named Khun Nim on his land, your garden features many large statues of Thai deities, animals, and humans in dynamic poses. The farmer also made a statue of himself within a relaxed pose on a rock. The garden is actually a serene and quiet place with a waterfall and stream running from the jungle areas.
There are many more places to find out in Koh Samui, Thailand than just those 7 stated previously. However, they may be great places to begin to get a feel for all that you can do and discover while on this beautiful, bustling island. Planning to a few of these can even lead to other exciting places. Things To Do In Koh Samui In 3 Days
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UP THE CREEK WITH A PADDLE
adventuremag December 5, 2018
It’s a lonely road, being the least adventurous girl in a clutch of adventurous women. I often tag along as team driver, water bottle dispenser and head cheerleader. But once in a while, I dust off the leggings and runners to join my adrenaline seeking gal-pals for a weekend of fun and games, somewhere in the far reaches of this beautiful country.
Most recently, the Adventure Girls went full wetsuit and helmet into the River Wild Raft N Run race in spectacular Turangi – down the mighty Tongariro river.
This was the fifth year the Adventure Girls had tackled the event, but my first. However, I was lucky enough to get a full training session in on the river last year, which more than prepared me for an exciting few hours last weekend.
This year, the Adventure Girls expanded to include Adventure Husbands, Children and Friends. So, twenty-four of us entered the event and so began a weekend to remember.
As the blurb says; ‘Nowhere else do you get to compete in such a unique and pristine environment. The Tongariro River provides the perfect setting for an epic adventure.”
After a comprehensive safety briefing from the Rafting New Zealand crew, each team of six found its raft and guide and picked its way down to the water’s edge.
This river is a stunner. You enter the water 16 k’s upstream from the end of the rafting section (there’s an 8km run to come) and hit your first rapid within metres. Being Grade 3, the Tongariro River is regarded as NZ’s best Class 3 Section of white water, dropping over 200 metres in vertical height. The rapids come one after another, producing an exciting ride through towering cliffs and native bush. Luckily, your professional guide is with you at every stroke, telling you when to paddle, when to hold on (tighhhht!) and when you can take a breather to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Spoiler alert; breathers are few and far between, because having several other rafts hot on your tail is a constant reminder that this is a RACE.
As you paddle furiously downstream, being lashed with white water and fiercely ploughing into and bouncing off the sides of steep cliffs (it’s all part of the fun), there’s little time to be scared. The river is actually surprisingly shallow in many parts and abundant with fish, ducks and other wildlife whose peace you are briefly disturbing.
Our team of six ‘Adventure Girls’ had a clear run down the river with no other team passing us. We did allow our fellow mixed team (of burly husbands and fast runners) to slide past us early on, in a smooth patch of water. ‘Adventure Girls 2’ blitzed past three other teams, in a pedal-to-the-metal chase over the rapids.
At last you arrive 16 k’s down river, exhilarated, enervated and more than a little damp; to stumble onto shore, where drier gear is waiting for you. The goal is to quickly effect a wetsuit strip, sock and shoe change and grab a water for the 8k run ahead. Getting a soggy wetsuit off is an art in itself. Picture a herd of seals (yes, herd is the collective noun) lolling and flopping around on the rocky shoreline and you will come close. Luckily there are transition crew to help you with this incredibly undignified act. And as designated team ‘walker’ I didn’t have to head off with such haste.
The Tongariro river trail takes you back through more glorious scenery along the banks of the river. The cool tree shade and beautiful fern glades were a delightful distraction as the k’s ticked away, while we walked/trotted and chatted, while other groups of runners passed us in a steady stream. Eventually, you reach the Major Jones’ bridge, where we walkers crossed the river to join the finishers back in Turangi town centre at Rafting HQ. Waiting for my team just before the finish line, (I arrived just ahead of them), we held hands to run into the chute together, which was a very special moment.
For a slightly-adventurous-trying-to-be-braver person like myself, the sense of achievement and camaraderie of a group event is second to none. This really is one that persons of many ages, fitness levels and abilities could happily do. There really is no experience needed to raft and you learn everything you need to know, on the water.
For a fantastic weekend away with friends and loved ones, this is hard to beat.
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Tanzania: TANESCO tariff ups, firm’s director sacked
Tanzanian President, found no other choice but sacking the head of the power company upon the incline of the firm’s power tariffs. Mr. John Magufuli, justified that the raise would block his government’s efforts in industrializing the country.
President sacks TANESCO managing director
Tanzania’s energy regulator has agreed to up energy’s tariff by 8.53 percent on the demand of TANESCO (Tanzania Electric Supply Company). In consequence, the Tanzanian president John Magufuli announced the dismissal of TANESCO’s managing director on Sunday.
To be noted that the Tanzanian president, is looking to build-up the industrial sector in the country. A thought that he shared with church worshippers in Kagera Region days before the sacking. “Our industrial drive will not succeed if we keep on increasing electricity tariffs,” Magufuli declared.
In order to enforce his anticorruption policies Mr. Magufuli withdrew the increase. He also fired Felchesmi Mramba from his position as director of TANESCO. Instead, he appointed Tito Mwinuka as a replacement, as declared the directorate of Presidential Communication. The new managing of director, is a lecturer in Dar es Salaam’s state university.
“It’s unacceptable that while we are making plans to build manufacturing industries and ensure more citizens have access to electricity…someone else uses his position to increase power tariffs,” clarified President Magufuli in a recent statement.
This is not the first time the president opts for such anticorruption measures in Tanzania. In fact, he fired a number of government’s officials, since he gained his position.
TANESCO energy pricing policy
In October, the state-owned power company in Tanzania, pushed for an 18.19 percent increase on the prices. The request was made to clear the company’s debt and to meet the government’s expectation.
In Tanzania, 40 percent of the population profits from electricity, while the government is targeting to up this number to 75 percent in 2025. As a result, TANESCO declared their financial incapacity in achieving such goals, unless they boost power tariffs.
Adding to this, the Tanzanian energy firm, applied for loans from international organizations, but to no avail.
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Dan Matutina
Complex digital illustrations revealing the intricate beauty of science by Philippine illustrator Dan Matutina.
ADC Young Gun award-winner Dan Matutina has the rare ability to sum up complicated scientific theories, ideas, and the increasingly complicated relationship we have with technology in communicative and graceful illustration and animation. Dan grew up on a Typhoon-battered Philippine island called Leyte, and now resides in Katipunan, Quezon City. At school his love for science and maths was matched only by his artistic talent, and now he dedicates his days to both. His style is slick, angular and mathematical: a satisfying combination of hand-painted textures and digital renders. Dan predominantly works on editorial illustrations and posters and is exceptionally adept at producing animations and commercial illustration for big brands as well.
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Google Reseller Program Visuals for Google Reseller's product page. The images illustrate milestones in the application process, and this particular one was used in the sign up page.
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Artist Review: Xcedera Twins – “Like Ur Dyin” Single/Video
Posted in Electronic, Hip Hop, Indie, Music Review, Pop, Press Release, R&B, Rap, Single, Soul by Artist Reach, LLC
One of the paradoxes we as a human race have endured is the fact that if you wanna have peace you must prepare for war. And that is just one of the issues at hand that is expressed in the powerful and politically supercharged anthem “Like Ur Dyin”, the newest creation by Hip Hop/R&B dynamic duo Xcedera Twins.
One of the most inspiring facets of a truly groundbreaking song is the fact that it’s all real. A song that you can resonate with, relate to, and really feel the true spirit of the message to your very core. And that’s the realm of feeling we get with “Like Ur Dyin”, a powerful message about our society and government, and the message to love one another the best we can while also doing our best to come together to make positive change – no matter what race, religion, ethnicity, gender or age you are.
Accompanied by a very climactic and cinematic music video that parallels beautifully with the song’s lyrical content, “Like Ur Dyin” is a melodically crafted track with catchy hooks and an anthemic chorus, and sustains top of the line production value. The track has a masterful blend of rhythmic .progressions and melodic key signatures that really implement the lead vocals. There are diligent vocal melodies, a powerful Hip Hop flavor, and an atmospheric tone that really puts the Xcedera Twins‘ collective talents right out in the forefront. This track is strong, brilliantly executed and an absolute gem when it comes to showcasing the duo effectively.
The video is another component to the resonating factors – there are very thought provoking transitions that hold nothing back when it comes to getting its message across, and the cinematography flows with the track’s theme and overall aura when you pay close attention. If you were to hear the song first, then this video definitely comes to mind. But when seeing it in its entirety, you begin to notice that your expectations have been massively exceeded. It’s something you have to see to believe.
“Like Ur Dyin” is definitely a centerpiece when it comes to putting out a message on behalf of real life events. But even more so when it comes to encouraging a solution. If you can mix talent and authenticity on this level with the boldness of a song with this kind of impact, then it no longer becomes a song – it’s an anthem. Something we can all hear and take in with face value – and identify with its aspect while listening to something unwaveringly catchy and captivating. If this song is the first you’ve heard from the Xcedera Twins, then it definitely won’t be your last. “Like Ur Dyin” is bound to leave an everlasting impression on you.
Connect with the Xcedera Twins:
Official Website: http://www.xcederatwins.com
iTunes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLJWhfYj8HU
Link to Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLJWhfYj8HU
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Kaabil- The drudgery of Hrithik’s acting
Moments into Kaabil I was distracted. Not by the little kids in the row before, having popcorn wars. Not by the bright display from the mobile, next seat. Not even by the incessant banter of a marwadi contingent looking for F row in the middle of B row. It was the sight of Hrithik playing a blind man.
His face encapsulates Michelangelo’s intensity half way into Sistine Chapel. Brows arced, it is a picture of focus. What is he doing? Making omelette.Nah….creating fresco with broken eggs on a pan. He’s got this industrious look plastered on his face whilst at even the most common of things, that it lends some unintentional curiosity to the activity. We begin to wonder when he opens a tap so emphatically, if he’s there for just the water or releasing its hidden potential as well. Or the time when he’s dicing vegetables purposefully, if he’s sculpting them for a higher cause or just cooking.
Most emotions he doles out in the movie fall in the range contained between Akbar’s royal grimace to Krish’s righteous chin quiver. The ones which don’t fall in this space, fall under the I-blush-excessively-when-I-get-horny platter from Koi Mil Gaya.
The template of the story is older than a few mountains, alright. But where did the thumb rule of character establishment go? Appu Raja(Aboorva Sagotharargal) pitted a dwarf against a bunch of evil men, all bigger than him in stature and status. We were introduced to the dwarf’s vulnerability, his fragility earlier in the film; that we became invested and went on to root in his lopsided battle.
The fun of watching a protagonist with a disability lock horns with a mighty antagonist comes from his helplessness and the dexterity he brings in to make up for it. He has to be the mouse for most parts in the cat and mouse game they play. Which is one of the many places Kaabil falters. Its hero is a blind man with 18 inch biceps and a blonde streaked mane. He sports colour coordinated designer clothes and never puts a wrong foot down on the dance floor. Instead of leveraging his blindness as a bottleneck, it’s treated like a insignificant kitchen scar. I know the title means capable, but this is over-capable with a few exclamation marks.
And the aspiration to have these things scattered in a masala flick that intends to play to the gallery isn’t a crime. Just that their existence could’ve been ratified. Like showing him live with his granny who picks up his clothes. Have a few montages of him sweating it in the gym or even learning dance. These things lend credibility to the proceedings. Just stray shots of him sniffing a smell from a far away neighbour or that of mimicking Amitabh over phone only does as much as Deepika Padukone does to a deodorant in a commercial, as far as authenticity goes.
It’s not like Hrithik isn’t earnest. In fact if acting was measured by earnestness alone, he would probably be an acting demigod. And it doesn’t help that the director isn’t any visionary himself to make up for the lacunae with a taut screenplay or a novel story. He infuses the film with a distinct 80s sensibility and tropes.From raped heroine, vowing hero, political villain to fat landlines with circular dial; it’s all there. Just that it doesn’t have the old school charm of the era. Dabbang was stitched out of the same cloth, but Salman played Chulbul Pandey with such unabashed conviction, that a rusted script became rustic.
Kaabil needed its hero to be fluid, to have a blast like he did in his extremely popular debut vehicle. Instead he tries too hard and the symbiotic spontaneity goes amiss from the viewing experience. If the meticulous posturing during stunt sequences or the asthmatic enunciation of dialogues are anything to go by, Hrithik’s in his own avant garde project. And even beyond all this, every time I managed to con myself of the film being in this era by the constant sight of slim fit jeans, a hideous Baba bhajanesque track would come up to remind me of its expiry date. .
Thoongavanam- the movie that wasn’t
God! It was bloody good. I just couldn’t have enough of it. My facial hair felt validated. My adrenalin surge was making my fist pump endlessly into the desk adjoining the PC. The lurking fanboy finally had a reason to resurface with renewed vigour.
The “it” I’m talking about is the trailer of Thoongavanam. Boy was it lip-smacking with Thalaivar in amazing form, kicking some ass. A Taken it was going to be, I thought in Kamal style. Another one to go to the long list of masculinity-for-dummies manual alongside Satya and Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu, to name a few.
We all revere the mesmerising actor the man is. A rare breed who could own the screen without disturbing the aesthetics of the story movement; towering tall enough to not belittle the movie. His recent Papanasam being a case in point.
Coming back to Thoongavanam, I walked into the first show with great expectations. The promise the tease managed, the reveal couldn’t keep up. Every thing that caught my imagination in the trailer suddenly seemed like red herrings . What with every passing scene, I could palpably feel my fervency falling apart. Was the movie bad? No.
But was it just good enough to just not be bad? This was a Kamal Haasan movie after all. All of us know that the actors would be well casted and they wouldn’t disappoint. Likewise the technical aspects can be taken for granted to be top notch. So Thoongavanam had all these bare minimums fulfilled. But did the fans of the star have anything to root for like a Vedhalam which released alongside? No.
The reviews which floated around were extremely flattering with most calling it a wonderful remake of the French movie, Sleepless Night with major assertions towards the ‘justice’ it had done to the movie.
So, is it enough for a remake to just do ‘justice’ to its original. How relevant would such ardent submission be, if the original’s milieu was diametrically different from the remake’s. Not to mention the difference in sensibilities of the respective viewing demography.
Sleepless Night is a French movie that catered largely to European sensibilities when it released back in 2011.We are a population that adds tandoori chicken to make a pizza sell. If the number of manchurians and fried rice variants that’ve been imagined by our street food industry were to be patented, it would scar the Chinese for a lifetime.
The same holds true for celluloid adaptations of foreign origin movies too. The content clicks when nativity is addressed.
This is where this movie misses the mark by some distance. Taking the culinary metaphor of pizza further, the pizza needed some tandoori sauce and Indian herbs to become palatable on the Indian roads, but continued to be a rich-bland affair that belonged on the ovens of Milan still, but aspired for acceptance in Mylapore.
Let’s take the case of another Kamal classic- Avvaishanmugi which was adapted from an English classic itself, Mrs. Doubtfire. The movie kept the central conceit intact, but had an independent existence without tampering with the core of the original.
The motley product of dispute, reasons, characters & props that the narrative deployed stayed local and relatable, steering it in a direction different from the original, making the movie speak in the language of the hoi polloi.
Mrs. Doubtfire was a classy affair with subtle situational humor. Avvaishanmugi on the other hand was its unabashed masala recreation that relied largely on dialogue based humor and the crowd pulling ability of its lead man. Whether it did justice to the original in its entirety is subjective. But what it managed to do justice to was far more consequential than that. It reached the story to a large audience, in the process seeping into popular culture. No wonder the movie was such a roaring success.
Thoongavanam’s a grim-long-faced affair unfolding in a night club, with grimmer adults on endless loops of hide-n-seek throughout its running time. It didn’t help that it released on Diwali, a festival that makes mincemeat of guilty pleasures. Where movies are expected to be run-of-the-mill escapist affairs in line with the popular mood, it didn’t help that it was a slow movie that had every character operating at a breakneck speed. Every cop and crook in the movie, run for their lives or to save a dependent’s in this convoluted plot involving multiple ratting in either camps. But neither do we connect to their desperation nor to the plot’s urgency to cut to the chase in every sequence.
Throughout the movie we’re shown Diwakar’s(Kamal) endless failed efforts to get to his kidnapped son. He’s head-butted, pushed and punched by stock characters whose names gratuitously roll in the end credits as “Extras”. They obviously wanted to throw some light on the lead man’s masochism, if not vulnerability. But end up celebrating his fallibility to an audience that had gathered in hordes to hoot and whistle, alienating them in the process.
The redemption does come in the end. But it’s too precise to invigorate any celebration and doesn’t even belong to its lead man. In the mainstream format, when a story takes a significant time to vividly paint the struggles of its lead man, but coughs his redemption out like a blemish in the end, it defies the very syntax of movie-making for the masses.
Commercial movie making is largely about making-believe than fact establishing. The leverage of exaggeration and the staging do the trick. Case in point being Emerich’s 2012, an apocalyptic movie that traces John Cusack and his family comfortably escaping from one natural disaster to another with breathtaking ease. The contrived escapes were a bigger spectacle of defiance than the disasters itself; playing the primal battle of man versus nature to the gallery.
A closer case being Liam Neeson’s Taken that resembles the plot of Thoongavanam to a large extent. Just that Neeson’s character is staged as an invincible one-man army. Something that Thoongavanam should’ve done. Something Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu aced. For who can forget the wolf whistles that went up the roof when Raghavan went,”Chinna Pasangala. Tha..Yaaru Kitta da vilayadringa?”
That was a movie for the masses. A star’s conversation with his fans.
Batman vs Superman- Yawn of Justice
Imagine a person connected by a bluetooth device to his pet cat. Keeping it from falling off a tree’s branch or helping it cross the road starts to become the purpose of his life with every passing mission to keep the cat alive. Well imagine the person to be wrapped in a blue spandex, itchy around the pelvis and a “who –farted- now” look on the face, that’s Superman and the pet cat, Lois Lane his lady love with an IQ of a dung beetle.
In the recent Batman vs Superman-Dawn of Justice, there’s more feminism per square footage than in all of Meryl Streep movies put together with Mother Teresa montages. For submission to Lois Lane’s whims and fancies on priority basis, seem so pertinent to Superman. Even if this misplaced priority meant a dozen immigrant heads at stake, a possibility of making it to the “No Fly Zone” and a few hundred skyscrapers about to be reduced to rubble by a nuking abomination in those precious minutes of romantic unison, he squeezes every time with her.
The warring heroes bond over motherhood, that too with a precious proper noun crisis. So did the guys, who sat on a production cost of $ 250 Million have a good enough reason to bury the two year old hatchet built on ideological differences and more importantly to go against the titular theme of the film? Yes,”Martha”!
Sure any reason, notwithstanding the magnitude of consequence has to melt at the moot of maternity. So the so called epic gladiatorial battle between God and Man, the Son of Krypton and the Bat of Gotham is a red herring that is relegated to gooey-bromance between two sons of different Marthas in a matter of minutes.
So “Martha. Martha” it is.
And if you thought, that was the last of the influence the fairer sex had on the narrative, you’re mistaken, for there is Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman who is the biggest alpha entity of the story. She gets to belt some of the best lines and kick some kryptonian ass when the big boys are violated by an ill behaved monster on loose. In fact, ironically the scene that shows a JPEG image revealing her hidden identity gets the most evocative score of the movie with the sequences involving the sundry heroes(Batman/Superman) happening in natural sound sans exaggeration. Imagine a paragraph about something with etcetera in the end, double the font size as its body. Well, this is how its movie equivalent would look.
If the scope of the movie was already shunted by the inundating spirit of misplaced feminism, the one noted hamming of Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor takes care of the unintentional humor. Neither his “nurtured-on-substance-abuse” look nor his asphyxiated articulation of every syllable, let us take him seriously as a worthy antagonist to pit two of the most revered superheroes against each other. With absolute suspension, his might probably pass off as a teenager’s novice imitation of Heath ledger. And his hyper-ventilation is fondly flattered as being “psychotic”, which is countered with an unimaginative wisecrack by him on syllable count.
The movie reeks from liberal infusion of apocalyptic rhetoric mouthed mostly by Luthor, abstract , which absolutely make no meaning in isolation or together with another disjointed rhetoric like this one-“God is tribal. He picks sides...” or my personal favourite that Alfred dishes so perceptively to the space above the audience’s head called “went-above” that goes-“That’s how it starts. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men… cruel.”
Problem with these ramblings on God and exodus is the fact that they don’t organically lead up to a proceeding befitting of their gravitas. For how seriously are we supposed to take men indulging in cross-fitness with well waxed chests while trying to forge a weapon of mass destruction or the ones who bag-pack on a trek to a picturesque peak to only get a dad epiphany to fix moral disputes.
The last time I heard so many geometrical jargons I had a textbook in hand and a puberty to attain. So when Lex Luthor for yet another time got started about how the line was the shortest distance to either sides of a triangle to an uninspired Lois lane, I could only think of what was for lunch.
As the end credits started to roll, it dawned upon me that maybe Batman was after all addressing us-the audience when he asked,”Will you bleed?“, for Superman had already fled the scene, leaving us to bleed to boredom.
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Effective 4/1/2019 to 11/8/2019. View current
§ 478.40 [Reserved]
§ 478.92 Identification of firearms and armor piercing ammunition by licensed manufacturers and licensed importers.
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a.(a)
1.(1) A licensed importer, licensed manufacturer, or licensed dealer whose sale, delivery, or transfer of a firearm is made pursuant to the alternative provisions of § 478.102(d) and is not subject to the NICS check prescribed by § 478.102(a) shall maintain the records required by paragraph (a) of this section.
2.(2) If the transfer is pursuant to a permit or license in accordance with § 478.102(d)(1), the licensee shall either retain a copy of the purchaser's permit or license and attach it to the firearms transaction record, Form 4473, or record on the firearms transaction record, Form 4473, any identifying number, the date of issuance, and the expiration date (if provided) from the permit or license.
3.(3) If the transfer is pursuant to a certification by ATF in accordance with §§ 478.102(d)(3) and 478.150, the licensee shall maintain the certification as part of the records required to be kept under this subpart and for the period prescribed for the retention of Form 5300.35 in § 478.129(c).
b.(b) The requirements of this section shall be in addition to any other recordkeeping requirements contained in this part.
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1 Ruling
2016-02 2016-2 – Electronic ATF Form 4473
2 Forms
ATF F 5300.9 4473 Part 1— Firearms Transaction Record Over-The-Counter (ATF Form 5300.9)
ATF F 5300.9 (Spanish) 4473 - Registro de Transacción de Armas de Fuego
21 Open Letters
Ohio-May2016-Open Letter-Ohio's Concealed Handgun License Qualifies as Alternative to Background Check Requirement
Kentucky-May2015-Open Letter-Guidance on Alternative Permit Porcedures that Comply with the Brady Handgun Violence Protection Act
Nevada-Aug2011-Open Letter-Nevada’s Concealed Firearm Permit Qualifies as Alternative to NICS Check
Iowa-Jun2011-Open Letter-Transferring a Firearm to an Unlicensed Person Using an Iowa Permit Alternative
Kansas-May2011-Firearms-National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) Requirement Exception.
Nebraska-Apr2011-Open Letter-Nebraska’s Concealed Handgun Permit Qualifies as Alternative to NICS Check
Georgia-July2006-Open Letter-Georgia's Concealed Weapons Permit Again Qualifies as Alternative to NICS Check
New York-May2006-Open Letter-New York's License to Carry and Possess Handguns No Longer Qualifies as Alternative to NICS Check
Michigan-Mar2006-Open Letter-Michigan’s Concealed Pistol Licenses (CPLs) Qualify as Alternative to NICS Check
Virgin Islands-Oct2005-Open Letter-U.S. Virgina Islands Firearms Permits No Longer Alternative to NICS Check
Northern Mariana Islands-Oct2005-Open Letter-Northern Mariana Island Weapons Identification
Alaska-Oct2005-Open Letter-Alaska Concealed Handgun Permits Marked "NICS Exempt" Qualify as NICS Check Alternative
California-Oct2004-California Entertainment Firearms Permit
Massachusetts-Oct2003-Open Letter-Massachusetts License to Carry No Longer an Alternative to NICS Check
Indiana-Sept2003-Open Letter-Changes to Indiana Background Check Procedures
Oregon-Dec2000-Open Letter-Notice of Amendment for All Oregon Firearms Background Checks
North Dakota-Apr2000-Open Letter-Correction Notice-Qualifying Permit Alternatives to NICS Check
South Carolina-Sept1999-Open Letter-Notice of Amendment-South Carolina Ceases Operations as NICS Point of Contact
West Virginia-Jun2014-Open Letter-West Virginia's Concealed Handgun Licenses (CHLs) as Alternative to NICS Checks
Louisiana-Apr2015-Open Letter-Louisiana's Concealed Handgun Permit Qualifies as Alternative to to NICS Check
Illinois-May2008-Open Letter-Illinois Firearms Owner Identification (FOID) Cards No Longer Qualify as an
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Tika Sumpter Tapped for Potential Spinoff of ABC’s ‘Black-Ish’
ABC’s “Black-ish” may just birthed another spinoff if all goes well in terms of the ratings.
According to “The Hollywood Reporter,” the potential series will star Tika Sumpter of OWN’s “The Haves and the Have Nots,” and she would play the mother of a younger version of Tracee Ellis Ross‘ character “Rainbow.”
Tika Sumpter may be starring in a new “Black-ish” spinoff. (Photo: Getty Images, Roy Rochlin)
The young ‘Bow would be depicted as brilliant on an intellectual level but also confused, clueless and awkward.
Rainbow’s dad, meanwhile, is slated to be be played by Anders Holm, who starred in the now-canceled NBC comedy “Champions,” and Sumpter’s sister would be played by Christina Anthony.
Arica Himmel, who appeared in the series “God Friended Me,” would star as a preteen Rainbow, and the new characters will be introduced during a “Black-Ish” throwback episode later this year.
If the episode turns into a full-on series, it’ll be the second spinoff of the Kenya Barris-created-show since it began in 2014, the first being “Grown-ish,” which stars Yara Shahidi as a college student.
On Monday, March 18, Sumpter shared news of the potential spinoff on her Instagram page and cleverly wrote “On that Black…ish. Excited.”
The actress’ fans commented afterward and expressed how eager they are to see her join the “Black-ish” family.
“You go girl I know u going to rock it like u rock everything else chick 💋👍,” someone wrote.
“So excited for this,” wrote another.
“oh I’m DEF here for this!!!!!!🔥” a third person commented
Arica Himmel
kenya barris
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Combinatorial PCR approach to homology-based cloning: Cloning and expression of mouse and human GM3-synthase
Dmitri Kapitonov, Erhard Bieberich, Robert K Yu
GM3-synthase, also known as sialyltransferase I (ST-I), catalyzes the transfer of a sialic acid residue from CMP-sialic acid onto lactosylceramide to form ganglioside GM3. In order to clone this enzyme, as well as other sialyltransferases, we developed an approach that we termed combinatorial PCR. In this approach, degenerate primers were designed on the basis of conserved sequence motifs of the ST3 family of sialyltransferases (STs). The nucleotide sequence of the primers was varied to cover all amino acid variations occurring in each motif. In addition, in some primers the sequence was varied to cover possible homologous substitutions that are absent in the available motifs. A panel of cDNA from 12 mouse and 8 human tissues was used to enable cloning of tissue- and stage-specific sialyltransferases. Using this approach, the fragments of 11 new putative sialyltransferases were isolated and sequenced so far. Analysis of the expression pattern of a particular sialyltransferase across the panel of cDNA from the different tissues provided information about the tissue specificity of ST expression. We chose two new ubiquitously expressed human and mouse STs to clone full-length copies and to assay for GM3-synthase activity. One of the STs, which exhibited the highest homology to ST3 Gal III, showed activity toward lactosylceramide (LacCer) and was termed ST3 Gal V according to the suggested nomenclature. The other ubiquitously expressed sialyltransferase was termed ST3Gal VI. All isolated sialyltransferases were screened for alternatively spliced forms (ASF). Such forms were found for both human ST3Gal V and ST3Gal VI in human fetal brain cDNA library. The detailed cloning strategy, functional assay, and full length cDNA and protein sequences of GM3 synthase (ST3Gal V, or ST-I) are presented.
Glycoconjugate Journal
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007091926413
Sialyltransferases
beta-galactoside alpha-2,3-sialyltransferase
haematoside synthetase
Cytidine Monophosphate N-Acetylneuraminic Acid
G(M3) Ganglioside
Conserved Sequence
Gene Library
GM3-synthase
Molecular cloning of glycosyltransferases
Sialyltransferase
Kapitonov, D., Bieberich, E., & Yu, R. K. (1999). Combinatorial PCR approach to homology-based cloning: Cloning and expression of mouse and human GM3-synthase. Glycoconjugate Journal, 16(7), 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007091926413
Combinatorial PCR approach to homology-based cloning : Cloning and expression of mouse and human GM3-synthase. / Kapitonov, Dmitri; Bieberich, Erhard; Yu, Robert K.
In: Glycoconjugate Journal, Vol. 16, No. 7, 25.11.1999, p. 337-350.
Kapitonov, D, Bieberich, E & Yu, RK 1999, 'Combinatorial PCR approach to homology-based cloning: Cloning and expression of mouse and human GM3-synthase', Glycoconjugate Journal, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 337-350. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007091926413
Kapitonov D, Bieberich E, Yu RK. Combinatorial PCR approach to homology-based cloning: Cloning and expression of mouse and human GM3-synthase. Glycoconjugate Journal. 1999 Nov 25;16(7):337-350. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007091926413
Kapitonov, Dmitri ; Bieberich, Erhard ; Yu, Robert K. / Combinatorial PCR approach to homology-based cloning : Cloning and expression of mouse and human GM3-synthase. In: Glycoconjugate Journal. 1999 ; Vol. 16, No. 7. pp. 337-350.
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Liberty Basketball: Cabbil drops career-high 30 in win at North Alabama
Published Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, 9:22 pm
Front Page » Sports » Liberty Basketball: Cabbil drops career-high 30 in win at North Alabama
After Liberty’s big win on the road against Lipscomb earlier this week, the Flames had a quick turnaround against a tough North Alabama squad who was sitting in fifth place in the ASUN standings.
On a night where the Flames would be tested, senior Lovell Cabbil Jr. stepped up with a career-high 30 points to defeat the Lions 80-70. Liberty ties its Division I school-record with 23 wins in a season while also improving to 12-1 in the conference.
Lovell Cabbil Jr. ignited Liberty’s offense in the first half scoring 14 of Liberty’s 35 points leading all scorers. Going into the break with a 35-28 lead, the Flames would have to rely on its shooting from the free-throw line in the second half and the team delivered, shooting 83 percent (15-18) from the charity stripe.
“I knew after the Lipscomb game that it was going to be way harder than our guys thought and North Alabama played really well at home,” Liberty coach Ritchie McKay said. “They are a young team that never says die. I am proud of our guys’ effort because it is hard to win on the road in any league. I thought we did the necessary things in order win. He (Cabbil) was special tonight on both ends of the floor. Happy for Lovell and he finds a way to get buckets.”
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New Defense Contracts
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Envistacom Awarded $47 Million Multi-year Task Order by U.S. Army for Deployable SATCOM Terminals
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Envistacom today announced a $47.8 million, three-year award to support the Deployable Ku Band Earth Terminal (DKET) program managed by the U.S. Army’s Product Manager Satellite Communications (PdM SATCOM). The task order was awarded under the Deployable Adaptive Global Responder Support (DAGRS) indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract worth up to $480 million over five years. Envistacom will provide installation, training, relocation, integration, and upgrades for new, legacy and existing DKETs, DKET LT (“Lite” version) and mobile DKET (MKET).
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Street Art Comes to the newly renovated Living Room at the W DC MODERN LUXURY by Michael McCarthy December 2019
Pushing Boundaries; By challenging the notion of what Plein air paintings look like, four innovative artists have expanded and enriched the way we view our surroundings. | Plein Air Magazine Dec/Jan 2019/2020 by Kelly Kane
Shar Coulson: Gathering Truths | Nature, with its unpredictability and endless variety of organic shapes, is one of my primary sources of artistic inspiration. When I paint in Plein air, my objective is not to capture the realism of what Im seeing. Instead, I'm in a state of "gathering truths" through all my senses to build an inventory of shapes, textures, colors and feelings that I will later draw upon when working in my studio. In other words, I paint outdoors so I can paint indoors. Formally trained in classical figurative realism, I truly tapped into my passion once I began painting abstractly. The freedom of creating non-objective work was exhilarating. It wasn't long before I unmasked in my paintings the organic shapes found in nature. Fauna, flora, and on occasion, figural elements as illusory as they may be- are hidden within. Materially, I was better able to express my vision by making a change from oil paint to water-based mixed media. The fast-property of these paints allows me to better layer gestural drawing and experimental mark0making to create a complex and intriguing surface. Today, my work sits between the figural and the abstract. I strive to create paintings that are inherently beautiful, mysterious and representative of my distinct vision. Taking risks is satisfying and opens the painter to fresh and varied opportunities. The great 19th-century french landscape painting Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot sums up my feelings about my work and my attitude towards how I ought best to accomplish it: "Reality is one part of art; feeling completes it... Before any site and any object, abandon yourself to your first impression. If you have really been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.
In the Galleries: At two Washington spaces, art of a political caliber Washington Post by Mark Jenkins, August 16, 2019
The pictures in Scott Ivey’s show at Artist’s Proof are hung a bit lower than is usual for the gallery, notes proprietor Peggy Sparks. That’s one reason the D.C. landscapes in the local artist’s “Bridges and Alleys” seem so approachable. They take a street- or window-level view of everyday scenes, with only the occasional glimpse of the city’s monumental precincts. When a dome punctuates the open skies, it’s seen in the distance, through that appears welcoming rather than ominous. Whether working in oil or ink-washed charcoal, Ivey is a master of congenial fog and drizzle.
Ivey lists Edward Hopper, James McNeil Whistler, and J.M.W. Turner as his principal inspirations for these pictures, made between 1988 and this year. The artist’s interest in the first of those is evident in his focus on ordinary places, although none of these scenes are inhabited by Hopper-like nighthawks. From the other two precursors, Ivey learned about light and depth, all suggested with loose yet precise gestures. But the subjects of Ivey’s nocturnes — unlike the ones now on display in the Freer Gallery’s “Whistler in Watercolor” — don’t seem remote. They’re misty yet neighborly. Read Full Article Here
With "Bridges and Alleys,' local artist offers intimate, sometimes moody look at DC beyond the Monuments, The DC Line, August 13, 2019
Artistic portrayals of Washington frequently draw from one or more of the city’s distinguishing landmarks to convey a sense of place, whether that involves highlighting skylines sculpted by the Washington Monument and the Capitol Dome or illustrating vistas of the National Mall and Lincoln Memorial that evoke the nation’s popular imagination. At Artist’s Proof Gallery in Georgetown, however, an ongoing exhibition of drawings and paintings titled Bridges and Alleys: A Collection of Works by DC-based artist Scott Ivey offers an alternative vision of DC removed from nationally recognizable landmarks. The exhibit provides a more intimate, quotidian portrait of the city — one that’s frankly relatable to local residents. Read Full Article
The Young and The Guest List 2019 Washington March 8, 2019
Peggy Sparks; Director, Artist’s Proof: At the fine art gallery in Georgetown, Sparks strives to serve as a conduit connection local emerging creatives with prospective clients. Advocating for artists is crux of her job, she explains, citing her ability to translate their visual narratives to new collectors. “One of the great perks of my job is that I am able to be intimately acquainted with the producers of art,” she says. “ When I speak to an artist and am able to listen to what motivated them to create a piece of artistic work, that moves me.” The Singapore-raised galleries also on hotel, residential and commercial projects globally.
In the galleries: Photojournalist’s memoir is a tale of two cities. Washington Post by Mark Jenkins, January 11, 2019
The four vast landscapes that dominate Nenad Zaric’s exhibition at Artist’s Proof are meant to be elemental: They depict earth, fire, and water. That’s not all the turbulent paintings represent, as the show’s title indicates. “Memory and the Subconscious” also expresses the internal landscape of a Serbian artist who was born in 1986, just a few years before Yugoslavia began to splinter and fratricidal conflict began.
Zaric’s pictures solemnize more than a century of Balkan strife, including the 1914-1918 war in which one of the artist’s great-great-grandfathers was killed. The palette is dark and mostly in shades of gray, with plumes of vivid red in the fire painting and a bit of subdued green around the blue-less pond in the water one. In two slightly earlier pictures, the images are more abstract yet literally earthy — the thick acrylic pigment is bulked with sand and dirt.
Nature is not so explicitly integrated into the element paintings, which stretch horizontal vistas across two (and, in one case, three) vertical panels. Yet the land’s ability to regenerate is one of Zaric’s themes. In his nearly monochromatic portrayal of psychic and physical damage, that patch of green may be the most important thing.
Nenad Zaric: Memory and the Subconscious Through Jan. 20
In the galleries: In two exhibitions, three painters put aside their brushes. Washington Post by Mark Jenkins, November 8th, 2018
The mixed-media paintings of Shar Coulson, whose “Perception vs. Reality” is at Artist’s Proof, are somewhat more traditional. The Chicago artist’s work begins as abstract but comes to include hints of nature and landscape imagery. (Her current series is titled “Fauna Flora Figure.”) Some brushwork is evident amid the strata of wax and acrylic paint, as are lines drawn in charcoal.
Yet Coulson uses tactics akin to . She regularly rotates the canvas so as to approach the composition from fresh perspectives. Also, she abrades pigment she has applied, both to yield weathered textures and to open areas for new forays. The completed pictures feel delicate yet physical, combining muted hues and robust gestures. Coulson’s homages to flora and fauna are just as celebrations of the act of painting.
Perception vs. Reality: An Exhibition of Works by Shar Coulson Through Nov. 25
Artist’s Proof Presents Perception vs. Reality: An Exhibition of Works by Shar Coulson. East City Art, via Artist's Proof Press Release, October 15, 2018
Artist’s Proof is pleased to announce Perception vs. Reality: an exhibition of works by American artist Shar Coulson. A curated selection of her paintings will be on view at Artist’s Proof this October. Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, October 20th, 2018 at 4 pm at Artist’s Proof Gallery located at 1533 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC. The exhibition will be on view from October 20, 2018, to November 25, 2018.
Formally trained in atelier-style realism, Shar Coulson (American, b. 1955) finds her passion runs most rooted in the world of Organic Abstraction. Not a school or a movement but characterized by “the use of rounded abstract forms based on what one finds in nature,” which was prevalent in artists and sculptors such as Kandinsky, Miro, Henry Moore, and Jean Arp. Finding alignment with Georgia O’Keeffe’s sense of color and sensuality, she is inspired by the Abstract Expressionists before her, who stepped into the unfamiliar and made it a credible artistic path.
This is Georgetown: Culture, video by GeorgetownBID and Think Out Loud Productions, August 21, 2018
Forget what you think you know--THIS is Georgetown culture.
Check out the sixth video in our #ThisIsGeorgetown summer series, as we highlight some of the most interesting people who shape Georgetown's fashion, food, history, community, small business, specialty services, and culture! For more byGeorge stories, visit georgetowndc.com/blog.
Video by Think Out Loud Productions; featuring Artist's Proof
In the galleries: Every picture tells a story, but it’s up to viewers to provide the plot. Washington Post by Mark Jenkins, May 25, 2018
Technically, the “Theory of Color” at Artist’s Proof is the second half of a two-part show of local and international abstract artists. The selection spotlights bright hues, following a run of all-white work. But some of the pieces from the previous grouping are still on display, so both modes coexist.
Of the part-two artists, most evoke nature. Robert Schoenfeld’s overlapping swaths of color dotted with gold grains suggest flower bouquets, as well as Morris Louis canvases. Shar Coulson’s paintings employ more muted shades and subtle contrasts among areas of opaque, watery and seemingly abraded pigment. Kikuko Morimoto works with literal blocks of color, collaging torn sheets of single-hue paper. Simplest yet rich with detail are Craig Cahoon’s bisected fields, pitting red against orange or black vs. lime. The colors are bold but applied in streaks, which gives them texture and even a sense of movement.
Of the colorless works on exhibit, the most striking are Maja Thommen’s bas reliefs, made of fiber resin. They conjure shapes of water, including waves, ripple bubbles. That the material is entirely white frees the Swiss artist to focus purely on form, light shadow.
Theory of Color: Color and Intent in Abstraction Through June 3
Of the colorless works, on exhibit, the most striking are Maja Thommen’s bas-reliefs, made of fiber resin. They conjure shapes of water, including waves, ripple, and bubbles. That the material is entirely white frees the Swiss artist to focus purely on form, light, and shadow.
‘I Look at Every Work Like a Little Miracle’, ByGeorge Blog, February 15, 2018
DURING HER SENIOR YEAR AT A CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN SINGAPORE, PEGGY SPARKS SAT ACROSS FROM FATHER GERRAD KEANE. THE IRISH JESUIT PRIEST HAD ONE MORE LESSON TO TEACH HER.
‘He knew I wasn’t very religious and he said, ‘You might not have faith, but never lose your sense of awe.’ He told me this when I was 18 years old and I’ve never forgotten it. That’s how I try to approach the world, and art is one of those things.’
Peggy grew up in a loving family with modest means on the other side of the world; another world from her current life as the owner of Artist’s Proof gallery. As soon as she discovered a globe, Peggy began a running list of places she wanted to visit. Right before college, she saved enough for a plane ticket to Thailand. There, she discovered her life’s passion.
‘You don’t think about art in your safe space. When you travel you realize that the art you see is such a reflection of the culture you’re visiting. I started to buy a painting from every place I visited, and that’s how I started to get really excited about it.’
Best Art Advisor: Best of DC, DC Modern Luxury, by the Editors. January 10, 2018
When one asks art curator and advisor Peggy Sparks what she likes when it comes to fine art, she doesn’t equivocate: The woman has a gallery to showcase her passions. From pop artist John Stango to internationally renowned photographer Fred Maroon, Sparks has the most diverse yet on-point eye in the city. The good news for companies and individuals who want to populate their offices and homes with beauty? Sparks’ talent is for hire. She believes in the commingling of personal taste and timeless imagery.
Talk About the Passion, DC Modern Luxury, by Michael McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief, January 2018
Peggy Sparks is another woman passionate about her calling: art. As the owner of Artist's Proof Art Gallery & Consultancy in Georgetown, she has one of the keenest eyes for new worldwide talent in the District, and she also happens to be one of the most insightful and genuinely happy people you'll meet in the new year.
Two Shades Of War: Nenad Zaric At The Artist’s Proof Gallery, The Georgetown Voice, by Michael Bergin, December 12, 2017
In the bewildering strife and tragedy of conflict, art has always been a positive light in the darkness. Petr Krivonogov’s painting of Russian soldiers standing with their arms up on the bullet-ridden Reichstag steps has been a Russian sign of hope for peace, or even for restoration. “Guernica” is a memorial to the chaos and confusion of atrocity and violence, while “Paths of Glory” is a dismissal of glory searching for a lost generation. Those who live through times like these all have a unique experience to convey. Serbian artist Nenad Zaric is no exception. Selected works from his “White and Black” series, now on display at the Artist’s Proof Art Gallery, reflect Zaric’s feelings on the downfall of Yugoslavia, torn apart by ethnic conflict.
10 summer date ides that go beyond the typical outdoor movie or concert, Washington Post, by Going Out Guide staff, July 2017
The intimate pop-up concert series Sofar Sounds puts on shows in unexpected spaces: Think Artist's Proof art gallery in Georgetown, the Femme Fatale pop-up store on H Street, Shake Shake in Union Station and private homes across the city. Sit on blankets and listen to music from a mix of local bands, emerging artists and such headliners as Vanessa Carlton, Broods and Buika - three past acts.
Walls & Plates, DC Modern Luxury, by the Editors, December 2017
Owner and curator Peggy Sparks has one of the finest contemporary-art minds in the city, and it shows in this place.
In the galleries: Dark hues that paint unsettling portents, Washington Post, by Mark Jenkins, June 15, 2017
Even if none of Saya Behnam’s paintings included Farsi script, which a few do, the influence of Persian illuminated manuscripts would be clear just from the colors. The Tehran-born, Leesburg-based artist’s elegant pictures are abstract rather than representational, but they’re clearly linked to tradition. Her Artist’s Proof show, “Saffron & Tea,” glistens with flower and mineral pigments used for centuries in one-of-a-kind illustrated books.
In addition to the titular substances, the artist employs henna, coffee and hibiscus, supplemented by gold. Dabs of the latter dance across a series of florals on white backdrops, while other compositions include 3-D spirals of gold leaf or white and yellow paint. The juxtaposition of loosely and tightly painted forms complements the contrast between watery, overlapping tints and rock-solid hues. The results are usually delicate, which befits techniques such as the way Behnam blows saffron grains across the surface, letting them fall where they may. As the artist writes, this process yields a permanent “testament” to a fleeting gesture.
In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures, Washington Post, by Mark Jenkins, May 4 2017
Like Darrow Montgomery, Pedro Correa is a street photographer, but he doesn’t focus on a particular place. The pictures from his “Urban Impressions” series, at Artist’s Proof, depict multiple cities on several continents. A Madrid-born Brussels resident who trained as a painter, Correa hops from London to Tokyo to Paris. Wherever he goes, it seems, he avoids the eyes of the people he observes. He’s a poet of urban isolation, or at least non-connection.
Correa often shoots through mist, fogged and streaky glass, or from several stories up, gazing straight down. The results include a vivid snowscape in which footprints and tire tracks reveal a black surface beneath the white powder, and a red umbrella is the only note of color.
With their generic locations and blurred and hidden faces, Correa’s photos appear to seek universal qualities of city life. Yet they often have discreet local character. Tokyo’s concrete is set off by bamboo, a cogent summary of the city’s look, and a British Rail sign identifies one scene as London. Correa’s subjects may be elusive, but they’re not entirely lost.
In the galleries: Step right up and see the sideshow, Washington Post, by Mark Jenkins, February 2017
There are only four Schalk van der Merwe paintings on display at Artist's Proof, but they pack more intensity than a dozen gentler pictures. Taken from the South African artist's latest series, "Not So Funny Now," the portraits glower at the viewer through veils of drips, scratches and smears. Shadowy sockets nearly swallow the subjects' eyes, while red accents suggest both flesh and blood. But skin and underlying muscle don't devolve into raw meat, as in the work of Francis Bacon, whose style is one of van der Merwe's reference points.
These aren't renderings of particular people, and the gallery's note argues that "identity, likeness and gender are neither clear nor important." Yet the faces appear as bristlingly masculine as the artist's method. Van der Merwe uses sketchy charcoal lines to define basic features, giving graphic discipline to the layered, painterly images. In one portrait, the lower part of the face melts into a delta of drips, and yet the overall countenance remains lucid and sturdy. These pictures may depict shock, anger or despair, but never weakness.
Women of Style, Peggy Sparks, Gallery Owner, DC Modern Luxury, September 2016
If there's more effervescent or charming person in the arts community in Washington, he or she would need to overtake Peggy Sparks, owner of Georgetown's Artist's Proof Gallery (aproof.net). Maybe one of the reasons for her cheery vibe is the fashion freedom she experiences everyday. "One of the greatest job perks in the art business is that I get to wear just about anything I want and get away with it," says Sparks, a Singapore native work worked in cities like Shanghai and Dubai before setting in the District a few years ago. " I can get away with wearing a razorback form-fitting dress with ballet flats [one day] and distressed denims with 4-inch stilettos [the next]. And then I'll wear a formal white suit to a client meeting, and no one questions the appropriateness of all three styles."
Art and Culture featuring Donna McCullough, DC Modern Luxury, March 2015
Christian Develter in the cover of the Georgetowner, Georgetowner, October 2014
At Artist's Proof on Wisconsin Avenue, "Ma Da Wine Chin," oil on canvas, by Christian Develter of Blankenberge, Belgium. Develter's latest series chooses for its subject the women of the Chin tribe in Myanmar, focusing on their elaborately tattooed faces.
Featured Artist: David Kracov
David Kracov is a sculptor, painter and animator, who has worked on landmark movies such as "The Lion King" and "The Swan Princess." He has long captured the hearts of young and old alike, with work guided by the ever-evolving nature of pop culture, literature, and history. pg. 8
Far Out Fashion: Exhibition of Fashion Photography work by Fred Maroon, DC Modern Luxury, May 2014
During the height of the Cold War, the idea of slipping into Mongolia to stage a fashion shot was borderline absurd and nearly impossible. But if you were a determined London editor teamed with a freelancer photographer who'd shot post-World War II reconstruction, the impediments were dwarfed by ambition. The 1966 journey would produce what are now considered iconic fashion images - all shot by Washington photographer Fred Maroon, who died in 2001 and whose rare fashion work is gaining interest among collectors.
"Fred Maroon had never shot a single frame of fashion before 1966," says Peggy Sparks, owner of Artist's Proof Gallery in Georgetown. Her space has teamed up with Maroon's heirs to display and sell 20 pieces of his work this May.
Artist's Proof, DC Modern Luxury, By Katie Bianco, December 3, 2013
For those schooled in contemporary art, stepping into Artist’s Proof (aproof.net), the new gallery in Cady’s Alley, is a joy. Peggy Sparks, the space’s down-to-earth and gorgeous owner, is a Singapore-born, globe-trotting art consultant who recently moved to the District with the mission of opening a gallery that sells exclusive, yet accessible, art. “It’s not just about art on white walls, it’s about being able to interact with the works,” says Sparks, who, before her stateside move, was a driving force behind the success of Ode To Art, one of Southeast Asia’s most respected contemporary art galleries. Here in DC, Sparks has exclusive U.S. representation for many of the artists on her walls, including Christian Develter and Pham Thanh Van. And she plans to host her featured artists for events and workshops, which shouldn’t be difficult, given the friendships she’s forged. “I’ve worked with many of these artists for years,” she says. “The most important thing is, I love them. Unless you love the work, it’s very hard for you to show the passion to anyone else.”
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Посол Эйнар Гуннарссон начал работать в отделе по делам Арктики МИДа Исландии с августа 2018 года, приступив к подготовке к председательству Исландии. До этого, начиная с 2015 года, он являлся Постоянным представителем Исландии при ООН в Нью-Йорке, где, среди прочего, он возглавлял Третий Комитет Генеральной Ассамблеи в течении 72-ой сессии.
В период с 2009 по 2014 гг. г-н Гуннарссон являлся Постоянным заместителем министра иностранных дел и занимался последствиями экономического кризиса 2008 года. До вступления в должность постоянного заместителя министра г-н Гуннарссон находился на дипломатической службе Исландии в разных должностях, таких как директор департамента международных торговых переговоров, начальник отдела кадров, заместитель постоянного представителя при международных организациях в Женеве, советник дипломатической миссии Исландии при ЕС в Брюсселе, советник департамента международной торговли и правовой советник департамента национальной обороны при МИДе.
После получения юридического образования в Университете Исландии в 1992 году г-н Гуннарссон работал в качестве юриста и адвоката окружного суда в частной юридической фирме в Рейкьявике, прежде чем он перешёл на дипломатическую службу в 1996 году.
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The Arctic Council at Arctic Frontiers
The Arctic Frontiers is an annual conference held in Tromsø, Norway, at the end of January. This year’s conference will focus on the theme “Power of knowledge” and takes place from 26-30 January 2020. The conference started out in 2006 assembling a global scientific summit on economic, societal and environmentally sustainable growth in the Arctic region. Arctic Frontiers has a pan-arctic perspective and builds new partnerships across nations, generations and ethnic groups. Participants from more than 35 countries joined the gathering in Tromsø in January 2019.
Located in the hometown of the Arctic Council Secretariat, the Arctic Council has an active presence at the conference, including a side event on blue bioeconomy, a movie screening of THE GRIZZLIES, and a media tour. Here is a list of Arctic Council related events during Arctic Frontiers.
Arctic Frontiers Side Event on Blue Bioeconomy
A source for Arctic optimism: The Blue Bioeconomy
Date and Time: Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 16:15-17:45
The blue bioeconomy has the potential to be a major contributor to achieving sustainable development in the Arctic and beyond. The term “blue bioeconomy” refers to sustainably maximising the value and use of aquatic bioresources using innovative processing methods. It is a source for great optimism for the circumpolar region.
Today, estimates reveal that up to 43% of captured fish and shellfish resources end up either as wastage or discarded material. This means that companies are throwing away 43% of the biomass that could potentially generate substantial profits by developing methods for turning “waste” into high value products for food, feed, bio-products and bioenergy sectors. The blue bioeconomy is a kind of back to basics thinking in the sense that it revolves around making the most of available resources, and maximizing the value of and revenue from marine catches while minimizing waste and negative environmental impacts of marine operations.
Arctic Council COP25 side event on ocean acidification was a call for action
The Arctic is experiencing some of the fastest rates of ocean acidification with potentially severe implications for the ecosystem and communities dependent on these. To raise awareness on acidifying waters and to bring state-of-the-art knowledge on the issue to a global arena, the Arctic Council organized a side event “All aboard! Tackling polar ocean acidification” at the COP25 in Madrid.
The side event was led by the Icelandic Chairmanship, organized in cooperation with the Council’s Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) Working Group, and hosted in the Cryosphere Pavilion. It brought together leading international acidification experts for a one and a half hour briefing on the chemical, biological, and socio-economic impacts of acidifying waters in the North – and what can be done to tackle the issue.
Iceland’s Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, HE. Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, opened the side event and highlighted his country’s close ties to its surrounding waters. “Iceland takes any changes in the marine environment very seriously. Fisheries are a main pillar of Iceland’s economy. So, any threats to the Arctic marine ecosystem is of concern to Icelandic society”, he stated in his opening.
Ocean acidification in Arctic waters is widespread and rapid, and while the Arctic Ocean as a whole can be considered as especially vulnerable, the effects of acidifying waters are not uniform across the Arctic. “For the AMAP Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment 2018 we developed five regional case studies and found that effects and impacts on communities vary across the Arctic. Findings such as the potential reduction in sustainable harvest of the Barents Sea cod stocks by the end of the century are severe – not just for the region but on a global scale”, said Rolf Rødven, executive secretary of AMAP.
AMAP’s assessment was recently backed up by the special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. “The AMAP and IPCC reports present complimentary messages on ocean acidification in the high latitudes. Similar as in the rest of the world, ocean acidification is progressing as a result of continued carbon emissions. However, the polar oceans are especially vulnerable to atmospheric emissions because colder seawater naturally absorbs a larger fraction of CO2”, Ko Barrett, Vice-Chair of the IPCC, stated at the side event.
The ocean has absorbed around one fourth of the carbon dioxide emitted through the burning of fossil fuels globally. Yet, this important role as carbon sink is imperilled. “Ocean acidification is diminishing the ocean’s role in taking up CO2. For every step acidification advances, the ability of the ocean to take up more CO2 becomes smaller and therefor the potential for future global warming increases”, explained Prof Richard Bellerby, from the East China Normal University and Norwegian Institute for Water Research, and Chair of AMAP’s 2018 assessment.
While some marine organisms might benefit from a higher concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide, such as algae, the negative impacts are very likely to outweigh any positive effects, as attendees of the side event learned. “It is complicated because ocean acidification does not happen in isolation. There are multiple stressors affecting life in the Arctic Ocean, such as warming waters, the loss of sea ice and
the inflow of freshwater from melting glaciers. However, generally speaking we see and expect a lot more negative impacts”, said Dr Helen Findlay from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
These effects will particularly be felt by societies that are closely linked to the Arctic marine environment – including many Indigenous coastal communities across the Arctic. “The food-web in the Arctic ocean is very sensitive, so a significant increase in the population of one species or the disappearance of another could have dramatic dripple effects on the entire Arctic marine ecosystem and we Inuit are a part of this ecosystem”, stated Lisa Koperqualuk, Vice President of International Affairs for the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada.
In a society that is intricately linked to the marine biodiversity, ocean acidification alters not just the chemistry of the waters, but also livelihoods, cultures, identities and languages. Ko Barrett thus urged the audience to view the effects of ocean acidification in the context of what this means to people in the Arctic – and beyond. “The changes that are documented in the Arctic are sweeping and severe. And while not experienced directly by much of the earth’s population, these changes are important all across the globe. These changes to the remote areas show that even – and especially there – human induced warming and ocean change is evident. This is a clear call to action,” she said in closing her intervention at the side event.
In order to base that action on the best available knowledge, AMAP is continuing its work on ocean acidification and is broadening the perspective to take multiple stressors into account that impact life in the Arctic Ocean.
Background information about the Arctic Council’s side event at COP25:
The side event was held on 9 December 13:00-14:30 in the Cryosphere Pavilion at the COP25 in Madrid. A recording of the full event and interviews with the speakers are available on the Arctic Council Vimeo channel.
Opening remarks – Icelandic Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources, HE. Mr. Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson
Ko Barrett, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere.
Prof. Richard Bellerby, Director of the SKLEC-NIVA Centre for Marine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University, China, and Lead researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway: Key findings of the AMAP Arctic Ocean Acidification report
Dr. Helen Findlay, Biological oceanographer at Plymouth Marine Laboratory: The impacts of ocean acidification on Arctic species and ecosystems
Lisa Koperqualuk, Vice President of International Affairs for the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada: The effects of ocean acidification on Inuit communities
Outlook – Dr. Rolf Rødven, Executive Secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP): Summary of key points from presentations and overview of ongoing and upcoming work by AMAP related to ocean acidification
Moderator: Ambassador Stefán Skjaldarson, Arctic Council Chairmanship Iceland
We’re All Aboard!
Editorial by Stefán Skjaldarson, Ambassador and Moderator at the Arctic Council’s COP25 side-event.
It was very inspiring to see the high level of interest for the Arctic Council and its work at the COP25 in Madrid. The turnout at the Council’s side event All Aboard! Tackling Polar Ocean Acidification, held in the conference’s Cryosphere Pavilion, was quite impressive and discussions I had with some of the attendees after the event, not least young people, gave me confidence that the work we do matters to many. The success of the event also confirmed to me that the Arctic Council’s science-based approach to meet the environmental challenges we face, as well as the active involvement of the Arctic indigenous peoples, is extremely important to succeed with our work.
The presentations by the scientists and the gloomy perspectives they gave of our future if we do not act decisively now, caught the attention of those present. Their accounts of the different challenges we face in the Arctic, due to melting of the ice and fast-increasing ocean acidification, and their calls for action, left the audience with a true sense of urgency. Moreover, we were presented with concrete examples of how this all affects the livelihood of the indigenous peoples of the North.
The event shows that people, not least young people, are listening and that our actions - or inactions – are watched closely and that we will be judged by our performance. We must therefore keep up the good work by using the best of science combined with indigenous knowledge, to lay the foundation for meaningful decisions and actions. In this context I would like to mention AMAP’s Arctic Ocean Acidification Report as well as their highly valuable policy recommendations, both of which were presented at the event. Also, the perspectives presented by the Inuit Circumpolar Council gave us all a sense of how the livelihoods of Arctic indigenous peoples are affected and how indigenous knowledge that has been passed down for thousands of years, is relevant when meeting the challenges of the fast changing Arctic environment.
Indeed, other countries, regions and continents will also need to act responsibly if we are to make meaningful progress in addressing the root causes of ocean acidification in the Arctic. We who live in the Arctic should therefore not only use the knowledge we have and the knowledge we will acquire in our work at home. We must also share it and use it to make the world aware of the consequences that their actions and inactions have on the Arctic environment. Moreover, that the changes happening in Arctic also can have dire consequences for the world outside the Arctic. That is why it is so important that the Arctic Council reach out to the wider world by i.e. organizing events of the kind we did in Madrid.
Stepping up youth engagement in the Arctic Council
Arctic youth is not just the future but also the present. A slogan that Indigenous youth leaders coined when they got together for the first Arctic Leaders’ Youth Summit in Rovaniemi, Finland, in November 2019. They called for a more active involvement in the issues that affect them – now and in future – and in doing so they joined a global movement of young people that are speaking up for their rights as they see their future imperiled by climate change.
Over the years, the Arctic Council has stepped up its efforts to engage youth. Working Groups such as the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) and the Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) have been forerunners in not just looking at how youth is affected by a changing Arctic but in actively involving them in their projects.
Arctic Council to host side event at COP25
Arctic States, Permanent Participants, and Working Groups take the topic of ocean acidification, and the Council’s knowledge base on the issue to Madrid
Arctic Council actors join forces in Hveragerði
At the meeting just concluded in Hveragerði, Iceland, delegates of the Senior Arctic Officials’ plenary meeting discussed enhanced cooperation on issues related to people and communities of the Arctic
Together towards a sustainable Arctic in Hveragerði
First Senior Arctic Officials’ plenary meeting during Iceland’s Chairmanship of the Arctic Council places emphasis on people and communities
On 20-21 November 2019, the Arctic Council will gather in Hveragerði, Iceland, for the first Senior Arctic Officials’ plenary meeting during the Chairmanship of Iceland (2019-2021). The meeting will focus on work related to People and Communities of the Arctic. Iceland puts an emphasis on cooperation between all entities of the Council – reflecting the Chairmanship’s overarching theme: Together towards a sustainable Arctic.
Arctic Crossroads
Editorial by Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials
Reflecting back on the first ever joint meeting of the Arctic Economic Council and the Arctic Council earlier this month I can honestly say it left a mark on me. It left me feeling inspired to do more. And I think that was the general mood of the meeting: An appetite for more. For more dialogue, more understanding, more collaboration. And that inspires optimism and a feeling that we are on to something. Something new, exciting and, what is most important: Something sensible.
The Arctic Blue Bioeconomy – A driver for growth
Sustainable use and increasing the value of goods produced from biological aquatic resources plays an important role for driving sustainable economic growth in the Artic - particularly for development in coastal and rural communities. This is what we call the blue bioeconomy. Put simply, it is about sustainably maximising the value and use of aquatic bioresources, producing food, feed, bio-products and bioenergy. The main drivers behind the development of the blue bioeconomy are research and development, innovation and knowledge transfer.
Gender Equality in the Arctic
Gender Equality in the Arctic (GEA) is a project of the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG). The project focuses on gender equality with an emphasis on diversity in terms of discourses, Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, governance, education, economies, and social realities. The GEA project strives to contribute to sustainability and balanced participation in leadership and decision making both in the public and private sectors.
First International Symposium on Arctic and Sub-Arctic Plastics
A new International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic will bring together experts on marine plastics to share new and emerging knowledge and best practices.
The symposium will bring together experts on marine plastics to share knowledge and best practices, with the ultimate goal to feed into the Arctic Council’s regional action plan for the Arctic.
When: 21-23 April, 2020
Where: Reykjavík, Iceland
1 November 2019 - Early bird registration ends
1 December 2019 - Abstract submission deadline
15 January 2020 - Acceptance of abstracts finalized
1 February 2020 - Program finalized; End of registration
Learn more and register here.
Iceland holds the Chairmanship of the Arctic Council from May 2019 to May 2021 and the Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2019. In both roles, the Icelandic Government is focused on the ocean, and particularly on the fight against plastic in the marine environment.
Therefore, the Government of Iceland has decided to host the first International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers in connection with the Icelandic Chairmanship of the Arctic Council. On behalf of the government of Iceland, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources, and the Ministry of Industries and Innovation are responsible for the preparation of the Symposium.
Sponsors of the symposium are the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the OSPAR Commission, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC), the Marine and Freshwater Research Institute of Iceland, the Harvard Kennedy School and the International Arctic Science Committee.
Arctic Council to host side event at the 2019 Our Ocean Conference
The Arctic Council will host a side event at this year’s Our Ocean conference in Oslo on 23 October. The side event is themed “A Cleaner Arctic Marine Environment – Battling Marine Debris in the Arctic” and is organized jointly with the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs and two of the Council’s Working Groups: the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme and the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group.
First joint meeting between the Arctic Council and the Arctic Economic Council
The Arctic Council and the Arctic Economic Council hold their first joint meeting in Reykjavik today, 9 October 2019, bringing together government representatives of the eight Arctic States, business representatives, as well as representatives of the indigenous Permanent Participants, and the Councils’ respective Working Groups. The meeting is a step towards enhancing cooperation and collaboration between the Arctic Council and the Arctic Economic Council, as outlined in a Memorandum of Understanding the secretariats of both Councils signed last May. The discussions in Reykjavik will focus on subject areas of common interest, such as marine transportation and blue economy, telecommunications connectivity, responsible resource development and mainstreaming biodiversity, as well as on responsible investments and corporate social responsibility.
Arctic Circle Assembly: Arctic Council Working Groups’ and Permanent Participants’ panels, breakout sessions and events
Several Arctic Council Working Groups and Indigenous peoples organizations holding Permanent Participant status in the Council are hosting side events at this year’s Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik. See an overview below.
Building knowledge and confidence in the Arctic
As we learn more about the challenges we face in the Arctic, it becomes clearer by the day that collaboration with partners outside the region is needed in order to effectively tackle them. What is more, non-Arctic states around the globe are waking up to the fact that what happens in and to the Arctic has direct and widespread effects on them.
Planning for a greener Arctic future
The Arctic Community Energy Planning and Implementation Toolkit
Arctic winters tend to be long and, in many places, extremely cold. Energy use in Arctic communities therefore can be very high, making reliable and affordable electricity and heating a priority. Today, many Arctic communities rely almost exclusively on fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation. These fuels can come from local sources or be shipped in by land, sea, or air – and those transportation methods bring still more challenges and costs. Thus, there is a growing need, desire, and opportunity for communities to develop clean energy projects.
Increased warming pushing Arctic freshwater ecosystems to the brink
The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Working Group has released the first circumpolar assessment of freshwater biodiversity across the Arctic. The State of the Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity Report, which was presented to Ministers at the Rovaniemi Ministerial meeting in May 2019, provides a synthesis of the state of knowledge about biodiversity in Arctic freshwater ecosystems (e.g., lakes, rivers, and associated wetlands). It finds that Arctic lakes and rivers are losing the ability to sustain their current level and diversity of Arctic freshwater species.
PAME releases first ‘plastic in a bottle’
The Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group launched the first bottle equipped with a GPS transmitter into the Atlantic on 12 September 2019. Called “plastic in a bottle”, the capsule will simulate how marine litter and plastics travel far distances into and out of Arctic waters. The collected data will serve as an outreach tool to create awareness around the growing concerns on marine litter in the Arctic. This first plastic in a bottle was sent off from the Reykjanes peninsula by Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Iceland’s Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources from the Icelandic Coast Guard vessel Thor in conjunction with the PAME Working Group meeting in Reykjavík. Iceland currently holds the Chairmanship of the Arctic Council until 2021 and places a special focus on marine litter and plastics in the Arctic.
The blue bioeconomy is and will be a major contributor to achieving sustainable development in the Arctic and beyond. The term “blue bioeconomy” refers to innovation potentials in utilizing and creating new marine products with the help of new unconventional processing methods. It is therefore also one of today’s main sources for great optimism for our region, especially given the Arctic Council’s specific focus on sustainable development and environmental protection.
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Role-based experiences, media perceptions, and knowledge transfer success in virtual dyads
Bryan K. Hasty, Anne P. Massey, Susan A Brown
Knowledge transfer (KT) is the process through which one is affected by the experience of another. While many of the challenges of KT have been discussed in the literature (e.g. incentives cognitive limitations) the challenge of KT in virtual settings has received limited attention. In this paper our interest lies in exploring asymmetric KT where a sender has more knowledge about a topic than a receiver. We focus on a dyadic relationship between geographically dispersed sender and receiver units supported by a multi-media technology environment. Drawing from the KT literature and Channel Expansion Theory we specifically explore the evolution of and relationship between role-based experiences (e.g. with partner topic media) and media richness perceptions. Our results provide evidence that KT roles do matter relative to the acquisition of experiences and expansions in media richness perceptions. Despite some differences in acquired experiences our results also suggest that KT partners converge in their perceptions of acquired experiences and evolve to shared (or congruent) perceptions of media richness. Finally our results provide evidence that sender-receiver congruence in media richness perceptions influences KT success.
Group Decision and Negotiation
Media richness
Channel expansion theory
Virtual work
Decision Sciences(all)
Hasty, B. K., Massey, A. P., & Brown, S. A. (2006). Role-based experiences, media perceptions, and knowledge transfer success in virtual dyads. Group Decision and Negotiation, 15(4), 367-387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-006-9047-5
Role-based experiences, media perceptions, and knowledge transfer success in virtual dyads. / Hasty, Bryan K.; Massey, Anne P.; Brown, Susan A.
In: Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 15, No. 4, 07.2006, p. 367-387.
Hasty, BK, Massey, AP & Brown, SA 2006, 'Role-based experiences, media perceptions, and knowledge transfer success in virtual dyads', Group Decision and Negotiation, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 367-387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-006-9047-5
Hasty BK, Massey AP, Brown SA. Role-based experiences, media perceptions, and knowledge transfer success in virtual dyads. Group Decision and Negotiation. 2006 Jul;15(4):367-387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10726-006-9047-5
Hasty, Bryan K. ; Massey, Anne P. ; Brown, Susan A. / Role-based experiences, media perceptions, and knowledge transfer success in virtual dyads. In: Group Decision and Negotiation. 2006 ; Vol. 15, No. 4. pp. 367-387.
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Roundup - A Primary Culprit in Disrupting Metabolic Function
According to MIT researcher, Stephanie Seneff, one man-made chemical compound in particular, the herbicide, Roundup, is a primary culprit in the rise in autoimmune conditions, learning disabilities, health conditions within our lifetime. Mind-Body Harmony provides supports the body to restore normal metabolic funciton and immune system function disrupted by man-made chemicals and infectious agents. Exposure to Roundup is now considered by Dr. Seneff and others to be amongst the environmental factors contributing to the autism epidemic.
Roundup and related glyphosate herbicides are now used instead of plowing to kill weeds in fields growing genetically modified (GMO) crops and are now the most commonly used agricultural chemicals used in the United States. They are also sprayed crops during and after harvest as a drying agent. Roundup stays in the soil, does not break down, evaporates and rains down on all of us. Glyphosate related herbicides are used to grow and harvest crops like corn, soybeans, canola and whea. Glyphosate is also used on crops such as walnuts, figs, plums, prunes, grapes, kiwi, lemons, grapefruit, pistachios, pomegranite, and even spinach. Click here for a link to a 2015 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) memo on crops being sprayed with glyphosate.
Glyphosate has been shown to be harmful in parts per billion but has been found in thousands of parts per billion in popular foods such as children's breakfast cereals and even organic crackers, according to a report released by the health advocacy group, Food Democracy Now.
In 2003, Monsanto filed a patent for Roundup as an anti-microbial. Roundup kills weeds by blocking the Shikimate metabolic pathway, used by plants to make the amino acids, Tyrosine and Tryptophan. If plants they don't make these amino acids they die. It turns out that this pathway is also used by many beneficial microbes that live in our intestinal tract, including several beneficial species of lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. These beneficial microbes make many of the nutrients, amino acids, digestive enzymes, and other substances our body needs and uses to support normal early childhood development and to maintain health as an adult. When beneficial microbes are killed off, we become malnourished due to not being able to obtain these nutrients needed for development and health. In addition, pathogenic microbes proliferate and produce toxins in our intestinal tract that further disrupt metabolic function and can ultimately disrupt neurological development in children and contribute to neurological degenerative disease in the elderly as well.
The active ingredient in Roundup, Glyphosate, also mimics the amino acid Glycine, and has been shown to insert itself into genes, DNA, and other molecules in the body, disrupting metabolic function on cellular level - including impairing energy production in the body (mitochondrial function/kreb's cycle) and disrupting the manufacture of and function of lipids which make up membranes throughout the body. Membranes are the lining on the outside of cells and organs and are critical for transporting in nutrients, hormones and transporting out toxic by-products of metabolism so they can be eliminated from the body. Membrane function and energy production are compromised on a cellular level. Damaged membranes/barriers within the body can allow pathogens pass into organs and through the blood brain barrier into the brain.
Research is indicating that Roundup and related chemicals disrupt metabolic pathways, leading to increased oxidative stress, excessive production of damaging free radicals, skewed neurotransmitter levels, decreased immunity, and many other far-reaching impacts on physical and mental health.
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Here are just SOME of the impacts of Roundup on our health:
Kills beneficial microbes which produce many of the depleted nutrients listed below
Depletes active B Vitamins made by beneficial bacteria
Depletes Amino Acids including Tyrosine, 5-HTP, and Methionine whose building blocks are provided by beneficial microbes
Depletes enzymes that digest and detoxify our food that are made by beneficial microbes
Depletes Butyric Acid needed to nourish the villi lining the intestinal tract leading to malabsorption and leaky gut made by beneficial microbes. This contributes to leaky gut where the barrier inside the intestinal tract is damaged.
Causes leaky gut which causes food allergies - as foods leak through the intestinal tract to the immune system layer of the intestinal tract causing the immune system to react to foods as if they are a foreign invader.
Enables overgrowth of pathogens like Candida, Clostridium Difficile and Klebsiella which produce neurotoxins.
Leaky gut allows toxins produced in the intestinal tract to get into the blood stream and travel to the brain causing damage.
Pathogens that overgrow when beneficial microbes are killed produce excessive levels of neurotoxins like ammonia, proprionic acid, oxalic acid, and p-Cresol (also referred to as 4-Cresol)
Disrupts the manufacture and function of lipids (fats and sterols) that make up membranes throughout our body including the epithelial cells
Chelates to beneficial metals in the soil, plants, and animals - resulting in malnourishment due to lack of these minerals
Blocks the body's natural ability to make Vitamin D3 that our skin normally makes when we are exposed to sunlight - most people in the United States are now deficient in Vitamin D3
Damage to the epithelial cells which make up membranes throughout the body can impairing function of the pancreas, gall bladder, liver, and kidneys - contributing to diabetes, gall bladder, liver and kidney damage.
Mimics the amino acid glycine and when it is inserted into molecules/RNA/DNA - disrupts metabolic function and puts it into the category of being a mutagen and carcinogen
Depletes the body of sulfates that are the building blocks of many anti-inflammatory molecules. Inflammation and auto-immune conditions arise when there is insufficient sulfur. Sulfates are needed for optimal functioning of the small intestine, liver, pancreas and the gall bladder.
Depletes the body of reduced glutathione, methione, and other sulfur-bearing molecules.
Impairs methylation and detoxification metabolic pathways because of depletion of building blocks for these pathways.
Toxin producing metabolic pathways arise when healthy metabolic pathways are impaired - leading to excess production of neurotoxins and free radicals.
Impaired pathways lead to an depletion of the methylatransferase enzyme used in methylation processes.
Switching of genes on and off is impaired to insufficient production of methyl donors due to impaired pathways.
Impaired switching on and off of genes disrupts normal development of children including neuronal development in early childhood.
Imparied metabolic processes lead to deficiency of calming and mood elevating neurotransmitters such as GABA, Glycine, melatonin, seratonin, epinephrine, norephinephrine, L-DOPA
Results in excessive levels of the excitatory neurotransmitter, such glutamate, which overexcite neurons to fire, causing them to be damaged and/or die off, also can result in migraines and seizures
Results in insufficient levels of the calming neurotransmitters that stop neurons from firing
Depletes the thyroid hormone, thyroxine, by disrupting metabolic pathways that make it, leading to hypothyroidism
Depletes beneficial minerals sulfur, zinc and magnesium - too much copper and heavy metals
An imbalanced copper/zinc ratio contributes to seizures and impairs the functioning of the decision making and impulse control areas of the brain in the frontal lobes
Depletes medium chain triglyceride fats (MCTs) used to build the brain by killing microbes that manufacture MCTs
Depletes BH4, a critical activator of several enzymes used in metabolic processes throughout the body including the synthesis of calming neurotransmitters, BH4 also detoxifies ammonia and most of it goes to detoxification when there is an overgrowth of pathogenic microbes and yeast in the gut producing large amounts of ammonia
high levels of ammonia - a neurotoxin that skews metabolic creation of neurotransmitters to producing more glutamates which can provoke seizures and migraines and less production of calming neurotransmitters such as GABA that reduce anxiety and elevate mood
leads to high levels of oxalic acid - also interferes with creating compounds that degrade oxalic acid which acts as a neurotoxin
leads to high levels of proprionic acid - acts as a neurotoxin; also lowers blood pressure and cholesterol levels
For a more detailed article on impact of Roundup on health, please click here.
Important Metabolic Pathways that are Commonly Disrupted by Roundup
Metabolic disruption commonly depletes the body of B vitamins (including methylfolate) and amino acids like Tyrosine and Tryptophan are needed to manufacture calming neurotransmitters. Notice the importance of BH4. When there are too many toxins being produced, most of the BH4 is used in the Urea Cycle to detoxify. This means there isn't enough BH4 to make neurotransmitters. BH4 is also used to make Nitrous Oxide which opens up blood vessels, including microcapillaries, and alllows oxygen to reach all cells. If there is not enough BH4, then BH2 instead produces Super Oxide, a powerful and toxic free radical that causes damage to tissues.
Mind-Body Harmony, when taken with methylfolate, Tyrosine and 5-HTP, replaces building blocks depleted by exposure to chemicals like Roundup to normalize metabolic function as follows. In red are metabolic processes and building blocks supported by Mind-Body Harmony:
Here are additional important commonly disrupted metabolic pathways. Notice once again methyl-folate is needed to make BH4 as well as to be used in other metabolic cycles; methylfolate is also typically depleted:
Here are the same pathways supported by Mind-Body Harmony when taken with Methylfolate, once again highlighted in red:
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Mind-Body Harmony Daily Liquid Multi is designed to plug in critical elements that are typically depleted by Roundup and when depleted interfere with normal metabolic processes:
Methylation Support - A methyl group is suply a carbon atom attached to three hydrogen atoms. Methyl groups are need by the body to make calming and mood elevating neurotransmitters, removing toxins, properly switching genes on and off. Mind-Body Harmony provides many methylated B vitamins as well as methylated forms of glycine to support methylation, betaine and beet juice (which also contains betaine in a whole food form).
Detoxification Support - When the beneficial microbes are killed off by Roundup, the pathogenic microbes, yeasts, and other organism thrive and produce toxins including excess ammonia which depletes the body of BH4 which is needed for the methylation cycle but also is used to detoxify ammonia. So we included yucca root which absorbs ammonia, milk thistle , dandelion, and alpha lipoic acid, and sulfur, which support the liver's ability to detoxify. Alphalipoic acid also detoxifies ammonia.
Immune Support - Behavor Harmony includes herbal extracts with powerful antiviral, antiretroviral, antibacterial, anticandida properties - Quercetin, Resveratrol, Deglycyrrhizinated Licorice Extract. Our antioxidant blend of fruits and vegetables (no apples or grapes) provides additional anti-oxidant support.
Mitochondrial Support - Mind-Body Harmony includes d D-Ribose which is an energy source and humic-fulvic acid that helps optimize membranes on a cellular level throughout the body and also has antiretroviral properties. Beet juice also helps to improve circulation, reducing oxidative stress.
Digestive Support - we included the enzyme Bromelain which is highly anti-inflammatory and reduces allergic responses, and a prebiotic blend that feeds benefical microbes. When populations of beneficial microbes increase, they not only produce critical nutrients for us but also crowd out pathogens that produce neurotoxins. Several ingredients degrade the biofilms a layer of slime that protects pathogens from being identified and removed. Biofilms can line the intestinal tract but also occur elsewhere in the body. Anti-biofilm ingredients include Bromelain, Quercetin, Licorice and Resveratrol. Current research is also indicating that biofilms protect chronic viruses including herpes viruses and retroviruses.
How Well Does Mind-Body Harmony Work - First Test
Around the first week in February, I received samples of the new Mind-Body Harmony from the manufacturer I am working with. I started taking it the day after I came down with the virulent flu that has been going around. I started getting sick Friday night and started taking the supplement Saturday afternoon. When I took my first dose, I was flat on my back in a feverish brain fog and my stomach was up. Within 15-20 minutes of taking the Mind-Body Harmony, my brain fog lifted, my stomach felt better, and I got up and started doing things for the first time since getting sick.
I continued to take small doses of it Saturday and Sunday. Each time I took it, my energy level shot up and my brain fog lifted. The fever and intense symptoms of the flue basically broke when I slept on Sunday night, and Monday I felt I had gotten through the fluey/feverish part of the flu. The antiviral and detoxification ingredients worked extremely effectively under worse case conditions.
I am was also diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue 26 years ago when my son was born - and due to my nutritional regimen my energy level is decent but not what it was before I was hit. I have continued to take it when my energy level flags and find that my energy level, mental alertness and mood quickly improve.
Now that I am over the flu, I take half a dose (1 TBS) in the morning, and half a dose in the early afternoon to boost mental and physical energy.
More About Mind-Body Harmony
The new Mind-Body Harmony Liquid Multi supports methylation as did the original version but in addition goes directly to the root of immune system dysfunction, digestive dysfunction, and detoxification support.
Mind-Body Harmony also includes ingredients that have been shown in research to be anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-candida, anti-retroviral to reduce the active population of unidentified chronic infections and decreasing the burden on the immune system. It has ingredients that both break down and absorb toxins, reducing the burden on the liver and kidneys so they can function optimally. It helps to restore intestinal health by promoting the growth of beneficial microbes that produce nutrient we require and reduce populations of pathogens that produce neurotoxins and put a burden on our detoxification metabolic pathways. Providing ingredients to help the body carry out critical processes gets to the underlying causes of health issues instead of just treating the symptoms.
The B active forms vitamins include active forms of B12, B6, niacin, riboflavin, inositol. choline, pantothenic acid. It contains high quality forms of vitamins A, C, D, E, and K.
Mind-Body Harmony Comprehensive contains key minerals including calcium, iodine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, manganese, chromium, molybdenmum, boron, vanadium and potassium. These minerals are offered in bioavailable forms so they are efficiently absorbed.
DMG and TMG + the B vitamins listed above.
Beet juice provides a whole food form of betaine. Beets support digestion, and dialate blood vessels reducing oxidative stress.
Tyrosine a critical is necessary in methylation and formation of calming neurotransmitters that is depleted by Roundup.
Yucca Root absorbs ammonia which in excess becomes a neurotoxin.
Dandelion and Milk thistle support and protect the liver, which is critical for producing glutathione that is needed for detoxification in the brain.
Virtually everyone in the United States is deficient in sulfur which is highly inflammatory.
Alphalipoic Acid breaks down toxins including ammonia.
MSM is a sulfur bearing molecule that is a sulfur donor that can be used by the body to make sulfur-bearing amino acids and gluathione; it is highly anti-inflammatory
Immune/Adrenal Support
Resveratrol - Resveratrol has been shown in studies to be neuroprotective, protect against oxidative stress, significantly increase levels of the important antioxidants Super Oxide Dismutase (SOD). Glutathione, and Catalase Enzyme and protect epithelial cells against damage. Reseveratrol also triggers the release of nitric oxide, which helps to open and relax blood vessels and prevents platelets from aggregating to block arteries.
Quercetin - increases levels of antioxidants SOD and glutathione and has demonstrated strong antiviral activity against many viruses. Quercetin also inhibits the release of histamine, reducing allergy and inflammatory symptoms, protects the liver, helps to open microcapillaries and promote optimal circulation, increases insulin secretion, and protects pancreatic beta cells. It is also highly antiviral.
Licorice is anti-viral and anti-retroviral, protects the liver, is an adaptogen and can balance the adrenal glands - helping to reduce excessive levels of cortisol, and even promotes peristalsis in the intestinal tract, helping to relieve constipation. Lower cortisol levels can help resolve sleep issues such as falling asleep and waking up in the middle of the night. Licorice can help heal the intestinal tract.
Ginseng is an adaptogen that helps to lower cortisol levels which tend to be elevated in chronic health conditions and balance out the adrenal system. It also is neuroprotective helping to improve memory and concentration, helps to lower blood sugar levels and increase insulin sensitivity, has immune system boosting and antiviral properties, can improve symptoms of ADHD
A rich blend of antioxidants and bioflavonoids to protect against free radical damage are provided in the antioxidant blend of fruits and greens (no apples or grapes). This blend includes beet juice, plum, apricot, ginger, orange, grapefruit, lime, green tea, broccoli, kale, cabbage, spinach, kiwi, banana, cranberry, cherry, red pepper. Bioflavonoids provide antioxidants, promote improved circulation and reduced oxidative stress by strengthening blood vessels, capillaries, and microcapillaries, and protect the integrity of membranes throughout the body.
Humic and fulvic acid have strong antiviral and anti-retroviral properties, and help to support epithelial cell function, improving transport of nutrients and removal of toxins on a cellular level in membranes throughout the body, they are neuroprotective and also help to reduce blood glucose levels
Isomalto-oligosaccharides - probiotic fiber and ScFS probiotic blend - prebiotic - help to nourish beneficial microbes in the intestinal tract and reduce populations of toxin producing pathogens.
Bromelain is a digestive enzyme derived from pineapple. It is anti-inflammatory, improves immune function, promotes blood flow throughout the body, can help alleviate sinus infections, and helps to inhibit the formation of fat (lipogensis) which leads to obesity.
Mitochondrial Support
D-Ribose is fuel for cells; supplementation improves energy production throughout the body; is neuroprotective, and protects the kidneys
Humic and fulvic acid - improve membrane barrier function on a cellular level, helping to optimize mitochondrial function.
Mind-Body Harmony Daily Liquid Multi Supplement Facts
Instructions for Using Mind-Body Harmony
Mind-Body Harmony contains more expensive, high quality ingredients than many comparable supplements and is uniquely designed to normalize metabolic functions commonly disrupted in today's world.
For individuals 40 pounds and over, 1 capful (2 TBS)
For individuals under 40 pounds 1/2 capful (1 TBS)
Before opening, store Behavior Harmony at 40-75 °F (5-23 °C)
After opening, store Mind-Body Harmony before in the refrigerator.
Turn closed bottle upside down and shake 1-2 minutes.
Pour single dosage into cap.
Take in the morning. It can be taken straight or blended into a cool or room temperature smoothie. It can be taken with other supplements.
Take with methylfolate (this is not included because folate degrades in liquids. Folate is a critical component of several metabolic processes. The capsules can be opened added to Mind-Body Harmony just before taking. (See our methylfolate recommendations below.)
Optionally take with the amino acids, 5-HTP at night and L-Tyrosine, intermittently during the week. (See our detailed 5-HTP and Tyrosine recommendations below.) These amino acids are commonly depleted due to environmental factors but are the building blocks of several neurotransmitters critical to optimal mental health and function. These amino acids do not need to be taken every day and can be taken at different times of the day. Amino acid capsules can also be opened and added to drinks.
Flavoring Tips:
Mind-Body harmony is pleasant, neutral tasting, slightly sweet with a slight vitamin taste. The natural flavor is strawberry-melon and is free of gluten, casein and grapes. The slight vitamin taste can be largely hidden if it is added to a cool drink. In our trials, we found it tastes best mixed with chilled pear juice. It also tastes pleasant when blended with orange juice. It can be taken straight, but is more palatable when added to another drink or smoothie using a bullet blender or other blender.
Folate Recommendations
Mind-Body Harmony should be taken in with a folate supplement of your choice because it is an essential component of several metabolic processes, including methylation, detoxification, and sulfation. Mind-Body Harmony does not include folate because it degrades quickly in liquids.
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Super Folate - folinic acid - 800 mcg - 200% Daily Value - form of folate 5MTHF
Highest Potency Folate - 1700 mcg - 425% Daily Value - L-5MTHF (Metafolin)
For individuals with impaired methylation, a higher dosage may be more helpful (but not beyond 425%).
Note: Do NOT use folic acid - this is an artificial ingredient that actually disrupts and impairs metabolic processes. It is unfortunately also added to several foods, including cornmeal, rice, wheat and other grain products. It best NOT to use fortified grain products or grind your own gluten-free grains using a grain grinder (such as grain grinder option for the Vitamix blender).
5-HTP and Tyrosine Recommendations
The amino acids, 5-HTP (the active form of Tryptophan) and Tyrosine), are important precursors to several calming (inhibitory) neurotransmitters that are believed to be depleted by Roundup. Many people anecdotally use these supplements to alleviate depression and anxiety.
The current research seems to indicate that 5-HTP is more effective than the Tyrosine in increasing levels of calming neurotransmitters, but if Tyrosine is depleted, researchers theorize this may eventually lead to other neurotransmitter deficiencies.
If you only use 5-HTP and it initially seems helpful and then stops being helpful, it may be necessary to supplement periodically with Tyrosine. Efficacy and frequency of use of these two amino acids may vary from individual to individual. Tyrosine and 5-HTP working together (primarily at different times of day) provide building blocks to make several neurotransmitters, including Seratonin and Melatonin - this means they should NOT be taken together. Typically the body produces more Tyrosine during the day and more Tryptophan at night.
Some people are fine with taking 5-HTP in the morning; for others it may cause drowsiness - depending upon the individual 5-HTP can be taken with Mind-Body Harmony in the morning or taken separately at night. Trial and error experimentation and/or consultation with a medical professional may be needed to determine the proper frequency of dosage of these amino acids for an individual.
For individuals 40 pounds and over, the recommended dose is:
- 500 L-Tyrosine.
- 50 mg 5-HTP
A recommended protocol for taking L-Tyrosine and 5-HTP when first starting Mind-Body Harmony is:
1. Three days in a row, take one L-Tyrosine in the morning and one 5-HTP at night.
2. After the first three days, take the L-Tyrosine every 3 days in the morning and take one 5-HTP every other night.
Not taking these amino acids on a daily basis can prevent a negative feedback loop that results in the body synthesizing and using less of them. (The same principle can apply to not taking Melatonin every night - as the body may get used to it and stop making its own Melatonin, resulting it Melatonin not working as well as it did initially.)
Note: If you are also taking anti-depressant, anti-anxiety prescription drug, a seratonin uptake inhibitor/MAO inhibitor MAO inhibition to impacts levels of neurotransmitters, consult with your healthcare practitioner before using Tyrosine and/or 5-HTP. This is because these amino acids and prescription drugs both can increase levels of Seratonin and you don't want to create excessive levels of Seratonin.
Mind-Body Harmony is the Heart of our Game Changing Nutritional Protocol
Mind-Body Harmony is the core product in our Game Changing Nutritional Protocol that is designed to get at the root of stubborn, chronic health issues to support true and sustainable mental and physical health.
Our Game Changing Protocol:
Provides additional supports to metabolic pathways including the Kreb's energy production cycle that is used by all cells to produce energy in the body. This pathway is disrupted by exposure to GMO corn products. (The toxin in Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) Corn is insecticide that disrupts the production of succinic acid that is a critical part of the Kreb's cycle. Even if you don't consume BT corn you will inhale it due to it being used to manufacture ethanol gasoline.)
Helps to reset and balance the immune system so chronic inflammation is reduced in addition to enhanced recognition by the immune system of pathogens that are hiding to help the body naturally address chronic infections.
Includes cutting-edge probiotics to disrupt the biofilms that protect pathogens and helps to repopulate the intestinal tract with a healthy balance of beneficial microbes that produce critical nutrients, many of which are precursors to calming neurotransmitters.
Provides additional nutrients commonly deficient that are building blocks for calming neurotransmitters.
Provides additional nutrients that are commonly deficient that are building blocks for neurons.
Supports methylation which is critical for switching DNA on and off in cells.
To view our Game Changing Nutritional Protocol that includes Mind-Body Harmony, please click here.
Behavior Balance
Super Folate 5-MTHF (800 mcg)
Biofilm Remover + Microbiome Builder Kit
Intestinal Reboot Powder
Equilibrium - Microbiome Restoration Probiotic
5-HTP - 50 Mg $23.00
Floraphage Probiotic Enhancer $20.00
BH4- Biopterin-Pteridin $82.00
Super Folate 5-MTHF (800 mcg) $15.00
NAC Sustain - Longlasting Precursor to Glutathione $18.00
Equilibrium - Microbiome Restoration Probiotic $34.00
L-Tyrosine - 500 Mg $27.00
Phosphatidyl Serine - Soy Free $30.00
Bitter Orange Glycerine Extract - 4 oz $25.00
Methionine $19.00
HIghest Potency Folate - 5-MTHF (1700 mcg) $18.00
Vitamin C Crystals - Pure Corn-Free $32.00
Liposomal Glutathione $60.00
Phosphorylated Serine Plus $36.00
Co-Q10 - 100 Mg - 60 Capsules $17.00
SAMe Liquid $37.00
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How Coinbase Builds Its Blockchain Infrastructure
by Michelle Kung | on 03 FEB 2019 | in Startup | Permalink | Share
Coinbase is a marketplace to buy and sell digital currency. It’s one of the best-known portals for anyone hoping to approach the crypto-currency market, because it’s the “easiest and most trusted place to buy, sell, and manage your digital currency,” according to Jack Kearney, a software engineer at Coinbase working on infrastructure and security. Most trusted is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot—but for Coinbase, it has a specific meaning. “It means we need to be reliable; we need our services to be up when people want to be trading. It also means that we need to have security at mind in everything we do.”
That also means their infrastructure has to be secure, scalable, and stable. And as their use cases have grown, so has their volume. Thinking about how to meet all their customers’ needs has driven Coinbase to develop an infrastructure that is “blockchain agnostic.” For Kearny, “that just means that we can more easily spin up new chains without having to do anything super custom per chain as much as possible.”
In specific terms, what does that demand of their infrastructure? There are four main tenets that Coinbase abides by when building out its architecture. The first is immutability. “Any configuration change requires a redeploy,” explains Kearny. “This ensures that all configuration changes are tracked in source control and also ensures that we’re always in a deployable state.” That prevents any one actor from making a change that Coinbase doesn’t know about. Instead, everything is immutable, “so anytime we change something, we entirely tear down and rebuild the application,” says Kearny.
The second tenet of the Coinbase architecture is ephemerality. That means every server in their infrastructure only lives 30 days at most. “This is a huge security win,” says Kearny. “This means that if any vulnerabilities were to come out, we’re constantly redeploying these servers, tearing down the old ones, and pulling in the updated packages that might have a vulnerability.” This constant turnover also means that if attackers were to ever “gain persistence, we’d constantly be pulling the rug out from under them,” Kearny says. Building this type of defense into the infrastructure itself keeps Coinbase more secure.
The next tenet is consensus—the more human side of things. In practice, this means that no one can make changes on any critical piece of the architecture without the active consent of enough other players on the team. “Typically, the number of people required to perform an action is proportional to the sensitivity of that action,” explains Kearny. This means that “no one person can perform sensitive actions individually, but any sufficiently large group of people can do anything, any scary action together.”
Lastly, they run Coinbase according to a tenet of automation. That means engineers don’t have to work directly with DevOps to make the changes that they need—tooling is largely self-service. In conjunction with consensus, that means that “all application deployments are completely engineer managed,” Kearny says. “Instead, the deploys and rollbacks are handled by the people who know those applications best, the engineers who built them.” Instead of handing the responsibility off to an engineer who doesn’t fully understand what the application they are modifying does, the experts in those applications shepherd the deploys. It’s an elegant way of democratizing and streamlining processes at the same time.
Using these architectural tenets, how does Coinbase actually operate? It uses the nodes that validate, detect and relay the state updates throughout the blockchain network as their eyes and ears. Whenever somebody wants to send funds into Coinbase, they log into their app, see a deposit address, send their funds through a wallet they control, and Coinbase “detects that they did in fact send those funds to an address that we control by querying these nodes,” explains Kearny. “In the event that it did, we can credit their account balance. Similarly, on the other side, if somebody wants to send funds out of Coinbase, we create a transaction, sign that transaction, and broadcast it through one of these nodes.”
The nodes are critical to their operation. “We need these nodes to be reliable,” says Kearny. “We take security incredibly, incredibly seriously. And so we want to be able to frequently and rapidly redeploy these nodes into the infrastructure, into this ephemeral and immutable infrastructure.” That means, though, that Coinbase is constantly pulling down and redeploying the entire blockchain state—a large amount of data, though not unheard of. “The issue here is that we have concerns with network reliability. So, when our new node comes up, we have to pull down the entire blockchain from the network. And these networks aren’t necessarily the most reliable,” says Kearny. “That’s where Snapchain comes into play.”
Snapchain is, at a very high level, “a tool to blue-green deploy blockchain nodes,” explains Kearny. They want to build something as generic as possible without introducing vulnerabilities, so they implement a node health check. “Typically, we look at the time of the last synced block and compare that with right now. If that grows to too far, we know that we’re pretty out of sync with a network and we know that we want to actually tear down one of these nodes and continue,” says Kearny. While blockchains produce blocks at different rates, they can check against third-party developers to see if any given lag is system-wide.
To minimize the time to sync from the network, Coinbase realized that they needed to separate blockchain data production from data consumption. “We needed a one-way to produce blockchain data, and then in a completely separate setting in which to consume that data. From that, we sort of arrived at two configurations for Snapchain, what we call the snapshot configurations,” says Kearny.
These configurations are the “nodes that we spin up, we sync that chain, we take a snapshot and are constantly producing this blockchain state. And then on the other hand we have long-lived configurations, which consume the state produced by snapshot nodes.” Kearney continues: “The way we manage these and know which snapshot refers to which protocol is using just AWS tags. We tag each snapshot with different tags: the implementation, the network diversion, and the specialization.”
To consume the snapshots, they create two node containers on the box: the node and the control container. Then they take the snapshot, turn it into a volume on the fly, and only then when the data is actually in place do they turn the node on. Though they find peers, they have a full copy of the blockchain so they don’t really have to sync anything with the network. The result is an elegant solution: “We have live nodes running over here entirely isolated, we have snapshot nodes running that requests aren’t going through, and the snapshot nodes actually won’t affect user data at all.”
Network Load Balancers are another unique part of Coinbase’s architecture. Their ephemeral infrastructure means that they don’t have any static IPs, which NLBs can offer. They run with cross-zone load balancing off, which gives them one static IP per node, behind which they can do blue-green deploys. “We’ve built a snapshot selection engine to intelligently select the right snapshot based on a particular node’s version,” says Kearny. And they’re not concerned about rolling back because they have consistent and predictable snapshots to roll back to. “We’ll keep every snapshot we produced for three days so we can roll back to a very granular point in time. And then, after that, we’re going to keep one date chain protocol tuple for 50 days.”
In the future, Kearny says, they’d like to create a dedicated AWS account where they can share snapshots or checkpoints of the blockchain “so that anybody can then grab that checkpoint, know that it was produced by Coinbase and is likely a reliable source, and stand up their own nodes pretty easily.” The abstractions they have to deal with in their user interface might need a better iteration to handle the wide array of new nodes that they’re going to have in the coming months and years. But for now, the fact that they built a way to spin up and tear down nodes easily through Snapchain is, if you’ll forgive Kearny’s understatement, “pretty cool.”
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Michelle Kung currently works in startup content at AWS and was previously the head of content at Index Ventures. Prior to joining the corporate world, Michelle was a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, the founding Business Editor at the Huffington Post, a correspondent for The Boston Globe, a columnist for Publisher’s Weekly and a writer at Entertainment Weekly.
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He stepped back, and, while Mr. Jones revelled in the abundance of water, he addressed himself to Heyst with a sort of justificatory speech, the tone of which, reflecting his feelings, partook of purring and spitting. They had been thirty hours tugging at the oars, he explained, and they had been more than forty hours without water, except that the night before they had licked the dew off the gunwales.
Ricardo did not explain to Heyst how it happened. At that precise moment he had no explanation ready for the man on the wharf, who, he guessed, must be wondering much more at the presence of his visitors than at their plight.
THE explanation lay in the two simple facts that the light winds and strong currents of the Java Sea had drifted the boat about until they partly lost their bearings; and that by some extraordinary mistake one of the two jars put into the boat by Schomberg's man contained salt water. Ricardo tried to put some pathos into his tones. Pulling for thirty hours with eighteen-foot oars! And the sun! Ricardo relieved his feelings by cursing the sun. They had felt their hearts and lungs shrivel within them. And then, as if all that hadn't been trouble enough, he complained bitterly, he had had to waste his fainting strength in beating their servant about the head with a stretcher. The fool had wanted to drink sea water, and wouldn't listen to reason. There was no stopping him otherwise. It was better to beat him into insensibility than to have him go crazy in the boat, and to be obliged to shoot him. The preventive, administered with enough force to brain an elephant, boasted Ricardo, had to be applied on two occasions—the second time all but in sight of the jetty.
"You have seen the beauty," Ricardo went on expansively, hiding his lack of some sort of probable story under this loquacity. "I had to hammer him away from the spout. Opened afresh all the old broken spots on his head. You saw how hard I had to hit. He has no restraint, no restraint at all. If it wasn't that he can be made useful in one way or another, I would just as soon have let the governor shoot him."
He smiled up at Heyst in his peculiar lip-retracting manner, and added by way of afterthought:
"That's what will happen to him in the end, if he doesn't learn to restrain himself. But I've taught him to mind his manners for a while, anyhow!"
And again he addressed his quick grin up to the man on the wharf. His round eyes had never left Heyst's face ever since he began to deliver his account of the voyage.
"So that's how he looks!" Ricardo was saying to himself.
He had not expected Heyst to be like this. He had formed for himself a conception containing the helpful suggestion of a vulnerable point. These solitary men were often tipplers. But no—this was not a drinking man's face; nor could he detect the weakness of alarm, or even the weakness of surprise, on these features, in these steady eyes.
"We were too far gone to climb out," Ricardo went on. "I heard you walking along, though. I thought I shouted; I tried to. You didn't hear me shout?"
Heyst made an almost imperceptible negative sign, which the greedy eyes of Ricardo—greedy for all signs—did not miss.
"Throat too parched. We didn't even care to whisper to each other lately. Thirst chokes one. We might have died there under this wharf before you found us."
"I couldn't think where you had gone to." Heyst was heard at last, addressing directly the newcomers from the sea. "You were seen as soon as you cleared that point."
"We were seen, eh?" grunted Mr. Ricardo. "We pulled like machines—daren't stop. The governor sat at the tiller, but he couldn't speak to us. She drove in between the piles till she hit something, and we all tumbled off the thwarts as if we had been drunk. Drunk—ha, ha! Too dry, by George! We fetched in here with the very last of our strength, and no mistake. Another mile would have done for us. When I heard your footsteps above, I tried to get up, and I fell down."
"That was the first sound I heard," said Heyst.
Mr. Jones, the front of his soiled white tunic soaked and plastered against his breast-bone, staggered away from the water-pipe. Steadying himself on Ricardo's shoulder, he drew a long breath, raised his dripping head, and produced a smile of ghastly amiability, which was lost upon the thoughtful Heyst. Behind his back the sun, touching the water, was like a disc of iron cooled to a dull red glow, ready to start rolling round the circular steel plate of the sea, which, under the darkening sky, looked more solid than the high ridge of Samburan; more solid than the point, whose long outlined slope melted into its own unfathomable shadow blurring the dim sheen on the bay. The forceful stream from the pipe broke like shattered glass on the boat's gunwale. Its loud, fitful, and persistent splashing revealed the depth of the world's silence.
"Great notion, to lead the water out here," pronounced Ricardo appreciatively.
Water was life. He felt now as if he could run a mile, scale a ten-foot wall, sing a song. Only a few minutes ago he was next door to a corpse, done up, unable to stand, to lift a hand; unable to groan. A drop of water had done that miracle.
"Didn't you feel life itself running and soaking into you, sir?" he asked his principal, with deferential but forced vivacity.
Without a word, Mr. Jones stepped off the thwart and sat down in the stern-sheets.
"Isn't that man of yours bleeding to death in the bows under there?" inquired Heyst.
Ricardo ceased his ecstasies over the life-giving water and answered in a tone of innocence:
"He? You may call him a man, but his hide is a jolly sight tougher than the toughest alligator he ever skinned in the good old days. You don't know how much he can stand; I do. We have tried him long time ago. Ola, there! Pedro! Pedro!" he yelled, with a force of lung testifying to the regenerative virtues of water.
A weak "Senor?" answered from under the wharf.
"What did I tell you?" said Ricardo triumphantly. "Nothing can hurt him. He's all right. But, I say, the boat's getting swamped. Can't you turn this water off before you sink her under us? She's half full already."
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30 Worst Things About Credit Card Companies
Jason Notte April 16, 2018
GIVE US SOME CREDIT
A credit card's ideal purpose is to make life easier, but credit cards aren't used in an ideal world, but in a web of fees, rewards points, interest rates, credit equations, and mile-long sheets of terms and conditions. We spoke to credit card industry experts and asked them to name the most troubling aspects of credit cards foisted on us by their issuers -- and they had more than a few answers.
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THE BASIC IDEA
There are still consumers who don't understand the basic function of a credit card or that they'll pay interest on the balance if they don't pay it all at once -- a confusion that benefits card issuers. "I get questions from people all the time who kind of think of it as a debit card or gift card, where there's magically money on it and you just get to spend it," says Brooklyn Lowery, editor at credit card comparison and analysis site CardRatings.com.
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COMPLICATED INTEREST
"You can't just take your balance and multiply it by 14.99 percent and get your extra payment for the month," Lowery says. Annual percentage rates are for the year and not a monthly fee, and sites such as CardRatings still have to provide rate calculators to show cardholders how much interest they'll pay each month.
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THE INTEREST RATE SPECTRUM
A credit score above 800 is considered excellent; 700 to 740 or above is good; 650 to 670 or above is fair; and 550 to 580 or above is poor. Below that is very poor. According to CreditCards.com, the national average for credit card APR is 16.47 percent. The difference can mean 13.21 percent APR on a low-interest card and 23.68 percent APR on "bad credit" cards.
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VARYING INTEREST RATES
APR doesn't apply to every transaction made with a card. The lowest interest rate is for everyday purchases -- swiping a card at the grocery store or gas station -- but transferring a balance from another card may trigger a different (usually higher) rate. Cash advances also have different rates and require an additional fee. "It's a little plastic card and it looks like you can use it in any ATM -- and in many cases, you can," Lowery says. But it'll cost.
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NO GRACE PERIOD ON CASH ADVANCE FEES
Typically, if you pay a balance off in full each month, there's a grace period of at least 21 days to pay off new charges without interest on them. Cash advances get no grace period. "If you withdraw cash from an ATM with your credit card, that is considered a cash advance, and interest will accrue immediately," says Matt Schulz, senior industry analyst at CreditCards.com.
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THE CREDIT CARD AGREEMENT
You'd know more about interest rates if you read the agreement that comes with the card. CreditCards.com noted in 2016 that the average is 4,900 words, despite the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau urging issuers back in 2011 to cut the length and complexity; its model was 1,188 words. "It's not the kind of thing that people take the time to read through and understand what it's going to mean for them and how it's going to affect what they have to pay," Lowery says.
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THE SCHUMER BOX
For most people, the table of interest rates and fees atop a card agreement (called the Schumer box after the congressman credited with the legislation behind it) is as long as the agreement needs to be. They began appearing after the financial crisis, thanks to the CFPB, and help folks who charge heavily, rack up rewards points, and pay off the balance every month. Card perks such as travel, car rental, and mobile phone insurance will be detailed further down. "Those benefits come with deductibles, they come with limits -- no more than two claims in a 12-month period and no more than $600 per claim," Lowery says. "If it's a new iPhone X that you just ran over with your car, that policy and a $200 deductible aren't going to cover it, and it's that stuff that's down in the agreement."
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INTRODUCTORY RATES
A zero percent APR credit card offer can be a huge help to someone in card debt who's just looking to transfer a balance and pay it off without accruing more interest. It lasts only a year or so, though, which can surprise cardholders. "Maybe 10 or 11 months into it, something reminds them 'Oh yeah, I need to be paying off that card,'" Lowery says. "It's not a slow rise when that into period ends: The new APR is right now in the 15 percent range and immediately kicks in." Miss a payment during that introductory period, and that fee can rise immediately.
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CREDIT LIMIT INCREASE FEE
When raising a credit limit, First Premier Bank charges a fee of 25 percent of the increase: With a $100 credit limit increase, a $25 fee is a fairly big deal. "These cards are targeted at folks with less-than-stellar credit," Schulz says, calling it "one of the most egregious" fees.
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BALANCE TRANSFER FEES
Even transferring a balance to a zero percent APR card, most credit cards will charge 3 to 5 percent of the balance. Some offers will waive the fee, but only for about 90 days. "That will probably still save you a ton of money … but you still need to figure that transfer fee into the balance you'll have to pay off," Lowery says.
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SUBPRIME OFFERS
"In a lot of ways, the people who need the credit most are going to pay the highest fees and the highest rates to get it," Lowery says. According to the 2012 Census, an estimated 48 million Americans (20 percent of adults) have credit scores below 600. According the the CFPB's 2015 Consumer Credit Card Market Report, that leads consumers to subprime credit cards with annual fees of as much as 25 percent of a card's credit limit and APRs near or exceeding 30 percent. Those cards include application fees, processing fees, maintenance fees, and authorized user fees adding up to $150 a year, or $2.5 billion for all subprime cardholders. Those cardholders get cardholder agreements that are 70 percent longer, on average, than the typical and written at a level suitable for someone with two years of college -- but more than half of mailings from subprime card issuers went to households with no education beyond high school.
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As finance site NerdWallet has noted, households bringing in more than $157,479 a year pay almost four times more in credit card interest than households that make less than $21,432. But when a household making $150,000 a year has $10,036 in debt, that's less than 7 percent of income. When a person making $20,000 a year owes $3,611, that's 18 percent of their annual income.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York put U.S. card debt at $834 billion at the end of 2017 -- 4.6 percent of it past due. That's not only up from a post-recession low of $700 billion in 2011, but closing in on the recession-era high of $870 billion in 2008. NerdWallet estimates that the average household carrying card debt owes $15,654, based on Federal Reserve numbers putting total revolving credit debt at more than $1 billion.
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HARD CREDIT INQUIRIES
Each time you apply for a credit card, so-called "hard inquiries" are sent to credit firms such as Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion. A score may drop by 10 points or more, a far bigger deal for some applicants than others."That's why we tell people not to apply for a credit card if they already know that their credit doesn't qualify them for that card," Lowry says.
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YOUR CREDIT UTILIZATION RATE
Credit card companies want their cards used, but credit scores improve only by keeping outstanding balances low. A credit utilization rate is key, and determines how well you use available credit. If your card limits total $10,000 over three cards, and you're using $4,000 of it, the utilization rate is 40 percent. The ideal rate is zero; Experian advises keeping it below 30. That said, there are some situations in which opening another credit card can actually help, but only if you keep paying down debt. "Assuming you're approved for that card, use it responsibly, and make your payments on time, your score should rebound within two to three months to the number it was before you applied," Lowery says. It can grow too.
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HIGHLY SPECIALIZED REWARDS CARDS
There are hundreds of rewards credit cards out there, ranging from all-purpose to gas, airline, hotel, and retailer cards. If you have a travel rewards card but don't take vacations that often, you aren't doing you or your credit any favors. "Try to find a card that fits within your lifestyle and credit profile," Lowery says.
EXPIRING REWARDS POINTS
Some card rewards points never expire; others disappear if left untouched for 18 months to three years. "It's rare for rewards to expire, and as long as a card stays open and active, usually rewards will stay there," Lowery says.
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CLOSE THE CARD, LOSE THE POINTS
If card rewards points are associated with a specific airline or hotel chain, Schulz says, closing that card probably won't lose the points. If points are tied to a specific card -- such as with the Chase Sapphire Reserve or Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard -- you probably will. "Be sure to keep that in mind when you're considering whether or not to close an old credit card," Schulz says.
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SEASONAL SAVINGS
Some cards offer cash back in rotating categories that correspond to the season in which people shop for those items, Consumer Reports says. Discover, for example, tailors its 5 percent cash-back program around a seasonal calendar of retailers and restaurants. But there's a cap on how much can be earned in each category ($1,500, in Discover's case).
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A credit card with an annual fee isn't such a bad thing if it's used effectively. If you're a frequent traveler, a loyal shopper, or just like to reap rewards, a $95 annual fee might pay for itself; paying a $550 annual fee on an American Express Platinum Card and not traveling is the wrong choice. "If you can't offset the credit card fee with the points that you're earning, it's the wrong credit card for you and you've wasted your money," Lowery says.
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FOREIGN TRANSACTION FEES
While cards such as the CapitalOne Venture, Chase Sapphire Preferred, and Discover It Miles don't charge transaction fees to travelers abroad, they're in the overwhelming minority. CreditCards.com puts the average foreign transaction fee at 1 percent to 3 percent, which isn't always so slight, depending on the traveler. "It's not uncommon for them to go up to 5 percent per transaction," Lowery says. "If you come home and it's cost you 5 percent plus whatever the conversion is, it can put kind of a damper on that post-vacation glow."
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REWARDS RESTRICTIONS
Some higher-tier cards offer $200 to $300 a year in travel-related statement credit, but that requires knowing what constitutes a travel-related expense. It's often not what the cardholder imagines. "Sometimes it's only ancillary airline fees like baggage fees or an upgrade," Lowery says. "Other times it's much more general, from taxis to tolls, but it depends on the card."
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SPENDING TIERS
Some credit cards require a specific amount to be spent before cashing in rewards. As NerdWallet explains, the Blue Cash Preferred Card from American Express requires cardholders to have at least $25 in rewards stored up ($417 in spending) to redeem rewards. The Cashbuilder Visa requires spending of a whopping $3,333 to get to its $50 minimum rewards redemption. And that's just the first tier.
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HIDDEN CAPS
The Blue Cash Preferred Card from American Express offers 6 percent cashback on purchases -- up to $6,000. Other cards will offer quarterly, rather than annual, caps on cashback rewards, which limits the amount of rewards accessible at a time. Any spending beyond that cap brings cash back at a reduced rate, or not at all.
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MISSED-PAYMENT PENALTIES
Miss a payment on a zero percent APR offer under any circumstance and interest rates can skyrocket -- and bring a $13 to $35 late-payment fee. Make a habit of it and watch APR rise as your credit score falls.
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FREE AIRFARE
There are cards that will woo you with enough points to get a free round-trip flight. But Consumer Reports warns that airline rewards cards may contain restrictions on use of points and blackout dates, making bank cards a safer bet. Just keep an eye on APR and rewards terms.
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WAIVED ANNUAL FEES
Some card issuers will waive a first-year annual fee, but that's likely it. If the issuer offers fee-free balance transfers or zero percent APR, expect that to be temporary as well. While active military and persistent cardholders may be able to get fees waived, waivers are fleeting.
SECURED CARDS
For applicants with low credit scores, secured credit cards are their last good option and best way to improve credit. But they require a refundable cash deposit, usually equal to the card's limit but sometimes less. Some have annual fees, but they tend to have lower APRs than subprime credit cards (under 20 percent) and often allow cardholders to "graduate" to a better, non-secured card once they've shown some responsibility.
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SIGNING RECEIPTS
The federal deadline for U.S. card issuers and merchants to switch to chip-and-PIN cards and readers from swipe-and-signature was October 2015, but U.S. cardholders have still been scrawling nonsense onto receipts. Though card issuers announced this year that they're doing away with the signature requirement here and abroad -- getting in step with much of the rest of the world -- consumers will have to scribble until the changeover is complete.
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Despite implementing enhanced safety features such as chip-and-PIN, card payment remains perilous. Online card fraud is now 81 percent more likely than in-store card fraud, Javelin Strategy notes. Card technology has improved immensely, but it's annoying it means nothing when we're still giving online retailers credit card numbers.
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Good Reads – Why and How to Use Messaging Apps in Your Marketing Strategy
There was once a time when we could only send a limited number of text messages per month. But times have changed. In less than a decade, tech companies have designed free messaging apps without any limitations. For individuals who were notorious for going over their text limits every month, this was like winning the lottery!
However, since then, messaging apps have become a lot more than just texting. Companies have started using them for digital interactions and transactions. Chat apps began integrating other features, such as making voice calls, sending images and videos, playing games, and even purchasing products. These added features have attracted new users. Continue Reading
The birth of Conversational Experiences and how brands are using them
Abhishek Munian
Product Marketing | gupshup.io
Ever since Facebook announced the launch of chatbots to the world in mid-2016, the well-established definition for the same went something like “a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via conversational interfaces”. Bots got the reputation of being lightweight apps that resided within messengers. Ever since their widespread acceptance, the world of marketing has never been the same. A wave of a disruptive new trend in technology ushered into our daily lives. Continue Reading
Beware: Bots Are Now Marketers!
By Beerud Sheth
Founder & CEO | gupshup.io
With the rise of “conversational experiences,” just about every business function—from marketing to commerce to support—must be redesigned to be conversational. The greatest impact felt due to conversational marketing is that businesses interact with far more consumer prospects than they do with paying customers. Each of us soon will be experiencing this as a target, if we aren’t already.
But it’s merely the latest phase in the evolution of marketing. The earliest phase was known “outbound marketing” and consisted of broadcasting key messages to vast audiences through media along the lines of print and television. The next phase was “inbound marketing,” which meant creating interesting content and micro-targeting users via social media and large email campaigns. This newer phase involves having one-on-one conversations with customers to ultimately build long-lasting relationships.
Gupshup at MWC 2018
Amidst the unexpected cold temperatures, Barcelona’s Fira Gran Via conference facility was host to another eventful MWC. The biggest mobile conference in the world saw many innovations, product launches and disruptive technologies at the display.
Gupshup was at Hall 8.1 – App Planet Stand 8.1H44. For the next 4 days from 26th Feb to the 1st of March, our team was doing the rounds addressing curious customers Continue Reading
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Whatsapp for business accounts: What it means for enterprises
Ola, MWC!
Exciting prizes up for grabs in this upcoming bot-a-thon!
2018: The Year in Messaging
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Sweet Swingin’ Brennan Boesch Continues to Rake
Brennan Boesch continues his hot hitting this Spring by launching a three-run homer last night off Washington Nationals pitcher Mitch Atkins. The homer would go for nought as the Tigers lost 5-3 in the late innings.
With Boesch’s home run on Thursday night he has now homered in three of his last four games, with two homers coming off of lefties.
Brennan is a career .269 hitter and has been a shade better this Spring hitting at a .271 clip. In 59 Spring at bats, Brennan is hitting .263 against lefties and .275 against righties. Which, for a power hitter like him, that’s pretty even keel.
After getting off to a slow start this Spring, Boesch has really picked it up as of late. Hitting in five straight games collecting seven hits, three home runs and six RBIs.
“You build to a point in spring training where you feel like you have the swing where you want it to be,” Boesch said.
“From then on, the swing is no longer something you’re concerned about.”
“That’s when it starts to get fun, when you can trust your swing and start competing out there.”
Boesch was asked if he had reached that point:
“Yeah,” Boesch said. “I’ve been there for two weeks.”
I tabbed Boesch in a earlier post this season to hit .270 18HR 75RBI. It looks like he’s well on his way to match those numbers. I think that if Boesch continues his sweet swingin’ into the regular season, he’ll exceed the eighteen home run mark and maybe even reach twenty five. He still needs to improve his OBP percentage as a number two hitter, which won’t be easy hitting in front of Cabrera and Prince. Because, there isn’t no way a pitcher is going to walk him to get to the Big Fellas.
Tigers’ Brennan Boesch Rises to the Lefty Challenge
Leyland impressed by rightfielder’s double in late at-bat
LAKELAND, Fla. — Tigers manager Jim Leyland gave rightfielder Brennan Boesch one challenge against a left-hander
Monday, then announced he’ll give him another Opening Day.
In Monday’s eighth inning, Leyland let Boesch – who’s played the whole game – face Miami’s Randy Choate, an 11 year
veteran who throws from a nasty sidearm angle.
Boesch took that big, beautiful left-handed swing of his and drilled Choate’s pitch over the centerfie1der’s head for a doubie.
I was really proud of him, because I was on him from the bench,”
Leyland said. “I could have run a right-hander up there. But he’s going to play. 1 threw him a iittle challenge: ‘Grind out this at-bat.You’ve got a left-hender throwing from where (Choate) does.‘
He really showed me something.”
Then Leyiand said “as it stands right now,” Boesch would start in the opener a week from Thursday against Boston’s Jon Lester,one of the league’s ace left-handers.
Boesch didn’t start when the Tigers opened the season last year against another top lefty, the Yankees‘ CC Sabathia. That‘s when Boesch was coming off the almost silent second half of his rookie season
Now he’s coming off a year in which he largely established himself (and was missed in the playoffs because of his thumb surgery), Monday, he showed how good he has become at hitting left-handers of different varieties. in the first inning, Boesch faced Mark Baehrle – a move-it-around craftsman, a totally different pitcher than Choate – and launched a high homer that cleared the palm trees beyond the rightfield fence and landed atop the enclosed batting cage How appropriate after this roof shot for Leyland to say that Boesch, 26, has “a real high ceiling.”
Leyland said Oliver will start for a Tigers‘ split squad against the Mets on Sunday, and Smyly will start against
Toronto on Monday in the second-to-tast game of the exhibition season. So the fifth-starter there by might go to the finish, Duane Below, who allowed one run to the Yankees in a start Sunday is the third contender for the open
rotation spot.
ROSTER MOVES: The Tigers sent six players to minor league camp Monday: right-handers Jacob
Turner and Chris Bootcheck;infieiders Audy Ciriaco, Argenis Diaz and Ryan Strieby; and outfielder Quintin Berry.Turner, ranked as the Tigers‘ top prospect by Baseball America, fell out of the running for the rotation opening when he was sidelined by tendinitis in his pitching arm.
Tigers outfielder Brennan Boesch slowly hones swing
Brennan Boesch hit for the cycle.Sunday and Monday.He had a triple and single Sunday against the Phillies.He followed that with a home run and double Monday in a 3-3, 10-inning tie with the Marlins.It’s the unprecedented fifth tie this spring for the Tigers, by the way, making them 15-4-5.But back to Boesch.He got his hits Monday off left-handers: His fourth home run this spring, off Mark Buehrle; and a double off Randy Choate. That lifted his average to .265 after it was hovering around .210 a couple of days ago.
Source: https://betbomb.com/mlb/articles/29248/tigers-outfielder-brennan-boesch-slowly-hones-swing
Boesch, Peralta boost Porcello against Fish
LAKELAND, Fla. — Brennan Boesch joined the list of Tigers on a home run spree this spring, hitting his fourth homer to support Rick Porcello in the latest chapter of his standout spring in a 3-3, 10-inning tie with the Marlins on Monday afternoon at Joker Marchant Stadium.
Boesch’s first-inning blast off the indoor batting cage building beyond right field came off longtime Tigers foe Mark Buehrle, now a Marlins starter after opposing Detroit for years with the White Sox. It gave the Tigers a 2-1 lead after third baseman Audy Ciriaco’s error and a Porcello wild pitch yielded an unearned run for the Marlins in the top of the inning.
Porcello, making his first start at Joker Marchant Stadium this spring following three starts on the road and another in a Minor League game at Tigertown, held down the Marlins’ offense from there, with help from a pair of ground-ball double plays. The sinkerballer induced 11 groundouts to help him on his way to seven innings.
Former Tigers infielder Omar Infante’s leadoff triple set up Miami’s second run in the seventh, leaving Jhonny Peralta’s fourth-inning solo shot as the difference in the game until Joaquin Benoit allowed a run in the ninth. Peralta, batting third with Miguel Cabrera out, went 3-for-3 to raise his spring average to .293.
Buehrle struck out five batters on his way to six innings of three-run ball. Chad Gaudin added a scoreless inning of relief for Miami.
Up next: While Andy Oliver makes his latest start in his quest for the fifth-starter spot, the Tigers could end up testing out much of their likely Opening Day lineup against Astros left-hander Wandy Rodriguez on Tuesday. All the position players left in camp, save for Cabrera, are scheduled to make the trip to Osceola County Stadium for the 1:05 p.m. ET matchup.
Source: https://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?c_id=det&content_id=27627712&vkey=news_det&ymd=20120326
“It Might Have Been” by Scott Byrne
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been.’” -John Greenleaf Whittier
Just 3 short years ago, Brennan Boesch swashbuckling debut splashed across a splendid April evening in Arlington; his slashing stroke on a Rich Harden delivery launching the ball into the left-center gap for a double in his first MLB at bat. A week later, at Comerica Park, Brennan ripped his first dinger – a grand-slam that helped beat the Angels and began a storybook, Chris Shelton-esque first half. At the All-Star break, Boesch’s BA was .336, with 12 HR’s and a .996 OPS.
The 6’3″, 235 lb slugger with surfer-dude good looks had it all – he could hit the gaps or blast it over the fence, ran well enough to take an extra base or steal one, and produced as well vs. southpaws as righties. His outfield defense was a work in progress, but compared to an aging Magglio and pus-armed Johnny Damon, it was positively marvelous. It certainly seemed as if Boesch would be anchoring Kaline’s Corner for years to come.
We as fans can fondly recall Brennan’s brilliant Tiger moments – he certainly gave the ballclub his best, which makes those glimpses of his best so maddening. I have no doubt he will quickly find a new team willing to take him north at the end of the month – and it is a positive referendum on the state of Detroit’s roster that a player with such a skill set is expendable. The organization deserves kudos also – by all indication, Dave Dombrowski exhausted all potential trade avenues, and by releasing Boesch now, his chances of making a major league team by Opening Day are good.
He has an ever expanding fan club, galvanized by his slashing game-changing bat
We love Brennan Boesch. Who doesn’t? We were thrilled when at the start of the ’10 and ’11 seasons when he performed so well. He has the power. He has the personality. He has the smarts. And he has the looks…
But here’s what we like the most about Brennan Boesch, and one of the things we like the most about baseball: it doesn’t matter where your from, what your background is, or how much money you have. To make it in pro baseball you have to have talent, but more importantly you have to have ambition and drive. Brennan has all that, and he used it to get to where he is today. He took the hard way.
He also seems to have great personality and character, which isn’t something required of big leaguers, but certainly doesn’t hurt. He speaks Spanish to the hispanic players, who no doubt appreciate that. He seems to be friends with everyone, most notably Miguel Cabrera, and has quickly befriended newcomer Prince Fielder. He even spends a lot of time with other player’s kids–something he definitely doesn’t have to do.
Perhaps the coolest thing though is that Brennan has serious respect for the city of Detroit. In the aforementioned article he states: “I’m more Detroit than Southern California. If only I could bring the weather to Detroit, I’d be here. I love this area, everything about it.” The Royal Oak resident further goes on to say that “I just get really, really defensive about (Metro) Detroit. It bothers me…I got my GMC outside. I think it would be blasphemy for me to drive a Mercedes in Detroit.”
If that isn’t the quickest way to a Michiganders heart, than what is?
Combine this great clubhouse personality with massive potential and is it any mystery why he’s such a fan favorite? Of course, if he has a second-half dip for a third year in a row it could be potentially problematic, but we don’t really see that happening. We, along with countless other Tiger fans, have always, always admired Brennan for his bat, but now we should all give him more respect for his character as well. This is the kind of ballplayer that clubhouses, managers, GM’s and cities should love.
Somewhat surprisingly, this pretty-sappy-but-also-pretty-good article was written by Lynn Henning. Nice job, Lynn, but this one line had us literally dying laughing.
“He has an ever-expanding fan club in Detroit galvanized by his slashing, game changing bat, and by a certain mystique, crafted mostly because he’s a native of Hollywood’s backyard who looks and sounds as if he might have had a shot there.”
Brennan Boesch has a mystique? That sounds like something we’d have to judge for ourselves one day!
Source: https://aprilinthed.blogspot.in/2012/03/man-mystery.html
Detroit Tigers agree to terms with Boesch for 2012
LAKELAND, Fla. — The Detroit Tigers announced today that they have agreed to terms on contracts for the 2012 season with right fielder Brennan Boesch. Boesch hit .283 with 16 home runs and 54 RBIs in 115 games for the Tigers last season before missing an extended period of time at the end of the season with a thumb injury. He is expected to be the everyday right fielder for the Tigers this season.
Source: https://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2012/03/detroit_tigers_agree_to_terms.html
Tigers’ Boesch says he’s ready to go after injury
AP Sports Writer
LAKELAND, Fla. — When the Detroit Tigers made their run to the AL championship series last year, Brennan Boesch wasn’t able to play.
Instead, Boesch could only watch while the Tigers beat the New York Yankees in the division series and then fell in six games to Texas with a World Series berth on the line. He missed the entire postseason with a right thumb injury that required surgery.
“It’s tough,” the 26-year-old outfielder said. “You can’t necessarily do anything about it. You just try to be as supportive as you can with your team and try to cheerlead them on.”
It’s hard to say how much Detroit’s chances of winning the American League pennant might have improved with Boesch in the lineup, but he’s ready to put his injury behind him and return to a batting order that became even more powerful over the offseason. Boesch is penciled in to hit second for the Tigers, right in front of sluggers Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder.
“I think I’m a good fit in that spot. I got some experience in the two hole last year and it was a bit of an adjustment, just getting up five times a game,” Boesch said. “With this lineup, I’d hit ninth, I’d hit seventh, I’d lead off, I don’t care. The depth of this lineup is very strong.”
Boesch was a bit of a sensation when he made his debut in 2010, hitting .342 with 12 home runs before the All-Star break. He regressed significantly after that, hitting .163 the rest of the way, but he finished his first year with 14 homers and 67 RBIs.
Last season, Boesch improved his batting average (from .256 to .283) and on-base percentage (from .320 to .341) and hit 16 homers in 115 games.
But he was also battling a nagging thumb injury.
“I was playing with it for quite some time, and it just got to a point where I couldn’t go anymore, so I wasn’t productive and I wasn’t helping myself or the team out,” Boesch said. “At this point it feels great.”
Boesch didn’t have an at-bat after August. He said there was some thought of trying to come back if the Tigers had reached the World Series, but he doesn’t think that would have been realistic.
Boesch started 45 games in right field in 2011 and 54 in left. Manager Jim Leyland would like to let him stick more to right field.
“I think with the type of personality Boesch is — a little bit hyper — I want to settle him in,” Leyland said.
The Tigers beefed up the middle of their order by signing Fielder in the offseason, but it’s important for the hitters at the top to get on base. Leadoff man Austin Jackson will try to improve on his .317 on-base percentage from last year, and it will be Boesch’s job to keep rallies going.
“He’s got some pop in that two hole and I like that,” Leyland said. “That’s kind of the way our lineup sets up.”
The left-handed hitting Boesch may also be able to take advantage of the hole on the right side of the infield when Jackson is on base. Don’t expect much bunting from the 6-foot-4, 235-pound Boesch — but despite his size, he’s not that much of a double play risk, having hit into only 12 in two seasons.
“I like Boesch in that spot, because he’s really not a double play guy,” Leyland said. “He runs good enough that he beats out a lot of double play balls.”
Last year, Boesch needed to show he could be more consistent and establish more of a true performance level after the bizarre extremes of 2010. Now he simply needs to stay healthy and fill an important role for a Detroit team with plenty of stars.
“You try to build off each year, and I felt last year that I was on my way to having a solid year before it got shut down with the injury,” Boesch said. “But you can only judge the time that I was healthy and I’m perfectly OK with how I did. I want to build on it this year.”
Leyland said 2B Brandon Inge will start the team’s spring training game Saturday against the Atlanta Braves. … Leyland said RHP Doug Fister will start that game on the mound, with RHP Collin Balester, LHP Phil Coke, LHP Daniel Schlereth, RHP David Pauley and RHP Jacob Turner also likely to pitch.
Source: https://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=7633429
Detroit Tigers’ Jim Leyland wants Brennan Boesch to be team’s everyday right fielder
LAKELAND, Fla. — Detroit Tigers outfielder, Brennan Boesch, has split the majority of his time in right and left field the past two years. That isn’t the plan for him this season.
Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Thursday that he’d prefer to make Boesch the team’s everyday right fielder in 2012.
“I really think it will be good for this club if Brennan Boesch could play right field every day for the Detroit Tigers this year,” Leyland said. “I think that’d be good for our team.”
Of Boesch’s 231 career outfield appearances, 130 have been made in right.
Boesch, 26, started 45 games in right field last season, primarily platooning with Magglio Ordonez before a nagging thumb injury cut his season short. He made 57 starts in left.
Leyland was reluctant to call the move permanent, saying there could be a rare occasion Boesch would shift to left field during the course of a game.
“You might have to make a move that says ‘That guy is more comfortable in right so let’s move Boesch over,’” Leyland said. “So, I’m not going to etch it in stone.”
Leyland identified center field and right field as two positions that are “locked in” and said he needed to “tinker around a little bit” with left.
Source: https://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2012/03/detroit_tigers_jim_leyland_wan.html
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written by Charles Trapunski October 2, 2019
What a fun experience in which Brief Take was selected to participate, during a recent afternoon at the Corus building!
As we are big fans of Leighton Meester from films like Country Strong and The Oranges, following her journey in music, and of course, now into her TV work in the funny sitcom Single Parents (which recently entered its second season, featuring Meester among a group of parents that form their own little system of support, also starring Taran Killam, Kimrie Lewis, Jake Choi and Brad Garrett, among others). The network sitcom is a showcase for the real-life Mom to highlight her comic chops, and Meester is a revelation as Angie D’Amato in Single Parents.
The following is a condensed and edited version of our lively seated interview with the lively and multi-talented Leighton Meester.
Brief Take: Nice to meet you, Leighton! You were in Toronto for the premieres of The Oranges and The Judge at TIFF, correct?
Leighton Meester: Yes, definitely The Oranges. I didn’t come for The Judge, but once with my husband Adam Brody, when he was here filming Shazam!
BT: Let’s talk about Single Parents. What’s coming up for your character, Angie, and what do you enjoy most about working on the show?
LM: The people. I really enjoy working with Taran (Killam), I’ve learned a lot from him. Being able to work on and craft a character, I guess, based on my own experiences, and how I see her and so much of what I’ve said has somehow seeped into the character, like I think that she should be a metal fan, she’s into metal, and little things that ended up coming in like old dating stories that I have told them have sort of seeped in as well, it ends up sort of becoming kind of like real life.
In season two, Angie’s sort of opening up. She’s guarded and has walls up for good reason. I mean she had to be the mother, father, everything to this kid, and had sort of built up her ex to be this terrible person in her mind and her kid relied solely on her, and suddenly, there is someone else there that is maybe threatening that position that she has…you know, it’s challenging for her, but maybe it’s forcing her to look outside herself and the narrative that she’s created for so long. And also all the silly crazy things, like we have a house fire, I come face-to-face with a live possum…things like that.
BT: Was Angie as you had pictured from the start or did you craft the character a little bit over time?
LM: I would say that it happened over time, but some of it started off…I had sort of an idea, but really, it’s more over time. Like things that I have brought to it, but also what the writers have as well. A little bit early on I said: “Oh, maybe she should be into heavy metal…” Big mistake! Because now she’s really into heavy metal and I’ve gotta listen to it all the time! It really is a perfect backdrop for what Angie does, which is rage. She rages. [laughs]
BT: It’s cool to see that Adam is the father of your child both in real life and on Single Parents. We had the chance to talk with him recently and he was such a fun interview. Would you feel ready to play Angie if you weren’t a parent in your life?
LM: Me, personally, no I wouldn’t. [laughs] I feel like my experience as a parent has a huge, huge role in me actually being able to do this and to understand what we are doing. But I also feel like I can grasp playing someone who’s not a parent, but it just makes it a lot easier for the serious, harder stuff, but also for the silly, funny stuff that comes along with being a parent. I mean it’s got a lot of laughs, so yeah! [giggles]
BT: Did you picture at the beginning of the series that you would bring Adam into the fold?
LM: Very early on I did mention that he would want to do the show and they were like: “Oh, would he want to do it?”, I was like: “Yeah, I think so”, and then J.J. [Philbin}, the showrunner, she was like: “I have the idea for season 1, the last episode of the season we’re going to meet Graham’s Dad, and he’s working at drive-thru and Angie goes and finds him and…” And I was like: “Oh, that’s great. Who were you thinking?”, and she was like: “My dream would be….Adam”. And I was like: “Whoa! Okay!” Like I never would have thought that’s who it would be, but that actually makes total sense”. It was nice!
BT: How have you enjoyed your interactions with Graham, your son on the show played by Tyler Wladis?
LM: Well, he’s older than my kid, my kid’s four, and also, she’s my kid, so I know every little good and bad thing and when we’re working, they’re little professional kids. He’s easy to talk to. Like when I talk to him, I feel like I might as well be talking to a 20-year-old – he’s very mature, obviously we don’t talk about everything that you would talk about to an adult, but he’s so sweet and kind and lovely. I feel very protective of him. [laughs]
BT: What has the work you do with Feeding America meant for your own life and for your character as well?
LM: Well I don’t know how much it informs my character, because I’m not really sure how that would change her, but I think that she is a very giving, generous person. And as for me, I have felt completely in awe and inspired by all the different opportunities that I’ve gotten working with Feeding America. It’s amazing the work that they do and I feel lucky to be a small part of it. It’s definitely important and I think that we kind of lose sight of it, but to put things in perspective, I mean you can use your connections or friend groups or if you have a social media following to talk about it, but actually going and volunteering, giving your time and being face-to-face with people is really the thing that I think that has given me the most enlightenment and perspective, in particular on the situation there in Los Angeles.
BT: How has your experience with surfing helped refresh your perspective?
LM: It’s tough, because I leave my daughter to go to work and sometimes that’s hard. But surfing is actually something that lets me do something that doesn’t have to do with work and doesn’t have to do with kids and it doesn’t have to do with anything but me and something that I like and that I want to do. Which, as a mom, especially one that works, you don’t get a lot of time to do anything like that. And it’s also working on a skill that, again I don’t get paid for it, it’s not something that I grew up doing, it is very humbling to be in the ocean, which is very powerful, and have a skill on which I am working trying to get better. It is so relaxing and also it refreshes me to be able to sort of disconnect.
BT: What was your experience like on the show The Orville? You got to sing a little bit.
LM: Oh yeah!
BT: It was a funny and particular moving episode.
LM: Yeah! It was great. I liked working with all those guys. Scott [Grimes} with whom I was doing a lot of my scenes, he’s a great musician, a great singer. He’s very wonderful, really fun to play with. Seth [MacFarlane] is very creative, very collaborative and also a very good musician. It was very fun to collaborate together and I think it’s fun and funny and kind of makes you think. Like, we were talking, because my thing is almost like I’m in the past, but they make me a computer program thing, it makes you think about all the different ways that something can happen, like: [questioning voice] Is there time travel? It’s really interesting. But yeah, that show’s great!
BT: You are a multi-hyphenate. Do you like having different professional pursuits?
LM: I think so, and yet especially when you put being a Mom into the mix, like I don’t feel like I’m doing anything all that well because all I do the rest of my time is try to be a Mom, so it’s hard to find time for everything. I feel good as long as I have time for even a small part of it. But being happy at work is a huge part of what makes me happy in life, but the number one thing in life is that my kid is good and happy and healthy. That’s it, that’s number one.
BT: Do you have role models?
LM: Yeah, I do. I’d say, I don’t know if this counts, and I don’t know if this is because he’s always on my mind, but really Adam. He’s saved my life. He’s made me feel so deserving of all the good things in life that I have ever wanted and he helped me to have those things. He’s a really strong, supportive, encouraging person and he’s number one. He’s great.
BT: In interviews, you often talk about cereal. But then we rarely get to the good part – which one is your favourite?
LM: Oh, what is the favourite? Oh my God, well….
BT: I’m big into cereal.
LM: Oh, then I’ve got to hear what you like.
BT: It changes over time.
LM: I know, I’ve definitely gotten a little bit more sophisticated. Ask me a few years ago, I would have said Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Now….I’m a little bit more like Life. Life cereal—Do you have Life cereal up here? [sees look of disappointment] You are not into Life?
BT: Having trouble placing the consistency of it.
LM: It’s like there are little squares and it almost looks like Shredded Wheat but…you know what, it looks like Chex, but it’s flatter and has sugar in between. It’s very good. Chex is good, too.
BT: Yes! Got it. I’ll say Honey Nut Cheerios.
LM: Honey Nut Cheerios is A+, no problem there. I got no problem with it.
BT: A classic.
LM: You know what I never had growing up, but I love now?
BT: What’s that?
LM: This is nasty: Lucky Charms.
BT: No way! Not at all nasty.
LM: Lucky Charms. I mean it’s marshmallows for breakfast. But it is very good.
BT: But you’ve got the non-marshmallow part too.
LM: [quickly] That’s good, you gotta have…each.
BT: That’s the balance.
LM: It’s true, that’s the balance for which we are all searching. [laughs]
BT: What are your hopes for the series?
LM: I really love playing this character. I love the people with whom I work, I love the show itself, but in particular, I love this character. I would like to continue to explore where she goes and what she does. I’d like to see all the different adventures that she goes on with Will, I would like to see what weird people she dates, I’d like to see her dealing with Graham’s dad and all that, and all the other silly things that we do. And I don’t know, I hope that it goes on forever. I love it! [laughs]
Single Parents airs Wednesdays at 9:30 ET/PT on ABC and Global
Interview: Single Parents’ Leighton Meester was last modified: October 2nd, 2019 by Charles Trapunski
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We’ve made it through another working week, which means it’s time for a My Five! This week, Teletext gets a revamp and the Peaky Blinders are causing trouble.
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1. By court order of the Peaky Blinders…
Producers of the epic BBC crime series, Peaky Blinders, have taken legal action against a Manchester bar for ripping off their brand.
The bar owners insist they are purely fans of the Bafta-winning drama and “do not in any way intend on portraying ourselves as being affiliated with the show”.
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The Peaky Blinders Bar Manchester is about as subtle as a brick; the walls are plastered in 12 foot wall murals of the Shelby brothers and Aunt Polly, the cocktail menu is named entirely after characters and quotes from the series, and the dodgy lookalikes… the less said about those the better.
The show’s producers claim the bar “has no authorisation” to operate under the brand, and have contacted the owners with a legal notice to cease and desist. However, while the ‘Peaky Blinders’ TV and media trademark is safe, an application to trademark the use in relation to food and beverage services was opposed by the Intellectual Property Office, so the bar owners technically aren’t breaking any laws.
While I’m not sure where this leaves the show’s production companies legally, they have a right to want to protect their brand and are justifiably cheesed off. It’ll be interesting to see how this battle unfolds, and whether the Peaky Blinders bars in Belfast and Liverpool are hauled over the coals too.
2. Amazon scraps Dash buttons
Amazon has stopped selling its branded Dash buttons as consumers are showing preference for other buying methods.
For those not in the know, Dash buttons are little, plastic buttons that can be stuck around the house so that, when everyday products run out (such as toothpaste, washing powder, cat food etc) you can reorder more at the push of a button – literally.
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Of course, this was a crafty way of scattering Amazon checkout points around the home and a fun gimmick for a bit, however, the novelty has finally worn off thanks to the rise in mobile first tech and voice commerce.
Virtual Dash buttons are still going strong on the Amazon app, and while existing buttons will continue to work, they will no longer be available to buy.
3. When Teletext met Instagram
The second series of the Irish comedy show Derry Girls started on Channel 4 this week (woo!) – hilarious, dramatic and wincingly non-PC in places – what’s not to love?
The show is set in 90s Northern Ireland, so for its accompanying social media campaign the marketing team is channelling a classic piece of 90s television nostalgia – the wonder of Teletext.
The activity will mainly unfold on the @Channel4 Instagram account and posts will keep fans entertained with updates throughout the series, as well as weather updates, the music charts, and ‘spiritual guidance’ from Sister Michael.
Pat on the back, Channel 4. It’s a grand idea, so it is.
4. Vegan sausage rolls are bringing home the bacon at Greggs
Greggs is on a roll this year (sorry), reporting a sales surge of 9.6% in the seven weeks to 16th February, a windfall the bakery chain is putting down to their controversial vegan sausage roll. The bakery chain’s soaring profit margins have caused shares to almost double in value since July last year.
Greggs’ savvy marketing campaigns are always a source of entertainment – sausage roll phone cases, witty social media responses, and that time they reversed a store sign to sabotage the shop front opposite – but its vegan sausage roll campaign has deservedly been hailed a “PR masterclass” by the industry magazine, PR Week.
I wonder if Piers Morgan will be getting a slice of the pie for his part in drumming up business?
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It’s quite clear that this post has some marketing know-how behind it. They’ve ticked several boxes by cleverly working an enticing intro, a link to their new site, a call to action, an entertaining video, and current contact details into the post. So while it’s not the amateur attempt at marketing the cheeky chappies would have people believe, it’s certainly a great way of demonstrating the culture within their business and their endearing personality – I’d probably hire them.
Some will find it staged and a bit cheesy, others will love it for what it is, what do you think… ?
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Healthcare in India splitting into urban, rural centres
Loknath Das March 4, 2019 Health Care Centre's, Healthcare, in, India, into, rural, splitting, urban
Healthcare in India is splitting into two camps with urban hospitals capable of offering modern care on par with developed nations and most often neglected rural centres that are left behind, medical professionals have warned.
“There is one India where hospitals have cutting-edge tech and then there is another, which has a lack of access to healthcare, a lack of affordability and a lack of quality,” said Dr Srinivasa Pulijala, CEO of Apollo MedSkills, while speaking on the sidelines of a healthcare leadership summit at the Indian Institute of Management in Bengaluru on Sunday.
This stark disparity, according to K Sujatha Rao, former Union health secretary, is a result of India spending just 1% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on healthcare. “This is unacceptable but the reality is we are one of the lowest public health funding countries in the world – in contrast to Europe, which spends nearly 3-4% of their GDP on health,” Rao said.
For some professionals, the answer to this under-funding is international equity. Dr Pulijala suggested, urban hospitals should court foreign investment while leaving the government to “focus on improving healthcare in other parts of India, which is predominately rural”.
It is a recommendation which has its critics. The buying up of India’s iconic hospitals by foreign corporations is a development, which Rao described as “extremely disturbing” because it would place advanced healthcare in India within the hands of the elites and foreign nationals, and drive up prices, further alienating the poor.
Medical administrators categorised “out of pocket” medical expenses as the single greatest factor determining accessibility of healthcare among Indian citizens.
N T Abroo, executive director of Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust, said it was not uncommon to see poor families in rural Karnataka turn up at government hospitals with their belongings, after having sold all their properties and holdings in order to afford treatment.
According to Dr Manish Rai, an estimated 50% of “out of pocket” costs involve the purchase of medicine.
Many patients also take loans to pay for medical care. “Nearly 40% of healthcare costs are borne by loans,” said Dr Pulijala.
Contradicting the assertion that government healthcare is inferior to private medicine, Abroo displayed figures showing the top 10 performing hospitals in the state were all government-run, with the Kidwai Institute at the top.
According to Sujatha Rao, however, it was difficult to rate hospitals on a scale of success, as quality is mostly measured by “marketing, granite floors and flowerbeds in the lobbies”.
The root of the problem is poor allocation for public health, she added. “This constantly makes medical professionals ask the question: ‘Do we save a child or do we save an old man?’ These are unfair and cruel choices medical staff make because they do not have the money. A good country should not be making these choices,” said Rao.
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Gases and vapors continue to pose hazards on oil and gas well sites during gauging, fluid transfer, and disposal
Posted on August 24, 2018 by Kyla Retzer, MPH; Emily Schmick, MSPH, CIH; Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas, MPH; Bradley King, PhD, MPH, CIH; and John Snawder, PhD, DABT
1) The worker peers down an open hatch of the oil tank. 2) In some regions, workers gauge oil tanks by opening tank hatches, visually observing liquid levels, and then manually measuring liquid oil levels. 3) As commonly designed, fixed oil tanks often are interconnected for both liquid and vapor, allowing contents to equalize over multiple tanks. Equalization of tanks can result in a high volume of off-gassed vapors when a tank hatch is opened. 4) The windsock is a visual indicator for the worker to stay positioned upwind while gauging. Photo courtesy of OSHA
A previous NIOSH report (2016)1 described the death of nine oil and gas extraction workers that occurred during gauging or sampling activities at open thief hatches on crude oil storage tanks. Hydrocarbon gases and vapors (HGVs) and associated oxygen displacement were the primary or contributory factors in these fatalities. Additionally, wellsite exposure assessments conducted by OSHA and NIOSH identified HGVs at open thief hatches in concentrations that were immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH) and in excess of the lower explosive limit (LEL), creating a chance for fires and explosions. It has been demonstrated that HGVs can build up under pressure and rapidly escape when thief hatches of production, flowback, and other tanks are opened, creating a highly flammable and oxygen-deficient environment, even in areas not considered to be a confined space. Acute exposure to HGVs can have narcotic effects on workers (i.e. dizziness, disorientation) as well as affect the eyes, lungs, and central nervous system. The simultaneous exposure of HGVs combined with a low oxygen atmosphere may also pose a risk for sudden cardiac death, especially in individuals with pre-existing coronary artery disease. In addition to HGVs, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a widely recognized hazard in the oil and gas extraction industry, continues to persist as a cause of death among workers2. Hydrogen sulfide is naturally present in some oil and gas deposits and may be produced as a by-product of the desulfurization process of these fuels. Workers in all operations during oil and natural gas exploration and production may be exposed to H2S. This blog provides an update on fatalities, injuries, and exposures associated with hazardous gases and vapors (HGVs and H2S) in the oil and gas extraction industry, and alerts employers to exposures that can occur while working around oil and gas process fluids.
NIOSH has conducted surveillance of worker fatalities and severe injuries in the oil and gas extraction industry, including those that may be associated with exposure to or ignition of hazardous gases and vapors. Fatalities are identified using the NIOSH Fatalities in Oil and Gas Database (FOG). The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) severe injury data set provides a source to identify severe non-fatal incidents among oil and gas extraction workers. In addition to fatality and injury surveillance, NIOSH has conducted additional worker exposure assessments at oil and gas worksites to examine potential hazardous exposures, including oxygen concentration and hazardous and flammable gas and vapor concentrations (HGVs and H2S) during various worker activities.
NIOSH researchers sought to determine the number of fatalities and hospitalizations with known or potential exposure to hazardous gases and vapors as well as fires and explosions while working around process fluids, including waste water, flowback, petroleum condensate, or crude oil. Waste water is also sometimes referred to as produced water, brine, salt water, etc., but often still contain hydrocarbons.
The following definition was developed to identify cases: During 2015-2016, fatalities or hospitalizations related to the ignition, inhalation, or suspected inhalation of HGVs and/or H2S while handling process fluids (e.g. fluid transfer) or working on tanks containing process fluids at oil and gas well sites or waste water disposal sites. Cases were reviewed and categorized by event type, activity type, location, and fluid type.
During 2015—2016, there were eight oil and gas worker fatalities during eight separate incidents that met the case definition (see cases in FOG Report ).
Event Type: Three workers died of sudden cardiac death with potential exposures to hazardous gases and vapors, two workers died due to fire/explosions, two workers died due to hydrogen sulfide poisoning, and one worker died due to HGV exposures.
Activity Type: Four workers died while transferring fluids from tanks to trucks, two workers were tank gauging or sampling, one worker was at an open tank hatch with unknown activity, and one worker was doing hotwork (grinding) on top of a tank.
Fluid Type: Four workers were working with produced water, three workers were working with crude oil, and one with flowback.
Site Type: Six workers died at well sites and two workers died at waste water disposal sites.
During 2015-2016, there were ten hospitalizations during ten separate incidents that met the case definition (see cases in FOG Report).
Event Type: Five workers were hospitalized due to fire/explosions, three workers hospitalized due to H2S exposure, and two workers hospitalized due to HGV exposures.
Activity Type: Six workers were tank gauging or sampling, one worker was transferring fluids, one worker was using a vacuum truck to remove tank bottoms, one worker was draining condensate from a separator line (i.e. heater treater), and one was transporting waste water.
Fluid Type: Three workers were working with produced water, one with flowback, one with tank bottoms (solids and waste), one with condensate, one with crude oil, and three were unknown.
Site Type: Nine workers were injured/exposed at well sites and one worker was injured at a waste water disposal site.
These incidents illustrate that hazardous gas and vapor exposures while handling process fluids continue to occur, either through the inhalation or ignition of hazardous gases and vapors.
Exposure assessments
In July 2017, NIOSH conducted air monitoring while a trucker was transferring petroleum condensate from a storage tank onto his truck. As hydrocarbon fluids were transferred, gases and vapors that were previously in equilibrium within the storage tank released into the belly of the truck’s tank. To prevent over pressuring of the truck tank as liquid was transferred, the gases and vapors were vented directly to the outside of the back of the truck; no vent line was used to direct the gases and vapors away from the trunk at a distance. Direct reading instrument data and bulk air samples were collected at and around the tanker trunk and later analyzed to determine HGV and H2S concentrations in the air during this activity. Forward-looking Infrared (FLIR) video was used to visualize and record the plume of hazardous gases and vapors that surrounds the tanker truck during the fluid transfer (click for video).
While performing this fluid transfer, hazardous gases and vapors were measured in concentrations over 348,000 parts per million, or 34.8% of the air volume. The full analysis of this air sample is shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Results for select gases and vapors collected during petroleum condensate transfer near the venting point behind the tanker truck
Gas/Vapor Concentration (ppm) IDLH (ppm) Severity (Concentration/IDLH)
Methane** 141,000 5,000* 28
Ethane** 62,600 3,000* 21
Propane** 59,100 2,100* 28
Butanes** 50,900 1,600* 31
Pentanes** 25,500 1,500* 17
Benzene† 175 500 0.35
Toluene† 6.8 500 0.01
Ethylbenzene† Not Detected 800* 0.0
Xylenes† 0.5 900 0.0
Hexane† 6,000 1,100* 5.5
Heptane† 3,510 750 4.7
Octane† Not Detected 1,000* 0.0
Nonane† 0.8 800* 0.0
Hydrogen Sulfide‡ 450 100 4.5
* Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) values are based on the NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin 663, which states “In the event that the derived health-based IDLH value exceeds 10% of the LEL concentration for a flammable gas or vapor, the air concentration that is equal to 10% of the LEL will become the default IDLH value for the chemical.”
** Analysis Method- Gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID)
† Analysis Method- Gas chromatography-photoionization detector (GC-PID)
‡ Analysis Method- Direct reading instrument with electrochemical sensor
Recommendations for Employers, Workers, and Incident Investigators
Oil and gas worker fatalities and hospitalizations due to ignition or inhalation of hazardous gases and vapors and associated oxygen deficiency are preventable. There are a number of resources available that employers and workers can use to prevent these incidents.
Implement recommendations contained in the following relevant resources to prevent exposures to hazardous gases and vapors:
American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practice 77: Risk-based Approach for Managing Hydrocarbon Vapor Exposure during Tank Gauging, Sampling, and Maintenance of Onshore Production Facilities: provides recommended practices for assessing the hazard and selecting proper controls to protect workers.
American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practice 2219: Safe Operation of Vacuum Trucks Handling Flammable and Combustible Liquids in Petroleum Service: provides guidance on the development and implementation of practical and safe operating practices to identify hazards and reduce risks during vacuum truck operations. Includes information about proper venting of gases and vapors from trucks, including vent lines and other ventilation methods to reduce exposure to workers during fluid transfer.
American Petroleum Institute. 2016. API MPMS Chapter 18.2. Custody Transfer of Crude Oil from Lease Tanks Using Alternative Measurement Methods: provides recommended practices for crude oil tank gauging and sampling that do not require the opening of tank hatches.
OSHA/NIOSH Hazard Alert: Health and Safety Risks for Workers Involved in Manual Tank Gauging and Sampling at Oil and Gas Extraction Sites: provides information about worker fatalities during gauging and sampling activities, well-site exposure assessment findings, the potential health effects of HGV exposures, and recommendations for protecting worker safety and health.
National STEPS Network: Tank-gauging Hazard Alert: a one-page overview of potential safety and health hazards to workers during tank-gauging and fluid sampling (English and Spanish).
National STEPS Network: Multi-Gas Monitors Hazard Alert: a one-page overview of the importance of the use of multi-gas monitors on oil and gas well sites. Includes the importance of monitor calibration, training of workers, heeding of all alarms, and understanding the limitations of monitors (English and Spanish).
National STEPS Network: Prevention of Fatalities from Ignition of Vapors: a one-page overview of how to prevent fatalities associated with ignition of vapors by mobile engines and auxiliary motors on oil and gas well sites (English and Spanish).
National STEPS Network: Hot Work Hazard Alert: a one-page overview of how to prevent fatalities associated with hot work on oilfield tank, tankers and other related equipment (English and Spanish).
OSHA Safety Bulletin, Potential Flammability Hazard Associated with Bulk Transportation of Oilfield Exploration and Production (E&P) Waste Liquids: bulletin alerting employers and workers about flammable hazards and prevention measures for transporting oil and gas waste water.
Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Investigation Report: Vapor Cloud Deflagration and Fire: in-depth report of multiple fatality incident resulting from ignition of vapors at a waste water disposal site.
CSB Safety Video: Death in the Oilfield: tells the story of a fatal explosion due to ignition of vapors during hot work activities on a crude oil tank.
Video: Protecting Oil and Gas Workers from Hydrocarbon Gases and Vapors: this 13-minute video describes the hazards associated with manual gauging and fluid sampling on oil and gas production tanks and steps that employers and workers can take to do this work safely (English and Spanish).
Comply with all employer policies and hazard assessments to ensure you are protected from hazardous gases and vapors. Always wear required personal protective equipment and your multi-gas monitor and heed all alarms. Review the videos listed above and each of the National STEPS Network Hazard Alerts to learn more ways to protect yourself.
Incident investigators
Medical examiners and coroners investigating oil and gas worker fatalities need to be aware of the possibility of hazardous gas and vapor exposures and request appropriate lab tests. Exposure to high concentrations of HGVs and oxygen-deficient atmospheres can result in sudden cardiac death in oil and gas extraction workers. Analysis of ante-mortem or postmortem blood for documentation of HGV exposure (2139B) as well as H2S (thiosulfate in blood) is available from clinical toxicology laboratories.
NIOSH is working with industry partners to continue to evaluate the magnitude of hazards and effectiveness of controls in the oil and gas industry. We are looking for industry partners who are interested in participating in studies and/or providing access to sites to assess exposures. If you have questions, or would like to provide pertinent information on this topic, please contact us via the blog comment box or by email at kretzer@cdc.gov.
Kyla D. Retzer, MPH, is an Epidemiologist in the NIOSH Western States Division.
Emily Schmick, MSPH, CIH, is an ORISE Research Fellow in the NIOSH Western States Division.
Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas, MPH, is a Research Assistant in the NIOSH Western States Division.
John Snawder, PhD, DABT, is a Research Toxicologist in the NIOSH Division of Applied Research and Toxicology.
Bradley King, PhD, MPH, CIH, is an Industrial Hygienist in the NIOSH Western States Division.
Note: The objective of this blog entry is to describe a potential emerging occupational hazard in the oil and gas extraction industry. Additionally, it is meant to request help from stakeholders for more information related to illnesses, injuries, and fatalities associated with fluid transfer. To keep the blog discussion focused on worker health, we may choose not to respond to comments that do not pertain to worker exposures.
Ted Teske, Ryan Hill, Robert Harrison (California Department of Public Health), Michael Hodgson (OSHA), J.D. Danni (OSHA), Mike Marshall (OSHA), Barbara Alexander
Esswein EJ, Retzer K, King B, Cook-Shimanek M. Environmental and Health Issues in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development. Kaden DA, Rose TL, eds. Waltham MA: Elsevier, 2016 Jan: 93-105.
Harrison RJ, Retzer K, Kosnett MJ, et al. Sudden Deaths Among Oil and Gas Extraction Workers Resulting from Oxygen Deficiency and Inhalation of Hydrocarbon Gases and Vapors — United States, January 2010–March 2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2016;65:6–9. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6501a2
NIOSH [2013]. Current intelligence bulletin 66: derivation of immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH) values. Cincinnati, OH: US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication 2014–100. https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2014-100/pdfs/2014-100.pdf
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10 comments on “Gases and vapors continue to pose hazards on oil and gas well sites during gauging, fluid transfer, and disposal”
Paul Haas says:
I want to thank John Snawder and Bradley King for their tireless efforts. As I left my prior employer in the Oil and Gas Exploration Industry in 2015, it appears the pace of risks and unwanted fatalities has still not abated.
I expected more of a push towards automated gauging, sight glass use and a full consolidation of LACT- Lease Acquisition Custody Transfer on BLM and Tribal sites.
It has been in the interest of many stakeholders including oil and gas surface engineers, industrial supply firms of gauging equipment and LACT technology and the American Petroleum Institute, the major O&G companies and government agencies to improve the health and safety requirements for tank gauging and thieving as a part of petroleum measurement, but still much more needs to be done.
It’s truly horrible to read about those who have lost their lives or have been injured while working in the oil and gas industry. While we have relied upon oil and gas for such a long time to help create the modern world we live in, we must begin to transition to a society that is not nearly as reliant upon them. Electric vehicles and wind and solar power will take us a long way in this transition. For those who site cost as a deterrent, this is not an obstacle anymore. Many websites show how the cost of solar, for example, is now economically viable. Leaders of industry must finally see the writing on the wall and begin the cost effective switch to a clean energy economy.
Kyla Retzer, Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas, Bradley King, and John Snawder says:
The Oil and Gas Extraction Program provides leadership to control or eliminate occupational injuries, illnesses and fatalities among workers in the oil and gas extraction industry — a workforce critical to the energy infrastructure of the nation. This includes establishments engaged in operating and/or developing onshore oil and gas fields, sometimes referred to as exploration and production or upstream oil and gas. The Oil and Gas Extraction Program works with partners in industry, other government agencies, academia, trade associations, professional organizations, and labor to address the leading causes of work-related injury, illness and fatality to improve the health and well-being of oil and gas extraction workers.
The use of “green” energy technologies would eliminate the risks from oil and gas industry technology, however the green technologies introduce their own set of hazards that require attention to safety and health concerns. See: http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2009/07/01/green/ and http://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2010/01/04/green-2/
Ada Khan says:
Thanks for such an informative blog. Like it a lot. To prevent from accidents explosion proof cameras help us.
Thank you for your comment. Explosion proof cameras and remote visual monitoring can provide numerous safety and security applications within the oil and gas industry.
My husband is ill, he did not know, he had no idea what he was being exposed to, he worked at a produced water injection well with tanks that also had up to four feet of crude oil accumulated on the top of the tanks.
He has a very bad prognosis, one of his co workers died, and two others had cardiac events. Very bad, my husband almost died, he’s alive but has very bad illness due to NO protection he had no idea he even needed it.
We have now found out there were rules and they were not ever explained to him, thank you however mynheart is heavy reading this because I am so sad that I’m loosing him too soon. And it could have been prevented. If you have any help to offer please help,us.
Dear Cheryl,
We are very sorry to hear about your husband’s illness and his coworker’s death. You may consider contacting OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) where you live to report your husband’s illness. The OSHA 24-hour hotline is 1-800-321-6742. I also hope you have considered taking him to an occupational health clinic in your area to help you determine the best actions to take. We continue to monitor hospitalizations and fatalities reported to OSHA on oil and gas well sites that may be related to exposures to harmful gases and vapors and work with our partners to raise awareness of this hazard and how to protect workers. Thank you for your heartfelt comment.
Jennifer Mason says:
We are the family of Dennis Mason who died October 1, 2016 on the Cerny well site in Kingfisher, Oklahoma . He was found directly by an open Getty box. His death was ruled “hypertensive heart disease” yet he had never had high blood pressure, never had heart problems and was very healthy. For those of you going through a similar situation – don’t ever give up – I know we will not . I wish the CDC would have gotten involved but we never heard from them.
Ms. Mason, we are very sorry for your loss. NIOSH referenced this fatality in our 2018 blog https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/fog/SpecialTopic2018.html and noted the death was a cardiac event: possible work exposure. We have consulted with OSHA and health professionals on this case and others. The investigations of the deaths associated with tank gauging and fluid transfer were conducted by OSHA, medical examiners, and others and subsequently reviewed by NIOSH for inclusion in our reports. We continue to try and alert employers and workers of hazards and make recommendations to the industry to stop these types of events.
canonprinter says:
Really nice post. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Improving Weather Forecasts in the Arctic
17. October 2019 by Polar Prediction Matters Leave a Comment
Matilda Hallerstig (photo: Anna Kathinka Dalland Evans).
Matilda Hallerstig is a PhD candidate in meteorology at the Norwegian Research Center NORCE and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway. The topic of her PhD study is on the evaluation of weather forecasts in the Arctic. Matilda received her master in polar meteorology from the University of Bergen and the University Center in Svalbard (UNIS) in 2010. Until 2017, she worked as a senior weather forecaster for the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET Norway) in Tromsø. Before starting her PhD project as part of the YOPP-endorsed Norwegian Alertness project led by PPP Steering Group member Jørn Kristiansen, Hallerstig moved to Reading, United Kingdom for one year to work at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
This article has also been published on Scisnack.com, and a Norwegian version on forskning.no.
The thick, white fog outside the airport window left no doubt about the reason why my flight from Tromsø to Alta was delayed. It was drifting in from the sea, seeping into every fjord and valley, as is common during late summer and early autumn at these latitudes. There was nothing I could do other than text message the conference organizer to tell him that I would not be able to come in time for the talk that I had promised to give.
Dependant on the Weather
Like everybody else who lives in, or close to the Arctic, my activities depended on the weather. The distances here are large, and infrastructure is limited. People travel far to get to hospital, school, work, and, in my case, a meeting. Much of the industry, such as fishery, reindeer-herding and offshore activities are vulnerable to the harsh weather.During summer it is the sea fog that causes most trouble. During winter there is a range of hostile weather conditions such as strong winds, heavy snow showers, icing, avalanches, and more. To deal with these conditions, accurate weather forecasts are essential.A fisherman may risk his life if he goes on sea when bad weather approaches, but he will lose valuable work if an overly pessimistic forecast keeps him on shore longer than necessary. Equally, the ambulance airplane will not just compromise safety if it takes off in hazardous weather. It may also fail to transport critically ill patients to hospital in time if it stays on ground when it could have departed. Therefore, a good forecast can make a huge difference, sometimes even a life saving one.
Evaporation fog in Tromsø (photo: Eirik Samuelsen).
Polar Challenges for Forecasting
Good forecasts, however, are challenging to make in this area. The sparse observation network makes it difficult to monitor the weather situation. Because of this, forecasters and forecast users depend even more on the numerical weather prediction models for their decisions than their colleagues in the south. But the weather models also need observations to be initialized with correct weather conditions.
Most of the models in use today were developed for lower latitudes, and they struggle to handle many of the polar features correctly. The polar challenges include the marginal ice zone with its mix of ice covered and open ocean areas. There are also the small but intense polar lows that develop very rapidly, strong winds and heavy snow showers, and the frequent shallow and stable boundary layers whose vertical scales are so small that they cannot be resolved properly in the model. In the end, the lack of observations also makes it difficult to evaluate the issued forecasts and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the model. It was the need to overcome this kind of challenges that made me interested in model development.
Model Under the Hood
As a senior forecaster at MET Norway in Tromsø, I was in contact with users and learned about their needs. I started to work together with the model developers at MET Norway to understand more about how the model that we used works “under the hood”. I then got the opportunity to work with evaluation of polar low forecasts at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). While there, I used case studies to compare the performance of the ECMWF and Arome Arctic models. My ph.d., which is part of the Alertness research project, will be a continuation of this work.
Troubleshooting with Case Studies
The aim of the Ph.d. project is to evaluate how good the forecasts were during a number of historical weather events that had a big impact on communities and infrastructure. I will then test the improvements that other researchers do. This way, we can see how much progress we make.
We want to include events from large measurement campaigns with more observations available than usual, such as as for example during the recent Year of Polar Prediction. We will also use particularly interesting cases that forecasters on duty in Tromsø have reported. My own main focus will be on polar low events and maritime icing.
Icing on research vessel Lance (photo: Eli Anne Ersdall).
Polar lows can cause sudden changes from clear and calm weather to heavy snow showers and strong, gusty winds that lead to icing, turbulence and avalanches. They are challenging to forecast because of their small scale and rapid development. Maritime icing happen when there is a combination of high waves and low air temperature. The sea spray freezes on ships and thick layers of ice build up. This adds a tremendous extra weight to the ship, that can potentially cause it to sink. At the same time, rescue boats and equipment freeze in and become useless. In addition, I will study cases of fog and aviation icing together with other people in the project. Hopefully, this work will lead to better forecasts to assist those who live in the Arctic and Northern Norway, and if even one life is saved by that, it will be worth every single effort.
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Photographers vs. NFL, AP & Getty: 2nd and 7
December 20th, 2013 by Mickey Osterreicher and tagged copyright, copyright infringement, photographers, photography, photojournalism
*********UPDATE****************
U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet ruled on August 13, 2015 that the photographers must amend their complaint prior to appealing the dismissal of their copyright claims to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court declined to enter a final judgment in the matter, which it had dismissed last March, finding that the plaintiffs may replead their case and that a revised contract claim on the licensing agreements might avoid the need for a Second Circuit review.
“The plaintiffs indicate in their briefing that they intend to argue that the contracts ‘were invalid and unenforceable due to duress, coercion, unconscionability, and fraud’ and the court’s March 27 Order indicates that the argument may have significant merit,” Judge Sweet wrote. “A finding in the plaintiffs’ favor on their contract claims in the district court would thus significantly alter — or perhaps moot — their copyright claims in the Court of Appeals, rendering certification improper.”
In his ruling Judge Sweet noted that to preserve their copyright issue for appeal, the plaintiffs should “simply restate their copyright claims in their new complaint,” which could later be presented to the Second Circuit at the appropriate time. The court also granted a motion by Getty Images to compel arbitration of contract, copyright and antitrust claims which the plaintiffs are now pursuing.
In March the court granted the plaintiffs 20 days to file a new complaint and then approved a three-week extension for the amended pleadings to be filed. Then in May, the defendants claimed the photographers had missed that deadline and the case should finally be dismissed. But the judge disagreed, finding “the plaintiffs’ diligence in this case has been more than adequate, particularly as they have represented that they are prepared to file their second amended complaint within 48 hours of this motion’s resolution.
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U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet dismissed the lawsuit in a 129 page redacted Opinion finding that agreements between the NFL and AP along with Getty that allow the NFL to use photos royalty-free are not anticompetitive, writing “plaintiffs have failed to allege a plausible product market limited to NFL-related photographs at this juncture.” He also found that the photographers lacked standing and are barred from suing under antitrust laws “because their injuries are too secondary and indirect.” The judge also rejected the photographers’ claim that they “directly compete” with Getty and AP. “Plaintiffs are neither consumers nor competitors in the alleged market for commercial licensing of NFL-related photographs,” Judge Sweet wrote. “Indeed, the [amended complaint] clearly states that plaintiffs have always licensed the photos that they shot ‘on spec’ through third-party licensing agents . . . as such, Plaintiffs argument on this point must fail.”
The court also found that “while each Plaintiff retains copyright in his photos, he provides a broad copyright license to AP in all of his photos that are not rejected by AP.” Such a license allows the AP to “copy, disseminate and otherwise use” those photos. The judge noted that while their agreement requires AP to pay a royalty when it licenses the use of the photographers photos, it does not require that any royalty be paid where the AP receives no licensing fees itself. “the AP Contributor Agreements do not require AP to license the contributors’ photographs to third parties only through a ‘sale’ that would generate revenue and therefore royalties.” Judge Sweet wrote. “Nothing in the AP Contributor Agreements requires AP to issue only royalty-bearing sublicenses.”
The judge also dismissed the photographers’ copyright claims against the NFL because the agreement provided the AP with a valid license to use their images.
In October seven photographers filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the NFL, Getty Images and the Associated Press. This week the defendants responded with a motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs are Paul Spinelli, Scott Boehm, George Newman Lowrance, David Stluka, Paul Jasienski, David Drapkin and Thomas E. Witte. They claim, among other things, that if they wished to continue licensing their NFL images for commercial uses, “they were forced to transition their NFL content from Getty Images to AP who had the contract with the NFL.” In turn, the complaint alleged that “Getty Images threatened to remove Plaintiffs’ other sports content from its distribution networks and/or terminate its relationship with Plaintiffs entirely if they did not agree to continue licensing their NFL content through Getty Images even after the expiration of its commercial licensing deal with the NFL.” The complaint stated “Getty Images also made clear that it would not ‘welcome back’ any contributors who moved their NFL content to AP should Getty Images ever regain the exclusive rights to license NFL content in the future.”
The photographers also viewed Getty’s threats as “a blatant attempt to leverage its exclusive licensing agreement with MLB and other sports entities in order to force Plaintiffs to leave their NFL content with Getty Images” and “Because certain Plaintiffs had significant non-NFL content at Getty Images, including significant MLB photo collections, Getty Images’ position forced Plaintiffs to make an impossible choice between losing commercial licensing opportunities for their NFL content by not going to AP or giving up commercial licensing opportunities for their non-NFL content by leaving Getty Images.”
In its motion to dismiss the NFL claimed that the use of the photos “was fully within the scope of” its licensing agreements the AP and Getty. AP claims in its motion to dismiss the lawsuit that the contracts it made with the photographers “licensed AP to make the uses of plaintiffs’ photographs” and also “authorized AP to issue sublicenses” to the NFL and others. In its motion, Getty also sought to dismiss the case and to “compel arbitration or in the alternative to stay the action.” Getty claims that its agreement with the photographers requires that they “arbitrate their disputes” and that the case should be put on hold “pending final resolution of the arbitration” in the event that the court does not grant the motion to dismiss.
Read the filed complaint here.
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ESTIMATE Statements - the final installment
By Chris Daman on SAS Learning Post May 2, 2012
FINALLY…the simplest ESTIMATE statements to write are for continuous variables not involved in interactions or higher order terms.
Consider a data set containing the 2004 SAT scores for each of the 50 states. The file includes the combined math and verbal SAT scores (TOTAL), the state (STATE) and the percent of students participating in the test (PARTRATE). Suppose you assume a regression model to predict SAT scores as a linear function of the percentage of students in the state taking the test. The syntax for getting the estimated change in the score for a 20% increase in students taking the exam would be EASY for the following model!
proc glm data=sat2004;
model total=partrate;
ESTIMATE 'SAT Change for 20% Higher PartRate' partrate 20;
run;quit;
From the following output, our model estimates that a 20% increase in participation rate results in almost a 40 point drop in the average combined SAT score (with the standard error as shown).
Parameter Estimate Error t Value Pr > |t|
SAT Change for 20% Higher PartRate -39.6613349 3.11418443 -12.74 <.0001
However, it's best not to assume a linear model without first exploring the data. Let's create a scatter plot of the data using PROC SGPLOT and use the LOESS statement to detect potential trends in the data:
proc sgplot data=sat2004;
scatter y=total x=partrate;
loess y=total x=partrate / nomarkers;
title 'Explore SAT Scores Dataset';
As the percent of students taking the tests increases (PartRate), the total score on the SAT decreases, but not in a linear fashion. Above about a 60% participation rate, the plot for the total score appears flat. To capture the curvature, include both quadratic and linear terms of participation rate in the model:
model total=partrate partrate*partrate;
title 'Quadratic Model';
The output from the Parameter Estimates table indicates that both the linear and quadratic terms are significant in the model:
Parameter Estimate Standard Error t Value Pr > |t|
Intercept 1185.715281 9.01781421 131.49 <.0001
PartRate -5.215672 0.62285184 -8.37 <.0001
PartRate*PartRate 0.038318 0.00723291 5.30 <.0001
ESTIMATE statements can answer the question "how much does the predicted SAT score change when the number of students taking the test increases by XX%?" for this model. However, since we don't have a linear relationship, we have to specify where on the curve we would like to estimate our change.
For example, look below at the estimated total scores when 20%, 40%, 60%, and 80% of students in a state take the exam. This is another type of ESTIMATE statement—one where you are asking for an estimate at a specific value of your predictor variable, rather than asking for a comparison. Notice that the intercept must be included with a coefficient of 1 for this type of ESTIMATE statement. (The ODS SELECT statement limits the output to the results of the ESTIMATE statement only.)
ods select 'Estimates';
ESTIMATE '20%' intercept 1 partrate 20 partrate*partrate 400;
ESTIMATE '40%' intercept 1 partrate 40 partrate*partrate 1600;
title 'Estimates from Quadratic Model';
quit;
In the code above, notice that in the estimate statement at 20% participation, the coefficient of the linear term is 20, but the coefficient of the quadratic term is 202, or 400. Similarly, for the estimate statement at 40% participation, the coefficients are 40 and 402 (1600), at 60% participation they are 60 and 602 (3600), and at 80% they are 80 and 802 (6400).
The output below indicates that the estimated total scores are approximately 1097 at 20% participation, 1039 at 40% participation, 1011 at 60%, and 1014 at 80% (with standard errors as shown).
20% 1096.72907 5.20224622 210.82 <.0001
While the participation rate is increasing at a constant rate of 20%, the estimated scores decrease, but not at a constant rate. So…what coefficients would you use to get an estimated change in total SAT score for a change of 20% in the participation rate?
For all instances of a 20% increase, the linear coefficient will be 20. Since the relationship is not linear, the coefficients for the quadratic term depend on where you are measuring the change. You can obtain the correct coefficient for the quadratic term by taking the difference of the quadratic coefficients (as found in the previous ESTIMATE statements) for our starting and ending participation rates. For example,
an increase from 20% to 40% participation rate would have a quadratic coefficient of 1200 (1600-400);
an increase from 40% to 60% would have a quadratic coefficient of 2000 (3600-1600);
an increase of 60% to 80% would have a quadratic coefficient of 2800 (6400-3600).
The syntax for the ESTIMATE statements would be:
ESTIMATE 'Increase from 20% to 40%' partrate 20 partrate*partrate 1200;
title 'Estimates for 20% Increases from 20%, 40% and 60% PartRate';
Increase from 20% to 40% -58.3317408 4.32058228 -13.50 <.0001
Increase from 40% to 60% -27.6772689 3.37111967 -8.21 <.0001
Increase from 60% to 80% 2.9772030 8.42760869 0.35 0.7254
The estimated change in SAT scores is
approximately a 58 point decrease (standard error 4.3) when increasing participation rates from 20% to 40%;
approximately a 28 point decrease (standard error of 3.4) when increasing participation rates from 40% to 60%;
not significantly different from 0 when increasing participation rates from 60% to 80%.
While linear models certainly have the easiest ESTIMATE statements, getting the correct estimates depends first on getting the appropriate model. By exploring the data before building the model and writing your ESTIMATE statements, you can ensure meaningful results.
This is our last installment on ESTIMATE statements, so feel free to suggest topics for future blogs.
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Chris Daman
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Chris Daman is a statistical training specialist and course developer in the Education Division at SAS. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience—both nationally and internationally—in the fields of programming, statistics, and mathematics. Before joining SAS in 2005, she taught classes at N.C. State University and IBM, worked in the pharmaceutical and financial industries, and was a survey statistician at an international research organization. She currently teaches advanced statistics courses covering mixed models, generalized linear mixed models, hierarchical linear models, and design of probability surveys; in addition, she teaches design of experiments and analysis of complex data, such as longitudinal data, multilevel data, or data from complex surveys. She also teaches data mining classes, including applied analytics and advanced decision trees. She has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master's degree in statistics from N.C. State University. Chris's favorite part of teaching is the interaction with the students. To keep them involved with the material and each other, she often uses a variety of teaching techniques (such as analogies, optical illusions, stories, object lessons, and group interactions) rather than the standard instructor-to-student lecture format. As a result, students give high ratings to her classes and typically include comments such as "I enjoyed Chris's teaching style very much. She did an excellent job of engaging the class and fostering interactions between all the students and herself" or "I love Chris's sense of humor. It definitely helps you get through complicated material". In her spare time, Chris enjoys dancing, reading, spending time with her family, and traveling.
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Proteomic and metabolomic analyses provide insight into production of volatile and non-volatile flavor components in mandarin hybrid fruit
Qibin Yu1,
Anne Plotto2,
Elizabeth A Baldwin2,
Jinhe Bai2,
Ming Huang1,
Yuan Yu1,
Harvinder S Dhaliwal3 &
Frederick G Gmitter Jr1
BMC Plant Biology volume 15, Article number: 76 (2015) Cite this article
Although many of the volatile constituents of flavor and aroma in citrus have been identified, the knowledge of molecular mechanisms and regulation of volatile production are very limited. Our aim was to understand mechanisms of flavor volatile production and regulation in mandarin fruit.
Fruits of two mandarin hybrids, Temple and Murcott with contrasting volatile and non- volatile profiles, were collected at three developmental stages. A combination of methods, including the isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification (iTRAQ), quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, gas chromatography, and high-performance liquid chromatography, was used to identify proteins, measure gene expression levels, volatiles, sugars, organic acids and carotenoids. Two thirds of differentially expressed proteins were identified in the pathways of glycolysis, citric acid cycle, amino acid, sugar and starch metabolism. An enzyme encoding valencene synthase gene (Cstps1) was more abundant in Temple than in Murcott. Valencene accounted for 9.4% of total volatile content in Temple, whereas no valencene was detected in Murcott fruit. Murcott expression of Cstps1 is severely reduced.
We showed that the diversion of valencene and other sesquiterpenes into the terpenoid pathway together with high production of apocarotenoid volatiles might have resulted in the lower concentration of carotenoids in Temple fruit.
Fruit volatiles are essential components of fruit flavor, have defense mechanisms against biotic and abiotic stresses, and contribute to various physiological and ecological functions during plant development [1]. Flavor in mandarin fruit is the result of a combination of sugars (glucose, sucrose and fructose), acids (citric and malic), flavonoids, limonoids, and volatile compounds [2]. Volatiles in mandarin fruit belong to several chemical families such as terpenes, hydrocarbons, aldehydes, esters, alcohols, ketones and sulfur compounds [3]. Terpenoids play a central role in generating the chemical diversity, and accounted for 85–95% of volatiles in tangerine fruit [4]. Most volatiles are derived from a diverse set of non-volatile precursors, simple or complex molecules including amino acids, fatty acids, carbohydrates and carotenoids, which can be grouped into four biosynthetic classes: terpenoids, fatty acids, branched-chain amino acids and aromatic amino acids such as phenylalanine [5]. Virtually all of these precursors are essential human nutrients [6].
Breeding for improvement of fruit flavor is a very challenging task when using classical breeding methods due to the difficulty of scoring and quantifying such a complex trait. The presence of a single volatile molecule, even at a relatively high level, does not mean that it contributes to either flavor or liking [7]. To complicate matters further, some volatiles can also impact the perception of sweetness and vice versa [8]. So far, we still do not really understand how all of these volatiles and non-volatiles are integrated into the unique flavor perception of a fruit. For breeding programs, screening for the large range of flavor chemicals is not practically possible. Therefore, it is important to characterize the molecular mechanisms and regulation of flavor in order to understand the complexity of this trait. Knowledge of biosynthetic pathways of fruit flavor compounds and regulatory mechanisms will lead to efficient breeding strategies, such as to identify markers that track flavor-associated chemicals.
Several studies in tomato, peach, strawberry and banana have been performed, identifying and characterizing the most important genes and encoded enzymes involved in aroma-related volatiles [9-14], however, very few studies have been carried out in citrus [15]. Although volatile constituents of flavor and aroma have been identified in tangerine [3,4,16], research on the mechanisms of regulation or modulation, especially in citrus, is very limited. Progress in gene isolation related to volatile production has been impeded by the lack of information concerning plant secondary metabolism, with flavor-associated volatiles [17]. Even for some of the most important metabolites, pathways for synthesis have only recently been established or remain to be established [18]. An integrated approach, including metabolomics, genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics, and determining fundamental metabolism, can make an important contribution toward this goal [2,19-22].
In the present study, we selected contrasting volatile and non-volatile profiles between two mandarin hybrids: Murcott and Temple. The two hybrids have similar genetic backgrounds due to having the same general parentage of mandarin and sweet orange, although their exact origins are unknown [23]. Despite that, both of these cultivars have good fruit flavor, although previous studies indicate that Temple is much richer in volatiles than Murcott, especially in sesquiterpenes and esters [4]. In addition to a comparison of volatile and non-volatile (sugars, acids, and carotenoids) compounds, and the interrelationships of these chemical components, a comparative iTRAQ (isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification) proteome analysis was used to identify qualitative and quantitative differences in the proteome between the two hybrids at three levels of maturity. iTRAQ is a powerful approach, using isotope labeling coupled with multidimensional liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry (MS), thereby enabling sensitive assessment and quantification of protein levels [24-26]. This analysis helped to better understand the pathways and genes controlling synthesis of flavor volatiles during mandarin hybrid fruit maturation, and to identify enzymes and genes involved in their biosynthesis pathways, especially concerning the terpenoid biosynthesis pathway.
Differences in sugar, organic acid and carotenoid content between Murcott and Temple
Fruits of Temple and Murcott were different in flesh color (Figure 1). There were differences for sugars, organic acids and carotenoids between Temple and Murcott at the three maturity stages. Among sugars, only sucrose and total sugars were higher in Murcott than Temple at stage 3, and total soluble solids content (SSC) at stage 1 and 3. However, no differences were found in fructose and glucose. Among acids, Temple was higher than Murcott for citric acid at stage1, malic acid and titratable acidity (TA) at stage 1 and 2, and ascorbic acid at all three stages, respectively. The pH values for Temple were significantly lower at stage 2. Overall, ascorbic acid was 21 times higher in Temple than Murcott. SSC/titratable acidity (TA) was lower in Temple at stage 1 and 2. SSC/TA is an indicator of maturity in citrus, and no differences were found between the two cultivars in stage 3. All carotenoids, except α-carotene for stage 2 and 3 and lutein for stage 1, were significantly higher in Murcott than in Temple (Figure 2).
Cross section of Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit.
Sugar, organic acid and carotenoid content in Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit at three developmental stages (stage 1: 22-Dec-2008; stage 2: 30-Jan-2009; and stage 3: 11-Mar-2009). Student’s T-test was used to determine the statistical significance of the differences between mean values for Temple and Murcott at the same developmental stage; standard error bars are provided. *: significant difference (P < 0.05); SSC: soluble solids content; TA: titratable acidity.
Differences in aroma volatiles between Murcott and Temple
A total of 121 volatile compounds were detected by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), with 108 compounds in Temple and 60 compounds in Murcott, respectively (Additional file 1: Table S1). Only 48 volatiles were found in both Temple and Murcott. There were 46 volatiles unique to Temple, in addition to 14 unknown compounds, whereas 12 volatiles were found only in Murcott (Table 1). The sum of total relative peak areas (peak area of compounds divided by peak area of internal standard) was twice as high in Temple than in Murcott, 21.9 for Temple, 11.5 for Murcott, respectively (Table 2). Terpenoid-related compounds contributed more than 85 and 95% of the total volatiles in Temple and Murcott respectively, also the volatile profile was markedly different. Valencene accounted for 9.4% of the total profile in Temple, whereas no valencene nor nootkatone was detected in Murcott. Sesquiterpenes were 0.15% and 3.10% and esters were 0.38% and 7.16% in Murcott and Temple, respectively. We found seven carotenoid-derived volatiles in Temple: nerol, neral, geranial, neryl acetate, α-ionone, geranyl acetone, and β-ionone. In contrast, only two of these, neryl acetate and geranyl acetone, were found in Murcott. D-limonene was the most abundant volatile compound which accounted for 80.8% and 64.4% of the volatile profile in Murcott and Temple, respectively. Murcott had two branched aldehydes, 3-methyl pentanal and 4-methyl hexanal, which were lacking in Temple. However, Temple had one branched alcohol, 3-methyl-1-butanol, and one branched ester, ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, likely to have been derived from the branched alcohol, whereas Murcott did not have these compounds (Table 2).
Table 1 Volatiles in Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit arranged by chemical class
Table 2 Content of major volatile classes in Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit
Differentially expressed proteins in Temple versus Murcott
We identified 280 differentially expressed proteins in Temple versus Murcott (Additional file 1: Table S2). Of these identified proteins, 92 were significantly differentially expressed in juice sacs at the three ripening stages (fold change > 1.5, P < 0.05) (Table 3). We found 42, 54 and 45 expressed proteins in ripening stage 1, stage 2 and stage 3, respectively. There were 22 proteins in common between stage 1 and 2, 24 between stage 2 and 3, whereas only 9 proteins in common were identified between stage 1 and 3. Five proteins were present across all three stages: hypothetical protein (gi|225442225), superoxide dismutase (SOD) (gi|77417715), phospholipase D alpha (gi|169160465), plastid-lipid-associated protein (gi|62900641), and UDP-glucosyltransferase family 1 protein (gi|242199340). All proteins were more highly expressed in Murcott than Temple in stage 2, whereas most proteins were more highly expressed in Temple than Murcott in stage 1. In stage 3, 13 proteins were up-regulated versus 32 down-regulated in Temple versus Murcott. We found several important proteins involved in volatile production. Phospholipase D alpha (gi|169160465), a key enzyme involved in membrane deterioration which produces precursors to aliphatic alcohols and aldehydes, was up-regulated in Temple versus Murcott at stage 1, but not stage 2 and 3. The Family1 glycotranferases might affect biosynthesis and accumulation of glycosides that bind volatile terpenoids. Isopentenyl diphosphate Delta-isomerase I (gi|6225526) isomerizes isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) to its isomer dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP) and was up-regulated in Murcott versus Temple at ripening stage 2. Valencene synthase (gi|33316389) was the protein that was the most different between the two cultivars, being 25 times higher in Temple than in Murcott at ripening stage 3. Several proteins from the glycolysis pathway were identified: triosephosphate isomerase (gi|77540216), a triosphosphate isomerase-like protein (gi|76573375), and pyruvate decarboxylase (gi|17225598). All were only expressed in ripening stage 3, and were higher in Murcott than in Temple. A citrate synthase precursor (gi|624676) was found in ripening stage 1, upregulated in Temple in comparison with Murcott. In addition to citrus synthase, malate dehydrogenase (gi|27462762) and isocitrate dehydrogenase (gi|5764653) of the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle were also found and downregulated in Temple versus Murcott. Glutamate decarboxylase (gi|70609690) and aspartate aminotransferase (gi|255551036), involved in glutamate synthesis, were also identified.
Table 3 Differentially expressed proteins in fruit flesh of Temple (Te) versus Murcott (Mu) mandarin hybrid fruit
Gene annotation was conducted using the Blast2GO program for all 92 identified proteins. The biological interpretation was further completed by assigning them to metabolic pathways using Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) annotation. KEGG analysis assigned the 46 differentially expressed proteins to 48 metabolic pathways (Additional file 1: Table S3). Most biosynthetic pathways identified were glycolysis, citric acid cycle, sugar synthesis, amino acid synthesis and terpene synthesis. Additional file 2: Figure S1 shows the distributions of GO terms (2nd level GO terms) according to biological processes, cellular components and molecular function. Most differentially expressed proteins were predicted to be involved in carbohydrate, amino acid, and lipid metabolism as well as in energy production. We found 10 enzymes involved in the glycolysis pathway and 16 enzymes involved in different amino acid pathways (Table 4; Additional file 1: Table S3).
Table 4 KEGG assigned differentially expressed proteins between Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit in metabolic pathways
In this study, two thirds of differentially expressed proteins were identified in the pathways of glycolysis and TCA as well as amino acid, sugar and starch metabolism (Tables 3 and 4). This is understandable, because the upstream precursors for most volatiles come from carbohydrate metabolism, mainly through sugar and starch metabolism through the glycolysis pathway, which is important for providing the carbon skeleton and toward the different branches that lead to the aforementioned volatiles. Most organic acids, amino acids, terpenes and fatty acids are produced from glycolysis and TCA. For amino acids, the carbon skeletons are derived from 3-phosphoglycerate, phosphoenolpyruvate or pyruvate generated in glycolysis, or from 2-oxoglutarate and oxaloacetate generated in TCA [20]. Terpenoids are enzymatically synthesized de novo from acetyl CoA and pyruvate provided by the carbohydrate pools in plastids and the cytoplasm [27].
The differences in protein expression between Temple and Murcott were due to the different ripening patterns of these two hybrids. Temple is a middle-late variety whereas Murcott is a very late variety; however in Florida citrus production conditions, and depending on season, Temple and Murcott maturity times may overlap. These differences in time of maturity might explain proteins being more highly expressed in Temple than Murcott in stage 1, whereas all proteins were more highly expressed in Murcott than Temple in stage 2, and mixed protein expression levels were seen in stage 3. Feng et al. [28] found that glutamate decarboxylase (gi|70609690) was one of two proteins likely associated with carbohydrate and acid metabolism in the ripening fruit. In our study, this protein is expressed more in Temple at stage 1, but less in stage 2 than Murcott. This might also explain the differences in levels of volatiles, sugar, organic acids in different stages between Temple and Murcott.
Sugar, TCA and glycolysis biosynthesis
Sucrose is the major sugar translocated in the plant, the major photo-assimilate stored in the plant, and can be degraded by cell wall sucrose synthase to glucose and fructose. Glucose can be converted into pyruvate, generating small amounts of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide reduced form (NADH) via the glycolysis pathway. Glucose phosphomutase (gi|255539613, EC 5.4.2.2) was down-regulated in Temple in stage 2, and is an enzyme responsible for the conversion of D-glucose 1-phosphate into D-glucose 6-phosphate. Sucrose synthase (gi|6682841/gi|6682843, EC 2.4.1.13) catalyzes the degradation of sucrose into UDP-glucose and fructose, up-regulated in Temple at stage 1 and down-regulated in stage 2 and 3. The high expression of sucrose synthase in Murcott stage 2 might partially explain why Murcott had higher sucrose than Temple (Figure 2). Sucrose, in turn, is derived from hexose phosphates through UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, (gi|90820120, gi|9280626, EC 2.7.7.9). The glycolysis biosynthesis is a central pathway that produces important precursor metabolites: six-carbon compounds of glucose-6P and fructose-6P and three-carbon compounds of glycerone-P, glyceraldehyde-3P, glycerate-3P, phosphoenolpyruvate, and pyruvate. Acetyl-CoA and another important precursor metabolite are produced by oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate. The reaction, mediated by phosphofructokinase (gi|3790102, EC 2.7.1.11), is one of the key control points of glycolysis in plants. This reaction catalyzes the interconversion of fructose-6-phosphate and fructose-1, 6-bisphosphate.
Citric acid is the main organic acid in citrus fruit juice. Yun et al. [29] found citric acid comprised up to 90% of the total organic acid content throughout the entire postharvest period. Citrate may be utilized by three major metabolic pathways for sugar production, amino acid synthesis, and acetyl-CoA metabolism. 2-Oxoglutarate can be then metabolized to an amino acid such as glutamate. Six enzymes acting in the TCA cycle were identified in our study including: pyruvate decarboxylase (gi|17225598, EC 4.1.1.1), malate dehydrogenase (gi|27462762, EC 1.1.1.37), isocitrate dehydrogenase (NADP+) (gi|5764653, EC 1.1.1.42), dihydrolipoyllysine-residue acetyltransferase (gi|225442225, EC 2.3.1.12), citrate synthase (gi|624676, EC 2.3.3.1) and phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) carboxykinase (gi|15235730, EC 4.1.1.49). The pyruvate decarboxylase enzyme, down-regulated in Temple, links the TCA cycle to glycolysis. Plant cells can convert PEP to malate via oxaloacetate in reactions catalyzed by PEP carboxykinase (gi|15235730, EC 4.1.1.49) and malate dehydrogenase (gi|27462762, EC 1.1.1.37) [1]. Citrate can be produced by condensation of oxaloacetate and acetyl-CoA, catalyzed by citrate synthase which was up-regulated in Temple in stage 2. Citrate synthase is the rate-limiting enzyme of the TCA cycle [29]. The result might explain the higher citric acid content in Temple than Murcott. The oxidative decarboxylation of isocitrate into 2-oxoglutarate is mediated by the action of isocitrate dehydrogenase. The last step of the TCA pathway is the interconversion of malate to oxaloacetate utilizing nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidized form (NAD+) /NADH and is catalyzed by malate dehydrogenase. In general, however, the changes of enzymes in the TCA cycle and glycolysis cannot fully explain the difference of organic acid and sugar contents in Temple compared to Murcott. Katz et al. [21] indicated that changes in metabolite amounts in fruit do not always correlate well with protein expression levels, reflecting the complication of regulated pathway outputs.
Amino acids, oxidization, ascorbate-glutathione cycle
KEGG pathway analysis conducted by Blast2GO indicated that seven enzymes are involved in the glutathione metabolic pathway (Table 4). In plants, glutathione is crucial for biotic and abiotic stress management. It is a pivotal component of the glutathione-ascorbate cycle, a system that reduces poisonous hydrogen peroxide. Pan et al. [30] found that expression levels of five antioxidative enzymes (catalase, peroxidase, ascorbate peroxidase, glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase) were altered in a mutant orange “Hong Anliu” which has a high level of lycopene, and implied a regulatory role of oxidative stress on carotenogenesis. In our study, the protein expression of L-ascorbate peroxidase (gi|221327587, EC 1.11.1.11), phospholipid-hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (gi|544437, EC 1.11.1.12), superoxide dismutase (SOD) (gi|77417715), and monodehydroascorbate reductase (gi|255586766, EC 1.6.5.4), were mixed (Table 3). SOD and monodehydroascorbate reductase had lower expression in Temple, whereas, other proteins were higher in stage 1 and 3, and lower in stage 2 (Table 3). We could not define a clear relationship between antioxidative enzyme activity and the amount of carotenoids. The discrepancy is likely due to other regulatory pathways, since there are many steps involved in the biosynthesis pathways that are tightly regulated [31]. Liu et al. [32] found glutamate decarboxylase is an enzyme catalyzing the conversion of L-glutamate to γ-aminobutyric acid, and suggested that it is possible that glutamate decarboxylase (gi|70609690) could participate in regulating the cytosolic pH.
Volatile biosynthesis
All terpenoids derive from the common building units isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and its isomer dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMADP). Both IPP and DMADP are synthesized via two parallel pathways, the mevalonate (MVA) pathway, which is active in the cytosol, and the methylerythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway, which is active in the plastids. In this study, IPP isomerase (gi|6225526) upregulated in Murcott relative to Temple, catalyzes isomerization between IPP and dimethylallyl diphosphate (Table 3). Aharoni et al. [33] found that the pool of IPP in the plastids might affect the formation of sesquiterpenes in the cytosol given that transport of isoprenoid precursors is known to occur from the plastids to the cytosol. A valencene synthase (gi|33316389) expression explains the difference in valencene content between Temple and Murcott. Sharon-Asa et al. [15] isolated and characterized the valencene synthase gene (Cstps1) and reported that valencene accumulates during the ripening of Valencia orange fruits together with Cstps1. Results from the current work agreed with their study (Additional file 2: Figure S2-A). In order to validate the result, real-time PCR showed that the gene expression of Cstps1 was found to be over 217 and 2720 times higher in Temple than in Murcott on Dec 22, 2008 and March 11, 2009, respectively (Figure 3). Murcott expression of Cstps1 gene is very severely reduced.
QRT-PCR validation of the expression profiles of Cstsp1 genes at two time points. Results were expressed relative to the value of the expression of Murcott Cstps1 in March.
Non-volatile sugar conjugates constitute a large pool of precursors for many of the important flavor volatiles. Enzymes synthesizing and hydrolyzing these sugar conjugates are likely to influence the volatile profiles. Family 1 glycosyltransferases (gi|242199340), often referred to as UDP glycosyltransferases, is the largest in the plant kingdom [34], which catalyze the transfer of a glycosyl moiety from UDP-sugars to a wide range of acceptor molecules. Glycosyltransferase might affect biosynthesis and accumulation of glycosides of volatile terpenoids. Fan et al. [35] identified three putative terpenoid UDP-glycosyltransferase (UGT) genes in sweet orange. The different expression of glycotranferase family 1 in three stages of fruit ripening in Temple might explain the difference in terpenoid volatile levels compared with Murcott.
Fatty acids play a major role in ester volatile synthesis. We have identified the phospholipid D (gi|169160465, EC 3.1.4.4) in all three ripening stages. Oke et al. [36] found that the transgenic tomato fruits with an antisense phospholipase D (PLD) showed improved red color, lycopene content, and results suggest that a reduction in PLD activity may lead to increased membrane stability and preservation of membrane compartmentalization that can have positive quality impacts for transgenic fruit and their products. We did not find major enzyme differences downstream, such as the lipoxygenase (LOX) pathway, which comprises the action of phospholipase, lipoxygenase, and hydroxyperoxide. The lipid-derived volatiles represent the bulk of aroma volatiles in tomato and are generated by the lipoxygenase (LOX) pathway [37]. In addition, pyruvate decarboxylase (gi|17225598) is believed to be involved in the pathway that provide aldehydes and alcohols for ester synthesis [38].
Correlation between valencene/sesquiterpenes accumulation and total carotenoids
It is generally recognized that the cytosolic MVA pathway is responsible for the synthesis of sesquiterpenes, phytosterols and ubiquinone, whereas monoterpenes, gibberellins, abscisic acid, carotenoids and the prenyl moiety of chlorophylls, plastoquinone and tocopherol are produced in plastids via the MEP pathway [27,39]. Although the subcellular compartmentation of MVA and MEP pathways allows them to operate independently, metabolic “crosstalk” between the two pathways was prevalent, particularly in the direction of plastids to cytosol [5] (Figure 4). Prenyltransferase condenses dimethylallyl diphosphate with two IPP molecules to produce FPP or three IPP to geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGPP). In this study, Temple, had lower carotenoids but higher number of apocarotenoid volatiles than Murcott (Additional file 1: Table S1). Davidovich-Rikanati et al. [11] indicated that a transgenic tomato expressing a monoterpene synthesis gene resulted in lighter color in comparison with wild type tomatoes. Because GGPP is the precursor of the carotenoids, the activity of valencene synthase (Cstps1) converting FPP to valencene could be one of the limiting steps for carotenoid production in Temple (Figure 4). The important flavor volatile genes are those that encode enzymes responsible for synthesis of the end products and those encoding factors that regulate pathway output [18]. Valencene synthase (Cstps1) is the protein for synthesis of the end product, valencene. Klee et al. [18] indicated that all of the apocarotenoid volatile QTLs identified to date are associated with carotenoid biosynthetic enzymes, and substrate availability rather than enzyme synthesis appears to be limiting apocarotenoid volatiles. Our study indicated that the high concentration of carotenoids in Murcott might be due to its lack of valencene synthase activity (Figure 3; Additional file 2: Figure S2-B) as well as less sesquiterpenes and other carotenoid derived volatiles (Additional file 1: Table S1), compared with Temple. In tomato and watermelon, studies have indicated that carotenoid pigmentation patterns have profound effects on apocarotenoid volatile compositions [40,41]. By comparison with Murcott, our results suggest that the diversion of high valencene and other sesquiterpenes into the terpenoid pathway together with high production of apocarotenoid volatiles might have resulted in the lower concentration of carotenoids in Temple.
Summary of metabolic pathways leading to terpenoid-associated volatile synthesis. The differently expressed KEGG enzymes between Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit are in red boxes. The second metabolites are presented in yellow boxes. Pathway names are presented in the blue box. In most cases, arrows indicate multiple enzyme reactions. Abbreviations: MEP, 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate; MVA, mevalonate; IPP, isopentenyl diphosphate; DMAPP, dimethyl-allyl diphosphate; GPP, geranyl diphosphate; FPP, farnesyl diphosphate; GGPP, geranylgeranyl diphosphate; Cstps1,valencene synthase.
Two thirds of differently expressed proteins were identified in the pathway of glycolysis and TCA, as well as amino acid, sugar and starch metabolism. This highlights the importance of these metabolic pathways for providing the carbon skeleton of the upstream precursors for most volatiles. Total carotenoids were significantly higher and apocarotenoid volatiles lower in Murcott than in Temple. It appears that high concentrations of apocarotenoid volatile compounds may result in low concentrations of carotenoids in Temple. In addition, we found that valencene synthase (Cstps1) was severely reduced in Murcott, and consequently, no valencene was detected in Murcott fruit during development, while substantial amounts were present in Temple. Further study is needed to confirm if there is a relationship between carotenoid concentrations and apocarotenoid volatile compounds, sesquiterpenes such as valencene, in citrus fruit. Improving fruit flavor is a challenging task using classic breeding methods because of the difficulty in scoring and quantifying such a complex trait. An increased understanding of biosynthetic pathways for fruit flavor compounds and corresponding regulatory mechanisms will lead to more efficient breeding strategies to improve flavor.
Plant material
Fruit of Murcott and Temple cultivars were collected on three harvest dates (designated as Stage 1, 2, and 3 respectively): 22 December 2008, 30 January 2009, and 11 March 2009 from groves at the University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center (UF-CREC) (Figure 1). These trees were grown under the same environmental conditions of soil, irrigation and illumination. Fruit maturity for Murcott and Temple was determined based on previous results [4], and three years of measurements of volatiles and non-volatiles at different stages amoung 14 mandarin hybrids including Temple and Murcott. Sample fruits were also selected based on fruit of similar size, color, and flavor by experienced breeders. Both Temple and Murcott have the same rootstock, Cleopatra mandarin, and are grown in the center part of field. In total, 20 fruits were collected randomly around the tree, 10 fruits for protein and 10 fruits for volatile compound identification, respectively. Three to four fruits were bulked as biological replications for proteome analysis.
Sugars, organic acids and carotenoids analysis
The measurement of sugars and acids was based on the method described by Baldwin et al. [42]. For titratable acidity (TA) and soluble solids content (SSC), TA was determined by titrating to pH8.2 with 0.1 M NaOH using an autotitrator (Mettler Toledo DL50, Columbus, OH) and SSC using a refractometer (Atago PR-101, Tokyo, Japan). Individual sugar and acid analysis was performed via high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Approximately 40 g of juice was extracted using 70 mL of an 80% ethanol/deionized water solution. The mixture was boiled for 15 min, cooled, and filtered (Whatman #4 filter paper, Batavia, IL). The filtered solution was brought to 100 mL with 80% ethanol. A total of 10 mL of the filtered solution was then passed through a C18 Sep-Pak (Waters/Millipore), followed by a 0.45 μm Millipore (Siemens-Millipore, Shrewbury, MA) filter. Individual sugars analysis was performed by HPLC with a refractive index detector (Perkin Elmer, Norwalk, Conn) equipped with a Waters Sugar Pak column [43-45]; The mobile phase was 10−4 M ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium calcium salt (CaEDTA) (0.5 mL min−1 flow rate at 90°C). All results are expressed as g 100 mL−1 juice. Organic acids, including ascorbic acid, were analyzed using a Perkin-Elmer Series 200 auto sampler (Waltham, MA), a Spectra System P4000 pump, and a Spectra System UV 6000 LP detector (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA). Acids were separated on an AltechOA1000 Prevail organic acid column with a flow rate of 0.2 mL min−1 at 35°C and a mobile phase of 0.01 N H2SO4 [42,46]. The injection volume was 20 μL.
Carotenoids in the pellet and supernatant were analyzed using HPLC. Juice samples (30 mL) were centrifuged at 10,000 × g for 15 min. The pellet extracts were collected by dissolving pellets in acetone. Both pellet extracts and supernatants were individually filtered through a 0.45 μm filter into amber vials and stored at −20°C until injected into an HPLC (20 μL loop) equipped with an YMC carotenoid column (YMC Co. Ltd., Komatsu City, Japan). Elution conditions included a three-solvent gradient composed initially of water/methanol/methyl tertbutyl ether (4/81/15, v/v/v), and changed to linear gradients of 4/6/90 (v/v/v) by 60 min at a flow rate of 1 mL min−1, at 30°C. Compounds were detected using a photo diode array (PDA) detector scanning 200–700 nm at 5 nm increments, identified using standards (Sigma, Carotenoid Nature) and quantified using absorbance measurements. Values for pellet extracts and supernatants were then added together for each sample.
Volatile compound identification
Sample preparation for volatile and aroma identification used the same methods as previously described [4]. Briefly, Temple and Murcott samples were juice composites of 10 fruits with 2 replications of 5 fruits. The fruit were washed, rinsed and gently juiced manually using a table-top manual juicer (model 3183; Oster, Rye, NY, USA) to avoid potential peel components (peel oil) entering the juice. Juice samples (2.5 mL) were placed in 20 mL glass vials (Gerstel, Inc., Baltimore, MD, USA) along with saturated sodium chloride solution (2.5 mL) to help drive volatiles into the headspace and inhibit any potential enzymatic activity. An internal standard (3-hexanone, 1 ppm) was added to juice samples. The vials were capped and stored at −20°C until analyzed. The extraction of aroma volatiles was performed using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) with an MPS-2 auto sampler (Gerstel). The vials were incubated at 40°C for 30 min and volatile compounds were identified by comparison of their mass spectra with library entries (NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral Library, version 2.0; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MA, USA), as well as by comparing retention indices (RIs) with published RIs on both columns. Volatiles were semi-quantified by dividing peak area with the peak area of the internal standard.
Statistical analysis of volatile and non-volatile compounds
Two pooled samples from ten fruits were used for each harvesting time. All calculations were based on means of harvesting time. The differences of volatile and non-volatile compounds between Temple and Murcott were examined by an analysis of variance using the PROC GLM procedure of the SAS 9.4 statistical software package (http://www.sas.com).
Protein extraction was modified based on the following description [21]. Briefly, the juice sacs were ground in homogenization buffer containing 0.5 M MOPS-KOH pH 8.5, 1.5% PVPP, 7.5 mM EDTA, 2 mM DTT, 0.1 mM PMSF, and 0.1% (v/v) protease inhibitor cocktail (Sigma, St. Louis, MO, USA). The homogenates were filtered through four layers of cheesecloth and centrifuged at 1500 × g for 20 min to eliminate cellular debris and nuclei. The pellet was discarded and the supernatant was centrifuged at 12000 × g for 20 min at 4°C. Soluble protein was precipitated in ammonium sulfate (85%) and collected by centrifugation at 12000 × g. The pellets were resuspended in a buffer containing 10 mM KH2PO4 and 0.5 mM DTT and desalted with a PD-10 column (Amersham Bioscience, GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ, USA) according to manufacturer’s instruction. Protein concentration was determined using the Bio-Rad Bradford protein assay (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA. USA). One hundred μg protein from each sample was precipitated in 80% cold acetone at −20°C overnight, centrifuged at 18,000 rpm for 20 min at 4°C, and washed once with 80% cold acetone.
iTRAQ Labeling and data analysis
In total, 18 samples were labeled and analyzed (2 cultivars × 3 maturity levels × 3 replications). Three to four fruits were pooled with 100 μg protein as one replication. iTRAQ labeling and data analysis were performed as a service by the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) Proteomic Core facility at the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL, USA). For protein digestion, iTRAQ labeling and cation exchange were done according to the company’s protocols and described by Zhu et al. [47]. Briefly, the MS/MS data were analyzed by a thorough search considering biological modifications against the NCBI subset of green plants fasta database (downloaded on November, 2010) using the Paragon™ Algorithm of PROTEINPILOT v3.0 software suite (Applied Biosystems). For relative quantification of proteins, only MS/MS spectra unique to a particular protein and for which the sum of the signal-to-noise ratio for all of the peak pairs was greater than 9 were used for quantification (Applied Biosystems). To be identified as being differentially expressed, a protein had to be quantified with at least three spectra, a p < 0.05, and a ratio -fold change of at least 2 in more than two independent experiments (i.e. at least six peptides). Protein identities were confirmed using BLAST at the NCBI. Gene ontology analysis of identified proteins was carried out using Blast2GO [48]. The biological interpretation of the differentially expressed proteins was further completed by assigning them to metabolic pathways using Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) annotation. For proteins identified more than once, only the most significant identified protein was selected. In addition, functional classification of total identified proteins was analyzed by Blast2Go with default parameters (https://blast2go.com).
RNA extraction and quantitative real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (QRT-PCR)
Total RNA from each sample was extracted using Trizol (Ambion), and contaminating DNA was eliminated using the Turbo DNA-free Kit (Ambion, Austin, TX). The concentration of RNA was measured in a NanoDrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer (NanoDrop Technologies, Wilmington, DE). Total RNA was diluted as 5 ng/μL−1. QRT-PCR was carried out in the Agilent Mx3005P System (Agilent Technology) using a Brilliant III Ultra-Fast SYBR Green QRT-PCR Master Mix (Agilent Technology). Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) was used as a reference gene to provide relative quantification for the target gene valencene synthase (Cstps1). Primer sequences of Cstps1 were used according to Sharon-Asa et al. [15] (Additional file 2: Table S4). The results represent normalized mean values and standard error of mean analyzed by using the program in the Agilent Mx3005P System.
Availability of supporting data
The data supporting the results of this article are included within the article.
Cstps1:
Valencene synthase
CaEDTA:
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid disodium calcium salt
DMPP:
Isomer dimethylallyl diphosphate
GC-MS:
Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
HPLC:
IPP:
Isopentenyl diphosphate
iTRAQ:
Isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantification
Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes
MEP:
Methylerythritol 4-phosphate
MVA:
Mevalonate
NAD+:
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (oxidized form)
NAPDH:
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (reduced form)
QRT-PCR:
Quantitative real-time Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
RIs:
Retention indices
SOD:
SPME:
Solid-phase microextraction
SSC:
Soluble solids content
TA:
Titratable acidity
TCA:
The tricarboxylic acid cycle
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University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL, 33850, USA
Qibin Yu
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USDA-ARS Horticultural Research Laboratory, Fort Pierce, FL, 34945, USA
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College of Agriculture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India
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QY, AP, and FGG conceived and designed the study; QY, AP, EAB, JB and YY collected and analyzed the volatile and non-volatile data; QY, MH and HSD collected and analyzed the proteomic data; QY wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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The excel spread sheet contains 3 tables describing identified volatiles, proteins and results of metabolite pathway analyses in Temple and Murcott. Table S1. Volatiles identified in Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruit. Table S2. Total proteins identified in fruit flesh of Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruits, and ratio of Temple versus Murcott. Table S3. Metabolite pathways containing differentially expressed proteins between Temple and Murcott mandarin hybrid fruits.
Detailed information on primers used for amplifying valencene synthase, gene ontology assignment, valencene and carotenoid content during fruit ripening in Temple and Murcott. Table S4. Primers used for amplifying valencene synthase and control genes for real-time PCR. Figure S1. Gene Ontology (GO) assignment (2nd level GO terms) of differential proteins between Murcott and Temple. The differential proteins were categorized based on GO annotation and the proportion of each category was displayed according to: Biological process (A), Cellular component (B) and Molecular function (C). Because a gene could be assigned to more than one GO term, the sum of genes in a category would be above the total number 92. X axis indicates number of different expressed proteins. Figure S2. (A) Valencene production during fruit ripening in Temple and Murcott; (B) Carotenoid content in Temple and Murcott during ripening.
Yu, Q., Plotto, A., Baldwin, E.A. et al. Proteomic and metabolomic analyses provide insight into production of volatile and non-volatile flavor components in mandarin hybrid fruit. BMC Plant Biol 15, 76 (2015) doi:10.1186/s12870-015-0466-9
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Royal Brunei confirms Brisbane services
Friday 18 January 2019:
Kicking off the New Year with great news for Brisbane and Queensland, Royal Brunei Airlines has announced it will return to Queensland with the launch of services between Brisbane and Brunei from 11 June 2019 (Brunei departure).
The four weekly flights, operating Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will bring an additional 62,400 seats into and out of Brisbane Airport (BNE) each year, with a customer friendly schedule and more choice that will appeal to a wide range of travellers and budgets.
The service was acquired for Queensland thanks to the partnership between Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) and Tourism Events Queensland, with the support of Queensland State Government’s Attracting Aviation Investment Fund (AAIF).
Gert-Jan de Graaff, BAC Chief Executive Officer, said the commencement of Royal Brunei Airlines is another step in the growth of BNE’s ASEAN network which includes the increase to four daily Singapore Airlines services in 2017 and the four times weekly Malaysia Airlines services that commenced in 2018.
“It is great to welcome Royal Brunei Airlines as Brisbane Airport’s 34th international airline and Bandar Seri Begawan as our 33rd international destination.
“Royal Brunei has been a long friend of Brisbane and it is great we will now have further access into the UK and ASEAN.
“Importantly, these new direct links will also expand tourism, business and trade opportunities between Queensland and Brunei.
“It is also great that new longer range narrow-body aircraft such as the A320neo is now able to make direct flights into Brisbane more viable than ever, an opportunity we are working to expand on in the future,” Mr de Graaff said.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said securing flights to Brisbane with the international carrier was a win for Queensland.
“Royal Brunei will fly four times-a-week to Brisbane, which is set to attract up to 30,000 visitors to Queensland and support more than 720 jobs,” the Premier said.
“Improving access to Queensland and securing direct flights from key visitor markets like the UK is vital when it comes to growing our share of the global tourism market.
“This new service will allow us to welcome more tourists from the United Kingdom – Queensland’s third largest international market – connecting via Bandar Seri Begawan which is a hub for international travellers.”Acting Tourism Industry Development Minister Di Farmer said the new route was secured through the Palaszczuk Government’s Attracting Aviation Investment Fund (AAIF).
“Thanks to this new route, travellers will have another option to pick Brisbane as their entry point to Australia and have easy access to many other iconic Queensland destinations.
“We’re investing more in tourism than any other government in Queensland’s history because we know how important this industry is when it comes to growing our economy.
“Since 2015, the Palaszczuk Government has secured about 2.4 million extra airline seats worth more than $1.8 billion for Queensland.
“We’ll continue to invest in new flights to grow Queensland’s tourism sector.”
Mr Karam Chand, Royal Brunei Airlines Chief Executive Officer, said, “Royal Brunei is delighted to recommence services to Brisbane, a very popular destination for Bruneians and guests from our expanding route network.
“We have very good connections from United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, East Asia and South East Asia to/from Brisbane. Our guests will experience the very best of Bruneian hospitality flying on our fleet of B787 Dreamliners and A320NEOs, one of the youngest fleet in the world with an average fleet age of two years.
“We offer great value to our Australian guests and exciting destinations such as Brunei, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Ho Chi Minh City to name a few which could be packaged as single or dual destination holidays.
“Bruneians and the expat community living in Brunei will not only the enjoy many attractions and activities on offer in Brisbane city and its surrounds, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast are just over an hour away from the CBD.
“Brisbane is also a gateway to many popular tourism spots in Queensland such as Cairns, Port Douglas, Fraser Island and the Whitsundays,” added Mr Chand.
Royal Brunei Airline’s network covers a number of South East Asian and East Asian markets, as well as two ports in the Middle East, and London Heathrow, increasing access to/from destinations such as Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Taipei, Tokyo and Seoul, as well as a new one-stop travel option to the UK.
Passengers will enjoy the comfort of Royal Brunei’s A320neo aircraft offering 12 business and 138 economy seats, with the proposed launch schedule (subject to change) currently having the flight arrive into Brisbane at 4.45am and depart 5.30pm the same day.
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Baltic News Network - News from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia > Baltics > Estonian prime minister concerned about cross-border alcohol trade with Latvia
Estonian prime minister concerned about cross-border alcohol trade with Latvia
The possible reduction of excise tax on alcohol in Latvia as a reaction to the same step made in Estonia will affect cross-border trade, said Estonia’s Prime Minister Jüri Ratas.
«I’ve read that Latvia considers the option to reduce excise tax. I don’t know if there is a specific amount planned or how much the tax will be reduced for light or strong alcohol. I believe discussions in Latvia are underway,» he said on Wednesday, 29 May, answering questions from deputies of Estonia’s Riigikogu.
On Tuesday, 28 May, Estonia’s parliament accepted to review the government coalition’s legislative draft. It provides for reducing excise tax for some alcoholic beverages (beer, cider and strong beverages) by 25%. Estonia’s government reached an agreement on his step on Monday. There are no plans to reduce excise tax on wine.
Currently the excise tax on beer in Estonia is EUR 16.92 per 1 hectolitre. Excise tax for strong alcoholic beverages is EUR 25.08 per 1 hectolitre.
A LETA was previously told by Latvia’s Finance Minister Jānis Reirs, Latvia has decided to follow Estonia’s decisions in regards to excise tax on alcohol. Next week there will be a meeting of a tax work group led by Finance Ministry’s parliamentary secretary Atis Zakatistovs. During this meeting, participants will decide on the possible reduction of excise tax on alcohol in Latvia.
Latvian Traders Association’s President Henriks Danusēvičs has said that excise tax of alcoholic beverages should be reduced by at least 23% in Latvia.
Finnish Food Trade Association and Finnish alcohol producers also believe their country should react to Estonia’s plans.
«Finnish beer brewers and beer industry representatives have sent a letter to parties engaged in coalition talks. I don’t know whether they intend to agree. More likely they won’t. Still, everything is in their hands,» said Estonia’s prime minister.
According to him, is excise tax of alcohol is reduced 25%, income from alcohol trade might drop by EUR 12 million in 2019 and increase by approximately EUR 3 million annually in the next four years.
Latvian and Lithuanian presidents hope to ratify maritime border treaty
Latvian foreign trade turnover up 9.5 in April on year
Prime minister: if Estonia reduces excise tax on alcohol, Latvia will be forced to react
Latvian and Estonian ministers discuss solutions for alcohol prices
Estonia’s IT minister suspected of influencing voters
Estonian shops to make alcohol less visible
Drunk driver in Estonia causes crash with three fatalities
One single vote left the Lithuanian election system intact
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Perfil de Outrageously Old
Plat+ Multi-role player looking for team
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: Bay State College Esports is looking for recruits for Fall 2019
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Bay State College Esports is looking for recruits for Fall 2019 (baystate.edu)
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: Theirs a out of state fee right? I know some colleges like Liberty in virgina dosen't have a out of state fee
We do not have a difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition, so no out-of-state fees. :)
: Bay State College Esports Recruiting Summoners for Fall 2019
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: what ranks are you looking for?
Hello, I am looking for players of all levels. Right now I am generally looking for people from gold to challenger, but will take good candidates under gold, for multiple rosters.
Bay State College Esports Recruiting Summoners for Fall 2019 (baystate.edu)
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: > [{quoted}](name=Outrageously Old,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=js1ksEkI,comment-id=00100000000000000000,timestamp=2019-08-07T16:28:20.261+0000) > > In the first line you countered everything you used to try to explain why a system that takes into account how a player does is bad. Sports are made of teams that practice together, just like how premade teams work within esports. These premade teams are expected to play as a unit, and will win or lose as ONE UNIT. An all in win or loss system works perfectly for premade teams. > > From what I see, most people that don't think a system that takes K/D/A and other stats into consideration to dictate LP losses or gains will work don't understand the difference between premade team competition and solo queue competition. There is a HUGE difference between the two. Why do you think there are people at the top of the solo queue ladder that aren't invited into pro teams, or even collegiate teams? > > I'm sorry to say this, but your last paragraph is literally a statement to your lack of ability to adjust to the game, or to be a driving force to win yourself. You are literally blaming your team..... It doesn't even matter that pro teams are a different environment and they also won't be getting anywhere near to the sample size of a dedicated SQ player. Guess what, everyone's in the same boat (other than duos I suppose) and the teams aren't holding you back long-term. This has been proven over and over with boosters, streamers doing unranked solo challenges and just high ELO players starting in other regions. So why would we introduce an incredibly meta enforcing and artificial system to fix a problem which doesn't really even exist? We don't need a mysterious algorithm to look at our stats and tell us if we're performing in the one true way to play League of Legends. There are so many pieces involved that the algorithm will always be inherently biased. The goal of the game is to kill the Nexus and gameplay decisions getting you closer to that goal will invariably lead to more wins over time -> more LP. Simple. For most players, it takes less than 100 games from unranked to get very close to the ranking of their main. I've even seen Challenger players solo from unranked to Mastes in literally less than 100 games. Meanwhile, you have guys like this with over 1000 games in Gold and 7.0+ KDA: https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=cryocorebrand I've actually even played with him on a smurf and it was pretty annoying because he was afraid to go for any all-in play even when it was very favorable for us. He ran away from Baron when they started to come. We'd have burst it before the main fight started. A big "no, thank you" to encouraging this type of player. Anyway, with your condescending attitude it's pretty obvious that you are set in your thinking and have no interest in a discussion. I care so much about climbing through my own merits that I refuse to ever duo on more serious accounts and I don't think it should exist for Diamond+. I don't know if you're trolling or actually missing the point but blaming someone for something in the game doesn't magically make it false. The whole point in that hypothetical situation was that someone could have farmed nice stats but still been a detriment to the team due to decisions which would be hard to pick up by an algorithm. If someone refuses to watch the jungle entrances immediately early game, the consequences can reverberate for the entirety of the game and often go way beyond that player's lane. I also find the whole comment incredibly hypocritical. The very fact that you even suggest this sort of superflous system to pat you on the back for losses when you have seemingly good stats shows that you are blaming the team for the loss and your rank. BTW: There's already a smurf detection system partially based on stats. The way I understand it is that it starts testing you against higher caliber players and if you perform, continues doing so. This is the most that I'd consider OK based on stats. If your stats are great and you're underrated, perhaps it can give you the opportunity to prove yourself vs better players more quickly. I'm not sure how robust the current system is for this but perhaps it can be improved.
em > For the love of god please remove promos
Again, you misunderstand the point of the proposed system and go into blaming your team yet again.
: > [{quoted}](name=Outrageously Old,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=js1ksEkI,comment-id=001000000000,timestamp=2019-08-07T15:29:16.915+0000) > > I have seen the "players will abuse this system" myth all too often when people bring up individual performance dictating LP losses or gains, and I am honestly tired of it. Explain, in excruciating detail, as to why it would ruin the game? Sure, some people will play super safe, games might be a bit longer, but isn't that better than have a top lane die two times in 4 minutes and then continue to ram their face into the enemy team without thinking about how their feeding will hurt the rest of the team? > > I think a lot of people that are afraid of an LP gain/loss system that is effected by performance don't realize one simple thing...**The team that wins will still win, the team that loses will still lose.** GOOD PLAYERS will understand this and will be happy to sacrifice, if you can even call it that, their precious K/D/A to win a game. Players that play for purely K/D/A would most likely stagnate and stop climbing. > > The ratings on how much LP you gain and lose could simply be pulled from Champ -> Role stats within the players current rank/ranks around the player (for the rare cases of champs that are barely used). If you are playing a champ that can only win by going kamikaze it would be reflected in stats taken from the community and give you an appropriate LP gain or loss padding. If it isn't, than you are probably playing the champ wrong. Sure, there will be a few games where you literally have no option but to play outside of what is deemed "normal" for certain champs, but if you win, you still win LP. It's just a fundamentally broken approach. Imagine if you added this to sports rather than Win/Loss. You're letting an algorithm decide whether you played well or not. It solidifies a meta and may end-up punishing effective players with new strategies. The results will speak for themselves over a larger sample so there is just no need to have this black-box approach to LP gains. I hope Riot never does this and I think it would be terrible for competitive integrity. All it does is make you feel better about some CS stat, KDA etc. when it could be completely meaningless to the result of the game. Perhaps you have fantastic stats but you still misplayed a teamfight in a serious way or weren't where you should have been on the map. That can be game losing. I've lost track of how many fed carries made massive mistakes to lose a game (even if they didn't die) and they don't deserve to climb just because of stats. Many games wouldn't even have needed to get to a certain stage if they were played differently early. For instance if my bot is afk at a turret and doesn't watch jungle at the start, perhaps an invade bullies me out and I become suddenly very behind for no fault of my own. Maybe that bot player ends up 10-0 later on and we lose but he thinks he deserves to win. Meanwhile, here I am with my jungle ruined, my path revealed and my pace for map pressure greatly slowed. Had this player simply fulfilled his duty early, perhaps we'd win as a team even if he had a much worse KDA.
> [{quoted}](name=astralwit,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=js1ksEkI,comment-id=0010000000000000,timestamp=2019-08-07T15:54:27.573+0000) > > It's just a fundamentally broken approach. Imagine if you added this to sports rather than Win/Loss. You're letting an algorithm decide whether you played well or not. It solidifies a meta and may end-up punishing effective players with new strategies. The results will speak for themselves over a larger sample so there is just no need to have this black-box approach to LP gains. I hope Riot never does this and I think it would be terrible for competitive integrity. > > All it does is make you feel better about some CS stat, KDA etc. when it could be completely meaningless to the result of the game. Perhaps you have fantastic stats but you still misplayed a teamfight in a serious way or weren't where you should have been on the map. That can be game losing. > > I've lost track of how many fed carries made massive mistakes to lose a game (even if they didn't die) and they don't deserve to climb just because of stats. Many games wouldn't even have needed to get to a certain stage if they were played differently early. For instance if my bot is afk at a turret and doesn't watch jungle at the start, perhaps an invade bullies me out and I become suddenly very behind for no fault of my own. Maybe that bot player ends up 10-0 later on and we lose but he thinks he deserves to win. Meanwhile, here I am with my jungle ruined, my path revealed and my pace for map pressure greatly slowed. Had this player simply fulfilled his duty early, perhaps we'd win as a team even if he had a much worse KDA. In the first line you countered everything you used to try to explain why a system that takes into account how a player does is bad. Sports are made of teams that practice together, just like how premade teams work within esports. These premade teams are expected to play as a unit, and will win or lose as ONE UNIT. An all in win or loss system works perfectly for premade teams. From what I see, most people that don't think a system that takes K/D/A and other stats into consideration to dictate LP losses or gains will work don't understand the difference between premade team competition and solo queue competition. There is a HUGE difference between the two. Why do you think there are people at the top of the solo queue ladder that aren't invited into pro teams, or even collegiate teams? I'm sorry to say this, but your last paragraph is literally a statement to your lack of ability to adjust to the game, or to be a driving force to win yourself. You are literally blaming your team.....
IP Masquerena (EUNE)
: The problem with performance based gains/losses is that they will be abused to no end. Players will stop caring as much for wins and play for themselves, you win the game? Cool, now you have a huge gain, you lost? Not losing too much. That system would simply make trolls and selfish players climb more than players who chose to play for the team. I for one won't jump to die if it gets my team no gain, but I'll be the first to go kamikaze if it means my team will win the fight, and if I win the game based on my plays, I'm fine with it, but your system will punish me for making the plays needed to win the game.
> [{quoted}](name=Rylalei,realm=EUNE,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=js1ksEkI,comment-id=00100000,timestamp=2019-08-07T11:25:20.373+0000) > > The problem with performance based gains/losses is that they will be abused to no end. > > Players will stop caring as much for wins and play for themselves, you win the game? Cool, now you have a huge gain, you lost? Not losing too much. > > That system would simply make trolls and selfish players climb more than players who chose to play for the team. I for one won't jump to die if it gets my team no gain, but I'll be the first to go kamikaze if it means my team will win the fight, and if I win the game based on my plays, I'm fine with it, but your system will punish me for making the plays needed to win the game. I have seen the "players will abuse this system" myth all too often when people bring up individual performance dictating LP losses or gains, and I am honestly tired of it. Explain, in excruciating detail, as to why it would ruin the game? Sure, some people will play super safe, games might be a bit longer, but isn't that better than have a top lane die two times in 4 minutes and then continue to ram their face into the enemy team without thinking about how their feeding will hurt the rest of the team? I think a lot of people that are afraid of an LP gain/loss system that is effected by performance don't realize one simple thing...**The team that wins will still win, the team that loses will still lose.** GOOD PLAYERS will understand this and will be happy to sacrifice, if you can even call it that, their precious K/D/A to win a game. Players that play for purely K/D/A would most likely stagnate and stop climbing. The ratings on how much LP you gain and lose could simply be pulled from Champ -> Role stats within the players current rank/ranks around the player (for the rare cases of champs that are barely used). If you are playing a champ that can only win by going kamikaze it would be reflected in stats taken from the community and give you an appropriate LP gain or loss padding. If it isn't, than you are probably playing the champ wrong. Sure, there will be a few games where you literally have no option but to play outside of what is deemed "normal" for certain champs, but if you win, you still win LP.
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Red Wing Directions
From the Twin Cities– Take Hwy. 61 through Cottage Grove and take 316 out of Hastings. At 61, turn left and head straight into Red Wing. In Red Wing the trail has two access points – Lower A.P. Anderson Access and Old West Main Access. See Red Wing city maps.
Lower A.P. Anderson Access – 3775 Hwy 61, Red Wing
Approx 2 miles east of the Hwy 19/Hwy 61 intersection -Take the first right after the recycling center (across Hwy 61 from Red Wing Shoe)
There are signs posted on the highway to direct you.
GPS Address and Coordinates:
3775 Highway 61, Red Wing, MN
+44° 34′ 16.70″, -92° 35′ 50.99″
Click here for map to Lower A. P. Anderson Park Access
Old West Main Access
A little closer to downtown is the Old West Main Access. Continue on Hwy 61 to the Bench Street/ Hwy 61 stoplight. Take a left past the Chevrolet Dealership and onto Old West Main.
2480 Old West Main St Red Wing, MN
+44° 33′ 55.88″, -92° 34′ 2.51″
Click here for map to Old West Main Trail Access
The Red Wing end of the Trail was groomed for cross country skiing. A classic track has not been set. Conditions are very very poor.
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PLOT TWIST: State’s Attorney Drops ALL Charges Against Jussie Smollett, Chicago PD Gets Empirically Side Eyed
Source: Christopher Peterson / Splash News
Jussie Smollett Won’t Be Prosecuted For Filing Alleged False Report
Welp! Looks like the Chicago PD will be eating crow today.
TMZ broke the news that Jussie Smollett will not be prosecuted for allegedly faking a racial attack as all charges against him have been dropped!!! Jussie and his lawyers addressed the media regarding the news at 8:45 AM PT.
Today, Jussie Smollett’s attorneys, Tina Glandian and Patricia Brown Holmes, issued the following statement:
“Today, all criminal charges against Jussie Smollett were dropped and his record has been wiped clean of the filing of this tragic complaint against him. Jussie was attacked by two people he was unable to identify on January 29th. He was a victim who was vilified and made to appear as a perpetrator as a result of false and inappropriate remarks made to the public causing an inappropriate rush to judgement.
Jussie and many others were hurt by these unfair and unwarranted actions. This entire situation is a reminder that there should never be an attempt to prove a case in the court of public opinion. That is wrong. It is a reminder that a victim, in this case Jussie, deserves dignity and respect. Dismissal of charges against the victim in this case was the only just result.
“Jussie is relieved to have this situation behind him and is very much looking forward to getting back to focusing on his family, friends and career.”
According to TMZ reports Jussie and his lawyers headed to court Tuesday morning in Chicago, where he was facing 16 felony counts of lying to police in the alleged racial and homophobic attack and the case is now over. Jussie will surrender his $10,000 bond but is otherwise cleared of all charges.
TMZ’s sources say State’s Attorney, Kim Foxx, told Chicago police she was dropping the case because Jussie would have only gotten community service if convicted and she said he has already performed community service so there is no point in prosecuting him. TMZ was not able find any record of Smollett doing community service AND they say Chicago police are “furious” and suspect something shady might be going on with Kim Foxx.
HOWEVER, a source close to Jussie says the prosecution’s case “disintegrated.” As previously reported, the Police Superintendent had claimed a $3,500 check Abel Osundairo and Ola Osundairo received from Jussie was payment for the alleged fake attack but it was actually for physical training. The Police Superintendent also said during a news conference that Jussie wrote that threatening letter 6 days before the attack when in actuality the FBI had not concluded who wrote the letter.
So it sounds like the Police Superintendent blew the case with his big mouth.
What do you think about this turn of events. Seems like the Empire writers couldn’t have come up with a better plot twist!
😉 see y’all Wednesday. #empire #empirefox pic.twitter.com/jQUtsHcQBF
— Empire Writers (@EmpireWriters) March 26, 2019
Jussie Smollett addressed the cameras as well:
BREAKING: Jussie Smollett speaks after all charges were dropped: "I have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. I would not be my mother's son if I was capable of one drop of what I have been accused of." https://t.co/B2ahaJAW4t pic.twitter.com/0bgEBJFN33
— ABC News (@ABC) March 26, 2019
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Caroline Ryan
Living The Dream: Act 2
May 19, 2016 July 4, 2016 John Chapman#Dream2016, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Play For The Nation, Barbican Theatre, BSL, Caroline Ryan, Eastbury Community School, Mechanicals, Royal Shakespeare Company, RSC, Tower Theatre Company, William Shakespeare2 Comments
D16 Call Wednesday 18th May
The emotional effects of a big experience shouldn’t be underestimated especially when you are recalling events through the written word. Thus I finished yesterday’s post in a bit of an emotional state. Fortunately the mood shifted fairly rapidly when David sent me some photos among which was an “interesting” snap of me in a onsie worn as part of the Pyramus outfit. As the pose struck might loosely be termed “provocative” I won’t inflict it on you – you might have recently eaten. My other discovery of the morning was that I had, apparently, broken Pyramus’ sword onstage in full view. I had absolutely zero recall of this and nobody had said anything after the show. It only came to light when I got a friend’s message asking how the breakage had been stage managed.
Looks like I’m not the only tired one – would you believe these people are actually having the time of their lives?
So it was off to the Barbican late in the morning wondering how I was going to explain myself and whether a suitable substitute was available. The Dreamteam gathered first for notes with AD Kim which, as we have come to expect were both encouraging but also thorough. For me I needed to tighten some cues and take a little more time with some other aspects. I was reminded to give the audience credit for being able to work some things out for themselves and get more enjoyment out of it whilst doing so. No mention of the sword so I bit the bullet and asked. As it turned out I was in the clear – it had actually been broken completely accidentally and not even by me. Stage management had with customary efficiency effected a repair. Phew! They were about to let me loose on the Barbican stage again after all. The professional cast had arrived by this point and were also given notes. I was struck that they were asked for their reactions to the first night performance (actually for them the 84th) rather than the other way round. Most of their concerns centred round the way they were playing the “new space”.
Caroline and Lucy at the BSL tech rehearsal
We were then introduced to the rather wonderful Caroline Ryan who was to be the interpreter at the British Sign Language performance that evening. I’m ashamed to say I thought this would mean someone standing at the side of the stage and being rather distracting but this was to be a semi integrated performance with Caroline actually dressed as a character (an extra fairy) and joining the action to explain the story and sign the dialogue. Hence we had another technical rehearsal to ensure that everything would run smoothly and so that Caroline could work out where she was going to be at any given point. She had already sat in the audience the previous night and had carried out similar interpretation duties at other venues on the tour so had a pretty good idea of what was what. Here you can see Caroline at work (NB – The video shows our colleagues from the Bear Pit in Stratford upon Avon)
This rehearsal lasted well into the afternoon but at least we had a chance to run through our scenes and put into practice the notes we had been given earlier. This was followed by the arrival of a new group of children from Eastbury school who needed to be drilled into the show. This gave us some time out but before the day ended everyone joined together to practice the Bergomask. Suddenly it was 5.00 pm; being inside a theatre by definition means you don’t have a view of the outside world and time can have a tendency to run away. With consummate timing our official performance photographs became available (they have to be sanctioned by Erica/RSC first) and so over supper we were able to browse through these making suitably ribald comments.
Eastbury
Starveling
Quince, Bottom & Starveling
Pyramus
Titania and Bottom
Lion & Moonshine
Quince, Flute and Snout
Photos by Topher McGrillis © RSC
A physical warm up with Laura (H) and a vocal warm up with Tarek told us that the performance was drawing near so time to get into costume and await “beginners”. The mood in the dressing room was a little more tranquil than the previous evening partly because we no longer had the BBC with us filming and partly because we’d come through largely unscathed the night before. That said there was still an air of anticipation.
Shortly after the performance begins Lucy appears to give us the “Puck report”. This is handy as it prewarns us about audience numbers and what we might need to do to draw the spectators in. If audience numbers were a little down on the previous evening it hardly showed – once again the warmth and the rapport came rolling back to us behind the footlights (and in this, albeit modern, production there are actual footlights). Our scenes felt strong and secure bolstered by the earlier notes and, as during the day, time seemed to whizz by. Dresser Jen and I had now got the costume changes down to a fine art. There’s an extraordinary moment when I need to get the ass head on and I have no less than three people “prepping” me while I just stand there and let it all happen. No scrambling around sorting yourself out as in amdram land and good practice for the way Bottom is pampered after the interval.
It was fascinating working with Caroline as part of the cast and I was in awe of her energy – she was, after all, onstage the whole time. I barely noticed she was there except as another character in the play; a tribute to her thorough professionalism and she deservedly received a huge round of applause at the end. This is yet another aspect of drama work that I could never have imagined being involved in without being part of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play For The Nation – the gift that keeps on giving.
A rose between two thorns (or a Puck between two Bottoms)
Post show I met up with Barry, my Bradford opposite number, who had travelled up to London to see the show. We’d arranged that he would stay with me for the night before heading back north the following day so it was great to compare notes and swap anecdotes of our experiences (a little too) late into the night. As his group have already had their turn it was also helpful to get his experience of the need to pace yourself and get some hints of what was still to come. One of the huge bonuses of the whole project has been getting to know like minded people around the country; what a truly phenomenal experience this is.
So that’s about it for Wednesday except to say that I had been following the traffic to the blog off and on through the day and was amazed to find that the number of views had shot up exponentially. It was very gratifying to see how many people were accessing the site and finding out what we were up to – you’re adding to that number right now – so thanks, folks, for taking an interest and hopefully it’s provided a bit of a window into Tower Dreamteam’s remarkable experience if you haven’t been able to get to a performance. There’s still time!
This week the production is at the Barbican in London– click on the image below to reveal full details.
Evenings at 7.30 Tuesday 17th – Saturday 21st May
Matinées at 1.00 Thursday May 19th & Saturday May 21st
The Tower Theatre performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Barbican
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Maybe goto isn't so bad after all.
I've used this pattern a lot over the last few days:
for eggs in spam:
for jello in eggs:
if jello is the one I want:
do stuff with eggs and jello
People familiar with my code will find this amount of complex control flow unsurprising. But the reasoning here is different from my past practices. In the past I always optimized to have as few lines of code as possible, regardless of how upside down and backwards it made everything be organized, but that could be done much better in this case like so:
There are two reasons I find this construct objectionable. First is that it leads to a lot of code having a lot of indentation (the 'do stuff' is in many cases dozens of lines) which isn't good for readability. Second is that the natural flow of the code is 'scan for the thing I want, and then do something with it' which is the flow of the structure I've been using. I suppose one could write it like this:
def my_little_func():
return eggs, jello
return None, None
eggs, jello = my_little_func()
But that's hardly elegant and forces the flow to jump around in terms of the visual layout of the code, which goes against what I'm trying to accomplish.
At the risk of starting a religious war, I'd like to point out that the most readable and versatile way of doing what I want is like so:
goto x
x: do stuff with eggs and jello
But short of that the following may be the best option currently available. I might switch to it:
after_func(eggs, jello)
def after_func(eggs, jello):
But it still doesn't look as nice as the version with a goto.
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Anchor's Away
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This has been one of those years that make you question everything.
Parkland. Santa Fe. Kentucky.
As our country mourned, debated and prayed over school shootings and tragedies repeatedly happening across America, students and in some cases, teachers, walked out of class to protest the violence, demanding change.
Did it make a difference? I’m not sure. I don’t think I’m alone in believing there were many kids who walked out that didn’t fully understand what or why they were protesting.. but simply wanted to get out of class.
At Westside Community Schools, building leaders and staff members tried something different.. they encouraged students to take action with clear and well-thought out plans to enact change, not only outside our schools, but INSIDE them. Westside High students staged a sit-in; they lined the hallways with posters, signs and silence not only paying tribute to the victims lost, but spreading awareness to each other about violence and to anyone who saw photos and videos of their event. Westside Middle School took this a step further, planning an entire week of activities promoting Safer Schools.
Organized by Student Council members, students created and sold T-shirts uniting their student body and benefitting their school. They made posters reminding each other to report problems and concerns, and they gathered together for an emotional assembly with a resounding message: KINDNESS MATTERS.
That was the theme of their week – to simply be kind to one another. Love always wins. That spirit of brotherhood and respect was palpable during the final assembly wrapping up their Safer Schools week.
It’s the same mentality that has compelled a young woman from western Nebraska to accumulate more than 1,000 hours of time serving others here, and around the world.
Photo courtesy Jenn Cady Photography
“We need to accept people for who they are and embrace their uniqueness,” said Brianna Little, crowned Miss Scotts Bluff County last summer. “My platform is Be Kind, Be The Change, bringing acts of inclusion, acceptance and kindness into our daily lives.”
Brianna is no stranger to service, an active member of her community for the last several years as a teen titleholder in the Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen program. However, she credits a trip to Nicaragua last summer as a key turning point in her mission as both a Miss Nebraska contestant, and a human being.
“I not only was made aware of the need in the world, but I saw just how grateful someone could be for the things we take for granted,” said Brianna. “When a young child, not even school age, runs up to you, dirty bowl in hand begging for beans with big, hopeful eyes, or when a mother will take any clothing you have to offer for her child, your view of the world will change the way mine did.”
Brianna continued that mission when she returned home to Harrisburg, Nebraska, working to deliver meals to those in need throughout her community. She’s also volunteered with the Salvation Army, hospital patients, and the Special Olympics. Still, she wanted to do more.
“I got and talk to schools about the importance of being kind to one another, and creating kindness challenges for them,” said Brianna. “Intertwining my platform with the national Miss America Organization partner, one of the first challenges I present is for the kids to collet coins for the Children’s Miracle Network. I speak with other local organizations such as our Scottsbluff Kiwanis Club about my platform. Whenever I volunteer or make an appearance, I also give away shirts, lanyards, bracelets and chapsticks with the Be Kind, Be The Change logo to remind people to always remember they, too, can be the change.”
Brianna, a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Scottsbluff High School who has already earned an astonishing 51 college credits, notes the facts and statistics that back up the impact movements like her platform can have.. and the problems we all see in society without this work.
“The biggest issue facing my generation is self image,” said Brianna. “There are so many expectations for kids and teens that are both mentally and physically exhausting. There always seems to be something about yourself that needs change, from outward appearance to how to act. 20% of kids and teens in any given year will experience depression. 14% will at least consider suicide. 8% will make an actual attempt on their life. This is one of the many reasons why my platform is so tremendously needed. As a society, we need to change how we view the world and treat people.”
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Reinforcing Brianna’s message are the connections and friendships she’s made by being part of the Miss Nebraska Organization.
“The girls are amazing, kind and very likeminded,” said Brianna. “When they say it’s a sisterhood, it’s true. No matter what happens, I will have spent countless hours with some of the most wonderful women across Nebraska.”
Maya Angelou once said ‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.’
Brianna Little shows through her words and actions she is brilliant, driven and determined. She is an award-winning cheerleader, a future University of Nebraska-Lincoln college student who hopes to become a Maternal Fetal Medicine Obstetrician. People certainly see the impact she’s having already, named just this week as a 2018 Miss Nebraska Community Service Award finalist.
Photo courtesy Kamie Stephen Photography
Still, she hopes she’s remembered for KINDNESS. For making people feel better about themselves and the world around them, and for paying that powerful feeling forward to impact change in others.
Photo courtesy Timmy James Photo
“Knowing just how much of an impact I can make is the sole reason I pursued the title of Miss Nebraska 2018 and wanted to be part of this,” said Brianna. “Beyond the title, I want to show everyone what I stand for and share my message. I hope to inspire people to push the limits of their capabilities and always reach ahead of them to the next great thing awaiting in life. For me, if that is the title of Miss Nebraska, I will be thrilled and ready to represent my state sharing my platform.”
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This entry was posted on June 5, 2018, in Miss America, Power of Positivity, westside and tagged Allie Swanson, brianna little, childrens miracle network, community service, Enough Is Enough, Harrisburg, jenn cady photography, Kamie Stephen Photography, kentucky, Kindness Matters, krista hinrichs, Makinzie Gregory, maya angelou, miss america organization, miss nebraska, miss nebraska's outstanding teen, miss scotts bluff county, Morgan Baird, Nicaragua, nikki catrina anderson, Parkland, Safer Schools, SALVATION ARMY, Santa Fe, scottsbluff, scottsbluff high school, Scottsbluff Kiwanis Club, Service, Special Olympics, Timmy James Photo, Tristen WEcker, university of nebraska-lincoln, western nebraska, Westside community schools, westside high, Westside Middle School. 2 Comments
Happy Easter, everyone! What an absolutely FANTASTIC weekend filled with family, sunshine and love.
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For our family, this was arguably a PERFECT day.. and it was nonstop! My husband and I both spent our afternoons working on projects at home. He cleaned our garage top to bottom, and I tackled all of the landscaping in our backyard. Every, single muscle in my body hurt by the end of the day, but it didn’t feel like work. I loved feeling the sun on my shoulders, hearing my sons singing along to the Sing soundtrack while they played in the yard, and the gratification of yanking out weeds threatening our hostas. (I may or may not have muttered ‘resistance is futile!’ to the stubborn ones.. #StarWarsForever)
My Dad used to tell me, ‘find what you love to do. Then, every day, it doesn’t seem like you’re going to work.’ A western Nebraska teenager has been ‘working’ nonstop since the start of October, and appears to be loving every step of her journey.
Miss Chadron’s Outstanding Teen 2017 Brianna Little
Brianna Little is 16 years old, a junior at Scottsbluff High School. She is a BUSY young woman, a competitive cheerleader who travels several hours twice a week for training in Colorado. This is also her second year as a titleholder in the Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen program, a responsibility she does not take lightly.
February 23, Brianna posted on Facebook: ‘A huge thank you to Lincoln Heights Elementary for letting me come and share my platform yesterday!’
Scrolling through Brianna’s Facebook page, it’s difficult to find a stretch longer than a few days where she’s not serving her community as Miss Chadron’s Outstanding Teen. Often, her message focuses on her personal platform ‘Be Kind Be The Change’.
“It’s all about spreading kindness at schools and within daily life to make it go viral,” Brianna posted on Facebook. “With all the conflicting politics and stereotypes, or even the way bullying still exists within schools, kindness has started to rapidly fade from our society and been replaced with negativity. We need to stop this trend and start making kindness our first instinct again.”
Brianna is taking that message to schools all over western Nebraska, distributing bracelets and T-shirts reminding everyone of the power of kindness. She’s also leading by example, volunteering at local events and leading her own efforts to help others.
December 10, Brianna posted on Facebook: ‘Busy day today!! Started off with a coat drop off at The Truck Full of Love. With the help of our community, I was able to donate approximately 50 new and used coats!! Next stop was Volunteering for The Salvation Army ringing bells. Ended the afternoon at Mi Sinaloa Restaurant in the Monument Mall. They are taking donations to help a special family in need this Christmas!! I love this season of giving!’
It’s clear from her posts that children, especially those facing medical challenges, hold a special place in Brianna’s heart and in her mission of kindness. She’s visited both the Colorado Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha.
Brianna also advocates for and takes part in family fundraisers, even hosting a ‘Last Chemo’ party last weekend. She posted on Facebook, “Come help us celebrate Ashlynn’s last chemo treatment! 7 bounce houses for the kids to enjoy. Cupcakes, cookies and refreshments will be provided. The bounce houses will be sanitized prior to the event. With that being said, please refrain from bringing anyone with an illness due to Ashlynn’s compromised immune system. We hope to see you there!”
Not yet a senior in high school, Brianna is ready to take her mission to the next level, partnering with The Kindness Revolution in Gering.
“We came up with tons of ideas to spread kindness through the community and schools,” Brianna posted. “Be looking out, big change is coming😄”
Change that could start in less than a week.. Brianna competes for the title of Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen on Saturday. It’s hard to imagine adding a statewide agenda, or national agenda, to the already busy schedule of a competitive athlete and dedicated student. Call her Miss Chadron’s Outstanding Teen or the Energizer Bunny… Brianna Little is ready for the job.
“It doesn’t have to be a difficult thing,” Brianna posted on Facebook. “You can start by smiling while holding a door open for a stranger, sitting with the kid at lunch who is all alone, or providing someone with a meal. Small things will lead to big change if we all remember how to work together. #BeKindBeTheChange.”
CLICK HERE to follow Miss Chadron’s Outstanding Teen 2017 Brianna Little on Facebook!
For more information about the Miss Chadron/Miss Northwest/Miss Fur Trade Days’ Outstanding Teen Program or for information about becoming a contestant, CLICK HERE to follow the organization on Facebook. You can also email Director Amanda Vogel by emailing maoteenchadron@gmail.com or calling 308-665-5595.
The Miss Nebraska’s Outstanding Teen Pageant takes place April 21-22 in Omaha, Nebraska.
CLICK HERE for more details, HERE to follow on Twitter, HERE to follow on Facebook. For more information about becoming a contestant, email Director Heather Edwards at heatheraloseke@gmail.com
PREVIOUS.. Miss Fur Trade Days’ Outstanding Teen 2017 Cherokee Purviance
NEXT.. Miss Fur Trade Days 2017 Courtney Pelland
To read more about this year’s contestants, or the Miss Nebraska/Miss Nebraska’s OT classes of 2014-2016 click the THERE SHE IS link at the top of the page!
This entry was posted on April 17, 2017, in Family, Miss America and tagged #BeKindBeTheChange, Amanda Vogel, Cherokee Purviance, Children's Hospital & Medical Center, Colorado Children's Hospital, courtney Pelland, easter, Energizer Bunny, gering, HEATHER EDWARDS, jenn cady photography, Kindness REvolution, Lincoln Heights, Mi Sinaloa, miss chadron's outstanding teen, miss nebraska's outstanding teen, Monument Mall, SALVATION ARMY, scottsbluff high school, star wars, western nebraska. 4 Comments
Running To Remember
As journalists, we are part of a strange phenomenon. The nature of our job is to witness and report; we talk to people, we listen, we watch, we learn and we share everything we take in with our viewers and readers. We are storytellers.. but sometimes, the stories we feature, the people we share with the world, are souls we never got the chance to meet.
This photo will be part of my memory for the rest of my career. One moment, frozen in time, showing the touching relationship between a proud dad and his teenage daughter, his eldest child. Her name was Kylie Jo Remmereid.
Kylie died in a terrible car crash in November of 2011. Investigators believe the car was going too fast; it crashed and rolled. One of Kylie’s best friends was driving; she suffered a traumatic brain injury, and another friend in the car badly injured her arm. They were three beautiful girls, surrounded by love and the promise of an incredible future.. and everything changed in one moment.
I will never forget Kylie’s father’s sheer strength talking to us in the weeks that followed. If you have a moment, please CLICK HERE to watch our story with him from January of 2012. Despite their unimaginable grief, Todd Remmereid and his wife, Kimberly, worked to organize a fundraiser for their daughters’ two friends in that car.. including the girl who was driving that night. In a way, Cassi Collier’s family also lost their daughter.. she survived, but with massive brain damage. Cassi spent months at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, then moved to Omaha’s QLI to continue therapy. To ANYONE driving a car, and to all parents of teens getting behind the wheel, I can’t encourage you enough to CLICK HERE and listen to Cassi’s message in our story.
CLICK HERE for more information about the 5th Annual Run To Remember event, or CLICK HERE to sign up!
These families will NEVER stop sharing their girls’ story, hoping that everytime YOU get behind the wheel, you remember these three, smiling faces. Unfortunately, the dangers that accompany driving are more present than ever.. we rush and forget to put on seatbelts, we keep our eyes on the phone instead of on the road.. we take out our frustrations on the strangers going too slow or not driving how we think they should.
Claire Holsinger never met Kylie or Cassi. In fact, the Scottsbluff High School senior lives on the other side of the state. Still, she too has joined the fight for safer driving, hoping to make a difference and maybe, save a life.
“Over my four years in high school, there have been so many car related deaths in our small community. Many of those teenagers could have been survivors if they had worn their seatbelt,” Claire told me recently. “January 10, 2013, my next door neighbor, Alexis Wheeler passed away in a car crash. Alexis was only 19. When I heard the awful news of her death, it changed my life forever. I made it my goal to make every single one of my friends and family members to buckle up.”
Claire was only 14. When that tragedy hit so close to home, Claire had already seen that she could make a difference for any cause she believed in. Just a few years prior, she was selected to be a Little Sister for the Miss Scotts Bluff County Fair pageant. Claire watched all of the ‘big girls’ in her hometown volunteer, dazzle on stage, and go on to compete at Miss Nebraska.. including future Miss America 2011 Teresa Scanlan.
“It was always a dream of mine, to participate in a pageant. I grew up around pageants most of my life because my dad was the longtime photographer for our local pageant, Miss Scotts Bluff County Fair,” said Claire. “This summer, I decided just to go for it. I had developed a talent, I had participated in Speech and DECA, so I took a chance and competed. I wasn’t expecting any kind of title, I just wanted to see what would happen.”
Claire won the title of Miss Old West Balloon Fest.. and in THIS moment, secured an avenue to make her voice heard on an issue she cared so deeply about.
“My platform is ‘Seriously, Seatbelts’,” said Claire. “I knew something needed to change, and making this my platform was a step towards the right direction. I take seatbelt safety incredibly seriously, and I get very angry and upset when others don’t buckle up. Not doing so is so selfish, [because] by not buckling up, one is affecting their friends and family. It takes 3-5 seconds, buckle up. It could save your life.”
Claire now takes part in events across Western Nebraska to promote her platform, and to connect with children.
“I really want to be a first grade teacher, so I love kids,” said Claire. “I try my best to be very personable and relatable. I’ve also learned through pageants to be more sure and confident of my beliefs and thoughts, because they are mine and I need to own them.”
Claire is taking part in all this (and learning from it!) in addition to activities at Scottsbluff High including Drill Team, show choir, musical, varsity cross country, varsity soccer, National Honor Society and Tri-M (Music Honor Society).
Even with state champion trophies and fancy crowns, Miss Old West Balloon Fest stays grounded thanks to her family, especially her mom.
“My role model is my mother, Stephanie,” said Claire. “She tries so hard to help me succeed in everything I participate in. She is super funny, even though she thinks she’s even funnier. She always gives me cute, quirky gifts, like a coconut hair mask, because it made her think of me. She always puts the family’s needs before hers, but she is slowly learning how to make her things a priority, too.”
Funny how things come full circle. Here’s another photo capturing a beautiful relationship between a parent and child. I’m sure Stephanie Holsinger will be one of the proudest in the Miss Nebraska crowd in North Platte, watching her daughter compete for the coveted state title. Perhaps she’ll have a few tears in her eyes.. maybe she does now reading her daughter’s words (I would!) There is simply no limit to the depth of a parent’s love. Hundreds of miles east, the Remmereid family still shares photos of Kylie on Facebook. More than four years since her death, they are still proud of their beautiful girl. They’ll honor her yet again April 16th, bringing together hundreds of people to remember Kylie and to spread the word about safer driving.
Claire Holsinger wants to share that message as Miss Nebraska.. for her own family, for future drivers, and for the people she’ll only know about through their families’ stories.
In loving memory of Kylie Jo Remmereid, 1995-2011
To follow Miss Old West Balloon Fest 2016 Claire Holsinger, CLICK HERE to follow her on Facebook. You can also contact Claire about events and appearances at claire.holsinger@gmail.com.
For more information about the Miss Old West Balloon Fest Pageant, CLICK HERE to visit their Facebook page. You can also find more information via the Scotts Bluff County Fair Pageant HERE on Facebook, and HERE on their website. For information on becoming a contestant, contact Director Cheryl Engelhaupt by phone at 308-783-2940 or at 308-635-8615.
The 2016 Miss Nebraska Scholarship Pageant takes place June 8-11 in North Platte, Nebraska. Learn more on THEIR WEBSITE, FACEBOOK PAGE, or follow ON TWITTER and ON INSTAGRAM.
PREVIOUS.. Miss Fur Trade Days’ Outstanding Teen 2016 Brooklyn Stack!
NEXT.. Miss Douglas County’s Outstanding Teen 2016 Adella Smolsky!
To read more about this year’s contestants, or the Miss Nebraska/Miss Nebraska’s OT classes of 2015 & 2014, click the THERE SHE IS link at the top of the page!
This entry was posted on March 30, 2016, in Health, KETV, Miss America, News, Omaha, TV and tagged alexis wheeler, brittany eckerberg, cassi collier, cassidy collier, cheryl engelhaupt, claire holsinger, DECA, drill team, grace heggem, jenn cady photography, keep kids alive, KETV, kimberly remmereid, kylie jo remmereid, kylie remmereid, madonna rehabilitation hospital, Miss America, miss nebraska, miss old west balloon fest, miss scotts bluff county, national honor society, News, north platte, pageant, qli omaha, run to remember, scottsbluff, scottsbluff high school, seriously seatbelts, speech, state street crash, stephanie holsinger, team kylie, teresa scanlan, todd remmereid, tri-m, western nebraska. 6 Comments
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.CLUB Delivers Record-Breaking Topline Premium Sales of $2.7 million in Q2
It is hard to believe that half of 2017 is already behind us as Q2 is now a memory. As for .CLUB premium sales it is a very good memory. We continued stellar sales in the second quarter with a total of 666 premium names sold in Q2 via auctions, through the registrar channel and aftermarket platforms, and directly by the registry, generating over $205,000 in one-time fees and more than $2.5 million in topline value of names making monthly payments as part of the Get.club Easy Payments plan. In January, the registry launched the .CLUB Broker Program and 60-month, no interest, easy payment plans for names priced at $500 or more at Get.club. 214 of the 666 names sold during the quarter were sold at Get.club. Popular global trends were reflected in the Q2 sales with names related to cryptocurrency and cannabis selling. In China, we’ve seen a notable increase in sales of premium pinyin names, as well as continued sales of 4-number and other number names.
The .CLUB tiered premium program through the registrar channel continues to be a solid global success, and in Q2 a total of 393 names were sold by 30 different registrars in 13 different countries. In China, 25 names were sold in an auction in June on the eName platform and 12 names were sold in an Auction on the Aliyun (Alibaba) platform in April.
Total topline premium name sales for Q2 2017, from all sources including subscriptions, came to a record-breaking $2,724,076.22, including buy-it-now sales of $205,201.22.
As of March 31, 2017, total topline cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $7,559,504.67. Notable sales in Q2 2017 included 54.club, sold by the registry for $9,000; Holiday.club, sold by Name.com for $8,760; Mobile.club, sold by Gandi for $7,849; and Touzi.club (which means “invest” or “investment” in Chinese), sold by Alibaba for $7,288. For all .CLUB premium names, the premium fee is one-time only, and renewals are at the low standard registration fee.
We introduced our tiered premium names to the registrar channel on July 1, 2015 and the registrar channel continues to be an active source of premium name sales for .CLUB. A list of participating registrars is available here. To download lists of the tiered premium names available through the registrar channel on a first come, first served basis, click here. The top premium tiers available through the registrar channel are names priced up to $10,000. Higher value names are available through Sedo.com, Afternic.com, and at Get.club.
This report reflects all public registry reserved topline premium name sales that occurred and closed during Q2 2017.
Q2 2017 – OVERVIEW
During the months of April, May, and June, a total of 666 premium names were sold by 30 different registrars as well as Sedo and directly by the registry. There were two auctions in China (Aliyun and eName) during the quarter. Total topline sales for Q2, including subscriptions, were $2,724,076.22. GoDaddy was the top registrar during the quarter with 167 sales totaling $49,308.33. Alibaba sold 98 names (excluding their auction) for a total of $22,923.62, NameCheap sold 29 names for $6,738.63 and Sedo sold 21 names for a total of $18,551. A total of 37 names were sold in two auctions for a total of $41,595.28.
.CLUB continues to demonstrate strong global demand with Q2 premium name sales made by registrars in 13 different countries, including the U.S., China, Russia, France, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Germany, Japan and more.
Here are the sales by registrars (excluding auctions) close to and over $1,000 for Q2 2017:
Name Registrar Retail Price
moneymaking.club NameCheap, Inc. $920.47
residents.club NameCheap, Inc. $920.47
tata.club eName Technology Co., Ltd. $1,459.30
chair.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $1,499.99
grand.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $1,499.99
sing.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $1,499.99
rottweiler.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $1,499.99
robotics.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $1,499.99
heavymetal.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $1,499.99
learning.club Dynadot, LLC $1,689.66
pro.club NameCheap, Inc. $1,830.47
wonder.club eName Technology Co., Ltd. $2,184.77
juice.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $2,399.99
any.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $2,399.99
classics.club Name.com, Inc. $2,635.06
winner.club RU-CENTER $2,724.90
teacher.club Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. $3,648.41
cycling.club Bizcn.com, Inc. $4,092.72
touzi.club Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. $7,288.41
mobile.club Gandi SAS $7,849.02
cpa.club GoDaddy.com, LLC $7,999.99
holiday.club Name.com, Inc. $8,760.06
Get.club and Easy Payment Plans
In Q1 we launched our easy payment plan at www.get.club, featuring 60-month, no interest payments for any premium name priced at over $500. During the quarter ending June 30, 2017, 214 names were sold directly by the registry at get.club. 189 of the names are being paid in installments as part of the easy payment program, including a large number registered by a single active investor. The total topline value of the 189 subscription names is $2,518,875.00. Excluding the large single investor, participants in the .CLUB Broker program were responsible for 74% of the names sold at get.club during the quarter.
China Shows Strong Pinyin Demand
During the quarter, several registrars in China launched our tiered premium names for the first time, notably Aliyun (Alibaba) who launched in Q2 and sold 98 names during the quarter. In addition to solid tiered premium name sales in China, we’ve seen a strong demand for pinyin and meaningful names. Nearly 50% of all the premium names sold by registrars in China in Q2 were pinyin names, and some of the pinyin names in the Alibaba auction sold for higher prices than some of the numeric names. As .CLUB has MIIT approval in China, our domains can be used by live sites in mainland China, so the growing popularity of meaningful premium pinyin names makes sense. Some of the notable pinyin and meaningful names sold during the quarter include:
Touzi.club $ 7,288.41
Yun.club $ 2,623.19
Tata.club $1,459.30
Zuqiu.club $ 956.52
Jianshen.club $ 934.78
Yang.club $ 732.75
And many others were sold at various lower prices including 8 pinyin names sold on Sedo for prices ranging from $100 to $500.
Numbers also continue to perform well with nine 4-number names selling for prices between $120 and $270. Even the 5-number name 10086.club sold for $268.41. With more registrars in China now live with our tiered premium names, we expect premium sales in China to continue to grow directly through the registrar channel.
Names Follow Trends
As most folks in the domain world know, trending topics often drive interest in related domain names. Cannabis related domains have been popular for some time now, and this quarter we saw a few more premium “pot” names registered, including potbox.club and highnoon.club. But the bigger trend by far has been for names related to the current cryptocurrency craze. Previously, BitCoin.club was sold for $10,000. During Q2 we sold “currency” related names for prices ranging from $60 to $1,800. They included:
Currency.club $1,800
Eth.club $ 500.
eGold.club $ 119.99
BitcoinTrading.club $ 119.99
Bitinvest.club $ 75.47
Digitalcoin.club $ 63.85
Btcoin.club $ 60.48
Premium name sales through the registrar channel continue to be a substantial source of revenue for .CLUB. The launch of the easy payment plan and broker program at Get.club has been extremely successful and continues to demonstrate that paying for premium names in installments over time is an attractive model for both domain investors and end-users.
China is emerging once again as an important market for us for premium names, as the interest shifts from primarily short and numeric names to meaningful pinyin names and other names that can be used by businesses and individuals for active websites.
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What you want to say – 5 December 2018 December 5, 2018
Posted by WorldbyStorm in Uncategorized.
As always, following on Dr. X’s suggestion, it’s all yours, “announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose”, feel free.
1. Starkadder - December 5, 2018
I don’t want to turn into one of those “Kids today!” guys, but this
Tweet from PETA is incredibly annoying:
Words matter, and as our understanding of social justice evolves, our language evolves along with it. Here’s how to remove speciesism from your daily conversations. pic.twitter.com/o67EbBA7H4
— PETA (@peta) December 4, 2018
I’m reminded of a quote from Winifred Holtby:
Whenever two- legged animals meet to discuss the welfare of their four-legged brethren drama descends, like a proprietary goddess, upon the scene. The affection ungrudgingly bestowed on cats, dogs, and horses, by the people of these islands, diverted to human channels, could bring about the reign of brotherly love and goodwill towards men within a fortnight.
WorldbyStorm - December 5, 2018
Agreed. It’s well meaning if a bit simplistic but literal to the point of being counterproductive – it seems unlikely that anyone would feel this language was meant literally and there’s the whole issue of metaphor and how one polices that. A more cynical take us that some folk have to justify their existence by doing something anything during the working day to prove they’re earning their wage – particularly in PR and campaigns.
yourcousin - December 5, 2018
Yeah if PETA wants to help animals they can just stop killing them.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.dailycaller.com/2018/02/08/peta-killed-more-than-1800-cats-and-dogs-in-2017-only-got-44-adopted
soubresauts - December 5, 2018
Peta has no capacity for embarrassment. Another recent example:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/23/how-hapless-wool-got-blanketed-by-petas-shock-publicity
Bartholomew - December 7, 2018
Anyway, if the horse is already dead, where’s the cruelty in flogging it?
2. Joe - December 5, 2018
Odds on May still being PM this day week? Slim enough I’d say.
makedoanmend - December 5, 2018
As stated previously on this site and others, who replaces her that is acceptable to the various factions in the toryific party? (Leaving aside the sheer incompetence of most leading tories). And she really didn’t loose the 3 votes by huge margins yesterday. It’s widely accepted she really never thought she’d get the treaty through on the first vote. I heard it suggested that if she loses the treaty vote by less than a hundred votes, she’s remains. If she can keep the margin even closer, she definitely remains.
I’m thinking she’ll be around well beyond Christmas – but I want 3:1 odds and five points!
[And we have to leave out that there really isn’t any way at this date that a new set of negotiations between the UK and the EU are going to occur, or that any significant changes to the current proposed treaty are going to occur either. The EU has always had the upper hand in this negotiation, vis-a-vis the power/economic positions, so that any suggestion that a new government is going to change the circumstances are pure ‘cakeism’. Brexit, as pursued by the UK, has been pure cakeism since day 1. Any new government and leader should know this – except cakeism rules. It’s cakeism all the way down.]
Joe - December 5, 2018
Yep. It’s mad isn’t it? Humiliation after humiliation for her but no viable alternative Tory leader out there with a viable plan b. She must be tempted though – to tell them all to go f themselves and let them sort it out since they’re not happy with the effort she came up with.
CL - December 5, 2018
‘Legal advice on the Brexit deal, published reluctantly after MPs found the government in contempt of parliament, warns the terms of the Irish backstop could trap the UK in “protracted and repeated rounds of negotiations” in the years ahead.
The legal status of the arrangements for preventing a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland – and in particular, the UK’s ability to extricate itself – are at the heart of the political row about whether MPs should accept the prime minister’s deal.’ The Irish Question,-again.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/05/brexit-legal-advice-warns-of-uk-trapped-in-talks-by-irish-backstop
GW - December 6, 2018
DUP has said it will support May in a no confidence vote.
She could (health permitting – not that I can summon up much personal sympathy for the refugee persecutor) still be in post in two years – no one else seems willing to sup on the poisoned chalice. The chances of a general election seem to have been played down, even by the BLP.
And on Monday the ECJ will issue its ruling on whether the UK can unilaterally cancel its withdrawal from the EU. Would having such a right have any significance? Is May correct when she says the choice is her deal, no deal or no Brexit?
If the BLP in alliance with the DUP and ERG vote down May’s deal is the choice then no deal or no Brexit? Or are there other alternatives?
3. GW - December 6, 2018
Good Another Europe is Possible podcast about fighting fascism in the British context in the internet age from veteran anti-racist activist Asad Rehman.
Big picture: when the left and centre gives and inch on immigration to the racist right, they just strengthen the latter. The left needs to make the case for immigration and open borders.
I find the argument from the likes of McCluskey that ‘we must have Brexit because fascism’ both despicable and strategically utterly wrong-headed.
“The left needs to make the case for immigration and open borders”
Could you please? Because just saying we need mass immigration doesn’t seem like a great way to win friends and influence people.
“some on the left see a progressive case for reducing immigration…
In their view, the resurgence of a nativist far-right across Europe — and the election of a certain far-right nativist in the United States — have demonstrated the impossibility of reconciling progressive politics with mass immigration….
the liberal political analyst John Judis argues that “without control of borders and immigration, it is very hard to imagine the United States becoming a more egalitarian society” ..
Angela Nagle writes that a mindless “moral absolutism” about immigrants’ rights has led progressives to blind themselves to what libertarian champions of “mass immigration” see all too clearly: that the so-called free movement of labor actually “benefits the elites within the most powerful countries in the world, further disempowers organized labor, robs the developing world of desperately needed professionals, and turns workers against workers.”…
in countries with declining birth rates like the United States, regular infusions of working-age laborers from abroad render social welfare programs more sustainable, in fiscal terms…
Liberal restrictionists may see mass immigration as a political boon for the American right — but the American right sure doesn’t….
as the foreign-born share of the U.S. population has surged over the past three decades — and the Democratic coalition has grown markedly less white — Team Blue has grown markedly more progressive….
The GOP’s declining popular support — and the Democrats’ burgeoning progressivism — are shaped by countless factors besides America’s shifting demographics. But it seems telling that both developments are especially pronounced in states and cities with large immigrant populations….
If mass immigration undermines the left by eroding social solidarity, then how did supporters of single payer health-care just oust the GOP from Orange County?…
The rapid diversification of the U.S. has undermined white supremacy more than it has dulled class consciousness….
America’s native-born white supremacy remains the fundamental challenge to progressivism in the U.S. And this reality helps explain why mass immigration has had ambiguous — if not positive — political implications for the American left:..
The “ceaseless importation” of workers whose worldviews weren’t shaped by the legacy of chattel slavery, and who have little (or no) investment in the maintenance of white supremacy, has diluted the electoral clout of white revanchism in the United States.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/immigration-open-borders-hillary-clinton-angela-nagle-the-left.html
Good question – it’s hard to present positively – but the consequences of a ‘left’ anti-immigration policy are well presented here at Red Pepper.
And Luke de Noronha goes on to advocate a ‘no borders’ position as the only one that doesn’t imply massive state violence and policing:
If advocates of the no borders position (like me) are accused of being unrealistic, blind to the apocalyptic prospect of uncontrolled movement, then please do tell me how your bordered world might take form, and how the walled workers will unite?
Nagle and her kin endorse a radical politics in which the fight for better working conditions concerns only natives. Their ‘leftism’ justifies immobilising people on a global scale, despite the inevitable expansion of violent technologies of state coercion and surveillance on which such a programme relies.
Nagle argues that when we make arguments for open borders, we end up in chorus with free market capitalists – and much of the organised left seems to agree. But a politics of no borders – not open borders – is precisely one which refuses all forms of border violence. This refusal is based on the recognition that there is no way to restrict people’s mobility in a world this unequal except through extreme forms of state coercion. This refusal provides the starting point for our solidarity with migrants, not because we romanticise all forms of migration but because we abhor all forms of bordering.
I’m sick right now (like puke for ten minutes by the side of the truck before work sick). So not a whole lot of strength to respond to you both. I did read both articles, and I must say that they don’t so much make a case for open borders as they do attack the leftist case for controlled immigration.
I’m not so much concerned about convincing leftists. How do we not make enemies of John Q. Public? Because saying to Joe the Plumber or to bread roll man that we’re bringing the global south to him and he must give up his privilege, seems like a pretty quick way to get supporters of the wall.
We talk shit about Merkel, Macron, Blair, etc. but we spend very little actually dealing with the likes of Orban, and Erdogan etc. We have an easy reply for Neoliberals but how do we address the Illiberals? Moral purity is fine for rhetoric but unless the left can be relevant then our piousness is just that. Making ourselves feel better about our impotence to actually affect change.
4. CL - December 6, 2018
Uber Is Headed for a Crash…
“Comparisons of Uber to other storied tech wunderkinder show Uber is not on the same trajectory. No ultimately successful major technology company has been as deeply unprofitable for anywhere remotely as long as Uber has been….
Unlike Facebook or eBay, having more Uber users does not improve the service….Uber has no competitive advantage compared to traditional taxi operators….
UberX drivers, which represent the bulk of its workforce, earn less than $10 an hour. They would do better at McDonald’s….
Uber has succeeded in getting the business press to treat its popularity as the same as commercial success”-Yves Smith
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/will-uber-survive-the-next-decade.html
5. Michael Carley - December 7, 2018
Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks has died.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/dec/06/pete-shelley-lead-singer-of-buzzcocks-dies-at-63
Chomsky at 90.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/23/noam-chomsky-turns-90-how-a-u-s-anarchist-has-more-than-survived/
Sorry Brexshit news…
But I’ve always been astounded how certain commentators (including climate-change deniers) have assumed that Norway would be happy with the UK getting similar or even better EEA/EFTA access.
They aren’t, and they’ve now made it explicit. And I’d don’t blame them – who would want the UK dominating Norway’s currently rather consensual position among a few other smaller fish, given the UK’s previous?
Also there’s not a chance that the UK could enter EEA/EFTA on a temporary basis with the goal later being further separation from the EU – as certain persons have theorised. EEA is designed as the opposite – the eventual agreed end-point of the members is full membership of the EU.
So can we please assign EEA/EFTA to the same fairy dust strewn place as the better deal that Corbyn and the head-banger Brexiteers claim that they would have gotten?
Alibaba - December 7, 2018
+ 1 to those thoughts. But no need for apologies GW: keep carrying on.
I’d tend to agree that at this stage, despite there being a logic to it EEA/EFTA is not going to happen (agreed, who can blame the EFTA members?). I think that with a more congenial UK government something short of that and better than Switzerland would have been an option, but I also think that for that they’d have had to be willing to accept freedom of movement. And Matthew d’Ancona in the Guardian made the point this last week that that was the one red line May has had throughout, no freedom of movement for EU citizens and that’s why she’s got the deal she has. What the hell happens next?
One of the real disappointments is hearing Corbyn say stuff about a customs union etc which he must know isn’t possible. I wonder is his shadow Chancellors rhetoric on a second referendum tic tacking or sincere. He’s an interesting character.
Brexshit Friday:
Can anyone make head or tail of this?
I conclude that should May go for a ‘my deal or no deal’ referendum ‘my deal’ would win (with every remainer abstaining or spoiling their ballot.)
And ‘the deal or remain’, as John MacDonnel claims to favour would be a toss-up. With hard Brexiteers abstaining or spoiling their ballot sheets.
As for a three-way referendum with possible transferable votes…?!
Too complicated a political landscape for me to call.
Everyone is more than ready for a denouement to the Brexit drama; alas, there may be none.
Britain over the next several years will have to (re)negotiate its relationship with the EU.
The tug-of-war over the backstop reflects that Ireland is partitioned, with one part now firmly within the EU orbit, and the other part constitutionally bound to a Britain that is trying to reverse almost half a century of integrating with Europe.
Maybe there are some problems to which there are no solutions, just adroit political management. But such political acumen is absent in the Tory party, and also it seems in Labour.
And from the ‘you-can’t-make-it-up’ dept:
” MPs rubbed their eyes as they watched Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who once praised “the bombs and bullets and sacrifice” of the IRA, denounce the backstop as a threat to the union. Almost as improbably, Ian Paisley quoted C Desmond Greaves, the Marxist historian who acted as a muse to IRA chief of staff Cathal Goulding in the 1960s.
“All fundamental battles in British politics take place in the Conservative Party, with everyone else having bit parts,” Greaves said.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/brexit-mps-hear-of-laughter-in-tipperary-and-galway-1.3723048
9. Paddy Healy - December 7, 2018
Funeral arrangements for Alan MacSimóin
https://www.rip.ie/death-notice/alan-mac-sim%C3%B3in-stoneybatter-dublin/372782
Reposing at Massey Bros, 88A New Cabra Road, on Wednesday, 12th December, from 4.30pm-5.30pm, followed by wake at The Teacher’s Club from 6pm. A celebration of Alan’s life will take place at Glasnevin Crematorium, on Thursday 13th December at 2.30pm. Donations, if desired, in lieu of flowers, to Brother Kevin, Cappuchin Centre for the homeless. All enquiries to Massey Bros Cabra 01-8389774.
10. Michael Carley - December 7, 2018
Britain should use the threat of food shortages in Ireland to secure a better Brexit deal from the EU, a former cabinet minister has said.
Priti Patel, the former international development secretary, said the threat to the Irish economy should have been exploited by the UK government during negotiations with Brussels.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-ireland-food-shortages-threat-risk-priti-patel-negotiate-better-deal-a8672326.html
Nice, really nice.
Especially from a Briton whose family presumably originates in Britain’s former colonies, which within living memory was a victim of a famine facilitated by the colonial occupiers.
And that during the war which is the centrepoint of Brexiteer nostalgia.
Let’s hope they don’t cut off the supply of spuds.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/why-does-ireland-import-44-000-tonnes-of-british-potatoes-each-year-1.3721341
That is mad – less beefs more spuds!
Thought it was telling she’d say that. Glad to hear a bit of pushback.
11. alanmyler - December 7, 2018
GW, any thoughts on Merkel’s replacement as CDU leader?
Well off the cuff she’s another relatively conservative (devout Catholic) politician of the crumbling centre.
More of the unsustainable same, but at least she’s:
a) unlikely to go into coalition with the AfD any time soon and
b) not going to twist the austerian screw another notch as her challenger Merz was going to do.
The eco-conservatives (sorry the Greens) would I think easily form a government coalition under her leadership if they get the numbers.
She’s also instinctively in favour of good Franco-German relations, but unlikely to approve the changes needed to put the Eurozone on a more stable footing.
So the lesser of several weevils for now.
What did strike me was that yet again the male anglophone journosphere was wrong. They have been predicting the imminent demise of Merkel and those around her for years.
Bild and Spiegel must be spitting bricks, having aggressively promoted Merz ever since Merkel announced that she was stepping down.
Now I guess they’ll start on AKK.
Thx for the info GW.
12. Paddy Healy - December 8, 2018
Leo Varadkar, in Government for 7 Years, says housing crisis keeps him awake at night on Late Late Show!!!!
Varadkar:“Particularly when it comes to kids, people find it [homelessness] offensive, and I find it offensive too that children are in emergency accommodation. That impacts on their education and lots of other things,” he said during an interview on RTÉ’s Late Late Show on Friday, Dec 7. Irish Times https://wp.me/pKzXa-wc
But his government has just sold 1.3 billion in PTSB mortgages to Secret US Vulture Capitalist so that FG/IND. Alliance can’t be blamed for evicting or financially harassing them
13. Phil - December 8, 2018
As we approach Xmas, let’s give a particular thought to political pirsoners around the world, including those in Ireland: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2018/10/11/republican-pows-and-the-struggle-in-maghaberry-today/
14. kestrel - December 8, 2018
vaguely heard the last part of a radio discussion about local government elections in 2019. But mostly it seemed to be about the remuneration paid to these councillors. Not sure how much they are paid, probably about 16k per annum maybe. the population of this town is c.50k; and the councillors receive good votes, some of 1300, 780, 700, 696, etc.
yet, they do not respond to phone calls if there are any contentious problems.
Is it not time that the ordinary public were allowed to attend those monthly Council meetings. At present a person may attend though only if a/one Councillor has agreed that they may attend. This may give the wrong impression that a person actually agrees with that councillor’s politics. Beyond me why the public cannot just attend at the council meetings.
Odd given that people can attend the Dáil isn’t it?
15. Starkadder - December 10, 2018
David Duke, Geert Wilders, and Marine Le Pen have all congratulated Spanish far-right party Vox after its performance in the Andalusian elections :
One thought: there hasn’t been a far-right movement in this country
with a serious chance of getting power so far, but it would be naive in the extreme to assume that this situation will always remain so.
Preparations for responding to such a movement should be considered by the Irish Left.
GW - December 10, 2018
Check – we’re living on borrowed time in this respect.
Joe - December 10, 2018
This lack of a far-right movement here has been noted before. Odd alright that it hasn’t happened here. Or is it?
I could see an anti-establishment populist movement getting traction here – but not a far-right group as in a group openly spouting neo-fascist stuff.
Joe – they don’t openly spout neo-fascist stuff anymore.
They are ‘concerned citizens’ worrying about their culture be swamped by ‘Muslims’ (code of people of colour) and putting the blame for the injuries of neoliberalism on the foreigners and a globalist elite. They imply that they speak for the will of the people, excluded from the MSM. etc. etc.
At the same time behind closed doors they take far-right money and espouse the same fascist goals as before.
Ok. Gotcha GW. Could happen here any time.
EWI - December 10, 2018
Preparations for responding to such a movement should be considered by the Irish Left
I would be quite concerned at the notion of providing the casus belli for an alliance between conservatism and the ‘security state’.
16. GW - December 10, 2018
Sigh – yet more bollixing around with fantasy deals before B*shit reaches a People’s Vote.
17. Michael Carley - December 11, 2018
Conservative party Grandee tells @BBCNewsnight's @nicholaswatt
"This simply cannot stand….The Irish really should know their place."#Brexit
— Darran Marshall (@DarranMarshall) December 11, 2018
18. CL - December 11, 2018
“Madhu and Manohar Varadkar were among the many Indians who stood up to the British Empire during the country’s long-fought struggle for freedom.
The two men, who are uncles of Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, both spent up to a year each in prison for their trouble after they were arrested for protesting against the crown….
In the first biography of the Taoiseach, it is revealed how proud the Varadkar family is of the role the two brothers played in India’s fight for freedom. After independence, both men were decorated for their efforts during the uprising. Their sister, Prabha, also played a role in the independence movement and marched in demonstrations against Portuguese colonialism in Goa….
In commentary on the protracted exit talks, Varadkar has evoked Ireland’s own fight for freedom from British rule. He talked about how we were “forced to accept partition” 100 years ago and warned we cannot go back to the hard borders of the Troubles….
Varadkar’s uncles would presumably be supportive of his stance on the much depleted modern day British Empire.
He is facing down the crown like they did all those decades ago.”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/varadkar-family-has-a-history-of-facing-down-british-empire-37185347.html
“Fianna Fáil leader, Micheál Martin, took issue with comments by Mr Varadkar that “no Irish Government will ever again leave Northern nationalists and Northern Ireland behind.”..
But… Gerry Adams, welcomed the Taoiseach’s comments saying they acknowledged the reality of partition for most nationalists in the North….
Mr Varadkar said he was pointing up a historical fact that Ireland was forced to accept partition in the 1920s.”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-insists-brexit-comments-on-the-north-were-not-meant-to-insult-fianna-fil-36402899.html
That rustling sound in the background…barely heard above the Brexit cacophony…birds flying home..
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Associate Professor, Mary and Jim Lawrence Fellow
yizhu@umn.edu
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Business Administration University of Southern California
Economics, University of British Columbia
Management, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Industry Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power
Media Slant
Economies of China
Yi Zhu is an Associate Professor of Marketing, Mary & Jim Lawrence Fellow at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2013. He worked as a consultant at Shanghai Investment Consulting Corporation before he went to Vancouver, where he received his M.A. in Economics from University of British Columbia. His research interests focus on the application of industrial organization models in marketing, online auctions, consumer search, advertising, media slant, sharing economy and Chinese economy. His recent works have appeared or forthcoming at Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of Marketing Research and International Journal of Research in Marketing. Beyond academic publications, his research has been discussed in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, CBS, Star Tribune,Toronto Star, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Global News Radio among others.
In 2015, Zhu is the recipient of the John D.C. Little Award for the best marketing paper published in Marketing Science or Management Science, and the finalist for the Frank M. Bass Award for the best marketing paper derived from a Ph.D. thesis published in INFORMS journals. In 2016, he has been selected as a 2017 Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar, a biennial award given to the most promising scholars in marketing who have distinguished themselves as potential leaders of the next generation of marketing academics. His research was funded by 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Grant, the Marketing Science Institute Grant, Net Institute Grant, CIBER dissertation Grant, Carlson Dean's Small Research Grant, and Dean's Research Travel Grant. Zhu has also won Shankar-Spiegel Best Dissertation Proposal Award in 2012, the 2011 James S. Ford/Commerce Associates Ph.D. Fellowship and many other awards during his time at USC. Among the 2013 graduates at USC, Zhu was one of the six awardees of the 2013 USC PhD Achievement Award. In addition, Zhu was recognized by the Chinese Ministry of Education to be one of the top nine Chinese doctoral students studying abroad for his outstanding academic achievement and research in 2012 —among all graduate students across all subjects.
Selected Works & Activities.
"Price Signaling and Channel Coordination," (with Ruitong Wang and Akshay Rao)
"Why Is Customer Service So Bad? Because It’s Profitable," (With Anthony Dukes)
"Quality Score that Makes You Invest," (with Zsolt Katona)
"Why Customer Service Frustrates Consumers: Exploiting Hassle Costs by a Tiered…
"Prominent Attributes under Limited Attention," (with Anthony Dukes), Marketing…
"When It’s Smart to Copy Your Competitor’s Brand Promise," (with Anthony Dukes)…
"Effects of TV Advertising on Keyword Search," (with Mingyu Joo and Kenneth C. …
"Position Auctions with Budget-Constraints: Implications for Advertisers and Pu…
"Selective Reporting of Factual Content by Commercial Media," (with Anthony Duk…
"Television Advertising and Online Search," (with Mingyu Joo, Kenneth C. Wilbur…
"Hybrid Advertising Auctions," (with Kenneth C. Wilbur), Marketing Science, 30(…
"Click Fraud," (with Kenneth C. Wilbur), Marketing Science, 28(2): 293-308, 2009
"Private Sector Industrialization in China: Evidence from Wenzhou," (with John Strauss, Edward Yanmin Qian, Minggao Shen, Dong Liu, Mehdi Majbouri, Qi Sun, Qianfang Ying), in Community, Market and Sate in Development, ed. by Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Ka
2018 Mary & Jim Lawrence Fellow, Carlson School of Management, UMN
2018 Finalist, Faculty of the Year, Carlson School of Management, UMN
2017 Marketing Science Institute (MSI) Young Scholar
2015 Winner, John D. C. Little Award for the Best Marketing Paper Published in Marketing Science or Management Science
2015 Finalist, Frank M. Bass Award for the Best Marketing Paper Derived from a Ph.D. Thesis Published in INFORMS Journals
2015 Haring Symposium Representative (Faculty), Indiana University
2013- 3M Nontenured Faculty Grant
2013 USC PhD Achievement Award
2013 USC Graduate School Travel Award
2012 Shankar-Spiegel Best Dissertation Proposal Award, Direct Marketing Association
2012 Extraordinary Potential Prize of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Chinese Ministry of Education
2012 AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow, University of Washington
2012 Summer Research Travel Grants, Marshall-USC
2011 James S. Ford/Commerce Associates Ph.D. Fellowship, Marshall-USC
2011 Fellow, Annual UH Doctoral Symposium, University of Houston
2010 Fellow, Workshop on Quantitative Marketing and Structural Econometrics, Duke University
2008-2013 USC Provost Fellowship, University of Southern California
2008, 2012 Fellow, INFORMS Marketing Science Conference Doctoral Consortiu
2013-2015 Dean's Small Grant, Carlson School of Management, UMN, $5,500
2012 The Center for International Business Education and Research Dissertation Grant, $1,000
2010 Marketing Science Institute and the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Research Grant (with Kenneth C. Wilbur and Mingyu Joo), $12,000
2008 Net Institute Summer Research Grant (with Kenneth C. Wilbur), $3,000
2007 US-China Institute Graduate Summer Fieldwork Grants, USC, $2,700
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1 Roulette
1.1 Online Roulette
1.2 How Did We Get to Roulette Online?
1.3 How to Play Roulette
1.4 More About Roulette and Online Roulette
1.4.1 Roulette Strategies
1.4.2 The History of Roulette
1.4.3 European Roulette and "The Devil's Game"
1.4.4 American Roulette History
1.4.5 Online Roulette: The Biggest Thing in Roulette History
1.4.5.1 Learn The Basic Rules of Roulette
Roulette is the Queen of Casino Games.
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There are several different versions of Roulette in play today.
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How Did We Get to Roulette Online?
Even the best Online Roulette Game shares a long and prosperous history. How did we go from a French gambling Game barely played or recognized in the 1700?s, to having Roulette Online as one of the most popular Games you can play directly from home?
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Today different variations treat the Zero and Double Zero in new ways.
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Roulette is a casino game named after a French diminutive for little wheel. In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a single number or a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even.
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In order to be a confident player and enjoy yourself, you certainly need to learn some important terms and different types of Roulette bets, but the gameplay itself is simple and very straightforward.
More About Roulette and Online Roulette
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The History of Roulette
The roulette wheel suggests glamour and excitement. A movie scene set inside a casino always includes the allure and charm of a roulette game. But many people remain curious about the history of roulette: Where did it all start and how did it become the casino game so beloved by millions around the world?
European Roulette and "The Devil's Game"
The word roulette means “little wheel” in French and it is therefore fitting that the roots for this game should lie in France. And, in fact, roulette history did begin in France, in the seventeenth century, when an early version of the roulette wheel was invented by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. Another major advance in roulette history took place in France in 1842, when a roulette game with a single zero was created by the brothers Francois and Louis Blanc.
It was Francois Blanc who brought the roulette to Monte Carlo and established the first of the Monte Carlo casinos. There is a legend that maintains that Francois Blanc negotiated with the devil in order to acquire the secrets of the roulette wheel. The tale reveals that when one adds together all the numbers on the wheel, from zero to thirty-six, it results in the number “666”, which is considered to be the “number of the beast”.
American Roulette History
Later in the nineteenth century, the roulette game was introduced to the United States. A second zero was added to the wheel in order to increase the casino house odds, and American Roulette was born. During the 1800s, the roulette attraction reached many parts of Europe and the United States and became one of the most popular casino games available.
Any strategy of roulette takes place in the betting. There can be no strategy involved in the spin of the roulette wheel itself, as the resting place for the little ball is based purely on chance — or luck. A roulette wheel in the United States features thirty-eight compartments with different numbers: this consists of the numbers one to thirty-six, zero and a double zero.
American roulette has a double zero and a single zero, while European roulette hosts a single zero only and therefore offers the player slightly better odds of winning. The European roulette wheel hosts thirty-seven slots accordingly. Once bets are placed, the dealer sets the roulette wheel and a small ball into motion. Once the wheel comes to a standstill, the ball falls into one of the compartments and players can check out their winnings or losses.
It is reported that Albert Einstein once stated: “You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it”. However many find the thrill and exhilaration of the roulette wheel hard to resist. Some try different strategies to try to win at roulette, like betting solely on the red or trying a “Martingale” betting strategy. In this system, the player doubles his bet each time he loses. Although the notion of this type of play is to win back earlier losses in the event of a win, the possibility or probability of large losses should be taken into consideration.
Online Roulette: The Biggest Thing in Roulette History
Today’s online roulette hit the Internet in the mid-1990s. Scholars consider this development to be the biggest thing in the history of roulette, as it brought the roulette game to millions of players who would not otherwise have traveled to the casinos of Monte Carlo to play roulette.
The popularity of the Internet seems to have taken much of the world by storm and has changed the lives of many people forever.
While offering a seemingly endless store of information, knowledge, services, and entertainment, the Internet has become home to thousands of online casino sites. Due to the sheer fascination and charm of the roulette wheel, online roulette games have become very attractive and it is certain that people will continue to play roulette online for many years to come.
Learn The Basic Rules of Roulette
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Tower 301 Project (P18-078)
Sacramento, City of (City of Sacramento)
Vacant/C-3-SPD/CBD
A request for a mixed-use development at 301 Capitol Mall, a 2.39-acre site bounded by Capitol Mall, 3rd Street, L Street, 4th STreet. The project site is located within the Central Business District (C-3-SPD) zone and within the Central City Special Planning District (SPD). The applicant proposes a 33-story building which includes offices,residences, retail, structured parking, and publicly accessible open space. The request requires commission-level Site Plan and Design Review.
Ron Bess
300 Richards Boulevard 3rd Floor
Capitol Mall, 3rd Street, L Street, and 4th Street
006-0141-043-0000
I-5/US 50
Sacramento River
Residential (100 Units) Office (791K+ Sq. Ft.) Commercial (24.6k+ Sq. Ft.)
Site Plan Design Review
Aesthetic/Visual Air Quality Archaeologic-Historic Biological Resources Geologic/Seismic Noise Population/Housing Balance Public Services Recreation/Parks Traffic/Circulation Water Quality Growth Inducing Land Use Cumulative Effects Other Other Issues: Alternatives
Air Resources Board, Transportation Projects California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 California Department of Parks and Recreation California Department of Transportation, District 3 California Highway Patrol California State Lands Commission Central Valley Flood Protection Board Delta Stewardship Council Department of Toxic Substances Control Department of Water Resources Office of Historic Preservation Resources Agency State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water California Native American Heritage Commission California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5
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Nickname(s)
"The Director"
Years of Age
Yakima, Washington; United States
Dark brown, gray tint (original body) Dark Brown (Synth)
Blue (Light blue when augments are active)
Professional Characteristics
Cerberus Contracting Co.
Former Affiliation(s)
Director of CerCon
Ultimate Network Access
Marital Information
One Child
Roland Hock (deceased)
Relative(s)
Mental Alignment
Alive (as Synth)
Suicide (live body)
"I've met the man once or twice. He carries an odd presence. He walks as if he hasn't a care in the world, and yet those eyes of his tell a different story. They glow as if reflecting the fire in his soul. But his voice is as gentle as the wind. Rook Bowman truly is a terrifying man."
- Unknown USMC Officer
Rook Bowman (otherwise addressed as The Director) was one of the original founders of Cerberus and became the acting Director after the death of Gideon K'ranas. With the help of Aaron Spyker, they transformed a small militia into the PMC known today as Cerberus Contracting.
Rook stands around six feet one inch with an average physique and weight. He has deep blue eyes that glow a pristine blue when his augments are activated, with brown hair with a tint of gray to top off his facial appearance.
Rook tends to wear business attire most of the time, though he has been seen wearing a modified version of the CCU.
In his CITPR Synth, Rook's body resembles a 25-year-old version of himself. Rook dons a brown jacket with a gray open collared shirt underneath, brown slacks and black boots. He generally wears this attire when he's not using a Zero Suit for his Berserker warmachine.
As Anton Hock
Anton Hock's past is known by only a few. Some recall that Anton served in the United States Army in early 2010, serving with the [REDACTED]. Fellow soldiers that fought alongside Anton claim that he had a distaste for how the leadership functioned, as well as the bureaucrats of the United States. It's possible that this was the motivation that Anton needed to create Cerberus. Outside of that, the only other thing known about Anton Hock before taking on the moniker of Rook Bowman, is that he has a son named Roland.
As "The Director"
As acting Director, Rook supervised the training and operations of all CerCon Operators, including the Cerberus Special Operations Division. He is also known for creating the Cerberus Industries Tungsten Prosthetic program, or CITPR for short. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, he ceased the project indefinitely.
Host to Host
Upon his death, Rook had transferred his consciousness in the form of an AI using the Host to Host Protocol. After doing so, he would remain in the Network monitoring the DU until he was able to regain a body.
After the DU captured Duncan Wright during an operation in Ireland, it was revealed that HADES had created a copy of Rook in an attempt to demoralize Cerberus. Commander Adam, seeing through this, captured the Rook copy and brought it back to the Ireland vault where Rook's AI took over. He is currently residing in the copy's body until he finds a better host.
The CITPR Synth
Rook Bowman eventually acquired himself a new body via the CITPR Synth program he started during his disappearance. Far superior than its Mech counterpart, the CITPR Synth is identical in every aspect to a real human. Though it looks similar to a human, it doesn't require any sustenance and does not suffer from human desires or fatigue. The body is of Rook's own design and resembles himself in his early 20's.
Pictured below is a visual representation of Rook's CITPR Synth.
Rook has a very gentle disposition, rarely ever getting angry. It wasn't until the direct death of one of the Cerberus Operators that he show that side of him.
Rook Bowman, the alias created by Anton Hock, is based off of chess; Anton's favorite game. "Rook" deriving from the chess piece and "Bowman" deriving from the chess move.
Rook enjoys older style music, dating back to singers such as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.
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Review of Olive Kitteridge
"Olive Kitteridge" (2008) is a novel by American author Elizabeth Strout. HBO is producing a mini-series based on the novel, that will feature Frances McDormand in the title role and is slated to air in November 2014. The four-part drama tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. Richard Jenkins portrays Olive's husband, Henry.
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Jan 3, 2016 3:56PM EST
I wasn't expecting much from this and oh boy was I blown away. The acting was fantastic; Frances McDorman amazes with the portrayal of a very complex woman that even though she could pass as unlikable you end up caring for her.
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So far it has been ok, looks promising
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Collecdev introduces TRETTI Condos – scandinavian-inspired living in the heart of Wilson Heights
If Instagram, Pinterest, and a million design blogs are to be believed, Scandinavian design is having a major moment. This positions Tretti Condos, a Scandinavian-inspired community by Collecdev, as the perfect new home. But, true to form for the socially-conscious developer, Tretti doesn’t just pay lip service to the northern European aesthetic.
“The ethos of Tretti celebrates craftsmanship, function, and social connection,” says Collecdev President, Maurice Wager, “which are the inherent values of Collecdev. We believe that good design and a true connection to a thriving community should be accessible to everyone. That’s what we’re delivering at Tretti.”
Sitting in the heart of Wilson Heights, a stone’s throw from Yorkdale Shopping Centre and steps from the subway, Tretti offers 13 storeys of understated modern design. Minimalist architecture by award-winning firm gh3* maximizes form and function, giving way to bright open-concept interiors outfitted in a palette of natural finishes that transition seamlessly to the outdoors.
The striking combination of contemporary architecture, elegant interiors, and a strong connection to nature satisfies Collecdev’s commitment to experiential design. It allows the developer to create human-centred communities that display a fundamental understanding of the way people truly want to live.
That commitment extends not only to the community, but to the environment and to society at large through initiatives such as innovative geothermal energy systems that reduce the negative impact of urban development, and Collecdev H.O.M.E. (Home Ownership Made Easy), a program that will help more people realize their dreams of homeownership at Tretti, and ensure the city’s long-term accessibility and growth.
Speaking of accessibility, Tretti residents will enjoy convenient access to a neighbourhood bursting with parks, shopping, bars, restaurants, and bakeries. Fill up on style at Yorkdale Shopping Centre. Bike to Downsview Park. Sample Wilson Heights’ diverse eateries. Or commute easily to York University, Humber River Hospital, and Hwy. 401. But it may be hard to tear yourself away from the incredible lineup of amenities on site.
Tretti will feel like a breath of fresh air with outdoor spaces that include expansive terraces, a rooftop fireside lounge, a children’s playscape, private courtyards, a 16,000 sq. ft. community park, and more than 100 trees creating an urban forest in the heart of the city.
Little ones will find room to grow in the children’s play area, offering cosy reading nooks and a stage where imaginations can run wild. Four-legged family members will love the pet-friendly indoor playground and washing station. The modern lobby, elegant dining room and lounge, and state-of-the-art fitness studio create natural gathering points, places to entertain, relax, play, and interact. And, lest you think work has been forgotten, Tretti features a collaborative co-working space, designed for freelancers and digital nomads seeking a place to be productive, connected, and inspired.
With multi-functional design, thoughtful amenities, a vibrant community, direct subway access, and spacious two-bedroom suites priced from the $400,000s, Tretti offers incredible value, truly the best of all worlds. It’s Scandinavian style with a Toronto address. And it’s ready to welcome you home.
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Tag Archives: Illayaraja
Aditya 369
Posted on May 20, 2014 by Temple Connolly
When I heard Singeetham Srinivasa Rao’s Aditya 369 described as ‘historical science fiction’ I was immediately curious. It is less about science or history and more about the outfits and derring-do, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The film is on Youtube without subtitles and there is a diverting but not very helpful plot summary on Wiki should you wish to swot before taking the journey. But no one in the film prepares, so please do not feel obliged.
The plot goes something like this. Professor Ramdas (Tinnu Anand) is an eccentric inventor, but apparently does well enough for himself that he can support a large house and workshop and keep his daughter Hema (Mohini) in stylish polyester outfits. His life’s work is a time machine called Aditya 369. The professor takes a low key approach to security and intellectual property, allowing just about anyone to come and have a look at the machine.
Raja Verma (Amrish Puri) is a crook with a particular interest in historical regalia and diamonds. He arranges to steal a golfball sized diamond from the local museum and replace it with a fake. Now, if you call one guard with obsessive rule observance a diligent approach to security, then this museum was world class. Young Kishore (Master Tarun) is accidentally locked in, witnesses the theft and has to be rescued when he tries to outrun the thieves.
He confides in his saviour Krishna Kumar (Balakrishna) who decides to investigate. Kishore decides to take his fellow plucky orphans on a spin in the time machine, is rescued by Krishna, and Krishna and Hema are sent back to the past where they rescue Silk Smitha and meet Sri Krishna Deva Rayalu (also Balakrishna) and learn about the Golfball Diamond.
You know how in lots of time travel fiction the first rule is don’t change anything and don’t use modern stuff and cause ruptures in the fabric of time? When I saw the two emergency suitcases stashed in the time machine I assumed historically appropriate costumes. Well, at least the inhabitants of 1526 got an eyeful of fine 80s fashions. And listened to a boombox.
I disliked Krishna once he had landed back in time. In the presence of poets and scholars he had only ever read about, he couldn’t help but stick his oar in and go for a bit of one-upmanship. It was really tiresome and just made no sense. The dialogue seemed to go along the lines of “As you know Jim, I have an electric shaver” “Wow! Please, unknown man who says he is from another time but based on those clothes may be a nutter, tell us what to do”.
Following that sojourn in the glorious past, the crew is catapulted into the future where they nearly die from radiation before being given their own shiny space suits. To be fair to Krishna and his lax approach to historical contamination, the future people didn’t seem to have any qualms about revealing significant details that characters would not yet have experienced. But while I could understand the future people knowing their history, I expected a bit more curiosity from the people in that past. The final scenes bring hero, villain, professor and know-all child into conflict as things almost literally spin out of control as Krishna has to rescue his friends and save the world.
Balakrishna offers his usual high energy performance. He could never be accused of slacking off, except maybe in the dances where he often relies on a slow disco strut interspersed with vigorous flailing. Krishna doesn’t have any hidden depths so what you see is what you get. The character tried my patience and I found myself looking at the sets and backgrounds rather than caring about what was happening to the people. There were a couple of sickening stunts involving horses so that further tarnished the heroics.
Mohini is adequate as Hema given that for most of the film she is just part of Krishna’s baggage.
Amrish Puri does his usual villain thing with flair. Raja Verma is a bit obsessed with things that are original and authentic which may explain his Faux-gyptian style robe. The diamond was supposed to link all the times together but that part of the plot seemed like an afterthought.
There are comedy uncles but no one else gets much of a look in with Balakrishna in a double role so that is another positive for the film. Suthivelu plays a hapless policeman who gets dragged along on the time travels, and Brahmi makes a small appearance as a scientist.
I really enjoyed Raja Verma’s gang of purple shirted thugs who carried guns in violin cases, and then played violins as background music in an interrogation scene. I think that is the first time I’ve heard the violence/violins pun in an Indian film. Tinnu Anand seems to have his own personal wind machine in all his scenes, maybe to stop him overheating from overacting. Annapurna is Krishna’s mum although she doesn’t get to do much apart from marvel at his awesomeness.
Illayaraja’s background score is lovely. The theme over the opening credits is lush and a little eery. The songs are melodic although mostly a bit random. I did like the dance off between Silk Smitha and Mohini to settle the matter of Krishna’s honour. Well, I did until of course Krishna decided he could play all the instruments AND do the dancing.
The production design has a retro charm that sometimes made me nostalgic for TV series like Lost in Space. Terminator 2 was released in the same year and the difference in technical capability is enormous.
The “ye olden days” segment was what I would expect from any Telugu film, but the futuristic episode was more remarkable for the efforts of the wardrobe department to really feature antennas and silver lame.
Apart from that, as noted earlier, the costumes were mostly 80s mainstream fashion – lots of high-waisted denim, synthetic fabrics and big hair. And the women didn’t fare much better.
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy and Telugu films are a great place to find them. See this for the curiosity value of the Telugu mass hero formula applied to a different genre and for the low tech effects that have their own appeal. 3 stars!
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Gundello Godari
Posted on September 15, 2013 by Heather Wilson
Gundello Godari is a step away from mass masala, going back to basics with a simple love story that evolves in quite a different way from the usual fare. This is director Kumar Nagendra’s debut film and it’s loosely based on a novel by BVS Rama Rao, set around the real-life devastating floods in 1986. Initially, newlyweds Malli and Chitra know nothing about each other, but as they battle through the Godavari floodwaters, they gradually learn about their respective troubled pasts. The screenplay is a little patchy in places and the flood is frequently overly melodramatic, but good performances and beautiful music by Ilaiyaraaja make this a better than average watch.
The story opens with the marriage of Malli (Aadhi) and Chitra (Lakshmi Manchu), although they barely acknowledge each other throughout the ceremony. The first spark of interest occurs when the beautiful Sarala (Taapsee Pannu) gifts the groom with a golden ring, obviously with the intention of making his new bride jealous. At that point, the sleazy Dhorababu (Ravi Babu) arrives and also has a present for the happy couple, this time a gold chain for the bride. Lost in their thoughts, Chitra and Malli linger too long and get caught up in the flood waters as the rest of the village evacuates. However, they end up cast adrift on a thatched roof together, just managing to stay afloat, and in the likelihood that they won’t survive, decide to discuss their past lives and exactly how Sarala and Dhorababu fit into the picture.
The initial flood scenes are well integrated between the sets and some good CGI. There are one or two moments of soggy model villages eroding with a trickle of water, but these are brief, and after all, who doesn’t like to see the traditional model village make an appearance. The cinematography by M.R.Palanikumaar is excellent, with beautiful shots of the river, wildlife and surrounding countryside particularly during the flashback scenes. These contrast with the fury of the river in full flood, and also highlight the difference between Malli and Chitra’s earlier lives and their current turmoil. Predictable perhaps, but when the parallels are drawn this well with good imagery it’s hard to object.
The first flashback deals with Malli and his undoing at the hands of his boss’s daughter. Malli is a hard-working fisherman who has a good circle of friends, looks after his mother like all good boys should, and is saving up to buy his own boat. He also tends to favour a string vest, but we shouldn’t hold that against him.
Kumar Nagendra captures the hopes and aspirations of a village fisherman perfectly and Aadhi is excellent in the role. A boat race at a local fair epitomises Malli’s drive and determination to achieve what he wants, although the same fair brings him inadvertently to the attention of Sarala. Despite her impending marriage, Sarala has no compunction in going after what she wants, and in this case what she wants is Malli! Although she initially appears child-like as she threatens and cajoles Malli into taking her to the movies on her birthday, events become more sinister as Malli arrested by the local police on a spurious charge of brewing illicit alcohol. Whether it’s Sarala or her father who is responsible, Malli ends up taking his frustration out on Sarala and gives her exactly what she wants in the process. Sarala is an interesting and atypical character with her overt sexuality and brazen attempts to drag Malli into her bed. Taapsee is good in the role, but her expression rarely varies, and although her knowing smirk is suitable a little more variation would have given her character more appeal. Aadhi on the other hand does a fantastic job of capturing frustration, anger and even some lust in his dealings with Sarala and despite the nature of their relationship, there is plenty of emotion and sparkage between the two characters.
After Malli’s story, Chitra’s explanation of past events is not as well written and her story tends to wander off track. Chitra was adopted by Suri’s (Sundeep Kishan) parents as a child, but it’s not a happy family. Suri’s father Somaiah is a drunkard and his mother Rathamma works as a prostitute to keep the wolf from the door. Chitra is in love with the adult Suri, but he’s a man more interested in his chickens, in particular fighting cocks, than in Chitra. He also pays a little too much attention to the bangle seller Bangari (Suja Varunee) and all together there seems very little reason for Chitra to want to marry Suri.
It’s actually a little creepy since they were brought up together as brother and sister, but since there is minimal chemistry between the two actors this isn’t a major issue. Sundeep Kishan is restrained but adequate in his role as Suri, and the character doesn’t have a lot of depth for Sundeep to work with. The explanation for Dhorababu turning up at the wedding is also less convincing, but Lakshmi Manchu is good as the beleaguered Chitra, and her spirited defiance against the various calamities that befall her is heartening.
While the flashback sequences provide some explanation of previous events, they do provoke more questions that are never answered. There is no explanation of what happened to Malli after his interaction with Sarala, and more importantly no mention of whether or not he is working as a fisherman and able to support a wife given his previous dismissal by his erstwhile boss. The arrangement of the wedding is never discussed and there is no reason given for these two strangers deciding to marry each other. Still, the developing relationship between the two is well handled, even though it is almost swamped at times by the drama of the flood, and both Aadhi and Laksmi Manchu are both very good in their respective roles.
Ilaiyaraaja’s music is evocative of the time, although there are two rather oddly placed item numbers which don’t fit as well and don’t have any real place in the narrative. Mumaith Khan features in one of these, while Suja Varunee does the honours in the second, but both feel as if they are just added in to try and appeal to a more mass audience and aren’t particularly well choreographed. However, apart from the first song, these are the only two numbers which feature any dancing, since the rest are used to showcase the various relationships of the main characters.
Gundello Godari is a brave attempt to take a different look at relationships and approach a love story in a more unusual way. For the most part it works, although the second half could be tighter condensed to allow for a more detailed development of the relationship between the two main leads. Worth watching for evocative imagery, good performances from Aadhi and Lakshmi Manchu and a bold characterisation from Taapsee. 3½ stars.
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Bobbili Raja
Posted on July 15, 2013 by Temple Connolly
Bobbili Raja had been enthusiastically recommended by so many Telugu film fans that while I wasn’t wildly enthused by the plot synopsis, I had to watch it. I think it might be a film best enjoyed with nostalgic fondness for your 10 year old self, but it was entertaining enough and certainly kept my attention. Another Adventure Without Subtitles, I probably made up most of the plot but it isn’t subtle and there is a lot going on so that wasn’t too much of a chore to keep up.
The film is loosely divided into three sections. The first bit sets up conflict between power and money hungry Rajeshwari Devi (Vanisri), Minister for Forestry, and rival politician Gummadi and his sister. Rajeshwari plays dirty and when a lackey overhears that the sister Soundarya (?) is pregnant, she tries to shame the family publicly. It emerges that Soundarya is secretly married to Rajeshwari’s brother-in-law (?) and that just makes matters worse. When he comes home, he is somewhat accidentally killed. Then Soundarya is almost raped and bayonets the corrupt policeman assaulting her. She and her brother escape to the jungle where they live in secrecy. The baby Raja (Venkatesh) is born and raised in that distant jungle which can be reached easily by foot unless you prefer to use a helicopter, jeep or bike. Working as a jungle guide, if he works at all, Raja is hired to take the minister’s daughter Rani (Divya Bharti) on a hunting trip. They get separated from her group of squealing girlfriends and following encounters with wildlife, Ooga Booga Central Casting “Natives” and other perils, they fall in love.
Rani’s eyes certainly lit up at the sight of Raja handling an enormous snake. But her mother has other notions and separates the lovebirds. So Raja moves to town and sets about getting revenge for his family and getting his girl back.
The jungle adventure is heavily influenced by films like Romancing The Stone (think the mudslide with faceplant into the heroine’s crotch. Classy) along with Indiana Jones style adventures (I loved those films when I was young) and a dash of The Gods Must Be Crazy (a franchise I loathed then and now). The humour is hit and miss, sometimes offensive and racist, but Venkatesh is effortlessly likeable despite the material. Raja’s catchphrase is a cheery ‘Aiyo Aiyo Aiyiyooooo’ so there is opportunity for audience participation or perhaps a drinking game.
Raja deals with runaway cars (why does his jeep have a kangaroo painted on the door?), silly women and other forms of recalcitrant fauna and bad guys with aplomb.
Venkatesh has a leisurely way of moving, as though he knows the camera will have to wait for him so there is no need to look flustered. This works reasonably well in his fight scenes as they are not particularly realistic and often played for laughs.
He does minimal dancing, partly due to the limited choreography, and generally relies on his characterisation rather than say, his burlesque chair dancing skills.
Rani is not my favourite filmi heroine but I do think Divya Bharti did quite well with what is often a shrill, silly character. Rani did rise to the occasion when she had to, although I was dismayed when I found myself almost cheering her suicide attempt as at least she did SOMETHING for herself that didn’t just involve shrieking “do you know who I am?” (She had some help from an enthusiastic red paint wielding assistant.) Her outfits were what I have come to expect from 90s Telugu films. But seriously ladies, when your mum asked what teenaged you and your boyfriend/self-declared husband got up to last night would any of you answer like this?
Maybe the mini Europe set provided some distraction from difficult questions. But so much of writhing and moaning. Tsk tsk tsk. The mood gets darker once Raja announces himself as Rani’s husband, escalating the conflict with Rajeshwari and co, and Divya does show a different side of her character to match that. She was so very young when she made this. Her performance was quite impressive when you look at the calibre of the rest of the cast and realise she wasn’t overshadowed.
Vanisri’s role is the most prominent of the supporting cast, and she is the true villain of the piece. She devises needlessly elaborate schemes and has the men in the family scared witless. I am not sure about the thinking behind her eyeliner technique.
Her husband (Kaikala Satyanarayana) is a kindly man, but never directly confronts her so his goodness is moot. He seems to be waiting for Raja to deliver the comeuppance. Kota Srinivasa Rao plays her brother and well, apple…tree… Brahmanandam plays a comedy policeman and Babu Mohan is another comedy bad guy. So much ‘comedy’.
The song picturisations must have had a decent budget, and as with all good mass films there is something for everyone whether your tastes run to Filmi Tribal or random European street dancing. Illayaraja’s music matches well with the cartoonish style of action and adds to the lightheartedness. On the subject of cartoons:
There are many things that amused me. I almost look forward to seeing some familiar “faces” in the array of taxidermy but the duck was a surprise. There are lots of scenes with animals, including some comedy elephants. I was concerned about the big cats as they seemed stressed but watching the end credits I was reassured a little that they were still quite feisty. Apart from the animals, the jungle is also inhabited by one or more people obsessed with digging pits and trenches.
There are loads of stunts and fights and dramatic incidents as Raja takes on his reluctant mother-in-law and her lackeys. The climax of the film takes place on a hijacked train. Exciting! But just in case that isn’t enough, director B Gopal added a lion! And if THAT isn’t enough, snakes! Snakes on a train! It was almost enough to overcome the rather weak (but family friendly) ending. And that approach probably sums up the whole film – throw enough stuff at the audience and they’re bound to like some of it.
See this for Venkatesh, the fun if silly songs and the full throttle approach to mass entertainment that just tips the low-gore scale.
3 1/2 stars!
Suresh Productions has kindly made the film available on YouTube if you’re interested.
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Film Analysis: Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges”
Wael Khairy Film Analysis September 30, 2011 7 Minutes
When a great influential film comes out, we usually get a backlash of cheap knock-offs. After James Cameron’s “Titanic” we suffered through Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor.” When “Pulp Fiction” came out people praised its genius but its influence drove the genre to a creative blockage. Everybody wanted to be the next Tarantino. Directors probably asked themselves “What would Tarantino do?” before violating their own originality. Like most imitations, of Rolex watches or anything else, they look the same but don’t work the same.
With “In Bruges.” it feels like Martin McDonagh opened a window in a room where the air has been recycled endlessly. For his directional debut is a true work of originality. It strikes a balance between humor and drama and adds a rare layer of philosophical undertones to the genre. It has something new to say and so the experience is a rewarding one.
The films begins with Ray (Collin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) walking in Bruges, “the most well preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium.” We quickly learn that both are hitmen who are hiding out. Bruges is the last place you would go to look for somebody. Heck, I never heard of this beautiful place before watching the film. Anyway, this is where where you stop reading if you haven’t seen this film yet.
Ken is the wiser of the two; he’s quiet, well mannered and smart. He is also fascinated by the old buildings, the architecture and the history of the city. Ray, on the other hand, is bored out of his wits. He can’t wait to go back to Dublin and is frustrated that he isn’t hiding out in London. We later learn that the reason they are hiding out is because Ray accidentally killed a young boy on his first job.
McDonagh says the inspiration to make the film came from when he was stranded in Bruges. He thought the city was beautiful with a fascinating history, but he couldn’t stand the boredom. This split opinion is what gave birth to both characters in writing and it is simply brilliant how their views differ on everything from life to death. “In Bruges” is one of those films instantly elevated to cult status through countless quotable lines. The one-liners don’t feel scripted, the delivery is hysterically natural.
The brilliant humor makes the film an easy read but if you look past the laughs, you’ll find a film rich with symbolism and ideas. Ray and Ken remind me of two characters from another Irish work of art, “Waiting for Godot.” Like Vladimir and Estragon they’re waiting for something. The wait is meant to be torturous, only they’re not waiting for Godot, they’re waiting for a phone call from Harry (Ralph Fiennes), their boss. The arrival of the phone call is the film’s climatic moment.
The scene comes in the form of a six minute long take. Ken is sitting in his hotel room and the famous opening shots of “Touch of Evil” can be seen on television in a nice reference. He answers the call and it’s Harry. After some humorous chit chat involving an imaginary Ray leaving the room to go bowling, Harry asks him if they’re having a good time. At first Ken answers him honestly saying that he is but it’s not really Ray’s cup of tea. A moment of silence later Harry flips out and shouts “How can a fairytale town not be somebody’s fucking thing?” Ken then retracts his words to save his friend. He even goes a step further as we see him smile and hear him making up a story involving Ray describing how he loves Bruges. “You know what he said to me the other day? I know I’m awake but it feels like I’m in a dream.” Harry buys it and cuts the chat by instructing him to kill Ray for what he’s done.
At the beginning of the film it looked as if Ken and Ray couldn’t stand one another, but by the time the phone call arrives their friendship has developed into brotherhood. Ken’s smile fades away and his face goes blank upon hearing the order. Afterward, Harry asks Ken to repeat to him what Ray said about the swans in Bruges. The words are the same but the delivery is different. The first time he said those words, there was humor in them, but now he actually means it. “I know I’m awake but it feels like I’m in a dream.” McDonagh’s original screenplay was deservedly nominated for an Academy Award.
I never thought I could sympathize with a child murderer. Even though the child’s death was an accident, it’s still extremely difficult to feel compassion and empathize with an adult who has committed such a terrible crime. What distinguishes Ray from psychopaths is the fact that he doesn’t attempt to rationalize his sins. Instead, he plunges into a state of depression and a torturous emotional experience, guilt. He knows he violated moral standard and understands that only punishment might cure his guilt. In a touching scene that demonstrates Farrell’s true acting ability he wipes off tears from his eyes and says “He’s dead because of me. And I’m trying to… been trying to get me head around it, but I can’t. I will have always have killed that little boy. That ain’t ever going away. Ever. Unless… maybe I go away.”
The characters in this movie are as human and fully fleshed out as it gets. McDonagh is a student of human nature, his writing is sublime. Ray occasionally seems like he’s happy. For the briefest of moments you see him laugh smile or enjoy himself but then guilt pulls him back to his depressive state. Before going out on a date he looks at himself in the mirror. A sad facial expression forms as he studies himself. It almost looks like Ray doesn’t think he deserve to enjoy this night. After a wild night involving hookers, booze, and cocaine, he wakes up the next morning sunken into misery. Laying in his bed a tear slowly forms in the corner of his eye and trickles across his face.
I can’t imagine how it must feel to carry guilt of this magnitude around every second of one’s life. Imagine the guiltiest you’ve felt in your life and multiply that by a hundred. That’s what it does to you. It eclipses your life as you know it, paralyzing and putting a stop to everyday pleasures. Eventually, nothing is left but a single desire. Ray is left with a choice; he can either continue living this devastating life or put an end to it. Ray chooses the latter. That very morning he gives all the money he has left to the pregnant receptionist and sits in front of a playground to feed his guilt, sink deeper into depression and find courage to commit the inevitable.
“In Bruges” is a film that evokes the feeling of guilt better than most motion pictures. It knows that it brings out the humanity in us and recognizes that guilt can drive us to the darkest corners of the mind. Each time I watch this film I ask myself the same questions. Is punishment the solution to getting rid of guilt? Can guilt change us for the better? If so, wouldn’t it be a form of rehabilitation? Does Ray really deserve to die for what he has done?
That last question is the conflict that turns two friends against one another. Both Harry and Ken have different principles and are dedicated to what they believe in. Harry believes Ray should die and Ken believes he has the capacity to change and deserves a second chance. I couldn’t help but admire how McDonagh put Ray’s life in the hands of both of these wise characters. It’s almost as if Ray doesn’t have a say in this, he even fails to take his own life. Ken is his guardian angel, Harry is a grim reaper like figure seeking justice and all three are in purgatory.
For some reason the idea of waiting for judgment in an unknown land is a common theme in philosophical Irish literature. Like in “Waiting for Godot” these characters are in a place they’re not familiar with and all three are waiting for the moment of truth. Bruges is symbolic of purgatory. They’re trapped in the city waiting for their inevitable fate. This is hinted upon several times during the film.
When Ray and Ken visit a museum they stumble upon “The Last Judgment” painting by Hieronymous Bosch. “Purgatory’s kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren’t really shit, but you weren’t all that great either.” Notice how similar Bruges is portrayed throughout the picture. On the one hand it’s a “fairytale town.” On the other it’s a shit-hole. Maybe it’s in-betweeny.
Fiennes never fails to mesmerize me in villainous roles. His portrayal of Harry is so different from the iconic Voldemort in “Harry Potter” and the ruthless Amon Goeth in “Schindler’s List.” Here he’s like a loaded gun always a tick away from losing it, but he’s also an honorable family man with principles. Ken’s death is more ironic. After constantly convincing Ray not to commit suicide, he jumps off a tower, only he does it to save Ray’s life. It’s too late to save himself but here’s still a chance to die doing one last good deed. When his body splashes all over the sidewalk, Ray rushes to him and cries upon realizing it’s his friend. “Take me gun,” he utters. I’ve seen thousands of people dying in a lot of movies, but I’ve never quite see anyone capture that last moment as perfectly as Gleeson does here. Notice his eyes. They stare, struggle to roll, and then return to their original position, the pupils dilate and all his facial muscles relax instantaneously. Gleeson’s acting is Oscar worthy. As for Ray, we never find out what happens to him. He walks into a surreal filming location that resembles the Bosch painting we’ve seen earlier and gets shot several times before dropping to the ground.
It’s an open ending and you can look at it either way. I know that the last shot is fixed on bright neon lights in the ambulance and then the screen fades to black. I’m sure this was a symbolic choice but viewers who complain about the open ending miss the point of the movie. For me, “In Bruges” is one of those rare movies that end at the perfect moment. One can easily miss the real conclusion here. It’s not whether Ray lives or dies. The last words of narration are as follows, “I really really hoped I wouldn’t die I really really hoped I wouldn’t die.” Ray is no longer suicidal and finally found the will to live. That is what’s important here, Ken didn’t die for a lost cause.
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36 thoughts on “Film Analysis: Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges””
A great review, as always, Wael. I hope we’ll see posts from you more regularly now 🙂 And, of course, I must thank you for turning me onto this movie sooner rather than later.
Mr Khairy,
I must say you are entirely spot on. I read your review after watching the movie. I’ve been affixed with it. This is definitely one show worth watching again. Everything you mentioned, I second you to all of them. Reading your review reminded me of the great moments in the movie. Like how gleeson rolled his eyes and how the pupils moved. Thanks
Wael Khairy says:
Thank you, Tommy. Much appreciated. “In Bruges” is one of the most rewatchable films I’ve ever seen. I’ve seen it countless times and still feel the urge to revisit this dark gothic fairy tale like movie.
Will you be reviewing The Hunger Games?
I should yes.
Liesbeth says:
In-depth, nice comparison to ‘Waiting for Godot’.
I very much enjoyed reading your review.
Greetings from Belgium.
The Epiphanist says:
Fantastic analysis, made my friends read it after they watched the movie. It hadn’t struck me that the final dialogue IS the resolve.
Just an add on: Much like the way Ray accidentally killed a child on his assignment, which sets the plot for the entire movie, Harry upon shooting Ray in the end of the movie accidentally kills a dwarf actor on the movie set. Thinking that this was a child Harry proceeds to commit suicide right then and there adhering to a principle he earlier stated to Ken that if he killed a child he would have no choice but to kill himself. It’s just that perfect irony that leaves you saying holy crap in the end of an already GREAT movie
To add to the irony, when Harry buys the gun from Yuri, which is a hilarious scene in itself, Yuri offers Harry a box of dum-dums, bullets that make the head explode. Upon taking the box, Harry says, “I know I shouldn’t, but I will” and proceeds to take the entire box. — Furthermore, in that final scene, in Bruges/Purgatory, on the set of the movie which is symbolic of The Judgement Day painting, Ray tries to stop Harry from killing himself because the child he thought he killed was actually a dwarf. Ray does the right thing, despite Harry trying to kill him a second ago. This is Ray’s redemption. That’s when he overcomes his guilt, that’s when he realizes he wants to live, and that’s when we see the white lights before the film ends.
inception44 says:
Wow. Way to COMPLETELY copy and paste Roger Ebert’s analysis of this film.
I’m Roger Ebert’s foreign correspondent. I wrote the analysis on his site. At the top of my analysis posted on his page, you’ll find that “Wael Khairy in Cairo” is credited to have written it. I’m Roger’s correspondent which means I get to write analyst and reviews and have them featured on his website. Anyway, you can go check for yourself: http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2011/07/somewhere-between-heaven-and-hell.html
Get your info straight before going around accusing people of things they did not do.
Josh C says:
Reading this was almost as great as the movie.
I’m still trying to understand how so many came to love this film, when I was only ever disgusted and dismayed by it. I kept waiting for the interesting bits to happen. Your review is masterful and well-reasoned, but it’s as though you’re describing a completely different film. I simply never connected with any part of it, and I cannot say why. I’d rather watch Accidental Tourist, or even Sunshine, a thousand times rather than see In Bruges even once more… but why?
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Augusta Dorothy Ann Melbourne says:
I for one, need to see this film again. It is very provocative with its questions, and it was amazing to see some analysis laid out like that. I think I also missed the humour, it was extremely brutal in its message. I felt like breaking down in tears when Ray does that speech about the boy that he killed.
Robert Morgan says:
I have spent days looking through everything I can find and still have not been able to locate the designer of the shirt Ray wore in that movie. Might you have any areas to point me in ?
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Watched this film last night for the first time, and have been re-visiting it today through reviews online- yours is the best I have read.
kamon310 says:
i did got the little things i might’ve missed out during the movie through this review. However, the one question i wanted an answer for, really skeptic one was why did ray want to stop harry from shooting himself? was the kid who’s head harry blew off unreal? as in part of the film that was being shot there? why would he want to stop harry from killing himself?
other thing harry sounded sort of crazy to me. He was too obsessed with his principles. He didn’t care for the fact that he will get arrested for shooting someone in front of everyone. He could’ve asked Yuri to kill ray and ken both but he went to bruges himself to do it. To say something is different but to do it is completely another case. But he really did walk the walk, as in shot himself like he said to ken earlier.
and another thing thekla reuten was gorgeous in the movie. I just didn’t get her smile at the end when ray was being carried on a stretcher.
The kid harry shot was actually not a kid, but a dwarf, which would’ve been visible from the persons facial features, if harry hadn’t picked dum-dums as his ammunition, which allegedly make the head explode. Harry didn’t have to kill himself here, because his principle only adheres to children, which is why ray tries to stop him.
other thing harry sounded sort of demented to me. He was too obsessed with his principles. He didn’t care for the fact that he will get arrested for shooting someone in front of everyone. He could’ve asked Yuri to kill ray and ken both but he went to bruges himself to do it. To say something is different but to do it is completely another case. But he really did walk the walk, as in shot himself like he said to ken earlier.
Wow. What a review. I am speechless as to how much this relates directly to my thoughts of the movie. You hit every note spot on! Great review, and a fantastic film. It is hard to explain to people who refuse understand it but all that matters is that I understand it. To me, in a way, Seven Psychopaths is a sequel to In Bruges being that Martin McDonagh is Marty, the main character, exclaiming his desire to tell a heartfelt story underneath all the dark violence. I think both his films relate to literature as well, such as the philosophies of Hawthorne and Emerson. This movie is in my top 5 of all time.
Interesting theory on “Seven Psychopaths”…like “In Bruges” at first I wasn’t sure if I liked the film or not, but with subsequent viewing it grew on me. McDonagh films are like great wine…they age well.
justinpruitt314 says:
Thank you for verbalizing the reasons why I love this movie in a coherent manner. I have watched this movie over a dozen times, and could never completely rationalize why I consider this to be my favorite movie. Your input is greatly appreciated.
Wonderfully written, and an insightful review!
reflectivemeadows says:
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Great analysis of an underrated movie!
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Rodrigo says:
Great analysis! It added very much to me. Thank you!
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lawdr2006 says:
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great review. i was, however, trying to find out if anyone else thought, “the little boy”, that the priest was referring to was not the child who was killed, but that harry was “the little boy”, (the last happy holiday he had was when he was in Bruges when he was seven.), who had been hurt by him.
that seemed to me the basis for harry stating that if he hurt a child he would kill himself. the reason for the priest death not being articulated leaves it open to interpretation, but seems to point in that direction in my mind at least.
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[PPS04-03] Submillimeter multi-wavelength observations for the protoplanetary disk around a young star TW Hya with ALMA
*Takashi Tsukagoshi1, Hideko Nomura2, Takayuki Muto3, Ryohei Kawabe4,9,10, Daiki Ishimoto2,5, Kazuhiro Kanagawa6, Satoshi Okuzumi2, Shigeru Ida2, Catherine Walsh11,7, Tom Millar8 (1.Ibaraki University, 2.Tokyo Institute of Technology, 3.Kogakuin University, 4.National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 5.Kyoto University, 6.University of Szczecin, 7.Leiden University, 8.Queen's University Belfast, 9.The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 10.University of Tokyo, 11.University of Leeds)
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on December 01, 2013, 9:00am
Australian radio station FBi has commissioned scores of musicians to create original artwork, which is being put to auction to raise money as part of its Brush With Fame fundraiser.
Acts who contributed to the auction include St. Vincent (above), Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, The xx, Frightened Rabbit, Foals, Iggy and the Stooges, Moby, Local Natives, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Jens Lekman, Purity Ring, Sleigh Bells, Florence and the Machine, Tame Impala, Wavves, No Age, and the late Jay Reatard.
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Director: Pete Docter
Release Date: June 19th, 2015 (US); July 24th, 2016 (UK)
Genre: Animation; Adventure; Comedy
Starring: Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling, Bill Hader, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black
If you’ve spent years agonising over the possibility of a live action Numskulls film — and let’s face it, who hasn’t? — you’re finally in luck. Inside Out takes the premise of said comic strip and imbues it with a visual vitality not always achievable on paper. But more than that, the film smartly and effectively explores the social complexities of growing up, and does so amidst a level of confidence not relayed from Pixar since Toy Story 3. One thing is absolutely certain: the creative minds behind the studio’s latest imagination emporium are no numbskulls.
The film follows youngster Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), whose bright and bubbly exterior matches her consistently joyful interior. See, Joy (Amy Poehler) is Riley’s overriding emotion, she having commandeered a monopoly on her host’s mind since birth. A sudden shift in locale from her beloved, chilly Minnesota to an unhomely San Francisco disturbs the eleven-year-old’s mental hierarchy, leaving Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Fear (Bill Hader) in charge.
As you can probably imagine, this loss of cheerful guidance sends Riley down a path of greater isolation in already isolating surroundings. Happy core memories — which power five primary islands, including Family Island and Goofball Island — are tinged with solemnity via Sadness (Phyllis Smith), whose clumsiness catapults her and Joy away from the central hub. You buy into the film’s simple story, desperately urging the odd couple back to Headquarters, even if the various structural nodes take a while to fully grasp.
The inside of Riley’s head assumes a life of its own, where reality has been remodelled with a rainbow-like gloss. Fittingly, we find out it’s a movie studio (aptly called Dream Productions) that is responsible for the creation of dreams. With her rectangular hair and sharp glare, Riley’s dream auteur resembles Scarefloor clerk Roz from Monsters, Inc. Pete Docter, who helmed Mike and Sulley’s fun frightfest, also directs here and does so with incessant invention, answering questions about how the mind is constructed before we even get the chance to think them up. At one point the action calls for a dream to become a nightmare, and as such Dream Productions’ feature film evolves into a horror movie starring a huge scary clown.
Inside Out often takes its visual cues from Toy Story, both materially and comically. Just as that franchise portrays Slinky, a stretch toy, in Sausage Dog form, here Anger wears a shirt and tie combo normally associated with workers who are fed up with their job and full of scorn. Anger is also the lead emotion inside Riley’s father’s head, a playful jab at male stereotypes; men are either grumpy, preoccupied by sports or hilariously militaristic when it comes to getting things done at the last minute. We stalk the camera during a superbly written family dinner scene as it invades the inner workings of mother and father (voiced by Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan), showing their respective reactions towards Riley’s morose attitude.
Fear is unabashedly spontaneous, in a state of terminal alarm and never boring to watch — Bill Hader just about steals the show with his squawking audio performance. Joy glows, whereas Sadness is a murky blue colour, small and forever huddled up. Phyllis Smith’s voice work as the latter channels Saturday Night Live’s Debbie Downer to perfection. Disgust, obviously, carries the poise and style of a fashion expert.
Throughout we constantly weigh up whether the emotions are controlling Riley, or if it’s Riley who is controlling her emotions. On occasion you can’t help but give into the sprightly visual splendour and the barrage of smart gags, but even in these moments the film steers well clear of all that is routine. For adults Inside Out could be a hypothetical examination of mental illness, or simply a voyage into the psychologically transformative nature of ageing. For children it’s also about growing up, only the immediacy of events on screen are sure to hit home with greater verve. The film affords young viewers an optical veracity that likely mirrors their ongoing experiences.
Pixar hasn’t shied away from misfortune in the past — see the first ten minutes of Up, or the abandonment arc in Toy Story 3 — and the studio continues to respect its audience by maintaining that mature philosophy here. Joy is undoubtedly a positive influence on Riley’s life, but her mistrust of Sadness is telling. The establishment of a ‘Circle of Sadness’ is a somewhat autocratic control mechanism thought up by Joy to restrict Riley’s emotional output. Joy doesn’t want her young anchor to ail, not realising the process of ailing plays a crucial role in a person’s development.
Docter and co-writers Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley champion lightheartedness in equal measure, matching seriousness with amusement: less imperative memories are tossed away at the onset of teenagehood, at which point bouts of important knowledge (US Presidents, piano skills) succumb to materiality (the perfect boyfriend). The funniest running gag, which centres on an annoying advert with a catchy theme song, is irksomely on point. This mixture of slapstick, witty and child friendly — though not childish — comedy gives the movie a peppy air. “That’s it, I fold,” bemoans a Jelly Bean-esque builder whose house made of cards keeps collapsing.
Long-term memory is visualised as a gigantic maze library. The filmmakers even explore abstract thought; the realisation of our overly analytical side (something writers can relate to), where notions and ideas and truths are deconstructed and subsequently flattened to the point of nothingness. It’s a brilliantly incisive scene that implores us not to be too self-critical or too self-diagnostic.
The primary message throughout Inside Out is a reassuring one. Sometimes it’s okay to be sad. Or angry, or fearful, or disgusted. These are feelings that will eventually subside and offer in their place a stepping stone to happiness, and to other, more complex and interesting emotions. Docter’s film is rich in subtext, one of those that you should watch again and again and could pick apart all day thereafter. This warrants examination both inside and out.
Images copyright (©): Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Author: Adam (Consumed by Film)
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Author Adam (Consumed by Film)Posted on August 3, 2015 May 30, 2016 Categories 2010-19, ReviewsTags Adventure, Amy Poehler, Animation, Bill Hader, Comedy, Diane Lane, Disney, Film, Inside Out, Kaitlyn Dias, Kyle MacLachlan, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Monsters Inc, Movie, Pete Docter, Phyllis Smith, Pixar, Toy Story, Up
25 thoughts on “Inside Out (2015)”
I’ve heard so many good things about this. I need to check it out.
It’s really excellent Keith, give it a go if you get the chance.
Loved the film. Really original narrative. Really got me thinking about my own life and my memories and mental make up.
I’m the same. I love that, in a world where studio blockbusters dominate the summer months, it’s Pixar that’s flying the flag for properly inventive cinema (not that Marvel et al aren’t inventive — they absolutely can be — but Inside Out is on a whole other level).
Great review Adam! I love this one too, a return to form from Pixar. I love how emotional this movie is, but also fun and entertaining. It’s got such a wonderful message for both kids and adults, giving us lots to ponder after we saw it, that’s for sure.
P.S. Btw I just sent you a Twitter DM, would you get back to me as soon as you get a chance? Thanks!
Thanks Ruth. Yep, spot on. The film manages to serve more than one customer with equal amounts of flair. Great stuff from Pixar!
‘If you’ve spent years agonising over the possibility of a live action Numskulls film — and let’s face it, who hasn’t? — you’re finally in luck. Inside Out takes the premise of said comic strip and imbues it with a visual vitality not always achievable on paper.’ – A point I’ve made in my review (posting tomorrow) but one you’ve made way more succinctly here!! Good write up mate, I enjoyed this as much as you.
I promise I haven’t been spying on you Stu. 😉 The Numskulls always had me grinning when I used to buy The Beano back in the day, so it was nice seeing them realised in even more energetic and meaningful form here. Cheers mate.
Haha. I used to read it in The Beezer (which probably shows my age), although I also remember them in The Dandy too. Great little strip.
I hadn’t even hear of The Beezer until you mentioned it! 😉
Adam, great post! I have every intention of buying it.
Thanks Cindy — I hope you enjoy it!
Martin Richmond says:
Great review Adam man! Hit the nail on the head!
Thanks Martin!
Well said buddy. Right there with you; one of my favourites of the year.
Glad to hear. Superbly original and super funny too.
I think it’s incredible they achieve so much without having a bad guy!
Wow, great point. I hadn’t even considered that!
Apologies for skipping over this review man! Just saw it. And it’s a perfectly stated reflection of a film that does so many incredible things. I like the note about the peppy atmosphere; Inside Out could have been cloying and dare I say it annoying with Joy front-and-center for the most part, but Docter et al are aware that there must be balance for a cerebral concept like this to truly work. And boy, does it. Sadness coming in and having her moment was a stroke of genius, as was the visualization of all these areas of our mind. I argued that this film is more applicable to adults rather than kids, because, even though as adults we are all still growing and learning, we’ve come through the arguably rockiest emotional stages of adolescence and childhood and can reflect back on that using this film as a filter. I think some younger audience members are going to be challenged to take this all in, especially on one sitting. But I never saw that as a disadvantage for the film.
Great point Tom. I think the fact that it works on two different but equally valid levels is to the various filmmakers’ utmost credit. The complicated emotional ins and outs us adults can reflect on and ponder, and the joyous animation and self-reflection that youngsters can take in. It’s a real, real gem of a film. Top stuff from Pixar. Much appreciated as always mate!
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“Alpha Centauri is so easy going and takes everything in her stride. The further she went the better she got. She will go to Ascot next and the Albany would be her most likely target,” said trainer Jessica Harrington. "The great thing today was she got a bit of an education and she was behind for a while. She was very good, and when she went she just went. She hardly breaks sweat. "She's such an easy filly to train and she has some stride on her. I don't think going further will be any problem as the further she went today the further she went away." The Racing Post’s analysts were fulsome in their praise of Alpha Centauri. “ALPHA CENTAURI could not have been more impressive. The softer ground conditions would not have been any inconvenience to her as she is a massive filly with an impressive stride. The further she went the better she got and she put daylight between herself and her rivals without being asked many questions. It's early days yet, but all the signs are there to suggest she will be even better as she progresses and fills into her giant frame. Royal Ascot will be next for her where the Albany would look the most logical race. It will take something special to beat her. This was her latest test which she passed with flying colours.”
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Antica Cantina Sepe: The Maradona of Wine
By Tobias Mueller
Some people might tell you that the patron saint of Naples is San Gennaro, a 3rd-century bishop who died as a martyr. But that’s not actually true.
The patron saint of Naples is, in fact, Diego Maradona, the Argentinian-born soccer player who, in 1987, propelled Napoli to win the Serie A Championship (Italy’s top football league) – it was the first team ever from the impoverished Italian south to do so. To this day, Maradona’s portrait is everywhere in the city. Just like any good patron saint, his picture watches over shopkeepers, restaurant owners and families in their living room.
So when someone on the street called Francesco Sepe the “Maradona of wine,” you can imagine how proud he felt. Sepe is the fourth-generation owner of Antica Cantina Sepe, a small wine shop in the working-class neighborhood of Sanità. Open six days and five nights a week, it is a relaxed little spot where locals come to fill their plastic jugs with red wine from big tanks (€4 per liter) or have a glass of sparkling wine from the tap.
But if you happen to pass by on a Thursday night, you will find people spilling out of the shop – it’s a veritable street party. This is Francesco’s “AperiSepe,” his take on a classic Italian aperitivo, an after-work ritual of drinks and snacks. What started three years ago as a small extension of the shop’s normal opening hours on Thursday evenings has by now turned into an event that draws a huge, diverse crowd from all over the city to Sanità. Students and politicians, university researchers and judges, artists, Sanità shopkeepers, and the occasional stray tourist drink and chat and laugh, and quite a few sing along and dance to the sound of that week’s live band.
Francesco, his dad, and their co-worker Salvatore pour the wine from the taps and out of the fancier bottles that they open for the occasion: an organic Aglianico, the area’s most famous red grape, from a local small producer, or some interesting Greco di Tufo, a white grape from nearby Benevento. His mother, Giovanna, sells homemade sandwiches filled with Neapolitan classics like polpette (meatballs), parmigiana (eggplant lasagna with mozzarella) and friarielli (broccoli rabe). Around 10 p.m., when everybody starts to get tipsy, she brings out a huge pot of pasta – simple but filling Neapolitan staples like pasta e fagioli (pasta and beans), pasta e patate (pasta and potatoes) or southern Italian lasagne (with meatballs instead of mince).
The event has become a huge, albeit unlikely, success. For many years, Sanità had a bad reputation as a neglected, Mafia-controlled district, not a place where people went for a drink after work, let alone at night. Things have changed quite a bit recently – these days it is a pleasant and lively working-class area and home to a large section of Naples’ Sri Lankan and Ukrainian communities – but it is still a far cry from being a glamorous nightlife destination. After dark the streets become quiet, and a lot of residents from the richer parts of town like bourgeois Vomero, Posilipo or Chiaia still would never set foot here. For Francesco to get so many people to come and party in Sanità is indeed a bit like Napoli snatching the soccer crown from A.C. Milan.
He is proud to point out that he has not invested a single euro in ads; the event grew only by word of mouth: people telling each other about the good food, the nice wines, the changing music and the relaxed yet chic vibe that is more reminiscent of Berlin or Brooklyn than Naples. By now, there are so many people wanting to join the party that Francesco had to start asking his neighbors to park their cars elsewhere on Thursday nights.
“I am more concerned with having nice people around me, working in a good atmosphere and giving something to my community.”
Francesco started AperiSepe in 2016, after he had spent some time in London working as a waiter at an Italian restaurant. (“But only Italian in name,” he tells us, “the food was dreadful.”) After a year abroad, however, he did something unusual for a talented young man who had managed to leave Naples, a city where economic opportunities were scare: he decided to come back home, to help his parents. “I wanted to see if I could run the family business a bit more my own way, turn it into my thing,” he says.
He started a sommelier course and updated Sepe’s bottled wine selection, for those who wanted to go beyond (and could afford more than) the wine on tap. He now sells a variety of high-quality, even organic wines from local producers.
Next on his agenda was to convince his dad to give his aperitivo idea a try. His father refused, even going so far as to laugh at the idea of an aperitivo in Sanità. “I begged him every day, again and again,” Francesco says. After many months, his father finally gave in. In a few weeks, the event will celebrate its third birthday with a huge salsa party.
The success has made Francesco a bit of a celebrity around town, with people often recognizing and greeting him on the street or when he goes out to other bars. His fame is no doubt helped by his signature mustache, which he grew a few years ago – even his niece calls him “Zio Baffo,” or “Uncle Mustache.”
In spite of this newfound fame, many things at Antica Cantina Sepe have remained the same, which Francesco is keen to point out. The shop still very much looks like it did ten years ago, with its rustic wooden interior, the big metal wine tanks and the small bar and counter. Francesco’s cheapest glass of wine still costs €1.50, as much – or as little – as three years ago, so everybody can come and drink, and he still gets all his bulk wines from small, handpicked farmers around Mount Vesuvius. Sure, there are some bright paintings by a Neapolitan painter and colorful graffiti scrawled by Iranian, Latvian and local street artists who happened to join the AperiSepe – but they give the shop more of an anarchic than an upscale touch and allow it to blend in perfectly with its colorful surroundings.
To make sure Cantina Sepe stays a neighborhood joint rather than becoming a hip nightlife destination, Francesco refuses to do more than one aperitivo per week, even though lots of people have asked for and suggested it. “Money is not that important for me, I am more concerned with having nice people around me, working in a good atmosphere and giving something to my community,” he says, and coming from him, it sounds convincing. He recently bought a house on Piazza Miracoli in Sanità, five minutes uphill from the shop, the same square where he was born.
That might be one thing that sets him apart from Diego Maradona, the city’s patron saint. The latter left Naples in 1992 after a drug scandal, and supposedly still owes the Italian government more than €30 million in taxes. Francesco, though, is here to stay.
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Being Human in a Buddhist World
An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
Janet Gyatso
Pub Date: January 2015
Critically exploring medical thought in a cultural milieu with no discernible influence from the European Enlightenment, Being Human in a Buddhist World reveals an otherwise unnoticed intersection of early modern sensibilities and religious values in traditional Tibetan medicine. It further studies the adaptation of Buddhist concepts and values to medical concerns and suggests important dimensions of Buddhism's role in the development of Asian and global civilization.
Through its unique focus and sophisticated reading of source materials, Being Human adds a crucial chapter in the larger historiography of science and religion. The book opens with the bold achievements in Tibetan medical illustration, commentary, and institution building during the period of the Fifth Dalai Lama and his regent, Desi Sangye Gyatso, then looks back to the work of earlier thinkers, tracing a strategically astute dialectic between scriptural and empirical authority on questions of history and the nature of human anatomy. It follows key differences between medicine and Buddhism in attitudes toward gender and sex and the moral character of the physician, who had to serve both the patient's and the practitioner's well-being. Being Human in a Buddhist World ultimately finds that Tibetan medical scholars absorbed ethical and epistemological categories from Buddhism yet shied away from ideal systems and absolutes, instead embracing the imperfectability of the human condition.
An amazing book and a stellar contribution to Columbia University Press's growing catalog of Tibetan and Tibetan Buddhist studies, for it will be the key book on medicine and religion in Tibet for this generation. Like Janet Gyatso's book on autobiography, her new book on medicine will simply be field defining. Little of this literature has received attention to date, and in fact much of it has only been available to a contemporary international scholarly audience for a decade or so. Kurtis R. Schaeffer, University of Virginia
Janet Gyatso's long-awaited Being Human in a Buddhist World is the most important study of Tibetan medicine in the English language, surpassing previous scholarship in the scope of its history, the extent of its research, and the depth of its insights. Yet it is also more than that. It is the rare work that causes us to rethink the foundations of our field, leaving readers with both answers and questions about what is encompassed by terms like 'Tibetan Buddhism' and 'medical science.' Donald Lopez, University of Michigan
This book is a fascinating, lucid, and profound exploration of the history in Tibet of the mentality and practices, both empirical and discursive, of probative medicine within the context of Buddhist civilization, a concept introduced and used as a more broad category than that of a 'Buddhism' concerned primarily with ideals of human perfection and supernatural realms. Moving deftly between fine-grained analysis of textual and visual materials from the seventh to seventeenth centuries and an open-ended discussion of large-scale historical and cultural issues, the book makes a significant contribution not only to Tibetan and Buddhist studies but also to current debates on the historiography and philosophy of the interactions and conflicts between religion and science. Steven Collins, University of Chicago
Janet Gyatso's book is an extraordinarily sophisticated presentation of the history of Tibetan Buddhist medical practice from the inside out—an account that is deeply grounded in Tibetan language sources while never losing sight of key analytical, historical, and methodological questions pertinent to recent debates in the history of medicine and Buddhist studies, not to mention wider studies in the history of culture and literature in South Asia and beyond. This book will be a landmark in the study of South Asian medical traditions. What distinguishes it from other studies is its complexity of vision. It deftly traces the surprising entanglements of Buddhist doctrine, state patronage, and social power with both scholastic medical traditions and medical practitioners on the ground to give us a historical picture that is compellingly nuanced and refreshingly open—clearing the path for future research. Daud Ali, University of Pennsylvania
A fascinating intellectual history by a mature scholar at the top of her game. Choice
Written in a brilliant style, with engaging language.... This exceptional work is an inspiring and valuable contribution to a broad range of medical discourses reaching well beyond the world of Tibetan medicine. Isis
[Gyatso's] breadth of erudition is matched by the clarity and sophistication with which she frames and explicates her subject matter. Bulletin of the History of Medicine
This is a major contribution to the field, and deserves to be widely read. Social History of Medicine
Lucid and eloquent.... [Being Human in a Buddhist World] is a major contribution to the broader issues of science-religion themes in Asian medicine, and will clearly be outstanding among the works on the history of Tibetan medicine for a long time to come. Barbara Gerke, Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
[Being Human in a Buddhist World] greatly increases our understanding of Tibetan medical history, and could complement well readings in a graduate course on the history of science or medicine in Asia. Ryan John Jones, Religious Studies Review
As an engaging account about how medicine as a Tibetan knowledge tradition advanced in a pre-modern environment, Gyatso’s book will be, no doubt, of great interest to Tibetologists, intellectual historians, and historians of science alike. Reading Religion
A Technical Note
Part I: In the Capital
1. Reading Paintings, Painting the Medical, Medicalizing the State
2. Anatomy of an Attitude: Medicine Comes of Age
Part II: Bones of Contention
3. The Word of the Buddha
4. The Evidence of the Body: Medical Channels. Tantric Knowing
5. Tangled Up in System: The Heart, in the Text and in the Hand
Coda: Influence, Rhetoric, and Riding Two Horses at Once
Part III: Roots of the Profession
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Conclusion: Ways and Means for Medicine
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Winner, 2017 E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies
Commended, 2016 AAR Book Award for Excellence in the historical studies category
Long-listed, 2017 ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Winner, 2017 Toshihide Numata Book Award
Winner, 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Janet Gyatso is Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies at Harvard University, where she serves on the faculty of the Divinity School, in the Study of Religion, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Her writing has centered on Tibetan Buddhism and its cultural and intellectual history from the perspective of large issues in the humanities about human experience and its literary presentation. She is the author of Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary, as well as several edited volumes.
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Beyond the Cyborg
Adventures with Donna Haraway
Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick. Epilogue by Donna Haraway
Pub Date: June 2013
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion species, rather than her "Manifesto for Cyborgs."
Margret Grebowicz and Helen Merrick argue that the ongoing fascination with, and re-production of, the cyborg has overshadowed Haraway's extensive body of work in ways that run counter to her own transdisciplinary practices. Sparked by their own personal "adventures" with Haraway's work, the authors offer readings of her texts framed by a series of theoretical and political perspectives: feminist materialism, standpoint epistemology, radical democratic theory, queer theory, and even science fiction. They situate Haraway's critical storytelling and "risky reading" practices as forms of feminist methodology and recognize her passionate engagement with "naturecultures" as the theoretical core driving her work. Chapters situate Haraway as critic, theorist, biologist, feminist, historian, and humorist, exploring the full range of her identities and reflecting her commitment to embodying all of these modes simultaneously.
...an invaluable tool for student's wishing to further explore Haraway's work. Critical Theory
1. Adventures with Haraway
2. Natures
3. Knowledges
4. Politics
5. Ethics
Sowing Worlds: A Seed Bag for Terraforming with Earth Others
Appendix: Some Bibliometric Notes
Margret Grebowicz is associate professor of philosophy at Goucher College. She is the author of Why Internet Porn Matters, editor of Gender After Lyotard and SciFi in the Mind's Eye: Reading Science Through Science Fiction, and coeditor of Still Seeking an Attitude: Critical Reflections on the Work of June Jordan.
Helen Merrick is senior lecturer in the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University, Western Australia. She is the author of the Hugo Award-nominated The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms and coeditor of Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism.
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It’s About Time Someone Called Out “Blue Bloods”
January 2, 2015 by Christopher Keelty 104 Comments
A few years ago, when I was still living in Philly, I slept most weekends at my parents’ house, visiting friends around the town where I grew up. I’d get home Friday evening and find my mom and dad tuned in to Blue Bloods a new CBS show starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg as members of a multi-generational family of white New York City cops.
While I never watched an episode from beginning to end, it didn’t take long to pick up on the show’s dynamic: The heroes, white male police officers, spent each episode protecting society from criminals, who were almost always minorities. Not only that, but they were played by actors cast according to the most stereotypical ethnicity for their crime. Car thieves were invariably black or Latino; a mugger, drug dealer, or liquor store robber would be black; chop-shop owners might be Asian or Mexican.
There was an episode–forgive me if I don’t remember which season, but I think the second–in which Tom Selleck’s patriarchal character is shot on his front stoop in a drive-by shooting. You don’t see the shooter initially, just a black van and a shotgun barrel emerging from the window, and the bulk of the episode is dedicated to finding the shooter.
“It was either the blacks or the Mexicans,” I told my parents.
“Why would you say that?” My father demanded, incredulous at my assertion. I explained because those are the two races most stereotypically associated with drive-by shootings, and that’s how the show worked.
(I should point out here that my parents are very liberal people, especially when it comes to racial equality, though perhaps not the most sophisticated TV viewers.)
I then went upstairs to my room. Half an hour later I heard my mother call up, “It was the Mexicans!”
Writing at Slate, Laura Hudson does a fine job outlining the real problems with Blue Bloods. It’s not just about bad writing, which is harmless on its own. This kind of repeated narrative reinforces the beliefs of viewers who see America a certain way–specifically, that white people are a force of civilization among a barbaric mix of minorities, and that police are noble and infallible and criticisms directed their way are universally the tactic of an anti-police agenda.
These are the kinds of views reinforced by right-wing pundits and Fox News; the views that lead to pro-police rallies in response to outcry over unjustified murders-by-cop; the views that inspire police to pen essays about how their every command must be followed without question, and perpetuate the absurd myth of the “thin blue line,” the idea that without police our society would collapse into anarchy.
This kind of television is anything but harmless. Shows like Blue Bloods affirm and even inspire a value system that marginalizes and oppresses millions of people, and it’s about time someone called them out on it.
Filed Under: In The News, Pop Culture
Eric Hedden says
You need to research the implications of “calling out”. Begin with phrase etymology.
OK Eric, you baffled me enough with this comment that I looked around, and it means exactly what I think it means. But now I’m curious: What do YOU think it means?
Suck a cock, leftist.
Dusty Ayres says
Why don’t you do that, sir?
well criminals in nyc are mostly blacks and hispanics, so where is the issue here?
Look up the stats you ignorant buffoon; don’t just talk out of your ass without informing yourself. The perception that most crime is committed by minorities is completely false. You’d be surprised by the percentage that white people make up
Educate yourself before you open your mouth and reveal how stupid you really are.
You are right sir ALL peoples are capable of good or bad. Really comes down to where you put the magnifying glass. If go looking for something you will find it.
I can’t believe you’re stupid enough to try & refer to a certain episode where Frank is shot & then saying that your prejudice was right in saying it was Mexicans because your Mom allegedly screamed out “it was the Mexicans” as well before the episode was even over.
The guilty party in that episode were found to be 2 WHITE brothers trying to get vengeance for their criminal Irish mobster father after the cops initially suspected it was an attempted cartel hit because they were holding a high ranking cartel member over for trial & the cartel in question reacted to such actions by targeting high level officials.
By posing as some kind of a journalist you should actually know any or all of that if you or your parents had have actually watched the entire episode in question. None of you did any of that which is evident by your lie filled, bigoted rant so why did you lie & make up this BS story?
Anyone who saw the episode you claim to have watched knows that you’re lying through your goddamned teeth. Most people who criticize Blue Bloods are generally racists who do so just because they hate White people & detest traditional, close knit, nuclear families even more. Such repugnant, judgmental bigots are so far Left they can’t even walk straight let alone lie straight in bed or even pretend to be capable of speaking facts.
I’m just trying to understand why you intentionally lied about having watched one of the highest rating shows on TV as a prop for your own ignorant prejudice & why you had the blatant disrespect to expect everyone else to be stupid enough to believe your lies just because they spewed forth from your mouth. That’s what I find to be most offensive, that you intentionally lie & then expect everyone else to be stupid enough to buy it. There’s no understanding evil I guess.
A Thomas Smith says
I think Blue Bloods is a good show. However, the fact that Commissioner Reagan has an inner circle completely void of minorities is telling in this day and age. He swooped all the way down to a sergeant to get someone to be his special assistant. Yet, there were two episodes that featured high ranking black officers who were killed or retired.
Yes, there was a black mayor. Although Frank gave him minimal respect, it was clear that Frank didn’t think he was really reporting to him. In one particularly disturbing episode, the black Mayor was discovered to have had a child out of wedlock in his younger days.
Yet, Frank cavorts with mob lawyers and cuts deals with white officers guilty of indiscretions.
The message is subtle and obvious. White is good and black is bad.
Bruce Little says
You post a fake news review about something you did not watch much of? Sounds like an impeachment trial with no crime but lots of hearsay! I watched almost 6 seasons of Blue Bloods and was thrilled with the show and its high moral implications. It shows how often difficult it is to do what is right rather than what politics expects you to do!
You can’t do what the media does and pick a side because it fits your political and biased agenda when the show gives a pretty good view of crime—-all colors commit it including white and that is clearly displayed.
Chris, open your eyes outside of your butt the next time you post a fake news article glorifying your biased and nonfactual vomit from your leftist agenda.
Icecreamperson (@IceCreamPerson1) says
I agree with everything you said chris, I can’t believe it made it’s way on netflix. Why is CBS still running this awful show, more people need to complain, honestly.
I thought I liked Blue Bloods at first. Then I became aware of their agenda. Now I am completely turned off by it!
Susie says
Yeah, that agenda being good family values, doing the right thing always, and if we do make a mistake, forgive. Life is short. I can see why you would be turned off by that.
Father of Enstein says
Tell ’em Susie. I agree with you. So much on this… Bloviator’s page is so far left it fell in the toilet.
Oh…and it seems Chris suffers from White Fragility Sycophantism (WFS). For example, “While I never watched an episode from beginning to end, it didn’t take long to pick up on the show’s dynamic: The heroes, white male police officers, spent each episode protecting society from criminals, who were almost always minorities.” Sounds like somebody is feeling guilty for still being able to live in his momma’s house and suck her titt. I wonder if she burbs him at night. It was actually, interesting to read his…. bloviations (just love that word).
No. The agenda is that every criminal is black or hispanic and the master saves white society from the barbaric people that should still be slaves. This type of family values I can do without.
Dawn Stanley says
That’s all you see? Yep that’s why this show is dangerous!
Mari R. says
This country is done for!
Just a matter of time before our war of propaganda becomes a real, live “hot” war!
Layer upon layer of hatred, suspicion, fear, and utter contempt. Nothing in common any more.
And now, most of the formerly center-right Republicans have joined the ranks of the deeply embittered and outraged neoreactionary, ultra-conservative right, who are trying to terminate the U.S. Constitution and impose a Christian conservative dictatorship.
What an irony!
As have I; after watching Hawaii Five-0, I either turn the TV off, or I watch something else, or I play a video game.
Tired Of Whiny SJWs says
It’s also about time someone called out a liberal.
I realize this post is almost a year old, but I’ve only recently discovered it (testimony to its importance?). Having read it, which is no small feat when you’re suppressing the urge to vomit, I now feel compelled to rip it apart on a point-by-point basis:
1. “….starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg as members of a multi-generational family of white New York City cops.”
—Well, no shit. Are they supposed to be members of a multi-generational family of black New York City cops? No, wait, I get it – Selleck and Wahlberg are supposed to be portraying black transgender women, and all the kids are supposed to be adopted or in vitro, right? Perhaps, just perhaps, they’re portraying white cops from a white family because – gasp – they’re white, and such multi-generational same-career families exist?
2. “While I never watched an episode from beginning to end,….”
—Then why are you even commenting on it? Oh, let me guess, you’ve got a degree in ‘social basket weaving’ that you feel entitles you to comment on a show you never watch? Did you start your ‘writing’ career reviewing restaurants you never ate at?
3. “…protecting society from criminals, who were almost always minorities. Not only that, but they were played by actors cast according to the most stereotypical ethnicity for their crime. Car thieves were invariably black or Latino; a mugger, drug dealer, or liquor store robber would be black; chop-shop owners might be Asian or Mexican.”
—Ever worked in law enforcement at ‘street level’? Of course not. You’re too busy writing “…fiction, essays, comics, and thousands of poorly-considered tweets.” This has, naturally, given you the expertise to comment on the demographics of inner city street crime.
4. “There was an episode–forgive me if I don’t remember which season, but I think the second–in which Tom Selleck’s patriarchal character is shot on his front stoop in a drive-by shooting. ”
—Lucky for you, I do remember. S1,E15 — Frank and the Monsignor were smoking cigars in front of a restaurant, when a sedan rolled up and someone in the back seat fired a shotgun. The importance of this will soon be revealed.
5. “I explained because those are the two races most stereotypically associated with drive-by shootings, and that’s how the show worked.”
—See my answer for #3.
6. “I should point out here that my parents are very liberal people, especially when it comes to racial equality, though perhaps not the most sophisticated TV viewers.” “I heard my mother call up, “It was the Mexicans!””
—Perhaps they’re “…not the most sophisticated TV viewers,” but at least they actually watch the show. However, you may want to brush them up on their ‘racial equality’. While the driver was indeed a hispanic male, the shooter was the Irish son, of an Irish criminal, who was arrested decades before by Frank – an Irish cop (what are the odds). Damn that Blue Bloods and their racial stereotyping, huh?
7. “It’s not just about bad writing, which is harmless on its own.”
—Just like this blog post – bad, while harmless at the same time.
8. “…among a barbaric mix of minorities, and that police are noble and infallible and criticisms directed their way are universally the tactic of an anti-police agenda.
—Attend your nearest Academy (if they’ll even have you), vest up, gear up, work the streets for at least 10 years, and that just MIGHT give you the right to comment on what cops deal with day-in-day-out. I’m not holding my breath, because I know you won’t. Liberals like yourself are never willing to put their own money where their mouths are, never willing to put their own lives at risk. You’re all content to hurl your little half-witticisms from behind a keyboard, safe in the knowledge that there are men and women (with guns, gasp!) willing to do a job that would make you bleeding hearts soil yourselves.
9. “…outcry over unjustified murders-by-cop…”
—In a country of approximately 340,000,000 people, many of whom are connected electronically in some form or fashion, if this was truly an epidemic, we’d be seeing much more of it. I’ll attribute this to the usual sjw mountain-out-of-a-molehill syndrome.
10. “….the absurd myth of the “thin blue line,” the idea that without police our society would collapse into anarchy.”
—I’m going to let you slide on this one since I’m willing to wager that even you have watched the news since January, and have seen what happened to sections of Baltimore that police pulled out of.
11. “Shows like Blue Bloods affirm and even inspire a value system that marginalizes and oppresses millions of people,…”
—Stories about a multi-racial police department, in arguably the most diverse city in the country (if not the planet), arresting criminals of diverse backgrounds, interspersed with stories dealing with the personal lives of the central characters. Marginalizing? Oppressing? Might I suggest dropping the social justice placards and picking up a dictionary and thesaurus?
It’s a reasonable point that it’s not fair to comment on a show you haven’t watched all the way through, however I must admit that after quite enjoying it for 5 seasons, I feel it’s now becoming ridiculous. I was always aware of a pro-cop agenda, but forgave some of the issues for the reasons above: it IS a white family, so lack of diversity is somewhat understandable (though I was also aware that the entire senior echelon of NYPD is also all-white, apart from the occasional high-ranking black guy who generally doesn’t survive an episode), etc.
However some kind of balance was generally at least nodded to, with the characters of Erin and her daughter, both social liberals, who took part in the lively debates round the dinner table. That, plus the good acting, kept me in.
However, now the dinner table scenes are simply ‘everyone pile in on Erin and prove her wrong’: she’s become a ‘straw man’ figure for stupid liberal values that everyone can feel superior to. The police are always right, there’s no corruption ever, not even in letting people off parking tickets (which, apparently, is only ever done for saintly reasons), all minorities, journalists and community leaders are evil (except the aforementioned one-off black cop) and so on. It’s gone from a show promoting a pro-cop outlook (which is fair enough, and someone should be allowed to) to an insanely pro-cop show which has become utterly unrealistic.
L. Westbrook says
Wow, you’re a special kind of stupid, aren’t ya?
More like you are, I’d say.
Roger M. says
Oh, dry up, you ignorant brat!
Alexander Rodecape says
Ha, yes!
lil bit says
Well I both work for local law enforcement and am a minoritty and a woman. The show is biased and insulting. The majority of black people I know are, gasp, hardworking, lawabiding citizens. I am not personally involved with or knw any person black or otherwise who are gangbangers, drugdealers, or unethical. Imperfect yes, unlawgul no. Please let trhe show reflect real life and legitimate research that refutes your stance. Time to down off that self serving, condescending grand stand and get to know the other side of our society’s coin, so to speak.
http://newobserveronline.com/new-york-nonwhites-commit-92-of-violent-crime/
I would have to disagree. Statistics speak for themselves. I found this website thinking Blue Bloods was biased…..the other way. I live in NYC. The show hardly shows a minority as the guilty party. They are often accused and the whole show comes to it’s senses and realizes it was a white guy all along. They went out of their way to fill an auditorium with minority cop security at a white hate guy’s speech to stick it to him. what show are you people watching ?
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/analysis_and_planning/crime_and_enforcement_activity.shtml
Trump voters, man…
leftist.
Mab says
Chris, I’m not a Trump voter–but even I think that your views on this show demonstrate YOUR biases far more than they constitute a fair appraisal of its content or intent.
As for your “Trump voters, man…”: Very mature and intellectual response.
As a former Officer and the parent of two currently serving officers, please accept my appreciation for your thoughtful and intelligent post. You hit the nail on the head. When confronted with such dribble as written by the author, I always offer a letter of recommendation and my assistance in getting them a slot at the academy. Over my 66 years years I have never had one accept my challenge. Go figure.
Jennifer Coute says
I not only thoroughly enjoyed your assessment of the author’s review of “Blue Bloods” and your review of it as well, but your writing style is superb! I realize this is almost three years later, so hopefully you still have the same email connected to this account. Although, if my suspicions are correct, you doubtfully need my encouragement to pursue a career in writing as by now you’re hopefully highly VERY successful! I’m off to Google your name in search of book/articles written by you…best of luck!
OH MAN! Now I see you didn’t leave a name. Well, I did, so if you’ve become as wildly successful as I’ve predicted, I’m pretty easy to find. Please shoot me an email so I can buy your books! Thanks!
John Anon says
Unbiased and right down the middle politically, very realistic about the life of cops.
I suspect it’s very closely aligned with the way most police would like to perceive their lives.
I always find it interesting the typical views from a political standpoint. Liberals of course only see racial profiling on this show, I see a good show dealing with what police have to deal with everyday (this happens to be in NY). I’m guessing the show would like to remind people about the good – police do for our communities. And Chris, I would like to point out, that you should watch the entire seasons/episodes and maybe not judge from your pre-conceived notions about this show without actually ever watching it. I also see a feel good show about the values of family and people doing the right thing, and making good choices. Not glorifying people who make bad choices like we have been seeing lately. And the episode you are referring to, if you actually watched it (and not sure why your parents didn’t correct themselves if they finished watching the show), because they would have realized that the guy who actually did gun down Tom Selleck’s character was actually a white guy who had an axe to grind with him. Now the driver of the van was Hispanic, but was only the driver, they didn’t dwell on his character, and in fact he was murdered by the white guy for trying to do the right thing. I’m almost finished with Season 2 on Netflix and most of the bad guys so far have been white people including the corrupt police. Not to say there hasn’t been a few minorities committing crimes on the show, but nothing that doesn’t happen in real life and certainly not a recurring theme on every episode; seriously, most of the criminals are white on this show. So are you saying that no minorities (in your mind) commit crimes in real life? Maybe you shouldn’t write about things you don’t know anything about (your words – you’ve never watched an episode of Blue Bloods in its entirety). Maybe you people bashing the show should drive around with the police and see what and who the police are dealing with (criminal activity wise) on a daily basis. Its easy to bash without knowing the facts as we have been seeing these past 7 1/2 years.
If you care to take the time, Susie (and this is sincere, not snarky) I’d be very interested to see a list of crimes depicted on the show and the race of their perpetrators. Perhaps you’re right and I’m seeing a problem that isn’t really there–but my argument isn’t that it makes all the criminals minorities, it’s that the crimes in question are committed by the most stereotyped ethnicities for those crimes.
I watch the show and agree with many of your points. Being quite liberal and open-minded, I like to take away the good and think about what annoys/angers me about the show. I don’t think it’s good to only look at things from my point of view; I like to try and see things from others perspectives. I do believe that the media (and it’s viewers) jumps to conclusions before getting all the facts, as happens on this show quite often.
The one thing you didn’t mention is the overly religious aspects. When TV shows portray gay or trans people there are loads of people screaming about the gay agenda, but those same people don’t blink an eye when a show has an overtly religious (Christian) aspect.
That I agree with too. Gosh… did I just say that? (blush)
DaNeitra Loveless says
Beyond all of the other “bull” that everyone else has to say I totally agree with your views on this show and I couldn’t have described it better myself
So you’re saying you don’t need facts, you’re happy to rely on the opinions of people who have never watched this show? Maybe you should watch the show with an open mind, not brainwashed by someone who doesn’t like family values, doing the right thing, and minorities being arrested if they do commit a crime. By the way, last time I checked, this country has laws and the police are there to enforce them (regardless of color). That is what is wrong with our country. Rather than people do their own homework and check out things for themselves, they are happy to rely on strangers and their biased opinions. Sad. No wonder this country is such a mess these days.
Is it now Erin’s show? So tired of her and her show! I am done with this series!
Yatta Yatta says
The show is absolutely biased against minorities. Today it ticked me off so much that I’ve finally had to decide that enough is enough. It continuously stereotypes minorities in negative ways, and out of all the episodes I’ve watched (which is a lot), I’ve only seen them cast minorities in positive law-abiding roles two times. Furthermore, they make it seem as if there are absolutely NO Blacks, Latinos, or Asians employed with the NYPD at all! Now how stupid is that??? But anyway…
Unfortunately, I have become so disgusted with this show and its obvious propaganda that I’m now more inclined to opt for watching black & white re-runs of Gilligan’s Island in its place. As sucky as that is, it’s just better entertainment and less of an insult to my intelligence.
You obviously have never watched the show.
T. Grieco says
Replace Stereotypically with statistically and you’d be more accurate. Yes, Blue Bloods portrays NYC police in a favorable light, and I think it’s about time someone did. But, they are not shown as saints. As for your problem with their casting of criminals, check out a year end crime report and you’d see that the show protrays police procedure and perpetrators demographics very realistically. Plus, I love seeing the way they shoot the city itself. It’s an amazing place and they film it well.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/year_end_2015_enforcement_report.pdf
Late to the game says
I am so so late to this party but the series is recently available on Netflix so it’s all new to me.
So, there are so many good points here but I wanted to respond to one of them in particular, your comment, Grieco, about NYPD officers ‘not shown as saints’. While I may be taking this comment for a ride, as I read it I’m reminded of what pisses me off the most in this show that I mostly enjoy, that there are little if any consequences for poor choices by the officers/detectives. It makes me so so angry how awful Danny treats everyone around him, like dirt! This includes, his wife, his sister, his partner, his CO, he fumes with rage towards evergreen, not the least of which, his “perps” he pushes them around like trash off his shoe, he goes around acting like judge, jury and executioner to every person he comes in contact with, he’s a huge prick and not one person ever stands up to him. His wife tried a few times and sort of, kind of got through to him but the next “day” he’s right back to being a complete a-hole.
And there are NEVER any consequences for him, he always gets his guy, he’s never wrong about anyone he fingers, and then they try to play it off as if he doesn’t enjoy a single ounce of privilege, he’s earned every bit of respect he gets, his vile personality never does him a disservice and despite the fact that he acts like a whiny little baby in almost every episode, it’s always portrayed that it was because he was just frustrated that he knew the truth and couldn’t get anyone else to understand! Oh waaaahh. And I think the fact that Danny draws his weapon in 9 out of 10 episodes and fires it just about as many times AS A DETECTIVE, I think that alone proves the writers level of commitment to accuracy as low to none. Not to mention the amount of times he single-handedly enters into confrontations with suspects with no backup and no….ugh, forget it, you get the picture. The guy is a one man show and the writers are hardly self-conscious about this portrayal. I think it’s weird that nobody ever comments on this, it’s the thing that frustrates and angers me the most about the show. Also, this shows characters are total archetypes, it’s written like a comic book. The Reagans have even made mortal enemies in the show that just miraculously disappear without another thought, in comic books, these people come back as very powerful anti-heroes. Nobody ever seems to notice that either but most shows don’t have such extreme characters as this one, they all have hard lines drawn around them, not much gray area.
Third season and done says
Finally someone who shares my disgust! One entire episode was dedicated to Danny fighting with Linda, then being an angry jerk at Erin’s office, followed by throwing a hissy fit at his own office. Next he shoots a guy 3 or 4 times. In any other episode the guy would have died. But this time he lives because the guy was a cop. IA does the investigation and discovers all the family and coworkers are attempting to cover for Danny being angry and agitated. At one point Danny slams a suspects face into a wall and tells him its his fault that an officer may die. Oh, and then there was the working the case even though he’d had his badge taken away. So then the cop lives, and Danny gets his badge back and nothing happens to him. Danny’s idea of an apology is “it’s a good thing I’m not a better shot” Love those good wholesome Catholic family values where the Police Commissioner(Dad), Wife, Assistant DA,(Sister), and Danny, all sit around that dinner table, fight to say grace, then try to lie to the IA investigator. Meanwhile, Jaime gets in trouble for doing the right thing.
david nizzardi says
Only REAL MEN enjoy this show. Something
liberal idiots like you wouldn’t understand . So….think up more idiot stuff like which bathroom to use Sweetie!
Jim Kelley (@soupdragon90) says
Conservative, bigoted asswipe. Fuck your irrational bathroom beliefs.
pontifixmax says
If it weren’t for the acting ability of the cast this show would be complete shit. The premise is nonsense, the writing is terrible, and the plot lines completely unbelievable. It truly is cringe worthy how bad it is. One doesn’t need to be a liberal or a conservative to understand this. They just need a brain in their head.
I totally agree!! The show is garbage!! Like the actors but, damn that’s some bad writing!
No. The agenda is that every criminal is black or hispanic and the master saves white society from the barbaric people that should still be slaves. This type of family values I can do without. I’m not a liberal nor a fool. What I see on the show is what I have lived. I have had a sawed off shotgun pointed at me from a police cruiser as I sat on my porch with older friends when I was 19. Why? Because our city had a curfew for everyone up to 18 and we were told “niggers get in the house before I blow you away” when the curfew was for younger people and we were on my porch and I am a girl and no criminal. The curfew stated you had to be home…not in the house. How many of you lily white over privileged people have had any experiences like that. I no longer watch Blue Bloods because the writers have made them sanctimonious, entitled, arrogant and well off while all the criminals are minorities, down and out, and happy to be down. Perhaps saying like Steppin Fetchit in slave movies…”Is we happy yet boss” while grinning like a buffoon as they are downgraded and treated like ignorant dirt. Oh and I happily voted for Trump! Don’t talk about what you don’t know. If you aren’t black, don’t be arrogant enough to believe you know what it is like to be in my skin.
pyotr says
Apart from the racism, the show is painful to watch for the sheer stupidity of having members of the same family (sister ADA, brother detective) coincidentally and unethically involved in investigating together the same crime and then talking with father comish about it. It’s nice if boring that they all have dinner together, but when they so frequently get involved in the same investigation it’s ridiculous and not excusable even as TV license.
Yes agreed. Also,besides the racial and ethnic stereotypes that are prevalent in every episode, it seems in this show police work doesn’t involve suspects who have lawyers or cops needing warrants to kick down doors, let alone having to fill out some paperwork every time they shoot somebody, which is at least once an episode. Honestly, the only thing that saves this show from being total shit is the acting, and even then its a stretch.
Chris Streeter says
Last episode I watched was all “bad white guys.” Especially over the top was the white bomber upset about “minorities and women taking all the jobs.” Seriously, Chris, you have no idea what you are talking about.
You’re saying you think that’s NOT a stereotype?
Inclusive STEM High Schools says
Bravo Chris — we need more people to stand up to bigotry and racial profiling especially in our prime time TV that is supposed to be harmless!
Karen Bricen Klopfenstein says
i love blue bloods
Joe Truth says
The episode you cite had NOTHING to do with “Mexicans”. It was an Italian mobsters sons. Jesus Christ, this is why the Internet should ban someone from claiming to be a ‘journalist’ without verifying credentials.
I apologize. I was in error. It was the sons of an IRISH mobster (don’t get much WHITER than that). http://www.cbs.com/shows/blue_bloods/episodes/54561/
Exactly what I posted. The guy didn’t even watch the show. His whole argument is null and void.
Newethicstattoo Baphomet says
I hate cop shows. With their . Let’s rough up this guy to get the truth ,or talking and harassing people at their workplace, to find out about the crime , unfortunately alot of people know about dancing with the stats then knowing well their constitutional rights,
Sharon Martin says
The truth hurts. You apparently don’t get factual news. Blacks and Hispanics DO commit these types of crimes. You don’t appear to be anything more than a reporter. I am upset by the cast. Tom Selleck sons would not be short and blond. Nor ugly grandsons. Geez.
Troy wahlbrink says
Huge Tom Selleck fan though dislike cop shows. After reading this article I am now excited to watch.
Warren Celli says
Chris, good article you are right on!
You missed the fact that the show is also a commercial for the state alcohol and tobacco drug cartel, the folks who the cops really shill for (where in every show the righteous Reagans sit back and consume gallons of booze at their pretend dinner table). Also never mentioned is THE FACT that cops create more crime than they could ever hope to mitigate by enforcing opportunity denying protectionist laws that serve only the rich gangster corporate elite. Crooked laws that fill the private prison systems.
Keep hammering!
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Elgomus Buht Caramp says
What is even worse than anything people complain about here is that every article almost eveywhere has to be political in some way. The new American religion is politics. Can’t watch a comedian or any other show without any political message behind it. This is an abnormal psychology on a mass scale. Joseph Goebbels would be tickled silly seeing such improvements of his work. What does this mean to me? It means the artistic value of every show and movie from Hollywood has been forfeited. It means boring. Regardless of Blue Bloods’ agenda, cops should point out that Danny is just a terrible cop. Just terrible. He is a terrible example, and following his example could get people killed. Danny is a public safety nightmare for NYPD. At the very least, he should be put on any duty that does not involve protecting living people, because Danny really sucks at that. Usually, he gets his CIs, witnesses, other cops or persons he persuades to help him, bystanders, suspects or victims killed because he is a d$#mb a$$, followed by glaring at them with that dumb look on his face. His righteousness is enough. No need for back-up. Drafting operations at a Greek Diner (the owner of which was a sort-of-friend of Commissioner Regan and also got killed as a result of sloppy police work of Danny or his daddy, or both – can’t remember which) on the back of a napkin with Diaz while complaining about things as he works. Sometimes he calls for SWAT, as he should. Sometimes he plans and coordinates a takedown of a dangerous suspect (why is he allowed to set-up impromptu operations based on his gut feeling qualifications, or does he just do it?) with just him and Diaz safely outside, while someone Danny sent in (so they could “go easy on him”) to get the suspect to confess is following Danny’s instructions (and about to get himself killed because of that). I admit that I myself was slow in school, but smart enough to know my limitations. But even I know that, slow as I was, I could do better than Danny at everything he does (police-related). So could my gardener, my Uber driver or the call center employee for my bank who lives in the Philippines and remains so cheerful after you yell at him so happy to be employed at 40 cents a day he is paid by Synchrony Bank and to be alive (at the same time). And that putz, Danny, who has a nice salary and pension has the nerve to complain while he works, while doing his job wrong all the time is the only thing he is good at?. I think the way the commissioners second and third in command speak to Commissioner Regan is both sterotypical and funny. Like the cartoon of the 2 dogs, one of which jumps around saying yeah yeah yeah Spike, you’re the boss. Spike is so smart, he is…” What should we do Spike, what should we do Spike..what should we do?. Except, unlike Spike who smacks his underling saying, “shut-apppppp”, questioning the commissioner’s judgment and then symbolically ducking for the smack, which never comes. Instead, he let them talk back to him and test his limits, like toddlers. His second and third approach the commissioner like one would approach a King which could result in a giant turkey leg and some ale for them or the chopping block, depending on the king’s mood. The NYPD is one of the greatest police departments in the world. It does not deserve to have Blue Bloods as their mascot. Danny should not be allowed to promote peanut butter, let alone the NYPD. Or maybe he should (but not Skippy), because he constipates the entire show. In tribute to Tom Selleck’s intensely long self-affirming speeches, as if bellowed from the peaks of Mount Olympus to the mortals who cannot understand the words, just that the speeches are just and right, I sadly must apologize for my insanely long reply which, I admit, that even to myself is barely coherent, rambling and not sticking to one subject (which is redundant, oh boy.., as my English lit professor would say on my papers. If one reads this message while drinking, a hidden message is revealed that can only be deciphered by Tom Hanks, and can only disclosed by Nicolas Cage, or no one will understand it anyway.
Paula branch says
Hmm. Now the criminalization includes a wanna gang member be black youth. Uck for this show.
Caro K. says
Folks, are you really watching a tv show for up to date factual information? Training to be an NYPD cop by watching Blue Bloods or watching an epidode as a substitute for going to the academy? Chris, why do you take the time to dissect a tv series that you haven’t watched? The show puts on entertainment once a week for about 42 minutes. It displays people in various jobs, members of highly trained teams who care about helping people and their communitues. It focuses on a family who regularly eats Sunday dinners together because they care about each other and want to be physically present in each others lives. These tv characters are displaying people who take a stand for what they feel is right (which, yes, for creativity sake will vary from week to week). They hold dear the laws that give us necessary boundries. Yes, I agree that creative liberties are used to write a show that is yes, entertaining. A cop and a family related Ast DA would not regularly work the same cases. It is true that many criminal confessions on this show would not hold up in court or some of the information obtained by detectives could be deemed entrapment, etc. But really, this is not what would-be lawyers would watch to study to pass the bar exam. What about this tv show merely making people think about issues which face their very own communities. The show strives to have viewers feel what the police give up to protect those involved. Why should we dissect every piece of “entertainnent” as political propoganda? Geez, why can’t we just watch this show for what it is meant to be, a birds-eye view from another nest. If you want factual information on crime or crime statistics by city, race, gender, or socio-economic class, then look them up on the internet. For me, I enjoy watching the Reagan family and the issues the show brings to light.
Your reply IS the problem with the show, Caro K. You miss the entire point of the critique of the show and offer up a “cant-we-all-just-get-along” alternative. The issue is not that folks who aspire to be lawyers or police officers are going to misinterpret this show as a substitute for real training or mistake it for real life, they are the only ones who really know that it’s BS., Your argument is actually very short sighted and shallow, the issue is that people who are NOT involved or personally knowledgeable about these professions in any way are being gently indoctrinated to believe that this is how the system works. Not to say that people are ignorant, but to say, people don’t have time to go fact checking each episode of a TV show. So they watch it and make assumptions to fill in the gaps where personal knowledge isn’t available. And you KNOW that most people believe these shows employ consultants to try to get the details “correct”, in fact, Blue Bloods even had an episode where Jamie and his partner were acting as consultants for a cop show being filmed in NYC. So even if people didn’t know that before Blue Bloods made sure they did, probably in the hopes that people would buy into their crap even more and think that any of how they act is real. But it’s most (very highly) likely that the consultants are there to teach them how to hold their gun and what stupid phrases to use so that they don’t look like complete idiots if real cops do try to stomach the show. (“Collars” “on the job”, etc) the consultants do not write the shows or have anything to say about how dumb Danny looks always trying to be a one man show.
To intelligent, critical thinking people, this show may be pretty harmless, to cops and lawyers who know better it’s harmless, but to most of America (especially the demographic this show caters to 60+ but not just them) who know nothing of NYC or cops, this shit is more real than you like to admit.
Not only that but Danny draws and shoots his weapon in almost every episode and that in and of itself is completely ridiculous. He’s a detective, first of all, they investigate AFTER a crime has been committed and yet he constantly finds himself in a shootout, in one episode frank states a static that in an entire career less than 1 or 2% (I can’t remember which) of officers will even DRAW their weapon, let alone shoot every time they do. This guy would be the biggest liability the NYPD ever saw, he’d be under a mound of paperwork at all times and under internal investigation 100% of the time. That statistic is likely referring to uniformed officers, for detectives its probably even way way lower. not only that but he himself instigates the shootings a lot of the time AND he escalates situations and puts everyone in danger, he even got his own family mixed up in the middle of crossfire. He fires his weapon into crowds of people and miraculously never hits anyone or anything that he didn’t intend to and you will NEVER see this guy face any consequences or reprimand for any of it BUT they still maintai, to the death, that he enjoys zero privileges, either because of his father or otherwise. He’s an extremely dangerous character and it’s guaranteed that of he was black he would be public enemy #1, he’d be called a thug, his rage would be seen as much much more dangerous AND it would be seen as a problem with black people and black culture in general whereas with Danny it’s not seen as a problem at all and in an episode where it is acknowledged, it’s just his personal problem.
Anyway, the race issue is a whole other ballgame.
jackie K says
I don’t watch it anymore. I feel the same way Chris. I like that it shows a strong white Police family but it doesn’t depict a strong black family which there are plenty. It brings to light some of the problems that’s going on now, but the show doesn’t show the cops as ever being wrong and getting in trouble for it. I realize that the cops have a (?????) job. Oh, I used ???? because i really can’t define the job with one word. Not everyone can be a cop. With that said they are letting awful ones in this highly proud order. This show is one sided. Not every person of color is a criminal and not every police office is racists. I think what Chris was trying to say that this show is not helping the situation but we all do have to realize that it is a tv show. Me being a black mother and have family that are police officers can’t watch because I know that the struggle is real to both police and to black men.
Yeah it wasn’t the Mexicans the shot at Frank is was white Irish guys. How about researching an episode or maybe watching it before you make generalizations. If you don’t like the show don’t watch it. It’s entertainment not real life. Grow up
It was a white family that shot Tom Selleck.. they had beef with him from years ago when he was still a cop. You’re ignorant. You mean to tell me there aren’t shows on television where all of the characters are black? Or there isn’t an ENTIRE TELEVISION STATION dedicated to the black community? Because the family that this show follows happens to be white, that makes it a racist program?
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Wills says
Blue Bloods is done well. About racism, there is a show called blackish and I don’t hear the white community screaming about racism. Imagine if there was a a show called whitish. We Wouldn’t hear the end of it. These shows are for entertainment, they aren’t in the documentary category. If you don’t like it don’t watch it, but making ignorant statements makes you look like another book smart liberal who reports on what “they heard” not the facts. Turn off your IPad and get out in the real world to see what happens out there.
Brian Collins says
Thats because most street is committed by minorities..just because you want to pretend it isnt wont change reality.
You’re saying city engineers and construction workers, who lay asphalt to make streets, are minorities? Huh. I’ve never heard that, but I suppose it could be true…
judith Henry says
Whoa- you are so “off-base” with your assessment of this series. Just recently started watching it this summer and I am currently in season 6. The show is fiction and very unbelievable at times, but your take is very uninformed. There are so many crooked white cops portrayed, Tom Selleck’s father is shown as flawed for participating in a gambling ring, Selleck himself is ashamed when a book is published revealing the sins of his youth, and a recent show I watched dealt with a racist cop who loses his pension and ends up behind bars. Last night the show was about a cop who Selleck wouldn’t promote to sergeant because he had wrongly profiled a muslim.
How can you make a judgement when you haven’t even read the “cliff notes” version ? As a teacher heading back to the classroom, I would say you did not do your research and your bias toward Tom Selleck,(who I think identifies as a conservative), is very evident. At least you got people to argue with you!
Blue Bloods is the best show ever wriiten. It demonstrates the whole process of city government in an ethical, family, and honorable portrait. The chain of command and all its headaches makes me appreciate what our police departments must go through. Amen to all of them:)
LJD says
you know who’s Opinion i care about?
The person that will sit and watch a show then give me a Honest NON biased opinion
do you like it yes or no? and Why
no racial Quips its a TV show who said it but be spot on to real life it is for entertainment
Keelty you are what is wrong with this country and this Generation
Thank god my time on this AWFUL planet are Numbered
John D. Fiat says
The show is ridiculous, but not for the reasons that this Lefter-than-Lenin writer is saying. (Salon? Enough said right there!) It’s ridiculous because what are the odds that all of these people in this family (the Reagan’s) can all eat dinner together every single night at the same table despite one being a street cop, one being a detective, one being the ADA, and one being the Police Commissioner? There would be major scheduling issues with that. And if it were realistic, there would be conflict of interest lawsuits all over the place with them working in concert. Plus, the show always depicts the commissioner making decisions that don’t favor his police, detective, and ADA kids. (Yeah right! Lol) And if anything, it always portrays white people as the criminals. I remember one episode where the grandpa, the ex-Police Commissioner, was robbed at gunpoint (at an ATM) by a white guy of course (in NYC? Lol) and then his grandson, a street cop, personally catches the guy in the giant metropolis of NYC. Lmao! And as a few others have already mentioned, they had an episode with a famous white supremacist radio host that was obviously modeled after Rush Limbaugh (to personally call him out) It was totally him except that for some odd reason the (Jewish) producer made him anti-Semitic which is ridiculous because Rush is actually a pro-Israel Neocon (to a fault). So, in conclusion, the show is a joke, but not for the reasons cited by this guy, but because it’s so unrealistic (about everything) and anti-Anglo. However, I still watch it once in a while for a good laugh and to keep abreast of the anti-Anglo Hollywood culture that is so rampant in it and so many other shows these days. The producer is obviously a crazed Zionist Judea-Supremacist whom the public needs to keep tabs on!
Mary E. Decree says
In response to John D. Fiat’s post from November 15, 2017: All I can say is: “You rock.” (And I am a senior citizen.) “Blue Bloods” is, indeed, ridiculous. However, I believe that some of the reasons for its inanity are as delineated in the original post by Chris; in other words, I believe that he is right in some of his assessments. But you also are spot-on in your observations concerning just how ridiculous this show is.
I would just like to clarify one thing for you: The Reagan family does not eat dinner together every single night at the same table. The dinner scenes are called “Sunday dinner” scenes. Various episodes have shown Danny, his wife and children eating at their own house, as well as Erin and her daughter eating at their home. Cast members are often heard asking each other what he or she is bringing to (or cooking for) the upcoming Sunday family dinner.
By the way, if the above two paragraphs seem inconsistent (because in the first one I affirmed that the show is ridiculous, and in the second one I pointed out some details about the family dinner that only an avid viewer would know), I can explain the inconsistency: I am a slow learner! That’s all I can say. I had watched almost every episode of season 1 through season 7 before I finally realized that “Blue Bloods” is a ridiculous show. It took me far too long to figure out that all Donny Wahlberg and Bridget Moynahan (as Danny Reagan and Erin Reagan respectively) do is whine. Oh no, wait — Bridget (Erin) also has lousy grammar and thinks that good acting consists of walking around with her mouth gaping open. And Tom Selleck’s stoicism and pontificating are really annoying. The best actor on the show was Amy Carlson as Danny’s wife, Linda; however, she left the show after season 7.
Lots more I could say, but I’m old and tired. Hope my explanation about the dinner scenes was helpful.
Thank you so much Chris for your comment i just finished watching the show and i am so disgusted I came online to complain. This show is racist trash.
Carrie Martin says
I just watched an episode where a rookie female copy was fired because she arrested a man for not showing identification and was suspected of being an illegal alien. The pedestrians screamed police brutality. It turned out he was illegal, but he had a pregnant wife, 2 kids and was down on his luck. She was fired. So I went to my computer to see if Blue Bloods was a conservative or liberal show. I guess I got my answer.
Erik says
I like rabbits….
I was born and raised in Brooklyn and initially lived in hoods that will make you want to soil your adult pampers just thinking about them, if you were familiar with them with their characteristics. Forget about strolling through them. I find your ‘review’ of Blue Bloods’, a special kind of ignorance, and stating that you didn’t even bother watching a full episode. Throw in a special kind of leftist lunatic liberal stupidity as well. All ‘Blue Bloods’ do is portrayed all the usual suspects of street crimes…the way it really is. By the way, I’m Hispanic and know the streets very well. The good people that live in these hoods do not need your white ignorance about how YOU think it is, as you peer from the comfort of your arm chair quarterback statements, surrounded securely by your lily-white fence, and looking over it from afar while using your myopic binoculars. To make comments about the hood you think you see, but don’t have a clue about, because you don’t stick around to view the whole picture, just like you didn’t see the entire episodes of this TV series. You don’t have to worry about these worthless black, and Hispanic thugs nearby you and your family, because you don’t have them released from prison back into your hood to continue with their mayhem. You don’t speak for the good people that live in these hoods. I have lived among the low-IQ, easily agitated, idiots, that condone criminal’s actions, because they’re either one, or they have a relative that’s a worthless thug. We appreciate our police officers that will show up and slow down these sociopathic criminal’s tendencies, by putting them in jail, or permanently putting them out of their worthless existence. Black Lives Matter when a cop shoots a thug, just because he’s black, but not among themselves when a thug shoots an innocent black victim. Look at the shootings in Chiraq (Chicago).
K. Fischer says
Please do not call my beloved city Chiraq just because Spike Lee produced a one dimensional, inflammatory movie giving it that unfortunate name. He, and those who take his films as gospel, know nothing about that beautiful, complex, many layered city.
I cant claim to have never gotten through a whole episode.
I’ve watched several seasons multiple times on Netflix.
Here is what I observe. A family that realistically portrays their faith and ethical struggles, their strong ties to each other and their profession. They are far from perfect, but end up consistently choosing morals, ethics and faith.
‘Bad guys’ are white, black, latino, rich poor, straight and gay. Victims are also members of these races. Police officers also come from every race imaginable. Religions… Muslim, Catholic, Judaism.
There are white supremacists. Their beliefs are condemned.
So… instead of passing judgement based on our own prejudices and emotions, keep an open mind and reach evidence based positions.
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The show is just CRINGE and elitist . I came here to see if i was alone in my feelings. I’ll try to be fair and say its not ab race. I e seen some episodes and there are different races who are the thugs and shooters etc…theres a few black cops or lawyers…like one middleeastern detective or something but the show still needs a lesson in diversity. Some of the actors are just horrible and im not sure how they lasted 10 seasons on the show good lord! The family dinners make me vomit—its a blue cheese type of CHEESY (see what i did there) 🤮🤮🤮 There needs to be some dark and twisty parts of their characters bc we ALL have that side and it would make them more relatable however these characters like to be goody two shoes 24/7, elitist and unrelatable. They probably sit their kids down, look em in the eye and tell them “you are a Reagan. You are above the rest. You are a REGEAN.” Thats the vibe they give me. We also dont see much into their personal lives so i cant exactly give af ab their significant others its more like….”WHO are you?” and it would be more interesting if the show focused more in politics like what REALLY goes on in courts, communities, etc instead of good coo bad cop overused garbage. Did i also mention how much i hate the family dinners? FAKE!!!
Although I like Hawaii Five-0, I think that it’s more than high time that CBS stop, showing all of these crime shows and put on other kinds of programming, much like how it conducted this purge in the late ’60’s/early ’70’s of all the rural comedies it was airing, which caused it to get the name ‘Country Broadcasting System’ as a joke (today it would be nicknamed the ‘Crime Broadcasting System/’Cop Broadcasting System’.) Even better is for CBS to consider showing reruns of the shows on CBS All Access on Saturday nights.
Cause most drive-bys are done by Amish rolling on 42s. I mean come on, stereotypes exist for a reason. Either that or the NBA and NFL hate whites and have no legitimate reason whites and non-Guam Asians are underrepresented.
I live near Jackson, Mississippi and guess who is always shooting up the gas stations?! and doing the car jacking? Should we get more whites into this crime so blacks can feel better about it. Even the producer of COPS said they feature boring segments with drunk, shirtless white guys to balance out the violent black crime that hurts his feelings.
Watch Law and Order SVU. ICE-T is one of the actors that rapped about killing cops and he was a drug dealer. How Stereotypical of him. He often goes on with this persona to this day. Some how that’s not a bad thing? Where’s the protesters? Instead Conservative America watches that garbage.
Mostly white criminals on SVU and homeless with a heart of gold. Talk about a stupid show. They’ll say a crime happen on 42nd street and someone says ask Teddy the homeless guy at the fifth light post next to Union Bank. Sure enough he’s right there where it would said he’d be. That’s the problem with that show. It’s always way too convenient. Rarely do they say you just missed them and such characters are way too polite. At least on the ones I saw. Characters are also so pained with paralyzing empathy there is no way they’d be able to do the job.
Blood Bloods is garbage just not for the reasons mentioned. Maybe you could balance out your race/crime problem that is reality with some dumb TV dads on any of hundreds of shows. Always some how manage to provide for an ungrateful family despite being too stupid to open a door. Duh! Almost always a white guy but now they are making more dumb black dads too.
Daniel says
Haha! This article is garbage. Of course you have to politicize and racialize a T.V. shows. That’s the liberal way.
your full of yourself. as you said you never seen a episode beginning to end so how can you take qhat you thought you seen to and article? 1st and foremost it was outside a restaurant and at end he wasnt target! also they have numerous white criminals on show. and if you actually watched that whole episode. you would know that an Italian (white American) was one who ordered hit. not on tom selleck but guy who he was with. watch show before you run mouth!!!! and while myself have issues with show. like they are never wrong especially tom sellecks character. like a modern day little house on the prairie. the show is not racial. its just overly biased to police. watch a few shows beginning to end b4 you run your mouth. and b4 you make an assumption my woman is of ebony complectiom with a hispanic decent. and my son is exceptionally half of his beautiful mother. so no!!! i have no racial motive whatsoever
Rosalyn Moore says
Yes yes yes, Blue Blood is a racist show. After the 3rd season when I saw there were no minorities added to the show inner circle I quit watching Blue Blood for good. Now the show has been on for 10 seasons and still no minorities in inner circle. I believes main characters had a lot to do w/ the hiring of minorities on the show
Kenneth Cohen says
For a long time, I enjoyed Blue Bloods. Unfortuntely, it is stale and predictable. Killing off Linda and giving Jenko a more prominent role did little for me. Danny makes the same pissed off face when things don’t go his way and Erin’s self-righteous approach to all issues, is uninteresting. The same goes for the family bickering at dinner. There needs to be more interesting plots. Frankly, for me, a former New Yorker, it runs a distant second to Chicago, PD.
So you’re upset that Blue Bloods shows criminal races in proportion to the percentage of crimes they actually commit? You can call it stereotypes if you want. But stereotypes exist because they are so often true. The real problem here is your inability to accept the fact that minorities commit a disproportionate amount of the violent crimes.
If you look at the facts along with that, Whites and Asians are at the bottom of the list for reporting crimes and blacks are the highest. Wouldn’t this fact skew your data? I a, not stating stereotypes do exist and the left loves to use them against all races for bad and good. My point is if you actually watch the show, you will see the stereotype the initial author remarked on that the show always shows blacks and Hispanics as the criminals is totally false.
What has my inability have to do with making false statements about a great show that is actually popular enough to be running another season? There are many episodes where whites are the criminals finally charged. But who cares if it isn’t PC with every other stupid requirement the left has but don’t live by themselves? Joe Biden and Hillary should be in prison for the wrong they have done, but it is overlooked and the right is blamed for every dirty deed the left is actually doing and the media covers it up for political retribution. It is not a fair and equitable environment we have if you want to be fair about everything!
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I find it extremely ironic that the Black Live Matter people want us to believe that the only police-related problems that matter involve black people and people of color but not anyone else. But a TV series comes along that focuses on exactly that topic, and the claim goes out that they’re focusing too much on the same subject. Make up your minds!
I’m not crazy about Blue Bloods. In fact, I usually avoid watching it when my wife has it on. But that doesn’t excuse the hypocrisy of the Left regarding the issues raised on the show.
I think what the Left really wants is a one-way conversation that only tells the “correct” story, as determined by the Left.
Excellent and well-stated! I agree 100% except I think Blue Bloods is a great show! I am just a simple guy who appreciates law and order and enforcing laws that are on the books and not giving criminals a pass when they are wrong. Second chances, yes, when they serve the sentence for their crime, but no passes for votes and illegals need to follow the proper process to make them legal!
K Sreling says
You are making judgements on one episode that you did not watch start to finish. I watch the show regularly and find that the criminals are different races as are the heroes.
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Four theses on university presidents’ speech
Recently I got an interesting email from my university’s communications department with a link to a speech recently given by the university’s current president, Robert Zimmer. They said they had appreciated my prior comments on academic freedom and were curious to hear my comments on this speech.
Never having been asked to comment on anything on this blog, I felt a little puzzled, but eventually thought, why not? So here, if you like, are some theses on understanding this instance of a presidential speech.
(1) A presidential speech is a balancing act, a diplomatic performance; and as such, it is almost inevitably produced under severe institutional and diplomatic constraints. One might put it like this: university presidents enjoy no right to free speech. Or at least, no free speech without the threat of retribution from any of numerous quarters. If you read Dean Dad’s wonderful blog about his life as a community college dean, the first thing you find out is that university management (call them leadership or administrators if you prefer) operates in a state of constant compromise and constraint. In a great recent post, he explains something about the constraints on what one can say in his role: “When I spoke only for myself, it didn’t really matter what I said. But as a leader in the institution, comments that once would have been merely snarky were suddenly taken as indications of larger directions.” Just think of Larry Summers. As president, one is heavily vetted to begin with, continuously accountable to multiple constituencies, and under pressure not to rock the boat. And as Dean Dad points out, “front-room talk” isn’t the same as “back-room talk”: even if presidents may be frank in private, they are seldom unguarded when acting in their ceremonial role. First thesis: presidents are not free agents. Corollary: a presidential speech on academic freedom invokes a value that it cannot practice.
(2) The presidential speech is a kind of self-instituting, self-authorizing ceremonial language that functions to assure or reassure the continued dignity of the institution. And a presidential speech is hence less an empirical report on an institution than a moment in the reproduction of an institutional self-image. As in commercial advertising or a political campaign, one puts one’s best foot forward. It’s less that what is said is false as that campus life is glossed with the veneer of an institutional fantasy. This fantasy — one can see it in Zimmer’s speech — implicitly embodies its own criteria of evaluation, which are essentially aesthetic. In such a speech, institutional reality vanishes into the self-satisfied ether of institutional desires for beautiful self-representations.
Hence one of the most striking moments in Zimmer’s speech is when he says — his speech by the way is about academic freedom and hence he talks about the University of Chicago’s Kalven Report, a document which I have already examined on this blog — anyway, Zimmer, I was saying, rightly says that to understand the Kalven Report we must situate it in its institutional context. But to my eyes as an anthropologist, what Zimmer calls “contextualiz[ing] the Kalven report within institutional culture” would be better called contextualizing the Kalven report in his obligatory presidential fantasy of institutional culture. See for yourself:
…I believe it is necessary to contextualize the Kalven report within institutional culture. The commitment to maintain open, rigorous, intense inquiry in an environment of maximal intellectual freedom is not a simple one. It is difficult and to succeed demands a culture and community that will support it. The University of Chicago holds these as its highest values and we seek to reinforce them at every turn. The Kalven report is a component of this culture. Many other institutions push other values forward as legitimate competing interests, and their culture may not support such a strong position on this particular set of values. Every institution needs to come to its own conclusion as to what it is and what it wants to be. It needs to decide how much weight to give to various competing interests. Kalven only works at the University of Chicago because of these common values at the University, and can only be fully understood as a part of the realization of these values.
The University of Chicago’s “culture” here is one that is presented as having monolithically shared and uncontested values. Its community is portrayed as a heroic agent that has managed to maintain a difficult but successful “commitment to maintain open, rigorous, intense inquiry in an environment of maximal intellectual freedom.” This obviously is not an empirical description but an artfully patterned and arranged permutation of highly valorized ceremonial language. There are no real people in this description, no disciplinary or economic or political differences, none of the gritty detail of routine institutional dysfunction. Uttered by a janitor, this description would be surreal (given the class and educational connotations that lie hidden within this governing language); uttered by a student, it would be sycophantic. Uttered by a president, it is a moment that shows the empty self-referentiality of ceremonial rhetoric. (I don’t mean to completely trash these fantasies of institutional valor, and I’m certainly not saying there’s nothing good about the university, but I do want to emphasize the aesthetic fixations of this discourse.) And while presidential descriptions do vary over the years, this public affirmation of institutional virtue is clearly part of the obligations of the president’s job, and not mainly the expression of a personal or scholarly opinion. Second thesis: a presidential speech is institutional fantasy hour, an obligatory ritual pause whose ideological emptiness guarantees that its form will be more significant than its content.
(3) This description of institutional culture should be taken as official self-image rather than a genuine description, but let’s say we read it naively as a description, since Zimmer does gesture towards describing a culture, even if somewhat rhetorically. Now, frankly, this description of a “culture” strains my ethnographic faculties. If Zimmer ever happens to read this blog — a moment I do not foresee — I must protest that my experience suggests that, as an empirical description, what he says is quite false. Chicago is in reality not as special as it imagines itself: it is an institution much more like institutions elsewhere: it is a university where one hears plenty of false and unrigorous claims, plenty of lazy inquiries that are neither open nor intense, plenty of situations where “intellectual freedom” is limited by prevailing disciplinary prejudice and intellectual narrow-mindedness. Zimmer states that the university has a “commitment to maintain open, rigorous, intense inquiry in an environment of maximal intellectual freedom,” but interpreted empirically, this statement is not only false but also performatively self-refuting. In other words, the very sloppiness and clearly deeply constrained nature of this presidential statement is already evidence in itself that institutional culture is neither perfectly rigorous nor perfectly free. Third thesis: read inside-out, contextually and symptomatically, presidential speech can serve as a barometer of the disingenousness of campus self-images.
(4) The rhetoric of “culture” and “community” serves to conceal all the ways in which the university is neither a settled culture nor a community of equals. Particularly disingenuously, the university administration disappears as an actor, as if the voice of the president was, unproblematically, the voice of the university. It seems, in fact, that Zimmer has a deeply autocratic view of himself as the sole authorized voice of the university:
Were [former president] Hutchins’s political activities an expression of academic freedom or were they chilling, given that he embodied the University as its president? Many today, including myself, would question this level of political engagement for a University president. While separating the University from its president in a legal sense is easy enough, it is problematic practically, and thus the potential chilling effect of a politically active president is something I and other of Hutchins’s successors have tried to avoid.
Now, indeed as I said above, it is difficult for a president not to be viewed as a spokesperson for a university, but what strikes me here is that Zimmer sees his only option as being one of retreat into his role as the practical “embodiment” of the university. He shows no interest in developing a campus process for developing a more democratic university consensus. Indeed, insofar as he ardently defends the Kalven Report — which asserts that the university (administration) must take no political positions, even ones overwhelmingly demanded by faculty and students — he asserts that the university president’s role is to resist the will of the campus majority. For Zimmer, the administration’s role appears to be to resist outside as well as inside pressures. (There is something deeply disturbing to me, frankly, about his equation of 1930s Nazi dominance of the University of Berlin with 1980s calls on the university to divest from South Africa. The idea that he would very nearly equate these as unwanted political influences is frightening.) What he doesn’t mention, of course, is that the administration is permanently obliged to bring in funds for the university and that this might be relevant to an assessment of political neutrality. “Investing” for him does not count as a political act, only “divesting,” which is suspect, apparently, because it involves imposing an outside political will on what should be a strictly internal business decision.
Thus again we are back at the nexus of institutional power and money, two major features of university life that, one might think, would be highly relevant for a theory of academic freedom. And yet are so thoroughly unexplored in Zimmer’s speech. But in the end, I almost pity this president. Even if he happened personally to agree with everything I had said here, he would, on my assessment, be incapable of saying anything so scathing in a public forum. His role, and the dignity of the institution he claims to embody, would prohibit it.
One day when I have time to write a longer article, a comparative analysis of university presidents’ discourse from both sides of the Atlantic would seem to be in order.
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Michael Bishop says:
I agree that university presidents’ speech is far more constrained than individual professors. This may be why I’ve bothered to read so little of it. I find Zimmer’s speech fairly boring, but basically unobjectionable.
While I think its rather silly to pretend that a university can truly be apolitical, I wouldn’t want the faculty voting to endorse lots of political statements either.
Well, in my view we don’t have a choice between a university that makes political statements and one that doesn’t. Instead, we have a choice between a university whose political acts are managed by administrators and one whose politics are open to democratic campus input. You see, in my view things like “investing in Darfur” or “hiring a huge campus police force” or “building something on the former site of a community garden” are already political acts. The problem, from this perspective, is that the administration generally gets to implement whatever politics it wants, ignoring faculty and student input at will.
Faculty and students do have some influence. Mostly because the administration wants to attract new students and faculty.
People who control sources of funding also have major influence, and I’m sure they don’t use that influence in an ideal way, but it isn’t all bad for faculty/students. Reduce the funders influence and they may decide to stop funding.
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Pinfest has drawn to a close for another year. We, as a group, rode the crest of excitement for 48 long hours–some more, some less–but now that it is over we have no choice but to begin the countdown until next year’s show. I ate my fill of pretzel wraps from the farmer’s market, met a few new friends whom I knew via avatar only, and I was lucky enough to bring home a project machine to keep me busy for the foreseeable future.
A group of us from the Toronto area started a convoy of vehicles down to Allentown early Thursday morning, in order to arrive by 3pm to set up the games that accompanied us. The show is not open to the public on Thursday, but the doors are open to anyone bringing a game to set up (between the hours of 1pm to 9pm). After checking in at the venue’s registration and the games for the group were set up to our satisfaction, I took it upon myself to help out some of the other folks at the show… by “play-testing” THEIR games. You know, just to make sure they were set up correctly for opening day. I played ‘til I had my fill, and it was a godsend to have any game in the entire room available to play with no lines or crowds to battle. If you are going to do Pinfest, I urge you to bring a game. Not only does it help the event, it is your ticket to a free preview of the show. After leaving the venue, I ate a sushi dinner with some of the other Canadian collectors and then proceeded to drink to excess. Not a good choice, seeing as it was an early morning the next day and I had a belly full of raw fish…but I made it…barely. The show hours this year were Friday Noon to 9pm and Saturday 9am to 8pm. $17 admission fee per day, per adult, with no weekend passes available. Bring a game and you get free admission for as long as the game remains in the free play area.
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– a gorgeous Black Knight 2000 in the vendor area,
– multiple Shadows,
– multiple Tales of the Arabian Nights,
– show organizer Ivan’s seldom-seen Bally Game Show, and,
– two, yes, two Bally Spectrums.
No Bugs Bunny Birthday Balls…the bar was set high after last year when three showed up. Also, I didn’t recall last year’s show being so heavy on Gottleib System 80 games; there were a ton this year…which ain’t a bad thing. They say the best System 80 game is someone else’s System 80 game anyway, because when it has issues, and they always have issues, you aren’t the one who has to repair it! Sadly, an Amazing Spiderman, which I would argue sports one of the most beautiful art packages of the 1980s, sat dark all weekend. I didn’t play too many DMD era games, I stuck with early Solid State, and, in an effort to expand my knowledge of games from the golden age of pinball, I put a lot of time on some lovingly restored EM s. Two electromechanical gems that stood were are a lightly used Golden Arrow with only 16,000 plays on it and the soccer-themed Team One. Both were a blast and both had me chasing specials all around the damn playfield. Jersey Jack was on hand with a few Wizard of Oz machines, including a Ruby Red edition, although I didn’t take the time to play any of them.
The boutiques were also there in the form of Wrath of Olympus and America’s Most Haunted. I had a couple of games on Riot Pinball’s Wrath, and I must say, this game is the real deal. Even as a prototype, the game felt solid and had unbelievable shot physics. I’m not even sure what I could compare it to…a bit Shadow-esque? The left orbit/upper right flipper/upper playfield ramp/upper playfield ramp flipper combo feels really, really good when executed seamlessly. The soundtrack is heavy, with driving guitars and instructive call-outs and really pulls it all together. Riot had photos of new toys they plan to include in the next prototype revision, and with a little spit and polish on the playfield art package this game looks like it will make some serious hay. I didn’t get a chance to have a single game on America’s Most Haunted. It was down. Every time I went by to try to play it. Lots of concerned folks looking at the little green board in the backbox while on cellular telephones (“Collect call for Ben Heck from Pinfest, will you accept the charges?”). I was looking forward to giving this game a fair shake, ever since Nate Shivers of the Coast2Coast Pinball podcast raved about it at the Midwest Gaming Classic. I was wondering what I was missing. Sadly, it wasn’t meant to be.
Lots of shopping to be done as well. All the usual suspects like Cointaker, Mayfair Amusements, and Marco Specialties had their tables set up in the main building. Business looked to be swift…Rottendog had “Sold Out” posted on many of their boards (great show specials available from the Rottendog crew), and the boys at Pinball Inc. looked like they had a very bare ramp table near the end of Saturday (completely selling out of their ramp stock for Creature from the Black Lagoon and a few others). New vendor Rob Kahr had his WPC daughterboard for sale and business looked to be successful for the newbie as well. Out of doors, countless U-hauls and bread trucks displayed their discarded arcade wares at the outdoor swap meet. The weather cooperated nicely with sunshine and a cool breeze. One seller had what looked to be a Hurricane Katrina show special–an Iron Man and Rolling Stones which can be best described as mud-caked and water-damaged. EABundy came forward on Pinside and admitted that he bought the Rolling Stones, I’m sure to attempt to recreate the magic he was able to conjure up with the T2 restoration.
I bought one of my treasures out of the back of one of these trucks as well…a Williams Fire! (which was the last game I featured on this site before leaving for Allentown…weird how fate works). The game was missing the display board which was quickly remedied with a brand new gas-less display board from the good folks at Rottendog for $100. This Fire! was, in my opinion, cosmetically superior to nearly all of the Fire! machines I’ve seen or played in the past. With a little wheeling and dealing, the price was too good to pass up, and I felt the need to have this Fire! make the 5 hour journey back to Canada with me. While loading the game onto my dolly, I was honoured to be briefly interviewed by Todd Tuckey of TNT Amusements…perhaps I’ll make an appearance on Mr. Tuckey’s YouTube channel? The game is a project for sure. It now sits in the garage, as I have not yet had the time, or nerve, to attempt an initial boot up. There was, however, a brand new, complete Marco rubber ring kit stuffed inside the cabinet…that has to be a good sign, right? That poo brown cabinet I was ripping on just two days ago will, with a little elbow grease, be sitting in my basement collection in the very near future.
In all, the show was extremely well attended and had about 250 games for free play on the floor at its peak Friday afternoon. As the weekend wore on, that number dwindled, due to breakage and outright sales, but that is to be expected. There were a few bargains to be found. The $700 Bally Mousin’ Around didn’t last long, and I’m sure many didn’t even make it into the show from the parking lot. Anyhow, those who wanted popular fare (TAFs a-plenty, four I think), to old gems (two 60s Williams games, Friendship 7 and Heat Wave, are of note here), to the off-beat standards that show up year after year (I swear I played these same copies of Kings of Steel and Swords of Fury last year) would not be disappointed with what was on free play display at this year’s show. The Allentown Pinfest remains the undisputed king of grass roots, blue collar pinball shows. So who’s in for next year?
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Dev Discussion: Modern Gaming and How it’s Evolving
Posted on August 28, 2014 by thre3zekiel
Today I will feature a discussion that I happened upon on the internet. Developers were having a heated exchange about an age-old argument that most often causes bloodshed between gamers. For the sake of constructive intellectual exchange, I will curb my PC bias and look at this objectively. Note also, Console v PC. I will make fun of Mac gamers. That is comedy that writes itself.
Gamers often get into heated debates over which is better: PC or Console gaming. Console gamers often cite titles and communities as the strongest factors favoring console gaming, while PC gamers will fill your screen with chart after chart displaying the raw power of a PC compared against consoles, or grab screenshots to illustrate the visual differences between the graphics. While each side certainly has a compelling argument, which really is better and , more importantly, where is it leading us? This exchange focused more on the evolution of the various facets of the industry, rather than an argument over which is better. Joining the Crotchety Old Gamer in the discussion, we have three fine gentlemen: Joe Yeats (@ProceduralJOYE via Twitter), a developer from the UK currently working with Autelia LTD on Human Orbit, a procedurally-generated simulator about shaping a computer-controlled utopia. Max Krieger (@MaxKriegerVG via Twitter), an Indie Game Developer from Chicago and student at DePaul University. Drake (@DMODP via Twitter), a programmer, designer and writer. I came late into the discussion, but some very intriguing points were made. Feel free to join the discussion in the Crotchety Gamers United Steam group!
Lightly paraphrased, Max said that the time-proven model of Mac vs PC illustrates why Console and PC gaming will coexist. While Drake and myself were somewhat confused by the statement, Max was happy to provide a more detailed explanation on his viewpoint:
“[…] In this age where computing platforms are all headed in the same direction, the differentiating factor that will be key to platform sales remains the image and curated experience of that platform. I used Mac OSX as an example because it shows how illogical this thinking can be – OSX is really cumbersome for a lot of simple tasks, doesn’t play nice with industry standards, and only runs on a very closed line of hardware, but people lap it up because of the image it supports: a creative, media-oriented one that strives for intuitive use over flexibility. Make no mistake, I am not an Apple/OSX fan, but they’re one of the biggest proven examples of the curated platform image in the modern tech industry.”
Max does make a good point. Essentially, he is saying that the biggest difference between the PC and console crowds is the image they use to represent themselves. With the development of the Steam Machine, this viewpoint was never better supported. Steam started as a PC gamer’s wet dream, but recent implementations in the retailer (such as Big Picture mode) reveal a strong push toward console gaming. Not to mention, the fact that the Steam Machine plans to license its construction out to third parties, which will create a variety of hardware builds, make it a bit of a frankenstein PC-esque Console. With companies bridging the gap between the two worlds, one has to wonder when the differences will be declared null and void. Drake had a similar thought process, but with a different approach.
Drake also did me the favor of elucidating his view:
“The reason people often side with one or the other and not both is […] because they’re polar opposites. They have their own unique control schemes. Consoles and computers are polar opposites not [just] because of their difference in controls, but in their difference of experience. First, [PC gamers] don’t have to move to a different part of the [house] to experience games. They’re right there on the same machine we use for work, surfing the web, social media, etc. Second, [PC gamers] can open windows […] for reference material […] but this is also good from a social standpoint. [PC gamers] can take screenshots and post them [on the internet], we can respond to [people] on our favorite social network, etc.”
So, as you can see, Drake has a solid point, too. Despite consoles, such as PS4, recently enabling access to other forms of media and direct internet streaming capability with the touch of a button, there are still a myriad of things that PC’s can do that still remain unavailable to Console gamers on just their consoles. Drake continued, elaborating on the features of the console camp:
“I feel consoles are the extremist response-time choice. […] For response-time challenges, the question is: Who can execute the highest number of actions in the shortest amount of time? It provides a completely different experience from computers.”
My personal experience with computers, however is totally different. The mouse offers pinpoint accuracy while playing a game. How can you get more direct than pointing at it with your mouse? The answer is getting a touchscreen and pointing yourself. Of course, Drake had his own response to this:
“[…] A controller’s reaction time is far more demanding. It’s more than clicking a billion times a second. It’s about hitting the right buttons at the right times and getting your fingers everywhere they need to be without looking down at [the device]. Console games often assume the player’s really good at this activity to the point they make [players] do everything all the time. [Console gameing] is about just doing.”
Of course, I would offer that this depends on the player. I grew up on PC gaming first, so the ‘WASD’ model is practically gospel for me. Sure, different games have different controls, some even have demanding hotkeys, but use of them is up to you. You can customize the experience to your own play-style, and the majority of games tend to use the keys immediately adjacent to the ‘WASD’ keys for additional actions where applicable. Not to mention, the sticks on a controller can’t be as accurate as a mouse. A mouse is literally point-and-click. Controller sticks are more indirect.
Joe’s thoughts on this topic were a bit of a combination:
“It’s obvious that some genres are better aided by certain input hardware than others. This is certainly the case with simulators and strategy games, which usually do better with a keyboard and mouse. I don’t think it’s necessary to expound on this.”
Max largely agreed with Drake’s assertion of their differences, but had his own interpretation of how this affects gaming. The tech he refers to is more the innards and less the interface devices:
Max got more specific in explaining this part of his thought process:
“The Playstation 4’s success also may owe itself to [platform image], but it’s too early to tell. Sony has always given the PlayStation brand a mild sense of curation by endorsing or even producing avant-garde titles on the platform, moreso than any other console maker in history. Going forward, this curation may end up being the PS4’s largest difference when PC hardware overtakes it again at an equivalent price point.”
Around here, Joe had some relevant input on the topic:
“The technical boundaries between a console and a desktop machine have become increasingly blurry over the years – but we’re all still pretty sure what they each are and when we make a decision about how we want to play a game, we know how to compare the ‘desktop experience’ to the ‘console experience’. We all know that we can hook our PC up to the TV and use a bluetooth controller for a ‘console-like’ experience: but most of us aren’t going to do that. The reputation and image of the formats has been accrued over a generational time period – we couldn’t shake that easily and there may not even be a good reason to do so (even if all games were available on all platforms). When I play a game on a console, I know that it has been tailored for the specific controller that I’m using, for the hardware that it’s running on. I can expect a reliable game experience without having to faff around. The experience has been designed for me down to the slightest detail. I don’t even have to tweak the graphics settings. I just need to switch on, plug in & tune out.”
The conversation gradually drifted in the direction of mobile gaming. Drake disagreed that mobile gaming had a different target demographic and said that it targets everyone, presumably everyone with a mobile device. Of course, just in the virtue that targeting “everyone with a mobile phone” is a task achieved differently than targeting “everyone with a specific console”, it logically follows that it is a different target demographic. In fact, because of the similar situation of iOS v Android, console and pc gamers might find themselves on either side of the mobile discussion depending on their devices. In this way mobile almost has a market that is totally separate from, but still noticeably influence by the gaming market comprised by PC and Console gamers.
Of course, Drake also touched on a separate issue that abounds in the mobile gaming market: the quality of games:
Now, before someone starts cluttering the comments sections with cries of Angry Birds adoration, Drake is referring to the fact that simple, casual games, like Angry Birds, currently dominate the mobile market. And while he is right in that great mobile games are hard to find, they are far from non-existent. The greatest example of a mobile-specific game that uses its functionality is Ingress. Read about that game here. And Ingress isn’t the only one, but, to my knowledge, it is the first. Windows phones will be able to play QONQR, a game that wants to be Ingress, and X-Tactics, a game that is just like “Fuck Ingress! And now for something completely different!” Of course, location-based games are certainly not the only angle mobile gaming could take. The fact that progressive-thinking developers have tried, and failed, to make augmented reality games more accessible overall shows that we are still a long way from making it work effectively, even with Google Glass. So, Drake definitely has a point with mobile games being “designed to waste time while you [wait] or short experiences.”
Of course Max breaks back in and asks for a thought experiment:
“[…] If all consoles disappeared overnight, could mobile [gaming] fill their place? Yeah. But they’d have to cater to both convenience and involvement – two contradictory ideas that dilute platform image.”
This is true, but if gaming were to be forced onto mobile devices, I find it believable to find games evolving to replace what was lost – FPSs utilizing the mobile device in question combined with the player’s surroundings, RPGs that focus more on tap-controlled characters, etc. In short, mobile games wouldn’t stop being the simple, casual games, but these types of games would be joined by an overwhelming number of widely varied games and genres.
There was more discussion about Mac OS vs Windows, of course. This piece of the discourse was meant to display how the image-focus model has affected other markets aside from gaming. Max posited that Mac OS continues to sell primarily because it does “normal user” better than Windows. He continued saying that Windows tried to retake that ground by creating Windows 8. This undermined the “pro” part of Windows, which upset their users. Then, when Windows repaired the alterations to their OS, the image of a “jack-of-all-trades” OS persisted. Max maintained his standpoint, saying “image is everything.”
Max’s final thoughts on the discussion were pretty broad, but still relevant.
“Ultimately, I believe that the current trend of consuming media in any environment is one that will plateau once our near-omniscient media viewing capabilities lose their novelty. It’s an undeniable phenomenon that certain forms of media are better consumed in certain environments and settings. The biggest obstacle to a unified platform for all gaming is not the tech, nor the interface, but human nature itself – not something that can be so easily overcome. Nobody expected the PS4 to be doing as well as it’s doing right now, and I think that alone is proof enough that human nature has a lot more twists left in the evolution of gaming tech than we expect right now.”
Drake came from another angle, though, saying that games are a form of media. And if there is one thing that is true now more than ever, it’s that people want their media no matter where they are.
Joe broke into the conversation here, pointing out the relevance of the feature of PS4 where it can be played remotely from the Vita. Drake admitted that he hadn’t tried it, but named a relevant issue with that right off: not every PS4 owner has a PS Vita. Drake also suggested that the Vita isn’t the best handheld to carry around with you. Joe threw in some more thoughts of his own regarding the PS Vita.
Drake added saying that it really needs to be a native experience that still feels extremely great. But to do something like that, you’d have to take the ‘app’ structure and generalize the controls, then change the controls so they cater to every device the game might appear on. He had a lot to say about this especially, and there was also a considerable piece of discussion about porting. That will be included in another piece since this one is long enough already.
If you’ve made it to this point, please remember, I am interested in hearing your thoughts on this topic! Come join the discussion on my Steam Group, and let’s see if we can get some interesting exchanges started!
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Elysian Shadows, Preview of 2D Paradise
You backed it on Kickstarter and now it’s happening. We were excited about the mechanics, but what about the elements we’ll all fall in love with? Who are the characters? What are their struggles? What is their world like? I wanted to know, and Falco Girgis and the Elysian Shadows Team agreed to tell me. So what’s behind the game? Find out with the Crotchety Old Gamer!
I am excited as anyone about playing this game, but who will be our window into the world? Who is the main character of Elysian Shadows, and what drives him?
“The main protagonist of ES is named Julien. He is the son of two famous “diggers” who were well known for their research of the ancient ruins scattered throughout the land of Elysian Shadows. Julien grew up traveling with them on numerous expeditions and learning about the different ancient cultures of the past. He was well on his way to following in their footsteps as an accomplished digger, when the two mysteriously wound up missing during an expedition. An adolescent Julien was then sent to live with a family friend, the local museum owner, where he grew up despising the ruins that claimed his parents. Rather than exploring them with a passion and thirst for understanding as he had in his youth, he now scours them for a means to survival, plundering and looting their treasures just to make ends meet.
Julien has virtually no motivation to take part in the party’s quest in the beginning. He is thrust into the action by necessity rather than choice, and it’s initially the other party members who drag him along on the journey. For Julien, this is a quest of personal growth. It’s him having to come to terms with his traumatic past and face the ruins that caused him so much pain, and his struggle to reignite a long-lost passion that died along with his parents. Julien’s character represents crawling back up and trying again after suffering an extreme loss or emotional defeat. Whether this be a metaphor for learning to love again after heartbreak or learning to try again after seeing your dream project crushed on Kickstarter. Heh heh.”
Julien and the other diggers have to rely on physical weapons when excavating ruins because magic is a power reserved exclusively for the religious. While the technology for Julien’s time is not particularly advanced by today’s standards, many of the weapons and artifacts the player encounters within the ruins from civilizations long past are far more advanced than those found in his own time. The diggers and the scientific communities rely on these kinds of manufactured and uncovered weapons for combat while the religious are strictly magic-users. But what if Julien and his friends somehow discovered a way to use magic as well?”
Dark, mysterious caverns where treasures and danger abound…
Julien, like most people, is dealing with a secret pain. His struggle might be unique to himself, but each of us has our own climb from the bottom. Each of us has a cave of terrible darkness and untold treasures unique to our souls that we must brave before we are free to be who we are. Joseph Campbell wrote Hero of a Thousand Faces, which concerned itself with the way characters like these resonate in each of us. What about the world, though? What is the story told by the world Julien and his people will inhabit?
“Elysian Shadows is a world caught in constant conflict between magic and technology. Magic is associated with faith and the religious. Technology is associated with scholars, scientists, and explorers who have turned away from The Creator’s divine gifts in an attempt to better understand the world around them. The technologists are seen as heretics, while the religious are seen as sheep, following blindly. Julien and Eryn, who both work for a museum, are sent on an expedition to uncover a valuable artifact for a new exhibit. The two quickly find more than they bargained for in the ruins. They stumble upon a discovery that thrusts them into the middle of this mounting conflict between magic and technology, forcing them to unlock the mysteries of ancient civilizations and prevent their own people from sharing this fate.
The storyline of Elysian Shadows was heavily influenced by the moral dilemmas of our own technologically advanced society, especially with recent advances in bio-engineering. With stem cell research, cloning and the human genome sequence, science challenges religion on a fundamental philosophical level. Science is beginning to encroach upon powers that many people argue are reserved exclusively for God. Do we have any business modifying our genetic make-up? Is it moral to alter a fetus before its birth? Is it wrong to artificially produce life in a laboratory? Science claims that these advances could drastically benefit all of humanity, while religion claims that we are meddling with things that we have mo business meddling with. We wanted to create a story that was more than just a superfluous JRPG experience. We wanted something that would make the player think; something that would engage them intellectually and emotionally.”
Lovely vistas!
Elysian Shadows seems like it will strike a chord that resonates with our own lives, possibly even a few nerves, but who would we be if art never asked hard questions? And how we answer these questions are part of what make us individual from one another. Our varied ways of thinking and how those come together for a common goal are part of what has made America what it is today: a center for all people to share ideas freely, and sometimes those ideas reach back out to the people that created them. So how will the characters accompanying Julien contribute to the game?
“Julien is initially accompanied by the lead female protagonist, Eryn, who is a tech-savvy university student. Eryn helps her father run the local museum, showcasing various exotic and mysterious artifacts from the surrounding ruins. While Julien’s past has rendered him jaded and disinterested in discovering the secrets of these ruins, Eryn explores them passionately in hopes of uncovering their secrets often dragging Julien along for the ride. She is a strong-willed tomboy and often the most level-headed and responsible member of the party with a ruthless pragmatism.
The two adventurers find themselves in the company of one of Eryn’s professors after his lab is ransacked and his research is destroyed ( presumably because he was getting too close to a breakthrough with his work ). While Professor Rand is brilliant, he’s also infamous for dysfunctional antics and living a life of excess. His peers in academia generally disapprove of his hedonism, but they are often forced to concede to his genius and gift for piecing together puzzles. Rand serves as a non-traditional guide for the party, and he is well-versed in the ancient ruins and their technology. Unfortunately Eryn finds herself having to guide Rand just as much throughout their journey, keeping his arrogance in check and ensuring that his decadence doesn’t get the party deeper into trouble along the way.”
There is a big adventure out there for us
Allies and enemies and what separates the two is a major point of reference in how each of us live our lives. It says something about who we are and what we want. Note that Julien is already surrounding himself with those that spend their time largely concerned with the ruins, the very thing that he blames for the loss of his parents. This means that, despite his feelings on them, somewhere they are still very much a part of him, maybe even one he wants to love again as it would be the only emotional link back to those happy days of youth exploring with Mom and Dad? Eventually he will have to face those emotions, and his friends will be the ones to help. So, what about the game itself? How will each of these characters actually work together? I was allured by the claims to an inventive new system for skills and jobs – How will these systems work and how will they be reflected in each character?
“It’s actually a mixture of two different systems. We ran into a kind of design dilemma early on when we were dreaming up skills and abilities for characters. On one hand, we wanted each character to have their own unique feel and play style. We didn’t want every character to feel completely interchangeable, and we wanted to give each their own innate strengths and abilities. But on the other hand, we are huge fans of job and class systems, and party customization is something we very much wanted to do with Elysian Shadows. We really wanted to give the player the freedom to customize their party as they see fit.
So we wound up with a hybrid system where each party member learns their own unique set of skills and abilities during combat and storyline progression. They each have their own unique skill trees and pools that are independent of the other characters, which is how we intend to make our characters unique and interesting. Then each party member can be assigned to a certain class wherein they unlock class-specific skills and abilities. This allows the player to really fine-tune their party, offering a considerable amount of strategic freedom within the combat system, while still allowing us to create unique and interesting characters.”
Giant swords and power help, too!
This means the class you choose for each character determines what role they will play, and allows you to dictate how the party reacts to challenges. Alongside this, one character might have access to certain elements within there skill tree that other characters simply cannot get to – the same way Falco and myself might both become developers, but we would end up using those skills to completely different ends and learn different, though equally useful, methods of making games. Well, damn, I am glad I contributed to the Elysian Shadows Kickstarter! Of course, there are still 5 days left to contribute to the ES Kickstarter, but what about those that miss the opportunity? How much will they have to pay and what outlets will the game be available on?
“Since we’re targeting so many different platforms with completely different indie markets and economies, we can’t really set a fixed price point across each. The price of ES will most likely be adjusted so it’s comparable to other indie games available on each platform. Currently, digital copies of ES for Steam and OUYA can be preordered for $15 through our Kickstarter. This also includes our development tools, ESTk and ESGamma. The standard edition of Elysian Shadows for the Dreamcast will be $49, which includes a professionally produced jewel case, color instruction manual, and pressed disc thanks to our publishers at Watermelon Corp. The game will look like a 100% legit Dreamcast release picked up from a commercial retailer back in 1999. You will also be able to choose between PAL, US, and JAP style packaging so ES will match the rest of your DC collection no matter what region you’re in!”
Painstaking attention to detail, thorough skills and class systems, complex characters and a complex storyline balancing the the beliefs of a world against the pain of one kid: Elysian Shadows is going to have something for everyone, and a little extra to boot. I have never been this excited for another modern retro game; not Shovel Knight or any other mainstream title. Elysian Shadows, however, is more than just a modern retro 2D RPG: it is our modern 2D RPG. More than just this game, I look forward to the ripple effect that this game will create and how that will resonate across the industry. Here’s to hoping it contributes to some interesting developments all the way around. But whether or not it does, either way, it’s going to be an awesome game! As always, you can check the Elysian Shadows website for more about the game!
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Haunt the House: Terrortown, Murderous Spiritual Mayhem!
Not since Haunting starring Polterguy has there been a game this indirect about its approach. In Haunting, you play a ghost who was recently rendered spectral by a careless family of fucktards that killed you while skateboarding, so you make it the purpose of your afterlife to rectify a vendetta against them. Terrortown’s ghost is more of a motiveless malignancy that likes to kill people and scare the ever-loving piss out of them. At least Polterguy had a purpose, granted his manifestations were exceedingly more graphic. But he never killed anybody! This adorable little ghost has a bloody, murderous core. No wonder it can’t move on.
Everything in Terrortown starts in the clocktower in the middle of town, where the ghost lives. After a brief tutorial on possessing and manipulating objects in the environment, you are set loose on the town like an apple-cheeked Mongol set on destroying families and lives. A couple things of note in the clocktower, though. During the tutorial, what they teach you possession with is a bell, of which there are nine, plus the one you possess. There is also a large, out-of-focus painting that looks like it was painted in a JRPG with the bloom turned down. More on these later.
The adorable little tent is where the ghost hatches his devious and bloody schemes.
Calling this game a puzzler is a bit of a stretch, in my opinion, since the only puzzle you are solving is how you will drive terror into the hearts of the town’s citizens. I would call this more of a strategy game, considering you are tasked with manipulating circumstances and individuals to reach a specific outcome indirectly. The ghost in this uses possession to its advantage. By possessing the various elements of the environment, you are able to manifest the fears of people in the things around them. Now the things you can make people see depend on the level of fear in the atmosphere. At the base level – relaxed – everyone is milling about in “thumbs-up-asses” mode. Starting from relaxed, you will only be able to move furniture or swing chandeliers, rattle bars, etc., but once you start to creep people out, the fear level rises. Increase it to perform higher profile scares and soon you will have people leaping out of windows to escape the house.
Once you have the fear levels up to fever-pitch, people are twitchy if not outright terrified. You are performing bizarre and ostentatious scares, people are running around terrified and the general populous is jumping out of window to escape. Revisiting the bells in the clocktower, each level has a few haunts that get bloody. Several people in the game are asking for it, seemingly pretending nothing is going on, and the scares you perform near these guys get them fucking killed. This is where the ghost gets murderous: it’s already sucked the happiness and fun out of a room faster than Carl Sagan at a confirmation party, now you’re going in for the kill. Each person you assassinate gets the esteemed position of haunting the fucking belltower with you, circling a bell themed after their purpose in life to haunt them forever. How wonderfully sadistic.
That’s right, shifty motherfucker, just mind your own business.
The goal of this game is to get everyone out of the public places. Once this goal is accomplished, you win! Seriously, though that is it. There are 4 locations to haunt and you are done. This is a little frustrating, but I get the feeling there is more to come. At least there better be. Even though the game is 4.99$ on Steam, I have played other, cheaper games that are, in fact, full and finished. Don’t get me wrong, this game is great, especially since I was such a big fan of haunting on Sega Genesis, but it literally feels like you finish the first level and it’s over. I have had farts that lasted longer than this fucking game, regardless of how awesome and adorable it is. The only thing that takes a long time to finish with this title is figuring out who the last fucking person in the goddamn museum. I had to look up a walkthrough to figure that shit out. Overall, it is a fun game and worth some money, but until they add ore content to the title, it will always feel short and incomplete. And if they charge for DLC, I will pitch a bitch fit.
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How Elysian Shadows Team Plans to Revive The 2D RPG
In 1998 I spent my time roaming the castles of Thief: The Dark Project and watching The Matrix, but I also have a strong memory of hearing about this mythical console set to ride an eastern wind to our shores. Its name was the Dreamcast and it was Sega’s final all-or-nothing bid to take the game console market by storm. It had numerous features that were well ahead of its time. Unfortunately, it was too far ahead, like trying to explain electricity to cavemen. By the time the Playstation 2, Xbox and Gamecube were released, it was just a shadow of a memory from a glossy magazine page. After the Dreamcast, Sega didn’t die, it just slid out of the limelight and settled for publishing games instead of consoles.
Many did not get to experience the Dreamcast, but for those that did, it was more than just a console, it was a lost piece of gaming history. Even today, developers are putting out titles for Sega’s last console, and the Elysian Shadows Team proudly stand among their number. Falco Girgis is the Engine Architect and Team lead, and he explained his motivation to me when I asked why develop a game for the Dreamcast in 2014?
” I found my way into the Dreamcast scene at around the age of 14. I had always loved video games, and I had done a little bit of programming, but when I discovered there was an entire community of crazy fuckers out there developing their own apps, emulators, and games for the console, and I had the opportunity to also do that without being part of a huge studio, I fell in love immediately. You have to realize this was before Steam, smart phones, or any kind of indie support on consoles. The Dreamcast allowed the average guy with a dream to develop for a platform. I taught myself to code just for that little white box. I fell in love with it, and what it represented as Sega’s last console.”
So, it was a console Falco loved immensely as a teenager and he learned to hone his craft on it. That just means it has a special sheen, right? It’s a dead console, though. So what? I was still wondering if there was even still an audience for the console as Mr. Girgis continued.
“It’s so underappreciated, and it innovated so much in gaming–poly counts in the millions, hardware support for bump mapping (PS2 can’t do that), memory cards with screens, online gaming. It also had an insane amount of AAA titles for a console with such a short lifespan. It really felt like Sega knew it was their last chance in the hardware market, and they poured their hearts and souls into it. For those of us who were able to experience the Dreamcast, it’s kind of an immortal thing, and it shows. Most of our money from our Kickstarter is from Dreamcast sales. There are still gamers everywhere who have not forgotten the Dream, and I have made it my personal quest to realize my childhood dream of releasing a game for the console.”
Honestly, I was taken aback. Jump over to their Kickstarter and tell me what you see. As of right now, I see 90,448$ with 760 backers. Doing the math, that would have to be about 119$ from each backer, and considering only 182 backers pledged 100$+, that means there is a formidable Dreamcast audience. Granted, some of those backers gave 1k$ – 5k$, so this game has a spirited group of supporters…
…And when you really look at what they want to accomplish, it is hard not to drink the koolaid.
Everything I see on their page makes me flash back to the numerous hours I had when I discovered Chronotrigger, Secret of Mana 1 – 3 and (US) Final Fantasy 6 on emulators. There is a lot on that kickstarter page, but seeing everything made me wonder, what are they really trying to accomplish?
“Our overall goal is pretty multi-layered, haha! The biggest thing we wanted to achieve with Elysian Shadows itself was to reinvent the traditional 2D RPG formula in a manner that makes it new, exciting and relevant by today’s standards. We don’t want games like Chrono Trigger or Secret of Mana to be a thing of the past, and we certainly have not been too thrilled with the slow demise of the JRPG itself. Most of our team members can be quoted saying that they want to create the game they wanted to play most as a young gamer, including aspects of games that they grew up loving as children, and trying to use them to create a unique RPG experience that could appeal to an audience beyond just RPG players.”
“I have found myself,Falco, really wanting to make an emotional connection with our audience through ES. I want to create a game whose story and characters are relatable, and whose struggles are relevant to the lives of our players. I feel like this connection is really the ultimate goal of any form of art, and this is especially true for video games as they’re an aggregate of every other art form: writing, art, music, etc. I’m really an introverted guy who loves to play the outgoing extrovert, but I have very few close friends and I tend to not have much in common with most people. The older I get the more I feel like my contributions to ES artistically are some kind of attempt to connect with players and fans on a deeper level. I’m sure Freud would have a field day psychoanalyzing that.”
That really explains everything. Elysian Shadows is a collaborative piece of art interpreted through the hearts and souls of its creators. Each of them has something unique to put in and being indie developers lets them do this the best they can. And when you look at what it adds up to, you can’t help but feel the passion and love there. You can’t helped but be awed. Personally, I think it’s moving.
I love the shadows and how the game looks like pixelated life.
I really enjoyed taking in everything that Falco and the team were telling me, but what is the rest of the team like? What do they do and who are they?
“We have 7 team members total:
Falco Girgis
Falco Girgis is our engine and toolkit developer, and he’s also the one who developed the framework, allowing us to target so many platforms (including the Sega Dreamcast). He’s basically the team mad scientist. Falco loves the Zelda franchise, pretty much anything on the Dreamcast, and obviously all of the 16-bit JRPG classics.
Tyler Rogers
Tyler Rogers is the gameplay engineer, who basically takes the art, music, and levels then puts everything together into a cohesive gameplay experience. Tyler is very into Legends of Dragoon, Castlevania, and Final Fantasy tactics.
Daniel Tindall
Daniel Tindall is our web developer and level designer, and he has been very much a secret weapon for creating our Kickstarter and Steam pages. Dan’s favorite series is Metal Gear Solid.
Patryk Kowalick
Leandro Tokarevski
Patrick Kowalik and Leandro Tokarevski are our two pixel artists, both self-taught and classically trained traditional artists who decided to get into game development to broaden their horizons through pixel art.
Connor Linning
Connor Linning is our team rock star and audio composer, bringing with him a background in rock, metal, electronica, and survival horror music influencing his musical direction with Elysian Shadows. Connor is obsessed with the Resident Evil and Silent Hill series.
Eddie Ringle
Eddie Ringle is the team mobile developer, who has been the guy working on the OUYA, Droid, and even Google Glass builds of Elysian Shadows.
We aren’t just retro gamers either. Falco is totally into the new adventure-style games: Uncharted, Tomb Raider, The Last of Us. So good.”
It feels like I just put up a description of the A-Team, or something. Hopefully each of these pictures gives you an idea who we’re dealing with here. Each of these guys is immensely talented and putting everything they have to make something amazing. I hope Ebert is rolling in his grave because if this isn’t art, nothing is. Of course with the influence each of these games has had on the Team, what games have a direct influence on Elysian Shadows?
“There really is no single inspiration behind Elysian Shadows, and I kind of feel like that’s why it’s so special. It’s why our team is so emotionally invested in the project. We have all found our own ways to endow Elysian Shadows with a piece of what we like best in gaming, each of us growing up with different backgrounds and inspirations. Obviously games like Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Phantasy Star have deeply inspired our direction, but there are quite a few more inspirations that aren’t even from the RPG genre. Falco and Tyler grew up loving the Megaman Legends series, and it has influenced their direction with the whole “ruins” concept. Even portions of the storyline. Connor is a huge survival horror fanatic and, oddly enough, he’s found ways to endow ES with that kind of emotional tension through dynamic lighting. Once we added jumping (initially inspired by Mario RPG), we quickly found ourselves able to design levels with influences from games like Super Mario and add combat moves from games like Megaman X. I feel like there’s little pieces of numerous games influencing what we do with ES.”
So Elysian Shadows, almost literally, draws its lineage from the DNA of a widely-ranging gamut of games without any single influence dominating completely. The more I hear about it, the more excited I get. This isn’t just a game, it’s a love letter. The kickstarter page has an amazing set of features. Elysian Shadows Team has partnered with Pixellamp, which allows for impressive pixelated shadows. The combat is set to be real-time and the gameplay will have a strong feeling of freedom. Splicing 2D RPG and platformer elements, this game will go boldly where other games are limited from going. There will also be a complete class or “job” system where characters’ innate strengths, weaknesses and gameplay styles can be augmented through a wide array of job-specific abilities and talent trees. A lot of this is straight off the Kickstarter page, so you can go there and get the complete feeling for what backers are getting out of this. They have samples of the music, the art and descriptions of various details planned for the game up there, too. The initial goal is to reach 150,000$ with stretch goals all the way up to 800,000$. And considering that last one would make this into an MMORPG, I hope we get as many additional backers as humanly possible. They also have an entry on Steam Greenlight, so if you can’t put any money in, vote them up on Steam! This is one vision that is extremely close to meeting its funding, and it threatens to shake the boundaries of games as we understand them.
A lot of this article has been lightly edited to flow as neatly as possible. The message conveyed has been kept the same in all respects.
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Black Ice, Warning: Incoming Game!
Posted on July 23, 2014 by thre3zekiel
Remember those days when we imagined all the different ways that life would be different inside a computer? Any male product of the 1990’s would remember Reboot: a show whose name is invoked, intentionally or not, when an old series gets updated and made dark and gritty. It was about the denizens of a cyberworld inside a computer where things were fine and happy until some jerk decided to play a game. If that were the case, my computer’s inside city is a post-apocalyptic nightmare ruled over by the churning wheels of a citizen-rending machine known only as Steam. But before all that happy-go-lucky bullshit there was a guy who envisioned a world destroyed by cybernetics and supercomputers. Where the ultra-wealthy elite do as they please with the world, ruling from corporate arcologies where they look down and see an infinite sea of light reflecting the scintillating beauty of the stars above. This vision of the future, as seen in Bladerunner and Shadowrun, is called cyberpunk. Black Ice takes place in the minds of those called hackers, and it is a love letter to that vision of a future age. Garrett, the developer behind this game, shared some of his own thoughts on the inspiration driving this title.
Black Ice was inspired by many things, but mostly Neuromancer by William Gibson and Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. I wanted to experience the hacking as described in Neuromancer, but I also wanted to find cool loot and blow stuff up. I think it’s obvious that I took a lot of inspiration from Diablo 2 and Quake 3, but I also looked at things like the Android: Netrunner card game and older games like the original Rise of the Triad. I want you to feel dread at what’s going to come out of these servers, to risk it all for the potential of awesome loot. I want you to feel great because you found an awesome ability combo and are wrecking servers that used to give you trouble. I want you to feel OP.
– Garrett, Developer, Black Ice
Jacking into the Supermesh can be a bit overwhelming at first, since you start the game at level 0. The game is far from perfect right now, but it has a good thing going. Check in options that you have the tutorial activated your first run. It will give you an idea where to start, level you up and secure you some first-level loot as well. But after running the tutorial once make sure you don’t have it active anymore, or else it will run every time you play. Irritating. Sure, in most versions of a cyberpunk future you are dealing with a massive computer network cybercomplex known as “the matrix”. Gibson used it, Shadowrun uses it, the Matrix used it: at this point the matrix is an irritating trope, so I am glad someone saw fit to call it something a little different.
Towering cybernetic arcologies etched with fluorescent dreams and backlit by scintillating points of data
Once inside the supermesh you will see block after block of fluorescently lit data archives. These are the servers. Each one is owned by a company or organization and each one holds a dark secret and terrible power, and you can read about them on their little terminals. But don’t get too distracted; there is a lot to get a hold of. Each attack you possess costs you RAM. Think of RAM as stamina in other games: every action you take aside from pressing ‘wasd’ costs RAM. Sure, your RAM replenishes but how quickly depends on your talents. You also have a health bar, experience and an actions hot bar. You can slot actions into your left/right click and numbers 1-5. You will also be able to slot abilities into spacebar and shift. While I went with the age-old gaming medium of shift to run, space to jump, you will certainly have options open as you can slot any ability anywhere. You could have 6 different types of lasers, an icebreaker and a rocket pack and play the whole game that way. Your arsenal depends on your hacking style.
Each of your attacks and abilities is governed by a talent. This is like the character sheet for your standard RPG, but this one is a bit more extensive. There are a lot of things to consider while you are running the supermesh. You have your hacking talents ( hack speed, hack time, hack range) which govern how you attack servers. Increase your hack speed to speed up your hacks. Decrease your hack time so there is less time on the clock when you start the hack. Increase hack range and you get a larger playing field. Now, when you hack a server, you run up to it and activate your icebreaker. Why the fuck is it ice? What is with all the fucking ice?!?!?! Is it cause the ground is light blue like ice or something? No. Fuck no. Those playing Shadowrun are aware that each server deploys Intrusion Countermeasures to detain or kill anyone trying to gain unlawful access to the data on the server. Your icebreaker lets you tunnel into the server and gain access in a matter of seconds. In the meantime, you have to deal with Black Ice, the ICs designed to kill the operator. These are what you shoot, nuke and destroy in the game. You main enemies.
Your next series of talents are what I have dubbed your general talents (Movement speed, Loot Find, RAM, Health) these let you do various things, mostly self-explanatory. You want all of these increased as much as you can get them. Some items increase your RAM incrementally or by a percentage, each is displayed separately. Your next round of talents will be your combat talents ( attack speed, accuracy, critical hit chance, weapon damage, weapon range). Again, all self-explanatory. The last round of talents are really just secondary combat talents (Damage returned, chance to pierce, drunk projectiles, knockback power, homing, chance to ricochet, damage reduced, chance to colorize, RAM returned). A lot of your talents cannot be increased by level, so watch what items you slot. You don’t want to give up an icebreaker that has a nice range if you really need space to move!
When you see this fucker you better run. UFO shark is gonna shoot you with missiles!
Some points to consider while leveling up. While having an ass-load of RAM is good, some abilities will reduce your RAM by a percentage. This means the speed you’ll run out of it will not change ever. So the best stat to level up if you want a good bit of RAM every time you hit that button would be RAM return. This will increase the rate that your RAM bar refills. There are a lot of talents in this game, so don’t be afraid to experiment with each of them.
Personally, I did a lot of experimenting with ways to play this game. For example, nothing is more annoying in battle than being unable to find the attack you want right before some cyberweb crawler leaps at you and takes you out. This is frustrating. So I arranged my abilities and weapons so my attacks would be easier to access. In order to activate my icebreaker, I have to hit 5. Essentially, I cannot hit that button by accident. Your supermesh cybercity will be arranged so that a level 300 server is just next to the level 80 server I want to hack. If I am finishing off the target server and accidentally attack the level 300 server just next to it, I might get my bits scrambled before I can exit the hack range. I have had my bits scrambled a lot, and every time that happens you lose bitcreds, in-game money. So placing my icebreaker in a tough to hit spot helped me stop doing that shit.
Another fun fact you might notice while playing is that you can crack multiple servers simultaneously. This helped immensely when I was level 50 – 70 and was getting bored. Cracking one server at a time is a slow leveling process, and you have a long way to go until you can attack your final server, the aptly named Finality, Inc. It is the giant silver server guarded by a roving warship of doom, called a S.H.A.R.K. and topped with a spinning cybernetic skull. Can’t miss it. Anyway, being able to take several servers at once gave me the ability to level fast as shit. I got from level 51 – 80 in a matter of hours; each server provided a healthy boost of around 1000 exp. Activating several servers simultaneously allowed me to create a giant Venn Diagram of death. Pure magic.
Enemies in the red, orange, blue field are assholes that don’t like video games. I nuked them with a logic firebomb.
However, I still wasn’t leveling fast enough. I got frustrated and went to the store to sell a fuckload of goods. After cracking a few hundred servers, you inventory gets a little full. So you go to these giant solid-colored store servers. I hadn’t bought anything until level 47 and boy was I surprised when I did. I realized that I could buy some crazy missile attack that allowed me to blow up anything in sight. I also got a secondary, slow-firing shotgun attack that fired missiles instead of pellets. That shit hurt a lot. Now I was cracking 2 servers twice my level. At my best around level 50 I was able to take down a level 110 server and a level 160 server at once. Anything more than that and it gets really dicey. These attacks even let me take on the dreaded sharks, and that got me even stronger weaponry, since Finality Inc is a level 500 server.
Now I am pushing level 99 and I am able to take on three level 150 servers at once, but I generally just take a level 175 server and a few smaller ones with it. An important factor to note in server crashing is that when you attack more than one server at once, each server’s ICE will attack the others. This means that if you grab a spam server, all the other ICs will be bogged down trying to fight the little guys. Most other servers will kill off a spam server for you, and you can just watch. Granted, you would normally get experience per kill. If ICs kill eachother, you get nothing for it, however, you will still get the exp when the server goes down and the loot inside. But this means that you can use two or three larger servers against eachother, but be careful! Each server is killing each server and any IC not engaged in combat will lock into you if close enough, so it is best to keep within the range of enemies you can feasibly take down. I still shy away from servers at the upper 200 levels. Utilize these tactics well and you will turn all your enemies into a neat little pile of cybernetic death confetti, just make sure not to get your bits scrambled in the process.
It’s like a party for your imminent demise! YaY!
Black Ice is a great game, but it is in pre-release status, so it is far from perfect. It has a modern-classic feel to it, though, and will definitely get you back to reading some Neuromancer. It is available on Steam right now for a cool 9.99$. Not bad considering it is a good time. At the moment you’ll be plowing through servers like you’re some kind of bit drinking data vampire after a camping trip in the Australian outback, but it is a lot of fucking fun. My favorite thing is standing on top of a server, looking out and seeing the ghostly outlines of the numerous servers I’ve crashed. Sometimes destruction is its own form of creation. This is another game that includes a photo-sensitive mode designed to aide those suffering from light-sensitive seizures that still want to enjoy it. For those that care, this one is firmly planted in my favorites on Steam.
I was driven up a wall by one thing in this game, and it wasn’t the web crawlers. The thing about this game that got me so frustrated is the distinct lack of anything. It is a lot like being in an actual server: lights, a droning noise some soundtrack but there is no life! Can we have the game elements of this one already?! I mean I don’t want to go trade war stories with Mr. Rodgers or anything, but when I am cracking servers just to have someone to associate with, you know there should be a little more variation. Whatever, maybe I can just go hang out at Finality, Inc. Live every week like it’s shark week!
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Spec Ops: The Line, Heart of Darkness
Posted on May 22, 2014 by thre3zekiel
A man who is always angry misses the beauty of life. So after beating this game in a few days, I admit this one fulfills my desire for art in games. Spoiler alert: if you are so slow on your gaming schedule that the ending for a game that was released in 2012 is still unknown to you, fuck off. Stop here, go play and come back. In reality, I served in the military for 2 years and this game would not disturb me any less if I never had. But that is the key to art, isn’t it? Beyond just being a nice painting or a pretty song, its goal is to make us feel something. And the feeling from this piece is a mixture of dark and sullen emotions that directly confront the joy and fun of playing a game where you run around killing people all the time. The worst, I think, that anyone who is a huge fan of Call of Duty, Battlefield, and any of the other “power fantasy” military games in this genre, can say against Spec Ops: The Line is that it didn’t make them feel right. And in that it has done its job. Note that I do interchange between you, your character and Walker when talking about the main character as you experience this through him and, because you control his actions, identify chiefly with him. What happens to Walker happens to you.
You start this game doing reconnaissance on a post-disaster Dubai, a city known for being a major tourist destination in the Middle east for the ultra-wealthy. Massive raging sand storms have brought unfathomably large waves of sand that cover everything in their path, and the only survivors huddle in between a few luxury hotels and casinos hoping not to die horribly. Well, America sends in a Battalion led by Lieutenant Colonel John Konrad, said to be the Patton of his time. After Konrad gets a couple thousand people killed trying to lead a convoy out of Dubai, he pulls back, hunkers down and tries to survive. Military Brass orders Konrad and his men to pull out and give it up, but they stay put. At some point a group of insurgents forms among the surviving civilians and they start to attack the men of Konrad’s Battalion, known as “The Damned” 33rd. We find that this insurgency is led by the CIA with the aim of bringing down Konrad, his men and anyone left in Dubai in a final move by the CIA to cover up the failure of Konrad and thereby avoid bringing the ignominious facts to the world. As far as the US government seems concerned, Dubai can just get buried and everyone remember it as a tragedy for which we did all we could. Avoidance of disgrace.
When you first come on the men of The Damned 33rd, they are rounding up civilians with a DJ announcing loudly over the radio that they broke a ceasefire and that he had the perfect song to “play them off”. He then starts playing some Vietnam era classic rock which makes the gunfight that much more exciting. Now by this time you have seen a ton of dead bodies and are travelling from one CIA operative’s corpse to another trying to figure out what the hell is going on. You never try to negotiate with the men of the 33rd, you just assume they are rounding the civilians up for unstated nefarious purposes under Konrad’s command.
After dispatching the civilian-corralling soldiers (whom, I might add, you never explicitly see shooting civilians but shooting upward to scare them) you move on to find a CIA operative being tortured, but it turns out he’s been long dead and you’ve been lured to an ambush by Konrad. Another operative, named Gould, helps pulls your team’s ass out of the fire and you watch him get captured shortly thereafter while leading a diversionary insurgent attack against the 33rd. Once you find Gould, you have the choice to save him or some civilians. Gould dies either way. Your character then decides to exact revenge on “The Damned” 33rd. You infiltrate their camp and fire bomb them with white phosphorus, which, I might add, the 33rd used themselves in an engagement against the insurgents only a short time ago. So you torch them like bugs. As you walk through the devastation of the aftermath, charred men crawl from under humvees, you hear one man trapped in a tent begging for aid. He dies shrieking. Unless he was screaming for ice cream. Which I doubt. As you wade through the carnage, one surviving soldier with half a face left claims they were “helping”. Your character Walker thinks a solid minute before turning to a tent at his side. A large tent. At the back of the base. You enter to find the crispy remains of some deep-fried civilians. To top it off, in the center is a woman corpse crouched clutching a child corpse, thus dissolving all notion of good will and, incidentally, Walker’s sanity. While your friends nearly get into a brawl over their newly earned status as war criminals, Walker is just like “No, we have to push on. Konrad made us do this.”
Honestly I would be struggling with a crippled psyche to comfort the gaping hole where my soul died, too.
So it goes, you all push on, Walker thinks he sees some guys hanging by ropes with snipers trained on them. A soldier and a civilian. He hears Konrad’s voice tell him to choose one to live and die. Later you find that they were desiccated corpses and there were no snipers, but, hey, you’re losing your last nut. Why stop there? After discovering a talkie with the corpses of Konrad’s former chief officers, you find later that the talkie never worked. When a group of civilians lynches your sniper and translator, Lugo, you and your hitherto sane/reasonable assault squaddie just gun them down like dogs. Sidenote, in true “shits about to go down” form, Lugo is the wise-cracking and likable squaddie. They always kill the guy you really like when shit’s about to go down.
Later on you help the last CIA agent steal the water supply of the city and in a last ditch effort to keep it from enemy hands the fucker crashes the trucks and destroys it. This ensures the complete annihilation of everyone left in Dubai in 4 days. Oh I forgot, at some point before Lugo bites it you storm the DJ’s hideout and the sniper aerates him with a pistol. You fly a helicopter as an exit strategy, leave the tower a smoldering ruin and engage in a replay of the opening sequence to which Walker says “We did this already!” At that point you should be like, am I losing it too? Well, after a while your assault squaddie gets wiped out Alamo-style and as you run off you only see the flicker of multitudinous explosions behind you. But nothing really concrete. Either way, you know that a ziploc bag might be too big to send his remains home in. I might add that during this last sequence the loading screens say things like “It’s not your fault” and “You’re still a good person”. Well, the reassurance did nothing to ease the growing knot in my guts.
So, you climb the stairs to the tower and enter under the premise of surrendering to Konrad only to discover “The Damned” 33rd surrendering to you. I was confused since, usually, if they have enough firepower to make you surrender, there are at least a few of them left. In the lobby though the so-stated remainder of the 33rd is like 12 guys. Konrad summons you up to his loft where you find him painting a rendition of the above image like some kind of serial killer therapy patient. Best part is, Konrad was never there. How could he paint this? Simple answer, he wasn’t and this was painted by Walker.
A little happy blue here and you capture that incriminating glare.
He disappears behind the painting and you follow him only to see a person sitting in a chair. Konrad’s corpse wearing something totally not his above hippy-gamer look. So he monologues to you over a montage of earlier events explaining that you have fucking lost it. At one point you see Walker even talking to himself. Now this is where the “Fuck me I am a horrible piece of human trash” realization kicks in. In the final boss battle you basically shoot his reflection in a pane of glass before he shoots you and then radio for evac. Among imaginary Konrad’s last words he says that after all this you can still go home. The final epilogue gives you the chance to surrender to some recon force or mow them down with an AA-12 and grumble cryptically over their radio “Welcome to Dubai” to their superiors.
So. There are a few things that piss me off here. Not in a typical rage sort of way but in a more “my brain won’t stop running over it for days” way. First off is Konrad. As you and imaginary Konrad stand over Konrad’s corpse he says “Looks like Konrad’s survival was vastly overstated.” Cheeky fuck. This implies, however, that he has been dead a while. Possibly the whole time, but you pick up the broken talkie further along in the game. So either your character lost his mind the first time you crashed the helicopter or Konrad died sometime after you heard him over your operational receiver but before you pick up the talkie. Another thing to consider is the helicopter sequence. Why do we see that twice? And how is it that Walker knows that this is the second time this has happened? One theory I have is that everything that happens between the beginning of the game and the second helicopter sequence is the you reliving the horror of what happened up to the point where he truly loses all grasp on reality: the gunning down of civilians. As you gun down those civvies it seems weird as shit that suddenly your previously rational squaddie suggests and even begs to mow them down. So that makes it seems possible that maybe your squaddies have been dead this whole time and your character is sifting reality through his broken psyche alone and dying in the desert sun that his squaddies tried to stop his carnage, but in reality they were never there at all. Perhaps even these are the events as they were imagined to justify a lunatic engaging in a murderous rampage? And if Walker did paint the above masterpiece, that means he sees a whole lot of shit the wrong way. Honestly, the implications are just too vast to be fully expounded upon.
The game makes you feel like an absolute piece of shit for finishing, too. As if somewhere that tent is still sitting huddled in an abandoned Dubai full of charred corpses. I mean, Konrad even says to you “None of this would have even happened if you just stopped” which automatically sounds like he’s talking to YOU. The goddamn player. Like, YOUR bloodlust and YOUR insane desire to see the game out to the very end and impassively dictate the actions of three Special Operatives as they murder Americans and torch civilians is more to blame than the videogame character Walker himself. Not sure about you, but this one had me wiping the fingerprints off my mouse and keyboard.
Overall, this game made me feel. And not just fucking feel but hard, deep and powerfully. Like ouch. It is a masterpiece of gaming that makes you ask way too many questions in what is supposed to be the conclusion and has been hailed by many as a redux of Heart of Darkness, a book written by Joseph Conrad. O, yea, that last name look familiar? It’s the ‘K’ threw you off, wasn’t it? And that was artfully redone by Francis Ford Coppola as Apocalypse Now. Wasn’t the famous line from that “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”? Well, Walker favors the sizzle of white phosphorus, but the homages to the film don’t stop there. The DJ is a hippy-lingo slinging wastrel with trippy visuals in his broadcast hideout and a sort of “fight the power” vibe to him. AND he plays Vietnam-era classic rock over the radio for the murderous audience. AND the game’s opening screen starts with Jimmi Hendrix’s rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner! So, yea, this is a hat-tipping frenzy to rival an earthquake in a haberdashery.
My honest opinion is that this game is an example of what I feel videogames struggle with most: legitimacy as art. This game sits in the same genre as Call of Duty and its ilk, but it is far beyond them all in scope. I now feel I have to do this game a duty and reread Heart of Darkness (since I forget mostly everything about it) and watch Apocalypse Now (since I’ve never seen it). If this game doesn’t make you feel at least a piece of all that, then fuck you. You may be beyond redemption. Anyways, this is my blog. Deal with it.
Posted in AAA Games, Console Gaming, Game Reviews, PC Gaming, Steam Games | Tagged 2k Games, Art, console gaming, pc gaming, Steam games, Yager | Leave a comment
Steam and its box
Possibly the best thing ever invented for gamers. When this baby came out in 2003, it forced a fuck-ton of Counter-strikers the world over to download it. It was a little rough around the edges and infuriated a LOT of people, but Valve cleaned it up and it is now the first thing I download on a new rig after Chrome. It’s like iTunes if iTunes let you keep everything you ever bought rather than limiting you to 5 downloads. Assholes. But Steam sells you the licence for the software and you can download, uninstall, download, uninstall etc. ad infinitum. Why am I even bringing this up? ‘Cause I fucking LOVE it! I am currently debating with myself where I want to get the above image tattooed on my body.
But its other fantastic features include non-video game software like Maya, fantastic sales, an immense library of indie games and community-selected greenlighting on games. If you don’t use Steam Jesus doesn’t love you. If you still hold fast to your skepticism, you can make your friends buy you games you like by adding them to a wishlist, gain early access to pre-release games, earn achievements and check out any number of stats on games you love. It even recommends games to you based on games you already play!!!1!11! If you still think this isn’t for you, go get a console. I will always love you Steam.
Oh, right. Need I mention the Steambox? A console that you can use to play Steam games? Xbox and PS4 won’t even know what hit them. I have been saying they should make this baby since 2005! Of course, I just googled ‘Steambox release date’ and I found this article calling it the Steam Machine. It was updated today, too, but there is no release date. It looks like Valve is just like, “Fuck your consoles, get a console that lets developers push the envelope, would ya?” That is nice to hear since us PC gamers look at the console wars like a bunch of retards arguing over their favorite color flower. But everyone in the world plays console games ( as they want you to think ), so in a lot of ways gaming has been held back repeatedly by its slowest evolving component.
This offers a chance to up the ante in the console wars. Maybe. You can talk a mean talk, but when your new console boasts an i5 processor, 16 gb RAM and an NVidia GTX 780… Hey. That is almost exactly what I have in this computer. I just built it, and it cost me $2000 on Newegg. Granted, it has a much larger case a monitor and a new mouse on that price tag, but the processor, graphics card and RAM altogether will run you around $1190. Granted, the Steambox doesn’t have a centralized developer. It’s licensed out to developers and each of them makes a version of the system that will match the base requirements for running Steam, not any particular games. A netbook could probably run Steam, so that worries me. If this system is going to sport the power of my system and be like $900, what is the point of getting a bitchin’ computer rig? At that point only computer hobbyists would, but I doubt that such a competitive price is even possible. Oh, wait, did I say competitive? The PS4 and Xbox One are half that price albeit with a fraction of the computing power. Did I mention that Valve is hinting at virtual reality support? True life. Just scroll to the section of the aforementioned article labelled ‘Virtual Whispers’. Sounds kinda sexy. And there is the point that the Steambox’s controller looks like an alien pleasure device. Who is supposed to use this thing, jedi? There are prettier versions, but it looks as intuitive at first-glance as a Ouija board. I am a proponent of what Valve’s Steambox proposes to do, which is ass rape its competition until they are firmly relegated to historical footnotes, but at what cost? I would say that innovation is the key to owning the future, but sometimes it can lead you to the Wii U. And as this guy details, such shenanigans will lead you to ruin. I hope they know what kind of shitstorm this is setting up because if Valve is not careful they’ll be the ones left without an umbrella.
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A simple, lightweight, all-in-one hammock tent with a square bottom – Haven makes sleeping the highlight of every camping trip!
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The Haven Tent is a hammock with a square floor bed that won’t cramp your style!
Every Haven Crowdfunding package includes the shell with detachable rainfly and mosquito netting, two simple poles, straps, guy lines, and a custom air mattress.
Suspension Arcs keep the sidewalls low while supporting the flat sleeping platform. Think suspension bridge!
Unobstructed views
Easy in and out
Lay flat as a pancake
Internal Spreader Bars keep the interior space open.
No pressure on sides
The Air Mattress with horizontal tubing creates a soft spacious sleeping platform.
More wiggle room
The Structural Ridgeline means you lay flat regardless of tree spacing.
Place to hang your gear
Along with the tent body, the air mattress has been meticulously designed. 23”x78”x3” (52x198x7cm) Aided by the internal foot pump, the pad inflates in less than 60 seconds.
New to hammock camping? All overnight hammocks require an air mattress or underquilt for insulation. A comparable ultralight air mattress costs $110+
Forecast calls for rain? Or just headed to the park? Be prepared with the whole system wherever you go, or trim it down further to reduce weight. Rainfly 14 oz (.4 kg) Mosquito netting 5 oz (.1 kg).
Google search “Robert Hoskins Crowdfunding PR” to see why Mr. Hoskins is considered one of the industry’s foremost crowdfunding experts that has amassed a huge social media following, which is dedicated to supporting donation-, rewards- and equity-based crowdfunding campaigns.
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Automate opening and closing your curtains with Alexa, Google Home, Siri or a SwitchBot remote control
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Automate any curtain (rod and rail type), with App, Schedule, and Sun light sensor.
Install in 30 seconds without any screws, nuts or bolts.
The most affordable motorized curtain solution. Don’t waste your curtain, retrofit it.
Voice control your curtain with Alexa, Google Home, and Siri, with Hub Mini.
Open and connected with API, IFTTT, and SmartThings support with Hub Mini.
Smart, automated and healthy lifestyle, enabled.
Practical and useful for high ceiling curtains, elderly, and disabled people.
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Rods and Rails, Retrofitted.
Works with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri, SmartThings and IFTTT with the Hub
Even the most eco-friendly air-conditioning consumes energy to cool your room. We can reduce energy consumption by minimizing temperature fluctuations in your room. Close the curtains to block out sunlight to keep your room cool.
Sun light sensor for keeping the room cool
The SwitchBot Curtain has a built-in sun light sensor to detect sunlight. This can help save energy by reducing the workload on your air-conditioning and heating. It can be set to automatically close during the day time in summer to block out the sunlight and keep your room cool. You can also have it automatically open during the day in winter to warm your room with sunlight.
Save energy with the solar panel strip add-on
You can also install the solar power strip add-on to charge the SwitchBot Curtain’s battery using sunlight, thus eliminating the need to recharge the battery. Don’t worry about “charging anxiety” on the SwitchBot Curtain. Install and forget!
Leverage technology to take care of the daily routines through automation and voice control. A “Lights Off” scene turns off the light and draws the curtains brighten the room naturally with sunlight. Or you can just say it “Alexa/Ok Google/Hey Siri, give me sunlight”.
Lifestyle automated with the Schedule feature
Maintain a regular light-dark cycle in your bedroom to keep your sleep-wake rhythm in sync with your circadian rhythm. The SwitchBot Curtain can be set to close at night and open when it senses daylight. Get better sleep and wake naturally to sunshine.
Wake up naturally to sunlight
Set your curtains to close automatically when you’re out of the house to hide your valuables from prying eyes. Can’t remember if you closed the window? Check via our app and remotely close the curtains where necessary. Or set them to automatically open at regular intervals to give the impression that someone’s home.
Your curtain keeps the bad guy away.
Adapt your existing curtains instead of replacing them. We at SwitchBot are firm believers in retrofitting your home to create a smart home instead of replacing trusty old appliances or furniture that are still in work well.
Retrofitting is simple with SwitchBot Curtain. It only takes a few seconds to make your existing curtains smart. You have to see it to believe it.
The average price of a set of smart curtains is USD $1,000. The SwitchBot Curtain is way more cost-effective at a fraction of that price. You don’t just save money with the SwitchBot Curtain, you do your part for the environment by retaining your existing curtains instead of throwing it away.
We support 99% curtains
Some smart curtain solutions only support a single type of curtains. Others are too bulky or require tedious modifications to provide a power source.
The SwitchBot Curtain supports different track types such as U-rail and I-rail, and also rod types. It is also wireless. Just clip it on and you’re ready to go. It is that simple.
We even handle that “BUMP” for extendable rods and rails
Rods, retrofitted
The round rails allow the SwitchBot Curtain to glide smoothly along the rod. Just clip on the rails and you’re all set.
For those of you who have a longer rod with a bump where the rod extends, we’ve got that figured out. The SwitchBot Curtain is not affected by such bumps.
Install in seconds
U Rails, retrofitted
The SwitchBot Curtain has hooks for U-rail. It is simple to attach the respective hooks to the rails.
I Rails, retrofitted
The SwitchBot Curtain has hooks for I-rail. It is simple to attach the respective hooks to the rails.
Open and close the curtain at your fingertip. We offer intuitive App control for iOS and Android, with weekly/bi-weekly updates following feedback from you. OTA firmware update is also available for better user experience.
Intuitive UI
Smart living is powered by your voice commands. Wouldn’t it be great to just say it?
“Alexa/Ok Google/Hey Siri, close my curtain please” (Hub is required)
Even with SwitchBot Curtain, you’d probably still instinctively draw the curtains by hand some times. When it senses you drawing the curtain, the SwitchBot Curtain will kick in and do the work for you. We call this Touch & Go.
SwitchBot Curtain makes even the conventional way to draw a curtain smarter.
A wireless remote button add-on for you to place anywhere.
Hold it or mount it. Your say.
Double-sided curtains are very common and we have been getting a lot of enquiries about how to use the SwitchBot Curtain with these. You could get two units and part the double-sided curtains from the middle. Or, you could try out this tip from the King of Retrofit! Attach the top curtains with a velcro strip or a strong clip so the curtains will move as one. Then install the SwitchBot Curtain on either ends to let it work its magic!
So your next question is probably where to find a velcro strip. Good news is, we believe so strongly in retrofitting that we will ship every SwitchBot Curtain with a velcro strip in the box as a standard accessory.
The SwitchBot Curtain is so small that it hides nicely behind your curtains. It will work in its own way without getting in your way. Likewise, we keep the sophisticated mechanism within the body of the SwitchBot Curtain, giving you fast and easy installation so you can enjoy the benefits it brings.
Size fits in your palm.
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Leading Crowdfunding Industry Analyst Firm, Crowdfund Capital Advisors, States Now is the Time to Update the Regulation to Further Enable Capital Formation
Washington, DC – Recently the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a staff report on Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF), also known as Title III Crowdfunding.
The Commission, in the adopting rules, stated that the “staff will undertake to study and submit a research report to the Commission no later than three years following the effective date of Regulation Crowdfunding on the impact of the regulation on capital formation and investor protection.”
The report finds the size of market, while modest in comparison to the broader financial markets, is evolving and doing so without any material risk to investors. Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) data and analysis were cited in 7 references throughout the report.
“The industry is evolving systematically and responsibly,” says CCA Principal Sherwood Neiss. “With the appropriate adjustments to the regulation we can further enable capital formation without risk to investors. The time is now for the SEC to act.”
Sherwood Neiss, Crowdfunding Capital Advisors, testifies at the SEC
The CCA data and references used by the SEC were attributed to analysis by CCA and published in VentureBeat as well as Crowdfund Insider. The data comes from CCA’s CCLEAR Database. CCLEAR is the leading Regulation Crowdfunding database that collects, cleans, aggregates and reports on all companies seeking funds via Regulation Crowdfunding as well as those doing parallel 506(c) offerings.
A 506(c) offering is an online accredited investor offering. A parallel offering allows an issuer to run two offerings side-by-side and group the accredited investors in one pool and the Reg CF investors in another. This type of offering is popular for issuers that seek to raise in excess of the $1.07M cap in Regulation Crowdfunding.
Issuers that seek to raise funds via Reg CF must file a Form C (a form filed by a company (issuer) with the SEC before starting to raise capital and discloses financial information for its current and prior fiscal years) as well as a Form C-U (a progress report that an issuer files that discloses total capital raised).
Data that the SEC does not collect in either of these disclosures includes information like industry, a breakdown on the cost of the offering, daily change in capital commitments, daily changes in investors and information on a company’s valuation.
CCLEAR collects all this missing data which allows for more detailed analysis of the market including which industries are most popular with the crowd, which regions of the country have the lowest/highest overall valuations, what industries the crowd is most interested in supporting, etc.
An entire section of the report titled “Cost to issuers of undertaking a crowdfunding offering” came directly from research CCA did with issuers successful with Regulation Crowdfunding.
A key finding from our research, which was highlighted in the report, was that “the total cost of creating a campaign page, issuer disclosures, film, and video, and hiring a marketing firm, a lawyer, and an accountant amounts to approximately 5.3% of the amount raised.”
This average was based on feedback from 81 issuers. “This amount is substantially less than what a typical issuer would incur in a Regulation D offering,” says CCA principal Sherwood Neiss “and is a key reason why more companies should be looking at Reg CF as an attractive pathway to raising funds.”
The report provides a detailed look at how Regulation Crowdfunding has performed through December, 2018. (For people interested in data through today’s date, you can find it on CCLEAR’s Daily Dashboard – see below for the latest data).
“Unlike opponents who said regulated crowdfunding would open the floodgates to fraud, we have yet to see fraud materialize,” says Neiss.
“This is because there are easier ways to defraud investors than to come up with an idea for a business, incorporate it under federal laws, convince a funding portal to list you, spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars trying to bring your friends, family and followers to the campaign page, and then hitting 100% of your funding target or the commitments get returned.
Add on top of this the hundreds of discerning eyes picking apart a campaign in the comments section. These types of ‘built-in investor protections don’t exist in other parts of the private capital markets.”
Multiple recommendations were included in the report on how to improve Regulation Crowdfunding. The SEC cited a US treasury Report entitled “A Financial System That Creates Economic Opportunities.”
The Report recommends:
Allowing single-purpose crowdfunding vehicles advised by a registered investment adviser;
Waiving certain crowdfunding offering limits for accredited investors;
Amending certain crowdfunding investment limits by other investors;
Modifying the Exchange Act’s Section 12(g) exemption;
And increasing the limit on how much can be raised through crowdfunding from $1M to $5M.
CCA’s principals were interviewed and cited in the Treasury report. The Fed’s recommendations were a summary of CCA’s more detailed recommendations as requested.
“The industry is evolving systematically and responsibly,” ended Neiss. “With the appropriate adjustments to the regulation we can further enable capital formation without risk to investors. The time is now for the SEC to act.”
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Kupper Mounts are the most affordable, compact, portable, secure, convenient and quick-to-install bike racks and can be mounted on any car, truck or SUV in the world, regardless of country
New York, NY – KupperMounts.com, a leading-edge, vacuum suction-cup bicycle vehicle rack manufacturer, announced as part of its crowdfunding campaign it is once again offering an opportunity to buy their popular vehicle bicycle racks at a 50-percent discount off their retail price of $199. The bicycle racks will be offered with Early-Bird discounts as low as $89 via the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, which lasts from March 5, 2019, until April 18, 2019, and can be purchased at https://5cd03312.kckb.st.
Kupper Mounts Vacuum-Powered Suction Cup Bike Racks Are Affordable and Compact Enough to Pack in Checked Airline Baggage
Engineering Strong Vacuum-Powered Suction-Cups in the World
Offering 450 pounds of vacuum-suction power, Kupper Mounts, the bicycle industry’s largest 9″ UV-resistant, maximum-grip rubber suction cups, are loaded with features and benefits. Its 9″ and 6″ flexible-mounting cups and its compact size make it great for travel. Unlike other bike racks that require an expensive trailer hitch or a luggage rack, Kupper Mounts can be mounted on any vehicle, anywhere in the world.
The strength and durability has been tested by leading biking gear publications such as GearJunkie which gave Kupper Mounts bike racks an in-depth product test and wrote the following article: Suction Cup Bike Rack – Testing the Safety of Kupper Car Mounts.
Watch Video: Kupper Bike Rack Mounts Features and Benefits
Extending Vacuum-Powered Suction-Cup Bike Rack Sales
Over the past 12 months, Kupper Mounts has and continues to build a network of independent sales reps and domestic/international distributors to deliver Kupper Mounts bicycle racks to bike shops, retail locations and bicycle customers throughout the United States, Canada, Greece, Mexico, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom and other international markets.
Offering Volume Purchasing Discounts to Bicycle Dealers
In addition to consumer pricing for the Kickstarter campaign ranging from $99 to $199, attractive pricing is being offered to bike shops and high-volume independent bike dealers (IBD) in 10-packs for $990, 20-packs for $1,850, pallets (72-units) for $6,500 as well as container-based pricing.
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Kupper Bike Rack Mounts are one of the most affordable, portable, secure, convenient & quick-to-install bike racking systems in the world. They will fit any car, truck or SUV, regardless of country.
Raleigh, North Carolina – Kupper Mounts (https://kuppermounts.com), a next generation bicycle carrier manufacturer, announced today the company has appointed a new Vice President of Sales, Jason Morris, to grow the company’s bicycle accessories sales by signing up bicycle shops and bike resellers in the United States and international distributors and/or exporters/importers that will sell Kupper Mounts into over 30 global marketplaces.
Kupper Mounts are a next generation bike rack that have very powerful suction cups that make it easy to install a bike carrier on any car, truck, van or SUV in less than two minutes. Kupper Mounts do not require a luggage rack or a trailer hitch for installation, a feature that is very popular with today’s mobile millennial cyclists.
Kupper Bike Rack Mounts are one of the most affordable, portable, secure, convenient & quick-to-install bike racking systems in the world.
Kupper Mounts also store easily in checked-bags for airline travel and solve the common problem of trying to find a bike rack that can be mounted on any rental car or SUV while on biking vacations and adventures. Kupper’s mounts work well with all types of road bikes, mountain bikes, triathlon bikes, cyclo-cross and commuter bikes.
Kupper Mounts Competitive Chart of Bike Racks and Bike Carriers
“After a very successful crowdfunding campaign we were struggling to keep up with the demand from customers who are searching for bike shops and independent bike dealers (IBD) in their local cities and towns that sell our Kupper Mounts,” said Andrew Jarrard, Kupper Mounts CEO and Founder. “As a 25-year-plus retail management veteran, sales rep and regional sales manager for various companies such as Accell Group (Raleigh, Diamondback), Dean, Janus Cycle Group, Merlin and Velosport Imports, Morris brings our team invaluable experience in setting up new independent bike dealer accounts as well as streamlining the operations of our rapidly growing sales & distribution networks.”
“I am very excited to accept my new role in setting up an independent dealer network in the United States for Kupper Mounts and look forward to expanding Kupper’s reach into international markets in Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America,” said Jason Morris, Kupper Mounts’ Vice President of Sales.
Morris continued, “In addition to being an excellent bike carrier, the great thing about Kupper Mounts bike racks is that they can be used as a great marketing tool; an effective Point of Purchase (POP) sales product that will bring more customers inside a bike shop; and, increase sales ticket totals by being able to show a new, high-end, easy to use, high-margin bike accessory that can increase accessory sales by $200 or more for every bike sold. The Kupper Mount’s Bike Rack system can also be used to hang bikes in various locations inside and outside the bike shop increasing display space.
Independent Bike Sales Reps
Kupper Mounts is now signing up new independent sales representatives with experience selling into bike shops and independent bike dealer networks.
Social Media Marketing Promotion
The company is also seeking to sign up social media marketers, influencers and brand advocates that have a special knack for promoting and selling products through social media networks.
Kupper Mounts Sales
Interested parties should call Jason Morris at (813) 616-0702 or send him an email at jason.morris@kuppermounts.com.
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Crowdfunding Industry Petitions the SEC to Raise Title III, Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg. CF) Private Equity Fundraising Cap to $20 Million
Crowdfunding experts cite zero fraud; competent issuers have been able to raise serious capital from investors that believe in their products or services; and, retail investors, for the first time in recent history, now have a transparent, systematic way to invest in startups
Sherwood Neiss, Crowdfund Capital Advisors, testifies at the SEC
In a letter to the SEC dated July 19th, the Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) industry’s largest equity crowdfunding platforms and industry influencers provided data and analysis to support increasing the Regulation Crowdfunding cap to $20 million.
The letter comes after SEC Chairman Clayton said in a live chat with FINRA President and CEO Robert Cook, “I continue to worry that retail investors do not have access to as broad a slice of our capital markets as I would like them to have. Said another way, you have private capital and public capital. Retail investors can really only participate in the public capital, and to the extent private capital has become so robust, you’ve shrunk opportunities. That bothers me a bit. If that trend continues, a much more select group is participating in the growth of the economy.”
The following bullet points below and the following analysis is provided to support the increase in Reg. CF.
Since the launch of Regulation Crowdfunding:
Over 1,000 companies have filed with the SEC to raise money on online platforms that are registered with FINRA to facilitate capital formation.
Over $137M has been committed to these issuers. 95% ($130.4M) of that capital was funded and invested into 715 companies (68.5% success rate).
These 715 companies are supporting 4,172 jobs and producing over $249 million n revenue.
Issuers have filed in almost every state in the Union.
Issuers have been funded in 80 industries, according to Morningstar’s Global Equity Classification Structure.
The fundraising cap should be adjusted because:
There has been zero fraud, competent issuers have been able to raise serious capital from investors that believe in their products or services, and retail investors (for the first time in recent history) have a transparent, systematic way to back companies they believe in.
Successfully funded companies are supporting and creating valuable jobs and providing substantial economic activity in a broad range of locally important industries all around the United States.
The initial cap of $1 million was meant to be adjusted. Only once since the launch of Regulation Crowdfunding has this been adjusted and at the time only by $70,000. Such de minimus adjustments do not fully allow meritorious issuers to fully benefit from this new form of online finance nor expand the opportunity for issuers seeking to raise in excess of $1 million.
The current $1 million level is now far below what startups and SMEs need for seed stage capital. May 2018 data indicates that the median sized funding round for Angel or Seed stage companies in the US is $2 million. This means that even for the smallest funding round the current limits do not allow an issuer to raise their entire round via Regulation Crowdfunding. This dramatically increases costs and time spent on raising capital by US businesses. This reduces the number of American innovators and job creators in the United States.
While the “funding gap” that Regulation Crowdfunding was meant to address is filling the void. The funding “opportunity” really comes from those small/medium firms that are seeking to raise up to $20 million. Raising funds under $20 million has become increasingly challenging as Venture Capital/Private Equity has moved upstream over the past decade. Raising the cap will allow issuers that wish to utilize this form of online finance the ability to raise in excess of $1 million and tap their local investors without having to deal with the costly, time consuming process of either filing a full prospectus with the SEC or spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a private offering.
Many companies forego Regulation Crowdfunding in favor of Reg D, 506(c), because of the low Reg CF limit. This has the effect of reduced disclosure to investors, since Form D provides less information even than Form C. In addition, ordinary investors are cut out of some of the most attractive deals that have already attracted institutional funding, which seems unfair and counter to one of the goals of Reg CF.
Both the United Kingdom and Germany have adjusted their caps to 8 million EUR (US$9.4 million). The United States should not be a follower, but instead a leader.
People are being asked to call their Senators and Representatives to ask them to support increasing the cap and helping small businesses access capital, create jobs and foster local innovation.
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RE-volv and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Offering Hurricane Zones $120,000 of Matching Funds to Install Solar Panels on Schools, Community Centers, Homeless Shelters, Churches and Other Types of Non-Profit Organizations
Good Samaritan’s that Donate $25 to $1,000 to Help Non-Profits Install Solar Power Arrays Will Receive a Tax Credit in Return for Their Donation to Help Generate Clean, Green Solar Electricity
Puerto Rico – The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation will provide a $120,000 award of matching funds to RE-volv, a solar crowdfunding platform, to install affordable roof top or community solar power for any non-profit organization located in Florida, Puerto Rico, Texas, and impacted cities throughout the United States. This makes it easy for any charity fundraising organization, school, community center, homeless shelter, pet welfare shelter, church or any other type of 503(c) non-profit organization that would like to install a solar power system to go to revolv.org and build a free crowdfunding profile that will allow them to raise enough money from friends, family and the general public to build solar power arrays that will generate free solar electricity for the next 25 years.
RE-volv and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Offering Hurricane Zones $120,000 of Matching Funds to Install Solar on Schools, Community Centers, Homeless Shelters, and Churches
Good Samaritans that would like join academy-award winner, Leonardo DiCapri, and RE-volv in supporting solar crowdfunding campaigns to provide free solar power can donate money online with a credit card. Anyone that makes a donation will receive a tax credit that can be filed with their personal or corporate tax return at the end of the year.
The partnership will provide matching funding for RE-volv’s 503 (c) crowdfunding platform, allowing donors the opportunity to double their contributions with support from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
RE-volv supports solar energy projects for nonprofits that lack access to financing options. An estimated 1.5 million nonprofits in the U.S. face financial barriers to obtaining solar power, as they do not qualify for solar tax credits or are too small to attract traditional investors. RE-volv bridges this funding gap for organizations that provide valuable public services to vulnerable communities, including homeless shelters, schools, community centers, and houses of worship. This is the largest grant to date for RE-volv, a two-time awardee of the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative.
“RE-volv is working to make sure that the benefits of solar can reach everyone, including nonprofit organizations and the people they serve,” said Andreas Karelas, Executive Director of RE-volv. “Thanks to this generous grant from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, RE-volv will be able to scale its impact and bring solar to even more nonprofits around the country.”
RE-volv’s unique solar crowdfunding platform is the first to employ a revolving fund. Donors select a specific nonprofit to support and, as the project pays back dividends through a solar lease agreement, the user can then reinvest their earnings into new solar projects through the RE-volv platform. This pay-it-forward model helps to accelerate solar energy deployment in local communities while keeping donors engaged in solar projects.
“The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation is excited to support RE-volv,” said Gregory Lopez, Climate Program Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation. “Not only is their work important in deploying solar energy and reducing greenhouse gasses, their unique solar crowdfunding business model provides an introduction of accessible, renewable energy to new communities.”
To date, RE-volv has raised over $300,000 from over 1,000 people in 22 countries. It has crowdfunded ten solar projects (150 kW of capacity) in four states, include Harbor House in Oakland, which serves refugee, immigrant, and low-income families with after-school programs and ESL classes, and Morris Chapel Baptist Church, the oldest African American Church in Philadelphia.
Thanks to the solar crowdfunding campaigns, grantees are expected to save between 15 and 40 percent on their electric bills. In total, these ten nonprofits will save more than $1.5 million over the life of their solar energy systems. RE-volv’s solar revolving fund, the Solar Seed Fund, is now worth $650,000 in future lease payments from these ten projects – payments which will be used to finance at least 20 more solar energy projects.
In addition to financing projects, RE-volv invites college students, community volunteers and solar advocates to become RE-volv Solar Ambassadors, who in turn lead ground efforts to deploy solar. RE-volv has educated 10,000 people about solar energy through training, outreach, and more than 100 events.
RE-volv empowers people to take direct action on climate change by crowdfunding solar energy projects for nonprofit organizations. Donations made to RE-volv’s crowdfunding campaigns grow a revolving fund that provides solar financing for nonprofits across the nation. RE-volv is an inaugural member of the White House National Community Solar Partnership.
Founded in 1998, the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation (LDF) works to protect the Earth’s last wild places by implementing solutions that restore balance to threatened ecosystems, and ensuring the long-term health and wellbeing of all its inhabitants.
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Texas Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief Crowdfunding Campaigns
Hundreds of Thousands of Texans Need Your Crowdfunding Donations to Help Pay for Food, Water, Shelter, Repairs, Emergency First Responder Services and All Storm-Related Cleanup Expenses
Houston, Texas – If your family or friends need free help creating a Hurricane Harvey Relief crowdfunding profile to raise money to help pay for pay for food, water, shelter, repairs, emergency first responder services and all storm-related cleanup expenses, visit https://crowdfundingtrainingclasses.wordpress.com first, then call Robert Hoskins at 512-627-6622 for free crowdfunding advice, consulting and marketing services to help raise money for your loved ones.
Front Page PR Offers Hurricane Harvey Victims and Evacuees Free Crowdfunding Marketing Services to Help Them Launch Crowdfunding Campaigns to Request Donations to Help Fund Disaster Relief
Below is the initial list of Hurricane Harvey Crowdfunding Campaigns that will benefit from a $25 to $100 donation from Good Samaritans that want to do the right thing and help out with just one small donation. It would be best to donate to individual families with their full names and locations posted in the crowdfunding profiles first, then local governments, chambers of commerce, emergency first responders and then local businesses that you know and trust.
Families:
Help for Gary and Tammy Telles in Port Aransas
Keliy Anderson-Staley in Houston
Samantha Rae Zontini in Richmond
Watson Family in Houston
Terry Wickwire Homeless Relief
Mike Cutler Hurricane Fund
Christenson Family Hurricane Relief
Elise Smith in Rockport Hurricane Relief
Erika & Jamal in Houston
Dustin and Family in Friendswood
Chambers of Commerce:
Rockport Fulton Chamber of Commerce
KIPP Houston High School
Harmony Public Schools
Emergency First Responders:
Helicopter Rescue Texas Disaster Relief for Houston Area
eXp Realty Agents and Brokers Hurricane Relief
4 Paws Farm/ I Love My Dog Team
Houston Goodfellas
General Funds:
Samaritan’s Purse Disaster Response
GoFundMe Hurricane Harvey Relief
YouCaring Houston Flood Relief Fund
GlobalGiving Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund
We will add every Hurricane Harvey Crowdfunding Campaign to this list as we receive them! Please the send us a tweet on Twitter at @Crowdfunding_PR or @FrontPage_PR, or an instant message via Facebook at Front Page PR or Crowdfunding PR Campaigns! We will push this information to millions of crowdfunding campaign supporters, 100% free with no strings attached.
Sign Up Here for Free Help Creating a Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief Crowdfunding Campaign:
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Who Likes Ice-Cold Beer? Crowdfunding Campaign is Offering Some Cool Deals on the World’s Coldest Coozie
The Coldest Cooler Coozie is an insulated, vacuum-sealed, double-walled stainless steel koozie that keeps beers and sodas ice cold for up to 12 hours
By Robert Hoskins, Crowdfunding PR
White Lake, Michigan – The new Coldest Cooler Coozie works in tandem with special Coozie Ice Cubes to keep beer and soft drinks ice cold for over 12 hours and are now being offered as a Two-Pack for just $28 or $14 each via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fund production costs. The Coldest Coozie has a watertight, screw-on top that holds any 12 0z can on top of a 2-inch thick Coozie Ice Cube. The Coldest Coozie itself is an insulated, vaccum-sealed, double-walled stainless steel koozie that keeps beers and sodas ice-cold for up to 12 hours is great for beating summertime heat. They are the perfect gift for any outdoor enthusiast that likes to keep their drinks ice-cold while boating, fishing, camping, tailgating, backyard BBQs, working in the yard, or hanging out at the lake or beach.
The Coldest Coozie holds any 12 0z can on top of a 2-inch thick Coozie Ice Cube
The Coldest Cooler Coozie
A hand-held ice cooler for any beverage, the Coldest Cooler Coozie is made from stainless steel and functions similarly to any ice chest. Using ice and chilled water to lower and maintain the temperature of any drink, the Coldest Coozie’s two layers of stainless steel is vacuum sealed to achieve outstanding ice-cold water retention and that will keep ice intact for over 12 hours.
The Cookie Ice Cubes are made with specially formed ice trays in the freezer
Coldest Coozie Ice Cubes
The secret to lowering and maintaining the temperature of any drink, the Coozie Cube is a large solid ice cube that fits perfectly at the bottom of any 12-ounce beverage can. The direct contact of the Coozie Cube with the bottom surface area of the beverage can allows maximum conduction. As a result, the temperature of the beverage inside the container is lowered and maintained.
Colder Coozie Cube Ice Trays
Made of Silicone, Coozie Cube Ice Trays make the Coozie Cubes easy to remove. Simply freeze water in the Coozie Cube Ice Tray, remove when frozen, and then place in the bottom of the Coldest Coozie to keep beverages ice-cold for hours. The special ice chamber located at the bottom of the Coldest Coozie is designed to hold one Coozie Ice Cube. These cube storage spaces feature a special ledge that secures any 12-ounce can firmly inside the Coldest Coozie and keeps it place as the ice melts.
The simplicity of the Coldest Coozie along with the freezing ability of Coozie Ice Cubes to keep beverages ice cold for hours is what makes the Coldest Coozie unique among all other Koozies
Works 5x Times Better than Plastic Ice Cubes
The simplicity of the Coldest Coozie along with the ability to keep beverages ice cold for hours is what makes the Coldest Coozie unique among all other Koozies.
The Coozie Cube lowered the temperature 5-times better than the average plastic frozen ice cubes. The reason the Coozie Ice Cubes outperforms plastic-encased ice cubes is simple. The fluid is encased in “plastic” and plastic is more of a insulator than a conductor. The Coozie Ice Cubes being solid ice and in direct contact with aluminum container and water are by far a better conductor of cold energy transfer to the can, which makes it the perfect cooling core within the Coldest Coozie.
After one hour the test results were as follows:
1) The Coldest Cooler Coozie with the “Plastic Ice Cube” had a temperature drop of 6 degrees (Temperature was 69 degrees)
2) The Coldest Cooler Coozie with the “Coozie Cube” had a temperature drop of 29 degrees) (Temperature was 46 degrees).
The Coolest Cooler Coozie and Coozie Cube Ice Trays are crowdfunding on Kickstarter right now for as low as $14 each at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1593943894/coldest-coozie.
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Kickstarter Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Hot Deal on STCKBLS BBQ Grilling System for Organized Tailgating
The STCKBLS Grilling system is an affordable stackable, modular, portable solution that is perfect for organized tail gating, camping or backyard BBQs
Houston, Texas – The STCKBLS Grilling system has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to pre-sell a stackable, modular, portable and complete BBQ grilling system that provides a gas BBQ grill; a storage unit for cooking hardware, seasoning spices, and food; an ice chest for drinks and cold stuff; and portable stand that makes setup simple, easy and efficient even if you do not have a tail gate. It can either be stacked vertically to conserve space or setup in a neat even side-by-side configuration that can be scaled for very large catering events.
The STCKBLS Grill and related modules will also be offered at very attractive early-birds discounts for supporters during the beginning days of the crowdfunding campaign.
Easy Expandability, with modules engineered to be placed neatly side-by-side to form a practically unlimited grilling area or large or small tailgating needs
Proper heat distribution, with the grill designed to foster even cooking without flare-ups
Sufficient heat output, with the grill providing 12,000 BTU per hour
Portable and modular design, with each module equipped with handles, weighing less than 44 pounds and having the same 18 by 18-inch footprint to allow for easy and organized stacking
Other modules include a cooler for storing beverages, meats and other items, as well as a utility box with sliding drawers.
Strength and durability, with all modules encased in high-quality steel
The STCKBLS BBQ Grilling system is an affordable stackable, modular, portable and complete for tail gating, camping or backyard grilling system
Developed by STCKBLS Founders Eric Djie and George Mathew, the STCKBLS BBQ Grilling system was developed by grill-masters for grill-masters.
“We wanted to create the ultimate grilling system. After designing gas and charcoal grills for many years for other companies, I wanted to create a BBQ grilling system that combined all my past design ideas that would foster the ultimate grilling experience,” Djie said. “We made it look and feel cool and sturdy. Some call it the first real ‘manly,’ portable grill system.”
Its associated grill stand also acts as both a table and a cart for the grills and other modules available, which makes STCKBLS both innovative and functional.
“We believe the STCKBLS Grilling system design delivers a beautiful, portable BBQing solution that serves a very useful purpose,” Djie said. “Our complementary coolers and grill utility boxes can also be stacked and easily transported to form a complete barbecue grilling system.”
The STCKBLS Grill is also unlike many other portable grills on the market today because it is built with stronger materials and made to last longer than its retail competitors.
“The BBQ grilling industry isn’t high growth, so many grill manufacturers lower their quality standards to increase profits, which means most portable gas grills are only designed to last one or two seasons and then be discarded,” Mathew said. “We believe strongly in sustainability, so we designed the STCKBLS Grill system with higher quality materials to last much longer than normal. We want to grow profits from highly-satisfied customers buying other STCKBLS modules, not from replacing their STCKBLS Grills.”
Mathew adds that the company decided to offer the grill through crowdfunding rather than traditional retail outlets to make the revolutionary portable grill more affordable to consumers and enable the company to create higher-quality, longer-lasting products at the same time.
“Combining grill modules allows for a practically unlimited, contiguous cooking surface, which makes the STCKBLS Grill perfect for tailgating and outdoor parties,” Djie said.
Tags: Backyard BBQ, BBQ Grill, Camping, Eric Djie, Football Games, George Matthew, Grill Masters, STCKBLS Grilling System, Tail Gating
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Compound Semiconductor Applications
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Medicines Discovery
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Evaluation Modules
Challenges and Programmes
If you're looking to explore how UK semiconductors can create the future for your systems, we want to hear from you and make that happen.
The CSA Catapult aims to bridge the gap between companies developing novel semiconductor materials, topologies and devices, and those developing systems for end-user applications.
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CEO Summary
Welcome to the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult. We are focused on helping the compound semiconductor industry exploit advances in technologies, bringing applications to life.
We have worked with more than 150 businesses to develop our plans for the Catapult. They have told us of the challenges which prevent the greater adoption of compound semiconductors and our strategy has been developed to respond to these challenges.
Soon we will open an impressive Innovation Centre within the world’s premier compound semiconductor cluster in south Wales. Housing a design studio, laboratories and test facilities, supported by simulation and modelling tools and advanced capabilities, it will help companies to accelerate the development of new products using compound semiconductors.
We will be designing and manufacturing a series of Evaluation Modules (EVMs) and making them widely available. Our EVMs will allow companies to more rapidly prototype systems across different application areas.
Let's Take A Glimpse Into The Future
Imagine a car no longer sits on your drive but arrives driverless at your call. The journey is powered by renewable energy. This same source keeps your home working, while a smart grid ensures the right amount of power is delivered.
Everything is connected by lightning-fast 5G communications, from your energy meter to your fridge, washing machine, super-fast computer and television. Augmented and virtual reality bring the outside world indoors. A gesture is all you need to work a phone.
New devices and scanners spot illness more quickly, ensuring you receive the right treatment at the right time. Wearable devices monitor vital systems, communicating with health professionals and making sure treatments are delivered and up to date.
Compound semiconductors – much faster and more efficient than their predecessors – will be at the heart of the devices that power this revolution, generating considerable benefit not only for the UK electronics sector but also for UK industries that apply them.
We Want Products Of The Future To Be Delivered By UK Companies
We want UK-based businesses to deliver the new products and services of the future and to take advantage of world-class research in this country.
Our aim is to grow the number of UK companies successfully using compound semiconductor devices, and to see economic growth as a result. This will drive growth in the UK electronics sector, keeping more companies ahead of international competition and creating new high-skill jobs in the businesses they supply.
The Catapult’s mission is to create a nexus with the mix of expertise, skills, facilities, equipment and collaborations needed for UK businesses to shape the markets of the future and deliver the new products, processes and services.
Investments So Far Have Created A World-Leading Research Base
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has invested £750 million in research into the compound semiconductor and its applications: power electronics, radio frequency and photonics over the last decade. Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, made targeted investments of £4 million in compound semiconductor applications in 2016.
These investments have created a substantial and world-leading research base, including a cluster of organisations and businesses in south Wales.
The south Wales cluster includes the Future Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub, the Compound Semiconductor Centre and the Institute for Compound Semiconductors. The centres are conducting research on the wafers and die on which compound semiconductor devices are based and are piloting production methods.
Global Opportunities Are Large
Analysts estimate the global market for compound semiconductors will grow from $66 billion today to $308 billion by 2030, a growth rate 3 times faster than silicon. A 3% rise in our share of the market would be worth more than $9 billion by 2030.
Thousands of companies could grow and thrive with the right support.
The UK has more than 100 companies actively working with compound semiconductor devices. Around 5,000 UK companies, 90% of which are SMEs, are designing and making electronic components, devices, systems and products. These companies could grow if they have support in applying our leading research into compound semiconductor devices.
To download our brochure, Launching the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult, click here.
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The Future of Ad Supported Media
I’ve just finished reading Thomas Piketty’s book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” which I highly recommend everyone read, and Piketty stops me cold on page 357 with this graph (see below). I’ve highlighted in yellow two things for you to take note of. In a moment I’ll explain why this hit me so hard.
This same week, I was reading Seth Godin’s blog post “Mass production and mass media” where he explains that mass media exists because it permits mass marketers to do their job and how mass media is going away. If you’re in radio or TV, that kind of proclamation will get your attention; BIGTIME.
Godin is predicting that the “mass” part is what’s going away and that it is being replaced by “micro.” In essence that it’s better to be important to a few than be irrelevant to the many.
Then this article appears in AllAccess “Radio’s Dying…But The Cause Isn’t What You Think.” Seth Resler writes that radio isn’t going to die because it has been abandoned by listeners, but it’s going to die because it’s been abandoned by advertisers. Resler goes on to make the case that advertising is moving away from the Mad Men era art form that it was, towards a keyword and search scientific algorithm metric of today.
“…there has been little doubt for more than a decade that the advertising model that traditionally supported an industrial-age news and information system is evaporating,” writes Anderson, Bell and Shirky on pages 11-15 in “Post-Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present (2012)”
Mark Perry, blogging at the American Enterprise Institute writes: “The dramatic decline in newspaper ad revenues since 2000 has to be one of the most significant and profound Schumpeterian gales of creative destruction in the last decade, maybe in a generation.”
Well, I’m here to have you consider a 3rd possibility, one that stopped me in my tracks as I was reading Piketty’s book. Now, I may be putting words in Professor Piketty’s mouth when I tell you what I’m about to say. Piketty did not write about radio or TV, or mass media in general in his book. He writes about wealth inequality in our world from antiquity to the present day and then makes some predictions about where things are headed based on current trend lines.
But this graph on page 357 haunts me.
That graph, from the period of 1913 to 2012 includes the period in which radio and television were born. It’s the era when advertising supported media took off. I worked the last forty years of that graph in the radio business and experienced the change in business that this graph shows.
Commercial radio was born in 1920. Commercial TV took-off in the 1950s. And I quite agree with Seth Godin when he writes “Mass production, the ability to make things cheaply, in volume, demanded that we invent mass marketing – it was the only way to sell what was being made in the quantity it was produced. Mass media exists because it permits mass marketers to do their job.” To which I would add to Seth’s thoughts that mass media and mass marketing both existed because there was a strong American middle class of consumers.
If Piketty is correct, the concept of a middle class consumer economy that existed between 1913 and 2012, was an anomaly. It didn’t really exist anywhere in the world before 1913 and it’s very likely not going to exist anywhere in the world as we journey away from the year 2012. The middle class consumer economy will evaporate and along with it, advertiser support for mass media.
1913-2012 was a unique period in world economic history. It gave birth to consumers who had money to spend, mass production that could produce lots of goods and mass media that could advertise those goods. All three were simultaneously occurring at the very same moment.
The new buzz words are “shared economy” and “collaborative economy.” What roles will large corporations, universities and mass media play when people are getting what they need from one another?
In 2014, Nielsen Music reported a staggering drop in music sales where as much as a fifth of music buyers didn’t buy anything. 2014 also saw box office ticket sales plunge to their lowest level in three years. The home ownership rate reached its lowest point in 25 years at the end of 2014. More people were now living in shared living arrangements or going back home to live with mom and dad. And NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio appearing on “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore” told viewers that:
“The wealth gap in New York City today is worse than during the Great Depression or The Roaring 20s – and the gap is growing bigger. Today over half the people in NYC pay over a third of their income for housing. The reality is, (according to the mayor) if we don’t change course middle class families won’t exist in New York City.”
Are these reports canaries in the consumer coal shaft?
Medialife Magazine, a magazine devoted to media buyers and planners, reported that 2014 wasn’t good for advertising. Total spending was up 3.0 percent, but if you take out political spending and the Winter Olympics, the number shrinks to 1.6 percent. “That’s the worst yearly growth pace since the recession began in 2008,” said writer Bill Cromwell. Traditional media is struggling and according to Magna Global, “this appears to be a lasting trend.”
Only recently have broadcast operators said things like “flat is the new up” when comparing year-over-year revenues. I realize there are exceptions to what I’m saying. Your broadcast property might be one of them. But what are the trends that are taking place and how will they impact you in the years to come?
It took two world wars to re-set the wealth inequality gap and put into place FDR’s New Deal. Changes that have in more recent times been stripped away returning things to the way they were in the 19th Century; a period of time when the concept of a middle class of consumers didn’t exist.
Roy H. Williams, aka The Wizard of Ads wrote recently (Monday Morning Memo, March 2, 2015) about “the shrinking of mass media” and “the growing reality of gender equality.” America went from being 16% single to 46% single in just one generation, Williams writes. “A once-proud nation of families is evolving into a proud nation of individuals.” And Williams sees “The trend toward singleness is sociological (while) the erosion of mass media is technological (as) each trend accelerates the other.”
Williams comes to this conclusion:
“We’re approaching the end of a golden time when courageous advertisers can invest money in mass media and see their businesses grow as a result. My suspicion is that we’ve got perhaps 5 to 7 more years before retail businesses and service businesses will be forced to begin playing by a whole new set of rules. Buy mass media while the masses can still be reached.”
The future of ad supported media is tied to consumerism. Consumerism is tied to having a strong middle class.
Does the Piketty graph on page 357 of his book “Capital” send a chill down your spine like it does to mine?
P.S. Thomas Piketty published an amplification on his r>g theory. You can read that here.
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Top Ten States Where the Middle Class is Dying: http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/01/22/states-where-the-middle-class-is-dying/3/
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Seth Godin has been talking about the long tail for a long time. Like most breathless 90’s business futurism, if it’s come true it was in a different form than those who sell their speculative thoughts said it would.
I believe Godin is also the originator of the idea that people’s click-trails would be so valuable to businesses that things like clicking, commenting, and blogging would be income sources for the average person. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/07/monetizing-digital-attention.html
it looks like he is still advising people to write blogs for a living.
I’m not exactly following you as to how this equates to the evaporation of the consumer middle class.
Just responding to your citation of Godin.
Maybe one of the reasons he appeals to Americans is because of a weakening middle class (fewer jobs, and news covers the internet sector) – but I wasn’t commenting on that part.
Decline of the middle class is a huge issue. But given slack labour markets at say the $50k level, I would not conclude that niche advertising over mass advertising is the answer. Especially not because a guru like Godin says that’s the answer. As far as internet ads I’ve seen (and I keep ads on so I can see who’s buying ads), Youtube is dominated by mass-target high-production-value ads; banners are generally remarketing; and keyword advertising is niche. But Godinesque “throw up AdSense on your topical blog” didn’t work. (And product-review blogs are still quite slim.) Two interesting alternatives to AdSense are Wonderful Rainbow (an independent ad network by the DinosaurComics guy) and The Deck (an independent ad network by Dave Eggers).
Again none of this relates to Piketty, just about what current economic/demographic trends mean for advertising.
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yah especially when Seth seems to be a elitist! =D
The overall money that advertisers commit during this year’s upfront could sink 7% from last year, to about $20 billion, according to an estimate from Magna Global. Total ad dollar commitments are expected to fall 10% for broadcast networks and 5% for cable networks, Magna said. WSJ.com
More than five years after the end of the Great Recession, and three years since the Occupy movement took on Wall Street, high and growing levels of income inequality continue to animate debates on politics and public policy. Inequality provided the economic backdrop for President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, the recent report of a transatlantic Commission on Inclusive Prosperity, and one of the most talked-about books of 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
The fact estimated inequality ratios rose in 42 (American) cities, and fell in only eight, suggests that the predominant trend in these big cities is toward rising inequality.
Read more here: http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/03/city-inequality-berube-holmes
That somehow seems like a much more direct reason to move away from mass marketing. Maybe I overreacted with my first comment(s).
Thanks for all the info and farther reading. Dick, I’m no business major so can you simply explain what that graph means. I know what ROI is but just r?
In the most simplistic terms, think of “r” as the haves and “g” as the have-nots. (I’m taking big liberties here!) and for that century when “g” was greater than “r” it was a time that we saw the ability of have-nots to get a good education, a better job and raise their standard of living to be better than that of their parents. It was the period of the rise of the middle class in America and what became known as “The American Dream.” It was also the period of the birth of radio & TV and the MADMEN of Madison Avenue. If things return to the way they were in the 19th century and earlier, then advertising which thrives on selling goods to a strong middle class might just find that it’s talking to folks who don’t have the discretionary dollars to spend. And if the consumer class is broke, then what will ad supported media do when there’s no need for ads? This is what the trend line appear to be showing us on a global scale. That’s what the graph I show is telling us. And the Saga analyst conference call was alluding to the possibility that something akin to what I wrote about after reading Piketty’s book was beginning to take shape.
thank you, Dick.
maybe we’ll go back to before advertising. After all, isn’t that what the Net and social look to be enabling? Trading goods and services locally. Aha! I’ve survived on barter before.
oops, you sort of touched on the goods and services from one another. my bad.
r is ROI. What Dick said works because wealth is concentrated, so interest rates / stock appreciation / etc benefits the capitalists more than the average person.
g only benefits normal people if their wages rise, which doesn’t necessarily happen either. For example that g ↑ might be showing up in top incomes but not median incomes. http://wp.newrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/B8Sdv_1IgAA97sL-1-624×515.png ←There are a lot of >100k earners in the US today. Which is a great thing, however it doesn’t necessarily help the households making $20k–$30k, of which there are many. (http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2006/11/05/2005-us-income-distribution)
thank you for your explanation. I will have to read more, ismorph,
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Once an economic bedrock, ‘middle class’ feels unattainable to many.
“One of the enduring successes I have observed in my lifetime of 64 years is the ability of the 1 percent or the power elite to continually convince so many Americans that they are, in fact, middle class,” said Tampa resident Lew Sibert, a retired “minor” pharmaceutical executive. “The statistics are abundantly clear that, certainly in the last decade or more, wages have not kept pace with the everyday cost of living. We are fewer owners and more renters.
Read more in this link to the Tampa Bay Times: http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/personalfinance/once-an-economic-bedrock-middle-class-feels-attainable-to-many/2229848
“The shift we’re seeing from the traditional employment relationship to more non-standard forms of employment is in many cases associated with the rise in inequality and poverty rates in many countries….”
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/19/most-of-the-worlds-workers-have-insecure-jobs-ilo-report-reveals
Only one quarter of workers worldwide is estimated to have a stable employment relationship, meaning that three quarters of workers are employed on temporary or short-term contracts, in informal jobs often without any contract, under own-account arrangements or in unpaid family jobs.
http://www.rttnews.com/2500882/75-of-workers-are-employed-in-part-time-temporary-jobs.aspx
The IMF says that the excesses on Wall Street are reducing US economic growth by 2% per year.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/05/31/wall-street-costs-the-economy-2-of-gdp-each-year/
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America’s economic system has failed by not raising living standards for most.
Nobel laureate Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality and The Great Divide, studies the forces driving inequality and what is at stake if it continues. In his view, bad economic thinking deserves part of the blame — fanciful ideas like trickle-down and the notion that economists should try to increase the size of the economic pie and let the politicians worry about distribution. On the contrary, Stiglitz sees distribution as a problem economists must confront. He warns that an economic system that doesn’t raise standards of living for most Americans is a failure.
Stiglitz departs from Thomas Piketty on the causes of inequality and sees capital gains on land and rents associated with monopoly power, discrimination, and exploitation as the big story. He also faults deregulation in the banking industry.
Stiglitz warns that inequality and unfairness are undermining our identity as Americans, destroying our society, and harming the economy. It’s time, he says, to get radical. We have to understand that mild tweaking won’t work and that we must take on the underlying and power structures if we hope to tackle this enormous challenge. Watch the video to learn more about how to do this.
Watch Joseph Stiglitz here:
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Nice blog post by Seth that you linked to and good to see that you’re reading widely, but you’re really reaching with these assertions. First off, Piketty’s graph is pretty much worthless, because the downslide you’re worried about is a prediction, one that has basically no justification. Instead, the opposite trend is what seems to be happening so far, ie g is growing apace while r is collapsing, but he crazily asserts that the opposite will eventually start happening.
Leaving aside your misplaced hand-wringing about “wealth inequality”- who are the richest in the current system? Precisely the titans of the mass market system you extol- what is really changing is that we’re moving from mass consumerism to a more personalized market, as Seth notes. Also, mass advertising was geared towards a unique epoch in media technology, when we were capable enough to build printing presses and radio stations that broadcast information to the masses, ie no monks writing on scrolls anymore, but not capable of cheaply building customized information streams for each and every person, ie the internet.
Well, now that we have the latter, the media technology that advertising thrived in is dying and ads will die with it. That doesn’t mean media will die, only that mass media will die, while niche media will be paid for by its readers. You see this increasingly with most media outlets going paid, or at least trying to, going paid doesn’t work so well if your content is too broad-based and easily replaceable.
Now, as a radio guy, I realize that’s your real concern, but think about it, do you really care about ad-supported media or media? As long as the media exists, I don’t see why you should care what the business model is, unless of course your skills are primarily in advertising sales, in which case those skills will soon be extinct as a dodo bird. 😉 Also, antiquated mass-media technology like print, AM/FM radio, and broadcast/cable TV will be killed off, replaced by online blogs and audio or video podcasting. But as long as people are paying to listen to your podcast or Songza/Slacker music channel, what matters is that you can produce media, not what tech it’s done with or whether it’s syndicated nationally.
As for the larger concern about the death of mass consumerism, what’s replacing it is much more niche and personalized products, ie Walmart gets replaced by Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods. Eventually that’ll go to an even more personalized level, where you can buy cereal personalized for you and your local burger joint will make your burger exactly the way you like it, because your smartphone will tell them ahead of time. 🙂 That is a much better world than the mass-produced world whose passing you lament, so don’t worry, things are looking up.
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With millions of apps on the Play Store, searching for the best among them is daunting. Whether you need a great weather app or a new tool to speed up your productivity, there are always dozens available. We’ve spent hours curating the top Android apps for every purpose, and compiled only the best of them into one list. We've just added a mobility section for the best apps from getting you from A to B in 2019. Android App
LastPass is one of those must-have Android apps. It’s a password manager that lets you save your login credentials in a safe, secure way. On top of that, it can help generate nearly impossible passwords for you to use on your accounts. It’s all controlled with a master password. It has cross-platform support so you can use it on computers, mobile devices, tablets, or whatever. There are others, but LastPass always feels like it’s one step ahead. Additionally, the premium version is cheap. You can also grab LastPass Authenticator to go along with it for added security. There are other great options like 1Password, Dashlane, Bit Warden, KeepassDroid, and others that are just about as good. However, LastPass feels a little more friendly and secure (usually), especially with its extra authenticator app. Droid Apps
With its huge inventory of music, Spotify has become a mainstay for free, legal music streaming. You can shuffle through smartly selected songs, find your favorite albums, or explore one of the service's excellent playlists. Close ties with artists means that new tracks are sometimes available the same day they hit the shelves in record shops. Those still exist, right? Spotify also offers a limited free version. Droid Apps
Marking one of Apple's first forays into Android development, Apple Music brings the company's impressive musical catalog to Android. The app is built around Apple's subscription-based streaming service, which dishes up all-you-can-listen music for $9.99 per month, or just $4.99 for eligible students. It suffers a bit on Android for being divorced from the Apple ecosystem, however. Droid Apps
If you're looking to learn another language, Duolingo gamifies language learning with bite-sized lessons and a friendly interface. Starting with simple vocabulary and building from there, Duolingo is your guide to learning a new language or brushing up on one you already know. The more you use the app, the more you unlock and—with practice—the more you learn. This free app currently supports Danish, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. Or more practical choices, like Esperanto and Klingon. Droid App
Facebook Messenger Kids might seem like it’s built for kids, but it’s really built for parents. With the app, parents have control over their kids’ contact list, and messages can’t be deleted — meaning that parents can check in to take a look whenever they want. Of course, there are some pretty sweet features for kids, like kid-appropriate stickers, GIFs, emojis, and so on.
It seems like just yesterday that Instagram was adding video. Then direct messaging. Then advanced photo editing put it on par with Photoshop Express for image correction and manipulation. Instagram Stories is now far more popular than Snapchat's similar feature. And anti-bullying features should make it more palatable for some. With a clean, minimalist interface, Instagram is the current king of social photo apps.
Bouncer was our pick for the best new Android app from 2018. It’s a security app with a unique premise. The app lets you grant temporary permissions to applications. So, for instance, you can let Facebook access your location long enough to check into a place, and Bouncer disables the permission once you leave Facebook. This is a great way to use all of the features of a social media app without digging into your settings to disable those permissions or giving those apps permanent access to your information. The app runs for $0.99 and should work on most (if not all) apps. It’s rumored that this could be an Android Q feature. If that’s true, then even Google really likes this app. Droid App
We use Best Apps Market because it highlights trending content, has a huge range of categories, and many of the apps are reviewed and tested. If you are focusing on games, you won’t find a better app than Fetch because it allows you to search by multiple traits. For example, you can filter the results down to search for something as specific as, “3D horror shooter with great music where you have to defend and use resources.” There are over 100 traits to help you find the right title. Droid App
Facebook Messenger Kids might seem like it’s built for kids, but it’s really built for parents. With the app, parents have control over their kids’ contact list, and messages can’t be deleted — meaning that parents can check in to take a look whenever they want. Of course, there are some pretty sweet features for kids, like kid-appropriate stickers, GIFs, emojis, and so on. Droid App
Despite ups and downs in the quality of its library, Netflix dominates the world of streaming TV and movies. The service also creates its own—sometimes indispensable—content, including original comedies, cartoons, dramas, and documentaries. Some of the shows have become cultural phenomena, making Netflix a must-have. Shows such as Black Mirror, Stranger Things, and The Crown (the most expensive TV show ever made) are often the conversation topics of the day. You can even download select episodes to watch offline at your leisure.
While the selection on Amazon Prime Now may not be as good as what you find on Amazon, the upshot is free delivery within two hours. If you’re in a real time crunch, some products and locations offer one-hour delivery available for a small fee. With Amazon’s recent acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon Prime Now even offers a decent selection of groceries.
There are lots of ways to pay for things with your phone. But Venmo has a smart mixture of clean design, ease of use, and social functions that give it an edge. It doesn't do much, but it does let you easily send and receive payments from friends. And unlike other payment systems, it has momentum. It's usually the app people ask about when the group is splitting up the check.
Textra is an excellent alternative to Messages on Android. The app includes tons of visual customization options that you won't find with the stock messaging app, including custom contact colors, text bubble styles, and notification icons. Additionally, you get extra features such as text scheduling, the ability to blacklist contacts, and the option to rename group conversations. Textra also has excellent light and dark modes. New Droid Apps
Brave Browser offers a host of features aimed at protecting your security and privacy on the web. For instance, it includes built-in blockers for ads, pop-ups, scripts, and third-party cookies. It even implements the HTTPS Everywhere extension, so you can ensure that your connections to sites are secure. The lightweight, minimal design looks great, too. Droid Apps
There's no shortage of Reddit apps on the Google Play store and choosing one over another ultimately comes down to preference, but reddit is fun (RIF) is a great option to try. The default view features a dense, text-heavy layout which puts the best (and worst) of Reddit front and center. There's both a light and dark theme and tons of layout content customization options to try out, even if you don't opt for the paid version. Better yet, there are no ads in either version or RIF and its overall performance is extremely quick.
Otter is an innovative automatic recording and transcription service that works in real time. Simply hit the record button during a conversation or meeting and Otter will produce a usable transcript a few minutes later. Otter's app is fluid, well-designed, and quick in operation, which makes it ideal for students and professionals who rely on their mobile devices for their work. The app also integrates other top-notch features such as cross-conversation speaker identification, excellent search tools, and in-app editing of transcripts. New Droid Apps
You now know how to download Google Play Store to ensure you have the latest version. This method will work on almost any Android device, but there may be slight variances depending on your Android version and OEM. Do keep in mind that this will not work on Amazon Kindle Fire devices. That’s an entirely different process which may also require you to root your device. Droid Apps
IFTTT, which stands for "if this, then that," helps you create custom automations between various online services and devices without any coding experience. The mobile app makes it simple to set up these Applets (previously called recipes) on your own or implement any of the community-created ones. IFTTT is particularly great for controlling smart home devices. Android App
Filled with both up-and-coming and established acts, Bandcamp is one of the most exciting music marketplaces there is. The app was initially built around streaming songs you'd already purchased on Bandcamp, but now it's a one-stop shop for digital and physical band merch. If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of music, this is an essential app. Android App
Sometimes the most secure message is one that simply doesn't exist. That's the thinking behind Wickr Me, a fully encrypted secure messaging service that even handles media messages. The twist is that you set a lifespan for each message, ensuring that your private messages stay private, the way Snapchat message do. And, if you doubt their security chops, here's what the company's founder told the FBI when they asked for a backdoor.
It’s a pretty self-explanatory step. The Google Play Store comes in APK format like any other Android app. You can download APKs from websites, tech blogs, and trusted people on forums or other places. However, for now, APKMirror is probably your best bet for trusted Google Play Store APKs. Here is a short tutorial for downloading the Play Store app: Droid Apps
While the selection on Amazon Prime Now may not be as good as what you find on Amazon, the upshot is free delivery within two hours. If you’re in a real time crunch, some products and locations offer one-hour delivery available for a small fee. With Amazon’s recent acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon Prime Now even offers a decent selection of groceries. Droid Apps
Grammarly Keyboard corrects your grammar and spelling errors as you type. This keyboard is useful for everything from writing emails to composing social media posts to editing long-form documents. In use, Grammarly makes it easy to accept changes or access a card-based interface with more in-depth explanations of an error. It also offers a good number of visual customizations, such as a choice between a light or dark theme options and the keyboard height, as well as editing options, such as auto-correction and capitalization preferences. New Droid Apps
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At its core, Any.do is a list manager. You can quickly create a shopping list and have it synced among your devices and even share the list with others. The app also doubles as a task manager, keeping you on top of what needs to be done. This very capable app sports many features, but we particularly like one called the Any.do Moment, which encourages you to take a second and review your plans for the day. Lists are one thing, but building good productivity habits is quite another. Android App
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Charlotte DuJardin Fends Off Bronchitis to Capture London Olympia World Cup Freestyle
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Charlotte Dujardin and Vslegro in the World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle at Olympia. © 2012 FEI/Kit Houghton
LONDON, Dec. 18–Charlotte Dujardin ignored her bronchitis to ride Valegro to a clear victory in the Olympia World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle Tuesday night but some small mistakes kept the score below Olympic gold medal results and fell short of their world record performance in the Grand Prix.
Before a packed house at what has become a Christmas tradition in the British capital, the 27-year-old double Olympic gold medalist was awarded 87.975 per cent, below their personal best last July of 90.650 per cent at Hartpury near her Gloucestershire base and well shy of the 92.300 per cent that Edward Gal and Totilas established as the world record at this same show three years ago.
Isabell Werth of Germany, the most decorated Olympic rider, placed second on 80.075 per cent, only the second result above 80 per cent for the partnership. It was enough to edge out Carl Hester who scored 79.900 per cent n the final competition ride on Uthopia, the black stallion that helped Britain win gold at the London summer Games, their first ever Olympic medal in dressage.
The supreme showman described his performance as “a great last ride.”
“I wasn’t emotional coming in,” he said, “I was quite looking forward to it, but when I finished, you kind of get the feeling for what the horses have done for British dressage, so I did feel emotional coming out. It was a stress-free, enjoyable ride.”
Looking back at the partnership with the 11-year-old KWPN stallion, he said “the plan always was that he was to be sold, but I do always like to remember that I was lucky to keep the horse for so long.”
The results of Olympia, the fifth of eight qualifying competitions in the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Western European League, did little to change the top standings as most the top four did not compete in London. Italy’s Valentina Truppa remains atop the rankings with 52 points, with Kristina Sprehe of Germany second on 51 points, Tinne Vilhelmsson-Silfvén of Sweden third on 46 points and Switzerland’s Marcela Krinke Susmelj fourth on 44 points.
The eighth place finish in Olympia by the Netherlands’ Edward Gal on Glock’s Undercover added nine points to give them a total of 42 points and maintained their fifth rank.
Isabell Werth and Do Johnson FRH riding to second place at the Olympia World Cup event. © 2012 FEI/Kit Houghton
But this was Charlotte’s show, even though it was her first 2012/13 qualifier leading to the Final in Gothenburg, Sweden next April.
Although wracked with bronchitis, she and the 10-year-old KWPN gelding (Negro x Maifleur x Gerschwin) who this year became the first British combination to hold the world’s No. 1 ranking, set a world record of score of 84.447 per cent in the Grand Prix Monday night. The judges awarded the pair a whopping margin of almost eight percentage points higher than Isabell and Don Johnson FRH in second place on 76.362 per cent and Edward Gal and his Olympic mount third on 76.128 per cent.
Britain’s lively media from the global BBC to dozens of daily newspapers from gossip mongering tabloids to serious journals whose total circulation numbers on the tens of millions embraced thw achievement with lengthy reports.
In preparation for the Freestyle, she received treatment from a doctor Tuesday morning. While it eased the effects of the bronchitis it also made her feel a “bit woozy.”
Riding to the freestyle prepared for the Olympics that featured strains of Land of Hope and Glory with chimes from Big Ben, there were a few small mistakes in the piaffe and at other points that dashed their chances of adding the world record for the third Grand Prix level. They had set the Grand Prix Special record last April in Hagen, Germany and after Monday’s Grand Prix mark the only record not in their hands was the standard set by Edward and Totilas at this same venue in 2009.
The atmosphere indoors at Olympia was different than the Olympics where, Charlotte noted, “there were 24,000 spectators watching, but they were a long way away. Here tonight it was very different, they were so close you could hear them breathing!”
Just before entering the arena, something spooked Valegro.
“It messed up the whole beginning,” Charlotte said, “but he settled down in canter. The changes and extensions are quite tough for horses when that happens, but I was actually very happy with them as it turned out.”
So were the majority of the five-judge panel as she was awarded three maximum scores of 10 points for the first extended trot along with two more for the one-tempi changes and three further top scores for her one-tempi canterwork.
Although they missed a record, the 5,000 fans packed into the 126-year-old Olympia Grand Hall gave them a standing ovation as they left the arena.
Valegro and Uthopia are both for sale–Carl Hester is a part-owner in both horses and convinced his partners to hold off selling them before the Olympics–Charlotte said she hopes she can keep the ride on Valegro.
Attempts are being made to form an owners’ syndicate aimed at buying Valegro and keeping it in Britain, an effort that Carl described to dressage-news.com as an investment for entertainment because the horse is a gelding.
“We will sit down and see what’s going to happen in January,” Charlotte said. “He may be sold on, but we are hoping to get a share of him and I’m hoping to keep the ride.”
The top rankings in the World Cup West European League:
1. Valentina Truppa ITA – 52
2. Kristin Sprehe GER – 51
3. Tinne Wilhelmsson Silfven SWE – 46
4. Marcela Krinke Susmelj SUI – 44
5. Edward Gal NED – 42
6. Minne Telde SWE – 37
7. Sidsel Johansen DEN – 34
8. Patrik Kittel SWE – 30
8. Anna Kasprzak DEN – 30
10. Pia Fortmuller CAN – 28
11. Helen Langehanenberg GER – 26
12. Marlies van Baalen NED – 24
13. Lyndal Oatley AUS – 23
14. Imke Schellekens-Bartels NED – 22
14. Anabel Balkenhol GER – 22
14. Karin Kosak AUT – 22
17. Stefan Peter AUT – 20
17. Charlotte Dujardin GBR – 20
19. Joachim Thomson DEN – 18
19. Lillann Jebsen NOR – 18
19. Jessica Michel FRA – 18
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29.001 (18) "Carcass" means the dead body of any wild animal to which it refers, including the head, hair, skin, plumage, skeleton, or any other part thereof of the wild animal or the eggs of the wild animal.
248,52 Section 52. 29.01 (2m) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (21).
248,53 Section 53. 29.01 (2r) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (24).
248,54 Section 54. 29.01 (2s) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (25).
248,55 Section 55. 29.01 (2w) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (26).
248,56 Section 56. 29.01 (3) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (27) and amended to read:
29.001 (27) "Fishing" includes taking, capturing , or killing, or fishing for fish of any variety in any manner but does not include taking, capturing, killing or fishing for farm-raised fish, other than farm-raised fish, or attempting to take, capture or kill fish, other than farm-raised fish. When the word "fish" is used as a verb, it shall have has the same meaning as the word "fishing" as defined herein.
248,57 Section 57. 29.01 (3m) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (29).
248,58 Section 58. 29.01 (4) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (30) and amended to read:
29.001 (30) "Fur-bearing animals" includes otter, beaver, mink, muskrat, marten, fisher, skunk, raccoon, fox, weasel, opossum, badger, wolf, coyote, wildcat bobcat, cougar and lynx.
29.001 (33) "Game" includes all varieties of wild mammals or birds; "game.
(41) "Game fish" includes all varieties of fish except rough fish and minnows; "rough.
(74) "Rough fish" includes dace, suckers, not listed as endangered or threatened under s. 29.604 (3), common carp, goldfish, redhorse, freshwater drum, burbot, bowfin, garfish, buffalo fish, sea lamprey, alewife, gizzard shad, rainbow smelt, goldeye, and mooneye, carpsucker and quill back, in all waters and chub in inland waters only; "minnows" includes suckers, mud minnows, madtom, stonecat, killifish, stickleback, trout-perch, darters, sculpin and all minnow family cyprinids except goldfish and carp.
248,60 Section 60. 29.01 (6) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (36).
29.001 (39) "Game birds" includes the following aquatic birds: Wild wild geese, brant, wild ducks, wild swan, rails, coots, gallinules, jacksnipe snipe, woodcock, plovers and, sandpipers; the following upland birds:, ruffed grouse (partridge), pinnated grouse (, prairie chicken), sharp-tailed grouse, pheasants, Hungarian partridge, Chukar partridge, bobwhite, quail, California quail crows and wild turkey.
Note: The DNR has established open and closed seasons for crows and classified crows as game birds. The addition of crows to the definition of game bird recognizes this. "Snipe" substitutes the correct name for this bird. "California quail" is repealed because this bird does not occur in Wisconsin.
248,62 Section 62. 29.01 (8) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 1, is renumbered 29.001 (42) and amended to read:
29.001 (42) "Hunt" or "hunting" includes shooting, shooting at, pursuing, taking, catching capturing or killing or attempting to capture or kill any wild animal or animals.
248,65 Section 65. 29.01 (10) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (60).
248,67 Section 67. 29.01 (11c) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (64).
248,68 Section 68. 29.01 (11d) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (65).
248,69 Section 69. 29.01 (11m) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (66).
248,72 Section 72. 29.01 (12p) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (75).
248,73 Section 73. 29.01 (12r) of the statutes, as created by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is renumbered 29.001 (76), and 29.001 (76) (b), as renumbered, is amended to read:
29.001 (76) (b) A freeze-out pond for which a permit is issued under s. 29.521 29.733 (2).
248,74 Section 74. 29.01 (13) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (84) and amended to read:
29.001 (84) "Trapping" includes the taking, or the attempting to take, of any wild animal by means of setting or operating any device, mechanism or contraption that is designed, built or made to close upon, hold fast, or otherwise capture a wild animal or animals. When the word "trap" is used as a verb, it shall have has the same meaning as the word "trapping" as defined herein.
248,76 Section 76. Subchapter II (title) of chapter 29 [precedes 29.011] of the statutes is created to read:
Subchapter II
General Fish and Game Regulation
248,77 Section 77. 29.014 (title) of the statutes is created to read:
29.014 (title) Rule-making for this chapter.
248,78c Section 78c. 29.014 (2) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
29.014 (2) (c) Any reference to this chapter includes any rules promulgated under this chapter and any reference to any provision of this chapter includes any rules promulgated under that provision.
Note: Under s. 227.11 (2), state agencies are authorized to "promulgate rules interpreting the provisions of any statute enforced or administered by it...". The DNR therefore clearly has authority to promulgate rules under all provisions of ch. 29, subject only to the specific limitations on its rule-making authority set forth in ch. 29, and to the general requirement under s. 227.11 that a rule is not valid if it exceeds the bounds of correction interpretation.
However, ch. 29 now contains many examples of permissive rule-making authority. (For example, see s. 29.1085, related to bear harvest permits, which provides in sub. (6): "The department may promulgate rules to administer and interpret this section.".) This bill eliminates some, but not all, of those instances of permissive rule-making authority.
Note: One of the disadvantages, for the purposes of statutory interpretation, of individual examples of permissive rule-making authority, is the potential for an implication that by granting permissive rule-making authority for some provisions of ch. 29, the legislature did not intend to grant rule-making authority for other provisions of the chapter. This is clearly not the case, and such an implication would in fact be contrary to the legislature's broad grant of authority to the DNR under ch. 29 to regulate fish and game.
248,79 Section 79. 29.014 (4) of the statutes is created to read:
29.014 (4) No person may challenge the validity of a rule promulgated under this chapter in any prosecution of that person for a violation of this chapter or rules promulgated under this chapter unless the person has previously brought a separate action under s. 227.40 seeking a declaratory judgment on the validity of the rule.
Note: This provision restates the substance of current s. 29.174 (7).
248,80 Section 80. 29.015 (title) of the statutes is repealed.
248,81 Section 81. 29.015 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 29.417 (3) (intro.) and amended to read:
29.417 (3) (intro.) Whenever the hereinafter named bays Bays and harbors are mentioned in this chapter, listed in this section shall have the following description for the same shall apply:
Note: This bill places descriptions of bays and harbors in new s. 29.417 relating to permits to take rough fish. The descriptions are moved there since these bays and harbors are referred to only in the statute relating to permits to take rough fish.
248,82 Section 82. 29.015 (1) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
248,83 Section 83. 29.015 (1) (b) to (i) of the statutes are renumbered 29.417 (3) (a) to (h).
248,84 Section 84. 29.015 (1) (j) of the statutes is renumbered 29.001 (81) and amended to read:
29.001 (81) That "Sturgeon Bay" means that body of water known as Sturgeon bay lying south and east of a line commencing at the most northerly point of section 23, township 28 north, range 25 east, and running in a northeasterly direction to the water's edge on north line of section 13, same township and range.
248,85 Section 85. 29.015 (1) (k) to (m) of the statutes are renumbered 29.417 (3) (i) to (k).
248,86 Section 86. 29.015 (1) (n) to (q) of the statutes are repealed.
248,87 Section 87. 29.02 (title), (1) and (2) of the statutes are renumbered 29.011 (title), (1) and (2), and 29.011 (1) and (2), as renumbered, are amended to read:
29.011 (1) The legal title to, and the custody and protection of, all wild animals within this state is vested in the state for the purposes of regulating the enjoyment, use, disposition, and conservation thereof of these wild animals.
(2) The legal title to any such a wild animal, or carcass or part there of, taken or reduced to possession in violation of this chapter, remains in the state; and the. The title to any such a wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, lawfully acquired, is subject to the condition that upon the violation of this chapter relating to the possession, use, giving, sale, barter or transportation of such a wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, by the holder of such title owner, the same ownership shall revert, as a result of the violation, to the state. In either case, any such wild animal, or carcass or part thereof, may be seized forthwith, wherever found, by the department or its wardens.
Note: The provision on seizure is redundant with current s. 29.05 (7) to (9), renumbered as s. 29.931.
248,88 Section 88. 29.02 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
248,89 Section 89. 29.02 (3m) of the statutes, as affected by 1997 Wisconsin Act 27, is repealed.
Note: The current text of s. 29.02 (3) and (3m) of the statutes is as follows:
"29.02 (3) This section shall not permit seizure of nor prohibit possession or sale of lawfully obtained wild birds and animals which are mounted or in the process of being mounted for a private collection.
(3m) This section does not permit the seizure by the department, or prohibit the possession or sale, of farm-raised deer or farm-raised fish.".
Section 29.02 (1) provides that the state holds title to wild animals. Section 29.02 (2) provides that if any person has acquired title to a wild animal or its carcass, title reverts to the state if the person violates any provision of ch. 29 related to possession, use, giving, sale, barter or transportation of the wild animal or its carcass. The overall purpose of these 2 subsections is not to establish authority or procedures for the seizures of wild animals or carcasses, so s. 29.02 (3) and (3m) do not serve any purpose.
29.024 (title) Approvals; forms; issuing agents.
29.024 (9) Tags. The department shall provide all tags required under this chapter and shall specify their form and numbering.
248,92 Section 92. 29.025 of the statutes is renumbered 29.075.
248,93 Section 93. 29.03 of the statutes is renumbered 29.927, and 29.927 (1) to (6), (10) and (11), as renumbered, are amended to read:
29.927 (1) Any unlicensed, untagged or unmarked net of any kind, or other unlicensed, untagged or unmarked device, trap, or contrivance for fishing ; or any.
(1m) Any licensed, tagged or marked net or other device, trap or contrivance for fishing set, placed, or found in any waters where the same it is prohibited to be used, or in a manner prohibited by law this chapter.
(2) Any unlicensed, untagged or unmarked setline, cable, rope, or line, with more than one fish line attached thereto; or any.
(2c) Any licensed, tagged or marked setline set, placed, or found in any waters where the same it is prohibited to be used, or in a manner prohibited by law; or any this chapter.
(2g) Any fish line left in the water unattended, whether having one or more hooks attached.
(2m) Any long tunnel pound net or similar entrapping net other than the legal fyke net, drop net, submarine trap net and the short tunnel pound net whenever found in outlying waters or on any vessel boat, dock, pier, or wharf or in any building or vehicle on or adjacent to such outlying waters. Any such contraband nets so found as described in this subsection shall be deemed sufficient evidence of the use of such the nets by the owner thereof.
(3) Any screen device set in public waters to prevent the free passage of fish, or set in any stream which has been stocked by the state authorities unless authorized by the department.
(4) Any building, inclosure, permanent or temporary structure, or shelter placed, occupied, or used on the ice of any waters in violation of this chapter.
(5) Any unlicensed trap, snare, spring gun, set gun, net or other device or contrivance which might entrap, ensnare, or kill game; or any.
(5m) Any trap without a metal tag attached as required by law.
(6) Any boat, together with its machinery, sails, tackle and equipment, or any.
(6g) Any lamp, light, gun, pivot gun, swivel gun, or other firearm, ammunition, bow, crossbow or arrow used in violation of this chapter or s. 167.31; or any or any rules promulgated under s. 167.31.
(6r) Any boat, floating raft, box, or blind set in open water and used in hunting game birds.
(10) Any blind used in hunting waterfowl in violation of s. 29.27 29.327.
(11) Any motor vehicle, as defined in s. 939.22 (44) boat, aircraft, remote sensing equipment, navigational device, survey equipment, scuba gear or other equipment or device used in the commission of a crime relating to a submerged cultural resource in violation of s. 44.47.
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Dennis Rodman Strikes A Blow For Drunks Everywhere
Today, we are going to explode a big misconception about booze, namely that it always impedes athletic performance. Babe Ruth used to have a pint of bourbon for breakfast, then slam three homers. Ex-major league pitching coach Barney Schultz used to implore his players to “pound those Budweisers, boys.” Now, according to CBS Chicago, we have Dennis Rodman.
When an athlete abstains from substance abuse, typically their career will flourish.
According to a report, however, that’s not the case for former NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman. The Hall of Fame center said he became “boring” when he got sober briefly eight years ago and that no team wanted anything to do with him.
“People wouldn’t even touch me,” an emotional Rodman said. “I was boring. I wasn’t the Dennis Rodman of old.”
So, Rodman really thinks liquor was the only thing that kept him from being “boring?”
Boring? Really? This is the same guy we’ve seen show at book signings in a wedding dress. This is the same guy who entertained us throughout his career on hair color alone. Even after his playing days were over, Rodman has been something akin to the love-child of a sideshow freak and a soap opera star, two things which are about as far from boring as you can get.
The change didn’t last long as Rodman began to drink 19 months after testing out sobriety. Now, his agent, Darren Prince, said Rodman spends three to four nights a week out at various night clubs.
“He tells me, ‘Darren, I drink because I’m bored.’ And I tell him, ‘You’re bored because you drink.’ I keep telling him, ‘You can still be the bad boy, you just don’t need to do it out at night clubs until 2, 3 in the morning.
Wait a minute. If you can’t be the bad boy in a night club at 3 a.m., then just where the hell are you supposed to do it? Not to mention, when you are liquored up and in full-on drag in public, a night club is about the only place where you wouldn’t get arrested. You really can’t pull off that look at Wal-Mart and not expect to end up in the back of a squad car.
“I know if he got sober, he could get a coaching job. He could be a rebounding coach, possibly work in the front office. We’ve had many discussions with TNT and others, and they all say the same thing — he’s too risky, because they don’t know if he’s going to show up drunk or not show up at all.”
OK, let’s break that down. First of all, raise your hand if you can picture Dennis Rodman as any sort of coach. Bueller…Anyone? Now, raise your hand if you can see Rodman as a suit in the front office…(cue cricket noises here). The most likely, most logical, and certainly most entertaining would be to let Rodman show up for a TV commentary gig totally boozed up. How awesome would it be to see him put Jeff Van Gundy in a headlock?
I say let him drink. Let’s be honest, I’m on the verge of watching the San Antonio Spurs go to the NBA Finals, and they have as much personality as a Velveeta sandwich with extra mayonnaisse on white bread. Basketball needs all the entertainment value it can get, and a liquored up Rodman could be the best thing basketball since the shot glass clock.
3 comments on “Dennis Rodman Strikes A Blow For Drunks Everywhere”
Reblogged this on Sports Blog Movement.
I imagine if Dennis landed a gig as a talking head there is a real possibility that his broadcasts would acheive cult classic status.
ChrisHumpherys (@SportsChump)
I hear Rodman used to travel with his own personal bartender.
Imagine the stories that guy could tell.
Now that’s a book I’d read.
This entry was posted on May 30, 2012 by J-Dub in Basketball, Sports and tagged Basketball, Dennis Rodman.
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