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Xbox One to Launch Next Generation of Gaming in China September 23
by Xbox Wire Staff • Jul 30, 2014 @ 11:50am
Today, Microsoft and BesTV announced Xbox One will launch in China on September 23 with a lineup of blockbuster games and entertainment starting at ¥3,699 RMB. Xbox One is the first gaming and entertainment console approved for sale in China coinciding with the Shanghai Free Trade Zone one-year anniversary.
At the Xbox One media briefing, Microsoft and BesTV detailed their plan to launch the Xbox One in China. Demonstrating a strong ecosystem of support, more than 25 developers are building more than 70 games for Xbox One including exclusive content, free to play games, and blockbuster titles. In partnership with BesTV, Xbox One will bring hundreds of thousands of hours of entertainment content including blockbuster movies, sports, documentaries and on-demand TV programs, fitness and exclusive, locally developed applications. Finally, Xbox One is bringing unique value to the Chinese market including innovative pricing models for games, compelling console bundles, local customer support and two year warranty.
“We’re honored that Xbox One is the first console approved for sale in China through the Shanghai Free Trade Zone,” said Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice-president, marketing, Devices and Studios, Microsoft. “We’re dedicated to earning millions of fans in China by working with BesTV to deliver an all in one games and entertainment experience starting September 23.”
“We’ve been working together with Microsoft for more than a year to prepare for the launch of Xbox One and our organizations share a vision for bringing entertainment and gaming innovation to our consumers,” said Zhang Dazhong, senior vice president of Shanghai Media Group and chairman of the board, E-Home Entertainment. “We are excited to start delivering on that promise and are committed to fostering China’s original game development.”
Xbox One unveils gaming portfolio roadmap for China
Recognized for the best games lineup of 2014 at the E3 trade show, Xbox will bring its long history of delivering blockbuster titles from Microsoft Studios and the industry’s most visionary creators to deliver a rich lineup of games to Xbox One in China. Xbox One will launch in China with an innovative pricing model including free to play games, and blockbuster games such as Forza Motorsport 5: Racing Game of the Year available at suggested retail prices of ¥99 RMB to ¥249 RMB. Xbox One will offer fans unique cinematic-like experiences with sports, action and adventure, shooter, dance, karaoke and racing games not available on any other device in China, including:
Exclusive titles from Microsoft Studios: Expected to launch on Day One are popular titles from Microsoft Studios including, Forza Motorsport 5: Racing Game of the Year – the highest-rated racing franchise of this console generation, Kinect Sports Rivals, Powerstar Golf, Zoo Tycoon, and Max: The Curse of Brotherhood among others. Beyond launch, the Xbox One games portfolio will continue to grow with titles like Sunset Overdrive and Halo: The Master Chief Collection, which will bring the complete story of Halo’s legendary hero, the Master Chief, to life on one console for the very first time.
Games from the world’s leading developers: Twelve of the world’s largest developers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and 2K are working to bring their gaming favorites to China.
Premium content from Chinese developers: Thirteen of China’s best developers are already working to bring new IP and fan-favorite games to Xbox One, starting with Neverwinter Online from Perfect World and games from Gamebar and Yingpei Games. Additional games and experiences are in development from Snail Games, NetEase and Tencent to name a few.
“We are excited and honored to be among the first publishers in China bringing games to Xbox One,” said Robert Xiao, chief executive officer of Perfect World. “We have three studios working on Xbox games including Neverwinter Online, Celestial Sword and Project X and we can’t wait for Xbox fans in China to get their hands on them. For the six months following Xbox One’s launch, Neverwinter Online will be available only on Xbox One. Offering unlimited possibilities to developers, the launch of Xbox One in China will help take the game development industry to a whole new level.”
Rich ecosystem for innovation and independent developers
Xbox One creates opportunities for independent developers to bring their creative content to life both at home and abroad through the ID@Xbox program, which officially launches in China today. With this expansion, local Chinese developers have the opportunity to bring their creative content to life both at home in China and around the world. In addition, this expansion opens up the opportunity for developers around the world to publish their games in China.
In addition, as part of E-Home Entertainment, BesTV, Microsoft and the local government are opening two innovation centers in China – the first, in Shanghai. These innovation centers will be dedicated spaces driving local innovation initiatives in game and app development supporting entertainment content, original design and research and development in China. They will provide access to some of the world’s top innovators, helping to accelerate entertainment content industry growth in China, to foster the creation of a world-class team and human capital, and expand local original content to the world. They will be built on continuing investments from the government and Microsoft.
The best in premium entertainment – only on Xbox One
At launch, Xbox One will not only be home to a spectacular lineup of games but also a suite of entertainment experiences all on one box, including:
TV and Movies: BesTV will bring hundreds of thousands of hours of entertainment content including blockbuster movies, sports, documentaries and on-demand TV programs – all in high definition. Owners of Xbox One in China will receive access to this content in addition to two free movies per month.
Sports: BesTV will unlock access to premium sports games such as English Premiere League (EPL) – free for the first year.
Xbox Live: Access to Xbox Live’s advanced multiplayer gaming experience, which opens up a pipeline of content that is always being updated and refreshed and connects users with a network of gamers.
Fitness: Xbox will bring the full Xbox Fitness library to China including a new fitness experience, Tai Chi, which is coming first to China.
Apps: Exclusive locally-developed apps will bolster a growing catalog of entertainment and other experiences on Xbox One, led by Tencent’s QQ Music, Douban FM, GameFY and Karaoke Master.
“We have made significant investments in China to deliver a tailored Xbox One experience for our fans,” said Enwei Xie, general manager of Xbox China.
Bringing unique value to the China market
Starting at ¥3,699 RMB, Xbox One will deliver tremendous value in China as the ultimate all-in-one gaming and entertainment system. In addition to blockbuster games like Forza Motorsport 5 being offered at ¥249 RMB, Xbox will offer additional value with Xbox Live Gold subscriptions available at ¥199 RMB. In addition, every Xbox One console will include:
Powerstar Golf and Neverwinter Online with a Special Edition Pack
The BesTV entertainment experience
Free access to Xbox Live Gold through March 2015
A localized Chinese interface, translated content and local payment methods
A two-year warranty and local customer service support from Microsoft and BesTV.
Microsoft and BesTV are also delighted to offer a special Day One limited edition console which includes Kinect for Xbox One, more games and exclusive offers such as:
A limited-edition commemorative China Day One controller;
Day One Achievement for your Xbox Live profile;
Kinect Sports Rivals, Forza Motorsport 5: Racing Game of the Year as well as the Neverwinter Online Commemorative Edition Pack, and Powerstar Golf with in-game credit
Starting today, fans can reserve their special edition Day One Xbox One with Kinect, for ¥4,299 RMB while supplies last.
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Home Press Release Vodafone UK launches initiatives to expand digital skills
Press Release | 20 Sep 2018
Vodafone UK launches initiatives to expand digital skills
To help build the UK’s digital future, Vodafone has today announced new education and mentoring programmes developed for university students, digital entrepreneurs and Vodafone employees interested in a digital career.
These programmes form part of a package of measures to drive innovation and growth across the UK. With its track-record as a British communications and technology pioneer, Vodafone is uniquely positioned to help the UK expand its pipeline of digital talent and advance as a digital leader.
Adam Parsons, HR Director at Vodafone UK, said: “Digital sectors like artificial intelligence, cloud services and the Internet of Things represent exciting opportunities for the UK economy.
“The education and mentoring programmes we have created will help us to make the most of these opportunities. University students, digital entrepreneurs and Vodafone employees working in our retail stores and contact centres will be able to develop new skills and prepare for a digital future.”
Equipping university students with digital skills: Vodafone Digital Degree
The Vodafone Digital Degree was created to develop digital talent at university level. A partnership between Vodafone and the University of Birmingham,[i] the programme combines a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science with a technology apprenticeship at Vodafone.
16 Digital Degree Apprentices have been accepted into the programme and will attend the University of Birmingham full-time. During their four-year study period, Digital Degree Apprentices will receive a salary. There is a 10-week summer placement in their first year and a 12-month industrial placement in their third year, with a guaranteed role in one of Vodafone’s digital teams once they graduate in 2022.
Professor Andy Schofield, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Head of the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham, said: “We believe that in order to prepare our students for a 21st century workplace, it is essential to build their digital skills and give them the best possible opportunities in which to use them.
The four-year programme we are launching with Vodafone will provide our students with both the digital education and critical hands-on training they will need to succeed in a digital future. As a world leader for research and innovation, we are delighted to be partnering with Vodafone to address the UK’s technology skills gap and educate the digital talent of the future.”
Mentoring digital entrepreneurs: Bright Sparks
To support digital entrepreneurs and foster a culture of innovation, Vodafone is launching Bright Sparks. A mentoring programme for digital start-ups, Bright Sparks was developed in collaboration with Oxford University Innovation, an organisation set up to help University staff and students apply their expertise and research for wider social and economic benefit.
Oxford University Innovation selected 10 digital start-ups[ii] to participate in Bright Sparks based on their areas of expertise, stage of development and enthusiasm for the project. The 10 start-ups will each have a Vodafone mentor who will work with them to support early stage digital innovations, providing specialist skills and commercial guidance.
Brendan Ludden, Head of Licensing and Ventures, Physical Sciences at Oxford University Innovation, said: “Our 10 digital start-ups who are taking part in the Bright Sparks mentorship programme are developing some of the most innovative solutions to societal issues from transport to healthcare.
We chose to partner with Vodafone because of their world-leading position in mobile technology and markets. With Vodafone mentors providing guidance in areas like digital, strategy and marketing, our 10 start-ups will have access to vital skills they need to thrive.”
Helping Vodafone frontline employees re-train as coders: Code Ready
Frontline employees in Vodafone retail stores and contact centres who would like to make the transition to a digital career can learn to code with Code Ready, a new digital skills programme. Vodafone is partnering with Makers, London’s leading software development programme, to deliver Code Ready and help employees reskill.
Code Ready is fully funded, which means Vodafone employees won’t have to pay a penny to retrain for a digital career. They will learn all the skills they need to become a developer and secure a new job with Vodafone at the end of the course.
Code Ready will start with a pilot in September, with a planned intake of 20-30 people in Manchester in 2019.
Spencer Ayres, MD Makers Apprenticeships at Makers, said: “At Makers, we believe that developing tech talent ready for today’s fast moving world of work takes an agile, accelerated and inclusive approach. Vodafone’s Code Ready programme is a great example of an approach that’s truly responsive to a rapidly changing tech industry.
By re-training Vodafone’s retail and contact centre staff interested in becoming developers, we hope to inspire even more people to consider a digital career.”
[i] The University of Birmingham is ranked amongst the world’s top 100 institutions. Its work brings people from across the world to Birmingham, including researchers and teachers and more than 6,500 international students from over 150 countries.
[ii] The 10 start-ups are:
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Total Mama – revolutionising pregnancy by empowering women with information and insight
Ufonia – your talking AI doctor
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NBPA Calls Cops on Man Who Said He Hoped Al-Qaeda Blows Up Ferren Deck
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—According to police radio transmissions, a man driving a 1998 gold Cadillac Deville threatened to blow up the Ferren Mall and Parking Garage yesterday shortly before 3pm.
But, as it turned out, the man had only expressed his "hope" that al-Qaeda would "take over" the United States and "blow up" the parking deck.
A dispatcher asked an NBPD officer to change course and report to the deck after receiving the alarming call from parking authority employees at about 2:56pm.
"Come over to the Ferren deck on the Church Street side of the Ferren Deck. I'm on the phone with the parking authority. They're with a male outside of a tan Cadillac, the male is threatening to blow up the Ferren deck."
"If he's gonna blow it up, you might want to get that dog over there, get some sniffing going on," the officer responded.
Of course, the deck did not blow up and officers declared the situation was "all clear" at about 3:16pm.
No arrest was made according to NBPA Executive Director Mitch Karon.
"Disgruntled patron said 'I hope Al Quaida takes over the country and blows up this deck.' We called police, they let him go without arrest. He still had to pay for his parking," Karon said in an email to NewBrunswickToday.com
The car was registered to Michael Rogers, 56, of Linden, according to the police radio transmissions.
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Opinion: Centre should be happy things didn't go worse in Ida-Viru County ({{contentCtrl.commentsTotal}})
Centre earned some 6,000 fewer votes in Ida-Viru County, including Narva, in the 2019 Riigikogu elections. Source: Aili Vahtla/ERR
The latest Riigikogu elections demonstrated that the Centre party has lost significant ground in Ida-Viru County, its old stronghold, and in connection with its top candidates in the electoral district, ERR Narva correspondent Rene Kundla said on Vikerraadio on Monday.
Since the 2007 Riigikogu elections, the Centre Party's yield has remained stable around 20,000 votes. In the most recent elections, however, this number dropped sharply to below 14,000. This was still slightly more than all other candidate lists combined, but this was certainly but a cold comfort for Ida Viru County's Centrists. Before the elections there had been talk of the hope of earning even five mandates in Ida-Viru County, and ultimately they ended up with just half, or three, of the mandates distributed.
The principal drop was attributable to the fact that as a result of a variety of skulduggery in Narva, involving corruption, swarming, Russian-language upper secondary education, the Capital of Culture, Narva Museum, etc., Yana Toom and Mihhail Stalnuhhin's voter numbers in Ida-Viru County decreased by more than a third. While the two of them combined earned the Centre Party 15,200 votes, this time they managed to earn the favour of fewer than 9,000 people.
The lion's share of this loss was borne by Yana Toom, whose support in Narva alone dropped from 4,500 to below 2,000. One likely reason for this is that four years ago, Yana Toom was, for Edgar Savisaar's followers, his representative in Ida-Viru County, while this time she was simply a visitor from the European Parliament.
Repinski made mistakes
For Martin Repinski, Centre's third biggest vote-magnet in Ida-Viru County following the two giants Yana Toom and Mihhail Stalnuhhin, his decision to leave the Riigikogu last summer to take up the office of Jõhvi municipal mayor proved to be fateful. Mr Repinski himself admitted following the elections that mistakes had been made, something with which 600 people who didn't vote for him again agreed. Voters showed Mr Repinski that they were not stupid, because although they may have enjoyed the Women's Day party scheduled a week early due to the elections, they still weren't interested in voting for him.
The fact that it's safer to woo your voters from within the Riigikogu was demonstrated to Martin Repinski by his old rival Dmitri Dmitrijev, who managed to increase his voter numbers while serving as an alternate MP by nearly one third.
Mixed messages on education
One reason why many potential Centre Party voters began rethinking things at the last minute was the party's mixed messages when it came to education-related issues. In connection with the new Kohtla-Järve State Upper Secondary School, there has been a lot of talk about the disappearing of an Estonian-language school, but it is worth noting the nuance here that one Kohtla-Järve city district, the Rakvere-sized Ahtme, will be left without an upper secondary school altogether as a result of the educational reform. This certainly didn't make parents in that area happy.
What likewise no doubt didn't attract any voters was the fact that both Kohtla-Järve and Jõhvi's Centrist bosses allowed the local councils to significantly increase their own salaries. In Kohtla-Järve, for example, this increased by more than one third and now exceeds €4,300 per month.
The dissatisfaction to crop up and continue to grow over Kohtla-Järve's Centrists was felt most by Valeri Korb. Mr Korb, who allowed himself to be named an honorary citizen of Kohtla-Järve by fellow members of the city council between elections, has seen his voter numbers tumble fivefold in 12 years, from 4,000 to 800. Businessman Nikolai Ossipenko's decision to shut down the regional cable television station Lites, where Centrists were given significant air time, last autumn also did Mr Korb a disservice.
Fewer voters
What certainly also played a role in the Centre Party's loss of votes was the fact that, compared to four years ago, the number of eligible voters in Ida-Viru County decreased by more than 6,000. Voter turnout was down as well. But if you look at the votes scooped up by the competition, then the party to steal the most Centre votes in Ida-Viru County — as surprising as it may be — was the Conservative People's Party of Estonia (EKRE).
All in all it can be said that Ida-Viru residents hoped for more from Centre's rise to power in the state than Centre managed to accomplish in the past two years. Considering everything that has been going on in both Ida-Viru County and the country as a whole recently, the Centre Party should nonetheless be pleased that things didn't go even worse for them in Northeastern Estonia.
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These 9 Christmas songs need to be banned immediately (Opinion)
Have you heard political correctness is winning? Have you heard that the attack on the Christmas classic "Baby It's Cold Outside" of the past few years has now resulted in a couple of big names redoing the song? John Legend and Kelly Clarkson have taken it upon themselves to remake it, and the words, into a P.C. monstrosity. It drops November 8, and it should be dropped from the entire planet.
"Baby It's Cold Outside" was a playful, flirty song done at a time when premarital sex was scandalous and social norms were quite different than today. So the P.C. police have tried to demonize the song and turn it into a date rape anthem just because the male in the song is trying to playfully talk the female into staying the night, ignoring the fact the female is clearly wanting to be talked into it.
Some of the new lyrics John Legend came out with?
What would my friends think...
I think they should rejoice
if I had one more drink?
it's your body and your choice
Ugh! Stop it already! Shame on both of you for lending your voices to such nonsensical virtue signaling!
So I suggested on the show this song needs to be banned the moment it comes out, which led to listeners calling in other Christmas songs they would like banned for one reason or another. Here's what else made the chopping block.
"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer"
This was called in by Joanne who clearly had no time for this nonsense. And personally I always felt there was a sly implication in this song that the reindeer was the fallguy and that Grandpa had actually done in his own wife. With lyrics like he's taking it so well? Come on, it's Christmas Eve and your wife was just trampled to death and you're in a good mood? Suspicious!
Anything by Bruce
That's not a song title. Ervie called in saying literally ANYTHING by Bruce Springsteen. The two Christmas tunes that come to mind are "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and "Merry Christmas Baby."
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
This ban was suggested by JoeCarlo and it's hard to argue with. The annoying kid at the beginning of the song doesn't sound nearly upset enough having walked in on his mom acting like a cheating whore.
"Santa Baby"
The version by Madonna is grating with that affectation almost as annoying as her adopted fake British accent. Mick wants this banned.
"Feliz Navidad"
Jean has had enough of this song. No, she doesn't want to build a wall, no she's not racist. It's the repetition. Sounding like it was written on a five minute bus ride to the recording studio, it definitely needed more words.
"Barking Jingle Bells"
Whatever the hell the actual title of this doofus rendition is called, I hate it so much I couldn't even be bothered wasting ten seconds to look it up. You know which song I mean. Rich hates it just as much as I do.
"The Chipmunk Song"
This is that one that is probably more effective than water boarding, you know the one where one of these helium sucking rodents wants a hooooola hooooop? Chris wants this banned and who could possibly blame him.
"Christmas Shoes"
O. M. G. Doesn't this just top everyone's list? A song so depressing, so awful, a former program director of this radio station actually DID ban it. Not only did Mike want this banned, Jermaine called in to back him up on it. If you always hated this song and had any trouble putting your finger on why, follow this link to comic Patton Oswalt's hysterical analysis of just how awful this song is. I had tears in my eyes by the end of it.
Filed Under: Christmas, Holidays 2019
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I have done multiple entries on many terms (for example, “queue”). Generally, the one linked to below is the first entry. To see all of them, use the search function in the column to the right.
24-hour clock
“Ae” spelling
Ahnt (pronunciation of “aunt”)
A proper
Argle bargle; argie bargie
A right
Backbencher
Bob’s Your Uncle
Bog roll
Book (verb)
Browned Off
Bugger
Call on (a phone number)
Can’t be arsed
Chat show
Chat up
Chattering class/es
Cheeky Nando’s
Cheesed off
Chokka
Cock-up
A coffee
Covers band
Crapper
Dab hand
Do (verb; food)
Do (pro predicate)
Dog’s breakfast
Done and done
Done and dusted
Effing
European date format
Faff
Fiddly; fiddly bits
Flummox
Follow-on
Footballisms
From strength to strength
Full credit to
Full of beans
Garden/ing leave
Get on with (a person)
Give a toss
Give (someone) the pip
Go missing
Go wobbly
Gobshite
Gobstopping
Good on (a person)
Gormless
Gutted
Had got
Have a quiet word
Have (someone) on
Hullo
In future
In the street
Inverted commas
Jack the lad
Jiggery-pokery
Journo
Jumble sale
Kerfuffle
Kick/push into the long grass
(Piece of) kit
Kitted out
Knacker’s, knackered, etc.
Knickers in a twist
Knock-on effects
Laddish
Larking, larky
Lie-in
Logical punctuation
Make a hash
Man with a van; white van man
Mewling quim
Mummy tummy
Negotiate (U.K. Residents)
Negotiate (U.S. Residents)
No joy
Nonstarter
Not by a long chalk
Omnishambles
On about
On lead
On the back foot
On the up and up
Organ-eye-zation (pronunciation)
A patch on
Peckish
The penny dropped
A pint
Piss off!
Po-faced
Punch above one’s weight
Punter’s chance
Put paid
Quality (attributive noun)
Rubbish (noun)
Rubbish (verb)
Run-up
Scenario (pronunciation)
Scuppered
Sectioned
Sell-by date
Shambolic
Shite
Shitgibbon
Shock (attributive noun)
Short-listed
Sit for (an exam)
Skint
Slip road/ramp
Sorry?
Sound/seem/feel a [noun]
Spanner in the works
Spoilt
Spoilt (or spoiled) for choice
Square brackets
Stand (for election)
Sticky wicket
Straight away
Stroppy
Suss out
Swings and roundabouts
Take a decision
Taking the piss
Th-fronting (pronunciation)
Thank you very much, indeed
Toff
Top oneself
Tuck into
Two a penny
(At) university
Weds.
Wangle
Wazzock
Well played, sir!
Year on year
… Years on
(Some number of) years’ time
139 responses to “Index of entries”
Johnny | September 25, 2011 at 7:24 pm | Reply
This was fun but some entries really surprised me, perhaps because I grew-up hearing Scotland-born grandparents and their kids (e.g. my dad) using tin, bin, keen, veg, cheers (and “cheerio” as good-bye), daft, dodgy, fishmonger and a coffee (and similarily “a tea”) as part of everyday conversation. I think I do as well but never thought it anything but normal.
More clearly Scot but still used a lot at home were wee, lass, laddie, bonnie, dram…
One Britishism not on your list that I’m hearing lately is “tosser.” Not sure exactly how it relates to wanker.
David Lincoln Brooks | August 1, 2014 at 3:00 pm | Reply
A “tosser” finishes his wank by…..erm…. tossing. yes?
Rachel Stephens | September 26, 2011 at 11:46 am | Reply
Hey…what about “collect”? As in, “I need to collect Rover from the vet.” I wrote “collect” in an email to my husband the other day and he wasn’t sure what I meant. FYI I lived in England in the late 80s and some things stuck with me for a long time, e.g. kitchen roll. It took me a while to remember that kitchen roll = paper towel. Other words/phrases that stuck with me…bin, went missing, on the dole, cheers, and a few others I can’t remember this second.
My British colleagues were curious about “getting canned”. They were disappointed it meant “to be fired or made redundant”; they were thinking it had a sexual connotation :). I personally like the term “made redundant”…wish we used it here.
Chick Pea | September 27, 2012 at 8:23 am | Reply
Rachel- “made redundant” is not exactly the same as being fired; it’s a precise legal term- it means that your *position* is no longer required, It would then be against the law to hire someone else to do the same job,
People say “I’ve been made redundant”, but that’s not technically correct- it’s the *job* that’s redundant (and the person leaving must be compensated, at least to a minimum scale (and often much more),
Herschel | October 5, 2011 at 2:47 pm | Reply
A Briticism that I loathe and that has been spreading like wildfire in the last few years: “At the end of the day” — I don’t like it when a Brit says it either.
I don’t like it either. My other half used to say it *a lot*- I cured it with aversion therapy! Every time she said: “At the end of the day…”, I would butt in and say “It goes dark!”.
She tired of it before I did. 🙂
Jill | November 4, 2011 at 3:00 pm | Reply
Rubbish!
Ben | November 4, 2011 at 4:23 pm | Reply
Norn | November 7, 2011 at 6:43 pm | Reply
How about “have a go” in place of our “give it a try”?
Gaz Baggy Walker | October 8, 2014 at 7:46 pm | Reply
give it a try hero doesn’t have the same ring to it 🙂
Steve Barsky | December 28, 2011 at 11:56 am | Reply
“Call on” in the telephone meaning is US, instead of “call me at. ” Call me on xxx-xxx-xxxx. In the sense of coming to visit, that is common for salespeople in the US.
Up to school, university. I know that “university” instead of “college” is Canadian also, but the “up to” part is from the mother country. Analog to “down to” the country.
Anya | January 1, 2012 at 6:45 pm | Reply
“She put the phone down on me” — Americans would probably just say “hung up on me”
Steady on
Henry | January 5, 2012 at 3:26 pm | Reply
One I heard on a radio program this morning: bouncy castle, which I always translate into “moon bounce”, whether it looks like a castle or not. There are phrases that I imagine are so daft or so twee that no American would ever use them and yet I am so very often surprised.
It’s a castle, it’s bouncy, it’s a bouncy castle…. if nothing else it’s descriptive of what you get 😉
Steve | February 11, 2012 at 11:44 am | Reply
Where is “nonstarter”?
Ben | March 5, 2012 at 8:13 pm | Reply
Is that actually a Britishism?
David Lincoln Brooks | April 23, 2013 at 8:55 am | Reply
A nonstarter is any idea or project which never gets off the ground, in fact never makes it beyond the planning/discussion state, usually because of one crucial lack or flaw. ‘Moving to London with insufficient money for rent was a nonstarter for Jill and Ian.’ It never got any farther than the planning stage…it was impractical, un-do-able.
Garry Stevens | March 26, 2012 at 12:00 am | Reply
I couldn’t find an address to make general suggestions for noobs, so this thread seems appropriate.
I came across the term “fair cop” in the blog of Brad DeLong, economics professor at Berkeley. I always thought this was quintessential Cockney (“Fair cop, guv!”= “You caught me fair and square, boss”). Is this in fact common in US English as well?
PS I am continually delighted, surprised and sometimes a little nonplussed to see terms that I thought were universal English are in fact noobs.
shetuck | April 10, 2012 at 11:25 am | Reply
OOOOH. I am over the moon that I found this site today!
You weren’t bouncing on the bouncy castle mentioned above were you?
MG | April 22, 2012 at 7:23 pm | Reply
Just found this site, love it! What about the use of “wang” as in, “I’ll just wang over.” Also, the use of “Doris” to refer to a married woman.
Merched | September 27, 2012 at 5:34 pm | Reply
I’m British & Wang means Penis. I wouldn’t recommend using it in the sentence you’ve suggested, might lead to some red faces, ha!
IvanOpinion | May 24, 2013 at 6:46 am |
Wang does indeed mean penis, but it is also a verb meaning to throw. Many school fairs in the UK would include a welly (gumboot) wanging competition.
Diamond Geeza | September 30, 2012 at 3:24 am | Reply
I don’t know what ‘wang’ means where you are, but here in England the term ‘wang’ usually refers to the male genetalia. I’m also unsure as to the term doris meaning a married woman specifically, it would normally be the case that your mother might be reffered to as the ‘old dorothy’ or ‘old dot’ and some may refer to their wives as ‘doris’ in latter years.
Chick Pea | September 30, 2012 at 4:38 am |
“Doris” is widely used by cops in the Met (and possibly elsewhere) to refer to a female officer; it’s actually a somewhat offensive term, as it comes from rhyming slang: Doris Day = easy lay.
znepj | May 24, 2013 at 10:15 am |
“Wang” as penis is an Americanism that’s crept into British English; “wang” as in throw is older (as in the welly-wanging contests mentioned above).
DaveW | May 23, 2012 at 9:28 am | Reply
Not yet on the list (but coming ‘straight away,’ I hope):
winge
tosser
spawny
knock me up
Rachel: “getting canned” does have a (recent?) sexual connotation. Check Dan Savage’s advice column (“Savage Love”).
diplomum | October 1, 2012 at 4:05 am | Reply
Here’s a fun one thatr always makes me smile: “Little man” as in “there was a little man selling balloons”. Or “I need to get a little man in to fix the sink”.
Gaz Baggy Walker | October 8, 2014 at 7:56 pm |
In Scotland the expression is similar but for little we use wee and it’s normally used in the context of a guy over 6ft, “awwright wee man?” or if someone is of slight height we use, yip, you guessed it, big man, “awwright there big man?”
Sophie | May 23, 2012 at 3:14 pm | Reply
What a joy to find this site. I’m British and have been living in NYC for 14 years now, but still find myself amazed at the differences in our use of a common language. One of my favorite jobs was as a copy editor for an American-edited English-language newspaper in Moscow in the early 90s. Our readership included many nationalities, including British and American expats. Though not really NOOBs, my two favorite catches in articles written by fantastic young American journalists were:
“She walked down the runway, showing flashes of fanny through the thigh-high slits in her skirt,” and, just a few weeks later, “The typical image of a Conservative minister sitting at his desk in suspenders.”
Left unedited, neither of these would have made suitable reading in a daily paper for our British readers. “Fanny,” a harmless reference to buttocks in the US, means “vagina” in British slang. “Suspenders” refers to a garter belt in the UK. (Brits say “braces.” Though perhaps “suspenders” would have been more appropriate for a few Conservative ministers at that time.)
Have you seen the famous bit of TV when Fanny and Johnny Craddock were on their cookery show? She’d been demonstrating how to make doughnuts.
During the sign-off, Johnny piped up “Goodbye, and I hope all your doughnuts turn out like Fanny’s”. 🙂
Annie | July 31, 2014 at 2:20 am | Reply
In the UK suspenders are also used to hold up men’s socks – I had visions of Conservative ministers sitting at their desks with no trousers, just their underpants and socks with suspenders!
znepj | August 1, 2014 at 5:38 am |
Annie – when they talk about a minister in suspenders – they’re talking about him being dressed in women’s clothing for sexual gratification! “Suspenders” is never used unqualified to refer to something to hold up socks – for the half-dozen people in the UK that use them (all over 80, I suspect), they would be “sock-suspenders” or more likely, “garters”. The image was intended to be satirical (there’s a widespread belief that despite the Conservatives constantly banging on about “family values”, that there are some very odd goings-on in high places.
Brian H | September 25, 2012 at 11:37 pm | Reply
Heh. This side of the pond, “braces” means dental braces, for straightening splayed teeth.
Here too- it’s usually clear from the context which is meant. 🙂
English Chris | September 27, 2012 at 5:56 am | Reply
Heres a few:
“bumming a fag” -begging for a cigarette,
“thats pants” -thats not great,
“nicking” -taking things without asking / stealing, so you could also “nick a fag”. Stop that sniggering in the back row!
In some parts of England I was once told that “a couple” could mean 3, bit like a bakers dozen being 13 maybe. The “Happy Couple” has some interesting connotations there…
Ged P | September 27, 2012 at 6:49 am | Reply
‘hanger left/ right’ i.e. turn left or right especially when giving driving directions
In north east England ‘wife’ means any female above teenage/ early 20s years
‘the dogs bollocks’- top quality, brilliant
‘brass monkey weather’ from the phrase ‘cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey’, possibly derived from a navy contraption to stack cannon balls
It’s not “hanger left” – it’s “hang a left”.
And the brass monkey/cannonball thing is a myth- cannonballs were stored in *wooden* racks on board ship. See snopes.com for details.
Biffa | September 27, 2012 at 7:03 am | Reply
Thanks, this site is the dog’s bollocks!
Jamie | September 27, 2012 at 7:47 am | Reply
Went out of the house this morning (in England) and it was a little bit cold. So of course, we would say it was a little “Nippy”, or its a bit “Parky”, both meaning cold.
John N Wall | September 27, 2012 at 8:58 am | Reply
One word that needs to be added here is “quite.” In British English “quite” means “sort of,” even, ironically, “not very.” It does not have the quality of strongly intensifying meaning as it has, or can have, in the USA.
IvanOpinion | May 24, 2013 at 6:54 am | Reply
It can have the intensifying meaning. So the meaning of “I am quite exhausted” could be “I am slightly exhausted” or “I am completely exhausted”, depending on how you say it. But I think the latter would be considered old-fashioned usage in the UK.
Sean | September 27, 2012 at 3:39 pm | Reply
Great blog – I’d second the use of “quite” as a quasi-NOOB, since Americans seem to use it differently than the Brits. One term I’ve noticed popping up on my Facebook is “ace.” It’s become common for random & unconnected friends to post “that’s ace” or something similar. Just a thought.
Also worth a mention is ‘Lush’ a term used mainly in South Wales & the West Country it means something that is good, great, attractive & can describe how some one looks, how something tastes or to describe a situation. I use it at least once a day!
It’s more widely used than that- it’s quite a “now” word with the younger population- my daughter and her friends use it in this way all the time.
Charles Mayfield | October 31, 2012 at 2:05 pm | Reply
I have come across a term that was very puzzling at first- “chuffed.” It sounds to me as it should mean upset when it apparently means just the opposite. I hear it from time to time on television shows from England.
chuffed=excited to commence something, as a new project.
Chuffed means pleased (about anything). “I was so chuffed to win the competition.”
curlytop | November 1, 2012 at 12:42 pm | Reply
How about “doing sums”? Hasn’t been used much in the US in the past century, but then yesterday’s NYT had “Mr. Day-Lewis prepared for the part not by splitting rails or doing sums on the back of a shovel but mostly by reading.”
Ann | November 3, 2012 at 6:38 pm | Reply
What about “scatty” for scatterbrain. as in the movie the secret about cats and dogs w/ actor Ben something can’t remember his last name.
Rick | November 4, 2012 at 5:25 pm | Reply
I think there must be some regionality at play here. A solid third of these have been in common usage in New Hampshire/New England for my 50 years. Fun site though.
jim coyle | January 10, 2013 at 10:59 pm | Reply
The use of Tarmac by Americans refering to the runway bothers me it is a British company trade-name for asphalt as Macadam and Coldprovia was onced used in the USA. most Americans think thet come across as world travelers when they use it.
themagicrobot | January 30, 2013 at 6:28 am | Reply
I tried to correct a friend in the States who often claimed to be “pissed” when she was annoyed. I said the correct terminology is “pissed-off” as in the UK to be pissed is to be drunk. And it is “chips” not “french fries”…..
PS: congrats at your receiving coverage in a UK newspaper which is how I found this blog.
David Lincoln Brooks | February 12, 2013 at 9:09 am | Reply
How about “you lot” ? I’ve started using it hyere in Texas!
How about, “We legged it.” ? (We escaped as quickly as we could.)
One Britishism I picked up in England and South Africa was telling someone, when he’d helped you with a small favor— like, say, a waiter fetching you a wedge of lemon for your tea— was, “Oh, you’re a star!” I still say it in the USA.
How about a “car park” ? (US= parking garage)
Marc | February 12, 2013 at 3:35 pm | Reply
A “parking garage” would generally be under cover, yes? That’s one sort of car park, but it’s a broader term. Most car parks are outdoors – just a flat open space with marked bays. The other main type is the multi-storey car park – closer to what I understand by “parking garage”.
jdrum00 | April 16, 2013 at 4:22 pm | Reply
Having a ball reading all these. I’m U.S.-born-and-raised, but an unabashed fan of Shakespeare, Monty Python, J.K. Rowling, et al. As a scientist, I was moved to run some statistics. I categorized the 144 terms above as follows: 44 that I regularly use in my own speech without the least hint of irony; 86 I would be perfectly comfortable using in context, around Brits, or tongue-in-cheek; 32 I would immediately understand, but wouldn’t tend to use myself; and 21 I honestly hadn’t heard before. (The remaining 14, I couldn’t classify without looking at the actual articles to make sure I had the sense of them right, and I don’t have time at the moment.)
On a day in which you wake up confused and disorientated, you might say, “I don’t know whether I’m Arthur or Martha today!”
If you fall, seemingly effortlessly, into a fortunate situation, your mates might say, “Well, YOU surely landed with your bum in the butter, didn’t you?”
If you express disgust with the dirty clothes of a chimney-sweep, a fr5iend might chide you with, “Hey, where there’s muck, there’s brass!”
If you’re a feckless ne’er-do-well, but make a gallant promise to achieve something, a doubting friend might wither: “Chance would be a fine thing!” (ie., fat chance of THAT ever happening!)
“Are we still expected to give a speech, or has that idea been kicked into the long grass?” (ie., scuttled)
Man 1: “I just can’t get my hand on the knob!”
Woman: (knowingly) “Said the bishop to the actress!” (ie., initial phrase can be construed as a risque’ double-entendre).
50 yr old Brit and never heard the first two, but doesn’t mean they are wrong.
An alternative to the bishop/actress phrase would be “Nudge, nudge, wink, wink!”, from the Monty Python sketch.
David Lincoln Brooks | August 23, 2017 at 12:09 pm |
The lady who taught me those first two phrases was from WWII-era Yorkshire.
I’ve started using the British phrases: “funnily enough” and “in the fullness of time”
“I’m all right, Jack!” An old English phrase suggesting how many Britons are, frustratingly, too proud to open up or to seek help or to admit problems. An expression of pride (and sometimes unwillingness to help others)
As a Brit I have always understood this to signify selfishness. Often used to refer to the behaviour of someone else who is unwilling to do something about a problem because it does not affect them personally. Perhaps Americans would say “Not my problem!”?
“I’m all right, Jack!” isn’t an expression of pride or unwillingness to open up: it means “I’m OK, Your problem is not my problem, leave me out of it.”
“Every hole’s a goal!” A lewd expression exchanged post-game by drunk rugby players… meaning “In my current state, any orifice of a woman would be fine for me.”
haaark | June 29, 2013 at 10:21 am | Reply
“I’m alright Jack” is also the title of a really (really!!) funny Brit movie with Peter Sellers in his first star role as a trade union overseer.
It is a comedy about management-men relations. A classic line from Sellers:-“We cannot accept incompetency (sic) as a reason for dismissal. That is victimisation”.
If you see it in a dvd bin-get it!
David Lincoln Brooks | July 31, 2014 at 7:16 pm | Reply
“What it says on the tin”: meaning, there is no discrepancy between what a product is labeled as, and what it does. Can be used when a tin can is not even involved, as with software. Can imply that there will be “no surprises” or maybe that something will be “turnkey”. Kind of like the American “WYSIWYG”: “What you see is what you get.”
znepj | August 1, 2014 at 5:48 am | Reply
“Does exactly what it says on the tin” comes from advertising.slogans from Ronseal. They sell paint, varnish, stain etc with very prosaic names.
e.g “Ronseal quick-drying wood stain: does exactly what it says on the tin.”
They have actually copyrighted the phrase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Does_exactly_what_it_says_on_the_tin
David Lincoln Brooks | August 1, 2014 at 6:23 am |
Thanks for that!
Brits know what a “tannoy” is: an outdoor speaker mounted at, say, a train station or sports arena. e.g. “She was so surprised to hear her name paged over the tannoy.” This is an example of a commercial brand trademark– the audio hardware firm Tannoy— slowly becoming a generic noun for any kind of public loudspeaker.
David Lincoln Brooks | August 1, 2014 at 6:29 am | Reply
I’ve been watching the two excellent British TV serials, HAPPY VALLEY and LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX, both set in modern semi-rural West Yorkshire. Those shows are just choc-a-bloc (another English term!) with wonderful old English words and phrases! Scriptwriter Sally Wainwright really knows how to capture all that language in its proper context.
Then there is your “anorak”: a person thought to be nerdy, pedantic, swottish, self-absorbed, socially maladroit perhaps.
“In Cloud Cuckoo-Land”. When a person is not thinking rationally or practically. I hear it especially used in regard to the politically correct brigade of England’s “Loony Left”. ie., teachers who propose teaching sex and birth-control to 8-yr-olds…
You’ll never hear a Yank say: “And then I was made redundant.” (ie., let go from a job)
Being made redundant is a specific legal situation- it’s not just being fired.
If you “are made redundant”, it means that the employer is saying that the *job* is redundant – they can’t sack you and then take someone else on to do the same work. They also have to pay you – depending on length of service, it can be a substantial amount (e.g. my girlfriend has worked for the same company for nearly 25 years – if made redundant, it would cost them around $100K. That’s more than the statutory minimum – but even that is substantial after 25 years).
Good to know, thanks for that elucidation.
Love it when English coppers in films break down a door and ask, “‘ello… Who’s been playing silly buggers, then?”
Not listed in the topmost list is the “off-licence”. This means a liquor store, but I’m not sure how it got that name. znepj?
Also, very offensive nowadays, understandably, but when I was in London, people would tell me they were just going to “pop round the paki-shop”. Eek!
Anyone that sells alcohol must be licensed- you can either have an “on-licence” (to sell alcohol to be consumed *on* the premises) or an “off-licence” (to sell alcohol to be consumed *off* the premises) – or both, in the case of some pubs.
So “off-license” is a form of synedoche.
David Lincoln Brooks | August 5, 2014 at 10:46 am |
Great to know, thank you.
kit | December 10, 2014 at 11:45 am | Reply
What year was this?
The first time I heard this was in 1978 London. Granted, that’s quite a long time ago now. I suspect the phrase is MUCH more non-PC today.
In the 1986 UK movie, PRICK UP YOUR EARS, Joe Orton’s mother says, “Fancy covering me sheets with distemper!” (in this case, painting them with green paint)
I’ve never heard “distemper” used in this context before. In the States, it is only used to describe a disease pets get.
In that same film, a landlady asks, “What are you going to do? Shag the dimplex? ”
I know what shag is, but I’ve never heard the word dimplex used Stateside.
Anthony Kaye | March 13, 2015 at 5:39 am | Reply
Distemper is rather basic thin paint -for wallpaper etc.
A dimplex is a small semi-portable oil-filled electric radiator. Presumably the joke is that it is flat, solid, and with no space for penetrations-quite unshaggable in fact!
Gotta love the British expression, “on the razzle” It means “going out on the town to party and look for sex”, I do believe…
(though I think this may be quite dated by now, ie., maybe from the DOWNTON era?).
http://www.wordreference.com/definition/razzle
Still used, but early C.20 in origin.
I’ve never heard the word “gymkhana” used Stateside. Meaning a fancy society equestrian event where horseriders jump hurdles, etc.
I believe it’s of Indian origin: yes – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymkhana
In a heated discussion, a Brit will say, “I take your point on board” ie., “I will concede you that point you’re making”.
Usually abbreviated to just “I take your point”, or increasingly, just “point” – which I think is an Americanism.
A quaint old English saying is “spend a penny”, ie., look for a toilet.
More blunt is Patsy Stone on AbFab saying, “I’ll just have a slash” (I need to urinate) haha
Based on the fact that you literally had to “spend a penny”: there were public toilets funded by having to place a penny (old style) into a turnstile to get in.
“went tits up”= died, failed, ended, went “belly up”
“rumpy-pumpy” sex, especially of the illicit kind.
Ohh, where to start on this one? 🙂
Getting your leg over
Getting your Nookie
Slap & Tickle
Dipping your wick
Riding/get a ride (Scot’s/Irish)
To name but a few
“mucky week-end” = a weekend, usually at a hotel, devoted to lovemaking, especially if clandestine.
“big, girl’s blouse”= a male who is effeminate or timid; who shows no manly courage or toughness.
example: “I tried playing rugby, but when the ball came me way I ran from it like a big, girl’s blouse.”
“For love nor money” = said of something very scarce or rare
e.g.: “You can’t get a cheap flat now in Bayswater for love nor money”.
“at her majesty’s pleasure” = in prison.
e.g. “That MP embezzled a million quid, and now I believe he’s residing at her majesty’s pleasure.”
Another is a euphemism we used in Scotland “Aye, wee George is up at the big house” – meaning wee George is banged up
“Detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure” is actually a legal term, reflecting the fact that (theoretically) all legal authority derives from the crown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Her_Majesty's_pleasure
rasputin1963 | August 24, 2014 at 12:20 am | Reply
“shirty” = irritable or querulous. Heard this on BBC Four today.
ex: The professor became shirty when his students sauntered in late to his classes.
Bugger/ohh bugger/bugger me – still seen by my gran as THEE worse swear word in history – but have heard it used quite a lot in American shows recently (last time I heard it was on the Simpsons last week when Homer called Bart a ‘bugger’) as we all know, buggery is anal penetration for sexual gratification
David Lincoln Brooks | August 23, 2017 at 11:04 am | Reply
Then again, Americans will never say, “he’s called”. They’ll say, “his name is”.
“See my tailor, he’s called Simon, I know it’s going to fit.”
(from “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” by Ian Dury and the Blockheads)
Jeremy Hawthorn | August 23, 2017 at 11:11 am |
Interesting re “his name is” / “he’s called.” In England there are regional variations regarding usage here. As a south Londoner, I’d say “His name is James but he’s called Jim.” But when I lived in the north-east (Sunderland), people would say “He’s called James” meaning that that was his name.
Couple of classic Scottish phrases;
More bottle than United Dairies or More front than a Tesco’s window – supremely confident, especially in a fight
More cheek than 2 arses – very, very cheeky
Lenny W | March 11, 2015 at 9:34 pm | Reply
Two British-isms that have yet to take hold here (thankfully) are “minutes time” and the over use of “absolutely” as absolutely bonkers, …crap, …spot on etc. etc.
If they did, I’d go absolutely bonkers in a minutes time.
rasputin1963 | March 12, 2015 at 9:51 am | Reply
‘mutton dressed as lamb’ : A rather meanspirited remark one might make, sotto voce, about a middle-aged woman trying to dress in some tight or revealing or super-trendy fashion, best worn by a woman in her teens or twenties.
Anthony Kaye | March 12, 2015 at 10:51 am | Reply
Blowsy. A word used to describe women of a certain age whose once voluptuous charms are beginning to suffer from the insidious effects of gravity.
Originally used by rose-growers to describe a flower in between it looking at its best and the petals dropping off.
Harvest Festivals.
A term used to describe clothing worn by women who wish to hide their physical charms, or to hide the fact that they are losing them.
Popularised in the classic ’70s Britcom ‘Rising Damp’:
Rigsby (the landlord who lusts after Miss Jones) to his tenant Allen: “How’s Miss Jones tonight?
Allen: Oh you’ll get nowhere with her. She’s wearing her ‘harvest festivals’
Rigsby: Harvest festivals-what are they?
Allen: All is safely gathered in!
IvanOpinion | March 12, 2015 at 11:19 am | Reply
Not a usage I recall ever having heard (51 year old Brit) outside the actual sitcom. Not that that means it isn’t a fairly common usage.
Anthony Kaye | March 12, 2015 at 12:47 pm | Reply
I don’t believe that Eric Chappell (scriptwriter) would have known the phrase from his upbringing in Lincolnshire. After all, it’s not the most humorous of counties!.
I suspect it’s a Liverpudlian expression which was picked up by a man with an acute ear for such things.
“sherbets” : a funny euphemism for alcoholic beverages. ‘Oh dear; I’m afraid our Nigel has had one too many sherbets tonight.’
BlightyGirl | November 19, 2015 at 8:27 am | Reply
To Knock Up
Embarrassed to recall my first trip to the US in the 80’s as a sweet and innocent young female legal bod. I was staying at a posh Manhattan hotel to attend an early morning signing ceremony for a big acquisition that had some very famous VIPs in attendance. One of the lawyers was a very loud New Yorker who was seen as a bit of a legend and, by chance, he was put in the room next to mine. The night before, nervous I might sleep through my alarm, I asked him to make sure I was up and about when he went down to the ceremony. Needless to say he didn’t, and I came down a few minutes after the others. The Chairman asked me if I had got lost and I explained rather loudly (just as there was an unfortunate hush in the background), that I had been expecting the lawyer to swing by my room to knock me up. I had no idea why this statement caused such a stunned silence. I made the local legal rag as the only person ever to have rendered this lawyer speechless.
znepj | February 7, 2017 at 7:44 am | Reply
Used to be an actual job:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up
Chris N | October 9, 2016 at 12:26 pm | Reply
Has “jobsworth” not reached the States yet? You must have them – a petty official who insists on sticking to the rules and regulations even where they are clearly irrelevant to a particular situation. Derived from “it’s more than my job’s worth to [deviate from the rule book]…..”
znepj | October 12, 2016 at 10:55 am | Reply
“Jobsworth” by Jeremy Taylor
jer11eng@aim.com | February 4, 2017 at 6:52 am | Reply
Named for / named after. There is a fair amount of discussion about these variants elsewhere on the internet. As a Brit I was brought up to say that little Jimmy was named after his grandpa. The US “named for” just sounds weird to me. But recently “named for” has become more and more common in British usage. I wonder: is the reverse true? (Compare “the next several days” – which I “corrected” to “the next few days” in my Norwegian students’ essays until I discovered that it was an Americanism. It too is creeping into British usage.)
I’ve never heard anyone other than an American say “named for”. Just my experience.
I do notice that Britons always pronounce “wrath” as “roth”… even if they come from the North Country where many such “a” words are changed to flat/short “a” (like dance, laugh, pass, France, path, etc.)
I recently was bemused to hear a British narrator in a doco refer to that “famous American Steinbeck novel, THE GRAPES OF ROTH”.
There would be plenty of American listeners, I suspected, who would not know what novel he was referring to…
Jeremy Hawthorn | August 23, 2017 at 11:37 am | Reply
There’s a Marx Brothers film set partly, I think, in Oxford, that includes the following exchange or something like it:
Secretary: ‘Sir, the Dean’s outside and he’s waxing wrath!’
Groucho: ‘Well, let Roth wax the Dean for a while’
Given what you say, the joke wouldn’t work with US speakers.
David Lincoln Brooks | August 23, 2017 at 11:47 am |
There are also plenty of pop song lyrics that work only with a British pronunciation.
I like the way Britons will use the expression, “to get on”. ie., to carry on amenably with their daily life’s activities.
Example: “Racism is terrible… because most people in London just want to get on.”
And the use of “on” (a time designator, similar to “minute’s time”).
A British doco narrator saying: WACO….TEN YEARS ON
In the USA, “clouds”, “eggs” and “pickles” are most often used in the plural.
In Britain, the weatherman will say, “Those in the North should expect to see a bit of cloud.”
The English will say: “I thought I’d have a bit of pickle with my egg.” where a Yank will say, “I decided to have some pickles with my eggs.”
znepj | August 23, 2018 at 3:57 pm | Reply
Pickle and pickles are two different things in the UK:
“pickle” is something like Branston or piccalilli, a spread with pickled vegetables; “pickles” means picked onions or gherkins etc.
znepj | August 23, 2018 at 3:57 pm |
“Pickled” not “picked”, sheesh.
David Lincoln Brooks | September 13, 2018 at 2:27 am |
What we Yanks call “relish” ?
David Lincoln Brooks | August 20, 2018 at 6:36 pm | Reply
I’ve just learned (learnt?) the English expression ‘pukka’, meaning excellent. ‘That’s a pukka bit of kit.’ It comes from Hindu, I believe?
A legacy of the Raj, like bungalow, pyjamas etc.
When did Britons stop saying “la-BORE-a-tree” for “laboratory”? The sort of pronunciation I used to hear Basil Rathbone saying in 1940’s movies… but young Britons now say “LAB-ra-tor-ee”, American style.
You think? I can’t say I’ve heard that version: most will just say “lab”.
Stephen Forest | August 22, 2018 at 6:24 pm | Reply
I’ve have heard ‘Bob’s your Uncle’ spoken several times among Americans lately. Pretty sure that’s an adopted Anglicism.
Ben Yagoda | August 23, 2018 at 7:53 am | Reply
There’s an entry for Bob’s Your Uncle–look for it in the Search field.
David Lincoln Brooks | September 13, 2018 at 2:22 am | Reply
I was listening to BBC4’s audio drama “The Archers” yesterday. One earthy Yorkshire character exclaimed: ‘I’m so bloody bored with him, always wandering about with a face like a smacked arse.”
I don’t know what that means… can anyone clarify here?
Ben Yagoda | September 13, 2018 at 8:27 am | Reply
I can! https://benyagoda.com/2018/02/26/smacked-ass-an-appreciation/
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2015, Health Care Freedom, Parental Rights, Uncategorized
Update: Amish Daughter Healthy Despite Health Care “Experts”
In this picture, taken September 24, 2015 at the Hershberger’s roadside stand — Sarah (2nd from right) with her father and four of her nine siblings.
I visited the home of Andy and Anna Hershberger to deliver the good news that the Medina County Probate Court had at long last formally terminated the guardianship it had created over their now 12-year-old daughter, Sarah.
A government hospital, Akron Children’s Hospital, sought to establish the guardianship to take Sarah from her Amish parents and seven siblings to force chemotherapy on her, even though all signs indicated that the chemotherapy itself appeared to be killing her, was certain to sterilize her, and would no doubt permanently change her life for the worse, even if she were to survive it.
The parents objected, seeking to treat Sarah’s mild form of cancer with a less invasive alternative treatment that appeared to be succeeding. It was at that time – – June of 2013 – that one of the State’s doctors testified that absent “immediate chemotherapy” Sarah would certainly be dead within six months. The court found this evidence compelling.
As the Amish community was put in touch with the 1851 Center, court battles ensued. Ultimately, those battles resulted in protecting Andy and Anna Hershberger’s fundamental constitutional right to make important health care decision for their daughter.
Two years later, having never undergone chemotherapy, Sarah couldn’t be healthier. Court records disclosed hearing indicated the following:
“[Sarah] exhibits no symptoms of lymphoma”
“There are no reports or indications that Sarah cannot keep up with her work or her siblings on a daily basis.”
“Medicine is not always right, as evidenced by Sarah’s survival in the face of ‘certainty’ she would die without treatment”
“There is no need for Sarah’s health to be on the Court’s radar”
This case exposed the worst of the alignment between health care “experts,” Ohio’s big hospital lobby, and faulty government legislation:
The statute at issue, still on the books, gives Ohio judges the freedom to overrule suitable parents when they hold a differing opinion as to the “best interests of the child.”
Government hospitals put forth so-called experts to testify that there is only one way to treat a particular ailment, and that “one best way” must be imposed through forced health care, even over parents’ thoughtful objections.
Average Ohio parents lack the resources to hire an expert doctor to rebut the so-called “expert” doctor that their government is using against them (funded by their own tax dollars).
So long as government locks in “the one best treatment” by forcing all to comply with that protocol, medical innovation and experimentation will suffer.
Fortunately for Sarah, the Amish community is not conventional, and refused to bow to government commands. We at the 1851 Center are proud to have played a role in defending suitable Ohio parents’ moral and constitutional right to make important health care decision for their children.
But this battle continues. Ohio suffers from a cavalcade of health care “experts”, eager to deprive of us of our autonomy in light of their “certainty” that they know what is best for us.
But as this now-closed saga has proven, these experts have no skin in the game, arrogantly pontificate without fear of consequences, and are in fact frequently wrong.
Ohioans cannot afford to trust their health or their children to government expertise. We have already been swept into a system whereby we are forced to fund much of what now passes for health care in our state and nation, whether we use it or not. But the matter of whether we must be forced to use itis another matter entirely.
The Ohio General Assembly – – members of which laud health care freedom, family values, and parental choice while campaigning for office – – cannot justify maintenance of Ohio’s wide-open and highly subjective “best interests of the child” test. This test allows county judges to overrule health care, educational, and other important decisions of suitable Ohio parents. Once overruled, children can be immediately seized from their homes.
In the wake of Sarah’s case, this concept came to be known as “medical kidnapping.”
The Hershberger’s case is a lesson for all of us: we’re not as smart as we think we are. Knowledge is decentralized, and when in doubt, those closest to the situation, families (and not government experts with special designations next to their names) must make life-altering decisions.
Further, Sarah’s good health bolsters the case against forced health care that we supposedly cannot live without (literally, in this case).
It is now time for Ohio legislators to protect Ohio families from wayward judges. This can be done by reforming Ohio’s unconstitutional “best interests of the child” test.
In the meantime, Ohioans must continue to question authority.
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Victory for Parental Rights: State Agrees to End Stand-Off with Amish Family over Forced Health Care
Official who had sought to take family’s daughter from home and force chemotherapy on her, despite parent’s earnest objections and Health Care Freedom Amendment, resigns as guardian
Family will continue to pursue alternative treatment
Columbus, OH – The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law accepted the Resignation as Limited Guardian of a state official attempting to, on behalf of the State and Akron Children’s Hospital, force chemotherapy on ten-year-old Sarah Hershberger.
While the resignation still requires the signature of Probate Judge Kevin Dunn, Judge Dunn is expected to approve the resignation sometime next week, effectively ending the two-month stand-off with Sarah’s parents, Andy and Anna Hershberger, who, concerned that the chemotherapy was killing their daughter, sought the right to first try a less invasive alternative treatment that the hospital did not provide.
Andy and Anna, after the Court’s order, left the country to pursue an alternative treatment and prevent Sarah from being taken from them. The family reports that Sarah has responded well to the alternative treatment, the cancer is receding, and she is in excellent physical condition.
“We made it clear to our opponents that they were in for a protracted battle over fundamental principles and constitutional rights; and that on each, they were on the wrong side,” said Maurice Thompson, Executive Director of the 1851 Center.
“The Judge’s approval of this Resignation will pave the way for the family’s return home, which will allow Sarah to receive the family’s preferred treatment under the best possible conditions,” continued Thompson. “We hope that this Resignation also seals one of the darkest moments for parental rights and health care freedom in the State’s history: a court ordering a little girl to be ripped away from her loving and competent parents, and forced to submit to procedures that could kill or sterilize her, simply because her parents sought to first pursue a less invasive treatment option – – one the hospital disagreed with because it did not itself provide it.”
On November 19, the 1851 Center announced its representation of the Hershbergers, maintaining:
Section 21, Article I of the Ohio Constitution, the Ohio Healthcare Freedom Amendment passed by 67 percent of Ohio voters in 2011 prohibits the compulsion of any person “to participate in a health care system.”
Even before Section 21, the Ohio Supreme Court held that the Ohio Constitution ensures “personal security, bodily integrity, and autonomy,” and therefore “[t]he right to refuse medical treatment” is amongst the “rights inherent in every individual.”
The U.S Supreme Court has repeatedly confirmed the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution clearly provides protection to parents in the “care, custody, and control” of their children, including the right “to direct the upbringing . . . of children under their control.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has also ruled that the “primary role of the parents in the upbringing of their children is now established beyond debate as an enduring American tradition,” and “[t]he statist notion that governmental power should supersede parental authority in all cases because some parents abuse and neglect children is repugnant to American tradition.”
The litigation began when the Hershbergers removed their daughter from Akron Children’s Hospital in July, in favor of a less invasive alternative treatment, after it appeared as though chemotherapy itself was a greater threat to her than her mild form of cancer. The Hospital then moved in court to take Sarah from the Hershbergers and force treatment in July.
The hospital’s move came only after county social services officials found the Hershbergers to be quality parents, and, and despite hospital demands, refused to take Sarah from the family. The Medina County probate court found that the Hershbergers were model parents, explaining “there is no evidence the parents are unfit or unstable,” and “there is not a scintilla of evidence showing the parents are unfit.”
However, the Appellate Court used an obscure Ohio statute intended to address child abuse and neglect to order Sara to be taken from the home and forced to undergo chemotherapy.
The Court made this ruling even though Sarah’s mild form of cancer is a type that can and is being treated without chemotherapy, and despite conceding that chemotherapy may well cause loss of hair, infections, infertility, cardiovascular disease, damage to internal organs, an increased risk of contracting other cancers, and even death.
The case remains pending on a jurisdictional motion before the Ohio Supreme Court and on appeal to the Ninth District; however those appeals are likely to be mooted by the Judge’s approval of the Resignation.
October 12, 2015: Medical Daily: Amish Family Wins Chemotherapy Case; Daughter No Longer Forced To Receive Leukemia Treatment
October 9, 2015: Business Insider: Court battle over Amish girl’s cancer treatment ends
October 2, 2015: Medina Gazette: Attorney: Amish girl who fled country to avoid chemo is cancer-free
March 11, 2014: Reason.com: Amish vs. the Courts: Family Speaks Out on Fleeing the U.S. to Save Daughter from Court-Mandated Chemo [VIDEO]
February 14, 2014: Medina Gazette: Judge accepts guardian’s resignation in Amish medical case
February 8, 2014: 6 ABC Action News: Ohio parents fight law over girl’s forced chemo
January 21, 2014: ABC News via Associated Press: Amish Family: Forced Chemo Order Violates Rights
January 21, 2014: Medina Gazette: Attorney: Court had no authority to force Amish girl’s cancer treatments
December 27, 2013: Daily Mail: Court was wrong to appoint guardian to force Amish girl to have chemotherapy, family says
December 26, 2013: Washington Post via Associated Press: Ohio Amish argue against guardian in chemo case
December 6, 2013: Reason.com: Amish Girl in Ohio Won’t Be Forced to Have Chemotherapy
December 3, 2013: Natural News Radio: Joni Abbott hosts with guests Donna Navarro and Hershberger family attorney Maurice Thompson
November 29, 2013: New York Daily News: Amish girl in hiding to avoid Ohio court’s ruling on her cancer treatment options
November 28, 2013: Good Morning America: Amish Girl With Leukemia, Family Flees US to Avoid Chemotherapy
December 6, 2013 /6 Comments/by 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
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State’s Forced Chemotherapy on Amish Child Violates Parental Rights, Health Care Freedom Amendment
State sues to take Amish family’s daughter and force chemo on her after chemo nearly kills her and family chooses different treatment option
Columbus, OH – The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law began representation of Andy and Anna Hershberger, parents of Sarah Hershberger, a ten year old Amish girl upon whom the State of Ohio, through Akron Children’s Hospital, seeks to force an unnecessary and potentially-deadly form of chemotherapy.
The litigation began when the Hershbergers removed their daughter from the Hospital in July, in favor of a less invasive alternative treatment, after it appeared as though chemotherapy itself was a greater threat to her than her mild form of cancer. The Hospital then moved in court to take Sarah from the Hershbergers and force treatment in July.
The case is now pending on a jurisdictional motion before the Ohio Supreme Court.
The Motion for Jurisdiction requests review and reversal of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth District of Ohio which concluded that Ohio children can be taken from their parents and forced to submit to objectionable procedures “without regard to the suitability of the parents.” The Court used an obscure Ohio statute intended to address child abuse and neglect to order Sara to be taken from the home and forced to undergo chemotherapy.
However, the United States Supreme Court has long emphasized the importance of parents’ rights to direct the upbringing of their children, alongside the right to refuse unwanted medical treatment. The Ohio Constitution does the same even more vigorously. Accordingly, on each front, the 1851 Center maintains:
The Supreme Court has also explained that there is a “fundamental right to refuse medical treatment.” Despite these clear principles, the Court for the Ninth District ruled that “upon a mere finding it is in the best interest of a minor, [the Ohio Revised Code] authorizes a probate court to supplant a parent’s rights and responsibilities through appointment of a limited guardian,” and that it may do so irrespective of whether “the court finds the child’s natural parents to be unsuitable parents.”
“This case touches upon the very role of government in a free society: our Constitutions do not empower state government to rip a child from her admittedly competent parents and loving home, and force her to submit to unneeded treatment that may kill or sterilize her, when other courses of treatment are being pursued, and are working,” said Maurice Thompson, Executive Director of the 1851 Center. “This is amongst the very things that the 2011 Health Care Freedom Amendment was passed to guard against – – a state that can force health care upon you or deprive you of it can control every aspect of life.”
November 28, 2013 /0 Comments/by 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
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2014, Health Care Freedom, Taxpayer Rights, Uncategorized
Lawsuit: Ohio’s Attempted Medicaid Expansion Unlawful
Governor’s end-run around the Ohio General Assembly violates the separation of powers, Controlling Board’s vote impermissibly contradicts General Assembly intent
Columbus, OH – The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law late yesterday moved in the Ohio Supreme Court, on behalf of six veteran Ohio legislators and two of Ohio’s largest pro-life organizations, to stop Ohio’s executive branch from expanding Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) Medicaid spending without legislative approval.
The legal action is filed on behalf of State Representatives Matt Lynch, Ron Young, Andy Thompson, Ron Maag, John Becker, and Ron Hood, and Cleveland Right to Life and Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati. These representatives and groups combine to represent nearly 1 million Ohioans.
The action asserts that in accepting jurisdiction over and passing the Governor’s proposed Medicaid spending, the Controlling Board exceeded its legal authority by acting inconsistently with the intent of the Ohio General Assembly. Specifically:
R.C. 127.17 states: “The Controlling Board shall take no action which does not carry out the legislative intent of the general assembly regarding program goals and levels of support of state agencies as expressed in the prevailing appropriation acts of the general assembly.”
The Ohio General Assembly first removed Governor Kasich’s proposed expansion of Medicaid spending from the state budget bill, and then inserted a prohibition against the expansion and spending.
Article II of the Ohio Constitution requires that the legislature, rather than administrative boards such as the Controlling Board, make major policy decisions.
In a 1980 challenge to the Controlling Board, the Ohio Supreme Court held that the Controlling Board’s authority is only constitutional because it must adhere to the intentions of the General Assembly, and because of “the availability of mandamus relief” through the High Court.
“Many competent individuals make strong arguments against Medicaid Expansion on policy grounds. Success in our lawsuit, however, will not prohibit changes to Medicaid through legitimate means. Our lawsuit stands for the simple proposition that neither this Governor nor any other is a king,” said Maurice Thompson, Executive Director of the 1851 Center.
“For government to be limited, the making of transformational public policy requires the assent of the Ohio General Assembly, and cannot be done through administrative overreach. This occasion requires Ohioans to draw a line in the sand and affirm that we’d rather not bring Washington D.C.- style decision-making to Ohio.”
The Supreme Court of the United States, in its seminal decision last July in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, explained that the spending expansion transforms a state’s Medicaid program from “a program to care for the neediest among us” to “an element of a comprehensive national plan to provide universal health insurance coverage” that “dramatically increases state obligations under Medicaid,” and is “an attempt to foist an entirely new health care system upon the States.”
Read the Complaint HERE.
October 23, 2013: Dayton Business Journal: Ohio Medicaid expansion gets legal challenge
October 23, 2013: WOSU NPR 89.7: Activists, Lawmakers Bring Promised Lawsuit Over Medicaid
October 22, 2013: Cincinnati.com: SW Ohio conservatives file suit to stop Medicaid expansion
October 22, 2013: Bloomberg: Ohio Medicaid Expansion Plan Challenged in Lawsuit
October 21, 2013: New York Times: Medicaid Expansion Is Set for Ohioans
October 21, 2013: Columbus Dispatch: Medicaid-expansion opponents plan to sue Kasich administration
October 21, 2013: 60 Seconds Ohio: Maurice Thompson answers questions following Ohio expansion of Medicaid [VIDEO]
October 14, 2013: NBC 4: Controlling Board Medicaid Maneuver May Face Legal Challenge [VIDEO]
October 23, 2013 /2 Comments/by 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
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2013, Health Care Freedom, Uncategorized
Ohioans Submit Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Challenging Constitutionality of Individual Mandate
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law has submitted to the United States Supreme Court a “friend of the court” brief asserting that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional. The brief highlights for the High Court Ohioans’ placement of the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment (“Issue 3”) in Ohio’s Bill of Rights, and its role in the Court’s analysis of whether the mandate withstands constitutional scrutiny.
The individual health insurance mandate, described as a “minimum essential coverage requirement” in the PPACA, attempts to require each citizen of the United States to purchase a qualifying heath insurance policy that, thus far, must cover items ranging from substance abuse and mental health coverage to maternity care. Through requiring these coverages and others, the mandate is expected to drive up costs of health insurance premiums nationwide.
The 1851 Center’s Brief recognizes that because the mandate is not a regulation of commerce, per se, it must be “necessary and proper” for carrying into execution Congressional Commerce Clause power. The Brief then chronicles legal principles and factual background demonstrating that, in light of efforts in Ohio and elsewhere, the mandate is not “proper,” as the Court has historically understood that term.
Specifically, the brief asserts:
The Constitution is animated by federalism, and because its purpose is to protect liberty, the mandate violates the “letter and spirit” of the constitution, insofar as it may displace state protection of a fundamental right.
Freedom from compulsion to purchase government-defined health insurance is the type of liberty states must be permitted to protect.
The Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments protect, from Necessary and Proper Clause power, rights specifically enumerated under state law.
The Necessary and Proper Clause has never before been used to displace a state constitutional provision protecting liberty.
The mandate forces 49 states to adhere to a policy only heretofore adopted by Massachusetts, even though that policy has been vigorously debated in each state.
States may protect liberty above and beyond the baseline protections afforded by the federal Constitution.
Ohio is one of three states with constitutional prohibitions against forced purchase of health care insurance. Ten other states maintain statutory prohibitions, and 36 of the remaining 39 states have deliberately abstained from enacting individual health insurance mandates, despite debate over the policy since California first proposed such a mandate in 1939.
The Ohio Amendment, approved by 66 percent of the vote, over 2.2 million voters, added a 21st Section Ohio’s Bill of Rights “to preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.” In approving the amendments Ohioans specifically found “The freedom to not be forced to purchase government-defined private health insurance is a fundamental right.”
“One of the purposes of enacting the Health Care Freedom Amendment was not only protect Ohioans’ health care freedom from state and local government, but also to place Ohioans in the nation’s strongest position to challenge invasive elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” said Maurice Thompson, Executive Director of the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law.
“The 1851 Center’s Brief is a reminder, like the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment, of our view, and the founders’ view, that government exists to secure rights, rather than to take from some so as to provide benefits, amenities, and comfort to others,” added Thompson. “We thought it important to share this view with the Court, along with a reminder of the impropriety of the federal government eradicating rights that the states have essentially ‘federalized’ through the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments, as it decides the extent of our liberties.”
The Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment was drafted, initiated, and defended by the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law.
Read the Amicus Brief here.
February 13, 2012 /by 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
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2011, Free Speech, Health Care Freedom, Uncategorized
Signatures Submitted to Place Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment on November Ballot
Columbus, OH – Supporters today will deliver more than 546,000 signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State to place the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment on the November ballot. The amendment would add a 21st Section to Ohio’s Bill of Rights “to preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage.”
July 6, 2011 /0 Comments/by 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
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Ohio Liberty Council v. Brunner
On March 22, 2010, the Ohio Liberty Council began the process of the placing a health care freedom constitutional amendment on the November 2010 ballot.
The group filed petition summary language and nearly 3,000 signatures from registered voters in 48 counties with the Ohio Attorney General, who later approved the language as truthful and accurate.
The amendment provides that:
In Ohio, no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system;
In Ohio, no law or rule shall prohibit the purchase or sale of health care or health insurance; and
In Ohio, no law or rule shall impose a penalty or fine for the sale or purchase of health care or health insurance.
The Ohio Liberty Council is a statewide coalition of non-partisan grass roots groups in Ohio including: Central Ohio 9/12 Project, Cincinnati Tea Party, Young Americans for Liberty, Dayton Tea Party, Ohio Freedom Alliance and many more grass roots organizations. By working together, the member groups of the Ohio Liberty Council seek to achieve real results to protect and promote liberty in Ohio. More on the Ohio Liberty Council can be found at http://www.ohiolibertycouncil.org.
On April 9, 2010, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and the Ohio Ballot Board ruled the proposed constitutional amendment should be split into two parts.
As a result, the board rejected the proposed amendment and told its sponsor, the Ohio Liberty Council, to start over.
The move placed the Ohio Liberty Council in the untenable position of restarting the amendment language approval process and collecting two sets of 402,275 signatures by June 30. The group asked the Ohio Supreme Court to block the Ballot Board’s action. “The Ohio Ballot Board got it wrong today,” said Warren Edstrom of the Ohio Liberty Council, “We will ask the Ohio Supreme Court to uphold our amendment language and correct this error.”
On April 14, 2010 the 1851 Center Filed an Ohio Supreme Court Complaint Against the Ballot Board.
In the writ of mandamus filed with the Ohio Supreme Court, the 1851 Center asserted the Ballot Board’s actions were arbitrary and ran counter to the board’s own past precedent. The complaint contended the Ohio Liberty Council’s proposed Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment addressed only one subject and should move forward as one constitutional amendment. Further, the Ballot Board’s ruling “effectively eviscerates the Ohio Liberty Council’s objective, and threatens to eviscerate access to the November, 2010 ballot,” the 1851 Center wrote in the complaint.
“We ask the court to review and correct the Ohio Ballot Board’s improper decision,” said Maurice Thompson, executive director of the 1851 Center. “Our complaint rightfully attacks the constitutional authority of this unelected body to use its power to perform purely administrative tasks to destroy proposed constitutional amendments with which it disagrees. It does not have the constitutional authority to interfere with the Initiative rights articulated in Section 1, Article II of the Ohio Constitution.”
On April 29, 2010, the Ohio Supreme Court Ordered the Ballot Board to Certify the Amendment Language.
The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously ruled Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and the Ohio Ballot Board abused their discretion and violated Ohio law in rejecting ballot language for the proposed Ohio Health Care Freedom Constitutional Amendment. The court ordered Brunner and the Ohio Ballot Board to immediately certify the language and allow the petitioners to begin collecting signatures to qualify the issue for the November ballot. A copy of the court ruling is available here.
“Today’s Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionally-granted rights of citizens to petition their government even when the arbitrary and self-serving decisions of Secretary Brunner and the ballot board attempt to block them,” said 1851 Center Executive Director Maurice Thompson, who also drafted the amendment. “Secretary Brunner and the ballot board tried to use their purely administrative powers to destroy a citizen-initiated amendment with which they disagreed. Thankfully, the court checked this abuse, and Ohioans will have the opportunity to put the preservation of their health care freedom to a vote.”
In the decision, the justices wrote, “the ballot board abused its discretion and clearly disregarded R.C. 3505.62.” Further, the court upheld the special protections contained in the Ohio Constitution granting citizens the right to petition government.
Further, the court wrote, “the ballot board has a clear legal duty to liberally construe the right of initiative, and as long as the citizen-initiated proposed amendment bears some reasonable relationship to a single general object or purpose, the board must certify its approval of the amendment as written without dividing it into multiple petitions.”
April 13, 2010: 1851 Center’s Complaint
April 20, 2010: 1851 Center’s Merit Brief
April 22, 2010: Motion in Opposition of Extension
April 9, 2010 /0 Comments/by 1851 Center for Constitutional Law
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ms_mmelissa ( ms_mmelissa) wrote in ohnotheydidnt,
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Weekend Box office: Black Panther breaks some more records
Weekend #BoxOffice Estimates: #BlackPanther $108m; @GameNightMovie $16.6m; #PeterRabbit $12.5m https://t.co/kv2zf3BB4B pic.twitter.com/QgZG9vBqfd
— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) February 25, 2018
<<Last Weekend <Last Year View Index: By Year | By Weekend
TW LW Title (click to view) Studio Weekend Gross % Change Theater Count / Change Average Total Gross Budget* Week #
1 1 Black Panther BV $108,046,000 -46.5% 4,020 - $26,877 $400,000,422 - 2
2 N Game Night WB $16,600,000 - 3,488 - $4,759 $16,600,000 $37 1
3 2 Peter Rabbit Sony $12,545,000 -28.3% 3,707 -18 $3,384 $71,290,702 $50 3
4 N Annihilation Par. $11,000,000 - 2,012 - $5,467 $11,000,000 $40 1
5 3 Fifty Shades Freed Uni. $6,915,000 -60.0% 3,265 -503 $2,118 $89,560,780 $55 3
6 4 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Sony $5,650,000 -28.8% 2,519 -281 $2,243 $387,284,215 $90 10
7 5 The 15:17 to Paris WB $3,600,000 -52.5% 2,752 -290 $1,308 $32,257,752 $30 3
8 6 The Greatest Showman Fox $3,400,000 -32.5% 1,601 -335 $2,124 $160,766,870 $84 10
9 N Every Day (2018) Orion $3,103,996 - 1,667 - $1,862 $3,103,996 $4.9 1
10 7 Early Man LGF $1,700,000 -46.7% 2,494 - $682 $6,779,422 - 2
11 13 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri FoxS $1,225,000 -19.1% 691 -89 $1,773 $50,129,579 - 16
12 10 The Post Fox $1,200,000 -39.7% 795 -255 $1,509 $78,848,001 $50 10
13 12 The Shape of Water FoxS $1,115,000 -32.9% 721 -236 $1,546 $55,300,844 - 13
14 9 Winchester LGF $975,000 -55.8% 852 -627 $1,144 $23,780,774 - 4
15 11 Samson PFR $950,000 -51.1% 1,140 -109 $833 $3,723,496 - 2
16 8 Maze Runner: The Death Cure Fox $950,000 -63.5% 952 -940 $998 $56,316,604 $62 5
17 16 Darkest Hour Focus $775,000 -16.4% 795 +193 $975 $54,492,842 - 14
18 23 Lady Bird A24 $645,320 +3.5% 601 +194 $1,074 $47,277,450 - 17
19 19 Phantom Thread Focus $595,000 -17.2% 651 +296 $914 $18,748,094 - 9
20 17 I, Tonya Neon $580,640 -36.0% 423 -79 $1,373 $28,094,413 - 12
21 26 Call Me by Your Name SPC $552,141 +8.7% 675 +343 $818 $15,793,051 - 14
22 N Operation Red Sea WGUSA $510,000 - 45 - $11,333 $510,000 - 1
23 21 Coco BV $493,000 -28.5% 266 -119 $1,853 $208,056,010 - 14
24 22 The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018 Shrts. $450,000 -33.9% 230 -42 $1,957 $2,596,280 - 3
25 20 Detective Chinatown 2 WB $390,000 -44.6% 111 -4 $3,514 $1,545,578 - 2
26 18 Hostiles ENTMP $376,000 -55.1% 416 -351 $904 $29,158,821 - 10
27 15 Den of Thieves STX $370,000 -60.4% 357 -373 $1,036 $44,280,555 - 6
28 24 Star Wars: The Last Jedi BV $335,000 -45.8% 292 -59 $1,147 $618,710,718 - 11
29 25 La Boda de Valentina PNT $230,000 -56.8% 141 -190 $1,631 $2,509,634 - 3
30 27 Forever My Girl RAtt. $172,705 -59.2% 218 -183 $792 $16,034,173 $3.5 6
31 33 Wonder LGF $165,000 -17.7% 158 -35 $1,044 $131,943,732 - 15
32 41 A Fantastic Woman SPC $162,336 +72.2% 78 +49 $2,081 $589,415 - 4
33 34 Thor: Ragnarok BV $141,000 -27.9% 131 -18 $1,076 $314,816,002 $180 17
34 32 Molly's Game STX $130,000 -35.6% 104 -66 $1,250 $28,600,089 - 9
35 29 Pad Man Sony $115,000 -67.0% 95 -57 $1,211 $1,614,145 - 3
36 39 The Commuter LGF $113,000 -1.6% 138 -10 $819 $36,114,650 - 7
37 46 The Party (2017) RAtt. $100,715 +169.3% 30 +27 $3,357 $154,186 - 2
38 30 Monster Hunt 2 LGF $98,000 -71.3% 55 -14 $1,782 $609,499 - 2
39 36 Pitch Perfect 3 Uni. $85,000 -39.0% 135 -22 $630 $104,778,485 $45 10
40 38 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool SPC $76,611 -33.9% 102 -5 $751 $702,483 - 9
41 42 The Insult Cohen $76,160 -9.7% 50 +7 $1,523 $762,061 - 7
42 35 Insidious: The Last Key Uni. $75,000 -49.9% 110 -59 $682 $67,323,555 $10 8
43 49 Loveless (2018) SPC $65,457 +116.6% 12 +9 $5,455 $131,969 - 2
44 N The Young Karl Marx Orch. $28,599 - 3 - $9,533 $28,599 - 1
45 43 Double Lover Cohen $21,369 -66.1% 22 -28 $971 $139,869 - 2
46 53 Nostalgia BST $15,510 -2.8% 16 +13 $969 $35,248 - 2
47 70 Faces Places Cohen $15,118 +275.7% 16 +3 $945 $873,161 - 21
48 N The Cured IFC $5,332 - 3 - $1,777 $5,332 - 1
49 N November (2018) Osci. $4,300 - 1 - $4,300 $4,300 - 1
50 59 Golden Exits VE $4,100 -51.3% 3 -8 $1,367 $37,488 - 3
51 60 Bilal: A New Breed of Hero VE $1,350 -83.5% 5 -11 $270 $489,886 - 4
TOTAL (51 MOVIES): $186,948,759 -34.6% 39,164 +817 $4,773
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What did you watch this weekend, ONTD?
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Sarah Hemphill is an apprentice to Robbie Warren Hill, OtterWoman Standing, and sacred ceremonialist and yogini. A dancer out of the womb, Sarah’s first career led her to teach dance, yoga and meditation to all ages. Sarah then sought a different path, gained her MBA from Wake Forest University in 2008 and had worked almost a decade as a leader in corporate America when her path unexpectedly brought her into connection with Robbie. Thus, a great remembering and quite an undoing quickly unfolded. Now, as a teacher trained by Circle Yoga Shala in the Ozarks of Arkansas, Sarah currently lives as an apprentice on their organic farm and training center where she continues the study of yoga for therapeutic application and spiritual development as well as the art of homesteading. Also a hobbyist distiller and whiskey lover, Sarah’s path has unexpectedly and delightedly led her to uncover the science and art of medicinal distillation and plant medicine as an avenue for healing. As she continues her work in apprenticeship to Robbie and connection to Spirit, Sarah weaves and integrates her experiences and passions to reveal her own ‘medicine’ and be of service in a good way. Her business, www.sarahssacreddistillery.com, is a reflection of this act of weaving and pursuing her dreams and place of service.
Dina Butler, Otter Dance Practitioner
Through teachings, service and experience, as an apprentice of Robbie Warren Hill, Otter Woman Standing, Dina Butler is passionate and grateful to deepen and expand what she terms her “Medicine Walk” or her relation to Creation in a Good Way (Healer). Dina’s medicine name, in her tradition, is Empress Yumane HeartLove.
Being an empathic, intuitive, only child raised on a small farm in upstate New York provided much time and opportunity to indulge in the delight, exploration and connection to that which is termed “Nature”, both within and without. It is upon this foundation of awe, respect and the openness of her 5 year old self that she now builds her adult learning and experiences. At the age of 30, her childhood love and connection with animals blossomed when Dina was inspired to attend Gaston College and earned a degree in Veterinary Medical Technology. During her 15+ year career as a Veterinary Technician, including serving in upper management, Dina discovered a powerful desire/ability to provide more than medical support to hospitalized pets and to serve clients in a deeper way. The desire to balance the immediacy/harshness of emergency medicine with the softness of intuitive healing led her to attain the training to become a Reiki Practitioner which she used at the clinic, Hospice and continues to use often in her medicine work.
In 2015, Dina traveled to answered the “call” of Mama Africa and her life was illuminated and blessed in such a way that it reverberates through every aspect of her life including her medicine work and Rastafari tradition. The discovery of the inextinguishable light of Creation in the worst of circumstances, her desire to live, love and do healing work in Community and to live a life of inclusion and harmony with the most humble of us was birthed by living it at Botshabelo Orphanage and School. The medicine of dancing the Fire Dance in South Africa created a powerful connection to Creation, Ancestors and healing that Dina accesses as an Earth Spirit Medicine Practitioner and Ceremonialist. Her education and medicine work calls upon the Old Ways– the traditions and wisdom of many indigenous practices brought forward into this time and place for the purpose of healing. Her passions are working to create and support Community, guiding and teaching Young People (The PathFinders), the Divine Feminine/Masculine and learning indigenous traditions and wisdoms to discover similarities while delighting in the spice of the differences. She most often works with plant medicine (Tulsi and Cacao), Earth Spirits, shamanic/intuitive guidance, medicine wheel, and Reiki.
Brandy Winn, Otter Dance Practitioner
Brandy Winn is an apprentice to Robbie Warren Hill, Otter Woman Standing and Healer and Earth Medicine Ceremonialist. Her love for education and learning allowed her to pursue her MBA, this journey opened her to the world of travel. Her first traveling experience to China allowed Brandy to have a life-altering experience on one of the world’s seven wonders, the Great Wall of China. It was on this historical forte that the seed of her life’s purpose was planted and her pursuit of spirituality began.
After successful careers in Corporate America, Brandy made the decision to begin her path of service by joining the nonprofit workforce. This difficult leap lead her to another life-altering experience in a small village in Burundi Africa, Brandy began the adventure of remembering her divine essence and discovered her soul’s purpose to be of service to Mother Earth and Humanity.
Upon her return stateside, the reshaping of Brandy’s Life began. It is during this transformational time she became a student of the The Native American Traditions, sometimes called, the Red Road and Robbie Warren. Through her continued travels around the globe: Germany, Poland, Czech, Norway, and South Africa, dedicated studies with her teachers and elder’s of the community, Brandy has honed her skills as a Healer and Earth Medicine Ceremonialist.
Brandy’s ability to connect with Spirit and People allows her to guide others in remembering their own truth and empowering others through ceremonies, private sessions, and more to assist each of them to weave the life that is divinely theirs and of service all that is.
LeAnne Vreeland, Otter Dance Practitioner
Over 13 years ago, LeAnne Vreeland began connecting to her ancestors, the indigenous tribe known as the Tainos. Years later she became a Reiki Practitioner, Intuitive Reader /Coach, Holistic Practitioner, and Hypnotherapist. Through attending many sacred ceremonies and soul searching, she discovered a true passion for the Sacredness of the Red Road. Knowledge about her indigenous background, soul seeking, sacred ceremony, spiritual modalities and many different religions have opened the path to living and embracing The Red Road.
Discovering these modalities have given her the ability to weave through these practices into acknowledging her true purpose on Earth. Within the last 2 years, LeAnne was initiated as a Robbie’s Warren’s Shaman Apprentice and is passionate about her discoveries on The Red Road. Her purpose is to be of service to her community by supporting those to their soul’s journey through the ancient ways and empowering individuals to authentically connect to their heart to find true purpose with here on earth. She invites you to experience Robbie’s classes to ignite the Fire within and discover the ancient ways of the Shamanism. It is a true gift to yourself to be the “Hollow Bone”
© 2018 Otter Dance Earth Medicine & Robbie Warren. Site by: Designed For Momentum.
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Disruption of lineage specification in adult pulmonary mesenchymal progenitor cells promotes microvascular dysfunction
Christa F. Gaskill, … , Dwight J. Klemm, Susan M. Majka
Published June 1, 2017; First published May 2, 2017
Research Article Pulmonology Stem cells
Pulmonary vascular disease is characterized by remodeling and loss of microvessels and is typically attributed to pathological responses in vascular endothelium or abnormal smooth muscle cell phenotypes. We have challenged this understanding by defining an adult pulmonary mesenchymal progenitor cell (MPC) that regulates both microvascular function and angiogenesis. The current understanding of adult MPCs and their roles in homeostasis versus disease has been limited by a lack of genetic markers with which to lineage label multipotent mesenchyme and trace the differentiation of these MPCs into vascular lineages. Here, we have shown that lineage-labeled lung MPCs expressing the ATP-binding cassette protein ABCG2 (ABCG2+) are pericyte progenitors that participate in microvascular homeostasis as well as adaptive angiogenesis. Activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling, either autonomously or downstream of decreased BMP receptor signaling, enhanced ABCG2+ MPC proliferation but suppressed MPC differentiation into a functional pericyte lineage. Thus, enhanced Wnt/β-catenin signaling in ABCG2+ MPCs drives a phenotype of persistent microvascular dysfunction, abnormal angiogenesis, and subsequent exacerbation of bleomycin-induced fibrosis. ABCG2+ MPCs may, therefore, account in part for the aberrant microvessel function and remodeling that are associated with chronic lung diseases.
Christa F. Gaskill, Erica J. Carrier, Jonathan A. Kropski, Nathaniel C. Bloodworth, Swapna Menon, Robert F. Foronjy, M. Mark Taketo, Charles C. Hong, Eric D. Austin, James D. West, Anna L. Means, James E. Loyd, W. David Merryman, Anna R. Hemnes, Stijn De Langhe, Timothy S. Blackwell, Dwight J. Klemm, Susan M. Majka
Abnormal pericyte lineage specification and microvascular dysfunction accompanied by loss of distal lung tissue structure in vivo via deregulation of BMPR2 and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in lung MPCs.
(A) Schematic time line of mouse modeling. WT, Bmpr2fl/+, and βOE mice were induced with i.p. tamoxifen (0.5 mg total). (B) Two weeks after induction, eGFP labeling and enumeration of ABCG2+ lung MPCs were confirmed by flow cytometry (n = 3–6). Numbers in parentheses represent SEM. (C) Three weeks after induction, pulmonary vascular leak was quantitated. Representative images of mice obtained with the Pearl analyzer. Bar graph shows the ratio calculated for each animal, comparing the intensity of dye in the lung (red squares) with the baseline fluorescence in the nose (red circles) (n = 7–15). (D–F) Additional mice were sacrificed and the lungs agarose inflated using constant pressure to obtain lung tissue for immunofluorescence analyses. Immunostaining for detection of eGFP (green) MPCs and derivatives as well as α-SMA (red) was performed (n = 4). (G) Eighteen to twenty weeks after tamoxifen induction, RVSP was measured (n = 10–13). Immunostaining was performed on lung tissue sections to detect (H) F8+ microvessels and (I) α-SMA+ muscularized vessels. (J) The ratio of α-SMA/total microvessels was also calculated, and the positive numbers were counted per FOV. Six to eight sections of twenty FOV per section were evaluated (n = 4). (K) MLI was calculated to evaluate the loss of distal lung tissue structure (n = 6). (L–N) Immunofluorescent staining (IFC) to detect α-SMA demonstrated a decrease in α-SMA overall in Bmpr2fl/+ and βOE lungs. (L–T) Immunostaining was performed to detect ABCG2+ MPCs and derived eGFP- and α-SMA–expressing cells. Scale bars: 50 μm (L–T) and 100 μm (D–F). Data are presented as the mean ± SEM. *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01, by 1-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s honest significant difference (HSD) post-hoc test.
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How to Make Your Own Cocoa Scrub
By: Frank Whittemore
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Ingredients for Honey Sugar Scrubs
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With the discovery that certain types of chocolate, particularly cocoa powder, may contain antioxidants, several cosmetic and skin-care companies have developed products that contain cocoa. These include body and facial scrubs that can be used to exfoliate and invigorate the skin. You don't have to spend a lot of money on these products, however. A simple and effective cocoa scrub takes only a few minutes to prepare.
Combine the cocoa powder and brown sugar in a mixing bowl. Blend well.
Add the vanilla extract and mix it in completely.
Add the olive oil slowly. Stir the mixture as you add the oil, ensuring that it mixes in thoroughly.
Continue to add the oil until the ingredients form a paste. Add less oil for a stiffer paste and more for a thinner, more liquid product.
Place the scrub in a plastic or glass container for storage. The cocoa scrub will stay fresh for weeks, or longer if refrigerated.
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In Jacksonville, Fla., Frank Whittemore is a content strategist with over a decade of experience as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy and a licensed paramedic. He has over 15 years experience writing for several Fortune 500 companies. Whittemore writes on topics in medicine, nature, science, technology, the arts, cuisine, travel and sports.
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The Penn Stater Daily — Nov. 8, 2013
November 8, 2013 at 10:40 am Ryan Jones Leave a comment
Hey, man, nice shot: Macklemore is a popular rap-singer—we think that’s what the kids call ’em—who brought his popular rap-singing act to the Bryce Jordan Center last night. The Collegian gave the show an “A,” and that’s without even counting Macklemore’s apparent basketball prowess. Per his Instagram account:
This is rare footage of me hooping at Penn State tonight. #teamjordan? @pdxreg haha!
A post shared by It’s Christmas Time Out Now (@macklemore) on Nov 7, 2013 at 9:39pm PST
And speaking of hoops: College basketball is back. The Lady Lions—ranked No. 13 and 15 in the preseason coaches and media polls, respectively—open the season tonight when they host St. Francis (Pa.) at 7 p.m. Preseason Big Ten Player of the Year Maggie Lucas leads the way for Penn State, which will hoist its 2013 Big Ten championship banner before the game.
The Nittany Lions open their season Saturday with a 4 p.m. home game against Wagner. We’ll take this opportunity to plug our profile and video of all-Big Ten guard Tim Frazier ’13, and an exclusive Q&A with coach Patrick Chambers over at The Football Letter blog.
Far afield: The busy sports weekend continues on the road, starting Friday morning when the Penn State field hockey team—which already wrapped up its second straight regular-season league title—faces Iowa in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament. The game will air live on BTN at 10 a.m. today. And if all that sounds familiar, pay attention: The women’s soccer team also plays Iowa today in the semifinals of the B1G tournament—that game kicks off at noon, and will also air live on BTN.
Smith’s bad week gets worse: David Smith, the SUNY Upstate Medical Center president who was reportedly close to being announced as Penn State’s new president, has stepped down from his role while SUNY reviews his compensation.
Entry filed under: Uncategorized. Tags: Macklemore, Maggie Lucas, Patrick Chambers, Tim Frazier.
From the Magazine: Shopping Smarter (Thanks to Zeynep Ton) The Penn Stater Daily — Nov. 11, 2013
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...Killer soldiers moved to Abuja, Army grills commander
The Defence Headquarters has ordered the 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Takum, Taraba State, to produce the fleeing kidnap kingpin, Alhaji Hamisu Wadume, as evidence that its soldiers are not culpable in his escape after three policemen and a civilian were killed at a checkpoint in Ibi, last Tuesday.
A top military source at the DHQ confided in one of our correspondents on Monday that the battalion had been issued a directive to produce the runaway kidnapper.
The top military source said, “The panel may not commence serious activities until after the Eid-el Kabir break. The Army had directed the battalion in Takum to produce the runaway kidnapper as evidence that its soldiers are not culpable.
“The military will not hesitate to dismiss and court-martial any soldier found to be involved in shady business than allow the reputation of the Army to be toyed with.”
Also, the Nigerian Army headquarters confirmed that the captain who ordered the killing of the policemen and the civilians was being cross-examined at the 93 Battalion of the Nigerian Army, in Taraba State.
Findings by one of our correspondents on Monday however showed that the DHQ panel had yet to visit Taraba State but the IGP investigative team had been in Taraba.
The acting Director, Defence Information, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, had said the panel was in “compliance with the directive issued by the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria and the joint committee has commenced work immediately.”
The Intelligence Response Team of the police led by ASP Felix Adolije had come under attack from soldiers along the Ibi-Jalingo Road while taking a kidnap kingpin, Wadume, to the Command Headquarters in Jalingo.
Three officers –Inspector Mark Ediale, Sergeants Usman Danzumi, Dahiru Musa and a civilian –died as a result of gunshot injuries.
The Nigerian Army had claimed that the soldiers fired at the IRT team because they failed to stop at three checkpoints, but this was dismissed by the police which demanded the whereabouts of the kidnap suspect who was allegedly freed by the soldiers.
Soldiers who killed policemen moved to Abuja
However, the arrested soldiers involved in the shootings were being detained in Takum before they were moved to Abuja, according to the top police source on Monday night.
The police source added that some police officers from Ibi division and other civilians who arrived early at the scene of the incident were also moved to Abuja to furnish the seven-man joint investigation panel about what transpired during the incident.
President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the Defence headquarters to set up the panel to probe into the tragedy.
The DHQ had on Friday named a seven-man joint investigation panel, headed by Rear Admiral Ibikunle Olaiya, which has officers drawn from the army, navy, air force, police, the Department of State Services and the Defence Intelligence Agency.
The top police officer based in Taraba State but was attached to the IGP investigative team told one of our correspondents that the Army Captain from 93 Ada Barracks Takum who ordered the killings was called for questioning during the visit of the team.
He said, “The soldiers who killed the three police officers and the two civilians have been moved to Abuja. I can’t tell how many are they, but they were moved alongside some police officers attached to Ibi division and some early callers at the scene who have useful information regarding the incident.
“From the video which we perused during the visit to Ibi, which I believe you also saw on the social media, one of the police officers was trying to identify himself with his ID card that they were police officers, yet they went ahead and shot at him.
“It’s really unfortunate, we have to calm our boys or else we would have had another incident this time police shooting soldiers while we were in Ibi. Five of those killed have been taken to Abuja too for autopsy,” he said.
He, however, could not confirm whether the captain was also taken to Abuja.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP. David Misal, who declined comments on the issue, however, said five of those killed have been moved to Abuja.
“All the information you need now is with the Force PRO in Abuja, so there is little I can tell you,” he said.
However, a senior police officer in the Force headquarters in Abuja confirmed to one of our correspondents that some suspects including soldiers arrested in Taraba State had been moved to the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Abuja.
The source, however, could not provide the number of the suspects.
As of the time of filing this report it was gathered that two military checkpoints along the Ibi-Wukari Road had been dismantled.
It was also gathered that the Police intelligence team who are trailing the fleeing kidnap kingpin have traced his location to Lafia, Nasarawa State, where he allegedly withdrew money from an ATM.
Buratai orders travelling soldiers to dress in mufti
Following the killing of the three police officers, the Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has directed troops on internal security duties to be cautious in their dealings with members of the police force.
Buratai also admonished travelling military personnel to do so in mufti in order to avoid confrontations with policemen.
The COAS in a letter dated August 9 and copied to all Army formations nationwide accused the police of making inflammatory comments in the social media which he said was capable of inciting the rank and file of the Nigeria Police to “exhibit aggressive tendencies against the NA personnel.”
The letter with reference number AHQDAIOPS/G3/240/232 written on behalf of the COAS by Brig. Gen. F. Omoigui, was titled, ‘Need for troops to be circumspect in dealing with members of the Nigeria Police.’
t read in part, “Accordingly, all troops on IS (Internal Security) duty as well as personnel travelling in and out of uniform are to be circumspect in their conduct to avoid escalation.
“Consequently, formations and unit commanders are to educate troops to be cautious in their dealings with members of the NP in view of this development. Troops travelling on pass are to endeavour to do so in mufti.”
PDP govs seek justice for killed policemen, others
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum on Monday urged President Buhari to ensure that the soldiers that killed three police officers and a civilian were punished according to the law.
The PDP governors in a statement signed by their chairman, Seriake Dickson, who is also the Bayelsa State Governor, condemned the killing of the police officers.
Dickson also condemned the killing of a commercial motorcyclist in Abia State, Mr Chimaobi Nwogu, allegedly by another soldier identified as Cpl. Ajayi Johnson.
He said, “We wish to reiterate that the killings are unnecessary. It is very pathetic that the Nigerian Army would abandon its constitutional role of defending the borders of the country from external aggression to descend into such lowly criminality. It is sad that a security personnel, who is paid and maintained with taxpayers’ money, could turn around to kill the person he is being paid to protect.
“We implore the Federal Government to adequately compensate the families of victims and ensure justice is served on the culprits.”
Buhari awaits panel report, not indifferent to killings. – Presidency
However, the Presidency said on Monday that President Buhari would take appropriate actions over the killing of three police officers and a civilian by soldiers, contrary to criticisms suggesting that he was indifferent.
The President came under attacks by Twitter users on Monday, who accused him of not doing enough to get to the root of the matter.
The attacks forced the Senior Special Assistant to Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, to react, saying that Buhari was only waiting for the outcome of the investigation being conducted by the Defence Headquarters.
In the tweets, one Twitter user, @PeterIjakpa, wrote, “The President is incompetent in all ramifications.”
Another tweet by @KentChidera, noted, “So there is no time duration for the investigation? This kind inquiry may last till 2023.”
Replying via his handle, @GarShehu, the President’s media aide wrote, “In response to press questions, I will confirm that a committee was set up during the National Security Council meeting to investigate the killing of three policemen and a civilian by soldiers in Taraba State.”
In another tweet, he wrote, “Contrary to those mischievous insinuations, President Buhari had ordered the Chief of Defence Staff to set up an investigation committee with representatives from all the security organisations in the country, including the police force.”
A third tweet denied that Buhari was indifferent, “The President is not indifferent to the unfortunate incident, and would take a decisive action as soon as the report of the panel is submitted to him.”
Source: Punch
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Clonal karyotypic abnormalities of the hereditary multiple exostoses chromosomal loci 8q24.1 (EXT1) and 11p11-12 (EXT2) in patients with sporadic and hereditary osteochondromas
Julia A. Bridge, Mari Nelson, Charlotte Örndal, Paramjit Bhatia, James R. Neff
Pathology & Microbiology
BACKGROUND. Osteochondroma most frequently arises sporadically and as a solitary lesion, but also may arise as multiple lesions characterizing the autosomal dominant disorder hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) and the contiguous gene syndromes Langer-Giedion and DEFECT-11 syndromes. HME is genetically heterogeneous with association of three loci including 8q24.1 (EXT1), 11p11-12 (EXT2), and 19p (EXT3). Constitutional chromosomal microdeletions of 8q24.1 and 11p11-12 are features of the Langer-Giedion and DEFECT-11 syndromes, respectively. Cytogenetic studies of osteochondroma are rare. METHODS. Cytogenetic analysis was performed on 34 osteochondroma specimens from 22 patients with sporadic lesions and 4 patients with HME utilizing standard methodologies. Fluorescence in situ hybridization with chromosome specific probes was performed on three cases to define structural rearrangements further. RESULTS. Clonal abnormalities were detected in ten cases. Notably, deletion of 11p11-13 was observed in one case (a sporadic tumor) and loss or rearrangement of 8q22-24.1 in eight cases (seven sporadic and one hereditary tumor). CONCLUSIONS. These findings: 1) confirm previous observations of 8q24.1 karyotypic anomalies in sporadic osteochondroma, 2) reveal the presence of somatic chromosomal anomalies in hereditary osteochondromata, 3) suggest that similar to hereditary lesions, sporadic osteochondromas also are genetically heterogeneic (involvement of both 8q24.1 and 11p11-12), and 4) support the hypothesis that loss or mutation of EXT1 and EXT2, two putative tumor suppressor genes, may be important in the pathogenesis of sporadic as well as hereditary osteochondromata.
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980501)82:9<1657::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-3
Multiple Hereditary Exostoses
Cytogenetic Analysis
Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
Bridge, J. A., Nelson, M., Örndal, C., Bhatia, P., & Neff, J. R. (1998). Clonal karyotypic abnormalities of the hereditary multiple exostoses chromosomal loci 8q24.1 (EXT1) and 11p11-12 (EXT2) in patients with sporadic and hereditary osteochondromas. Cancer, 82(9), 1657-1663. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980501)82:9<1657::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-3
Clonal karyotypic abnormalities of the hereditary multiple exostoses chromosomal loci 8q24.1 (EXT1) and 11p11-12 (EXT2) in patients with sporadic and hereditary osteochondromas. / Bridge, Julia A.; Nelson, Mari; Örndal, Charlotte; Bhatia, Paramjit; Neff, James R.
In: Cancer, Vol. 82, No. 9, 01.05.1998, p. 1657-1663.
Bridge, JA, Nelson, M, Örndal, C, Bhatia, P & Neff, JR 1998, 'Clonal karyotypic abnormalities of the hereditary multiple exostoses chromosomal loci 8q24.1 (EXT1) and 11p11-12 (EXT2) in patients with sporadic and hereditary osteochondromas', Cancer, vol. 82, no. 9, pp. 1657-1663. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980501)82:9<1657::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-3
Bridge JA, Nelson M, Örndal C, Bhatia P, Neff JR. Clonal karyotypic abnormalities of the hereditary multiple exostoses chromosomal loci 8q24.1 (EXT1) and 11p11-12 (EXT2) in patients with sporadic and hereditary osteochondromas. Cancer. 1998 May 1;82(9):1657-1663. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980501)82:9<1657::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-3
Bridge, Julia A. ; Nelson, Mari ; Örndal, Charlotte ; Bhatia, Paramjit ; Neff, James R. / Clonal karyotypic abnormalities of the hereditary multiple exostoses chromosomal loci 8q24.1 (EXT1) and 11p11-12 (EXT2) in patients with sporadic and hereditary osteochondromas. In: Cancer. 1998 ; Vol. 82, No. 9. pp. 1657-1663.
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AU - Neff, James R.
N2 - BACKGROUND. Osteochondroma most frequently arises sporadically and as a solitary lesion, but also may arise as multiple lesions characterizing the autosomal dominant disorder hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) and the contiguous gene syndromes Langer-Giedion and DEFECT-11 syndromes. HME is genetically heterogeneous with association of three loci including 8q24.1 (EXT1), 11p11-12 (EXT2), and 19p (EXT3). Constitutional chromosomal microdeletions of 8q24.1 and 11p11-12 are features of the Langer-Giedion and DEFECT-11 syndromes, respectively. Cytogenetic studies of osteochondroma are rare. METHODS. Cytogenetic analysis was performed on 34 osteochondroma specimens from 22 patients with sporadic lesions and 4 patients with HME utilizing standard methodologies. Fluorescence in situ hybridization with chromosome specific probes was performed on three cases to define structural rearrangements further. RESULTS. Clonal abnormalities were detected in ten cases. Notably, deletion of 11p11-13 was observed in one case (a sporadic tumor) and loss or rearrangement of 8q22-24.1 in eight cases (seven sporadic and one hereditary tumor). CONCLUSIONS. These findings: 1) confirm previous observations of 8q24.1 karyotypic anomalies in sporadic osteochondroma, 2) reveal the presence of somatic chromosomal anomalies in hereditary osteochondromata, 3) suggest that similar to hereditary lesions, sporadic osteochondromas also are genetically heterogeneic (involvement of both 8q24.1 and 11p11-12), and 4) support the hypothesis that loss or mutation of EXT1 and EXT2, two putative tumor suppressor genes, may be important in the pathogenesis of sporadic as well as hereditary osteochondromata.
AB - BACKGROUND. Osteochondroma most frequently arises sporadically and as a solitary lesion, but also may arise as multiple lesions characterizing the autosomal dominant disorder hereditary multiple exostoses (HME) and the contiguous gene syndromes Langer-Giedion and DEFECT-11 syndromes. HME is genetically heterogeneous with association of three loci including 8q24.1 (EXT1), 11p11-12 (EXT2), and 19p (EXT3). Constitutional chromosomal microdeletions of 8q24.1 and 11p11-12 are features of the Langer-Giedion and DEFECT-11 syndromes, respectively. Cytogenetic studies of osteochondroma are rare. METHODS. Cytogenetic analysis was performed on 34 osteochondroma specimens from 22 patients with sporadic lesions and 4 patients with HME utilizing standard methodologies. Fluorescence in situ hybridization with chromosome specific probes was performed on three cases to define structural rearrangements further. RESULTS. Clonal abnormalities were detected in ten cases. Notably, deletion of 11p11-13 was observed in one case (a sporadic tumor) and loss or rearrangement of 8q22-24.1 in eight cases (seven sporadic and one hereditary tumor). CONCLUSIONS. These findings: 1) confirm previous observations of 8q24.1 karyotypic anomalies in sporadic osteochondroma, 2) reveal the presence of somatic chromosomal anomalies in hereditary osteochondromata, 3) suggest that similar to hereditary lesions, sporadic osteochondromas also are genetically heterogeneic (involvement of both 8q24.1 and 11p11-12), and 4) support the hypothesis that loss or mutation of EXT1 and EXT2, two putative tumor suppressor genes, may be important in the pathogenesis of sporadic as well as hereditary osteochondromata.
KW - Chromosome
KW - Cytogenetic
KW - Exostoses
KW - Karyotype
KW - Osteochondroma
U2 - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980501)82:9<1657::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-3
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980501)82:9<1657::AID-CNCR10>3.0.CO;2-3
JO - Cancer
JF - Cancer
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Quirky Bands Can Rock Too: Arcade Fire at Jiffy Lube Live
July 28, 2018 /in Featured, Music /by Natalia Kolenko
Glittering kimonos, a giant disco ball and tambourines thrust into the crowd were just a few of the highlights from Arcade Fire’s show at Jiffy Lube Live on Friday night. But would you really expect anything less quirky from a band like Canadian-based Arcade Fire? Maybe not, but that doesn’t keep their show from being any less exciting each time lead singer Win Butler and the band, including wife Régine Chassagne and brother Will, hit the stage.
Where theatrics for Arcade Fire’s Reflektor tour came in the form of luminous silvers and golds and flashing mirrors everywhere, their Everything Now Continued tour – a second round set for their fifth album Everything Now (released July 2017) – uses vivid colors and giant screens to symbolize the album’s themes of consumerism, content overload and hopelessness in our modern age. Plenty of reflective objects are in the mix too, as technology is a running theme for the band.
Setting a subtle tone to open the show, Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” was followed by an instrumental version of Arcade Fire’s “Everything Now (Continued)” before the musicians appeared. But as the band hit the stage with their classic anthem “Wake Up,” the show went from whimsical violins to foot-stomping fun that had the whole audience singing along.
“Put Your Money on Me,” “We Don’t Deserve Love” and the Chassagne-fronted “Electric Blue” from the band’s latest album were performed in succession early on in the set, but not many more songs from Everything Now made the setlist. It seemed this leg of the tour is less about the band promoting their new album and more about having fun and giving some lesser-played songs some love. Cue the dance-inducing “Here Comes the Night Time” transporting listeners to Chassagne’s home country of Haiti during Carnival, or decade-old lyrics that could have been written for 2018 in “Suburban War,” where Win sings, “Now the music divides us into tribes // Choose your side, I’ll choose my side.”
Other songs proved not just old favorites, but reminders that many genres make up the band’s sound. For all their labels – self-prescribed or not – as the friendly Canadian hipsters that use zany instruments like accordions and keytars, it can be easy to think of Arcade Fire as just a breezy indie rock band. But jumping around and shouting the lyrics to “Neighborhoods #3 (Power Out)” and “Creature Comfort,” it struck me that they’re authentic rock and rollers to the core.
Other memorable moments from the night included the band entering the stage by walking through the crowd, Chassagne (who I swear played almost every instrument on the stage at least once) dancing with concertgoers during “Afterlife” and Will continuing to bang his drum during the show closer despite having tripped and sprained his ankle.
With the show coming to an end, Win noted that a portion of the money made from the night would go toward the Arcade Fire <3 Haiti campaign with Partners in Health. The band then broke out in fan-favorite “Rebellion (Lies)” that had the whole crowd shouting “Every time you close your eyes // Lies, lies!” proving that indie darlings Arcade Fire can rock with the best of them.
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Ontario’s Liberals have completely broken the electricity system
The Hamilton Spectator – Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay
Finally – the Globe and Mail gets it!
The Globe and Mail, Editorial
In politics, as we wrote Wednesday, people get upset about the little things. Remember Bev Oda’s $16 glass of orange juice? In the context of a 12-figure federal budget, or ministerial trips justifiably running into the tens of thousands of dollars, some overpriced OJ hardly mattered. And yet it galled. Small misdeeds are relatable. A big, complicated and massively costly government screw-up, in contrast, sometimes leaves people cold.
Let’s see if this warms you up. On Wednesday, Ontario’s Auditor-General announced that, between 2006 and 2014, thanks to incompetence and mismanagement on the part of the province’s Liberal government, Ontarians overpaid for electricity to the tune of $37-billion. And over the next 18 years, consumers will be overpaying to the tune of another $133-billion.
Let’s try to put those numbers in context. Electricity overpriced by $170-billion is equivalent to $12,326 in excess costs for every man, woman and child in Ontario. Over 27 years, that averages out to $457 per person, per year. According to Statistics Canada, the average Ontario household has 2.6 people, so for the typical family, we’re talking about a power utility bill roughly $1,188 higher than it should be – every year. Read article
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36 thoughts on “Ontario’s Liberals have completely broken the electricity system”
Judy Jack on 12/04/2015 at 13:09 said:
I think this is a crime and we can’t do anything about it.
real eyes on 12/21/2015 at 20:54 said:
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JustAnObserver on 12/04/2015 at 17:40 said:
Ontario Hydro or Hydro One has been so politicisied for so long it has firmly established itself as a cancer in the ecionomy of Ontario.
I don’t hold out much hope that Wynne appointee Susan Pupatello can find a cure for it.
I always like to remind everyone that as Dalton McGuinty was retiring his son said he was so pleased.and proud that his father left the province in better shape than it was when he took over.
But, when it comes down it I hold the Conservative party in contemt for choosing the leader they did in Tim Hudak. That was the error of the decade as it allowed Wynne the next most incompetent to win the 2014 election.
Ontario has been run by an elite group for a long time. By and large rural people did not encounter this or have to deal with this situation as they ran their own affairs. Now rural people have to deal with this situation.
Douglas Moran on 12/06/2015 at 17:56 said:
Although I wouldn’t personally have selected Hudak to run my party if I was a Progressive Conservative member at the time, I don’t believe it was he alone, who lost the election. The Liberal election win(Wynne?), like the two before it & the recent federal election Liberal win, were bought & paid for by public servants unions with taxpayers dollars in the form of huge raises for public servants, plus every climate alarmist, faux environmental org so also paid with our money through Trillium Foundation grants etc. Add in the Media Parties love affair with the left & only a miracle could have helped the Cons. get elected.
At this rate, with Liberals hiring even more loyal (to them only) public servants, changing the voting system to heavily favour leftist governments & we may never again have good honest governance in Ontario or federally.
eNews Park, Illinois, Dec.3, 2015
http://enewspf.com/2015/12/03/leading-canadians-call-for-investigation-of-climate-change-denier-groups
Leading Canadians Call for Investigation of Climate Change Denier Groups
“False representations mislead Canadians and violate the Competition Act”
U.S. news source used as this story seems to have disappeared in Canada?
Group of six Canadians involved in this complaint and include:
Stephen Lewis, Fmr. Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. and close friend of the late Maurice Strong.
Tzeporah Berman, Adjunct professor at York University and was with Greenpeace Canada and Greenpeace International.
Three Canadian scientists are also parties to the Complaint.
Ecojustice Canada has close ties to the U.S. Earthjustice organization through their Boards of Directors.
Another Esther situation developing in Canada?
Ecojustice, Canada
Via Online Complaint Form, Dec.3, 2015
http://ecojustice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-03-Application-to-Commissioner of-Competition-re-Climate-science-misrepresentations-updated.pdf
A 24 page document.
http://ecojustice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-12-03-Application-to-Commissioner-of-Competition-re-Climate-science-misrepresentations-updated.pdf
Or Google.
Thomas J. Duck: Latest Posts, 3 December 2015
‘Competition Commissioner asked to investigate Climate Change Denier Groups’
Tom duck is one of the parties included in the Complaint.
http://www.tomduck.ca
Broadbent Institute, Canada
Thomas J. Duck, Fellow
http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/thomasjduck
Broadbent Institute Team includes:
Ed Broadbent, Board Chairman
Rick Smith, Executive Director
Faculty of Environmental Studies
Adjunct Faculty includes:
Tzeporah Berman
http://www.fes.yorku.ca/faculty/adjunct-faculty
Broadbent Institute Leadership fellows include:
Tzeporah Berman, click on the name.
http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/leadership_fellows
T.Berman is also on the B.C. Government Climate Leadership Team.
British Columbia Government
www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/climate-change/policy-legislation-programs/climate-leadership-team
Tezporah Berman
Reuters Blogs, Jan.22, 2010
Dr. Danny Harvey, U. Toronto, on IWTs
‘Bring on the green energy investment’
http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2010/01/22/bring-on-the-green-energy-investment
Dr. Danny Harvey is party to the above “Complaint” filed Dec.3, 2015
His comments on IWTs in Ontario.
Environmental Defence, Canada
Clean Economy/Climate includes:
Dr. Danny Harvey
http://www.environmentaldefence.ca/expert-advisory-committee
IPCC/Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Working Group ll: Impacts, Adaptations and Vulnerability
Annex A: Authors and Expert Reviewers
Canada includes:
David W. Schindler, University of Alberta
http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=688
David Schindler party in the above Complaint.
Working Group lll
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
L.D. Danny Harvey, University of Toronto
Roles: Chapter 9-LA
http://www.mitigation2014.org/contributor/people/l-d-danny-harvey
Danny Harvey, University of Toronto
Article: “The Potential of Wind Energy to Largely Displace Existing Canadian Fossil Fuel and Nuclear Electricity Generation”, Jan.2013
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Danny_Harvey2/publications
There are other publications by Danny Harvey available at ResearchGate.
Climategate Emails, Pub. Nov., 2011
Re: Danny Harvey e-mail exchanges
http://junkscience.com/2011/11/climategate-2-0-wigley-harvey-trying-intimidating-journal-editor
There is more information on this topic on the internet if anyone is interested.
U of T News, Sept.15, 2009
‘U of T knows which way the wind blows’
Danny Harvey on IWTs and offshore IWTs in Lakes Ontario and Erie.
http://news.utoronto.ca/u-t-knows-which-way-wind-blows
Trudeau Foundation
Mentors include;
Ed Broadbent
Samantha Nutt
David Schindler
Jeffrey Simpson
http://www.trudeaufoundation.ca/en/community/Mentors/all/all
Climate Change Adaptation:
A Priorities Plan for Canada, c.2012-2014
P. xiii, adaptation Advisory Committee includes:
Dan Gagnier, Chair if IISD & recent Co-chair of Trudeau Election Campaign
Matthew McCullogh, Pembina Institute
Brian Kelly, Office of CAO Region of Durham
David Runnalls, Chair Emeritus IISD
Alex Phillips, Ontario Ministry of Environment
P. 51, Dr. David Schindler, ‘Fresh water resources’
http://questcanada.org/sites/default/files/publications/CCAP-FinalReport-June7.pdf
INFO-GO-Government of Ontario Employee and Organization Directory
Phillips, Alex
Senior Policy Advisor -Policy and Research, Office of the Premier.
Google INFO-GO Ontario.
UNFCCC, 16 December 2009, Copenhagen
Daily Programme/Part2
P.6, International Institute for Sustainable Development
IISD & Pembina Institute on Climate Change.
http://www.unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/cop15/od09p02.pdf
A joint presentation.
Board includes:
William A. Newsom, Retired Justice of the California Court of Appeals, San Francisco & Trustee at EarthJustice, U.S.
Will Roush, Trustee at Earthjustice, U.S.
Trip Van Noppen, Pres. of Earthjustice, U.S.
http://www.ecojustice.ca/people-list/board
Earthjustice, U.S.
http://www.earthjustice.org/about/board_of_trustees
Ecojustice, Canada – Donor Wall
Has list of donors @: http://www.ecojustice.ca/donorwall
List of foundations supporting Earthjustice.
http://www.earthjustice.org/give/foundations
Barbara, mapping these names of key players and their connections to government leaders is a crucially important task in tracking how it is that we have been so misled and manipulated. When all of this finally comes out into the open, your ‘detective work’/research will make so much sense to everyone.
I’m always grateful to you.
Wikipedia, Stephen Lewis
According to Wikipedia, Stephen Lewis is the father-in-law of Naomi Klein.
Likely it should be Canadian Ambassador to the UN and not the U.S.?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Lewis
http://www.350.org/people-vs-exxon
Prosecutors:
Naomi Klein & Bill McKibben
Saturday, December 5, 2015, 4-6 PM
National Speakers Bureau/NSB
Avi Lewis, Social & Political Commentator, Toronto
http://www.nsb.com/speaker/avi-lewis
Avi Lewis is h/o Naomi Klein
Democracy Now, Oct.2, 2015
“This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis Film Re images vast challenge of Climate Change”
http://democracynow.org/2015/10/2/this_changes_everything_naomi_klein_avi
The Globe And Mail, Pub. May 2, 2014
‘Party photos of the week: Maurice Strong’s 85th birthday’
15 photos which includes 2 identified as Stephen Lewis.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/fashion-and-beauty/fashion/party-photos-of-the-week-maurice-strongs-85th-birthday/article18401679
This is why I keep encouraging people to follow this story at wattsupwiththat.org.
Here’s the first article to read if you want to know how man made global warming alarmism got started. https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/surfacestationsreport_spring09.pdf
Here’s a recent article on wattsupwiththat.org on how algorithms can go wrong when computers are used to predict the future.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/12/05/a-simple-demonstration-of-chaos-and-unreliability-of-computer-models/
This is how it happened that more than 100 alarmist predictions have not occurred.
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Far fewer forest fires this spring
by Jason Bain | June 17, 2019
Ontario has seen less than half as many forest fires this year over last year, but the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry points out there has been no shortage of problematic blazes so far this season.
There have been 114 fires, way down from the 256 at this time last year and the 10-year average of 260 for this time, said Chris Marchand, Dryden-based northwest region fire information officer with Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services.
But many of them originated too close for comfort, including a 3,800-hectare blaze that forced the evacuation of more than 1,700 residents of Pikangikum First Nation earlier this month and late last month, he noted.
Another forest fire began within a kilometre of Pickle Lake and another within four kilometres of Gogama, Marchand said.
“Those fires require robust, full-suppression responses,” he said, explaining how the complexity of those efforts have kept crews busy. “When fires happen around lives and property … it changes the type of response that you give to it.”
The wet, cool conditions helped keep foliage from being as receptive to fire as it could be this spring, Marchand said Friday, when there were eight active fires.
He offers some tips to prevent fires, including encouraging residents to consider burning brush piles later in the season or chipping or composting them.
Those who have fires are reminded of regulations set out in the Forest Fire Prevention Act, such as not burning piles larger than two metres tall and two metres wide on all sides, and having tools on hand such as a rake and shovel.
There are also time of day restrictions. You cannot light a fire until two hours before sunset, and the fire must be put out within two hours after sunrise.
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A denial of service vulnerability in rpd daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a malformed MPLS ping packet to crash the rpd daemon if MPLS OAM is configured. Repeated crashes of the rpd daemon can result in an extended denial of service condition for the device. The affected releases are Junos OS 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D50, 12.3X48-D55; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10; 14.1 prior to 14.1R4-S13, 14.1R8-S3, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D42, 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R4-S8, 14.2R7-S6, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S14, 15.1F5-S7, 15.1F6-S4, 15.1F7, 15.1R4-S7, 15.1R5-S1, 15.1R6; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D100; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D105, 15.1X53-D47, 15.1X53-D62, 15.1X53-D70; 16.1 prior to 16.1R3-S3, 16.1R4. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.
Published: July 17, 2017; 09:18:24 AM -04:00 V3.0: 7.5 HIGH
V2: 5.0 MEDIUM
On Junos OS devices with SNMP enabled, a network based attacker with unfiltered access to the RE can cause the Junos OS snmpd daemon to crash and restart by sending a crafted SNMP packet. Repeated crashes of the snmpd daemon can result in a partial denial of service condition. Additionally, it may be possible to craft a malicious SNMP packet in a way that can result in remote code execution. SNMP is disabled in Junos OS by default. Junos OS devices with SNMP disabled are not affected by this issue. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue. NOTE: This is a different issue than Cisco CVE-2017-6736, CVE-2017-6737, and CVE-2017-6738. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D67; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D51, 12.3X48-D55; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10-S2; 14.1 prior to 14.1R2-S10, 14.1R8-S4, 14.1R9; 14.1X50 prior to 14.1X50-D185; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D122, 14.1X53-D44, 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R4-S9, 14.2R7-S7, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S18, 15.1F6-S7, 15.1R4-S8, 15.1R5-S5, 15.1R6-S1, 15.1R7; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D100, 15.1X49-D110; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D231, 15.1X53-D47, 15.1X53-D48, 15.1X53-D57, 15.1X53-D64, 15.1X53-D70; 16.1 prior to 16.1R3-S4, 16.1R4-S3, 16.1R4-S4, 16.1R5; 16.2 prior to 16.2R2, 16.2R3; 17.1 prior to 17.1R1-S3, 17.1R2, 17.1R3; 17.2 prior to 17.2R1-S1, 17.2R2; 17.2X75 prior to 17.2X75-D30. Junos releases prior to 10.2 are not affected.
Published: July 17, 2017; 09:18:24 AM -04:00 V3.0: 9.8 CRITICAL
V2: 7.5 HIGH
A routine within an internal Junos OS sockets library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. Malicious exploitation of this issue may lead to a denial of service (kernel panic) or be leveraged as a privilege escalation through local code execution. The routines are only accessible via programs running on the device itself, and veriexec restricts arbitrary programs from running on Junos OS. There are no known exploit vectors utilizing signed binaries shipped with Junos OS itself. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.1X46 prior to 12.1X46-D67; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D51, 12.3X48-D55; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10-S2; 14.1 prior to 14.1R2-S10, 14.1R8-S4, 14.1R9; 14.1X50 prior to 14.1X50-D185; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D122, 14.1X53-D45, 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R4-S9, 14.2R7-S7, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S18, 15.1F6-S7, 15.1R4-S8, 15.1R5-S5, 15.1R6-S1, 15.1R7; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D100; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D231, 15.1X53-D47, 15.1X53-D48, 15.1X53-D57, 15.1X53-D64, 15.1X53-D70; 16.1 prior to 16.1R3-S4, 16.1R4-S3, 16.1R4-S4, 16.1R5; 16.2 prior to 16.2R2; 17.1 prior to 17.1R1-S3, 17.1R2; 17.2 prior to 17.2R1-S1, 17.2R2; 17.2X75 prior to 17.2X75-D30. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.
An insufficient authentication vulnerability on platforms where Junos OS instances are run in a virtualized environment, may allow unprivileged users on the Junos OS instance to gain access to the host operating environment, and thus escalate privileges. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D40 on QFX5110, QFX5200, QFX10002, QFX10008, QFX10016, EX4600 and NFX250; 15.1 prior to 15.1R5 on EX4600; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D70 on vSRX, SRX1500, SRX4100, SRX4200; 16.1 prior to 16.1R2 on EX4600, ACX5000 series. This issue does not affect vMX. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Junos OS CLI may allow a local authenticated user with read only privileges and access to Junos CLI, to execute code with root privileges. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D46 on EX2200/VC, EX3200, EX3300/VC, EX4200, EX4300, EX4550/VC, EX4600, EX6200, EX8200/VC (XRE), QFX3500, QFX3600, QFX5100; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D130 on QFabric System; 14.2 versions prior to 14.2R4-S9, 14.2R6; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1F5, 15.1R3; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D40 on SRX Series; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D47 on NFX150, NFX250; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D65 on QFX10000 Series; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D233 on QFX5110, QFX5200.
A specific device configuration can result in a commit failure condition. When this occurs, a user is logged in without being prompted for a password while trying to login through console, ssh, ftp, telnet or su, etc., This issue relies upon a device configuration precondition to occur. Typically, device configurations are the result of a trusted administrative change to the system's running configuration. The following error messages may be seen when this failure occurs: mgd: error: commit failed: (statements constraint check failed) Warning: Commit failed, activating partial configuration. Warning: Edit the router configuration to fix these errors. If the administrative changes are not made that result in such a failure, then this issue is not seen. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 12.3 prior to 12.3R10, 12.3R11; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D20; 13.2 prior to 13.2R8; 13.3 prior to 13.3R7; 14.1 prior to 14.1R4-S12, 14.1R5, 14.1R6; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D30; 14.2 prior to 14.2R4; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2, 15.1F3, 15.1R2.
V2: 10.0 HIGH
On Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches running affected Junos OS versions, a vulnerability in IPv6 processing has been discovered that may allow a specially crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packet destined to an EX Series Ethernet Switch to cause a slow memory leak. A malicious network-based packet flood of these crafted IPv6 NDP packets may eventually lead to resource exhaustion and a denial of service. The affected Junos OS versions are: 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S4, 12.3R13; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S3, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior ro 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53-D40; 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35; 14.2 prior to 14.2R6-S4, 14.2R7-S6, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1R5; 16.1 before 16.1R3; 16.2 before 16.2R1-S3, 16.2R2. 17.1R1 and all subsequent releases have a resolution for this vulnerability.
Published: April 24, 2017; 11:59:00 AM -04:00 V3.0: 7.5 HIGH
J-Web in Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X46-D45, 12.1X46-D50, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D35, 12.3 before 12.3R12, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D25, 13.3 before 13.3R10, 13.3R9 before 13.3R9-S1, 14.1 before 14.1R7, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D35, 14.2 before 14.2R6, 15.1 before 15.1A2 or 15.1F4, 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D30, and 15.1R before 15.1R3 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and consequently gain administrative privileges via unspecified vectors.
Published: September 09, 2016; 10:05:05 AM -04:00 V3.0: 9.8 CRITICAL
Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X46-D50, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D40, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D30, 13.3 before 13.3R9, 14.1 before 14.1R8, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D40, 14.2 before 14.2R6, 15.1 before 15.1F6 or 15.1R3, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D40, when configured with a GRE or IPIP tunnel, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a crafted ICMP packet.
Published: September 09, 2016; 10:05:04 AM -04:00 V3.0: 5.9 MEDIUM
Juniper Junos OS 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D30 on QFX Series switches allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (PFE panic) via a high rate of unspecified VXLAN packets.
Juniper Junos OS before 13.2X51-D40, 14.x before 14.1X53-D30, and 15.x before 15.1X53-D20 on QFX5100 and QFX10002 switches do not have sufficient entropy, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic encryption and authentication protection mechanisms via unspecified vectors.
Published: April 15, 2016; 10:59:08 AM -04:00 V3.0: 5.9 MEDIUM
Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D60, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D30, 12.3 before 12.3R11, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R9, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D39, 13.3 before 13.3R8, 14.1 before 14.1R6, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D30, 14.2 before 14.2R4-S1, 15.1 before 15.1R2, 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D30, and 16.1 before 16.1R1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket consumption) via crafted TCP timestamps.
Race condition in the RPC functionality in Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D55, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R11, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D39, 13.3 before 13.3R7, 14.1 before 14.1R6, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D30, 14.2 before 14.2R3-S4, 15.1 before 15.1F2, or 15.1R2, 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D20, and 16.1 before 16.1R1 allows local users to read, delete, or modify arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Race condition in the Op command in Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D55, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R11, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 12.3X50 before 12.3X50-D50, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D39, 13.2X52 before 13.2X52-D30, 13.3 before 13.3R7, 14.1 before 14.1R6, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D30, 14.2 before 14.2R4, 15.1 before 15.1F2 or 15.1R2, 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D10 or 15.1X49-D20, and 16.1 before 16.1R1 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via the URL option.
Juniper Junos OS before 13.2X51-D36, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D25, and 15.2 before 15.2R1 on EX4300 series switches allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network loop and bandwidth consumption) via unspecified vectors related to Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) traffic.
Published: January 15, 2016; 02:59:08 PM -05:00 V3.0: 5.3 MEDIUM
The Routing Engine in Juniper Junos OS 13.2R5 through 13.2R8, 13.3R1 before 13.3R8, 13.3R7 before 13.3R7-S3, 14.1R1 before 14.1R6, 14.1R3 before 14.1R3-S9, 14.1R4 before 14.1R4-S7, 14.1X51 before 14.1X51-D65, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D28, 14.1X53 before 4.1X53-D35, 14.2R1 before 14.2R5, 14.2R3 before 14.2R3-S4, 14.2R4 before 14.2R4-S1, 15.1 before 15.1R3, 15.1F2 before 15.1F2-S2, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D40, when LDP is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (RPD routing process crash) via a crafted LDP packet.
Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D55, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R10, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 before 13.3R7, 14.1 before 14.1R5, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D18 or 14.1X53-D30, 14.1X55 before 14.1X55-D25, 14.2 before 14.2R4, 15.1 before 15.1R2, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D10 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed IGMPv3 packet, aka a "multicast denial of service."
The SSH server in Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D50, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D35, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R10, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D10, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D35, 13.3 before 13.3R6, 14.1 before 14.1R5, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D25, 14.2 before 14.2R3, 15.1 before 15.1R1, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified SSH traffic.
Published: October 19, 2015; 02:59:05 PM -04:00 V2: 7.8 HIGH
Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D50, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D35, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R9, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D15, 13.2 before 13.2R7, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D35, 13.3 before 13.3R6, 14.1 before 14.1R5, 14.1X50 before 14.1X50-D105, 14.1X51 before 14.1X51-D70, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D25, 14.1X55 before 14.1X55-D20, 14.2 before 14.2R1, 15.1 before 15.1F2 or 15.1R1, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D10 does not require a password for the root user when pam.conf is "corrupted," which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the file.
Published: October 19, 2015; 02:59:04 PM -04:00 V2: 6.9 MEDIUM
IPv6 sendd in Juniper Junos 12.1X44 before 12.1X44-D51, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D36, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R10, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.3 before 13.3R6, 14.1 before 14.1R5, 14.2 before 14.2R3, 15.1 before 15.1R1, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D20, when the "set protocols neighbor-discovery secure security-level default" option is configured, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) Protocol packet.
Published: July 16, 2015; 10:59:08 AM -04:00 V2: 5.0 MEDIUM
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HomeArtsy MamaGiveaway: Win tickets to see “CATS” at Walton Arts Center
Giveaway: Win tickets to see “CATS” at Walton Arts Center
Memories. Many of us have great memories from the first time we saw CATS live at the theatre.
It’s a record-breaking musical spectacular by Andrew Lloyd Webber that has captivated audiences in over 30 countries and 15 languages and is now on tour across North America.
Yep, CATS the Musical is FINALLY pouncing onto the Walton Arts Center stage on May 28th. Woo-hoo! If you’d love to win 4 free tickets to this classic show, just read the info below for how to enter the giveaway! Experience CATS for the first time as it begins a new life for a new generation — or let it thrill you all over again!
The show runs May 28-June 2nd at Walton Arts Center.
Audiences and critics alike are rediscovering this beloved musical with breathtaking music, including one of the most treasured songs in musical theater—”Memory”. Winner of 7 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, CATS tells the story of one magical night when an extraordinary tribe of cats gathers for its annual ball to rejoice and decide which cat will be reborn.
The original score by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Phantom, School of Rock, Sunset Boulevard), original scenic and costume design by John Napier (Les Misérables), all-new lighting design by Natasha Katz (Aladdin), all-new sound design by Mick Potter, new choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) based on the original choreography by Gillian Lynne (Phantom) and direction by Trevor Nunn (Les Misérables) make this production a new CATS for a new generation.
Here are some special treats for CATS lovers at Walton Arts Center:
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If you need one meow reason to go see CATS, here’s a sneak peek:
If you’d love to win 4 tickets to see CATS the Musical at Walton Arts Center, scroll down to the bottom of this post and then past the comments posted by other moms.
Then write a quick comment telling us your favorite song from the show. If you’ve never seen it, just tell us why you NEED a night out at the theatre right now! (Or feel free to answer both questions!)
You can also email your answer to us at giveaways@nwaMotherlode.com.
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Joey Hall says:
This is my husband’s busy travel schedule & a night at the show would be great!
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Silja Sample says:
I love “Memory”, but my favorite is “The Naming of Cats”. Would love to see this musical with my kids, who all love music and their pet cats!
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This would be a perfect night out for my tribe! We need to ditch our responsibilities and have some fun together.
Dawn Taylor says:
I’ve never seen Cats but definitely in need of a night out. I think I haven’t had a fun trip since October & am truly exhausted after a winter of crazy work weeks
Sarah Roe says:
I need a night out to see CATS! I’m a stay at home mom and I never have a reason to get dressed up and go out…I would love to win this! Thank you!
Kristy Brown says:
my favorite song would be ‘the naming of the cats”….LOVE it. This is my favorite musical and I cant wait to share it with my son!
Mr Mistoffelees is the most memorable song. My mom took me to see Cats when I was young, now I’d love to take my daughter!
Christy Bennett says:
I’ve never seen it but would love to!
Christi Welcher says:
I have never seen this one. I have only been to two Broadway show so I need to add to my list!
Judy Bilyeu says:
Memory – One of the greatest songs ever! I would love the opportunity to see this amazing show!!!
Jellico Cats!
Nuvia Swanson says:
My girls and I need a night out. Never have seen this show and can’t wait to get the opportunity.
Leah Karp says:
I love this musical! My kids love Growltiger’s Last Stand and I love Memory.
FAvorite song.. Memory
Amy Clark says:
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer is my favorite song. This is my favorite musical and I would love to take my sons! My youngest’s favorite animal is a cat and he’d love this show!
Kathy Ann Moudy says:
Always wanted to see this show. My nickname is “Kat” and I love musicals! I’d love to win tickets and bring friends with me!
Sandra Perrodin says:
I’ve never seen Cats but would love to take my granddaughters and daughter in-law!
Always wanted to see Cats! My nickname is Kat. Would love to win tickets and bring my friends!
Jeannie Bowen says:
I have never seen it but have always wanted to. I would love to be able to take my daughter and granddaughters to see it so my daughter who is a teacher can destress from end of school activities.
Skimbleshanks is probably my favorite song… but I also have a strong love of Mungojerry and Rumpleteaser (one of my dance instructors danced the part of Mungojerry on the touring company for years!)
I’ve never seen it but would LOVE a night out with my girls!!! We are all working moms with at least 2 kids each so this would be a nice break!
I would love to go to Cats. When I was little my school took us to go meet the cast from Cats and I would to see the show.
Farrah Pruitt says:
I NEED A night out and I NEED to take my daughter. She would freak of I told her we had tickets 🥰😁🤗
Karin Alvarado says:
I have always wanted to see this and want to share it with my girls!!!
Kathy Hicks says:
I have never seen Cats but have always wanted to. I need a night out so badly, and can’t think of a better way than to see an excellent renowned show at the Walton Arts Center!!
I’ve never seen Cats, so I don’t have a favorite song. But I’ve always wanted to see it. I want to take my mom and 2 sisters with me…it’d be perfect.
Dayna Mohr says:
I’ve never seen Cats the musical. I love musicals and I can’t believe I’ve never seen this one. Id love to go and take my husband and friends as a payback for all of the times they have treated me to special occasions.
Mary Katherine Wilson says:
OMG! I’ve wanted to take my daughter to see this. I got to see it when I was her age- “Memory” is most definitely my favorite song from Cats!!
Constance Bailey says:
Single mom of 3 in desperate need of a night out! I am a huge fan of the theatre and musicals so I would love to see the show!!!
Erin Pohlmeier says:
The Rum Tum Tugger is my favorite song. I’d love to take my son on a date. He loves the theater! Neither of us have seen Cats.
Amy Spears says:
Memory! I’d love to take my mom & mother-in-law to this show to celebrate their birthdays.
Charles W Taunton says:
I’ve worn out a CD set of the original cast recording of this musical: A live performance will be fantastic!
My favorite song is Memory. I would love to see this show again!
Gretchen Bowen says:
Would love to take my mom!!
We NEED these tickets! My husband is constantly humming that Memories song, because my grandmother’s show tunes clock plays it twice a day! He would love to see that poor old cat sing! 🥰
Amanda Swope says:
I’ve never seen it, but I’ve always wanted to. This would be fun with a girlfriend or my daughter.
Shannon Drummond says:
My entire family loves Cats the musical. We’d love a night out to see the show. Our favorite song is…Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer!
I think I saw this 18 years when I first moved to Fayetteville. It would be great to see it again! Favorite song is Memory.
I’ve always wanted to see CATS; and even though I haven’t seen it I know and love “Memory” thanks to Barbra Steisand!
Jessica Hunt says:
I’ve never seen it, but I would love a date night with my husband!
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Linda Proffitt says:
I’ve not seen “Cats”, but would love to see it with some dear friends. Our lives have been very “heavy” lately. A night out would be wonderful!!
Jill King says:
I’ve never seen it and have always wanted to!! I would love to take my daughter as well to get her loving theater at an early age 🙂
Melissa Burton says:
Honestly, I have never been to see cats! 😢 However I would love to go because I am way past due for a night out. I’m excited to put my name in the drawing and have a chance to win! 💕
Gail halleck says:
I would love to take my 16 year old daughter who loves musicals!
Whitney Ward says:
I LOVE The Rum Tum Tugger! Would love to win this!
Laura Reynolds says:
I have 3 children, 2 girls and 1 boy. Our son has special needs. I Would love to take my 2 daughters to see Cats! They help their little brother so much and I would love treat them to a girls night out 😍
I’ve never seen this and I could DEFINITELY use a night out!
Stephanie Nichols says:
CATS!!! What a purrfect night out with my husband and friends! We are long over due on a date night with our amazing friends!
Kim Buck says:
I have seen CATS, but it has been so long ago I honestly can’t remember what my favorite song is. If I win, I will definitely let you know what it is afterwards!! And, my 13-year old daughter would enjoy this show so much!! (She loves, loves cats, the animals/pets, so the costumes in the show would be a hoot for her.) Thanks!!
Haven’tt seen it! Wanna see it! Need a fun night out!
Memories my favorite song ,would love to have a night out with my Dad Who has recently made some very hard very brave decisions in her life
Paula Grage says:
MEOW! We need a night out 😻
A night out with family would be great!!’
Rum Tum Tugger and Memory are my favorite songs. This would be such a fun night out for us! I get the newsletter, follow you on IG and Twitter and commented on FB.
Pat Page says:
My (now grown) daughter danced in a short version of CATS while in high school — a local production. I would love to take her to see this professional production, along with her children.
Holly Waddle says:
I have never seen CATS, but I love the song Memory! I am so thankful to the Walton Arts Center for bringing such great shows to the area! This would be an amazing experience! I follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook!
Deborah Green says:
I’ve never seen it, but have the soundtracks for almost all of Webbers works. Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer is my favorite from Cats.
Kayla Kimball says:
I need a night out just to get away for a bit!! Would love to see Cats!
Tara Lindstrom says:
I’ve never seen CATS but this would be an awesome show to take my daughter and a couple of her friends for the end of their school year.
Erika Olinger says:
I’ve never seen it, but I love “Memory”!
Danielle Redburn says:
I saw this as a little girl and sang the songs in the school chorus. I would love to take my kids to see it!
Kim W says:
I have not seen Cats and it is on my bucket list! I’m slowly introducing my 12 and 14 yr old to Broadway shows and I would love to share this one with them.
Never seen the show, but have always wanted to go. This would be perfect.
I follow on fb, Twitter, instagram and receive the emails.
Johnna Crocker says:
We love Cats but my 13 year old daughter and I used to watch it on VHS! This was supposed to be our first year going back to Silver Dollar City since 2014 when her brother was born, but we had to sink $2,000 into my husband’s truck to keep it alive until we get my car paid off. She would love to see this live. This is also the first year since his birth that we have not had to use 7-10 vacation days on a hospital visit for him – each year.
Also my favorite song is Mungojerry and Rumpleteaser, and I love the continuous cartwheel at the end of the song.
I’ve never seen it but I sure could use a night out. All I do is work. I didn’t even get to go out for my birthday last week!
Susan Wallace says:
We have never seen CATS and would love to take our youngest granddaughter, 9 years old, to see this play. She currently competes in and loves Musical theater. The evening would make a great “Memory.” Thanks.
Christina Hazelbaker says:
I’ve never seen this show, however I would LOVE to take my daughter who happens to be graduating this year! She is a huge Broadway fan, in fact we wanted to go to New York this year just to watch a musical together, but finances will not allow It! She was granted a full scholarship into the University of Arkansas Honors program! I would LOVE, nothing more than this night out with her and other family members! Thanks for the consideration!
Sherry Tuck says:
Would be an awesome girls night out❤️💕
Sondra Grant says:
Ive never seen Cats but it has been a dream of minr since I was a little girl in elementary school. I would LOVE to be able to go see it!
Memory of course!! It will be the end of the school year and this tired teacher will need a night out!! 🤪🤪
Sylvia Chesser says:
My favorite song is Jellicle Cats. I was blessed to be taken by my grandparents to see it in the original London theater 33 years ago and would so love for my daughters to experience it.
Stacy Schmidt says:
MEMORIES!!!!! Always a favorite. I saw Cats many years ago with my husband. I would love to take my daughter. She is really into musicals right now. It would be a fun night out.
Paige Kotsilimpa says:
Rum rum tuger
Kristin Boyer says:
Memory is my absolute fave! 🎶😺
Dani Dingman says:
Oh my goodness! What a fabulous giveaway! I’ve never seen Cats but I’ve heard the music! Memory is just breathtaking! My husband and I have four kiddos that are ages 10, 7, 5, and 2. We just adopted our 4th kiddo a couple of weeks ago and are SO in need of a night to reconnect! If we were to win, we could treat a couple of friends to a double date!!! Thanks so much for this opportunity!
Lisa Wilkerson says:
This is on my bucket list of thing to see and do. I’ve been waiting to see this show for over 10 years. I would love to enjoy this with my son who would love this and some friends.
Sara Sawyer says:
My daughters’ would love to see CATS! They are musical fans.. And it would be a great bonding time (18 and 13)
Debbie Ritter says:
Memory is the only song I know since I have never seen Cats. My twins have never seen a Broadway show so this would be a great Memory for our family as they graduate high school next month.
Leticia Greene says:
Because both of my girls are 5 hours away at college, but I bet they would come home to see this show. 😁
Babie Woodson says:
I haven’t seen it but heard good things about it. This one of my many “someday I’ll see it” shows. I’d like to take me and my three kids so they may experience for the first time a broadway show. Who knows, it may spark an interest on them to be a theater performer. I love musical and my children enjoys music as well. This would be great experience for us. I’m super ecstatic about this giveaway. Thanks!
Tiffany Haas says:
Memories is my favorite song! I would love to take my daughter. I saw Cats while I’m college, my very first Broadway musical ever that I saw at the wac way back in the 90’s when it first opened. 🙂 it would be fun to take my daughter who starts college next year at the uofa!
I love going to the theater and have never seen Cats, winning the tickets would be wonderful. I follow you on Facebook and Instagram.
Heather Williams says:
I NEED to go because I’ve never been!!!!
I need to take my daughter and my little sister. Please.
Rebecca Brye says:
Need a night out. 4 kids on 4 different basketball teams. Have not seen this either.
I would love to take my husband and two oldest kiddos to this! We always love going to the WAC
Have never seen Cats but would love to take my 3 daughters who love cats to see it! Follow on FB and Instagram.
Rum Tum Hugger is so much fun. I saw Cats 30 years ago on Broadway. Would love to share it with my kids.
Kelli Hafen says:
I would loooooove to take my daughter to this! She loves singing and all things musical 😍
May Clevenger says:
This would be interesting to watch since I haven’t seen one.
I’ve never seen the show. Would love a night out because my husband has been working a lot of nights and out of town work trips 😩 It’s ball season and I have 3 kids, enough said 🤣🤣
Dana Schwiethale says:
I’ve never seen it but would love to introduce my granddaughter to theater.
Melissa Griggs says:
Love this musical ❤️ Memory is my favorite song 😜
I would love to take my my kids to see this!!
Kristi Pool says:
I’ve never seen this music off, but I would love to go and take my kids!!
This musical!! 😂
Amy Brown says:
My kids love live theater
I would love to take my daughter to see this. We have never been the WAC together before.
Nina L WILLIAMS says:
I have never seen Cats but my daughter’s dance recital had CATS as the theme back in the 1990’s. Memory is my favorite song. I have just had a 70th birthday and would love to go to CATS with my disabled son and two grandchildren. What a wonderful experience and memory that would be!!!!
I’ve never seen it and we just need a night out simply because we never get out. We have 3 kids and not many babysitters.
My mother took me has a child. And I would love to have a much needed Mom’s night out with my tribe!!!
Helen Burch says:
I have been to NYC 4 times and have NEVER been able to get tickets!!! Now with 3 littles I doubt I’ll be back. Pick me!!! Pick me!!!
Lisa Turner says:
I am a frazzled teacher and mom of four who would LOVE to see this show. When I was 17, I got the opportunity to travel and perform at several venues in NYC. At the time, a hit musical had come out four years earlier and each evening I would travel past the long lines of people who were seeing CATS. Several times during my visit, I would walk past the pictures of the actors in the box office lobby windows, and dream about seeing the performance myself. However, It’s now 35 years later and I’ve still not had the opportunity. It’s about time! Thanks for allowing me to share this memory.😽
Holly Shacklett says:
I haven’t seen it. I do love “memories”. We need a night out at the theater. All four of us love seeing live theater! My oldest is now a fanatic about being in band, and my youngest just broke her arm. My husband, a middle school teacher, and I just finally got everything in line for my youngest to have a 504. We are currently just worn out!
Melissa Wright says:
I like the song Memory but I have never gotten to see CATS and I have always wanted to. I would love to take my kids. May 28th is my 45th birthday and I feel so old… This would really help make this milestone birthday great.
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Shannon Addison says:
The song memory.
This would be my daughter’s first musical and Broadway show. And she is old enough to understand and enjoy it!
Love love everything about it!
I would love a night out at the theatre because I’m at stay at home mom who really doesn’t get out much at all!
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A number of conservative politicos have predicted that scores of FBI agents could revolt if their investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server finds overwhelming evidence of criminal wrongdoing and the Justice Department refuses to indict her. According to their theories, not only could there be mass resignations, including that FBI Director James Comey, but there could also be major leaks of unauthorized FBI investigative materials to the public.
On Friday morning, a powerful sitting senator also suggested that the FBI may leak reports of its investigation if the agency believes prosecution of Clinton was thwarted for political reasons.
During a breakfast meeting with the Des Moines A.M. Rotary club, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said, "If there’s political interference, then I assume that somebody in the FBI is going to leak these reports and it’s either going to have an effect politically or it’s going to lead to prosecution if there’s enough evidence.” Grassley went on to acknowledge that it would be a crime to release such investigative materials. “I wouldn’t be encouraging it because if it’s a violation of law, I can’t be encouraging a violation of law,” he said. “This is kind of my own opinion, this is something I’ve heard.”
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"He would not be surprised if FBI agents who truly believe that there is enough evidence to indict Mrs. Clinton and to convict her on both the email charge and the public corruption charge, will feel frustrated and stymied by the political people in the Justice Department and will want the public to know what they know," he said. "If that class of people -- it would be more than one person -- leaks information to the press, I agree with Senator Grassley, if there is a leak, and if what is leaked is credible... the president could have a Saturday night massacre/Watergate-style disaster on his hands in the last six months of his presidency."
This would not just spell trouble for the Clinton campaign, but for the entire Democratic Party as the party faithful fumble around trying to defend their "crooked" nominee.
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Be Polite and Courteous
The goal of online interaction is to positively contribute to, and enhance everyone's enjoyment of the game. In general including-but-not-limited-to terms, this means to communicate with other users and Vision Staff in a civilized, pleasant, constructive and respectful manner. Specifically avoid trolling, making racist or sexist comments, derailing threads, spamming, flaming, and otherwise being a nuisance of any sort. You're welcome to POLITELY disagree with people on the forums (us included!), but always keep it respectful and constructive. I.e., something along the lines of "I feel that the armor values of ship A are a bit too low relative to ship B." is perfectly fine, while "STOP KILLING TEH GAME U IDIOTS" is not). Keep the discussion about the idea, and not the person who had the idea. Try to always avoid the Big Three topics: sex, politics, and religion. No one agrees about anything there and everyone has some pretty strong opinions. Avoid tossing a match into a keg of gunpowder.
We're leaving this rule vague on purpose. The kind of person who needs the line explicitly drawn is also the kind of person who will try to stay as close to that line as humanly possible while still being a nuisance, which is irritating to everyone. Basically, if we think you're being a nuisance, we'll ask you (politely) to stop. If you don't, we'll have to take further action. We can't put you in the stocks or keelhaul you, so this could mean removed posts, forum bans, in-game bans, item or doubloon removal, etc. We reserve the right to take whatever action we feel is appropriate to help keep online areas of interaction friendly, warm and convivial, a welcome place for players both new and old.
Don't use multiple accounts to be a jackass
After the above, it should go without saying that you aren't allowed to create multiple accounts or use old accounts to try to get around moderation and continue to be a nuisance. Basically, if one of your accounts is banned from the Game Forums or Discord Server, you should re-think your life choices that led up to that moment and treat all of your chat or forum accounts as banned. If you attempt to continue being a nuisance, despite our attempts to stop you, it pushes things further, makes you unwelcome and we may find it necessary to start banning game accounts.
Don't argue moderation on the forums
If you feel that you've been moderated unfairly, send a moderator a private message and plead your case. We are not ogres. We are both on the same team, and we want you to enjoy the game and its online chat systems -- but everyone else has to enjoy them too. The only reason moderation takes place is because the Moderator(s) are trying to keep things civil and help gently quell arguments. Don't re-post something that's been deleted by a Moderator, or make snarky comments about the moderation.
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What % Brainy Are You?
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Ever notice how jealous other people are of you? It's probably because you're a really brainy person who thinks and behaves in a way that they can't understand. Well, it's time to show the world how intelligent you really are today!
When people think of the word "brainy," they might think about someone who is really smart at math, science, history or English. But let's think outside of the box for a moment, because a brainy person is also someone who perceives the world in a different way. They are usually more perceptive of other people, including their actions and the way they think. A brainy person is also aware of what they want in life. They typically have big (and sometimes, seemingly impossible) goals that are quite difficult to achieve. But someone who dreams big will always take the necessary routes to become successful in life. Nothing will stop them, because they know that they will always find a way to think of a solution. But if this doesn't sound like you, don't worry, because you can always take steps to become a more brainy person. For now, though, it's time to take our intelligent quiz to see what you're really like!
Do you always have a book in your hand, or should all books be thrown away in a trash bin?
I always have a book in my hand.
It depends on the book genre.
I don't have too much time to read these days.
Ugh, I hate reading books!
If someone asked you to remove a virus from their computer, would you be able to do this?
Of course, this is so easy!
It depends on what kind of virus it is.
I can certainly try.
Nope, this sounds too complicated.
Are you able to solve a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in under 5 minutes?
I can do this in under 60 seconds.
Yes, I can do this in under 5 minutes.
I need more than 5 minutes for this.
I can't solve one at all.
Are you more productive during the late night hours or the early morning hours?
The early morning hours
The late night hours
I'm not really a productive person.
How many electronics (like a smartphone, computer or video game console) do you typically use on a daily basis?
Less than 5 electronics
Between 5-10 electronics
Between 10-15 electronics
Over 15 electronics
Can you play any musical instruments or is this something that you tend to stay far away from?
I can play all kinds of musical instruments.
I can only play 1-2 musical instruments.
I used to play a musical instrument, but not anymore.
I can't play any musical instruments.
When it comes to learning new skills in life, how quickly do you tend to go from beginner to expert mode?
Within a few days
Within a few weeks
Within a few months
How open-minded of a person are you on a scale of 1-10?
Do you always tend to question everything in life or is a simple answer good enough for you?
It's always good to question anything and everything.
It depends on what the problem is.
I only ask more questions if I'm confused.
A simple answer is good enough for me!
Quick! Can you tell us what the derivative of 2x + 1 is?
Which of these advanced college classes would you most likely want to enroll in?
Book smart versus street smart: Which one reigns supreme for you?
Book smart
Street smart
It's always good to learn from your own mistakes in life, but how often do you do this?
Only when I make major mistakes.
I never really learn from my mistakes.
Choose one of these brainy board games to play with some of your friends!
Would your friends and family describe you as a resourceful type of person?
Only when I do something impressive
Nope, I don't think so.
If someone wanted to talk with you about a school subject that you know nothing about, what would you say?
"I'm not an expert in this school subject, but I'm open to learning about it."
"I know everything about this particular subject."
"I don't know anything about this school subject."
"Can we talk about something else?"
Some people are more empathetic than others, but would you describe yourself as an emotionally intelligent person?
It depends on who I'm talking to.
Which of these movies would you want to watch over and over again?
"A Beautiful Mind"
"The Imitation Game"
"Good Will Hunting"
When you're having a conversation with someone, do you tend to listen or speak more?
I always listen more.
I tend to do both of these things.
It depends on the conversation.
I love hearing myself talk.
Do you like to surround yourself with other intelligent people?
Yes, that's the best way to learn!
I have a few intelligent friends.
I only have one other intelligent friend.
No, they're too smart for me.
If perfection does exist, is this something that you would be able to achieve?
No, but I would always strive for it.
Yes, I'd like to think so.
Perfection doesn't exist.
That's a big "no" from me.
Let's say that you're at a restaurant with a friend. Would you be able to calculate the server's tip in your head?
Of course, this is pretty easy.
It depends on how much the bill is.
I would just ask my friend for help.
This is what a calculator is for, right?
We all have enemies in life, but who is your biggest enemy who is standing in your way?
Just one person I know
How many side hustles or hobbies are you currently working on?
I lost count.
Just 1-2
It's OK to overthink some things in life, but do you tend to overthink just about everything?
Ugh, yes!
I overthink a few things in my life.
It depends on the problem in my life.
No, because there's no need to worry.
Everyone has a certain sense of humor, but how would you describe yours?
Just "normal" humor
Light and silly humor
Be honest here: Do you tend to brag about your achievements in life?
No, it's never good to brag.
Once in a great while
Yes, because what's the harm in this?
I don't really have anything to brag about.
Are you able to easily breakdown a really complex or difficult topic for others to understand?
Now that's my specialty.
I certainly try!
It depends on the topic.
Nope, not at all
If a problem seems too difficult for you to solve, would you persist to solve it anyway?
Yes, I never give up on anything!
It depends on how hard it is.
I would probably ask for help.
No, because it would be a waste of time.
Do you have a good understanding of how finances work, or is this something that sounds foreign to you?
I'm an expert with my finances.
I know a few things about finances.
I don't know much about finances, but I'd like to learn.
The topic of finances is totally foreign to me.
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Jennifer Jo Cobb
Jennifer Jo Cobb Biography
First published on:December 25, 2019
by Vineet
Facts of Jennifer Jo Cobb
Joe Jo Cobb
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Eddie Trocoins
Jennifer Jo Cobb a qualified American racing car auto racer and team owner. She is currently competing for full-time in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving No. 0 and 10 Chevy Silverado and part-time in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving No. 1 Ford Mustang for Alex Caffi Motorsport in Elite 1 and No. 10 Chevrolet Camaro in Elite 2.
Jennifer is the daughter of NASCAR World Truck Series Racer Joe Jo Cobb. She was born on June 12, 1973, in Kansas City, the United States who is the winner of 2004 Ford 300. She has been into 190 professionals races over 11 years.
46 years old NASCAR Xfinity racer is having a luxury life through her career earning. She has an estimated net worth of around $2 million. However, she is the wife of Multi-Millionaire car racer Eddie Torcoins and together they have estimated net worth of $5 million.
Jennifer and Her Ride SOURCE: Facebook @jennifer
Jennifer earned around $700,000 being the NASCAR Xfinity racer title winner. She gained around $300,000 per game. She is earning around $700,000 to $900,000 from her sponsor but the actual amount she is receiving from her endorsement is still known to the public.
In 2019 Nascar racing competition she will be competing with racers like Erica Enders.
Married to Eddie Trocoins
Jennifer is married women and she is married to Eddie Trocoins. The couple has exchanged the wedding vows on Oct 2015,
Jennifer and Her Husband Eddie Trocoins SOURCE: Bella Lusso photography
Jennifer Jo and Eddie were married at the Town Pavillion in downtown Kansas City which was a magnificent place with a grand staircase as the focal point and with everything lit in tiffany blue which twinkles all over the place.
Wedding Ceremony Of Eddie and Jennifer SOURCE: Bella Lusso photography
Their wedding ceremony was very beautiful where the guest of Bride side were dressed up in Blue tops and gowns while the groom's side were dressed up in the black and white shirt with a blue tie.
Who is Eddie Trocoins
Eddie is a Mexican race car driver who is currently head of crew for AM Racing in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series and Austin Wayne Self.
He is a former Mexican Formula Three International champion and an Indy Lights de las Americas and Formula Vee Series Rookie of the Year Award winner. In the NASCAR Chevrolet Series and the Desafío Corona Cup, Troconis has played. He is also the driver's husband, Jennifer Jo Cobb, who in 2012 was crew chief in the Xfinity Series.
Family Overlook
Jennifer grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, with her cousins where she started racing from her childhood. Jennifer is the daughter of Joe cobb who is also a racer. It's like Jennifer has propelled her family legacy into the next level.
Jennifer and her Father Joe SOURCE: Facebook @Jennifer
Joe Cobb made his NASCAR World Truck Series appearance at the annual NCWTS dirt race at Eldora Speedway in July 2013.
Joe started racing in 1976 at Riverside Stadium, Missouri. He has driven on both asphalt and gravel road surfaces but has a preference with dirt tracks more closely linked to the origins of auto racing. On both gravel and asphalt roads, he has hundreds of wins in scores of race tracks.
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Sara Boardman
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Recommended - OUTBUDDIES
Outbuddies nautical depths have a colour palette that reflects the despair and loneliness of the deep. Blues and purples are put to stark contrast on your character's reds and pinks. The understanding to have a subtle, yet striking palatte coupled with the pixelated graphics is no doubt a visual recipe for success.
No Recommendation / Blank - Citadel: Forged With Fire
Desperately searching for fun, we hung out in the starting zone, hoping to interact with a few players. In the starting zone itself is a safety bubble--like a force field protecting the new players. This is great, but the moment you stepped out--it was curtains for you. Mid to high, and even some braver low level players camped out at the edge of the bubble, waiting for some daft adventurer to cross its threshold. It became very clear that ambushing unsuspecting new players was the fun to be had in Citadel: Forged with Fire. You could make it past one of these malicious players, but once in the wild, you face enemies that never lose aggro, unclear or no instruction as to what to do or build and strange bugs that begged to be squashed.
Recommended - Planet Zoo
Let's talk about building! With the career mode, you'll have a pre-built zoo for the first couple of levels whilst you learn the ropes. Slowly, you'll be made to build habitats for your animals, how to fill said habitats with animals, and how to keep them happy behind the glass. There is also small exhibits--things such as spiders and snakes to take care of in the very same fashion. It's not straightforward and there's many factors to consider when bringing the animals in and getting them settled it, but to me that was the fun of it. I loved reading guest comments about how my hippos looked particularly content, or how my tigers appeared well fed as they sat belly up to the Sun.
Recommended - Deliver Us The Moon
Unfortunately there's a few hangups I have about the overall game, but rest assured nothing in the way of not recommending it to you! Deliver Us The Moon is a graphical powerhouse, one that if you intend on running it in all it's glory, will require a bit of clever hardware on your computer. There's some inconsistencies with the playable parts graphically as well--incidental cutscenes litter the storyline here and there, and these tend to be of a different, lower quality to the rest of the game's design. Heavy noise filters are good at masking a bit of these lapses in quality, and whilst they don't ruin the game itself in any way, are still there.
Recommended - When Ski Lifts Go Wrong
Each level does take a bit of thinking, and they do increase in the amount of time that you'll have to use your brain for. What sounds like a good idea, might not be, but that's the beauty with a game like this--plenty of trial and error. There's enough variety in the puzzles and different types of levels that if you're anything like me--you'll find yourself glued to the monitor for hours. The music is the right amount of soothing, the graphics the right amount of simple and the physics...the right amount of hilarity.
Recommended - Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements
An interesting idea in Mage's Initiation is to have the ability to learn and grow through XP and a really smart gem system. You can equip a limited amount of gems at any time, and these gems give you individual buffs that are really useful, especially in battle. The hybrid nature of Mage's Initiation being that of a point and click and RPG, gives us these really cool opportunities to duel and battle throughout the adventure. It's engaging, fun and really adds to the whole thing, giving it a spin on a classic genre.
Recommended - Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
On top of the fantastic experience of simply making your way through the game hunched over in sneak mode (literally my entire time in Skyrim in any playthrough, so I was hungry for it), the lush environments and levels really are a thing of beauty. The detail of this torn world really sets the game up to run a chill down your spine, even in the best of situations. The character models are ridiculously well done to the point where you think you're going to laugh at the fact that you're toting around Howard the Duck in a post apocalyptic world--but it never really seems to cross your mind as everything about them is so convincing and immersive that it's hard not to take it seriously. The enemies are foul and deranged--a real threat. Five minutes with the mutant hunters in your midst and you're guaranteed to know what they're all about without a massive context behind them.
Essential - Two Point Hospital
Diving in, you're put into a campaign type mode where you go from hospital to hospital with different scenarios and challenges to work on. As you move from one to the next, you start to notice that you're in a living tutorial that never really feels too heavy or confusing. All the introductions of game mechanics gently trickle in, giving you plenty of time to learn as goals urge you to implement them as you go along. This is something that I'm absolutely raving about--the rate at which you learn how to run new equipment and gather unlockables is at a fantastically thorough pace. Have you unlocked something later down the line but wish to use it in a previous hospital? No problem! Just go back to whichever hospital at any time and you can drop whatever you've earned back into it. All the unlockables and research span across the whole account, which is brilliant and makes going back into your first hospitals so much fun.
Essential - Dead Cells
Fighting in Dead Cells is an unavoidable showcase of the game. With every different enemy comes their own flair on how they come at you. Some will have shields that deflect, others throw energy bombs. Even the most simplest of baddies toss their entire bodies at you, like a meaty, gelatinous bullet. Every fight requires careful strategy and razor sharp reflexes. Getting hit even once can send you into a spiral of pain that leads to only one place--back to the beginning of the game. It's a brilliant and brutal system, and I would be lying if I said it wasn't utterly addicting.
Recommended - Graveyard Keeper
It's cute to look at, which is a big plus when you're chopping up dead, rotting-by-the-minute bodies. It's colourful, the different parts of the map are distinct, the animations are totally in line and with all this--it makes it a joy to walk around and explore. I never felt lost (even with the map on standby) and I never felt bored of what I was looking at on screen.
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Man Who Won N50bn In Lotto Buys Second-Hand Car
A 42-year-old British man’s life changed completely after he won £105 million, more than N50 billion, in the EuroMillions jackpot.
Steve Thomson might not need to work another day in his life but he revealed that he was continuing with work.
According to the Daily Sun, Thomson said he decided to continue working because it made him “feel normal”.
Thomson and his wife, 41-year-old Lenka, purchased a second-hand car. According to Mirror Online, Thomson is struggling to comprehend how much has changed.
Jackpot! British couple win 105-million-pound lottery💰
Self-employed builder Steve Thomson and his wife Lenka Thomson, the latest EuroMillion grand prize recipients from West Sussex, have just become the richest-ever lottery winners in Britain. pic.twitter.com/pQmWJ2dRSq
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) November 27, 2019
The multi-billionaire said the win set him on an “emotional rollercoaster” and it was “very stressful”.
Thomson will be working part-time despite being the richest-ever lottery winner in Britain.
Jones, also known as “The Truth”, made $10,000 (N3,625,000) just a few months of starting out with the day trading. He decided to start after he heard a news report of a 14-year-old who made $50,000 (N18,125,000) and was greatly inspired by that success. Jones is now the CEO of a well-performing brand called Return On Investment, LLC.
Before the stock market came on the scene, the 14-year-old CEO was successful as an international keynote speaker and a writer.
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The kingpin of a four-man gang that killed Mr. Ignatius Odunukwe on Tuesday, Bob Ibeaji, said that the lust for money led him to commit the murder.
The late Odunukwe was a renowned billionaire from Anambra, who was into property development and the owner of Firman Generators.
Ibeaji, 42, who claimed to be a medical doctor, during the parade of suspects at the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, in Lagos State, told NAN that “Unnecessary lust for money and my greed for immaterial things clouded my judgement and made me commit the crime,” he said.
The suspect said that in 2019, he saw an advert for the sale of a property at Katampe, Abuja.
He added that he approached the security who linked him up with the deceased through his cellphone number.
“I told him I was interested in the property and I think he (the deceased) had a function in Abuja at that time so we were able to meet once in the city.
“We later met again at Artican Beach Resort , Ajah in Lagos State, on Dec. 1,2019 where we discussed after which I murdered him with the help of two of my gang members,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ibeaji was the leader of a four man gang that include: Solomon Cletus, 30, Arinze Igwe, 26, and Israel Obigaremu, 35.
Ibeaji said that he met Cletus when he was remanded at Kuje Prison, Abuja and discussed the dealings with him which he promised to help out with.
“I lured Odunukwe into my hotel room through a N900million business deal I was pretending to go along with.
“With the help of Igwe and Cletus, I was able to distract him and hit him on the head using the butt of an axe.
“After then, I injected him twice with shots from a lethal injection. His body was later cut into pieces and dumped somewhere at Ogunbo Forest, in Ajah,” he said.
Cletus whom he met at the prison said that he was lured into the act with the promise of a N2 million loan to be given to him if he would participate in the evil plan.
Ibeaji said that Igwe, who was a staff member of the resort, was the one responsible for navigating the culprits successful exit from the hotel because of his knowledge of its layout.
However, Israel Obigaremu, the Uber driver, said that he knew nothing about the evil plan and was unfortunately involved because he allowed Arinze to park the deceased car in his compound.
He said that Arinze usually called him for jobs of transporting his clients that lodged in the hotel and that was how he met with Ibeaji whom he drove around town.
“Arinze brought the victim’s car to my compound and told me that the car belonged to his boss who had travelled and he promised to come pick it up the next day.
“I do not know anything about the killing. I was home sleeping when Arinze brought the vehicle to be parked in my compound,” Obigaremu said.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG Ahmed Iliyasu of Zone 2 Command, Onikan, told journalists during the parade that two similar incidents had been established against Ibeaji in the past.
“The first was that of a civil commissioner in Bayelsa State, where one Depologa was murdered and his remains found where it dumped along the Abuja Expressway.
“The second is the case of Jude Efulue, a property developer in Abuja, whom he held captive in an apartment and forced him to sign a document transferring the ownership of the victim’s property to him.
“He almost killed Efulue but the intervention of Efulue’s neighbour led to Ibeaji’s apprehension by the police which landed him in Kuje Prison,” the AIG said.
Iliyasu advised the public to be careful about what they post online and desist from revealing too much information about themselves on the social media.
In an attempt to acquire quick wealth, four men have killed the Billionaire businessman man and owner of Firman Generator, Chief Ignatius Odunukwe.
Ignatius, a well known and successful business man from Anambra state was said to have been kidnapped in December last year by prospective real Estate agents who later turned to be kidnappers.
The kidnappers who disguised as property buyers negotiated to purchase one of his properties in Abuja which is valued at N900 miilion.
The four men whose names are Arinze, Solomon, Cletus and Daniel Ibeaju killed the billionaire, collected the property documents, cut him into pieces and carried him in a sac and dumped him along the Lekki-Ajah forest.
See pictures below:
Some members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) were involved in an accident yesterday January 20, during a protest in Abuja against the sack of Emeka Ihedioha as the Governor of Imo State by the Supreme Court.
A video from the scene of the incident showed one of the trucks conveying some of the protesting members of the political party, moving recklessly before colliding with another truck.
Though it is not clear if anyone died, eyewitnesses however alleged that some of the protesters sustained injuries.
See the video below:
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars To Return With New Episodes
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20-Jul-2018, 5:59 PM
I don’t dislike the character of Ahsoka per se, she’s a decently written character, though her hopeful idealism in Rebels got on my nerves (I hate overly idealistic characters in fiction, of which Rebels was overflowing with). What really annoys me about her is that her prescence and later continued existence makes no goddamn sense. She was Anakin’s Padawan and played a major role in many battles during the Clone Wars and against the Empire up until before the Battle of Yavin IV, yet she has NEVER been aknowledged in any of the live-action movies, and even worse, is revealed to still be alive in Rebels’ final season, plus she is shown to be interacting with practically every single major character in the SW franchise. At this point she’s like the elephant in the room.
IMO it would have been a lot better if Ahsoka had been introduced as the Padawan of one the many background Jedi Masters glimpsed in the prequels and have her story take place during the Clone Wars but removed from Anakin and Obi-Wan, fighting her own battles and occasionally crossing paths with Anakin and Obi-Wan. It would have expanded the Galaxy instead of having everyone knowing everyone.
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Lucy Gillett: Crystal Palace Women keeper suffered sexist abuse during game
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Premiership: Owen Farrell, Maro Itoje & Billy Vunipola back for Saracens at Bath
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General election 2019: ‘We’re just represented by white people’
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Seventeen arrested in human trafficking raids in London
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Emotion Differentiation and the strengths of specificity
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.” – C.S. Lewis
The last post covered a metaphor to encourage people to embrace their emotions. More research is showing there is power in calling them by name.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University.
“Emotion differentiation” is the ability to say what one feels. It’s a central focus for emotional-intelligence researchers such as Lisa Feldman Barrett at Northeastern U. and Todd B. Kashdan at George Mason U. They’ve found that the people best able to regulate their feelings are the ones who can say they feel more regret than remorse, less guilt than shame or more miffed than peeved¹. Compared with those who only report feeling, “fine,” or “bad,” those with a fine-grained view of their emotions respond more resiliently to rejection². While they are more likely to employ many strategies to cope with unhappiness, they’re less likely to cope via alcohol abuse³ or violence⁴.
Todd B. Kashdan, PhD, professor of clinical psychology at George Mason University.
Trouble with emotion differentiation seems to appear in different emotional health issues. Demiralp and Thompson⁵ found that people with depression had, “less-differentiated negative emotional experiences”; i.e., they could distinguish more specific positive feelings than negative ones. Kashdan and Farmer found similar findings for those with Social Phobia⁶.
Kashdan, Barrett and McKnight suggest knowing exactly what you’re feeling makes it easier to get those emotions’ message. That information connects us with other knowledge about what to expect and what to do. It also makes it easier to regulate the feelings, because they’re now classified either as motivation or as irrelevant. With less energy devoted to controlling one’s emotions, there’s more to put towards the things you want to achieve⁷.
Poor emotional differentiation in action.
They also point to evidence that emotion differentiation is a skill that can be taught⁷. This includes findings that emotionally-differentiating children behave and perform better in school⁹.One study found naming emotions helped arachnophobes tolerate exposure therapy better than distraction or cognitive reframing¹⁰.
For therapists working in community mental health, these findings can be a selling point. Live in a tough neighborhood? Need to keep up a strong front? You want to know what you feel so you can recover more quickly. If a client only values logic, emotion differentiation can be a way of getting them to look at their feelings; Ciarrochi, Caputi and Mayer⁸ found that those who can identify specific emotions make decisions with less emotional bias.
Clients can get confused when we ask them to identify negative feelings. They come to us to feel better. Why are we asking them to feel worse? The assumption that it is safest to suppress your emotions is a spin on the post hoc fallacy: “I feel vulnerable when I pay attention to my feelings, so if I ignore them, I’ll be less vulnerable.” We may be able to tell our clients, “Emotions are only a vulnerability if you treat them that way. Treat them like information and they become a strength.”
All this gives us one more reason to pull out our emotion-word sheets and encourage clients to name their feelings. I’ve asked clients rate the intensity of their distress before and after identifying emotions. More often than not, they’re surprised to find their stress level has dropped.
Two examples to motivate clients to practice identifying feelings at home:
1. The tale of Rumplestiltskin. At the end of the story, the wicked little man had to give up his claim on the princess’ child. Why? Because she found out his name.
2. Tribal societies around the world, where members have a public name for common use, and a secret name kept private among family members. Why? Because knowing something’s name gives you power over it.
n.b.: Dr. Barrett responded to this post, and she suggested these for further reading:
Lindquist, K., & Barrett, L. F. (2008). Emotional complexity. Chapter in M. Lewis, J. M. Haviland-Jones, and L.F. Barrett (Eds.), The handbook of emotion, 3rd Edition (p. 513-530). New York: Guilford.
Barrett, L. F., Wilson-Mendenhall, C. D., & Barsalou, L. W. (2015). The conceptual act theory: A road map. Chapter in L. F. Barrett and J. A. Russell (Eds.), The psychological construction of emotion(p. 83-110). New York: Guilford. — this explains one theory for how to become more emotionally granular
(1) LF Barrett, J Gross, TC Christensen, M Benvenuto. “Knowing what you’re feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation” Cognition & Emotion 15 (6), 713-724
(2) Kashdan, T.B., *DeWall, C.N., Masten, C.L., Pond, R.S., Jr., Powell, C., Combs, D., Schurtz, D.R., & †Farmer, A.S. (2014). Who is most vulnerable to social rejection? The toxic combination of low self-esteem and lack of emotion differentiation on neural responses to rejection. PLoS ONE 9(3): e90651. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090651
(3) Kashdan, T.B., †Ferssizidis, P., Collins, R.L., & Muraven, M. (2010). Emotion differentiation as resilience against excessive alcohol use: An ecological momentary assessment in underage social drinkers. Psychological Science, 21, 1341-1347.
(4) Pond, R.S., Kashdan, T.B., Dewall, C.N., †Savostyanova, A. A., Lambert, N.M., & Fincham, F.D. (2012). Emotion differentiation buffers aggressive behavior in angered people: A daily diary analysis.-7- Emotion, 12, 326-337.
(5) Demiralp E1, Thompson RJ, Mata J, Jaeggi SM, Buschkuehl M, Barrett LF, Ellsworth PC, Demiralp M, Hernandez-Garcia L, Deldin PJ, Gotlib IH, Jonides J. Feeling blue or turquoise? Emotional differentiation in major depressive disorder. Psychol Sci. 2012;23(11):1410-6. doi: 10.1177/0956797612444903. Epub 2012 Oct 15.
(6) Kashdan, T. B., & Farmer, A. S. (2014, February 10). Differentiating Emotions Across Contexts: Comparing Adults With and Without Social Anxiety Disorder Using Random, Social Interaction, and Daily Experience Sampling. Emotion. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0035796
(7) Kashdan, T.B., Barrett. L.F., & McKnight, P. E. (in press). Unpacking emotion differentiation: Transforming unpleasant experience by perceiving distinctions in negativity. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
(8) Ciarrochi, J., Caputi, P., Mayer, JD . The distinctiveness and utility of a measure of trait emotional awareness. Personality and Individual Differences 34 (8), 1477-1490
(9) Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., Reyes, M. R., & Salovey, P. (2012). Enhancing academic performance and social and emotional competence with the RULER feeling words curriculum. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 218-224. doi:10.1016/j.lindif.2010.10.002
(10) K. Kircanski, M. D. Lieberman, M. G. Craske. Feelings Into Words: Contributions of Language to Exposure Therapy. Psychological Science, 2012; DOI: 10.1177/0956797612443830
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Which 12-step group for your client with sex addiction?
Joe Kort, PhD, sexologist and founder of the Center for Relationship and Sexual Health has an useful article up at the Huffington Post on sex addiction treatment. Among other things, he categorizes the different 12-step groups available. Per Dr. Kort:
Various 12-step groups’ meetings are open to sexual addicts, but it’s vital to recognize the fundamental differences between them. Sex Addicts Anonymous (SAA) is most liberal, welcoming everybody — men, women, gay, straight, bisexual, and others — and lets you define your own sexual boundaries. Meetings tend to focus on paraphilias, in which arousal and gratification depend on fantasizing about, and engaging in, atypical and extreme sexual behavior.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) focuses on love addicts. People “in love with love” seek, and later crave, that lightning-bolt, blown-away kick of “love at first sight.” Again, everybody is welcome. This program helps those who tend to move on as soon as troubles arise, hoping a new relationship can supply what the last one failed to deliver.
Sexaholics Anonymous (SA) takes the rigid, orthodox approach that no sexual relations should occur outside marriage. They tell participants that “any form of sex with one’s self or with partners other than the spouse is progressively addictive and destructive.” Many gay clients tell me they feel excluded for this reason.
Sexual Compulsives Anonymous (SCA) was born after some gay men felt uncomfortable with SA’s fundamentalist, heterosexist overtones. Members have designed their own recovery program, where gay men can discuss their special needs and talk openly and honestly.
People who’ve never hear of this problem can scoff, “Sex addict? Who isn’t?” The answer is, “Thousands of people. Folks whose sex life causes buckets of shame, a thimbleful of pleasure, and still can’t make themselves stop.” With the guilt and embarassment that comes with sex addiction, it matters we refer clients to a 12-step group where they will feel they fit in. More articles like this, please.
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Characterisation of drug delivery vehicles using atomic force microscopy: current status
James R. Smith, Temidayo Olajumoke Bolanle Olusanya , Dimitrios Lamprou
Introduction: The field of nanomedicine, utilising nano-sized vehicles (nanoparticles and nanofibres) for targeted local drug delivery, has a promising future. This is dependent on the ability to analyse the chemical and physical properties of these drug carriers at the nanoscale and hence atomic force microscopy (AFM), a high-resolution imaging and local force-measurement technique, is ideally suited.
Areas covered: Following a brief introduction to the technique, the review describes how AFM has been used in selected publications from 2015-2018 to characterise nanoparticles and nanofibers as drug delivery vehicles. These sections are ordered into areas of increasing AFM complexity: imaging/particle sizing, surface roughness/quantitative analysis of images and analysis of force curves (to extract nanoindentation and adhesion data).
Expert opinion: AFM imaging/sizing is used extensively for the characterisation of nanoparticle and nanofibre drug delivery vehicles, with surface roughness and nanomechanical/adhesion data acquisition being less common. The field is progressing into combining AFM with other techniques, notably SEM, ToF-SIMS, Raman, Confocal and UV. Current limitations include a 50 nm resolution limit of nanoparticles imaged within live cells and AFM tip-induced activation of cytoskeleton proteins. Following drug release real-time with AFM-spectroscopic techniques and studying drug interactions on cell receptors appear to be on the horizon.
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Smith, J. R., Olajumoke Bolanle Olusanya , T., & Lamprou, D. (Accepted/In press). Characterisation of drug delivery vehicles using atomic force microscopy: current status. Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery.
Smith, James R. ; Olajumoke Bolanle Olusanya , Temidayo ; Lamprou, Dimitrios. / Characterisation of drug delivery vehicles using atomic force microscopy: current status. In: Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery. 2018.
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N2 - Introduction: The field of nanomedicine, utilising nano-sized vehicles (nanoparticles and nanofibres) for targeted local drug delivery, has a promising future. This is dependent on the ability to analyse the chemical and physical properties of these drug carriers at the nanoscale and hence atomic force microscopy (AFM), a high-resolution imaging and local force-measurement technique, is ideally suited.Areas covered: Following a brief introduction to the technique, the review describes how AFM has been used in selected publications from 2015-2018 to characterise nanoparticles and nanofibers as drug delivery vehicles. These sections are ordered into areas of increasing AFM complexity: imaging/particle sizing, surface roughness/quantitative analysis of images and analysis of force curves (to extract nanoindentation and adhesion data).Expert opinion: AFM imaging/sizing is used extensively for the characterisation of nanoparticle and nanofibre drug delivery vehicles, with surface roughness and nanomechanical/adhesion data acquisition being less common. The field is progressing into combining AFM with other techniques, notably SEM, ToF-SIMS, Raman, Confocal and UV. Current limitations include a 50 nm resolution limit of nanoparticles imaged within live cells and AFM tip-induced activation of cytoskeleton proteins. Following drug release real-time with AFM-spectroscopic techniques and studying drug interactions on cell receptors appear to be on the horizon.
AB - Introduction: The field of nanomedicine, utilising nano-sized vehicles (nanoparticles and nanofibres) for targeted local drug delivery, has a promising future. This is dependent on the ability to analyse the chemical and physical properties of these drug carriers at the nanoscale and hence atomic force microscopy (AFM), a high-resolution imaging and local force-measurement technique, is ideally suited.Areas covered: Following a brief introduction to the technique, the review describes how AFM has been used in selected publications from 2015-2018 to characterise nanoparticles and nanofibers as drug delivery vehicles. These sections are ordered into areas of increasing AFM complexity: imaging/particle sizing, surface roughness/quantitative analysis of images and analysis of force curves (to extract nanoindentation and adhesion data).Expert opinion: AFM imaging/sizing is used extensively for the characterisation of nanoparticle and nanofibre drug delivery vehicles, with surface roughness and nanomechanical/adhesion data acquisition being less common. The field is progressing into combining AFM with other techniques, notably SEM, ToF-SIMS, Raman, Confocal and UV. Current limitations include a 50 nm resolution limit of nanoparticles imaged within live cells and AFM tip-induced activation of cytoskeleton proteins. Following drug release real-time with AFM-spectroscopic techniques and studying drug interactions on cell receptors appear to be on the horizon.
KW - Atomic Force Microscopy
KW - AFM
KW - Drug delivery
KW - drug delivery vehicles
JO - Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery
JF - Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery
Smith JR, Olajumoke Bolanle Olusanya T, Lamprou D. Characterisation of drug delivery vehicles using atomic force microscopy: current status. Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery. 2018 Nov 7.
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Would A Queer/Bar By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?
Posted by Robert Roth | Oct 7, 2017 | Photos, Queer Life
Capitol Hill’s latest entrant into the queer nightlife scene flung open it’s newly refurbished doors Friday night to an invite only crowd and suspiciously rave reviews, if their Facebook page is to be believed, at least. But, then, how telling would it be for Queer/Bar not to get a Day 1 5-star review from Dave Meinert, Capitol Hill nightlife impresario and part of the Guild Seattle group backing the freshman watering hole?
While the official opening of the venue is tonight, we were there for an invite only soft opening whose guests included Meinert, Council Member Kshama Sawant, and Seattle’s internationally-known gay power couple Dan Savage and Terry Miller – who’s headless torso is also featured as part of the bar’s decor. The rest of the decor was equally sleek and toned, from the white neon quote gracing the large brick wall, to the giant projection screen featuring a 21 hour loop of black and white movie clips from such classically gay faves as Pillow Talk and Working Girl.
My biggest question remains, though. Is Queer/Bar really a queer bar?
Even the neon is white.
To answer that, we’d really have to settle on a definition of queer. According to Wikipedia, queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. Does that mean that, if you’re a gay, cisgender, white man, you’re queer? Possibly. If that’s the case, then the place definitely lives up to it’s name, which, predictably, is to be found everywhere inside.
In another sense, being queer is being different. And this may be the primary way that Queer/Bar falls short. The glitzy, neon lit interior, $11 cocktails, predictable drag entertainment, and young, skinny, attractive, mostly white staff all smack of every other gay bar on the Hill.
According to their initial announcement, Queer/Bar is meant to be “an inclusive gathering space for the LGBTQIA community and strives to have a team, ownership, and clientele reflect the diversity of the city.” Given that Seattle is mostly white, mostly cisgender, and mostly well to do, then so far it’s been mission accomplished. Whether or not it draws in a crowd that reflects a broader and/or more accurate definition of diversity remains to be seen.
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by Robert Roth, Queerspace Magazine
<h1>Would A Queer/Bar By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?</h1> <p class="byline">by Robert Roth, Queerspace Magazine <br />October 7, 2017</p> <p>Capitol Hill’s latest entrant into the queer nightlife scene flung open it’s newly refurbished doors Friday night to an invite only crowd and suspiciously rave reviews, if their Facebook page is to be believed, at least. But, then, how telling would it be for <a href="https://www.thequeerbar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Queer/Bar</strong></a> not to get a Day 1 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.meinert/posts/10155058782514639:0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>5-star review</strong></a> from Dave Meinert, Capitol Hill nightlife impresario and part of the Guild Seattle group backing the freshman watering hole?</p> <p>While the official opening of the venue is tonight, we were there for an invite only soft opening whose guests included Meinert, Council Member Kshama Sawant, and Seattle’s internationally-known gay power couple Dan Savage and Terry Miller – who’s headless torso is also featured as part of the bar’s decor. The rest of the decor was equally sleek and toned, from the white neon quote gracing the large brick wall, to the giant projection screen featuring a 21 hour loop of black and white movie clips from such classically gay faves as Pillow Talk and Working Girl.</p> <p>My biggest question remains, though. Is Queer/Bar really a queer bar?</p> <p>To answer that, we’d really have to settle on a definition of queer. According to Wikipedia, queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual and/or not cisgender. Does that mean that, if you’re a gay, cisgender, white man, you’re queer? Possibly. If that’s the case, then the place definitely lives up to it’s name, which, predictably, is to be found everywhere inside.</p> <p>In another sense, being queer is being different. And this may be the primary way that Queer/Bar falls short. The glitzy, neon lit interior, $11 cocktails, predictable drag entertainment, and young, skinny, attractive, mostly white staff all smack of every other gay bar on the Hill.</p> <p>According to their initial announcement, Queer/Bar is meant to be “an inclusive gathering space for the LGBTQIA community and strives to have a team, ownership, and clientele reflect the diversity of the city.” Given that Seattle is mostly white, mostly cisgender, and mostly well to do, then so far it’s been mission accomplished. Whether or not it draws in a crowd that reflects a broader and/or more accurate definition of diversity remains to be seen.</p> <p>Photos by Robert Roth/Queerspace Magazine</p> <hr /> <h2>JOIN OUR PATREON</h2> <p>Creating this content is rewarding, but it’s hard work. If you enjoy this content, and want to be a part of the process that brings it to light, then you can join our <a href="https://www.patreon.com/queerspace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patreon</a>. There are some pretty cool rewards.</p>
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Christine O'Donnell walks off "Piers Morgan Tonight" during gay marriage questions
In an interview airing tonight at 9pmET/PT, Christine O'Donnell walks off the set of "Piers Morgan Tonight" following questions about gay marriage. "You're borderline being a little bit rude," she tells Piers Morgan. "I think I'm being rather charming and respectful," says Morgan.
O'Donnell was on to talk about her new book "Troublemaker." Watch the full interview tonight at 9pmET/PT – also on the show is Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.
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Post by: Steve Krakauer
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MDEUK
Ouch! She didn't handle that well; she obviously didn't know about Pier's British tabloid heritage!
August 17, 2011 at 7:08 pm | Report abuse | Reply
worldisajoke
it is totally tabloid, and she handled it perfectly in my opinion.
CNN is not a news show, it is a self important TMZ show presenting itself as a source of "truth" ...what a joke. It is all about the $$$$$ for Piers and Anderson. .
SickofLiars
You have CNN confused with your precious FOX sweetie. And if your idea of perfect behavior is acting like a hypocritical coward, then yes, O'Donnel behaved "perfectly".
August 17, 2011 at 8:39 pm | Report abuse |
Jealous?
TMZ is a great program, which puts CNN in good company. News is news, is news, and presenting it timely, and in an informative format is much appreciated.
Living in NOLA, I quickly grew to only trust CNN for my news after Katrina and the oil disaster. CNN kept these issues on the front page, and did so international.
As has been pointed out earlier in this thread, those not liking CNN should go elsewhere. Go back to Fox and continue your daily brainwashing, following along like a bunch of cattle headed to slaughter.
August 18, 2011 at 1:44 am | Report abuse |
Sickofliers? you won't even use your real name. enjoy the Kool-aid.
I agree with you that she handled not wanting to answer the question nicely. i also think that it is innapropriet for him to say "why are you being weird?" when she wasn't, he was just pulling in a war against her by saying that. Thats televisionf or you. using psychological techniques on the television veiwers. age old tactic. But I do think it would have been okay for her to discuss her views. She shouldn't be ashamed of her beliefs, they are hers. And i'm sure a lot of americans would have agreed with her whether they would admit it or not. America needs to change.
I guess with FOX and CNN having 3 letters, you may get confused.....
Very interesting because i could name hmm lets see O'reilly, Hannity, 4 of the people on the The five and so on and so on that are not even hide it a little bias.
August 19, 2011 at 10:41 am | Report abuse |
Us Brits are known for speaking as it is
"We"
August 17, 2011 at 11:54 pm | Report abuse |
oh_indeed3
I love the Brits!
Shame on you Piers!! I don't watch you show and I will never watch it after witnessing how you wanted to push your agenda to ask irrelevant questions to Ms O'Donnell. She clearly stated that she is not running for office and not on your show to push a certain agenda. She handled your rude questions in a very professional manner. She repeatedly explained to you that your questions were clearly unrelated to her book. You wanted to shame her on your talk show and she had every right to walk off your show! You proved to the world that you are a sleezy and irrelevant talk show host who seeks big ratings by being disrespectful to your guest. I have zero respect for you and your agenda to try and bully your guest to answer irrelevant questions!!
August 18, 2011 at 2:29 am | Report abuse | Reply
Dancing around questions. Everyone is afraid of answering a simple question as to not offend anyone and/or group. Answer the question and move on. What's the big deal. She and her handlers, handled it poorly. Speak up, Speak out, Speak loud and stand behind how you feel. This is America.
sirald66
The agenda is journalism and an interview.
If she is pitching her book to 'inspire the tea party into a second american revolution', then what she says in the book (ie gay marriage) is totally relevant.
damon ewing
you people are so messed up! he asked her about the things she said, not anybody else an she could not answer the question? what the hell is that? i dont care if you came to a show to talk about one thing, but you seen his show befor so you know he was going to ask the off topic questions, which was your own statements!! she cant and her handlers cant be that stupid, but i guess an knew she was!! befor you go on a show be prepared and know what you are talking about! she was back tracking just like the rest of the dump ass repub who put there foot in their ass an mouth!!!!!
Thanks, Tony. My thoughts exactly. I thought Piers had switched from tabloid to news, but I have been noticing for the past few months how devoted he is to idle gossip. It seems to get him so excited! I thought he was obnoxious in the way he kept trying to embarrass her over things she had done in the past. Who among us has NOT done stupid things in our past! On the other hand, I would have just answered the question and moved on. It hurt her rep to walk off and let him get the best of her.
I agree. The questions were demeaning and disrespectful. They were intended to embarass her and nothing more.
it's OK to SLAM any woman that runs or has ever ran for President.
It's OK to to make her look crazy, stupid or mentally unbalanced.
Hillery, Palin, O'Donnell, Bachmann are the butt of every joke.
Kimmel and Letterman are still making Palin jokes, 3 years after the election.
Oprah has made billions off woman and will not back any woman.
Woman have 50% of the vote and they think and vote the way they are told.
Hmmmm, Maybe Woman are too stupid to be President.
Schwe1nehund
Are you even thinking rationally? Its not okay to write something and refuse to talk about it just because its an 'inconvenience' for you. You wrote it, you damn well better be ready to answer questions about it.
I don't think he did anything wrong.......I gather she was there to talk about her book right? Her position on gay marriage is in her book she admitted as much. I'm confused, what is the problem here? If all of the above are true First, how is the question(s) irrelevant and second, when did she repeatedly explained to him that his questions were clearly unrelated to her book. It is related t her book. Did she only want to talk about one specific issue in the book? Maybe if she hadn't addressed the issue of gay's and or gay marriage in her book he would not have asked the question. At one point she confusingly (at least for me) asks "did you read the book" I ask did she.
Barb Landon
Shame on Pierce is right. I am absolutely appalled by the outright rudeness and disrespect he showed Christine O'Donnell. And I'm no fan of Ms. O'Donnell but his behavior bordered on abuse. She agreed to come on the show to talk about her book, period. I've been a loyal CNN viewer for several years. Watched Larry King before he retired. You can't SEND PIERCE BACK across the pond fast enough to suit me.
I guess you expect it to be highly unlikely that people may have an opinion if they are not running for office......
Huh? Irrelevant question? BLUF: She made herself look crazy.
Go back and watch the interview again!
He asked her, "Do you talk about it in the book?" She responded "Yes." When she said yes, she made the question relevant. All she had to do to make herself look sane was state, "I support it." OR "I don't support it." The follow-on question is "Why?" Regardless of reply, the answer to the follow-on is "The listeners will have to read the book to find out." (and smile.) She was there to plug her book.
Rudeness was displayed on her side, not Peirs' side. She should apologize. If she does not want to answer questions relevant to her book then do not go on an show to promote your book.
First he disrespected no one, second it can't be irrelevant to her book if its in her book, and finally what kind of politician can't answer a straight forward question thats answered in her own book? Its like A: what did you make for dinner B: ahh i don't want to talk about it A: Oh so mystery meat my favorite
Mike Lynn
Walking out is failure. If you have legitimate thoughts you wish to view and standup for what you believe to be right and your not scared if your point of view then stand up and be counted. Walking out without comment is like or as bad as admitting your view is wrong.
No it isn't. Whenever they have a chat show in Britain, the guests are given an outline of the questions to be asked. If he sprang the question and she felt it was [a] intrusive or [b] not previously agreed, she had a perfect right to walk out.
You people are always ready to judge without a scrap of evidence. She might be a politician and she might be in the public eye. What she ISN'T is a performing seal! Good for her for walking out.
How is it reducing her to a "perfoming seal" to ask her about a relevant politcal topic that she included in her campaign platform?
Pie-kun
Sorry, but he was NOT being rude.
I've barely ever watched Piers Morgan and even I know that he asks almost all the people he interviews about gay rights/gay marriage and almost all politicians/political figures are being asked about gay rights given the recent passage of gay marriage in New York and next month's repeal of DADT. Why couldn't she have just stated her opinion and move on to the next topic? Of course he's going to wonder why you don't want to answer what should be such a simple question for a person in the conservative movement.
And I'm sorry Christine, but you are NOT a big interview to get. Everyone stopped caring about you the day after you lost the senate race, so you need to stop acting like you're a such a big deal. I'm surprised conservative groups even want you around anymore after you lost them a senate race that they could have easily won with the other candidate.
She was promoting her book and by walking out she basically told the public don't buy it. When your in the public eye u have to accept public interest and if that interest is in a view u are selling in your book you do not walk out u stand by your view or stop writing. Facts are facts.
Gicker
Smarmy indeed. He's becoming harder, and harder to watch with every passing day. At this point I'd rather watch Jersey Shore reruns. UGH!
I'm with Mike on this one. If she REALLY believes in her positions and wants to sell the BOOK she's promoting, she should have enough BACKBONE to say so. And to be, in what appears to be her opinion, intimidated by questions of ambush, makes her a lousy candidate for public office not to mention carrying a crappy leadership style. I'm sure your Semper Fi handle here indicates you don't back down from a scrap. Why should she benefit from your support if she does. Misguided allegiance.
Isn't it being far more of a "performing seal" to answer only specific questions and not deviate from any intended message? Being asked questions that the interviewer - whose show you are on to promote a book - decides are relevant is certainly not being a trained seal. I can understand why she may have not wanted the interview to be reduced to a sound byte on gay marriage, but I really don't see this as being rude at all. Her presumption that a guest should dictate the course of the conversation shows a true lack of understanding. The media should be beholden and to the public, not to its sources.
It is a show...there is a risk when you go on media, different questions will be asked. All PR people know this. He asked about a subject in the book (which was very good by the way) and she made a bigger deal of not answering it...as to an outline – I worked on the Sally show for six years – yes there are outline but guests are warned that conversation by wander away from the planned script....it wouldn't make for good tv if the interviewee what just answering known questions.
No it is not admitting your view is wrong, it is admitting the host is an ass.
If she thought host was as ass she wouldnt have appeared...................... face facts ppl
She is use to Fox news not talking about her bigoted views.
Tsk, Tsk Jeremy, your post is bigoted. Someone who mocks other's views and opinions Bigot! Look it up!
GaryNZ
"Look it up" you say. Maybe you should follow your own advice. Bigot: "one obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own opinions or prejidices", according to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Surely this definition applies more to Ms O'Donnell (and her fellow TPers) than to Jeremy. And if "mocking" is going to be the hanging offence du jour, then there's going to be a long, long line to the gallows (but I'm sure the Tea party will be able to drum up a numerous knitting-needle-knicking brigade).
"knitting-needle-knicking brigade" I'm going to have to use that one!
Good post! LOL!
Fox news would have NEVER brought up the gay issue. The tea party news channel (Fox News) cares for their own.
Phar lap
My dear man, you diffidently weren't rude.
What on earth is wrong with her not answering your light hearted question, which is beyond me.
If she represents the Tea Party, well not a good sign.
Miss thing
Hardly making America great again. What a joke. This is an Important issue to many Americans & if she can't even have a rational conversation about it then she's obviously not fit to run for any office. The tea party is such B***S*** I feel sorry for people who really believe this is a real political party & not just a figment of the corporate media imagination designed to tell non thinking Americans what to believe. It's not a viable third party nor is it a solution for Washington dysfunction in any way. Sad really that "they" think we are so stupid.
Yeah, right, America should go through a second revolution – America should go back the way it used to be, right? – America controlled by white people having black slaves, Christian-bigoted hypocrite thieves(stealing America from the Indians). Back to the cowboy days. Who are the real trouble-makers, tea-party followers????????
August 18, 2011 at 10:07 am | Report abuse | Reply
UKGirl
what an idiot, she's willing to come on and promote her book but not to answer questions that may be too difficult, I hope she doesn't run for office, because the questions asked of her may be too difficult for her.
Yianni51
How Chritine O'Donnell got to be so relevant is a mystery to me. Her run for the Senate was an effort to ride on the government gravy train and become a millionaire like all of the other senators. After all, she has never held a real job, has she?
That was totally ridiculous.She is a seasoned politician and should be able to handle what were perfectly lgitimate questions that Piers was asking.How on earth could O'Donnell describe Piers as rude is simply beyond me.As for the risible idea that she should get a free pass and only be allowed to talk about what's on her agenda, is simply beyond belief.Piers did nothing wrong but O'Donnell behaved like a prima donna, and should be castigated for her cowardice & immaturity.
NO VACATIONS FOR THE PRESIDENT OR THE CONGRESS!..PLS. END THE 2 WARS..10 DAYS IN mARTHA'S vINEYARD..DOESN'T HE HAVE CAMP DAVID ?....AM DISAPPOINTED..SO MANY POOR IN THIS COUNTRY..
I hope you were using your caps-lock rage when George Bush started two 'budgetless' wars (read: contracts for Halliburton et al), and then went on to take more vacations than any other president in history.
Could there be one blog conversation in which a liberal who has nothing else to say intelligently doesn't blame Bush? How is the former President in this conversation where is 6 degrees of separation? YES we know liberals hate BUSH and if they had their choice they would string up by the short and curlies. But this conversation isn't about Bush or Obama, it is about Christine O'Donnell who has never held public office. It is also about a Journalist that was forced to resign from the Daily Mirror because of questionable actions... NOT BUSH!
JM: Maybe it's because Bush is the source of all this madness. What's the expression? "Follow the money". Do so and it leads back to GWB's irresponsible stupidity in creating humungous budget deficits (by reducing taxes while sending spending throug the roof by starting those two wars). Without the economic chaos that those actions caused there would be no political traction for Ms O'Donnell and her ilk.
JM, clearly you can't distinguish between a contextual response and a rant – but you've clearly got the latter down pat.
Bob Funk
Why not answer the question, especially since it was a huge campaign issue for her. It's like asking Palin what magazines she reads. These nutcases should walk off OK and keep on walking off until they disappear forever.
vic , nashville ,tn
She thought she is going to appear in America’s got talent for witch performance
CNN mistake same guy sitting in both
And this is the Tea Party? That this woman was ever taken seriously enough by the voters of her state to run for Senate is the true sign that most people, at least in her state and I would not doubt most of the nation, don't watch any news or read newspapers.
NO commiecrats
Have another beer o wise one. Thank to a lot of stupid broads like yourself the commies have bankrupted the country with their handouts!
Sherie
Piers....you where not being rude. She just wanted sales. Glad she left. What a waste of your precious time.
Creep!
Patricia Hendy
Well said. No one should be afraid to promote one's creation made from one's thinking process that influenced the final output. You don't buy a "pig in a bag". International viewer
She probably used to be lesbian, and it now bothers her to think about it.
ProseLingo
Sounds like projection to me.
August 17, 2011 at 10:02 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Piers asks questions to embarrass others with a smirk look on his face and is rude as a host. He kisses up to people he admires and mocks popular kicking posts with a veneer of decency. Such a jerk. This guest was appropriate to call him on trying to steer the conversation in direction he may have previously agreed not to go to get her on his groteqsue show. This kind of TMZ integrity should be a warning to other guests no tot go on this smug brits show.
You are a complete joke and a mug if you belive that garbage you posted. She obviously has something to hide and doesn't have the courage to air her opinions on TV. If she is doing interviews to try sell her grubby book then she should expect to answer questions on its content.
CSABI
If you can't distinguish rude behavior from proper behavior then there is littl eto be said. Piers was being obnoxious. It does not matter how stupid his guest his, he should not behave like a bully
CSABL: "obnoxious"? Was he raising his voice? Did he use naughty words? Did he call Ms O'Donnell a fraud/idiot/harpy? Heavens, if he had been even more cautious in trying to eake out of her an opinion that apparently is in the book she is publishing, then we might have fallen asleep. Compare and contract to Fox broadcasters, and then you will start to understand the true meaning of the word.
Epic Fail from Christine – behaving like a spoilt child because she can't control Piers' questioning – I bet she ran off to her hangers-on and cried "he was mean to me!!" – she needs to grow up!
I think she handled herself well. She explained to him that she agreed to the interview on specific talking points and he insisted on trying to steer her elsewhere. She made it clear she is NOT running for any political position and what is the purpous of the question.
I now know why I do not watch America's got talent, nor NBC nor Cnn.....CNN by far is to the far far left and they are constantly after the republican candidates. but you very seldon ever hear them talking down a democrat...and I am so tired of hearing "oh it's because Obama is black" B.S. I don't like him because of his 50% white side why is he black when he is half and half????? When his father abandoned him who took care of him? his white grandmother...He is NOT BLACK he is just a person who is way over his head and wants to change this country in the wrong direction. So get off of this because he is black stupidity
Morgan was editor of one of Britain's tackiest tabloid newspapers. He wouldn't stick to the agreed agenda because he lives for sensationalism. Good for her that she walked out.
He sounds posh, so you Americans – because you live by appearance, not decency – assume he's a gentleman. Bunch of Liberal whingers.
If he interviewed your "Failure -in-Chief" and put him in a spot, you'd be up in arms. And that is NOT a racist comment. I don't care if he's green with yellow polka dots – he's a failure!
Before the dems here have a hissy fit. I am British – Ihave a right to criticise him – When he fails because you oafs are masochistic enough to vote him back in – you'll bring MY country down too. Actually you owe us $356.5 Billion so we have a vested interest.
You wouldn't be calling him a "failure-in-chief" if he were white.
I'm British as well, and you are ridiculous.
Speaking of Failures-in-Chief, how's Cameron running your country this week? Condemned any more social networks lately? lmao. Obama inherited the worst mess in 75 years, and the man's trying to give it his best. Blame congress for this country's woes.
Semper-Fidelis, I WISH that Piers WOULD get our FAILURE-IN-CHIEF to sit with him in an Interview, I think he would
make him tell the REAL TRUTH as to his place of birth, and what religous "faith" he is and maybe he could find out why Michelle Hates America also.
I CANT BELIEVE these MORONS VOTED his A#@ into office!
So why didn't you have any "go back to Ireland" signs to go with your "go back to Kenya" signs tado?
MyMy.... How long did it take you to pull Obama into it. Blame it on Obama. She was asked a simple question. Not "are you or have you ever been a witch?" Simple question for someone who wants us to buy her book. Why can't she be asked the hard questions? For goodness sake the woman is trying to sell a book-BASED ON HER OPINIONS- and she can't give a pat politico response to an obvious, expected question?
CNN ... "far far left" ??? "Constantly after the Republicans?" CNN is *not* by any stretch of the imagination a station with a strong political slant to it. MSNBC is more left wing. Republicans are *scarce* in primetime. Likewise with Fox News, it is unashamedly right wing and Democratic spokespeople are "scarce" on Fox News.
oh btw, Piers needs to get schooled by Jeremy Paxman or John Humphrys. Those are two serious interviewers who do tough interviews very well.
civilPolitics
Hers walk off just shows how easy it is to spot a "phony" politician, the one who is in the fray not because they stand for something and want to work for it, but for the fame and money or orthodox ideology.
This gives me the idea that a good litmus question for the sincerity of any politician is this simple question: How old do you think the Earth is?
I do not care about the religious beliefs of any politician. I do not want a politician to take stand for Big bang theory or for Creationism. For me it is important that a politician makes informed, competent decision for the good of the country. Knowing how a politician stands on this simple question, I immediately know what decisions he/she will make.
Piers Morgan, please, ask this question!
I wonder why the people who gain a wide public voice feel everything is unfair but that which they want to talk about? If you're going to use your fame to have a voice, it is fair game to have it respond to anything requested of it.
who in the spotlight ever agreed to this "fair game" nonsense people always talk about? why does anyone who ends up in the spotlight told they must accept all kinds of abuses and trespasses that you or I would never tolerate?
In what parallel universe is being asked a simple question about a relevant politcal topic that a person used as part of their campaign platform an "abuse" or "trespass"?
Of course Peirce Morgan is rude.
He, and many other interview reports, doesn’t see it. I think they put themselves on a pedestal of some sort that justify to them such actions with wordsmithing and slanted questions designed to humiliate.
Plus I don't think I've ever seen a reporter interrupt as often as he does. That alone is rude.
Gosh, I wish CNN hadn't chosen him as Larry's replacement.
I think he would be better suited as a tabloid reporter not a main-stream CNN reporter. Kinda of white-trashy.
exactly, well said
Really? Phew, i couldn'v sworn you were a Hannity and O'Reilly fan. FYI, they make Piers look like a saint when it comes to interrupting and belligerent behavior.
The lot of these wealthy talking heads are all doing the same thing. Some are a joke and everyone knows it and others, like CNN, pretend to be legit. They are all doing the same thing IMO.
I don’t know who Hannity or O’Reilly are but if their as rude or worse than Pierce then they’re poor reporters.
Jolly gee gosh gosh gosh ScottCee! Did Mr Morgan bring a blush to your lily white complexion with his out-rag-eous idea of asking an author to expand on her ideas? Yes, indeedy, he should have kept to the weather and other quaint British topics like scones and clotted cream ...
No, I didn’t blush over it. But he was doing more than asking her to expand on her ideas. He was rude and it was sorta clear. Maybe she is not a great thinker, we get a lot of those in our leadership today, but his interview was a sham and, even if she stayed, wasn’t going to be anything but a show where he humiliated his guest.
I can normally form my own ideas if someone is good, bad, smart, dumb without an reporter leading and baiting a guest.
Peirce, as will so many reporters today are not reporting, they’re commentating. Though they don’t say that.
His actions are rude. ...Gosh Darn It :)...
What would be the ultimate test in my opinion, is to see how anyone who supports Piers Morgan's style, would react if it was directed at you or someone you loved .
The "fair game" thing accepted in the media is disrespectful of others. This case might be one of the less harmful of examples but the rudeness of some of these interviewers is worthy of a punch in the face half the time. But because anyone who ends up in the spotlight can be treated any way a talking head wants, we all have to go along . I applaud this person for not walking over Piers hijack and walking off.
Why the media is considered disrespectful when asking politicians about their position on gay marriage,
but the politicians who deny the gays civil rights are not considered disrespectful?
Because, IMO, CNN appears to have invited this "guest" on their show under a pretence that CNN would respect her requests on what was discussed and what was not discussed and they appear to not have honoured their word to this "guest" but rather chose to hijack her to make her look bad and make themselves look good.
Business as usual with these for profit tabloids.
Piers,
Hurry up and ask mcdonald what she did with the campaign contributions she ripped off !!!
This interview simply proves to me that Piers Morgan is nothing more than a tabloid sensationalist. Stick to So You Think You Can Dance or whatever other shows you're on. I'm a progressive Democrat and have no hidden agenda for a kook like Christine O'Donnell, but you're just bating her with as many outrageous, stupid issues that your staff can dig up. Why bother to have her on at all? Turning CNN off...
Michael Montgomery
Dude he is just doing his job. Asking her a simple question on what her view is on the topic,she is just trying to avoid it like alot of politicians these days
katie simoneit
shame on you piers, you were anything BUT charming and respectful.
B. Bergman
I didn't think your questions were direct enough tonight to O'Donnell. You or your researchers should have quoted her from the book on her opinions about the issues you pressed her on. If she states she is against gay marriage in the book, you should have quoted from the book and asked her to defend her statements. You weren't tough enough on her. Even Larry King used quotes from his guests books and it really seemed like you were not prepared enough to handle the situation. You made it too easy for you to say "its in the book". You should have said "here's what you wrote? Is this really what you believe?" I think you came off as weak.
JB050505050
FIRST TO GET IT RIGHT-
Fortunately for us all, her decision making abilities will never matter. But Pierce, he's absolutely right. Next one, I am sure you'll be ready. We hope.
Tommy D.
RUDE, RUDE, RUDE! I'll never watch you again!
Finally, Piers comes alive! I've been waiting and hoping for Larry King's replacement to elicit some real information and gut stuff and passion. It happened tonight. And I respect the way both he and Christine O'Donnell drew their lines in the sand, so my awakened enthusiasm isn't about ideology or point of view. Keep it going like this, Piers, and we viewers will never let you leave! Well done.
fishhead
BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\
The best interview ever !
You got that witch !!!!!!!!!!
LOVED IT !!!!!!!!!!!!
kathy rogers
interesting, just wonder if she will accept the invite for tomorrow night!
Were it me, I wouldn't want anything to do with him again either. It's obvious that he is just being rude to boost his own ratings. What's in it for her? I feel sorry for his wife.
An excellent interview tonight , you brought out the real views of the T-party.
I would have left too, she is not running for office. Her opinion is not relevant. Piers was looking to try to add to the sound bites that paint her as a kook. Tough love Piers ? Try better questions. I miss Larry He never abused his position of a non biased host.
According to him she talks about the subject in her book. Obviously he would ask her about it if she mentions it in her book
Hi Piers. I care not one whit for Christine O'Donnell and am for gay marriage. However: It's my opinion that had you not rained masturbation questions and video on her just beforehand, you might've had half a chance to get an answer out of her on the subject of gay marriage. While you weren't rude on that topic, I do think you were rude in regards to masturbation. You would earn points if you would just call a spade a spade; you were being obnoxious right before you got to the topic of gay marriage. Perhaps, if gay marriage was a subject high on your interview priority list, you should have covered it before going to the base and embarrassing.
Former Viewer
I totally agree with this comment. Grow up Piers. Aim higher.
Prior to this interview, Piers Morgan seemed pleasant enough, engaged the people he interviewed and showed respect. This interview was painful to watch from the beginning, The harping on the old shenanigans of Christine O'Donnell – who cares? She handled it like a sport, but he didn't let up. There was a sleaziness I hadn't noticed in Piers which disintingrated into a meanness. I don't care for her and am not aligned with the Tea Party politics, but will listen for a bit. Should she have walked off? Probably not, but Piers was like a pit bull badering her with stupid endless questioning of masturbation. What pained me was the humiliating way the camera pulled back and diminished her figure as she's still calling out "am I off?" Shame on CNN. Shame on Piers Morgan.
I can't stand Piers Morgan and am glad he's gone to America meaning I see a lot less of him. However in this clip I actually don't think he did anything wrong except for coming across a bit smarmy. But then that is his default state so its hard to criticise him excessively for it.
She came on his show to talk about her book, he asked her questions about the views she expressed in it. She might have thought it a bad idea to answer, but had she been a bit more tactful in her evasiveness she could have got away with it without looking like a spoilt child. This was very much a case of "I don't want to play anymore and its my ball so I'm taking it home!"
If anyone wants to see a really challenging interview of a politician by a British interviewer, try looking here.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI&w=640&h=360]
An Obama Voter
I also agree – Piers you went for sizzle and you were offensive.
Russell Dark
YOU, Piers Morgan, are the most RUDE piece of CRAP I have ever watche on television. You act like a snotty-nosed little kid that was spoiled rotten as a child!!!!!!
Grow up, you little twirp and learn to ask questions concerning issues that MOST people care about and not simply what CNN "journalist'" want to BROW BEAT people with. THAT ... YOUR RUDENESS was a perfect example of REAL HATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Concerned 14 year old
Sheesh if you have nothingnice to say dont say it you are being reported by me
If you're 14 I've got news for you – the word isn't nice and people express their opinions. Get used to it.
If you want to see rudeness than go watch bill o'reilly.
This wasn't a great interview...Piers came off as weak. He made Larry King's questions look hard ball. I would have liked to see Piers use quotes from O'Donnell's book. He let her off too easy!
Taner
Well done Piers
its clear that these "new age" republicans are nothing but propaganda slogans. A politician must be able to hold firm on their views under every pressure, a representative of the people must represent without promoting personal gain. It seems the tea party takes root in the great revolution of world history, yet cannot defend its erratic views. This is unlike the founding fathers who died for their pursuits. I ask that you bring certain other politicians to light for their madness, such politicians that put unnecessary strain on public relations (ie. sarah palin, michell bachman, rick perry, etc.) I hope i am not sounding rude as well, thank you for your program as always,
Str8tlk
Of course Piers knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to put her in a corner. Many time's he comes across with stuff just thrown out at the star. He needs to learn to pull back. Of course CNN is for everything with Anderson Cooper on staff. Play fair Piers, they could ask you about your problems back in jolly old England.
Morgan was asking about thing which was written in the book, she was there to promote the book, Morgan will ask the questions according to his viewership, not according to Faux.
Really, would you treat a man in that manner. Why heckle anyone in that manner. Piers you made an ass of yourself trying to dig up old news for your own rating. Christine, good for you ending the interview. Back to FOX news!
Well said Rozz
Good call Roz. What posessed CNN to hire this clown?
Rasaay
I thought it was a very nice interview until she mentioned that she is a christian and wanted to stay within the topic of her book. We have't seen a scene like this for a long time in television interview. Good stuff for Daily Show.
While I like Piers, he was being aggressive and a bit rude. Ms. O'Donnell answered his question which appeared to clearly be off topic and clearly urged him to move on but he apparently wanted to trap her in some kind of gotcha situation. Piers and his colleague Anderson Cooper seem much more aggressive in asking personal questions to female Republican candidates than they do to and Democratic candidates either male or female.
Christine O'Donnell is a total whack job, but it was nice to see her walk off this whack job's show.
The ENGLISH - no wonder he is SO RUDE AND HATEFUL. He is from ENGLAND and, OF COURSE, CNN hires him. Says a lot about CNN.
I truly love the English but I have noticed that a lot of them use the inflated ego to make up for whatever their insecurities are.
What a ridiculous generalisation. That's like saying 'I love Americans but I have noticed that a lot of them tend to avoid giving their opinions on gay marriage. Oh and eat copious amounts of mcdonalds' you haven't met 'a lot' of the 7 million Brits in the world so don't make such outlandish statements.
Well that post was pretty rude and hateful. Pot, kettle, black?
I really miss Larry King. I really do not want to hear about gay issues. I think the airways are filled with Liberal talk show hosts trying to push this stuff down everyone s throat. I am more interested in other issues. but Piers cant seem to get off the subject however, I'm sure you are in with the powers that be to focus on gay rights. They wont be happy until everyone is gay.
LotusBB
Piers was never rude to O'Donnell, now she just gives me the heebie-jeebies!
Before she began with the R word, her credibility had increased with her honesty and directness to the questions, the banter was great! Afterwards, her true self shines again as a meek person always needing direction from others so why should anyone really care about her opinion.
Oy vai, she thinks you had the agenda?- Obviously she had her own.
Gene Ralman
Piers had a good interview going with O'Donnell until he noticed he hit a nerve. Then, he locked on to it. It was obvious that the girl was going to walk when Piers wouldn't let go. Yes, O'Donnell could have reacted better, but Piers lost the interview.
I agree with all the people who say that Piers Morgan is arrogant. He also has a huge chip on his shoulder. Who cares what happened in the 90's. Who cares about what people think about other people. Piers likes to stir the pot for no good reason and outcome. Piers Morgan is all about gossip and no substance. I can't watch this show anymore. Just awful.
worldsajoke
well said m, how often does he try and sheet a guest towards some silly gossip and the guest has to play along with the low road Piers tries to take people for no good reason.
How embarassing for both Piers and CNN. Neither party handled that well but as the host could have been avoided by simply changing the subject instead of 'beating the dead horse'. She has a right to keep her views to herself just as everyone else does. Only a pompous person refuses to let an uncomfortable subjuct go for the obvious joy of the power play. Last I knew adults were supposed to be civil to each other. If the host were really in control of the show it wouldn't have got the point of awkwardness.
Average Girl
What a load of crap, if it is in her book and she is doing a book interview, why won't she talk about it? She must be ashamed of her answer. A "good" catholic would have no problem stating out loud for all to hear that they believe gay marriage is a sin. So who exactly is she hiding from, catholics or gay people? I happen to not be catholic or gay, but here she is trying to tell us we should follow her ideas but she will not tell us what they are. This is a HUGE issue all over the country.
I was very clear why she did not want to answer the question. She is associated to the Tea Party. Any comment or opinions she may share reflect directly on the party and their presidential Candidate Michelle Bochmann and ultimately would be damaging. She a politician that what they do is dodge and she's no different than her counter part. Its fine because she answered the question through that whole exchange.
Piers, I am the rudest Gemini Lefty in Queens, New York.,
You were not rude at all.!!!!!
She wamted air time to bash other Political Partys.
Politics can get surgical with words, and some "men" on politics could swollow that either.
I abhore shallow people who act like perfect humans, and yet wont speak up on tv, but have the ego to write a book
and hide behind the cover...CRACK THAT WHIP PIERS-oH AND ASK AND DO TELL POLICY GETS MY VOTE.
Exactly. She wanted a Kevin Trudeau style infomercial interview for her book
Miriam Stange
As a 74 years old,,,please forget and quite begging that totally ridiculous young woman O'Donnell to return to your show. She walked off and took leave of your show and her book if she doesn't have the ovaries to stand behind the trash she writes in her book! Thiis Tea Bag most likely thought when God was giving out "brains" he said "trains"...she obviously did not get in the right line up! Spare us the Christine, Michelle or Sarahs...reality TV is already overwhelming and us seniors will just have to turn CNN off. mts
IT IS QUITE OBVIOUS WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WATCHES CNN .............. way to go LIBS. ONCE AGAIN, RUDE AND HATEFUL as ALWAYS.
What I don't understand is why CNN and other media outlets continue to invite people like Christine O'Donnell and other d-list people onto the network. People like Ms. O,Donnell, Trump, and others contribute nothing but confusion and mindless chatter. This continue parade of idiotic pundits and yesterday news does nothing but dumb down America. Please stop CNN it getting old. Its bad enough we have to hear opinion after opinion all through what use to be serious news items. It the number one reason why I now go online to news outlets like Al Jazeera English so that I can learn something about the real world. Piers second guess Mr.Howard Schultz should had been the lead guess. At least America would of been hear something interesting and new.
Milton E.
First let me say that I agree with all that mentioned Piers could have been more prepared. He should have had some quotes from her book(im thinking he did not read it).....which would have been easy to address as oppose to "tell what you think about this or that"....note: to his show's producer....make sure he is better prepared next time. But, I am very surprised by Ms. O'Donnell getting flusted by the question of Gay Marriage or Dont ask, Dont tell. When will people learn that you only get to play "miss wholesome" in the comfort of your own home. This society is moving toward a more reality-based time...unfortunate for some.....a true blessing for others. Grow up Christine.....Grow up.....you could have handled Piers better than that.....SHE MADE THE SAME MISTAKE SHE HAS DONE IN BOTH OF THE MEDIA CLIPS THAT HE SHOWED.....she trying to speak to what she thinks people want to hear.....Grow up !
You're not a journalist. You're sleazy. You NEVER would have grilled any man of any political party with the questions which you just pelted Christine O'Donnell – and to think you thought you were charming. Perhaps only in your own mind. This was the first time I'd ever watched your show. It's also the last.
Piers Morgan was rude to Christine ODonnell.... She answered his questions, but he was trying to intiminate her.... I don't blame her for walking off. I would have walked off long before she did and
I hope in the future the rest of you viewers will see how rude he is and can be.... I thought she handled it very
well ....
Miriam b.
From one Miriam to another, I completely agree! You would have better luck interviewing an ape. Happy birthday Elvis! What idiots these t baggers are.
Name*Jim
Rude?? Give me a break ! You have gained my respect . You appear to be one of the few that didn't " back off" afraid to be criticized . She is the original " wing nut" Oh my , I so sorry , was I rude . Jim
CNN CAN PUT TRASH ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, BUT THEY CENSOR THESE SILLY STATEMENTS.
You were extremely rude, obnoxious and totally arrogant during your interview with Christine O'Donnell!.
You did not come across as Einstein!!!!!!!
Agreed Prema. Piers was totally a bully. He took the lowest line of questioning. Shame on him.
both prema and miki are haters. He is just asking her stance on the topic. I do not know why everyone is getting worked up. I guarantee alot of people didnt even watch the FULL interview.
Michael...don't be a moron. I don't see anything that Prema an dmiki wrote that shows they are haters.
Missing Larry King_77
I agree! The interview was totally inappropriate and WHY 'Piers Morgan ' would you stoop to such a low level? For Ratings?!!
Wake up Piers! Challenge Schultz on something. He says Starbucks provides "compreshensive" health insurance for 200,000 employees for $250M a year. That's almost exactly $100 per month per employee. That is impossible.
SBahoy
Schultz says he was raised on the wrong side of the tracks "without acess to the American Dream". He is suffering from rich-guilt and has forgotten that his story is the American Dream. Somehow, someway, he clawed his way to incredible success. That is the American Dream. Not giving it to someonw.
Piers, I agree with Ms. ODonnell. You were being rude.
I just switched off your program. You get really interesting guests but you refuse to let them finish their points. Here in America we call that interrupting. It appears that you never learned that interrupting in boorish. You've lost me as a viewer.
News flash, Garth: Piers will never read this.
Right on brother, i am with you, Piece alway interrupt his guests and that is a sign of Britsh stupid an childish EGO.Larry King is realy the King in my eyes.
G Briggs
Pierce what were you guys thinking, giving Air time to that lady. What a waste. Howard Shultz should have had the whole hour. We are trying to help America, RIGHT?
I smell a sequel for Bill Maher>O'Donnelious>that I would watch>please don't have this book promoting a used tea bag not a tea party would be>back on your show. I watched for the first time tonight and was disappointed that you did not walk out on her>in the the words of Putnam Pig>Oh CRAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
I do think Pierce interrupts his guests too much
But, in my opinion CNN is very balanced. MSNBC is liberal and will slant a story to their cause. FOX blatantly lies to push their agenda knowing most viewers will not verify but will certainbly spread the lies.
PIERS WAS NOT RUDE !!!!
Whats her stance on gay marriage ??? A secret..
According to her men are banned from masterbastion...
Lets ask her husband how many nights a week she is rude....
Keep your feelings out of politics or u will feel BE-Ruded.....haha.
Piers, You were not RUDE.....I thought it was a very relevant question and I am glad you doggedly put her on the spot.The gall of the woman to try to sidestep the question and try telling you what she wants to talk about!! Ask her to go to Sean Hannity's show on Fox if she wants scripted questions..... She is such a pea-brained person, I am surprised why you are giving her book or her any importance by calling her for an interview during prime time. Please do not waste your time and ours interviewing the types of Christine O donnell. Atleast I am glad you did not back off from the question.
Christine, you're fired. Goodbye! (Piers, will be familiar with this saying).
You little "Troublemaker" you.
PS. Piers, "Rock On".
PPS. Who is Christine O' Donnell in the great scheme of US or world matters? Hmm?
I know, tis' hard to figure, is that question.
Kiki Loaeza
Piers Morgan could not be rude even if he tried, Cristine O'Donnell is obviously very insecure and parochial. Not good for any of her careers or life choices. She will maybe do better next time.
She showed how intelligent she really is. What a total hypocrite and tool !
Piers Morgan could not be rude even if he tried, Cristine O'Donnell is obviously very insecure and parochial. Not good for any of her careers or life choices. Maybe she will do better next time.
Piers, I always have known th eBrits to have a sense of fair play, but your behavior during the interview shows that you are an exception. You came across as a sneering and arrogant bully. Pick on someone your size. I have no time for Christine Odonnell, but you have a responsibility as a host.
Pride comes before a fall....I don't think you'll be smiling if you get exposed for the phone hacking ....
I agree! The interview was totally inappropriate and WHY 'Piers Morgan' would you stoop to such a low, low level? For Ratings?!!
It was totally inappropiate for Ms McWacko to run for office and be in the public eye.
to make money aon a BOOOOK
The Chritine O'donnell interview makes me realize that people we elect or almost elect to Congress just aren't as smart as everybody thinks they are, except that they all become millionaires with their position of power.
Hey Piers...Just to be fair and balance.... you should ask Howard Schultz his opinion about masturbation....
I am not a Tea Party advocate and I voted for Barack Obama. Having said this, I found Piers' interview with Christine ODonnell an unfortunate display of low level interviewing. It is clear he went for the jugular and in a bullying and aggressive manner. Ms. ODonnell is not running for anything and does not need to make clear her opinions on masturbation or gay marriage. While it may be in her book, if she refuses to answer on the third or fourth time, give it up already. Piers Morgan you should give some deep thought to your motivations and greedy desire for ratings.
Am so amazed we can all watch the same interview yet all have diff views...... Notice the anti Piers views are by ppl who didnt actually watch the interview all they saw were pretty pictures
Piers, this is the first time I have EVER watched your show. I happened upon it and I am glad I did. Regarding Ms O’Donnell, You asked the right questions, you were not the rude one, and were funny as hell. And, I agreed with your pro vs. con comment (and yes, I am pro! and, I am also a catholic 🙂
I do watch Fox and many of the other networks...I do not pick a network based on my voter registration; rather I look for the journalists versus the entertainer. Ms. O'Donnell should have answered your questions relating to her book she is trying to push - she looked very silly and wasted all of our time with that publicity stunt. Also, loved the piece with Starbucks CEO. Very interesting. Btw, I am a registered Republican. Great show - keep asking the relevant questions to everyone (dems, repubs etc) and I will keep watching!
nowlin wells
I think that the woman, Christine O'Donnell is very confused about who's show she was on and How to represent herself,as a mature individual. Piers Morgan is classy, and actually very tame. I would have asked her does she know anything about when President Regan was in Office and you went to the Super Market to visit Meat, cause it cost too much to buy. Also She is rather unstable and so she wrote a book, and exactly who is going to waste time, and she can not explain her beliiefs ? She should not come out to manage a show, but to show who she is, and she did that as someone without the understanding of communication to a mature Audiance '
Piers – This is the very best you have done
Now loyal fan
What a joke. I am embarrassed that she lives in the same state as me. She walks off a show when she is politically involved and asked a question as to her stand on a very important question. Yeah, we want her as president!!!
guy durso
Pierce,
I think your show is very entertaining.
How many people have walked off your show? Obviously she needs to stay off talk shows.
Also, she needs to stay out of the cameras eye.
Stop. Think. Think a while if you need to. The wretched extreme remarks from folk who've not received a proper education or even scored acceptable SAT test scores should not be dismissed. We should, rather, welcome, our brothers and sisters who've lacked an opportunity to learn how to think. It's not their faults. It's the system's fault!
People like some current right-wing extremists are where they are becuase our educational system has failed them. They've calvanized themselves around the notion that stupid people just might win a race and do stupid things in Washington. They delight in the fact that they've no real education beyond some 3rd rate, on-line college or, maybe, a land-grant school that doled out a lot of Fed loans to them. There's a Greek term for what the Tea Party is about. It's called "Kakistocracy"–goverment by the least enabled...the thiefs. The Tea Party are modern day political kleptomaniacs–e.g., their aim is to steal the government and brutalize it, not empower it. Moreover, look at what Bachman says and what Mussolini said.These are very dangerous times, but the dumb, poor, out-of-work folk hardly have a clue of the hammer that is knocking at the door.
It's not the Democrats that working people should be concerned about. Rather, it is the people who are focused on shutting down American governance that should scare the hell out of them. If any polarizing presidential candidate gets elected, we're down to soup cans and campfires. I'm not arguing for one party or the other, but what I'm saying is that one better be damned sure he knows which hammer falls next when he casts his ballot. Moreover, I encourage folks to not be manipulated by the emotional language of politicans–e.g., "Sure, he's saying the right things. Then he lets you down when he learns how hard it is to get somthing through Congress." In short, we need to focus on candidates who can convince us that they can hammer out a deal...instead trying to sway our private beliefs. –Owen
Piers was exceedingly lame tonight. He was bringing up the same tired old things that we heard during the campaign and was just trying to embarass her. She shouldn't have walked off, but there is no defense for Piers' questions.
As a guest on a talk show, shouldn't Christine O'Donnell be a bit more open to all the content in her book that she wrote? Perhaps if she was a bit more open to Piers' questions and curiosities, maybe the audience would have gotten a better feel for the book.
Coming onto a show to only talk about what you want to talk about is contradictory to how a talk show is supposed to work, am I right? She should have been more prepared to talk about ANYTHING from her book That would be like having O'Donnell appear on the Tonight Show and ignoring the questions Jay Leno asks her. Nobody can change the bias of a news station, so there really should be no excuse for "walking" out of the interview.
Lina Paniccia
I agree, Piers was very sweet, adorable and charming. He was not rude at all. He had a right to ask that question and if she had nothing to hide there is no reason why she would avoid the question. If you're proud to be gay and not ashamed why avoid it. She was wrong about being able to talk about what she wants. It's his talk show and he should pick the topics not her. She's the guest not the host. That's why I love Piers Morgan. He's not shy or afraid to ask questions. If something is in the book, why not discuss it. What are you hiding?
Wanda Raycraft
Did anyone see her tweet after the show? It said somethng like,,"I only agreed to appear on Piers' show if he promised not to hack my cell phone" What a joke she is. I went on her site after the walk off to really see what she's all about! Surprise, surprise she's a closed minded bigot who is bed with Fox News. I watched 2 interviews on the same subject one with Hannity and one with Greta and it was disgusting the way they were a mutual admiration society. The Tea Party is scary and it "conjures" up visions of a bubbling cauldron. emitting poison into the environment. Very Dark Arts like! Sorry couldn't resist the reference.
Hey Simo,
Like your answer to @Semper Fidelis
27atheart
Mr Morgan is an interviewer, cheeky or not. The real show was the counter point to Ms. O'Donnell's action and statements with Mr.Schultz's commentary.
On one hand, is a book author peddling their wares. Who decides that they will only discuss their talking points. The touting the "Second American Revolution" is pro Tea Party and proud of the partizan paralyzation and non negotiating position as good for business and the American people as this will fight the increasing debt.
The other, is a business man creating a movement in which politicians will not receive money till amicable discourse, true leadership on all parts is restored with confidence and authenticity. He, in his business, has shown leadership on a global scale and points to the debacle of the, dept.-ceiling-budget-crisis non resolution as the greatest threat to America's fiduciary responsibility to the economy, business and the People.
We can believe whom ever. So, I will cast my opinion by my wallet. I will not be buying a troublesome book but I will buy a $100.00 Starbucks card. I drink coffee, not Kool-aid.
She wanted to "CONTROL" the entire interview,,,wonder what her book is all about..no more Borders so I will not see it in book stores ....doubt that the book will sell ...
Don't worry Piers, you're not the only interview that she walked out on today. She hung up on a phone interview today in SLC when they started question if her primary win of 6% was really a "Significant Margin" http://soundcloud.com/magallanes90/kxrk-x96-rfh-christine
Is she a FLAKE,,,, or what??? Why do they continue to give these clowns tv time?? Her, Sarah Palin are both flakes.To think people would vote for them. If Sarah Palin ever became President, I'd move to Canada!!!!!!!You want to run for office or write and promote a book, be ready to answer questions!!!!! ENOUGH OF MY TIME WASTED!!!!!
Cherie Hebert
Could not agree more.
Typical GOP/Teabagger when they venture off Fox News interviews. When they don't get the softball questions they want or submitted before the interview they scream about rude behavior and ambush attacks. How can any sane person think he was rude for asking her about something she wrote in her own book or maybe she dosen't know what was in the book in the first place!!!!
I know Leo. So totally true about Fox and the softball questions. She kept saying I'm here to talk about the book. WELL...... talk about it then!! What a joke she is and her book must be just as bad. Unfortunately it will probably sell more now .....
Yassess Leves From TMZ
Hey I'm Yassess Leves From TMZ! Christine Is A Witch! Bunch Of GOP Candidates Goes Iowa Last Weekend. She's The Witch!
The issue here is that she wrote a book that includes statements about gay marriage, she has previously spoken in public about gay marriage, and now that she's promoting her book, she thinks it's not fair game. That's total BS. If you don't want to talk about it, don't write about it.
i don't trust either of these people.... nor any of the news channels mentioned... there all scandalous... profit driven & manipulative...
Attention Ms. O'Donnell, you are not the host of the Piers Morgan show. I believe Mr. Morgan sort of runs the show and you are a guest. If you want a show of your own, maybe you could do an infommercial and try selling your book that way.
Piers, I'm sorry that your original show plan has turned into general reporting of breaking news, more often than not, since its inception. I enjoy your style of interviewing guests. And I want to thank you, thank you, thank you for saving humanity tonight! You gave this nut a platform to show her true colors (again) and absolutely stopped her from wasting our time if she had any illusions of entering politics again. Keep up the good work.
What!? how can some people come on here and defend Fox and put down CNN? That is
obviously bias thinking, because the real issue here just the question Peirce
asked her. If it is in your book and you're on the show to discuss your book why
not answer the question, instead she calls him rude, that makes no sense. Ok
and lets be honest every news station is a little bias at some time, but CNN is
more unintentional bias sometimes but Fox is plain out obviously bias. I'll give
you an example although their is plenty. On the show the Five, Greg Gutfeld
actually pulled out a Perry/Romney for president sticker during the show. Also
out of the five only one is a rational thinker and that's Bob Beckel, the other
4 just defends the tea party, defames the president and democrats and usually
only Bob will disagree out of the five and make valid points. Really? fear and
balance 4 to 1 ratio. I think not.
Piers can be a bit pompous.Hhe has that twang in his voice that can make you squint, and wrinkle your nose when he speaks.
Pier, We watch every night and thought you interview and questioning of Christine was terrible, you handled the matter very poorly and your question were rediculious, I was surprisingly more impressed with Christine O'Donnell handling you and your rude and too personal questions, you could have moved on. You seemed to be close to losing control.
We have gone from a fan and support of Pier Morgan to probably not watching you again, very disappointing performance.
Oh Dennis – stop being a (ahem) "Menace".
This woman is the very essence of what is wrong with my generation. She is self-absorbed, lazy and poorly educated. It just shows what deep trouble this country is in when people such as this are put in places of power and influence. She's disgusting.
No Kidding!
Mayyjjo
If Ms. O'Donnell can't even stand up for her own book she shouldn't have agreed to go the show. Don't tell me she didn't know what to expect. She's had enough interviews to know. Piers wasn't being rude at all. He was merely asking her about her book. She was there to promote her stupid book, so answer the questions, dummy. Typical teaparty type. She should be next on the ridiculist.
Jeb Guy
Piers M, your mentally ill socialist European blind view of reality showed through in nasty interview to nail Christine O'Donnell on 08-17-2011 demonstrates your CNN bias propaganda! “We the People” see through your socialist agenda. Move to Cuba and drive a 1952 clunker-junker if it works and you can buy gas. Socialism has always FAILED! Read History.
I am not a fan of either party ! But Piers was very rude.. Bottom line..... No excuses. If you invite her as a guest, treat her like you would want to be treated... Just saying...
Regardless of political belief, conservative or liberal, it was clear Piers's intent was to embarrass Christina O'Donnell by repeatedly asking a non-relevant question. I agree for her own self respect she was correct in walking off the stage. He certainly wasn't charming as he called himself, but rather rude. I am not a fan of Christina's, but was looking forward to what she had to say. Unfortunately, never got to hear.
ZCan
The man was doing his job !!!!
WOW! I think she should have answered the question instead of attacking his manners" which btw are nowhere near rude"! That's typical right wing behavior.
It was sickening watching her talk.. It's women like her that ruin it for the rest of women.
She's a perfect example of token puppet public personalities.
Why was Piers asking Christine about masturbation? Gutter interview.
My last time to watch this show because of the rude, unprofessional manner in which the interview of Christine was completed by Piers.
The whole time Piers was attacking Chrisine instead of interviewing her with serious question. He talks about masturbation, witch craft, gay marriage, calling her names. Very bias and I don't blame Christine for leaving. She stayed for 20 minutes. Most women would have left after the 1st gutter question about masturbation
He was completely out of line. She was a guest on his show. She politely declined to respond to his irrelevant line of questioning several times but he apparently felt the need to try to pressure her into engaging him. She is not running for any office so why would he think she would be required to answer his foolish questions? So what if she is against gay marriage? Most Americans are. Americans are already heading down that slippery slope pretty fast. I'm glad she has values. I would imagine she's also against our legalized murdering of unborn babies too. Its a sick world and journalists who antagonize those who try to inject some morality into this culture are a big reason why. Shame on you Piers. You tried to be a bully and ended up looking like a fool. Biggest mistake CNN has made.
Jo Allard
I am with you Piers. More fuel for the fire to roast the tea party terrorist. I love it. They are so full of themselves. It's beyond laughable. In the second revolution I predict that the tea party will be hung out to dry just like the Tories and the Royalists. We the people, the poor the downtrodden, the elderly and the disabled will prevail in the end. The whole world is watching you.
Zavaré Tengra
I don't think her walking out had much to with her not wanting to answer the " gay marriage" question..She probably felt badgered by Pierece with his " masturbation" and " witch" questions and video clips that went on for a bit too long.. The " gay marriage" question was probably the straw that broke the camels back..Either way, she came across as unprofessional and ridiculious... If you want your 15 minutes of fame to last longer, by dabbling in witccraft,politics or writing a book, grow a thicker skin!!
P.Morgan showed the same classless tactics that got his old tabloid canceled.
O'Donnell merely established what she has denied in the past, including in her campaign spots, that being "she is a witch," and not a very bright one at that.
Ms. Witch is a typical teabagger, dodging issues, flip-flopping on issues, and feeling they should never be asked any tough question, especially if it's one regarding anything they've spouted in the past.
Piers was not rude, she was the rude one, but what do you expect from a witch!
I don't like the Tea Party or Christine O but she was right to leave. You can't ask women a buch of silly questions about: masturbation, witchcraft, mocking her in old videos, and gay marriage. It wasn't an interview it was an attack the whole time. Good interviewers are more balance. If Piers wanted to attack her do so with 2 out of 10 questions not every single question. Shame on your Piers Morgan.
How would you feel if someone asked your mother, sister, daughter about masturbation on national tv when she was on air to talk about politics and her book. What's wrong with your Mr. Morgan you are the heir of Larry King.
Mokkan
Neither my mother, sister nor any other relatives have chosen to be public figures. Politicians are subject to judgment in the court of public opinion, and their statements and actions are justly scrutinized. They expect us to place our trust in them, and they should thus be accountable for those statements and actions. Piers did nothing more than try to address issues that O'Donnell herself took time to discuss in the very book she was promoting on his show. The integrity of any political journalist rests on their willingness and ability to ask questions relevant to current political climate, not relevant to the agenda of the interviewee. Piers took her to task, and kudos to him for that.
Having read a number of the responses here, I'm compelled to pose a question to the pro-O'Donnell crowd: Do ISPs accommodate your chosen lifestyle, or do you have to physically move your rock to the nearest hotspot to get a Wifi connection?
Ok some people are saying Pierce was rude Pierce was this and that. OK what are you talking about she is a politician, he is a interviewer and this is a pretty straight forward question about the book she wrote. If we can't have faith in her to answer a question that should already be answered in her book how can we have confidence in her to do anything to help the country?
I like CNN and Larry King's old show. Mr. Morgan you have turned it into gutter tv. Did you really ask an attractive woman about masturbation on national tv? Seriously to a woman who won the nomination of a major party to be US Senator. Then talk about witchcraft and 20 year old clips of her in her old hairdos then mock her nonstop then ask her about gay marriage.
Great points Jen. I was waiting for the x-rated music to start playing in the background. I'm ashamed to be a fan of CNN tonight. I know of one show I will never be tempted to watch again.
Piers Morgan turned into Hugh Hefner tonight. Pervert
AdrianChilders.com
Hahaha Thats awesome! Is she gay?
Piers you weren't rude at all. If she is a politician its expected that people want to know what her views are. When you go on a show to promote something you don't get to talk about it during the entire interview. Anyway, I'm sure this is good for ratings. Maybe you should start being a bit more rude. haha
P.Morgan is a dirty old Brit
Sugeeth
Hi......... Piers........
I was relaxed after late hard working day, when i saw u was interviewing Penn who has written a so called book
"GOD, No!" U interviewed him in a nice and way. What u said was true that there are so many ppl around the world having Godly beliefs. Well, Im not sure those every belief is gonna last long according to my belief who's a born again christian youth (who broke out from a traditional christian church) in sri Lanka. Although ppl don't send u comments or feedback's from Asia there are so many ppl who are watching Ur program-me even in our country. I don't see its a book which will be an exciting book to read to every person has a Godly belief and across the globe. I'm not only mentioning abt The christian faith even other religions as u mentioned in. Hey Piers Why do humans automatically look up when they are in a situation, a spot of bother, in a problem where humans cannot solve! Beyond human control. Why is that? Its b'cos we, humans are creation of GOD the Father. That's why when certain pastors pray for sick in physically and mentally get healed completely. There is one name that any creation of GOD (True GOD of Israel) will obey and react to that name. A person who finds that name & calls upon that name will never be lost like atheists. Pls pray for Penn & his family, good to pray for another isn't it piers? Hey if there's anything u need as info of our beautiful country sri Lanka i will be able to help U! Keep up the Good work, stay in CNN. May GOD's Grace be upon U!
Piers Morgan = perverted old brit
erzan
Piers was being rude? then Fox news should be pulled off air. I've seen people point, raise their voice and speak over people plenty of times. He gave her time to reply and no reporter should be prevented asking sensitive questions when it comes to politicians. Why can't you thick people realize these people are suppose to be public SERVANTS. Ergo, if they want to represent us and have power, they should expect to be answer questions regarding their political held beliefs. We as the voters have a right to know them if they vote on laws that effect us. Some people are so thick is sad.
Where's the freedom of speech that Americans talk so much about??? Would she have walked out if Larry King or Oprah did the same? DO NOT GO on broadcast media (or any media) to be interviewed, if you cannot hold your own. Walking out makes HER look bad, answer and move on. She must have a bad team if they can't even schedule her day (and not provide answers for tough questions!) and that she needs to walk out on an interview to make her next appointment. Round 2 – Fox News...
Piers, you were not rude! Kudos!
No, Morgan was offensive and in the wrong and should be forced to apologize for being a bad interviewer and for twisting the truth. She walked out, not stormed. His badgering was repulsive and extremely rude. Not to mention highly unprofessional. Part of that article has nothing to do with what transpired. He asked her about gay marriage only. Why do people have to make such elaborations? Shameful.
Christine O'Donnell proved tonight that she is a freak. You're either fine with gay marriage or you're not. She's obviously against it. Why not just state that then move on. What a total total freak. Good Lord. "I skipped the womens republican convention for this."
An additional source to see who is Ms O'Donnell:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/christine_odonnell/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=christine%20o'donnell&st=cse
Piers-YOU were absolutely in the right! She was the rude B. She was just there to promote her book. I would not give her the benefit of the doubts again and let her on your show. Remember, it is your show and nobody elses and you do a great job. I love your personality and that is what makes you! Here is to many happy shows!
Shove the gay issue down our throats , why not they shove it up their butts. Time to throw-up!
Piers: 1 O'Donnell: 0. Don't write a book about politics if you can't handle the gay marriage question. Why would I read her book if she can't even answer a straightforward question?
People who are calling Morgan arrogant must watch the O'rielly and Hannity than only they are going to understand the meaning of arrogance.
Catherine Simard
It was a very simple question and I agree with Mr. Morgan, "a highly political one". Very easy to answer: Do you agree or not? Another person afraid of expressing their view for fear of consequences on their career! Walking off an interview is seriously childish!
I tape Piers every night and watch him in the am. I began to notice something weird after his Charlie Sheen interview. EVERY guest who came on after Charlie, Piers would excitedly ask, "What do you think about this Charlie Sheen thing?" Most of the guests looked puzzled and wanted to move on. You can tell by Piers dancing eyes and pursed little lips that he THRIVES on juicy gossip. Re O'Donnell: who wants to talk about masturbation/gay marriage when you came to talk about economic problems in America? I was mortified for her when he kept showing old tapes from her young years. I did many stupid things when I was in my 20s. Who hasn't? Piers, you are not a news reporter, you are a gossip mongerer. An embarrassment to CNN. Go back to the tabloids.
Jerry Doll
Piers Morgan has sreached a new low. You would think CNN could do better than Piers Morgan
Piers is a discredited journo in the uk – check out why he was fired from his job as editor of one of our gutter press tabloids. We wish he would be extradited to the uk to face charges over phone hacking.
Mad Monte
Just looking at Pierce makes me want to puke, listening to his snotty remarks makes me want to slap him. As for Ms. O'Donnell, she should admit that she is a closet gay who is against gay rights. That might make her book more interesting. I definitely wouldn't buy her book now.
It is telling that while she walked off after Piers kept asking about her views of masturbation, and weather she had ever sinned in her heart, the subject was considered so charged that CNN reported that it was over questions concerning gay marriage.
I am not by any means a supporter of tea party agenda, or O'Donnel (I am more of a progressive Dem), but if they don't think the subject is fit for reporting, why would it be OK for Piers to ask the question?
Being shallow and unable to hold your own in a tough situation is not a factor of being a woman; rather, it's a factor of being a shallow and weak person. That's what we witnessed. Once you take a public stance on an issue, if you don't have the backbone to stand behind it, then you'd better keep your mouth shut. And your pen quiet. Your words aren't worth the paper they're written on nor the ink expended in the writing.
Well said Vickie! Shallow, high school, petty, snotty behaviour. Don't write a book with your opinions in it, then do a book tour to promote that book, and then get made when people as your opinion.
billy warren
how can someone be such a jerk to make someone walk off a so-called show. you should be fired
Pakiceid
Sir, you rock !!
no you were not rude. and I love the way you replied ' NO I think I am Rather charming '
Great Skills
That was a pretty funny interview. I think the question was fair, as it concerned her book. Was it rude... no. Was this just more political dancing.... yes. This is the business of policy and politics. Piers makes money off of this stuff... so get over it. Everyone who ever thinks about doing an interview should consider that they will be given a curve-ball question that they might not want to answer.
Desperate for ratings, Piers follows a line of questioning (grossly unrelated to her book – see below) that he knows will fire up the intellectually weak and morally depraved, as well as give him a personal sense of sick satisfaction.
"Troublemaker is about where O’Donnell comes from—the Philadelphia suburbs with five kids to a room—and what she weathered in the 2010 election. But the core of the book is a clear, straightforward discussion of an America that yearns to embrace freedom and opportunity through personal responsibility, and how it is hamstrung and stymied by excessive regulation, taxation, and the sanctimony of a “nanny state.” And Troublemaker will deliver an important, rousing message about what we do with the quiet anger in America today: where we can go, and how strong we can be, from here. Warning readers that challenging the status quo makes the political establishment push back, O'Donnell wants to build a movement that will continue to goad it." – Amazon
frank burnsf
Based on this interview, it appears she will be a Tea Party hero. She talks about the second American Revolution - this time, I guess the enemy is the US government itself. It sounds treasonous, but there is a bright side - these are the same people who are fond of saying "America, love it or leave it!" So, we ought to be seeing a mass exit of Tea Partiers, and I say, good riddance.
Good job, Piers.
It's not Mr. Morgan's job to provide a nice white billboard for people to advertise their newest more or less creative endeavors on. The man runs a talk show, and it's explicitly advertised as a talk show where he asks tough questions. I like watching his show for that very reason. If O'Donnell didn't realize that was the type of show she was going onto, shame on her. Shame on her more, though, for thinking she was going to discuss a tough topic–did she really say "the second American revolution?–and yet not talk about tough current issues. She's an idiot, and Mr. Morgan did a very good job of making that clear.
I just watched the videos. Boy! I dont like him already! He was very rude, offensive, and disrespectful! I can understand it is "business" in what he does, but there is a fine line, and he crossed it! Go O'Donnell!
Angel Santiago
Piers, I saw last night that your requested that Ms. O'Donnell come back to your show tonight....why bother. Why give her a spotlight when she has nothing to offer as a politician or anything for that matter. Bring on your show talented, profeesional people as you have been doing. I see the news medias gives so much attention to these people like O'Donnell and Sara Palin...another waste of time, of course she got the spotlight last week, because the media ran to her instead of covering the candidates that are running. When Sara decides to run for Presidency, then give her the attention and take her more seriously.
Sharon Cannon
She was asking people to buy her book, so YES she should have answered the guestion, or not done the interview.
John Mazurek
I am very conservative and a Tea Party member in my community in Georgia.
I have found you to be a very insightful and thorough interviewer. I can guess at your politics but it would be a guess becasue the times I have watched your program you maintain a very good posture of objective journalism.
In the case of Christine O'Donnell, I found your qestions simple, direct and totally within the pervue of the interview.
Mrs O'Donnell needs some growing up, I now understand why she lost to an opponent who should not been elected dog catcher.
PS: You got me hooked, I will be watching more!!
Carla Edelman
Thank you, Piers! You didn't have to make Christine O'Donnell look bad–she did it all by herself! If she thinks that she's
a big enough player to stir up interest in her by walking off, she's misguided. Maybe if Pres. Obama walked off it would
be a story, but Christine who? C'mon, Christine, you have to be ready and willing to handle the question, any question,
because the public needs to know what you're made of. Piers, you did your job masterfully and we expect nothing less
of a good journalist. You were relentless in your quest for an answer, and the more evasive she became, the more you
probed, inadvertently exposing her weakness. This is the real world, Christine; the public demands and deserves to
know who you are if you are serious about governing anything. We can't trust you if we don't know you, and we will
never trust you if you back off from a question and have a hissy-fit moment because the interview is not going your
way. You showed your immaturity and inability to withstand pressure, and this was just an interview! It was an
opportunity for you to shine and prove you could handle any question, and you answered by walking off. Your stunt was
an embarrassment only to you, and Piers never looked better. When you walked off, the expression on his face was priceless; he appeared completely amused as he watched a spoiled child (that he had to tolerate), walk away when she
didn't get her way. I've always believed she is uninformed and irrelevant; now I know my beliefs are correct. Keep up
the excellent work, Piers; the media is our only hope of knowing anyone with political aspirations, and honestly, I want
to know so much more. I cannot entrust any portion of my country's government to anyone who is not forthcoming and
refuses to be accountable. Christine, you already lost whatever it is you're hoping to win.
Debbie Powers
Yahoo, Piers, you pulled a Larry King, You rock......yes... best interview...you were not out of line. Why is she so defensive? I would never buy her book.
Piers clearly was trying to derail the conversation about the book to shine the worst possible light on O'Donnell. It is a shameful way to act. I don't like or respect O'Donnell even though I agree with the Tea Party movement. But I disagree with Piers underhanded bait and switch tactic to get her on the show to ridicule her publicly for her beliefs (ones which I do not support). Journalism has become all agenda and no balance. Piers shows his true colors here as just another agenda-seeker who cares nothing of balance or truth. It was dirty of him.
Piers morgan would not treat Brad Pitt or Bill Clinton or some other person he admires this way.
If a person is your guest, you do not force things on them, you treat them respectfully. That Morgan stash calm and smiles while being a smug bully, does not full most people and the guest called him on it and foe the next week , he and Anderson Cooper will revel in their little mockery of a "guest" standing up for themselves on their mighty all important "truth" show. What a farce. These two wealthy twits enjoying their moment in the "news" spotlight, think they are superior to the select people they talk down to.
There is no poorer listener or a person less interested in what people have t say than Piers Morgan. .
Carsy E.
I would expect that Piers wouldn't treat them that way, because as humanitarians, they have earned our respect; Chris-
tine cannot ever hope to come close. What is an interviewer going to ask Pres. Clinton about his personal life or views
that we haven't already heard? He's answered the questions, and I commend him for never walking away. What is an interviewer going to ask Brad Pitt about his personal life that we already don't know? These two have put themselves out
there; they haven't run away from anything, because they understand that their public persona is key to their popularity
and trust. Their good works in the service of their country speak volumes as to who they are, and Piers would be mis-
guided to take such truly relevant people and hammer away at an insignificant question. The problem with ODonnell is
that she has nothing to say (that doesn't serve her own sense of self-importance), and she has contributed nothing that
is noteworthy to any event or need in our country. OOPS–I forgot, she has contributed her IDEAS, now there's a
treasure, but we must read her book to find some of those ideas, because she is too immature to discuss the ones that
may not make her look good to all viewers on national television. The only mistake CNN made was having her on the
show at all, but I think if anyone can write the book on how to interview someone who has nothing to say, it should be
Piers. He was brilliant.
Nancie
Piers, you need to understand what no means. You are no Larry King, that's for sure!
keithBX
Would have been even funnier if the clip was shown from "Monty Python & the Holy Grail" – "SHE'S A WITCH!"...
"BURN HER ANYWAY!!!!"
Lance J. Gosnell
What about the comment about how she hopes her book inspires the Tea Party to bring America back to a Second American Revolution. Honestly, what is she talking about? We only had one American Revolution unless she is hoping they cause one and if that is the case they are doing a might damn fine job.
Nushi
What a loser she is!!! She can't even hold an interview. I am so glad she walked out. She wasn't worth listening to anyway. He was gracious and polite and she was trying to get away with answering the questions. Now everyone knows how unrealiable she is. I would NOT buying any book that is written by her, good or bad. She is obviously racist.
James C.
Relax Piers, you did a great job and your interview was in order. Just remember that this wanna-be, O'Donnell, has a big head and thinks she is above the standards that we normal people must follow. She just wanted to sell her book and nothing else. I wouldn't interview her again, and give her the pleasure of speaking to the world about her book. Let her design and do her own PR. I ask that you keep going with your methods and I will continue to watch your show every night. Great Work Piers!
I don' t think Piers was rude at all. he was simply asking her questions that she has had expressed her views on before. She was the one that was rude. She acted like a spoiled brat who didn't get to talk about what SHE wanted to she went home. Boo Hoo! He is the host...HE asks the questions. This was NOT the Christine O'Donnell Show.
...she has no views. She said she didn't want to discuss legislative agenda and then states her book address issues on policy making. ????? She's just cashing out on Tea-idiots.
I'm not a fan or admirer of Piers Morgan, but I have to say in all fairness, that I thought he handled the interview brilliantly. His questions were fair, respectful, and if anything, he just let the guest dig her own hole and make herself look incredibly foolish in the process. Even after she dissed him and walked off, he was just as polite and even-keeled, noting that it is a good book, encouraged folks to buy it, and acted like a gentleman. I think she really blew it as did her amateur handlers who seemed to pull her off the set and stand in front of the camera. What a joke. Can't blame the media on this one.
Piers, you are a jerk..certainly not a journalist. Grow up.
He was not being rude, and it was a legitimate question. I think she was taking advantage of the fact that Piers WAS quite rude to his guest just the night before, and thought people would think she was justified in calling him rude.
My favorite part was when she said he should asl Bachman questions about this issue since she is runnig for public office when, of course, bachman is refusing to answer questions on this issue, too. Sensitive much, ladies?
If you said it in the past, and it is your belief, stand up for it and be proud! If you are NOT proud that you said it in the past, this is your opportunity to say so. She could have gone either way in her response and come off well. Walking away made her look nothing but bad.
I think Morgan is an arrogant old Englishman. This guy is bad news in Britain. CNN needs to get him off the air as the shows are in decline. Nobody can replace good old Larry.
Brenda Anderson
Why must people always try to define someone by their beliefs if it is not what you believe so be it, is she beating down your door trying to force you to see it the way she does. He was just looking for something to generate more interest for his show and she didn't want to play the game. End of Story If you get backed in a corner concerning a topic you do not care to talk about isn't it best to walk away, to many people are so use to the PC line when someone does not want to discuss an issue they are wrong not to.................I don't think so, but he would have made it all about a yea/nay gay issue. I say go for it leave if you’re not comfortable with the interview. He got his desired result people are talking about his show and that was no doubt all he wanted, he didn't ask because he is championing the cause
I can't believe she called Piers rude, he is one of the few interviewers I watch because he is always respectfu, calm and allows the interviewee to answer the question. Unlike some who ask then interrupt and yell and state their opinions instead. Keep up the good work Piers. There are too few like you. You and Don Leamon keep me coming back to watch interviews!
Keepyourotherjob
It would seem just a matter of time before CNN's ratings slouch below those of Microsoft-NBC.
LA Bevilacqua
Obviously she is trying to sell her book rather than engage with a professional journalist who was trying to conduct an interview.
Doug, invite me as a "guest" to a dinner party of yours and belabour a question or topic I don't want to talk about and ask you not to talk about , and I will leave. If you compare Morgan's conduct between "guests" he kisses the backsides of and those he labels fair game . I do label that behaviour as bullying and on camera to make him look benign and his guest look like the problem. It is grotesque and why we tolerate this from being we have granted the spotlight is beyond me.
The for profit, so called "news" has gone so far of course trying to be entertaining and competing with Hollywood and tabloids .
The gay issue is big because it's an issue of discrimination. And a government that covets this because of religion, which if there was only one religion and everyone was a part of would make sense. If she (the Tea Party) can't answer a simple question (stand up for your beliefs), and this is an example of the political course, then this country will only deteriorate further.
Debbie M
Whey is he called a 'host' and his interviewee a 'guest'?
Seems more appropriate to refer to his ilk as 'perps' and the guest as 'victims'.
Daysi
She wasn’t professional not unswerving the question, is clear that she felt offensive and very emotional with a topic that is in the interest of the American people. I understand she can be a conservative person but not ignorant in avoiding a question about gay people, who are American too. She needs to learn to answer all questions…She is a public person, unfortunately without self-identification.
Bill McLane
I don't think Morgan was rude nor do I think O'Donell was offended. What I think happened here was O'Donell decided to walk off the CNN program long before she arrived on the set so she would have something to whine about when she appears on Fox programs.
Stephen in VA
This whole thing was planned, I'd bet. Had O'Donnell just completed the interview, it would have gone down to something that was only watched by fans of either Morgan or her. When she walked out, she elevated this to the level of gossipy news, which brings her and her book to greater attention–positive, negative, doesn't matter; it's all book sales. Harry Potter sold very poorly until the Baptists started burning the books. No such thing as bad publicity, they say.
You were totally awesome in the Christine O'Donnel interview. I loved it.
The whole event's another example of Tea Party childishness. The whole "If I can't control the situation then I quit" standard of behavior. It's their standard of behavior – assuming they speak for all Americans and speaking over everyone in a bullying manner. It's all so Talibanish, the way they want to control the world.
What is wrong with you people? Piers stuck to the facts with O'Donnell. O'Donnell was so evasive it was totally funny. Piers cannot help it if O'Donnell wishes to look like an idiot. O'Donnell did not want to answer the questions because she's not a candidate for office, it is too funny, what a lame excuse.
O'Donnell, who are you? Quit hiding behind the facade.
For me it's not about Christine, she's not too bright, it's not about CNN, democratic leaning, Fox News, republican leaning, or even about dinner parties.
It's about Piece. He's rude on his show and on other shows. I wish CNN would find a replacement for him. Having Piece as Larry King's replacement is, for me, terrible.
I do watch the show sometime, though not as often as I did with Larry King, because I’m interested in the people he is interviewing. But he’s always a distraction, intrudes too much, doesn’t lead the conversation well, humiliates guests, etc. He’s rude and should be replaced.
Too funny, it won't be long before O'Donnell starts talking about Gays and withcraft, OFF the air. She will show her true self away from the cameras.
He will never have the skill of a Larry King. Not many would. But CNN could find someone that wasn't as tabliod or white-trashy as Pierce.
I'm sick to death hearing about "gay rights." I'm glad she chose not to answer Pierce question. She isn't a politician and I'm not interested in her personal thoughts on the matter. If Pierce wanted clarification on a statement in her book regarding gay rights he should have quoted it from the book with the page number it could be found on. It was a bad interview and personally he came off unprofessional.
I watch Piers on AGT and Piers Morgan Tonight. I love his dry British sarcasm,Ms. O'Donnel should have answered the questions. But Piers i take offense to the comment you made "Christine O'Donnell, making America great again." I can't think of why you would have said that! What did that statement have to do with anything? The majority of politicians including the President (not just President Obama) is not what makes America great, they have proven time and again that they are interested in serving themselves and their projects not the people of America. The unwielding spirit of the American people is what makes America great! I'm glad she left the show, I would much rather listen to you and Penn Jillette.
Everyone knows that tea partiers do not support anyone different and that dont share their same views.
Michelle B's only response NOW because before she announced she was running for President was an avid speaker against Gays and DADT, now her "standard" response is "Im not here to judge, Im here running for President" and over and over again when asked the Gay question, this is her response but Michelle, we have the footage! lol. lets go to the video tapeS.
Ask every guest you have this exact same question (politician or not) and then you can say that you treat everyone fairly. Until then it is just a fake news show trying to get ratings.
I agree with O'Donnell. I'm done with Piers and CNN.
sue gettings
I am glad she walked off, she is a idiot, she cant even answer the question.
I fully agree.
The Christine lady doesn't seem the sharpest but what Pierce did was rude. That's not an interview. That's attacking. I want to see interviews and learn about the guests. I can make up my own mind aboiut what I think about the guest. I don't care to see guests attacked and directed into 'Gatcha Interviews'.
i fisher
I used to enjoy Piers Morgan, but i will never watch his show again. He invited Christine O'donnel on to attack her. IT WAS SO OBVIOUS. SHE WAS A LADY, SHE ADMITTED HER MISTAKES. TO SHOW HER AD AND TELL HER IT WAS CREEPY, IS JUST BAD MANNERS. I AM ENGLISH, AND I WAS ASHAMED OF MY COUNTRYMAN. IF THAT WAS KIM KARDASHIAN HE WOULD BE SO SWARMY AND NEVER DO THAT TO HER. HE IS A STAR WORSHIPPER. IT WAS AN OBVIOUS SET UP. SHAME ON THE PRODUCERS! LARRY KING WOULD NEVER DO THAT!
TruthAddict
That's really not a fair fight – Piers versus The Witch. Piers handled that situation like a true professional. I was skeptical when it was announced that he would be Larry's King successor, but Piers has proven to be the best interviewer in the industry.
Darlene Davis
Way to go, Piers! You were a gentleman with Christine O'Donnell. She was TOTALLY out of line, and made herself look completely inept!
Piers was a little rude... And a little stupid for interviewing this twit. The Tea Party people and Glen Beck's, Ann Coulter's, etc. are the Alice Cooper's, Rob Zombie's, Howard Stern's, Steve Dahl's, Jerry Springer's, and Ozzy Osbourne's of the 2010's. They're getting rich on shock. Alice, Rob, Howard, etc. were/are harmless because they didn't form policy, yet the Tea Party types claimed they eroded social values. The Tea Partiers are dangerous, however, given the policies they claim to support threaten our First Amendment right to freedom of religion, the funding of our schools, and virtually all other government funded social programs. To continue giving the Tea Party fruit cakes a voice is irresponsible. Find some other people to interview; some educated people with viable solutions. Turn off the shock politicians.
She's so pathetic !!!
She is a coward, and the road has just one way, that's why she wrote on the book, but doesn't talk about it.the way that talks what she wants without discussing about it! Bottom line coward!
Bgram
Just another liberal playing the "gay" card to bash a conservative. Why is it okay? Why is "gay" in our face every where we turn? "Hey, I am straight and I am gonna make a big deal about it". Really, nobody cares! Get over yourselves. When are we going to have a "Straight Pride" parade?
Bottom line is if you are in the public spotlight you need to expect to answer questions (controversial and not). If you are a politician, then you are absolutely should be interviewed with further scrutiny, especially if you have strong stances on controversial subjects. Gay marriage is a major issue for many (not me personally) and politicians who refuse to answer questbions on stances such as these should be hit with major criticism. This goes for Chris Christie who refuses to answer if he believe in evolution, Herman Cain who refuses to provide a straight answer on his views of Muslims and Michelle Bachman on nearly every question she gets asked. Who do these people think they are that they can refuse to answer questions on fundamental social issues and force journalist and the media to only ask what they feel comfortable answering truthfully. It is simply because these people know they will receive backlash on there social views (because there views are backwards) and so they choose to ignore them in order to make political gain.
This is what Americans like me say is what forces us to lose credibility in our so called political leaders. Grow up and answer the questions if you believe so strongly in your views!
Bad kitty no milk tonight
We have found a WITCH may we BURN her????
How do you know she's is a Witch?
Ah, she LOOKS like one!!!!
After viewing the video and reading the comments made by all above, I have to agree that:
"He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was insane."
Justin my good man, check it out, that is just another version of idiot # 2
Which is then saying that in the end, you believe, nobody is smart and thus why the "worldisajoke".
However this creates a paradox for if a self-proclaimed idiot says the rest of the world is all idiots.
What is so wrong with setting parameters and rules to a person whom you are granting an on air interview? And what is so wrong with ending an interview that is being filmed where the person seems to be ben ton making you look badly? I don't really understand people who go on and expose themselves to for profit stations like CNN, but I goes it is the risk individuals take to self promote. So such people really can't cry foul when it goes badly.
These days CNN acts like it's the high court room of public opinion and people are on trial and Morgan and Cooper are some superior appointed authority taking on behalf of the people. They really need to get over themselves. These wealthy highly paid puppets of CNN sure as heck don't represent me or my point of view.
The host, I believe, is free to ask anything he/she chooses. The guest is free to answer any question he/she chooses. If the guest declines to answer or comment on a question, it's time for the host to move on to the next question. There is no point in turning an interview into an ugly Jerry Springer-type confrontation which seems to be Morgan's intent.
The odd thing is, it is a very rare host who would badger a liberal guest as Morgan did O'Donnell. Yet, they never hesitate to badger conservative guests.
This brings to mind the Newt Gingrich vs Chris Wallace confrontation during the recent GOP debate. Conservatives always seem to get "gotcha" questions. Liberals always seem to get "softball" questions.
Again, O'Donnell is not just a guest, she is a ex-politician who has/had influence over policy and law in our country. I find it an obligation for a host interviewing ALL politicians to get straight answers on controversial viewpoints. These socials issues (gay marriage, abortion, civil liberties) are very important to some...some more than others and they must be scrutinized.
I agree that maybe Piers Morgan (who is a liberal) may be more inclined to push these things on a conservative because its a conservatives viewpoint that he may find radical. But, this should be a negative on Piers because a leap and a jump over to Fox you will have the same being done to a Liberal but a conservative host, such as Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, etc. The reason why it may not be so obvious on Fox is because Fox hardly ever brings on Liberal Politican and when they do they instead cut them off ( i.e. Bill O'Reilly).
Regardless of the Hosts political view, all politicians must be asked the controversial issues (regardless if they want to be asked or not) because these views influence lives. My last point is that I strongly feel that Liberal views are less controversial and therefore there is less to scrutinize.
Lee in Chicago
What can you expect someone who ran for the senate and did not know the separation of church and state? She just wanted to sell her book and spread Tea Party ideology.
O'DONNELL IS SUCH AN IDIOT. SHE BELONGS WITH BACHMAN AND PALIN. WHO WOULD BY HER BOOK/
Piers . . . I cannot believe that you think you weren't rude and insulting. Now, I'll be the first to admit that Christine O'Donnell is somewhat ridiculous (as is Palin and Bachmann) but I feel you went to great lengths last night to ridicule and embarrass her. The first round of video clips were of her "witch" moments (both the Bill Mahar Politically Incorrect segment and her political ad responding to it); then you showed a whole series of clips of her as a young girl talking about masturbation. Your final segway to attempt to get her to talk about gay marriage only got you into deeper trouble.
Frankly, it looked to me like you intended to debase and ridicule her . . . and I cannot believe that CNN is supporting you in this behavior. I noticed tonight you had some gentleman join you and reinforce your bad behavior . . . but no response from a serious, intelligent woman.
Sorry, Piers . . . but very poor journalistic style. You should know better! Like I said before, I don't like her or her views but I applaud her for walking away from you last night.
Mr. Morgan created the awkward moment....lost at his own game. Just be the bigger person and let it go. But you are not, and that's why you keep talking about it in an attempt to convince everybody you won when you didn't!!! Sorry bub. You lose. I dare you to show this message on CNN.
L.E. Mental
Good heavens I'm surprised Piers didn't walk out himself having such a duff guest who even as a former politician couldn't string an educated sentence together! She's got the 'ol religulous programming/conditioned 'speak' – it can't answer anything but its own spiel. I'd love to know the text of the speech Ms O'Donnell made to the republican women's dinner afterwierds (sic)... eh Piers? Rah rah rah! Is it? Or Blah blah blah!
I thought it was amusing how they were both trying be nice and still argued. Calm arguing
This is a great example of the Tea Party mentality. You either conform to their demands or they will take their ball and go home. The Republican Party has been hijacked by a bunch of nuts. While I have always been a Democrat, it seems that in the past that when the chips were down for the country both side of the aisle were able to work things out. Not the case with the Tea Party. Give in to their demands or they'll trash the county. I miss Bob Dole and Nutty Newt.
Carrie Prejean and Christine O'Donnell – I don't see the difference.
Haley Powers
It was pretty self serving after she left to put her down and get others to agree with you. Just move on to another topic
Piers you were Not Rude but she was certainly creepy. I was thinking perhaps we are being too hard on her...maybe she was wearing new Running Shoes & wanted to try them out, yeah that's it.
I forgot to mention that we Really Love Piers & his personality.
Come on Piers.........that Mr. Fallows you had reviewing Christine O'Donnell was just a fast talking big blow hard who would never say anything positive about anyone who is not a Democrat like he is. He sounded like a very mean man. Get someone who could give an honest unbiased review and make positive suggestions. You seemed to be a bit flustered yourself...a bit nervous and talking fast after O'Donnell said you were rude. Now, you are just keeping it up. I do have to admit that your piece on famous "walk offs" was funny.
How bloody, rude and seriously in appropriate! Pier Morgan is just like any other liberal. He needs to ask himself alot of those questions. Biggit ass! For real, Why?! So she came clean on alot of subjects in her book! Making her late for another interview was a stunt on his part! So her can take his stab at smearing her name too! Dirty Little bast$#*d! Go back to England!
not only did Morgan cherry pick a panel last night to further attempt shame Christine O'Donnel for choosing to not tolerate his bullying and walk off, but when one of the experts he chose to try and further ridicule Christine O'Donnel started adding some balance to the discussion, and about her action, Morgan interrupted the guy and went to the other person fishing for more agreement that he was right and O'Donnell was wrong.
It is an insecure passive agressive kids like Morgan and Cooper who often end up on TV.
And I am not a fan of O'Donnell, barely know who she is. I just dislike CNN, it's overpaid talking heads, and the way it presents itself as the king of the people's court of opinion, just because it can afford to do so. And that Cooper and morgan reserve the right to hijack and embarrass guests on public television, our air time that we grant them as an audience, at their discretion is offensive to me.
not only did Morgan follow up this incident and cherry pick a panel last night to further attempt shame Christine O'Donnel for choosing to not tolerate his bullying and walk off, but when one of the experts he chose to try and further ridicule Christine O'Donnel started adding some balance to the discussion, and about her action, Morgan interrupted the guy and went to the other person fishing for more agreement that he was right and O'Donnell was wrong.
You will notice, that Morgan is milking this incident, and showing the clip of her walking off over and over but not showing the part where he badgers her for an answer and will not accept her decline to discuss a topic. Watch the whole clip and then watch the clip Morgan is showing over an over. Very clever editing. Silly "news show" Blatantly dishonest.
thomas mc
How DARE he talk about the things she talked about to make a name for herself.
The nerve!
But hey, without hypocrisy, the Tea Party wouldn't have anything to offer except lies, bigotry and hate.
Christine Old' DonKey is stupid period.
I fully agree. I didn't know much about Ms. ODonnell but I thought it might be interesting to hear what she had to say because of all the fuss about her witch ad. But Peirce wasn't going to allow that. He was going to lead her and embarrass her and hit her with 'gotcha questions'.
I don't mean he has to just let her ramble on with anything she wanted to talk about but geeeez, give it a break Peirce.
Larry King was an expert, Peirce is just Tabloid.
And his chest pounding on last night's show was laughable if it wasn't for CNN's power in the media.
what a waste of air having that moron on.
For the most part I agree, though I don't think you should be call Peirce a Moron. He is just not good at his job.
She would sooo get it.
I was watching the show and I thought that she was being subjected to an easy interview. The interview standard was well below the level of say Jesse Ventura, who was also been the show regarding his promotion of a product/show. Ms O'Donnell was there to promote a book called "Troublemaker" I believe. Well if thats the extent of her troublemaking, then the public and notably the US Senate were spared her rather limited talent and even more limited intellect.
Well done Mr Morgan, but tell me: whats it like to interview an ornate lampshade with the light bulb burned out? It seems that's all Ms O'Donnell has to offer as a guest.
Absolutely rude of Peirs. He showed himself to be a jerk. O'Donnell had set the terms for the interview and he persisted into an area she had said was out of bounds for that interview. If he didn't like the terms of the interview, he shouldn't have given the interview – that was his choice. He violated the terms and got dished. Bravo for O'Donnell standing up for what had been agreed on and not being bullied into rude interview tactics! And then Peirs acting like the wounded one! What a cry baby! What an idiot.
Jim Rickards
Having lived in Delaware many years I supported Christine's run and success in defeating a renown liberal republican senator. However while campaigning for the election she appeared to misspeak time and again. So here again she chooses to appear on a left wing talk show that she should have realized only invited her in order to embarrass and belittle her. I love and support you Christine but you just make to many poor decisions.
CNN – Send the blok back to london- WHY DO WE AMERICANS NEED TO HEAR FROM A BRITISH SLOB. NO MATTER HOW UNQUALIFIED she may be - We do not need this man coming into our living room each day..
CNN 'The most trusted name in News' has just been busted by this sophisticated muckraker.. THROW HIM OUT – CEP
Rocy
I'm not here to defend O'donnell, but didn't Piers Morgan get into quite a huff a couple of times when asked about the phone hacking scandal?
It is your mistake to have invited her in the first place, WHO IS SHE ?? she doesnt deserve attention, keep your good Job Piers Morgan,
I always had a sense that Christine O'Donnell was unbalanced and this interview solidified that.....
yohanne
I will not vote for her (if she runs in office).
I will not buy nor read her book.
What's that thing, irrelevant? lol.
Know that all issues are relevant. No matter how you decide by yourself, whether they are or they are not.
No, Pierce handled the interview well. It's just that o' donell was a BIG JOKE!
what's the anme of the book? making trouble? lol...
She is definitely not fit to lead america.
Well here's the simple logic:
if you can't handle a simple and single question,
HOW CAN YOU EVER HANDLE a whole lot of them?
Say, if you're in the higher office, you are accountable to those responsibilities
whether you choose them or not.
Because in this case, you do not define them,
the responsibilities define you!
A lot of people describe Pierce as worse,
but the fact is,
she couldn't just stand up to him,
and she had let her emotion ruined it for her, and I say
that's more arrogance in her part than in Pierce' part.
How can you expect a President to act like what she did (if ever she becomes a President).
claryssa correa
I don't understand why the press waist so much time on this girl that we all know stupid...?
She wrote a book that probably someone else wrote it for her... Lets move on!
Another Sara Palin in training.... Talking points all day long. All I have to say is OMG! what an idiot.
I by no means am an O'Donnell fan but Piers Morgan is snide as well as a sensationalist. He programs in the interest of his viewers and is truly not concerned about his guests feelings. Is this okay? Sure, no one actually has
to go on his program. However, when politicians pick and choose exposure they are categorized immediately as cowards. I conclude, on the whole, that those who choose a political career have some sort of personality deficiency to begin with.
Piers – I noticed that a good percentage of people commenting on this blog entry don't support your treatment of Ms. O'Donnell. Why wasn't this point of view represented on your show tonight (Friday)? At some point someone mentioned that yours was a "news" show – where's the balanced reporting in this "news"?
I think you are wrong Morgan in pushing O'Donnell to respond to questions she choses not to answer...You need to respect other people...However! I do enjoy your show...
Nedlip
The question on masturbation was WAY out of line. You're getting to be known as the Great Master-Debater! Let's ask questions that pertain to politics. Not your personal obsession.
@Kay Young: You go on ahead and make an interview show where you only ask people what can safely be considered by everyone watching "public domain" information. Go ahead. You can call it "Stuff you already knew about everybody." Come back and tell us where your ratings end up.
Seriously–c'mon. There is a limit, enforced by the FCC, and within that limit everything is fair game. If a visitor is sensitive to, as you bring up, her dress size, to the point that she will run scared if asked, then she probably shouldn't agree to be interviewed on TV.
REMEMBER SHE WAS THE WITCH..SO CHARLIES ANGELS ARE COMPLETE THE PINUP GIRL (PALIN) THE IDIOT (MICHELLE) AND THE WITCH... I CAN SEE CHARLIE FROM MY HOUSE
Bernice Caprini
I am no admirer of Christene O'Donnell but there was othing bizarre about her walk off of Piers Morgan's program. He is downright rude and I will not watch his program any more. Yes, he kept up the talk about lust, masturbation, etc. to the point that it was disgusting.
I'm no fan of Ms. O'Donnell, but I have to say that Piers was beyond rude in this interview. With most guests he’ll bring up embarrassing episodes from their past and then allow the person some dignity by moving on to other subjects. Why in this case did he need to air three embarrassing video clips, followed by an unrelenting series of questions that Ms. O’Donnell was clearly uncomfortable with? If after 3+ refusals to answer a question on gay marriage, doesn’t he think we’re intelligent enough to guess what her opinion is on the subject? Extremely unprofessional Piers!
Jan Chisholm
I am not a fan of the lady, but I do think since she is not a candidate Piers Morgan was acting like a spoiled child. I will no longer watch him, since he is such a bully and I have had the reaction on American Has Talent. He could let people down gently, but he always goes for the throat. Regarding Piers Morgon interview I thought it pathetic that he had to have only people who agreed with his handling of the interview...PATHETIC...
You Tea Partyer's are crazy as hell! You want to bash everybody else, but can't answer a simple question. She's stupid, and I can't believe anyone would by her book...why should we listen to her. You idiots will follow the dumbest people.
You said the Tea Partyer's want to bash everyone else.
But you call them 'crazy' and 'idiots' then said 'she's stupid'. You are bashing too.
We don't need to attack each other and we don't need rude interviews to learn about people. Peirs' predecessor, Larry King, didn't do that. He was such a pro that if his guests wanted to be dumb he created a enviroment that allowed it without tabliod rudeness.
The Tea Party has gotte away with behaving badly with its "gutter" politics and no one is saying anything. This country right now is NOT having an intelligent political dialogue. The crazies "aka" Tea party idiots are singing the loudest and those that are supporting them will follow that sad tune over the cliff. STUPID!
I love cnn but I will never watch ANY story by piers morgan again. He is sleazy and has a nasty mouth/ mind. He is like those gossip magazines and I see lots of people like that stuff..so, good luck but I hope cnn gets rid of you. You make the quality of programming in this news channel sink into the gutter along with Nancy Grace....bye
JusBidniss
I want Piers to invite Bill Clinton on the show to talk about a book covering a wide range of topics, and then pester him to death with Monica Lewinsky questions. Does he still see her? When did he last speak with her? Did he ever find out the definition of "is"? Does he still enjoy the occasional intern-marinated cigar? Don't cover ANY of the serious political topics Clinton THOUGHT he came on to discuss. Run the Lewinsky thing absolutely into the ground. Lure him on by making him think he's going to be treated seriously, then 'cartoon him up', real good!
When Piers does THAT to Clinton, THEN he and the rest of his liberal cohorts can talk about Christine O'Donnell.
Oh, wait a minute! They would NEVER do that, would they? After all, Bill Clinton's neither a conservative, nor a woman!
As a fairly popular President no one would put up with that sort of treatment of him.
But Ms. O'Donnell doesn't have the reputation that demands that sort of respect.
But to have Piers use that as an excuse to be so rude is just sort of trashy and tabliod. CNN should consider doing better.
Emma Hatchell
O'Donnell's expectation for the press to be a promotional tool for herself is a direct challenge to our right to political transparency. The press is there to probe and to supervise, not to serve the personal interest of any politician. This is the way things go in the U.S. – a democratic and civilized country. Sober up, O'Donnell, you are not in a country where politicians control the news agencies!
To add to my previous comment. Isn't it people like O'Donnel who are always claimaing that Gays are asking for "special rights". Talk about special rights. O'Donnel seems to think that she alone should be treated differently than anyone else on an interview show. Perhaps it's because she considers herself to be especially annointed.
Why do we have to watch a commercial for every single video clip? I understand the necessity of advertising, but for each 30sec to 60sec video clip? Ridiculous.
Piers Morgan is arrogant and rude. He is like a feral cowardly yellow dog that will only attack those he perceives as weaker than himself or if he thinks he can get away with a few nasty spiteful nips at the ankles. I'm amazed that there aren't people walking of his show every day, or at the very least cancelling their interviews!
Shame on CNN!
"The British are coming." At least Piers Morgan has arrived to fill in CNN valuable time slot. Morgan's show tends to push celebrities, at times, his show has a good interview once in awhile. This was one of those times on air. I am glad Christine Odonnell walked off the show. Morgan can be a notoriously rude person. She is one American to stand up to the British onslaught. I thought English people were suppose to be polite. Morgan went to far with Christine Odonnell. Morgan has the charm of Attilla the Hun attacking Romans. Odonnell was right to walk off his show. He was not respectfull at all to Odonnell and I am sure he would not be rude to any of his Hollywood buddies he pushes nightly on his show. Piers has one good quality. He is good at reporting the news, but terrible in interviews, at least this one.
September 7, 2011 at 1:35 am | Report abuse | Reply
LookingAhead
Hi Pierce,
I watched one night an interview with an ex senator or governor (North Carolina or South Carolina I do not remember) and I am wondering how such people can get so much attention. He said that Warren Buffett is not paying 17% taxes as he himself stated but 17% as personal taxes plus 35% corporate taxes for a total of more than 50%. When did the math change in US Senate to add the percentages? Why did not he add the gains? 83% left for personal income and 65% left from corporate gain, for a total of almost 150%? That will be nice to pocket more than you do. He thinks that he can fool everybody to sustain his point or he is silly, because he knew these percentages before the meeting with you and had time to reflect.
If those guys decide US fate I do not have much hope.
September 7, 2011 at 7:21 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Vincent Ternz
Piers Morgan: What is your full name?
Christine O'donnell: It's in the book.
Piers Morgan: Where do you live?
Christine O'donnell: I said it's in the book.
Her book is a very sacred book and don't wanna talk about it.
Classic interview!!!
September 15, 2011 at 5:00 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Jacob Burnside
You're in the wrong business if you cannot answer simple questions Christine!! And you obviously have never seen the way Piers operates LMAO.
February 2, 2012 at 12:51 am | Report abuse | Reply
Piers, the rudeness was on Christine's part, however you played into her trying to navigate squirm out of looking bad. The problem here is not about you, but her. She has high hopes of becoming President. After I saw the way she handling herself in what she appeared to be in a pressured situation, the question kept coming up in mind was" What are you going to do internationally when you are in a tense situation? Are you going to blurt out and say you are rude and walk out. She definitely is not Presidential material, She can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen ". quote from President Truman.
March 30, 2012 at 10:29 pm | Report abuse | Reply
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If you interview me, would not walk off on your show.How can i get on your show to talk on social issues that concern us the poor people.You can call the show the first interview with a poor man.Hear the poor man's story from his side.What do you think? derek
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Ben Shapiro on Jason Collins: "It does not make you a hero to be who you are"
In a week which saw NBA player Jason Collins reveal that he's gay, formally coming out in the issue of Sports Illustrated that's on newsstands now, on Thursday evening "Piers Morgan Live" invited Ben Shapiro to offer his perspective on a story that has generated a great deal of national interest.
Joining Piers Morgan for a face to face interview that came as part of the program's new "The Grill" segment, the author and conservative political pundit took exception to the notion that Collins has achieved hero status:
"Being who you are in 2013 in America is what America is about. It is not heroic to be who you are publicly," said the man who once accused Morgan of dancing "on the graves of dead children." "I'm glad for Jason Collins if he feels that he's going to live a happier life now. But it does not make you a hero to be who you are."
Earlier in the week, as news of Collins homosexuality rippled through locker rooms and board rooms alike, Shapiro took to Twitter to share his stance:
So Jason Collins is a hero because he's gay? Our standard for heroism has dropped quite a bit since Normandy.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 29, 2013
Sitting alongside the host Thursday evening, the editor-at-large for Breitbart.com offered additional examples of people living their lives, denouncing the every day behavior as heroic:
"You're British, and a lot of folks have said you should leave the country, because you're British. You come on here every night, and you speak in a British accent. That doesn't make you a hero, it makes you being who you are. I'm Jewish. I wear a yarmulke on tv," explained Shapiro. "I'm not a hero for wearing a yarmulke."
Watch the clip, and lsiten to the interview as Shapiro comments on the phone call Jason Collins received from President Barack Obama, while Morgan goes on to insist his guest should "come off it."
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Shapiro wears the yarmulke as a visual shield that he tries to hide behind, in order to make horrible and insensitive statements.
May 2, 2013 at 11:17 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Pierce thinks that it is 'history making' that an athlete who is still playing comes out, and Obama calls congrats?? Figures!
Where are the phone calls to the families of the REAL AMERICAN heroes? You know, the ones that gave their lives so that Collins can make millions as he comes out as gay???? Who cares he's gay? But gee, glad to know he used a woman for 8 years. Who knows what he was doing during that time frame. Has he warned her??????????
It's time for Morgan to go. As a democrat, I'm sick of this ass kissing on his show. Something is not right with him.
May 3, 2013 at 7:21 am | Report abuse | Reply
Mister Peebles
It was notable because he was the first active male pro athlete to come out. That takes courage.
Your definition of heroism might differ, but the nation isn't necessarily forgetting other heroes because Collins came out recently.
That doesn't mean we've forgotten the sacrifices of others.
May 3, 2013 at 4:07 pm | Report abuse |
or Mrs Clinton saying what does it matter what happen. that four dead Heros are gone where are there calls to there familys,.
May 3, 2013 at 11:09 pm | Report abuse |
shepherdgregory
Dunno where he gets this "WE HATE AMERICA" rubbish from,just sounds rather juvenile and petulant,the play the victim card.Victims?
How about Sandy?What's he got to say about them?ZIP!
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May 5, 2013 at 5:12 pm | Report abuse | Reply
haut123
Shapiro is able to choose his religion. Jason Collins did not choose to be black or gay.
But he can choose to be celibate.
'The hills are alive with celibate cries...'
These Things Take Time – The Smiths.
First off, being Jewish is an ethnicity just as much as it is a religion. If you had just one Jewish grandparent in the 1940s Nazi germany even if you were born christian, you were sent to the concentration camps. Being Jewish is not a choice because it's defined by our persecutors standards. if you are born to a jewish family, even if you try to escape it, people judge. if your last name gives it away- good luck. my mother's house was burned down by anti-semites. the kids in her school use to throw eggs at her house and they'd wake up with swastikas on the door.even if she said "i think im going to convert now!" bigots are bigots. she would always be judged. and why should she have to change her fundamental beliiefs? bottom line- it takes courage for a lot of people to do a lot of things. that's life. but courage isn't necessarily heroism. heroism takes sacrifice for something bigger than oneself. being who you are doesnt make you a hero, even if you have to face adversity to do it.
March 9, 2014 at 4:28 am | Report abuse | Reply
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Shapiro says Piers Morgan should be deported for your stance on gun control. Wait a minute! Isn't he along with the Republican party on the puppet strings of RUPERT MURDOCK and ROGER AILES thru the "front" called FOX NEWS, that are the ones who should be deported or brought upon charges of subversive propaganda. Bet he never looked up the lives history of his "puppeteer" Rupert Murdock?
Fox:currently demonizing Muslims everywhere.Shouldn't be allowed.
brasstacs
Perhaps Morgan should do what the liberals do on MSNBC and not have any opposing views...Morgan got his a$$'S kicked good by Ferguson last night and tonight by Ben Shapiro.
May 3, 2013 at 12:11 am | Report abuse | Reply
That's because Morgan will defend anything. This is how much integrity this phony monkey has:
"Morgan was sacked as editor of the Mirror on 14 May 2004 over the Mirror publishing faked photographs of alleged Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers." Now all you defenders can hang you head in shame. This guy has no firm beliefs...he is a showman, that is all.....NO substance. Here is a direct quote of his: "There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are. So I'm relying on that, definitely." Guess it is working on all his 'defenders'. How do you like being DUPED????????
Exactly right...Morgan has a "tabloid" mentality with a history of corruption and deceit,and nothing he says should be taken seriously,he's in this only for cheap sensationalism,and nothing else...his rating are at the bottom of the heap,and like the Dailey Mirror he should be escorted from the CNN building.
May 3, 2013 at 9:08 am | Report abuse |
He hardly got beat. Piers expressed an opinion, Shapiro expressed a counter-opinion, with a ton of strawman arguments and false equivalences thrown in.
Whether or not Collins is a "hero" is debatable based on your own opinions. Opinion not being a factual matter, Piers did not loose.
Who Is Ben Shapiro?
Did he accuse Piers of dancing on the graves of Sandy Hook kids?[USA 19;UK 1 deaths;retrieving from file...].
Didn't America do that by not passing A SINGLE LAW?
Does Mrs Shapiro dress him?Just another dumb Yank without the class nor finesse of the British.
Ask your women(yum)...
And who are you? Just another dumb @$$ brit I suppose, just like Morgan.
Piersness
Piers Morgan says the tweet was a cheap shot at the basketball player, but the tweet was even directed at Jason Collins at all. It was directed at the people calling him a hero, I'm sure Jason Collins does not think of himself as a hero. Nor should we. So Piers what's the problem.
The problem is Morgan...
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Yes the problem is Pierce Morgan trying to scare Americas for rating... Piers Morgan’s backfiring on him again.
God bless the 2nd Amendment...
Give Us A Kiss
Gotcha TWICE,Jaso!
(Heh-heh...)
Sheriff 6
When is CNN going to get rid of Piers! He's such an American hater that is absolutely misinformed on America. Please let him leave the Country like he promised. Where's Larry King when we need him!
For CNN to get rid of Morgan would mean admitting to a HUGE mistake...something they won't do. It's an integrity issue....the lack of it.
Since when does hating American mean voicing views that many other Americans hold?
Piers' politics are progressive and liberal, but so are the politics of many other Americans. He's not the one guy out of 300 million in the USA with a TV show that NO one agrees with.
Please don't make sweeping generalizations that are not true.
Sherriff 7
Correct your spelling,my good chap,UK#1!
How many Yanks has he got running around at his Imperial beck and call,that's what I wanna know.
Probably about 100(plenty of them,Drones,far too many).
Second Amendment Written For MILITIAS Now Obsolete Whether U Like It Or Not
Depends if you're in the NRA,I s'pose:zoom in on the word on their homepage in their Third Reich/Masonic 1700s
parallel universe stylee...
'Rip it up and start it again...'
Rip It Up – Orange Juice.
Uh huh, and I have a Joe Biden double barrel enema for you
Putinplace
Wow, Piers got it royally handed to him tonight and not knowing what to do tried to offend Ben by misaccusing him and shaking his hand mid discussion. Piers you really showed your professional ineptness tonight.
This was a debate on opinions about cultural issues. Shapiro did not "win" and neither did "Piers".
Shapiro is an opportunist who waits for a chance to say something controversial so he can get air time.
So basically you're just saying he knows how to play Morgan's own game, and he turned loose on Morgan.
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(Where IS she?And Dana?And Steve in Mo?And Tesla?Just you,me and Captain Morgan,Jaso!)
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CNNer
Shapiro is totally right about not calling people heroes for admitting who or what they are. Equal rights for everybody, but lets not blow it out of proportion that President have an urge to call him and congratulate! with what???? what kind of achievement is that? our standards for heroism are really low if that's what it comes down to. Just sad and bordering with ridiculous. And btw, Piers did not have guts to admit that Shapiro's arguments did make sense. All he could articulate was "come off it" (???) what did he even mean by that?
Shapiro made a point but it was gratuitous. Shapiro took advantage of someone's courageous decision to push his own agenda. There were no facts debated here, it was only a matter of opinion.
Shapiro did no such thing. And while I do find that you are correct in stating that Collins' decision was courageous it is a disservice to call him a hero, it muddies the meaning of a truly heroic and selfless action. Amanda Berry is a hero for what she did which is something that is incomparable to Jason Collins coming out.
May 8, 2013 at 11:18 am | Report abuse |
Jason Collins true patriot.....
Piers Morgan does Hate America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shapiro true patriot.....
America's Just A Bit Silly
No he doesn't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FAO Steve.
One of the most bandied around words,isn't it?Society has a need for them,and we're only too quick to nominate the next,it's something the Greeks explored many years ago,and even a story like 'Deid Dugs' by Irvine Welsh['Trainspotting'],dips a toe into that territory–there's another to be declared right about now.(And well done,Amanda Berry.)
John Chisholm
Many americans dont like to hear the truth about guns and the right to bear. Piers tells it like it is. America would be greater if they had the mentality of commonwealth countries from which Piers comes from one of them (United Kingdom). Canada would welcome Piers with open arms (no pun intended).
I love Piers' show and his ability to debate his point of view.
However he is having his ass scorched in this new "Grill" segment.
Take care Piers
Not really scorched. He's fleshing out some outrageous positions that many accept as gospel and challenging them. The "Grill" is a chance to expose hypocrisy, ignorance, and stupidity.
I'll agree on this one point. The Grill has been the only good thing to happen on this show since Larry King left.
Incredulous Of Edinburgh
Jason,was...was that a COMPLIMENT?
(That's not allowed,that AIN'T playing fair...I...I wasn't expecting that...where's my Emergency Oatcakes...)
David Rilstone
Canada would NOT welcome Piers. We do not condone trumping false charges against our brave soldiers in harm's way by doctoring photos, nor does the U.K. - as Piers found out.
Sue Crosby
Last night show is the last one I will ever watch....The remarks that Piers abd Mac Lamont- Hill and the these women made about Mitt R. was so distrdpectful.Mitt has more integrity than these four people together and then more...Shame on Piers for alloowing these remarks on his show..Jason Collins has ever right to be gay who care!!!!!But he is no hero..but he does fit in these people thinking..Cnn is just like msnbc and it is to bad....wont be watching it any more
Good:maybe you could read a book,and practice your spelling 'cos it's dire.
Ges, get off everyone who write a responce. Its way old Shakespere! do you qoute playwights all the time through your day. You dont make any sense! Better refine your English speaking skills...
It's very interesting that Shapiro chose to compare Collins to the soldiers at Normandy. All of the men who risked their lives fighting in WWII were heroes, but why do we single out the soldiers at Normandy? It's because they were the first. They broke ground at the beach, they started the invasion and the liberation of Europe. They were the first Americans to put themselves in the line of fire in Europe during the war. Their bravery and sacrifice made it easier for the troops that followed them into Europe.
I don't think that anyone would seriously say that Jason Collins is as big a hero as a soldier at Normandy. But Jason Collins is considered a hero because he is the first. He isn't risking his life, but he is risking is livelihood. He isn't exposing himself to bullets, but he is exposing himself to the jeering and defamation of people like Shapiro and people far less polite or well-spoken. Because he has done this, it will be easier for the next athlete that comes out, or who is out and wants to join professional sports. They will suffer less jeering, and they will have more opportunities because of him.
Shapiro is not a hero because he isn't the first. He is, in a sense, brave, but it takes a lot less bravery to do what so many have done before (there have been many avowed Jewish people on television before Shapiro), than it does to be the first to do it.
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Obviously where you get your spelling skills,Single Mother...
Deport Piers
Deporting Pearce back to UK, even if you could, is not very nice. After all UK is already on record saying that they don't want him back and we could keep him. If he is to be deported anywhere, it should be Mexico. Mexico has one of the stricter gun control legislations in the world.
Why spell his name two different ways,you nitwit?And Single Mother,you're the WORST and will get the belt
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whom I still love helplessly].
Don't reject me...
NO! Not Mexico! We already have enough trouble with too many illegals. We don't need refugees too!
I say send him to Antarctica, rumor has it they're in need of a TV and radio host.
Jason Is Horrible Once More
Knew it couldn't last,back to business!
ANTARCTICA?'COURSE THERE'S NO-ONE THERE!
Come on,you witless hillbilly–even that madwoman in Bwaston's better than you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sm was horrible to me...
*sniff*
called me a dog last time...*sniff*
Doggie Style...
I'm More Like Robert Burns Than Shakespeare 'Cos I'M A Poet In Edinburgh!
And where the most serious things in our schools are wet footprints;Piers getting a hard time from La Pierre/NRA methinks:next week gonna be interesting.
See ya there.
magaleto
Major-league baseball player Glenn Burke was comfortably out to his teammates and friends in 1976—but back then, it was the press that wasn't ready for a gay male athlete.-Morgan wrong again
Yeah, that's when the press more or less stood on the correct side of decency.
I thought it was out of the realm of possibilities that there could be a more obnoxious human being than Joy Behar. When listening to Piers Morgan, that theory is in doubt.
Well,I can't understand why you all WATCH him:I boycott people all the time!
You're a cynical bunch,Blueberries...(not as bad as Nasty Russia though,and I won't give up on you,and we're going to have a Union Jack/Stars And Stripes lovefest where we'll forgive you for nicking our color scheme)
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I don't know how i feel about this. Both sides are right. I just don't think he is a true hero!I think he is a leader and a role model, but no
hero!The liberal press is making this more then it is.
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Almost 100 Homeless Turned Away From Support Every Day
Lina Caneva
Almost 100 people are being turned away from homeless support services every day in Victoria, according to the state’s peak homelessness body.
The Council to Homeless Persons said that a new State Government report released yesterday revealed that the number of people going without help was growing.
The annual Report on Government Services showed that during the last financial year, 92 Victorians who needed accommodation and other support were turned away from support agencies.
Acting CEO of the Council to Homeless Persons, Sarah Toohey, said the number is an increase from 79 in 2012/13 and follows Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) data which showed that the total number of Victorians seeking help from homelessness services rose eight per cent to nearly 100,000 in the same year.
“It’s hugely distressing as a sector to know that we are forced to turn away nearly 100 people in need every day simply because we don’t have the resources to help them,” Toohey said.
Toohey said the report also revealed that a third of Victorians seeking accommodation last financial year were turned away because of a lack of crisis beds, temporary accommodation and public housing to place them in.
She said the findings underlined the need for the Federal Government to announce the much-anticipated extension of the National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (NPAH), which provides annual funding of $23 million to Victoria and is due to expire on 30 June.
“Every major indicator points to the problem of homelessness worsening, but funding uncertainty means our agencies are fighting the battle with one hand tied behind their back,” Toohey said.
“We have a national funding agreement that is just months away from expiring and a Federal Government that has yet to confirm it will be extended.
“We’re seeing more people knocking on the doors of homelessness agencies, and more people having to be turned away because there just aren’t the resources to help them.”
Toohey said the NPAH funds around 90 Victorian homelessness services to provide programs and services to women and children fleeing family violence, young people leaving state care and families at risk of homelessness.
“Many workers are on contracts that expire when the NPAH funding expires, so by March services will be preparing to make difficult decisions about who stays and who goes,” she said.
“We’re talking about the future of thousands of vulnerable Victorians.”
Lina Caneva | Editor | @ProBonoNews
Lina Caneva has been a journalist for more than 35 years. She was the editor of Pro Bono Australia News from when it was founded in 2000 until 2018.
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Cartoonists in Conversation
April 30, 2018 in Events, General
Jonathan Cusick writes:
A Friday evening talk has traditionally opened the public programme of the Shrewsbury cartoon festival. This year ‘Cartoonists in Conversation’ aimed to give the public an insight into the lives of cartoonists, whose work they would probably be familiar with but know little about the people behind them.
The number of cartoonists gathering in the town (this year there were 30) meant we had a stellar line-up to choose from. Jeremy Banx (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Private Eye) resplendent in his beret, The Surreal McCoy (The Spectator, Reader’s Digest, The Sunday Times), Royston Robertson (Private Eye, Reader’s Digest, The Spectator) and Wilbur Dawbarn (The Beano, Private Eye, The Spectator) were joined by Ken Krimstein (New Yorker, Harvard Business Review) who was over from Chicago and brought an international perspective to the chat. Our host for the evening was BBC radio presenter Alex Lester, a festival patron and cartoon enthusiast.
Line up: Alex Lester, The Surreal McCoy. Royston Roberston, Ken Krimstein, Wilbur Dawbarn & Jeremy Banx. Photo © Gerard Whyman
The discussion covered various aspects of life as a cartoonist, alongside some superb examples of their work. Topics covered included the creation of the work and their workspace, some ‘greatest hits’ over the years, stories of rejection slips, offence, their influences and inspirations, and of course a mention of Trump. After the main panel discussion came questions direct from the audience.
A silhouetted Banx talks about one of his cartoons. Photo © Gerard Whyman
An abominable Royston Robertson cartoon. Photo © Gerard Whyman
An influential cartoon by Bernard Kliban.
We were delighted that the event was a sell-out, and indeed extra chairs were added for latecomers.
Photo © Gerard Whyman
Hearty thanks for the success of the evening go to the cartoonists on the panel, and Alex Lester for all being fabulous. The Wightman Theatre set us up wonderfully and Andy McKeown of WildStrawberry.com’s wonderful projection made the evening such a treat visually.
Tags: Alex Lester, Banx, BBC Radio, cartoon festival, cartoonists, Cartoonists in Conversation, cartoons, FT, Jeremy Banx, Jonathan Cusick, Ken Krimstein, PCO, Private Eye, Procartoonists, Reader's Digest, Royston Robertson, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival, Shrewsbury Cartoon Festival 2018, Shropshire, Sunday Times, The Beano, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Spectator, The Surreal McCoy, Wightman Theatre, Wilbur Dawbarn 2 Comments »
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The Round-up
July 15, 2014 in Events, General, Links, News
© Noel Ford
Kasia Kowalska and Royston Robertson write:
Cartoonists including the PCO members Bill Stott and Noel Ford, above, are involved in the first Southport Festival of Art. More on that here.
An exhibition of Tony Husband’s Private Eye cartoons is on display at The Swan in Dobcross as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival until the end of July.
What a week for Marvel, which hit the headlines by showing that it is not afraid of change, announcing future comics in which Thor becomes a woman (but don’t dare call her Thora!) and Captain America will be black.
The Guardian reports on the response to the conflict in Gaza by cartoonists in the Arab nations, in particular on the lack of action to from their governments.
A death sentence has been pronounced via Twitter for the Kuwati-born comic-book artist Naif Al-Mutawa by the Islamist militant group Isis. Meanwhile, in the UK, a former Islamist extremist has created a series of cartoons aimed at young British Muslims, titled Abdullah-X, writes Jack Simpson in The Independent.
In the US, Bob Mankoff talks about his cartoon editing role at The New Yorker and why it may just be the best job in the world in this interview with Survey Monkey. Garry Trudeau talks to the LA Times about how working on his Doonesbury strip helped him to prepare for his new TV series Alpha House.
© Bob Moran
Bob Moran has an exhibition of cartoons drawn for the Telegraph in his hometown of Petersfield, Hampshire (details above). “This exhibition is generating a lot of hype,” he says on Twitter, “with local people describing it as ‘happening’ and ‘something to do’.”
Dozens of insightful musings about making comics and cartoons have been published by Michael Cavna of The Washington Post in celebration of the 6th birthday of his Comic Riffs column. The art of cartooning is no laughing matter, according to this article about a new exhibition on Martha’s Vineyard in the US.
This week also marks the 81st anniversary of the first film appearance of Popeye. Greg Belfrage provides insight (and several episodes) here. Meawhile, remembering Mel Blanc, who died 25 years ago this month, the Express offers up “Top 10 facts about cartoons”.
Finally, these are very clever and great fun: 15 household objects transformed Into cartoon characters by the French artist Gilbert Legrand.
Tags: Abdullah-X, Alpha House, Arab Israeli conflict, Bill Stott, Bob Mankoff, Bob Moran, Captain America, cartoon exhibitions, Comic Riffs, Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau, Gaza, Gilbert Legrand, Isis, Marvel, Michael Cavna, Nail Al-Mutawa, Noel Ford, Palestine, Popeye, Private Eye, Southport Festival of Art, The New Yorker, Thor, Thor becomes a woman, Tony Husband No Comments »
April 24, 2014 in Events, General, Links, News
Cartoon © Graeme Keyes
The BBC has been looking at how political cartoonists in Northern Ireland coped with covering the Troubles. You can read the article and see an episode of BBC Northern Ireland’s The Arts Show (until 28 April) here.
Meanwhile, in the Republic of Ireland, The Irish Times has apologised for a cartoon about priests by Martyn Turner, calling it “an editorial lapse”. Read more about it and see the offending cartoon here. We ran a profile of Turner in February.
Gerald Scarfe is to judge submissions made by budding cartoonists and illustrators to the Noise Festival. The deadline is 31 May. You can read more on the Noise Festival here, and they have an interview with Scarfe, talking about what he will be looking for, here. Meanwhile, Scarfe has also been talking to The Big Issue.
The New Yorker is widely regarded as the home of sophisticated cartoons and is a hugely competitive market for cartoonists. But Ted Rall is not a fan and argues that it is, in fact, bad for cartooning.
Famous cartoon characters from all over the world have gone bald, in an initiative in Brazil designed to send out the message that a child with cancer deserves to be seen just like any other child: Bald Cartoons.
Finally, you may have heard that British Pathé has put a large chunk of its archive online for free. This will, of course, mean there are some cartoon and comic-related gems, such as this film about the creation of Dan Dare.
Tags: Bald Cartoons, British Pathe, Dan Dare, Garfield, Gerald Scarfe, Graeme Keyes, Martyn Turner, Northern Ireland, Ted Rall, The Irish Times, The New Yorker, the Troubles 2 Comments »
March 23, 2014 in Events, General, Links, News
Clive Goddard draws for Sport Relief at the BBC
Kasia Kowalska writes:
Procartoonists.org member Clive Goddard played his part in the most successful Sport Relief to date when he showed his support for BBC Radio 2 host Jo Whiley during her 26-hour treadmill challenge. He posted more pictures here.
More PCO members are out and about: Ahead of a talk at Hornchurch Library next week, Adrian Teal spoke to a local paper about his book The Gin Lane Gazette and political satire. And next month Martin Rowson is hosting a workshop for The Laurence Sterne Trust.
In anticipation of Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK at the British Library, the artist behind Tank Girl and the band Gorillaz, Jamie Hewlett, has unveiled new artwork for the exhibition poster.
Following the parody-heavy backlash after the recent post on tax cuts by Grant Shapps on Twitter, Pam Cowburn of Open Rights Group bemoans the fact that UK copyright law is no laughing matter when it comes to parody. The planned reforms appear to have been kicked into the long grass due to parliamentary delays.
Bob Mankoff has written a memoir that doubles as a guide for aspiring cartoonists
The memoirs of The New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, went on on sale yesterday in the US (readers in the UK will have to wait until 14 April). How About Never — Is Never Good for You? My Life In Cartoons will become a guide for aspiring cartoonists, according to Janet Maslin of The New York Times.
To coincide with the release of the book, CBS’s 60 Minutes produced a report on Mankoff and the art of choosing cartoons.
The Washington Post caused a furore by publishing a cartoon by Zunar criticising the Malaysian government’s response to the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The Malaysian editorial cartoonist was previously charged for sedition in 2010 for publishing his book of cartoons Cartoon-O-Phobia.
Not every cartoonist has an asteroid named in their honour. 4942 Munroe bears the name of xkcd creator Randall Munroe whose book What If? is due to be published later this year.
The Seattle cartoonist Tatiana Gill has created a collection of comic art to celebrate Women’s History Month. What is that? you may ask. This cartoon by Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette may help (or not!)
Finally, Procartoonists.org members never make mistakes, of course, but just in case, the BBC reports on a pen that spots errors.
Tags: Adrian Teal, Bob Mankoff, Clive Goddard, Comics Unmasked, How About Never Is Never Good For You?, Jamie Hewlett, Jo Whiley, Martin Rowson, Open Rights Grouop, Randall Munroe, Sport Relief, Tatiana Gill, The Gin Lane Gazette, The Laurence Sterne Trust, The New Yorker, xkcd 1 Comment »
February 10, 2014 in Events, General, Links, News
Dave Walker, a Procartoonists member, talks about what makes him tick in a short film by Michal Dzierza, above, called Being A Cartoonist.
If you like to know what makes other people tick, a new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Mel Calman has opened at the Freud Museum in Hampstead, London. Titled Calman meets Freud, it explores the much-loved cartoonist’s interest in psychiatry and mental health.
Andy Davey has put his recent lecture on the future of political cartooning, which we previewed here, on his website “in windbaggy blog form” (his words, not ours).
Though they may not always admit it, cartoonists are often inspired by other cartoonists. Michael Maslin wanted to know what cartoon collections inspired his colleagues at The New Yorker. He calls these collections “Cartoon Bibles”.
Passion – even for cartoons – is not everything: Scott Adams, the man behind Dilbert, ponders the virtues of failure in this video interview. He has succeeded in writing a book about failure, above.
Sometimes even the most creative ventures fail, as the DrawQuest founder Chris Poole found out.
Yet some cartoons are destined for success. It has been 25 years since The Simpsons broke the mould and made social satire a household name. To celebrate, Lego has teamed up with Fox to re-create them as its iconic figures. Keeping with the celebratory spirit, the cartoonist and animator David Silverman has published early Simpsons drawings on Twitter.
Bill Watterson made the news by winning the Grand Prix at 41st Angouleme Festival in France for his timeless strip Calvin and Hobbes. Also, the 30th Aydın Doğan International Cartoon Competition in Turkey announced its winners, with the top prize going to a Polish cartoonist, Krzysztof Grzondziel.
One cartoonist who may be certain that such recognition will not present itself in his own country is Bonil of Ecuador. Following a press watchdog’s ruling that he had insulted Rafael Correa, the president, the newspaper El Universo was forced to publish a suitable “correction” from the cartoonist.
Tags: Andy Davey, Angouleme Festival, Aydin Dogan International cartoon Competition, Bill Watterson, Bonil, Calman Meets Freud, Chris poole, Dave Walker, David Silverman, Dilbert, DrawQuest, Freud Museum, How to Fail at Almost Everything, Krzysztof Grzondziel, Mel Calman, Michael Maslin, Scott Adams, The New Yorker, The Simpsons, UK professional cartoonists 4 Comments »
by Rob Murray
November 10, 2013 in General, Links, News
© Mike Williams @Procartoonists.org
In the wake of recent disappointing decisions elsewhere in the mainstream press, it’s encouraging to see cartoons being celebrated this week in a major newspaper. The Independent is the latest to provide coverage of Private Eye’s new retrospective cartoon book, and PCO members feature prominently in the article, which includes quotes from Nick Newman and is accompanied by classic gags from Ken Pyne and Mike Williams (above), among others. Read the article here.
Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker’s cartoon editor, reveals the exhaustive lengths he and his staff go to in order to ensure cartoons used by the magazine bear no similarity to ones already used.
The latest Asterix book – and the first without co-creator Albert Uderzo wielding the pen – has launched to strong sales. Meanwhile, on this side of the Channel, Stephen Collins has received a nomination for his graphic novel, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, for this year’s Waterstones Book of the Year. Hear from Collins and fellow strip cartoonist Tom Gauld in this video from the Edinburgh Book Festival.
Comic strips, of course, are nothing new – but cartoonists are always finding new ways to approach them.
Tags: Albert Uderzo, asterix, Bayeaux Tapestry, Bob Mankoff, comic strips, Ken Pyne, Mike Williams, Nick Newman, PCO, Private Eye, Procartoonists.org, Stephen Collins, The New Yorker, Tom Gauld 1 Comment »
August 11, 2013 in Events, General, Links, News
© Kipper Williams @Procartoonists.org
Above: with the Duchamp in Herne Bay festivities now behind us, there’s just room for this cartoon by Kipper Williams – featuring the names of participating cartoonists, many of whom are among our membership. The original is hanging in a gallery space in the Kent seaside town, as part of an exhibition of art cartoons to tie in with the celebrations.
Alexander Matthews, a cartoonist for The Beano and member of Procartoonists.org, has started a campaign to improve the quality of children’s comics by making them more reliant on great content and less on cover-mounted freebies. He is suggesting a change to the way in which free gifts are treated under VAT rules, and is seeking support for the campaign – which he believes would benefit comic fans and cash-strapped parents alike. Read more on Alex’s blog.
Another PCO member, Tony Husband, has had cartoons about his father’s dementia tweeted to millions, courtesy of Stephen Fry. See the cartoons here, here and here. Fry also wrote the introduction for I Nearly Died Laughing, a collection of Tony’s gag cartoons that was published last year.
Looking ahead to October, Sue Grayson Ford of The Campaign for Drawing writes about what to expect from this year’s Big Draw, and how to take part.
In an interview for Truthout, political cartoonist Matt Bors discusses his influences, the dangers of on-spec work, and the value of comics journalism. Read it here.
And finally, The New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff looks at what is often considered to be one of the hardest forms of cartoon to master: the captionless gag.
Tags: Alexander Matthews, Bob Mankoff, captionless cartoons, comics, Duchamp in Herne Bay, Kipper Williams, Matt Bors, PCO, Procartoonists.org, Stephen Fry, Sue Grayson Ford, The Big Draw, The Campaign for Drawing, The New Yorker, Tony Husband 2 Comments »
June 21, 2013 in General, Links, News
Tim Harries (right) signs one of his cartoon collections @Procartoonists.org
Tim Harries, a member of Procartoonists.org and creator of the long-running comic strip Never Say Dai, was special guest at a cartooning and comic book fair in Newport last Saturday. Read more about the event here.
Two recently posted video clips see New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee discussing the element of design in gag cartoons, and the need to overcome rejection and generate ideas. Shortly after his presentation, Diffee also sat down for an interview with Forbes.
Head over to BBC iPlayer to learn more about the history and longevity of that notorious subversive, Mr Punch, in a half-hour programme from Radio 4 Extra.
A one-minute anti-war animation one-minute has been rediscovered, in which (an unauthorised) Mickey Mouse meets his fate in Vietnam. Watch the cartoon and read more at Cartoon Brew.
Finally, a pair of broadcast experts – veterans of Aardman Animations and the BBC – are looking to invest in new creative ideas. Read more here.
That’s the way to do it – Ed.
Tags: Aardman, Cartoon Brew, Matthew Diffee, Mickey Mouse, Mr Punch, Never Say Dai, PCO, Procartoonists.org, Punch and Judy, The New Yorker, Tim Harries 3 Comments »
June 1, 2013 in Events, General, Links, News
© The Surreal McCoy @Procartoonists.org
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly has curated an exhibition of work by international cartoonists on the subject of women’s rights – including the cartoon above by one of our members, The Surreal McCoy. Donnelly explains the project here.
Speaking at this year’s Hay Festival, Sir Quentin Blake has said that illustrations are vital in getting young children onto the path of reading for enjoyment. Read his argument here.
In July, Brighton will play host to an unusual conference that spans both comics and healthcare. downthetubes has more.
Across two blog posts, New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff publishes imaginary inventions, as devised by his cartoonists. Explore them in Part 1 and Part 2.
Finally, comics expert Paul Gravett reports on Sequential, a new app for the iPad that is making graphic novels accessible in digital format – including, in the first round of releases, the recently-launched compendium of work by Procartoonists.org member Hunt Emerson. Read Gravett’s article for more information.
Tags: Bob Mankoff, Huint Emerson, Liza Donnelly, Paul Gravett, PCO, Procartoonists.org, Quentin Blake, Sequential, The New Yorker, The Surreal McCoy No Comments »
February 8, 2013 in General, Links, News
© Kevin Siers for The Charlotte Observer @Procartoonists.org
Kevin Siers, editorial cartoonist for The Charlotte Observer, has found his name on a list of hostiles kept by the National Rifle Association. Read Siers’ response here.
Mike Lynch tells an amusing story – through the medium of cartoons, naturally – about his early attempts to sell gags to that most notoriously esoteric of markets, The New Yorker. Read The Petty Indignities That Ruin My Life here.
Elsewhere, New Yorker cartoonists have been trying out an Etch A Sketch app – with decidedly mixed results. The experiment was so disastrous for Mick Stevens that it resulted in him speaking out against all forms of digital drawing. Read more, and see their attempts, here.
Lafayette, Louisiana newspaper The Advertiser provides a full and comprehensive answer to a reader’s question about how political cartoons are selected (be sure to click through to page 2 for the full response).
And finally, for those with an interest in animation, Complex.com has compiled a list of 25 cartoons that aren’t for children.
Tags: Kevin Siers, Mick Stevens, Mike Lynch, NRA, PCO, political cartoons, Procartoonists.org, The New Yorker 2 Comments »
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A&O Network Submits Letter to Congress Opposing Asset Tests in SNAP
Last week, the House Agricultural Committee released a farm bill proposal that would cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamps) by more than $16 billion over a decade. Approximately 70% of the savings would come from eliminating Broad Based Categorical Eligibility, which allows states to set their own or waive the assets test. To date, 37 states have eliminated their SNAP asset tests; the proposed farm bill would force all of these states to reinstate the asset tests.
Asset tests are detrimental to long-term financial stability for low-income families. If a family has assets over the state's limit ($2,000 in most cases), it must "spend down" longer-term savings in order to receive what is often short-term public assistance. Personal savings and assets are precisely the kind of resources that allow families to move off of public benefit programs.
Yesterday, the Assets & Opportunity Network — a national coalition of state and local service providers, advocates, financial institutions, researchers and policymakers working to break the cycle of poverty and create economic opportunity through asset-based strategies — submitted a letter urging the House Agricultural Committee to oppose the proposed Farm Bill. Eighty-one organizations in the A&O Network signed the letter, demonstrating the assets field's overwhelming opposition to the proposal. Click here to read the letter.
Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) offered an amendment to maintain Categorical Eligibility and keep SNAP funded at current levels. The Agriculture Committee voted against it with a 15-31 margin. Representative Larry Kissel (D-NC) offered an amendment that would have matched the smaller cuts in the Senate version of the legislation (which maintains Categorical Eligibility), but it was also defeated. After considering more than 90 amendments, the Committee approved the Farm Bill in a 35-11 vote. It will now be considered by the full House of Representatives, likely before Congress adjourns in August.
The following 81 organizations are listed below.
AAA Fair Credit Foundation (UT)
Action for Children North Carolina (NC)
Alabama Asset Building Coalition (AL)
Alachua County Nutrition Alliance (FL)
Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry (FL)
Alameda County Community Asset Network (CA)
Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance (AR)
Atlanta Community Food Bank (GA)
Atlanta Prosperity Campaign (GA)
Baltimore CASH (MD)
California Asset Building Coalition (CA)
Catalyst Miami (FL)
Center for Asset Building Opportunities (CA)
Center for Public Policy Priorities (TX)
Clara White Mission (FL)
Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi (MS)
Community Action Kentucky (KY)
Community Economic Development Association of Michigan (MI)
Community Empowerment Fund (NC)
Community Financial Resources (CA)
Connecticut Voices for Children (CT)
Corporation for Enterprise Development (DC)
Crittenton Women's Union (MA)
Delaware Housing Coalition (DE)
DelcoAD (PA)
East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (CA)
Florida Prosperity Partnership (FL)
Georgia Food Bank Association (GA)
Guilford County Homeownership Center (NC)
Hawaii Alliance for Community Based Economic Development (HI)
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights (IL)
HOPE Projects Community Action Council (NC)
HOPE Enterprise Corporation (MS)
Illinois Asset Building Group (IL)
Indiana Institute for Working Families (IN)
ISED Ventures (IA)
Just Harvest: A Center for Action Against Hunger (PA)
Kalamazoo County Poverty Reduction Initiative (MI)
Kanawha Institute for Social Research & Action, Inc. (WV)
KC Cash Coalition, Inc. (MO)
Kentucky Equal Justice Center (KY)
Kentucky Youth Advocates (KY)
Legal Services Advocacy Project (MN)
Maryland CASH (MD)
Maryland Cash Match Savings Program (MD)
MDC (NC)
Metropolitan Housing & CDC, Inc. (NC)
Michigan Primary Care Association (MI)
Midas Collaborative (MA)
Mission Asset Fund (CA)
Montgomery County Community Action Board (MD)
New York State Community Action Association, Inc. (NY)
Neighborhood Partnerships (OR)
Neighborhood Improvement Association, Inc. (GA)
North Carolina Housing Coalition (NC)
North Carolina Assets Alliance (NC) North Dakota Economic Security & Prosperity Alliance (ND)
Oklahoma Policy Institute (OK)
Opportunity Fund (CA)
Policy Matters Ohio (OH)
Partners for Prosperity: New Beginnings for Eastern Idaho (ID)
RAISE Kentucky (KY)
RAISE Texas (TX)
Reinvestment Partners (NC)
Rural Dynamics, Inc. (MT)
Sacramento|Yolo Mutual Housing Association (CA)
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law (IL)
Savannah Coastal Empire Asset Development Coalition (GA)
Seattle-King County Asset Building Collaborative (WA)
South Carolina Association of Community Action Partnerships (SC)
Southern Bancorp Community Partners (AR)
Step Up Savannah, Inc. (GA)
The Collaborative (NC)
United Way of Coastal Bend (TX)
United Way of Greater Kansas City (MO)
United Way of Marion County (FL)
United Way of North Central Florida (FL)
United Way of Northeast Florida (FL)
United Way Suncoast (FL)
Voices for Children for Nebraska (NE)
Woodstock Institute (IL)
YWCA Delaware (DE)
New House Bill Would Fund Manufactured Housing Community Preservation
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Announcing the Release of the Housing Pathways Proposal - Coming Home: Providing a Pathway to Housing for All
There is a housing affordability crisis in this country. Within the last several decades, the amount of money spent on...
Congress Should Improve Tax Supports for Low-Income Families, Not Just for Businesses
As Congress works to pass a government funding package for fiscal year 2020, Senators are looking to add legislation that...
A First Step Towards Eliminating Savings Penalties
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Mueller Investigation,Trump and Obamacare, Medicaid Work Requirements
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Jay and Mike open the show with a discussion of what we currently know about the recently ended Mueller investigation. Jay says there was ‘no collusion’ while Mike points out that there was ‘not enough evidence to prove collusion’ which he sees as an important distinction. They also discuss why Mueller refrained from making a determination about obstruction of justice and what’s next for Democrats intent on continuing their investigations into President Trump.
After that is a look at the administration’s recent change of position on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. Previously, they stated that while the individual mandate was unconstitutional, the rest of the law could stand (not that they were enthusiastic about it). This change of position seems to be both constitutionally questionable and a potential political problem for Congressional Republicans. However, viewed in light of what’s good for President Trump, Jay believes the change of position may make good political sense.
Finally, the Guys discuss a federal judge halting Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and Kentucky. Mike argues that the administration overstepped when it granted the work requirements waivers which he believes amounted to the executive branch rewriting a law it didn’t like. Jay counters that work requirements are related to health outcomes, and that the programs should be allowed to continue.
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Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 30, 2019 Categories PodcastLeave a comment on Mueller Investigation,Trump and Obamacare, Medicaid Work Requirements
Brexit and the Electoral College
Trey & Ken start the show this week breaking from the normal format and discussing a topic that does not cover “American politics and policy” directly. Instead the pair discuss Brexit. After talking about the complex potential outcomes of Brexit and the looming hard deadline the pair turn to discus the idea of nationalism more broadly.
Trey begins by suggesting nationalism is the underlying cause of Brexit. Ken sees nationalism as inherently racist. Trey, a supporter of open borders at home, cautions that nationalism is a more important variable than he has given credit. He sees a credible argument against his own position for open borders and wonders if the two of them have not missed reasonable pushback.
Trey & Ken close the episode with a listener question. The question concerns what would happen to American presidential elections if electoral college votes were given out on the basis of proportional representation instead of winner take all. Both Trey & Ken have slightly different views but agree that any of these changes depend on how much you value democratic majoritarianism vs. republicanism’s fear of majorities.
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 27, 2019 March 23, 2019 Categories PodcastLeave a comment on Brexit and the Electoral College
DC vs. Donald Trump, Free Speech on College Campuses, Economics and Elections, The Democratic Primary Field
Trey & Ken start the show by discussing the novel constitutional law case District of Columbia v. Donald J. Trump. The question in the case concerns an antiquated word, emolument, found in only three places in the constitution. The question pivots on if foreign and domestic entities are involving themselves with Trump properties to get a better reception from President Trump. Ken thinks the case is relatively straightforward, but Trey wonders how much the Supreme Court would want to involve itself in a potentially ignorable decision.
After that, they talk about President Trump’s executive order concerning free speech on college campus. Trey & Ken learn they are both supporters and members of the same free speech organization and are happy with the principles laid out in the order. The order itself, however, seems to do nothing that isn’t already taking place on college campuses. Trey suggests it is more of a position stance than a policy stance.
Then it’s time to discuss the economy. Recent economic conditions are showing a deeply healthy economy. The only cloud being the ballooning federal deficit. Trey & Ken have a bit of disagreement over the causes of this good news. Then the two discuss the economic models that suggest that President Trump would easily win reelection in this climate. Trey & Ken talk political vs. economic forecast models and debate the extent to which minimum wage increases explain weekly worker wage growth.
Trey & Ken close the show by talking about the robust Democratic primary field. Ken discusses his top three candidates while Trey ponders if Booker has not been given his due. Trey thinks Democrats have a tougher general election regardless of the winner given the current economic conditions and Ken is worried his predictions are too early to matter.
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 23, 2019 Categories PodcastLeave a comment on DC vs. Donald Trump, Free Speech on College Campuses, Economics and Elections, The Democratic Primary Field
Anti-Trump Conspiracy, Online Media, Late-Term Abortions, Is Mike Naive on Immigration?
In this listener response episode, Mike and Kristin address these listener questions:
In the light of recently released testimony, can we conclude that elements in the intelligence community worked to sabotage Donald Trump?
Is online media transparent enough about changing stories?
Is opposition to the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act tantamount to support for infanticide?
Is Mike being naive about border security?
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 20, 2019 March 18, 2019 Categories PodcastLeave a comment on Anti-Trump Conspiracy, Online Media, Late-Term Abortions, Is Mike Naive on Immigration?
Trump Vetoes ‘No Emergency’ Resolution, Boeing & the FAA, Trump’s Budget, Beto’s In, College Admissions Scandal
Mike & Kristin start the show by discussing the Senate’s vote to rescind the national emergency declared by President Trump, and Trump’s veto of the Congressional resolution. They agree that there’s little chance the veto will be overridden, but it’s still likely to be a long time before any more walls get built given all the legal hurdles the administration will have to overcome.
After that, they talk about why the U.S. trailed the rest of the world in grounding the Boeing 737 Max 8 in the wake of the Ethiopian Airlines crash. Mike thinks it may have something to do with Boeing’s political clout in the U.S., which Kristin also sees as a factor. Kristin says that we should be at least somewhat concerned that the world took its cue from China as opposed to the U.S. and that we may need to more carefully consider commercial aircraft regulation.
Then it’s a look at President Trump’s 2020 budget. Like almost all presidential budgets, it’s largely dead on arrival but even so it gives us a sense of what the administration’s priorities are – in this case defense and walls. Kristin argues that this makes sense – President Trump is looking toward 2020 and wants to keep his base supportive and engaged. Mike points out the chicanery the administration engaged in to boost the defense budget and laments what he sees as incredible fiscal irresponsibility of ‘tax cut & borrow’ Republicans.
Next, Mike & Kristin talk about Beto O’Rourke’s entry into the crowded Democratic presidential hopeful field. Kristin doesn’t think much of O’Rourke, but Mike likes his more moderate stances, at least compared to a number of other prominent Democratic candidates. But he thinks O’Rourke isn’t experienced enough and favors former governors like Colorado’s John Hickenlooper.
They close the show by talking about the college admissions scandal. Mike makes the point that this, while troubling, is much less of a problem than the larger system of legal privilege that gives kids from wealthy families a leg up in the admissions process. Kristin agrees, and both Mike & Kristin feel that there need to be some fairly fundamental changes to our education system (which may be the topic of a special policy show they hope to do at some point in the future).
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 16, 2019 Categories Podcast3 Comments on Trump Vetoes ‘No Emergency’ Resolution, Boeing & the FAA, Trump’s Budget, Beto’s In, College Admissions Scandal
Mark Godsey on The Innocence Project and Blind Injustice
Mike talks to Mark Godsey, a former federal prosecutor who’s currently a professor of law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Professor Godsey is the co-founder and director of the Ohio Innocence Project, which is one of the most active and successful Innocence Projects in the country. He’s also the author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions.
Topics Mike & Mark discuss include:
the scope of the wrongful convictions problem
the prosecutorial mindset and wrongful convictions
main reasons for wrongful convictions
how Innocence Projects work to free the wrongfully convicted
making it easier to free the wrongfully convicted
how to decrease wrongful convictions
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 13, 2019 March 13, 2019 Categories Interviews, Podcast2 Comments on Mark Godsey on The Innocence Project and Blind Injustice
For The People Act, Ilhan Omar & Anti-Semitism, New Trump Investigations, Manafort Sentencing
Mike and Jay start the show by discussing H.R. 1, the ‘For The People Act’ recently passed by House Democrats. Mike thinks it’s a great start toward fixing some of the basic flaws in our representative system. ALthough Jay agrees with Mitch McConnell about the horribleness of the bill, Mike and Jay do find some common ground, both for and against elements of the legislation.
Next, they get into the remarks made by Rep. Ilhan Omar and the resulting House resolution against anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim speech. Mike feels that Omar’s comment was taken out of context and that she makes some important points about how we often label those who question U.S. policy toward Israel. Jay argues that while Omar may not be an anti-Semite, she has a record of previous remarks and she surely knew that the words she used were unnecessarily inflammatory.
After that, the Guys talk about the latest Trump investigations. Mike believes that the House is casting a broad net because there’s so much corruption in the Trump administration to investigate, whereas Jay – while not denying ethical issues in the administration – feels it’s more of a partisan fishing expedition.
Finally, Mike & Jay discuss the sentencing of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Mike believes that Judge T. S. Ellis may have let his personal bias influence both his conduct toward the prosecution during the trial as well as his sentence of Manafort. Jay’s no fan of judicial bias, but he doesn’t see the Ellis’ sentence as being an abuse of discretion.
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 9, 2019 Categories PodcastLeave a comment on For The People Act, Ilhan Omar & Anti-Semitism, New Trump Investigations, Manafort Sentencing
Matthew Pressman on the Liberal Values That Shaped the News
Mike talks with media expert Matthew Pressman, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Seton Hall University. Prior to earning his doctorate in history, Dr. Pressman worked for eight years at Vanity Fair, where his articles about the news media won the 2010 Mirror Award for Best Commentary (digital media). He’s the author of On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News.
Topics Mike & Matt discuss include:
the shift from ‘straight news’ to interpretation
the meaning of objectivity in the news
how commercial pressures shape news coverage
the inherent conservative bias of pre-1960s news media
the conservative critique of ‘liberal media’
racism and sexism in newsrooms and news coverage
the rise of the reader-oriented newspaper
the media’s response to Donald Trump
if today’s media is better than the pre 1960s media
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 6, 2019 March 5, 2019 Categories Interviews, PodcastLeave a comment on Matthew Pressman on the Liberal Values That Shaped the News
House vs Trump on Emergency, Trump Walks on Kim, Medicare for All, Big Pharma, Cohen Testimony
Mike and Jay start the show with a discussion of what’s next now that the House has voted to rescind President Trump’s national emergency declaration. They agree that there won’t be the votes to override the inevitable presidential veto, but given the various constitutional uncertainties, a lot has to go right (or wrong, depending on your view) before any wall-building happens.
Next is a look at the summit between President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. Mike and Jay both believe that Trump was right to walk away without a deal, though Mike disagrees with President Trump’s habit of what he sees as foolish agreement with dictators who deny knowledge of human rights abuses.
After that it’s the House Democrats ‘Medicare for All’ plan. Jay thinks it’s an awful idea for all sorts of reasons, and while Mike agrees with the goal of a single-payer system, he thinks that this plan tries to do too much too quickly. On a semi-related note, the Guys discuss the Senate testimony of pharmaceutical executives this week. They both think that the drug pricing system in the United States is a big mess, but Jay’s much more inclined to trust market mechanisms to sort things out than Mike is.
The show closes with former Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s testimony to Congress. Neither Mike nor Jay was surprised by what Cohen said, and they don’t see anything approaching a ‘smoking gun’ in his testimony. About the only thing that that’s absolutely clear is that Donald Trump has surrounded himself with some awfully sleazy characters.
Author Michael BaranowskiPosted on March 2, 2019 March 2, 2019 Categories Podcast3 Comments on House vs Trump on Emergency, Trump Walks on Kim, Medicare for All, Big Pharma, Cohen Testimony
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He's a father of 4 and worked as a chemist. Now he's accused of murder and cannibalism
Detroit Free Press — By Darcie Moran Detroit Free Press
Jan. 13-- BENNINGTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.-Wilk Olykos Vilkas was advised of his rights. Edgar Thomas Hill was read the criminal complaint.
But it's Mark D. Latunski who faces murder charges for allegedly killing and cannibalizing a 25-year-old Grindr date on Christmas Eve.
Latunski, 50, has identified himself by several names since Dec. 28, 2019, when Kevin Bacon of Swartz Creek was found dead, naked and hanging by his ankles in Latunski's Bennington Township basement.
On the felony advice of rights form he was given on Dec. 30, Latunski signed with the Olykos alias. That alias is associated with a Facebook page believed belonging to Latunski and with images connected to a gay escort profile.
He gave the name Edgar Thomas Hill at his arraignment and to his attorney, saying he's part of the Thomas clan of Wales and was given the Latunski moniker as protection, court filings show.
He once was a well-off chemist and married father of four. Now, Latunski awaits a competency evaluation and insanity defense.
His starkly different sides shown in police and court records may shed light as family and authorities attempt to make sense of how a chance online meeting turned into a dark sex tale ending in murder and cannibalism.
Before the celebrity of the same name, actor Kevin Bacon, and Jeffree Star were sending condolences and financial support for a funeral, family and friends of Swartz Creek hairstylist Kevin Bacon desperately searched for their loved one.
His friend and reported roommate, Michelle Myers, rallied search party volunteers in Facebook posts.
He'd left her home about 5:20 p.m. on Dec. 24 to meet a stranger on a dating app, she wrote.
But when he didn't show up to Christmas breakfast at his parents' home the next day, the Bacon family contacted police, said Michigan State Police Special First Lt. David Kaiser. His car later was found in a parking lot in Clayton Township.
Karl Bacon, Kevin Bacon's father, told MLive his son's cellphone, wallet and a bag with his clothes were found in the car.
Karl Bacon did not respond to requests for comment by the Detroit Free Press.
It was the cellphone that led police to the gay, bisexual and transgender dating app Grindr and, subsequently, Mark Latunski's doorstep, said Kaiser.
Kaiser said it's believed that Bacon went to Latunski's house willingly.
"I believe the conversations contained things they wanted to happen," Kaiser said of the Grindr conversations between Bacon and Latunski. "I don't know exactly what acts were discussed, but I know they were sexual in nature."
Latunski, for his part, spent part of Christmas with his estranged husband, Jamie Arnold, and Arnold's friends acting, "as normal as he can be," Arnold told MLive.
Latunski let police into his home on Dec. 28 to look for Bacon. In what Kaiser described as a "secret room" that was not immediately visible, they found the missing man dead.
Latunski told police that he stabbed Bacon twice in the back of his neck, then strung him up, then sliced his throat, Kaiser said.
He confessed that he then castrated Bacon with a knife, took Bacon's testicles upstairs, cooked them and ate them, Kaiser said.
The exact date of death is unknown, Kaiser said, but family told MLive it was Christmas Eve into Christmas.
Kaiser said, based on information from the medical examiner, he believes Bacon died before he was hung by his ankles using a mechanical device.
Police now are seeking other men Latunski met on Grindr. They know of two.
A New York man born in 1973 fled Latunski's home, jumped a fence and called police after becoming frightened during a consensual sexual encounter on Oct. 10, Kaiser said.
Then a 29-year-old Lansing man wearing only a kilt got "spooked" during a consensual sexual encounter in which he was chained up in Latunski's basement on Nov. 25, Kaiser said. He fled to a neighbor's home with Latunski in pursuit of the $300 kilt.
Neither man wanted to file a police report, Kaiser said. The New York man spent multiple more days with Latunski.
"Sometimes people in these relationships are embarrassed or ... maybe they have a professional career and don't want their private life interfering with their professional career, so they're very reluctant to share anything with law enforcement," Kaiser said.
Without a reporting victim, police have trouble holding others accountable, he said. In addition, consensual flogging and bondage aren't illegal.
Kaiser was not immediately aware of the gay escort website Rent.Men seemingly connected to Latunski. The web address appears attached to nude photos of Latunski and the Olykos alias in a Google image search of the name.
Still, the fleeing men were just some of the police visits that marked Latunski's time at his well-kept brick home along a rural road of Shiawassee County. Police were called there about a dozen times in the last decade.
There were arrests for failure to pay child support as recently as Dec. 10, a call for a strange man searching a ditch on Oct. 15 and numerous welfare checks, according to Kaiser and police reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
Latunski has a long history of mental illness, according to divorce filings by his ex-wife, Emily Latunski. The two were married in 2001, divorced in 2013 and had four children. The Tyrrell Road dwelling was their marital home.
Latunski was diagnosed in 2010 and 2012 with severe, recurrent and chronic major depression with psychotic features, adjustment disorder with depression and anxiety with paranoid schizophrenia, and borderline personality traits, according to an August 2019 motion to suspend parenting time.
His condition can be treated with medication, but Latunski has a history of not taking it, according to his ex-wife's court filings.
When he doesn't take his medicine, he'll watch torture/horror movies, talk to himself, stay out all night, threaten to get rid of his children's animals, claim their son isn't his child, and fail to shower and shave, she said in a 2013 filing.
He's kidnapped his own children by failing to follow custody plans, kept her and her children from leaving the home, made frivolous claims to Child Protective Services, and claimed she and her brother were trying to murder him by poisoning a well, her filings show.
Once in 2013, he introduced himself as a William Gregory Dean to police and claimed he killed Mark Latunski "with the stroke of a pen," according to a police report. After, he pretended to be unconscious when police found him lying in his father's nearby home also on Tyrrell Road.
Latunski has been committed to hospitals four times for mental health concerns, his public defender, Douglas Corwin, has said.
Still, Mark Latunski is highly intelligent, Emily Latunski said in a 2013 court filing.
He attended Central Michigan University from 1987 to 1991, interned for Dow Chemical that summer the same year, and went on to earn a master's degree in chemistry in 1995 from Iowa State University, the schools and company confirmed.
Latunski is a chemist, according to his LinkedIn profile, and during divorce proceedings in 2013, his then-wife said he earned a salary in excess of $100,000 from American Chemical Technologies Inc. in Fowlerville.
He was fired in 2019 from an undisclosed job for refusing to take medication, Emily Latunski said in her August 2019 filing. He claimed his employer wanted him to put harmful chemicals in products.
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Kaiser has seen his share of homicides and dismemberment cases in his 35-year career. He's never seen cannibalism like this, he said.
There are a few takeaways, he said. He suggested those using dating apps have meetings in public places and keep their friends apprised of their whereabouts.
He also advocated that people feel comfortable in their sexuality.
"It doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, bisexual, transgender – it's 2020 and it's OK," he said. "In the society we live in, in this culture nowadays, you can tell somebody. Let somebody know where you're going.'"
(Staff writer Bisma Parvez contributed to this story.)
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Interlude: When Iron Rests
“What poison is to medicine, war is to empire: apportionment is the balance of life and death.”
– Extract from ‘The Ruin of Empire, or, a Call to Reform of the Highest Assembly’, by Princess Eliza of Salamans
Word of the surrender had rippled through the ranks, drawing out cries of dismay and anger before they both turned to disbelief.
There’d been tension between the Legions and the Army of Callow, when some loudmouths in the former had started to say this was just an elaborate way to sell out the Legions of Terror to the Grand Alliance, but Vivienne had been ready to quell such stupidity. Plants in the ranks had done as instructed, gone on the offensive and accused the complainers of being traitors in Grand Alliance employ. Enough of those arguments had turned to brawl that sergeants got involved, so now the most volatile of the rank and file were cooling their heels under arrest until this could be played out to the end. On the side of the Army of Callow there’d been mostly outrage and laying blame, which to Vivienne’s mix of grief and amusement had been laid along predictable lines. Callowan recruits blamed the Hellhound, or more frequently Marshal Grem One-Eye – whose role in the Conquest still had him closely associated to national wounded pride. Most of the eastern recruits, though, both the fresh and those brought in from gutted legions after the Doom, tended to point the finger at Vivienne Dartwick.
Hardly unexpected: she the most visible civilian authority over the Army of Callow, a known former noble and former heroine. And for the greenskins, most damnably of all she had no famous feat of violence to her name. It was something to look into remedying, in the long term, though it was hardly a priority at the moment. The amusing part of all this, of course, was that while it’d been Catherine who’d pulled the rug out under everyone’s feet with that sudden turn no one seemed to be blaming her in the slightest. Vivienne had absolutely no intention of changing that, since there were only a few things keeping the Kingdom of Callow together and one of them was the myth of the Black Queen undefeated, the kingdom’s own crowned villain whose uninterrupted string of victories had become the backbone of a nation. It would have to be maintained, Vivienne thought, in the years to come – marshals and generals and even the Woe could lose, but the Black Queen could not. But that was beyond the horizon, and Vivienne Dartwick’s troubles were current.
The solution she’d found had been to let the current of older faith guide the rumours she sowed. This was not a defeat, it was a trick being played by Queen Catherine on her enemies. And Gods be merciful, Vivienne thought, but she couldn’t even be sure that was a lie. The drow had been laid low by that sudden star in the sky, all but the most powerful of them battered into slumber for at least a few moments, and even the highest of these ‘Mighty’ had been forced to flee in the face of the enemy’s swiftly resuming advance. Legionaries had moved to hold the walls in good order, but within moments of that Marshal Juniper had been informed that surrender had been offered to the Grey Pilgrim and then accepted, bringing this battle to a close. Vivienne had spent the following hour putting out fires, but now the situation was stable enough she’d finally been able to head the general staff’s pavilion. Truthfully she could have done more, and would have preferred keeping her finger on the Army of Callow’s pulse, but Juniper’s last messenger had mentioned a message from Catherine with the royal seal. Those summons she could not deny, and so she had come.
“Adjutant’s still missing?”
Marshal Juniper looked vaguely irked at her immediate question, though not enough to chide her for it. What Vivienne had expected to be a formal war council in how to deal with the fact that the Grand Alliance had fully surrounded the camp and was now ordering disarmament and the bringing down of the palisade turned out to be rather less crowded. Marshal Juniper, with her perennial accessory Staff Tribune Aisha Bishara, Grandmaster Brandon Talbot for the Order of Broken Bells and Marshal Grem for what some had begun to call the Legions-in-Exile.
“Whatever duty Her Majesty sent him out on, Lord Adjutant is still discharging it,” Tribune Bishara said.
Vivienne kept herself from grimacing. Hakram had been a useful interpreter of Catherine’s occasionally seemingly outlandish decisions even before the Everdark, but nowadays the orc’s talent for understanding the thoughts of their leader had become a priceless asset. The journey into that dark place had changed Cat in deep ways, and much could be argued of whether all these changes had been for the best, but regardless of debate it was undeniable Catherine kept her cards a lot closer to the chest than she’d used to. Adjutant’s presence would have been a boon, Vivienne already suspected, for what was to come. None of the others were seated, so she remained standing as well and simply joined them at the table.
“Now that everyone’s in attendance,” the Hellhound said, flicking a displeased glance at Vivienne that was met with a raised brow. “This was handed to me by a rider of the Wild Hunt, along with knowledge of the surrender and instruction to abide by it.”
The orc tossed out a leather sheath bearing the royal seal of Callow, which Tribune Bishara daintily picked up afterwards.
“Unless there is an objection?” the Taghreb politely asked.
A round of shaking heads. Talbot might have objected, Vivienne thought, it if it’d been another officer but he’d always been a little sweet on the Hellhound’s helper. The wax seal was broken, parchment taken from the sheath and carefully unfurled. The dark-haired Callowan caught a glimpse of the curved, eye-pleasing calligraphy and repressed a snort. Hakram’s hand, that, not their queen’s. Which might be for the best, considering most of the time Catherine’s handwriting only skirted the edge legibility. She’d actually been taught properly at the orphanage, Vivienne knew, but Cat had always written like her thoughts were trying to crawl out through a hand too slow to keep up.
“I, Catherine Foundling, anointed queen of Callow by the grace of the Heavens and first of my name-” Tribune Bishara began.
Marshal Juniper cleared her throat.
“The meat, Aisha,” she growled.
The Taghreb’s head dipped in acknowledgement and she shifted halfway through the sentence.
“So, there’s an old story about the Ol’ Unconquered,” Aisha Bishara said, “that they call Theodosius’ Dilemma.”
The Taghreb’s tone was cultured and elegant, if so very eastern, but the words she spoke reeked of Catherine’s slow, almost lazy drawl. Vivienne knew it to be at least in part an affectation, as their queen was perfectly capable of formal address in her crisp Laure accent. She liked to use the casualness, the thuggish country bumpkin swagger, to prey on people’s expectations. Noble expectations, mostly, Vivienne privately admitted. Their queen had spent most her life carrying a sharp contempt for the aristocracy that becoming the foremost aristocrat in Callow didn’t seem to have changed in the slightest. Something wordless fluttered through the pavilion at the tribune’s words, though, sparing only Grem One-Eye. Backs straightening, shoulders loosening, even half a vicious smirk tugging at Grandmaster Talbot’s lips. They had not been left behind, that was what their stance said.
The Black Queen had a plan in the works, and someone else was about to have a very bad night.
“So in the First League War – which is a horribly inaccurate name, actually, because the League of Free Cities proper hadn’t even been founded yet and, wait, Hakram, scratch that whole part out, they don’t need the history lesson,” Tribune Bishara said.
She added, in a carefully unamused undertone, that the Lord Adjutant had not in fact scratched out anything.
“So in the First League War, Theodosius kept slapping around southern Procer like it was his deeply unloved goblin stepchild until it’d lost so many battles it’d gotten physically impossible for the princes to deny they were losing the war,” the Taghreb read. “At that point, the First Prince was getting worried about losing a third of Procer without war even having formally been declared, so you all know what happens: the Highest Assembly votes to ‘defend the south from foreign invasion’, everyone sends armies to reinforce and the First Prince makes a pointed suggestion that someone be appointed to run this mess that Theodosius hasn’t already cheerfully brutalized.”
Vivienne’ eyes swept the tent, and found most were raptly listening even though most should already know of this bit of history. It was certainly… colourfully narrated, but otherwise common knowledge in those who had some learning of history. And even beyond that. The life and deeds of Theodosius the Unconquered were a favourite of young boys and girls with dreams of military glory even in cities where no Helikean had visited in living memory.
“That gets us Isabella the Mad, and sets up Theodosius’ Dilemma,” Tribune Bishara spoke. “Because Isabella, she doesn’t offer a pitched battle or take back principalities: she just tosses one wave of soldiers after another at any forces that splits from Theodosius’ main army. And Hells, his people win most of those skirmishes and Ol’ Theo gets a few ambushes in himself. But every time he wins, he loses soldiers and Isabella loses nothing much. He’s winning so much it’s destroying his army, and so he has to make a choice.”
Vivienne’s mind raced ahead, for while she was not great student of military affairs she could see the shape of the dilemma outlined. It was not as important, she reflected, as the fact that instead of instructions Catherine had chosen to repeat a lesson that most of the people in this pavilion already knew. Would Marshal Grem? Maybe, as odds were that the Hellhound and Tribune Bishara had learned of this at the War College and the older orc was said to have been influential on the lay of the lessons taught there. Which meant the story was most likely meant for her or Brandon Talbot.
“Theodosius could fight a battle that couldn’t be won against nearly five times his number,” Aisha Bishara said, “to force a decisive outcome to the war. Or he could keep tearing through Isabella’s detachments for months and months, hoping for a better chance as his own numbers dwindled with every victory. We all know, famously, the choice he made.”
The Maddened Fields, to this day considered the only defeat ever inflicted on the first Tyrant of Helike.
“Theodosius bet on his legend, on being able to beat the odds and forge a miracle,” Tribune Bishara continued. “Isabella bet that she could ride attrition to a symbolic victory, and it was a brutal wager but she got what she wanted. They say that when Theodosius’ army retreated in good order, there were more than a hundred thousand corpses on the field.”
The tribune’s brow rose in surprise.
“Less than twenty years later, Jehan the Wise hung seven princes and one,” Bishara said.
Before the implications of that could properly sink in, the Taghreb repeated a stroke of madness.
“I grant to Vivienne Dartwick the title of Lady Dartwick, with all assorted honours and privileges; in addition I name Lady Dartwick the heiress-designate to the crown of Callow.”
Vivienne closed her eyes, ignoring the stir from the others in the tent. Why? No, that could be picked at later. Why now? The granted titled was clearly just a way to legally allow the second part without making her a member of the ironically-named House of Foundling. So what, as heiress-designate of Callow, could Vivienne do that she hadn’t been able to do a moment ago?
“Lady Dartwick,” Grandmaster Talbot quietly said. “The Royal Guard no longer exists, nor any knightly order save mine, yet-”
Yet I am, theoretically, equal in status to a princess of Callow and first the line of succession, Vivienne thought, opening her eyes. The Shining Prince, in all but name, and those were the Marshals of Callow before such a title existed.
“- yet the laws never excluded the Army of Callow nor any other addition to our forces,” she finished softly. “Which means I am, in the queen’s absence, the supreme commander of all armies sworn to Queen Catherine.”
“You can revoke the surrender,” Juniper said.
In the moment that followed, Vivienne almost did. It might just be Catherine’s plan, a surrender to check some advantage of the Pilgrim’s while she schemed some way that allowed her to both surrender in good faith yet keep her armies fighting. Diabolist could still use the wretched ritual that would bring back the drow to the field, and now the enemy’s armies would be surprised and in disarray. Less than twenty years later, Vivienne thought, Jehan the Wise hung seven princes and one. That was a warning. About winning wars at any price, about what came after. About Callow further humbling a weakened Procer and-
“Oh,” Vivienne Dartwick breathed out. “Oh.”
“Lady Dartwick?” Marshal Grem asked, brow cocked.
“I’ll need a horse and an escort,” she said. “I’ll need to talk with the Grey Pilgrim and Lord Marave besides.”
“Why?” Juniper asked.
“Delay disarming as long as possible,” Vivienne instructed the Hellhound absent-mindedly, “and keep the soldiers ready for fighting.”
“Dartwick,” the Marshal of Callow growled, “what are you doing?”
“If I’m right,” Vivienne said, “then I’m about to trade the full release of our armies for our help against the League of Free Cities.”
“Now, Hakram, I want to be perfectly clear,” the Tyrant of Helike announced.
Adjutant was still hung upside down by his feet, though given that the tripod was now being carried forward at a brisk pace by a swarm of chittering gargoyles the motion had set him to rotating. He patiently waited until the turn brought him face to face with Kairos Theodosian before solemnly nodding.
“Your mistress, I fear, intends to betray me most immediately,” the Tyrant said, not entirely succeeding at hiding his tone of deep approval.
“That does not seem like her at all,” Hakram lied.
The boy gestured dismissively, though with a trembling hand.
“It was a delightful bit of pettiness from her to send me someone whose fingers I cannot meaningfully break, after that little affair with my kataphraktoi,” Lord Kairos idly continued, “but that is that and this is this. Should the Black Queen turn on me – and she will – I will brutally murder you, if you’ll forgive my language”
“You are forgiven,” Hakram calmly said. “Though this seems absurd. Catherine Foundling has ever been a close and trusted ally to you, my lord.”
“You’re not even afraid,” the odd-eyed king complained. “I really should have listened to what my father said about Callowan spite, this is most unreasonable of her.”
“Your father had words on the subject of Callowan spite?” Adjutant asked, cocking his head curiously.
“I wouldn’t know,” the Tyrant cheerfully said. “After I cut his throat all he could manage was wet gurgling noises.”
Hakram made a mental note of the admission. It would go into the growing archive the Jacks kept on the Tyrant of Helike, though whether what the boy had said was true or not remained debatable. The orc found him exceedingly hard to read even for a human. Silence lingered between them, though in the distance the hum of raging storms served as canvas for it.
“I cannot help but notice, Lord Tyrant, that we are not heading out into Creation,” the orc ventured after a moment.
Unlike the rest of the League’s armies, he left unsaid. The last of the armies, a ramshackle mob moving in old infantry formations Hakram was fairly sure hadn’t seen use since the Humbling of Titans, had marched through a well-illuminated breach almost half an hour past. Of the hosts of the Free Cities, all that seemed to be left was the Tyrant’s own personal guard of a thousand. And gargoyles, admittedly, too many and too similar in appearance for the orc to be able to count. Kairos Theodosian looked amused, his red eye suddenly twitching shut and remaining that way.
“I have sent all I need to send,” the Tyrant of Helike said. “General Basilia is more than a match for the Pilgrim’s pet countrymen and the unpleasant surprise your mistress is still sitting on.”
“Might I inquire as to our purpose, then?” Hakram politely asked.
“It would be a terrible blunder to feed a spy my most secret schemes,” Lord Kairos chided him. “Do you expect me, Deadhand, to immediately unveil my every furtive advance merely because you showed a modicum of polite interest?”
“Yes,” Adjutant replied.
“Is this what loves feels like?” the Tyrant mused, then raised a hand. “Don’t answer, Hakram, it’s not like you’d know.”
The orc cocked his head to the side. The insult did not particularly sting. Perhaps if it’d been slung in the early days of the Fifteenth, when he’d still wondered if the wariness in Juniper’s eyes when she looked at him was not uncalled for, but now? Those doubts were long buried, and it would take more than a madman’s jeering to unearth them. It was not, however, the first time the Tyrant of Helike jibed of Hakram’s leanings towards detachment. That he would keep prodding from an angle that would yield nothing was interesting, and suggested two things: first, that Catherine had been right on the subject of Kairos Theodosian having some skill related to perception of others. Second, that what the Tyrant was seeing in Adjutant unsettled him enough to keep picking at it like a scab.
“Soon, I do think,” the Tyrant of Helike said, looking up at the ruinous sky.
“Soon what?” Hakram dutifully asked.
“You see, Adjutant, the histories will speak of tonight as a triumvirate of treachery,” Kairos Theodosian airily explained, “but that will be most inaccurate. Your mistress and I are having the most delightful match of shatranj while the Pilgrim and his kingdoms of the blind stumble around waving swords and miracles.”
“But, Lord Tyrant, is the Grey Pilgrim not the Named currently closest to victory?” Hakram asked, purposefully keeping his tone as dull and unenthused as possible.
He was, the orc guilty admitted to himself, beginning to enjoy this a little too much.
“You would be most wrong, Adjutant, most wrong,” the Tyrant said. “Tariq Isbili’s mistake is that he believes because he set the initial terms of this fight he still knows all of them. And so he putters around down in the snow and mud, while the real prize of the night is around us. He could get everything he desires, Hakram – and indeed I suspect your mistress is inclined to grant most his wishes, save those that inconvenience her – and still be made of fool of.”
Adjutant kept his face calm, though for the first time that night his heartbeat had quickened.
“Oh yes, my dear green friend,” Kairos Theodosian grinned. “I know what your mistress is up to. Seven crowns and one, yes? She has the recipe for the making of a Court, and the Hierophant provided the final ingredient of that heady brew by cutting an unclaimed realm from the fabric of Arcadia and casting it down towards Creation.”
Hakram stayed silent, unwilling to risk revealing too much through the lie he chose to speak.
“Here’s a secret for you, Adjutant,” the Tyrant of Helike whispered, leaning closer. “The thing that waits for you in the depths of Liesse stolen isn’t just your friend. I would be a great deal more wary of what it intends, were I you. For if this night does not go to the Black Queen or to myself, well, it is another friend of mine that will get his due.”
The boy retreated, loudly cackling.
“Ah, but I digress,” he said. “I did say that your mistress and I were playing shatranj while poor old Tariq was stumbling, did I not? Allow me to elaborate. The Pilgrim anticipated there would be trouble in Creation, Hakram, and so tossed a ball up and out of sight so that providence might allow it to land when it was needed, should it be needed.”
“You are saying,” Adjutant said, “that he sent a force through Arcadia.”
“Exactly,” Lord Kairos agreed. “And, old hand that he is at turning tides, he kept a heroic charge up his sleeve in case matters were truly dire.”
The orc’s jaw tightened. In the distance, coming out of the storms with tall banners, a glittering tide of horsemen advanced. Proceran banners, Levantine banners, the full horse of the Grand Alliance’s armies. Including, Hakram thought, every prince and princess in the hosts.
“What is that delightful Callowan saying again?” the Tyrant of Helike mused. “Ah, yes, I remember now.”
The boy’s eye shone wet crimson, when he turned to grin at Adjutant, as if it had already partaken of the blood about to be spilled.
“Finders keepers,” Kairos Theodosian said.
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cookiehunter
This ist sorta funny considering Cat cant Play shantranj Wörth a damn
I honestly wasn’t expecting /another/ interlude. To be honest this one doesn’t set up much we were unaware of besides Kairos’ triple ultra deluxe scheming. I think we need to get back to cat now.
Well, the fact that it’s an interlude means it sets up a denial, rather than an expectation. It’s a good sign that for once, everything is going to go wrong for *everyone else*.
Generally in a free for all, the details that aren’t shown are the scariest ones, regardless whether it’s on the Heroic side or the Villainous. The pattern is usually a ton of exposition shown to the readers about the schemes of the known factions before said unknown variable(s) show up to betray all obvious expectations and fuck up everyone’s day.
Generally this means that any plan that’s detailed in the interludes is one that’s likely to be fourth-wall countered by Catherine whenever she finally shows her face.
It’s also kind of pleasant to have the protagonist be the other shoe waiting to drop, rather than being victim to it. More anticipation and less dread.
This right here. The very reversal of how EE usually does things is an indication that the payoff will be epic.
Just imagine: reading the Princes’ Graveyard… from the Princes’ perspective.
That would be epic, in my opinion.
This is why I still believe that Hakram’s going to be okay, despite the obvious.
Eh, Tyrant knows that if he breaks Hakram, Catherine will stop playing with him. And he likes Cat’s game, a lot. I would not be surprised if Kairos comes out with a proposal of marriage at their next F2F meeting.
I feel like Kairos is torn between being rationally aware that Cat is beating him and leading him around by the nose and it’s bad for his plans and also offensive and he should put a stop to it and stop going along with, and absolutely adoring that she’s doing so.
“She understands me! She really understands me! (uh-oh)” 😉
yes ;u;
Well, this Interlude served to show us just where were the Proceran hosts, what the reactions of the Army of Callow were to Cat’s surrender, a bit of what Kairos is planning, and showed us the forces gathering in Arcadia for the battle with lots of prizes for the winner (Masego and Liesse, Amadeus’ soul, the seven crowns and one, etc). It’s a good way to close the string of Interludes before returning to Cat’s POV. In fact, there could still be missing one or two Interludes since there’s the negotiation between Vivienne and Pilgrim, the battle against the League’s armies in Iserre and the fight between Kairos personal soldiers vs Procer’s soldiers in Arcadia, since all those scenes are important and Cat is not there to see so the only way to see them is through interludes.
Personally, I think these interludes have been exquisitely made, they are important events that don’t involve Cat personally and she isn’t witnessing them, so they are necessary. Besides, they have provided great insight about a lot of things and answered many questions the readers had. There will be as many as needed, I trust EE to make the right decision in his story.
With you 100% on this. Especially your final sentence. 🙂
Honestly I’m expecting interludes to continue until everything’s finally in position for Cat to ride out of nowhere with the Wild Hunt and save everyone’s asses / seize the day ❤ and there's certainly a lot of moving parts here!
Vivienne's perspective was an utter delight and I love seeing her perspective on Catherine's bullshit.
Hakram's interesting as shit, and we're going back to neurodivergence themes which always delights me personally to no end.
And of course Kairos continues to be a gift and a treasure.
Best of all, we're seeing specific outcomes where previously we only had guesses, and we're gaining the ability to predict what happens next with any degree of certainity 😀
I adore the neurodivergence themes, and I’m especially always a sucker for well-done sociopathy.
And then there’s Indrani and Masego ❤ ❤ ❤
Yeah, that type of characters with a “flaw” that makes it hard for them to connect with others make for great character development.
Though Indrani isn’t so much neurodivergent as traumatized by the things she had to live + an obsession to gain acceptance and recognition from her mother-figure Ranger.
I actually liked the Masego before EE decided to make him autistic, to be honest.
Masego used to joke a lot, use sarcasm constantly and was more expressive in his face and mannerism, he was also more outgoing on his interactions ( read Book 2 chapter 17, for an example, or pretty much everything of Masego in Book 2), then in the middle of Book 3 EE started to depict him as socially awkward and Extra Chapter: Prodigy outright depicted him as an autistic child that didn’t understand much of emotions nor social interactions, and incapable of even detecting sarcasm. From that point on Masego kept being depicted in that light. He was also thinner, like a scholar, in his first introduction but described as very fat in later chapters.
Not that I don’t like the current Masego, mind you, he has had fantastic development, it’s just that the first one was very funny and interesting in his own way, maybe I just liked his sarcastic expressions and jokes.
Interesting, thanks. I’ll reread that chapter today.
Check out chapter 19 Flames too, for Masego making sarcastic comments and even make a joke about Cat’s sex life.
As I recall, Masego kept that characteristic and being perfectly capable of not only detecting but also using sarcasm and making jokes up until somewhere in the middle of Book 3, then he was steadily toned down to the socially awkward Masego we know and love today.
I reread chapter 17 and can definitely see what you mean. Somewhere along the way Masego lost interest in anything non magical and stopped using extremely sarcastic jokes.
That being said, it is definitely right for him to be the way he is now. When I was reading book 2 chapter 17 I found myself struck that Masego just seemed like a slightly tamer version of Archer.
Furthermore, I think the early stuff could be reconciled with the later stuff with either an extra chapter of a Masego section where he can explain he didn’t really understand any of the stuff he was saying when they first met. Those were all learned behaviors to camouflage his social weaknesses. As they got to know him he felt more comfortable in his ability to be his true self and possible actually learn those social behaviors in his own way rather than a mimicry of them.
Make it so his reversion to form is a part of his character growth.
Perhaps you find it striking now because the image we have from Masego in the recent chapters is different to the way he initially was, but his attiude in that chapter is consistent with the way he is in the entirety of Book 2. You can see it since his first appearance in Book 2 chapter 5 all the way until Book 3,
For example, there’s this fragment from Book 3 Chapter 18 Crack, right after Cat ordered the founding of the Knight Order of Broken Bells:
“I can initiate the connection at any time,” he said.
“Before you do that, we need a little chat,” I said. “I don’t want to keep you in the dark, so I’ll just state it outright: I might have dabbled a bit in treason.”
“Dabbled?” he said, frowning over his glasses.
“You know, dipped a toe in the treason pool,” I said.
“I wish you would have told me beforehand,” he replied. “Now I’ll need to rework Marchford’s ward pattern to be able to face advanced scrying rituals.”
I cocked my head to the side.
“That’s it?”
“Oh no, treason,” he said in a mockingly high-pitched voice. “No villain has ever done such a thing before. All my extensive interest in Imperial politics is now put in danger.”
I snorted.
“What’s that voice supposed to even represent?” I asked.
“How little I care about any of this,” he replied frankly. “I’m sure you’ll find some compromise with Uncle Amadeus, and the Empress probably knew you were going to do this before the thought ever crossed your mind.”
The bespectacled mage pressed his hand against the mirror-wall, spoke a word in the arcane tongue and idly made for the door.
“Now, if you’ll excuse me,” he said. “I think one of the tapirs got loose.”
“Stuff like this is why you don’t get to have giant fire-breathing lizards,” I called out.
“You have no standards, Squire,” he complained one last time before closing the door behind him.
So yeah, since his first appearance in Book 2 Chapter 5 and all the way up to the latter part of Book 3 he was sarcastic, detected nuances, was able to take hints and knew how to hint at things (for example he made subtle insinuations that he would not mind joining Cat’s group after their first encounter in Summerholm), he had a great sense of humor too. Masego was then gradually toned down, one awkward moment at a time, and our image of the sarcastic and humorous mage was replaced the more serious, somewhat childish and socially awkward Masego. In Book 4 we saw Masego struggling to understand physical contact, the nuances of social interaction, finding it hard to know when someone was sarcastic and even was awkward in his body language (like being too stiff when hugging or leaning his head on another’s shoulder).
Basically the only things that remained from his initial personality were his love for discussing and explaining things (later mixed with an obsession for accuracy) and his disdain for lesser or inefficient workings of magic.
I mean about the first thing Cat ever thinks about Masego is that he’s not great socially and the second thing he does is infodump all over her only to have his father interrupt him (although Cat was interested and asking more questions).
Masego has been autistic since his very first introduction, he just discarded the allistic-passing disguise kit after moving out from his parents’ place 😛
I kind of miss his sarcasm-filled facade, I admit, but autistic he was from the very beginning. And ofc he’s still full of sarcasm: I assure you, not every time he “misunderstands because he thinks too literally” is genuine. He is autistic, not stupid.
And ofc Indrani is, on top of shit Ranger left her with, very ADHD ❤
(and there are no "flaws" in it. Masego's greatest social problem is his lack of ethical understanding, not social, he’s actually interpersonally apt af and exactly where he wants to be that-wise. Better at it than Hakram. And Indrani hanging upside down from a tree and tuning out war councils that have more than 3 people talking is what we all love about her <3)
Emm, no. Her impression of “It was becoming apparent that social skills were not one of Masego’s no doubt plentiful talents” was said because he seemed uncaring about Hakram getting killed (this was an error on her part, as we saw immediately that he was very interested in the nascent Name of Adjutant and the fact that it was the first Name for an orc in two thousand years).
His sarcasm and sense of humor were not a facade, that was his real personality, it flowed naturally for him. The jokes, snappy comments, he was quick to pick up hints and undertood both sarcasm and irony. This was for the entirety of Book 2 and large part of Book 3.
However, there was a change in him afterwards, and it was too great to think it was “Masego dropping his disguise”.
Consider this: when was the last time you remember Masego laughing?
In Book 2, we saw him laugh mockingly at the death of the Exiled Prince, laugh like a madman when he burned the Demon that possessed the Silver Spears with a torrent of sorcerous flames, He even grinned in battle thrill when facing strong opponents, even made clever comments aimed at his opponents when he was fighting (like against the Bumbling Conjurer when he was still Apprentice or against the 3 Demons at the gates of Liesse, when he had already become Hierphant)
He made snappy replies and funny comments all the time, and showed understanding of subtetly. He also smiled a lot more back then.
No, that wasn’t a facade, it was natural. but those parts of his personality are gone now.
Catherine assumed social skills were not Masego’s strong suit because he blurted out “don’t worry, you might die soon enough it never becomes a problem!” in an attempt to be comforting.
And then Wekesa interrupted him talking to Cat with “she’s not a practitioner she doesn’t understand what you’re saying” which obviously (to me) suggests a habit of infodumps.
And all of Masego’s sense of humor was Autistic Humor as fuck. We’re great at sarcasm when we try 🙂
And expressing emotions is a skill we often have to deliberately invoke, alongside reading them. We just don’t express them naturally in the same way. When I was a kid I legit practiced facial expressions in front of a mirror – I found it fun, but it was also borne out of understanding that I… uh… needed the practice.
I cannot remember when Masego last laughed, but I also didn’t remember the instances you mentioned (other than him fucking dying @ dorian’s death), so that’s not much indicative. Still, don’t forget he also grew from like 16 to 21 in the time we’ve known him – his personality had time and space to change…
…and it’s entirely possible that his manner of expressing his emotions simply changed.
I certainly recall an instance of him being funny in Extra Chapter: Background 🙂 and there was the part where he and Indrani teamed up to mock Cat during the Winter Court arc… I cannot remember more but I bet there are more.
And understanding of subtlety, too, is something an autistic person has to focus on to maintain. It’s an artificial skill, like standing on your tiptoes to see over a fence – you get fucking tired of doing that all the time, and if you can drop it without negative consequences – which for Masego there would be none once he left his parents’ nagging presence – there’s great temptation to.
The thing is Pilgrim thinks Cat isn’t in Creation. If he’s right, then that can only mean Cat is here. Which means we can expect her to show up in the next chapter. I’m not saying it won’t be an interlude and i’ll be fine w/ either. However, I think our Black Queen will be arriving sooner rather than later.
These interludes are building up to. Something beyond epic.
Are you kidding? We just found out that the tyrant foresaw one the pilgrims clutch Trump cards and is using it to screw over Cat, HARD!
Or at least that’s what he thinks 🙂
I don’t really care. The pairing of Hakram and the Tyrant is delightful.
Thanks for a chapter even on Easter weekend!!
Can’t say I understood much from this chapter, but boy will I enjoy seeing the Tyrant being put in his place by Cat. The dude is way too sure of himself.
All 3 letters are now used, and Vivienne seem to have seen what Cath is planning
Which is get Kairos to attack Procer forces, that way they can negotiate Callow out of having to suffer any reparation from the surrender by helping Procer against Kairos
This means that the surrender is genuine, coming from Cat
Vivi is the one who’ll get them out of surrender status, by negotiating to help against the League.
And unlike with Cat, Vivi is a former Heroine, so they don’t have the excuse of her being Evil to deny cooperation either.
Kairos, on the other hand, think Cat is planning to form a new Court of Acadia by using Masego, and seem to be planning based on that.
So at least for now it seems things are going as Cat planned. Pilgrim’s pattern of three ruined, Vivi instated as heiress, Kairos sent to fight Procer.
I think if anything is to go wrong, it’ll be from either Hierarch interference or Tyrant outplaying Cat
“… so they don’t have the excuse of her being Evil to deny cooperation either.” Great point!
“… Cat is planning to form a new Court of Acadia” or is this Masego and/or Larat’s plan?
“… if anything is to go wrong, it’ll be from either Hierarch interference or Tyrant outplaying Cat.” IMO Masego and Larat are also possible/probable sources of problems. Plus, something HAS to go wrong for Cat, this has all gone too smothly for there not to be a catastrophe coming.
Nope. This is as Unspoken Plan Guarantee as it gets, with us not having heard from Catherine’s perspective for like five chapters by now and her plan being entirely unclear when we last saw her.
Well, I do agree that something is going to go wrong, but I expect it to be a long-term ball tossed in the air, not spoiling the immediate broth. This victory is going to be clean and unambiguous is what I’m calling 😀
Immediate points of where Kairos seems to be missing things:
– he says Basilea is a match for Pilgrim’s armies and Cat’s surprise, but what about the Marshals? 😀
– Catherine sure did not seem intent on actually giving Larat what he wanted, so this appears to be her pulling the wool over Kairos’s eyes 😀
– I did NOT get the impression that Catherine considers the Masego situation to be anything other than a flaming clusterfuck of uncertainity. “He can’t possibly be in his right mind” is a denial of the best case possibility, not the worst case one. Whatever’s going on there, I don’t expect Cat to be discounting it
I believe Kairos was hinting about Dead King possessing Masego as his fathers thought was possible if he would follow the apotheosis ritual trap
Oh, that makes more sense. I thought he was implying Hierarch was the other friend and I didn’t understand how this could be to the benefit of the People, aside from slaying some Foreign Oligarchs.
A disturbing thought. Another possibility would be that he did retrieve the spirit of his diabolic father, muffed his handling of it for “personal reasons”, and is now possessed by it.
Another question is just who will be in charge of that new court (perhaps after a round of usurpation and/or assassination). Can’t be Larat, because nobody wants him with that kind of power, and by himself he’s not strong enough to hold it. If Catherine (or Masego) takes it… she basically has gone Dead King, but she’s also taken herself out of Creation. Too bad the realms’ access area in Creation seems to be big chunk of Procer. Sve Noc (or Cat, or an ex-Mighty) taking the throne would provide a new homeland for the Drow, at the cost of exiling them from Creation.
based on the fact that Kairos made that “Seven and one” reference, I’m guessing Larat in fact would be strong enough. The Summer Princess seemed very alarmed when Cat told her his service conditions, remember? Namely, that whatever prophecy or gaes or fae rule he’s tied up in, if seven and one creation crowns are laid at his feet, he’s King. Or Has the power he seeks, has the rule he wants, etc. At some point he was told something to the effect of “You lust for power, great Larat, but you shall never have it. Not till seven and one mortal crowns are laid at your feet.” One of those things that will never happen that because stories is totally going to happen one day. Larat has been riding the wild hunt into creation to make the path to that story. And, if he gets it how he wants it without interference, whatever he becomes, he will have the mojo to “hold” it. Since he seems to want an in with creation, perhaps it’s to have a New Court of Creation that he rules? He’ll have all his fae powers as if he was in arcadia, something like that. And the descending overlap of the two dimensions just makes it easier to happen or some-such. It’s a story that, manipulated right, Cat could well use to her advantage, and a more classic villain sort of story where you make a big bad in exchange for your own power. That one has notoriously bad odds for you surviving once the new big bad is in existence, but I could see where Kairos and his classical villains mind could predict such a gambit, especially if he thinks Cat has one of those “but I can still control you to an extent” leashes that usually come with the stories where the villain partner survives this, he knows Cat is smart like that.
Apotheosis vs Democracy!
I really like how Cat has finally found a way to the Alliance table, after all – and Kairos sees straight throught it…
… and a) either still goes along with it anyway or b) will totally ruin that idea, if he gets the chance. But he might be too focused on the crowns thingy and everything else in Arcadia to have found a way for b) – after all, the threat of the League alone is already enough to get Viv what she wants for the armies under her command (getting free and kind of being at the table in exchange for help against the League), as that’s a negotiation taking place BEFORE battle is joined, and it doesn’t really matter if the League then refuses to give them that, as long as they are THERE. And they obviously still *are* going to be there. ^^
I wonder where the Hierarch is, though…
“Kairos sees straight through it” I strongly doubt that.
Immediately where I’m seeing him be wrong:
– he assumes Cat’s going to actually go for a fae court under her control. It has been established pretty damn firmly that this is a terrible idea for Cat’s long-term objectives and goes against all methodology she’s managed to salvage from the trainwreck that her ascension to power has been. Kairos preventing Larat from seizing the crowns is a “don’t throw me into the briar patch” kind of move on Catherine’s part;
– I’m getting the impression Kairos actually thinks Cat wants him to liberate her forces? That she’ll only betray him in the aftermath and immediately her armies are going to be either standing down or helping him? Because he did not mention Marshals, Legions and Callowan Knights as forces his general will have to contend with, and they’re not something you can afford to so blithely discount as to not even mention.
I think Kairos is falling into a good old “Evil Cannot Understand Good” trap, reading Cat as more similar to himself than she actually is. Catherine HAS been creating an impression of more villainy than she actually has in her, and it’s about to backfire on him real bad, as he assumes she wants to fuck over the Grand Alliance and Procer, as opposed to help them out of their troubles.
Catherine is willing to bleed her army to protect them, and as she has commented in the planning chapter, that’s not something other players can predict from her behavior so far.
>I think Kairos is falling into a good old “Evil Cannot Understand Good” trap, reading Cat as more similar to himself than she actually is.
I think he saw Hakram’s memories/read his mind and have seen all three letters, reading the “Theodosius Dilemma” as an extention of his letter. Something like “Theodosius will bloody the Grand Alliance, that’s the only way to save callowans from surrender, and then callowans will humble the Alliance further. And get 7 and 1 crowns, too, because we love our prices long and twice!” From his point of view, Vivienne isn’t an actor, this letter is a move of a pawn. Kairos certainly wants to throw a wrench at this plan.
I don’t think he gets the full on memory reading thing, more the same kind of truthtelling / intention reading as Tariq. So he’d know what Hakram thinks of the situation, but he wouldn’t get to actually know word by word the actual content of the letters – he’d only get secondhand undersatnding of them.
And Hakram did not think about it deeply like Vivienne did.
So Kairos is vaguely aware there’s some kind of confusing instruction given to Catherine’s forces, but if Hakram didn’t guess the connotations, he won’t have any way to, either 😀
Farroc Tokla
It is also interesting to note the 7 and 1 situation. Kairos just brought Cat’s right hand man within stabbing distance of a double handful of Proceran princes…
I really hope not all the princes/pricesses die. In particular, Roseala (sorry for butchering the spelling) because leaders like her will be useful against the Dead King.
Yup, Tyrant is going for Amadeus’s soul and the crowns Cat owes Larat.
I wonder whether or not Cat saw Pilgrim’s contingency here coming. Probably, hopefully.
Oh. If I’m reading this right, Kairos just implied that the seven crowns and one would allow Larat to forge a new Fae Court.
Might be a way for Cat to recover some of her own Fae power if Larat reforges Winter or forges a new Fae Court.
But Cat already has a source of power in the Night. Wouldn’t creating another come back to bite her ass, narratively speaking, since that would have the shape of a villain lusting for more power?
Also, I have a feeling that the third party wanting the broken piece of Arcadia Tyrant is talking about is the Dead King.
It is someone in the ruine of Liesse, it is probably Masego.
Doesn’t need to be two different people.
“The thing that waits for you in the depths of Liesse stolen isn’t just your friend. I would be a great deal more wary of what it intends, were I you. For if this night does not go to the Black Queen or to myself, well, it is another friend of mine that will get his due”
That sounds like Masego being possessed. Wekesa and Tikoloshe seemed certain that the knowledge from Neshamah could corrupt and even control the person who learned it, although that doesn’t make sense to me since Masego extracted it directly from Neshamah’s echo and not from an enchanted book of spells, but we have already seen Masego isn’t on his right mind and if EE actually goes for that route then Masego is under Neshamah’s control now.
Personally, I hope there’s something else happening there because that story from Tikoloshe and Wekesa seemed like their own ignorance talking (their speculations about Catherine were proved wrong and Masego was perfectly fine until Warlock blew up Thalassina). I would prefer it just be Masego desperately trying something to get his father back (which would explain the multiple hellgates).
I’m expecting it to be Masego trying to get Amadeus back 😀
But why would he do all that to get Amadeus back? I could believe it if it’s trying to get Tikoloshe or even Wekesa back.
On another note, Masego might still be in his right mind, sort of, just in a kind of trance that keeps him focused on a task until he gets it done, like when he tried to extract the echo from his father or his internal trance making experiments within his mind after Pilgrim broke the Gate during the Battle of the Camps.
Remember when Cat first entered and the Gate shattered and then slithered in Masego’s direction? If Cat meets him and he claims that was an invitation that would be hilarious.
When all you have is a really big hammer,,,
But why would he do all that to get Amadeus back?
… because that’s his uncle and he loves him dearly?
Well, I didn’t mean it that way.
Not in “why would he want Amadeus back?” but rather “why would doing this help in getting Amadeus back?” Especially since he seems to be doing something there involving hells and High Arcana, that doesn’t seem to be something relating to rescuing Amadeus.
Do note that Amadeus is currently in two pieces, one of them protected by sorcery from scrying.
I think Masego’s doing some kind of off-the-rails Praesi mage equivalent of building a flamethrower to light a candle.
One of the rules of the dark lord – never leave the source of your power uncontrolled. DK had lot of time to find that echo and tinker with it on purpose
I wouldn’t put it past The Bard to have set up Neshamah to have been corrupted in a manner that would corrupt people in general; it’s possible that Masego has now been possessed not by the Dead King, but by the thing which became the Dead King when it possessed Neshamah.
That’s a pretty interesting possibility, but I’m not sure how we would distinguish the two – it doesn’t seem like the previous instances described by Wekesa and Tikka end with Neshamah becoming dispossessed.
That’s an interesting theory, perhaps it’s not an entity per se, but a kind of ‘drive’ that makes him pursue an objective?
Although as far as we have seen, Neshamah developed his workings by himself, to the point that even Bard was questioning him about it that someone must have taught him for him to be able to advance so much on his craft, but Neshamah simply laughed it off.
I would also not assume that the Tyrant was necessarily telling the truth.
That’s an important consideration, Kairos can, at any moment, lie blatantly and without trouble.
Although so far we have seen him tell the truth when he is “gossiping” or telling secrets, there’s no reason to trust his words nor assume he can’t lie about this subject.
I doubt it Larat and Cat Deal will be complete when Larat gets the Seven Crowns and One. So anything he does is not liable to aid Cat at all. Not to mention Cat just started learning about Magic and the Fae and the like so the likelihood she can out maneuver Larat on this front is pretty low.
Still the Tyrant seems well prepared.
To be fair, Cat (via Sve Noc) has complete and utter control of the Wild Hunt. It might be a tad too difficult for Larat to scheme his way out of that control, especially because of his rigid thinking owing to his fae nature.
It isn’t really about control from how interpreted it, so much as anchor in Creation proper. By swearing to Cat until the paths were fulfilled, the intent of the Fae was to gain their foothold into creation regardless of the outcome. If Catherine doesn’t fulfill the oaths they’re forever part of a court rooted in Creation, and if she does fulfill the oaths, the seven crowns and one will give them permanent foothold onto creation anyway by way of earthly empire.
The key here is not about control over the hunt so much as finding a way to deny their foothold so that they don’t run rampant through creation proper after Catherine is dust.
One way to do this would be to bind the seven crowns and one to masego’s little piece of Arcadia instead of creation, then fulfill the oath. The tyrant’s play currently looks to be taking those crowns himself, so he has leverage over Catherine.
Still, whatever happens to Larat, Ranger is going to get a share as well since she still has his eye right?
To be fair, Cat (via Sve Noc) has complete and utter control over the Wild Hunt. It might be a tad too difficult for Larat to scheme his way out of that control, especially because of his rigid thinking owing to his fae nature.
Ignore this copy. For some reason, my comment in this thread didn’t go through the first time. But then it appeared when I sent the second one. It’s infuriating.
I wonder if the Tyrant is working on outdated info when it comes to that formation of a new Fae court. It truly might have been only possible when Winter was still alive… but it no longer is. The last conversation between Cat and Larat seemed to state quite clearly that the Hunt now only has powers due to *Night* – and they cannot take over that. All the old oaths broke, too, barring from the side of the Fae themselves, who seem to still be bound to keeping it, but only due to their rigid nature.
On the other hand, this just might be were Cat is mistaken after all…
Where… -.-
Also, what binds the Hunt might, of course, just be the way they’d be instantly powerless once they no longer follow Cat (if their power source truly IS only the Night now).
Gods, how I miss an edit function here.
I know right. Even the ability to delete a post would be a god-sent. Goddamnit, WordPress.
“Prince no longer,” the fae smiled. “I have abdicated my title, as have all with me. The Hunt claims no lord amongst its hunters.”
So Larat and the rest of the Fae in the Wild Hunt don’t have their titles, they renounced their ties to the new Arcadian Court for the bet of having a foothold on Creation thanks to Catherine.
“We swear to your service, Queen of the Hunt,” the fae said. “Queen of Air and Darkness, Sovereign of Moonless Nights. We swear ‘til the day of last ruin, ‘til all debts are paid. We would ride beneath your banner, in this world and every other.”
“What clever foxes you are,” she said. “Your oaths I accept, in the spirit they were given.”
I think that’s what screwed Larat, He swore eternal service to Cat, binding himself to her Court (Winter that only she held) as a source of power, but now that Winter was devoured by Night his power is dependant on Sve Noc, and due to his oath of service to Catherine perhaps even if he becomes a King of a newly made Court he would still be her subordinate. He probably didn’t expect that his holding would be a hellscape made from a fragment of Arcadia instead of an actual terrain in Creation.
The seven crowns and one was a price put on his help in ambushing the Summer Court in Arcadia, an event which has already come to pass. Our first hints of the significance of that particular price comes from the same battle.
It is an entirely separate matter to the oaths of fealty sworn to Catherine in her capacity as Queen of Callow.
But wasn’t Larat’s oath sworn to continue only until “all debts are paid” meaning until Cat gives him the 7 crowns and one?
That links the two.
There’s also “the day of last ruin”, which who knows what it means.
Sounds like that may be a good description of what’s happening in Masego’s piece of Arcadia.
Eh? I thought Tyrant was after whatever’s in Liesse or Pilgrim’s Calvary?
Doesn’t mean Tyrant’s not going for a honourable obligatory backstab in his most trusted ally’s back. Gods i hope he is going to push Grey Pilgrim into attacking callowans and giving the Shining Princess a chance, well, to Shine.
He’s after leverage. That’s the key to all this. He wants to play them all and what he wants in truth no one knows.
“He wants to play them all”
That’s it. Goals and objectives are so limiting in the grand scheme of things. Just take a load off and have fun 😀 ! … watching the world burn.
“My dear prince, why would I settle for merely being on the right side of history when I could be on all sides of it instead?”
– Extract from the minutes of the Conference of the Blessed Isle, between the Shining Prince Harry Alban and Dread Emperor Traitorous
Where do you get that the the is after Amadeus soul?
The “finder’s keepers” bit.
If he gets to Amadeus’s soul before Cat does, she’ll have to deal with him to get it.
I’m pretty sure he was talking about the troops themselves, which he presumably has or intends to co-opt for his own purposes — anything from attacking on his own behalf to convenient sacrifices. Either way, I wouldn’t be surprised if he throws them a party first 😉 .
But yeah, odds are the Rogue Sorcerer and Amadeus’s soul are in there, unless Cat (who’s surely in Arcadia) got there first. Anyway, off to the next installment to see what’s to be seen!
If I’m reading this right, Cat has no intention of actually going through with Larat’s deal. Maybe she’ll act like she’s going to, set up the pieces that would allow it… and then let Kairos push them over.
She does not intend on letting Larat forge a new Fae Court any more than she intended to make Winter Court out of Callow, is my estimation.
I wonder if that is still possible no matter what, after all, Winter got eaten and Summer also isn’t available anymore since the Courts merged in Arcadia. So what the hell does that make the Wild Hunt? Is Cat right that the Night is now the only source of power for them? I wonder… I personally would find it interesting to have a little twist here. But then again.. they’re just minor characters. That arc might simply end here, with the Princes’ Graveyard and someone finding out that those crowns would not have helped the Hunt fae in any way anymore anyway.
“That arc might simply end here, with the Princes’ Graveyard and someone finding out that those crowns would not have helped the Hunt fae in any way anymore anyway.”
Highly unlikely IMO because it would be highly unsatisfying to us, the readers.
Pilgrims contingiency is useless, at least against her. Yeah, if she played this straight, Pilgrim probably could have forced round 3 and ended this. But what good is a heroic charge now? She surrendered. This is a new unrelated battle with the forces of Levant now, so it has much less mojo, as a “the heroes took the dangerous path and had a random encounter/ambush” battle. On the other hand, and Pilgrim and Vivienne know this, that can be turned into a “Just as the battle was concluded, a third party stepped in! Now the former foes can only survive if they WORK TOGETHER.” which gives great momentum into the “Having fought on the same side, now hand in hand they go to fight the real enemy!”
Or, if she runs into the detachment in Arcadia, they might go after her anyways, believing that she’s lying to them about surrendering to Pilgrim … or just because they saw her first.
She’d probably have some leeway to work with there – they aren’t Pilgrim and she’s under no obligation not to defend herself against (another) attempt to murder her.
Narrative themes makes that unlikely. This sort of story flows more like this: Procer is fighting the Legion, and it’s all “Oh damn this is bad, oh god now Callow is riding in now it’s WORSE and – wait a minute… they are attacking the Legion’s rear. They are helping us! Back them up and push in, we can win this!”
The Legions are with Callow.
I assume you meant League. The difference is an important one.
yes, yes it is. My bad!
Silly me, thinking that I have some inkling of what’s going to happen. Shouldn’t doubt EE, I guess.
What did you think was going to happen? 😀
Wrong predictions are the fun part!
I thought that things would be fairly predictable after Cat’s surrender. For some reason, I have it in my head that Kairos should be with his army at all times. I didn’t expect this detour and certainly not Pilgrim’s cavalry contingency when I was already convinced chapters ago that Pilgrim and Black are foils of each other. Should have expected back-up plans.
I should probably do another reread.
I see 😀
Yeah another reread is always a good idea, Guide has a lot to it ❤
I’m guessing this is another of those situations where nobody’s figured out that Cat isn’t playing the same game they are…
…Also, did Kairos just get a whole army delivered to him on a platter? That seems bad.
Every Prince and Princess?
I’m thinking that we’re f=going to be seeing the Prince’s Graveyard very soon.
Furthermore there are exactly 7 princes and princesses of Procer mentioned in the Trust is the Wager chapter.
Add to that Kairos and we got seven crowns and one.
OH! Ohhhhhohohohoho, that’s a good catch!
Random thought: What if, instead of
“Seven crowns and one, laid at your feet,” referring to their heads off their shoulders, it means the 7 crowns and 1 basically lay down to Larat, i.e. submitting to him?
And instead of any conceptual ideas, the new Court is Court of Law/Order *gavel smack sound*
Where the idea is for Larat and his faes to become basically eternal judges that’ll ensure that these Procer regions + League will follow the law created, so no more nobles getting away with doing whatever they pleased, or royals spinning the truth to their own benefits.
There’s some groundwork for it already in Procer too, the Mavian prayers’ sites can basically be the anchor (read: office entrance) to the Court, we know a certain Accord that Cat would like to set it up very much and now we have the ones who’ll enforce it, being neither from Above nor Below faction.
Ooohhhh!! Now that’s a fascinating hypothesis.
I think Cat would love having some neutral third party Court of Order, especially if it could help her implement and enforce the Liesse Accords. But letting Larat run something that important? Hell no. If Larat wins any power from those seven crowns and one, then Cat will definitely make sure he’s still beholden to her, or Sve Noc, or just booted out of Creation entirely.
Plus, I just don’t see enough of a story behind the Wild Hunt becoming judge and jury. No connection there.
Larat and the hunt as unholy judges? Putting those in Procer would flatly require conquering it in the name (or at least banners) of Evil. On the other hand, Saint was planning to see Procer razed anyway….
“Is this what love feels like?”
The ship is sailing, all hands on the deck
Oh hell no.
-“Here’s a secret for you, Adjutant,” the Tyrant of Helike whispered, leaning closer. “The thing that waits for you in the depths of Liesse stolen isn’t just your friend. I would be a great deal more wary of what it intends, were I you. For if this night does not go to the Black Queen or to myself, well, it is another friend of mine that will get his due.”
The orc’s jaw tightened. In the distance, coming out of the storms with tall banners, a glittering tide of horsemen advanced. Proceran banners, Levantine banners, the full horse of the Grand Alliance’s armies. Including, Hakram thought, every prince and princess in the hosts.-
Do we have the slightest clue where the leader of the league is again?
You’re saying Kairos will use Hierarch to turn the cavalry into his? If so, that’s clever. I just assumed something more mundane like lies or blackmail or traitors within the ranks.
Kairos is old style villian. When would he ever resort to mundane means.
He seemed to suggest that his other friend was in the ruins of Lesse with the Heirophant, so maybe that’s where the Hierarch is?
Anyway, I assumed that there was a reference here also to Black’s soul, which is with the Rouge Sorcerer, who is likely to be the Heroic force guiding this Procer force through Arcadia.
The use of the phrase “get his due.” Suggests the Dead King to me, as a reference to the concept of Keter’s Due. As for being a friend, Tyrant sent envoys to pledge eternal friendship to almost all Calernian powers a while ago. I don’t think he tried with the elves or dwarves, but he did send someone to the Dead King and even the Ratlings. So calling the person a friend doesn’t narrow it down that much.
As to how the Dead King gets involved. Masego was warned by his devil father back before Warlock blew up a city/fleet about learning too much about the Dead King. The information itself was somehow a trap and an infection. When Masego revealed how he had harvested the information from an echo in Arcadia the result was a mild freakout and a demand to purge the information from his brain.
Oof, I momentarily forgot about that one =x
MASEGO PLEASE BE OKAY
And the Keter’s Due for a ritual for Apotheosis or whatever it is that Masego is attempting to do, would be massive, which is one of the reasons to do this kind of insane thing in a separate shard of Arcadia, and maybe the use of the wards Diabolist created that enabled to repurpose the Due to a secondary array and spell. But it’s still a huge catastrophe in the making.
How do you even intercept a providence-sanctioned heroic charge as a villain? Black fortified the only avenue to attack back when he fought in the Vales, what’s Kairos’ excuse? I think Rogue Sorcerer went rogue, that’s how Kairos knows. And if that’s the case, Rogue Sorcerer will get his due by dying horribly. As to why he would do so, back in the epilogue chapter when Black was hostage to Pilgrim and Saint of Swords Black tried to say something about helping Rogue Sorcerer’s parents.
That was after the silence spell took hold. The guy never heard what Black was trying to say.
Yeah, but the possibilty to tempt Rogue Sorcerer with that info still stands.
1) The entire point of that episode is that it doesn’t because the heroes were dead set on not allowing Amadeus any opportunity for communication/sabotage.
2) I’m about 90% sure it was a baseless bluff said just for the sake of getting his goat. Amadeus was kind of going off the rails hard at that point, “moral victory” and all (no I’m not getting over that any time soon, please stop hitting yourself please stop hitting yourself please stop hitting yourself)
Betrayals within betrayals within betrayals. And all to swat an arrogant old man upside the head. I like.
These interludes feel like chapters with a different name.
Not short interludes.
And now for another god.
Autumn?
I think initially there were two Courts of fae, Summer and Winter as no other Courts were mentioned back when fae were introduced. After Arcadia been reforged Spring and Autumn courts were mentioned, as well as Cat flying over unknown banners of fae in Arcadia.
So to take a wild guess, it’s going to be SUMMER, of all things, Winter is no more and Spring and Autumn already claimed. There’s a STAR hanging in the skies, 7 crowns and 1 waiting to be taken, and unclaimed part of Arcadia.
It’s not that.
There are only two Courts of Fae in Arcadia during each cycle, the pairs are Summer-Winter and Spring-Autumn. However, when the King of Winter and Queen of Summer married they unified Arcadia into one brand new Court, which is why Winter was no more except for Catherine since she was not bound to Arcadia thus making her the only owner of the entirety of a Court, as Sve Noc said: “You stole half their Garden”.
Now Larat wants to make another brand new Court with him as King/Leader, which would interestingly make it back into two Courts of Fae. It wouldn’t be Summer and does not even be associated with the seasons. If anything, it would be the Hunt since every member of this new Court would be from the Wild Hunt.
Perhaps they’d be Faerie Courts of Night and Day.
Oh, that’s also a possibility. Nice.
I thought the Courts of Spring & Autumn is on the other side of Arcadia where the Yan Tei Empire (Guide’Verse equivalent of Feudal China) connects?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_and_Autumn_period
Well, Masego said that Arcadia is different outside of Calernia, because perspective changes so that world changes, so the Yan Tei (who are likely China, I agree with you on that, they even have a Hero and Villain as rulers, Ying-Yang balance FTW).
Check out this Masego quote from Book 4 chapter 27:
“Consider Arcadia as a single object being looked upon by an infinity of perspectives. To every one, it is a different realm. Across the Tyrian Sea, it likely has completely different name and seems inhabited by completely different entities. Even the marriage of Winter and Summer is contained within the span of our gaze only, unlikely to have tremors beyond. It is so with this echo as well. Something that was momentous on our understanding of the world is not necessarily so elsewhere.”
As for the Spring and Autumn Courts, Cat vision when she became Duchess of Moonless Nights showed that they are part of the eternal cycle of that realm and are formed once the war between Winter and Summer ends.
Thanks for finding and sharing that quote. Very relevant. 🙂
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No, all four courts were there when the Fae courts were introduced. Summer always beats Winter and when its victory comes the Elves and the Courts they make up disappear and are replaced by the Spring and Autumn Courts and a completely different set of Elves. This is how and why Ranger keeps going back every time the Winter Court reforms/reappears and plucks out Larat’s eye (I really wish to know what he did to piss her off that much). We have just never been told what the process is that ends the Spring and Autumn Courts. Kilian explains the courts in Book 3 Interlude: Gate “There’s supposedly four Courts of Arcadia – one for each season – but the delineation between them isn’t clear. They don’t all exist at the same time, either.”
“comes the Elves and the Courts”… not Elves, but Fae.
Come on, you have to be doing the elf/fae thing on purpose by now 0.o
Summer doesn’t always beat Winter, sometimes Winter manages to assassinate enough people and sow enough discord between different Summer powers that they’re weak and feeble when outright war comes and Winter murders them all.
=> There’s a STAR hanging in the skies, 7 crowns and 1 waiting to be taken, and unclaimed part of Arcadia.
That reminded me of the Big Dipper asterism formed by the seven brightest stars of the Ursa Major constellation. Here’s a fun fact: they are actually seven stars and one, because Alcor is also there right next to Mizar (the second star in from the end of the handle) but it’s outshined by its companion, so not counted in the forming of the asterism.
What if this new Court of Fae is a STAR Court? Like, you know, Stars shining in the Night.
Would be interesting.
“These interludes feel like chapters with a different name. Not short interludes.”
Basically, EE set a routine of calling chapters that weren’t from Catherine POV “Interludes”. Which works fine, but it starts to sound funny when Cat dodges out of sight for a significant period, and we’re following everyone else for this many chapters.
That’s basically why the other day I was teasing about EE channeling Robert Jordan. Jordan’s Wheel of Time starts with at least half-a-dozen “primary” characters, then progressively doubles and triples the number, and that’s just on the protagonists’ side. And he does POV for all of them plus most of the antagonists and a few bystanders, which is how he wound up with 12 thick volumes of the series, and why Sanderson needed 3 more volumes to wrap up the story.
Interlude or Chapter Wednesday it’s still good story!
And so the Princes’ Graveyard is to be in Arcadia, I imagine the Princes of Procer are very angry from being marching through that storm. I don’t think they will all die, since Catherine only needs to lay their crowns at Larat’s feet, not their heads, but to be called a Graveyard many of them will die.
Will the Rogue Sorcerer also be marching with that host? He should be, since he is someone skilled, needed for treading safely through Arcadia and also the only Hero left in that army (Saint and Pilgrim are in Creation right now) unless there’s another Hero yet unrevealed. And that would also mean that Black’s soul is there for the taking, unless he gave it back to Pilgrim, but Cat mentioned that being part of Below’s due so I’m guessing Black’s soul is with Rogue Sorcerer and he is in Arcadia. Time for Cat to rescue her father (and for the love of the Gods, the Old and the New, Above and Below, call him father to his face).
So seven crowns and one are to create a brand new Court of the Fae, that’s interesting and given that this Court would only be the surviving members of the Wild Hunt that would make them very powerful. This generation of Winter Fae was born with a strong impetus of change it seems, with a King willing to take hard measures to change everything and a Prince willing to bet everything on an irregularity as is Catherine. It seems Larat wishes to be free from service once he collects his due, but he still has his connection to Cat (or to the Night now that it devoured Winter), so it’d be interesting to how things play out then and whether Cat will just kill him and be done with it or keeps an ambiguously treacherous lieutenant with great power and a thing for dramatic speech.
In case anyone is wondering, I checked and made a list of the princes that were shown to be in Iserre marching with the host: Rozala Malanza of Aequitan, Louis Rohanon of Creusens, Arnaud Brogloise of Cantal, Bertille of Lange, Sophie of Lyonis, Rodrigo of Orense, Leonor of Valencis. That makes it seven, we would be missing one crown for Larat’s due. Would that one be Kairos’ crown?
*Dramatic music sounds*
P.S: It’s hilarious how everyone is unsettled trying to figure out just what the hells Adjutant wants, the list just grows up and is made funnier as characters that are proficient at reading people get stupified when trying to read Hakram (Empress Malicia’s empty parchment on what the Orc is after is a good example).
-language” / language.”
-made of fool of / made a fool of
And Hakram is like “eh I used to worry about that but I really don’t anymore”.
My best neurodivergent children, the Woe ❤
Later would need to make a new deal with Cat if he wants to keep his power after she gives him those crowns
So the last letter is definitely the bet, Catherine hoped Vivienne would understand her intention to ally with the Alliance against the League.
I really hate Kairos, but during a long time I didn’t understand why. And then I realized he is basically a villainous hero, he has all the Good cheat codes with villainous intents, and is completely overpowered.
In his first battle, he destroyed alone the entire opposing army. He manage to build a complex magical trap for Sabah without a known good mage, and he lead his army in Broceliand without it being destroyed.
He also has information sources inaccessible to no one who give him an absolutely ridiculous amount of knowledge and his “Wish” aspect permits him to know the desire of people even before he encountered them. And he managed to create the Hierarch, who I think is the most dangerous villain on Calernia, except maybe the Dead King.
Ah, but he doesn’t just have the hero cheat code.
He cheats using the VILLIAN cheat codes, more intelligently.
Early on, when smiting other Free city armies, he wasn’t against heroes. By the story rules he has to rise up and be a threat before the heroes can smite him down.
Vs White knight etc, he invoked the old “The first part of the plan always succeeds” – a villain trope, not a hero one.
Sabah’s death was really bard’s making, not his.
I agree he is OP, but I don’t think he has hero cheat codes.
Concerning Sabah, I didn’t mean her death. I mean the spell fueled by the people she killed, and that the Warlock redirect to kill the Ashen Priestess.
He’s only as powerful as he is because he leans into his role and the cliches. Black even says how he was weaker than his predecessors because he refused to do that as it leads to a villain’s inevitable downfall.
Nah, he’s not a hero. He’s a villain.
Amadeus’s insistence that heroes are the ones who get cheat codes while villains don’t was laughable. Villains don’t get cheat codes towards greater good, that much is true – that’s because villains get cheat codes towards scheming and seizing power while wrecking everything around them. Kairos is using those to great effect.
By cheat codes, I mean that Fate make sure the heroes always win against the villains, by giving them access to ressources that no villain could ever hope to receive. As said in my comment and another below, Kairos has access to such ressources.
Again, my point is that your inaccuracy is in assuming there is an inequality in resources heroes and villains receive.
Or that Fate makes sure heroes always win against villains – that one’s straight up inaccurate.
Amadeus discarded most of the toolbox his side afforded him, then complained his opponents had a full one while he was left with a rusty knife and a screwdriver. That’s on no-one other than him.
There’s plenty of resources villains have access to that heroes don’t.
Fate does not favor heroes? From the beginning, everyone from Amadeus to Catherine and Saint to Kairos, agree that Good always win. It is indeed not always the case, but heroes have a lot of advantage comparing to villains. Sure, “first step always works”, but the end goal is hardly ever attained.
Heroes have Angels whispering in their ears, Aspects which are most of the time specially adapted to resolve the problem at hand, lots and lots of coincidence to help them, true resurrection, etc etc etc. Evil has nothing like this.
Good might always win in the end, but Evil always wins the first step.
>The villains in the stories always had a trigger, a first spark to set the blaze. They’d been wronged, laughed at. They had a grudge to settle against Creation, and they were going to do it by toppling all those righteous kingdoms like a house of cards. They flew the banners of empires they’d crafted out of cold rage and egomania, sent their Legions of Terror to conquer everything from the sacred forests of the Golden Bloom to the burnt wastelands of the Lesser Hells. It didn’t matter what they took, I was beginning to grasp, so much as the fact that they took it. What did the Tyrants care if the heroes freed their monsters or destroyed their ancient magical weapon, if they brought down the Dark Tower on their head or sunk the ancient city they’d raised from the depths? At the end of it all, even if you lost you’d already won. I finally got it, then. You’d won because in a hundred years someone was going to look at the ruins of your madness and their blood was going to run cold. Like a child screaming at the night, you filled the silence so that someone would hear.
Evil has resources to achieve the “archetypical Evil” goal – make a mark. Sure, separate Evil people might not be satisfied with that, but it’s not like heroes are super happy about winning in the end after taking heavy losses either, yeah?
Evil has resources that Good doesn’t. Good might get the peasant with the sword, but Evil got to have the dragon first.
Order of the stick has a character who, other then the bits in here about having a hero son, probably gives the best representation of general competant evil mentality in this world (note, not Black’s practicality, think more Akua and Kairos, the types who know how the game is played but are OKAY with it)
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html
The comic is fun, unless you hate stick figures, but this page is worth reading even if you never take another glance.
TL;DR anyway: The competent villain knows he will lose someday, but that’s AFTER he wins and got to win and enjoy being the big evil, usually for a decent amount of time. Yeah, the very last part’s gonna suck, but it’s gonna be a hell of a ride till then.
I like it, the cartoon is cool🙂 You are right, both heroes and villains are backed by Fate, only not toward the same goal nor at the same time.
But I still hate Kairos 😉, if only because he created the Hierarch.
Yeah how dare he hurt Anaxares so )= )= )=
More like “how dare he unleash such horror on the world”🔥
+1 on your recommendation to read those two pages. I’d forgotten most of that OOTS scene so thank you so much for posting it.
Amadeus has filled entire graveyards with heroes who “always win.” Catherine followed in his footsteps by stomping the Stalwart Paladin’s band and half the heroes in the Crusade. Praes as a whole has survived ten Crusades, and every other Evil nation in Calernia seems to have a similar track record.
Villains *do* get convincing, long-lasting victories sometimes, because that’s what establishes them as a threat. And from an in-story perspective, you have no way of knowing whether any given hero’s role is “The chosen one who finally brings down the evil empire” or “The chump who looks like the chosen one for about five minutes before getting killed off to establish the villain’s threat.”
The only reason people say “Heroes always win” is because no matter how many times the villains win, we don’t consider the *story* over until a hero has won. We assume that, since the story isn’t a tragedy, eventually one of the heroes will succeed. But that’s equally true for the villains – once the story is over, someone else will climb the tower and start the whole business over again. The heroes don’t “win,” only restore the status quo.
Indeed, Catherine’s whole reason for backing the villains is that she thinks the constant battles cause more damage to Callow than a decisive win by the villains would.
I like the way you phrase it with “we don’t consider the story over until a hero has won”.
Black win by going around the story, it is the only reason. And he discarded all lot of Evil tools because they were mor liabilities than assets. Praes managed to win against Callow only 2 time in more than one thousand years, how do you explain this without Fate backing the heroes?
They’re more liabilities than assets because they’re tailored to goals he does not have. Villain tools are for terrifying Creation and leaving a mark on it, not for achieving long-term peace. Amadeus uses Good tools for Good goals because those are the ones he has and therefore those are the ones that work for him.
Kairos isn’t going to manage to conquer Procer or better the lot of Helikeans long-term. His inexplicable prophetic knowledge wouldn’t help him with that any more than Still Water would help Amadeus cement his vision of better Praes.
Amadeus is pissy about not a single Dread Emperor managing to stave off starvation, even the few that tried. There is a reason it’s few that tried.
I note that Amadeus and Cat, each in their own way, have indeed terrified Creation and made their mark. Cat’s not finished, and Amadeus looks to be getting a second act. (Maybe. I wouldn’t put it past EE to yank that brass ring away.)
Well, they’re standing on the side that grants that as part of basic package after all 🙂
Basic goal, anyway. Presumably a lot of villains get thwarted before they get big.
It’s about work and quality though. What resources the villains get are never handed to them like the Heros and even then the universe is skewed so the villains have a harder if not impossible time carving out meaningful victories.
Villains do tend to suffer before they get to their position first, but Heroes need to earn their stripes too. Nothing is ‘just handed’ to anyone, Amadeus was being as facetious as it gets, either that or simply wrong. Either way, heroes and villains both go through crucibles to get what their Roles have to offer.
I half-agree with you on this, but Amadeus wasn’t wrong. The tools of Villains are the work of a lifetime, and more often than not are the fruit of the effort and sacrifice both by them and others, willing and unwilling.
Praes is built of centuries upon centuries of sorceries perfected by the madness and genius of countless warlocks working their entire lives pursuing their arts, so the one who climbs the Tower inherits a grand amalgamation of things they can use to forge their legend.
Compare to a Hero who is a teenager receiving a weapon straight up from Heaven, plus blessed with Good Luck by Providence, and you can see the difference very clearly.
You can’t say they are the same, the hordes of the Tyrants took generations to form, while the Hero got handed a Holy Weapon out of nowhere.
That’s why Amadeus complains that the Heroes are handed their victories, Angels will provide guidance and sometimes even descend to directly help the Heroes (William, Iason, Hanno, Tariq). A villain doesn’t get that kind of help, they would need to risk their lives and souls to use a Demon and earn through a lifetime of service to Below for a dark miracle (like Wekesa or Hanno’s mother).
They each go through the crucibles of their Roles, that’s true. But the difference in support is very glaring. Villains save up for their equipment while Heroes would be rich kids with Pay-to-Win Premium equipment, sure the proficiency of the players will make a huge difference, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a huge bias towards one team.
Here’s the thing: villains are 99% of the time the ones with privilege.
We can debate details and exceptions (Good Kings are a legit counterexample; Amadeus is fucking not lmao), but when we’re comparing William von Angelsword, who had said angel’s feather, the clothes on his back and absolutely nothing else, to Kairos who was literally a prince,
IIRC, Amadeus started out as a peasant along with Malicia, and Cat of course was an orphan.
Of course, Amadeus and especially Cat do have a heroic “taint” to their goals and behavior.
We don’t have too many heroic origin stories, but White Knight was also an orphan, while Thief was both a noble (of a conquered land) and half an orphan. William was self-outcast (but he did get armor and equipment from somewhere).
I’d stay that both humble and privileged beginnings can produce heroes or villains.
Amadeus is a farmer’s son rising in rebellion against the oppressive nobility of his country, uniting the oppressed underclass around him.
Catherine is actually a better example of villain privilege because Amadeus picked her up and catapulted her right to the top wihtout giving her a moment to catch her breath. We do not kneel, eh?
But yeah, you’re not wrong. There’s all kinds of possible stories; Kairos, however, is a classic example of a “villain born to privilege” one. No need to toil to earn resources, his job is just to properly abuse them.
Villains get a lot of victories of the villainous kind: a tower in the sand that falls right afterwards but boy was everyone impressed.
Amadeus’s definition of ‘meaningful’ is ‘improves lives of common people long-term’ which is like. Not Evil’s point lmao
We could probably fill a pretty large thread on what the “point” of Good or “Evil” is or could be. However, Meaningful in this case is a lasting victory at the end of a story. Which is what Black, Catherine, and the others are striving for. Your “villainous victories” are not equivalent to the ones that the “heroes” get, and logically in a fair world characters from either side would have a relatively equal chance of getting one or the other. And yet in the Guideverse that is not the case as fate is skewed one way.
Yes, and my point is fate is skewed that way because villains aren’t interested in long term consequences, splash damage or anything that happens after they die. That’s what MAKES them villains. It’s unfair as fuck to be stuck with when you’re actually a hero at heart is the problem 🙂
But if he hadn’t discarded that toolbox then he would have been dead long ago. The only reason Amadeus, Alaya, and the Calamities survived so long (over 40 years as successful villains) was because they avoided falling into the traps of stories and Amadeus learned to read the patterns in order to transcend them.
Notice how everything went to hell when Malicia (in her stupid paranoia fearing Amadeus had too much influence) decided she wanted to try using one of the old tools (flying fortress + hell gates and hordes of bounds devils) via letting Akua building it so she could have a weapon of her own without depending on the Legions of Terror. What’s the result?
Praes is burning, they are facing a new Goblin Rebellion, they lost Callow (the victory they hadn’t achieved since the time of Triumphant), the Legions of Terror divided, most of the Calamities are dead, they are the target of a Crusade with most of the Heroes of Calernia on it, the Dead King unleashed, Amadeus prisoner and Malicia at risk of being overthrown and killed.
There’s a VERY good reason why Amadeus kicked away that toolbox, it was full of Acme Products and those may look impressive but can only blow up on the face of the user. History and Results prove that Amadeus was right.
He was, absolutely so. For what he wanted, that toolbox was useless and horribly counterproductive. To say that Alaya fucked up is to say nothing.
That doesn’t mean it’s objectively useless and there’s nothing it’s good for.
Take Akua, take Kairos – offended children who don’t count on their lifetimes being long and fully intend to burn the candle from both ends just to have as much fun as possible in the process…
Yep, Kairos is a cheat character, too OP to be justified, he is basically a Hero but on the Evil side:
-Comes from a lineage of kings and conquerors.
-He came to his Name upon hearing a prophecy of his imminent death, which he has overcome already.
-He has knowledge about a lot of things, both secret and ancient that he should have no way of knowing.
-He employs a lot of sorceries for someone who doesn’t have the Gift and has performed great workings for someone who doesn’t have any prominent practitioner of magic under his service (He has the Magisterium of Stygia now, but he didn’t have that by the time he was crafting extremely complex rituals with multiple layers, one of such layers drew a 3D middle finger, the other made a curse that killed Ashen Priestess)
-He made the Bard play correctly her lute. Not the tortured sounds she usually makes when she plays her lute, but actual melodious music with proper effect.
-He can manipulate Narrative in dubious ways (his “always one step” strategy worked, despite it being multiple attacks on a siege situation, simply because they were different plans they effectively were overwhelming the Heroes and taking the city of Delos)
-He knows secrets of the Bard, at least part of her origins and nature, which can’t be explained simply on his Wish Aspect letting him know her desires.
-He knows about the origins of Keter and the Intercessor’s role on it.
-He managed to handpick and create a Named (turning Anaxares into a Hierarch), when the coming into a Name should be something extremely personal and unpredictable, except perhaps in those of the successor type (like a Knight choosing their Squire).
-Crossed the forest that everyone fears with his army without it being ripped to pieces (although it might have suffered heavy casualties and we simply hadn’t seen, but as it was shown that he can harass the Army of Callow and Procer’s troops in Iserre while forcing the 60 thousand troops of Levant to run away through the hellscape that Masego made, he has a huge and strong army)
-Even Providence seems to be on his side.
So yeah, he is a cheat character.
He is so far undefeated and has made a lot of deeds that shouldn’t be possible for him, his success doesn’t come as much of a surprise nor a bother because he is a very interesting character; but the things he has done without any justifiable explanation, like the ample use of High Arcana and knowledge of ancient matters, are a bit of a bother and could even be a plot hole.
I completely agree with you🙂
This is a villain kind of ‘ridiculously and weirdly OP’. Heroes don’t get libraries of ancient knowledge and competent underlings for free as starting funds.
Somehow your comment suddenly made me wonder if Kairos HAS already died after all… and what we’re seeing is just another meat puppet of the Dead King XD
I mean, all those pieces would seem to fit that one perfectly…
Mayyybe. I think he still could just be a classic “with great madness comes great power” villain, where his essential weakness is to the plot.
I think it mainly comes with him leaning into his role which gives him that extra potency. He’s walking the path (at least seemingly) of the Big Bad who dominates his adversaries until the very end where his own arrogance/madness leads to his own undoing. That combined with the fact that he probably knows how entertaining he is in a meta sense and is using it to his advantage (like the bard did with the Bumbling Conjurer waaay back) and that he is the unofficial ruler of the major factions of the setting with vast spies and resources all contribute to the position he’s in
So jehan the wise hung 7 princes and one because they bankrupt the procer. Ha remind me of soviet union
Not that, Jehan the Wise was King of Callow and marched against Procer probably in retaliation for some action the Principate had done in the past. He managed to kill so many princes of Procer because Procer was weakened and lacking in military strength, here it is implied that one of the reasons for that is that they were worn down after the brutal war against Theodosius, though 20 years should be enough for the country to recover so there must have been other factors.
Unorginal
20 years is certainly not enough, this isn’t a perfect comparison but France after World War 1 felt the demographic squeeze of losing over 5% of its population right up until World War 2. It’s very well could be that the war was more or less destructive it’s not very clear but ironically the fact that Calnernia is more egalitarian works against it. A village can survive losing half its young men, it finds itself in a much worse spot if it loses half its woman. Furthermore, we get outright told that 1/3 of the principate was on fire and was due to be lost to Theodosius.
Compounded by economic recovery in the late medieval ages to early renaissance conditions at best it means that it very well could have badly damaged the principate horrifically for generations.
100,000 dead in a single battle of attrition that’s a large city, Paris was the largest city in Europe during the Renaissance and at its peak, it only had 350,000 people in it.
Then the fact that the Principate is a quarreling bunch of noble houses waging constant Italian style brushfire border war with each other.
Well shit, Cat needs these people Not Dead, and Kairos is about to smear them across the field of battle like so much tomato sauce. I wonder, if he’s talking about our favorite Gutter Lawyer when he mentions his friend.
Pretty sure he meant his buddy up in Keter: “Keter’s due”
“… our favorite Gutter Lawyer” do you mean Heirarch? Yes, he’s a strong candidate, IMO the strongest. Other candidates are Larat, Masego or the Dead King.
The Hierarch is the only one of them he calls “friend”, and the most logical choice. By the way, I hope he will die quickly.
He calls the dead king friend too
Have you the chapter where it happens? 🙂 I don’t recall
Kairos thinks Cat actually intends to go through with her bargain with Larat and let him have the power he’s after.
This naive boy.
Going through with her bargain with Larat, yes.
Letting him have the power he’s after, probably no.
Though Cat might not want to establish a Fae Court with a hold or anchor in Creation, she still needs to pay her debt to Larat, what she does afterward would depend on what exactly happens when he receives the seven crowns from Procer’s princes and one from Helike’s Tyrant.
The Princess of High Noon was terrified when she heard the term of the bargain. But because neither Winter nor Summer exist anymore, maybe it is a red herring and will have no consequences?
Maybe, but it’s unlikely that nothing will happen. Larat bet on it when he made the Wild Hunt entirely dependant on Catherine’s Winter (which was recently devoured by Night) and Kairos just said that the seven crowns and one plus the unclaimed realm from a part of Arcadia are necessary for the making of a new Fae Court. Something will happen.
What we need to figure out now is how this could play out and in what ways Larat may be screwed. Perhaps he wanted to make his new Court in Creation, but will be forced to have this fragment of Arcadia as his Court holdings, and maybe when this hellscape gets destroyed his Court will lose its power?
One point to consider is that the realm may not count as “unclaimed”, given how Masego has been manipulating it.
She needs to not openly break her bargain with Larat. There’s 0 gain to her in actually paying the debt :3
The direct gain is being freed from the debt. We haven’t seen it bothering Cat at all so far, but there’s supposed to be a weight to that and she needs to pay her part of the bargain to Larat. Both because of Narrative and because of Fae Power shenanigans, something bad is bound to happen if she goes back on her word to Larat.
So she must pay and present the seven crowns and one, but there’s nothing saying that she must actually let Larat live afterwards.
There’s also a gain in having more powerful subordinates who can fight for her and gate her armies through Arcadia, but she might not care much about that now that she has Sve Noc.
My point is, Cat will pay off her debt, but then screw up Larat in one way or another.
I’m expecting her to use Kairos as a way to wiggle out of consequences here 😀
she is pulling an ‘oh please dont throw me into the briar patch’ on him
oh and btw: being freed of the debt is actually against her interests here explicitly, because the Wild Hunt is a useful resource and is only sworn to her until the debt is paid.
True, but that’s not what I’m arguing here. Paying the debt is troublesome and likely to be a bad thing in general for giving that kind of power to Larat, we knew that since Book 3.
Nevertheless, Cat still has to pay Larat his due.
Failing to do so would have consequences, that has been implied to be the case with vows and oaths, too. A contract with a Fae should have strong force behind it, especially since the two parties involved are such significant people as the Black Queen and the former Prince of Nightfall.
Again, she can’t break it explicitly, but weaseling her way around it on technicalities is how fae oaths WORK.
A heroic charge when all seems bleak is the sort of thing that turns a battle around, as Kairos just talked about.
Say, where is Cat with her overpowered calvary squad again?
If the narrative wants to keep this as classicial as possible, we are going to find out she’s in Aracadia just after a scene transition where Vive successfully pulls of her “You let us go, we help” dealings.
This is absolutely what I’m expecting to happen, and fuck Kairos over in the best “Evil Cannot Comprehend Good” ploy ever written.
1. Good to see Vivienne is quick to understand what’s going on and what she needs to do.
2. I was not expecting another Alliance force in Arcadia. I knew the Proceran horse hadn’t been participating, but I hadn’t made the connection.
3. Has Larat been working with the Tyrant to establish a new Court?
4. Is this all a surprise to Catherine, or did she anticipate the shape of things in Arcadia?
5. What role will her staffswordprayer play in the coming confrontation in Arcadia?
IMO we’ll get a Catherine chapter next.
Vivienne’s POV was the best ❤
And I think Larat's thing is just blatantly obvious to someone as knowledgeable in arcane matters as Kairos is.
And I think Catherine's playing Kairos like a fiddle, still 😀
But your second paragraph is exactly what konstantinvoncarstein is complaining about a few comments above, Kairos doesn’t have the Gift and he can’t use High Arcana so he is, in fact, not knowledgeable in arcane matters. Besides that, there should be no way for Kairos to know about Catherine’s deal with Larat and it’s exact terms, and yet he knows.
It’s the kind of cheat Kairos has, getting information with absolutely no explanation of how he got it and that by all means should be impossible for him to have. This can’t even be justified by Wish, unless he can extend that Aspect and use it on anyone in Creation and beyond so he used it on Larat (who he hasn’t met as far as we know) to know what the former Prince of Nightfall is after.
There’s much much more to arcane matters than High Arcana.
Intercessor is not High Arcana. Rituals are not High Arcana. Whispering Woods are not High Arcana.
I don’t think Kairos knows about the exact terms of the deal there. I think what Kairos knows is general lore that the deal was made of – fae are predictable on a very basic level, that’s how Cat beat them through horrifying disadvantage.
Kairos knows lore, he knows the underpinnings of everything. You don’t need to know the exact programs and OS of your opponent’s computer if you know how computers work and what OSs exist and what programs can and cannot do. He gets that from having the Helikean royal library / upbringing, and then the resources of the entire League. That is the kind of advantage villains get – resources and privilege.
Not to mention whoever/ whatever was/is locked in the basement.
Because I suspect pacts and bonds.
Kairos does NOT lack resources.
The exact mechanism is honestly irrelevant here. Villains inexplicably having a leg up on heroes in intel is a narrative freebie. Villains observing heroes’ every step but being unable to counter them vs heroes struggling to figure out where to actually go and what to do but winning every actual confrontation is bog standard.
(Incidentally, it’s characteristic of Cat, and we all know what role she is actually playing in the metanarrative despite the allegiance…)
You know the trope where heroes go on an epic vision quest in pursuit of wisdom, to finally after much toil and virtuousness miraculously get the location of a mcguffin… just in time to get in a fight with the villains’ mooks/officers there!
Hmm, not exactly. Villains don’t inexplicably have a leg up on heroes intel, they have a network that they have spend years to make and a lot of experience that enables them to read and predict the Heroes’ personality and movements.
This is because traditionally the Villain is a veteran, older than the heroes by at least a decade and has been working and scheming on whatever his objective is for many years, it’s not unjustified in the narrative. It’s part of the reason for Amadeus’ hatred for the Heroes’ Cheats, because one year of a Heroic teenager’s efforts is enough to overthrow the sum work of a Villain’s lifetime.
But Kairos doesn’t have that, he has Wish as an Aspect which lets him read people, that’s fine, but the sheer ammount of information Kairos is in possession of is absurd.
Kairos is a ruler by right of inheritance of a stable&ancient nation currently ideologically united around him.
1) That Helike isn’t that ancient, just a few hundred years.
2) That’s still not enough for the info Kairos has on the Intercessor, Neshamah nor the deal Cat has with Larat.
3) Helike wasn’t supposed to have the kind of sorceries Kairos has been constantly using since his fight against Hanno (Giant drills, flying towers, necromantic constructs, multiple enchanted items and an apparently endless supply of gargoyles). These are the signature of old Praes warfare and can only be done by the work of multiple skilled practitioners of magic and Named sorcerers. That Kairos has used all this so far could be justified if Kairos had a Named sorcerer with him, but he doesn’t.
Your comment made me wonder if it was the thing under the crypt in Helike that gave Karios these advantages but my searching has revealed nothing in the Guide that supports the crypt being a factor. There’s just two mentions I’ve been able to find:
https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/04/05/usurpation/
“That was what he’d learned today, going down to the crypt even though he had been forbidden to by the king. The… thing in the tomb had spoken its prophecy in a croaky whisper, that he would not make it to his thirteenth nameday.”
Kairos eyed his hand, which was shaking like a leaf. Not, though, out of fear. How strange. When he’d woken this morning, he had been already flinching at the thought of his father’s displeasure. Now, looking at the fury painted over the king’s face, he could think of only one thing: what are you going to do, Father? Kill me before I die?
https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/prologue-3/
“Treachery is pleasing to the Gods Below,” he said. “There’s a crypt in Helike, under the palace, where the first foundations of the city were laid. There’s a creature there, lying under a tomb of stone sculpted to look like someone holding a sword. There is a crack in the side just large enough that you can hear the thing inside whisper, if you press your ear to it.”
“I don’t know what it is. My father said it’s the first king of Helike, still straddling the line between life and death,” the Tyrant said. “The king, though, once said it is the god who once owned the ground the city was built on – tricked into the tomb and forever bound to give us advice.”
“Advice?” the diplomat repeated.
“Prophecies,” the boy said. “All of royal blood can ask one question if it, in our lifetime.”
“And it told you you would rule?” Anaxares guessed.
The Tyrant laughed. “It told me,” he said, “that I would die when I turned thirteen. That there was nothing I could do to change this.” The boy smiled. “It was,” he said, “a great gift.”
I have said this already: fae lore is not that complicated. When you see the materials you can guess what will be built of them even if you don’t have the blueprint.
And where’s the source on “Helike is not supposed to have that”? I distinctly recall commentary that because Helike is not Praes their rituals were inefficient and took more blood sacrifice than they would have needed…
I mean, seriously, please find the quote you’re referring to? I don’t think erratic leaves plot holes, I want to see that one.
That’s the thing, Liliet, there isn’t anything even mentioning in passing anything about Helike’s being capable of the things Kairos has made them do. My argument is not quotes of it, it’s the LACK of quotes of it.
By the way, the comment about their inefficiency was made by Hedge Wizard when the Tyrant killed 666 people on each of the 6 towers that he made float (she tried to distract herself from the slaughter by commenting that Praesi would have used only half as many sacrifices).
Every mention of Helike talks about their military might due to their fine soldiers and that they are almost unstoppable when a Tyrant is leading them. There’s nothing about them being proficient at magic (they had an influential House of Light, priests that attended the court of Kairos’ father, however) and yet Kairos has people using blood magic, grand rituals and High Arcana without any explanation for it.
He (or rather his mages) disrupted Wekesa’s scrying network, laid spell patters with advanced understanding of spellcrafting mechanics, constantly used rituals to move gigantic machines, and also constantly present Kairos with new enchanted equipment (a flying throne, gargoyles, fire rubies that throw lasers, souls bound to skulls and lamps, an enchanted crown, etc)
There’s A LOT of deeds done by Kairos that would require extremely talented mages and numerous at that. Most notably the fact that they could disrupt the workings of an experienced and talented Warlock like Wekesa, yet there’s nothing that explain all that. Amadeus is surprised about it in Interlude Cadenza, and if Helike had mages capable of matching Wekesa they would be famous for it.
There’s no mention of Helike ever having the level of mages needed for the things Kairos has pulled, that’s the point I’m addressing. This would all make sense if Tyrant had a sorcerous Named under his command, (which I expected to appear in the previous books but never appeared), but he doesn’t have one and making such character appear now out of nowhere saying “all these things were done by this previously unintroduced Named” would be cheap so it’s unlikely to happen. The magisterium of Stygia are all mages so that can explain some of the things Kairos does now, but not the ones he did before having the League obeying him. The current implication due to not providing any proper explanation is simply that Kairos gathered all the mages of Helike and maybe from other countries and had them work like crazy to pull off all these deeds, yet that wouldn’t be enough to match a Warlock like Wekesa.
It’s “an unexplained advantage of a villain” as you called it, a Cheat Character like konstantinvoncarstein called Kairos.
Wait, are we actually disagreeing on anything here?
My point is that the way Guide’s basic worldbuilding is set up, there are things that don’t need to be set up explicitly every time, like heroic backstories… or origin of villainous advantages. As long as it’s something that is predicted by Saturday morning cartoon tropes, it can be reasonably expected to happen unless contradicted by strong evidence to the contrary; and in presence of such evidence, it should be expected to happen anyway, with twice as much bang due to greater dramatic effect.
My point is that it is not only heroes that benefit from this unspoken trope guarantee, but villains as well; and that Kairos Theodosian is in no way outside of this framework.
All that said, I remember a quote about Theodosius the Unconquered consulting his “soothsayers” before battles to find out if he’s going to win or lose; before Maddened Fields they ended up saying “yes”. So there is at least one known kind of mage / prophetic tradition in Helike, and no reason to assume Kairos doesn’t have access to it.
Our disagreement is that you consider “He’s a villain” as enough justification and explanation for Kairos pulling off the things he has done, while I don’t.
I’m looking for a way to justify this situation so that it wouldn’t be a plot hole but you just shrug it off as “He’s a villain, he can do it”.
Most, if not all, of the things done by other characters has been explained or given proper background to build upon and justify their capability to do these things they do, the exception is Kairos. It can’t be brushed off as him simply being the young Hero of Villains, capable of inexplicably doing things. The main problem is that this isn’t just Kairos doing inexplicable things, it’s his followers doing them, because unless they are Named they shouldn’t be capable of that.
Soothsayers are diviners by the way, and not very effective given the answer they gave Theodosius lol.
Anyways, Helike can have mages, diviners and warlocks (we know they have strong priests capable of strong miracles, even priest-warriors like the Spear Saints), that’s not a problem, although the utter lack of mention of them if Helike actually had such is glaring; the problem is the things those mages are doing, like being capable of disrupting the works of a Named Warlock, Wekesa. That’s simply not possible unless there’s massive talent or power, like a Named with them, and if their country had that kind of things they would be famous for it, Kairos is matching the workings of the old Praesi Dread Emperors without having the culture and talented mages that enable them.
A possible explanation could be that the Name of Tyrant gave Kairos capabilities in magic, so he is practitioner, but that would still be lacking.
Quantity beats quality, sometimes. I think Tyrant was only able to disrupt Warlock’s communications once Masego already broke into them, also? What was the other time when he bested him?
I think it also happened when during the battle where Sabah was killed but I’m not sure.
Still, the only other times that Wekesa’s workings were disrupter were by the hand of powerful priests or other sorcerous Named. Random people, even if numerous, can’t hope to match his level of skill and power.
Heroes can inherit or otherwise benefit from intelligence networks too. If nothing else, consider Thief’s earlier roles; but I’m quite sure at least some temples or priests will have spy networks, not to mention national leaders. And most of the time, Heroes will have at least some access to those. (Though I suspect Cordelia may lately be an exception. 😉 )
That said, magical scrying was basically a Praesi monopoly until quite recently, and it took a war or two to jump-start the Good side’s magical explorations. However, we’ve seen heroes as well as villains with aspects that draw information out of individual opponents, or provide visions from distant places.
When Cat mentioned the “Seven Crowns and One” thing to Summer Princess, she reacted in horror and was all “You can NOT let him get that.” I’m guessing that whatever scheme this facilitates, it’s very old and very well known. The Fae act out stories, so Larat has tried to be the character in a story he finds favorable, but it sounds like both Cat and Kairos have figured out what that story really is. He doesn’t need superpowered insight, he just needs to have read the right book.
Sulia was a Princess of Summer, of course she knew what that meant. That doesn’t tell us anything about how well known that thing is. And the things of Fae aren’t actually that well known, every single instance of any magic practitioner looking at a Fae so far had them going “oh, interesting, I didn’t know that. I wonder what would happen if X, I want to make tests” Masego stated there were centuries of research on Fae and even then what they knew was minimal, and that’s from professional, well-trained, dedicated, and likely genius mages working on the subjects for generations. The rest of Calernia knows nearly nothing about the Fae, Killian is the granddaughter of one and doesn’t know much, even the thing about stories was only recently known and to find that they had to go to the Capital of Winter. Kairos shouldn’t know about this process for creating a new Fae Court nor the content of Cat’s bargain to Larat.
~So no, this isn’t something Kairos could know by reading a story book~
Yeah, it’s a puzzle. I hope we get an explanation of the source of Karios’ knowledge and power.
I wouldn’t put it past Larat to have visited Kairos on the sly.
Yes, I suspect that too.
Re: 2.
We were told about the Proceran and Dominion cavalry being in Arcadia with Rogue Sorcerer at the end of Interlude: Graves We Have Yet To Fill. Yannu had planned to send them (with Saint) to attack inside the palisade while the infantry was attacking the outside, but he calls off the whole plan when Grey Pilgrim confirms that it won’t get Cat to take the field.
Re: next chapter…
I’d put my money on one more interlude — Vivienne’s negotiation with Pilgrim is important enough that we should see it on screen, and there’s at least one more shoe to drop, not even counting Masego. I’m expecting to see one more Tariq PoV, where he sees the results of all three of Cat’s letters and makes one last attempt to shift the Narrative in his favor, before realizing how badly he’s been outmaneuvered. I don’t think we’ll see Cat’s PoV again until she needs to ride in and play her last card — which would be bad, with Pilgrim and Saint still both in play — or until the peace talks, if she manages to get there without taking the field herself.
I want Grem’s POV…
Serena Halut
So, don’t know if anyone’s noticed but the Interlude titles are connected.
West, Ever Pursuing
Graves We Have Yet To Fill
Trust is the Wager
Death They Cannot Steal
And Pay Your Toll
When Iron Rests
It forms an actual poem called a ballad rhyme, notice the scheme abcb defe. It’s unfinished with the second stanza only half-done. So it seems we have just 2 interludes left until we see Cat again.
I think you’re seeing an artifact of the titles coming from song lyrics. I note that in my own dialect, “fill” does not rhyme with “steal”, also the meter of the composite poem is a mess.
I laughed through most of this chapter.
Thank you very much EE.
Hmm… Now, does the Tyrant just want to take the crowns for himself, thinking he’ll ruin Cat’s day by preventing the fae getting them? Or does he mean to be the one to *hand them out* to the fae, because he sees through the deception, that Cat actually does NOT want the fae to ever get those…
Hmmm, that would work as a classical villain usurpation. “I know you had a deal to get these crowns, but I got the crowns. Now you deal/work with me if you want your due!” And could even turn around into Cat dodging the “Now that I’m a god, I kill you, former master!” sort of bad end for the helpers in those stories if she hands it over to Kairos.
Where are these last couple of titles coming from?
They are all lyrics to songs sung by the Legion/Callow armies.
What songs? When I looked they weren’t in the Wiki. (They certainly sound right, though.)
They are, the only one I couldn’t find was the origin of “And Pay Your Toll”
West, Ever Pursuing is from the “Tyranny of the Sun”
Graves We Have Yet To Fill is from “In Dread Crowned”
Trust Is The Wager is from “The Girl Who Climbed The Tower”
Death They Cannot Steal comes from “Here They Come Again”
When Iron Rests is from “Dead the Hand”, the song about Hakram.
Girl who climbed the tower isn’t a callowan song btw. It’s a secret song that only seems to appear to people involved with the tower, like a prophecy of sorts
The others aren’t either, only “Here they come again” is a Callowan song.
“Tyranny of the Sun” is an old Praesi song, while “In Dread Crowned” and “Dead the Hand” are songs written by the members of the Fifteenth Legion back when they were still part of the Legion of Terror serving Praes.
OK, that’s one of the two missing titles. If nobody can find the last one, it might show up as a future song. It certainly has the right feel.
There’s a “Pay your price” lyric, but that’s not quite right, unless EE made an error.
The closest I found was in “The Lord of the Silver Spears” that has a lyric near the end saying “and you will pay!”
Rustndusty
This one was from chapter 25 of book three, sung as Hakram slaughters a minor fae noble. The last one doesn’t seem to be from a song we’ve seen yet.
https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_the_Sun
https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/In_Dread_Crowned
https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Climbed_The_Tower
Death they cannot steal is from Here They Come Again
https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/Here_They_Come_Again
And Pay Your Toll I seriously have no idea from where that is, sorry.
When Iron Rests is from Dead the Hand, the song about Hakram:
https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/Dead_the_Hand
considering that cat cant play shatranj worth a damn it wis quite ironic
In the end she explodes the board. With Night power. In Kairos face.
Silly Legions. You should know by now Cat’s *always* up to something.
Bahahahahahaha!
Oh Kairos. Never change.
(Now was that “is this was love feels like” directed towards Cat or do we have a second ship on the table, Hakram…?)
For that matter, what was being implied by Hakram recalling the way Juniper looked at him with distrust in the early days? I know Hakram’s stated as being a bit of a lady’s orc (and Juniper always seems about half-a-step from disproving the thing about orcs and humans), so it would seem odd to be implyng Hakram and Juniper have a thing, so…?
I think it’s also the thing he said way back when he became Adjutant. He’s not a great “Orc” in the classical sense. Juniper has the blood lust, she just has it on a higher, more intellectual level, moving armies against each other rather then a personal desire to put her sword in somebody’s guts. But by his own admission Hakram never really had it period. He’s “Off” and that’s probably more obvious to other Orc’s than Humans. Early Fifteenth was before his named moment where he said “And so, at last, I am an orc.” His sleeping around, was a symptom but not the whole of his overall “I don’t really feel much of anything. I’m not much of anything” so it’s not hard to see that a man with that self perception would see the doubting eyes of a superior and say “Hmm, she might have a point.”
Juniper has talked to Cat about this in Book 3 Chapter Host, the one where In Dread Crowned was revealed. Basically orcs have some violent ableism baked into their culture against a negative stereotype of the kind of neurodivergent Hakram is, and Juniper “suspected he was a coldblood”. The point being that he is, but it doesn’t stop him from being the wonderful guy that he is, so nobody cares.
Juniper has… quite a bit of cultural bigotry in her actually, between this and her attitude towards Vivi. She’s an interesting character indeed.
Yeah, Juniper has that bit of bigotry that most people obsessed with rules has, like the disdain she showed when Nauk was mourning Nilin’s death.
But in the case of Juniper’s attitude towards Vivienne, that is Vivi’s fault since she actively and purposefully did things to make others get a bad impression of her, at least when she was still the Thief.
Besides, neither Juniper nor Vivienne have likable personalities so to get them to get along they would need to directly save each other lives (in a violent fashion, brutalizing the opponent or killing many at once in Vivienne case, to earn Orc respect from Juniper).
…I find them both likable, but then I have very low standards lmao
I love everything else you say here ❤
Oh, they are likable characters, don’t get me wrong. I meant it as they as people living in their world, they aren’t likeable people, as evidenced by their lack of friends outside a very, very small circle.
Although they are fiercely loyal and dedicated to those they accept, their friends would first have to pass through the barriers Juniper and Vivienne rose:
-Juniper’s obsession with rules, judgmental attitude, temperament, constant demand for discipline, not to mention Orc standards of proficiency at violence.
-Vivienne’s distrust to others, layers of lies, paranoia, constant tests to figure out the loyalties, intentions and true natures of others, her kleptomaniac nature, not to mention her constant self-doubt that almost made her abandon the Woe if Hakram hadn’t cut off his own hand to show her just how invaluable she actually is.
It’s kinda like Robber is an amazing and interesting character to read, but is as far as we have seen a crappy friend with a deadly sense of humor. Hahaha.
Well I certainly like both of them as people more than I like Robber lmao
Vivienne is loyal and fiercely dedicated to the cause of good, smart and quick-witted and observant; she was a good friend to William the minute he pulled his head out of his ass for a moment.
Juniper is a great mom friend, the kind of person you want in your corner and taking care of you and yours, always ready to call you out on your bullshit without any hard feelings lingering behind.
IDK I just like specifically the way they are
Wait, so is this confirming that Hakram is a high functioning psychopath (or the Orc equivalent at least, like Juniper suspected)? Also, can you imagine how terrifying a low functioning psychopathic orc would be?
If anything, he’s the opposite of a psychopath-equivalent. When we humans hear “coldblood”, we think of a sociopath’s “cold-blooded” machinations etc, lacking the warmth of human empathy, affection, compassion, etc.
To an orc, the word would have very different implications, because for an orc, their normal response to various situations is bloodlust. Lacking that bloodlust response would be abnormal — perhaps even considered “acting more human than orc”.
Here, Hakram’s halting words and the start of Catherine’s meditation on him:
https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/chapter-59-anacrusis/
> I called you Warlord then, and I don’t regret it. I don’t keep to the old ways, not like Nauk, but it is no empty word. I haven’t used it since because it-“ / He scowled, unsure of himself for once. / “It’s not the right title, not for the two of us,” he finally said. “Too shallow in the wrong places. We are more than war.”
> It was times like these I understood how peculiar Hakram truly was, compared to others of his kind. It wasn’t his temperament, or his way with people. There was an underlying threat to the way orcs like Nauk and Juniper and every other orc I’d met saw the world, and in Adjutant it was absent. I thought much of the Hellhound, but never would I imagine her saying we are more than war. It would go against her nature.
This turned up while searching for the last couple of chapter titles, which I did not find. And apropos of nothing, I just realized that Nauk and the men who died with him didn’t get any secrets for the Underworld. 😦
who says they didn’t? Cat showed up for the final bit after the bodies were gathered. The soldiers had a whole afternoon to give out secrets.
That’s how I’m reading this yeah :3
So, I don’t see any reason why “laying the crowns at [Larat’s] feet” couldn’t refer to a tribute at his grave or something done after the crowns have been “used.”
I do. because remember, this is a Fae story with a fae character, not a regular mortal. Death is very different for these guys. Odds are reasonable that if it was done the way you say, our winter crowboy pops out of his grave, fully restored and stronger then ever, laughing and screaming something classical like “At lasssstttttttt!”
If you try to dodge the traditional script that such a phrase refers to, you may find that your results are likewise literally correct, but lacking their expected meaning.
Ancusohm
Um, I’ve somehow managed to miss all the neurodivergent themes. Well, I know Masego is heavily implied to be on the autism spectrum, and there’s that ogre general who has low empathy. Is that what people mean?
Could someone please explain for a reader who is awful at picking up on subtext?
Well, Hune’s low empathy may be an ogre feature, or just the hostility of an oppressed band of refugees.
Aside from that, Amadeus is believed to be demisexual with other divergences possible, and Hakram is nonstandard for an orc. Akua and Indrani may or may not be technically neurodivergent, but their respective psychologies are distinctly odd by our IRL standards.
Any thoughts as to what battle will officially be dubbed “Prince’s Graveyard” from Juniper’s memoirs? At a glance, I’d wager Kairos vs. all the Principate Knights in Arcadia, but that seems too easy.
It seems to me that it’s all coming to a head and that the Princes Graveyard will be resolved soon. Certainly in this fragment of Arcadia but perhaps it will happen as, or soon after, the fragment has entered Creation.
I agree that it’s not going to be as simple as “Karios vs. the Principate”. There’s Cat, Masego, Hakram, Larat and the rest of the Wild Hunt involved as well, plus the potential for the Dead King to get involved as well (as others have already discussed).
At this point, I’m guessing that the resolution will come when we get back to Cat.
I’m mad cause we didn’t get to see if the tyrant is actually riding the goat
Max Scherer
I think(and really really hope) that Cat excepted that both partys will be their and i know i will be salty that she will again loose somehow and not really get her way(yes her plan will probabaly somehow work, but only with workarounds and whatnot), but this time I get a warning that her plan will get fucked up…. But hey the tyrant still thinks that they are playing a game and Cat never plays the game 😀
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Investment Funds 2019
Law and Practice
Evan Zhang Ping
Han Kun Law Offices have about 50 fund specialised lawyers located in offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong and are one of the first investment funds practices in China to provide services to set up and operate onshore RMB and offshore investment funds. The firm's investment funds practice specialises in forming and operating onshore RMB and offshore investment funds of various types, and are highly knowledgeable of every aspect of investment funds, including fundraising, investment, management and exiting from investment funds. Han Kun is an outside consultant to the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) and often advises on and assists with the development of draft laws and regulations for the private equity departments of CSRC and AMAC; it is an affiliate member of AMAC and is one of the law firms recommended for private equity funds as published on the organisation’s website.
1. Fund Formation
1.1 Formation of Investment Funds
In the People’s Republic of China (the PRC, which, for purposes of this chapter, excludes Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan), investment fund managers and advisers are generally subject to strict regulatory registration requirements. In addition, investment funds are subject to filing requirements and ongoing supervision. As a result, the PRC is not a popular destination for international advisers and managers to form investment funds, unless capital is to be raised within the PRC and/or invested in portfolios established in the PRC.
In the PRC, investment funds are generally classified as publicly offered funds and private investment funds. Publicly offered funds may only invest in securities. Private investment funds are further classified into private securities funds, private equity funds, private venture capital funds (together with private equity funds, 'PE/VC funds') and other types of private investment funds.
According to publications of the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC), which is the self-regulatory organisation for investment funds in the PRC, (i) as of 30 November 2018, there were 24,418 private fund managers registered with the AMAC and 75,220 private investment funds filed with the AMAC, including 36,053 private securities funds, 27,115 private equity funds, 6,442 private venture capital funds and 5,610 private investment funds of other types (such as commodity sector funds); and (ii) as of 30 September 2018, there were 119 management companies of public offered funds and 5,459 publicly offered funds.
1.2 Raising Capital from Investors
Most PRC investment fund managers raise capital from domestic investors because generally it is impracticable for investment funds formed in the PRC to accept foreign investors, unless approved by the competent authorities under limited circumstances introduced below.
For PE/VC funds, in a few pilot cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Chongqing, registered fund managers may apply to the local financial supervision and administration authorities to set up foreign-invested equity investment partnerships under local qualified foreign limited partners (QFLP) pilot policies. QFLP funds are private equity funds permitted to accept foreign investors and their contributions in foreign currency. As these policies are intended to attract high-quality foreign investors, foreign investors are subject to many eligibility requirements. Significant regulatory requirements also exist for QFLP fund managers, including high registered capital and management personnel experience requirements and requirements for the QFLP funds themselves, such as fund size and minimum investor commitments. Even if an applicant meets all of the requirements, the final decision on QFLP fund formation is still subject to comprehensive consideration by the local authorities.
Foreign investors may indirectly invest in publicly offered funds in the PRC through the Pilot Programme of Securities Investment in China by Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors or the Pilot Programme of Securities Investment in China by RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors, approved by both the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
1.3 Common Process for Setting Up Investment Funds
The common process for setting up a private investment fund is as follows.
Establish a private fund manager. Before setting up any private investment fund in the PRC, a qualified private fund manager must first be set up and registered with the AMAC.
Identify offering targets. In order to avoid being considered a public offering, fund managers need to determine the ability of prospective subscribers to identify and tolerate risk through a questionnaire survey or other methods prior to promoting a specific fund. Suitable investors will need to confirm their qualified investor status in writing.
Make risk assessments and match investors with suitable funds. The fund-raisers will estimate the risk level of the private investment funds and promote to subscribers only those funds that match their ability to identify and tolerate risk.
Disclose risk factors of the funds to subscribers.
Verify whether the subscribers are qualified investors. The fund-raisers will require subscribers to provide necessary proof of their qualified investor status, such as proof of assets or income.
Execute fund subscription documents.
Undergo a cooling-off period. The fund contract will provide for a cooling-off period of no fewer than 24 hours for investors (except for certain exempt persons). The cooling-off period for private securities funds commences after the fund contract has been signed and the subscriber has made payments for the subscribed funds. The cooling-off period for other private investment funds can begin as agreed upon by the fund participants. During the cooling-off period, the subscriber may revoke the subscription and the fund-raisers are not permitted to contact the subscriber.
Make call-back confirmations with the subscribers. Upon expiry of the cooling-off period, fund-raisers may follow up with the subscribers to confirm whether the subscribers wish to revoke the subscription. This step is not currently compulsory.
The private fund manager submits a fund filing to the AMAC.
Subscription documents for private investment funds usually consist of investor information tables, a risk tolerance assessment questionnaire, risk disclosures, a qualified investor status investigation questionnaire, capital subscription letters, tax residency statement documents, as well as a fund contract.
The common process for setting a publicly offered fund is relatively simpler, including:
apply to establish a publicly offered fund manager;
fund-raising registration with the CSRC;
risk assessment and matching investors with suitable funds;
execution of fund subscription documents;
capital verification and fund record-filing; and
public announcements made by the fund manager on the day subsequent to the receipt of the CSRC’s confirmation documents.
Subscription documents for publicly offered funds mainly consist of investor information tables, a risk tolerance assessment questionnaire, fund risk disclosure statements, a prospectus, tax residency statement documents, as well as a fund contract.
1.4 Regulation of Fund Structures
Investment funds formed in the PRC are, in practice, required to be managed within the PRC and have a place of business in the PRC. Investment fund managers must be established in the PRC and registered with the AMAC or the CSRC. During the investment fund manager registration process, applicants need to confirm and certify that they have an actual place of business for daily operations. Although not explicitly stated in the relevant regulations, the actual place of business for investment fund managers needs to be situated within the PRC in practice.
1.5 Limited Liability
Investors generally enjoy limited liability protection in funds organised in typical legal forms. In the PRC, investment funds are usually structured as limited partnerships, contractual funds, or as companies.
Limited partners may avoid liability for the debts and obligations of the limited partnership in excess of their capital commitments. To enjoy this benefit, the limited partners may neither manage the partnership affairs nor represent the limited partnership with third parties. Where a third party believes a limited partner to be the general partner of the limited partnership and conducts business transactions on that basis, the limited partner may be deemed to be a general partner and lose its limited liability status with respect to these transactions.
In the case of contractual funds, the fund’s debts are to be repaid with fund assets only, and the owners of fund interests are liable for the fund’s debts only to the extent of their respective capital contributions, unless otherwise agreed in the fund contract.
With respect to company funds, under normal circumstances, investor liability is limited to each investor’s subscription commitment to the company. Investors may not abuse their shareholder rights and limited liability protection in a manner which violates the Company Law of the PRC (2018); otherwise, an investor may be subject to extra damage compensation liabilities and/or joint liabilities for the company’s debts.
1.6 Common Tax Regimes
A private investment fund in the form of a limited partnership or contractual fund will be treated as fiscally transparent for income tax purposes. In other words, the investors are liable to pay taxes on income realised from a limited partnership or contractual fund, not the fund itself. Where an investor is also fiscally transparent, the income tax obligations will flow upwards.
With respect to company funds, a 25% company income tax rate will apply to net income. Company fund investors are also generally subject to income taxes on their share of any distributions received from the fund. Certain exceptions exist, for example equity investment income such as dividends, between qualified resident enterprises and are considered income tax exempt.
Private investment funds and/or their managers are also liable for value-added tax, when a private investment fund recognises gains through financial product transactions, such as the sale of stock in a listed company. For contractual funds, value-added taxes are paid by the funds’ management company. It remains unclear for limited partnership funds and company funds whether the fund itself or its managers are liable for value-added taxes with respect to the fund’s gains from financial product transactions.
1.7 Investment Sponsors
With respect to PE/VC fund establishment and investment, the PRC is not a popular jurisdiction for investment sponsors from other jurisdictions or in other particular jurisdictions or regions because of the country’s foreign exchange controls and restrictions on both inbound and outbound investment. The PRC also does not present any particular tax advantages compared to other jurisdictions.
1.8 Disclosure Requirements
Under PRC regulations, private investment funds are all subject to ongoing disclosure obligations to investors, including fund-raising information disclosures, fund operation information and interim disclosures. False records, misleading statements or material omissions are strictly prohibited at every disclosure stage.
As for fund-raising information, a private placement memorandum (PPM) is required to be provided to targeted investors and submitted to the AMAC as a filing document. To protect investors’ rights to understand operation of the private investment fund and related risks, certain content must be included in the PPM, such as basic information of the fund and its manager, key terms of the fund contract and risk disclosures.
In the terms of fund operation information, the AMAC has established disclosure guidelines to provide mandatory requirements for the content and frequency of information disclosures. The frequency of mandatory disclosure requirements differs substantially for different private investment fund types. Private securities funds are required to at least provide investors with monthly reports containing the unit net value and basic fund information, quarterly reports to update more information associated with portfolio securities, and annual reports which generally include detailed investment and fund financial information. However, PE/VC funds are only mandatorily required to provide investors with semi-annual and annual reports to disclose the latest financial and/or investment information.
When specified events occur which may have a significant impact on the rights and interests of investors, interim disclosures are required to be timely provided to the investors in accordance with the fund contract.
Publicly offered funds, which are more strictly regulated, must fulfil more disclosure obligations than private investment funds. For instance, a draft prospectus is required to be submitted to the CSRC as one of the fund registration materials and a final prospectus is required to be published at least three days before the offering.
1.9 Legal Forms
Private investment funds typically take the form of limited partnerships or contractual funds. PE/VC funds generally prefer limited partnerships, while contractual funds are typically used to form a private securities fund. Both limited partnerships and contractual funds are fiscally transparent and are not themselves subject to income taxes. However, several key differences between these two forms cause there to be a distinct preference for different fund types. Private investment funds can also legally take the form of a company, but, in practice, very few private equity funds take the form of a company due to tax and management flexibility considerations.
There are a number of competitive advantages that a contractual fund has over a limited partnership. The first is the limit on the aggregate number of investors. A limited partnership can only admit up to 50 partners while a contractual fund is allowed to have up to 200 investors, which may benefit fund-raising. The second is that contractual funds are not subject to local Administration of Industry and Commerce (AIC) procedures since they are not considered an entity separate from their investors. Limited partnerships are, however, required to comply with AIC procedures from establishment to dissolution, which may be considered inflexible and time consuming.
Despite the advantages of the contractual fund form that appeal to private investment funds, a clear drawback causes PE/VC fund managers to be hesitant to organise PE/VC funds as contractual funds. PRC PE/VC funds typically issue IPOs on domestic stock exchanges (A-share IPOs) since this is considered the most profitable exit strategy. Contractual funds, however, are subject to a much more rigorous review with respect to equity ownership and stability, which may result in a portfolio company requiring the contractual fund to exit before an A-share IPO. Despite this drawback, there has been some improvement in regulatory policies with respect to the clarity of A-share IPO reviews where a contractual fund is a direct or indirect shareholder. It is therefore possible in the future that PE/VC funds will prefer contractual funds.
Publicly offered funds can use any of the investment forms discussed above, but usually take the form of a contractual fund, presumably due to the flexibility of the contractual fund form with respect to the subscription and redemption of fund shares and the fact that there are no limits with respect to the number of investors as compared to other forms.
1.10 Regulatory Status
Investment funds are all under CSRC supervision and administration of the CSRC and its local branches, and/or the AMAC. The CSRC is the competent authority of the securities markets and is subordinate to the State Council, whereas the AMAC is the self-regulatory organisation for the investment funds industry and is under professional guidance and supervision of the CSRC in practice.
More specifically, the CSRC is in charge of fund manager registration and recording of funds for publicly offered funds, while the AMAC plays a more important role in regulating private investment funds. The AMAC performs self-disciplinary regulation over business operations of private investment funds, including but not limited to being responsible for registration of private investment fund managers and private investment fund filings.
1.11 Legal, Regulatory or Tax Legislative Changes
A series of regulations were implemented in 2018 related to asset management business operations which unified the regulatory requirements for similar categories of asset management products. These regulations had a clear impact on the fund-raising and operation of private investment funds by redefining qualified investors, restricting the investment and structure of asset management products and imposing other restrictions. The regulatory framework around private investment funds, however, requires more clarification to co-ordinate with the new regulations and existing AMAC requirements.
The Interim Regulations on Administration of Private Investment Funds (Draft for Comment), once officially enacted, is expected to dispel some of the uncertainty around private investment funds. The Interim Regulations on Administration of Private Investment Funds has been in draft form for over a year and is expected to be formally promulgated in the near future.
In addition, the tax policy with respect to individual investors of private investment funds organised as limited partnerships has previously not been clear and unified. Recent policies, however, have clarified that individual venture capital investors can choose to apply an income tax rate of 20% to their dividend and equity transfer income beginning from 1 January 2019. This has led the market to suspect individual investors of limited partnership private investment funds may separately be subject to a tax rate of 5% to 35% in the future.
2. Fund Investment
2.1 Types of Investors
According to this firm's experience and reports published by the AMAC, as well as third-party research institutions, the main types of investors in PE/VC funds in recent years include high net worth individuals, family offices, listed companies, other private companies and asset management plans. These investors contribute nearly 80% of all investment capital in PE/VC funds.
Other types of investors include trust companies, insurance companies, banks, social security funds, commercial funds of funds, governmental funds of funds, fund managers and their employees and so on.
2.2 Legal, Regulatory and Investment Structures
For PE/VC funds, investors generally prefer to invest in the form of a limited partnership compared to other forms of PE/VC funds. As limited partners, investors’ liability is limited to their capital commitments to the fund. Besides this, the limited partnership form results in no income taxes levied at the partnership level, and each partner only needs to pay its own income taxes.
PE/VC funds in the form of a company are liable for income taxes at both the fund and investor levels. Thus, the limited partnership form may help investors to reduce taxes, especially for individual investors. In addition, the limited partnership form will not become an obstacle if the portfolio company applies for an A-share IPO in the same manner as a contractual fund. As discussed above, the contractual fund form may present a challenge for the fund’s portfolio companies when applying to the CSRC for an A-share IPO.
However, securities investment funds often use the contractual fund form, and the detailed reasons for this have been discussed in 1.9 Legal Forms.
2.3 Legal, Regulatory or Tax Themes/Issues
Any investor investing in a private investment fund is required to meet the qualified investor standards (as further explained in 2.4 Restrictions on Investors). Investors may not use loans or non-self owned funds raised by issuing bonds to invest in a private investment fund. Investors must pledge in writing that he or she has purchased fund interests on behalf of him or herself. Investors may not purchase fund interests for the purpose of later dividing those interests in an illegal manner.
Investors may be subject to different tax treatment depending upon the investment type and form of the private investment fund. Company income tax rates are relatively straightforward. However, individual income tax rates can be complicated in the case of investing through partnerships and may vary under different circumstances, thus presenting issues for certain investors (more analysis will be given in 5 Tax Environment).
2.4 Restrictions on Investors
In the PRC, publicly offered funds are offered to the general public, while private investment funds are only offered to qualified investors.
According to the Interim Measures for Supervision and Administration of Private Investment Funds (2014) promulgated by the CSRC, qualified investors of private investment funds refer to those entities and individuals with the corresponding ability to identify and tolerate risk who invest in private investment funds an amount not less than RMB1 million and comply with one of the following requirements: (i) with respect to entities, their net assets are not less than RMB10 million and (ii) with respect to individuals, their financial assets may not be less than RMB3 million or their personal average annual income in the last three years is not less than RMB500,000.
The following types of investors are inherently considered to be qualified investors:
pension funds, such as social security funds, enterprise annuities, and social non-profit foundations such as charitable funds, etc;
investment plans established according to the law and filed with the AMAC;
private fund managers and their employees who invest in the private investment funds they manage; and
other investors specified by the CSRC.
Also, certain look-through rules apply to verify whether the ultimate investors are qualified investors if the capital of multiple investors is collected in a form which has no legal personality (such as a partnership or by contract) and is directly or indirectly invested in private investment funds.
The 'Guiding Opinions on Regulating the Asset Management Business of Financial Institutions', published in April 2018 (Guiding Opinions), provide another definition of qualified investors for all types of privately offered asset management products, which is similar but not identical to the definition above. More detailed implementation regulations are being awaited to clarify how to co-ordinate the Guiding Opinions with existing regulations issued by the industry authorities and whether the new standards for qualified investors stipulated by the Guiding Opinions will apply to private investment funds.
2.5 Marketing Restrictions
For private investment funds, marketing is carried out by private investment fund managers registered with the AMAC or institutions that have registered with the CSRC and obtained fund sales business qualifications. Sales personnel must also have fund services qualifications.
Fund-raisers need to classify their prospective investors into different categories mainly based on their risk tolerance. Fund managers or their fund sales agents will conduct due diligence investigations and analyse the investors, evaluate the risks of each fund, and inform each investor whether the risk level of the fund for sale is appropriate based on each investor’s risk profile.
Fund-raisers of private investment funds may not issue any public offerings. Fund-raisers may not engage in the following activities when promoting interests in private investment funds to investors:
using materials that contain false records, misleading statements or material omissions;
undertaking in any form that investors will not lose their principal or the investors will receive a minimum return from the fund;
using certain words, such as “secure”, “promise”, “commitment”, “insurance”, “guarantees”, “high returns” and “risk free”, that may mislead investors;
using certain phrases to underline the limited marketing time, such as “purchase the fund as soon as possible” and “a good opportunity to subscribe to the fund”;
promoting or partially selecting the past overall performance of less than six months or performance of past fund products managed by the fund manager;
carrying congratulatory, complimentary or recommendatory words by any individuals or entities about the fund;
using phrases such as “best performance” and “largest scale” to compare with others;
belittling competitors;
allowing individuals not employed by the fund-raisers to promote private investment funds; and
promoting private investment funds that are not established by the fund manager or for which the fund-raiser is not in charge of raising money.
3. Regulatory Environment
3.1 Regulatory Regime
In the PRC, managers of publicly offered funds are required to register as publicly offered fund managers with the CSRC before engaging in fund-raising. Private investment fund managers are also required to register as private fund managers for the specific funds that they manage (such as PE/VC funds) before engaging in fund-raising.
The threshold for registering as a private fund manager is much lower than for a publicly offered fund manager. However, in order to pass regulatory scrutiny, a PE/VC fund manager still needs to meet comprehensive requirements, including but not limited to its name and business scope, minimum contributed capital, independent and separate workplace, adequate office facilities, sufficient employees with fund business qualifications and relevant experience. In the case of a private securities fund manager, all of the managing officers must possess fund business qualifications, whereas only the legal representative and risk control officer need to possess fund qualifications for private PE/VC fund managers. Applicants must also fully disclose their actual ultimate controller and related parties. In addition, applicants and their managing officers are required to be in continuous compliance with laws and regulations and have no adverse records.
A legal opinion on the above matters issued by a qualified PRC law firm is necessary for the application. Once the legal opinion together with other application materials are submitted to the AMAC, it usually takes several rounds of questions before the final decision on the registration application is given. If an application moves to the fifth round of responses and the AMAC is still not satisfied with the applicant’s answers, the application may be suspended for three months.
3.2 Territorial Reach of Regulators
Investment funds formed within the PRC are subject to supervision from the CSRC and/or the AMAC. A manager registered outside the PRC is not permitted to provide marketing, management or advisory services for an investment fund formed in the PRC. As an alternative, foreign managers can set up subsidiaries in the PRC and have these subsidiaries register with the AMAC as private fund managers to provide services to private investment funds in the PRC. According to current policy, the offshore shareholder of a foreign-invested private securities fund manager (other than the manager of PE/VC funds) is required to be a financial institution authorised and governed by the shareholder’s local financial regulatory authority, and there must be a mutual memorandum of understanding on securities regulatory co-operation between the local jurisdiction and the PRC. Foreign investors currently cannot in aggregate control more than 51% of shares in foreign-invested publicly offered fund managers until 2021, at which time this investment restriction will be cancelled.
3.3 Regulatory Approval
In the PRC, only registered fund managers are allowed to raise funds under their own management, while fund sales agents registered with the CSRC or the AMAC may promote funds entrusted by registered fund managers. Registered fund sales agents are also required to become AMAC members in order to market private investment funds.
3.4 Authorisation of Marketing Activities
Only registered publicly offered fund managers may publicly offer funds. Private investment funds are not allowed to publicly offer funds, which includes raising capital from unspecified investors and raising capital from more than 200 specified investors in aggregate.
Fund-raisers therefore may not promote private investment funds through public media channels such as publications, leaflets, bulletins, manuals, correspondence and faxes directed towards the public, posters and outdoor advertisements, web portal link advertisements, blogs, or public telecommunications media including but not limited to television, film, radio and other audio/video media.
Nevertheless, with establishing procedures for determining specified investors, it is permissible for fund-raisers of private investment funds to promote private investment funds through internet-based media such as official websites and mobile apps, telecommunications media such as telephone, SMS and e-mail, seminars, reporting meetings and analysis meetings.
There is no restriction on advertising activities with respect to a private investment fund manager’s brand, development strategy, investment strategy, management team and publicly available information disclosed by the AMAC, which does not include a fund’s distribution strategies, investor rights and obligations, and other detailed terms and conditions related to the fund.
3.5 Investor-Protection Rules
The fund-raisers of either publicly offered funds or private funds will classify investors as general investors or professional investors, and further classify general investors into several categories based on risk tolerance, usually ranging from C1 to C5. General investors enjoy special protections provided by the fund-raisers with respect to information disclosures, risk warnings, suitability matching, etc. Investors who belong to the lowest risk tolerance category cannot invest in any fund with a risk rating above their risk tolerance. Other investors may invest in riskier funds after accepting special risk warnings that the fund-raiser will issue in writing, although fund-raisers may not actively market to these investors any funds of a risk rate higher than the investors’ risk tolerance.
In addition, certain special classes of investors, such as insurance funds and commercial bank wealth management products, are restricted from investing in funds which do not meet specified industry investment requirements. For example, insurance funds which seek to invest in PE/VC funds must ensure that these funds fully comply with standards put forward by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, including but not limited to the fund manager’s investment experience, management scale and professional team, as well as the fund size, limitations on investments in listed companies or a single portfolio and fund information disclosures. In the case of commercial banks that invest in private investment funds through private wealth management products, the funds must be managed by an AMAC member who has been registered as a fund manager for at least one year and has no record of significant violations.
3.6 Approach of the Regulator
While the AMAC is an industry-oriented social organisation under CSRC guidance, the organisation acts as the sole self-regulatory body for the PRC private investment fund industry, including acting as the registration authority for private fund managers, fund practitioners and private investment funds, and has become the most direct and approachable regulator in the industry. The AMAC has long set up telephone hotlines and received email enquiries in order to provide answers regarding several online information filing platforms and relevant regulations. On the other hand, the AMAC has also instituted many unofficial requirements, which may cause some degree of ambiguity in its regulatory activities. The AMAC keeps in communication with fund managers, scholars, government officials and fund lawyers, through various lectures and forums, and is receptive to the general public for suggestions regarding various details of the self-regulatory system.
The AMAC may take disciplinary action in the case of violations by funds or fund managers, which include blacklisting, public reprimands, cancelling fund manager registrations and cancelling the fund manager’s employees’ fund practice qualifications. The AMAC has the power to conduct routine or unscheduled on-site or off-site inspections of private investment fund managers. The AMAC may sometimes co-operate with the CSRC to complete these inspections.
4. Fund Finance
4.1 Access to Fund Finance
Funds in the PRC are permitted to access fund finance for leverage subject to a statutory debt ceiling limitation, which is calculated on the basis of net value of fund assets and does not include unfunded capital commitments. However, it is impractical for funds to issue public or private bonds.
In practice, institutional investors are not inclined to allow funds to borrow money at the sole discretion of a fund manager, without the prior consent of investors.
4.2 Borrowing Restrictions/Requirements
The Guiding Opinions set an upper limit on leverage ratio for different types of funds. For private investment funds and closed-end publicly offered funds, total assets may not exceed 200% of net assets. That is to say, these funds must maintain total debt at or below the net value of their assets. For open-end publicly offered funds, total assets may not exceed 140% of net assets.
Details in relation to borrowing are governed by the terms of the fund agreement, including but not limited to the prior approval process of each borrowing and its maximum duration, approved purposes, and upper limits on outstanding balances.
4.3 Securing Finance
In the PRC, nearly all banks require borrowers to provide pledges against real property or marketable securities for bank loans. However, only a few private investment funds hold assets that are suitable to be pledged. As a result, debtor-creditor relationships between private investment funds and private enterprises, even with the fund manager’s affiliated enterprises, are relatively more common than bank loans. In these cases, the fund may borrow money by virtue of its market reputation without providing any security, or it may provide a pledge against its portfolio investments for the lender, especially in leveraged buyout deals.
Private investment fund investors typically require that the outstanding balance of debts incurred by the fund does not exceed the fund’s unfunded capital commitments or 10% to 30% of the fund’s subscribed capital, in order to prevent the fund from being overleveraged.
4.4 Common Issues in Relation to Fund Finance
Private lending is more popular for PE/VC funds, although this lending tends to be in the form of related-party transactions and prior consent of the fund investors is usually necessary in accordance with the fund contract.
Lately, debt financing has become less common for private investment funds since government-backed investors now play an increasingly important role in the private investment fund market in the PRC, and because government-backed investors are likely to request that funds not make borrowings due to the regulatory requirements that apply to these investors.
5. Tax Environment
5.1 Tax Framework
Generally, tax treatment (tax categories and tax rates) varies according to the types of taxpayers and income. Income taxes are the most commonly considered tax for PE/VC funds and their investors. Among different types of fund entities, companies pay a 25% income tax (if no other preferential enterprise income tax treatment is available), contractual funds and partnerships are generally considered fiscally transparent for income tax purposes. Investors and carried interest participants are also subject to income taxes, and the rule is the same when it comes to investors in the case of the company and partnership forms. Tax treatment for individual taxpayers is more complex since their income is generated from partnership interests. Carried interest participants may also need to pay value-added taxes with respect to their carried interests if this income is considered to be from the sale of services.
With respect to withholding obligations regarding resident investors, company funds are required to withhold income taxes for individual investors, and partnership funds are liable for making tax declarations for individuals’ income taxes and are generally responsible for withholding. Contractual funds are generally considered not liable for withholding under the current tax regime.
5.2 Tax Treaty Network
The PRC has signed three tax multilateral conventions, namely:
Multilateral Conventions on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters;
Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information; and
Multilateral Conventions to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting.
The PRC has also signed double taxation agreements with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan (not yet effective). As of 1 October 2018, the PRC has signed 106 double taxation treaties with other jurisdictions (of which 100 have come into effect) and ten tax information exchange agreements.
These tax treaties have together enhanced tax compliance and mitigated cross-border tax risks for investment funds. On the other hand, non-resident investors of PRC investment funds may benefit from these agreements/treaties where applicable and may receive support in resolving international tax disputes.
5.3 FATCA and CRS Regimes
The PRC has signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information and committed to the first exchange of information in September 2018. Domestic legislation and reporting formats have been adopted to implement the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), which provides guidelines and clarifies a timetable for financial institutions to carry out due diligence of both investment accounts and new accounts and to recognise financial accounts owned by non-residents and report to the relevant taxation authority by May 31st of each year. In addition, financial institutions are required to establish an internal monitoring mechanism to assess the compliance with CRS annually, and to report in writing to the relevant taxation authority by June of the following year.
Both investment funds and their managers are considered reporting financial institutions, and are therefore required to conduct due diligence on their accounts to identify whether those accounts are considered 'reportable accounts' under CRS, and to report information on these reportable accounts and to submit internal inspection reports to the taxation authority annually.
5.4 Tax Structuring Preferences of Investors
PRC tax residents pay income taxes on their worldwide income, both from domestic and foreign sources. PRC tax resident investors are generally allowed to offset the amount of income tax paid overseas against their taxes payable in the PRC up to a specified amount. For a company, the income tax rate is usually 25% if no other preferential income tax treatment is available. However, equity investment income such as dividends and bonuses between qualified resident enterprises are considered income tax exempt. Individual investors invested in company funds are generally subject to a 20% income tax rate on income from the funds. However, individuals invested in partnerships may be subject to different tax rates based on recent policies as mentioned in 1.11 Legal, Regulatory or Tax Legislative Changes in the case of private venture capital funds and, potentially, in other types of investment funds.
In view of the current tax regimes in the PRC, sponsors of PE/VC funds usually prefer the partnership rather than the company form when establishing investment funds. However, it remains an open question for sponsors and investors as to how to structure fund and investment vehicles in a tax-efficient manner due to ongoing public speculation about the trends in relevant tax policies. Nonetheless, local tax rebates and preferential treatment for qualified capital funds are still expected to be major concerns when establishing fund entities.
6.1 Asset Management Industry Bodies
In the PRC, social organisations are required to be registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) or its local counterparts and be guided by a competent industry authority. Asset management (including but not limited to related services provided by banks, trusts, securities, funds, futures and insurance asset management institutions) are separately subject to self-discipline by their respective industry bodies.
The China Banking Association aims to exercise self-regulation in the banking industry and is a national and industry-oriented social organisation under the guidance of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and the MCA.
The China Insurance Industry Association aims to exercise self-regulation of the insurance industry and is a national and industry-oriented social organisation, under the guidance of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission and the MCA.
The AMAC aims to exercise the self-regulation of the investment funds industry, is a national and industry-oriented social organisation under the guidance of the CSRC and the MCA.
6.2 Preference for Courts or Arbitration
Generally, arbitration is the preferred dispute resolution method for private investment funds due to its flexibility and confidentiality.
6.3 Level of Litigation/Arbitration
The fast development of the investment funds market in recent years has resulted in more fund-related disputes, and the relevant dispute resolution mechanisms have also become more mature. For example, the Supreme People’s Court issued a well-known case in 2018 in which the court affirmed the effectiveness of a redemption clause under which the portfolio company was jointly and severally liable for the redemption obligation made by the company’s founder to the investors. This decision changed the market’s opinion established in a 2012 Supreme People’s Court case which found that these redemption arrangements against portfolio companies under valuation adjustment mechanisms were invalid. It is arguable that the 2018 decision is more investor-friendly in practice, has redefined the legal boundaries of certain investor rights and will be influential to the future investment practices.
There are currently no particular arbitration proceedings or special national courts aimed at resolving investment fund-related disputes, although a substantial development occurred in 2017 with the formation of the first fund court in Beijing Fund Town in Fangshan District. This fund court resolves various disputes that arise from the operation of fund institutions such as corporate disputes, equity disputes, contract disputes, etc. It is possible that this attempt, once proven to be practicable and beneficial to the funds industry, can be introduced nationally.
6.4 Periodic Reporting Requirements
In addition to the disclosure requirements to investors, private fund managers are subject to periodic AMAC reporting requirements. Private fund managers are required to regularly report fund operation information to the AMAC through an online system. Private securities fund managers will monthly update the fund size, unit net value and investor information, while other private investment fund managers are only required to report quarterly. These reports are required by the AMAC only to monitor the operation of every private investment fund, and are not publicly available. Disclosure reports provided to investors are also submitted to the AMAC for recordkeeping as well, through another online AMAC system.
Private securities fund managers are required to submit monthly disclosure reports within five business days after the close of each month, submit quarterly disclosure reports within ten business days after the end of each quarter, and submit annual disclosure reports before April 30th of the following year. Unless otherwise agreed in the fund contract, investors can access these reports through the AMAC’s website.
PE/VC fund managers are required to submit semi-annual disclosure reports to the AMAC before September 30th, and submit annual disclosure reports by the end of June of the following year. These reports are not publicly available, unlike private securities fund reports.
The periodic back-up requirements are of great significance to managers. If a manager twice fails to timely submit reports (except monthly disclosure reports), the manager will be publicised as an 'abnormal institution'. The abnormal status will continue to apply for six months following rectification. Besides this, the AMAC will suspend any filing of private investment funds made by an abnormal manager, unless the manager completes the corresponding rectification requirements.
Publicly offered funds are required to publicly disclose quarterly portfolio reports on fund assets, financial accounting reports and semi-annual and annual fund reports, and any ad hoc reports. Disclosure information can be found published on a CSRC information disclosure website.
6.5 Powers of Attorney
Investors may delegate full authority to manage fund affairs to a fund manager or even enable a fund manager to execute relevant documents on behalf of the investors through the fund contract. However, an autographic signature or separate power of attorney is typically required where an investor seeks to transfer or dispose of an interest or any other important changes occur with the fund which would result in filings with the competent authorities, such as the AIC.
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Trends and Developments
The last year has seen tremendous changes in the investment fund industry of China.
In regards to the onshore fund market:
the implementation of the Guiding Opinion on Regulating the Asset Management Business of Financial Institutions (Guiding Opinion) adversely influences the fund raising process and shrinks the fund scale in the investment fund market; and
a series of newly released regulations and policies symbolises the latest regulatory emphasis on non-standardised debt assets investment.
In regards to offshore fund investment:
an offshore fund manager of equity investment funds invested by a domestic insurance institution is obliged to complete information reports in the Equity Investment Information Reporting System;
it is interpreted that prior approval from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) for offshore fund investment of insurance institutions is a necessity under current outbound investment regulation; and
the Shanghai Qualified Domestic Limited Partners Pilot Scheme (Shanghai QDLP Pilot Scheme) and the Shenzhen Qualified Domestic Investment Enterprise Pilot Scheme (Shenzhen QDIE Pilot Scheme) were granted with new quotas for outbound fund investment.
Overview of the Onshore Fund Market
Impact of guiding opinion
In China, various financial regulators, including the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) respectively regulate different sectors of financial institutions and their asset management products by applying different regulatory requirements, which resulted in regulatory chaos or gaps leading to inevitable regulatory arbitrage. With ever-growing prosperity in the asset management business of financial institutions and a noteworthy surge in the scale of assets under management, the PBOC, CBIRC and CSRC have aligned with SAFE issued Guiding Opinion in April 2018 in order to unify the regulatory standards regarding the asset management business. Based on the oral response of the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC), a self-disciplinary organisation functioning in a way similar to the regulator of private investment funds (accessible to wholesale investors only) in China, the Guiding Opinion at this stage is not applicable to private investment funds and the AMAC is working on the detailed implementing rules.
However, the Guiding Opinion is perceived as the major reason for substantial decline of fund-raising in 2018. According to the updated statistics of Zero2IPO Research, as of November 2018, the amount of funds raised in the private equity fund market was barely close to RMB910.8 billion, which declined almost by 50% as compared with 2017. The Guiding Opinion impacts the fund-raising of investment funds in the following aspects.
Funds pool – before the Guiding Opinion, a major funding source of investment funds was the asset management products managed by commercial banks (Bank Products), which may be further categorised into public Bank Products (accessible to retail investors and wholesale investors), and private Bank Products (accessible to wholesale investors only). Instead of linking a specific Bank Product with specific underlying assets, usually the funds of various Bank Products were pooled together for making different types of investments, including investments in investment funds, and the liquidity of the pool is supported by new funds from new Bank Products, which may be used as the return of previous Bank Products. In this way, short-term Bank Products may provide funding for long-term fund investments etc. This is not a safe model for asset management. According to the Guiding Opinion, these funds pools are not allowed and commercial banks shall take action to decrease the size of existing funds pools so that, by the year 2020, the overall Bank Products are in line with the regulatory requirements of the Guiding Opinion and each specific Bank Product shall be linked to specific underlying assets, which means no funds pool is allowed after 2020.
Multiple Layers of Asset Management Products – in retrospect, Bank Products used to be invested in investment funds through other asset management products, such as investment trusts, etc, where three layers of asset management products are involved, ie, the Bank Product, the investment trust and the investment fund. Pursuant to the Guiding Opinion, up to two layers of asset management products are allowed, which also makes it more difficult to seek funding from Bank Products.
Investment Restriction on Public Bank Products – the Guiding Opinion also prohibits public Bank Products from investing into private equity, which is read as including private equity funds, while public Bank Products account for the majority of all Bank Products.
Prohibition of Guaranteed Return for Investors – some of the asset management products of financial institutions, including Bank Products, and the private investment funds may have certain explicit or implied arrangements of guaranteed minimum returns for their investors, which sometimes is the key consideration of investors. The Guiding Opinion prohibits these guarantees of return, which applies to the asset management products of financial institutions, and the AMAC sets similar standards for private investment funds.
Restriction on non-standardised debt assets investment
The Guiding Opinion characterises standardised debt assets as:
in equal units and tradable;
sufficient information disclosure;
collectively registered and with independent custody;
with a fair price and sound liquidity; and
traded in exchanges approved by the State Council, such as the inter-bank exchange and securities exchange.
Debt assets falling outside of the scope of standardised debt assets shall be non-standardised debt assets. This means a majority of the investments made by private credit funds shall be deemed as non-standardised debt assets.
The interest rate of bank loans is highly regulated and relatively low, which may not be enough to match the risks of lending to borrowers without sufficient creditworthiness or collaterals. Non-standardised debt assets with more flexible and usually higher interest rates play an important role in financing those borrowers. However, non-standardised assets have been under increasing scrutiny and regulation due to a lack of transparency, high leverage and regulatory arbitrage.
Prohibition of new Private Credit Fund – private fund managers are classified by AMAC as a (i) “private securities fund manager”, (ii) “private equity fund manager”, (iii) “private VC fund manager” and (iv) “private alternative fund manager.” Previously, private alternative fund managers may raise and manage private credit funds. However, AMAC suspended the registration of new “private alternative fund managers” and the filing of private credit funds raised by existing private alternative fund managers, which effectively prohibits the formation of new private credit funds. Having said that, private equity funds are still allowed to invest in a convertible bond/loan, which may be converted into equity.
Restriction on Entrustment Loan Business – private credit funds usually provide loans to the borrower through a bank, which is a unique arrangement in China, named as an entrustment loan. An entrustment loan arrangement may enhance the enforceability of the loan and enable the registration of a real estate mortgage for the loan. Nonetheless, CBIRC issued Measures for the Administration of Entrustment Loans of Commercial Banks on 5 January 2018, pursuant to which banks are prohibited from participating in entrustment loan for private credit funds.
Trend of relaxation on regulation – according to the Guiding Opinion, public Bank Products shall mainly invest into standardised debt assets and listed shares, without mentioning non-standardised debt assets. However, in the Notice of Further Clarifying Relevant Matters regarding Guiding Opinion on Regulating the Asset Management Business of Financial Institutions issued by PBOC later on 20 July 2018, public Bank Products are expressly allowed to invest into non-standardised debt assets. On 13 December 2018, Yi Gang, chairman of the PBOC, appeared at the Changan Forum and recognised the contribution of shadow banking by describing shadow banking as an essential supplement to China’s financial markets, indicating a possible switch of attitude towards regulating shadow banking as well as non-standardised debt assets, given that non-standardised debt assets are a key element of shadow banking.
Development in Offshore Fund Investment
Information disclosure obligation of offshore fund manager
The burden of information disclosure obligations on an offshore fund manager managing equity investment funds invested by Chinese insurance institutions has been relatively aggravated since the application of the Equity Investment Information Reporting System (the System), a brand new information reporting system developed by Insurance Asset Management Association of China (IAMAC). Pursuant to the Notice on Further Strengthening Supervision on Post-report of Equity Investment of Insurance Assets and Supervision on Information Reporting regarding Equity Investment by Insurance Assets issued by the Insurance Assets Operation Supervision Department of CBIRC, information to be reported by an offshore fund manager includes:
an investment report;
an operation and management report;
a report regarding major events and changes; and
a liquidation report.
These reports shall be fulfilled in the System within a required time limit in sequence and delivered to domestic insurance institutions (ie, the investor of the offshore fund), which is obliged to urge fund managers on reports delivery, for review before submitting to IAMAC. Failure to fulfil the information reporting obligation as required may be questioned, publicly criticised or even added into a blacklist by the CBIRC. Fund managers in a blacklist shall not manage insurance assets or provide services for equity investment of insurance assets for three years.
Offshore fund investment of insurance institutions
Offshore Fund Investment via QDII Scheme – QDII scheme stands for qualified domestic institutional investor scheme, under which domestic investors are allowed to make outbound investments into specified categories of assets within the related foreign exchange quota, ie, QDII quota. Interim Measures on the Administration of Overseas Investments of Insurance Assets (the Interim Measures) and its implementing rules constitute the basic regulatory framework of the QDII scheme for insurance institutions, under which domestic insurance companies are permitted to invest into three types of offshore funds, including a securities investment fund, an equity investment fund and a real estate investment trust. Based on the data publicised by SAFE in April 2018, the amount of QDII quota increased by USD8.34 billion to USD98.33 billion, which is reported to be the first increase in the last three years. Up to 29 December 2018, the total QDII quota amounted to USD103.23 billion, among which USD33.95 billion was granted to insurance institutions.
Updated Regulatory Requirements on Outbound Fund Investment – on 1 March 2018, the Administrative Measures for Enterprise Outbound Investment (Order No 11) issued by NDRC came into force. Under Order No 11, projects involving sensitive countries and regions or sensitive industries (Sensitive Projects) are subject to the prior approval of NDRC while non-sensitive projects are simply required to be filed with or notified to NDRC, otherwise to be exempted. The Catalogue of Sensitive Industry for Outbound Investment issued by NDRC further supplements the list of sensitive industries to include offshore equity investment funds or investment platforms without specific underlying industrial projects. Before Order No 11, outbound fund investment may be conducted by an insurance institution within its QDII quota after completing the filing with CBIRC, but without the necessity of obtaining the approval of the NDRC. Order No 11 requires the approval of the NDRC for these fund investments, but with few precedents, there exists substantial uncertainty in obtaining the approval.
Grant of new QDLP and QDIE quota
Serving as part of China’s financial market opening-up, in April 2018, SAFE announced an increase of the quota to USD5 billion for two outbound investments pilot schemes (ie, the Shanghai QDLP Pilot Scheme and Shenzhen QDIE Pilot Scheme) respectively. Both schemes allow qualified domestic vehicles to raise funds directly from Chinese investors and invest into international markets.
Introduction to Shanghai QDLP Pilot Scheme – last year, Shanghai updated the Shanghai QDLP Pilot Scheme in place of the one implemented since 2013, allowing qualified domestic private funds established in Shanghai (QDLP Fund) to invest into overseas markets, which may include offshore private equity funds and hedge funds. Under the Shanghai QDLP Pilot Scheme, an onshore investment management enterprise shall be set up in Shanghai to act as the investment fund manager (QDLP Onshore Fund Manager) of a QDLP Fund. Upon the approval of the Shanghai Financial Service Office, the Onshore Fund Manager can act as the general partner/fund manager to launch a QDLP Fund. The QDLP Fund could be established either in the form of a limited partnership or a contractual fund. Upon the establishment of the QDLP Fund, the Onshore Fund Manager shall apply for the quota for outbound investment. The QDLP Fund may, within the QDLP quota, convert RMB to foreign currency at its custodian bank and invest into the overseas market, including private equity funds and hedge funds.
Introduction to Shenzhen QDIE Pilot Scheme – Shenzhen launched the so-called QDIE Pilot Scheme, ie, the Implementing Measures of the Overseas Investment by Qualified Domestic Investors Pilot Scheme (the Implementing Measures) dated back to 2014, which is similar to the Shanghai QDLP Pilot Scheme. There is no explicit provision regarding the investment target of the onshore RMB fund established in accordance with the Implementing Measures (QDIE Fund), and in theory, the QDIE Fund is allowed to invest in offshore private equity funds and hedge funds, but private equity funds may be difficult according to recent practice.
Trend of 2019
Considering the impact of the Guiding Opinion and other factors, the investment fund industry of China is expected to feature the following trends in 2019: state-owned companies and insurance companies may become the major sources of institutional investors for investment funds; top-tier fund managers may continue to succeed in raising successor funds and boutique fund managers with specific industrial expertise may still find their way of seeking commitments, while a substantial portion of other fund managers may face difficulty in fund-raising and some of them may disappear; and industrial players (such as medical companies, real estate companies, etc) may try to raise their own investment funds due to the shortness of liquidity in general.
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The American states, meanwhile, pursue research and demonstration projects, knowing that with the accelerating decline of the gas tax, alternatives are imperative and inevitable..
Here’s a summary of recent progress.
From Governing.
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California gave participants seven ways to track their mileage, including odometer checks, permits for a set number of days, permits for a certain allotment of miles, plug-in devices, smartphones and in-vehicle telematics like OnStar or Acura Link. The various methods were meant to give users options that protected their privacy – one of the biggest stumbling blocks in selling the mileage-charge systems to the public. But 62 percent of the participants in California’s study chose options that tracked their location anyway.
The state’s report on the pilot found that the options with the best privacy protections – like odometer checks – would also be the hardest to enforce. The most reliable methods for tracking mileage were plug-in devices (that fit into a ports in vehicles that are often used by mechanics to diagnose mechanical problems). But those devices are also likely to be obsolete by the time any widespread mileage fee could be imposed. …
One idea is to have connected vehicles pay the fees through a “wireless handshake,” when the vehicle pulls up to get gas, an idea that Honda and Visa have explored for traditional gas purchases. But the agency wants to do it without having to retrofit every vehicle or every fuel station in the state. …
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South of the Fraser River & the Industrialization of Delta~Agricultural Land: Going, going, gone
If provincial gas tax and TransLink tax were replaced with distance based mobility pricing, then my guess is that a majority of drivers would pay less tax. Add distance based insurance and a majority would pay less insurance. It would be interesting to see research on how much the average driver could save under a good mobility pricing scenario. Carbon “tax” is similar. This could be a financial win for a majority of drivers. Bonus is reduced congestion.
Alex Botta says:
Automobile dependence is assessed in terms of its direct and indirect costs for 37 global cities. The data show that cities with the most car use, road provision, and urban sprawl have the highest road expenditure, the least transit cost recovery, the most spent on commuting, the highest external costs from road deaths and emissions, and the largest proportion of city wealth going into transportation. As well, the newly developing Asian cities are showing that their automobile-oriented planning is proving to be costly in economic and environmental terms. The costs of automobile dependence in a globally competitive urban environment cannot be simply rationalized away due to apparent or perceived benefits of automobile-based lifestyles.
From ‘The Cost of Automobile Dependency: Global Survey of Cities’
Jeff Kenworthy, 1999
http://trrjournalonline.trb.org/doi/abs/10.3141/1670-04
Automobile dependency is defined as high levels of per capita automobile travel, automobile oriented land use patterns, and reduced transport alternatives. Automobile dependency increases many costs: higher vehicle expenses, reduced travel choices, increased road and parking facility costs, congestion, accident damages, and a variety of environmental impacts. Beyond an optimal level, excessive automobile dependency may reduce economic productivity and development. A more balanced transportation system can provide many benefits to consumers and society.</p
Todd Litman, 'The Costs of Automobile Dependency and the Benefits of Balanced Transportation', Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 2002
Obviously, road pricing is not new since folks like Kenworthy and Litman did the math and found that private transport costs society dearly through its huge drain on public resources, and encapsulates a powerful net impact on the environment where remediation invariably involves a high degree of socialized costs.
It is no surprise that the Sun editorial board assumes a pro-car stance while grudgingly acknowledging the importance of transit from the other side of their collective mouths. Not only do they publish entire sections dedicated exclusively to advertising for cars and trucks, but at one point or other members of the board were Fraser Institute alumni who regularly publish "analysis" of egregious expenditures of tax dollars that incoherently stops short of one of the worst culprits of all: the road system.
jolson says:
Metered travel will choke the economy and hobble the ability of perhaps half of the population to earn a living. Metered travel is an inequitable intervention into the lives of everyone.
For some contractors and others who use their vehicles for work, perhaps.
But the intent is to use the funds largely to get people off the roads by improving alternates like transit. In that regard, it makes perfect sense to charge the private users in direct proportion to their level of use of the public road system, the full capital or operating cost of which is not covered directly by drivers. In effect, people who drive less are subsidizing the heaviest users through levies and property and income taxes.
Alternatively, transit recovers about 50% of its operating costs through the toll … er …. farebox, and is orders of magnitude cheaper, more efficient and environmentally friendly on a per capita basis. Moreover, transit and cycling lead to healthier citizens who require hospitalization far less than people who are over-dependent on cars, and transit-oriented neighbourhoods create more humane cities.
We “meter” today indirectly by gasoline taxes, but with ever more fuel efficient and hybrid, and soon, electric cars that is too crude and far too low a road toll. Metering makes sense, as does add’l fees for choke points like bridges/tunnels/busy intersections !
Metering with modern devices, based on GPS and/or odometer like mechnical systems ought to be implemented.
I’d go even as far as having a box that shuts the car off if insurance or road tolls are unpaid, or if criminal. Modern systems allow all that. That data could be collected for a month or 2, then deleted as privacy protocols are important. A car is a very dangerous weapon if not used prudently [ which is what we told our kids in their then teens ] and as such certain restrictions on weapons are totally ok with me. One such restriction is a box that allows you to drive, for a fee, in certain places, like MetroVan. No box, no access. Tourists could buy or rent such a box upon entry.
I can’t wait to get less cars on the road so the traffic actually flows. Many folks would happily pay to get less folks traveling by car and thus, better flow.
I’d like to see trucks heavily tolled as a lot of US bound or originated traffic pays 0 gasoline taxes here. Loads of wear and tear too.
We ought to learn from European or US tolling models.
This MetroVan proposal so far makes a lot of sense to me. Car use is indeed far too cheap in MetroVan. Once you put a hefty price on things, people start to behave differently, i.e. travel less, earlier or later, move or chose a different mode ie bus, train or bike.
Of course, as always we need to look a efficiency of spending and we have a major disconnect right now between public servants lavish wages & benefits vs private sector employees. These discussions about public sector waste / inefficiencies are conveniently brushed under the carpet in the “increase taxes and fees” debate, but needs to urgently happen in parallel, as does more investment into RAPID (and not just slow and often wobbly) transit options !
Thomas, there might be a solution to your personal dilemma about the negotiated contracts for public servants: Have Tim Hortons take over the public service.
Just imagine, you could apply for a building permit or passport and order a double double with a gooey glazed maple donut at the same counter. Each Timmys franchise could devote an entire back room to a local branch of the CRA with part-time workers reviewing your tax return amongst the mops and paper towel supplies at minimum wage. You may have to put up with coffee stains and sticky fingerprints, not to mention the odd rounding error and document mix-up, but who cares when you’re saving the cost of a cappuccino a week on your taxes that would otherwise go to public salaries?
If you have a fire or a medical emergency, just run on over to the nearest Timmys drive-through window and cross your fingers they don’t misplace your address with the previous guy’s coffee order. Maybe the order taker will have a beginner’s first aid course or a 5-pound fire extinguisher he can lend you.
Seriously, not to knock the honest and good-intentioned workers at Tim Hortons who do not have a lot of choices, but if anyone needs a union, it is them.
“We “meter” today indirectly by gasoline taxes, but with ever more fuel efficient and hybrid, and soon, electric cars that is too crude and far too low a road toll.”
That statement is total baloney.
Gasoline is sold and taxed by the litre. When it comes to cars a litre of gas will take you anywhere you want to go at anytime for varying distances depending on the engine efficiency of the vehicle. As an aside you also pay this so called in your words ‘road toll’ to run an all terrain vehicle, a boat motor, a skidoo, a paraplane, various pieces of construction equipment, a generator, a lawn mower, a chain saw, and numerous other gas burning machines which have nothing to do with roads or congestion on roads. So no, a gas tax has nothing in common with metered kilometers.
The purpose of the gas tax is to generate revenue for transit. It is a blunt but effective instrument which we have come to accept as a method to fund transit.
Road pricing or what I prefer to call ‘metered kilometers’ only recently became possible through advances in technology. Proponents are of course keen to profit from the deployment of these technologies and so we see the rise of an argument that goes something like this: electric vehicles as they become more popular will reduce the amount of gas tax collected, therefore we need road pricing. But is the argument correct or fallacious? Well, in Canada the market penetration of EV’s as a percentage of all vehicles is so low that it cannot even be calculated, so the argument is a false argument. The growth of non-car uses of gasoline likely far out paces the market penetration of electric vehicles in any case.
The argument then flips to Plan B: Metered kilometers will reduce congestion. Is the statement true or false? Well we don’t know, but what we do know as implied by the statement is that this is a user pay scheme which will force people off the road i.e. reduce congestion through forced attrition. Who would support such an inequitable proposition?
It’s time to give the boot to the meter man and add a line in the Provincial Transportation Budget for the expansion of Skytrain infrastructure, a system which benefits all British Columbians in one way or another.
Jeff Leigh says:
You may choose to purchase fuel with the road tax on it and put it in your non-road vehicle, but that is a choice, not a requirement. Fuel sold without the road tax has a red dye added so its use in a licenced vehicle can be confirmed.
Fuel taxes, cost per km distance based charges, road tolls, pay zones, etc, are all forms of mobility pricing, which is what the commission is studying. No need to pick one to support your straw man.
Also, there is a provincial motor fuel tax that goes to general revenue, and a dedicated tax that helps to fund transit, in specific areas. Two different taxes. Your claim that fuel taxes just fund transit is incorrect.
Jeff Leigh
The topic under discussion is “with gas tax in peril more states study alternatives” i.e. metered kilometers.
Its’ very difficult to find colored gas.
I did not claim that all gas tax goes to fund transit
Jeff Olson: “I did not claim that all gas tax goes to fund transit”
Agreed. What you actually said was:
In fact, the purpose of the fuel tax is to fund transit (in specific areas), to fund the Transportation Financing Authority (primarily, but not exclusively, roads), and to fund general revenues. Transit is only 17 cents of the 32 cents per litre in Metro. And outside of Metro, you would pay fuel tax of 21 cents per litre, with no specific transit component applied. How can it be that the purpose of a gas tax is to generate revenue for transit?
So I will revise my statement. Your claim that the purpose of fuel taxes is to generate revenue for transit is incorrect.
So jolson, are you saying that the current gas tax is sufficient? Or, if we have a congestion problem are you advocating for increased gas taxes?
jolson – So how fair is the current system? How effective? I currently subsidize almost all drivers and transit riders in the region. Congestion and related crashes and ill health are probably the biggest transportation related costs we face. How would you fix our current unfair and dysfunctional transportation system? Fresh ideas are required.
I didn’t realize you had so much money!
Exactly what is unfair about the transportation system?
Ask a fifteen year old girl trying to get home from babysitting after dark.
The blinders some commenters have regarding those demographics that lack a voice in these conversations only serve to solidify the challenges non-motorists face in getting equitable access to public space.
The question is put to Arno who posted the statement not to Chris.
To Chris:
How is the transportation system unfair to the babysitter?
FYI the transportation system is not public space.
The public realm is public space in which all kinds of activities occur.
jolson – I am not paricularly rich, but research from UBC
http://discoursemedia.org/urban-development/full-cost-commute
shows that when people cycle, they provide a net social benefit while transit is neutral to slightly negative and motor vehicles are a large net cost to society. Therefore, much of my tax contribution goes to transportation modes that I rarely use while when I use my mode of choice I make a net contribution to society. Is this not unfair? For a more fair system, more investment should be made in cycling and transit while drivers should be encouraged to pay their fair share. The net result would be a system that is more fair and which provides more modal choice and less cost for everyone.
If we are worked up about who is answering questions etc, then Arno has a couple of queries ahead of yours in the queue that require your attention.
Arno;
The more one pays into a transportation system the more one contributes $’s to an economy. Additionally, if I purchase a vehicle for $50,000 a whole lot of people (society) will benefit. This simple fact is missing from your full cost accounting example, which suggests that the analysis is not really full cost accounting at all but skewed to suit a particular narrative. The automotive industry and its’ roads (which you sometimes ride on with your bicycle) form a large sector of the economy. There are numerous examples of bicycle economies in underdeveloped countries.
As for your tax payments we have all agreed as a democratic society to spend our tax dollars in certain ways and there is nothing unfair about it.
OK Chris,
Anyone hiring a baby sitter should also provide for the transportation. It is the right thing to do.
A flippant response to a real issue for young people in the workforce.
@ jolson
I doubt your $50,000 vehicle with parts sourced from at least five countries benefits as many people as you like to pretend. Let’s see your sources on that.
On the other hand, the $1.5B (today’ dollars) spent on the Expo Line has stimulated orders of magnitude more value in development (i.e. local jobs, local tax revenue, local multipliers…) over the last 30+ years with no signs of slowing a generation later, and the cost of providing that service is covered through the farebox.
Name one road that has done anything close or cost as little per capita.
See my first comment. Fees could be much, much lower for a majority of residents.
bob tanner says:
Jolson == The existing metered travel ( transit fares ) have not choked the economy or hobbled the ability of transit riders to earn a living.
A few contractors? Baloney! Do you have any idea who uses roads?
Roads and vehicles are the foundation of the Canadian economy. Roads are the network of everywhere to everywhere connecting people with home and economic opportunity in all sectors of the economy which are widely dispersed throughout the lower mainland. Mass transit does not go everywhere and it only serves a select few of the population that are able to take advantage of it due to home location and work location.
Here is a partial list of sectors by %GDP that generate travel for business owners, employees, customers or clients: 13.04 Real estate, rental and leasing, 10.36 Manufacturing, 07.10 Finance and insurance, 06.69 Health care and social assistance, 06.33 Public administration, 05.66 Wholesale trade, 05.52 Professional scientific and technical services, 05.41 Retail trade, 05.28 Educational services, 04.44 Transportation and warehousing, 03.11 Information and cultural industries, 02.55 Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services, 02.27 Utilities, 02.17 Accommodation and food services, 01.93 Other services (except public administration). To this list I would add tourism and agriculture. These sectors are spread across the lower mainland and up the Fraser Valley.
The commenters on this blog have a very simplistic view of traffic as if it all consists of a commute into the downtown core and back out again in one huge unacceptable congested daily pulse which can be solved with a cash meter. Not!
As with most debates it is always the simplistic view that dominates the conversation.
We all need to try a little harder to grasp reality.
Roads and vehicles are the foundation of the Canadian economy.
Humans and interaction between humans are the foundation of the Canadian economy. The highest performing economic generators consist of dense employment centres (downtown, central Broadway + UBC, the seven town centres …). The six largest Canadian cites generate 50% of the nation’s GDP. If per capita kilometres of asphalt were the only measure of economic performance, then rural Canada would be putting out trillions a year.
Further, many of your above-referenced economic sectors are located downtown where over 50% of people commute on foot, by transit, by bike and by digital media, and where 40% of the population does not own cars. The situation in the dense town centres is similar.
Now, let’s go to the actual users of roads. During the initial planning of the Port Mann expansion one transportation planner posted his counts and research on the bridge traffic (the source is lost now, but appeared in the Livable Regions blog). They found that 71% of the traffic consisted of SOVs of which a tiny fraction were commercial vehicles. The bulk of SOVs were two-times-a-day commuters to employment centres where transit options do exist, with the rest dispersed to warehouses and office parks.
So, with today’s distribution I think it’s fair to say about 1/3rd of the daily traffic on major arterials are justifiably in vehicles used for commercial or business purposes outside of rush hours. The unfortunate reality is that decision makers keep mistakenly thinking that rush hour capacity is supposed to be the standard design capacity. That has been one of the most costly errors society has ever made.
Roads are the network of everywhere to everywhere….
Only since 1950. Before that it was Native trading routes like the Grease Trail, sailing ships, rivers and voyageurs, Red River cart trails, national railways then urban streetcars. The build out of the road system represents one of he largest net drains on public and private resources ever invented (Newman & Kenworthy 2015, Saunders 2017). It is not sustainable at current scales and levels of urban and energy dependency and has resulted in external forces beyond the comprehension of early road planners, like debt and environmental repercussions at a planetary scale.
What’s next? Asphalt will cure cancer?
G.S.deAuxerre says:
Well, since (a) senior gov’ts are highly sceptical, (b) rationale seems focussed on “it seems to work somewhere far away in another country … in theory”, (c) TransLink is exerting more analysis on how to spend the revenue, rather than the reason for it, (d) it’s not entirely certain the system would benefit congestion – and may worsen it in places and (e) the only true certainty established is that it funnels huge sums into TransLink accounts ….
… labelling it a ‘tax grab’ at this point is fair description.
Dan Ross says:
Mileage tracking requires a lot of extra administration for little benefit relative to just raising the gas tax or throwing up some cordons and tolls. Those latter two aren’t as “surgical” as per-kilometre fees but do at least have the benefit of being marginally feasible.
Voters will only be angered by re-establishing tolls over major crossings, but it can be done over a weekend. Cordons and tolls will take 1-2 years of on-cue caterwauling but can fit within an election cycle. Any government that commits to a mileage tracking scheme will not last. There are too many moving parts. If everything goes absolutely perfect it’s a minimum 10-year commitment to plan and implement. This is not considered crisis enough to sustain that kind of political commitment and capital.
I agree that continuous mileage tracking is a big step, and there are issues around visitors without electronic tags, privacy, and so on. But it doesn’t have to be just continuous mileage tracking vs a cordon of drive by scanners. It is very possible to have more than one cordon. When driving on autostradas in Italy, it is a distance based system that works by figuring out how many cordons you went through. There are variable charges based on the distance.
If there was a single cordon we would have an easier implementation, but the risk of unfair boundaries (the reason the zone fares are a challenge with transit). But with more granularity it is possible to get closer to distance based pricing without in vehicle tracking devices.
Its easy in Italy or France (and now Germany, but so far only for trucks) as every entry and exit has a ticket booth (or now an electronic system). Not so easy across MetroVan. One needs a GPS based system, or one that reads the odometer within a certain area, based on GPS coordinates. Unclear what the state of the art here is in various jurisdictions.
Perhaps we should track what Oregon is doing, what works and what didn’t work:
http://fortune.com/2015/07/17/oregon-road-usage-charge/
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/133100
http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/Planning/Documents/OHP-Tolling-Pricing-Policy-Amendments.pdf
If the scanners one drives under are oriented in a line like a fence, then that is a cordon.
If the scanners one drives under (same scanners) are oriented in a series of lines, then they have the ability to measure distance. Not precisely, or directly, but it depends on how many you install.
You don’t need to go to Italy. The toll roads around Chicago work the same way with a transponder. The more of them you drive under, the more you pay.
Even a GPS is often a series of measurements, not a distance counter like an odometer. A GPS just uses a much more frequent sampling interval.
So no, you don’t need GPS. If you don’t like transponders without GPS, use an odometer monitor without GPS.
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Most serious league tables of the year?
Posted on June 30, 2014 by Paul
League tables of choice
All rankings have their shortcomings. Some though are perhaps even more methodologically questionable than others. I was struck recently by two league tables which seemed to be even less credible than this very important ranking of universities based on the length of their name.
First up is the ranking of the most influential UK universities on Twitter. This appeared recently in Times Higher Education but has since sunk without trace. The methodology, if it may be called that, is simply to use a site called followerwonk which magically creates a ‘Social Authority’ score for institutions based on some combination of followers, and number of retweets etc. It doesn’t get much more authoritative than this.
Meanwhile, at the slightly more salacious end of the league table spectrum we have the University Sex League 2014. Nothing dubious about the scoring method here. It’s a self-selecting survey in which there is a slim possibility that respondents might be less than entirely accurate in their recall:
The bottom 10 has not been reproduced here for obvious reasons.
Anyway, there you have it, two league tables which if they achieve nothing else manage the remarkable feat of making other rankings look pretty credible and methodologically robust.
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Real or Fake Universities: the results
Real or fake universities? The votes are in
Definitely fake
Most of the following list of institutions are from the US and the UK but there are a few from other countries too. Five of these are fake but all the other ones are real. Did you manage to identify the five HE fraudsters?
IHere’s your last chance to have a go at the poll:
So the results are below.
OK, then you can have a look at the top 10:
But I guess you will be wanting to know the real from the fake ones then.
Tricky.
There were five definite fakes. And, I’m slightly ashamed to admit, one which has necessitated a stewards’ enquiry.
Four of the definite fakes appear in the top 10.
They are as follows:
Watermouth University (You’ll find it in Bradbury’s The History Man.)
Rooney University (A university named after one of England’s finest footballers? I think not.)
Rummidge University (From the David Lodge trilogy Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work.)
Euphoric State University (Also a David Lodge creation appearing in the same novels.)
And then from near the bottom of the poll, spotted by hardly anyone:
DuPont University (which appears in Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons.)
Then we run into a bit of a problem. The improbably named University of Hip-Hop, which topped the poll of likely fakes, does actually exist. However, it is possible that it is not actually a real university either by the common sense definition or by virtue of being likely to earn a place on the HEFCE Register of Higher Education providers. It may even just be a blog and does not actually appear on the highly inclusive UK Register of Learning Providers.
Anyway, here are the staff and students of said institution so it must be real:
This really is the University of Hip Hop
So, apologies for leading anyone up the garden path. But at least we all now know how difficult identifying fake providers is…
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Graduation Fails
It’s that time of year again
I’ve previously commented on graduation matters here but omitted to mention one particular challenge of the season: pronouncing graduands’ names.
Our Deans work very hard on this and it really is not a task I envy them. But now there is a possible solution. The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece on a start-up business designed to address this most distinctive of higher education problems:
Stanford University, whose students gave us the modern search engine, the modern sneaker company, and the modern method of money transfer, is finally tackling a native challenge: commencement. At graduation ceremonies over the past weekend, eight departments at the university used a web-based service that allows students to record their names before commencement for the benefit of whoever reads aloud the list of graduates.
Dubbed NameCoach, the start-up was founded last year by students at—where else?—Stanford. Universities using the service send a link to graduates, who are directed to a web page where they can record their names as they want them pronounced. Nervous deans can then review them at their leisure.
Praveen Shanbhag, who graduated from Stanford this year with a doctorate in philosophy, thought of the idea for NameCoach after a particularly brutal reading of his sister’s name at her 2010 undergraduate commencement. Mr. Shanbhag said the mangling clouded an otherwise happy day for the family. “It kind of tinged it with a sense of alienation and invisibility,” he says. He points to recent research on name mispronunciation as evidence of the psychological and societal damage such incidents can cause.
It’s a simple and rather neat idea and you can see on the demo page quite clearly how it works.
It might turn out to be really helpful. But it still depends on Deans getting it right on the day and there are all sorts of reasons things can go a little bit wrong with one or two pronunciations. But on the whole our Deans do a fantastic job and there is not a lot of butchering.
Even bigger fail
But name errors are sometimes the least of the problems on stage. In many years of daft behaviour by graduands I’ve not seen anything quite as splendidly dumb as this student’s failed backflip attempt during Davenport’s graduation ceremony:
It’s not uncommon to see a celebratory gesture or two as students make their way across the stage at college and university commencement ceremonies.
But on Sunday, the antics of one Davenport University student didn’t work out quite as planned.
After walking across the stage and shaking hands with university administrators, Robert Jeffrey Blank removed his cap, planted his feet in place and attempted a backflip.
It didn’t go well.
Blank failed to rotate quick enough, and appeared to land face first on the stage, drawing a gasp from the audience. He didn’t appear to suffer any serious injuries, though, as he can be seen quickly getting up and walking off stage.
Let’s hope we don’t see too many more of these. Or indeed this striking example of a typo on a Degree Certificate:
Crazy School, crazy spelling
(this one via Inside Higher Ed)
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Taking Student Mental Health Seriously
Students Supporting Students
Have only just learned of Student Minds.
Did you know: Students, after joining university, are more anxious and more likely to develop depression? It’s no surprise, university can be a stressful and daunting environment. Estimates show that around 25% of all students experience distress at a worrying level. The move away from home is particularly stressful, inducing symptoms of anxiety. In the case of one fifth of students, reaching levels of clinical significance mid-way through second year. We found that most students are most likely to talk to their peers, primarily their friends. However, this can not always be a comfortable experience.
Student Minds was chosen as the supported charity at this year’s Times Higher Leadership and Management Awards. The organisation believes we should take student mental health issues much more seriously:
If tackled early we have the opportunity to prevent the development of more severe mental health problems. Early adult life is a crucial stage in the transition from adolescence independence as an adult. Underachievement or failure at this stage can have long-term effects on self-esteem and the progress of an individual’s life. The opportunity to share experiences can help break down isolation and the format of a group can boost motivation, and the informality of a group session run by Student Minds volunteers – groups do not have waiting lists, and students can self-refer, using the support as and when they feel they need it. Finally, we do not keep records of attendance, removing the concern that accessing help will reflect negatively on a student’s CV or university record.
It’s a great range of activities and clearly making a really valuable contributuon on campuses around the country. The University of Nottingham Students’ Union is also involved:
Student Minds Nottingham (formerly known as UoN Mental Wealth) is a campaigns group that works to promote positive wellbeing and mental health for students whilst studying at UoN.
Our objectives are:
– to tackle the issue of social isolation and stigma of mental health.
– to enhance the mental health provision within the university.
– to break down potential barriers to students and provide opportunities for personal development for students.
We run support groups with the help and training of Student Minds.
We also run events and workshops over the academic year to inform people about mental health conditions and break down barriers.
Universities do, of course, provide services to support students with mental health issues but the work of Student Minds seems to provide a valuable complement to these. This is particularly important given the challenges to public mental health services for young people.
So, a great charity and do hope it continues to grow and provide excellent support for students.
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Universities: real or fake?
Real or fake universities? You decide
I’ve written here before about Monsters U and Sim U…
…and also, there is the very convincing University of Antarctica
Elaborate creations all of them.
So, are you smart enough to get a job with the BIS Higher Education Governance Team? Can you tell real from fake universities? The following list contains a number of top drawer institutions. Most are from the US and the UK but there are a few from other countries too. Five of these are fake but all the other ones are real. Can you identify the five fakes?
(Don’t wast time Googling them – life’s too short and will provide the answers in due course.)
Pointless eh?
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Big bucks for students with big ideas
A big prize for University of Pennsylvania graduates
The Philadelphia Enquirer has a good story about an initiative at the University of Pennsylvania for graduates who want to change the world:
Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a strong desire to change the world and an excellent plan for how to do it?A new Penn program may fund you.Penn president Amy Gutmann has created “engagement prizes” of up to $150,000 – $50,000 for living expenses and $100,000 for project execution – for students with the most promising plans to improve local, national, or global conditions in the year after their graduation.”We want to maximize the encouragement we can give our students who do well by doing good in the world,” Gutmann said Tuesday.
Money for something
It’s perhaps not an entirely novel idea but the scale of it is impressive:
While other schools offer prizes, Penn’s effort appears to offer more money..”I don’t know of anything that’s even close to that big,” said Jeffrey Selingo, author of College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students and a contributing editor to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Gutmann said she wanted to create a prize on the order of the prestigious Rhodes or Marshall scholarships, and offer it in a way that gets an entire senior class from an elite university focused on civic engagement and innovative thinking. She said she knew of no other university that had created such a prize.”We want this to be something that isn’t their second or third choice, but their first choice,” Gutmann said. “I think this is going to create a cadre of students who are committed to civic engagement.”Colleges large and small increasingly are looking for ways to tie what students learn in the classroom to the real world, Selingo said. Davidson College in North Carolina, for example, offers paid “impact fellowships” to recent graduates who work with nonprofit organizations on critical health, education, and environmental issues.Penn’s new prize will pay for up to three projects per year; students can apply individually or in groups of up to three.
So, will we see UK universities trying something like this? Lots already offer small awards to current students to support good works or charitable endeavours but I’m not aware of anything on this scale. The award could be a game changer for Penn but will other students or unsuccessful competitors be resentful about the size of the pot? We’ll have to see but if they do make a real difference with the prize then we can expect that lots of others will be following suit.
Posted in Alumni, Community, Education, HE, international, Students, University | Tagged Alumni, engagement, HE, international, Pennsylvania University, prize, Students | Leave a reply
When is a campus not a campus?
The QAA has published a report which takes issue with UK international branch campus definition
The United Arab Emirates has many international Branch Campuses including some from the UK. A recent post here commented that branch campuses, including the University of Nottingham’s campuses in Malaysia and China, were a major part of international activity.
Others have branch campuses too (and aren’t subject to the QAA)
The QAA overview report has fuller details on each of the UK universities inspected. The report covers 11 UK institutions but notes there are 37 campuses in total in the UAE, more than in any other country.
Distribution of the 37 branch campuses in UAE
It seems that everyone with a branch campus also claims to be a global operation:
All the institutions considered in the TNE review of UAE had global aspirations. In many cases, the word global appears in their mission statements or the strap-lines on their websites. On the other hand, there was some evidence that institutions had not fully considered the organisational consequences of the global offering. In some cases heads of the UAE centres were physically located at the UK campus, even where the UAE operation was developing beyond the scale of an administrative campus. One of the branch campuses, otherwise highly successful in organisational terms, had only an indirect line into the governance and management of the university at large.
So perhaps some way to go there.
The student numbers set out in the report show that there is actually some variety in the UK university provision in UAE:
Student numbers UAE
However, probably the most interesting aspect of the report is picked up in a report in the Times Higher Education which covers the warning in the QAA report over the definition of UK international branch campuses there:
UK universities must be careful not to mislead students about their “international branch campuses”, which are often little more than an office and teaching rooms, the standards watchdog has warned.In its first report on transnational education offered by UK universities in the United Arab Emirates, the Quality Assurance Agency says that only two of the 11 institutions listed as UK branch campuses would meet the definition of a “campus”.“Only two providers, Heriot-Watt and Middlesex, are readily recognisable as branch campuses [offering] the range of facilities a student would expect of a campus in the UK,” according to the Review of UK Transnational Education in United Arab Emirates, published on 4 June.For instance, the University of Exeter’s campus in Dubai comprises an office and a small self-service library, with teaching rooms hired when required, the QAA says.The University of Strathclyde’s Business School, which runs MBAs in Dubai, had no rooms of its own, using spaces within another higher education institution.
So, there really are some definitional problems here. A couple of offices or some rented teaching rooms in another institution do not a campus make. It will be interesting to see if the universities concerned change their descriptions of their activities following this report.
Posted in Admin, Education, HE, international, University | Tagged Administration, campus, HE, international, THE, universities | Leave a reply
Breakfasts of champions?
Academics and their breakfasts
Greatly amused by this story in Inside Higher Ed about a new website which encourages academics to photograph and consider their breakfasts:
What you eat for breakfast may not merit space on your C.V, but a new website called Academic Breakfast is based on the idea that how professors start their days matters.The website invites academics to post a photograph of their breakfast, and to answer six quick questions: where they live, their institution, their job, their research in five words, their breakfast in five words, and their food philosophy in 10 words. Many of the philosophies mix the importance of doing the right thing in terms of nutrition and the environment, but also enjoying food.
Not sure this is going to catch on as a breakfast idea
Among the food philosophies shared are “eat healthily but indulge your honest cravings without any guilt” from a McGill University graduate student and “Treat the planet and all beings well; have pleasure” from a California State University at San Marcos sociologist and performance artist.While there are plenty of healthy foods visible, one can also spot breakfast items — Diet Coke, cold pizza — that might not appear on nutritionists’ recommendations for the morning. Several people included shots of their morning pills. And while most of the photographs depict the food before anyone started eating, there are also shots that were taken mid-meal.
The full glory of the Academic Breakfast Tumblr is here and it certainly proves that everyone has different approaches, academic or otherwise, to the first meal of the day. It’s a bold and innovative idea. But whatever next? No doubt someone is already working on Deans and their Doughnuts, Provosts who love Pancakes and Vegetables which look like Vice-Chancellors.
Posted in Diversions, HE, University, web | Tagged academics, breakfast, Diversions, Inside Higher Ed, universities | Leave a reply
Sino-Foreign Unity
Inauguration of Sino-foreign Cooperative Universities Union
Sino-foreign universities are still small in number. Since the establishment of the first Sino-foreign institution, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, a decade ago, the number has grown though and npw six have come together to establish the Sino-foreign Cooperative University Union and Presidents Forum.
The event was a chance for the leaders of the six joint venture universities from across China to come together with representatives of the local and national government to witness the formation of the Union and participate in the inaugural forum.
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
The six international collaborative universities are Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, New York University Shanghai, Duke Kunshan University, Wenzhou-Kean University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen.
The inaugural meeting of Sino-foreign Cooperative Universities Union was hosted by XJTLU and a press release provided more information on the event:
Speaking during the morning’s Presidential Forum, Professor Youmin Xi, Executive President of XJTLU, welcomed the distinguished guests and highlighted the importance of the Union of Sino-foreign Cooperative Universities not only for its members but also for Chinese higher education. “It is time for us [the Union] to redefine education,” explained President Xi, citing the competitive advantages of student centered learning, innovative administrative structure and lack of historical burdens as the reasons why universities such as XJTLU will become leaders of the next generation of international higher education institutes.
XJTLU, host of the event
Throughout the morning, senior representatives from the Union followed President Xi in giving speeches and introductions about their institutions to the audience. Members were then encouraged to raise questions and share ideas with one another in order to enhance the understanding of the issues faced by Sino-foreign Universities in China today.Professor Weiqi Shen, Vice-President of University of Nottingham Ningbo China, further developed the principles which set Sino-foreign Cooperative Universities apart from others in China, highlighting “high quality, openness, ‘hybrid vigor’ and legitimacy” in particular.
In the afternoon the Forum was joined by a senior delegation from the national Ministry of Education MoE, who travelled from Beijing to participate in the event. The Presidents listened to a speech given by Mr. Jianjun Cen, Director of International Cooperation and Communion Department of MoE who spoke about the important of the Union and the positive effects they hoped it would have on wider education in China.
The Union of Sino-foreign Universities intends to continue to explore issues of common concern by sharing experiences and best practices, and to find feasible solutions to these issues. It is intended to enhance communication among members but also to enable members to influence higher education development in China. Although the members are at different stages of development, together they are in a distinctive and potentiallly influential position. It will be interesting to see how the new Union develops.
Posted in Education, Government, HE, international, University, University of Nottingham | Tagged China, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzen, Duke Kunshan, HE, international, NYU Shanghai, Sino-Foreign Universities, University of Nottingham, Wenzhou-Kean, XJTLU | Leave a reply
True Crime on Campus §36: one in the eye
Posted on June 9, 2014 by Paul
True Crime on Campus:
Once again our always vigilant Security staff are on hand to ensure that every unlikely situation is attended to:
2240 Report of a smell of gas in Humanities Building. Security attended. Officers could detect a faint smell of gas which dissipated during the night.
1325 Report of blocked toilets in DHL. Security attended. Lanes for Drains were asked to attend but stated that they could not attend until 1 June, East Midlands Drains were called out they also could not attend until 1 June, Lilley’s called out and attended.
1625 Report of a person with a dog which was out of control on Jubilee Campus. Officers attempted to speak to the owner but they had left by the time Officers attended.
Careful!
16:30 Security received a complaint from a student who had been walking on the footpath at the front of the Fitness Centre, when a van reversed towards the main doors nearly running them over. The van driver did not take responsibility for his actions, telling the student that it was their fault. Pictures were taken of the van by the student. Security to follow up.
16:20 Security received a report of a male exiting campus through West Gate carrying a bicycle frame. On arrival Security identified the male as a student.
0040 Report of a buzzing noise in Hall Security attended the noise was thought to be Wasps. Mitie Pest Control to be informed in the morning.
1600 Report of a vehicle with a broken windscreen at Sutton Bonington Sports Centre. The owner of the vehicle claims it was broken by a football. Security Officers are to check the CCTV.
18:30Security received a report of a dead bird in the lake on Jubilee Campus. Helpdesk informed to remove the dead bird.
1610 Report of a student with a head injury in Hall. Security attended the student stated that they had banged their head on a locker door while at the Swimming Pool. The student’s head was examined and they were given advice by Officers.
2338 Patrol Security Officers spoke to the occupants of two vehicles which were parked in the car park adjacent to Law and Social Science. The occupants stated that they had parked there to watch the Helicopters. As there are no Helicopter flights during the hours of darkness the occupants were told to leave Campus.
Best seen in daylight
23:55 Security received a report from the porter at Hall about a number of students running around the Hall having a water fight. Security stopped all students involved and took their details. Students were made to clear up the mess by Security. Details to Hall Manager. Security to follow up.
23:05 Security received a report of a student taking a book from the Hallward Library without authorisation. Security to follow up.
14:10 Security were informed by a member of the public that the bin located at the entrance to Melton Hall was on fire and smoking profusely. Security extinguished the fire with water.
1345 Report of a member of staff with peppermint in their eye on the Science Site. Security attended. The member of Staff washed their eye out and felt better.
0500 Report of a student urinating outside Hall. Security attended and the student was spoken to and will be reported to the Compliance and Investigations Manager.
Posted in Admin, Community, Diversions, HE, Management, Students, True Crime on Campus, University, University of Nottingham | Tagged campus, Diversions, HE, poll, security, Students, true crime, University of Nottingham | Leave a reply
International branch campuses: over-exposed?
Are there too many branch campus headlines? Not quite.
A recent piece in University World News suggested that there was just too much attention given to international branch campuses rather than other forms of international activity:
International branch campuses receive a lot of attention for their motivations, successes and failures. In addition, some recent big-name endeavours like New York University Shanghai and Yale-NUS College in Singapore add to the perception that more institutions are building overseas campuses.
In reality, branch campuses form only a small proportion of the internationalisation activities and models of transnational education engaged in by institutions.
For example the United Kingdom, which has been promoting transnational education as part of its national strategy, reports that only 3% of its 600,000 students studying wholly overseas for a UK qualification in 2012-13 were enrolled in an overseas campus of a UK higher education institution.
In contrast, one out of five students pursued a UK degree through a distance learning programme.
If the goal of the global engagement strategy of a higher education institution is to be truly ‘global’ and to ‘engage’ learners from many countries in a cost-effective, controllable and flexible manner, then online and open learning cannot be ignored.
A recent report shows that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is shaping its internationalisation future around its prior initiative like OpenCourseWare and now edX.
It forecasts a future where education will be unbundled and degrees will be disaggregated “into smaller credential units such as course credentials, sequence credentials, and even badges” with the possibility that “the credentialing entity may be different from the institution that offers the course”.
Leaving aside the tedious unbundling rhetoric it is right to observe that internationalisation is a multifaceted strategy for any university and there is much more to being a global university than just branch campuses. However, there are many such campuses around the world of many different kinds.
For example, the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus (UNMC) is home to some 5,000 students and over 450 staff, located at the edge of Kuala Lumpur in a breathtakingly beautiful setting and the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) campus houses over 6,000 students and over 400 staff). Both campuses are larger than a good number of UK HE institutions and are already, despite their relative youth (UNMC became the first overseas campus of any UK university some 14 years ago and UNNC was founded in 2004), they are already punching significantly above their weight in both research and teaching in their host countries.
University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
OBHE, in its most recent report, identifies some 200 or so branch campuses around the world with another 37 at least in the pipeline. It is likely that many more have been initiated since this report was published.
However, very few of these are of the scale, breadth or depth of the Nottingham developments and many are much smaller scale operations with teaching delivered in rented office accommodation by staff who fly in for a few weeks before flying back home again.
The reality is that despite their scale and success these campuses really do not get much attention. Rather the nascent developments of NYU in Abu Dhabi and Duke University in China seem to grab all the headlines despite their small scale. (Not that I’m at all cross about that.) This does therefore give a rather misleading impression of international branch campus activity.
Britain’s global university
Nottingham actually has three international campuses at present; as well as those in China and Malaysia there is the original campus in the UK which is also strikingly international with over 9,000 international students from 150+ countries. The international ethos is embraced in all that we do and is strongly articulated in the University’s mission:
At the University of Nottingham we are committed to providing a truly international education, inspiring our students, producing world-leading research and benefiting the communities around our campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia. Our purpose is to improve life for individuals and societies worldwide. By bold innovation and excellence in all that we do, we make both knowledge and discoveries matter.
Campus at University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Our academic staff on all campuses are international in composition (25% are international) and outlook too. More than one in five of our undergraduates undertakes international mobility. 17% of published research outputs are internationally co-authored and 37% of our research funding is obtained internationally. We have strategic partnerships with other leading universities in over 25 countries and one of the largest scholarship programmes for students from the developing world. And we do distance learning and offer a number of MOOCs too.
So, there is a lot more to an international university than just branch campuses but, in context, it is clear that serious international campus activity can be a key component of a global strategy for a university. If only they got a bit more attention.
Posted in Admin, Education, HE, international, Management, University of Nottingham | Tagged branch campus, campus, HE, international, universities, University of Nottingham, University World News, world | 3 Replies
Up on the Higher Ed Catwalk
More Higher Ed excitement in the world of fashion
I’ve written before here about higher education fashion developments in London in the form of the Condé Nast college as reported in the Evening Standard a couple of years ago:
MOVE over AC Grayling, there’s a new college in town. Magazine publisher Condé Nast is launching a private college for fashion and design next year, which will be a potent rival to the London College of Fashion, Central St Martins and Chelsea, all part of the University of the Arts London.
The Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design is now fully up and running:
Based in Central London, the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design operates from the heart of one of the world’s most exciting fashion capitals. The Condé Nast College is an important starting point for those who want to be tomorrow’s stars of the fashion industry. With outstanding resources, leading-edge facilities and access to experts from the worlds of fashion, style and luxury, the College prepares its students to work in all areas of this exciting and innovative industry. We currently offer three courses, the four-week Vogue Intensive Summer Course, the ten-week Vogue Fashion Certificate and the year-long Vogue Fashion Foundation Diploma. We are now accepting applications and look forward to welcoming you to the Condé Nast family.
Recruitment challenges?
Now Inside Higher Ed has a story about Conde Nast in the US teaming up with a venture fund to create new higher education courses:
Under the project, Condé Nast publications will team up with universities to create a set of accredited certificate programs and eventually master’s-degree programs with the colleges and universities, not the magazines, as the “institution.” Condé Nast writers and editors will contribute subject matter expertise and the publisher will provide some financial backing to the partnerships.The institutions and new academic programs which will include both interactive online content and in-person elements have not yet been identified, but discussions with universities are under way with the goal of launching the first programs in fall 2015.
Waiting for accreditation
The aforementioned magazines are likely to be involved in the first programs to get off the ground, but other Condé Nast publications which include The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Allure and Golf Digest could also participate. The initiative is the latest backed by University Ventures, a New York-based fund that since 2012 has sought to drive innovation in traditional higher education not by “disrupting” it from the outside but by encouraging it from within.”We’re not the barbarians at the gate,” says Daniel Pianko, a managing director at University Ventures. “A lot of the pure disrupters out there don’t seem to understand the importance of 1,000 years of history. Our approach is, how do you work within the construct that has that history and immense consumer acceptance, and innovate within that.”
An interesting development. One can only imagine all the potential academic programme tie-ins with the impressive stable of publications. But, whilst the funders are protesting (perhaps a little too much?) that they’re not really like all the “pure disruptors”, they still don’t seem to have any university partners on board. It’s early days no doubt.
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Guardian League Table 2015: Well I never
New Guardian League Table for 2015 entry (and yes, Cambridge is top)
Top 25 of the full list (available here) is as follows (last year’s position in brackets):
1 (1) Cambridge
2 (2) Oxford
3 (4) St Andrews
4 (7) Bath
5 (9) Imperial
6 (8) Surrey
7 (3) LSE
8 (6) Durham
9 (10) Warwick
10 (11) Lancaster
11 (5) UCL
12 (12) Exeter
13 (18) Heriot-Watt
14 (17) UEA
15 (14) Loughborough
16 (16) York
17 (15) Birmingham
18 (19) Edinburgh
19 (24) Southampton
20 (20) Kent
21 (13) Leicester
22 (30) Aston
23 (28) Nottingham
24 (22) SOAS
25 (21) Glasgow
Exciting commentary of the new ranking is included:
The Universities of Bath, Surrey and Lancaster have charged ahead of their Russell Group peers in the Guardian league table of universities, knocking University College London (UCL) out of its traditional place in the top 10.
The London School of Economics (LSE), UCL’s neighbour and fellow member of the elite Russell Group of research-focused universities, has also suffered, losing its place in the top three to St Andrews.
The University of Cambridge underlines its dominance by coming top of the table for the fourth year in a row and increasing the gap between itself and its ancient rival Oxford, which remains in second place. St Andrews, in third, is followed by Bath, Imperial College, Surrey, LSE, Durham, Warwick and Lancaster.
Other climbers include include the Universities of Glyndŵr (from 108 to 64), Derby (from 79 to 50) and Falmouth (76 to 53).
Anglia Ruskin has seen the biggest drop (from 67 to 105), caused in part by a rising student/staff ratio. In civil engineering there are now 22.7 students per member of academic staff, where previously there had been just 14.3.
Birmingham City also fell (from 61 to 88), as did Bournemouth (52 to 71), Aberystwyth (88 to 106), Greenwich (70 to 87), Chester (46 to 61) and Bristol (23 to 34).
It’s pretty difficult to understand what is actually going on here but there is some helpful commentary:
The chief factor causing UCL’s drop out of the top ten was a fall in the number of leavers getting graduate-level jobs, says Matt Hiely-Rayner, from Intelligent Metrix, the independent consultancy that compiles the tables.
“There have been big falls in the numbers going on to graduate-level jobs or further study, particularly in psychology and chemistry. Another contributor is a drop in overall student satisfaction.”
As for the LSE, a drop in its employability score and spending per student caused it to lose its place in the top three.
Universities hoping to climb the league tables, Hiely-Rayner advises, should “identify their areas of weakness and concentrate on improving those. They should do that according to their own internal analysis, not just what the league tables say.”
Outstandingly useful tip that.
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OK Go takes the stage
Navaal Mahdi
Band brings bright lights, colorful confetti and powerful music to Rams Head Live
OK Go put on an exciting show for all ages in Baltimore on Sunday night.
Over 100 eager music lovers stood in the dimly lit club at Baltimore’s Rams Head Live on April 12. Promptly at 9 p.m., a white, mesh fabric fell from a bar on the ceiling that surrounded the stage. Though some were puzzled by the fabric, many grinned and pointed at the stage. They knew it was time.
A few people pulled out their phones, ready to snap a picture of OK Go as they walked into sight, while others chorused a loud hurrah as clips from famous movies were projected on the mesh screen. This montage of movie bits showed multiple characters saying “okay go.”
The collage of clips ended with Kermit the Frog introducing the band as they took the stage and started playing “Upside Down & Inside Out” behind an abstract video of their faces on the screen. Lead singer Damian Kulash and bassist Tim Nordwind displayed a fearless energy in the way they moved with their instruments to the song. Small cameras situated next to their mics displayed distorted, close up images of their faces on the two screens behind drummer Dan Konopka.
Most of the audience sang along to the new anthem, putting their hands up and dancing under the colorful lights, while respectfully avoiding collision with their neighbors. The audience was a mix of teenagers and older, middle-aged fans.
During “The Writing’s on the Wall,” OK Go’s first single from their new album Hungry Ghosts, the crowd erupted with laughter as confetti canons released colorful slivers of paper around the club. The vibes only got better when, in the course of performing “This Too Shall Pass,” Kulash jumped off of the stage and onto the barricade. He reached out and touched hands before carefully maneuvering himself onto their hands to crowd surf.
After returning to the stage for “There’s a Fire,” Kulash made his way back into the crowd for an intimate, acoustic performance of “Last Leaf” where he performed especially for the older audience viewing from the balcony level of the club. Eyes were glistening with tears by the time Kulash made his way back to the stage.
Nordwind’s lighthearted question and answer session, the third of the night, had everyone cheerful again in no time, though. A steady stream of laughter filled the club when he agreed to go to prom with a girl in May.
A memorable part of the show was the band’s rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog,” in which Kulash put down his guitar so he could move around. With red light projecting directly onto his face, he whipped the mic stand around a couple of times before singing into it with his eyes closed in concentration.
Following the cover was, according to Kulash, the last song of the night, “Turn Up the Radio.” However, the show came to a close when the band performed “Here it Goes Again” from their sophomore album Oh No. This time, along with confetti, neon-blue bubbles danced in the void before poetically popping on fans’ heads, signifying the end of the night.
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BURMA/ THAILAND: BURMA'S DEMOCRACY LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI MAKES LOW-KEY APPEARANCE AT OFFICIAL MARTYRS' DAY CEREMONY
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Title: BURMA/ THAILAND: BURMA'S DEMOCRACY LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI MAKES LOW-KEY APPEARANCE AT OFFICIAL MARTYRS' DAY CEREMONY
Date: 19th July 1996
Summary: RANGOON, BURMA/ BANGKOK, THAILAND (JULY 19, 1996) (REUTERS TELEVISION - ACCESS ALL) RANGOON, BURMA (JULY 19, 1996) 1. LV THE MARTYR'S MAUSOLEUM 0.06 2. SV/LV BURMESE MINISTER OF CULTURE AUNG SAN PAYING RESPECTS AT MEMORIAL (2 SHOTS) 0.21 3. SV BURMESE MILITARY OFFICIALS SALUTE 0.27 4. SLV OPPOSITION LEADER AUNG SAN SUU KYI WALKS UP WEARING BLACK 0.40 5. SV MILITARY OFFICIALS LOOKING ON 0.44 6. SV SUU KYI LAYS A WREATH IN MEMORY OF HER FATHER AT THE MEMORIAL AND BOWS 1.05 BANGKOK, THAILAND (JULY 19, 1996) 7. CU SIGN OF THE INDONESIAN EMBASSY 1.09 8. SV DISSIDENT BURMESE PROTESTERS CALLING ON ASSOCIATON OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS TO REVISE ITS CLOSE LINKS WITH BURMA SAYING WE WANT FREEDOM, WE WANT DIALOGUE (ENGLISH) 1.16 9. SV INDONESIAN GUARDS AT GATE 1.20 10. SV PROTESTOR WITH POSTER SAYING "BURMA NOT MOVING ON DEMOCRACY YET" (ENGLISH) 1.24 11. SV PROTESTORS HANDING OUT LEAFLETS/ STANDING WITH BANNERS (3 SHOTS) 1.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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Location: RANGOON, BURMA/ BANGKOK, THAILAND
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Story Text: INTRO: Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi made a low-key appearance at an official Martyrs' Day ceremony as state-run media attacked her for urging the West to impose economic sanctions on Burma.
A solemn-looking Aung San Suu Kyi, dressed in a black traditional longyi (sarong), a white blouse and black shawl, placed three baskets of flowers at her father's tomb at the Martyrs' Mausoleum in Rangoon on Friday (July 19).
The Burmese democracy leader arrived in a government car, and was accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Then Tun, the man who used to be the liaison officer between the military and Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest.
Minister of Culture Aung San represented the military government at the ceremony, a solemn occasion held each year to remember the nine martyrs who were murdered by unknown assailants on July 19, 1947.
Suu Kyi's father General Aung San, the architect of Burma's independence from Britain, six of his pre-independence cabinet colleagues and two others were gunned down while they were holding a meeting six months before Burma's independence.
Also Friday, dissident Burmese students staged a small demonstration outside the Indonesian embassy in Bangkok on to urge the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to reassess its close ties with Burma.
Foreign ministers of the seven-member ASEAN are meeting in the Indonesian capital this weekend, where they will greet Burma as an observer to the group, a step away from full membership.
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In Louisiana, five non-profits and tribes win $1 million in matching funds for coastal conservation and restoration projects
On December 16, 2019, the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) selected five Louisiana-based organizations to award a total of $1 million in matching funds for projects addressing coastal conservation and restoration. The projects will be funded this fiscal year.
Since 2008, CPRA has awarded $10.3 million to match $12.9 million provided by non-profits, businesses, land owners, and local governments, totaling more than $23 million for 31 projects previously awarded under this program.
“The CPRA Conservation and Restoration Partnership Fund is one of the mechanisms we use to foster public/private partnership opportunities,” said CPRA Board Chairman Chip Kline. “This program is part of our continual effort to identify every means available to expedite implementation of high-priority projects and advancement of our coastal restoration goals.”
CPRA received 21 proposals following its public solicitation earlier this year. The five selected were based on the amount of acreage restored or conserved, synergy of the projects with other conservation and restoration efforts, feasibility of construction, matching funds and in-kind contributions, and project consistency with the objectives of the 2017 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan.
This year, CPRA’s matching portion represents 43% of the total cost of the selected projects.
The organizations and projects selected include:
Ducks Unlimited – Island Road Terraces Phase II
To construct 24,000 linear feet of earthen terraces in Terrebonne Parish’s fragmented marsh south of Island Road and west of the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection Levee, thereby enhancing 375 acres of brackish marsh. Total funding: $1.029 million ($300,000 CPRA Partnership Fund and $727,200 Ducks Unlimited).
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation – East Bank Swamp Restoration and Community Resilience
To plant 2,500 trees near the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS) in St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes. This will restore 12 acres of swamp, augment natural wetland buffers adjacent to these levees, and enhance community resilience. Total funding: $90,000 ($40,000 CPRA Partnership Fund and $50,000 LPBF).
Sankofa Community Development Corporation – Sankofa Wetland Park and Nature Trail
To convert 40 acres into a bald cypress-water tupelo habitat and community nature area adjacent to the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. Residents will be involved in the planning and development of the park, including removal of invasive plants and restoration with native flora, installation of drainage features, placement of educational signage, and construction of play spaces. Total funding: $539,500 ($279,500 CPRA Partnership Fund and $260,000 Sankofa).
The Nature Conservancy – Calcasieu Lake and Sabine National Wildlife Refuge Oyster Reef Restoration Project Phase II
This is a continuation of a previously awarded Partnership Fund project in Cameron Parish. It will restore one mile of oyster reef in the West Cove of Calcasieu Lake adjacent to the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge. This oyster reef restoration and shoreline protection project will protect 237 acres of adjacent coastal salt marsh. Total funding: $981,000 ($350,000 CPRA Partnership Fund and $631,000 The Nature Conservancy).
United Houma Nation – Indian Schoolhouse Trail Restoration
To restore and enhance approximately one acre of United Houma Nation land in Terrebonne Parish adjacent to Bayou Terrebonne by conserving native plants, removing invasive plant species, planting seasonal food gardens, constructing walking trails, and installing stickball poles. The United Houma Nation Montegut School Community Center (formerly the Montegut Indian School) is located on the property. Total funding: $61,016 ($30,500 CPRA Partnership Fund and $30,516 United Houma Nation).
Rendering of the Sankofa Wetland Park and Nature Trail courtesy of the Sankofa CDC.
Learn more about the Sankofa Wetland Park and Nature Trail here.
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Katy Perry’s haircolor sings the blues
It wasn’t surprising to see Katy Perry in blue hair at the MTV Movie Awards, but it WAS surprising when she wore the color in a way that works for real women! Compared with her electric blue wig, the pastel hairpieces seem downright conservative. The peek-a-boo streaks twirl through ringlets, making them new and different without screaming “Look at me”!
If you WANT to scream “Look at me,” follow Katy’s cue. Electric blue perfectly fits the singer’s acting career which includes providing the voice of Smurfette in the Smurfs movie and guest starring in the Simpsons. When asked about wearing the hot hue to the MTV event, Katy said it made sense because she’s wearing it on the cover of her California Gurls.
If you fall in-between mild and wild, consider going with heavier streaks of blue and purple as K.P. has done. Like the wig, these colored hairpieces require no commitment. They work especially well with full, loose curls. Russell Brand’s fiancee isn’t the only one dabbling with the haircolor. At a past MTV Music Awards show, Gwen Stefani stood out in pale blue pigtails. The daring women who dye for this shade have nothing on Marge Simpson who’s been wearing it longer than anyone (from the ’60s until now).
It will be interesting to see if Katy is a blue-head when she plays herself (not animated) with the Simpson puppets in The Fight Before Christmas set to air on Dec. 5th. What do you think?
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As Venezuela Collapses, Maduro Jokes About the Misery His Socialist Government Has Caused
16 Sep, 2016 by Dave Blount
As every country that has tried it knows, not only is socialism immoral and inherently tyrannical, it does not work. Ask Venezuelans, half of whom are ready to abandon their own country. Under end stage socialism, food is scarce:
There are dire reports of people waiting in supermarket lines all day, only to discover that expected food deliveries never arrived and the shelves are empty.
There are horrific tales of desperate people slaughtering zoo animals to provide their only meal of the day. Even household pets are targeted as a much-needed source for food.
President Maduro is doubling down on the proven failed policies and philosophies of “Bolivarian Socialism,” while diverting attention away from the crisis — pointing fingers at so-called “enemies” of Venezuela such as the United States, Saudi Arabia and others.
A dozen eggs was last reported to cost $150, and the International Monetary Fund predicts that inflation in Venezuela will hit 720% this year.
A country rich in resources has become a starvation state. But at least socialist ruler Nicolas Maduro has kept his sense of humor:
To the outrage of many in Venezuela, embattled President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday jokes about the shortages and hardship under his administration.
“The Maduro diet. Makes you hard without needing any Viagra,” said Maduro Sunday, laughing, during an exchange with the audience.
Maduro had asked a man in the audience, “why are you so skinny?” To which several people in the audience responded, on live television: “That’s the Maduro diet!”
The “Maduro diet” is what Venezuelans call slow starvation due to economic dysfunction inflicted by the socialist government.
Likewise, Americans would be placed on the Bernie Sanders diet and the British on the Jeremy Corbyn diet if leftists had their way. As it is, we progress by increments toward Venezuela’s condition by allowing the government to grow ever larger.
Shopping on the Maduro diet.
On tips from Bodhisattva and Torcer. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Anthony Bitetto caps an arduous day of travel with a victory
By Jim Diamond
More than a day’s worth of work went into trying to get Anthony Bitetto to Nashville for Tuesday night’s game against the visiting San Jose Sharks, and all that work finally came to fruition, albeit just a little late.
Bitetto was needed back in Nashville for the Predators’ tilt against the Sharks because Anton Volchenkov was unable to go and newly acquired defenseman Cody Franson still does not have the green light to suit up for the Predators due to immigration issues.
Now there are no direct flights between Milwaukee and Nashville, and with weather systems wreaking havoc all over North America, including the one that dumped ice on Middle Tennessee Monday, getting between the two cities was not exactly easy.
After a Monday afternoon flight cancellation, he arrived at the airport at 5:30 Tuesday morning ready to fly to Nashville.
“I had a flight at 6:15 yesterday, cancelled, and then 7:00 am, cancelled,” he said. “I had a flight at 11:15 just delayed forever. It was ridiculous. Sometimes you have to go through adversity like that. It was a long day.”
With a 7:00 pm start time to Nashville’s game, there was little margin for any further delays. He said that Tuesday was the first time he ever had to eat his pregame meal in an airport.
Bitetto landed in Nashville in time to make it to Bridgestone Arena, but his gear, not so much.
“I made the flight and I got to baggage claim, and right now it’s probably 5:15 and the meeting is about to happen and I’m stressing out not sure what’s going on,” he said.
Eventually, the bag was retrieved.
As the team’s warmup skate began, Bitetto was not on the ice. In fact, forward Viktor Stalberg was taking line rushes as Seth Jones’ defensive partner. Bitetto was present on the roster card for the game, but when it began, he was not on the bench.
“I guess warmups aren’t that important,” Bitetto said with a laugh.
As the game neared its first media timeout, Bitetto appeared and took his seat on the bench. That media timeout came at 6:26, and while the ice crew did their flying V cleaning, Bitetto took a couple of spins to loosen up his legs. 32 seconds later, he received his first shift of the game.
“I had to get out there and do a couple of hot laps,” he said. “I think my first shift I had a 2-on-1 and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m back.’ I’m glad we got the win. That’s the most important thing about it.”
Predators head coach Peter Laviolette said that getting Bitetto into Nashville was quite the challenge, and that if needed, Stalberg would have gone into the lineup.
“Well, we had one extra player here,” Laviolette said. “There’s nothing really you can do about it. We’ve been trying for what seemed like 30 hours to get him here. The weather’s got everybody on their heels right now, so the fact that he made it here is great. Once he was in the air, we knew he would be here. We knew his equipment would get here at some point and he would join us in the game.”
Bitetto finished with 13:29 of ice time, not too bad for a guy who had been travelling all day, missed warmups, and even the start of the game.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged Anthony Bitetto, Nashville Predators on February 17, 2015 by Jim Diamond. 1 Comment
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The EU debate’s slips and slurs have degraded politics
May 31, 2016 Robert Guthrie23 june, activism, activists, affairs, alex salmond, boris johnson, brexit, britain, campaign, campaigns, citizens, civilised debate, communities, community, conservative, conservative party, conservatives, conversation, crisis, culture, david cameron, debate, democracy, dialogue, election, elections, establishment, eu, eu referendum, europe, europe referendum, european, european referendum, european union, euroscepticism, eurosceptics, eurozone, facts, global, government, great britain, hard right, human rights, independence referendum, international, leaders, michael gove, migration, MPs, news, nigel farage, participation, parties, party, people, policy, political culture, political engagement, political participation, political parties, political society, politicians, politics, populations, populism, prejudice, press, prime minister, racism, racist, referendum, remain, right, right-wing, right-wing populism, rights, scaremongering, Scotland, scottish independence, scottish referendum, slurs, smears, SNP, society, solidarity, statistics, stronger in, tactics, tories, tory, tory party, uk, uk politics, Ukip, united kingdom, united kingdom independence party, vote, vote leave, vote remain, voters, voting, world, yes scotland
In the quiescent aftermath of the Scottish independence referendum two years ago, one major criticism was made. It does, however, seem forgotten today. Both David Cameron and Alex Salmond continually slammed each other for campaigns of scaremongering in the months leading up to the 2014 vote. Press outlets unleashed damning reports of both the Yes and No sides’ tactics, and many voters argued for a more fact-based approach in future. Surely this year’s EU referendum debate would be something more civilised.
Frustratingly enough, the past few weeks of dialogue between the remain and leave camps have failed to foster the clear and precise discussion for which the electorate increasingly yearns. Weeks of needless racial slurs from Vote Leave, deliberately provocative press spin, and crafty controversy from Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, as well as other prominent Eurosceptics have destroyed what might have been a sophisticated debate. As personality and press coverage become more important in the voting process, the electorate will vividly remember the pathetic playground tactics that have come from some of the most prominent MPs. The fact that our politicians have failed to present stimulating facts and figures in a straight-forward manner shows that the tenor of the UK’s political dialogue is set lower than ever.
The tone of the EU conversation is gravely worrying for the future of the UK’s political society. The ersatz debate has switched off vast numbers of voters, and has turned politics into a violent shoot-out with politicians hotly trading insults. Blatant scaremongering and carelessness has left a large proportion of the electorate uneducated and unable to make an informed vote. Last week, the head of the UK Statistics Authority rendered just one of the figures used by Vote Leave in relation to EU spending as inaccurate. One MPs’ report made similar conclusions, and today the campaign has backed down on claims in relation to EU energy spending. How can we trust such deceptive campaign tactics? For these reasons, it is devastating that several thousands of voters will inevitably give up this time, and fail to turn out on 23 June. Politicians are falling short of inspiring British citizens to take part politically, especially in such a crucial vote. Our political decision-makers will only be held less accountable unless debate becomes refined, a prospect which could seemingly thin our democracy.
The EU referendum campaign has been further plagued by tedious racial slurs – even from activists whom are becoming inspired by the controversial standpoint of Vote Leave. The activities of a handful of their supporters were condemned on social media yesterday after a questionable roadside billboard playing on an offensive German stereotype. Today, a campaign poster for Operation Black Vote was widely deemed racist. The plan to leave Europe was once a key to more political freedom and heightened national control. It seems, however, that the campaign for a vote to leave Europe is now based on other issues.
The recent weeks’ wagging of fingers and prodding of each other with insults like misbehaving schoolchildren may not only sacrifice a defeat against those campaigning for a Brexit, however. This approach of many is destroying the foundations of a quality political culture. The ten-week campaign is starkly showing that the biggest issue lies within the problematic and muddled UK Establishment. The fact that a notable rise in Euroscepticism in an array of political parties has recently materialised – namely Ukip and the Tories – and that many proponents of the leave campaign have advocated for the aforementioned controversial campaign tactics is something of concern. The disorderly and shameful methods used by both campaigns in the run-up to the June vote is highlighting why populism is becoming so successful, but is also seeing the politics of evil flourish. It is clear that this is what is leading to a decay in the quality of the UK’s political conversation.
Many of our elected representatives have seemingly failed the electorate, taking more time over the petty dirty work of politics instead of presenting straight-forward facts to the people. The EU campaign was the opportunity for more civilised and sophisticated politics, and an opportunity to build on the considerable rough-and-tumble of the Scottish referendum a couple of years ago.
But still our political culture is markedly degrading, proven by the quality of discussion over recent weeks. The most disheartening aspect is that the power to rejuvenate political debates lay in the hands of our politicians, and it is something they are choosing to ignore. Such a factually weak campaign with smear tactics at the core is degrading our democracy. With skewed statistics, deflection from the real issues, and childish taunting, in no way can many of the campaigning politicians claim to have run a constructive, informative campaign. Instead, our politicians have resorted to tiresome disputes with one another, chucking in many a hurtful jibe. Both the remain and leave campaigns have shown that they are unable to sustain a compelling atmosphere in relation to the 23 June referendum.
Such melodrama has only fuelled the chaos which currently riddles the UK’s political theatre, and has damaged the nation’s quality of politics in a plethora of ways. Next month’s referendum provided the perfect opportunity for a triumph over the politics of fear, and a growing, highly prejudiced sector of the hard right. Maybe this has proven that divisive, hurtful and more devious politics will become the norm. The juvenile dialogue of the European referendum campaign has becoming something of a spectator sport, rather than one in which all British citizens can fairly participate. Once again, our leaders’ poor performances have only halted chances of swift progression towards a brand new, better society – in this case, a reformed Europe that works for all.
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A disastrous racial divide is splitting our society
April 15, 2016 Robert Guthrieaffairs, britain, communities, community, conflict, conservatives, crisis, david cameron, divides, equality, ethnic minorities, ethnicity, europe, global, goals, government, ideal, inequality, international, jeremy corbyn, law, local communities, maria miller, migration, minorities, minority ethnic, news, people, politicians, politics, prejudice, prime minister, race, race divide, racism, societies, society, solidarity, terrorism, uk, Ukip, united kingdom, utopia, women, world
Sometimes I find myself creating an image of what I believe might be the most ideal society. I’m certainly not an expert in the field of ethics, but it would definitely enshrine some long-awaited bottom lines. My mind’s utopia would encompass deeply engrained values of equality and tolerance, have its gates open widely to all, and strive to take the issues of all into account when decision making. But I’d better not immerse myself too heavily into this fantasy. The concept of the perfect society won’t truly exist, ever. But it seems worth aiming for in an attempt to quash the most profound of social barriers.
It would simply be inaccurate to suggest that our global community is accepting of all values currently. Don’t get me wrong – many of the reasons for hostility to any perceived outsiders are sometimes with the best of intent and for security, not for exclusion. With an advent of new technology, values, immigration, and – in the most extreme of cases – deeply rooted factional conflict, it can seem only natural that citizens are consistently wary and vigilant.
Deeply worrying news has come this week of some of the most opportunity-bashing and equality-defying divides. The presence of new communities seems to be provoking new and controversial thinking. Brand new studies and news stories have shown that the ideas of inclusion and openness promoted by our politicians, NGOs and schools just do not prevail in ways previously thought .
Over previous days, the existence of distinct barriers to numerous sections of our society has been widely reported. The TUC reported today that at all levels of education and employment in Britain, those of minority ethnic descent are significantly disadvantaged in terms of opportunities, livelihoods and job security. A modern society like Britain can only achieve prosperity and success if it wholeheartedly welcomes people of all mindsets and experiences. Immigration cannot take place begrudgingly, a state of affairs which unfortunately seems existent, ever punctuated by the emergence of movements such as UKIP. Such striking deprivation and unemployment amongst those of minority ethnic backgrounds does not and will not make for a thriving society.
A culture of divides is further endorsed by such unnecessary prejudice. It is evident that racial profiling is creating exclusive communities, creating a feeling of ‘them and us.’ Only last month, one passenger on an easyJet flight was escorted from the plane after a fellow traveller spotted prayers on their neighbour’s phone. The overly accentuated cons of immigration, and relatively sporadic – but undeniably atrocious – national terrorism incidents have led to scaremongering at all levels. It seems that Britain is not a wholly welcoming community. Solidarity and the nurturing of new, vibrant values must be backed.
Possibly one of the gravest problems in relation to our split societies is to do with those who bear power. Even at the top, our law enforcers fail to uphold the values that could rejuvenate our national ethos. It is shameful that a large number of those who are wrongly stopped and searched by our local authorities are so harshly racially profiled. Figures released last year showed that those of black race were over 17 times more likely to be stopped. More scandalously, the rate of further police action which was actually followed through after a search was markedly less.
What about the upcoming local elections, which seem to be exposing the opinions of our politicians to a further extent than previously thought? Those who are battling to become the next London mayor, Sadiq Khan and Zac Goldsmith, have become embroiled in a huge race debate. The past few weeks have allowed the public to closely watch the scaremongering of the Tory candidate Goldsmith, who has horridly accused Labour candidate Khan of protecting minorities, fuelling the rise of extremism. The Labour candidate is not the only one of his party to be in such a quandary. Corbyn has faced calls from both inside and out for a stronger clamping down on the disgusting anti-Semitic views which circulate in many of the party’s branches.
So, what next? Britain must transform its social attitudes, adopting values of inclusivity, openness and warmth. This transformation can only take place, however, with a driving force from the top. Our elected officials and law enforcers must work on creating Britain the open nation it has the potential to be. The most important fix is a surprisingly easy one. It is time that we saw each equally. Instead of labelling and classifying citizens into one category or another, we must become a truly solid community. If it is anything to go by, today marks a real possibility for change. I hugely welcome the remarks of Maria Miller, chair of the Women and Equality Select Committee in the UK Parliament, today calling for increased legislation aimed at weakening such abhorrent abuse and needless divides. Perhaps the utopia which I blueprinted at the start will inevitably never exist. There is no such thing as the perfect society, but isn’t it a concept worth working to? Simply, our governments and leaders must now outline common goals, properly enshrine our all important rights and adopt a nature of true realpolitik.
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Rian Johnson’s amiably masterful Knives Out has been a surprise sleeper hit in the past few weeks, and I think I know why: It takes a lot of tensions and absurdities of today and turns them into a comforting evening’s entertainment. The genre is murder-mystery, and the tone is somewhere between wicked and tongue-in-cheek, but the message is an odd partner to all that: “Kindness will win.” Beyond that, I owe you the courtesy of saying practically nothing about the plot, other than that wealthy mystery-novel writer Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) dies under suspicious circumstances and there are many people who could be responsible.
Except there aren’t, because we see fairly early on how Harlan died — except for the parts we don’t learn about till later. Harlan’s family comes to his mansion for his 85th birthday, and all of them are terrible. His grim-faced daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her sleazy husband (Don Johnson); their black-sheep son (Chris Evans); Harlan’s saturnine son (Michael Shannon) and his racist wife (Riki Lindhome); Harlan’s GOOP-like daughter-in-law (Toni Collette) and her performative-liberal daughter (Katherine Langford). Harlan’s only friend is his personal nurse, Marta (Ana de Armas). When Harlan turns up dead, someone calls in the famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), and we’re off.
Johnson writes and directs with speed and clarity; this thing ticks along beautifully. The dialogue, especially that which has little to do with the mystery and everything to do with establishing character, is sharp but juicy enough to push this into the arena of comedy. The character work is as crucial as the mystery plot, because Knives Out doesn’t, as you’d think, center on the grandly hypothesizing Benoit Blanc (though oh what fun Daniel Craig has with the accent, the intonations, the expansive wave of a cigar). It focuses on Marta, who has very real motives, rooted in current pain, to do what she does. Benoit finds her so trustworthy — for she literally cannot tell a lie, or else she’ll vomit — he enlists her as his Watson.
I guess I’m a Rian Johnson fan — I’ve seen four out of his five movies (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and this) and enjoyed them. They are truly ornaments to their respective genres, but they also share a certain regard for decency in surroundings that don’t always reward it. Johnson has, with Knives Out, made a liberal fable disguised as a murder mystery, a fable where the characters run the spectrum between Nazi and SJW, between skeptic and mystic, and like most of us are flawed and complicated. The nice thing about Marta, the movie’s one true hero, is that she’s drawn so skillfully as a selfless person of the type that’s usually incidental to someone else’s story. Harlan’s family, selfish jerks all, envision themselves as the center of their story — don’t we all, though? And Harlan himself, he gets to go out in the most triumphant way a man like him can. But he is the object of the story; Marta is the subject. Ana de Armas’ soft features and Margaret Keane eyes can’t hurt her credibility as an angel among demons. Marta is humble, smart, reflexively compassionate; we gravitate to her. Even the great Benoit Blanc seems a little full of himself.
Given how much the movie pits itself against Trumpism, explicitly in dialogue or subtextually, its success has been heartening (after its third weekend in theaters it was still in the top three). Knives Out speaks for kindness, intelligence, generosity, truth, and sharing the wealth. The way it’s been marketed is a little tricky, though — for one thing, it de-emphasizes Marta, and makes this look like the sort of white-people murder-mystery dinner that might put off the same viewers who would really dig where it actually ends up. On the other hand, it’s going to lure in a bunch of well-to-do white folks, attracted by the delectable promise of a genteel genre piece, only to spit full in their faces. Or vomit, as the case may be.
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Eddie Murphy has been in movies for thirty-seven years, but Dolemite Is My Name is the first time he has played a real-life person — Rudy Ray Moore, the self-described “ghetto expressionist” who rose up by making records and then movies that turned the African-American urban experience into ribald slapstick. Moore was already 48 years old when his first movie, Dolemite, was released in 1975; it helped expand his cult, which has survived his death, in 2008, at age 81. Dolemite Is My Name celebrates Moore as a hustler and an anti-mainstream creative; it fits right in with the screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski’s previous films (Ed Wood, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Big Eyes).
Murphy brings not only his still razor-sharp comedic instincts but a certain gravitas, a whiff of defeat, to his performance. The stakes seem higher, the obstacles to success taller, than in those other weird-show-biz biopics. Moore is a black man pushing fifty; in the words of Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction, “If you were gonna make it, you woulda made it before now.” Murphy plays Moore as if hearing those words on repeat in his head. There’s desperation under his confidence, and a hot drive to surpass his abusive, belittling father. Perhaps Murphy, 58, needed some years under his belt, some failures and humbling, before he could play Moore with truth and honor. (The character of Dolemite is a different story; Reggie Hammond, Axel Foley, and many other Murphy heroes were essentially slimmer, sleeker Dolemites.)
Directed by Craig Brewer (who’s also helming Murphy’s Coming to America sequel), Dolemite Is My Name settles, in its second half, into a tongue-in-cheek, half-irreverent making-of-Dolemite comedy. It doesn’t make the mistake of holding up Dolemite as any kind of art. Watch the 1975 film again and you’ll see it transcends its amateurishness with its eagerness to please — packing its 90 minutes with sex and violence, it comes close to being a “good parts only” guilty pleasure. Yet it also stops dead so that Dolemite can unspool one of his rhyming stories, the progenitors of hip-hop, for an audience of appreciative street dudes (and later in his nightclub). The sense we get from the new biopic is that Dolemite may not be everyone’s idea of art, but it is pure expression. Moore took inspiration from the signifying of winos and junkies, put his own spin on it, and delivered it to those who laughed at its familiarity and those just discovering it. It is, in its way, art.
The biopic stays bright and colorful despite its structure of ups and downs — Moore and his crew work hard, sweat, and improvise to get that damn film in the can. Murphy is surrounded by ringers like Craig Robinson, Keegan-Michael Key, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and especially Wesley Snipes, as Dolemite’s director and onscreen villain D’Urville Martin, pretty much the only participant with any Hollywood experience. Snipes is to this movie what Burt Reynolds was to Boogie Nights; he brings all his film roles and all our knowledge of his offscreen foibles to his portrait of a jaded Tinseltown satellite (dining out on having played an elevator operator in Rosemary’s Baby) who offers hope to a despairing Moore at one point. Watching Snipes up there with Murphy carries levels of associations and memories, mostly warm. At this point, both men, once kings, seem to have passed through ego into human-scaled consciousness, and therefore become kings anew.
As in Ed Wood, the hero here gathers a group of misfits around him to achieve the common goal of a Z-budget flick. Moore works with blacks, whites, gays, Jews, and of course women to realize his dream — the movie is good-hearted, though it sort of underplays Dolemite’s casual misogyny (at one point in the 1975 film Dolemite deals his lover a couple quick slaps in her face before resuming coitus). You could watch Dolemite Is My Name and miss that Dolemite is a pimp; the women in Dolemite are there to act as Dolemite’s kung-fu enforcers, but they’re also there to show their merchandise. Once again, an Alexander/Karaszewski script softens some of the reality (don’t think too hard about how D’Urville Martin is played as somewhat gay and the never-married Moore, about whom rumors have flown in recent years, isn’t¹). But generally this is a convivial and compassionate tribute to creation by any means necessary.
¹On the other hand, much is made of Moore’s being nervous about shooting one of Dolemite‘s sex scenes until Da’Vine Joy Randolph as his confidante Lady Reed suggests that the scene could be played for laughs. We never see Moore with any girlfriends, either.
Categories: biopic, comedy
The good-hearted, often hilarious coming-of-age comedy Booksmart deserves to be to Gen-Z girls what Clueless was and is to millennials. It’s the night before high-school graduation, and best friends Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) have had a revelation. Since they can remember, they’ve hit the books and steered towards ivy-league colleges, after which, they’re sure, come fabulous, empowering careers. Their ambition has come at the expense of having any stupid kid fun, and the girls learn to their horror that many of their classmates, notorious party animals, are also getting into good schools. So Molly and Amy determine to find the biggest, coolest party and have at least one disreputable night to remember.
Booksmart feels solidly of-the-moment, very “Nevertheless, she persisted.” I don’t know that it would have felt so vital, felt so much like something one reaches towards gratefully, a few years ago. In the current moment it feels like an oasis and (forgive me) a hug. The movie was written, directed, and (with one exception) produced by women, and it pokes a little gentle fun at the performative wokeness of its era while never denying its necessity. There are holes here and there that I imagine are accounted for by deleted scenes — we meet Amy’s parents but not Molly’s, and one character makes such a belated comeback in the story I had a hard time remembering who she was and why she’s antagonistic to Amy. But mostly the narrative is loose and anecdotal, like so many other fond comedies about what goofy but lovable kids we were. (If “we” were well-to-do California kids, of course.)
The exuberant Feldstein and the wary Dever anchor the comedy in their characters’ respective insecurities, and director Olivia Wilde stacks the supporting cast largely with bright newcomers. One ringer, Billie Lourd, plays the school’s rich wild girl and turns in an eccentric but generous-hearted performance that does her mom, Carrie Fisher, proud. Some of the goings-on reminded me of the affectionately-seen hijinks of the kids in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. There are (with a brief exception) no villains here, just kids and — occasionally — grown-ups just trying to get by and have fun. Even the apparently mean kids have nooks and crannies of kindness. If they talk trash about you in the restroom it’s just because they don’t really know you.
Wilde is generally in gentle but firm control of the movie’s tone and moods, and when things get dramatic in the third act, we feel the potential loss sharply. It feels a little too much like a screenwriting trope, though, to have Molly and Amy fight and fall away from each other, and we don’t want to see them hurt (and we also know they’ll make up). We develop warm feelings for just about everyone — the rich dork who rents a yacht to throw a competing party; the drifty, smiling girl on whom Amy has a crush, but who might not actually be worthy of it; the teacher (Jessica Williams) who finds herself drawn into the party; and most of all for Molly and Amy. I always wanted more of everyone here; I would sit for a ten-episode Netflix Booksmart prequel series, as long as they could get the whole cast back.
I keep using words like “gentle,” but I don’t want to leave you with the impression that Booksmart isn’t also funny. The scenes are clipped to open up a line or a gag for maximum punch. There’s a bad-sex scene of titanic awkwardness that’s played for uneasy chuckles but mostly for cringing compassion; in general, we don’t have to wonder if it’s cruel to laugh at anything here. Even that well-worn stereotype the flamingly gay black guy is intended to be funny on his own terms. The movie is casual with gayness and is incisive on the inner lives of smart girls. For those reasons it often feels like a waft of cool fresh air piping into the humid, fart-filled elevator we’re all now stuck in. Some of the air is not so fresh; that’s what happens when you have four credited (albeit female) screenwriters. Every so often a line or situation lands with the heavy thunk of predictability or familiarity. But not too often. I’m glad films like Booksmart can still be made. I hope to see many more like it — or, not like it, but in the same spirit, with the same embracing soul. Its kindness makes it seem radical resistance.
Categories: comedy, one of the year's best
The women in Wine Country are such good company that I hate to complain that the script is a little underdone. So mostly I won’t. The movie is really just an excuse to get Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and Ana Gasteyer in the same room, as well as fellow Saturday Night Live writing veterans Paula Pell and Emily Spivey, and also Tina Fey for a few scenes, and other funny women of newer or elder vintage. Essentially, if you were female and responsible for some laughs on SNL in the early ‘00s, Wine Country is your class reunion. And like class reunions, this occasion elicits some looking inward; the plot has Abby (Poehler) throwing a 50th-birthday trip for Rebecca (Dratch), and they and the four other friends who come along face various fears connected to being a woman of a certain age.
To be honest, though, Wine Country contends more with generational conflict than with gender conflict. Other than Jason Schwartzman as a house boy providing food and sex when needed, a barely glimpsed husband, a doctor who quickly gets hooted out of the room, and a couple others, males pretty much don’t exist in this movie, or are irrelevant. On the other hand, Generation X resentment towards millennials is all over Wine Country, which may limit its audience a bit. As I’m Gen-X myself, this shouldn’t bother me, but along about the second hour the millennial-bashing wears a bit thin. By the time we get to the empty-headed thirtysomething waitress/artist with a show devoted to Fran Drescher on The Nanny, the fear and anger of one generation towards its youngers are unmistakable.
Maybe it’s nothing personal, though — the general beef these ladies have is not younger women but no longer being younger women. Fear of the future manifests as taking comfort in the past (see the ladies’ “DUI” guilty-pleasure ‘80s playlist; the movie is also scored by former Prince revolutionaries Wendy & Lisa). What these women all have in common is that, decades ago, they worked at a pizza place and became friends; they’re not all the same age, but they share pop-culture experiences and similar trajectories. One works in an office, one’s a therapist, one’s a TV star on the wane, etc. They’re all fairly well-to-do; nobody’s struggling like Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids, a movie with a more finely tuned script than this one. A lot of the funnier parts sound improvised, no shock considering improv master Poehler was also the director.
The writing isn’t bad, really; it just feels at times like a collection of sequences governed by a checklist. Mortality, check. Disappointing hubby, check. Job security threatened by the kids today, check twice. (Is Amy Poehler that nervous about aging out of Baby Mama-type roles?) Fortunately this cast is full of entertainers, and they treat the script (credited to Emily Spivey, who perhaps modestly keeps her own character largely sidelined, and Liz Cackowski) as a blueprint to bounce riffs off each other. For instance, I know a raccoon was in the script because someone on the film crew took the time to put a pawprint on a glass door, but the exchange between Dratch and Rudolph about how you can tell it’s a father raccoon sounds gloriously off-the-cuff. There are probably hours of great outtakes we’ll never see on DVD because this is a Netflix movie.
For millennial readers bristling at yet another piece of entertainment that shames them, I would also point out that Wine Country brings in a ringer — Cherry Jones, of the late-Boomer period, as a Tarot reader who hilariously puts the ladies in their place with bleak, accurate assessments of their present and future. (Take that, you Gen-X whiners!) The Tarot works according to archetype, and so does the movie; the characters are full of quirks and whimsical devils, so they seem fresh and individualized. The cast are all smart, snarky women who would get bored playing stereotypes, not archetypes. (Tina Fey’s character, the wildly rich owner of the house where the women are staying, is agreeably hard to pin down; she contains multitudes, like everyone else here.) It’s a real comfort-food movie, and that’s apparently all Poehler and her team wanted to make. Don’t they deserve to? Don’t we deserve to have one?
Categories: comedy
It’s well-nigh impossible to assess Terry Gilliam’s long-gestating, oft-foiled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as just, you know, a movie. It became, in the thirty years since Gilliam first wanted to make it, the ultimate unrealized project and the ultimate Gilliam project — the two seem synonymous at this point. (Some of Gilliam’s aborted films — the list includes The Defective Detective and Theseus and the Minotaur — play better in our heads than some of his actual films of recent years play in reality.) And, oh, would that it had stayed unmade, to shine and thunder in our imaginations forevermore. But, alas, after several false starts and story changes, a film by Terry Gilliam called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote now stands before us. I feel a bit fond of it, because the whole thing understandably expresses a certain happy relief that’s been absent from Gilliam’s work for a while. But I don’t think I want to see it again.
The story now involves Toby (Adam Driver), a jaded director of TV commercials who started out as an artsy, idealistic filmmaker. Toby is in Spain shooting an ad that involves Don Quixote tilting at a windmill; after hours, he encounters, on a bootleg DVD, a short film he made in a nearby village years ago about … Don Quixote. I doubt this is meant as a coincidence, and indeed as Toby the spoiled Hollywood player becomes Toby the soiled squire, the fantasy world of delusion begins to seem here like a virus, highly contagious and fast-acting, spread by the combustible machine of a film set. In part, Gilliam wants to tie filmmaking back into its origins as a series of suggestive images that don’t quite cohere into a sustained narrative. In other words, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote — brilliant and scattered — is the same film Gilliam has been making for fifty years now.
Toby is drawn back to the village where he first animated Don Quixote, and finds the same non-actor — Javier (Jonathan Pryce), the shoemaker Toby cast as his Quixote — who now believes he is Quixote. He, of course, thinks Toby is Sancho Panza, and together they go on “adventures” that seem to drift in and out of reality, through various layers of representation. This may sound terrific, and you may spend some time feeling that Gilliam was somehow meant to be thwarted so many times in making the film, so that he could age into it. And indeed, there are some small threads of pathos that were probably easier for Gilliam to access as a 77-year-old man than they would have been at age 47. But though the plot feels busy, not much really happens other than the narrative eating itself. It gets repetitive; people are always unmasking, revealing their or others’ true selves. After a while we don’t care. I checked the time, aghast to discover there was more than an hour of this to go.
My fondness for the enterprise begins with Jonathan Pryce’s warm, surefooted portrait of Quixote as a man happy and fulfilled in his delusions. Pryce, of course, more or less played Quixote, tilting at the impersonal windmills of bureaucracy, in Gilliam’s ur-masterpiece Brazil, and here he is again, confident on his steed, driven by visions of the pure Dulcinea much as Sam Lowry was goosed out of his drone-tedium by the woman of his dreams. The picaresque, rambling narratives that so attract Gilliam are remarkably consistent. They’re also filled with two-dimensional people, like his honking, muttering animations for Monty Python’s Flying Circus back in the day. Gilliam actually can make a movie with real, complex people — flip back to 1991’s The Fisher King, Gilliam’s second masterpiece (a textbook example of a film made by a man who just turned fifty, I now realize). But this fantasist prefers to paint in bold, hyperbolic colors and thick lines.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is almost unavoidably a disappointment. If it had come out in the early ‘90s, or even in the early ‘00s, as just the next Gilliam movie, it wouldn’t have gathered the weight of our speculation, hope, frustration, and anticipation, which this movie simply cannot support (no movie could). Its effect on anyone who still cares enough to see it will have nothing to do with the mild, disjointed film itself and everything to do with all the ironies and mishaps surrounding its history. And yet here it is, Gilliam’s triumph — not really an artistic triumph so much as a triumph over all the obstacles and metaphorical floods and giants that kept it frozen in a curse of stasis, like a princess in a fairy tale, for three decades.
Categories: comedy, fantasy
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
In Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this week, the eponymous great comedian drops what has become euphemistically known as “the N-word” forty-two times. The word, in Pryor’s hands, becomes a rueful acknowledgment of fellowship, of shared indignity and terror and general craziness connected with being black in a racist white society. Occasionally he puts it in the mouth of a white person, but most often Pryor uses it interchangeably with “brother.” (As a man in the ‘70s, Pryor was not especially enlightened on matters of feminism — but that doesn’t mean he was unconcerned with women’s struggles, either.)
Eventually, in his later concert film Live on the Sunset Strip, Pryor talked about his trip to Africa, and said “I ain’t gonna never call another black man a n——. You know, ‘cause we never was no n——s. That’s a word that’s used to describe our own wretchedness.” In the 1979 film, though, Pryor is (and would later remain) conversant with his own wretchedness — his embarrassing, screwed-up humanity, the ways in which he was down in the dirt with the rest of us. He was the first to call himself out, and he fashioned his foibles into poetry. Live in Concert is not art as filmmaking — director Jeff Margolis, who has helmed TV specials and awards shows for decades, basically just keeps Pryor in focus. It’s the text, the material, that I value as art, as literature, as hilarious and heartbreaking memoir.
Pryor flits from subject to subject, but the jewel in the crown of Live in Concert is his account of his heart attack, in which Pryor famously gives voice to himself and to his own aggrieved heart (“You thinkin’ about dyin’ now, ain’t you?” the organ growls as it goes into cardiac arrest; “You didn’t think about it when you was eatin’ all that pork”). Pryor will occasionally lapse into a truism — “The hospital ain’t no place to get well” — and then chase it with “You can die in there and nobody give a fuck,” something so bleak and blunt it forges its own hilarity. In reviewing Sunset Strip, Pauline Kael — a big fan of Pryor — somewhat uncharitably noted that his routine about his self-immolating suicide attempt (which he passed off then as an accident) couldn’t help but be a pale echo of the earlier heart-attack bit. But Pryor so often abused his own body, as if in twisted solidarity with his abusers from his childhood, that it was inevitable that he should work up comedy about his own physical self-disrespect.
When Pryor hops from being Pryor to being his heart to being an indifferent phone-operator angel in heaven, he’s firing on all cylinders and doing what he did better than anyone — breathing life into people and things, animate and inanimate, raising monkeys and dogs and deer and car tires to his own level of awareness — sharp, paranoid, lowdown and unsentimental. Pryor, especially here, doesn’t do anything so mundane as tell jokes. He embodies; he inhabits. Sometimes, not to get offensively voodoo-mystical about it, he seems to channel alien consciousness and reinterpret it through his own wounded yet tickled human experience.
Pryor creates for us an entire world, in seventy-some minutes, with just a microphone — a world of danger and rage, yes, but also one of mitigating ironies. “I woke up in an ambulance, right,” he says after his heart punks out on him. “And there wasn’t nothing but white people staring at me. I said, Ain’t this a bitch. I done died and wound up in the wrong motherfuckin’ heaven.” For Pryor, whose art and viewpoint were so snugly connected to his experience as a black man, ending up in white heaven (“Now I got to listen to Lawrence Welk the rest of my days”) would have been the ultimate indignity and joke. Pryor’s comedy draws on deep African and African-American traditions of folklore, storytelling, playing the dozens, anthropomorphism. He was an original, a visionary, a crowded house of voices — an American sangoma, healing with visions and laughter and empathy, divining by throwing his own bones.
Categories: comedy, concert film, one of the year's best
Netflix’s The Christmas Chronicles lasts, with credits, one hour and forty-four minutes, of which fifty-three minutes are worthwhile. You’re way ahead of me: those are the minutes featuring Kurt Russell as Santa Claus (he prefers “Saint Nick”), a robust, not quite jolly old elf who oddly seems to fit right in with Russell’s recent run of hirsute cowboys and rough workers with a surplus of chin and/or lip fur. (Not to mention the global twinning of Russell now having played bearded heroes of the North and South Poles.) Russell plays Santa with absolute integrity, which in this context means he plays Santa as Kurt Russell playing Santa, which is the only reason most people of legal age would want to watch this. And he delivers.
Sadly, Russell shares the movie with two irritating kids, chipper believer Kate (Darby Camp) and her sullen teenage older brother Teddy (Judah Lewis). They’re bummed because their firefighter dad died on duty, this is their first Christmas without him, and their mom (Kimberly Williams-Paisley in an utterly thankless role) just wants them to get along. Because Teddy no longer has a father figure, he’s drifting towards crime (he and his buddies literally steal a car for a joyride at one point). Teddy needs to be bitter and cynical so that, of course, he can relearn Christmas Spirit over the course of the movie, but that could have been accomplished without all the grand-theft-auto stuff that can’t help implying that single women can’t raise boys without disaster.
On Christmas Eve, these kids, led by Kate, find themselves in Santa’s sleigh, where they startle him and he lands them somewhere in Chicago without his reindeer or his magic hat. If he doesn’t get these items back soon, there will be no Christmas cheer, by which the movie means no presents. I kept waiting for the film to break out the old platitude that Christmas is about more than presents, but nope. It’s about presents and also about the other dude of the day — at one quiet moment in the adventure, Kate and Teddy pause outside a church and sadly reflect that they haven’t been since their dad died. Which, I guess, means their mother hasn’t brought them? So we’ll blame her for her kids being godless, too!
It’s probably useless to come at The Christmas Chronicles with politics, though there is that odd moment where Santa, denying that he actually says “Ho ho ho,” grumps “It’s just a myth. Fake news.” That’ll date the movie in a bad way, not that Netflix cares, nor its uninspired director Clay Kaytis (an animation guy who graduated to jodhpurs and megaphone with the Angry Birds movie). A good deal of the film is an excuse for elaborate CG effects, which have no magic; even a long look inside Santa’s toy bag is a multilevelled vision of card catalogs and conveyor belts of gifts — it’s like Terry Gilliam without a brain. At least Sofia Coppola’s A Very Murray Christmas had some soul (and Bill Murray).
Russell tries his damnedest, though. In a sequence that will justify the movie for some, Santa jams in a prison cell with some surprise ringers whose identities I won’t spoil (a hint: if the movie had any wit it would’ve stranded Santa in Jersey). Russell himself takes the lead on “Santa Claus Is Back in Town,” and he’s in good voice, busting out his old E moves (Elvis, of course, first recorded the song sixty-one autumns ago). Now, having Kurt Russell get his Elvis on, as well as winking at some of his past roles (“Big trouble,” Santa intones), will tickle some of the audience, including yr. humble scribe. And I can’t feel sad for Russell being in a movie that’s unworthy of him in general, because he lifts all his scenes so effortlessly, bringing his own cool party with him and inviting us to join in.
I also liked the way Russell plays the many scenes in which Santa knows various folks’ childhood dreams and hopes. His Santa is a little irascible, given the circumstances, but also good-hearted. This isn’t one of Russell’s challenging performances, like those in the underrated Miracle or Dark Blue. Here, he reminded me of Jeff Goldblum, who can also get artsy and serious, but whose natural charisma is such that you can be content just watching Jeff having fun being Jeff. And the same is true of Kurt. For fifty-three minutes.
Categories: comedy, kids, overrated, Uncategorized
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{{EventLinksBox |active=yes |type=Inquiry |cat=Lab |2015thread=[http://scioly.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=186&t=6289 2015 (Trial)] |2016thread=[http://scioly.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=207&t=7703 2016] |2017thread=[http://scioly.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=226&t=9279 2017] |2018thread=[https://scioly.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=264&t=10866 2018] |2019thread=[https://scioly.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=284&t=12232 2019] |2020thread=[https://scioly.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=284&t=15382 2020] |B Champion=[[Tower Heights Middle School]] |C Champion=[[Columbia High School (New York)|Columbia High School]] }} '''Game On''' is a [[Division B]] event for the [[2020]] season. It was a [[Division C]] event for the [[2016]], [[2017]], and [[2018]] seasons before becoming a [[Division B]] event for the [[2019]] season. It was held as a trial event at the [[University of Nebraska 2015|2015 National Competition]] and the [[University of Central Florida 2014|2014 National Competition]]. The objective of Game On is to create a game with the program [http://scratch.mit.edu Scratch]. Scratch is a program designed by MIT Media Labs that allows non-programmers to experiment and play with the basics of programming. It is a visual event-driven language in which you drag and drop blocks of code in order to create scripts. For a list of Game On blocks, please see [[Game On/Scratch Blocks]]. ==Overview== At the competition, students are given a theme which they must incorporate into their game. Possible themes (that are not intended for tournament use) are listed as Wave, Fire, Gravity, Silly sports, Frogs, and Newton's Second Law. In [[2018]](but not [[2019]]), the games must also follow a game type. The possible game types are: *For regional and invitational tournament, Collection, Maze and Avoidnce. *For state tournament, the regional types and Shooting, Racing and Building. *For national tournament, any two of the above themes or a two-player game may be used. Teams of 2 are given 50 minutes to complete their game. The entire competition is conducted offline (in the offline editor). Students are allowed to bring writing instruments, headsets, and a microphone. Other computer programs (such as Photoshop), external resources and pre-constructed game assets are NOT allowed. ===Rubric=== [[File:Game_On_Rubric_Small.png|thumb|Kid-friendly rubric]] The Game On grading rubric for the 2017-18 season can be found [https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/Game_On_Rubric_17_18.pdf here], and is explained [https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/Game_On_Rubric_17_18_Explained.pdf here]. Because of the open-endedness of this event, there are not many explicit rules or explicit requirements in grading. ==Game Types== :''Game Types are not a part of the 2019 rules for this event, but may be added back in later years. They are left here for future reference.'' The rules for 2018 specified specific types of games that could be assigned for different competitions. The following descriptions come straight from [https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/Game_On_Game_types_2018.pdf soinc.org]. They are very broad, leaving most of it up to interpretation - '''as long as the game meets the basic requirements listed here''', feel free to get innovative. ===Invitationals and Regionals=== *Collection – the user controlled sprite is involved in the collecting of objects to complete the objective of the game. *Maze – the user controlled sprite must navigate through a series of static obstacles, borders, boundaries or lines to complete the objective of the game *Avoidance – the user controlled sprite must avoid moving autonomous sprites to complete the objective of the game ===State=== *Shooting – the user controlled sprite must shoot or direct an object(s) during the game to complete the objective of the game *Racing – the user controlled sprite must complete the objectives of the game before the autonomous sprite does *Building – the user controlled sprite must be involved in the assembling of smaller parts or components to complete the objectives in the game ===Nationals=== *Combination of any two of the previous game types *Two player game of any one of the previous game types ==Event Advice== Since the Scratch program is free, it is recommended that students experiment with the program so that they are not learning how to use it at the competition. It is free to download [https://scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/ here]. If students can not use the downloaded offline program, the online editor can be utilized. However, it must be kept in mind that at the competition, students may or may not be using the offline editor. Consider brainstorming game ideas for different themes as practice. Have a team member give you a topic, and time yourself (50 minutes) to complete it. Practice getting a basic set of code that you will start with or incorporate for different situations. Documentations on the different blocks can be found under [https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Wiki_Home the Scratch Wiki]. Practice making sprites move smoothly with user control, making sprites slide across the screen with specific speed, stimulating gravity, turning Sprites, and making one sprite move toward another one; Practice creating the Introduction, Help, and Gameplay screens and adding the buttons between them as quickly as possible. Finally, create a few games for each game type. As for game ideas, play other games and see what the theme of each game might be. Perhaps that will be the theme the judges choose at the competition! You can also look inside pre-existing projects made by experienced Scratchers (courtesy of Creative Commons) to determine specific mechanics of a project. It also doesn't hurt to ask other users for help in the Scratch community by commenting under projects or posting in [https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/ the Scratch Forums]. Game On requires two partners to work together, rather than just splitting a test in half. Partners should develop roles for themselves, much like many teams do in [[Experimental Design]]. Practicing together is crucial for being prepared to work efficiently during a competition. While every partnership is different, many teams start of with one partner doing the initial set up (such as introduction, help screen, backdrops, sound, etc) while the other partner plans out the actual game and other aspects such as science applications. In the end, teams must find something that works for them. ===Tips=== ''Remember to practice and include:'' :'''Introduction Screen.''' The introduction screen will be the first thing the judges see, so make it catchy to start with a good first impression. Be sure to include a title and a background relating to the game. :'''Help Screen.''' Your help screen should clearly explain to the judges how to play the game. Avoid creating a game with very complicated rules because it will be harder for the judges to understand. Many times, these instructions can be concisely written on the introduction screen. :'''Scorekeeping.''' How points are awarded in your game should not be confusing and should be clear. Clear rules on scorekeeping will make it easier to play the game. :'''Code Organization.''' The judges will have to understand your code, so try to organize it into sections based on the code's function. It is often difficult to understand someone else's code, so name objects appropriately. Use good practices such as adding comments and organizing large scripts using functions. Organize critical steps in your code using broadcasts. :'''Time Management.''' Make sure that you complete a working game first before making it look pretty. Form follows function, so finish your coding first! (Time management comes with practice so...PRACTICE!) :'''Prioritization.''' Prioritize the core game mechanics (a functional game is crucial to a high score) before any cosmetics. The particular order in which you program your game can depend on personal style, so try to practice to see what works best for you. This also goes hand-in-hand with time management since you don't want to spend too long doing a particular task (e.g. customizing sprites, searching for sounds, etc.). :'''Testing.''' If anything, this is one of the most crucial parts of the coding process. TEST YOUR CODE TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS! Testing is crucial in figuring out syntax errors, fine-tuning variables, setting difficulty levels, etc. Make sure your game is accessible, and can be beaten by someone who only has a few minutes to take a look at it, not a professional gamer. :'''Cosmetics.''' Custom sprites and backgrounds are essential to achieving a higher score. Practice using the Scratch Costume/Background editor in both Bitmap and Vector mode. Bitmap is more pixelated than Vector and is mostly just drawing. Vector allows you to size and manipulate individual shapes and tends to be much cleaner. The editor is limited in capabilities, and combining both modes increase the quality and decrease the production time of the sprite. [[Image:Bitmap Vector Difference.png|400px|thumb|Examples of both modes.]] :'''Sounds.''' While sounds don't make a large impact on the game itself, adding background music and/or sound effects is pretty simple and can help out quite a bit, seeing as 6 points are dedicated to sound. As stated above, completing a working game is far more important than adding the extra 'fluff'. Look through the sound library and find some sounds that seem plausible to use: there won't be time to try to find new songs in competition, so know some by name. :'''Memorization.''' Both partners should have the rubric memorized, including the decoded rubric. Knowing specifically what is needed to get points can help save a few minutes that would be wasted adding unnecessary items. ''Extra Tip: To test a particular string of blocks without running the whole script, double-click the group. This works for isolated blocks too-- you can reset position, broadcast messages, rotate sprites, etc., by double clicking.'' ==Creating the Game== ===Game Mechanics=== ====Introduction==== The introduction will be the very first thing that the graders will see, so make it catchy - first impressions are important for a subjective event like this one. Make sure to have the title of the game and buttons for starting the game and also going to the help/instructions menu. The title should be specific to the game itself, '''not the game type'''. Naming the game "Collection Game" will not get the ''Game title conveys idea of the game'' point. This section will remain pretty much the same no matter what topic/game type is given (except the title of course), so it is best to have one partner just brute memorize how to create the introduction as fast as possible. Also as a side note, many teams forget to add background music to the intro: make sure to add some sort of music to your introduction. It may not seem like a big deal but small details like this can help get that extra judges impression point. ====Help/Instructions==== There are 3 things you must explain in your instructions: the objective of the game, the movement controls, and scoring. Sometimes the game is not clear to the graders, so a detailed instruction page can save a lot of points. In addition to this, many teams elect to have a 'science' page that goes along with the instructions that explain what scientific topics were implemented in the game. The science section will be discussed in further detail below. ====User Controlled (UC) Sprite==== While this will be described in Game Play, '''always''' make a custom sprite - no matter how bad it is, it will always guarantee more points than using a stock sprite. To begin, make sure to enclose your sensing blocks in if statements in a loop (forever or repeat while), as this allows for smoother movement than the "when key pressed" block. Diagonal movement can be created simply through having if statements for clicking an arrow and moving a certain number of steps in that direction. Diagonal movement is a rather easy function, but still gets the advanced movement point. Another option is to have acceleration. This can be achieved by having a 'x' velocity and a 'y' velocity variable, and increasing this constantly if the arrow is key is continually held down (or vice versa for slowing down). Have the UC sprite move with a function dependent on the velocity variables that is smooth and reasonable. As for Sprite Orientation, set the location of the sprite under the 'When the (Green) Flag is Clicked', even if it is not being used until later. This will ensure that the character always returns to its original position when restarting the game. Also keep in mind to hide/show the character as needed - leaving the UC sprite shown during the intro/debriefing will lose a significant amount of points. Always add some sort of reference point to the character if it is an object like a circle (something like a nose or mouth). This will ensure that the direction that the character is facing is obvious, and might even score some points for quality of custom sprite. ====Autonomous Sprites==== Autonomous Sprites are extremely similar to User Controlled Sprites, except that they are automated (of course). One way to implement autonomous sprites is to have them act as an avoidance object (even if the game type is not avoidance), and if touched the game ends. The logic for implementing this is relatively easy (just have an if touching character block inside the forever loop) and is the most straightforward way to have autonomous sprites, as well as earn points for collision management in the next section. Also, autonomous sprites must have '''movement complexity (4 points on the rubric)''', which can be done using glide motion blocks or if time allows, giving the autonomous sprite its own x & y velocity variables for acceleration. ====Collision Management==== Collision management has two sections: sprite interactions and environment interactions. Sprite interaction can be achieved easily through the autonomous sprites mentioned in the previous section. Environment interaction is a little more tricky and is dependent on the game that is being made. Creating a 'playing field' that is enclosed by walls is something that could be implemented in most situations. There are a number of ways to stop the sprite from going through walls - one method is the following: [[File:Environment Interaction Example.png|200px|Figure 1]] (Set the touching color to the color of the walls, which was black in this case) Another less buggy and simpler method in which you can implement environment interaction is to have the UC sprite speed go down while touching the color of the environment, or even lose the game when touching the color of the environment. ====Score Keeping==== Score keeping is pretty self explanatory, but make sure to stop the score counter once the game is over. Significant amount of points will be lost if the score counter is not reset/stopped when necessary. Creating a variable for the score '''and having it appear on the screen''' during the game will guarantee all the points from this section. Here are some example/suggested score variable types for various game types at the invitational and state levels of competition. Time is usually acceptable for all game types, but some game types have more applicable scoring types: '''Collection''': # of ___ collected<br> '''Maze''': Time taken to complete the maze <br> '''Avoidance''': Time avoiding autonomous sprites until loss<br> '''Shooting''': # Score or # of ___ shot<br> '''Racing''': Time taken to complete the race against the autonomous sprite <br> '''Building''': dependent on what your building game type is, but possibly time<br> ====Debriefing==== Once the game has been won/lost, display the following: *A "You Win" or "You Lose" Message *Final Score Hide/stop the following: *All UC and autonomous sprites *Stop the score counter Once again, make sure to include appropriate background music for the ending. ====Documentation==== Be selective in what you comment - there is no need to comment items such as 'setting size' or 'setting initial location'. Instead, comment on the more advanced pieces of code, and explain what is being done in a clear and concise manner. Instead of writing a large comment, break it into multiple smaller comments - this helps to line the comments with where the code is actually used and can help get the ''several sections commented on''' point. Also, if possible, comment throughout the entire event, instead of doing it at the last second. In the last few minutes, it is very easy to forget small details such as comments, especially if there is still something left to debug. ====Code Organization==== '''Always, always, always''' use clean up (right click in the workspace and click clean up). This feature is built into scratch, and automatically makes all your code neat ensuring the ''No overlapping of code'' and ''all code must be individually visible'' points. Name the sprites and costumes as soon as they are made with meaningful names - graders should be able to tell what the sprite's role is just by the name. Also, as for efficiency of code (2/8 points in the code organization column), make sure code does not get unnecessarily repeated: for example, in a collection game, you should use clones instead of duplicating the same sprite for the items the UC sprite is collecting. Lastly, an efficient way to allow users to replay the game over and over again is to create a game in progress variable set to true/false (or 0/1), and have the game repeat until the game in progress is equal to zero. The button to replay the game should broadcast a "start game" message and all sprites should receive this broadcast and repeat their respective actions until the game in progress variable is false. ===Game Play=== ====Science of Theme==== This is by far the most important and hardest section to properly implement. Not only must there be scientific concepts included, but they must relate to to theme and also be explained. In total, 12/100 points come from this section. To maximize points, 4 scientific topics must be present, related to the theme, and explained. Make the scientific topics different from each other - for example, if the theme was weather, having evaporation and condensation as two separate scientific topics would not work in most cases, and instead be counted as one scientific thought. Explaining the science is best done along with the instructions, or having its own page that can be accessed from the introduction screen. Be as elaborate as possible - even if the concept isn't implemented properly in the game, explaining how it relates to the game and theme can still earn a few points. ====Graphics==== Graphics also account for 12/100 points: 4 for UC sprite, 4 for autonomous sprites, and 4 for backgrounds. The UC and autonomous sprites are graded similarly - if a stock sprite is used, the max amount of points possible to earn is 2/4, and even then that requires changing at least one thing to the sprite. Using a custom sprite, no matter how simple or ugly, will '''always''' guarantee at least as many if not more points than a stock sprite. 2 points are given for creating a custom sprite, and 2 more for the quality of the custom sprite. Drawing is hard in Scratch, and completing a well drawn sprite is a long and difficult task. Don't spend too much time trying to make it as detailed as possible (make a square with eyes if you must). The quality of custom sprite points are extremely subjective anyways, and would probably take a few minutes of work to successfully earn both points - that time could be used in numerous other areas that in total earn significantly more. Creating complex backgrounds is also relatively time consuming, so choosing a background that fits the game theme/gameplay and modifying it minimally is practically the most that can be done. ====Sounds==== Sounds seem like a very minor detail, but can help a lot in earning overall game impression points, and can tip the scale in competition. Add background music for the introduction, gameplay, and debriefing sections, and change it up for the "variation of sounds" points on the rubric. If there's a few extra minutes, recording a custom sound effect is a great way to earn the ''creativity of sounds'' point, so before the event time even begins, try to make sure that the microphone and speakers work, although it is suggested to bring your own microphone to competition. Look through the sound library before competition and find a few sounds that could work for certain themes. There won't be any time to browse through the library during the competition to find a certain sound. Sounds, specifically the background music, are best implemented in the backdrop workspace, since the sounds will most likely change when the backdrops change. Sometimes the "stop all sounds" block doesn't work properly, so add the "stop all other scripts" block to ensure that the sounds will stop when they need to. ====Play Balance==== Play balance also accounts for 12/100 points of the rubric, and includes a large number of areas. First and foremost, make sure to include some sort of level function. In order to make the game more smooth, adding an intermission phase in between "Level 1" and "Level 2" is a good idea and can help make it obvious when the level is changed. You might also choose to have a "level announcer" sprite that simply just changes costume and displays itself at the top of the screen, telling the user what level it is. From each level change, increase/decrease the speed of the UC and autonomous sprites, or change other movement variables. This is another section that is easier to implement when the the autonomous sprites are being avoided, because making them faster/making the UC sprite slower is an easy to earn these points, but make sure not to over do it: the movements must still be appropriate for the gameplay in order to earn the rest of the points for this section. ====Overall Game==== And as if Game On wasn't subjective enough, 8/100 points come from the grader's interpretation of the game - 4 points for overall impression of the game and 4 for the originality of the game. While adding all these small details to the game to maximize points is important, remember that in the end its a ''game''. Make it enjoyable and fun for the graders. In large scale tournaments, many games end up being relatively similar, because most teams will go with the first thing that comes to mind. Spend some time thinking of more unique games that can separate it from the rest of the games. That being said, still be efficient. Don't spend half the time thinking - you won't have time left to code! ''For more specifics on the game creation, take a look at Chaguy2457's guide below.'' ==Additional Resources== :[[Game On/Scratch Blocks]] :User [[User:Carrot|Carrot]]'s [[Media:Gameon_2019_b_ssss-carrot_notes.pdf| Guide]], from [[SSSS]] 2019. :User [[User:Chaguy2457|Chaguy2457]]'s [[Media:GameOn Guide Chaguy2457 SSSS16.pdf|Guide]], from [[SSSS]] 2017. ==External Links== :[https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/Game_On_Rubric_17_18.pdf 2017-18 Rubric] ::[https://www.soinc.org/sites/default/files/uploaded_files/Game_On_Rubric_17_18_Explained.pdf Explanation of Rubric] :[https://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Scratch_Wiki_Home The Scratch Wiki] {{2014 National Trials}} {{2015 National Trials}} [[Category:Event Pages]] [[Category:Lab Event Pages]]
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Monthly Mean net surface Fresh-Water flux into the ocean (+=down), >0 decreases salinity (kg/m^2/s) - ECCO version 4 release 3, global bi-decadal ocean state estimate
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2D global fields of monthly mean net surface fresh-water flux into the ocean (+=down), >0 decreases salinity (kg/m^2/s) interpolated to a 1/2 degree grid. The state variable is part of the 1992-2015 ECCO version 4 release 3 state estimate [Fukumori et al. 2017; http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110380]. The time-evolving physical state is produced through a least-squares fit of the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to much of the available satellite and in-situ observations by means of gradient-based nonlinear inversion or optimal control using the adjoint or Lagrange multiplier method [Wunsch and Heimbach 2013; http://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-391851-2.00021-0]. The solution is produced on the nominally 1-degree so-called LLC90 horizontal grid, with 50 vertical levels. The solution is free of artificial interior sources or sink of heat, salinity, or momentum, and thus dynamically and kinematically consistent with known equations of motion. Uncertain control variables that are subject to joint inversion include 3D initial conditions, time-varying 2D surface boundary conditions (atmospheric state variables), and time-mean 3D mixing parameters of the MITgcm. Details of the model configuration, observational constraints, and control variables are described in Forget et al. 2015 [http://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3071-2015].
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Safeguarding Linux HA server integrity with STONITH
Designing an approach to automatically shut down a failing node is an important step in protecting data and system integrity in a Linux HA cluster.
Sander van Vugt, Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu
If multiple nodes in a high-availability cluster try to access a cluster file system at the same time, file system corruption can occur. As file system corruption may lead to data loss, it is something to be prevented at all costs. Therefore, before creating any services as resources in the high-availability (HA) cluster, an administrator should ensure cluster integrity using STONITH. This tip outlines the different options that an administrator should explore to ensure Linux HA server integrity.
The value of using STONITH
STONITH stands for “shoot the other node in the head.” It’s an extreme tactic that basically powers down the selected server remotely, removing it from the cluster and allowing other nodes in the cluster to take over. You would employ STONITH if one of the nodes in the cluster cannot be reached anymore by the other node(s) in the cluster.
More resources on Linux HA
Ensuring high availability in the data center
Setting up Linux HA in the data center
Linux clusters: High-performance computing
There are two reasons that could occur. Either the node is down and is not running the cluster resources it is responsible for, or the node isn't down but is no longer synchronized with other nodes in the cluster, still servicing its assigned cluster resources. This latter situation is known as the “split-brain scenario,” and may result in bad things happening to the cluster resources. Imagine, for example, a database that starts running twice in the cluster, or a file system that starts to be written between two independent nodes. Having a split brain in the cluster is bad, and the only way to ensure that no such scenario can occur in the cluster is by using the STONITH approach.
Hardware-based STONITH
In Linux HA Pacemaker clusters, STONITH is traditionally implemented by hardware solutions, such as a Dell Inc. Remote Access Card, a Hewlett-Packard Co. Integrated Lights-Out (iLO)management card that is installed in a server, or a manageable rack power distribution unit, where a Telnet command can be used to switch off power to a specific port. The secret behind the success of these solutions is that they all allow the cluster to talk to the physical server without involving the operating system (OS), because the management solutions are on a different network by default.
In the case of an unresponsive node with an iLO management card, the iLO card has its own firmware OS and its own network connection, so even if the OS on the server is experiencing a crash, that doesn't affect the functioning of the server. Therefore, the cluster can use Telnet to send a command to the iLO board that switches off the server.
Disk-based STONITH
Although hardware-based STONITH works well, this approach requires specific hardware, which adds a degree of expense and vendor lock-in to the server nodes. This disadvantage doesn't exist for disk-based STONITH. The default disk-based STONITH in Linux HA Pacemaker clusters is known as split brain detection (SBD). To use this solution, you need a shared disk. As most clusters use a storage area network (SAN) to provide access to data, the SAN should be available on all nodes simultaneously, so the availability of shared disk devices normally isn't a problem. On this shared disk, the administrator creates a small partition that is used for SBD. In a normal situation, the cluster will be able to check availability of other nodes using the normal network connection. In case this default cluster communication fails, a poison pill is written to the SAN for the node that fails to reply. Since the Pacemaker software configuration requires a failing node to accept the poison pill, it will next terminate itself, thus ensuring a safe transition of resources in the cluster.
In this article, you've read why you should, in all cases, use STONITH to ensure the integrity of resources in the cluster. In Linux HA Pacemaker clusters, you can use either hardware- or disk-based STONITH solutions. A disk-based solution, such as SBD, is easy to implement, since this approach requires no specific hardware. In the next part of this article, you'll learn how to configure an SBD STONITH resource in a Linux HA Pacemaker cluster.
About the author: Sander van Vugt is an independent trainer and consultant living in the Netherlands. Van Vugt is an expert in Linux high availability, virtualization and performance and has completed several projects that implement all three. Sander is also a regular speaker on many Linux conferences all over the world. He is also the writer of various Linux-related books, such as Beginning the Linux Command Line, Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration and Pro Ubuntu Server Administration.
Expert Best Practices: Using Linux for Data Center Consolidation –SearchDataCenter.com
Dig Deeper on Linux servers
A straightforward approach to Linux virtual clustering
By: Stuart Burns
split brain syndrome
STONITH (Shoot The Other Node In The Head)
How to prepare a server cluster for Linux high availability
Implementing SBD STONITH in Linux HA clusters – SearchDataCenter
STONITH (Shoot The Other Node In The Head) – SearchServerVirtualization
Setting up Linux HA in the data center – SearchDataCenter
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Topic Enterprise mobility management
Applications and infrastructure
Mobile Device Platforms and Technologies
SubTopic Strategy and policy
App delivery and modernization
EMM tools
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Three top mobile trends for IT to look for in 2017
IT shops need to stay on top of the latest mobile advancements, but which are the most crucial to the enterprise? Three mobile trends could dictate the future of mobility.
Let's face it -- over the past decade, mobile devices have become so commonplace, they're no longer as exciting as they once were. Until smartphones can start projecting holographic images à la Tony Stark's phone in the Iron Man films, it may not seem like consumers, enterprise users or IT have all that much to look forward to.
Mobile technology may no longer seem like it's advancing at the speed of light, but the relative stability of the mobile marketplace is exactly what IT administrators everywhere want today. Stability improves reliability, lowers costs and mitigates the risk associated with rapid market changes. But stable doesn't have to mean boring -- here are some of the top mobile trends to look forward to in 2017.
Device blurring
For the past five years or so, there's been a dichotomy in the mobile device market, with the more recent innovations in handsets, tablets and hybrid devices such as Chromebooks appealing to content creators. Those end users, though, tend to stick with more traditional desktop PCs, often out of necessity -- ever try editing video on a phone?
All of these technologies improve mobility's fundamental availability, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
Mobile devices are still becoming platforms for enterprise content creators, though. As long as a user has a connection to the cloud, the desktop might be on its way to becoming an anachronism. And with keyboards as the number one accessory among tablet owners, the functional differences between tablets and PCs are reduced to the choice of operating system.
Nowadays, innovation in devices is much more likely to be in software than hardware. Sure, cameras will continue to improve, processors will get faster and more power-efficient as price and performance continues to advance. But IT pros expecting a major paradigm shift in, say, the 10th anniversary iPhone 8 may be disappointed; hardware is now about the incremental and the evolutionary, not the revolutionary.
In terms of predicting the top mobile trends, it's hard to imagine what kind of radical shift in device form factor might occur in the near future, unless it's something straight out of Hollywood. Unfortunately, software innovations such as Iron Man's smartphone -- with a transparent holographic projector screen -- have yet to make it to the mobile marketplace and therefore the enterprise -- although MIT is working on it.
The cloudification of everything
IT is now well into a transition that may take many IT pros back to their roots -- computing provisioned at the end of a network link rather than locally. Mainframe-based computing and storage are now cloud computing services, such as Amazon Web Services, and dial-up lines have evolved into broadband, and increasingly wireless, links. The resulting services model literally has no downside -- costs are lower and easier for IT shops to manage, scalability is practically on-demand and availability and resilience and integrity are all improved, especially if companies utilize more than one cloud supplier. And there's no necessary compromise to security, either.
IT pros will also see the end of offline, as anyone off the net is already out of the loop with respect to current information. The future belongs to managed service providers, networking as a service and cloud services replacing apps as the basis for organizational and IT. Even major network infrastructure will continue its transition into the cloud, with the increasing adoption of software-defined networking techniques across the board, the rise of analytics and related automation becoming an essential element of network operations.
All of these technologies improve mobility's fundamental availability, reliability and cost-effectiveness. Mobility, after all, represents a superset of the end-user part of IT -- build an effective mobile organization, and the rest of IT is simplified, if not well on its way to easy.
Mobile security taking center stage
Security remains the one area of IT where the work is never truly done. It's a bit depressing to think that, overall, IT shops have done a poor job of minimizing opportunities for break-ins, information theft and compromises to critical data and systems. And that extends to critical internet infrastructure, such as the recent Dyn distributed denial-of-service attack prosecuted by Internet of things devices.
The key to a more secure mobile future is the adoption of two-factor authentication in place of easily-compromised usernames and passwords, with mobile devices acting as that second factor. No, two-factor authentication isn't perfect, especially by itself. Absolute security is and will always remain an abstract, theoretical concept. But IT admins can stay on top of mobile security threats by putting in place an appropriate security policy and validating it with education, training and regular reinforcement. They must also make sure critical data is encrypted and restrict access to authorized individuals only.
It seems that those responsible for security and integrity across organizations everywhere are finally getting the message, and one of the top mobile trends of 2017 could involve major progress toward a secure future -- at least, a future that's secure as it can be.
Looking back at mobility in 2016
Stay on top of top mobile trends
Ten trends that take IT through 2017
Dig Deeper on Enterprise mobility strategy and policy
BBC opens up about holographic TV trials
Microsoft pitches 'new category' of computing with Windows 10
By: Francesca Sales
Windows 10: Microsoft at the crossroads
By: Cliff Saran
Which mobile trends are you looking forward to in 2017?
Preserve Your Choices When You Deploy Digital Workspaces –Citrix
Microsoft pitches 'new category' of computing with ... – SearchCIO
Windows 10 brings security, Cortana for PCs and ... – SearchEnterpriseDesktop
FAQ: Windows 10 enterprise mobility features – SearchMobileComputing
Craig Mathias - 27 Dec 2016 12:28 PM
nssatikunvar - 4 Jan 2017 1:55 AM
Great take away Craig. Enterprise are moving towards BYOD and Enterprise mobility services with the boost in cloud computing.
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The Hobbit: Motion Picture Trilogy (DVD)
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Follow Bilbo Baggins, who along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield is swept into an epic and treacherous quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUGTM Our heroes escape the giant Spiders and Wood-elves of Mirkwood before encountering the mysterious Bard, who smuggles them into Lake-town. Finally reaching the Lonely Mountain, they confront the Dragon Smaug. THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIESTM The Dwarves of Erebor have reclaimed their homeland, but face the consequences of unleashing Smaug. As five great armies go to war, Bilbo fights for his life, and the races of Dwarves, Elves and Men must unite or be destroyed.
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JCBJournal of Cell Biology
JEMJournal of Experimental Medicine
JGPJournal of General Physiology
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Article| July 07 1997
An Antagonist of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 (MCP-1) Inhibits Arthritis in the MRL-lpr Mouse Model
Jiang-Hong Gong
Biomedical Research Centre and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and
Department of Oral Biology and Department of Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada
Leslie G. Ratkay
J. Douglas Waterfield
Ian Clark-Lewis
J Exp Med (1997) 186 (1): 131–137.
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.186.1.131
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Jiang-Hong Gong, Leslie G. Ratkay, J. Douglas Waterfield, Ian Clark-Lewis; An Antagonist of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein 1 (MCP-1) Inhibits Arthritis in the MRL-lpr Mouse Model. J Exp Med 7 July 1997; 186 (1): 131–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.186.1.131
An antagonist of human monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1, which consists of MCP-1(9-76), had previously been characterized and shown to inhibit MCP-1 activity in vitro. To test the hypothesis that, by inhibiting endogenous MCP-1, the antagonist has antiinflammatory activity in vivo, we examined its effect in the MRL-lpr mouse model of arthritis. This strain spontaneously develops a chronic inflammatory arthritis that is similar to human rheumatoid arthritis. Daily injection of the antagonist, MCP-1(9-76), prevented the onset of arthritis as monitored by measuring joint swelling and by histopathological evaluation of the joints. In contrast, controls treated with native MCP-1 had enhanced arthritis symptoms, indicating that the inhibitory effect is specific to the antagonist. In experiments where the antagonist was given only after the disease had already developed, there was a marked reduction in symptoms and histopathology, although individuals varied in the magnitude of the response. The mechanism of inhibition of disease is not known, although the results suggest that it could be more complex than the competitive inhibition of ligand binding that is observed in vitro. The demonstration of the beneficial effects of an MCP-1 antagonist in arthritis suggests that chemokine receptor antagonists could have therapeutic application in inflammatory diseases.
Monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP1)-1 is a chemoattractant cytokine (chemokine) (1) that promotes the migration and activation of monocytes (2, 3). It has been associated with several inflammatory diseases (4), but a causal relationship has been difficult to prove. Monocyte infiltrates are prominent in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and their products, such as cytokines that amplify the inflammatory response and enzymes that destroy connective tissue (5), are readily detected in diseased joints. MCP-1 is produced by both synovial cells and infiltrated monocytes in RA (6–8). Thus, the inhibition of MCP-1 function could control inflammation by preventing monocyte accumulation in the joints.
To test the antiinflammatory effect of the MCP-1 antagonist, MCP-1(9-76) (9, 10), we chose a mouse model for RA. Previous studies had shown that murine monocytes respond to both human and mouse MCP-1 (11). The MRL-lpr mouse strain was chosen to test the antagonist because it has a genetic predisposition to arthritis with similar characteristics to human RA including cell infiltration, pannus formation, bone and cartilage breakdown, and the presence of serum RF (12). The disease normally develops towards the end of the animal's life span (13); however, injection with CFA initiates early onset and increases the severity of arthritis, making the MRL-lpr mouse a practical experimental model for testing potential therapeutics (12).
The Proteins.
MCP-1, the antagonist, MCP-1(9-76), and the control peptide, MCP-1Ala, were chemically synthesized and characterized as described (9, 10). MCP-1Ala is an analogue of MCP-1 that had all the cysteines (residue numbers 11, 12, 36, and 52) replaced by alanines.
Arthritis Induction and Treatment.
Both male and female MRL-lpr mice were used at 13–14 wk of age and were bred at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) from stock originally obtained from the Jackson Labs. (Bar Harbor, ME). On Day 0 of each experiment, all groups of mice were injected with CFA intradermally into a thoracic and an inguinal site with 0.05 ml CFA supplemented to 10 mg/ml with heat inactivated Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37 RA (Difco, Detroit, MI) (12). Either immediately or after a delay, depending on the experiment, mice were injected either intravenously, intraperitoneally, daily or not at all, with the appropriate antagonist or control protein. The chemokine analogue treatment was continued for 30 d. The ankle width was determined with a micrometer. For evaluation of the incidence of arthritis, the symptoms of impaired mobility, presence of erythema, or swelling were scored as either + or −. Statistical analysis of the incidence was carried out with the one-tailed Fisher Exact test. For quantifying swelling, ankle widths were measured with a micrometer. The statistical comparison of paired sets of ankle width measurements was carried out using the Student's t test.
Histopathological Analysis.
At day 30 after CFA priming, the hind paws were fixed in buffered formalin. After decalcification in 10% formic acid for 48 h, the tissues were processed for paraffin embedding. Serial sections of the tarso-metatarsal joints were cut to a thickness of 5 mm and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. Sections were examined by an individual without knowledge of the experimental protocol. A minimum of 10 sections/joint were assessed and scored to provide a semiquantitative measure of subsynovial inflammation (0, normal; 1, focal inflammatory infiltrates; 2, inflammatory infiltrate that dominated the cellular histology), synovial hyperplasia (0, normal; 1, a continuous, minimum three-layer thick, synovial lining seen in one joint; 2, minimum three-layer thick, synovial lining detected in several joints), pannus formation and cartilage erosion (0, normal; 1, pannus partially covered cartilage surfaces without evident cartilage loss; 2, pannus connected to evident cartilage loss), bone destruction (0, normal; 1, detectable destruction of bone by the pannus or osteoclast activity; 2, the pannus or osteoclast activity had destroyed a significant part of the bone), and finally, overall pathology was the overall assessment derived by the summation of the values for these criteria. Statistical analysis of the histopathology indices was done using the Student's t test.
Receptor Interactions of the MCP-1 Antagonist.
The human MCP-1(9-76) antagonist competed for binding of labeled MCP-1 to receptors on human monocytic cells with a dissociation constant (Kd) of 8.3 nM (9). In vitro it inhibited MCP-1 (10 nM) with an ID50 of 70 nM (10). When tested for competition binding of a number of chemokines, the specificity of the antagonist was similar to that of native MCP-1. It is likely that the inhibitory effects of the MCP-1 antagonist are due to its binding to the human CC chemokine receptor (CCR)2 (14). The effects on mouse cells are probably due in part to blocking of the corresponding receptor, murine CC chemokine receptor 2, which appears to be similar to the human CCR2 in its specificity (15). Using a murine myelomonocytic cell line, WEHI 274, the Kds of human MCP-1 and the MCP-1 antagonist were 39 nM and 58 nM, respectively. For the in vivo experiments, we injected MCP-1(9-76) so that theoretically there was a 13-fold (0.5 mg/kg) or a 54-fold (2.0 mg/kg) excess over the Kd measured on mouse cells, estimated on the basis of an average exchangeable fluid volume of 2 ml per mouse. MCP-1 was at a 72-fold excess. The control MCP-1Ala analogue had the same sequence as the antagonist except that all four cysteines were replaced by alanines. This analogue lacks the two essential disulfide bridges (Clark-Lewis, I., and J.-H. Gong, unpublished data), did not bind to MCP-1 receptor, and neither induced detectable chemotaxis, nor inhibited MCP-1 chemotaxis (data not shown). Thus the control, MCP-1Ala, was neither an agonist nor an antagonist.
MCP-1 Antagonist Inhibits the Onset of Arthritis Symptoms.
To test the effect of the antagonist on the onset of disease, mice were primed with intradermal CFA on day 0. When the MCP-1 antagonist was given intraperitoneally at a dose of 2.0 mg/kg daily, it resulted in significant reduction of swelling of the ankle joint (Fig. 1,a). Controls that received the same dose of a closely related but inactive analogue, MCP-1Ala, developed similar swelling to that of untreated controls, but showed a trend towards a delayed onset. Although not significant, the effect was likely to be due to the daily injection protocol. In subsequent experiments, the controls were all injected with the control peptide, MCP-1Ala. In a separate experiment where the antagonist treatment was stopped at 15 d (Fig. 1 b), onset was inhibited during the treatment interval, but swelling became apparent by 20 d and rose to untreated control levels by 24 d. Mice that received a fourfold lower intraperitoneal dose of the antagonist did not have a significant reduction in swelling, suggesting that for maximal effect, the concentration of antagonist must be maintained at pharmacological levels. Analysis of the sera for anti MCP-1 antibodies showed that low titers (1:160) were present in both groups (not shown). The production of anti–MCP-1 antibodies was not considered a major factor in these studies.
Effects of the Antagonist on Joint Histopathology.
Histological analysis of the ankle joints was performed at day 30 for all the experiments described. Shown in Fig. 2 are photomicrographs taken from representative antagonist-treated and control animals, from the experiment described in Fig. 1,a. The effects observed in control mice that were not given MCP-1 antagonist included infiltration of mononuclear cells into the subsynovial tissue (Fig. 2,a), synovial hyperplasia, pannus formation (Fig. 2,b), and bone erosion (Fig. 2,c). In contrast, mononuclear cell infiltration and bone and cartilage pathology was absent in the MCP-1 antagonist–treated example. Only minor thickening of the subsynovium can be seen (Fig. 2,d). Analysis of the histological results (Fig. 3) for the experiment described in Figure 1 a, indicates that the group that received 2.0 mg/kg antagonist had significant lower subsynovial inflammation, synovial hyperplasia, pannus formation and cartilage erosion, bone destruction, and overall histopathology. The histopathology results for the antagonist-treated group compared favorably to age-matched animals that have not been primed with CFA and have no disease symptoms (not shown). Interestingly, compared to the controls, the group (Fig. 1,a) that received 0.5 mg/kg had significantly lower overall histopathology (Fig. 3), even though joint swelling was not significantly reduced. This suggests that the antagonist is affecting cellular infiltration and pathology even in the absence of an apparent effect on externally measurable symptoms.
Native MCP-1 Enhances Arthritis.
To more completely describe this effect and to provide some insight into possible mechanisms, we examined the effect of full-length functional MCP-1 in this model. Native MCP-1 treatment significantly enhanced the disease, as indicated by the earlier and higher incidence of disease (Fig. 4,a) and magnitude of swelling (Fig. 4,b), compared to the inactive control protein. Thus, MCP-1 is causing hyperresponsiveness to arthritis in the MRL-lpr mouse, and is having the opposite effect to the antagonist when both are compared to the inactive control peptide. In contrast to the experiments described in Figs. 3 and 6, for this experiment, histopathological analysis was done 7 d after onset of symptoms and the time varied from animal to animal. At this time point there was no significant difference in the histopathology between the MCP-1 and control groups, although the trend was toward more histopathology in the MCP-1 group, which is consistent with the observed enhancement of swelling (not shown). The MCP-1 antagonist significantly reduced inflammatory infiltration, hyperplasia, bone destruction, and overall histopathology in this experiment.
MCP-1 Antagonist Inhibits Symptoms of Disease when Given after Onset.
Although the experiments described so far demonstrate that the MCP-1 antagonist is capable of preventing the onset of arthritis, they do not show whether the antagonist inhibits disease that is already evident. The postonset situation is a much more stringent test of the ability of the antagonist to inhibit disease, as cell infiltration and inflammatory events are already going on when the antagonist treatment is started (12). Another reason to address the postonset effects is that this more closely reflects the clinical situation where symptoms are already apparent when a patient presents with RA. To test the effects of the antagonist on existing disease, we primed the mice at day 0, but then delayed treatment until after significant swelling was apparent. The results for representative individuals from the control peptide– (Fig. 5,a), and antagonist- (Fig. 5 b) treated groups are shown. The individuals from the control group generally had recurrent swelling after symptoms first became apparent. This is typical of the disease in this model. Individuals from the treated group showed an immediate reduction of swelling and duration of inflammatory episodes. Some degree of relapse of the antagonist-treated animals was apparent at later time points, and the duration and persistence of this was highly variable. Nevertheless, when all the animals were taken into account (not shown), the results indicated that the antagonist greatly reduced the symptoms.
MCP-1 antagonist treatment significantly reduced joint histopathology by day 28. Thus, synovial hyperplasia, subsynovial inflammation, cartilage erosion, and overall histopathology were significantly reduced in the antagonist treated group (Fig. 6). This indicates that the external observation of reduction of swelling in mice treated after disease onset is reflected in the inflammatory disease in the joints, as measured by histopathology.
In this study, we have shown that a human MCP-1 receptor antagonist greatly reduces the symptoms and histopathology of chronic arthritis in a disease model. Infiltration of the subsynovium by monocytes is prominent in human RA, and thus, the diminished cellular infiltration observed in these studies is probably due to inhibition of endogenous MCP-1 receptors (see below). The results indicate that the effect of the antagonist is reversible, because when the antagonist treatment was stopped, the swelling symptoms return. Moreover, antagonist treatment inhibited the disease after symptoms were already apparent, suggesting that there is turnover of cells that infiltrate the lesion and that inhibition of further infiltration leads to reversal of symptoms and pathology.
Native MCP-1 accelerated the onset and enhanced the symptoms of joint inflammation. Predictions could have been made, not only for the hyperresponsiveness that was observed, but also for inhibition similar to that seen with the antagonist. In vitro, MCP-1 results in migration only if a gradient is formed and if at high concentrations, MCP-1 inhibits migration by collapsing the gradient (16). Moreover, both the agonist and the antagonist desensitize MCP-1 receptor signaling in vitro (4, 9). Nonresponsiveness has also been reported in vivo for IL-8 (17). It is unlikely that the enhancement we have observed in vivo with MCP-1 is simply nonspecific, since the control protein, which is similar chemically, did not cause this effect. Rather, it is more likely that the systemic levels of MCP-1 in these mice are insufficient to cause nonresponsiveness of the target cells to MCP-1. Our interpretation for the enhancement of the onset and swelling is that the injected MCP-1 accumulates in the tissues and causes activation of monocytes and other target cells, whereas the MCP-1 that remains in the vascular compartment is eliminated rapidly. A gradient of MCP-1 from the ablumenal side (high) to the lumenal side of the endothelium (low) could result in migration of responsive cells from the blood into the tissues. Monocyte activation could lead to some of the pathological effects observed with MCP-1.
The results suggest that the in vivo action of the antagonist is dependent on its receptor binding and its inability to cause activation. However, it cannot be directly proven that the receptor blocking competition that occurs in vitro, is also the mechanism in vivo. A case could be made for a more complex mechanism. Physiologically, the CC chemokine receptor system is redundant in that multiple CCRs, which each bind several ligands, are coexpressed (18). Thus, other chemokines and their receptors can induce similar activities in vitro. Since only CCR2 receptor is inhibited by the MCP-1 antagonist, then the question arises: why are we not seeing migration in response to other chemokines, such as RANTES, that bind to CCR1, CCR3, CCR4, and CCR5, but not CCR2 (18)? RANTES is also produced in inflamed joints along with the MCP-1 (19). The answer is not known. However we have found that a RANTES antagonist, RANTES (9-68), also inhibits the onset of arthritis in the model described here and, to a similar extent, as the MCP-1 antagonist. The fact that two antagonists that bind different receptors have similar effects suggests that the independence of the receptor actions that is observed in vitro is not directly translated to the in vivo situation. It is possible that the long-term presence of antagonist not only prevents cells from responding to chemokine, but also prevents migration by another mechanism. The antagonists do not stimulate detectable receptor signaling, but likely promote receptor internalization, and there may be separate negative regulatory effects caused by receptor occupancy. Some of the possible mechanisms for nonresponsiveness of chemokines have been reviewed (4). Some that could apply to the MCP-1 antagonist are heterologous desensitization of receptors, failure to stimulate adhesion molecules (20), changes to the cytoskeleton (21), or general interference of the formation of endogenous chemokine gradients due to saturation of glycosaminoglycan interaction sites (22). Another possibility is that chemokine production is turned off by the presence of excess antagonist. This could occur if MCP-1–responsive cells have not migrated, and therefore cannot amplify chemokine and cytokine production. Further work will be necessary to determine the in vivo mechanisms of chemokine antagonist action. Nevertheless, our results indicate that the in vitro patterns of receptor specificity and chemokine function do not always correspond to in vivo effects.
Infiltrated monocytes are thought to be important in the pathology of RA (5). Although MCP-1 primarily acts on monocytes, it is also known to stimulate basophils (23) and T lymphocytes (24), indicating that these cells could also be stimulated by MCP-1 and/or be inhibited by the MCP-1 antagonist. Whatever target cells are important in this arthritis model, the results suggest that blocking MCP-1 receptors breaks a critical link in the chain of inflammatory events. Furthermore the antagonist prevents arthritis onset and also alleviates existing disease, suggesting the potential for MCP-1 antagonists or other cytokine inhibitors in the therapy of the human disease. Antibody therapy represents an alternative approach to inhibition of ligand function (25). Beneficial effects in RA of antibodies that block tumor necrosis factor–α activity have been described (26). However, a potential disadvantage of the antibody approach in typical pathological situations is that targeting just one ligand may not be effective. On the other hand, with the antagonist approach, all the ligands for the receptor are blocked. For example, the MCP-1 antagonist described here blocks not only MCP-1 activity (9), but also MCP-2 (Gong, J.-H. and I. Clark-Lewis, unpublished observations) and MCP-3 (10).
Receptor antagonists that inhibit ligand binding and function is a conventional pharmacological approach that relies on competition between the antagonist and the natural agonist(s) for specific receptor binding sites. Antagonists and agonists for seven transmembrane receptors, a class that includes all the chemokine receptors, form the basis for many widely used pharmaceuticals (27). Targeted receptors include, for example, those for histamine, epinephrine, and serotonin. Most of these antagonists are nonpeptide in nature and are orally active, a major advantage for therapeutic use. Nevertheless, nonpeptide antagonists of peptide ligands, including neurokinins, cholecystokinin, and angiotensin, have also been developed (27). Despite the fact that chemokines are larger than these peptides, our results have indicated that the major binding site on MCP-1 and other chemokines is relatively small (9, 28), suggesting that nonpeptide antagonists for chemokine receptors may be a future possibility.
We wish to thank Luen Vo, Jennifer Anderson, Philip Owen, and Peter Borowski for their technical assistance with the chemical synthesis.
This work was supported by grants from the Arthritis Society of Canada and the British Columbia Health Research Fund. I. Clark-Lewis is the recipient of a Scientist Award from the Medical Research Council of Canada.
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The MCP-1 antagonist prevents the onset of the symptoms of arthritis. The ankle widths for both hind legs of each animal were measured with a micrometer on the indicated days, and the results are presented as the mean change from the day 0 measurement, ± SEM. *Values are significantly different from the control MCP-1Ala analogue (P <0.05). (a) MRL-lpr mice received CFA on day 0 and were injected intraperitoneally daily for 30 d with either MCP-1 antagonist, 2.0 mg/kg, n = 23, •; MCP-1 antagonist, 0.5 mg/kg, n = 9, ▪; control MCP-1Ala analogue, 2.0 mg/kg, n = 10, □; or no further treatment, n = 20, ○. (b) Mice were either injected intravenously daily for 15 d with MCP-1 antagonist, 0.5 mg/kg, n = 6, ▴; or received no further treatment, n = 8, ○. Results shown are from one of two similar experiments.
Summary of the effects of MCP-1 antagonist on joint histopathology. Shown are the mean ± the SEM of the scores, from the experiment in Fig. 1 a, determined as described in Materials and Methods. *Groups that were significantly different (P <0.05) from the control MCP-1Ala analogue for each histopathological parameter.
The effects of MCP-1 antagonist on the joint histopathology. Representative photomicrographs of histology from the experiment in Fig. 1 a are shown. For the control group: (a) marked subsynovial infiltration by mononuclear cells resembling rheumatoid nodule formation (×20 objective); (b) pannus formation and synovial hyperplasia (×40) objective; (c) bone erosion (arrow; ×20 objective). For the antagonist (2.0 mg/kg) -treated group: (d) indicates some stromal thickening of the subsynovium, but absence of infiltrating cells or joint destruction (×20 objective). as, articular surface; b, bone; bm, bone marrow; bv, blood vessel; jc, joint cavity; mc, mononuclear cell infiltrate; p, pannus; sh, synovial hyperplasia; si, subsynovial inflammation; ss, subsynovium.
The effect of postonset treatment with MCP-1 antagonist on joint histopathology. Histopathological assessments of the experiment outlined in Fig. 5 were made 28 d after CFA priming. All the mice that developed significant swelling are included. The data is presented as for Fig. 3. Shown are the mean ± SEM of the assessment values for the indicated parameters. *The antagonist and the controls are significantly different, P <0.05.
The effects of the functional MCP-1 agonist on disease incidence and joint swelling. The mice were given CFA treatment at day 0 and divided into three groups. The groups received daily injection of 2 mg/kg of either native MCP-1 (1-76), n = 24, ◫̶ ; MCP-1 antagonist, n = 19, ▪; or the inactive control peptide, n = 23, □. (a) The incidence as percentage of mice that showed visible erythema or swelling on the days indicated. (b) The change in the ankle widths (mean ± SEM). *Significantly different from controls (P <0.05).
The effect of treatment with MCP-1 antagonist after disease onset. Animals were injected with CFA once at day 0 and examined daily for the visual appearance of erythema and swelling around the joints as measured with a micrometer. 23 of 40 mice developed swelling at different times, and they were injected daily with 2.0 mg/kg of either the MCP-1 antagonist or the MCP-1Ala control, on the day indicated by the arrows, until day 28. (a) The swelling measurements of three representative examples from the 13 controls (•, ○, ◫̶ ). (b) Three representative examples from the 10 antagonist-treated mice (▴, ▵, X).
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For Women And Non-White Entrepreneurs, The Idea Comes Easy — The Money Does Not
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by KRYSTINA MARTINEZ
Josh Baer, left, announces Shearshare founders Courtney and Tye Caldwell the Dallas winners of the Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge.
Starting a successful business requires a great idea, paying customers and access to capital if you want it to grow. The business world is tough, but even tougher for people of color and women. Historically, they have a harder time securing business loans and investor funding needed to take their startup to the next level.
That’s why Austin-based accelerator Capital Factory, the Dallas Entrepreneurship Center and other organizations teamed up to create the Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge. The $100,000 grant is awarded to Texas startups led by a person of color or a woman.
To listen to the KERA Radio story, visit http://keranews.org/post/women-and-non-white-entrepreneurs-idea-comes-easy-money-does-not.
Tye and Courtney Caldwell, the winners of the Dallas round, know the struggle of fundraising. The couple built ShearShare, an app that matches hair, nail and beauty stylists to empty salon space by the day. The Caldwells had the beauty industry experience, but they were new to the tech startup scene and raising money.
After a lot of research, networking, and building their product, they started meeting with investors. Courtney Caldwell described one awkward encounter with a California investor.
“It’s two gentlemen across the table from us, and the first thing out of his mouth is: ‘I’m kind of glad you guys are not the average white male who graduated from Stanford, wearing a V-neck sweater,’” Courtney said.
The ShearShare founders dusted off their shoulders and have since gained backing from several investors, but their experience isn’t unusual.
Courtney Caldwell, COO and co-founder of ShearShare, pitches to entrepreneurs and investors on Jan. 23, 2018.
The equity gap
A number of studies in the last 10 years have found non-white and women entrepreneurs often face big hurdles when seeking small business loans. According to the Minority Business Development Agency, people of color are three times more likely to be denied for loans. Non-white and women entrepreneurs are also more likely to rely on personal savings or credit cards for their businesses.
When they do secure a loan or an investor, non-white and women entrepreneurs typically don’t get as much money as their white counterparts.
According to the Minority Business Development Agency, people of color are three times more likely to be denied for loans.
“I think we forget the correlation that generational practices have on access that people have today,” Michelle Williams, executive of the Red Bird Entrepreneurship Center, said. “Even today, we see that housing values are very much tied to the color of the person that lives in that community.”
Williams points to redlining, which limited housing options for people of color, and how it affects where people live and how they build wealth.
Though lending discrimination was prohibited in 1974, there’s still lingering effects today.
A survey last year from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found access to capital is the No. 1 concern for women and non-white small business owners in Texas.
Why the disparity exists
“There is a pay and wealth gap for both of these groups, so they may start off with fewer resources as it is,” said Emily Ryder, a community development analyst for the Dallas Fed.
The pay gap between men and women, as well as white and non-white workers, is well documented. Charles O’Neal, the president of the Texas African American Chambers of Commerce, also points to the gap in financial education.
“Stereotypically, when financial literacy is offered in non-white marketplaces, it’s about balancing the checkbook, it’s about managing their credit score,” he said.
As a result, non-white entrepreneurs are less prepared to apply for a business loan — even if they’re college-educated and their business is successful. The aforementioned business survey from the Dallas Fed and another from the University of Texas found some don’t even apply because there’s a perception they’ll be automatically rejected.
Even business owners who turn to investors face challenges.
“In some cases, women and or people of color may lack some of the more robust business networks that their white male counterparts have,” Ryder said. “This can limit opportunities for things like equity financing.”
“‘You don’t look like me, you don’t sound like me. Are you sure?’ Those kinds of questions start being raised.”
And without that person to vouch for an idea, O’Neal with the TAACC says non-white and women business owners get more questions, particularly about their expertise.
“Bias gets into it,” O’Neal said. “Preconceived notions get into it. It impacts the kind of investment decisions that those kind of folk with resources make. ‘You don’t look like me, you don’t sound like me. Are you sure?’ Those kinds of questions start being raised.”
There have been efforts to reverse this. In 1988, Texas created the Historically Underutilized Business certification to help business owners earn contracts in the public sector. People of color and women are launching their own venture capital funds. Microloans of under $50,000 have also become popular with risk-averse lenders.
However, O’Neal believes microloans and short-term programs don’t make businesses sustainable. Instead, he says it’s up to the lenders and investors to recognize they have a responsibility to correct this inequity and start signing bigger checks.
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Join Michael Peach in a special and spooky performance of Haunted History on October 28 at 3:00 p.m. in the Sedona Heritage Museum Fruit Packing Shed.
Sedona AZ (October 19, 2018) – The Sedona Heritage Museum presents poet and author Michael Peach in a special and spooky performance of Haunted History on Sunday, October 28, 2018, at 3:00 p.m. in its historic Fruit Packing Shed. Come spend an autumn afternoon at the museum and hear ghostly tales – some of which have their origins right in our own back yard!
Peach will share true stories about ghostly encounters and Halloween fun. The show will include an original piece called “Peoria’s Runaway Pumpkin” based on Peoria, Arizona’s Halloween surprise of a 25-foot-tall, 300 pound pumpkin gone rogue.
Also on the playbill are four of Mike’s original poems: “Little Bill” is about the unsolved alleged murder of Bill Fredricks at the Van Deren cabin; “The Hauntings of the Red Ghost” is a true story about a nineteenth century Arizona monster; “The Cactus Killer” is a true story of murder and revenge in the Arizona desert; and, “The Ghosts of Wilson Canyon” which is based on the death of bear hunter Richard Wilson in 1885. Plus, Mike always throws in a surprise work or two!
An award-winning actor, playwright, and historian Michael Peach is especially good at bringing to life history and his subjects. But, he isn’t afraid to also spin some tall tales, too. Informative and entertaining, Mike’s shows have long been a favorite of university, state and national parks, and historically-oriented audiences.
The show is about an hour long. Tickets are $6, with children under 12 free. Museum admission is separate. Great family and friend event!
The Sedona Heritage Museum is located at 735 Jordan Road in Jordan Park in uptown. It is open daily from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 in the afternoon.
The Museum’s exhibits include stories of area pioneers, movies made in Sedona, cowboy life, vintage vehicles, and antique orchard and fruit processing equipment demonstrations. The red rock home and fruit packing shed along with the tractor shed are listed on the National Historic Register.
For more information about award winning playwright Michael Peach and his Halloween presentation or the Sedona Heritage Museum, call 928-282-7038.
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There was a steam-boat here which set sail for London the next day; but we preferred passing through Ghent, Lille, and Antwerp. In permitting polygamy, Mohammedan law accommodates itself to the habits of an earlier stage of social progress, and tends to perpetuate many of its objectionable features. BACON. Consistence was not merely a property of his mind, but of his whole being. As said above, Longstreet’s assault is almost invariably spoken and written of as “Pickett’s charge.” This name and all the name implies, is what I shall protest against in this article. Crimes committed within the grith or peace given by the king’s own hand (that is, the king’s ‘hand-grith’ of the other documents) is again _botless_. We are not informed by what prior necessity they desired to dance; but something, after all, must be left to the imagination. If the opinion expressed by Mr. [Sidenote: The Brehon _coirp-dire_ of all tribesmen the same: six cumhals and one added.] And when this _coirp-dire_, or price of the body or life of a man, is further examined, it is found to consist of two parts: (1) one cumhal of compensation (aithgin); (2) the six cumhals of the _coirp-dire_ proper. It was hardly necessary to build a cathedral to set up a toy-shop! These, in picturesque grouping, in muscular relief, and vastness of contour, surpass Michael Angelo’s figures in the Last Judgment, however they may fall short of them in anatomical knowledge or accuracy. He directs that he shall be interred in St. M’Lennan and Sir John Lubbock. The second is the _picturesque_; that is, the seizing on those objects, or situations and accidents of objects, as light and shade, &c. “There lived a knight, when knighthood was in flow’r, Who charm’d alike the tilt-yard and the bower.” The family of Johnston Pettigrew was one of the oldest, wealthiest and most influential of Eastern Carolina. The research paper topics regarding religion first division into which he classes uncultured peoples, according to their marriage-rules, is that where tribes are separate, and all the members of the tribes are, or feign themselves to be, of the same blood.[257] Mr. And whichever of them in that battle is conquered (_et sibi concrediderit_) shall pay the ‘leud’ of the slain. The second point is simply another aspect of the same thing; to wit, the fact that in the normal reasonably good concert–taken, in its widest sense, to include orchestral and choral performances, chamber music, and recitals of all kinds–the waltz rhythm is extremely rare and the pure waltz even rarer. But if the Mercian wergelds were of ancient tradition, independently of the Wessex evidence, the statement of the Wessex wergelds in the Dooms of Ine need not be doubted. There is no need that they should. This colophon appears to have been written by the literary partner in the firm, Francesco Tuppo, since no one but himself would have used the Chinese humility of the phrase “inter trecentos studentes minimus.” From the books which he took up, Tuppo must have been a man of some culture; but his Latin, if we may judge by this colophon, was not his strong point. ‘Yes; which part do you prefer?’ 3. Emprinted by Caxton In Feuerer the colde season. If he had fired only a single shot, not only should we be less certain of the point he had aimed at, but we should have no means whatever of guessing at the quality of his shooting, or of inferring in consequence anything about the probable remoteness of the next shot from that which had gone before. Of these, there are some sixteen portraits, exclusive of the drawings, and five of them are from Holbein’s hand. We at last reached the top, and looked down on the Valley of Trie, bedded in rocks, with a few wooden huts in it, a mountain-stream traversing it from the _Glacier_ at one end, and with an appearance as if summer could never gain a footing there, before it would be driven out by winter. So when of the most famous and excellent counsellor Paulus Castrensis the Opinions were perceived to have been scattered abroad and not brought together into one body, it seemed impossible to speak of them as having been edited or compiled, and it might justly be thought that this great and most elegant work had rather utterly perished than been brought to the light of day. No. allusion to the ‘sac and soc’ of the lord on whose land a homicide has been perpetrated and under whose jurisdiction the wed or pledge has been given for the payment of wergeld. ‘In particular, you may be assured that the traffic in antiquity, and all the enthusiasm, folly, and fraud, which may be in it, _never did, nor never can, hurt the merit of living artists_. Trans.), vol i., p. Those who ask whether we are free to alter our character lay themselves open to the same objection.
Research regarding religion paper topics. Be this however as it may, it is rather a licence of language to talk as if nature had been at work in the same way as one of us; aiming (ineffectually for the most part) at a given result, that is at producing a man endowed with a certain stature, proportions, and so on, who might therefore be regarded as the typical man. Long before the time of King Ine these Romanising influences must have been at work in England, as elsewhere, introducing new considerations of justice and the position of classes founded on Roman law and Christian feeling, and not upon tribal custom. 20. The inconveniences of travelling by canal-boats in Holland is, that you make little way, and are forced to get out and have your luggage taken into another boat at every town you come to, which happens two or three times in the course of the day. It is loss, also, in business, to be too full of respects, or to be too curious in observing times and opportunities. Punalua was really an application of the idea of brotherhood to marriage, and it is not surprising that, among uncultured peoples, the having wives or husbands in common should be considered a high mark of friendship. principle, they have merely to organise and regulate the Walking Out system. In a country of plantations, first look about what kind of victual the country yields of itself to hand; as chestnuts, walnuts, pine-apples, olives, dates, plums, cherries, wild honey, and the like, and make use of them. It smells of heliotrope. Moore’s late _Rhymes on the Road_, I had still some overmastering recollections on that subject, which I proposed to indulge at my leisure on the spot which was supposed to give them birth, and which I accordingly did. It is no unimportant matter, for every determination of the locality of an early book is a paragraph added to the history of the culture of the country where it originated. he h?fde he bi? The face, however, is the throne of expression. But when we are not forced to act, no such decisive preference is demanded of us. This impression and this idea have in the end become tied up with one another, so that the act follows the impression without the self interfering with it. The former use of totems may probably be assumed also when animal names are applied, not to tribal divisions, but to the tribes themselves, as we have seen is the case with the Arabs. Mode of travelling. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. And every man, of any learning, must readily allow that this method of instructing is grave, sober, or exceedingly useful, and sometimes necessary in the sciences, as it opens an easy and familiar passage to the human understanding, in all new discoveries that are abstruse and out of the road of vulgar opinions. Surely, of those poets which are now extant, even Homer himself (notwithstanding he was made a kind of Scripture by the latter schools of the Grecians), yet I should without any difficulty pronounce that his fables had no such inwardness in his own meaning; but what they might have upon a more original tradition, is not easy to affirm; for he was not the inventor of many of them.” In the treatise _De Augmentis_ the same sentiments will be found, with a slight alteration in the expressions. That grandeur consists in connecting a number of parts into a whole, and not in leaving out the parts. We cannot indeed suppose that, for a given length of base, _any_ height can be equally possible. “The young men returned home,” says Calloway, “sacrificed the goat, poured the gall on the child, plucked for him Itongo medicine, and gave him the expressed juice to drink;” and the child had no return of the convulsions, and is still living. The Clytemnestra is, I think, his _chef d’?uvre_. All is still the same, like a petrification of the mind—the same things in the same places; but their effect is not the same upon me. The absolute divergences and irregularities, so far from diminishing, show a disposition to increase, and this (it may be) without limit, though their relative importance shows a corresponding disposition to diminish without limit. It encourages people who dislike athletics, but can walk in a fashion, to distinguish between walking and sport and say that all sport is unhealthy as well as demoralising. If he has all these, they divide it between them. Did he abstain from taking sides, or did a marriage so far unite two families or kindreds as to make them one for the purpose of research paper topics regarding religion blood-fine or feud, so as to prevent the feud or blood-fine from arising? 1904, pp. In other words, in England, as on the Continent, the clergy, instead of combating tribal custom in these matters, took their place in the order of secular rank according to their several grades, bishops claiming the wergeld of princes, and priests that of thanes, with, however, the obviously useful reservation that if their secular rank by parentage and birth should be higher than their ecclesiastical grade, the higher wergeld should be theirs. It need not be remarked that any such clues as these to the measure of judicial certainty are far too slight to be of any real value. Philosophers know that. (iv. Presertim cum a fabulis quae uacuas (ut inquit poeta) delectant mentes remotus Lucretius noster de rerum natura questiones tractet acutissimas tanto ingenii acumine tantoque lepore uerborum ut omnes qui illum secuti poete sunt: eum ita suis in descriptionibus imitentur, et Virgilius presertim, poetarum princeps, ut ipsis cum uerbis tria interdum et amplius metra suscipiant. 1485. external and internal conditions. If the old research paper topics regarding religion Serpent appeared nowadays to seduce the modern Adam, he would retire discomfited. [Sidenote: Confusion in the currency.] One result became at once apparent. he who wrote devotional essays, and composed winning music? He certainly was distinguished by having the human form, but his hieroglyphical symbol of the _obelisk_, and his connection with Khem, show his true nature. For the same reason, there is not much patent trace in his works of the compelling influence which London had upon him. Nor need any one to fear, that by these limitations Conversation shou’d be restrain’d to too narrow a compass, there are subjects enough that are in themselves neither insipid, nor offensive; such as Love, Honour, Gallantry, Morality, News, Raillery, and a numberless train of other Things copious and diverting. There is a third alternative, viz. After alluding to the bitterness and violence for which the Tuscans are famous in their abuse, he informs us that from the first he was charged with an idolatry of antiquity and of form, and with an aristocracy of style. The scientists of our time do not seem, indeed, to have carried abstraction so far, except perhaps Lord Kelvin. “Knowledge,” the speaker continues, should enable us “to produce effects and endow the life of man with infinite commodities.” At this point he interrupts himself with the reflection that he “is putting the garland on the wrong head,” and then proceeds to inveigh against the “knowledge that is now in use: All the philosophie of nature now receaved is eyther the philosophie of the Gretians or of the Alchemist.” Aristotle’s admiration of the changelessness of the heavens is derided on the naive assumption that there is a “like invariableness in the boweles of the earth, much spiritt in the upper part of the earth which cannot be brought into masse, and much massie body in the lower part of the heavens which cannot be refined into spiritt.”[61] Ancient astronomers are next taken to task for failing to see “how evident it is that what they call a contrarie mocion is but an abatement of mocion. Hence it follows that however decidedly we may reject the Conceptualist theory we cannot altogether reject the use of Conceptualist language. Durning Lawrence, that gentleman with the aid of a newspaper called _The Tailor and Cutter_ labours the point, already sufficiently obvious, that the figure which does duty as frontispiece to the first folio of Shakespeare must have been meant for a caricature. Here he would meet, not simple rustics who cared little about ritual and politics, but legalists and nationalists prompt to condemn him as irreligious and unpatriotic. Give glory to God.
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As part of the aircraft certification process, landing gear has to be certified against particular risks such as bird and tyre impact cases.According to international aviation regulations, it has to be demonstrated that the landing gear is designed to ensure the capability for continued safe flight and landing after bird impact or after tyre impact resulting from wheel or tyre failure.Structural parts such as the down-lock mechanism must be validated against these requirements since their structural integrity is essential to ensure landing gear down-locking for landing and subsequent on ground movement.Recently, MESSIER-BUGATTI-DOWTY has been involved in the development of explicit analysis in support of bird and tyre impact justification.A model of the down-lock mechanism has been developed and a full scale test has been set up in order to demonstrate the validity of the analysis.Two extensive test campaigns have been performed considering bird and tyre impact cases using highly instrumented components to record strains and displacements on impacted parts.Based on a comparison to the test results, the modelling of bird and tyre projectiles has been…
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Detailed Analysis of Variables Affecting Wing Kinematics of Bat Flight
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Body motions of flying animals can be very complex, especially when the body parts are greatly flexible and they interact with the surrounding fluid. The wing kinematics of an animal flight is governed by a large number of variables and thus the measurement of complete flapping flight is not so simple, making it very complex to understand the contribution of each parameter to the performance and hence, to decide the important parameters for constructing the kinematic model of a bat is nearly impossible. In this paper, the influence of each parameter is uncovered and the variables that a specified reconstruction of bat flight should include in order to maximally reconstruct actual dimensional complexity, have been presented in detail. The effects of the different kinematic parameters on the lift coefficient are being resulted. The computation analysis of the lift coefficient for different camber thicknesses and various wing areas is done by unsteady thin airfoil theory and vortex lattice method, respectively.
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A robotic arm manipulator is often an appealing method to position drills, bolt inserters, automated fiber placement heads, or other end effectors. In a standard robot the flexibility of the cantilevered arm as well as backlash in the drive system lead to large positioning errors. Previous work has greatly reduced this error through the use of secondary scales and a mathematical model of the robot deflection running on a CNC controller. Further research improved upon this model by accounting for linear deformation of each robot link regardless of position. The parameters describing these deformations are determined through a calibration routine and then used in real time to guide the end effector accurately to any reachable pose. In practice this method has been used to achieve total on-part positioning accuracy of better than +/− 0.25mm.
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Electroimpact's newest riveting machine features a track-style injector with Bomb Bay Ejection Doors. The Bomb Bay Ejection Doors are a robust way to eject fasteners from track style injector. Track style injectors are commonly used by Electroimpact and others in the industry. Using the Bomb Bay Doors for fastener ejection consists of opening the tracks allowing very solid clearing of an injector when ejecting a fastener translating to a more reliable fastener delivery system. Examples of when fastener ejection is needed are when a fastener is sent backwards, when there are two in the tube, or when a machine operator stops or resets the machine during a fastening cycle. This method allows fasteners to be cleared in nearly every situation when ejecting a fastener is required. Additional feature of Electroimpact's new injection system is integrated anvil tool change. Anvils with fingers are parked on each Injector and an indexing system automatically changes tools for different fastener diameter. Fundamentally, this track-style Injector has only one moving part, the Pusher, used in every fastening cycle. With the…
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The composites development team at Bombardier Aerospace has pushed the Integrated Product Development Team to a new level. The team has been created outside the business priorities and was partially funded by a provincial government initiative to create a greener aircraft.A dedicated R&D team can reduce the gap between the different disciplines by encouraging them to work as one entity and rapidly develop high Technology Readiness Level (TRL) and high Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) solutions. Additionally, the interactions between the groups create a harmonization of the development philosophy and a sharing of the building block approach. This leads to a significant cost and lead time reduction in the coupon, element and detail testing.The constitution of the team also has a great impact on the level of expertise and the flexibility to adjust to new demands. The team has built through the years an entire and complete external partner network that helps the team in specific subject matters.Knowledge management within the team, technology development and sharing become critical aspects as the projects grow. To ensure that…
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The term “productivity” all too often has becomes a buzz-word, ultimately diminishing its perceived importance. However, productivity is the major concern of any team, and therefore must be defined to gain an appropriate understanding of how a system is actually working. Here, productivity means the level of contribution to the throughput of a system such as defined in the Theory of Constraints. In the field of space exploration, the throughput is the number of milestones of the mission accomplished as well as the potential survival during extreme events (due to failures or other unplanned events).For a time tasks were accomplished by expert individuals (e.g., an astronaut), but recently team structures have become the norm. It is clear that with increased mission complexity, “no single entity can have complete knowledge of or the abilities to handle all matters” [10]. Understanding now that teamwork is important, beneficial, and becoming the standard, a team profile must be developed. This profile will include team member selecting factors (e.g., general intelligence), team organization, and team management.This paper outlines our initial…
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This paper details the development of a user-friendly computerised tool created to evaluate the Manufacturing Readiness Levels (MRL) of an emerging technology. The main benefits achieved are to manage technology development planning and tracking, make visually clear and standardised analysis, and improve team communication. The new approach is applied to the Technology Readiness Levels (TRL), currently used by Airbus Research & Technology (R&T) UK.The main focus is on the improvement of the analysis criteria. The first phase of the study was to interpret the manufacturing criteria used by Airbus at TRL 4, including a brief benchmarking review of similar practices in industry and other Airbus' project management tools. All information gathered contributed to the creation of a complete set of criteria.In the second phase, a questionnaire format, using the new set of criteria, was used through a user-friendly computer tool, which was programmed to quantify and plot the maturity of a technology into tracking graphs. The graphs presented the status of a technology against a respective ‘target’ for completion, providing a visual assessment of the…
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Processing CSeries Aircraft Panels
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Process Change: Redesign of Composite Parts for Structural Integrity
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The objective of this document is to present the methodology used to verify the structural integrity of a redesigned composite part. While shifting the manufacturing process of a composite part from pre-impregnated to a liquid resin injection process, the Composites Development team at Bombardier Aerospace had to redesign the component to a new set of design allowables. The Integrated Product Development Team (IPDT) was able to quickly provide a turnkey solution that assessed three aspects of airframe engineering: Design, Materials & Processes (M&P) and Stress. The focus of this paper will be the stress substantiation process led by the Stress Engineers. It will also bring up the synergies with M&P that are unique to the IPDT approach.The stress substantiation process required three distinct checks be confirmed. These were that the global behavior of the surrounding structure remained unaffected, that all local failure modes still exhibited positive margins of safety, and finally to organize detail level testing to provide complete substantiation for the certification authorities.The paper also exposes how this method was used successfully on components…
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Lignocellulosic 2011). Certainly, in addition to hemicelluloses, hydrothermal pre-treatment
Lignocellulosic waste is the
structural material used to make plant cell wall, and is the therefore the main
component of plant biomass on Earth. Lignocellulose consist three main
components of cellulose 40%-50%, hemicelluloses 25%-30% and lignin 15%-20% (Chandra
2015). Cellulose is primary constituent of lignocellulosic waste, and is a
polysaccharide composed of ?-1,4 linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is
used for the manufacture of paper and cardboard, and can convert through the
action of cellulase enzymes into glucose monomer, for bioethanol production
(Ahmad et al. 2010). Hemicellulose are branched polysaccharide which are
associated with lignin and cellulose in plant cell wall, consist of other
polysaccharide, principally xylans and mannans, which are closely associated
with the cellulose filaments, and chemically linked with lignin. The major
hemicelluloses in hardwoods is xylans (15%-30% dry weight), a polysaccharide
composed of ?-1,4 linked D-xylose units, which can be substituted with
other monosaccharide units, whereas softwood hemicelluloses contains mainly
glactoglucomannan (15%-20% dry weight), a polysaccharide composed of ?,1-4
linked D-glucose, and D-galactose units (Bugg et al. 2011). Certainly, in
addition to hemicelluloses, hydrothermal pre-treatment of lignocellulosic
material also involves solubilization of extract, small portion of cellulose
and lignin (Vazquez et al. 2007). Hemicelluloses consist of both linear and branched
heteropolymers. It mainly contains ?ve monomeric sugars, namely D-glucose,
D-mannose, D-galactose, D-xylose and L-arabinose linked together by ?-1,4-glycosidic
bonds. Covalent bonding between hemicelluloses and lignin provides additional
strength to the plant. Cellulose and hemicelluloses are present in the form of
insoluble crystalline ?bers that are degradable but the processes very complex
due to the involvement of several enzymatic pathways (Aarti et al. 2015). The
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Gloria Steinem also liked the film, stating that she felt it made the "Amazon origin story clear; [Wonder Woman] was stopping war, not perpetuating it." Steinem also noted that she knew "some women were disappointed by all the makeup, but I may be desperate—I was just happy that the Amazons had wild hair!" Her only complaint lay in the choice to eliminate the World War II setting as the Wonder Woman comic book developed in response to existing comics that were "so sadistic and racist that there was a congressional hearing on the subject".[249] Steinem also gave Hillary Clinton the first Wonder Woman Award in October 2017 during the Women's Media Center's "Speaking Truth to Power Awards" (an organization created by Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan). Upon receiving the award, Clinton noted that she had seen Jenkins's Wonder Woman film and that she "loved the outfit". She also said that as her granddaughter was "really keen" on Wonder Woman, Clinton "thought maybe I could borrow something from her for the night. It didn't quite work for me, but I will say that this award means a lot to me because as a little girl, and then as a young woman, and then as a slightly older woman, I always wondered when Wonder Woman would have her time, and now that has happened."[250] Clinton had previously praised Jenkins's film, in a public August 2017 message, stating that "it was just as inspirational as I'd suspected a movie about a strong, powerful woman in a fight to save the world from international disaster would be."[251][252][253]
On May 31, Wonder Woman was banned in Lebanon after the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel asked the Lebanese government's Ministry of Economy and Trade to block the film because its star, Gal Gadot, is Israeli.[163] The Lebanese government did not ban Gadot's Fast & Furious films which did screen in Lebanon.[164][165] On June 7, Variety reported that a Tunisian court suspended the theatrical release of Wonder Woman after a lawsuit brought by the Al-Chaab party and the Tunisian Association of Young Lawyers to have the film blocked due to Gadot's Israeli citizenship, military service, and public comments in support of the Israeli military during the 2014 war in Gaza.[166] Jordan was reportedly also considering a ban of the film and suspended screenings pending a decision,[167] but on June 11, it was reported that the government decided not to do so, as there was no legal precedent for it.[168]
After the release of the 2017 film Wonder Woman, many bloggers noted what they felt made Wonder Woman a feminist icon in the film. Zoe Williams for The Guardian said, "Yes, she is sort of naked a lot of the time, but this isn't objectification so much as a cultural reset: having thighs, actual thighs you can kick things with, not thighs that look like arms, is a feminist act. The whole Diana myth, women safeguarding the world from male violence not with nurture but with better violence, is a feminist act. Casting Robin Wright as Wonder Woman's aunt, re-imagining the battle-axe as a battler with an axe, is a feminist act. A female German chemist trying to destroy humans (in the shape of Dr Poison, a proto-Mengele before Nazism existed) might be the most feminist act of all."[234] Alyssa Rosenberg for The Washington Post said, "... None of these experiences crushed me, of course, but I do wonder what it might have been like if they hadn't happened.The power of Wonder Woman, and one of the things that gives Jenkins's adaptation of the character such a lift, is in the answer to that question. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) doesn't have any idea what women and men are — or aren't — supposed to do. Even when she does encounter other people's ideas about gender roles, she doesn't automatically accept them, and she never lets anyone stop her. And the movie goes a step further and argues that it's not merely little girls all over the world who stand to gain if they can grow up free of the distorting influence of misogyny: a world like that would be liberating and wonderful for men in lots of ways, too."[235] Emma Gray for HuffPost said, "When it comes to pop culture, we speak often about representation; the simple yet often unfulfilled idea that it matters to see someone like you fill a variety of imagined roles on screen. After awhile, these conversations almost begin to feel obvious. We know that it's good to see women and people of color and disabled people and trans people and queer people in the same numbers and variety of roles that white, cisgender, straight men have long been afforded. But what these discussions often lose is the emotional impact of finally seeing something you may have never even realized you were missing. For many women viewers, "Wonder Woman" filled a hole they didn't know they had." [236]
^ Phegley, Kiel (May 23, 2016). "Rucka, Sharp & Scott Aim To Make Rebirth's Wonder Woman Accessible & Fantastic". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. While Wonder Woman sees the return of writer Greg Rucka, he’s teaming up with Liam Sharp, Matthew Clark and Nicola Scott to deliver a very different take from his previous run with the Amazon Princess. Archive requires scrolldown.
Steppenwolf then grabs Silas Stone, which Cyborg shots Steppenwolf and saves his father, and Wonder Woman helps out by attacking the Parademons and taking Steppenwolf to a different part of the factory. While Batman fights the Parademons, Barry goes and save one of the employees. Steppenwolf tells the Parademons that he will deal with Diana alone; meanwhile, Batman is being attacked by one of the Parademons as he tells Alfred that he needs the Knightcrawler, which he sent the machine to Bruce.
William Messner-Loebs is an award-winning writer and artist known for his work on Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Arrow and more. Wonder Woman by William Messner-Loebs Book One showcases the most memorable moments of William Messner-Loebs work on Wonder Woman and features classic tales that have shaped the Amazon Warrior we know today. Collects Wonder Woman Special #1 (1992), Wonder Woman #63, #64, #67, Wonder Woman Annual #3 (1992) and Wonder Woman #68-75 (1992).
In London, they deliver Maru's notebook to the Supreme War Council, where Sir Patrick Morgan is trying to negotiate an armistice with Germany. Diana translates Maru's notes and reveals that the Germans plan to release the deadly gas at the Western Front. Although forbidden by his commander to act, Steve, with secret funding from Morgan, recruits spy Sameer, marksman Charlie, and smuggler Chief Napi to help prevent the gas from being released. The team reaches the front in Belgium. Diana goes alone through No Man's Land and captures the enemy trench, allowing the Allied forces to help her liberate the village of Veld. The team briefly celebrates, taking a photograph in the village, while Diana and Steve begin to develop their own romance.
Carolyn Cocca has stated that Wonder Woman possesses a "duality of character" due to the character possessing both feminine and masculine qualities in her physical abilities and attitude, which Cocca felt made her more appealing to a wide audience.[224] Wonder Woman's first female editor, Karen Berger, claimed that, "Wonder Woman [is] a great role model to young women, but also contains many elements that appeal to males as well. Wonder Woman crosses the gender line.".[224] Berger worked with George Pérez on the new issues of Wonder Woman starting in 1987, and the new Diana "works with friends and allies to teach lessons of peace and equality."[225]
Warner Bros. unveiled its plans for San Diego Comic-Con 2019 on June 5, revealing that it would be skipping Hall H (the biggest panel room at the convention) and that it wouldn’t be bringing previews of some of its biggest upcoming releases—including Wonder Woman 1984—to fans. Jenkins confirmed on Twitter that we wouldn’t get a Wonder Woman 1984 preview at Comic-Con, but with the film coming out in exactly one year, she gave fans a tease in the form of a psychedelic poster of Wonder Woman in golden armor.
"Honestly... I think we're gonna be dead way before that. And you know what? I don't mind. It's an honorable end. But we've gotta shut Steppenwolf down. Superman's a no-show. You've got no powers, no offense. This guy might be working for the enemy. We don't now. You're tripping over your feet, and mine... whuf, you're gorgeous, and fierce... and strong. I know we went to war with the Amazons, but that was before my time. You know what? I don't wanna die. I'm young. There's shit that I wanna do. I just feel like... I didn't really embrace the sea or the land. I've been a loner my whole life. But being part of something bigger, like this... maybe I'm scared because... I'm meant to..."
Later in the story, Wonder Woman is locked in a cell. Straining to overhear a conversation in the next room, through the amplification of “bone conduction,” she takes her chain in her teeth: “Closeup of WW’s head shoulders. She holds her neck chain between her teeth. The chain runs taut between her teeth and the wall, where it is locked to a steel ring bolt.”
Wonder Woman is a fictional superheroine, appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character is a founding member of the Justice League. The character first appeared in All Star Comics #8 in October 1941[1] with her first feature in Sensation Comics #1, January 1942. The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986.[3] In her homeland, the island nation of Themyscira, her official title is Princess Diana of Themyscira, Daughter of Hippolyta. She has no father; she was created out of clay and brought to life by the gods of Olympus. When blending into the society outside of her homeland, she sometimes adopts her civilian identity Diana Prince.[4]
Wonder Woman 47 in DC's rebirth series continues the story of Wonder Woman and the Dark Gods. The action picks up with a showdown between Wonder Woman and Supergirl! In this issue, we also learn more about Jason, the twin brother of Wonder Woman. Is he going to be able to step up and help Wonder Woman or become a bigger problem for Wonder Woman?! Also, learn little more about the Dark Gods too!
Elise Jost of Moviepilot observed that "Gadot's take on Wonder Woman is one of those unique cases of an actor merging with their story, similar to Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark. Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman, and Wonder Woman is Gal Gadot."[202] Jost praised Gadot's interpretation of Wonder Woman as the one in which Gadot "absolutely nails the character's unwaveringly positive outlook on life. She's a force of nature who believes in the greater good; her conviction that she's meant to save the world is stronger than her bullet-deflecting shield. She's genuine, she's fun, she's the warm source of energy at the heart of the movie."[202] The Federalist suggests that Wonder Woman is "a story of Jesus". "The movie is wrapped up in faux Greek mythology, true, but there's no mistaking the Christology here."[219] "Perhaps Christ in the form of a beautiful and kick-ass Amazon is all that our contemporary society can handle right now", stated M. Hudson, a Christian feminist.[219] On HuffPost cultural critic, G. Roger Denson, who regards the superhero genre as a source of contemporary "Mainstream Mythopoetics" ("the making of new yet vitally meaningful, if not symbolic, stories filled with imagery reflecting, yet also shaping and advancing, the political, legal, moral and social practices of today"), wrote that the "No Man's Land" scene "that people are crying over in theaters and raving about afterward happens to be among the most powerfully mythopoetic scenes ever filmed at the same time it is one of the oldest myths to have been utilized by artists and writers after it had been invented by early military strategists and leaders." Specifically "used by director Patty Jenkins", the scene raises "the esteem for powerful yet compassionate women as heroes and leaders to a level equal with that of men for having won over a huge and adoring popular audience around the world".[220]
Straczynski's run focused on an alternate timeline created by the Gods where Paradise Island was destroyed leading to many Amazons being raised in the outside world. It revolves around Wonder Woman's attempts to restore the normal timeline despite the fact that she does not remember it properly. Wonder Woman in this alternative timeline has been raised in New York City as an orphan and is coming into her powers. She is aware of the presence of Amazons, but does not remember her childhood on Paradise Island.[54][55] Wonder Woman wore a new costume designed by DC Comics co-publisher Jim Lee.[56] Writer Phil Hester continued the storyline.[57]
In order to prove her devotion to her people, the Amazons issued a challenge to Diana, one she would have to meet in two days. In the meantime, the Justice League had tracked the insectoid queen down to a remote mountain. The League journeyed deep into the mountain and encountered the queen. Diana condemned her for the lives she has taken, but the insectoid queen replied that it was Diana’s actions, namely her throwing of the First Born into the depths of the Earth, that awoke the insectoids from their slumber.[54]
The I Ching era had an influence on the 1974 Wonder Woman TV movie featuring Cathy Lee Crosby, in which Wonder Woman was portrayed as a non-superpowered globe-trotting super-spy who wore an amalgam of the Wonder Woman and Diana Prince costumes. The first two issues of Allan Heinberg's run (Wonder Woman vol. 3, #1–2) include direct references to I Ching, and feature Diana wearing an outfit similar to that which she wore during the I Ching era.[9]
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The JLA's first trip to the universe is where Owlman is found hacking computer systems to get the info he needs. There, the JLA fights recruits the Crime Syndicate of America has recruited. Their second trip was when Batman followed Superwoman, and defeats her. After taking out Superwoman, he calls the JLA, and alongside the JLA travels to the moon, to get to the Crime Syndicate's headquarters. From there on, every JLA'er fights against their counterparts, and Wonder Woman manages to even win against her counterpart, Superwoman.
James Robinson is an acclaimed, award-winning writer whose works include Starman, JSA: The Golden Age and Superman. With Geoff Johns, he was co-writer of Hawkman. In addition, he wrote the screenplay to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Sean Connery, and created the acclaimed young-readers comic series Leave it to Chance. Robinson is currently writing Wonder Woman (Rebirth).
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UPDATE MESSAGE: This Privacy Policy was last updated on 11 March 2019.
We have updated this policy to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulations
We at Gebeya, Inc. (“Gebeya”, “we”, “us”, “Our”) respect your privacy which is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and, subject to your consent and/or requirements under applicable law, disclose personal information. This Privacy Policy covers our data collection practices and describes your rights to access, correct, or restrict our use of your personal data. We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the privacy of personal information is protected and maintained. Unless we state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use the Gebeya marketplace and training websites, mobile applications, APIs or related services (the “Services”). By using the Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or any other agreement that governs your use of the Service, DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE.
1. Our Responsibilities
It is the policy of the Gebeya to maintain an environment that promotes ethical and responsible conduct in all online network activities by instructors, employees and students. Gebeya INC recognizes its legal and ethical obligation to provide a safe study environment in both its online and taught courses and to protect your personal information and Data in that regard. To this end, Gebeya reserves the right and recognizes its obligation to:
log network use and to monitor file server space utilization by Users, and assume no responsibility or liability for files deleted due to violation of file server space allotments;
remove a user account on the network;
monitor the use of online activities. This may include real-time monitoring of network activity and/or maintaining a log of Internet activity for later review;
provide internal and external controls as appropriate and feasible including the right to determine who will have access to Gebeya owned equipment and, specifically, to exclude those who do not abide by this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service
restrict online destinations through software or other means.
provide guidelines and make reasonable efforts to train staff and students in acceptable use and policies governing online communications.
We collect certain data from you directly, like information you enter yourself, data about your participation in our marketplace and/ trainings, and data from third party platforms you connect with Gebeya. We also use third party analytics to collect some data, like information about your device.
Data You Provide
We may collect different data from or about you depending on how you use the Services. When you create an account and use the Services, including through a third party platform, we collect personal information which includes any information about you from which you can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (e.g., anonymized or aggregated data). The categories of Personal Information about you that we may collect, use, store or transfer (subject to your consent and/ requirements under applicable law) includes the following, some of which constitute Personal Information only when combined with personal identifiers:
Identity Data: Information we use to identify you, authenticate you as an authorized user of the Services, communicate with you, and record any transactions you make. This includes first name, maiden name, last name, login/user ID and password details, marital status, title, data of birth and gender.
Contact Data: Includes billing address, postal address, email address, telephone number and mobile phone number.
Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access our Services.
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our Services.
Transaction Data: Includes details of the Services for which you have previously registered and/or in which you have been enrolled.
Assessment Data: Information on your aptitude in certain technology-based subject areas and your performance on General Assembly’s capabilities and learning needs assessments.
Profile Data: Includes your interests, preferences, website browsing history, demographic information such as age, gender, education level, feedback and survey responses.
Marketing, Communications and Support Data: Includes your preferences with respect to receiving marketing from us and/or our third party partners and your communication preferences. If you contact us for support or to report a problem or concern (regardless of whether you have created an account), we collect and store your contact information, messages, and other data about you like your name, email address, location, operating system, IP address, and any other data you provide or that we collect through automated means (which we cover below). We use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
How We Get Data About You
We use tools like cookies, web beacons, analytical services to analyze trends and administer the website, track users’ movement around the websites and to gather data referenced above.
3. Purpose of Information
Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected. These include but not limited to:
identify the user/user account, give the user access to complete the registration process on the portal and access our Services
enable and deliver the Services
to manage our relationship with you
promptly inform the user of any updates or changes to our policies and services,
furnish the user with feedback on their participation and performance in the use of our Services
assess and mark the users’ coursework and examinations
grant the user access to the portal, to enable the user to complete and submit reviews and/or submit completed questionnaires/surveys.
make our services and the portal’s content available to the user and also continue to modify, maintain and enhance the user’s experience
intermittently upgrade the user experience and functionality of our Services while providing related customer services.
manage and protect the Services (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system review).
endeavour to respond to the users’ queries/enquiries and forward information requested by the user via electronic mail, sms or other marketing channels.
We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified above by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
Depending on usage, we may share certain data about you with certain Gebeya talent, trainers, students, companies performing services for us or hiring talent from us, our business partners, analytics and data enrichment providers, your social media providers, companies helping us run promotions and surveys, and advertising companies who help us promote our Services. We may also share your data as needed for security, legal compliance, or as part of a corporate restructuring. Lastly, we can share data in other ways if it is aggregated or de-identified or if we get your consent. We may share your data with third parties under the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
With Gebeya Talent: We share data about you or your company with Gebeya Talent retained for your engagement or retained to deliver projects for which you have sought our technical intervention.
With Hiring Companies: We share data that we have about you with hiring companies seeking to engage Gebeya Talent with your specific competence or skill set.
With Your Instructors: We share data that we have about you with instructors or teaching assistants for courses you enroll in or request information about, so they can improve their courses for you and other students. This data may include things like your city, country, browser language, operating system, device settings, If we collect additional data about you (like age or gender), we may share that too
With Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents: We share your data with third party companies who perform services on our behalf, like data analysis, marketing and advertising services (including retargeted advertising), email and hosting services. These service providers may access your personal data and are required to use it solely as we direct, to provide our requested service.
With Business Partners: We have agreements with other websites and platforms to distribute our Services and drive traffic to Gebeya.
With Analytics and Data Enrichment Services: As part of our use of third party analytics, we share certain contact information and data (as detailed in Section 1), or de-identified data as needed. De-identified data means data where we have removed things like your name and email address and replaced it with a token ID. This allows these providers to provide analytics services or match your data with publicly-available database information (including contact and social information from other sources). We do this to communicate with you in a more effective and customized manner.
To Power Social Media Features: The social media features in the Services (like the Facebook Like button) may allow the third party social media provider to collect things like your IP address and which page of the Services you’re visiting, and to set a cookie to enable the feature. Your interactions with these features are governed by the third party company’s privacy policy. In this regard and to the full extent permitted by law, Gebeya shall have no obligation or liability of any kind, including without limitation transfers, omissions, or disclosure, with respect to the third party’s access to or use of your data.
To Administer Promotions and Surveys: we may share your data as necessary to administer, market, or sponsor promotions and surveys you choose to participate in, as required by applicable law (like to provide a winners list or make required filings), or in accordance with the rules of the promotion or survey.
For Advertising: If we decide to offer advertising in the future, we may use and share certain Data with third party advertisers and networks to show general demographic and preference information among our users
For Security and Legal ComplianceWe may disclose your data to third parties if we (in our sole discretion) in good faith believe that the disclosure.
Permitted or required by law;
Requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, order, or proceeding;
Reasonably necessary as part of a valid subpoena, warrant, or other legally-valid request;
Reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and other legal agreements
Required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law (or rule or regulation), or security or technical issues; or
Reasonably necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of Gebeya, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services.
We may also disclose data about you to our auditors and legal advisors in order to assess our disclosure obligations and rights under this Privacy Policy.
K. During a Change in Control: If Gebeya undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organization during such transition or in contemplation of a transition (including during due diligence).
L. After Aggregation/De-identification: We can disclose or use aggregate or de-identified data for any purpose.
M. With Your Permission: With your consent, we may share data to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.
Gebeya retains personal data, as necessary, for the duration of the relevant business relationship. We may also retain personal data for longer than the duration of the business relationship should we need to retain it to protect ourselves against legal claims, use it for analysis or historical record-keeping, or comply with our information management policies and schedules. If you request that we delete your personal data, Gebeya will make reasonable attempts to delete all instances of the information in their entirety. For requests for access, corrections, or deletion, please refer to the “Your Choices and Rights” section of this Privacy Policy
6. Security of Information
Gebeya has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security to protect personal data from loss or theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized Gebeya personnel and third party service providers are provided access to personal data, and these employees and service providers are required to treat this information as confidential. All access to our Services is encrypted using industry-standard transport layer security technology (“TLS”). When you enter sensitive information, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (“SSL”). We also use HTTP strict transport security to add an additional layer of protection. Despite these precautions however, Gebeya cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal data.
7. Your Choices and Rights
Where granted by local law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data that we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying, or requesting deletion of the data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we have collected about you and to have any inaccuracies in that data corrected. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we cease processing your personal data.
If you would like to make a request to access, review, or correct the personal data we have collected about you, or to discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at sales@gebeya.com. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make reasonable attempts to promptly investigate, comply with, or otherwise respond to your requests as may be required by applicable law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fully complying with your request depending upon the circumstances and the request, such as for example, where producing your information may reveal the identity of someone else. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate fee for complying with your request where allowed by applicable law, and/or deny your requests where they may be manifestly unfounded, and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unwarranted under applicable law.
In addition, and where granted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
You may also unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations with any of the Services. To do so, please contact us at the address provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
Right to be forgotten: If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), in addition to the rights described above, you may contact us at the contact information provided below to (1) request a restriction on the processing of your personal information, (2) object to the processing of your personal information, (3) exercise your rights to be forgotten or (4) exercise other rights with respect to your personal information.
8. International Transfers of Your Personal data
Information collected from you may be stored and processed in Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, European Economic Area, the United States, or any other country in which we or agents or contractors maintain facilities, and by accessing our sites and using our services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Such countries may have laws which are different, and potentially not as protective, as the laws of your own country. If you reside in the EEA or other regions with laws governing data collection and use, please note that you are agreeing to the transfer of your personal data to other jurisdictions in which we operate. By providing your personal data, you consent to any transfer and processing in accordance with this Policy.
By using our Services, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your personal data by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Sites. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal data that we have previously collected about you, we will obtain your consent either through an email to your registered email address or by prominently posting information about the changes on our site.
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In any action between or among any of the parties, whether arising out of these or otherwise, each of the parties irrevocably and unconditionally (i) consents and submits to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in California; and (ii) waives any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or related to this agreement or any transactions contemplated hereby.
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The basic training programs that Gebeya offers are Gebeya Core, Gebeya Professional and Gebeya SAT.
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The Gebeya Core is an entry level course given to those who had previously learned Computer Science, Software Engineering and other IT related fields. The goal of Gebeya Core is to offer both practical and technical skills that will prepare the trainee for a career as a software engineer. Moreover, the Gebeya core is a prep module and a sure path to be accepted in the Gebeya professional training, which requires more experience and qualifications.
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Holmes Hotel London
Rated 9.2 in 413 reviews. 118 rooms.
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A converted townhouse now occupied by the Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel is also known as Bedford house – after the Bedford College for Women, which moved to this address in 1874. It was originally four separated houses – numbered 8, 9, 10 and 11 – in a row of Georgian houses built around the 1970s on what was then called York Place. They were owned or rented by upper-class residents. Number 8 York Place was once the home of Cardinal Wiseman who, in 1850, became the first Archbishop of Westminster. He died in that house and, as his memorial; the Catholic community in London built Westminster Cathedral.
The Bedford College for Women occupied Bedford House, with number 8 as its main entrance, from 1974 until 1913. In the late 1920s, it became the headquarters of the YWCA. At around this time, York Place lost his name, to become a further extension of Baker Street, and the building gained its current address: 108 Baker Street.
In World War Two, the building was temporarily used as a hospital. In 1952, the YWCA returned, however 13 years later, the ever-increasing running and maintenance costs forced them to move out. Bedford House was then left empty until the establishment of the
Holmes Hotel London is a boutique-style hotel in Marylebone Village. Oxford Street is within walking distance and 2 tube stations are nearby.
In an elegant 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Chiltern Street, Holmes Hotel has modern, air-conditioned rooms and suites with a Sky satellite TV, free wired and wireless internet and laptop safes. There is 24-hour room service.
Seasonally inspired all-day casual dining is available at Kitchen at Holmes.
Wembley Stadium is only a 15-minute Tube ride away. Madame Tussaud’s, London Zoo, Regent’s Park, Marylebone High Street and Hyde Park are within easy reach.
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CHACON, ELVIRA BLANK thru CHACON, ERICA N
CHACON, ELVIRA (blank) (child of RAMONA LECHUGA (mother) and AGAPITO CHACON) was born 12 Jun 1921 in GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,052
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CHACON, ELVIRA G who was 22 (born ABT 1966) married 21 MAR 1988 in BURLESON COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named J C GARCIA who was 24 (born ABT 1964). 27,857,053
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CHACON, ELVIRA G. was born 21 March 1925, received Social Security number 570-38-6819 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 08 May 2001 27,857,054
CHACON, ELVIRA T who was 29 (born ABT 1964) married 21 AUG 1993 in WEBB COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named RICARDO GAONA who was 29 (born ABT 1964). 27,857,055
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CHACON, ELVIRA U. was born 09 August 1909, received Social Security number 525-07-9164 (indicating New Mexico) and, Death Master File says, died 22 January 1999 27,857,056
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CHACON, ELVIR LEONICIO married MINERVA ESTEFANI FLORENTINO CAMINERO 25 October 2015 in Prospect Park Boro, Passaic County, New Jersey, United States of America. Special thanks to Reclaim The Records. Please consider donating to them. 27,857,057
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CHACON, E M. was born 19 June 1953, received Social Security number 520-60-6721 (indicating Wyoming) and, Death Master File says, died April 1988 27,857,058
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CHACON, EMELDA L who was 32 (born ABT 1969) married 30 MAR 2001 in HIDALGO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named MARK A LOPEZ who was 32 (born ABT 1969). 27,857,059
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CHACON, EMIGDIO G who was 31 (born ABT 1965) married 26 APR 1996 in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named YOLANDA HERNANDEZ who was 30 (born ABT 1966). 27,857,060
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CHACON, EMIL was born 31 May 1907, received Social Security number 453-01-3375 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 06 July 1995 27,857,061
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CHACON, EMILIA was born 03 December 1897, received Social Security number 525-32-1512 (indicating New Mexico) and, Death Master File says, died February 1986 27,857,062
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CHACON, EMILIA was born 05 August 1885, received Social Security number 526-02-5008 (indicating Arizona) and, Death Master File says, died July 1976 27,857,063
CHACON, EMILIA was born 28 December 1948, received Social Security number 559-94-6118 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died March 1987 27,857,064
CHACON, EMILIA married a groom named ALEXANDER OSSA LOPEZ on 30 July 2003 on a license issued in Queens, New York City, New York, United States of America. 27,857,065
CHACON, EMILIA who was 20 (born ABT 1978) married 17 JUL 1998 in ANGELINA COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named JOSE A ORTA who was 18 (born ABT 1980). 27,857,066
CHACON, EMILIA C. was born 23 November 1916, received Social Security number 546-11-3921 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 29 July 2006 27,857,067
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CHACON, EMILIA H. was born 10 August 1928, received Social Security number 466-38-1426 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 16 July 2003 27,857,068
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CHACON, EMILIANO was born 21 July 1906, received Social Security number 582-32-1154 (indicating Puerto Rico) and, Death Master File says, died January 1984 27,857,069
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CHACON, EMILIANO P. was born 16 June 1917, received Social Security number 622-06-4915 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 11 October 2003 27,857,070
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CHACON, EMILIA P. was born 02 December 1917, received Social Security number 525-20-8463 (indicating New Mexico) and, Death Master File says, died 05 March 1992 27,857,071
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CHACON, EMILIA R who was 20 (born ABT 1982) married 22 JUN 2002 in POTTER COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named ANGEL M ULIBARRI who was 24 (born ABT 1978). 27,857,072
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CHACON, EMILIO JR who was 24 (born ABT 1981) married 10 SEP 2005 in MAVERICK COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named ALEJANDRA MAGALLANES who was 21 (born ABT 1984). 27,857,073
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CHACON, EMILIO JR who was 27 in 2009 (born about 1982) married 10 September 2005 a bride named ALEJANDRA who was in 2009 on 10 September 2005 and they had one child under 18 when they got a divorce 1 September 2009 in MAVERICK COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. 27,857,074
CHACON, EMILIO was born 02 February 1923, received Social Security number 461-42-6728 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 08 December 2005 27,857,075
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CHACON, EMILIO was born 05 April 1947, received Social Security number 450-98-7947 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 15 December 1995 27,857,076
CHACON, EMILIO was born 06 April 1886, received Social Security number 522-18-2586 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died August 1972 27,857,077
CHACON, EMILIO was born 27 July 1933, received Social Security number 068-28-7009 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 14 April 2012 27,857,078
CHACON, EMILIO A. was born 13 May 1934, received Social Security number 438-86-3679 (indicating Louisiana) and, Death Master File says, died 04 March 2011 27,857,079
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CHACON, EMILIO F JR who was 18 (born ABT 1976) married 1 MAR 1994 in MAVERICK COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named DORA E MORENO who was 16 (born ABT 1978). 27,857,080
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CHACON, EMILIO M III who was 24, (born 1985 or 1986) married 04 September 2010 in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named BRENDA Y LOPEZ who was 20 (born 1989 or 1990). 27,857,081
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CHACON, EMILIO M JR, born ABT 1969, and his bride SAMANTHA T, born ABT 1968, married 29 MAY 1986, and they had two children under 18 when they got divorced in HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 21 MAY 1992. 27,857,082
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CHACON, EMILIO R. was born 28 May 1907, received Social Security number 358-05-1739 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 21 January 1993 27,857,083
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CHACON, EMILY (mother) , and ARNOLD LINES, had a baby, MALE (blank) LINES born 10 May 1913 in GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,084
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CHACON, EMILY was born 16 October 1918, received Social Security number 523-30-8506 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 01 December 2007 27,857,085
CHACON, EMILY A who was 22, (born 1986 or 1987) married 19 September 2009 in JOHNSON COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named JAMES P MCELROY who was 21 (born 1987 or 1988). 27,857,086
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CHACON, EMILY N. was born 07 May 1940, received Social Security number 525-94-6258 (indicating New Mexico) and, Death Master File says, died 13 December 1990 27,857,087
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CHACON, EMMA married a groom named ARSENIIO CORTES in the year 1950 on license number 13276 issued in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A. 27,857,088
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CHACON, EMMA married a groom named JAIME RIVERA in the year 1978 on license number 1220 issued in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A. 27,857,089
CHACON, EMMA (child of CARMEN UGARTE (mother) and ANASTACIO CHACON) was born 20 Feb 1922 in GREENLEE COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,090
CHACON, EMMA who was 20 (born ABT 1963) married 1 NOV 1983 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named MARCO A GARCIA who was 20 (born ABT 1963). 27,857,091
CHACON, EMMANUEL who was 22, (born 1987 or 1988) married 19 August 2010 in MIDLAND COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named JASMINE D GARCIA who was 16 (born 1993 or 1994). 27,857,092
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CHACON, EMMANUEL C who was 19 (born ABT 1983) married 20 APR 2002 in TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named MARTHA B MONTANO who was 18 (born ABT 1984). 27,857,093
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CHACON, EMMANUEL J. married MALEA N. BLOOM on 26 September 2018 using a marriage license issued in Allen County, Indiana, United States of America. 27,857,094
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Chacon, Emma T. married in 1905 according to a Massachusetts vital record for Boston, Volume 557, Page 52. 27,857,095
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CHACON, EMMA V who was 19 (born ABT 1985) married 12 JUN 2004 in WILBARGER COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named GILBERT T JR GRAUE who was 19 (born ABT 1985). 27,857,096
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CHACON, E N. was born 01 March 1940, received Social Security number 571-50-1932 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 01 August 2000 27,857,097
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CHACON, ENCARNACIO was born 07 July 1906, received Social Security number 524-18-7165 (indicating Colorado) and, Death Master File says, died 12 April 1989 27,857,098
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CHACON, Encarnacion was born ABT 1802 in Rio Arriba, N.M.; was in the 1860 census in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Territory. 27,857,099
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CHACON, Encarnacion was born ABT 1856 in Rio Arriba,N.M.; was in the 1860 census in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico Territory. 27,857,100
CHACON, ENCARNACION (blank) (child of SARAH TAFOYA (mother) and JOSEPH CHACON) was born 3 Jun 1921 in NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,101
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CHACON, ENCARPACION (father) , and DOLORES SOLIX born in MEXICO, had a baby, BIASA NAJIRA born 3 Feb 1897 in TX. 27,857,102
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CHACON, ENEDINA S. married RONNIE L. JONES on 14 February 2018 using a marriage license issued in Allen County, Indiana, United States of America. 27,857,103
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CHACON, ENILSA who was 47 (born ABT 1957) married 12 AUG 2004 in BEXAR COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named NORRIS F CHACON who was 51 (born ABT 1953). 27,857,104
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CHACON, ENOCH was born 22 November 1921, received Social Security number 526-34-2065 (indicating Arizona) and, Death Master File says, died 11 July 2006 27,857,105
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CHACON, ENPIA (mother) , and GUILLERMO ORTIZ, had a baby, JUANA ORTIZ OROSCO born in VOVOAAS, MEXICO. 27,857,106
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CHACON, ENRIQUE who was 40, (born 1968 or 1969) married 10 November 2009 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named CAUDILLO ELVA E VALDIVIA who was 32 (born 1976 or 1977). 27,857,107
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CHACON, ENRIQUE JR who was 23 (born ABT 1965) married 29 JAN 1988 in DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named CORAL T GALICIA who was 18 (born ABT 1970). 27,857,108
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CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 01 January 1924, received Social Security number 551-66-2977 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 11 July 2011 27,857,109
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 07 August 1898, received Social Security number 095-32-2515 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died July 1975 27,857,110
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 07 November 1925, received Social Security number 459-70-0350 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 28 July 1988 27,857,111
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 15 July 1900, received Social Security number 549-24-1547 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died January 1980 27,857,112
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 15 July 1905, received Social Security number 322-07-5716 (indicating Illinois) and, Death Master File says, died 15 October 1994 27,857,113
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 18 January 1903, received Social Security number 264-72-7274 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died 22 August 1997 27,857,114
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 24 April 1899, received Social Security number 098-32-6341 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died June 1988 27,857,115
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 24 September 1911, received Social Security number 453-05-7811 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died 01 March 1999 27,857,116
CHACON, ENRIQUE was born 29 September 1917, received Social Security number 266-70-2958 (indicating Florida) and, Death Master File says, died March 1974 27,857,117
CHACON, ENRIQUE who was 20 (born ABT 1952) married 1 MAY 1972 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named MARIA D QUINONEZ who was 20 (born ABT 1952). 27,857,118
CHACON, ENRIQUE who was 23 (born ABT 1971) married 20 MAY 1994 in POTTER COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named BILLIE J CAMPOS who was 29 (born ABT 1965). 27,857,119
CHACON, ENRIQUE who was 26 (born ABT 1969) married 21 SEP 1995 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named REYNA A ROMERO who was 37 (born ABT 1958). 27,857,120
CHACON, ENRIQUE who was 28 (born ABT 1953) married 20 FEB 1981 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named LONJINA ALVARADO who was 37 (born ABT 1944). 27,857,121
CHACON, ENRIQUE who was 43 (born ABT 1959) married 25 OCT 2002 in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named HOLLY HADEN who was 35 (born ABT 1967). 27,857,122
CHACON, ENRIQUE, and his bride CHRISTINE M, born ABT 1961, married 4 JUN 1986, and they had two children under 18 when they got divorced in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 1 MAY 2002. 27,857,123
CHACON, ENRIQUE, born ABT 1951, and his bride MARIA D, born ABT 1952, married 1 MAY 1972, and they had two children under 18 when they got divorced in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 22 DEC 1978. 27,857,124
CHACON, ENRIQUE, born ABT 1957, and his bride HOLLY H, born ABT 1968, married 25 OCT 2002, and they had no children under 18 when they got divorced in TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. on 14 JUN 2007. 27,857,125
CHACON, ENRIQUE A. was born 23 January 1925, received Social Security number 075-26-9262 (indicating New York) and, Death Master File says, died 29 October 2000 27,857,126
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CHACON, ENRIQUE C who was 31 (born ABT 1949) married 18 OCT 1980 in VICTORIA COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named MARY D SEPEDA who was 24 (born ABT 1956). 27,857,127
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CHACON, ENRIQUE JOSE married somebody named CHERYL KAREN LEE on 14 August 2015 on a license issued in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America. 27,857,128
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Chacon, Enrique L., Rank: PVT, Branch: US ARMY, War: WORLD WAR II, was born 24 September 1911, died 16 March 1999, and was buried in Section M, Site 2915 in Ft. Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas, United States of America. 27,857,129
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CHACON, ENRIQUETA was born 21 November 1922, received Social Security number 550-42-0412 (indicating California) and, Death Master File says, died 02 April 2010 27,857,130
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CHACON, ENRIQUETTA M who was 25 (born ABT 1953) married 3 MAR 1978 in KERR COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a groom named HOSSEIN FADAI who was 26 (born ABT 1952). 27,857,131
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CHACON, ENRIQUEZ (child of MARINA TARANGO (mother) and LASARO CHACON) was born 26 Dec 1928 in MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,132
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CHACON, E O. was born 17 November 1939, received Social Security number 466-58-7622 (indicating Texas) and, Death Master File says, died March 1994 27,857,133
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CHACON, EPIFAIO (father) , and JOSEFA [no surname shown], had a baby, ELIDORO (blank) CHACON born 3 Jul 1910 in GRAHAM COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,134
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CHACON, EPIFANIO (father) , and JOSEFA CHACON, had a baby, MARCOS (blank) CHACON born 7 Oct 1908 in GRAHAM COUNTY, ARIZONA, U.S.A.. 27,857,135
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CHACON, EPIFANIO was born 02 July 1896, received Social Security number 525-10-0714 (indicating New Mexico) and, Death Master File says, died October 1973 27,857,136
CHACON, EPIFANIO was born 23 October 1916, received Social Security number 154-44-3111 (indicating New Jersey) and, Death Master File says, died July 1986 27,857,137
CHACON, EPIFANIO who was 26 (born ABT 1971) married 18 MAR 1997 in EL PASO COUNTY, TEXAS, U.S.A. a bride named GUADALUPE RAMIREZ who was 22 (born ABT 1975). 27,857,138
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Posted on November 28, 2019 by Scott Alexander
Slate Star Codex has regular weekly-to-monthly meetups in a bunch of cities around the world. Earlier this autumn, we held a Meetups Everywhere event, hoping to promote and expand these groups. We collected information on existing meetups, got volunteers to create new meetups in cities that didn’t have them already, and posted times and dates prominently on the blog.
During late September and early October, I traveled around the US to attend as many meetups as I could. I hoped my presence would draw more people; I also wanted to learn more about meetups and the community and how best to guide them. Buck Shlegeris and a few other Bay Area effective altruists came along to meet people, talk to them about effective altruism, and potentially nudge them into the recruiting pipeline for EA organizations.
Lots of people asked me how my trip was. In a word: exhausting. I got to meet a lot of people for about three minutes each. There were a lot of really fascinating people with knowledge of a bewildering variety of subjects, but I didn’t get to pick their minds anywhere as thoroughly as I would have liked. I’m sorry if I talked to you for three minutes, you told me about some amazing project you were working on to clone neuroscientists or eradicate bees or convert atmospheric CO2 into vegan meat substitutes, and I mumbled something and walked away. You are all great and I wish I could have spent more time with you.
I finally got to put faces to many of the names I’ve interacted with through the years. For example, Bryan Caplan is exactly how you would expect, in every way. Also, in front of his office, he has a unique painting, which he apparently got by asking a Mexican street artist to paint an homage to Lord of the Rings. The artist had never heard of it before, but Bryan described it to him very enthusiastically, and the completely bonkers result is hanging in front of his office. This is probably a metaphor for something.
Philadelphia hosted their meetup in a beautiful room that looked like a Roman temple, and had miniature cheesesteaks for everybody. Chicago held theirs in a gym; appropriate, given this blog’s focus on BRUTE STRENGTH. Berkeley’s was in a group house with posters representing the Twelve Virtues Of Rationality hanging along the staircase. In Fairbanks, a person who had never read the blog showed up to get a story and an autograph for his brother who did. In New York, someone brought the best bread I have ever had, maybe the best bread anyone has ever had, I am so serious about this. In Boston, the organizers set up a prediction market to determine how many attendees they needed to plan for; they still ended up being off by a factor of two. This is also probably a metaphor for something. If only they had used more BRUTE STRENGTH!
Along the way, I got to see America. Most of it I saw from an airplane window, but I still saw it. In Portland, I ate from a makeshift food court formed by a bunch of really good food trucks congregating in the same empty lot; one of them just sold like a dozen different kinds of french fries. In Texas, I rode with an Uber driver whose day job is driving mechanical bulls to parties that need mechanical bulls, and who Ubers people around while he waits for the party to finish. In Washington DC, I tried to see the White House, only to be thwarted by the construction of a new security fence; they say that before you change the world you must change your own home, and it seems like our Wall-Builder-In-Chief takes this seriously. In Delaware, I stood on the spot where the Swedes first landed in America and declared it to be the colony of New Sweden; probably there are alternate timelines out there who could appreciate this more than I did. In New Jersey, I confirmed that the Pine Barrens are, in fact, really creepy.
People gave me things. You are all so nice, but you also seem to think I am about ten times more classy and fashionable than I really am. One person gave me a beautiful record of their audiobook – a real, honest-to-goodness vinyl record – as if I had any idea what to do with it. A reader in Philadelphia gave me a beautiful glossy magazine about Philadelphia culture, which I stared at intently for twenty minutes. Many people gave me beautifully-bound copies of my own work, which was so incredibly thoughtful that I feel bad that I will have to hide them in a closet so nobody sees them and thinks I am the kind of narcissist who makes beautifully-bound copies of my own work. The Charter Cities Institute people gave me a very nice Charter Cities Institute bag (although I assume that if I ever take it outside in Berkeley, someone will punch me and it will start a National Conversation). I am still really grateful to all of you.
But you already know how great you are. Let’s get to the statistics.
Mingyuan, the Official SSC Meetup Coordinator, sent out a survey to get information on the meetups we weren’t able to visit, and determined that we had somewhere between 81 and 111 meetups around the world. I’m sorry I can’t be more precise. 111 meetups were supposed to happen, 81 organizers reported back to Mingyuan that their meetups happened, and I’m not sure what happened to the other 30. Although most activity was concentrated in the Anglosphere, there were meetups as far away as Bangalore (9 people), Tel Aviv (25 people), Oslo (9 people), and Seoul (4 people). Medellin, Colombia reports a one person meetup; I am sorry it sounds like you did not have a good time. Montreal, Canada, reports a zero person meetup, which sounds very computer-sciency, kind of like a heap of zero grains of sand.
Here’s the histogram of attendance, binned by fives. About twenty meetups had 0-5 people, thirty had 5-10, and the remaining thirty had more than 10. The best-attended meetups were Boston (140), NYC (120), and Berkeley (105). Total meetup attendance around the world was almost 1500 people!
Did the event fulfill its goal of bringing more people to meetups? Many organizers had only a vague idea how many people usually attended their meetups, and many said their city didn’t have a usual meetup group at all. But as best I can tell, about 2.3x as many people attended the Meetups Everywhere meetup in a city compared to the average previous meetup. Breaking it down by tour status, meetups on my tour had much higher attendance (6.1x usual), but even meetups off my tour had somewhat higher attendance (1.6x usual).
Did the event succeed in bringing some people into meetup groups who might stay around later? I suggested meetup organizers bring a signup sheet that people could sign to get on a mailing list for future meetups. My data on this is sparse, because people took the survey question overly literally and wrote things like “I didn’t have a signup sheet, I just asked people for their emails” and then didn’t tell me how many people gave them. But for the 40 meetups where I have data, people on average got a population of new signers equal to 77% of their previous regular attendance; that is, a meetup group that usually had 100 people had 77 extra new people sign up for their mailing last. Breaking it down by tour status, meetups on my tour gained 170%, other meetups gained 58%.
This seems implausibly large; did one event nearly double the attendance of SSC meetup groups around the world? I don’t know how many people who signed up for the mailing list will really start attending regularly. But I will probably survey the organizers again next year, and they might be able to help me figure out how many people stayed around.
In total, 1,476 people attended SSC meetups, and 339 people added their name to mailing lists (the ratio here doesn’t match the previous numbers because most organizers didn’t have a mailing list or didn’t report mailing list data, and the ratios above only counted those who did).
So much for the numbers. What did I learn?
I don’t want to generalize too much – I deliberately went to the biggest meetups, and things that work for a group of 100 people might not apply to a group of 2 people. So take all of this with a grain of salt, but:
1. Tables and chairs kill big meetups. Some people tried to hold meetups at a restaurant or a park with picnic tables or something. Everyone would sit down at the table, talk to the 3-4 people in their immediate neighborhood, and that would be that. Eventually I figured out that I need to force everyone out of the picnic tables and into the rest of the park. This caused a phase shift from solid to gas, with people milling about, talking to everyone, finding the conversations that most interested them.
2. The welcomeness sentence is really important. In the meetup descriptions on the blog, I included a sentence like “Please feel free to come even if you feel awkward about it, even if you’re not ‘the typical SSC reader’, even if you’re worried people won’t like you, etc.” It sounds silly, but I had so many people come up to me saying the only reason they came was because of that sentence. It happened again and again and again. Anybody planning any kind of meetup about anything should strongly consider including a sentence like that (as long as it’s true). Maybe there are other simple hacks like this waiting to be discovered.
3. Group houses are important community nuclei. Obvious in retrospect, but it was pretty stark seeing the level of community in cities that did have rationalist group houses vs. the ones that didn’t, even if there were good meetup groups in both. This also came out in listening to some people mourn the loss of the main group house in their city and talk about all the great things they were no longer able to do.
I was thinking of this last one because a lot of the meetups felt kind of superficial. Everyone shows up, talks about their favorite SSC post or what their job is or what kind of interesting thing they read recently, and then they go home. Lots of people seemed to enjoy that, I enjoyed it, but seeing the kind of really great rationalist communities in the Bay Area or Seattle gave me a sense that more is possible. I don’t know, maybe it’s not possible in cities with only 10 or 20 interested people; maybe only places like the Bay Area and Seattle have enough people, and everywhere it’s possible it’s already happening. But group houses seem to be a big part of it.
I was also struck by the number of female meetup organizers; the female:male ratio on the meetup organizer survey is almost twice that on the SSC survey in general. When there were cities that didn’t have regular meetup groups, and I asked for a volunteer to set one up, it was usually a woman who volunteered.
This suggests to me that we’re not just performing at some kind of theoretical maximum for the amount of people and interest in a given community; there’s a shortage of something (speculatively, social initiative) that (in this community) women are better than men at. I don’t know how to solve this (though integrating more with the EA community, which has more women, might help), but I think it’s an interesting problem.
And Buck has written his own retrospective of his EA work at the meetups here.
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Solra Bizna says:
The welcomeness sentence always makes me want to try to attend a given meetup. This time around, there was one in my area, so after reading and absorbing the Sentence I resolved to attend it… and then I ended up with an unfortunate scheduling conflict. Oh well.
Erusian says:
I’ve got experience with organizing. Some notes:
Group housing tends to have issues with financing. The really well off people can afford their own place and often prefer the privacy. The not-so-well off people don’t have a lot of money. I suspect Portland and SF work because the rent is so astronomically high and commuting is difficult. This means you have more well off people willing to live in group housing. As an alternative for areas without these conditions, you might look at setting up coffee shops or coworking collectives or something. Or, of course, you could try and find a way to subsidize group housing.
It’s very normal for women to take the lead in organizing social things in my experience. But the real thing you need to do is create space and authority. The same thing that makes people very interested in organizing social events (highly agreeable, kind, nice, socially oriented) makes them hesitant to take authority. I’m not talking about becoming Her Highness, Dictator of Philadephia. I mean literally they will think it’s presumptuous to organize a meetup. If you just ask them to do it, they’ll be thrilled to. Giving people a structure is very important.
“Interesting” is a subjective term. Regions have industries and they rise or fall based on various factors. Like, the upper midwest is still a manufacturing hub that makes a lot of cars. It’s just that this isn’t as profitable these days. If you’re looking for a Silicon Valley-like atmosphere, you’re basically going to find it where there’s a lot of VC. You’re not likely to find people doing interesting neuroscience in Atlanta but you’re not likely to find many people creating innovations in textile mills in SF. Defining ‘interesting’ will probably be key to creating a sense of ‘SSC-ness’ in the culture.
a lot of the meetups felt kind of superficial. Everyone shows up, talks about their favorite SSC post or what their job is or what kind of interesting thing they read recently, and then they go home.
How could a gathering of mostly strangers be otherwise? I find that most social gatherings tend to disappoint on an emotional or intellectual excitement level and I have oft pondered the issue of how to get beyond the superficial level for such events. If I’m lucky people may talk about the most recent book they read or their most recent travel experience. A lot of social gatherings otherwise devolve into gossip and discussions of diet, even among educated people. Good god I’m sick of dietary conversations – they plunge me into despair about the future of civilization.
But I guess it’s unreasonable to strike up a conversation with strangers about Dostoevsky’s ideas on the fate of mankind in the absence of religion and that the best social discourse occurs one-on-one with like minded friends where we can build on shared knowledge from many hours of previous conversations, shared experiences, etc.
Rebecca Friedman says:
But I guess it’s unreasonable to strike up a conversation with strangers about Dostoevsky’s ideas on the fate of mankind in the absence of religion
I don’t know. You’d have to find the people at the meetup who’d actually read Dostoevsky, but that sounds like the kind of thing I might hear snippets of when I’m wandering around refilling the veggie tray.
(I probably wouldn’t join in, because I haven’t read Dostoevsky. But I wouldn’t assume no one has/would be interested.)
JohnBuridan says:
If you are discussing Dostoevsky, you *are* religious. Does one discuss Jesus’ ideas without discussing Jesus? It’s D O S T O E V S K Y; he’s basically Russia’s Saint Paul.
To your actual point, my salty interlocutor. I too am fed up with discussions about people’s diets… that’s why I hosted an SSC Meetup! As we get to know each other better, we develop a mode of existence called friendship or community. It’s better than being strangers, I think.
Dacyn says:
Dostoyevsky (and Jesus for that matter) has interesting things to say about ethics, guilt, forgiveness, etc. that even people who aren’t religious can appreciate (even if on average they will be less likely to agree with them)
D0TheMath says:
Epistemic status: have never actually been put in the situation described, so it could be an idealization of how I’d want to react rather than how I’d actually react.
If someone came up to me and asked if I wanted to talk about Dostoevsky’s ideas on the fate of mankind in the absence of religion, as long as they were articulate and talking out of passion rather than as a weird social signal that they’re nerdy, then I would absolutely love to have that conversation. Even if I’ve never read Dostoevsky (which I haven’t).
Callum G says:
Perhaps we need some prompts
Maybe an askhole.ioo sponsored event? Or like each meetup responds with their favourite TV series/movie/book?
I recently made this post for that purpose.
HaraldN says:
The stockholm SSC/rationality meetup group tries to solve this issue by having a well regarded article from the rationality community as a discussion seed each meetup. Generally we talk about this for a few minutes, everyone agrees that “yes, scott is a very wise person” but then the discussion moves onto some other topic tangentially related to the seed. No super deep conversations either way, but deeper than just talking about your job or whatever.
joshuabecker says:
that’s a pretty common model. in fact, my entire college curriculum was based around that model: every single class was a discussion of an assigned reading, nothing more.
one thing that helps is ensuring the readings are deep enough. chicago’s monthly typically has a organizing theme or topic, with several readings around that topic. then generally someone starts the discussion with a not-easy-to-answer question. (the “opening question”.) the question may even be unanswerable, but the journey is the destination.
though, for the chicago SSC everywhere meetup, we just had a fun social event. but i definitely overheard people getting deep.
DavidFriedman says:
The southern Bay Area meetup we run never has any pre-programmed content. People just come and talk about whatever they want to talk about.
As a potential participant, I think I would be less interested in coming to a meetup if I was told that everyone was supposed to read an article that would be discussed, or that there was a particular topic.
imoimo says:
The key to the strangers -> community transition is, in my experience, frequency of the meetup. When my local SSC meetup changed from a once-a-week meetup to twice-a-week, the sense of community and size of the group both grew quickly. (This was pointed out to me by half a dozen people, so it’s not just my impression.) I think the frequency increase allows for greater continuity of conversation/relationship between people, plus allows people who can’t make one of the meetups to come to the other instead.
Of course for this to work you need sufficient interested people so that the vast majority of meetups are 3+ people, preferably more. Fear of showing up to a 1 or 2 person meetup has been a self-fulfilling prophecy in the past. The more people trust the meetup will be big enough, the more likely it will be big enough.
johan_larson says:
Twice a week is a lot. I’m trying to think of all the various clubs I’ve been a member of over the years, and nearly all of them have met once a week. The exceptions have been schools, often martial arts schools, but those were generally profit-making or expenses-covering businesses. Even churches these days struggle to get people out twice a week, which is why bible study these days is usually done before the service, rather than during the week.
I think it might be better to aim for a) consistency, and b) critical mass. Actual organized activities, rather than just a chat session, might be useful too.
LesHapablap says:
Organized activities like a group hike somewhere or a potluck would be cool
I agree consistency, critical mass, and activities are very helpful. But we have one weekly meetup for discussion and one for casual hanging out at restaurants, and that feels pretty optimal. Keeps the focus of the group, but emphasizes the friendship aspect. Of course many people come just once a week or a blue moon, but they can still benefit from the community atmosphere fostered by 2x/week members.
Paul Brinkley says:
My expectation out of an SSC meetup is to meet the sort of people who like reading and posting on SSC. This seems to be people with unusual characteristics (e.g. a gay person who supports Trump), but share a preference for talking about hot button issues without yelling. This is the baseline, and I’m never disappointed. (My only peeve is that it’s hard to get into the middle of DC. But it also means getting a pretty good crowd every time. Tradeoffs.)
Meanwhile, I try to bring a conversation starter, and that’s typically a combination of good food, and one of my board games. Seems to work. The DC meetup even has spinoff activities as a result: gaming events, museum events, and short hikes.
cassander says:
Medellin, Colombia reports a one person meetup; I am sorry it sounds like you did not have a good time.
To be fair, it sounds like he only has himself to blame…
Richard Meadows says:
Ha. That was me, and I had a great time! I had essentially zero expectations that anyone else would come, but mingyuan pointed out that all I had to do was go to a coffee shop and bring a book, which is already among my favourite things to do.
Then a couple weeks later, a fellow Mededjinni got in touch asking about the “meetup group”, and we hit it off. So now we are two. Watch out Berkeley!
Simulated Knave says:
As a one-person meetup, do you have any insight into how the zero-person meetup would have worked?
I think it’s like the sound of one hand clapping…this is perceptible only to the incorporeal beings of Montreal.
+1 Hurrah!
WillG says:
Does anyone have access to the Berkeley/Bay Area meetup mailing list and feel like adding me to it? I’ve just moved to SF from the UK and was sad not to be able to make the meet, but I’d definitely be keen to go if its a recurring thing!
Try here.
I’ve been (briefly, I have an early bedtime) to one Berkeley, and one San Francisco meetup, the folks skew young but nice, with Berkeley having a few more grey hairs mixed among the youngsters.
@DavidFriedman also host a meetup in San Jose that sounds worthwhile (it is about a 50 minute to 4 hours drive from San Francisco to San Jose depending on traffic and exact locations).
I’m exclusively with family weekends and holidays, but I work in San Francisco and live near Berkeley and may sometimes meet Monday to Friday and you may contact me at HOJ[dot]plumber[at]gmail[dot]com, if you want.
I realize this is a weird thing to complain about, but…Montreal is the eighth largest city in North America. It is noticeably bigger than a lot of other places you mentioned whose locations are not clarified with their respective country or state. It is also extremely close to the American border, and I’ve seen it mentioned in American media.
Canada’s not some weird exotic land beyond the ken of civilization. Not even the French bits. If people don’t know where Montreal is but know where Fairbanks is, that’s a failure on their part.
Yes, this is petty, but I notice it in other venues and media, and it annoys me there too.
Protagoras says:
I don’t know. I’ve been to Montreal, and “weird exotic land beyond the ken of civilization” sounds only mildly exaggerated to me.
You’re thinking of the rest of Quebec. Montreal is the civilized outpost within a sea of barbarism.
“…Canada’s not some weird exotic land beyond the ken of civilization…”
I “visited” Canada in the late ’80’s, but I have my doubts, first because I didn’t walk to and see the Great Ice Wall at the border, instead I took “Air Canada” where I was forced to be intoxicated by a hat wearing stewardess (with a French-ish accent!) by her asking me “Do you want a drink?” thus rendering me easily fooled, and Ottawa looked like a film set, suspiciously so!
Montreal on the other hand looked just like an American city, but French speaking to fool ya!
But the most damning indicator is that saw no moose!
Mexico had pinatas (so does Los Angeles, but Mexico had more!), but a “Canada” without moose?
I remain unconvinced that this “Canada” actually exists, there may well just be a few cities planted near the “border” as an elaborate ruse!
I do admit that there’s slightly more evidence for “Canada” than for “North Dakota” and “Finland”, but only barely.
I drove across half of it to get to where I live. And live eight hours from the nearest city over 10000 people. I assure you, it is all terrifyingly real.
SamChevre says:
This is just too good a lead-in not to post–one of the best dsquared “just for amusement” articles ever.
Ladies and gentlemen, for your amusement I present:
On Not Believing in Canada
svalbardcaretaker says:
>In New York, someone brought the best bread I have ever had, maybe the best bread anyone has ever had, I am so serious about this.
Can the person responsible for the Platonic Bread please step forward and share its secrets with us?
eremetic says:
Was it Zvi?
gcameron says:
This is me!!
I do a lot of homemade breadmaking, usually for dinner parties, but I heard that Scott likes bread so I made bread for the meetup. Specifically, I made this bread, more or less: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/tried-true-honey-butter-rolls/ . I did not quite expect such numbers unfortunately, I only 1.5ed the recipe when I should have doubled it. It did in fact turn out pretty well!
Though I am still very very blown away by the compliment here wow, this is one of the nicest compliments on my bread I have ever had. Thank you very much!
I can probably dig up pictures I took of the rolls in question if folks who were not there would like to see how they turned out.
Awesome, I’ll have to try it out! Bookmarked.
I must say that hosting a Meetup is a good experience. If you are considering stepping forward, I strongly encourage you. It’s a great way to build community.
I recommend hosting people for a luncheon if possible and sending personal invites to each person encouraging them to come. Invite people who haven’t read SSC too, people who aren’t “the typical reader” but you think would contribute well to discussion.
EMP says:
There is always a concern of mine that meetups of otherwise roughly extraversion balanced groups select highly against introverted people. Being a highly introverted person myself, it discourages me from going to these sorts of things. Meetups are inherently an extroverted activity and thus attract extroverts. The higher proportion of extroverts that attend these events can unintentionally scare off or alienate the few introverts that show up. When I think of SSC, I think of a bunch of nerds typing up paragraphs of argumentation over mundane things. Stereotypically that would fall more on the introverted side, so maybe my concerns are exaggerated. Still… I am not so sure.
The idea underlying all of this though, is that there is a fundamental incompatibility between people on two extremes of a personality spectrum. Perhaps this is wrong, but anecdotally I find it to be true.
Scott is a huge introvert, not known for being talkative, maybe he can comment on this idea from his own perspective. And Scott pointed out in his article that keeping a fluid environment is a big help to ensure people find the conversation that’s right for them.
From my perspective, I think it is a matter of adopting a Finnish attitude towards conversation.
1) Don’t worry about so-called awkward silences.
2) Speak when you have something to say, but don’t feel compelled to speak.
3) Direct questions to people who aren’t the conversation monopolist.
Some people come to our meetup who appear to be very introverted. One at a recent meetup came, left for a while, came back again. I eventually managed a fairly brief conversation with her. Probably less interesting if you are an introvert, but it is possible to just stand around without saying anything.
syrrim says:
there’s a shortage of something (speculatively, social initiative) that (in this community) women are better than men at
Your taking as given that men are equally interested in attending meetups as women (interest being distinct from initiative)
I think he was just assuming that being interested in attending is a prerequisite for being interested in organizing. It’s well-known that more men than women are interested in SSC.
Aapje says:
That seems like a poor assumption. People-oriented people, which women are more often, seem to enjoy people-aspects of systems-oriented events, even if they don’t actually enjoy the system-oriented aspects that much.
Of course, but wouldn’t they be equally happy with the people-aspects of other events? We are talking about someone who, out of all the things they could have chose to organize, chose an SSC meetup. Doesn’t that suggest they are at least somewhat interested in SSC topics?
(because it took a while to remind myself of what is going on in this thread, and because there may be some ambiguity, I will write down my model of syrrim’s model of how SSC meetups work for future reference: there are two traits, meetup interest and social initiative, which respectively determine the likelihood that someone will attend or organize an SSC meetup. Men have more meetup interest but crucially, men and women are more balanced on social initiative, thus contradicting Scott’s claim that women have more of it. This would explain the observed evidence that organizers are SSC-disproportionately more women. But my claim was that likelihood to organize depends not just on social initiative but also on likelihood to be involved in SSC in general, which skews male and so requires initiative to skew female to compensate.)
Lots of people are moderately interested in lots of stuff. Let’s say that you have various desires, where I = interest in the topic and S = social initiative, where if I + S > threshold T, people will want to organize and if I > T, people will want to attend.
Many people have lots of interest, but hate organizing things. These people can sometimes be convinced to organize, but primarily if they believe that the event won’t happen otherwise. Their S is a negative number, just having I results in higher utility than also having S.
Some people have low/moderate I and high S. These people are more likely to attend if they get to organize.
It gets even more complicated when one recognizes that many women have a male partner or male family that they want to spend time with, even if they don’t share their interests. Let’s denote this desire with H, for hanging out. Then these women may attend an event if I + H > T and organize if I + S + H > T.
A further complication is that organizing things often takes away from the ability to enjoy the event itself. So people with high I are probably less likely to want to organize, because doing so costs them more in I than they gain by getting S.
If we assume that for SSC events:
– thing-oriented people have higher I
– people-oriented people have higher S + H
– the gendered nerd disparity means that thing-oriented men are more likely to have a relatively people-oriented female partner or family than vice versa
Note that the above is relative. A woman who is seen as extremely nerdy by society can still be people-oriented compared to SSC readers.
These assumptions can easily lead to a large gender difference between organizers and attendees (and further assumptions, like that meeting up is more people-oriented than commenting here, to a large difference between attendees and SSC commenters), depending on the size of the differences and how strong the inverse relationship between I and S is.
@Aapje:
I agree that your model makes sense. My impression is that syrrim disagrees with your model, since he disagrees with Scott’s quote which seems to agree with your model. I think I may have done a bad job of describing what was wrong with what syrrim was saying but I guess it doesn’t matter at this point.
I was hoping to go to the one in the Boston area, but chickened out due to parking concerns (biking/taking the T would not have worked – maybe next time). Then I heard about the 140 people and wondered how they could all fit in that space, and if that is just too many. What it was like?
Dan L says:
It relocated to the nearest park, IIRC about 30 minutes after the posted start time.
“seeing the kind of really great rationalist communities in the Bay Area or Seattle gave me a sense that more is possible. ”
Can you give more detail about the “more” that is possible? I attend a meetup group that is pretty expansive/intricate, though we have no group houses. It’s not clear, though, what we should be striving for to get more out of the community. What is the alternative to superficiality? What is happening at the group houses, so we can either try to replicate it with the resources available or else become more motivated to create group houses?
caryatis says:
Seconding this. I can see how group houses would help people find housing, but i’d like to know more of the benefits beyond this. (Also, let’s not confuse benefits of group houses with benefits of polyamory; the sort of close, trusting “i’ll care for your kid full time” relationships i’ve read about in some group houses are less likely to happen when the roommates aren’t having sex.)
vaniver says:
I’m familiar with group houses that have this sort of closeness without polyamory.
Sortale says:
in my meetup group, I am a nurse and was able to help out another member when they had trouble understanding the healthcare system in the country. Another member helps me understand how voltage work.
we all have comparative advantages. By din of exposure, we may come to learn how to use our comparative advantages to help others.
I mean the member that I help, I didn’t even know that they were having a problem understanding the healthcare system until they brought it up in conversation. And while I didn’t hide my ignorance of the law of physic, explaining voltage isn’t something that usually comes up in conversation.
By the by, our meet up have a system where members pledge to improve themselves in various ways [completely voluntary of course] and use the social pressure to conform/commit to help people stick to their plans.
Going further, I am anticipating being able to form a more cohesive group. Say, if we have a food chain manager, maybe they can give us discount in exchange for concession [ e.g. buying certain things in certain amounts at certain times]. or being tester for developing products [e.g. lighting furniture to fight against seasonal affective disorder, or Co2 skimmer to reduce room Co2 at night] the possibility is endless.
How is that a benefit of group houses that social interaction without living together would not provide?
mingyuan says:
I’ve lived in a Bay Area group house for more than two years and was previously house manager for twelve months. I initially moved here because it turns out I just like hanging out with rationalists more than I like hanging out with most other types of people – in particular, I value the conversational norms (tell culture can be *amazing* for preempting housemate conflict) and the fact that the people generally value the same things I do, understand what I’m talking about most of the time, and are always willing to help me improve in various ways.
For me, the “more” that’s possible is the genuine sense of community we’ve built here. Most of the rationalist houses (there are more than 40, by my last count) know where the others are; we can go to parties at each others’ places, borrow tools or books or a cup of sugar from one another, move to another house if we’re looking for a change, run into friends at the grocery store, that kind of thing. I’m in my 20s and most of the people I went to school with are always complaining about the atomization of modern society and how isolated they feel. With the Berkeley rationalist community, I don’t experience any of that. After two years, my housemates are like a family to me. That’s the alternative to superficiality. (And for the record, none of my housemates date each other.)
You are describing what I think of as a non-geographical village.
Humans want to matter. If your reference group is 300 million Americans, unless you are quite extraordinary, you don’t matter. If your reference group is the village you live in, and you live a decent hard working life, by the time you get old people know who you are, think well of you.
Geographic villages work less well for this purpose in a world with modern population densities and communication and transportation technologies. The solution is non-geographical villages. Your job. The people who share your hobbies. Your church.
The point first struck me forty or fifty years ago, when I spent a few days in the L.A. area interacting with fellow libertarians—who knew each other. It occurred to me that I had been spending my time in a village, thinly spread over a region some fifty miles across.
Chevalier Mal Fet says:
I wanted to make the Seoul meetup to find other Korean SSC fans, but couldn’t manage to swing the bus ride up from Gwangju.
Shame, too, I could have singlehandedly increased attendance by 25%!
JacobT says:
Just to share my experience
I went to a meetup for the first time, it turned out that it was a re-branded regular Less wrong meetup and I felt very out of place. Most of the meetup was a mini lecture and a word game between a few people with everyone else sitting and watching. I didn’t have enough time to meet almost anyone and am not planning on returning. My suggestion would be that for an introductory meetup to allow almost the entire time for conversations and socializing.
did one event nearly double the attendance of SSC meetup groups around the world?
You are using the ratio of new names on the email list to average attendees. The mailing list for our meetup has about 80 names. The typical meetup has twenty to thirty people attending. If we got 20 new names for the mailing list, the list would increase by only 25%, which would seem to be the relevant figure.
shakeddown says:
Does anyone have a picture of Bryan Caplan’s painting?
b_jonas says:
Very well, since you’re practically asking for that reply. The actual project goals were: clone bees, eradicate atmospheric CO2, and turn neuroscientists into vegan meat substitutes. (At least Tailsteak expressed the opinion of ethics that if you made products from a human body and the human was a consenting adult, then that would count as vegan, while other animals can’t give consent.)
> But as best I can tell, about 2.3x as many people attended the Meetups Everywhere meetup in a city compared to the average previous meetup.
Well of course. They’re advertised better. All the meetup times were right on the SSC blog, so I could immediately see two meetups that I’d miss because I fixed my vacation schedule earlier. (I’m not complaining. My vacation was great, and it was worth to fix the schedule in advance so I can buy accomodation cheaper.) I haven’t registered to Facebook yet so I don’t see the meetups announced in the private Facebook group, and I haven’t manage to figured out how to use the LessWrong meetup website either.
Itai Bar-Natan says:
Tailsteak
Wait, do you mean this guy? Is he now into SSC?
Yes, that guy; not into SSC as far as I know.
alwhite says:
I’ve participated in 3 years of meetups everywhere. I organized the first year and had 1 person show up. A woman organized the 2nd year and we had 11 people show up and a core group formed. The 3rd year was organized by a man again and we had 5 show up with 4 being the core group and 1 new person. I can’t say anything different was done for announcement except name of person organizing.
A female organizer might be more inviting, making it seem like less of a sausage fest?
I expect there are some women who would not go to a 100% male event, who would go to an 80-90% male event.
Garrett says:
This is pretty much the definition of a coordination problem.
maintain says:
I suspect there were probably things done subtly differently.
If you have bad social skills, you won’t even notice the subtle differences, even though they make a big impact.
It’s similar how to people complain that Chad can go up to women and do nothing special, and they love him, but if I do the exact same thing, women think I’m a creep. You did not do the exact same thing. You have body odor and a neckbeard, and you went up to some women, stared at the ground and mumbled something incomprehensible.
Anyway, the obvious solution is to test this: Get the woman who organized your year 2 meetup to organize next year, and then have her send out the invitation under a male name.
Nancy Lebovitz says:
I suspect that Chad has a better eye for women who are likely to be interested.
Corundum says:
Your suggestion really rubs me the wrong way. You’re asking someone to do all the work and then give up all the credit.
The Nybbler says:
They only have to tell a little fib, like Linda Organizer reporting her name as Lyndon Arranger. They can take the credit (and reveal the experiment) when people show up at the meetup.
Douglas Knight says:
Sure, talking in person is high bandwidth. But these are short text announcements. We can easily examine every letter. In fact, the woman’s announcement was under a pseudonym that didn’t even look like a person’s name.
Frederic Mari says:
Just discovered the story about BRUTE STRENGTH and it’s my new 3rd favorite blog post here (1st is the Archipelago and 2nd is the review of Albion’s Seed. Previous 3rd top spot was occupied by Meditations on Moloch).
I just have one comment (beyond validating how great the Pills story was) – I’m not super okay with integrating/confusing EA and rationality. My rationality says that, in the face of climate change, helping more people esp. in poor countries (i.e. EA maximising the bang for the buck, Bill Gates-style), is counter-productive.
The only rational EA thing to do right now is 1- R&D/infrastructure deployment to tackle climate change if you have the scientific chops. 2- fund said R&D/infrastructure deployments efforts if you have the money and/or 3- campaign for public funding for said R&D efforts/infrastructure deployments efforts if you have neither 1 or 2.
Though, my best guess is still that we will chance desperate geoengineering attempts at reversing climate change once Americans and Europeans and Chinese look like they might die en masse because of it and won’t do anything meaningful about it beforehand. So maybe feel free to save starving children in Africa, it’ll all be a wash in the end.
Wouldn’t a first step be research to determine whether the net effects of climate change are good or bad? Everyone discussing it assumes they are bad, many that they are bad and catastrophic, but since there are both positive and negative consequences, both large and uncertain, the sign of the sum is not actually known.
It would be a pity to engage in massive efforts to prevent it, only to discover that it was, on net, making us better off.
There was a discussion here recently on how to raise birth rates. I’m not sure how many people considered the fact that, fifty years ago, the need to reduce birth rates had about the same status in public discussions that the need to reduce climate change has now.
I’m not going to pretend I know all demographic conversations taking place right now but people advocating for higher birth rates are (IME) economists concerned about retirement funding/active-to-passive ratios and they’re actually wrong. We have enough money to support old people, it’s all about prioritization and redistribution issues.
As to the idea that climate change may be beneficial – maybe in some limited spots (say, Canada get a warmer, more hospitable climate?) but that cannot possibly compensate for most of Africa, the ME, Southern Europe and big chunks of Asia become seriously inhospitable.
Furthermore, we’ve seen climate change in action before. One data point isn’t much (and, to be complete, historians don’t all agree with that thesis) but changes in weather patterns in the 17th caused about 1/3 to 1/2 of humanity dying off. I don’t think you could call rolling the dice and see if we get a better outcome this time around a rational attitude.
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Crisis-Climate-Catastrophe-Seventeenth/dp/0300153236
Taking care of people isn’t just about money, it’s also about having the people to do it.
Yes and no. If the jobs pay well enough, people will take them. Right now, some jobs may go unfulfilled b/c people don’t see them as prestigious/worthwhile/earning enough.
And it’s worth pointing out that, in a capitalistic, materialistic society like ours, salary very much correlates with self-worth and prestige.
If trash collectors were paid like capital market traders, you can be sure everyone would admire trash collectors for their importance to society – saving us from diseases spreading, beautifying our urban environment etc etc etc. We’d find reasons to glorify them.
Admiration and thus interest follow the money…
I don’t think salary has as much of an effect as you think. More likely is that high-status people will follow the money (over long periods of time) and bring prestige to a formerly low-status career.
Or at least it is heavily confounded. People can use their salary to signal higher status, and it obviously works for some people, so in that sense money leads to status leads to more prestige for the career.
I wish I could think of some examples either way of jobs that changed in prestige. Computer programmer maybe? Joining the military?
@LesHapablap : Joining the military, yes.
But also teachers, bank branch managers, (commercial) plane pilots etc. All formely important jobs, with high status in the community that fell by the way side as their relative earning power declined…
I would have said computer programing went through a cycle. IIRC, it used to be done by a fair % of women as it rose from stenography/secretarial tasks, quickly attracted lots of men as the salaries rose and now the fact that computer nerds are not as rare as they once were means it’s on the wane… unless you’re good (AFAIK – but there must be a reason – beyond the obvious cultural issues and control/proximity – why companies are still willing to pay guys a small fortune in Calif. rather than recruit Ukrainians and Indians exclusively).
I would have said computer programing went through a cycle. IIRC, it used to be done by a fair % of women as it rose from stenography/secretarial tasks, quickly attracted lots of men as the salaries rose and now the fact that computer nerds are not as rare as they once were means it’s on the wane…
This is one of the narratives, but I have found precious little data to support it. The field was certainly female dominated in the early days (in WWII when many of the men were elsewhere), but it did not really come out of stenographical or secretarial tasks. The women were recruited from human computers, and the work was rather more on the mechanical side than programming is now.
By 1960 programming (well, “computer specialist” was the job category then; it wasn’t broken out) was already almost 70% male, and by 1970 80% male. Percent female climbed to 35% in 1990… and dropped off first quickly, then steadily, until 2009. Compensation did not start rising above those for an ordinary professional job until the dot-com bubble (and even then, that was mostly equity that was mostly worthless), and then again after the 2008 recession (during which time percent women has remained roughly steady).
Salaries, so far as I know, aren’t on the wane. The bottom got cut off the field (for Americans) when outsourcing and H-1B workers become popular, but that was largely following the dot-com bust.
Prestige is on the wane, but there was really only any prestige for the top of the profession for a rather short period. Nobody likes to grant nerds status.
Are you talking about results over the next century or so, or over many centuries? The IPCC projection for the end of the century is for warming of a few degrees C, and I don’t see how that could make all of those areas “seriously inhospitable.” For a simple test, add three degrees C to the current average temperature of a location, find another location currently at that temperature, and see if people are living there.
That actually overestimates the problem, because greenhouse warming is greater in cold places and times than in hot, due to the interaction with water vapor, also a greenhouse gas. So three degrees warming means something like two degrees in the summer and four in the winter, two in Africa and four in Siberia—actual numbers invented, but pattern based on both what has happened and the relevant physics.
Further, the IPCC projection in question is for the high emissions scenario, which assumes emissions going up in proportion to economic growth, ignoring both progress in the technology of renewables, mainly solar, and depletion of sources of fossil fuel.
And, finally, the IPCC so far has a record of consistently overestimating warming.
So far as good effects, increasing the habitable area of the globe by extending it towards the poles is one sizable one—my very rough estimate is that the gain of land through that is two to three orders of magnitude greater than the loss through sea level rise.
A second good effect is milder winters. Everyone talks about increased deaths through hotter summers, which is one of the bad effects. But an old Lancet article calculated global death rates through cold to be nearly twenty times as large as through heat—and greenhouse warming is greater in winter than in summer.
A third good effect is increased crop yields. The effect of CO2 fertilization is well established by experiment. For most crops — the main exceptions are maize and sugar cane, for which the effect is smaller — doubling CO2 increases yields by about 30% and reduces water requirements. That’s a huge effect, and unlike all of the supposed negative effects on the food supply, well established rather than conjectural.
Did you know these things? If not, your conclusion might still be correct, but your basis for it is inadequate.
Given lots of good and bad effects, it’s pretty easy to reach the conclusion one wants or expects by selectively emphasizing the bad (or the good) and not looking for the ones in the other direction.
broblawsky says:
It seems like a dangerous gamble to assume that the net results will be positive.
Also a dangerous gamble to assume that the results will be negative and enormous, and impose very large costs in trying to stop it.
Instead of assuming either, one ought to try to estimate as best one can, which isn’t very well, unfortunately. But uncertainty is an argument for delay, since over time our information will improve.
William Nordhaus, in a piece attacking an oped that had argued that climate change was not an emergency requiring immediate action, gave his own estimate of the cost of waiting fifty years to do anything, relative to taking the optimal actions immediately. It was $4.1 trillion. His comment was that “wars have been started over smaller sums.”
$4.1 trillion spread out over the globe and a century, represents an average cost of about one twentieth of one percent of world GNP.
Details and links here.
I don’t have the depth of scientific knowledge required to counter your arguments point by point.
And I know the Guardian may not be the most objective source out there but : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live
I’m not interested in a world where the South of France is semi-desertic or Sahara-like. It’s not technically “uninhabitable” but it’s close enough as to make no difference as far as I’m concerned.
Absent that, how do you decide whom to believe? Your answer so far is that a source you know is not very reliable has a horror story. If I can find an equally unreliable source with a horror story in the other direction, one where preventing warming results in the end of the current interglacial and half a mile of ice over the present locations of Chicago and London—not at all likely, but we do know that such things happened in the recent past (geologically speaking—less than a million years ago), unlike the horror story you cite—will you conclude that we should have crash program to put as much CO2 into the air as possible?
Absent scientific knowledge, what you need to develop is the ability to judge sources of information on internal evidence. Which articles, people, news stories read as if they are trying to convince you–signaled by, among other things, not mentioning arguments against their position, or using scary rhetoric?
A simple example is the Nordhaus piece I discussed, and linked to in the blog post that I linked to above. “4.1 trillion dollars, wars have been started over less” sounds convincing, until you spend ten minutes looking up global GNP and doing arithmetic.
What he is arguing about is whether it is urgent to act now or if we have time to wait. The number he gives for the cost of waiting fifty years sounds scary, but amounts to an average cost of a small fraction of one percent of world GNP. The obvious conclusion is that he is telling the truth about his calculations, but trying to tell it in a way that fits the conclusion he wants instead of the conclusion that follows from his work.
For another example, consider that one of the most cited numbers in the argument, the 97% of scientist agree one, comes from someone who has provably lied in print about his own work. “Provably” doesn’t require any scientific knowledge at all, just careful reading of one article of which he is the lead author, plus one claim about the first article in a later article, also coauthored by him. For details see this.
Learning to read critically won’t guarantee that you get the right answer, but it will at least give you some protection against being convinced by true believers out to convince you.
David – I appreciate the need for balanced and intelligent reading. I just grabbed the first horror story that had a fair number of links to more scientific articles.
Do you doubt that I could produce scientific articles as scary as this one? Climate change is one of the most researched issue of our times, like the effect of smoking once was. And, sure, late in the day, despite all the evidence and scientific warnings, you still had people pretending that smoking wasn’t all that bad and health nuts were just scaremongerers….
I would furthermore add that, if someone has a financial interest in supporting climate skepticism, it is the oil/fossil fuel lobby. Yet, despite their best efforts, the scientific community, whether 97% or something else, is pretty unanimous in its conclusions. And, iirc, a fair chunk of the dissent is over details rather than the central thesis.
In short, while I haven’t spent significant chunk of times poring over the various ins and outs of the climate change science, I’m :
1- willing to trust the scientific consensus
2- willing to trust my senses that tells me summers are getting hotter and hotter, in line with the long term temperature graphs you’ll have seen.
3- willing to trust weather reports pointing out extreme weather is now more common and more severe than it used to be, with, iirc, islands in NYC bay going underwater.
You don’t say how old you are. You might want to check on how much temperatures have risen over the time period covered by your memory–say age 12 to present. Unless you are somewhere unusual, or in a place warming much more rapidly than usual, it’s unlikely to be as much as one degree F. You can find the global data, courtesy of NASA, here.
If so, that particular piece of evidence that you offer is a case of your mind inventing facts to fit the theory. Unless you really believe that you can distinguish, through decades of memory, a change in average temperature that small.
As it happens, I agree that temperatures have trended up since about 1911, although very slowly in human terms. What I disagree with, for reasons I have suggested, is the claim that the change can be expected to have large net negative effects.
You mention the “scientific consensus.” The famous 97% figure was for the claim that humans are one of the causes of warming–not even that they are the main cause. The fact that people, including Obama, convert that into “people cause warming and warming has terrible effects,” is again evidence of the ability of the mind to convert what the evidence says into what they expect to hear.
Have you read the IPCC reports? Surely, if there is a consensus of catastrophic effects, you could find it there. But although the rhetoric is put in ways that sometimes give that effect, the actual content is not. I have an old blog post on the subject.
One of my favorite bits from the IPCC report:
Some low-lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts that, in some cases, could have associated damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP.
Contrast that to the visions of catastrophe.
@david :
You don’t say how old you are. You might want to check on how much temperatures have risen over the time period covered by your memory–say age 12 to present. Unless you are somewhere unusual, or in a place warming much more rapidly than usual, it’s unlikely to be as much as one degree F.
OK, I don’t think we’re likely to convince each others but I’m 45 and one more source may, who knows, help you believe I’m not nuts.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/2018/08/06/01008-20180806ARTFIG00205-comment-les-temperatures-ont-evolue-en-france-ville-par-ville-depuis-20-ans.php
Pick “Embrun” as the city of choice (South East corner of France, in the Alps). It’s pretty close to my parents’ city.
Temperatures in July have been rising from a below 25C (22-23?) in summer in 1996 to nearly 30C (27-28?) in 2018.
NB: I’m not entirely sure how they get those averages. I suspect they are daily averages b/c in summer, during the day, Southern Alps will happily climb above 32-33C (when, in my teenagehood, they use to stick just below or around 30C).
Parisian summers also feel significantly worse now than a decade ago, though pollution may be a confounding factor i.e. I will be buying portable AC for my family while I hadn’t felt the need a decade ago (and Parisian real estate isn’t designed for handling AC units).
Similarly, I’ve lived in Kuwait for a little while now (5 years). Summer temperatures have always been unlivable (above 50C) but it seems they’re creeping higher, above 55C – though it’s hard to know for sure, as there are conspiracy theories around measurements since the government is supposed to declare a day off if temperatures exceed a certain level (and Kuwaitis don’t want to give days off to their Pakistanis and Egyptians and Filipinos expats – or so the conspiracy goes).
One thing that has clearly change in 5 years is that the rainy seasons have tended to get worse – with downpours more frequent and severe.
Maybe it all means nothing, just weather variations or it’s all acceptable to you. I don’t like it and I want my 1980s temperatures back.
@Frederic Mari:
Fair enough, but in looking at a single figure for a single pair of years in one place in a particular month, you have to allow for cherry picking, deliberate or accidental–finding the numbers that most fit what you are arguing.
Looking at the NASA global numbers, I note that 1996 was anomalously cold–more than a tenth of a degree C below either 1995 or 1997. 2016 and 2017 were more than a tenth of a degree above 2015 and 2018. And that’s with global averaging. So the pair of years that Figaro chose exaggerate the pattern of global warming by about .3°C.
You are 45. If we assume that your memory of temperatures runs back to age 12, that’s 1986. According to NASA, temperature from 1986 to 2018 has risen by .64°C, or just over one degree F—a little higher than I thought, but still tiny in terms of human observation.
If the warming you have observed is much more than that, then what you are observing is not global warming, it’s some local climate phenomenon.
I followed your link, wasn’t able to figure out how to find the particular ville, perhaps because my French isn’t good enough. But if you look at the maps with colored dots, you will notice that local changes over the twenty years, by month, vary from +3° to -3° C. That’s a very noisy signal from which to draw conclusions even about France, let alone the world.
If you had picked February instead of July, anywhere in France, you would have concluded that the world was cooling.
I think if trash collectors were suddenly highly paid, some high status people would start doing trash collecting and the job status would increase. Or they wouldn’t and the status wouldn’t change: like when you hear of subway workers or lollipop holders making 150k+ per year and they certainly don’t get any prestige.
Admirable people and thus interest mostly follow money.
EGI says:
While I agree with you that warming will have positive consequences at least in the long term the problem is the quick change. If crop yields in the mid west go down it does not help you that Siberia becomes fertile in 20 years. Even if it becomes fertile now, since there are no farmers there.
That would be a problem if the changes were quick. What we are talking about, based on the IPCC projections (high emissions scenario), is turning the average temperature of Minnesota to that of Iowa over about a century.
So far as humans are concerned, all of the changes are very slow–warming of, so far, about a degree C per century, possibly increasing to two or three per century. Sea level rise of a bit over an inch a decade.
The one place your point might be correct is with regard to other species, most obviously trees, which can’t shift their range very fast.
aristides says:
I agree that EA and rationality are very separate, there are plenty selfish rationalists for one thing. However, EA is a wide movement, and those that are fighting climate change can fit right in, as long as they strive to find effective solutions. 80000 hours ranks Climate change as the 9th most important cause, with error bars and personal fit considerations that completely justify someone making that their main cause. A lot of EA activists would disagree with your decision to prioritize climate change, but they would be glad to discuss climate change, and how to address it effectively.
Fair enough but, if I try and fight climate change and they try and fight to add more people on the planet, I can’t help but feel we’re working at cross purposes.
EDIT : The list given doesn’t seem to have much to do with “helping children in poor countries” so maybe there isn’t much of a cross purpose. I was mostly going off of Scott’s approving description of Bill Gates’ efforts with immunization where it’s recognized his foundation saved around 10-12M children….
I’m all for making the lives of the already-living better but I also think we need to carefully wait until technological progress advances enough before increasing the load the Earth has to bear…
EA marketing on the surface stresses helping children in poor countries for at least three reasons. First, it’s one of the most funding constrained causes, so someone can contribute without changing career plans, and good for new members. Second, it’s a much more photogenic cause than things like AI alignment, which makes average people dismiss you as a terminator nerd. Third, it’s the easiest test case to teach the principal of effectiveness. If someone is currently buying AIDS medication for poor Africans, it’s easy to take the money, and calculate that bed nets save more lives. And that’s not even counting the fact that Bill Gates is a good poster child for the cause, and that’s his chosen intervention, even if Gates ties to EA is weak.
EA tries to have a second level of subtle advertisements designed to appeal to people with high technical or policy skills, and nudge them to talent restrained causes, like climate change, but because it’s subtle advertisements, they miss some people like you, that has only seen their major advertisements to the public, and Scott’s advertisements. Scott has also been more interested in the MIRI AI side of EA than the Climate Change side, so it’s not surprising you do not think of EA when talking about climate change.
Points well taken and thanks for taking the time.
You are not bothered by the fact that the people who offered that argument fifty years ago, with great confidence, made predictions which turned to be consistently wrong?
How do you go about figuring how much of a “load the Earth can bear?”
Which prediction turned out to be consistently wrong? I’m not following here.
As to the “load the Earth can bear”, it’s obviously not a precise number and an evolving one, depending on our tech level as well as how we choose to split resources.
For example, iirc, Scott Alexander or a commentator on this blog pointed to the father of Green Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug) as the greatest unsung hero for saving humanity from itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution#Effects_on_food_security
The impact of such tech is complex but it seems pretty clear it allowed us to increase our pop. by billions without too much obvious damage (so far).
However, some people have pointed to soil erosion as an unintended consequence that will make such high yielding agro-tech unsustainable in the longer term and we were looking at severe food insecurity unless something else (hydroponics? lab grown meat? whatever) takes over and saved our asses again.
If you dismiss The Guardian out of hand for its left leaning biases, may I introduce you to GMO, a hedge fund-like wealth manager? https://www.gmo.com/americas/research-library/the-race-of-our-lives-revisited/
So – yeah – I read somewhere that, if everyone was going to live like Americans (on average), the Earth could only take 4 billions people. We’re 7 and counting…
NB: That BBC article is even more pessimistic. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712
Conclusion : No hard number that can be proven beyond questioning but “let’s wait till we get better data” seems a sure-fire way to end up in a situation where we can’t reverse any of the damage sustained. I honestly trust the scientists on the subject and think it’s irrational not to play it safe.
The main prediction was that continued population growth in poor countries would result in their people becoming much worse off. The extreme version was Ehrlich’s much hyped claim that there would be unstoppable mass famines in the 1970’s, with hundreds of millions of people dying. Most of the movement didn’t give that large or immediate predictions, but took that one seriously and offered less extreme versions.
Since that time, the rate of extreme poverty in the world has dropped sharply, to something like a third what it was then, and calorie consumption in poor countries has trended consistently up.
Another and much hyped version was the book Limits to Growth, which used computer modeling to predict terrible things happening, along one of several paths, by now. It claimed to be economic modeling, but I didn’t know any economists then who took it seriously, since it depended on models without the feedback that real market systems generate.
Simple example … . In their model, if food got more expensive, farmers produced more, in the process exhausting the soil so that food output later crashed. But if food is more expensive and expected to stay expensive, farmers have an incentive not only to produce now but to do things to keep future production up. In fact, food had been expensive in Japan for a long time, due to restrictions on imports, and output had continued to remain high.
it allowed us to increase our pop. by billions without too much obvious damage (so far).
Does “not obvious damage” mean “arguments claiming that terrible things will eventually happen”? Judged by the material conditions of human beings at present, we are better off than at any time in the historical past.
Right. So we did escape a Malthusian trap once thanks to the Green Revolution. And you can add Oil Peak, avoided b/c of LNG and frakking too. I’m not saying we can’t get lucky once more (and generally I’m a tech optimist) but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it…
Limits to Growth, I would dismiss out of hands if no economists endorsed the work. We got a terrible track record as far as short to medium term predictions go but we can make sure someone doesn’t forget about, say, catch up growth or demographic transitions…
Does “not obvious damage” mean “arguments claiming that terrible things will eventually happen”?
? Quite the reverse. It means no terrible things have happen so far but the future remains unknown and open to interpretations.
I think the fact that soils are being eroded is not in question per se but the consequences of that aren’t set in stone.
It could mean widespread food shortages are just around the corner. OR that hydroponics and algae nutrition and vat grown meat will save the day.
I make no prediction on that per se, just a general notion that we shouldn’t run constantly near the edge of our ability to sustain human life.
We’ve covered the environmental reasons why but I would also add an economic one. (some) Labour shortages are helpful to sustain wage growth (or keep it in line with productivity growth) and wage growth is good for overall economic growth.
Limits to Growth, I would dismiss out of hands if no economists endorsed the work.
I am not claiming that no economists endorsed it–I didn’t know all economists. Just that none I knew did.
And, in my view, any person who endorsed the model (as opposed to the conclusions, which could be true for other reasons), wasn’t an economist, whatever his job title.
You are aware that predictions of imminent food shortages due to soil erosion go back more than a century? Yields have been increasing throughout that period, and continue to increase.
I asked:
You replied
I think you are agreeing with my interpretation. “not obvious damage” suggests that there is damage but it isn’t obvious. But the actual content of your claim isn’t that there is any evidence that the predicted problems occurred, only that one can never know that they will not occur at some time in the future.
but I would also add an economic one. (some) Labour shortages are helpful to sustain wage growth (or keep it in line with productivity growth) and wage growth is good for overall economic growth.
This sounds as though your model is one in which there is a fixed number of jobs to be done, so if the labor force is greater than that, there is unemployment. If so it is odd that both the population of the U.S. and the number of jobs just happened, by pure chance, to have increased by about two orders of magnitude over the past two hundred and fifty years, while the mismatch rarely reached ten percent.
You might consider that population consists of both workers and consumers–mostly the same people–so that increasing population results in both more people and more jobs.
I often wonder why eliminating nuclear weapons isn’t at the top of everybody’s list of improve-the-world priorities. Seems like the human suffering from the use of just one weapon trumps all the other concerns, and an all out war, with multiple weapons is an outright human existential threat. No other issue comes close to reaching this status. Yet not only is this issue not at the top of the list, it rarely even gets discussed politically, in op-ed pages, in EA circles or otherwise.
It would be bad to get rid of all our nuclear weapons while our enemies (or rivals, even) retained some. And it if we agreed to eliminate them, it would be really difficult to verify that the other side kept their bargain. The temptation would be really strong to keep a few, just in case, on both sides.
Also, a world in which all the major powers have nuclear weapons seems to be a world without large-scale war by the major powers. There are still some fights, of course, but they tend to be on a smaller scale, sometimes with the majors aiding one side of the other. It’s hard to be sure, of course, but maybe with nuclear weapons we have finally found the weapons that make war too terrible to bear. We might piously scrub the world clean of every last nuclear weapon, only to find ourselves fighting another world-spanning conflict like WWI or WWII, except this time with satellites and smart-bombs and ethnically targeted plagues. And that’s a big risk to take.
De-nuclearization treaties would need provisions for on-site compliance inspections.
As far as large scale warfare, demographics has made it too costly. Low fertility rates in most countries mean there are barely enough young people to care for the aged population let alone fight a large scale war. To what end would anybody invade the US, for example?
And even if nukes do reduce the threat of large scale wars, the risk of having a maniacal leader detonate one or more seems too high?
Working towards eliminating nuclear weapons and drastically reducing US defense spending seem like top priority rationalist goals to me.
John Schilling says:
To take slaves they can force to clean the bedpans of their own aged population, obviously.
That might be true, but those are cases where the policy attracts some people and repels others, since people honestly disagree about whether those are very good or very bad things to do.
If you find that hard to believe, consider that some people, myself included, would consider abolishing drug regulation, for both recreational and pharmaceutical drugs, and offering vouchers for the full per pupil cost of the public schools to anyone willing to make other arrangement for education, as very high priority rationalist goals.
If those seem like bad ideas to you, consider that that’s the reaction quite a lot of people would have to yours—perhaps not the people you mostly interact with.
In forming a movement for effective altruism, there is much to be said for finding goals that many people will think good and very few people think bad, so that we can put energy into cooperating instead of fighting. Saving children’s lives isn’t a universal good, but there are not many people willing to say they are against it.
sharper13 says:
So far the use of nuclear weapons has killed a couple of hundred thousand people.
That’s a lot, but in terms of war deaths, that matches a month of trench warfare.
I use that comparison because to most people, both probably seem about as unlikely as the other.
Modern weapons have the potential to cause massive amounts of damage, but I suspect most people think more in terms of bad things which have happened before as being more likely than bad things which have never happened before. Probably something similar going on with catastrophic asteroid impact risks.
There’s a couple of ways to think about this.
First, do you think MAD work or do you think we got insanely lucky to survive the Cold War? https://progressive.org/magazine/ban-the-bomb-helfand/ and https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/17/opinions/sheer-luck-has-helped-us-avoid-nuclear-war-so-far-helfand/index.html . Another unsung hero who saved humanity from itself : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
But, even if the USA, China, India, Pakistan and Russia accepted to de-nuclearised, how do you deal with N.Korea? They certainly aren’t willing to be cajoled (as opposed to the Iranians, say) into abandoning their nukes… And, if they have them, then…
I attended a SSC meetup recently. It was completely weird, organisation-wise, but it worked brilliantly.
I am from Kyiv (Ukraine), an organiser, and I’d known for a while there were SSC readers in Kharkiv who would like to meet us. They have an established thing, every Saturday, but they don’t advertise it. (To keep it cosy? At least, way cosier than what we have, it seems.) Only we kept chewing over where, when, who should go etc., so one day we just decided to meet halfway. In Myrgorod. Nobody of us had been to Myrgorod before, or knew where people go to talk there, or… actually, anything about it beyond “they have a statue of Gogol at the station” and ticket prices. But it was more-or-less halfway, and we knew Gogol, if not each other.
So on that day, we boarded trains – my heading almost East, their heading almost West – for a two hours ride. (It would be far simpler if I just went over to Kharkiv, but I kept hoping other people from Kyiv would join. No luck, everybody was busy that day.) Their train came a few minutes before mine, so they met me, and then it was just magic.
We got a taxi “somewhere to talk”, which, apparently, means exactly one restaurant in town. It was too noisy in every sense, but we had a table to ourselves, and every twenty minutes we got up and went out to smoke (or not). Poor waiters. We talked about everything, and these people needed no moderator. It was unbelievable for me. They were grown-ups, not just SSC-this or LW-that. We only had four hours.
And now I’m back and have tons of work and no idea how to build what they have built.
eyeballfrog says:
I tried to organize a meetup in iowa city twice, but it seems to have not worked out. Both only had one other attendee, and not the same person each time, and neither seemed interested in continuing. I had hoped a college town would have more ssc readers (the Madison meetups had a lot of people and they’re not that much larger of a city). Ah well, maybe I’ll try again next year when we get a new group of students.
PlatoReject says:
Sharing my own experience with the rationalist community, I attended three or four meetups for a brief period of time (not one of the ones you visited on your tour, but I won’t be more specific than that), and I quickly grew dissatisfied by how everyone you show up, attempt to talk for five minutes about some post or Scott’s or Eliezer’s and then immediately get bogged down talking about some minutae of computer science or working in tech that meant nothing to me as someone with no interest in neither. Everyone was nice and inclusive to me, but their interests and experience were so hyper-focused that I felt no desire to hang around.
You can always change the subject! Everyone has hyper-focused interests. Try to find a hyper-focused interest that you and the other person share.
“I was also struck by the number of female meetup organizers; the female:male ratio on the meetup organizer survey is almost twice that on the SSC survey in general.”
Kenneth Clarke’s “Civilisation” has part of a chapter on how much women contributed to the Enlightenment in France by hosting salons.
Betty Cook says:
For a description of one style of meetup…
My household (the other three people in it are David, Rebecca and Bill Friedman) has been hosting meetups in the South Bay at a bit under once a month for two and a half years now, at our fairly large house. We usually get 20-30 people, though we had around 40 the time Scott announced he was coming. What happens is conversation and food; three of us are cooks, so we offer a fair amount of food, and the fourth greets people as they come in. We make no particular effort to guide the conversation, but Bill is a history enthusiast and will start a conversation on whatever bit of interesting history he has recently been reading about if people come in and don’t know what to talk about. At any given time we usually have four or five separate conversations going, with people drifting around or standing by the food. David keeps a mailing list of people who have asked to be told about the next one (we have no regular schedule, since it depends on when we are free) and at this point I think the list is about 80 people. The people range in age from retired to small kids, and are maybe 4:1 male to female; the typical attendee is young male techie, but not everyone fits that pattern. A lot of the people come back repeatedly, but there are new people, I think, every time.
rbwabd says:
i attended the Boston one. Was surprised by # of people that showed up, but feel better now as it seemed to have been the largest meetup anywhere. Proximity of MIT helped. That Berkeley is third suggests we could probably have gotten a decently sized group together at any large engineering oriented school.
Folamh3 says:
I attended a Dublin meetup and enjoyed it very much, it seems to be becoming a recurring thing.
The beautifully-bound copies of your own work you mentioned – were these copies of Unsong?
Montreal, Canada, reports a zero person meetup, which sounds very computer-sciency, kind of like a heap of zero grains of sand.
My wife and I actually tried attending. We arrived at a shady-looking building, and rang the intercom. After some time we got an unintelligible answer, then nothing. Admittedly I don’t comprend french very well, but Liza does, and she couldn’t figure it out. After two more iterations of the same, we took our leave.
SmileyVirus says:
I registered for the Montreal event on Facebook, and the organizer messaged me a few days before the event to tell me it had been cancelled. This is probably why you couldn’t get in, and also why they had zero attendees.
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Tokyo seeks mutually beneficial economic cooperation with Russia to help solve Russian national problems and expand opportunities for Japanese business, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan Hiroshi Kajiyama told.
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According to him, the “eight-point cooperation plan” proposed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi in May 2016 covers areas, many of which coincide with the “twelve national projects” initiated by the Russian leader. “At the same time, for Japanese entrepreneurs, the ‘cooperation plan’ offers a chance to promote new business in the Russian market with high potential”, – said Minister Kajiyama.
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To date, he confirmed, over 200 private projects have been established and more than half of them have “started concrete work”.
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He sees the areas of increasing productivity and diversifying production as important areas that are included in Russia’s “twelve national projects”.
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Sir2 Increases--No, Make That Decreases--Life Span
Science's STKE 22 Nov 2005:
Vol. 2005, Issue 311, pp. tw411
DOI: 10.1126/stke.3112005tw411
Understanding how biochemical signals influence aging just got a bit more complicated. The histone deacetylase encoded by the Sir2 gene in yeast enhances replicative life span, that is, life span measured as the total number of daughter cells one mother cell can produce. Another way to measure aging is to measure the time that cells survive in a nonmitotic state--chronological life span. Fabrizio et al. report that loss of Sir2 alone had no effect on chronological life span. However, an unexpected pro-aging effect of Sir2 was revealed when analyzed in the context of two yeast mutants that extend chronological life span. Lack of the yeast homolog of the protein kinase Akt or caloric restriction both extend chronological lifetime in yeast. Under these conditions, loss of Sir2 led to further increases in life span. Fabrizio et al. explored several possible explanations for these effects. In nutrient-depleted cells, loss of Sir2 caused a decrease in the rate of accumulation of age-dependent DNA mutations. Stress resistance of the Sir2-depleted cells was also enhanced when they were exposed to oxidative stress or heat shock. Loss of Sir2 also led to an increase in the amount of alcohol dehydrogenase 2 and its activity. The authors propose that alcohol (produced and excreted as yeast during fermentation but also used as a carbon source when nutrients are depleted) is a key signal to yeast cells reflecting their metabolic state and that its depletion leads to a program that extends chronological aging. The authors, and Kennedy in commentary on the paper, discuss the implications of the findings for understanding aging in mammals as well, and how regulatory pathways that control and respond to metabolism may converge to regulate longevity.
P. Fabrizio, C. Gattazzo, L. Battistella, M. Wei,C. Cheng, K. McGrew,V. D. Longo, Sir2 blocks extreme life-span extension. Cell 123, 655-667 (2005). [PubMed]
B. K. Kennedy, The enigmatic role of Sir2 in aging. Cell 123, 548-550 (2005). [PubMed]
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Alcaraván Radio and La Voz de tu Conciencia Christmas card
I just received Alcaraván Radio’s annual Christmas and New Year eQSL card:
I enjoy tuning in Alcaraván Radio–they’re one of many low power shortwave broadcasters in South America that make shortwave listening and music discovery so fun! Click here to listen to an Alcaraván Radio recording I made several years ago.
This entry was posted in News, Shortwave Radio and tagged Alcaravan Radio, Alcaravan Radio QSL on December 17, 2017 by Thomas.
Oxford Shortwave Log: 200 metre Beverage antenna – initial reception tests
Hi there, I have finally deployed the Medium Wave Circle-design 200 metre Beverage antenna (schematic diagram above) at the woods I use in Oxford, UK. It was terminated at the ‘front end’ with a 650 Ohm resistor into a 1 metre-long, permanent copper earthing rod that I had previously driven into the ground, away from the route taken by the general public. The actual wire was orientated in a generally westerly direction, and thus nulling signals propagating from the east. At the receiver end, I utillised my self-built transformer, wound for a 50 Ohm input impedance (14 turns on the primary), thus making the entire set-up suitable for the Elad FDM DUO. It was quite a pain to set up, taking over an hour to deploy the wire and connect both earthing rods and the transformer! However, intial results are very promising and here I am very pleased to share 3 reception videos with you:
An unprecidented signal from Alcaravan Radio in Colombia on 5910 kHz
A similarly uprecidented signal from HCJB Quito, Ecuador, on 6050 kHz, wonderful SNR
The clearest reception of Radio Chaski, Peru I have heard to-date, on 5980 kHz
The reception from Colombia and Ecuador was unprecidented and both of these tropical stations sound like local AM signals, aided of course by the Bose SoundLink Mini 2 (the Elad’s stand-alone audio is puny to say the least). The signal from Peru is weak, as would be expected, however, the low-gain/ high SNR performance of this antenna results in audio clarity that is better than I have ever heard previously from this rather exotic station. Further to these recordings, I managed to make two recordings of the entire MW band using the FDM DUO via the FDM-SW2 software and I’m hoping an analysis of the data will uncover some nice MW DX. Thus, all-in-all, a very good result with the 200 metre Beverage – more reception videos using this antenna to follow soon on my youtube channel Oxford Shortwave Log. Thanks for watching/ listening and I wish you all good DX.
Embedded reception videos with text links follow below:
A similarly uprecidented signal from HCJB Quito, Ecuador, on 6050 kHz, with amazing SNR
The clearest reception of Radio Chaski, Peru I have heard to-date on 5980 kHz
Clint Gouveia is the author of this post and a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Clint actively publishes videos of his shortwave radio excursions on his YouTube channel: Oxford Shortwave Log. Clint is based in Oxfordshire, England.
This entry was posted in Antennas, DXpeditions, International Broadcasting, Mediumwave, Portable Radio, Shortwave Radio, Software Defined Radio, Tutorials and tagged Alcaravan Radio, Antenna building, Beverage, DXpedition, Elad FDm-DUO, HCJB Quito, Radio Chaski, SDR, shortwave, shortwave listening, Shortwave Radio, Software Defined Radio, Sony ICF-2001D on October 13, 2016 by Clint Gouveia.
Alcaravan Radio Christmas QSL
Many thanks to Rafael Rodríguez R., QSL Manager for Alcaravan Radio, for sharing this Christmas QSL Card:
This entry was posted in AM, Mediumwave, News, QSL Gallery, Shortwave Radio and tagged Alcaravan Radio, Alcaravan Radio QSL on December 20, 2015 by Thomas.
Season’s Greetings from Alcaravan Radio and Radio Romania International
It’s always fun to receive Christmas and New Year’s greetings from two of my favorite shortwave stations: Alcaravan Radio and Radio Romania International.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, News and tagged Alcaravan Radio, Radio Romania International, RRI on December 24, 2014 by Thomas.
Does Shortwave Radio Have a Future?
This article originally appeared in the October 2014 issue of The Spectrum Monitor Magazine.
There’s a topic I’d like to put on table. One that, in my radio-centric world, stirs up a fair amount of discussion…and, truth be told, apprehension.
The question, simply put, is this: “Does shortwave radio have a future?”
I’m frequently asked this question on my blog, the SWLing Post. Somehow–although I’m not sure how–I’ve become something of a go-to individual when this topic arises, and find myself facing this question frequently.
In my work, I continue to regard shortwave radio as a relevant and contemporary medium that conveys information to all parts of the globe, regardless of where on earth one is born, and, for the most part, regardless of one’s income or status. I love the technology, the content, the variety, the affordability, the relevance, and (let’s face it) the sheer magic of shortwave radio. I love that the medium can help people, teach people, move and inspire people, all around the world, everyday–even in the midst of famines, disasters, crises, wars.
(Source: UC Berkley)
The shortwaves–which is to say, the high-frequency portion of the radio spectrum–will never disappear, even though international broadcasters may eventually fade into history. I often think of the shortwave spectrum as a global resource that will always be here, even if we humans are not. But on a brighter note, I expect the shortwave spectrum will be used for centuries to come, as we implement various technologies that find ways to make use of the medium.
So, in the broadest sense, yes; I sincerely believe shortwave has a future.
But that’s not really what most people are asking. Most want to know if there is anything out there to listen to–and what, if anything, will continue to be out there. Broadcasters have been using the shortwave medium for a long time to spread their message. And many of us (TSM and SWLing Post readers, for example) are still listening. At least, as long as the broadcasting, itself, continues.
The transmitter building of Radio Canada International, Sackville, NB.
Shortwave broadcasting: clearly on the decline
Just to be clear: when I refer to a shortwave broadcaster here, I refer to the large government-supported international broadcaster, unless I specify differently. (There are also many private, non-profit, and clandestine broadcasters; these I will address separately).
If you’re a dedicated shortwave radio listener, radio news just this year has been enough to squelch anyone’s enthusiasm for the future of the hobby. The Voice of America, with very little warning, dropped many of their shortwave services in the final week of June 2014, and now it appears that the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG), according to their special committee report, regard shortwave radio as a legacy technology with a dwindling listenership. They cite plummeting listener numbers around the world, despite an acknowledgement that there are still communities throughout the world who rely on shortwave.
Moreover, Radio Australia has also been hit hard with budget cuts via their parent Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). While there is no confirmation of a loss of shortwave services at time of writing, no doubt ABC also plans to reduce RA’s shortwave offerings significantly at some point.
And earlier this year after months of speculation, Voice of Russia suddenly dropped all of their shortwave radio services. I, for one, didn’t see that coming; I wouldn’t have guessed that VOR would drop shortwave completely. VOR, and its predecessor, Radio Moscow, have long been dominant voices on the shortwaves. Now they have fallen silent,* just as tensions between Russia and many other countries heat up.
[FOOTNOTE: *However, Voice of Russia may be relayed on the new shortwave broadcaster, Global 24.]
Radio Exterior de España, a broadcaster I’ve also listened to most of my life, has also just announced their closure (October 15, 2014).
Even the small non-profit clandestine station, Shortwave Radio Africa, sadly lost funding in August 2014, closing shop within the course of a few weeks; this was a particularly unfortunate event, as this station provided an alternative voice to government propaganda.
So, let’s face it–shortwave radio broadcasting is on the decline. It simply is. There is no denying this.
Hitting home
Listening to the final broadcast of Radio Netherlands in an off-grid cabin on Prince Edward Island.
Clearly, there are not as many broadcasters on the air as there were in even the late 1990s, let alone as many as there were in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when as a child I began SWLing, and found the bands crowded with voices clamoring to be heard.
Now I’m finding it difficult to imagine a world without, for example, Radio Australia. I have tuned into RA on 9,580 kHz since I was eight years old; if I have a companion on the shortwaves, it’s surely Radio Australia. But I do have to come to terms with the idea that we may lose RA at some point, too–indeed, it’s most likely.
In the past five years I’ve had to say a painful goodbye to some of my favorite broadcasters: Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Radio Canada International, and Radio Bulgaria; at the same time, the BBC, DW, RFI, and the Voice of America have all decreased broadcasting hours, as well.
I find it sad to hear these stations fall silent, one by one. Perhaps because I’m something of an anachronism–a fellow who still uses shortwave radio as a means to understand the world, who still regards radio as a source of news that is…well…from the source.
Perhaps this is why I feel so compelled to archive shortwave radio broadcasts on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, why I especially want to hear the voice of each station preserved. And I hope this archive will also serve as a reminder that wireless information has been crossing the planet for the better part of a century, even faster than the Internet can disseminate it now. Shortwave still has this power.
What about private, independent broadcasters?
So far, I’ve been primarily addressing government broadcasting. But what about private shortwave broadcasters, who often rely on revenue from content providers and advertising? While struggling in some respects in this economy, private broadcasters are still prominent on the shortwave landscape.
I asked Jeff White, president of the private shortwave broadcaster WRMI about the current state of private broadcasting:
“There has been some decline in shortwave broadcasting among private broadcasters (primarily religious broadcasters). HCJB in Ecuador and FEBA in the Seychelles come to mind–also Christian Vision in Chile. But most of the privately-owned broadcasters seem to be in a status quo situation–not any significant decline, and not any significant growth. Of course you also have to consider the government broadcasters who have privatized their transmitter sites to separate companies, like Babcock, Media Broadcast, MGLOB in Madagascar, Sentech, TDF, etc. In that sense, there has been a great growth in private SW broadcasting, although Media Broadcast has closed a site or two and TDF closed their site in French Guiana (but they both are still very strong shortwave relay sites with lots of clients).”
Most private broadcasting sites were constructed with efficiency and profitability in mind, as compared with many government-funded broadcasting sites, which during the Cold War, built robust and even redundant systems to ensure their radio voice being heard across the planet.
As a case in point, Jeff White’s WRMI is the largest private broadcaster in North America, and one of the largest in the world–but it has much less overhead than, for example, the IBB’s Edward R. Murrow Transmission site in Greenville, North Carolina. According to Jeff White, WRMI sits on 660 acres (one square mile), whereas the IBB site encompasses 2,800 acres (4.4 square miles). While WRMI has more transmitters (fourteen, compared to IBB’s eight) the IBB maintains a larger antenna farm and larger transmitter building, with more employees. In short, the Edward R. Murrow Transmission Site was never designed for efficiency and profitability, whereas WRMI (and its predecessor WYFR) was.
But to be clear, I strongly believe the US should maintain and use the Edward R. Murrow Transmission site; this broadcasting site is simply too valuable a diplomatic resource to abandon. Moreover, in the past 40 years this site has undergone many updates and improvements which allows it to be operated 24/7 by a very small (and efficient) crew of dedicated employees. [Check out my virtual tour of the Edward R. Murrow transmission site to see this remarkable international broadcasting site first hand.]
Another difficulty inherent in private shortwave broadcasting is finding a way to fund it. Shortwave radio is difficult to monetize through promotional ads. After all, private stations typically broadcast to a vast audience; it’s hard to advertise a regional retailer or service when your footprint covers up to a third of the entire planet. And shortwave listeners are often “disenfranchised”; they have no means to purchase products. But conversely, the disadvantage is also an advantage–save the Internet, what media is so widespread–?
Private broadcasters, however, still maintain their services by brokering air-time to paying clients, many of whom have a religious affiliation, and by relaying language services for big government broadcasters who simply purchase transmitter time.
But then there are the mavericks, such as WBCQ in Monticello, Maine. This station is all about free speech, and maintains its site on a shoestring budget. The number and variety of shows they broadcast is nothing short of amazing. Looking at WRMI and WBCQ, it’s clear that government broadcasters could learn from these examples.
[Update: Check out the new commercial shortwave radio station, Global 24, broadcasting via WRMI.]
But is shortwave radio even relevant in the Internet age?
If you read the Shortwave Committee Report Fact Sheet the BBG recently published, you might be led to believe that shortwave should be replaced by more recent communications media. The report marks shortwave radio as a legacy technology, and claims that it is sunsetting with lesser relevancy each year. The BBG committee claims that listeners use mobile technologies and computers to access broadcasters around the globe.
There is some truth in this usage argument. If you randomly surveyed 1,000 people living in, for example, Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, and Singapore, you would likely find very few–perhaps less than 1%–who still listen to shortwave radio. And it’s quite true that people gravitate towards the more accessible medium; in populated parts of the world where people live above the poverty line, you will find the market flooded with smartphones. In such cases, mobile Internet is certainly both financially and technologically accessible.
But although Internet penetration is increasing even in the developing world, it’s vital to note that since the birth of the Internet, invariably, poverty and Internet usage inversely correlate. In evidence, percentages of the global population with Internet access are indicated on this Google map:
Which can be compared with the WorldBank’s interactive poverty map:
Clearly, there is a direct correlation between the two. Hence my charity, Ears To Our World, distributes not smartphones at this point, but radios.
Technological transitions can be difficult to implement. Those who live in the US may remember the recent move from analog terrestrial television to digital television. Once the announcement was made about this transition, consumers had a period of time to either upgrade televisions or buy a subsidized conversion box that helped those televisions receive the new digital signals. Many found this transition, at the very least, awkward.
But now imagine that you live in a developing country on less than one or two US dollars a day, in a village without mains power, and your news source on shortwave has suddenly been removed with only a few days notice. Your alternatives? To listen over the Internet (a service that requires a subscription you can ill afford), or pay-as-you-go access via an Internet café, a half-day’s walk away…Could you save a year’s worth of salary to help pay for an Internet-capable mobile phone that you cannot even charge locally, and then pay a monthly subscription to listen to a broadcast that used to be free over the air? It’s highly doubtful. Suddenly, this “accessible technology” seems much less accessible.
It’s easy to become complacent and assume listeners have access to broadcasting content via the Internet, when decision-makers live in a word where information is not only plentiful and ubiquitous, but even bombards us to the point that we simply tune it out.
But there are other advantages of shortwave radio over Internet–especially in parts of the world where governments tightly control their country’s media:
Shortwave radio cannot be easily monitored by a government. In North Korea, for example, this is why shortwave radio remains a vital lifeline of information about the outside world. Censorship of shortwave radio is comparatively unsuccessful, while the Internet is often subject to total blocking.
Shortwave radio is the ultimate free speech medium, as it has no regard for national borders, nor for whom is in power (or not in power) at any moment.
Shortwave radio is inexpensive to the listener, because:
Radios are affordable and plentiful;
No apps are required, and
No subscription fees are needed.
Information races over shortwaves at the speed of light. No buffering is needed, and there is no speed difference between one area to another.
Shortwave radio works everywhere on the planet. You don’t have to be within a local broadcast footprint or that of a satellite to receive broadcasts. Even in the most impoverished parts of the world, you’ll find shortwave radios and batteries that run them. Their “market penetration” surpasses even that of the smart phone.
Shortwave radio is a basic, simple technology, requiring little to no learning curve for use.
Moreover, only this year we’ve found that shortwave radio may be an excellent means of disaster communications over vast areas, encompassing oceans and continents. Check out this report from the CDAD network.
In addition, Dr. Kim Andrew Elliott of Voice of America has been successfully broadcasting digital messages over a shortwave AM carrier for well over a year, in the form of the VOA Radiogram he produces. These data modes are so efficient, that they can break through even the most robust jamming techniques used by the Chinese government to censor broadcasts.
So, can we stop the decline shortwave radio broadcasting?
Large-scale, government-supported shortwave radio broadcasting experiences an inherent conundrum: those who fund broadcasting do not directly benefit from it. Customers pay for private broadcaster airtime, but taxpayers typically support government broadcasting.
Without the catalyst and fuel of a World War or Cold War, government-supported international broadcasting becomes invisible to those who fund it. Politicians find it easy to cut, as few constituents understand the significance of broadcasting outside their own countries. And why should they? When one lives in a first-world country with an abundance of news sources, it’s hard to relate to those who don’t.
The Canadian taxpayer spent millions of dollars to upgrade the RCI Sackville site so that it could be remotely operated; requiring only a skeleton crew on site. Sackville was closed the same year (2012) these upgrades were brought online.
I experienced this disconnect firsthand while petitioning on behalf of Radio Canada International’s Sackville, New Brunswick transmission site in 2012, in an attempt to prevent the significant site’s closure and dismantlement. Though I spoke with a number of Canadians and even members of Canadian Parliament, more often than not, I found most were not aware of Radio Canada International’s mission nor of shortwave’s relevance. Many had never heard of Radio Canada International. Even members of the public broadcasting advocacy group, Friends of the CBC, had no idea the Canadian government broadcasts to the world via shortwave radio…and that the world was listening–even relying upon–this service.
But Canada is not unique in this respect. Similar views are common here in the US, in much of Europe, and in Asia, and no doubt this lack of awareness is impacting Radio Australia at this very moment.
I’d like to think that if taxpayers knew about the real benefits of shortwave radio broadcasting to those in need, about the vital and even life-saving information broadcasters provide to vast reaches of the developing world, they would support it.
Advice to the listener
If you would like to advocate for the continuation of shortwave broadcasting, contact your local government representative and explain the benefits I’ve outlined. Use social media to spread the word. While I acknowledge that it’s something of a Don Quixote endeavor, it’s nonetheless worth making funders aware that first-world countries may one day regret the loss of this powerful form of outreach and diplomacy.
Advice to broadcasters
Considering that Big Brother can’t easily monitor shortwave radio listeners, and that shortwave radio is usually accessible to even the world’s most impoverished listeners, broadcasters can honorably defend their services to their funders. Moreover, they can use this criteria to help determine when–and where–their broadcasts are vitally needed.
If funders are feeling the pinch, broadcasters may buy time–or even a future–with the services of private broadcasters. The free market economy (and good old-fashioned sponsorship) can keep stations afloat.
But regardless, broadcasters should not dismantle their transmission sites as Canada is currently doing. Not only is the current service originating from these sites a more reliable form of emergency communications than the Internet, should a national disaster befall us; not only do they continue to provide a broad-spectrum mode of diplomacy; but should future digital communication modes find a way to take advantage of the HF spectrum as is now under discussion, this would be most unfortunate.
Imagine a wi-fi signal with a footprint as large as several countries, digital devices with tiny fractal antennas that receive this signal containing rich media (e.g., audio and video)–these are not science fiction, but highly plausible uses of these transmission sites, even within the next decade. [Update: One organization is now using shortwave to distribute their smart phone app and KNL Networks is developing shortwave-powered global Internet access.]
Government broadcasting: a quick way of finding your target audience
So, where does shortwave reach? Take a look at NASA’s composite map of the world at night:
This map offers a quick view of the parts of our planet still quite literally in the dark; what’s more, it makes energy poverty shockingly apparent. Now compare this nighttime world map with the Population Reference Bureau’s most current map:
Upon comparing the two, you will be able to form a vivid picture of populated areas where most people either have no access to power, or simply can’t afford it. East Africa, west Africa, and central Africa are frankly represented. Less noticeable (at least on the NASA map) are impoverished island countries, especially in the Pacific and Caribbean; Haiti, for example, is among these.
So, let’s consider: if basic lighting is too costly for people living in the vast areas these maps indicate, what about paying for–and charging–a smartphone? Obviously, these people still rely upon other means of receiving information, which at this point is radio–primarily FM and shortwave.
Another litmus test for the greater world’s readiness to transition from shortwave radio to phone/Internet technology is as follows. Note which countries lack press freedoms, and free speech, care of the Reporters Without Border’s Press Freedom Index and Map:
This map indicates countries where those in power tightly control news and information, where the Internet is censored, and where shortwave is the only effective means of hearing the outside world. Again, you might notice the prevalence of many east African, west African, and central African countries.
We already know that shortwave radios are in common usage in these countries. But can broadcasters easily and accurately determine listener numbers in these vast, often war-torn areas? Will listeners openly admit to a survey team that they tune in to broadcasts condemned by their respective governments? Not likely. So actual listener numbers remain undetermined, although population alone provides the most useful indicator.
These listeners, kind readers, are the truly disenfranchised of our world. Still, today.
Students in South Sudan listen to their favorite shortwave radio program, VOA Learning English, with a self-powered radio supplied by Ears To Our World.
If we pull the plug on these listeners by removing shortwave radio as an information source, where will they turn? To the Internet?
Let’s assume for a moment that you’re an international broadcaster who has decided to move your content to the Internet. You campaign for and attempt to promote this transition to your listeners, some of whom are living in impoverished areas and/or under repressive regimes (these frequently go hand-in-hand). Do you really think these people can: 1) Afford an Internet service and Internet capable device? 2) Surf anonymously with no chance of their government knowing about the content they research? 3) Ensure that their Internet sources aren’t filtered by their government? 4) Feel confident that their Internet source won’t be turned off at a moment’s notice–?
And none of these points is a stretch. China is the world’s most populous country; it teems with humanity–19% of all of us on this planet live in China. China has excellent Internet penetration…as well as a government that tightly controls and filters this content. I’ve even experienced this firsthand, upon posting an article about China’s Firedrake jamming service which attempts (with only moderate success) to limit shortwave radio in China; within 12 hours, my website received a denial-of-service attack originating in, of course, China. It crippled our website for 24 hours. We had to filter the IP addresses causing the attack, which effectively made it difficult for readers in China to view our site. (China, is regarded as the sixth worst country in terms of press freedoms, according to the Press Freedoms Index). Shortwave can sidestep jamming much more effectively than the Internet can ever hope to overcome such vicious service attacks.
Meanwhile, in Africa…During the last election cycle in Zimbabwe, as some readers may be aware, Robert Mugabe ordered the confiscation of shortwave radios throughout the country. He clearly feared outside news sources like the Voice of America, BBC World Service, and the now-defunct SW Radio Africa. If there was no audience for this information, would Mugabe have gone to such lengths? According to the World Bank, only about 17% of the population of Zimbabwe has access to the Internet (and if you expect this 17% is uniform according to income, you’d be mistaken). The disenfranchised in Zimbabwe, by and large, do not have free and open access to the Internet.
A (modest) positive spin on the decline of shortwave broadcasting
Writing this article has been a cathartic experience for me. In this article, I’ve focused more on the negative implications of shortwave radio’s decline, especially within the humanitarian context. The decline of shortwave radio is a fact I don’t like to face, yet it’s in front of me every day as a humanitarian and as a listener.
But somehow, I’m still an optimist. While others are loudly complaining there’s nothing to listen to on the bands, I’ll be quietly listening to those stations that they don’t realize still exist.
Even as I wrote this column, I was listening to Alcaravan Radio in the wee hours of the morning. Mambo music emanated from Alcaravan’s low-power (1,000 watt) Columbian station. It amazes me that this relatively weak signal punches through the ether during the night and fills my headphones with music. This little signal, and many others like it, play on in the pale glow of shortwave’s apparent “sundowning,” and somehow, this decline is mocked by the cheerful sound.
Radio Alcaravan WSL from 2013 (Click to enlarge)
There are numerous small stations out there like Alcaravan Radio, more than most uninitiated listeners would ever believe. To be clear, though, I would not be able to hear Alcaravan Radio so well if it wasn’t for the fact that I have a good receiver hooked up to a decent wire antenna, and I live in a rural, RFI-free area. I can understand that those living in urban areas with a lot of local noise may get frustrated with the lack of stations to be heard from a portable radio, just as urban light pollution makes it nearly impossible for amateur astronomers to experience the kind of star-gazing their rural friends enjoy. With low RFI, the world opens up on the shortwave bands.
The truth is, I actually do more SWLing now than I did back when the bands were crowded. Why? The challenge has become less about hearing an elusive station through adjacent signal interference, and more about finding those DX stations buried in the static–or waiting for a propagation opening to snag something truly special. With less stations on the air, there is less interference to obscure weaker stations.
As my buddy Dave Richards (AA7EE) recently wrote:
“[T]he silver lining to the cloud is that the new shortwave landscape encourages solely English-speaking listeners to listen outside their immediate comfort zones by listening to broadcasts in other languages. [T]he absence of some of the previously bigger signals makes it a little easier to spot the weak rarities.”
I also enjoy listening to the thriving free radio (aka, pirate radio) scene. Unlike big government broadcasting, this micro-broadcasting is ever changing, growing, and becoming more innovative. (Check out the pirate radio listening primer published earlier this year.)
Yes, variety is still there. For proof, check out some of the recent recordings posted on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. In the past year, I’ve personally recorded hundreds of international broadcasters, pirate radio stations, utility stations, and even numbers stations; this doesn’t even include the many more I’ve logged. And, yes–I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.
Listening to my CommRadio CR-1 while on vacation in Taos, New Mexico
Long Live Shortwave
If you feel so compelled, be an advocate for shortwave radio; it’s something you can do for those who don’t have a voice in this matter. Contact your local representative, and ask him/her to maintain vital transmission sites and world broadcasts. Your voice can make a difference here–and across the planet, too.
And in the meanwhile, regarding the much-talked-of coming demise of shortwave, don’t be discouraged by the naysayers and doomsdayers. Join me in contributing to the Shortwave Archive and the SWLing Post. After all, there’s still much to be heard on the shortwaves. How? Simply by listening.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, International Broadcasting, News, Radio History, Shortwave Radio, Specials and tagged Alcaravan Radio, CRI, Dave Richards AA7EE, Does Shortwave Radio Have a Future, Ears To Our World, ETOW, Global 24, HF, High Frequency, Internet, Is Shortwave Radio Relevant, Is there anything on shortwave?, Is there anything to listen to on shortwave radio?, Kim Elliott, Pirate Radio, RCI, RNW, shortwave, Shortwave Radio, Shortwave Raido, VOA, VOA Radiogram, wbcq, Why Shortwave Radio, why shortwave radio better than internet, WRMI on November 7, 2014 by Thomas.
Shortwave Radio Recordings: Alcaravan Radio
Alcaravan Radio’s antenna site and transmitter house.
Yesterday, August 8, I was able to record Alcaravan Radio out of Puerto Lleras, Columbia. Alcaravan Radio broadcasts domestically on medium wave and also on 5.91 MHZ shortwave, from 23:30-12:00 UTC.
Though typical summer conditions meant for a higher noise levels, Alcaravan’s 1 kW signal still punched through the static and made for pleasant listening. In this recording, I was using the WinRadio Excalibur, but I listened for a couple of hours on the Elad FDM-S2 as well–both did an equally good job while connected to my large sky loop antenna.
To be clear, 1 kW is low output power by international broadcasting standards. Alcaravan Radio was not audible on the Tecsun PL-660 nor the Sony ICF-SW7600GR, though I have heard them on portables in the past during the late fall and winter months. Still, you might be able to snag them on a portable when summer conditions are favorable!
Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below:
Click here to view an Alcaravan Radio QSL and transmitter site images.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, International Broadcasting, Music, News, Recordings, Shortwave Radio, What's On Shortwave and tagged Alcaravan Radio, Alcaravan Radio QSL, Alcaravan Radio Transmitter Site, Podcast, Recordings on August 9, 2014 by Thomas.
Alcaravan Radio QSL and photos of transmitter site
After posting this recording of Alcaravan Radio a few weeks ago, I sent in a reception report to the station–within a day, I received this QSL along with photos of the station’s transmitter and antenna site (see below).
Many thanks to Alcaravan’s QSL manager, Rafael Rodríguez R., for the prompt response! These would have been posted sooner, Rafael, but I’m only now catching up after some extended travel. Enjoy!
Alcaravan Radio’s antenna site and transmitter house. (Click to enlarge)
Alcaravan Radio’s 5,910 kHz transmitter. (Click to enlarge)
Take note that Rafael Rodríguez R. also has a DX blog in Spanish; one I hope you take a moment to visit: http://dxdesdecolombia.blogspot.com/
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, QSL Gallery and tagged Alcaravan Radio, Alcaravan Radio QSL, Alcaravan Radio Transmitter Site, QSL, QSL Card, Rafael Rodríguez R. on April 16, 2013 by Thomas.
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Home » Alumni Leaders » Dunia Karina Padilla Gallegos
What are you leading?
Creadoras, is a social enterprise, which is a school of leadership and entrepreneurship for women and girls. We currently work in Peru, in a community called Arequipa. Our purpose is to educate and empower women and girls to be creators of change. We do this through our educational leadership and entrepreneurship programs that focus on four topics: Leadership, Financial Education, Emotional Intelligence and Entrepreneurship. Currently, we have impacted 1200 women and girls, students, secondary school teachers and adult women. Through this work, we have created a thriving community of women and girls, who are working and learning collectively to create more opportunities and support for one another, to enable each of them to thrive and meet their potential.
How did your experiences as a fellow inspire or prepare you for what you’re doing now?
My experience as a teacher with Enseña Peru was a transformative experience that still impacts the way I work each day. Thanks to this experience I discovered and strengthened my gift to educate and lead. I also realized the extent of gender inequity in Peru and was driven to take action to do something about it with the other leaders, including my students and parents, within the community in which I taught. The community of alumni and the organization - Enseña Peru - continue to be a source of inspiration and learning for me today, and their support gives me the opportunity to continue growing and improving the impact I currently make through leading Creadoras.
Our vision is to create a movement of collective leadership so that more women and girls in Peru receive the education and training they need and deserve to empower them to discover and enhance their abilities. Our impact model generates a significant change in the schools and communities we work in, and we intentionally promote education and continuous empowerment so that our students are creators of change. Like Enseña Peru, we also believe in the power of education and believe in the potential that all empowered women have to create changes in their lives, in their families and in the community.
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Arequipa, Peru
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https://creadoras.pe/
Leadership Journey
Enseña Perú
Masters of Business Law, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Certification as a professional coach from International Coach Federation
Launched Creadoras as CEO and Founder
Recognized as an as emerging leader by the Congress of the Republic of Peru
Teach For All Global Innovation Fellow
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(Corrected some punctuation and grammar to make the text flow a bit better. Also added some extra information to clear ambiguity- have also added a reference to show where I have got this extra information from.)
(Realised my references didn't come out correct on the list so have edited that.)
Translation is a crucial process in the central dogma of molecular biology as DNA makes RNA by transcription and RNA makes protein by translation. Genetic information in DNA is used to code for mRNA which is then used as a template for protein synthesis<ref name="Berg J.M, Tymoczko J.L, Gatto Jr G.J, Stryer L. Biochemistry. 8th Ed, New York: W.H Freeman & Company, a Macmillian Education Imprint. 2015. ">'in DNA is used to code for mRNA which is then used as a template for protein synthesis'</ref>. This is an essential process as proteins are responsible for the vast majority of cell function and structure. Protein synthesis involves [[MRNA|mRNA]] and [[TRNA|tRNA]] along with other [[Proteins|proteins]] and has three main steps:
Translation is a crucial process in the central dogma of molecular biology as DNA makes RNA by transcription and RNA makes protein by translation. Genetic information in DNA is used to code for mRNA which is then used as a template for protein synthesis<ref>Berg J.M, Tymoczko J.L, Gatto Jr G.J, Stryer L. Biochemistry. 8th Ed, New York: W.H Freeman & Company, a Macmillian Education Imprint. 2015.</ref>. This is an essential process as proteins are responsible for the vast majority of cell function and structure. Protein synthesis involves [[MRNA|mRNA]] and [[TRNA|tRNA]] along with other [[Proteins|proteins]] and has three main steps:
#[[DNA replication|DNA replication]]
The genetic code is degenerate as it has 64 codons but only 20 amino acids, therefore most amino acids are coded for by more than one codon. 61 of these codons are used for amino acids, and three are used as stop codons which will terminate translation. Only one codon is used for the amino acid Methionine, and this is often the start codon (AUG).
The [[TRNA|tRNA]] acts as an adaptor molecule to decode the [[MRNA|mRNA]] into the protein byinteracting with the [[MRNA|mRNA]] through its anticodon.The [[TRNA|tRNA]] is also responsible for [[Proof-reading|proof-reading]] the [[Amino acids|amino acid]] chain in order to ensure that the error rate is kept low (less than 1 per 10000). This is done by many [[TRNA|tRNA]] having an editing site as well as an activation (acylation) site. These change or reject [[Amino acids|amino acids]] if they are larger or smaller than they should be- the editing site is involved in cleaving smaller amino acids, and the activation site rejects larger amino acids.
There are three main steps in Prokaryotic translation: Initiation, Elongation and Termination.
=== Elongation: ===
Elongation requires the elongation factors<ref>Stryer, Biochemistry, Seventh edition, 2007: 936</ref> EF-Tu, EF-Ts and EF-G as well as GTP to supply the energy. Elongation describes the process of aminoacyl tRNA molecules binding to the codon at the A site of the ribosome<ref name="Berg J.M, Tymoczko J.L, Gatto Jr G.J, Stryer L. Biochemistry. 8th Ed, New York: W.H Freeman & Company, a Macmillian Education Imprint. 2015. ">'binding to the codon at the A site of the ribosome'</ref>. A [[Peptide bond|peptide bond]] is formed between the amino acid of peptidyl tRNA in the P site and the amino acid of ami tRNA molecule that has just arrived at the A site; the formation of this peptide bond is catalysed by the 23S subunit. The amino acid in the P site is released from its tRNA molecule, and the ribosome moves along to transfer the tRNA currently in the A site into the P site. This step is known as translocation. The uncharged tRNA, i.e. tRNA without an amino acid, moves into the E (empty) site. <ref>http://rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb2/part1/translate.htm</ref>
Elongation requires the elongation factors<ref>Stryer, Biochemistry, Seventh edition, 2007: 936</ref> EF-Tu, EF-Ts and EF-G as well as GTP to supply the energy. Elongation describes the process of aminoacyl tRNA molecules binding to the codon at the A site of the ribosome<ref>Berg J.M, Tymoczko J.L, Gatto Jr G.J, Stryer L. Biochemistry. 8th Ed, New York: W.H Freeman & Company, a Macmillian Education Imprint. 2015.</ref>. A [[Peptide bond|peptide bond]] is formed between the amino acid of peptidyl tRNA in the P site and the amino acid of ami tRNA molecule that has just arrived at the A site; the formation of this peptide bond is catalysed by the 23S subunit. The amino acid in the P site is released from its tRNA molecule, and the ribosome moves along to transfer the tRNA currently in the A site into the P site. This step is known as translocation. The uncharged tRNA, i.e. tRNA without an amino acid, moves into the E (empty) site. <ref>http://rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb2/part1/translate.htm</ref>
#EF-Tu: It will bind to aminoacyl-tRNA in GTP form and then release the aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome when GTP is hydrolysed into GDP.
Translation is a crucial process in the central dogma of molecular biology as DNA makes RNA by transcription and RNA makes protein by translation. Genetic information in DNA is used to code for mRNA which is then used as a template for protein synthesis[1]. This is an essential process as proteins are responsible for the vast majority of cell function and structure. Protein synthesis involves mRNA and tRNA along with other proteins and has three main steps:
Translation is the most complex; it consists of the nucleotide sequence of mRNA being translated into the amino acid sequence of the specific protein. The direction that translation is carried out is very significant; it occurs in the same direction as transcription (5'-3') which results in proteins being produced more efficiently as translation can occur during transcription [2].
The mRNA and tRNA play very important specific roles during translation: firstly mRNA acts as a template for the production of the polypeptide chain from the genetic code. The genetic code has three important features:
Triplet code
Non-overlapping
The tRNA acts as an adaptor molecule to decode the mRNA into the protein byinteracting with the mRNA through its anticodon.The tRNA is also responsible for proof-reading the amino acid chain in order to ensure that the error rate is kept low (less than 1 per 10000). This is done by many tRNA having an editing site as well as an activation (acylation) site. These change or reject amino acids if they are larger or smaller than they should be- the editing site is involved in cleaving smaller amino acids, and the activation site rejects larger amino acids.
1 Initiation:
2 Elongation:
2.1 Elongation factors:
3 Termination:
Initiation:
This involves the initiation factors IF1, IF2, IF3 and GTP which is required for energy.
IF1 and IF3 bind to the free 30S subunit, releasing it from the 50S subunit. IF2 forms a complex with GTP and binds to the 30S subunit, which attaches to an mRNA molecule. mRNA has a ribosome binding site (RBS), which is adjacent to the start codon AUG. The start codon is approximately 7-10 nucleotides away from the RBS. It is important to note that the 30S subunit is complementary to the ribosome binding site, so base pairing can occur with the 16S rRNA. A charged initiator tRNA (fMet-tRNAfmet), then binds to this start codon. IF3 is released, allowing a 50S subunit to bind to the 30S complex to form the 70S initiation complex which has a P (peptidyl) and A (acceptor) site. During this formation, IF1 is released, and both IF2 and GTP are hydrolysed. GTP--> GDP + Pi.
Elongation:
Elongation requires the elongation factors[3] EF-Tu, EF-Ts and EF-G as well as GTP to supply the energy. Elongation describes the process of aminoacyl tRNA molecules binding to the codon at the A site of the ribosome[4]. A peptide bond is formed between the amino acid of peptidyl tRNA in the P site and the amino acid of ami tRNA molecule that has just arrived at the A site; the formation of this peptide bond is catalysed by the 23S subunit. The amino acid in the P site is released from its tRNA molecule, and the ribosome moves along to transfer the tRNA currently in the A site into the P site. This step is known as translocation. The uncharged tRNA, i.e. tRNA without an amino acid, moves into the E (empty) site. [5]
EF-Tu: It will bind to aminoacyl-tRNA in GTP form and then release the aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome when GTP is hydrolysed into GDP.
EF-T: It induces dissociation of GDP in EF-Tu and restores EF-Tu to GTP form enable it to bind to another aminoacyl-tRNA.
EF-G: It enhances translocation by displacing peptidyl-transferase in A-site to P-site of the ribosome.
Elongation factors:
Amongst other proofreading mechanisms in translation, elongation factors are involved mainly in proof reading of amino acid sequences, in the newly forming polypeptide chain. This takes part in 2 ways:
While leading the aminoacyl- tRNA towards the ribosome, theGTP bound elongation factor EF-Tu checks whether the match between the tRNA and the amino acid is correct. The exact details of how this is accomplished isn't clear. However, 1 hypothesis suggests that correct matches between the tRNA and an amino acid has a narrow affinity for EF-Tu. This allows the EF-Tu to selectively choose the correctly matched tRNAs before bringing them to the ribosome.
EF-Tu monitors the initial match between the codon and the anti-codon. When the aminoacyl-tRNA arrives in the A site of the ribosome, the GTP bound EF-Tu allows formation of hydrogen bonding between the mRNA and the tRNA, but bends the aminoacyl-tRNA into a conformation which prevents the interaction between the amino acid and the growing polypeptide chain. This prevents peptide bond from forming. Only when the correct codon-anti codon match is made, the ribosome triggers hydrolysis of GTP on the EF-Tu which releases the tRNA and dissociates from the ribosome. This allows the tRNA in the A site to donate its amino acid, thus peptide bond forms between the newly recruited amino acid and the growing polypeptide chain
A stop codon attaches to the A site, and the newly synthesised polypeptide chain occupies the P site. Proteins called release factors binds to the stop codon, initiating the release of the polypeptide chain which is transferred to the cytoplasm[6]. Several release factors are involved as they recognise different amino acid sequences. These are RF1, RF2 and RF3. RF1 recognises UAA or UAG. RF2 recognises UAA or UGA. RF3 mediates integration between the ribosome and RF1 or RF2. [7]RRF (ribosome release/ rec-cycling factor), EF-G and GTP hydrolysis promotes the dissociation of the ribosome from mRNA so the mRNA can be released[8].
↑ Berg J.M, Tymoczko J.L, Gatto Jr G.J, Stryer L. Biochemistry. 8th Ed, New York: W.H Freeman & Company, a Macmillian Education Imprint. 2015.
↑ Berg et al., 2007:869
↑ Stryer, Biochemistry, Seventh edition, 2007: 936
↑ http://rpi.edu/dept/bcbp/molbiochem/MBWeb/mb2/part1/translate.htm
↑ http://staff.jccc.net/pdecell/proteinsynthesis/translation/steps.html
↑ Jeremy M. Berg; Biochemistry; 7th edition;
↑ Bruce Alberts. Molecular Biology Of The Cell. 5th ed. New York: Garland Science. Page 377
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Team Pimmy gets a new member: Mazzy!!
On August 22, 2011, we got to finally take custody of our newest Pimmy - Susan Esther Mazzy Pimentel. She was waiting for us at the Niyana Care Center in Addis Ababa, and after a day of playing, talking to the nannies to learn her schedule, and a wonderful "goodbye" ceremony, we loaded in to the Holt International van and got to bring her back to the Lucy Land Guest House. It took just 3 days to get her passport and visa all sorted, and we were able to return on Chris' birthday - what a present!
We are so thrilled to welcome home the newest member of Team Pimmy. Her arrival is the result of 18+ months of love and support from you, our friends and family. You wrote recommendation letters for us, watched Dash while we traveled twice to Ethiopia, inspired us with the idea for her name, said prayers for us through every speed bump, and just cheered us along through every step of this very long and complicated process. THANK YOU!!
Mazzy doesn't have a lot of history in Ethiopia or from her birth family, so we wanted her name to reflect her history with our family and the journey that brought us together. Core to that journey are 3 things: FRIENDS, FAMILY & LOVE.
We named her Susan after Susan Nelson Fleiss, our beloved friend who left us far too early this spring. Susan was beautiful inside and out. She was a wonderful, warm, funny, and loyal friend who loved children and family above all else. She was so excited about this adoption, and we will think of her every day looking at our daughter's similarly beautiful smile.
Esther was Laura's grandmother, a very strong and spiritual woman with a huge heart. Esther's understanding of parenting inspired our desire to adopt.
Mazzy is an homage to the way Chris and Laura fell in love - listening to Mazzy Star every night in Maupin at UVA. The first song at our wedding was "Halah" by Mazzy Star...we even tried (with Sanda Balaban and Lev Ginsberg's help) to get Hope Sandoval to play our wedding (she was "too shy" but we love her still). We thank A-E Gaupp, David Iscove and their beautiful daughter for giving us the idea for this nickname for our girl.
As you can see from the pictures, she is a smile machine and just loves to be held and cuddled. We hope you will meet her in person soon!
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PhonePe receives Rs 585.6 cr infusion from parent firm Flipkart
PhonePe has seen its losses mount to Rs 1,904.72 crore in 2018-19 from a loss of Rs 791.03 crore for the year ended March 2018. However, its revenue from operations rose manifold to Rs 184.22 crore in 2018-19 as against Rs 42.79 crore a year ago.PTI | Updated: December 10, 2019, 23:44 IST
Flipkart-owned digital payments company PhonePe has received a fund infusion of about Rs 585.66 crore from its parent firm in another round, according to regulatory filings.
PhonePe Pvt Ltd, Singapore, (formerly Flipkart Payments Pvt Ltd) was allotted 13,81,278 shares and the total amount paid was Rs 585,66,18,720, according to documents sourced by business intelligence platform Tofler.
The company declined to comment on the fund infusion. In July this year, PhonePe had received a fund infusion of about Rs 698 crore from its parent firm.
The latest fund infusion is expected to provide PhonePe more muscle to compete in the burgeoning payments segment in India. It competes against the likes of Paytm, Google Pay, Amazon Pay and others in this space.
Paytm had recently announced a $1 billion (around Rs 7,173 crore) fund raise led by the US-based asset management firm T Rowe Price. Existing investors Alibaba, SoftBank and Discovery Capital had also participated in the funding round.
Digital payments have seen significant growth in India after the government's demonetisation drive in 2016. Players like PhonePe and Paytm have witnessed strong growth in user base as well as transaction value and volumes.
PhonePe has seen its losses mount to Rs 1,904.72 crore in 2018-19 from a loss of Rs 791.03 crore for the year ended March 2018. However, its revenue from operations rose manifold to Rs 184.22 crore in 2018-19 as against Rs 42.79 crore a year ago.
Previously, PhonePe had stated that it had seen 380 million transactions on its platform in August 2019, as compared to 290 million in the month of June. There have also been reports that Flipkart is looking at hiving off PhonePe into a separate entity, a move that would help the payments company raise funds independently.
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You are at:Home»News»Gated communities to get Telkom 8Mbit/s DSL service
Gated communities to get Telkom 8Mbit/s DSL service
By Editor 23 November 2009 No Comments
Telkom has unveiled plans to offer 8Mbit/s service to gated communities such as housing estates. However, there’s still no word on when the service will be available to all Telkom digital subscriber line (DSL) customers.
“We have signed agreements with two partners for our gated community initiative, the benefits of which we expect to start showing in the 2010/11 financial year,” Telkom says in notes accompanying its interim financial results for the six months to 30 September 2009.
“We intend to provide gated communities with speeds of up to 8Mbit/s,” it says.
Telkom adds that is also making “every effort to increase the bandwidth” available to its customers. “We are currently negotiating a triple-play partnership in order to provide our customers with enhanced content.”
Telkom had 602 720 DSL users on its books at the end of September, an increase of 22,6% from a year ago.
Broadband penetration as a percentage of residential post-paid telephone lines is now 17,5%, up from 15,4% a year ago, the company says in notes accompanying its interim results for the six months to 30 September 2009. — Duncan McLeod, TechCentral
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Class Action Repeat: Groupon Sued by Its Own Employees
By Graeme McMillan @graememSept. 12, 2011
Things aren’t going well for Groupon these days. Not only is the daily deals business facing a downturn with Yelp cutting back the frequency of its deal service and Facebook dropping its service altogether, but now Groupon is facing its second class action lawsuit in two months—and this one comes from its own employees.
A lawsuit was filed in Chicago last week by former Groupon salesperson Ranita Dailey that claims that the company owes three years of unpaid overtime to staff, and is therefore in breach of federal and state labor laws.
The lawsuit comes at a bad time for the company, which reportedly lost 50% of its traffic last month and is already facing another class action suit over its use of keyword advertising, filed last month in California.
Groupon had been expected to announce its long-rumored IPO at some point this month, but is now rumored to be considering delaying the announcement, if not abandoning IPO plans altogether. Groupon has yet to comment on either the new lawsuit, or rumors surrounding plans to go public.
(MORE: Groupon Posts $103 Million Loss in Last 3 Months)
Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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PSCU Maintains it Has Not Been Disbanded
Via PSCU Twitter handle
Two days ago, reports surfaced that State House had disbanded the Presidential Strategic Communication Unit (PSCU) and the news caught on like wildfire on social media where they drew mixed reactions
Now the unit has decided to shed light on the matter about the disbandment on through a statement where they set the record straight:
We have noted media speculation about the reported disbandment of the Presidential Strategic Communications Unit (PSCU).Whereas the Unit has faced some challenges in the execution of its mandate, it is working to resolve them. The Unit and its Staff team remain intact and fully committed to their duties. The Unit will continue to improve on the coherency and consistency of messaging in order to keep the public informed of the President’s transformative development agenda.
Nzioka Waita
Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Head of Public Service
Comparing the report that was released earlier and the statement they have given right now, it is clear that they have admitted there are challenges in the execution of its mandate and that they are working to improve on them.
Dennis Itumbi
PSCU
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In Press Releases Posted on October 31st 2019 By Sacha Smith
Wolfville, October 24, 2019: Each year, the Taste of Nova Scotia Awards recognize and celebrate the culinary leaders in Nova Scotia, the people and products that are at the heart of Nova Scotia’s great culinary experiences and successes. The 2019 Award recipients were announced during DEVOUR! The Food Film Fest in Wolfville on October 24, 2019.
“Nova Scotia has a vibrant food and beverage industry and is gaining recognition as a world class culinary destination,” says Emily Haynes, executive director of Taste of Nova Scotia. “We have internationally recognized chefs and restaurants, an award winning wine industry, thriving fisheries, diverse agricultural products, a booming craft beverage industry, endless coastline, rolling farmland, and to top it all off, we have the best people.”
“It’s those people who shape the culinary fabric of our province that we here to celebrate.”
The following Nova Scotia businesses received 2019 Taste of Nova Scotia Awards:
Made With Local (Dartmouth, NS)
Server of the Year
Nancy Shay, The Flying Apron Inn & Cookery (Summerville, NS)
Restaurant of the Year
Founders House Dining & Drinks (Annapolis Royal, NS)
Pet Nat
Benjamin Bridge (Gaspereau, NS)
Gary MacDonald Culinary Ambassador Award
Linda Best & Ann Anderson, Farmworks Investment Co-Operative Ltd. (Wolfville, NS)
“For me, Producer of the Year means the world, because we are so proud to be doing business in a way that is super innovative but also pretty old school,” says Sheena Russell, Founder of Made With Local, which works with local social enterprises such as The Flower Cart, Dartmouth Adult Services Centre (DASC) and Stonehearth Bakery to produce their products. “Our bars are made by hand right here in bakeries in Nova Scotia at organizations that are making a big impact on their communities. Nova Scotia is a huge leader in social entrepreneurship and we’re really grateful to be a part of that.”
Nominations for the Taste of Nova Scotia Awards were received from Taste of Nova Scotia members and the public. The nominations were brought to a judges’ panel and then approved by the Taste of Nova Scotia Board of Directors. These awards are the only province-wide awards that celebrate restaurants, servers, food and beverage producers, exporters, and industry leaders, from Yarmouth to Sydney – and everywhere in between.
For more information about Taste of Nova Scotia and its members visit www.tasteofnovascotia.com.
Videos of winners can be found on the Taste of Nova Scotia YouTube Channel. High resolution photos of winners available upon request.
Sacha Smith
Manager of Membership Services
Phone: (902) 492-9291, ext 112
Email: membership@tasteofnovascotia.com
Website: www.tasteofnovascotia.com
About Taste of Nova Scotia
Taste of Nova Scotia is a unique, province-wide, marketing program whose are committed to offering exceptional local culinary products and experiences. The Taste of Nova Scotia membership base includes more than 200 quality food producers and processors, locally inspired restaurants, and industry members. www.tasteofnovascotia.com
Producer of the Year: Made With Local
Server of the Year: Nancy Shay, The Flying Apron Inn & Cookery
Restaurant of the Year: Founders House Dining & Drinks
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Home Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection Sgt. Curtis Spradling of the LAPD's North Hollywood division looks at stand-out lights, siren
Sgt. Curtis Spradling of the LAPD's North Hollywood division looks at stand-out lights, siren
Title Sgt. Curtis Spradling of the LAPD's North Hollywood division looks at stand-out lights, siren
Photographer Brich, George.
Collection ID Valley Times Collection
Location/Accession HCNVT_d031_f14_i7
Description Photograph caption dated March 2, 1961 reads "Sgt. Curtis Spradling of the LAPD's North Hollywood division looks at stand-out lights, siren." Article describes state-wide measures proposed by Governor Brown to improve traffic enforcement and minimize traffic fatalities.; See images #00126200 through #00126201 for all photos in this series.
Subject Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department--Officials and employees.
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department--Uniforms.
Men--California--Los Angeles.
Police--California--Los Angeles.
Police vehicles--California--Los Angeles.
Traffic police--California--Los Angeles.
Sirens (Signaling devices).
North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Valley Times Collection photographs.
Coverage 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970
Credits This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.; Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends.
Sub-Collection Name Valley Times Photo Collection
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Generous rural power connections far outstrip actual generation
Subscribers suffer for on-again, off-again electricity supply
M Azizur Rahman | Published: October 12, 2017 09:33:18 | Updated: October 24, 2017 02:27:11
Generous power connections through "unplanned" network expansion in the country's rural areas have far outstripped generation, resulting in sporadic outage, sufferers said.
Inadequate and inefficient electricity-transmission system and overload in the countryside also lead to the tripping of electricity lines, they added.
Rural people are very rarely getting the benefit of the increased electricity generation due to unplanned electricity-network expansion and load growth, people familiar with the situation said.
Country's overall electricity generation has almost tripled to around 9,500 megawatts (MW) over the past eight years but supply side in the backwoods didn't improve that much, they observed.
On-again, off-again electricity supply still prevails in the rural areas. And the duration of an outage sometimes lasts several hours at a stretch, consumers alleged.
Businesses in the country's remote areas are bearing the brunt of the inadequate electricity supply, while the household consumers are suffering from scorching heat.
"We are now bound to provide residential electricity connection to any consumer within one working day and industrial connection within 28 days under government's latest directive," a senior official of the state-run Rural Electrification Board (REB) said Tuesday.
The government adopted the policy in mid-2016 aiming to ensure its target of bringing all people under electricity coverage by 2021, he said.
But the REB moved further rapidly to ensure electricity for all under its command areas by 2018, which prompted massive electricity connections in rural areas, said another official, requesting anonymity.
Currently, the number of REB's power consumers is around 20.01 million, which is 75.28 per cent of the national total, Talukder Rume, REB's Press Consultant, told the FE Wednesday.
He said some 16 upazilas across the country, under the REB coverage areas, had already been brought under 100 per cent electrification.
The REB has set a target to bring 162 upazilas under 100 per cent electrification by 2017 and 460 by 2018, reaching the target of ensuring cent-percent electrification in all upazilas under its command much ahead of the government-set timeline up to 2021.
Mr Rume said electricity-supply situation in REB areas around Dhaka is better than in the rural areas.
But mere providing new electricity connections without considering the generation capacity in rural areas is causing frequent power outage and load shedding in rural areas, a senior official of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) told the FE.
The distribution companies are compelled to go for rationing electricity to cope with an increasing demand against limited generation, he added.
Otherwise, he noted, the electricity-transmission system will collapse.
Power supply to some far-flung areas is also hampered due to transmission- system constraint, a senior REB official said.
He said electricity demand in Satkhira area is currently around 81 MWs against the transmission capacity of 64 MWs, which compels REB to shed at least 17MW load.
There are also allegations that despite having de-rated electricity- generation capacity of around 12,922 MWs, country's overall electricity generation hovers around 9,200 megawatts due to inadequate transmission system. And that also contributes to poor electricity supply to rural areas.
But a senior official of the state-run Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Ltd (PGCB) said the country's existing transmission system has sufficient capacity to take the load.
He rather blamed fuel-supply constraints, especially of natural gas, for short supply of electricity.
According to statistics of the state-run BPDB, electricity generation to the tune of 1,537 MWs was hampered only due to gas crisis, as on October 8, he stated.
Petrobangla could not provide 374 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of natural gas to 11 gas-fired power plants, thus halting electricity generation of around 1,615 MWs as on October 9.
The BPDB in its statement, however, does not acknowledge having any load-shedding in any of its total nine zones across the country.
The board claimed that it was supplying electricity to full demand in its nine zones, namely, Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Comilla, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Barisal and Rangpur.
Electricity demands of Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Rajshahi, Comilla, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Barisal and Rangpur were 3,451 MWs, 984 MWs, 907 MWs, 906 MWs, 816 MWs, 607 MWs, 408 MWs, 194 MWs, and 423 MWs respectively as on October 10, as stated by the power board.
When contacted, energy adviser of the Consumers' Association of Bangladesh (CAB) Prof M Shamsul Alam said, "Electricity-supply situation in rural areas is the worst due to unplanned growth in electricity-network expansion and load."
He alleged the government kept the electricity supply 'intentionally' low, resulting in load-shedding in rural areas.
Mr Alam also blamed the state-run distribution companies for not stating electricity scarcity correctly in their respective areas because of the woes of rural electricity.
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mps criticism on sc verdict might have violated law shahdeen
Plea to ensure independence, dignity of judiciary
FE Report | Published: July 12, 2017 09:01:57 | Updated: October 24, 2017 13:11:38
Senior lawyer Shahdeen Malik has said lawmakers might have violated the law by criticising in the legislature the Supreme Court verdict on the 16th amendment to the Constitution.
He was addressing a roundtable discussion on Tuesday where civil society leaders and legal experts called for ensuring independence and dignity of the judiciary for the sake of the country's socio-economic development.
The speakers also pleaded for raising budgetary allocation, appointing capable judges along with transparency in their recruitment and taking necessary steps to restore people's confidence on the judiciary.
The roundtable discussion on 'Independence of the judiciary and things to do' was organised by Shushasoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan), a citizens' platform that advocates good governance, at the National Press Club.
Besides, Shujan's president M Hafizuddin Khan, its secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar, columnist Syed Abul Maksud, Justice Kazi Ebadul Haque, chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers' Association (BELA) Syeda Rizwana Hasan and professor of law at Dhaka University Asif Nazrul attended the function, among others.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shahdeen Malik said the country cannot increase its socio-economic development without ensuring independence of its judiciary system.
"You cannot refer to any developed country in the world whose judiciary is subjugated to any other entities," he said.
Referring to recent discussion in the parliament regarding the Supreme Court's verdict against the 16th amendment the Constitution, he said the lawmakers might have violated law by criticising the Supreme Court in the legislature.
He urged lawmakers to review and analyse their heated discussions at the parliament on Sunday by watching the video footage with the help of YouTube.
He identified poor budget allocation as a key challenge to the desired functioning of the judiciary.
"The less strong the judicial service is, the more will be incidence of violence and anarchy in the country. Such a scenario would hamper economic growth," he said.
The government has reduced allocation for the country's judiciary by Tk 1 billion to Tk 14.23 billion in the ongoing fiscal year (FY) 2017-18 from the previous FY, he noted.
The budget for the Supreme Court has been cut by Tk 20 million to Tk 1.67 billion for the same period.
Mr Shahdeen Malik also underscored the need for framing policy to ensure transparency in selection of judges, prosecutors and attorneys.
Mr Ebadul Haque said the strength of human resources in the country's judiciary now is very low compared to the country's population.
"There are 0.3 million cases pending in the Supreme Court," he said.
Syed Abul Maksud said the status of judiciary is a reflection of the respective countries' politico-economic conditions.
Underscoring the need for judiciary's independence for ensuring the people's right to justice, the columnist said, "The dignity of the judicial system needs to be upheld, besides keeping it free from external forces."
The other speakers said many people in the country believe their freedom is being curbed in many ways. The government must pay attention to this common fear.
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Wednesday 14th August 2019, 1945 Kick Off
Taunton Town FC vs Yate Town FC
The Build Up
It’s August. It’s the beginning of the football season. It’s the height of summer. Which obviously means that the UK is enjoying weather warnings, high winds and more rain than the Amazon. In the midst of this classic British summer, I’ve been down in Cornwall, preparing for my upcoming nuptials, and have taken advantage of the fact to catch a few local (ish) games. Plymouth Argyle dispatched Leyton Orient in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night, before a jaunt up the M5 with my old man on Wednesday to take in Taunton Town’s opening home fixture of the Southern League South campaign.
The Peacocks, formed in 1947, came close to securing a double promotion last season, after cantering to the league title at Step Four in 2017/18. Prior to that, Taunton had suffered so much Play Off heartbreak there are rumours Richard Curtis is planning a film with all the main characters played by Hugh Grant. Play Off failures in three consecutive seasons were ended by that 2018 promotion, before the hoodoo returned last time out, with the Met Police ending Taunton’s hopes in the semi-final. And Chelmsford City fans think they’re bad at Play Offs… One of the most successful non-league sides in the South West, Taunton didn’t really rise to prominence until the early seventies, when a number of Western League titles eventually saw them promoted to the Southern League. They also have cup pedigree, having finished as runners up in the 1994 FA Vase, before going one better in 2001 – beating Berkhamsted Town 2-1 in the final at Villa Park.
Their opponents on Wednesday were Yate Town, who have displayed far more Play Off nous than their hosts, gaining promotion via that means from the Southern League Division One South last season. Formed as Yate Rovers in 1906, The Bluebells were disbanded in the thirties, before being restarted as Yate YMCA, and then eventually assuming the current moniker in 1969. The Gloucestershire-based club spent their early years switching between the Hellenic, Southern, Midland and Western league systems, before eventually being settled in the Southern League, where they first secured Step Three status in 2005. Relegation followed four years later, and Yate Town then spent ten seasons back at Step Four, right up until they defeated Cinderford Town 3-1 in the Play Off Final last season.
However, it wasn’t a welcoming return to the Southern League Premier on the opening weekend, as Yate Town went down hard, at home to fellow promoted side Blackfield & Langley. A 4-1 reversal meant that Paul Britton’s side spent the first Sunday of the season second from bottom, above only… Taunton. Rob Dray’s team also suffered a three goal defeat, this one away to much-fancied Gosport Borough, who have strengthened well over the summer under new manager Lee Molyneaux. That defeat left Taunton bottom of the first league table, but that’s a position they won’t expect to occupy for long – promotion is once again the goal for the Somerset-side.
Taunton Town play their home matches at Wordsworth Drive, a 2,500 capacity season which until this summer was known as the Viridor Stadium. However, a new sponsorship agreement means that for the 2019/20 season, Rob Dray would be leading his side out at the Cygnet Health Care Stadium. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? It’s not quite as good as the famous Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Colorado, but it’s up there.
Taunton averaged a good crowd for Step Three last season, with 682 flocking to watch their side attempt to go up to the National League South. When you get to the ground, it’s easy to see why. With ample parking (£1), and £10 admission (£8 for concessions, free entry for U14s) it’s cheaper than some of their competitors at this level, and the £2.50 programme was well put together. My dad and I got there around an hour early and availed ourselves of the local hospitality – £8 was enough to secure a wedding-suit-risking cheeseburger and chips, washed down with a Pepsi Max (Diet Coke obviously not available…).
Taunton’s pitch was in immaculate condition, probably due in some part to the abundance of precipitation we had experienced recently (and the groundstaff, of course). Thankfully, the rain abated mid-way through our drive to Taunton, meaning that the worst environmental risk at the Cygnet Health Care was the ever present irritant of the post-rain midges. With them – and the Taunton fans – in full force, referee Stuart Kane got proceedings underway.
Almost immediately my preconceptions of the match were blown away, when Yate took a second minute lead through number 8, Luke Spokes, a summer signing from Mangotsfield United. It was so sudden, I actually didn’t see it at all, and so have to rely on Grass Roots Tourist Senior’s version of events. A long ball through – apparently – arrived at the feet of Spokes in the centre of goal, and his first time shot took a deflection, which ended up beating Lloyd Irish and nestling in the bottom corner.
Luke Spokes opens the scoring
In all honesty, I was convinced that this would be an aberration, and that Taunton would pick up where they left of last season, and soon establish themselves on the match, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. This was simply not the same Taunton Town as last season. On seven minutes the visitors created a second opportunity, when a dangerous free kick delivery from the right was headed over the Taunton crossbar.
Mayson Evans clears
Jamie Price sends it long
It was around the quarter of an hour mark that Taunton fashioned their first chance, and it was no surprise that Andrew “Rocky” Neal was at the centre of it. Neal finished the last campaign with 29 goals, finishing third in the Golden Boot race behind Brandon Goodship and Toby Holmes. He was a busy presence up front for Taunton, and his energy deserved better than the end result. On this occasion, he nicked the ball through to Dan Sullivan, but the ball just wouldn’t drop quick enough for him, and his shot sailed high.
Rocky Neal lays it off
Matt Wright and Nick Peare compete
Dan Sullivan and Nick Peare – evenly matched for height
On 20 minutes, a Taunton corner was flicked on at the near post and was half-cleared to Sullivan. His shot was a much cleaner connection this time, and although it beat all the defenders and the ‘keeper, it couldn’t beat Yate’s twelfth man – the post. Clearly Sullivan was frustrated by this, because just a few short minutes he reacted angrily to a challenge by former Wales Universities midfielder Adam Price, and a textbook “3am outside Vodka Revs” shoving match took place, complete with Mr Kane taking on the role of ignored peacemaker. It was getting a little testy, and on 29 minutes Jamie Price was lucky to avoid a booking for a tackle so late it’s been pressed into service as a South West Railways train.
Dan Sullivan shoots
Sullivan and Price square up
With 38 on the clock, Matt Wright almost got to grips with a Shane White corner, but it was squirted wide off the foot of Sam Kamara. The corner which followed came even closer to being converted, as it was half-cleared, only to be scooped into the box by Naby Diallo, who arrived in June from Weston-super-Mare. His cross evaded the whole defence, arriving at the diving head of Rocky Neal, but from an awkward position he could only head over, much to the relief of Adam Forster.
Matt Wright keeps the ball alive
Rocky Neal heads over
Two minutes later, Matt Wright headed over another corner when unchallenged, before Neal forced Forster into a good save on the stroke of half time. He picked up a loose ball ten yards outside the box, and rifled in a drive which Forster did well to parry. Yate Town a goal to the good at the break, but I felt that Taunton could still come out on top. Yate had restricted the Peacocks to half chances and set pieces, but I was sure if Taunton could adjust their style a little they could take the win. An over reliance on Wright’s aerial ability was holding them back in the first half, as Nicholas Peare and Sam Boulton stood up admirably to the test. Wright still won more than he lost, but it was always under serious pressure.
Sam Kamara tackles Dan Sullivan
Rocky Neal plays a pass
However, Taunton didn’t adapt, and instead it was the visitors who came out fired up to improve on their first half performance. Sam Kamara continued where he left off before the break, controlling the game from the position of midfield anchorman. A minute in, Adam Forster picked up a yellow card when he pulled down Neal who caught him possession outside his box, then with 52 played Jake Lee cut in from the right and hit a shot which deflected wide for a corner.
Sam Kamara beats Ed Palmer to the ball
Luke Spokes gets the better of Rocky Neal
Jake Lee shoots
That corner would prove crucial, as it was where the Bluebells doubled their lead, and effectively ended any Taunton Town resistance. The Spokes delivery was right on the money, and at the back post, Nicholas Peare got up highest, marked only by Jake Lee – his own teammate. Peare headed down into the corner, and the gig was up. The club captain’s header was placed exactly where it needed to be, but Rob Dray will be furious with how much space he was afforded.
Nick Peare gets highest
Nick Peare wheels away
Nick Peare and Jack Twyman celebrate Last Chance U style
On sixty minutes a bad day for Taunton took on Daniel Powter-esque proportions as Yate added a third, again from the right boot of Luke Spokes, adding to his earlier goal and assist. With Spokes 35 yards from goal and seemingly no danger, he looked up, and seeing no defenders coming to close him down, unleased an unstoppable dipping, curling shot into the top corner. The finish was the highest moment of quality in the match so far, and Lloyd Irish had no chance.
Luke Spokes shoots
Luke Spokes scores
Luke Spokes celebrates
Yate are fairly chuffed
Five minutes later, substitute Josh Grant had a shot blocked from the right hand side of the box, before left back Lewis Hall headed the rebound goalwards. Having dived for the initial shot, Forster looked out of the picture, but the Hartpury University student recovered excellently to tip the ball over the bar.
Wright and Peare compete
Rocky Neal attacks the defence
Forster tips over from Hall
Then, on 68 minutes, as Taunton sought desperately to get back into the match, Rocky Neal worked a half chance on the left. His shot deflected into the ground off the foot of the covering defender, taking it past Forster. It bounced agonisingly towards the line, clipped the post, and then was hacked clear by a grateful Yate player. It felt then that Taunton could play until Boris Johnson makes a sensible suggestion and still not score – whenever they did make it into a goalscoring position, a combination of luck and backs to the wall defending stopped them.
Adam Forster
Rocky Neal shoots
With twenty minutes left, Taunton came the closest they had yet, when Shane White connected with a corner, but saw his header cleared off the line. Taunton had been effective from set pieces (that was about all they were effective from), but when they finally beat Forster and the post, Yate had a man spare on the goalline, and maintained their clean sheet.
Shane White’s header is cleared off the line
On 73 minutes Olly Chamberlain took a snapshot from range which Forster held easily, and then of 89 minutes James Ollis – off the bench – scored almost an exact replica of Spokes’ earlier shot, to get the Bath City loannee off the mark for Yate Town. Four nil, and hard earned for Yate Town, but the Taunton players looked like they couldn’t wait to just start again on Saturday.
A fairly threaders Matt Wright
James Ollis celebrates the fourth
Yate players leave the field after a job well done
The Wash Up
I don’t think many of the 545 in attendance would have predicted that result pre-match, and I suspect that lumping on a 4-0 victory for the Bluebells would have netted you a healthy profit at the bookies. That said, it was well-deserved. Complaints by Taunton fans of time-wasting fall on deaf ears when a team runs out winners by a four goal margin, and in all honesty, a better side than Yate would probably have taken them for double that.
Sam Boulton clears
Neal and Peare scrap for possession
That’s not to take anything away from the visitors – they earned that victory, and will comfortably be safe come the end of the season if they can repeat that intensity and clinical counter-attacking. They came up a Taunton Town outfit in serious need of substantial improvement, and they took full advantage. With the exception of the ever-busy Matt Wright and Rocky Neal, it’s difficult to pick out any of the Taunton players for praise, with the Peacocks lacking in energy and creativity from start to finish. Rob Dray needs to do some thinking, and fast, because another two to three weeks of this and they’ll be out of the running before we even reach October. Crucial to that will be getting Ryan Brett up to speed, because the midfield was non-existent in this match.
Matt Wright holds the ball up
Rocky Neal wins a tackle
As for the visitors, there were nine out ten performances right across the pitch. They were fitter, and looked to get stronger as the match went on. The packed defence was resolute, and despite Wright’s typically combative performance, he got very little change out of Nicholas Peare. When Taunton did manage to threaten, they found Adam Forster in inspired form – but the two stars of the performance were Luke Spokes and Sam Kamara. Spokes opened the scoring, and added to the rout with a stunning right footed curler from range, whilst Kamara controlled everything from the base of midfield. A similar height to Claude Makelele, he played that role as well as you’ll see it done at Step Three – always available, always ready to disrupt the play, and always with the technique to retain possession. Kamara was the metronome on which Yate’s performance was built, and a deserved recipient of my first Man of the Match award of the nonleague season.
Sam Kamara
Luke Spokes
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Tips for Riding Eurostar with Kids
England, France / May 28, 2019 by Allison / Leave a Comment
Planning a trip to Europe?
After we booked flights to Paris last summer, we decided to divide our time between Paris and London. Eurostar made it easy and affordable for our family.
Eurostar is a high speed train that connects London, Paris and Brussels. You can also use it to reach, Amsterdam, Marseilles, Bruges, and other cities in France, England, Belgium and Netherlands.
We landed in Paris, and then traveled straight to London under the English Channel on Eurostar. After a week in London, we traveled back to Paris on Eurostar and spent another week before flying home. I cherish so many memories of this trip with my family.
Here's what to expect on Eurostar, with tips for making the most of your time and money.
Buy Early
Eurostar tickets go up in price as you get closer to your departure date, and you can buy up to 180 days in advance. Tickets are exchangeable for a fee, but not refundable.
We purchased our Eurostar tickets four months in advance, right after we booked our flights. We paid $364 for four round trip tickets. If you wait too long, you could pay that much for one ticket.
There are three classes of ticket on Eurostar: Standard, Standard Premier and Business Premier. Youth (ages 12-25) and Children (ages 0-11) get discounted fare. Infants under age 4 can ride on your lap for free.
We chose Standard, and were happy with our choice. The seats were comfortable and we had adequate space. We were fine without the services offered in the more expensive seats – like food, late arrival, extra luggage and extra space.
You may find that tickets for weekdays or Saturday afternoons are less expensive than trains timed for weekend getaways. Eurostar occasionally offers deals and sales. Check www.eurostar.com or subscribe to Eurostar's email newsletter to stay in the know.
Related: How We Found Cheap Flights to Paris
Give Yourself Lots of Time
Our flight to Paris was scheduled to land at 9 AM. I scheduled our Eurostar tickets to London for 1 PM. Theoretically, that gave us plenty of time to get off the plane, find fast food, make the one-hour trip from the airport to the train station and get through security by 12:30 PM.
Four hours from airport to Eurostar was enough time, but just barely. Our plane landed 30 minutes late, and then it took extra time every step of the way because it was all new to us. We waited in a 30-minute line at Eurostar security.
Aim to arrive 45-60 minutes before your departure time. You may not be allowed through the gate if you arrive less than 30 minutes before departure.
Related: Tips for Using Public Transportation in Paris
We took public transportation from Paris' Orly airport to the Eurostar station at Gare du Nord, and it worked well. Gare du Nord is a huge transportation hub in Paris. From the subway platforms, go up to street level to find the Eurostar platform.
In London, Eurostar is at St. Pancras International. Connect with Underground trains across the street at Kings Cross Station.
Taxis or Uber may save you money when you are traveling as a family. It cost my family of four $57 to ride public transportation from Orly to Gare du Nord. It only cost $27 to Uber from our Paris apartment to Orly. The distance was different, but it's not necessarily less expensive for a family to use public transit.
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Each Adult and Youth (ages 12+) can take two suitcases and one personal bag onto Eurostar. Children (ages 0-11) can take one suitcase and one personal bag. A Business Premier ticket allows three suitcases.
We carried our suitcases onto the train and stored them on luggage racks near the entrance or over our seats. We packed one rolling carry-on bag and one small backpack per person. It carried all our essentials, and was easy to carry from car to plane to train to taxi on this trip.
Related: Tips for Choosing Luggage for Europe
What to Expect at the Station
Expect to pass through airport-style security and customs. We didn't have to take off our shoes or throw away liquids.
Have your passports and customs forms ready. Keep handy the address of your lodging at your destination, and other itinerary info. You may find separate lines for EU citizens and non-EU citizens. The line for non-EU was much longer in Paris.
Gare du Nord and St. Pancras are large stations with lots of services, including dining and shopping. This can be a fun way to pass the time if you arrive at the station with time to spare. You may have to wait to clear security if you arrive too early. This happened to us in London.
You can take food and drinks onto the train, and you'll have more options for purchasing them outside of security than inside. You can purchase food on the train.
Public restrooms can be tricky in Paris and London. You may want to wait until you're through security or on the train. I used a public restroom inside the security checkpoint at St. Pancras and it was OK. There are also restrooms on the train.
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What to Expect on the Train
You can select seats or be automatically assigned seats after you purchase your tickets. Log in to your Eurostar account to select seats.
Some seats face forward in sets of two, like on a bus or airplane. Our group of four Standard seats faced each other with a narrow table in between. We loved this arrangement, and were assigned seats like this both ways.
The trip from London to Paris and vice versa takes about 2 1/2 hours.
Eurostar trains have free WiFi, but we found it to be unreliable – especially in the Chunnel. There is an onboard entertainment app with children's programming you can try. Our seats did not have charging ports.
Changing tables for infants are available on the train.
Our Eurostar train had big windows that allowed us to watch the scenery go by when we were above ground. Overall, we had a comfortable and relaxing ride.
What to Do When You Arrive
Presumably, you'll want to go to your hotel to check in and drop off your luggage. Three good ways to get there are taxi, Uber and public transportation.
Normally, public transportation and Uber are my first two choices because they are generally convenient and less expensive. However, we chose to take a taxi after arriving in both Paris and London for these reasons.
Convenience – There was a line of taxis at the curb, ready to take us straight to our hotel/apartment. London and Paris taxis take credit cards.
Cost – Taxis are not necessarily less expensive than public transportation for a family of four.
By the time we arrived in London, we had been in transit for three straight days. Our hotel was a few blocks from an Underground station. I didn't want to wander around with all our luggage trying to connect with an Uber or figuring out tickets and routes on the Underground. Taking a taxi was a no-brainer.
Related: Our Review of Travelodge London Covent Garden
Bring Your Own Food
You can bring your own food on board Eurostar. We picked up Tesco Meal Deals for £3 each before we left London.
You can purchase sandwiches and drinks on board, and you can purchase food beyond the security checkpoint in major cities before you leave, but options are limited.
Children's meals are sold on board. Baby food is not sold, but cafe staff on the train will warm up baby food or bottles for you.
Related: Why We Loved the Tesco Meal Deal
Ticket Benefits
Your Eurostar ticket will get you 2-for-1 admission at museums in Paris, London, Brussels and Lille. We used this when we saw Monet's Water Lilies at Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. Kids under age 18 get in free, so we just paid for one adult admission with our Eurostar ticket.
Visit https://www.eurostar.com/us-en/deals to learn more about 2-for-1 admission and other offers.
Eurostar made it easy for my family to visit both Paris and London on our first European trip. Be sure to buy your tickets early and arrive well in advance of your departure time. I hope these tips have helped you plan a great trip.
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Victim of weekend attack receives outpouring of support
Home|Feature Story|Victim of weekend attack receives outpouring of support
SHERIDAN — Clayton Denny set out by bike Saturday to shoot nighttime photos and stop for a beer at the Beaver Creek Saloon on the way home. He wound up in the emergency room with his eyes swollen shut, a broken bone in his face and a severe concussion.
Police arrested two suspects Thursday afternoon in connection with the attack on Denny: Dylan Dygert, 21, and Jacob Robert Olson, 26. Both have been charged with aggravated battery, a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Dygert and Olson are expected to make their initial appearances in Sheridan County Circuit Court Friday afternoon.
Lt. Tom Ringley, of the Sheridan Police Department, said that there is currently no probable cause to charge the suspects under federal hate crime laws, but that the Sheridan County Attorney’s Office will ultimately determine the charges.
The Sheridan Police Department investigation is ongoing.
Denny, 25, is half African-American and half Chippewa and Cree. A native of Billings, Montana, Denny served five years in the Marines and is now studying at Sheridan College to eventually pursue a bachelor’s in exercise science.
Speculation on social media is rampant about what happened and how, but Denny declined to discuss details of the night, citing the ongoing investigation.
What he would say is that he’d visited with his mother earlier Saturday for a quick, pre-Mother’s Day stop on her way through town. She works for the Veterans Affairs outreach clinic in Havre, Montana, and was traveling to a VA clinic in Oklahoma for work.
Then later that night, eager to practice his photography skills — a growing hobby — Denny set out with his camera to shoot photos. He wanted pictures of Sheridan, since he and his girlfriend Annie Shaver plan to return to Billings soon for Denny to pursue a bachelor’s.
But Denny doesn’t need to discuss the incident to show what it’s done to him.
All of his injuries are to his head, except for a few scratches on his body where he hit the ground.
Six staples and more than 20 stitches hold together the skin on his scalp and face. The whites of Denny’s eyes are now bright red, as blood has pooled. The left orbital, a face bone just below the eye socket, is fractured and will require surgery.
Denny’s been on bed rest since the attack, having left the house just once for a doctor appointment.
Shaver said they keep their doors locked now, even during daylight hours. Shaver, a nurse, knows how to function in high-stress situations, but she said after a week, the “disgusting” event is becoming real to her.
“It’s finally just starting to set in — the severity of it,” she said.
Shaver and Denny both noted the outpouring of support they’ve seen from friends, coworkers and others. People have brought the couple so much food they can’t fit it all in the fridge. The lawn has been mowed, and two representatives from the Sheridan College Veterans Services Office came by in person to deliver a check to help cover the bills.
This brought Shaver to tears, Denny said. And he would have cried, too, if it didn’t hurt.
“I do want people to know that the community of Sheridan has been awesome,” Denny said. “We’ve had people stopping by all weekend and all week, just saying, you know— giving their condolences and helping us out.”
Denny does not have medical insurance, and he is, of course, unable to return to work immediately as a personal trainer at The Body Shop Tan & Tone. Shaver, a nurse, is also taking time off temporarily.
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The Top Selling Skincare Products You Can Buy on Amazon
By Sophie Wirt | December 6, 2018
We’re guilty of meandering through the skincare aisle, grabbing the first flashy packaging that catches our attention, and merely hoping the product is as effective as it is pretty. There’s a time and a place for that, but if you’d rather beeline for reliable, time-tested formulas, Amazon can be a goldmine. That’s thanks in part to a bevy of passionate reviewers and a foolproof, five-star rating system. Below, ten of the buzziest, best-selling skincare products on Amazon to date.
The CosRX® Acne Pimple Master Patches ($5) are basically high tech zit cream… without any cream (and the potential for them smearing on your pillow). Rather, these little circular appliques stay put over zits, where they reduce redness, absorb fluid, and protect blemishes from additional bacteria. The packet contains three different sizes of stickers, so there’s no pimple too big (or too small) that can’t be conquered.
In the realm of skin-brightening ingredients, vitamin C is one of the most revered. Many serums containing the ingredient skew expensive, but this one from TruSkin Naturals® is a mere $20. What’s more, it’s laced with hydrating hyaluronic acid for an extra dose of glow.
Cetaphil® is one of the most beloved brands among dermatologists — and among Amazon shoppers — for good reason. The Pro Eczema Soothing Moisturizer ($16) is one of many of the brand’s ultra-calming lotions. Specifically, it contains moisture-attracting humectants and one percent colloidal oatmeal. This one has rave reviews, especially from people with eczema.
The first thing you’ll notice about the LilyAna Naturals® Retinol Cream Moisturizer ($20) is its adorable packaging. Use it over time, though, and you’ll notice significantly smoother skin. (Just ask the over 3,000 reviewers who swear by the stuff.)
Most skincare fanatics would agree that Aztec Secret® Indian Healing Clay ($11) is one of (if not the top) cult classic product on Amazon. Many reviews hail this powder-to-clay formulas as their holy grail for clearing up acne and shrinking the appearance of pores. What’s more, a little bit goes a long way, so a single tub can last ages.
The CeraVe® Moisturizing Cream Daily Face and Body Moisturizer for Dry Skin ($9) makes a case for one-and-done skincare products. Post-shower, slather the ultra-soothing formula from head to toe for full-body softness, thanks to its barrier-protecting ceramides. (Just don’t forget to layer SPF on top!)
Rifle through a few makeup artist’s kits and you’re bound to fish out a pack of Neutrogena® Makeup Removing Wipes ($7). According to elated reviewers (and Spotlyte editors alike), these cloths remove even the most stubborn eye makeup without stinging or leaving a greasy residue.
The Aveeno® Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion with Soothing Oat ($9) strikes the ultimate balance between nourishing and non-greasy. The star ingredient, colloidal oatmeal, is proven to soothe winter-stricken and/or eczema-prone skin. Used daily, it imparts a healthy-looking glow even on dry winter skin.
Aquaphor® Healing Ointment ($12) may not be the luxurious product on Amazon, but it’s certainly one of the most popular (and nourishing!). In addition to protecting chapped lips against the elements, this ointment can also help seal minor cuts, burns, and cracked skin.
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FATAH: The Cross vs. the Crescent in Europe
Updated: June 15, 2018 3:15 PM EDT
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has threatened “a war between the cross and the crescent” in a speech more befitting an Ottoman Sultan bellowing hot air outside the Gates of Vienna in 1683 than the Europe of today.
The Turkish dictator was reacting to a decision last Friday by Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz to shut down several mosques in the country and expel Islamic clerics. Kurz warned that Austria “can’t abide ‘parallel societies’ and radical Islam.”
The decision by the Austrian Chancellor met widespread support in the country with even the opposition centre-left Social Democrats calling it “the first sensible thing this government’s done.”
Austrians do not have pleasant memories of previous waves of Muslims who came knocking; first in the 1529 Siege of Vienna and then 150 years later in a war that culminated in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.
The decision by Austria to expel Islamic clerics came in the shadow of other European nations taking actions to reflect widespread resentment at the refusal by many Muslims to integrate into European culture and embrace European values.
A week before the Austrians acted, Denmark banned the Islamic burqa and niqab in schools followed by neighbouring Norway announcing it will do the same. France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Bulgaria have similar laws in place.
Elaborating on Denmark’s decision, Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said, “Everyone agrees that burka is an expression of extreme oppression,” adding that there was now a “vast majority” in parliament who believes face coverings should be banned.
In France the murder of an elderly Jewish woman by an Islamist triggered widespread anger with a proposal by some of France’s most prominent figures to change the Quran.
A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21 was signed by 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls. It argued that the Quran incites violence, and that “verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers be struck to obsolescence by religious authorities,” so that “no believer can refer to a sacred text to commit a crime.”
No longer could mainstream media label the rejection of political Islam and its misogynist practices as a phenomenon of ‘populism’ or right-wing racism. With social democrats and even communists rejecting the burka, the circle was complete in Europe. In Italy, the Left and the Right got together to form a government that said, “no more Muslims,” but not in as many words.
And if there was any doubt among Canadian Muslims about Islamists generating general discomfort, if not anger and hostility towards the rest of us ordinary Muslims, we should look at the Ontario election results of June 7.
In Canada, some messages are subtle and unspoken. Of the 31 Muslims who ran on the ticket of various parties, only three got elected. A dismal outcome when compared with say the Sikh community where 16 men and women ran to produce five MPPs.
Let’s abandon the Mullahs and reject the Islamists who have an agenda rooted in supremacism and world domination. Let’s do this before the Gates of Vienna descend on us too. Let us Muslims ask Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford to ban the burka before another restaurant is hit or a bank is robbed.
If other Muslims don’t, here is my plea to the new premier: Please learn from Denmark, Norway, France, Austria and next-door Quebec. Do us Muslims a favour and ban the burqa forever.
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Tags: Featured, Geronimo Allison, Geronimo Allison, Green Bay Packers, Jordy Nelson, Jordy Nelson, Oakland Raiders
Jordy Nelson vs. Geronimo Allison
Joseph Bonham October 5, 2018
That’s what its come down to. Who would you rather have? Jordy Nelson or Geronimo Allison?
The Green Bay Packers made their decision when they released Nelson this past offseason. It wasn’t a one-or-the-other proposition, though. The Packers could have kept both receivers.
Allison is making a meager $630,000 this year. He’ll be a restricted free agent after the season, so the Packers essentially control his rights. Nelson’s deal averaged around $10 million per season. If the Packers had kept him, this would have been the final year of that contract.
We understand why the Packers made the move to release Nelson. He’s 33 and on the backside of his career. He wasn’t productive in 2017, catching 53 balls for 482 yards. And, they wanted to give Allison an opportunity to move up and contribute.
In making the move, general manager Brian Gutekunst was following the Bill Walsh ideal — I’m going to get rid of you before you become a bad player. It doesn’t matter who you are. The 49ers jettisoned a number of great players from those Walsh teams — Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Ronnie Lott, to name a few. Those guys all went on to play for other teams and have success.
In Allison, the Packers have a receiver who’s both young (24) and cheap. Much like Nelson was, Allison is considered one of the hardest working guys on the team.
With the recent spate of injuries at the receiver position, a lot of people have been jumping on the Packers for releasing Nelson. And yes, they could have kept him, but they didn’t, so let’s move on.
What this really comes down to is looking at the season so far for both guys.
Interestingly, Nelson and Allison are pretty even.
Allison has 19 catches for 289 yards and two touchdowns. Nelson has 16 catches for 274 yards and two touchdowns.
Allison is averaging 15.2 per catch, with a long of 64. Nelson is averaging 17.1 per catch, with a long of 66 — the old man can obviously still stretch the field.
It doesn’t really get anymore even than that.
The thing is, Nelson’s numbers were largely put up in one game. Against Miami, Nelson had six catches for 173 yards and a touchdown. In the other three games, his high in receiving yards was 48.
Allison has been more consistent. His receiving yards by game — 69, 64, 76 and 80.
If you had to pick one, who would you take?
It makes a lot of sense to go with young, cheap and consistent.
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PF4L October 5, 2018
With all due respect Joseph, can we just move on about Jordy Nelson? He’s not here anymore, it doesn’t matter.
Ok, you like him, he we was good before he slowed down and lost it when Rodgers got hurt, we get it.
Each week some wise guy has to chime in here about Nelson, and frankly, myself, and some others in here, we are getting damn tired of reading about it.
Normally…..i would be counterpointing the facts and unspoken intangibles and variables about this article, not to mention the very premise of it, but i, along with others are fed up with this shit. So let it be known, i am done with this subject 100%, never to be brought up again.
Unless of course, i can’t help myself and comment later in here.
Deepsky October 5, 2018
The Packers have only $2 million left in salary cap space after signing Rodgers to the largest NFL contract in history (he’s 13th in QB rating) . How could they have kept Nelson?
Kato….Can you take that one?
Howard October 5, 2018
Or you could look at another way.
There is a good chance Randall Cobb will not be around after this season unless he takes way less in salary. By cutting Randall the Packers would have saved about 9.5 million in cap. That would have been about the same savings as cutting Jordy. Jordy also said he would have taken less to stay with the Packers but not the obscene offer the Packers tendered. So it is possible the Packers could have saved more in cap by cutting Randall and being reasonable in a offer to Jordy.
To hell with that though. I want the better receivers. So if we are going to look at it as Joseph has let’s pick the best two receivers to date.
Cobb: 27 targets, 17 receptions, 63% catch rate, 194 total yards, 11.4 yards per catch, 7.2 yards per target.
Jordy: 24 targets, 16 receptions, 66.7% catch rate, 274 total yards, 17.13 yards per catch, 11.42 yards per target.
Allison: 29 targets, 19 receptions, 65.5% catch rate, 289 total yards, 15.21 yards per catch, 9.97 yards per target.
It appears to me Cobb has the lowest catch rate %, the lowest total yards, the lowest yards per catch, and the lowest yards per target of the three.
So it appears using Joseph’s reasoning you could have kept young and cheap (Allison) and Jordy over Cobb and come out at least the same if not better salary cap wise and for sure better production wise.
I guess we will see how the rest of the season progresses.
Ok Howard, i’m with you, except for a few points that are seriously relevant, that not many have brought up. So i will.
One thing you have to keep in mind in comparing those 3 head to head is that Cobb and Allison didn’t go anywhere, they don’t have a new team, a new QB, a new system. Jordy basically had to go to no mans land and start over. Also, he went to a 6-10 team. Carr is not Rodgers and i highly doubt that Nelson and Carr come close to the rapport that Rodgers had with Nelson.
I knew when the Raiders signed Nelson, that Nelson wouldn’t have the success he had in Green Bay, for the reasons i stated above.
No other combo has had the production that Nelson and Rodgers had together, including Adams, keep in mind Nelson missed the 2015 season. All Rodgers and Nelson did together was score touchdowns at a unbelievable pace that most QB/WR combos can only dream about. When did that stop?….the moment Rodgers broke his collarbone. Nelson had 6 td passes in the 1st 5 games of last season. That’s a record setting pace. People don’t seem to get it. Not to mention Jordy led the NFL in td’s the season before. (2016).
The biggest difference with Nelson now, compared to playing with Hundley last season, is Carr isn’t throwing quick outs to Nelson 3 yards behind the line of scrimmage. McTriple had Hundley do that so Hundley can dump off the ball before doing anything stupid. To me, anyone judging Nelson’s performance with Hundley at QB requires a special kind of stupid.
I just reject the premise of “whose the better receivers of the 3 NOW. Not exactly the same circumstances even though Nelson’s numbers are fine, especially considering circumstances. Nelsons on pace to catch 1,100 yards that alone says something. Adams has never done and Cobb hasn’t done that for 4 years, and i think only did it once.
I guess we can argue and debate the facts, but at the end of the day, this offense is never the same when Nelsons not in it, and that should end the discussion for obvious reasons. If Nelson was still with the Packers, are we even having this conversation?
Cheese October 5, 2018
“I’m going to get rid of you before you become a bad player.”
Lol, if that’s the case then I can give you a list of guys that should have been gone years ago.
Yea, isn’t that the truth. A long list.
SP October 5, 2018
The real question is should we have released Jordy or Cobb and the answer is clear. Could have moved Jordy into the slot for next to league minimum, and dumped the forever injured, overpaid Cobb.
Monty McMahon October 5, 2018
Frankly, I would agree. Jordy, at this point in his career, is made for the slot. And Cobb is injured every year.
Savage57 October 6, 2018
It was telling when the Raiders needed a two point conversion to tie the game and go to OT, they threw it up to Jordy and said go get it. And so he did.
The day they cornholed Jordy I knew it was wrong, still know it, but will wait patiently for Mr. Glass to return to the field and bring his 600 yards and 6 TD’s per season back to the Pack.
The last time Cobb has seen 6 TD’s was back in 2015. Or…..when he watched Nelson catch 6 TD’s in the 1st 5 games last season.
Sorry Kato.
Cindi October 7, 2018
Important to note Jordy’s stats aren’t with Rodgers as QB…and Carr is throwing to Nelson less than 4 times a game. Kind of puts those “even” numbers into perspective.
MrPoon October 8, 2018
Whay a moronic organization! You let Jordy walk and keep that slow stiff Geronimo Allison. On top of that you get rid of athletic freak Jeff Janis who could have been a superstar! Hard to believe hiw that guy was treated. Have fun with the bed you made.
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Donald Trump lashes out against Snoop Dogg with no sense of irony
Donald Trump: Grow Up | National Review - nationalreview.com
The latest celebrity attack by Donald Trump is on Snoop Dogg, with no sense of irony, Trump Tweeted against the violence depicted in his latest video.
by Matthew Clifton
15 March 2017 14:46 15 March 2017 14:46
Donald Trump has yet again taken to Twitter to rant at another celebrity, who was outspoken against him. Snoop Dogg’s recent music video has caused controversy after the rapper ‘shoots’ Donald Trump with a plastic gun that has a bang flag pop out, during his recent music video. Naturally this could be inciting Violence against a public figure, except there has been many instances of this kind of imagery used in the past.
Irrespective of the rights and wrongs. Focusing on Donald Trump and remembering highly divisive presidential campaign where he mocked a disabled journalist, audio emerged of his ingrained sexism plus many more xenophobic and prejudice soundbites.
Trump fails with irony
The Trump team, particularly Donald Trump himself, seem to have short memory of what he has done throughout his campaign to become President of the United States (POTUS). The irony of the Tweet below is staggering and this has not gone unnoticed either.
Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2017
Worrying trend of irony
The Trump campaign was full sexist, misogynistic, prejudice, xenophobic and racist remarks.
But as clear anti-violent man, he would never approve of or use language that could cause harm onto those who are innocent? Unfortunately, he is exactly that kind of person and on many occasions during his rallies, he actively encouraged violence from his supporters.
A campaign rally in Kansas City, a protester tried storm the stage and after Trump said he would have fought the person and after miming punching him multiple times he mouthed “I’ll beat the crap out of you.” Demonstrators interrupted a rally in St Louis, Missouri but after security removed them he bemoaned the fact that people do not want to hurt each other anymore by saying “You know, part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore, right?"
The trend continued throughout his campaign after several protests and his rallies, he used his platform to say that they don’t get treated ‘rough enough’ and after someone in his crowd did fight back, he stated "The audience hit back.
That's what we need a little bit more of." He has previously said that he would defend those who did ‘hit back’ in court and after supporters attacked a Black Lives Matter protester, Trump said that he should have been ‘roughed up’ and that he ‘deserved it.’
These are all examples of occasions that Trump has incited violence within the public, however, supporters could make the argument that it was never against a public figure.
Except this is not true in any sense of the word. If you cast your minds back to this statement “If she [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.”
Trump is dangerous
Violence is never an answer and whilst Snoop Dogg’s video is not great, Donald Trump has been far worse in vocally supporting violence on his side.
He has directly told people to be violent with scuffles and fights often breaking out at his rallies during the presidential campaign. Whilst he never directly said that his supporters should ‘assassinate’ Hillary Clinton, he insinuated the idea which is far more dangerous.
Matthew Clifton
Research columnist and Senior Blaster with BN who specialises in history and foreign policy (in particular western involvement in the Middle East). Creator of Naturally Unnatural, however, I have had to take an extended break from updating it, due to an increase in workload elsewhere.
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