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Greek government agrees to lift retirement age to 67
Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (R) leaves his office after a meeting with the government's coalition party leaders in Athens September 20, 2012. REUTERS/John Kolesidis
ATHENS (Reuters) - The Greek finance ministry agreed with officials from the international “troika” to raise the retirement age by two years to 67, a government official said early on Friday.
The move to raise the retirement age to 67, a potent symbol that will bring the Greek pension limit into line with creditor countries including Germany, will result in savings of around 1.1 billion euros (880 million pounds) as part of a broader package of cuts and savings.
The official was speaking on condition of anonymity after talks that went on into the early hours with the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank team.
Doubts over betting monopoly weigh on Greek OPAP sale
Commerzbank CEO sees further Greek debt haircut
Reporting By Harry Papachristou
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It is not uncommon that myths about metric usage abroad are used as justifications for keeping imperial in the UK.
On the continent, markets use imperial pounds.
In several languages a half kilogram is nicknamed a ‘pound’ however this still means they are using grams and kilograms. Read more
Even metric nations use non-metric units.
Non-metric units are used rarely in specialised sectors. Read more
The United States uses imperial units.
US customary measures overlap with imperial but are not identical. Read more
The United States does not use metric.
The US has made some limited progress in adopting metric. Read more
Other countries have not criminalised the use of imperial units.
It is normal for countries to have penalties for using non-legal units. This applies to imperial units where they are non-legal. Read more
On the continent, markets use imperial pounds
It has been noted that some markets on the Continent may have labels referring to ‘livre’ or ‘pond’ and it is implied that imperial pounds are being used there while being forbidden on UK weighing machines.
The truth is that when metric was adopted on the Continent expressions like ‘livre’ or ‘pond’ were used as colloquial expressions for half a kilogram. Weighing machines on markets use grams and kilograms and not imperial pounds.
It has been argued that these units are not permitted by the EC Directives. However, it is important to note that these terms do not have any legal standing. To argue against colloquial terms is like saying we should not use terms like ‘quid’, ‘bob’, ‘fiver’ (or ‘buck’ and ‘penny’ in the USA), because these have never been legal terms of currency.
Even metric nations use non-metric units
This is partly true and warrants closer examination. In many cases, it is the historical dominance of the USA in particular fields that has forced the rest of the world to fall into line. Examples are:
Computer screens labels (though European companies often include the centimetre size as well)
Guns & ammunition – obviously these have to be mutually compatible, and some imperial calibres become self-perpetuating
Car wheels – the past dominance of the US car industry
Plumbing fixtures – a few European countries use inch-based parts
Aircaft heights and speeds, engine thrusts in pounds force – US industry dominance again
The United States uses imperial units
Many people believe that imperial units in Britain are the same as US customary units. This is only partially true and there are some key areas where imperial and customary units differ:
1 fluid ounce = 28.415 mL 1 fluid ounce = 29.575 mL
1 pint = 20 fluid ounces 1 pint = 16 fluid ounces
1 gallon = 160 fluid ounces 1 gallon = 128 fluid ounces
1 hundredweight = 112 pounds 1 hundredweight = 100 pounds
1 ton = 2240 pounds 1 ton = 2000 pounds
Note also that the imperial gallon, hundredweight and ton are no longer in use in the UK.
Note also that the United States has two variations of the foot – the international foot and survey foot which differ very slightly. Also the ‘stone’ as a unit of weight is not known in the US.
The United States does not use metric
Although the USA has made only erratic progress towards metrication (like the UK), it has nonetheless advanced. Its wine and spirits industry made the change back in the 1970s, the car industry went metric in the mid-1980s (with considerable savings), and many goods are appearing in shops in rational metric sizes. Dual-labelling of goods is now mandatory for most products. The semiconductor industry is metric, and U.S. Government programs, such as NASA, are required to use the International System of Units for measurement “except where impractical”. The Apollo Guidance Computer, onboard the Apollo 11 Lunar Module that landed on the Moon in 1969, used SI units for powered-flight navigation and guidance calculations.
The US is ahead of the UK in one significant area: that of road signs. They repealed the legislation which forbade metric units on signs over a decade ago and authorise metric distances and speed limits as alternatives. For more detail on practical examples of the changes happening in the USA, see Jim Frysinger’s Metric Methods site.
Other countries have not criminalised the use of imperial units
It is up to individual nations how transgressions of national laws are penalised. In the EU, Directives were established to harmonise units of measurements across the member states in order to facilitate trade. The actual legislation to enact these requirements is the responsibility of each member state, as are the penalties for breaches.
The penalties within the UK have not changed substantially since the 1963 Weights & Measures Act, and the most severe are reserved for offenders who persistently give misleading information. All that has changed is the list of permitted units. So someone persistently advertising by the bushel or peck could have been fined after 1968, even before the 1995 metrication legislation was enacted.
Further afield, in New Zealand, breach of the regulations can result in a fine of up to NZ$5000.
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DE102011081567A1 - Receiver for an optical rangefinder - Google Patents
Receiver for an optical rangefinder
DE102011081567A1
DE102011081567A1 DE102011081567A DE102011081567A DE102011081567A1 DE 102011081567 A1 DE102011081567 A1 DE 102011081567A1 DE 102011081567 A DE102011081567 A DE 102011081567A DE 102011081567 A DE102011081567 A DE 102011081567A DE 102011081567 A1 DE102011081567 A1 DE 102011081567A1
DE102011081567A
Jaromir Palata
Pmdtechnologies AG
ifm electronic GmbH
2011-08-25 Application filed by ifm electronic GmbH filed Critical ifm electronic GmbH
2011-08-25 Priority to DE102011081567A priority Critical patent/DE102011081567A1/en
2013-02-28 Publication of DE102011081567A1 publication Critical patent/DE102011081567A1/en
2020-01-21 Application status is Pending legal-status Critical
G01—MEASURING; TESTING
G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
G01S17/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of electromagnetic waves other than radio waves, e.g. lidar systems
G01S17/02—Systems using the reflection of electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
G01S17/06—Systems determining position data of a target
G01S17/08—Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only
G01S17/32—Systems determining position data of a target for measuring distance only using transmission of continuous unmodulated waves, amplitude-, frequency-, or phase-modulated waves
G01S7/00—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
G01S7/48—Details of systems according to groups G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00 of systems according to group G01S17/00
G01S7/4808—Evaluating distance, position or velocity data
G01S7/481—Constructional features, e.g. arrangements of optical elements
G01S7/4816—Constructional features, e.g. arrangements of optical elements of receivers alone
G01S7/491—Details of non-pulse systems
G01S7/4912—Receivers
G01S7/4915—Details of time delay measurement or phase measurement
H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -braking
H03K17/94—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -braking characterised by the way in which the control signal is generated
H03K17/941—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -braking characterised by the way in which the control signal is generated using an optical detector
A receiver (20) for an optical rangefinder, comprising a photodiode (22) for detecting a modulated light emitted by a lighting (10) and a synchronous switch (28, 28a, 28b) for switching a first and a second diode ring (281, 282), each consisting of four in the same direction connected to a ring diodes (D1 ... 4, D1 '... 4').
The invention relates to a receiver for an optical rangefinder and a method for operating such according to the preamble of the independent claims.
The generic receiver for optical rangefinders essentially relates to systems which obtain an object distance not directly from a measured light transit time, but from the phase shift of the emitted and received light. Such systems are already out of the EP 1 777 747 or the DE 197 04 496 known. In these systems, the emitted intensity-modulated and object-reflected light is mixed directly with the transmit modulation signal in a photonic mixer or PMD sensor. The resulting mixed signal is a measure of phase shift and a corresponding object distance. Such systems are offered for example by the applicant as a distance measuring device O1D.
The object of the invention is to simplify the electrical construction of such a system.
The object is achieved in an advantageous manner by the receiver according to the invention according to the preamble of the independent claim.
Advantageously, a receiver for an optical rangefinder is provided with a photodiode for detecting a light emitted by a modulated light and a synchronous switch, which has a first and second diode ring for switching, each consisting of four in the same direction connected to a ring diodes, wherein between the Diodes each have a terminal is provided, and the diode rings are connected in each case with their first and third terminals in opposite directions with a common mode and a push-pull output or potential of a push-pull driver and with their second terminals together with the photodiode, and the fourth terminals each having a first and second signal output.
The structure of the synchronous switch with diode rings has the advantage over a conventional multiplexer design that the diodes have a significantly lower differential resistance and thus the voltage swing at the photodiode can be kept very low.
In addition, the synchronous switch is configured such that the synchronous switch switches in time with the applied modulation signal between the first and second signal output and both signal outputs are connected to a current measuring circuit, and that in each case a phase-weighted signal is applied to the two outputs of the synchronous switch.
Preferably, the two signal outputs each have a smoothing capacitor, so that the phase-weighted photocurrent signal can be tapped as a smoothed or averaged signal.
Particularly advantageously, the current measuring circuit is configured such that the voltage drop across the smoothing capacitor is kept constant by providing a discharge current, and a control variable via which the discharge current is set can be tapped off as an output signal. As a result of this procedure, in particular, the potential which acts retroactively on the photodiode via the synchronous switch is also minimized and, in addition, an alternating voltage swing at the photodiode is avoided, so that, as a result, no alternating current can flow across a parasitic capacitance of the photodiode and the parasitic capacitance essentially acts as electrical variable can be neglected.
In a further embodiment, the current measuring circuit is designed such that a differential and a sum signal can be tapped off at the output of the current measuring circuit. By means of this procedure, the distance values can be calculated in a simplified manner by subsequent evaluation units.
In a preferred embodiment, the push-pull driver is designed as a pulse transformer or as an EXOR gate arrangement. This embodiment offers the advantage that all necessary signals can be generated within the synchronous switch without the need for further additional signal inputs.
Furthermore, it is advantageous for the synchronous switch to provide first and second buffer memories which are configured such that in common mode the first buffer store with the photodiode and the second buffer store with the second output and in push-pull the first buffer store with the first output and the second buffer store connected to the photodiode. By means of this buffering, it is avoided, for example, that the photodiode is connected directly to the current measuring circuit. This procedure thus allows a freer design of the current measuring circuit, since the reaction to the photodiode is negligible.
The invention will be explained in more detail by means of embodiments with reference to the drawings.
They show schematically:
1 a schematic diagram of the receiving circuit according to the invention,
2 relevant signal curves,
3 a receiving circuit with diode ring,
4 a schematic diagram of the operation of the circuit according to 3 .
5 a circuit with two synchronous switches,
6 a schematic diagram of the circuit according to 5 ,
In the following description of the preferred embodiments, like reference characters designate like or similar components.
1 shows a basic structure of an optical rangefinder with a lighting 10 and a receiver 20 comprising a photodiode 22 , a modulator 30 , a synchronous switch 28 and a current measuring circuit 29 , Especially with a modular design of the lighting 10 and the recipient 20 can the modulator 30 , the synchronous switch 28 and the current measuring circuit 29 partially or completely the lighting 10 or associated with a corresponding lighting module.
The lighting 10 radiates in the cycle of the modulation frequency M (p1) of the modulator 30 an intensity-modulated light. The object 40 reflected light is phase-shifted by the photo sensor or photodiode according to the light propagation time 22 receive. The photodiode 22 is negatively biased on the anode side and generates in response to the detected intensity-modulated light signal a modulated negative photocurrent I p , which is guided according to the modulation clock M (p1) to a first or second output of the synchronous switch. To smooth the modulated photocurrent I p , the two outputs each have a smoothing capacitor, so that the following current measuring circuit 29 essentially a phase-weighted or divided on an a- and b-channel average direct current I mean-a , I mean-b of the originally modulated photocurrent I p detected. The current I mean-a , I mean-b measured for each input or channel is output as an electrical signal a, b, preferably as a voltage signal. The difference of the two a and b signals or channels represents a measure of the phase shift of the light signal. The sum signal of the two a, b channels can be used for further checks and / or calculations.
In principle, the synchronous switch can be understood in the broadest sense as a synchronous rectifier or as a mixer or switching mixer, which mixes the RF signal applied to both inputs, namely modulation and photocurrent signal M (p1), I p , to a low-frequency signal.
2 shows schematically some relevant for the phase measurement waveforms. The upper curve shows the modulation signal M (p1) with which the illumination 10 and the synchronous switch 28 be clocked. Due to the distance of the object, the back-reflected modulated light generates at the photodiode 22 a photocurrent I p which is phase-shifted by the light propagation time t L and which is divided into the first and second outputs or the A and B channels in the cycle of the modulation signal M ( P 1). The split current I pa , I pb has different pulse lengths and is smoothed over the smoothing capacitors to a mean direct current I mean-a , I mean-b . The determined current and in particular the difference of the direct currents I mean-a , I mean-b is a measure of the phase shift of the light and, accordingly, the object distance.
For example, if the radiated light reaches the photosensor without any phase delay 22 , both the photocurrent I P and the synchronous switch run 28 in common mode, so that in the first half period the photocurrent I p is completely detected in the a-channel. With increasing object distance and correspondingly longer light propagation times, the photo-current component I pb in the b-channel increases.
In the further embodiments, particularly advantageous variants for the design of the synchronous switch 28 and the current measurement 29 shown.
3 shows a receiving circuit with a synchronous switch 28 based on two diode rings 281 . 282 , The photodiode 22 is biased in the usual way with a negative counter potential -U V and is on the cathode side with a first and second diode ring 281 . 282 connected.
The two diode rings 281 . 282 each consist of four diodes D1, ... D4, which are connected in the same direction, serially connected to a ring. Taps or connections A1,... A4 are provided between the diodes, with a first connection A1 between the first and fourth diode D1, D4, a second connection A2 between the second and first diode D2, D1 and correspondingly further third and fourth Ports A3, A4.
That from the modulator 30 incoming clock signal is connected to a push-pull driver 285 at. The push-pull driver 285 consists of two EXOR-elements, which are connected in such a way, that at an EXOR- Output the clock of the modulator 30 as push-pull and at the other EXOR output the clock can be tapped as common mode. Alternatively, the push-pull driver 285 Also be designed as a transformer, in particular as a pulse transformer in such a way that at the outputs of the transformer and a push-pull and common mode potential can be tapped.
In the illustrated embodiment, the diode rings 281 . 282 connected in phase opposition to the outputs of the EXOR members. In the example shown, the push-pull is thus at the first terminal of the first diode ring 281 and at the third terminal of the second diode ring 282 on, while the common mode at the third terminal of the first diode ring 281 and at the first terminal of the second diode ring 282 is applied. The terminals are each connected to the outputs of the EXOR members via a series-connected capacitor Cs1 and resistor.
The latch capacitors Cs11, Cs12 serve as a galvanic isolation as well as a buffer for the detected photocurrent I p .
For example, lies on the first diode ring 281 via the first and third terminals A1, A3 to a positive potential, the current flows through the first and second diode D1, D2 while the other two diodes D3, D4 are blocked. At this potential, the complete current of the EXOR elements flows back to the EXOR element via the two diodes D1, D2, without further loading of the diode ring.
The now at the second terminal A2 of the diode ring 281 applied photocurrent I P is distributed over the two through-connected first and second diodes D1, D2 to the two latch capacitors Cs11. During the next half cycle, the first and second diodes D1, D2 are turned off and the third and fourth diodes D3, D4 are forward biased so that the charge stored in the latch capacitors Cs11 is now across the two diodes D3, D4 via an integrating or smoothing capacitor Cs21 to the current measuring circuit 29 drain and can be detected there as electricity. The current measuring circuit thus receives the phase-weighted photo-constant current I mean-a , I mean-b a half period T / 2 later.
The second diode ring 282 works in a similar way in push-pull.
At the cathode of the photodiode 22 Thus, it is not the potential of the smoothing capacitors Cs21, Cs22, but the potential of the latch capacitors Cs1.
Each output of the two diode bridges has a smoothing capacitor Cs, so that via the subsequent current measuring circuit 29 a mean phase-weighted direct current I mean-a , I mean-b can be tapped.
The current measuring circuit 29 is constructed so that the phase-weighted DC current I mean-a , I mean-b can preferably be tapped as a voltage signal Ua, Ub. The current measuring circuit 29 has for the a and b channels a first and second operational amplifier OP1, OP2, whose inverting inputs each with a corresponding output of the synchronous switch 28 and the non-inverting inputs are connected to ground potential GND.
At the output of the operational amplifier OP1, OP2 is a voltage signal U (a), U (b) that the phase-weighted direct current I mean-a , I mean-b . corresponds to the respective channel.
The output of the respective operational amplifier OP1, OP2 is connected to the inverting input via resistors and provides enough voltage or current to make the voltage difference at the OP input and thus also at the smoothing capacitor Cs zero. Due to the through-connected diodes, this potential is also at the cathode of the photodiode 22 at.
For further evaluation of the a and b channels, the two outputs of the two input operational amplifiers OP1, OP2 are routed to the inputs of a third operational amplifier OP3 at whose output a difference signal a-b of the two a, b channels can be tapped. The sum signal a + b is provided by combining the two outputs of the first and second operational amplifiers OP1, OP2.
For dynamic expansion, it is possible to carry the fed-back signals of the input operational amplifiers OP1, OP2 via a switchable voltage divider. The voltage divider can be switched to ground GND via an NPN switching transistor T1, T2, for example, so that as a result of the input operational amplifiers OP1, OP2, a higher signal for current or voltage compensation must be output at the output.
In principle, the circuits according to the invention can be regarded as a receiver mixing HF to NF. An anode side negatively biased photodiode provides a negative photocurrent Ip passing through the synchronous switch 28 is divided in the rhythm of the modulation on the two smoothing capacitors Cs2.
These two smoothing capacitors Cs2 are connected to the current measuring circuit 29 always kept at 0 V with positive current.
The difference of the currents of the a and b channel supplies the phase information necessary for the distance determination. The sum provides information about that at the photodiode 22 total arrived light from all light sources. The current measuring circuits 29 convert the measured current into voltages.
The conversion factor of this I / U conversion is to increase the dynamic range with NPN transistors T1, T2 with switching signals, for example, by a microprocessor μC switchable or PWM signals via a low-pass even steplessly controllable.
The diode rings 281 . 282 work time-delayed in two stages. While one diode ring conducts the photo-current Ip to the latch capacitors Cs1, the other diode ring conducts the charge from the latch capacitors Cs1 left to the smoothing capacitor Cs2.
Since this control in the diode rings makes only two diodes left or right with current conducting, each of these diode rings internally also works as a changeover switch.
Galvanic isolation between the EXOR gates and the diode rings is provided by the latch capacitors Cs1, preventing the photocurrent from flowing into the EXOR gate outputs.
The serial resistors R31, R32 are used to determine the amperage of the control current. With it, a small differential resistance (Ron) is to be achieved in the switching diodes, while the EXOR gate outputs should not be overloaded.
The upper EXOR gate acts as an inverter and the lower one only as a passage with the same cycle time and thus the same delay.
With a reference clock externally controlled low-capacitance μ-wave switching diodes reach by powers of ten higher working frequencies than analog multiplexers and with better properties. The resistance (Ron) of the diode rings 281 . 282 is smaller because of the very small differential resistance than with analog multiplexers.
The current measuring circuit generates with its negative feedback a virtual ground at its input, which constantly discharges the smoothing capacitor Cs2 and keeps at 0 V.
This low impedance is transmitted via the diode rings to the cathode of the photodiode 22 and suppresses at her every smallest voltage hub or AC voltage Uac. Without applied AC voltage Uac flows through the parasitic capacitance Cp of the photodiode 22 no electricity; thus, the parasitic capacitance Cp of the photodiode is virtually eliminated.
The negative bias together with the virtual elimination of the parasitic capacitance Cp makes the photodiode 22 fast and increases the cutoff frequency of the circuit.
The negative bias reduces the parasitic capacitance Cp from the photodiode 22 similar to varicap diodes. The negative bias for the photodiode 22 is preferably generated with a simple choke-up converter.
4 schematically shows the basic principle of the circuit according to 3 , The diode rings 281 . 282 are in their operating principle after by changeover switch 281 ' . 282 ' replaced. During the one changeover switch 281 ' When the photocurrent Ip is applied to the latch capacitors Cs1, the latch capacitors Cs1 are turned on by the second changeover switch 283 ' on the smoothing capacitor Cs2 and the current measuring circuit 29 connected.
The 5 shows a further embodiment of the circuit as a quadrature mixer. The circuit of the synchronous switch according to 3 is here on both the anode and cathode sides of the photodiode 22 realized. This arrangement performs two measurements at the same time, one at 0 ° reference clock and one at 90 ° reference clock. The 0 ° reference clock corresponds to the phase position of the modulation signal and the 90 ° reference clock to a shifted by 90 ° phase position, so that a total of four phase measurements are present namely 0 ° = a-channel, 180 ° = b-channel, and accordingly 90 ° = c-channel and 270 ° = d-channel.
In a known manner, the accuracy of the distance values can be improved via this IQ measurement, namely, for example, with phase shift phi = arctan (c-d) / (a-b).
In principle, it is possible to perform these measurements serially. However, the simultaneous measurement has the advantage that with rapid changes in distance between the object and the receiver, the 90 ° measured values better match the 0 ° measured values in time and the distance measurement thus provides more reliable values. So it is possible on a single photodiode 22 to measure at its two terminals with two identical circuits but with different reference clock or clock phase.
The measuring principle is in 6 shown in simplified form. The operating voltage of the photodiode 22 comes in half +/- Ub / 2 each of an ammeter and a current measuring circuit. For example, it is specified as a setpoint at the non-inverting OPV inputs (+ IN).
The illustrated receiver 20 can also be advantageously used to monitor a lighting a light time camera. Time-of-flight cameras, in particular cameras that work according to the PMD principle, send out intensity-modulated light for distance measurement. With the help of the illustrated receiver, this light can for example be tapped directly on the transmitter or the PMD lighting and evaluated.
Compared to a conventional monitor diode, this procedure has the advantage that not only the presence of radiation is detected, but in particular also the phase position of the emitted modulated light and thus enables a comprehensive function check of the illumination, the signal path and / or the distance calculation.
LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS
synchronous switcher
first diode ring
second diode ring
first diode bridge
second diode bridge
Push-pull driver
M (p1)
modulation signal
I p
photocurrent
I pa
Photoelectric channel a
I pb
Photoelectric channel b
I mean-a
average DC channel a
I mean-b
average DC channel b
T1, T2
first, second transistor
QUOTES INCLUDE IN THE DESCRIPTION
This list of the documents listed by the applicant has been generated automatically and is included solely for the better information of the reader. The list is not part of the German patent or utility model application. The DPMA assumes no liability for any errors or omissions.
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EP 1777747 [0002]
DE 19704496 [0002]
Receiver ( 20 ) for an optical rangefinder, with a photodiode ( 22 ) for detecting one of a lighting ( 10 ) transmitted modulated light and with a synchronous switch ( 28 . 28a . 28b ), for switching a first and second diode ring ( 281 . 282 ), each consisting of four in the same direction connected to a ring diodes (D1 ... 4, D1 '... 4'), wherein between the diodes (D1 ... 4, D1 '... 4') each one Connection is provided, and the diode rings ( 281 . 282 ) in each case with their first and third terminals (A1, A1 ', A3, A3') in opposite directions with a common-mode and a push-pull output (Q, Ǭ) of a push-pull driver ( 285 ) and with their second terminals (A2, A2 ') together with the photodiode ( 22 ), and the fourth terminals (A4, A4 ') each form a first and second signal output.
Receiver ( 20 ) according to claim 1, wherein both signal outputs each have a smoothing capacitor (Cs21, Cs22).
Receiver ( 20 ) according to one of the preceding claims, in which the current measuring circuit ( 29 ) with the signal outputs of the diode rings ( 281 . 282 ) is connected to the synchronous switch and configured such that by maintaining a discharge current across the smoothing capacitor (Cs21, Cs22) voltage is kept constant, and a controlled variable over which the discharge current is set, can be tapped as an output signal.
Receiver ( 20 ) according to one of the preceding claims, in which the current measuring circuit ( 29 ) is configured such that at the output of the current measuring circuit ( 29 ) A differential and a sum signal can be tapped.
Receiver ( 20 ) according to one of the preceding claims, in which the push-pull driver ( 285 ) as a pulse transformer ( 288 ) or formed as an EXOR gate arrangement.
Receiver ( 20 ) according to one of the preceding claims, in which the synchronous switch ( 28 ) has first and second latches (Cs11) and is configured such that in common mode the first latch (Cs11) is connected to the photodiode (Cs11). 22 ) and the second latch (Cs12) with the second output and in push-pull the first latch (Cs11) with the first output and the second latch (Cs12) with the photodiode ( 22 ) connected is.
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KR20170077144A - Liquid crystal alignment agent, liquid crystal alignment film, and liquid crystal display element - Google Patents
Liquid crystal alignment agent, liquid crystal alignment film, and liquid crystal display element Download PDF
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닛산 가가쿠 고교 가부시키 가이샤
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A liquid crystal aligning agent, a liquid crystal alignment film, and a liquid crystal display element are provided for obtaining an alignment film preferable for photo alignment in which no bright spots occur even in a negative type liquid crystal and good afterimage characteristics are obtained.
A liquid crystal alignment film comprising at least one polymer (A) selected from the group consisting of a polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a structural unit represented by the formula (2) and an imidization polymer of the polyimide precursor My.
[Chemical Formula 1]
(X 1, X 2: formula (X1-1) or (X1-2), 1 R, R 2, R 3, R 4, and R 6 is a hydrogen atom, or an alkyl group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms are each independently R 5 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 6.)
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a liquid crystal alignment material, a liquid crystal alignment film, and a liquid crystal display device,
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal aligning agent suitable for a photo alignment process, a liquid crystal alignment film obtained from the liquid crystal aligning agent, and a liquid crystal display device using the liquid crystal alignment film.
In a liquid crystal display element used for a liquid crystal television, a liquid crystal display, or the like, a liquid crystal alignment film for controlling the alignment state of the liquid crystal is usually formed in the element. As the liquid crystal alignment film, a polyimide-based liquid crystal alignment film obtained by applying a liquid crystal aligning agent containing a solution of polyimide precursor such as polyamic acid (polyamic acid) or soluble polyimide as a main component on a glass substrate and baking is mainly used. According to the currently most widely used method, this liquid crystal alignment film is subjected to so-called rubbing treatment in which the surface of the polyimide-based liquid crystal alignment film formed on the electrode substrate is rubbed in one direction with a cloth such as cotton, nylon or polyester .
The photo alignment method has an advantage of being able to be produced by an industrially easy manufacturing process as an alignment treatment method of rubbingless.
In a liquid crystal display device using an IPS (In Plane Switching) driving method or a FFS (Fringe Field switching) driving method, by using a liquid crystal alignment film obtained by the photo alignment method, compared to the liquid crystal alignment film obtained by the rubbing process, The improvement of the viewing angle characteristics can be expected, or the performance of the liquid crystal display element can be improved. Therefore, the liquid crystal alignment method has attracted attention as a promising liquid crystal alignment processing method.
However, the liquid crystal alignment film obtained by the photo alignment method has a problem that the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the polymer film is small, as compared with the rubbing treatment. If the anisotropy is small, a sufficient liquid crystal alignability can not be obtained, and a problem such as a residual image occurs when the liquid crystal display element is used. As a method of increasing the anisotropy of the liquid crystal alignment film obtained by the photo alignment method, it has been proposed to remove the low molecular weight component produced by cutting the main chain of the polyimide by light irradiation after irradiation with light.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 9-297313 Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2011-107266
&Quot; Liquid crystal photo alignment layer ", Functional Materials, Nov. 1997, Vol.17, No.11, pp. 13-22
Conventionally, a positive type liquid crystal is used in an IPS driving type or FFS driving type liquid crystal display device. However, by using a negative type liquid crystal, the transmission loss at the upper portion of the electrode can be reduced and the contrast can be improved. When a liquid crystal alignment film obtained by the photo alignment method is used for a liquid crystal display device of an IPS driving method or an FFS driving method using a negative liquid crystal material, it is expected to have higher display performance than a conventional liquid crystal display device.
However, as a result of the investigation by the inventor of the present invention, it has been found that, in the case of a liquid crystal display device using a negative-type liquid crystal material, the liquid crystal alignment film obtained by the photo alignment method has a high incidence of display defects (bright spots) there was.
An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal aligning agent suitable for a photo alignment process for obtaining a liquid crystal alignment film for a photo alignment method in which no bright spots occur and good afterimage characteristics can be obtained even when a negative type liquid crystal is used, A liquid crystal alignment film, and a liquid crystal aligning agent.
As a result of intensive studies, the present inventors have found out that a liquid crystal aligning agent containing a polyimide polymer having a specific structure is effective for achieving the above object, and has completed the present invention.
The present invention relates to a polyimide precursor composition comprising at least one polymer (A) selected from the group consisting of a polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and the following formula (2) and an imidized polymer of the polyimide precursor And a liquid crystal aligning agent.
(In the formulas (1) and (2), X 1 and X 2 are each independently at least one member selected from the group consisting of structures represented by the following formulas (X1-1) and (X1-2): R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 and R 6 are each independently a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R 5 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 6.
According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a liquid crystal aligning agent suitable for the photo alignment process, which can suppress the luminescence seen in the conventional photo alignment treatment method, obtain a liquid crystal alignment film having high irradiation sensitivity and good residual image characteristics . By providing a liquid crystal alignment film obtained from such a liquid crystal aligning agent, it is possible to provide a liquid crystal display device free from display defects and highly reliable.
≪ Specific polymer &
As described above, the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention is preferably at least one selected from the group consisting of a polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and the following formula (2) and an imidized polymer of the polyimide precursor (In the present invention, also referred to as a specific polymer (A)). In the present invention, the structural unit represented by the formula (1) and the structural unit represented by the following formula (2) may exist in the same polyimide precursor, and the structural unit represented by the formula (1) May be present in separate polyimide precursors.
The definitions of X 1 , X 2 , R 1 and R 2 in the above-mentioned formulas (1) and (2) are as described above. Among them, X 1 and X 2 preferably have the formula (X1-2) in view of high sensitivity and liquid crystal alignability. R 1 and R 2 are preferably a hydrogen atom or a methyl group or an ethyl group in terms of ease of imidization by heating. R 3 , R 4 and R 6 are preferably hydrogen atoms in terms of liquid crystal alignability. R 5 is preferably a methyl group from the viewpoint of liquid crystal alignability. It is preferable that n is an integer of 1 to 3, particularly 2 in view of liquid crystal alignability.
≪ Preparation of polyimide precursor - Preparation of polyamic acid >
The polyamic acid which is a polyimide precursor having the structural unit represented by the formula (1) and the structural unit represented by the formula (2) in the present invention is produced by the following method. In the present invention, the polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the formula (1) and the polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the formula (2) may be produced separately and mixed with each other.
As the diamine to be condensed with the tetracarboxylic acid or its dianhydride, at least one kind of diamine which gives the structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a diamine which gives the structural unit represented by the formula (2) It is preferable to prepare a polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a structural unit represented by the formula (2).
In this case, the tetracarboxylic acid or its dianhydride giving X 1 in the formula (1) and the tetracarboxylic acid or its dianhydride giving X 2 in the formula (2) and Y 1 a diamine to give the diamine and Y 2 to give, in the presence of a solvent, -20 ~ 150 ℃, preferably in the 0 ~ 50 ℃, 30 minutes to 24 hours, preferably 1-12 hours polycondensation .
The reaction of the diamine with the tetracarboxylic acid is usually carried out in a solvent. The solvent to be used at this time is not particularly limited as long as the resultant polyimide precursor is dissolved. Specific examples of the solvent used in the reaction are illustrated below, but the present invention is not limited to these examples.
For example, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone or? -Butyrolactone, N, N-dimethylformamide, N, N-dimethylacetamide, 1,3-dimethyl-imidazolidinone. When the solvent solubility of the polyimide precursor is high, it is preferable to use methyl ethyl ketone, cyclohexanone, cyclopentanone, 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone or the following formulas [D- -3] can be used.
(D-1), D 1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, D 2 in the formula [D-2] represents an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and D 3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms)
These solvents may be used alone or in combination. The solvent may be a solvent that does not dissolve the polyimide precursor, or may be mixed with the solvent to the extent that the resulting polyimide precursor does not precipitate. In addition, the moisture in the solvent inhibits the polymerization reaction and further causes hydrolysis of the resulting polyimide precursor. Therefore, it is preferable that the solvent is dehydrated and dried.
In order to obtain a polyamide acid alkyl ester, a method of polycondensation of a tetracarboxylic acid in which a carboxylic acid group is dialkyl esterified and a primary or secondary diamine compound, a method of polycondensation of a carboxylic acid group into a dialkyl esterified tetracarboxylic acid A method of polycondensation of an acid halide and a primary or secondary diamine compound or a method of converting a carboxyl group of a polyamic acid into an ester is used.
When the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid component are reacted in a solvent, there is a method in which a solution in which a diamine component is dispersed or dissolved in a solvent is stirred, and the tetracarboxylic acid component is added as it is or dispersed or dissolved in a solvent, A method of adding a diamine component to a solution in which a carboxylic acid component is dispersed or dissolved in a solvent, and a method of alternately adding a diamine component and a tetracarboxylic acid component. Any of these methods may be used. When a plurality of diamine components or tetracarboxylic acid components are used for the reaction, the reaction may be carried out in a preliminarily mixed state. Alternatively, the reaction may be carried out individually or sequentially, and the low molecular weight compounds reacted individually may be mixed and reacted You can.
The polymerization temperature at that time may be any temperature of -20 to 150 占 폚, preferably -5 to 100 占 폚. The reaction can be carried out at an arbitrary concentration. However, if the concentration is too low, it becomes difficult to obtain a polymer having a high molecular weight. If the concentration is too high, the viscosity of the reaction solution becomes too high, and uniform stirring becomes difficult. Therefore, the content is preferably 1 to 50% by mass, and more preferably 5 to 30% by mass. The reaction may be carried out at a high concentration in the initial stage, and then a solvent may be added.
In the polymerization reaction of the polyimide precursor, the ratio of the total molar number of the diamine component to the total molar number of the tetracarboxylic acid component is preferably from 0.8 to 1.2, particularly preferably from 0.9 to 1.0. As in the case of the usual polycondensation reaction, the closer the molar ratio is to 1.0, the larger the molecular weight of the resulting polyimide precursor.
The polyimide in the present invention is a polyimide obtained by ring closure of the polyimide precursor. In order to obtain the polyimide, a method of converting the polyamic acid or polyamide acid alkyl ester into a polyimide by ring closure is used.
In the polyimide of the present invention, the closed rate (also referred to as the imidization rate) of the amidic acid group does not necessarily have to be 100%, but may be arbitrarily adjusted depending on the application and purpose, and is preferably 50 to 80%.
Examples of the method of imidizing the polyimide precursor include heat imidization in which the solution of the polyimide precursor is directly heated, or catalyst imidation in which the catalyst is added to the solution of the polyimide precursor. The temperature at which the polyimide precursor is thermally imidized in a solution is 100 to 400 ° C, preferably 120 to 250 ° C, and it is preferable to carry out the removal while removing the water generated by the imidization reaction out of the system. The reaction time is preferably 30 minutes to 4 hours.
The catalyst imidation of the polyimide precursor can be carried out by adding a basic catalyst and an acid anhydride to the polyimide precursor solution and stirring at -20 to 250 ° C, preferably 0 to 180 ° C. The reaction time is preferably 30 minutes to 4 hours.
The amount of the basic catalyst is 0.5 to 30 moles, preferably 2 to 20 moles, of the amide group, and the amount of the acid anhydride is 1 to 50 moles, preferably 3 to 30 moles, of the amide group. Examples of the basic catalyst include pyridine, triethylamine, trimethylamine, tributylamine or trioctylamine. Among them, pyridine is preferable since it has a basicity suitable for promoting the reaction.
Examples of the acid anhydride include acetic anhydride, trimellitic anhydride and pyromellitic anhydride. Among them, acetic anhydride is preferable because purification after completion of the reaction becomes easy. The imidization rate by the catalyst imidization can be controlled by adjusting the catalyst amount, the reaction temperature, and the reaction time.
In the case of recovering the polyimide precursor or polyimide produced from the reaction solution of the polyimide precursor or polyimide, the reaction solution may be put into a solvent and precipitated. Examples of the solvent used for the precipitation include methanol, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, acetone, hexane, butyl cellosolve, heptane, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, toluene, benzene and water. The polymer precipitated by charging into a solvent can be recovered by filtration and then dried at normal temperature or under reduced pressure or by heating. In addition, by repeating the operation of re-dissolving the precipitated and recovered polymer in a solvent and re-precipitating and recovering it 2 to 10 times, impurities in the polymer can be reduced. As the solvent at this time, for example, alcohols, ketones, hydrocarbons and the like can be exemplified, and when three or more kinds of solvents selected from these solvents are used, the purification efficiency is further enhanced, and therefore, such is preferable.
The specific polymer (A) of the present invention is preferably a polyamide acid alkyl ester. Specific preferred methods for producing the polyamide acid alkyl ester are shown in the following (1) to (3).
(1) a method of producing by the esterification reaction of polyamic acid
A polyamide acid is prepared by preparing a polyamide acid from a diamine component and a tetracarboxylic acid component and then subjecting the carboxyl group (COOH group) to a chemical reaction, that is, an esterification reaction.
Concretely, the esterification reaction is carried out in the presence of a solvent, preferably at -20 to 150 ° C, more preferably at 0 to 50 ° C, preferably for 30 minutes to 24 hours, in the presence of a polyamic acid and an esterifying agent Preferably 1 to 4 hours.
The esterification agent is preferably one that can be easily removed after the esterification reaction. Examples of the esterification agent include N, N-dimethylformamide dimethylacetal, N, N-dimethylformamide diethyl acetal, N, N-dimethylformamide dipropyl Acetal, N, N-dimethylformamide dineopentylbutyl acetal, N, N-dimethylformamide di-t-butyl acetal, Triazine, 1-propyl-3-p-tolyltriazine, and 4- (4,6-dimethoxy-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl) -4- methylmorpholinium chloride. have. The amount of the esterifying agent to be used is preferably 2 to 6 molar equivalents relative to 1 mol of the repeating unit of the polyamic acid. Among them, 2 to 4 molar equivalents are preferred.
Examples of the solvent used in the esterification reaction include a solvent used for the reaction between the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid component in view of the solubility of the polyamic acid in a solvent. Among them, N, N-dimethylformamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone or γ-butyrolactone are preferable. The solvent may be used alone or in combination of two or more.
The concentration of the polyamic acid in the solvent in the esterification reaction is preferably from 1 to 30% by mass from the standpoint that precipitation of polyamic acid does not occur easily. Among these, 5 to 20% by mass is preferable.
(2) a process for producing a product by reacting a diamine component with a tetracarboxylic acid diester dichloride
Specifically, the reaction between the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid diester dichloride can be carried out in the presence of a base and a solvent, preferably at a temperature of -20 to 150 ° C, The reaction is carried out at 0 to 50 ° C, preferably 30 minutes to 24 hours, more preferably 1 to 4 hours.
Examples of the base include pyridine, triethylamine, 4-dimethylaminopyridine and the like. Among them, pyridine is preferable for the reaction to proceed mildly. The amount of the base to be used is preferably such that it can be easily removed after the reaction, and is preferably 2 to 4 times the tetracarboxylic acid diester dichloride. Among them, it is more preferably 2 to 3 times.
The solvent used in the above reaction may be a solvent used in the reaction between the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid component in view of the solubility of the resulting polymer, that is, the polyamide acid alkyl ester in a solvent. Among them, N, N-dimethylformamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone or γ-butyrolactone are preferable. These solvents may be used alone or in combination of two or more.
The concentration of the polyamic acid alkyl ester in the solvent in the above reaction is preferably from 1 to 30% by mass from the viewpoint that precipitation of the polyamic acid alkyl ester hardly takes place. Among them, it is preferably 5 to 20% by mass. In order to prevent the hydrolysis of the tetracarboxylic acid diester dichloride, it is preferable that the solvent used for the production of the polyamide acid alkyl ester is as dehydrated as possible. Further, it is preferable that the above reaction is carried out in a nitrogen atmosphere to prevent mixing of outside air.
(3) a method of producing by the reaction of a diamine component with a tetracarboxylic acid diester
Specifically, the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid diester are reacted with each other in the presence of a condensing agent, a base and a solvent, preferably at 0 to 150 ° C , More preferably 0 to 100 ° C, preferably 30 minutes to 24 hours, more preferably 3 to 15 hours.
Examples of the condensing agent include triphenylphosphite, dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, 1-ethyl-3- (3- dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide hydrochloride, N, N'-carbonyldiimidazole, dimethoxy- N, N ', N'-tetramethyluronium tetrafluoroborate, O- (benzotriazol-1-yl) 1-yl) -N, N, N ', N'-tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate and (2,3-dihydro-2-thioxo-3-benzoxazolyl) . The amount of the condensing agent to be used is preferably 2 to 3 times, more preferably 2 to 2.5 times, the mole of the tetracarboxylic acid diester.
As the base, tertiary amines such as pyridine and triethylamine can be used. The amount of the base to be used is preferably such that it can be easily removed after the polycondensation reaction, and is preferably 2 to 4 times, particularly preferably 2 to 3 times, the molar amount based on the diamine component.
The solvent used in the polycondensation reaction may be a solvent used for the reaction of the diamine component and the tetracarboxylic acid component in view of the solubility of the resulting polyamic acid alkyl ester in a solvent. Particularly preferred are N, N-dimethylformamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone or γ-butyrolactone. Two or more solvents may be used in combination.
In addition, in the polycondensation reaction, the reaction proceeds efficiently by adding Lewis acid as an additive. As the Lewis acid, lithium halides such as lithium chloride and lithium bromide are preferable. The amount of the Lewis acid to be used is preferably from 0.1 to 10 times by mole, more preferably from 2.0 to 3.0 times by mole, based on the diamine component.
When the polyamide acid alkyl ester is recovered from the solution of the polyamide acid alkyl ester obtained by the method of (1) to (3) above, the reaction solution may be put into a solvent and precipitated. Examples of the solvent used in the precipitation include water, methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, hexane, butyl cellosolve, acetone, toluene and the like. It is preferable that the polymer which has been added to the solvent and precipitated is subjected to a cleaning operation with the solvent for a plurality of times for the purpose of removing the additives and catalysts used in the above. After filtration and recovery, it can be dried at room temperature or under reduced pressure or at normal pressure. In addition, by repeating the operation of re-dissolving the precipitated and recovered polymer in a solvent and re-precipitating and recovering it 2 to 10 times, impurities in the polymer can be reduced. As the solvent at this time, a solvent in which the polymer is dissolved may be mentioned.
Among the methods (1) to (3), the polyamic acid alkyl ester of the present invention is preferably the method (1) or (2).
<Liquid Crystal Aligner>
The liquid crystal aligning agent is a coating solution for forming a liquid crystal alignment film (also referred to as a resin film), and is a coating solution for forming a liquid crystal alignment film containing a specific polymer (A) and a solvent. The content of the specific polymer (A) in the liquid crystal aligning agent can be appropriately changed depending on the application method of the liquid crystal aligning agent and the thickness of the intended liquid crystal alignment film, and is preferably 2 to 10 mass%, more preferably 3 to 7 mass % Is preferable. On the other hand, the content of the solvent is preferably 70 to 99.9 mass%, more preferably 90 to 98 mass%.
The solvent used in the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention is a solvent (also referred to as a good solvent) dissolving the specific polymer (A), and an organic solvent is particularly preferable. Specific examples of the both solvents are illustrated below, but the present invention is not limited to these examples.
Examples of the solvent include N, N-dimethylformamide, N, N-dimethylacetamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N- 1,3-dimethyl-imidazolidinone, methyl ethyl ketone, cyclohexanone, cyclopentanone, and 4-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone. Among them, it is preferable to use N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, N-ethyl-2-pyrrolidone or γ-butyrolactone.
When the solubility of the specific polymer (A) in a solvent is high, it is preferable to use a solvent represented by the formula (D-1) to (D-3).
The amount of both solvents in the liquid crystal aligning agent is preferably from 20 to 99% by mass, more preferably from 20 to 90% by mass, and particularly preferably from 30 to 80% by mass, based on the entire solvent.
The liquid crystal aligning agent may contain a solvent (also referred to as a poor solvent) for improving the film property and surface smoothness of the liquid crystal alignment film when the liquid crystal aligning agent is applied, as long as the effect of the present invention is not impaired. These poor solvents are preferably 1 to 80% by mass of the total solvent contained in the liquid crystal aligning agent. And more preferably 10 to 80% by mass. And more preferably 20 to 70 mass%.
Specific examples of the poor solvent are shown below, but the present invention is not limited to these examples. Butanol, isobutyl alcohol, tert-butyl alcohol, 1-pentanol, 2-pentanol, 3-pentanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol, Propanol, isopentyl alcohol, tert-pentyl alcohol, 3-methyl-2-butanol, neopentyl alcohol, 1-hexanol, Butanol, 1-heptanol, 2-heptanol, 3-heptanol, 1-octanol, 2-octanol, 2-ethyl-1-hexanol, cyclohexanol, 1-methylcyclohexanol, Cyclohexanol, cyclohexanol, 3-methylcyclohexanol, 1,2-ethanediol, 1,2-propanediol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,2-butanediol, Butanediol, 1,5-pentanediol, 2-methyl-2,4-pentanediol, 2-ethyl-1,3-hexanediol, dipropyl ether, dibutyl ether, dihexyl ether, dioxane, Ethylene glycol dimethyl ether, ethylene glycol diethyl ether, ethylene glycol dibutyl ether, 1,2-butoxyethane, diethylene glycol dimethyl ether, Ethylene glycol diethyl ether, diethylene glycol methyl ethyl ether, diethylene glycol dibutyl ether, 2-pentanone, 3-pentanone, 2-hexanone, 2-heptanone, 4- (2-ethylhexyl) acetate, ethylene glycol monoacetate, ethylene glycol diacetate, propylene carbonate, ethylene carbonate, 2- (methoxymethoxy) ethanol, ethylene glycol monobutyl Propylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylene glycol monohexyl ether, ethylene glycol monohexyl ether, 2- (hexyloxy) ethanol, furfuryl alcohol, diethylene glycol, propylene glycol, propylene glycol monobutyl ether, 1- , Propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, dipropylene glycol, dipropylene glycol monomethyl ether, dipropylene glycol monoethyl ether, dipropylene glycol dimethyl Ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monoacetate, ethylene glycol diacetate, diethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, diethylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate, ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, Glycol monobutyl ether acetate, 2- (2-ethoxyethoxy) ethyl acetate, diethylene glycol acetate, triethylene glycol, triethylene glycol monomethyl ether, triethylene glycol monoethyl ether, methyl lactate, ethyl lactate, methyl acetate , Ethyl acetate, n-butyl acetate, propylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, methyl pyruvate, ethyl pyruvate, methyl 3-methoxypropionate, methylethyl 3-ethoxypropionate, ethyl 3-methoxypropionate, 3-methoxypropionic acid, 3-methoxy D-1] to [D-1] to [D-1] to [D- 1] to [D- 3], and the like.
Among them, it is preferable to use 1-hexanol, cyclohexanol, 1,2-ethanediol, 1,2-propanediol, propylene glycol monobutyl ether, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether or dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether .
The liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention includes a crosslinking compound having an epoxy group, an isocyanate group, an oxetane group or a cyclocarbonate group, a crosslinking compound having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group and a lower alkoxyalkyl group It is preferable to introduce a crosslinkable compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond or a compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond. These substituent groups and polymerizable unsaturated bonds need to have two or more in the crosslinkable compound.
Examples of the crosslinkable compound having an epoxy group or an isocyanate group include bisphenol acetone glycidyl ether, phenol novolac epoxy resin, cresol novolak epoxy resin, triglycidyl isocyanurate, tetraglycidyl amino diphenylene Tetraglycidyl-1,3-bis (aminoethyl) cyclohexane, tetraphenyl glycidyl ether ethane, triphenyl glycidyl ether ethane, bisphenol hexafluoroacetate Diglycidyl ether, 1,3-bis (1- (2,3-epoxypropoxy) -1-trifluoromethyl-2,2,2-trifluoromethyl) benzene, 4,4-bis 2- (4- (2,3-epoxypropoxy) phenyl) -2- (4-methylpentanoyloxyphenyl) octafluorobiphenyl, triglycidyl-p-aminophenol, tetraglycidyl methadienyldiamine, 2- (4- (1, 4- (2,3-epoxypropoxy) phenyl) ethyl) phenyl) propane, 1,3- Oxy) phenyl) -1- (4- (1 - (4- (2,3-epoxypropoxy) phenyl) -1-methylethyl) phenyl) ethyl) phenoxy) -2-propanol.
The crosslinkable compound having an oxetane group is a compound having at least two oxetane groups represented by the following formula [4A].
Specific examples thereof include crosslinkable compounds represented by the formulas [4a] to [4k] shown on pages 58 to 59 of WO2011 / 132751 (published on October 27, 2011).
The crosslinkable compound having a cyclocarbonate group is a crosslinkable compound having at least two cyclocarbonate groups represented by the following formula [5A].
Specifically, the crosslinkable compounds represented by the formulas [5-1] to [5-42] listed in International Patent Publication WO2012 / 014898 (published on February 22, 2012), pages 76 to 82, can be mentioned.
Examples of the crosslinkable compound having at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of a hydroxyl group and an alkoxy group include amino resins having a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group such as melamine resin, urea resin, guanamine Resin, glycoluril-formaldehyde resin, succinylamide-formaldehyde resin, ethylene urea-formaldehyde resin and the like. Specifically, a melamine derivative in which the hydrogen atom of the amino group is substituted with a methylol group or an alkoxymethyl group, or a benzoguanamine derivative or glycoluril can be used. The melamine derivative or the benzoguanamine derivative may be present as a dimer or trimer. These groups preferably have 3 to 6 on average of methylol groups or alkoxymethyl groups per triazine ring.
Examples of the melamine derivative or the benzoguanamine derivative include MX-750 in which a methoxymethyl group is substituted in an average of 3.7 methoxymethyl groups per one triazine ring of a commercial product, MW-750 in which an average of 5.8 methoxymethyl groups per one triazine ring is substituted, Methomethylated melamines such as Cymel 235, 236, 238, 212, 253, and 309 (manufactured by Sanwa Chemical Co., Ltd.) or Cymel 300, 301, 303, 350, 370, 771, 325, 327, 703, Methoxymethylated butoxymethylated melamine such as Cymel 506 and 508, methoxymethylated isobutoxymethylated melamine containing carboxyl group such as Cymel 1141, and methoxymethylated ethoxymethylated melamine such as Cymel 1123 Methoxymethylated butoxymethylated benzoguanamine such as benzoguanamine, Cymel 1123-10, butoxymethylated benzoguanamine such as Cymel 1128, carboxyl-containing methoxymethylated methoxymethylated ethoxymethylated benzoguanamine such as Cymel 1125-80, Ana (Manufactured by Mitsui Cyanamid Co., Ltd.). Examples of the glycoluril include butoxymethylated glycoluril such as Cymel 1170, methylol glycoluril such as Cymel 1172, methoxymethylolglycoluril such as Powderlink 1174, and the like.
Examples of the benzene or phenolic compound having a hydroxyl group or an alkoxy group include 1,3,5-tris (methoxymethyl) benzene, 1,2,4-tris (isopropoxymethyl) benzene, 4-bis (sec-butoxymethyl) benzene or 2,6-dihydroxymethyl-p-tert-butylphenol.
More specifically, the crosslinkable compounds of the formulas [6-1] to [6-48] listed on pages 62 to 66 of WO2011 / 132751 (published on October 27, 2011) can be mentioned.
Examples of the crosslinkable compound having a polymerizable unsaturated bond include trimethylolpropane tri (meth) acrylate, pentaerythritol tri (meth) acrylate, dipentaerythritol penta (meth) acrylate, tri ) Crosslinkable compounds having three polymerizable unsaturated groups such as acryloyloxyethoxy trimethylol propane and glycerin polyglycidyl ether poly (meth) acrylate; Acrylates such as ethylene glycol di (meth) acrylate, diethylene glycol di (meth) acrylate, tetraethylene glycol di (meth) acrylate, polyethylene glycol di (meth) acrylate, propylene glycol di Acrylates such as di (meth) acrylate, butylene glycol di (meth) acrylate, neopentyl glycol di (meth) acrylate, ethylene oxide bisphenol A type di (meth) acrylate, propylene oxide bisphenol type di (Meth) acrylate, 1,6-hexanediol di (meth) acrylate, glycerin di (meth) acrylate, pentaerythritol di (meth) acrylate, ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether di (Meth) acrylate, hydroxypivalic acid neopentyl glycol di (meth) acrylate, phthalic acid diglycidyl ester di (meth) acrylate, A crosslinkable compound having two polymerizable unsaturated groups in the molecule; Hydroxypropyl (meth) acrylate, 2-hydroxyethyl (meth) acrylate, 2-hydroxypropyl (meth) acrylate, 2-hydroxybutyl (Meth) acryloyloxy-2-hydroxypropyl phthalate, 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl (meth) acrylate, glycerin mono (meth) acrylate, 2- A crosslinkable compound having one polymerizable unsaturated group such as ester and N-methylol (meth) acrylamide in the molecule; And the like.
Further, a compound represented by the following formula [7A] may also be used.
(Wherein E 1 represents a group selected from the group consisting of a cyclohexane ring, a bicyclohexane ring, a benzene ring, a biphenyl ring, a terphenyl ring, a naphthalene ring, a fluorene ring, an anthracene ring and a phenanthrene ring) , E 2 represents a group selected from the following formulas [7a] and [7b], and n represents an integer of 1 to 4.)
The above is an example of the crosslinkable compound, but is not limited thereto. The crosslinkable compound used in the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention may be one kind or two or more kinds.
The content of the crosslinkable compound in the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention is preferably 0.1 to 150 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of all the polymer components. Among them, 0.1 to 100 parts by mass is preferable for 100 parts by mass of all the polymer components in order for the crosslinking reaction to proceed and to exhibit the intended effect. More preferred is 1 to 50 parts by mass.
As long as the effect of the present invention is not impaired, the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention can use a compound that improves the film thickness uniformity and surface smoothness of the liquid crystal alignment film when the liquid crystal aligning agent is applied.
Examples of the compound that improves the uniformity of the film thickness of the liquid crystal alignment film and the surface smoothness include a fluorine-based surfactant, a silicon-based surfactant, and a nonionic surface-active agent.
More specifically, for example, EF301, EF303 and EF352 (manufactured by TOKEM PRODUCTS CO., LTD.), Megafac F171, F173 and R-30 (manufactured by Dainippon Ink and Chemicals Inc.), Fluorad FC430 and FC431 (Trade names, manufactured by Sumitomo 3M Ltd.), Asahi Guard AG710, Surfron S-382, SC101, SC102, SC103, SC104, SC105 and SC106 (manufactured by Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.).
The amount of the surfactant to be used is preferably 0.01 to 2 parts by mass, more preferably 0.01 to 1 part by mass based on 100 parts by mass of all the polymer components contained in the liquid crystal aligning agent.
The liquid crystal aligning agent is a compound that promotes the charge transfer in the liquid crystal alignment film to promote the charge extraction of the device. The compound represented by the formula [M1], which is disclosed in International Patent Publication No. WO2011 / 132751 (published on October 22, 2011) A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic amine compound represented by the formula [M156] may also be added. The amine compound may be added directly to the liquid crystal aligning agent, but it is preferable to add the amine compound in a concentration of 0.1 to 10% by mass, preferably 1 to 7% by mass. This solvent is not particularly limited as far as the specific polymer (A) is dissolved.
The liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention is not limited to the compound which improves the uniformity of the film thickness of the poor solvent, the crosslinkable compound, the resin film or the liquid crystal alignment film, the compound which improves the surface smoothness and the compound which accelerates the charge- A dielectric material or a conductive material may be added for the purpose of changing electric characteristics such as dielectric constant and conductivity of the liquid crystal alignment film.
<Liquid Crystal Alignment Film / Liquid Crystal Display Device>
The liquid crystal alignment film is a film obtained by applying the above liquid crystal aligning agent to a substrate, followed by drying and firing. The substrate to which the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention is applied is not particularly limited as long as it is a substrate having high transparency. A plastic substrate such as an acrylic substrate or a polycarbonate substrate may be used together with a glass substrate and a silicon nitride substrate. At that time, the use of a substrate on which an ITO electrode or the like for driving the liquid crystal is formed is preferable in terms of process simplification. In a reflection type liquid crystal display element, an opaque material such as a silicon wafer may be used only for a substrate on one side, and a material for reflecting light such as aluminum may be used for the electrode in this case.
The application method of the liquid crystal aligning agent is not particularly limited, but industrially, it is common to perform screen printing, offset printing, flexographic printing, inkjet printing, or the like. Other coating methods include a dipping method, a roll coater method, a slit coater method, a spinner method, and a spraying method, and these may be used depending on the purpose.
After the liquid crystal aligning agent is coated on the substrate, the liquid crystal alignment film can be formed by evaporating the solvent by a heating means such as a hot plate, a heat circulation type oven, or an IR (infrared) type oven. The drying and firing steps after the application of the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention can be carried out at arbitrary temperature and time. The solvent is usually dried at 50 to 120 ° C, preferably at 60 to 100 ° C for 1 to 10 minutes, preferably for 1 to 5 minutes, and then at 150 to 300 ° C , Preferably 180 to 250 ° C for 5 to 120 minutes, preferably 10 to 60 minutes. The thickness of the liquid crystal alignment film after firing is preferably 5 to 300 nm, more preferably 10 to 200 nm because the reliability of the liquid crystal display element may deteriorate if it is too thin.
The method of orienting the liquid crystal alignment film obtained from the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention may be a rubbing treatment method, but a photo alignment treatment method is preferred. As a preferable example of the photo-alignment treatment method, the surface of the liquid crystal alignment film is irradiated with radiation deflected in a predetermined direction, and if necessary, heat treatment is carried out at a temperature of preferably 150 to 250 ° C to obtain a liquid crystal alignment property Quot;) may be given. As the radiation, ultraviolet rays or visible rays having a wavelength of 100 to 800 nm can be used. Among them, ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of preferably 100 to 400 nm, more preferably 200 to 400 nm are preferable.
Further, in order to improve the liquid crystal alignment property, the substrate coated with the liquid crystal alignment film may be irradiated with radiation while heating at 50 to 250 ° C.
The irradiation dose of the radiation is preferably 1 to 10,000 mJ / cm 2. Among them, 100 to 5,000 mJ / cm 2 is preferable. The liquid crystal alignment film thus produced can stably orient the liquid crystal molecules in a certain direction.
Further, in the above method, the liquid crystal alignment film irradiated with the polarized radiation may be subjected to a contact treatment using water or a solvent.
The solvent used in the contact treatment is not particularly limited so long as it is a solvent that dissolves the decomposition product produced from the liquid crystal alignment film by irradiation of radiation. Specific examples include water, methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, 1-methoxy-2-propanol, 1-methoxy- 2- propanol acetate, butyl cellosolve, ethyl lactate, methyl lactate , Diacetone alcohol, methyl 3-methoxypropionate, ethyl 3-ethoxypropionate, propyl acetate, butyl acetate, cyclohexyl acetate and the like. Among them, water, 2-propanol, 1-methoxy-2-propanol or ethyl lactate is preferable in view of versatility and solvent safety. More preferred are water, 1-methoxy-2-propanol or ethyl lactate. The solvent may be one kind or two or more kinds.
The contact treatment furnace may be an immersion treatment or a spraying treatment (also referred to as a spray treatment). The treatment time in these treatments is preferably 10 seconds to 1 hour in order to dissolve the decomposition products produced from the liquid crystal alignment film by the radiation efficiently. Among them, it is preferable to perform the immersion treatment for 1 to 30 minutes. The solvent during the contact treatment may be either normal temperature or warmed, preferably 10 to 80 ° C. Among them, 20 to 50 ° C is preferable. Further, from the viewpoint of solubility of degradation products, ultrasonic treatment or the like may be carried out if necessary.
After the contact treatment, rinsing (rinsing) with a low-boiling solvent such as water, methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone or the like or baking of the liquid crystal alignment film is preferably performed. At this time, either one of rinsing and firing may be performed, or both of them may be performed. The firing temperature is preferably 150 to 300 ° C. Among them, 180 to 250 ° C is preferable. More preferred is 200 to 230 占 폚. The baking time is preferably 10 seconds to 30 minutes. Among them, 1 to 10 minutes is preferable.
The liquid crystal alignment film of the present invention is preferable as a liquid crystal alignment film of a liquid crystal display element of a transverse electric field system such as an IPS system or an FFS system, and is particularly useful as a liquid crystal alignment film of a liquid crystal display element of an FFS system. The liquid crystal display element is obtained by obtaining a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film obtained from the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention is formed, and then manufacturing a liquid crystal cell by a known method and using the liquid crystal cell.
As an example of a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal cell, a liquid crystal display element having a passive matrix structure will be described as an example. Further, the liquid crystal display element may have an active matrix structure in which a switching element such as a TFT (Thin Film Transistor) is formed in each pixel portion constituting the image display.
Specifically, a transparent glass substrate is prepared, a common electrode is formed on one substrate, and a segment electrode is formed on the other substrate. These electrodes can be, for example, ITO electrodes and are patterned to enable desired image display. Next, an insulating film is formed on each substrate so as to cover the common electrode and the segment electrode. The insulating film may be a SiO 2 -TiO 2 film formed by, for example, a sol-gel method.
Next, a liquid crystal alignment film is formed on each substrate, and the other substrate is superimposed on the other substrate such that the liquid crystal alignment film faces thereof face each other, and the periphery is sealed with a sealant. In order to control the substrate gap, it is preferable that a spacer is normally mixed in the sealant and a spacer for controlling the gap of the substrate is dispersed in the in-plane portion where the sealant is not formed. In the part of the sealant, an opening capable of filling the liquid crystal from the outside is formed. Subsequently, the liquid crystal material is injected through the openings formed in the sealant into the space surrounded by the two substrates and the sealant, and then the openings are sealed with an adhesive. For the injection, a vacuum injection method may be used, or a method using capillary phenomenon in the atmosphere may be used. As the liquid crystal material, any of a positive type liquid crystal material and a negative type liquid crystal material may be used, but a negative type liquid crystal material is preferable. Next, the polarizing plate is installed. Specifically, a pair of polarizers is attached to a surface of the two substrates opposite to the liquid crystal layer.
By using the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention as described above, it is possible to obtain a liquid crystal alignment film capable of suppressing afterimage by alternating-current driving and having both adhesiveness to the sealing agent and base substrate. In particular, it is useful for a liquid crystal alignment film for photo-alignment treatment obtained by irradiating polarized radiation.
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to examples, but the present invention is not limited thereto. The abbreviations of the compounds used and measurement methods of the respective properties are as follows.
NMP: N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone
BCS: butyl cellosolve
DA-1: 1,2-bis (4-aminophenoxy) ethane
DA-2: 4- (2- (methylamino) ethyl) aniline
DA-3: p-phenylenediamine
DA-4: 4- (2-aminoethyl) aniline
DA-5: See the following equation (DA-5)
[Viscosity]
The viscosity of the polyamic acid ester and polyamic acid solution and the like was measured using a E-type viscometer TVE-22H (Toki Industries Co., Ltd.) at a sample amount of 1.1 ml, cone rotor TE-1 (1 ° 34 ' Respectively.
[Molecular Weight]
The molecular weight of the polyamic acid ester or the like was measured by a GPC (room temperature gel permeation chromatography) apparatus and the number average molecular weight (Mn) and the weight average molecular weight (Mw) were calculated as polyethylene glycol and polyethylene oxide conversion values.
GPC apparatus: GPC-101 manufactured by Shodex Corp., column: manufactured by Shodex Corp. (in series of KD803 and KD805) Column temperature: 50 占 폚 Eluent: N, N-dimethylformamide (lithium bromide- · H 2 O) is 30 m㏖ / ℓ, phosphoric acid is 30 m㏖ / ℓ of anhydrous crystals (o- phosphoric acid), tetrahydrofuran (THF) is 10 ㎖ / ℓ), flow rate: 1.0 ㎖ / min
Standard sample for calibration curve: TSK standard polyethylene oxide (weight average molecular weight (Mw) of about 900,000, 150,000, 100,000, 30,000) manufactured by Tosoh Corporation and polyethylene glycol (peak top molecular weight (Mp) of about 12,000 , 4,000, 1,000). In order to avoid duplication of peaks, two samples of samples mixed with four types of 900,000, 100,000, 12,000 and 1,000 and three samples of 150,000, 30,000 and 4,000 were separately measured.
[Anisotropy of alignment layer]
The measurement was carried out using a liquid crystal alignment film evaluation system " Ray Scan Labo H " (LYS-LH30S-1A) manufactured by Moritex. A linearly polarized ultraviolet ray having a wavelength of 254 nm with an extinction ratio of 10: 1 or more was irradiated to a polyimide film having a film thickness of 100 nm via a polarizing plate and the degree of anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained alignment film was measured.
[Production of liquid crystal cell]
A liquid crystal cell having a structure of a fringe field switching (FFS) mode liquid crystal display device is manufactured.
First, a substrate on which an electrode was formed was prepared. The substrate is a glass substrate having a size of 30 mm x 50 mm and a thickness of 0.7 mm. On the substrate, an ITO electrode having a beta-pattern constituting the counter electrode as the first layer is formed. On the first layer counter electrode, a SiN (silicon nitride) film formed by the CVD method is formed as the second layer. The thickness of the second-layer SiN film is 500 nm and functions as an interlayer insulating film. On the second-layer SiN film, a pixel electrode on a comb formed by patterning an ITO film is disposed as a third layer, and two pixels, i.e., a first pixel and a second pixel, are formed. The size of each pixel is 10 mm in length and 5 mm in width. At this time, the first layer counter electrode and the third layer pixel electrode are electrically insulated by the action of the second layer SiN film.
The third-layer pixel electrode has a comb-like shape formed by arranging a plurality of elongated electrode elements bent at a central portion. The width of each electrode element in the width direction is 3 占 퐉, and the interval between the electrode elements is 6 占 퐉. Since the pixel electrode forming each pixel is constituted by arranging a plurality of elongated electrode elements bent at the center portion, the shape of each pixel is not a rectangular shape, Quot; " of Fig. Each pixel is divided into upper and lower portions with the central bent portion as a boundary, and has a first region on the upper side of the bent portion and a second region on the lower side.
When the first region and the second region of each pixel are compared with each other, the electrode elements of the pixel electrodes constituting the first region and the second region are different from each other. In other words, when the rubbing direction of a liquid crystal alignment film to be described later is taken as a reference, the electrode elements of the pixel electrodes are formed so as to form an angle of +10 degrees (clockwise) in the first region of the pixel, The element is formed so as to form an angle (clockwise direction) of -10 degrees. That is, in the first region and the second region of each pixel, the direction of the rotation operation (inflation / switching) of the liquid crystal caused by the application of the voltage between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode is opposite to each other have.
Next, the liquid crystal aligning agent was filtered with a filter of 1.0 占 퐉, and then applied to a glass substrate having a prepared columnar spacer having a height of 4 占 퐉 and an ITO film formed on the backside of the prepared electrode and by spin coating. Dried on a hot plate at 80 DEG C for 5 minutes and then fired in a hot air circulating oven at 230 DEG C for 20 minutes to form a coating film having a thickness of 100 nm. The coating film was irradiated with ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 254 nm linearly polarized at an extinction ratio of 10: 1 or more with a polarizing plate interposed therebetween. The substrate was immersed in at least one solvent selected from water and an organic solvent for 3 minutes, then immersed in pure water for 1 minute, and heated on a hot plate at 150 to 300 ° C for 5 minutes to obtain a substrate having a liquid crystal alignment film formed thereon . A sealant is printed on the substrate using the two substrates as a set and the other substrate is stuck so that the liquid crystal alignment film faces the alignment face in the direction of 0 DEG and then the sealant is cured, Cells were prepared. A liquid crystal MLC-7026-100 (manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc.) was injected into this open cell by a reduced pressure injection method and the injection port was sealed to obtain an FFS-driven liquid crystal cell. Thereafter, the obtained liquid crystal cell was heated at 110 DEG C for 1 hour, left for one night, and used for evaluation.
[Evaluation of afterimage by long-term AC drive]
A liquid crystal cell having the same structure as the liquid crystal cell used for the after-image evaluation was prepared.
Using this liquid crystal cell, an AC voltage of ± 5 V was applied for 120 hours at a frequency of 60 Hz under a constant temperature environment of 60 ° C. Thereafter, the pixel electrode and the counter electrode of the liquid crystal cell were short-circuited, and left standing at room temperature for one day.
After leaving the liquid crystal cell, the liquid crystal cell was placed between two polarizing plates arranged so that the polarization axis thereof was orthogonal to each other, and the backlight was turned on in a voltage unapplied state, and the arrangement angle of the liquid crystal cell was adjusted so that the luminance of the transmitted light was minimized. The rotation angle when the liquid crystal cell was rotated from the angle at which the second area of the first pixel was darkest to the angle at which the first area became darkest was calculated as the angle?. Similarly, in the second pixel, the second region and the first region were compared to calculate the same angle?. Then, the average value of the angular DELTA values of the first pixel and the second pixel was calculated as the angle DELTA of the liquid crystal cell, and the liquid crystal alignability was evaluated in terms of the magnitude of the value. That is, when the value of the angle DELTA is small, the liquid crystal alignability is good.
[Evaluation of Bright Point of Liquid Crystal Cell (Contrast)] [
The luminescent evaluation of the liquid crystal cell produced in the same manner as the above (production of liquid crystal cell) was carried out.
And observing the liquid crystal cell with a polarizing microscope (ECLIPSE E600WPOL) (Nikon Corporation). More specifically, the liquid crystal cell was installed with Cross-Nicol and the number of the luminescent spots confirmed by observing the liquid crystal cell with a polarizing microscope with a magnification of 5 times was counted. The number of luminescent spots was evaluated as "good" Respectively.
≪ Synthesis Example 1 &
(4.20 mmol) of DA-1, 0.421 g (2.80 mmol) of DA-2 and 0.76 g (7.00 mmol) of DA-3 were weighed in a 50 ml four- necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen- , 33.60 g of NMP was added, and the mixture was stirred to dissolve while nitrogen was being transferred. While stirring the diamine solution, 2.95 g (13.16 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was added, and the solid content concentration was further adjusted to 12 mass% 3.73 g of NMP was added. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (A). The viscosity of the polyamic acid solution at 25 캜 was 316 mPa s. The molecular weight of this polyamic acid was Mn = 13530 and Mw = 29850.
0.95 g (3.90 mmol) of DA-1, 0.98 g (6.5 mmol) of DA-2 and 0.35 g (2.60 mmol) of DA-4 were weighed into a 50 ml four- necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen- , 33.15 g of NMP was added, and the mixture was stirred to dissolve while nitrogen was being transferred. While stirring the diamine solution, 2.74 g (12.22 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was added, and the solid content concentration was further adjusted to 12 mass% 3.73 g of NMP was added. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (B). The viscosity of the polyamic acid solution at 25 캜 was 483 mPa s. The molecular weight of this polyamic acid was Mn = 14260 and Mw = 30050.
1.47 g (6.00 mmol) of DA-1 and 0.90 g (6.00 mmol) of DA-2 were weighed into a 50 mL four-necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen inlet tube. 31.96 g of NMP was added, And the mixture was stirred to dissolve. While stirring the diamine solution, 2.60 g (11.58 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was added, and the solid content concentration was further adjusted to 12 mass% 3.55 g of NMP was added. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (C). The viscosity of the polyamic acid solution at 25 캜 was 423 mPa s. The molecular weight of the polyamic acid was Mn = 14010 and Mw = 29540.
1.50 g (6.50 mmol) of DA-1 and 0.70 g (6.50 mmol) of DA-3 were weighed into a 50 ml four-necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen inlet tube, and 33.01 g of NMP was added. And the mixture was stirred to dissolve. While stirring the diamine solution, 2.78 g (12.42 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was added, and the solid content concentration was further adjusted to 12 mass% 3.66 g of NMP was added. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (D). This polyamic acid solution had a viscosity of 360 mPa · s at 25 ° C. The molecular weight of the polyamic acid was Mn = 13810 and Mw = 28400.
1.03 g (4.20 mmol) of DA-1, 0.76 g (7.00 mmol) of DA-3 and 0.38 g (2.80 mmol) of DA-4 were weighed into a 50 ml four- necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen- , 34.38 g of NMP was added, and the mixture was stirred and dissolved while the nitrogen was being transferred. While stirring the diamine solution, 3.04 g (13.58 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was added, and the solid content concentration was further adjusted to 12 mass% 3.82 g of NMP was added. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (E). The viscosity of this polyamic acid solution at 25 캜 was 428 mPa s. The molecular weight of the polyamic acid was Mn = 14080 and Mw = 29960.
1.13 g (7.50 mmol) of DA-2 and 0.81 g (7.50 mmol) of DA-3 were weighed into a 50 ml four-necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen inlet tube, 33.87 g of NMP was added, And the mixture was stirred to dissolve. While stirring the diamine solution, 3.39 g (14.85 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was added, and the solid content concentration was further adjusted to 12 mass% 3.76 g of NMP was added. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (F). The viscosity of this polyamic acid solution at 25 캜 was 280 mPa · s. The molecular weight of the polyamic acid was Mn = 12250 and Mw = 26550.
3.36 g (15.00 mmol) of 1,3-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride was weighed into a 50 ml four-necked flask equipped with a stirrer and a nitrogen inlet tube, and NMP 3.73 g was added, and the mixture was stirred to dissolve while transferring nitrogen. 1.13 g (12.68 mmol) of DA-3 and 0.81 g (1.50 mmol) of DA-5 were added while stirring the acid dianhydride solution, 7.46 g of NMP was further added so that the solid content concentration became 10 mass% Respectively. Thereafter, the mixture was stirred at room temperature for 24 hours to obtain a polyamic acid solution (G). The viscosity of the polyamic acid solution at 25 캜 was 460 mPa s. The molecular weight of this polyamic acid was Mn = 15020 and Mw = 33320.
≪ Example 1 >
15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (A) was weighed into a 100 ml Erlenmeyer flask, 9.00 g of NMP and 6.00 g of BCS were added and mixed at 25 DEG C for 8 hours to obtain liquid crystal aligning agent (1) . No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
And 15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (B) were used in place of the polyamic acid solution (B), to thereby obtain a liquid crystal aligning agent (2). No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
And 15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (C) were used in place of the polyamic acid solution (C). No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
≪ Comparative Example 1 &
And 15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (D) were used in place of the polyamic acid solution (D) of Example 1, to thereby obtain a liquid crystal aligning agent (4). No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
And 15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (E) were used in place of the polyamic acid solution (E) of Example 1, to obtain a liquid crystal aligning agent (5). No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
And 15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (F) were used in place of the polyamic acid solution (F). No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
A liquid crystal aligning agent (7) was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that 15.00 g of a 12 mass% polyamic acid solution (G) was used. No abnormality such as turbidity or precipitation was observed in this liquid crystal aligning agent, and it was confirmed that it was a homogeneous solution.
(Example 5)
The liquid crystal aligning agent (1) was filtered with a filter having a size of 1.0 mu m, and then spin-coated on an ITO substrate having a size of 30 mm x 40 mm. Dried on a hot plate at 80 DEG C for 2 minutes and then fired in a hot air circulating oven at 230 DEG C for 14 minutes to form a coating film having a film thickness of 100 nm. This coating film surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 254 nm and linearly polarized at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 via a polarizing plate to obtain a liquid crystal alignment film.
The height of anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at an irradiation dose of 200 mJ / cm2 of the ultraviolet light was 3.39, the value of anisotropy at 300 mJ / cm2 was 4.10, and the value of anisotropy at 400 mJ / cm2 was 3.26. The irradiation dose of the ultraviolet ray having the highest anisotropy was 300 mJ / cm 2, and the optimum irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
A liquid crystal alignment film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 5 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (2) was used. The magnitude of the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at an irradiation dose of 50 mJ / cm 2 of the ultraviolet ray was 0.05, the value of anisotropy at 100 mJ / cm 2 was 0.61, and the value of anisotropy at 200 mJ / cm 2 was 0.06. The irradiation amount of the ultraviolet ray with the largest anisotropy was 100 mJ / cm 2, and the optimal irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
A liquid crystal alignment film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 5 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (3) was used. The magnitude of the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at an irradiation dose of ultraviolet rays of 50 mJ / cm2 was 0.10, the value of anisotropy at 100 mJ / cm2 was 0.92, and the value of anisotropy at 200 mJ / cm2 was 0.15. The irradiation amount of the ultraviolet ray with the largest anisotropy was 100 mJ / cm 2, and the optimal irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
(Comparative Example 5)
A liquid crystal alignment film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 5 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (4) was used. The magnitude of the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at an irradiation dose of 100 mJ / cm2 of the ultraviolet light was 3.02, the value of anisotropy at 200 mJ / cm2 was 5.37, and the value of anisotropy at 300 mJ / cm2 was 3.40. The irradiation amount of the ultraviolet ray with the largest anisotropy was 200 mJ / cm 2, and the optimal irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
A liquid crystal alignment film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 5 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (5) was used. The magnitude of the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at the dose of ultraviolet rays of 200 mJ / cm2 was 4.28, the value of anisotropy at 300 mJ / cm2 was 4.57, and the value of anisotropy at 400 mJ / cm2 was 3.03. The irradiation dose of the ultraviolet ray having the largest anisotropy was 300 mJ / cm 2, and the optimal irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
A liquid crystal alignment film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 5 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (6) was used. The magnitude of the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at an irradiation dose of ultraviolet ray of 300 mJ / cm 2 was 0.54, the value of anisotropy at 400 mJ / cm 2 was 0.65, and the value of anisotropy at 500 mJ / cm 2 was 0.60. The irradiation dose of the ultraviolet ray with the largest anisotropy was 400 mJ / cm 2, and the optimal irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
A liquid crystal alignment film was obtained in the same manner as in Example 5 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (7) was used. The magnitude of the anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the obtained liquid crystal alignment film was measured. The value of anisotropy at an irradiation dose of ultraviolet ray of 400 mJ / cm2 was 1.61, the value of anisotropy at 600 mJ / cm2 was 1.71, and the value of anisotropy at 800 mJ / cm2 was 1.59. The irradiation dose of the ultraviolet ray with the largest anisotropy was 600 mJ / cm 2, and the optimal irradiation condition in the photo alignment treatment was set.
Table 1 summarizes the measurement results of the magnitude of anisotropy with respect to the alignment direction of the liquid crystal alignment films obtained in Examples 5 to 7 and Comparative Examples 5 to 8.
The liquid crystal aligning agent (1) was filtered with a filter of 1.0 탆, and then applied to a glass substrate having a columnar spacer having a height of 4 탆 in which an ITO film was formed on the substrate on which the prepared electrode was formed and by spin coating. Dried on a hot plate at 80 DEG C for 5 minutes and then fired in a hot air circulating oven at 230 DEG C for 20 minutes to form a coating film having a thickness of 100 nm. This coating film surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays of 254 nm wavelength linearly polarized at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 through a polarizing plate at 0.3 J / cm 2. Thereafter, the substrate was heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. A sealant was printed on the substrate with one set of the two substrates, and another substrate was stuck so that the liquid crystal alignment film surface faced the alignment direction at 0 °, and then the sealant was cured to prepare a vacant cell . A liquid crystal MLC-7026-100 (manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc.) was injected into this open cell by a reduced pressure injection method and the injection port was sealed to obtain an FFS-driven liquid crystal cell. Thereafter, the resultant liquid crystal cell was heated at 110 DEG C for 1 hour, left standing overnight, and residual image was evaluated by long-term AC drive. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.04 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was less than 10, which was good.
A coating film having a thickness of 100 nm was formed in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (2) was used. This coated film surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 254 nm linearly polarized at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 at a rate of 0.1 J / cm2 via a polarizer, and then heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. An FFS-driving liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the substrate on which this liquid crystal alignment film was formed was used to perform residual image evaluation by long-term AC drive on the obtained cell. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.10 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was less than 10, which was good.
(Example 10)
An FFS-driven liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 9 except that the film was irradiated with polarized ultraviolet rays, immersed in 2-propanol for 3 minutes, and then immersed in pure water for 1 minute. For this FFS-driven liquid crystal cell, after-image evaluation by long-term AC drive was performed. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.08 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was less than 10, which was good.
A coating film having a thickness of 100 nm was formed in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (3) was used. This coating film surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays of 254 nm in linear polarization polarized at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 through a polarizing plate at 0.1 J / cm 2, immersed in 2-propanol for 3 minutes, and then immersed in pure water for 1 minute. Thereafter, the substrate was heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. An FFS-driving liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the substrate on which this liquid crystal alignment film was formed was used to perform residual image evaluation by long-term AC drive on the obtained cell. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.08 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was less than 10, which was good.
A coating film having a thickness of 100 nm was formed in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (4) was used. This coating film surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 254 nm and a linear polarization of 26: 1 at an extinction ratio of 0.2 J / cm2 through a polarizing plate. Thereafter, the substrate was heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. An FFS-driving liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the substrate on which this liquid crystal alignment film was formed was used to perform residual image evaluation by long-term AC drive on the obtained cell. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.15 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was 10 or more and was defective.
(Comparative Example 10)
A coating film having a thickness of 100 nm was formed in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the above liquid crystal aligning agent (5) was used. This coating film surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays of 254 nm wavelength linearly polarized at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 through a polarizing plate at 0.3 J / cm 2. Thereafter, the substrate was heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. An FFS-driving liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the substrate on which this liquid crystal alignment film was formed was used to perform residual image evaluation by long-term AC drive on the obtained cell. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.20 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was 10 or more and was defective.
A coating film having a thickness of 100 nm was formed in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (6) was used. This coated surface was irradiated with ultraviolet rays of 254 nm in a linearly polarized state at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 through a polarizing plate at 0.4 J / cm 2. Thereafter, the substrate was heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. An FFS-driving liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the substrate on which this liquid crystal alignment film was formed was used to perform residual image evaluation by long-term AC drive on the obtained cell. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.20 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was 10 or more and was defective.
A coating film having a thickness of 100 nm was formed in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the liquid crystal aligning agent (7) was used. This coating film surface was irradiated with a linearly polarized ultraviolet ray having a wavelength of 254 nm at an extinction ratio of 26: 1 through a polarizing plate at 0.6 J / cm2. Thereafter, the substrate was heated on a hot plate at 230 캜 for 14 minutes to obtain a substrate on which a liquid crystal alignment film was formed. An FFS-driving liquid crystal cell was produced in the same manner as in Example 8 except that the substrate on which this liquid crystal alignment film was formed was used to perform residual image evaluation by long-term AC drive on the obtained cell. The value of the angle? Of this liquid crystal cell after the long-term AC drive was 0.24 degrees. Further, as a result of observing the bright spot in the cell, the number of bright points was 10 or more and was defective.
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The liquid crystal alignment film obtained from the liquid crystal aligning agent of the present invention can reduce the afterimage due to the AC drive generated in the IPS drive method or the FFS drive type liquid crystal display device, This excellent IPS driving method or FFS driving method liquid crystal display device can be obtained.
The liquid crystal display element having the liquid crystal alignment film of the present invention is excellent in reliability and can be widely used in a liquid crystal television, a medium and small-sized car navigation system, a smart phone, and the like which require a large screen and high display quality.
The entire contents of the specification, claims, and abstract of Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-219597 filed on October 28, 2014 are hereby incorporated herein by reference as the disclosure of the specification of the present invention.
(A) containing at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of a polyimide precursor having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and a structural unit represented by the following formula (2) and an imidization polymer of the polyimide precursor Wherein the liquid crystal aligning agent is a liquid crystal aligning agent.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the content ratio of the structural unit represented by the formula (1) is 10 to 50 mol% based on 1 mol of the total structural units of the polymer (A), and the content ratio of the structural unit represented by the formula (2) Is 20 to 90 mol% based on 1 mol of all structural units of the polymer (A).
3. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
The structural unit represented by formula (1) and the structural unit represented by formula (2) may be present in the same polyimide precursor, and the structural unit represented by formula (1) and the structural unit represented by formula (2) A liquid crystal aligning agent which may be present in the polyimide precursor.
4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
In the formula (1) and (2), X 1 and X 2 is the alignment of the liquid crystal the formula (X1-2).
Wherein R 1 and R 2 are alkyl groups having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and R 3 , R 4 , R 5 and R 6 are hydrogen atoms and n is an integer of 1 to 3, in the formulas (1) and (2) Orientation agent.
A liquid crystal aligning agent containing 2 to 10 mass% of polymer (A).
Liquid crystal aligning agent for optical alignment.
A method for producing a liquid crystal alignment film which irradiates polarized ultraviolet rays to a film obtained by applying and firing the liquid crystal aligning agent according to any one of claims 1 to 7.
9. The liquid crystal alignment film according to claim 7, wherein the polarized ultraviolet ray has a wavelength of 100 to 800 nm.
A liquid crystal display element having the liquid crystal alignment film according to claim 8 or 9.
11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the liquid crystal is a negative type liquid crystal material.
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Prof. EMILE LEIPP (1913-1986): publications
Mort : 1986
Spécialiste d’acoustique musicale. – Fondateur du Laboratoire d’acoustique de la Faculté des sciences de Paris, 1962. – A été directeur de recherches au CNRS
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Acoustique et musique
données physiques et technologiques, problèmes de l’audition des sons musicaux, principes de fonctionnement et signification acoustique des principaux archétypes d’instruments de musique, les musiques expérimentales, l’acoustique des salles
4e éd. rev. et corr.
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Description : Note : Bibliogr. p. 355-370 . Index
Édition : Paris ; New York ; Barcelone : Masson , 1989
Auteur du texte : Émile Leipp (1913-1986)
disponible en Haut de Jardin
[catalogue]
Conférences des Journées d’études, [9e] Festival international du son haute fidélité, stéréophonie, facture musicale. [Paris, 1967. Acoustique et élestroacoustique musicale
Description matérielle : In-8° (24 cm), 128 p., ill., couv. ill. 15 F. [D. L. 5654-67]
Description : Note : Constitue le tome 7 des Cahiers de la Revue du son. – Articles de Dr M. Burgeat, Mlle Castellengo, Jacques Chailley, F. Dacos, Ermann, Ferrieu, E. de La mare, Emile Leipp, Dr Jurgen Meyer, Dr Hans Werner Pieplow, Pujolle, J. Walton
Édition : Paris : Chiron , 1967
Auteur du texte : Michèle Castellengo, Jacques Chailley (1910-1999), Fernand Dacos (1892-1977), Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Jürgen Meyer
[Reproduction en fac-similé]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-376 p.)
Description : Note : Bibliogr. p. 365-370. Index
Édition : Paris : Presses des Mines-Mines ParisTech , impr. 2010
3 éd. revue et corrigée
4e éd. revue et corrigée
données physiques et technologiques, problèmes de l’audition des sons musicaux…
Description matérielle : 340 p.
Description : Note : Bibliogr. pp. 325-329. Index
Sur la page de titre figure le détail des sujets abordés : “Données physiques et technologiques. Problèmes de l’audition des sons musicaux. Principes de fonctionnement et signification acoustique des principaux archétypes d’instruments de musique. Les musiques expérimentales. L’acoustique des salles.”
Édition : Paris : Masson et Cie , 1971
Appareillages et méthodes modernes en acoustique musicale
Description matérielle : P. 1-9, 30 cm, pl.
Description : Note : Dans : G. A. M., Paris, Groupe d’acoustique musicale, 1963/64, n° 4
Édition : Paris : Groupe d’acoustique musicale , 1963-1964
Appareillages et méthodes modernes en acoustique musicale….
Description matérielle : [9] p.
Description : Note : GAM. Bulletin d’acoustique musicale. 1964. n° 4
Édition : Paris : Groupe d’acoustique musicale , 1964
Du Diapason et de sa relativité
Description matérielle : 39 p.
Description : Note : Numéro de : “La Revue musicale”, n° 294, 1977. – Bibliogr. p. 39
Édition : Paris : La Revue musicale , 1977
Auteur du texte : Michèle Castellengo, Émile Leipp (1913-1986)
Essai sur la lutherie…Considérations sur le vernis de Crémone
Édition : Paris, l’auteur, 94, rue de Crimée ; (Corbeil, Impr. des Impressions scientifiques) , 1946. In-8° (230 x 145), 92 p., fig. [D. L. 9993] -IXd-
Essai sur la lutherie, étude rationnelle des influences respectives de la construction et du vernissage sur la sonorité des instruments du quatuor. Considérations sur le vernis de Crémone
Édition : Paris, chez l’auteur ; (Corbeil, les Impressions scientifiques) , 1946. In-8° (230 x 140), 92 p., fig., couv. ill. [Don 3036] -IXd-IVb-
Description matérielle : In-8° (230 x 140), 92 p., fig., couv. ill.
Édition : Paris : chez l’auteur , 1946
A propos du rythme et des instruments à fonction rythmique en Orient
L’Etude acoustique. – [1]
Description : Note : GAM. Bulletin du Groupe d’acoustique musicale. 1967. n° 29
Exposé sur le problème du diapason [et discussion]
Description matérielle : P. 1-7 [- 10], 30 cm, pl.
Images, et traitement optique d’images
Description : Note : GAM. Bulletin du Groupe d’Acoustique musicale. juin 1973. n° 68
Information sémantique et parole
Essai d’une gestalttheorie
Description matérielle : 23 ff.
Introduction à l’acoustique musicale et instrumentale
cours d’acoustique au Conservatoire national de musique de Paris
Description matérielle : [206] f. : dactylogr.
Description : Note : Bibliogr. f. 203-206
Édition : [S.l.] : [s.n.] , [ca 1964]
Comité national pour la célébration du bi-centenaire de Jean-Philippe Rameau. Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1764-1964
Description matérielle : In-4°, 144 p., fig., fac-sim., musique
Description : Note : Fac-sim. de l’écriture et de l’écriture musicale de J. S. Bach. – Articles de (André) Ameller, (André) Boll, (Jacques) Chailley, (Jean-Jacques) Duparcq, (Antoine) Geoffroy-Dechaume, (Françoise) Gervais, (Emile) Leipp, (Armand) Machabey, (Marie-Germaine) Moreau
Édition : Paris : Richard-Masse , 1965
Auteur du texte : André Amellér (1912-1990), André Boll (1896-1983), Jacques Chailley (1910-1999), Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume (1905-2000), Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Armand Machabey (1886-1966)
Auteur ou responsable intellectuel : Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Jürgen Meyer
le pouvoir directionnel des instruments de musique
Description : Note : GAM. Bulletin du Groupe d’Acoustique musicale, mars 1967, n° 27
La Machine à écouter
essai de psycho-acoustique
Description matérielle : X-260 p.
Mécanique et acoustique de l’appareil phonatoire
La Musique …. Avec la collaboration de Gilbert Amy, François Lesure, François Michel, Christian Rosenthal, Gilbert Rouget
Description matérielle : In-8°, 160 p., fig., portr., musique, couv. ill. en coul.
Description : Note : Articles non signés et de (Marthe) Douriau, (Luc) Fellot, (André) Gribenski, (Pierre) Hémardinquer, (Emile) Leipp, (Constant) Martin, (Abraham) Moles. – Portraits de : Armstrong (Louis), photo; Clidat (France), photo; Davis (Miles), photo; Guy d’Arezzo, Hampton (Lionel), photo; Menuhin (Yehudi), photo; Mozart (W. A.), par Ollier. – Fac-sim. de l’écrit. mus. et de la sign. de Igor Stravinskiĭ. – Photo des instr. suiv. : alto, alto en cuivre, arc musical. Sénégal, archicistre, banjo, baryton en cuivre, basse en cuivre, basson, blockwood, bugle, caisse claire, carillon, castagnettes, cistre, clairon, clarinette, clavecin (de Jean Couchet), contrebasse, contrebasse en cuivre, cor anglais, cor d’harmonie, cornet à pistons, cymbales, dulcimer, électrophone, épinette, fifre, flûte, fouet, gamelan, grosse caisse, guitare, guitare électrique, guitare espagnole à 6 cordes, harpe, hautbois, hélicon, lithophone. Viet-Nam, luth ténor, magnétophone, mandole, mandoline, maracas, orgue à bouche. Indonésie, piano, plateau à picots, poste radiophonique, rebec, saxophone, serpent, shamisen, soubassophone, spinet Lowre, tambour, tambourin basque, tambourin d’orchestre, théorbe, timbales, triangle, trombone, trompe de chasse, trompette à pistons, trompette de cavalerie, trompette marine, vibraphone, viole d’amour, viole de gambe, violon, violoncelle, virginal (de Gilbert Townsend), xylophone, xylophone. Guinée
Édition : Paris : la Musique , 1962
Auteur du texte : André Gribenski (1917-2013), Pierre Hémardinquer (1897-1979), Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Constant Martin, Abraham André Moles (1920-1992)
Contributeur : Gilbert Amy, François Lesure (1923-2001), François Michel (musicologue), Gilbert Rouget (1916-2017)
Musique en tête
Description : Note : Bibliogr. p. 193-196
Communications de : Jacques Beauvais, Claude Dorgueille Dr, Elisabeth Dumaurier, Robert Frances, Angélique Fulin, Michel Imberty, Emile Leipp, Guy Maneveau, Emile Martenot, exposé revu par : Jean-Jacques Duparcq, Jean-Pierre Mialaret, France Strauss, Arlette Zenatti et discussions
Édition : Issy-les-Moulineaux : EAP , 1981
Auteur du texte : Élisabeth Dumaurier, Robert Francès (1919-2013), Angélique Fulin, Michel Imberty, Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Guy Maneveau (1928?-2010)
Éditeur scientifique : Jean-Pierre Mialaret, Arlette Zenatti
L’Oreille juge de la qualité sonore
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (132 p.)
Description : Note : Notes bibliogr
Constitue le t. IX des Cahiers de la Revue du son. – Articles de Benjamin Bladier, Peter K. Burkowitz, Mlle M. Castellengo, Chiarucci, Condamines, Ray M. Dolby, F. Fransson, A. Kirchberger, J. P. Legouix, Emile Leipp, J. Léon, Reibel, Trân Văn Khê
Auteur du texte : Michèle Castellengo, Ray Milton Dolby (1933-2013), Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Guy Reibel, Trâǹ Văn Khê (1921-2015)
L’Orgue français
études et documents
Description matérielle : 160 p.-[4] f. de pl. dépl.
Description : Note : Numéro de : “La Revue musicale”, n° 295-296, 1977. – Bibliogr. p. 141-160
Numéro dirigé par Jean-Jacques Duparcq. – Articles de : Michèle Castellenge, Dominique Chailley, René Delosse, Pierre Hardouin, André Isoir, Henri Legros, Emile Leipp, Claude Noisette de Crauzat, Jean-Albert Villard
Auteur du texte : Michèle Castellengo, Dominique Chailley, Pierre Jean Hardouin (1914-2008), André Isoir (1935-2016), Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Claude Noisette de Crauzat, Jean Albert Villard (19..-2000)
Les Paramètres sensibles des instruments à cordes
Description matérielle : 27 cm, II-99 ff., fig., multigr.
Description : Note : Thèse. Univ. Paris. Sc. 1960. N° 927
Édition : S. l. n. d.
Physique, musique et instruments de musique. Conférence prononcée lors du congrès de la S. F. P. [Toulouse, 27.6.79]
Description matérielle : P. 54-58, fig.
Description : Note : Dans : Technica : revue bimestrielle de technique industrielle, Lyon, 1981, n° 419
Édition : Lyon : [s.n.] , 1981
Le Problème de l’intelligibilité de la parole
Description matérielle : 29 + 4 p.
Le Problème du bruit
Problèmes actuels de la fidélité sonore
Description matérielle : In-8° (24 cm), 144 p., ill., couv. ill. [D. L. 7545-65]
Description : Note : Les Cahiers de la Revue du son. 5
Articles de Mme C. Bordone-Sacerdote, J. Bratières, Jacques Chailley, Pierre Gilotaux, G. Gogny, J. Guillermin, Rémy Lafaurie, H. K. A. de Lange, Emile Leipp, Michel Philippot, L. Pimonow, Hans Schiesser, Fritz Winckel
Auteur du texte : Jacques Chailley (1910-1999), Rémy Lafaurie, Helmut Karl Heinz Lange, Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Michel Philippot (1925-1996), Fritz Winckel (1907-2000)
Recherches sur la parole
Description matérielle : [182] p.
Description : Note : G. A. M. Bulletin du groupe d’acoustique musicale. 1971. n° 53 – Université Paris VI. Département de mécanique. Laboratoire de mécanique physique. Centre de calcul analogique du C.N.R.S.
Réflexions sur la mécanique et l’acoustique de l’oreille moyenne
E. Leipp avec la collaboration d’André Isoir. La Régale
Description matérielle : In-4°, 27 p., pl., titre ill.
Auteur du texte : André Isoir (1935-2016), Émile Leipp (1913-1986)
La Sonorité du violon
Édition : Paris, l’auteur, 94, rue de Crimée ; (Corbeil, Impr. scientifiques) , 1952. In-8°, 47 p., fig., couv. en coul. [D. L. 11327-52] -IXd-
Sons, électronique et orgue
Constitue le t. 10 des Cahiers de la revue du son. – Articles de Suzanne Borel-Maisonny, René Chocholle, R. Condamines, L. Eaton, C. Jund, Elizabeth de Lamare, Dr J. P. Legouix, Emile Leipp, James Lequeux, M. Manford, J. P. Oehmichen, J. C. Risset, Pierre Walder
Auteur du texte : Suzanne Borel-Maisonny (1900-1995), René Chocholle (….-1986), Émile Leipp (1913-1986), James Lequeux, Jean-Claude Risset (1938-2016)
Les Sons nouveaux avec instruments de musique mécaniques
Description : Note : GAM. Bulletin du Groupe d’Acoustique. juin 1974, n° 74
Stéréophonie et reproduction musicale. Journées d’études du VIIIe Festival international du son, Paris [1966]
Description matérielle : In-8°, 118 p., fig., couv. ill.
Description : Note : Articles de Charles Bruck, G. Decroix, J. Dehaussy, J. Dewèvre, André Didier, M. Dugas, Jean Wilfrid Garrett, T. S. Korn, Emile Leipp, Jean-Louis Lemonde, Joseph Léon, J. S. Liénard, H. Mertens, Michel Philippot, J. C. Risset, M. Werner
Édition : Paris : Chiron , [1966]
Auteur du texte : Charles Bruck (1911-1995), André Didier (collecteur), Jean-Wilfrid Garrett, Émile Leipp (1913-1986), Michel Philippot (1925-1996), Jean-Claude Risset (1938-2016)
Stéréoscopie et stéréophonie
Une méthode d’approche objective du problème de l’audition stéréophonique
Conférences des journées d’études, [10e] Festival international du son – haute fidélité – stéréophonie – facture instrumentale. [1968. Paris. La Vérité des restitutions sonores
Description : Note : Constitue le tome 8 des Cahiers de la Revue du son. – Articles de Jean Camion, Mlle Castellengo, R. E. Cooke, Jean Detton, D.r Claude Dorgeuille, J.-A. Dreyfus-Graf, Jean-Claude Lafon, Elisabeth de Lamare, Emile Leipp, Parmentier, Luc Périn, Rhein, G. Slot
Auteur du texte : Michèle Castellengo, Raymond E. Cooke (1925-1995), Jean-Claude Lafon, Émile Leipp (1913-1986)
Le Violon, histoire, esthétique, facture et acoustique
Description matérielle : In-4° (25 cm), 128 p., ill., pl., cart. ill. en coul. 24 F. [D. L. 15422-65]
Description : Note : Actualités scientifiques et industrielles. 1315
Avec bibliographie. – Photos et dessins des instruments : crwth à 3 cordes (11e siècle) ; crwth gallois à 6 cordes ; gigue anglaise ; lira ; lyra du Pont ; ravanastron ; rebab ; rebec ; viole ; violon (de Richelme) ; violon trapezoïdal (de Savart). – Portrait de Duiffoprugcar (Gaspar), gr. par Woeiriot
Édition : Paris : Hermann (Nancy, impr. Berger-Levrault) , 1965
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Corso di canto difonico con Guillem Codern il 24 febbraio 2019 a Cagliari
Giovanni BortoluzziLa Voce: corsi, seminari ed eventi
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Corso di canto difonico il 24 febbraio a Cagliari, con Guillem Codern: giovane cantante/polistrumentista di Barcellona, esperto del canto Khoomei, che ha appreso durante i suoi numerosi viaggi a Tuva! Dopo il workshop ci sarà una sua esibizione, durante la quale utilizzerà anche alcuni strumenti tradizionali di Tuva come Doshpuluur e Igil. Per iscrivervi contattate il numero: 340.510.68.61
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Leonardo FUKS , Britta HAMMARBERG, Johan SUNDBERG : A self-sustained vocal-ventricular phonation mode: acoustical, aerodynamic and glottographic evidences
A self-sustained vocal-ventricular phonation mode: acoustical, aerodynamic and glottographic evidences
Leonardo Fuks, Britta Hammarberg, Johan Sundberg
KTH TMH-QPSR
This investigation describes various characteristics of a particular phonation mode, vocal-ventricular mode (VVM), as produced by a healthy, musically-trained subject. This phonation mode was judged as perceptually identical to that used in the Tibetan chant tradition. VVM covered a range close to an octave, starting at about 50 Hz. High-speed glottography revealed that the ventricular folds oscillated at half the frequency of the vocal folds thus yielding a frequency of f/2. Phonation at f/3 was also possible. Presumably, aerodynamic forces produced by the glottal flow pulses sustained the vibrations of the ventricular folds. Complementary aspects of this type of phonation were compared to phonation in modal and pulse registers by acoustical analysis of the audio signal, by inverse filtering of the flow signal and by electroglottography (EGG). In addition, oesophageal pressures were measured. These analyses …
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L Fuks, B Hammarberg, J Sundberg – KTH TMH-QPSR, 1998
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LEONARDO FUKS : Sundry Sounds produced by Leonardo Fuks and other examples
This is a simplified physical model proposed by me for the larynx during VVM phonation mode, which produces similar sounds to those from the Tibetan Chant tradition. Below, the vocal folds (m1,m2) and above, the false or ventricular folds (m3). In this example, vocal folds oscillate at a frequency which is twice as that of the ventricular folds. The letters m stand for mass, k for stiffness, and r for damping coefficient. Indexes r-l stand for left and right sides, respectively.
Sundry Sounds produced by Leonardo Fuks and other examples
During my research work in music acoustics I created/recorded/processed some gigabytes of sound files, most of them of no musical interest for the listener.
However, a few of them might be listened by tolerant and attentive ears. They are presented below.
The first group of sound files refers to Paper VI of my thesis, which are identified with the Tibetan Chant voice, and other extended vocal effects investigated in the paper.
FILES IN REAL AUDIO FORMAT
Vocal-ventricular sounds (used in Tibetan and Mongolian “undertone” singing):
0.Original sounds from the Gyuto Monastery, Tibet
1.Fixed fundamental and sweeping overtones
2.f0/2 and f0/3 VVM
3. An imitation of a Tibetan Chant context (rather similar to 0, above)
4. Popeye the Saylor used VVM !! (an original recording from a William Costello’s version)
5. VVM and flute improvisation
6. Overtone singing in VVM mode, melody of “Oh, Susanah” (see the spectrogram)
Periodic pulse register , see Paper VI
7. Alternation between pulse register (“fry”) and modal voice
8. “Vocal fry” at fo/1,fo/2, fo/3, f0/4, fo/5 & back to 1
Vocal Growl (co-oscillation of vocal folds and epiglottis)-similar to the mechanism used by Louis Armstrong
9. Periodic Growl, in f0/2 and fo/3, with overtone singing
Tarogato (wooden saxophone from Hungary)
10.Tarogato(from the theme of Ravel’s La Valse)
A piece for OBOE called “My Six Marigaux 10499’s”, recorded in 6 channels
11.6oboes
All recordings, excepted by numbers 0 (Gyuto Monks, Tibet) and 4 (Popeye, W. Costello) are performed by Leonardo Fuks
To the THESIS INTRODUCTION – FROM AIR TO MUSIC: Acoustical, Physiological and Perceptual Aspects of Reed Wind Instrument Playing and Vocal-Ventricular Fold Phonation
http://www.speech.kth.se/music/publications/leofuks/leosounds.html
HTML by Leonardo Fuks
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Elena Ceolia, Graziano Tisato, Laura Zattra :DEMETRIO STRATOS RETHINKS VOCAL TECHNIQUES: A HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION AT ISTC IN PADOVA
DEMETRIO STRATOS RETHINKS VOCAL TECHNIQUES: A HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION AT ISTC IN PADOVA, Proceeding of the SMC Conference 2011 (Sound and Music Computing), Padova 6-9 July 2011, pp. 48-55.
Laura Zattra
Graziano Tisato
Elena Ceolia, Graziano Tisato, Laura Zattra
1 DEMETRIO STRATOS RETHINKS VOCAL TECH- NIQUES: A HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION AT ISTC IN PADOVA Elena Ceolin Graziano Tisato Laura Zattra ISTC (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione), CNR, Padova Università di Padova Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti Visive e della Musica Università di Padova Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti Visive e della Musica ABSTRACT Demetrio Stratos ( ) was a singer known for his creative use of vocal techniques such as diplophony, bitonality and diphony (overtone singing). His need to know the scientific explanation for such vocal behaviors, drove him to visit the ISTC in Padova (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies) in the late Seventies. ISTC technical resources and the collaboration with Franco Ferrero and Lucio Croatto (phonetics and phoniatric experts), allowed him to analyze his own phonoarticulatory system and the effects he was able to produce. This paper presents the results of a broad historical survey of Stratos research at the ISTC. The historic investigation is made possible by textual criticism and interpretation based on different sources, digital and audio sources, sketches, various bibliographical references (published or unpublished) and oral communications. Sonograms of Stratos exercises (made at the time and recently redone) show that various abilities existed side by side in the same performer, which is rare to find. This marks his uniqueness in the avant-gard and popular music scene of the time. The ultimate aim of this study was to produce a digital archive for the preservation and conservation of the sources related to this period. 1. INTRODUCTION Efstratios Demetriou (April 22, 1945 June 13, 1979), better known as Demetrio Stratos, was a multiinstrumentalist, music researcher and singer. He is known for his activity with the Italian progressive rock group Area, as well as for his collaborations with other artists and his solo activity. His interests in ethnomusicology and extra-european traditions, the complete mastery of a wide range of vocal techniques and the awareness of the spoken language constraints, were his background. That induced him to free the voice from the linguistic superstructures and to explore the underlying sonic substance. Among the most Copyright: 2011 Ceolin et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. impressive results of his research on what he called the instrument-voice [1], a series of unbelievable performances must be mentioned, mainly in the whistle register, producing two or three inharmonic partials at the same time, in a frequency region that could reach the 8,000 Hz. During the late Seventies, Stratos visited several times the ISTC of CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) in Padova ( Here, he worked with the physicist Franco Ferrero, who was an expert in phonetics, and with Lucio Croatto, phoniatric expert, to explore this vocal effects by the means of ISTC technical resources: a spectrograph of the VoiceIdentification and an electroglottograph (or EGG, or laryngograph) Elettro-Glottograph EG 830 by the F-J Electronics [9]. Unfortunately, Stratos premature death at age 34 put an end to his research activity, which would have provided other results and assertions to his original view and definitely future pedagogical and scientific outcomes. Why, thirty years after his death, the myth of Demetrio Stratos voice is still alive and growing? His unusual extension of vocal techniques, the musical use of his vocal features and his penchant for scientific research, show the emergence of a figure in the musical scene who struggles against established vocal techniques and monody, but also against the established music industry. What was Stratos looking for from phonetics, physicists, and phoniatric experts? In what way did he try to study his ability to obtain such complicated techniques? This paper is an attempt to reply to this double question. The investigation starts from two premises. The first one is the necessity to study the Stratos scientific experience through the sources, an aspect which has not yet been considered by literature. Literature normally has a target audience from the rock ambience. Stratos should be considered more broadly for his scientific contribution. His Paduan period is significant for this reason. It is a particular case where creativity rethinks science, as happened worldwide in the musical and scientific research centers (San Diego, Stanford Universities, Ircam, CSC in Padova, etc.). The Seventies drove musicians and scientists to collaborate in order to understand how voice and instruments physically worked (think e.g. the spectral analysis and physical models research, etc.). In this case, the performer himself decides to study his own voice and be more acquainted with his own capabilities.
2 The second premise emphasizes the problem of music conservation and preservation. The ISTC shares the same problem musical archives or musical institutions have. Oblivion or inaccurate preservation exist because of scientists and musicians continued acquisition of knowledge and the urge of experimentation, that brought to postpone, and often to forget, the organization and preservation of their musical materials [2, 3]. Together with the reconstruction of Stratos experience, this research has been based on the philological method, in which the researcher follows different steps in his investigation. First of all the philologist aims to the complete recension and description of extant sources (even oral witnesses). Then he proceeds listing all different sources and name them with abbreviations derived from their content or origin. XX century music is characterized by heterogeneous sources (audio and video sources, sketches, digital sources, spectrograms and/or digital scores or description, oral witnesses) therefore he must consider all of them. The accurate description of the sources is the third moment of the investigation [4]. Section 2 gives an overview of the historical experience. Section 3 describes Ferrero and Stratos work during the recording and the analysis of the vocal effects. Section 4 describes sources, methodological problems and the organization of the new archive with Stratosrelated materials at the ISTC [5]. 2. STRATOS AT THE ISTC ( ) This section tells the story of Stratos presence at the ISTC, as derived from the sources mentioned in chapter A necessity Many are the reasons why Stratos had found the necessity to analyze his own voice compelling. First of all, as it is stressed by all Area members, Stratos background was a melting pot of Greek, Egyptian and Balcanic musical traditions. Another field which certainly caused this interest were infant and newborn voices. Daniela Ronconi, Stratos wife, told that Stratos was fascinated by his daughter Anastasia s voice, especially during the lallation phase; 1 he kept asking himself the reason why people lose this interesting capability while they grow up [6]. Another fact happened in 1974, when Stratos performed the John Cage piece Sixty-two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971) for voice unaccompanied using a microphone, a score that demands the performer a great independence and liberation. The occasion to meet Tran Quang Hai, a renowned interpreter of Eastern musical tradition and harmonic chant, was also important and allowed Stratos to learn this way of singing and its philosophical implication. Finally, Nicola Bernardini had a relevant part in Stratos experience. Bernardini (at the time a member of Prima Materia) met Demetrio Stratos and exchanged discussions. They used to perform overtone singing compe- 1 The infant baby s gibberish (from Latin lallāre: to sing lullaby, a verb containing the concept of producing alliterative sounds). In phonetics it means more generally a defect of speech (replacement of L for R). titions («we travelled together a lot at the time, and practicing the overtone singing was the best pastimes!» [17]). 2.2At the ISTC The musical experimentation was not enough for Demetrio Stratos. He needed to give a scientific explanation to the phono-articulatory phenomena. This is why he firstly asked Pino Sambataro, his reliable otorhinolaryngologist in Milan to study his voice. But because of his inability to understand how Stratos voice worked, this doctor decided to contact a colleague in Padova, Maurizio Accordi, who was in his opinion a specialist in this field. Accordi and Lucio Croatto, director of the ISTC (at the time Centro per le Ricerche di Fonetica) examined Stratos phono-articulatory system accurately, and found nothing unusual. No special instrumentation was used, but only a laryngeal little mirror, for the videolaringostroboscopy did not exist yet. Then they thought to examine Stratos voice also from an acoustical point of view, and take him to the ISTC [6]. This happened during Fall 1976, which is also confirmed by [5] and the researcher and physicist Kyriaki Vagges, who worked at the time with Ferrero at the ISTC, and is the sole witness alive of that meeting [8]. During their meetings, Ferrero and Stratos recorded several improvisations, which were analyzed to observe their spectral content (several papers were published under the names of Accordi, Croatto and Ferrero). Unfortunately, it is difficult to date those meetings, and yet material sources (audio sonograms and paper sources) do not give any help. Nonetheless it is certain that Stratos went to the ISTC ISTC during the years 1976, 1977 and 1978 (daa-ssn, daa-d, 2 and [12]) and in 1999 Ferrero declared to Janete El Haouli that he worked with Stratos at the ISTC for 4 or 5 times [1: 129]. Audio sources and sonograms demonstrate that most of the vocal material was recorded at the ISTC. Only a small number of audio recordings were made at Stratos home [6]. Since evidently no electroglottograph tracks exist of those materials, it is easy to establish which vocal effects were recorded at ISTC under monitored conditions. 2.3Recording Demetrio Stratos Speech and glottic sources were recorded by Ferrero team in the ISTC silent room, respectively on a Revox A77 tape recorder, and an Electro-Glottograph EG 830 by F-J Electronics [8]. The equipment also included an oscilloscope for the real time visualization and the signal analysis [8]. The vocal and glottal signals were recorded on two separate synchronous tracks. The speech signal was captured from a microphone at 10 cm from the mouth. The glottic source was acquired by means of two electrodes, attached to both side of the neck, in correspondence of the larynx. This allowed to pick up the rough signal of the vocal cords, not filtered by the resonances of the vocal tract. The absence of articulatory effects takes away all 2 The sources are listed in chapter 4.2.
3 intelligibility and all human characteristics from the sound, and makes it like a buzzing of a reed instrument. The subsequent analyses were made on a massive Voiceidentification Spectrograph 700 (same machine used in forensic application) by Franca Zecchin, who did the very first study of those materials [9]. The maximum frequency band the machine could capture was 8 KHz, which explains why Ferrero-Zecchin analysis established that Stratos could perform some extraordinary bitonality effects reaching 7000 Hz [12]. However, today analysis (made in 2002) has allowed to determine that Stratos maximum was much higher, of about 8000 Hz (Fig. 3). 3. VOCAL EXERCISES AND ANALYSIS 3.1Stratos original vocal technique Stratos ability allowed him to produce diplophony, bitonality and diphony (overtone singing) [10]. 3 Diplophony is the ability to make two sounds at the same time. Vocal cords vibrate asymmetrically, and produce a waveform period with normal amplitude followed by a feebler one. One cannot always perceive two separate sounds: a normal period followed by an anomalous period means that the perceived frequency is one octave lower (for psycoacoustic reasons it is sometimes difficult to distinguish). If two normal periods are followed by one abnormal, the pitch of the perceived sound results an octave and a fifth lower [10]. What is heard, consequently, is a dirty and scratched voice, because two frequency components fall in the same critical band and because of the masking of the lower partials above the higher. If this phenomenon can be sometimes accidental in the pathological voices and sometimes also in singing, Stratos made it intentionally. Bitonality is the unusual capability to produce two different sounds which are sometimes not in a harmonic relation. In normal conditions, the vocal folds produce a sound with harmonic spectral components, i.e. the frequencies of partials are multiple of a fundamental, or separated by the same frequency interval. Sometimes the contraction of false vocal cords provokes a second sound due to the low frequency modulation. Some other times, strong false vocal cords contractions trigger very high whistles. In the case of bitonality, the adduction of vocal cords is so strong that it generates two independent nonharmonic sounds, as it happens when you touch with a finger the string on a musical instrument and the original sound splits in two. In some of Stratos effects, the EGG demonstrated the absence of the vocal cords vibration: in this case, the perceived pure high frequency whistles are due to the reduced dimension of pharyngeal resonators [10]. Overtone singing is the extraordinary way to split the harmonic partials of a vocal sound, normally fused in a single one, in two distinct sonic images: one in the usual vocal range of the singer, the other in an high or very high register; this pure and flute-like sound corresponds to one of the harmonic partials reinforced by the resonances or formants of the spectral envelope. In enhancing the harmonic partial, one can create real melodies. An overtone singer can play these harmonic pitches in a scale which is a natural pentatonic scale (see Zarlino) [10]. 3.2Analysis and Sonograms Analyses of Stratos voice are mentioned in the following sources: dav-l, dc-val82, dc-riv80, dc-riv80/cp, dc- T/BATT, dc-t/cop, dc-ce/cnr, dc-son, dc-t/zecc (see Table 2). Franca Zecchin s graduation thesis is the first study dedicated to Stratos vocalizations. It is a very significant source because it was made during the period in which Stratos came at the ISTC [9, 11], and because it allows establishing the origin and reliability of the audio sources. In this way it is possible to verify that nearly all Stratos vocal effects were recorded at ISTC in controlled conditions, and cannot be the result of a (fraudulent) mixing, filtering, etc. From the entire series, Ferrero s team selected a set of 22 vocalizations to be the most representatives. The thesis reports that examples from n.1 to n.18 were recorded at the CNR during the fall Vocalizations nn. 19, 20, 21 were brought by Stratos in September 1977, pre-recorded on a tape. Vocalization n. 22 was recorded during the Fall 1976 [9]. All those examples were subjected to analysis, even if some of them (nn. 1-6 and 12, 15, 16) do not appear in Zecchin s thesis nor in the published article [9] (Zecchin also does not mention vocalizations nn. 7 e 11). The electrographic track of vocalizations nn. 8-10, 13, 14, 17, 18 is completely flat because of the absence of the vocal folds vibration. The thesis also includes a brief description of Stratos phono-articulatory attitude during the vocalization, but not the way it was deduced. Unfortunately, after 30 years, Zecchin does not remember the methodology they adopted. She makes two assumptions: the described vocalization mechanism could be a deduction made a posteriori, through the study of the sonograms and the formant positions and movements. A more likely explanation could be that Ferrero discussed with Stratos about what he felt inside his phono-articulatory system, and compared this sensations with the sonographic results [11]. Figure 1 shows the analysis of fragment n. 18, as it is shown in the article made in 1980 [12]. It begins with 2 whistles of 3700 Hz (and 2 nd harmonic, small triangle) and 5000 Hz (empty triangle). 3 Vocal analysis is one of Graziano Tisato s research topic, started during the Seventies. Soon after Stratos Paduan period, Tisato met Ferrero, and decided to determinate a precise terminology for the vocal effects. These were published in [14]. In 1989 Tisato realized the first model synthesis for the overtone singing [18].
4 V O C A L I Z E N THESIS -Phono articulatory attitude: the same as in nn. 8, 9 and 13. Spectrographic Recording -Cue: two non harmonic whistled notes, one at 3700 Hz + 2, the other as pure sound beyond 5000 Hz. Their frequency is decreasing. -1st s: transition phase after which they continue as pure sound with non harmonic fluctuations. Whistled bitonal sound. -2nd – 3rd s: a whistle overlaps for three times with a fundamental frequency at 1660 Hz + 2nd and 3rd, with the result of a three-partite sound. -4th s: the main whistle with a lower frequency disappears. A flat changeable whistle overlaps the whistled note, stabilizing around 1500 Hz: bitonal sound, like bird singing. -5th s: pitch at 1500 Hz + 2nd and flat inflected whistle (like bird singing) between 4000 and 5000 Hz. Figure 1. Vocalization n. 18 [12: 253]. In a graduation thesis made in 2005, Copiello showed new analyses of the 22 examples, which had been made by Tisato [16]. They considered sonograms, pitches and intensities contours [16]. The numeric representation shows unquestionable advantages and it solves those resolution and frequency limits of the Sonograph 700, thanks to the possibility to choose the proper frequency and time scale, and to obtain the parameter values straight from the data analysis. Table 1shows the comparison [16]. Fig. 2 shows the same vocalization of Fig. 1 in an arbitrary time scale. The Fig. 3 shows a sonogram with an example of tritonality STUDY 2005 STUDY Electroglottographic recording: flat during the whole length. (vocalize 18 was recorded in 1976 at CNR. The tape include the verbal vocalize but not the glottic vocalize) (annotations are made only if the analysis is different from the one made in 1977) Spectrographic Recording -During the whole vocalize there is a noise band around 1200 Hz Electroglottographic recording: Not quoted (annotations where different) Spectrographic Recording: -Whistled at ~3555 Hz (La7) and 2nd harmonic; and beyond 5500 Hz pure sound. -1,5 s: the lover whistle loses the 2nd harmonic s: whistle at ~1660 Hz (Sol6) Table 1. Vocalize n. 18: comparison between [12: 253] and the new analyze with modern sonograms [16]. Figure 2. The vocalization starts with a guttural impulsive sound, then it proceeds until 2.2 s with two inharmonic whistles (bitonality case): the lower at Hz presents a second harmonic, the higher slopes down from 5500 to about 4000 Hz. At this point until 3.3 s. a new inharmonic component appears at 1650 Hz to form the tritonality. Around Hz a very narrow noise band can be heard.
5 Figure 3. The vocalization starts with a breathy-vocalized sound of 300 ms, then 600 ms of an expiratory noise of low amplitude. At ~1.4 s, an high pitched cry with a set of 4 harmonics of 1 s can be heard, which raises from ~1100 (DO#6) to 1289 Hz (MI6-). Between 5-8 s, a chirp go down from ~7900 Hz to ~6200 Hz. Between 6-7 s a whistle appears at 4000 Hz and then at 6000 Hz. There is also a colored noise with 2 formants at 500 and 1000 Hz. At 7 s a chirp falling from ~4400 to 2250 Hz. 4. SOURCES 4.1New texts and supports in philology During the past half-century music and musical research (in both popular music and art music) have been made involving new ways of producing and analyzing sounds. As a result, sources that document information of this activity are heterogeneous and very different from the traditional status of paper material [13]. They are not necessarily a visible or symbolic trace and can indifferently be: 1) the audio and video source (analogue, CD, the mini disc, the memory of the computer); 2) printed, handwritten sources; 4) traditional scores; 5) different sketches; 6) articles; 7) oral witnesses (oral communications find justification in the contemporary context where collaboration is important); 8) visual representations such as sonograms [3, 4]. Stratos experience is a good example of a XX century historical event that must be studied in detail in terms of material and oral documentation. Chapter 4.2 shows the list of sources. Oral communications have been indispensable in reconstructing the historical facts and are included in [5]. 4.2Sources at the ISTC and elsewhere Table 2 lists all materials collected during this research project. General Cathegories of sources are: Analogue audio document (daa), Visual analogue document (dav), Paper document (dc), Audiovisual digital document (dda). For specific description, see [5]. SOURCE Cantare la Voce (long play disc) Copia disco dimostrazione Titze, (magnetic tape 1/8, SONY HF-ES60, compact cassette) Demetrio (magnetic tape 1/8, BASF Chromdioxid 90, compact cassette) Lo strumento voce, demo Lecce 14/4/94 (magnetic tape 1/8, SONY Metal-xr 100, compact cassette) Metrodora (long play disc) Napoli (magnetic tape 1/8 BASF Chromdioxid 60, compact cassette) Nastro cantanti 75/78 (magnetic tape, BASF, plastic flange) Nastro pre-tesi, copia nastro Tesi, Stratos vocalizzi riversati (magnetic tape 1/8, BASF Chromdioxid 60, compact cassette) Nastro Tesi su Demetrio Stratos (magnetic tape 1/8, BASF Cromdioxid 90, compact cassette) Spectrograph7 (Stratos) (magnetic tape, BASF Scotch, plastic flange) Spectrograph 20 (magnetic tape, BASF, aluminium flange) Stratos Ferrara (magnetic tape 1/,BASF Chromdioxid 90, compact cassette) Stratos Milano (magnetic tape 1/8, TDK, SF60, compact cassette) Stratos suo nastro (magnetic tape 1/8, TDK KR C60, compact cassette) Slides (mixed), ISTC archive, Padua Lo strumento voce, demo Lecce 14/4/94, transparencies, ISTC archive, Padua Transparencies, no date, ISTC archive, Padua (two parcels) Abbreviation daa-cv daa-ct daa-d daa-svl daa-m daa-n daa-nc75/78 daa-npt daa-ntd daa-s7 daa-s20 daa-sf daa-sm daa-ssn dav-d dav-lsv dav-l (two parcels)
6 SOURCE Accordi M., Croatto L., Ferrero F. E., Analisi spettrografica di alcuni vocalizzi di Demetrio Stratos. In Il Valsalva, bollettino italiano di audiologia e foniatria, Vol. V N. 1, January – April 1982, pp. 2-8 Accordi M., Croatto L., Ferrero F. E., Descrizione elettroacustica di alcuni tipi di vocalizzo di Demetrio Stratos. In Rivista Italiana di Acustica, Vol. IV N , pp Accordi M., Croatto L., Ferrero F. E., Descrizione elettroacustica di alcuni tipi di vocalizzo di Demetrio Stratos. In Rivista Italiana di Acustica, Vol. IV N , pp , copy of the original typewritten publication Accordi M., Ferrero F., Ricci Maccarini A., Tisato G., Il canto difonico, un esempio delle possibilità del tratto vocale, comunicazione presentata al XVIth Congress of Union of the European Phoniatricians, Salsomaggiore, Ottobre In Quaderni del centro di studio per le ricerche di fonetica, vol. IX, 1990, pp Baroni Vittore, Cometa Rossa: la Musica è un Gioco Rischioso, pp , no date Battain Valeria, Un archivio di documenti sonori non convenzionale: il fondo Demetrio Stratos dell’istc (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, ex Istituto di Fonetica e Dialettologia) del CNR di Padova. Thesis of the Academic year , Università degli studi di Udine, Supervisor: Professor Sergio Canazza Targon Cantare la voce, poster, congress programme and brochure, Monday 29th e Tuesday 30th May 1989, ISTC archive, Padua Copiello Laura Demetrio Stratos, una vocalità riscoperta. Thesis of the Academic year , Università degli studi di Venezia, Supervisors: Professori Giovanni Morell, Graziano Tisato e Domenico Stanzial Fariselli Loretta, Fariselli Patrizio, Demetrio Stratos Area, dieci anni di musica ed impegno, programme of the demonstration on the 4th of July at 9.00 pm in Piazza Mercato, Marghera, unpuplished work Ferrero E. Franco, Attività di studi e ricerca sulla voce cantata, study presented at Seminario CIRM, 5 Febbraio 1997, unpublished work Ferrero E. Franco, Caratteristiche elettroacustiche di alcune singolari vocalizzazioni di Stratos Demetriou, Centre for the study of phonetic researches (CNR) in Padua, unpublished work Ferrero E. Franco, Elenco delle pubblicazioni, 30 Settembre 1997, ISTC archive, Padua Ferrero F., Ricci Maccarini A., Tisato G., I suoni multifonici nella voce umana, article presented at XIX Convegno Nazionale Aprile 1991, Napoli, pp Ferrero Franco, Elementi di Fonetica, publication n. 85 from the list of publications, pp Ferrero Franco (hypothesis of the autor based on the hand writing), Fonetografia e costo vocale, study, without date, ISTC archive, Padua, unpublished work Ferrero Franco, La fonetica strumentale in funzione della diagnostica foniatrica e della riabilitazione logopedica, notepad bound by hand, handwriting by Ferrero, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Ferrero Franco, Lo strumento voce, study, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Ferrero Franco, three lists of thesis (supervisor F. Ferrero), ordered by location, Academic year and alphabetical order of the titles, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Tissue paper sheets, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Sheet of paper with the description of vocalizes 18 and 6 (copy of a page Caratteristiche elettroacustiche di alcune singolari Abbreviation dav-l1 (first parcel) dav-l2 (second parcel) dc-val82 dc-riv80 dc-riv80/cp dc-cdif dc-com dc-t/batt dc-cv/l (poster) dc-cv/p (congress programme) dc-cv/o (brochure) dc-t/cop dc-far/09 dc-cirm dc-ce/cnr dc-ep dc-sm dc-ef dc-fon dc-fs/lib dc-sv dc-t/el dc-fcv dc-l1 SOURCE vocalizzazioni di Stratos Demetriou attached to the first parcel of transparencies), without date, ISTC archive, Padua Fortunato Roberto, Rinasce la ricercata etichetta Cramps. In Il mattino, Tuesday 11th July 1989, pp. 41 Gatti Roberto, In alto la voce. In L’Espresso, 4th of June 1989, pp Kemp Alan, Linsdey Geoff, Verhoeven Jo, Practical Phonetics, Edinburgh University Linguistics Department, pp. 1-8, without date La musique religieuse du Thibet, Bulletin du Groupe d’acoustique Musicale, 58, Université Paris VI, 1972 Lo strumento voce, demo Lecce 14/4/94, sheets with notes Transparencies, paper copy, without date, ISTC archive, Padua, (two parcels) Mangiarotti Marco, Stratos: la musica è gioia e rivoluzione. In Il giorno, Sunday 25th June 1989 Mattarelli Luca, Demetrio Stratos, una nuova vocalità. Thesis of the Academic year , Università degli studi di Bologna, Supervisor: Professor Gino Stefani Nastro cantanti 75/78, cover with notes, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Ricci Maccarini Andrea, Il canto difonico. Thesis of the Academic Year , Università degli studi di Padova, Supervisor: Professor Maurizio Accordi, Co-Relatore: Dott. Franco Emilio Ferrero Receipt of payment to Franco Ferrero for the conference he held on the 29th of September in the auditorium San Rocco Vocal Music Festival called Caratteristiche elettroacustiche di alcuni tipi di vocalizzo di Demetrio Stratos Sonagrams (mix), ISTC archive, Padua Spectrograph 7 (Stratos), white cardboard with notes and writings, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Spectrograph 20, sheet with notes, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Vocalizzi di Stratos (pre-tesi), sheet with notes, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Vocalizzi Tesi, sheet with notes, without date, ISTC archive, Padua Zecchin Franca, Studio elettroacustico di alcuni vocalizzi di Demetrio Stratos. Thesis of the Academic Year , Università degli studi di Padova, Supervisor: Professor Franco Ferrero Copia disco dimostrazione Titze, conservative copy CIF0001 of the ISTC archive (DVD-data: 2+2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz- 24bit) Demetrio, conservative copy CIF0002 of the ISTC archive (DVD-data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Nastro cantanti 75/78, conservative copy CIF0008_CCIR of the ISTC archive (DVD-data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96Hz-24bit) Nastro cantanti 75/78, conservative copy CIF0008_NAB of the ISTC archive (DVD-dati: 2 tracks, WAV, 96Hz-24bit) Nastro cantanti 75/78, conservative copy CIF0008_V of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 1 track, MOV) Nastro tesi su Demetrio Stratos, conservative copy CIF0006 of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Spectrograph7 (Stratos), conservative copy CIF0007 of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 1 track, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Spectrograph7 (Stratos), conservative copy CIF0007_V of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 1 track, MOV) Spectrograph 20, conservative copy CIF0009_CCIR of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Abbreviation dc- R.CRAMPS/M at dc-iav/esp dc-pp dc-mr/th dc-sv/app dc-lc (two parcels) dc-l1 (first parcel) dc-l2 (second parcel) dc-mgr/gio dc-t/matt dc-nc75/78 dc-t/ric dc-ric DC-SON DC-SP7 dc-sp20 dc-voc/pt dc-voc/t dc-t/zecc DDA-1 DDA-2 DDA-8/C DDA-8/N DDA-8/V DDA-6 DDA-7 dda-7/v DDA-9/C Spectrograph 20, conservative copy CIF0009_NAB of the DDA-9/N
7 SOURCE ISTC archive (DVD- data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Spectrograph 20, conservative copy CIF0009_V of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 1 track, MOV) Stratos Ferrara, conservative copy CIF0004 of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Stratos Milano, conservative copy CIF0003 of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Stratos suo nastro, conservative copy CIF0005 of the ISTC archive (DVD- data: 2 tracks, WAV, 96kHz-24bit) Abbreviation DDA-9/V DDA-4 DDA-3 DDA-5 Table 2. Sources for the study of Demetrio Stratos at the ITSC. Several additional sources are not listed here: these are articles, dissertations, projection papers, sleeves/sheets and annotations related to the audio material. The existence of documentations scattered over an extended period of time from the Seventies up to now tells not only the interest towards Stratos, it also ensure the importance of his musical research. 4.3Conservation and Preservation This project ultimate aim has been to preserve the entire documentation from obsolescence and deterioration; that is why, following the typology of sources, a digital archive has been made, which is now available at the ISTC. The digital archive purpose is: 1) to preserve a specific order (folders e.g. digitization of paper materials are maintained in the same sequence of the original sources), so that the sources cannot get lost in different places; 2) to preserve the chronology of their creation; 3) to guarantee the accessibility to whoever is interested; 4) to avoid damages to the authentic sources that could be caused by an incorrect use. The archive refines and benefits of a previous research. In 2007 Valeria Battain created digital conservative copies of the entire documentation related to Demetrio Stratos at the ISTC [15]. The storage in digital format included three magnetic open tape reels (daa-nc75/78, daa-s7, daa-s20) and six compact cassettes (daa-ct, daa- D, daa-ntd, daa-sf, daa-sm, daa-ssn). Battain s study provides a descriptive paper and picture for each original source; it also includes other papers with technical information related to the process. It was however incomplete. The new digital archive is divided into two parts: the first one is labeled ARCHIVIO Demetrio Stratos, ISTC (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione), CNR, Padova ; it relates to a selected space inside one of the shelves at the ISTC; it correspond to tangible documents (e.g. thesis, tapes, compact-cassettes, DVD with recordings made by the eng. Sergio Canazza, etc.); the second part is an external HD USB with the whole sources that have been digitized during this work. For the moment, the archive can be accessed only locally through the computers of the Institute (ISTC). The structure of the archive reflects the choice made in organizing the whole sources. It simply systematizes them in 4 macrocategories: analogue audio document (daa), visual analogue document (dav), paper document (dc), audiovisual digital document (dda). Each folder is a container for the digitalized documents. These are: 14 analogue audio documents, 14 audiovisual documents (digital), 4 visual documents ( analogue ), 40 paper documents. The documents are identifiable through the abbreviated text extension given during this research, instead of verbose and long names (see Table 2). 5. CONCLUSIONS The reconstruction of Stratos experience in Padova has been made possible by the collection, the description, the analysis and the comparison of sources. Yet, this study is needless to say the first step toward investigating Stratos contribute to XX century vocal research. Just as an example, Stratos position in the avant-garde vocal research is almost completely unknown, but many aspects of his life are critical. Area member Paolo Tofani recalls the precise moment when Stratos realized the novelty of the overtone singing [19]. It was in 1976/77, when a journalist brought to the group an audiocassette with sounds sung by Mongolians: Demetrio tried and tried until he finally succeeded, because he had been influenced by John Cage; they also went to meet Cathy Berberian repeatedly and took lessons from Tran Quang Hai [19]. Also, his friendship with Nicola Bernardini, member of Prima Materia Group, is crucial. And needless to say, the milieu and historical period in which Stratos research took place are again crucial: the Seventies, when the youth movement reached Italy and the children of the second world war began their protest against the established culture and lifestyle. It is easy to state that this social rebellion reflects in the complete nonconformity and subversion of Stratos technique, an aspect that affected Stratos position in the musical industry, since his voice did not respect standardized vocal production, did not consider language s rules and, on the contrary, tried to get loose from the detention of the communicative act. Future studies need to take into account all aspects of this issue. The investigation of Stratos vocal effects may develop in two directions. The first one is related to the systematic investigation of the complete series of Stratos vocalizes, which had not been analyzed so far (as said in 3.4). The second one could help in deducing Stratos phonatory attitude: Voice Quality (VQ) methodologies and glottal source modelization techniques should be applied to the existing glottal tracks. In addition to the traditional parameters (Shimmer, i.e. the amplitude perturbations of the wave form; Jitter, i.e. the pitch perturbations; the Waveform Matching Coefficient, i.e. the cross-correlation between near periods; the Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio, i.e. the energy ratio between the harmonic partials and the noise components; etc.), it is in fact possible to extract more meaningful information: for example, the Glottal to Noise Excitation Ratio (GNE), which is used to discriminate among normal and pathological voices [20]. The available glottic tracks could give precious information about the glottal flow, in term of Open Quotient Oq = Te / T0, i.e. the ratio between the maximum excitation instant Te and the sound period T0, and the Return phase quotient Qa, the ratio between the return phase (in which the glottal flow reaches zero) and the closed phase of the vocal folds. The Return phase quotient proved to be the
8 most effective index of VQ, for it determines the sound Spectral tilt, i.e. the slope of the frequency envelope [21]. Another development is the one mentioned before. A web page of the archive would also be desirable (possibly at: with the audio vocal material and the PDF documents (of course in agreement with the authors). Accessing the stock of documents via metadata would be imperative. The web access would guarantee a more large accessibility to the sources; this also should adhere to Stratos personal interest in the study and dissemination of his own personal research. Acknowledgments We would like to thank Piero Cosi, Alberto Benin, Nicola Bernardini, Ferdinando Bersani, Maurizio Accordi, Oskar Schindler, Francesco Avanzini, Area members Paolo Tofani, Ares Tavolazzi, Patrizio Fariselli and Claudio Rocchi, Valeria Battain, Kyriaki Vagges and Franca Zecchin, Sergio Canazza Targon and Daniela Ronconi Demetriou. This research would not have been possible without their help and advice. 6. REFERENCES [1] J. El Haouli (1999), Demetrio Stratos, alla ricerca della voce-musica, Milano, Casanova e Chianura edizioni, 1999/2009. [2] N. Bernardini, A. Vidolin, Sustainable live electro-acoustic music, Cdrom proceedings Sound and Music Computing 2005 XV, CIM – Nov , Salerno, Italy, [3] L. Zattra, Studiare la computer music. Definizioni, analisi, fonti, (collana biblioteca contemporanea), libreriauniversitaria.it, 2011, ISBN [4] L. Zattra Sources and philological problems in the study of Computer Music, in Elektroakustische Musik: Technologie, Aesthetik und Theorie als Herausforderung an die Musikwissenschaft, T. Boehme-Mehner, K. Mehner, M. Wolf eds., Essen, Die Blaue Eule Verlag, 2008, pp [5] E. Ceolin, Demetrio Stratos a Padova: la storia, le fonti, l archivio, Graduation Thesis, DAMS, Supervisor: S. Durante, L. Zattra, March [6] D. Ronconi Demetriou, interview given to Elena Ceolin, June 25, [7] M. Accordi, interview given to Elena Ceolin, October 5, [8] K. Vagges, interview given to Elena Ceolin, February 18, [9] F. Zecchin, Studio elettroacustico di alcuni vocalizzi di Demetrio Stratos, graduation thesis, , Università degli studi Padova, Supervisor: Prof. Franco Ferrero, [10] G. Tisato, interview given to Elena Ceolin, February 7, [11] F. Zecchin, interview given to Elena Ceolin, February 17, [12] M. Accordi, L. Croatto, F. Ferrero, Descrizione elettroacustica di alcuni tipi di vocalizzo di Demetrio Stratos, in «Rivista Italiana di Acustica», Vol. IV N. 3, 1980, pp [13] M. Caraci Vela, La filologia musicale. Istituzioni, storia, strumenti critici, Vol. 1, LIM, [14] F. Ferrero, A. Ricci Maccarini, G. Tisato (1991), I suoni multifonici nella voce umana, in XIX Convegno Nazionale AIA Aprile 1991, Napoli, 1991, pp [15] L. Battain (2007), Un archivio di documenti sonori non convenzionale: il fondo Demetrio Stratos dell’istc (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, ex Istituto di Fonetica e Dialettologia) del CNR di Padova, Graduation Thesis , Università degli studi di Udine, Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Canazza Targon, [16] L. Copiello, Demetrio Stratos, una vocalità riscoperta. Graduation Thesis , Università degli studi di Venezia, supervisors: Proff.s G. Morelli, G. Tisato e D. Stanzial, [17] N. Bernardini, interview given to Elena Ceolin, June 8, [18] G. Tisato, Analisi e sintesi del Canto Difonico, in Proceedings VII Colloquio di Informatica Musicale (CIM), Cagliari, 1989, pp [19] P. Tofani, interview given to Elena Ceolin, March 21, 2011 (in the presence of G. Tisato and Giovanni Floreani). [20] D. Michaelis, M. Froehlich, H.W. Strube, Selection and combination of acoustic features for the description of pathologic voices in J. of the Acoust. Soc. Am., 103(3), 1998, pp [21] B. Doval, C. d’alessandro, N. Henrich, The spectrum of glottal flow models in Acta Acustica, 92, 2006, pp , age_2
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Laura Zattra (Musicologist) obtained her PhD (2003) in Music and Musicology at the Sorbonne Paris IV under the direction of Marc Battier and in Musical Sciences at Trento University under the direction of Rossana Dalmonte. She pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Padova, she obtained research grants from the same university (2006-2012), from EHESS Lyon (2002-3), De Monfort University (2008-9), Calgary University (2011), from CNRS France (2012) and IRCAM in Paris (2017). Her writings include the book Studiare la computer music. Definizioni, analisi, fonti (2011), Musica e famiglia. L’avventura artistica di Renata Zatti (2010), Invenzione Musicale (L.Zattra ed., 2012), the co-edition of Presenza storica di Luigi Nono (2011) and Vent’anni di musica elettronica all’università di Padova (2002) as well as articles and book chapters (Computer Music Journal, Contemporary Music Review, Musicae Scientiae, Journal of New Music Research, Organised Sound, Musimédiane…; she recently curated two entries for the Italian Encyclopedia Treccani). She is a member of the Associazione di Informatica Musicale Italiana, the APM équipe at IRCAM Paris, the IReMus at Sorbonne Paris IV, the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network. Her musicological expertise covers the twentieth century and particularly of the post-World War II period and XXI century, the analysis of electroacoustic music, the philology of music, the interaction of music and technology, ethnography and oral history applied, women composers, the analysis of compositional process.
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Demetrio Stratos
Efstratíos Dimitríou (Greek: Ευστράτιος Δημητρίου)
June 13, 1979 (aged 34)
Progressive rock, art rock, experimental, world
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher
I Ribelli
Efstratios Dimitriou (Greek: Ευστράτιος Δημητρίου; April 22, 1945 – June 13, 1979), known professionally as Demetrio Stratos, was a Greek-Italian lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman, and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock band Area – International POPular Group.
Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, of Greek parents, he studied piano and accordion at the “National Conservatoire“. In 1957 he was sent to Nicosia, Cyprus, and, at the age of 17, moved to Milan, Italy, to attend the Politecnico di Milano University at the Architecture Faculty, where he formed his first musical group. In 1967, Demetrio Stratos joined the Italian beat band I Ribelli, and in 1972, founded Area.
Stratos recorded many records, and toured festivals in Italy, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Netherlands, Cuba, and the United States with Area, as well as a solo artist and in collaboration with other artists. He worked with Mogol, Lucio Battisti, Gianni Sassi, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Juan Hidalgo, Walter Marchetti, John Cage, Tran Quang Hai, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Grete Sultan, Paul Zukofsky, Nanni Balestrini, Claude Royet-Journoud, and Antonio Porta.
He studied ethnomusicology, vocal extensions, Asian music chant, compared musicology, the problem of ethnic vocality, psychoanalysis, the relationship between spoken language and the psyche, the limits of the spoken language. He was able to reach 7,000 Hz, and to perform diplophony, triplophony, and also quadrophony. Daniel Charles has described him as the person who decimated monody by the demultiplication of the acoustic spectrum. His vocal abilities were explored and documented.
Stratos died in New York City Memorial Hospital on June 13, 1979 at the age of thirty–four. His self-proclaimed mission was to free vocal expression from what he considered to be the slavery of language and classical lyrical melody. He considered the exploration of vocal potential as a tool of psychological and political liberation. His studies and recognition of the voice as musical instrument carried this ethos to the edge of human vocal ability. His work is considered by many critics and vocalists as important in the progression of experimental and novel vocal techniques.[1][2][3]
1.1 The early years 1945–1971
1.2 Area 1972–1978
1.3 Death and legacy 1979–present
2 Phonetics research studies
2.1 The pre-eminence of the signifier over the signified
2.2 The ritual value of the voice
3.2 Compilations and lives
3.4 Videos
The early years 1945–1971
Demetrio Stratos was born as Efstratios Demetriou in Alexandria, Egypt on April 22, 1945, of Greek parents (Janis Demetriou and Athanassia Archondoyorghi).[4] He spent his first 13 years in Alexandria where he studied piano and accordion at the prestigious Conservatoire National d’Athènes (“National Conservatoire of Athens“),[1][4] and studied English at the British Boys School. As he later said, the fact that he was born in Alexandria made him feel like a special and privileged “porter” in an international hotel, destined to live the experience of peoples’ passages and to assist in the true “traffic” of culture in the Mediterranean area, so full of various ethnic groups and intense musical practices. His family was of Greek Orthodox religion, so during his infancy he listened to religious Byzantine songs, traditional Arabic music and then the early beginnings of rock and roll. All of those sounds strongly influenced him for the rest of his life.[4] In 1957, because of the political events that upset Egypt, he was sent to the Catholic College of the Holy Land in Nicosia, Cyprus where, two years later, his family joined him.[3][5]
In 1962, he and his family moved to Milan, Italy where he attended the Politecnico di Milano University at the Architecture Faculty.[6] In 1963 he formed his first musical group and performed live at the “Casa dello studente” (“Student’s House”) Festival in Milan, then in some of the local pubs such as the Santa Tecla and the Intra’s al Corso.[7] Fortuitously, the original singer of the group was unable to sing one night due to a minor car accident, so Stratos stepped in to replace him, which began his venture into singing.[7] His repertoire at that time was a mixture of soul, blues and rhythm and blues.[7] In this period, Stratos also worked in many recording studios in Milan, playing keyboards.[1][3][7]
In 1967, he joined the Italian beat band I Ribelli (“The Rebels”) as the keyboard player. With I Ribelli, he recorded many hit singles like “Chi mi aiuterà”, “Oh Darling!” and “Pugni chiusi”, a song that became a symbol of the Italian 1960s, and Stratos’ fame rapidly grew in Italy.[8] In 1969, the band released their self-titled studio album, I Ribelli.[1][3]
In 1970, he left I Ribelli and formed a musical group with some English musicians including the drummer Jan Broad, and started to dedicate himself to his work on music and voice research, experimenting with vocal phenomena.[9] His interest in this research started when he observed his daughter, Anastassia (who was born in 1970), during her “babbling” phase, when a child is not yet able to speak correctly. Stratos noticed by watching his daughter that a child initially “plays” and “experiments” with her or his own voice, but then the richness of the vocal sound gets lost in the acquisition of verbal language. “The child loses the sound in order to organize the words“. This observation by Stratos was fundamental for his poetry. This language-voice connection and his experimentation with it was the hallmark of his entire artistic career.[9]
In 1971, he recorded the solo single “Daddy’s dream” which was published by Numero Uno, a record company owned by Mogol and Lucio Battisti. His involvement with commercial music definitively ended after this one commercial recording.[1][10]
Area 1972–1978
For more information about the Italian progressive rock band, please, see Area (band).
In 1972, Demetrio Stratos and drummer Giulio Capiozzo founded Area, a well-known Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion band.[1][11] The original line-up included Eddie Busnello (saxophone), Patrick Djivas (bass), Leandro Gaetano (piano) and Johnny Lambizzi (lead guitar).[12] Soon after, Busnello and Djivas left the group, and Patrizio Fariselli and Paolo Tofani joined the group. Djivas joined Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), and he was replaced by Ares Tavolazzi. Stratos recorded many records with Area, as well as in collaboration with Gianni Sassi, the owner of Cramps Records, on solo artist albums.[3][13][14][15]
In 1973, Stratos took part in the eighth Biennale de Paris, and Area released their first studio album, Arbeit macht frei (“Work Brings Freedom”),[16] taken from the inscription that was on the gate at the entrance of Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.[1][3][16]
In 1974, Area toured festivals in France, Portugal, and Switzerland. Stratos gradually became more and more deeply involved in the mysterious world of vocal sounds, resuming and widening his immense work on the importance of the voice in the Asian and Middle Eastern civilizations. In Milan, he worked together with Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Juan Hidalgo, and Walter Marchetti,[17] founders of the group Zaj (an experimental music and performance art group formed in 1959), in the context of the Fluxus experience (an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines), and he then became involved with John Cage‘s music when he recorded Cage’s “Sixty-Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham” in a version for a solo voice and microphone,[17] subsequently performed at numerous festivals in front of large audiences mainly consisting of young people. At the festival of the proletarian youth in Lambro Park, Milan, Stratos introduced the Mesostics in front of 15,000 people.[17] Later, this piece was partially included in the recordings dedicated to the music of Cage, Nova Musicha N. 1: John Cage (CRSLP 6101), which were published by Cramps Records and inaugurated the “Nova Musicha” series. In the meantime, Area recorded and released their second studio album, Caution Radiation Area.[1][3][13][14][17]
In 1975, Stratos was involved with compared musicology and studied the problems of ethnic vocality, the vocal methods in East Asian music, and—in particular—the overtone singing techniques. He gradually became more and more deeply involved in the mysterious world of vocal sounds, widening his immense work on the importance of the voice in the Asian and Middle Eastern civilizations.[1] Also in 1975, Area released their third studio album, Crac!.[3][18]
In 1976, Stratos released his first studio album as a solo artist, Metrodora, which was the result of his vocal studies and research.[19] Its title and the single lyric that was included were inspired by Metrodora, a Byzantine woman physician of the 6th century.[19] In Paris, Stratos contacted Emile Leipp, the director of the Laboratory of Acoustics at the Paris VI University (Faculty of Sciences).[19] Area released their fifth studio album, Maledetti (Maudits), and the band went on tour, giving exhibitions at some festivals in France and Portugal.[19] Together with Patrizio Fariselli (prepared piano), Paolo Tofani (guitar and synthesizer), Paul Lytton (percussion), and Steve Lacy (sax soprano), he performed a concert in the “Aula Magna” at the University of Milan. The live recording of that performance, Event ’76, was published by Cramps Records in 1979.[3][19]
In this period, Stratos was involved in the study of psychoanalysis and was researching the relationship between spoken language and the psyche. Stratos spoke at several seminars at the Istituto di Glottologia e Fonetica[20] (“Institute of Glottology and Phonetics”) at the University of Padua, in Italy, formulating his own and true “pedagogy of the voice”. In Padua, he worked together with Ferrero and Lucio Croatto from the Centro Medico di Foniatria[21] (“Medical Centre of Phoniatrics”), on research related to language and vocal techniques. Stratos underlined the link between language and the psyche, and he highlighted the connection between them with the sounds made by his own vocal cords, which he considered to be a musical instrument.[13][14]
In 1977, his vocal abilities were explored and documented by Professor Franco Ferrero at the University of Padua,[13][14][22] a study that produced two scientific publications. He also found the time to do some live performances at the “Arsenale” Theater and at the Marconi’s Gallery in Milan.[23]
Albert Hera asked Tran Quang Hai in an interview, “What do you think about Demetrio Stratos?” Tran Quang Hai answered:
He learned from me in 1977, in France. He came to me with a manager who told me that the Master Demetrio Stratos wanted to learn my singer’s techniques. He stayed with me for two hours and he learned everything. Then, he returned to Italy and used the exercises learned for its personal searches.
— Tran Quang Hai to Albert Hera (in Italian)[24]
Area live in Castelmassa (Rovigo), Italy, August 1978
In 1978, Area left Cramps Records and moved to Ascolto, a record label owned by CGD. For Ascolto, they released their sixth studio album, 1978 Gli dei se ne vanno, gli arrabbiati restano!, the last one that included Demetrio Stratos.[3][25] In the meantime, Stratos continued with Cramps and Gianni Sassi as a solo artist, releasing Cantare la Voce.[25] In February, representing Greece, he did a concert at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, organized by the Atelier de Création Radiophonique for the X Internationals Biennale of Young Artists, entitled “Musics at an Exhibition” created by Daniel Caux.[25] Then, he performed live as a solo artist at the Pre-Art Gallery of Milan and went on tour in Portugal with Area.[25] His international fame grew when, at the invitation of John Cage, he took part in concerts given at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City on 18 and 19 March. This was the time of “Event” a show by Merce Cunningham, and the Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Jasper Johns, with Cage’s musical direction and contribution, and also featuring scenography and costume designs by Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Lancaster, and Andy Warhol.[1][25] In this, Stratos produced an astonishing array of sounds and sound effects using only his voice.[26]
On June 2, Stratos was in Bologna for the second International Week of the Performance.[25] In Amsterdam, on June 15, Stratos participated in “Sounday” by John Cage, an uninterrupted performance of approximately ten hours, from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, which was organized at the Centrum Bellevue by Dutch Radio KRO Radio Hilversum IV. In Amsterdam, Stratos held a seminar with a live performance at the Stedelijk Museum.[25] On 26, 27, and 28 June, Stratos participated at the Cage’s show “Il Treno di John Cage – Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto” (“John Cage’s Train – In search for (or Raiders of) the lost silence”)”, three musical rides on a prepared train, stuffed with microphones, monitors, 210 tape records, amplifiers and random sounds, all directed by Cage himself with the assistance of Walter Marchetti and Juan Hidalgo.[25][27][28] On July 4, he was on stage with Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky for a John Cage concert at the Margherita theatre in Genoa.[25]
From July 28 to August 5, Area participated at the World Festival of Youth and Students (for Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Peace and Friendship) in Havana, Cuba.[15] Stratos was invited by the local Ministry of Culture to meet the delegation of Mongolian musicians and to participate in discussion on vocal methods in East Asian music.[1][25] Upon returning from Cuba, Stratos recorded a sound poem, O Tzitziras o Mitziras, for the historical-critical anthology Futura, released by Cramps Records, in which he explored the onomatopoeic force of the song of the cicadas suggested by a Greek tongue-twister.[25] In September, he did a live performance at the Elfo theatre in Milan, which was featured in “Settimana John Cage” (“John Cage Week”) at the Opéra Louis Jouvet in Paris.[25] He was invited by John Cage to teach a course related to the possibilities of the human voice for the Center for Experimental Music at University of San Diego in California.[25]
Death and legacy 1979–present
In January 1979, Stratos recorded Le Milleuna, a one-hour interpretation with lyrics written by Nanni Balestrini, with the mimic interpretation and action performed by Valeria Mallets.[29] In February, he was in Paris to perform the Antonin Artaud character in a theatrical review organized by France Culture.[29] In the same month, from the 8th to the 11th, he was at the Alberico theatre in Rome for a series of recitals.[29] Stratos planned the show “Rock’ n’ roll Exhibition” with Paolo Tofani and Mauro Pagani in order to bring back to the light the great musicians of the ’50s rock and roll years.[29] A live test session with an audience at the “Porta Romana” theatre in Milan had been recorded, and it was later released on LP in the following June.[29] Also with France Culture, in the series “Poésie Ininterrompue” (“Uninterrupted Poetry”) directed by Claude Royet-Journoud, Stratos had a long interview with Daniel Charles, where he performed many vocal sequences and provided explanations.[29] Stratos left Area in order to dedicate himself exclusively to vocal research, experimentation, and the pursuit of his solo career.[1][29] At the Music Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Milan, he held a course of Semiotics of Contemporary Music on the voice.[29] The series of lessons continued until March. On Friday 30 March, Stratos held his last concert, performing solo, at the “Teatrino di Villa Reale” (“little” Theater of the Royal Villa) in Monza.[29]
In April, Demetrio Stratos was diagnosed with a severe case of aplastic anemia. On April 2, he was hospitalized at the Milan Polyclinic, but his condition deteriorated rapidly and he was transferred to New York City Memorial Hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, in Italy, his friends organized a concert to pay for his medical expenses. Many musicians accepted the invitation to perform, and the concert was planned for June 14, 1979. It was to become Demetrio Stratos’ memorial concert, where over hundred musicians played in front of an audience of 60,000 at the Arena of Milan, the first great and spontaneous reunion of youth in Italy. He died in New York City Memorial Hospital on June 13, 1979 at the age of thirty–four, while waiting for a bone marrow transplant (the official cause of death was a myocardial infarction, more commonly known as heart attack).[1][3][11][22][29]
His death cut short a collaboration with poet Antonio Porta, another Novissimo, on a project set to the music of Stratos’ voice[11] upsetting not only the avant-garde and experimental musicians who saw Stratos as one of their most important and representative members, but the entire show business community. The news spread in all directions, including media that was not so aware of alternative music.[1] At the time of his death, rumors circulated that his illness was caused by his secret and dangerous vocal practices. People wanted to believe that Demetrio Stratos had died due to daring too much and wandering outside the limits of human possibilities, as if he was a modern Icarus, punished for flying too close to the Sun.[22]
Stratos’ memorial, inscribed with the beginning of the Odyssey: “Musa, parlami di quell’uomo di multiforme ingegno” (“Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices”),[30] is at the Cemetery of Scipione Castello (44.833815°N 9.958291°E), a little village that is a fraction of Salsomaggiore Terme, a town in northern Italy, which is located in the province of Parma, in the Emilia-Romagna region. Every year since 2000, Scipione Castello organizes a musical festival in memory of Demetrio Stratos.[1]
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— John Cage, Mesostic for Demetrio Stratos (1991)
Area, Demetrio Stratos, Patrizio Fariselli, and Paolo Tofani were included in the Nurse with Wound list, a list of musicians and bands that accompanied the first album by Nurse with Wound, entitled Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella and released in 1979. Shortly after his death Italian progressive rock band Premiata Forneria Marconi dedicated to Demetrio Stratos “Maestro della voce” (“Master of the Voice”), a song that is featured on their 1980 album Suonare suonare. The auditorium of Radio Popolare, a Milan-based radio network, was entitled to Demetrio Stratos.[1] The Rassegna di Musica Diversa – Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos (“Review of Different Music – Homage to Demetrio Stratos”) is a review that was born in 1996 and every year promotes many Italian emerging musical groups and ideas, especially those who are more innovative. This homage review takes place in Alberone di Cento, a city in northern Italy, that is located in the province of Ferrara, in the Emilia-Romagna region.[1][31]
In 2002, the progressive rock, jazz rock Italian band Picchio dal Pozzo discovered the tape recordings made in 1979 by the band with Stratos performing at the IPPAI Theatre (Institute for Youth’s Protection and Assistance) in Genoa, Italy. Stratos’ performances were featured on Picchio dal Pozzo’s 2004 album, Pic_nic @ Valdapozzo, whose songs are built around Stratos’ voice. The effect is particularly striking on the song “Epitaffio”, in which Stratos creates a sweet melody with his “Flautofonie” technique, while a subtle beat, harmony and night sounds are provided very gently as not to shadow the voice.[32]
The “Demetrio Stratos” International Prize for experimental music, established in 2005 and promoted by his wife Daniela Ronconi Demetriou, Area‘s member Patrizio Fariselli, Claudio Chianura, Walter Prati and Gerd Rische, awards emerging musicians and new projects for music experimentation, and career achievements in experimental music. The award for the emerging artist best project has been assigned to Romina Daniele in 2005.[33] The Career Awards have been received by Diamanda Galás in 2005,[34][35] Meredith Monk in 2007,[36] Fred Frith in 2008,[37][38][39] Fátima Miranda in 2009,[40] and Joan La Barbara in 2011.[41][42]
La voce Stratos (“The Voice Stratos”) is a book and a documentary on the life and career of Demetrio Stratos released in 2009 and directed by Luciano D’Onofrio and Monica Affatato, and with the collaboration of Stratos’ wife Daniela Ronconi Demetriou. It includes over thirty interviews with Stratos’ collaborators, musicians, artists and phonetics researchers, as well as photos, videos, and previously unseen footage.[43][44] The second edition of Suonare la voce: tributo a Demetrio Stratos (“Playing the Voice: Tribute to Demetrio Stratos”) was held in Genoa in the same year. The two days of seminars and concerts culminated with a performance by Spanish artist Fátima Miranda.[45][46]
On 25 August 2009 in Siena, the remaining Area members, Patrizio Fariselli, Ares Tavolazzi, and Paolo Tofani together with Capiozzo’s son, Christian on drums, and Mauro Pagani on vocals and violin reunited for the first time in over a decade during the ninth edition of the festival La Città Aromatica (“The Aromaric City”), dedicated to Demetrio Stratos thirty years after his death.[47] On 29 and 30 January 2010, there was another tribute to Stratos and another reunion of Area with UT Gandhi (Umberto Trombetta) on drums. They played at the San Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna) theatre as part of StratosFerico: Omaggio a Demetrio Stratos (“StratosPheric: Tribute to Demetrio Stratos”).[48][49]
Demetrio Stratos’ life perfectly incarnates the spirit of the ’70s.[11] Recently, the Italian director Gabriele Salvatores announced his intention to produce a movie exploring music and politics in Italy during those years through the life of the charismatic singer.[22]
Phonetics research studies
Vocal gimmicks aside, Stratos’ mission was to free vocal expression from the slavery of language and pretty melodies. From the observation of his daughter Anastassia, he concluded that humans have enormous expressive potential that is progressively reduced to just a few socially appropriate functions during verbal development, such as language and harmonic singing. He considered the exploration of vocal potential as a tool of psychological and political liberation.[50] He, literally, wanted individuals and social groups to find their own voice.[22]
If a new vocality can exist, it must be lived by all, and not singularly: an attempt to get freed by the condition of listener and spectator to which the culture and politics have accustomed us. This work does not be assumed as a passively listening, but as “a game in which life is at risk”.
— Demetrio Stratos from Metrodora (in Italian)[51]
Besides the official Area discography, for which Stratos is remembered, it is important to remember his solo works, a massive set of productions full of experimentation and vocal research. His study of the voice used as a musical instrument carried him to reach for the limits of human capabilities. Stratos was able to reach 7,000 Hz, when a tenor normally reaches 523 Hz and a woman soprano 1,046 Hz (C6). He would hold notes for long periods of time, modulate them vibrato-like, and leap and dive from low to high and back again, with pinpoint accuracy. Using various overtone singing and other extended techniques, he was able to perform diplophony, triplophony, and also quadrophony, the ability to produce two, three, and even four sounds simultaneously (multiphonic) using only the human voice as the musical instrument.[52] In collaboration with the CNR of Padua, he has released many studies in ethnomusicology, vocal extensions and Asian music chant.[1][3]
Looking at what I have found during the emission, the vocal folds did not vibrate. The frequency (for a human voice) was very high (vocal folds do not succeed to exceed the frequencies of 1,000–1,200 Hz). In spite of that Demetrio obtained not one, but two not harmonic hisses, one that descended from 6,000 Hz, and the other that climbed from 3,000 Hz. Therefore, it could not be supposed that one hiss was the next harmonic of the other. I observed also the emission of three hisses simultaneously
— Professor Franco Ferrero (in Italian)[30]
The amazing research of Stratos brings many suggestions of unexplored fields of research that are still to be studied such as the particularly stimulating and innovative pre-eminence of the meaning over the meant, and the ritual value of the voice.[30] His research into the field of phonetics (Articulatory phonetics, Acoustic phonetics, and Auditory phonetics), and experimental poetry[11] led to him freeing his voice of every naturalistic restraint, restoring its depth and dimension. The result of this can be heard in the two recordings of his compositions Metrodora and Cantare la Voce where what sounds like an instrument is in fact his voice.[13][14]
(human) Voice in today’s music is a transmission channel that does not transmit anything. The western vocal hypertrophy has rendered almost insensitive the modern singer to the various aspects of the vocality, isolating him in the fencing of determined linguistic’s structures
The pre-eminence of the signifier over the signified
The pre-eminence of the signifier over the signified is an issue of which linguistics and pragmatics are fond of, and has brought to the turning point in both semantics and semiotics. The value of language is not to be researched in the connections among the signs or in the relation between the signifier (signifiant) and the signified (signifié), but in the usage of the language in the context. For example, there is a metacommunicative meaning in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced by the voice that can nullify the semantic value of a sentence (the words).
Stratos grasped the semantic increase produced by the voice. It is not only in function of the meanings but it is its own primal mode of body expression. The voice has a communicative meaning by itself which deserves to be listened to regardless of the meanings it may convey. The signifier “voice” becomes semiogenetic, that is producer of new signification when verifying it in its bare essence, in its “phoné“. The “magic” sound of voice is independent from meanings, so Stratos produces sounds without codified meanings, which yet create new possible worlds.
As the petrified Oread Echo, his research for this lost voice explores the human cry, the breath, the noise. It intends to go back to the corporeal reality, to the instinctive materiality, to the animal Dionysian base, suppressed by a codified objectiveness. The insistence on the “significant voice” takes value away from the subjective production of the signified. Stratos carries to a dissolving of “the I” by a creatively repetitive modulation in advantage of an intersubjective union of the sources of life.
The nomadic voice represents the liberation, it aspires to the body vocalization subtracted to the fixed inflections of the bel canto. In “Mirologhi I”, “Mirologhi II” and “Criptomelodie Infantili”[53] the voice tends to be declined plurally, it whispers, it moans, it imitates, it becomes diplophonia and triplophonia. It is a polyphonic vocalism without a subject, androgynous, where both genders, masculine and feminine, coexist.
Stratos sings the voice, mere appearance, pharmakon, poisonous, and curative, without anything else except the voice, a pure ludic act, only voice as voice itself. “By this way the subversive sovereignty of the voice as an event, pharmakon communication challenge leaves the subject in an ingenuous anthropolatry somewhere between unconditioned enjoyment and consumption.”
The praise of the voice signifier supports an epistemology of the perception, it states “the error of Descartes” who reduced reason to conceptual word. It’s in line with the “Praktognosia” (practical knowledge) of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, which sets the starting pointing the sensible perceptions of our bodies.[30]
The ritual value of the voice
Stratos refers to the aulos, the double-reeded flute used during the old rites in the ancient Greece; it produces two sounds and it is able to keep persons in a state of trance. In his “Flautofonie ed Altro”, a track that it is featured on his 1978 album, Cantare la voce,[54] there are two not harmonic voices that cause to the listener a state of trance, similar to the trance during the religious rites, and a sense of estrange. So, the Stratos’ voice-music is a sort of lay rite that produces to the listeners the ability to reach their primordial origin.
“The Stratos’ flute-voice plays a circular theme, a modal inspiration that brings us filler to an experience of communion, ritual interaction and sacrifices. That repetition suggests something of hypnotic that should be propitious to the trance state. Stratos seems to wish a participated, spontaneous and also generous listening. Through these, always different, repetitions, he aimed to abolish, to dissolute, to dissolve the “ego”, as the basic element for the sacrifice. In this dissolution of the identity we (the group of listeners) are in communion with gods (divinities), Earth and life.” — Janete El Haouli (translated from Spanish to Italian to English)
In the years of the desecration and secularization of the Christianity, Stratos proposed a new lay sacredness, in the name of the ancient Greeks, a return to the true rituality. The binomial voice-music had forgotten that rituality because in today’s world it is only used to propose human’s thoughts, ideas, and ideologies rather than the sacred experiences of the intimate communion between humans and the nature that surrounds us.
The search of the triplophonies and quadriphonies is used by Tibetan’s monks and some knights of Mongolia. “It is a ritual use of the voice”, wrote Stratos, and this purpose is maintained in his works. There are four ritual elements: the repetition, the escape from the ordinary, the loss of the ego, and the communitarian dimension. Perhaps, reading Gilles Deleuze, Stratos had been convinced that the repetition was not the ill-famed co-action to repeat the obsessive neurosis, but it should become a technique to escape from the ordinary, from the temporary flux, to access to another order of truth. Therefore, the trance with the abolition of the ego and the known world increased the horizon on other worlds. The result was a collective scene, an estranging and mystic performance at the same time.
In Stratos’ works, we can find the standard-bearer of the lay rituals in the rock mega-concerts, where the audience is not exhausted by the spectacular of the mimetic model of the super star, but in the nearly to religious fruition of the voice-music that allows to feel us in the scene the ice cold shiver chilling of our belongings to life.[30]
Because of his great ability, his acquired techniques and his studies with the CNR, he was able to produce results that are still unattainable by others. Daniel Charles has described him as the person who decimated monody by the demultiplication of the acoustic spectrum. He achieved a diplophony which is triplophonic, even quadraphonic. His vocalization became micro orchestrations (voice instrument) without any technological amplification or manipulation.[13][14] He elevated rock singing to new heights with his vocal gymnastics.[3]
For recordings made with Area, please, see Area Discography.
Demetrio Stratos has released several studio albums and singles as a solo artist, and is featured on several albums recorded by other artists.[55]
1968[56] I Ribelli Album by I Ribelli.
1972 Radius Album by Alberto Radius. Demetrio Stratos features on track A2. “To the Moon I’m Going” – 7:28.
1974 Nova Musicha N. 1 Album by John Cage. Demetrio Stratos features on track B3. “Demetrio Stratos – Sitxy–Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (Frammenti)” – 9:00.Originally released in vinyl LP format and published in Italy by Cramps, CRSLP 6101; re–released in 2007 in CD Sized Album Replica, Gatefold, Limited Edition format and published in Japan by Strange Days, POCE–1205.
1976 Metrodora Originally released in vinyl LP format and published in Italy by Cramps, CRSLP 6205; re-released in 2007 in CD Sized Album Replica, Limited Edition format and published in Japan by Strange Days, POCE-1197.Track listing
“Segmenti Uno” – 3:36
“Segmenti Due” – 4:04
“Segmenti Tre” – 4:01
“Segmenti Quattro” – 4:31
“Mirologhi 1 (Lamento d’Epiro)” – 4:23
“Metrodora” – 8:55
1976 Cantata Rossa per Taal al Zaatar Album by Gaetano Liguori, Giulio Stocchi and Demetrio Stratos, featuring Concetta Busacca, Pasquale Liguori and Roberto Del Piano. Originally released in vinyl LP format.
1978 Futura: Poesia Sonora Antologia storico critica della poesia sonora (“Critical-historical anthology of sound poetry”). Sound poems, many of them performed by their authors. Edited by Arrigo Lora-Totino; introduction by Renato Barilli. Demetrio Stratos features on disc 7, track A2. “O Tzitziras o Mitziras” – 4:01Originally released in vinyl LP format and published in Italy by Cramps, 5204-001; re–released in 1989 in CD format and published in Italy by Cramps, CRSCD 091-095.
1978 Cantare la voce Originally released in vinyl LP format and published in Italy by Cramps, 520.6119.Track listing
“Investigazioni (Diplofonie e Triplofonie)” – 14:41
“Passaggi 1,2” – 5:16
“Criptomelodie Infantili” – 6:23
“Flautofonie ed Altro” – 6:17
“Le Sirene” – 6:19
1978 Mauro Pagani Ascolto.
“L’albero di canto”
“L’albero di canto II”
1979 Le Milleuna Text written by Nanni Balestrini. Originally released in vinyl LP format and published in Italy by Cramps, 7243 8 57442 2 8; re-released in 1990 in CD format and published in Italy by Cramps, CRSCD 034; re-released in 2007 in CD Sized Album Replica, Limited Edition format and published in Japan by Strange Days, POCE-1170.Track listing
“Le Milleuna” – 63:13
1979 Carnascialia Polygram.
“Canzone numero uno (c’è chi batte i denti, chi prende il ritmo e ci balla sopra)” (Pasquale Minieri, Piero Brega)
“Fiocchi di neve e bruscolini” (Antonio Vivaldi, Demetrio Stratos)
“Almeisan” (Minieri)
“Kaitain (22 ottobre 1962)” (Vivaldi, Minieri, Stratos, Maurizio Giammarco)
“Cruzeiro Do’ Sul” (Giammarco)
“Gamela” (Minieri, Brega)
Compilations and lives
1979 Rock’n roll exhibition Live in 1978 with Paolo Tofani, Mauro Pagani, Walter Calloni, Stefano Cerri and Paolo Donnarumma. Cramps.Track listing
“Mean Woman Blues” – 4:27
“Hound Dog” – 3:55
“Blueberry Hill / I Can’t Stop Loving You” – 4:50
“Long Tall Sally” – 3:35
“Boom Boom” – 10:00
“Barefootin'” – 5:32
“25 Miles From Nowhere” – 11:30
1980 Recitarcantando Live album recorded in Cremona, Italy on September 21, 1978, with Demetrio Stratos on vocals and Lucio Fabbri on violinOriginally released in vinyl LP format and published in Italy by Cramps, 520.6501; re-released in 2007 in CD Sized Album Replica, Gatefold, Limited Edition format and published in Japan by Strange Days, POCE-1171.
“Passaggi” – 2:05
“Cometa Rossa” – 9:19
“Investigazioni (diplofonie triplofonie)” – 7:05
“Mirologhi 1” – 5:30
“Investigazioni” – 1:35
1995 Concerto all’Elfo Live performance (of Cantare la voce), originally released in CD format and published in Italy by Cramps, 300 037-2; re-released in 2007 in CD Sized Album Replica, Limited Edition format, and published in 2007 in Japan by Strange Days, POCE-1172.
1999 La Voce-Musica
2004 Stratosfera 5-CD box set containing all Stratos’ solo recordings: Metrodora, Cantare la Voce, Recitaracantando (with Lucio Fabbri), Le Milleuna, and Concerto all’Elfo. Akarma R 624296[57]
1966 “Come Adriano / Enchinza Bubu” Single by I Ribelli.
1966 “Per Una Lira / Ehi… Voi!” Single by I Ribelli. Two issues.
1967 “Chi Mi Aiuterà / Un Giorno Se Ne Va” Single by I Ribelli.
1967 “La Follia / Pugni Chiusi” Single by I Ribelli.
1969 “Goodbye / Josephine” Single by I Ribelli.
1969 “Obladì Obladà / Lei m’ama” Single by I Ribelli.
1969 “Oh Darling / Il vento non sa leggere” Single by I Ribelli.
1972 “Daddy’s dream / Since you’ve been gone” 7″ vinyl published in Italy by Numero Uno, ZN 50142.
1978 O Tzitziras o Mitziras Cramps Records.
2006 Suonare la voce Originally released in VHS and DVD Video formats and published in the European Union by Cramps, 7243 4 91955 3 0Track listing
“Investigazioni (diplofonie e trifonie)”
“Passaggi 1, 2”
“Criptomelodie infantili”
“Flautonie ed altro”
“Le sirene”
“Sixty two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham”
“Cometa rossa”
“Luglio, agosto, settembre (nero)”
“Mean Woman Blues”
“Metrodora”
2009 La voce Stratos
Italian progressive rock
List of overtone musicians
Tuvan throat singing
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Borella, Mike; Sjef Oellers (2001-02-25). “Area: International POPular Group”. Ratings. Gnosis. Retrieved 2009-05-21. Originally written in the Spring of 1995 and published in Expose #7, pp. 4-7; updated in February 2001
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Young, Richard A. (2002). “From cantautori to posse: Sociopolitical Discourse, Engagement and Antagonism in the Italian Music scene from the 60s to the 90s”. Music, Popular Culture, Identities. Amsterdam: Rodopi. pp. 35–36. ISBN 90-420-1249-8. OCLC 51296962. In this panorama of the individual, the cantautor who affirms the collective utopia, perhaps no other group was able to acquire legitimacy as the expression of emancipatry political collectives than Area, with singer, writer, and performer Demetrio Stratos. In keeping with the political dimension of engaged music, the group Area consolidated in their albums, and especially through their live performances (multi-genre musical expressions: free jazz, rock, electronic, instrumental and vocal experimentation) the foregrounding of desires and needs of a generation engaged in restructuring socio-political realities:
“It was the mid-1970s and live events roused enthusiasm as never before; they fulfilled the need to be together and the illusion of continuing as a person. Area … (was) a head above the rest. Not only because they seemed to be more attentive to the themes outside the world of music … nor due to their interest in the use of instruments which seemed vaster and futuristic, but above all because … (of) an incomparable coherence in their everyday work and in the steadfastness (sic) with which they faced even their contradditions.”
“Riflusso,” resistances, unoccupied roads
By the time Demetrio Stratos died of leukemia in 1979. Movimento ’77 was already in the process of being erased from official history. Stratos disappearance is emblematic of the Movement as a whole: his experimentation with the “voice” as a medium of information, vehicle and agent of identity formations, becomes something that “ha perduto il proprio destino” (“has lost its destiny”). His death cuts short a collaboration with poet Antonio Porta, another Novissimo, on a project set to the music of Stratos’ voice.
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a) In 1977, his vocal abilities were explored and documented by Professor Franco Ferrero at the University of Padova.
b) In April 1979, Demetrio Stratos had been diagnosed with a severe case of aplastic anemia. He was 34 years old. His condition deteriorated rapidly and he was transferred to New York City Memorial Hospital for treatment. Back in Italy, his friends organized a concert to pay for his medical expenses. Many musicians accepted the invitation to perform, and the concert was planned for June 14, 1979. It was to become Demetrio Stratos’ memorial concert: he died in New York City on June 13, 1979, while waiting for a bone marrow transplant.
c) At the time of his death, rumors circulated that his illness was caused by his secret and dangerous vocal practices. People wanted to believe that Demetrio Stratos had died for daring too much and wandering outside the limits of human possibilities: a modern Icarus, punished for flying too close to the Sun.
d) Demetrio Stratos’ life perfectly incarnates the spirit of the ’70s. Recently, film director Gabriele Salvatores‘ (Mediterraneo; I’m Not Scared) announced his intention to produce a movie exploring music and politics in Italy during those years through the life of the charismatic singer.
e) Vocal gimmicks aside, Stratos’ mission was to free vocal expression from the slavery of language and pretty melodies. From the observation of his daughter Anastassia, he concluded that humans have enormous expressive potentials that are progressively reduced during verbal development to just a few socially appropriate functions such as language and harmonic singing. For Demetrio Stratos, the exploration of vocal potentials was a tool of psychological and political liberation: he literally wanted individuals and social groups to find their own voice.
Tonini, Marco; Hera Albert (2007-01-13). “Tran Quang Hai – Tertium Auris” (in Italian). WordPress.com. Retrieved 2007-12-14. Albert Hera: “Che cosa pensa di Demetrio Stratos?”
Tran Quang Hai: “Aveva imparato da me nel 1977 in Francia. Venne da me con un impresario che mi disse che il maestro Demetrio Stratos voleva apprendere le mie tecniche di canto. Rimase con me per due ore e imparò tutto. Dopodichè, tornato in Italia, utilizzò gli esercizi appresi per le sue ricerche personali.”
Siegel, Marcia B.; Tileston Nathaniel (1991). “Cushioning the Minimalist Pew”. The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982. Durham, N.C.: Duke University. p. 53. ISBN 0-8223-1156-9. OCLC 23253850. Cunningham entrusts the musical accompaniment for each Event to a different contemporary composer. At event #209 I heard John Cage’s “Mesostics re Merce Cunningham,” in which Stratos produced an astonishing array of sounds and sound effects using only his voice.
“Il Treno di John Cage – Programma e personaggi” (in Italian). iltrenodijohncage.it. Archived from the original (ASP) on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
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b) Il prof. Franco Ferrero, che frequentò Stratos nel Centro di Studio per le ricerche di Fonetica del CNR dell’Università di Padova, ammette: “Stando a quanto ho riscontrato durante l’emissione, le corde vocali non vibravano. La frequenza era molto elevata (le corde vocali non riescono a superare la frequenza di 1000-1200 Hz). Nonostante ciò Demetrio otteneva non uno, ma due fischi disarmonici, uno che da 6000 Hz scendeva di frequenza, e l’altro che da 3000 Hz saliva. Non si poteva supporre, quindi, che un fischio fosse l’armonico superiore dell’altro. Constatai anche l’emissione di tre fischi simultanei”.
c, e) La strabiliante ricerca di Stratos porta molte suggestioni e piste di ricerca ancora da studiare. Vorrei limitarmi a due sottolineature particolarmente stimolanti ed innovative per il nostro tempo: la preminenza del significante rispetto al significato e il valore rituale della voce in ordine all’accesso alla scaturigine del corpo.
d, f) “La voce, sostiene Stratos, è oggi nella musica un canale di trasmissione che non trasmette più nulla” e ancora: “L’ipertrofia vocale occidentale ha reso il cantante moderno pressoché insensibile ai diversi aspetti della vocalità, isolandolo nel recinto di determinate strutture linguistiche”.
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Paolo Ansali (2010-01-20). “StratosFerico: l’omaggio a Demetrio Stratos a San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) con reunion degli Area” [StratosPheric: a tribute to Demetrio Stratos in San Lazzaro (BO) with Area reunion] (PHP) (in Italian). MusicalNews.com. Retrieved 2010-06-13.
Tran Quang Hai. “TQH: Method of Learning Overtone Singing Khoomei” (PHP). Retrieved 2007-12-15. Demetrio Stratos (1945–1979) used the overtones to create the relationship between voice and subconscious.
Stratos, Demetrio (1976). “Gianni Sassi, Musica, Demetrio Stratos”. Metrodora (in Italian). Gianni Sassi. Archived from the original on 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2007-12-16. Se una nuova vocalità può esistere dev’essere vissuta da tutti non da uno solo: un tentativo di liberarsi dalla condizione di ascoltatore e spettatore cui la cultura e la politica ci hanno abituato. Questo lavoro non va assunto come un ascolto da subire passivamente, ma come un “gioco in cui si rischia la vita”
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“Demetrio” (in Italian). ThanitART.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-17. Retrieved 2007-12-14.
“Demetrio Stratos” (PHP). Archivio • Artisti • Experimental (in Italian). VoiceArt. 2007-05-28. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
Sessa, Alessandro (2005-04-25). “Demetrio Stratos – Musicisti anni 70” (PHP). PRIMA PAGINA (in Italian). PAGINE 70. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
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oliver (2006-08-29). “XPTimes – La Voce – Demetrio Stratos” (in Italian). The XPray Experience. Archived from the original (ASP) on 2008-01-20. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
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Balkanisation: the shape of things to come?
Posted in Life, Musing, Regionalism, Urbanism by Ian Cundell on 24 June, 2016
The trouble with economists and political scientists is that they do not understand space. While the notion of borders may seem clear to them, they are not properly trained to understand geography.
So forget the market turmoil and the potential threat to the UK’s dominance in key markets, especially financial. Forget that the UK has chosen to complete its transformation from global superpower to complete irrelevance.
Source: Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/23/eu-referendum-live-results-and-analysis
Consider these two maps (you can click for larger versions, or follow the links to the source). The first, from the Guardian, shows the distribution of referendum results, adjusted for population. The source has some interesting graphs as well.
The second, from the BBC, shows the distribution of various immigrant groups (no Scotland because that’s how Census data is published).
In the context of a Leave campaign that was shamelessly (and shamefully) racist, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the areas where people have actually met migrants, day-to-day – worked with them, socialised with them, talked to them are the ones who voted most strongly for Remain – the main exception being Birmingham. This shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. UKIP’s heartland in the East of England is the part of the country with fewest immigrants (although farming relies a lot of migrant labour).
The big cities and the centres of knowledge voted Remain.
Source: BBC – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20713380
But the largely white, English (not British, English) working classes in areas that have been pretty well bankrolled by the EU voted for Leave and a truly impressive case of cut-off-nose-to-spite-faces.
This white son of a truck driver has written quite often (sometimes intemperately) on the capacity of the white English to find other people to blame for their woes. But, really, it is to do with the crushing of aspiration more than anything. They do not care that our kids will find it harder to travel for work to 27 countries. They (we) are no longer expected to aspire – indeed aspiration is actively discouraged, so when times get tough the fingers get pointed. Compare and contrast with the get-up-and-go of the stereotypical Polish brickie, who could be a poster child for Norman Tebbitt’s childish aphorisms.
When I graduated there was nobody in the room prouder than my Dad – left school at 13, Burma Star, drove all over the continent for Marconi, grafted his way to a senior position, dyed-in-the-wool Conservative. He and Mum couldn’t afford the “parental contribution” to my grant, and I only once made the mistake of asking for it.
And, of course, that was in the days of a grant: even if the modern white English working classes could be persuaded to aspire, to lift their eyes and look around the World of opportunity, they would be discouraged by the prospect of a lifetime mountain of debt.
It is an ugly, ugly situation in a homeland that is becoming nastier by the day.
But look back at that map. It takes no imagination at all to see Scotland opting for independence. If I were Nicola Sturgeon I’d be seriously considered going for a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. OK, probably not – but it is hard to see David Cameron as anything other than the PM whose hubris cost us the Union.
But what of those cities, and especially of London?
How well will England’s great centres of finance and knowledge respond to being asked to pick up the tab for regional policy that is, right now, 100% EU funded? Anything that is seen as moving resources out of the capital – financial or physical – will, history shows us, be seen as anti-London and resisted fiercely. Twitter jokes about a London Independence Party will remain just that, of course, but the underlying feeling will not go away. London, for better or worse, has kept the UK afloat since the days of Thatcher (and there is a very strong case for saying “the worse”, but that is entirely moot).
Add the Government’s (perfectly laudable) taste for city-regions exercising greater autonomy – and note that the main one, Manchester, voted Remain; season with the thought that Plaid Cymru might see a nice anti-English stick to beat the campaign drums with, and division may not be limited to the exit of Scotland.
It’s called Balkanisation for reasons that history (not just recent) teaches us. It doesn’t need to be at all literal.
It will still be cancerous.
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purofilion said, on 26 June, 2016 at 5:09 am
Thanks in particular for the map -I am no geographer or urban economist. Had I been I would have understood this situation -broad strokes and devilish details more. As it is, I can watch with horror as the UK descends into more ugliness -and unnecessary ugliness too. The disconnection between pollies and their constituents frustrates me in a country -like Australia, where the UK can fit into QLD twice at least. Here there’s representatives listening to their people. I don’t get that impression in the UK and I don’t understand why this disconnect is so prominent.
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June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016 ~ valerierlawson ~ 2 Comments
Hannah Harrison is such a delightful person and a familiar face on this blog. She gave an interview a few years ago, right before EXTRAORDINARY JANE was published. (My son still carries his now very battered copy of JANE around with him everywhere he goes. My copy is on the very top of my office bookshelf – please don’t tell my son.)
I also reviewed her second book about a crabby cat having a very bad day at a birthday party called BERNIE GETS CARRIED AWAY, which you can read about here.
Me with Hannah at the spring SCBWI Oklahoma conference.
(Have I mentioned how much I love being a part of SCBWI Oklahoma? So many generous and talented people in this group!)
I received an advanced copy of Hannah’s newest book, MY FRIEND MAGGIE from her when I saw her this past spring at our SCBWI OK conference in April. There may have been some actual jumping up and down when she gave it to me. I get excited when I receive free books from people, especially when they’re as talented as Hannah.
I’m so honored to be able to review this book before it releases in August. Be sure to pre-order your copy today!
MY FRIEND MAGGIE by Hannah E. Harrison
Published by: Dial Books
Genres: Children’s, Picture Books
Paula and Maggie have been friends forever. Paula thinks Maggie is the best—until mean girl Veronica says otherwise. Suddenly, Paula starts to notice that Maggie is big and clumsy, and her clothes are sort of snuggish. Rather than sticking up for Maggie, Paula ignores her old friend and plays with Veronica instead. Luckily, when Veronica turns on Paula, Maggie’s true colors shine through.
This moving friendship story has all the heart and emotion of The Giving Tree and Kevin Henkes’s Chrysanthemum. The gorgeous artwork and important message make this a book to treasure. It’s truly a classic in the making. (Plot summary from Goodreads.)
This book has already received some high praise:
Publisher’s Weekly STAR Review
“Harrison tells her story with touching and expert restraint, and her acrylic illustrations have a lovely old-fashioned feel that readers of her previous books will recognize…Harrison shows a deeply sympathetic understanding of the simultaneously fragile and powerful emotions of children.”
“Harrison’s brightly colored acrylic paintings amplify the emotions…(her) straightforward, first-person text, while understated, also conveys a wealth of emotion.”
This is such a fantastic story about friendship, and what happens when that friendship gets put to the test.
Before I even get into the fantastic artwork, can I talk about the inner nerd girl/weird girl/picked-on-by-the-mean-girl little part of each of us hidden way deep down inside that can’t help but tear up at the lunch room scene?
I’ve lived that scene. It felt just that awful.
Talk about nailing the emotions. Pow!
As always, Hannah is a master at using vibrant color, white space, and perspective in her artwork to enhance the emotional impact of the story.
She ties it all together to bring this thoughtful tale to a very satisfying conclusion.
I fell in love with this book. And with Maggie. Everyone could use a friend like her.
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As a special treat, you can view this clever video Hannah made for her Artist’s Studio Tour.
#TBT Post – Great Dads in Literature
I wrote this #ThrowBackThursday post for The Great Novelizing Adventure blog and it was originally published on June 15, 2014.
As today is the day we get to celebrate the great father figures in our lives, I thought I’d take a moment to pay homage to some of the fantastic literary dads that inspired, encouraged, and just made our favorite stories all the better for us having known them. As my dad was the one who instilled the love of reading in me, I dedicate this list of five great fictional dads to him.
Arthur Weasley – The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling. Although he wasn’t Harry’s father, nor did he try to be Harry’s father, he played a very important supportive role. (He also taught us that not every great father figure has to be one’s actual father.) Arthur Weasley held a special place in his heart for Muggles and he taught his children that there were more important things in life than power or wealth. In an early confrontation with Lucius Malfoy where Lucius makes a disparaging remark about his family, Arthur states, “We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy.”
Clementine’s dad – CLEMENTINE by Sara Pennypacker. Clementine is such wildly beautiful character. She reminds me of my daughter in some ways, with maybe a few more visits to the principal’s office under her belt. And her dad knows just what to do when she comes home from school after a really bad day, so bad that she doesn’t even want to talk about it, because her best friend’s mom sent a note to school saying, “Watch out that my daughter isn’t left alone with Clementine”.
When her dad comes in and sees her still wearing her mad face, he hands over the keys to the service elevator because he knows the only thing that will make her feel better is riding the service elevator. When she comes back, she overhears her parents talking about the note. Her mom is upset because they are treating Clementine as if she is a common criminal. Her dad laughs and says, “Well, that is insulting. There is absolutely nothing common about Clementine!”
Ken Dietz – PLEASE IGNORE VERA DIETZ by A.S. King. Ken Dietz is a high school drop out, turned accountant, and a recovering alcoholic. He believes he can keep Vera from making his mistakes by being brutally honest with her and by making her earn her way through life, regardless of whether or not the brutal honesty of finding out her mother worked as a stripper before she abandoned her when she was twelve might be utterly devastating or that making her work 40 hours a week while going to school to earn her own way may leave her virtually no time to do her homework.
He devours self-help books trying to be the best dad he can be and when Vera fails, he thinks these are his failures. He doesn’t give up and he still pushes and is still with her through her darkest moments. “With Vera, I’m trying to find ways to teach her how to grow her own self-esteem. I’m not sure if it’s working, but it’s all I have. Because my father left when I was three, I have no idea what a father is supposed to do, so I’m winging it.”
Atticus Finch – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee. Atticus is the epitome of compassion, and courage. He teaches Scout and her brother Jem that they should not shoot mockingbirds with their air rifles because it’s a sin. Mockingbirds never harm other living creatures. He defends a black man accused of rape, even though he knows it won’t end well. He also discourages Scout from fighting with others to defend him because of backlash from the trial. He tells Jem, “I wanted you to see what real courage is. Instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, and but begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” He also teaches Scout that you can’t judge someone until you see from their point of view, “until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it.”
Eddard Stark – A GAME OF THRONES by George R.R. Martin. This character’s untimely demise sparks off a war and chaos of monumental portions, which speaks to his character’s regard, not just from his family, but those who followed him. Eddard Stark, the Lord of Winterfell, teaches his sons that to understand what it’s like to disperse justice, they must be the hand that directs the blow. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.” When he is asked by the king to leave home and come to the capital to help run the entire country, he does his duty, against his heart. When he sees corruption, he speaks out and tries to address it. Although he is not without fault, he does seem to be the only one there with good intentions.
That’s that’s my list of five honorable fathers of literature. I know that’s just a starting place. I’m sure there are many more.
Can you name any of your favorites?
The Relaxed & Groovy Book Club – ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
June 15, 2016 November 11, 2016 ~ valerierlawson ~ 3 Comments
Welcome to the third discussion of the Relaxed & Groovy Book Club!
This third installment is taking full advantage of the title “relaxed & groovy” as April was just too hectic for me to manage everything, what with the amazing SCBWI spring conference and then the nonprofit I work for hosted its annual Walk for Autism the very next week, I was worn out by the end of the month. I took most of May to regroup and refocus. So I let this go. It’s important to know your limits, I say. Now, I have all the time in the world to talk about this latest fabulous book!
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Published by: Simon & Schuster
Genres: YA, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, LGBT
Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.(Plot summary from Goodreads.)
Learn more about Benjamin Alire Saenz here and here.
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The way Sáenz paints with language gets me every time. He uses evocative language so well to hit right to the heart of the emotional moment of every scene. And his characters Ari and Dante are just the greatest. I loved this book even more the second time around.
Let’s peek at the opening:
One summer night I fell asleep, hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same. I threw off the sheets and lay there as the heat poured in though my open window.
My hand reached for the dial on the radio. “Alone” was playing. Crap, “Alone” a song by a band called Heart. Not my favorite song. Not my favorite group. Not my favorite topic. “You don’t know how long…”
I was fifteen.
I was bored.
I was miserable.
As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be as miserable as I was.
The DJ was saying annoying, obvious things like, “It’s summer! It’s hot out there!” And then he put on that retro Lone Ranger tune, something he liked to play every morning because he thought it was a hip way to wake up the world. “Hi-yo, Silver!” Who hired this guy? He was killing me. I think that as we listened to the William Tell Overture, we were supposed to be imagining the Lone Ranger and Tonto riding their horses through the desert. Maybe someone should have told the guy that we weren’t ten-year-olds anymore. “Hi-yo Silver!” Crap. The DJ’s voice was on the airwaves again. “Wake up, El Paso! It’s Monday, June fifteenth, 1987! 1987! Can you believe it? And a big ‘Happy Birthday’ goes out to Waylon Jennings, who’s fifty years old today!” Waylon Jennings? This was a rock station, dammit! But then he said something that hinted at the fact that he might have a brain. He told the story about how Waylon Jennings had survived the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly and Richie Valens. On that note, he put on the remake of “La Bamba” by Los Lobos.
“La Bamba.” I could cope with that.
I tapped my bare feet on the wood floor. As I nodded my head to the beat, I started wondering what had gone through Richie Valens’s head before the plane crashed into the unforgiving ground. Hey, Buddy! The music’s over.
For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.
This novel is beyond fantastic. You know who Ari is right from the start. You feel for him and wish his day were going better.
The Discussion:
The simple summary above doesn’t begin to do this story and this beautiful, complicated relationship justice. Aristotle, or Ari as he prefers to be called, isn’t just another angsty teen with anger management problems. He lives in a house filled with silences. His dad came back damaged after returning from Vietnam without the words to talk about it. Ari, for his part, wants nothing more than to hear from his dad. His older brother went to prison when Ari was very young and even his pictures have been banished from the walls. The silence of his absence is deafening. Ari is a big thinker. He’s always wondering about how the world works and why things are the way they are. Like in this passage:
I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.
Dante has completely different problems. For one thing, he’s not Mexican enough. Compared to Ari, who is just the right combination, Dante thinks he’s too light-skinned and too into art and reading and doesn’t really like anything that “real” Mexicans like. Except for menudo, which Ari says makes him a real Mexican. He also gets along with his parents too well. And he’s afraid of disappointing them (they way he’s disappointed Ari) because he likes boys. Dante over-shares his feelings, where Ari keeps his hidden, even from himself.
Dante talks about everything.
Until Dante, being with other people was the hardest thing in the world for me. But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not it my world, they weren’t.
I went home and looked up the word ‘inscrutable.’ It meant something that could not easily be understood. I wrote down all the synonyms in my journal. ‘Obscure.’ ‘Unfathomable.’ ‘Enigmatic.’ ‘Mysterious.’
That afternoon, I learned two new words. ‘Inscrutable.’ And ‘friend.’
Words were different when they lived inside of you.
Ari struggles with sharing his thoughts. When he gets sick with the flu and Dante visits him, they end up talking about Ari’s brother. Afterwards, Ari feels like he’s betrayed his family and pushes Dante away. He then starts writing everything in a journal.
-I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.
-I told my father I always had bad dreams. And that was true. I’d never told anyone that before. Not even myself. I only knew it was true when I said it.
-I hated my mom for a minute or two because she told me I didn’t have any friends.
-I want to know about my brother. If I knew more about him, would I hate him?
-My father held me in his arms when I had a fever and I wanted him to hold me in his arms forever.
-The problem is not that I don’t love my mother and father. The problem is that I don’t know how to love them.
-Dante is the first friend I’ve ever had. That scares me.
-I think that if Dante really knew me, he wouldn’t like me.
That is something I could connect with – a fear I had when I was young (and maybe not so young) – and I knew how lonely Ari felt. And why he pushed Dante away.
Another defining moment in the story is when Ari and Dante witness some boys shooting a BB gun and they kill a bird. Dante confronts them in anger and Ari chases them away before they can hurt Dante. They both come away from the confrontation with new insights about each other.
After the boys sit in silence, Ari asks, “Why do birds exist, anyway?”
He looked at me. “You don’t know?”
“I guess I don’t.”
“Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.”
Dante cries over the dead bird and asks Ari to help him bury it.
I was harder than Dante. I think I’d tried to hide that hardness from him because I’d wanted him to like me. But now he knew. that I was hard. And maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as I liked the fact that he wasn’t hard.
Later, Ari saves Dante’s life when he stops in the road to rescue a wounded bird after a storm and a car swerves around the corner. Ari is hit in Dante’s place. This changes and deepens their relationship in surprising ways.
Dante wants Ari to forgive him. He says he done with birds. Everyone thinks of Ari as a hero. Ari tells Dante there’s nothing to forgive and he acted on reflex – he didn’t even think about it, he just did it. No one should treat him like a hero. Whenever they, Ari gets angry.
One morning, Dante decides he’ll be the one to give Ari his sponge bath.
Dante’s hands were bigger than my mother’s. And softer. He was slow, methodical, careful. He made me feel as fragile as porcelain.
I never opened my eyes.
We didn’t say a word.
I felt his hands on my bare chest. On my back.
I let him shave me.
When he was done, I opened my eyes. Tears were falling down his face. I should have expected that. I wanted to yell at him. I wanted to tell him that it was me who should be crying.
Dante had that look on his face. He looked like an angel. And all I wanted to do was put my fist through his jaw. I couldn’t stand my own cruelty.
Dante then moves away for a year. Both boys struggle to figure out who they are without the other. They experiment with things – kissing girls, taking drugs, drinking – and they discover some secrets of the universe. When Dante returns, they are fast friends, again. Ari is welcomed back by Dante’s family with more affection than Ari is comfortable with.
“I’m sure I’ll disappoint you someday, Mrs. Quintana.”
“No,” she said. And even though her voice could be so firm, right then her voice was almost as kind as my own mother’s. “You’re so hard on yourself, Ari.”
I shrugged. “Maybe that’s just the way it is with me.”
She smiled at me. “Dante’s not the only one who missed you.”
It was the most beautiful thing an adult who wasn’t my mom or dad had ever said to me. And I knew that there was something about me that Mrs. Quintana saw and loved. And even though I felt it was a beautiful thing, I also felt it was a weight. Not that she meant it to be a weight. But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
The summer progresses, and after a family tragedy strikes, Ari comes to understand another secret of the universe.
I just drove. I could have driven forever. I don’t know how I managed to find my spot in the desert, but I found it. It was as if I had a compass hidden somewhere inside of me. One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger the our minds…Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer morning could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.
Ari comes to realize maybe he didn’t just respond as a reflex when he saved Dante. Maybe there was a bigger reason. Okay, no more spoilers. I promise.
The voice, the plot, the setting all worked together in harmony and kept me firmly engrossed in the world of Ari and Dante. I hope you enjoyed reading this month’s book as much as I did, and that you maybe kept a box of kleenex close by near the end. Well worth it, I say.
So…what’s next?
July’s Relaxed & Groovy Book Club selection:
Published by: Scholastic Press
Teen beauty queens. A desert island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to e-mail. And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.(Plot summary from author’s website.)
Learn more about Libba Bray here.
Follow Libba on Twitter here.
Follow Libba on Tumblr here.
Follow Libba on Facebook here.
This book is more than just a pretty face. Every young woman* should read the wisdom imparted within these pages – for no other reason, in the unlikely event that she is stranded on a deserted island with a bunch of savage beauty queens. Libya Bray is a genius at turning the absurd into the astounding. I’m so looking forward to reading this book, again! I know you’ll love this one.
*(and every young man! Insight is always wise to pursue. Besides, there is a male perspective shown here as well…)
The next meeting of this most relaxed and groovy of book clubs will be the last week of July. (Tie-dyed tees and funky shoes optional.)
Gwendolyn Hooks Shines a Light on an Unsung Hero – Author Interview and Book Giveaway!
June 3, 2016 June 16, 2016 ~ valerierlawson ~ 7 Comments
I have the pleasure of knowing Gwendolyn Hooks as part of our close-knit tribe of SCBWI Oklahoma members. She works tirelessly to perfect her craft until her work shines, and she has such a beautiful soul. All of which comes through in her writing. I just love her.
The road to publication for her latest book, TINY STITCHES: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas, was a long one. Some of us who have witnessed the progress of this journey are so thrilled to see this beautiful story finally come to light.
One lucky reader will win a signed copy! So stay tuned!
About Gwen
She was born in Savannah, Georgia. Her father was in the Air Force, so Gwen and her family moved a lot when she was a child. Her first stop in every new city was the local library where she got her new library card. Gwen now lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with her husband and their three children.
She is the author of twenty published books, including her popular Pet Club series. Two of her Scholastic early readers, The Mystery of the Missing Dog and Three’s A Crowd, sold over 100,000 copies each. She’s also written nonfiction picture books, including Arctic Appetizers: Studying Food Webs in the Arctic.
Tiny Stitches – The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas illustrated by Coretta Scott King Honor Award winner Colin Bootman (Lee & Low Books 2016) is her first picture book biography.
Gwendolyn blogs on The Brown Bookshelf to push awareness of the myriad of African American voices writing and illustrating for young readers. The American Library Association selected The Brown Bookshelf as a Great Website for Kids.
Before the interview, let’s learn more about Gwen’s latest book:
TINY STITCHES: The Life of Medical Pioneer Vivien Thomas written by Gwendolyn Hooks illustrated by Colin Bootman
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Genres: Picture Book
Vivien Thomas’s greatest dream was to attend college to study medicine. But after the stock market crashed in 1929, Vivien lost all his savings. Then he heard about a job opening at the Vanderbilt University medical school under the supervision of Dr. Alfred Blalock. Vivien knew that the all-white school would never admit him as a student, but he hoped working there meant he was getting closer to his dream.
As Dr. Blalock’s research assistant, Vivien learned surgical techniques. In 1943, Vivien was asked to help Dr. Helen Taussig find a cure for children with a specific heart defect. After months of experimenting, Vivien developed a procedure that was used for the first successful open-heart surgery on a child. Afterward, Dr. Blalock and Dr. Taussig announced their innovative new surgical technique, the Blalock-Taussig shunt. Vivien’s name did not appear in the report.
Overcoming racism and resistance from his colleagues, Vivien ushered in a new era of medicine—children’s heart surgery. This book is the compelling story of this incredible pioneer in medicine.
This book has already garnered rave reviews:
Booklist STAR review
“It is the work Thomas achieved, however, in spite of these enormous challenges, that will pique reader interest as they learn about his design of tiny operating tools and his role guiding surgeons through neonatal operations. Bootman’s lifelike watercolor illustrations beautifully and vividly evoke the carpentry shop, research labs, and the auditorium where, years later, Thomas was finally honored for his work and appointed to the faculty at Johns Hopkins.”
Kirkus
“. . . a rousing tribute to a man unjustly forgotten.”
I can’t wait to read this book! And the illustrations are just gorgeous.
Valerie Lawson: What inspired you to tell the story of Vivien Thomas?
Gwendolyn Hooks: Thank goodness I have generous and talented writer friends and Anna Myers fits into that category. She called one night and in an explosive voice she said, “I just watched a movie about the man who saved my grandson’s life!”
Whaaat? Was all I could sputter.
The movie, Something the Lord Made, was the story of Vivien Thomas. Anna ended the conversation with, “You need to write a children’s book about him.” I watched the movie, too—several times. I kept thinking, why didn’t I know about him. There are probably plenty of kids who don’t know his story. After a lot of encouragement from Anna, I took on the project and I am so glad she called me that night!
VL: What a gift! And maybe a pretty big challenge. Good thing she knew you were up for it.
Tell us about the creative process of bringing this story to life. How was it different from your previous books.
GH: The creative process was extremely demanding for me. The beautiful phrases in my head did not magically appear on my computer screen. I have a stack of drafts about two feet high. I read other biographies and marveled at how the writing seemed so effortless. I worried what an illustrator would say after reading my manuscript. “Seriously. You expect me to illustrate this?” I doubted every step I took. But I did not give up. I kept reading picture book biographies and read everything I could find about how to write them.
When I write early readers, I always feel I can do it. I can visualize the whole book in my mind. With Tiny Stitches, it was a long time before I could see it. Before I could feel it. But I kept trying. I wanted to succeed. I couldn’t let Anna down. Or myself.
I don’t know what Colin Bootman thought when he first read my manuscript, but I’m so glad he accepted the project. I was excited when my editor told me he would be the illustrator. He’s very talented and his books are gorgeous. Colin won a Coretta Scott King Honor award, so he’s got talent! I think he really brought my words to life.
VL: You didn’t give up. Exactly. And we’re so glad you kept trying. What a beautiful book!
What was the most surprising thing you learned while writing this book?
GH: It took six years from idea to publication. During that time, I learned that I have a patience-gene and a determination-gene. I would finish it and find an agent and an editor who believed in it as much as I did. I had the encouragement of my family, friends, and critique partners.
And I had Vivien Thomas. A few years ago, I traveled to Baltimore and had a chance to see Vivien’s portrait that hangs directly across from Dr. Blalock’s in Johns Hopkins Hospital. I felt his energy. I felt his passion. He urged me to tell his story. And I did.
VL: Ooooh! How inspiring! (That gave me chills.)
You’ve also written a series of Early Readers, the Pet Club series, did you ever have a clubhouse or a secret place of your own when you were a kid?
GH: In 3rd grade, my friends and I attempted to build a fort during recess. The school was next to a wooded area and every day, we added branches and anything else we could find. I don’t think we ever finished it. But one day, I took off my jacket so I could work better. Well, I forgot to put it back on and didn’t remember it until I got on the bus. I was a nervous wreck riding home. I knew my mother’s first words would be, “Where is your jacket?”
Somehow, I got to my bedroom and out the house the next morning before she had time to think about it. I jumped off the bus, ran to our fort, and found my jacket. I never forgot my jacket again. I never built or half-built a fort again either.
VL: Kids always sweat their parents’ reactions, don’t they? My leg could be broken from jumping out of a tree, but I’d be more worried about, “Did I rip my new pants? Mom’s gonna kill me!” I wish I could’ve seen that fort. Sounded pretty cool.
What was the most embarrassing thing you experienced?
GH: I still remember it like it was yesterday. I had to present a math lesson in one of my college education classes. I practiced it until it was perfect. But when I stood in front of the class with all those eyes staring at me, I blanked out. It was as if my brain had disappeared. Evaporated. Vanished. Finally, the instructor suggested I present at our next class. I slunk back to my seat. I have never forgotten that.
VL: Wow. That is truly awful. I think I’ve had nightmares of that happening.
What was the most memorable adventure you had with your family?
GH: My two sisters who are also my best friends and I had a fantastic time on our trip to Belgium. One sister is adamant about luggage. We were restricted to one carry-on bag and she sent instructions on how to pack. No waiting for luggage. No crying over lost bags. Plus you must be able to handle your bag without help. Apparently, my other sister forgot that part. When we arrived in Brussels, we took a train to the car rental agency. The forgetful sister couldn’t get her luggage situated and we had to stay on the train until the next stop. So we decided to walk to the rental agency instead of waiting for another train.
It wasn’t as close as we thought and we were not happy with sister #2. As the luggage obsessed sister was signing the rental papers, she realized she had not specified automatic transmission when she reserved the car and there weren’t any available. There was a little eye-rolling from the luggage challenged sister because the luggage obsessed sister is the only one who could drive a stick shift. I’m the middle sister and peace maker so I volunteered to serve as navigator. Which turned out okay except for a few instances of driving in circles multiple times in circle intersections. It was hard to stop gawking and look at street signs.
We toured buildings that were centuries old. We ate chocolate and more chocolate. Then we took side trips to Bruges and Antwerp. Bruges was a fairy tale city with live chickens for sale in the market square. At a restaurant, I ordered a ham dish that appeared in front of me as a huge ham hock in a soup bowl. It was delicious! In Antwerp we visited the diamond center. I was blinded with all the glitter. Then it was time to drive back to Brussels and fly home. I loved that trip!
VL: That certainly was memorable! How fantastic!
What’s been your favorite book to read/book you’ve been most excited about over the past year?
GH: I can’t just pick one.
I met Christina Gonzalez at the Nevada Reading Week conference in Reno. She gave me a copy of her The Red Umbrella, so of course I had to read it. It’s a great book set in Cuba. I love reading about other cultures and countries.
Recently, I read Thunder Boy by Sherman Alexie and illustrated by Yuyi Morales. It’s a beautiful picture book with a fun, but powerful message about the importance of a name.
The other day, I complained to a friend that I wanted to do a better job with setting. She suggested I read The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County written by Janice N. Harrington and illustrated by Shelley Jackson. Janice does a fabulous job of showing setting through her language. I will probably read it 10 more times before I return it to the library.
I read two adult nonfiction books over the last year that I really enjoyed for different reasons.
The Superhuman Mind: Free the Genius in Your Brain by Berit Brogaard and Kristian Marlow. Who doesn’t want to free their genius!
Gwen with author of THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. Not only was it an epic story, the book was epic at 622 pages! But I love history and I learned so much about the migration of African Americans from the deep south to the north and west. I also liked Wilkerson’s narrative nonfiction style.
To-Be-Read: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. She feels that exceptional achievement is a result of passion and persistence and not genius or talent. That means I can achieve something exceptional because I’m passionate about books and writing and I can be persistent when I set my mind on it.
VL: Ha! You’re so like me! I can never pick just one book EVER! And my nightstand has about ten books covering it right now. Thanks for some excellent reading suggestions.
What would your dream assignment be? What would you most like to write about?
GH: I’d love to have an all-expense paid assignment with a six-figure advance that required traveling to another country for research. One of my favorite television shows is Mysteries at the Museum. One Saturday, while eating breakfast, I watched an episode about Sir William Henry Perkins. He was an English chemist who accidently discovered a purple dye in 1856. Up until that time only royalty and the rich could afford purple clothes. Soon all the ladies were strutting around town in purple frocks. And since I love purple, it only makes sense for me to visit England and work on that project.
VL: Now that’s an excellent dream assignment! And of course you’ll need a co-writer to help you…carry your luggage. I’m volunteering now.
Tell us what’s coming up next for you. What are you currently working on?
GH: I wrote two early readers for Lee & Low’s Confetti Kids series. Block Party and Music Time are scheduled for 2017. Pearson Educational UK is publishing a chapter book next year. And I’m writing another early reader that I can’t talk about yet-top secret. I will say, it’s something I’ve always been interested in, but I see a challenge ahead making it young-kid-friendly.
VL: How exciting! And I love top secret projects. We know you’ll be up for the challenge 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing your time with us, Gwen. Always a pleasure.
**As an added bonus for those in the local area, Gwen will be hosting a book release party on June 9th, in Oklahoma City. The event will be from 6-9pm at the Chi Gallery.
Please come! It will be a fun event!
Gwen is giving away a SIGNED COPY of her new book TINY STITCHES to one lucky reader of this blog!
To enter, all you have to do is enter below!
ENTER HERE!!! ➤➤➤ Gwendolyn Hook’s Rafflecopter giveaway
(If you really, really want to enter, but don’t want to use the Rafflecopter feature, feel free to post a comment below as your entry, and I’ll manually add you to the giveaway.)
Winner will be selected on June 15th.
CONGRATULATIONS TO BARBARA LOWELL!
SHE’S THE WINNER OF THE SIGNED COPY OF TINY STITCHES!
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Candle With a Cause Rebrands, Develops New Fundraising Model
By Susan Post -
Since 2010 Candle With a Cause has been hand-pouring soy wax candles with the goal of not only creating an environmentally-conscious product, but giving a percentage of its sales to nonprofits. A recent rebrand is taking their eco-mission a step further, while also making it easier for organizations large and small to benefit from candle sales.
Previously Candle with a Cause partnered nonprofits with a specific fragrance. Requests for multiple fragrances extrapolated across many organizations led to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Most people purchase a candle based on its scent.
“We decoupled the nonprofits from the candles themselves,” says Owner & Managing Partner Carlos Arango.
The overhaul of its fundraising program is giving consumers more options and Candle with a Cause’s nonprofits a larger percentage of the sale. The process is simplified overall and nonprofits have more incentive to build awareness around their partnership with Candle with a Cause – something that was an issue in the past.
Arango spoke with nonprofit organizations, asking questions about what it would take to make a partnership work and used that feedback to arrive at the new model.
Candle with a Cause provides its nonprofit partners with a promo code that acts as an identifier to link it with sales for a specific organization. Arango says they will also develop content for partners – info on new fragrances, photos, etc. – that organizations can push out to their networks through social media, emails and more to promote sales.
“If they don’t do anything with it then there is no money raised for them,” Arango says. “That puts the incentive on them to actually utilize the candling.”
The model also expands Candle with a Cause’s reach. With a 30-minute phone call, nonprofits and organizations large and small, from schools to national organizations, and from coast to coast, can set up a code and a fundraiser.
Candle with a Cause is doubling the impact of each $25 candle sold from $5 to $10 donated. The move took some early partners with which Arango was discussing the new model from ‘maybes’ to ‘let’s set up a meeting and get started.’ They are also working on introducing the new system to previous partners.
Customers will notice some changes to the branding, packaging and candles as well.
The branding takes it back to the basics and more clearly spells out the organization’s name versus the CWC that was appearing on labels. A more organic packaging design features natural fiber bags. Candle with a Cause also upgraded its fragrances to essential oils and removed all phthalates.
When it comes to continued sales at markets and forging retail partnerships, Candle with a Cause will re-focus on its eco-friendly mission. Arango says they are continuing with markets as a budget-friendly way to market and represent their product while being able to tell its story.
The drive to be eco-conscious is giving rise to another business opportunity. Arango was frustrated that they weren’t recycling the entire bottle when making products. To remedy the issue, he designed a full-bottle candle holder. A strategic cut and a few fasteners turn a bottle into a stylish design piece.
“It’s a really unique product placement opportunity,” Arango says.
The new offering will move the business into two new markets – luxury and reusable. The business, named Arango & Underwood after the founders’ last names, will sell refillable inserts for the bottle product which is moving toward retail launch.
For more information, visit candlewithacause.com.
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Review- Dark Shadows
Posted on May 29, 2012 by bernardovillela
With a film like Dark Shadows I have to spend a bit of time discussing where I’m coming from here and couching it. While I cannot claim to be an expert, I am a fan of the show and do have quite a fondness for it. Having said that, there will be no armchair direction or writing here make no mistake of that. I will gauge the film based on the direction and manner it was interpreted not how I would’ve preferred it, and I will be explicit in explaining why it still doesn’t work.
From the moment I saw the trailer I had a sense for what this film was going to try to be. It’s a rare case of a trailer being true to the tone of the finished product. What you get in this film is a very uneasy balance between horror elements and attempts at humor and self-parody. Essentially, it tries to be The Brady Bunch films, which are true to the tone and spirit of the show but poke fun at the show too.
What makes this different and not as successful is a disharmony in tone. It goes from a facsimile of a horror scene to forced humor. I should’ve counted attempted jokes for the percentage of success was very low. I literally laughed out loud thrice, once was a suggestive joke David (Gully McGrath) made about Carolyn (Chloe Grace Moretz). With the Brady films clearly it was always silly. How this would’ve worked better is either of two ways: One, be the kind of over-the-top horror the show was, which is humorous to some, or two, play it straight dramatically and tongue-in-cheek comedically. Instead, you could feel the gears shift and the sudden impetus “Must try and be funny now.” It’s one of the more forced comedies I’ve ever seen in that regard.
There are many Tim Burton movies I have loved. I am among the many who still have enough fondness for much of his work such that I will still come to see what he’s done. However, I’m not really angered by this turn so much as disappointed. Granted it’s not an original piece but I thought Dark Shadows and Tim Burton, what could possibly go wrong? The following did: The complete lack of tonal cohesion, the near glacial movement of the plot when there’s not an over-abundance of things going on, the thinness and simplification of characters.
Why is this one frustrating and not infuriating? I did like the performances for the the most part. Again, this is divorcing expectation and examining the actual content. However, it comes down to the milieu within which the players played. When the film is straight-up gothic-style horror it’s rather breathtaking. Those moments are few and far between but it shows the potential of the narrative had there been a sort of balance or reversal of tone.
Johnny Depp, who in his now long renaissance, is at times too big and too much the center of attention in certain films does well here. His Barnabas Collins is his own and I don’t begrudge him that, I just feel the performance would’ve been augmented further in a tale more worthy such an awesome vampire. For even in this rendition Barnabas deserves better.
Touching upon the Brady Bunch notion again there is the fish out of water aspect; the concept of the Brady films was that it was the 1990s and they were very much still stuck in the 1970s, while here Barnabas was in the 1970s after being interred in 1752. It plays the fish out of water but the film tries so hard with musical cues, other pop culture references and an Alice Cooper performance that is not up to his “Feed My Frankenstein” in Wayne’s World 20 years ago; that they just become tired, then trite and finally bothersome. We get it, it’s the 70s. Moving on.
Contrary to divorce where it’s only the children who suffer in a movie that’s bad it’s really only the kids who leave unscathed: Chloe Moretz doesn’t really have a lot to do here but shows a more mature side of her persona, which is easing and accelerating her transition from in-demand child actress to eventual A-List leading lady. Gully McGrath in sparing moments plays one of the more rounded characters in the film and shows a glimpse of his talent. Bella Heatcote, though not a child actress, is new talent who likely has much more to show in a more rounded role.
An example of a wasted, underdeveloped character in this film is that of Willie Loomis. Aside from being a weirdo his only other functions are being a stooge and a driver. Wonderful, really needed the new Freddy Kreuger for that part.
Partially to expiate the film its slowly moving, thin plot there’s some randomness thrown into the end of the film, which while are hat tips to the show are also slightly foreshadowed and only serve to prolong the cacophonous silliness that is the climax.
In the end, whether I agreed with it in principle or not, Dark Shadows made an attempt to do something different and it failed there also.
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Theft or exploitation?- a review of Stolen by Grace Blakeley
All our wealth has been stolen by big finance and in doing so big finance has brought our economy to its knees. So we must save ourselves from big finance. That is the shorthand message of a new book, Stolen – how to save the world from financialisation, by Grace Blakeley.
Grace Blakeley is a rising star in the firmament of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. Blakeley got a degree in politics, philosophy and economics (PPE) at Oxford University and did a masters degree there in African studies. Then Blakeley was a researcher at the Institute of Public Policy Research (IIPPE), a left-wing ‘think tank’, and has now become the economics correspondent of the leftist New Statesman journal. Blakeley is a regular commentator and ‘soundbite’ supporter for left-wing ideas on various broadcasting media in Britain. Her profile and popularity have taken her book, published this week, straight into the top 50 of all books on Amazon.
Stolen: how to save the world from financialisation is an ambitious account of the contradictions and failures of postwar capitalism, or more exactly Anglo-American capitalism (because European or Asian capitalism is hardly mentioned and the periphery of the world economy is covered only in passing). The book aims to explain how and why capitalism has turned into a thieving model of ‘financialisation’ benefiting the few while destroying (stealing?) growth, employment and incomes from the many.
Stolen leads the reader through the various periods of Anglo-American capitalist development from 1945 to the Great Recession of 2008-9 and beyond. And it finishes with some policy proposals to end the thievery with a new (post-financialisation) economic model that will benefit working people. This is compelling stuff. But is Blakeley’s account of the nature of modern Anglo-American capitalism and on the causes of recurring crises in capitalist production correct?
Just take the title of Blakeley’s book: “Stolen”. It’s a catchy title for a book. But it implies that the owners of capital, specifically finance capital, are thieves. They have ‘stolen’ the wealth produced by others; or they have ‘extracted’ wealth from those who created it. This is profits without exploitation. Indeed, profit now comes merely from thieving from others.
Marx called this ‘profit of alienation’. For Marx it is achieved by the transfer of existing wealth (value) created in the process of capitalist accumulation and production. But value is not created by this financial thievery. For Marx, profits, or surplus value as Marx called it, is only created through the exploitation of labour in the production of commodities (both things and services). Workers’ wealth is not ‘stolen’, nor is the wealth they create. Under capitalism, workers get a wage from employers for the hours they work, as negotiated. But they produce more in value in the time they work than in the value (measured in labour time) that they receive in wages. So capitalists obtain a surplus-value from the sale of the commodities produced by the workers which they appropriate as the owners of capital. This is not thievery, but exploitation. (See my book, Marx 200, for a fuller explanation).
Does it matter whether it is theft or exploitation? Well, Marx thought so. He argued fiercely against the idea of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the most popular socialist of his day that ‘property is theft’. To say that, argued Marx, was to fail to see the real way in which the wealth created by the many and how it ends up in the hands of the few. Thus it was not a question of ending thievery but ending capitalism.
In Stolen, Blakeley ignores this most important scientific discovery (as Engels put it), namely surplus value. Instead Blakeley completely swallows the views of the modern Proudhonists like Costas Lapavitsas, David Harvey and others like Bryan and Rafferty who dismiss Marx’s view that profit comes from the exploitation of labour. For them, that is old hat. Now modern capitalism is now ‘financialised capitalism’ that gets its wealth from stealing or the extraction of ‘rents’ from everybody, not from exploitation of labour. This leads Blakeley at one point to accept the false analysis of Thomas Piketty that the returns to capital will inexorably rise through this process – when the evidence is that returns to capital have been inexorably falling – see my critique of Piketty here.
But these ‘modern’ arguments are just as false as Proudhon’s. Lapavitsas has been critiqued well by British Marxist Tony Norfield; I have engaged David Harvey in debate on Marx’s value theory and Bryan and Rafferty have been found wanting by Greek Marxist, Stavros Mavroudeas. After you read these critiques, then you can ask yourself whether Marx’s law of value can be ignored in explaining the contradictions of modern capitalism.
Then there is the sub-title of Blakeley’s book: “how to save the world from financialisation’. ‘Financialisation’ as a category or term has become overwhelmingly popular among heterodox economics. The category originally came from mainstream economics, was taken up by some Marxists and promoted by post-Keynesian economists. Its purpose was to explain the contradictions within capitalism and its recurring crises with a theory that did not involve Marx’s law of value and law of profitability – both of which post-Keynesians reject or ignore (see my letter to MR).
Blakeley takes the definition of the term from Epstein, Krippner and Stockhammer and makes it the centre-piece of the book’s narrative (p11). As I outlined in a previous post, if the term means simply an increased role of the finance sector and a rise in its share of profits in the last 40 years, that is obviously true – at least in the US and the UK. But if it means the “emergence of a new economic model … and a deep structural change in how the (capitalist) economy) works” (Krippner), then that is a whole new ballgame.
As Stavros Mavroudeas puts it in his excellent new paper (393982858-QMUL-2018-Financialisation-London), the ‘financialisation hypothesis’ reckons that “money capital becomes totally independent from productive capital (as it can directly exploit labour through usury) and it remoulds the other fractions of capital according to its prerogatives.” And if “financial profits are not a subdivision of surplus-value then…the theory of surplus-value is, at least, marginalized. Consequently, profitability (the main differentiae specificae of Marxist economic analysis vis-à-vis Neoclassical and Keynesian Economics) loses its centrality and interest is autonomised from it (i.e. from profit – MR).”
And that is clearly how Blakeley sees it. Accepting this new model implies that finance capital is the enemy and not capitalism as a whole, ie excluding the productive (value-creating) sectors. Blakeley denies that interpretation in the book. Finance is not a separate layer of capital sitting on top of the productive sector. That’s because all capitalism is now ‘financialised!: “any analysis that sees financialization as a “perversion” of a purer, more productive form of capitalism fails to grasp the real context. What has emerged in the global economy in recent decades is a new model of capitalism, one that is far more integrated than simple dichotomies suggest.” According to Blakeley, “today’s corporations have become thoroughly financialised with some looking more like banks than productive enterprises”. Blakeley argues that “We aren’t witnessing the “rise of the rentiers” in this era; rather, all capitalists — industrial and not — have turned into rentiers…In fact, nonfinancial corporations are increasingly engaging in financial activities themselves in order to secure the highest possible returns.”
If this were true, and all value comes from interest and rent ‘extracted’ from everybody and not from exploitation, then it would really be making money out of nothing and Marx has been talking nonsense. However, the empirical evidence does not bear out the ‘financialisation’ thesis. Yes, since the 1980s, finance sector profits have risen as a share of total profits in many economies, although mainly in the US. But even at their peak (2006) the share of financial sector profits in total profits reached only 40% in the US. After the Great Recession, the share fell back sharply and now averages about 25%. And much of these profits have turned out to be ‘fictitious’, as Marx called it, based on gains from buying and selling of stocks and bonds (not on profits from production), which disappeared in the slump.
Also, the narrative that the productive sectors of the capitalist economy have turned into rentiers or bankers is just not borne out by the facts. Joel Rabinovich of the University of Paris has conducted a meticulous analysis of the argument that now non-financial companies get most of their profits from ‘extraction’ of interest, rent or capital gains and not from the exploitation of the workforces they employ. He found that: “contrary to the financial rentieralization hypothesis, financial income averages (just) 2.5% of total income since the ‘80s while net financial profit gets more negative as percentage of total profit for nonfinancial corporations. In terms of assets, some of the alleged financial assets actually reflect other activities in which nonfinancial corporations have been increasingly engaging: internationalization of production, activities refocusing and M&As.” Here is his graph below.
In other words, non-financial corporations like General Motors, Caterpillar, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, big tobacco and big pharma and so on still make their profits from selling commodities in the usual way. Profits from ‘financialisation’ are tiny as a share of total income. These companies are not ‘financialised’.
Blakely says that “financialization is a process that began in the 1980s with the removal of barriers to capital mobility”. Maybe so, but why did it begin in the 1980s and not before or later? Why did deregulation of the financial sector start then? Why did ‘neoliberalism’ emerge then? There is no answer from Blakeley, or the post-Keynesians. Blakeley points out that the post-war ‘social democratic model’ had failed, but she provides no explanation for this – except to suggest that capitalism could no longer “afford to continue to tolerate union demand for pay increases in the context of rising international competition and high inflation”.( p48). Blakeley hints at an answer: “competition from abroad began to erode profits”(p51). But that begs the question of why international competition now caused a problem when it had not before and why there was high inflation.
But Marxist economics can give an answer. It was the collapse in the profitability of capital in all the major capitalist economies. This is well documented by Marxists and mainstream studies alike. This blog has a host of posts on the subject and I have provided a clear analysis in my book, The Long Depression (not a best seller). The fall in profitability forced capitalism to look for counteracting forces: the weakening of the labour movement through slumps and anti-labour measures; privatisations etc and also a switch into investing in financial assets (what Marx called ‘fictitious capital’) to boost financial profits. All this was aimed at reversing the fall in the overall profitability of capital. It succeeded to a degree.
But Blakeley dismisses this explanation. It was not to do with the profitability of capital that crises regularly occur under capitalism and profitability had nothing to do with the Great Recession. Instead Blakeley slavishly follows the explanation of post-Keynesian analysists like Hyman Minsky and Michel Kalecki. Now I and others have spent a much ink on arguing that their analysis is incorrect as it leaves out the key driver of capitalist accumulation, profit and profitability. As a result, they cannot really explain crises.
Kalecki says that crises are caused by a lack of ‘effective demand’, Keynesian-style and although governments could overcome this lack of demand through fiscal and other interventions, they are blocked by the political resistance of the capitalists. You see, as Blakeley says, “Kalecki’s argument is that not that social democracy is economically unstable, but that it is politically unstable.” For Kalecki, crises caused by capitalists being politically unwilling to agree to reforms. So apparently, social democracy would work under capitalism if it was not for the stupidity of the capitalists!
Minsky was right that the financial sector is inherently unstable and the massive growth in debt in the last 40 years increases that vulnerability – Marx made that point 150 years ago in Capital. And in my blog, I have made the point in many posts that “debt matters”. But financial crashes do not always lead to slumps in production and investment. Indeed, there has been no financial crisis (bank busts, stock market crashes, house price collapse etc), that has led to a slump in capitalist production and investment unless there is also a crisis in the profitability of the productive sector of the capitalist economy. The latter is still decisive.
In a chapter of the book, World in Crisis, edited by G Carchedi and myself (unfortunately again it is not a best seller) Carchedi provides compelling empirical support for the link between the financial and productive sectors in capitalist crises. Carchedi: “Faced with falling profitability in the productive sphere, capital shifts from low profitability in the productive sectors to high profitability in the financial (i.e., unproductive) sectors. But profits in these sectors are fictitious; they exist only on the accounting books. They become real profits only when cashed in. When this happens, the profits available to the productive sectors shrink. The more capitals try to realize higher profit rates by moving to the unproductive sectors, the greater become the difficulties in the productive sectors. This countertendency—capital movement to the financial and speculative sectors and thus higher rates of profit in those sectors—cannot hold back the tendency, that is, the fall in the rate of profit in the productive sectors.”
What Carchedi finds is that:“Financial crises are due to the impossibility to repay debts, and they emerge when the percentage growth is falling both for financial and for real profits.“ Indeed, in 2000 and 2008, financial profits fall more than real profits for the first time. Carchedi concludes that: “The deterioration of the productive sector in pre-crisis years is thus the common cause of both financial and non-financial crises. If they have a common cause, it is immaterial whether one precedes the other or vice versa. The point is that the (deterioration of the) productive sector determines the (crises in the) financial sector.”
You may ask: does it matter if the inequalities and crises we experience under capitalism are caused by financialisation or by Marx’s laws of value and profitability? After all, we can all agree that the answer is to end the capitalist system, no? Well I think it does matter, because policy action flows from any theory of causes. If we accept financialisation as the cause of all our woes, does that mean that it is only finance that is the enemy of labour and working people and not the nice productive capitalists like Amazon who only exploit us at work? It should not, but it does. Take Minsky himself as an example. Minsky started off as a socialist but his own theory of financialisation in the 1980s led him to not to expose the failings of capitalism but to explain how an unstable capitalism could be ‘stabilised’.
Undoubtedly Blakeley is made of sterner stuff. Blakeley says that we must take on the bankers in the same degree of ruthlessness as Thatcher and Reagan took on the labour movement back in the neoliberal period starting in the 1980s. Blakeley says that “the Labour Party’s manifesto reads like a return to the post-war consensus…we cannot afford to be so defensive today. We must fight for something more radical…. because the capitalist model is running out of road. If we fail to replace it, there is no telling what destruction its collapse might bring.” (p229). That sounds like the roar of a lion of socialism. But when it comes to the actual policies to deal with the financiers, Blakeley becomes a mouse of social democracy.
First, Blakeley says “we must adopt a policy agenda that challenges the hegemony of financial capital, revoking its privileges and placing the powers of investment back under democratic control.” Now I have argued in many posts and at meetings of the labour movement in Britain that the only way to take democratic control is to bring into public ownership the big five banks that control 90% of lending and deposits in Britain. Regulation of these banks has not worked and won’t work.
Yet Blakeley ignores this option and instead calls for ‘constraining’ measures on the existing banks, while setting up a public retail bank or postal banks in competition along with a National Investment Bank. “Private finance must be properly constrained” (but not taken over), “using regulatory tools that are international adopted.” P285. At various places, Blakeley refers to Lenin. Perhaps Blakeley should remind herself what Lenin said about dealing with the banks. “The banks, as we know, are centres of modern economic life, the principal nerve centres of the whole capitalist economic system. To talk about “regulating economic life” and yet evade the question of the nationalisation of the banks means either betraying the most profound ignorance or deceiving the “common people” by florid words and grandiloquent promises with the deliberate intention of not fulfilling these promises.”
As for a National Investment Bank, a Labour manifesto pledge, it leaves the majority of investment decisions and resources in the hands of the capitalist financial sector. As I have shown before, the NIB would add only 1-2% of GDP in extra investment in the British economy, compared to the 15-20% on investment controlled by the capitalist sector. So ‘financialisation’ would not be curbed.
Blakeley’s other key proposal is a People’s Asset Manager (PAM), which would gradually buy up shares in the big multinationals, thus “socialising ownership across the whole economy” and then “pressurising companies” to support investments in socially useful projects. “As a public banking system emerges and grows alongside a People’s Asset manager, ownership will be steadily be transferred from the private sector to the public sector.” (p268) “in a bid to dissolve the distinction between capital and labour” (p267). So Blakeley’s aim is not to end the capitalist mode of production by taking over the major sectors of capitalist investment and production, but to dissolve gradually the ‘distinction’ between capital and labour.
This is the ultimate in utopian gradualism. Would capitalists stand by while their powers of control are gradually or steadily lost? An investment strike would ensue and any socialist government would be faced with the task of taking over completely. So why not spell out fully a programme for a democratically controlled publicly owned economy with a national plan for investment, production and employment?
Stolen aims to offer a radical analysis of the crises and contradictions of modern capitalism and policies that could end ‘financialisation’ and give control by the many over their economic futures. But because the analysis is faulty, the policies are also inadequate.
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26 Responses to “Theft or exploitation?- a review of Stolen by Grace Blakeley”
Well done, one of your best articles. The Feijoda must have really agreed with you.
Financialization is the popular political expression for leverage. Nothing more nothing less. Imagine a tributary of the Amazon if you will. Its headwaters is production and the water coursing down its length is part of the surplus value diverted into speculation both current and preserved. On its banks are to be found a species of pigs belonging to the capital gains breed. They have purchased a claim which allows them space on the banks to drink from the river. The more pigs who turn up the pricier the claim to buy space on the banks seven if it means they get smaller mouthfuls, because the water in the river does not necessarily change. But to these pigs it is the price of the claims that is more important rather than the water they are able to drink, which shows that some species of pigs are less intelligent than others. It may even be the case that the frenzy to get to the banks is of such an order that they do not even get near the river. This unusual phenomenon is called negative interest rates. So from drinking water as the prime motive, it is now the speculation in claims itself that has become the driver. But headwaters are seasonal, and this seasonality is called the industrial (business cycle). Now it is the case that the water has stopped flowing or is flowing more slowly. The more alert pigs notice this and turn around and head for the exist seeking to cash in their claims. Soon a stampede follows and many a pig is crushed heading for the exist.
What distinguishes Marxists from left reformists like Grace Blakely is that these reformists are mesmerised by the pigs and the melee on the banks of the river. The growth in the number of pigs dominates their thinking. Marxists on the other hand are focused on the river, where it originates from, why some of it is diverted into this speculative tributary and what regulates its flow. All that has really happened since the 1980s and the collapse in the rate of profit, is that more water has been diverted down this tributary attracting many more pigs. More pigs relative to the water means each claim now buys less water. This is bad for the likes of pension funds. They now pay much more for their claims to income than before but it is good for those who deal in claims. And thus while capital gains may have soared because of growing leverage it has come at a price, a lower income for every Dollar or Pound invested in a claim. The amount of value competed over has not necessarily changed.
In the end of course, as Michael has pointed out, the extend of financialization is exaggerated. Up to year ago, the $60 billion profit made by Apple eclipsed the $50 billion in bonuses paid to every banker in New York. Oh yes, one industrial corporation outboxed all the bankers. I will post the current rate of profit for China this weekend. I am waiting for Wall Street’s response to what looks like a significant drop in US retail which will be reported today. Like the US, China’s industrial rate of profit has fallen sharply, which creates the backdrop to this speculative orgy.
Nadim Mahjoub Says:
Thank you, Michael. That is a very, very stimulating discussion of the book. A few spelling and punctuation mistakes. Question: when you say 15/20 percent of investment is “controlled by the capitalist sector,” who is the biggest investor/controller then?
sald1000 Says:
Excellent article and thanks for this. I’m not au fait with all of the references but the points you make are easily understandable. There is a small group of commentators who have made their way into the old media often as “token” left wing commentators. Usually somewhat telegenic and young, I can’t help think that the TV editors like this so as to portray criticism as coming from inexperienced “kids” who don’t have the experience to back up their strong opinions. There’s something in that. I suspect if they started using those with more miles on the clock, the interviewers and editors would come unstuck rapidly
We rarely see Prof Steve Keen for example on mainstream TV but when he is on, he usually has more than enough weaponry to hold his own.
While I suspect this book will add something to the debate, I can’t help thinking that it is aimed at the Twitter audience looking for some quick way to justify their views.
Dionysios Perdikis Says:
All this is great but I am afraid that it is modern marxist literature shortcomings that allow that neo-keynsian kind of reasoning to be so popular (aside other obvious reasons of course…).
I am particularly referring to modifications of the law of value when it comes to R&D and other intellectual labor, and to the world-wide market under the influence of imperialistic international relations.
For instance, I am looking forward to your criticism of Rotta’s work on the commodification of products of intellectual labor as well as on his empirical and theoretical work on productive and unproductive labor in US. Similarly, I have followed with great interest the debate with John Smith.
Regarding the first issue, products of intellectual labor (software, algorithms, chemical compositions, musical compositions, films etc) are not consumed through their use, i.e., they don’t ware out, it is only their much cheaper material container that might ware out, they are non-rival and non-inclusive, i.e., they can have infinite users at the same time etc This means that they can keep being sold as long as there is a demand for them, or, in other words, they can suffer only moral depreciation, either for lack of demand or because they become technologically obsolete, but no destruction of their use-value, and therefore of their value, depends on their use. Such commodities, or in general, commodities that contain a lot of intellectual labor, or in other words, their value mostly depends on the products of intellectual labor they contain, obtain a price that cannot be fully explained by the abstract labor time expended for their production, and therefore can easily lead to knowledge/technological rents (thanks also to the IP law). More and more industries fall under this rule, due to increasing automatisation.
If now someone asks, ok, where are these rents coming from?
The answer is from the producers of other commodities (products or services) that contain less of this kind of intellectual labor products. It happens that most of this low-technology labor has already been transferred to countries of lower working costs.
All in all, what we have of the new capitalism, or as I prefer to say, imperialism, is the increase of the exploitation of the working class (the net effect of transferring production where labor is cheaper, and exploitation probably also higher -due to higher unemployment and state oppression), what John Smith and Higginbottom call super-exploitation, together with a strong stratification of the working class between relatively expensive, specialised labor, mainly in the imperialist countries on the one hand, and cheap, relatively non-specialised labor in the so-called developing, exploited countries.
This is what happens to exploitation, just because you are right to say that value doesn’t come from nothing, and this is true also for increased value, which requires increased or super- exploitation.
But, how is this value distributed among the competing capitalists?
This is where rents play an important, with imperialist, monopolistic, fully concentrated capital of mainly the imperialist countries, which controls most of technology, …historically accumulated capital and ….the dollar, “extracts” value from the rest of the capitalists around the world. It is mainly, this “rest of world capitalists” that by not being able to compete via technological progress with the imperialist capital, has no other means to increase their profits, but to increase the exploitation of their workers…
I fully agree with you that it is increasing organic composition of capital and falling profit rate that leads to these historical developments of world capitalism, but I think that many “dogmatically orthodox” marxists spend a lot of time to refute Lapavitsas and the like, and much less time to explain the modern reality of the system, where, yes, rents play an important role.
And those rents play an important role exactly due to the development of capitalism itself, i.e., intellectual labor, as a highly social labor, automatisms, world expansion of capitalistic mode of production, concentration of capital to groups that are more powerful than many of the worlds states… These are developments that cry for a marxist explanation, which will have to modify, to some extend the law of value, exactly because they reach as deep as the capitalistic production itself.
A look at Marx’s Grundrisse speaks in favor that Marx had roughly anticipated such evolutions as INTERNAL to capital, not just as external determinations that appear at more concrete levels of description of the reality. I will leave aside the quite well circulated recently paragraph on scientific labor, automatisms etc, and I will insist a little bit on rents and state violence, which sound as pro-capitalistic exploitation methods:
Lenin’s concept of imperialism, as a transitional stage of capitalism corresponds with the dynamic analysis of capitalist development framed by Marx. In his rough draft of Capital, Marx summarised:
‘As long as capital is weak, it still relies on the crutches of the past modes of production, or of those that will pass with its rise. As soon as it feels strong, it throws away those crutches, and moves in accordance with its own laws. As soon as it begins to sense itself and become conscious of itself as a barrier to development, it seeks refuge in forms which, by restricting free competition, seem to make the rule of capital more perfect, but are at the same time heralds of its dissolution and of the dissolution of the mode of production resting on it.’ (Marx, 1973: 651)
Here the actual course of capitalist development, its refuge behind mercantilist tariff barriers, its emergence as free trade, and its retreat into monopoly and protection are pictured as the expression of capital’s own transition. Perceptively, Marx anticipates Lenin’s theme that capital will ‘take refuge in forms’ that are at odds with its own laws, such as monopoly, financial oligarchy, cartels and the export of capital. The specific features are not taken out of history, but related to the historical development of capital; they are, as Lenin explains, transitional forms.
taken from this article: https://www.academia.edu/28968938/Theories_of_Imperialism
Ill be discussing Rotta et al’s paper on knowledge and value soon. And John Smith will be joining me on a panel of the economics of imperialism at this year’s Historical Materialism conference in London in early November.
Ron Rice Says:
I am looking forward to your discussion of Rotta’s paper. It has the following citation from the Grundrisse, which strikes me as provocative in this regard to say the least: “The theft of alien labour time, on which the present wealth is based, appears a miserable foundation in face of this new one, created by large-scale industry itself. As soon as labour in the direct form has ceased to be the great well-spring of wealth, labour time ceases and must cease to be its measure, and hence exchange value [must cease to be the measure] of use value.”
Rosa Lichtenstein (@RosaL100) Says:
An excellent article Michael, but there are a few annoying typos:
Marx’s view that profit comes for [from?] the exploitation of labour…
(because European or Asian capitalist [capitalism?] is hardly mentioned and the periphery of the world economy is covered only in passing)
To say that, argued Marx[. remove the dot?] was to fail to see the real way in which the wealth created by the many and how it ends up in the hands of the few.
But if it means the “emergence of a new economic model..[.?] and a deep structural change in how the (capitalist) economy) works”
And that is clearly how Blakeley sees it. Accepting this new model implies that finance capital is the enemy and not capitalism as a whole, ie [i.e.,?] excluding the productive (value-creating) sectors.
“today’s corporations have become thoroughly financialised with some looking more like banks then [than?] productive enterprises”.
the weakening of the labour movement through slumps and ant[i?]-labour measures; privatisations etc[.?] and also a switch into investing in financial assets
We must fight for something more radical..[.?] because the capitalist model is running out of road.
P285. [p285?]
Rosa, yes it is annoying when there are typos etc especially when there are so many this time. Sorry for that but my editor (wife) was unavailable to check my errors. Thanks again for pointing them out.
Ivan Breinholt Leth Says:
That debt is not a specific form of exploitation can only be posited by an analyst who doesn’t have Third World perspective.
Hi Ivan, I dont have a Third World perspective any more because there are now only two worlds – imperialism and the periphery. But I know what you mean. You could argue that debt is a form of exploitation if you mean that by burying the peripheral economies in heavy debt, the imperialist countries can transfer much of the value created by workers in the peripheral economies and appropriated by domestic and foreign capitalists. It’s a way of transferring value across borders from the periphery to the imperialist economies. That is also done directly through trade as well. The essential point is that much of the value and surplus value created by workers in the ‘Third World’ is transferred to companies based in the imperialist economies. whether by debt and equity flows and/or by trade. I am well aware to this as member of the international debt audit network, a conference of which in Brazil from which I have just returned.
There is another form of value transfer which is often overlooked. IMF calls it ‘self insurance’. As financial markets are being opened up – as a result of structural adjustment programs – third world countries are forced to accumulate dollar reserves in order to protect themselves against sudden capital outflows and consequently devaluation of their currencies. These dollar reserves are mostly US treasuries and their main function is to secure the dollar’s position as a world currency. If the dollar devalues or the US interest rate drops third world countries lose. As far as I remember Lapavitsas mentions it in ‘Profiting Without Producing’.
MR: “there are now only two worlds – imperialism and the periphery.” China fits in the first, certainly as much as Germany or Italy.
Borzooieh tabib Says:
Excellent /but
I completely agree with the main massage of articles :Before stealing something , that thing must have been produced , it is obvious unless somebody intentionally ignores the fact
But let’s look at it from another point of view
Looking at capitalism not only as a mode of production based on surplus value but also as a mode of distribution with thievery, embedded in it , gives us a theoretical base for unity of productive workforce which is exploited and rubbed at the same time , with nonproductive workers and small business owners who are just being rubbed
This unity is vital to become the majority
Imperialism started with theft of land. We even killed some of the people who lived on the land. Land was not produced. Later on we stole people and enslaved them You may say that the stolen people were ‘produced’, but the production can hardly be termed capitalistic. Then we forced the stolen people to work on the stolen land and then you can say that land was produced. When we realized that it was too expensive and too cumbersome to control all this land we gave it back to the original owners (except America). But we still wanted their resources, so we sent agents to force the new owners of the land to take on huge amounts of debt. This process is brilliantly described by former CIA agent John Perkins. By indebting these countries we could control their resources without having to spend huge amounts of money on controlling them physically. These are the two first stages of imperialism – land conquering and then debt. We are on our way to the third stage of imperialism and it is called “self insurance” by the IMF. In the process of indebting the countries, the IMF forced them to open up their economies to our goods and our finance in order to prevent them from processing and exploiting their own resources. Financial capital now flows freely in and out of third world economies and such flows can occur quite abruptly and wreak havoc on weak economies. In order to safeguard themselves they have to accumulate reserves in hard currencies – mainly dollars in the form of US treasuries. The third world countries lend out money to the US in order to “secure” themselves and by doing so they contribute to maintain the dollar’s status as a world currency with its “exorbitant privilege”. Besides if the dollar or the US interest rate drops the third world countries lose. All countries lose but the weakest economies are hardest hit. Is this theft? Obviously. Colonization is theft whether in the form of land grabbing or in the form of debt. With respect to “self insurance” Costas Lapavitsas calls it “Profitting Without Producing”.
The most interesting thing about this “revival” of leftist (“heterodox”) economists in the West post-2008 for me (I’m from History, not Economics) is how clearly they represent, in the intellectual arena, the terminal decline of the Western Civilization (Atlanticism).
Blakeley’s assumptions and solutions are completely out of time, out of place. She still talks as if the First World countries could still manage the world at will as it were 1946.
Her point of view — that we don’t live in a “manufacturing world” anymore — is completely biased and reflects the crescent parochialism of the Anglo-Saxon point of view, the same point of view that would be considered universal by everybody 30 years ago.
It’s not that the Anglo-Saxon intelligentsia changed: it’s the rest of the world that changed. Gone are the times an Anglo-Saxon economist could print whatever he/she wanted and the rest of the world automatically accepted that as cutting edge theory.
Finally, there’s the social-democratic issue.
Neoliberalism was actually created in the 1930s as an anti-social-democracy doctrine, not an anti-“communist” (i.e. revolutionary socialists) doctrine. That’s why social-democrats are essentially anti-neoliberals before being anti-capitalists. The social-democrats from Western Europe still believe that, as they achieved hegemony before, they can do so again — that’s what differentiate them from the Chinese, who many post-Keynesians swear are keynesians (and not socialists). The Chinese have a clear path to socialism (if they will be successful or not, that’s a completely different story).
Westerlund Says:
mandm Says:
Bourgeois economists deal in appearances, (exchange) values, trade, etc.
But, necessarily, capitalism has conquered Europe and the world by producing and reproducing itself materially in primal accumulation processes featuring mass murder and/or theft of actual people and expropriation of raw materials and goods (first in Europe, and then on a much more grand and violent scale (that continues), in Africa, Asia, and the New World…
It’s surprising that few commentators mention Samir Amin, a marxist scholar and activist who understood and applied the concept of surplus value on a global level, but within the foundational primal accumulation by theft and murder in the production and maintenance of the present system as experienced in the “peripheries”: 80 percent of the world’s actual consumer goods are produced in the Global South by permanently super-exploited labor.
‘Financialisation’ at the imperial centers is but a pale reflection of this material fact, not the cause.
benl8 Says:
I tend to agree with Blakeley, because household net worth in the U.S. has increased from $48 trillion to $108 trillion, 2009 to 2019, an increase of $60 trillion (Federal Reserve, Flow of Funds, page 2). I guess the GDP averaged about $15 trillion each year. Naturally the savings rate over 10 years was not 40% (adding $60 trillion in savings while creating $150 trillion in output, 60/150 = .4). So where did the $60 trillion come from? Financialization is a decent answer. Accumulation of capital is the motive, the raison d’etre of capitalism. Economist Lance Taylor calls it a dual currency event. One currency appreciates faster than the other, so the smart capitalist places his surplus (ill begotten) in the faster appreciating currency. Why would the financial assets inflate faster? Supply and demand, there are finite places to place capital, their value increases as more money seeks to harbor in those secure asset places. I suppose this is Blakeley’s argument. Didn’t Keynes call for the euthansia of the rentier? Maybe he was looking at this phenomenon? Blakeley’s book is a positive contribution because it highlights the stupidity of this economic system. Her theory may be wrong, exploitation may be better than theft, profit squeeze may be more accurate than debt or imbalance, but either way, the public is going to have to sort it out, and kill the rentier and greedy capitalist — accumulator. I began by reading Robin Hahnel’s book economic democracy, consumer councils informing producer councils, or libertarian socialism. Could I still buy my Toyota that goes 300,000 miles and more. Or would I have to stop driving entirely and take a cab? I don’t know. Cabs are OK, but what if I have to wait two hours for it to arrive? What then? Life is complicated.
Blissex Says:
«the public is going to have to sort it out, and kill the rentier and greedy capitalist — accumulator.»
A very big political difficult is that every worker turns into largely a rentier (or greedy financial capitalist), by necessity, on retirement, and retired rentiers are an increasing percentage of voters, in part because of longer typical lifespans, in part because most women have switched from having working sons as retirement sources of income to having financial and real estate assets.
This has created the politics of mass-rentierism (clintonism/blairism as well as reaganism/thatcherism), and most formulaic, sloganeering leftoids have not yet come to terms with that.
Going back to a defense of the “proudhonnistes”, there are some subtle points about “exploitation” defined as an exchange of labour-power as a commodity with commodities that embed less labour that than sold in the form of labour power:
* A lot depends on how big is that difference: if it is small, exploitation is not a big deal. KM obviously reckoned with some justification that in his time it was huge.
* A lot depends on the reason why that difference exists: if it is “buy low sell high” most people will regard it as entirely justifiable. If the use-value of the commodities a worker can buy by selling their labour-power is greater than the use-value of their labour-power for example. There is an issue if the difference arises from might-makes-right, and here KM argues that since workers effectively would starve without access to the means of production, there is effective blackmail in his view.
Now compare to rentiers “thieving”: the “proudhonians” effectively argue that the impact of paying rents on the living standards of today’s workers is much bigger than the impact of paying profits to capitalists, and that the reason why people pay 50-70% of their earnings in various forms of rent is because housing etc. are essentials to life and getting jobs, and rent is also entirely unproductive.
There is I think a good argument that KM really is defining profits as rents from giving access to the means of production too. If being employed, having a dwelling, having pension assets are all absolute necessities of life, so overcharging for these is always rent, the question becomes which has the biggest impact.
«the only way to take democratic control is to bring into public ownership the big five banks that control 90% of lending and deposits in Britain. Regulation of these banks has not worked and won’t work.»
But they are already entirely controlled by the state, their being in the private sector is a fiction, as the state provides well over of 100% of their capital. The issue is that their executive class and the political class overlap in large part.
«Would capitalists stand by while their powers of control are gradually or steadily lost?»
Depends on which capitalist faction: finance and property rentiers also “thieve” quite large sums from some important capitalist factions. Even if most of the *individuals* in those factions are also finance and property rentiers, which creates for them a conflict of interests.
«An investment strike would ensue and any socialist government would be faced with the task of taking over completely.»
Well, in the case of the “big five banks” that has already happened, and they have been effectively nationalized quite a while ago. No sensible capitalist will go long businesses devoted to the rentier interests of their management.
Anyhow “mixed economies” can work pretty well, as long as the majority factions of capitalists reckon that a socialdemocratic model that moderates the profit/rent they extract from workers works for them too. That can be a lot better than losing even more to unproductive rentiers. As KM and FE kept pointing out you can’t rush the natural evolution of the economy and the political forms that reflect its structure.
«So why not spell out fully a programme for a democratically controlled publicly owned economy with a national plan for investment, production and employment?»
To avoid scaring everybody? Politics also sometimes requires talking softly and making compromises. V. Ulianov advised avoiding adventurism as much as avoiding opportunism :-).
MR .- ’’The only way to take democratic control is to take the five large banks that control 90% of loans and deposits in Britain to public ownership. The regulation of these banks has not worked and will not work.” »»
Bl. “But they are already completely controlled by the state, their membership in the private sector is a fiction, since the state provides more than 100% of its capital.”
Yes, it is a fiction that banking is a private sector, that is to say, it is false that they are companies and the capital sector. If to the current control of the State over it, we add its direct, permanent, exclusive and PRIVILEGED access to the monetary funds of the Central B., it gives us that the bank is little or nothing private. Access to the Central B. which in ‘gross mode’ and without more detail allows you to obtain 90% of your benefits. It can be said, without any doubt, that the Bank already practices socialism today. The financial socialism. In fact, this real practice of socialism in banking is what allows you to achieve benefits and reach a level of operational security (the B. Central is your insurance policy) that the rest of companies do not have, nor have had since the creation of the first Central Banks (Bank of Sweden and B. of England, 17th century). Otherwise: several centuries of financial socialism has made it something powerful! An irrefutable proof of the efficiency and productivity of socialism!
And is the current western state and the socialist state of the twentieth century valid for the working class? Unclear. M. R.’s solution for banking reaching its public property is (or should be) a solution with a public property (a State) with command, control and control of workers. A workers and socialist democracy ..
Michael Ballard Says:
The only way I see to take control is for the producers of wealth to organise politically and industrially as a class to have the power to establish social ownership and democratic control over the collective product of their labour and natural resources. Getting the producers (aka “the working class”) to act for themselves is and has been the political problem for those engaged in the praxis of social revolution since the ideological rot set in after the death of Engels in 1896.
fredtorssander Says:
To each new generation, the use-values produced by earlier generation of workers, say an abandoned house for example, is in principle the same as a commons was before the enclosure movement. It’s yours to use unless somebody can claim private ownership to the place, even though they doesn’t live in it it.
There is a difference between when capital get themselves a bigger part of the total surplus value by raising the rent – today often done by finangling up the price on houses and keeping the rent at the same percent of the market-price.
The gain from selling and re-selling houses at higher and higher prices are a finance-capitalistic way to get a bigger part of the total profit. This scheme also depends on that the lack of housing is not lessened by new-production. Which means that the production of surplus value in the building business gets smaller, and the surplus which the house-owning rentiers gets has to be produced in other parts of the economy?
And if this method to get the capitalists industrialists and rentiers taken together a bigger piece of a shrinking BNP- pie it causes stagnation by what could be defined as financialisation?
Completly translated in German:
https://marx-forum.de/Forum/index.php?thread/990-ist-kapitalismus-diebstahl-%C3%BCber-stolen-von-grace-blakeley/
Wal Buchenberg, Hannover
Wow, Wal, Thanks very much. Will post.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where It Went Off the Rails…
Published on April 28, 2019 April 28, 2019 by theorangutanlibrarian
*With spoilers*
Well, look at me being late to the party as usual. By now, if you’re at all interested in Crimes of Grindelwald, you’ll probably be aware that a lot of people have been saying that this movie was a mess. They say it was poorly structured and pointless- and they’re totally, unequivocally, inarguably right- buuut… I was surprised to find I still enjoyed it. Perhaps this was fuelled by my nostalgia, perhaps it was because I had such low expectations going in- but honestly I think this film does have a fair number of qualities to make the viewing experience a good time:
Compelling characters- check
Stunning visuals- check
Great story- ehh not so much…
I will freely admit that there were interesting parts to the story to keep me engaged- mostly stemming from the fact that the characters work well. This is particularly true of Leta Lestrange and Newt Scamander, who I love, and who demonstrate that not all heroes have to be sword-wielding Gryffindors (though a little more Ravenclaw love in these movies wouldn’t go amiss 😉). I also particularly liked the way Crimes of Grindelwald examined Leta’s view of herself as evil. And as someone that’s spent a long time asking for subtler villains, I can say I sort of got my wish… but more on that in a second. Cos before I go ahead and say anything else, I want to give this movie 3/5 bananas:
Now you have proof I didn’t hate this movie- let’s go ahead and see why it’s such a monstrous muddle. We can start where I left off: with the baddies. Once again, Rowling has embraced the Nazi metaphor- because no one else in history was evil like the Nazis. While the imagery is strong, I do think Rowling’s view of Nazis comes across as a little confused. There’s supposed to be this scary implication that Grindelwald’s followers hid behind “we’re better than that” slogans and were allegedly claiming to be pro-freedom. Problem is, Nazis were openly for state control and beating people up for being on the wrong side before they got into power. They also weren’t hiding their genocidal tendencies as people like to believe. So, no, people saying they’re pro-freedom is not code for Nazism and does not have the sinister undertones this implies. And while I’ve been begging for better villains, there is such a thing as being too subtle.
This is only a minor nitpicky issue though, particularly when taken with the fact that I do think the line “the greater good” is sufficiently shiver-inducing. What will be more troubling to general movie-goers is the way mystery and plot twists are handled. Holding this up against HP’s/Agatha Christie’s standard, it falls short. Largely because in those mysteries, the clues are such that everything can be worked out, even if it’s challenging to do so. Take the Sirius Black Easter eggs from chapter 1 of the Philosopher Stone. You get so many hints early in the series that tell you *exactly* where it’s going. It doesn’t mean you can work it out (like RAB) but that when it all comes together you have that OHHH moment (like Snape’s story). Here, the twists feel cheap, because there’s no way of knowing where it’s going before you get there. For instance, this plot point:
Leta’s brother is dead, we’re told he’s dead, except maybe he’s Credence… oh no way he’s definitely dead because Leta switched him with another random boy on the boat.
Nothing has actually changed in terms of the original information and we’ve got no clues as to who Credence is from that snippet and the audience *shrugs its shoulders*. When it is revealed that Credence is Aurelius Dumbledore, it feels even lousier. There are only two clues for this- that aren’t really clues at all: the talk of a phoenix earlier in the movie (which feels more like a movie tie-in) and Dumbledore talking about Credence needing a sibling (which only stands to reinforce the Credence Lestrange theory at that stage). These really just point to it not being a Grindelwald lie, rather than feeling like earned hints at a larger plot. More importantly, in my view, it contradicts existing canon- you know, where Dumby allegedly told Harry everything?! If this whole brother thing was so integral to that story, how come he never came up?! And couldn’t he have had a joke at Rita Skeeter’s expense, something along the lines of “that incompetent bint didn’t even know about my secret brother!” Ultimately, this feels like an inferior way to connect the two series and is something I will never be fully on board with. It’s such a curveball that I’ve found myself embracing ridiculous theories- not only to make sense of it but also cos these theories would at least make for an entertainingly bonkers story.
Speaking of ridiculous things that can only be made sense of with bad theories- WHAT THE HELL IS MCGONAGALL DOING IN THIS MOVIE!?!? And don’t try to say this is possible when a) it contradicts the fact that she says *in the books* she’s been teaching at Hogwarts 39 years. Now it doesn’t take a genius to calculate that HP was written in the 90s and that this is the 20s- so THIS DOESN’T ADD UP- GAH!) and b) they deliberately went to lengths to remove her age on Pottermore to cover up this error. The only theory that can make sense of this blunder is time turners- and we all know how well that works in HP fanfic *coughs* Cursed Child *coughs cough*. My personal opinion is that this is lazy retconning from Rowling- ie “McGonagall was over a hundred all along”. Naturally my response is ughhhh. This, together with making Dumbledore teach defence against the dark arts, is just a lazy addition that didn’t need to be there. Especially since it’s designed to make fans all fuzzy and warm inside… but will likely only succeed in driving us to *oblivate* this detail from our too-well-versed in Potterlore memories.
And, yes, this may seem petty, but the reason this is so frustrating is cos for the most part this film seems designed just for real fans. My sister didn’t know what was going on half the time and my mum gave up. I had to keep filling them in. And that’s with the confusion caused by *all of the above*. What’s ridiculous is that some of the deleted scenes can make sense of the story- eg how Credence came back, what Credence’s relationship with Nagini was etc. This is most likely due to the modern trend of trying to force movies to fit run time- regardless of content- and it’s such a huge mistake when it comes at the cost of coherent storytelling. The original opening was vital information- DON’T CUT IT! (cut one of the less important, rambly chase scenes or something)
Possibly *the worst* new addition, however, is the magical gizmo that means Dumby and Grindlewald can’t fight. The original version- and what JK implied- was that Dumbledore didn’t want to fight because he didn’t want to find out who killed Ariana. Plus had some conflicted feelings about it cos he used to be “friends” with Grindelwald. While this change can make sense of how Ariana was killed by accident, this doesn’t make up for the fact that this ruins a meaningful, moving element of the original series. Really, it doesn’t make sense to me to trample on what already existed in order to make this sub-par movie.
Forgive me if this review’s been all over the place- the truth is it’s hard to discuss a sloppy structure in a linear fashion. I hope there’s more rising action in this post than there was in the movie 😉 Again, I’d like to reiterate I had fun watching this, but that doesn’t mean I’m oblivious to its faults. And honestly it wouldn’t surprise me if this series is dead in the water.
So- dare I ask- what did you think of this film? Do you agree with any of my points or am I being a bit harsh? Let me know in the comments!
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93 thoughts on “Fantastic Beasts and Where It Went Off the Rails…”
I haven’t seen the film yet — and, after seeing negative review after negative review, have zero motivation. There are better ways to spend my time. BUT … I have listened to the soundtrack, and found it quite lovely.
Yeah I was feeling quite low motivation going in, but my sister was really keen, so I decided to give it a go… and it was enjoyable, but also really not a good film. Hope that helps you make up your mind haha!
Maybe we’ll just stick with the soundtrack for now! I’m sure I’ll be able to watch it on an airplane at some point in the future …
Hi dear, do you do interview? Or book review? If so I’m interested for Climbing Over Grit.❤️
Leah Davies says:
I was tentatively still on board right up until that plot twist about Credence being Dumbledore’s brother. It completely goes against the canon – unless JK is going to reveal he’s actually a secret cousin or something I can’t see how it would fit in with the original Potterverse!
That’s exactly where my head was at! I don’t think it would have bugged me so much/made me want to get into all its issues- it realllly didn’t work as a twist, since it was not only never built upto, it also goes against canon so completely!! Very infuriating!
You raise some fair points there. I liked the film but I think it suffers from not having a strong enough story (it’s just a bridge between films 1 and 3) and the focus on Newt and the beasts (the best elements of the first film) has shifted, making it all less fantastic! You may be interested in my review of the screenplay which is coming up soon 🙂
Thank you! I did enjoy a lot of the film to be fair- I just also think it’s a bit of a mess. It’s definitely got the problem of being a bridge between two films (so lacking in story) Cool- I definitely will be!
wearejuststories says:
When McGonagall appeared I got so angry, even in the cinema I turned to my sister with a look of shock on my face. It’s lazy writing, did they honestly think we wouldn’t notice that Minerva definately wasn’t old enough to be teaching at that point. It was a very random film, I loved the French Ministry and Leta Lestrange’s character but I was disappointed overall.
I did too! I wasn’t in the cinema but I definitely turned to my sister and just went “WHAT!?!” (she told me to shh 😉 ) It made zero sense and took me out the movie! I’ve seen people have to justify it with time turners (and if you ever have to justify something with a time turner, you know the story has gone off the rails somewhere). Yeah I did really like Leta Lestrange- but it was so disappointing.
Gerry@TheBookNookUK says:
I love this review and agree with everything you say! I was so disappointed in it and felt a little let down. I enjoyed the dark side of Fantastic Beasts but also the wonderful, light hearted and warm character of Newt. I also loved Tina and Queenie both as individual characters in their own right but their sisterly relationship, the strength of their bond came through to me in the first movie.
This one though? Um. I think it was dark for the sake of being dark, I get that they are heading towards a horrible period in time and so the stakes are high but I think they just threw in some nasty moments for the sake of it. I adored Newt still but he was underused as was Tina (although I love how their relationship slowly progresses) and the absence of the sister’s relationship made me feel sad.
Don’t get me started on Nagini. Just…. she was a prop in this movie and it made me want to punch myself in the face. I’m not even talking about the ridiculous retcon, if someone retcons that bad then at least have the decency to treat the character with dignity!
Thank you! Yeah I really was too- I also very much enjoyed the first one. And I really liked the sisterly bond between Tina and queenie in the first movie- too bad that didn’t carry over into this film.
I very much agree. It was much too dark and you make an excellent point about them throwing in some horrific scenes just for the sake of it. I agree! I still really loved Newt and it was a real shame they didn’t bother to use the sisterly relationship as well.
Oh yeah that bit of retconning- *facepalms* (actually all the retconning makes me facepalm to be fair 😉 ) I can’t believe she wasn’t detrimental to the plot, since apparently it was so necessary to put her in the movie!
I still haven’t even watched it….
You’re not missing out 😉
Awesome descriptive review. I haven’t watched this movie but could see how valid your points are.
I haven’t seen this yet, I really need to!
Hope you like it when you do watch it!
Mugfullofbooks says:
Great review! I did enjoy the film but you’re right that there are big plot holes.
Not convinced Credence is a Dumbledore but I suppose anything is possible!
Re timelines, I just don’t think about it! The Potter timelines have always been a mess.
Thank you! Yeah I also enjoyed it to be fair.
I can understand why- it was a random plot twist.
hehe fair enough!
The change in reasoning behind why they couldn’t fight bugged me. I thought the original reason was just so human and understandable. I’m guessing the next movie will be all about breaking that spell so they can 😦
And much as I liked Leta the whole switching the babies thing was just out there. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it but I still stand by its too much story shoved into another story that doesn’t belong together. Enjoyed your review!
Yeah it really bugged me too- I also thought the original motivation was so human and quite meaningful. Yeah I have no doubt it’ll be about that too.
Yeah it really was. Ah that’s a fair assessment. Thank you!
SpinesthatShine says:
I haven’t watched it yet. I’ve heard another person say it was too long and could have been edited a bit more. But if the structure of the movie is sloppy and mainly meant for hard-core fans, then perhaps it wouldn’t be the best movie for me. I may get a bit lost haha.
haha that’s totally fair- it is a very sloppy movie. I don’t think it was originally intended for hardcore fans, but I also think it’d be hard to enjoy it if you’re not clear on a lot of things beforehand.
Kay Wisteria | Hammock of Books says:
Ugh I hated this one so much. Creedence=Dumbledore felt so cheap like it was only there for shock and plot twist just to plot twist not because it made any sense, McGonagel just felt so lazy like ok now we know the filmmakers don’t care about canon anymore just what will make money
Yeah I really agree- it was so cheap and done purely for shock value (especially because there was no setup for it). And yeah for sure- that was a ridiculous thing to put in.
I can honestly say I agree on every single one of these points, as I’ve more than certainly felt the exact same way about it. I’m honestly annoyed at all the missed potential, but, oh well I suppose
Ah well I’m glad I’m not the only one! Yeah me too
Yikes, the villain part sounds very messy! But I can kind of see where Rowling *could* get confused – the word ‘nazi’ is hurled around as an insult so easily nowadays that I think a lot of people have forgotten what the original nazis stood for
Yeah it definitely was- I really agree with you- I think there is a tendency to equate all things bad with Nazi (and yes people do use it too lightly nowadays for insults). And I can understand why she does that here- she is a children’s writer and often simplifies her good vs evil narratives- but my problem is, if you’re going to consistently lean on a history, it should be accurate
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ve heard such bad reviews, this is encouraging because I loved the first one. Mind you, I’m not wedded to neat story lines
Yeah I really liked the first one as well, so this was disappointing. hehe well I can understand that, but I think this takes that a little too far 😉
Lol, well I’m a sucker for it anyway 🙂
hehe fair enough! (I’ll probably watch the next one as well, cos I’m weak 😉 )
Ola G says:
I was disappointed by that movie, especially after Fantastic Beasts, which despite its flaws was surprisingly pleasant. I agree with all the points you made, the villains were truly underwhelming and made no sense – especially the scene of Quenie’s “seduction”. But the award for the lamest idea goes for the Dumbledore/Grindelwald gizmo and Credence’s Dumbledore heritage, which makes totally no sense (as well as McGonagall’s presence in the movie!) and seems to be there only as a foundation for more movies and more money.
Yeah I really agree- I very much liked the first one as well. Yeah they really didn’t make any sense. And oh yeah I hated that whole seduction part!! Really agree about those being the worst parts as well! I very much agree! (and basically there to appeal to old fans- which funnily enough seems to have ended up having the exact opposite effect)
Ah, I haven’t watched it as yet either. But when I do, I’ll be sure to keep my expectations manageable 😉
hehe good call 😉
AlanYoung says:
I’ve heard so many terrible things about it. Honestly, Harry Potter is a great franchise, but we don’t need it to expand this much. It’s like a really great pizza that has just the right amount of toppings, then some asshole decides to put marshmallows and jelly beans on top.
Yeah I think all this expansion isn’t doing the franchise much good- hehehe absolutely love that analogy!!
YES TO ALL OF THIS. I am a “real” fan (whatever that means) and I enjoyed the movie well enough, but every single bit of this bothered me. I especially hated Aurelious as it felt completely out of left field, and as you talked about in the Potter books everything was always ever-so-subtly hinted at the whole way along. I don’t know how Rowling went from that to this. There are so many inconsistencies with the books, and they all seem to be at the expense of tying things back to the original trilogy which most fans actively DON’T WANT. McGonagall is currently being explained away by “Maybe she took a break from teaching for some time in there” but that’s weak at best. Still in love with Newt, his beasts, and Jacub though. Can’t wait to see what happens to Queenie.
Also, I think Grindewald is lying to Creedence. There. I said it.
I completely get what you mean- I enjoyed watching it, but that ending was the worst. Rowling used to be so good at putting in hints without giving everything away- I feel like this was done more to shock the reader and was more of a “you didn’t see that one coming, did you?” Which I don’t think is a better way to reveal a mystery. And I really disliked the inconsistencies as well. Yeah that’s a really weak explanation for McGonagall being there (also they had to remove her age from Pottermore, which had her as not even having been born yet, in order to make this canon- that’s just blatant retconning). Yeah I still love Newt and I’m curious about Queenie (though I don’t hold out much hope).
I think that explanation would make sense- except for the phoenix symbolism and the way it was done like a big reveal. But the only way it can work in current canon is if Grindelwald is lying in some way (and it’s about the only way to defend this decision)
Yeah, the Phoenix symbolism is … something. But like, obviously they don’t have a problem with inconsistencies, so maybe that will just get thrown out the window too. But apparently they are delaying the third movie about a year past the original intended date, so maybe the next one will be an improvement. *crosses fingers*
You are not alone in not liking this mess of a movie. They had such interesting characters that they ran into the ground with the most tangled plot in HP history.
Ah yeah for sure! There were some great characters here- it’s just a shame they were wasted on this movie!
My feelings exactly!
So glad you agree!!
I agree with this SO MUCH!
Ah I’m glad you agree!
artyplantsman says:
No argument from me – totally agree with you!
Glad you agree!
@k_lpoetry says:
I was still in the should I / shouldn’t I watch this camp? After reading your review, McGonagall makes an appearance?!, I will most likely never be watching this movie.
I think that’s probably a good call to be fair! That completely threw me for a loop.
I absolutely agree with all of this and just one more…Needed more Beasties!
So glad you agree! Oh fair point!!
EW says:
I agreed with all of this! Including the fact that I was expecting to be disappointed by it and yet found myself liking it all the same, a bit of a puzzler. Also I know Eddie Redmayne is v popular but I cannot stand his mumbling delivery…I could hardly understand what he was saying a lot of the time. And yes more beasts needed! The plotline that made the least sense to me was Queenie’s – as desperate as she might have felt, there was nothing in her character in the previous film to hint she could be a Grindelwald sympathiser. I think the Beasts world is enchanting because it’s magical, but I wonder how long it can keep going with all these plot howlers
Glad you agree! Yeah I also found it a bit puzzling- especially since I’d seen a lot of people complaining about it. That’s fair! And yeah there definitely needed to be more beasts! I really agree that Queenie’s character arc made *zero sense*- how can she read minds and then believe in their cause? How could this have come so left of field? I do think it’s an enchanting world, but they’ve made a mess of it. hahaha love the pun 😉
Kamilla says:
I was thinking of watching it and just keeping expectations low, but maybe nevermind because I hate seeing inconsistencies in books/movies/universes. Thanks for the rundown!
Yeah that’s what I tried to do and I enjoyed watching it for the most part- but after the film was done, I had a lot of problems with it- especially cos of the ending. Thanks for reading!
Yup … I had a hard time with this film. I felt so confused … and so many things don’t add up with the original 7 books. If we’re going to have these, they need to match up with the already released content.
I liked the first one with Newt, just because I wanted to know more about him. I have always wanted a series about Voldemort growing up and turning into the Dark Lord, or a series about Harry’s parents growing up in school and joining the Order.
I unno … I felt like a lot of things were sloppy … HOPEFULLY they make sense later on.
I also wasn’t sure why the professors weren’t wearing wardrobes but suits? This actually doesn’t match some of the flash backs from the original movies and books … yup … I’m being picky … I can’t help it!
Yeah me too- it was a very confusing plot and completely contradicted the original series Absolutely agree!
I did like Newt a lot (in both films) and I’d be interested in a series about Voldy growing up, but mostly I’d just like a Marauders story- though I’m not sure we’ll ever get that.
Yeah it really did feel sloppy.
Yeah I have no idea why they did that? It was such a strange choice. I don’t think it’s picky when it’s established literally from the first chapter of the first book that what visibly sets wizards apart from muggles is their peculiar dress sense! So why change it?
Yes … totally agree. Way too many discrepancies …
Oh my gosh … the Marauders story!! I so want more on that!!! UGH! We should just spam email Rowling and beg for it lol
And yes … thank you! It made NO sense at all … just … it’s the little things like this that make me feel like they didn’t pay enough attention, ya know?
Yeah me too!! hahaha yeah she might even do it- she doesn’t seem to have a problem adding to the potterverse nowadays 😉
It sounds like you’re ready to accept you’ll be a muggle for the rest of your life.
It sounds like you’re ready to accept you’ll be a squib for the rest of your life. My favorite character was Arabella Figg; able to see the magic but unable to perform any. Whatever Squibs can or can’t do, or see and can’t see, they have more than proved their worth in the wizarding world. Power to the Squibs!
hehe well she is a pretty cool character 😉 Fair enough! Squibs unite! 😉
I haven’t seen this one yet, and after all the various backlash over it I think I’ll just re-watch the first one instead.
But I agree – more Ravenclaw love, please!
I think that’s totally fair!
YES!! (I think they get the least love, despite being one of the biggest parts of the fanbase!!)
It’s weird, isn’t it, how the fanbase can be so heavily weighted Ravenclaw and yet there’s so little representation. Still. Ravenclaws rule!
Yes! hehe absolutely!
marydrover says:
YES YES YES! I agree with all of these points. I had fun watching this, but then when it was over, I said out loud, “What in the world?” And the woman next to me said, “I know! This is my third time, and I’m STILL confused!” So sure, it was fun, but I’ll probably not watch it again on purpose.
So glad you agree! And yeah it was such a mess!! (hehe I can’t imagine watching it again either- so I’m surprised that lady had seen it three times!)
Great review! I loved the first movie but this was a little disappointing!
Thank you! Ah I felt the exact same way!
Didn’t watch it, but if I did, I’d give up – like your mother – or need the explanations, like your sis.
hehe completely understand that!
I haven’t seen either of the Fantastic Beasts films but have heard all of the issues with the Crimes of Grindelwald. It seems so bizarre to me that a woman who planned the first series so well, wrote this and has resorted to cheap twists! So disappointing and clearly an easy money grab.
Yeah I can’t believe it was written by Rowling as well- especially when one of the biggest issues with it was inconsistencies. And I really agree unfortunately.
I haven’t watched this movie yet. I don’t know why I’m not drawn to it. I’m glad you were able to enjoy it even if the story was sort of lacking.
I think that’s fair! And yeah I did enjoy it at least 🙂
I agree with everything you said here. This movie was a mess, yet I did enjoy parts of it. Especially Newt, for the reasons you point out.
My biggest problem with this series is that a) it’s a rehash of the plot and themes from the original HP–been there, done that and b) they try so hard to connect it to the original HP story with characters and such. Just let it be it’s own thing!
Also, I’m still peeved because they had an opportunity to do an adventure series (similar to Indiana Jones except without all the cultural theft) where Newt travels around the globe to study fantastic beasts and explore the local magic communities. But nooooo, they had to do a rehash. So stupid. (Still, I absolutely love Newt’s character so I guess there’s that at least.)
Really glad you agree! And yeah, I did really like Newt 🙂
Yeah I hate when reboots rehash old plots (and then do them poorly I might add). And I’m so frustrated that literally every. single. character has to connect with the original.
And yeah- I really thought they were gonna go with an adventure series when I originally heard this was going to be a thing! Really agree- so annoying (I do get that- his character is one of the best in the whole HP universe)
Oh my, I don’t think I want to see this movie, but your review is fantastic! I can understand how it would be hard to review linearly!
hehe fair enough! Thank you!! It really wasn’t easy to review!
Wow, it’s crazy that you published this review because I literally planned on publishing mine later this month! My review is fully written out, and I gotta say that I absolutely agree with you on all your points, especially the trinket thing. Like, WHY ON EARTH. There was such a moving reason in the original series for Dumbledore not wanting to fight Grindelwald, so I facepalmed myself so hard when they ruined that in this movie. I truly believe that they shoehorned this object in so they could have some excuse for Newt go on a mission in the next movie to destroy the trinket, but still…what a copout. It really shows they didn’t have any good reason to extend this franchise except for money alone. *sighs*
Excellent review btw!
Oh that’s cool- I really look forward to reading your take! 😀 I’m really glad you agree as well. And I completely agree!! The original series gave such a good emotional reason why Dumbledore didn’t want to fight- why add a magical gizmo?! And yeah- I think it’s the exact same thing *sigh*. Yes unfortunately.
I liked the film because I like the Wizarding World and it’s cool to be able to see new stories in it. But the film is a mess. It’s far too complicated to follow and, for what? A surprise reveal that goes against canon. It’s ridiculous.
That’s exactly what I felt about it- I enjoyed it, but it’s a mess. And ugh that ending- it was tolerable until that ending!
I haven’t read the book but I fell in love with the movie!
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'The Challenge: War of the Worlds' Final Part 1: Who Lost Last Night?
The first part of MTV’s The Challenge: War of the Worlds final aired last night. The American contestants left fighting for the prize are Cara Maria, Ninja Natalie, Wes, and Hunter. The contestants representing countries around the world that are still competing are Mattie, Georgia, Turbo, and Theo.
What is ‘The Challenge’ finale this year?
T.J. Lavin has hosted The Challenge since season 11. He claims this is the most challenging final he has ever seen with a 50-mile course. In the first half of “The Death Path,” the contestants must bike and run a 24 mile, figure eight shaped course. They have to complete four laps and five checkpoints. The checkpoints contain everyone’s favorite thing, puzzles. If the competitor does not complete the obstacle, they time out at 20 minutes.
Who lost ‘The Challenge’ last night?
Georgia ran half of one lap and completed a checkpoint, and then she collapsed while riding the bicycle. She was so dehydrated that she began asking about Bear, a previously eliminated competitor. The medical van came to her assistance and disqualified her from the competition.
Mattie and Cara Maria were neck-and-neck until Mattie felt like she “couldn’t feel her legs anymore.” She hugged Ninja Natalie and told her she could no longer continue. Then, Mattie sat down until T.J. approached her, eliminating her from the competition.
Who is still in the running for ‘The Challenge’ $1 million grand prize?
Currently, sitting in the first place is Theo (UK). He had a little fling with Kam until she was sent home, and has remained relatively quiet in the house. Now, The Silent Threat looks to win the prize money to buy a house.
Wes (USA) is in second place and has played his “best political game” up until this point. He had an alliance with Hunter from before they came into the house, and they both are in the finale. Wes recently got married, and he wants the money to have a baby who can compete on future challenges.
Turbo (Turkey) is currently in third place. He considered giving up when his leg was in pain; however, he pushed himself. Turbo has been a strong competitor, winning several challenges this season.
Ninja Natalie (USA) is in fourth place even though she passed out on the course. After she regained her consciousness, the medics cleared her to continue. Ninja gets her nickname from her time on American Ninja Warrior.
Cara Maria (USA) is currently in fifth place. She lost her number one ally and boyfriend, Paulie, last episode. After everyone finished the first half, they received IVs. However, Cara Maria has an extreme fear of “anything medical” and refused, possibly putting her at a disadvantage.
Hunter (USA) is sitting in the last place. He has been a quiet competitor this season, secretly kept safe by Wes. He won The Challenge the previous season with Ashley who had the decision of keeping the million dollars or splitting half with Hunter. Ashley chose to keep all the money, so that is Hunter’s motivation for his finale.
Watch part two of the final, Wednesday, May 22nd at 9:00 P.M.!
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How did the place originate ? How did the strange place come to be. Is there an explanation for the stepping disks, and how come that they were connected to the strange temple on the Bermuda Island ? Could it be that the Elder Gods created Limbo just as some sort of punishment for Belasco. He could see anyone else but him travel to and from it, only he was stuck. Still that would leave the question where the demons living in Limbo (like S’ym or N’astirh) came from.
Who ruled it before Belasco ? If Otherplace existed before, the question remains of who was ruling it, and how this person was forced to give up the throne to Belasco.
What became of the alternate Illyana ? It was said that the Illyana Rasputin of the other set of X-men was rescued and sent back home. However it could also be the case that it was this child (and not her own past self) that Magik rescued and placed inside her scorched armor at the end of Inferno. This would mean that the adult Illyana of the main marvel Universe is still alive somewhere, possibly hiding from her friends and family. At least that’s a prominent theory among Illyana Rasputin fans.
What became of Darkoth ? In the end of Excalibur #39 he possesses the Soulsword and as Limbo’s ruler wills the dimension to peace. Fourty issues later (Excalibur #83) the Soulsword is back with Kitty Pryde without explanation and Limbo too is no longer under his control. What happened ?
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Rise of Religious Terrorism in Sri Lanka
June 19, 2019 by Editorial Team Leave a Comment
The rise of religious terrorism in Sri Lanka has been evident in the last two months, especially since the Easter Bombings that occurred on 21st April, 2019. To uncover the root of all problems, what better place is there to begin at than the very beginning?
So, we must understand who caused these attacks, where exactly they happened, why the horrible massacre occurred and all the other possible details we can find. In fact, let us start with understanding what is meant by religious terrorism.
What is Religious Terrorism?
Terrorism, defined solely by its acts, is the violent indiscrimination against entire countries or citizens of a certain country of the world, involving acts of hatred. Adding the word ‘religious’ before it implies that these acts of terrorism are done in the name of religion, a ridiculous philosophy that many youth are brainwashed into believing.
I say it is ridiculous, because there is no religion in the world that could possibly justify violence and merciless killing of innocent people for any reason one can think of.
The first acts of terrorism was in 1790, when the government would use acts of terror to scare the citizens into doing what they were ordered to do. But terrorism has been adapted and changed a lot from back then, and it has grown in hatred, intensity, frequency and violence.
There are many terrorist organizations in the world. The names that everyone has heard of and is petrified of are the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (Taliban), the Boko Haram and the Al-Shabaab.
These four organizations have been responsible for almost 19,000 deaths in the last year, and they proudly claim for credit on more attacks, which is a viciously frightening thought. Their actions contribute to the instability of what are some of the most dangerous countries in the world, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Somalia and Syria.
Some of the worst incidents of terrorism that have occurred in the last two decades include the bombing of the twin towers on September 11th, 2001, which had resulted in 2996 deaths, 19 of which were hijackers. The responsibility for this attack was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS).
In India, in 2001 again, there was the Parliament Attack in Delhi which had 14 kills, five of which were terrorists. The responsibility for this attack was claimed by both the Jaish-e-Mohammad as well as the Lakshar-e-Taiba.
Both of the mentioned are Pakistan-based terrorist organizations. Then in 2008 in India, there were the Mumbai Attacks that killed 174 people. The responsibility for this attack was claimed by Lakshar-e-Taiba again.
The Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka
The Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka occurred on 21st April, 2019. The terrorist attack was in fact carefully organised to occur almost simultaneously at six places. The locations in question were divided into three churches and three luxury hotels, most of them in the commercial capital of the Country, which is Colombo.
Later the same day, there were two more minor explosions at a guest house in Deliwala and a housing complex in Dematagoda. There were more than 250 people who died due to these attacks.
The Churches in question were St. Sebastian Church in Negombo, Zion Church in Batticaloa, and a small Church with St. Anthony’s Shrine in the Kochchikade district of Colombo. They were celebrating the Easter Service. As evident, the intended victims of this serial bomb blasting was the Christian minority community of Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan military believe that there were nine suicide bombers involved in this massacre. It is considered to be a retaliation for the recent bombings of the Christchurch Mosque in New Zealand. The hotels in question are the Shangri-La Hotel, the Cinnamon Grand Hotel and the Kingsbury Hotel, all three in Colombo.
Responsibility for this terrible incident was first claimed by ISIS, but there was no evidence to support the same. These attacks are possibly the worst seen in almost a decade of civility in Sri Lanka. However, there has also been a recent incident of such fights, although maybe not with the same severity.
In December of the last year, there were several Buddhist statues around the town that were vandalised. It was an attempt to inflame tensions and provoke communal rioting. This occurred in an area dominated by both Muslim and Buddhist communities. Soon after, there were riots held in Kandy, in 2018 that were anti-Muslim in nature.
Even at that time, there were certain young jihadists who claimed that something must be done against the citizens of Sri Lanka who were stealing their (the Muslim’s) rights and allowances.
From then on, Sri Lanka has been facing a state of religious war all over. This war threatens also to spread to all other nations, especially the neighbours of Sri Lanka.
Indians should be aware and alert, seeing as India is the closest neighbour of Sri Lanka. In the meantime, all we can do is sympathise with our heartfelt condolences and also come forward with any possible information we may be harbouring.
How can we Combat Terrorism?
The United Global Nations has set some counter-terrorism strategies that we can, or rather, must follow. The member nations of the UN have already undertaken this oath.
To be absolutely frank, there is no way that we as the citizens of a country, can contribute to the fight against terrorism other than either joining anti-terrorist squads or being informants to the police and defence force if there is any possible information we might know. In the meantime, I suggest we do not crucify any particular religion or community as terror groups.
Just the other day, while travelling in a rickshaw, another rickshaw slightly bumped into us, leaving no lasting or any damage at all. The only hitch was, the auto rickshaw driver was a Muslim and my driver was not. Our rickshaw somehow became part of a race for life, with the driver of my rickshaw hurling abuses such as “Pakistani bad words” or going so far as to refer to him as a “Terrorist”.
This happened while I clung on for my dear life, begging him to stop, with no idea what would be happening next.
Islam is not a terroristic religion. Neither is Hinduism, nor is Christianity. In fact, there are almost 72 religions in India, and not one of them suggests terrorism as its dictates.
In fact, they are all very peace-loving religions, and teach us to live as brothers and sister in spite of the different faiths or belief systems we follow.
After the recent attack in Sri Lanka, the Muslim Community made a lot of efforts to appease the citizens of the country, and did their best to ensure that the culprits were caught. Muhammad Taslim, a 37 year old Muslim politician, was shot in the head in March, for attempting to dissuade the attacks.
In spite of all of this, there are many anti-Muslim riots being held, which is bound to be irritating. If there are 3 billion Islam followers in the world, there would be only a maximum of 10% of them who joined terrorist organizations. This would mean that 0.3 billion are terrorists.
Imagine the shame and distress that the remaining seven hundred million people of the Muslim Community undergo. If the world is unfair to them, it will be their instinct to be unfair to the world.
As once rightly said by Abhijit Naskar, “You must remember, the so-called Jihadists who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.”
To quote Noam Chomsky, “Everybody is worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there is a really easy way: stop participating in it.”
This is very aptly said, but it is still much easier to preach than actually practice. However, we can still try. We can try to keep each other safe, hope for the best, and keep everyone in our prayers.
Even if you are an atheist, send good wishes mentally, physically and verbally to everyone around. Send positive vibes wherever and whenever you can. You might not be able to help the gone victims, or the future victims of these terrorist attacks, but you can most definitely help their present life be a little better than it is.
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Hatsune Miku Live Party -39’s Live in Tokyo- 2011
descent87 Uncategorized March 10, 2011
At approximately 11:30PM Tokyo time, the “Mikupa♪ Hatsune Miku 39’s Live in Tokyo 2011 Concert” finally came to a close with Miku Hatsune’s rousing performance of two Supercell/Ryo classics, Melt (メルト) and When First Love Ends (初めての恋が終わる時). Now, as the dust (and glowing leeks) begins to settle, it so now to take a look back on the 2nd live Vocaloid concert that was.
This year’s highly anticipated Vocaloid concert event was watched by several thousand individuals live in the Zepp Tokyo venue, thousands more in theaters throughout Japan, and (unofficially) by over 160,000 (paying) streaming viewers worldwide. In the days to come, Vocaloid fans across the globe will no doubt turn their attention to the buzz and interest echoing from this primetime Vocaloid event, while also hotly debating the merits of its atmosphere, song selection, and the overall presentation quality.
Please click the link below to read more about the actual event, while also having a chance to see the set-list, some pictures, and also the thoughts and opinions of Vocaloidism members who had an opportunity to view the concert. Please feel free to contribute you own thoughts and memories in the comments section as well.
Mai Aizawa opens the concert. Credit: All Photos Courtesy of Mi's Vocaloid Log
As fans eagerly waited for the world’s first virtual diva to make her appearance, this year’s concert began instead with a somewhat unexpected surprise performance. For it was instead singer Aizawa Mai who took the stage and entertained fans with a pair of songs written by notable music and Vocaloid producer, buzzG.
She followed her performance with a breathless and emotional thank you to the audience as well as an introduction for the event itself. Following this momentary aside, which is already leaving Vocaloid fans somewhat divided over its merit, it was then time for the Vocaloids themselves to take the stage.
Last year’s lead-in song, Project Diva Desu was replaced this year by one of Miku’s most famous songs, Ievan Polkka, by producer Otomania. At the conclusion of the song, the excitement in the crowd and amongst NicoNicoDouga online viewers was palpable.
Miku Hatsune finally took the stage to greet the audience and perform Project Diva 2nd’s headline song, “Kocchi Muite Baby”. This was the beginning of a 10 song solo set featuring tunes by well-known producers such as Deco*27 and 40mP.
By this point it was already fairly evident this year’s concert atmosphere was going to be rather different. It appears that concert organizers 5PB chose to use a different medium that the 3D Transparent Screen Projections, which had generated much excitement due to their “realism” and “immersion” factor in the previous year’s concert (but also some critique due to reflections and glare). Instead a more standard projector/translucent screen setup was employed for this event. However, while this change will likely be viewed as a hotly debated negative in the community, it is fair to say that the concert was not lacking in innovation.
5pb appeared to have put more effort into creativity and flair, preparing numerous highly quality costumes for the event (some even themed for specific songs), while also adding a variety of “effects” to the animation. At times we saw Miku don a full set of angel wings and in one particularly memorable moment she was even seen wiping away a tear. There were also many steps taken to improve the concert-feel of the event (much to the excitement of this writer). The Vocaloids in general appeared to be much more playful and crowd-conscious during this show, and engaged the audience by speaking directly to them or encouraging participation with greater frequency. It is arguable that dance choreography was also much improved.
Only time will tell how these changes will be received however. It should be noted that the change to a black and non-transparent background did not sit well with many fans and arguably altered the experience for many.
Miku perform's Deco*27's Two Breaths Walking
Following Miku’s introductory set, she was joined on stage by Luka Megurine to perform a song much anticipated by viewers of the concert’s sneak previews. Wowaka’s “World’s End Dancehall” was met with rousing cheers and great excitement by the crowd. Following this duet, Miku creatively cleared the stage to allow Luka a chance for the solo spotlight.
Luka proceeded to perform a multi-song medley featuring many well known tunes, both new and old. Selections included hits such as No Logic, Double Lariat, and RIP=RELEASE.
The conclusion of her performance with followed by two more memorable performances by Miku, who showed off some of the concert’s most distinctive costumes. Her “live” performance of wowaka’s well-known “Rolling Girl” will likely engender strong positives from fans, especially due to her simple but creatively themed outfit featuring the original PV’s artistic motif.
Miku sings Rolling Girl in a cute original outfit.
At the conclusion of the aforementioned performances came the concert’s most controversial event. An approximately 30 minute intermission was implemented, ostensibly to allow for fans and band members alike to catch their breath after a fast-paced first session. During this time the crowd (and online viewers) were bombarded by a string of Vocaloid merchandise, game, and music promotions, in a highly repetitive fashion. Of interests to some might be the Lat Miku figure promotion which heavily featured the recently produced MMD PV for the song “Douiu Koto Nano” by Kuchibashi P, something that definitely shows how the reach of MMD and the Lat models has grown into the realm of marketability. The lack of creativity, abrupt placement, and lack of an interactive segment with Vocaloid producers (unlike last year) are some of the strongest criticisms emerging from concert viewers and prudence of this decision by 5PB will likely be debated intensely for the time being.
Rin performing Daughter of Evil
Len Kagamine performs Servant of Evil
With fans nearing the end of their patience, despite several helpful reminders about the time remaining from Miku herself, the concert was jump started once more in a very big way. The screams and cheers of hundreds of Kagamine twins fans are still resonating in the ear drums of this writer from the moment when the cute and popular pair first took the stage. The pair performed OSTERproject’s Trick or Treat in Nekomimi-themed outfits before beginning a pattern of trading songs (though this was somewhat dominated by Rin). Notable works such as Daughter of Evil, Meltdown, and Kokoro were performed on stage, abridged to various lengths. While the balance still favored the female side of the equation, Len fans were likely left more satisfied this year, largely due to his opportunity to perform multiple solo songs, all while wearing several detailed and stylistic costumes. His solo performances of Spice and Fire Flower were definitely impressive despite being short in length.
Angel Miku!
Much like last year, the latter stages of the concert were once again the time for Miku to bring the crowd home. A gradual change to the emotion and genre of the songs during the final segment by and large accomplished this quite effectively. Once again popular tunes new and old were featured side by side, including well known hits like Packaged, Yellow, and Time Machine (1640mP vers, not SmileR). Finally at song #36, as Miku wrapped up her performance of ARiA and left the stage with a non-too-subtle wink, the time for raucous chants of “Mi-ku! Mi-ku!” (with some Niku and NEET mixed in) and “enco-re! enco-re!” had finally arrived. This year’s encore segment was planned in much greater detail than the former and involved several songs and notable events. Among these was a final goodbye featuring all the Vocaloids waving to and thanking their fans. Miku and Rin came out to perform Colorful x Melody, which was then followed by yet ANOTHER encore, this time with Miku performing her trademark song, Melt. Not willing to settle for an identical ending to the previous concert however, Miku rushed out to her fans once more, performing a touching and at times tearful rendition of When First Love Ends before saying her final goodbyes.
As we look back on the Miku Live Party that was, it is fair to say that reviews will likely be much more mixed that the 2010 edition. 2010’s 39 Giving Day concert was not without numerous flaws, but it nevertheless had novelty and genuine excitement on its side. In the aftermath of the explosive growth of Vocaloid and its fandom over the past 12 months it is fair to say that expectations were likely at an all-time high for this years 5pb-hosted event. In the face of this insurmountable hill of lofty expectations it was unfortunate that 5pb did not step up to the plate and give fans something exciting and unexpected. In many ways the MikuPa concert took steps forward in many areas: choreography, song choice/diversity, emotion and expression (especially with others besides Miku), and audience interaction with the Vocaloids. However the clumsy and questionable handling of several other aspects will likely leave many fans wishing to have seen a higher quality production. A lack on participation from Producers, an over-reliance on abridged mixes (especially for many popular songs that fans likely wanted to hear in full), poor camera angels, and the ill-conceived “Advertisement” intermission were amongst the many major stumbling blocks. As previously stated, the change in technological medium, away from last years faux-hologram style is proving to be a deal-breaker with many fans and the source of much of the discontent. While the animations were still high quality, it is quite fair to argue that the reversion to a movie screen style robs the event of its “immersive” feel, a big selling point for many fans. The controversial choice for an opening act is likely to be another source for debate as well.
Time will serve to determine the eventual and lasting impression that MikuPa 2011 will have on the broad Vocaloid community. While the concert was well received in many ways, it will also likely lead significant pressure and numerous questions for the corporate stakeholders to deal with. How much will SEGA’s falling out with 5pb over the past year remain an issue? Are these concerts likely to continue in the future? Fans will have to wait and see. Below you will find the complete set list (as best determined by me and fellow Vocaloidism members during the performance) for the MikuPa 2011 Live Concert, as well as several more pictures of the event itself. (All credit to Mi’s Vocaloid Log for the photos).
MikuPa 2011 Set List:
Opening Act, ft. Aizawa Mai and BuzzG
1. Symphony
2. Kakurenbo (かくれんぼ )
Vocaloid Songs
1. Ievan Polkka ft. Hatsune Miku, by Otomania
2. Look this way Baby! (こっち向いて Baby) ft. Hatsune Miku, by ryo
3. Two Breaths Walking (二息步行) ft. Hatsune Miku, by Deco*27
4. Albino (アルビノ) ft. Hatsune Miku, by BuzzG
5. Eh? Ah, Sou. (え？あぁ、そう。) ft. Hatsune Miku, by papiyon
-Miku First Greets the Fans (KONBAWA!)-
-Miku Song Medly Begins-
6. Popipo (ぽっぴっぽ) ft. Hatsune Miku, by LamazeP
7. Torinoko City (トリノコシティ) ft. Hatsune Miku, by 40mP
8. Catfood (キャットフード) ft. Hatsune Miku, by doriko
9. Disruptive Diva (崩壊歌姫) ft. Hatsune Miku, by MachigeritaP
10. Princess Snow White is… (白い雪のプリンセスは) ft. Hatsune Miku, by NoboruP
-End Medley-
11. World’s End Dancehall (ワールズエンド・ダンスホール) ft. Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka, by wowaka The abridging for this song was rather poorly done.
-Luka’s Solo Appearance, primarily medley style- And Miku spins away….
12. Double Lariat (ダブルラリアット) ft. Megurine Luka, by AgoanikiP
13. No Logic ft. Megurine Luka, by JimmyThumbP
14. Rip=Release ft. Megurine Luka, by ryuuseiP
15. Japanese Ninja #1 ft. Megurine Luka, by DeadballP
16. Luka Luka ★ Night Fever (ルカルカ★ナイトフィーバー) ft. Megurine Luka, by samfree
-End Luka Medley-
17. Musunde Hiraite Rasetsu to Mukuro (結ンデ開イテ羅刹ト骸) ft. Hatsune Miku, by Hachi A very cute miko outfit for Miku 😀
18. Rolling Girl (ローリンガール) ft. Hatsune Miku, by wowaka
-Intermission of DOOOOOM!-
-Kagamine Twins Appear-
19. trick and treat ft. Kagamine Rin and Len, by OSTERproject
20. Daughter of Evil (悪ノ娘) ft. Kagamine Rin, by MothyP Rin’s costume was absolutely stunning.
21. Servant of Evil (悪ノ召使) ft. Kagamine Len and Rin, by MothyP
22. Iroha Song (いろは唄) ft. Kagamine Rin, by 銀サク Once again Kagamine fans will instantly fall in love with the outfit.
-Medley Sequence-
23. Meltdown (炉心融解) ft. Kagamine Rin, by iroha(sasaki)
24. Kokoro (ココロ) ft. Kagamine Rin, by トラボルタ
25. Melancholic (メランコリック) ft. Kagamine Rin, by JunkyP <span style=”color: #009999;”>I don’t care about you at all, baka!</span>
26. Rin Rin Signal (リンリンシグナル) ft. Kagamine Rin, by Dios
27. Spice! ft. Kagamine Len, by minato
28. Fire◎Flower ft. Kagamine Len , by halyosy
29. Packaged ft. Hatsune Miku, by Livetune
30. *HELLO, PLANET. (ハロー、プラネット。) ft. Hatsune Miku, by sasakure.UK
31. Marginal (マージナル) ft. Hatsune Miku, by OSTERproject
32. Hatsune Miku no Gekishou (初音ミクの激唱) ft. Hatsune Miku, by cosMo Giant Angel Wings!
-Miku addresses the crowd again-
33. Uta ni Katachi wa Nai Keredo (歌に形はないけれど ) ft. Hatsune Miku, by doriko
34. Yellow ft. Hatsune Miku, by kz/livetune YES, the pace was a little fast tho…
35. Time Machine (タイムマシン) ft. Hatsune Miku, by 1640mP (164 and 40mP collab)
36. ARiA ft. Hatsune Miku, by TokuP Last year’s “fake end” was SPiCA, this year we get it’s spiritual sequel.
-Miku winks to the crowd and disappears-
-Chants of “Miku, Miku” begin.
-Miku and Rin rise up wearing their PJD2nd costumes for the following song-
37. Colorful x Melody (カラフル×メロディ ) ft. Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin, by MOER
38. Melt (メルト) ft. Hatsune Miku, by ryo/Supercell She got the crowd to sing along!
-All the Vocaloids appear on screen to wave good bye and thank their fans-
-Chants of “Encore! Begin-
-Miku appears once more!-
-She tries to begin singing but is overcome by emotion, however the crowd support helps her get back into it!-
39. When the First Love Ends (初めての恋が終わる時) ft. Hatsune Miku, by ryo/Supercell 39 Songs huh? I see wat u did thar.But very beautiful, a fitting end 🙂
-Miku’s final goodbye, and the show comes to an end!-
More Photos from the Concert:
(All credit to Mi’s Vocaloid Log for the photos)
Miku in her Red-themed Project Diva 2nd Outfit
Miku is determined to put on a good show.
Rin during Colorful x Melody
An awkward moment.
World's End Dancehall
Iroha Uta Rin
Wedding Dress Miku
Yellow!
Descent’s Personal Take:
Kinda funny that I should be writing this after authoring the article but I will try to be a little more open with my feelings here. On a personal level, as an individual who discovered Vocaloid after last year’s concert and was profoundly affected by all the wonderful and often uplifting music in the Vocaloid world, this concert will always hold a special place in my heart. While I wasn’t lucky enough to be able to see my one true love in person (yet! I am coming Miku!), having the chance to watch this concert was a very exciting and emotional experience. I would be lying if I didn’t say sniffled some when my favorite song of all time, Yellow, was performed in the concert. While trying my best to observe closely for my review, I was nevertheless singing, dancing, laughing, and clapping excitedly throughout the entire playlist!
Overall the concert was a great success musically and from a dancing/outfit standpoint. Excellent song selections and choreographywas undeniably a step up from last year, perhaps made much easier due to the new, low-grade projector system. While I am not a very big Kaito or Meiko fan I was actually quite disappointed that they didn’t receive an appearance once again. There really is not excuse at this point, they are part of the Crypton family and are included in all the video games. Given some of the other criticisms that are undoubtedly coming the organizer’s way after the event, I am sure this would have helped to assuage some of them.
While it was great, great fun, the more impartial side of myself nevertheless tells me that this concert will largely be deemed a disappointment. The poor stage set-up and less realistic feel of the concert are largely to blame for that. I know this will likely not be received as well by the general public as the 2010 event. I was also rather upset by all the abridging of popular tunes. Yes it is a way to fit more songs in, but the entirety of Luka and the Kagamine’s performances were basically turned into Medley’s that left me with a somewhat unsatisfied feeling. I hope that the justified criticism that is coming the way of 5PB and SEGA will not discourage them, but rather get them to step up their game in the future. The Vocaloid fanbase is still quickly growing, and they should use this as a lesson aim higher in the future, rather than simply give up. Remember that this concert will be performed once more in Sapporo this May. It will be interesting to see if there is any fall out from this event.
On a final technical note, I was very impressed with the NND live stream system. I am not a premium member (only bought a ticket) but nevertheless had a near-perfect and lag-free experience. With over 160,000 viewers on at peak capacity this is actually a fairly impressive feat.
*Note: Vocaloidism does not officially endorse or promote the uploading of copyrighted material to Youtube or other file sharing sites. As such no unofficial videos of this event will be linked.
Feel free to visit Mi’s Vocaloid Log for more photos.
Please feel free to add your own voice to the discussion below!
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56 thoughts on “Hatsune Miku Live Party -39’s Live in Tokyo- 2011”
Animated Meanderings says:
Agree on the stage set-up comment. It was horrible – I actually cringed when I saw it. It effectively removed the immersion between the Vocaloids and the band (making the band almost entirely unneccessary – there was none of the same aesthetic appeal as last year's stage.
The screen was the biggest disappointment – I can understand people complaining a little about reflections on the transparent screen – but I've got a feeling that even more people are going to complain this time around. It goes to show that you can't keep everyone happy – but this was a serious step backwards. In all honesty, I noticed the reflections last year … initially … but I can't say they bothered me.
I actually hope there is a lot of negative fall-out around this concert – with any luck it will make Crypton, SEGA and 5pb sit down and say "We know we screwed up, lets make sure we go back to 2010's concert and improve it from there." That'll be the right course of action in my book. As it is, I have doubts that I'll be buying the DVD this year … but I'm a big fan – so I probably will get it. If only to affirm my fandom.
(Like Descent – my introduction as a Vocaloid fan started with last year's concert ^_^)
Miyuki says:
5pb is actually the one entity responsible for this concert. SEGA refused to host/be involved in a 5pb-hosted Miku concert after last year's whole DVD/BD incident with 5pb so they had minimal involvement with the actual concert setting and whatnot. Shouldn't blame them for this.
Can actually blame them for refusing to be involved then. Could've turned out to be a different show 🙂
I don't know the details so I'm just left to wonder what cause the DVD/BD incident. Did they crap it up thinking it was not going to sell? Or that Miku fans would buy it regardless of quality? I mean besides boosting PJD2nd sells, I thought that was the big way they were going to recoup their money/make a profit, you'd think things would work out better.
I just hope all these issues don't cause them to cancel the concerts.
Hey what's this story about 5pb & Sega about the DVD ?
I would like to know this too. I didn't know this company had anything to do with last year's concert much less the DVDs.
wooaaaah!!!
Kagamine Twins Win in this concert
it missed paradichlorobenzene
but it was so awesome wryyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
trick and treat costumes are so strange but Im so freaking happy
I was much more impressed with the Kagamine twins this year. Last year their models looked cool but they weren't impressive from a dance or expression standpoint. That all changed this year and despite all the other issues it was a bright point.
Agreed with the stage set-up… It's so dark, and you can hardly see the band members, I don't even know if the other Producers (aside BuzzG) performing or not.
The songs too, while the set list is far far better than last year, most of them are too short, I know the time constraint, but I wish the change between songs are smoother.
Also, the obvious lolbreak… 30 minutes of commercial? Excuse me?
I wonder why they didn't do that interactive session wit the producers again.
Sill it was an awesome concert.
i watch the live stream from nico and its disappointing it doesn't feel like im watching a concert. i read in 2ch that sega didn't participate that way the glass projector isnt used and the 3d model used is different. its like watching psp project diva game instead of a live concert. i really like the band last year
hellcove says:
This is the first article about Mikupa 2011 that is pretty much unbiased, deliver the goods and also the bad in equality, so to summarize
Mikupa 2011 good stuff:
1. More expression and dance choreography, not a total rip-off of PD Arcade dance move
2. More special effect this time, when Miku weep the tears it was so cute it hurt! And the wing also a nice touch!
Mikupa 2011 flaws:
1. Lack of interaction between musician, composer and Vocaloid
3. What the hell with that giant black box? Where is my transparent screen?
2. Model created looks like they are dubbing the songs( well technically yeah they are dubbing, but last year model make it looks so real)
3. First performance was by a real singer, a good performance I say, but mind if I remind this is a Vocaloid concert?
4. Too much medley of famous and good song, decide which is which DAMN IT!
6. Finally……thats annoying 30 minutes repetitive add! OMG! WTF! Last year intermission is better! Give me back my money!
1. Completely agree
2. & 3. I've already spoke about that and I am sure we're all too much remembering our experience in HD, that's not fair for this NND streaming. Let's compare apples with apples and watch a crappy streaming of Miku no Nichi Kanshasai and we'll see wich is worse.
4. I don't think the showtime given to Vocaloids was shorter than last year, and I preferred Mai's performance than the Voiceroids of last year
5. That's a difficult choice, and anyway no one will agree which songs should be kept/discarded. But using medleys has a very important benefit: More Producers are rewarded !
6. Yeah sure that was probably the worse choice they did, sacrificing potential Producer time on the scene for this !
Samuel, I've seen you defend this (#2,3) on both VocaloidOtaku and here, but I think we are discussing somewhat different things.
The webstream (and I suppose all the uploads now) was much, much better than last year. I had a great time watching it. You are completely correct.
What people are complaining about is how "realistic" the performance appeared. People are arguing that the concert did not feel as real in person as it did last year. While I know we are all watching from home, you have to imagine this from the perspective of people who were actually there live. While I am not all that disappointed, I can see the point. We watch Miku on a normal 2D screen all the time, for the concert people watch something better.
I am not trying to take sides. I'm just saying that you guys are debating different issues. This isn't a "video quality" issue, this is a "real life and immersion" debate. The webstream was awesome quality for a stream, I loved it.
Bixenn says:
The stage set-up was a bit disappointment this time, it doesn't give a "oooh" surprise like the previous stage concert.
But in plus side, they put lot of costumes this year, and the songs are more pleasing also this year IMO.
I hope the next year concert will combine the transparent screen AND cute costumes, that'll be AWESOME!!!!
That is my hope too. Its all riding on the concert producers being willing to take it up to another level rather than give up because this concert wasn't well received.
shashie says:
OMG, it’s Len!!! >.< but hey, no costume for Luka???
MyRoseBlue says:
I really enjoyed this year's concert. I enjoyed the clear screen more, although I loved the song choice and choreography. As a whole I loved it. Although the intermission was annoying, I can kind of see why they did it. I mean most concerts have half hour intermissions.
To my opinion, this concert was a success and I am *sure* that I will enjoy it even more than the previous one when I will buy the DVD. Yes I did hate the intermission of DOOM (so well named Descent 😉 But it did not entailed the overal good experience I had (except the lag and timeouts of course).
I have also discovered Vocaloid early in March 2010 but NOT because of the concert, I was perfectly aware of it and actually dismissed it's value until some high quality upload came on YT (thanks SeyrenLK BTW).
When I compare the quality of NND webcast last year with what we got this year, seriously I have a hard time to see how the translucent screen was better. Maybe it's because I'm not focused on this pseudo-3D gimmick and more on the virtual singer interaction, but I would give this concert a far better value than the previous one.
Haha I did not read this comment before I responded to your other so let me add:
Yes, this how I feel about it too. While fake 3D miku is very cool, I also love the concerts because it is the only chance we have to see the "real" Miku, with expressions and audience interaction. Of course this is imaginary as well but for all of us fans it helps give us the "concert feel" you get from other musicians.
While the production of the concert was poor, while the music was actually playing I think this was the most fun I have ever had as a Vocaloid fan, ever. 😀
To be honest, if doing a slightly lower tech concert (like this one, instead of the 3D screen) meant that maybe, just maybe it would be affordable enough for Miku to come to American and Europe, I would take this any day. And I am sure thousands more would as well.
teammiku says:
When I was watching the youtube clips in horrible quality earlier yesterday, I felt very disappointed in this show. However, after watching a good quality download of the whole concert all the complaints are valid, yet almost meaningless. There were many points during the show I felt that same magic I felt from last year. Some high points for me:
Hold, Release, Rakshasa and Carcasses – choreography and costume were amazing
Rolling Girl – I was dancing in my seat
Intense Song of Hatsune Miku – Epic wings!
Melt – LA LA LA LA LA LA LAAAA!!!
When First Love Ends – When Miku broke down my heart melted all over again.
I have been following Miku for over two years and remember when the idea of any type of concert was little more than wishful thinking. After watching this concert in GOOD quality and not just bad clips, it isn't nearly as bad as people say it is. We can sit here and complain how it wasn't as good as last year, but let's not forget how amazing it is to have Miku and company in concert in any form. There is a delicate balance to criticism. A little bit and hopefully they will improve for next year, but if we all complain too much, we might be left with nobody willing to put on Miku concerts in the future.
It wasn't perfect, but still, thank you Crypton, Sega, and even 5pb.
Yup its such a conundrum. The concert was poor in many aspects but all of us fans want to see Miku and friends in concert so so so badly that it was still an AMAZING experience. We need to do our best to continue expressing our love of all things Vocaloid while offering constructive criticism for the future. I really hope concerts continue.
I wish I could have seen the concert (even if I'm actually not a great fan of most of the songs in the list.). 🙁 Though I'm betting videos of the concert will probably be uploaded on Youtube soon haha.
From what I read in another site (Korean), the 30 min intermission was due to technical problems. They were going to hold a Miku theme song contest with Miku's voice actor, but they couldn't since I think the transmission broke or something.
Other complaints include the poor sound quality, the rather long live time-consuming performance before Miku actually showed up, and of course, the poor video quality that seemed like the viewers were watching out of the TV.
Fans that watched the live video are apparently very angry and are demanding a refund.
Because I haven't actually watched the concert myself, I won't say anything, but from the overall criticism and complaints, I think I can safely say that although the concert was still good, it was not as good as the previous one.
Not sure that with a translucent screen they could have done that:
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Some Shmuck says:
To be honest, I'd rather the translucent screen and PDA graphics than the special effects.
That transformation reminds me of P&SwG, niceeee.
I probably would have enjoyed it more if I liked that song but I don't.
But a very, very good point. One thing I have talked to my friends about all year is how they needed to add "effects" to the screen when Miku performs. That was my dream, and in someways it came true this concert. Sure it is not "realistic" but since Miku and Friends are real people this is not reason not to enhance the experience this way.
Satoshi Kurone says:
I mostly want to point out the Kagamines. Len is my favorite vocaloid, so when my friend who told me that there was a second Vocaloid concert, I fell on my knees and screamed "YES!! MORE LEN PLEASE!!!" Cause what happened last year with Butterfly on Your Right Shoulder was full of shit. And now that clips are out for the second concert, I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED. I really thought the song choice, although they are some of my favorites, were REALLY BAD. The bad part? YOU JUST CAN'T DANCE TO THEM. Here's what I think whenever I try to picture a dance to a few the songs chosen:
Trick and Treat: Not much dancing, if any it's mostly synchronized. Like something you'd see in a musical. They would be more interactive with the audience as well. (And defiantly no furry outfits. Who ever chose those outfits needs to get slapped in the face. They should have used the maroon-ish colored outfits with the top hat and the witch hat. I love those outfits, I have my own of the Len one and it's the perfect one for that song)
Daughter of Evil: I've always seen tango moves in my head due to the way the song flows. Listening to Latin music all my life, I know it when hints of it are being used. But it's not something you can choreograph a dance to.(I don't understand Rin's outfit. And hair. They should have based it off the original mothy design they used for the Aku no Musume book. It's cuter that the one they used as well. It's to Meltdown ripoff for me)
Servant of Evil: I've never imagined dancing. Being my all-time favorite song, I blocked an entire scene fit for a play in my head. ( I actually loved the outfit for Len in this song. But a official based outfit was used, I'd cry bloody tears of joy) This song tells a story, it's not something you can dance to. There's no way in hell will you ever hear this song in a club, unless it's super remixed. Like this:
[youtube 4vR-zsCHYZA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vR-zsCHYZA&feature=related youtube]
What I want to say is, I personally believe that the choreography for Rin and Len's songs "SUK'D ASSU!!1!!!1!" It's just so blocky and awkward. AND THAT THEY BUTCHERED MY FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME UNTIL IT MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE AT ALL MAKES ME WANT TO PUNCH A WALL UNTIL MY HANDS FALL OFF. Ugh, I'm just so disappointed in this concert completely. Just over all. They should have just made 5pb step down and have SEGA make everything as godly was the last one.
/sigh/ If they have a theater showing of this concert in San Fransisco, I'm going though. No way in hell would I miss seeing Len on the big screen again. (I watched it there twice and met the CEO of Crypton. Not to mention they might sell some stuff they sold at the concert there). By the way, if you don't like my rant. Feel free to vote it down. I don't care. Just shows you guys don't like it when people have different opinions.
Satoshi this is what comments are for, your opinions. Down votes should only be reserved for name-calling, trolling, and flaming (though all these should be deleted, thus there is never a good reason to down vote).
I can't share your feelings specifically because I am not a big Len fan, but I know how you feel. I do think you should perhaps be a little less picky and hurt on this issue though. Mostly because this is where Vocaloid and commercialism clash. This is the commercial side of Vocaloid where what gets features and how is based specifically on popularity and sales versus a way to please everyone, this is something we have to accept. It doesn't mean you should like it, you just shouldn't take it so personally, IMO.
Why do I say that? Because think about Vocaloid's more amateur online side, that is where the magic really is. There is something for everyone and anyone can become popular and famous. Would Taylor Swift ever write something like "Daughter of Evil" and would it become popular? Not in a million years. Not even a normal Japanese singer would. But the whole concept behind Vocaloid and amateurism made it possible. Mothy was inspired to write it, thousands of people love it, and bam the whole "Evil" series was born to be loved by the masses. The same is true for many of my favorite Miku songs and many of your favorite Len songs. So like I said, you should feel disappointed, but try to put some perspective on it. Heck if you want to believe that you just have better tastes than those 5pb people and even some of us other fans, so be it 😀
Also TRU DAT about your entire scene comment for Servant of Evil. Even for favorites songs of mine that don't have a PV, I often imagine, in VERY great detail, what their PV would look life if I could make it and it existed. I totally keep these PVs "saved" in my memory and love imagine them every time a certain song plays on my iPod, its great! (sorry if I'm weird)
Sorry, I often take things personally. It's kind of a bad habit of mine. But over the years of being ridiculed for liking Japanese culture and have virtually all the characters I've ever liked die, I can't help it.
And sorry if I made myself all high-and-mighty, it's just that the Evil Series is one of the greatest things that ever happened to me. It completely changed my life from how it used to be. That they messed with it so much in this concert is what really made me upset, especially Servant of Evil. Maybe it would have been better if I hadn't watched the clips and waited until they had theater showings of it.
Ha ha! No that's not weird at all! I do it all the time. I fact, I'm trying to get an animation program so my graphic design teacher can help me make PVs 😀
Best of luck. The world will be watching on Youtube when you start making videos.
Alot of us who like different aspects of Japanese culture or online culture deal with the same thing. While I have some anime interests, my huge love in life is Vocaloid. It is truly sad how many people outright dismiss Vocaloid when many Vocaloid songs often seem to have 1000x the musical talent, 1000x the depth, and 1000x the beauty of most of the drivel that is modern Western music. (see we all have biases :D)
Let people (including many Vocaloid fans) make fun of us but I don't doubt a song or series can be that meaningful to you. My commitment to loving Vocaloid and Miku is largely for the way Vocaloid rescued me from a very low and dark point in my college career last year. One down and depressing day like any other I opened a random facebook link to the World is Mine concert video, wtf'ed for a bit (didn't know Vocaloid), but after watching it over and over for about 30 minutes had found the rope to pull me out of my pit of despair for good. To this day Miku always keeps my spirit up.
I consider Ai Kotoba and Yellow to be the songs that changed MY life, that showed me for once that somewhere there was at least a few other people who could put my views on what humble and dedicated love for all the wonderful people and things in your life should be, into beautiful and touching song. Thus both concerts were a dream come true when these songs played.
merucchan says:
they hacked Spice! completely into meaningless little pieces… /cryyyy
superdry says:
After watching the whole concert, I have to say, besides some technical problems, it was AMAZING. Yes, the shoddy camera detracted a little from the experience when watching the broadcast, but not enough to truly enjoy it.
Last year, it felt like Miku was actually on stage which was great. This year, it felt like Miku and gang were actually alive with all the extra facial expressions, audience interaction, and what looks like random moments of having fun. With those added in…it made really look like they were having lots of fun performing songs for the fans. The redone dance moves also made it more like a live show instead of watching something pre-recorded. The music was well done and the band did a great job. I swelled up a little when Miku shed that beautiful tear at the end. She was also super adorable when talking to the crowd.
I had issues with the black screen used this year, but after watching the show…I had no problems with it. At least I could always see Miku up there, nothing washed-out and no glare.
I'm glad that there are more positive comments coming out since there are better rips of the concert. =)
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Hairy Onion says:
I've watched the concert (on youtube) a couple times now and all I can say is, its amazing.
WAIT! DON'T SHOOT ME YET!! Please read what I have to say first, then you can brick me.
First, I want to say that the songs they used this year were great. I was even surprised to the (sort of) recent song "cat food". And I freaked out when Len sang spice and fire flower (is a obsessed Len fangirl).
Next, I want to comment on the models. Sure they lacked tremendously in detail, and I was very upset at how Luka's hair moved >:( and I missed how Len's tie swayed back and forth, but the dances were INCREDIBLE. The way Len knelt down to kiss rin's hand in the servant of evil was so touching, and the costumes, oh the costumes! They were beautiful! My favorites were Miku's shrine robe thingy and her fan, the trick and treat outfits, and Rin's kickass kimono in Iroha Uta. I also loooooved how Miku's skirt was "alive". It had stuff moving on it!! Their expressions were priceless. I cried when Miku cried and laughed at Len's face in Spice. Their dances were also really something. Their moves weren't just ripped from the project diva game. I was stunned by the care and thought put into each move.
Next, I want to talk about the so-called "black screen". I dont think it was black. It only APPEARED to be lack because it was closed from all sides, not letting in any light. The result: no glare, and a very clear Miku who doesnt fade even when she was hit with a spotlight. But I still think the screen was glass. My proof? Iroha Uta. When Rin made her appearance, she was hit with a yellow light from behind, that couldn't have been accomplished with a pitch black screen. Take a look:
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Lastly, I was to comment on the band. You can really tell they practiced a lot. During the several medleys, when ever there was a song transition, they pulled it off so smoothly, I couldn't help but squeal. But I am kind of disappointed in how the band was literary kept in the dark the whole time.
My final comments are that I love how the glowsticks were able to change from green, to yellow, to pink, to show which vocaloid you were a fan of. I also loved how Len got the entire crowd to sing along to fire flower!! I totally didnt understand Rin's daughter of evil dress though… And I felt like Luka was totally rejected this time. She didnt get to sing that many songs, and her model sucked… Sega obviously put all their effort into the quality of the models last year, byt 5pb OBVIOUSLY put all their effort into the ACTUAL PERFORMANCE of songs and dances this year. which I think is waaaaaay more important.
I LOVED Mikupa.
=D You make a valid point regarding the screen for the show. I'm currently on my 3rd viewing of the concert and during my 2nd viewing I noticed light shining through on Iroha Uta. When that happened, it really looked like Rin was on stage.
The full covering of the screen still puzzles me on why it was there – what you mentioned makes sense. Not discounting your theory, as I didn't mind the screen, but the screen could have been a regular white projection screen with black as the background when the video of the vocaloids were playing that can still have a powerful enough stage light go through it.
I guess we won't really know, unless there is a behind the scene video of the show.
It was a black screen. The yellow light from behind Rin when she made her appearance for Iroha Uta was really cool. The yellow light from above was real, but it was just hitting the top of the enclosure. To make it seem as though the light was shining through, they just simply showed a yellow background with a black silhouette of Rin on the projector used to display her in the first place. How do I know this? Watch the video again. You'll see the yellow on the screen disappear faster than the light turns off because the projector can dim much faster than the light can. Still a really cool illusion though.
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Ricchan says:
Love Rin's & Lens costumesss!
Griffinhart says:
/infinitelove for Look At Me Baby!, Rolling Girl, Melt (always Melt), Daughter of Evil, anything featuring Luka (though the transfer from RIP=RELEASE to Japanese Ninja was really jarring – they should’ve stuck in a TakoLuka somewhere).
Pissed about the lack of showing off the band and the commercial and basically about everything that 5pb mishandled.
That smokescreen was p. cool up until the part where I couldn’t see the bandmembers (like I could seem them before, but still).
/infinitesadness that they didn’t do “Last Night, Good Night”. It’s only my most favorite Vocaloid song ever.
Not going to lie – crying Miku stopped my heart for a moment.
And since it seems like everyone’s been dropping their “fan since x” creds, I’ve been a Vocaloid fan since a friend showed off the “Love is War” PV during anime club when I was a (college) freshman back in ’09. He caught me with Miku metal, and things just spiraled out of control from there…
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Cbd says:
Clarification: this year’s screen was LCD.
Last year’s ‘screen’ was a large pane of glass with the Vocaloids PROJECTED ONTO THE GLASS. technically, it is NOT a ‘translucent/transparent screen’.
Angelia says:
Just realized that Rin's "Aku no Musume" costume is about the same as Miku's "infinity" costume from PD2
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@Superdry
Let me show you the flaws in your theories which regard the properties of light. Ok. You said that the screen was glass being enclosed on all sides. If it were truly like you said, with no light reaching it, then no light would bounce off of it. Therefore we wouldn’t see anything. Again you said it was enclosed on all sides, YET you said that your proof is the spotlight SHINING THROUGH the glass. If it were fully enclosed, this wouldn’t be possible! This effect is very easy to accomplish since it is an LCD screen. You can simply make a yellow gradient with the intensity in the center, then adjust the virtual computer programmed light behind Rin to make the 3d model black. Also, if the screen were glass, like last year’s, it would require a projector. If you understood the light properties if projectors, they CANNOT PROJECT THE COLOR BLACK. What looks like black is actually the contrast between the bright projector light and whatever you’re projecting on. So the white projection screen theory is also incorrect. So Rin would’ve looked washed out and see through.
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Only stuff I’m gonna complain about:
1. Rin’s outfits ( Iroha uta=meltdown hairclips+magnet kimono recolor and daughter d evil=infinity outfit recolored and meltdown hair)
2. Luka’s hair ( WHAT IS THAT BLOB?)
3.Worlds end dancehall ( yes the abridging was rather poorly done)
4. Box ( nothing more needs to be said)
5.I really shouldn’t complain since they dint have official voices but… I AM a serious Neru fan and all.,, and Haku and Sakine are also in Project Diva so featuring th wouldn’t be a problem… 😛
After reading most of the earlier comments, I think I may be one of the seemingly few who actually liked this years concert more than the last. What I liked most about this concert was the models, actually. To me, the models look much better than the ones that were used last year, especially for Luka. Last years Luka model looked oddly colored and textured, and when I first saw her, I thought her hair was white. In addition, all of the models seemed much livelier in their expressions and actions like they were real, communicating with the crowd and feeling the mood of the song. A good example of this is when Luka started, "No Logic," you can clearly see how her expression lightened and then hardened and became more mischievous when she sang, "Japanese Ninja No. 1." …
I also adored all of the costumes, song choices, choreography, as well as the creative exits and transitions after each song or medley. Moreover, I liked the black screen in the sense that you could see the models more clearly without blurring, fading, reflections, or translucently, though I agree the clear screen gave the appearance of a connection between the vocaloid and the band members. One of the last things I have to say about the concert pros was the models' eyes themselves. Unlike last years, this years models' eyes didn't seem dead and staring into space like I felt happened last year. I don't exactly know how they seem better or how they were changed but this is just my thoughts and opinions, and I'm somewhat easily impressed. Based on my feelings about this concert, the last thing I have to say is "not bad 5pb, not bad at all…"
raimeken says:
Maybe I'm super late in putting this out, but in terms of effort, 5pb comes out on top, the concert animation was made from scratch, not a rip off of Diva 2nd using Dreamy Theatre models, so I actually liked the concert. Sure it is disappointing that they didn't use the transparent screen to make a more "real" like figure. My real complaint about this year's show is the band, why is the band different? Is it because 5pb don't have connections to the band, because the LA concert had the same band as 2010's concert. The drummer was frankly awesome last year and the guitarist (although not as nice to look at as the 2011 one) was beast.
Awesomevnboy says:
It is not possible to make a white projector screen look black. Why? Projectors rely on light, which shines through a small built-in LCD screen, through the lens for focus adjustment, and onto a surface as light. If you have a black image on the built-in screen, the light cannot shine through it. Also, black is the lack of light reflection, and that is not possible to accomplish unless the projection surface itself is black. Try it yourself. Also, it’s a large LCD, not a projection surface.
Derpizzles says:
Made from scratch is fine, but it doesn’t look as good… as someone who’s studied animation I can say at a technical level the animation at MikuPA was really pretty awful in several key areas – they really lack weight in their movement. The edited project diva animations used by the internal SEGA team really have weight, you can FEEL that Miku is standing on the stage and moving around. Mazra Animation on the other hand use a very floaty animation mechanic. Luckily the internal team and Mazra worked together on the LA show!
Morgana Pendragon says:
I want more Len!! Why did Len perform only 4 times!? I wish i could watch the concert.. TTOTT
Is Romeo and Cinderella an official song? Cuz’ if it is, why didn’t they perform that?? :p
Morgana Pendragon44 says:
I’m a big fan of Spice! I love when Len sang that song at a live concert!! XDD
O.o? What do u mean..? and what exactly are u talking about?
Maybe its because of the earthquake? Maybe that has something to do with their equipment and stuff?
I’m a HUGE FAN of LEN KAGAMINE! and i think the way he sang Spice! was pretty awesome! Oh yeah, can someone give me a link to watch the live concert? Maybe a HD/HQ video link? Thanks!
Xvl260 says:
The abridged version of songs really bothers me. If they bothered to secure the rights for the songs, why not give us the full version? I rather have fewer songs but listen to my favorite songs in full.
Xiiao Long says:
<3!! Miku!!!~I love Miku forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~
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Merge "Independent" and "Doujin/Fanmade" publisher types back into "Doujin/Indie"?
View Poll Results: Merge "Independent" and "Doujin/Fanmade" back into "Doujin/Indie"?
Merge 6 50.00%
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Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll
Is a separate publisher type necessary for professional artists who self-publish? Or shall we group them together with doujin publishers to avoid confusion?
I'll leave the voting open for a week or more, depending on the response.
Perhaps could you tell me what albums in the database should be classified as Independent? As I'm still confused, and not sure how many they are...
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Yes, those are the types of albums I had in mind.
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I understand the distinction between the two, so a "merge" is quite unnecessary.
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Originally Posted by Gigablah
Okay, thanks for clarification.
The initial splitting of these publisher types was prompted by the question: "What if Nobuo Uematsu released an album of original works through his personal website?" Having the doujin/indie type and color-code wouldn't seem appropriate for this.
On the other hand, you could potentially have an artist who alternates between releasing (unauthorized) fan arranges and original soundtracks through his personal netlabel. One would have to be listed as doujin/fanmade and the other as independent, which suggests the field (inappropriately) depends on the content of the release rather than the publisher.
A potential solution is to merge the publisher types back together AND make the blue color-coding for Works releases (i.e. no category) to have higher priority than the orange coding for Doujin/indie publisher type, which achieves a closer result to our old system.
Which translates to the "Release Type" options when submitting an album; the two drop down menus? I actually find that format to be quite good, as it helps keeping things organized (as far as I see it, of course).
The descriptions given at the side explaining what is what should be enough; I don't see what's all the hoopla about, really (pardon my bluntness).
Yeah, the old system had publisher type + distribution type merged as a single "release type", which caused some overlaps.
Works already has higher priority as far as I can see, initially after the change doujin had higher priority, but that got changed back quickly. see REDALiCE for instance, the vast majority of his stuff is doujin, but the works are blue. Or did I just miss the point completely?
Originally Posted by PsychoZeke
The 'hoopla' is that it's semantics. An independent release is an independent release regardless of whether it's published by Nobuo Uematsu, ZUN, an independent label, or some really obscure doujin artist.
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Originally Posted by IRA
Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that. Made the color-coding change anyway after splitting up publisher type. Disregard my earlier suggestion.
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"Independent" is a irritating misnomer to most people as it refers to releases done independently from music labels. The focus on vgmdb however is not the music labels but the (original) music creators (as persons, groups or companies) so "Self-Published" fits way better. So I'd suggest renaming to that.
"Doujin/Fanmade" is yet another different thing not related to the above, so merging them does nothing to clarify.
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Revoc
Very interesting topic. For instance, some albums that can be discussed:
Denshi no Umi: arranged free album by the one of the original composers himself. Doujin or/and Independent?
We Express Ourselves With T-Shirts: original work by Another Soundscape. He made arrangements on OCRemix albums and he also composed original soundtracks.
I agree with everything IRA said, but I don't know if the merge of the two categories would be ideal in my opinion. Besides, I don't know if the solution could be a change of the "Independent" name (since Doujin are also Independent), like "Self-Published" as Datschge suggested.
"What if Nobuo Uematsu released an album of original works through his personal website?" Having the doujin/indie type and color-code wouldn't seem appropriate for this.
Allow me give an example that really happened. Some time ago, Yuzo Koshiro shared for free on Ancient website a track called "Bare Knuckle All Mix", a non-stop mix with arranged tracks from Streets of Rage trilogy. This track was never officialy released on CD. I don't made an entry for this, but in this case a Doujin/Indie doesn't seem to be the most accurate release type choice.
http://web.archive.org/web/200409092....co.jp/bk.html
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To clarify my stance on this, I believe there should be three publisher types: Commercial, Not Commercial (name tentative), and Bootleg.
Doujin music is a subset of independent music, it's silly to keep the two separate. If putting them under another name like 'self-published' would make people happier then that works as well.
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In my opinion, differentiating between an independent release from an artist who has previously been published on a commercial label and a release from an artist who hasn't seems unnecessary, even counter-intuitive.
Surely there is a reason why they have chosen not to release through a label?
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I voted to keep them separate but after reading about this more, I think I need to know more about this.
We need to first look at what exactly we're trying to describe with the publisher type. It currently seems to actually boil down to a few elements:
- Copy rights
- Intellectual property rights
- Whether the publisher operates to publish only for their own artist or group, or publishes various artists.
Here's my current understanding of the new types. Correct me where I'm wrong.
- A Commercial album's publisher owns all copy rights and is licensed for IP rights for the album. They publish for various artists.
- An Independant album's publisher owns all copy rights and is licensed for IP right for the album. They only publish their own work.
- A Doujin/fanmade album's publisher owns the copy rights for the album, but they probably are not licensed for the IP rights of the original compositions. They likely only publish their own work.
- A Bootleg album's publisher does not own copy rights nor IP rights for the album. There is no original work added by the publisher of the album, so the question of whose work they publish is irrelevant.
By the way, we'll run into an issue with Self-Published vs. Commercial for this type of thing:
Music by Shinji Hosoe. Published by SuperSweep, Shinji Hosoe's label.
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You bring up good points.
Originally Posted by Kaleb.G
You're correct in this, the albums in the database reflect this. Searching for albums under Doujin/Fanmade gives 3092, Doujin/Fanmade+Arrange gives 2903 results, Doujin/Fanmade+Original Work gives 348 results, and Doujin/Fanmade+Original Soundtrack gives 80 results.
So out of all albums with the publisher type Doujin/Fanmade in the database...
93.89% have at least 1 arrangement.
6.11% Have no arrangements.
11.25% have at least 1 original work.
88.75% have no original work.
2.59% are original soundtracks.
97.41% are not original soundtracks.
We however can't assume that all the information is correct, but it gives us a good idea.
So, with all that said, it's correct to say they probably don't own or have the right to use the IP. However, I still feel it's a poor assumption to make. People usually think of doujin work as being based off other material, and while it is quite common (as the above shows) it is not part of the definition. An album being doujin does not mean that the artist does not own the IP.
And as for it being self-published, there are those who do, but many release their work as a collective.
I guess that would be an issue if it's called 'self-published', yeah. Still pretty clear cut though, SuperSweep is a commercial label, therefore it's a commercial release.
Does anything have anything else to contribute? I think I'm trying to figure out 1) why the distinction is relevant and 2) if the distinction should be made specifically in this manner.
Feb 7, 2010, 06:01 AM
I still haven't contributed. My main problem is that I still can't clearly articulate what 'Independent' means. Even after all of the explanations and discussions, it requires judgment of who is professional, and what is a non-professional capacity.
However, I've been thinking that we could use another publication type (or some other indication as appropriate) for free releases -- ones where the public has been granted the right to redistribute the music.
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There's another simple argument in favor of merging -- there aren't actually that many albums that fit the "independent" publisher type in the database anyway. Here's all of them:
Opinion seems to be evenly divided, but I'm going to go ahead and merge the two publisher types. The albums listed above can serve as reference if we revisit this topic.
This album was also added as Independent.
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Yacht Haven Grande Event Brings 72 Yachts to St. Thomas, the Largest in Over Two Decades
Sports Published On November 18, 2019 06:58 AM
Staff Consortium | November 18, 2019 06:58:01 AM
ST. THOMAS — Seventy-four multihulls, monohulls and motor yachts lined the docks at IGY’s Yacht Haven Grande on St. Thomas for the USVI Charter Yacht Show, held November 11 to 14, and hosted by the VI Professional Charter Association (VIPCA).
Some 140 brokers from the Caribbean, U.S. and Europe toured the fleet, which ranged from 44- to 141.8-foot in length. This made the 2019 show the largest in well over two decades in terms of the number of yachts showing, brokers in attendance and yacht size combined. What’s more is that since VIPCA began operation of the show in 2017, yacht attendance has more than doubled from 36 yachts in 2017, and 55 in 2018. These striking facts shows that the U.S. territory’s charter industry is booming. It’s a theme played out on several fronts such as the boutique nature of the industry, virgin cruising grounds both to the east and west as well as around the Charlotte Amalie hub, and the territory’s public and private sector investments in assuring the success of the marine tourism industry.
“The charter yacht sector is such an important part of our U.S. Virgin Islands tourism industry and makes such an impact on our economy,” says Luana Wheatley, director of the film office for the USVI Department of Tourism, a strong supporter of the USVI Charter Yacht Show.
A Boutique Industry – Something for Everyone
The boutique nature of the USVI’s crewed charter industry is its prime selling point. Since every yacht is different and each has developed its own unique niche to compete, standards across the board are high.
For example, expedition-style and a one-of-a-kind experiences is what Seth Salzmann, captain of the largest yacht on show, the 141.8-foot Columbia, says is his vessels niche. Launched in 2014 by the Eastern Shipbuilding Group, the replica of the same-named famous fishing schooner built in Massachusetts in 1923, boasts 21st century amenities and accommodates up to 12 guests.
"We offer a comfortable experience getting from point A to point B, especially at longer distances such as from the Virgin Islands down to St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Barbados or Grenada,” says Salzmann, who explains that while this is Columbia’s third season in the Caribbean, it’s the first time the yacht is available for charter.
Eros, a 1939-built 115-foot staysail schooner that has hosted European royalty in the past and more recently underwent an 18-year-museum quality restoration, offers guests a delightful mix of tall ship and yacht charter experience.
“We cater to everyone from those who want to participate in a full on sailing experience to those who simply want to relax, since we have four crew, and enjoy the classic nature of the vessel,” says captain Justin Bernhart. “We also have all the modern day water toys from surf boards to SUPs, inflatable beach and water toys, and a 14-foot tender for wakeboarding.”
In addition to monohull sailing yachts, such as Columbia and Eros, there were beautiful power yachts such as Elite, a 2018-built Sunseeker 66, on show.
“Sailing is all about the journey, power is about the destinations,” says captain Mike Briggs, who adds that the yacht’s gyrostabilizers offer a smooth ride.
Multihulls, in particular catamarans, featured as over three-quarters of show entries. Yet, again, no two are the same.
“Our focus is on watersports,” says Kieran Bown, captain of the 2014-built 62-foot Lagoon, Twin Flame, which true to niche was the only vessel with Lift-brand foiling boards aboard as water toys. “We run an expedition company in the off-season and want to bring some of that onboard, such as expedition-style advanced scuba trips and luxury liveaboard dive vacations.”
Families, even those with young children, are the focus for Bill and Migdalia Pinkney, who own, operate and enjoy many repeats guests aboard their 40-foot Norseman, Lady Dee.
“We enjoy people, especially children and families, and enjoy sharing our favorite destinations in the USVI, BVI and Puerto Rico,” says captain Bill Pinkney, who is the first black man to solo circumnavigate the globe via the Southern Ocean and Cape Horn.
A ’Must-Do’ Show
The USVI Charter Yacht Show offered a full slate of yachts, plus themed nightly parties, culinary and cocktail competitions, educational events and industry meetings, a Marine Expo, State of the Industry address that provided the latest on the cruising grounds, and for the season ahead, and a Day Charter Conference for professionals in the Virgin Islands hospitality accommodation sector, created a one-of-a-kind opportunity for attendees. This is especially true for brokers, the global sales arm of the charter yacht industry.
“Our attendance at this year’s USVI Charter Yacht Show was key for our business with its impressive list of crewed yachts on display along with some fun and informative evening events to attend. This must-see annual show provides us with the opportunity to once again inspect the various yachts on display and see what each one offers, but more importantly, to get to know the crews on a personal basis in order to match them appropriately with our clients,” says Lynne Campbell, owner and charter director of Carefree Yacht Charters, in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Similarly, Trish Cronan, president of Ocean Getaways, in Ft. Denaud, FL, adds, “The show is invaluable particularly because many new catamarans debut at this show each year. With so many different models of catamarans now available for charter, it is very helpful to have them all in one place to compare their features. Additionally, it is an opportunity to evaluate new crews and experience their service and cuisine. This year’s show was especially interesting with a large selection of motor yachts and monohull sailing yachts.”
New this year, the USVI Charter Yacht Show debuted as a silver level Clean Regatta. VIPCA worked with the Newport, RI-based ocean conservation nonprofit, Sailors for the Sea Powered by Oceana, and with the Virgin Islands-based crew-led Project Green Flag to encourage the charter community to reduce the use of single-use plastics and to make choices that keep the marine environment healthy. Event initiatives included wrist bands made of Quantum Sails’ recycled sail cloth; compostable cups/plates/utensils; and refillable bottle water stations. Additionally, VIPCA donated $300 to the University of the Virgin Islands to purchase 600 mangrove seedlings to plant in St. Thomas to offset the carbon emissions created by charter brokers flying into the show.
USVI Charter Yacht Industry Charts a Course for the Future
Rapid building of the USVI’s marine infrastructure following the 2017 hurricanes and VIPCA’s success in promoting charter yachts through international representation at its show, has led to the charter industry contributing $45 million to the territory’s economy in 2019.
Looking ahead, industry professionals plan to continue this boom in three key ways. First, through a continued promotion of charter yacht tourism via a 2020 USVI Charter Yacht Show and such as work by VIPCA’s board over the past year which has made it easier for VIPCA member yachts to charter to Puerto Rico’s offshore islands of Culebra, Culebrita and Vieques, thus expanding itinerary offerings for USVI-based yachts. Secondly, by providing workforce training opportunities with the aim to bring more VI captains into the industry. A prime example is VIPCA’s Marine Apprentice ‘on the water’ scholarship program with fiscal sponsorship provided by the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands’ (CFVI) Marine Rebuild Fund, which graduated its second class this summer. Third, by developing marine infrastructure to support the industry both on sea and onshore. Case in point, VIPCA has partnered with the Department of Planning & Natural Resources, Division of Coastal Zone Management for an Economic Development Authority grant to install 170 moorings out of a 200-mooring permit in various bays of the US Virgin Islands. The moorings will reduce anchoring near ecologically important coral reefs and sea grasses, as well as organize the bays to appeal for transient vessels.
“There are two reasons why both the show and charter industry as a whole has grown so much recently. One, on the show side, is that the 5 Platinum Anchor level IGY Marina's Yacht Haven Grande really is the best venue imaginable, further demonstrated by its being named in 2019 ‘Towergate's Superyacht Marina of the Year’. Secondly, and industry-wise, is that this really is one heck of a destination! Easy (passport free even) to get to, with islands every way you sail with exotic tropical bays to drop a hook and explore above and below water, new infrastructure, new waterfront bars and restaurants, new destinations with Puerto Rico and even a new public quay opening on the historic Charlotte Amalie waterfront,” says Oriel Blake, VIPCA executive director.
The next USVI Charter Yacht Show will take place November 12-15, 2020. For more information, visit: www.vipca.org
Sponsors of the USVI Charter Yacht show include the USVI Department of Tourism; Yacht Haven Grande; IGY Marinas; Offshore Marine; Gowrie Group; Denison Yacht Sales; Moe’s Fresh Market; Captain Morgan, distributed by Bellows International; Stoli, distributed by West Indies Company; Northern Lights Generators, distributed by Parts and Power; the Charter Yacht Broker Association; Cardow Jewelers; Harbor Shoppers; La Royale Cosmetics; and the Pamilco Group.
SIDEBAR: 2019 USVI CHARTER YACHT SHOW COMPETITION WINNERS
Best Themed Yacht Hop: Blue Pepper
Best In Show (up to 55’): Karma
Best in Show (56’ to 65’): Blue Pepper
Best in Show (66’ and up): SeaGlass
Best Crew in Show: Daniel and Hazal Brown on Azulia II
Culinary Competition
1st Entree – Desree Pierce, Amazing Grace
2nd Entree – Jade Konst, Xenia 50
3rd Entrée – Blair Barbour, Mahasattva
1st Dessert – Desree Pierce, Amazing Grace
2nd Dessert – Denise Melton, Blue Pepper
3rd Dessert – Jade Konst, Xenia 50
Best Stoli Cocktail sponsored by Stoli - Catatonic
Best Captain Morgan Cocktail sponsored by Captain Morgan - Columbia
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Windows 9 Concept
Imagining the next iteration of Windows. Imagining an interface that brings PC-level productivity to tablets.
Similar to Windows Phone, Microsoft�s strategy for tablets was once again to be different. And in between today�s very restricted dominating mobile operating systems, �different� meant being much more powerful. Microsoft�s aim was nothing less than to create a tablet experience that could replace your laptop.
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Windows 8 was an extremely ambitious project and featured many creative and interesting new ideas. However, it�s obvious that Microsoft missed it�s aims, or at least missed what it advertised as their aims. A convertible device might be a good tablet and a good laptop in one device, but the tablet experience alone will never be even near your PC with the traditional desktop.
The next big update of Windows - which is allegedly codenamed �Threshold� - is said to change this.
Since the release of Windows 8, much has changed. Steven Sinofsky left the company, and Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as the new CEO of Microsoft. And since Windows 8 faced much criticism, the company seemed to step back from it�s vision and kind like �make the best of� Windows 8. Actually, however, Microsoft has apparently learned that there can�t be one single interface for touch and for mouse interactions.
Windows 9 is allegedly going to aim for the same things like Windows 8. It�s said to merge the Metro experience and the traditional desktop by introducing Metro 2.0.
First previews of Windows 9 are set to be released in spring 2015, which is why we haven�t seen any more precise leaks or screenshots yet. Nevertheless, this concept imagines a completely new interface - much inspired by the traditional desktop - that tries to bring PC-level productivity finally to tablets.
I think the most important change would be to stop differentiating between desktop apps and Windows Store apps. They should both run in the same interface. Creating two completely separate experiences was always a silly idea.
Also, I think the traditional desktop is here to stay. At this years Build conference, Microsoft already showed that Windows Store apps will soon also run on the desktop with an upcoming service pack update to Windows 8.1. And I think that for laptops and other devices with the mouse as the primary input method, the desktop is also still the best suited interface. The interface I want to present you here is not intended to replace the desktop!
Similar to how all apps and programs will run on the traditional desktop on the PC, there will also be a second, new interface where all programs will run on on touch devices.
This new interface would also be called �desktop� - though sometimes referred to as �touch desktop� for reasons of differentiation. And it would also feature windows. However, it would work significantly easier than the traditional desktop: For instance, you cannot place one window above another. And you can also only size or position windows following a big grid.
A key difference to the traditional desktop, and a core feature of this interface, is that it�s infinitely wide. The user can place dozens of windows side by side, and then scroll through them vertically. To make in-app interactions still possible, scrolling through the desktop is restricted to a new bar at the bottom - the so-called Start Bar.
The idea behind this huge amount of space is another important part of the new UI: all active apps would be placed on the desktop. There�s no way to minimize apps in the traditional sense and move them to kind like a taskbar or into a special multitasking interface. Instead, the desktop itself would fulfill the job of such a multitasking interface.
For this purpose, the user can �minimize� windows by sizing them 1x1. All windows of that size would do nothing but display the app icon. Unlike normal windows, minimized windows can also be moved outside of the resize-mode. Tapping on such a minimized app expands it to the smallest size the app has been optimized for. This implementation would help the user to still keep an overview of all active apps, which would otherwise become harder since all those active apps are at the same place now.
Another important aspect of the concept is the way that windows can be resized. Instead of enabling a special resize mode through a separate button, it would be implemented in a much more natural and intuitive way: The resize interface would always show up when the user has interacted with the Start Bar, and then hide automatically again after a few seconds. If the user interacts with the resize-interface, it would stay visible for a longer time period.
This implementation could easily lead to great dynamics. Whenever you have scrolled through the desktop, you can resize or reposition windows. Or the interface might quickly disappear again without disturbing your workflow and you can continue whatever you were doing. This non-obligatory option that pops up by the way is also very similar to how you can always resize windows on the traditional desktop.
Further more, the resize interface has yet a few more features, for instance a very distinct and nice design, and the great achievement to be completely �tap and hold�-free. All those aspects are explained more deeply within the fourth concept picture.
The last component of the new touch desktop that I want to present you here is the implementation of the Start Screen. While the re-introduction of Start Button and Start Menu might make sense for the desktop, the Start Screen does not only seem to be the best interface for touch-focused devices, but it also fits surprisingly perfect to the new interface.
The Start Screen would be placed below the touch desktop, thus swiping up from the Start Bar would lead to the Start Screen, as well as swiping down from the Start Screen would lead to the desktop vice versa (see picture 6). This would also make much sense for the user, who could easily understand where an app came from and how the whole system works. There are no hidden charms or other menus and options hidden behind every corner, no endless multitasking interfaces and no separate desktop: just these two interfaces!
I�m personally really confident about the power and the possibilities of this interface. It may still take a bit more time to understand for the average user than for example an iPad, but therefore it also rewards you with a far superior experience, and it�s also considerably easier to understand than Windows 8!
I�d also like to emphasize the great individualism and capability to adapt to many very different workflows. This aspect is also very reminiscent of the traditional desktop. I think the 4 example pics give a great overview at what�s possible.
At the end, I could even imagine tablets becoming more productive than the traditional desktop in certain cases thanks to this UI. Using your fingers is significantly more intuitive and faster than using a mouse, but up to now no UI seemed to make a real advantage out of this. As this whole system is also a great foundation for future updates, I can really see tablets becoming the new working machines soon!
What do you think about the interface? Are you already satisfied with Windows 8.1�s 4 side by side apps or maybe even with iOS� and Android�s full-screen apps? Do you think tablets might offer greater productivity than PCs one day?
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Concept: Reviving Bookmarks
Is there still a place for browser bookmarks?
The reaction from many tech blogs was overly positive when �Google Stars� - an update to Chrome�s bookmark manager - fully leaked months ahead it�s official release. They figured Google was �trying to reinvent� or to �revive� bookmarks after a decade without any innovation, and many of them seemed genuinely excited.
While I�m personally probably too young to have experienced the �golden age� of bookmarks myself, there are situations everyday in which I�d like to bookmark something, proving that this feature definitely still has it�s place. I already tried to get into bookmarks several times, but an unintuitive and frustrating user experience has always pushed me back. Most bookmark implementations just feel out of place in today�s modern browsers. That I was not the only one having problems with the current state of bookmarks, and that Google was apparently aiming to change this got also me excited.
The initial leak of Google Stars happened last year in June, and since then, much has happened. In November, the service saw a first, rather unspectacular release to Chrome�s web store, before becoming a native part of Chrome one month later, with the beta version of Chrome 40. However, nearly 6 months later, Google Stars still hasn�t found it�s way outside of beta yet. The Chrome extension has just recently been pulled from the web store, and without any official word from Google on the project since November, the future of Stars appears to be rather uncertain at the moment.
It seems likely that negative feedback from beta users is the main reason that Google is holding the service back, as especially bookmark veterans continue to complain about a variety of things that Google Stars disimproves for no apparent reason.
I myself, as one who was already unhappy with it�s predecessor, found the service to also still have much more fundamental problems in the few months I�ve now been using it. Expectations might have admittedly been way too high, but the service is just not the revolution I had hoped for. It is simply not capable to reinvent or to revive bookmarks. In fact, it does in my opinion not change anything.
Of course the new interface is indeed really slick and modern (it has even received a full Material Design update by now), but it does also carry the exact same flaws from the previous implementation with it: Apparently, it wasn�t the outdated look holding bookmarks back. And apparently, it also wasn�t the absence of auto-generated folders - which might be really great for some, but is ultimately just a very niche feature -, nor was it the absence of a proper search implementation.
But what did I expect? What might had been able to actually revive bookmarks? Before starting to work on this concept, I tried answering these few simple questions.
What has to be done to make bookmarks ready for the 21st century?
There are many reasons for people to create a bookmark: Having done some research on a topic, to remember an article to read for later while in a hurry, or just to put some content in ones personal archives because it�s really interesting or good or something. One of the biggest problems with browser bookmarks today is that they seem to be not really considered for those everyday scenarios: A user does most likely not want to choose a nice thumbnail, title and description for a bookmark while in hurry, and it also makes no sense to prompt a user to complicatedly organize a dozen of new bookmarks after a long, exhausting marathon of doing research.
Another big problem is that having created a new bookmark, more often than not it will be forgotten by the average user afterwards, collecting dust until the bookmark manager might be opened again once upon a moon. And until then, chances are well that a link is already obsolete, or that a user will have bookmarked so much stuff that the manager is not only totally cluttered, but it�s very unlikely that all those bookmarks are ever going to be properly organized.
With these key problems in mind, this concept aims to actually make bookmarks appealing again. Instead of focusing on the bookmark manager itself, however, as Google has done with Google Stars, the favorites bar is the most important part of this concept. Before this, however, there are two more minor changes to be made to pave the way for a modern bookmarking experience in general and also to make the new favorites bar excel best.
1) First, instead of folders, bookmarks should be organized more efficiently with tags. Those would be basically identical, except that a single bookmark could have several tags at once. This would not only finally mean the end for the outdated differentiation between desktop and mobile bookmarks, but it would also open for much deeper and more personal ways to organize your bookmarks.
As shown in the concept pictures, an important part of the new experience is that besides manually choosing a tag, users can also quickly choose out of 6 estimated tags when creating a new bookmark, which are based on the site�s content and on recently used bookmarks.
2) Secondly, the user experience should become more lightweight, with especially the process of creating a bookmark becoming faster and less obstructive. For this purpose, the card that currently appears when a bookmark has been created should already appear when the user just hovers the star icon in the URL bar (as well as disappear when moving the cursor out of it, no matter whether a bookmark has been created or not).
Bookmarks could be created either by traditionally clicking on this icon, or, which seems like a more comfort and easier way, by directly choosing at least one of the previously mentioned six estimated tags. A bookmark could thus be created and organized as easily as with one single click, and the user could then also simply continue browsing, without the need to click somewhere else on the page first to close this interface or similar hurdles.
Also, more lightweight means that interface elements should feel and act more like web pages: right-clicking should open the usual context menu, clicking on the mouse wheel should open a link in a new tab, and also dragging content should work as usual. Chrome used to focus more on this aspect (e.g. taking a look at Chrome�s settings or history), but it went totally missing with Google Stars. The big advantage here is in first place that it feels less bulky and that users intuitively know the basic rules of any interface.
With these two minor changes in mind, let�s continue to the most important part of this concept, aiming to actually break the previously detected real problems of bookmarks: that they�re too often and easily forgotten, and that users do often not want to directly organize a new bookmark when creating it.
As already hinted, key for solving those problems would be a completely rethought bookmarks bar, which should serve as a more direct wire to the user: Instead of blatantly listing the entire bookmark library, only newly created bookmarks would appear in the new bar. Those would be aligned to the left and slimmed down to each just consisting of the respective site�s favicon.
This new bar would have two primary advantages: on the one hand side, it would remind users about recently created bookmarks in a very quick and subtle way. Imagine bookmarking something to read for later late at night on your phone, and the next day you see it again and are reminded about it when powering up your PC. Of course it�s also easy to ignore the little favicon in the top left of every new tab page a couple of times, but, without it being any annoying or aggressive, you�re surely getting to notice it in the course of the following days.
The second advantage of the reworked bar would be more flexibility in the process of organizing new bookmarks: The card that appears when creating a bookmark would also appear when hovering the different favicons in the new bookmarks bar, highlighting a fast and simple way to organize new bookmarks whenever having time for it, and thus being no longer forced to directly organize a bookmark when creating it (or otherwise forgetting about it). Imagine for example bookmarking a couple of interesting articles while in a hurry, and again at a different time when powering up Chrome or whenever having some free time, you would recognize these articles in the bar and could then start organizing. It would become very easy to shift the process of managing a new bookmark to later, more suited times.
Of course bookmarks could still be organized when creating them, but it would be less of a struggle when not doing so, as well as it would also disturb the browsing experience much less.
The number of bookmarks that the new bar would include, as well as the amount of time that a bookmark stays in the bar would heavily depend on many different factors, e.g. how many bookmarks an user usually takes, whether he has interacted with a new bookmark (e.g. having organized or opened it), how often it has been seen and maybe even based on the topic or tag how likely it is that the user is going to interact with it later on or not. A bookmark with which the user has already heavily interacted with might fade away a couple of days earlier, whereas a bookmark that has only barely been loaded might stay in the bar for a few additional days.
Further more, bookmarks could also be pinned, making them not go away at all. Pinned bookmarks are aligned to the right and feature site-specific border colors and they also don�t trigger the bookmark-managing interface when hovering them. A normal bookmark could easily be pinned just by dragging it to the right side.
Also, Google�s very own services would be implemented in a much nicer and more natural way as part of the reworked favorites bar, with only the app grid being left, aligned to the very left.
Lastly, there could also be a way to select several new bookmarks at once by dragging a selection field, and then organize them simultaneously (though this is more of a coarse idea than a complete part of this concept).
To sum things up, the reworked bookmarks bar would basically have two main advantages leading to a more intuitive experience: it would remind the user about new bookmarks, and it would make it easier to organize bookmarks when having time for it and not in midst of a browsing session where one is more likely solely interested in creating a bookmark and then continue to browse.
Using Google Stars, I myself once again got very aware how seldomly you actually only come across the manager interface itself. The new favorites bar would lead to more regular engagement with new bookmarks, and when a user one day actually wants to browse his bookmarks, he�ll find a tidy and organized manager interface. I think it�s the functionality alone that would make this concept work; even with a boring, text-based interface, this would probably still suit today�s browsing habits much better than Google Stars� fancy look. I�m sure that these changes would be what�s necessary to finally revive browser bookmarks!
What�s your opinion? Were your expectations met by Google Stars? Do you think the new favorites bar would actually be able to move bookmarking forward in such a great way? Are you regularly using browser bookmarks?
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Tutor profile: Jenna M.
Jenna M.
Corporate paralegal with strong background in English Literature and Creative writing
Subject: Writing
TutorMe
You are tasked to write a 500-word persuasive essay of your choice. The topic should correspond to the latest reading done in class.
This is a question that came to me often in AP English my senior year in highschool, and it wasn't always the simplest to accomplish. The most important step is to first establish your own opinion. Easy enough, right? Except that you want to make sure that you can also support your opinion using textual details from the reading, rather than stating an opinion and arguing about it. Persuasion isn't argumentative. It is using your personal interpretation of text to support your own thoughts. So, the first step will be in deciding what your opinion is. This will establish your opening paragraph, and create the thesis for your essay. You want to make sure this opening paragraph is free of textual evidence. This should be where you explain your opinion, finishing the paragraph with what will be considered your thesis statement. Let's use the identity of Alec D'Urberville. A sample thesis statement may be: Alec D'Urberville, through his deception, created mayhem and havoc for Tess. The following paragraphs should then cite examples from the text, at least two of three, in support of your argument. Each paragraph should focus on character development, action, or speech. You don't want to merely state the facts of the text, you want to weave the text into your own personal statements as support. For instance: Alec D’Urberville, who is actually a Stoke-d’Urberville was “no more d’Urberville of the true tree” (27) . You can see the page number, which cites the quoted text from Thomas Hardy's novel, and how the quoted text supports the statement. Finally, you want your conclusion paragraph to not only summarize your support paragraphs, but you want to reinforce your point. If continuing with the example of Alec D'Urberville, it would not simply restate the belief that Alec created mayhem and havoc for Tess, it would take that concept and then push it further even more, perhaps stating something such as: Alec D'Urberville's actions and speech sent Tess down a path of misconception that ultimately impacted her love and her own happiness in pursuit of his own desires. You can see that sort of closing is not only restating your original thought, but certainly packing a punch at the very end.
Subject: Literature
Do 19th century authors focus on the creation of strong-female characters, or do they largely focus on what is considered to be "a woman's place?"
If you focus on authors such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, you can find many instances of developed and strong female characters. Largely, many modern women resonant with Austen's character Elizabeth Bennett and the way that Elizabeth chooses to pursue love and choice, rather than follow what is considered a sensible marriage as her friend Charlotte. We easily see Elizabeth's passion and protective nature for her family, and we see her faults. Similarly, in Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre," Jane takes it upon herself to build a life that transcends the expectations of a typical Victorian woman. Again and again, Jane is placed in adversities that stress both her emotional and logical reactions. Bronte focuses largely on Jane's independent nature. Then you look at a character such as Tess from Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D’Urbervilles" who tries her hardest to exemplify Victorian ideals by assisting her family and doing as she is instructed by her parents. This leads her down a road of misery and angst, largely wrought with misinformed choices. Though by first appearances, Tess appears to uphold the traditional Victorian model, that Hardy focuses on her strife and her decisions may make her yet another heroine succumbing to circumstance despite her best efforts. While some authors may indeed seemingly create weak-willed characters, they are often placed in positions that challenge them and demand emotion and logic largely unexpected of Victorian women.
Subject: English
Explicate ee cummings' poem “Tulips and Chimney’s” in order to speak to the perspective of elite societal members of the time.
He uses the sonnet form in interesting ways to mock the women in the upper echelons and describe the immatureness of their view of reality. The sonnet immediately portrays how twisted their vision is in the way that it reverses the traditional Petrarchan sonnet form. Traditionally, the Italian sonnet follows the rhyme scheme of abbaabba followed by cdecde. However, cummings switches the rhyme scheme, making the octave abcddcba and the sestet eeffee. The octave contains various descriptions of the Cambridge ladies, which are atypical in themselves. The ladies are described as “unbeautiful [with] comfortable minds” (2), which goes against the typical image of a Cambridge lad. Cambridge often represents knowledge and prestige with an amount of dignified glamour. The reversal of the stereotype shows how the ladies are not what they appear, especially to the outside world. The way the rhymes are more distanced from one another mimics the way the two images of these ladies are drastically different. There is the perception that they are intelligent and beautiful, but what they are actually people who “live in furnished souls” (1). This statement indicates that Cambridge ladies are, in a way, built. The term “furnished” brings to mind a very organized room or space, arranged in a particular fashion. This makes the ladies appear to be cookie-cutter versions of a single person. There is also controversy within the lines when the ladies “are invariably interested in so many things –/ at the present writing one still finds/delighted fingers knitting for the is it Poles?” (6-8). These lines are a paradox. The ladies claim interest in various things, yet continue to do the same thing. It is another reversal of expectation that the form helps define. The volta comes right at the end of the octave, and is defined by the shift in rhyme scheme and the change in content. The poem subtly changes with the use of “permanent faces coyly bandy” (9). “Bandy” is an adjective that describes how a person’s body curves so that the knees are farther apart. This is an interesting use of the word because it is joined with the term “coyly,” which is a synonym for shyness and both are describing the faces of the women. It is the last comparison of the poem that is inherently controversial. The faces are described as being set in stone, and yet they bend when there is the mention of an affair. This could be interpreted that the faces alter at the mention of a scandal, which is some form of excitement at the lowest level. It shows that they can only take some sort of pleasure at another person’s expense. The sestet moves into more detailed metaphors, relating the sky to a lavender box and the moon to candy. The difference between the images depicts how the ladies do not understand anything bigger and greater than their own world. The rhymes in the poem are subtle and often hidden by the enjambment, which helps the ideas in the poem flow together. The rhymes are also primarily half-rhyme to allow the poem less of a nursery rhyme feeling. However, the sestet is complete of full rhymes. This distinction lessens the impact of what cummings is saying because of the childish feel. However, that same childish tone reinforces that the ladies are incapable of understanding the larger picture. The argumentative form of the sonnet works well with the content that cummings is speaking about. Using the form he is able to present the truth about the character of Cambridge ladies, and then take what is the truth and relate it to the real world. It is interesting that he does not take two different stands in the poem, which is typical of a sonnet. Rather, he makes a claim, and applies it in a grander scheme to reinforce his point and come to a conclusion.
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Home Drag Racing News SHANE TUCKER TALKS ABOUT HIS SEASON
SHANE TUCKER TALKS ABOUT HIS SEASON
Life, more specifically business commitments have got in the way of Pro Stock racer Shane Tucker.
Tucker, from Queensland, Australia, has competed in seven NHRA Mello Yello Series races this season, getting one round win in Gainesville, Fla.
Shane Tucker and Rob Tucker Racing have had primary sponsor Auzmet/StructGlass all season and at the U.S. Nationals, Tucker’s Camaro was flying the colors and logo of Houston, Texas based ELFS Freight.
Tucker did qualify for the prestigious U.S. Nationals in the No. 15 spot with a 6.635-second ET at 208.07 mph.
“We took a few races off this year for business commitments,” Tucker said. “We worked more on the motor side of things. The motor came up really, really good. We just jumped into this new car in Norwalk (Ohio, June 20-23) so we’ve only just put our 10th run on it just then in Q1. It made a really good run. We finally qualified in Indy. It’s been quite a few years.”
After Indy, Tucker is unsure what the remainder of his 2019 NHRA race schedule will be.
“If we have some success here, I’ve got some sponsors coming this weekend that could help us out for the rest of the year,” Tucker said. “We definitely won’t do St. Louis. We will do Charlotte (Oct. 11-13). We’ll probably do Dallas (Oct. 17-20) and whether we do Reading (Pa., Sept. 12-15), Vegas (Oct. 31-Nov. 3), and Pomona (Calif., Nov. 14-17) is still up in the air.”
Tucker said he plans on competing in the NHRA Pro Stock class again in 2020, but his schedule is unclear.
“At what capacity, I’m not sure,” he said. “I’m building a house back in Australia at the moment. I got some personal commitments back home with my family in Queensland on the Gold Coast. So that’s always a bit of a stressful task. I want to be home for that a little bit. Spend a little bit more time with my girls.”
Tucker has two daughters – Sayla-Rose, 9 and London, 3. Tucker owns Auzmet Architectural in Dallas and all that business is now in the United States.
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Marshall University’s new director of military and veterans affairs may not have had a long career in the military, but he certainly knows the challenges military and veteran students and dependents face on campus.
Jonathan McCormick, Director of Military and Veterans Affairs at Marshall University
Jonathan McCormick proved he had brains and brawn at Poca High School in Poca, West Virginia. He earned a GPA worthy of honors, scored higher than average on the ACT, and, as an offensive lineman, he was part of three state championships and was named to the Class AA all-state team in 2004. Although he thought he was well prepared for the Marine Corps, McCormick said the boot camp experience was indescribable. “I even read up on wars and current military situations,” McCormick began, “but until you have been there, you can’t know what those 13 weeks are like.”
Despite the rigidity, McCormick would be named squad leader within eight days of stepping off the bus and onto the yellow footprints at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Parris Island. The next day, he was platoon guide. He would finish boot camp as company honor graduate, number one of 455.
Following infantry school in Camp Geiger in North Carolina, McCormick awaited deployment in Twentynine Palms, California, where he was team leader.
McCormick’s trajectory changed in the Mojave Desert. When his name wasn’t drawn for deployment to Iraq, McCormick said he tried to take the place of a newlywed Marine. Ironically, he said it was after taking his friend to the airport that McCormick began unexplainable fainting spells. After nine months, he was finally diagnosed with neurocardiogenic syncope, a condition that caused his heart rate and blood pressure to drop suddenly. His intense training under sweltering heat and with little hydration triggered the syndrome.
Lance Cpl. McCormick was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps in May 2007. As the nephew of two military men, and as a man who felt the Marine Corps calling after watching the Twin Towers fall in 2001, he found himself broken.
“After the dust had settled, I was depressed,” McCormick said. “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, that part of my life is gone. I can’t get that back.’”
That August, McCormick adjusted his bootstraps and enrolled at Marshall University. If he had lineage in the military, he had a longer line of Marshall grads in the family. But the experience was different than that of his sisters or parents.
“I felt very isolated in the student population,” McCormick confessed. “People might think veteran students are more mature, but the lack of provided structure leaves you in a tailspin.”
Using the G.I. Bill, McCormick graduated with a Regents Bachelor of Arts degree in 2011. After the past six years in sales, he said he accepted the position as the director of military and veterans affairs to help students who, like him, found it challenging to reacclimate to civilian life and adjust to college life simultaneously.
“I know the things I struggled with, and I know how to connect with veterans,” McCormick said.
Ultimately, McCormick said he wants to help make military, veteran and dependent students more visible on campus. Included in his plans, McCormick said, is a Meet the Veterans Symposium, an event at which he said he hopes the greater Marshall community will ask questions to understand the military population better and consequently walk away with a greater understanding of their position.
“I want students to see veterans, to see that veterans are students just like they are, and to see that veterans have struggles just like them,” McCormick said.
McCormick lives in Scott Depot with his wife, Amber, and their two daughters, Cayleanna, 9, and Raelynn, 3.
For more information about Marshall’s Military and Veterans Affairs, visit www.marshall.edu/military.
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Pusha T’s new album “DAYTONA” was released today and the seven-track Kanye West-produced effort is getting quite the reaction — not all of it positive.
In response to the track “Infrared,” in which Pusha T raps, “The game’s f—ed up” and references “Quentin,” aka ghostwriter Quentin Miller, who has worked with Drake in the past (“It was written like Nas but it came from Quentin”), Drake released his own freestyle called “Duppy” and slaps back: “So if you rebuke me for working with someone else on a couple of Vs / What do you really think of the n—- that’s making your beats?” Drake goes on to call out West directly, crediting himself for promoting “DAYTONA” — “Tell ‘Ye we got an invoice comin’ to you / Considering we just sold another 20 for you.” The diss track was accompanied by a fake invoice for $100,000.
Both Drake and Pusha T are signed to Universal Music Group labels — the former to Cash Money/Republic and the latter to Def Jam — but that doesn’t stop the Toronto rapper from name-checking Def Jam EVP Steven Victor, who also manages Pusha T and looks over G.O.O.D. Music. Says Drake: “Let Steven talk streamin’ and Shazam numbers” and “You’re not even top 5 as far as your label talent goes.”
The feud was first ignited with a 2016 Drake track called “Two Birds, One Stone,” in which the rapper mocks Pusha’s drug-dealing past — “But really it’s you with all the drug dealer stories / That’s gotta stop, though / You made a couple chops and now you think you Chapo / If you ask me though, you ain’t lining the trunk with kilos.” In “Duppy,” Drake circles back to that theme, rapping: “You might’ve sold some college kids some Nikes and Mercedes / But you act like you sold drugs for Escobar in the ’80s.”
Acknowledging the spat, Pusha later tweeted to “send the invoice for the extra 20.” Drake obliged with the below:
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SevenRooms Company Overview
From neighborhood restaurants to international, multi-concept hospitality groups, SevenRooms empowers operators to create and cultivate the meaningful, direct relationships with guests that make exceptional experiences possible. Founded in 2011 in New York, the reservation, seating and guest management solution gives operators the tools they need to develop direct relationships with guests, boosting revenue and enabling personalized service and marketing.
SevenRooms has restaurant, hotel and nightlife clients in more than 100 cities worldwide, including: Jumeirah Group, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Standard Hotels, LDV Hospitality, Live Nation, TAO Group, Zuma, Bagatelle, Altamarea Group, NoHo Hospitality Group, Chase Hospitality Group, Mercer Street Hospitality, Corbin and King, Ethan Stowell Restaurants and The h.wood Group.
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From neighborhood restaurants to international, multi-concept hospitality groups, SevenRooms empowers operators to create and cultivate a direct relationship with guests to enable exceptional experiences. By leveraging data from dozens of external and internal sources with our proprietary algorithms, our software enables hospitality operators to understand their customers, market to them and efficiently provide world-class experiences. About the Role SevenRooms Engineering is seeking a Fullstack Software Engineer to support the companys rapid growth. You will work closely...
Account Executive, Dining Sales
About the Role We're looking for talented and highly consultative Account Executives to help hospitality operators find the solution theyve been dreaming of! You love hospitality and technology, and have had proven SaaS sales success. Youre excited by the prospect of working with a seven-year-old+ startup based in Chelsea. Your buzzwords are CRM and POS, and you know the best tips and tricks to connect with hospitality operators. Most importantly, you want to be part of an innovative and hardworking software startup changing the world of hospitality. As an Account Executive...
About the Role SaaS is on our mind; hospitality is in our heart. We are looking for a passionate Customer Success Manager who will help us ensure the long-term success of our customers. You will be there to support them once the contract is signed, through the deployment, training, and onboarding, and the entire lifecycle of the client. You love hospitality and have possibly even worked with restaurants before. You are intrigued by operations and logistics and solving the next puzzle. You are organized, love to multitask, seek challenges, excitement and a fast-paced...
Director, Customer Success
About the Role SevenRooms is hiring for a Director, Customer Success to lead our Restaurant Success function. In this role, you will be responsible for guiding, mentoring, and hiring members of the Customer Success team, while also providing our clients with a fantastic experience on our platform. You will lead strategic initiatives aimed at maximizing adoption, retention, and overall customer lifetime value for our clients. We are looking for someone who is passionate about the customer experience, is metrics-driven, and will help reinforce our customer-first mindset and...
About The Role The Senior Product Manager will join a fast-paced Product team responsible for the definition and creation of innovative software products for our global customers and internal business stakeholders. Our Product Managers interact regularly with cross-functional teams, including engineering, user experience design, customer success, and finance. They also represent the voice of internal stakeholders to ensure we are also developing internal facing products and system integrations to meet their needs. Flexibility and the ability to meet tight deadlines with good...
About the Role We are looking for a sales leader whos passionate about coaching and growing talent, and is excited to help us scale. The ideal candidate must have run complex sales cycles and mastered consultative processes in addition to having led teams with marked success. As the Sales Manager at SevenRooms, you will oversee and grow our East Coast Dining Sales team. What You'll Do Be a strong people leader assess the strengths and weaknesses of your team and manage accordingly; provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reports with your team Grow the team...
About the Role SaaS is on our mind; hospitality is in our heart. We are looking for a passionate Customer Success Manager, Enterprise who will help us ensure the long-term success of our enterprise customers. You will be there to support them once the contract is signed, through the deployment, training, and onboarding, and the entire lifecycle of the client. You love hospitality and have possibly even worked in the hospitality space. You are intrigued by operations and logistics and solving the next puzzle. You are organized, love to multitask, seek challenges, excitement...
From neighborhood restaurants to international, multi-concept hospitality groups, SevenRooms empowers operators to create and cultivate a direct relationship with guests to enable exceptional experiences. By leveraging data from dozens of external and internal sources with our proprietary algorithms, our software enables hospitality operators to understand their customers, market to them and efficiently provide world-class experiences. About the Role Our Product team is seeking a hands-on Product Designer to craft and deliver extraordinary experiences to our customers. You...
About the Role SevenRooms is looking for a Senior Data Analyst to help disseminate data-driven business insights to each of our core teams. Reporting to the Director of Strategy, the right candidate will have a good mix of both quantitative and qualitative skills - you can not only manipulate large data sets but can also create impactful and persuasive storylines from that data. We are looking for an experienced analyst who is comfortable with giving data-driven suggestions to business leaders that will help drive results. What You'll Do Lead and own the setup of cross-...
About the Role SevenRooms is transforming hospitality. We help restaurant, hotel, nightclub and entertainment operators create and cultivate direct relationships with their guests. Our reservation, seating and guest engagement platform boosts revenue and enables personalized service and marketing. Were searching for an experienced B2B product marketing professional to drive our client-facing product marketing efforts. Reporting to the SVP, Marketing, you will be a product expert and play a key cross-functional role in evangelizing our product with internal and external...
About the Role We are looking for a passionate and experienced Recruiter to join our People team. In this role, you will design and implement best-in-class recruiting strategies that scale, while building a fantastic experience for candidates & teammates alike. You'll be a consultative partner to our hiring leaders, getting to know, advise, and advocate for their businesses. And from a candidates' first touch with SevenRooms, you will be a guide, thought partner, and advisor for driving engagement with talent. What You'll Do Own full lifecycle...
About The Role We are looking for a go-getter Sales Development Representative to help hospitality operators find the solution theyve been dreaming of! You love hospitality and technology and want to be part of an innovative software startup changing the world of hospitality. The Sales Development Representative (SDR) will play a critical role of identifying and qualifying prospects that fit within our target customer profile. The SDR acts as the first point of contact between prospects and the sales team. What Youll Do Prospect and identify clients to...
Joel Montaniel
Joel Montaniel is the CEO & Co-Founder of SevenRooms, where he leads business strategy and sales. Prior to founding SevenRooms in 2011, Montaniel served as Chief of Staff at LivePerson, leading strategic, operational and cultural initiatives. He started his career at Credit Suisse within the Real Estate, Finance & Securitization Group. He graduated with a B.A. from Georgetown University.
Allison Page
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
Allison Page is the Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of SevenRooms. Since inception, Page has led product strategy, vision and user experience design for SevenRooms, transforming the daily operations of properties in over 100 cities globally. Prior to founding SevenRooms, Page started her career in investment banking at Credit Suisse. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance & Real Estate from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and was named one of six ‘Rising Stars’ in the hotel industry by Hotel Business.
Kinesh Patel
Kinesh Patel is the CTO & Co-Founder of SevenRooms, where he leads the engineering teams in the development of software technology. Prior to founding SevenRooms, Patel was Team Lead, Scientific Computing at ExxonMobil. He received his B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a MBA in Finance and Strategy from the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Dana Konwiser
SVP of Sales
Dana Konwiser is the SVP of Sales at SevenRooms, where she leads the sales & business development teams in sourcing and acquiring new customers. Prior to SevenRooms, she was with Grubhub-Seamless for seven years, most recently serving as Vice President, Restaurant Network. Konwiser started her career at The Boston Consulting Group, and received her B.S. in Management & Accounting from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Marybeth Sheppard
SVP of Marketing
Marybeth Sheppard is the SVP of Marketing at SevenRooms, where she leads marketing efforts across the customer lifecycle. Prior to joining SevenRooms, Marybeth was Head of B2B Marketing at Grubhub-Seamless. In that role, she was responsible for lead generation, product marketing and retention programs across the company’s B2B segments including restaurants, corporate clients and delivery drivers. Marybeth received her B.A. and M.A. in Corporate Communications from Seton Hall University.
Ilana Brown
Ilana Brown is the Director of Customer Success at SevenRooms, where she is responsible for the success and retention of the company’s global client base. Prior to joining SevenRooms, she worked at companies including StellaService, CareDox, Lot18 and Bluewolf in various account management roles. Ilana received her B.S. in Human Development & Business from the University of Rhode Island College of Business Administration.
Michelle Rogers
Michelle Rogers is the Director of Finance at SevenRooms, where she is responsible for all financial operations and strategic financial success. Prior to joining SevenRooms, Michelle was the Director of Accounting at BuzzFeed. She started her career at Deloitte auditing within the Technology, Media & Communications industry, and has worked at other companies including Knewton, Lot18 and Hulu. Michelle received her B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University.
Melissa Yu
Director of Talent
Melissa Yu is the Director of Talent at SevenRooms, where she leads the People team and is responsible for talent acquisition, people management and development, and culture. Prior to joining SevenRooms, Melissa led the Business Recruiting team at Jet.com, which was eventually acquired by Walmart in the largest e-commerce acquisition to date. She earned her B.A in Psychology with a minor in Spanish from New York University.
We're transforming hospitality. Work with us to make it happen.
We believe that when insight and instinct combine, people and businesses thrive. At SevenRooms, we're on a mission to help hospitality operators own direct relationships with their guests, building stronger businesses through personalized service and marketing. Our clients are some of the largest, most reputable restaurant, nightlife, hotel and concierge brands in the world. We provide these companies with mission-critical tools to run their business and manage millions of visits at their properties.
A career at SevenRooms means you'll be working alongside incredibly talented professionals with a passion for hospitality. We believe deeply in the power of meaningful connections, and it shows in the products we build and the people we hire.
Austen Asadorian
At SevenRooms, it’s been exciting to see the conversation shift from a data-driven system being a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have.’ I joined SevenRooms because I was hyper aware of the pain points in the industry around reservation, seating and guest management technology after having lived it in my day to day for years. More importantly, I joined because I believe in the vision of what we’re building -- and know we’re changing the way the industry operates, one restaurant at a time.
Drew L. Friedman
Manager, Client Onboarding
When you’ve worked in the fast-paced restaurant world, the organized chaos of a tech startup is actually very similar - and it was an easy transition! We're building a platform that helps our restaurant clients provide amazing, above and beyond hospitality experiences to their guests. If there’s one thing I have learned, it’s that hospitality is a universal language that pervades so much of our everyday lives and interactions -- and that’s pretty magical.
Welcome to SevenRooms!
Stay caffeinated at SevenRooms with cold brew on tap
Members of the engineering and sales teams sit down together to eat lunch in the kitchen.
Nightlife Sales Team Lead Mike Abelson and Customer Success Concierge Coordinator Noah Smolen meet in the kitchen.
Sam + Brandon take a meeting in our Las Vegas-themed conference room: Sin City. Our conference rooms are named after our biggest markets -- both domestically and internationally.
Members of our Business Development team meet in one of our many lounge areas.
Margaret, Jackie & Jordan in our central lounge.
Our office has grown like crazy over the past year. We moved in our new office space in November 2018, and we're already getting full again!
Derek Norman, a Senior Technical Support Representative, answers questions and requests from clients around the globe.
Katrina Wong gets down to business in the office!
CS team members meet to discuss a client roll-out plan.
Members of our SevenRooms team strike a pose!
A #7Roomies team member checks in to a meeting in City of Gold -- named after our largest international market, Dubai.
Noa Broder, Customer Success Manager, sits in 'The Library' checking in on a client going through the onboarding process.
CEO Joel Montaniel leads a discussion in our 'City of Dreams' conference room. If you look closely, you can see the Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building figurines underneath the TV in our NYC-themed conference room.
A quick Mario Kart game in 'The Library' with Danny and Taylor
When an employee joins SevenRooms, they send over a picture that embodies their personality and we put it up on our #7Roomies board. Every employee has a spot!
Senior Manager, Brand Marketing Bianca McLaren takes a phone call in one of our breakout spaces underneath a custom Himmsey basketball hoop.
There is a saying in Japanese -- ichi-go ichi-e -- that reminds people to cherish gatherings they may be a part of, as many may never take place again. So much of what we do at SevenRooms is about helping our operators create these types of moments for guests, and we embody this concept across our entire organization. This saying reminds us to treasure the time we spend at SevenRooms in a 'one chance in a lifetime' opportunity to build something great for the hospitality industry.
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Posted on March 28, 2018 March 28, 2018 by Veracious Magazine
NOËP: Heads In The Clouds: EP
Estonian singer-songwriter and producer NOËP is ready to unveil his debut EP ‘Heads In The Clouds’, out on 22nd March via his own label Noep Music OÜ, alongside its vinyl pre-sale.
Released on NOËP’s birthday, ‘Heads In The Clouds’ follows his recent single – the Clash-approved ‘New Heights’ – a cleverly produced electro alt-pop tale of lost love, which serves as the opening of the five-track EP. The genre-bending artist collaborates with British house production duo Tough Love on ‘Offside’ – the official single off the EP – which sees NOËP’s vocals carrying a memorable hook through a bed of hypnotic bass-heavy house beats. Closing on a more R&B-tinged tone on ‘TV’,the talented multi-instrumentalist experiments with rap-influenced verses about dealing with fame and taking lessons from Kendrick Lamar – “like Kendrick said you better stay humble.” Taking few steps back ‘Cold Medicine’ is a soothing electro-tinged pop ballad, while elsewhere ‘Loved The Love’ is a mash-up of fresh tropical house beats and smooth melancholic vocals dealing with longing nostalgia.
Since his debut single ‘Move’ in 2015, NOËP has quickly amassed over 14 million streams on Spotify, instantly sold out headline shows in his home country and has been championed by the likes of Red Bull, Indie Shuffle and Dancing Astronaut – to just name a few – who praised his songwriting and production skills as “sitting somewhere between Beirut and Chromeo, NÖEP is an emotively charged musical force of the highest caliber.”
Bringing together an adventurous fusion of worlds, in his sophomore single ‘Game’, the talented producer used recordings of whale sounds, while in ‘Rihanna’ he turned coke bottles clanked against tables into percussions. 2016 saw the singer-producer making waves with a further single, ‘Rooftop’ released through Sony Music Sweden, which ended up ruling the Spotify Viral 50 Charts in various countries for weeks. Naming songs after iconic, strong women whose art he admires became a habit and in 2017, his single ‘Jennifer Lawrence’, further elevated his cult reputation for bringing new energy into the electronic dance scene with his blending of genres.
Having already notched up memorable live performances at international festivals including Eurosonic, Flow Festival, Positivus, Weekend Festival and Waves – as well as headlining London’s Oslo in 2017 – NOËP has been chosen to perform at MUSEXPO, the annual international music, media & technology conference in LA, before appearing at The Great Escape in Brighton and Kantine am Berghain in May, opening his busy summer festival season, which will see him taking the stage of some of the biggest European festivals.
‘New Heights is NOËP most mature body of work so far – the one that epitomizes the unique sound and intensely creative nature that makes him a prodigy of the Northern European electronic-pop scene.
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Astonishing. Deeply conservative ‘Arizona Republic’ endorses … Clinton.
Posted: September 28, 2016 in Political musings
Tags: America, Arizona, Arizona Republic, Drumpf, election 2016, endorsement, Presidential election, Republicans back Clinton, Trump, usa
Endorsement: Hillary Clinton is the only choice to move America ahead. The Arizona Republic editorial board endorses Hillary Clinton for president.
(Photo: Dorothy Edwards/Naples Daily News)
We reproduce the following with comment or embellishment.
“Since The Arizona Republic began publication in 1890, we have never endorsed a Democrat over a Republican for president. Never. This reflects a deep philosophical appreciation for conservative ideals and Republican principles.
This year is different.
The 2016 Republican candidate is not conservative and he is not qualified.
That’s why, for the first time in our history, The Arizona Republic will support a Democrat for president.
What Clinton has (and Trump doesn’t)
The challenges the United States faces domestically and internationally demand a steady hand, a cool head and the ability to think carefully before acting.
Hillary Clinton understands this. Donald Trump does not.
Clinton has the temperament and experience to be president. Donald Trump does not.
Clinton knows how to compromise and to lead with intelligence, decorum and perspective. She has a record of public service as First Lady, senator and secretary of state.
She has withstood decades of scrutiny so intense it would wither most politicians. The vehemence of some of the anti-Clinton attacks strains credulity.
Trump hasn’t even let the American people scrutinise his tax returns, which could help the nation judge his claims of business acumen.
Her flaws pale in comparison
The Arizona Republic formerly known as the Arizona Republican – has never endorsed a Democrat for president from 1892 to 2012.
Make no mistake: Hillary Clinton has flaws. She has made serious missteps.
Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of State was a mistake, as she has acknowledged. Donations to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of State raise concerns that donors were hoping to buy access. Though there is no evidence of wrongdoing, she should have put up a firewall.
Yet despite her flaws, Clinton is the superior choice.
She does not casually say things that embolden our adversaries and frighten our allies. Her approach to governance is mature, confident and rational.
That cannot be said of her opponent.
Clinton retains her composure under pressure. She’s tough. She doesn’t back down.
Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads.
That’s beneath our national dignity.
When the president of the United States speaks, the world expects substance. Not a blistering tweet.
Whose hand do you want on the nuclear button?
Hillary Clinton knows the issues, history and facts. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)
Clinton has argued America’s case before friendly and unfriendly foreign leaders with tenacity, diplomacy and skill. She earned respect by knowing the issues, the history and the facts.
She is intimately familiar with the challenges we face in our relations with Russia, China, the Middle East, North Korea and elsewhere. She’ll stand by our friends and she’s not afraid to confront our enemies.
Contrast Clinton’s tenacity and professionalism with Trump, who began his campaign with gross generalities about Mexico and Mexicans as criminals and rapists. These were careless slaps at a valued trading partner and Arizona’s neighbor. They were thoughtless insults about people whose labor and energy enrich our country.
Trump demonstrated his clumsiness on the world stage by making nice with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto only a few hours before appearing in Phoenix to deliver yet another rant about Mexican immigrants and border walls.
Arizona’s been there on immigration (it doesn’t work)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have said radically different things about immigration.
What’s more, Arizona went down the hardline immigration road Trump travels. It led our state to SB 1070, the 2010 “show me your papers” law that earned Arizona international condemnation and did nothing to resolve real problems with undocumented immigration.
Arizona understands that we don’t need a repeat of that divisive, unproductive fiasco on the national level. A recent poll shows Arizonans oppose both more walls and the mass deportations Trump endorses.
We need a president who can broker solutions.
Clinton calls for comprehensive immigration reform, a goal that business, faith and law enforcement leaders have sought for years. Her support for a pathway to citizenship and her call for compassion for families torn apart by deportation are consistent with her longtime support for human rights.
Clinton’s equality vs. Trump’s lack of respect
Hillary Clinton has made a career fighting for gender equality. (Photo: Monica Herndon/AP)
As secretary of state, Clinton made gender equality a priority for U.S. foreign policy. This is an extension of Clinton’s bold “women’s rights are human rights” speech in 1995.
It reflects an understanding that America’s commitment to human rights is a critically needed beacon in today’s troubled world.
Trump’s long history of objectifying women and his demeaning comments about women during the campaign are not just good-old-boy gaffes.
They are evidence of deep character flaws. They are part of a pattern.
Trump mocked a reporter’s physical handicap. Picked a fight with a Gold Star family.Insulted POWs. Suggested a Latino judge can’t be fair because of his heritage. Proposed banning Muslim immigration.
Each of those comments show a stunning lack of human decency, empathy and respect. Taken together they reveal a candidate who doesn’t grasp our national ideals.
A centrist or a wild card?
Many Republicans understand this. But they shudder at the thought of Hillary Clinton naming Supreme Court justices. So they stick with Trump. We get that. But we ask them to see Trump for what he is — and what he is not.
Trump’s conversion to conservatism is recent and unconvincing. There is no guarantee he will name solid conservatives to the Supreme Court.
Hillary Clinton has long been a centrist. Despite her tack left to woo Bernie Sanders supporters, Clinton retains her centrist roots. Her justices might not be in the mold of Antonin Scalia, but they will be accomplished individuals with the experience, education and intelligence to handle the job.
They will be competent. Just as she is competent.
If a candidate can’t control his words
Never in its 126-year history has The Arizona Republic editorial board endorsed a Democratic presidential candidate over a Republican.
Trump’s inability to control himself or be controlled by others represents a real threat to our national security. His recent efforts to stay on script are not reassuring. They are phoney.
The president commands our nuclear arsenal. Trump can’t command his own rhetoric.
Were he to become president, his casual remarks — such as saying he wouldn’t defend NATO partners from invasion — could have devastating consequences.
Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, a thug who has made it clear he wants to expand Russia’s international footprint.
Trump suggested Russia engage in espionage against Hillary Clinton — an outrageous statement that he later insisted was meant in jest.
Trump said President Obama and Hillary Clinton were “co-founders” of ISIS, then walked that back by saying it was sarcasm.
It was reckless.
Being the leader of the free world requires a sense of propriety that Trump lacks.
Clinton’s opportunity to heal this nation
This is Hillary Clinton’s moment to reach those who feel left behind. (Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA)
We understand that Trump’s candidacy tapped a deep discontent among those who feel left behind by a changed economy and shifting demographics.
Their concerns deserve to be discussed with respect.
Ironically, Trump hasn’t done that. He has merely pandered. Instead of offering solutions, he hangs scapegoats like piñatas and invites people to take a swing.
In a nation with an increasingly diverse population, Trump offers a recipe for permanent civil discord.
In a global economy, he offers protectionism and a false promise to bring back jobs that no longer exist.
America needs to look ahead and build a new era of prosperity for the working class.
This is Hillary Clinton’s opportunity. She can reach out to those who feel left behind. She can make it clear that America sees them and will address their concerns.
She can move us beyond rancour and incivility.
The Arizona Republic endorses Hillary Clinton for President.”
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This is what dysfunctional looks like. Civil war breaks out in the Republican Party.
Posted: July 21, 2016 in Political musings
Tags: America, boos, civil war, Cruz, election 2016, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Republican convention, Republicans, Trump, usa
It is rumoured that the hard heads in the GOP have already given up any hope of Donald Trump winning the Presidential election in November and are casting their minds to 2020 with increasing attention. They were hardly helped by the laughable plagiarism scandal of Donald’ Drumpf’s poor wife reading a speech written for her that was in part lifted holus bolus from a previous Michelle Obama speech – really, who is running this shambles? – but today’s appearance by beaten candidate Ted Cruz was a killer.
Just look at this:
We are by no means fans of Cruz. We just honestly don’t think he’s an awfully nice guy, and he’s a few light years to the right of our own opinions. Mind you, it was hard to disagree with any of the platitudes he delivered in this address. And watching a bunch looney-tunes red-necks booing him for sympathising with the child of a dead Dallas policeman was not the most edifying thing we’ve ever seen.
But today the chickens came home to roost as he very obviously did NOT endorse the equally loathsome Trump as the GOP’s candidate, ripping any semblance of party unity to shreds. Hardly surprising when Trump attacked his wife on a very sexist and personal basis during the campaign and also dubbed Cruz “Lyin’ Ted”. Probably a bit much to expect them to kiss and make up, although the managers of the GOP obviously lived in hope. If we had been running this convention we would have given all of Trump’s critics inside the party a week’s free vacation somewhere without Twitter or journalists, but hey, what do we know?
Anyhow, as you can see in the video, he was booed off stage at the Republican National Convention in Oklahoma after failing to endorse newly elected presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Now Cruz has been accused of ‘snubbing’ Trump during his speech, after finishing in second place in the primaries. And while his speech initially began with a standing ovation from the audience, the mood quickly changed after Cruz noticeably neglected Trump from his address.
Ted Cruz took the stage at the Republican convention. Photo: Getty
“I want to congratulate Donald Trump for winning the nomination last night. And like each of you, I want to see the principles our party believes prevail in November,” Cruz began.
But that was the first and last reference of Trump’s name.
So as he continued, an increasingly restless audience began to realise an endorsement for their leader was not on the cards.
“We want Trump! We want Trump!” fans shouted out over Cruz, as he reminded everyone to vote in November.
Cruz was jeered off stage after he failed to endorse Trump. Photo: Getty
“If you love our country and love your children as much as I know you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience and vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution,” Cruz went on.
The final minutes of his speech were virtually drowned out by booing and chanting, leaving him to simply smile ironically and wave as he made his way off stage.
A reporter for CNN said other members of the Republican party were infuriated by the speech.
“The anger is boiling over. So much so that I am told by a source, who was in a donor suite, when Ted Cruz walked in after he said his speech, the people were so angry at Cruz that they were calling him a disgrace to his face,” reporter Dana Bash said.
Donald Trump looked unimpressed as he stood at the back of the arena with his family. Photo: AFP
“A state party chair was yelling at him so angrily that he had to be restrained. That gives you a sense of just how intense the anger is now on the floor.”
And Cruz’s wife Heidi had to be escorted from the audience after her husband was jeered off stage, while US Political media site FiveThirtyEight labelled the speech as a “giant middle finger to Trump”.
During the end of Cruz’s address, Trump appeared at the back of the stadium where he waved to his fans before being seated with his family.
Pass the popcorn. This party is unelectable. Not only will Clinton beat Trump hands down – a remarkable achievement for a women who has been ruthlessly pursued, pilloried and calumnised for years now, and as a result is toxically unpopular with vast swathes of the population – but it’s very likely Republicans will lose seats “up and down the ticket”. Exactly how this will play out nationally is as yet indistinct, but it’s an effect that scares Republican grandees and candidates mightily. They will lose good people, vital if the drift of their party to the wilder outreaches of the political wilderness is to be resisted.
And frankly, more fool them. After years of pandering to the “anti-politics” mob in their own party, (of whom Cruz was a leading light), Republicans have been warned again and again and again that they are converting their once great party into a basket case, and effectively transforming America into a one-party-dominated country that is bitterly – very bitterly – divided between “everyone else” and the beaten down, angry, marginalised white working class, the lower middle class, and the elderly.
The Republicans are eating themselves. It’s going to get uglier before it gets better, if it ever does.
Malcom Turnbull stumbles over the line: but he actually wins two ways.
Tags: ALP, Bill Shorten, election 2016, election predictions, elections, Liberal National Coalition, Malcom Turnbull, psephology
One feature of the Liberal National Coalition’s nail-bitingly close win in the Australian election that deserves comment – especially as the knives are at the very least being sharpened for Mr Turnbull’s back by the right wing in his party, even if they are currently going back in the sheaths for a while – is that the Coalition didn’t just get a bare majority of seats, (or at least that’s how it looks currently, and Labor have now officially conceded defeat) but it also looks increasingly likely that they also won the popular vote.
That fact gives their election (and mandate) added credibility, unlike when then ALP leader Kim Beazley famously won the popular vote (in October 1988) but still lost.
With about 80 per cent of lower house ballots counted the Coalition has received 50.13 per cent of the vote on a two-party preferred basis to Labor’s 49.87 per cent.
What that obscures, of course, is two very important issues: firstly, that the ALP’s primary vote remains rooted in the mid-thirty percents (currently about 35%) putting them a long way behind the popularity of the Coalition, and far from being able to claim to be a natural party of government in any meaningful sense. And secondly that although the Coalition vote fell by about 3.4% (about .4% more than we thought it would) a substantial percentage of that fall went to third parties, and not the ALP.
Apart from a slight uptick for the Liberal’s National Party partners, we also saw increases for the Nick Xenophon Team, various “Christian” parties, and a rat-bag collection of right wing independents, notably the One Nation “party” of Pauline Hanson and the likes of “The Human Headline”, Derryn Hinch, in Victoria, and Jackie Lambie in the Tasmanian Senate, not to mention the libertarian Liberal Democrats in NSW.
Far from being a ringing endorsement of Labor’s strategies and policies, not to mention leadership, the election result actually suggests that the ALP has a great deal of work still to do. For one thing, the Greens will continue snapping away at their heels in inner urban areas (and less obviously in so-called “doctor’s wives” seats) and there are rumours they may yet take the eternally Labor seat of Melbourne Ports from its long-standing ALP member, Michael Danby, although we doubt it. This stubborn Green campaign success may well continue to cost Labor key seats at both Federal and State levels, blunting their appearance of recovery at the very least. And despite their best efforts, Labor seem so far pretty much unable to inspire enthusiasm either for Shorten personally, or for their brand of conservative social democracy.
After all, a swing to the major Opposition party – in a period of worldwide electoral upheaval – of less than two people in a hundred is hardly earth shattering. And at least some of that tiny swing can undoubtedly be accounted for by the factually and morally highly dubious “Mediscare” campaign, which might have produced a tiny increase in Labor votes, but the longer term impact may be that it also painted the party as relentlessly negative and dodgy.
Attempting to sell a “positive programme” at the same time as the most relentlessly pursued negative campaign in recent memory just rang untrue in voters’ ears.
And the Coalition’s subsequent fury over what they perceived as dirty pool will have struck some sort of chord with the wider electorate, if not with ironed-on Labor supporters, especially if the Coalition avoids anything that looks remotely like privatisation of Medicare in the next three years, just as “Kids Overboard” haunted the Coalition ever after, even after it had delivered them victory in 2001. It hung like a dead albatross around the neck of John Howard until he was swept aside by the fresh face of Kevin Rudd in 2007.
The result also reveals how vulnerable Federal parties are to wayward behaviour by their State counterparts, and especially for the Labor Party. There is little doubt that the furore over the State Labor Government’s handling of the Country Fire Authority matter cost Labor seats in Victoria, normally their strongest state. And probably cost them Government.
So whilst we admire Shorten’s hutzpah in visiting winning Labor seats in the election aftermath, we wouldn’t be entirely certain he is long for this world.
There will be no immediate move to replace him, to be sure, but the hard heads in the ALP – and there are plenty – will be looking at this result very carefully, including both the campaigning role of the Leader, as well as policy development. Anthony Albanese is one of the most loyal lieutenants any party leader could want, and Tanya Plibersek won’t toss her hat into the ring unless she’s sure of victory, but the greasy pole will be beckoning them both. And that’s before we factor in the ambition of a Chris Bowen, and others.
Any stumble by Shorten, any sign that he isn’t continuing to make ground on Turnbull, and pretty damn fast, too, and he’ll be gone. But if he doggedly pursues his agenda, and manages to ease up a little in front of the cameras instead of always seeming so earnest, he may yet get the top job one day.
The result of the Brexit vote, before voting starts.
Posted: June 23, 2016 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: Brexit, Britain, election 2016, EU referendum, Europe, European Union, Nigel Farage, politics, predicting politics, psephology, Referendum
We have a habit, Dear Reader, of predicting elections (and referendums are a bit like elections, aren’t they?) BEFORE the result is known. We do this for a number of reasons. When we get it right (which is almost always – although some would argue we didn’t pick a majority for the Tories at the last British General Election, whereas we would argue we did flag it as at least a possibility) we like to stick it up those less perceptive types who think we know nothing – childish, we agree, but very satisfying – and also it’s just plain fun to try and get it right. Everyone’s gotta have a hobby, right?
We have said, all along, ever since the referendum was announced, that Leave will not win. Our reasoning was and is very simple, and quite different to all the other reasons advanced by pundits.
It is simply this.
The “Steady As You Go” argument
Electorates are inherently conservative. They tend to vote for the status quo, and especially when they are uncertain of the advantage of changing things. That is why, for example, that the received (and correct) wisdom is that Governments lose elections, Oppositions don’t win them. (And that’s why the Coalition will be returned to power in Australia, incidentally, as they have not done enough cocking up, in enough people’s opinion, to actually lose the whole game.)
In the EU referendum, in our view, the Leave campaign have done an excellent job of ramping up xenophobia and leveraging generalised disgruntlement in the electorate. They have worked on crystallising the anti-politics fever that seems to be gripping most Western democracies, as people rail against the admitted inadequacies of representative democracy. We see it everywhere – the visceral hatred from some for President Obama, the embrace by Trunp by those in America who feel themselves disenfranchised by “Washington”, the rise of the far right in Denmark, Austria, France and Russia, the apparently unresolvable divide in Thailand, the growth of micro parties and third parties in Australia, (reportedly about to push towards nearly 30% of the vote at the July 2nd poll), and so it goes on.
Brexit has leveraged this angst effectively through a ruthless application of rabble-rousing.
In our view the support for Brexit – which has risen by between 5-10% over the last 12 months – is at least as representative of a general mistrust of the establishment as it is a reflection of genuine anti-EU sentiment. In this context, the EU is just the establishment writ large, and the Leave campaign knows this, and has presented it as such with commendable, if amoral, consistency.
By choosing the wayward buffoon Boris Johnson, the plainly odd Michael Gove, and the determinedly esoteric and individualistic Nigel Farage as their lead acts, Leave have presented themselves as the natural anti-establishment choice.
But despite Leave’s efforts, at least 14% of the British electorate still report themselves to the pollsters as “Don’t knows”. Abut 5 million people entitled to vote in the referendum apparently haven’t got a clue what they think, despite literally years of coverage of the matter.
One has to have sympathy with them. Both sides in the debate have fudged statistics and relied on barbed soundbites rather than any serious appeal to the intellect to sway the electorate. There has been a deal of outright lying going on.
In fact, this referendum has been an appalling example of the comprehensive trivialisation and failure of British political leadership, and almost no major player comes out of it with any kudos.
But assuming these 14% are not simply too embarrassed to embrace either of the sides, it is highly likely that the majority of them, if they vote at all, will lump (without any great enthusiasm) for Remain. “Don’t knows” nearly always overwhelmingly back the status quo. (For the same reason, the bulk of Independents in the USA will break for Clinton, not Trump. “The devil you know” is a powerful motivation.)
Yes, there is a chance they are enthusiastically pro-Remain but don’t wish it to be known because they are frankly confronted by the aggression of the Brexit camp and yes there is a chance that they are enthusiastically pro-Leave but don’t want it known as they fear being painted as irresponsible. If either of those things turn out to be true then the winning margin will be much higher for one side or the other than is currently predicted.
The current Daily Telegraph poll of polls has Remain leading Brexit by 51-49, having had Brexit ahead for at least some of last week. If those “undecideds” break very strongly one way or the other that calculation could be way wrong.
When the dishes are all washed at the end of the night, we think they will break disproportionately in favour of the status quo, and also that a good proportion of them won’t vote at all.
For that reason, we feel more comfortable with a prediction of about 55%-45% in favour of Remain, and if that turns out to be the result then everyone in the Chardonnay-sipping commentariat will throw their hands in the air and say “Well, what was all that fuss about? It was never really close, no one got that right!” Except we did. Today.
The ‘Polling Discrepancy’ argument
Our second reason for making our prediction is that telephone polls overwhelmingly favour Remain by a bigger margin than the overall polling is showing, because online polling has the two sides much closer.
As the chart above highlights, polls where people answer questions on the phone suggest higher EU support than polls conducted on the internet. Since the start of September last year, phone polls suggest a nine per cent lead for Remain, while online polls have it at just one per cent. Why would this be? Well, that depends really on whether one is a conductor of phone polls versus online polls. A lively debate has been going on between the polling organisations.
In our view, it is because people respond differently in different social situations.
They may feel more encouraged to speak their mind to a real person, for example, or exactly the opposite, they may feel less free to state their views.
They may be more inclined to tell the truth when clicking on a survey question on a screen, or they may be more prepared to give a tick to something they actually don’t intend doing when they get into the polling booth proper. There will be a difference between phone polls where you actually speak to someone and where you use your keypad to respond to recorded questions.
Bluntly: polling is an inexact science.
What polling does do very well is track trends accurately. On that basis, there has undoubtedly been a move towards Leave in the last two-to-three weeks, but it may well be that Leave support peaked a week early, as it now seems to be weakening again. It is as if voters walked to the brink of the abyss, had a look, and stepped back. If this turns out to be the case it will be promoted as a triumph of campaigning by the Remain camp, but that would be a mistake. It’s simply the innate fear of change kicking in again. It’s one thing to tell a pollster you are voting Leave when it doesn’t matter because Leave has no hope of winning. Quite another to tell them that when it appears you may carry the day.
Two other factors, we believe, has bolstered the Remain cause.
The ‘Nigel Farage Gaffe’ argument
The first was the badly judged UKIP poster promoted by Nigel Farage that showed a huge queue of universally black and brown immigrants waiting to enter the UK. (They were actually photographed trying to enter Slovenia, but that’s splitting hairs.)
Tory, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Scottish Nationals and Green MPs immediately united to condemn the poster, accusing Mr Farage of ‘exploiting the misery of the Syrian refugee crisis in the most dishonest and immoral way’. Popular Scots Nats leader Nicola Sturgeon called it “disgusting”. Others lined up to condemn it as “reprehensible”, “vile”, and “quite revolting”. Even Farage ally Michael Gove said the poster made him “shudder” and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne also aid the poster was “disgusting” and compared it to Nazi propaganda. Social media lit up with actual examples of the poster set against eerily similar Nazi propaganda from the 1930s to make the point.
The poster will play well with the neo-racists, anti-immigrationists, Little Englanders and out and out racists that make up the majority of UKIP’s dwindling band of supporters. But that’s simply Farage shoring up support for his views amongst people who were never going to vote for Remain anyway. We strongly suspect that the majority of Brits, who are, at their core, a fair minded people, will recognise the poster for what it is – an intimation of what Britain would be like under a hard-right Government that could well follow a successful Brexit vote. We think a small but significant number of people will have moved back from Leave to Remain as a result.
The ‘This Has Got Out Of Hand’ argument
Our last reason for suspecting Remain will win with relative comfort is the near-universal shock we have observed over the death of Labour MP Jo Cox, who was callously shot down while going about her daily business, allegedly simply because she held pro-refugee and pro-EU views. This awful event has shaken the British people rigid. Attempts to wave off any connection between the shooter and far-right groups, let alone the Brexit camp, and to characterise him as merely “mentally disturbed”, have, it seems to us at least, failed. Just as the Farage poster offended the British sense of fair play, at least for some people, so the assassination of Jo Cox has driven home to many how divisive and ugly the whole EU debate has become. Families have descended into recriminations, lifetime friends have fallen out with each other, and there have been multiple examples of violent fractiousness from all over the country.
The British people have now had more than enough of this unpleasant debate, which was foisted on them by a bitterly divided Conservative Party and a weak and vacillating Prime minister, and they heartily wish to be rid of it.
Staring down the barrel at what could be years of a messy dis-integration from Europe starts to look like a very poor option to a majority.
In 24 hours, Europe will be calmer again. With Britain inside it, and by then, presumably, permanently.
In case we forget just how significant today is.
Posted: June 8, 2016 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: Clinton, Democratic Party, Democrats, election 2016, first female nominee, Next US Presidential election, Presidential election 2016
Like her, love her, idolise her, mistrust her. That’s not what today’s post is about.
Please spare us “she’s a witch/she’s a God”. She is neither. She’s just a very hard working, driven, senior politician, with all the faults and foibles and strengths and pluses and minuses which that implies.
What she is, without question, is the first female major party nominee for President since American Independence. And that, in itself, is hugely noteworthy. And she should be praised for crashing through that particular glass ceiling, just as Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Corazon Aquino, Julia Gillard and even Isabel Peron did before her. In doing so, she empowers women everywhere to strive for the top – to strive to be the best they can be.
Our opinions on these women will vary dramatically. That’s not the point. In rising to the position she has in one of the most small-C conservative countries in the world, Hillary Clinton’s achievement should be praised. The American election has been dragging on so long, and Hillary is such a familiar figure, that it’s easy to forget that she is blazing a trail for others.
So well done, her. Let it be noted.
Why Donald Trump can’t win in November. It’s the Hispanics, stupid.
Posted: June 7, 2016 in Political musings
Tags: Democrats, election 2016, election predictions, GOP, Hispanic vote, Hispanics, Republicans, Trump, US Presidential Election
We have long tried to explain to the more breathless of our right wing friends in America why Trump can secure the Republican nomination easily and still get trounced in a match up with the Democrats.
This article from Anthony Zurcher of the BBC does a better job than we could.
Donald Trump’s Hispanic voter ‘doomsday’
Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente should probably be a Republican. The walls in the lobby of his San Diego, California, office are dominated by photos in which he’s smiling alongside Republicans – Presidents Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush and George W Bush, and 2008 nominee John McCain.
He’s donated thousands of dollars to Republican politicians over the past several decades.
When the self-made millionaire talks about government meddling in private industry – his car dealerships, currency exchange stores and real estate ventures – he takes a page right out of the Republican playbook.
“In my business 30% is owned by the United States government and 10% is owned by the state of California. I didn’t pick them as partners, but they sure know how to mess in my business,” Mr De La Fuente says. “It appears that the more people are trying to be productive, the more government tries to disrupt.”
The Rocky De L Fuentes of the world ought to have been easy pickings for a Republican Party whose leaders just over three years ago acknowledged that they were facing a demographic doomsday scenario if they didn’t broaden their appeal to the growing numbers of Hispanic voters.
Because of population growth rates, if the Republican presidential candidate won the same percentage of the Hispanic vote in 2016 as nominee Mitt Romney did in 2012 (27%), according to a study by Republican strategists, he would have to win 64% of the white vote. No Republican has done that since Ronald Reagan’s re-election landslide in 1984.
Hispanic and white voting percentages for Republicans
2012 Mitt Romney reiceved 27% of the Hispanic vote and 59% of the white vote
2008 John McCain received 31% of the Hispanic vote and 55% of the white vote
2004 George W Bush received 44% of the Hispanic vote and 58% of the white vote
(Cornell Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)
An even more daunting estimate, from UCLA researchers, finds that if Mr Trump wins the same percentage of the white vote that Mr Romney did (59%) he would have to carry 47% of the Hispanic vote – a number only George W Bush in 2004 approached.
If the party were to thrive, Republican National Committee analysts wrote in their 2012 post-mortem, they would have to find a way to make their party more welcoming to minority voters – particularly Hispanics. Immigration reform should be a priority. Outreach efforts must be improved. Off-putting rhetoric should be adjusted.
Instead the party nominated Donald Trump. And a few months after Mr Trump launched his presidential campaign with a sweeping condemnation of a Mexican nation that he said allows its drug-dealers and rapists to enter the US, Mr De La Fuente – who was born in the US but grew up and attended university in Mexico – announced he was also running for president.
As a Democrat.
Since then Mr De La Fuente has used his personal fortune to get on the ballot in dozens of states and has received nearly 60,000 votes – good enough for fourth place behind Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.
Mr De La Fuente may be an unusual man with an unusual reaction to Mr Trump’s calls for mass deportation of undocumented Hispanic immigrants and a wall on the US-Mexico border, but his actions reflect the high price the Republican Party is paying for embracing Mr Trump.
“Trump needs to be stopped at all costs,” Mr De La Fuente says, repeatedly referring to the Republican by his derogatory Spanish nickname, “pelos del elote” (corn hair).
“The United States was founded by immigrants who were trying to leave Europe because they had rulers who were making a mockery of people’s rights,” he continues. “That’s why we created the Constitution of the US.”
He says that while Mr Trump treats undocumented immigrants as a menace, he views them as assets.
“There’s 12 million immigrants currently in the US, with or without papers, with or without the right to be here,” Mr De La Fuente says. “I did not ask them to be here. But they’re here, and they’re doing the work other people don’t want to do.”
Doomsday arrives
The animosity of Hispanic voters – 77% of whom have a negative view of Mr Trump according to a March national poll – is a development that has Republican Party officials increasingly concerned.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Mr Trump could be damaging the Republican Party among Hispanic voters the same way 1964 Republican nominee Barry Goldwater’s stand against civil rights legislation led to generations of blacks moving to the Democratic Party.
“It did define our party, for at least African-American voters, and it still does today,”he told a television interviewer. “That was a complete shift that occurred that year, and we’ve never be able to get them back.”
Hector Barajas, a Republican strategist from California, agrees. He’s seen record numbers of Hispanics register to vote in his state over the past few months – an indication that Mr Trump’s rhetoric could drive unprecedented turnout among this voting bloc.
“Elections are about addition and multiplication, not subtraction and division,” he says. “And as long as you have divisive language, you’re making it more difficult not just for yourself to win but for other individuals who are also campaigning, whether you are running for Senate or congressional seats or even down the line for city council.”
Barajas co-founded Grow Elect in 2011, an organisation that recruits and trains Hispanic Republicans in California to enter politics. He says Mr Trump is making the task increasingly difficult, as Hispanics in the US wonder why their ethnicity is being singled out for Mr Trump’s opprobrium.
“Here you have a group of individuals that are willing to come to this country, work as hard as we work, join in the military, work the long hours just to try to provide a better place for our family and for our society,” Barajas says. “Yet at the same time they’re targeted with this type of language which is very divisive.”
California redux
Barajas should know about the political dangers of words and policies that can be branded as anti-Hispanic. He had a front-row seat in the 1990s, when Proposition 187 – a state ballot measure that sought to deny government benefits, including healthcare and public schooling, to undocumented workers and their children – helped cement the views of Latino voters there against the Republican Party.
“With Proposition 187 you had a very strong campaign that seemed to blame a lot of the ills of California on Hispanics,” Barajas says. “You’re looking at two generations that have been lost because of that rhetoric.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only Republican to win statewide election in California since 1994.
The initiative passed in 1994 with 59% of the vote and was credited with helping Republican Governor Pete Wilson win re-election – but it was eventually overturned by the courts. And the only Republican to win a statewide race in California since then was Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a quirky 2003 special election following Democratic Governor Gray Davis’s recall,
The spectre of 187 is still used in elections to this day – as Democrats try to paint Republicans, and even some fellow Democrats, as sympathetic to those efforts in the 1990s.
For California Republicans, Barajas says, the tragedy is that they were just starting to put the damage from past battles behind them by focusing on an economic message that could unite a diverse electorate.
“In California, we have a tremendous amount of new jobs that have been created,” he said. “But a lot of these jobs are part time and they pay lower wages, and they don’t have health insurance or they tend to be in service or in retail. That doesn’t do much to provide a leg up for families.”
Instead, the Republican Party is left playing defence – in California and in essential general-election battleground states with large Hispanic populations, like Florida, Nevada, Virginia and Colorado.
Barajas worries that even traditionally conservative states like Texas and Arizona could be fertile terrain for Democrats.
Trump undaunted
If the electoral reality confronting the Republican Party is clear, it hasn’t changed Mr Trump’s views – or his rhetoric.
“We are going to have a strong border, and we are going to have a wall,” Mr Trump said at a rally in California last week. “And you know who is going to pay for the wall? Who?”
“Mexico!” the crowd shouted in reply.
“One hundred percent,” Trump said. “Not even a question.”
Mr Trump has caught particular heat over the past few days after he highlighted the ethnicity of Gonzalo Curiel, the US-born Indiana judge who is presiding over the fraud case against the now defunct for-profit Trump University.
The judge, Mr Trump said, has a conflict of interest because he is the son of Mexican immigrants.
“We’re building a wall,” Mr Trump said in a television interview. “He’s a Mexican.”
The comments have been criticised by Mr Trump’s fellow Republicans and featured in a Clinton attack video.
Raul Grijalva, a Democratic Congressman from Arizona, says that Mr Trump’s comments are the latest example of his strategy to use the Mexican-American community “as a foil”.
“Trump is playing his Trump card in this election, and that is to introduce a level of racism in this race that continues to frighten people and he hopes drive supporters to his side,” he says. “It is a rhetoric and strategy that further divides this country, and it’s not good for anybody.”
Congressman Raul Grijalva says Donald Trump is trying to win votes by using Mexican-Americans as a foil
He doesn’t see a way the Republican Party can avoid a long-term electoral disaster from Mr Trump’s campaign.
“The Republican leadership has become like the Vichy French,” he says. “They’ve kind of given up.”
Efforts to get Mr Trump to moderate his tone are “clearly not working right now,” Republican Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona said on Monday.
Unlike most senior Republican officeholders, Mr Flake has yet to fall in line behind his party’s nominee. At this point, the #NeverTrump movement is on life support, and the Arizona senator’s words are tinged with resignation not resistance.
Mr Trump’s remarks on Curiel were offensive, he said, and “if he doesn’t change, we’re in big trouble”.
While America heads to the bottom of the swamp with its political leadership, Justin Trudeau carries man in wheelchair down stairs.
Posted: April 22, 2016 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: America, Canada, election 2016, Justin Trudeau, Liberal Democrats, Liberal Party of Canada
Canadian Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in a Montreal Metro station Wednesday and took part in a random act of kindness when a person with a disability was having difficulties because of a broken down escalator.
Like everything he has done so far, very classy. Note, this is not a semi-official “photo op”. The snap was taken by a passer by and posted on Twitter.
Americans are apparently so impressed with Trudeau’s leadership of his country that many are begging him to come South and run for President. Apart from that being a legal impossibility, we strongly suspect he’d have more sense.
And Liberals in the UK, still smarting from electoral near-destruction, view him as something akin to a Messiah. Especially as he took his party from third to winning a majority in one leap. A move is afoot to get him to address their autumn conference in Brighton later in the year.
Good looking, charismatic, humble, compassionate, well-educated. Little wonder women in particular find his allure almost irresistible. This is the man, remember, who almost single-handedly re-set the public debate about countries taking in Syrian refugees fleeing the conflict, and just last week spontaneously explained quantum computing to a smart-arse journalist.
His father was a remarkable man. It looks like the son is even more so.
“We should have seen this coming”. What’s wrong with America? This is what’s wrong with America.
Posted: March 16, 2016 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: democracy versus fascism, election 2016, fascism, Libertarians, Rubio, Tea Party, the right in America, Trump
Not his time. But just maybe, it’s time for us all to be very concerned.
In that curious vignette that seems to happen so often when politicians lose an election or end their careers, Marco Rubio finally managed to say something really important as he suspended his presidential campaign in a heartfelt speech on Tuesday night American time, after suffering a crushing defeat to Donald Trump in Rubio’s home state of Florida.
As he has throughout the campaign, but to little effect from an electorate who had been alternately energised into brute opposition or listless apathy, Rubio spent much of the speech wrestling with the implications of Donald Trump’s rise in the Republican Party.
“America is in the middle of a real political storm, a real tsunami. And we should have seen this coming,” Rubio said. “Look, people are angry and people are really frustrated.”
While not mentioning Trump’s name, Rubio attacked the Republican frontrunner and called for a more inclusive party that’s “built on principles and ideas, not on anger, not on preying on people’s frustrations.”
“Tonight, while it’s clear that while we are on the right side this year, we will not be on the winning side,” Rubio said.
Rubio, as we have been saying for some years, is absolutely right. The Republican Party has been captured by a coalition of discontents, that first reared their head way back in the early 1960s, who reject the general consensus at the core of American politics that America is essentially a well-governed, mixed economy with a balance of private and public enterprise, and an internationalist outlook, a consensus that had held in place since long before the Second World War.
These discontents span a variety of motivations and types.
The new American revolution
On the one hand, we have the extreme free marketeers – the right wing small government libertarians that have made a virtue of damning central government as inevitably incompetent, if not corrupt, and for whom a Democratic administration is automatically to be opposed at every turn (even if it creates national gridlock) because the Democratic party believes in wielding Government’s levers of power, where the libertarians believe those levers should essentially be abolished.
Driven by a tiny, minority economic view and a perfectionist view of what constitutes individual freedom, which purports to be as anti-Republican as it is anti-Democrats, but which invariably feeds support to the right in reality, they want nothing more nor less than a re-writing of the social and political compact for the American Republic, and all existing power structures are fair game.
Because of their fundamental opposition to both taxation and public expenditure, they find it impossible to even acknowledge, for example, that Obama has done a credible job of slowing the growth of public debt, and has been a fiscal conservative compared to previous administrations.
Nothing Obama could have done would elicit a cheer from them to balance their continual, canting scepticism. He could have run a Federal government surplus and they would complain that was merely gathering funds for future irresponsibility.
Instead, they argue fiercely that Government itself is the problem, which is always reduced in populist terminology to”Washington”, largely ignoring the huge levels of both public debt, and expenditure, by State Governments and local Government, for example. Because no one ever bothers to check the facts – and don’t even believe them when they are presented to them – the assumption is that their criticisms are valid, and they gain traction in the wider debate sphere even though they represent a tiny fringe movement as far as economic thinking goes.
The second major grouping are the “Tea Party” rightists, who ape the libertarian’s concerns about tax and spending but without any real intellectual rigour behind their position and really have no alternative to propose to the current system beyond wanting a tax cut and savagely cutting expenditure and – with a strong streak of Protestant work ethicism – assuming that everyone in sight is not working hard enough to improve their lot.
Whilst enjoying common cause with the libertarians they are a distinct group because they are limited in their effectiveness by their essential incoherence: they have little vision of a future besides knowing in their bones that they dislike the present.
In America, this grouping is also overtly involved in two related but non-economic issues.
They are fervently pro-guns and pro-evangelical Christianity, and their religiosity is very often focused on their opposition to legal abortion. They are the hunters and shooters and the religious right organised into a loosely co-ordinated grassroots movement that is larger than the sum of its parts in publicity terms, but less effective as a co-ordinated organisational force as different parts of its base get turned on by different things.
The movement is also extremely American exceptionalist and internationally isolationist in its outlook.
Thus, these are people who simultaneously believe that America should not be involving itself in overseas wars, but should nevertheless be “kicking the shit out of” whoever opposes American hegemony at any one time.
The incompatibility of these goals, which go back to the later 1930s in their genesis, is never tackled. The same crowd that chants “USA! USA!” when an Osama bin Laden is killed will, in the blink of an eye, be waving its fists and bitching and moaning that their taxes are so high – a vast amount of which, of course, go to maintain America’s ludicrously bloated military services, but they perceive no irony in that – and they will also complain furiously that any American defeat is the result of a Government that doesn’t know what it’s doing, instead of a perfectly natural and concomitant price to be paid for endless overseas adventurism.
In short, the Tea Party is a badly organised and illogical anti-politics populist front.
The third group are what we call the “Ultra Anti Democrats”. These people are not just anti the Democratic Party, or even anti the conservative central managerial structure of the Republican Party, but they are anti the very concept of American democracy as it functions now. For them, their view of the American dream is that it has turned, emphatically, into a nightmare.
In effect, they have simply lost faith entirely in the efficacy of the system to address their woes.
And their woes are essentially (a) we have no job, (b) we can’t afford the lifestyle dream we have been sold, (c) we are disconnected and unsupported, (c) other people get all the benefits, we get none, (d) politicians are lazy, feckless, untrustworthy and corrupt, and (e) we’re “mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more”.
The worldwide appeal of populism
Importantly, in order to understand precisely what “we should have seen coming”, we need to examine these people. This latter group of voters transcend traditional party dividing lines, and they are simply not amenable to a fractured and incompetent central governmental system seeking to mollify them.
They are very largely working class, poorly (not tertiary) educated, they have rarely (if ever) travelled outside their home area, (and certainly not overseas), and they only consume media that plays to their frustrations.
And there’s one simple reason why they are not amenable to mollification.
Their complaints are very often justified.
(We will return to this point further down the article.)
The danger is, of course, that this complete disgust with the status quo makes them ripe pickings for any populist politician without a core plan to fix things for them, but with a good understanding of what ails them, and the ability to translate that into easily-consumed slogans. And indeed, if they can deliver those slogans in a strangled and muddled syntax that emphasises their outsider status, then so much the better. “Look!” says the lightning rod candidate, “I am as incoherent as you are! Vote for me!”
We can see this “anti intellectualism” and “anti politics politics” being repeated all over the world, in the popularity of parties (and most importantly, individual leaders) that seek to leverage the discontent without addressing the causes of it, and entirely careless of the long-term effect of doing so.
Piero Ignazi divided right-wing populist parties, which he called “extreme right parties”, into two categories: traditional right-wing parties that had developed out of the historical right, and post-industrial parties that had developed independently. He placed the British National Party, the National Democratic Party of Germany, the German People’s Union and the former Dutch Centre Party in the first category, whose prototype would be the disbanded Italian Social Movement; the French National Front, the German Republicans, the Dutch Centre Democrats, the former Belgian Vlaams Blok (which would include certain aspects of traditional extreme right parties), the Danish Progress Party, the Norwegian Progress Party and the Freedom Party of Austria in the second category.
Right-wing populist parties in the English-speaking world include the UK Independence Party, Australia’s One Nation – although that has now mainly been supplanted by a consolidated hard right faction in the ruling Liberal Party, just as UKIP have been outflanked by concessions made to Eurosceptics in the British Conservative Party – and New Zealand First.
And in the ultimate irony, the success of the anti-austerity Syriza party in Greece is an example of the exactly similar phenomenon on the other side of politics.
The role of immigration in this movement
Importantly, especially in the historical context, most of these parties have an overt or coded anti-immigration stance. It is the one core strand that unites and binds nearly all populist movements.
They blame someone else for the mess. And immigration (or the demonisation of a minority group) is the easiest target of all, because immigration is both the least understood economic factor in our societies and simultaneously one of the most easily noticed.
If there is one thing that unites the Tea Party supporters and the Ultra Anti-Democrats it is that they are furious about immigration, and anti-immigrant rhetoric excites them to fervour. “Look at these immigrants taking our jobs!” they cry, “Chewing up our welfare payments, living in our houses, not speaking our language!”, and on and on it goes.
Make those immigrants from a non white Anglo-Saxon background – call them “Muslims”, for example – and the rhetoric becomes almost unstoppably powerful.
This has always been how fascism happens, from the slaughter of the Hugenots in France in 1572, through to the murderous fascist, statist regimes of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. Someone else is always the cause of the problem.
In social studies, “Othering” is the term used by some to describe a system of discrimination whereby the characteristics of a group are used to distinguish them as separate from the norm.
Othering plays a fundamental role in the history and continuation of racism. To objectify a culture as something different, exotic or underdeveloped is to generalise that it is not like ‘normal’ society.
Europe’s colonial attitude towards Africa and the Orient exemplifies this.
It was thought that the East, for example was the opposite of the West; it was feminine where the West was masculine, weak where the West was strong and traditional where the West was progressive. By making these generalizations and othering the East, Europe was simultaneously defining herself as the norm, further entrenching the gap.
Africa in its turn was violent, tribal, feckless, disorganised, and uncivil where Europe was the opposite. (Precisely what the Africans thought of the tribal nature of Europe as demonstrated in, for example, 1914-1918 was never asked, of course, but we digress.)
Much of the process of “othering” relies on imagined difference, or the expectation of difference. Spatial difference alone can be enough to conclude that “we” are “here” and the “others” are over “there”. Imagined differences serve to categorise people into groups and assign them characteristics that suit the imaginer’s expectations.
But the problem with anti-immigration rhetoric, of course, apart from its inherently nonsensical nature, is that it is based on an essentially flawed economic model.
Because as the OECD have noted:
Migrants accounted for 47% of the increase in the workforce in the United States and 70% in Europe over the past ten years.
Migrants fill important niches both in fast-growing and declining sectors of the economy.
Like the native-born, young migrants are better educated than those nearing retirement.
Migrants contribute significantly to labour-market flexibility, notably in Europe.
The public purse
Migrants contribute more in taxes and social contributions than they receive in benefits.
Labour migrants have the most positive impact on the public purse.
Employment is the single biggest determinant of migrants’ net fiscal contribution.
Migration boosts the working-age population.
Migrants arrive with skills and contribute to human capital development of their receiving countries.
Migrants also contribute to technological progress.
Understanding these impacts is important if our societies are to usefully debate the role of migration. Such debates, in turn, are essential to designing policies in areas like education and employment that maximise the benefits of migration, especially by improving migrants’ employment situation.
This policy mix will, of course, vary from country to country. But the fundamental question of how to maximise the benefits of migration, both for host countries and the migrants themselves, needs to be addressed by many OECD countries in coming decades, especially as rapid population ageing increases demand for migrants to make up shortfalls in the workforce.
The great failure of politics in America today (and elsewhere) is that no one has had the political will to address the legitimate complaints of the disenfranchised, but with facts, and with ideas.
For example: if one is living in a sector of the economy, or a geographic location, with mass unemployment – say 10% or greater – then one has a perfectly legitimate complaint that the “system” isn’t working. Not for them, at least.
One of the basic roles of any governmental system must be the provision of a balanced, stable economic environment that provides enough work to satisfy the essential needs of the mass of the people. But employment is a stubborn problem to fix as it relies on expanding the economic activity of the state.
Ironically, this is one reason that fascist governments immediately embark on grandiose public works spending to create employment – it is to satisfy the hunger of their natural supporters for work and wages. Such Governments invariably rely on either conquest or domination of other societies in order to fund such largesse, or the forced exploitation of natural assets by the underclass, as nothing else fills the financial gap. Coming soon to your neighbourhood – the Trump Highway to nowhere.
Basically, such regimes either eventually invade next door, or send their population down the mines.
How much more durable, and effective, it would be to explain to the un- or under-employed that immigration actually boosts economic activity (the studies are virtually unanimous and incontrovertible) and they they, too, will benefit from this growing of the overall pie.
The problem is, those arguments are somewhat esoteric, and the mass of politicians simply do not attempt them in a media environment where a mindless soundbite and appeal to prejudice works faster and possibly better, and where those in the media demonstrate the same inability to understand the thrust of the argument as the public does.
The elite thus fails to make the case against populism, and as night follows day, populism invariably sweeps it aside.
So much for jobs and immigration. Let’s return to the Ultra Anti’s list of complaints.
(b) we can’t afford the lifestyle dream we have been sold,
(c) we are disconnected and unsupported,
(c) other people get all the benefits, we get none,
(d) politicians are lazy, feckless, untrustworthy and corrupt, and
(e) we’re “mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more”.
It’s very easy to see, again, how the elite genuinely have failed this group.
Until the 1960s, the expectation of what constituted a “happy” life – a fulfilled life, a successful life – was much more limited in its horizons than since the social revolution that swept the world in that decade. The growth of consumerism in the sixties, matched to the new ability of TV to emotionally communicate the rewards of luxury and comfort, has vastly up-rated our view of what is both valuable and normal. We should all be tertiary educated. Every family member must have an automobile. The home must be crammed with every possible labour-saving device. Holidays should be regular and fully-catered. We should all live way past our previous life expectancy with premium health care and comfortable, funded retirement. Entertainment, both in-home and out-of home should be continuous and constantly improving. And so on, and so on.
Some commentators and candidates have called this “the American dream”, or “Morning in America”, or various other platitudes. Very few – and certainly no successful ones – have had to courage to say “You know what? We f****d up. We didn’t realise that we couldn’t keep endlessly expanding the size of the economy. You need to get used to the idea that you might not be able to get everything you want handed to you on a plate. You might not be able to afford it. Times have changed.” In fact, quite the opposite. The media elite, aided and abetted by their supine acolytes in politics, constantly promote and celebrate ever more garish celebrity lifestyles, which are held up as an example of what can be achieved. When it proves entirely impossible for “ordinary people” to mimic those lifestyles, even minimally in some cases, they completely understandably become restless and disenchanted.
Disconnected and unsupported? They certainly are.
We no longer live in villages where people know our business and we know theirs, and people rally round in times of trouble or distress. Most people dont even know their neighbours’ names. And expenditure on Government’s attempts to create “community” through social services, healthcare and other levers are the very first “soft” items to be stripped from spending budgets.
We have an entire underclass now cast adrift from support that we thought – wrongly – would always characterise a “modern” society. The state was expected to step into the breach and “help”, where previously communities would have done it for themselves. It did, partially, for a while, but inefficiently, and expensively. Our staggering inability to attune Government activity (at all levels) to the legitimate aspirations of ordinary folk is a failure that all politicians, of all political skews, need to “own”. It’s not excessive for people to expect their kids to go to school in buildings that aren’t falling down, where they are protected and safe, and where they achieve a minimum level of development. It’s not unreasonable to want to live in a town with properly maintained roads and pavements, where one sees a tree from time to time, where the very fabric of society is not crumbling around us. And it is completely fair to assume that if one falls through the cracks of life – whether in terms of health, or marital discord, or violence, or financial – then SOMEONE will be there, not to offer a handout, but a hand up.
Instead, we demonise the underclass and provide it with fewer and fewer ways of fixing things up for themselves. Not only do we not offer a hand up, we surround all activity to address personal or communal disconnectedness with such a mind-numbing and stultifying collection of rules and regulations that even if people want to help themselves, they can’t. Not unsurprisingly, the people rail against such an arrangement, and those in power ignore their pleas.
Someone else gets all the benefits? Well, there is benefit fraud, to be sure, and a sensationalist media does an excellent job of publicising it.
But in reality, benefits are set at a much lower level than people realise (even in the benefit-rich societies of Western Europe, and certainly in America and Australia) and benefits are generally handed out parsimoniously and sparingly. What is truly sickening is that politicians find it easier to go along with the “unmarried mother with six kids lives in a penthouse on your taxes” stories than they do to make one very simple point – without a social support structure, people cannot get back into work, cannot fix their addiction problems, cannot successfully re-enter the community having paid their debt to society in prison, cannot deal with mental illness, and a hundred other barriers to full participation, without a bit of judicious guidance and help.
The result of that guidance and help – just as the result, for example, of a healthier and better educated society – is greater productivity. Greater wealth to go round. Why does not one frame the discussion of social support in those terms? You tell us. In our view, simple cowardice is the answer.
Politicians are lazy, feckless, untrustworthy and corrupt? Well, that’s half the problem, right there, isn’t it? How can anyone seriously argue that they are not, when time after time they are clearly shown to be exactly that? The complaints of the governed against the mindless yahoo-ism, corruption and rank incompetence of those we elect to rule us are bitterly and utterly justified.
The great tragedy is that many politicians are well-meaning, hard-working, and “clean”. But in continually demonising them (as we just did, right there, and be honest: your head was nodding, too) we make it impossible to see through the fog of despair that clouds our opinion of their performance and their motives.
The elite places no pressure on itself to perform more creditably. To speak more plainly, To deal more honestly. To resist baleful external influences more firmly. Just as one example, whenever campaign finance reform is seriously mooted in America it is simply howled down. Corporations are people, remember. They have rights. No responsibilities – except to their stock holders – but they have rights. Pffft.
Faced with no leadership worth the name, the people are very, very angry indeed at the turn of events. And those who would exploit that anger are in the ascendancy, flirting with an increasingly rabid populace with terrifying disregard of the consequences of unleashing their anger on the very institutions of society, and our fellow citizens. Our response should be evidence-based, principled answers to the legitimate concerns they have. Instead, we are flinging up barricades and passing out scythes and pitchforks.
Morning in America? More like a deeply darkening dusk. And those with torches to mark our way back from the brink are too cowed to light them.
Quite right, Marco Rubio. You should have seen this coming. But you – along with your cynical, power-hungry colleagues – tried to ride the wave rather than break it up. To mix our metaphors, you grabbed a tiger by the tail, and now it’s well and truly turned back to bite you.
So thanks for your words – finally – but also, frankly, shame on you.
It’s not morning in America. We just hope it’s not goodnight.
Trump deserves every single meme generated. But what is really interesting is the new social media-driven dynamic.
Posted: March 4, 2016 in Political musings, Popular Culture et al
Tags: America, American media, anti-politics politics, Donald Trump, election 2016, fascism, GOP, memes, Presidential election 2016, reality TV, Republican debate, Trump
We love presidential election year in the USA, but this year it is especially rewarding for all election freaks with the universal excitement/horror at the elevation of Donald Trump to current front runner in the Republican stakes.
As we have opined as recently as yesterday, the Trump phenomenon is really not new – we have seen it all before – although never with such a marked disrespect from any major candidate for either facts, analysis, talent, civility, truthfulness or knowledge.
The hard fact that everyone has to bite down on is that Trump is, in truth, a classic fascist populist – an “anti politics politician” – and whilst that may play well with the disenchanted and ignorant, and it is also evidenced in election results elsewhere in the world – it is extremely dangerous for the fabric of democracy and the civil good.
He is the end product of a country that has dumbed down its civil discourse to a level far below where it has ever been before, and where “entertainment” is now generally little more than the endlessly mindless repetition of idiotic reality TV shows and celebrity-for-celebrity’s-sake. Cheap, stupid pap. Donald Trump is the archetypal candidate for a society where cheap, stupid pap is the new normal.
Yet despite our distaste for what he represents, we see him, essentially, as a paper man – simply incapable of winning a general election. (Mind you, they said the same about Hitler.)
And sure, those who adore him (or the mindless celebrity and nihilism he represents) are merely further driven to greater ecstasies of pleasure when he is attacked and exposed.
But attacked and exposed he is, and frequently it is not the organised political establishment that is rearing up – although belatedly it now is – but rather it is social media that is doing the attacking.
Social media – the rise and rise of interested or concerned individuals expressing their opinions directly to other individuals, singly, in the tens or hundreds, or sometimes in the thousands and even millions – is the great leveller in this election, and, we suspect, all future elections, everywhere. It talks to everyone, not just ironed on supporters of one party or another, and thus its reach is impressive and significant.
Here are a few of favourites from today. We are looking forward to the GOP debate later to see just how vitriolic the Republican mutual slaughter will become. We suspect, very bloody indeed. As we have said to supporters of the right in America for years, “be careful what you wish for”. Well, this is what you wished for.
Pass the popcorn.
Marco Rubio. Liar. And lying in a way that could cruel his chances.
Posted: February 29, 2016 in Political musings
Tags: America, Cuba, election 2016, GOP, immigration, making up history, Marco Rubio, Presidential election 2016, Republicans, right wing, Rubio lies, US, usa
On this basis alone, Rubio should be ejected from the race for President. Only in America could such blatant lying and hypocrisy be laughed off.
Marco Rubio And his family lied about escaping Castro in the 1950s — it simply never happened. What follows is from “Addicting Info”.
Marco Rubio’s staff had to exit the building they were working in when the senator began smoking from the trouser region. Alarms and sprinklers were set off, leading to an investigation the fire chief was able to dismiss as a self-inflicted “liar, liar pants on fire” moment.
The incident happened when Rubio, who tells a wonderful story about how his parents came to the United States to escape the Castro regime, meaning they would have come in 1959.
Unfortunately, records have proven, and Rubio has himself admitted, that the actual date his parents migrated to Miami was 1956. In 1956, Castro was still living and plotting from Mexico. He wasn’t even in Cuba yet.
So why the discrepancy? Rubio says he was passing along the family’s “oral history.”
Yes, oral history. That’s when you don’t like your family’s actual history, so you make something up. That’s like someone’s antecedents landing in New Hampshire, but since nobody cares about anything in the 1620s but Plymouth, saying they’re now a direct descendent of the Mayflower … according to oral history. Phew … that was easy.
Rubio’s ridiculous answer fits in with the motif of the Republican party of lies, beat ups and exaggerations. WHat Carly Fiorina, before her political demise, called “politics is a fact free zone”. Or if something doesn’t make sense, ignore it until it just goes away.
Rubio comes along with his “I appeal to Latinos” mentality, some of which is a direct result of the lies he told. But how much will those same Latinos respect his “plight” when they learn Rubio’s parents came here voluntarily, not on a raft as refugees escaping life in prison or worse.
How will it fit the GOP’s virulently anti-immigrant ethos when they work out that the Rubios the country and asked to start working and were shown a straighforward path to citizenship.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with that story. It’s a similar story to almost every family if you go back to their first generation. But for some reason, Marco Rubio and his family needed to add things that never happened to their lives for effect.
At Wellthisiwhatithink, we suspect people will increasingly be asking him why.
PS Once you start digging, it’s interesting what you find. According to Mother Jones things get even messier: According to a Rubio biographyby Washington Post reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia, Rubio’s grandfather Pedro Victor Garcia was an illegal immigrant to the United States.
Disillusioned by his financial prospects, Garcia reportedly left the United States for Cuba two weeks after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. He flew back to the States two years later without a visa…and was booked by a US immigration official, who stated: “[Y]ou do not appear to me to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to enter the United States.”
Garcia was ordered deported, but instead he hung out illegally in Miami, resurfacing in 1967 to petition for permanent residency. Even though Garcia had been in the US since 1962, “The form he filled out then states that he had been a Cuban refugee since February 1965,” according to Roig-Franzia.
Political advertising F*** Up. Times two.
Posted: February 17, 2016 in Business Management, Humour, Political musings
Tags: America, American politics, Bush, election 2016, F*** Up, F*** Ups, GOP, humor, humour, mistakes in campaigning, political advertising, Republicans, Rubio, URLs, US, Vancouver, websites
We do love a good F*** Up, as you know, Dear Reader. Mostly (as it’s the business we are in) we have concerned ourselves with glaring errors in commercial advertising, packaging, signs and so on. But with #election2016 in full swing, it’s the pollies in America that are now making some classic mistakes. Such fun.
Case History #1
It’s really very important, peeps, that you keep your website URL registrations up to date. Not like dear old Jeb Bush, who in keeping with his bumbling campaign for President forgot to keep the registration current of jebbush.com. So Donald Trump grabbed the registration and simply re-directed it his website. D’oh!
Smart move by Trump, as there is an increasing trend for people not to link to websites from online advertising, or even to Google the correct link, but simply to type in what they assume to be the right URL. In America people normally assume that’s the name plus “dot com”, in Australia name plus “dot com dot au”, in the UK name plus “Dot co dot uk” and so on.
People in each domain “learn” their local suffix and assume that’s what the URL will be. Well done Trump and his staff (the only time we expect you’ll ever hear us say that) and big black mark for Bush. Not the last time we’ll say that. (Telling his audience to “clap now” the other day wasn’t all that smart, either.)
Hilarious mistake by Marco Rubio’s campaign.
His latest ad opens with the line, “It’s morning again in America,” but the ad actually features the Vancouver skyline and harbour, The Vancouver Sun gleefully reported Monday. The newspaper points out that the three seconds of stock footage features Harbour Centre, One Wall Centre and the Port Metro Vancouver cranes.
“It’s unmistakably Vancouver,” the Sun wrote.
The tugboat also features a Canadian flag, according to BuzzFeed News, who first flagged the footage on Monday.
The size and length of the ad buy was not immediately clear. But Vancouver-based videographer Guy Chavasse told CBC News on Monday that he shot the scene last August.
“It’s pretty funny, isn’t it?” he told the CBC. “It’s a good-looking video, no doubt, but it’s pretty recognisable as Vancouver.”
Chavasse estimated the campaign paid $80 for his footage. He also said he’s not a “Republican fan” or Rubio supporter.
Well, if it isn’t morning again in America, at least it’s morning again in Canada, eh?
So dumb it fair takes yer breath away.
For more F*** Ups, from all spheres of public communication, just go to the search box top left of this page and type in F*** Up. Then sit back and enjoy. Innocent fun for all the family. Well, not so innocent really.
PS We have promised various correspondents that we will faithfully report any F*** Ups from the Democratic side of politics, fearlessly reporting Hillary or Bernie burying their heads in a passing bucket of ordureful incompetence. But of course we know that won’t happen, because Democrats are incredibly clever and skillful and unicorns are real and so is magic fairy dust.
Iowa: Results coming in. Yes, we were spot on. Well, almost.
Posted: February 2, 2016 in Political musings
Tags: America, American politics, Clinton, Cruz, Democrats, election 2016, GOP, Iowa result, religion in politics, Republicans, Sanders, Trump, usa
OK, well, Ted Cruz just beat Donald Trump, especially supported by country voters and died-in-the-wool conservatives, as we proposed was a possibility.
If there is one area where we could consider our prediction lacking it is that Trump’s result was really rather poor by expected standards, and given his demeanour afterwards, lower than he and his team expected. Whilst Cruz was always a possibility to win, Trump looked the more likely until perhaps a few hours ago. Clearly there’s been a late swing against Trump, possibly because Cruz’s “ground game” was better. Cruz actually criticised Trump’s “fly in fly out” campaigning recently, and it looks as though those comments have been justified.
It may also well be the case that skipping the last GOP debate has counted very badly against Trump, with his decision seen as petulant and whiny.
Moving along … third place getter Marco Rubio IS the story of the night as we predicted. The charismatic young man can genuinely claim to be the real winner on the night having been a long way behind the front runners until recently. Clearly the “oxygen” of publicity has done him no harm at all and his vote is right about the upper limit of where we suggested it would be. The charismatic, good looking Floridian is determined and will appeal to Latino voters (as will Cruz, but less obviously) which marks him out as attractive to the GOP establishment, who know they cannot win a general election without Latinos. We have been predicting Rubio to take the nomination for some time now, and nothing that has happened today persuades us otherwise.
The Democrat race is incredibly tight between Clinton and Sanders. Possibly within 1%. We did predict Clinton shading it, although in all honesty before publishing we deleted the word “just” before “shading it” as we thought the Clinton’s ground game would see her home, as well as Democrat supporters being concerned that Sanders cannot win a general election.
In one incredible event Clinton and Sanders tied 61 votes each in one precinct – the result, going to Clinton, was settled by a coin toss. How interesting THAT might be in an incredibly close race. Watch the video of that most unusual – and completely legal – event here: https://twitter.com/FernandoPeinado/status/694345745420320768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
As we write – right now – apparently both Clinton and Sanders are about to declare victory, which would be closer than even we imagined. Our money’s still on Clinton.
Whomever finally stumbles over the line, such a tight result cannot be considered good news for Hillary Clinton, and New Hampshire looks an awkward test for her with Sanders polling well there. The Democrat race may trundle on for some time yet – but we still believe Hillary has a lock on the nomination because of her support from the party establishment, super delegates already committed and so on.
Mind you, if a week is a long time in politics, then a few months is an eternity.
Ted Cruz, who was not favoured to win Iowa just a few months ago, is delivering his victory speech.
“God bless the great state of Iowa,” he said. “Tonight is a victory for the grassroots. Tonight is a victory for courageous conservatives across Iowa and across this great nation.”
Amid cheers of “Ted! Ted Ted!” he said his win was a victory for “millions of Americans” who have “shouldered the burden” of seven years of Barack Obama’s policies.
In a comment which will cause raised eyebrows amongst just about anyone but the religious right, he commented: “Our rights come from our creator, not any political party”, he said, citing Bible passages.
Given the determination of America’s founding fathers to create a SECULAR state, those words seem odd, even comical. but there’s no doubt they play well with evangelicals.
Whether they play as well with independents and those Cruz needs to lock in both the nomination and election is a different matter entirely.
This might be the most interesting thing we have heard about Rubio since the results have come out, from David Wasserman at 538.com:
Remarkably, it looks like Rubio may end up winning five of Iowa’s 10 largest counties, and ZERO of Iowa’s other 89 counties. Yet this urban coalition may be his blueprint for victory nationally.
An interesting point, well spotted and well made.
The Iowa caucus result. Before it happens. As always.
Tags: America, Clinton, Cruz, election 2016, Hillary, Iowa caucus, predicting elections, psephology, Sanders, Trump, US politics, usa
We have an enduring fascination with trying to pick election results before they happen.
And we are nearly always spot on, or at the very least, very close.
So here we go.
Turnout will be very high, and will be the first news story of the night.
A high turnout might suggest a sudden last minute surge for Sanders in the Democrat primary, but we believe the Democrat primary will be won by Hillary Clinton, shading the insurgent Sanders. The more overblown predictions of a Sanders victory will, we think, be shown to be wishful thinking by his supporters and progressives generally, as enough Iowans consider who can actually defeat the Republicans in a general election.
In this, Donald “Bogeyman” Trump and the perennially unpleasant Ted Cruz are actually helping the Democrat establishment to encourage people to coalesce around Clinton.
But Sanders will do well amongst students and young people particularly, and cannot be counted out entirely yet.
Of course last time round she got a nasty shock when she surprisingly got beaten by Barrack Obama.
With Iowans, anything’s possible, but the talk afterwards will be, we think, of how the Democrats folded in behind Hillary when push came to shove. Sanders will, however, fight on, so that the Democratic nomination isn’t just a coronation.
On the Republican side we expect Trump to beat Cruz. That said, Cruz will poll more strongly in the evangelical and country areas where a lot of Iowans live, and where caucusing is a particular social and well-regarded event. So don’t discount a win by Cruz, even though we think Trump will do better. You might see a city/country split between these two, which would be interesting in its implications for the whole Republican race and the ultimate general election.
We expect the big story of the night on the right, though, will be a better than expected showing by Marco Rubio, who we think (have thought for some time) has an excellent chance of being the party’s eventual pick. We wouldn’t be at all surprised to see him poll 15-20%, or even, at a pinch, higher. And interestingly Cruz has turned to criticising Rubio in recent days, perhaps a reflection of a calculation that he is leaking votes to him while Trump’s supporters are staying mainly true to him. But this will be the day that Rubio really “arrives”.
And Trump and Cruz? What would they take out of the night when one of them wins?
Well, just ask Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee how much significance winning the Iowa caucuses really has.
Anyhow, that’s our best guess.
We’ll see if we were right soon enough.
Pay close attention to Bremer County. This particular collection of 24,000 Iowans have chosen the right President in the last 9 Presidential elections.
There are any number of good ways to follow the results as they come in, if you are a fellow election tragic. This is one of the better ones, and not being American it will hopefully be a bit less biased and a bit more informative.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/feb/01/iowa-caucus-results-live-county-by-county-interactive-map
OK, so it’s 2016. Now we’re allowed to get into it!
Posted: January 18, 2016 in Political musings
Tags: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump jokes, election 2016, electoral politics, GOP, Hillary Clinton, humor, humour, politics, Republican Party, Republicans, Trump, usa
The current GOP race is something of an un-reality show, frankly.
Aaaaand … we’re back.
Happy New Year everyone, and yes the holiday was lovely, thank you. Will write more on what we saw – and the conclusions we drew – soon.
Meanwhile. So. Here we go.
Welcome to a year of trying to save America from itself.
Beginning with:
No apologies whatsoever for posting partisan stuff.
We will seek to make our political commentary and predictions unbiased, but any sane, rational person must surely campaign against the current crop of Republican candidates.
They are universally awful. Even the RNC is terrified of them.
Even worse, for the health of public discourse, it means that Hillary (and almost certainly it will be Hillary, although Bernie Sanders will have a couple of creditable early results) will have a coronation rather than get elected on her merits or otherwise, and that ain’t good for America, or anyone who respects democratic debate and the great contest of ideas.
Oh, and you heard it here first. Trump will NOT be the Republican nominee. But if by some miracle we are wrong, he simply cannot win a general election. Demographically, he has simply no chance.
Mind you, what damage he will do to both the Republicans and the broader American body politic along the way is another matter.
Of course, the only hell-toupee fake tan machine ever to run for President is generating some good jokes. Our current favourites are:
What is Donald Trump telling Barack Obama supporters? Orange Is The New Black.
What plane does Donald Trump aspire to fly on? Hair Force One!
Why are Muslims worried about Trumps immigration plans? Once you deport Juan you deport Jamal.
Trump supporters’ new campaign slogan? “We shall over-comb.”
And then one we actually wrote ourselves:
Donald Trump. Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow.
We feel a t-shirt coming on.
OK. That’s enough Trump for now – Ed.
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Hamburo Aeteuthage
When Shin Joon-Young (Kim Woo-Bin) and No Eul (Bae Suzy) were children, they were separated and became heartbroken. As adults they meet again. Shin Joon-Young is now a top actor and singer. He is intelligent and attractive. No Eul is the PD of documentaries. She values money over justice and kisses up to those with more power than her.
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The political conflict between Prince Yi Bang-won and Jeong Do-jeon during the early years of Korea's Joseon Dynasty.
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When Princess Nogoog (Se-Young Park), the queen-to-be of the medieval kingdom of Goryeo (Korea)is seriously wounded by assassins, the king (Deok-Hwan Ryu) sends Captain Choi Young (Min-Ho Lee) through a miniature wormhole to what he thinks is heaven, but is actually 21st-century South Korea, to bring back God's Doctor of ancient legend. Instead he brings back a reluctant plastic surgeon and spoiled brat, Dr. Yoo Eun-Soo (Hee-Seon Kim). She saves the princess' life and becomes known as Eui Seon, the great doctor from heaven. Unfortunately, while this position is privileged, it is also dangerous as no fewer than three politicians, the king and his uncle (Yoon-Jae Park) and a nobleman (Oh-Seong Yu), fight over her custody. But she grows increasingly attached to Choi who dedicates himself to protecting her by playing the politicians against each other; although, he tries to favor the king as long as the latter's interests do not conflict with Yoo's. He is aided by a large cast of ... Written by Miles-10
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance,
Dr. Jin
Dr. Jin, the top surgeon in Korea in the 21st century, finds himself transported to the year 1860 in the Joseon kingdom. How does he treat patients without state-of-the-art medical equipment and only armed with knowledge of modern medicine? There is no medical equipment or medicine in the kingdom but he has to somehow find a way to treat ill patients. Time traveler Dr. Jin is a medical drama with actual doctors advising the drama production. To save lives, Dr. Jin resorts to building his own medical instruments and developing medicine to remake himself into a better doctor. Written by Anonymous
Genre: Fantasy,
The story set in the late Goryeo Dynasty in which a group of Feng Shui advisers to the government authorities help the hero Lee Sung Gye become the first king of the Joseon Dynasty.
Genre: Action, History, Romance,
Kim Tae-hee plays Lee Seol, an ordinary college student who finds out she's a princess and the great grand daughter of the Korea's last Emperor. But life can be complicated for a princess in this funny, quirky melodrama.
Dalui Yeonin - Bobogyungsim Ryeo
When a total eclipse of the sun took place, a 21st century woman, is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea, in the body of 16-year-old girl. There she witnesses love, rivalry, politics, and friendships ensue between the handsome princes, in a fight for the throne, friendship, and love.
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Poor girl Jan Di attends elite Shin Hwa High where she's bullied by Joon Pyo, leader of F4 (the four richest and most gorgeous boys). Joon Pyo becomes attracted to Jan Di; however, Jan Di has a crush on Yoon Ji Hoo, Joon Pyo's best friend. This is a Cinderella story about the F4 friends and the normal girl who manages to break into their clique and win their friendship along with the romantic affections of two of the four. Written by anonymous
Kim Boong Do is a scholar who travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hee Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama.
A conservative government party member falls for the fiesty young leader of an upstart liberal party in this Korean romantic comedy.
Yoon San (Lee Joon) a private detective suddenly becomes a vampire. He tries to solve various cases while also trying to uncover the mystery surrounding himself.
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Go Eun Chan is a young woman who supports her mother and sister. Her short hair, boyish clothes, and manner often lead to her being mistaken for a young man. Laboring under this false impression, wealthy Choi Han Kyul hires her to pretend to be his gay lover, to scare away the blind dates his grandmother has set up. Later, Han Kyul is asked to prove himself by managing a rundown coffee shop. Eun Chan maintains her false male identity to become a Coffee Prince employee. The charade becomes increasingly difficult as she falls in love with her boss. Han Kyul is both surprised and confused by his romantic feelings towards the boy. Written by L. Hamre
Him-ssen Yeo-ja Do Bong-soon
Do Bong-soon (Park Bo-young) was born with superhuman strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character. She desperately wants to become a willowy and elegant woman, which is the ideal type of her crush, In Gook-du (Ji Soo), a police officer. Thanks to her strength, she gets the job of a bodyguard, to a rich heir Ahn Min-hyuk (Park Hyung-sik), the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft. Contrary to Gook-du, Min-hyuk is an odd man who is playful, a little spoiled, and has no regard for rules, and dislikes policemen. He has recently received anonymous threats, blackmails, and has even been stalked at an occasion. One day, a series of kidnapping cases break in Dobong-dong, the district Bong-soon lives in, and she is determined to catch the culprit after her friend was targeted.
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Kuching North City Hall
Mohd. Asmiul Arif Bin Razemi
The Commission of Kuching North City Hall (Malay: Suruhanjaya Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara, abbreviated DBKU) is the commission which administers the northern part of the city of Kuching in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. This commission was established after the city was officially granted city status on 1 August 1988. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 369.48 square kilometres. The commission consists of the commissioner plus nine commission members appointed to serve a one-year term by the Sarawak State Government. DBKU is responsible for public health and sanitation, waste removal and management, town planning, environmental protection and building control, social and economic development and general maintenance functions of urban infrastructure.
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More About Asia
The World : Asia
Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.Text by Steve Smith.
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“This shot was taken at Bearsden dry slope by Stevie McKenna, who had been talking about how good the light gets there when the sun starts to set.
“I know some people don’t really like dry slope, but it’s a great way to cut your teeth and can make you a better rider”
Bearsden is my local slope in Glasgow and where I learnt to snowboard in the first place. I know some people don’t really like dry slope, but it’s a great way to cut your teeth and can make you a better rider (if nothing else, a bit tougher from all the carpet burn!). I was proper keen to get a good shot from there, to really show how fun dry slope can be.
Photo: Kelex Lau. Click to enlarge
We actually managed to get a couple of really nice shots but I’m singling this one out because of the trick – a backside 180. It’s definitely of my favourite tricks because there’s so many different ways to do them. There are tons of things you can do to make it your own, so it’s really fun to play about with. I love going as big as possible on back 1s because you can fully appreciate how high you’re going, and with the slow rotation it kind of makes you feel like you’re floating.
“I love going as big as possible on back 1s… the slow rotation it kind of makes you feel like you’re floating”
On this particular hit I remember sending it right down the bottom of the landing and having to Shaun-White-squat my way through the transition, so successfully riding away from it was a pretty good feeling.
It was a great night, like so many others I’ve spent up at that slope, which is why I think I like the shot so much. It reminds me how much fun I’ve had riding over the years, and hopefully shows that even if you can’t make it to the mountains all that often, that doesn’t mean you can’t still have a rad time riding in the UK.”
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Storyline of Factions
Spoiler alert: The following text contains spoilers relating to the story of Guild Wars Factions.
This storyline recounts the story of the second chapter of Guild Wars, released in the April of 2006. The following will be an overview of the unfolding events of the campaign as the players progress through the campaign. Key dates in the timeline of Cantha and the background of Shiro Tagachi will help clarify certain events.
Guild Wars Factions places the players on a mission to identify the threat behind the troubles that plague Cantha and to put a stop to it. Aiding them are the heroes of Tyria who have answered Master Togo's request for help. Master Togo is the head of the Shing Jea Monastery, and a former teacher of Mhenlo, a monk from Tyria. Unlike the first campaign, the players role in the story was sometimes relegated to a secondary role, diminished by the way the story focuses on several main NPCs.
1 Prologue
2 Heroes from Abroad
3 Closer to the Stars
4 The Urn and the Spear
5 Temporary Reprieve
6 Unlikely Allies
6.1 Befriending the Kurzicks
6.2 Befriending the Luxons
7 True Intentions
8 To Save an Empire
9 The Last Battle
10 Epilogue
11 Side-stories
11.1 The Corrupted Forest Spirit
11.2 Madness in the Jade Sea
12 Loose ends
Prologue[edit]
Factions characters begin the campaign as promising trainees in Shing Jea Monastery, where they train with the headmasters and instructors to learn and master their chosen professions.
As the players are completing their training, Master Togo tells them that he wants to introduce them to Minister Cho. It is a customary tradition for him to introduce the monastery's most promising students each year. Upon arrival at Minister Cho's Estate, Master Togo and the students realize that something is terribly wrong. A horrible disease has apparently spread amongst the occupants of the Estate, turning them into monsters. Minister Cho has turned into a vile diseased creature and the players are forced to destroy him.
Master Togo is determined to seek out the source of this disease, and sets out with the players across the rest of Shing Jea Island. Their frantic search leads them to the eastern side of the island, where they finally found the point of origin - the holy valley of Zen Daijun. The players and Master Togo push forward into the valley, battling hordes of Afflicted creatures and avoiding the deadly vile miasma that has appeared throughout the area. They finally find the source of their plague in the venerable Daijun Library located within the valley and proceeded to cleanse it of the foul Afflicted guarding it.
Upon examining the library, Master Togo makes a startling discovery - the guild symbol of Shiro Tagachi, the Betrayer, is etched upon the floor of the library. Fearing that the safety of the whole of Cantha is at stake, Master Togo decides to head to Kaineng City to warn and to seek the counsel of his half-brother, the Emperor Kisu of the Canthan Empire. He also sends a request for aid to his former Tyrian student, Brother Mhenlo.
Master Togo, together with the players, arrive to find themselves too late - the plague has already started to spread throughout the densely-populated and sprawling city.
Heroes from Abroad[edit]
Characters of other campaigns join the Factions storyline at this point. Mhenlo has come to lend his aid to his former teacher, and accompanying him are Devona, Aidan, Eve, and Cynn. The heroes of Tyria also arrive at Kaineng City at around the same time. Jamei, a fellow student and very close friend of Mhenlo greets them at the pier, informing them of the current situation. Scarcely has she finished before they are assaulted by the Afflicted.
Realizing they have no time to waste, they set off immediately on Master Togo's trail. Master Togo and the players, since their arrival, have again begun searching the city for clues on the source of the plague. Their search leads them to Vizunah Square, where they find that the population of the area are all becoming Afflicted. As they attempt to fend off hordes of Afflicted, Mhenlo and his friends finally catch up to Master Togo, and together they push deeper into Vizunah Square.
Deep within central Vizunah Square, they encounter a large group of Afflicted led by a powerful bound spirit in the service of Shiro Tagachi. When they manage to defeat these monsters, Shiro manifests himself and kills everyone. Believing that this nuisance has been resolved, he leaves.
Moments later, several beings manifest themselves as well, and restore the players, Master Togo, and the Tyrian heroes to life. These beings explain that they are envoys, responsible for bringing the recently dead to the Mists. They reveal that Shiro is also an envoy, but that they are dismayed that instead of his duties, Shiro is twisting the souls and binding them into constructs. By restoring their lives, the envoys hold the players and the others to an oath; that they would put an end to Shiro's evil. Before leaving them, the envoys advise the players to become Weh no Su, or "Closer to the Stars", to enable them to see and fight both the bound spirits and Shiro himself.
Master Togo later informs the players of Suun, the Oracle of the Mists, who has the knowledge to become Weh no Su. To find them, Master Togo directs them to locate Nika, a direct descendant of Vizu, one of the heroes who played a major part in taking down Shiro when he was alive.
Closer to the Stars[edit]
After proving themselves worthy, the players receive directions to travel to Nahpui Quarter to find Suun. To become Weh no Su, the players must battle Celestial creatures that represent the four major human vices. With their success, Suun, who was skeptical at first, opens up to them and tells them to seek guidance from the spirits of the ancient Heroes of Cantha at the Tahnnakai Temple.
The journey to the temple worries them, as the Afflicted are already in the area. Upon gaining entrance to the sacred temple, a grim situation awaits the players. Shiro Tagachi has beaten them to it and has forcefully bound the spirits of the ancient heroes within his unholy constructs, binding them to his will. The players, Master Togo, and Mhenlo charge quickly through the temple to free the bound spirits. They find out that Vizu is still resisting Shiro's will, and they race against time to save Vizu from being totally consumed.
The players manage to save Vizu and free the ancient heroes, and Vizu reveals that Shiro can be defeated by using the artifacts once wielded by the champions who killed Shiro.
The Urn and the Spear[edit]
The Urn of Saint Viktor lies within Kurzick lands and is considered a sacred relic, and they would not easily part with it. Fortune is on the players' side as the Emperor turns up to inform them that Danika, daughter of Count zu Heltzer, is currently in the Imperial city. The emperor believes that Danika, with her atypical Kurzick views, may be the key to winning aid from the Kurzicks. The players manage to find her and convince her to lead them to her father.
With Mhenlo being an acquaintance to the Count, Master Togo decides to leave this matter to Mhenlo, and leaves for the Jade Sea to convince the Luxons by looking up his old friend, Elder Rhea. Mhenlo has no problems getting the Count to agree to help, but there lies another problem. The Urn of Saint Viktor is placed and guarded within the holy Cathedral zu Heltzer, and that place has been strangely corrupted. The magical wards protecting the place have failed and no longer recognize the Kurzicks.
Danika, determined to help, offers to lead the players and Mhenlo to Arborstone, and to the Cathedral. Battling their way inside through hostile denizens of the Echovald Forest and the warped guardians, they make their way to the Urn. Once they lift the Urn, the Cathedral rumbles and starts to collapse all around them. But luck is on their side, and they manage to flee the crumbling ruins.
No sooner do they return with the Urn, Master Togo excitedly shows up. The players must quickly travel with him to Boreas Seabed, to attend the Convocation, an event where Luxon champions fight one another for the right to bear the Spear of Archemorus. The winners must then wield the spear and slay the kraken Zhu Hanuku rising from the waves and the honor of bearing it until the next Convocation.
The players enter the competition and defeat the champions of the three Luxon Clans - Aurora, Daeman, and Argo. The honor of defeating Zhu Hanuku and sending it back to the depths again falls to the players and they do not let anyone down. Their victory is short-lived as soon after, Mhenlo comes bearing ill news. It seems the Afflicted have gathered and are on the march; an attack seems imminent.
Temporary Reprieve[edit]
When the players return to the outskirts of Kaineng City, the Imperial Guard of Cantha reports that an army of the Afflicted have gathered in the Undercity. The Emperor orders the players to lead a squadron of elite Palace Guards to support the soldiers holding the front at Sunjiang District. There, the players discover Shiro's plan. Shiro is opening spirit rifts to bring forth bound spirits into the mortal realm, binding them to his will. These newly bound constructs are more powerful than ever. The players waste no time in penetrating the sewers beneath Sunjiang District and closing the rifts. At the last rift, Shiro is waiting for them. As the players approach, he merges with bound spirit constructs and attacks them. With the aid of the Kurzick and Luxon artifacts, Shiro's constructs fall one by one. As the last falls, the last rift also closes. Shiro is nowhere to be found.
Unlikely Allies[edit]
The envoys appear to the players once again, confirming their suspicions that Shiro has not been defeated at all, only temporarily set back. The artifacts are remnants of the past, and no longer have the power to fully defeat Shiro. The players must find a way to bring the Kurzicks and the Luxons together, to focus their combined might to defeat Shiro and his army. As it was when Shiro was first defeated when alive, so it must be once more.
In order to get the feuding factions to put aside their animosity, Master Togo and Mhenlo decide to split up. Mhenlo and his friends return to the Echovald Forest to convince the Kurzicks. Master Togo returns to Elder Rhea and seeks her aid in convincing the Luxon clans to lend their strength. The players are given a choice to either go with Mhenlo to the Kurzicks, or to travel to the Jade Sea with Master Togo.
(Here, the storyline splits, with players either helping the Kurzicks or the Luxons. The storyline merges at Unwaking Waters)
Befriending the Kurzicks[edit]
As the players venture into the petrified forest home, they find themselves welcomed. They are given the honor of locating three volunteers and bring them to the Eternal Grove. The sacred grove is the location of the ritual which transforms volunteers into Juggernauts, the eternal defenders of the Kurzick forest home. But during the ceremony, Luxon raiders find the site and aim to destroy the sacred trees of the grove to forever end the creation of Juggernauts. With the help of the players, the Luxon invaders are pushed back. Strangely, instead of retreating, the Luxons quickly raise the white flag and run to the grove. In another moment, the players and the Kurzicks see the reason - an Afflicted army is fast approaching. The players, taking advantage of the situation, successfully persuade the Kurzicks and the Luxons to put aside their rivalry and join forces against a common enemy bent on destroying all of them. Together, they emerge victorious. As they are burning the corpses of the Afflicted to prevent any spread of the disease, their new Luxon allies inform the players that Master Togo is on his way to the Harvest Temple within the Unwaking Waters. The temple is the point of origin of the Jade Wind, released upon Shiro's death. The players quickly make preparations to join up with Master Togo.
Befriending the Luxons[edit]
The players venture deeper into the Jade Sea, looking to convince the Luxons. Elder Rhea sets them upon several tasks to prove their worthiness and strength to gain Luxon aid. Most notably, the players are entrusted with the task of recovering and delivering the eggs of giant turtles to the Gyala Hatchery, and then to escort and protect a new batch of young turtles to the Leviathan Pits. Kurzicks raiders are about and the players have to fend off several ambushes from the Kurzicks, who are aiming to kill the young turtles that would later grow to become Luxon siege turtles. Reaching the Leviathan Pits, the raids become an all-out battle, as Kurzick raiders mass and fight the defenders Leviathan Pits. During the battle, the Kurzicks are suddenly assaulted from behind by an army of Afflicted. Shocked, it quickly becomes apparent to both the Luxons and the Kurzicks that they must join forces or be wiped out. The joint army and the players prove victorious and the Afflicted are all destroyed. Almost immediately, the tension between the rival factions begin to rise again. Thankfully, Master Togo arrives on the scene and admonishes them that it is obvious that Shiro is still alive and that they must work together. Convinced that Shiro is a huge threat, the Luxons and Kurzicks agree to an alliance. Master Togo then tells the players that he intends to head into the Unwaking Waters, to the Harvest Temple, the location of Shiro's death and the source of the Jade Wind. There, he hopes to obtain the aid of an ancient and wise dragon said to still reside there.
True Intentions[edit]
United at the Unwaking waters, the players proceed to enter the Harvest Temple to seek an audience with the ancient dragon, Kuunavang. Unfortunately, as the players soon discover, Kuunavang herself has been corrupted by Shiro. The players have to brave through waves of Afflicted and deflect the dragon's lethal attacks before finally reaching the temple. In there, through sheer skill and perseverance, they manage to defeat Kuunavang and break Shiro's hold on her.
Having experienced first-hand how dangerous Shiro is, Kuunavang immediately offers her aid. And with the counsel of the envoys who again appear, Shiro's true intentions become apparent. He has been attacking areas searching for the knowledge and ingredients of a spell that would return him to the mortal realm. They realize that he is missing only one more component—to spill the blood of one of the imperial bloodline.
To Save an Empire[edit]
The players hurriedly make preparations and set off for Raisu Palace, together with Master Togo and Mhenlo's group. But they are too late, as Shiro's army of Shiro'ken has overrun the palace's outer defenses, and Shiro himself is preparing to assault the inner Imperial Sanctum. With the help of Kuunavang and her teaching of celestial skills, the players and their Tyrian, Elonian, Kurzick, and Luxon allies, successfully push through the hordes of Afflicted and Shiro'ken in their path, fighting through the palace compounds, inching towards the inner sanctum.
They arrive as Shiro is preparing to strike down Emperor Kisu. Master Togo, in a burst of speed born of urgency, rushes to the emperor's defense, and takes the fatal blow. Realizing that Master Togo's blood will also fulfill the requirement, Shiro leaves to finally complete his spell. Mhenlo and the players finally catch up to the emperor, and lament the passing of a great man.
The Last Battle[edit]
Mhenlo swears vengeance against the man who killed his former teacher. The mourning for Master Togo must wait as the players follow Mhenlo deeper into the Imperial Sanctum to put a stop to Shiro once and for all. With renewed life, Shiro is once again the formidable and deadly adversary he once was. Yet the players also realize that with life comes mortality.
It is a difficult battle, with the players pitting Kuunavang's celestial skills against the terrible powers gained by Shiro. But good overcomes evil, and the players strike the final blow against Shiro's mortal form. As Shiro lies dying, Suun and his acolytes appear, and they seal Shiro's body in solid jade. The envoys also appear once again, and this time to collect the soul of Shiro, who is no longer an envoy, having died a mortal death. When asked of what will happen to Shiro, they say that they have a special place in the Underworld for Shiro to do penance for his sins, and to forever lock Shiro away from the mortal realm.
The players have saved Cantha. They have defeated Shiro, stopped the plague, united the warring factions, and saved the Emperor. This is a joyous occasion, and people from all around Cantha gather and line the Divine Path to pay their respects and offer their thanks to the new heroes of Cantha.
Side-stories[edit]
The Corrupted Forest Spirit[edit]
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Madness in the Jade Sea[edit]
Loose ends[edit]
Like Prophecies, Factions does not answer questions but instead creates several.
Where is the special prison that Shiro is sent to after his death? (Answer)
Why did the Fortune Teller say that the Emperor would kill Shiro? (Answer)
Did the Emperor truly have intentions to kill Shiro?
What is the origin of Kanaxai?
Will the Jade Sea and Echovald Forest ever become un-petrified? (Answer)
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First 'Lawyer X' acquittal Frank Orman refused entry to royal commission investigating scandal
The first person acquitted because of Victoria's 'Lawyer X' scandal has been denied the opportunity to hear about the evidence that led to his wrongful murder conviction.
Faruk Orman was released last month after spending 12 years in prison due to a miscarriage of justice caused by his lawyer Nicola Gobbo's double dealings as a police informer.
But he's been refused the chance to hear senior police discuss the evidence that put him behind bars, over fears the identities of informers and their handlers could be exposed, putting them at risk.
Faruk Orman (second right) with his legal team leaves the court of appeal a free man. (AAP)
Mr Orman was convicted after a killer-turned-witness, who cannot be identified, implicated him as a getaway driver in the 2002 murder of underworld figure Victor Peirce.
That witness was encouraged to give evidence by Nicola Gobbo, who represented Mr Orman when he was charged with the murder, which he has always denied.
Former lead underworld investigator Gavan Ryan told an inquiry into police use of informers yesterday the witness had hoped to serve just two years in prison in exchange for snitching to police.
While the man received a much longer sentence, he still received a "significant benefit" for becoming an informer, Mr Ryan said.
Faruk Orman was immediately released from jail because of a substantial miscarriage of justice caused by his double-agent lawyer Nicola Gobbo. (AAP)
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The commission also heard detective Stuart Bateson received two bottles of wine as a wedding gift from the witness, passed on by Ms Gobbo.
Mr Ryan approved the gift because it was important to keep the witness onside between when he made his statement and giving evidence at Mr Orman's trial.
He described witnesses as becoming "very needy" after rolling.
"It's not the type of thing we'd normally get. Normally we get some hate mail," he joked, adding that he couldn't remember something like that ever happening with another witness.
Mr Ryan's evidence will continue today.
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Oct 15, 2017 Issue
Influenza Vaccination Recommendations for 2017–2018: Updates from ACIP
Am Fam Physician. 2017 Oct 15;96(8):545-546.
This clinical content conforms to AAFP criteria for continuing medical education (CME). See the CME Quiz Questions.
Key Points for Practice
• All persons older than six months without a contraindication should receive annual influenza vaccination. There is no recommendation for a specific vaccine in persons for whom more than one licensed product is available.
• Pregnant women may receive any licensed, age-appropriate vaccine that is not live.
• Again this season, live attenuated influenza vaccine is not recommended because of its previous low effectiveness against influenza A(H1N1)pdm09.
From the AFP Editors
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released its recommendations on influenza vaccination for the 2017–2018 season. In this update, ACIP announces the currently available vaccine products (eTable A), reviews license and labeling changes, and issues recommendations for specific populations. A summary of ACIP's seasonal influenza vaccine recommendations is available at https://www.cdc.gov/flu/professionals/acip/index.htm.
eTable A.
Influenza Vaccines—United States, 2017–2018
Age indications
Route of administration
Inactivated influenza vaccine, quadrivalent, standard-dose*
Afluria Quadrivalent
0.5-mL prefilled syringe
≥ 18 years
Intramuscular†
5.0-mL multidose vial
≥ 18 years (needle and syringe)
18 through 64 years (jet injector)
Fluarix Quadrivalent
≥ 3 years
Flulaval Quadrivalent
≥ 6 months
Fluzone Quadrivalent
0.25-mL prefilled syringe
6 through 35 months
0.5-mL single-dose vial
Inactivated influenza vaccine, quadrivalent, standard-dose,* cell culture–based
Flucelvax Quadrivalent
Inactivated influenza vaccine, quadrivalent, standard-dose, intradermal‡
Fluzone Intradermal Quadrivalent
0.1-mL single-dose prefilled microinjection system
18 through 64 years
Intradermal§
Inactivated influenza vaccine, trivalent, standard-dose*
Afluria
≥ 5 years (needle or syringe)
Fluvirin
Adjuvanted inactivated influenza vaccine, trivalent, standard-dose*
Fluad
Inactivated influenza vaccine, trivalent, high-dose||
Fluzone High-Dose
Recombinant influenza vaccine, quadrivalent¶
Flublok Quadrivalent
Recombinant influenza vaccine, trivalent¶
Flublok
Live attenuated influenza vaccine, quadrivalent (not recommended for use during the 2017–2018 season)**
Flumist Quadrivalent
0.2-mL single-dose prefilled intranasal sprayer
2 through 49 years
Intranasal
note: Immunization providers should check U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved prescribing information for 2017–2018 influenza vaccines for the most complete and updated information, including (but not limited to) indications, contraindications, warnings, and precautions. Package inserts for U.S.-licensed vaccines are available at https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093833.htm. Availability of specific products and presentations might change and differ from what is described in this table and in the text of this report.
*—Standard dose intramuscular inactivated influenza vaccines contain 15 mcg of each vaccine HA antigen (45 mcg total for trivalents and 60 mcg total for quadrivalents) per 0.5-mL dose.
†—For adults and older children, the recommended site for intramuscular influenza vaccination is the deltoid muscle. The preferred site for infants and young children is the anterolateral aspect of the thigh. Specific guidance regarding site and needle length for intramuscular administration is available in the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization, available at https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/general-recs/index.html.
‡—Quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine, intradermal: a 0.1-mL dose contains 9 mcg of each vaccine HA antigen (36 mcg total).
§—The preferred injection site is over the deltoid muscle. Fluzone Intradermal Quadrivalent is administered per manufacturer's instructions using the delivery system included with the vaccine.
||—High-dose trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine contains 60 mcg of each vaccine antigen (180 mcg total) per 0.5-mL dose.
¶—Recombinant influenza vaccine contains 45 mcg of each vaccine HA antigen (135 mcg total for trivalent, 180 mcg total for quadrivalent) per 0.5-mL dose.
**—The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that Flumist Quadrivalent not be used during the 2017–2018 season.
Adapted from Grohskopf LA, Sokolow LZ, Broder KR, et al. Prevention and control of seasonal influenza with vaccines: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices—United States, 2017–18 influenza season. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2017;66(2):3.
ACIP recommends that all persons older than six months without a contraindication receive annual influenza vaccination. There is no recommendation for a specific vaccine in persons for whom more than one licensed product is available. The updated recommendations state that pregnant women may receive any licensed, age-appropriate vaccine that is not live. Contraindications and precautions to the influenza vaccines are listed in eTable B.
eTable B.
Contraindications and Precautions to the Use of Influenza Vaccines—United States, 2017–2018
Vaccine type
Inactivated influenza vaccine
History of severe allergic reaction to any component of the vaccine* or after previous dose of any influenza vaccine
Moderate-to-severe acute illness with or without fever
History of Guillain-Barré syndrome within six weeks of receipt of influenza vaccine
Recombinant influenza vaccine
History of severe allergic reaction to any component of the vaccine
For the 2017–2018 season, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that live attenuated influenza vaccine not be used. Content is provided for information only.
Live attenuated influenza vaccine
History of severe allergic reaction to any component of the vaccine* or after a previous dose of any influenza vaccine
Concomitant aspirin or salicylate-containing therapy in children and adolescents
Children two through four years of age who have received a diagnosis of asthma or whose parents or caregivers report that a health care professional has told them during the preceding 12 months that their child had wheezing or asthma or whose medical record indicates a wheezing episode has occurred during the preceding 12 months
Children and adults who are immunocompromised due to any cause (including immunosuppression caused by medications or by human immunodeficiency virus infection)
Close contacts and caregivers of severely immunosuppressed persons who require a protected environment
Receipt of influenza antiviral medication within the previous 48 hours
Asthma in persons five years or older
Other underlying medical conditions that might predispose to complications after wild-type influenza infection (e.g., chronic pulmonary, cardiovascular [except isolated hypertension], renal, hepatic, neurologic, hematologic, or metabolic disorders [including diabetes mellitus])
note: Immunization providers should check the U.S. Food and Drug Administration–approved prescribing information for 2017–2018 influenza vaccines for the most complete and updated information, including (but not limited to) indications, contraindications, and precautions. Package inserts for U.S.-licensed vaccines are available at https://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093833.htm.
*—History of severe allergic reaction (e.g., anaphylaxis) to egg is a labeled contraindication to the use of inactivated and live attenuated influenza vaccines. However, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that any licensed, recommended, and appropriate inactivated or recombinant influenza vaccine may be administered to persons with egg allergy of any severity.
This season's available vaccine products include inactivated influenza vaccines in trivalent and quadrivalent formulations, and recombinant influenza vaccine in trivalent and quadrivalent formulations. The three viruses in this season's trivalent influenza vaccines include an A/Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1)pdm09–like virus, an A/Hong Kong/4801/2014 (H3N2)–like virus, and a B/Brisbane/60/2008–like virus (Victoria lineage). The quadrivalent vaccines include these three viruses plus a B/Phuket/3072/2013–like virus (Yamagata lineage). Afluria, a trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine, is now approved in persons five years or older, consistent with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's labeling.
As in the 2016–2017 season, live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV4; Flumist Quadrivalent) is not recommended because of its low effectiveness against influenza A(H1N1) pdm09 in the United States. The 2017–2018 ACIP report mentions LAIV for informational purposes only.
Recommendations for Specific Populations
PERSONS AT HIGH RISK OF MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS
Vaccination is especially important in persons at increased risk of medical complications from influenza and of influenza-related outpatient, emergency department, or hospital visits. In cases of a limited vaccine supply, priority should be given to the following groups:
Children six through 59 months of age
Adults 50 years and older
Adults and children with chronic pulmonary (e.g., asthma) or cardiovascular (not including isolated hypertension), renal, hepatic, neurologic, hematologic, or metabolic disorders (e.g., diabetes mellitus)
Persons who are immunocompromised (e.g., from medications or human immunodeficiency virus infection)
Women who are pregnant or will be pregnant during the influenza season
Children and adolescents (six months through 18 years of age) who are receiving aspirin- or salicylate-containing medications and who may be at risk of Reye syndrome after influenza virus infection
Residents of nursing homes or long-term care facilities
American Indians and Alaska Natives
Persons with a body mass index of 40 kg per m2 or greater.
Although LAIV4 is not recommended during the 2017–2018 season, health care professionals who choose to use it should follow guidance for the use of LAIV4 for high-risk persons (eTable B). LAIV4 should not be used in persons with most forms of altered immunocompetence because of the possible risk of disease attributable to the vaccine virus. Additionally, it should not be used in pregnant women because it is a live virus.
Persons who live with or care for persons at higher risk of influenza-related complications should also be prioritized for vaccination. These include health care personnel in inpatient and outpatient care settings; employees of nursing homes or long-term care facilities who have contact with patients or residents; students who have contact with patients; household contacts (including children) and caregivers of children younger than five years or adults 50 years or older; and household contacts and caregivers of persons with medical conditions that put them at high risk of complications from influenza.
PERSONS WITH A HISTORY OF GUILLAIN-BARRÉ SYNDROME
A history of Guillain-Barré syndrome within six weeks after receiving any influenza vaccine is a precaution to vaccination. If not at high-risk of complications, these individuals generally should not be vaccinated. Influenza antiviral chemoprophylaxis may be considered. If persons with a history of Guillain-Barré are at high risk of complications from influenza, the benefits of vaccination may outweigh the risks.
PERSONS WITH A HISTORY OF EGG ALLERGY
Persons who have experienced only hives after exposure to egg should receive the influenza vaccine. Any licensed and recommended influenza vaccine (i.e., any inactivated influenza vaccine or recombinant influenza vaccine) that is otherwise appropriate for the individual may be used. Persons who have experienced more severe reactions (e.g., angioedema, respiratory distress, lightheadedness, recurrent emesis) or who required epinephrine or emergency medical intervention after exposure to egg may also receive any licensed and recommended influenza vaccine. These individuals should receive vaccination in an inpatient or outpatient setting under supervision of a clinician able to recognize and manage severe allergic reaction.
Persons who have previously experienced a severe allergic reaction to the influenza vaccine, regardless of the suspected component, should not receive the vaccine. Although a period of observation following vaccination is not recommended for persons with egg allergy, ACIP recommends that clinicians observe patients for 15 minutes after administration of any vaccine to decrease the risk of injury in case of syncope.
Guideline source: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Evidence rating system used? No
Literature search described? No
Guideline developed by participants without relevant financial ties to industry? Not reported
Published source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. August 25, 2017;66(2):1–24
Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/rr/rr6602a1.htm
MARA LAMBERT, AFP Senior Associate Editor
Coverage of guidelines from other organizations does not imply endorsement by AFP or the AAFP.
A collection of Practice Guidelines published in AFP is available at https://www.aafp.org/afp/practguide.
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Oral Health Care for the Pregnant Adolescent
MS: Mutans streptococci
TOP: Teen Outreach Program
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), as the oral health advocate for infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special needs, recognizes that adolescent pregnancy remains a significant social and health issue in the U.S. These recommendations are intended to address management of oral health care particular to the pregnant adolescent rather than provide specific treatment recommendations for oral conditions.
Recommendations on oral health care for the pregnant adolescent were developed by the Council on Clinical Affairs Committee on the Adolescent and adopted in 2007. This document is an update of the previous version, revised in 2012. The revision included a search of the PubMed®/MEDLINE database using the terms: teen pregnancy AND dental and adolescent pregnancy. This search yielded 209 articles that met the defined criteria to update this document. The search then was narrowed to include articles that were limited to clinical trials, systematic reviews, or meta-analysis. When data did not appear sufficient or were inconclusive, recommendations were based upon expert and/or consensus opinion by experienced researchers and clinicians.
In 2014, a total of 249,067 infants were born to 15 through 19 year olds, for a live birth rate of 24.2 per 1,000 women in this age group.1 This is a nine percent decline from 2013 (26.5 per 1,000) and represents an historic low for the U.S., with an overall decline of 61 percent since the peak in 1991 (61.8 per 1,000).2 While the decline in the U.S. teen birth rate is promising, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate still is substantially higher than other western industrialized nations.3 The declines in teen birth rates reflect a number or behavioral changes, including decreased sexual activity and increases in the use of contraception.4,5 Approximately 50 percent of adolescent pregnancies occur within the first six months of initial sexual intercourse, even with increasing use of contraceptives by adolescents.5
The correlation between poverty and adolescent pregnancy is great; many adolescent females who give birth are from low-income families.6 Teen childbearing may present unfavorable consequences for mothers and their children and imposes high public sector costs.6 Eighty-two percent of adolescent pregnancies are not planned.7,8 More than half of these pregnancies (59 percent) end in births, 14 percent result in miscarriages, and 27 percent result in abortion.7
There exist economic, racial, and ethnic disparities related to oral hygiene practices and dental service utilization during pregnancy; reports indicate minority pregnant adolescents had only limited dental visits and possessed limited knowledge of oral health and pregnancy outcomes.9,10 Little is known about individual characteristics or behaviors related to clinically assessed oral health during pregnancy.11
Medical complications involving mother and child occur more frequently in pregnant females aged 11 through 15 years than those aged 20 to 22 years.5 These include the delivery of low-birth-weight infants, increased neonatal death rate, and increased mortality rate for the mother.5 The socioeconomic and cultural environments of the pregnant adolescent are related to the increased frequency of low-weight and premature newborns.12 Pregnancy-induced hypertension, anemia, sexually transmissible diseases, and premature delivery also are concerns for the pregnant adolescent.5 Hypertension increases the risk of bleeding during procedures. Teens are at a higher risk for pregnancy-related high blood pressure (preeclampsia) and its complications than older mothers.13 Preeclampsia is a dangerous medical condition that combines high blood pressure in women who have never before had high blood pressure with proteinuria and swelling of the hands and face.14 Risks for the baby include premature birth and low birthweight.13 Proper prenatal care is essential, and blood pressure monitoring, weighing in, and testing the urine for protein should take place at each prenatal healthcare visit.15 If an abnormal elevation in blood pressure is noted during a dental visit, the patient’s physician should be notified. Blood pressure greater than or equal to 140/90 mmHg is considered mild hypertension, whereas values greater than or equal to 160/110 mmHg are considered severe.16 Acute-onset, severe hypertension that persists for 15 minutes or more is considered an emergency. The physician should be notified immediately as untreated severe hypertension can have significant morbidity (e.g., hemorrhagic stroke) or mortality.17
The diet of the pregnant adolescent can affect the health of the child. A healthy diet is necessary to provide adequate amounts of nutrients to the mother-to-be and the unborn child. Recommended dietary allowances during pregnancy and lactation are tabulated as absolute figures rather than additions to the basic allowances.18 Nutrients of particular importance include folate (folic acid), calcium, magnesium, zinc, and vitamins K, C, B-6 and B-12.18 Maternal levels of vitamin D during pregnancy may affect the developing primary dentition, with lower levels altering enamel integrity and increasing the risk for early childhood caries.19 Folic acid, a B vitamin, plays an important role in the production of cells and helps in the development of the neural tube, the brain, and spinal cord.20 Folic acid supplementation has been shown to decrease the risk of isolated cleft lip with or without cleft palate.21 A recent study supports the hypothesis that folate supplements play a significant role in preventing cleft lip and palate when taken in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.22 The growing benefits of folic acid and the importance of folic acid supplements should be included as part of prenatal counseling.20 Assessment of folic acid status in children having orofacial clefting is yet to be evaluated in depth.23
During pregnancy, a woman’s nutritional needs are increased, but certainly the eating for two concept is not recommended.24 The total energy needs during pregnancy range between 2,500 to 2,700 kcal a day for most women, but pre-pregnancy body mass index, rate of weight gain, maternal age, and physiological appetite must be considered in tailoring this recommendation to the individual.25 Poor prenatal dietary intakes of energy, protein, and micronutrients have been shown to be associated with increased risk of adult obesity in off-spring.26 Recent studies have shown that improving the nutritional status of women prior to and during pregnancy can reduce the risk of low-birth-weight babies substantially.26 Nausea and vomiting are common during the first trimester and often are associated with young age and low socioeconomic status.27 An expectant female may modify food choices due to morning sickness and/or taste aversions, but appropriate nutrition for the health of the mother and fetus is crucial. Nausea and vomiting may cause a woman to avoid routine oral health practices such as toothbrushing and flossing. This could lead to dental caries and gingivitis.28-30 Gingivitis is reported to be the most common oral disease during pregnancy.31
The goal of any drug therapy during pregnancy is to improve maternal/fetal health while avoiding adverse drug reactions.32 Reporting that medications for pregnant patients sometimes are prescribed under less than optimal conditions, a study of obstetrician-gynecologists emphasizes the importance of generating and having available to heath care providers up-todate information on effects of medications during pregnancy.33 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has defined drug categories according to the risk they pose to pregnant women and their fetuses.34 These categories provide some guidance to the relative safety of the medication for use by pregnant women. Category A includes drugs that have been studied in humans and have evidence supporting their safe use; Category B drugs show no evidence of risk to humans. Generally, these drugs are considered acceptable for use during pregnancy.32 Category C drugs, such as aspirin and aspirin-containing products, may be used with caution, whereas drugs in categories D (e.g., tetracycline) and X are not intended for use during pregnancy. The Organization of Teratology Information Services provides useful national information for drug safety during pregnancy.35
Low socioeconomic status and lack of parental involvement can place an adolescent at increased risk of initiating tobacco use.36 Smoking during pregnancy is associated with adverse outcomes.36,37 Women who smoke may have increased risks for ectopic pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and preterm delivery.36,37 Infants born to women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to be small for gestational age and have low birthweight.36-39 The longer the mother smokes during pregnancy, the greater the effect on the infant’s birthweight.37 Increasing evidence shows that maternal tobacco use is associated with intellectual disability and birth defects such as oral clefts.36 The risk for perinatal mortality and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is increased for infants of women who smoke.36,37 Infants and children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke have higher rates of lower respiratory illness, middle ear infections, asthma, and caries in the primary dentition.36-41 Women are more likely to stop smoking during pregnancy, both spontaneously and with assistance, than at other times in their lives.37
Oral conditions associated with pregnancy
Physiologic changes in the oral cavity during pregnancy are well documented.42 These include alterations in both the hard and soft tissues. An increase in caries has been associated with carbohydrate loading as snacking becomes more frequent.42 Nausea and vomiting are common and occur in 70-85 percent of women, but are usually self-limiting after the first trimester. Persistent, severe vomiting (hyperemesis gravidarum) is rare (0.3-2 percent of pregnancies),43 but may contribute to the onset of perimyolysis, an erosion of the lingual surfaces of the teeth caused by exposure to gastric acids. A confounding factor is that pregnancy-associated hormonal changes may cause dryness of the mouth. Approximately 44 percent of pregnant participants in one study reported persistent xerostomia.44
Signs of gingivitis (e.g., bleeding, redness, swelling, tenderness) are evident in the second trimester and peak in the eighth month of pregnancy, with anterior teeth affected more than posterior teeth.45 These findings are exacerbated by poor plaque control and mouth breathing.46 From a periodontal perspective, the effects of hormonal levels on the gingival status of pregnant women may be accompanied by increased levels of progesterone and estrogen which contribute to increased vascularity, permeability, and possible tissue edema.47,48 Evidence shows a relationship of periodontal disease and gestational diabetes which contributes to maternal and infant morbidity as well as the risk of the mother developing type II diabetes mellitus.45,49
The study of periodontitis during pregnancy and its effect on preterm, low-birth-weight infants is ongoing. Early studies noted an increase rate of preterm/low-birth-weight deliveries associated with periodontal disease.45,50,51 However, a more recent study of 116 postpartum women noted clinical attachment level measures were not different between those with preterm/low-birth-weight babies and control groups. Therefore, maternal periodontal microbiota and clinical characteristics of periodontal disease were not associated with having preterm/low-birth-weight babies.52 Additional studies continue to demonstrate conflicting results.53-60 The effect of periodontitis and the development of preeclampsia, a rapidly progressing condition occurring in pregnancy characterized by hypertension and the presence of proteinuria, continues to be studied as well.55,59-62
Poor plaque control coupled with hormonal changes may lead to the development of a pyogenic granuloma (i.e., pregnancy tumor or granuloma gravidarum). This benign vascular lesion appears as a deep red to purple gingival nodule in the second or third trimester of pregnancy.46,63 Although the lesion may regress postpartum, surgical excision may be necessary.63
Oral health care during pregnancy
A multi-state study concluded that, besides neglecting medical care during pregnancy, most expectant females of all ages do not seek dental care, even though 50 percent of them have a dental problem.15 One study reported the most significant predictor of not receiving routine dental care during pregnancy was a woman’s lack of routine dental care when not pregnant.9 Although an expectant mother might question the safety of dental treatment during pregnancy, untreated oral disease may compromise the health of the pregnant female and the unborn child.64,65 The consequences of not treating an active infection during pregnancy outweigh the possible risks presented by most of the medications required for dental care.33 In addition, deferring elective dental treatment during a healthy pregnancy is not justified.65
The objectives of professional oral health care during the first trimester include avoiding fetal hypoxia, premature labor/ fetal demise, and teratogenic effects.60 Due to the increased risk of pregnancy loss, use of nitrous oxide may be contraindicated in the first trimester of pregnancy.61 Because the pregnant uterus is below the umbilicus, the woman is generally more comfortable for treatment during weeks 14 to 20 of gestation. Pregnant women are considered to have a full stomach due to delayed gastric emptying and, therefore, are at increased risk for aspiration, particularly during the last trimester.66-68 Elective restorative and periodontal therapies during the second trimester may prevent any dental infections or other complications from occurring in the third trimester.65
Evidence is insufficient to support or refute that mercury exposure from dental amalgams contributes to adverse pregnancy outcomes.68,69 Currently, there is no evidence that the exposure of a fetus to mercury release from the mother’s existing amalgam fillings causes any adverse effects.67,69 Mercury vapor released during the removal or placement of amalgam restorations may be inhaled and absorbed into the blood stream and does cross the placental barrier. The use of rubber dam and high speed suction can reduce the risk of vapor inhalation.70 Because use of tooth whitening products that contain or generate hydrogen peroxide results in release of inorganic mercury from dental amalgams, these products should be used with caution during pregnancy.67
During dental radiographic examination of a pregnant patient, optimizing techniques, shielding the thyroid and abdomen, choosing the fastest available image receptor (i.e., high-speed film, rare earth screen-film systems, digital radiography), and avoiding retakes help minimize radiation exposure to the fetus.71,72 The primary dental X-ray beam may pass near or through the thyroid gland, even with attention to proper radiographic techniques. The juvenile thyroid is among the most sensitive organs to radiation-induced tumors, both benign and malignant.72 Risk decreases significantly with age at exposure, essentially disappearing after age 20.72 Evidence shows that radiation exposure to the thyroid during pregnancy is associated with low birthweight.71 Common dental projections rarely, if ever, deliver a measurable absorbed dose to the embryo or fetus.72 Gonadal absorbed dose from a typical dental x-ray procedure is equivalent to about one hour of natural background radiation.72 The National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements recommends if dental treatment is to be deferred until after the delivery, so should the dental radiographs.72 Once the decision to obtain radiographs is made, it is the dentist’s responsibility to follow the as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA principle) to minimize the patient’s exposure.70
Suppression of the mother’s reservoirs of Mutans streptococci (MS) by dental rehabilitation and antimicrobial treatments may prevent or at least delay infant acquisition of these cariogenic microorganisms.73 MS, present in children with early childhood caries, is predominantly acquired from mother’s saliva.74 The transmission of cariogenic bacteria from mother to infant is increased when the mother has poor oral health with untreated dental caries.75 MS colonization of an infant may occur from the time of birth.75-83 Improving oral health during pregnancy leads to a reduction in salivary MS in the offspring.73
Education is an important component of prenatal oral health care and may have a significant effect on the oral health of both the mother and the child. Counseling for the pregnant adolescent includes topics directed toward all adolescent patients (e.g., dietary habits, injury prevention, third molars), as well as oral changes that may occur during pregnancy and infant oral healthcare. Since the pregnant adolescent may be receptive to information that will improve the infant’s health, anticipatory guidance, a proactive developmentally-based counseling technique, can be introduced to focus on the needs of the child at each stage of life. Studies have documented that early oral health promotion starting during pregnancy can lead to a sustained and long-term improvement of the oral health of children.84,85 Programs that promote oral health must continue to inform pregnant women and care providers about the importance of dental care before, during, and after pregnancy. Oral health counseling during pregnancy and dental cleanings are recommended.86 Mobile phone texting components added as a supplement to the Teen Outreach Program (TOP), a youth development program for reducing teen pregnancy and school dropout, has proven helpful in disseminating and sharing information to minority youth.87 TOP can be used to address issues regarding oral health.
Statutes and case law concerning consent involving pregnant patients less than 18 years of age vary from state to state. In some states, dentists are required to obtain parental consent for non-emergency dental services provided to a child 17 years of age or younger who remains under parental care.88 This would involve obtaining consent from the parent who must be aware of the pregnancy in order to understand the risks and benefits of the proposed dental treatment.65 However, if the parent is unaware of the pregnancy, the pregnant adolescent may be entitled to confidentiality regarding health issues such as the pregnancy.89 In other states, there are mature minor laws that allow minors to consent for their own health care when a dentist deems the minor competent to provide in formed consent. In addition, some states emancipate minors who are pregnant or by court order. Practitioners are obligated to be familiar with and abide by the laws specific to where they practice and where the patient resides.
The AAPD recommends that all pregnant adolescents seek professional oral health care during the first trimester. After obtaining a thorough medical history, the dental professional should perform a comprehensive evaluation which includes a thorough dental history, dietary history, clinical examination, and caries risk assessment. The dental history should include discussion of preexisting oral conditions, current oral hygiene practices and preventive home care, previous radiographic exposures, and tobacco use.36-41 The adolescent’s dietary history should focus on exposures to carbohydrates, especially due to increased snacking, and acidic beverages/foods. During the clinical examination, the practitioner should pay particular attention to health status of the periodontal tissues. The AAPD’s caries-risk assessment guideline, utilizing historical and clinical findings, will aid the practitioner in identifying risk factors in order to develop an individualized preventive program.90 Improving the oral health of pregnant women reduces complications of dental diseases during pregnancy to both the mother and the developing fetus.91
Based upon the historical indicators, clinical findings, and previous radiographic surveys, radiographs may be indicated. Because risk of carcinogenesis or fetal effects is very small but significant, radiographs should be obtained only when there is expectation that diagnostic yield (including the absence of pathology) will influence patient care.72 If dental treatment must be deferred until after delivery, radiographic assessment also should be deferred. All radiographic procedures should be conducted in accordance with radiation safety practices. These include optimizing the radiographic techniques, shielding the pelvic region and thyroid gland, and using the fastest imaging available.72
Counseling for all pregnant patients should address:
relationship of maternal oral health with fetal health61 (e.g., possible association of periodontal disease with preterm birth and pre-eclampsia, developmental defects in the primary dentition19).
an individualized preventive plan including oral hygiene instructions, rinses, and/or xylitol products to decrease the likelihood of MS transmission postpartum.92-94
dietary considerations (e.g., maintaining a healthy diet, avoiding frequent exposures to cariogenic foods and beverages, overall nutrient and energy needs)61,62 and vitamin supplements19-21.
anticipatory guidance for the infant’s oral health including the benefits of early establishment of a dental home.84,85
anticipatory guidance for the adolescent’s oral health to include injury prevention, oral piercings, tobacco and substance abuse, sealants, and third molar assessment.95
oral changes that may occur secondary to pregnancy45,50 (e.g., xerostomia, shifts in oral flora).
individualized treatment recommendations based upon the specific oral findings for each patient.
Preventive services must be a high priority for the adolescent pregnant patient. Ideally, a dental prophylaxis should be performed during the first trimester and again during the third trimester if oral home care is inadequate or periodontal conditions warrant professional care. Referral to a periodontist should be considered in the presence of progressive periodontal disease.45,50 While fluoridated dentifrice and professionallyapplied topical fluoride treatments can be effective caries preventive measures for the expectant adolescent, the AAPD does not support the use of prenatal fluoride supplements to benefit the fetus.96
A pregnant adolescent experiencing morning sickness or gastroesophageal reflux should be instructed to rinse with a cup of water containing a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate and to avoid tooth brushing for about one hour after vomiting to minimize dental erosion caused by stomach acid exposure.9 Women should be advised about the high sugar content and risk for caries associated with long term frequent use of over-the-counter antacids. Where there is established erosion, fluoride may be used to minimize hard tissue loss and control sensitivity. A daily neutral sodium fluoride mouth rinse or gel to combat enamel softening by acids and control pulpal sensitivity may be prescribed.97 A palliative approach to alleviate dry mouth may include increased water consumption or chewing sugarless gum to increase salivation.44
Common invasive dental procedures may require certain precautions during pregnancy, particularly during the first trimester. Elective restorative and periodontal therapies should be performed during the second trimester. Dental treatment for a pregnant patient who is experiencing pain or infection should not be delayed until after delivery. When selecting therapeutic agents for local anesthesia, infection, postoperative pain, or sedation, the dentist must evaluate the potential benefits of the dental therapy versus the risks to the pregnant patient and the fetus. The practitioner should select the safest medication, limit the duration of the drug regimen, and minimize dosage.61 Healthcare providers should avoid the use of aspirin, aspirincontaining products, erythromycin estolate, and tetracycline in the pregnant patient.62 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs routinely are not recommended during pregnancy; if necessary, administration should be avoided during the first and third trimesters and be limited to 48 to 72 hours.61 Consultation with the prenatal medical provider should precede use of nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia/anxiolysis during pregnancy. Nitrous oxide inhalation should be limited to cases where topical and local anesthetics alone are inadequate. Precautions must be taken to prevent hypoxia, hypotension, and aspiration.61
Patients requiring restorative care should be counseled regarding the risk and benefits and alternatives to amalgam fillings.67-69 The dental practitioner should use rubber dam and high speed suction during the placement or removal of amalgam to reduce the risk of vapor inhalation.67
Dental practitioners must be familiar with federal and state statutes that govern consent for care for a pregnant patient less than the age of majority. If a pregnant adolescent’s parents are unaware of the pregnancy, and state laws require parental consent for dental treatment, the practitioner should encourage the adolescent to inform them so appropriate informed consent for dental treatment can occur. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) specifically addresses minor confidentiality.98
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Veteran restaurateur and chef Tom Neville recently purchased Gulf Pride Seafood in The Factory at Franklin. If you loved having fresh seafood close to home, don’t worry, Chef Neville will continue to operate the space as a seafood market and restaurant called Music City Seafood. Chef Neville invites the community to the grand opening on September 1, from 5 until 8 p.m.
During the grand opening, you will be able to sample the restaurant’s menu, enjoy live music, a special tasting of local brewery BriarScratch Brewing’s Lemon Thyme beer, a brew that was created just for the opening event. There will also be balloon art for the kids. On Saturday, Sept 2, the restaurant’s regular service will begin at 11 a.m.
The inside of the restaurant will boast a whole new look, menu, and will continue to sell seafood products as before offering the freshest seafood from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
“We want to put a lot of love in the community,” said Chef Neville. He continued by telling us this is a family business with his wife, Rhonda who will also be an integral part of the restaurant.
The restaurant will have two menus. The first consists of signature items, including oysters, served two ways, fried calamari, smoked fish dip, the area’s best fish and chips, fish tacos, po’ boys and shrimp and grits. The second menu, posted on the restaurant’s blackboard wall, changes regularly and is based upon seasonal items from the restaurant’s seafood suppliers. The menus also incorporate locally sourced products, such as Queen Bee Pollinators honey, Bear Creek Farm beef, BriarScratch Brewing beer and Beaverdam Creek Farm grits.
“Our mission at Music City Seafood is to bring the freshest and tastiest seafood to Middle Tennessee,” added Chef Neville. “I want diners leaving our restaurant to rave about how we provide a fun, casual, and quality dining experience comparable to venues on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts but with a definite Nashville flair.”
Chef Neville has more than 30 years of knowledge and expertise in the restaurant and fresh meat and seafood industry and brings that passion to Music City Seafood. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, N.Y., and has worked for Disney World, Holiday Inn, Halpern’s Steak and Seafood and Performance Food Group. His talent and expertise have been recognized locally by the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the American Culinary Federation, where he has served as president and vice president. Music City Seafood’s Co-chef Karl Orr brings extensive fresh fish and seafood restaurant experience from Florida.
Music City Seafood will be a 50-seat venue and will serve lunch Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dinner is served Thursday to Saturday, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The restaurant will feature live music on Friday nights. The restaurant currently has a beer license, but it is “bring your own bottle” with no corkage fees for other alcoholic beverages. For reservations or more information, please call 615-599-4923.
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Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 – October 13, 1997) was an American actress.
She was born Olivia Joyce Compton in Lexington, Kentucky. (Despite frequent erroneous statements to the contrary, her name was not originally "Eleanor Hunt"; she had appeared in the film Good Sport (1931) with Hunt and this confusion in an early press article followed Compton throughout her career.) After graduating high school she spent two years studying at the University of Tulsa, studying dramatics, art, music and dancing. She won a personality and beauty contest and spent two months in a film studio as an extra.
Compton first made a name for herself when she was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926, alongside Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s. She was a comedy actress and protested at being stereotyped as a "dumb blonde".
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wogma rating: The keen should rent; else TV/online (?)
We are happy. We are just a bunch of 'mango' people who are happy to be in a theater after a long hiatus. So happy are we that there is at least something to watch, to draw us to the halls, that we don't mind the "open head; keep brain aside in safety; close head; watch film" drill. Yeah-yeah-yeah the comedy is not bad, or let's just say it's better than what one would expect from this team. And it’s the sight of an oasis in a desert. And thirsty we were.
Director: Sajid Khan
Cast: Arjun Rampal, Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Deepika Padukone
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Housefull - Preview
NOT A REVIEW - Just wondering to see if slapstick can bring a smile…
The promo promises realization of every man's dream - one husband, three wives.
That is quite what it takes to interest the audience according to trade analyst, Amod
Mehra. And that is exactly what the director-producer duo is aiming at.
Unlike certain film-makers who make films for themselves rather than an audience, I make films from an audience point of view … I promise you that the words “paisa vasool” will be in full effect when you watch ‘Housefull’
While, director, Sajid Khan has no pretense about making a film that appeals to a particular niche, producer Sajid Nadiadwala, only wants to add to the glamor quotient.
How do we reinvent ourselves and do something that will be better than Heyy Babyy in all aspects? As a producer I have made sure that the cast, canvas and music is far bigger than the audience’s expectation … the film has been shot with the entire cast over four countries England, Italy, Hong Kong and India.
Nice trick! The lower you set your standards, the easier it is to achieve your goal. Alright-alright, there were enough people who liked Heyy Babyy, doesn't matter much, that a part of the audience …
ahem … doesn't think of that as paisa vasool.
Yet, for the audience who don't care too much for this variety of entertainment there is hope because Sajid Khan has attributed his movie-making inspiration to seven of his favorite directors.
The lucky seven are Manmohan Desai, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, K. Raghvendra Rao, K. Bappaiah, Narendra Bedi, Prakash Mehra and Blake Edwards.
Just in case you missed it, the veteran directors are…lucky…that Sajid thought of them. Geez!
Anyway, after about 2 hours of browsing for buzz around this upcoming film, you figure that THE most inviting aspect of the film is the skimpily-clad, killer-lady trio - Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, and Jiah Khan. Interestingly though, the straight women in the house have something to look forward too! Sajid Khan wouldn't let half his audience go without 'entertainment' now, would he?
I told them all two months in advance that I would be needing them to show skin, including Ritesh Deshmukh! So they could do all the pushups they wanted … men are all topless I've made each one of them strip, and the lovely ladies are in bikinis.
Now, whether or not a shirtless Ritesh Deshmukh is your idea of recreation, is your problem. Any which way, the cast took their director's word seriously enough to not indulge in Italian delicacies.
Worry not, not all energies have been spent on cosmetics. Ritesh has a supposedly super hilarious tongue-twister which he prepared for relentlessly."What on earth is Ritesh babbling about?" is the first question that pops after you watch this trailer. Thankfully a Lara Dutta interview comes to the rescue. The question is," Who are you married to in the film?"
This film is complete confusion! So I am married to Riteish, but am also married to Akshay. But I am also Akshay's sister. But I am also Riteish's sister. I am Boman's daughter, but I am also Boman's daughter in law!
Rest assured, the lady promises a tight screenplay.
So if you are not following because of all the confusion, you might lose the plot somewhere.
With 6 lead characters, it's always interesting to see who gets what kind of screen space. The supposed budget of Rs. 100 crore, clearly identifies Akshay Kumar as the main lead. Looks like the ladies, however, have divided the labor between themselves.
Deepika is the main female romantic lead. She has most of the songs and romantic scenes with Akshay Kumar. Lara has a stronger role in terms of the dialogue and the comic sequences.
Which is all fine, till I read the next paragraph,
Housefull is a comedy of errors apparently inspired by Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke about a house filled with characters coming and going and creating a commotion of mistaken identity.
Oh, the horror! Chupke Chupke is my favorite film! Calling the director, "lucky" is one thing but claiming to be like one of his best works…is…heartbreaking.
Especially, when the selling points are slapstick - not regular slapping, slapping by a monkey no less! And item numbers, of course, by Mallaika Arora, Jacquline Fernandes, and maybe even Aishwarya Rai.
Despite all these reservations against this brand of entertainment, despite the anxiety, the ardent cine-lover in me, is hopeful. I remember the subtle humor in the second half of Heyy Babyy. Also co-writer Milap Zaveri is capable of writing decent comedy. Also the music, the mainstay of this genre, has received some decent reviews.
Housefull is slated for release on 30th April, 2010. Enjoy the show and let us know what you think the film is going to be like. Till then, gear up with some of these videos.
8.30 AM. 600-seater theater. Housefull. Ok-ok almost housefull, but it was mandatory to use the name, right? So, now that we are done with that, let me tell you, I'm not kidding. The theater had barely 10-15 vacant seats. And the other 585-590 seats were laughing/hooting/whistling/clapping - basically being happy they are in a theater and there is something half-half-decent on the screen.
Of course, there was this one person who was just thoroughly relishing the fact that people around her were completely involved in the chaos and enjoying the experience to the hilt - yours truly. I'm not saying I didn't like the film at all, but I couldn't call the film engrossing or 100% entertaining. It was just about alright. I laughed really hard a few times. But, not as much on a mind-blowing, insides-rattling joke as I did due to the silliness of it all. I mean what else can you laugh at when people suffer an electronic shock and that, moves on to become a dance.
The nutty absurdity is not restricted to one-off incidents. While the first half introduces characters and builds relationships, the second half is spent in rewiring all the connections. Whose wife is whose sister is whose daughter is whose wife…or something like that. Yeah, such comedy of errors and mistaken identities have potential for loads of laughs. Housefull is neither devoid of them, nor…well, full of them.
Of course, it's the standard loud, is almost a tolerable variety of over-the-top and it defies logic at every chance it's given. Out-of-job characters or characters with presumably low-paying jobs spend money like they are Midas. Other characters who are supposedly rich, make you wonder how such low-IQ people could get so far.
Oops, look at me getting caught up in trivialities. The idea is to have fun, and well it is not a complete loss on that count. Had the performances been a little more subtle and a little more consistent, it could have easily been a fun ride through the run time. But, as usual, while the dialogues are on a consistent roll, the events are rather sporadic. Similarly, while the comic timing of most of the actors is brilliant, the individual scenes are not necessarily strong enough.
The three men do their usual thing. National award winner Arjun Rampal, in his bit role, looks very uncomfortable trying his shot at comedy. The women on the other hand look good, alternate between shrieking and sort-of superficially expressing a sad/romantic emotion. I love the way Deepika Padukone carries herself in the skimpiest of clothes. Yep! There's loads and loads of that. And those who are going there for Jiah Khan, well, bother not. She barely has a cameo.
I know it's been a famine of big-profile releases. I know you want to rush to the theater given the slightest excuse. But though it has those mindless, silly laughs, I don't have the heart to recommend that you spend money and time on what it takes for a family to go to the theaters. Time spent on it when it's out on TV/DVD though might be well worth it.
44 reviewers(?) - 15 yays 5 so-so 24 nays
Thumbs up, by GZP, BollyPlus : ...Lara Dutta and Deepika both look lovely and act well. ... full review
Thumbs up, by Taran Adarsh, Bollywood Hungama : ...The actors are top notch and so are their performances. Wish the script would've been equally super.... full review
Thumbs up, by Filmi Girl, Filmi Girl : ...Akshay seemed a bit tired at times but he gamely danced, climbed stuff, and dishoom-ed a monkey ... full review
Thumbs up, by Making Things Happen, Gomolo.in : ...The female leads were wasted... full review
Thumbs up, by Jaya Biswas, IBN Live : ...Housefull comes as a breath of fresh air after a series of below average films that released this season... full review
Thumbs up, Indicine : ...Jiah Khan’s character doesn’t work and is infact one of the reasons why the pace slackens considerably in the first half.... full review
Thumbs up, by Sarita Tanwar, MiD DAY : ...The Akshay-Riteish chemistry is brilliant ... full review
Thumbs up, Movie Talkies : ...Lara, Riteish and Boman...The comic timing and chemistry between the trio is excellent. ... full review
Thumbs up, by Subhash K Jha, Now Running.com : ...sometimes the actors seem to enjoy the comedy of energetic error more than we do.... full review
Thumbs up, by Sampurn, real bollywoood : ...Akshay Kumar is back in terrific form, evoking huge laughter with his poker faced humour. ... full review
Thumbs up, by K N Gupta, SmasHits.com : ...Post-interval the movie does picks up. ... full review
Thumbs up, by K K Rai, STARDUST : ...Akshay Kumar’s loser act, wherein he rarely laughs but manages to create a hilarious situation for the audiences to tickle their funny bone, is certainly a winner in the film.... full review
Thumbs up, The Friday Freak : ...t has the mistaken identities, taken on identities, white lies, danger, sexual innuendo, and of course, pots full of laughter.... full review
Thumbs up, by Fakir Hassen, TONIGHT : ...the last quarter of the film is a riot that will leave everyone in the cinema with a bellyache from laughing... full review
Thumbs up, by SpiceZee Bureau, Zee News : ...With his deadpan expressions and slapstick humour, Akshay once again proves that he is simply the best when it comes to comedies.... full review
So-So, by Stefan S, A Nutshell Review : ...The story is about pretences, and how in the name of saving one's face and reputation, lies lead to bigger lies, stemming from wanting to impress family members... full review
So-So, by Naresh Kumar Deoshi, Apun Ka Choice : ...it’s all about wives, real or fake... full review
So-So, by Abhijit Ranade, MH-31 Fun Unlimited : ...Though the storyline is very clichéd and the jokes all predictable, some parts in the film really tickle your funny bone.... full review
So-So, by Ashok Nayak, Now Running.com : ...The girls have nothing much to show except skin.... full review
So-So, by Nikhat Kazmi, Times of India : ...Nevertheless, it makes you laugh, provided you don't go looking for artistry and intelligence. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Noyon Jyoti Parasara, AOL INDIA : ...Jiah Khan who is seen for the first time since ‘Ghajini’ is yet to get her dialogues right.... full review
Thumbs down, by Beth, Beth Loves Bollywood : ...what should we make of Heyy Baby and Housefull being set elsewhere than India?... full review
Thumbs down, by Baradwaj Rangan, Blogical Conclusion, The New Sunday Express : ...our filmmakers confuse no-brainer entertainment with no-brainer filmmaking... full review
Thumbs down, by Bobby Sing, Bobby Talks Cinema.com : ...not able to hold the viewer consistently.... full review
Thumbs down, by Steven Baker, Bolly Spice : ...a brief moment of hoopla and hilarity is ruined by trying to cut corners on a supposed blow the budget release... full review
Thumbs down, by Bollyfan, Cinemaa Online : ...Tasteless racist jokes (on Gujaratis, Italians, Blacks etc.)... full review
Thumbs down, by Aniruddha Guha, DNA : ...The film’s posters, part of an obnoxiously hyperactive marketing campaign, said ‘The Heyy Baby Team Reloads’. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Deepa Garimella, fullhyd.com : ... The theme is "confusion", as though there never is another premise for comedy.... full review
Thumbs down, by Martin D'Souza, Glamsham.com : ... The gags are situational and hilarious at times. On other occasions, they do draaaaaaag! ... full review
Thumbs down, Gyanguru : ...Handling madcap comedies isn’t easy and excess of humour can lead to a disaster and that’s what the case with Housefull. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Mayank Shekhar, Hindustan Times : ...Merely a gag-order is in motion here: one shaggy dog story follows another; sometimes related, many a times not. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Kaveree Bamzai, india today : ...For director Sajid Khan, an otherwise intelligent individual, three women rising out of the water wearing itsy bitsy bikinis may be ultimate heaven, but there's only so much the physical can do for you.... full review
Thumbs down, by Gaurav Malani, indiatimes : ...Shankar Ehsaan Loy come up with a peppy and foot-tapping musical score.... full review
Thumbs down, by Kshitij Mehta, J.A.M : ...So we all know that one has to put aside logic while watching a film of this kind, but to just take the audience for granted & go on with stupid shenanigans in the name of humour is just plain criminal. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Sanjukta Sharma, Live Mint : ...In my book, Nadiadwala is the king of bad trash... full review
Thumbs down, by Anupama Chopra, NDTV : ...Akshay Kumar, is exhaustingly inconsistent. Read more at: http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_review.aspx?lang=hindi&id=510&moviename=Review%3A+Housefull+&cp... full review
Thumbs down, by filmbear, Pacem In Terris : ...There is nothing right with the film despite it having not one original idea.... full review
Thumbs down, by Khalid Mohamed, Passion for Cinema : ...Afflicted perhaps by delusions of grandeur, Khan actually believes he is an entertainer! ... full review
Thumbs down, by Himanshu Bhutani, Passion for Cinema : ... In a comedy film, I would think entertainment means laughter and “loads of” it. The director promised it, but was it delivered? I think not. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Raja Sen, Rediff : ...serving us essentially a Priyadarshan farce, only replacing Paresh Rawal, Rajpal Yadav and Asrani with people who look good in bikinis. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Reuters : ...Khan claims this film is a tribute to directors like Manmohan Desai and Hrishikesh Mukherjee, but I cannot think of a worse way to pay tribute... full review
Thumbs down, by Sonia Chopra, Sify Movies : ...All the characters seem to exist in a void, where they speak and think in the same manner. ... full review
Thumbs down, by Janhvi Patel, StarBoxOffice : ...all gloss, no substance.... full review
Thumbs down, by Pratim D Gupta, The Telegraph : ...Not just Boman’s Gujarati Pappa, the rest of your cast and crew are sleepwalking too... full review
17 readers - 13 yays 2 so-so 2 nays
Not Interested in Watching, by Plumber guildford
Yay! Thumbs Up, by AlanWake
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Avatarfullhd : really funny movies,Akshay Rocked in the whole movie,getting slapped by so many people,great movie .
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Bollywood Songs : 77
Yay! Thumbs Up, by dizi izle : it is really awsome
Yay! Thumbs Up, by egha pamungkas : very good
Yay! Thumbs Up, by FreeMoviezDL.Com : good
Yay! Thumbs Up, by jerry dale : good movie i think
Yay! Thumbs Up, by John Smith : A bit funny, entertaining, has a value, can't watch it with whole family. Not the best Hindi movie..
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Maria
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Mireya
Yay! Thumbs Up, by Oreck xl Vacuum : So characters must EVOLVE and not CHANGE, ha,ha, yes, the sounds are sophisticated all right!! And C
Yay! Thumbs Up, by vandenberg schmuck : good
Yay! Thumbs Up, by yeremia : 50
So-So, by films en streaming : 50
So-So, by Mark @ Mrcanvasman : Not to bad i guess
Nay! Thumbs Down, by digitalmoviez
Nay! Thumbs Down, by yesilpinar evden eve nakliyat
Violence: Generic slapsticky slapping around.
Language: more or less clean, with a couple innuendoes here and there.
Nudity & Sexual content: There are a couple of 'bedroom' scenes and loads of skin show.
Concept: That of lies being too overwhelming to sustain.
General Look and Feel: Light and fun.
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Well, Sumit, like I said, it is a tad better than regular slapstick. But then again, I'm glad I helped you stick to your books :P
Sudhir Nair
Arjun Rampal is easily the best guy suited for comedy. After all he single handedly made a joke of the entire industry by becoming a National Award winning guy.
Am expecting the movie to be as charming as a migraine, par kya kare aur kuch hai hi nahi dekhne key liye :(
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@Sudhir That's the thing. And it does have a couple of laughs. But only so much you can tolerate in the name of not having anything else to do :P
@mayur oh well...i laughed a bit and it was a little better than the standard slapstick
Bollyfan
Wow...you laughed a couple of times and it becomes watchable. What about the other 2 hours 28 minutes of the movie? Guess you were having fun watching the others laugh. Cuz. that was the only way I could have a semblance of a smile on my face, coming out. :D
Actually, I've presented a perspective on the "leave your brains home" argument in my review. And I didn't like it a bit.
Bollyfan has posted 53 comments and has rated 1 movies. See Bollyfan's page for more details.
I meant I didn't like the movie^^^
Yeah, the movie is watchable simply because of the dearth of even half-decent Hindi movies released recently. It is no more than what you expect, but somehow it still manages to make you laugh a few times. And yes, Deepika looks amazing. :)
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@Sumit waiting to know what you thought...
@moviebhakt yeah...more or less...difficult to be as succesful as him though
@Saurabh yeah...laughed hard at the silliness in a few places, so...
Dear @[email protected]#$%^, Uhh...i can't believe I'm using this as my defense...i liked 'housefull' better than 'hangover'
@bollyfan well...i give movie credit for what i think it's aiming to do and whether it succeeded in that perceived aim for me, which is the same way each one of us decides whether or not we liked a film. So, yes, I liked it better than you.
@Rahul THANK YOU! that's what i was trying to say...
@Rahul & Meetu : Could the success of the film be ascribed to the timing more than anything else? The last few weeks have seen some terrible films come out due to the IPL & people were starved. The film has enough star power to draw the initial crowds...and the verdict from the masses is euphoric. The one thing nobody realises is that the verdict is relative to recent films and that matters a lot when it comes to guaging the mettle of a film.
@Meetu : Not very sure if you too succumbed to the same relativity conundrum here. Would you have rated Housefull similarly had it followed films of a better quality than it actually did?
@Bollyfan: Yeah absolutely. In retrospect there is really nothing in the movie, but then most insane comedies are supposed to have nothing. There was nothing in "The Hangover" either - which is supposed to be brilliant and all that.
Sadly, there is no masala movie releasing till Kites hits the floor on the 21st of May - I expect Housefull to mostly live up to its name till then. Maybe Badmaash Company can sneak up and deliver something - sadly YRF doesn't have a stellar record in recent times (in terms of market revenue).
Hindi Radio
I have heard for this movie that its too much comedy and must watch movie. Unfortunately I was not able to get time for this in weekends but sure would look at it within couple of days.
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@Rahul : There's a major difference between Hangover & Housefull...though let me state that I'm not a big fan of the former either. In Hangover, the characters were consistent...in Housefull they weren't. Inconsistent characterisation, with characters changing to suit the situation in the film is the prime hallmark of dishonest filmmaking, IMO. How can the chief of the Indian Military Intelligence be such an easy target of schoolboy pranks? How can Lara Dutta's character hate Akki's intrusion one moment and then become a mother figure for him the very next? How can Akki fumble so badly with a vaccuum cleaner one moment and then redo the house so nicely in a matter of a few hours in the very next sequence? And all these points go on to build the plot of the film. That's what I hated about Housefull the most...the dishonesty in characterisation. And each "funny" moment of the film was just built on these lies.
The biggest problem is that the success of Housefull will spur several other filmmakers to make such tripe. The excuse of producers that Indian audiences just want this kind of stuff will be further strengthened. Hmmm...but to think about it, don't they?
By the way, Sajid Khan has gone on record saying that the climax of Housefull will do to comedies what Matrix did for action films. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that.
@Bollyfan:
I am not Comparing Hangover and Housefull per se - I am merely clubbing them together as films which club together an improbable chain of events. That said, I agree with you that in Hangover, the director stays true to the characters while the same can definitely not be said of Housefull. If you ask Taran Adarsh he would tell you that you are supposed to leave your brains at home for films of this kind ... I am prepared to leave my senses at home but if the director takes liberties with the story line that insult my intelligence then I do have an issue with the film.
All flaws aside, Housefull is only working because there is nothing else on offer right now. The ICC T20 WC is turning into a "dance to please the rain Gods" and I don't think the soap operas on TV have improved one little bit. :P
As for Sajid Khan and the band of copy cats he might inspire - Bhagwan Bachaye Inse.
@lovebollywood : I didn't mention real characters anywhere. I mentioned inconsistent characters. There's a difference. You had Amar & Prem in Andaz Apna Apna...as unreal as one can get. But they were consistent. They were introduced as dumb wannabe losers...and stayed so throughout the film. Not the case with Housefull. Each character's mentality, intelligence & motivations changed as per the situation...and in a haphazard manner. Just to suit the convenience of the scriptwriter & director. I don't expect logic from screwball comedies...they're meant to be illogical. What I do expect is consistency...which was missing in Housefull. That's why I've called it dishonest filmmaking. In fact, a reviewer has hit the nail bang on its head by remarking about the difference between no-brainer entertainment & no-brainer filmmaking. Hope you get the point. If you haven't, I give up.
Consistency of characters doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a character progression graph. It means that character progression should be explained through some events. In other words, characters should evolve OUT OF situations rather than change FOR them.
"By your standards, then all magic realism in fiction would be inconsistent, as the characters do not follow a clear and consistent path in terms of their actions."
That depends on the tone set for a piece or art, be it literature or cinema. Housefull is inconsistent even in its tone.
By the way, what do you smoke? You're comparing Milan Kundera with Sajid Khan...I'd love to lay my hands on your stash man. :)
Anyways...to each his own. Let's agree to disagree here.
@Kaiser & Tasnim : Rajneeti looks quite promising. Let's hope Prakash Jha gets it right this time too. :)
what a waste of time and money! I am not sure why Akki is selecting these type of useless movies?
I also did not understand, why Boman irani never asks for Lara's son in the end? what was the need of chunky? what was the need of the tiger in house? .....
Oh sorry last question... what was the need of making this movie?
@lovebollywood : A lot of people consume adulterated food. That doesn't make it healthy. Mass acceptance of a product is no certificate for its quality. Something appeals to people in Housefull...all I can say is that they don't really have a sense of humour...let alone good or bad. My opinion though...and I stand by it. If made to pick one by force, I'd pick The Great Indian Laughter Challenge over Housefull in the funny stakes.
And I find this "Before criticizing, make a movie yourself" argument laughable, to say the least. So, if you don't know how to drive, you can't criticise a driver for rash driving? How lame!!
I am commenting on this site for the first time.....you have a pretty diff style of writing these movie reviews...
went to Housefull......just because I had no other movie to watch....didnt enjoy much of it though......would have been better on a DVD...
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@lovebollywood : By that logic, even praising a film is just as lame. Do you even realise how much of a fool you're making of yourself?
If you had cared to read that comment of mine where I said "To each his own...let's agree to disagree", we could've avoided this message. But then you had to write an essay on life, opinions and intelligence. Tum karo to chamatkar, hum karein to balatkar?
And to explain consistency to a dummy like you, try thinking about these examples...
1. The vacuum cleaner scene could have been a classic scene...showing a bumbling, clumsy Akki wrecking havoc. But a minute down the line, he's set the entire house in order. Now, if he was really that organised and methodical, how did he end up making such a mess in the first place? And if he was a bumbling idiot after all, how did he manage to set things in order?
2. Deepika Padukone throws a fit when she has a misunderstanding about Akki having lied to her. A couple of scenes later, she sets in motion the train of lies (most of them coming from herself) that the movie is built upon. Does it add up?
And these are just two examples out of the dozens that the film proudly wears on its sleeves. Does CONSISTENT & DISHONEST FILMMAKING make more sense to you now?
And before you make a lame comback like "That's what is brainless entertainment", I'd want you to show similar disconnects in characterisation and script in films like Hera Pheri, Andaz Apna Apna, Dulhe Raja and the likes. Those are films I would enjoy even today...after multiple watches. That's brainless entertainment. Housefull is brainless filmmaking.
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Lara is looking damn hot in the movie. The movie is great.
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Woah! i go away for a few days and look at how you guys interact! AWESOME! Should I go more often?
@Bollyfan very likely that I liked the film because of the circumstances. But each film is like that. It is humanly impossible to keep the environment and viewers personality away from his likes/dislikes.
"Something appeals to people in Housefull...all I can say is that they don't really have a sense of humour...let alone good or bad."
Dude, that's considering yourself superior to others when not one of us really is. I'd say something appeals to people in Singh is Kinng, all I can say is that I don't have that something in me and I'm fine doing without it. But then again, to each his own, as always!
@lovebollywood it's a little unfair to say don't expect any reality in films. Unreal films are called fantasy films. 'leave your brains behind films' should be a genre by itself.
Again, saying "walk the talk", means you say nothing good or bad about anything ever! Then you certainly are a saint who loves discussing films. More power to you
@Bollyfan and @lovebollywood thanks for making wogma an interesting place to hangout at! I love such discussions, let's keep them going.
@Hindi Radio that's how the cookie crumbles dear...
@Navin thanks!
Meetu : Accepted...and words taken back. :) The intention wasn't to put anything down but the film.
And reg. your views on housefull, the environment was exactly what I was pointing towards. I feel that the timing of release was a masterstroke on Sajid Nadiadwala's part.
@bollyfan Interesting that the team has brains enough to time the release but not enough to make a brain-more film :D
Not really...timing the release doesn't require any creative acumen...does it? :P
@Bollyfan that as supposed to be a joke, dude!
@Meetu : The title of this page brings out the worst in me. Maaf kar do. :)
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Following a one-two-three success in Saturday’s race at the Lausitzring, Audi is on the verge of winning the DTM manufacturers’ championship. In the drivers’ championship, Nico Müller, by having scored his second victory this season, reduced the gap to leader of the standings René Rast to 14 points and also showed a great performance on Sunday with second place.
“I finally had a good qualifying again today – not perfect, but good,” said the Swiss following his third victory in total in his DTM career. “From third on the grid, I was immediately able to improve to second position. Marco (Wittmann) was pretty strong at the beginning. But I also had the feeling that I was faster than René. When he started to have his problem I took the lead and afterwards was able to easily control the pace. I feel sorry about René. I would have rather battled with him on the track. But, obviously, I’m happy to take home the 25 points. We’re back in contention. I can hardly wait for racing to continue tomorrow.”
Müller, at the same time, continued his impressive string of finishes: The Swiss scored points in a DTM race for the 17th time in a row. His teammate, Robin Frijns, by claiming second place, caused the first one-two result of a team in the new turbo era of the DTM. The Dutchman pitted one lap before Marco Wittmann and managed to overtake the BMW driver after the latter’s pit stop. On clinching the one-two success, Team Audi Sport Abt Sportsline recaptured the lead in the teams’ championship.
“That we again finished in the top three with three cars is a fantastic achievement,” said Head of Audi Motorsport Dieter Gass. “Congratulations to Nico, who drove an impeccable race. Unfortunately, René was struck exactly by what I’ve always said: In the DTM this year, something can happen at any time and one should never feel too sure. He lost a possible 25 points today. Fortunately, all the other Audi drivers were there to prevent Marco Wittmann from benefiting from this to a greater extent. That was a strong team performance.”
After the 500th DTM race on Sunday the title race in the drivers’ and teams’ championships remains open. Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline is currently 22 points ahead of Team Rosberg on position one.
Following his retirement on Saturday, DTM leader René Rast from Audi Sport Team Rosberg on Sunday celebrated victory in commanding style from fourth on the grid. “Winning the 500th race in DTM history is very special,” said Rast. “A big thank you from me goes to the guys in the pit lane who worked up until the early morning hours and gave me a perfect car again. It’s also great that Audi, with an extremely strong result, has won the manufacturers’ championship early – we have the strongest package this year.”
With his fifth victory this season, Rast extended his advantage over the runner-up, Nico Müller from Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline, to 20 points. The Swiss was faster than Rast in qualifying, but dropped to tenth position at the start. “We already had a small problem with the clutch yesterday,” said Müller. “I’m happy to have fought back to second with an aggressive strategy and an early pit stop, and to have gotten off lightly.”
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Europe's Rosetta probe lands on comet after 12 years
Collision with 67P, 720 million km away, marks final bid to gather closer than ever images of the ice-and-rock cluster.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed its Rosetta space probe mission with a landing on a comet 720 million km away, according to mission control.
Rosetta collided with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after more than 12 years in space, in a final effort to gather closer-than-ever pictures of the cluster of ice and rock.
Mission controllers in the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, fell silent shortly before Friday's touchdown, before breaking into jubilant applause as the mission was confirmed over.
There were tears, hugs and cheers at mission control when Sylvain Lodiot, spacecraft operations manager, announced: "This is the end of the Rosetta mission."
From #67P with love: a last image, taken 51 metres before #CometLanding #MissionComplete https://t.co/yiSnxDrnba pic.twitter.com/MNuz622tNJ
— ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) September 30, 2016
Speaking to Al Jazeera from the command centre in Germany, Detlef Koschny, one of the scientists leading the mission, said: "When we touched the surface, I have to admit, I had tears in my eyes.
"I spent 22 years on this mission and it was a very special moment."
Comets are thought to contain primordial material from the planetary system's birth, preserved in a dark-space deep freeze.
"The mission was to go to a comet, a comet that was formed during the formation of our solar system," Koschny said.
"So we went there to learn how our own solar system formed, how the Earth formed and how life came on Earth.
Rocky, cold surface
Rosetta had been programmed to touch down at a human walking pace of about 90cm per second, after a 14-hour free fall from an altitude of 19km.
It joined long-spent robot probe Philae on the galactic wanderer's rocky, cold surface for long journey around the Sun.
Confirmation of the mission's end came at 11:19 GMT, when the Rosetta's signal - with a 40-minute delay - disappeared from ground controllers' computer screens.
READ MORE: Comet probe should have had coloured stripes
Mission scientists had expected Rosetta would bounce and tumble about before settling, but its final moments will forever remain a mystery as it was instructed to switch off on first impact.
In its final hours, Rosetta sent home data gathered from nearer the comet than ever before, tasting the comet's gas, dust and plasma, and taking close-up pictures of the spot that is now its icy tomb.
Rosetta and lander probe Philae had travelled more than six billion km over 10 years to reach 67P in August 2014 .
#MissionComplete #CometLanding pic.twitter.com/dEXrDUCHML
A social media campaign and cartoon depicting the pair as intrepid space explorers, each with its "own" Twitter account, earned the mission a global following.
On Friday, the cartoon was updated with a dusty and bashed-up Rosetta lying eyes closed on the comet surface, as Earth held a placard proclaiming "Goodbye Rosetta".
"#Rosetta, is that you?" ESA said on Twitter on Philae's behalf.
Philae was sent to the comet surface in November 2014 , bouncing several times, then gathering 60 hours of on-site data which it sent home before entering standby mode.
#Rosetta , is that you? #CometLanding
— Philae Lander (@Philae2014) September 30, 2016
Rosetta stuck with the comet, hoping to spot Philae, which it finally did in September this year.
But the spaceship started running low on energy as the comet looped out on its near-seven-year orbit, further and further away from the Sun's rays.
Instead of letting Rosetta fade away, scientists opted to end the mission on a high by taking comet measurements from up close - too close to risk under usual operating conditions.
Insights gleaned from the $1.5bn project have shown that comets crashing into an early Earth may well have brought amino acids, the building blocks of life.
Closer and closer - best images during @ESA_Rosetta 's final descent #cometlanding https://t.co/mJ55SULMZz pic.twitter.com/ISy4OjSSDN
— ESA (@esa) September 30, 2016
Comets of 67P's type, however, certainly did not bring water, scientists have concluded.
"Rosetta has blown it all open. It's made us have to change our ideas of what comets are, where they came from and ... how the solar system formed and how we got to where we are today," said Matt Taylor, a scientist with the Rosetta mission.
"We have only just scratched the surface. We have decades of work to do. The spacecraft may end but the science will continue."
For flight operators, the separation was more difficult.
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"They [scientists] still have the data to analyse but we don't have the spacecraft any more," said Lodiot, who had been involved in the project for 12 years.
Comets are thought to contain the oldest, largely unchanged, matter from the birth of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
Koschny, who is an expert in comets and astroids at the ESA, told Al Jazeera: "What we can say now is that the mission has been a big success.
"I mean science analysis is only starting now. We will be able to answer some of the question we have always been asking."
Inside Story - Is travel to Mars on the horizon?
SOURCE: Al Jazeera News And News Agencies
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AN ALLOA darts team are releasing another charity calendar after the success of the last one – although they have vowed to keep on some clothes this time.
James Anderson his teammates play out of the Old Brewery in a regional darts league and last year came up with releasing a naked calendar to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK.
Within months, the team, along with members of another group in England, were baring all in front of a camera as they posed with various items to hide their modesty.
The calendar was such a success that the charity has reached out to James and asked him to another one this year – but with only kilts on this time around.
James said: "We sold over 130 of the calendars last year and all in raised around £1,800 for the charity.
"We have been asked to do another for this year coming, although this time we'll all be wearing kilts and it'll just be the Scottish guys since we sold more than down south."
The support has already been pouring in once again for the team as the Old Brewery offered to host the shoot on July 1 after hours and Henderson Kilt Hire in Stirling is allowing them to borrow a garment free of charge for the night.
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James McNeill
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"This big reference book has been a long time coming. John McDonald came to New Zealand a couple years ago and gave some well-received lectures in Taupo on Shen Disturbances and a unique presentation on Secret Ming Dynasty Needle Techniques. I and many of my colleagues thoroughly enjoyed the seminar. John's dry wit and "tangential circumlocutions" result in a great presentation style of important and valuable information. The subject matter of this book is no less clinically important, in my opinion a defining work in the transfer of TCM to the Western world.
This text was originally written for students and staff of colleges in Australia. The aim of this towering work was to provide a learning tool for students and staff of other colleges and a reference book for acupuncture/TCM practitioners. The major source was the Chinese text Zang Fu Zheng Zhi (Study of Zang Fu Syndromes, 1980). The text was also designed to be consistent with California acupuncture course work, so with the inclusion of co-author Joel Penner it includes a comprehensive herbal text as well.
At almost 600 pages Zang Fu Syndromes is a big book. Before the age of political correctness, some would say "man size book". Needless to say, I am impressed by the practical and concise layout, graphics and flow charts. It is taken that the reader has a fundamental knowledge of basic TCM theory (Zang Fu and Jing Luo function, theory of Qi and blood, body fluids, eight principles etc.)
What strikes me is how the complexity of the information can be conveyed so effectively through the chosen format. Divided into sections devoted to each of the five elements, each syndrome follows generally the following line:
Predisposing Factors
Clinical Manifestations (including tongue and pulse)
Associated Western conditions
Treatment Principle
Common points
Common herbal formulae
In each of the element chapters is a fantastic flow chart which brings all the information together.
Joel Penner in conjunction with John McDonald, has done a great job structuring the herbal formulae content; comprehensive yet concise. The herbal section of Zang Fu Syndromes takes a little over half the content of the book. Again, the format is so user friendly you have to make an effort to get it wrong. Formulas names in Pin Yin and English, individual herb actions, contraindications, modifications; it's all here.
Worthy of note is the index section. It's brilliant! Included is a Pin yin formula index, English formula index, Latin individual herb index, Pin Yin individual herb index, point index, and tongue and pulse indexes.
In the words of David Legge (author of Close to the Bone) "Zang Fu Syndromes: Differential Diagnosis and Treatment gives you the information you need---when you need it." This book looks good on my desk!"
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In this photo from January 14, a horse stands next to a damaged structure on the volcanic island of Taal in Talisay, Batangas Province, southern Philippines.
A resident fetches water from his volcanic ash-covered village in Laurel, Batangas province.
Filipino Defense Minister Delfin Lorenzana warned that Taal’s worst-case scenario could be compared to the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, 90 miles north, which killed 800 people and left 200,000 homeless in 1991.
“We can never predict the action of this volcano,” he said.
Taal is one of two dozen active volcanoes in the Philippines. The country is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active region prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Contributors: John Bacon, USA TODAY; Associated press. Follow Adrianna Rodriguez on Twitter: @AdriannaUSAT.
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Conversational AI Platform - Teneo | Artificial Solutions > Board of Directors
Åsa Hedin
Chair of the Board since 2019. Board member since 2019.
Asa Hedin has thirty years of experience within high tech industries, medical devices and life science. She holds a BS in Physics and a MSc in Biophysics and has worked in several dimensions from start-ups to multinationals e.g. Elekta, Gambro, Siemens, Medtronic and Filippa K, where she spent the last 16 years on the Executive management teams.
She is most recently former Executive Vice President at Elekta AB and President Elekta Instrument AB, a leading radiation oncology solutions manufacturer that has pioneered significant innovations for treating cancer and brain disorders. Before this Ms. Hedin was a Senior Vice President of Corporate and Strategic Development at Gambro AB responsible for managing Gambro's M&A activities as well as Corporate strategy. Her areas of expertise includes international commercialization, digitalization, business development, innovation management and general management. She has been involved in several acquisitions and divestitures. She is today non-executive board member for several public and private companies, including Nolato AB, Tobii AB, Cellavision AB, C-Rad AB, Immunovia AB and E J:or Öhman Fonder AB. She is also industry advisor to the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2) at Chalmers University of Technology.
Johan Ekesiöö
Board member since 2019.
Johan has more than 30 years of experience from the IT-Industry from many leading executive roles (mainly in sales and businsess development) in IBM Sweden, Nordic and the US. He has also served as MD for antfactory a private VC company, worked with the restructuring of Framfab and been partner and owner of Inveritas a mgmt consultancy company. The last 5 years he is/has served as chairman or member of the board of several software companies.
Currently he serves as Chairman at T&V Holding and Metaforce AB, Member Board of Directors, Zenterio AB, Ripasso Energy AB, AB Svensk Bilprovning, WTS AB and Lingit AS
He has also served as Chairman of IBM Svenska AB, Teknikföretagen and Excanto AB, vice Chairman of Svenskt Näringsliv and Board Member of BabyBjörn AB, TIA Technology A/S and Avega Group AB
He holds a Msc in Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and a Msc in Management from the MIT Sloan School. Sloan Fellows Program, Boston, USA.
Bodil Eriksson
Bodil has nearly 30 years’ experience in executive management roles covering a broad range of industries including oil, insurance, automotive and food and pharmacy retail.
Specializing in business strategy, brand management and communication, she is a firm believer that business should be “as local as possible and as global as necessary”.
Currently CEO of Volvo Car Mobility, Bodil was previously Executive VP for Volvo USA, heading the product, marketing and communication team in the US. During this time she re-structured the organization and introduced a new marketing strategy with a clear digital focus that lead to significant increases in both awareness and brand consideration.
During the last ten years Bodil has held board positions with companies in the banking, cosmetic, retail and healthcare sectors. She is currently a board director of Swedbank AB.
Johan A. Gustavsson
Board member since 2019 (in Artificial Solutions Holding since 2008). Board assignments in Artificial Solutions since 2001. Co-founder of Artificial Solutions.
Johan A. Gustavsson co-founded Artificial Solutions in 2001. He is also the founder and CEO of Vencom Group, Chairman of Hop Lun International, Aros Bostad and Hobbex and a Board member of multiple companies.
Fredrik Oweson
Board member since 2019 (in Artificial Solutions Holding since 2008). Co-founder and partner of Scope Capital Advisory AB.
Fredrik Oweson is a partner and co-founder of Scope since 2001. He was previously with the Swedish investment holding company Proventus and with Goldman Sachs Intl. Previously a director of MySQL, he is currently a director of Scope Capital, Mijesi, Wright Trafikkskole and Zenterio.
Jan Uddenfeldt
Board member since 2019 (within the Group since 2015).
Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt is one of the main inventors of wireless technology and credited for moving Ericsson and Sony from the cellular industry into the broadband era. As the former global CTO and Senior VP at Ericsson, he headed the R&D during the 15 year period when Ericsson innovated and developed wireless technologies such as GSM, 3G and Bluetooth. He is currently advising tech companies and is on the board of several startup companies in Silicon Valley.
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Miró Makes £23.5m ($36.9m)
June 19, 2012 by Marion Maneker
Sotheby’s is very happy with their sale of tonight’s Miró trophy:
A new benchmark has just been set in Sotheby’s London saleroom. Moments ago, Joan Miró’s Peinture (Étoile Bleue) – a painting from 1927 that the artist identified as absolutely key to his oeuvre – sold for the record price of £23,561,250 /$36,946,396 / €29,260,764. The work was contested by four determined bidders who together pursued the painting to its final price in dramatic increments to a sum that outstrips the previous record* for Miró by a wide margin (*£16.8 million, established just four months ago in London) and represents a figure almost triple the price achieved when the same work sold at auction in 2007 (€11,59 million / £8.35 million).
Artinfo’s Judd Tully tells us a little more about the painting’s sale’s history and underbidders:
The star Miro last sold to the Nahmad gallery at Aguttes, the Paris auction house, in December 2007 when it made €11,586,520 (est. €5-7 million), beating out underbidders Giraud Pissarro Segalot. It is believed the painting changed hands since then, before it almost tripled in value. The Miro, which earlier this year was exhibited in the Pace Gallery‘s “Mythology” show in New York, also carried a third-party guarantee.
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Charlie Godet Thomas, Roman-Fleuve, (detail) 2017.
Charlie Godet Thomas - 'Roman-fleuve'
22 Sep 2017 – 3 Dec 2017
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‘Roman-fleuve’ is Charlie Godet Thomas’ first solo exhibition in Switzerland and his second with the gallery, exploring visual poetry, the bridge between language and signage, and the connections between the autobiographical, the tragic and the humorous.
In ‘Roman–fleuve’, Thomas continues to focus on the written and the importance of positive and negative space in poetry, drawing influence from a range of sources such as the constrained writing techniques of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle and the written works of Édouard Levé.
‘Sunlit’ are new works from an on-going series of cast silicon wall pieces developed since 2014. These works are a means by which archived photographic images can be “reanimated”, Thomas attempts to undo the flatness of the original prints, transmogrifying them into something akin to the rhythm of words on a page. In this instance, all of the images are drawn from a set capturing the play of light on different surfaces and are titled after fragments of lines from T.S Elliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ which itself contains multiple depictions of light and dappling.
The literary notions of flow and punctuation, as well as those of positive and negative space play a central role in Thomas’ practice. These ideas are exemplified in both the aforementioned ‘Sunlit’ works, as well as the series ‘Lines Written for and by’ in which wooden dowels are held in stasis in the “pages” of the city environment. Thomas’ preoccupation with cadence extends out further through the way in which works are placed, or structures built to punctuate the space of the gallery itself.
With ‘Elegies’, Thomas explores the use of existing language and signage as a writing system for poetry. Drawing from a catalogue of available Oasis® funeral foam letters, Thomas creates two word poems comprised of the original (now absent) word, and a new second word made by removing certain letters. “MOTHER” is reduced to “_O_H__“ and “FRIEND” to “___END”. The letters are cast in concrete and wall-mounted, their missing characters lie on the floor underneath reduced to rubble. Despite the intended function of these foam letter-objects, the works have a humorous quality that contradict the macabre banality of the originals. Thomas presents us with what are perhaps the shortest tragicomedies it is possible to write.
Throughout Thomas’ practice, text can also be found in a less physical form. In audio and video works he sources and re-presents found texts, projecting the words into a space of contemplation and stillness for the listener away from the context in which they were originally situated. For ‘Roman–fleuve’, Thomas has created a sound installation which employs a sense of dismay at the way in which images, objects, living matter and language are appropriated by advertising as a means of perpetuating a false image to the consumer, viewer or visitor. Speakers stand tall in the exhibition space covered with a printed fabric mesh, seemingly as a restating of Thomas’ determination to sit on the periphery of sculpture, sound, moving image and text.
Charlie Godet Thomas (b.1985, London, UK) lives and works between London and Mexico City. Having studied a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Manchester School of Art in 2009, he graduated with an MA in Fine Art (Sculpture) from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2014 where he was awarded the Bermuda Arts Council Scholarship and the Peter Leitner Scholarship. He was in residence in Fort Worth, Texas in April 2017 and at Caribbean Linked IV at Ateliers ’89 in Oranjestad, Aruba, in August 2016.
Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Bildungsroman’, Carillon Gallery, Forth Worth, Texas (2017); ‘Strandline’, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds (2016); ‘Torschlusspanik’, VITRINE, London (2015); ‘To Be Is To Do, To Do Is To Be, Do Be Do Be Do’, Telfer Gallery, Glasgow (2015); ‘In Comes the Good Air, Out Goes the Bad Air, In Comes the Good Air’, Cactus, Liverpool (2015) and ‘A Method for Writing/A Method for Making’, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK (2014). Group exhibitions include: ‘…in Dark Times’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2017); Bermuda Biennial, The Bermuda National Gallery, Bermuda (2012, 2014 and 2016); ‘Incunabula’, Norwich Catherdral Library (2015); RCA/ECA Edinburgh Sculpture Court, Edinburgh, Scotland (2015); ‘An evenescent fix’, VITRINE (2015); ‘Escape to a Sparkling Moment’, Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK (2015); ‘Bending Light’, Home-Platform, Bristol, UK (2014); ‘END’, Cactus, Liverpool, UK (2014); Royal College of Art WIP Show, RCA, London, UK (2013) and Brussels, Belgium (2012).
Running in advance and concurrently to ‘Roman–fleuve’, Thomas will be in residency at Atelier Mondial, Dreispitz, Basel. Elements of the work exhibited will be produced in-situ and in Basel. Further works planned during the residency include a continuing of his series ‘Short Poems’ which will be developed in public space around the city. These paper works will originate and be exhibited in the streets and can be spotted hung on lampposts or pinned to noticeboards expanding the exhibition out into the public sphere.
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New York : Delacorte Press, (1991). First trade edition. Signed by Elmore Leonard on the half-title. Someone introduces a live ten-foot alligator into the backyard of redneck judge “Maximum Bob” – and then shots are fired in Florida. Filmed for television in 1998, with Beau Bridges, etc.
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New York : Delacorte Press, (1991). First edition. Someone introduces a live ten-foot alligator into the backyard of redneck judge “Maximum Bob” – then shots are fired in Florida.
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London : Viking, (2004). First British edition. April in Detroit – eighty-four-year-old rich and retired lawyer Anthony Paradiso likes the company of young women – vultures circle and people end up dead.
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London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2009). First British edition. Celebrity bank-robber Jack Foley is out of prison – “a masterpiece of duplicity” (Washington Post).
Medium 8vo (25cm). [vi],262,[iv]pp. Original grey boards, lettered in silver; a very good copy in the Tim Marrs dust-jacket, also very good.
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Johor cops launch ResQ device to help people in distress
Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff.
JOHOR BARU - For Johoreans in distress, help is just seconds away in the form of an SOS device that is only slightly bigger than a car remote key.
The ResQ device comes with three buttons, including the main button. The other two are the home and office buttons.
In the event of an emergency, the user needs to just press a button for two seconds to relay information and the location of the incident via an SMS data connection direct to the police.
State chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the Johor police were the first in the country to use the device to combat crime.
The user-friendly device would be a vital tool to connect the public with the police during life-threatening situations, he told reporters at the launch of the ResQ alarm button by Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin here yesterday.
"It also serves as an emergency alarm to prevent theft of a vehicle. By activating the ResQ vehicle mode, owners will be alerted on their mobile phones when the vehicle moves more than 100m from its original position," he said.
In the event of an emergency, information would be sent to several parties - the police, family members, supervisor or office manager at the work place - according to the contact persons provided by the users, he said.
SDCP Mohd Mokhtar said ResQ was an extension of the CommAlert (community alert) smartphone application that was launched in May last year.
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5 things about the future Mrs Jay Chou, Hannah Quinlivan
Taiwanese-Australian beauty Hannah Quinlivan is rumoured to be marrying 35-year-old singer Jay Chou in Paris on his birthday on Jan 18 next year.
The girl who finally captured Mandopop King Jay Chou's heart had her day on the Internet on Monday when Chou released two photos of them posing at a park for the camera - their first official shots as a couple.
Till then, there had only been paparazzi shots of them together.
Jay Chou and his girlfriend make their official debut as a couple, amid wedding talk
Jay Chou's girlfriend Hannah Quinlivan hints at a January church wedding
Who is Hannah Quinlivan, the Taiwanese-Australian beauty now rumoured to be marrying the 35-year-old singer in Paris on his birthday on Jan 18 next year?
Here are five things to note:
1. The 21-year-old, whose Chinese name is Wu Yi-chen, was born in Taiwan to an Australian dad and a Korean-Taiwanese mother. She has an elder sister.
After graduating from vocational high school, she reportedly attended the private Toko University in Taiwan but dropped out because of work commitments.
Jay Chou to marry girlfriend by January 2015
2. Her early TV appearance came in 2008 when she was 14 in the Taiwanese variety show Guess, hosted by Chou's mentor Jacky Wu.
After joining the cast of the Blackie Chen variety show Blackie's Teenage Club, Quinlivan became a model.
But she remained largely out of the limelight till August 2011 when she was pictured in France with Chou's arm around her. The then 18-year-old instantly became a media target.
3. The 1.65m-tall beauty went on to act in a handful of TV dramas including idol drama Ti Amo Chocolate in 2012 and romance drama The Patisserie With No Name in 2013.
4. Since being linked with Chou, Quinlivan has seen her commercial value rise.
She has been the spokesmodel for Taipei's luxury mall Breeze Center since 2010, and now commands endorsement fees as high as NT$1 million (S$42,251), Apple Daily reported.
Last year, she earned NT$8 million, it added.
5. How did she capture Chou's heart when his rumoured former loves such as Jolin Tsai and Patty Hou failed?
It is reported that her low-profile, understated ways won over Chou's mother. She is described as gentle and she seldom speaks at public functions.
Chou is well known as a filial son, and the trio have been together on tours to France, Japan and Thailand.
This article was first published on Nov 18, 2014.
Jay Chou's sincere lover or scheming lolita?
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Wino and Conny Ochs – Freedom Conspiracy Review Reign of Fury – Death Be Thy Shepherd Review
Barren Earth – On Lonely Towers Review
By Angry Metal Guy On March 23, 2015 · 55 Comments · In 2015, Century Media, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Epic Metal, Finnish Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Death, Progressive Metal, Reviews
Barren Earth may be the only band I ever forgive for not giving me an audition to be their vocalist. After it was announced that Mikko Kotamäki (Swallow the Sun) was leaving the band and that they were publicly searching for a singer, I screwed up my courage and dropped them an email with some songs. Being that I am “the standard by which all should be judged” (which is why I started a blog), I was duly shocked, dismayed and offended that they never even sent me a kindly rejection letter. Nay, despite my obvious superiority over my inevitable competition and home just across the gulf of Bothnia (duty free, motherfuckers!), Barren Earth turned their tacit, Finnish backs to my email. So I’ve been working on a brutal take down of the obvious amateur they were going to replace Mikko with when the record that we now know is called On Lonely Towers came out. Unfortunately, I had to tear up the notes on which I had scribbled my not-at-all-self-aggrandizing introduction, because I have at last met my match.
Jón Aldará (of the Faroese funeral doomsters Hamferð) should be a household name after On Lonely Towers releases. While I will get into what makes Barren Earth work musically later, this just needs to be said: rarely has a vocalist been replaced in a metal band as successfully as Aldará’s takeover of the microphone o’ doom for these Finnish post-Amorpethers1. On Lonely Towers is a record dominated by one of the most unique and powerful voices that heavy metal has ever heard. Aldará’s clean tones are throaty, likely untrained, but rich and full of heart. He sings like a man whose emotions want to burst out of his chest, only to have been siphoned off via his throat just in time. His growls are brutal and raspy, and while they don’t separate him so much from his predecessor, he brings a power to the music that few vocalists will or, well, can muster.
It helps that Barren Earth has found its way again compositionally after a sophomore record that I haven’t listened to since it was released. Given the power of debut Curse of the Red River, I have a very special place in my heart for these guys; but a sophomore slump and a new vocalist could well have meant that their days of promise were over. Fortunately, On Lonely Towers is an epic record loaded to the brim with songs that show the band at its very best. Barren Earth‘s sound ca 2015 is a great combination of what reminds me of Elegy era Amorphis, with a touch of Opeth-y death riffery (which has begun to take more of a back seat compared to the earlier material), and mixed in with a healthy dose of doom that puts the overall tone of this record close to The Devil’s Resolve.
On Lonely Towers is a long record, but it bursts out the gate for the first 26 minutes with a brilliant series of tracks. These demonstrate Aldará’s vocal acuity while showing off that a few years down has sharpened the band’s riffing dramatically. “Howl” is immense, starting out with a hook that got me invested in the record immediately, and immediately evokes Amorphis in what I can only assume is Oppu Laine’s influence, before dropping into dirgey doom metal stylings. While “Frozen Processions” has a gorgeous keyboard intro and is a generally straight-forward rocker, it has a transcendent chorus when Aldará’s cleans break loose. And after the doomy “A Shapeless Derelict,” the record crests into what might be the best song on the record: “Set Alight,” a song that is simultaneously moody and noodly, and has so much going on that it crackles like bottled lightning!
The crest of “Set Alight” crashes pretty hard on the title track “On Lonely Towers,” which breaks the flow of an otherwise stellar album. At nearly 12 minutes long, it’s a song that is less than the sum of its parts. While the introduction is moody and beautiful, and the outro of the track features some excellent guitar work from axemen Perttilä and Yli-Sirniö, there’s a stretch of about 4 and a half minutes in the middle that probably should just have been edited out. Still, “Chaos of the Songs Within” picks up the flow again and closer “The Vault” features some spectacular melodic work at about the halfway mark through its 11:07 that wanders into Camel territory and makes the prog nerd in me jump for joy.
At 64 minutes, though, On Lonely Towers creaks under its own weight. Ironically, for me, the weakest link is the title track itself. When I remove that from the playlist, I think the album flows with beautiful feel and feels like a whole that is even greater than all of its individual songs: a truly cohesive record. When I listen to the album with “On Lonely Towers” included, the flow crumbles right in the middle and I have trouble picking up the pieces. And while I’m complaining: DR6. Sure, the sound isn’t horrible, but it’s pretty flat once I normalized it, and that’s always a disappointment coming from a band whose currency is their dynamic sound and their moody atmosphere.
But when all is said and done On Lonely Towers is still a mighty record from a band with new-found life in a vocalist who is truly among the most unique I have ever heard, and who leaves his own mark on Barren Earth. On Lonely Towers is a powerful, exciting return to form for Finland’s superest of super group and is neck-and-neck with other amazing records released in March in the running for Record o’ the Month.
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: V0 mp3
Label: Century Media Records
Websites: barrenearth.com | facebook.com/barrenearth
Release Dates: US: 2015.03.23 | EU: 2015.03.30
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Though, now that I’m thinking about it, see: Amorphis. ↩
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MP BJP leader held for inciting violence during Dalit protest
ANI | Updated: Apr 07, 2018 16:00 IST
Bhopal [Madhya Pradesh] [India], Apr. 07 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Madhya Pradesh Gajraj Jatav was on Saturday arrested for inciting violence during the April 2 protests and strike, which left nine persons dead across the country.
The leader, who had Rs 10,000 reward on his head, was arrested from Hanumanganj area of Bhopal after he spread violence during the strike against Supreme Court of India's decision to amend the Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes (Prevention and Atrocities) Act.
Jatav was wanted and an award was announced after his involvement in the Dalit led April 2 violence in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh, the worst affected state.
The Supreme Court in a slew of guidelines also directed that a government official or an individual cannot be prosecuted on a mere allegation of committing an offence under the Act, without the sanction of the appointing authority.
The court ruled that preliminary enquiry in a case under the Act would be done by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) to ensure the allegations are not frivolous, and to avoid the false implication of an innocent.
The ruling led to a nationwide strike and protests across the country, with people coming out on streets and damaging as well as burning public properties, spreading violence.(ANI)
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The Dante-Inspired Men’s Jewellery That You Won’t Want to Take Off
Alighieri MANCourtesy of Alighieri
London-based jewellery brand Alighieri is now making pieces for men. Here, we speak with its founder
TextHannah Tindle
Name: Rosh Mahtani
Brand: Alighieri
USP: Romantic, Roman-style medallions, pearl earrings and blank signet rings inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy. For men who wear jewellery already, and those who don’t.
Instagram: @alighieri_jewellery
Alighieri MAN
For Alighieri, the jewellery label founded by Rosh Mahtani in 2014 and inspired by 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri, business is booming. Entering the London-born Mahtani’s studio in Hatton Garden, the evidence of its success becomes immediately apparent: she began Alighieri as a completely self-driven project – one that encompassed production, branding and marketing. But today, there is a team of people busying around the space, implementing her vision. She points at wooden tables laden with irregularly shaped gold trinkets, which look as though they could have been excavated from Roman ruins, or unearthed at a flea market in Naples by chance. Naturally, ‘Modern Relics’ is the brand’s tagline, with Mahtani focussed on creating pieces that are contemporary yet built to last.
“We do everything from here,” she says excitedly. “All our customer orders, wholesale orders, press meetings... It really is the hub of everything. We open up the studios to customers on Fridays so they can see the collections and we can chat about personal orders one-on-one. Initially, I was quite hesitant to do that, as it’s very chaotic in here. But actually, customers really like to see exactly how things are made,” she continues, gesturing towards shelves filled with books (vintage copies of Divine Comedy included, of course), bronze sculptures, glass vessels, and ceramics. Casting found objects in wax is one of Mahtani’s favoured processes, and here, her magpie-like tendencies are on display for all to see.
Although Alighieri had previous only made jewellery targeting the womenswear market, its latest venture is a men’s collection, which is currently taking pride of place on Mahtani’s own desk. “When I first started the brand I launched a men’s collection but it didn’t get much traction. I think when I started out five years ago guys were much more afraid of wearing jewellery than they are now,” she says. However, as Alighieri developed, she found that interest increased. “And really,” she nods, “it was never designed to be exclusively for women anyway. It was more about the stories behind the pieces. Whoever feels close to Dante’s story, one that is about strength, adventure and overcoming obstacles, is able to join the club.”
The men’s collection is designed with subtle differences from the women’s line, but stays true to the brand’s DNA. Lion medallions are some of Alighieri’s most coveted pieces, and here, Mahtani has altered chain lengths, mixed up metals and crafted pendants with a little more heft. “So here we have a gold medallion on a silver chain, and vice versa,” she says. The men’s collection targets two different customers: “the guys who wear tons and tons of jewellery and guys who don’t really wear it at all,” says Mahtani. “We wanted to find a way to speak to both of them.” For the more adventurous, there is a single freshwater pearl earring, à la Harry Styles at the 2019 Met Gala; for those who prefer a minimal approach, unbranded signet rings. “I call them anti-signet rings because they’re completely blank. They’re for the nomad who doesn’t really belong anywhere – someone just like Dante.”
The next steps for Alighieri’s growth includes expanding on a range of footwear (it has already created a women’s espadrille in collaboration with Barcelona’s The Manual Alpargatera, a workshop responsible for making Salvador Dalí’s shoes) and clothes, the prototypes of which are hanging on the walls of the studio as vests and bralettes knitted from pearls and gold jump rings. Producing Men’s versions of both aren’t being ruled out. “I think the key to Alighieri’s success is that is that we speak to such a broad range of people; a 60-year-old woman wants to buy a lion medallion as does as a 16-year-old girl,” Mahtani concludes. “I think what’s been really interesting is that it’s been the same with the men's collection. A few male friends of mine hadn’t even worn jewellery before, and I told them to go ahead and try out a piece and see how they feel. At the end of the day, they didn’t want to take it off as it had become a part of them. I think that’s what jewellery has always been about, and certainly what Alighieri is about.”
The men’s collection is available to buy from Aligheri’s website and exclusively at Liberty.
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An Overview Of Fintech Cybersecurity Risks For Financial Services IT
According to a 2017 survey of financial services institutions, only 42 percent of respondents consider their organization effective or very effective at managing cybersecurity risks. Comparatively, 80 percent considered their organization effective or very effective in managing more traditional risk types, including liquidity, underwriting, and credit.
Indeed, cybersecurity is the new frontier in risk management. Yet, as financial service organizations continue to digitize operations and adopt new technology, financial services IT faces the daunting task of managing complex – and often unknown – cybersecurity risks. In this article, we will explore three emerging fintech trends and what these will mean for financial services IT and their cybersecurity strategy.
Blockchain & Banking
Blockchain technology is most notoriously associated with cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The blockchain is a public ledger that records digital transactions. And while blockchain facilitates Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, its technology also lends itself to more traditional financial organizations and enables them to record transactions, protect customers’ identifiable information, decentralize cross-organizational processes, and increase transparency in their work.
In 2019, the global blockchain market is expected to grow 61 percent from 2018, and by 2021 the market will have increased by 321 percent from 2018. With this surge, blockchain will overhaul more traditional transaction cadences in the financial services industry. For example, well-known companies, such as Venmo and PayPal, utilize blockchain technology.
While blockchain’s incentivizing value props, such as confidential and decentralized transactions, boast benefits to consumers and organizations alike, they also pose security risks. For example, the confidentiality in transactions makes cybercrime untraceable and autonomous, and decentralized transactions also make them irreversible.
As these and other platforms continue to adopt blockchain, the cybersecurity risks associated with blockchain’s digital transactions intensify, which demands financial services IT understand the inherent risks and implement necessary cybersecurity measures.
Artificial Intelligence & Conversational Banking
Conversational banking capitalizes on voice and text technology. Thanks to machine learning and artificial intelligence, financial services organizations are increasingly embracing technology like chatbots and voice assistants to deliver personalized and round-the-clock banking and wealth management services. In fact, 13 percent of respondents to an Adobe survey cited using voice assistants to help manage their finances.
Inquire with a chatbot about a home loan or ask Amazon’s Alexa how much money is in an account balance.
These interface changes raise additional security concerns for financial services, as they move from the traditional authentication mechanisms and perimeter defense to an identity issue. How does an institution know that the person they are chatting with or listening to is really the person authorized?
That said, advances in voice and text technology also fuel cybersecurity risks including adversarial machine learning and artificial intelligence. For example, a user’s voice can be recorded and then manipulated to request other commands, which is—for obvious reasons—a major issue when it comes to financial services and preventing adversaries from gaining access to people’s accounts and data. Text technology, like chatbots, is also susceptible to similar adversarial attacks.
Fintech Software & Cloud Computing
As with the technology detailed above, the majority of tech trends are facilitated through fintech software hosted in the cloud. Moreover, even if a financial services organization is not directly hosting workloads in the cloud, the technology it uses to facilitate its operations likely is. This makes it imperative that financial services IT understand the nuances of cloud security and formulate a risk management strategy aligned with this.
So, What Are the Fintech Cybersecurity Risks?
Fintech trends present financial services organizations with a vast array of opportunities to redesign how they connect and engage with customers. That said, financial services IT also needs to be acutely aware of the risks inherent in new technology and adequately create and implement strategies to overcome these fintech cybersecurity risks. Fintech cybersecurity risks span three categories: people, process, and technology.
The gravest threat to cybersecurity is derived from consumers, or the end users, who are interacting with your organization via fintech – particularly those who do not follow security best practices. For example, the top five passwords most used include ‘password’ and variations of numbers ordered numerically (e.g., 12345, 123456, 1234568), and Pew Center research found that 28 percent of smartphone users have no screen lock on their phones.
Additionally, financial services organizations are beholden to the security practices of their vendors. In some cases, vendors may not properly encrypt data on their platforms, maintain secure networks, or educate their own employees on security best practices. Security is a shared responsibility, and it is imperative that financial services IT institute a vendor risk management strategy that includes an audit of vendors security practices and a shared agreement between vendors and the organization on how they will manage security risks end-to-end.
Finally, the fintech itself must also provide secure applications to curb cybersecurity risks. Identity is the new perimeter of an organization’s network, so applications must support validated and non-repudiated ways to identify users. Secure applications include multi-factor authentication, biometrics, password requirements, inactive session termination, and account lock. Cybersecurity measures of these nature help to offset risks posed by end users. Keep in mind that advances in technology for account access do not always correlate to enhanced security. As an example, a recent study found that most face recognition locks were easily overcome with a 3d printed head.
Emerging fintech cultivates customer engagement and modernizes financial processes. But to unlock (pun intended) these benefits, organizations will need to overhaul their security strategy to capitalize on fintech without making the organization – and the people it serves – vulnerable to cyberattacks. Moreover, financial services IT must ensure that their policies and practices reflect the variability in end-user security awareness, vendor security standards, and fintech interface security.
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How the Post Office Created America
By: Winifred Gallagher
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Categories: History, American
4 out of 5 stars 4.0 (62 ratings)
Neither Snow nor Rain
A History of the United States Postal Service
By: Devin Leonard
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
Few institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Postal Service, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history. The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, 40 percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history.
Woa!, the post office's history is America
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The Hidden Driver of Excellence
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Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.
Good subject, poor audio performance
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Narrated by: Adam Verner
Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth's past dead ends, and in the process offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the 21st century have analogs in these five extinctions.
A Kid's Science Book FOR ADULTS!!
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Crazy Horse and Custer
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By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the US 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer.
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How Fascism Works
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Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
As the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism: Nations don’t have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. In fact, fascism’s roots have been present in the United States for more than a century. Alarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist tactics both at home and around the globe, Stanley focuses here on the structures that unite them, laying out and analyzing the ten pillars of fascist politics.
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American Nations
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By: Colin Woodard
Narrated by: Walter Dixon
North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the 11 distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent....
One of a Kind Masterpiece
By Theo Horesh on 02-28-13
A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation's political, social, economic, and physical development.
The founders established the Post Office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time it was the US government's largest and most important endeavor - indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind 13 quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen - a radical idea that appalled Europe's great powers. America's uniquely democratic post powerfully shaped its lively, argumentative culture of uncensored ideas and opinions and made it the world's information and communications superpower with astonishing speed.
Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the Post Office as America's own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries. The mandate to deliver the mail - then "the media" - imposed the federal footprint on vast, often contested parts of the continent and transformed a wilderness into a social landscape of post roads and villages centered on post offices. The post was the catalyst of the nation's transportation grid, from the stagecoach lines to the airlines, and the lifeline of the great migration from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It enabled America to shift from an agrarian to an industrial economy and to develop the publishing industry, consumer culture, and the political party system. Still one of the country's two major civilian employers, the post was the first to hire women, African Americans, and other minorities for positions in public life.
Starved by two world wars and the Great Depression, confronted with the country's increasingly anti-institutional mind-set, and struggling with its doubled mail volume, the post stumbled badly in the turbulent 1960s. Distracted by the ensuing modernization of its traditional services, however, it failed to transition from paper mail to email, which prescient observers saw as its logical next step. Now the Post Office is at a crossroads. Before deciding its future, Americans should understand what this grand yet overlooked institution has accomplished since 1775 and consider what it should and could contribute in the 21st century.
Gallagher argues that now, more than ever before, the imperiled Post Office deserves this effort, because just as the founders anticipated, it created forward-looking, communication-oriented, idea-driven America.
©2016 Winifred Gallagher (P)2016 Gildan Media LLC
"Long the most important activity of the federal government, the Post Office knit together America's geographically spread out democracy. Winifred Gallagher fluently illuminates not only the fascinating, picturesque past, but also the various possible futures of the American postal service." (Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848)
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Super interesting. I'm so disappointed.
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
A reader that was at least tolerable and this lady was a good reader but I'm sorry her voice is absolutely intolerable. The worst I have ever experienced and I'm a nonstop listener of audible.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Made it so bad I can finish it
Get someone else to be the narrator. I hate to clearly define the worst I've ever heard but this is it. She killed the entire book.
Douglas Kilts
Fascinating Book with Poor Delivery
This history of the USPS is fascinating with many interesting anecdotes. The flow of the narrative is well done even if not always chronological.
The one drawback to the audiobook is the annoying, authoritarian, sanctimonious voice of the narrator. While I wanted to hear the story, I found the voice irritating enough that I reluctantly returned to the book. It was like being lectured by your third grade teacher!
Charles Mintz
Interesting enough
Probably more than I needed to know. Cracks me up that historians give numbers from 200 years ago like 645,292. How do they know it was not 645,302? They do not.
CRAHO
Terrible Reader
Interesting concept for a book, a little light on content, but good. Sadly, the reader's performance makes it nearly unlistenable. Speedy cadence, over-enunciation, and just plain annoying delivery made it tough to get through.
An engaging story of one of America's oldest agencies
Winifred Galagher's treatment of American postal history is an interesting view into an off overlooked institution. From first delivery by horse riding courier to a massive computerized receiving and distribution network, the story is vast. she covers the ongoing ways in which the service has tied Americans together.
Narrator feels sped up and unatural
I’ve been very interested in this book and think I’ll just pick up the paper back instead.I’m not terribly fussy about narration but I found this one very difficult to handle. I tried slowing it down one notch but then it just sounded creepy. The performance just came across and reading something quickly without paying attention to it.
Loynokid1989!
Poorly Written History of Westward Expansion
Most of the book is just a briefly summarized history of westward expansion. I typically can enjoy even the driest of books, but this book is beyond me.
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On behalf of Baker, Dublikar, Beck, Wiley & Mathews posted in Estate Planning & Probate Litigation on Friday, July 20, 2018.
There are different issues to consider when it comes to estates, from confusion during the planning phase to disputes that arise after someone passes away. However, estate matters can be especially tough for some executors to work through for a number of reasons. Some may feel overwhelmed because they have never taken on these responsibilities before, while others may be emotionally distraught following the loss of someone who was close to them and feel as if they are unable to continue. If you are struggling with your responsibilities as the executor of an estate, you should carefully go over your options and look for ways to simplify your circumstances.
Sometimes, disputes can arise with beneficiaries and family members, making it incredibly tough for an executor to move forward. Disputes over an estate may put one family member against another, from sibling disputes to those which involve extended family. Moreover, executors often have a lot on their plate and it is vital to make sure that you do not breach your fiduciary duties.
It is understandable to feel overwhelmed, but you should look for ways to address these feelings. By having a clearer idea of what your options are and the best way to tackle any challenges you are facing, you might find a sense of relief and have an easier time moving forward. In fact, the estate page on our site provides more information that has to do with serving as the executor of an estate and other topics on this area of law.
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Coaching the Early LTAD Stages
It seems like every time we’re in the gym, working with young players to perform different movements, skills, and activities, it only reminds us how much the abilities of players vary. It can be a real challenge to meet the needs of each player without leaving others behind.
Thankfully, we have the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Model to fall back on.
A brilliant and thorough model of athlete development, and the basis for all SNYB curriculum and training philosophy, the LTAD Model and its stages of development provide a training blueprint for coaches.
We won’t cover the entire model here today, instead focusing on the nuances in coaching for the FUNdamentals and Learn-to-Train stages of development – the bread and butter of youth sports.
FUNDAMENTALS STAGE
The FUNdamentals Stage (ages 6-9) is often a child’s introduction to sport. For many, this will even be their first time playing basketball – surely the best decision of their young lives. For these players, the priority needs to be on having fun and developing a love for basketball, followed by the ABCs of movement: agility, balance, coordination, and speed.
Physically, kids develop their athletic “foundation” during this stage. Their ABCs, strength, and other physical characteristics improve naturally as they learn how to move with and use their bodies. Use games that allow athletes to develop their fundamental movements without even knowing it – so kids are focused on having fun.
This is similar from a basketball perspective, where there is less emphasis on skill technique and more focus on experimentation and familiarization with the sport. Activities like tennis ball dribbling or ball slaps and tosses help players become comfortable with the ball in their hands – instead of a focus on form, it is best to allow kids to discover skills for themselves.
Together, these concepts for movement skills and basketball skills form the athletic foundation athletes will need later on.
But the FUNdamentals is also the beginning of emotional growth, and coaches should consider the kinds of activities used. For example, modified games (rather than traditional drills) allow for maximum participation while de-emphasizing individual performance. Group games often force a ton of interaction and require different skills, while providing challenges (and confidence building) through both team and individual competition.
Psychologically, most kids simply aren’t mature enough for intense mental preparation or to care much about winning. Instead, practices should be welcoming and positive, with games and scrimmages focused on applying new skills instead of on the winners and losers.
As summary we will draw directly from the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) literature, which presents a rough breakdown of the skill focus at the FUNdamentals stage:
50% Movement Skills + 30% Basketball Skills + 20% Individual Skills
LEARN-TO-TRAIN STAGE
By the Learn-to-Train Stage (ages 8-11 for girls, 9-12 for boys), kids have likely developed a fondness for a sport or two. We hope it’s basketball, but we’re pretty biased. More importantly, they are physically and mentally mature enough to emphasize basic sport-specific training.
Learn-to-Train is the major skill development stage for athletes. The goal is to build on the ABCs learned during the FUNdamentals, and apply them through footwork, passing, dribbling, and shooting drills that are an indispensable part of basketball development.
But it’s important to note that the fundamental movements are still key. Before too many team concepts are introduced, or if players are struggling with progressions, ensure the fundamentals are strong. When in doubt, fall back on drills like Partner Passing, Frog Form Shooting, and the Maravich Series – all staple drills that reinforce the basic mechanics behind passing, shooting, and dribbling respectively.
But with their newfound size and strength and understanding of the game, players can be more physical and intensive in activities (like full court relays or 3X3 scrimmages) and more team concepts may be introduced (like cutting and defense).
At this stage we want to help players refine their basketball skills before they enter puberty and the Train-to-Train stage. Although practices will become more complex, the focus should still be on fun and fundamentals first. No kid “peaks” at 12-years-old, so winning simply isn’t a priority.
So again we go back to the NCCP guidelines for a practice, with a rough breakdown of skill focus:
40% Movement/Basketball Skills + 50% Individual/Team Skills + 10% Offense/Defense
We want sport to be fun first. We also want to train athletes appropriately according to their physical and psychological maturation. Thanks to the experts and research that contributed to the LTAD Model, we can all be confident in developing athletes with life-long involvement in sport.
But when it’s all said and done, it’s coaches like you who make that happen.
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Martin McGuinness befriended enemies but failed to win over Arlene Foster
Martin McGuinness with Ian Paisley after being sworn in as First and Deputy First Ministers of the Assembly
Martin McGuinness meets The Queen in Belfast in 2012
Martin McGuinness meeting former US President Bill Clinton at the University of Ulster Magee campus in 2010
Martin McGuinness with Arlene Foster in May last year
By David McKittrick
January 10 2017 8:10 AM
In his ten years as Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness served alongside three DUP First Ministers. With one his relationship was astonishingly good, with another it was generally reasonable, while with the third - Arlene Foster - it was frankly terrible.
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He got on with Ian Paisley amazingly well, despite the fact that the DUP leader had spent a lifetime fiercely opposing the IRA and Sinn Fein, while McGuinness had built a reputation as a flinty IRA commander.
The two left most of their long-time reputations behind them, replacing old animosities with a new willingness to compromise, both politically and personally.
After Paisley's retirement they kept in touch; it is said the two men prayed together, with McGuinness saying on Paisley's death that their friendship existed "until the day he died".
It was obvious that not everyone in the DUP could stomach sharing government with Sinn Fein. But Paisley held it all together for quite a while, until the day came when senior party members ganged up on him and told him bluntly that his time was up. The paradox is that while Paisley forgave McGuinness for everything he had done in his republican past he made it clear, in his extraordinarily frank interviews with Eamonn Mallie, that he never forgave his party colleagues for pushing him out.
Things were a bit rockier with Peter Robinson at the helm, and the McGuinness-Paisley warmth was never re-created.
But at the same time they were never really at daggers drawn, and when Robinson became mired in the Iris affair, McGuinness and Sinn Fein noticeably refrained from hounding him out of office.
The bottom line with Robinson, according to McGuinness, was that he was a strong supporter of the peace process, adding on a personal note that he regarded him as a friend.
Robinson, for example, told McGuinness of his intention to step down well before it was announced publicly.
It is clear that one of McGuinness's personal priorities has been to befriend traditional enemies, and clear too that he had successes in doing so with Paisley and Robinson.
He completely failed however to win over Arlene Foster when she became Northern Ireland's third First Minister. Presumably he tried to do so, but she adamantly refused to be wooed - which many will view as understandable, given the history of IRA attacks on her father and her school bus.
When Paisley and Robinson took over the top job, they abandoned much of their old confrontational style and became, in DUP terms, reformers. They at least tried to strike some sort of balance between the moderate and the unyielding.
Foster, by contrast, has tended to opt with confrontation rather than reconciliation, showing few signs of outreach to McGuinness or to republicans and nationalists in general.
Many nationalists were delighted at Paisley's road-to-Damascus conversion and, more grudgingly, welcoming for the Robinson approach.
But few nationalists have voiced any approval of the Foster approach, many suspecting she has been intent on getting back to an older, more hard-nosed unionism.
Looking back, Foster may have concluded that was the way to go, coming to believe that something tougher than the Paisley and Robinson attitude was the likeliest way of staying in power, and first and foremost protecting unionist interests.
But the old-style hard line may now have come back to haunt her, together with the heating debacle.
McGuinness was most reluctant to call for her head, but there are signs that many in the republican grassroots in effect concluded she was an unreconstructed unionist who was unlikely ever to be a powersharer.
With many SDLP types privately sharing that view, Sinn Fein leaders may have grudgingly concluded like many of their supporters that it is pointless to keep Stormont alive.
Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein, pictured leaving court in Belfast after charges against him involving IRA membership were dropped 1976.
President of Sinn Fein Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at the funeral of Patrick Kelly . 1987
An injured man being aided by mourners, including Sinn Fein vice president Martin McGuinness (left), at Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, after a gun and bomb attack killed three and left four seriously injured, at the funerals of three IRA members killed in Gibraltar. David Jones/PA Wire
Martin McGuinness handcuffed to a policeman after being remanded at Special Criminal Court in Dublin, January 1973.
Martin McGuinness pictured in Derry with Rossville Flats in background and other street scenes. 11/11/85. 1148/85/bwc
PACEMAKER BELFAST Martin McGuinness (left) follows the coffin of IRA man Charles English in Derry 1984
Martin McGuinness in Derry's Bogside at a press conference. 1971
File photo dated 26/02/96 of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness speaking to the media after a meeting with Government officials at Castle Buildings, Stormont. PA
Rory McIlroy welcomed back home following his success at the Open Championship Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness
First and Deputy First Minister Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness at Stormont at the first British Irish Council meeting 2007.
1988 Anniversary of Internment rally
31/08/95 of Martin McGuinness, leading Sinn Fein negotiator in the peace process, attending a news conference in the House of Commons. PA
Funeral in West Belfast of the Gibraltar bombers; Mairead Farrell, Sean Savage and Danny McCann. Martin McGuinness with Michael Stone's gloves and bullets after the loyalist attacked the funeral 22/6/88
19/7/2011. PACEMAKER PRESS INTL. BELFAST. Darren Clarke returns home to Royal Portrush golf club with the Open trophy he won at the weekend., met by Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
PACEMAKER BELFAST 27/6/12 Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness watched by First minister Peter Robinson (centre) at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. POOL PICTURE PA/PACEMAKER PRESS
PACEMAKER BELFAST AUGUST 1985 MARTIN McGUINNESS LEAVING CRUMLIN ROAD JAIL AFTER SERVING SENTENCE FOR FAILURE TO PAY FINES. 1042/85/BW
Pacemaker Press Belfast: 09 May 2013: The first and deputy first ministers have announced how they intend to progress building a shared future in Northern Ireland. First Minister Peter Robinson said the proposals are the most ambitious ever brought forward on the issue. Among them is the target of bringing down all of Northern Ireland's peace walls by 2023. Mr Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said this could only happen in tandem with the communities affected. Picture By: Arthur Allison.
PACEMAKER BELFAST AUGUST 1985 MARTIN McGUINNESS SINN FEIN LEADER IN DERRY 1006/85/BW
PACEMAKER BELFAST. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness at Connally House addressing the media about the IRA ceasefire. 31/8/94. 684/94/c
Pacemaker Press 3/11/2016 The President of the Republic of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Caldern, is greeted by First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle on Thursday during a visit to Northern Ireland as part of his State visit to the UK. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press Belfast 07-12-2012: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Belfast as part of a four-day trip to Europe. US SOS Hillary Clinton pictured at Stormont Castle with Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Minister, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness. Picture By: Arthur Allison.
PACEMAKER BELFAST On the first day of the ulster Peace Talks Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness locked out of the stormont talks. PHOTO MARTIN WRIGHT
PACEMAKER BELFAST 19/11/99 Sinn Fein vice President Martin McGuinness pictured with masked IRA men at the funeral of Brendan Burns 5/3/88
File photo dated 19/10/98 of Martin McGuinness leaving 10 Downing St after a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair. PA
Pacemaker Press 19/5/2016 First Minister Arlene Foster and and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness speak to the media at Storming Castle on Thursday. The various parties have been meeting at Stormont Castle in a series of talks that could decide the fate of the next Northern Ireland Executive. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press Belfast 21-06-2013: The British-Irish Council meeting was held in Magee College, Derry~Londonderry. Peter Robinson MLA First Minister and Martin McGuinness MP MLA deputy First Minister host the event. The British-Irish Council was established as part of the multi-party agreement reached in Belfast on 10 April 1998. Its membership comprises representatives from the Irish Government; UK Government; Scottish Government; Northern Ireland Executive; Welsh Government; Isle of Man Government; Government of Jersey and Government of Guernsey. Picture By: Arthur Allison.
PACEMAKER BELFAST 20/11/2012 Prime Minister David Cameron meets First Minister Peter Robinson , Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers at Stormont Castle in Belfast during his visit to Northern Ireland , During his visit The Prime minister announced that The main venue for the annual G8 event is to be at Lough Erne golf resort near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh next year Photo Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker Press
PACEMAKER BELFAST 13/09/2015 Chairperson of Sinn Féins Six County Cúige, Bobby Storey, speaks to the media today, Sunday 13th September, at 11am in the Roddy McCorley Social Club, Glen Road, Andersonstown, Belfast, County Antrim BT11 8BU, Belfast. He was be joined by Gerry Adams TD, Martin McGuinness MLA. Mary Lou McDonald TD, and Jennifer McCann MLA. Martin McGuinness speaks at the press conference Photo Mark Marlow/Pacemaker Press
Pacemaker Press 20/3/2015 Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness as Sinn Féin launch the programme of events to mark 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916-2016 on Friday at Clifton House
Pacemaker press 1//5/14 Deputy first minister Martin McGuinness speaks to the media regarding the detention of the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. Mr Adams is being questioned by the PSNI regarding the murder of Jean McConville in 1972. Picture Mark Marlow/pacemaker press
PACEMAKER BELFAST 8/5/2007. Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness pictured before he entered Stormont Parliment on the first day of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press Belfast 11-10-2013: Prime Minister David Cameron has said Northern Ireland is second only to London in the UK as the top destination for inward investment. Mr Cameron is pictured with Northern Irelands First minister Peter Robinson & Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle after attending major investment conference in Belfast. Picture By: Arthur Allison.
PACEMAKER BELFAST 4/6/2008. Bridge to the Future... First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness pictured with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and Dan Sten Olsson, Chairman of Stena Line, Conor Murphy Minister for Regional Development and Len O'Hagan, Chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners on the bridge of the Stena HSS at the official opening of the new £37million Stena Line Terminal at Belfast Port today. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
Pacemaker Press 4/7/2013 First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Belfast City Hall to announce details of the 2013 World Police and Fire games that will begin on 1st August with an opening ceremony at the King's Hall Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
20/5/2010. PACEMAKER BELFAST. PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON AND NORTHERN IRELAND SECRETARY OF STATE MEET WITH FIRST MINISTER PETER ROBINSON AND DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER MARTIN MCGUINNESS AT STORMONT CASTLE THIS AFTERNOON. PICTURE CHARLES MCQUILLAN/PACEMAKER.
5/2.10 PACEMAKER PRESS INTL. GORDON BROWN, PETER ROBINSON, MARTIN MCGUINNESS AND BRIAN COWAN TALK TO THE PRESS THIS MORNING AT HILLSBOROUGH AS THE DEAL FOR DEVOLVING POLICING AND JUSTICE WAS FINALLY DONE LATE LAST NIGHT. PICTURE CHARLES MCQUILLAN/PACEMAKER.
27/1/2010. PACEMAKER BELFAST. GERRY ADAMS AND MARTIN MCGUINNESS HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE INSIDE HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE. PICTURE CHARLES MCQUILLAN/PACEMAKER.
PACEMAKER PRESS INTL. 6/2/11 : First Minister Peter Robinson and Dep. First Minister Martin McGuinness pictured at a special Good Samaritans Service in St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast. Donations from the Black Santa Christmas Sit out were presented to representatives of 180 charities and community groups. PHOTO: Kirth Ferris/Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press 14/12/10 Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont yesterday after a draft budget was agreed on cuts, after intensive discussions over the course of the last three to four months Chancellor George Osbourne ordered Stormont to cut spending by £4bn over the next four years as part of the Spending Review Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
29/9/2010. Former President of the United States Bill Clinton departs Magee College to cheers from students eager to catch a glimpse of the world statesman as he posed with First Minister and Deputy First Minister Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness alongside John Hume. Picture: Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness with Loyalist Jackie McDonald on the Falls Road at the Bobby Sands Mural. Loyaltist and Republican leaders came together to give an insight into the troubles. William 'Plum' Smith joined Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness on Stage with Brian Rowan as part as an Exhibition to his archives Photo; Colm O'Reilly Pacemaker Press
30/1/2010. PACEMAKER PRESS INTL BELFAST. DRESS DOWN SATURDAY. DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER MARTIN MCGUINNESS ARRIVES AT HILLSBOROUGH CASTLE. PICTURE CHARLES MCQUILLAN/PACEMAKER.
Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness Loyalist Jackie McDonald and Peter Sheridan former head of Special Branch in the Falls Road Library, Loyaltist and Republican leaders came together to give an insight into the troubles. William 'Plum' Smith joined Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness on Stage with Brian Rowan. Photo; Colm O'Reilly Pacemaker Press
PACEMAKER BELFAST 14/7/2010 PSNI Chief Constble Matt Baggott meets with First and deputy First ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness this afternoon to discuss the on going security situation in North Belfast after the 12th July.
Pacemaker Press Belfast. 8-06-09 An Unhappy Jim Allister with Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness at the Counting of ballots cast in the European elections in Northern Ireland where the DUP may be facing its worst ever result in a European parliamentary election due, in part, to a split in the unionist vote. Photo; Colm O'Reilly Pacemaker Press
PACEMAKER BELFAST 11/5/09 Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams takes a plunge at the partys photocall in the Water Works in North Belfast. As the partys European Election candidate Barbrie de Bruin (centre) posed for the cameras with party colleagues, Mr Adams was saved by his deputy Martin McGuinness, doing his David Hasselhoff impersonation. Photo Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press
PACEMAKER PRESS BELFAST 10-03-2009: The First Minister Peter Robinson was joined by the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde at a press conference at Belfast Stormont Castle. They condemned the murdered policeman Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, a married man with children from the Banbridge area of County Down Northern Ireland . PICTURE BY: ARTHUR ALLISON.
PACEMAKER PRESS INTL BELFAST 11/11/2009. First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness greet Irish Foreign Secretary Micheal Martin at Stormont castle this morning. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
PACEMAKER PRESS INTL BELFAST 11/11/2009. First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness wait to greet Irish Foreign Secretary Micheal Martin at Stormont castle this morning. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
Pacemaker Press 12/10/09 Secretary Of State of the US Hilary Clinton after a meeting with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle during her visit Belfast Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press 12/10/09 Secretary Of State of the US Hilary Clinton after a meeting with First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle during her visit Belfast Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker
File photo dated 05/11/03 of Martin McGuinness walking past a Bloody Sunday mural in the Bogside in Derry. PA
PACEMAKER PRESS 24-04-2009. Martin McGuinness arrives at Free Derry corner for his press conference this afternoon concerning the death threats made against him by dissident republicans. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 29/9/2010: The former US President Bill Clinton , with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness,after speaking at the University of Ulster,Magee campus, in Londonderry,Wednesday 29th September 2010,Mr Clinton arrived in Northern Ireland on a visit designed to support the peace process and promote economic growth.Mr Clinton is visiting Londonderry where 25,000 people turned out to see him on his first visit in 1995. He is expected to make a speech at the University of Ulster campus at Magee on how to build economic prosperity.PA:Paul Faith POOL PICTURE
PACEMAKER BELFAST 4/4/2007 Sinn Fein today announced their Ministerial team in the forthcoming Executive on 8th May. Making the announcement Chief negotiator and deputy first Minister Martin McGuinness was joined on the Stormont Steps by Francie Molloy, Connor Murphy, Catriona Ruane, Michelle Gildernew and Gerry Kelly. PHOTO MARK PEARCE/PACEMAKER PRESS
Pacemaker Press International Belfast 16/7/2007. First and Deputy First Minister Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness pictured today at Stormont at the British Irish Council meeting 2007 . Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
Pacemaker Press International Belfast 12/7/2007. HOWZAT!? First and Deputy First Ministers Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness pictured this evening with Ireland's cricket captain Trent Johnston and spin bowler Kyle McCallen. The Irish cricket side were at Parliment Buildings in honour of their heroic exploits at the Cricket World Cup. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
PACEMAKER BELFAST 8/5/2007. Prime Minister Tony Blair poses on the steps as he leaves Stormont Parliment on the first day of the Northern Ireland Assembly with Bertie Ahern watched by First Minister and Deputy First Minister Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker
PACEMAKER, BELFAST, 8/3/2007: Francie Molloy, Michelle O'Neill and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein celebrate being elected in the first count in the Mid Ulster constituency in the Assembly election count in Ballymena today. PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON
PACEMAKER PRESS INTL 1-05-2007:President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso pictured meeting Northern Irelands First and Deputy First Ministers the Rev Ian Paisley,MP,MLA and Mr Martin McGuinness MP, MLA at the steps of Parliament Buildings in Belfast. PICTURE BY: ARTHUR ALLISON.
Pacemaker Press 16/5/2016 Deputy First Minister Martin Martin McGuinness speaks to the media at Storming Castle on Wednesday, as he confirmed the ministers would be appointed next week. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
PACEMAKER BELFAST 17/11/2015 First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at Stormont Castle, A deal has been reached between the British and Irish governments and the Northern Ireland parties to resolve the current political crisis. Photo Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press
File photo dated 31/08/95 of Martin McGuinness, leading Sinn Fein negotiator in the peace process, attending a news conference in the House of Commons.John Stillwell/PA Wire
File photo dated 08/03/07 of Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein standing beside a table where his votes are being counted after the Northern Ireland Assembly election in Ballymena, Co Antrim. Julien Behal/PA Wire
File photo dated 31/12/07 of Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley (right) and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the opening of Ireland's first IKEA store in Belfast. Paul Faith/PA Wire
File photo dated 15/03/2000 of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (left) and Martin McGuinness embracing at Dublin Airport. Chris Bacon/PA Wire
File photo dated 07/05/10 of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (second right) of Sinn Fein celebrating after being returned as MP for Mid Ulster, at The Seven Towers Leisure Centre in Ballymena. Paul Faith/PA Wire
File photo dated 09/08/85 of Noraid leader Martin Galvin (right), banned from Northern Ireland by the Home Secretary, standing alongside Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, as the two men acted as pall-bearers at the Londonderry funeral of IRA man Charles English. PA Wire
File photo dated 04/08/05 of Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) meeting Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (right) and chief negotiator Martin McGuinness in 10 Downing Street. Richard Pohle/PA Wire
File photo dated 11/12/97 of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams and his deputy Martin McGuinness (left) with party aides outside No10 Downing Street before meeting Prime Minister Tony Blair for peace talks. Adam Butler/PA Wire
File photo dated 19/10/98 of Martin McGuinness leaving 10 Downing St after a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
File photo dated 10/11/03 of Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein speaking at an election press conference in Belfast. Paul Faith/PA Wire
File photo dated 23/06/09 of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness looking at a smashed window at the City Church in the University area of Belfast. PA
File photo dated 24/05/08 of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (right) and Martin McGuinness carrying the coffin of former senior IRA commander Brian Keenan in west Belfast. Paul Faith/PA Wire
File photo dated 09/08/96 of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness addressing Nationalists outside the Guildhall in Serry after a march. PA
File photo dated 13/09/83 of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness. PA Wire
File photo dated 11/05/87 of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams and West Belfast MP Martin McGuinness (right) at the funeral of Patrick Kelly, 30, the reputed IRA commander in East Tyrone. PA Wire
File photo dated 15/03/2000 of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams (left) and Martin McGuinness embracing at Dublin Airport. PA
File photo dated 04/11/03 of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness outside the Guildhall in Derry after giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry, into the Bloody Sunday tribunal. PA
File photo dated 29/09/10 of former US President Bill Clinton (right)arriving at University of Ulster Magee Campus in Derry to meet First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (centre). Julien Behal/PA Wire
File photo dated 16/06/8 of Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (left) and First Minister Peter Robinson (centre) with US President George Bush at Stormont Castle in Belfast. PA Wire
File photo dated 27/08/95 of Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness addressing a Republican rally in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone. PA Wire
File photo dated 05/11/03 of Martin McGuinness walking past a Bloody Sunday mural in the Bogside in Londonderry. Paul Faith/PA Wire
Pacemaker Press Belfast 19-09-2016: Martin McGuinness to call on British government to fund legacy inquests. Sinn Féin MLA Martin McGuinness pictured speaking to the media ahead of this afternoon's meeting with British Secretary of State James Brokenshire on the need for the British government to live up to its responsibilities on addressing the legacy of the past. Mr McGuinness will call on the British government to release funding for legacy inquests, including the Ballymurphy massacre cases. Picture By: Arthur Allison.
File photo dated 18/01/01 of Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein standing beside a sentry box outside Hillsborough Castle before a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair. PA
PACEMAKER BELFAST 8/5/2007. Well done Tony! Prime Minister Tony Blair leaves Stormont Parliment on the first day of the Northern Ireland Assembly with Bertie Ahern watched by First Minister and Deputy First Minister Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker
File photo dated 06/06/08 of Prime Minister Gordon Brown (left) with Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuiness (right) in the garden at 10 Downing Street, London. PA
Pacemaker Press 5/3/08 "Business as usual" First Minister Ian Paisley with his Deputy Martin McGuinness at Stormont after a committee meeting. Yesterday Dr Paisleys announcement that he will be stepping down in May from his role as Minister and DUP Leader. Pic Colm Lenaghan/PACEMAKER
File photo dated 23/06/09 of Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness looking at a smashed window at the City Church in the University area of Belfast. Paul Faith/PA Wire
Pacemaker Press International Belfast 16/7/2007. First and Deputy First Mnister Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness pictured today at Stormont at the British Irish Council meeting 2007 . Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
PACEMAKER PRESS BELFAST 10-03-2009: The First Minister Peter Robinson was joined by the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde at a press conference at Belfast Stormont Castle. They condemned the murdered policeman Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, a married man with children from the Banbridge area of County Down Northren Ireland . PICTURE BY: ARTHUR ALLISON.
PACEMAKER BELFAST 20/11/08 First Minister Peter Robinson (front right) and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (front left),at the Northern Ireland Executive meeting in Stormont Castle ,20th November 2008,The Northern Ireland Executive will met today for the first time since June after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein agreed an end to their stand-off.An economic aid package is expected to top the agenda at today's meeting after a delegation yesterday met Prime Minister Gordon Brown to appeal for financial support.
PACEMAKER BELFAST 20/11/08 First Minister Rt Hon Peter D Robinson MP MLA and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness MP MLA officially opened a new £9million production plant in Belfast, The investment by Larsen Manufacturing, a market leader in the manufacture and supply of chemicals for the construction industry in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, will boost the companyís production capability, creating up to 30 new jobs Pic Colm Lenaghan / Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press 18.11/08 The First and Deputy First Ministers Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness's at their joint press conference at Stormont today. The DUP and Sinn Féin have come to an agreement on the devolution of policing and justice which will bring a 152-day deadlock at Stormont to an end. The executive will meet on Thursday 20 November and on a weekly basis until business is up to date, the first and deputy first ministers said. Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker
PACEMAKER PRESS BELFAST 17/7/2007 Taioseach Bertie Ahern speaks to the press while First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness look on from behind at the first meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council since the assembly which took place in Armagh City. The meeting, in Armagh, includes members of the executive and Taioseach Bertie Ahern and other Irish ministers. Picture Mark Pearce/Pacemaker Press
PACEMAKER BELFAST 4/6/2008. First Minister Ian Paisley, Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, as they officially opened the new £37million Stena Line Terminal at Belfast Port today. Picture Charles McQuillan/Pacemaker.
File photo dated 29/09/10 of former US President Bill Clinton with Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness at the University of Ulster Magee campus in Derry. PA
Pacemaker Press 12/10/09 Secretary Of State of the US Hilary Clinton is greeted by First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness as she arrives at Stormont Castle during her visit Belfast Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press 9/9/2011 Martin McGuinness addresses Sinn Fein's Ard Fheis at Belfast's Waterfront Conference Centre for a two day event. The Presbyterian minister from Derry, was invited to speak at the conference by Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness.. It was the first time a Presbyterian minister will have addressed the ard fheis Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press Belfast 9-05-2011: Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein pictured during a Press Conference in Belfast this afternoon, where the pair spoke of the parties success in last wekends election. Picture By: Arthur Allison.
Pacemaker Press 3/7/2012 First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness during the opening of the New Visitors centre at the Giants Causeway in Co Antrim Yesterday, The £18.5m building has taken 18 months to complete and includes exhibition spaces, a cafe and shops. Walks and trails around the site have also been upgraded, with the addition of a new accessible cliff-top walk for families and people with disabilities .PIcture Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press 9/9/2011 The Reverend David Latimer is welcomed by Martin McGuinness for Sinn Feins Ard Fheis at Belfasts Waterfront Conference Centre for a two day event. The Presbyterian minister from Derry, was invited to speak at the conference by Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness.. It was the first time a Presbyterian minister will have addressed the ard fheis Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker
Pacemaker Press 3/7/2012 First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness wave to the visitors during the opening of the New Visitors centre at the Giants Causeway in Co Antrim Yesterday, The £18.5m building has taken 18 months to complete and includes exhibition spaces, a cafe and shops. Walks and trails around the site have also been upgraded, with the addition of a new accessible cliff-top walk for families and people with disabilities .PIcture Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker
PACEMAKER BELFAST 28/01/2012 - Power NI Dr McKenna Cup Final, Tyrone v Derry, at Armagh. Peter Robinson, accompanied by Martin McGuinness, attended the McKenna Cup final.
File photo dated 30/05/06 of Sinn Fein MP Martin McGuinness with party colleagues during a press conference at Stormont. PA
Martin McGuinness signs resignation letter.
Martin McGuinness at the Bishop's Gate Hotel in Derry, as the former Deputy First Minister announced that he is quitting elected politics to concentrate on recovering from serious health issues: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Martin McGuinness at the Bishop's Gate Hotel in Londonderry, as the former Deputy First Minister announced that he is quitting elected politics to concentrate on recovering from serious health issues. Niall Carson/PA Wire
Sinn Fein former Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness pictured leaving Stormont Castle in east Belfast after he resigned. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye.com
Martin McGuinness during an interview with the Press Association at the Bishop's Gate Hotel in Derry, as the former Deputy First Minister announced that he is quitting elected politics to concentrate on recovering from serious health issues. PA
The heating debacle is bound to have decreased support for her among both unionists and nationalists in calling into question her basic economic competence.
The tone of her trenchant defence of her actions, and indeed her inaction, has probably been counter-productive.
In McGuinness's 10 years as Deputy First Minister, there was no significant Catholic vote for the first two DUP first ministers, but at the same time there were no strong calls along the lines of Paisley Must Go or Robinson Must Go.
McGuinness forged valuable relationships with the first two First Ministers but could make no inroads with the third.
If Foster had tried a little harder she might have softened her tough image and prevented what may now develop: calls that Foster Must Go.
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Germany: Mid-air collision between Learjet and Eurofighter
Two people are feared dead after a civilian Learjet plane has crashed in western Germany after a mid-air collision with a German air force Eurofighter jet.
The Learjet crashed in woodland near the town of Olsberg. The fate of the two people on board is not yet known.
Two people are feared dead after a civilian Learjet plane has crashed in western Germany after a mid-air collision with an air force Eurofighter jet
The Eurofighter returned safely to its base near Cologne. The incident happened during an exercise with another Eurofighter, German media say.
Die Welt news website says the Learjet was also taking part in the exercise.
Firefighters have found wreckage of the Learjet. Witnesses quoted by the German broadcaster WDR say the Learjet came down just 264ft from a block of flats.
Olsberg lies in the Ruhr Valley, in North-Rhine Westphalia state.
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Bob & Berts: creating an all-day cafe culture
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Colin McClean founded the Bob & Berts coffee chain in 2013 with a very clear goal in mind:
“I wanted to create a brand that would operate throughout the day, from morning to evening, by having a menu that served fresh food cooked on site to order.”
This fresh food offering would be the brand’s key point of difference with established multinational coffee chains. The strategy worked: within five months of opening the first shop in Portstewart, County Londonderry, Colin opened a second site five miles down the road and a third site four months after that.
Within a year the business had grown to four coffee shops, and in February 2015 Colin’s brother-in-law David Ferguson joined as co-founder. Together the pair continued to grow the business, expanding across Northern Ireland to Stranmillis, Lisburn, Omagh and Dungannon.
“By 2017 we were up to 18 stores, and that’s when a friend of ours approached us and asked what our aspirations were for the business,” explains David, who worked in finance previously. “It was through those discussions
that we began talking to BGF.”
After working on the business model and putting together a robust growth strategy that would suit a partner, Colin and David spoke to several investors, but it was BGF who stood out most. “We felt like they understood our brand and what we wanted to do. We wanted to grow the business our way and they had the confidence in us to let us do that,” says David.
Six months later the deal was agreed, with BGF investing £2m into the brand and helping the founders appoint the industry expert, Mohan Mansigani, as non-executive chair. Bob & Berts has since opened three stores in Scotland – “faster than we would have done otherwise” – updated the kitchen equipment across all 20 sites, brought in more area managers and improved the organisation’s efficiency and structure overall.
“It’s allowed us to do a wide range of things, but most importantly, it’s allowed us to open new sites and invest in the people and systems behind them,” says Colin.
Working with their new chair, Mohan, has been great for business too. “Mohan’s been very helpful and opened new doors for us. And having a board with monthly meetings has helped us to formalise the business and improve our financial reporting – so we now have much more visibility across everything we do.”
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Alphavirus
Virus classification
Group: Group IV ((+)ssRNA)
Family: Togaviridae
Genus: Alphavirus
In biology and immunology, an alphavirus belongs to the group IV Togaviridae family of viruses, according to the system of classification based on viral genome composition introduced by David Baltimore in 1971. Alphaviruses, like all other group IV viruses have a positive sense single stranded RNA genome. There are 27 alphaviruses, able to infect various vertebrates such as humans, rodents, birds, and larger mammals such as horses as well as invertebrates. Transmission between species and individuals occurs via mosquitoes making the alphaviruses a contributor to the collection of Arboviruses – or Arthropod Borne Viruses. Alphaviruses particles are enveloped have a 70nm diameter, tend to be spherical (although slightly pleomorphic), and have a 40nm isometric nucleocapsid.
1 Genome
2 Pathogenesis and immune response
3 Diagnosis, prevention, and control
The genome of alphaviruses consists of a single stranded positive sense RNA. The total genome length ranges between 11,000 and 12,000 nucleotides, and has a 5’ cap, and 3’ poly-A tail. There are two open reading frames (ORF’s) in the genome, non-structural and structural. The first is non structural and encodes proteins for transcription and replication of viral RNA, and the second encodes four structural proteins: Capsid protein C, Envelope glycoprotein E1, Envelope glycoprotein E2, and Envelope glycoprotein E3. The expression of these proteins and replication of the viral genome all takes place in the cytoplasm of the host cells.
Pathogenesis and immune response
Medically important alphaviruses
Vertebrate Reservoir
Sindbis Virus Rash, arthritis Birds Europe, Africa, Australia
Semliki Forest Virus Rash, arthritis Birds Africa
O'nyong'nyong virus Rash, arthritis Primates Africa
Chikungunya virus Rash, arthritis Primates, humans Africa, India, SE Asia
Mayaro virus Rash, arthritis Primates, humans South America
Ross River virus Rash, arthritis Mammals, humans Australia, South Pacific
Eastern equine encephalitis virus Encephalitis Birds Americas
Western equine encephalitis virus Encephalitis Birds, mammals North America
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus Encephalitis Rodents, horses Americas
There are many alphaviruses distributed around the world with the ability to cause human disease. Infectious arthritis, encephalitis, rashes and fever being the most commonly observed. Larger mammals such as humans and horses are usually dead-end hosts or play a minor role in viral transmission, however in the case of Venezuelan equine encephalitis the virus is mainly amplified in horses. In most other cases the virus is maintained in nature in mosquitoes, rodents and birds.
Alphavirus infections are spread by insect vectors such as mosquitoes. Once a human is bit by the infected mosquito, the virus can gain entry into the bloodstream, causing viremia. The alphavirus can also get into the CNS where it is able to grow and multiply within the neurones. This can lead to encephalitis, which can be fatal.
When an individual is infected with this particular virus, its immune system can play a role in clearing away the virus particles. Alphaviruses are able to cause the production of interferons. Antibodies and T cells are also involved. The neutralising antibodies also play an important role to prevent further infection and spread.
Diagnosis, prevention, and control
Diagnoses is based on clinical samples from which the virus can be easily isolated and identified. There are no alphavirus vaccines currently available. Vector control with repellents, protective clothing, breeding site destruction, and spraying are the preventive measures of choice.
Alphaviruses are of interest to gene therapy researchers, in particular the Ross River virus, Sindbis virus, Semliki Forest virus, and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus have all been used to develop viral vectors for gene delivery. Of particular interest are the chimeric viruses that may be formed with alphaviral envelopes and retroviral capsids. Such chimeras are termed pseudotyped viruses. Alphaviral envelope pseudotypes of retroviruses or lentiviruses are able to integrate the genes that they carry into the expansive range of potential host cells that are recognized and infected by the alphaviral envelope proteins E2 and E1. The stable integration of viral genes is mediated by the retroviral interiors of these vectors. There are limitations to the use of alphaviruses in the field of gene therapy due to their lack of targeting, however, through the introduction of variable antibody domains in a non-conserved loop in the structure of E2, specific populations of cells have been targeted. Furthermore, the use of whole alphaviruses for gene therapy is of limited efficacy both because several internal alphaviral proteins are involved in the induction of apoptosis upon infection and also because the alphaviral capsid mediates only the transient introduction of mRNA into host cells. Neither of these limitations extend to alphaviral envelope pseudotypes of retroviruses or lentiviruses. However, the expression of Sindbis virus envelopes may lead to apoptosis, and their introduction into host cells upon infection by Sindbis virus envelope pseudotyped retroviruses may also lead to cell death. The toxicity of Sindbis viral envelopes may be the cause of the very low production titers realized from packaging cells constructed to produce Sindbis pseudotypes. Another branch of research involving alphaviruses is in vaccination. Alphaviruses are apt to be engineered to create replicon vectors which efficiently induce humoral and T-cell immune responses. They could therefore be used to vaccinate against viral, bacterial, protozoan, and tumor antigens.
Semliki forest virus
Sindbis virus
http://virology-online.com/viruses/Arboviruses2.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/ICTVdB/73010000.htm
Alphavirus vectors: from protein production to gene therapy, C Smerdou & P Liljestrom, Gene Therapy and Regulation Vol 1 No 1 2000 pp. 33-63
Alphavirus vectors and vaccination, J O Rayner et al, Reviews in Medical Virology vol 12 issue 5 pp 279-296
http://ep.physoc.org/cgi/content/full/90/1/45
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=mmed.chapter.2894
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=mmed.section.2918
Category: Togaviruses
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Alphavirus". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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Vigan and Other Stories
by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
In this, her third collection of short stories, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard shows an uncanny talent for speaking in varied voices that bridge time and place: she is at home in Vigan, the mythical Ubec (Cebu), Sagada, Manila, Cusco, Peru, Calcutta, Chartres, California, bringing each location alive with loving detail. She speaks as a...
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Magdalena is a powerful novel about the lasting effects war has on people’s lives. Playing with time and point of view, multi-award author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, explores the loves and secrets of three generations of women in the Philippines from the time of the Philippine American War, World War II, and Vietnam War. The novel...
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When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing
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We are writing in response to your article in The Border Mail, “$7.4m bridge to grow city population” (December 12, 2018) highlighting funding of some infrastructure for the proposed residential land development in the Wangaratta North West Growth Area. It was reported, from a Wangaratta Council staff officer, that “the funds were spread across this year and next year’s budget, but would be recouped from the federal government”. This statement is misleading and incorrect in regard to the bridge funding. The bridge and Reith Road project mentioned will be funded by the Wangaratta North West Growth Area Development Contribution Plan (DCP), recently adopted and approved by council, awaiting final approval (but not yet approved) by the Victorian Minister for Planning and his department. Most of these projects will be funded by us, the landowners and developers, $30 million of it, not ratepayers or the federal government. If by some miracle extra funds have become available, no-one has told us. There are billions of government dollars being spent on infrastructure around the country, why can’t Wangaratta Council get a morsel of this? The DCP payment is a separate payment to all internal infrastructure works within the development which are fully funded by the landowner/developer. These DCP projects and others in the development will benefit many user groups outside the development. We believe we have been unfairly overburdened with many of these costs. We have highlighted to council many miscalculations, inaccuracies and noted a lack transparency in costings and scope of many works outside the development that we still have to fund. We believe this high cost burden is counterproductive to the future development of affordable housing in Wangaratta. Send us a letter A $3 million grant was allocated to the Cruise Street Bridge Project back in 2016, well documented in the local press and council minutes. Wangaratta Council, however, in its wisdom, reallocated these funds somewhere else, but when questioned could not tell us where. This money came from the federal government fuel excise fund. We have asked council to show us this paper trail, to no avail. Member for Indi Cathy McGowan’s staff were requested by us to pursue this paper trail in Canberra, to no avail. Surely there has to be some paperwork for a $3 million grant allocated to a specific project. Our concerns have been aired many times to council staff and councillors over the past 10 months with formal submissions, meetings and a Planning Panel hearing – we have been heard, but with little or no action. But for a precious few in council, most reaction has been dismissive, defensive and disappointing. Recently we took our concerns direct to the planning minister and have met with a DELWP planning officer, the most positive meeting we have had all year. Receive our daily newsletter straight to your inbox each morning from The Border Mail. Sign up here
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Wangaratta Council's comments about funding of a bridge in the Wangaratta North West Growth Area are inaccurate, readers say.
Grant issue a big concern
We are writing in response to your article in The Border Mail, “$7.4m bridge to grow city population” (December 12, 2018) highlighting funding of some infrastructure for the proposed residential land development in the Wangaratta North West Growth Area.
It was reported, from a Wangaratta Council staff officer, that “the funds were spread across this year and next year’s budget, but would be recouped from the federal government”.
This statement is misleading and incorrect in regard to the bridge funding.
The bridge and Reith Road project mentioned will be funded by the Wangaratta North West Growth Area Development Contribution Plan (DCP), recently adopted and approved by council, awaiting final approval (but not yet approved) by the Victorian Minister for Planning and his department.
Most of these projects will be funded by us, the landowners and developers, $30 million of it, not ratepayers or the federal government.
If by some miracle extra funds have become available, no-one has told us.
There are billions of government dollars being spent on infrastructure around the country, why can’t Wangaratta Council get a morsel of this?
The DCP payment is a separate payment to all internal infrastructure works within the development which are fully funded by the landowner/developer.
These DCP projects and others in the development will benefit many user groups outside the development.
We believe we have been unfairly overburdened with many of these costs.
We have highlighted to council many miscalculations, inaccuracies and noted a lack transparency in costings and scope of many works outside the development that we still have to fund.
We believe this high cost burden is counterproductive to the future development of affordable housing in Wangaratta.
A $3 million grant was allocated to the Cruise Street Bridge Project back in 2016, well documented in the local press and council minutes.
Wangaratta Council, however, in its wisdom, reallocated these funds somewhere else, but when questioned could not tell us where.
This money came from the federal government fuel excise fund. We have asked council to show us this paper trail, to no avail.
Member for Indi Cathy McGowan’s staff were requested by us to pursue this paper trail in Canberra, to no avail.
Surely there has to be some paperwork for a $3 million grant allocated to a specific project.
Our concerns have been aired many times to council staff and councillors over the past 10 months with formal submissions, meetings and a Planning Panel hearing – we have been heard, but with little or no action.
But for a precious few in council, most reaction has been dismissive, defensive and disappointing.
Recently we took our concerns direct to the planning minister and have met with a DELWP planning officer, the most positive meeting we have had all year.
Gary Wilson and Greg Mitchell, on behalf of 15 land owners in the Wangaratta North West Growth Area
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Dumping billions down the drain? Teacher "professional development" spending a total waste, study ar
Study estimates $18,000 per teacher each year spent on teacher professional development, but fails to find any connection between the training and results in the classroom. - photo by Eric Schulzke
Eric Schulzke
Posted: Oct. 1, 2015, 11:59 a.m.
Teacher professional development is an enormous sinkhole, sucking billions of dollars every year and producing no measurable results, says a new study by TNTP, a New York-based nonprofit education reform group formerly known as The New Teacher Project. TNTP's 370 staff members work on the ground in schools around the country helping schools sharpen curriculum, improve hiring practices and retain top teachers.
The two-year study looked at three large urban districts and one charter network that collectively employ more than 20,000 teachers. They tested professional development methods against student-test performance and teacher-classroom performance.
And they found ... nothing.
The 50 largest districts in the U.S. devote at least $8 billion to teacher development annually, they write, a figure that includes time lost to teaching or lesson preparation. Teachers surveyed by TNTP report that they spend 19 full school days a year in development activities. If a $18,000 figure per teacher amount is accurate, the total cost for 3.5 million K-12 teachers would exceed $60 billion a year.
The financial implications of this are enormous, said Dan Weisberg, TNTP's CEO. TNTP estimates that the average school district spends $18,000 per teacher each year on professional development.
"If the $8 billion were working and kids were getting better and better," Weisberg said, "then let's spend more. But we are getting nothing for our investment.
Not everyone takes this critique at face value. The study is important and deserves close attention, said Ed Ackerman, president of Solutions Tree, a major teacher professional development company, but he questions whether its sweeping conclusions are warranted.
This study looked at three districts and one charter school network, Ackerman said. We work with hundreds of districts. We've built a very large data set, with much of it online, that shows the role of professional development on creating better outcomes.
But the TNTP critique has found a number of allies, however, including, Mike Garet, the researcher whose framework for effective teacher development is still widely cited, long after he concluded he could not find evidence to back it up.
"We have poured a ton of resources into professional development, said Garet, a fellow at the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes of Research, one of the most prominent sources of nonpartisan social science data, but we've done no continuous improvement and testing to see if the money is well spent."
Back in 1997, Garet and his colleagues came up with five features they thought characterized effective professional development for teachers. These included features like integration with classroom curriculum and team members from the same school or department taking the same training.
Over the next few years, AIR then set out to test the theory, first looking at 2nd grade reading classrooms and then 7th grade math classes. Both studies used rigorous random assignment methods, Garet said.
The researchers were surprised to find no impact on either student test scores or on classroom performance evaluations, both of which closely tracked each other.
"The professional development was delivered by very experienced instructors," Garet said. "The quality was very high, the feedback strong, the curriculum consistent, but didn't boost teacher achievement at all."
Subsequent studies have shown a curious stall that occurs after the fifth year of teaching, Garet said. For the first five years, teaching quality does improve, but after that it tends to level off. "If professional development were effective, since all teachers were participating in it throughout their careers, you would think they would be get more effective with years of experience," he said.
The TNTP results are consistent with the AIR randomized study. "We concluded that it didn't matter whether teachers had more or less professional development or what kind they had," Garet said.
Ackerman responds to the TNTP data with a simple, logical colloquy. All evidence now shows that the single greatest factor in educational outcomes is the quality of the teaching, he notes.
Are there schools and districts that are improving? Ackerman asked. Can we find the best practices employed by these stellar organizations? The answer is yes. And we find that part of what they do to improve the expertise of the people who work there. Then you ask how they do that.
He said one of the ways outstanding schools improve is by making teacher effectiveness a laser focus of their efforts.
Ackerman does agree with TNTP, however, that short-term teacher development over a weekend, or having them read a book, is no substitute for sustained commitment. He says his company tries to ensure that the school or district is owning and internalizing the training.
No silver bullets
TNTP did offer a number of recommendations for schools. These include doing more to precisely define what professional growth is and doing a better job of inventorying current programs and expenses to evaluate them. The final set of recommendations, however, call for a step back from teacher development, putting it in the context of other investments, such as recruitment, compensation and retention policies.
They call for reconstructing the teachers job, possibly in radical ways, and redesigning schools to extend the reach of great teachers to both students and colleagues. They also note that we need to rethink how we train and certify teachers, not just how we develop them on the job.
"It's a terrific contribution," said Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, of the TNTP study, "but it should surprise anyone who has been spending time with this field."
I would hesitate to look at the TNTP recommendations as a recipe, and I think it would be a mistake if states or school districts read them that way, Hess said. After all, we just don't know what works. But I do think the recommendations are generally sensible and point in a useful direction.
Hess said he hopes the study helps generate dramatic breaks with the status quo, which, he hopes, should involve looking outside of education to how other professions train their people. And he looks to organizations, such as the U.S. military, that can "take people and in a matter of months teach them to be quite competent at their work, and then invest in growing their skills over time."
However, Hess does fear a repeat of what happened in the 1990s, when Mike Garets provisional framework for what makes a strong teacher development program became iconic in the industry, before it had really been proven. That framework, Garet notes, continues to live on long after the evidence led him to question it.
Among Garets principles was that effective teacher development focuses on content knowledge, includes active learning, occurs in collaboration with other teachers in the school and is sustained over time, not over a weekend.
Garet notes that his markers of good professional development have permeated the literature and are now accepted uncritically. He still thinks the factors they isolated matter, but he now knows something much more radical is needed.
Any real improvement in teaching and learning outcomes will require some radical thinking, Weisberg agrees, which is how he sees the import of the study. It won't do to just try harder at what we are already doing, or even trying to winnow the best results from the existing practices.
One example of such radical rethinking, Weisberg notes, is a North Carolina program called "Opportunity Culture," that takes high-performing teachers who might otherwise have been promoted to administration and employs them as multi-classroom teachers who monitor multiple classrooms, work with students in small groups and helps maintain teaching excellence in their unit.
Garet points to another promising program at the University of Virginia that in a randomized study got strong teacher classroom performance boosts after one year and strong student achievement boosts in the second year.
The UVA program involves intensive distance mentoring, with teachers filming themselves once every two weeks and sending the video to the mentor, who codes it and talks on the phone with the teacher to give detailed feedback. The in-context and continuous coaching seems to have a real impact, Garet said.
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Nocturno Associação Daniel Caldeira 2009
MTB TraIl nearby Setúbal population.
The largest locality in the area is Setúbal, with a population of 117,110 persons, at a distance of 2.552 kilometers from the center of the map.
Min height: 5 meters above sea level.
Average height: 79 meters above sea level.
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How picturing a refrigerator can help you stop stressing about your investments
Libby Kane
In his new book "The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy," New York Times Wealth Matters columnist Paul Sullivan comes across an interesting parallel to the irresistible urge to constantly check your investments: binge-eating.
While reading research examining client investing behavior from Gregg Fisher and Philip Z. Maymin (published in the Journal of Wealth Management in 2011), he came across data showing that "knee-jerk reactions to what happened the day before cost an investor 4 percentage points of return each year," he writes. "That's not only a drag on the portfolio but is difficult to recover from over time."
Research shows that many of the most successful investors leave their money alone, allowing it to weather the market's ups and downs without interfering.
This impulse to buy and sell isn't unlike the example used for the hypothesis of the Fisher-Maymin study: an earlier, 1978 study featuring a man so unable to control his binge-eating that he locked up his fridge at night and gave the key away.
"But he still woke up wanting to eat, unable to control the urge on his own," Sullivan writes. "At some point the refrigerator would not be locked and he would binge again. Maymin made a similar observation about Fisher's clients � and investors in general: some cannot help themselves in buying high and selling low."
To combat the impulse to panic and call your adviser the minute there's news in the market, Sullivan suggests picturing your invested funds � whether that's retirement, college savings, or vacation savings � locked in a metaphorical refrigerator, safely away from your impulsive hands.
[The investor] could mentally lock his money there and not touch it. It would be set aside for a goal and be as unretrievable as the money he spent on lunch. This strategy could keep him from caring about the price of stocks day to day. Those movements would be irrelevant, and his chance of obtaining real wealth greater. It would make him less optimistic and in the long run wealthier.
You don't have to imagine a fridge, specifically. It could be a safe, or a deserted island, or a similarly inaccessible spot. Just know that if you're tempted to react to market news by adjusting your investments, the urge isn't going to go away. It's up to you to put a lock on your fridge, and keep from worrying about it every day.
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In 2012, the ACT surpassed the SAT for the first time ever, but just barely. That year, there were 1,666,017 ACT takers and 1,664,479 SAT takers—a difference of less than 2,000 students. In 2013, the supremacy of the ACT has become undisputed. This year, the ACT added well over 100,000 new users, putting the final tally of ACT test takers over 1.8 million students. The SAT, by contrast, just avoided a net loss in test takers by administering more midweek School Day tests.
With its superior Common Core alignment, the ACT is gobbling up state-wide testing contracts and positioning itself as a measure of not just college readiness but high school performance as well. In 2013, North Carolina, a dyed-in-the-wool SAT state, administered an ACT to every junior. Alabama schools are holding principals accountable for their students' ACT results, leading to a new culture of in-school ACT preparation. Record numbers of students across the Southeast and in other traditional SAT strongholds are applying to colleges exclusively with an ACT score.
As the ACT advances deeper into previously uncontested College Board territory, it is confronting stronger and savvier test takers in territories where substantial test prep is the norm. In 2000, only 131 students of the 1,065,138 total test takers (.012%) achieved a score of 36 on the ACT. Compare this to the current 1,162 perfect scores from the pool of roughly 1,800,000 students in 2013 (.065%). This is a remarkable 430% increase in the percentage of perfect scores in a relatively short period of time.
Too many 36s throws off the ACT's desired score distribution. In recent years, we've noticed the test writers attempting to counter the rise of perfect scores by adding harder content to certain ACT sections. We've seen the ACT science section, in particular, grow considerably harder, with more multi-phase problems and more challenging timing demands. Students using historic ACT tests to gauge their level of preparedness need to factor in the higher difficulty level of the current tests to ensure their expectations are properly calibrated.
While the SAT is retooling and preparing for its 2015 overhaul, the ACT is gearing up to "go digital" with its 2015 online test release. ACT test writers are also subtly shifting their test's content to bring the ACT into even closer alignment with the Common Core standards. On the October ACT, we saw the test writers add a new "author comparison" passage to the Reading section. This was a surprise, but it simply shows how much influence the Common Core standards are having on the college assessments. More changes are coming soon, and we're all awaiting the January/February announcement from the College Board president, David Coleman, outlining exactly what we can expect on the 2015 SAT.
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Nashville, TN – Tennessee Department of Transportation reports Thursday, July 12th through Wednesday July 18th (excluding weekends), from 9:00am-12:00pm, there will be one lane periodically closed on I-24 in both directions in Robertson and Montgomery Counties to move equipment between mile marker 18 and mile marker 12 in order to trim vegetation overhanging the roadway.
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Mark Green releases Campaign Donation Totals
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Mark Green, the Republican candidate for State Senate in District 22, today announced his fundraising totals for the second quarter. Green raised $134,575 for the second quarter, bringing his total raised so far in the campaign to $259,521.
“I think the reports clearly show my campaign has not only the momentum, but the grassroots support from across Montgomery, Stewart and Houston Counties to make us successful in November,” Green said. «Read the rest of this article»
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Clarksville Montgomery County School System website is back Online
Montgomery County, TN – The Clarksville Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) brought their website back online Thursday, July 12th. Some sections are still down but will be brought back up gradually.
The site was taken down after the systems security was breached by hackers on Sunday, June 10th.
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Doubleheader Scheduled For Saturday Evening
Nashville, TN – Tonight’s scheduled homestand opener at Greer Stadium between the Nashville Sounds and Albuquerque Isotopes has been postponed due to unplayable field conditions resulting from heavy rains throughout Middle Tennessee this week.
The game will be made up as part of a 6:05pm doubleheader on Saturday evening, when the two teams will play a pair of seven-inning games.
Thursday Night game postponed due to wet field conditions. Nashville Sounds Baseball. (Mike Strasinger)
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Tennessee Department of Agriculture says Despite Wilting Weather, some Great Produce still “Hot” at Local Markets
Nashville, TN – It’s been hot, lately. Have you noticed? Tennessee’s crops have noticed, too, hit with a deadly combination of record heat and drought conditions. In such widespread and long lasting situations, many summer fruits and vegetables stop growing and stop producing blossoms or fruits, even if the plant survives.
After an early and auspicious start, Tennessee’s sweet corn has all vanished at local farm markets. Other crops anticipated for later in the season, like melons, may never make much of an appearance at all. «Read the rest of this article»
Hot Dog Fridays at Fort Campbell’s Air Assault Auto
Fort Campbell, KY – You deserve a break so get out of the office and visit Air Assault Auto on Hot Dog Friday. Starting at 11:00am, Air Assault Auto will be cooking hotdogs and serving sodas and chips.
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Premier Medical Group welcomes Dr. Wilson Eseme, Jr. to Doctors’ Group Practice
Clarksville, TN – Premier Medical Group is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Wilson Eseme to their occupational medicine department.
Dr. Eseme, a native of Cameroon, earned his medical degree from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon and completed additional studies at University College in London, UK and Meharry Medical College. He completed his occupational medicine residency at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.
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Former Fort Campbell Soldier heading to the Paralympic Games in London
By Bill Larson | July 12, 2012 |
Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson
Fort Benning, GA – Nine years after losing his leg in a rocket-propelled grenade attack while on patrol in Iraq, Sgt. 1st Class Josh Olson has reinvented his Army career. Going from an Infantry squad leader to a wounded warrior, he is now a Paralympic shooter.
But in October of 2003, Olson’s future had been less certain. Recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with the loss of his right leg still fresh in his mind, Olson didn’t know if the last page in his Army story had just been written.
He was confident he would complete rehabilitation in time to return to his duty station at Fort Campbell, Ky., to welcome home his battle buddies returning from Iraq. The last time they’d seen him, he was being pulled out of the wreckage of a Humvee. Olson knew he would walk again with the use of prosthesis. What he didn’t expect was to discover a marksmanship talent that would lead him to make history at the Paralympic Games. «Read the rest of this article»
Jammin’ in the Alley to have Acoustic Night July 20th
Clarksville, TN – The City of Clarksville together with U.S. Bank will be Jammin’ in Strawberry Alley again on Friday, July 20th, 2012. Join us for this month’s free concert and “Night Market”, featuring more than a dozen vendors from Clarksville’s weekly Downtown Market. Vendors will be set up from 5:30pm to 8:30pm, and the concert will begin at 7:00pm.
Acoustic Night will feature performances by local artists, Michael Jacobs, Lydia Walker, Dustin Overbeek, Rebecca Forehand, and Freight Train. «Read the rest of this article»
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Carter, R., 2003. Climate, Groundwater, and Population Growth. END InSight, 2(1), pp.2-3.
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Lenart, M., 2002. Southwest drought could persist despite monsoon, El Niño. END InSight, (1), pp.1-3.
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Forestry movers, shakers to star at forestry equipment show
Machines and technology that keep the South's forest industry booming will be on display June 2 and 3 at the 2006 Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show.
The biannual demonstration of new timber harvest and production equipment takes place seven miles south of Starkville on state Highway 25. The site adjoins an entrance road to Mississippi State's John W. Starr Memorial Forest.
Now in its 22nd year, the public event is co-sponsored by the university's College of Forest Resources and Montgomery, Ala.-based Hatton-Brown Publishers Inc., in cooperation with the Mississippi Forestry and Mississippi Loggers associations.
"The Mid-South Forestry Equipment Show is the nation's oldest, continuous in-woods equipment demonstration and, with 18 live exhibitors this year, the biggest," said Charles Burkhardt, show director and school forest supervisor. "We also are extremely proud that our partnership with Hatton-Brown has elevated the show to a regional event."
The latest models of bulldozers, fire plows, log loaders, skidders, and other heavy equipment will be operating in a variety of timber types and stand conditions. Manufacturers and dealers will be on hand as timber industry professionals test their skills in various competitive events, including the popular Prentice Loader Championship.
The loader contest originated in 1972 and has been conducted annually at various venues throughout the eastern United States. In a timed challenge rewarded with prizes and/or cash, contestants must successfully remove vertical log blocks from a "checkerboard" and then return them to their original squares.
Other 2006 show features helicopter rides for children and a host of educational opportunities for loggers, landowners and foresters. Games and activities designed specifically for children also are scheduled.
For overnight visitors, an MSU-operated recreational vehicle park adjoins the show area.
For more details, contact Burkhardt at (662) 325-2191 or cburkhardt@cfr.msstate.edu.
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Bangladesh sink Afghanistan after Shakib brilliance
Bangladesh beat Afghanistan by 62 runs in a Cricket World Cup match to register their third win in the tournament on Monday.
Cricket - ICC Cricket World Cup - Bangladesh v Afghanistan - The Ageas Bowl, Southampton, Britain - June 24, 2019 Bangladesh's Liton Das celebrates with team mates after taking the catch to dismiss Afghanistan's Gulbadin Naib Action Images via Reuters/John Sibley
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24 Jun 2019 09:41PM (Updated: 25 Jun 2019 02:45AM )
SOUTHAMPTON, England: Bangladesh talisman Shakib Al Hasan reclaimed his position as the World Cup's leading scorer after producing a stellar all-round display to secure his team's 62-run victory against Afghanistan on Monday.
Put in to bat, Bangladesh posted a strong 262 for seven on a slow track after Shakib, who made 51, forged half-century partnerships with Tamim Iqbal (36) and Mushfiqur Rahim (83).
The left-arm spinner went on to return the tournament's best bowling figures of 5-29 as Afghanistan, all out for 200 in 47 overs, succumbed to their seventh defeat in a row in the tournament.
Bangladesh are now fifth in the table with seven points from seven matches, one behind hosts and pre-tournament favourites England who have played one game fewer.
"Shakib's been fantastic. He's scoring runs and whenever we need (it) he is getting us wickets," Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza said after their third win in the tournament.
"We will try our level best (in the next matches against Pakistan and India), that's all I can say to the fans."
NEW BALL
Afghanistan captain Gulbadin Naib won the toss and elected to field two days after his team's narrow defeat by India, which was also at the Hampshire Bowl.
As has been their practice, off-spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman began with the new ball and tasted success in his third over when Liton Das drove him to short cover.
Mohammad Nabi breached Tamim's defence and Afghanistan nearly had two-in-two after Shakib was adjudged lbw to Rashid Khan in the first ball of the next over.
The batsman immediately asked for a review and got the decision overturned after the ball-tracker confirmed the ball would have sailed over the stumps.
Shakib added 61 runs with Mushfiqur but Mujeeb dismissed him and Soumya Sarkar in a two-wicket burst to peg back Bangladesh.
Shakib's fifth 50-plus score in six innings contained just one four, illustrating the slowness of the track where boundaries were a rarity.
He now has 476 runs in the tournament, leapfrogging Australian opener David Warner (447), after yet another stellar performance.
Mushfiqur brought up his fifty with the only six of the Bangladesh innings and also hit four boundaries.
After sending down 10 overs of medium pace, Naib returned half an hour later to give Afghanistan a strong, if not flying, start.
He and Rahmat Shah helped Afghanistan inch towards the 50-mark when Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza introduced Shakib and the left-arm spinner struck with his fifth delivery.
Shah attempted a timid pull shot which found Tamim at mid-on and departed for 24.
Shakib derailed Afghanistan's chase in the 29th over when he dismissed Naib for 47 and, two balls later, sent back the scoreless Nabi.
The match was effectively over when former captain Asghar Afghan fell to Shakib in the 33rd over.
Samiullah Shinwari made a defiant 49 not out down the order but was left stranded.
"Today we missed something in the fielding, and gave 30-40 runs extra," said a rueful Naib. "The wicket was slow, it helped the spinners. But it wasn't that helpful in the second innings."
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in Southampton; editing by Pritha Sarkar and Ken Ferris)
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Kaylee DaMitz analyzes the offense in a game versus Newman. Pitt would win 81-69 behind her career-high of 11 assists, as well as her 15 points. Robert Magobet/Tribune
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A.J. Walker crosses over in a contest versus Newman on Jan. 9, 2019 in Pittsburg. Pitt would go on to win 65-62 behind his season-high of 26 points.
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PITTSBURG – Kaylee DaMitz closed the door for Newman on Thursday at the John Lance Arena.
Pittsburg State University’s starting guard and the 17th leading scorer in the MIAA, DaMitz hit a 3 with 6:45 left in the game. This bolstered a 13-5 run, and assisted an 81-69 win over Newman University, which marked the fourth win in five games.
DaMitz chalked up 15 points and 11 assists, a career-high and her first double-double of the year. For Pitt, Labette County product Tristan Gegg, the leading MIAA scorer, racked up 14 points, while Meghan Maher tallied 12 and Ashton McCorry had 10.
DaMitz said it was a total team effort.
“I gotta give a lot of credit to my teammates because I can’t get 11 assists without my teammates,” DaMitz said. “I like to do what’s best for the team, whether that’s passing or doing whatever. My coach in high school said you don’t have to make the play, but you have to make the right play. That stuck with me because here I am trying to break the assist record – that’s a goal I have.”
Last year the Gorillas started out with a 10-3 start – Pitt State lost in the first round of the Central Regional in the NCAA Division II National Tournament – and through 13 games this year, Pitt is 8-5. But some aspects in the Newman game that may forestall losing tendencies included the shooting and rebounding. PSU shot 52 percent from the field, 44 percent from 3, and out-rebounded Newman 37 to 26.
Head coach Amanda Davied said there were aspects that were substantially better in this game than the Fort Hays State game, when PSU lost by a point.
“We wanted to be better rebounding – that’s kind of been our nemesis all year,” Davied said. “It’s been our goal to be better rebounding, better defenders. We know we held Hays to 75, which is still a lot of points. And then these guys (Newman) 69, so we are still working on that. But I was proud that we only gave up six offensive boards tonight. And the three-pointers, we held Hays to five, Kearney to four, and so that was actually an emphasis. We didn’t do real great on that, but we did get into some other areas that we really wanted to. Overall, really proud we won the rebounding war. That’s the biggest thing.”
Pitt State lost a close game 88-86 to Central Oklahoma on Saturday at home. Gegg led the way with 26 points, while Athena Alvarado scored 23 and grabbed 11 rebounds. Up next, PSU women (8-6) will play at Central Missouri Wednesday.
PITTSBURG – AJ Walker was a man amongst boys on Thursday at John Lance Arena.
With under a minute to go, Pittsburg State’s point guard drove to the hoop, where he was fouled before sinking two critical free throws. Marcel Cherry stole the ball. Christian Edmondson had one of the biggest blocks of the game.
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Walker staying aggressive and these plays down the stretch led to a 65-62 win over Newman University, improving PSU’s record to 6-8.
Walker scored 26 – a season high – while Jah-Kobe Womack, the 14th leading scorer in the MIAA (14 points), notched 14.
Walker, who had to sit out fall semester because he only has one semester of eligibility left, said he has the utmost confidence when his number is called.
“I work hard for it, my team believes in me, and when the team believes in me and the coach believes in me, you have to believe in yourself,” Walker said. “And I put a lot of hours in this gym doing that same floater, doing that same drive to the right. It’s just confidence. Stay positive no matter what’s going on. We focus on fighting adversity. I mean the game is full of runs. You just try to get the last one and come out on top. We have a turnover, or a bad shot, or a bad foul, keep encouraging everybody to stay positive and think about the next play.”
The next game is what the Gorillas will need to focus on. Last season the Gorillas got off to a 9-5 start before losing in the MIAA Tournament Semifinals. And while Pitt State was 6-8 through 14 games, the silver lining is that the team will not quit down the stretch. What’s more, in the Newman game, the Gorillas shot the ball at 47 percent versus 40 percent for the Jets. The turnover battle was a tie, as both teams committed 14. Other stats were was virtually even, but head coach Kim Anderson said it came down to his point guard Walker.
“He’s really the only guy that has a lot of experience, and obviously I have a lot of trust in him,” Anderson said. “And I think he’s still getting comfortable because he didn’t play the first semester. He just got eligible mid-December, so it’s a process for him. Hopefully we can build on this. We have a couple of home games here.”
Pitt would go on to lose the next game 78-73 to Central Oklahoma. Walker, though, led his team in scoring once more with 20 points and five dimes, while Womack and Antonio Givens posted 17 apiece.
The Gorillas (6-9) will take on Central Missouri on the road Wednesday.
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Home Flights Oceania Australia New South Wales Cheap flights to Moree, Australia
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Moree has varied weather throughout the year; April to October are pleasantly warm during the day and cold at night, while November to March are hot during the day and warm at night. There is some rain all year round, but November to February have the heaviest rain and the area is known to flood during these months. There are food and art festivals, picnics, golf and racing events throughout the year, so there is bound to be something exciting to enjoy, whenever you visit. It is slightly cheaper to travel during the hottest and wettest months, as there are fewer tourists at this time.
Moree overview
Moree is located in New South Wales, around 310 miles (500 km) inland. It is in a picturesque area, with a rich heritage and natural wonders, ready for visitors to explore. The town is most famous for being Australia’s Artesian Spa Capital. The Great Artesian Basin, the largest of its kind in the world, was first tapped here in 1895. Today, the Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre offers activities and spa treatments using the pure, naturally heated, artesian water. The Moree Plains Gallery was opened to reflect the history and culture of the region, the building itself is an important historical piece of architecture, dating back to 1910. Exhibitions include aboriginal collections and work displaying the culture of the Kamilaroi people, the region’s tribe. The gallery also hosts music recitals, film nights and several different workshops.
Nature in Moree lends itself perfectly to a variety of outdoor activities, from fishing and bird watching to the Boomi Walking Trails, organised by the Boomi Community Co-operative. There are several agri tours available, where you can learn about the region’s history and agriculture. The Lightning Ridge Tour visits the location of the world’s richest opal source. You can see how pecans and cotton are farmed on the Pecan Nut Farm & Township Familiarisation Tour or the Cotton Gin & Town Tour. There are a number of parks and gardens in the city, including Jellicoe Park which hosts a market on the first Sunday of every month.
Getting around Moree
Getting around the town is easy, you can walk to many places and there are taxis and a wide reaching bus service. The Heritage Trail is a relaxing walking tour, which takes you around the town centre to enjoy the art deco architecture and learn about the local history. The Moree Visitor Information Centre, located at the junction of Newell and Gwydir Highway, is a great place for information on tours, events and activities. You can also taste and buy local produce, such as pecans, honey and olive oil.
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The airport is just 3 miles (5 km) and around a five minute drive from the city centre. You can rent a car from the airport or there are metered taxis by Moree Radio Cabs and local buses available. Some hotels offer shuttle services.
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Brian Riemer signs new contract
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Home > England > Yorkshire > Towns and Villages > York > Attractions > The Shambles
The Shambles
The Shambles is often called Europe's best preserved medieval street, although the name is also used to collectively refer to the surrounding maze of narrow, twisting lanes and alleys as well. The street itself is mentioned in the Domesday Book, so we know that it has been in continuous existence for over 900 years.
A medieval shop window
in The Shambles
The Shambles has the effect of a time machine, transporting you back to the Elizabethan period. The houses that jostle for space along The Shambles project out over the lane in their upper stories, as if trying to meet their neighbours opposite.
In some places the street is so narrow that if you stand with arms outstretched you can touch the houses on both sides.
The name "Shambles" comes from the Saxon "Fleshammels", which means, "the street of the butchers", for it was here that the city's butcher's market was located. Notice the wide window sills of the houses; the meat for sale was displayed here.
Margaret Clitherow's house
The butcher's shops have now been replaced with shops catering to visitors, including jewellery and antiques; indeed, the Shambles is now one of the premier shopping areas in the city of York.
One building of note in The Shambles is the home of Margaret Clitherow. She was arrested in 1586 on the charge of harbouring Catholic priests. To make matters worse, she had regular Masses said in her house, and hid clergy vestments there.
The authorities condemned her to death by pressing (crushing beneath a heavy weight). Margaret Clitherow was canonized in 1970, and her home is now a shrine.
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Established in 1936, The Atebara Chip Company was the first producer of chips in Hawai’i and the original introducers of the Hawaiian Kalo or Taro Chips. The company was founded by Raymond Atebara in Hilo.
Raymond’s Chips quickly gained popularity and recognition in Hawai’i. During World War II, potato rationing saw his company venture into Chips productions using Taro roots as a Potato Chip alternative.
The 1946 Hilo Tsunami caused great damage to the original Atebara plant so the family and business relocated to Manono St. where the Atebara’s family traditions are still carried out to this day.
In 1979 Raymond Atebara passed the family business onto his son Walter, who introduced new Chips including the unique flavors of Purple Sweet Potato Chips and Shrimp flavored chips.
In 2002 the Atebara Chip Company was bought out by the Tamimi family, who formed Hawai’i Island Gourmet.
The name Hawaii Island Gourmet comes from the family’s decision to Island grown ingredients to support the local economy and environment. It has also introduced other foods like cookies, chocolates, candies, flavored nuts and gift baskets. In an effort to help local farms, Hawai’i Island Gourmet uses crops from around fifteen family farms on the Big Island in an attempt to support local families and agriculture. The company also has their own 20 acre farm where traditional farming techniques are used to grow taro and sweet potato.
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UK ‘must do more for Gib’ on Brexit, Azopardi says
By Cristina Cavilla Share
Gibraltar is not getting enough support from the UK in the Brexit process, GSD Leader Keith Azopardi said yesterday.
In an interview with the Chronicle, Mr Azopardi added that while the Gibraltar Government had worked hard to protect the Rock’s interests, it should perhaps have taken a tougher stance to secure firm commitments from UK ministers.
Mr Azopardi was speaking after the UK Government published a white paper on Brexit this week setting out how it will legislate for the withdrawal agreement.
The document included a reference to the Rock but Mr Azopardi said the measures it contained were geared to UK interests with “no real reflection on what is necessary for Gibraltar”.
Mr Azopardi said that while Gibraltar’s inclusion was welcome, it was also “completely peripheral” to the main thrust of the document.
“They say that they are going to try to negotiate something that is convenient to Gibraltar, but it is so different to the way Northern Ireland gets talked about,” he told the Chronicle.
Comparing the UK Government’s treatment of the two, Mr Azopardi highlighted how, for Northern Ireland, there is a “real commitment” to aspects such as trade and ensuring there is no hard border.
“That’s not what you see in the case of Gibraltar,” he said.
“We are grouped together with other overseas territories without recognising the uniqueness of Gibraltar and the fact that we are the only mainland Europe-British border.”
“None of that is ever mentioned.”
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The Matsqui First Nations community centre building. (Stan Morgan photo.)
B.C. First Nation makes claim for sale of reserve lands 150 years ago
More than 99 per cent of reserve land sold to settlers with compensation, according to claim
Patrick Penner
The Matsqui First Nation have filed a claim against the federal government for the sale of almost their entire reservation land over 150 years ago by the Colony of British Columbia.
The claim states 99 per cent of the 9,600 acres administered to the Matsqui by the colonial government in 1864 was sold out from under them to incoming settlers in the Fraser Valley.
The claim is being made under Canada’s Specific Claim Policy which states that Indigenous bands who historically suffered under colonial government treaty breaches are entitled to compensation from today’s federal government.
“The reconciliation of this claim has been a priority for Matsqui for many years,” said Chief Alice McKay. “Resolving historical grievances with Matsqui is critical to renewing our relationship with Canada and advancing reconciliation.”
The history of the 9,600 acre sale goes back to Joseph Trutch’s role as chief commissioner of lands in the 1860’s. Trutch ignored the previously established land treaties and allowed Indigenous reserves to be downsized and sold off to settlers.
Only a tiny piece of the original reserve exists today at the north end of Abbotsford along the Fraser River.
“This is not about coming after private property owners for the lands, or about displacing people from the City of Abbotsford,” said Matsqui Coun. Brenda Morgan. “This is about truth-seeking and justice for our people. We want closure on this matter so our people can heal and we can all progress together in this great region we all call home.”
McKay said the claim has been worked on for over a decade she expects it to take three years before being resolved.
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Top 3 Australian financial scams of 2013
By Hamish Barwick
As the year winds down, it’s time to look back at some of the financial scams that targeted Australians in 2013.
These ranged from phishing emails designed to harvest people’s bank account details to fake online shopping websites. While none of the scams are particularly new, cyber criminals took advantage of people who were looking for a genuine bargain or were worried that their bank account had been compromised.
IDC Australia senior market analyst Vern Hue said victims are sometimes taken in because of the prospect of financial gain. “You believe so much that you deserve a break and when such luck befalls you, it's in your nature to jump at it,” he said. “These scams are designed to manipulate our emotions.”
Shop until you drop
Coming in at place number three is online shopping scams, in particular ones that offer concert tickets or big discounts on expensive items.
For criminals, this method can bring rich pickings. An estimated 500,000 Australians aged between 18 and 64 were scammed when buying tickets online in the past year, according to a survey released in August by ticket marketplace viagogo.
Consumers reported that tickets either did not turn up or were for the wrong seat. Eighty-one per cent of those scammed bought their tickets from eBay or Gumtree.
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Some criminals targeted specific states or territories of Australia with their shopping scams. For example, consumers in Western Australia complained to consumer watchdog WA ScamNet after they had not received electronic goods ordered online from eight different websites. The items included iPads, iPhones and a camera which were below market prices. Consumers spent a total of $7000 on goods.
At the time, a WA ScamNet spokesperson said that consumers should be wary if an online retailer offered goods well below market prices and didn’t accept payment by credit card or PayPal.
At place number two is phone scams due to the sheer variety of calls targeting individuals and businesses in Australia this year. The Windows Event Viewer scam, which Computerworld Australia first investigated in 2009, re-emerged during July.
The scam involves overseas telemarketers requesting the recipient's authority to run a Windows program by the same name in order to fix bugs in the operating system. Other callers claim they can remove the virus for a fee and ask for people's credit card details.
A variation on Event Viewer targeted Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) customers in August. Callers, claiming to be from CBA, said the customer's computer had been hacked. The caller claimed that they needed to install TeamViewer remote access software on PCs in order to run a scan.
The scammers also tried to convince CBA customers to purchase anti-virus software to remove the infection.
National Australia Bank (NAB) customers were next on the scammer hit list during September. Customers received calls that claimed they had been overcharged on fees and were due a refund. They were then asked to provide their bank account details so the refund could be transferred.
"A bank will never ask for your full credit card details over the phone, and NAB advises all of our customers to be aware of the practical steps they can take for their personal and business security," a spokesperson said at the time.
You’ve got mail
Taking out place number one is email scams, one of the most widely used methods of targeting Australians this year.
A combined email with a listed phone number emerged and was dubbed 'Callware' by Kaspersky Labs security researchers.
The email, which was sent to some ANZ Bank customers, claimed access to their account had been restricted. Recipients were asked to call a Sydney-based phone number included in the email to restore account access.
While most scam emails used the logos of banks such as Westpac and NAB, other high profile companies had their names used.
Concerned customers contacted utility firm EnergyAustralia about emails which claimed that their electricity payment had been declined. The email requested customers to click on a website link, stating that if they did not click the link within 15 days their phone line would be cancelled.
Airline customers were not immune from the attentions of scammers either. In August, Qantas warned customers to be wary of a fake e-ticket itinerary and receipt email. According to the airline, the email was easy to spot because it contained a zip file attachment with a potentially malicious payload.
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H.R.4910 - Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction Act115th Congress (2017-2018)
Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8] (Introduced 01/30/2018)
House - Veterans' Affairs; Natural Resources
06/15/2018 Became Public Law No: 115-184. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions)
Roll Call Votes:
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Text: H.R.4910 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)All Information (Except Text)
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Public Law No: 115-184 (06/15/2018)
[115th Congress Public Law 184]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[[Page 132 STAT. 1483]]
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide outer burial
receptacles for remains buried in National Parks, and for other
purposes. <<NOTE: June 15, 2018 - [H.R. 4910]>>
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Veterans
Cemetery Benefit Correction Act.>>
SECTION 1. <<NOTE: 38 USC 101 note.>> SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans Cemetery Benefit Correction
Act''.
SEC. 2. PROVISION OF OUTER BURIAL RECEPTACLES FOR REMAINS BURIED
IN NATIONAL PARKS.
Section 2306(e) of title 38, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in paragraph (1)--
(A) by inserting ``(A)'' before ``The Secretary of
Veterans'';
(B) in subparagraph (A), as designated by
subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, by striking ``The
Secretary of the Army'' and inserting the following:
``(B) The Secretary of the Army''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
subparagraph:
``(C) The Secretary of the Interior shall provide an outer burial
receptacle for each such a grave in an open national cemetery
administered by the National Park Service.'';
(A) by striking ``or in the Arlington National
Cemetery'' and inserting ``, in the Arlington National
Cemetery, or in a national cemetery administered by the
National Park Service''; and
(B) by striking ``or Secretary of the Army'' and
inserting ``, the Secretary of the Army, or the
Secretary of the Interior'';
(3) in paragraph (3)(B)(ii), by striking ``or, with respect
to Arlington National Cemetery, the Secretary of the Army'' and
inserting ``or the Secretary of the Army with respect to
Arlington National Cemetery or the Secretary of the Interior
with respect to a national cemetery administered by the National
Park Service''; and
(4) in paragraph (4), by striking ``or, with respect to
Arlington National Cemetery, the Secretary of the Army'' and
Park Service''.
Approved June 15, 2018.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4910:
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 164 (2018):
May 7, considered and passed House.
May 24, considered and passed Senate.
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Action: Translocate wood frogs
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Two studies (including one replicated study) in the USA found that translocated wood frog eggs established breeding populations in 25–50% of created ponds.
One replicated study in the USA found that translocated wood frog eggs hatched and up to 57% survived as tadpoles in enclosures in restored ponds.
Supporting evidence from individual studies
A before-and-after study in 1965–1986 of two created ponds in Missouri, USA (Sexton & Phillips 1986) found that translocated wood frog Rana sylvatica eggs established a breeding population in one of two created ponds. At the second pond wood frogs did not establish. In 1980, wood frog eggs were translocated to two newly constructed ponds. Ponds were monitored until 1986.
A replicated, before-and-after study in 1974–1995 in Missouri, USA (Sexton et al. 1998) found that one of four wood frog Rana sylvatica egg translocations established a breeding population. The population was stable between 1987 (311 captured) and 1995 (364). Wood frogs also colonized four other created ponds (0.9–2.4 km). In 1980, 11 wood frog egg masses were translocated 50 km into four created ponds. Monitoring was undertaken using drift-fencing with pitfall traps around ponds and by egg mass counts and call surveys.
A replicated study in 2005–2008 in a restored forested wetland in Lake County, Illinois, USA (Sacerdote 2009) found that translocated wood frog Lithobates sylvaticus eggs hatched and survived as tadpoles in enclosures in restored ponds. Tadpole survival in restored ponds was 6–57%. In 2008, two translocated wood frog egg masses were placed in separate mesh enclosures (56 x 36 x 36 cm) in each of five restored ponds. Tadpoles were monitored 2–3 times/week until metamorphosis. Tadpoles were moved if ponds dried.
Referenced papers
Sexton 0.J. & Phillips C. (1986) A qualitative study of fish-amphibian interactions in 3 Missouri ponds. Transactions of the Missouri Academy of Science, 20, 25-35
Sexton O.J., Phillips C.A., Bergman T.J., Wattenberg E.W. & Preston R.E. (1998) Abandon not hope: status of repatriated populations of spotted salamanders and wood frogs at the Tyson Research Center, St.Louis County, Mo 1998. Pages 340-344 in: Status and Conservation of Midwestern Amphibians. Universiity of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa.
Sacerdote A.B. (2009) Reintroduction of extirpated flatwoods amphibians into restored forested wetlands in northern Illinois: feasibility assessment, implementation, habitat restoration and conservation implications. PhD thesis. Department of Biological Sciences. Northern Illinois University.
Smith, R.K., Meredith, H. & Sutherland, W.J. (2019) Amphibian Conservation. Pages 9-65 in: W.J. Sutherland, L.V. Dicks, N. Ockendon, S.O. Petrovan & R.K. Smith (eds) What Works in Conservation 2019. Open Book Publishers, Cambridge, UK.
Overall Effectiveness Category: Likely to be beneficial
Effectiveness: 40%
Certainty: 50%
Harms: 0%
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Amphibian Conservation
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First oil marked at Al Dhafra Petroleum's Haliba in Abu Dhabi
Al Dhafra Petroleum is a JV formed in 2014 between the UAE's Adnoc and South Korea's NOC and GS Energy
Haliba oil field has started production in Abu Dhabi.
by Ashley Williams
Al Dhafra Petroleum – a joint venture formed in 2014 between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), Korea National Oil Company, and GS Energy – has started producing crude oil as part at the Haliba field in Abu Dhabi, which will serve as the main production hub at its concession area.
Haliba field, located along the southeast border of Abu Dhabi, is part of Adnoc’s ambition to raise its production to four million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of 2020.
Al Dhafra Petroleum's appraisal programme in Haliba field helped it discover 1.1 billion barrels of original oil in place (OOIP), much higher than the 180 million barrels it initially estimated.
The firm has also discovered potential resources in the Al Humrah, Bu Tasah, and Bu Nikhelah oil fields following intensive exploration programmes.
Adnoc said initial production from the Haliba field would progressively increase to 40,000 bpd by the end of 2019 as Al Dhafra Petroleum further unlocks the potential of the field.
Al Dhafra Petroleum said Haliba would strengthen the UAE’s and South Korea’s strategic bilateral relations and long-term partnership with the Asian country’s energy sector.
A ceremony was held to mark the milestone at the Adnoc headquarters in Abu Dhabi, where HE Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Adnoc's group chief executive officer, hosted a delegation of high-level officials.
Commenting on the project, Al Jaber said: “The start of production from Haliba field highlights the important role of energy cooperation in strengthening the close and deep-rooted strategic relationship between the UAE and South Korea.
“Adnoc has a successful history of partnership with South Korea’s energy sector, and we continue to place great importance on this strategic partnership as we accelerate delivery of our 2030 smart growth strategy.”
HALIBA
AL DHAFRA PETROLEUM
GS ENERGY
OIL AND GAS PROJECTS
Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra road project more than 60% complete
Musanada completes road works in Al Dhafra region
HH Sheikh Mohamed names DGs for Al Dhafra Municipality, Tadweer
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Offering Parental Leave Isn’t Enough — Companies Need Reentry Programs, Too
5 Ways the C-Suite Finds Work-Life Balance
By Charles Coy
Work-life balance can seem like a misnomer in our always-on, ever-connected world, especially in the C-suite, where executives can now respond to a crisis or make key decisions anytime, anywhere. The fact that we can bring work with us wherever we go has brought the concept under much scrutiny: from 1986 to 1996 "work-life balance" was mentioned in the media just 32 times, while in 2007 alone it was mentioned 1674 times, Garry Keller writes in "The ONE Thing."
There are TED talks, apps and articles that promise to help you do a digital detox or be home for dinner every night. Researchers at Harvard Business School have spent the last five years studying if and how C-suite executives manage to find the elusive work-life balance. Their findings, based on 4,000 interviews with executives and a separate survey, find that balance is achievable, but it takes a concerted effort.
“By making deliberate choices about which opportunities they’ll pursue and which they’ll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders can and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community,” the authors write.
The authors identify five main themes that helped people maintain their professional momentum while staying connected to their personal lives.
1. Define success for yourself
First and foremost, leaders must define success for themselves. For some, professional success means having passion for the work, while for another, it’s organizational advancement. On the personal side, one business executive defines success as being home at least four nights a week, while another aims to understand what’s going on in the lives of family members.
2. Manage technology
Always being plugged in can take a toll on family life. “Nearly all the interviewees talked about how critical it is to corral their e-mails, text messages, voice mails, and other communications,” the authors write. More than a third of people surveyed viewed technology in the home as an invader. Their consensus? Make yourself available, but not too available.
3. Build support networks at work and at home
Whether executives are taking care of children, aging parents or their personal health problems, nearly all stressed the importance of outside help from extended family or professionals. They also cited the importance of support from colleagues at work. “Mentors and team members helped leaders weather difficult times and eventually return to business as usual,” the authors write.
4. Travel or relocate selectively
Of those surveyed, 32 percent said they’d turned down an international assignment because they didn’t want to uproot their families. Many said they believe in racking up travel miles and global experience while they’re young, and others had refused to relocate when their children were adolescents.
5. Collaborate with your partner
Both men and women surveyed said that their partners believed in them. “A partner’s support may come in many forms, but what it almost always boils down to is making sure the executive manages his or her own human capital effectively. The pressures and demands on executives are intense, multidirectional, and unceasing. Partners can help them keep their eyes on what matters,” the authors write.
Read the full study on HBR.
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