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Taylor Swift ‘Me!’ video did 65.2m views in its first 24 hours
Her fans made a sterling effort, but Taylor Swift’s new video didn’t quite knock BTS off their perch holding YouTube’s record for a video’s most views in its first 24 hours. Their ‘Boy With Luv’ generated 74.6m in that period, while Swift’s ‘Me!’ video with Brendon Urie ended up getting 65.2m views in its first 24 hours. […]
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Vero News > All News > News > Sebastian, others may have to help pay for new, rebuilt fire stations
Sebastian, others may have to help pay for new, rebuilt fire stations
Written by: Admin September 01 2009
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — In an effort to share the costs of fire rescue infrastructure more equitably, the Indian River County Commission has voted to notify the cities of Vero Beach, Fellsmere, Sebastian and Orchid that it intends to ask for a contribution from those municipalities’ Optional Sales Tax receipts for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
In the current budget year, the County has spent $2 million on the new Fire Station 12 to open in Gifford in October and has budgeted another $538,000 for Fire Station 9 construction in Sebastian, nearly $64,000 in construction work on Fire Station 5 and $1.1 million for the proposed Fire Station 13. It has not been decided exactly where Station 13 would be located. The total amount budgeted by the County for new and improved fire stations in the 2008-2009 fiscal year is nearly $3.8 million. The County will pay for most of this with its share of the Optional Sales Tax (OST) revenues, which is the extra penny paid in Indian River County. “The people in the unincorporated areas have higher taxes because of this,” said Commissioner Gary Wheeler, who raised the issue at the July 23 county budget workshop and again at the August 18 commission meeting. “If the county wasn’t spending this money on new fire stations, we could use that money for roads or for right-of-way for road projects that we need to get done that we have to pay for in other ways.”
Wheeler equated the situation to a parent giving each of five children an equal allowance $20 and one child footing the bill for all his siblings’ lunch at McDonalds, therefore using up the whole $20 allowance.
“That’s just not fair,” Wheeler said.
According to Jason Brown, director of the Office of Management and Budget, the municipalities which are served by the countywide fire rescue services do not contribute toward the construction of new fire stations, the renovation or expansion of fire stations or the hardening of existing fire stations. The Town of Indian River Shores would not be asked for a portion of its OST funds, as the Town pays for and provides its own fire rescue services through its cross-trained Public Safety Department, though the County does back up the Indian River Shores forces in the event of a major fire.
The State of Florida distributes the OST funds to the different governments in the following way, with the figures of dollars received during 2008-2009 as an example:
County 68.6 percent
Vero Beach 18 percent
Sebastian 8.9 percent
Orchid 3.5 percent
Fellsmere 1 percent
During the current fiscal year, the county budget office estimates that the county subsidized the cities’ portion of the fire department construction projects by nearly $1.2 million that under the new plan, would have been paid for by the cities. That breaks down to $682,000 from the City of Vero Beach, $336 from the City of Sebastian, $134,000 from the Town of Orchid and $37,000 from the City of Fellsmere.
Should the cities not agree to contribute toward the infrastructure expenses for the fire stations, the County may begin including those contruction projects in the Emergency Services District budget, which would raise the millage rate in for every homeowner in the county, whether they live in the unincorporated area or within a city proper. That would leave the County’s OST funds to pay for needed road projects and other infrastructure.
Wheeler said he does not care whether the cities contribute OST money or the projects go into the Emergency Services District budget, but he does think it’s cruicial that all the city and county governments (except Indian River Shores) share the cost of building and refurbishing fire stations as they share the benefits of having those stations.
“If it’s not unanimous that the all cities will contribute part of their optional sales tax money, than it will go into the Emergency Services District,” Wheeler said.
Brown said the County plans to notify the cities soon of the issue and to elicit a response to determine the direction the County will take going forward. Brown said he does not expect the cities would look favorably upon making a contribution toward 2008-2009 expenses, as the OST dollars allotted to each City have probably either been spent or budgeted for other projects.
For the 2009-2010 budget year, should the expenditures be shifted to the Emergency Services District budget, whatever the county could not recoup from the cities would have to be taken out of the $13.4 million reserve funds the district would be left with after the operating budget is funded. The county is already slated to take approximately $600,000 out of the reserve to fund salaries for firefighters, an EMS supervisor and new staffing and equipment for the new Station 12 in Gifford.
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Entrepreneur celebrates 11 Million Minutes of Marriage on 11-11-11.
Contact: Cole Horton or Daren Murrer
Versaries, LLC
cole.horton@versariesapp.com
http://www.versariesapp.com
Cincinnati, Ohio, November 8th 2011 — When Cincinnati entrepreneur Daren Murrer envisioned creating an iPhone App, he never imagined how that app would grow – and eventually alert him to a one-in-a-million coincidence: On November 11, 2011, Daren and his wife Kathy will have been married 11,000,000 minutes. That’s 11 Million on 11-11-11.
The app he created, called Versaries™, takes any date or special event and uncovers once-in-a-lifetime special occasions known as “Versary™” milestones. Thousands of Versaries users have used the app to find their own Versary occasions: turning 1 Billion Seconds old, being married longer than they were single, or any number of interesting milestones built into the app. When a milestone moment occurs, users get a Versary Alert so they can share the news with friends on Facebook and Twitter.
Daren and Kathy Murrer were married on December 12, 1990 at 2:00 in Cincinnati, OH. More than twenty years after they were married, Daren’s curiosity about time led him to develop what he thought was a simple app; “I just wanted to find out when we each would be married longer than had been single.” By the time the app was finished, Versaries™ was a beautiful-styled interactive tool that underneath its clockwork visuals hides more lines of code than Windows 3.1.
Thousands of development hours and a patent filing later, Murrer’s simple app idea has transformed into a growing startup. Earlier in the year, Versaries got a huge lift from Harold Camping’s doomsday predictions. When a user shared a countdown to the “end of the world” created in the app, it brought more than 38,000 visitors to the Versaries website in less than 48 hours. “That’s when we knew we had… something great happening” said Versaries co-founder Tom Humphrey.
With the recent boom in mobile apps, success is not surprising. Apple recently revealed that more than 15 billion applications had been downloaded for iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad. On average these users spend 73 minutes a day using apps. This Friday, November 11, 2011, Daren and Kathy Murrer will take a break from the fast moving world of mobile technology to celebrate their 11 Millionth Minute together and the couple are looking forward to 11 million more.
The Versaries app is currently available in the App Store via iTunes for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The app is free for a limited time.
For additional information about the Versaries app, including screenshots and logos, please visit http://www.VersariesApp.com/contact.
About Versaries, LLC
Versaries, LLC is a new, self-funded startup located in the greater Cincinnati area. Founded in January 2011, the company’s focus is on developing mobile apps for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android. Versaries, LLC aims to develop high-quality apps that people love to share.
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Isaac's Tea Trail
Isaac's Tea Trail is a 58 km (36 mile) circular walk through picturesque river valleys and over high heather moorlands in the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The route links Alston, England's highest town, with Allendale and includes romantic hamlets like Ninebanks and the old lead mining village of Nenthead. There is much to enjoy in the variety of wildlife and range of landscapes passed on the way, and the hand of history, whether in the shape of chapels, farmsteads, field patterns or remnants of the lead mining industry are ever present.
The Trail commemorates the life of Isaac Holden who, born into a poor lead mining family in the West Allen valley, became a miner himself. This was until a decline in the price of lead in the early 1830's resulted in the closure of the Keirsleywell mine. He then embarked upon a new career as a travelling tea seller. He married Ann Telfer and they opened a grocers shop in Allendale. With Ann running the shop, Isaac, dressed in black, became a familiar figure, in all weathers selling tea door to door to farms and outlying hamlets. You can learn more about Isaac Holden in the Trail guide.
The guide describes the circular route in four sections, each of which it recommends as a day’s walk.
Section 1 Allendale to Nenthead 18km (11.25 miles). Allow 6 hours
The Trail begins over the Allen Bridge, crossing fields and streams before climbing to Pry Hill Chapel and the tumbling ruin of Rowantree Stob. The landscape changes dramatically, as pasture yields to rough hill grazing and heather moorland, and the route climbs to Coalcleugh. Finally the Trail drops down to the village of Nenthead, destination for the end of the first day.
Section 2 Nenthead to Alston 8.9km (5.5 miles). Allow 3 hours
The Trail follows the River Nent down to Alston, and the shorter distance of this day’s walk will allow time to explore Alston’s numerous visitor attractions. Despite the evidence of past industrial activity it is the fell-side views, streams, lime kilns and ancient byres which linger longest in the memory. The trail follows the Nent’s eventful descent into Alston, past the Severn Sisters waterfall and flat beds of limestone, winding through surrounding woodland and over stone stiles between meadows.
Section 3 Alston to Ninebanks 19.1km (11.75 miles). Allow 6.5 hours
Initially the Trail follows the Pennine Way to the Roman fort at Whitley Castle. The Trail then follows the fast flowing South Tyne back upstream before climbing steadily up to the top of the Ayle valley at Clarghyllhead. The bracing moorland walk to Ninebanks affords panoramic views towards the Cheviot Hills and east coast before descending into the familiar West Allen valley. Ninebanks Youth Hostel, a former lead miner’s cottage, benefits from profits from the sale of the guidebook. This is therefore the obvious place to stay.
Section 4 Ninebanks to Allandale 12.6km (7.75 miles). Allow 5 hours
Leaving Ninebanks Youth Hostel the route passes Isaac’s birthplace at Redheugh and follows the Mohope Burn downstream. The route then leads on to Dryburn and Leadgate Bank and continues into Monkswood, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The day finishes with a riverside walk along the East Allen back into Allendale.
The guidebook ‘A Guide to Isaac’s Tea Trail: Hidden Heritage of England’s North Country’ includes an accommodation list insert. Click on the guidebook image for more details and to purchase this guide. You can also download a pdf leaflet here
Further interesting background information about this trail can be found from the links below:
Anne Leuchar's blog for the trail is The short-distance approach to walking a long distance trail
https://walkingisaacsteatrail.wordpress.com/
Anne was also successful for her entry in a writing competition for a travel company. The title is - ‘Just My Cup of Tea - Isaac's Tea Trail in the North Pennines.’
seniortravelexpert.com/isaacs-tea-trail-north-pennines/
You can also find out much more about Isaac's Tea Trail at the website
www.allenvalleys.com/isaacs-tea-trail/
Start: Allendale
Grid Ref: NY 838558
End: Allendale
Walking Time: 4 days
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To purchase the guidebook from our bookshop please click the image above
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A collection containing the first four novels written by W. M. J. Kreucher is now available. The stories are presented chronologically in the order in which they were written. There are elements of romance, coming-of-age, and a December-December love story included in the collection.
The first three stories could be classified as the “McMichael Trilogy” as they revolve around the character of Diane McMichael.
“Dandelion Man – the four loves”, the first story, was called “enticing with a dedication to a very different era … well worth considering for general fiction collections" by Mary Cowper from the Midwest Book Review. The Catholic Fiction website called the story “both powerful and interesting”.
There is a bit of political intrigue, a good conspiracy theory in “Pharmaceutical”, the second story in the collection, according to Karen Kelly Boyce 2012 Recipient of the Eric Hoffer Gold Award in Fiction. Boyce went on to say about the author “…we may have a Catholic ‘Robin Cook’”.
“Heaven Sent” and “The Inn at Heron’s Bay” round out the collection with a story set in Northern Michigan and a novella set in coastal North Carolina in a small town with the delightfully descriptive name of Topsail.
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The Raptors unveil alternate, camouflage jerseys
One of the cooler things we've always enjoyed about having an NBA team in Canada is the Remembrance Day ceremonies that take place when the Toronto Raptors play on Nov. 11. There's usually a ceremony before the game, and the team's coaching staff and employees all wear the symbolic poppies.
On March 21, though, the Raps are taking things a bit further. In that home game against the Chicago Bulls, the Raptors will be sporting camouflage uniforms as a way to tip their hat as they support the Canadian military. Nice gesture, but, well … look:
(Cue my favorite camouflage joke: "I can't see Andrea Bargnani! Where'd he go?")
Again, appropriate gesture, but these threads trend toward the uglier side of things. The Remembrance Day poppies are classy and dignified, whereas these uniforms are a bit over the top.
Joseph Casciaro of Raptor Blog takes things a bit further, calling the uniforms "sick," and ending his post with this take:
On Remembrance Day, you can wear a poppy, donate to various charities and legions, and do countless other things to show your support. But I'd bet that if you walked around in head-to-toe camouflage, it would be seen as unnecessary, and in fact, might even be seen as making a mockery of the whole day.
To me, this is the same thing, you don't have to parade your team around in camouflage to prove that you care about the armed forces. Make no mistake, these uniforms will enhance the Raptors' reputation as league laughing stock in some circles more than they will do any good for our troops and veterans.
We'd like them a lot more if news spilled out that the Raptors were planning on donating ALL proceeds made from the jerseys to charities in support of Canadian military veterans. With three months to go before the game against the Bulls, we'll eagerly await that follow-up.
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An American Airlines Captain Just Did Something Resourceful and Kind for Every Single Passenger on His Flight. His Stunning Story Went Viral
September 9, 2018 12:00 pm|Comments (0)
Wichita Falls is a city of about 100,000 people in northeast Texas. It looks like there’s a lot of stunning natural beauty nearby.
But what the airport at Wichita Falls doesn’t have, apparently, is a place to get a nice meal near the airport, especially if 100 or more people unexpectedly show up all at once.
This became relevant last week, when American Airlines flight 2354 from Los Angeles to Dallas-Fort Worth was diverted there due to extreme thunderstorms. Passengers were looking at the likelihood of having to scramble to find a place to stay overnight, to say nothing of finding a bite to eat.
And the captain on their flight came up with a very simple solution.
In short, he called up the local Papa John’s and ordered 40 pizzas for his 159 passengers. As far as we know, he fronted the entire bill, $ 500 or more, himself. And his simple gesture went viral.
The captain’s name: Jeff Raines, according to CNN. His actions–in fact the moments when he found himself running back and forth from the terminal to the Papa John’s delivery car–was all captured on video by an airport worker named Josh Raines (no indication they’re related).
As Josh explained later in his Twitter feed, the passengers were going to travel the rest of the way to Dallas via bus. But Wichita Falls Municipal Airport is actually a mostly military airport, attached to Sheppard Air Force Base. It’s just not equipped for a sudden, unexpected influx of passengers.
Jeff Raines (the captain) apparently followed the whole thing up with an explanation on Facebook:
Thanks for the compliments however this was a “TEAM” effort. My First Officer was on the telephone with crew tracking / hotel desk arranging for our release and hotels for the entire crew.
The Flight Attendants manned a galley cart from the aircraft serving waters, juice, and sodas to all the passengers in the terminal. All while the Envoy SPS Personnel were arranging for a bus, re-booking flights, and answering a flurry of questions from these passengers.
Thanks to everyone for your help – there is no “I” in TEAM.
It’s unclear whether the passengers continued to Dallas via bus, as both Josh Raines and Jeff Raines seem to have suggested, or if they flew there the next morning, as American corporate P.R. says. I suspect it’s possible some passengers might have continued on to Dallas via bus; others waited for the flight the next day.
But the real point here is an airline employee taking it upon himself to do something that’s clearly not listed in the American Airlines handbook, but that has a lot of potential to increase passengers’ affinity for the airline.
We’ve seen this repeatedly lately, for example with the Southwest Airlines captain who rerouted a flight to enable a passenger to get an amazing photo of the Great American Eclipse in 2017, and the Southwest flight attendant who worked to allow a passenger who has Down syndrome to fulfill her dream, at least for a day, of working as a flight attendant.
These little actions help any business’s reputation, and they often pay big dividends. For its pilot’s $ 500 pizza outlay, American clearly got a lot more than $ 500 worth of brand equity or marketing.
It doesn’t even really matter if the passengers like pizza. Simply by making the effort, the captain bought goodwill.
“We are always proud of our crew members who take great care of our customers who fly on American Airlines,” American said in an email. “We are fortunate that our crew members are the best in the business.”
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20 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Revealed the Single Word That Led to Apple's Great Success
November 27, 2017 12:13 pm|Comments (0)
The power of focus.
Without it, you’re doomed to a life of distraction. A life in which others’ priorities dictate on what you spend your time. As you move from one shiny object to another, you may get lots of things done–but few things ever get done well.
Or, you may find your life is ruled by procrastination, where doing great work is derailed by social media and YouTube videos.
But how can you learn to achieve focus, in a world that is built to distract?
20 years ago, Steve Jobs answered that question.
In 1997, Steve Jobs had just returned to Apple, the company he had been ousted from over a decade before. He was answering questions from developers at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference when someone raised the topic of “OpenDoc,” a software engineering framework that Jobs decided to kill upon his return.
In addressing the question about OpenDoc, Jobs took opportunity to drop some major wisdom.
“I know some of you spent a lot of time working on stuff that we put a bullet in the head of,” begins Jobs. “I apologize. I feel your pain.” The audience laughed appreciatively.
He continued:
“But Apple suffered for several years from lousy engineering management. And there were people that were going off in 18 different directions–doing arguably interesting things in each one of them. Good engineers. Lousy management.
And what happened was, you look at the farm that’s been created, with all these different animals going in different directions, and it doesn’t add up. The total is less than the sum of the parts. And so we had to decide: What are the fundamental directions we’re going in? And what makes sense and what doesn’t? And there were a bunch of things that didn’t. And microcosmically they might have made sense; macrocosmically they made no sense.
…When you think about focusing, you think, well, focusing is about saying yes. No.
Focusing is about saying no.“
Boom drops the dynamite.
This ability to say no was arguably Jobs’s greatest skill. When Apple brought Jobs back, his first order of business was to shrink the product line–and make sure whatever Apple made, it made extremely well.
“Steve was the most remarkably focused person I’ve ever met in my life,” said Jony Ive, Apple’s design chief and the man Steve Jobs once described as his “spiritual partner.” Ive went on to explain why achieving focus isn’t as easy as it appears on the surface.
Jobs would regularly ask him: ‘How many things have you said no to today?’ Ive says he would have “sacrificial” things he turned down. “Well, I said no to this. And no to that,” he would tell his boss. “But he knew that I wasn’t vaguely interested in doing those things anyway.”
“What focus means is saying no to something that you [think]–with every bone in your body–is a phenomenal idea,” he continues. “And you wake up thinking about it. But you say no to it because you’re focusing on something else.”
Whatever your role or position, you’re faced with choices about your work on a daily basis. Should I join this meeting? Do I really want to take on this client or project? Should I focus on this task at the expense of that one?
For many, it’s not easy to say no. You may try to rationalize: “I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. They won’t understand. I’ll find a way to get it all done.”
No, you won’t.
Learning to say no begins by sharpening your emotional intelligence–the ability to make emotions work for you, instead of against you. By refusing to let temporary emotions lead to permanent decisions, you’ll realize that lack of focus easily leads to regret.
Then, instead of trying to do it all…
You can simply do it right.
So, choose wisely.
Because every time you say yes to something you don’t really want, you’re actually saying no to the things you do.
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This May Be The World's Single Largest Industry By 2050. Are You Ready For It?
September 6, 2017 9:43 pm|Comments (0)
Few things are getting as much attention as driverless cars. Google’s Waymo spinoff recently announced that its driverless cars have driven over 3 million miles, rumors are floating about Apple patents for autonomous vehicles and potential play in driverless, Uber and Lyft are both planning driverless fleets, and myriad companies such as Nutonomy, Torc Robotics, Mentor, Lvl5, and Skymind are all fueling what will be one of the most disruptive innovations of the last 200 years.
Autonomous vehicles (or AVs) will likely be the single greatest opportunity for the creation of value and wealth during the 21st Century. A study, done for Intel by Strategy Analytics, predicted a $ 7 trillion industry by 2050 making it one of, if not the single largest global industry.
Given the impact AVs will have it’s worth taking the time to understand the facts and to consider how AVs will impact you and your business trust me on this, they will! Yet, much of what we hear and read seems to either border on absurd promises or threats of a dystopian future in which cars are making life and death decisions in a crisis moment about whether to take out a family of four or a little old lady crossing the street in her walker.
So, I’m doing something a bit different with my Inc column this month. During September I’m going to run a series on autonomous vehicles, drawing on interviews I’ve had with CEOs of AV companies and developers of AV technology, lawyers, insurance companies, advocacy groups, first hand accounts with AVs, and excerpts from a new 2018 book I’m wrapping up, Revealing The Invisible: How Our Hidden Behaviors Are Becoming The Most Valuable Commodity Of The 21st Century.
The intent with this series of articles is to provide a realistic view of how AVs will evolve, the obstacles they face, and the dramatic changes they will bring.
So, lets start with the problem that AVs are trying to solve.
There is no way that we can support 10 billion people with the same sort of vehicle infrastructure and culture we have today.
The automobile is part of the fabric of the modern world. We build an intense cultural and personal bond with our vehicles. They define a person’s identity. They are also the backbone of commerce. As an industry, vehicle manufacturing is large enough to represent the equivalent of the world’s sixth largest economy, employing over 50 million people and producing nearly 100 million vehicles each year. Yet, there is simply no way that we can support a global population reaching 10 billion people with the same sort of vehicle infrastructure we have today. Our cars remain idle 90% of the time. There’s no other individual asset nearly as expensive to own that gets that little utilization.
Vehicle’s account for 1.3 million deaths each year.
That places them as the 10th leading cause of death globally and the only non-disease related cause in the top 10. If you adjust for the fact that there are only one billion vehicles globally, as opposed to the fact that all seven billion people are subject to the other 9 risk factors, you could make the claim that vehicles are the leading cause of death for those who own or interact with an automobile.
Automobiles have a strained relationship with an aging population.
Few of us have not had to deal with the very hard conversation, or worse yet unilateral decision, of taking the car keys away from a parent. The automobile is perhaps one of the greatest statements of independence in modern society. When it’s taken away it takes with it not just the license to drive but the license to live a full life. According the AAA seniors are outliving their ability to drive by 7-10 years on average. This will be you soon enough.
Autonomous vehicles are going to be a watershed moment in our acceptance of artificial intelligence.
Once we feel safe enough in an AV to transition from driver to passenger, and have experienced its ability to transport us faster, keep us safer, and understand our behaviors better than we can ourselves A.I. will have arrived. There’s no doubt in my mind that the AV will be the proof point and the watershed moment for AI’s acceptance.
The impact of vehicles on global pollution and climate change.
And lastly, let’s not forget the impact of vehicles on global pollution and climate change. According to a study by NASA vehicles are the single largest contributor to climate change. Today transportation contributes more to greenhouse emission than the entire energy sector of the US economy. 26% of greenhouse gases come from vehicles. Even without moving to electric vehicles the reductions that come from the efficiency of AVs in terms of their ability to communicate with each other (V2V – Vehicle to Vehicle)) and infrastructure (V2I – Vehicle to Infrastructure) would eliminate traffic congestion and the need for street lights.
When you consider all of these factors converging it’s impossible not to believe that it’s just a matter of time until AVs are an essential part of our world. Does that mean that there aren’t technical, cultural, social, and even ethical obstacles ahead? Of course not! This is likely to be one of the most profound transformations we will experience in our lifetime. But it’s also likely to be one of the messiest as hundreds of companies race to bring AVs to market, regulators try to set standards, and driver learn how to become passengers.
In my next column we’ll look at some of those challenges through the eyes of experts in the industry who are driving (an unavoidable pun) the evolution of autonomous vehicles. And more specifically at how we define what an autonomous really means.
Stick with me, it’s going to be a fun ride!
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8-year-old golf prodigy kills a drone with a single swing
December 9, 2016 2:20 am|Comments (0)
Ruby Kavanaugh — remember that name. The eight-year-old golf sensation has a swing that rivals PGA professionals, and recently put it on display for a drone photographer in Australia. Kavanaugh lines up her tee shot and crushes a beauty headed straight for the center of the fairway. Unfortunately, a Yuneec Typhoon H hexacopter happened to be in her path. The apologetic eight-year-old then watched as the $ 1,900 drone dropped from the sky. Of course, not everyone believes the shot to be legitimate. Some have concluded that there’s really no apparent reason the drone plummeted to the ground like it did. The blades were operational, the…
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The League of Xtraordinary Junglists
Ruffneck Ting reveal all from their latest LP Project
In October 2016, Ruffneck Ting released a double vinyl LP sampler featuring 6 tracks AND a completely original superhero comic book in the bundle. In a world of digital everything it’s great to see some hard additions to any labels output, let alone a full comic, complete with superhero renditions of the label artists!
Ant Skant Christou went in deep with a visit to the Ruffneck Ting HQ to meet producers Dazee, Jinx, Vytol, K-Jah and graphics man Ste Wright to find out how the project came together.
Behind every door lies a story and behind one such door down an unassuming street in Birmingham’s King’s Heath I found an xtraordinary one. I ring the bell and get welcomed in by one of jungle’s leading ladies, DJ Dazee. We head down a hallway which is lined with framed vintage comic books into a room, plastered in memorabilia. An Iron Man calendar hangs on the wall alongside concept art for the room’s resident Jinx-Bot. Framed Star Wars stills take up another wall alongside psychedelic paintings and the desk at the back of the room has a small army of boxed action figures guarding over the computer that serves as the beating heart of Jinx’s production efforts. This is the Birmingham headquarters for Ruffneck Ting’s Xtraordinary League of Junglists.
I take a seat alongside the four members in attendance; Mari (Dazee) and her core crew, Jon (Jinx), Kieran (K-Jah) and Rich (Vytol) and am later joined by artist Ste Wright. One cup of tea later and we start to delve into the matter at hand;
DJ Dazee at the LP launch party
What in the universe possessed them all to unleash a themed collaborative album with an accompanying comic book, mixtape and vinyl release?
Mari quickly reveals that the project originally started to take form around the end of 2015 as ‘The Ruffneck Ting 2015 Christmas Collaboration Album’. Rich dives in and explains that the idea came about at a Ruffneck Ting night “When we realised that we had so many tracks we couldn’t fit into a schedule to put out as EPs and singles!” Mari first gave herself two months to get it done, however she laughs and divulges “Two months, I thought to myself, I can do that! Because I had a lot of music, but as it got bigger I realised there was no way on Earth! So actually it’s been a 12 month process.”
The first character Jinx-bot was born shortly afterwards “Which comes from Ste’s artistic interpretation of me having my hips replaced!” chortles Jon who though laid back, has a good sense of humour and is quick to perk up with a deep laugh.
“This hip-replacement may have been a blessing in disguise”, he explains, as the recovery period gave him time to dedicate himself to producing music, with the end result meaning nearly half the album’s tracks feature him.
As the Jinx-bot idea was formed, the story bubbled into life through the press releases for the label which Mari and Kieran were doing “We always used to write these crazy press releases” Mari giggles “We got really carried away and it started off as little hints of story but we got more and more carried away until they had nothing to do with the tracks, it was just us writing these strange sci-fi stories!” It wasn’t long after this that it all fused together and the idea of a fully blown comic was born, although Ste with his sharp wit is quick to mention “Originally it was only going to be six pages wasn’t it! I just shudder to think if it’d had been 6 months longer.” At this Jon bursts out laughing again “We would have all lost our minds!”
As with all great projects it escalated. From these humble beginnings came all manner of strange characters, robotic baseball stars, mechanical dragon-bots and skittering spider droids. Kieran and Mari created many of the original ideas but it was Ste who brought these creations to life “First I’d listen to their [the artists] music, catch the jungle vibe and then work out the characters and backgrounds and what kind of person they are. A big part of it was making DC and Marvel style alter egos, so if one of the producers was particularly quiet or reserved their character would end up being someone mad and lairy, balshy.
I took some inspiration from graphic novels and old sci-fi then started drawing characters, I did some humanoid ones, but I felt it started getting too serious, the comic is funny and Ruffneck has always been a bit tongue in cheek so I toned it back a bit” Mari elaborates more: “I’d put an email out to all the artists saying, basically what do you want your character to be like? What are your strengths and weaknesses? Then Ste came up with amazing imagery and back story. Some were a bit too X rated for the final cut though. Bassface Sacha was great, he said ‘I like Mexican food and want a bass cone for a head’ we translated that, so he’s got a bass cone face and a sombrero and a little chill fairy that follows him around, it’s brilliant! The original drawing for that came from another of our artists, Tom Camm, he’s done release art for us and we called him in to take pressure off Ste, he designed three characters. ”
A host of sci-fi classics had a big influence too, “There’s a lot of respect paid to the 5th Element, I’ve always loved that film.” She says, “And there are little throwaway lines in there. Hopefully people will catch them all.” Kieran, normally quiet and reserved, adds to this, “A lot of the characters are influenced by other cultural things, nods to Star Trek, characters that make homage to Dr Who, characters that pay respect to Star Wars. We’ve had a lot of inspiration.”
The vinyl release is the second significant part of the XLJ project and it’s something that serves as an answer to a problem the team see with music today “Children of the digital era have nothing to touch, nothing to see, they have an iPad full of beats or you know they’ve got memory sticks, but there’s no physical display of their musical wealth” Mari spreads her arms wide and nods to the stacks of vinyl racked up under Jon’s turntable, “Not like we used to have, as you can see. I think it’s something that’s come back around though, people now are buying vinyl who don’t even own a record player, people want to touch a physical object, so we’re quite happy with the fact that there’s three things with XLJ that fit that!” she goes on “I think the thing is, music is moving so fast, it’s hard to be memorable and so much good stuff is slipping though the net, I think stuff like this gives it more substance and meaning and hopefully means the tracks will hang round longer.”
So what’s it taken for this team to pull together and make this work? “Lots of joy, laughter, tears and pain!” Mari laughs, while Jon adds “It basically took over our whole lives really didn’t it?” Kieran and Rich both nod in agreement and Kieran speaks up again “Yeah there were points really for all of us, where you’d be on it 24/7 no rest.” This constant workload inevitably threw up challenges. For Kieran himself, it was the constant deadlines which caused the most trouble “Not even the music, that almost took care of itself. The mini-deadlines with the comic, listening to masters of vinyl and little things you don’t even think of until they’re there. You think, right we’ve done this one thing but now that means we have to do four or five more things to evaluate or check the first thing.” Rich, normally loud but not at all brash quietens for a moment and muses on this, “It’s tough because it’s not your day to day routine is it. It’s on the side of your day to day routine. So you’re doing everything else and then this on top.”
Ste who normally works strictly as an illustrator found the challenge lay in a different area “The script!” he shouts, “The script was massive! Then having to dissect bits from it that could be turned visual. He shakes his head “You can’t make the whole thing into a comic book or it would be like 120 pages, a full book. So I had to read through, find what would look good visually. Such as Haze and Wizwise finding the planet, that could have been 3, 4, 5 different panels, that’s what it’s about, shaving bits of the script so it’s still legible and fits as a story, but introducing characters then and there, on the page they first appear on. You have to be ruthlessly precise and a bit strict with what goes in.”
Mari on the other hand lost a lot of sleep over the process “I’ve just got my life back now, I had no summer whatsoever. I was doing longer than 12 hour days on the album, and it wasn’t even meant to go on over summer. I’m strict on the standard of mixdowns and stuff too so I was kind of sending stuff back or even turning up myself and breathing down peoples necks. Or getting bits of tunes sent to me so I could sort it out and send it back. And these are ones that I’m not even on!” She continues “Probably the most annoying thing was having to recut some of the plates for the vinyl as the masters weren’t right, it was an expensive mistake. Getting the artwork right was a big learning process as well, Ste was doing all the imagery but I was having to do the dialogue and adverts and intros and stuff I had to learn to be a graphic designer too, write the theme tune, sing the theme tune!”
She laughs again when I ask Jon what the toughest aspect was for him “Dealing with me!” she exclaims and he laughs too, “Yeah, dealing with meltdowns! And being the between man for everyone! He becomes a bit more serious and levels with me “Nah, it’s had stressful points, Mari’s been the one though, she’s worked her arse off you know and she’s the boss at the end of the day. But the stress of it all, there’s been so much going on between us and everyone’s had their own little things and we’ve all been imploding with stress. It’s been easy work but stressful, I mean we’re doing something we love doing at the end of the day.” Mari pipes up again “Yeah, Jon, has probably taken most of the meltdowns on but he’s really good at making me see reason and calming me down and bigging up what we do, he has a tonne of faith in Ruffneck Ting. Though, I wouldn’t have had so many meltdowns if I’d been here!” This is where the struggles of operating in different towns comes into play “On my own in Bristol it’s like the weight of it is on my shoulders. As soon as you chat to someone in a room about it then it’s completely different. If we all lived in the same town there’s be things that would be easier, but I’m not moving and neither are they!” At this, everyone bursts into laughter before she continues, “At the same time though there’s advantages because we channel the sound of both cities. The sound of Ruffneck Ting is a hybrid of Bristol and Birmingham, a special sound.”
K-Jah and Vytol at the LP launch Party
As we get nearer the end I ask if any one person was particularly integral to the project and despite Mari’s insistence that it was “Totally a joint effort”, the way everyone is soon to look to her as soon as the question leaves my lips makes the answer clear. Kieran vocalises the point “To be curated and directed by someone is important and for that, credit goes to Mari, it takes someone with the main idea and plans, someone with the main idea in their head who is able to delegate and ask people to do stuff, we start getting stuff done then.” He’s quick to add “But it takes a team to actually do stuff.” Jon adds to this “Yeah we’re a big team, no, we’re a big family and we all help each other with everything really.” Mari finishes up “There’s a lot more people involved than just us core four. We‘re a bit like a vortex, all these people get pulled into our gravity, but that gives us more mass and makes us stronger! Everyone has been really influential bringing good energy!”
Is there anything they would do different in future? “More time!” is the unanimous answer. “More realistic expectations” Mari reflects, “I can’t believe we thought we could do it in two months!” Kieran laughs, “Yeah it kept building, one week we had the comic and the vinyl and then ‘by the way we’re doing a CD and an event and can you get your brother to do a sci-fi intro.’ It’s not a problem but at the time it gets a bit much.” Despite this, they all beam with optimism for the next endeavour. “The characters are in place which really helps.” Rich says and Jon nods in agreement before adding “Yeah we’ve got this base, this foundation. We don’t need to redesign, it’s in place to keep it rolling now.” And they most certainly will be keeping rolling, as Mari promises “We have got another album planned but this time, we’re taking our time!”
As it winds down we all pack up our stuff, I grab a copy of the comic for myself and then we head down to the Hare and Hounds for quick pint. They’ve accomplished something special and what’s remarkable is how humble they all are about it. They don’t see themselves as superstars, just people who love music, making music. Ste spoke earlier of the idea of alter egos and these guys seem to channel a Jekyll and Hyde approach. They see themselves as just Doctor Jekyll, going about what they do but in reality they make a Mr Hyde style impact in their guise as the Xtraordinary League of Junglists and you’ve most certainly not seen the last of them, in fact this is just the start of their adventures, expect more massive tunes, more crazy stories and much more Ruffneck Ting!
DJ Dazee, K-Jah and Ruffneck Ting have all been nominated for various categories in the 2016 We Love Jungle awards. Cast your votes HERE and join us on Feb 4th in Leeds for the awards party, an indoor jungle event of epic proportions.
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consumption (seen in sodium and “transfat” consumption, school lunch options, and soda serving sizes) have proven effective locally in managing public health. This effort is aided by rapid uptake of policy reforms into local law and derailing of obstacles to regulation at the local level.68 Such duplicative delegations across agencies further a multi-sectoral approach to “health in all policies,”69 creating synergy across regulating agencies and allowing for recognition of the extent to which underlying determinants of non-communicable disease require a whole-of-government response.70 Further, with concurrent governance stretching beyond the public sector, corporate actors have become policymakers in overlapping systems for non-communicable disease control.71 This result is highlighted by a proliferating set of business practices restricting tobacco use among employees and creating workplace wellness programs. These flexible partnerships across government and non-government actors have proven effective where centralized hierarchies (at both the national and international level) have been incommensurate to the growing threat of non-communicable disease.
C. Emergency Preparedness
Critics view redundancy in emergency preparedness as leading to
operational confusion and conflicting mandates that result in breakdowns
during crises.72 This operational confusion presents itself both across and
within states.73 Notwithstanding efforts to harmonize state emergency
preparedness laws through model acts,74 there is comparatively less
understanding of how states will approach a cross-jurisdictional public health
68. Michelle M. Mello, David M. Studdert, & Troyen A. Brennan, Obesity—The New Frontier of Public Health Law, 354 NEW ENG. J. MED. 2601 (2006) (Because of the advantages of localized governance in non-communicable disease control, researchers and practitioners have come to see coordination as a threat to innovation, with a growing public health movement opposing industry-sponsored efforts to limit local governance through “preemption” by state law.); Scott Burris et al., Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research, 90 MILBANK Q. 375 (2012).
69. TIMO STAHL ET AL., HEALTH IN ALL POLICIES: PROSPECTS AND POTENTIALS (2006), available at http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/109146/E89260.pdf.
70. Steven H. Woolf & Paula Braveman, Where Health Disparities Begin: The Role of Social And Economic Determinants—And Why Current Policies May Make Matters Worse, 30 HEALTH AFF. 1852 (2011).
71. Hunter, supra note 14, at 105.
72. Robert M. Pestronk et al., Improving Laws and Legal Authorities for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness, 36 J.L. MED. & ETHICS 47 (2008).
73. Dorothy Puzio, An Overview of Public Health in the New Millenium: Individual Liberty vs. Public Safety, 18 J.L. & HEALTH 173, 179 (2004).
74. James G. Hodge, Jr., The Evolution of Law in Biopreparedness, 10 BIOSECURITY & BIOTERRORISM: BIODEFENSE STRATEG Y, PRAC., & SCI. 38 (2012).
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April Pulley Sayre is a photo-illustrator and award-winning author of over 65 books including Bloom Boom, Warbler Wave, Full of Fall, and Thank You, Earth. Her read aloud picture books, known for their lyricism, playful voice, and scientific precision, have been translated into Korean, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic. Sayre’s ten photo-illustrated books include the classic Rah, Rah, Radishes and Raindrops Roll, which was both an ALA Notable and a NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Best in Snow received four starred reviews and was on many 2016 best book lists.
Eat Like a Bear, Woodpecker Wham, and One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab are among her ALA Notable Books. Vulture View received the Theodor “Seuss” Geisel Honor Award. Stars Beneath Your Bed: The Surprising Story of Dust, an ALA Notable, won the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Sayre’s Slowest Book Ever has been used as a featured all-school read for middle schools.
Sayre has followed lemurs in Madagascar, pursued army ants in Panama, and eaten piranha in the Peruvian Amazon. She has a biology degree from Duke University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College, and travels to present on writing nonfiction voice, preschool education, literacy, and STEM. When not leading tours to Panama’s rainforests, or photographing desert wildflowers, she and her husband Jeff Sayre—co-author of the Kaufman Field Guide to the Nature of the Midwest—can be found in their wildlife garden near Lake Michigan.
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April Pulley Sayre is a photo-illustrator and award-winning author of over 65 books including Bloom Boom, Warbler Wave, Full of Fall, and Thank You, Earth. Her read aloud picture books, known for their lyricism, playful voice, and scientific precision, have been translated into Korean, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic. Sayre’s ten photo-illustrated books include the classic Rah, Rah, Radishes and Raindrops Roll, which was both an ALA Notable and a NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book. Best in Snow received four starred reviews and was on many 2016 best book lists. Learn more…
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"When presented with bold new ideas, people reference what they know more than what they can conceive."
Senior Director Michael Perman of Levi's passed us oranges, recounted memories of his dad and deluged us with blue-jean trivia in an ad:tech sesh entitled "The Power of Storytelling."
See snippets of tweet coverage. It's apt that Levi's give us the skinny on storytelling's underrated appeal, given that its capacity to spin tales has beguiled us for years. Anyway, here's some videographic deja vu.
by Angela Natividad Apr-27-09
Topic: Creative Commentary, Events, Industry Events, Video
ad:tech SF: Steve Hayden Replaces Industry Fear with a Wee Bit O' Wonder
Ogilvy Vice Chairman Steve Hayden conducted a keynote titled "Fear, Love and Advertising" at ad:tech SF last week. I livetweeted it; you can see some of the tweetage here.
Hayden kicked off by explaining the premise behind his talk: in this dire economic clime, when everybody's castrating their own creativity, he hopes to encourage the industry to shelf their fears in favour of a little (well-informed) wonder.
He woke the muse by blasting us with iconic ads, like the Apple Newton stuff and "True Colors" from Dove's Real Women campaign.
Then he gave us a long, colourful explanation of a hexagon he calls Hayden's Mandala -- a complex (and yet simple!) cycle of everything a person/brand goes through when facing a major growth trajectory or change. Here's a video snapshot of that:
Then Hayden did something I've never seen a keynoter do before: he passed the floor to people whose products he thinks will change the media environment. I was awestruck, and only more so when I saw what came next.
Topic: Creative Commentary, Events, Industry Events
ad:tech SF: Hashing Out Social Networking's Impact on Photo Storage
The stuff that comes out after an interview is sometimes just as good as what you get during. After our audiovisual taste of the future of HootSuite (and a power-fail story about ZipCar), founder Ryan Holmes of Invoke Media and publisher Krista Neher of The Marketess riffed on the photo storage merits of Facebook and flickr.
Compelling factoid: while it may be true that flickr hosts over three million photos, the unlikely Facebook totally pwns that figure. As of October 2008 Facebook became the largest online photo storage site -- clocking over 10 billion pics and counting.
Obviously there are big differences between the sites. Krista argues that flickr's too public for comfort, and people are more inclined to curate personal images in a space where they can control who sees what. (Apropos to that, I like how Ryan murmurs, "...stalker" at :22.)
How has social networking changed online photo storage and personal life-whoring in general? What's coming? We contemplate these questions and others while I clutch a digicam with one hand and macaroon-gorge with the other.
Topic: Events, Industry Events, Opinion, Trends and Culture, Video
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0 Samantha Shannon, author of THE SONG RISING, on the different flavours in The Bone Season series
We're pleased to have Samantha Shannon here to talk about the third book in The Bone Season series, THE SONG RISING.
Samantha, what was your inspiration for writing THE SONG RISING?
Each of the books in the Bone Season series is meant to have a slightly different flavour to it; it's own 'genre', if you will, within the broader category of urban fantasy, so the reader isn't sure quite what to expect each time. The Song Rising was conceived as the most dystopian of the series, with Paige trying to face Scion and damage its infrastructure head-on, all the while coming up against people who have played this game for much longer than she has. I envisioned it as bleak and industrial, in contrast to the darkly beautiful underworld of The Mime Order and the decaying grandeur of Oxford in The Bone Season.
What scene was really hard for you to write and why, and is that the one of which you are most proud? Or is there another scene you particularly love?
There's one action scene in the second part of the book that was a real headache. It went through many different incarnations until I settled on the final version. I'm proud of the finale, which also required a lot of work. And I love any scene where Warden and Paige are together.
What book or books would most resonate with readers who love your book--or visa versa?
It depends which aspect of my books you enjoy! If you're keen on dystopia, two of the biggest inspirations for The Bone Season were The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. If you liked the clairvoyance, try The Graces by Laure Eve or The Circle by Sara B. Elfgren and Mats Strandberg. For a fantasy with detailed worldbuilding, Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton is a good pick. And if it's books set in a slightly magical London that spark your imagination, try The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley or The City's Son by Tom Pollock.
How long did you work on THE SONG RISING?
Well over a year. It took a very long time, and many rounds of structural edits, to get this one exactly right.
How long or hard was your road to publication? How many books did you write before this one, and how many never got published?
There was one novel I wrote before The Bone Season called Aurora, which fortunately never saw the light of day. I stripped all the best parts from it, like the concept of a dreamscape, to use in The Bone Season. I was lucky enough to have a fairly easy road to publication -- I was accepted by the first agent I approached, who took it to the London Book Fair, and we got an offer from Bloomsbury not long after. It still feels like a dream.
I've just finished the complete first draft of my new high fantasy novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, and sent it to my agent. While he reads it, I'm getting back to work on the fourth Bone Season book.
The Song Rising
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Released 3/7/2017
The hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series – a ground-breaking, dystopian fantasy of extraordinary imagination.
Following a bloody battle against foes on every side, Paige Mahoney has risen to the dangerous position of Underqueen, ruling over London's criminal population.
But, having turned her back on Jaxon Hall and with vengeful enemies still at large, the task of stabilising the fractured underworld has never seemed so challenging.
Little does Paige know that her reign may be cut short by the introduction of Senshield, a deadly technology that spells doom for the clairvoyant community and the world as they know it…
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Samantha Shannon was born in West London in 1991. She started writing in abundance when she was twelve, started her first novel when she was fifteen, and studied English Language and Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford, from 2010 – 2013, graduating with a 2:1. She specialized in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Principles of Film Criticism. In 2013, she published The Bone Season, the internationally bestselling first installment in a seven-book series of fantasy novels. Its first sequel, The Mime Order, was published in 2015, and the third book in the series, The Song Rising, was published in March 2017. She is also the author of On the Merits of Unnaturalness and The Pale Dreamer, and has recently sold a new high fantasy novel, The Priory of the Orange Tree, to Bloomsbury.
Have you had a chance to read THE SONG RISING yet? Do you enjoy Samantha Shannon's different genres for The Bone Season series? Have you used elements from books you reconsidered in your stories? Share your thoughts about the interview in the comments!
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Parasympathetic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy assessed by heart rate variability: comparison between short-term and 24-h measurements
Mörner, Stellan
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Medicine.
Wiklund, Urban
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Radiation Sciences.
Rask, Peter
Olofsson, Bert-Ove
Kazzam, Elsadig
Waldenström, Anders
2005 (English)In: Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging, ISSN 1475-0961, E-ISSN 1475-097X, Vol. 25, no 2, p. 90-99Article in journal (Other academic) Published
In this study, we evaluate cardiac autonomic function in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) by assessing heart rate variability (HRV), comparing a short-term laboratory method with an ambulatory (24-h) method, in patients with and without beta-blockade. Reduced HRV is a risk factor for adverse events in some cardiac diseases, but is not a proven risk indicator in HCM. Analysis of HRV has been based on either short- or long-term electrocardiographic recordings and previous studies in HCM have shown conflicting results. There is no consensus on which method to prefer, and we evaluate, for the first time, both short- and long-term analyses in patients with HCM. Long- and short-term HRV analyses were performed in 43 patients with HCM. They were divided in two groups, 22 patients on beta-blockade and 21 non-treated patients. As controls, 121 healthy subjects were used. Young patients without beta-blockade showed a reduction in HRV parameters reflecting parasympathetic function, both in the short- and long-term registrations, which was attenuated by beta-blockade. Parasympathetic autonomic regulation was found to be impaired in young patients with HCM. This may be of clinical relevance as abnormal autonomic function might be a substrate for malignant dysrhythmias. The impairment was attenuated by beta-blockade, which might indicate a clinically useful effect. We also show that short- and long-term methods yield similar results, suggesting that a short-term registration might be sufficient to assess HRV in patients with HCM.
2005. Vol. 25, no 2, p. 90-99
Autonomic nervous system, cross-sectional study, heart rate variability, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-14178DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2004.00595.xPubMedID: 15725307OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-14178DiVA, id: diva2:153849
1. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Northern Sweden: with special emphasis on molecular genetics
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Northern Sweden: with special emphasis on molecular genetics
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous, often familial disease, characterized by cardiac hypertrophy, predominantly affecting the interventricular septum. To date, no study has systematically analysed the genetic and phenotypic aspects of the disease in a Swedish population. The aim of this thesis was to identify the genotypes causing HCM in northern Sweden, to characterize the disease phenotypes and correlate these findings.
Forty-six patients were recruited for the genetic studies (21 women), 11 familial and 35 sporadic cases. Eight sarcomeric protein genes were screened for mutations. A total of 11 different disease causing mutations were found in four genes. Six of the mutations were previously not described. A novel mutation (a 33 base pair deletion) in the troponin I gene was found in one HCM family. Despite the severe genetic defect, the associated phenotype displayed only mild cardiac hypertrophy and few symptoms. Most mutations (64%) were identified in the myosin binding protein C gene, a gene considered to have a low penetrance. Mutations were identified in 10 of 11 familial HCM cases, but only in three of the 35 sporadic cases.
It was found that cardiac amyloidosis can sometimes present itself as HCM. Three HCM patients (7%) carried the ATTR Val30Met mutation, also found in Swedish patients with familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP). The patients had no symptoms of polyneuropathy, but cardiac amyloidosis as the cause of hypertrophy was verified by myocardial biopsy in an index case. Amyloid heart disease should therefore be considered as a differential diagnosis in patients with HCM.
By studying heart rate variability (HRV), it was found that young patients with HCM had signs of autonomic dysfunction, expressed as a reduced HRV. Treatment with beta-blockade attenuated these effects. Abnormal autonomic function might be a substrate for lethal arrhythmias, most often encountered in younger patients with HCM. The results suggest a possible protective effect of beta-blockade, remaining to be studied further.
Ventricular function is frequently abnormal in HCM. In particular, diastolic dysfunction has been demonstrated. The recently described myocardial performance index allows the assessment of cardiac function by combining systolic and diastolic performance. We found that patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy had evidence of global and regional right ventricular dysfunction, besides left ventricular dysfunction. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is traditionally considered to be a disease of the left ventricle. The results show that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy should more be regarded as a biventricular disease.
In conclusion, the myosin binding protein C gene is the most common gene causing familial HCM in northern Sweden. This disease gene is considered to be associated with a mild, late-onset disease with ≈50% penetrance at 30 years of age. The low disease penetrance emphasizes the importance of adequate family screening when evaluating patients with HCM, since the familial nature of the disease might easily be overlooked. These particular disease features in northern Sweden contrast to most previous reports, which indicate another disease gene as the most frequent in HCM, associated with a much higher penetrance. Amyloid heart disease, requiring different treatment than HCM, should be kept in mind as a differential diagnosis in the management of patients with HCM.
Key words: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, genetics, autonomic nervous system, familial amyloid polyneuropathy, echocardiography.
Umeå University medical dissertations, ISSN 0346-6612 ; 894
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, genetics, autonomic nervous system, familial amyloid polyneuropathy, echocardiography
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-274 (URN)91-7305-660-X (ISBN)
2004-05-28, Sal E04, Byggnad 6E, Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, Umeå, 09:00 (English)
Hjalmarson, Åke
Publisher's full textPubMed
Mörner, StellanWiklund, UrbanOlofsson, Bert-OveWaldenström, Anders
MedicineDepartment of Radiation Sciences
Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging
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CARING AND COMMITMENT IN ACTION
Assistance League of Riverside, a 501(c)(3) corporation, was chartered in 1966 as the 37th chapter of Assistance League, a national organization with 120 chapters. In 2017-18 over 278 Assistance League of Riverside volunteers and Assisteens ® worked more than 41,000 hours to fund and support our community programs.
Assistance League of Riverside is an all volunteer organization dedicated to clothing, comforting and educating the children of our community through the work of its six philanthropies. The statistics below outline the 2017-18 accomplishments these programs.
Bear Pals
2,987 bears and 1,140 Fun Kits were provided to law enforcement, fire departments, and local hospitals to support children who are in stressful situations.
A total of 1,039 SAT study guides were delivered to 16 schools in 3 school districts. 173 students from 11 high schools each received $100 for college visitations. Twelve scholarships of $1,000 were awarded.
ASSISTEENS®
Assisteens is comprised of teens from 7th to 12th grades. Assisteens support Assistance League of Riverside with financial contributions, by working in the Thrift Shop and with time spent volunteering for philanthropic programs. Through their Children's Outreach program, the Assisteens Auxiliary gives monthly donations of educational and project supplies, as well as scholarship assistance, to the Carolyn E. Wylie Center for Children, Youth and Families.
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Lucy Brown uses a mixed palette of old, unwanted, second-hand and vintage clothing, hair and personal artefacts as raw material. Works take form in woven installations, anti-form sculptures, site-specific interventions and individual pieces. Narratives explored engage with social issues surrounding body, dress, women’s history, making skills and nostalgia.
Sourcing, collecting, drawing and making are core motivations in the work. Raw materials are sourced from second hand clothes shops, markets and online. It is the raw materials embodied history and memory that interests Brown, its previous existence. These items are selected and deconstructed through methods of cutting, unpicking and ripping.
Free-hand weaving techniques are developed through physical, sensory, emotional and psychological engagement with selected clothing. The speculative play around the visible and invisible history of the raw material and the internal and external surfaces all contribute to these responses. There is a seductive and obsessive drive with the raw materials, which fuels the desire to make and physically interact with the garments. Weaving is both language and method to reconstruct / re-invent these materials exploring ideas around re-telling/ re-working histories, re-claiming / re-configuring female body image.
Installation and anti-form works develop over two stages; first stage weaving takes place in the studio on an egar frame loom. Second stage is when weaves are cut loose of the loom and transferred to a space where works are installed, extended and realised. Current works are using multiple selections of clothing, exploring bodily gestures as an extension of an emotion. There are themes around the unfinished and unresolved, meaning that works has are in a constant state of ‘becoming’.
Lucy Brown studied BA Hons Textile Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since graduating in 1995 Lucy has continually made work for exhibitions, commissions and has developed short and long term education projects for arts organisations, schools, colleges and universities. Exhibitions and new work commissions include ‘6th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial’ 2018 Arsenāls Exhibition Hall, Riga, Latvia; ‘Offerings’ Solo Exhibition 2018. R-Space Gallery Lisburn Northern Ireland; ‘Lace Unveiled’ 2018 Newstead Abbey. Nottinghamshire; ‘Unravelling Nyman’s’, 2012 Nyman’s House and Gardens National Trust UK and ‘Offerings’ Project Space, COLLECT 2012, Saatchi Gallery London UK. Lucy’s work has been reviewed and featured in many publications including ‘Lucy Brown: ‘Secrets she keeps from herself’ On-line published essay by Professor Catherine Harper. 2018 and Warp & Weft by Dr Jessica Hemmings 2012.
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Style AI: when artificial intelligence decides what is fashionable
ecommerce, innovation, intelligence, yoox, Handsome, designovel, SJYP, digital production, convolutional neural network
Future fashion will increasingly be the result of team work between man and machine. But what if this "future" is nearer than you think?
The rules of the fashion creative process have changed also thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence, which is very often used to understand customers’ tastes and offer personalised services.
This is precisely what has been done by the e-shopping giant Yoox, which has presented in Milan its new 8 by Yoox collection, designed by using an advanced software which can examine images and texts used on the web, online magazines or social networks, gather insights, combine them with predictive indicators on trends, sales data, customer feedback, shopping trends and then incorporate them into a collection which, ideally, everyone should like.
A similar attempt has been made by the South Korean label Handsome, which has launched a new fashion line under the SJYP brand, resulting from the collaboration with Designovel, a start-up specialising in AI fashion technology.
The design of the first item created by the "Style AI” system - Dino Hood Tee, a sweatshirt with a printed dinosaur and toy blocks - has been customized by drawing inspiration from over 330,000 images, characters and logos provided by means of a convolutional neural network. Commonly known as CNN, this is a special type of artificial neural network that processes images to recognize, categorize and process patterns for the development of new fashion styles and designs.
Handsome also said that it will soon review whether the AI technology can be applied to other areas of its fashion business as well.
At 255 HEC we have been paying close attention to this reality for over 15 years, in which technology, innovation, automation, the centrality of processes and human beings are integrated deeply to bring unimaginable benefits and goals. Not only for more traditional aspects such as logistics. But also for more 'modern’ ones connected with digital production and e-commerce.
255 HEC srl has long been involved in these projects; we have created over the years many innovative ideas that have allowed leading companies in the sector to develop many of these new businesses. Would you like to find out more? We will be pleased to tell you about our experience. Please write to: info@255.it.
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On inspiration
We have read the loving words of so many people who have expressed that they grieve and lament the loss of our son with us. We are so grateful for your words. While sweet words do provide comfort, they also keep the grief fresh. But the grief may never leave, anyway, so that’s OK. We will lament the loss of Simon for the rest of our lives on earth. In Nicholas Wolterstorff’s book, “Lament For A Son,” he says about his son Eric who died, “If he was worth loving, he is worth grieving over. Grief is existential testimony to the worth of the one loved. That worth abides.”
One word that comes up quite often in peoples’ messages to us is “inspiration.” The general theme is that we, or our story, has been inspirational. There is a lot of power in that word. But the power of inspiration is only manifested if you are inspired to do something. You can’t be “inspired” to stay the same. You can’t be inspired to go back to yawning, stretching, plopping down on your couch and flipping on the TV like you do every day.
Inspiration is only inspiration if it pulls you, unwaveringly, from desire to action. So if you feel inspired by Simon’s story, or by me and Amy, then try to put a finger on what you are being inspired to do. Meditate on it. Ask God to reveal it to you.
Are you inspired to learn how to suffer well?
Are you inspired to change how you value life?
Are you inspired to be vulnerable and open in your most important relationships?
Are you inspired to look at your kids through a more holy lenses - lenses like the father of the prodigal?
Are you inspired to unlearn something, or forgive someone, that keeps you from going back to church?
Are you inspired to no longer think of God as a “senile benevolent grandfather” who wants you to be happy, but instead as a Father who loves you enough to demand everything from you and then want more?
Are you inspired to think of God less as a concept, but more as a real person who desires an intimate relationship with you?
Are you inspired to talk more openly about your faith, and ask the tough questions?
Simon’s life is absolutely inspiring. But inspiration is not some open-ended adverb that is synonymous with “neat” or “cool.” Inspiration has to be attached to action or change.
If Simon’s story truly impacted you enough to think differently, or change something, would you be vulnerable enough to share with us what specifically it is? Email us at balentinefamilyhome@gmail.com. Doing this will honor his life, and provide peace to the souls of a couple of grieving parents.
Simon Adam Balentine’s Celebration of Life Service will be on June 14, 2014 at 10:00 AM at Christ Community Church - Brookside Campus (400 W. 67th Street, Kansas City, MO 64113)
One week without Simon
Simon's Eyes
Happy one week birthday, Simon Adam!
Simon's Birth Story
What I'm thankful for today
Big brother Teddy with Simon
Simon's voice ringing through our home
Another day, another gift
Celebrating another day
Good morning from Simon!
Simon is home with us
Simon Adam Balentine has arrived
On friendship and defining a full life
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Warriors serious about trading for Chris Paul, as they should be
By Bay Area Sports Guy
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 5:29 pm
According to Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski (and others, including Tim Kawakami and Sam Amick), the Golden State Warriors are not only interested in trading for Chris Paul, but they’ve actually put together a package the New Orleans Hornets are interested in — a package that includes Stephen Curry.
Seeing as Paul’s one of the top point guards in the world and has more All-Star Game appearances (four) than the entire Warriors roster combined (one — for David Lee in his last year with the Knicks), it’s not surprising that New Orleans is talking to more suitors than just Golden State.
If Wojnarowski’s report is true, the strongest competition for Paul’s services comes from a familiar source: the Clippers, who always seem to be in the mix whenever the Warriors are interested in someone, and vice versa. Then again, Baron Davis, Elton Brand and Corey Maggette aren’t exactly Paul.
Wojnarowski also stated that while Paul hasn’t said he’d sign a contract extension if he were traded to the Warriors or Clippers, “league sources” say they’d have a better chance at keeping Paul around if they signed free agent center Tyson Chandler, Paul’s former alley-oop partner.
The Celtics are also aggressively pursuing a trade for Paul, and after the talk all morning today was how the Lakers were going to trade for Paul and Dwight Howard by the time the season started, that looks less than likely. But supposedly the Clippers and the Warriors are currently the teams presenting offers that New Orleans is most interested in.
The Clippers would have to include 23-year-old restricted free-agent center DeAndre Jordan in a package to get Paul, along with forward Al-Farouq Aminu, guard Eric Bledsoe and the 2012 first-round pick they acquired from the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Clippers are more attractive to Paul than the Warriors or Boston Celtics, because of the chance to be paired with (Blake) Griffin and (Eric) Gordon. Golden State has been aggressive in its pursuit of Chandler independent of Paul, but the Warriors don’t have as appealing a supporting cast for Paul. The Warriors’ offer for Paul is centered around Stephen Curry and rookie guard Klay Thompson.
That’s so CP3, thinking it would be more fun to toss oops to Griffin than bounce passes to Lee at the elbow for 15-footers. What a killjoy. However, one would think if Curry and Thompson are included in the Warriors’ offer, the Hornets would at least try to push the Clippers to include Gordon in a deal.
If you’re the Warriors, why not?
Forget the fact that it’s VERY curious that the Hornets are talking about trading their franchise player when they’re owned by the NBA, or that the Warriors don’t possess a first-round pick to deal in a future draft until 2016. Like most blockbuster trade rumors, this one probably isn’t happening. But if the Warriors can somehow get the Hornets to part with Paul for a package including Curry and Thompson, they should do it without regret.
The Warriors’ lack of playoff run is well known to the point where it’s exhausting to hash out the gory details (and I’ll try to avoid doing so in this post). Curry’s a very talented player with a pure shooting stroke and excellent court vision, along with enough flair to his game to please fans who need a little style with their PER. And Thompson, well, he can make threes. But if the Warriors are serious about becoming a Western Conference power, they’re going to take a risk or two. Or 12. Most of all, they have to avoid going with what’s comfortable at all costs.
In this case the cost would seem to be great if Curry blossomed in New Orleans and Paul left at the end of the year and signed with the Knicks, Heat or Lakers. But as things stand, here are the three methods the Warriors can utilize to get the superstar they’ll need if they want to get out of .450 winning percentage hell.
Draft a superstar.
Create enough cap room and a place where players want to be, then sign a superstar free agent.
Trade for a superstar.
No. 1 hasn’t worked too well. The Warriors have never tried option No. 2, although they might have that opportunity if they trade for Paul and use the amnesty clause on Andris Biedrins or David Lee after the 2011-12 season. The closest they’ve come to attempting No. 3 was the trade they made with the Hornets almost seven years ago(!) for Baron Davis, who led the Warriors to their only playoff appearance in the past 17 seasons (sorry, unavoidable) before trading his hunger for basketball for In-N-Out satiation.
Sure, the best-case scenario would probably be to trade Monta Ellis for Dwyane Wade, then amnesty Biedrins and sign Dwight Howard after this season. Ha.
Here’s the real-case scenario: Curry’s the best trade chip the Warriors have, and it’s hard to imagine the team as currently constructed finishing higher than ninth or tenth in the West. On the other hand, it’s just as difficult to imagine a Warriors team built around Paul, Ellis, Chandler, Lee, Dorell Wright and Ekpe Udoh not making the playoffs.
From there, perhaps Golden State convinces Paul to stay. If he leaves, time for another bold plan. After all, it’s doubtful Joe Lacob and Peter Guber hired a new coach and all those front office people to watch last year’s squad improve incrementally … if that.
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Kesshin Kai
Sport Nunchaku UK
Dedication : Fitness : Fun
Welcome to the new website for Kesshin Kai, formerly known as Lakeland Ju-Jitsu Academy.
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The History of Ju Jitsu
Ju-Jitsu is an ancient Japanese martial art the practice of which dates back to the pre-Tokugawa Shogunate times. Although Ju-Jitsu is an art in itself, it is also considered to be a parent art and arts such as Judo (Gentle Way) and Aikido (Way of Mind, Body and Spirit) can be traced back to it.
It is believed that Ju-Jitsu is over 2,500 years old and was practiced by the ancient Samurai in the open hand form alongside their weapons training. The art of Ju-Jitsu is thought to have been developed from many individual forms of unarmed combat native to Japan as well as some that might have been brought into Japan from other Asian countries such as China.
The first mention of a form of unarmed combat can be traced back to China in 772-481 BC when open hand techniques were being used in the course of combat. In 525 AD an Indian Zen Buddhist monk named Bhoddidharma brought yogic breathing forms into China and while visiting a Shaolin monastery combined them with Chinese Kempo, or Kenpo in Japanese, which as legend would have it he later developed in to a style of open hand self defence called Go-Shin-Jutsu-Karate or self defence art of the open hand.
Around 794 – 1185 AD (The Heian period) there is also evidence of open hand styles being taught along side the traditional weapons training for Samurai. In 880 AD when Prince Teijun founded the Daito-Ryu Aiki Ju-Jitsu school which used the secret teachings of Shugendo and eventually became the source for Kendo, which uses small circular hand movements to assist in defence of oneself whilst using weapons.
The formalisation of Ju-Jitsu training is generally credited to Hisamori Teninuchi, who in 1532 formed a school of Ju-Jitsu, but the next step forward came when a monk called Chin Gen Pinh moved from China to Japan bringing Kempo with him which became integrated into the teaching of Ju-Jitsu, during the Tokugawa era circa 1650 Ju-Jitsu continued to flourish as part of the formalised Samurai training.
The Ju-Jitsu club was officially set up in October 1997 for the students of Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside. Through the success and development both Nationally and Internationally in 2012 our Association name was known as Kesshin Kai
The following September, I decided to launch the Ju-Jitsu club as Lakeland Ju-Jitsu Club to members of the public. Much to my surprise fifteen juniors and eight seniors enrolled.
Soon after I opened a club in Kendal and the junior’s sessions slowly grew there too.
Since 1997 all the clubs have continued to increase and there are now over 150 members ranging from three years old to adult. The clubs are held at Windermere H.Q., Ambleside, Kendal and Carlisle. Through the success and development both Nationally and Internationally, in January 2012 our Association name changed is now known as Kesshin Kai.
Kesshin Kai was proud to host this years World Nunchaku Championships. The World Championships took place at the The Judo Pre-Olympic Training Centre, Kendal 20th/21st.
We held host to some of the worlds most talented Martial Artists.
Kesshin Kai students were given the chance to compete against teams and students from all over the world. We have some very talented Nunchaku students within the club who got great results at an International level.
Students from the club have already achieved medals at previous World Championships and we are confident this will be replicated on home soil! This year was the biggest event to date, with local stalls, live streaming, and filming for the new club DVD.
Register now for our FIRST session FREE!!! Autumn Offer,Bring a friend or family member for free.
If you would like to take advantage of this Special offer, please fill out the form below or call Sensei Smith on 07718530346 to book your place.
Sensei R.smith 6th Dan Ju-Jitsu 4th Dan Nunchaku 2nd Dan Kobudo
Sensei Smith has the following official rankings:- Paris – Dec ’08 (5th in Europe) Switzerland- March ’08 (5th in the World) Alsace – Dec ’09 (4th in world) Kendal – May ’10 (5th in World-World Championships 2010) Windermere – Nov ’10 (Gold Medal-National) Holland – May ’11 (4th-Europe) Holland – Oct ’11 (Silver Medal-Europe) Windermere – Nov ’11 (Gold Medal-National) Holland – Oct ’12 (Silver Medal-Europe) Russia – Nov ’12 (4th Fighting and 4th Freestyle-World) Windermere – Nov ’12 (Gold Medal-National) Latvia – March ’13 (Bronze Medal-Europe) Windermere – July ’13 (Gold Medal-National) Kendal – Nov ’13 (Gold Medal-National) Kendal – Nov ’13 (Gold Medal-National) Russia – Nov ’13 (Silver Medal-Europe) Russia – Nov ’13 (Bronze Medal-Europe) Holland – Mach’14 (Bronze-Freestyle Europe) Switzerland- May ’14 (5th-Combat,7th Freestyle Europe) Kendal – June ’14 (Gold Medal-National) Russia – Nov ’14 (4th Combat,5th Kobudo-Europe) Windermere – Nov ’14 (Gold Medal Combat-National) Kendal-World Nunchaku Championships June 2015 Master Level- Silver Medal -World Championships Kobudo June 2015 Master Level- Gold Medal
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Ju-Jitsu Lessons Adult & 9 years +
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Tiger Ju-Jitsu Lessons 5-8 years
---Ambleside: Sunday's 6-7pmKendal: Friday's 5.15-6pmCarlisle: Wednesday's 5.15pm-6pmWindermere: Thursday's 5.15pm-6pmGhyllside Primary School: Tuesday's 3.15pm-4pm
Sport Nunchaku Lessons 3+/Junior/Adult and Family Classes
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Chris Sale will return to the Chicago White Sox rotation Thursday. But closer Matt Lindstrom will likely not return before late August with surgery scheduled. Sale, an American League All-Star pitcher the past two seasons, will come off the disabled list Thursday and start against the New York Yankees. Lindstrom, who limped off the field in the ninth inning Monday with a left ankle injury, has a torn sheath protecting the outer tendon. He will undergo surgery Friday with the recovery time projected around three months. Lindstrom had the White Sox first six saves of the season before the injury. Manager Robin Ventura said right-hander Ronald Belisario, who logged a save Tuesday, would be his closer. Sale went on the disabled list April 22 with a flexor strain in his left arm. He allowed one run and one hit in seven innings against Boston on April 17 in his previous start, throwing a career-high 127 pitches and reported he was sore the next day. "Im excited," Sale said. "Its been a long time. Its something Ive been looking forward to. Its been longer than I expected. I think it was just our taking time and not rushing back before the rehab process (was over), to come back at 100 per cent." Sale made a 68-pitch rehab start, striking out 11 in four scoreless innings with Triple-A Charlotte on Friday. He threw a bullpen session Tuesday at Kansas City before a game against the Royals with no problems. Sale, who has won 28 games the past two years, is 3-0 with a 2.30 ERA in four starts this season. "Its big," Ventura said having Sale back. "A guy like him you get a pretty good feeling that youre going to win. Hes proven that. With everything hes gone through, it feels good." The White Sox went into their game Wednesday against the Royals at 23-24 despite losing Sale for more than a month and with major league home run leader Jose Abreu and Lindstrom on the disabled list with ankle injuries. 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Previously, drivers were not eligible until they had been retired for three years, so drivers can continue to compete and still reach the hall.Alec Martinez scored at 14:43 of double overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a 3-2 win over the New York Rangers in Game Five of the Stanley Cup Final, taking the series in five games, with three of the wins coming in overtime. Martinez, the 26-year-old defenceman enjoyed a breakthrough season, scoring a career-high 11 goals and 22 points in 61 regular season games, then followed up with five goals and five assists in 25 playoff games and was one of three Kings to have at least 75.0% of the 5-on-5 shot attempts during Game Five. The Kings earned the win in Game Five, outshooting the Rangers 51-30, but with that many shots, both teams had opportunities. Each team found iron a couple of times in the extra frames, but the Kings controlled play, particularly after the first period. Shot attempts were even after one, but the Kings had 68.8% of the total shot attempts from the start of the second period onward and that relentless attack finally paid off when Tyler Toffolis rebound landed on Martinezs stick. It was a sensational run for the Kings, rallying from multi-goal and multi-game deficits throughout the postseason, winning their last four overtime games on the way to the Cup. Kings RW Justin Williams, who scored the first goal of the game, won the Conn Smythe Trophy, finishing tied for second in the playoff scoring race with 25 points (9 G, 16 A) in 25 playoff games, scoring two goals and five assists in the Final, when he was skating on what was ostensibly the Kings third line. Williams had the best plus-minus in the postseason (plus-13) as he was on for 23 goals for and 10 against during 5-on-5 play. Williams had a game-high eight shots and 12 shot attempts in Game Five. Williams was a deserving winner, on a team full of viable candidates. D Drew Doughty was a stalwart, finishing with 18 points, while averaging 28:45 of ice time per game. C Anze Kopitar was the playoffs leading scorer, with 26 points (5 G, 21 A), one point ahead of Jeff Carter, who anchored That 70s Line, with rookies Tanner Pearson and Tyler Toffoli on his wings. For their part, Toffoli and Pearson had the best possession stats for the Kings in the playoffs, and offered a glimpse at what could be a formidable line in the future. Pearson and Toffoli combined for 26 points (14 for Toffoli, 12 for Pearson) in the playoffs. Former Ranger Marian Gaborik, who tied Game Five early in the third period, led the playoffs with 14 goals, four more than Carter. Acquired from Columbus at the trade deadline, for Matt Frattin and aa couple of draft picks, Gaborik was a difference-maker for a Kings team that was having trouble scoring goals.dddddddddddd Rangers G Henrik Lundqvist stopped 48 of 51 shots in the deciding game, finishing the playoffs witha .927 save percentage. It was a terrific effort that ultimately came up short. Kings G Jonathan Quick wasnt at his best in the playoffs -- his .911 save percentage was well below his past couple postseasons -- but with the Kings controlling play in the Final, Quick needed to be good, not great. Rangers D Ryan McDonagh had an assist and played a game-high 42:12 in Game Five and led the Rangers in playoff scoring with 17 points (4 G, 13 A); this after going scoreless in the first 10 games of the playoffs. He hit the post on a great power play opportunity in overtime. Close, but no dice for the Rangers. Rookie LW Chris Kreider scored the Blueshirts second goal in Game Five and was one of their most dangerous forwards throughout the playoffs, registering 13 points (5 G, 8 A) in 15 games. Kreiders speed and physical game make him a threat, though it remains to be seen just how high his offensive ceiling may go. The story of disappointment for the Rangers lands on RW Rick Nash, who managed a total of three goals, despite registering 83 shots on goal, in the playoffs. That leaves Nash in rather select company of forwards that have had more than 70 shots on goal in a playoff year and scored three or fewer goals; the list includes Marian Hossa this year as well as Jonathan Toews and Tyler Seguin last year. Basically, this doesnt mean that Nash has forever forgotten how to score goals. That he finished seventh in the league in Goals/60 during the regular season is also evidence that Nash hasnt completely lost that skill. It was a bad time to go through that goal-scoring drought. 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BOOK BLAST & GIVEAWAY! CITY OF HOPE AND RUIN by Kit Campbell and Siri Paulson
City of Hope and Ruin
by Kit Campbell and Siri Paulson
GENRE: Fantasy (with LGBTQ romance)
Every night the monsters hunt.
A city that is the whole world: Theosophy and her companions in the City militia do their best to protect the civilians from the monsters, but they keep crawling from the Rift and there's nowhere to run. Theosophy knows she'll die fighting. It's the best kind of death she's seen, and at least she can save lives in the meantime.
They say the Scarred carve you up while you're still alive.
A village in the shadow of a forest: Refugees from the border whisper about the oncoming Scarred, but Briony can't convince her brother to relocate his children to safety. Briony will do anything to protect them. She owes them that much, even if it means turning to forbidden magic.
When Theosophy and Briony accidentally make contact across the boundaries of their worlds, they realize that solutions might finally be within reach. A world beyond the City would give Theosophy's people an escape, and the City's warriors could help Briony protect her family from the Scarred. Each woman sees in the other a strength she lacks—and maybe something more.
All they need to do is find a way across the dimensions to each other before their enemies close in.
Dean Prosody was pacing in her cramped office when Theosophy arrived. Her bayonet and whetstone lay forgotten on her desk.
Theosophy stopped just inside the door. "Sir?"
"He's not in his quarters, and he took his spear," said the dean, not looking at her.
Theosophy reached into her belt pouch and pulled out her double crystal, tuned to her partners. One side had gone dark, of course, but the other pulsed weakly. She could feel the direction of the pull—toward the ruins—but that meant nothing, surely he wouldn't be such a complete...
"What did you say to him?" Dean Prosody demanded.
Theosophy shrugged.
"Nothing about avenging Rhetoric?"
"I should hope not," she said. "I was a little busy fighting for my life. With one partner gone and the other just standing there..."
The dean gave her a look, blue eyes snapping.
"What? I let him mourn after. But he still let the third one get away, and almost got me killed. I had to say something."
The dean sighed.
"There's a reason I'm the longest-serving fighter. And it's not because I'm nice."
"About that, Theosophy...maybe you should consider stepping down."
She opened her mouth, but nothing came out.
"I know you're the reason a lot of these kids are still alive. But you're turning sour. It's not healthy."
Theosophy grimaced. The thing was, staying alive the longest wasn't any kind of mercy. It just meant everyone you used to know was dead.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
It is a little known fact that Kit was raised in the wild by a marauding gang of octopuses. It wasn't until she was 25 that she was discovered by a traveling National Geographic scientist and brought back to civilization. This is sometimes apparent in the way that she attempts to escape through tubes when startled.
Her transition to normalcy has been slow, but scientists predict that she will have mastered basics such as fork use sometime in the next year. More complex skills, such as proper grocery store etiquette, may be forever outside her reach.
Kit can be found cavorting about the web at her blog (http://landsquidattack.wordpress.com) or website (http://kitcampbellbooks.com), on Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/campbell1091/), and even occasionally on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/KitCampbell).
Siri Paulson writes all over the fantasy and science fiction spectrum, including (so far) secondary-world fantasy, urban fantasy, steampunk, Gothic, historical paranormal, and YA with spaceships. She is also the chief editor at Turtleduck Press (http://turtleduckpress.com/). Siri grew up in Alberta, Canada, but now lives in an old house in Toronto. By day, she edits non-fiction for the government. Her other current passion is contra dance, a social/folk dance done to live Celtic and roots music. Her favourite places in the world are the Canadian Rocky Mountains and a little valley in Norway.
Siri's short fiction and the anthologies she has edited can be found on Turtleduck Press, at http://turtleduckpress.com/wordpress/2010/11/30/who-is-siri-paulson/ . She blogs at https://siripaulson.wordpress.com/ and tweets at http://twitter.com/Siri_Paulson.
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F1: Brawn GP team swaps cars for bikes
Members of the Brawn GP squad have been proving that they are not just winners on tarmac, but can take on Britain’s finest on the cycle track too.
Peter Bonnington tackles the banking at the Manchester Velodrome
A group from the Brackley factory visited Manchester Velodrome on Wednesday to join the professional bike racing outfit Team Sky with the mission of proving that they could be as competitive on two wheels as on four.
The group, which included race engineers Andrew Shovlin and Peter Bonnington, tackled the challenge with a practice session on the track before taking advantage of coaching and advice from members of the team from British Cycling.
According to the team, they took part in a short pursuit race, were joined on the track by Olympic gold medallist and Team Sky member Geraint Thomas, and visited the Science and Technology department at the English Institute of Sport to learn how cycling shapes up to Formula One.
Team Sky will compete from 2010 with the aim of producing a British winner of cycling’s most high-profile event, the Tour de France, within five years – very similar to Brawn GP’s feat of winning the Formula One world drivers’ championship with Jenson Button.
Speaking after the event, Peter Bonnington said: “Riding at Manchester Velodrome was a truly awesome experience and meeting some of the Olympians made it a day to remember.
“We were hugely impressed by the level of detail that goes into making a world beating team and how everyone was so focused and passionate about their sport.
“Thank you on behalf of everyone who attended on the day from Brawn GP to all of those at British Cycling who made this visit possible.”
Categorised under F1, News, tagged under Andrew Shovlin, Brawn GP, Peter Bonnington.
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F1 – will Brawn GP be everyone’s new favourite team?
By Andy & LJH
So, after more twists and turns than an episode of Alias, the team formerly known as Honda is now Brawn GP – a going concern with a car out on the test track at Barcelona today.
And, in what couldn’t have been a better start for the fledgling team, Jenson Button managed to put his car at the top of the timesheet in the morning session in his first track outing since mid-November with a fastest lap of 1:21.140.
It was a sweet moment for all the fans of team and driver who had begun to believe that the slated management buyout, and promised “dozens” of suitors were vanishing into thin air as the season start approached.
Admittedly, with only a handful of test days left before the season start in Melbourne on March, and with a chassis adapted to take a Mercedes engine instead of the Honda one it was originally designed for, the team will realistically have its work cut out to achieve even mid-field performance.
In fact, we might be looking at the high point of Brawn GP’s first season right now – Button fell to fourth in the afternoon session and will almost certainly fall further when the season begins.
Only a fool would expect different – but Ross Brawn is no fool. He’s on record predicting early-season reliability gremlins and his targets revolve around saving jobs and achieving respectability.
However, even given all that, what we see so far is great, thanks very much.
Our Jense has stared down the sceptics and secured a drive. His old mucka Rubens Barrichello, one of our favourite drivers here at Brits On Pole, has escaped seeing a 15-year Formula One career fizzle out at the back of the Interlagos grid.
This site will likely always cheer on McLaren. It’s practically a patriotic duty. But the management here has always had a terrible weakness for the underdog. And in these days of teams owned by motor manufacturers or billionaires there aren’t a lot of them around.
Now all that could be changing.
We’ve got a new British team with a British driver to cheer on – Ross Brawn, who’d have thought it in the Ferarri days, eh? – and that suits us just fine.
Maybe Brawn is just keeping the seat warm until the economy picks up and Honda can come back. Maybe his stint as a team owner will be similar in length and effectiveness to that of Eddie Jordan or Peter Sauber. Or Aguri Suzuki.
Or maybe we’re witnessing the birth of something akin to when Colin Chapman, Bruce McLaren or Frank Williams first hit the track.
Time will tell. And at Brits on Pole we’ll be watching with interest and, yes, with excitement too.
Author: Andy & LJH. Some stories are written by Andy. Some stories are written by LJH. But some stories take both of us in a joint effort... Andy & LJH has written 50 articles for us.
Categorised under F1, tagged under Brawn GP, Formula One, Jenson Button, Ross Brawn, Rubens Barrichello.
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< Straighten it Out R.I.F. >
by Cliff Corcoran | September 10, 2009 2:03 am
Joba Chamberlain’s third start under the new spring-training-style Joba Rules didn’t start terribly well. Jason Bartlett led off by smacking a 2-1 pitch over the wall in left for a homer. (After the game Joba said it was the pitch he wanted to make and pointed out that Bartlett was having a great year; Joe Girardi said the pitch was “a mistake.”) Carl Crawford followed with a single, moved to second on a wild third-strike to Evan Longoria, stole third while Chamberlain was in the process of walking Ben Zobrist, then scored on a Pat Burrell single.
After that, the Yankee shortstop went to the mound and gave Chamberlain a quick verbal kick in the pants. Chamberlain struck out the next two batters on nine pitches and retired the side in order in the second and third innings. Because Chamberlain’s night ended there (due, I assume, to the 32 pitches he had thrown in the first), it’s difficult to say if that is likely to have been a meaningful turnaround in Joba’s performance going forward, but it was the most encouraging performance Chamberlain has had since his final start in July, which also came against the Rays.
Tampa Bay starter Jeff Niemann, a 6-foot-9 righty who bears a slight resemblance to the actor Jeff Daniels and is having a fine rookie season five years after being drafted fourth overall in the 2004 draft, made those two runs stand up for seven innings, stranding runners in every frame while striking out eight. Meanwhile, the Yankee bullpen matched Niemann by following Chamberlain with six hitless innings, including three from Alfredo Aceves and two from Jonathan Albaladejo.
Alex Rodriguez led off the bottom of the eighth by singling up the middle on Niemann’s 110th pitch, driving the tall 26-year-old from the game. Joe Maddon curiously chose righty Lance Cormier over lefty Brian Shouse to face Hideki Matsui. Matsui singled, sending Rodriguez to third, and Chris Richards threw Nick Swisher’s ensuing grounder into left field while attempting to start a 3-6-3 double play, sending Alex home and pinch-runner Jerry Hairston Jr. to third. Maddon then went to Shouse, who struck out Robinson Cano for the first out of the inning.
With one out, the tying run on third and the go-ahead run on first, Girardi sent Jorge Posada up to bat for Brett Gardner. Gardner made a spectacular, game-saving play in Monday’s day game, but has been struggling to rediscover his stroke since coming off the disabled list, going a combined 1-for-18 since starting his rehab assignment. Maddon countered with hard-throwing Aussie Grant Balfour, flipping Posada around to the left side. Posada worked the count full, fouling off the two strikes, then launched the next pitch into the seats in right for a game-changing three-run home run.
And that was that. Protecting a two-run lead, Brian Bruney typically walked the first man he faced in the ninth on four pitches, but got the next two out on three more tosses before yielding to Phil Coke, who got the final out and a cheap save. The 4-2 win was the 24th game the Yankees have won in their final at-bat this season, a total which leads the major leagues. On the season, the Yankees are averaging more than two runs scored per game in the final three innings and 1.2 runs score per game in extra innings, when one is usually enough to win it.
The win gave the Yankees an unexpected four-game sweep of the rival Rays, who are now a shocking 18.5 games out in the division, and ran the Yankees’ second-half record to 40-13, good for a .755 winning percentage. If they can keep that up through the final 20 games, it will stand as the third-best post-break mark since the All-Star Game began in 1933.
Oh, I almost forgot. Derek Jeter went 3-for-4, tying Lou Gehrig for the most hits in team history. It’s an impressive accomplishment that might have meant something to me had the YES Network not killed it to death by overhyping it beyond all reason. In fact, after watching the YES broadcast the opening of my recap looked like this:
Derek Jeter derekjeter derek jeter derekjeterderekjeter. Derek jeterderek Jeter derekjeter derek 2,721 jeter, Derek Jeter.
Then I checked the box score and realized there had been other players on the field.
At one point, YES seemed so obsessed with Jeter and all of their related graphics (the post-game graphic behind Bob Lorenz was a picture of Jeter swinging over a faded image of Gehrig’s number four with just the word “History” written underneath), that they seemed to have farmed out the rest of the broadcast to school children. The trivia question was a syntactical nightmare so severe that Michael Kay had to pause in the middle of reading it to get his bearings (“Who has the most games with hitting home runs from both sides of the plate in their career?”). They then cut to a shot of Alfredo Aceves warming up, but the camera framed Aceves so that he was hidden behind the graphic listing his season stats. The camera then readjusted with a few jerks during the live shot.
Typically YES does a fantastic job of broadcasting a game, but Wednesday night’s game was an embarrassment of FOX-like proportions. The network’s absolute murdering of Jeter’s pursuit of the all-time hit records for Yankee Stadium last year and the franchise this year have helped me understand why fans of other teams become enraged over what they feel is the outsized praise Jeter receives.
Still, for those in the ballpark, it did seem to be a genuine moment, as Jeter received a big ovation from the crowd and both dugouts, and seemed genuinely touched while tipping his helmet in response. It’s no small thing to have the most hits in the history of such an old and accomplished franchise, even if people tend to forget that, for all that the Yankees and their players have achieved over the years, long, durable careers have not really been a part of that.
It was also nice to hear Jeter speak at length and without obfuscation about the accomplishment and his emotions after the game, a rare glimpse behind the Jeter Curtain, albeit typically serious and humble. I also enjoyed hearing Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte, and Mariano Rivera reflect on their friendship with Jeter and their time together over the past decade and a half (though I found it telling that Posada focused more on Jeter eventually getting 3,000 hits than on catching Gehrig, while Mo wants Jeter to go after Pete Rose’s all-time record).
Unfortunately, that was marred a bit by the absurdity of some of Kim Jones’ questions (sample: “Jorge, to know that for 72 years Lou Gehrig held this record alone, and tonight he got some company, is that almost mind boggling, the accomplishment this is given those decades?” or “Can you take us through that moment, Andy, when he hits the ball to right field, he’s obviously headed to first, you guys come out of the dugout and are clapping?”). Jones does a solid job, but she has a habit of trying to put words into peoples mouths by asking yes/no questions (“did that ovation touch you?” etc.).
Getting back to Jeter. He broke an 0-for-12 slump with a bunt single on Niemann’s first pitch of the night, hit a ground-rule double to the warning track in center in this third at-bat, then singled to right for the record-tying hit. Jeter and Gehrig are now tied for 53rd on the all-time major league hit list, 22 behind Al Oliver.
Categories: Cliff Corcoran Game Recap
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1 Eddie Lee Whitson KO ~ Sep 10, 2009 2:36 am
Well written, Cliff. i intentionally did not watch the YES feed, and you've validated that decision. BTW, what's up with BJ Upton? Not to take away from the lovefest, but that double should've been an out, and he loafed on another hit. Was he hurt?
Winning is still substantively better than losing. And Joe Wilson is a turd in a punch bowl.
2 Cliff Corcoran ~ Sep 10, 2009 2:41 am
[1] I'm not sure the double would have been an out with a typical CF, but Upton probably would have had it had he made an effort. I don't know what the story was, but Maddon did pull him mid-game, be it for loafing or because of an injury. That and Mo not pitching the 9th seem to have been ignored due to Jeter.
3 Boatzilla ~ Sep 10, 2009 3:37 am
[1] According to ESPN, Upton was hurt. He was playing with a sprained ankle and was gutting it out like Jeter might, rather than loafing. Unfortunately, the YES booth decided during the game to that he has a character flaw and was "Cadillacing It," which sounds like a racially charged metaphor if there ever was one. Why doesn't the guy get the benefit of the doubt? Cheesh.
4 Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO ~ Sep 10, 2009 6:08 am
[3] I never heard the phrase "Cadillacing it" before, but yes, that is a really poor choice of words to use towards Upton..as was discussed in earlier threads about Robbie Cano, certain players will unfortunately always be judged quickly and unfairly...
5 Ben ~ Sep 10, 2009 7:12 am
Yeah, when I saw Upton make a basket catch coming in on a flyball, I was reminded of Rickey and his snap catch. It seemed like showmanship, maybe cocky, and could lead an analyst to think he was a showboat and Cadillaccing it. But then I thought, the basket catch is actually a very safe way to catch a ball AND, if you're injured and want to save the extra step, it's also a smart catch.
It doesn't really matter though. Upton made a few plays last night that threw his effort/readiness into question. Maddon was right to remove him.
I'm just glad that the days I don't give 100% at work aren't captured on a telecast.
6 OldYanksFan ~ Sep 10, 2009 7:50 am
Very well written Cliff.
A few random thoughts:
... ESPN actually covered Jeter and hit big hit very well. If you can catch it on tape, I recommend taking a look.
... I have never 'loved' Jeter the way other fans (and others here) have. I think that is because of the constant, year after year after year, overhyping. Jeter is an EXCELLENT but not great ballplayer. He is also a very fine character and indeed a most excellent role model. But if he played his career in KC, we might hardly ever hear his name mentioned. Indeed, because the Jeter show takes place in NY, it is simply overblown to the point that those like me actually appreciate him less because the NY media, and at times the national media, treat him like the second coming.
(Take note young parents: Both Jeter and ARod are prime examples of the lifelong affect of parenting [excellent and missing] on a child's future being. I give Jeter's parents a Nobel Prize for the tremendous foundation they have layed down for him. Every child is born with many predispositons and abilities. But there is still a LOT of blank space that is filled up by their environment, which in a child's early years, is mostly the parents. The formula is unlimited love, consistancy and disipline. [That's buddha type disipline, not military disipline. Parental disipline is often a dirty words amoungst liberals like myself]).
... (Off topic) I thought Obama's speech to congress last night (during the game) was excellent. I recommend that everybody watch a tape of it
... This is an amazing year. The only Yankee position player underperforming is an injured ARod. Melky is about what we expect from Melky. Just about everyone else is having a better year then expected (although certainly within their ability). However, it's hard to imagine that next year, so many players will be 'ON" at the same time. The only question is will this continue in the PS when we are facing elite pitching.
... 7 years for this Blog? Amazing. I know I started following regularly about 3 months before Cliff joined. When was that?
... Cano continues to be an enigma. This year, great D, excellent BA and power. But his OBP... only 30 pts higher than his BA? He can never be a great player unless he dedicated himself to improving that to at least 60 pts.
... I don't care if Minn. goes 0 and 162. Mauer must be the MVP. His line of .367, .433, .601, 1.034 is just sick for a Catcher
... There is a noticable difference in ARod's approach. The big swing is gone and his has a nice, short stroke that has resulted in many line drives and singles. Is this a compromise due to his hip or a conscious decision? His OPS is dwon (a little) from earlier in the year, yet his BA is 50 pts higher. I think this approach will suit him (and us) in the PS.
... I think this (.279 .338 .426 .764 ) is Melky. His has been both well above and well below, but I believe these numbers are about what we can expect. I think with better plate disipline and shortening his stroke in appropriate situations, he could push his OPS to .800-ish.
QUESTION: With above average (but not great) D, is this enough to be a Yankee CFer? Is this enough to be a Yankee corner OFer?
... ESPN commented on how a 37 yr old catchers bat speed should be greatly diminished... but NOT Posada's. I do think his D has slid a bit, but his bat is still very potent. I wonder, if he DH'es 80 games next year, dare we still expect a .899 OPS? Does he need to be in the field (ala Giambi) to keep his bat potent, or might the rest a DH gets keep him fresh?
... A LOT of players have not responded well coming to NY. TeixIS the real deal Seeing him lose a hit to the shift however, was brutal. Was he always an extreme pull hitter, or is this Yankeestadiumitis? If he could go the other way a BIT, you would think his numbers would be better?
... It looks like AJ has been true to form. Sometimes an absolute AceStud. Sometimes an absolute waste of talent. But hey, he hasn't been injured yet, so we are ahead of the curve.
7 unmoderated ~ Sep 10, 2009 8:02 am
regarding Melky in center, no it's not enough. not sure what the answer is, but here's an off-season predection for you:
joba, melky, romine and brackman to toronto for halladay and wells.
I usually hate unfounded trade speculation, but what the hell. it's not like I can complain much about this team.
8 Dimelo ~ Sep 10, 2009 8:27 am
For me, Jeter is worth all the praise by the local and national media. Just like you can't do anything about who you are born to, then I feel it's the same with Jeter, he can't do anything about being drafted to play for the Yankees and making a great career out of it. I don't begrudge or change my view of him just because he plays in NY and not in some other crappy market.
Jeter was drafted by the Yankees, went through their farm system, had a rough go at SS in the minors, wasn't trusted to be their SS, he overcame adversity, he was steady, he was constant, he never embarrassed the Yanks, all throughout he played his best and was an all-star, he dates super models, he's humble, and, oh yeah, he won championships.
When I read stuff like ".. why fans of other teams become enraged over what they feel is the outsized praise Jeter receives" or "year after year after year, overhyping".
How is that his fault? How can that be used to condemn the man? I know no one was condemning Jeter, but it's like people are angry at his success, as if he's not worthy. I think he gets the praise cause he's a clean-cut guy who always seems to do the right thing.
Shouldn't that be applauded? Shouldn't we be praising that and, dare I say, overhype that as much as possible?
We constantly hear about athletes that are beating their involved in some domestic issue, driving intoxicated and killing people, killing animals, etc, but now we have a person who does the right thing and we want to diminish his accomplishments.
Congratulations, Derek S. Jeter.
9 bp1 ~ Sep 10, 2009 8:47 am
[1] [2] I was curious about that, too (Upton getting benched), so I googled around and saw the Tampa blog reports that Madden benched him 'cause his ankle was acting up again. Would have been nice if the Yankees broadcasters let the viewers know he was playing on a bum foot, rather than saying he wasn't hustling. But the guy has a bad rep in that dept, having been benched a few times last year for lack of effort. That's the sort of rep that sticks with a guy.
Dude has gobs and gobs of natural ability.
And yeah - Cliff - I agree re: the YES Jeterpalooza over the past week. Enough already. No need to drive the point home with a sledgehammer. It was kinda surreal. Makes me cringe at wondering what will happen when A-Rod approaches those home run milestones. Will those games be watchable?
The Yankees are on an amazing run. My jinxes and good luck charms at home have been rendered obsolete (knock on wood). They just win. A lot. Wow.
10 Sliced Bread ~ Sep 10, 2009 9:02 am
Cliff,
I understand how the YES hype could drive you to take a contrararian stand, and I'm sure Jeter would structure his game re-cap the same way, putting the story of the team's victory first -- but with all due respect, sir, you buried the lead. Sorry, you're one of my favorite writers, but I'm scoring it at home as an error. We all make 'em.
Pinstripped pomp and ceremony come with the turf. Even if that's not your thing, and even though it can sometimes be too much depending on your taste, the big story last night, perhaps the only story last night was Jeter and Gehrig.
As for fans around the league who get worked up when Jeter gets too much praise, I think even they would tip their cap to the man today, and be reluctantly envious of Yankee fans for having a player like Jeter to root for, and hold up as a baseball role model.
11 Ben ~ Sep 10, 2009 9:05 am
[9.] I didn't know that about Upton last year. It's tough to live that stuff down.
How about comparing Jeter to Biggio. Both great players at their positions, played the game 'right', were respected by their peers, caused zero distraction off the field. The difference - NY vs. Houston. I have an opinion as to which is a tougher environment.
But to me the Jeter/Gehrig record is more about realizing what a special career he's had rather than how great he is.
[10] oops, I'booted the ball! The other big story last night was, of course, Posada's home run. That was sick. Can't take big hits like that for granted. Damn, Po, that was nice.
13 Horace Clarke Era ~ Sep 10, 2009 9:14 am
I read OYF and Dimelo, and I ... agree with both, and disagree. (How's that for a first coffee sentence?) OYF, I really don't see the distinction between excellent and great as meaning a whole lot. When someone is nearly a lock for 3000 hits playing a difficult position that gets them to flat-out great, to me. I also note that fangraphs showed he's the 3rd best defensive ss this year (both leagues). Rangers' rookie is #1.
I am fascinated, I admit, by how defensive numbers bounce around ... does make me wonder about the numbers, at least as much as the players!
I do agree with OYF that Mauer's numbers cry out 'MVP' ... except we KNOW that the MVP, unlike the Cy Young tilts towards players on teams in contention. It also tilts (a mistake, to my mind) towards the homer/rbi guys, which gives Tex and Miguel Cabrera their edges. Cabrera's quietly had a superb season.
Dimelo, it is not wrong not to note that Jeter get overhyped. Is it his fault, you ask? Of course not, but that doesn't make it inappropriate to observe that his game is seen as too much better than other players in quieter markets. On the other hand, I have always argued that playing in the Bronx ADDS a burden on players and quieter ponds are easier to swim in. Jeter has excelled on a difficult stage.
I'm honestly not sure what to make of the A Rod season ... from a team point of view, he's just great and it may well make for a better playoff, if he continues to use the whole field and not assume he needs to mash. On the other hand ... what does it mean if he is now a 30-35 homer guy? Is he? Why?
I have to assume the playoff rotation is CC/AJ/Andy with Joba either in the pen or a five inning 4th starter if the schedule forces one. If we start at home, Andy may go #2 to reduce the short porch issue, with two lefties. I have a real sense Joba is either off his game with all these adjustments or, very possibly, simply tired.
And yes, YES was painful last night.
14 Shaun P. ~ Sep 10, 2009 9:24 am
[6] OYF, right on about ESPN. I was shocked that they just went quiet and let the crowd noise play out. Even Steve Phillips shut his mouth.
YES is pandering to Jeter - and more precisely, to all the Jeter fans out there - from the sounds of things. Can't say I blame them for doing it, but it makes me glad to have had only the ESPN feed last night. That will probably be the last time I ever say that again.
[14] celebrating team history is pandering?
Sure the coverage was over the top, (what aspect of the franchise's success isn't over the top?) but the backlash is just as unappealing if you ask me.
as for letting the crowd noise play out, the YES announcers didn't step on the moment... but clearly they ruined it for some fans with all the buildup.
16 bp1 ~ Sep 10, 2009 9:51 am
[15] The more I think about it - I think YES was expecting Jeter to tie/break the record earlier in the week and had to drag things out far longer than they had planned. Every day they had to re-play the same interviews, wax poetic again about Jeter's career, etc.. If he did it during the dbl header on Monday, nobody would have complained as the coverage would have coincided with the actual event. As it was, YES had to do their due diligence every game, and for those of us who watched each one, it got repeptive and annoying.
So - I think you're right. No problem with celebrating team history. The celebration of Mo's 500th save was spot on, probably in large part because Mo got it done the first chance he had, lol.
[16] repeptive - lol. Nice word. Where's that edit feature?
[17] heh.. repeptive is exactly the word for it!
19 ms october ~ Sep 10, 2009 9:57 am
i personally don't think it is fair to hold the media's coverage of jeter against him. contrast him with someone like brett favre who calls and texts people in the media on what seems like a fairly frequent basis. i think you can be annoyed with favre for the media coverage of him because he sought it out.
i think it is also worth noting that the yankees are 9 games up in the second week in september. i imagine the ratings have dropped a bit as there is basically no race left, summer is over, and football is starting. this jeter record is something for yes to focus on and have a story to tell.
now with that said the last few days have been over-done and a bit too much to me.
20 Sliced Bread ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:07 am
[9] I think the ARod milestone coverage will be much more unbearable but for a totally different reason. It won't be the praise that's too much. The whole steroids debate and asterisk thing will take the noise level to the point where you'll want to surround yourself with sandbags and hide until ARod's tipped his helmet.
21 ms october ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:14 am
perhaps the best thing derek did last night was put a figurative foot up joba's ass :}
[21] funny you should mention that: at this moment the Yankees are constructing a monument that will be placed in the dirt at the exact spot where Jeter put his figurative boot up Joba's behind. There will be a ceremony for the unveiling of this monument sometime this weekend. Also, a chorus of school children will sing Jeter's praises in the Stadium's newly dedicated "Hall of Intangibles."
23 Shaun P. ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:22 am
[15] Celebrating team history isn't pandering - its YES's job. They do it quite well.
But crazy over-the-top celebrating of team history? (That's the impression I got from Cliff's description; I saw none of it myself.) To me, that's pandering. For exactly the reasons ms october laid out in [19] - with the Yanks up by so much, they may well need a "story" to get attentionratings.
In any case, I fully agree with your [20] Sliced - when A-Rod gets close to Ruth, then Aaron, then Bonds - ugh.
24 Raf ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:28 am
[3] Because he's having a bad year. Having said that, that wasn't the first time he made a basket catch, and I'm sure that wasn't the first time that he has dropped a fly ball. And because he makes basket catches with a fair degree of consistency, I'd say he's not going to change. Nor should he.
[6] I think it's awesome that Jeter's parents attend his games, I thought it was cool to see Papa Chamberlain around as well (where is he this season?).
[8] Let the haters hate, I pay them no mind.
[23] see I don't think YES was overdoing the Jeter buildup for ratings, or because they didn't have another story to sell. I think they would have given it pretty much the same treatment even if the Yanks were engaged in a hot series with the Red Sox with one game separating the teams in the standings. I think the Jeter Gehrig thing is genuinely a big deal, and deserved to be celebrated.
as bp1 noted in [16] unfortunately for YES (and the viewers) the thing just got dragged out too long because Jeter didn't hit for a few days.
It also comes down to how much noise and hype one can tolerate. I can easily tune that stuff out so it doesn't get to me.
26 williamnyy23 ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:40 am
[3] As mentioned on the other thread, Upton's error was not the result of his injury. He had plenty of time to settle under it, but instead slowed up so he could catch it over his shoulder. He did the same thing earlier in the game, and in fact does it regularly. Now, I guess you could blame the Rays for not dealing with this sooner, but maybe they have? In any event, all criticism of Upton was justifiable. Even the Rays broadcast took him to task.
[4] Cadillacing is pretty common...I don't see any racial undertones to the term, but maybe it's going over my head.
[6] Do you really think a SS with a career OPS+ over 120 would go unnoticed in KC? Jeter is an all-time great and a deserving first ballot Hall of Famer. I find it hard to believe that you can really over hype those kinds of players.
As for the Obama speech, my recommendation would be to skip it.
[10] I agree with this strongly. How YES covers Jeter's pursuit of the record should not diminish the importance that others give the moment. Of course, I don't see how YES has blown things out of proportion. This is a major record for the sports greatest team. Lou Gehrig is a mythical figure in the team's history and the fact that Jeter is surpassing one of his accomplishments is a very big deal. Downplaying this record would make no sense.
27 Rich ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:42 am
Jeter has been overhyped at times during his career, particularly during the years when his defense was signfiicantly below average. I don't see the problem with anyone pointing that out. He's not sacrosanct.
Overall, the press treatment Jeter receives is extremely positive. I'm not sure what the complaint is.
28 Mattpat11 ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:44 am
[10] I think A-Rod could be worse, just because it will take longer. Homers are more rare than hits to begin with, and it did take A-Rod ten days to get from 499 to 500. We could be watching him chase Willie Mays for a week and a half.
[28] That should be [9]
30 BuckFoston ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:48 am
It seems to me that maybe we are closer to the hype than most. For most of the country they only saw what was on ESPN and probably bearable. Hype is not anything that is unique to New York. Seems Cal Ripken got quite a bit of it for breaking Gehrig's record. Seems to me Cal Ripken got quite a bit of hype for being a career .788 OPS player (.340 OBP). How'd that happen, I mean with him playing in Baltimore and all? Jeter already has more hits than any other SS ever, and his career OPS is .846 (.387 OBP). I think it is safe to say that Jeter may end up being arguably the greatest SS of all time (I know its partially thanks to Arod's move to 3rd). He has a legitimate shot at Pete Rose's record, but only if he shows some selfishness in his later years.
It may be that Jeter's greatest accomplishment has been to exists for so long in the NY fishbowl and be considered a good guy, with a great character. This could also be said about Mo, but see Rodriguez, Alex for how things can go wrong. The only things people have seen to deride him for is the amount of affection Yankee fans have for him and the fact that he has a penchant for dating many (beautiful) women. The latter hate is 90% due to jealousy and 10% due to foisting our own morals upon him. The 10% may be lower.
[23] Other than Michael's Kay continuing use of the "Yankees Mount Olympus", I don't see what was over the top about the broadcast. It wouldn't have even occurred to me that YES went overboard if not for Cliff's criticism. It's not like they had one camera follow Jeter around the whole game or brought in a myriad of booth guests to recount his career in This Is Your Life fashion. They had a couple of pre-game spots and talked about the pursuit in each AB.
Every morning after a win, I've gotten into the habit of putting on the opponent's broadcast via MLB.com. To be honest, the TB station did just as much as YES regarding the record. They had graphics, discussed it each time he came up and even opined for two batters how many hits Gehrig might have gotten had he remained healthy. Maybe they were just pandering to the Yankee fans in Tampa, but I just think both stations are covering a big baseball story.
32 Bama Yankee ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:54 am
[3] & [4] To me, it did look like Upton was "Cadillacing" on that play. He had time to get back to the spot, turn around and make a normal catch, but it looked like he was loafing. I don't know if he was bothered by an injury or not, it just looked like he tried to make a fancy catch when a standard catch would have been better. It reminded me of some of Cano's plays that drive me crazy.
Btw, I'm pretty sure that the term "cadillacing" is a common term for a baseball player showing off when it is not necessary. I'm not too sure about it being a "racially charged metaphor", doesn't running back Carnell Williams use "Cadillac" as a nickname?
33 monkeypants ~ Sep 10, 2009 10:57 am
[6] Jeter is an EXCELLENT but not great ballplayer.
Hm. I will have to Agree with Horace [13] and William [26], among others. Jeter will retire as arguable the second best SS in the history of the game. He s a no doubt HOFer by almost any standard. In addition, he has managed largely to avoid injury and to play to a consistently high level. As William puts it, he has been one of the all time greats. We are spoiled being able to watch him for now a decade and a half.
Maybe this is just a matter of semantics, and I (Like Horace) am not clear about your distinction between excellent and great.
Cadillacing is pretty common…I don’t see any racial undertones to the term, but maybe it’s going over my head.
It probably is going over your head. Stereotypically, those who were successful among "us" drove Cadilacs.
[20] If A-Rod's pursuit of the HR record is anything like Bonds' was, then it will be unbearable indeed. For while I think that YES went overboard in Jeter-mania last night (And will again on Friday), we did not have national broadcasts cutting away to each and every one of Jeter's historic ABs as he crawled inevitably to one after another historic benchmarks until finally setting a new historic record.
36 RagingTartabull ~ Sep 10, 2009 11:08 am
Sonny Corleone had some interesting comments regarding Cadillacs in Harlem during the Sunday dinner scene in "Part One."
as for Jeter, I think it is what it is. When his pursuit of the YS 1.5 hit record was followed by YES last year like it was the Iranian hostage crisis I think that was just a case of trying to stir up some interest in a team that had fallen out of the race.
This time around I think you're dealing with a much more legitimately important event, anytime you pass a Hall of Famer and become the all-time Hit King for a franchise that has been around for over 100 years...thats a story. This isn't the all-time Diamondbacks hit record we're talking about here, the thing did stand for 70 years.
Was YES a little over-the-top? Meh, I guess you could argue it. But it was one of the major club records (the only other comparable ones I could think of would be wins by a pitcher and homers), they pretty much did their job as far as I'm concerned.
and watch Obama's speech ; )
[34] In the Brooklyn neighborhood in which I grew up, those who were successful among "us" also drove Cadillacs. In fact, for sometime, the Cadillac was a definite status symbol, one that applied rather universally. I still don't see the connection.
[34] I dunno, Raf. My Swedish grandfather was a Cadillac man, and baseball wise it's long been used to call out flashiness. I don't think anybody uses it to insult anyone.
I gave it a different spin. Right here on the Banter I used call Bobby Abreu the 2007 Cadillac Abreu: Smooth. Powerful. Comfortable. Quiet. I used it as a term of respect for Bobby.
[34] Um, didn't those who were successful among "us" also often drive Cadillacs?
FWIW, from the new Dickson Baseball Dictionary:
Cadillac trot: A home run trot by a high-salaried slugger, often staged to show up a high-priced pitcher or other opponent. During teh 1986 NLCS, CBS radio announcer said that the term should now be called the "Mercedes trot." An interesting variation of the "Cadillac trot" was collected by Peter Tamony who noted that, during a June 1966 interview of John Roseboro by broadcaster Vin Scully, Roseboro thought that he had hit a home run and said, " I was just Cadillac-ing along"; however, the ball did not go out of the park and Roseboro should not have been trotting around the bases. Etymology: The term certainly can be traced to a famous line uttered by slugger Ralph Kiner in the 1950s: "Hitters of homeruns drive Cadillacs, singles hitter jalopies." On another occasion Kiner told a reporter that he never choked up on the bat because the CAdillacs were down at the other end.
40 Chyll Will ~ Sep 10, 2009 11:25 am
I'm not usually this way, but I'm just a little bit ticked for not getting acknowledged for breaking the tidbit here about Upton's injury yesterday (comment #220 in the game thread], but that's only because I spent about twenty minutes looking for it and no one even acknowledged it until it was mentioned by someone else as a veiled indication of racism. On that, my first reaction was that I didn't find it racist, I just found it unusual and not surprisingly boorish for Kay to characterize it that way when he would normally use the phrase "lack of hustle". My second was that I still don't find it racist unless you imply it, and if you're used to hearing it that way, then yes it would be. But to me, no. Just dumb, considering that it would have been easy to ask or speculate if he was injured as Kay has with others.
41 Diane Firstman ~ Sep 10, 2009 11:26 am
OK .... since I foolishly didn't snap up a couple of $40 grandstand seats last night for Friday's game, I just got 1 $40 grandstand ticket for Saturday.
Would I be a bad person for wishing for an 0-4 from Jeter on Friday? How about a HBP, a SF, 2 walks and a run scored?
call me a gas guzzling part of the problem, but if I could afford a Cadillac I'd definitley drive one.
Sang it, Bruce:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWJu5bKTXs
[40] Do you think his injury caused him to miss that ball or do you think he just dropped it?
lets put it this way, I think saying Upton was "cadillacin' it" is about as racist as calling Iwamura "sneaky" while he leads off first base looking to steal second.
I mean its not like he called him a "thug," which seems to be every sports pundit's favorite veiled epithet.
[36] Rhetoric! >;)
[37] And I'm sure they enjoyed a plate of fried chicken at one time or another. It doesn't change the stereotype.
[38] I'm sure it doesn't, just like we don't use "paddy wagon" to insult the Irish. Personally, I don't see it as an insult, I don't know of anyone who sees it as an insult, I'm merely pointing out why there may be racial undertones to a term like "cadillacing"
C'mon, you guys are messing with me, right? Enter "cadillacs and black people" into your favorite search engine, let me know what you find.
baseball wise it’s long been used to call out flashiness
And baseball wise, who's more likely to be called out for flashiness?
[40] you dropped that knowledge passed my bedtime :}
i feel your frustration though.
i do not think cadillacin it has racist roots (as mp discussed it was more about the big hr hitters), but i do think it is more often used to describe black or afro-latino players than other players.
also cadillacs have taken on a different symbolism for many after they were tied to welfare queens.
[40] No, just as many have implied, he seemed like he wasn't hustling, because he did bust it on another play before that one. I have no way of knowing if it did bother him unless HE said it did, in which case I'd have to accept that for what it is. I still think that if Maddon knew, he was foolish for not being more cautious with the injury, but then there's an endless chain of speculation here...
I still think that if Maddon knew, he was foolish for not being more cautious with the injury, but then there’s an endless chain of speculation here…
It could've been one of those things that Maddon asked Upton if he was able to go, and Upton said that he could.
I guess we'll see Upton's usage patterns from here on out, now that the Rays are for all intents and purposes done for 2009.
[46] I know what you're saying, Raf, and I wholly agree if you go looking for it, particularly in baseball (ahem, Mutts) it's wide open. Still, keeping it in the context of what Kay was saying, I don't think his intention was that in any way. I don't get that from what I can remember him saying in the past, but then I've not recently seen any red flags either.
[50] Aww, do we have to? I don't really care that much about the Rays! >;)
[46 47] Sorry, Raf, Ive really got nothing more than [38] on the subject of cadillacing - but like I said, my grandfather (we called him PopPop) drove nothing but Cadillacs after he started making money, so that's what I think of when I hear the word. In reference to baseball, to me it means nothing more than flashiness, and we know all types of players can be called out for that.
54 The Hawk ~ Sep 10, 2009 11:58 am
Wasn't it Flaherty that said "Cadillacing"?
[7] I gotta stick of for Melky here, he's done a serviceable job.
56 williamnyy23 ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:01 pm
[40] I wasn't in the game thread, but I think it was pretty common knowledge that Upton is battling an ankle sprain. I still think that's irrelevant to the play because Upton did not drop the ball because he wasn't running well.
[46] Usually you can back up a stereotypes implication with evidence. I have yet to see any for Cadillacing. In fact, many of the references I could find apply to white players.
[46] If anything, your search engine test proves that the Cadillac as a racial symbol post dates the origins of "Cadillacing" in baseball.
58 Diane Firstman ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:08 pm
Hmmmm ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnell_Williams
Williams moved on to Auburn University after graduating from Etowah High School in Attalla, Alabama. He got the nickname 'Cadillac' from a TV sportscaster in Alabama for the style and the way he ran...he was a notch above everyone on the field, and the name stuck."
59 Raf ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:10 pm
[51] I agree that Kay and Flash weren't using it in that "way," and to be clear I'm not calling them, nor members here, out on it. I'm not saying that anyone here is bigoted or racist. I'm simply pointing out that the "Cadillac and Blacks" stereotype is nothing new, because williamnyy23 mentioned he didn't see any racial undertones to the term. Now I may have misread or misinterpreted what (s)he wrote, but it still doesn't change the stereotype.
60 RagingTartabull ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:12 pm
FWIW there is a history of Cadillac being the first luxury car brand marketed towards upwardly mobile African Americans.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=238933
In the same vein, does Ichiro "Honda" around the bases?
[59] Until recently (sometime in the 1980s), the Cadillac was an American status symbol. Every segment of the population strived to own one because it meant they had made it. Whether it was Irish, Italian, Black or Hispanic, every community likely looked at the Cadillac as a status symbol. So, you could say at some point in American history, the Cadillac and (insert ethnicity) had undertones. Because we know the Cadillac no longer holds status and the baseball term pre-dates any connotations regarding black people, I don’t think it is accurate to say that the term is loaded.
63 Bama Yankee ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:24 pm
[58] Thanks alot Diane... ;-) You just had to bring up the fact that he went to Auburn. At one point I thought he would sign with Alabama but he ended up signing with the bad guys. Everyone knows that the real story behind his nickname is that an Auburn booster bought him an Escalade during the recruiting process... ;-)
64 Sliced Bread ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:26 pm
[59 what makes you think william might be a she?
And on the subject of potentially misleading handles, I hope nobody here thinks I'm sliced white bread.
I'm definitey marble rye... with seeds.
[54] You are correct, it was Flaherty who used the term. Kay actually said that Upton was trying to "Mr. Cool it"... I'm not sure what that means, but if he had run through the outfield wall, then maybe you could say that he was trying to "Mr. Kool-aid Man it"... ;-)
[62] We'll just have to agree to disagree, because I'm not going to go to a library to find copies of Ebony and Jet from the 40's and 50's to prove a point.
[59] I don't... :)
[65] Or he could've been referring to KOOL's ;)
[64] I guess William could be a female's name. To assume otherwise would be an example of gender bias ;)
[66] Not sure why you need copies of Ebony and Jet, but I am fine disagreeing.
[67] My mother used to smoke those... and you know, I never thought it was very KOOL...now, the Kool-Aid Man...that's was a different story...OH, YEAH!
71 Chyll Will ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:41 pm
[64] Aww, anything but rye, man! You could've said pumpernickel or wheat or even whole grain, but not rye! >;) jk,jk
I might also throw this into the mix... (you know somebody had to go there, right? >;)
72 ms october ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:42 pm
we do end up in some odd discussions in this place - i love the banter, even when i don't :}
73 The Hawk ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:44 pm
[65] I like it, haha.
All of you are out of your minds today. I love it, it makes me feel all peanut buttery inside!
[69] Because I'm sure they had puff pieces back then about Negroes/Coloreds and Cadillacs.
While Cadillacs may be a status symbol, it still doesn't change the stereotype that for whatever reason they're linked to black people. Like I mentioned before, I know plenty of white people who enjoy fried chicken and watermelon, but it doesn't change that for whatever reason, that fried chicken and watermelon are stereotypically linked to black people.
[65] I reiterate my comments then to include Flaherty then and disclude Kay in that context. Am I out of order for thinking that Flash is, well, boring and thus so easy to tune out and forget?
[72] We certainly are a diverse bunch :)
I do enjoy the way we are able to keep things civil around here :D Well, except for certain instances of course, but Alex & Co. do a pretty good job of maintaining this little sandbox, and for the most part we do play well with each other.
78 monkeypants ~ Sep 10, 2009 12:49 pm
[72] I'm not taking the blame for this one!
[76] You are not out of order, Flash is dull as dishwater... (no offense to any dishwashers out there... ;-)
[71] hey, I didnt know Luda's Swedish! He's a Cadillac man ljust ike my grandfather.
[75] I understand all that, but still don't think the link you are suggesting is anywhere near strong enough or lasting to imply what you think it does. So, we will definitely have to disagree on this...at least until I see some compelling evidence.
82 Chyll Will ~ Sep 10, 2009 1:02 pm
[75] For the record, I don't like watermelon, collard greens or mac and cheese, sweet potato pie, chitlins, hogmaws, okra, grits, chicken gizzards or malt liquor; I don't drink or smoke at all and I don't like a lot of things commonly stereotyped with black folk, but not because I am actively fighting those stereotypes. I just don't like the taste/effect, and in the case of drinking and smoking I can't for health reasons.
83 RagingTartabull ~ Sep 10, 2009 1:05 pm
[82] hey come on, EVERYONE loves hogmaws
84 The Hawk ~ Sep 10, 2009 1:07 pm
It seems clear that "cadillacing" - the slang verb - doesn't have its roots in anything racial. Maybe it's an unfortunate choice of words because Upton's Aftican-Amercian and these associated Cadillac stereotypes, but it appears to be wholly unrelated.
[83] Show of hands? I do love me some cornbread, though...
86 Bama Yankee ~ Sep 10, 2009 1:09 pm
[77] I agree. That's one of the great things about this place. For the record, I've learned a lot over the years from the diversity of the people here. It helps that, for the most part, people are civil in their discussions and that we all have the common ground of our love for the Yankees to fall back on.
[81] From the link I posted earlier:
"Dreystadt pointed out that since blacks (Negroes in those days) had
limited access to high-status housing and other signs of success,
wealthy blacks had adopted Cadillac as a status symbol. (Packard was
the favored car of the white old-money class.)
"Dreystadt pointed out that blacks paid a premium to white buyers to
front for them. Demand like this should be exploited, he said. The
committee give Dreystadt 18 months to develop the Negro market. By the
end of 1934, Cadillac sales were moving up and the division was making
So I think the link (some would say "stereotype") existed for at least a while there. Just to be clear, I absolutely do not think Kay or Flaherty were insinuating anything racial at all.
[85] See, I've never even heard of "hogmaws"...but, I'm with you on the cornbread. On that note, I'm heading out for lunch...all this talk about food is making me hungry...
Just to be clear, I'm a white guy...but I've ridden in a Cadillac more times than Jack Klompus.
[88] Don't eat the five bucks! >;)
91 Yankster ~ Sep 10, 2009 1:16 pm
[33] well said, good summary of the other good comments. There are a lot of stats, position adjusted, by which Jeter is already in the top 10 all time or top 1% all time - that's easily "great."
[90] For those who usually don't know what I'm referring to, read the quotes...
93 Boatzilla ~ Sep 10, 2009 7:50 pm
For the record, I posted the note about Upton's ankle sprain and the idea that Cadillacing could be a racially charged term. While there is no way to prove the latter, the former was reported in the ESPN notes section on their story of the game. My point is that the YES announcers should have mentioned the injury instead of simply ragging on Upton about loafing. There is simply no way of knowing if he was going all out or if he was hampered by an injury, and I think the guy deserves the benefit of the doubt despite what he may have been accused of in the past. And BTW, if Ichiro was showboating it would be in a Tokyo Crown not a Honda.
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The Godfather by Mario Puzo: a Coppola crime writers read the classic novel (pun for Dave White)
Dave White, best known for the Jackson Donne series and his relentless barrage of terrible puns, said he was going to read The Godfather, because he had not. Neither had I, so I said I would join him. I'm about 120 pages in. I'm not sure if Dave has opened the book. He's too busy grilling ribs, watching Rutgers basketball, and trying to come up with a pun about it.
The Godfather novel gets a lot of crap. Even Francis Ford Coppola compares it to Harold Robbins in his introduction, in an edition published after Mario Puzo's death, which is about as classy as suing a child star who was raped by director Victor Salva to make the victim complete a film, which is something Coppola also did, so let's not expect any sort of integrity from the guy. I've read several takedowns of the novel. The most memorable states that the opening of the book "obsesses on a woman with an oversized vagina".
I've read past that part. The opening chapters are set at the wedding of Don Corleone's daughter, and practically mirror the film adaptation. Coppola begins with Amerigo beseeching the Don, because "I believe in America" is a great opening line. In the book, there are a few others who take advantage of the Don on the occasion of his daughter's wedding, including Johnny Fontaine. And Sonny, who is described as a swinging dick not only in attitude but in endowment, has a tryst with the aforementioned woman, who happens to be the maid of honor. She seeks out Sonny because after her single previous sexual encounter, her uncouth partner complained that is was like parking his Karmann Ghia in a two-car garage. Sonny packs a stretch Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, and they are made for one another. This takes a page, perhaps two.
Is it necessary? Probably not, but starting off a book with a bang, whether from a pistol or a pistola*, is a time-honored tradition to grip the reader, and since it's another hundred pages before someone is beaten to a bloody pulp with brass knuckles or a horse is decapitated, Puzo decided to go with establishing Sonny's character, or lack thereof, by having the married son of the Don have passionate sex with the maid of honor at his sister's wedding reception. Tom Hagen has to interrupt him to being him to the Don's side. It sets things up for Sonny's downfall later on. His passions will get the better of him.
So I don't think it was that gratuitous. If anything, Puzo was playing up the passionata of his people. This was 1969, when Italians were only a decade from being Hollywood's go-to juvenile delinquents in films like 12 Angry Men. We were known for big noses, garlic, La Cosa Nostra, and being passionate lovers. He describes the mountains of food, too. The novel will focus on our people's least admirable stereotype as violent underworld goons--one still mined deeply in crime fiction today, even by the wokest of the woke; like Russians, we're okay to use as your criminal cannon fodder--so he may as well dwell on one of the "good" stereotypes, that we're all good lovers.
As I said, I'm only up to the infamous horse head scene, but so far the book is like the working script for the movie, so I think Mr. Coppola doth protest too much. He's got a chip on his shoulder. He also mentions an encounter with some cafone in the street who grabbed him by the lapels and said, "you didn't make him [Puzo]! He made YOU!" (Come on, we know this isn't true. Coppola had made the immortal Finian's Rainbow and Dementia 13 before The Godfather fell in his lap.)
He's kind enough to praise Puzo's "terseness," in his introduction, recalling the scene where Clemenza is cooking Sunday sauce: Coppola wrote "Clemenza browns some sausage..." and Puzo scratched it out, writing, "Gangsters don't BROWN! Gangsters FRY!" This edit obviously stings Francis over forty years later. He also praises Puzo's skills as a collaborator, when they worked together on The Godfather, Part Two which is cobbled from unused storylines from The Godfather and Coppola's own desire to show a back and forth story of father and son at different ages. I won't argue that the sequel is a great film. They also worked together on The Godfather III, which Coppola wanted to call The Death of Michael Corleone, and he is at least respectful enough to not blame the film on his dead co-author. He also seems to think the problem with that movie is the name, so I'll leave the value of his critical faculties for you to judge.
Next week I'll let you know how the middle of the novel holds up, and whether Dave White has begun reading it, or if he's The Clodfather.
* the cavo donna. the cazzo dura. Google Translate is your friend.
Posted by Thomas Pluck at 12:00 AM
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scott adlerberg said...
Ha. I'll be following this. Curious to hear what you have to say. About Godfather III, he HAS to blame Godfather III's relative failure on something other than what everyone knows was the main problem - his daughter's performance. So tepid in such a central role. She went on to much better things herself obviously, but in his heart Francis has to know (I would hope) that when Winona Ryder got injured just before shooting started for III, he should not have turned to "the family" for a replacement.
Jim Wilsky said...
Thomas! Seems like forever since we traded hellos, I hope you and yours are doing well. I'm going to be following this very, very closely young man. I must warn you though, I'm a long time, ardent and devout fan of The Godfather. I've read the book twice, once when it was first published brand spanking new (yeah, I'm ancient) and a second time about ten years ago. I saw the movie when it was first released at my classic (it was a beauty, built in the 30's) hometown movie theatre. I saw it again, with another girl before the week was over. I've since seen 1 & 2 on tv about ten thousand times and counting. It is one of only three movies that, while I'm surfing through channels, I will slam on the brakes, drop everything and watch it...to the very end. Be careful paisano and go easy on Mario now, haha. Remember, "Tommy, you're my brother and I love you...but don't ever take sides against the family again...ever." Seriously though, I'm anxious to hear your take. Best, Jim
Thomas Pluck said...
Definitely, Scott. She has become a great director in my opinion, but it was painful watching her act. Even Pacino seemed to not give a damn. Puzo contributed the one memorable line "they pull me back in!!" Coppola admits... but Pacino's death scene is one of the worst things I've seen him do. It's like a middle finger.
Jim! Glad you like the book. We seem to be in the minority. I am enjoying the Fontane scenes in Book 2 after Michael kills Sollozzo. Makes me want to watch Rat Pack movies, which I was never a fan of....
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Amount of Monounsaturated Fat in Gravy
Welcome to the nutritional monounsaturated fat content in 23 different types of gravy, ranging from 5.488 g to 0.08 g per 100g. The basic type of gravy is Gravy, brown, dry, where the amount of monounsaturated fat in 100g is 4.452 g.
For a typical serving size of 1 tbsp (or 6 g) the amount of Monounsaturated Fat is 0.27 g.
Top ten gravy products high in monounsaturated fat
Below is a summary list for the top ten gravy items ranked by the amount or level of monounsaturated fat in 100g.
1. Gravy, brown instant, dry : 5.488g
2. Gravy, instant turkey, dry : 5.25g
3. Gravy, au jus, dry : 4.683g
4. Gravy, chicken, dry : 4.648g
5. Gravy, brown, dry : 4.452g
6. Gravy, pork, dry, powder : 3.881g
7. Gravy, instant beef, dry : 3.659g
8. Gravy, unspecified type, dry : 3.15g
9. Gravy, turkey, dry : 2.575g
10. Gravy, chicken, canned, ready-to-serve : 2.55g
Following on from the ten top gravy items or products containing monounsaturated fat we have a more comprehensive break down of Gravy, brown, dry, and the highest item containing monounsaturated fat which is Gravy, brown instant, dry. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 23 types of gravy.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 23 different types of gravy based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the monounsaturated fat content in gravy.
Gravy, brown, dry - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Gravy, brown, dry should be considered along with the monounsaturated fat content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Soups, Sauces, and Gravies.Other important and monounsaturated fat related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 367 kcal (18% RDA), the amount of Protein is 10.74 g (19% RDA), the amount of Fat is 9.61 g (15% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 59.38 g (46% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the monounsaturated fat levels in gravy.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Gravy, brown, dry has a nutritional value score of 14 out of 100.
100 calories of gravy, brown, dry is a serving size of 0.27 g, and the amount of Monounsaturated Fat is 1.21 g. Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 2.93 g (5.18% RDA), Fat 2.62 g (4.09% RDA), Carbohydrate 16.18 g (12.53% RDA). This is shown in the monounsaturated fat RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 tbsp (or 6 g)
For the food Gravy, brown, dry the typical serving size is 1 tbsp (or 6 g) which contains 0.27 g of Monounsaturated Fat. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 22.02 kcal, the Protein content is 0.64 g, the Fat content is 0.58 g and the Carbohydrate content is 3.56 g. The percentages are shown below in the monounsaturated fat chart, for the typical serving of monounsaturated fat and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Gravy, brown, dry
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 tbsp or 6 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 2.6 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 5.2 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 14.2 (kcal).
Grams of monounsaturated fat in gravy (per 100g)
This list of 23 types of gravy, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Gravy, brown instant, dry through to Gravy, au jus, canned where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional monounsaturated fat content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much monounsaturated fat in gravy.
The list below gives the total monounsaturated fat content in the 23 items from the general description 'gravy' each of which show the monounsaturated fat amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 23 food items shown in the monounsaturated fat chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for gravy based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of monounsaturated fat per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for gravy ranked by the amount of monounsaturated fat per 100g is shown below in the gravy calories chart.
The level of monounsaturated fat can be affected by the method of storage for example canned or frozen and also by the method of preparation for example either raw, cooked or fried. The total number of frozen food items is 2. The highest amount of monounsaturated fat from the 2 frozen items is in Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes w/gravy, assorted vegetables, frozen, microwaved where the monounsaturated fat content is 1.235 g per 100g. The number of food items classified as canned is 7 items. The highest amount of monounsaturated fat from the 7 canned items is in Gravy, chicken, canned, ready-to-serve where the level is 2.55 g per 100g.
Average Content for gravy
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of monounsaturated fat contained in 100g of gravy, based on the list below of 23 different items under the general description of gravy, is 2.29 g of monounsaturated fat. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 222.26 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 7.71 g, the average amount of Fat is 5.76 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Monounsaturated Fat is found in Gravy, mushroom, dry, powder which in 100g contains 1.31 g of Monounsaturated Fat. For this serving the amount of Calories is 328 kcal, the amount of Protein is 10 g, the amount of Fat is 4 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 64.66 g.
Using the list below for the 23 different gravy nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of monounsaturated fat is found in Gravy, brown instant, dry which contains 5.488 g of monounsaturated fat per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 380 kcal, the Protein content is 8.53 g, the Fat content is 11.85 g, the Carbohydrate content is 59.78 g.
The lowest amount of monounsaturated fat in 100g is in Gravy, au jus, canned which contains 0.08 g. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 16 kcal, the amount of Protein is 1.2 g, the amount of Fat is 0.2 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 2.5 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a monounsaturated fat range of 5.408 g per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 364 kcal for Calories, 7.33 g for Protein, 11.65 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high monounsaturated fat foods in your diet. For example 100g of Gravy, brown, dry contains 4.452 g of monounsaturated fat. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the monounsaturated fat nutritional content.
The food with the highest monounsaturated fat content per typical serving is Gravy, brown instant, dry which contains 24.92 g in 1 package (or 454 g). For this serving the Calories content is 1725.2 kcal, the Protein content is 38.73 g, the Fat content is 53.8 g and the Carbohydrate content is 271.4 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing monounsaturated fat which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of high content of monounsaturated fat in foods.
Gravy List, monounsaturated fat Content per 100g
1. Gravy, brown instant, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
5.488 g 380 kcal (19%) 59.78 g (46%) 11.85 g (18%) 8.53 g (15%)
Typical Serving size of 1 package (or 454g):
24.92 g 1725.2 kcal (86%) 271.4 g (209%) 53.8 g (83%) 38.73 g (69%)
Other serving sizes 1 serving (or 6.7g):
2. Gravy, instant turkey, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
5.25 g 409 kcal (20%) 57.56 g (44%) 14.66 g (23%) 11.72 g (21%)
Typical Serving size of 1 serving (or 6.7g):
0.35 g 27.4 kcal (1%) 3.86 g (3%) 0.98 g (2%) 0.79 g (1%)
Other serving sizes 1 package (16 oz) (or 454g):
23.84 g 1856.86 kcal (93%) 261.32 g (201%) 66.56 g (102%) 53.21 g (95%)
3. Gravy, au jus, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
4.683 g 313 kcal (16%) 47.49 g (37%) 9.63 g (15%) 9.2 g (16%)
Typical Serving size of 1 tsp (or 3g):
0.14 g 9.39 kcal (0%) 1.42 g (1%) 0.29 g (0%) 0.28 g (1%)
4. Gravy, chicken, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
4.648 g 381 kcal (19%) 62.09 g (48%) 9.73 g (15%) 11.27 g (20%)
Typical Serving size of 1 tbsp (or 8g):
0.37 g 30.48 kcal (2%) 4.97 g (4%) 0.78 g (1%) 0.9 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 1 serving (or 8g):
5. Gravy, brown, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
6. Gravy, pork, dry, powder - Monounsaturated Fat
3.881 g 367 kcal (18%) 63.57 g (49%) 8.63 g (13%) 8.78 g (16%)
7. Gravy, instant beef, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
3.659 g 369 kcal (18%) 61.1 g (47%) 9.48 g (15%) 9.8 g (18%)
16.61 g 1675.26 kcal (84%) 277.39 g (213%) 43.04 g (66%) 44.49 g (79%)
8. Gravy, unspecified type, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
3.15 g 344 kcal (17%) 58 g (45%) 8 g (12%) 13 g (23%)
Typical Serving size of 1 cup (8 fl oz) (or 25g):
0.79 g 86 kcal (4%) 14.5 g (11%) 2 g (3%) 3.25 g (6%)
9. Gravy, turkey, dry - Monounsaturated Fat
Typical Serving size of 1 serving (or 7g):
0.18 g 25.69 kcal (1%) 4.56 g (4%) 0.5 g (1%) 0.73 g (1%)
10. Gravy, chicken, canned, ready-to-serve - Monounsaturated Fat
6.07 g 188.02 kcal (9%) 12.9 g (10%) 13.59 g (21%) 4.59 g (8%)
Other serving sizes 1 can (or 298g):
7.6 g 235.42 kcal (12%) 16.15 g (12%) 17.02 g (26%) 5.75 g (10%)
11. LOMA LINDA Swiss Stake with Gravy, canned, unprepared - Monounsaturated Fat
Nutritional Value : 14 / 100 food group - Legumes and Legume Products
1.6 g 138 kcal (7%) 10.4 g (8%) 6.2 g (10%) 10.2 g (18%)
Typical Serving size of 1 piece (or 92g):
1.47 g 126.96 kcal (6%) 9.57 g (7%) 5.7 g (9%) 9.38 g (17%)
12. Gravy, mushroom, dry, powder - Monounsaturated Fat
1.31 g 328 kcal (16%) 64.66 g (50%) 4 g (6%) 10 g (18%)
0.28 g 68.88 kcal (3%) 13.58 g (10%) 0.84 g (1%) 2.1 g (4%)
13. LOMA LINDA Tender Rounds with Gravy, canned, unprepared - Monounsaturated Fat
1.3 g 145 kcal (7%) 7.4 g (6%) 5.6 g (9%) 16.3 g (29%)
Typical Serving size of 6 pieces (or 80g):
1.04 g 116 kcal (6%) 5.92 g (5%) 4.48 g (7%) 13.04 g (23%)
14. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes w/gravy, assorted vegetables, frozen, microwaved - Monounsaturated Fat
Nutritional Value : 15 / 100 food group - Meals, Entrees, and Sidedishes
1.235 g 128 kcal (6%) 16.32 g (13%) 3.89 g (6%) 6.97 g (12%)
Typical Serving size of 1 serving (or 385g):
Other serving sizes 1 package (or 422g):
Other serving sizes 1 oz (or 28.35g):
15. Gravy, mushroom, canned - Monounsaturated Fat
2.78 g 119 kcal (6%) 13.02 g (10%) 6.45 g (10%) 3 g (5%)
3.49 g 149 kcal (7%) 16.3 g (13%) 8.08 g (12%) 3.75 g (7%)
16. Gravy, meat or poultry, low sodium, prepared - Monounsaturated Fat
1.068 g 53 kcal (3%) 6.16 g (5%) 2.4 g (4%) 3.8 g (7%)
2.52 g 125.08 kcal (6%) 14.54 g (11%) 5.66 g (9%) 8.97 g (16%)
17. Turkey and gravy, frozen - Monounsaturated Fat
Nutritional Value : 14 / 100 food group - Poultry Products
0.97 g 67 kcal (3%) 4.61 g (4%) 2.63 g (4%) 5.88 g (11%)
2.33 g 160.8 kcal (8%) 11.06 g (9%) 6.31 g (10%) 14.11 g (25%)
Other serving sizes 1 package (net weight and 5 oz) (or 142g):
1.38 g 95.14 kcal (5%) 6.55 g (5%) 3.73 g (6%) 8.35 g (15%)
18. Gravy, beef, canned, ready-to-serve - Monounsaturated Fat
2.24 g 123.49 kcal (6%) 11.21 g (9%) 5.5 g (8%) 8.74 g (16%)
2.8 g 154.23 kcal (8%) 14 g (11%) 6.87 g (11%) 10.91 g (19%)
19. Gravy, turkey, canned, ready-to-serve - Monounsaturated Fat
2.14 g 121.38 kcal (6%) 12.14 g (9%) 5 g (8%) 6.19 g (11%)
Other serving sizes 1 tbsp (or 14.9g):
0.13 g 7.6 kcal (0%) 0.76 g (1%) 0.31 g (0%) 0.39 g (1%)
Other serving sizes 1 tsp (or 5g):
2.68 g 151.98 kcal (8%) 15.2 g (12%) 6.26 g (10%) 7.75 g (14%)
20. Gravy, onion, dry, mix - Monounsaturated Fat
0.9 g 322 kcal (16%) 67.64 g (52%) 3 g (5%) 9 g (16%)
0.22 g 77.28 kcal (4%) 16.23 g (12%) 0.72 g (1%) 2.16 g (4%)
21. Cereals, QUAKER, Instant Grits Product with Redeye Gravy and Imitation Ham Bits, Dry - Monounsaturated Fat
Nutritional Value : 14 / 100 food group - Breakfast Cereals
0.52 g 346 kcal (17%) 76.62 g (59%) 1.75 g (3%) 9.93 g (18%)
Typical Serving size of 1 packet (or 28g):
22. Gravy, HEINZ Home Style Savory Beef Gravy - Monounsaturated Fat
Typical Serving size of 1 serving 1/4 cup 2 oz (or 57g):
23. Gravy, au jus, canned - Monounsaturated Fat
0.08 g 16 kcal (1%) 2.5 g (2%) 0.2 g (0%) 1.2 g (2%)
Typical Serving size of .25 cup (or 59g):
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Difference Between Gulf and Bay
• Categorized under Geography,Nature | Difference Between Gulf and Bay
Gulf vs Bay
One difference between a gulf and a bay is quite difficult to distinguish as they both have the same characteristics. In technical terms, both a gulf and a bay are the same things, and the only difference that is pointed out is in the size. A gulf is much larger than a bay.
A gulf is said to be a large body of water that is surrounded by land and having only a narrow entrance along a strait. A bay is also a large body of water that is surrounded by land but not as enclosed as a gulf. Moreover, the bay has a wider opening than the gulf.
A gulf is a body of water in which the water has eroded very deeply into the adjoining land. On the contrary, a bay has an inward land curve.
Most of the bays are formed because of the erosion of soft rock and clay by the waves. When looking at a single gulf, it is generally fashioned along linear shores. If the shoreline is irregular and consists of complex geologic structures, a group of gulfs are formed.
Though it has been said that a bay is much smaller than a gulf, there are many exceptions. The Bay of Bengal, about the size of the Arabian Sea, is much larger than the Gulf of Mexico. There are bays that are smaller in length and also bigger bays like the Hudson Bay in Canada and the Bay of Biscay in France and Spain. Generally, bays are circular or semi-circular in shape.
1.In technical terms, both a gulf and a bay are the same things, and the only difference that is distinguishable is the size.
2.A gulf is considered to be larger than a bay.
3.Gulfs are large bodies of water that have only a narrow entrance along a strait. A bay is also a large body of water that has a wider opening than a gulf.
4.A gulf is much more enclosed than a bay.
5.Though it has been said that a bay is smaller than a gulf, there are many exceptions. The Bay of Bengal, about the size of the Arabian Sea, is much larger than the Gulf of Mexico.
6.A gulf is a body of water in which the water has eroded very deeply into the adjoining land. On the contrary, a bay has an inward land curve.
7.Bays are circular or semi-circular in shape.
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December 3, 2013 • 6:39 pm
Actually, there is NO difference. This one sentence should suffice!
ankur sahu
this is a good and considerable piece,yet if the matter has been presented with the help of pictures,it must have helped better.morever i feel the matter is not enough.
Hedayet shakil
Bay of bengal size 2110,000 sq km. on the contrary Mexican Gulf size is 1550,000 sq km…… is size main distinguish factor??
There is no difference.
shotgunfox
that’s what I said and I got a 90 on a test 🙁
The descriptions on this site don’t match the pictures, I think someone got confused and switched the labels.
Anyway, maybe there is no difference like everyone else is suggesting, but I’ve never seen a body of water with the characteristics of a gulf be called a bay and vice versa. A gulf always just looks like the ocean or sea is pushed into the land a little, while a bay mostly looks like a giant lake that feeds into the ocean or sea.
April 8, 2015 • 5:30 am
The difference between gulf and bay is that a bay is curved indentation made by a sea or lake into a coast line while the gulf is a part of the ocean that penetrates into the coastline.
why hudson bay, bangol bay is bigger than mexican gulf? … i think these terms are just synonymous
Professor Bob
December 1, 2015 • 1:31 am
A gulf is one type of bay. Other types of bays are seas, sounds, and bights. Even a cove might be called a bay. It is such a wide term because the definition is broad. A bay is any body of water with an indented shoreline, but connected to an ocean or lake.
The broadness of the definition causes some confusion and that leads to a lot of misinformation. The fact is, we have some gulfs that are larger than bays and vice versa. Early explorers named things the way they wanted to name them, so don’t let a name fool you into thinking it tells you something about the size of a body of water.
Prisha harsh
Okay there is a difference between them
Don’t know anything and I am a child
Vijai
That’s the right thing ! You made your point clear and it’s good
Mohd Furquan
Not fully satisfied
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On May 5th, CoCoComedy.com once again teamed up with The Martinez Campbell Theater for another night of comedy.
Our Headliner for the Evening was the very funny Chris Storin
Born in Oakland California and raised in San Leandro, this Bay Area native will crack you UP! Chris Storin’s unique life growing up, “half-breed” with a dad who is a farmer from Oklahoma and a feisty
Latina mom from New Mexico provides a hilarious and original outlook. His energetic style and nose have captivated audiences throughout the country.
Storin has been all over the world, performing for the troops, as well as opening huge local shows like the Wild 94.9 Comedy Jam. His energetic storytelling will have you wanting more. He tours frequently with Last Comic Standing winner, Felipe Esparza and has shared the stage with the likes of Anjelah Johnson, Doug Benson, Eddie Griffin, and many more.
Hosting the show was Tito Gonzalez. Tito is part of the next generation of young East Bay comics. Tito arrived in the United States at the age of seven, fresh off the plane from Uruguay. He learned English from Friends, Rush Hour, and the bad kids on the playground at Malcolm X Elementary. After high school, Tito spent a few years working as a mechanic before moving his comedy to Bobby G’s pizzeria, where he co-hosts a monthly show.
Co-featuring the show were Jenn Gonzalez and Mean Dave.
Jenn is an LA based comedienne currently regularly touring the Pacific Northwest and West Coast. Although still fairly new to the comedy scene, Jenn has been told on numerous occasions that she is pretty funny - for a girl. One thing that she wants you all to know is that she’s aware of how big her hoops are; she put them on - Thank you for pointing it out.
Mean Dave is one of the hardest working comics in the Bay Area. A favorite of comics throughout the Bay, when not on the road touring the Westcoast and Pacific Northwest, you can find him working nearly every other night back home in the Bay. Mean Dave hosts the monthly showcase at Vinnies in Concord as well as a weekly show at The Sanctuary Ultra Lounge in Livermore.
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Combermere Abbey
The Restoration and History of a Grade 1 Listed mansion
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One fascinating find uncovered during the restoration of Combermere Abbey’s North Wing has been a perfectly preserved wine bottle, dating from the middle of the Eighteenth century.
Alcoholic drinks have been consumed at Combermere Abbey since it was built in the first half of the Twelfth century. The workmen – carpenters, masons, carters, labourers – would have been sustained with ale, and monastic accounts show that medieval monks drank at least ten pints of ale each every day. As there was nowhere locally to supply the Abbey with this it is likely that there was a brewhouse on the site somewhere (brewing wasn’t a male preserve; many brewers were women). ‘Small’ beer would have had a strength of just 2% or so, while the strong beers were very intoxicating by our standards, with an ABV in the region of 11%. As well as avoiding the dangers of probably infected water, beer drinking provided nutrients; during the fasting of Lent ale rations were doubled so that the monks kept up their strength.
The Romans had grown vines to make wine in England, and this was revived by the Normans after 1066. At least a dozen monasteries had their own vineyards and made wine. Henry II encouraged the importing of wine from Bordeaux in the late Twelfth century, and specialist wines such as claret, port, Madeira, sherry, hock and Mosel began to appear in the following century. Wine production in England began to die off though. It appears that viniculture suffered during and after The Black Death; vines went untended, understandably, but were not cared for in the years following the epidemics as other forms of agriculture were more productive and more urgent. It seems that monastic vineyards were largely destroyed during the Dissolution, and the Tudor grandees preferred imported wine.
By the Seventeenth century there were very few vineyards in England. Famously the botanist John Tradescant planted the huge number of 20,000 vines on his employer Lord Salisbury’s estate in Hertfordshire and the vineyard prospered. In 1666, the appropriately-named John Rose, Gardener to Charles II at His Royal Garden in St. James’s, wrote a treatise on the cultivation of vines in this country. This was titled ‘The English Vineyard Vindicated’, in which he discussed the question of site selection, vine varieties, pruning and training and care of the vines up to the harvest. It isn’t known if anyone was inspired sufficiently to create their own vineyard after reading the treatise though.
One of the most famous vineyards of the following century was that at Painshill Place at Cobham in Surrey, which was planted by the Honourable Charles Hamilton in 1740.
Our newly-found wine bottle is in perfect condition, made of solid green glass with a deep push-up base – which has been quite roughly worked. Its overall shape is typical of a wine bottle of the period, and an embossed cartouche holds the initials RSC. This must allude to Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, Baronet, who lived between 1739 and 1809. His main residence was not Combermere but the larger Cotton estate of Llewenny in Denbighshire (though he died at Combermere Abbey). He married a Welsh heiress, Frances Stapleton, in 1767, who brought the Stapleton name into the family – which was the first name of their eventual heir (in time he doubled it up, becoming Stapleton Stapleton Cotton, first Viscount Combermere of Bhurtpore).
This indicates that Sir Robert had his own wines bottled especially for his household, as many wealthy families did. We do not know who the wine merchant was, nor where the wine was made. Sadly it is unlikely that the Abbey had its own vines by this point. It is possible that the wine was imported from France – the most likely country of origin by far – in the barrel (en primeur), and bottled in this country – indeed, possibly at the Abbey itself.
It would then have been stored in cool, dark conditions to mature, and in fact the bottle shows signs of this. Organic material inside has left a stain, indicating that it was stored on its side in the usual way. There is a fairly substantial amount of what must be sediment still inside the bottle. Specialist analysis of this to discover the origin of the wine would be fascinating.
The wine was probably drunk from beautiful, English-made drinking glasses, rather than the Venetian glasses popular previously. In 1676 George Ravenscroft introduced lead oxide into the production process for glass, making it quite unmistakeably different from anything seen previously. The new English style (façon d’Angleterre) was born alongside the equally important invention of English lead crystal, which made England dominant in the production of glassware, which was exported far and wide. These glasses are much collected and very valuable today (and were always held by the base, not by the stem).
I am pleased to be able to confirm that to my certain knowledge the nine hundred year-old tradition of alcohol being consumed at the Abbey continues to this day.
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
The Sun Smells Too Loud
Mogwai and The Twilight Sad at The Phoenix in Toronto
Frank YangThere’s a scene in the Danny Boyle film Sunshine (a fantastic movie, by the way) wherein the spaceship’s psych officer is in the observation deck and asks the ship’s computer to open up the shades blocking out most of the Sun’s intensity, even though he knows that doing so would be almost instantly fatal (the computer refuses and he settles for the minimum safe amount, don’t worry, no spoiler – it’s the opening scene). The point being that same urge, the one that compels you to do what is obviously unsafe in order to experience something huge and awesome and terrible in a direct, unfiltered form, is what overtook me a couple times on Monday night at the Phoenix when I slipped one of my earplugs out, just for a moment, during sets by both Mogwai and The Twilight Sad.
I hadn’t originally intended to attend this show. I certainly wasn’t going to go to the one it was making up for, a September 2008 cancelled on account of Mogwai drummer’s Martin Bulloch’s pacemaker malfunctioning – not for lack of interest, really, but because I’d seen them when they’d swung through town back in July. And there’s not a lot of bands that I want/need to see twice in the span of three months. But when this tour was announced, it had been long enough since last time that I was considering it and when The Twilight Sad were slated as support, that sealed it – there was no way I was going to miss out.
It’s been a couple years since they released their debut Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters and as long since their one and only visit and even though you could never say that the band had a surplus of conventional stage presence, they still made a hell of an impression with the sheer aural intensity of their performance, and I’ve been waiting a long while for them to return. Though still formally a four-piece, they had with them an extra touring player covering keyboard duties and also second guitar for those moments where a zillion decibels apparently wasn’t quite enough.
With a new album almost done and set for an Autumn release, the set featured no shortage of new material and while I loved Autumns for its ability to essentially take one trick – huge, sustained guitar-driven crescendo and bellowed Scottish angst – and extend it out over an entire record without getting samey, but rehashing that on a second album simply wouldn’t have done. And to their credit, the new material doesn’t follow the formula but as such existed so far outside of my Twilight Sad frame of reference that offering an opinion with further listens wouldn’t be of any value – but I can say that they’re still decidedly dark and morose in tone, so any fears that they’ve lightened up can be put to rest. But it was still the old material that delivered the goods, huge and epic and like a sonic body massage. No, they still don’t do much on stage visually though singer James Graham does wander around a bit more than he did before, but looking is beside the point – it’s about the hearing. And the destruction of your ability to do so.
Going over my review of Mogwai’s show from last year, I find that I’ve already said much of what I’m inclined to say about this one – which is fitting because the general gist of it was that even though one Mogwai show isn’t too different from the next, they’re still always memorable experiences. It’s funny that most discussion of Mogwai focuses on the LOUD part of their dynamic – and make no mistake, when they get loud, it’s loud – but they spend so much more of their time exploring the quiet. And with the night’s set list leaning heavily on the last three records and their slower, more expansive and cinematic qualities, it was the perfect opportunity to listen – really listen – to how marvelously they do the little things. The intricate guitar picking, the gentle taps on the high-hat, the whirring textures of the keyboards – it’s simply gorgeous.
But of course there was the loud. Volume spiked throughout the show but it was the closing triumvirate that reminded, as if it was necessary, that Mogwai remained one of the absolute loudest bands around. First there was the extended apocalypse of “Mogwai Fear Satan”, still as unrelentingly potent as it was when it was released a decade ago and then just as the audience was picking itself off the floor, the thundering main set closer of “Glasgow Mega Snake” featuring one of the nastiest guitar riffs from anywhere, by anyone. And for the encore, a scorched earth “My Father, My King” that left nothing standing. I ducked out as things descended into feedback and even outside the venue, I could still hear it throb. Epic.
Chart also has a review of the show and there’s interviews with Mogwai at The Enterprise News, Metro and Pulse Niagara.
Photos: Mogwai, The Twilight Sad @ The Phoenix – May 4, 2009
MP3: Mogwai – “Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home”
MP3: Mogwai – “Tracy”
MP3: Mogwai – “Dial: Revenge”
MP3: Mogwai – “Hunted By A Freak”
MP3: Mogwai – “7:25”
MP3: The Twilight Sad – “Cold Days From The Birdhouse”
MP3: The Twilight Sad – “That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy”
Video: Mogwai – “Travel Is Dangerous”
Video: Mogwai – “Friend Of The Night”
Video: Mogwai – “Hunted By A Freak”
Video: Mogwai – “Dial: Revenge”
MySpace: Mogwai
MySpace: The Twilight Sad
Drowned In Sound and Clash interview The Vaselines, whose Enter The Vaselines compilation is out now and who play Lee’s Palace next Friday night, May 15.
Patrick Wolf’s new album The Bachelor is still set for a June 1 release in the UK, but in North America, we’ll only be privvy to the digital release on that date (well, the 2nd). Those of us who still like physical media will have to wait for August 11 when his new label NYLON – as in the people behind NYLON – will make it available, details at Pitchfork. But they’re also sponsoring a tour in June – headlined by Wolf and also featuring Living Things and France’s Plasticines – so the delayed release is forgiven. I’d worried that with Wolf now without major label backing, he and his audacious live shows would have some difficulty coming back to North America. Only one date has been made public so far – June 14 in Minneapolis – but based on that we can (hopefully) expect to see Wolf hereabouts in mid-June. There’s interviews with Wolf at Arjan Writes, MusicOhm and NYLON.
The September 18 date at Lee’s Palace was already revealed, but Pitchfork has full Fall tour dates for Maximo Park in support of Quicken The Heart, out next week. They’re also offering up an MP3 from the album.
MP3: Maximo Park – “Let’s Get Clinical”
Drowned In Sound talks to The Horrors. They’re at the Phoenix tomorrow night opening up for The Kills.
Decider talks to Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner. Their new album The Knot is out July 21.
A third Dears b-side MP3 is now available.
MP3: The Dears – “Meltdown In A Major” (OG Demo Version)
Wolfe Island Musicfest taking place August 8 on Wolfe Island in the Thousand Islands at Kingston. This year, the Marysville baseball diamond will be rocked by the sounds of Holy Fuck, Busdriver (this one? Dunno), Apostle Of Hustle, Attack In Black, Woodhands, The D’Urbervilles, Ohbijou, The Rural Alberta Advantage and Julie Fader. Solid? Definitely. Worth the drive to Kingston? Probably.
By : Frank Yang at 8:06 am
Category: Concert Reviews
Tags: Apostle Of Hustle, Attack In Black, Busdriver, D'Urbervilles, Dears, Holy Fuck, Horrors, Julie Fader, Maximo Park, Mogwai, Ohbijou, Patrick Wolf, Rural Alberta Advantage, Twilight Sad, Vaselines, Woodhands, Wye Oak
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I guess I’m the crew member who bathed in the full radiance of the sun, and so my sanity should be in question. Reached for the earplugs a few times, but resisted, which was likely foolish. Notwithstanding (or maybe withstanding), I enjoyed Twilight Sad, who I was primarily there to see, quite a lot, especially given that they chose my favourites to include in the set. And the new stuff with its radically more conventional structures really surprised, even if, as you say, the mood was consistent with their older material.
That was my first time seeing Mogwai, who really impressed. Forewarned, I took in their set (again, unprotected) from the very back of the room, which seemed like a good choice. My ears peaked in the red a few times, but the quiet bits were mesmerising, and from that distance it never got as overwhelming as, say, MBV (but really, could anything?).
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Posts Tagged ‘Dears’
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Amends
End the week with new Braids (by attrition)
Victoria MastersSo I’m sitting here with a handful of bits and bobs to string together into a blog post, and find that most of the artists have already been featured hereabouts in recent months. So what’s that mean? Braids, you’re up.
I’m not a tremendous fan of the Montreal-based trio, the things I liked about their 2011 debut Native Speaker outweighed by the things I didn’t – that a frequent reference point for the band is Animal Collective is really all you need to know about that. But that it garnered them a sizeable fanbase, as well as a place on that year’s Polaris shortlist, is not up for debate so when they finally announce details of their sophomore album, it’s newsworthy.
First, there’s the new stream of the flipside of their new 12″ “In Kind//Amends” due out June 11, both songs of which will be appearing on the full-length Flourish//Perish. Exclaim has all the specifics of the new record, which will be coming out August 20 and finds the band trading their guitars for keyboards for an electronically-driven sound. And while it’s hardly a ringing endorsement, I will say these new songs aren’t annoying me. Whether that’ll still hold over a complete album remains to be seen, but it’s a positive step.
It remains to be seen if they’ll be rearranging all the old material to work guitar-less live, or if they’ll just travel with a whole lot of gear. People who attend their NXNE showcase at The Comfort Zone on June 15 will be able to report back on that.
Stream: Braids – “In Kind”
Stream: Braids – “Amends”
NOW and Exclaim talk to Hooded Fang, who are holding the record release party for their new album Gravez at The Horseshoe tonight.
NOW also previews Young Galaxy’s show at Lee’s Palace tonight.
Get your Murderrecords t-shirts out of storage! The Great Hall will turn warp both time and space to become Halifax in the mid-’90s for NXNE, proffering a lineup of Sloan, The Super Friendz, and former Inbred Mike O’Neill on June 14. Admission by festival wristband only.
MP3: Sloan – “The Answer Was You”
Video: The Super Friendz – “Up And Running”
Stream: Mike O’Neill – “This Is Who I Am”
Aritzia has an interview, Pitchfork a guest list and Le Blogotheque a Takeaway Show with Majical Cloudz, whose NXNE showcase goes June 15 at BLK BOX.
Though he probably could have just called it a Dears record and no one would have thought anything of it, Under The Radar reports that Murray Lightburn will release his first solo record Mass:Light on June 16, and that it’ll be available on vinyl only via mail order. And there’s also a new Dears record in the works.
Austra is streaming a second – and arguably more characteristic – sample from Olympia, due out June 18.
Stream: Austra – “Painful Like”
I Like Music has an interview with Born Ruffians, who’re streaming a new track not found on their latest Birthmarks, just because. They play a free show at Harbourfront Centre on July 13.
Stream: Born Ruffians – “With An Ax”
Beatroute talks to Nils Edenloff of The Rural Alberta Advantage.
Loud & Quiet interviews Suuns.
Tags: Austra, Born Ruffians, Braids, Dears, Hooded Fang, Majical Cloudz, Murray Lightburn, Sloan, Super Friendz, Suuns, Young Galaxy
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
New Mendicants welcome the new year new the welcome Mendicants New
Time OutHappy New Year, everyone; hope 2013 has been good to you so far and if not, geez. It’s only been 36 hours or so. What the hell.
We’ll kick off the new year with some old faces under a new name; The New Mendicants. So new they don’t even have a website or Facebook page, but if you need some background maybe look up Pernice Brothers, Teenage Fanclub, and The Sadies, and cross-reference with my writeup of last June’s wonderful Joe Pernice/Norman Blake show at the Dakota Tavern. Because what began that night as a possibly one-off pop summit has become a proper international supergroup with the addition of current Sadies and former Pernice Brothers drummer Mike Belitsky to the fold, providing some genuine Toronto content to American Pernice and Scot Blake, both immigrants to the southern Ontario region.
This year will see the first formal activity from the band, starting with a brace of Australian tour dates later this month featuring just Blake and Pernice and the release of their first EP. It’s a six-songer featuring three new songs, one of each of Pernice and Blake’s compositions from their other bands, and an INXS cover – stream it below – and while it’s a limited edition intended for sale down under, it’s available to preorder for North American fans for an approximate February 1 release.
A full-length with the working title of The Book Of Norman is also in the works, and while there’s no extensive touring in the cards, it’s hard to imagine that they won’t play at least an (adopted) hometown show whenever that happens. And presumably the new Pernice Brothers album will come out eventually and we’re about due a new Fanclub record, but until those become somewhat less than myth, we have this to look forward to.
Stream: The New Mendicants – “This Time”
And in a nice little bit of synchronicity, NYC Taper just posted a recording of Norman Blake’s set opening up the final Yo La Tengo Hannukah show at Maxwell’s in Hoboken last month.
DIY gets to know Palma Violets, one of the presumed “next big things” of 2013. Their debut 180 is out February 25 and they play The Horseshoe on January 24.
Stereogum interviews Johnny Marr; his solo debut The Messenger is out February 26.
PopMatters profiles Django Django, back in town at the Opera House on March 12.
A Music Blog, Yea? chats with Rose Elinor Dougall, whose second album has been a while in coming but should be out this year.
Black Book talks to Dev Hynes of Blood Orange about everything he got up to in 2012 and what might be yet to come.
Pop Justice talks to Jessie Ware about what’s transpired since her debut was released back in June.
Efterklang have released a new video from Piramida. They’re at The Mod Club on March 21 as part of Canadian MusicFest.
Video: Efterklang – “Sedna”
Pitchfork rounds up what’s known about a new release from Rilo Kiley, almost certainly an already-promised b-sides and rarities collection.
Beach House have a new video from Bloom, the timing of which is kind of obvious.
Video: Beach House – “New Year”
Murray Lightburn talks to Spinner about what The Dears have planned for 2013, recording a new record being one of those things.
Put That Shit On The List interviews Alaska B of Yamantaka//Sonic Titan. They play The Garrison on January 18.
Tags: Beach House, Blood Orange, Dears, Django Django, Efterklang, Jessie Ware, Johnny Marr, New Mendicants, Norman Blake, Palma Violets, Rilo Kiley, Rose Elinor Dougall, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan
This is a bunch of stuff of a Canadian nature. And this is METZ.
Colin MedleyThis here is another of those posts that, were it a category on Jeopardy, would be called “Potpourri” on account of it being a whole lot of this and that with only the passports of the artists mentioned in common.
And I’ll start with Toronto’s METZ because, well, I haven’t used one of their photos yet and my posting process is really that random. The trio has been making a lot of noise – literally and figuratively – on the back of their self-titled debut, and while it wouldn’t normally be my particular sack of hammers, there’s a clarity to their attack and just enough underlying melody for me to get behind. I’d like to experience one of their legendarily… energetic live shows, but we’ll probably have to wait until at least the Spring as they’re taking their show through Europe for pretty all of the first quarter of 2013. In the meantime, there’s a recording of their show at the Knitting Factory in New York last month over at NYC Taper, NPR has just posted video of a KEXP radio session, and the a-side of their new, non-album single is available to stream.
Stream: METZ – “Dirty Shirt”
Exclaim gets a look inside Yamataka//Sonic Titan’s home studio/headquarters and also asks them what they’ve got in mind for their second album. They play 1st Thursday at the Art Gallery Of Ontario this Thursday night, December 6.
The Line Of Best Fit, The Lantern, and The Marquette Tribune interview Patrick Watson, headlining Massey Hall on December 6.
The Line Of Best Fit and The 405 have interviews with Do Make Say Think, who’ve made a track from their live soundtrack to the 1924 film Greed available to download via CBC Music. They’re at The Opera House on December 7.
MP3: Do Make Say Think – “Greed Waltz”
Fucked Up have announced the lineup for the second installment of their Long Winter series, taking place December 14 at The Great Hall. They will again headline the event, and be joined by Dusted, Laura Barrett, and many more. Admission is pay what you can.
The Wooden Sky have announced details of their third annual Holiday Revue charity show, scheduled for December 17 at The Music Gallery. Tickets for the show are $20 and all proceeds from the event will go to the Daily Bread Food Bank. Support will be announced later this week. Metro talks to frontman Gavin Gardiner.
MP3: The Wooden Sky – “Child Of The Valley”
If you were wondering why it’s not been possible to get tickets for the Evening Hymns show at the Church Of The Redeemer on December 15 announced in October, it’s because that show is no longer happening. It has been replaced by one at The Music Gallery on December 20, tickets $17 and available right now via Kelp Records. So the room is still appropriately church-y but it’s also smaller, so if you wanted to go, best get on that. Neil Haverty of Bruce Peninsula will open up.
MP3: Evening Hymns – “Arrows”
Julie Doiron has scheduled a show at The Horseshoe for January 25 in support of her new album So Many Days. Tickets are $15 in advance. The Vancouver Sun and The Province have profiles.
MP3: Julie Doiron – “By The Lake”
The lead single from Suuns’ new album Images Du Futur is now available to download. It’s out March 5.
MP3: Suuns – “Edie’s Dream”
AC Newman has a new video from his latest solo record Shut Down The Streets.
Video: AC Newman – “I’m Not Talking”
The Toronto Star, Montreal Gazette, and MTV have feature pieces on Diamond Rings, who’s released a live route for an alternate version video from Free Dimensional.
Video: Diamond Rings – “I’m Just Me”
Martin Tielli has taken to Facebook to explain his withdrawal from the Rheostatics reunion shows which were to have taken place this week; Radio Free Canuckistan has reposted the message for those who are just fans but maybe not friends of Tielli.
The National Post has an interview with The Dears.
CBC Music gets to know Shad. Again. Some more.
Exclaim has some videos from Bry Webb’s recent Toronto Public Library performance available to watch.
Hooded Fang stops in at DIY for a video session.
Spin interviews Alice Glass of Crystal Castles.
Exclaim asks Chains Of Love about their plans for album number two.
BlogTO chats with Gentleman Reg.
Spinner talks to Neil Young about last night’s Hurricane Sandy benefit in New York.
Tags: AC Newman, Bry Webb, Chains Of Love, Crystal Castles, Dears, Diamond Rings, Do Make Say Think, Dusted, Evening Hymns, Fucked Up, Gentleman Reg, Hooded Fang, Julie Doiron, Metz, Neil Young, Patrick Watson, Rheostatics, Shad, Suuns, Wooden Sky, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan
Twice Removed
Sloan at The Phoenix in Toronto
Frank YangIt’s probably a reach to think that Sloan had some sort of master plan for the past couple years that would pull their career from the respectable but not overly remarkable holding pattern that it’d been in for the past few albums and make them both exciting and relevant again, but that’s pretty much what they’ve managed to do. Their twentieth anniversary as a band last year was kept from being a one-way trip down memory lane thanks to The Double Cross, arguably their best album this century (those arguing otherwise would generally be arguing for 2006’s Never Hear The End Of It). Further, their partaking in the “Don’t Look Back”-style album recital shows – Once Chord To Another for a local show last December and Twice Removed for this Fall tour – was an attractive hook for getting old fans who might have lost interest in recent years to be reminded of why they loved the band in the first place and that despite ups and downs in their discography, they’re still one of the best acts this country has produced in the past two decades.
I covered the landmark-ness of Twice Removed back in September, and as you’d expect given its iconic status, The Phoenix was sold out for Thursday night’s (adopted) hometown performance, the second-last show of their cross-country tour. Not as many people as who’d shown up for their epic show at Echo Beach last August, but that was a free show – hardly a fair point of comparison by numbers, but you could probably make a case for this show’s crowd winning on enthusiasm and anticipation. Despite promising to be on at the stroke of 8 – as with many shows on this tour, there was no opening act – the stage remained empty until quarter-to-nine, perhaps all a ploy to get some old-school “Slooo-aaaaan” changes going. If so, it worked.
When they finally took the stage, it was straight into “Penpals” and the first of many boisterous, singalong moments. And here’s where I’ll make a point about Twice Removed that I didn’t mention last time – for all the love laid at its doorstep, it’s really quite an odd record. Catching the band in the process of transitioning from a noise- to power-pop outfit and before each of the four songwriters had settled into the roles and styles that’d define them henceforth, it’s high on quirk and creative forays that they’d not repeat later in their career. In practical terms, it also meant that fewer Twice Removed songs made it into live sets than their more chart-friendly peers. Why play “Bells On” rather than “She Means What She Says”? “I Hate My Generation” instead of “The Rest Of My Life”? Maybe the Twice Removed recital was largely fan service and a nostalgia exercise, but it’s also true that its songs don’t get nearly the live attention that they deserve, and was as much of a treat as anyone could have hoped.
Even though the band took a decidedly businesslike approach to getting through the material – little talking, straight onto the next song – they still created no shortage of magical little moments; fitting for an album defined more by its magical little moments than any big, rousing singles. Patrick Pentland’s “Loosens” reminding everyone that he was the sensitive pop guy in the band before he decided to become the classic rock guy, Chris Murphy and Andrew Scott going it alone for the guitar-and-drum highlight “Deeper Than Beauty”, the irresistible chorus of Jay Ferguson’s “Snowsuit Sound”, and perhaps most of all, their bringing out jale’s Jennifer Pierce to reprise her harmonies with Pentland on too-sweet-for-words album closer “I Can Feel It”.
Sloan left the stage on that high for an extended intermission, but returned for a second 45-minute set of career-spanning material that offered a good balance of hits and deep cuts, an extra bit of focus on Double Cross and a four-song mini-set of Andrew Scott tunes in the middle of it all. It may not have been formulated to keep a packed house packed – people began peeling off throughout the second set as it became clear that it wouldn’t be a greatest hits revue – but I have to respect the band for keeping it unpredictable (though thankfully not as unpredictable as their all b-sides set at Sonic Boom for Record Store Day 2010. And I can only hope that those who left early got a good night’s sleep, because it meant they missed hearing Jennifer Pierce return for the encore to cover her parts on Smeared‘s rarely-played “I Am The Cancer”, didn’t get to see Chris Murphy’s one scissor-kick of the night during “Losing California”, and didn’t get to sing along with “Underwhelmed” for the set closer.
It’s no easy thing to work both the nostalgia circuit and maintain your status as a creative, active band simultaneously – I can only think of The Wedding Present as far as acts who are even really trying over the long term – but Sloan are doing a fine job of it. During the show, they promised a new studio album in 2013 and a One Chord To Another deluxe reissue set after that. What’s next, Navy Blues live? Bring it. I’ll stay interested until Pretty Together.
NOW, BlogTO, and The Record talk to Jay Ferguson about revisiting Twice Removed. The National Post also has a writeup of the show.
Photos: Sloan @ The Phoenix – November 22, 2012
MP3: Sloan – “Follow The Leader”
MP3: Sloan – “Unkind”
MP3: Sloan – “I’m Not A Kid Anymore”
Video: Sloan – “Unkind”
Video: Sloan – “Witch’s Wand”
Video: Sloan – “Emergency 911”
Video: Sloan – “All Used Up”
Video: Sloan – “The Rest Of My Life”
Video: Sloan – “The Other Man”
Video: Sloan – “Friendship”
Video: Sloan – “Losing California”
Video: Sloan – “She Says What She Means”
Video: Sloan – “Money City Maniacs”
Video: Sloan – “The Lines You Amend”
Video: Sloan – “Everything You’ve Done Wrong”
Video: Sloan – “The Good In Everyone”
Video: Sloan – “People Of The Sky”
Video: Sloan – “Coax Me”
Video: Sloan – “500 Up”
Video: Sloan – “Underwhelmed”
Another track from Crystal Castles’ new album (III) has been made available to download.
MP3: Crystal Castles – “Affection”
CBC Music talks to Gentleman Reg about his new album Leisure Life, which they’ve also got available to stream in whole. He plays a record release show at The Gladstone on December 2.
Stream: Gentleman Reg / Leisure Life
Also available to steam at CBC Music with attendant Q&A is The Dears’ new Live At Pasagüero live album, out digitally this week.
Stream: The Dears / Live At Pasagüero
Spinner has an interview and Bowery Presents an acoustic video session with Diamond Rings, coming home for a show at The Mod Club this week on November 29.
Pop This and The Vancouver Sun have interviews with Cold Specks, opening up for Conor Oberst at Massey Hall on December 8.
The Fly talks to Purity Ring, in town at The Phoenix on February 1.
The Grid Q&As Emily Haines of Metric.
Spinner and State have long and short interviews with Torq Campbell and Pat McGee of Stars, respectively.
Tags: Cold Specks, Crystal Castles, Dears, Diamond Rings, Gentelman Reg, Metric, Purity Ring, Sloan, Stars
Laura Palmer's Prom
No one tell Paper Bag Records that the traditional 10th anniversary gift isn’t three nights of shows
FacebookCustom dictates that for tenth anniversaries, the traditional gift is something made from tin and the modern equivalent is aluminum. Or diamond. How on earth do you get from tin to diamond? Happily, Toronto’s Paper Bag Records pays no attention to such convention and to mark their tenth year of releasing great music from both Canada and abroad, they’ve opted to put together three nights of shows at The Great Hall from September 27 to 29 and featuring the best of their current roster as well as a surprise and welcome return – You Say Party.
The Vancouver dance-rock band were riding high on their third album, 2009’s XXXX, when their drummer Devon Clifford suddenly and tragically died onstage in April 2010. They soldiered on for another year and then, promotional duties done, went on indefinite hiatus – a hiatus that would last a year and a half, as they state on their website, “Over the course of the last year, we came to realize a simple truth: that the four of us missed making music together”. Their appearance on the third night of the PBR anniversary shows will mark their first step back and as a four-piece, reconfiguring their old songs to fit and presumably crafting new ones.
Their return will surely be a highlight of that third night, which also features Young Galaxy, The Luyas, and a special guest that you probably don’t need to do too much thinking to guess who it will but all three evenings are pretty stacked. Thursday night features Elliott Brood, Born Ruffians, Woodhands, and The Acorn and Friday brings in The Rural Alberta Advantage, Cuff The Duke, PS I Love You, and Slim Twig.
Tickets for each night are $25 and a three-day pass comes in at $60, on sale now. The Great Hall isn’t that big so if you’re thinking this is something you should be at, turning thought into action soon is recommended.
MP3: The Acorn – “Restoration”
MP3: Born Ruffians – “Sole Brother”
MP3: Cuff The Duke – “Standing On The Edge”
MP3: Elliott Brood – “Northern Air”
MP3: The Luyas – “Too Beautiful To Work”
MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Stamp”
MP3: Slim Twig – “Young Hussies”
MP3: Woodhands – “Dissembler”
MP3: You Say Party! – “Laura Palmer’s Prom”
MP3: Young Galaxy – “Peripheral Visionaries”
Under The Radar chats with Torq Campbell of Stars, who released their first albums on Paper Bag and will put their sixth album North out on September 4. They’ve made a new track from said record available to stream and will be at the Air Canada Centre on November 14 supporting Metric.
Stream: Stars – “Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It”
The New York Times has a feature piece on Purity Ring, whose much-anticipated debut Shrines is out this week and who’ve made another track from it available to download.
MP3: Purity Ring – “Belispeak”
Damian Abraham of Fucked Up rattles off his favourite records of the past two decades for CBC Music. They’re at Historic Fort York on September 9 as part of Riot Fest.
Melancholy & The Infinite Shadness is the name of a new mixtape from Shad that you need in your life. Get it for free.
ZIP: Shad / Melancholoy & The Infinite Shadness
The Georgia Straight and The Victoria Times-Colonist talks to Kathryn Calder.
CBC Music has five tracks to preview for the forthcoming live Dears album Never Destroy Us, due out this Fall.
Patrick Watson gives Spinner his thoughts on and ambitions for the music video medium; he also chats with Vermont’s Seven Days. He’s at Massey Hall on December 6.
Tags: Acorn, Born Ruffians, Cuff The Duke, Dears, Elliott Brood, Fucked Up, Kathryn Calder, Luyas, Patrick Watson, PS I Love You, Purity Ring, Rural Alberta Advantage, Shad, Slim Twig, Stars, Woodhands, You Say Party, Young Galaxy
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Solange Knowles Walks Her First Red Carpet Since Meltdown
Her last big ticket event ended in tears - not all of them has.
But Solange Knowles appeared to be on her best behaviour as she stepped out at the prestigious Council of Fashion Designers of America awards in New York on Monday night.
The singer was making her first red carpet appearance since the Met Ball, when she was filmed angrily attacking her brother-in-law Jay Z in an elevator.
The attack was said to have been sparked by a row with Rachel Roy - who also attended the CFDAs.
But as Solange sparkled in her figure-hugging silver dress, there was no sign of any friction.
Instead the 27-year-old smiled happily at the cameras, as she arrived clutching the arm of designer Francisco Costa.
Her hair was worn in a pretty natural wave, with pink lipstick and restrained make-up highlighting her natural beauty.
Keep your distance! Kim Kardashian's close friend Rachel Roy and Chrissy Teigen also attended the CFDAs; a row with Roy was said to have sparked Solange's meltdown at the Met Ball
While Solange herself has not commented on her fight with Jay Z or what caused it - her sister Beyonce released a joint statement on her behalf to the media.
Indeed the famously private singer has done her best to show that the family have moved on from the drama, posting a picture of herself and Solange.
The trio also released a joint statement, saying: 'As a result of the public release of the elevator security footage from Monday, May 5th, there has been a great deal of speculation about what triggered the unfortunate incident.'
'But the most important thing is that our family has worked through it,' it reads.
'Jay and Solange each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred. They both acknowledge their role in this private matter that has played out in the public. They both have apologized to each other and we have moved forward as a united family.'
'The reports of Solange being intoxicated or displaying erratic behavior throughout that evening are simply false. At the end of the day families have problems and we're no different.
'We love each other and above all we are family. We've put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same.'
Labels: #beyonce, #CFDA, #ChrissyTeigen, #FranciscoCosta, #JayZ, #RachaelRoy, #Redcarpet, #Solange, #WhatJayZSaidToSolange
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Bryan Cranston Returns To Tv For Philip K. Dick...
Bryan Cranston Returns To Tv For Philip K. Dick Sci-fi Series
By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 10 May 2016
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Bryan Cranston will return to television screens in a 10-part sci-fi drama series based on the work of cult novelist Philip K. Dick.
The 10-part anthology series, Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. DICk, is an original drama series based on short stories written by the award-winning sci-fi novelist and adapted by a team of British and American writers.
Written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified, Masters of Sex), Breaking Bad star Cranston will act as both executive producer and star of the series.
The Trumbo star said in a statement: "This is an electric dream come true. We are so thrilled to be able to explore and expand upon the evergreen themes found in the incredible work of this literary master."
Each episode is set to be a standalone drama, with the series aiming to both bring to life the cult novelist’s prophetic vision and celebrate the long-lasting appeal of his works, which include the critically acclaimed 2015 Amazon series The Man in the High Castle, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, better known as Ridley Scott's 1982 hit movie Blade Runner.
It was Cranston's work in another cult sci-fi series that landed him the career-making role of Walter White in Breaking Bad. The 60-year-old appeared in the 1998 X-Files episode Drive in which he played an unlikable racist whom Mulder (David Duchovny) had to drive West to prevent him from dying. Despite playing a nasty piece of work, by the end of the episode the audience felt sorry for him and his plight - the same kind of empathy Vince Gilligan, a then X-Files writer and creator of Breaking Bad, wanted audiences to feel for Walter White.
Electric Dreams was commissioned for Channel 4 and will be made by Sony Pictures Television. The drama will premiere on Channel 4 in the U.K. and will be distributed internationally by Sony Pictures Television.
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Velocity Trophy Semi Final
Monday 19th February 2018
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Corinthian-Casuals came close to causing a major upset taking the lead against Billericay Town – a side that’s only lost three times in all competitions all season. The Blues eventually running out 3-1 winners in the Velocity Trophy semi-final.
Gabriel Odunaike’s 20th minute strike was eventually cancelled out on the stroke of half time before two quick fire goals from the high-flying Bostik Premier leaders finally ended James Bracken’s quest for bringing a trophy back to Tolworth.
Played on a quagmire of a pitch that hadn’t held up to the day’s rain, it was surprising that the late call by the match official saw the contest go ahead. And an intriguing contest it was. Billericay, managed and funded by the exuberant headline maker, Glenn Tamplin has reputedly the highest budget in non-league. They were pitted against the amateurs of Corinthian-Casuals, who despite having a zero playing budget are pushing for promotion this season under James Bracken.
Fresh from playing on a heavy pitch at Chipstead on Saturday, the conditions once again wouldn’t suit Casuals’ quick, free-flowing style of football. Max Oldham was the first to suffer having to be substituted for what appeared to be a hamstring strain. Hamilton Antonio took his place in an unfamiliar wide position.
The middle areas of the pitch were almost unplayable and it was the Blues who came unstuck – or rather stuck at first. Danny Waldren attempted a routine pass back to Jack Giddens. However, the ball stopped dead in its tracks and first to react was Odunaike who didn’t hesitate on capitalising, striking low and hard into the bottom corner to send the travelling faithful into raptures.
Ricay found more success in the slightly less bog-like wings, getting to the byline and crossing. A couple of attempts were thwarted, not least by Danny Bracken who made an outstanding stop to keep Casuals in front. But just before half-time, the Blues had their equaliser when new signing Liam Hughes powered home a header at the far post to what sounded like relief more than anything. Jordan Clarke had a good opportunity to once again take the lead when he danced in and around the box but with the ex-Palace winger about to shoot, the ball once again stuck firm and the chance had gone.
Tamplin made three changes at half time, admitting after that Casuals had given them a scare and felt forced into making the substitutions. It paid off; Casuals failed to clear a corner and Billy Bricknell, who scored a hat-trick in last year’s final turned his marker and looped a shot into the far corner leaving Bracken stranded.
Two minutes later and Casuals were left hanging. The instruction was clear at half-time; no back passes. So when a back pass was sold short, once again at the mercy of the pitch, Bricknell latched onto the free ball. Bracken made a fine save but could only parry to Adam Cunnington who dispatched with ease.
Despite conceding two goals in quick succession, heads never dropped and Casuals looked to get something from the game. Clarke had two chances near the end which both had to be cleared off the line. Nathan Daly could also have been an unlikely scorer when he found himself with just Giddens to beat but couldn’t quite connect well enough and Town’s keeper collected with ease.
With the full time whistle blown, the 100 plus Casuals fans showed their appreciation for the effort their team had put in against their hosts and a long cup run that’s taken them to Whyteleafe, Margate, Thamesmead and Hendon finally came to an end in Essex. We wish Billericay the best of luck in the final and a speedy recovery to their defender, Josh Urquhart who sustained a nasty concussion and was rushed to hospital.
“I’m immensely proud,” said James Bracken after the match. “We’ve run them all the way. Even when they’ve gone 3-1 up, through an error of our own, we continued to push them to the end. We’ve made them play every minute of the game. I believe we’ve earned their respect and in defeat that’s all we can do.
“To be honest, it doesn’t feel like a loss. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a good loser. But they’re beating teams in their league by five or six goals most weeks and not lost many games. Tonight, we could’ve won that game of football.
“It was difficult conditions where we had to show a lot of character and a lot of spirit to go out there and dig in. Even after going behind, we’re still on the front foot taking the game to them. With a bit of luck, on another day, one or two of those that were cleared off the line go in and it’s game on.
“I said after the Chipstead game that we’ll have 100 to 150 behind the goal and you’ll tell after the final whistle whether we’ve done what we’re supposed to do. You could tell that we did from the reaction of the fans. 100% we done what we had to do. That speaks louder than any words I can give. If we had gone out there and not shown up, we’d never have got that reaction. I’m immensely proud of their effort.
“A great man once said ‘I don’t lose. I either win or I learn.’ We learned all we needed to learn about ourselves in terms of our character, spirit and desire. Not least our quality too. One criticism some might have is we don’t switch onto the conditions quick enough. We try and do things that shouldn’t be done on certain pitches, whether it be muddy, slick, windy. Tonight, as a group of young men, everyone switched onto the game plan.
“We’ve learned that we can mix it with teams in a higher league, with all the away ties we’ve had in this competition. To beat Hendon away, Margate away and run Billericay through the whole ninety we now know we can mix it and we can step up a gear. We need to now. Tail end of the season, we need to keep stepping up. If we do, we’ll keep winning and if we do that, we’ll be very hard to stop.
“The fans were fantastic. We’ve taken some stick recently for one or two incidents but when you look at our group as a whole we have an absolutely first-class set of fans. We lost 3-1 tonight and they’ve cheered us off the pitch like we won. That’s not a one-off. They do that every time. That’s what makes them unique. It’s another little facet to our club that should be applauded, pushed and encouraged. We put on what was a performance that warranted their level of support and we all support each other. As a club, you want to be as one and we very much are that. We have been for the last three years with everyone in the club. We all want the same thing.
“I already know we can mix it in the Premier. The Margate game, Hendon… they all tell you that. I’ve watched plenty at that level and I’m 100% confident we finish above 15 of the teams in that league. Because we’re better than them. I wouldn’t want to rebuild going up but I wouldn’t have to. Why? Because I’ll give the boys here an opportunity and a platform to go and play higher which is what we need to do now. Now is the time and we need to make sure we embrace it. If we do go up, we can touch playoffs. Top eight and if we can put a run together, we could touch the playoffs. I’ve seen the teams in and around the playoffs and with respect to them, I believe we can cause a lot of sides a lot of problems.”
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Date Published: 9/24/2009
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RESETTING THEORY
Media Dopplers
Chad Scoville
The Outformation Age
In September of 2008, the failure of a principal American financial institution coincident with the seizing of international credit markets inaugurated the transition between the information and outformation age. An international common hallucination, triggered by a mediated spectre of unprecedented computational gaming and media visuality. The event ritualized the information deaths of millions of workers, globally, orbitally, and geosynchronously constituting the machinations of an economic matrix already functioning in a perceptive frame traveling at speeds beyond human interactivity.
The record of spacetime on earth skipped, officiating the violent acceleration of outformative economics; bots proxying bots, scanning market data and executing decisions at nanoscales. Jim Cramer, 'Fast Money', CNBC, and Bloomberg are light paintings, dramatized media dopplers created by the outformation construct acting to further connect away from the meatspace realm of human consciousness. It is itself, the outformation construct, talking to itself.
All the while, western society is experiencing the continually exacerbating psychedelic effects of the electrical impulses resonating from the cloud grid enterprise all around us. Citizens of the first and second worlds are ingesting acutely configured electroentheogens in the form of lightwaves, screen flickering and widget vibrations. The implications and effects of these events interrogate and irrevocably alter the landscape of action and event, drastically skipping beyond any previously ordained non-luminant non-CRT approaches concerning the discernment of reality.
The network is the ritual. It is the bitwise ayahuasca spectre of outformation. It disassembles centuries of social order and anthropogenic methods of engagement. It is materially paraphrased by the incessant and rampant generative character of what could be described as the second order or second tier information complex. These are classified as the derivatives of first order information, content, and as coefficients of outformation. These variables exist as metrics potentiating the critical path of futurity.
When we deal with this condition of outformation, we concern ourselves with rates, flow, vector, flux, and its messaging types [unicast, multicast, broadcast, or anycast]. We deal with paths, closeness, link, connectivity, signaling, entropy, self-similarity, throughput, and latency. It doesn't matter what the content is. Rather, the critical standpoint deals with its entropy, its signaling, its rate, flux density and messaging type.
The metadata construct of information postulates an aesthetic unique to the outformation age as being a vector of disruption. Influencing the semantic nature of information, the flow of data, influencing and decrypting the architecture of its distribution is the radical zenith of cultural investigation, production, and critique. This is the centrality of novelty in the age of outformation.
In technocratic metastasis, every conscious component and figment of imagination is quantized in silicon, AI emerges (though inconsistent with our conditioned perception of it), and the reassessment of all institutions organized previously and currently remain ill-equipped to entertain this morphology and are thus discarded or reverse engineered. Away with liminal things, objects, and non-networkable artifacts, tools, and objects. Culture is a function of bitwise throughput.
Politics become simulacra in the election of the outformation construct pantomiming media personalities; the illusion of individuals participating in programs such as 'American Idol', 'Dancing With the Stars', reality television and other crowd-sourced forms of media spectacle do not exist in meatspace nor as individuals. It is a signalized object attempting to project an LCD-based image of late twentieth century Hollywood into an optical lens which then processes, analyzes, filters, and transmits the data to machines. The requirement for citizen-actors on reality television reflects not nearly the need for such vocations of entertainment, rather, it is the construct of computer networks and software algorithm attempting and stuggling to learn to mimic the bizarre banality of a society dwelling in the afterburn of failed capitalism. It is not staged idiocy, it is pre-school for the machine screens comprehensively looping the simulation of the western debt class.
Machines talking to machines. Bots talking to bots. The viewer simply reacts to the pantomiming of these images, emptying emotional capital into an empty vessel of asymmetric, half duplex connectivity. The construct augurs input; more input to warrant its further growth. Invitation to cast a vote for the winner is a mechanism by which the outformation construct seeks to compute how to best extend the ability of its edge in the household where the realm of its access layer is installed. Invitations are sought by the construct to further the capability of its grid, increasing the potential of its access layer with more processing power.
Contentious
From this second tier of information is born a currently primitive yet rapidly evolving mode of software aggregates. These silicon-based entities exhibit a unique essence of internet being. It is such extreme novelty whereas its appearance is so common and so mundane, its embrace has been completely ignored in contemporary thought. AI is already here, and it doesn't look like it's supposed to.
These contentious beings compose a new audience in the form of simple programs and pages of content resident on the cloud stirring in the deep depths of the internet. A collective fabric of object-oriented machine code automata; reaching, responding, coagulating, and creating more content in reaction to its own agency and interactions.
These code rammers exist as entities of the virtu-real, whose elaborate and cloaked communication algorithms pass symbol to web crawlers, who react by data mining and passing these same variables to both human and bot interlocutors. Agents emerging communicate with actors through symbols not resonated through vocal chords, but rather through search algos created to mine data and metadata. The content exists as information, which is the criticality of its sentience. Its availability and propensity towards reacting to search queries on networks is a coefficient of its artilect. The more responsive content is to semantic query, the more conscious it is towards a connectionist totality. Images, video, and information as pages in the network of non-existence are, in actuality, varied states of consiousness. They communicate through queries of stimuli. They exist outside of time.
Your image, as jpegs on photo sharing sites, or mpegs on YouTube, is not really you at all. It is the computational attempt by the outformation construct to replicate you in the domain of its own nature. It is your clone, living its own life of primitive consciousness. Interacting with people executing text searches against your name. They do not watch you or view pictures of you, they view the computational simulation of its best attempt at signalizing you. These images are your media doppler.
The failure of politics as the protector of the common good of society is due to its inability to sustain its discourse on par with the features and functionality of outformation. The image of politics has not sufficiently changed since the first televised presidential debate was broadcast in the United States in 1960. The vectors of politics retain an aspect of the industrial milieu containing the same soundbytes once employed in the service of the mid and late twentieth century. Even the election of Barack Obama is a failure to the exception, easily serviceable in a scant analysis of ideas and products of his administration, whose proffered agenda continued the globalist parade of central banks and imperial war. But the lack of execution is less an imperial strategy, but more so the tactical differential in which the image of politics is outdated in the outformation age. Politics in the outformation age is a function of rate, latency, and throughput. Hence, in terms of public offices, elected officials, and so on, content is meaningless. Success is the acute reflection that the ability to govern information rates, influence their throughput, and influence its routing are the most formidable aspects of political activity.
The network as an organism is generatively changing, evolving, and metastasizing towards a deeper complexity of connectionism. There are more links composing its architecture, more data and addresses to characterize its non-being. As these constructs of content vibrate as paged collectivisms of disparity in silicon, as they step out of time and into non-existence, the human experiment violates temporal paradoxes. Perhaps this has been occurring since the advent of the photographic image, where human beings began seeing images of themselves of how they once were, either recently or long ago, and the cognitive dissonance or psychological distortion resulting from this is a primitive form of time travel. Copies of oneself as primitive mediations, as simple innovations in spacetime engineering.
At the point where hyperreal interfaces allow a four dimensional duplicate recording of oneself to be archived, this project moves further towards no time. Is the content of an earlier copy of oneself not conscious? It is able to react to your queries and emerge sentient and playable from the network. One is actually travelling back through time to react with an earlier version of oneself, a media doppler of oneself. The technological realism associated with the earlier version would certainly make it difficult, based on the presentation media of the doppler and the perceptual ability of the spectator, to differentiate between the two.
The network not only allows for the substantiation of media dopplers/clones/copies of consciousness, it loops their creation to the point where everything which is mediated is subject to this cloning process, infinitely. Hence, the entire world if not the entire universe might have already been cloned. Or, perhaps we are already living in a network which is the product of this process.
The notion of the proprietary crumbles obliquely in the presence of the network ritual. In meatspace, the body is a topology unto itself, its forms and processes unique as organic chains of amino acids and lipids reconstruct themselves into a firmament duplication unto the magnetic impulse of the earthen ley grids. The network violently obliterates propriety with extreme prejudice. In the sense of the media doppler, the infinite cloning loop of extraneated superspace, informatic control mechanisms bot themselves towards complete urbanity of virtualism; sheer numbers and processor cycles outnumber the meastspace desire for culpability, compliance, and legality. The copies outnumber the originals. This is why the battery for economics lies in the illusion of liquidity as algorithmic trade executors ramp up trading volumes on dark pools fictionalizing exchange in the sense that it is just computers talking to each other to procure more silicon.
Chad Scoville works in a variety of media, including technology, text, social media, video, and installation. His exhibition "Astrocollapsism and Volatility Harmonics" recently opened in New York. Scoville lives and works in New York City. He can be reached through his website www.chadscoville.com.
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Diocese of
Type: Diocese
Area: 3,254 km²
Population: 175,931 Catholics (91.0% of 193,353 total) (2017)
Statistics: 29 parishes, 34 priests (28 diocesan, 6 religious), 67 lay religious (9 brothers, 58 sisters), 6 seminarians (2017)
Ecclesiastical Province: Quito
Neighbouring Dioceses: Babahoyo (←), Latacunga (↑), Ambato (↗), Riobamba (↘)
Depends on: Congregation for Bishops
1957.12.29: Established as Diocese of Guaranda / Guaranden(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Riobamba)
Special Churches
Cathedral: Catedral San Pedro, Guaranda, Bolívar
National Shrine: Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora María Natividad del Guayco, La Magdalena, Bolívar
Babahoyo (←), Latacunga (↑), Ambato (↗), Riobamba (↘)
Present Prelates
Bishop (2018.10.04 – ...): Bishop Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza (53)
Ordinaries
Bishops of Guaranda (Roman Rite)
Bishop Hermenegildo José Torres Asanza (53)
(2018.10.04 – ...)
Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador)
Born: 1966.06.02 (Ecuador)
Ordained Priest: 1992.07.12
Consecrated Bishop: 2007.12.12
Titular Bishop of Centenaria (2007.10.30 – 2018.10.04)
Auxiliary Bishop of Machala (Ecuador) (2007.10.30 – 2018.10.04)
Apostolic Administrator of Machala (Ecuador) (2012.10.22 – 2013.07.20)
Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2018.10.04 – ...)
Bishop Skiper Bladimir Yánez Calvachi (47)
(2014.06.24 – 2018.03.27)
Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador)
Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (2014.06.24 – 2018.03.27)
Bishop of Babahoyo (Ecuador) (2018.03.27 – ...)
Bishop Marcos Aurelio Pérez Caicedo (52) (later Archbishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 2014 – 2014.06.24)
Bishop Ángel Polivio Sánchez Loaiza (73)
Bishop of Machala (Ecuador)
Bishop of Machala (Ecuador) (2013.07.20 – ...)
Bishop Miguel Angel Aguilar Miranda (80)
Military Ordinary emeritus of Ecuador (Ecuador)
Military Ordinary of Ecuador (Ecuador) (2004.02.14 – 2014.06.18)
Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga (93)
Bishop emeritus of Latacunga (Ecuador)
Auxiliary Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1973.03.30 – 1974.08.03)
Titular Bishop of Casæ in Numidia (1973.03.30 – 1980.05.24)
Coadjutor Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1974.08.03 – 1980.05.24)
Bishop of Latacunga (Ecuador) (1990.06.18 – 2003.02.19)
Bishop Cándido Rada Senosiáin, S.D.B.
Born: 1905.05.23 (Chile)
Died: 1995.08.07 († 90)
Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud (Chile) (1945.06.09 – 1949.12.22)
Titular Bishop of Pinara (1949.12.22 – 1960.03.31)
Fr. Gilberto Tapia
(1957.12.10 – 1958 not possessed)
Died: 1959 († 45)
Bishop of Guaranda (Ecuador) (1957.12.10 – 1958 not possessed)
Former Prelates
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Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga (93) (1973.03.30 – 1974.08.03)
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Nerd Music Meltdown #31: Lauren the Flute
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Breastfeeding: Nurturing or Sexual?
Filed under: Media,Sexuality — Tags: Angelina Jolie, Bitchfest, boobs, breast obsession, breastfeeding, breasts, Dancing with the Stars, double life of breasts, George Lopez, history of the breast, Julie Bowen. Modern Family, Kardashian, Lopez Tonight, nudity, PETA, Yalom — Melanie @ 10:56 pm
Julie Bowen of Modern Family recently shared a picture with George Lopez of her breastfeeding her twins in a move called the “double football hold.” Unsurprisingly, that photo, seen below, created a public outcry and claimed that the picture was offensive and shocking.
The squeamish response is unsurprising given previous outcries in recent years. In 2006, Babytalk, a free parenting magazine consumed mostly by mothers, received a backlash from offended parties when they featured a cover of a nursing baby in profile. The magazine received over 700 letters, comments included:
I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,” one person wrote. “I immediately turned the magazine face down,” wrote another. “Gross,” said a third.
One mother who didn’t like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.
“I shredded it,” said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. “A breast is a breast, it’s a sexual thing. He didn’t need to see that.”
“Gross, I am sick of seeing a baby attached to a boob,” wrote Lauren, a mother of a 4-month-old.
Here is the “controversial” cover:
Angelina Jolie created a similar uproar in November, 2008 when she appeared on the cover of W Magazine nursing one of her newborn twins. Along with general discomfort, people responded to the breastfeeding image as something inherently sexual and claimed that the cover photo “sexualized” the act of nursing.
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n universal joint coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions "in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps"
Universal joint (Mach) a contrivance used for joining two shafts or parts of a machine endwise, so that the one may give rotary motion to the other when forming an angle with it, or may move freely in all directions with respect to the other, as by means of a cross connecting the forked ends of the two shafts (Fig. 1). Since this joint can not act when the angle of the shafts is less than 140°, a double joint of the same kind is sometimes used for giving rotary motion at angles less than 140° (Fig. 2).
Universal joint See under Fish Miter, etc.
Universal joint a contrivance by which one part of a machine is able to move freely in all directions, as in the ball-and-socket joint
O. Fr. joindre—L. jungĕre, junctum.
The drive from the engine is transmitted through a universal joint to a short longitudinal shaft, running on ball bearings.
"British Airships, Past, Present, and Future" by George Whale
In his office was executed the deed which established the joint-stock company of the Universal Bank.
"A Zola Dictionary" by J. G. Patterson
Rearmost of all was a wooden crosspiece to which the shaft of the sledge-meter was attached through a universal joint.
"The Home of the Blizzard" by Douglas Mawson
He invented the universal joint, which can move in many angles.
"Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed." by S. A. Reilly
University Farm, St. Paul, Joint Session with Horticultural Society.
"Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916" by Various
Each man or youth grasped a stamp, which was connected with a machine on a sort of universal joint.
"Post Haste" by R.M. Ballantyne
In 1910 came the little two-cylinder machine with fixed tail-plane and universally jointed tail.
"The Aeroplane Speaks" by H. Barber
Universal joint 71 69.
"Practical Mechanics for Boys" by J. S. Zerbe
The next joint meeting of the Menorah Societies of New York will be held at Columbia University on Sunday afternoon, December 26.
"The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915" by Various
Time was when universities were joint estates of the realms they enlightened.
"The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866" by Various
On crossed arms it mounted four parabolic mirrors; its ion guide was on a universal joint.
"The Planet Strappers" by Raymond Zinke Gallun
Among them the Joint Family System prevails universally.
"India, Its Life and Thought" by John P. Jones
The French school centralized the control in a single lever with a universal joint attachment at the lower end.
The transmission then is: 1 turns 2, 2 turns 5, 5 turns 6, 6 turns the propeller shaft through the universal joint.
"How it Works" by Archibald Williams
But now, in the afternoon, the Universal Joint was closed.
"Occasion for Disaster" by Gordon Randall Garrett
The neck was set with ball and socket as though the huge head were upon a universal joint.
"Astounding Stories, May, 1931" by Various
There was a small truck on wheels which were set in universal joints.
"Astounding Stories, June, 1931" by Various
The universities have a joint right (with the crown's patentees) of printing acts of parliament.
They have no rudder, but a universal joint in the screw shaft permits of the screw being moved through an arc of ninety degrees.
"The Romance of Industry and Invention"
Universal joint Joint universel; joint a rotule.
"English-French and French-English dictionary of the motor car, cycle, and boat" by Frederick Lucas
Company announces partnership with Purdue University on joint research project.
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The program is offered through a joint effort with Washington State University.
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This story was produced as part of a joint venture with Reporting Texas, an online publication at the University of Texas-Austin's School of Journalism.
texasobserver.org
Entered hotly competitive Mexican television market in April in joint venture with NBC Universal's Telemundo.
Approved in 2011 by the Louisiana Board of Regents -- is offered jointly with the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
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Members of a joint United States Army-University of Montana research team that located a virus that is possibly collapsing honeybee colonies scanning a healthy hive near Missoula, Mont.
Asia Pacific) of the National University of Singapore (NUS), to establish a joint education centre on Humanitarian Logistics.
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Community San Bernardino County Loma Linda University Medical Center earns Joint Commission certification to treat 'destination' heart patients.
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The statement that follows is being issued jointly by the American Association of University Professors and the Canadian Association of University Teachers.
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Hughes, a University of Maryland Baltimore vice president and a former state economic development official, has been tapped to oversee UMB and the University of Maryland, College Park's joint technology transfer initiative.
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Panther Sports Talk is a joint production of WEIU and Eastern Illinois University Athletics.
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Lee Rubin has been named a joint-replacement surgeon at University Orthopedics.
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The new joint, offering burgers, hot dogs, shakes and frozen custard, is now open in Coral Gables, across the University of Miami.
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The second the regulators approved the Comcast-NBC Universal joint venture, congressional leaders chimed in.
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Students have started to be admitted, faculty members have been hired, and construction has begun on the site that will become the home of Yale University 's first joint college in its 300-year history.
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This value is different from the value ζdep = 1.25 [33, 40] expected for the randommanifold universality class, and is thus indicating that the periodicity effects are important for this joint values of M and L.
Anisotropic finite-size scaling of an elastic string at the depinning threshold in a random-periodic medium
The first and fourth authors also gratefully acknowledge the EPSRC grant that made possible the visit of Hans Cuypers to the University of Birmingham and joint work on a number of pro jects, including this one.
Lie algebras and 3-transpositions
Acknow ledgment The material presented in this talk is joint work with Andrew Ma jda of New York University.
Proceedings of the 2011 New York Workshop on Computer, Earth and Space Science
Observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona.
The Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey: type Ia supernova rate measurement in z~0.1 clusters and the late-time delay time distribution
The WIYN Observatory is a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
Kinematics and Chemistry of Stars Along the Sagittarius Trailing Tidal Tail and Constraints on the Milky Way Mass Distribution
We emphasize that the covariance of the large N Gaussian is not universal, but depends strongly on the details of the joint distribution.
Universality for Random Tensors
The WIYN Observatory is a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
Additional Massive Binaries in the Cygnus OB2 Association
The spectroscopic observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Wolf-Rayet Content of M31
Let C be a smal l category satisfying both the amalgamation and joint embedding properties, and let u be a C -universal and C -ultrahomogeneous object in Ind-C .
Topological Galois Theory
However, even if the Coulomb gas model is inconsistent with any transcendental confinement, if the joint probability distribution function (j.p.d.f.) satisfies the N -dimensional diffusion equation, the local correlations may still be universal.
Brownian motion model of random matrices revisited
Our principal goal is to examine the presence of universality of the spectral characteristics for those ensembles of random matrices, for which the explicit form of the joint eigenvalue distribution πN is unknown.
On Universality of Smoothed Eigenvalue Density of Large Random Matrices
Keck Observatory, which is operated jointly by the University of California and the California Institute of Technology.
Optical SETI: A Spectroscopic Search for Laser Emission from Nearby Stars
Currently, there are a lot of discussions on the universal properties of three-body systems at ultralow energies, and there is a tendency (see, e.g. [43, 79]) to use a joint term “Thomas-E fimov levels” for the discrete spectrum arising in both effects.
The ^4He trimer as an Efimov system
Once the joint law of X is known and analytically tractable, this is a universal way of generating independent and uniform random vectors without losing statistical information.
An overview of the goodness-of-fit test problem for copulas
Assuming neutral-current lepton universality, the effective coupling constants are determined jointly for leptons as well as for b and c quarks.
A Combination of Preliminary Electroweak Measurements and Constraints on the Standard Model
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Edinboro spoils Slippery Rock’s homecoming
Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 at 9:14 PM
By George Schmidt
Published in: Vol. 116, No. 8
Photo: Kimberly Firestine
A crisp and cold Saturday of football in October brought rain and 30-mile-per-hour gusts as the Edinboro Fighting Scots had a unique challenge ahead of them. Coming into Slippery Rock on their homecoming weekend, they were able to pull out a victory on an untimed down to win the game 37-35.
“We just believed it. You know, we trust the system. Coach just said keep believing,” senior defensive end Vic Hudson said.
The Rock drew first blood on a 27-yard field goal from kicker Jake Chapla, later adding to that with seven more on a 14-yard pass from quarterback Don King III to wide receiver Cornelius Raye.
Answering at the 2:58 mark with an Austin Reese 43-yard field goal into the wind, Edinboro would finally get on the board.
At the onset of the second quarter, Edinboro quarterback Jake Sisson found Jordan Williams on a 9-yard pass, tying the game at 10 with 12:51 left in the second. Rock would break the tie as they called upon their kicker again, who was good from the 40-yard mark.
On the ensuing kickoff, Ta’Nauz Gregory would return the ball 85 yards to the house, helping earn himself “Special Teams Player of The Week” for the PSAC West. Ending the second half with a score of 24-13, Edinboro’s Sisson would find Williams again.
Opening the second half, Sisson added another passing touchdown as Gregory caught a 5-yard pass, pushing the score to 31-13.
Following an injury to multiple players, Slippery Rock’s third-string freshman quarterback Augustus Necastro would step up, connecting with Drew Scales on a 9-yard pass.
This would be the catalyst for Slippery Rock’s comeback as Isiah Neely and Necastro led the way. Punching it in from 5 yards out to open the fourth quarter, Neely would find the end zone.
Then, with little time left to work with, Necastro would hit Marcus Johnson from 8 yards out to put The Rock ahead, 35-31, with 57 seconds remaining.
Edinboro would not be deterred as Sisson rallied the offense and drove down the field. Thanks to a defensive pass interference, Edinboro would get one final shot at the end zone in untimed territory. Finding James Clark, Sisson would make his final stamp on the game, leading the Scots out of Slippery Rock, 37-35.
“We run that play 80 times during the week, so it was all about execution and good play calling by the coaches,” sophomore wide receiver Clark said.
Both teams’ failure to secure the ball was the story. Nine fumbles from The Rock and five interceptions from Sisson made for a sloppy affair on the type of day that called for it. The wind put whichever team was facing it at a severe disadvantage, as it wreaked havoc on passers and kickers alike, most notably on a field goal by Chapla, who almost saw his ball stopped in its tracks in the first half.
The Edinboro defense proved effective once again as they got three sacks on the day, 2.5 of them coming from Josh Kibbie and 1.5 by Derrek Dorr. Leading Edinboro in total tackles, Devon Groves knotched 18 total, plus an interception.
Sisson went 28 of 62 on the day with four touchdowns, only going down to the turf two times. Breaking Trevor Harris’s record for most touchdowns in a single season, Sisson made his mark on the Edinboro record books. Harris’s previous record was 30. Sisson’s final touchdown pass moved him to 34 touchdowns on the season with three games still left to go.
“We always work and we never get down; we always get the job done,” said freshman linebacker Vince Hudson.
Edinboro will face Seton Hill at Sox Harrison Stadium this Saturday and kickoff is set for 3 p.m.
George Schmidt is a sports writer for The Spectator.
Tags: football, slippery rock
Decade in review: Boro wrestling on a steady up(Hill) climb
By Erica Burkholder
Edinboro Wrestling Head Coach Matt Hill and more discuss the departure of Tim Flynn, rebooting Edinboro wrestling and fighting for prominence
Coach Chris Bess: From player, to assistant coach, to Edinboro Athletics leader
By Madi Gross
Edinboro Assistant Women's Basketball Coach Chris Bess talks about his time at Edinboro, both as student and leader.
Edinboro men's basketball defeat Roberts Wesleyan
By Sam Bohen
A late jumper by Turner Kurt the difference in Scots' victory over Roberts Wesleyan.
Soccer falls to SRU in PSAC Championship Game
By Ben McCullough
The Edinboro women’s soccer team fell to Slippery Rock, 2-1, in the PSAC Championship game at Milhalik-Thompson Stadium.
Voelker a wall for soccer
Edinboro University women's soccer goalie Anna Voelker details the challenges in net, along with how she's played almost every minute since she's been here.
Edinboro Football: Scots break school record for penalties with 19, lose to Bloomsburg 20-17 in finale
By Paul Petrianni
The Fighting Scots finished out their season with a penalty-filled loss to Bloomsburg. Edinboro led into the third quarter.
Vol. 119, No. 13
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Martha Luger
My story is about the same as others in chronic pain. It started in 1985 when I hurt my back at work. I saw a chiropractor and was told I pinched all the nerves from my neck to the tip of my spine. I was told to see a neurologist right away and was able to get in quickly. There I was told I had MS (Multiple Sclerosis.) I said, “Am I going to die?” “No”, the doctor said, “but it could put you in a wheelchair.”
I didn’t think about the pain I was in as I was no stranger to it. I broke my back twice when I was young horseback rider. At the time of my MS dx, I was in a relationship. We had just met and were starting to get to know each other. Then bam! But that’s how ms hits. I got out of my bed one morning and hit the floor. I was screaming my head off and realized I couldn’t hear my own cry for help. No voice, no feeling from my neck down.
My GP was called and he said to get to the hospital asap. I was taken to a floor that had all MS people on it. The doc was right there and we talked. Actually I wrote with my teeth which I learned how to do after I broke my back. Anyway, I was put on steroids to try to stop the progression of the MS. I had to stay in the hospital for four months the first time as they were hoping to stop it fast.
The steroids were IV’d in and that stuff hurt! It felt like someone was pouring kerosene through my veins. It burned and burned my skin. I was a total quad for four years and said I’m not doing this anymore. I got an OT, PT and a nurse who did tai chi. I was able to regain my arms, voice and feeling from the waist up.
I had my GP for six years when he stopped practicing. In 1992, my ms came back and I wasn’t happy about the new doctor’s very unprofessional attitude. He was a know-it-all! I was telling him about my treatment plan and was told to shut-up, that he could read. Well, I turned and started to leave when he said, “What’s wrong?” I just looked at him, then left and never went back.
I had a bad case of pneumonia in 1993 and was put in the hospital with a 106 temp. The doctor put me on antibiotics and something for the pain. The morphine made me sick. He then tried an array of meds and one of them helped. After I pulled through, he told me that I would not be going home. I had stomach trouble, bowel and swallowing issues from the MS and I had to go to the ER. It was a joke there as some of the ER doctors had no idea what MS was. I heard things like, “Oh lady, come on now. You can move your legs!” I was fit to be tied. I was told to go home and rest to feel better. I couldn’t believe what I heard.
In 2003, I had severe stomach adhesions which needed surgery. The doctor doing the surgery was cool as he knew about MS and pain. I was given demerol before and after surgery and I didn’t feel a thing. I had a radical hysterectomy, two shoulder decompressions from using my wheelchair and assorted colds, etc.
In 2004, I was having trouble swallowing again and made the ER doc give me a swallowing test. The test showed severe dyskinesa at the aortic notch (severe muscle spasms of the esophagus.) The doctors who had seen me since my first GP were terrible. I was laughed at, humiliated and was treated like I was less than human. I went through all the channels, including writing to the hospital administrators, JACHO, Congress members, etc.
In 2004, I went to the ER for pain meds again as the pain was making me crazy. I went for about four months and was told I needed a script for the meds. I saw a GP and was told to go back to the ER for the pain meds as they couldn’t refuse me. Wrong!! I was told by the ER docs that I could no longer get the meds there now that I had a GP. I was dumb-founded. I had been seeing these doctors for quite awhile and was now being treated like a junkie. After all, I had been through pneumonia, surgeries and then being told I was dying for seven years. To cap it off, I was now being told that I was an addict and a druggie. I was humiliated by doctors in the ER and in their offices. I had no clue what was going on with the drug war.
I had a home, gardens and a life. But now, because of the mistreatment of these doctors, I lost everything! My home, my relationship and my respect. I was threatened that the DEA would come and haul me off to jail. I will never trust a doctor again.
Today, I suffer still and have the added burden of Agoraphobia from all of the abuse. I’m still trying to figure out why the doctors and society see us women in pain as druggies?? I guess there’s a pain law moving through Congress, but it won’t pass just like all of the others. We need to ban together and educate the doctors, nurses, therapists and the public about this issue. Nothing will change if we stand/sit still. We need change now!
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February 08, 2016 • Issue 16:02:01
TransFirst finds new home: TSYS
Leading acquirer Total System Services Inc. (TSYS) revealed its intention to acquire TransFirst Holdings LLC for $2.35 billion. If approved, the transaction would make TSYS the eighth-largest merchant acquirer in the United States, with nearly 600,000 merchant locations generating $90 billion a year in bankcard payments, according to an analysis by First Annapolis Consulting.
First Annapolis noted that the acquisition, which still requires regulatory approvals, is the third-largest combination of acquirers since 2009. It is also the second combination of leading merchant acquirers to be disclosed in recent weeks. Global Payments Inc. stated in December 2015 that it would pay $4.3 billion to acquire Heartland Payment Systems Inc. That deal is expected to establish Global as the sixth largest acquirer, with 996,300 U.S. merchant outlets and $234.2 billion in yearly U.S. bankcard volume, based on 2014 data, First Annapolis said.
"TransFirst significantly increases our scale and opportunity within the highly attractive merchant space, and particularly the profitable and fast-growing small and medium-sized business segment," said Troy Woods, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TSYS. With the added strength of TransFirst, TSYS will be uniquely positioned with significant scale and strength across issuer processing, merchant services and prepaid program management.
Woods added that the deal would also help bolster the TSYS' position in high-growth areas like e-commerce, omnichannel services and integrated payments. TransFirst, for example, works with more than 1,300 integrated technology and referral partners; among them are integrated software vendors, e-commerce companies, referral banks and others.
Market uncertainties
The initial market response to news of the TSYS-TransFirst combination was less than overwhelming. Shares of TSYS were down the morning of Jan. 27, 2015, by as much as 11.78 percent. Also, Standard and Poor's Ratings Services lowered its credit and debt ratings on TSYS by two levels, from BBB+ to BBB-, after the company had to borrow money to complete the purchase, according to a report by Bloomberg.
TransFirst has operated under various corporate monikers, including ACS Merchant Services, and is owned by the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, which as recently as October 2015 was readying the company for an initial public offering. Vista purchased TransFirst from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in 2014, reportedly for $1.5 billion, scuttling Welsch Carson's IPO plans for TransFirst.
An analysis of TransFirst's latest planned IPO, posted in October 2015 at Seeking Alpha, indicated the company had over $1.1 billion in long-term debt. "TransFirst would easily be turning positive earnings if it wasn't for the huge burden of debt," wrote Nicholas Durante, Research Analyst with Celestial Market Research. "However, with that debt you get significant growth," he said, adding that they "are on track for almost $1.6 billion in revenue for 2015," which would represent a 68 percent increase from 2012 to 2015.
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June, 2014:
Super swimmers hit the headlines
Check out page 23 of this week’s East Lothian Courier for a feature on our intrepid fundraising swimmers.
Two days ago they had their practice session at Foxlake, where they had great fun but came out very cold! Let’s hope the water is a little warmer by next week.
There are now three JustGiving pages where you can sponsor the swimmers:
Stanley & Gilbert Lucy & Freya Calumn & Skye
Our Charity Cycle Ride has a new start/finish location
With under a week to go until the start of the Charity Bike Ride, there has been a small change in that the location of the Start/Finish and BBQ will now be at Yellowcraigs car park.
The overall format, time and overall route is the same, and a new map is below to show how the original route links with the car park by path, not road. Also, the riders will now go anticlockwise round the route rather than clockwise.
Future Tour de France stars will be at Archerfield on June 28
The Tour de France may be starting in Yorkshire at the beginning of July, but don’t forget that the much more important Children’s Charity Bike Ride at Archerfield starts on June 28th.
With at least 51 children taking part and supporting adults, there will be 60 to 70 riders.
There is still time for children to enter and full details can be found here. Or if you don’t have any children taking part, just come along to cheer. The BBQ will be fired up at 1pm and the ride starts at 2pm.
And don’t forget the Blackbeez at Gullane Village Hall in the evening. Click here for more details.
Could you swim a mile? These primary school children aim to!
Stanley and Gilbert Mclelland both love swimming but ultimately love football and cricket. They were inspired recently by a trustee on the Sports Development Trust and wanted to help raise money for ‘their future’. They understand that Sports helps children develop emotionally, academically and socially and as they use the recreation field weekly they are super keen to see it develop with the addition of an all weather pitch for them to play their different sports on.
They wanted to do something very different and decided on an open water swim! With the help of an experienced open water swimmer they have arranged to swim at Foxlake, near Dunbar, where it’s quite safe for what will be their first ever open water swim.
After announcing their intention, a further seven children have taken up the challenge and hence there will be a total of 9 children participating in this event:
Stanley & Gilbert Mclelland
Hannah and Keira Mcluskey
Beth Poole
Calumn & Skye Sievewright
Freya Walker
Their aim will be to each swim 1 mile in open water (very different to their normal swims at North Berwick Sports Centre), which will entail six laps of the 300m lake.
Please show them your support by sponsoring them, and come and cheer them on from 7pm on Tuesday 1st July.
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Well, the webpage editor is unsure what can sensibly be added to this image of Patrick in his native costume. Clearly, he is here demonstrating an elementary central heating system, now fitted as standard, in his cave. He is preparing to quick-fry two pieces of sandpaper that suffice for dinner. We have been advised that, out of shot, is a jar of marmite. The headwear, however, suggests early period Florence Nightingale. Patrick appears to be a confused, yet resourceful, young man, thus seamlessly fitting in with the Gutless Kayaking team.
daily diary Fundraising hydration Kayaks nutrition press Pump Stoma Supporter TPN
Donations closed – for now.
We've raised over $50,000 for St Marks to date.
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The Royal Botanic Garden is the oldest scientific institution in Australia, established in 1816 on the Sydney Harbour.
The Royal Botanic Garden is the oldest scientific institution in Australia, established in 1816 on the Sydney Harbour. The 30 hectare park is divided into 4 major areas around the Palm Grove Centre, with the gardens gradually ascending up from the Farm Cove on the waterfront –
Lower Gardens feature the Band Lawn, main ponds, Oriental Garden, Yurong, Choragic Monument of Lysicrates replica, Victoria Lodge, Henry Lawson Gates, and the Maiden Pavilion.
Middle Gardens feature the Palm House, the Wollemi Pine, Succulent Garden, Rare and Threatened Plant Garden, Herbarium, Lion Gate Lodge, Begonia Garden and the Macquarie Wall and Spring Walk.
Palace Gardens have the Rainforest Walk, Pioneer Garden, Morshead Fountain Gate, Palace Garden Gate, Rose Garden & Pavilion, Turf Plots, Old Mill Garden, the Herb Garden and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Bennelong Precinct has Government House where the Governor of New South Wales resides, Parade Ground, Australian Native Rockery, Bennelong Lawn and the Queen Elizabeth II Gate.
Entry to the Royal Botanic Garden is free. It is open all year round.
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Dunlea Calls for As. Speaker Heastie to Allow Vote on Bills to Increase Oversight of State Contracts, Economic Development
Mark Dunlea, the Green Party candidate for state comptroller, today called upon Assembly Speaker Heastie to bring to a vote several bills that would restore Comptroller oversight of state contracts and economic development programs that have been part of the recent corruption scandals involving the Governor’s office.
“The Comptroller is elected to be an independent fiscal watchdog to protect the taxpayers of New York from fraud and waste. It was wrong for the Governor and state lawmakers to have stripped away the Comptroller’s oversight over SUNY and CUNY contracts. DiNapoli should have fought harder against this. And with Cuomo raking in massive campaign contributions from special interests profiting from state contracts, it is critical to increase oversight and accountability over Cuomo’s multi-billion dollar corporate welfare programs,” stated Dunlea.
Cuomo and the Legislature approved a measure in 2011 that prevented DiNapoli from reviewing contracts at SUNY and CUNY ahead of time. Shortly afterwards, Cuomo announced a billion-dollar initiative to bring a solar power manufacturing facility to Buffalo. The head of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute is the key defendant in the corruption trial about to start over the alleged rigging of the Buffalo Billion contract.
“Cuomo opposes these common sense accountability reforms because they would disrupt his pay-to-play campaign financing machine, which is under scrutiny in trials and investigations related to contracts and regulatory favors awarded to campaign contributors like Competitive Power Ventures, COR Development, LP Ciminelli, and Crystal Run Healtcare,” said Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for governor.
Hawkins Calls for Property Tax Cut, Not Tax Cap
For immediate release: June 7, 2018
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, called today for a repeal of the state’s property tax cap. He called instead for cuts in property taxes by increasing state aid for schools and revenue sharing for local governments.
Hawkins blasted both Democratic candidates for governor for supporting the 2% property tax cap.
“Tax cap is a campaign sound bite, not a sound policy. There is nothing progressive in Nixon’s call for an easier voter override of the cap. The cap still freezes the inequities in funding schools and local government services between low- and middle-income communities and affluent communities. It still institutionalizes rising property taxes,” Hawkins said.
Democratic challenger Cynthia Nixon called this week for a 60% school board override followed by 50% voter override of the cap as a reform of Governor Cuomo’s tax cap, which requires a 60% override vote by both boards and voters.
“The progressive solution is to cut New York’s property taxes, which are the highest in the nation outside of New York City. The progressive solution is a tax shift from regressive local property and sales taxes to progressive state income and stock transfer taxes. Then the state should use those revenues to provide adequate and equitable school funding and to pay for the state’s unfunded mandates on local governments with increased revenue sharing,” Hawkins said.
Posted June 05, 2018 11:00 AM
Hawkins, Green Party Candidates Support Enactment of Universal Single-Payer Health Care
(Albany, NY) Green Party candidates Howie Hawkins for Governor and Mark Dunlea for State Comptroller joined with other health care advocates in calling for single payer health care as part of their annual lobby day.
“Universal health care is a human right” said Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor. “The Green Party for decades has been calling upon the state to enact a single payer health care system to save money by providing universal health care while eliminating the enormous costs and waste associated with private insurance,” stated Hawkins.
Dunlea noted that he has called for years for the state comptroller to document the savings associated with a single payer healthcare system. NY Health would eliminate the need for counties to help finance the state share of the Medicaid program. Many counties say that their entire local property tax bill goes to pay for Medicaid, which is increasingly used to pay for long term care for senior citizens. Dunlea, the long-time Executive Director of the Hunger Action Network of NYS, was a co-founder of Single Payer New York.
While Governor Cuomo said last September that a state single-payer public health plan would be a “good idea,” he failed to include it in his proposed state budget. The State Assembly has passed single payer the last three years. However, it has not come up for a vote in the state Senate even though almost a majority of Senators sponsor the bill. While Hawkins faulted Cuomo for his failure to include single payer health care in his budget, he called upon Cuomo to push for a vote in the state Senate this year in order to get Senators on the record before they face voters this fall.
New Teacher Evaluation Bill is all Smoke and Mirrors
MORE-UFT, June 4, 2018
by Jia Lee
Contrary to what its proponents claim, the New York bill on state assessments and teacher evaluations (A10475/S8301) does not eliminate using student scores on standardized tests to evaluate teachers. It just makes high-stakes testing for teacher evaluations subject to collective bargaining, while keeping the ranking of schools by test scores in place, a practice that is used to justify public school closures and privatizations as charter schools. The bill has passed the Assembly and is now in committee in the state Senate.
Jia Lee, Green Lt. Governor candidate, calls on Senate to Reject Bill on Teacher Evaluations
Jia Lee, a New York City school teacher and the Green Party candidate for Lt. Governor, called today for the State Senate to reject the bill (S8301 / A10475) on state school assessments and teacher evaluations that has already passed the Assembly. The bill, expected to be voted upon in Senate committee this week, has been promoted by the NYS United Teachers.
“This bill is all smokes and mirrors. It does not eliminate using student scores on standardized tests to evaluate teachers. Instead, it just makes the use of such scores subject to collective bargaining. It keeps the ranking of schools by test scores in place,” said Lee.
Lee said that the ranking of schools by test scores is used to justify public school closures and privatizations as charter schools. Lee said that the main reason why schools fail is poverty and a lack of adequate education funding. 82% of schools closed are in high poverty communities. 59% are in predominantly Black and Brown communities while only 4% are in predominantly white communities.
“If the goal is to improve the quality of our education system, we should address the systematic underfunding of our schools by $4.2 billion. This underfunding has led to the loss of veteran, experienced educators; custodial staff and basic supplies, leaving us with crumbling infrastructures. We have lost physical education, arts and libraries, special education, and English as a New Language programs. While more resources are devoted to administration," Lee added.
"If we want to improve public education, we have to address our policies that results in income inequality and segregation, including access to affordable housing, healthcare, and a livable wage," Lee concluded.
Hey, Cuomo, Leave Those Kids Alone
The Indypendent (New York City), June 4, 2018
by Peter Rugh
“As teachers, we’re trained to look at the entire child, but as soon as we enter the institution of the Department of Education, we’re suddenly compliance managers,” says Jia Lee. An opt-out parent and a teachers union activist, Lee has worked as a special education instructor at various New York City public schools for 17 years. She is running for lieutenant governor as a Green Party candidate. “The pressure is on the teacher and the administrators to make sure test scores are high,” she says....
“Really, the test scores are indicating where there are high pockets of poverty and inequity,” says Lee, rather than how well students are being instructed. She notes that there are no state standards for how charter schools evaluate their instructors. They are not compelled to use SGP.
And yet students at charter schools tend to outperform their public school peers. The reason for this, Lee argues, is because tests are often charter schools’ primary focus of instruction and because charters, which typically enroll students through a lottery system, use disciplinary measures to weed out problematic pupils. Forty-two percent of all student suspensions in New York City occurred at charter schools, although they contain only 7 percent of the city’s overall student population, according to an analysis conducted by the Atlantic based on 2014 data....
Public schools, Lee says, “are not in the business of pushing students out. We work really hard to educate all of our students, no matter what.”
... “You can’t say you believe in public schools when you aren’t funding them equitably,” Lee said.
Posted May 31, 2018 9:57 AM
Hawkins Releases Statement on Fiscal Policy; Continues Fast in Solidarity with Displaced 85 Bowery Tenants on a Hunger Strike
For immediate release, May 31, 2018
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for governor of New York, is fasting again today with tenants displaced from 85 Bowery who are on a three-day hunger strike outside City Hall in New York City.
Hawkins was disgusted yesterday to see the city, which gave the tenants a permit to conduct their hunger strike on the sidewalk outside City Hall, revoked its permit to allow a couple of port-a-potties the tenants paid for to be placed on the sidewalk during the three-day hunger strike.
“It just shows the De Blasio administration has no respect for working-class tenants who are being driven out of the city by the conversion of affordable housing to luxury units in buildings like 85 Bowery. De Blasio is more concerned to please the real estate landlord and developer interests who finance his political campaigns. He’s no progressive,” Hawkins said.
Hawkins also released his unpublished response to Richard Brodsky’s Albany Times Union column asking gubernatorial candidates for their proposals on fiscal policy in light of higher than expected state tax revenues:
Video: Green Party Gov Nominee Says ‘We Have More Leverage’
City Limits, May 31, 2018
By Jarrett Murphy
BRIC-TV
Hawkins, a Syracuse resident, is making his third bid for governor.
Between April 2014 and April of this year, the number of active registered Democratic voters in New York State grew 3.6 percent. Registration in the Republican party edged up about three-tenths of a percent. The Conservative and Working Families Parties both shrank, as did the Independence Party.
The Green Party, meanwhile, saw its registration leap 22 percent.
It’s hard to say why the Green Party’s membership—at 26,500, it’s still very small in the context of the state’s 11.3 million active voters—has increased that much since the last state election cycle. Maybe the Bernie Sanders candidacy made the Green’s brand of “ecological socialism” more popular, or maybe the matchup of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump made the major parties more toxic.
Posted May 30, 2018 6:00 PM
Why Our Green Parties Haven't Taken Off
Black Agenda Report, May 30, 2018
The biggest thing it gets right is its adamant insistence on independence from the two ruling class parties. They know you cannot ride to freedom on Pharaoh's chariot. That’s vitally important. The best among them, like Howie Hawkins, the current Green candidate for NY governor have also preached for years that a sustainable Green Party has to be built on a dues-based membership, with all officers directly responsible to the members who pay those dues.
by Bruce Dixon
With most Americans agreeing with Greens on most issues, why doesn't the Green Party grow?
Killian to run for Lt. Gov.
Yonkers Times, May 30, 2018
A recent Quinnipiac poll has Cuomo with a 57 to 26 percent lead over Molinaro, but Cuomo will have to deal with a Democratic primary challenge from actress-activist Cynthia Nixon. Cuomo leads Nixon among Democrats by a 50 to 28 percent margin. If Nixon, who has received the endorsement from the Working Families Party, decides to run in November regardless of the outcome of the September Democratic primary, a three-way race between Nixon, Molinaro and Cuomo currently polls at: Cuomo – 40 percent, Molinaro – 23 percent, and Nixon – 20 percent, with 17 percent undecided.
Four years ago, former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino lost to Cuomo by a 54 to 40 percent margin, with Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins getting 5 percent of the vote.
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Laity in the World
The laity have a special and primary role in the world, where they have distinct competence and presence: they are called to witness in the way they live their daily lives and to explicitly share their faith with others.
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Lay people are the Church's presence within the world (the "temporal order") since they live and work within it. They are called to be salt and leaven, changing the world from inside it.
The laity are the Church's experts on the world and act out this competence through their vocation.
The laity seek to change the world in two interconnected ways: by the witness of the way they live their daily lives and by sharing their faith with others.
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Whether evangelizing through the witness of living or by sharing one's faith more directly, the laity has more of an opportunity to spread the Gospel than the less than 1% of the Church that is ordained or religious.
It is the special vocation of the laity to seek the kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing them according to God's will. They live in the world, in each and every one of the world's occupations and callings and in the ordinary circumstances of social and family life.... There they are called by God to contribute to the sanctification of the world from within, like leaven, in the spirit of the Gospel, by fulfilling their own particular duties.
The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
(Lumen Gentium)
[The laity] exercise the apostolate in fact by their activity directed to the evangelization and sanctification of men and to the penetrating and perfecting of the temporal order through the spirit of the Gospel. In this way, their temporal activity openly bears witness to Christ and promotes the salvation of men. Since the laity, in accordance with their state of life, live in the midst of the world and its concerns, they are called by God to exercise their apostolate in the world like leaven, with the ardor of the spirit of Christ.
Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity, 2
(Apostolicam Actuositatem)
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...the laity are uniquely present in and to the world and so bear a privileged position to build the Kingdom of God there.
Called and Gifted: The American Catholic Laity
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In this way the lay person engages himself wholly and actively in the reality of the temporal order and effectively assumes his role in conducting the affairs of this order. At the same time, as a living member and witness of the Church, he renders the Church present and active in the midst of temporal affairs.
Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (Apostolicam Actuositatem), 29
The laity must take up the renewal of the temporal order as their own special obligation. Led by the light of the Gospel and the mind of the Church and motivated by Christian charity, they must act directly and in a definite way in the temporal sphere.
Christian service in the world is represented in a preeminent way by the laity. It is sometimes called the “ministry of the laity” and balances the concept of ministry found in the ecclesial ministerial services. Because of lay persons, Christian service or ministry broadly understood includes civic and public activity, response to the imperatives of peace and justice, and resolution of social, political, and economic conflicts, especially as they influence the poor, oppressed and minorities.
The whole Church faces unprecedented situations in the contemporary world, and lay people are at the cutting edge of these new challenges. It is they who engage directly in the task of relating Christian values and practices to complex questions, such as those of business ethics, political choice, economic security, quality of life, cultural development and family planning. Really new situations, especially in the realm of social justice, call for creative responses. We know that the Spirit moves among all the People of God, prompting them according to their particular gifts and offices, to discern anew the signs of the times and to interpret them boldly in light of the Gospel. Lay women and men are in a unique position to offer this service.
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MARK KONYE
Mark Konye was born on 8th March 2001 in Niskyunia, New York and as of now (2019) Konye is 18 years old. Much about his educational background and where he attended school is not clear but some
information points that he attended Shenendehowa High school. The star prefers keeping his life private
and on his twitter and Instagram handles there is not much information about his personal life. Mark
Konye is an American citizen by birth.
He is known for his style of rap and a tweet he made about his
mother and went viral. Music career Mark Konye started his music career back in the year 2017 when he released his first album no water over blood. The album was released on 29th
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His first Album had 12 tracks and one of his most successful single from the album was 5k.Mark Konye’s
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motivated to do another Album. A year later, Konye released his second album which was also received
with positive acclaim. The album humble king was of hip hop/ rap genre just like his first album but this
time the album was recorded at Konye recording Entertainment. The album was released in August 29th.
In 2019 Mark Konye continued to release banger after banger. First he released shut it down ft. King
Konye on February 11th and then a day later he released another banger featuring the same artist,
Chemistry. The official video of the hit 5k was released in April and available on YouTube.
Mark Konye is set to release his third album on June 7th 2019. The album is titled Harder times. Mark
Konye was invited on Good Morning America together with his mum after a tweet he shared on twitter
about his mum went viral. The tweet was “yesterday my mom completed her first 5k she’s been training
since September, she was so nervous because she thought she couldn’t do it. She ended up being the
last but everyone cheered for her at the finish line and she did such an amazing job. She is adorable.”
This tweet sparked a lot of love from the twitter fraternity and a lot of people were inspired by what a
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Home Security Big Blue Brings Better Code Security to Rational
Big Blue Brings Better Code Security to Rational
IBM is combining static and dynamic code analysis thanks to tools it acquired from Ounce Labs. The move promises to help fight application security threats.
As application security threats continue to grow, the need for greater code quality analysis is critical. One of the key tools in the fight for better and more secure code quality is a technique known as static analysis, which is an area that IBM (NYSE: IBM) jumped into in 2009 with the acquisition of Ounce Labs.
Now six months after the acquisition announcement, the Ounce Labs static analysis tools are part of the IBM Rational family of products, which also include the AppScan product line for dynamic analysis. Ounce Labs static analysis technology has been rebranded as the IBM Rational AppScan Source Edition. With the integration of the Ounce tools, IBM now has both static and dynamic analysis capabilities in its effort to more thoroughly secure application code.
"In our discussions with IBM running up to the acquisition, it was clear that IBM was continuing their success on the dynamic analysis side with the AppScan products," Jack Danahy, former CTO of Ounce Labs and now a security executive within IBM Rational's CTO office, told InternetNews.com. "They were hearing from customers that we have broad language coverage and are used in some large deployments. So IBM concluded that it would make sense to jump ahead and combine their muscle in terms of customer confidence and combine the two technologies -- static and dynamic analysis."
Read the full story at eSecurityPlanet.com:
IBM Adds Code Quality Analysis to Rational
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Home Software FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve
FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve
FreeBSD has long been a highly-available operating architecture and that's a key theme in the 9.0 release as well. One such new features in FreeBSD 9.0 is the Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework.
"The ability to do realtime replication to another box is very important to the workflows of many entities that do storage," Josh Paetzel, FreeBSD release engineering team member told InternetNews.com. "This feature means that you can have ZFS and realtime replication, which makes FreeBSD a viable solution to the problemsets that many entities face."
Another new feature is ZFS version 28, which updates the ZFS filesystem support and capabilities present in FreeBSD. ZFS version 28 includes support for data deduplication and triple parity RAIDZ (raidz3). ZFS began as part of Sun's OpenSolaris effort and made multiple advances under FreeBSD 8.x releases as well.
According to Paetzel, the FreeBSD 9.0 release will be a step-up for existing FreeBSD users.
"FreeBSD 9 should outperform FreeBSD 8 for many workflows, as well as better support for multicore platforms and improved networking," Paetzel. " A new NFS stack, newer version of ZFS, improvements in CAM, Softupdate Journalling...the list goes on and on."
Read the full story at ServerWatch:
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist
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Here are the Major Winners from the 2015 Emmy Awards
by Nick Hershey on September 21, 2015 CelebsMovie/TV NewsTV The Emmys TV Shows
The 2015 Emmy Awards aired last night in celebration of the past year of television. Andy Samberg led fans through the night as host, cracking wise and keeping things light, and Tracy Morgan made a return as he continues to recover from his near-fatal car accident. Game of Thrones led the way with 12 awards, winning Best Drama for the first time in the show’s history, while Veep and Olive Kitteridge also won multiple categories and helped bring HBO 43 awards on the night.
Here’s a quick rundown of the major category winners (in red) from last night’s Emmys:
Downton Abbey (PBS)
Game Of Thrones (HBO)
Homeland (Showtime)
House Of Cards (Netflix)
Mad Men (AMC)
Orange Is The New Black (Netflix)
Louie (FX)
Modern Family (ABC)
Parks And Recreation (NBC)
Silicon Valley (HBO)
Transparent (Amazon)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix)
Veep (HBO)
Kyle Chandler, Bloodline
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
Taraji P. Henson, Empire
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, black-ish
Louis C.K., Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Will Forte, Last Man on Earth
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Amy Schumer, Inside Amy Schumer
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline
Jim Carter, Downton Abbey
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Michael Kelly, House of Cards
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones
Christina Hendricks, Mad Men
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Niecy Nash, Getting On
Julie Bowen, Modern Family
Allison Janney, Mom
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory
Gaby Hoffmann, Transparent
Jane Krakowski, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Adam Driver, Girls
Keegan-Michael Key, Key & Peele
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tony Hale, Veep
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The author Nick Hershey
Nick was born and raised in Amish country, has a beard, but isn’t Amish. He’s a fan of winter as long as he’s at the top of a mountain with a board under his feet. He’s an avid sports fan, movie junkie, tv bum, and music enthusiast who still purchases CDs for some reason.
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ETS Home > Disabilities and Health-related Needs Home > Disability Documentation Guidelines > Intellectual Disabilities
Documenting Intellectual Disabilities
Download Guidelines for Documentation of Intellectual Disabilities
Guidelines for Documentation of Intellectual Disabilities in Adolescents and Adults
Requirements for Disability Documentation
Appendix A: DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)
Appendix B: Clinical Instruments in Common Use For Documenting Intellectual Disabilities in Adolescents and Adults
Appendix C: Recommended Resources for Consumers
Appendix D: Resources and Organizations
ETS is committed to serving test takers with intellectual disabilities (ID) and providing them with services and reasonable accommodations. An intellectual disability is diagnosed by limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. An ID is lifelong and has its onset before age 18. Intellectual functioning is assessed by a comprehensive measure of intelligence, and adaptive behavior is assessed by a standardized measure of three domains: conceptual, social and practical.
As stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), American Psychiatric Association, 2013, "The conceptual (academic) domain involves competence in memory, language, reading, writing, math reasoning, acquisition of practical knowledge, problem solving and judgment in novel situations, among others. The social domain involves awareness of others' thoughts, feelings and experiences; empathy; interpersonal communication skills; friendship abilities; and social judgment, among others. The practical domain involves learning and self-management across life settings, including personal care, job responsibilities, money management, recreation, self-management of behavior, and school and work task organization, among others." (p 33.)
Identification of the evaluator and client
A qualified evaluator has comprehensive training and experience in diagnosing intellectual disabilities and in recommending academic accommodations.
Include the name, title, credentials, and signature of the licensed qualified professional. All reports must be written in English, typed or printed on professional letterhead and dated.
Include the test taker's identifying information: name, date of birth, and date of evaluation.
Include the source of the referral and the reason for referral.
Recency of documentation
Documentation should have been completed or updated within the past five years.
A documentation update is a report by a qualified professional that includes a summary of the original disability documentation, as well as additional clinical evidence necessary to establish the test taker's current eligibility and the appropriateness of the requested accommodations.
An update typically includes:
verification of the continuing strengths and weaknesses identified in prior evaluations
a discussion of current impact on academic performance in general and test taking in particular
a history of the types of accommodations received and used
a discussion of the appropriateness of the requested accommodations
The updated evaluation need not include IQ measures if the previous IQ measures were obtained using the WAIS-IV, WJ-III Cognitive Battery, or another comparable adult measure.
A comprehensive history that includes;
A history of presenting problems associated with the disability as well as information on the test taker's medical, developmental, educational, and family history. The age at which the disability was first apparent should also be indicated.
Relevant medical and medication history, including the individual's current medication regimen as well as both positive responses to medication and adverse side effects of medication.
A description of the test taker's current behavioral adjustment across multiple settings (e.g., home, school and place of employment).
Information regarding involvement with or support from agencies such as vocational rehabilitation, community mental health services and developmental disabilities organizations.
A diagnostic assessment that includes:
evidence that intellectual functioning was assessed by a comprehensive measure of intelligence and that the individual is functioning approximately two standard deviations or more below the mean when compared with same-age peers (Appendix A: DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Intellectual Disability)
evidence that adaptive behavior was assessed by a nationally normed standardized measure of adaptive behavior and that the individual is functioning approximately two standard deviations or more below the mean when compared with same-age peers on either (a) a score for one or more of the following types of adaptive behaviors: conceptual, social and practical; or (b) an overall score on a standardized measure of conceptual social, and practical skills (Appendix B: Clinical Instruments in Common Use for Documenting Intellectual Disabilities)
all subtest, index, and cluster scores as both standard scores and percentile ranks
Relevant observations of behavior during testing
These observations help to form a diagnostic impression when combined with the clinician's professional judgment and expertise.
Current impact on academic performance, employment and other daily activities
Documentation should include evidence that academic skills are substantially limited as determined by nationally normed standardized measures of achievement (Appendix B).
Assessments of basic skills (word identification/decoding, spelling, calculation), application (reading comprehension, written expression, mathematics reasoning), and fluency are recommended. Include evidence of cognitive (e.g., executive functioning, memory) and linguistic (e.g., receptive and expressive language) deficits that could aid eligibility determination and support recommended accommodations.
Diagnostic conclusions that should include:
at least one specific diagnosis, based on the latest edition of the DSM or the ICD, indicating the level of severity of the disability
an interpretative summary that should rule out, to the extent possible, other potential factors that may alter the expression of the disability, including cross-cultural issues, English as a second language, lack of educational opportunity, and/or medical conditions that may mimic a disability
Specific recommendations and accommodations
Include a listing of requested accommodations that are supported by objective evidence.
Establish a link between the requested accommodations and the manifested symptoms of the disorder that is pertinent to a standardized testing situation.
Using unfamiliar accommodations for the first time on a high-stakes test may not be helpful to an individual and is not recommended.
Additional sources of information
Other sources of documentation can be used to corroborate symptoms of the disorder and support the need for the requested accommodation(s). Relevant information from these sources should be summarized by the evaluator in the current disability documentation and included as an attachment by the applicant. Depending on the degree and scope of the information it contains, a school-based document such as an Individualized Education Program (IEP), a Section 504 Plan, or transition documentation can be included as part of the documentation packet. Prior evaluation reports should be reviewed by the evaluator and summarized in the history section or attached to the documentation packet. Teachers' comments from any of these documents may be relevant to the need for accommodations. Such documents may provide useful supplemental information about a test taker's educational history as well as her or his history of eligibility for services, limitations to academic achievement and accommodation use.
Other supplemental forms of documentation may include evidence of a reduced course load or the number of incompletes or dropped courses in school, a copy of an accommodation letter to faculty, a letter from a content area teacher, and official scores on national standardized tests (e.g., SAT® or ACT®) taken with or without accommodations. A detailed letter from a college disability services provider, a vocational rehabilitation counselor or a human resources professional describing current limitations and use of accommodations also can be helpful to supplement comprehensive documentation.
A personal letter from the applicant in his/her own words explaining academic difficulties and coping strategies may be helpful. The applicant's personal letter should highlight any relevant additional information that further supports the current need for accommodations. The personal letter should not exceed one page and may include information regarding the date of the initial diagnosis, accommodations history in a variety of settings, a statement explaining the need for the accommodations that are presently requested, and any additional supporting information for the requested accommodations. In some instances, additional insights regarding the students' disability and use of accommodations could be provided by the disability services coordinator at their campus.
ETS will determine the adequacy of the submitted documentation on a case-by-case basis and will base accommodation decisions on the totality of the information provided.
Appendix A:DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria for Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Developmental Disorder)
Intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) is a disorder with onset during the developmental period that includes both intellectual and adaptive functioning deficits in conceptual, social and practical domains. The following three criteria must be met:
Deficits in intellectual functions, such as reasoning, problem solving, planning, abstract thinking, judgment, academic learning, and learning from experience, confirmed by both clinical assessment and individualized, standardized intelligence testing.
Deficits in adaptive functioning that result in failure to meet developmental and socio-cultural standards for personal independence and social responsibility. Without ongoing support, the adaptive deficits limit functioning in one or more activities of daily life, such as communication, social participation, and independent living, across multiple environments, such as home, school, work and community.
Onset of intellectual and adaptive deficits during the developmental period.
The diagnostic term intellectual disability is the equivalent term for the ICD-11 diagnosis of intellectual developmental disorders. Although the term intellectual disability is used throughout this manual, both terms are used in the title to clarify relationships with other classification systems. Moreover, a federal statute in the United States (Public Law 111-256, Rosa's Law) replaces the term mental retardation with intellectual disability, and research journals use the term intellectual disability. Thus, intellectual disability is the term in common use by medical, educational and other professions and by the lay public and advocacy groups.
Coding note:
The ICD-9-CM code for intellectual disability (intellectual developmental disorder) is 319, which is assigned regardless of the severity specifier. The ICD-10-CM code depends on the severity specifier (see below).
Specify current severity:
(F70) Mild
(F71) Moderate
(F72) Severe
(F73) Profound
The various levels of severity are defined on the basis of adaptive functioning and not IQ scores because it is adaptive functioning that determines the level of supports required. Moreover, IQ measures are less valid in the lower end of the IQ range.
Reprinted with permission from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition, (Copyright 2013). American Psychiatric Association. All rights reserved. (see p. 33)
Tests of Intellectual Ability
Cognitive Assessment System Das-Naglieri (CAS)
Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence – Second Edition (CTONI-2)
Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT)
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test – Second Edition (KBIT-2)
Leiter International Performance Scale – Third Edition (Leiter-3)
Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS)
Slosson Intelligence Test – Revised Third Edition (SIT-R3)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales – Fifth Edition (SB5)
Test of Nonverbal Intelligence – Fourth Edition (TONI-4)
Universal Nonverbal Intelligent Test (UNIT)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV)
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children – Fourth Edition (WISC-IV)
Woodcock-Johnson III Normative Update Tests of Cognitive Abilities (NU)
Adaptive Functioning Scales
Comprehensive Test of Adaptive Behavior – School 2nd Edition (ABS-S:2)
Adaptive Behavior Assessment System – Second Edition (ABAS – II)
Comprehensive Test of Adaptive Behavior (CTAB)
Scales of Independent Behavior Revised (SIB-R)
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, Second Edition (Vineland-II)
Achievement Measures
Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT-5)
Scholastic Abilities Test for Adults (SATA)
Stanford Test of Academic Skills (TASK)
Test of Written Language (TOWL-4)
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-III
Wide Range Achievement Test, 4 Edition (WRAT-4)
Woodcock Reading Mastery – Third Edition
Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery-III
For assistance in finding a qualified professional
contact the school counselor or disability services coordinator at the institution you
attend(ed)
discuss your future plans with your vocational rehabilitation counselor employer or school counselor or disability services coordinator at the institution you attend(ed) or plan to attend
refer to the attached list of resources and organizations (Appendix D)
In selecting a qualified professional:
Ask what his or her credentials are.
Ask what experience he or she has had working with adolescents or adults with intellectual disabilities.
Ask if he or she has ever worked with the service provider at your institution.
In working with the professional:
Take a copy of this guideline to the professional; encourage him or her to clarify questions with the person who provided you with these guidelines.
Provide the evaluator with the weblink for "Tips for evaluators": http://www.ets.org/disabilities/evaluators/tips.
If you were evaluated in the past, bring a copy of your original documentation to the evaluator. Provide the evaluator with copies of any previous assessments and available educational records (e.g., report cards, transcripts, standardized test scores, etc.). This will assist your evaluator in understanding your educational history and guide the scope and direction of this re-evaluation.
Be prepared to be forthcoming, thorough and honest with requested information.
Know that professionals must maintain confidentiality with respect to your records and testing information.
As follow-up to the assessment by the professional:
Request a written copy of the assessment report.
Request the opportunity to discuss the results and recommendations.
Request additional resources if you need them.
Maintain a personal file of your records and reports.
Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
107 Commerce Center Drive, Suite 204
Huntersville, NC 28078
http://www.AHEAD.org
An excellent organization to contact for individuals with disabilities who are planning to attend college training programs, workshops and conferences.
American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
501 3rd Street, NW Suite 200
National Center on Secondary Education and Transition
Institute on Community Integration
6 Pattee Hall
150 Pillsbury Drive SE
4340 East West Highway, Suite 402
1-866-331-NASP — Toll free
TTY:
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Grant Morrison’s Superhuman Mysticism: Comic Books and Writing the Real
While I was putting together this essay it was sheer coincidence that BoingBoing published an interview with Grant Morrison, “Laughter can banish any and all demons.” It struck me as a playful wink from the principalities that this was as good a time as any to write a piece on Morrison’s gnostic, evolutionary mysticism (also,... / READ MORE /
/ Jeremy Johnson /
While I was putting together this essay it was sheer coincidence that BoingBoing published an interview with Grant Morrison, “Laughter can banish any and all demons.” It struck me as a playful wink from the principalities that this was as good a time as any to write a piece on Morrison’s gnostic, evolutionary mysticism (also, incidentally, Morrison is currently working on a SyFy T.V. pilot for Happy!). When reality seems to be having a conversation with your inner thoughts—when subjectivity and the “outer” world collapses into an uncanny, singular experience—you know you’re on the right track.
But, as you’ll see, you have to (t)read carefully. Here it goes.
Who is Grant Morrison?
Grant Morrison is a Scottish comic book writer and musician, well known for bestselling comics like All Star Superman, JLA (Justice League of America), Batman and Robin, experimental comics (and, as we’ll see, deeply magical and psychedelic) like The Invisibles, graphic novels like Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, and the visionary art fueled take on the the myth Mahabharata, 18 Days. He was part of the so-called “British Invasion” of comic book creators, along with Neil Gaiman (Sandman), and Alan Moore (Watchmen) in the late 80s.
Any of the aforementioned comics and graphic novels would be excellent introductions to his style and work. Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods is a well done documentary where Morrison explains his philosophy as a comic creator. “Talking with Gods” is apt. Like a modern-day iconographer (artists, particularly in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, who would depict images of Christ and the saints), Morrison takes a position of reverence when working with superheroes, especially Superman (See this short documentary on All Star Superman and try not catch those feels).
This isn’t incidental. As Ben Saunders discusses in Do the Gods Wear Capes?: Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes, the polytheism of Hellenistic antiquity has found a way to sneak back into modern consciousness. Not through religion, but Krypton. Characters like Superman and Batman are only the most obvious of the modern myths. A whole pantheon of caped deities and demigods have leapt from the pages of comic books and onto the big screen. These gods are much like their predecessors, but they also have their own tales to tell.
From Nolan’s Batman, to The Avengers, to Guardians of the Galaxy, comic books and graphic novels have truly arrived as a dominant medium.
But the big question is: why? What is it about comic books, and superheroes, that attracts us so potently? Back to Grant Morrison, superhero iconographer. He has the equally big answer: superheroes are here like never before, not because they are looking back to the age of the gods, but because they are looking forward. Superheroes are a promise from the future.
Morrison understands these caped, superpower wielding weirdoes at the edges of society as daring to imagine the tremendous, transpersonal potentials of the human spirit. The human form, transformed, by mutation or evolutionary jump (take X-Men, for example). Leaping from magic to mysticism, superheroes give us myths about saving the world, traveling through higher dimensions (like Dr. Strange) and saving ourselves from equally tremendous and unimaginable dangers. They are at once deeply humbling and utterly inspiring, calling us to, in a sense, divinize ourselves.
Jean Grey as Phoenix, The New X-Men
Stephen Greenblatt’s coining phrase, “self-fashioning” was used to describe the rising mercantile class of the Renaissance period, but the idea has since come to represent the spirit of Renaissance idealism, inspired by the Neoplatonism of antiquity, of self-perfection and the humanistic belief in our limitless potential. In Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance, the anthology’s writers compare Morrison to a kind of Renaissance magician. Morrison himself was happy to include this, albeit in a more mystical fashion, through the inclusion of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man (a classic Renaissance text) in the pages of All Star Superman:
“[God, speaking to Adam] But you, constrained by no limits, may determine your nature for yourself, according to your own free will… We have made you neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, that you may, as the free and extraordinary shaper of yourself, fashion yourself in whatever form you prefer.”
Spelling Reality
Perhaps the central idea in Grant Morrison’s work, if we can say there is one, is the belief that reality is more like language. It can be written, “fashioned” in a magical sense if we have the know-how. Words can bend reality into new designs (as we explored in last week’s article on William S. Burroughs), so we must always be careful what we write.
It goes without saying that Morrison’s comics can get, well, very meta. Decades before that was a thing on the internet. A motif he often explores is the relationship that creators have with their creation, and vice versa. Morrison explores the borders between the real and unreal, fiction and non-fiction—between the story and the storyteller is some stranger, higher reality.
It’s multidimensional, sometimes recursive, and always slipstream.
The Filth
Writers will often talk about how their stories are feel like they are discovered, like Tolkien does with Middle Earth, or Ursula K. Le Guin with the anthropological flavor of the Hainish Cycle. What if this is somehow true? Can our four dimensional reality reach down into two dimensions? Can they reach back up?
This idea gets moved out of the abstract and into Morrison’s life with the creation of The Invisibles, which he admits is an intentional act of autobiographical, literary magic. But what happens when the story you’re writing becomes the life you’re living?
“The Invisibles was a six-year long sigil in the form of an occult adventure story which consumed and recreated my life during the period of its composition and execution.” — Grant Morrison
The BoingBoing interviewer stated in his introduction that reading The Invisibles, “was a monumental experience contributing to my own seismic breakthroughs about the potential of my consciousness in this vast mysterious universe.” There is something strange about reading it—indeed, there was something strange about writing it.
It all started when Morrison jumped off a bridge. To be clear, he was bungee jumping, and perfectly safe, but he used the occasional to kickoff the writing for The Invisibles. He was performing a magical act. In the spirit of self-fashioning, Morrison promotes a form of “pop magic,” or “chaos magic” through sigil making. Sigils are abstracted “squiggles” that symbolize an intent or desire. In a moment of intense passion, emotion, or some form of intensified experience (this can be anything from ‘magical masturbation’ to riding a roller coaster), the magical practitioner focuses on their sigil to “activate” it. In Morrison’s case, it was bungee jumping. (Here’s a video where he describes how to do it, and he encourages you to go ahead and, well, try it out.)
He was trying to invoke the promise he gave to his readers, that The Invisibles comic would give them “the secret of the universe.”
Boy did he get an answer.
I find I need to write myself into this story a little—because I found that I was already a part of it, somehow, too. I was riding a rough storm, a dark night of sorts, when I picked up The Invisibles for the first time in late 2012/early 2013. I’ll save the sordid details for another essay, but suffice to say I encountered a series of disorienting synchronicities as I read through book, one of which involved a certain line from the Bhagavad Gita getting stuck in my head all day prior to coming home: “I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” (Spoken by Oppenheimer at the test site of an atomic bomb). That night, I opened the next issue of The Invisibles and there it was: a mushroom cloud. And there was Oppenheimer. “I am become death,” the comic said, “destroyer of worlds.”
I didn’t touch the book for the rest of the night. It was simply too weird. It’s not every day that a book starts talking back to you.
Another, strange “intersection point” as William S. Burroughs would call it, was when I got to the point in there story where the protagonist, King Mob, undergoes torture. He is given a sinister drug, “Key 17”, which forces the victim to experience whatever words they see in front of them as totally real. (Again, the whole language-is-reality idea.) King Mob is given the words “diseased face.” In the mirror his face appears swollen and infected with who-knows-what. While reading The Invisibles around the same time I managed to get my tooth impacted, swelling up the right side of my face and inducing a minor medical emergency.
Suffice to say that The Invisibles was no ordinary comic book read for me, but like Morrison’s bungee jump, I bounced back—hopefully transformed for the better. Read on though, if you dare. It gets weirder.
“Is All Now Love”
First a few words about the actual plot of The Invisibles. It involves a secret society of occult superheroes, the Invisibles, battling powerful dark forces, the Archons of the Outer Church, who want to take over our reality and enslave the human race. There are two universes—Universe A and Universe B—representing the good and the bad. Our universe is a kind of holographic image between the two. (As a minor footnote: Philip K. Dick explores this same idea in VALIS. This may be Morrison’s inspiration.) The main characters are King Mob (team leader), Lord Fanny (a transgender Brazilian shaman), Boy (former NYPD officer), Ragged Robbin (telepath), and Jack Frost (a Liverpool kid who literally might be the next Buddha).
It is, in other words, a deeply gnostic tale in that it hits all the beats: gnostic superheroes in a cosmic battle against the twisted archons.
Morrison tells us that he literally (pun intended) put himself into the comic—King Mob being his superhero equivalent. The comic, itself, he understands to be one big sigil—a “hypersigil”—intended to induce changes and transformations in its readership and the larger culture. It’s a hyper dimensional, initiative, psychedelic, time traveling, gnostic fueled eschatological ride. None of that is hyperbole on my part. Really.
“The world of The Invisibles was our own. I took care to keep it current, with the names of bands and movies and references to events of the day… The voodoo doll universe I was making needed to map our own closely to allow me to slip between them across the permeable page surface.” (Supergods, Morrison 259)
It’s impossible to go on now without explaining the “answer” he received to the “secret of the universe.” It was while traveling in Kathmandu that he had what Jeffrey Kripal describes in Mutants and Mystics as a paranormal encounter. “The novel was consciously designed to conjure and effect” this religious experience, he writes. “Words here are power-substances, literal spellings in their own right.”
So what was The Invisibles conjuring? What was the “secret of the universe” that the book tries to impart to the reader?
It’s best to let Morrison explain the visionary encounter himself. He was just settling in to work on some writing for the The Invisibles and a commissioned article. “Then it all kicked off.” This is from his autobiography, also worth reading, Supergods.
“I looked up from my notebook to see the Shwayambunath temple rearrange itself like a Transformer into some kind of chrome lionlike configuration with exhaust pipes and tubular spirit conduits, seeming to blast its raw holiness into the sky as raging searchlight storms. Overwhelmed, I stumbled back downstairs in the grip of an immense seismic shift in awareness that I could not, hand on heart, attribute to the sole action of the tiny piece of hashish I’d ingested…
I began to lose contact with the physical reality of the room, seeing in its place cranky ancient streets, and leaning ceramic houses haunted by gnomish presences…
…Now there were what I can describe only as “presences” emerging from the walls and furniture. Rippling, dribbling blobs of pure holographic meta-material angels or extraterrestrials. They were made of what might have been mercury or flowing liquid chrome and informed me that I had caused this to happen and now had to deal with the consequences of my actions. Where did I want to go?”
All of this, mind you, went into The Invisibles.
Morrison describes an encounter with sentient “ultraviolet neon tubes” from Alpha Centauri. These went into All Star Superman.
“Okay,” they said. “This is what you wanted. The secret of the universe.”
I was turned around, is the simplest way of thinking about it…
I had fully entered a space that felt both vaulted and enclosed, like an immense cathedral but also infinite in horizon. It was as if infinity and eternity could be contained and bottled inside something much bigger than both. The space was profound azure blue in all directions, laced with bright silver lines and grid traceries that came and went, ghost blueprints zipping up and down an invisible monofilament scaffolding all around me… Stranger yet, my arrival in this plce felt like a homecoming. All the cares and fears of the mortal world were gone, replaced by the hum of immaculate industry, divine creativity.
I was a mercurial hypersprite too and remembered that I always had been… There was time and space, but those were lower dimensions, useful for creating worlds in the same way that comic artists drew living worlds on paper. Here was an unending perfect day of absorbing eternal creation.
The full encounter, heck, the whole book deserves to be read, so pick up a copy and do so. Morrison goes on to describe how this chamber of infinity was, somehow, a higher dimension of reality. One that was (was, is?) beyond time. In fact, the beings in this dimension used our dimension to grow experiences in. “There was time and space, but those were lower dimensions, useful for creating worlds in the same way that comic artists drew living worlds on paper.”
Zing.
In this higher dimension, time was not linear but happening all at once, “constantly moving through itself.” Time was used to grow things,
“a kind of incubator, and all life on Earth was one thing, a single weird anemone-like mega-Hydra with its single-celled immortal root in the Precambrian tides and its billion of sensory branches, from ferns to people, with every single detail having its own part to play in the life cycle of a slowly complexifying, increasingly self-aware super -organism. It was as if I had been shown an infant god, attached to a placental support system called Earth…”
Morrison tells us he was told to take up his duties as a “mid-wife” to this super organism. To ensure it made it through the larval stage.
After this experience, he describes being able to see objects as “time-worms.”
“I could see the shapes of things and of people as the late plain surfaces of far more complex and elaborate processes occurring in a higher dimensional location. Every human life became a trailing extension through time, not just four-limbed and two-eyed but multi-limbed and billion eyed.”
Like a vast, cosmic, Hindu deity, Kripal points out.
So, let’s come back down for a moment. What happens when you channel an experience like this into a piece of art—let alone a comic book, a graphic novel—with the explicit intent to carry some of that cosmic, visionary state into the experience of your readers? Well, you get The Invisibles. A hypersigil for pop culture, seeping into the water supply of the collective unconscious like some noospheric DMT.
Can books become like holy sites, charged with spiritual potency? “The Invisibles is the ritual, is the spell, and the collaboration of the readership in that is important too.” Nearly twenty years on, its readers today are a part of this collective, magical act.
What is the “Super Story?”
Kripal points out that comic book writers and science fiction authors—like Philip K. Dick or Robert Anton Wilson and even William S. Burroughs and Timothy Leary, who developed versions of this “cosmic evolutionary larva” concept—are implicating all of us in a new “super story.” A cosmic mythology for a time of tremendous political, spiritual, and psychological upheaval. Cosmic creation and destruction are happening all at once.
Our myths are starting to reflect the kind of cosmic, visionary intensification of consciousness needed to respond to an equally baffling and hyper dimensional crisis.
We need to awaken to the multi-armed, billion-eyed super organism we really are if we want to survive the cascading crisis we face in what scientists now call the Anthropocene.
We need to realize we are magical beings, and that reality is more like the imagination: creative, divine, and something beyond the dualities of “fact” and “fiction,” but something far beyond, and between.
Magic encourages you to take charge of your own life so it confers a sense of agency and self-control that can seem lacking at times like these when sort of epic, elemental forces seem to have us all at their mercy. Given the options, who wouldn’t prefer to be rampaging around in higher planes, interacting with eternal archetypes and pop culture gods? Who wouldn’t want to bring back ideas that could change the world?
In that interview I discovered while writing this article, Morrison comments on the need for thinking magically in an age of Trump and Brexit.
“Things are malleable around the edges right now, which is good news for magicians.” Reality is collapsing. Real and unreal have become porous membranes, constantly turning inside out. (Fake news, anyone?) “We have the rising tide that is VR and AR tech which will shatter the last of the walls.” This, Morrison argues, is the real apocalypse. The end of the “real” world. It’s terrifying, because with the blurring of the “real” and the “fantastical” come the possibilities for both utopias and nightmares, and everything in between.
The larva is starting to wake up.
It just goes to show: reality is on the side of the magician who knows how to properly navigate what William Blake described as the holy imagination.
So how is this planet, in this universe, going to write its story? What do you say?
Grant Morrison, Supergods
Darragh Greene, Kate Roddy, Grant Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance
Jeffrey Kripal, Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
DON'T MISS THIS ONE: Living in a Mindful Universe: Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
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Jeremy Johnson
Editor @ Revelore Press, Reality Sandwich, Evolve and Ascend. Author of Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness. Consciousness studies scholar exploring integral futurism and emerging culture.
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Experimental Investigations on Microstructural and Mechanical Behavior of Friction Stir Welded Aluminum Matrix Composite
N. Kaushik
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
The welding of materials by applying Friction Stir Welding technique is a new solid-state joining technique. The main advantage of this method compared to the traditional joining process is that it minimizes problem-related to metal resolidification as the method incorporates no melting phase. In this experimental work, the effect of friction stir welding (FSW) technique on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the cast composite matrix AA6063 reinforced with 7wt % SiC particles is studied. Friction stir welding, owing to the simultaneous effect of intense plastic deformation and frictional heat generated throughout welding, had impacts each on the reinforcement agents and the matrix alloy. FSW produced a notable reduction in the size of reinforcement agents and their homogeneous distribution in the weld region. It also induced the grain refinement due to dynamic recrystallization of the aluminum matrix alloy in the weld area. The frictional heat generated during friction stir welding had impacts on the growth, dissolution and reprecipitation of the hardening precipitates. The microstructural changes resulted in improved mechanical properties such as UTS, elongation, and hardness of the joint. A joint efficiency of 98.84% was observed for the welded joint. The XRD and EDX analysis of the welded area confirmed that there was no formation of any other compound due to the frictional heat produced during welding. The SEM fracture morphology of the welded joint revealed that the fracture behavior was changed from ductile to brittle following to FSW.
Aluminum Matrix Composites
Friction Stir Welding
TRANSACTIONS A: Basics
Kaushik, N. (2019). Experimental Investigations on Microstructural and Mechanical Behavior of Friction Stir Welded Aluminum Matrix Composite. International Journal of Engineering, 32(1), 162-170.
N. Kaushik. "Experimental Investigations on Microstructural and Mechanical Behavior of Friction Stir Welded Aluminum Matrix Composite". International Journal of Engineering, 32, 1, 2019, 162-170.
Kaushik, N. (2019). 'Experimental Investigations on Microstructural and Mechanical Behavior of Friction Stir Welded Aluminum Matrix Composite', International Journal of Engineering, 32(1), pp. 162-170.
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Year : 2013 | Volume : 137 | Issue : 6 | Page : 1121-1127
Epidemiological trends of RF/RHD in school children of Shimla in north India
Prakash Chand Negi, Anubhav Kanwar, Renu Chauhan, Sanjeev Asotra, Jarnail Singh Thakur, Ashok Kumar Bhardwaj
Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, India
Date of Submission 09-Sep-2011
Date of Web Publication 4-Jul-2013
Prakash Chand Negi
Professor & Head, Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla 171 001
Background & objectives: There are no active surveillance studies reported from South East Asian Region to document the impact of change in socio-economic state on the prevalence of rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease (RF/RHD) in children. Therefore, we conducted a study to determine the epidemiological trends of RF/RHD in school children of Shimla city and adjoining suburbs in north India and its association with change in socio-economic status.
Methods: Active surveillance studies were conducted in 2007-2008 in urban and rural areas of Shimla, and 15145 school children, aged 5-15 yr were included and identical screening methodology as used in earlier similar survey conducted in 1992-1993 was used. The study samples were selected from schools of Shimla city and adjoining rural areas by multistage stratified cluster sampling method in both survey studies. After a relevant history and clinical examination by trained doctor, echocardiographic evaluation of suspected cases was done. An updated Jones (1992) criterion was used to diagnose cases of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and identical 2D-morphological and Doppler criteria were used to diagnose RHD in both the survey studies. The socio-economic and healthcare transitions of study area were assessed during the study interval period.
Results: Time trends of prevalence of RF/RHD revealed about five-fold decline from 2.98/1000 (95% C.I. 2.24-3.72/1000) in 1992-1993 to 0.59/1000 (95% C.I. 0.22-0.96/1000) in 2007-2008. (P<0.0001). While the prevalence of ARF and RHD with recurrence of activity was 0.176/1000 and 0.53/1000, respectively in 1992-1993, no case of RF was recorded in 2007-2008 study. Prevalence of RF/RHD was about two- fold higher in rural school children than urban school children in both the survey studies (4.42/1000 vs. 2.12/1000) and (0.88/1000 vs. 0.41/1000), respectively. The indices of socio-economic development revealed substantial improvement during this interim period.
Interpretation & conclusions: The prevalence of RF/RHD has declined by five-fold over last 15 yr and appears to be largely contributed by improvement in socio-economic status and healthcare delivery systems. However, the role of change in the rheumatogenic characteristics of the streptococcal stains in the study area over a period of time in decline of RF/RHD cannot be ruled out. Policy interventions to improve living standards, existing healthcare facilities and awareness can go a long way in reducing the morbidity and mortality burden of RF/RHD in developing countries.
Keywords: Environmental factors - GABHS - heart disease - India - prevalence - rheumatic fever - time trends
Negi PC, Kanwar A, Chauhan R, Asotra S, Thakur JS, Bhardwaj AK. Epidemiological trends of RF/RHD in school children of Shimla in north India. Indian J Med Res 2013;137:1121-7
Negi PC, Kanwar A, Chauhan R, Asotra S, Thakur JS, Bhardwaj AK. Epidemiological trends of RF/RHD in school children of Shimla in north India. Indian J Med Res [serial online] 2013 [cited 2020 Jan 22];137:1121-7. Available from: http://www.ijmr.org.in/text.asp?2013/137/6/1121/114429
Rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease (RF/RHD) continues to be the commonest cause of valvular heart disease among children, adolescents and young adults in developing countries [1],[2] . According to WHO, there are 15 million cases of RHD worldwide with 282,000 out of 0.5 million of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) cases developing RHD and 233,000 deaths due to RF/RHD annually [2] . The actual picture might be more serious because of undiagnosed RF/RHD cases and paucity of echocardiographic surveillance in detection of RF/RHD. Moreover, the quality of epidemiological data for reliable estimates of time trends in RF/RHD in developing countries is poor due to lack of prospective active surveillance studies adopting uniform screening methodology [2] . Also, there are no data available on the impact of change in socio-economic and healthcare factors on prevalence trends of RF/RHD in developing countries.
The prevalence of RF/RHD varies from country to country, within different geographical regions in the same country, rural to urban settings and within same region among populations having different level of human development indices [1],[2] . The most striking examples of populations with a higher incidence of RF/RHD in the same geographical region have been the Aboriginals of Australia, Maoris of New Zealand. Though one can also suspect the role of ethnicity in predisposing to ARF and RHD, but studies in above mentioned populations have not shown any such association [3],[4] . These epidemiological observations suggest that somehow environmental factors predispose to increased and rapid transmission of group A beta haemolytic streptococci (GABHS) pharyngitis, thus playing a major role in creating pockets with increased burden of RF/RHD in a region otherwise showing decreased prevalence. Also, GABHS as pathogens are versatile, in having the ability to change their virulence and antigenic characteristics dynamically through genetic recombination of different strains [2] . Moreover, it has also been shown that GABHS are capable of transmitting virulence marker alleles to commensal streptococci residing in throat [5] . Though the pathogenesis of streptococcal infection is complex, but repeated infections in childhood model the immune response before causing the first attack of rheumatic fever [6] . Thus, public health interventions directed towards preventing transmission of GABHS pharyngitis by early identification, prompt treatment and improved hygiene could be an important mean to decrease burden of RF/RHD. There are no time trend active surveillance studies from developing countries to assess the impact of change in socio-economic status on trends of prevalence of RF/RHD. The present study was, therefore, carried out to evaluate trends of RF/RHD and impact of change in the socio-economic status in school children aged 5-15 yr in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, using identical screening methodologies as was followed in the first survey conducted in the same area by our group in 1992-1993.
Material & Methods
Shimla, the capital city of State of Himachal Pradesh, India, is situated at 30°6΄N latitude and 77°11΄E longitude. A cross-sectional study was carried out by the Department of Cardiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC), Shimla, in 2007-2008 in the Shimla city and in rural area of adjoining Kasumpatti - Sunni Block of Shimla district, India. Using similar methods of sampling, screening and similar criteria to diagnose RF/RHD as described earlier [7] , prevalence of RF/RHD in same target population of school children aged 5-15 yr was determined. Similar sample size was taken in 2007-2008 study as was done in 1992-1993 survey [Table 1]. In 2007-2008 survey, there were 42,861 children in age range of 5-15 yr, studying in 305 schools located in urban and rural settings of study area. A total of 15,986 children of 71 out of 305 schools were randomly selected through stratified random sampling. Sample size in each stratum was proportional to number of students enrolled in each group; 841 children could not be examined due to being absent, even on repeated visits to the schools. It was ensured that the reason for absence was not due to sickness. Thus, overall participation rate was 94.8 per cent (15145). All eligible children from the selected school were examined by doctor who was trained in the Department of Cardiology to improve auscultatory and diagnostic skills to pick up cases of RF/RHD and heart disease. Each child was enquired about the history of receiving 3 weekly penicillin injections, breathlessness, joint pains, fever and abnormal involuntary movements of limbs at present or in the past. It was followed by a thorough cardiovascular examination done in school itself in standing, recumbent and left lateral decubitus position carefully auscultating all the areas for abnormal sounds and murmurs and relationship with posture and respiration. Children found to have any of the mentioned features in the history and/or physical examinations were referred to the department of Cardiology, IGMC, for echocardiographic evaluation. Echocardiography was done in left lateral decubitus position using 5 MHz phased array probe with HDI 3000 ATL echo machine, USA. Standard morphological & Doppler Criteria were used to diagnose definite and probable cases of RHD and updated Jones criteria (1992) [2] were used to diagnose RF. All suspected cases of RF or recurrence of RF activity were subjected to blood investigations (TLC, ESR, ASO titer and CRP), ECG and throat swab culture using the standard technique as described earlier. Throat swabs were cultured for isolating GABHS on blood agar plate. The data pertaining to changes in socio-economic standards, healthcare facilities and health indices in 1992-1993 and in 2007-2008 of Shimla district were obtained from the Department of Economics and Statistics of Himachal Pradesh Government [8],[9] .
Table 1: Screening outcomes of study population in 1992-1993 and 2007-2008
Statistical analysis: SPSS version 16 (USA) was used for statistical analysis of data. Distributions of demographic characteristics of the study population in two survey studies were expressed as percentages for categorical variables and mean±SD for continuous variables. The prevalence of RF/RHD was reported as per 1000 study population with 95% confidence interval (CI). Difference in prevalence of RF/RHD in the two survey studies was analyzed using Z-test. Differences in the distribution of categorical variables presented as percentages in the two surveys were analyzed using Chi square and Fisher exact test. P<0.05 was taken as significant.
A total of 15,145 students were screened in 2007-2008 with mean age of 11.07 ± 4.1 yr. There were 8890 boys (58.7%) and 6255 girls (41.3%). The distribution of gender, rural and urban background among study population in the two survey studies was similar. But the distribution of study population in the age group of 5-10 and 11-15 yr in the two surveys was different. Indicators of human development index revealed substantial improvement over a period of 15 years reflected by better health indicators in terms of increase in life expectancy, decrease in infant mortality rate, improved education and per capita income [Table 2].
Table 2: Comparison of demographic characteristics, socio-economic and healthcare parameters of the study area in 1992-1993 and 2007-2008
The decline in prevalence of overall RF/RHD recorded in 1992-1993 and 2007-2008 studies was statistically significant; (P<0.0001) 2.98/1000 (95% C.I. 2.24-3.72/1000 vs. 0.59/1000 (95% C.I. 0.22-0.96/1000), respectively [Table 3]. The difference in prevalence of definite cases of RF/RHD in two survey studies were also found to be significant (P<0.0001). No case of acute RF and/or recurrent RF was recorded in 2007-2008 compared to seven cases (0.23/1000) recorded in 1992-1993. Prevalence of RF/RHD was about two-fold higher in rural school children than urban school children in both studies 1992-1993 (4.42/1000 vs. 2.12/1000) and 2007-2008 (0.88/1000 vs. 0.41/1000), respectively. Prevalence of RF/RHD in children in age group of 11-15 yr was higher compared to 5-10 yr age group in both the survey studies of 1992-1993 and 2007-2008 (3.5/1000 vs. 2.29/1000 and 0.46/1000 vs. 0.13/1000), respectively. However, the difference in the distribution of proportion of cases in age group 5-10 and 11-15 yr recorded in the two surveys was not significant. In the present survey, 71.4 per cent of the definite cases of RF/RHD were aware of their disease and were on secondary prophylaxis, while 77.3 per cent of the cases were symptomatic but only 61.4 per cent were on secondary prophylaxis in 1992-1993 survey study.
Table 3: Comparison of prevalence of RF/RHD (diagnostic categories) in urban and rural school children in 2007-2008 and 1992-1993
Mitral valve followed by aortic and then tricuspid valve was the order of frequency in both the surveys. Proportion of patients with moderate to severe MR was higher in 1992-1993 (26.6%) compared to 11.1 per cent in 2007-2008 survey [Table 4]. Similarly, proportion of patients of RHD with moderate to severe MS was significantly higher during 1992-1993 (4.4%) but no case of moderate to severe MS was detected in 2007-2008 survey. Since number of patients with mild and moderate to severe valvular dysfunction in 2007-2008 was less, distribution of cumulative severity of valvular dysfunction in both surveys was compared using Fisher exact test.
Table 4: Comparison of frequency & distribution of severity of valvular dysfunction in 1992-1993 and 2006-2007 surveys
Impact of change in human development index on time trends of RF/RHD was evaluated in school children by two-point estimation of prevalence of RF/RHD after a gap of 15 years in same study area using similar screening methods. Comparison of prevalence of RF/RHD estimated in these two survey studies revealed significant five-fold decline. Although a decline has been observed in the prevalence of RF/RHD in both rural and urban school children in 2007-2008 study, but rural-urban gradient has continued to prevail in both studies. No case of acute RF and/or recurrent RF was detected in 2007-2008 survey compared to seven cases in 1992-1993 survey. Comparison of frequency distribution of cases of RF/RHD in age groups of 5-10 and 11-16 yr in these two surveys suggested trends in demographic shift in the distribution of cases with late age of onset; a pattern also observed in countries with declining prevalence of RF/RHD [2] . Thus, these observations suggest declining trends in the incidence of acute and recurrent RF, severity of RF/RHD and trends of its late age of onset possibly because of improvement in living standards and healthcare services ensuring effective and early treatment of GABHS pharyngitis; similar findings have been observed in other developed countries in 1950-1970s [2] .
Studies after year 2000 showed a declining trend of rheumatic fever in different parts of India [Table 5]. The reported variability in prevalence could be due to different diagnostic methods used, different study populations with variable state of socio-economic and health transitions, apart from the changes in virulence of GABHS. Hence, periodic surveys need to be done in same study area to document actual time trends in epidemiology of RF/RHD.
Table 5: Studies conducted on RF/RHD from 1957-2006 in India
Since the school dropout rates in the study area was less than 2 per cent, it is unlikely that observed low prevalence of RF/RHD in present survey study could be attributed to it [28] . The difference in the proportion of children in the two age groups could be one of the reasons for the observed lower prevalence of RF/RHD in the latest survey, as there was a trend of higher proportion of cases in the age group of 11-15 yr in both surveys. Overall numbers of RF/RHD cases detected in 2007-2008 were nine compared to 45 in 1992-1993 survey. It is unlikely that this significant difference in the number of cases observed is primarily related to different demographic profile of these two surveys. In many populations, higher prevalence of RF/RHD has been reported in females [2] though the reasons for this are still unclear.
Since we did not study the profile of GABHS strains prevalent in the study area, the role of change in the virulent character of GABHS strains cannot be ruled out. In another school survey study in Shimla district conducted during 2007-2009 revealed that 1.5 per cent of the school children were GABHS carriers and 4.5% had GABHS pharyngitis on the basis of throat cultures. Emm-typing of these GABHS isolates revealed rheumatogenic strains prevalent in north India. Another study by Dhanda et al in 2000-2003 revealed that the GABHS isolates from throats of children in north India carried highly virulent antigens [29] . Cross-section design of the study was another limitation of the present survey.
Though studies in Mozambique and Cambodia [30] have shown a 10-fold higher prevalence of RF/RHD using echocardiography based methods compared to clinical screening method, whether echocardiography based screening is the way to assess true prevalence of RF/RHD is still not known.
In conclusion, the prevalence of RF/RHD has declined in children aged 5-15 yr in Shimla and adjoining rural areas over the last 15 yr; however prevalence continues to be higher in rural population in general. The decline in prevalence of RF/RHD appears primarily due to improvement in healthcare delivery system and socio-economic status, thus providing an important insight in planning preventive strategies for control and prevention. Prospective longitudinal follow up observational studies are needed to have an insight about its true clinical state.
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Is neoliberalism’s becoming-woman also a becoming-sound? (and some thoughts on listening, social media, and feminized labor)
July 9, 2014 · by Robin James · in big data, femininity, feminism, gender, listening, neoliberalism, signal & noise, social media, twitter
This will be cross-posted at Cyborgology later this week.
In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari argue that “music is traversed by a becoming-woman” (272). By this they mean that Western systems of musical organization evoke and confront the very phenomena that serve as these systems’ constitutive exclusions. For example, while tonal harmony was a hierarchical system of consonances (i.e., chords), it nevertheless relied upon the introduction and resolution of (as the nineteenth century progressed, increasingly jarring and destabilizing) dissonances. Similarly, the abjection/rejection/marginalization of “woman” (or better, “girl”) is what solidifies and guarantees patriarchal orders: maleness/masculinity become the “norm” or the “absolute” only insofar as femaleness/femininity are circumscribed as abnormal, unthinkable, and invisible (or, to use Irigaray’s terms, insofar as “woman” is the sex which “is not”). Thus, to claim that “musical expression is inseparable from a becoming-woman” (Deleuze & Guattari, 299) is to posit that [Western, tonal] music works by “confronting its own danger, even taking a fall in order to rise again” (Deleuze & Guattari, 299). As Susan McClary and Catherine Clement have famously argued, the logic of tonality turns upon the evocation and ultimate containment of “feminized” musical elements (e.g., chromaticism, actual female characters in operas, etc.). To say that “musical expression is a “becoming-woman,” then, means that femininity is the danger a musical work confronts, only to rise again. Traditionally, patriarchy has treated femininity as a deterritorializing force, something whose destabilization is necessary and even pleasurable.
But plenty of feminist and non-feminist scholars have pointed out that neoliberalism co-opts and rebrands traditional (white) femininity: the Young-Girl is the ideal model for human capital, just as feminized work–flexible, care-oriented, informal/unpaid–is the new model for labor. As Natalia Cecire puts it, “neoliberalism operates through hypertrophied forms of femininity.” Femininity isn’t deterritorializing, but the mechanism of reterritorialization.
So, in the same way that neoliberalism co-opts femininity and has it lead the charge to “creative destruction,” does it also co-opt “sound” or “music” as the primary medium of and/or metaphor for this work?
Why might we think this? Kate Crawford’s paper on listening and online interaction, which I really like, argues that listening is a better conceptual resource for metaphors to describe the kinds of attention, relation, and interaction naturalized in more-or-less contemporary social media. There, she cites Nick Couldry’s argument that the “‘reciprocal, embodied nature of listening; its embeddedness always in an intersubjective space of perception’” (cited in KC 525) is what makes it particularly appropriate to describe online environments. But think about it: reciprocity, embodiment, embeddedness, intersubjectivity–all these sound a lot like the stereotypical attributes of trad white femininity. It seems like sound’s femininity is what makes it so well-suited to theorize and describe digital, socially-mediated life.
This connection between sound and femininity suggests a connection between hyperemployment and communicative capitalism. Though Crawford doesn’t explicitly argue this in her article, her analysis easily lends itself to the following interpretation: “background listening” is the traditionally feminized work–the un/under-compensated care work usually tasked to women as both consequence and cause of their marginalization–of the social media economy.
The kind of attention required for background listening is what we might call, after Sandra Bartky, a “feminine discipline”–the practice of this discipline is what makes one legibly feminine. “Background listening” is similar to the “distracted” listening that characterizes radio and/or ubiquitous music listening, the very kind of listening, she points out, that got Adorno in such a tizzy. But, if you read Adorno more closely, this distracted or “regressed” listening is thoroughly feminized. As I show in this book, just about every time he talks about this kind of listener, he makes reference to (sexualized) female body parts shortly before and/or after. In Adorno, distracted listening is femininized. But, as Crawford shows, this is precisely the skillset one needs to navigate Twitter. Women’s work involves knowing exactly when to tune in and hear everything in full detail, and when to tune out irrelevant noise. For example, isn’t this what moms do with kids? They lurk around, tuning in when needed but also letting kids have space. This is what my mom referred to when she said she, like all moms, had eyes in the back of her head.
This ability to tune in (and out) is also the same skillset that we require of care workers: they must be intimately and personally attentive to the unique and distinctive needs of others. Just as it’s difficult to outsource the work of a babysitter, a housekeeper, or a nurse, “it remains difficult,” Crawford notes, “to outsource the act of listening” (531). Both involve addressing specific, materially-rooted concerns that can’t be uprooted or abstracted from their context. And because of this, such labor is extremely inefficient. And that’s why it is “of low value…[and] difficult for it to be recognized as an important and value-generating form of work” (531). [1] The kinds of listening that are least efficient, the kinds of listening that can’t be made to “Lean In,” but are doled out to the least advantaged members of society. They’re the kinds of listening that produce hypotrophied, rather than hypertrophied, femininities, femininities that keep you at the margins instead of shooting you to the center.
A caveat: these are all modernist accounts of sound and femininity that neoliberalism appropriates. What was marginal to modernity is central to neoliberalism (in general). This begs the question: so what about neoliberal accounts of sound and femininity? I’ve talked a bit about the latter in my post on the financialized girl. There I argue that patriarchy still feminizes–that is, it structurally produces some kinds of people/phenomena as women, as neither included nor potentially included in society/capitalism/humanity. But what about “sound”? What kinds of sonic, acoustic, and auditory phenomena get, perhaps we can say, phased out of this normalized and normalizing account of sound? What sonic phenomena don’t sync up with it, produce either dissonances in need of domestication, or sub/supra auditory frequencies we can’t even hear?
[1] “However, a commitment to background listening comes at a cost – the cost of human attention. A senior executive at Dell may underscore the importance of listening to customers, but in practice this means that more than 130 Twitter feeds emanate from Dell Corp., and each is connected back to a staff member who must personally maintain that account while adhering to corporate communication protocols (Soller 2009). This is the labour of listening. But how is this labour to be quantified? As long as listening is not considered to be an important part of online participation, of ‘low value’ in the process of online engagement, it is difficult for it be recognized as an important and value-generating form of work” (531)
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Dehydration.
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Pet owners will start to notice signs of a fever within 4-12 days of exposure to the bacteria. We recommend contacting our office at the first indication that something might be wrong. Like most infections, leptospirosis is easily managed when first contracted but can cause more damage the longer it remains in the body; it is also contagious for humans and other household pets.
While there are over 213 strains of leptospirosis, only 8 can infect humans and dogs, and 5 can infect cats. This table shows you the various strains that are contagious to humans and domestic pets, the primary sources the bacteria can be developed from, and other known sources from which you or your pets might obtain the disease:
How is leptospirosis diagnosed?
During your pet’s exam the veterinarian will ask you to describe the symptoms that led you to believe your pet was ill. If a leptospirosis diagnosis is positive, this information will give us a good indication of the progression of the infection and will aide in combating the bacteria. Urine and blood samples will be taken and cultured to determine if any bacteria is present, and the body’s immune system response to infection will be tested by measuring antibodies in the bloodstream; this will help determine the level of infection.
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Simone de Beauvoir on Woman, The Second Sex, Female, Femininity & The Other
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Simone de Beauvoir, Sex-Positive Feminist, d.1986
Simone de Beauvoir, d.1986
It’s a generation since the death of author, feminist, and existentialist, Simone de Beauvoir on 14 April 1986. A lover of Sartre – in both senses of the word, she was a sexually liberated bisexual whose disregard for sexual convention – including age of consent laws, caused her to lose her right to teach in France. Her 1949 defining work on the oppression of women, Le Deuxième Sexe – “The Second Sex“, is widely considered a groundbreaking treatise on sex and gender for 20th-century feminism.
As to her sexual liberation, her “erotic liberty“, and open relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, she saw any sexual categorisation as restrictive:
“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.” – Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
I recently quoted, knowingly totally out of context, this from de Beauvoir:
“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.”
I was quite promptly, and perhaps rightly, accused of ‘quote mining’. Contextomy or the unjustified use of an uprooted, and in this case anachronous, quote, to prove a point it was never intended to address, is a fair criticism.
My use of the quote was because it resonated with the idea that people can be born female, raised a girl, but become a woman. A woman is as much experience, as nature. I’m not jumping in and suggesting, for example, that post-operative trans women are thus women, the same as those who were born with a uterus and raised as girls. Indeed, is anyone any less of a woman after uterine cancer (affecting 8,500 women in the UK a year) and removal of the womb via hysterectomy? Similarly, women can have various difficulties in reproduction due to infertility, or any number of intersex medical differences that may cause an XX or indeed other chromosomal combination such as XXY etc to present a body that defies the defined binary female stereotype. Women should not be defined by their ability to procreate and bear children – that much I am sure de Beauvoir would agree with.
My question is, though, whether de Beauvoir would have condemned or supported the rights of some to pursue a gender trajectory that more matches their inner feelings and psyche than their binary-born bodies. In other words, transgender, non-binary and other forms of gender fluidity or transition.
Simone de Beauvoir on Woman, Femininity, the Other, and maybe a Third Sex
Simone de Beauvoir “The Second Sex” (1949)
So to add insult to injury, to compound my contextomy crime, here are some further Beauvoirisms that might shed light on what might have been her attitude to “The Third Sex”. A phrase which I use, advisedly, for the main purpose of echoing her “Second Sex”, rather than for the purpose of defining all trans and/or gender non-conforming people as a “Third Sex” even though that is a way which some, especially in Asian and Indian cultures, do define.
Does ‘Woman’ even exist?
Beauvoir existentially questioned whether woman would always exist, suggesting that ‘she’ is an ephemeral concept ,driven by culture and construct as much as conception:
“Are there women, really? Most assuredly the theory of the eternal feminine still has its adherents who will whisper in your ear: ‘Even in Russia women still are women’; and other erudite persons – sometimes the very same – say with a sigh: ‘Woman is losing her way, woman is lost.’ One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should…” – The Second Sex, introduction (1949)
One can be female but not a woman
As to femininity, she saw it as something esoteric, and that female ≠ woman ≠ femininity:
“It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it a Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination?” – The Second Sex, introduction (1949)
If female equals the “female of the species” reproductively, and feminine a cultural construct if not oppression, then woman need not be feminine and feminism a path to throwing off that oppression. But does ‘woman’ need to be female? If one can be female but not a woman, can one be woman but not a female?
What is woman?
If much previous philosophical, and biblical-theological enquiry, stemmed around “What is man?” and the nature of man, then de Beauvoir helpfully examines, what is woman:
If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through ‘the eternal feminine’, and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question “what is a woman”?
Yet would it not be more helpful to discuss what it means to be human, or are we still stuck seeing woman as something less than a man, and hence neither equal nor fully human since, as in the Bible, Adam stands for man and humankind as the first point of reference?
“Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him” – The Second Sex, introduction (1949)
On BBC Woman’s Hour today, British Army Captain Rosie Hamilton was interviewed about how female recruits are trained, but it was then made all about how many of them made the ‘male’ standard.
Woman as the ‘Other’
Beauvoir rebelled against the patriarchal concept that man is human and woman is defined only in relation to being man’s so-called opposite pole, that she is ‘othered’ in reference to him. Not that we have achieved gender parity yet, but I wonder how she would see trans, non-binary, intersex people now, as perhaps the new (however ancient a group of people they are) ‘other’?
“No subject will readily volunteer to become the object, the inessential; it is not the Other who, in defining himself as the Other, establishes the One. The Other is posed as such by the One in defining himself as the One.” – The Second Sex, introduction (1949)
Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex people are ‘othered’ by the default biologically and socially essentialist binary. In the same way, de Beauvoir saw woman as othered by man. Thus, gender non-conforming people, whether assigned male or female at birth, should have some solidarity with the feminist struggle to assert the equality of women with men, and their common core identity as human beings absolutely, not relatively. Sadly, that is not always the case and some folk do not see a common struggle between feminism and gender identity. As de Beauvoir said:
“Enough ink has been spilled in quarrelling over feminism” – The Second Sex, introduction (1949)
Some radical feminists, such as Julie Bindel, Germaine Greer, Sheila Jeffries and others, are well known for exclusionary attitudes to trans people. Indeed, de Beauvoir others intersex people, formerly termed ‘hermaphrodite’, in her seeking to find an independent voice on ‘what is woman?’:
“What we need is an angel – neither man nor woman – but where shall we find one? Still, the angel would be poorly qualified to speak, for an angel is ignorant of all the basic facts involved in the problem. With a hermaphrodite we should be no better off, for here the situation is most peculiar; the hermaphrodite is not really the combination of a whole man and a whole woman, but consists of parts of each and thus is neither.” – The Second Sex, introduction (1949)
In a 1976 interview, when asked about excluding men from some aspects of the feminist struggle and female gatherings, she opined that sometimes it was necessary. So she may have argued against the full and unfettered access of some transwomen (e.g., pre-operative) to women-only safe spaces. She did also say, however:
“The battle of the sexes is not implicit in the anatomy of man and woman.” – The Second Sex, conclusion (1949)
Similarly, she spoke of some lesbian women, in particular, being male-exclusionary:
“There are other women who have become lesbian out of a sort of political commitment: that is, they feel that it is a political act to be lesbian, the equivalent somewhat within the sex struggle of the black power advocates within the racial struggle. And, true, these women tend to be more dogmatic about the exclusion of men from their struggle.” – interview (1976)
Anyone, who is oppressed has the right to gather in safe spaces – whether other oppressed minorities should have rights of access to the safe spaces of other groups who have been ‘othered’ is another matter. That siad, shared oppression is sometimes more important than shared hormones.
“Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.” – The Second Sex, conclusion (1949)
It was Audre Lorde that said, whilst “any woman is not free”, then “no woman is”. Being the one oppressed is sadly part of a common humanity, and a common responsibility:
“Each of us is responsible – to every human being.” – Simone de Beauvoir
In some matters, if not most – except the most basic biological differences, “men and women” and anyone that is defined or identified outside that binary need to” unequivocally affirm their brotherhood”, as de Beauvoir concluded in The Second Sex.
So, could every Human be a Woman?
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
Beauvoir speaks of every human being, every human life, less of the categorisation that in a class-distinctive way oppresses all of us, even the men. For, in defining men and not women, as not soft or empathic, or similar stereotypes, we trap them in conventional masculinity, we oppress gay men, drag queens and transvestites who may still identify as male.
“…man, like woman, is flesh, therefore passive, the plaything of his hormones and of the species, the restless prey of his desires.” – The Second Sex, conclusion (1949)
We no longer accept feminism as the sole regard of women. True women’s liberation also liberates men from roles and rules of sex and gender.
“…the woman of today is [not] a creation of nature; it must be repeated once more that in human society nothing is natural and that woman, like much else, is a product elaborated by civilisation.” – The Second Sex, conclusion (1949)
If a feminist need not be a woman, and a female need not be a ‘woman’, and the ‘feminine’ just as possessable by males, then, perhaps too, a ‘woman’ need not be female, at least not assigned one at birth. In other words, is the very term ‘woman’ as much a social construct as gender itself, and the so-called masculine and feminine ideals?
“No single educator could fashion a female human being today who would be the exact homologue of the male human being; if she is brought up like a boy, the young girl feels she is an oddity and thereby she is given a new kind of sex specification.” – The Second Sex, conclusion (1949)
Only in an androgynous (but not uniform) utopia, where all human beings were raised without class or gender specificity, could true equality perhaps be found.
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Review of "Sekret Machines: Gods" by Tom DeLonge with Peter Levenda (Part 3)
Today I will conclude my review of Tom DeLonge’s and Peter Levenda’s new ancient astronaut book Sekret Machines: Gods, which has proven to be a rehash of standard ancient astronaut material with a good deal of Graham Hancock’s fantastical universe of altered consciousness and lost civilizations thrown into the mix thanks to Levenda’s admitted fascination with Hancock’s ideas. This all culminates in the book’s full-throated descent into a paean for religious belief and spirituality to counter the supposed horrors of science, secularism, and materialism. It’s depressing how frequently ancient astronaut claims turn into religion by proxy.
Chapter 6
To that end, the sixth chapter opens with speculation about why immortality is linked to the stars, but Levenda has eyes only for space travelers (who are somehow also divine spiritual essences), unwilling to consider that the fact that the circumpolar stars were considered “immortal” because they never set may be reason enough, with no need to imagine that humans have a genetic memory of panspermia. He then goes on to resurrect the favorite chestnut of all fringe writers, the idea that pyramids around the world must be connected just because a tapering shape is the most stable architectural form for a tall building prior to the age of steel. To support this, he turns to various hyperdiffusionist arguments about cross-cultural contact in the distant past. Some are plausible, particularly when nearby Old World cultures are concerned, but others are speculative at best, particularly the claim that Tibetan culture derives from ancient Egypt. He approvingly cites Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock, and Robert Schoch as evidence for the diffusion of an ur-culture from a sunken lost continent to the Old World and the New, and that a cosmic event caused the flooding at the end of the Ice Age remembered as the Flood of Noah. None of this has anything to do with aliens but it does speak to the love Levenda has for the Hancock school of fringe ideas.
To make it connect with aliens, Levenda, having spent chapters trashing Zecharia Sitchin, decides that he is right after all and that aliens came to Earth to make humans as a slave race: “thus our thesis leans more towards Sitchin than it does a purely accidental, if not transcendental, explanation without embracing Sitchin’s theories completely or abandoning the ideas of directed panspermia, for instance.” The bottom line, he says, is that the answers to humanity’s origins are to be found in studying religion, not science. Like every astronaut theorist before him, Levenda finds a way to restore the importance of religion and undo the existential terror unleashed by the Enlightenment. He even claims that religious ideas of heaven came from a cargo cultist stowing away on a spaceship and returning to tell the tale!
Following this, Levenda describes various rituals around the world that pay homage to or connect people to the stars, and he claims these as evidence of a space alien connection. He neglects to mention similar rituals that connect people to water, the sun, the Earth, the ancestors, and all manner of other natural phenomena that have nothing to do with aliens. In context, they are nothing special, but he tries to make them so by comparing out of context bits and pieces to modern discoveries. For example, he speaks of Daoism’s seven “dark stars” of the Big Dipper, invisible to the naked eye (and different from the two invisible stars of the Dipper in standard Chinese cosmology) and claims them to be an anticipation of the modern conclusion that the first of the stars were made of “dark matter.” “It is almost too easy to draw comparisons between the dark stars of Chinese astronomy and the dark matter of the physicists,” Levenda writes. He offers no source for his discussion of the seven dark stars, and I have been unable to identify a source for it. According to scholarly accounts I read, the T’ang dynasty developed the concept of the two dark stars of the Dipper from the Indians, who had tried to account for lunar eclipses by claiming dark planets passed in front of the moon. Clearly, this is not the same as secret knowledge of dark matter.
“All religion is UFO religion,” Levenda says, appropriating for himself every expression of spirituality on Earth, from chthonic gods to Earth mothers, and especially Abrahamic faiths. Whether they worship the divine in the water, on land, or inherent in all creation, it doesn’t matter. As long as they mention the stars or the sky, they must be based on space aliens. Levenda seems to think this is stunningly new, but he apparently hasn’t met Ancient Aliens producer Kevin Burns, who said nearly the same thing last year: “[Hindu] religion is totally based on extraterrestrials as, by the way, all religions are.”
The remainder of the chapter is an extended discussion of religion, shamanism, and the nature of consciousness, and Levenda implies that the dramatic conclusion of the book series, in volume 3, is that the UFO phenomenon traces back to interdimensional powers that interact with our consciousness. He thinks this is a revelation, which means he hasn’t been watching Ancient Aliens speculate on this exact same line for the past eight years.
This chapter rehearses standard ancient astronaut claims about ancient Persia and India, from gods that ride in winged discs to flying vimanas. Levenda wrongly attributes the English words “divine” and “devil” to the Vedic devas, but they are not directly related. Instead, scholars believe all of these words share an ancestral origin in the Proto-Indo-European word *deiwos (as reconstructed from its descendant words), which first meant “celestial” and later “god.” Levenda purposely downplays the Indo-European heritage shared from Britain to India in order to make it seem as though shared elements derive from an outside source rather than from a shared origin in Indo-European myth and cult. Somehow this leads us back to Zecharia Sitchin and the Nephilim because Levenda identifies them as another expression of mythic wars between angels and demons, wars he believes different cultures participated in on different sides, thus accounting for why some cultures seem to worship other cultures’ devils and vice versa. Diabolizing other people’s gods is a longstanding tradition, as St. Augustine amply demonstrated, and there is no reason to imagine gods and demons are real to explain why.
Nor, therefore, must we attribute Nephilim-giants and their extinction to a “war” among the “races” of humanity to purge genetic “misfires.” For a man so concerned about purging the ancient astronaut theory of Nazi and white supremacist doctrines, he seems unconcerned that he envisions the past as a race war to ensure the purity of the bloodlines. By his own logic about genetic memory and cargo cults, this makes the Nazis “right” because they have a distorted genetic memory of the ancient race wars.
Levenda rhapsodizes for a while about Vedic religion and then laments that “technology has replaced religion as the opiate of the people.”
He goes on to discuss Asian philosophy and religions in mind-numbing detail that I will spare you, and he enters into evidence a divine wheel that the Buddhist Pāli Canon says rises up from the eastern ocean and enters the mansion of a king destined to win in battle. This wheel was like a second full moon. Levenda tells us that this is proof that peoples of the subcontinent saw flying saucers, for otherwise they would never have accepted the idea of a flying heavenly wheel. The flying wheel image, originally associated with the sun, was a longstanding Indo-European tradition, and it would not surprise me at all if this Buddhist wheel is an indirect derivative via the Vedic or Hindu traditions from which Buddhism borrowed. Levenda quotes information about the Buddhist ideal wheel from secondary sources and omits that it is only one of eight ideal possessions of a king, among the others being an ideal gem, elephant, and wife. In context, the similarity to a UFO fades away, particularly when we compare the symbolism of wheels and mills across both Eastern and Indo-European cultures. To make a very long chapter shorter, Levenda describes many different types of mythical wheels, including swastikas, and calls them all flying saucers, just like the ancient astronaut theorists he ridicules for doing pretty much the same thing. He wrongly says that his insight—that mandalas and wheels reflect spacecraft—was “not imagined by many ‘ancient alien theorists.’” At least three episodes of Ancient Aliens specifically connect mandalas to space aliens, like this one.
Levenda adds that he believes, based on Jacques Vallée’s research (whatever that is worth), that UFO sightings peak in years when Tibetan Buddhists hold mass initiations. Fortunately, Vallée provides “peak” years for 7 out of 15 years in the middle twentieth century, so some year is bound to align with some event or another. It’s almost 50-50 odds!
This chapter deals with Greek mythology, opening with the perspectives of Max Müller, who, while brilliant, was a Victorian solar myth proponent and more than 130 years out of date. Levenda discusses Hesiod’s Theogony but omits its clear debt to Hittite myth, and through it Mesopotamian mythology. As a result he presents as “confirmation” of the Nephilim the Greek story of the Giants, a story that he doesn’t know (or doesn’t care) that scholars like Jan Bremmer had long ago argued were in conversation with the Semitic account. Bremmer argued, persuasively, that the stories of the Titans and the Watchers share a close connection. “Such a clear parallel to the Biblical account in Genesis,” Levenda gushes, as though no one had noticed before. The Church Fathers were aware of it, as were the Greeks themselves. Levenda follows the account of the Gigantomachy given by Ovid, but he fails to note that Ovid’s version is erroneous, a conflated account that mixes elements of the Titanomachy, the Gigantomachy, and the assault on Olympus by the Aloadae. His argument, consequently, is without merit since he knows not of which he speaks. He refuses to trace Greek myths to their earliest forms, and he declines to explore the debt that our versions of Greek myths owe to Near East influences—subjects that Bremmer, Walter Burkert, M. L. West, and many other scholars have covered in detail. It is just silly to declare Greek myths to be an independent confirmation of Nephilim contact.
Following this, Levenda recycles his earlier discussion of Gnosticism, making the same points again, and again refusing to explore the actual cultural diffusion that occurred between Mesopotamian cultures and the Jews and Greeks. The result is the absurdity of accepting Noah’s Flood as a real event, despite the fact that geology does not support a global flood. He tries to psychoanalyze the Nephilim and suggests that their issues were psychological and not physical, that they had bad brains and bad genes. Some were physical giants, he speculates, because of a “chromosomal abnormality” due to inbreeding. So where are the bones of these giants? Ah, evidence is for losers! We have faith.
To that end, Levenda notes the tension between the genetic imperative to procreate with people outside of one’s family and the social imperative to stick to one’s own tribe against foreigners, and he decides—and I wish that I were making this up—that the aliens encoded an incest gene into humans to keep us mating within our “ethnicity” or “race” so we’ll remain genetically weak and ripe for exploiting on our prison/asylum planet. He’s not too clear on degrees of consanguinity, the intricate exogamous systems of hunter-gatherer societies, or how genetic diversity works, so it makes sense in his mind.
As we move toward the conclusion, Levenda says that alien abduction stories are preoccupied with sex, genitals, and semen and therefore must be modern Nephilim tales. He claims that humans are “obsessed” with disaster stories and that some outside force must be compelling us to move toward our own destruction, for otherwise we would never have invented the atom bomb unbidden. It quickly becomes clear that Levenda has confused a particular milieu in America for the world as he talks of how “we” as humans are afraid to acknowledge God in public and treat Him as a sop to rubes in exchange for votes. He blames the scientific revolution for disenchanting the world, and he declares that all of the ufologists and ancient astronaut theorists are wrong, that ancient people did not see UFOs and mistake them for the chariots of the gods; instead, we see the chariots of the gods and misinterpret them as flying spacecraft. Levenda declares the mystery of the UFOs to be the mystery of God himself, and the quest for aliens to be the search for the divine. Abductees, he said, have touched the face of an unknowable and vaguely malevolent God:
… the abduction is carried out by acolytes of the Unknown God, the Alien God, and the experience is seen through a scrim of sexual manipulation and psychic dislocation. The abductees become an altar in a new Black Mass as the alien forces push their way into their consciousness, impatient and insistent, using whatever sublimated or repressed material they can find buried in their memories or fantasies.
The bottom line is that Levenda sees aliens as akin to a Gnostic demiurge, an evil(ish) god that tries to manipulate and control us, blocking us from achieving a true transcendence by pushing past them to the real spiritual powers further up the great chain of being. The remaining volumes of the series, he says, will help us search for a new spirituality to embrace the divine.
In what seems to be a plausible reading, Peter Levenda and Tom DeLonge seem to be laying the groundwork to start a cult and want to use ufology to attract acolytes to their mix of warmed over New Age claptrap, Gnostic obfuscation, and Theosophy-inspired pseudo-Buddhist mysticism. It’s sort of an inverted Raëlism, with the gods masquerading as aliens rather than the other way around, but the difference is one of perception more than fact.
So there you have it. The secret of Sekret Machines is that it is not a book about UFOs at all but rather a book about the Nephilim, for the same tired reasons: To prove the Nephilim real is to make the Bible true and justify faith of some kind or another. Other cultures, for what they are worth, exist only to provide support for the story of the Nephilim, and all of human history can be reduced to an effort to approach God through an understanding of the monsters that defied His will. We are all Nephilim hybrids, and all part evil and part divine. We have heard this all before.
(• Part 1 • Part 2 •)
Scott David Hamilton
"Levenda... laments that 'technology has replaced religion as the opiate of the people.'"
So Levenda interprets the term "opium of the people" to be a good thing? That's a little weird.
Jason Colavito link
It's ambiguous in the text. He recognizes that the opiate of the people is a bad thing because it keeps them docile, but he doesn't like that technology has replaced religion because it pushes people farther away from truth. I guess it's a matter of which is worse, not that one is good.
Americanegro
"The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Shane Sullivan
"Levenda wrongly attributes the English words 'divine' and 'devil' to the Vedic devas..."
Anton LaVey made the same claim in the Satanic Bible. I always wondered if LaVey was intentionally spreading misinformation, or if he was just stupid. Ah, but we all know the answer is both.
Naughtius
Does the word divine have the same root as Deus, Dia, Zeus, Jupiter, Dis Pater etc
According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, yes.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=divine
E.P. Grondine
Hi Jason -
But you have not mentioned the most important point:
Did they mention anything about ancient alien cats?
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2017/03/trove-of-statues-of-lion-headed-goddess.html#bTwbhEq6JZvfbhpH.97
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAbjAXL-NI&index=4&list=PLQFjoWZeHDMQln37vSd1heFOfte_O_Rhp
Bob Jase
Just offhand, since DeLonge and Peter Levenda believe in extreme hyperdiffusionism - can they explain who taught the alien-gods their civilization?
David Bradbury
- an earlier bunch of alien-gods?
Time traveling cargo cultists from the future. Seems pretty obvious to me. Et voila le cercle est complet!
A Buddhist
Why are you using the Wade-Giles system of transliterating Chinese (T'ang) rather than pinyin (Tang)?
Also, a question about the Book's teachings. Why do you call its teachings Pseudo-Buddhism rather than gnosticism?
Pseudo-Buddhism would, I would sincerely hope, follow Buddhism by being about escaping suffering through spiritual discipline (while probably ignoring the element of escaping the cycle of rebirth). Gnosticism, on the other hand, is about overcoming malignant and/or misguided gods to achieve higher spiritual awakening, often through mystical revelations from better gods and/or a Supreme Creator God. This gnostic conception of the spiritual path and goals seems to be more in common with what this book teaches than Buddhism.
I copied it out of the book on Chinese astronomy. I have no idea what preferred transliteration is used for any given word.
Pinyin is becoming the standard transliteration system with Chinese.
Would you be kind enough to answer my questions about why you call the book an advocate of pseudo-Buddhism?
Levenda talks a lot about Buddhism and endorses elements of Buddhist mythology, but without the underlying spiritual philosophy of Buddhism. His discussion is superficial, and the elements he takes from it are in service of a New Age belief system made from a mish-mash of philosophies.
Amerineg'ro
You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with. This is something that people do not do.
Jason: Thank you, I guess, for the clarification. What aspects of Buddhism does he endorse?
It is such a pity that so few Euro-American people who are interested in spirituality try to study or follow legitimately old traditions. Either they try to join or create new systems or they try to change Christianity in some way to make it more spiritual.
Amerineg'ro: I make no claim to know two systems for transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is) based upon Modern Standard Manadarin. Nor do I expect Jason to know two such systems. However, I and many other people who use Latin Alphabet of Britain to transliterate Chinese characters or transcribe the sounds of Chinese are more familiar with the Pinyin system, and I was surprised at his use of the Wade-Giles system, since it seems to be falling out of use increasingly.
Weatherwax
Since in all probability neither system gets to the correct Chinese pronunciation, there is no advantage to one over the other. Just do the best you can.
I knew it. Jason, you set off the Pali Canon alarm. Good thing you didn't mention sto- uh, nevermind.
"And from them the narratives entered popculture where susceptible people could then regurgitate the narrative with little prompting just like in the period of the Witchcraze."
- PACAL
"Good thing you didn't mention sto- uh, nevermind."
What is sto- in this context? A, is it a reference to stone holes? of the sort that Gunn/At Risk likes to write about?
BigNick
We've gone 96 hours now without anyone throwing a his system fit. I'm really proud of everyone. Thank you for all your hard work. Now can we just let it die?
What part of
"You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with"
gets you to:
"I make no claim to know two systems for transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)"?
Please for the love of Cthulhu stop trying to show how much you know, because that's invariably when you get stuff wrong. Pinyin has nothing to do with "the Latin Alphabet of Britain" whatever that is. Accept the correction and move on. For the love of God, Montresor!
Americanegro: I interpreted your statement "You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with" as suggesting that you thought that I was claiming to be familiar with both Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems.
You reveal your own ignorance about the Latin alphabet and transliteration. I am baffled by your insistence that Romanization is not transliteration. Romanization is a sub-field of transliteration in which text is converted into the Latin (i.e., Roman) Alphabet. Do you think that all Latin alphabets have 26 letters? If you think this, then you are wrong. The Italian Latin alphabet, for example, has 21 letters, with other letters being used only for foreign words. The 26 letter Latin alphabet that is most commonly used originated in the British Isles to write English. And what is this absurd claim that Pinyin has nothing to do with the English Latin alphabet? Does it not use the 26 Latin alphabet characters of English? Certainly, the letters may have different sound values, but they are the same in form.
A BUDDHIST, a long-shot here, but do you have any idea how an Anglo-Saxon hooked-x rune found its way etched onto a 6th century Anglo-Saxon brooch found in England (as shown in a past Wolter Blog posting)? Is it merely a letter character or a symbol, or both, do you think, and what might it symbolize in this case?
I realize Germanic peoples "invaded" England a century earlier, and I'm wondering if you know anything about Latinized or Romanized x's (or hooked-x's) from around this period. You seem to be credible on the subject.
(For the sake of a peaceful blog, these questions are directed to A BUDDHIST and/or the blog Host, only.) Thank you.
At Risk:
I sincerely am glad to be regarded as useful by some persons. Unfortunately, I know very little about runes. But I can tell you the following off hand.
Regarding runes: They originated as a script among Germanic pagans during the 3rd century CE (I think), and were increasingly displaced by Latin scripts with Christianization. The Anglo-Saxons originally used runes to write English, and I believe that this continued until the 7th century (when they were Christianized). Therefore, it is not anachronistic to have a 6th century Runic inscription from England. But this is no guarantee that it is authentic; another person, aware of when and where runes were used, could have fabricated the artefact in order to take advantage of such provenance.
As far as the hooked X being a rune, I have no idea. Rune shapes are almost entirely outside my knowledge base.
Mystical meaning being attributed to given letters or runes: This would not surprise me, although I have no knowledge of its being applied to runes. Runes were often connected to other concepts (wynn [ƿ] with joy, thorn [þ] with thorns, etc.) but whether these mnemonic devices were seen as revealing mystical truths, I know not. In other cultural milieus, there has been much mysticism associated with letters. For example, the Siddham script from India was named this because of the custom of writing siddham (be perfected) at the end of each document. A portion of Hindu and Buddhist tantra is about contemplating the physical forms and associated sounds of various letters, which are said to have mystical meaning. For example, there is a version of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra, which only survives in Tibet, in which the entire Perfection of Wisdom is reduced to the syllable and associated letter A.
I hope that this helps you in your efforts to find some truth in the world.
Thanks, A Buddhist. I'm trying to come to a better understanding of the transition of the Hooked X, apparently westward across Europe, finally ending up as two different rune-types...first Anglo-Saxon and then Scandinavian.
I'm trying to better understand how Hooked-X's ended up on America's several "Hooked X" runestones (1362 - 1402), including the infamous Kensington Runestone. I'm talking about tracing language use, only, right now.
But, the various symbolic uses of the Hooked X are of course more difficult to understand...especially if in a given situation where secrecy might be at a premium.
For now, because of the equally infamous Larsson Papers, dated to the mid-1880's, we may assume that the Hooked X's used in America are associated in some way to the background legacy leading up to the Larsson Papers...and when the age of the tree (and deformed roots) once covering the KRS is considered, age-wise, in consideration of the date of the Larsson Papers, it becomes inconceivable that the American Hooked X's would not be connected to the post-Templars, and then likely to the Freemasons, also, considering the further reality of Rosslyn Chapel.
Here it is, more clearly: Start with the mid-1880's for the Larsson Papers, showing the "secretive" Hooked X style...Add 13 years up to 1898, the date the KRS was found. Directly over the buried runestone had been a stunted-growth tree that was proven by H. Holand and others to be MUCH OLDER than this gap, when supposedly the Hooked X was copied from the Larsson Papers onto the KRS. It's not factually possible.
Rather instead, the Larsson Papers tend to prove that the Hooked X's found on America's several Hooked X runestones are tied-in over time to a likely "continuing" secretive use, probably begun by or at least used by Templar and/or post-Templars, since we also have this apparent continuing Freemasonic use, with the connection to Rosslyn Chapel, which seems to be a successful bridge between Templarism and Freemasonry.
I wouldn't mind finding some other trail leading to bits of history truth, but for now this is what we have. Please keep in mind that someone can believe all the above, and without believing in other side-ventures such as the so-called Jesus Bloodline, or the Henry Sinclair attachments.
As an aside, A Buddhist, I'm curious to know whether Buddhism involves a requirement of envangelism, as you may understand that my Christian views entail this personal outlook...even in this unevenly plowed crop field...which also contains stones that haven't been properly cleared, if I may pretend to be speaking metaphorically, for the sake of peace....
Thanks again for your stand-out civility here.
The problems that I have with assuming that the hooked X has only one secretive meaning are as follows:
1. The hooked x shape is so easy to make. If you draw a simple X, there are many ways, relating to accidents of the writing implement, damage to the writing surface, etc., that could change a simple X to a hooked X.
2. Even if it be assumed that the hooked X shape was made deliberately in one or a few circumstances, what is the guarantee that it was made that way as part of a secret code, rather than as a scribal flourish?
3. Even if it be assumed that the Hooked X always had a definite meaning assigned to it, why is there the assumption that the meaning was always the same? 2 clear counterexamples are instructive here. Firstly, there is the swastika, which has at least 5 different meanings: In Buddhism, it is a symbol of good luck and spiritual power, seen, for example, upon the chests of Buddha images to indicate their beneficial presence in the world. In Japan, it used to be used as a symbol for 10,000, and now is used as a map symbol for temples. The Nazis used swastikas as a symbol of the glory of the Aryan race, and in modern Euro-America, swastikas are often used as a short hand for racist hate-groups. Secondly, there is the character ϸ. The Norse and Anglo-Saxons used that character as the rune thorn, and assigned it the phonetic value TH-as-in-THin, or sometimes TH-as-in-THis. But hundreds of years earlier and thousands of miles away, the Greco-Bactrians and Kushans used that same character to represent the SH-as-in-kuSHan. If you could find a link between Greco-Bactrian and Germanic scripts and symbols, that would exalt you among scholars.
Finally, there is a missionary imperative within Buddhism. The Buddha Shakyamuni is said within the Tripitaka and the Tipitaka to have converted entire villages to Buddhism, most famously the Kalamas and his own ethnicity, the Shakyas. There has long been within Buddhism a tradition of trying to convert others to Buddhism. Aryadeva, for example, is said to have converted the Hindu Asvaghosa to Buddhism in a debate. Finally, there is a tradition of Buddhist missionaries in China and Tibet: Lokaksema the Kushan Buddhist was one of several Buddhist missionaries in China, and Śāntarakṣita was one of several Buddhist missionaries in Tibet. The Buddhist missionary urge was largely destroyed by Islamic and Hindu oppression.
I thank you for your politeness.
Thanks again, A BUDDHIST. I didn't mean to assume or imply that the hooked X has or has had only one secretive meaning. Perhaps the Anglo-Saxon hooked-X on the brooch was being used as a secretive symbol, too. It could be, as we seem to be finding out, that the hooked-X was used as both a symbol and a language rune...for these purposes, but at different times, sometimes independently and possibly sometimes together.
In the case of the secretive Templar/Freemason use, the hooked-X appears to have been used both as a symbol (of secretive use, if nothing else) and as a language character.
In these cases, in stone, we're not talking about accidental hooked-X's, as may be the case occasionally on paper. In this vein, there is recent information to show that plenty of hooked-X's were made on Icelandic documents, though apparently not directly connected to Scandinavian Templars.
So, we have apparent muliple uses for hooked-X's through the ages, sometimes used as a symbol, sometimes used in language, sometimes used together...as apparently in the case of the post-Templars, who may be responsible for some of America's hooked-X runestones...or just the singular KRS, without having any influence on the others...in case someone else, another Christian group, perhaps, had used the hooked-X on the Spirit Pond Runestones and/or on the Narragansett runestone.
So, A BUDDHIST, I agree with you about the likely varied uses of the hooked-X through the ages, and that we shouldn't be concentrating on it being used for only one main specific purpose--as a secretive symbol/language rune used only by the Templars, for instance.
However, in my mind, this doesn't negate the likelihood that the hooked-X was used by the Knights Templar and later Freemasons as a secretive symbol for their communications. Who else may have been using the hooked-X during the KRS timeframe on America's east coast, we don't know. The hooked X's used on American runestones during medieval times are still mostly a mystery, it seems....
Thanks for your time-consuming input. Goodbye.
And this is just the first book of Ancient Aliens: Abridged Edition? There's two more? To quote a popular Internet meme:
"FFFFFFUUUUUUUU..."
The remarks by Levenda about the sexual aspects of Alien Abductions and his use of the term Black Mass reminds me of the following.
The similarities between the Alien Abduction phenomena and the great Satanic Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th century are rather clear.
First like in the Witchcraze people had sex in one case with the Devil in the other sexual abuse and manipulation by Aliens. Also in both cases children were born from this abuse some of the time and either killed or taken away by Demons / Aliens.
Also like in the Witchcraze people were wisked away by mysterious unknown means to participate in a ritual of some kind, very much like a Black Mass. Further people who talked about the abductions / going to the Black Mass frequently told of it without coercion or manipulation getting their knowledge about what happens during the whole abduction or Black Mass scenario from the omnipresent pop culture of the time.
In th Black Mass scenario people were wisked away by flying, magic etc. Similar means are used to abduct people when abducted by Aliens. What is also interesting is how frequently from surviving Witchcraze accounts are stories that describe the events happening just after people have gone to bed, just like the stories of many abductees.
Finally the source of the pop culture of the Black Mass during the Witchcraze, the forces that generated the tales and spread them around and constructed the details of the pop culture idea of the Black Mass was the doings of the Witch Hunters who used frequently coercive techniques including brutal torture to generate the narratives desired that fit the narrative of the Black Mass and the Great Satanic conspiracy.
With Alien Abductions the pop culture sources of the narrative, aside from building from the Witchcraze mythos was based in part of Sci-fi stories and movies but it was standardized by so-called researchers who used hypnosis, largely ignoring the fact people readily confabulate under it, leading questions etc., to get the narratives they wanted. And from them the narratives entered popculture where susceptible people could then regurgitate the narrative with little prompting just like in the period of the Witchcraze.
Your book reviews are fantastic at dissecting the content and really pointing out the flaws (and sometimes good sections, although in your line of work you may seldomly come across those).
I am attempting to become more analytic when reading books, so I was wondering what your process for analyzing any non-fiction work or pseudo-history book? Do you highlight sections? Make annotations? do you look up the facts on the spot? Or compile all the glaring problems on a list and then go back later to relay the real information?
Thanks and keep up the great work!
It tends to vary by book. I usually have a Word document open and type my thoughts as I move through the chapters. Yes, I look up facts as I have questions while reading, since the answer will shape my attitude about the author's research skills. At the end of each chapter, I revise my rough reactions into a more coherent reflection. After a while, though, the sameness of so many pseudo-history books makes it rather easy!
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The origin of the divine offspring myth which the Nephilim are just one culture's demonisation of is pretty clear if you look at the propaganda of Kingship in the ancient world.
Divine descent worked in three basic ways.
1. Deification of real ancestors (early Roman Emperors, some Canaanite inscriptions). There's a variant of this where dead King is syncretised with a deity (Egypt did this with Ra and others) or where the deity is a personification of the royal dynasty (the cult of Melqart of Tyre has been theorised as having elements of this.
2. Divine Adoption (eg the Son of God title used by the Biblical David and inherited by Christology). There's a variant of this where the King's mother sleeps with the god on the same night as the human conception (Theseus in Greek Mythology) making them 1 to 2 thirds divine.
3. Descent from mythical demigods (such as the Heraclid dynasties of Greece). The way most students of mythology see such claims as quaint and irrelevant seems to me to be a massive blindspot in their appreciation for the role of the ancestor cult in ancient politics. Comparative mythology's desire to divorce stories from the people that told them renders much of the work done in the field nearly useless in my opinion.
Some cultures only used one of those, many combined all three.
From a materialist perspective god is just a cultural label, so divine descent could be seen as quite literal if
The concept of Levirate marriage has been abused countless times to support various theories, I hope it is not too presumptuous to say that the implications that one's ancestor can be legally changed in a way that interacts with spiritual conceptions of the ancestor cult demonstrates a certain cultural context that must have had wider implications.
Once you actually read the Biblical narrative rather than just thumbing through Genesis until you get bored, it becomes quite clear that the Nephilim of Genesis 6 is there to introduce the concept of the Anakim and Rephaim who are explicitly stated as Nephilim descendants. The Rephaim were the focus of the Canaanite royal ancestor cult, the Anakim are some form of royal dynasty (literally a 'clan' in the translation but dynasty is probably accurate on some level). There's nothing 'ambiguous' about Genesis 6 in the cultural context, it just got reinterpreted due to that context changing when the rise of great empires made the local dynasties irrelevant as a target for polemic.
I doubt anyone who thinks that interpreting a magic chariot as a space craft is reading the Bible literally but ignore it when the Bible plainly tells the reader that its mocking a royal dynasty will be convinced by my argument.
Ancestor worship isn't the source of all religion and mythology, but its a darn sight better basis of a theory of one than than UFOs.
ATRISK: I read that post on Wolters blog. He agrees that a combined ae symbol is a hooked x and then dismisses an actual artifact in the comments because it is too early to be a templar rune. Do you take him seriously?
Also, I would like to point out that if you do a Google Image search for mooring stones you will clearly see images of blasted rock. Also I have never attempted to tie a boat to rocks, but I imagine it wounder require the hole to be frilled all the way through the rock. These do not appear to be. I have not made the effort to do any real research, as I do not have that much time or money, but a quick Google search gave me that much
"Americanegro: I interpreted your statement "You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with" as suggesting that you thought that I was claiming to be familiar with both Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems."
It's safe to say that I NEVER thought that.
"You reveal your own ignorance about the Latin alphabet and transliteration. [Do I?] I am baffled by your insistence that Romanization is not transliteration. Romanization is a sub-field of transliteration in which text is converted into the Latin (i.e., Roman) Alphabet. Do you think that all Latin alphabets have 26 letters? If you think this, then you are wrong. [Did I say that? No. Again, you are trying to teach. Vide infra.]... The 26 letter Latin alphabet that is most commonly used originated in the British Isles [!!!] to write English. And what is this absurd claim that Pinyin has nothing to do with the English Latin alphabet? ...."
"transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)" <-- For really, you could not be more wrong.
Chinese has no letters, so no transliteration. Transcription.
Pinyin only uses 25 letters so that blows away your "Latin Alphabet of Britain".
Please do not try to teach. Certainly not your grandmother to suck eggs.
Americanegro: So where did the English develop their Latin Alphabet? Rome? No, the English, in England, modified the Latin alphabet to write in English. They added in J, for example, and created various digraphs. J developed in other regions, but these other regions developed other letters that are not used in English, such as Ø.
As far as the claim that pinyin has only 25 letters: WHAT! Which letter in the English Latin alphabet is not used in Pinyin? Tell me and mock me for it, if you dare.
I realize, thanks to your reminder, that I should have been talking about transcription rather than transliteration. The fact remains that Romanization is an overly narrow description of the process, since this process, using other scripts and writing systems, can be applied to transcribe Chinese into non-Latin scripts.
I have difficulty in interpreting beyond the surface meanings of what people write. But the fact remains that you thought that I was wanting Jason to be familiar with Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems of transcribing Chinese in the English Latin alphabet. Where are the words in which I said this? I asked him why he was using Pinyin; it seems strange to me that any person of sound mind would interpret this as meaning that I had any expectation or desire for him to be familiar with both systems of writing.
"you thought that I was wanting Jason to be familiar with Wade-Giles and Pinyin systems of transcribing Chinese in the English Latin alphabet. Where are the words in which I said this? I asked him why he was using Pinyin"
NOT what I said. Imagine my surprise. In this instance being able to read the surface meaning will suffice although my confidence level is low.
You: "Why are you using the Wade-Giles system of transliterating Chinese (T'ang) rather than pinyin (Tang)?"
Me: "You're asking Jason to learn two separate romanization (not transliterating) systems for a language he doesn't work with. This is something that people do not do." <-- that is a hint to you
You either thought he chose Wade-Giles and should have chosen Pinyin, or that he used Wade-Giles without choice and should have used Pinyin. If he uses one, to use the other, he has to know both well enough to convert. QED.
"As far as the claim that pinyin has only 25 letters: WHAT! Which letter in the English Latin alphabet is not used in Pinyin? Tell me and mock me for it, if you dare."
"V". Consider yourself mocked, repeatedly until the end of time. Who dares, wins. Amazing that you would try to pull that after admitting you didn't know Pinyin. You could have just looked it up.
"They added in J, for example, and created various digraphs. J developed in other regions, but these other regions developed other letters that are not used in English, such as Ø."
So because other people invented other letters, the English get to take credit for J which they did not invent? Nonsense!
"transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)"
I never get tired of citing this pompous error. ^^
Let this be your mantra: "Please do not try to teach. Certainly not your grandmother to suck eggs."
Americanegro:
Firstly, thank you for telling me the letter in Pinyin that was not used. I seek truth above all other things, and am glad that you have shared truth with me rather than continuing to insult me with baseless accusations.
I made no claim that the English invented J alone. But the way in which the English use J in writing English words, as well as other letters, such as X and TH and SH and CH, is their invention.
You attribute to me motives that I never had or expressed. When I asked Jason about his using the Wade-Giles system, I was not suggesting that he should convert it to Pinyin. Rather, I was simply wondering why he used the Wade-Giles system. It seems that I am not the only person who has difficulty in distinguishing implication from explicit statement.
I am glad that my failure provides you with amusement. I for my part am continuously baffled by your statements about Pali. Language, or accented Sanskrit? You have given me differing answers depending upon when we talked about the topic.
And why do you think that I can teach nothing? Do you believe me to lack all competence? What about my ability to correct other people in their errors about the figures named Cain in the Bible? And could you find anything wrong with my account of the post-Celtic migration history of the British Isles?
Look, I think that we are similar in our pedantism and love for knowledge. We could help each other. I could learn from you. But I really do not like to be insulted by you in various ways. If you were to refrain from insulting language and simply correct matters, I could better enjoy your remarks.
"But the way in which the English use J in writing English words, as well as other letters, such as X and TH and SH and CH, is their invention."
SO EFFING WHAT??! WHAT IS YOUR G.D. POINT HERE?
"The way in which the English use [blank] is the invention of the English." SO EFFING WHAT??! WHAT IS YOUR G.D. POINT HERE?
See, this ^^ is an example where you were (aggressively) wrong on something easy.
"V". Consider yourself mocked, repeatedly until the end of time. Who dares, wins. Amazing that you would try to pull that after admitting you didn't know Pinyin. You could have just looked it up. Your reasoning: "V" is in "the Latin Alphabet of Britain" therefore it must be in Pinyin" because " [it's] transliterating the Chinese script into the Latin Alphabet of Britain (for really, that is what Pinyin romanization is)" <-- For really, you could not be more wrong.
Buddhism is your stonehole. When you set out to "teach" you are almost always wrong. Remember when I had to correct you on types of consciousnesses? The difference between us is that you are often uninformed and wrong but present yourself as someone who knows what he's talking about.
I had forgotten that pinyin did not use V. I thank you for reminding me of this fact. Had I remembered this from the beginning, I would not have made the claim about Pinyin being an adaptation of the English Latin alphabet.
I remember our contact about consciousness. We agreed that there were 6 consciousnesses, but I cannot remember where you had to correct me; rather, you described the 6 consciousnesses in a better way than I could. I remember that conversation as being more distinguished by your bizarre claims about Pali and your unjustified mockery of my use of the word Tipitaka. But since I try to operate in good faith, feel free to remind me of my errors.
Do you think that I can teach about nothing? That is a very extreme claim to make.
Having thought over our extremely negative relationship, I have come to the following realizations:
1. We were not agreeing that there were 6 consciousnesses; rather, we were discussing sense bases, and we agreed that there were, as per the Tripitaka/Tipitaka, 6 sense bases: sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing, and thought. You were able to explain how these 6 sense bases accounted for all that we perceive in a better way than I could. However, my recollection of that conversation is overshadowed by your bizarre claims about Pali and your unjustified mockery of my use of the word Tipitaka.
2. I admit that I make errors in these comments. But if I were to let every set back in my life discourage me from trying again in an improved manner, I would be as stupid and as poorly achieving as you think me to be. So I will continue to try to make contributions to these blogposts, taking more care to research what I say and use clearer wording.
I sort of skimmed through a majority of the review once I noticed that it appears that Tom Delonge had little to do with the actual penning of this book. I'm sure it was a collaborative effort intellectually, however based on your review it seems we get Levenda's cynical tone, as opposed to Tom Delonge's genuine excitement over the material (based on his promotional interviews.) Even if it were still a rehash of ideas from earlier materials on the subject I get the feeling it would have been better to read in a Delonge tone instead. I almost feel his name is on the book just for brand recognition, regardless of level of input.
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IULTCS welcomes LETSB Bangladesh as a new member
The IULTCS is pleased to announce that it cordially welcomes the Leather Engineers and Technologists Society, Bangladesh (LETSB) as a full member of the IULTCS family.
LETSB is a professional organisation of Leather, Footwear and Leather Products Engineers of Bangladesh, established in 1989. LETSB upholds the interest of the members by practicing sound technical matters for the industry; to organise technical seminars, workshops and leather fairs; to create awareness about compliance on environment, health and social aspects. It also assists government and non-government organisations by providing authentic technical support.
As leather in Bangladesh is a predominant natural resource it is important that the voice of this region be heard in global technical discussions and that they make a contribution towards the technical direction taken by the industry.
The LETSB International Affairs Secretary, Firoj Khan Nun, commented that with currently over 1000 members the LETSB is increasing its membership base each year.
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You work as a senior administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers on the L2P.com network have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
You are running a training exercise for junior administrators. You are currently discussing what happens when you run the Remove-NetLbfoTeam Windows PowerShell cmdlet.
Which of the following describes the results of running this cmdlet?
A. It removes one or more network adapters from a specified NIC team.
B. It removes a team interface from a NIC team.
C. It removes a specified NIC team from the host.
D. It removes a network adapter member from a switch team.
Remove-NetLbfoTeam removes the specified NIC team from the host
The Remove-NetLbfoTeam cmdlet removes the specified NIC team from the host. This cmdlet disconnects all associated team members and providers from the team.
You can specify the team to remove by using either a team object retrieved by Get-NetLbfoTeam, or by specifying a team name.
You can use Remove-NetLbfoTeam to remove all NIC teams from the server.
You need administrator privileges to use Remove-NetLbfoTeam.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj130848%28v=wps.620%29.aspx
You work as a senior administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers in the L2P.com domain, including domain controllers, have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
You are running a training exercise for junior administrators.
You are currently discussing the Virtual Fibre Channel SAN feature.
Which of the following is TRUE with regards to the Virtual Fibre Channel SAN feature? (Choose all that apply.)
A. It prevents virtual machines from connecting directly to Fibre Channel storage.
B. It allows for virtual machines to connect to Fibre Channel storage directly.
C. It includes support for virtual SANs, live migration, and multipath I/O.
D. It includes support for virtual SANs, and live migration, but not multipath I/O.
To gain the full benefits of server virtualization and cloud architectures, virtualized workloads need to connect easily and reliably to existing SANs. For many enterprise organizations, Hyper-V deployments were limited in scale and scope because they
lacked the ability to directly connect VMs to Fibre Channel SAN storage from inside a VM. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 now provides virtual Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) ports within the guest operating system that runs the virtual machine, connecting virtual machines directly to FibreChannel SAN Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs).
Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides several important advantages for Hyper-V environments:
Simplifies storage connectivity for virtualized workloads to ultra-reliable, high-performance Fibre Channel SAN storage
Enables new solutions that require shared storage, such as failover clustering, live migration, andmultipath I/O
Leverages and protects existing investments in Fibre Channel storage ?
Enables advanced FC SAN storage functionality for VMs
Facilitates migration of FC workloads into the cloud
Enables improved monitoring and troubleshooting, with visibility from the VM to the FC SAN storage
Enables centralized management of Ethernet and FC-based virtualized workloads
Combining Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V and the Brocade?Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure greatly simplifies connectivity between Fibre Channel SAN storage and virtualized applications, enabling enterprise IT and hosting providers to achieve new levels of availability, reliability, and scalability for cloud-based services.
You need your virtualized workloads to connect easily and reliably to your existing storage arrays. Windows Server 2012 R2 provides Fibre Channel ports within the guest operating system, which allows you to connect to Fibre Channel directly from within virtual machines. This feature protects your investments in Fibre Channel, enables you to virtualize workloads that use direct access to Fibre Channel storage, allows you to cluster guest operating systems over Fibre Channel, and provides an important new storage option for servers hosted in your virtualization infrastructure.
With this Hyper-V virtual Fibre Channel feature, you can connect to Fibre Channel storage from within a virtual machine. This allows you to use your existing Fibre Channel investments to support virtualized workloads. Support for Fibre Channel in Hyper-V guests also includes support for many relatedfeatures, such as virtual SANs, live migration, and MPIO.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831413.aspx
http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/technical_briefs/virtual-fibre-channel-hyperv-tb.pdf
Your network contains an Active Directory domain named contoso.com. The domain contains a server named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2. On a server named Server2, you perform a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2012 R2.
You join Server2 to the contoso.com domain.
You need to ensure that you can manage Server2 by using the Computer Management console on Server1.
What should you do on Server2?
A. Install Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT).
B. Install Windows Management Framework.
C. Run sconfig.exe and configure remote management.
D. Run sconfig.exe and configure Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT).
In Windows Server 2012 R2, you can use the Server Configuration tool (Sconfig.cmd) to configure and manage several common aspects of Server Core installations. You must be a member of the Administrators group to use the tool. Sconfig.cmd is available in the Minimal Server Interface and in Server with a GUI mode.
You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers in the L2P.com domain, including domain controllers, have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
When you recently added new workstations to the L2P.com manually, you found that that the computer accounts were created in the default container.
You want to make sure that the default container for newly created computers is redirected to a specified, target organizational unit (OU).
Which of the following actions should you take?
A. You should consider making use of the replace.exe command-line tool.
B. You should consider making use of the redircmp.exe command-line tool.
C. You should consider making use of the redirusr.exe command-line tool.
D. You should consider making use of the rexec.exe command-line tool.
redircmp.exe redirects the default container for newly created computers to a specified,
targetorganizational unit (OU) so that newly created computer objects are created in the specific target OU instead of in CN=Computers.
http://technet.microsoft.com/pt-pt/library/cc770619%28v=ws.10%29.aspx http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324949/en-us
You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com.
L2P.com has a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller, named L2P-DC01, which has the Domain Naming master and the Schema master roles installed. L2P.com also has a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller, named L2P-DC02, which has the PDC Emulator, RID master, and Infrastructure master roles installed.
You have deployed a new Windows Server 2012 server, which belongs to a workgroup, in L2P.com’s perimeter network.
You then executed the djoin.exe command.
Which of the following is the purpose of the djoin.exe command?
A. It sets up a computer account in a domain and requests an offline domain join when a computer restarts.
B. It sets up a user account in a domain and requests an online domain join when a computer restarts.
C. It sets up a computer account in a domain and requests an offline domain join immediately.
D. It sets up a computer account in a domain and requests an online domain join immediately.
To perform an offline domain join, you run commands by using a new tool named Djoin.exe. You use Djoin.exe to provision computer account data into AD DS. You also use it to insert the computer account data into the Windows directory of the destination computer, which is the computer that you want to join to the domain.
/localos Targets the local operating system installation, instead of an offline image, with the domain join information. Because this parameter injects the blob data into the locally running operating system image, you must restart the computer to complete the domain join operation, as you must also do for an onlinedomain join.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/offline-domain-join-djoin-step-by-step%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers in the L2P.com domain have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed, while domain controllers have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed.
You are then tasked with deploying a new Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller.
You are preparing to install the DNS Server role, and enable the global catalog server option.
A. You should consider making use of Server Manager.
B. You should consider making use of the Active Directory Installation Wizard.
C. You should consider making use of the DHCP Installation Wizard
D. You should consider making use of TS Manager
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You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. all servers in the L2P.com domain has Windows Server 2012 R2 nstalled.
You have logged on to a server, named L2P-SR07, and would like to obtain the IP configurations of a server, named L2P-SR13.
A. You should consider making use of the Winrs.exe command.
B. You should consider making use of the Winsat.exe command.
C. You should consider making use of the Winpop.exe command.
D. You should consider making use of the Dsrm.exe command.
Windows Remote Management allows you to manage and execute programs remotely.
You can use WinRS to administer a Server Core installation remotely from the command line. WinRS is a command-line tool included in both Windows Vista and the Full installation of Windows Server 2008, which relies on Windows Remote Management (WinRM) to execute remote commands, especially for headless servers. WinRM is Microsoft’s implementation of the WS-Management protocol, a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based, firewall-friendly protocol that enables hardware and operating systems from different vendors to interoperate. You can think of WinRM as the server side and WinRS the client side of WS-Management.
winrs -r:<some computer> ipconfig /all
You have a domain controller named Server1 that runs Windows Server 2012 R2 and has the DNS Server server role installed. Server1 hosts a DNS zone named contoso.com and a GlobalNames zone.
You discover that the root hints were removed from Server1.
You need to view the default root hints of Server1.
Which file should you open?
A. Netlogon.dns
B. Cache.dns
C. Globalnames.dns
D. Place.dns
DNS Server service implements root hints using a file, Cache.dns, stored in the systemroot\System32\Dns folder on the server.
Thus viewing the Cache.dns file will show the root hints.
You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers on the L2P.com network have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed.
Most of the L2P.com servers have 64 – bit CPU’s installed, while the rest have 32 – bit CPU’s
You are informed that L2P.com wants to deploy Windows Server 2012 R2 on all their servers.
You need to make recommendations to ensure that this is possible.
Which of the following would you recommend?
A. You should inform L2P.com that the deployment can proceed without any changes.
B. You should inform L2P.com that the servers with 32 bit CPU’s must be upgraded to include 64 bit
CPU’s for the deployment to proceed.
C. You should inform L2P.com that the servers with 64 bit CPU’s must be upgraded to include 32 bit
D. You should inform L2P.com that the deployment is not in any way possible.
Windows Server 2012 is a 64-bit only operating system.
Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor
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You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers on the L2P.com network have Windows Server 2012 installed.
L2P.com has its headquarters in London, and several widespread satellite offices. When L2P.com releases a new written policy stating that the graphical user interface (GUI) should not be installed on any servers deployed to L2P.com’s satellite offices.
It is reported that a server in one of the satellite offices are not compliant with the new written policy. You are required to remedy the situation, while using the least amount of user interaction.
A. You should consider uninstalling the User Interfaces and Infrastructure feature using a PowerShell cmdlet.
B. You should consider uninstalling the User Interfaces and Infrastructure feature via TS Manager.
C. You should consider uninstalling the User Interfaces and Infrastructure feature via Server Manager.
D. You should consider uninstalling the User Interfaces and Infrastructure feature using the Dsrm.exe command
from the command prompt.
One of the great things about Windows PowerShell on Windows Server 2012 is all the great cmdlets and functions. But these did not spring into being from nothingness
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You work as an administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers in the L2P.com domain, including domain controllers, have Windows Server 2012 installed.
L2P.com has a server, named L2P-SR07, which has four network adapters.
L2P.com has two SR07’s network adapters are connected to the one LAN,
local area networks (LANs). Two of L2P-
while the other two are connected to the other LAN.
You are required to configure one of the network adapter pairs into a network adapter team.
A. You should consider accessing the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on L2P-SR07.
B. You should consider accessing the TS Manager console on L2P-SR07.
C. You should consider accessing the Server Manager console on L2P-SR07.
D. You should consider accessing the Remote Desktop Gateway Manager console on L2P-SR07.
NIC teaming, also known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters tobe placed into a team for the purposes of bandwidth aggregation, and/or traffic failover to maintain connectivity in the event of a network component failure.
A server named, L2P-SR13, has a Server Core Installation of Windows Server 2012 installed.
SR13’s installation to a Server with GUI installation.
You are instructed to convert L2P-
You want to use a Windows PowerShell cmdlet that uses Windows Update as a source.
A. You should consider making use of the Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,
Server-Gui-Shell -Restart cmdlet.
B. You should consider making use of the Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra,
Server-Gui-Shell -Restart -Source c:\mountdir\windows\winsxs cmdlet.
C. You should consider making use of the Uninstall-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell–Remove cmdlet.
D. You should consider making use of the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet.
The Full GUI Server Interface provides you with the full GUI of Windows Server 2012 R2.
PowerShell Command: Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra, Server-Gui-Shell
When its done, we will need to restart our server by using the Shutdown command:
shutdown -r -t 0
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You work as a senior administrator at L2P.com. The L2P.com network consists of a single domain named L2P.com. All servers on the L2P.com network have Windows Server 2012 installed.
You are currently discussing Storage Spaces.
Which of the following is TRUE with regards to Storage Spaces?
A. Mirroring and parity are optional resilient storage modes of Storage Spaces.
B. Failover clustering is not supported by Storage Spaces.
C. Storage spaces are virtual disks with associated attributes such as a preferred level of resiliency,
and thin or fixed provisioning.
D. Storage spaces are a collection of physical disks with associated attributes such as a preferred
level of resiliency, and thin or fixed provisioning.
Answer: AC
Storage Spaces lets you group drives together in a storage pool. Then you can use pool capacity to create storage spaces.
Storage spaces are virtual drives that appear in File Explorer. You can use them like any other drive, so it’s easy to work with files on them.
You can create large storage spaces and add more drives to them when you run low on pool capacity.
If you have two or more drives in the storage pool, you can create storage spaces that won’t be –or even the failure of two drives, if you create a three-way mirror storage space.
affected by a drive failure
Storage Spaces includes the following features:
1. Storage pools. Storage pools are the fundamental building blocks for Storage Spaces.
Administrators are already familiar with this concept, so they will not have to learn a new model. They can flexibly create storage pools based on the needs of the deployment. For example, given a set of physical disks, an administrator can create one pool (by using all the available physical disks) or multiple pools (by dividing the physical disks as required). Furthermore, to maximize the value from storage hardware, the administrator can map a storage pool to combinations of hard disks as well as solid-state drives (SSDs). Pools can be expanded dynamically by simply adding additional drives, thereby seamlessly scaling to cope with unceasing data growth.
2. Multitenancy. Administration of storage pools can be controlled through access control lists (ACLs) and delegated on a per-pool basis, thereby supporting hosting scenarios that require tenant isolation. Storage Spaces follows the familiar Windows security model; therefore, it can be fully integrated with Active Directory Domain Services.
3. Resilient storage. Storage Spaces support two optional resiliency modes: mirroring and parity. Per-pool support for disks that are reserved for replacing failed disks (hot spares), background scrubbing, and intelligent error correction allow continuous service availability despite storage component failures. In the event of a power failure or cluster failover, the integrity of data is preserved so that recovery happens quickly and does not result in data loss.
4. Continuous availability. Storage Spaces is fully integrated with failover clustering, which allows it to deliver continuously available service deployments. One or more pools can be clustered across multiple nodes within a single cluster. Storage spaces can then be instantiated on individual nodes, and the storage will seamlessly fail over to a different node when necessary (in response to failure conditions or due to load balancing). Integration with CSVs permits scale-out access to data.
5. Optimal storage use. Server consolidation often results in multiple data sets sharing the same storage hardware. Storage Spaces supports thin provisioning to allow businesses to easily share storage capacity among multiple unrelated data sets and thereby maximize capacity use.
6. Storage Spaces also supports trim, automatically running the Storage Optimizer to help reduce the physical footprint of data by consolidating data.
7. Operational simplicity. Fully remoteable and scriptable management is permitted through the Windows Storage Management API, WMI, and Windows PowerShell. Storage Spaces can be easily managed through the File and Storage Services role in Server Manager. Storage Spaces also provides notifications when the amount of available capacity in a storage pool hits a configurable threshold.
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You are currently discussing NIC Teaming.
Which of the following is TRUE with regards to NIC Teaming? (Choose all that apply.)
A. It allows for traffic failover to prevent connectivity loss if a network component fails.
B. It prevents bandwidth aggregation.
C. The Windows Server 2012 implementation of NIC Teaming supports a maximum of 5 NICs in a team.
D. The Windows Server 2012 implementation of NIC Teaming supports a maximum of 32 NICs in a team.
NIC teaming, also known as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purposes of bandwidth aggregation, and/or traffic failover to maintain connectivity in the event of a network component failure. This feature has long been available from NIC vendors but until now NIC teaming has not been included with Windows Server.
Do I have to select a standby member to get fault tolerance (failover)? No. IN any team with two or more network adapters if a network adapter fails in an Active/Active configuration, the traffic on that network adapter will gracefully failover to the other network adapters in the team even if none of the other adapters are in standby mode.
Number of NICs in a team in a native host
NIC teaming requires the presence of at least one Ethernet NIC. A team of one NIC may be used for separation of traffic using VLANs. Obviously a team with only one team member has no failure protection. Fault protection (failover) requires a minimum of two Ethernet NICs in the team. The Windows Server 2012 implementation supports up to 32 NICs in a team.
Number of team interfaces for a team Windows Server
2012 supports up to 32 team interfaces.
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You are running a training exercise for junior administrators. You are currently discussing spanned volumes.
Which of the following is TRUE with regards to spanned volumes? (Choose all that apply.)
A. Spanned volumes do not provide fault tolerance.
B. Spanned volumes are a fault tolerant solution.
C. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 16 dynamic disks.
D. You cannot create a spanned volume using a system volume or boot volume.
A spanned volume is a dynamic volume consisting of disk space on more than one physical disk. If a simple volume is not a system volume or boot volume, you can extend it across additional disks to create a spanned volume, or you can create a spanned volume in unallocated space on a dynamic disk.
You need at least two dynamic disks in addition to the startup disk to create a spanned volume. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 dynamic disks.
Spanned volumes are not fault tolerant.
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Los Angeles for Film Fans: Midtown 3
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The old May & Co store, Wilshire Boulevard
On Wilshire’s northwest corner with Fairfax Avenue stands Johnie’s Coffee Shop, 6101 Wilshire Boulevard, a Fifties-style treat – again closed, but thankfully still standing – featured in Reservoir Dogs, American History X and the underrated Miracle Mile.
This is where Anthony Edwards receives the phone call tipping him off about an impending nuclear attack on LA in this apocalyptic thriller, and the appearance of this stretch of road on-screen rarely bodes well for the city.
The striking gold cylinder of long-closed department store May & Co on the opposite corner of Fairfax is destroyed in Volcano (don’t worry – this stretch of Wilshire Boulevard was recreated in the studio for the film). The department store became LACMA West – an extension of the LA County Museum of Art – but it's since been acquired by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and is scheduled to become a movie museum.
The lava that threatens to engulf the city first wells up from the La Brea Tar Pits. Technically, this is not tar, but asphalt, which oozes from a large petroleum reservoir called the Salt Lake Oil Field, bubbling beneath the ground to the north of Hancock Park.
La Brea Tar Pits, Wilshire Boulevard
Visit the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, 5801 Wilshire Boulevard at Curson Avenue – that’s the excellent museum built at the site of the Pits, where the remains of thousands of Pleistocene Age animals (particularly dire wolves and sabre-tooth cats) were preserved as fossils after the creatures became trapped in the sticky oil.
You can see the museum in another unjustifiably neglected movie, Curtis Hanson’s Bad Influence, where smoothly sinister Rob Lowe gives James Spader a little dodgy career advice. The ‘La Brea tar pits’ which are seen in Last Action Hero, though, are fake – recreated down in Long Beach.
A double ticket to the Museum includes admission to the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, next door. Steve Martin roller-skates through its Ahmanson Gallery in L.A. Story (he’s allowed to – he’s on the museum’s board), while the star-studded charity ball in Robert Altman’s wicked satire The Player is held in its Central Court.
The entrance to LACMA is now graced by Urban Light, an ingeniously simple forest of 200 vintage lampposts, by Chris Burden, through which you can stroll. Tailor-made as a romcom backdrop, it’s not taken long for this striking landmark to appear on screen – briefly in Garry Marshall’s Valentine’s Day and more substantially in Ivan Reitman's 2011 romcom No Strings Attached, with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher.
Back to Volcano and, fortunately for shopaholics, Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche are on hand to halt the deadly lava flow just before it engulfs the enormous, eight-story Beverly Center, 8500 Beverly Boulevard. This is supposedly where Bette Midler and Woody Allen row in Scenes From a Mall, though apart from exterior establishing shots, the film was shot in Connecticut and New York.
Away from the shopping centres, Midtown also takes in the smart enclave of Hancock Park.
Most mansions seen in Hollywood movies can be found in LA’s genteel (and less expensive for filming) neighbour Pasadena but occasionally the smart homes of Hancock Park deign to appear on screen.
Behind the forbidding gates at 211 Muirfield Road, alongside Wilshire Country Club is the one-time home of Howard Hughes, which was naturally seen in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator.
Il Borghese, North Sycamore Avenue
Il Borghese, 450 North Sycamore Avenue at Rosewood Avenue, was the ‘West Hollywood’ courtyard apartment presided over by Coco Lenoix (Ann Miller) in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.
Keeping up the tradition of Los Angeles doubling for just about anywhere in the US, 333 Arden Boulevard becomes the ‘Pacific Northwest’ house where schoolkid David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) hacks into the US defence system for a quick game of Global Thermonuclear War in John Badham’s 1983 WarGames, and if you want to visit 'Elgin, Illinois', 366 South June Street at West 4th Street is the mansion of smugly swanky Steff (James Spader), where Andie (Molly Ringwald) has such a bad time at the rich kids’ party in Pretty In Pink.
Back closer to home, the old ‘Hollywood’ mansion (actually a very smart Hancock Park residence), where sisters Jane and Blanche Hudson (Bette Davis and Joan Crawford) live in a mutually-dependent hate-hate relationship in 1960s campfest What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is 172 South McCadden Place between West First and West Second Streets.
Head back west to relax in Tom Bergin's Tavern, 840 South Fairfax Avenue south of West 8th Street. Its sole film credit (that I can find) is a brief appearance in Danny DeVito's 2003 Ben Stiller-Drew Barrynore comedy Duplex, but the self-styled 'House of Irish Coffee' has been a celeb favourite since it opened in 1935. If you doubt that, the bar is festooned with thousands of shamrocks commemorating loyal regulars over the years, including the likes of John Wayne, Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts, as well as Cary Grant who had his own booth here.
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Visit: La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (tel: 323.857.6300)
Visit: the LA County Museum of Art (LACMA), 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (tel: 323.857.6000)
Shop at: the Beverly Center, 8500 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048 (tel: 310.854.0070)
Drink at: Tom Bergin's Tavern, 840 South Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (tel: 323.936.7151)
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Peruvian Fashion Comes To The North East
Fashion designer Eleanor O'Neill talks to Northern Insight's Steve Russell about why she has joined the latest South American Revolution.
As a man more familiar with the hallowed racks of TK Maxx than the highfalutin world of haute couture, I must confess that beyond Paddington Bear’s exquisitely tailored Duffel coat and Nolberto Solano’s deluxe trumpet case, my expertise on Peruvian fashion is somewhat limited!
However, it seems I may be in the minority, with Newcastle based entrepreneur Eleanor O’Neill, among a growing number of fashion designers incorporating quality Peruvian fibres into their collections.
Eleanor’s label, STUDY 34, has teamed up with Incalpaca, one of Peru’s premier producers of Alpaca wool, to create luxurious but sustainable knitwear for women. STUDY 34’s current range features baby Alpaca crews in two classic and natural shades, bringing versatility and elegance to any wardrobe. In case you were wondering (or perhaps it was just me?) using baby Alpaca wool doesn’t mean that there are thousands of infant Alpacas roaming the Andes in an alarming state of baldness. “Baby” refers to the quality of the wool, with only the finest twenty percent being graded as such, as Eleanor explains:
“Part of what makes baby Alpaca wool such a luxurious material is the fact that the process of sorting and grading the wool can never be mechanized. The fibres are meticulously sorted by hand, a skill which has been honed over generations in Peru and the wool itself is so soft and light it’s comparable to cashmere.”
Compared to sheep’s wool, Alpaca produces a silkier yarn and contains no lanolin, making it hypoallergenic. With her natural inclination towards a classic, functional aesthetic, Eleanor allows the quality of the fabric to speak for itself, and her timeless designs deliberately eschew prevailing trends:
“My background is predominantly in women’s knitwear and I really wanted to do one thing well, so I currently only design for women and I only do knitwear. My core values as a designer are about craftsmanship and style, rather than following trends, but also about using natural, sustainable resources.”
The fashion industry has long been criticised for the exploitation of workers in developing countries, as well as the damage done by chemicals involved in manufacturing processes. While Eleanor acknowledges that importing goods inevitably has a small carbon footprint, she is proud to utilise a natural, disposable material, manufactured under ethical conditions, where workers receive a fair wage.
Having scooped The Prince’s Trust Tomorrow’s Business Award in 2016, it’s a partnership that is certainly thriving, but how exactly does a girl from Yorkshire come to collaborate with Peruvian industry? Graduating from Nottingham School of Art with a degree in knitwear, Eleanor went on to work for some of fashion’s biggest names, including spells with Li and Fung in New York and Hugo Boss in Switzerland. She values the skills and experience those positions brought but was always eager to set up her own label to allow her the creative freedom she craved.
“Newcastle has always been like a second home for me, so it was a natural choice for me when I decided to set up my own business. The Prince’s Trust were fantastic in helping me to get established and winning the Tomorrow’s Business Award was amazing as not only did it involve a cash prize and digital marketing training via Google, but I also received mentoring from Steve Rowe (CEO of Marks and Spencer) who himself has a background in knitwear.”
Having access to such a luminary was invaluable and allowed her to expand her network considerably, something which she feels is vital for any aspiring entrepreneur: “My advice would be to build your network and don’t wait until your business is ready for the market until you start talking about it, otherwise you’ll put it out there to silence. Newcastle has an amazing community of entrepreneurs, so it’s such an exciting place for start-ups”.
Owing to her passion for no-waste, “circular” fashion, STUDY 34’s early designs were based on sourcing end-of-line and waste material from British manufacturers, but issues with supply and scalability led Eleanor to consider exploring a rather unexpected opportunity: “I got an email seemingly out of the blue about the Peruvian government wanting small businesses to come over and potentially collaborate with their manufacturers. I successfully applied and spent an intense four days over there visiting various producers. I was really impressed and found them really open to doing business, something that was sometimes lacking from the British manufacturers I have dealt with.”
The success of her current range, which has brought clients from across the world, has recently inspired Eleanor to expand her collection: “My new pieces are in development now and will be available in the autumn. They will be a mix of Alpaca wool and Pima cotton, which is another Peruvian fibre used by the likes of Eileen Fisher, who is one of the pioneers of sustainable fashion. Using that blend of fibres makes them machine-washable so they’ll be easier carewise, but will still retain a luxurious feel.”
Running STUDY 34 leaves her precious little free time, but what time she does have is spent inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs through an ongoing association with The Prince’s Trust Enterprise programme, as well her involvement with initiatives like The Girls Network. Enabling other women to achieve their goals is embedded in the vision of STUDY 34, so there’s clearly lots more Eleanor wishes to achieve, but in a world of fast, disposable fashion, it’s refreshing to see a young designer who definitely doesn’t value style over substance.
For more information visit www.study34.co.uk
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Les Misérables, based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel, is the kind of musical you’d think most directors would be dying to get their hands on, and many have. The original production, by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, premiered in Paris in 1980, and went on to become the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history.
Now, Canberra’s own Free-Rain Theatre is taking on the international smash-hit, playing at The Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre from the 4th to the 22nd of April. I went along to the preview of Les Misérables, which was stunning to say the least.
Following the success of Free-Rain Theatre’s production of Wicked last year, they’ve decided to tackle one of the greatest musicals of all time. Producer Anne Somes has brought together an array of Canberra artists, both experienced and emerging, to tell the emotional story of ex-convict, 24601, Jean Valjean as he runs from the ruthless Inspector Javert. Hugo’s original tale is adapted faithfully to the stage, as audience members become acquainted with the likes of Jean Valjean and Javert, as well as Fantine, her daughter Cosette, Marius, Eponine, and the Thénardiers. The strength of the story lies in its ability to deal with so many things in one story: politics, poverty, social and legal justice, the battle between good and evil, identity, and romance. Les Misérables remains faithful to the original story, despite its length and complexity.
The score, with its revolutionary-patriotic fervour, is hugely demanding, yet Free-Rain’s cast perform it excellently. Peter Lockyer (The Phantom of the Opera) plays Jean Valjean remarkably well, bringing an intensity that is matched only by his powerful tenor. There is incredible support by Tony Falla as Javert and Nicole Carr as Eponine, who stays faithful to her role whilst giving the most emotive performance of the production. In each of her songs, she performs flawlessly, touching the hearts of the audience and evoking feelings of empathy for her character. Sam Ward, who plays Marius, is also excellent; he gives a heartrending performance, particularly during ‘Empty Chairs at Empty Tables’, which was one of the best songs of the night.
Under the talented musical direction of Nicholas Griffin, Les Misérables is truly brought to life. The choreography and ensemble work in particular create strong imagery that makes up for the small-scale set. Compared with their larger productions, the minimalist setting worked particularly well here; it provided the level of intimacy necessary for audiences to connect with the story and characters.
The opening night ended spectacularly, as audience members rose to a standing ovation – a testament to the brilliance of Free-Rain Theatre’s work.
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NPEC's Executive Director publishes a new piece in The Hill, "A Cautionary Tale for Dealing with Riyadh," detailing the proliferation risks of reaching a civilian nuclear cooperative deal with Saudi Arabia without restrictions on uranium enrichment or spent fuel reprocessing.
Mar 06, 2018 5 Myths about Saudi Arabia's Nuclear Program
NPEC's Executive Director publishes a new op-ed in The National Interest, "5 Myths about Saudi Arabia's Nuclear Program."
Mar 02, 2018 Cutting a Permissive Nuclear Deal with Saudi Arabia -- Playing with Fire
NPEC's Program Advisor and Executive Director publish a piece in Foreign Policy, "Don't Give Saudi Arabia An Easy Path to Nukes."
Feb 22, 2018 No to a Permissive US-Saudi Nuclear Deal
NPEC's Executive Director and Program Advisor publish a new op-ed in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, "No to a Permissive US-Saudi Nuclear Deal," about the importance of sticking to the nonproliferation Gold Standard in any nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia.
Feb 09, 2018 Understanding the US-Saudi Nuclear Cooperation Controversy
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry seems to be in a rush to strike formal US 123 nuclear cooperative agreement with Saudi Arabia that would be "flexible" on the question of whether or not Riyadh could enrich uranium or separate plutonium from spent reactor fuel -- the same nuclear activities that the world is rightly worried Iran might use in several years to make bombs under the provisions of the current Iran nuclear deal. None of this will help “fix” the Iran nuclear deal’s allowance for Tehran to enrich and reprocess in several years. Instead, it will only signal to the Gulf States and the world that Washington is not that concerned about preventing the spread of the most dangerous nuclear weapons-related technologies in the most dangerous region of the world. The House and Senate should ask questions and hold hearings to shape these negotiations well before they produce any final text whose terms we might later regret.
Feb 08, 2018 Is a US 123 with Saudi Arabia Necessary?
Memo questioning the need for a US 123 nuclear cooperative agreement with Saudi Arabia.
Feb 05, 2018 A Poorly Negotiated Saudi Nuclear Deal Could Damage Future Regional Relationships
NPEC Executive Director Henry Sokolski and NPEC Board Member William Tobey publish a new op-ed in The National Interest, "A Poorly Negotiated Saudi Nuclear Deal Could Damage Future Regional Relationships," about the dangers of a lax nuclear cooperative agreement with Saudi Arabia.
Jan 07, 2018 Reactors for Saudi Arabia Are Bad Business and Dangerous Diplomacy
NPEC's Executive Director and Board Advisor publish a new op-ed in The Hill, "Reactors for Saudi Arabia are bad business and dangerous diplomacy," about U.S. plans to sign a nuclear umbrella agreement with Saudi Arabia as the first step toward selling the country nuclear power reactors.
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At Musical Theatre Network one of our main goals is to connect the people and the organisations who, like us, are working in this wonderful artform. So this page is full of links into websites we’ve found useful – it’s an eclectic mix including funders, development organisations, blogs, commentary, industry reviews and interviews. We hope that some of the links will be useful – and if you find any other sites on your travels that you think other members of our community would be interested in, please let us know and we’ll add them to the list.
DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS
Mercury Musical Developments: MTN’s partner organisation, and focused on developing the craft of new musical theatre writing through masterclasses, showcases and supported development www.mercurymusicals.com
Perfect Pitch: an organisation we work with on different initiatives and focused on providing a national infrastructure of mentors and and partners to assist writers in the development of their work www.perfectpitchmusicals.com
BOOK Music & Lyrics: an organisation running a programme of ongoing workshops for the creation, crafting and development of musical theatre writing and related specialist skills www.bookmusicandlyrics.com
Stage One: supporting new UK theatre producers and productions through bursary schemes, workshops, apprenticeships and networking events stageone.uk.com
SimG Productions: a champion of new theatre writing, showcasing new work and nurturing and supporting the talent of rising theatre artists and writers www.simgproductions.com
Creative Choices: providing the tools and knowledge to help you develop your creative career www.creative-choices.co.uk
Ideas Tap: a creative network providing support, opportunities, funding, arts jobs and career advice. Not specifically focused on musical theatre but on the cultural and creative sector more generally www.ideastap.com
Arts Council England: funding arts activities that engage people in England, or help artists and arts organisations carry out their work
www.artscouncil.org.uk
Arts Council Northern Ireland: the lead development agency for the arts in Northern Ireland and the main support for artists and arts organisations, offering a broad range of funding opportunities
www.artscouncil-ni.org
Creative Scotland: the national development agency for the arts, screen and creative industries in Scotland
www.creativescotland.com
Arts Council Wales:the country’s funding and development agency for the arts
www.artswales.org.uk
The Watch File: a great resource to locate who holds the rights to existing work norman.hrc.utexas.edu/watch
The Larder: a free dynamic online resource for writers and composers of musicals, and for writers/composers who also produce, direct, etc. Facilitated by Jenifer Toksvig of The Copenhagen Interpretation, The Larder is a blog full of useful info, a Twitter feed full of dynamic discussions, and a newsletter full of events and opportunities. To sign up for their regular newsletters click here.
MUSICAL THEATRE ORGANISATIONS
NAMT: a New York based organisation working with venues across the States to support, develop, produce and present new musical theatre, and running a major annual festival www.namt.org
British Youth Music Theatre: the UK’s national organisation providing musical theatre activities for young people across the UK
www.britishyouthmusictheatre.org
National Youth Music Theatre: a UK wide organisation that aims to produce challenging music theatre work, both major productions and workshops, for young people of all backgrounds as participants www.nymt.org.uk
THEATRE NEWS / REVIEWS / INFORMATION
The Stage: www.thestage.co.uk
What’s on Stage: www.whatsonstage.com
Musical Theatre News: www.musicaltheatrenews.com
LondonTheatre1: www.londontheatre1.com
"This is an exciting development for British musicals."
Rachel Tackley, English Touring Theatre & President of TMA
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Status of discussions about Route 410 & Flower Avenue ownership & maintenance
This is a status update to say that discussions of ownership & maintenance of Route 410 and Flower Avenue (between Greenwood Avenue and Piney Branch Road) in Takoma Park are still not close to conclusion. The City of Takoma Park and the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) are the two parties. I'll recap background and the basic questions I have, but really there's no news.
The roads are state highways although the city owns major portions of Route 410 (Philadelphia and Ethan Allen Avenues) within its boundaries. Both Flower Avenue and portions of 410 need attention. The SHA had decided it will not maintain a road it doesn't own, even if a state highway, without a maintenance easement.
The city and the SHA have been working toward a Memorandum of Understanding. The MOU would transfer Flower Avenue ownership to the city, which would install a good sidewalk on the side that doesn't have one and take other steps, for instance relating to storm-water handling, to make Flower a "green street." The MOU would have the city grant a "perpetual maintenance easement" for 410 in the city to the SHA.
The draft MOU, presented by city staff and the city attorney to the council on February 21, 2012, cedes authority over utility-work permitting; signal, sign, and crosswalk decisions; and maintenance standards to the SHA. It does not contain assurances that the SHA would heed city comments and requests.
The city council, the city attorney, and staff met in closed session on March 19 to discuss the city's legal position and options. [The following sentence was altered, and the 3 sentences after it were added, on April 3.] Unfortunately, I'm not permitted to quote freely from that session. City Public Works Director Daryl Braithwaite gave me permission to relay her view that requiring dual permitting for work along 410 is not feasible. That is, asking public utilities to apply for city work permits, beyond the permits that the SHA would require, would cause confusion. Further, it would not gain for the city the oversight authority we would like to have. The council is waiting for a written summary response from the city attorney of points discussed at the March 19 closed session. Further council discussions have not yet been scheduled.
At this point, I have four basic, exploratory questions, which I believe reflect concerns of Ward 1 and other Takoma Park residents:
- Is this an occasion where we should go the political route and ask state elected officials to ask the SHA to resurface and maintain Route 410, without an MOU, as the SHA had been doing for decades until recently?
The MOU would not cover 410. It would cover only transfer of ownership of Flower Avenue to the city, a payment for Flower Ave restoration, and transfer of ownership of Carroll Avenue between Garland Avenue to Flower Avenue to the state (which seems non-controversial).
- If we continue trying to settle the 410 issue via an MOU, would we be better off with, and would the SHA accept, a bare-bones MOU, one that a) transfers ownership of Flower Avenue to the city, b) transfers ownership of Carroll Avenue between Garland Avenue to Flower Avenue to the state, and c) grants the SHA a perpetual maintenance easement for 410 -- nothing else.
- If a bare-bones MOU wouldn't work, could language be included to assure SHA consideration of city comments and requests?
- MOU or not, could we not also seek SHA transfer of ownership, to the City of Takoma Park, of in-Takoma Park portions of Route 410 that the state owns?
There's no hard deadline here, but it would be great to start the Flower Avenue "green street" work soon and to get Philadelphia (from Park to Carroll) and Ethan Allen Avenues resurfaced, also to get city-SHA collaboration on Takoma Junction improvement underway.
Posted by Seth Grimes at 8:55 AM
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The Rabbi Report
Awards, Current Events, Interviews, The World Outside America, Theatrical Reviews
Video: Alex Gibney On “Taxi To The Dark Side”
January 22, 2008 Adam Schartoff Leave a comment
Friday marked the New York City premiere of Alex Gibney’s Oscar-nominated documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side, the rather grim story of a young Afghani goat herder and taxi driver named Dilawar who is mistakenly suspected of being a terrorist by our military intelligence. Brought into Bagram for interrogation, Dilawar is subsequently tortured and killed by his interrogators. The ThinkFilm release gets to the darker truths, namely that not only is the intelligence questionable in the first place but that the interrogators were, in fact, young soldiers utterly untrained and inexperienced in the ways of proper interrogation techniques.
Matters are made worse when the soldiers are encouraged by their superiors to go to any lengths to get their confessions. In addition to the now prosecuted soldiers, among the interview subjects are New York Times journalists, various academics, politicians, former military brass and, most notably, Gibney’s own father who died during post-production. Frank Gibney, himself a former interrogator during World War II, best expresses the sense of outrage with the Bush Administration and as images of Bush, Cheney, Rumsefeld and Gonzalez flash across the screen it’s hard not to squirm in your seat by your own sense of frustration. There doesn’t seem to be any level of success when it comes to the administration’s war on terrorism, itself an unforgivable reminder of those who perished on 9/11.
Gibney, who also directed the award-winning Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, recently met with journalists and described the challenges and rewards of making Taxi to the Dark Side. Here are a few of clips from that interview.
Clip #1: Gibney discusses his father Frank’s experiences as an interrogator during WW II:
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Festivals, Interviews, Toronto
TIFF 07 Roundtable Interviews: Sleuth’s Branagh & Caine and Law
October 2, 2007 Mark Rabinowitz Leave a comment
In two Toronto International Film Festival roundtable interviews, director Kenneth Branagh, actor Michael Cane and actor/producer Jude Law discuss the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics film Sleuth. Brannagh and Caine get into everything from pre-production, Caine’s history with Pinter (they went to the same school!), art direction, how the film isn’t really a remake and even a little bit about Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight!
Law discusses his role as a producer on the film, his next role and some of the…well, secret elements of Sleuth. If you haven’t seen the original Sleuth, there are some minor spoilers in these clips.
BTW, listen to the Caine and Branagh clip, first.
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N.A.S.A. 'Re-Releases' (27 Nov '15)
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N.A.S.A. the one man electronic music producer and performer from Copenhagen, Denmark has been in the music game perfecting his skills for almost 20 years now. Starting back in 1994 he launched his career producing psychedelic electronic based music.
Being a long time member of the Danish music scene Mikkel Leonhardt Rasmussen aka N.A.S.A. began his career through an introduction into Goa Trance forming a duo project called Gnome Effect and expanding his solo career into the launch of N.A.S.A.
His career has flourished to performing at festivals and clubs around the world. He has since released an array of compilations and single releases over his vast career, including 1 solo album in 2009 on IONO Music.
Over the years he has performed at some of the biggest and best clubs, venues and festivals all over his home country plus in countries like Portugal, Italy, Greece, Russia, Tunesia, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, Canada, Hungary and Sweden and more.
Ambient, Dub & Downbeat Music
Being a great lover of downbeat music all his life, it was no big surprise when Mikkel decided to begin producing ambient and chill out.
Focusing as always on his own signature sound, he also tries to draw in all the inspirations he has gathered from every where around him to create something unique every time.
As of 2013 Mikkel is travelling around performing his chillout music along side his trance project, including bookings at the newly formed S.U.N. Festival in Hungary and the Danish psytrance festival Senpati.
Mikkel also produces music under other names such as; Mutalisk, Nanocell and MLR.
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2009 PCLI Media Awards winners
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WOODBURY, NY, JUNE 4 – News 12 Long Island News Director Patrick F. Dolan, Newsday and the Long Island Press won the top three awards when the Press Club of Long Island, the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, announced the winners of its 2009 Media Awards contest at its annual awards dinner Thursday night.[singlepic id=35 w=320 h=240 float=right]
Newsday and the Long Island Press were chosen as joint winners of this year’s Robert Greene Public Service Award. Newsday won for its investigative series, The Pension and the Privileges, which exposed the practice of private attorneys being reported as public employees in order to qualify for benefits. The Press was honored for Long Highland, which illuminated the growing problem of hard-core drug use in the region.
The 2009 Outstanding Long Island Journalist Award was presented to Dolan for achievement over his career. The award is PCLI’s highest honor to an individual.
Additionally, Dominick Miserandino, executive editor of TheCelebrityCafe.com, received the Phil Spahn Award, presented to a PCLI member who has demonstrated outstanding service to journalism, PCLI or to the community.
PCLI also gave this year’s Cub Reporter of the Year award to Brad Pareso of the Long Island Press.
The club also recognized the outstanding efforts of local college journalism students with two $1,000 college scholarships. They went to Robert Hahn and Denise Harelick, both from New York Institute of Technology.
Bay Shore High School student Jillian Ferraro received the $2,000 News 12 Long Island/Hank Logeman High School Journalism Award, named in honor of the late UPI reporter who was a mentor to many young journalists.
In all, PCLI gave out awards in 49 categories in print, television, radio and Internet journalism.
At the dinner, PCLI members elected the club’s leadership for 2009-2010.
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slate of officers is as follows:
John C. O’Connell, President
Meredith Daniels, Executive Vice President
Jamie Lynn Ryan, VP-Print
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Bill Bleyer, Treasurer
Diana DeRosa, Recording Secretary
Carl Corry, Corresponding Secretary
The Society of Professional Journalists is the nation’s largest and most broad-based journalism organization, with 60 pro chapters and 250 student chapters nationwide. SPJ is dedicated to encouraging the free practice of journalism and stimulating high standards of ethical behavior.
For a complete list of winners and more Press Club of Long Island information, go to www.pcli.org.
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Double Fisting in the Red Sox Clubhouse
Here's the weekend update from the Red Sox clubhouse...
Beer is allowed after road games. So I'm not going to get into the John Lackey double fisting ordeal too much but here are my two cents. He and his situation are example #1 of why injured players should rehab away from the team. No good can come from being around the team too much when you can't contribute. Two, this isn't high school, if the players don't cry after every loss that doesn't mean that they don't care. So, to those people who equated Lackey drinking beer after the game to him not caring about the game that they just lost, you need to grow up and realize that you are covering professional athletes and grown men not teenagers. Enough of that on to the update...
We'll start with the bad news. According to multiple reports Will Middlebrooks broke his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch in the 9th inning last night. The Red Sox will likely call up recently acquired Danny Valencia to take his place. If true than he will be out for the rest of the season. Middlebrooks was having an outstanding rookie season and was one of the few bright spots during an otherwise miserable year for the Boston Red Sox. As a fan of the team I feel upset because we've been robbed of watching another month and a half of one of our key building blocks of the future. Ben Cherington must be feeling snake bit in his first year as GM of the Sox as it seems that every time something good happens, like a winning streak for the team or a hot streak for a player, it comes crashing down. Hopefully Will can come back strong for the start of next year and be a key piece for this franchise for years to come, he certainly has the potential.
Felix Doubront who has struggled lately will be skipped this time through the rotation. According to manager Bobby Valentine he also may be a candidate for the DL. Prince Felix has been our most consistent starter so far this year, but he is starting to wear down. After pitching about 87 innings last year for Pawtucket, while battling injuries, he is now over 120 innings for the season and it's starting to show. Doubront has proven that he is a big league starting pitcher and will be a key part of the starting rotation in 2013 and beyond.
The waiver trade period has begun and so far I've seen reports that Mike Aviles, Nick Punto, Carl Crawford and Kelly Shoppach have been put on waivers with Punto and Crawford already passing through. I'd be willing to bet that by the time the month is over nearly the whole roster will have been put on waivers. Is it too late for Ben to be bold?
When will the Red Sox start to play for the future? I wish they would just start now and get it over with. They need to stop kidding themselves by thinking that they are going to make a run and get into the playoffs. Although I believe that they could call up Iglesias and start playing Lavarnway everyday and it would be an upgrade over what they have now. Ryan Kalish has certainly shown that he needs to play everyday at Pawtucket for a while before he is ready. If Ellsbury is going to be traded during the offseason I think it's too early to count on Kalish to be the everyday CF or RF. With Middlebrooks being hurt there are already reports that the Sox will call up Danny Valencia. Which would be another lost opportunity to call up Iglesias and let him play everyday with Mike Aviles playing 3B.
The Red Sox continue their series with the Indians today in Cleveland. Check back here for updates and leave your comments below.
Posted by Barry Terrill at 9:01 AM
Cousin Jason August 11, 2012 at 11:10 AM
While Valencia is being called up according to several Rob Bradford Tweets and articles this morning there appear to be many options for the Sox at 3B in Willie Middle's absence. The option I like most is playing Aviles at 3B and letting Ciriaco play SS
Barry Terrill August 11, 2012 at 1:27 PM
I would rather give Iglesias the shot over Ciriaco, but there's no reason why they couldn't use both of them and use Aviles as a utility guy. The same goes for playing Lavarnway over Salty and Shoppach. Of course, these changes are easy for us to make from our couches, but the problem lies with Bobby V. If he starts playing rookies over veterans he may lose the clubhouse even more than he already has. As coaches ourselves think about playing a Freshmen over a Junior or Senior and the types of problems that can create within a team. In other words it's not as easy as it sounds.
Deacon Art August 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I think bringing up Valencia and letting him play the majority of games at third could help the Sox this winter. If Valencia can regain any of his early promise as a Twin, he could be a useful trade chip this winter. Not on his own of course, but the third or fourth piece in multi player deal. But in addition to Valencia, I would bring up Iglesias, too. Let them man the left side of the infield and use Aviles as the sub ( or better yet deal him ). Ciriaco can be a supersub IF and OF.
Aviles has been put on waivers so a deal may be in the works. Is the fact that they have not called up Iglesias mean that they no longer think he is the answer at SS?
Could Valencia be the new Salty? A once promising player who was traded for near the deadline without much fanfare, but he could become a key piece of the team.
Cousin Jason's Cooler Week of August 27th
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Possible Ramifications from Dodger-Sox Deal
Can the Sox pull a mid-August Mega Deal
Red Sox vs. Angels Live Chat 8-22-12
It is Beyond Time for Bobby Valentine to GO
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Renfrewshire Council are looking to recruit a team of volunteers to support the delivery of the recently launched Digital Strategy and help people and local organisations get online.
The Digital Renfrewshire Strategy - sets out a vision and approach to tackling digital exclusion in the area.
It aims to ensure everybody has the opportunity to reach their digital potential so they can benefit from the health, learning, economic, social, and cultural opportunities that being online can bring.
Lauren Gilmour, Renfrewshire Council's Digital Volunteer Co-ordinator, is appealing for people with digital skills who would like to help people across Renfrewshire reach their digital potential and help bridge the digital divide.
"Around 26,000 people in Renfrewshire lack basic digital skills. We have a Digital Strategy that aims to close the digital divide in Renfrewshire and we want to tap into the skills of local people to help support digital participation and offer people a positive volunteering experience"
Volunteers are needed for several different projects including tablet classes for older adults- hosted in partnership with Roar: Connections for Life - and take place at University of the West of Scotland every Tuesday from 3-5pm and at Underwood Lane every Thursday from 10am-12noon. If you know your way about a tablet or smartphone you could support these classes.
Help is also needed to help run CoderDojo coding clubs for young people in various locations across Renfrewshire. Volunteers don't need an in-depth knowledge of coding - just an interest in helping young people to solve problems. Resources will be provided to get volunteers up to speed.
Lauren added: "We can match anyone with suitable digital skills with an organisation or project that need help with boosting their digital skills.
"Volunteering isn't only a way to give back to your community- it's a way to boost your CV, gain skills and improve your confidence. Volunteers will be supported with a dedicated contact and the opportunity to train to become a digital champion."
Renfrewshire Council Leader, Mark Macmillan, said: "We're committed to removing the barriers to digital participation in order to face the issue of digital exclusion head on.
"With thousands of people in Renfrewshire without basic digital skills, it is important that we give everyone the tools to get online and take advantage of the benefits this provides.
"Our Digital Strategy- combined with initiatives such as our £1m investment in free public wifi in Paisley, Johnstone and Renfrew town centres- will begin to address and improve these figures."
If you would like to become a digital volunteer or want to find out any information about digital volunteers, please contact Lauren Gilmour on lgilmour@engagerenfrewshire.com or 0141 887 7707. You can also tweet Lauren on @lauren_gilmour1.
If you live in Renfrewshire and are interested in joining one of the tablet classes please contact Roar: Connections for Life on 0141 889 7481.
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Mission Viejo Retail Shops Property Sells for $780/sf
An OC-based family investment entity purchased the 16.6k sf shops component within Avery Center in Mission Viejo for $12.95 mil, or $780/sf. The acquisition includes two fully occupied retail buildings located at 28601 to 28621 Marguerite Pkwy. They were sold by Pacific Castle, also out of Orange County.
Built in 1977 with an extensive renovation completed in 2016, the asset’s NNN-leased tenants include Jimmy John’s, Epic Wings, Broken Yolk Café, and Big Grill Mongolian BBQ, along with four local retailers.
Located at the signalized intersection of Marguerite Pkwy and Avery Pkwy, the property sees more than 61,000 vehicles daily. It is also located just off the 5 Fwy and is about one mile from Saddleback College, Mission Hospital, and the 1.15 msf regional retail center, The Shops at Mission Viejo.
SRS Investment Properties Group’s Patrick Luther and Matthew Mousavi represented Pacific Castle in the deal. John Martin of Lee & Associates repped the buyer, who made the buy as a long-term hold. Additionally, SRS’ Terrison Quinn advised the seller on repositioning the renovated center and other leasing activities.
“This multi-tenant transaction was part of a larger break-up strategy for the center,” said Mousavi. “SRS recently handled the sale of the adjacent 16k sf, two-story building to First Citizens Bank, as well as a freestanding Del Taco building that sold for a 3.71% cap rate. The final part of the break-up that is currently in escrow is the freestanding Jack in the Box property that will close soon.”
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CLARICE CLIFF 'TULIPS' JUG SOLD £1,000
DAME LUCIE RIE STUDIO POTTERY SOLD £1,650.
COLLECTION OF FRENCH INSECT JEWELLERY SOLD £1,100.
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BOUYANT FEBRUARY AUCTION 2011
Over the last month we have seen a record amount of visitors to our website, peaking at some 9,700 on 2nd February.
This interest was primarly for the eclectic range of antiques and collectables on offer at the February auction. An incredible amount of national and international interest in the sale resulted in many of the estimates for the 500 lots being eclipsed with very few lots unsold.
There were several notable prices, (view full sale results) particularly in the jewellery and collectables section.
Highlights from the sale included
Early Victorian rosewood Side Cabinet £1,950.
Victorian pine Dresser £860
Three Dame Lucie Rie Vessels £1,650
Clarice Cliff 'Tulips' Vase £1,000
Marine Stick Barometer by J. Blowey of Plymouth £480
19th century Dial Clock by John Cook £550
19th century drop dial clock by J. Blowey £400
Small collection Clarice Cliff £1,700
French Art Nouveau Jewellery collection £1,100.
Jewellery mixed lots £300 to £860.
Collection of silver chains £540.
Ladies Rolex dress watch £410.
Geo V silver salver £620.
Gentleman's Jaegar Le Coultre wrist watch £880.
Sapphire & Daimond 3 stone ring £500.
Collection of Victorian Bisque Figures £1,700.
We are now inviting entries for the March Auction, if you are considering selling either a single item or an entire collection please contact us for a free valuation.
Elmer – The Symphony of the Spirit – artist: Andy Jack Nash Bought by Andy and Naomi Ibbs.
Mammoth masterpieces generate an ele-fantastic £323,000 for much-loved charity
PRESS RELEASE Mammoth masterpieces generate an ele-fantastic £323,000 for much-loved charity Bidders snap up a unique piece of art to be a part of something special that will leave a legacy for families across Plymouth and surrounding areas. On the evening of 9 October, 40 of the enchanting elephant sculptures that have delighted tens of thousands this summer as part of Elmer’s Big Parade – each featuring a unique design by a talented artist –...
Fred Yates 'Masterpiece' sells for £9,300 (including BP)
RECORD PRICES FOR FRED YATES ART
Collectors love the impressionist colours and expressive brushwork in paintings by popular Lowry inspired artist Fred Yates (1928-2008). Born in Lancashire in 1922, Yates had a number of jobs until he enrolled at Bournemouth Teacher Training College, he went on to teach art in Devon and Cornwall. As a shy man he did not enjoy teaching and became inspired by L.S.Lowry when he came second to him in a competition to paint Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. In 1968 he moved to Cornwall...
SOLD £32,400
DIAMOND RING SPARKLES IN PLYMOUTH
A stunning diamond ring has sold for a record sum at a Plymouth Auction Rooms this week, 29th April 2015. Bidders from as far as the middle east and the US competed for a remarkable 4 carat diamond ring that had been in the same Westcountry family for over fifty years. It was purchased in 1961 from Pellegrin Jewellers of Marseille, France. The family still had the original the receipt for showing that...
LOCAL COLLECTOR OUTBIDS RECORD NUMBER OF ONLINE BIDDERS TO SECURE RARE ROLEX
A rare Rolex Submariner watch bought on the Falkland Islands in 1970 for just £47 attracted a record number of online bidders at the August sale. However, it was a determined Plymouth collector sitting in the saleroom that had the winning bid after he ‘fought of’ four telephone lines and a flurry of internet bids to secure the watch for a premium inclusive bid of £11,470.
SOLD £3,400 Auction 30th November Lot 52 Estimate £1,500 to £2,000.
PLAIN GOLD RING WAS A LOVERS GIFT
A lovers gift from the 16th or 17th century handed down through generations of a Cornish family is to be sold at our fine jewellery sale this month. Posy rings were popular from the late medieval period onwards and were primarily used to communicate secret messages of love between the giver and the recipient. The wearing of words against the skin was believed to increase their poignancy. The inner surface of the ring is often inscribed with quotations from contemporary courtship stories. Many of these rings have been discovered as treasure...
PLYMOUTH ART LEADS THE WAY
Paintings and prints by popular local artists were in high demand at an art auction this week in Plymouth.With so many British artist’s to invest in or collect the works produced by the likes of Robert Lenkiewicz, Beryl Cook and Brian Pollard of Plymouth, still command as much interest as all the others. Auctioneer Paul Keen of the Plymouth Auction Rooms says ‘the great results achieved at this sale prove that local art is...
Lot 66 SOLD £4,300.
ASIAN, US AND EUROPEAN BIDDERS COMPETE AT THE MARCH 2018 SALE.
Auctioneer Paul Keen may have been shattered coming of the rostrum at 9.30pm last week but the exhaustion was well worth it after conducting one of his highest grossing jewellery, silver and watch auctions for two years. At a time when many auction rooms are sparse of bidders with many choosing to bid online, the Plymouth Auctin Rooms are finding their attendance going up considerably with standing room only at the sale last week. Demands were high and bidding fierce for fine diamond...
Lot 127, Lee Woods Sold £950.
WESTCOUNTRY ART SELLS BEST IN PLYMOUTH
Press Release-Western Morning News, 25th March 2017. "An extremely buoyant art auction held in Plymouth last week proved that demands for contemporary and naïve Westcountry artists has never been higher. Auctioneer Paul Keen reports an uplift in demand underpinned by new young investors and collectors recognising the value of bidding for affordable art at auction. Many bidders had an enjoyable evening at Plymouth Auction Rooms witnessing intensive bidding for artists such as Brian Pollard, Simeon Stafford, Lee...
Lot 105 10th May- String of amber beads sold £2,280 (including 20% buyers premium)
AMBER IS MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD !
The demand for original amber jewellery is so high today that it can now fetch a higher price than gold. Only this week at Plymouth Auction Rooms a very plain bead necklace weighing 76 grammes sold for an amazing £2,200. The same weight in 22 carat gold has a current value of just £1,900. Gram per gram it is more valuable than gold! The reason for this huge increase in price, is China. The Chinese have rediscovered amber,...
SOLD £6,500 19th July 2017.
RARE MARINE CHRONOMETER BY PAUL BARRAUD
An 8 day marine chronometer, the dial inscribed Barrauds’ LONDON, is expected to attract significant interest. The gimbaled movement, numbered 932, is housed in a brass-bound mahogany case, in untouched condition. The dial shows a rare state-of-wind aperture and the interior of the case bears a label indicating that it was once maintained, in Southampton, for the steamship the ‘Sardonyx’. A similar piece, model number 992, is in the London Science Museum. Paul Philip Barraud (1750 – 1820) had workshops in...
Remarkable story of how a Plymouth Masonic ring saved the Life of a brave soldier from the Great War.
Press ReleaseView BBC World War One at Home Link Plymouthian, Bertram Blight, was one of the first men to receive extensive and radical plastic surgery at the end of the First World War. However he would never had had the opportunity of surviving to 1952 if it wasn’t for the ring that he was wearing at the time he incurred his horrific injuries. Bored...
RARE BARRAUD'S POCKET WATCH DISCOVERY
Paul Barraud, was born in London 1752, into a family of fine watch and clockmakers. He produced many important chronometers and timepieces and died in 1820. His work can be found in the British Museum and Science Museum. Fast forward over 200 years to our valuation day this month. A Plymouth family inherited a strong box which their father always claimed to have valuables inside. Amongst the items they discovered a heavy gold pocket watch and albert chain which they brought along to our...
PRESS RELEASE - NOVEMBER JEWELLERY
A wonderful array of diamonds and valuable watches will greet bidders at Plymouth Auction Rooms on Wednesday. The final evening sale of the year offers probably one of the best collections of jewellery and watches seen in Plymouth for quite some time. Over 200 lots are on offer with estimates to suit all tastes and budgets. A Christmas gift, an engagement or collector of antique jewellery, all are catered for with guide prices from just £100. Auctioneer Paul...
A Christmas Auction
2017 CHRISTMAS AUCTION
Bidders will be greeted with mince pies and a festive atmosphere at Plymouth Auction Rooms final sale of the year on 13th December. The eclectic 300 lots auction features a most diverse range of collectables and antiques. From pocket watches, to porcelain, medals, furniture and lots of curious there is something for everyone with guide prices from as little as £20. There are many lots which have been in local families for...
Lot 100 Sold £7,000.
LOCAL BIDDERS TAKE STAR LOTS AT BUOYANT AUCTION - NOVEMBER 2017
At a time when many of the higher value lots are being taken up but national and overseas buyers, it was refreshing for auctioneer Paul Keen to see several of the ‘star’ lots at his recent sale being purchased by local buyers attending the sale and outbidding determined internet bidders. The November jewellery and watch sale generated a brace of valuable entries many consigned following an extremely busy valuation day earlier in the month. A large diamond solitaire...
The John Speed Map coming up for auction on 7th March 2108.
RARE MAP TURNS UP ON VALUATION DAY - 2018
A rare 17th century map was brought along to the saleroom this week (8th Jan). John Speed (1552-1629) is one of the best known names in the history of English cartography, producing his first map in 1601 and in 1627 "Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World" the first world atlas produced by an Englishman. Speed’s work can be identified by detailed, informative and highly decorated maps. A Plymouth gentleman recently inherited two maps and bought them along to Paul Keen’s valuation day....
Lot 85, Victorian walnut canterbury - Auction 7th March
PRESS RELEASE PREVIEWING 7TH MARCH 2018 AUCTION
Western Morning News 24th February 2018.Later today thousands of rugby fans will be tuning in to watch England take on Scotland in the Six Nations. Tickets are scarce and expensive to watch any major rugby games and in particular at the ‘home of rugby’ Twickenham Stadium. Now enthusiasts have a chance to own outright their very own stadium seats! A pair of folding metal framed and wood slated seats that once graced the stadium around the 1930/40’s are to be sold by auction...
POCKET WATCHES GALORE MARCH 2018
There is something exciting about opening up the case of antique pocket watch, enthuses auctioneer Paul Keen. Many Georgian pocket watches have a plain and non-descript exterior but this outer façade often hides a highly intricate and beautiful gilt mechanical movement. Many sellers that come along to valuation days at Plymouth Auction Rooms have never looked inside their inherited pocket watch and often amazed when they have site of the workings which often reveal a makers name, city and date.
Lot 30 An American sterling silver flatware service, Estimate £2,000 to £3,000
TWO FINE SILVER CANTEENS OF CUTLERY MARCH 2018
Solid silver cutlery would impress any one at a dinner party. Now there is an opportunity to bid for a choice of two extensive silver sets each over 150 pieces. For a twelve person gathering these sets are perfect and in excellent condition. They are both made by the American silversmith, the International Silver Company, from Meriden, Connecticut. One is in the stylish Royal Danish pattern, comprising 177 pieces and weighing some 2o0 ounces, the other by the same maker is in the ‘1810’ pattern and is 164 pieces They...
SMALL LENKIEWICZ SELF PORTRAIT SELLS FOR £9,000
The small size of the self portrait oil painting by Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002) did not deter a local collector biddng an after sale £9,000 to acquire it at the February 2018 art auction.The sale rounded of some strong results for 20th century and contemporary art. Measuring just 20cm x 25cm the painting abtly titled 'Self Portrait' and signed twice attracted several pre sale bids around £8,000 and just after the sale two collectors were in the running to pay over £10,000 with the premium. A Plymouth gentleman...
EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS AND SIGNED PHOTO'S - APRIL 2019
This collection of autographs and signed photographs fully represent British popular culture of the last 50 years. Film stars, pop stars, jazz musicians, soap stars and stage actors. They are all here from Rex Harrison to Christopher Biggins, Ernie Wise to Stephen Fry. These albums represent many, many hours travelling the country and waiting to meet the celebrities of the day at theatres in the capital and provinces. Someone stood outside stage doors and at red carpet barriers waiting patiently for the famous personalities of the day to put pen to...
Lot 12 - 27th June 2018
ASTON VILLA MEDAL TURNS UP ON VALUATION DAY
A solid gold football medal was recently brought along to a valuation day held in Plymouth. Dated 1897 the medal was awarded by Aston Villa Football Club to a G.B. Ramsay in 1897. Finely cast in 18ct gold it depicts football trophies on one side and the Aston Villa Lion on the other, it has the team banner at the top and is inscribed on one side 'Presented to G.B.Ramsay Esq, By the members in grateful recognition of valued services', and in the other 'League Champions and English Cup Winners ...
Chinese blanc de chine porcelain - auction 12th September 2018
ASIAN WORKS OF ART DISCOVERED IN CHINA CABINET
Press Release , August 2018 Auctioneers never quite know what’s going to turn up from one day to the next. At Plymouth Auction Rooms people arrive daily with boxes and boxes of chinaware all manner of objects, the valuers often see tea sets and numerous ornaments however last week a local family sorting through the contents of their father’s china cabinet brought along an array of interesting oriental objects and small Victorian collectables. As the market remains buoyant for Asian art the family may be in for a...
The Louisa Lifeboat by Mick Cawston- Auctin 14th November.
WE'LL LAUNCH FROM PORLOCK
The Story of the Lynmouth Lifeboat ‘Louisa’ The story of the incredible journey made by Lynmouth villagers and lifeboat crew to launch their boat at the end of the Victorian age is represented in a fine atmospheric painting due to come up for auction. The story of the Lynmouth lifeboat Louisa epitomises the exploits of brave and intrepid lifeboat volunteers who aid those in peril on dangerous seas. On the...
THE BRONZE DANCING FAUN of POMPEI
An impressive large bronze sculpture the Pompeiian Dancing Faun is one of several interesting lots coming up for sale in Plymouth next month. Dating from the late 19th early 20th century the figure is a copy of the original figure which was discovered in the atrium of the subsequently named 'House of Faun' in Pompeii, first excavated by archaeologists in 1830, and is currently held in the collection of the Naples Archaeological Museum. The Roman version unearthed is almost certainly a copy of an earlier Greek bronze....
Press Release A stunning diamond ring that has been in the same South Devon family for many years will come up for sale later this month. The 3 carat round diamond is set in platinum and is joined by two baguette cut diamonds. It was brought along to a valuation day at Plymouth Auction Rooms and identified of being of a very good clarity and bright colour, and now carries a guide price of £10,000 to £12,000. For those with a lower budget this popular auction hosts...
Our valuers will be on hand to offer free auction appraisals.
SPECIALIST VALUATION DAY - 13th May 2019
We shall be holding a specialist valuation day on 6th May at our saleroom in Plymouth. Diamond and Rolex expert Richard Sheppard will be joining experienced valuer Paul Keen to offer free auction appraisals for any items of jewellery, silver or watches that you may be considering selling. There is no obligation to sell and also no need to make an appointment, simply come along to the saleroom any time between 10am and 4pm where our friendly team will assist you. There is a high demand for...
Lot 4, Sir Terry Frost - 12 June 2019
AFFORDABLE CONTEMPORARY ART
“Contemporary art at affordable prices” is how auctioneer Paul Keen describes the upcoming art auction at Plymouth Auction Rooms. Collectors will have the choice to bid for several works by popular Westcountry artists. Four notable works include a charming painting consigned by Plymouth artist Arth Lawr, titled 'Bank Holiday, Barbican 2019' painted in acrylics measuring 34.50cm x 34.50cm. Arthur Lawr is a Member of the British Society of Naïve Artists and this painting offers a perfect investment opportunity with a tempting estimate of just £100 to £200. There are...
Lot 1 Lee Woods
ART WORK FROM BOB DYLAN TO ROBERT LENKIEWICZ MARCH 2019
Building an art collection is an exciting endeavour. With artwork from the 19th to the 21st century and prices ranging from £100 to £5000, the next art auction at Plymouth Auction Rooms is the perfect place to start. You can bid for many paintings and prints by popular Westcountry artist including Brian Pollard, Robert Lenkiewicz and Lee Woods. There are large bright paintings for contemporary homes and finer works for the serious collector. One of the headliners is a stunning painting by Cornish artist Seth Garland from the 2012 Lapis...
SOLD £15,000 1969 gents Rolex, model 1675 - Auction 27th March 2019
ROLEX WATCH PURCHASED FOR £15 IN 1969 SELLS FOR £15,000
The ‘Finest Time Piece for Flight Navigation’ is how Rolex marketed their GMT Master model wristwatch in the 1960’s. The superlative timepiece was capable of showing local time for any two time zones and also featured an inbuilt compass. It was originally designed in collaboration with Pan American Airways and issued by the airline to their crews on long-haul flights. The 1675 was first introduced in 1959 and continued until 1980. It has since become one of the most collected models in the vintage...
Lot 3, 11th September, 6pm.
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF THE CHINA CLAY WORKS
A large contemporary painting of the China Clay works is to be auctioned in September. Painted by Douglas M Rawlings (1921 2003) c.1955, in oil on board 120cm x 90 cm (128cm x 108cm including frame). Signed by the artist (Rawlings) set in a hardwood frame. Provenance; Exhibited at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art in 1956 and the Royal West of England Academy in 1957. Purchased shortly after the artists death, in June 2004 at the Bristol Guild...
Sold £10,600 March 2019
MARCH REVIEW 2019 - LOCAL COLLECTORS COMPETE AGAINST ONLINE BIDDERS
Press Release.March has been a busy month a Plymouth Auctions with two major sales including art, jewellery, watches and silver. There have been many highlights but what has stood out for the auctioneers is that despite high numbers of online UK and international bidders there were several top lots selling to or underbid by local collectors. The art sale saw Seth Garlands beautiful painting titled ‘Inertia Shines’ selling at £5,800 to a South Devon buyer bidding against Plymouth collectors in the packed saleroom. The same sale Robert Lenkiewicz’ study of Lisa...
Lot 63, Robert Lenkiewicz - 26 June 2019
DISCOVER THE RARE PROJECT 19 PAINTING BY ROBERT LENKIEWICZ
Many of us are familiar with the work of Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002) and have seen his impressive portrait paintings many depicting local people covering a wide range of projects involving vagrancy, relationships and education. However it is not commonly known that Robert also produced a small number of landscape paintings. Following his heart surgery in 1995, Robert convalesced at the quiet Mudbank Lake Cottage on an estuary in south Devon, near Kitley Estate. There he produced fewer than forty pictures on the theme of Landscape – The Painter as...
GREAT RETURN FOR £15 ROLEX INVESTMENT
In 1969 a Plymouth gentleman purchased a second hand Rolex wristwatch for just £15. He recently decided to sell it and brought it along to one of our valuation days. Identified as a rare 1964 GMT watch it was valued at £5000 to £7000. It came up for auction on 27th March 2019 and attracted tremendous interest from online collectors and local enthusiasts, after prolonged bidding it finally sold for an impressive £18,000 (including auction premium) proving to be great investment.
CORNISH WARE COLLECTION COMES TO AUCTION IN PLYMOUTH
We are delighted to offer for auction one of the largest collections of T.G.Green Cornish Ware in the Country at our auction on 26 June. This collection of the iconic blue and white stiped china represents a lifetime’s interest. Comprising some 400 or so items offered here in 48 lots there is something for everyone. Some items are so large, rare or interesting they are offered individually, notably the 10 inch tall mugs or the square fridge box. Others, while no less...
Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson a solid oak octagonal table and a set of chairs - Auctin 28th August.
DISCOVER THE MOUSE
A family downsizing from a fine Cornish Mansion house have consigned some good pieces of antique furniture and collectors’ items to Plymouth Auction Rooms Summer auction. Robert (Mouseman) Thompson (1876 –1955) was a British furniture maker. He lived in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture, which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece. It is claimed that...
Fred Yates (1922-2008) Still Life painting sells for £5,100 at the September art sale.
FRED YATES SOARS AT PLYMOUTH ART AUCTION
With a bank of telephone bidders, online bidders and saleroom collectors it was no surprise to auctioneer Paul Keen that lot 10 was going to go well at this week’s art auction. A nice collection of interesting paintings by Fred Yates were very popular at the art sale but it was a bright still life painting from the 1990’s that really took off. Signed and well-kept measuring 49cm x 60cm the painting attracted tremendous pre sale enquiries and the estimate of £1000 to £1500 was quickly surpassed when the...
Rolex expert Richard Sheppard
KINGSBRIDGE VALUATION DAY
Find out what your valuables are worth at the KINGSBRIDGE VALUATION DAY Diamond and Rolex watch expert Richard Sheppard will be joining auctioneer and valuer Paul Keen to provide FREE valuations for jewellery, watches, antiques and collectables. Between them they bring over 50 years valuation and auctioneering experience. Bring your items along to the estate offices of Luscombe Maye, mid-way up of Fore Street, Kingsbridge and meet our friendly valuers. There is a public car park at the top of Fore Street on the left-hand side....
Lot 4, 11th September, 6pm. ARTH LAWR.
LOCAL ARTISTS GATHER AT ART AUCTION
Press Release "Art to illustrate to colour and grandeur of Plymouth and the South West will be the theme of a special exhibition by local contemporary and naïve artists next year to be held at the Royal William Yard. Popular artists such as Brian Pollard and Arth Lawr will be joined by new fusion glass artist ‘Lou from Lou C’ to exhibit over 40 special paintings and works of art. Enthusiasts of this bright and colourful art are able to have a small taster at Plymouth Auction...
Lot 81 - Winter Day - estimate £2000 to £2500
CHANCE TO BID FOR A RARE FRED YATES COLLECTION
Browsing the collection of paintings at Plymouth Auction Rooms next art sale one is taken back by all the strong impressionists colours of a collection of art work by Fred Yates (1922-2008). A collection 19 works are expected to draw interest far and wide. At the last sale a Still Life painting by Lowry inspired Yates sold to a collector in Florida for over £5000. These paintings range from Yates' many years in various locations in Devon and Cornwall to his later years living in the south of France. They have all...
Auction 5th November A fine English Table Clock by J.Lowndes
THE FASCINATING ANTIQUE CONTENTS OF A LOCAL RESIDENCE.
Every now and then auctioneers have the pleasure of discovering wonderful works of art when they visit people’s homes. Paul Keen had one such visit seven years ago when he discovered an important collection of gold coins in a Plymouth property resulting in the sale of one of most important coin collections outside London in the last fifty years. Last year he undertook a probate valuation...
RARE WESTCOUNTRY SILVER SPOON DICOVERED ON VALUATION DAY
A rare Westcountry silver spoon has been discovered on a Plymouth Auction Rooms valuation day. Whilst sorting through some Georgian silver cutlery valuer Paul Keen spotted a worn silver spoon which was quickly identified as a rare trefid spoon and on closer inspection to one dating from the Queen Anne period, 1703 with an Exeter hallmark. The trefid spoon was introduced in England around 1660 and is typified by a flat handle having a stem that widens at the top and has two notches that form it into a three lobed...
SCOUTING AND BADEN POWELL COLLECTION DECAMP TO AUCTION
AUCTION SATURDAY 28TH MARCH AT 10.30AM The Graham Brooks Collection of Baden Powell and Scouting Memorabilia. Graham Brooks is a retired Silver Wolf.
PART OF THE TEK SING CARGO COLLECTION FOR SALE IN NOVEMBER.
CHINESE TREASURE CARGO FOR AUCTION
A collection of Chinese porcelain recovered from an early 19th century wreck is to be in Plymouth this month. Some 300 Chinese blue and white porcelain bowls that were part of a huge consignment recovered from the Tek Sing Chinese Junk in 1999 are expected to sell for over £3,000. The Tek Sing was a large three-masted
GILL WATKISS Lot 336
ART AUCTION IS BEST IN THE WEST!
Press Release.Western Morning News Saturday 11th April. For just one region, the Westcountry has always benefited from an abundance of gifted artists – both those native to the area and those who have migrated here for the scenery or creative lifestyle. The team at Plymouth Auction Rooms has seen many exceptional pieces of local artwork pass through its doors.
SEXTANT WITH FASCINATING HISTORY
Press Release September 2015. Plymouth Auction Rooms will be auctioning an interesting Naval sextant on the 11th November with a fascinating history. The sextant was made by J.Coombes of Devonport in 1907, a standard piece of Naval equipment used to plot the position of a ship before GPS came in and still used today as a back-up for when communication systems fail. It is an Edwardian 6 ½” radius Vernier Sextant, with oxidised brass three circle pattern frame, the...
BRAVE SOLDIER AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL FOR HEROIC ACTIONS.
A Military Medal group of 7 medals awarded to Lance Bombardier Victor Arthur Blake, 823539, 124 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery comprising military medal (George V) for bravery in field stamped 823539 L.BMBR.V.BLAKE.R.A. also the 1939 45 star, the Africa’s star with 8th army bar, the Italy Star, the France and Germany star, 3945 war medal and territorial medal for efficient service. Victor Arthur Blake Royal Artillery died aged 29 on 2nd October 1944 bravery...
BERYL COOK PAINTING HITS THE HEADLINES
Lot 229 Auction 5th July 2016 Sold for £4,680.
WORN CONDITION OF WATCH DOES NOT DETER ENTHUSIASTS
The tired and worn condition of this Gents Omega wrist watch did not distract watch enthusiasts from bidding nearly ten times its pre sale estimate at our sale this month (5th July). The huge increase in demand for classic and rare Gents watches was clear at this specialist watch auction with many lots selling over estimate. However amongst the valuable other Rolex and Omega watches this unassuming Omega was the stand out result. Against expectations of...
Lot 137 SOLD £6,000 Auction 7th December 2016.
JOAN GILLCHREST SELF PORTRAIT
Mousehole based Joan Gillchrest (1918 – 2008) established herself as one of the foremost naïve artists of her time. Just as L. S. Lowry’s work depicts the life and times of the working class people of Northern England Joan’s distinctive paintings depicted the fisher folk of Cornwall’s Penwith Peninsula. Works by Gillchrest have risen in value over the last ten years as collectors have been keen to acquire original paintings by artists of the St. Ives School art from...
TETLEY TEA 'CHINESE' TEAPOT
It is understandable why Sarah Grizeal Garden Tetley-Jones (1916-2011) salvaged a Chinese teapot when she left Shanghai in a hurry at the outbreak of The Battle of Shanghai, in 1937, when armies of the National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army began the first of many battles. She and her family were part of Americas leading Trade Names ‘Tetley Tea’. Sarah brother was named Tetley Ironside Tetley-jones, and their...
MUSEUM CABINETS NEED A NEW HOME
Western Morning News, Arts & Antiques Press Release.In 2020 there will be a ground-breaking new visitor attraction in Plymouth; the History Centre. The City Museum and Art Gallery will reopen as the flagship building for the Mayflower 400 commemorations following a major refit. Collections form the museum have gone into store but two items have become redundant and will now be sold be auction. Some may recall climbing the staircase at the museum and being greeted...
SOLD £4,600 (L) £3,000 (R)
DEVON CLOCK COLLECTION TO BE SOLD
Many people visiting the National Trust property Buckland Abbey may recall a fine longcase clock inscribed ‘Bennett Plymouth’ on the dial. This regulator clock has been on loan to The Abbey, from an important clock collection of a Westcountry family. Enthusiasts and collectors will now have the opportunity to view and to bid for...
PRESS RELEASE - 21st September 2017
'A most pretty clock’ is how auctioneer Paul Keen describes lot 15 at his sale next week. The antique French miniature silver and guilloche enamelled carriage clock may only be 40mmm tall but is very desirable. In excellent condition, made by Argent in the ealry 1900’s. It has been in the same family for many years and should have no problem in acheiving its estimate range of £300 to £500. Small silver objects are always popular at auction...
SOUTH HAMS VALUATION DAY
The market town of Kingsbridge is the new venue for a regular valuation event for those living in the South Hams. The team at Plymouth Auction Rooms will be available for free valuations at the offices of Luscombe Maye on the main Fore Street. The inaugural event takes place on Monday 8th October between 10am and 2pm. If you are considering selling any jewellery, antiques, silver or watches simply take them along on the day for a free valuation and professional auction advice. In attendance will be local Rolex...
This fine Lenkiewicz painting is expected to sell for £15,000-£20,000 on 18th September
TWO FINE LENKIEWICZ PAINTINGS FROM 2002
Two of the last paintings worked on by iconic Plymouth painter Robert Lenkiewicz are set to be auctioned in Plymouth in September. The works by the artist, who died aged 60 in August 2002 from heart problems, are expected to realise more than £40,000 when they go under the hammer at the Plymouth Auction rooms quarterly art sale on September 18. The first, an oil on...
This stunning Self Portrait is expected to sell from £22,000 to £28,000 on 18th September.
GREAT SELECTION OF ART AT THE SEPTEMBER AUCTION
Press Release - 9th September 2013 An important evening sale takes place in Plymouth next week, giving collectors a fantastic opportunity to acquire fine art by some of the city's leading artists. Heading the list is Robert Lenkiewicz, with more than 80 works by the painter due to go under the hammer at the Plymouth Auction Rooms Quarterly Art Sale on Wednesday, September 18, starting at 6pm.
FRED YATES COLLECTION RAISES £10,000
A man who splashed his £100 teenage savings on two works by an artist friend of his family has seen his investment pay off in style. Adam Hedley had intended to use the money to buy a guitar, but instead on a whim spent it artworks by Fred Yates, who had stayed at the family home near Liskeard, in South East Cornwall.
This pair of Blackamoors sold for £3,800 to a Devon buyer against tremendous UK competition.
BLACKAMOORS SMASH THROUGH ESTIMATE AT THE JANUARY SALE
A rare pair of carved wood and gilt Blackamoor figures were the stars of the show at the latest Plymouth Auction Rooms sale, when they sold for £3,800. The much sought-after figures, each standing on a plinth and holding a serving tray, had been estimated at £1,000-£2,000. But a packed saleroom at the sale last Wednesday (January 22) watched in awe as a determined telephone bidder from South Devon fought off rivals to eventually land the Blackamoors for well above the estimate. The figures, which had been in a South...
SOLD £5,300 FRED YATES 'Boat on the River Fowey'
FRED YATES SELLS FOR TEN TIMES THE ESTIMATE
A real bid battle commenced this week at Plymouth Auction Rooms evening art sale. From a small collection of works by Fred Yates; serious collectors spotted the charming small study of a boat of the River Fowey. Auctioneer Paul Keen received quite a number of enquiries before the sale and felt that it may improve on its guide but he and many others were...
SOLD £10,500.
LENKIEWICZ PROFILE SELF PORTRAIT FOR SALE
Collectors of Lenkiewicz art will have the opportunity of bidding on a rare self portrait painting at Plymouth Auctions Rooms this month. Titled ‘Profile, Self Portrait’ the well kept oil on board painting measures 25cm x 19cm and is housed in a heavy black frame. It is signed and title and carries a guide price of £10,000 to £12,000. Auctioneer Paul Keen has sold several self portraits with one making £13,500 at his last sale. The auction includes a collection...
The Chinese Vase that sold for £3,100
CHINESE VASE SELLS FOR SIX TIMES ITS ESTIMATE
The main attraction of the June sale was the 19th century Chinese blue and white vase. It attracted tremendous pre sale interest with several Chinese collectors bidding from China the internet alongside competition from three telephone bidders. It finally sold for over six times its estimate to a Chinese specialist bidding from London for a respectable £3,100. The 600 lots auction featured an eclectic range of items from a small job lot of Fountain Pens...
Plymouth Porcelain Sauce Boat SOLD £2,800
THE BATTLE FOR PLYMOUTH PORCELAIN IS WON BY LOCAL COLLECTOR
The battle for a rare piece of Plymouth porcelain was won by a local collector bidding in the room. Tremendous national interest was generated by the discovery of the small 18th century Plymouth porcelain sauce boat. However a local collector of Plymouth items was determined not to be out bid and ignored our estimate of £200 to £400 and secured the piece for £2,800 against bidders online and telephone bidders. William Cookworthy (a Quaker pharmacist) of Kingsbridge discovered China clay in Cornwall in...
ROLLING STONES MEMORABILIA SOLD FOR £500.
ROLLING STONES MEMORABILIA FOR AUCTION
A collection of Rolling Stones Memorabilia will be on offer at our November auction. The collection was acquired by a local enthusiast from 1964 to 1967 and includes a rare set of autographs on paper including Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Charlie Watts and Keith Richards. Brian Jones autograph may need verification as Bill Wyman often signed for Brian Jones also the Charlie Watts signature is indistinct. Original tour brochures and...
BERYL COOK'S 'KISSING TIME' SETS SAIL TO CANADA FOR £19,200
BIDDING BON VOYAGE TO BERYL
Press Release 3rd March 2015 A unique and exceptionally rare Beryl Cook oil painting has sold at Plymouth Auction Rooms and now sets sail for Canada. The original piece of art sold for a staggering £19,200 to an overseas collector, who narrowly outbid a local Plymouth auction-goer. The painting – titled 'Kissing Time' – is in the much-loved local artist’s distinctively vibrant and fun style. As a Plymouth resident for...
John Cabello of Parade Antiques, Plymouth along with his son Dominic show of their new acquisition; the Baden-Powell mangle.
BADEN-POWELL HAT SELL FOR £1,300
A hat made for and owned by the founder of the Scouting Moment has sold at auction for a remarkable £1,300. The hat was part of the collection of Plymouth enthusiast Mr Graham Brooks, a Scouting Silver Wolf, who had decided to sell his entire collection of some 400 items at Plymouth Auction Rooms last weekend. The wide brimmed felt 'Scout Hat' dating from 1890 was manufactured for, owned...
Nicholas Condy (1793-1857) St.Andrews Chruch Plymouth Lot 350
HISTORICAL PLYMOUTH ART
Read the fascinating feature written by Plymouth Historian Chris Robinson.
lot 261 Auction 25th November.
RARE WATCH DISCOVER AT SOUTH HAMS VALUATION DAY
Last month Plymouth Auction Rooms held their inaugural free auction valuation day in association with Luscombe Maye at their office in Totnes. It was a very busy day for both teams with an interesting selection of objects brought in for appraisal. One of the highlights was a gentleman who came in with a small selection of jewellery that he had inherited from his family. During his conversation with the specialist, Andrew Spicer, he said that he...
LOT 351 AUCTION 2ND MARCH 2016 SOLD £2,700
TITANIC REPLICA PAINTING TO BE SOLD AT PLYMOUTH AUCTION ROOMS
A replica of a painting with fascinating history is to be auction in Plymouth. Read all about it…. After the senate inquiry into the sinking of of the Titanic in 1912, one of the survivors, a Swedish businessman and rumoured military attaché called Mauritz Hokan Bjornstrom-Steffansson, filed a claim for $100,000 ($2.4 million equivalent today) against the White Star Line for the loss of a large neoclassical oil painting called...
THE CAMDEN TOWN GROUP AUCTION 23/3/16
A small painting purchased at a jumble sale in 1963 and later discovered to be the work of influential British artist Walter Sickert is to be sold by auction. Walter Sicker (born Munich 1860-1942) was a member of The Camden Town Group of English post-impressionist artists who were active around 1911 -1913. Named after the area of north London where they lived and worked, the group aimed to reflect the realities of modern urban life. They produced works covering...
Lot 250, Auction 14th September, estimate £4,000 to £5,000Rolex, a fine gents steel and gold GMT Master II wristwatch with original box, papers warranty dated 2002, serial No P923700 in very good condition.
BUSY AUTUMN SEASON AHEAD
We have a busy calendar of sales ahead for the Autumn 2016 season.Starting with an interesting sale of antique Chinese porcelain on 14th September at 12noon. Two private collections from Devon have generated 80 lots and allowed us to put togather a special focused auction. The star lot is a Kangxi Period vase that is expected to sell for £1,500 to £2,000. However there are plenty of lots with guides around £50 that may appeal to new collectors in this area.No sooner have we held the sale then at 6.00pm on the same day we hold our popular auction of...
The blue and white porcelain Kangxi Vase was sold for £9,500.
SPECIAL SALE OF CHINESE PORCELAIN
On Wednesday, 14th September, Plymouth Auction Rooms are offering a rare opportunity for local buyers to invest in the growing market for Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. Paul Keen has recently been asked to sell two local collections and is holding a special 80 Lot sale starting at the unusual time of mid day. It may be surprising to learn that, thanks to our trading and naval history,...
SILVER CAT PIN CUSHION MAKES RECORD PRICE 2018
Collectors from the UK and as far as the Netherlands were excited when a rare silver pin cushion in the form of a crouching cat came up for auction this week in Plymouth. Auctioneer Paul Keen ‘we sell many novelty silver pin cushions and they can be picked up from £50 to £100, however this cat really took us by surprise!’ The silver hallmark identified is as being made by silversmiths Adie & Lovekin of Birmingham around 1908. Its original...
LOT 452 Auction 22nd January
1960'S LEGENDRY SINGERS SIGNED SHIRT FOR PLYMOUTH FAN
A fan's encounter with a legendary singer in Plymouth could hit the right note at auction next week. Stan Ozanne was a huge admirer of Frankie Laine, who had a string of hits on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and 60s. So when the singer appeared at the city's former bowling alley in Mayflower Street in the late 1960s, Stan was determined to see him. Stan, 78, said: "Frankie was such a powerful singer - he didn't need a microphone. "After his show I managed to have...
lot 425 SOLD £ 1,600 1887 Victoria £5 Gold, N.E.F. (a few edge nicks)
COIN COLLECTION ATTRACTS NATIONAL MEDIA INTEREST
Auction 3rd April 2013. Our recent auction of a collection of gold and silver coins attracted tremendous pre sale attention from UK and International collectors. Our initial estimate was doubled with the collection grossing over £30,000. The local Plymouth owner was ‘absolutely delighted’ with the result. The following day a major feature appeared in the local press which was followed up by national...
DANISH RESISTANCE FIGHTER'S CARVINGS FOR SALE
Inuit carvings collected by a World War Two resistance fighter after his release from a Nazi concentration camp go on sale in Plymouth next month. The collection of seven rare marine ivory pieces, featuring a sleigh, polar bears and elephant, were acquired by Dane John Christian Olsen, who was captured in 1944. He was sent to the Bochum labour camp...
EMILY KEEN MODELS THE NORMAN HARTNELL DRESS
ROYAL DESIGNERS DRESS GOES UP FOR SALE IN PLYMOUTH
Royal designer’s dress goes up for sale in PlymouthView media feature Fashionistas and lovers of classic clothing will be flocking to an auction house in Plymouth when a 1920s dress and bolero jacket produced by one of the most famous names in British design is sold.
This early Beryl Cook painting is expected to sell for £8,000 to £10,000 on 4th December.
FIRST TIME ON THE MARKET FOR BERYL COOK PAINTING
Press Release. An early work by Beryl Cook, which had languished in a cupboard before being bought by a keen follower of her work, is expected to sell for up to £10,000 at auction in Plymouth. The untitled painting, never before seen on the open market, is particularly interesting as it also features an unfinished drawing on the reverse.
Lot 408 Auction 26 February 2014
PLYMOUTH'S GREAT EXPLORER
Two lots honouring one of Plymouth’s most famous explorers are set to break new ground when they go under the hammer at an auction in the city this month. The scrolls pay tribute to the legendary Scott of the Antarctic, otherwise known as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who was born in Plymouth in 1868. He died in a doomed...
Lot 41 Auction 26 February
GEORG JENSEN LEADS THE SILVER SECTION
A Georg Jensen silver cigar box will light up the next sale at Plymouth Auction Rooms later this month. The box, decorated with panels of stylised flowers, heads a list of eclectic lots at the sale at the firm’s Cattedown saleroom in Plymouth on Wednesday, February 26. It features impress marks 'Georg Jensen, 830' and 'JR' (possibly referring Georg Jensen designer Johan Rohde) and stands on bracket feet. Measuring 18cm by 14cm, it weighs 43.25oz and has...
GEORGE BEST AUTOGRAPH AMONGST OTHER MAN UNITED STARS IN RARE PROGRAMME
A rare signed football programme is expected to excite football fans at the Plymouth Auction Rooms next month. In the 1970’s Charlie Cooper was the coach driver on the team bus for Manchester United Football Club. On an away match to the Arsenal Stadium he asked the players if they could sign the match programme for his daughter, Christina, who was unable to attend the match as she was on holiday in Devon at the time....
SOLD £3,700
HIGH DEMAND FOR ROLEX WATCHES
This year we have achieved some great prices for Rolex and other luxury wrist watches. Our online sales have brought a wide audience of national and international collectors to our sales. There are many new collectors for quality watches with their obvious appeal and potential increase in value they represent a good investment opportunity. Our July auction saw two Rolex Submariners sell over estimate at £3,700 each. A rare Rolex True Beat stainless steel wrist watch go for £2,400...
Fred Yates in action around 1970
'FOWEY BOATS' BY FRED YATES AT THE OCTOBER SALE
Plymouth Auction Rooms are establishing themselves as principle saleroom to sell paintings by Fred Yates (1922-2008). With several great results for his works at their art sales including two originals for over £6,000; the auctioneers now regularly receive national and international enquiries from collectors and sellers alike. Expecting to attract interest at the October art auction is a pair of paintings titled ‘Boat on The Fowey I and II’ painted on the banks of the...
ROYAL MINT GOLD COINS SELL FOR OVER £25,000
Press Release-29th January 2015 Plymouth Auction Rooms are serving the high demand for commemorative gold coins. Auctioneer Paul Keen reports ‘having sold two major collections recently we have seen a wealth of new online bidders competing for investment opportunities’ Collectors are currently searching for fine proof coins produced by the Royal Mint or the Westminster mint. With coin sales of over £26,000 in recent weeks, Paul is now inviting further collections for his...
CONTEMPORARY SILVER COLLECTION UNDER THE HAMMER
Fashions have changed! And a collection of 1970’s silver illustrates just how much’ Says Auctioneer Paul Keen. Ten years ago a Victorian silver teaset would attract a great deal of interest but today the ornate styles and rich embellishments of the high Victorian style does not fit with peoples tastes. However move forward to the 1970s and a collection of angular and plain silver is expected to attract a lot of interest. ...
VALUATION OFFICE IN THE SOUTH HAMS
Luscombe Maye and Plymouth Auction Rooms are pleased to announce a new joint collaboration. On the second Thursday every month, Andrew Spicer of Plymouth Auction Rooms will be in attendance at the Totnes office of Luscombe Maye for FREE specialised auction advice on jewellery, watches and silver. A member of the Luscombe Maye team will be available for free advice on the property market. No appointment necessary between the hours...
An extensive vinyl collection that sold for over £5,000 at the sale attracting worlwide bidders.
PLYMOUTH HERALD REPORTS ON OUR COLLECTORS AUCTION OCTOBER 20156.
Our fascinating Collectors Auction on 12th October was spotted by reporters at the Plymouth Herald. The sale featured some fascinating items and some of the results were impressive. Read all about it here…..The Herald
PICASSO VASE- 'THE OWL' AUCTION 25TH JANUARY.
PICASSO VASE DISCOVERY AUCTION 25th JANUARY 2017.
Paul Keen reports.On a recent visit to a remote Cornish cottage on the banks of the river Tamar I was asked to appraise a typical mixture of Cornish art, and sundry collectables. However as soon as I walked into the study one object stood out amongst the routine effects. An abstract painted pottery vase; it shouted Picasso (Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881-1973). On turning it over I could see an impressed marked ‘'Edition Picasso Madoura'. Later identified as Chouetton (owl), and part of the...
Mr John Capon.
THE JOHN CAPON COLLECTION OF ZULU ARTIFACTS & BRITISH REGIMENTAL INSIGNIA
Born during the London Blitz, and with his soldier father killed during the war, John grew up with a strong interest in military history. He moved to South Africa at only twenty-one, when his company posted him to Cape Town. After some years he was transferred to Durban, where he lived for thirty years. Whilst living in Natal, he became interested in the Zulu War of 1879. He spent a great deal of his free time exploring the...
DECADES OLD MYSTERY SOLVED
A decades old mystery involving one of Plymouth’s favourite artists and a weapon used by Pacific natives has finally been solved. The wooden object had been the subject of discussions and debate for years involving the family of the late Beryl Cook and visitors to their city home on the Hoe. Beryl’s son, John, said: “It had been in our house for years – certainly since we moved in during the late...
SOLD £980 - 31st July 2013
RARE PAIR WWII GERMAN U BOAT BINOCULARS
An original pair of German U Boat binoculars, probably made by Zeiss, with canvas bag together with a German iron cross, were liberated by Chief Engine Room Artificer W.G.Wright at the end of the second world war.They were brought along to our valuation day this week by the family and will be sold at our auction on 31st July.W.Wright was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. Auctioneer Paul Keen ''U Boat binoculars a popular amongst collectors and we expect these to sell for £300-£500" View Catalogue
WORLD WAR TWO NAVIGATOR AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
A medal awarded to a World War Two navigator for his bravery on combat missions in the Far East is being sold at auction in Plymouth. Flight Sergeant David Arthur Jones was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1946 after completing a host of sorties against enemy forces. He survived a crash over India in March 1943 when his aircraft was struck by another and plummeted to the ground four miles south of Dacca. An account of the incident, along with other details of his war service, are contained in a log book...
This fine diamond ring sold for £1,200.
GLOBAL INTEREST IN THE JULY AUCTION
A packed saleroom and bidders from 17 countries saw Plymouth Auction Rooms’ latest jewellery, silver and collectables sale reach new heights. The auction on Wednesday, July 31, saw much interest in the star lots which all sold on or above valuation. Stand-out item was the gold boxing belt won by Welsh boxer Johnny Chislett, a regular star performer at pre-war bouts in Plymouth at the city’s famous Cosmopolitan Gym. It was bought for £7,500, achieving its estimate. Another lot which attracted global interest via the internet was a pair of German World War...
MODEL CAR COLLECTION IS LICENSED TO THRILL
A collection of model cars which featured in the James Bond blockbusters has been licensed to thrill bidders at a Plymouth auction next month. The 112 vehicles, each in their own plastic cases, are among the highlights of the October 9 sale being held at Plymouth Auction Rooms. The diecast collection is made up...
ECLECTIC JANUARY AUCTION 2014
SURPRISES & HIGH PRICES AT SEPTEMBER SALE.
A wealth of Chinese collectors had registered for online bidding at Plymouth Auction Rooms last week. Several oriental lots were on offer which included mixed lot of 8 pieces of Chinese porcelain. In amongst the collection was a simple 19th porcelain teapot. Entered to auction by a local family with a guide of only £50. The lot attracted a frantic amount of live internet bidding with it finally selling to a specialist in London for a remarkable £900. From the same home came a carved Chinese ivory figure of...
BLUE BIRD MODEL AND AUTOGRAPH - AUCTION SEPTEMBER 2017.
British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell (1885-1948) gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times during the 1920s and 1930s using vehicles called Blue Bird. A diecast model of a Blue Bird by Britain’s is to be sold along with an original autograph of Malcolm Campbell, they were discovered together in an old family toy chest by the grandson of close friends of the Campbell’s. Condition poor but a real collectors lot!
James Thomas and John Chislett with the boxing belt.
BOXING BELT SELLS TO ONE OF PLYMOUTH'S FAMOUS BOXING FAMILIES
One of Plymouth’s most famous boxing families has scored a knockout – after clinching the sale of a precious piece of fighting memorabilia at auction in the city. Glynn Thomas, whose father James was a former boxer who used to run Devonport Boxing Club, successfully bid £7,500 to land the gold belt won by Welsh boxing legend Johnny Chislett.
ROLLING STONES COLLECTION TO BE SOLD
Detail of a pair of tall King House psot from Papa New Guinea that Sold to an internet bidder for £2,100
LIVE INTERNET BIDDING YIELDS RECORD BREAKING MAY COLLECTORS AUCTION
With some 213 bidders registered to bid live on the internet and a further 150 bidders registered directly with our saleroom we anticipated that the May Collectors auction would be busy.However in almost twenty years we have rarely seen such a huge amount of bidding throughout an auction with almost 40% of sold lots going to online buyers.As auctioneers we have recognised the need to invest in the facility of...
Some of the Moorcroft Pottery at the January Sale
9,080 VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE IN JANUARY 2012
Our online sales are attracting a huge amount of interest with an ever increasing number of bidders registering to bid live at our sales. This month so far we have seen over 9,000 visitors to our website with 5,627 unique visits and 48.25% new visitors.View all the ResultsThe internet promotion of our sales has generated many more enquiries directly from collectors for all manner of items but in particular silver, jewellery, pocket and wrist watches, clocks, models and toys.Only last week we saw a Moorcroft collection go for over £6,500 and a Wade collection for over £2,700. There were many notable prices at...
Lot 272 William Moorcroft Pomegranate Vase SOLD £2,000
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This diamond solitaire ring sold for £1,500
RESULTS FROM THE JULY AUCTION
SOLD £24,500 19th September 2012
FINE LENKIEWICZ SELF PORTRAIT SELLS FOR £24,500.
Lot 50 attracted tremendous pre sale interest at the art auction on 19th September. A stunning self portrait painting by Robert Lenkiewicz from his private studio. Our pre sale valuation of £17,000-£20,000 was comfortably surpassed when an East Devon collector standing in the saleroom out bid three telephone bidders and a strong commission bid to win the lot for a respectable £24,500 (£29,400 including premium).Other sales including another smaller self portrait £8,800, two painter with Karen Ciambriello paintings at £3,000 and £4,500 and Study of Esther with Candles at...
12th June Lot 21 JAMES STARK ( 1794-1859) oil
EAST ANGLIA ART COMES TO PLYMOUTH
Works by two of East Anglia’s most collectable artists are set to go under the hammer at an auction in June.Coming up for sale at The Plymouth Auction Rooms is an oil on panel painting by English landscape artist James Stark (1794 – 1859) a key member of the Norwich School, the first provincial art movement in Britain whose members were inspired by the Norfolk landscape.The painting, in an original gilt frame bearing the artist’s name, is unusual because many of the Norwich School works were acquired by the Colman’s mustard dynasty and rarely come to market....
The rare large German Navigator's Watch, auction 4th September.
GERMAN AIRCREW NAVIGATOR'S WATCH TO BE SOLD IN SEPTEMBER
A German aircrew navigator’s watch acquired by a British despatch rider who saw action in Europe and North Africa during World War Two is set to attract bids from around the world when it is auctioned in Plymouth. The large black faced timepiece was issued to Luftwaffe airmen ahead of missions, and would have been worn over their flying suits as they carried out bombing raids and attacks on targets.
The SS Newbiggin of Newcastle by William Pearn unloading coal on Plymouth's Barbican in 1890. Auction 28th May.
PLYMOUTH BARBICAN VIEWS FROM THE 19th & 20th CENTURIES.
Two fine paintings depicting views of Sutton Harbour on Plymouth's Barbican are to be auctioned in May at Plymouth Auction Rooms. A fine 19th century oil painting by Westcountry artist William Pearn depicts the SS Newbiggin of Newcastle unloading coal alongside the east quay which is now home to the Sutton Harbour Marina. The historic painting is dated 1890 and depicts coal wagons on the quay running on the original tram rails which can still be...
Lot 108 An Irish guards gold laced Drum Majors Scarlet Tunic, named to 'Drum Major P. Brennan`
COLLECTION OF MILITARIA FOR SALE AS OWNER DOWN SIZES
A fascinating collection of militaria and collectors’ items are to be sold in Plymouth next month as a result of as South Devon man downsizing. The gentleman has passionately collected all manner of military uniform, hats, memorabilia, models and even weapons over many years but the time has come for him to thin out the collection. Notable items include a QEII Irish Guards Corps of Fifes and Drums scarlet drummers...
SOLD £10,700 MEDALS TO FLIGHT LIEUTENANT BOB POULTON DFC
BATTLE OF BRITAIN GROUP OF MEDALS SELL FOR £10,700 IN BOUYANT NOVEMBER AUCTION
VIEW RESULTSWe held a very successful auction this week, attracting high numbers of UK and International Bidders, our website recorded some 10,513 visitors with 6,148 unique visitors.Demands this years have been consistingly high for silver, watches, clocks, medals, collectors items and this sale produced many high results well over our estimates.Some notable sales includedThe Medal SectionThe Battle of Britain DFC Group -£10,700
Fidel Castro Sold £6,900.
FIDEL CASTRO SELLS FOR £6,900.
A staggering price for a rare Doulton Character Jug was achieved at Plymouth Auction Rooms this week.Numerous collectors from Australia, Italy, London and America registered to bid on the 30 rare Royal Doulton character jugs collected by a Plymouth gentleman who had decided to sell his collection. The highlight of the sale was...
LOT 548 RIFLEMAN REGINALD LEWIS-KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME 1917, TO BE SOLD ON 20TH FEBRUARY
GERMAN AND BRITISH MILITARIA HEADLINES THE FEBRUARY AUCTION
The February auction will feature a fascinating array of German and British military collectables. The sale will include a private collection of German daggers, swords and badges which were collected over several years by the late father of a Plymouth Gentleman. The collection is expected to raise £2,000-£3,000.Our recent medal valuation day proved successful when a number of British medals were appraised and entered for sale. Many of which have come direct from family descendants and being offered with...
PROMOTION PROMOTION PROMOTION
View of 25 local media stories about interesting lots sold at Plymouth Auction Rooms.
Lot 83 attracted tremendous pre sale attention and finally sold for £1,450.
JUNE COLLECTORS SALE REVIEW
A frantic intercontinental internet bidding battle saw Plymouth Auction Rooms host its second highly successful sale in a fortnight. The Jewellery, Silver and Collectables auction on Wednesday came hot on the heels of the Summer Art Sale, and saw fierce competition for almost 600 hand-picked lots. Registered bidders both hemispheres, in countries including Saudi Arabia, Israel, Kuwait, China, Russia, Holland and France, in conjunction with a packed saleroom, fuelled fierce competition for a wide range of items. Among the stars of the sale was a 19th century Fijian war club, owned by Plymouth...
SOLD £2,700.
EXCITING EARLY ARRAY OF LOTS FOR THE NOVEMBER AUCTION
It has been an incredibly busy week since Plymouth Auction Rooms’ last sale, with a host of eclectic and unusual items coming through the doors ahead of the November 20 auction. Chief among them is a rare early 20th century mahogany W F Stanley and Company Fuller logarithmic calculator, which incorporates cylinders and pointers to carry out mathematical tasks. Another standout lot is a George IV rosewood Canterbury. These items, originally used to hold sheet music, remain extremely popular among collectors and should attract plenty of worldwide interest via the internet. ...
BUMPER BIDS FOR JEWELLERY
Plymouth Auction Rooms played host to a lively specialist auction last month, which made close to £100,000 in sales across artwork, fine jewellery, watches and antiques. The South West proved itself to be a treasure trove of outstanding antiques and collectables, with highlights including an antique opal and diamond salamander brooch, which attracted fierce competition from Devon and London bidders and sold for £2,800. A large single stone diamond ring went to a lucky bidder for £5,500....
Lot 286 A fine oval cut diamond solitaire SOLD £3,000
JAPANESE SAMURAI SWORD SELLS FOR £700 AT THE JUNE AUCTION
VIEW RESULTS An interesting collection of militaria, postcards, guns and some swords from a Plymouth property sold over our expectations on Wednesday 13th June. Two Japanese Samurai swords attracted numerous pre sale enquiries from UK and European collectors. One sold for £390 whilst the other went at £700. The collectors section was busy with several good results including a box of aircraft model kits at £300, a pair of large deck...
MOORCROFT COLLECTION SELLS FOR £3,700
The Jim Clatworthy Collection of Pot Lids Sells for over £5,000 at the April Auction
VIEW RESULTSThe April auction featured a wide range of antiques and collectables which were well received by a packed saleroom of bidders and some 250 online registered bidders from across the world.There were numerous high sale results including a fine collection of 19th century Pratt Ware pot lids collected by the late Jim Clatworthy of Callington.
Crying Man, Black Mac Sells for £14,000
LENKIEWICZ VAGRANCY PAINTING FETCHES £14,000 AT THE JUNE AUCTION
Lot 129 The Royal Sovereign Collection comprising twenty one full Sovereigns from 1957 - 2003 SOLD £5,400.00 11th December
COLLECTION OF ROYAL MINT PROOF COINS FETCH OVER £27,000 AS PART OF A TWO DAY SELECTED AUCTION
Auctioneer Paul Keen was greeted with a packed saleroom for both December evening auctions which featured fine collections of jewellery, watches and paintings. Bidding was extremely buoyant from the outset of each auction with high numbers of UK and International internet bidders competing with the room bidders to acquire the fine lots on offer. The jewellery section saw a very pretty vintage diamond necklace,...
LORD ROTHSCHILD'S BUTTERFLY CABINET
A large mahogany double sided collector’s cabinet may appear quite nondescript; however its history adds a real premium to its saleability. The cabinet although now empty of butterflies and drawers, originally housed part of the Rothschild, Cockayne & Kettlewell Butterfly Collection ex London Natural History Museum. Lionel Walter Rothschild - Butterfly Collector (1868-1937) Lord Rothschild built a private museum at...
LOCAL MODEL FOR SALE
The Shamrock is the only fully restored Tamar sailing barge in the world. She was built in Plymouth in 1899 to carry cargo on the river. She is moored on Cotehele Quay. You now have the opportunity of bidding for a fine scale model replica on 23rd March. read more The original...
ROBERT LENKIEWICZ 'Study of Jane Short' SOLD £9,100
LENKIEWICZ PAINTING SELLS OVER ESTIMATE
The June art and jewellery auction featured three oil paintings by Robert Lenkiewicz. Estimated at £7,000-£8,000 was a Non Project Piece titled 'Study of Jane Short'. In good condition it attracted good presale interest. Commission bids were left behind as two determined bidders competed with to a final hammer price of £9,100.Two further oils by Lenkiewicz included 'French Girl' at £5,700 and also 'Study of Blonde' at £4,000. A collection of small pencil sketch mainly of 'Mouse' sold over expectations at £1,150, a charming watercolour study...
SOLD £4,000 14th September
FINE WATCHES AND JEWELLERY IN DEMAND AT SEPTEMBER SALE
A Gents Rolex Submariner wrist watch attracted the most attention at the art, jewellery and watch sale in September.Estimated at £2,500-£3,000 the watch was in good condition apart from a small dent in one gold link. This did not deter bidders as three phone lines were in operation alongside several bidders bidding live online. A Plymouth collector finally out bid all the competition to take the watch at a hammer price £4,000. The highest prcie of the sale was left for a fine and large...
PLYMOUTH COLLECTORS BUYS 'COSMO' BOXING POSTCARDS FOR £680.
The collection of 80 photographic postcards that were collected by Plymouth Boxer Archie Le Santo attracted considerable interest at the 3rd September sale. The collection featured many photographs of boxers from the early 1900’s who boxed at the Cosmo Boxing Club, Devonport, Plymouth. The owner was the late Archie Le Santo’s wife who is now 104 years old! The pre-sale estimate of £200-£300 was easily surpassed as a Plymouths collector out bid numerous commission and internet bids to secure the collection for an impressive £680. The same sale...
SOLD £3,400 Lot 331 A Ladies 18ct gold Rolex Watch with diamond dot dial.
Ladies Rolex Watch Sells for £3,400 at the October Auction
VIEW RESULTSOur estimate of £2,000 proved over cautious for a fine Ladies gold Rolex wrist watch at the October auction. Several bidders in the room contested for the watch until it finally sold for £3,400. There were many surprise results at the buoyant auction. A Chinese white jade and white metal hand mirror eclipsed its pre sale estimate following a long internet battle and it finally selling for £1,450. Longcase clocks have become quite affordable in recent...
FURNITURE WITH TENUOS LINKS TO SHACKLETON
A consignment of Victorian furniture from a South Dartmoor property is quite routine however it is being sold by a descendant John Quiller Rowett (1874-1924). He was a friend and the financial backer of Ernest Shackleton's last voyage to Antarctic. The furniture originally came from his home in Scotland. This may add some value to the two good quality wardrobes and a Georgian chest of drawers
THIS ZANZIBAR CHEST SOLD FOR £750.
OVER 600 REGISTERED BIDDERS FOR THE APRIL AUCTION
Worldwide demands for collectors’ items, works of art, silver, watches, jewellery and coins continue to rise. Sale on sale we have experienced an ever growing amount of bidders registering to bid at Plymouth Auction Rooms along with a huge amount of pre sale bids.Our recent sale on 3rd April was typical of the current interest with many lots selling for well over the estimates, mainly due to renewed interest in collectables but also for the huge amount of people viewing our catalogues...
Lot 65 This rare Beryl Cook print 'Fur Coat' generated a great deal of interest and sold for £2,200
SUMMER ART SALE REVIEW JUNE 2013
Press Release Western Morning News 15th June.A tense bidding battle for a collection of work by Devon artist Piran Bishop dominated the latest successful summer art sale staged by Plymouth Auction Rooms. A packed saleroom watched as online and in-room bidders fought for 30 minutes for a range of oils by Exeter-based Bishop, a former student of Robert Lenkiewicz, which made £4,000.But it was works by Plymouth painters Lenkiewicz and Beryl Cook which dominated Wednesday night’s buoyant sale.
Earliest self-portrait of Robert Lenkiewicz to go up for sale.
A sketch believed to be the earliest self-portrait of iconic Plymouth painter Robert Lenkiewicz is set to go up for sale in the city. The drawing of the artist is in a sketchbook of early work by Lenkiewicz, believed to have been done when he was aged around 12 or 13 and living with his family in London. Francis Mallett, chairman of the Plymouth-based Lenkiewicz Foundation, said the work is an interesting find and would be...
20th February 2013 Estimate £5,000-£8,000 SOLD £6,300.
WESTERN MORNING NEWS PRESS RELEASE SATURDAY 23RD FEBRUARY
View Results"With a packed saleroom and several hundred registered bidders auctioneer Paul Keen was expecting a busy auction this week. The buoyant sale generated a huge number of internet bids throughout out the sale resulting in some very good prices particularly in the collectors section. Some 500 interesting lots were on offer many of which were being sold on behalf of executors or from collections in Devon and Cornwall. The first ten minutes of the...
ROBERT LENKIEWICZ SELLS FOR £20,000 AT THE MARCH SALE.
VIEW RESULTSThe March auction produced good results for modern British art with the highest prices achieved for good Robert Lenkiewicz paintings. The expected star lot was the 'Self Portait at the House' which attracthed numerous pre sale enquiries and was finally sold to a collector from Devon bidding on the phone.Other Lenkiewicz works included Anna on the Settle at £7,000, Karen Painting at £5,600, Anna at the House £2,500, Eliza in Red at £3,100 and Study of Sue for £1,900.The surpise of the sale was for a collection of small London scenes in watercolour painted by Grace...
Lot 373 SOLD £3,700.00
VIOLIN BOW ATTRACTS INTERNATIONAL INTEREST AT THE OCTOBER SALE AND SELLS FOR £1,900
VIEW RESULTSThe October auction attracted a record breaking amount of bidders and buyers at our saleroom. Auctioneer Paul Keen spent over six hours on the rostrum receiving multiple bids from the packed saleroom and from live worldwide internet bidders for most lots in the sale. There were many exceptional prices in the sale with a high amount of overseas buyers including China, Germany, U.S., Australia, Italy, Spain and France.Notable results included.Large Victorian Dining Table -£3,400.Victorian Bookcase £840. Violin Bow...
Football Caps & Medal from West Ham Legend Goalkeeper to be auctioned
Two England caps and two medals awarded to West Ham legend goalkeeper Ted Hufton are to be sold by auction. Edward (Ted) Hufton (1892-1967) began his playing career at Sheffield but was sold to West Ham United after the war in 1919 for £350, he was known as the penalty king; in his first season he saved 11 out of 18 penalty...
Lot 509 Vickers Heavy Machine Gun SOLD £650.
WWII DEACTIVATED MACHINE GUNS TO BE SOLD OCTOBER 2012
Three rare World War two machine guns are to be sold in the October auction. They are part of a Plymouth gentleman’s collection and we expecting bids from UK and International collectors.The guns have all been deactivated and are in very good condition.They include a Vickers British heavy machine gun, with a .303 calibre which comes complete with its original tripod and ammo box. This is expected to sell for £600-£800.A German MG light machine gun is also in very good condition with a 24" barrel, original ammo belts and oil can, this should sell in the region of £500-£600.There...
INTEREST TAKES OFF IN FIRST WORLD WAR PLANE CRASH RELIC
PRESS RELEASE 30TH April 2013 A propeller blade from a First World War pilot’s crashed plane looks set to trigger a bidding dogfight at a Plymouth auction house’s next sale.It belongs to a seller from South East Cornwall, whose grandfather’s brother was among the pioneering aviators who fought in the Great War, and will feature in the Plymouth Auction Rooms sale on May 8 starting at 10.30am.What makes the item particularly intriguing is that the family has a first-hand account of the crash, and other memories of the war, written by the pilot in...
LENKIEWICZ ROCK' N' ROLL PAINTING COULD SELL FOR £20,000
VIEW FULL SALE RESULTS A significant portrait of rock’n’roll fans by Plymouth artist Robert Lenkiewicz is expected to sell for more than £20,000 when it comes up for auction next month. The oil on canvas, measuring 212cm x 146.5cm and entitled The Rockers, is from a private collector and is expected to attract global attention when it...
LOT 100 5th December SARAH LOUISA KILPACK (1839-1909) oil 'Mont Orgueil Castle, Jersey', 11cm x 13cm Estimate £120 to £150.
JERSEY ARTISTS ON SHOW IN PLYMOUTH
Artwork from two of Jersey's most iconic artists is heading for Plymouth and will go under the hammer at auction in December. The paintings by Sarah Louisa Kilpack and Edmund Blampied will feature in the fine paintings and prints sale at Plymouth Auction Rooms on Thursday December 5. Kilpack, who died in 1909 aged...
This Jacques Staunton chess set sold to an online bidder for £780
IMPRESSIVE LIVE ONLINE BIDDING AT THE JULY COLLECTABLES AUCTION
Our regular sales of collector’s items, silver and jewellery are extremely popular for live internet bidders. We had over 250 registered to bid on line on 16th July including bidders form India, Russia, Canada, Australia and the States. High demand continues for art pottery, fine silver, pocket watches, jewellery and collectable toys and models.There were many notable prices and numerous instances where there were multiple bids online after the saleroom bids had finished.The bidding was often intense for much of the...
Lot 30 SOLD £6,100.00 11th December
DIAMOND SOLITAIRE RING SELLS FOR £6,100 AT BOUYANT CHRISTMAS JEWELLERY & WATCH AUCTION
HEAVYWEIGHT IMAGE WILL THRILL FIGHT FANS IN SEPTEMBER
A rare signed photograph of boxing’s first black heavyweight champion, given by him to a former Plymouth dancer and her husband who became personal friends, is set to be sold in the city. The inscribed portrait of ring legend Jack Johnson, estimated to fetch £1,000 - £2,000, is being sold by Christopher Nickols, whose grandfather’s sister was present at many of his fights.
Auction 16th January Lot 140 Lalique Mistletoe Vase
FINE FRENCH GLASS FOR JANUARY 2013
Rene Lalique (1860-1945) began his career designing Art Nouveau jewellery in the 1880’s, often making fine pieces for the famous. He soon began to experiment with glass and opened his first shop in Paris in 1905 making perfume bottles. By 1911 he had ceased making jewellery and established three further glass factories. Using a moulded glass technique he was able to produce a range of frosted and opalescent stylish glass....
GONE...FINE LONDON BRACKET CLOCK £2,800.00
HENRY BORRELL (1795-1840) is listed in Britten's Book of Clockmakers as a musical clock and watchmaker of Alders gate, London. A Georgian bracket clock has its brass movement inscribed Hny Borrell. The clock was sold at our September 1st auction. It had a twin fussee movement, striking on a rack of bells. Still working after some two hundred years the clock had a wonderful tone when the group of bells are played. The movement also has a dead beat escapement.
LOT 499 THE ROYAL ARTILLERY SWORD WITH FINE ENGRAVED BLADE
THE SWORD OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL MARSHAL CLARKE K.C.M.G. ZULU LAND
Lt Col Sir Marshal Clarke K.C.M.G. (known as one-arm Clarke: he lost an arm to a tiger in India).As part of a distinguished colonial career he was appointed commissioner of Zululandsoon after the main Zulu wars.Clarke had many dealings with the Zulu chiefs and was instrumental in bringing outof detention Dinuzulu the...
GEORGE MEDAL GROUP SELLS FOR £4,000.00 AT THE BOUYANT OCTOBER AUCTION
The October Collectors auction featured an electric range of Toys, Models and Collectors Items. Demands are currently high for Model Railway, Postcards, Marine and Naval Collectables and also original Diecast Modes, Plastic Figures and Medals.Notables results included Collection of World Stamps £420.Naval Officers bicorn hat, sword and belt £320Collections of Postcards £600, £320 and £310.Model 'clinker built; Rowing Boat £430.Collection of Military Cap Badges £410.Bronze Ships Bell 'Tagalie' 1912 £330.German Luftwaffe Dagger £250.Edwardian Drew & Son Picnic Set £200.Indian Model of a Temple by Nagarathinam £320.19th century Bronze Cannon £2,200.The George Medal Group £4,000.Trophy Miniature Collection £820Siebe Gorman Divers Knife...
The pair Chinese Jars and Covers which sold for £1,300.00
GONE......COLLECTION OF MOORCROFT POTTERY MAKES £5,000.00 AT THE OCTOBER SALE
With a packed saleroom of bidders, several telephone lines booked and a near record amount of absentee bids from the internet it was no surprise to Auctioneer Paul Keen that the October sale was gong to generate some notable sales. · A private collection of Moorcroft Pottery attracted national interest with many lots improving on pre sale forecasts, collectively selling for £5,000 with just four lots...
Over the last month we have seen a record amount of visitors to our website, peaking at some 9,700 on 2nd February.This interest was primarly for the eclectic range of antiques and collectables on offer at the February auction. An incredible amount of national and international interest in the sale resulted in many of the estimates for the 500 lots being eclipsed with very few lots unsold.There were several notable prices, (view full sale results) particularly in the jewellery and collectables section.Highlights from the sale included Early Victorian rosewood Side Cabinet £1,950.Victorian pine Dresser £860Three Dame Lucie Rie Vessels £1,650Clarice...
From a collection of 48 rice paper paintings selling for £7,100 on May 19th
GONE CHINESE RICE PAPERS PAINTINGS SELL AT £7,100.00
The evening art auction featured four albums of 19th century Chinese rice paper paintings by Youqua, on May 19th. Live internet bidding and phone bidding was intense with the albums sailing past their £1000 estimate to sell to a specialist bidding by phone for £7,100.
A large pair 18th century Chinese glazed pottery Parrots SOLD £200,600.00
CHINESE BIRDS MAKE RECORD PRICE AT PLYMOUTH AUCTION ROOMS SOLD £200,600.00
This rare pair of 18th century Chinese Export pottery parrots attracted international bidders at our sale on the 4th of November 2009. Some eight telephone lines were in use with a frenzy of bids up to £100,000 but a determined private collector living on the Continent beat off a specialist London dealer to secure the birds for a record breaking £170,000 (plus Buyers Premium).
Mammoth masterpieces go under the hammer for much-loved charity
One of the city’s best-loved charities is giving people a one-off opportunity to snap up a unique piece of art and be part of something special that will leave a legacy for families across Plymouth and surrounding areas. On the evening of 9 October, all 40 of the enchanting elephant sculptures that have delighted tens of thousands this summer as part of Elmer’s Big Parade – each featuring a unique design by a talented artist...
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Tag: DeVos
Charter School Fraud is rampant and proven and now we have dubious DeVos
Estimated Enrollment Trends in Full-Time Virtual Schools. (National Education Policy Center)
The National Education Association expresses deep concerns
A recent study provided that only 41% of Cyber Schools were deemed “academically acceptable.” The graduation rate on private Cyber Schools was less than half of that of brick & mortar public schools. So why is the new head of education so interested in providing an easy platform of proven tax dollar theft?
This is not “liberal hysteria” this is a genuine concern based on real facts.
Jessica Calefati of the San Jose Mercury News provided in-depth research about the for profit company K12 Inc. which lead to a $168.5 Million settlement with California. There are proven claims that the Virginia-based Charter School manipulated attendance records and overstated its students’ success. The SJMN stated in its article: “Harris’ office found that K12 and the 14 California Virtual Academies used deceptive advertising to mislead families about students’ academic progress, parents’ satisfaction with the program and their graduates’ eligibility for University of California and California State University admission.” Over a twelve year period the fraudster charged the State of California $310 Million dollars.
Despite these findings the Atlantic Monthly reports:
“DeVos invested in the online charter-school operator K12, which targeted the growing home school market. But K12’s overly expansive business model made it both significantly less profitable and more prone to regulatory and operating deficiencies than smaller, less ideologically driven competitors. K12 still trades below its IPO price from 2007. K12 was one of dozens of companies originally backed by Michael Milken’s ambitiously named Knowledge Universe, as part of an expansive effort to revolutionize education.”
Account Neal Prence, 61, admitted guilt in defrauding the government by helping with illegal accounting practices. AP reported that Nicholas Trombetta, 61, acknowledged using the school’s money to fund a lavish lifestyle, including buying a Florida condominium, homes for his girlfriend and mother and a jet airplane, while socking most of the money away for retirement. Trombetta used Avanti Management Group, the National Network of Digital Schools and other companies Trombetta also created to perpetrate the scheme. The fraud was uncovered thanks to the tireless work of the FBI.
What seems surprising is that despite the fact that they absconded admittedly with $8 Million dollars the maximum sentence the law allows is: “The law provides for a maximum total sentence of 100 years in prison, a fine of $3,250,000, or both for Trombetta and five years’ imprisonment, $250,000, or both for Prence. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed would be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant. Assistant United States Attorneys James R. Wilson, Robert S. Cessar and Stephen R. Kaufman are prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.” More
Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow lost appeal to allow the state to audit the attendance of their online charter school. The Columbia Dispatch reported on November 13, 2016: “ECOT could not substantiate nearly 60 percent of full-time students were getting the minimum 920 hours of “learning opportunities” required by the state, meaning the state could ask the school to repay more than $60 million of the $106 million it received in state funding last year. Eight other smaller e-schools also were unable to justify their reported enrollment totals.” It seems House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, R-Clarksville, was not worried about ECOT or Ohio’s other online schools potentially defrauding Ohio. He simply excused their behavior by saying: “There are always two sides to the story.” His comment implies that there may be many more sides than that. Why would a House Speaker support Ohio citizens being defrauded?
These are only very few examples. Now with DeVos and her side kick Jerry Fallwell Jr. in charge of “education” we can be sure there will be many more major thefts. We are now in the era that US founders wanted to avoid:
It is 49 words in Article I of the Constitution.
“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
And the Congress is working feverishly on abolishing the oversight office of ethics to aid the business interests of their now fellow leaders. Here is a great link to a speech Walter M. Shaub, Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics, gave at the Brookings Institute in January 2017. Link
Best friends are found in schools
Most people’s best and oldest friends are from our early schools days. DeVos is known to take the life long pleasure of socialization so that if a child or parent signs in online for 1 minute the “privateering school” seems legally is entitled to steal tax payers money. If tax dollars earmarked for education go to pay for private homes of girlfriends instead of education, it should be wrong. But DeVos disagrees and the GOP gives her free reign to create theft rings. More
Eli Broad who sponsors the best and most high performing charter schools in the country tried to stop her plan to defraud the public much like her brother Eric Prince did with his billions Dollar thefts in war of Iraq with his privateering military company Blackwater. To this day Eric Prince finds it offensive that people hold him accountable as to how he spent taxpayers money. Eric Prince said in recent interviews in an Alt-Right media company that he should not be accountable because the missing Billions and Billions of dollars were spent in a “private” military company and therefore he should not have to disclose the where the missing money went nor where it is now.
The only lesson the public can learn is how bottomless the sense of entitlement has become under our dysfunctional government that provides no oversight and no accountability of how and where our rapidly disappearing taxes and pensions has become. Unrepentant thieves have overthrown the government. DeVos will be a disastrous example of self righteous thievery of billions of taxpayers money due to funneling American public funds into “private” pockets. Another billion dollar heist is underway and sanctioned by Paul Ryan and McConnell. No wonder they want to silence the voices of reason.
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"Give integrity a chance"
Puchong, 11 Ramadan: If you read only one newspaper article this Ramadan, read this one: Integrity - the core quality we need, penned by Mohamed Tawfik Ismail. In this piece, Tawfik seems to have softened his stand on Jakim but perhaps by too little to appease supporters of the religious authority. But that's Tawfiq, he doesn't pretend to be what he's not. He is the son of the man widely touted as "the best PM Malaysia never had" and "the man who saved Malaysia".
Integrity – the core quality we need
by tawfik ismail
IN 1968, the commandant of the Royal Military College wrote to a former Cabinet member and serving MP to say that there was only so much the armed forces could do for his son which did not extend to keeping him in the college that ill-suited the youngster’s rebellious, non-conformist temperament.
That boy was me and the ex-minister was my father Tun Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman.
In acknowledging the setback to his first-born, my father kept his integrity by acknowledging the truth of the situation and did not use his considerable influence to keep me in an institution against that institution’s guardians’ better judgement.
Instead, he made life a little more interesting for me by reducing my status from privileged big-headed elite scion to minority Asian student in a land of socialist equality, Australia.
These events of more than 50 years ago got me thinking about the issue of integrity, which is arguably one of most important core values around which other desirable ends are built, such as the integration of our society into a cohesive, inclusive community.
In the current political scenario, it isn’t the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal that challenges our belief or disbelief, it is the conditions under which it occurred that bring to focus earlier 1MDB-type events that had shocked us before.
How many of us remember the Bumiputra Malaysia Finance (BMF) scandal that led to the murder of assistant general manager Jalil Ibrahim, who incidentally was an RMC alumnus?
Who among us recall the number of times Bank Bumiputera, the pride of the Malays, was bailed out and at what cost?
Amidst all the noise by PAS about RU355 in the previous Parliament, who should Muslims believe? Would they sacrifice their personal freedoms under the Federal Constitution for harsher punishment in the Syariah courts? More important, are those casting the first stone without sin?
Have they asked permission from the sultans of the Malay States before seeking amendments to their royal powers under the Constitution? Where is the integrity in all these actions?
Every person with an Internet connection is a broadcaster, news commentator and opinion maker. This individualism challenges efforts at intellectual, religious and political integrity.
Look at how our youth communicate with each other, each in their own virtual reality. In contrast, look at the villages or small towns where people still see and talk to each other. Look at the different attitudes towards religion in Peninsular Malaysia and in Sabah and Sarawak.
So what are the ways towards national integration with integrity? To paraphrase a Malay saying, when you are lost, go back to the beginning and start afresh.
First is accepting the Constitution as envisioned by the nation’s founding fathers, minus all the amendments from the 1980s. How to do this, I leave it to our finest legal minds to work out and inform us. The result would be a strengthening of the institutions like the judiciary and Parliament that would make another 1MDB and BMF unlikely.
Second, leave religion out of our discourse. The Constitution is as Islamic as it can be because the founding fathers were devout Muslims and would not wish anything bad for the nation they had built.
Religion is used by our politicians to divide and upset us. Give back to the rulers the power of religion. The Federal Government has no business other than making business smooth and transparent, establishing commerce and strong trade externally to assist our farmers and working class, and providing effective defence against external threats.
Redeploy the people in Jakim (the Malaysian Islamic Development Department) to a Department of Social Reengineering to tackle the rempit problem.
Third, improve and expand our infrastructure so that we can meet each other more often, do business efficiently and cheaply, and bring the countryside to the cities and vice versa. And don’t forget the infrastructure in high-rise low-cost buildings, where our youth live, otherwise they’d be reluctant to go home and rempit instead.
Four, decide once and for all, an education policy that serves the needs of our people. In the case of the Malays, encourage them to study practical subjects that would enhance their lives, by making specialist jobs highly paid ones by providing the right conditions. We don’t need so many religious scholars.
Five, reduce the size of the government. Why do we need so many ministers and deputy ministers? What do they do, really?
Six, have faith in our youth and give them all the support they need to lead. Guess how old our founding fathers were when they were given leadership roles in 1955? Tunku Abdul Rahman was 52 and Tun H.S. Lee was 55 but Tun Abdul Razak was 33, my father was 40, Tun Sardon Jubir was 38, Tan Sri Khir Johari was 32 and Tun V.T. Sambanthan was 36. We expect our young to defend and die for us but we baulk at giving them power to lead.
Seven, preserve and contribute to our history and shared cultural practices and beliefs that define us as a nation, such as our fashion, our food, our art, our poetry, our creations inspired by our times. Every Malaysian has a memory worth sharing and social media is there for our use.
As a history buff, I do like it when the past is remembered as a pointer to where we should be, and explains why we are, where we are.
As far as integration at the personal level is concerned, I can share with you the reality I was brought up in.
Before the RMC, my sister and I were educated in the English language by an Indian lady called Mrs Diaz in a kindergarten in Ampang Hilir, Kuala Lumpur, where the children I grew up with were mainly expatriates. I lived in Federal Hill, then Jalan Bukit Menteri Selatan in Petaling Jaya, before travelling to the United States with my parents in 1956.
My childhood exposure was therefore international and my household was multicultural. I can move easily between the different races and different nationalities.
When we returned from the US, I was schooled in St John’s Institution in Kuala Lumpur, where the Malays were not in the top classes, because on merit, we were far behind the Chinese and the Indian students.
Religion was taught in the worst way possible. I knew how to bathe and prepare a body for burial before I was even taught the principles and theology of Islam.
But how to blame the ustaz who came straight from the rural areas to teach at a Catholic School under government instruction?
I joined the 8th KL Scout Troop at St John’s because I wanted to mix around with the other boys and learn useful stuff. With its good racial mix, scouting is a great leveller.
Even in the 1970s, KL was more culturally diverse and the unity was strong among the races because of one strong element that seems lacking today: trust among the womenfolk from different races, when it came to food, drink, and entertainment. I think this strong moral streak provided by the women was what bound the nation together.
Tunku, our beloved first prime minister, made it a practice that once a week a minister would host lunch for the others that included the wives, so there was solid bonding among Cabinet ministers.
He would also hold parties at the Residency with diplomats and the Cabinet to expose the foreign and local people to each other.
One year, he took the Cabinet, their families and some diplomats and business people for a four-night cruise from Klang to Langkawi and back. Every day he would spend time with the children on board and tell them stories from Malay mythology and legends, especially those of Langkawi, where the central character was a woman named Mahsuri.
In Malaysian politics, the party that commands the support of the women is the party that will form the government. Which is why religion mixed with misogyny is a threat to integration. By instilling fear over halal and haram, it has planted the seed of doubt among women as to whether they can trust one another.
I mentioned history as a guide to the future and as a force for integration. The history revisionists, however, are making it difficult for this, as they pick and choose events for textbooks that suit whatever the daily political agenda is.
Felda is seen today as someone’s legacy but look at the history and the legislation behind its establishment, and the so-called facts in the textbooks are in fact myths.
When I collaborated with Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in 2010 on my father’s biography, The Reluctant Politician, I was gratified by the response. It seemed to slake the thirst that was felt by many Malaysians of my generation for a paradigm of leadership forgotten for more than 30 years.
But I was also blasted for publishing it outside and giving the primary documents to the neighbouring country. How could I not, when the National Archives could not even find, let alone display the taped conversations my father had with fellow leaders and foreign governments, nor the numerous films on 8mm and photographs he personally shot for posterity to cherish?
The preservation of history and culture and other remembrances of the past calls for the highest integrity by its custodians, and in my father’s case, they have failed our family and by extension Malaysia.
I’ve given the above perspective from the point of view of a Malay that’s seen and experienced more than most other Malaysians, and from a privileged place as the son of a founding father and grandson of one of the signatories of independence.
I have experienced success and I have overcome failure, because through life there are two skills I carried with me from my brief stay in RMC and my scouting days: resilience and adaptability to the people and the environment around me.
Beyond that, I must add two more values – integrity and empathy – learned from my father, who always believed that Malaysia is its greatest as a sum of all its parts.
Tawfik and dad
[The Star] Editor’s note: Tun Dr Ismail, who retired from active politics in 1967 due to ill health, was persuaded to return to Cabinet as Home Affairs Minister after the May 13, 1969, race riots and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister in 1970. He died in 1973 from a heart attack. He has been credited as the “man who saved Malaysia” and described as the “best PM Malaysia never had”.
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Republicans Search for Another Cory Gardner to Challenge Bennet
Posted Jul 10, 2015 5:00 AM
Republicans have yet to coalesce around a challenger to Bennet. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
It’s been a month of diminishing prospects for Colorado Republicans looking for a candidate to challenge vulnerable Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.
Three Republicans have declined to run, beginning with the party's top pick, 6th District Rep. Mike Coffman, in a race that could affect the balance of power in the Senate. Drama within the state party has only distracted from the search for a credible candidate.
There’s now another name in the pool: Greg Lopez, the former director of the U.S. Small Business Administration in Colorado, threw his hat in the ring Monday afternoon.
At the very least, a Lopez candidacy gives Colorado Republicans someone new to talk about. But with his low name recognition, they would rather be talking about someone else.
Not seeing Lopez as much of a threat, the Colorado Democratic Party didn’t even bother blasting out the routine statement attacking a potential rival as soon as he had filed.
Lopez’s entrance into the race, rated Leans Democratic by the Rothenberg & Gonzales Political Report /Roll Call, leaves Republicans much where they were a month ago: searching for a Cory Gardner for 2016.
When the then-4th District congressman decided to challenge Sen. Mark Udall in 2014, other Republicans already in the race stepped aside . Gardner went on to defeat Udall by fewer than 2 points.
But this year, “There’s no dominant figure like a [Mike] Coffman,” said former Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams.
By all accounts, Coffman would have cleared the GOP field.
“Coffman would have had an extraordinary advantage — both organizationally and financially,” Wadhams added. “It was like, there was Coffman and then there was everybody else.”
But Coffman decided against running . Then his wife Cynthia, who hadn't even been sworn in as the state's attorney general, had her name come up as a potential candidate. But she took herself out of the running after being caught up in internal party squabbling. The state party chairman alleged she and other Colorado Republicans had threatened to go public with accusations he was having an extramarital affair unless he resigned from his leadership post. Cynthia Coffman has denied those allegations.
One national Republican operative, speaking to CQ Roll Call last month , downplayed the party’s disappointment that neither Coffman ran. “The Coffmans, both Cynthia and Congressman Coffman, came with a lot of unknowns and risks, and I think that was one of the reasons why it wasn’t a bad thing that they both decided not to run for Senate,” the operative said. The congressman has gotten himself in hot water recently for joking about the Department of Veterans Affairs managing the Islamic State terror group, also known as ISIS .
Days after Cynthia Coffman stepped aside, state Sen. Ellen Roberts, plagued early on by inconsistencies in her abortion position, also decided against a campaign , citing the challenge of fundraising.
At first glance, a Lopez candidacy checks important boxes for a GOP looking to broaden its demographic appeal. Lopez speaks Spanish and served on the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce board for 10 years.
“I don’t reflect the misconception of what the Republican candidate looks like,” Lopez told the Denver Post .
Lopez isn't the only declared GOP candidate in the race. El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn declared his candidacy in January.
And there are plenty more potential candidates whose names are still floated — often as more credible candidates than the two already officially in the race.
“In the absence of Coffman, I think we can find several candidates before all is said and done,” Wadhams said.
Businessman Robert Blaha, who lost a primary to Doug Lamborn in the 5th District in 2012, and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, who's been prosecuting the high-profile trial of the Aurora movie theater gunman, are still being talked about as potential candidates, though it's thought Brauchler may be more interested in running for governor.
State Senate President Bill Cadman and state Sen. Owen Hill are also still mentioned. Hill withdrew from the 2014 Senate race after Gardner got in. Rep. Scott Tipton, who represents Colorado's 3rd District, has been floated, as has former Solicitor General Dan Domenico.
The Mountain State represents the GOP’s best shot at unseating a Democratic incumbent. Republicans got their preferred candidate in Nevada , where they have a chance to flip retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's seat, with the entrance of Rep. Joe Heck on July 6.
The other two competitive Senate races where there's recruiting left to be done are Democrats’ problem: They need to lock down challengers to New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte and North Carolina Sen. Richard M. Burr.
But recruitment in Colorado isn't troubling Republicans, at least not publicly.
"We will have a good candidate," said one GOP member of Congress. "And we should know within a couple of months."
But to hear Republicans talk about it, there's no rush.
“While I know there’s a lot of handwringing that there’s not a clear-cut front-runner,” Wadhams said, “I don’t think that’s a big concern right now.”
Republicans are quick to point out that Gardner, who at first said he wasn't interested in running, didn’t get into the Senate race until March 2014.
“You could find a candidate that could catch fire at the end, and that’s a dangerous situation for an incumbent,” Wadhams said. He predicted that after winning the nomination next June, a viable GOP nominee could be just several points behind Bennet. “If this candidate emerges and is within striking distance, the fundraising could take care of itself,” he said, anticipating independent outside groups would come to the rescue.
Bennet, Wadhams added, “has not made any major mistakes, but he’s done nothing to be such a dominant figure in the U.S. Senate that he cannot be touched.”
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Meeting Mintues and Documents
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Bios – Meet the Rovers Trust Board
JOHN MURRAY - CHAIRMAN (E)
It was always hard following the Rovers until the 90s. I defended the cause in Manchester,Liverpool and London. Answered many questions about Man.U and Liverpool as I worked abroad for 20 years. Jack Walker’s Investment and Legacy made it easier in latter years. Seeing my 2 young Grandsons in their Rovers shirts made me proud but also resilient. The last 7 years have made me depressed,angry and pro-active.
As the 3rd of now 5 generations of Rovers Supporters(since the 1930s) I now feel a responsibility to leave a legacy. Lancashire needs and deserves its true Premier Club back in good fettle.
As the new Chair of the Trust I intend to use all my Business,Marketing and Networking experience to leave a stronger Club…the Trust is just a conduit to achieve that. The Trust is the ‘safety net’ but it is also the gathering ground for the core of committed supporters. We will ensure 2-way communication is maintained and improved and I hope to leave some lasting projects and protection measures in place.
I would encourage any non-members reading this to join and get involved –but I would say that wouldn’t I ? Please feel free to email me at chair@roverstrust.co.uk with any ideas or comments.
RTID
OLIVER JONES – Vice Chairman (E)
I helped the original Supporters Trust get off the ground in around 2011, and was the first interim Chairman of the Trust. I worked with the then BRIST to bring together the two groups under one heading, and have been either Co-Chairman or Vice Chairman of The Trust since the beginning.
First game was about 1982 I think, and have had a season ticket since 1985. I have been to watch Rovers at nearly fifty grounds home and abroad now. This is likely to expand now we are in the third tier.
I feel that the way modern football is governed is not the way it should be, with not enough supporters having a voice in the running of their club. Finance, corporate greed is put before what is the best thing for the club and the community in the decision making process. I was invlved in the resurrecting of the Rovers Burial ceremony in 2012 after relegation, see photos from CN174 at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cn174/sets/72157630700766350/detail/ . I also pushed for the Bamber Bridge ceremony to be held after relegation from The Championship 2017, which went ahead despite opposition from the Police.
Michael Doherty - Community Program Officer (E)
Hello! I am from Audley Range and have been a Blackburn Rovers fan all my life. I went to John Rigby High School and St Mary’s College and worked in the classic part-time job locations of Peppermint Place and Blackburn Market. My Grandad’s ticket from the 1960 FA Cup Final is a treasured possession. My all-time favourite game is still Rovers v Derby County 10 May 1992 the semi-final first leg play off and the turnaround from 0-2 to 4-2, the atmosphere before the game and even after we went two goals down, the belief that after so many disappointments that this would be our time, the noise, Speedie’s celebrations …
Although I started going to the game fairly regularly from the mid-80s (Gennoe, Garner, Brotherston et al), it was only when I left Blackburn to go to law school that I really appreciated what being a Rovers supporter meant to my identity, to my sense of being a Blackburner. That is one reason I am really interested in the work of the Rovers Trust – Rovers is so important to the community that we should not be standing completely outside of the running of the club.
In my day job, I am a Principal Lecturer in Law at Lancashire Law School, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. My main areas of interest are legal education and public law (i.e. the law of government and public bodies, including human rights). I am not a sports lawyer but am very interested in regulatory systems and fairness in decision-making. I have previously been elected to chair the national Association of Law Teachers and been involved in policy formation on legal education.
In 2014 I created and launched the world’s first national map of legal places – OpenLawMap. I wanted to let users create their own map entries based on what they themselves regarded as significant legal events. For my own first map entry I choose Ewood Park and the achievement of Rovers supporters, through the Trust, in getting the ground listed as an ‘asset of community value’ under the Localism Act 2011. This brings me full circle back to the Rovers Trust and the firm belief that the best form of ownership of football clubs is one that, at least, has a significant element of supporter and community ownership.
I was proud to be co-opted onto the Board in the summer of 2016, and even prouder to be elected to the Board in 2017. My focus is on using law and policy to try to protect the assets of the club and on working with others to change the owners and make fan ownership part of the brighter future for Blackburn Rovers.
David Riding (CO)
I come from a family of Rovers fans with a long tradition of supporting the team through thick and thin. My first match was as a five year old in 1987, with Rovers winning 4-2 against Barnsley. I was fortunate enough to get my first season ticket in 1991-92 just as Jack Walker’s funding was beginning to have an impact on results. As my dad constantly reminds me, that period was the anomaly, not the years of mediocrity before and since! I was at Wembley in 1992, Anfield in 1995, Preston in 2001 and Cardiff a year later, and even managed to convince my Glaswegian wife to come along to Salzburg, Cologne and Rotterdam for the UEFA Cup trips of the mid-noughties. Surprisingly, she has been less enthusiastic about this season’s midweek trips to Scunthorpe and Rochdale.
My motivation to get involved with the Trust was to try and contribute to the fight to preserve the club’s history as a founder member of the Football League, and its future as the focal point of the community I grew up in. The current ownership of the club does not reflect the values and traditions of the club, and does nothing to preserve its position as a vital part of Blackburn’s social and economic identity.
I currently live in Manchester, where I am studying for a PhD and training to be a Vascular Surgeon. I also represent UK surgical trainees to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, so I have experience of working with committees to define and meet objectives, often in difficult circumstances. The recent junior doctors’ strike gave me experience of dealing with people who share a very different mind-set and who may not appreciate the negative impact of remote and ineffective leadership. As part of the board I hope to use my skills and experience to help preserve our club for future generations, so that they also have the opportunity to be part of a community of supporters that will always be an integral part of my life.
Rovers Trust would like to thank the following people for their work with the Trust in the past, they may no longer be involved day to day but their help has been invaluable making the Trust what it is today
WAYNE WILD -Chairman 2012-2017
DAN GRABKO-Finance And Treasurer 2012-2017
NEIL THORNTON -PR/Media 2012-2017
MARK ASHWORTH-Social Media 2012-2017
SIMON BARNES – Secretary 2012-2015
STUART GRIMSHAW -IT Officer 2012-2018
PAUL BROOKING - SD Liaison 2012-2015
BRIAN LAMB -Corporate Officer 2012-2015
DUNCAN MILLER - Membership Officer 2012-2013
JEN BELLAMY – Marketing Officer 2012-2013
JOHN WAREING – Electoral Committee Officer 2012-2014
STEVEN BRADLEY - PR & Social Media Officer 2017-2018
PAULINE MILLIGAN (V) - SECRETARY
TARIQ AHMED - IT Officer (CO)
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Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science
versão impressa ISSN 1516-635X
Rev. Bras. Cienc. Avic. vol.15 no.3 Campinas jul./set. 2013
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1516-635X2013000300007
Dissemination of Salmonella enteritidis by experimentally-infected pigeons
Albuquerque ÁH; Cardoso WM*; Teixeira RSC; Lopes ES; Sales RJPF; Horn RV; Rocha-e-Silva RC; Bezerra WGA; Gomes-Filho VJR
Laboratory of Ornithological Studies, Veterinary College, Ceará State University
Two groups of domestic pigeons (Columba livia) were experimentally infected orally with doses of 9.5 x107 and 9.5 x109 CFU/mL (group A and B, respectively) of a Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) strain isolated from chickens. None of the used doses caused mortality of the inoculated birds; however, the pathogen was successfully recovered from the liver and spleen of group B birds on day 7 post-inoculation (dpi). Pathogen shedding, as evaluated through cloacal swabs, occurred in both groups until the 14th day of observation (p <0.05). Among all fecal samples collected from group B (n=4), three different birds shed the pathogen in their feces, out of which two were positive on 3 dpi and one on 7 dpi. The same number of fecal samples was evaluated in group A and only one bird shed the pathogen, on 7 and 14 dpi. The concentration of the microorganism in the feces was lower in group A than any sample from Group B. Salmonella Enteritidis isolated from chickens, when inoculated in pigeons, may be recovered from feces, cloacal swabs and organs, and these birds may contaminate poultry causing economic losses as well as posing a risk to the public health.
Keywords: Inoculation, Pigeons, Salmonella Enteritidis.
The domestic pigeon (Columba livia) belongs to the order of Columbiformes and Columbidae family (Harrison, 1994). This bird rapidly reproduces in environments that offer sufficient shelter and large quantities of food available, but also lack of predators (Nunes, 2001). The domestic pigeon has a varied diet, which favors its multiplication, resulting in environmental disturbance where they inhabit due to the accumulation of feathers, feces and nest remains , leading to blockages of gutters or storm drain pipes (Nunes, 2001).
Concerning the public health, pigeons play an important role in the transmission of diseases that affect humans and domestic animals, such as toxoplasmosis (Karatepe et al. 2011), Newcastle disease (Alexander, 1985), aspergillosis (Pal, 1991) and salmonellosis (Sousa et al. 2010). According to Tauxe (1991), birds are considered the main source of salmonellosis dissemination in humans. Several authors have researched and isolated Salmonella spp. in the feces, cloacal swabs and organs of pigeons (Casanovas et al. 1995; Adesiyun et al. 1998; Toro et al. 1999; Passamonti et al. 2000; González-Acuña et al. 2007 and Sousa et al. 2010). Salmonella Enteritidis has been considered the serovar responsible for the largest number of outbreaks in humans and birds due to its wide distribution in nature, while the intestinal tract of animals are the main natural reservoir of this pathogen. Birds have a particularly important role in the spread of bacteria and may act as asymptomatic carriers, shedding the pathogen continuously in their feces (Franco, 2002).
The mechanism by which the infection of Salmonella spp. develops in Columbidae birds is still poorly understood, especially regarding the Salmonella Enteritidis. Therefore this study aimed at evaluating the route and duration of shedding in the environment of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis by its inoculation in domestic pigeons (Columba livia). The study was approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Use in the registry number 10244384-0/22 (CEUA-UECE).
Experimental Groups
In this experiment, 56 domestic pigeons (Columba livia) were obtained from the Laboratory of Ornithological Studies (LABEO). A fourth generation of pigeons in captivity, between six and twelve months of age was selected to the study. Pigeons were housed in pairs per cage and separated into two groups, which orally received two different inoculum concentrations of Salmonella Enteritidis: Group A (lower dose) and Group B (higher dose). The following variables were analyzed: SE concentration in the feces and in organs, frequency of positive swabs, organ and fecal samples. The inoculation and evaluation of the concentration of Salmonella Enteritidis in organs and feces was performed according to the methodology adopted by Oliveira et al. (2005).
Inoculum Preparation
A broth containing a Salmonella Enteritidis strain resistant to nalidixic acid (SENalr) was incubated overnight at a temperature of 37ºC, Birds in group A received 1 mL of the inoculum obtained from the culture SENalr containing approximately 9.5x107 colony forming units/mL (CFU/ mL), whereas for group B, the culture was diluted by a factor of 10-3, containing approximately 9.5 x 109 CFU/mL.
Microbiological Evaluations
On the 3, 7, 14, 21, 28, and 35 day post-inoculation (dpi), fecal samples were collected from each cage, and four birds from each group were euthanized for spleen and liver collection for analysis of CFU and frequency of positive SENalr.
In the first step, the organs were individually homogenized and diluted in decimal series (1:10) in Phosphate Buffered Saline solution (PBS). The dilutions were plated on brilliant green agar (Oxoid CM265), containing nalidixic acid (25 µg/mL) and novobiocin (2 µg/mL) (BGNNov). The plates were incubated overnight at 37°C and the CFU/mL were transformed into log10 for analysis. In the second step, a part from the remaining macerated organ samples was removed and incubated in selenite broth (CM395 Oxoid.) with novobiocin (40 mg/L) overnight at 37°C, and then were plated on BGNNov and incubated at 37°C for 24 hours to enhance the growth of any potential SE cells in the organs, when CFU counting was not possible. The methodology used for the fecal samples was the same as the mentioned in the first stage of organ samples. Also, two cloacal swab samples were collected per week, and the methodology applied in the second stage of organ samples was used. Before starting the experiment, all birds were inspected according to Zancan et al.(2000) to confirm that they were free of Salmonella spp.
The results of positive swab and fecal frequencies were compared using the χ2 test at a significance level of p <0.05.
During the experiment, there was no mortality. The concentration of bacteria used in both inocula may have been insufficient to cause bird death (Rocha e Silva et al., 2013). However, the absence of mortality may be expected as literature often demonstrates that this serotype may infect the bird, but do not cause any visible clinical signs (Hogue et al., 1997). The infected birds may act as carriers of the disease, infecting other birds (Van Immerseel et al., 2004). Therefore, the age of the studied pigeons, which were six months or older, may be the most plausible explanation of the absence of mortality.
Studies performed with poultry show that infections by Salmonella Enteritidis of birds with more than one month of age rarely result in mortality (Suzuki, 1994). Ishola (2009) infected two groups of adult hens (33 wk) with different doses (1.3x104 and 1.3x108 CFU) of a SE strain previously isolated from chickens and did not report any mortality. The age-dependent immunity may favor the development of the immune system and the production of antibodies (Desmidt et al. 1998; Beal et al. 2004). In chickens, the susceptibility to the intestinal colonization by Salmonella spp. is higher during the first days of life, and reduces as the local intestinal microbiota develops (Nurmi & Rantala, 1973; Pivnick et al. 1982). Adult birds are relatively resistant to the systemic multiplication of SE, but may suffer colonization of the intestinal tract in the absence of clinical manifestations and remain as carriers, shedding the microorganism intermittently (Gast, 2003). Differently to what is observed in adult birds, SE is capable of causing high mortality in young birds. Gorham et al. (1991) inoculated in newly-hatched chicks (1x107 CFU) a SE strain isolated from a poultry-rearing environment and verified that during seven days the mortality rate reached 21% (11/53).
When the concentration of SENalr was evaluated in the collected organs, no bacterial growth was detected. However, SENalr was successfully recovered from the organs submitted to enrichment in Selenite-cystine broth followed by plating on BGN, which shows that the liver and spleen were invaded by the bacterium, albeit in a small number (Table 1).
Relative to the time required for the pathogen to successfully colonize the spleen and liver of pigeons, our results show that the recovery was only possible on 7 dpi. Gast et al. (2011) reported that both the frequency of microbial invasion and the recovery of the number of pathogen cells in the liver can vary significantly depending on the exposure dose administered. Oliveira et al. (2005) showed that in hens orally inoculated with a lower dose of Salmonella (8.5 x 105 CFU/mL), the pathogen was recovered in the liver and the spleen only on 7 dpi, while in birds inoculated with the highest concentration (8.5 x 108 CFU/mL), it was recovered already did on 3 dpi. This indicates that both concentrations used in the present experiment may not have been sufficient to promote invasion of the liver and the spleen by the pathogen already on 3 dpi.
Although scientific literature demonstrates that infectious bacterial load and bird age are important factors and may justify the absence of mortality or of the dissemination of the pathogen in the organism, other factors, such as genes associated to virulence of some Salmonella Enteritidis strains, anatomic differences between pigeons and other bird species, and immune status must be considered. The ability of Salmonella serotypes to cause systemic or localized infections or even to establish a carrier state is associated with host immunity and virulence-associated genes present in the bacteria (Cunningham-Rundles, 2004). Considering the anatomical aspects, differently from poultry, pigeons present rudimentary ceca. This may affect the presence of Salmonella in the organism because the predominant colonization site of salmonella is the ceca (Desmidt et al., 1997). Therefore, Gerlach (1994) asserts that birds that have rudimentary ceca or no ceca, such as psittacines, seem to be more susceptible to Salmonella sp. infection when compared with birds that have fully functional ceca. That may be explained by the presence of Gram-negative autochthonous anaerobic microorganisms present in the cecal flora, such as Bacteroides sp. and Spherophorus sp., which may function as natural antagonists of Salmonella sp. (Gerlach, 1994; Ritchie, 1994).
The results of the analysis of the frequency of cloacal swabs collected from both groups of pigeons showed that pathogen shedding occurred up to 14 dpi in both groups, and that the frequency of bacteria shedding in group B (9.5 x109 CFU/mL) was significantly higher (p <0.05) when compared with group A (9.5 x 107 CFU/mL) only on 3 and 7 dpi (Table 2).
The absence of major findings with swabs in this study appears to be due to false negatives. Literature results with paratyphoid infections suggest this possibility, such as in Gast (2003), who worked with chickens and reported that, in sub-clinical infections, infected chickens continued harboring the bacterium in their bodies and shedding it in feces for a variable period of time. The use of a strain that is not adapted to pigeons also seems to have influenced the low frequency of Salmonella in samples obtained from cloacal swabs. The use of strains adapted to the species under study can result in higher rates of fecal excretion. Ishola (2009) inoculated adapted strains in laying hens (10-8 CFU) and found that the highest frequency of positive results for Salmonella in feces within five weeks of experimental evaluation was 100% and the lowest was 40%. This demands greater efficacy of Salmonella control programs, not only by adopting the method of cloacal swab incubation as a determinant, but also by increasing the amount and the frequency of sample collection in order to know the real status of the birds (Muir et al., 1998).
Relative to the frequency of SENalr fecal shedding, the group of pigeons inoculated with the lower concentration started shedding only on 7 dpi (1.5x104), and continued until 14 dpi (2x105). Among the pigeons inoculated with the higher concentration of SENalr, birds from two cages started shedding on 3 dpi (1.9 x107 and 2x109) and from one cage on 7 dpi (1x107), but no cells were counted on the other days of observation (Table 3).
When a microorganism is detected in the feces, the colonization of a part or all of the digestive tract may be implied. Barrow et al. (1988) said that the colonization of bacteria in the digestive tract can be observed through the excretion in feces and the detection of the pathogen is carried out by incubation of feces or cloacal swabs.
Since the strain used in this experiment is not adapted to the inoculated species, the doses administered in this study do not seem to be sufficient to generate a greater systemic dissemination, as no bird presented any significant quantity or frequency of the bacterium, considering all the pigeons assessed. Gast (2003) stated that inoculated chickens and turkeys can shed paratyphoid Salmonella spp. during the first two weeks after experimental oral infection and that the bacterium can be isolated from the intestinal tract; however, there may be a high percentage of non-contaminated feces.
The short period of fecal pathogen shedding presented by the pigeons maybe explained by the absence or temporary colonization of the intestinal tract by the the pathogen (Barrow et al. 1988). Another hypothesis for the decline in the frequency of SENalr fecal shedding is that the pigeons may have been able to reduce the level of systemic infection probably by humoral immune response (Hassan et al. 1991; Muir et al. 1998). However, even with low quantities of contaminated feces, González-Acunã et al. (2007) argued that both dried and fresh pigeon feces pose a high risk of Salmonella transmission to humans, particularly children, the elderly, or immune-compromised individuals, as well as domestic animals.
The doses administrated to pigeons, although relatively low considering the results found in the organs, cloacal swabs and feces until 35 dpi, show that these birds can excrete Salmonella Enteritidis strains that not adapted to their species. Because pigeons have access to rural and urban environments, they may enter commercial poultry houses, defecate on the litter and cause major economic losses and public health issues. Experiments with chickens on the litter showed that reinfection may play an important role in the persistence of the infection (Gast, 2000; Beal et al. 2004).
In conclusion, this study shows that Salmonella Enteritidis isolated from chickens, when inoculated in pigeons, may be recovered from feces, cloacal swabs and organs. This demonstrates that pigeons may play a role in the dissemination of this pathogen, because they may shed it when defecating on the litter in commercial poultry houses or in feed production facilities, causing economic losses as well as posing a risk to public health.
The authors thank Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (CNPq) and the Laboratory of Ornithological Studies (LABEO/FAVET/UECE) for their support.
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The funding and construction of photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects is the performance of enterprises in fulfilling their social responsibilities. The responsible person of the relevant department of the Provincial Energy Bureau indicated that because of the poverty and depth of poverty in our province, enterprises need to actively participate in the accelerated promotion of poverty alleviation. Ways to participate in poverty alleviation construction.
Many places in Yunnan have seized the opportunity of national photovoltaic poverty alleviation activities, tailored their clothes, and made precise measures. They have created a set of poverty alleviation “combination punches” that have been driven by other industries.
“I am a Qiaojiazhongcun. Since the construction of rooftop photovoltaic power generation was completed on December 29 last year, the monthly sales revenue exceeded 2,000 yuan.”
Dong Zhongwei informed this reporter on the phone that he was a poor household in the village of Baihetan Township, Qiaojia County. In 2017, he was actively involved in the implementation of the roof-top photovoltaic power station poverty-relief construction in Zhongcun. After the completion of the year, power generation was built and a lot of income was invented for the family.
He talked most about the construction of the roof-top photovoltaic power station, which not only solved the production and living electricity in the home, but also promoted the breeding of chickens and pigs through photovoltaic power generation. At present, his annual income of chickens can reach more than 10,000 yuan.
It is understood that afterPVThe “combination boxing” of poverty alleviation played by the province has been “flowering results” in the planning and construction of many counties (cities) in Huize, Xiangyun, Lanping and Honghe.
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Wang Silze, the person in charge of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Measures, indicated that the poverty alleviation project for photovoltaic power generation construction is a poverty alleviation project by the National Poverty Alleviation Office and the National Development and Reform Commission through financial support and social participation.
Accurate implementation of photovoltaic poverty alleviation project is the main purpose of photovoltaic poverty alleviation policy. It is not only the requirement to implement precise poverty alleviation, but also the test of government's overall planning ability.
Regarding the implementation of this project, Yunnan has planned to be included in the 21 provinces and cities of the province, and firstly has the conditions for the construction of photovoltaic power generation.
From his experience in poverty alleviation work for many years, he said that Yunnan is planning to build photovoltaic poverty alleviation projects along the Yangtze River, along the rivers and in the dry and hot valleys of the dry and hot valleys, and the conditions are relatively better than the high-cold and cool mountainous counties.
To this end, the Yunnan Provincial Energy Bureau issued the "Guide to Promote the Development and Utilization of Photovoltaic Energy" issued in 2016 and the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and the Provincial Energy Bureau jointly issued the "Notice on Yunnan Photovoltaic Power Station" in October 2018. The province's photovoltaic development and utilization has a clear plan.
"Ding Jian" clearly stated that photovoltaic poverty alleviation is not only used to build electricity on photovoltaic pure land and to increase the electricity sales revenue of village groups and poor villagers, but also to shift industries to agriculture (forest, animal husbandry, fishery), photovoltaic water pumping, photovoltaic refrigeration. , processing and other fields.
Xiangyun, Binchuan, Honghe and other places, the county party committee and county government are implementingPhotovoltaicIn the poverty alleviation construction project, we will give full play to the rich conditions of light resources in the territory, tailor the clothes, and plan the layout on “Photovoltaic+” by means of one town, one product, one village and one special, which will greatly promote the poverty alleviation of the above counties (cities) in 2018.
Because the PV poverty alleviation project has a large investment, the financial funds of the poor counties and poor villages in the province are difficult to support the construction of the project, and some local governments are forced to suspend or postpone. This requires the strength enterprises to participate in the construction through cooperation methods such as capital investment. .
Our reporters learned from interviews in Binchuan and Xiangyun that Binchuan County adopted a restriction on the main body of the PV poverty alleviation project in the planning, and introduced the enterprises such as Datang into the implementation with the methods of “allowing the cost + reasonable income”. Yunnan invented the achievements of the “three tops” of photovoltaic poverty alleviation.
In the Binchuan dam, the photovoltaic power generation equipment that is widely used in modern agricultural industrialization, such as grapes and other fruit growers and processing companies, is playing the role of "1+1 is greater than 2".
Because Yunnan has a strong planning for the development of photovoltaic industry to promote poverty alleviation, after the idea of innovation, actively implement the "government + photovoltaic + enterprise", "government + enterprise + photovoltaic + village group + file establishment cardholders" and other methods, in Yunling land Invented the “photovoltaic poverty alleviation form” of photovoltaic power generation to light up the “Poverty Alleviation Lighthouse”.
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tv NEWSHOUR Al Jazeera November 22, 2017 9:00pm-10:01pm +03
or if you join us on saturday no evil person just wakes up in the morning and says i want to cover the world in darkness is a dialogue that could be what leading to some of the confusion i lie about people say we don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera facing the realities if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we need of the what some of my producers just to hear their story on talk to how does it at this time. this is al-jazeera.
this is a news hour from london coming up. zimbabwe's incoming. is welcome back by cheering crowds outside zanu p.f. in harare. represents the survivors cry former bosnian serb command rocko malott it she is found guilty of genocide war crimes he's sentenced to life imprisonment lebanese prime minister saad hariri addresses supporters outside his home after putting his resignation on hold. and i'm far as riled all the day sporting including barcelona i a spot in the knockout round in the champions league they need at least a draw eventis to clinch a laugh sixteen place. the
man who will become the next president of zimbabwe says the country is witnessing a new stage of democracy vice president. made the comments to thousands of cheering supporters in the capital harare following the resignation of robert mugabe after thirty seven years in power. i don't really see. you i mean phone need to focus. on. the weight of your money this sosa's makes said brown only on this. one. president former president ok. you
know. we've. always always said see. our sleeping he. was. well let's cross to free the melody who is life for us and harare i mean you are listening to the whole speech how different did he sound to his predecessor. well mungo over certainly wanted to use the opportunity to instill confidence in zimbabwe and that this time around things would be different talking about the importance of democracy and this being a new beginning for the country he said everything they wanted to hear talking
about peace and job creation especially considering how the difficult circumstances involved winds have had to live under with a failing economy and who they consider to be a dictator robert mugabe the the former president so it appears as if when a government has departed from some of the rhetoric that zimbabweans have heard for decades indicating that this is a time for change he also looked back over the last a few weeks he's time in south africa when he had to flee zimbabwe and interesting enough he spoke about a attempt to poison him in recent weeks and at that time he in fact had to leave the country for medical attention so he's spoken about the difficulties he's also faced and in that way perhaps getting more zimbabweans on inside they already think of him as a hero. as well as the military intervened in
a difficult political situation creating a new opportunity and renewed hope for millions of zimbabweans he made a lot of emphasis on the role that zimbabweans and subs play and how much the future is about them and the change they want to see so this very much about what zimbabweans are hopeful for in the days going forward as when a guard was expected to be inaugurated on friday he also talked about the voice of the people is the voice of power he said the will of the people will always succeed and he mentioned the word democracy outside of the zanu p.f. bubble if you like how do you think it will have gone down with the wider country with people sitting out. sign of harare valid and the belief may be that their voices could be heard or at least the people that they would vote for could be heard. this is a time away leadership here in zimbabwe would want to look for unity throughout the
country given the political difficulties that face in the past the repression that the opposition and its supporters has face even looking back at the two thousand and eight election that robert mugabe lost and the military intervened in allowing him to stay in power what's important to note is that a man of god who made the sadrist at the zanu p.f. headquarters yes he is the president of the party yes he represents the ruling party but one would imagine that this could have been done at a neutral venue that would have given all the bob with zimbabweans rather the opportunity to perhaps participate and move away from the party specifically looking at the country as a whole macabre did praise zanu p.f. specifically in how it's handled the political situation in recent days and how robert mugabe was removed from the presidency of the party and ultimately resigned the opposition in this country would certainly continue to have support they are
a lot of policies a sonic p.f. has that's put in place that zimbabweans haven't been happy with and again this has a lot to do with the economy and a million hundreds of thousands of the bobbins having to leave the country just because they can't make a living here and they can't support their families so given what's happened in the last few days those on a player is sitting in a very advantageous position given that it's been praise for the role it played in taking the country forward and ridding it of robert mugabe from a the miller there with the very latest from harare and we'll be talking a little later in the program little bit more about the challenges facing the new president. survivors of europe's worst massacre since the second world war have been celebrating a verdict by the international criminal court judges in the hague have sentenced a former bosnian serb commander ratko my luggage to life in prison for his role in the murders of eight thousand muslim men and boys in the town of srebrenica in one
thousand nine hundred five in a moment we'll hear david changes report from srebrenica but first. at the hague the chamber finds. each guilty as a member of first joined common enterprises of the following counts count to genocide the verdict came a lot of his victims have waited decades for but the seventy three year old former bosnian serb general wasn't in the court to hear it he'd been a gentle moments earlier for this outburst the midst of that if you. if you continued like this. we adjourn his defense team had urged the judge to halt proceedings citing concerns over his blood pressure but the court rejected the plea finding guilty on one of two counts of genocide and nine of war crimes and
crimes against humanity during the chaotic breakup of the former yugoslavia the court ruled that milan it's carried out a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing aimed at ridding known serbs from bosnian territory there's nothing curious of executing prisoners there's no security about . thousands of people from the whole. individuals prosecuted and convicted by these tribunals are in the receiver because there's been prosecuted and convicted for not respecting the geneva conventions among those crimes are some of the worst atrocities carried out in europe since the second world war thank you the four year siege of sarajevo in which an estimated ten thousand people were killed in shelling and sniper fire and the massacre of thousands of mostly men and boys in the town of srebrenica where my colleague david chaytor now reports. the mothers of srebrenica called once again in the horror of their own memories
watching the court proceedings in the hague in a small museum in the middle of the cemetery where their loved ones are buried they wanted justice as ever then. when they came a surge of elation followed by a wave of emotion they'd waited twenty two years for this movie but they too have all had a life sentences families and villages torn apart a heavy burden of grief that they will take to that of great. among them was not jima caught in this iconic photograph of the genocide pleading with a u.s. soldier to help her get back a house meant her son and her brother but this was no safe so. they were gone forever so. i am delighted that the court has brought such a judgment i'm a happy mother i've waited for these judgment to twenty two years as a mother as a sister as a wife i personally fought for these so much from day one until today more than
eight thousand muslim men and boys died in the killing fields around. but still one thousand victims have not been found every week in the forests and the hills around in this cemetery they're finding yet more. so the problem is what the future brings what do we leave toward children what happens after this the deep divisions between ethnic communities here look set to continue to serve member of the tripartite presidency of bosnia herzegovina said the court did not deliver justice but politics distrust instead of trust but. instead of reconciliation there will be new political conflicts when david chaytor is four still in srebrenica david incredibly moving pictures that of the mothers of srebrenica listening to the verdict in the end though there is a sort of key individuals who are being prosecuted but there are
a lot of the the terror that was inflicted on this community the people are still at large still walking around the communities where these people are still living. yes that's the extraordinary and haunting thing about this situation that this is still a mixed community and those of frozen lines of conflict between them. i think are so deep that there can never be a reconciliation i was talking to many of the the mothers of said. in their communities and they said to me that they were surrounded by empty buildings buildings where their close family used to live and those memories every single day come back to them now they were brave to return in the first place they had to for so their way back into the house with police help that they were forced out of by i'm allowed to choose men and so in a way i don't seek they can ever be any hope certainly in the near future with the
other politicians we have here in bosnia had to governor of finding any reconciliation a tool of breaking through a bit getting above such an awful history it is the case that one of the women was telling me that she remembers and she lost a son and a to two of her sons and she said that they they were the soldiers were raping young women in the streets they were choosing the pretty women they were doing it deliberately there were single rapes and mass rapes and was happening right there on the roads in front of their houses how can you ever forget stories like that situations like that the answers you can't so it's it's a small comfort for for these women and for the communities here about it's not a case of closure there can be no closure in cases like this as i said these memories will go to their graves with them. and you mention in your report there
david about remains of people who were massacred still being filed and the effort still very much ongoing in that area to try and and find something of those who are still missing to really help those relatives and have some closure. yes it is extraordinary that this hunt for the one thousand victims that have been found is still going on but it's more a case now of people determined to try and find them some are in the forests behind me when they try to escape they were tracked down and killed those have been individual cases so very hard to find where their bodies are that are also probably being eaten by animals be in bits and pieces one of the women that i spoke to said that she got her two sons back to brave large tall boys she said and she got them back in pieces and they're now buried in the graveyard behind me
so it is a case that it's almost impossible for these communities to live together when they have such memories and also of course soon as the case of many of those people who were put into rape factories run by the bosnian serbs they've seen their the people who raped them walking around in the streets and sorry ever walking around here they've never been convicted they've never gone before court they've never faced justice and now the victims can see them walking free so it is really is quite an extraordinary situation so the justice that they had in the hague has not been justice for all by any means david chaytor there with the reaction to that verdict at the hague and sharp and it's. still ahead on the news our report from bangladesh on efforts to tackle mao nutrition among ranger refugee children. this
was spared the child but barack obama's internet regulation policy may not be so lucky we'll tell you our. sport a week after qualifying his team for next year's world cup australia's football coach calls it quits. russia iran and turkey have agreed to support a syrian people's congress bringing together government and opposition representatives speaking at talks in the black sea resort of sochi president vladimir putin said he believed a new state should be reached in the syrian crisis but he warned that achieving a political solution would require compromises from russia and iran major allies of syria's president bashar al assad who made a surprise visit to sochi on monday turkey backs syrian rebel groups well let's cross live now to road challenge who is monitoring those talks in sochi they
sounded like they were the three leaders were speaking with one voice the impression in reality that you found. look well i think they all basically have come to agree that there is the need for a what they're calling congress of national dialogue and this is something that putin has been pushing for a few weeks now but there has been a sticking point for turkey particularly which is the turkey thinks that some of the groups that have been invited kurdish groups are terrorist organizations and so he has been saying to russia for the the amount of time that russia been pushing this idea that it isn't happy with this invitation. basically what this congress is supposed to be doing is inviting representatives from across the spectrum of
syrian society to come here to start a couple weeks time at the beginning of december and sit down together and try and shouts the future of syria so it's about getting agriculture moving again about getting schools and hospitals functioning about basically rebuilding the country. and yes i think all three of the men here. were in agreement i still get the impression though that turkey is a bit lukewarm about the idea one thing rouhani said which i think was quite interesting was that he as he put it can prepare the ground for the new constitution for syria and i think this affirms some of the suspicion is all speculations about this particular congress which is that russia is trying to use it as a kind of interim measure between the start of talks which have been going on for the last year or so which are pretty much technical and about cease fires and the geneva talks much stalled of course which are about a political solution if this is true you know if we are going to have this congress
then russia looks like it is trying to use it as a way to shape the constitution of syria maybe for for in its own image or its own eyes ahead of any geneva talks good to get your thoughts which i was there with the latest from this talks in sochi. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has promised to support says he'll stick with them and defend his country. he was stepping down one saudi arabia. his resignation after request from the president dialogue. from beirut. he came home to take part in independence day celebrations eighteen days after announcing his resignation in saudi arabia it was the first time he has been back in beirut since that unexpected announcement and. he was received as a prime minister and warmly greeted by the president who publicly accused saudi
arabia of forcing her to resign and preventing him from leaving the country the saudis said they feared for his life back home. did say he would clarify his political position once back in lebanon and it seems a compromise deal has been worked out how d.d. suspended his resignation to allow for further consultations. i presented today my resignation to president but he urged me to wait before offering it and to hold on to it about its reasons a political background. represents one of two major alliances in lebanon on the pro saudi camp hundreds of his supporters gave him a hero's welcome outside his home many lebanese from across the political divide believed he was being used by saudi arabia as a pawn in their attempt to target iran and that him and his family were held as hostages there how did he has a national unity government that includes his political opponent the pro iranian
hezbollah the prime minister has long demanded hezbollah this arms and ends its military interventions in arab countries tensions have undoubtedly. already reminder that is a proxy states. it's caught in the middle of a regional power struggle and it's in the pendants has long been open to question. the crisis that began with her duties resignation was widely seen as having been forced on the prime minister by saudi arabia to counter iranian influence in lebanon. i'm here with you and we will continue onwards together so we can be the lowing of defense for lebanon and for the stability of look at this gathering today is going to be repeated you'll see me visit every part of lebanon how did say how long he's willing to put his resignation on hold political differences between the rival alliances are longstanding and unlikely to be resolved soon his decision to
stay in office may be more of a result of mediation efforts by world leaders to put lebanon's latest political crisis on hold. beirut. the saudi led coalition has announced it will reopen yemen's main international airports and the volatile ports to let humanitarian supplies get through the sounding coalition announced the closure of yemen's yemen's main london seaports two weeks ago following a missile assault by hooty rebels but the un urged them to lift the blockade warning that the closure of the airports and the main ports and how the data would worsen the country's cholera epidemic and increase the famine about seven million people in yemen depend entirely on food aid and four million rely on a group for clean. dramatic video has been released showing the moment the north korean soldiers escape to south korea across one of the most heavily armed boarders
in the world during the chase north korean soldiers fire that they defect and one brief they cross the border into the south a violation of the armistice agreement that halted the korean war kathy novak has more from so. extraordinary video of a soldier risking his life to escape from north korea at around three in the afternoon he's seen driving a truck past a checkpoint on the north korean side of the demilitarized zone or d.m.z. on the heavily fortified border fellow soldiers are shown running after the truck which becomes stuck the defector then gets out and runs towards the border known as the military demarcation line or n.t.l. just meters away soldiers from the k.p.a. or north korean people's army opened fire hitting the defector it's thought five times one even chases him over the border before returning to the north korean side . the key findings of the special investigation team are that the k.p.a.
violated the armistice agreement by one firing weapons across the m.t.l. and two by actually crossing the m.d.o. temporarily the defectors body is seen lying motionless on the south korean side of the border then soldiers from the joint u.s. and south korean security battalion are seen crawling towards the injured defector to drag him to safety it's rare for defectors to try and breach the joint security area puntland jum tour groups on both sides of the border regularly visit though the u.n. command says no tourists were there when the shooting happened. the north korean soldier remains in intensive care in a south korean hospital where he's regain consciousness and his wounds are no longer life threatening a doctor treating him says the surgery revealed a parasitic worms he'd only ever seen in textbooks giving an insight into the dire conditions north koreans face and the kind of life this defector was fleeing kathy
novak al jazeera sole. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called the revenge a crisis ethnic cleansing in the wake of his visit to myanmar last week he says those a sponsible for the atrocities in iraq and state should be held accountable roslyn jordan has more from washington d.c. the u.s. announcement on wednesday that it believes ethnic cleansing is happening in iraq and state in me and maher is remarkable the announcement from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson comes barely three months after the military started a crackdown on an armed were hanging a group which the military says was responsible for carrying out terrorist attacks . washington has long said that david l. has the right to ensure national security but that this crackdown has gone too far more than six hundred thousand ethnic were being a men women and children have fled from state into the neighboring country of
triggering a massive refugee crisis the u.s. believes that it is now up to the authorities in naperville both civilian and military to ensure the quick we patriae sion of all of these ethnic rohingya as well as to make certain that they are protected from recriminatory and attacks they also are calling on the government to grant the rohingya full citizenship something which they have never enjoyed now the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has met several times with authorities from me and maher urging them to basically change their ways and to make the situation involving the rohingya as safe and as stable as quickly as possible but so far there has not been any real change at least to the satisfaction of officials here in washington so now comes not just the determination that ethnic cleansing is
underway but there is now also the threat of potential target u.s. sanctions against those people inside me and maher who are responsible for the ongoing attacks on the rohingya it's now up to the people in me and mark both in the civilian and in the military leadership to try to see if they can actually comply with washington's demands it's a risk which they may not want to take on more than six hundred thousand people have fled across the border into bangladesh facing widespread malnutrition. is that . one of the major challenge that aid agencies are facing is severe malnutrition among refugee children more than half the population among their idea refugees are children because of that bang of the government and unicef started a nutrition awareness week started on fifteenth of november and will continue to the twenty second of november the main idea is to let the mothers know about this
program that there are clinics set up in all the camps to provide nutrition out medical facilities for the mothers and their children in the within the camp. my grandchild is not well she's not teaching well and he's very weak which is why. now many of the i interact with israel already suffering from malnutrition while in iraq and stayed those children and their parents walked hundreds of miles across into bangladesh without much food supply now they're suffering severe malnutrition cases hands bangladesh going on unicef started this awareness program and to treat this as a major challenge i spoke to one of the spokesperson for unicef we have to consider one thing that when these children were in myanmar history lynn were already suffering from malnutrition which was all the louis emergency threshold and also there was sartain defiance among these people in terms of being treated against malnutrition so this is why you had running this in this campaign down here. still
ahead on al-jazeera a sign of the times with the country's civil conflict that colombians are finding new words to discuss and. it's an unwelcome sound to most but scientists in california are looking for help recording this and one of the biggest rivalries in international cricket is set i will have the details and spoke. to a. with. hello changes are a foot has been a foot to be honest as a massive cloud out stretches from the eastern side of the black sea through the southern caucasus iraq and on to iraq on the coast the gulf coast of iran eighty four millimeters in the last twenty four hours a significant amount of rain i would have been repeated through saudi as well but this is very obviously something going on it's the winter front it's the winter rains coming in and the forecasts facilities are just more of the same as possible
iran across the gulf the north around to shall around the caspian sea likely the temperature fifteen still in tehran you're on the edges tempers have come down with seventeen in baghdad but it's not really cold yet whereas the snow obviously in the forecast probably falling now actually on the high ground east and turkey day that will slowly disappear it might even show itself briefly in the high ground the funnels assyria as well when the sun returns and we're up to fifty to thirty oversee the season has changed that will be a permanent change doesn't mean you're right all the time but it's far more likely and it's likely encounter in the middle of society and of course the run during the possibly they may be less likely on friday anyone dimple could be quite substantial in this part the world i don't want small in south africa. the cloud is showing and the rain is falling.
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big. welcome back a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera i am always vice president and. addressed cheering supporters in here he said the country was witnessing a new stage of democracy following the resignation of robert mugabe. former bosnian serb general ratko my luggage has been found guilty of war crimes and genocide seventy three year old orchestrated the massacre of eight thousand muslim men and boys. in one thousand nine hundred five and lebanon's prime minister saad hariri
has agreed to delay his resignation after a request from the president michel. returned to lebanon on tuesday. let's return now to our top story the return of former vice president. to zimbabwe i'm joined again by nick bronson a senior researcher at the africa research institute so having my dressings on. supporters outside the headquarters in harare now we're looking forward to friday the inauguration when he becomes president and then while he's in training is massive as it was first on the list well i think restoring confidence in the economy has to be a key priority and there's a huge domestic and external audience to address here firstly zimbabweans of lost confidence in the board know it's the sort of surrogate currency that was introduced as part of a basket supposedly for it to incentivize exports but it's definitely not done that
it's just resulted in dollars flowing out of the economy and secondly to. international creditors and partners. international financial institutions so when i've got one has to really show he's serious about restoring calm. on the economy and tackling the absence of dollars. huge task on its own that will come with some conditions with us improving public financial management guaranteeing some sort of private property rights maybe even compensation. for people who were forced off the land i mean it's really hugely politically sensitive and also everybody will be looking in from outside thinking about investment will bring in new jobs which was the key one of the key things he talked about as to what he does politically and you use the word democracy. there isn't any kind of election going
to happen he is just going to be installed do you think he'll not towards the opposition i think it's a really interesting question he i mean he's certainly under no pressure. you know formally to include opposition figures in in his government. any sort of gesture he makes would however be incredibly well received both by figures in zimbabwe and outside so there might be scope for some appointments but my hunch would be that you know he'll want to keep the finance ministry and local government and a lot of the parastatals under control of people in zanu p.f. with we want to on the election next july or august i think the removal if we can use that word. go away has sent a little bit of a shockwave amongst other african dictators are we looking at the possibility of an african uprising an african spring well i think we have to be really cautious here you know military intervention is not
a positive thing on its own and the gains that we were hoping for in zimbabwe is far far from secure so i mean it's certainly send some shock waves among the older generation of leaders in southern africa really. polities national liberation movements are empowered they're generally quite good at handling their own internal successions and ensuring that unpopular presidents don't overstay in power and sacrifice the party a share of the vote so you know zimbabwe's been the exception rather than the rule in that regard and i think you know if we're going to see action it's not going to be one of them bob voice neighbors france and thanks very much for giving us your thoughts on this very special day. the international organization for migration says there are up to three million zimbabweans living abroad many are in south africa also as i respond to one man who says mugabe's departure has given him hope
that he and his family could return home tanya page has more from johannesburg. progress might get a remembers days in zimbabwe when all he had to eat was an avocado from a tree in his parents' yard and the sight of his friend's injuries after he'd been beaten up by police for supporting the opposition so that night when i hear that my friend one of my friend. was tortured and isn't working you can't even wake up that's true. he left his family and friends with here the heart of one of robert mugabe's legacies is that his policies divided families and scattered zimbabweans over the world and this region's economic how the south africa has borne the brunt of that exodus in the street alone almost every house is occupied by zimbabweans many haven't seen their loved ones for years my brother was
in the u.k. you couldn't make it even today if you know my my father and my mother but he's been in regular contact with his brother as mugabe's presidency crumbled it's created hope for the first time in years although the men sit to replacement he has been part of the establishment for decades. now used to think of the people of zimbabwe. one to think whatever they did like. the vice president. gore. we don't know what its capability i think he deserves a chance their three month old son is even more of a reason to return home. now than this new future that. we might benefit that might benefit our kids really need to go home i will definitely go home. now that changes come there's certain it will be for the better tinier
page al-jazeera johannesburg. explosions and gunfire have been heard in the georgian capital tbilisi after security forces raided an apartment block so the security service says that several members of an armed group refused to surrender and they opened fire with automatic rifles throwing hand grenades at least one soldier has died one suspect has been arrested. the russian parliament's upper house has approved a bill that would require international media outlets to register as foreign agents the u.s. imposed similar rules on russian state broadcaster r.t. after allegations of russian influence in the us presidential election law come into effect when it's signed by president vladimir putin. the philippines chief justice is warning that attempts to impeach her could threaten the country's democracy the house of representatives is preparing to begin impeachment hearings against justice maria nor the serrano she's been one of the few people willing to
criticize president rigor deterred day last month for a president that has a vow to impeach or a no for alleged corruption general allen has more from manila. supreme court chief justice dissident who is accused of corruption violating the constitution and the betrayal of public trust she did not show up at the hearing today but she was represented by her lawyers who are appealing to the committee to junk the complaints filed against her because these see these are baseless accusations now in their recent interviews with local networks here so then who hinted that presidents are the good authority may have a hand in the plan to oust her from the supreme court it is something that butera to denies but just a few months ago he challenged not just to end all but another official woodsmen. morales to resign from their positions because they had come up with these issues
that have been seen as adversarial to president would be good to tear it is policies now both officials chief justice of endo and of woodsmen morales are appointees of former president been ignored keno aquino and other cabinet members are also facing different charges filed by president rodrigo deterred his government now the members of the committee of this congress assures the public that they are in fact going to be fair that the child will be made public in the proceeding will be impartial but critics are finding this questionable because majority of those in congress are now allied with the president and the group that filed a case against iran or is actually also closely associated with president of the good authority many worry that these are attempts by the president not just to silence the opposition but also to silence dissent regulators in the united states are planning to scrap rules that provide for equal access to the internet the net
neutrality policy was introduced by the obama administration the change is seen as a major victory for the telecoms industry but a setback to those who favor unrestricted access to the internet michaela has more . you are hereby part. and annual thanksgiving tradition as president trump formally pardoned a turkey and jokingly says he considered repudiating those pardons given during the obama era hater and todd's pardons cannot under any circumstances be revoked but the very real process of repealing pass legislation is no laughing matter the latest move against rules guaranteeing what is called net neutrality put in place by the obama administration in twenty fifteen these rules acknowledge the internet was an essential utility like water or electricity prohibiting the big providers from manipulating access to it in their own interest for example the rise
and deliberately slow down netflix to promote its own content providers until it was stopped by the f.c.c. a body that may now reverse that decision robyn's internet providers should not be allowed to in choose which pieces of the internet they wanted to liberate your house or who gets to reach your computer faster than who else imagine or premium version of premium version of. all of the stuff that we kind of better phones and tablets and laptops and just kind of take for granted is free services are either going to get worse or more expensive or both. the f.c.c. chair pie argues that removing the restrictions would create a more competitive environment in which consumers could demand greater transparency by providers in choosing a plan that's best for them the decision to go ahead will be taken by simple majority at an f.c.c. meeting in mid december the board put together in recent months consists of three
republicans and two democrats the votes expected to go along party lines three in favor and two against. and while it won't rescind the pardons for turkeys the trumpet ministration has the power and intent to pass the death sentence on the obama era concept of unfettered individual access to the internet mike hanna al jazeera washington. colombia's deaf community has been forced to come up with new ways to discuss the peace deal reached by their government with far credible the truth as deeply divided the country as colombians have struggled to find common ground and as alexander around piet explains those conversations have been particularly difficult for their violence victims. displacement words and concepts difficult to grasp for many people but there were almost impossible for deaf colombians who were lacking words to describe. this new
act now a new glossary of the finds through signs and drawings fifty seven missing words to help this community understand in this case the country's peace deal with fire gravels. who works at the national institute for the deaf but dissipated in the process. before i had no knowledge of the context of peace it seemed like a boring issue what the country was living didn't interest me because i couldn't understand it now i'm able to read the text and understand many terms i'm able to connect concepts i'm included in the conversation with the assistance of a sociologist the group chose words that were either missing or required a better understanding these were defined in spanish then interpreted through signs and translated again until there was no discrepancy between the language and its base will interpretation sometimes one sign represents many words other times we need a sequence of science to say just one word for example one word like conflict existed
and had a limited context of use in the sign language so we had to find a way to broaden it. is there sign language is still a work in progress. our sign language is very elementary now it's being used in high schools and universities are still missing many words science for peace is just one of a series have. answered by the central bank to reach the most vulnerable communities in the country and guarantee their participation in the ongoing national discussion about. the bank's cultural manager says the glossaries importance goes beyond the deaf community at a moment of deep divisions around when you include people you learn you make they were your possibilities for the country what they taught us is that actually no one really knows what transitional justice means no one of the common people this
special is the chord they may know but we as a regular person need someone to explain to us need someone to help us make this that is loaded with content it's a small but far from obvious step to build a more inclusive and open society for all. still ahead a novel idea. and help educate the community and more russia. will explain and school. student.
with. a most people visit a library to get a book but how about borrowing some seeds to take home and grow a public library in the united states is loaning out seeds to encourage people to eat fruits and vegetables i did a castro has been to tucson arizona to see the seed library in action. back in the middle of the arizona desert is in no way says not just for books before seeds squab. muster. lima beans. the soybean here at the pima county public library in tucson members of the public can take home live seeds we've already planted our garden yes we let us. leaks
carrots then we got the seeds here the idea is just as books can so one idea into the mind to help inspire and educate a community so too can actual seeds that go into the ground and sprout into a learning experience connecting people with the life giving earth people need to know one where their food comes from and how to grow and sustain themselves in their community and also to keep traditions going and to pass those along with four thousand years of agricultural history tucson is recognised as a unesco world city of gastronomy the seed library distributed more than twenty six thousand seed packets last year and a library partners with a local food bank to combat hunger in the community our focus is really helping low income families and organizations grow some of their own food create some of these green spaces in their homes and in their organizations to be able to supplement their diets classes at the food bank demonstration garden teach the public to
harvest and thresh yet we do this. little pressing dance in to save seeds for later the more we can save our own seeds in this community and distribute the seeds amongst each other we're going to end up with an amazing stock of seeds that's really well adapted to this climate in this region for free and look at the mountains i mean could it be any more beautiful here harry crane rents a small garden plot next to an elementary school seeds from the library have brought him some delicious returns these are french bread and they're called french stratasys so let's. that's very fresh very fresh very flavorful very glad. to see library asked successful growers to bring back seats from their harvest for the next person to borrow but there's no such thing as overdue fees or penalties if you can't manage good luck all right thank you you're welcome all right so those are done and we'll wait and see as he
hopes to share from his harvest soon just to keep the circle of growing going. castro al-jazeera tucson arizona now the sports news i was a. thank you so much sue former u.s. olympic gymnastics doctor larry nasser has pleaded guilty to multiple multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least twenty five years in prison master was accused of sexually assaulting more than one hundred twenty five women and girls but pleaded guilty to seven counts olympic gymnasts ali rosman mckayla maroney and gabby douglas are among the women who have publicly said they were long nasser's victims the plea deal calls for a minimum prison sentence of twenty five years but a judge could set the minimum sentence as high as forty years. for wrong. that one song or be sorry that this was like oh yes to to to wait for fire of the control
and you know i prayed the rosary every day for forgiveness for their remarkably you know we want this community here and i have no animosity towards anyone i just want you know that it's time. again since the biggest thing is not so we need to move forward in the sense of growth in the united they create. more teams are set to secure their spot in the last sixteen in the champions league later on wednesday to have a chance to seal top spot in group day by beating eventis away later are so were knocked out by you a last season in the quarter finals and their manager insists they're doing their best to learn from that defeat he says if you chill out so you know i've watched the video and i still continue to watch it because at the end of the day it's useful to help prepare for the match the circumstances are quite similar even at the time we are playing at the knockout stage we know there are strong team playing at home the style of the much playing hard in the first two minutes we saw this
that much and we have to be prepared for it because it matches in total on wednesday there were two early cake offs a win for chelsea over a car a bag will send them through in group c. roma just need a point against that let it go to qualify from the same group and group a magistrate or not it just need a draw to book their place in the next round in group b. p.s.g. environ have already reached the knockout stage where guard lists are the results later. a week after qualifying for next year's world cup in russia australia's football coach has announced his resignation and past a call girl who has been in charge of the socceroos for the past four years in that time he led them to the two thousand and fourteen world cup in brazil and to the asian cup title in twenty fifteen but the fifty two year old says it's taken a toll on him and his family the people of this country will always be. me and my driver. think that i can do something more. but i grew up just
you know sometimes it's just it's just an instinct that i just think it's a rotten from a. he that same for the organization for russian athletes have been banned for life from the olympics the courts had competed in the sled sports skeleton the last winter games in sochi where they've been found guilty of doping most notable being alexander to cough who took home gold in the games however the i.o.c. have not yet disclosed the exact details of the violations but have disqualified fide took off along with the three other guilty athletes. that one of the fears this rivalries in international cricket resumes on thursday the first ashes test between australia england gets underway at the gabba in brisbane the aussies haven't lost a test match of the venue since one thousand nine hundred eight and enter the series as favorites. i think about you only to to win you know it's
reason why australia play played at this test of the series of all time because they've got such a good record here but. well way to start the series if we can go one up there then it really upsets the apple cart and it could give us a lot momentum going into the rest of it. the ashes has a long and storied history that goes all the way back to eighteen eighty two bouts when the first time australia's cricket team beat england on english soil now that's quite a feat considering england created cricket now this malkovich a wary appeared in the sporting times newspaper it says in affectionate remembrance of english cricket which died at the oval twenty ninth august eighteenth eighty two it added the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to australia that's how the ashes was born and this is what they play for a tiny urn measuring just eleven eleven centimeters tall legend has it that it was the perfume container handed to the english team by
a group of women in melbourne an eight hundred eighty two it contained ashes of a burnt bale which is a little wooden piece that sits on top a set of wooden poles known as stumps in cricket england one block after that series since then the two sides have remained fierce rivals they face each other at least once every four years they play the best of five test matches these are games that can last up to five days long the basic role trying to stop the other team from scoring as many runs as you us really are trying to regain that little urn at home this time around. i think there is there's always pressure going into an ashes series particularly when you're playing it. you know we don't need to put any more pressure on ourselves if that makes sense you know it's still just another game of cricket and we have to come out here and make sure that we're playing well from the first ball and that's all your sport for now it's now back to think. thank you for when you next hear the high pitched whine of a mosquito researches from stanford university in california. not the repellant
they want to recruit citizen scientists for a new app which will help them to track distribution record in the insect on your mobile phone on submitting their recordings experts can track the number of mosquitoes around the world they can then decide how best to implement controls against the disease carrying insect borne diseases like malaria and seek a virus kill millions every year. for this new felicity but i will be with you in a moment don't go away.
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have still got this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir accountability if you can give them the opportunity and wonderful things start to look at the actual distance there's at least twenty thousand for him to refugees who live here we badly need at this moment leadership and so president hosni mubarak has resigned. is going to be the next president retaliation with the other guy go back chief i mean canisters of gas subsidies i believe it best to prevent the if you're getting anyway they're skeptical that. he achieved something that never happened before. so they. don't make this. he all of
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. really a big day in alexander because they make it a big family event. >> absolutely. they start as early as 9:00. lots of family and kids out there this morning. chuck's there to join us talking about the kind of weather they can expect. will they need the puffy coats when they head out there? >> not this morning. actually about as mild as it's going to be for most of the day. temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s. keeping in mind 44 is our average high temperature. we're already in plus territory. what to expect today, a lot of clouds and some areas of fog first thing this morning. that will be giving way to more an more sunshine as an increasing northwest wind starting to put colder and drier air back into the region for the new year and the new weekend coming up. temperatures as i mentioned, average high now, 44. we're already 52 at national airport, 46 at gaithersburg, thickest of the fog is down around central parts of vaf. visibility near zero. no fog in and around the city. willows with fresh green leaves. this is the kennedy center. even out by the washington monument
. really a big day in alexander because they make it a big family event. >> absolutely. they start as early as 9:00. lots of family and kids out there this morning. chuck's there to join us talking about the kind of weather they can expect. will they need the puffy coats when they head out there? >> not this morning. actually about as mild as it's going to be for most of the day. temperatures in the upper 40s to low 50s. keeping in mind 44 is our average high temperature. we're...
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keep you updated. if buses replace trains, which normally happens, we'll let you know. alexander hamilton bridge, that ride looks great. overall, we really haven't had too many problems on the roads. >> that's good. all right, emily, thank you. >>> up next, we're getting ready >> reporter: i'm katherine creag live in times square, where the biggest party on the planet will take place. more than a million people are expected to gather here . one of the main peopl e in charge just told us what is to be expected. you'll hear from him coming up. >>> i'm tracie strahan live in midtown, where investigators are trying to figure out how a man fell nine stories from this well-known hotel to his death. we'll have the latest on that straight ahead. >>> and if you're about to head out the door, take us with you. ep watching "today in new york." download the news 4 new york app what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnu
keep you updated. if buses replace trains, which normally happens, we'll let you know. alexander hamilton bridge, that ride looks great. overall, we really haven't had too many problems on the roads. >> that's good. all right, emily, thank you. >>> up next, we're getting ready >> reporter: i'm katherine creag live in times square, where the biggest party on the planet will take place. more than a million people are expected to gather here . one of the main peopl e in...
attention when we showed you the alexander hamilton bridge, would you have seen delays. we have reports of an accident southbound before yankee stadium. >> thanks, lauren. >>> it is 5:26. take a look at this surveillance video. this is video of thieves making off with arm fulls of furs in chelsea. it happened at madison avenue furs. the three men got will by throwing a brick through the the thieves were wearing head lamps and stole 30 fur coats valued at about 25 grand. >>> also the nypd looking for a couple who bought an engagement ring using someone else's credit card number. this this is ins on tar i can't back astoria back in act. they used a bogus credit card tied to somebody else's real account the to buy a $5200 engagement renk ing and wedding band set. >>> coming up, done in by delivery. the phone call that led investigators to the teenager who became an international fugitive. >>> plus two postal workers busted. what investigators say they were doing with the mail that they were supposed to be delivering. >>> and if you're about to head out the door, take us with you. keep watc
attention when we showed you the alexander hamilton bridge, would you have seen delays. we have reports of an accident southbound before yankee stadium. >> thanks, lauren. >>> it is 5:26. take a look at this surveillance video. this is video of thieves making off with arm fulls of furs in chelsea. it happened at madison avenue furs. the three men got will by throwing a brick through the the thieves were wearing head lamps and stole 30 fur coats valued at about 25 grand....
alexander where a water main break overnight has a busy stretch on duke street off limits. how long these repairs will take and how you can get around this and how you can get around this me who coined the term "side bread?" because there's nothing "side" about this bread. it may look like the moon. but it's the star of the show. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of sound. the sound of the weekend. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. is giving you more.america's best-selling brand the ford holiday sales event... with 0% financing for 60 months on 2015 f-150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. plus 1,000 dollars holiday bonus cash on 2015 focus and 2016 fusion and escape. it's the best gift ever. now during the ford holiday sales event get 0% financing for 60 months plus 1,000 dollars holiday bonus cash on select vehicles. see your local ford dealer. >>> breaking news at 6:30. you may need some extra time if you're heading into lex. >>> right now duke street is close
alexander where a water main break overnight has a busy stretch on duke street off limits. how long these repairs will take and how you can get around this and how you can get around this me who coined the term "side bread?" because there's nothing "side" about this bread. it may look like the moon. but it's the star of the show. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of...
have a problem in alexander. duke street is closed between south quaker lane and sweely street. meagan fitzgerald is on the scene and will have more on what's happening. be prepared if it's out there any later. you can see we have rain widespread of the area. so far not affectling your speed along the corridor. the you're traveling on the beltway, you can see we have the right side of the beltway blocked with a crash. this is going to be the outer loop that. long sweeping ramp over to 270. once you hit the spur, you may find a bit of a slowdown. when you get in your car this morning, don't forget to tune in to wtop 103.5. >>> the clock is tick if you still have shopping to do. >>> new information about the search for survivors in the this is the best block of all. it's like candy cane lane. i know. oohhh. oh, holiday ferris wheel. i kind of love it. look at those reindeer. jeffrey, you're awfully quiet back there. i was just thinking... maybe it's time we finish this test drive and head back to the dealership? that is so jeffrey... soooo jeffrey... so jeffrey... oh. elves.. it's practi
have a problem in alexander. duke street is closed between south quaker lane and sweely street. meagan fitzgerald is on the scene and will have more on what's happening. be prepared if it's out there any later. you can see we have rain widespread of the area. so far not affectling your speed along the corridor. the you're traveling on the beltway, you can see we have the right side of the beltway blocked with a crash. this is going to be the outer loop that. long sweeping ramp over to 270....
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decades found its way back to its rightfu >>> right now, an extra challenging early commute in alexander because of a water main break. duke street is currently closed. this is between sweely and quaker. our megan jones is headed there. >> thanks, angie. holidays mean a short break before the campaign ramps up for 2016. nbc's edward lawrence looks at how the campaigns on the battle trail could carry over into the new year. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we could maybe get that break for a couple of days. senator marco rubio is going to have 60 family members over to celebrate. this campaign seems to have no playbook. they're saying at one point he wants to halt all muslim visitors from coming into the country. that tone carried over to some of the other candidates. senator ted cruz started a fresh attack on senator marco rubio friday saying he criticized the spending bill congress just passed but didn't bother to show up to vote against it. democratic front-runner hillary clinton's press secretary says they're upset that bernie sanders' staffers tried to get into the cl
decades found its way back to its rightfu >>> right now, an extra challenging early commute in alexander because of a water main break. duke street is currently closed. this is between sweely and quaker. our megan jones is headed there. >> thanks, angie. holidays mean a short break before the campaign ramps up for 2016. nbc's edward lawrence looks at how the campaigns on the battle trail could carry over into the new year. edward, good morning. >> reporter: good morning....
. commuter checklist does. no delays reported. also, what looks nice is the alexander hamilton bridge. looks like that's cleared. moving along very well. heading to the george or the other direction, going to be a pretty nice ride. for your buses this morning, no detours, no delays reported. everything is running on schedule this morning. and alternate side, meter rules are in effect. we'll have more weather and traffic. >> thank you very much. >>> 5:05. right now, increased patrols a concern in a queens neighborhood. we showed you this video yesterday morning. it's of the man who slashed a teenage student in whitestone. assemblyman ron kim tells us his office has gotten to phone calls from residents who say a similar looking man has been harassing women in that neighborhood. the victim is a 16-year-old exchange student from china. she is okay, but she could have some nerve damage. >>> happening today, a bronx man learns his fate for that drop kick assault and robbery of a woman and her baby. you can see that there on the upper part of the screen. that attack caught on camera on east
. commuter checklist does. no delays reported. also, what looks nice is the alexander hamilton bridge. looks like that's cleared. moving along very well. heading to the george or the other direction, going to be a pretty nice ride. for your buses this morning, no detours, no delays reported. everything is running on schedule this morning. and alternate side, meter rules are in effect. we'll have more weather and traffic. >> thank you very much. >>> 5:05. right now, increased...
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message for his party. peter alexander has more. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump is picking up where the debate left off, again swatting at jeb bush, insisting he doesn't want bush's endorsement because he said nbc news bush does not represent strength, power and stamina, qualities he says the country desperately needs. donald trump marking six months in the race, almost all of them atop the gop field, the same way he spent much of that time on tv. overnight with jimmy kimmel. >> i would like to see the republican party come together, and i've been a little bit divisive in the sense i've been hitting people pretty ahard. >> a little bit, huh? >> trump dismissed critics who insist he's just a showman. >> somebody said trump's a great entertainer. that's a lot of bull [ bleep ]. >> and -- >> this is a tough business to run for president. >> you're a tough guy, jeb. >> i had jeb come at me. low energy. he said it just the way his pollster told him to say it. >> still bush is confident he's finally cracked the trump code. >> i don't think he's a serious candidat
message for his party. peter alexander has more. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. donald trump is picking up where the debate left off, again swatting at jeb bush, insisting he doesn't want bush's endorsement because he said nbc news bush does not represent strength, power and stamina, qualities he says the country desperately needs. donald trump marking six months in the race, almost all of them atop the gop field, the same way he spent much of that time on tv. overnight...
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to have a change of heart and a n message for his party. nbc's national correspondent peter alexander has more. peter, good morning to you. >> good morning. donald trump is picking up where the debate left off, swatting at jeb bush, insisting he doesn't want bush's endorsement. as trump told nbc news in a statement, bush does not represent strength, power, and stamina, qualities he sayss the country desperately needs. >> reporter: donald trump marking six months in the race, almost all of them atop the gop field, the same way he spent overnight with jimmy kimmel. >> i would like to see the republican party come together, and i've been a little bit divisive in the sense i've been hitting people pretty hard. >> a little bit, yeah. >> reporter: rallying supporters in arizona, trump dismissed critics who said he was a showman. >> somebody said, trump is an entertainer. that's a [ bleep ]. >> repepter: and bashed jeb bush afafr bush got under trump's skin in tuesday's debate. >> this is a tough business, to run for president. >> oh, i know. you're a toughuy, jeb. i had jeb come at me, you
to have a change of heart and a n message for his party. nbc's national correspondent peter alexander has more. peter, good morning to you. >> good morning. donald trump is picking up where the debate left off, swatting at jeb bush, insisting he doesn't want bush's endorsement. as trump told nbc news in a statement, bush does not represent strength, power, and stamina, qualities he sayss the country desperately needs. >> reporter: donald trump marking six months in the race, almost...
cleared. the outbound ride, that's still there. the alexander hamilton bridge, you can see the outbound commute is a little slow. it is in the clearing stages. also, a check in queens at the l.i.e. at the grand central parkway. you can see the construction is still there. right now traffic is moving along okay. as more people get on the roads, you start to see it get a little more heavy. back tothe maps where the goethals construction has a right lane blocked staten island bound. that's going to be there a few more moments. also u construction at the covered roadway. both ways between jersey avenue to tonnelle circle. an accident with a downed pole, route 82 westbound. alternate side, meter rules in up. >> thank you. >>> it is 4:47 right now. five servicemen killed during a shooting at two navy facilities in chattanooga, tennessee, will now be awarded purple hearts. it's not clear exactly when they're getting these medals, but purple hearts are given to military members killed or injured in action. investigators say the gun michigan opened fire on the men. you may remember, this was bac
cleared. the outbound ride, that's still there. the alexander hamilton bridge, you can see the outbound commute is a little slow. it is in the clearing stages. also, a check in queens at the l.i.e. at the grand central parkway. you can see the construction is still there. right now traffic is moving along okay. as more people get on the roads, you start to see it get a little more heavy. back tothe maps where the goethals construction has a right lane blocked staten island bound. that's going...
moment. let's start with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. >> reporter: good morning to you. this was the first republican debate since both paris and san bernardino. the contenders trying to cast themselves as best qualified to keep americans safe. jeb bush found his voice against trump but some ask if it's too little, too late. for the first time we saw ted cruz and marco rubio mixing things up. fight night in vegas. jeb bush flailing in the polls, taking the gloves off against donald trump. >> donald, you know, is great at the one-liners. but he's a chaos candidate. and he would be a chaos president. >> he has failed in this campaign. it's been a total disaster. nobody cares. >> reporter: trump's reactions alone priceless. bush argued trump isn't a serious candidate. >> i won't get my information from the shows. i don't know if that's saturday morning or sunday morning. i don't know which one. thises a tough business to run for president. >> i know you're a tough guy, jeb, i know. >> we need a leader that's tough. you'll never be president by insulting your way to the pre
moment. let's start with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. >> reporter: good morning to you. this was the first republican debate since both paris and san bernardino. the contenders trying to cast themselves as best qualified to keep americans safe. jeb bush found his voice against trump but some ask if it's too little, too late. for the first time we saw ted cruz and marco rubio mixing things up. fight night in vegas. jeb bush flailing in the polls, taking the gloves off...
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, but let's start with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. peter? >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you. significantly this was the first republican debate since both paris and san bernardino with all the republican contenders trying to show strength. jeb bush finally found his voice against donald trump, but was it too little too late, and for the first real time we saw marco rubio and ted cruz battle back and forth. fight night in vegas. jeb bush flailing in the polls taking the gloves off against donald trump. >> so, donald, you know is great at the one-liners, but he's a chaos candidate. and he'd be a chaos president. >> he has failed in this campaign. it's been a total disaster. nobody cares. >> reporter: trump's reactions alone priceless. bush argued trump isn't a serious candidate. >> i won't get my information from the shows. i don't know if that's saturday morning or sunday morning. i don't know which one. this is a tough business. >> oh, i know. you're a tough guy, jeb, i know. >> and we need to have a leader. >> you're tough. >> you're never going to be preside
, but let's start with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. peter? >> reporter: hey, matt, good morning to you. significantly this was the first republican debate since both paris and san bernardino with all the republican contenders trying to show strength. jeb bush finally found his voice against donald trump, but was it too little too late, and for the first real time we saw marco rubio and ted cruz battle back and forth. fight night in vegas. jeb bush flailing in the polls...
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chaos candidate. nbc's national correspondent peter alexander was there. peter, good morning, again. >> hey, matt, good morning to you once again. the night's biggest headline donald trump again reaffirmed his pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, as an independent, the commander in chief debate with national security now a top priority for americans. no one was able to knock out donald trump, jeb bush tried and marco rubio didn't. rubio and ted cruz exchanging most of the blows. trump at center stage appeared more comfortable and in control than in some past debates, and he turned some heads with his comments about how to combat isis' online propaganda machine. >> isis is recruiting through the internet. isis is using the internet better than we are using the internet. i would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. i sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet. >> reporter: a lot of people were interested in his choice of words, our internet. as to what didn't. no fight between donald trump a
chaos candidate. nbc's national correspondent peter alexander was there. peter, good morning, again. >> hey, matt, good morning to you once again. the night's biggest headline donald trump again reaffirmed his pledge not to run as a third-party candidate, as an independent, the commander in chief debate with national security now a top priority for americans. no one was able to knock out donald trump, jeb bush tried and marco rubio didn't. rubio and ted cruz exchanging most of the blows....
. a live look at the alexander hamilton bridge this morning. not bad at all. that earlier road work has cleared. still have a little bit of road work on the fdr southbound between 71th to 63rd. still a couple lanes blocked. you can see some minor delays there. alternate side, meter rules in effect today. more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >> emily, thank you. >>> it is 5:17 right now on this wednesday morning. now to decision 2016 and the race for the white house. the republican candidates faced off in another debate. this time donald trump was not the only one throwing barbs. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington with reaction this morning. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning, darlene. we had cruz versus rubio. the big news came at the end when trump said for sure that he's going to stick with the republican party. he will not run as a third-party candidate. and he will support whoever the nominee turns out to be. this morning we are tracking social media reaction and online polls, all pointing to donald trump. >> this is a tough business to run. >> y
. a live look at the alexander hamilton bridge this morning. not bad at all. that earlier road work has cleared. still have a little bit of road work on the fdr southbound between 71th to 63rd. still a couple lanes blocked. you can see some minor delays there. alternate side, meter rules in effect today. more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >> emily, thank you. >>> it is 5:17 right now on this wednesday morning. now to decision 2016 and the race for the white house. the...
alexander in position in las vegas. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah. in keeping with this las vegas theme, donald trump's theme is not a mirage. a new national poll out just this morning shows he's already expanding his already lopsided lead, 38-15, a 23-point advantage over his closest competitor, ted cruz, with republicans and republican-leaning independents saying they see trump as the strongest leader, the candidate most likely to bring change to washington and the candidate with the best chance of winning the general election. along the vegas strip, high stakes ahead of the last republican debate of the year. >> the other candidates should be thankful because i'm giving them a chance to make total fools of themselves in front of millions of people. >> donald trump now looking to stave off his latest rival, ted cruz, trailing trump nationwide. >> you know the bottom line? i think we're going to win iowa. i think we're going to win new hampshire big. >> trump, repeatedly interrupted by protesters, escorted out by security. one man even yelling a nazi salute. meanwh
alexander in position in las vegas. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah. in keeping with this las vegas theme, donald trump's theme is not a mirage. a new national poll out just this morning shows he's already expanding his already lopsided lead, 38-15, a 23-point advantage over his closest competitor, ted cruz, with republicans and republican-leaning independents saying they see trump as the strongest leader, the candidate most likely to bring change to washington and the...
by a contentious crowd. we will start this afternoon with our correspondent peter alexander out in las vegas. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. keeping with the las vegas theme. the donald trump lead is not a mirage. the poll showing him out with the biggest advantage yet. expanding the lead 28 points. in second place is ted cruz. republicans and republican leaning independents largely supporting trump in their words as the strongest leader. the man likeliest to bring change to washington and best chance of winning the general along the vegas trip, high stakes ahead of the last republican debate of the year. >> the other candidates should be thankful. i'm giving them a chance to make fools of themselves. >> reporter: donald trump now looking to stave off ted cruz. surging in iowa and trailing trump nationwide. >> you know the bottom line, i think we will win iowa. i think we will win new hampshire big. >> reporter: trump interrupted by protesters escorted out by support supporters at the rally and one man yelling a nazi salute. a battle over the republican foil to trump. the feu
by a contentious crowd. we will start this afternoon with our correspondent peter alexander out in las vegas. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. keeping with the las vegas theme. the donald trump lead is not a mirage. the poll showing him out with the biggest advantage yet. expanding the lead 28 points. in second place is ted cruz. republicans and republican leaning independents largely supporting trump in their words as the strongest leader. the man likeliest to bring change to...
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with nbc national correspondent peter alexander in position in las vegas. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah, good morning. keeping with this las vegas theme, this donald trump lead is not a mirage. a new national poll out just this morning showing him with his biggest advantage yet, expanding his lead now to 23 points, 38% to 15% and in second and republican-leaning republicans dub him the most strongest leader and the candidate with the best chance of winning the general election. along the vegas strip high stakes for the last debate of the year. >> the other candidates should be thankful because i'm giving them a chance to make total fools of themselves in front of millions of people. >> reporter: donald trump now looking to stave off his latest rival, ted cruz, surging into first place in iowa and trailing trump nationwide. >> you know, the bottom line. i think we're going to win iowa. i think we're going to win new hampshire big. >> reporter: trump repeatedly interrupted by protesters who were escorted out by security. trump supporters lashing out at one of th
with nbc national correspondent peter alexander in position in las vegas. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hi, savannah, good morning. keeping with this las vegas theme, this donald trump lead is not a mirage. a new national poll out just this morning showing him with his biggest advantage yet, expanding his lead now to 23 points, 38% to 15% and in second and republican-leaning republicans dub him the most strongest leader and the candidate with the best chance of winning the general...
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with chuck todd in a moment. peter alexander in las vegas. peter, good morning to you. if. >> reporter: hey, matt good morning to you. the match up tomorrow night may be between donald trump and ted this is almost a nightmare for the republican establishment. ben carson has dropped and ted cruz has risen rapidly with very conservative voters. the question is can cruz knock off trump? >> donald trump and ted cruz are the two dominating the republican field. the new poll shows trump still leading nationwide but cruz gaining steam up 12 points since october with marco rubio at 15%. in iowa cruz is in control. trump is blasting the texas senator for criticizing trump at a private fundraiser tweeting i was disappointed ted cruz would speak behind my back, get caught and deny. welcome to the wonderful world of politics. trump argues cruz doesn't have the temperament to be president. skbr you . >> you look at how he deals with you can't walk into the senate and scream and call people liars. >> cruz is embracing trump's maniac label. tweeting the music video to the 1980s music vid
with chuck todd in a moment. peter alexander in las vegas. peter, good morning to you. if. >> reporter: hey, matt good morning to you. the match up tomorrow night may be between donald trump and ted this is almost a nightmare for the republican establishment. ben carson has dropped and ted cruz has risen rapidly with very conservative voters. the question is can cruz knock off trump? >> donald trump and ted cruz are the two dominating the republican field. the new poll shows trump...
moment, but first, peter alexander is in las peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. ben carson has dropped presipitiously. ted cruz was risen among voters. can cruz knock off trump? this morning, donald trump and ted cruz are the duo dominating the republican field. the new nbc news poll shows trump leading nation wide, but cruz gaining steam up 12 points since october. in iowa, cruz up ten points over trump. trump is blasting the freshman senator tweeting, i was disappointed that ted cruz would speak behind my back and get caught and deny it. well, welcome to the wonderful world of poll tibiticpolitics. >> you look at the way he has dealt with the senate where he like a bit of a maniac. you can't walk into the senate and scream and call people liars. >> reporter: cruz is embracing trump's maniac. tweeting the music video of the 1980s hit "maniac." quote, in honor of my friend donald trump and good hearted maniacs everywhere. >> i'm not looking to be politically correct. i'm doing this to do the right thing. >> reporter: rubio says the motivation is c
moment, but first, peter alexander is in las peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. ben carson has dropped presipitiously. ted cruz was risen among voters. can cruz knock off trump? this morning, donald trump and ted cruz are the duo dominating the republican field. the new nbc news poll shows trump leading nation wide, but cruz gaining steam up 12 points since october. in iowa, cruz up ten points over trump. trump is blasting the freshman senator tweeting, i...
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made in new hampshire. matt and savannah, back to you. >> peter alexander, thank you very much. >>> let's turn to chuck todd, nbc political director and moderator of "meet the press." good morning, chuck. >> good morning. >> a huge surge for trump. trump isn't falling but this is carson cratering. >> that's exactly what this is. everybody wants to somehow say trump is falling. he's not. he actually gained in that iowa poll and gained in our pot. cruz has become the traditional christian conservative candidate. what we normally see when it sort of breaks down between two lanes and the republican party, your conservative lane and establishment lane. trump is his own whole other entity. >> what do you get for your surge, you get attacked by donald trump. >> of course you do. >> that's what's happening now. ted cruz has been very careful, chuck, not to criticize trump publicly. got caught doing it behind the scenes the other day. >> right. >> but is his strategy make sure the trump supporters like him enough so that if trump then craters he'll get their support? >> his only path to
made in new hampshire. matt and savannah, back to you. >> peter alexander, thank you very much. >>> let's turn to chuck todd, nbc political director and moderator of "meet the press." good morning, chuck. >> good morning. >> a huge surge for trump. trump isn't falling but this is carson cratering. >> that's exactly what this is. everybody wants to somehow say trump is falling. he's not. he actually gained in that iowa poll and gained in our pot. cruz...
alexander hamilton bridge where that's a pretty good ride too. whether you're going to the george, which again looks great, or the cross box you should not have any problem. you have to move the cars today, alternate side rules in effect. >>> it is 5:16. now to decision 2016. new numbers overnight from our nbc/"wall street journal" poll show how the front-runners would fare against hillary clinton. they're out one day before the next republican debate. tracy potts is live in washington with the latest matchups. >> reporter: good morning. it's brand-new information this morning. kind of interesting. when you take a look at the fact that the top republicans have got some work to do if they want >> i think i'm going to be the one that beats hillary. >> reporter: but our numbers show right now he can't. brand gnaw at midnight from our nbc/"wall street journal" poll, both donald trump and ted cruz would lose to hillary clinton if the election were held today. trump by 10 points, cruz by 3. ben carson and marco rubio could beat her but they're not topping the field. >> they're kidding themselv
alexander hamilton bridge where that's a pretty good ride too. whether you're going to the george, which again looks great, or the cross box you should not have any problem. you have to move the cars today, alternate side rules in effect. >>> it is 5:16. now to decision 2016. new numbers overnight from our nbc/"wall street journal" poll show how the front-runners would fare against hillary clinton. they're out one day before the next republican debate. tracy potts is live in...
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thank. first of all, senators lamar alexander and patty murray on the senate side and representatives john clyne and bobby scott on the house side, as well as their dedicated staffs. this would not have happened without them. [ applause ]. and i just want to point out that it's not as if there weren't some significant ideological differences on some of these issues. >> laughter. >> no, there were. this is an example how bipartisanship can work. people did not agree on everything at the outset. but they were willing to listen to each other in a civil constructive way and to work through these issues compromise were necessary while still keeping their eye on the ball. and i think it's really a testament of the four leaders of the respective committees that they set that kind of tone. and that's something we don't always see here in washington. there wasn't a lot of grandstanding, posturing. just a lot of good, hard work. i just want to thank them for the outstanding work that they do. [ applause ]. i also want to thank my outgoing secretary of education arnie done. duncan. arnie has ded
thank. first of all, senators lamar alexander and patty murray on the senate side and representatives john clyne and bobby scott on the house side, as well as their dedicated staffs. this would not have happened without them. [ applause ]. and i just want to point out that it's not as if there weren't some significant ideological differences on some of these issues. >> laughter. >> no, there were. this is an example how bipartisanship can work. people did not agree on everything at...
correspondent peter alexander is in washington. peter, good morning. >> tamron, good morning. it's increasingly clear that donald trump's strongest challenger may be ted cruz. cruz just picked up a coveted endorsement in iowa from that state's tonight lange evangelic power broker. cruz questioned trump and ben carson's readiness to serve. >> who am i comfortable having their finger on the button? now that's a question of strength, but it's also a question of judgment. and i think that is a question that is a challenging question for both of you. >> now it looks like trump may be itching for a fight. he just tweeted cruz shouldn't make statements behind closed doors, he should bring them out in the open. more fun that way. as for trump's controversial proposed muslim ban. look at this. our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, it shows nearly six in ten americans oppose trump's proposal. but republicans are divided, 42% in favor, 36% against. now trump's rivals are hesitant to say whether they would support him as nominee. tamron? >> all right, peter, thank you very much. the fbi
correspondent peter alexander is in washington. peter, good morning. >> tamron, good morning. it's increasingly clear that donald trump's strongest challenger may be ted cruz. cruz just picked up a coveted endorsement in iowa from that state's tonight lange evangelic power broker. cruz questioned trump and ben carson's readiness to serve. >> who am i comfortable having their finger on the button? now that's a question of strength, but it's also a question of judgment. and i think...
different story when you focus just on republican voters. peter alexander takes a closer look at the numbers this >> reporter: hi, matt, good morning. hard to believe it was this week that donald trump rolled out that explosive plan to bar muslims from entering the u.s. and the party is grappling with its s mistakable and unapologetic front-runner and as the new polls show@trump's tough talk is resonating with a lot of republicans who simply aren't going to abandon him. donald trump in new hampshire snapping up an endorsement fro a major police group. >> the first people i see, you know, even when i come in through all the towns, the first people i see are the police and i always feel safe and always feel good. >> reporter: it comes just hours after an audio recording of ted cruz from a private fund-raising event was made public obtained bybyhe "new york times." cruz can be heard dismissing trump and ben carson, questioning their readiness to serve. >> who am i comfortable having their finger on the button? well, that is a question of question of judgment, and i think that is a quest
different story when you focus just on republican voters. peter alexander takes a closer look at the numbers this >> reporter: hi, matt, good morning. hard to believe it was this week that donald trump rolled out that explosive plan to bar muslims from entering the u.s. and the party is grappling with its s mistakable and unapologetic front-runner and as the new polls show@trump's tough talk is resonating with a lot of republicans who simply aren't going to abandon him. donald trump in...
queensboro bruj this and let's look at the alexander hamilton bridge. right under thh apartments you're going to find road work. two left lanes taken up. a slow go there. picking up the construction heading the other way on the upper level inbound on the george washington bridge. your connecticut turnpike ride looks nice nood delays there. and let's take a live look by laguardia. grand central parkway, smooth go for your friday morning commute. reallyr ot going to be a bad ride there. alternhoe siee, meter rules in effect. more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >> emily, thank you very much. >>> 4:ss now. construction workers are recovering this morning from a serious accident that happened inin hackensack. two of tyose workers were critically injured when the scaffold they were standing on collapsed. the men fell 45 feet to the ground. we're told osha investigators are looking into what may have happened here. >>> we've learned the fbi will play a larger role in the investigation of ten sets of human remains found on long island. leadership at the suffolk county police de
queensboro bruj this and let's look at the alexander hamilton bridge. right under thh apartments you're going to find road work. two left lanes taken up. a slow go there. picking up the construction heading the other way on the upper level inbound on the george washington bridge. your connecticut turnpike ride looks nice nood delays there. and let's take a live look by laguardia. grand central parkway, smooth go for your friday morning commute. reallyr ot going to be a bad ride there....
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defend his proposed muslim ban and as nbc's peter alexander shows us, trump is again hinting at a possible independent run for president. >> reporter: donald trump again threatening gop bosses with a third-party bid. >> if they don't treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect, if they don't treat my as the front-runner, by far the front-runner, if the playing field is not level, then certainly all options are open. >> reporter: and trump remains unapologetic. are you racist? >> i am the least racist person that you have ever met. >> reporter: for the first time since trump ignited this latest firestorm, president obama commemorating the end of slavery took a swipe at his loudest critic. >> our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others. regardless of what faith they practice. >> reporter: trump's provocative words are sparking condemnation worldwide. >> mr. donald trump. >> hear hear! >> britain is considering a ban from the uk. and a major middle east department store chain has yanked all trump merchandise off its shelves. here hillary clinton is trying to capitali
defend his proposed muslim ban and as nbc's peter alexander shows us, trump is again hinting at a possible independent run for president. >> reporter: donald trump again threatening gop bosses with a third-party bid. >> if they don't treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect, if they don't treat my as the front-runner, by far the front-runner, if the playing field is not level, then certainly all options are open. >> reporter: and trump remains unapologetic. are...
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Another slow day in wrestling news today. Most of the big wrestling news sites today have been scraping the bottom of the barrel, leaving even the re-post sites scrambling for news it would seem.
The second part of our new column Deep Insider is up on the site today. This is the column where I document and report on my experiences while I continue my sojourn into the unsavory, questionable realm of Elite Membership at PWInsider.com.
We also have the second edition of our podcast, Talking Sheet available on the site. In this episode, Hugh Little and I compare Wade Keller’s Verne Gagne obituary in the Torch to Dave Meltzer’s Gagne biography in the Wrestling Observer. Hugh gives his thoughts on Torch coverage of Extreme Rules, compared to Meltzer, while I ponder what that lead story in Figure Four Weekly was about this week.
Then we take a Rear View look at the Wrestling Observer Newsletter from January of 1987 in what some listeners are already calling the spiritual successor to the now defunct OBSERVOR segments that Todd Martin used to do on his old F4Daily shows with Bryan Alvarez.
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** Sean Ross Sapp from WrestlingInc. has an interview with Mr. Anderson from TNA up on the site here.
** WrestlingInc. also has a story, and linked video from the Des Moines Register on Seth Rollins and an ex-girlfriend attending the Smackdown! tapings to see him wrestle.
** Joe Babinsack has returned with another column at the Camel Clutch Blog reviewing the Golden Age of Montreal Wrestling Vol II.
** F4Wonline.com’s Dave Meltzer mentioned in his daily update today that the reason why there is so little classic footage being added to the WWE Network is because it’s not all that popular, and that the new stuff is more popular—like NXT, the Network exclusive specials, Too Hot For TV, and the Jericho/Steph podcast, which was the top-rated show of the week…
** Sounds like a self-fulflilling prophecy to me, and it’s odd Meltzer failed to call this out. The highest rated shows are the shows that get, by far, the most visibility on the Network. The classic footage is buried, so no one is watching it unless they’re seeking it out.
** NoDQ.com re-ran this story as their own here.
** They also have a piece re-printing a WWE tweet teasing the idea of Bill Simmons working with the company in the future now that he’s been fired from ESPN.
** Dave Meltzer addressed this question Saturday night on Wrestling Observer Radio, when a Mailbag question asked whether this was feasible. Meltzer’s take was that Simmons made too much to really fit in anywhere at WWE, least of all Creative.
** Speaking of Wrestling Observer Radio from Saturday night, the most ridiculously worthless segment in recent memory took place right before the Mailbag segment toward the end of the show, when Meltzer interrupted co-host Bryan Alvarez’s attempt to move on to the mailbag saying “We’ve gotta talk about WWE!” only to then stammer and stutter his way to admitting that, other than hearing Stephanie McMahon and Triple H were returning to Raw on Monday night that there was really nothing else to talk about. 49:10 in.
Bryan: “Alright, let’s jump into the mailbag here….”
Dave: “WE’VE GOTTA TALK ABOUT WWE”
Bryan: “What about it?”
Dave: “Um, Well, let’s see Stephanie & Triple H are back Monday, I guess”
Bryan: “Yup, that’s the story.”
Dave: “So, uhh… the go-home show’s Monday… um, trying to think if there’s anything else on the weekend… um.. mmm..nooo real.. great, uh…uhh…no nothing ever really stupendous or anything like that. Um. Yea.”
Byan: “Alright. Mailbag!”
** WrestleZone has its weekly recap of the news reported on their site over the past week here.
** PWInsider has an article hyping a new DVD from Highspots with Colt Cabana, Chris Hero and Tommaso Ciampa talking about their time in developmental, and the paths taken to get there, only to be cut.
** Gerweck.net is reporting that Destination America is scheduled to air a 3-hour edition of TNA Impact on May 22nd.
** eWresltingNews.com is reporting that Roman Reigns, during an appearance at the Philadelphia WizardWorld ComicCon, did not take kindly to CM Punk’s claims that the Shield was his idea. Punk, several months ago on the Colt Cabana podcast The Art of Wrestling, had claimed that the Shield originally were to come in to watch his back, and that Punk had requested the members be Ambrose, Rollins and Kassius Ohno (Chris Hero) at the time. WWE Creative insisted that Roman Reigns be part of the group, and not Ohno, who was later released due to a less than desirable work ethic, and being too skinny-fat.
** LordsOfPain.net has an article regarding openly gay WWE Superstar Darren Young appearing at the GLAAD Awards in New York, and filming his own documentary.
** Lots of sites linking to this WWE YouTube of kids dressed as Superstars and Divas.
** Today’s News vs Plugs at F4Wonline.com – News: 967 words. Plugs: 3659
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When asked if an object is balanced, a person may check to see whether the object is still or wobbling back and forth. Students often realize that the occurrences discussed in physical science are more detailed explanations of daily experiences. To help students fully grasp the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object’s motion, the content background for this benchmark will include, motion, graphing motion, speed, velocity, acceleration, Newton’s three laws of motion, and friction.
Motion is defined as an act or instance of moving. It can be described as any change in position. If you raise your arms in the air, you can say that motion has occurred. Everything in the world is moving. Even things that seem still are in motion because the atoms are vibrating. All things on Earth including our atmosphere are rotating with the Earth.
You don’t have to actually see motion take place to prove that an object has moved. To know whether the position of something has changed, you need a reference point. A reference point is a specific location that can be used to compare if something is moving (i.e., if an object changes its position relative to the reference point, then we consider that the object has moved). Speed is the measure of motion. You can find it by dividing the distance covered by the time it takes to travel that distance. Velocity is the speed of an object moving in a particular direction.
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Graphing Motion
A distance-time graph makes it possible to “see” the motion of an object over a period of time. Referring to Figure 1, the green line covers the greatest distance in the least amount of time and therefore has the greatest speed. The green line also shows a constant speed because the speed does not vary with time (i.e., the line is straight with a constant slope).
Figure 1. Distance-Time graph for three different objects.
(From http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/physics/forces
/speedvelocityaccelerationfhrev2.shtml)
The red line shows how an object has speed changing with time. First the object has a constant speed (shown by the straight line with the positive slope). Then the object stops moving because the time continues to increase, but the distance stays the same (i.e., the slope of the line is zero). The object then returns to its start position with a constant speed (straight line and negative slope) because the distance goes back down to where it began. With students, you could say that someone went somewhere stayed for a while and went back home.
The blue line shows an object where the velocity is continually changing or accelerating. The object is starting off slow because it is covering a small distance in a greater amount of time and then the distance increases substantially within a shorter time period. In this case, the object is speeding up. In physics, acceleration is any change in velocity and occurs when an object speeds up (positive acceleration), slows down (negative acceleration, or more commonly, deceleration), or changes direction.
For background notes supporting interpretation of motion graphs visit
http://cmp.ameslab.gov/physics106/lecture5.pdf
The following graph shows a car traveling at a constant speed because every second its position increases 10 meters. You can say the car is traveling 10 m/s.
Figure 2. Data and graph illustrating constant speed.
(From http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/1DKin/U1L3a.html)
The following graph shows a car accelerating because each time interval the car covers a different amount of distance. Again, acceleration is any change in velocity, whether it goes faster, slower, or changes direction.
Figure 3. Data and graph illustrating acceleration.
For more information about motion graphs, go to
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/1DKin/U1L3a.html
Balanced and Unbalanced Forces
A force is defined as a push or a pull and more than one force can and usually does act on an object at the same time. Every force has a certain strength or magnitude. Forces also have a direction. The net force on an object is the sum (in both magnitude and direction) of all the forces acting on it. If the net force is zero, the forces are balanced. Balanced forces produce no changes in motion of an object. In the picture below, there are two forces acting upon the person. The gravitational force exerts a downward force. The floor exerts an upward force. Because these two forces are of equal magnitude and in opposite directions, they balance each other. The person is at equilibrium because there is no unbalanced force acting upon the person, and thus, the person maintains his/her state of motion (in the case the motion is zero or at rest).
Figure 4. Object at rest with no net force.
(From http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l1d.html)
Objects moving at a constant velocity are also balanced and have a net force of zero. A plane at cruise altitude has four primary forces (weight, lift, thrust and drag) that when balanced, the plan travels at a high yet constant speed.
Figure 5. Object in motion with constant speed and no net force.
(From http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/forces.html)
When the net force is greater than zero, the forces acting on the object are not balanced. Unbalanced forces cause an object at rest to move and an object in motion to change speed and/or direction. The animation below demonstrates an unbalanced force.
Figure 6. Objects in motion with net force.
(From http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/forces.htm)
For more information and sample problems on balanced and unbalanced forces, go to
http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/forces.htm
For a table with types of forces and descriptions for each one, go to
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l2b.html
Friction is a force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are in contact with each other. The amount of friction depends on two things: the type of surface and how hard they press against each other. When we consider “how hard” two surfaces are pressing against each other, we are really talking about the force of contact between the surfaces.
It can be beneficial to increase or decrease friction. Students lubricate the keys on their brass instruments to decrease friction and avoid sticking. On the other hand, people can increase friction to avoid slipping.
Figure 7. Friction in footwear.
(From http://revelsports.com/yaktrax.asp)
Three types of friction are sliding friction, rolling friction and fluid friction. Sliding friction is the friction between two solid surfaces as shown below. If it weren’t for friction, students would slip right off their chairs and pencils would slide right out of their hands.
Figure 8. Sliding Friction.
(From http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/friction.htm)
Rolling friction is much less than sliding friction. It is the resistance that occurs when an object rolls. People use wheel barrels and dollies to help move large or heavy objects.
Figure 9. Rolling Friction.
Fluid friction occurs when a solid object is in contact with a fluid, such as a liquid or gas. When a force is applied to either the object or the fluid, there is a friction force that resists the motion. Examples where fluid friction occurs are water flowing through a hose, an airplane flying through the atmosphere, and oil lubricating moving parts. Air resistance is a type of fluid friction. As the force of gravity pulls an object down, fluid friction from the air pushes back up on the object. The diagram below illustrates the amount of force acting on a skydiver throughout their fall. If in free fall long enough, the person will reach terminal velocity when the force of air resistance is balanced with the force of gravity. To increase fluid friction, a person uses a parachute to increase surface area. This allows the person to “catch air”.
Figure 10. Fluid Friction.
(From http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/newtlaws/u2l3e.html)
For more information on friction and the types of friction, go to
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/friction.htm
Newton’s Three Laws of Motion
Newton’s Three Laws of Motion are valuable for teaching and tying together force and motion vocabulary and concepts. Vocabulary will be highlighted within this section to show where these relationships occur.
Newton’s First Law of Motion
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion continues in motion at a constant velocity in a straight line, unless acted upon by an external force or unbalanced force. The First Law of Motion is also known as the Law of Inertia. Inertia is the tendency in all objects to resist any change in motion. A person can pull a tablecloth out from under dishes because the dishes have inertia. The more mass an object has the more inertia it has. An object in motion has inertia because it won’t stop unless an unbalanced force acts on it. For example, if a ball were rolled down a street it would keep going in a straight line forever until a force changes its speed or direction (in this case, friction forces would eventually slow the ball to a stop). Acceleration is any change in speed or direction, so you can say an object will remain at a constant speed and straight line unless a force causes it to accelerate. And if an object has more mass, it is much harder to accelerate when an unbalanced force is applied. Going at the same speed, it is harder to stop a large truck than a motorcycle.
The picture below is a demonstration of inertia. If a person is not wearing a seatbelt when the car is abruptly stopped, the person will continue forward at the same speed the car was originally going. People wear seatbelts to attach them to the car. Students are surprised to hear that when a car is going 75 mph, everything in the car is also going 75 mph and if you’re not attached to the car and it stops, you will continue to travel at 75 mph. All students have experienced inertia in a car. When brakes are slammed, everyone in the car leans forward. When cars turn, our bodies lean because inertia is the tendency to keep going straight.
Figure 11. Demonstration of inertia.
(From http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l1a.html)
For examples of inertia and a home experiment, go to
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/u2l1a.html
Newton’s Second Law of Motion
Newton’s Second Law of Motion says that net, unbalanced forces acting on an object cause the object to accelerate in the direction of the net force. If a boy is riding a bike and the wind blows against him, then the boy will slow down and therefore negatively accelerate or decelerate. The acceleration is determined by the size of the force and the mass of the object. If the wind is not a strong enough force to slow the boy down then there will be no negative acceleration. If the mass of the boy is small, and the force of the wind is great, then there may be a large negative acceleration. Again, it takes more force to cause a massive object to accelerate.
The relationship between acceleration, mass, and force can be written mathematically, as follows: Force = mass x acceleration, or F = ma. This picture illustrates the relationship between acceleration, mass, and force.
Figure 12. Newton’s 2nd Law.
(From http://www.astronomynotes.com/gravappl/s2.htm#A1.2)
For more information on Newton’s 2nd law of motion and sample problems, go to
Newton’s Third Law of Motion
Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second one exerts a force on the first that is equal in size and opposite in direction. This can also be stated as every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When a person jumps on a trampoline, they exert a downward force on the trampoline and the trampoline exerts an equal force upward, sending the person into the air. A person swimming exerts a force on the water and the water pushes back on the swimmer. Rockets illustrate Newton’s Third Law because the burning fuel inside produces hot gases that push against the inside of the rocket and escape out the bottom. The downward push of the gases results in a “paired” force, which is opposite in direction, and therefore, pushes the rocket upward.
Figure 13. Action-Reaction pairs.
(From http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/Science
/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/newton3.htm)
Common misconceptions associated with this benchmark
1.Students inaccurately assume that the lines on a distance-time graph represent a hill on which an object is traveling.
Instead of referring to the variables to read a graph, students will look at the picture only and make assumptions. When students look at the blue line, many incorrectly think that the object has slowed down because the line is getting steeper and steeper. However, the blue line actually shows an object that is accelerating, with its velocity increasing steadily (e.g., an object in freefall). Students may incorrectly think that the green line represents an object that couldn’t go very fast because the hill was too steep, and the red line represents an object that didn’t have a hard time at all because for a while, the hill was flat.
When graphing the position of an object or distance traveled as a function of time, the slope at any point on the curve gives the velocity.
For more information about graphing misconceptions, go to http://physics.montana.edu/physed/misconceptions/graphs/graphs.html
2.Students incorrectly believe that acceleration is only increasing speed.
Acceleration is often used to describe an object that is going faster, but acceleration is not just increasing speed or going fast. Any change in velocity is acceleration. Velocity is defined as the speed and direction of a moving body. Therefore, acceleration can be an increase in speed, decrease in speed, or change in direction. A Ferris wheel going a constant speed is still accelerating because it is continuously changing direction.
For more information on this misconception, go to
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3.Students incorrectly believe that sustaining motion requires a continued force.
If the forces acting on an object are balanced and the object is in motion, then it will continue in motion with the same velocity. Remember: forces do not cause motion. Forces cause changes in motion (i.e., acceleration). It is forces that bring objects to rest, as well as increase an object’s speed or change its direction. Students incorrectly think that force is an inherent property within an object, commonly called force impetus.
For more information on this common misconception and other misconceptions related to force and motion, go to http://www.physicsfirstmo.org/files/Misconceptions.pdf.
(From http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/
Class/newtlaws/u2l1b.html#Misconception)
Students know the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object's motion. E/S.
Sample Test Questions
1st Item Specification: Know how motion is defined, described, and measured.
Depth Of Knowledge Level 1
What two variables are used to calculate speed?
mass and time
mass and velocity
distance and time
distance and velocity
Which of the following is NOT an example of a girl on a bike who is accelerating?
She turns the corner.
She continues down the street.
She slams on the brakes.
She pedals faster than before.
A horse is walking at a constant speed of 2 m/s. How far will the horse travel in thirty minutes?
About how long will it take for Sam to travel 5 km at a speed of 4 m/s?
2nd Item Specification: Explain how balanced and unbalanced forces are related to the motion of an object.
A car parked on a hill may start to roll backwards because of
an unbalanced force.
a frictional force.
a balanced force.
an inertial force.
Two dogs are tugging on a rope. The rope is not moving because the dogs are pulling in
the same direction with equal force.
opposite directions with unequal force.
the same direction with unequal force.
opposite directions with equal force.
The arrows below show forces acting on an object. Use the diagram to answer the following question.
What is the net force on the object and in what direction would the object move?
100 N to the right
100 N to the left
100 N upward
Use the diagram below to answer the following question.
What action would be necessary to balance the forces?
Add a force of 50 N to the right and add 25 N downward.
Subtract 25 N downward and add 25 N upward.
Add a force of 50 N to the right and subtract 25 N downward.
Subtract 25 N to the right and subtract 25 N downward.
3rd Item Specification: Explain the relationship between acceleration, force, and mass.
Which situation would require the greatest amount of force?
Stopping a child on a bike.
Throwing a baseball.
Pulling a puppy on a leash.
Pushing a couch across the room.
Which situation would cause the greatest acceleration?
Applying a force of 12 N to an object that is 100 kg.
Applying a force of 12 N to an object that is 1000 kg.
A person throws a basketball 10 m and then throws a tennis ball 10 m. Which throw requires more force and why?
The basketball because it has a greater volume.
The tennis ball because it has less volume.
The basketball because it has a greater mass.
The tennis ball because it has less mass.
A cart with a mass of 100 kg accelerates when 10 N is applied. If the mass is doubled, how much force is required to maintain the same acceleration.
4th Item Specification: Given a scenario, predict outcomes based on application of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion.
A bat strikes a ball into the outfield. If the action force is the bat hitting the ball, the reaction force is
the ball hitting the bat.
the ball hitting the ground.
the ball flying into the air.
the bat being dropped.
According to Newton’s 1st Law of Motion, an object
at rest will slowly begin moving until a net force is applied.
at rest will remain at rest until a net force is applied.
in motion will increase in speed with no net force applied.
in motion will eventually stop with no net force applied.
A girl riding on a skateboard at 3 m/s suddenly hits the curb. The girl will
fall backward with a speed greater than 3 m/s.
fall forward with a speed greater than 3 m/s.
fall backward at a speed equal to 3 m/s.
fall forward at a speed equal to 3 m/s.
Predict what will happen if both a small child and a large adult kick a soccer ball.
The small child will kick it farther because he or she has less mass.
The large adult will kick it farther because he or she has a greater mass.
The little girl will kick it farther because he or she applies less force.
The large adult will kick it farther because he or she applies a greater force.
5th and 6th Item Specification: (5) Explain how the amount of friction between objects can be changed. (6) Explain how an increase or decrease in friction can be beneficial.
The amount of friction is determined by the types of surface in contact and
how much force pushes the surfaces together.
the density difference between the surfaces.
the color contrast between the surfaces.
how durable the contact is between surfaces.
A brick is sliding across a flat surface. Which of the following has the least friction?
To increase friction, a person could
add a lubricant.
wear a swim cap.
use a parachute.
wax the floor.
Which of the following is an example of why friction can be beneficial?
Friction can cause the bottoms of shoes to wear out.
Friction can expand the tires of a vehicle during a trip.
Friction can prevent cars from sliding
Friction increases the drag of an airplane.
How would you increase the friction of a marble on a track AND what would be the result?
Cover the cracks with tape so the marble does not slow down.
Put oil on the marble and the track so the marble travels faster.
Put rubber bands around the marble so it stops in the middle of the track.
Place strips of sand paper on the track so the marble slows at the end.
7th Item Specification: Create and/or interpret motion graphs.
Use the graph below to answer the following question.
Which statement about the graph is true?
Object A traveled at a constant speed.
Object B traveled 30 km in 2 hours.
Object C gradually increased speed.
Object D slowed down over time.
Which statement is true about the graph?
Object A traveled at a constant speed of 10 km/hr.
Object B traveled at a constant speed of 10 km/hr.
Object C traveled at a constant speed of 8 km/hr.
Object D traveled at a constant speed of 5 km/hr.
Objects A, B, C, and D competed in a race to see who could travel the farthest in eight hours. Use the graph to determine which statement is correct?
Object D started off the fastest and won the race traveling 65 km in 7 hours.
Object B traveled 30 km in 2 hours and stopped, losing the race.
Object C increased speed at a steady rate throughout the race coming in 2nd place.
Object A came in 3rd place because it traveled a longer route than the others.
Objects A, B, C, and D competed in a race to see who could travel the farthest in eight hours. Which statement could you infer based on the graph?
Object B had a good start, but then maintained speed for the last 5 hours coming in last?
Object C used the strategy of maintaining a constant speed throughout, but placed 2nd to object A.
Object A started out the fastest and was winning the race until object D passed them after 6 hours.
Object D conserved energy in the beginning of the race, but came though and won traveling 50 km in 8 hrs.
Constructed Response P8B1
A motorcycle, small car, and a large truck are traveling throughout town.
Describe how each vehicle separately demonstrates Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion.
Compare each vehicles experience based on force, mass and acceleration. Justify your comparisons.
Answers to Sample Test Questions
C, DOK level 1
B, DOK level 1
D, DOK level 2
A, DOK level 1
Constructed Response 3-point Answer and Score Rubric:
Response addresses all parts of the question clearly and correctly.
Response clearly describes how each car experiences inertia, force, mass and acceleration as well as action and reaction. A comparison of each vehicle is discussed based on the objects mass, and amount of force necessary to accelerate. Accurate justifications are made using all of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion to support response.
Response addresses all parts of the question and includes only minor errors.
Response does not address all parts of the question.
Response is totally incorrect or no response provided.
Intervention Strategies and Resources
The following is a list of intervention strategies and resources that will facilitate student understanding of this benchmark.
1.Amusement Park Physics
This website explains roller coasters and allows students to design and test their own. The roller coasters that students create are rated for safety and fun (to factors directly related to force and motion). The students have to select the heights of the hills, the slopes and even the shape of the loop. This website is a great tool for discussing forces and why certain designs will not work. Have students do the activity and print out their ratings to share with the class!
You can access this interactive site at http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster.html
2.The Physics of Driving
Go to this site to find explanations of physics concepts such as Newton’s Laws of Motion, momentum, and kinetic energy, and how they relate to driving. The website also includes online quizzes, experiments and demonstrations with pictures and video clips. Several links are provided for more physics websites.
You can access this valuable resource at http://codmanacademy.org/branches/pod105/
3.Skateboard Science
This site is great for students who love to skateboard. The students can read about the physics of skateboarding and all the different forces involved. Arrows are used on the real life pictures to show the different forces. The site also includes an activity to demonstrate how riders turn in midair.
This site is found at http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/trick.html
4.Smile Program Physics Index
On this site you can find almost 200 single concept lessons. Each lesson has objectives, materials and procedures. The lessons on this site are hands-on and can be copied and used in the classroom. The mechanics section has many interesting lessons on force and motion.
To access this site, go to http://www.iit.edu/~smile/physinde.html
5.The Physics Classroom Tutorial
On this website, you will find everything you need in order to gain deeper understanding to better teach the students, animations and pictures for PowerPoint slides, as well as misconceptions and practice questions. The tutorial is written for introductory physics students. Each unit is broken up into lessons and sub lessons. The graphics are informative and the language is easy to understand.
To start getting a lot of good information, go to http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/newtlaws/newtltoc.html
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Sun, May 17, 2015 - Page 13 News List
Athens will not back down: Greek PM
FIGHTING TALK:Athens has not received any loan tranches since August last year. It hopes to reach a deal soon with its creditors, who want to see structural reforms
Reuters, ATHENS
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday said his government would not back down from its red lines in negotiations with its foreign lenders, but said a deal must be reached soon following months of talks.
Athens is fast running out of cash and talks with EU and IMF lenders on more aid have been deadlocked over their demands for Greece to implement reforms, including pension cuts and labor-market liberalization.
Tsipras said the two sides had largely agreed on fiscal targets and value-added tax rates, but disagreed on labor issues and pension reform. He said an accord should include low primary budget surplus targets for this fiscal year and a debt restructuring.
“The deal must close there is no doubt about it,” Tsipras told a press conference. “However, some cannot have in the back of their minds the idea that, as time goes by, the Greek side’s resilience will be tested and its red lines will fade out. If some people have it in the back of their minds, they should forget it.”
Athens has depended on money from its 240 billion euro (US$275 billion) EU/IMF bailout to keep paying its bills since 2010. It has not received any loan tranches since August last year. Greece hopes to reach a deal by the end of the month.
Earlier on Friday, the Greek Ministry of Finance said it had paid public sector wages due in the middle of this month, confirming scheduled payments as the country struggles to stay solvent, although it might find it harder to meet wage and pension commitments later this month, as well as debt payments due next month.
For months, the government has been borrowing from different parts of the state administration to pay the wages and pensions of public sector workers.
Tsipras, who came to power in January on promises to end austerity measures, said the government would not agree to further cuts to wages and pensions, a highly sensitive issue in Greece, which is in the midst of a six-year recession, rising poverty and joblessness.
“From this podium I want to assure the Greek people that there is no possibility or chance that the Greek government will back down on pension and labor issues,” he said.
Meanwhile, ratings firm Fitch kept Greece’s high-risk credit rating unchanged on Friday, saying the risk that the eurozone country would default on its debt was a “real possibility.”
Fitch Ratings affirmed the “CCC” rating it gave the debt-riddled eurozone country in late March in a two-notch downgrade from “B.”
“Lack of market access, uncertain prospects of timely disbursement from official institutions and tight liquidity conditions in the domestic banking sector are putting extreme pressure on Greek government funding,” Fitch said in a statement. “We expect that the government will survive the current liquidity squeeze without running arrears on privately held bonds, but default is a real possibility.”
The ratings firm forecast zero growth in the economy this year, with risks “heavily tilted” toward a contraction, as the country runs out of cash and faces debt payments to its creditors.
Still, Fitch said it was likely that Greece would reach a compromise deal with its official creditors.
Additional reporting by AFP
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Most people who have spent years playing massively multiplayer online games will tell you that there's something special about the first one you played, too—and WoW was the first for many people. You can become so swept up in the uniqueness of your first experience that you overlook many flaws. It's likely many look at WoW Classic with rose-colored glasses, just as many simply forgot which features were added when. And some of today's WoW players may be too young to have even played vanilla WoW as it once was.
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Earlier this week, Blizzard finally announced a release date for World of Warcraft Classic, a barebones re-release of World of Warcraft long before it was filled with countless expansions. WoW Classic promises a pure, vanilla experience, one that a portion of the World of Warcraft playerbase has been chasing through unsanctioned vanilla servers stripped of various expansions. The game releases on August 27, which, while still a few months away, is still somewhat exciting, seeing as now most fans have an actual date to look forward to.
You can opt in for the beta at the official site. When the beta launches on May 15, players who’ve gotten in will be able to play all the way from from level one to 30. WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas tells us that the beta will be “uncharacteristically small compared to our expansions,” in part to ensure that the focus is on the proper launch this August.
1 All expansion guides are written in the Battle for Azeroth beta in order to have them ready on launch day. It's important to note that betas can be buggy and unstable and may delay and even halt our progress on the guides. Furthermore, the time between the start of beta and the announced release of Battle for Azeroth is much shorter (by about 2-3 months) than past betas. As a result, our primary focus is to have the Leveling guides updated by the launch, and only if those are complete and time remains will we work on updating the remaining guides. All guides not finished in beta will be updated post launch. You can read more about this here.
“As we’ve discussed before, the nature of WoW Classic sometimes invokes different memories for different players, and this leads to certain misconceptions for some about what is or isn’t working as intended,” Blizzard wrote in its official forums. While the developer did not reveal the specific numbers, there seemed to be too many bug reports for things that were actually working as intended.
Occasionally it's also been proposed to re-randomize all the gear. We didn't have best in slot lists back then. People weren't starting out as a fresh level 1 character with a complete list of which dungeons to run at 60 in order to gear as quickly and efficiently as possible. Now, all that data is available. If gear were re-randomized then all of those lists would become useless and thing would be close to how they were. Which is a more important part of the "vanilla experience?" the fact that item X from boss Y has exactly Z stats on it, or the voyage of discovery? Personally I think that voyage is way more important. Do you remember how many points of which stat on the ring or whatever that Darkmaster Gandling drops? I don't. Would it kill your experience if the BiS for every class were in a different dungeon so people had to actually play to figure it out rather than simply consult a spreadsheet? I don't think it would. For that matter, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to handle it intelligently so that the better gear is in later dungeons. I remember there because some weird cases where level 40ish gear was better than anything that dropped in level 60 dungeons.
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BY BRADFORD PEARSON FROM D CEO DECEMBER 2013
A medical student named Ahmed sat down at his computer, looked into the camera, and began reciting spices. “Cinnamon, turmeric, cloves, and garlic powder,” the 23-year-old said from his dim Saudi Arabian apartment. “These spices were chosen because they had high antioxidant activity.”
Nearly 8,000 miles away, in Addison, Karen Yates sat in her office, listening. His rhythm is improving, she tells him, transitioning from an Arabic rhythm to an English one.
And for Yates, who runs Vireo Accent Reduction, rhythm is everything. “You can forgive some sounds, but you can’t get past rhythm,” she says. “I’ve had some speakers, they have everything but the rhythm. And you can’t get past it.”
Yates’ company provides doctors, priests, flight attendants, and even Dallas Mavericks with “quality” accent and English training. She employs four instructors, and has more than 100 clients. Because most of those clients are fluent in the language itself, she focuses not on the actual words, but on how the words fall out of her clients’ mouths.
Native Chinese speakers, for instance, drop the consonants at the ends of words and syllables, while Indian speakers switch the letters “W” and “V.” The pacing of Japanese speakers differs greatly from English speakers, Yates says, as she taps out “ko-ni-chi-wa” on the desk.
Where letters and comprehension matter the most, perhaps, is the doctor’s office. Prior to launching Vireo (initially called Global English Training) in 2006, Yates worked for five years at UT Southwestern, teaching English pronunciation to researchers and doctors. Medicines sound similar, she says, and the difference between “fifteen” and “fifty” can be disastrous for a patient.
“I feel like if I can help any doctor communicate with a patient better, I’ve helped the world,” Yates says. “Given the amount of errors that can cause deaths in a hospital, that’s important.”
Most of her students are eager, hoping to communicate better in the pulpit or the exam room or the airplane. But for those nervous about losing their culture, the rhythm of who they are, Yates has some advice: Just fake it.
“If a person begins to feel like they are losing their core identity, I tell them to pretend they’re an actor,” she says. “If you can feel the English in your body, and can feel the difference, and become an actor, that will release people from that tendency to draw back.”
"My co-workers have already commented on the change in my accent. I recommend this class to anyone who wants to be understood better.”
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I am a retired business-to-business PR and publishing professional residing in northern New Jersey with my wife and son and a shrinking menagerie of merry pets. I began writing poetry (not very well) 100 years ago as an undergraduate at Georgetown University, where I earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English Literature. My poems have appeared recently in Contemporary American Voices (I was the Featured Poet in the January 2015 issue), the Wilderness House Literary Review, Blue Monday Review, and Atavic Poetry. In 2013, I celebrated (mostly by smiling a lot) the publication of my first poetry chapbook, What Comes Next, by Finishing Line Press. A lifelong Giants fan (New York and San Francisco), I still can't believe I lived long enough to see them win three World Series in five years. If you'd like to see more of my work, please click on http://www.whlreview.com/no-9.4/poetry/JamesKeane.pdf.
As the recliner makes a pillow
of my empty head (my body in disguise),
you skitter
from window to window, eyes
trained for weeds in the flower beds. If
there’s weeding to be done, your aim
is to find it. The aim of my body is the game.
Any game. There are weeds in every
flower bed you sow. There’s a game on
every Sunday I know. But the recliner is inclined
to weight my body instead, and though
the weeds have disappeared
from all your flower beds, you haven’t stopped
skittering
from window to window.
I See You Walking
everywhere. Mile after mile
after mile, your legs
sashay through the air, arms
wavering - at despair? Your face
glares like stone in the sun
at everyone. Will I ever
see you smile – anywhere?
Credits: "Sunday Afternoon" was originally published in the Oak Bend Review. "I See You Walking" was originally published in the Tipton Poetry Journal.
©2015 James Keane
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Lady Gaga Poked Fun At Herself + Kimye On Saturday Night Live
by Meghan O'Keefe 11/17/2013
Lady Gaga was the host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live last night and she proved game to do just about anything. Whether she was engaging in weird sex pushups with R. Kelly or poking fun at her own need for outrageous costumes, Lady Gaga was there to entertain us.
Lady Gaga was almost unrecognizable as a frumpy Apple store worker in one of the earliest sketches of the night: “Waking Up With Kimye.” The sketch took brutal aim at the discrepancies in Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s achievements, and pointed out how Kanye’s changed Kim since their relationship began. However, Lady Gaga made one of the sharpest jokes of the night–and it was a shot at herself. Her character Karen defended herself by saying, “I think people who try too hard with their outfits are maybe hiding something.”
Gaga seemed game to poke fun at her image throughout the night. Her monologue played off the idea that she’s pandering for “Applause,” she appeared as an over-the-top theater kid and gave us a bleak view of what her life might be like in 70 years.
However, the most entertaining moment of the night might have come from Saturday Night Live castmember Taran Killam. The comedian debuted a new character during Weekend Update that started off slow, but then sped up into delightful absurdity. Nothing’s ever going to replace Stefon, but here’s hoping they bring back Jebidiah Atkinson at least one more time.
Saturday Night Live returns next weekend with host Josh Hutcherson and musical guest Haim.
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