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The Time Travelers (1964) – MST3K Review
Three scientists are working on a window that will allow them to view events across time. So far they haven’t been very successful, and their funding is going to be cut off. Steve Connors (Philip Carey) decides to crank the power up to 11 for a final try. Dr. Steiner (Preston Foster) and Carol White (Merry Anders) aren’t as keen on the idea but go along with it. They experiment works… kind off. The resident lab groupie, Danny (Steve Franken) discovers that the working window isn’t a window at all, but a door. And because of the extra power boost they are looking nearly 100 years in the future.
Due to series of events, our three scientists and Danny go through the doorway and end up stranded in the future, which is a grim place. World war has destroyed the earth’s surface and only mutants survive. Underground is a group of advanced humans lead by Dr. Varno (John Hoyt) who are constructing a rocket to take them away from earth. They use some seriously creepy looking androids to help build the rocket and fight off the mutants. You see, resources on earth are nearly depleted and the mutants don’t want to be left behind. Can our Time Travelers figure out a way to avoid mutant attacks, return to the 60s and make sure this future never happens?
Your lab coats won't save you now!
Every once in a while Mystery Science Theater 3000 finds a movie for riffing fodder that is not all that bad. In fact, I would say that Time Travelers is a lot of fun all the way around without the riffing. If you’ve never seen it before you may find yourself being pulled into the twisted time travel adventure and miss half the riffs that Jonah and bots launch.
Written and directed by Ib Melchior, this man helped bring Reptilicus to the screen. But Melchior brings a bit more to the table when it comes to the script for this film. In Reptilicus he was tied to the typical giant monster movie tropes, but here he can play with time travel and the impacts on the travelers themselves.
Which one of you fluxed the capacitor?
While the characters in Time Travelers aren’t terribly engaging or well developed, the plight they find themselves in is interesting. These are your typical scientist types. Foster plays the older wiser scientist. Conners is the younger hot head who doesn’t play the by the rules. And Anders is… well she’s the girl. I guess we should just be happy that they have a female scientist at all in a 1964 film. But don’t expect her to actually contribute too much to the technical parts of the plot. She’s mostly around to make observations on the future culture and be saved by Steve.
Danny is the everyman character. He spends most of his time in the future with his mouth hanging open and hitting on the future ladies. Franken plays him a little broadly, but that is par the course for a movie like this. He adds a bit of levity to the scenes with some wry comments and bad pick up lines.
In the future everyone has a gaggle of creepy androids
following along behind them... um... yay?
Where Time Travelers ends up shining is as we explore the futuristic society. The way the humans have adapted using the androids (ignoring how darn creepy those things look) as a slave workforce and army is interesting. It allows the scientists and technicians to focus on working on the rocket. But it also keeps these greater minds from actually interacting with the dying earth and the mutants directly. These people were made by their situation, but they also perpetuate it by ignoring the plight of mutants and any who are like them. Carol’s compassion toward a partial mutant is looked at as detriment, but we understand how she can feel for those unfortunates.
"Wow, Simon got a lot more complicated."
All technological leaps our heroes see, the oranges that grow instantly, the music/light show, the ability to capture images of distant worlds, is all interesting and I like that the plot spends some time showing us all these elements and allowing our characters to interact and comment on it in some ways. It gives perspectives from both sides of the dilemma.
Time Travelers’ real weakness is mostly due to budget constraints. The concept is solid, but there are some moments where the execution is less because the effects look a bit silly, or the androids are just too darn creepy.
Alas poor Data. I knew him Horatiotron.
Yeah, let’s not ignore the elephant in the room any longer. Are these things supposed to be uncut nightmare fuel? As melty and lumpy as the mutants are, the androids are just wrong with their O shaped mouths, dead eyes and cone heads (inspiration for the Saturday Night Live sketch of the 70s?). They seem helpful enough, but I swear if I caught this film on TV when I was a kid, they would have scarred my psyche for life.
I will admit that the whole sequence in the repair bay is a lot of fun, with solid practical effects and slight of hand to make the whole thing interesting to watch… and then you get another close up of an android face and you run screaming from the room.
Oh wait, is this a Tom Baker episode? Cool!
There are a few bad points. The pacing of the film is on the slow side, but that is more a relic of the time it was made. For a scientist film made in the 1960s it actually moves along pretty well. Some of the sets look a little flimsy and the model work for the rocket isn’t all that convincing, but I’m willing to give it all a pass. Time Travelers does such a good job focusing on crafting a solid sci-fi story and doing it as well as it can, I find it to be a bit charming and entertaining.
Tom gives the rocket a helping hand.
Right up to the ending. The story attempts an interesting twist, something that could have come right out of a Rod Serling script. It will certainly remind some viewers of one of the old Star Trek episodes. But due to some editing on by the crew at MST3k it ends up not making a whole lot of sense. I’ve seen the movie twice and while I appreciate the effort, I’m also not quite sure what the heck happened at the end. Not in a good 2001: A Space Odyssey way, but more in a Starcrash kind of way (but we’ll get to that in good time too).
The Time Travelers is a solid B grade sci-fi adventure, with an engaging story and some fun visuals. Jonah and the bots find plenty to work with, but does this turn out to be too easy of a target for them?
Take a trip to the uncanny valley... to hell!
When the episode ended my wife turned to me and said that the whole thing reminded her strongly of a Joel/Comedy Central era episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Maybe it was the fact that The Time Travelers feels like it would be something they would watch after The First Spaceship on Venus or even 12 to the Moon. Jonah’s style of riffing certainly feels more like Joel’s easygoing style and less aggressive than Mike’s.
That said, I could see The Time Travelers being a big favorite for anyone who loves a good 50s/60s scientist movie. All the tropes are in full force and Jonah and the bots have a good time with them. For the most part the riffing is solid, although they are still clustering riffs rapidly together at times. This creates some pacing and timing issues that I noticed in all the early episodes of season 11.
"What is he doing the its ro-batch!?"
They do end up picking on the character of Danny quite a bit. I’m not sure the character earns it. He’s kind of annoying but not as aggressively annoying as Paul from Cry Wilderness or Akton from Star Crash. For some reason they go off on him quite a bit. Some of the riffs are funny. I do like when Jonah comments that the scientists should get Danny a Highlights magazine while they do important stuff. Later when they attempt to use a matter transporter device on Danny and he appears in a 2D form Tom says, “He’s more Polaroid than man, twisted and Danny.” Quite a few Star Wars based riffs in this one, especially when Crow does a C-3PO impression during the robot repair bay sequence.
Oranges... OF THE FUTURE!
There are also a lot of fun riffs based on the concept of time travel and how the movie’s script attempts to explain and execute them. Crow takes time to remind Jonah and Tom that he often travels through time at the rate of one hour per hour. Later on when the scientists declare that they have gone over the target time they were aiming for Crow asks, “Do I get paid overtime to go overtime?” When our heroes return to the 60s only to realize they arrived before they actually left Crow asks, “Hey, did the movie just lap itself?” Those are all valid questions.
Are they going to give him a less creepy head?
But my favorite riffing sequence in The Time Travelers takes place during the robot construction sequence. As we take a full tour of the robot repair bay we get a great combination of riffing. On the one hand the disturbing robot faces cause all kinds of hilarious jokes from Jonah and the bots. But then Tom and Crow are intrigued and disturbed by seeing other robots being created. Their reactions are priceless. The sequence only suffers a bit form the speed of the riffing here, I was laughing so much that I missed many jokes even during the second viewing.
"Our oranges have the vodka already inside, so you
don't have to!"
The host segments are right in the middle of the road. It starts with Jonah and the bots playing “Never did I ever…” but the bots take the easy way out with things like “Never did I ever breath oxygen.” During the invention exchange Crow invents the edible silica packet for your snacks. It allows you to do the forbidden act and not die a horrible death. The Mads come up with the After-life alert, modeled off the silly looking medallion from Cry Wilderness. After you die you can contact someone using the After-life alert to ask for help getting to heaven… or the other place. After The Time Travelers in the film ignore safety protocols Crow and Gypsy are concerned that Tom and Jonah may do the same thing. So they create a helpful safety film for them. Jonah and Tom think the whole thing is goofy. At the next break Jonah keeps introducing new robot friends. This enrages Tom and Crow and they destroy them! But Jonah may be doing this on purpose.
A difference of opinion about how to celebrate
200 hilarious episodes.
In the next break we get another guest cameo as Dr. Varno played with gleeful relish by Elliot Kalan. You may recognize Elliot from The Daily Show where he was a writer as well a performer. You also get a chance to see Joel Hodgson out of his Ardy garb and play Larry the orange tree scientist. The two are cruising through space being the party animals they are. They invite Jonah and the bots to come along on their galactic party, but Jonah declines (much to the bots disappointment). When the episode ends Kinga declares it a success and says it is the 200th episode of the series (if you count the KTMA episodes). How time flies when you’re riffing.
Yeah I think the mutants have the right idea.
This is a fun episode with a solid riffing session and a watchable movie. Fans of the classic science fiction episodes featured on older MST3K episodes will find a lot to enjoy here. You really get the feel that The Time Travelers could have appeared on season three or four of the original series. For me, while I had a good time, it didn’t quite hit those high points I was hoping for. The rushed riffing hurt it and the movie’s pacing is on the slower side. As usual, I’ve already run into people that say this is their favorite episode of the season. I can recommend it for sure, but it is not in the top tier.
I give it three dead eyed androids out of five.
"Doh! How are we supposed to get Back the Future?"
Labels: 1964, adventure, MST3K, Sci-fi, Season 11
Richard Bellush July 2, 2017 at 6:47 PM
It’s the rare scifi movie with a US release made before 1965 that I haven’t seen. They were a staple of independent channels on weekends and late-night prior to 1970, and I certainly sought them out. Yet somehow I missed this one. Time paradoxes have been in scifi almost from the beginning, perhaps reaching full expression in Robert Heinlein’s 1959 short story “All You Zombies” in which a person through time travel and sex change is both of his/her own parents.
Maybe this film needs to be seen uncut – or maybe not. Sounds fun either way.
Roman J. Martel July 3, 2017 at 7:33 AM
Yeah I'm with you. I've never heard of this film or seen any clips from it. It was an all new experience for me and that may be why I found myself pulled into the plot of the film when I watched it the first time. It really is a well put together movie for its time and budget. I think you'll enjoy it if you manage to find it.
According to Jonah the movie ended in a "Groundhog Day" fashion with our heroes looping through the same day several times at the end. The writers found it very difficult to riff, so they cut that sequence out of the final film. I don't know if it really adds much to the final scene of the film (which really comes out of nowhere), but it would have resolved one odd plot element that seems to be dropped in the MSt3K version, but was addressed in the original.
El Vox July 8, 2017 at 12:35 PM
From the look of that third picture, I wonder if that's where Aykroyd got the inspiration for his Coneheads routine. I've never seen this film either, but I'm curious. It does look cheesy, but I can overlook that. What's weird is I sometimes listen to SF podcast and the casters comment about how older effect ruin the movie for them yadda yadda. I can't totally understand that perspective. I sometimes wonder if newer special efx haven't ruined a generation to appreciate older films.
The other day I was listening to a podcast comparing the 50s Thing From Another World, the 80s Carpenter Thing, and then the prequel. They all loved Carpenters and even the prequel, but had the same feeling about the first film. Sad, I still think that it's a classic and suspenseful. I guess you had to grow up with them.
Yeah I really think the Coneheads were inspired by these androids. I know Ackroyd is a big sci-fi fan in general (the guy knows his Lovecraft too). So it wouldn't surprise me if he knew of this film.
I think older special effects do look very dated to most younger eyes. I see folks of a certain age griping about poor CG from the early 1990s, so it isn't relegated to just the pre-CG stuff. What I find interesting is that they can't move past the effects and see how well the movie works on its own. In that way, I think "The Thing" and "The Thing from Another World" are both very good movies, because they are both very well put together.
I have the same issue when I hear folks complaining about dated synth sounds in 80s and 70s film scores. That was the state of the art at the time the scores were made. But it really hard for some listeners to separate what they hear as "cheesy" because it has been parodied so many times, from when it was original and new.
Amethyst November 24, 2017 at 1:26 AM
Hmm. Didn't know about the cut ending. Oddly enough, this isn't the first time the MST3K crew cut an esoteric Sci-Fi movie ending to make it more comprehensible. "Time of the Apes" ended with a bizarre confrontation between the heroes and a supercomputer which was supposed to add tension to the plot (as the supercomputer wanted to send the heroes off into the future, but it instead somehow accidentally wound up sending them into the past because of ...reasons.) MST3K simply cut all of that sequence out, and had the heroes entering the mountain where the supercomputer was stored, having some lights flash, and the heroes waking up in the past at the point in time where they'd left.
What I liked about the Time Travelers was its use of nifty, "magic trick" practical effects. It would probably have been easier to just sub-par optical effects to make people and objects transform and disappear, but they went the extra mile to make things seem tangible and real. I wish more low budget filmmakers would do the same kind of thing today instead of relying on crappy AfterEffects software to make cheap SFX.
Roman J. Martel November 24, 2017 at 6:19 PM
I agree I think those visuals really did help the movie in a lot of ways. It made it more fun to watch and it probably helped the actors on set work with physical items instead of having to react to rear projection or blue screen work.
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The cemetery at St. John’s predates the formation of our congregation. We strive to keep it a living place, dedicated to keeping the memory of all our saints who came before us.
Oversight and Management:
Oversight for the management and care of St. John’s Cemetery is provided by the Cemetery Committee at St. John's. Responsibilities of this committee includes: advising council and congregation and providing oversight in matters concerning grave space and cremains transactions, maintenance, repairs and improvements, restrictions, financial, policy and procedures.
Please contact committee chair, Greg Harris, if you need help purchasing a grave space or if you have any other questions or concerns regarding the cemetery. His contact details are as follows: Rimrodt.farm@gmail.com and 864-364-0361
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Purchases of grave spaces are limited to members of St. John’s Lutheran Church and usage of spaces limited to the owner or members of their family. Members may select their grave space from available spaces outlined on the Master Plat. A grave space is typically and area of 5’ x 9’. Stacking of two graves in a single grave space is allowed, provided the first grave is sufficiently deep. Cremation remains may be interred in graves spaces, although limited at two per each grave space.
A deed for grave spaces will be prepared and recorded at Oconee County Courthouse. Once recorded, original deed will be mailed to the member, along with invoice. St. John’s retains first option to repurchase spaces from owners wishing to sell and resales from one church member to another may be considered and approved, upon review, by the committee and approval of Council.
The fee for purchasing a single grave space is $500.
Cremation remains may be interred in the Cremains Garden. Remains are to be placed in biodegradable packets and buried within the garden in the raised center bed, or at the discretion of the family, removed from the container and scattered anywhere in the garden. Urns, cylinders and individual markers are not currently permitted. Names, birth and death dates of the deceased member will be recorded on a plaque in the sacristy and in the church’s permanent written records. No record is recorded at the court house.
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The Cemetery Committee provides a considerable amount of maintenance. It contracts for maintenance that includes: mowing, edging along walkways, weed-eating around coping and blowing clippings from walkways. The Committee also carries out other chores such as: trimming trees and shrubs, fertilizing, filling in sunken graves, levelling out mounded graves, corrections to copings and gravestones, applying herbicide and ant poison.
Grave space owners and family are encouraged to help maintain their spaces. Flowers and greens, both artificial and natural are allowed. Planting of shrubs and trees on individual graves must have prior written approval of the committee. Persons maintaining spaces are encouraged to use properly designed containers for flowers. Old displays will be removed when past being attractive.
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The cemetery at St. John’s predates the official formation of the church, which occurred on Sunday, November 20, 1853.
In 1849, John Wagener and Jacob Kalb, of the German Colonization Society of Charleston, laid out the town of Walhalla and designated the four corners of Main and Church streets for “public buildings”. The southwest corner was reserved for the future church.
On January 3, 1851, the Germans living in Walhalla decided to build a chapel “for worship and for holding school”. This structure stood near the parking area and entrance to the church office and next to the gate to the oldest section of the cemetery. The building was used for services until the current church building was completed in 1861.
The untimely deaths of some of our early German founders necessitated the laying out of the cemetery. The earliest known burials, all from 1851, include: John Kleinbeck, Hanke Housman and Claus Bulwinkel, along with his toddler son, who were both killed in a horse and wagon accident.
St. John’s Cemetery is the resting place of many of Walhalla’s town founders and early settlers. The remains of veterans from many of our national conflicts can be found, including those from both sides of The Civil War.
One prominent person not interred at St. John’s is Gen. John Wagener, leading founder of the German Colonization Society of Charleston. He was originally buried at St. John’s but the citizenry of Charleston, where he had served as mayor, demanded that his remains be removed to Charleston. His funeral in Charleston drew thousands of mourners and he is now buried at Bethany Cemetery. A stone at St. John’s marks where he was originally buried.
Primary source: St. John’s Lutheran Church Walhalla, South Carolina 1853-2009, Rev. George B. Shealy.
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After the economically challenging year 2010 we prefer to look forward to all that 2011 will bring. By means of this newsletter we would like to keep you updated to interesting developments and new market opportunities. Hopefully you made some new year´s resolutions to boost your export activities in the upcoming year.
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Sky high investments in Brazilian airports
Female Argentina winemakers in charge
France to lead European Electric Vehicle market
Chile spices up recovery
Transfer, WWF-Adena and Depana participate in Spanish reforestation project
World record Christmas tree
Country files, trade missions & news section
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Great food in Madrid
Skiing in Argentina
Active holidays in Chile
Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro
A city trip to Lisbon
Invest in Spain
Accounting Spain
Trade Europe
The 2014 World Cup and the Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro are unique opportunities for Brazil to present itself on the world stage. The airport is the first image of the country that a tourist gets, so in order to leave a good first impression during these events, significant improvements in airports will need to be made.
Although men are still the majority in the Argentine winemakery business, women are catching up. Susana Balbo, president of the trade group Wines of Argentina, representing 170+ wineries, is one of them. She appears to be to Argentine wine what Martha Stewart is to homemaking and Oprah Winfrey is to media in the United States. She earned a degree in enology in 1981 and has made wines on four continents. Together with Laura Catena and Anabelle Sielecki, she has helped to change the focus of the Argentina's centuries-old industry from quantity to quality. Inspired by the altitude of the Andes, the diversity of the grapes and a passion for what they do, the three women have brought back an artisanal approach to winemaking.
The French believe passionately that a combination of innovative technology and responsible behaviour will deliver continued growth and higher standards of living for both present and future generations. With its ‘Green new deal’ France has proved to be serious and is becoming Europe’s leader in green business.
Chile spices up economic recovery
Chile experienced deep valleys and high mountains in 2010. Surprised by a financial crisis and struck by a devastating earthquake and tsunami, the country was forced to form a bold and responsible plan for financing reconstruction. The recovery was steep and a prosperous future is awaiting for this country.
On December 18th, TRANSFER Consultancy together with a group of volunteers from WWF-Adena and Depana, carried out reforestation activities in the Parc Natural de Collserola, close to Barcelona. The purpose of this event was the reforestation of a highly degraded area, were the soil quality is very poor and rocky.
World record Christmas tree Rio de Janeiro
In December, Rio de Janeiro lighted the largest floating Christmas tree in the world. The tree was constructed out of 530 tons of steel and stood on 11 pontoons. About 52 kilometers of cables were used for the light, powered by 7 biodiesel generators. The host city for the 2016 Olympic Games also offered a huge concert and fireworks on December 31st.
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Turn Me On, Dead Man
Led Zeppelin: Plagiarism?
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
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Mystic Brew on Dig the Now Sound
Posted on March 11, 2014 March 13, 2014 by Dead Man
Dig the Now Sound (Thursdays at 10:00 pm eastern on Turn Me On, Dead Man Radio) plays standout recent garage/psych. The featured track this week is “Don’t Cry No More” by Mystic Brew, a 1960s-inspired garage/psych band from Samara, Russia. Right now they’re working on an LP that they’re hoping to release in May. I recently corresponded with Dimitry Melkov.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: How did you come to be a garage/psych band?
Dimitry: It’s all started when we were teenagers about six years ago. This was a really tough time in our life so we needed something to do with our negative energy and aggression. I have always dreamed about the band but I couldn’t play any instrument. So I started to learn by myself. By that time I’ve already knew what style and what kind of music I want to play. 60’s rock was kind of revelation for me. We fell in love with that sound and still our love is strong. My friends already had a band, The Chicks (Mod rock, Revival), but their leader left the band and moved to Oxford UK to study in local college. So the band broke up, but the guys still wanted to play. They joined me and we formed The Stylophonics. We didn’t have a lot of original material and most of songs that we performed were cover versions of bands like The Who, Count Five, Chocolate Watch Band and etc. We weren’t thinking about the gigs or money, we just wanted to play music that we loved. A lot of our friends passed through our rehearsals and they were really digging what we were doing. So then somebody spread the word and promoters started to book us. After three gigs we decided to change the band’s name to The Bluebirds. We thought that name suits fine our music. And finally we started to write more original songs. The Bluebirds was a more successful band, we shared the scene with all most known Russian garage revival bands.
Our future seemed to be clear, we wanted to do more original songs, more gigs in different regions of Russia, but then our drummer decided to leave the band because he wanted to play the guitar in his own band Los Mojos. Nevertheless he quit the band and left us without a rhythm section. We tried to find a new drummer, but it’s pretty hard to find a man who’s interested in this type of music, that is not typical for Russia. After we changed two drummers, our keyboard player left us too. And then The Bluebirds became history.
But it’s not the end of our story. We were obsessed with our dream and we didn’t want to quit. Somehow I found a drummer who was a fan of 60’s obscurities and with a great pleasure he joined our band. We formed the new team Mystic Brew and focused mainly on writing and recording of original material. Our sound evolved into something bigger and became more psychedelic. On 21 October 2012 we did our first appearance with new line up in Moscow. We spent the next day at Magnetone Studios (Vadim Markov from The Thunderbeats built it by himself). Till then we did a bunch of great appearances, toured the Russia and Ukraine and recorded a demo and two singles.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: Who are your biggest influences?
Dimitry: Still the most influential bands for us its early Pink Floyd, early Status Quo, Soft Machine, 13th Floor Elevators, Velvet Underground, The Seeds, The Crushers, Orange Alabaster Mushroom and we’re pretty much into jazz as well and one of my favorite bands is SUN RA ARKESTRA.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: How long have you and your bandmates known each other?
Dimitry: We know each other about 8-9 years.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: Whereabouts in Russia are you located?
Dimitry: We’re located in Samara. It is the sixth largest city in Russia. It is situated in the southeastern part of European Russia at the confluence of the Volga and Samara Rivers on the east bank of the Volga. Samara is known for the production of aerospace launch vehicles, satellites and various space services, engines and cables, aircraft and rolled aluminum and etc. So it’s pretty much dirty industrial city.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: Was it easy to hear 1960s garage/psych where you grew up or did you have to go out of your way to find records or to see live shows?
Dimitry: Easy? I don’t think so. Even right now we have only one record store. The owners of the store as the most of people in town has no idea what is garage rock or psych. They don’t even sell 45’s. Mostly they’re into 70’s glam or 80-90’s pop music. The first place where I started to dig music was the Book Market. In early 00’s it’s was some kind of gathering of the book sellers in a bad part of town, but there you always could find CD-R’s with mp3’s, data base with addresses and even porn with animals or bums. In the mid of 00’s situation has changed, because we get the access to fast Ethernet. I guess garage song that I’ve heard was Psychotic Reaction by Count Five and it is appeared on video game compilation. But before that we was digging a lot of punk 77, first wave of hardcore punk like Circle Jerks and the Germs but then we started to dig deeper in time to of course classic like Hendrix, Stones and Pink Floyd. So then finally we opened up garage rock.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: What sort of gear do you use? Vintage amps and guitars?
Dimitry: I personally use Epiphone Wilshire 1966 reissue with Fender Deluxe Reverb amp. Guitar was made at the end of 00’s but looks and sounds vintage enough haha. It’s my first guitar that I bought not long ago. But over two years of gigs and rehearsal I didn’t have my own instrument, so every time I had to borrow it. Lead guitarist use 1969 hollow body Univox with Vox AC 30, our bass player used to play on soviet guitar from 70’s Musima but now he owns Fender Jass Bass from 90’s, but anyway it sounds good. Our keyboard player use soviet Vermona Et-6 combo organ which was built in mid 70s in GDR.
Turn Me On, Dead Man: Where do you do your recording?
Dimitry: The studio is located in Moscow (about 1000km from Samara) on ZIL factory. ZIL is a major Russian truck and heavy equipment manufacturer, which also produced armored cars for most Soviet leaders, as well as buses and armored fighting vehicles. The company also produces hand-built limousines and high-end luxury sedans in extremely low quantities, primarily for the Russian government. But nowadays the factory is closed and it looks like a ghost town.
The ZIL factory in Moscow from the blog English Russia.
This picture comes from an article called “Places That Are Slowly Being Forgotten” that features many fascinating photos.
Our good friends The Thunderbeats built the studio in the factory’s fire department. The studio has a few separate rooms:
big hall (ex factories photo lab) with natural reverberation that we used when we record vocals, guitars and organ
sound engineer room
rehearsal room with amps, drums, different keys and stuff where we record bass and drums
All equipment is vintage. The main tape recorder is 8-track Otari mx5050 MK III 8. We used different types of soviet mics which was produced in 60’s and 70’s. We recorded drums and bass (Muzima Deluxe produce in 70’s in GDR) on Oktava ML-51 active ribbon mic, guitars and Vermona Formation 2 organ through Fender Deluxe on Oktava ML-15 (produced in 1958) connected with pre-amplifire of AMPEX 601, vocals on Lomo19A19 also connected with AMPEX 601. Although we used russian copy of Pultec Eqp-1а equalizer (Magnetec EQP-1a). Everything is mastered on Tesla Stereomixer EPP102 with studio tape recorder STM-610. Almost forgot to mention vintage delay (BEAG AKX 200).
Turn Me On, Dead Man: Sounds cool. Well, best of luck to you. I hope you can make it to the US someday.
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2 thoughts on “Mystic Brew on Dig the Now Sound”
mondogarage says:
Cool interview, these guys really have the vibe and sound down, I look forward to a full length from them some day.
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Orbital UAV now shipping new engine model to Insitu
By Orbital UAV | January 14, 2020
Orbital Corporation Ltd has started shipping the second engine model identified under its Long Term Agreement with Insitu Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. The engine, an Insitu design, is being assembled and shipped from Orbital UAV’s purpose-built production facility in Hood River, Oregon, USA—opened in 2018.
“This is another significant milestone for Orbital UAV, both in the delivery of our commitments to Insitu and our long term UAV focused strategy,” said Todd Alder, CEO and Managing Director of Orbital UAV. “I am encouraged with our team’s progress and the quality of the product we are delivering. With our Company now in production of two world class engines from our Australia and USA facilities, our development team now shift their focus to the third engine model under the LTA,” he said.
The five-year LTA with Insitu was announced in October 2018. The agreement covers the delivery of multiple propulsion systems and services, to be applied across the Boeing subsidiary’s entire fleet of unmanned aircraft system platforms. Orbital UAV began production of the first engine model under the LTA in H1 2019. This initial model was the first derivative of Orbital UAV’s Modular Propulsion Solution, featuring the company’s trademarked and patented FlexDI technology and offering industry leading performance.
“The two engine models we have in production is further demonstration of Orbital UAV’s growing capabilities and capacity,” said Mr Alder. “Whether we are taking our own designs through R&D and into production or adding insight and rigour to the designs of our customers, Orbital UAV has the know-how and expertise to provide significant value across the advanced manufacturing process,” he said. Orbital UAV continues to work closely with key customer Insitu in the development of additional engines identified under the LTA.
CUAS maker announces another $10M contract
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Adriano Costa (b. 1975) is a Brazilian artist working and living between São Paulo and Europe. He graduated with a BA in art from the Universidade de São Paulo.
Costa’s sculptures and installations update the modernist and Minimalist legacies of geometric abstraction for contemporary Brazil through the use of everyday objects. His work also speaks to the lingering traces of colonialism, queer history and the potential of a localized artistic tradition. Applying a feel for compositional harmony, the artist disregards the objects’ original functions and combines them according to form, highlighting their visual relationships through strategic rearrangement. Costa’s works are usually installed chaotically across exhibition spaces in a style that the artist has dubbed “pre-sculptoric.” His avoidance of the pedestal and the frame highlights the vernacular aspect of the objects he uses and emphasizes their deviation from art-historical tradition.
Recent solo exhibitions include: We Chose Life . What Now, Georg? Tshirts ?, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2018); wetANDsomeOLDstuffVANDALIZEDbyTHEartist, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); B A I L E, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo (2018); DearMeatCutsDevilMayCry, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Every Camel Tells a Story, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2015). Recent group exhibitions include Everyday Poetics, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2017); Frucht & Faulheit, Lothringer13 Halle, Munich (2017); IMAGINE BRAZIL, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo & Musee D’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France (2014).
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Shilpotsav 2014 begins
Shilpostav 2014, the annual fair of artisans from across the country, belonging to the weaker sections of the society, began at Dilli Haat in New Delhi today. Secretary, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Sudhir Bhargava inaugurated the ten days long festival which will continue till 10th of this month.
Speaking on the occasion the Secretary said that for progress of any section of society they should be financially independent. The Ministry of SJE is working towards empowering marginalized and disadvantaged artisans and in continuance of this Shilpostav 2014 has been organized.
The Secretary further added that there are 160 stalls where in artisans assisted by the Apex corporations i.e. National Backward Classes Finance & Development Corporation (NBCFDC), National Scheduled Caste Finance & Development Corporation (NSFDC), National Handicapped Finance & Development Corporation (NHFDC), National Safai Karamchari Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC) and National Trust will display and sell their products. The National Organizations under the Ministry is also showcasing their schemes and facilities.
The range of products in this fair includes – silk sarees, durries, readymade garments, terracotta product, jute products, dress material, kashmiri shawls/stoles, leather, cane & bamboo products, hand embroidery, bead products, pearls, imitation jewellery, lakh products, decorative candles, wood carving, block printing, wooden toys, tie & dye, wood, marble artifacts, handloom etc.
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LT Gen BK Chopra Takes Over As DGAFMS
Lt Gen BK Chopra, Senior Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps assumed the appointment of Director General Armed Forces Medical Services here today.Lt Gen Chopra is a graduate of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial Medical College Kanpur and did his post-graduation in Surgery and Orthopaedics. He was commissioned in the Army Medical Corps in 1977 and has held various regimental, clinical and staff appointments during last 37 years in the armed forces. The General Officer has been appointed as President’s Honorary Surgeon by the President of India.
The General Officer has taken over the reins of Director General Armed Forces Medical Services from Air Marshal D P Joshi, who superannuated on 31 Oct 2014.
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Radha Mohan Singh stresses need of taking Indian Agriculture to newer heights
Radha Mohan Singh, Union Minister of Agriculture has stressed the need to tap all talent and resources to take Indian Agriculture to newer heights. He has said that Indian scientists have great potential and they can take the agriculture to a new horizon. Delivering the key note address at 41st Foundation Day celebrations of Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) here today, ShriRadha Mohan Singh complimented ASRB for its valuable contributions in selecting quality human resource for agricultural research and development. He highlighted various achievements and records of agricultural production in India emphasizing this had become possible only due to strong commitment of agricultural scientists and farmers who worked synergistically at farms and fields. He expressed satisfaction over the transparent process of recruitment that has earned credibility for the ASRB and urged to completely digitize the entire procedure to ensure further transparency.
Agriculture Minister stressed upon various new initiatives being taken by the government to push up Indian agriculture further to new heights including over all development of villages to bring prosperity. Shri Singh said steps are being taken to strengthen infrastructure of the KVKs spread across the country including significant increase in their numbers. Citing various examples, he expressed happiness over adoption of scientific and technological interventions at grass root level.
Agricultural Minister released inaugural issue of the ASRB News (Hindi and English) and ASRB Profile (bilingual).
Dr. S. Ayyappan, Secretary, DARE and DG, ICAR complimented ASRB for its achievements and glorious journey of four decades in bringing excellence to agricultural research system. He highlighted some of the key steps to ensure speedy recruitment of agricultural scientists maintaining high quality and transparency.
Dr. J.S. Samra, CEO, National Rainfed Area Authority, Government of India recalled the conditions in which ASRB was constituted and expressed his satisfaction over the performance of ASRB in view of its mandate and objectives. He made suggestions to further improve the services of ASRB for over all development of agricultural research in the country.
Earlier, Dr. Gurbachan Singh, Chairman, ASRB welcomed the Chief Guest and dignitaries and highlighted some of the significant achievements including new initiatives. Transformation from pen and paper examination to Computer based test for ARS-Preliminary and NET is one of the recent pioneer steps taken by the ASRB to upgrade and advance talent search, he added.
In the technical session, Prof. RaghavendraGadagkar, President, INSA delivered the Foundation Day Lecture on, ‘War & Peace: Conflict & Cooperation in an Insect Society’. He underlined the infinite potential and critical linkage of scientific endeavors to national development. Prof. Gadagkar elaborated upon social behavior and structure of some of the insects based on his own research experiences in a lucid and interesting manner.
Senior officials and scientists of ICAR, Directors of ICAR Institutes, officials and staff of ASRB and research students participated in the event.
Dr. V.N. Sharda and Dr. S.K. Bandyopadhyay, Members, ASRB proposed vote of thanks in inaugural and technical sessions respectively.
Categories : Agri, Business, CSR, culture, Education, Energy, Environment, health
125th Birth Anniversary of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today chaired a meeting of the National Committee for Commemoration of the 125th birth anniversary of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The Prime Minister expressed hope that the entire set of activities would be conducted in such a way that the common man became a part of the celebrations. The Prime Minister said this opportunity must be used to increase awareness about “Chacha Nehru” among the younger generation, and seek inspiration from his life and work. He called upon the committee members to work towards a clear delineation of the events and programmes.
The Prime Minister highlighted the proposed “Bal Swachhta Mission” to be organized in schools across the country between 14th and 19th November and proposal to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Shri Nehru as “Year of Bal Swachhta.” He also said “promotion of scientific temper among children” would be a prominent objective of the celebrations. The Prime Minister invited suggestions on these and any other related subjects.
Various members welcomed and appreciated the objectives mentioned by the Prime Minister. They expressed a range of views and gave constructive suggestions on the agenda. The Prime Minister said the suggestions would be reviewed by the Executive Committee chaired by Shri Rajnath Singh. The Executive Committee will work out the action plan for the entire year.
Commemorative coins on Pt. Nehru will be released as part of the celebrations.
Union Ministers Shri Rajnath Singh, Shri Arun Jaitley, Smt. Smriti Irani, Shri Shripad Naik and Shri Prakash Javdekar were among those who attended the meeting.
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Three Pronged Strategy to Realize the Goal of Clean India
Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has called for a three-pronged strategy to relialize the goal of Clean India which should include sustained campaign – continue the chain of nine; focus more on behaviroual change – encourage voluntary public participation; and to recognize ULBs, NGOs and Private Sector contributing significantly to the success of the Mission.
The Miniser reviewed implementation of the Swachh Bharat Mission in national capital today with the Chief Secretary of Delhi, senior officials of Government of India, Delhi Government, MCDs, DDA, Delhi Police, DTC, DMRC and other agencies.
The Minister strongly felt that every socially conscious citizen and public representative should be persuaded to make nine people to take up the task of campaigning for Swachh Bharat and each one of them should pass on to nine others to keep the campaign going. Shri Naidu said “we should rope in not only social but also spiritual and religious leaders for this campaign. Respectable persons from the society also have to be brought in to spread the core message of this campaign.”
Shri Naidu said that MCDs and DDA should meet twice a week to sort out the issues which are hindering the solid waste management in the capital. He said local bodies should be involved to get feedback on regular basis. The Minister said all hospitals should be fumigated periodically at least once a fortnight. Orders for mandatory recycling of waste by government bodies should be issued. He directed that list of agencies responsible for O&M of public and community toilets should be made public. Shri Naidu said all street food vendors should compulsorily be made to have a waste basket or bucket.
The Minister said all officers should get together once a week for taking up Clean India Mission. He said all Municipal Corporations should prepare action plans for the construction of toilets/Dhalaos in slums/JJ colonies. The Minister directed that Dhalaos should be cleaned regularly and details of private agencies involved in the task should be in public domain. He said that identification of locations for processing solid waste should be done by all municipal corporations in consulation with the DDA within next 15 days. The Minister also asked Municipal Corporations to hold meetings and take the support of Traders’ Associations for installation of dust bins in market areas. He also directed that night shelters should be inspected regularly for ensuring cleanliness. The Minister was of the view that third party agencies should inspect DDA parks, DDA plots and municipal parks for cleanliness. He also directed that Delhi Metro and DTC buses should carry the logo and message of Swachh Bharat Mission.
The Minister suggested that all police stations should prepare action plans for cleanliness of police stations and their residential areas. Shri Naidu stressed on the need for extensive use of social media for community involvement in Swachh Bharat Mission. He said involvement of children and youth through NCC and NSS should also be ensured.
The Urban Development Minister reiterated that the Government will focus on infrastructure creation, construction of toilets, both individual and community, setting up of new treatment plants for solid and sewerage waste, distribution of enough dust bins etc. He also stressed that awareness about the Mission should be spread through educational institutions, restaturants, hotels, hospitals, railway stations, bus stands, public offices and places by prominently displaying the logo of Swachh Bharat and the quotes of Mahatma Gandhi and the Prime Minister in their premises.
Shri Naidu advised that the officers at every level should take note of complaints and feedback from the media, particularly the social media, relating to lack of sanitation, act upon them and take remedial measures as quickly as possible. He suggested that private sector should also be roped in Swachh Bhrat Mission as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility.
Shri Naidu felt that the most important aspect for the campaign should be to create Swachh Manasikata (Clean Mindset). Awareness among the people should be created that the country is theirs and that they have to do their bit by developing a sense of belongingness and responsibility and by keeping their surroundings clean. He said that the campaign will be successful only if it is converted into a Jan Aandolan (public movement). The idea of imposing fines on people who litter their surroundings leading to sanitation problems, can be thought of at a later stage.
Shri Naidu highlighted the need to have an assessment of implementation of the Mission at regular intervals for which a ward-wise, city-wise, state-wise, and a nation-wide index should be prepared and updated regularly.
The Minister said that a proposal is under government’s consideration to recognize performing Urban Local Bodies (ULB) in respect of sanitation and to institute a state level award to encourage their sustained performance and to motivate other ULBs.
The Urban Development Minister appreciated the efforts of the different agencies in implementing the Mission and urged them to keep the campaign going on in full vigour to achieve the goal of Swachh Bharat by 2019.
PM to Secretaries of Union Government: “We are one team.
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today called upon Secretaries of the Union Government to work together and decisively to build upon the momentum and positive atmosphere generated in the first five months of the new Government.
Interacting informally with Secretaries over high tea at his residence, the Prime Minister said “We are one team. Let us bring openness in Governance, come closer and work together.”
“Good things are starting to happen,” the Prime Minister said, as he encouraged Secretaries to come up with new ideas and proposals for the forthcoming Union Budget. He asked all Government departments to pre-pone budget related processes by three months, so that the moment a new financial year begins on April 1st, work could begin as per the provisions of the new Budget in real-time. He also called for shifting Government emphasis from output to outcome.
Referring to the Swachhta Abhiyaan, the Prime Minister said that based on feedback he was receiving on social media, attitudes of people were beginning to change, and the entire mission was already becoming people-driven. The Prime Minister said cleanliness is not about resources but about attitudes.
The Prime Minister suggested that all Secretaries visit the place of their first posting for a couple of days, as this would provide them several new insights on policy-making.
Shri Narendra Modi called upon the senior Government officers to study the ideas and suggestions being received on the MyGov platform. He said individuals giving good suggestions need to be identified, and teams can be built in this fashion.
He assured them that there would be no political interference and asked Secretaries to work fearlessly in the interest of the nation. He expressed appreciation for the involvement in various subjects that the Secretaries had exhibited in the course of conversation, and said this augured well for the country.
Secretaries expressed their views on a range of issues in a free and frank manner. They spoke of the initiatives they had taken over the last five months, and gave suggestions on what could be done in the near future, and beyond. They said they had got a new direction to work for the nation under the leadership of the Prime Minister.
This was the second such interaction that the Prime Minister had with Secretaries, the first being on June 4th this year. More than 80 Secretary-level officers were present at the interaction. Union Ministers Shri Rajnath Singh, Shri Arun Jaitley and Shri Venkaiah Naidu were also present, along with the National Security Advisor, Cabinet Secretary, Principal Secretary and Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister.
IGL not to revise the retail price of CNG and domestic PNG
NARENDRA KUMAR, MANAGING DIRECTOR, INDRAPRASTHA GAS LIMITED (IGL)
“In-spite of revision in domestic gas prices announced by the government with effect from 1st November 2014, IGL has decided not to revise the retail price of CNG and domestic PNG in the interest of its consumers in Delhi, Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.”
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2nd Day of NAPM Biennial Convention-2nd December at Jantar Mantar, Delhi
NAPM ready for wide ranging struggles including Control Over Natural Resources and Community Rights, Strengthening Secular Forces for communal Harmony, Electoral Reforms etc. and to present a vision of alternative development cherished and evolved over twenty years of people’s struggles.
“United Action is the need of the hour” say senior activists Aruna Roy, Medha Patkar, Yogendra Yadav and Anil Sadgopalan
People’s movement will come together on 2nd December at Jantar Mantar, Delhi to challenge the neo-liberal communal onslaught and to fight dilution of hard won legislation like MNREGA, Land Acquisition Act, Forest Right Act and Environmental Rules.
Second day of the 10th NAPM biennial convention started with articulation of people’s movement demand on fifteen thematic subjects including Control Over Natural Resources and Community Rights, Strengthening Secular Forces for communal Harmony, Electoral Reforms, Farmers and Workers in Agrarian Economy, Atrocities on Dalit and Adivasi communities and their Struggle for Dignified life, Social Entitlements and Social Security for All, Rights of unorganised sector workers, Energy Crisis and others. Resolutions were taken to present alternative development policy which rejects the policy pursued by neo-liberal and communal forces of the country. People’s movement categorically rejected the dilution of pro-people acts like MNREGA, Land Acquisition, Forest Right, Labour Laws etc. and vowed to go to people to launch a struggle against this onslaught.
At a public meeting in the evening several renowned political and social activists namely Medha Patkar, Prof. Ajit Jha, Nikhil Wagle, Dr. Sunilam, Anil Chaudhary and Gautam Mody deliberated on “Role of People’s Movements in Political Transformation” and stressed on the need of creating an alternative transformative politics and gave a call to fight the communal and neo-liberal forces represented by Modi Government. Speakers also acknowledged the contribution of various people’s movement in changing India and stressed on the need to continue fighting as the people’s movement have been doing against all oppressive anti people policies.
A public meeting held on 31st evening on the topic of “Social Justice, Developmental Policy and Future of India”, Yogendra Yadav categorically stated that twenty years of work of NAPM has demolished the blind faith on western model of development which is based on more and more consumption and this has been its biggest contribution. He called for unity of progressive forces to defeat the forces taking the country on the course of destruction of ecology and to preserve the earth for generations to come. Veteran communist leader Vinoy Viswam said that the present government says that it is for development, but who is not ? Question is what kind of development and for whom? Social activists Dayamanyi Barla from Jharkhand, Pushpa Bhave, Srinivas Khandewal , Khaleel Deshmukh and Vilas Bhongade spoke on the occasion and Kamayani Swami, a trade union activist from Bihar moderated the session.
The 10th biennial convention of NAPM based on “Politics of development and Social Justice Today” was inaugurated by eminent social activists Aruna Roy, Anil Sadgopal and Medha Patkar and eminent communist leader and ex-minister Vinoy Viswam on 31st Oct, 2014, at the Dr. Narendra Dabholkar Hall, Rashtra Seva Dal campus, Pune. More than Six hundred activists representing social movements in fifteen states are attending the convention. Various political and organisational issues will be discussed at length in the convention. Convention started with garlanding the statue of Savitri Bai Phule and Mahatma Jotiba Phule at Phulewada, Pune by veteran activists.
Addressing the gathering in the inaugural session, National Advisor of NAPM, Medha Patkar discussed the role of NAPM in transformative politics and developments in last two decades and underlined the contribution of people’s movement in resisting the neo liberal onslaught on the right of community over natural resources. She recalled how people have fought against coke plant in Plachimada and Enron in Maharashtra.
Veteran educationist Anil Sadgopal delivered the keynote address and said that public land is being taken away on the name of education. Government Schools are being shut down in thousands so that private corporations can benefit.
Aruna Roy, eminent social activist known all over the world for her contribution to Right to Information Movement and MNREGA and member of advisory committee of NAPM chaired the inaugural session and said that people’s movement should connect with the youth of the country and bring them to the leadership of movement like NAPM. She also remarked that Youth is being fooled on the name of Jobs but where are the Jobs?
A compendium “NAPM @ 20 : Alliance in struggle and reconstruction” illustrating the various struggles of people’s movement all across the country was released by eminent tribal right activist B.D Sharma.
Eminent supporter and activists of people’s movement namely BD Sharma, Bhai Vaidya, Pushpa Bhave, Samar Bagchi, Bhau Bhuskute, Vikas Amte, Vinoy Viswam, Anna Hazare,(in Absentia) Justice Sacchar (in Absentia) were felicitated at the convention for their contribution towards strengthening social movements.
The session started with songs and cultural programmes by Charul, Vinay (Loknad, Gujarat), Shakar (Odisha) and children of Sal Sabeel Green School (kerela). Various exhibitions and stalls reflecting the constructive side of various people’s movements were at display at the venue.
Medha Patkar – Narmada Bachao Andolan and the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM); Prafulla Samantara – Lok Shakti Abhiyan, NAPM, Odisha; Dr. Sunilam, Aradhna Bhargava – Kisan Sangharsh Samiti, NAPM, MP; Gautam Bandopadhyay – Nadi Ghati Morcha, NAPM, Chhattisgarh; Suniti SR, Suhas Kolhekar, Prasad Bagwe – NAPM, Maharashtra; Gabriel Dietrich, Geetha Ramakrishnan – Unorganised Sector Workers Federation, NAPM, TN; C R Neelakandan – NAPM Kerala;Saraswati Kavula, P Chennaiah – NAPM Andhra Pradesh, B S Rawat – Jan Sangharsh Vahini, Rajendra Ravi, Sunita Rani – NAPM, Delhi; Arundhati Dhuru, Richa Singh - NAPM, UP; Sister Celia – Domestic Workers Union, NAPM, Karnataka; Sumit Wanjale – Ghar Bachao, Ghar Banao Andolan, NAPM, Mumbai; Manish Gupta – Jan Kalyan Upbhokta Samiti, NAPM, UP; Vimal Bhai – Matu Jan sangathan, NAPM, Uttarakhand; Vilas Bhongade – Gosikhurd Prakalpgrast Sangharsh Samiti, NAPM, Maharashtra; Ramashray Singh – Ghatwar Adivasi Mahasabha, Jharkhand; Anand Mazhgaonkar, Krishnakant -Paryavaran Suraksh Samiti, NAPM Gujarat; Kamayani Swami, Ashish Ranjan – Jan Jagran Shakti Sangathan, NAPM Bihar; Mahendra Yadav – Kosi Navnirman Manch, NAPM Bihar
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PM shares “Mann Ki Baat” with citizens through AIR
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has said that recovery of black money from abroad is an article of faith, and a commitment for him. Sharing his thoughts with citizens on the programme “Mann Ki Baat” over All India Radio for the second time today, the Prime Minister said that though he was sure that countrymen trusted him on the matter of black money, still he wished to repeat his aim that whatever money had illegally gone abroad from India should return. He said it was natural in a democracy that there could be different views about how to approach this issue, but he wished to assure the people on the basis of the information currently with him, that the Government was on the right track.
The Prime Minister said no one could have imagined that the Swachhta Abhiyaan would become such a mass movement. He said good results are already visible. He said there are two aspects of this matter. The first is how the existing dirt can be removed. But the second, equally important aspect is how people are now enthused to say that henceforth, they will not do anything that spreads dirt. The Prime Minister said children too are now aware about cleanliness.
Shri Narendra Modi expressed satisfaction that people from all walks of life who come to meet him – these include Government officers, sports persons, cine-stars, businessmen, scientists etc – talk about taking responsibility for social issues. The Prime Minister said he sees this as a big change.
The Prime Minister praised the officers of the Ministry of Human Resource Development for coming up with two innovative schemes for specially-abled children. The first is: one thousand scholarships for specially-abled children to pursue technical education. The second is: a grant of one lakh rupees each to all Kendriya Vidyalayas and all Central Universities for creating appropriate infrastructure for the specially abled.
The Prime Minister also expressed happiness that sales of Khadi had more than doubled since his last radio address, when he had suggested to people to keep one khadi garment at home.
The Prime Minister referred to his visit and interaction with soldiers at Siachen on Diwali day. He said he went there because we could celebrate Diwali only because of them. He congratulated the armymen who had recently won the Cambrian Patrol event in Britain, where armies from 140 countries had participated.
The Prime Minister invited suggestions from people on how to tackle the menace of drug abuse among the younger generation. He said he would talk about this subject in his next radio address.
Shri Narendra Modi stated that an active citizen is the biggest strength of development. In order to enable people without access to internet to communicate with him, the Prime Minister has invited people to write to him at:
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SIGNING OF MOU BETWEEN MSME & ILO
You are requested to kindly cover the following event as per the programme below:
Event: Signing of MoU between Secretary, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and Director ILO Country office for India.
Date : 3rd Nov. 2014 (Monday)
Venue: Room No. 169, First Floor, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-110011
Categories : Business, Education
MB Chronowing smartwatch
Hewlett Packard with designer Michael Bastian to launch a smartwatch – MB Chronowing – that looks like a traditional wrist watch.
MB Chronowing smartwatch will be available exclusively via Gilt from November 7, at $349 for a silver-plated model.
A limited-edition variant of the MB Chronowing in black with sapphire glass and an alligator strap will be available for $649. Only 300 units of the limited-edition smartwatch variant will be available.
The smartwatch supports both the iPhone and Android devices for wireless pairing.
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1984 Sikh genocide memorial
1984 Sikh genocide memorial at Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib
Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today started construction of November 1984 Sikh genocide memorial in the sanctum sanctorum of Gurdwara Rakhabganj Sahib.
This memorial is dedicated to the memory of thousands of innocent Sikhs killed in the massacre and those who laid their lives trying to save them and coincided with completion of 30 years of massacre of thousands of innocent Sikhs in November 1984.
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy CM and President of Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal, Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Harsimrat Kaur Badal and DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK formally started the construction in simple yet impressive function, in the August presence of Jathedar Shri Akal Takht Sahib Giani Gurbachan Singh, Jathedar Takht Shri Keshgarh Sahib Giani Mal Singh and Jathedar Takht Shri Patna Sahib Giani Iqbal Singh, Damdami Taksal Chief Harnam Singh Khalsa, former Akali Takht Jathedar Jasbir Singh Rode, Nihang Jathebandi Head Baba Balbir Singh and Kar Sewa Baba Bachan Singh. Various religious leaders too graced start of the construction and large number of Sikhs from Delhi and other parts of the country also converged at Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib.
Parkash Singh Badal paid tributes to the innocent Sikhs killed in the genocide termed today’s event as historic but very painful. “The massacre of 1984 is wrongly called as riots, it was actually genocide when innocent Sikhs were mercilessly done to death in most gruesome manner,” said Badal adding that it was Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) which stood by the hapless Sikhs at that time.
“It is very sad that Congress party leaders who led mobs to massacre Sikhs were rewarded with plum post instead of being punished,” said Badal in his emotionally charged address. He welcomed Rs. 5 lakh compensation announced by the NDA government for genocide victims’ families and demanded rehabilitation of these families, a special investigation team led by a Supreme Court Judge to thoroughly probe the genocide and condemning of the genocide in parliament.
Praising DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK, as son of the panth, Badal said he belongs to a true panthic family and GK’s father Jathedar Santokh Singh was his contemporary who laid his life for the panthic cause.
Praising the efforts of SAD for building the memorial Jaitley said that BJP would always support SAD and BJP-SAD coalition is unbreakable. “There is no question of breaking alliance,” he reiterated.
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said that there was no example of such a genocide perpetrated by the congress party led government. He called upon the Sikhs living across the globe to unite under the supremacy of Shri Akal Takht and contribute for building the memorial. He thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for giving compensation to the genocide victims’ families and demanded justice for the perpetrators.
He also called upon the Sikhs living in the world to bring their children to the memorial so that they could know that Sikhs were gruesomely killed by then government.
DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK in his address said that memorial in shape of a wall has been named ‘Wall of Tears’ and would have names of all innocent Sikhs massacred in 1984 genocide. Memorial is designed by Renu Khanna and associates would have ‘Waiting for Justice’ written over it. A laser light on the memorial would light up the sky would be visible for several kilometers, informed GK.
“The pilgrims visiting the memorial would condemn the congress party and would also pray for the peace to departed souls,” said Jathedar Shri Akal Takht Sahib Giani Gurbhachan Singh. Former MP and minorities commission chairman Tarlochan Singh suggested union minister Harsimrat Kaur to locate documents from the government records related to late arrival of Army to control the massacre, reasons why Shri Darbar Sahib was mentioned as ‘enemy territory’ at time of operation bluestar and the Army officers who were given military honours after he operation. He also demanded that the army officer who were given honours at that time be directed to surrender the honours and medals.
Delhi unit President of BJP Satish Upadhay, MP Meenakshi Lekhi and Jaya Jaitley also took part in the function. School children paid floral tributes at the time of start of construction of memorial.
DSGMC general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa, senior Akali leaders Avtar Singh Hit, Onkar Singh Thapar and Avtar Singh Bhogal, DSGMC Senior vice-president Ravinder Singh Khurana, vice-president Tanwant Singh and MLAs Harmeet Singh Kalka and Jatinder Singh Shanty and member of the DSGMC were also present on the occasion.
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Rotary announces US $ 4.9 million in grants to keep India Polio Free
As cases in neighbouring Pakistan rise to record highs, Rotary and its partners work to keep India Polio Free. More cases detected in Pakistan its is imperative step of Rotary International to stepin.
New Delhi (27th October, 2014) – Rotary announces US $ 44.7 million in grants to fight against polio worldwide, including $4.9 million to keep the paralyzing disease from crossing India’s borders. The funds will be used by UNICEF and the world health organization (WHO) to support high quality immunization campaigns in India. UNICEF will receive USD 3.5 million out of the USD 4.9 million grants to India.
The funding commitment comes as India prepares to celebrate in January 2015 four years since its last case of polio. This tremendous achievement prompted WHO to declare both India and its entire southeast asia region polio free earlier this year, in March 2014. However, experts warn that India’s polio free status is fragile, particularly as polio cases in neighbouring Pakistan climb to record highs this year. Pakistan recently recorded its 200th case of polio, the highest case count in the country in more than a decade.
“Until polio is eradicated everywhere India remains at risk,” said Rotary’s National Polio Plus Chair for India Deepak Kapur. “Indians have worked hard to rid our country of this dreaded disease. However, the hard work must continue until polio is eradicated everywhere or we risk seeing it reenter our borders.”
“The grant from Rotary will provide critical funds to implement communication and mobilization activities to keep polio out of India. The UNICEF managed social mobilization network in India has been emulated around the world as a gold standard. UNICEF remains a committed partner in the polio eradication effort and our social mobilization network will continue to be active and harness this great momentum and leverage it for broader health initiatives for improving the lives of children,”said Louis georges arsenault, UNICEF India representative. “India’s experience of eradicting polio proves that the obstacles which stand in the way of our ambitious goals for children can be overcome.”
Polio is set to become the second human disease ever to be eliminated from the world (Small Pox is the first). To date, Rotary has helped 193 countries stop the transmission of polio through the mass immunization of the children. Rotary’s new funding commitment, targets countries where children remain at risk of contracting this incurable but totally vaccine preventable disease.
There are only three countries in the world where the wild poliovirus has never been stopped. Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. However, virus from these countries can travel and lead to outbreaks in other parts of the world. In fact, last year the majority of the world’s polio cases stemmed from outbreaks in the countries that had previously been polio free.
Rotary provides grant funding to polio eradication initiative partners UNICEF and the World Health Organization, which work with the governments and rotary club members of polio affected countries to plan and carry out immunization activities. Mass immunizations of the children via the oral polio vaccine must continue until global eradiction is achieved.
Approximately $18.5 million will go to the three remaining polio economic countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and the Pakistan. An endemic country is one where the wild poliovirus has never been stopped. Another $9.5 million is marked for the previously polio free countries currently reporting cases “imported” from the endemic countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia & Somalia. $10.4 million will go the polio free countries that remain at risk of reinfection; Democratic republic of congo, India, Niger, South Sudan, and Sudan.
The remaining $6.3 million will go towards polio eradication research.
To date, Rotary has contributed more than $1.3 billion to fight polio. Through 2018, the bill & Melinda gates foundation will match two to one every dollar rotary commits to polio eradication (upto $35 million a year). As of 2013, there were only 416 confirmed polio cases in the world, down from about 350,000 a year when the initiative launched in 1988.
Rotary brings together a global network of the volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 34,000 rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work improves lives at both the local and the international levels from helping families in need in their own communities to working towards a polio free world. In 1988, Rotary was joined by the WHO, UNICEF and the CDC to launch the global polio eradication initiative. Visit rotary.org & endpolio.org for more about rotary and its efforts to eradicate polio.
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SOS Children’s villages of India celebrates its 50 years of presence in India.
Proudly announces settlement of 4500 children in Indian Society
Over 94% settled SOS youth enjoy above average psychosocial profile as per Human Development Society Report
New Delhi, October 31st, 2014
SOS children’s villages of India (SOS), a global NGO working actively in providing secure and loving homes for orphaned and abandoned children, celebrates its insightful, challenging and contributing journey of 50 years in India. On this occasion, SOS unveiled its “Youth Settlement” report which was further celebrated with scintillating performances by children and mother in a gala event. SOS has set new standards and examples for society by introducing its unique “Family Care Model”. The result is reflective through its 4500 children who are settled in society either through marriage or career.
The report focuses on evaluating psychosocial profile of the settled youth who belonged to SOS. The research is a compilation of responses from 566 youth from Bawana, Bhimtal, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Cochin, Faridabad, Greenfields, Guwahati, Kolkata, Shilong, Trichur, Varanasi & Vishakapatnam which was conducted by Human Development Society an independent non-profit research company.
Below are some of the key findings of the report:
94% of the settled youth enjoy above average psychosocial profile. This is synonymous with above average mental health, social life, coping skills and professional life.
No one scored very low to be categorized as ‘below average’
Only 6% occupied average positions. This is further reinforces the better psychosocial profile of settled youth.
Female settled youth enjoy slightly better psychosocial life than males.
Vaddi Madhurai, SOS Youth (Settled) from Andhra Pradesh Village said,” I was brought to the village in 1997 along with my brother. With the guidance and care of my SOS mother, today I am working as a nurse with Apollo Hospital in Delhi. I learnt the art of caring for others at SOS village.”
She further added “Today there are more than 31 million orphans in India, I hope they also get the support of the organizations such as SOS and other organizations also learn from SOS and their working model”.
Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Siddhartha Kaul, International President of SOS children’s villages said, “The concept of SOS children’s villages of India is unique and is built on strong foundation of family culture. We are proud to reach this milestone in India with a strong support from our donors, mother’s and various authorities in India. Globally our concept has been appreciated and has shown outstanding results which we hope can help the society in many ways.”
Mr S. Sandilya, President of the board, SOS children’s village of India, said “SOS children’s village in India has grown immensely over 50 years from the first SOS children’s village at Faridabad to 32 SOS children’s villages today. We are grateful to Dr. Hermann Gmeiner, the founder of the whole concept of children’s villages, who was instrumental in bringing SOSCV to India.
The day’s festivities witnessed the participation of about 100-150 people including the children, mothers and the employees. The winner of National Cultural Competition also participated in the gala event.
Mr. Rakesh Jinsi, Secretary General, SOS children’s villages of India, said,“We are delighted and proud on this occasion of the completion of 50 years in India. SOS mothers has been playing a key role in providing children with the sense of belonging and stability of a family life. The SOS mother has demonstrated responsible personal conduct, a family values and self reliance to the children. This has been exemplified by the children who have grown up to make a name for themselves in the fields ranging from aviation, healthcare, education etc.”
SOS is the brainchild of Dr.Herman Gmeiner, an Austrian, who pioneered the concept of bringing up orphans not just in a regular orphanage, but giving them the security & quality care of a home, the love and care of a “Mother” and a framework of sibling relationships providing them emotional security for lifetime. SOS children’s village has successfully settled 4500 children completely through marriage or career. At present more than 6500 children are growing in SOS children’s villages which runs across 22 states at 32 SOS children villages.
Speaking on the occasion, Chief guest, Palash Roy Chowdhury, country Manager (India), Pratt & whitney and Chair, UTC India CSR counsil said. “It has been a great experience to be associated with SOS children’s villages of India. The unique concept of SOS brings satisfaction and showcases the impact of the contribution made to the society.”
Recently SOS children’s villages of India was accredited with CRISIL rating of VO-2A indicating SOS’s “strong delivery capability and high financial profiencey”. With this, SOS becomes the first NGO to undergo evaluation process especially designed for voluntary organizations’ by CRISIL. CRISIL is a credible rating agency which provides an objective and independent third-party opinion. SOS has also been awarded an Accreditation Certificate for “Desirable Norms”, the highest form of rating by credibility alliance for a period of five years from 28th May, 2014 to 28th of May 2019.
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French-Iranian artist’s first solo exhibition
THE MINE is pleased to present the acclaimed French-Iranian artist’s first solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates.
L’indécise, 2014, Oil on canvas 81cm x 100cm
When faced with the narrative and richly colored paintings of Nazanin Pouyandeh, the viewer, whether or not already familiar with her work – is irresistibly led to question the very nature of her intended approach. If it is less than certain that he is able to identify the subject matter, it is specifically because the painting is first and foremost an illusion – and that hers in particular uses metaphors, narratives and a confused tangle of reality and fiction. Who is this devilish creature: a legendary figure or a true flesh and blood heroine? What are these people up to: are they playing a game whose rules they invented or are they exposing a sensitive event? And the woman with loosened hair, barefoot and encircled by a pile of fabric: who is she really?
By French art critic Philippe Piguet
Abbas Kowsari, Ashura 10th Day, 75x105cm
To coincide with Abu Dhabi Art, MOP Foundation, a non-religious, non-political charity set up in the UK in 2004 and The Mine will be presenting artworks selected from the MOP Foundation Art Fund. Featuring over 20 artworks that have been generously donated by Iranian contemporary artists, the exhibition will highlight both emerging and established Iranian artists.
www.mopfoundation.com
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“Deciphering Modi Government’s Reforms Agenda”
“Deciphering Modi Government’s Reforms Agenda” and “The Roadmap to Growth and Corporate Profitability”.
BW|BUSINESSWORLD LARGEST PSU’s AND BW500 FELICITATION CEREMONY.
4 pm – Registration
5 pm – 6 pm PANEL 1: Deciphering Modi Government’s Reforms Agenda
What should one make of what the Narendra Modi government has done since it came to power? Taking cues from the Budget, the Make-In-India initiative, the foreign visits and the labour reforms, is there a trend emerging?
Mr. Jyoti Sagar, Managing Partner, JSA
Mr. Kishore Jayaraman, President, Rolls Royce
Mr. Richard Rekhy, CEO, KPMG India
Mr. Arun Sawhney ,CEO & MD, Ranbaxy Laboratories
6 pm – 7 pm PANEL 2: The Roadmap to Growth and Corporate Profitability
The stock market is plateauing, the inflation is mellowing and the sentiment is high, but where’s the growth? How long does India need to wait for a spike in economic growth?
Mr. Zubin Irani, President, United Technologies
Mr. Harsh Chitale, CEO, HCL Infosystems
Ms. Preeti Das, CEO, Birlasoft India
Mr. Chris White, President and group CEO, Varun Beverages
7 pm – 7:15 pm – Keynote address by the chief guest
7:15 pm -7:30pm – Keynote address by the guest of honour
7:30 pm onwards – Award ceremony
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Sabaton Bring the War to Amsterdam
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Power metal is a funny thing, isn’t it? The genre, which stems from classic 80’s metal, seems to have built a strong reputation of its own on the back of the success which the classic Big 4 (Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and, of course, Slayer) made some twenty to thirty years ago. With a big chunk of the genre’s success having transported its success across to Europe, it comes as no surprise that some of the continent’s finest metal bands operate within the genre boundaries that power metal permits. Swedish outfit Sabaton is one of them, and the band are currently undergoing their final tour before a much needed live sabbatical. Last night, the group took to a packed AFAS Live in Amsterdam together with special guests Accept and fantastical support act Twilight Force.
Special guests Twilight Force may not have had the production budget that the cannon-wielding Sabaton did, but it didn’t stop them from pulling everything they had out of their magical Swedish hat. Chrileon and his compatriots entered the stage in such a fashion that the average listener may have felt as though they’d been transported to a real life re-enactment of World of Warcraft, and you’d definitely forgive anyone for the confusion. Draped in cloaks and armed with daggering guitars, Twilight Force hit the newly rebranded AFAS Live with a brand of anthemic and pummelling symphonic power metal which was straight out of Warhammer. It was so powerful that even Donald Trump’s best efforts at building a wall around it would seem like a slight whimper. Do they take themselves seriously? Who knows? Was it fun? If fairytales and symphonic metal are your thing, then yes.
German metallers Accept also took to the AFAS Live stage, having put out their fourteenth studio album Blind Rage out three years ago. In the three years since, Mark Tomillo and co. have silently ridden the waves of glory which were bestowed upon them during the 1980s, performing their blend of classic rock and thrash metal in front of a near-full room. Opening on the pummelling Stalingrad, Tomillo and guitarist Wolf Hoffmann stole the show as they bounded around the stage in a fashion which was most energetic. Set closer Balls to the Wall ensured that Amsterdam fully understood what Accept was all about: no bullshit, just riffs and anthems. Having been around since 1976, it’s no surprise that Accept have picked up quite some following within the ethers of Western Europe; so much so, in fact, that a large chunk of the room seemed to engage extremely well with Tomillo and his men. As special guests go, Accept definitely did the trick in warming Amsterdam up for the Sabaton onslaught they were about to be on the receiving end of.
And what an onslaught it was. From the word go, Joakim Brodén and co. took on Amsterdam in a similar fashion to the German invasion of Poland which sparked the Second World War. Despite their flamboyant production visibly lacking the famous Sabatank (get it?), the Swedish outfit knew exactly how to push the crowd’s buttons. With pyro in abundance, the rockers opened their set with a pummelling rendition of the hard-hitting Ghost Division. Mixing godlike organs and ferocious percussion, you couldn’t really wish for a better opener. “The invasion has begun” declared Brodén, setting the scene for the following 100 minutes. Sabaton have definitely upped their game from a performance aspect, playing much tighter and well-rehearsed than they did a few years back. The menacing Carolus Rex and anthemic The Last Stand appeared back-to-back later on, with the band’s loyal followers hanging onto every war-infused word.
Are Sabaton worth taking seriously, though? It’s easy to overlook their tight riffs and slick rhythms when the emphasis is mainly placed on telling old tales of war and bravery. At one point in the show, these tales were even accompanied by men dressed up as Roman soldiers. Not that this is a bad thing; in fact, it’s Sabaton’s unique selling point and certainly something which has helped them stand out in and amongst a metal landscape which seems forever bugged by the case of “same old, same old”. An acoustic rendition of The Final Solution materialized towards the end of the main set, stripping away all of the band’s flamboyance and brash musicality. It left the 4,000-strong crowd with a brief moment of rest, before the likes of main set closer Winged Hussars and the destructive To Hell and Back brought the show to a majestic end. With this tour billed as their last in a while (by means of a terrible pun: Sabatonnical), it seemed as though Sabaton put their all into bringing a production with them which enabled the whole crowd to enjoy them one last time. Sabaton brought the war to Amsterdam, and they certainly did it right.
Sabaton’s new record, The Last Stand, is out now. Find a full collection of shots from last night’s show below.
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World Sculpture News
By Dorothy Joiner
Before a meeting of physicists in 1908, Albert Einstein’s teacher, Hermann Minkowski, announced that “Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.” This revolutionary pronouncement has proved to be prophetic not only in science but also in the arts. An avatar in this contemporary revaluation of space and time is Michele Schuff, whose exhibition Metronome at Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta offers a visual meditation on the intersections of time, space, and light. Progressing from two to three dimensions, the works represent, as it were, sculpture in evolution.
Conjuring up notions of regularity and measure, even monotony, the exhibit’s title Metronome connotes, of course, the inverted pendulum measuring time at uniform intervals, often used for piano practice. Paralleling the instrument’s constant rhythm, Schuff layers successive coats of encaustic, one over the other, reiterated layer after layer, finally fusing them together with heat. The resulting repetitions, she says, “create a textured ‘beat’ and somehow through their pattern and regularity generate abstract fields of color and sound.” Non-objective though they are, the works often reflect at the same time the artist’s personal preoccupations. Originating in an acute sense of linear time’s tensions, poignancy, even tedium, these intimate reflections burgeon in later, more sculptural works into mystical timelessness.
An expanse of blue, Oh Willowby (2010), an earlier piece, shows a rippled surface relieved by splashes of light and irregular strokes of hot pink. Uneven, barely visible horizontal striations in a darker hue lend a quasi-grid to the vertical markings. Borrowed from Jane Austin’s novel Sense and Sensibility, the title intimates the emotional resonance of romantic hopes dashed, even when the loss is for the best.
From the middle period, By Hook or By Crook (2010), reveals a similar roughened surface but a brighter palette, with delicate chartreuse mottled with a subtle red-orange. Also in this second grouping, Love Courage (2011) shows a deeply textured surface, its rivulets accentuated by the uniform white color. The work, the artist says, refers to that burst of emotional energy that accompanies fervent affection. The deep blue gouged surface of We Thought You were Lost (2011) conveys the artist’s concern for a friend who overcame depression after a tragic loss. Marbled in gray-blue and red, Perfect Attendance (2011) conveys with wry humor the tedium of a nine- to-five job, as if marking off the days.
In the final grouping, the artist sometimes uses a stencil, regularizing the patterns and building up the surfaces even higher. Composed of interlocking circles of gold with hints of red—the two final hues in the alchemical process–Solder Gold (2011) combines the perfection symbolized in the round, together with the illumination and sacred qualities inherent in the metal.
Inspired by a cherry tree blooming outside her studio window, Schuff decided to cast the blossoms in wax, using these in bas-reliefs, such as Reprise (2011), where scores of wax blooms are set side by side, patterning the composition with a contemplative regularity. Varying in shape and in size, and placed more randomly, the indigo blooms of Don’t Go (2011) are set within a dim light, almost like flowers floating on a pool. For the artist, the work embodies the pain of losing someone you love. Bunched more closely together, the cast flowers of Big Blue (2011) graduate from a midnight hue in the wide border to a paler shade in the center, as though suffused with light. A complex symbol especially esteemed by the Japanese, the cherry blossom– exquisitely beautiful but evanescent–symbolizes not only prosperity and the beauties of life but also the precariousness of human existence.
Light is also pivotal to the final work of the exhibit, 48 Squares (2011). Composed of the same interlocking circles as the earlier work, the squares are arranged in a monumental grid, with their aqua hue –the color associated with the heavens–growing lighter toward the center, creating a soft, even illumination. Here the circle’s associations with eternity and completion join with the square, symbolizing the earth and temporality. The metronome’s insistent measure has been overtaken with an esthetic juncture of heaven and earth.
Schuff’s visual meditation on time, its measured regularity, tedium, joys, as well as its transcendence takes place within a created space which graduates from two dimensions to three, from flat surfaces to relief. In the words of Northrup Frye, “Every union of existence and perception is a space-time complex, not time plus space, but time times space, so to speak, in which time and space as we know them disappear.” Thus Schuff contributes to that legacy in the arts since 1850 or so, which seeks to redefine the Classical notions of space and time. No longer discrete entities, they are rather relative concepts, with light the only constant.
Lux in Tenebris: Paintings and Installation by Michele Schuff
By Jerry Cullum
Omnia quae sunt, lumina sunt.
—Scotus Erigena as quoted by Ezra Pound
…add your light to the sum of light.
—Billy Kwan in Christopher J. Koch’s novel The Year of Living Dangerously
If thee does not turn to the Inner Light, where will thee turn?
—George Fox as quoted by Kenneth Rexroth
There is light within a Man of Light, and it illuminates the whole world.
“All things that are, are lights.” We came from the Light, and to the Light we shall return. The fallen sparks trapped in earthen vessels is one of those models of gnostic philosophy that existed from one end of the Silk Road to the other, and has now spread throughout the earth. Perhaps it was always already spread throughout the earth. Perhaps the mysticism of light was spread already around the domesticated fires of the Paleolithic caves.
What we know for sure is that the mysticism of light took hold from Egypt to Central Asia and beyond. The major difference would be the source and destiny of the light; rationalists can say all they like that the metaphor is a natural diffusion of the multiple values perceived in fire and sunlight, and of course that is how all metaphors get started. (One might consult antique texts like Owen Barfield’s Poetic Diction on the birth of all abstract concepts out of analogies drawn from direct physical experience.)
But the experience of the Inner Light seems to be a genuine psychological phenomenon, not necessarily universal. More often the Light is kept safely distanced from human beings, like fire itself or like an excess of sunlight. And yet one way or another, the light gets in. The disagreements regard the question of how and when.
“He was not that light, but came to bear witness to the light. The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world.” “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.” And the Light Verse in the Koran birthed whole schools of mystical wisdom.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” The issue for European and Asian antiquity was whether the light was there in the first place as part of a cosmic rescue operation or through a cosmic accident that meant the light itself had to be rescued.
Americans, raised on Calvinism’s notions of total depravity and with ample personal experience of innate human perversity, generally voted for the necessity of enlightenment from without, by any means necessary. But a working minority always asked if the light of enlightenment might not be already embedded in the muck, like the lotus flower that springs from the muddy lake bottom in the Buddhist metaphor.
Buddhism came late to America, of course; but gnostic philosophy and gnostic psychology came to the North American continent courtesy of Central European transmissions of Silk Road metaphysical metaphors. (I refer you to Harold Bloom’s books, such as Omens of Millennium, for an argument that America always was a more gnostically optimistic culture than is generally believed.)
Michele Schuff’s paintings and installation at Whitespace give us the metaphors unmediated. The two galleries give us the successive moments of light-mysticism in reverse, rather as Carl Jung suggested that contemporary souls had to read the Tibetan Book of the Dead (which itself is a Silk Road account of the re-imprisonment of the light that is classically gnostic in its essence). We begin in ineffable brightness and descend into luminous darkness. (Or maybe ascend; the floor of the back gallery is a big step higher than the floor of the front one.)
In other words, the front gallery’s big encaustic paintings feature vivid bits of red, yellow and orange surrounded by and melding into a white background/foreground, or globular ovals of white floating in a midnight-blue surround. The tables in the front gallery combine individual containers of light into a suggestion of collective purpose (like Christianity’s lamps put upon lampstands to give light, albeit soft light, to the whole house). The back gallery contains multiple hanging translucent models of Coleman lanterns (electrically lit, on a single circuit, the technology itself providing a metaphor of Neo-Platonism’s vision of the single Source of the One energizing and illuminating the Many).
One wants to celebrate the sheer technical versatility of “Lux in Tenebris” (Latin for “light in the darkness,” an extract from the Gospel of John that became the motto of the Presbyterian Church). It is rare to find an artist who solves compositional problems through a revelatory dream who also figures out how to combine onto a single rheostat the circuitry of multiple lanterns suspended by piano wire. The combination of imaginative leap and practical cast of mind suggests an enlightenment that is half intuitively Buddhist and half old-fashioned eighteenth-century rationalist. (For the record, Schuff’s chief source of metaphoric inspiration was Buddhist, but she is not a practicing Buddhist, and she began researching the metaphors of light after some very real experiences of light in the darkness in the unlit stretches of north Georgia’s Hambidge Center. In the night of rural artists’ retreats as in pioneer America, there are times when one can find oneself in the middle of a dark wood where the clear path is altogether lost, quite literally.)
The paintings make fine meditational objects. The repeated image of lights that are either stars in a night sky or illuminated vessels floating in a richly luminous dark are particularly intriguing.
Schuff may or may not know the onetime Persian-garden custom of putting lights in glass globules behind curtains of falling water, in niches for lights that are themselves concreteizations of the metaphors of mysticism. Most of us have encountered some version of the metaphors of microcosm and macrocosm that link the stellar distances of the night sky with the invisible distances of the occulted Inner Light. But that the technical problem of representation of all this should have been resolved in a dream is one of God’s gifts to the surviving Jungians among us. (Actually, it is God’s gift to a whole raft of contending interpretations, but one seldom finds such a pristine example of archetypes at work in everyday life.)
Of course, it is Schuff’s sufficiently transcendent talents as a painter that makes the dream’s visual insight more than a treasure held in earthen vessels. The wax of the encaustic medium contributes its customary mediation of light superbly, and the particular mix of light and dark in the palette is exactly what a good painting ought to contain. Occasional flaws of surface texture and other inevitable reasons for quibbling come only after the first impact, which is delectably positive and likely to ameliorate later critical impulses.
The hanging lanterns alone would be worth the price of admission, if one were being charged to get in, which one is not. The paintings alone would be worth it. As it is, the twin galleries of light and dark are a free gift that should be savored while the show is still there, and remembered lovingly when it is not.
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S: (n) Ceratostomella, genus Ceratostomella (genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores)
S: (n) Claviceps, genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)
S: (n) Xylaria, genus Xylaria (type genus of Xylariaceae; fungi with perithecia in the upper part of erect black woody stromata)
S: (n) Rosellinia, genus Rosellinia (fungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores)
S: (n) Helotium, genus Helotium (type genus of the Helotiaceae)
S: (n) genus Sclerotinia (large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens)
S: (n) Scleroderma, genus Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)
S: (n) Tulostoma, genus Tulostoma, Tulestoma, genus Tulestoma (type genus of the Tulostomaceae)
S: (n) Rhizopogon, genus Rhizopogon (a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers)
S: (n) Truncocolumella, genus Truncocolumella (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Rhizopogonaceae)
S: (n) genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)
S: (n) genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
S: (n) Entomophthora, genus Entomophthora (type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects)
S: (n) genus Dictostylium (genus of slime molds that grow on dung and decaying vegetation)
S: (n) Blastocladia, genus Blastocladia (a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae)
S: (n) Synchytrium, genus Synchytrium (simple parasitic fungi including pond scum parasites)
S: (n) Peronospora, genus Peronospora (genus of destructive downy mildews)
S: (n) Albugo, genus Albugo (type genus of the Albuginaceae; fungi causing white rusts)
S: (n) genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)
S: (n) Phytophthora, genus Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)
S: (n) Plasmodiophora, genus Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
S: (n) Hydnum, genus Hydnum (type genus of Hydnaceae)
S: (n) genus Lecanora (type genus of Lecanoraceae; crustaceous lichens)
S: (n) genus Roccella (chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens)
S: (n) Pertusaria, genus Pertusaria (crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus)
S: (n) Usnea, genus Usnea (widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus)
S: (n) Evernia, genus Evernia (lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus)
S: (n) Ramalina, genus Ramalina (shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus)
S: (n) Alectoria, genus Alectoria (lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus)
S: (n) Cladonia, genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
S: (n) Parmelia, genus Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)
S: (n) Cetraria, genus Cetraria (foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes)
S: (n) Agaricus, genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)
S: (n) Lentinus, genus Lentinus (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae)
S: (n) Amanita, genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)
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S: (n) Peziza, genus Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)
S: (n) Plectania, genus Plectania (genus of fungi in the family Pezizaceae closely related to and often included in genus Peziza)
S: (n) Morchella, genus Morchella (genus of edible fungi: morel)
S: (n) Wynnea, genus Wynnea (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Sarcoscyphaceae)
S: (n) genus Helvella (type genus of the Helvellaceae)
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S: (n) Nidularia, genus Nidularia (type genus of the Nidulariaceae)
S: (n) Gastrocybe, genus Gastrocybe (a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae)
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S: (n) Albatrellus, genus Albatrellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Neolentinus, genus Neolentinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Nigroporus, genus Nigroporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Oligoporus, genus Oligoporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Polyporus, genus Polyporus (type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers)
S: (n) Fistulina, genus Fistulina (fungi having each pore separate though crowded)
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S: (n) Boletus, genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)
S: (n) Fuscoboletinus, genus Fuscoboletinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Leccinum, genus Leccinum (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Phylloporus, genus Phylloporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Suillus, genus Suillus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
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Judson Baycot (1949 - ), most OG Crip in Los Angeles history
There is a rich history in our urban streets and many articles and documentaries are discussing these guys. Post your thoughts here about those O/Gs, Veteranos and other historical figures from the past.
Unread post by alexalonso » July 28th, 2013, 10:24 pm
Judson Baycot, was born in 1949, 4 years before Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams. He was among the several Westside Crips arrested in the 1972 murder of Robert Ballou and was sent to prison for it. He grew up in the hood that is now 83 Gangster Crip, and he is still alive and well.
Of all the OGs I know of the early Crips formation and of all that I have not met, but heard of, I dont think there is one that is more OG than Judson Baycot.
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Re: Judson Baycot - most OG Crip in Los Angeles history
Unread post by dinky » July 29th, 2013, 10:38 am
Is he the older brother of O.G Jeffery Bacot? who was shot and wounded as he and Sidewinder of eight tray went into Rollin 60s neighbourhood to try and resolve the dispute after the shooting of Tyrone which instigated the etg 60s war. In an interview i saw, Jeffery Bacot said his older brother was a G with a serious reputation.
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Unread post by comptonblockz » July 29th, 2013, 5:42 pm
Munson? In 'blue rage,black redemption' Took said Munson was on Raymond's head all the time.
dinky wrote: Is he the older brother of O.G Jeffery Bacot? who was shot and wounded as he and Sidewinder of eight tray went into Rollin 60s neighbourhood to try and resolve the dispute after the shooting of Tyrone which instigated the etg 60s war. In an interview i saw, Jeffery Bacot said his older brother was a G with a serious reputation.
yeah, his younger brother was one of the founders of 83 Gangster Crips when they were first Original Gangster Crips.
Unread post by alexalonso » August 1st, 2013, 12:57 am
comptonblockz wrote: Munson? In 'blue rage,black redemption' Took said Munson was on Raymond's head all the time.
I dont think the Munson's were ever Crips, so even though the Munsons were older, they were never Crips.
Unread post by alexalonso » August 6th, 2013, 8:46 pm
Judson Baycot and Big Bob the Hawk
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Unread post by stickupkidakaBIGBANDIT » August 9th, 2013, 3:23 pm
alexalonso wrote:
That is one of the greatest interviews ever. Probably one of the best first-hand interviews on crip history.
1. Robert Ballou wasn't wearing a leather jacket.
2. Robert Ballou was killed by Compton Crips.
3. Inglewood Family's??? (NOT SURE IF Them were the first to start shooting in gang banging).
Great Info.
So, West SIDE crips are now what is considered R60's and ETGs as an example.
Also, DID those west side crips convert into r60s or ETGs. That barefoot pookie guy said he was a w/s crip but also founder of Gardena Shotgun Crips? So did the ogs keep it W/S crip or go into sub-divisions?
Unread post by alexalonso » August 10th, 2013, 12:42 am
They told me that West Side Crips went to about Van Ness Ave to the West and Gage to the north, Imperial to the South and About Fig to the east, so the area that became 60s from the original West Side Crip area would have been Van Ness (w) to Western (e) from Florence (s) to Gage, which is the area around Horace Mann Jr. High School. All the West Side Crip I met lived between Western and Vermont.
The Chain Gang in Inglewood covered the area south of Florence (n) to Imperial (s) from about Van Ness (w) to Praire (w) and now all that area got divided into different Blood hood like IFG, Center Park, Avenue Piru and Crenshaw Mafia.
Barefoot Pookie was a few years younger than Big Bob and Baycot so he was part of some of those new hoods. For example, Melvin "Skull" Farmer was a Westside Crip, but since he was a younger member, he became a founding member of ETG. I think Farmer was born in 1957.
Unread post by bgcasper » August 11th, 2013, 1:19 am
very interresting .. now from wich branch of west side og's did sixtees split out ? smacks alcapone and inglewood crips who came outa inglewood village no?
Unread post by xxx » August 11th, 2013, 11:18 am
Bacot is not "the most OG" crip in Los Angeles History.
He didnt started ESC, WSC, or CPT/C.....he was a regular member who joined a gang that was already established....
The Founders are "the most" OG....he is part of the first wave, but he didnt start or find, any Crip Branch (w/s, e/s, cpt) or Set (BC/NH/UG/H/83/60)............
in reality, gotta question, what this 20yr old man was doing running with Juvenile Deliquents in 1970-1972.....
Crips 1969
Bacot 1949
20yrs old (Bacot)
Raymond Washington(ESC), Melvin Hardy(WSC), Mac Thomas (CPT) ~ 1953
You cant say Barefoot Pookie was Younger then Bacot to discredit or down play his influence, when the Founders were also younger then Bacot......Barefoot Pookie is an Original Smak that was there when they merged with the Crips, Original WSC and started Godfather Crips, Insane Crips, Pay Back Crips and was from an original Bloc Crip.....His Influence Trumps Bacot and Bob..........
1972 (The Murder)
23yrs old Bacot
I bet you Bacot and Bob were from so other Gang that got absorb by the Crips.......
Raymond Washington, Melvin Hardy and Mac Thomas are "the Most" OG Crips of Los Angeles and barefoot Pookie picked up the Torch from them and explanded like no other...............
Unread post by alexalonso » August 11th, 2013, 1:20 pm
xxx wrote: Bacot is not "the most OG" crip in Los Angeles History.
The most OG Westside Crips are the ones that were there in 1970, simple. Some names you mention were not there in 1970 and that is not to "discredit" them, but to get to the most accurate facts. If you hit the streets in 1971, and there were at least 10 other cats there in 1970, then those are more OG, period.
Baycot was actually 22 when he went to prison for Ballou murder because his birthday is near end of year and the arrest was at beginning of year.
Also, Baycot and Big Bob have no "Big Homies" - Tookie (if alive would definitely be most OG too), but he was the little homie at the time, but still a leader. But there were only about 8 - 10 guys at the park when Tookie said lets be Westside Crips. If you were not there, you were not the most OG.
You are discrediting Baycot and Big Bobs influence because they were sent to prison on some other shit during the rest of the 1970s. Ask ANYONE, who name rings louder back then and today I guarantee Bacot's name will get more accolades, and again I am not discrediting anyone, just keeping it real. They guys sent to prison are forgotten, Bub, Cuzz, Big Bob and Bacot were Crippin' in prison and xxx wants to discredit their role and positions. Bub was killed, Cuzz does not hang-out, but Big Bob and Bacot still hang out in the park and most of the Original Crips still alive from that period can't even visit their own hood's today.
Last point is, Tookie, Big Bob, Baycot, all knew each other before Crip started, they all lived off Denker between the 60s and the 80s and they all hung out at St Andrews Park. I see nothing unusual that 16 & 17 years olds hanging out with 19 & 20 year olds on the streets. That always happens.
Also I look forward to hearing Barefoot Pookie's story. He is definitely a big part of the history during the 1970s.
Unread post by xxx » August 11th, 2013, 2:40 pm
Raymond Washington started The Crips on the Eastside in 1969....
They had a meeting with Melvin Hardy and the Smaks along with the Inglewood Crips at the Rio Theater on Imperial & Western, then followed by the meeting at Washington High to make it official in 1971....and Tookie wasn't there....
Tookie was brought around after the Crips were formed. He was in Eastlake Juvenile hall when Crips started. He was an Al Capone...Donald Sweet Back brought him to the 100s when he got out to meet the Crips.....so that thing about "lets all be Westside Crips" is Fiction.....
WSC didn't start in 1970 and it didn't start at St. Andrews Park and it didn't start in the 80s (streets)....
I'm not discredited Big Bob or Bacot, I've meet both years ago, they have extras, these old dudes are trying to position themselves....you have to question these dudes not just listen, they'll tell you anything.......ask them you turned them into Crips, where there Crip influence comes from.....they ain't original Eastside Crips, so someone influenced them......they age don't make them big homies to the founders, especially you ain't a founder. Came after the founders....
Melvin Hardy house on 113th & Denker was WSC headquarters ans if you weren't Originally a Smak gang member you wasn't part of the first crew of WS Crips...
Al Capones and the kids living in the 6os to the 80s (streets) joined after the fact......
I think it is odd for 20yr olds out of school to join a gang created by and ran by teenagers in high school.....that tells me they joined after the fact.....
BarefootPookies story already been told.....check the Allhood Issue......
Only the Founders impact is bigger then Loonies...loonies influence stretched from the 30s to the 100s, Gardens to Long Beach...Bob and Bacot ain't left The Park....
Pookies*
Gardena*
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Unread post by Quepolo3 » August 11th, 2013, 4:13 pm
xxx-Good info!
Unread post by alexalonso » August 12th, 2013, 2:20 am
I was talking about Barefoot Pookie's book, i know his story is out. And no one is denying the influence of what was happening in the 100s when WSC started. Bacot will tell you him self that they hung out there all the time and all day. All I am saying is that they were there in the beginning, the very beginning of WSC and you are saying that Bacot and Big Bob were not original founders of WSC with Tookie. I got it.
Unread post by xxx » August 12th, 2013, 8:19 am
That's would I'm saying Tookie was not their when WSC was formed....
Bob and Bacot are suspect cuz of their age.....and cuz they telling you it started at St Andrews Park...it didn't...so I question their agenda.....
I'm saying they joined after the fact..unless they were at the Rio Theater in 1971 when Raymond Washington and the ESC and Inglewood Crips showed up to fight the Smaks, then Naw they werent the first crew....
They 22yrs old joining a teenage high school gang... I think sumthing is odd about that...
What were they doing in High School...what gang did they run with when they went to Washington High...
1963-1969 Bacot was in High School, before Crips existed....what gang was he in in High School?
Thats when niggas become official in a gang in High School....that's when you form your bonds with your peers in your own age group.......you dont run around with kids in Jr High........
Unread post by bgcasper » August 12th, 2013, 12:37 pm
[quote="Quepolo3"]xxx-Good info![/quote]revolutionary info !!! very interesting ...fuccin hate this man but he knows his shit that is fact
bgcasper wrote:
Quepolo3 wrote: xxx-Good info!
revolutionary info !!! very interesting ...fuccin hate this man but he knows his shit that is fact
No doubt! He's very knowledgable, as are you. This is the kind of info. that makes this site special. Keep sharing mi Hermano's.
xxx wrote:
In 1970, Baycot was 20 years old and Big Bob was 18. They knew each other since the 1960s going back to their teen age years, probably 2 to 3 years before that, so they were 18 & 16 respectively in the 1960s and all these future westsiders knew each other during the 1960s. I dont know how long they knew Tookie before WSC, but they all lived in the same area.
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Unread post by Tricky69 » August 14th, 2013, 6:39 pm
Zane Smith
This last Zane Smith video was posted on other thread. Reposted to compare different point of views of how it started.
Unread post by BlueMoon » August 14th, 2013, 9:54 pm
According to Zane smith he started the original Compton crips......I don't know about all that......Mac Thomas was an original eastside crip before bringin ftit to Compton.....
[quote="BlueMoon"]According to Zane smith he started the original Compton crips......I don't know about all that......Mac Thomas was an original eastside crip before bringin ftit to Compton.....[/quote] nice interview with a gang of detail of the first piru and how the beef started
well he said it himself mac was in freemont thats were he got crippin' from
Unread post by stickupkidakaBIGBANDIT » August 20th, 2013, 6:03 pm
Would it be safe to say according to ZANE that Compton Crips were formed in response to the Piru Gang? Then Compton Crips form and align with the crips. Also, heard rumor PIRUS were down with the crips, which beef with CCs "COULD HAVE" led them to associating with the Brims, and all other BLOODS.
All I'm thinking is hearing this info and filling the gaps? What do the rest of you think?
Tricky69 wrote:
Unread post by comptonblockz » August 21st, 2013, 12:50 am
stickupkidakaBIGBANDIT wrote: Would it be safe to say according to ZANE that Compton Crips were formed in response to the Piru Gang? Then Compton Crips form and align with the crips. Also, heard rumor PIRUS were down with the crips, which beef with CCs "COULD HAVE" led them to associating with the Brims, and all other BLOODS.
Stickupkid,I didn't get that from Zane. From what I read in 'Blue Rage,Black Redemption' by the time Tookie and w/s crew got to Compton,Mac Thomas had already started the crips there,and Raymond converted the Pirus into Piru Crips,against Mac's wishes,but it didn't last long. I'd say the Pirus were formed in response to the crips,and not the other way around.
Unread post by bgcasper » August 21st, 2013, 4:58 am
Would it be safe to say according to ZANE that Compton Crips were formed in response to the Piru Gang?
no i didnt hear it this way i would say there were already crips and cool with pirus who was just another crew but friendly until zane story errupted thats what i understood ...well like cptbloccs is sayi its the otherway around
Unread post by stickupkidakaBIGBANDIT » August 23rd, 2013, 11:43 am
I interpret that the "PIRU" Street Boys were already established as a gang/crew with no affilliations to bloods or crips. Zane and his buddies were from the other parts of CPT where the CC's eventually evolved.
During this altercation, Did Mack and the CCs already exist??? IDK. Zane made it sound as if he had no affiliations and they formed after this incident. I could be wrong? Now, did Zane have his own gang which later aligned with Mack and his CCs and formed a bigger CC.
Now, because Piru Street didn't get along with Zane/Mack did they disassociate with the Crips because there was too much tension and later became Bloods?
Another question Were there COMPTON CRIPS before Piru Street formed as a gang with no blood or crip affiliation?
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Unread post by elOriginalMartinez » September 25th, 2013, 1:33 pm
Good fucken read...
Unread post by bgcasper » September 28th, 2013, 5:36 am
[quote="stickupkidakaBIGBANDIT"]I interpret that the "PIRU" Street Boys were already established as a gang/crew with no affilliations to bloods or crips. Zane and his buddies were from the other parts of CPT where the CC's eventually evolved.
Thanks for your answers.[/quote]
yes mack thomas was introduced to crippin in the cradle when they was still cribs everybody who was part of freemont original circle had been crippin before any bloods existed and it was prior to the incident zane described and yes grandees were compton crips before ane beef
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Ballpark Breakdown: Walking up to Miller Park it looks like you are about to enter a spaceship that has just landed inside of a traditional ballpark. The steel and glass retractable roof climbing out of the red brick arches that encompass the walls of the park. While we typically hate ballparks that are surrounded by parking lots, the tailgate atmosphere that you find at other Wisconsin sporting events has spilled over to Brewers games as well. This is hands down the best tailgating that we have ever seen for a baseball game.
Even though Miller Park would seem to be the antithesis of a traditional ballpark it has incorporated a number of features that make it a great experience. From the tailgating before you enter to Bernie the Brewer sliding down from Bernie’s Terrace to celebrate a Brewer’s home run to the sausage race Miller Park brings its own unique take on the ol’ ball game.
The retractable roof does not really take away from the experience and we were lucky enough to see a game with the roof opened and closed. When the roof is open the entire field is awash in sunlight and it is like seeing a game in any traditional ballpark. The retractable roof moves so effortlessly and quietly that you hardly noticing it closing. Once closed, the feel of the ballpark is definitely a little more sterile but not nearly as bad as former domes like the Metrodome (or the current Tropicana Field).
Just like St. Louis’s ballpark, Miller Park is named after one of the dominant beer companies. But just like at Busch Stadium, you are able to find local and craft options throughout the park. The main local options are Lakefront and New Glarus (which is only available in Wisconsin) as well as MKE Brewing Co. Most stands will have Leinenkugel’s or Sam Adams as well. BEST SPOT FOR BEER: While you can find local beer sprinkled throughout Miller Park, the aptly named Local Brews bar in Section 207 features 24 taps of local craft beer (and Miller Lite).
While you couldn’t put Miller Park in the list of retro-style ballparks the team has created some new traditions that make a game in Milwaukee a unique experience. Add the friendly Midwestern staff and the excellent sight lines and Miller Park is a great place to catch a game.
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This is a powerhouse brewery that Milwaukeeans seem to unabashedly love. Its an absolutely huge beer hall that is just wide open and feels expansive as you walk in. In tribute to the brewery’s history and their favorite local MLB team, Lakefront purchased the chalet and beer mug that Bernie Brewer once slide into at old County Stadium. At Lakefront it marks the start of the brewery tour. Other than that, the inside is done in traditional beer hall fashion, with wooden beams in the ceiling, flags hanging down and long tables to sit family style.
The bar runs basically the whole length of one side of the place, and the impressive number of bartenders were handling the crowd with ease. And despite the numerous patrons, every employee I talked to was willing to take the time to talk about the different beers and give recommendations and tasting notes. There’s even a mystery beer on tap if you’re the risk-taking type.
The only real drawback is that they’re constantly trying to sell you something. Besides the beer, there were coffee and jerky for sale in various parts of the hall, which had an entire cheese shop set up in one corner. You had to walk through an large swag store to get to the bathroom, and you even had hand scrubs and lotions for sale once you go there.
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As we’ve mentioned before, one of us is originally from the Midwest (you know this by now, right?). So we are well aware of how special the warm days of summer are up north, and Milwaukee was no exception. Strategically placed right on the riverfront, Lakefront had oodles of seating outside, and an outdoor tap station whose line was a mile long, and even more crowded as group after group arrived as one of the stops on a city brewery tour. Even packed, it was well worth fighting the crowds to have a seat overlooking the river and watching the boats go by. People were even pulling up and parking their kayaks and canoes to stop in for a pit stop.
You have to climb up a tightly boxed set of stairs to get up to the beer hall from the outdoor porch, and fighting the stream of people and wind updraft in a sundress while carrying a flight was no small feat – but it was worth it for everything we got to try, and interesting side note – they don’t seem big on bitterness here, as even with a huge beer list available, everything ranged from 15-38 on the IBU scale.
Wisconsinite (4.4 ABV/9.5 IBU) – a summerweiss was a great place for us to start on this perfect July day. Everything is local, or as Lakefront says for this one, “If it’s not from Wisconsin, it’s not in this beer.” The Wisconsinite was a pretty yellow color with carbonation visibly bubbling and a like white wine smell. There is a strong dry wheat taste with this one that ends in a banana flavor which gets stronger as the beer warms.
Riverwest Stein (5.7 ABV/16 IBU) – An amber lager that was a ruddy copper color and had light lacing. The nose was smooth, malted and light. This was not a strong red, more of a light session sipper with some malt points in the palate – but it worked for a summer beer. Growing Power (6.7 ABV/35 IBU) This beer had one of the highest IBU rating of any available and was also USDA certified organic.
Growing Power is a farmhouse pale ale that was orangey copper and lacked the reddish hues of the Riverwest Stein. The lacing floated on top and though it had visible carbonation, it wasn’t too sparkly when you tasted it. The smell was grainy and citra hoppy, the palate wheaty with a herbal lemongrassy finish; which combined to make it more earthy than a typical pale ale.
Fuel Cafe (6.4/18) This coffee stout earns the distinction of being our favorite of the day. It was very brown and meant to be drunk at a bit of a warmer temp. There was a decent mocha head and appealing coffee aroma. When sipping, it coats your tongue but is not a thick beer, and along with the great coffee smell there is a well rounded, entirely coffee finish.
IBA (6.8/38) – This seemed to be the summer of black IPAs (which Gillian did not mind) and the scent of the beer was hoppier than the 38 IBUs would predict. It had a similar tan head to the Fuel Cafe, but the color was an interesting Dr. Peppery brown-red color. The taste was a good mix of hops and blended malts, and with just a little bite, it then settled back down to a smooth finish.
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“…the more skill a man hath of his weapon the more gentle and curteous should he shewe himself …”
Vincentio Saviolo, ‘His Practise’, 1595
Welcome to the 1595. club
The 1595 Club is a martial arts school dedicated to the practice and study of the fighting arts of Europe. Our primary inspiration is the work of the sixteenth century soldier, philosopher and master of fence - Vincentio Saviolo, and it is from the year of publication of “His Practise” that the club takes its name.
We believe that this beautiful and remarkable art should be more than just a historical curiosity - rather than trying to re-enact a lost martial form the 1595 Club endeavours to explore the martial philosophy and fighting science of Saviolo and apply these principles and techniques to other weapons and weapon combinations not examined in ‘His Practise’ and, perhaps most importantly, use these as thebasis for a system of unarmed self-defence and combat.
Photo: Dave Bulling
Wednesday - January 22
London Salle Unarmed Class 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Brighton Salle Armed Class (Sword & Cane) 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Milan Salle Armed Class (Cane) 8:30pm - 10:00pm
Thursday - January 23
Brighton Salle Unarmed Class (Unarmed) 8:15pm - 9:45pm
Belluno Salle Thursday Class 9:00pm - 10:15pm
Sunday - January 26
Letterkenny Salle Class 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Monday - January 27
Ballinasloe Salle Sabre Class (Sabre) 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Milan Salle Unarmed Class (Unarmed) 8:30pm - 10:00pm
Tuesday - January 28
London Salle Armed Class (Sword) 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Belluno Salle Tuesday Class 9:00pm - 10:15pm
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January 05, 2015 Reviews
The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death
In 2012, the beloved, long-dormant British horror studio Hammer Films released The Woman In Black, its first major release in decades. A haunted-house movie adapted from Susan Hill’s much-liked novel, it felt overly cautious, creating a classically spooky atmosphere, then filling it with the sort of tiresome cheap jolts that have come to define horror films in recent years. It was as if everyone involved wanted to make an old-fashioned scary movie and reassure modern audiences by giving them more of what they’d come to expect. The result was a film seemingly designed to please no one, albeit one that performed just well enough to warrant a sequel.
Set in 1941, The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death opens in Blitz-stricken London, where schoolteacher Eve (Phoebe Fox) keeps watch over a group of kids separated from their parents by the war. The film quickly finds its way to Eel Marsh House—the remote, crumbling island estate that provided the setting for the first film—when an ill-advised evacuation plan finds Eve and her headmistress Jean (Helen McCrory) forced to keep calm and carry on as they move their students to one of England’s creepiest corners. As Eve attempts to coax the recently orphaned Edward (Oaklee Pendergast) into talking, the teachers and their students discover the house is filled with creaking noises, dilapidated rooms, and mysterious shadows. Then the shadows, and the mysterious woman at the center of them, start to claim new victims.
If Eel Marsh had been as hospitable to a story the second time around, The Woman In Black 2 might have been on to something. Director Tom Harper (like McCrory, a veteran of the TV series Peaky Blinders) employs an unsettling gray-on-black nighttime color palette, and has a knack for holding a shot just the right amount of time to create considerable tension. Fox neatly conveys fear behind a placid smile. Yet despite a screenplay taken from a story provided by Hill, ultimately no one can do much to make the film seem like anything other than a rehash, as the characters traipse through the same dread corridors seen in the first film, and the secret of the Woman In Black gets uncovered again. Even the revelation that Eve has brought some secrets of her own to the house does little but create unflattering comparisons to “The Turn Of The Screw.”
In the end, it’s all too reminiscent of its predecessor in another key way: Rather than crafting a setpiece worthy of the atmosphere he’s created, Harper falls back on easy, throw-the-boogens-in-the-audience’s-face scares. A few years ago, that might have seemed like enough. But the years since have brought The Conjuring and The Babadook, both of which improved on The Woman In Black’s combination of an old-fashioned setup and modern techniques. It’s a handsome disappointment, fast food masquerading as fine dining.
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Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation's oldest technology university, has long prided itself on its state-of-the-art design and engineering curriculum. Several years ago, to call attention to its equally estimable media and performing arts programs, RPI commissioned British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw to design the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) on a steep hillside overlooking the Hudson Valley. Read the story
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Ohlone College of Newark Center for Health Sciences and Technology, Newark, Calif.
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B Corey Wieseman, AIA, LEED AP, Principal, DLR Group, Chicago
C Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, Principal, Ross Barney Architects, Chicago
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E George Tuhowski III, LEED AP, General Superintendent, Leopardo Construction, Hoffman Estates, Ill.
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Whats On /
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Magic Mike Live Sunday 29th September | 10pm Nightclubs
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The transformed Theatre at the Hippodrome Casino is a magical, intimate, 325-seat performance space for Magic Mike Live.
From the bespoke entrance off Cranbourn Street, to the specially curated lounge and bar experience, to the cast of world-class performers, Magic Mike Live is a complete evening of unparalleled entertainment for women aged 18 and up. The Hippodrome has been delighting, shocking and reinventing the way London and its visitors are entertained since 1900.
Date(s)29 Sep 2019
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VenueThe Hippodrome Casino Theatre
AddressCranbourn Street, Leicester Square, Greater London,
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LIBRARY is located just 300 meters from Trafalgar Square. The bedrooms are part of a private members club and offer free WiFi, and guests can enjoy a drink at the bar during operational hours. Every room is fitted with a flat-screen TV.
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Time(s) 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
An exhausted woman makes her way through the desert hills and passes stopped vehicles that contain human skeletons She stumbles upon a cabin inhabited by a guy who has also miraculously survived the nuclear holocaust that destroyed virtually everything. The only other animal they've seen are birds. He was in New York City when the bombs detonated and she was protected by the lead walls of a hospital x-ray room. They think they are the only survivors until two more men show up, an old bank teller and an African-American who was a doorman at that bank. They were protected by the building's vault. Yet the old guy develops blisters on his skin and dies of radiation poisoning. On the same say they find another guy washed ashore from the ocean. This guy was an explorer and was up on Mt. Everest. This is when trouble begins to develop. This explorer is pompous, doesn't want to work planting crops and hates being in the same vicinity as the black guy. He starts foraging in the nearby cities and even acquires a gun. He also wants the woman, who was pregnant and had a baby boy. He tricks her into going with him but something unexpected happens which changes his outlook about his miraculous survival.
FIVE is one of the better apocalyptic movies, similar to THE WORLD, THE FLESH & THE DEVIL. And yes, the black guy here also dances. Yet for the 1950's this is a realistic and harsh movie.
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High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should be
Thursday, 09 January 2020 18:52 Salvatore Ferraro, PhD candidate, RMIT University Press Releases - The Conversation
Australian businesses are demanding rates of return far higher than their cost of capital, but that doesn't make those hurdles wrong.Shutterstock
Calls by the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims for Australian businesses to cut the hurdle rates of return they expect on new investments should be taken with a grain of salt.
A hurdle rate is the minimum annual return that an investor or firm demands in order to allow a new project to go ahead.
For years, interest rates have been falling, cutting the cost of borrowing, but the hurdle rates of return demanded from that borrowing have remained little changed.
Sims told the Australian Financial Review this month that the rates of return demanded should be lower because interest rates were lower.
ACCC Chairman Rod Sims.JOEL CARRETT/AAP
“We don’t want to lose investment that we should otherwise get because of hurdle rates that are too high,” he said.
“And we don’t want overseas companies coming in and buying our assets because they’ve got more realistic hurdle rates”.
It is straight from the Reserve Bank’s playbook.
Both the present Reserve Bank governor Phillip Lowe and his predecessor Glenn Stevens have said the same thing.
“We hear reports that a hurdle rate of return of 13-14% has been hard-wired into the corporate culture in some companies,” Lowe said in October.
Yet, “at low interest rates, many investments that didn’t make sense at higher interest rates should now make sense”.
This is especially so for investments with long-term payoffs, because future returns no longer need to be discounted as highly. This means that low interest rates give us the opportunity to lengthen our horizons and think about projects with really long-term payoffs.
Lowe and Sims are right to observe that some hurdle rates remain surprisingly high.
What if the reluctance to invest is rational?
Investment in mining and manufacturing projects is way below earlier peaks notwithstanding record low interest rates, even though investment in other industries is close to its historical high.
Which suggests something else could be in play, and not only here. Some overseas hurdle rates are as high as 12% to 15%.
A dampened appetite for risk is one explanation, thanks to a rise in global economic policy uncertainty. Another is challenging business conditions, especially in Australia’s two largest sectors; banking and resources.
Consensus estimates of future profits have been downgraded.
Profit forecasts have been downgraded
Among the ASX 200, which are the 200 most valuable companies traded on the Australian Securities Exchange, the consensus forecast for annual returns has slid to its lowest point in three years. Among the major banks consensus estimates have slid to their lowest level in two decades.
This largely reflects the lift in minimum capital requirements imposed by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, higher compliance costs associated with the implementation of the banking royal commission recommendations and the divestment of high returning wealth management businesses whose activities are no longer tenable for banks in the wake of the royal commission.
Demands from shareholders have been upgraded
In contrast, the expected profitability of mining companies has improved. But they are increasingly disciplined about how they use their capital, focused instead on generating free cash flow.
They are conscious of catering to greater demand from their shareholders for dividends and share buybacks.
Those shareholders remember well the destructive growth strategies pursued at the peak of the China boom a decade ago.
Most are happy that the dividend payout ratio for the sector has climbed well above long term norms to 60%, meaning that six dollars out of every ten dollars of profit is paid out to shareholders rather than invested back in the business.
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Against this backdrop, the competition watchdog and the Reserve Bank bemoaning what they consider to be stubbornly high hurdle rates will do little to precipitate a recovery in investment.
The Reserve Bank would achieve more by making an unambiguous commitment to do whatever it takes to achieve its inflation target, which it has undershot for the past five years.
It would boost expectations for wages growth, which remains close to record lows, boost consumer spending, and make investment more worthwhile.
Salvatore Ferraro does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Authors: Salvatore Ferraro, PhD candidate, RMIT University
Read more http://theconversation.com/high-hurdle-rates-are-holding-back-businesses-but-perhaps-they-should-be-129435
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Carpe Scriptura
A personal reading of scripture…
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Short Stories: Ruth, Jonah, Esther
Writings: Lamentations, Ezra, Nehemiah
Latter Prophets: Amos, Hosea, Micah
1 Chronicles 11: David’s uncomplicated rise
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Skipping straight from Saul’s death in the last chapter to David’s ascension as king, the Chronicler leaps right over the succession conflicts of 2 Samuel 2-4. In this narrative, David’s rise was effortless and conflict-less.
Right from the start, we see all of Israel congregating in Hebron to declare David as their new king. Repeating their speech almost verbatim from 2 Sam. 5:1-3, they reinforce David’s claim by saying that he had truly been the one leading them from the start, even while Saul was king in name. They make a covenant with David, and Samuel anoints him.
With all of Israel on his side, David turned toward Jerusalem. The Jebusites taunt David, saying that he will never enter his city. But then, wooops, he conquers it anyway. Parts of the story are copied word-for-word from 2 Sam. 5:6-10, except that all references to David’s hatred for people with physical disabilities are replaced by his vow to promote the first person to kill Jebusites (or perhaps to rush forward at the Jebusites) to the rank of chief and commander. This seems like a fairly awful way to pick leaders, given that leadership skills aren’t terribly correlated with “rush into battle and kill stuff” skills. I get that the point is to reward bravery, but this seems like the Peter Principle in action. The point is only more clearly made when we find out that it is Joab who goes first, earning his place as chief. And we all know how well that turned out (1 Kgs. 2:5-6).
My New Bible Commentary notes that Joab’s promotion here would seem to conflict with 2 Samuel, where Joab is already functioning as commander prior to the taking of Jerusalem. Yet, “the commander-in-chief of the king of Judah would not automatically have become commander-in-chief of the king of all Israel” (p.375). In other words, it’s possible that Joab was already commander, but had to re-earn his position in the new national government. Assuming historicity for a moment, this doesn’t seem unreasonable.
James Pate notes a problematic difference between this chapter and 2 Sam. 5:6-10: Whereas in 2 Samuel, David seems to have chosen Jerusalem as his capitol because it was centrally located and because it did not belong to any particular tribe (therefore avoiding the argument of favouritism), the Chronicler gives David complete support from all Israel before he turns to Jerusalem, and in fact shows a pan-tribal attacking army. So why, then, would David have needed to take Jerusalem? Pate discusses the issue in his post.
Once David took Jerusalem, it began to be known as the city of David. He and Joab then set to work repairing the city (and presumably building it up), and thus did David become ever greater.
The Mighty Men
The rest of the chapter lists the men of David’s elite army. It is nearly identical to the list found in 2 Sam. 23:8-39, though with additional names added to the end. One theory is that the 2 Samuel version ended with Uriah to rhetorically underscore the evil that David had done to him in 2 Sam. 11, whereas the Chronicler may have been working with a more complete list.
We begin with the elite of the elite, known as the Three. The group’s leader was Jachobeam, a Hachmonite, who once killed 300 enemies with his spear at one time (the number is 800 in 2 Sam. 23:8, but the difference could be caused by confusion with another warrior, Abishai, who killed 300 in 2 Sam. 23:18 and 1 Chron. 11:20).
The other two members of the Three are mashed together here, apparently due to a scribal error. In 2 Sam. 23:9-12, we learn of two members of the group: Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite and Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. In the 2 Samuel version, Eleazar was with David when they defied the Philistines. The Israelite army was routed, but Eleazar kept fighting until his arm grew weary – long enough to win the battle. When the Israelites returned, it was only to strip the dead. As for Shammah, the Israelite army was again routed, but Shammah stood in a plot of lentils, defending it until the Philistines were defeated.
The Chronicler’s version, however, tells us only of Eleazar, and how he was with David at Pasdammim when the Philistines gathered against them. Even though the Israelites were routed, he stood his ground in a field of barley and defeated the Philistines. It’s rather easy to see how a scribe’s eye might skip in two such similar stories.
Before getting into the Thirty, we learn of three men from the band of Thirty (there’s no indication that they are the Three) who came to David while he was in hiding in the cave of Adullam (his stay is narrated in 1 Sam. 22:1-5) while the Philistines occupied Bethlehem.
David seems to have been feeling rather sorry for himself, and said (with much sighing, I imagine) that he wished he could have some water to drink from one of the wells of Bethlehem. These three members of the Thirty heard him (or perhaps overheard him, depending on the interpretation) and took it upon themselves to go fetch that water for David. So they snuck through the Philistine guards, into Bethlehem, and drew the water.
When they returned, however, David refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it onto the ground, saying: “Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men?” (1 Chron. 11:19). How David looks in this story depends entirely on the reader’s interpretation. If he had asked his men who fetch him the water, then his actions are just awful. But if he was just moping about, feeling sorry for himself, and they happened to overhear him and did something foolish that he hadn’t wanted them to do, then he is some degree of less awful. At least no Beckets were killed this time.
The chief of the Thirty was Abishai, Joab’s brother. Like Jachobeam, he too killed 300 enemies at one go with a spear. The other member of the Thirty whose deeds are worth mentioning is Benaiah son of Jehoiada, of Kabzeel, the captain of David’s bodyguards. He killed two whole ariels of Moab, which I’m sure is very impressive whatever an ariel is. He also killed a lion in a pit on a day when snow had fallen, the significant of which is lost on me, but I’m sure that too is very impressive. He also duelled a very large Egyptian who wielded a spear like a weaver’s beam. Benaiah lunged in with his staff and, snatching the oversized spear from the Egyptian’s hands, killed him with his own weapon.
The rest of the Thirty are given as a simple list:
Asahel brother of Joab
Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem
Shammoth of Harod
Helez the Pelonite
Ira son of Ikkesh of Tekoa
Abiezer of Anathoth
Sibbecai the Hushathite
Ilai the Ahohite
Maharai of Netophah
Heled son of Baanah of Netophah
Ithai son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the Benjaminites
Benaiah of Pirathon
Hurai of the brooks of Gaash
Abiel the Arbathite
Azmaveth of Baharum
Eliahba of Shaalbon
Hashem the Gizonite
Jonathan son of Shagee the Hararite
Ahiam son of Sachar the Hararite
Eliphal son of Ur
Hepher the Mecherathite
Ahijah the Pelonite
Hezro of Carmel
Naarai the son of Ezbai
Joel the brother of Nathan
Mibhar son of Hagri
Zelek the Ammonite
Naharai of Beeroth, the armor-bearer of Joab and son of Zeruiah
Ira the Ithrite
Gareb the Ithrite
Uriah the Hittite
Zabad son of Ahlai
Adina son of Shiza, the Reubenite, who was a leader among the Reubenites and was accompanied by 30 of his brethren
Hanan son of Maacah
Joshaphat the Mithnite
Uzzia the Ashterathite
Shama son of Hotham the Aroerite
Jeiel, Shama’s brother
Jediael son of Shimri
Joha, brother of Jediael, a Tizite
Eliel the Mahavite
Jeribai son of Elnaam
Joshaviah, also a son of Elnaam
Ithmah the Moabite
Eliel
Jaasiel the Mezobaite
These are, of course, way more than thirty men. It seems that the name of David’s elite company was chosen for its neat roundedness (or perhaps its accuracy at some earlier date).
1 Chronicles 8: False Start
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For this penultimate genealogical chapter, we turn back to Benjamin. The tribe has already been covered in 1 Chron. 7:6-12, and there seems to be considerable discussion as to why it should then be repeated here (one theory being that the chapter 7 version was originally intended to be about Zebulun and Dan, but was made to be about Benjamin through corruption).
Assuming that the chapter 7 version really is meant to be about Benjamin, the first thing that stands out is that the construction is different here. In chapter 7, the lineage followed a “the sons of A were…” formula, whereas here, we get a “A fathered B” formula. There’s no reason for the Chronicler to switch back and forth between these formulas, unless the Chronicler is simply copying whatever is being used by his source materials. This, alone, strongly suggests that two separate sources are being used for each of these lineages. (I mean, the fact that that the two contain rather extreme variants makes this rather conclusive, but I thought the note about formulas was rather interesting.)
Another detail worth noting is that the chapter 7 version had more commonalities with Gen. 46:21, whereas the version we get here seems more similar to Num. 26:38-41. Even so, there are more differences than common points. It seems that the Benjaminites were either terrible record keepers, or perhaps a certain usurping dynasty did a little expunging when it came into power.
We begin with Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Ashbel, Aharah, Nohah, and Rapha. Bela and Ashbel both appear in Num. 26:38, but the rest of the names, from either list, don’t match. My New Bible Commentary makes an interesting observation here: The construction in this passage names “Bela his first-born” (1 Chron. 8:1), whereas in 1 Chron. 7:6, we got “Bela, Becher, and Jediael.” According to the Commentary, “In Hebrew, ‘Becher’ and ‘firstborn’ have the same consonants” (p.375). It’s possible, therefore, that the source the Chronicler used in chapter 7 (evidently the same source as was used in Genesis 46:21) incorrectly interpreted the title of “first-born” as a proper name, the same of a second son.
We next move down through Bela (the only son of Benjamin who is named in all four of our lineages!), whose sons were: Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
It’s perhaps getting redundant to point out that the sons of Bela bear no resemblance whatsoever to the sons listed in 1 Chron. 7:7. We do a little better in Num. 26:40, where his sons are named Ard and Naaman (Ard might be a corruption, or vice versa, of Addar, and Naaman is present in both lists).
The inclusion of two sons named Gera is likely yet another scribal error.
We next come to the sons of Ehud. This, of course, poses a problem since no Ehud has been mentioned so far. According to my New Bible Commentary, this might be caused by a mistake similar to the one that birthed Becher. Abihud, named in 1 Chron. 8:3, may have originally been two separate words, which would replace “Abihud” with “[Gera] the father of Ehud” (p.375).
Some commentaries identify him as the left-handed Ehud the Benjaminite, who was the son of Gera, named in Judges 3:15. This would, of course, require that Ehud be Gera’s son, which would in turn require the assumption I mentioned above regarding Abihud.
The descendants of Ehud lived in Geba, and were taken into exile to Manahath. His sons were: Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera (of which the text says “Gera, that is, Heglam” – 1 Chron. 8:7). Gera fathered Uzza and Ahihud.
Shaharaim
From Ehud, we move on to someone named Shaharaim, whose connection to Benjamin’s lineage is not stated. We are told that he had sons in Moab, after he had sent away his wives, Hushim and Baara.
Benjamin and Joseph
We might wonder what Shaharaim was doing raising a family in Moab, rather than in the Benjaminite tribal lands. The obvious answer was that he was escaping a famine, just like Elimelech in Ruth 1:1. We see the same famine-driven movements a few times in Genesis, as well.
More perplexing is the phrase “after he had sent away Hushim and Baara his wives” (1 Chron. 8:8). James Pate provides a few possible explanations, but I think that the most compelling is that he divorced Hushim and Baara, then later took a new wife (perhaps a Moabite) with whom he had children in Moab.
We then learn that he had sons with Hodesh, his wife (presumably the one he married after divorcing Hushim and Baara). These sons were: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, Jeuz, Sachia, and Mirmah. The name ‘Mesha’ stood out at me, since it’s the name of the king recorded in the Mesha Stele. It seems that Shaharaim was giving his sons good Moabite names.
He also had some sons by his earlier wife, Hushim: Abitub and Elpaal. Elpaal fathered Eber, Misham, and Shemed. Shemed is said to have built Ono and Lod.
Other Expat Benjaminites
Beriah and Shema are named, though disconnected from the previous lineage. I initially thought them further sons of Elpaal, but the grammar is rather tricky. Of them, we learn that they lived in Aijalon, and that they (or their descendants) fought against the people of Gath, which would mean Philistines.
The list continues, shifting to a different formula. In this one, we get a list of names first, then we are told whose sons they are. It’s a rather annoying way of presenting information, I must say! In any case, the sons of Beriah are: Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, Michael, Ishpah, and Joha.
We then move back up to the sons of Elpaal, perhaps further sons or perhaps we are dealing with a different Elpaal: Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab.
Disconnected from Shaharaim’s lineage, we get the sons of Shimei: Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrah.
Then the sons of Shashak: Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, ABdon, Zichri, Hanan, Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, Iphdeiah, and Penuel.
Jeroham’s sons were: Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zichri. These, we are told, lived in Jerusalem. (Perhaps along with the Jebusites, as per Judges 1:21, or perhaps during the Davidic dynasty, or perhaps even in post-exilic times – it’s rather impossible to situation the lineage in time.)
Living in Gibeon, we get Jeiel – named the father of Gibeon – and his wife Maacah. Their sons are: Abdon, Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, Gedor, Ahio, Zecher, and Mikloth. Mikloth fathered Shimeah.
There’s an odd verse here: “Now these also dwelt opposite their kinsmen in Jerusalem, with their kinsmen” (1 Chron. 8:33). It seems odd that this should refer to Jeiel’s family, right after we are told that they were living in Gibeon. One possibility is that the sons moved to Jerusalem from Gibeon. Another is that Gibeon is geographically quite close to Jerusalem, and perhaps either fell under Jerusalem’s authority, or there was at least a good deal of traffic between the two towns. Yet another is that this verse is meant to apply to the next lineage, and not to Jeiel’s.
The Genealogy of Saul
In the final section of the chapter, we learn the lineage of Saul, beginning with Ner, who fathered Kish, who fathered Saul (1 Chron. 8:33). This contradicts 1 Sam. 9:1, where Kish is the son of Abiel. Further, if we look to 1 Sam. 14:51, we find Kish and Ner listed as brothers, both the sons of Abiel.
Another detail worth pointing out is that 1 Sam. 9:1 goes further back. It begins with Aphiah, who fathers Becorath, who fathers Zeror, who fathers Abiel, and only then do we get to Kish. Did the Chronicler not have access to those additional generations? Or did he choose not to include them?
The sons of Saul are listed as: Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. In 1 Sam. 14:49, Saul’s sons are listed as: Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua. This could be an error, or perhaps Ishvi was another of Eshbaal’s names; a nickname, for example. It could also be an error that Abinadab is omitted, or perhaps he died young and the author didn’t find him worth listing. This latter view is supported by 1 Samuel 31:6, where we learn that Saul and his “three” sons died on the battlefield. Either Abinadab was added to 1 Chron. 8:33 by error, or he was dead prior to the events of 1 Sam. 31:6 (or otherwise out of the picture, but I feel like David’s account would require an explanation for bypassing Abinadab in the succession).
Jonathan fathered Meribbaal, who fathered Micah. Micah fathered Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, who fathered Alemeth Azmaveth, and Zimri. Zimri fathered Moza, and Moza fathered Binea. Binea fathered Raphah, who fathered Eleasah, who fathered Azel. Azel’s sons are: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan.
Azel also had a brother, Eshek, who fathered Ulam, Jeush, and Eliphelet. Ulam fathered (directly or indirectly, sons and grandsons) 150 mighty warriors).
It’s worth noting that there is a son of Saul named Ishbosheth in 2 Sam. 2:8 and elsewhere. Ishbosheth would be translated as “man of shame”, as opposed to Eshbaal, which would be “man of Baal.” The son of Jonathan named Meribbaal (“Baal contends”) here is apparently the same person as Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth (“From the mouth of shame”), appearing in 2 Sam. 4:4 and elsewhere.
The reason for the author of 2 Samuel to altar these names is theological, concealing the honouring of Baal in the names of the sons of Israel’s first anointed king, and the beloved of the second. It seems clear that Saul and Jonathan worshipped Baal, instead of or as well as YHWH, and that the author of Samuel wanted to fudge that over.
That much is obvious, but the more interesting question is why the Chronicler would keep the original names intact. He could be working with a different source, one that hadn’t bowdlerized the names.
Another possibility is that the Chronicler views David as the true first king of Israel, the perfect monarch to which all others must be compared. It’s “Golden Age” thinking, where there was a perfect time when everything was set up the way God wanted it, and that we fell from that state of grace. The existence of prior YHWH-approved king complicates that narrative, especially if our archetypal king overthrew that original dynasty in a coup.
This provides the motivation to disparage Saul and his dynasty, to deny its legitimacy and therefore to argue that David was actually the first true YHWH-approved king. Keeping hints that the Saulide dynasty worshipped Baal certainly achieves that purpose, if subtly.
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Assessing Adolescents Using ADHD Rating Scales
Lenard A. Adler, MD (Chair)
Departments of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, and Psychiatry Service, New York VA Harbor Healthcare System, New York
Jeffrey H. Newcorn, MD
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Download the Clinician's Toolbox, a convenient online resource containing educational, diagnostic, and treatment-related tools for physicians and their patients with ADHD.
In 2009, the CDC’s National Health Interview Survey1 reported that about 8% of children and adolescents under 18 years old had received a diagnosis of ADHD. About 65% of those who are diagnosed with ADHD as children will continue to have the disorder as adolescents,2 and about 50% will continue to have the full syndrome as adults.3 Accurate diagnosis and treatment of ADHD in children and adolescents is essential to minimize the impairment that ADHD symptoms can cause. Patients also need reassessment over time to determine whether the disorder persists and to measure treatment response. Rating scales are helpful tools for assessing symptoms and ensuring the provision of appropriate treatment to young patients with ADHD.
ADHD in Adolescents
AV 1. ADHD Clinical Presentation in Adolescents (13 – 18 years) (00:25)
The negative impact of ADHD on adolescent development is far-reaching (AV 1AV 1).4,5 Poor planning and organizational skills—symptoms of ADHD associated with executive function impairment—can adversely impact scholastic development. An adolescent with ADHD may be less able to manage the increased cognitive demands presented in school, leading to lower educational achievement and resultant consequences such as changes in peer groups and lowered self-esteem.
Adolescents’ circumstances are similar to those of children, in that they attend school and generally live with their parents. However, adolescence is also the transitional period when children develop psychological autonomy. Adolescents with ADHD, though, may require increased monitoring from parents and school personnel, which can conflict with the developmental trajectory of the adolescent into increased independence.
AV 2. Driving Violations In Young Adults With and Without ADHD (00:25)
In general, symptoms of inattentiveness and hyperactivity-impulsivity are equally present in children, while hyperactive symptoms decline as adolescents transition into adulthood.3,4 But problems with inattention and impulsivity can affect developmental tasks in adolescence, and, if present, can lead to negative social consequences. For instance, adolescents with ADHD have an increased risk for incurring traffic violations and for being involved in motor vehicle accidents (AV 2AV 2).6
Evaluating ADHD During Adolescence
Children may not be evaluated for ADHD until adolescence for several reasons. The new challenges faced in middle and upper school—such as going to multiple classes, managing a locker, and having a less structured environment—may reveal impairments that were not apparent before. Alternatively, an adolescent’s reaction to an upsetting life event may precipitate an assessment that reveals primary or comorbid ADHD; ADHD may also be identified when adolescents with mood disorders that are not responding to treatment are assessed for comorbidities. In addition to mood disorders, conditions that are often comorbid with ADHD include conduct disorder and ODD.7 An adolescent may self-diagnose and request an evaluation, perhaps due to a friend or family member receiving an ADHD diagnosis. ADHD is also associated with a greater risk for, and an earlier onset of, substance abuse,8 and adolescents may be evaluated due to extensive use of nicotine or caffeine, misuse or diversion of medication, or frank substance abuse.
No litmus test exists to make the diagnosis of ADHD; a diagnosis can only be made through a thorough evaluation that includes a clinical interview. However, rating scales can assist clinicians in evaluating adolescents for the disorder and can provide a framework for discovering the degree of impairment associated with the patient’s symptoms.9 Scales that measure symptom frequency are useful for quantifying a patient’s symptoms at baseline and later measuring symptom improvement to verify that the patient is being treated adequately. Rating scales can help identify specific symptoms that should be targeted during treatment and can also facilitate discussion of ADHD symptoms with patients.
Sympton Rating Scales
Commonly used rating scales that assess symptoms include, but are not limited to, the following:
The Achenbach Child Behavior Check List has modules for teacher, parent, and self-reports and provides a comprehensive assessment of both competencies and behavioral and emotional problems for children aged 6 to 18 years.
The Adult ASRS v1.1 Symptom Checklist is an 18-question self-report scale, based on the DSM-IV-TR criteria, that places symptoms in context to gather more accurate information about frequency and severity. The ASRS is a WHO instrument in the public domain that has been translated into many languages and used internationally. The ASRS has undergone preliminary validation for use in adolescents.
The ADHD Rating Scale-IV is based on DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. The scale has parent and teacher versions and consists of 18 items that rate the frequency and severity of symptoms. Respondents are asked to rate the patient’s behavior based on the previous 6 months, in order to assess the child on current behavior and not on behaviors that may have occurred at a younger age. Gender and age-based norms are provided for scoring the results.
The BASC-2 is a broad-based set of scales with sections for clinical symptoms, adaptive skills, and executive function. The BASC-2 includes parent, teacher, and self-ratings for 3 age groups, including 12 to 21 years of age, for a comprehensive picture of the adolescent’s behavior.
The BRIEF has parent-, teacher-, and self-report forms and measures the clinical presentation of executive function for children aged 5 to 18 years.
The Brown ADD Scales include a frequency-based self-report scale that assesses 5 dimensions of symptoms related to executive function: organizing work, sustaining attention and concentration, sustaining alertness and effort, managing emotions, and using working memory.
Conners 3rd Edition has parent, teacher, and self-report forms that are available in full-length versions for initial evaluations and comprehensive reevaluations and in short versions that evaluate key symptoms for limited follow-up testing or when time is a factor. The Conners 3 ADHD Index is a 10-item subset of the Conners scales; 5 items measure inattention/overactivity, and 5 items measure aggression/oppositional behavior.
Diagnostic Rating Scales
ADHD instruments more closely linked to diagnostic systems include, but are not limited to, the folllowing:
The AdolCDS, an analog of the Adult ACDS (a semi-structured interview that includes 84 items), is a physician-administered scale that uses adolescent-specific prompts. The AdolCDS can be obtained by contacting adultadhd@nyumc.org.
The K-SADS-PL ADHD module is a semi-structured interview administered by interviewing the parents and the child and then conducting screening. In the screening interview, 4 symptoms of ADHD are noted, along with a series of child-specific prompts to elicit more complete answers; symptoms are rated on current and past severity.
The SNAP-IV Rating Scale is based on DSM-IV criteria for ADHD and includes DSM-IV items for ODD and aggression. The scale has 90 questions and is used by teachers and parents.
The Vanderbilt ADHD Rating Scale (Parent and Teacher versions) is a 55-item scale that rates ADHD symptoms and screens for mood and anxiety disorders, ODD, conduct disorder, and academic performance.
Neuropsychological Tests
Although neuropsychological tests are not diagnostic of ADHD, they can be helpful to the clinician when evaluating a patient.10 In addition, neuropsychological tests are useful for delineating cognitive dysfunction, determining educational placement, and accessing services in the educational domain for patients with ADHD. Commonly employed tests include the CPT, the Stroop Color and Word Test, and the Trail Making Test.
For Clinical Use
Be aware that some children with ADHD may not be diagnosed until adolescence, when changing life situations and developmental challenges may reveal impairments that were not apparent in childhood
Conduct a clinical interview and obtain a longitudinal history of symptoms, establish impairment, and rule out other psychiatric disorders when evaluating an adolescent for ADHD
Use rating scales to help evaluate patients for impairment, to discern individual symptoms that require targeted treatment, and to measure treatment success in patients with ADHD
ACDS = ADHD Clinical Diagnostic Scale; ADD = attention deficit disorder; ADHD = attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder; AdolCDS = Adolescent Clinical Diagnostic Scale; ASRS = Adult ADHD Self Report Scale; BASC-2 = Behavior Assessment System for Children, ed. 2; BRIEF = Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function; CDC = US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CPT = Continuous Performance Test; DSM-IV = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition; DSM-IV-TR = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision; K-SADS = Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia; ODD = oppositional defiant disorder; SNAP = Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham; WHO = World Health Organization
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Little symphonies | Phil Spector
Phil Spector, 1958
"Little symphonies for the kids."
"I'm dealing in rock'n'roll. I'm, like, I'm not a bona fide human being."
"I am dysfunctional by choice, and I love my attitude problem."
"I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved
the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still."
"When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear."
"The best part of breaking up... is when you're making up."
"God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil."
"Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police."
"I am constantly trapped in my own freedom, environment, and heredity."
"I've always had a problem within myself of feeling that people didn't
really see me as a musician and I'm out to get a bit of musical credibility."
"People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them,
'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul."
"The gun went off accidentally."
With three friends from high school, Marshall Leib, Sandy Nelson, and Annette Kleinbard, Phil Spector formed a group, the Teddy Bears
In 1958 Phil Spector, as the producer and co-founder of the Teddy Bears, performed on guitar and vocals,and penned their 1958 million seller hit, “To Know Him Is To Love Him” which is actually about his father who committed suicide, on April 20, 1949, when Spector was only nine.
While recording the Teddy Bears' album, Spector had met Lester Sill, a former promotion man. In 1960, Sill arranged for Spector to work as an apprentice to Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in New York.
Spector quickly learned how to use a studio and found his true calling as a record producer.
The Ronettes with Phil Spector, Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 1963, ph. Ray Avery
Phil Spector, Cynthia, John Lennon, 1964
Phil Spector, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Gene Pitney - posed, group shot, holding drinks, 1964
Phil Spector in the studio with Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Bobby Hatfield, 1965, ph. Ray Avery
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Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant can be controlled by inaudible commands
Thread: Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant can be controlled by inaudible commands
#1 Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant can be controlled by inaudible commands
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Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google’s Assistant were meant to be controlled by live human voices, but all three AI assistants are susceptible to hidden commands undetectable to the human ear, researchers in China and the United States have discovered. The New York Times reports today that the assistants can be controlled using subsonic commands hidden in radio music, YouTube videos, or even white noise played over speakers, a potentially huge security risk for users.
According to the report, the assistants can be made to dial phone numbers, launch websites, make purchases, and access smart home accessories — such as door locks — at the same time as human listeners are perceiving anything from completely different spoken text to recordings of music. In some cases, assistants can be instructed to take pictures or send text messages, receiving commands from up to 25 feet away through a building’s open windows.
Researchers at Berkeley said that they can modestly alter audio files “to cancel out the sound that the speech recognition system was supposed to hear and replace it with a sound that would be transcribed differently by machines while being nearly undetectable to the human ear.” Princeton University and China’s Zhejiang University researchers enhanced the attack by first muting the AI device so its own responses would also be inaudible to the user
https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/10/s...ible-commands/
Unknown philosopher at a St. Patrick's Day celebration 1967
1 beer between 3 guys is better than no beers between no guys
Nah... There's something funny about Dean Takahashi, the founder of VentureBeat. He became a laughingstock-meme on YouTube.
I can only assume that VentureBeat's assertions rely on an over-elaborate conspiracy involving too many people with too much time on their hands.
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It has been known for a while that Alexa responds to commands that are beyond the abilities of humans to hear. Apparently, it was how Alexa was tested in order not to drop people crazy hearing the same thing over and over.
Cast your burden on the Lord,
and he will sustain you;
he will never permit
the righteous to be moved.
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I don't have the Alexa thing. I do have an I-phone, but I have never enabled Suri.
If I had both, I would be paranoid that they were plotting against me. LOL.
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Cast & crew reunions for award winning Imbroglio and Girl Meets Roach screenings at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival
Imbroglio won the award for Best Action Short at the 2018 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival in downtown Los Angeles, where it screened along with Girl Meets Roach. Cast and crew from both films joined us for the festival.
Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival 2018 Best Action Short Film
Imbroglio has been awarded Best Action Short Film at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival.
The film screens Saturday, February 24th at 1pm at Regal Cinemas / LA Live in downtown Los Angeles.
Tickets available here.
Flagler Film Festival 2018 Best Director for a Comedy "Girl Meets Roach"
Quite honored to win Best Director of a Comedy for Girl Meets Roach at the Flagler Film Festival.
Imbroglio Awarded at the HorrorHaus Film Festival
Congrats to the award winning members of our IMBROGLIO crew—the HorrorHaus Film Festival selected Eric Ulbrich for Best Cinematography, John Fitzpatrick for Best Editing and Michael Capuano and his team at Icemen Audio (Evan Menak & David Beede) for Best Sound Design—we’re damn proud to see your work so highly regarded, fellas! And thank you HorrorHaus Film Festival!
Christopher Zatta and Alison Zatta at HorrorHaus Film Festival
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Excited to have Imbroglio selected for the 2017 Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival in Belgium
The festival runs October 26th - 31st. Further details on the screening for IMBROGLIO still to come ― rrfff.be
Imbroglio to screen at the 20th Annual FirstGlance Film Festival in Philadelphia
The festival runs October 6th - 8th. Further details on the screening for IMBROGLIO still to come ― firstglancefilms.com
Imbroglio at LA Shorts International Film Festival
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Composer Joseph Trapanese nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award at Soundtrack Cologne for his work on Imbroglio
The Soundtrack Cologne event runs from August 24th - 26th. IMBROGLIO screens Saturday, August 26th 2:30 PM ― soundtrackcologne.de
"The Peer Raben Music Award is awarding a prize for the best music in a short film. Honoured will be a film score where the relationship between the narration and the music is innovative and dramaturgically striking. The prize is in memory of the great German film composer Peer Raben."
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And a pair of reviews coming out of the film festival:
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Posts Tagged ‘Holy Fuck’
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club lead a pack of concert announcements
James MinchinYesterday was one of those wonderful inbox-bursting days of press releases that, rather than having to try to figure out what to write about for a post, I had to choose what to save for later. Today we’ll cover all the concert announcements that will be bringing acts from near and far through town in the next few months.
We’ll start with California’s goth-garage rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club because, well, they haven’t been here since Spring 2010 and they give good – or at least smoky – photo. The details of their sixth album Specter At The Feast – coming March 18 – were revealed last week, but they’ve quickly followed that up with a full slate of tour dates that bring them back to Toronto for a show at The Kool Haus on May 9, tickets $25 in advance.
And as is the custom these days, they’re drumming up anticipation for the new record with a series of teaser videos.
MP3: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Whatever Happened to My Rock and Roll (Punk Song)” (live)
Trailer: Specter At The Feast Part 1
The fourth and final installment of the Fucked Up-curated Long Winter concert series has announced their lineup, and addition to Toronto’s hardcore heroes once again headlining the affair, they’ll be joined by Holy Fuck, The Sadies, and more music, art, food, and whatsit. That goes down February 8 at The Great Hall, admission pay-what-you-can.
MP3: Holy Fuck – “Lovely Allen”
MP3: The Sadies – “Another Year Again”
American electronic duo Matmos have announced a North American tour in support of their new record The Marriage Of Two Minds, out February 18. They haven’t settled on a venue yet, but they’ll be in Toronto on February 14. Update: It’s The Garrison.
MP3: Matmos – “Sun On 5 at 152”
It’s been known for a while that punk-poet legend Patti Smith would be in town at some point as part of her Camera Solo exhibition running February 9 to May 13 at the Art Gallery Of Ontario, but NOW finally has details – and they’re pretty swell. She’ll be performing both music and poetry at the March edition of their 1st Thursday events, with two shows on the night of March 8, one early and one late. Tickets are $15, limited to two per person, and go on sale February 8 at 10AM.
MP3: Patti Smith – “Wing”
Having failed to make it over here to support Centipede Hz when it came out last year, Animal Collective will seek to remedy this with a March 9 show at the Danforth Music Hall, and perhaps by way of making up for the delay, will be bringing Dan Deacon along as support, even though he was here just in November in support of his latest America. Tickets for that are $27.50 for floors, $25 for balcony seats, all general admission.
MP3: Animal Collective – “Today’s Supernatural”
MP3: Dan Deacon – “Lots”
Pennsylvania punk-asses Pissed Jeans will be at Lee’s Palace on April 16 to play you songs from their new record Honey’s, coming for your ears February 12. Tickets for the show are $15 in advance.
MP3: Pissed Jeans – “Bathroom Laughter”
Having had to cancel their last scheduled appearance back in November, Vancouver punks White Lung have announced a make-up date as part of a Spring tour with Brooklyn’s Hunters, who made a favourable impression last Winter opening up for The Kills. That bill is at The Hard Luck on April 22, tickets $10.
MP3: Hunters – “Headache”
Video: White Lung – “Deadbeat”
We may have to wait an extra six weeks for North American release of Daughter’s debut If You Leave – it’s out in Europe March 18 but not here until April 30 – but at least we’re getting a North American tour immediately thereafter. They’ll be at The Great Hall on May 7, tickets $16.50. Somewhat bigger than The Drake down the street where they made their debut in October, but still pretty cozy.
MP3: Daughter – “Love”
And last but certainly not least, there’s a festival date to keep you warm until, well, it’s actually warm. To mark their tenth anniversary, local label Arts & Crafts have coerced flagship act Broken Social Scene to break their long-standing retirement – inactive since November 2011! – for a one-off show that will probably be one of those “all hands on deck” affairs that sets Toronto hearts a-fluttering. The two-stage, all-day event – dubbed Field Trip and happening on June 8 at Fort York’s Garrison Commons – will see them be joined by a goodly portion of the label’s active roster – both domestic and international – including Feist, Bloc Party, Hayden, Cold Specks, Timber Timbre, Ra Ra Riot, and more. Early bird tickets go for $55, regular tickets for $75, and kids get in free.
MP3: Broken Social Scene – “World Sick”
MP3: Hayden – “Old Dreams”
MP3: Timber Timbre – “Black Water”
MP3: Ra Ra Riot – “Dying Is Fine”
Video: Feist – “Graveyard”
Video: Bloc Party – “Kettling”
Video: Cold Specks – “Hector”
Tags: Animal Collective, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Cold Specks, Dan Deacon, Daughter, Feist, Fucked Up, Hayden, Holy Fuck, Hunters, Matmos, Patti Smith, Ra Ra Riot, Sadies, Timber Timbre, White Lung
Drill It Up
ALL CAPS! island fest lines up A Place To Bury Strangers and Yamantaka//Sonic Titan; cares not one whit for your noise regulation bylaws
Emily BergerWhile it’s true that Toronto’s days of having a BIG annual music festival out on the islands appear to be over – the locally-grown, Wavelength-affiliated ALL CAPS fest has been more then happy to step in for those needing to combine a ferry crossing with live music to make their Summer worthwhile.
Since their inaugural edition in 2009, they’ve put together bills that have showcased a lot of local and a little bit of imported talent, combined with art and film components and as of last year, overnight camping but this year’s lineup – set to take place on August 11 and 12 at Gibraltar Point – has quite surprised me with its all-out aggressiveness.
The first night is headlined by Montreal’s Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, whom I’m not going to try and find new words to describe but were a real highlight of NXNE, with an eclectic undercard consisting of Maylee Todd, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Tyvek, Wet Hair, and Esther Grey. The Sunday night will be closed out by Brooklyn noise-and-strobe freaks A Place To Bury Strangers, following sets from Lioness, OG Melody, Young Mother, and Canadian Winter. Many/most of these acts are only peripherally known to me – if that – so I suggest checking out the Wavelength site for capsule descriptions, but I will say that they won’t be boring. Unless you’re bored of interesting things.
A limited number of two-day passes including camping on the island are available for $65, two-day passes that force you to go home and sleep in your own bed on Saturday night will run you $30 and single-day tickets are a very reasonable $17; ferry tickets are not included in the price. They go on sale on July 12 but you can also get them now via the IndieGogo fundraising site. And while Gibraltar Point is way on the other end of the islands from the residences at Ward’s Island and faces out into the lake, I can’t help but hope that there’s a southwesterly wind that wafts just a little bit of Oliver Ackermann’s sonic armageddon over their cottages. Just a little.
Guitar World, The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, and CultureMob talk to Ackermann about the new APTBS album Worship.
MP3: A Place To Bury Strangers – “You Are The One”
MP3: Lioness – “The Night”
MP3: Choir! Choir! Choir! – “I Want It That Way”
Video: Yamanta//Sonic Titan – “Hoshi Neko”
Video: Maylee Todd – “Heart Throb”
Video: OG Melody – “Change Gon Come”
Interview and The Georgia Straight profile Japandroids, who’ve made another couple track from Celebration Rock available to download.
MP3: Japandroids – “The Nights Of Wine And Roses”
MP3: Japandroids – “Younger Us”
Daytrotter has posted a session with Memoryhouse.
Rolling Stone and NPR profile Metric, bringing it home to the Air Canada Centre on November 14.
Brightest Young Things and The AV Club talk to Spencer Krug of Moonface.
Exclaim gets Brian Borcherdt to discuss the state of Holy Fuck even as he focuses on his new project Dusted, whose debut Total Dust is out on Tuesday, is available to stream now at Chart, and they open up for Chad VanGaalen at The Mod Club on July 26.
Stream: Dusted / Total Dust
Beatroute and Chart have interviews with Vancouver’s Chains Of Love.
NPR gets into Americana with Neil Young, adding a World Cafe session on top of the Fresh Air interview.
The Mountain Goats celebrate their 40,000th Twitter follower by giving away an old demo track.
MP3: The Mountain Goats – “All Devils All Devils”
That first preview of the new Antlers EP Undersea is now available to download. It’s out July 24.
MP3: The Antlers – “Drift Dive”
DIY and Prefix have features on Dirty Projectors, in town tonight at the Danforth Music Hall.
Spinner talks to Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells.
Tags: A Place To Bury Strangers, Antlers, Canadian Winter, Chains Of Love, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Dirty Projectors, Dusted, Esther Grey, Holy Fuck, Japandroids, Lioness, Maylee Todd, Memoryhouse, Metric, Moonface, Mountain Goats, Neil Young, OG Melody, Sleigh Bells, Tyvek, Wet Hair, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Young Mother
Play By Heart
Review of Diamond Rings’ Special Affections and giveaway
Robin SharpThe Diamond Rings journey thus far – from viral video through legal scuffle, at festivals at home and abroad – has been documented hereabouts pretty well, I think, but there’s still one fairly important – or only important – facet of the tale to be considered – the debut album, Special Affections, which finally arrives next Tuesday, October 26.
For an artist who has been so successful with the single format – a new track, or more specifically a new video – every few months to keep interest alive, the full-length could be a daunting proposition; after all, what works well in 4-minute portions may prove to be less-so over 40, particularly when it’s of as specific a sound and style as John O’Regan has defined Diamond Rings to be. So it’s to John O’s credit that Special Affections is strong enough to stand apart from the extravagant visuals that define Diamond Rings live and on video, though it does take on a different character in just the audio realm; more minor in key and sombre in tone and with the leanness of the sound even more evident. Still, he finds enough variety in the keys/laptop/voice DIY electro-pop recipe that forms the backbone of the record to fully engage anyone who’s ear was tweaked by any of the lead-up singles.
That said, it’s telling that the best moments on the record come when O’Reagan loosens the man-and-machine aesthetic and allows elements like the female backing vocals on “On Our Own” or the raw electric guitar he so ably wields in The D’Urbervilles into the mix. Beyond just elevating the songs they appear on, they point to a more interesting future for Diamond Rings – one where it’s more than a pseudonym but a proper project or even band. The long-term prospects of the current aesthetic are unclear, but if the sounds start clearly serving the songs and not the other way around, then the sky is the limit. But that’s a suggestion for tomorrow; for today, Diamond Rings is John O’Reagan and Special Affections delivers on all promises made.
X-Tra has a feature piece on Diamond Rings, whom after an intense CMJ festival this week, will be playing a number of Canadian dates before packing up his glitter and laptop for a jaunt to the UK. Record release day, October 26, will be spent at home with a special launch party at The Garrison and courtesy of Embrace, I have three pairs of passes to give away for the show. To enter, email me at contests AT chromewaves.net with “I want to see Diamond Rings” in the subject line and your full name in the body. Contest closes at midnight, October 22.
MP3: Diamond Rings – “All Yr Songs”
MP3: Diamond Rings – “Wait And See”
Video: Diamond Rings – “Something Else”
Video: Diamond Rings – “Show Me Your Stuff”
Video: Diamond Rings – “All Yr Songs”
Video: Diamond Rings – “Wait & See”
MySpace: Diamond Rings
Westword interviews PS I Love You, who are opening up for Diamond Rings on the 26th and have released a new video from Meet Me At The Muster Station; they’re playing a free in-store at Soundscapes at 7PM that same evening.
Video: PS I Love You – “Butterflies & Boners”
Pitchfork reports that the long wait for a new Destroyer record ends when the terrifically-titled Kaputt drops on January 25.
Born Ruffians have released a new video from their sophomore effort Say It and will put out an EP of unreleased odds and ends on November 2 called Plinky Plonk – it’s digital-only with physical copies only available at their shows.
Video: Born Ruffians – “Nova-Leigh”
Holy Fuck have gone cat-crazy for their latest video from Latin, further proving that cats = internet gold.
Video: Holy Fuck – “Red Lights”
Know what would be great? If for their just-announced Hallowe’en show at The Garrison, Fucked Up and The Sadies dressed up as each other. Pink Eyes in a Nudie suit, The Sadies in their underwear… actually, never mind. Ticket info still forthcoming; Times Square has an interview with Dallas Good of The Sadies.
MP3: Fucked Up – “No Epiphany”
Forest City Lovers have announced an in-store at Criminal Records on November 4 at 6PM, the day before their big show at The Horseshoe. That’d be November 5. If it was unclear.
MP3: Forest City Lovers – “Light You Up”
Suuns will hold a record release show for their debut Zeroes QC at The Silver Dollar on November 26, even though the album has been out since last week. Chart has an interview with the band.
MP3: Suuns – “Up Past The Nursery”
So I’m off to Halifax for the Halifax Pop Explosion on Wednesday, and having never been to Halifax or further east in Canada than Quebec City, am soliciting suggestions for things to do and see whilst out there. Most recommendations I’ve gotten so far are beers – which is great though dangerous – but beyond the eat/drink, what else should I make sure to fit in? I’ve got Citadel Hill, the ferry to Dartmouth, Point Pleasant Park… and?
Tags: Born Ruffians, Destroyer, Diamond Rings, Forest City Lovers, Fucked Up, Holy Fuck, PS I Love You, Sadies, Suuns
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Four Night Rider
The Rural Alberta Advantage make it home for the holidays
Joe FudaAnd now, a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with a certain record label that is now old enough to drink in the US.
Starting locally, with The Rural Alberta Advantage. After one of the best and busiest 2009s on record, the trio has been relatively quiet through most of this year working on the follow-up to their debut Hometowns, as these photos (sort of) attest. But you can only keep road warriors in one place for so long and they’ll be on the road again starting at the end of this month with a pretty extensive Fall tour that takes them out across the prairies to the west coast of Canada, across the Atlantic for a slew of European and UK dates and then, finally, back home to Toronto for a show at Lee’s Palace on December 16 – their first proper local show in over a year. It’ll be good to hear some of the new material that will appear on album number two when it hits sometime next year, but mostly it’ll just be nice to see them again. Tickets for the show are $15 in advance.
MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Frank, AB”
MP3: The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Don’t Haunt This Place”
And more to the show announcements from the past week or so – Avi Buffalo will precede their October 18 show at the Horseshoe with an in-store at Soundscapes on October 17 at 7PM. It’ll be interesting to see if Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg can tear it up as fiercely on acoustic as he does electric. I am guessing yes.
MP3: Avi Buffalo – “Remember Last Time”
MP3: Avi Buffalo – “What’s In It For?”
Also doing it free for the kids is PS I Love You, whose just-released debut Meet Me At The Muster Station has been getting some impressive Pitchfork-love. They’ll be at Soundscapes on October 26 at 7PM before heading down to The Garrison to open up for Diamond Rings. The duo are profiled in The Province, National Post, Chart and Exclaim.
MP3: PS I Love You – “Butterflies & Boners”
MP3: PS I Love You – “Facelove”
Forest City Lovers have set a date at The Horseshoe for November 5, amidst a smattering of Fall dates. They’ve also just put out a new pensive-to-party video from Carriage.
Video: Forest City Lovers – “Tell Me Cancer”
Horse Feathers and Anaïs Mitchell will team up for a show at the Drake Underground on November 8.
MP3: Horse Feathers – “Curs In The Weeds”
MP3: Anaïs Mitchell – “Flowers (Eurydice’s Song)”
The Balconies, who like The RAA were omni-present in 2009 but relatively quiet in 2010, are back for a show at The Horseshoe on November 9 – hopefully as a precursor to a second album.
MP3: The Balconies – “Serious Bedtime”
The Meligrove Band have put together both a North American tour for and a video from their just-released new record Shimmering Lights. They’re at The Great Hall on November 12 and there’s interviews at The National Post and dose.
MP3: The Meligrove Band – “Bones Attack!!!”
MP3: The Meligrove Band – “Halflight”
Video: The Meligrove Band – “Racing To Shimmering Lights”
Rufus Wainwright has a date at Massey Hall on December 4.
Video: Rufus Wainwright – “Zebulon”
Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, has slated a North American tour in support of his new record It’s What I’m Thinking Pt.1 — Photographing Snowflakes. The record is out next Tuesday and will be available in a variety of deluxe and standard packages, as detailed at Exclaim. The Toronto date of the aforementioned tour is December 8 at The Great Hall, tickets $27.50 in advance.
Video: Badly Drawn Boy – “Too Many Miracles”
Interpol will be making good on the support slot for U2 this past Summer which was canceled along with the entire tour when Bono realized he was an old man. They’ll be at the Air Canada Centre on July 11 of next year.
MP3: Interpol – “Lights”
BeatRoute discusses The Age Of Adz with Sufjan Stevens. The record is out October 12 and he plays Massey Hall on October 13.
Murray Lightburn of The Dears talks to eye in advance of the band’s three-night residency at The Garrison next week, October 13 through 15, where they’ll play all of their new, as-yet untitled and release date-less album, start to finish.
The Oklahoma Daily and Austinist talk to members of Local Natives, who’ve put out a new video and have a sold-out show at the Mod Club on October 19.
Video: Local Natives – “Wide Eyes”
Spinner has an interview with Lissie, who brings her full-length debut Catching A Tiger to the El Mocambo on October 19. There’s also a new video from said record.
Video: Lissie – “Everywhere I Go”
Uptown and The Ottawa Citizen profile Rae Spoon, in town for a show at the Gladstone on October 21.
Stars, who are playing Massey Hall on October 26, are interviewed by BeatRoute and The Huffington Post.
Spinner talks to Black Mountain. They’ll be dressing up as a band playing The Phoenix on Hallowe’en.
Thanks Captain Obvious, The Village Voice and Spinner talk to Sharon Van Etten about her new record Epic. She is at Lee’s Palace on November 5 supporting Junip.
The Wooden Sky, who’ve got a date at Lee’s Palace on November 6, have just been featured in a Daytrotter session and a Gateway interview.
Wolf Parade have rolled out a new video from Expo 86. They’ll be at the Sound Academy on November 26.
Video: Wolf Parade – “Yulia”
NPR has a World Cafe session with Ra Ra Riot, in town for a show at the Mod Club on December 1. There’s also interviews at The Omaha World-Herald and Wall Street Journal.
Kevin Drew tells Spin why Broken Social Scene are called Broken Social Scene while Brendan Canning talks to The Georgia Straight and Andrew Whiteman to The Gateway. They are at the Sound Academy on December 9.
BeatRoute chats with Owen Pallett.
Pitchfork interviews Arcade Fire.
Spinner, The Gateway, See and BeatRoute talk to Holy Fuck.
Over at YouTube, Daniel Lanois offers a track-by-track analysis of Neil Young’s Le Noise from the view of the producer’s chair.
Didn’t The Flaming Lips just release a video from Embryonic last week? Yes they did. But here’s another one anyways.
Video: The Flaming Lips – “The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine”
How do you know Of Montreal were just in the UK? Interviews with Kevin Barnes at Drowned In Sound, The Quietus and The Line Of Best Fit.
The Fly talks to the ladies of Warpaint about their forthcoming debut The Fool, hitting the streets on October 26.
MOVE talks to Mountain Goat Peter Hughes.
Craig Finn of The Hold Steady discusses the benefits of getting older with The Boston Globe.
And seriously, this isn’t even nearly everything I’ve had backlogged to post over the past week.
Tags: Anais Mitchell, Avi Buffalo, Badly Drawn Boy, Balconies, Black Mountain, Broken Social Scene, Dears, Flaming Lips, Forest City Lovers, Hold Steady, Holy Fuck, Horse Feathers, Interpol, Lissie, Local Natives, Meligrove Band, Mountain Goats, Neil Young, of montreal, Owen Pallett, PS I Love You, Rae Spoon, Rufus Wainwright, Rural Alberta Advantage, Sharon Van Etten, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Warpaint, Wolf Parade, Wooden Sky
"Balloons"/"Super Inuit"
Holy Fuck covers Foals covers Holy Fuck
Young TurksAt first blush, neither Foals nor Holy Fuck have much in common with the other. One is an Oxford, UK-based post-punk outfit built on stabby guitars and tense vocals, the other is a Toronto, Canada-bred electronic-rock band based on squelching synths and no vocals. But both have been nominated for prestigious, astrologically-named awards in their respective countries, are likely to induce dancing – though while Holy Fuck can soundtrack proper grooving, Foals are more likely to induce nervous twitching – and the two toured the UK together back in 2007.
It was an experience which seemed positive enough that they released a now out-of-print split 12″ wherein each covered one of the others’ songs – Foals tackling the opening track from Holy Fuck’s debut LP and Holy Fuck transmuting one of the singles from Foals’ first record Antidotes. Neither sounds much like the original but sound pretty cool in their own right, and that’s really kind of the point, isn’t it?
Both Foals and Holy Fuck have released new records this year – Foals with Total Life Forever and Holy Fuck with Latin – and both are touring North America (though not together this time) and their paths will almost cross in Toronto next week – Foals are at Lee’s Palace on September 27 and Holy Fuck at the Phoenix on September 29. Red & Black has an interview with Holy Fuck.
MP3: Foals – “Super Inuit”
MP3: Holy Fuck – “Balloons”
Video: Holy Fuck – “Super Inuit”
Video: Foals – “Balloons”
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How Much Would It Cost To Build The Death Star?
February 15, 2012 in Editorial, Top
Building a massive space weapon is all very well, but you have to find the materials to build it with. It’s easy to say that “sure, the Death Star would be expensive” but is there actually enough iron in the Earth to make the first Death Star? Centives decided to find out.
We began by looking at how big the Death Star is. The first one is reported to be 140km in diameter and it sure looks like it’s made of steel. But how much steel? We decided to model the Death Star as having a similar density in steel as a modern warship. After all, they’re both essentially floating weapons platforms so that seems reasonable.
Name: HMS Illustrious
Volume: 28,591.2 m3
Mass: 22,000 tonnes
Scaling up to the Death Star, this is about 1.08×1015 tonnes of steel. 1 with fifteen zeros.
Which seems like a colossal mass but we’ve calculated that from the iron in the earth, you could make just over 2 million* Death Stars. You see the Earth’s crust may have a limited amount of iron, but the core is mostly our favourite metal and is both very big and very dense, and it’s from here that most of our death-star iron would come.
Name: Death Star
Volume: 1,440,000 kilometres3
Mass: 1.08 x 1015 tonnes
But, before you go off to start building your apocalyptic weapon, do bear in mind two things. Firstly, the two million death stars is mostly from the Earth’s core which we would all really rather you didn’t remove. And secondly, at today’s rate of steel production (1.3 billion tonnes annually), it would take 833,315 years to produce enough steel to begin work. So once someone notices what you’re up to, you have to fend them off for 800 millennia before you have a chance to fight back. In context, it takes under an hour to get the steel for HMS Illustrious.
Oh, and the cost of the steel alone? At 2012 prices, about $852,000,000,000,000,000. Or roughly 13,000 times the world’s GDP.**
But then again, you can just take out a loan from the entire planet and then default on them in the most awesome way possible.
(For the record when converting between iron and steel, Centives assumed a medium steel of 99.5% iron)
*Centives erronously reported this figure as 2 billion, not 2 million. Our thanks to commenter Shaun for pointing out this error
**Centives erroneously reported this figure as $8,100,000,000,000,000, which was off by a magnitude of 100. We’d like to thank commenter Ianvl for pointing this out. Despite our original error, the cost of the death star still comes out to be 13,000 times the world’s GDP as we originally reported. Sincere apologies for the mistake.
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Not a slave of The System says:
There is no space. We haven’t been there. Ever. We can’t go there. Because it doesn’t exist. Open your eyes. NASA is fake. Thus we can’t build a Death Star. You can dream about it though, nothing wrong with Science Fiction. But it only remains a Science Fiction. It will exist only in our imaginations.
Moron. There is space. Just look up at night
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Montoya M Luis Javir says:
that’s way too expensive.
Fox says:
OMG, This and That! A solar system of 12 Halo ring worlds & The Ark, seems to be more useful than –
Even if a Death Star – Star Destour, Class Object. So it can be pointed at all sentian life ever to evolve.
Least keep an eye on Donnal Trump & the Rock-i-Fellows Families of Trillionaries & Evil Gold Sack, scume!
Make yourselves useful! or evolve a little, class 0 or class 1 can’t even do that much under their thumbs.. XD
Governing leaders are liers & cheaters robbing the would. WAR Is not to be Fought! Crime made us pay taxes!t
That’s why we have police & law enforcement!? No, their privately paid!
Start training for the 5th wave, hit the life bout – star ships, escape with the humanities intact from it’s self & aliens!
School is spoon fed & limmited information poorly staffed & over paided! the economy is BS & Money is a joke!
All wer tools, but now all is being used agaist ‘us the people!’ by the higher ups while they get Rich the Fat CEO’s!
The Light of the Force calls! Avoid the one tracked mind that of humanity, they are among us! & Religion? serusly!?
51% is kind of high for millitary taxes! i say give the top in the range of 1.0% to 2.X% to nasa, & Togetter…
bill gates, opara, mc donnals & even evil ass Wall Mart plus the Damn Pope could feed world hungar!!! So!?
Tell them, I dare them to do the right thing! But they all, sold their souls! So shit, why not!? NO Excussist!!!
That was an entertaining rant. I see a few problems with it though. The first thing I notice is the world hunger thing. They may be able to pay for the food to fix world hunger and I’m guessing here, but I’m pretty sure you live in an area where food is easy to get to. We don’t have enough food to feed everyone in the world unless the people who have easy access to food decide to give up a big portion of their food. I’m sure you don’t want that.
We pay so much for military because we are the best military in the world. You might say since we’re the best military in the world, we don’t need to pay so much money for it, the reason we stay the best military in the world is because we spend so much money on it.
The economy is not BS. You make something, you put a price on it. That person pays the price, boom. You’ve got money. The economy is the reason why people in America live such comfortable lives. We have jobs that we can earn money through to for everything we own. Either, you live with your parents still or you’re on your own, but you know that you depend on that job or you depend on your parents to keep the house running from their jobs. Or maybe they’re retired, in which case you’re living off of the money that they spent most of their lives stocking up.
The police may be paid privately, I don’t know enough about it to say so, but they are still protecting us. The reason you don’t have dozens of people roaming the streets looking for a person to hurt or a house to rob is because the police took care of them. If we didn’t have the police, we probably would be living in an anarchy right now. So show a little more respect.
First I would like to say that Star Wars is a fantasy world with some science and it. George Lucas created the death Star as the giant dragon that the hero had to slay. George Lucas had no idea about economy or scale that he was creating for said Dragon. For his hero to have the proper scale and scope of his story. The Dragon needed to be beyond belief so he (Lucas) made a giant starship so big so over the top that nothing could destroy it. That is until our hero shows up. That makes Skywalker’s victory over the the Death Star. That much more than if it’d been just a single starship or even a fleet of starships.
That being said, doing some quick calculations and looking up online sources. The death Star would probably cost about 12% of the Galactic’s budget. But that assumes the cost of metal and labor. In our own solar system. There are asteroids made of iron and nickel that are roughly the size of mountains. We do not have a cheap and reliable way to get to these asteroids to mind them. In this Star Wars universe space travel is easy and reliable. In the extended universe of Star Wars. There are many races that have been conquered as slaves and used as slave labor, as well as robots/droids.
The size of the Death Star seems to be somewhat variable. It ranges from a small as 120 km to as large as 900 km, if we use the largest size for this comparison. Then, this is roughly the same size largest asteroid in the asteroid belt known as Ceres. If we assume that the Death Star has an average density of water. Then it’s mass would be about 2×10^14 kg. We would only have to mine a couple of hundred asteroids made of nickel iron to get the materials needed to build the Death Star. If we use the smaller size we would only need to mind a few asteroids.
In the Galactic Republic. There was between 1 million and 5 million star systems. While in the entire galaxy of the Star Wars universe. There is said to be 180 billion star systems. If each of those had one habitable and a few that could be made habitable. Each system with its own asteroid belt. The cost of metal to build this technological terror known as the Death Star would be a small part in a Galactic budget.
Dennis Neal Hanes says:
To determine the cost of something like the Star Wars Death star, a moon size space station in terms we humans could understand is impossible, primarily due to the fact that the star wars universe is fictional and the technology is to us largely techno babble, and the materials do not yet exist, and the construction techniques of building such a mega structure is unknown to us,and are not yet known ,primarily due to the fact that currently Earth has not reached stage one society, the republic in star wars is a class three society, that is one that has the ability to use the resources of a large part of their galaxy, and with the use of droids and the ability to construct enormous robot factory’s to produce the materials needed on site, by the mining of not only the planets in a given system but any asteroids for any necessary materials and then using slave labor, who’s food and housing would only be supplied as needed, most likely at the bare minimum,and any who died would merely be deposed with the rest of the trash, the cost to the empire would be small compared to an all organic work force that had to be paid, and transported to and from the construction site, and the empire would have to merely conscript any materials needed from any world and the cost would be spread among all the members of the empire, IE the higher tech items such as computer cores and their subsystems. there may well be a ripple in the destruction of two such structures, though only one was completed, the second was still under construction, the cost might have been higher due to the demand that the main planet destroying weapon be made operational, what is not mentioned is the cost of a large number of imperial class star destroyers and a least one super star destroyer, it was never mention what the payroll of a craft such as the Death star which has a crew compliment 500.000 to one million or any craft in the empire and the cost of training crews to operate the replacement ships not insubstantial in of its self, the technology used in the star wars universe was understood by all the member planets by the time of the rebellion a language called standard was universal and was being used, and with translator droids commutations between the various species of sentient life was easily done this would allow the empire to conscript a work force consisting of beings from almost every planet in the empire, ,you did what ever the empire ordered you do, all the emperor cared about is the success of his plans to rule the galaxy, such a person as the emperor would not care about the death toll. In the end the death stars had the opposite effect,tan was intended it drove the rebellious star systems to greater efforts in stopping the empire, and after the emperor died at endor, the empire fell and fought among it’s self and the end was inevitable, the empire was gone, and the republic was rebuilt after much more death and sacrifices, of unsung hero’s there various factors to any thing such as the star wars death star, IE would it have been a long term asset to the empire, it was intended as a terror weapon, even if it has gone into along term service for the empire, and the rebellion crushed it would have been only a matter of time before the rebellion would have recovered form the shock and deployed a counter weapon, could the empire have sustained a number of such weapons with all of cost of supplying and training replacements crew, repairs , maintenance, upgrades, recreational facilitates even in a universe depicted in star wars, an empire such as emperor tried to created would have been hard pressed to maintain such weapon systems as the Death stars,
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Daniel Christopher Holt says:
Every planet and sun has different gravity that greatly varies. Such as the surface of our sun has a gravity of 274 (of standard surface gravity m/s2), and that could be true for the whole sun. That means per a pound of mass for the sun it’s 28 times heavier than anything on Earth by weight, or atleast for the surface of the sun and the surface of the Earth. Earth’s gravity on the surface of various regions only differs from itself by decimals, but overall Earth’s gravity is 9.78. But for planets they can greatly vary in gravity away from just decimals. I believe about 2/3rds of inhabited evolutionary worlds in the universe have the same level of gravity, but other inhabited evolutionary planets can have great variances that will affect their race to be as small as 19 inches, or as tall as 45 feet. It could go higher than that, and it could go lower than that. About 1 world in every solar system is inhabited in all of the galaxies. It can be a different planet. All evolutionary races are fully bipedal, but they can have entirely different conditions and appearances. About 2/3rds of evolutionary worlds share may similar evolutionary conditions, but from our perspective they may still appear completely different in many ways. There’s lots of human races like us, some of which have gotten to much greater levels of genetic and cultural enhancement naturally. Genetically for a physical intelligent species we’re only 1% of where we should be at genetically. The bigger a planet is the more gravity it will have to make a race short because they’re pulled down by gravity, and the smaller a planet is the less gravity it will have to make the race taller because there’s less pull.
The Death Star to support beings primarily of our humans’ height range would have the same gravity as Earth’s surface. So the weight on the Death Star would be about the same equivalent as Earth since it has the same gravity. The Death Star generates this gravity which it needs to otherwise the people in it would have a lot of bone loss, and their bodies would be very deformed and frail. The mass of Earth is a lot less than the weight of the Earth. That’s because Earth’s gravity makes Earth 9.78 times heavier on the surface, and I’m not sure if the gravity is similar underneath the surface to the core. Earth’s gravity varies in different regions of the surface. The higher the gravity the shorter a people will be, and the lower the gravity the taller a people will be. Even though in those locations the gravity varies just a little bit, it makes a big enough difference in the peoples’ heights. People’s heights could change through the generations if they move to a different region, not sure. To generally track the amount of material a planet or sun has, they go by mass instead of gravity. Mass is universal, while there’s a lot more variables to look at when accounting for everything when factoring in gravity and weight. The weight ranges for the Death Star mentioned in the above article would be based on that the Death Star has the same gravity as Earth. If someone weighs 180 pounds on Earth, then their mass would be 18.4 pounds.
oh wow, how do I say that in a friendly way? “No offense, but you really have no idea what you’re talking about”. Hardly anything you say makes any sense… You explain so many things, but haven’t understood he difference between mass and weight at all. It’s a bit mixed in daily usage, but we don’t really use “weight” at all, we always use mass. Probably because mass is always the same (for a given object (excluding humans *g*)) but weight varies by where you are.
We buy steel (and potatoes) by mass (kg), not by weight (N). To make things more confusing, we use the wrong units in our daily lives, but that should not lead you on in a scientific discussion. “If someone weighs 180 pounds on Earth, then their mass would be 18.4 pounds.” -> That is bullshit. As much as it hurts me to use this strange unit (pounds), pounds is a(n obsolete) unit of mass, not weight. If your mass is 180 pounds, it will be 180 pounds everywhere. Your “weight on earth” would be roughly 1760 N.
The “difference in different regions” is minimal and you’re the first person ever to say that that’s what makes people taller or shorter. I’ve never heard this before and I’m “fairly sure” ™ that it’s not true. For one thing, as far as I know, people (in Europe) are generally shorter in the South (lower gravity!) and taller in the North (higher gravity!). It’s probably more related to climate (and supply of food and nutrients), but that’s speculation on my part now…
So much for now, I’ve just read your second (new) post and I’m really not sure any more if you’re trolling… oh well, good to clear up some confusion anyway…
To state this in a friendly way? You already show how stupid you are when you’re also completely wrong in your message. Why did you even reply to me if you don’t know what you’re talking about? We always use weight. We never use mass. Mass as far as I know is only used when describing the mass of suns and planets. When we talk about weight it’s for all matter on this planet that’s affected by our gravity. All matter on the planet has acceleration of constant movement even when it’s standing still which is gravity, and on the surface that would be standard surface gravity m/s2. When talking about planets information for the total mass of Earth has been given, but not of weight. I haven’t heard anyone say the weight of Earth. I’ve just heard of standard surface gravity so far. I don’t know if that just counts for the overall surface of Earth, or if it counts for underneath the Earth to the core of Earth. I will say my level of understanding on anything, and I’m flexible with it. I. Over the generations someone would be born smaller or shorter. I’m sure since I said that, someone else might point out more evidence. That has happened a lot when I’ve brought up a lot of new topics, and then so much more information is brought up on them as time goes on from other people of the many subjects I’ve talked about with top researchers directly. In the region I believe gravity is based on altitude, and there could be other factors. Whether the location is North or South, the Earth is always rotating so as far as I know that wouldn’t affect the gravity. So one region isn’t higher or shorter based on South or North, it would be based on the geography of the region of the formation of the lands and the altitude. There could be other factors involved, and if so, most people haven’t heard of them. If so, they’re nothing that you’re saying. You’re trolling and you’re a spam bot. You’re talking style is like some trashy people I’ve seen on other forums, so you’re just speaking under a different name. If there is more or less gravity in North Europe and South Europe that would be based on the altitude as opposed to it being a Northern or Southern region. Who helped you spell that, I can tell that’s not your own writing. Otherwise it would have taken you an hour to write just one sentence. Even with the people helping you write that, it was very poor.
A hacker caused me to post that too early with their programming otherwise I would have added one more sentence and cleaned it up a little bit more. There’s no edit feature here. You can tell when I said “I .” that the sentence didn’t complete because the hacker had it post too early when I was in the middle of writing and double checking it. Finch, your talking style is like some trashy people I’ve seen on other forums, so you’re just speaking under a different name. I am flexible, but with your talking Finch there’s no flexibility with you. The more gravity in a region the shorter the people will be, and the less gravity in a region the taller the people will be. Gravity pulls down. There could be other factors that affect height that I know of but would be too complicated to explain. There could be other factors I don’t know of too. Food availability also makes a big difference, so lack of food, also with improperly prepared food or poor quality food, for generations makes a people smaller and shorter with brain shrinkage. Then generations afterwards when they have food they’re bigger and taller. Sources talk about how groups of people and their families are getting bigger and taller with more food supply. For generations they could have been starving, malnourished, and in poverty. I’ve talked about how food affects that too before elsewhere. There’s certain genetics that can also affect height, so groups of a region could also be taller or shorter based on their particular genetics. You can’t go to a region with less gravity and become taller, but your children over the generations possibly could.
A hacker is also somehow altering some of my comments, so I wish there was an editing feature.
Be careful! Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t really after you!
Dan Holt says:
You’re doing this with people that are illegally hacking my computer. You’re lying. It’s unconstitutional what you’re doing and you stand for nothing you cowardly weak little liar.
John Boyega says:
As a biologist, I am certain that gravity (or very minor differences in gravity on the surface of the earth) does not affect stature – however new discoveries are always being made so who knows. Nonetheless the way you explain gravity changing the heights of people over time sounds very Lamarckian, which of course has been debunked since Darwin. Gravity does not change a person’s height – rather a person’s height is randomly changed (due to completely random mutation) and the environment must favor such a change and allow it to continue. So, perhaps people who live at lower altitude have a mutation that makes them shorter, and this mutation is more advantageous because the small gravitational increase is costly to them (in terms of energy expenditure needed to grow that extra inch) so the mutation sticks around and spreads through the generations. This is complete conjecture and I am unaware of data that supports this. And even if it were true, genetics would ultimately determine a person’s height anyway because all adaptation must work through genes. If I am short and from a low land area and move to a high altitude area, I will not grow and my children will not be any taller than if they were born at low altitude. Perhaps after thousands of generations you will see a difference but I have no evidence, at this time, to believe this to be true.
*lol* – ok, so now you’re proven beyond reasonable doubt that you’re a troll – a little in this post and a lot in the posts below… 🙂 Sign of a troll: aggressively defending something that is wrong…
Anyway, just in case you want to increase your “flexible level of understanding”: mass and weight are mixed up in everyday usage, but “the real weight” is very complicated and barely used outside of physics. In the unlikely case that you really want to know, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_versus_weight
“I don’t know if that just counts for the overall surface of Earth, or if it counts for underneath the Earth to the core of Earth”
In case you want to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_earth#Depth
“Whether the location is North or South, the Earth is always rotating so as far as I know that wouldn’t affect the gravity”. So? It’s rotating west-east, not north-south. And earth isn’t round like a sphere, it’s “a little flat”. Measured from the center of the earth, everything at the equator is a lot “higher” than anything further north or further south. This makes more difference than mountains. A mountaintop in Sweden will still have higher gravity than the grassland in Africa. Other factors include centrigufal force, which is also higher near the equator (because that’s where earth is moving faster). The difference between lowest and highest gravity on earth is 0.7% (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24068-gravity-map-reveals-earths-extremes.html). So within one continent, it would be minimal.
“Who helped you spell that, I can tell that’s not your own writing. Otherwise it would have taken you an hour to write just one sentence”
Huh? Here, take a fish: >
lumbo7332 says:
how did you guys turn this into an argument
lumbo7332, Finch turned it into an argument and I was on topic. Finch is a complete idiot and he thinks he’s clever because some stupid ugly white trash women is literally spelling and writing for him. She’s telling him what to say. She’s really stupid too but she doesn’t know it. She probably spent a long time writing that reply to him to where his message probably took hours whereas I take about 5 minutes to reply with something that can be significantly longer than what he would say. I have no idea who he is, but I know he’s some ugly deformed looking borderline retarded moron.
There’s no need for name calling. And if you were so smart, you wouldn’t be making assumptions about how someone looks based on their writing. You had such potential Dan. I’m very disappointed in you.
Finch, you’re a complete idiot and you’re a troll. You put random links there and said random words without you knowing what you’re talking about at all. Some white trash woman or some trashy minority woman helped you put that with the way you reply. If you notice when you didn’t reply with your garbage I was on topic and you’re the one bringing in the BS. The gravity around Earth changes depending where it is. The surface gravity of Earth is generally about the same overall but it varies slightly in mountains and depending on the elevation. The gravity under the surface, and the gravity higher in the air can change. Surface gravity is the surface the person is standing on. If someone is in the mountains as higher elevation they’re going to be shorter but have more mass per weight because of higher gravity but only slightly within a 5 inch range or so which isn’t much in height difference. That’s sort of a theory but it’s probably true. For a man made Death Star the gravity should be about the same when it’s created for the ship because it doesn’t have the same complexity of a planet. Throughout it’s meant to be at surface gravity level in a man made Death Star or a man made ship made at the settings of the native race’s surface gravity so that their bodies can adjust to it. Weight is mass with gravity. The more gravity to mass and you’ll have more weight to every 1 gram of mass. I knew this when we began this conversation and I explained it to you several times. A Death Star would need a special gravity generator otherwise there would be very little gravity to where the body needs that gravity threshold in order to stay strong otherwise the bones will weaken and the knee caps will stick out the opposite direction to where the person may be permanently injured when they go back to their native planet. That’s a major issue with space travel is that astronauts can only be out so long because they haven’t figured out gravity generators yet which has to do with magnetism of gravity pull, planck length, and quantum mechanics. And probably other subjects.
Really? Everything contains mass, its not just planets and suns. You contain mass, finch has mass. Your house has mass, your car has mass. Even your little piece of paper in the printer has mass. Weight is due to gravity. In space, things are weightless, but they still have mass. On earth, we call it weight because that’s how much gravity is pulling down on us.
The weight on the Death Star would almost be the same as the weight on Earth. Meaning that a pound of mass on Earth, would almost weigh the same as a pound of mass on the Death Star because they share very close amounts in gravity pull. I don’t know if once people are born in a certain altitude they carry that gravity in their weight. So if they go into a region with less gravity they’ll still weigh the same amount. If so people could have slight variances in the amount of mass they have compared to the amount of gravity they have pound for pound of mass. The amounts for what they gave on what the Death Star would weigh could be highly accurate, and that would be based on the same overall gravity pull of the surface of Earth. The Death star would have a lot less mass than Earth, and the Death Star would have a lot less weight than Earth.
Yani Raafezaj says:
You’re still confusing mass and weight. I have a mass of 75 kilograms, or 4.93 slugs (in US units). I weigh 735.5 newtons/165 pounds on Earth. Earth has a gravitational constant of 9.8 m/s^2. The moon has 1/6 of that, so I would still have a mass of 4.93 slugs but weigh 27.5 pounds. This is why in videos of astronauts on the moon they’re hopping in the air. Their muscles are used to moving, say, 180 lb on Earth, but on the moon all the sudden they’re too strong and end up jumping in the air.
For the Death Star to have the same gravitational pull as Earth, it must have the same mass. Because it’s described as “moon-sized” this means that overall the Death Star would have to be denser than the Earth. The weights described are assuming Earth gravity. If you were to take all that metal to the Moon it would “weigh” six times less, but the mass would be the same.
He’s a troll (see threads above), feeding him is useless… (plus, his post is 4 months old)
Apart from that, pound is a very bad unit for explaining weight vs. mass. Pound is a unit of mass, not weight. Well, usually. I looked it up and it seems that “The pound or pound force (symbol: lb, lbf, or lbf) is a unit of force in some systems of measurement including British engineering units and British gravitational units”… so very British. More commonly, it’s a unit of mass: “The pound or pound-mass (abbreviations: lb, lbm, lbm) is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement.” (all from Wikipedia which lists additional sources).
Wikipedia also says: “Usage of the unqualified term pound reflects the historical conflation of mass and weight. This accounts for the modern distinguishing terms pound-mass and pound-force.”
I think that makes it a rather bad unit for explaining this difference 🙂
When planets are measured, they’re measured in mass, not weight. The planet’s weight would be much more than it’s mass. Weight is mass with gravity. Pounds can either be measured in mass or weight. Your calculation was off. 165 pounds of weight with Earth’s surface gravity is 16.87 pounds of mass at a surface gravity of 9.78. At the 9.8 surface gravity you said 165 pounds of weight would be 16.83 pounds of mass which isn’t that different from 16.87 pounds of mass. A gravity generator would be made for the Death Star to alter the gravity which would alter weight while the mass would stay the same. You can’t keep adding mass to increase the gravity because it doesn’t have the other complex parts of a planet for the magnetism such as that core and elements. The Death Star would then be a lot different than a moon with how gravity is with the Death Star even if the Death Star is a similar size to the moon. If the Death Star didn’t have a gravity generator it would be inhospitable to live in because it’s bad for the bone structure in low gravity. If out in space for too long in low gravity for a very long time, the knee caps will go into the opposite direction to where the person would be permanently injured when they return back to the surface gravity they’re normally at. On Earth the person’s weight is based on surface gravity which is 9.78, but you said 9.8. The surface gravity varies slightly all throughout the surface of the planet because of elevation such as mountains of higher elevations and lower elevations. It’s generally said to be 9.78, but it can change slightly by decimals depending on the elevation. I had a theory that if a person is born at a higher elevation the gravity will pull them down more to where they’ll weigh more, and they’ll have more weight per a gram of mass. That gravity pull also makes a person slightly shorter where the variances could be by 5 inches, so by decimals the height and weight are only slightly different. Other genetic factors can determine the height of the person in their ancestry.
haha no idea how I got here but it’s definitely the most interesting thing I’ve found on the internet.
things dont have mass in space dumbass
Yuriy Vahidov says:
Things don’t have weight in space. Mass is different. Weight is basically an Earth thing, but Mass was made so it could be measure that doesn’t change regardless of where you are. Feel free to look it up, I might be off, but I think that’s the general idea.
Shadoren says:
mass is effectively how much material something is made of. Weight is the effect of gravity on a given mass. A person would weigh less on mars, and even less on the moon. Their mass would stay the same.
On a different note, anything with mass produces gravity. for the death star to naturally have the same gravity as earth, it would have to have equal mass. since the death star is the size of a small moon, it would have to be much denser than earth. (density is how much mass is in a given volume. on earth a pound of feathers and a pound of lead weigh the same, therefore have the same mass, but lead is much denser). since the death star as room for people to live and work inside it, it probable isn’t as dense as the earth. the thing to remember is that star wars is science fantasy, and they have artificial gravity.
You’re right about mass vs. weight, but not quite right on gravity. Gravity depends on two things (or probably quite a few more once you ask the theoretical physicists who care about weird stuff like curved spacetime, but let’s stick to simple physics): mass and distance. Gravity decreases quite quickly with distance so a smaller “thing” wouldn’t need quite the same mass to have the same gravity at the surface. And here it becomes tricky: we don’t really care about gravity at the surface – unless you want to go stargazing in a spacesuite. We care about gravity *inside* the death star which would be rather low either way… even inside Earth, gravity is much lower than it is at the surface. If you’re curious, take a look at the link I posted above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_earth#Depth
But yeah, of course science fiction has found “solutions” for this problem 😉
Aidden says:
Except weight can be caused by forces other than gravity! For example, were this hypothetical Death Star made to rotate at quite a significant velocity, the centripetal acceleration would cause an observed weight (towards the outside of the Death Star)*. Assuming this space station is built with floors oriented such that when standing, a passenger’s head is pointing towards the center of the craft, it would feel to the person as though they were standing on the surface of a planet. That’s (a part of) General Relativity in a nutshell: an accelerating reference frame is indistinguishable from a gravitational reference frame.
*This works if you’re okay with a cylindrical Death Star that fires from one of the ends
It could be built of a material much stronger than steel. If that’s true it would take even a lot more to build the Death Star. You based that for the first Death Star. The second Death Star is much bigger. The second Death must have been being built while the first Death Star was made. The purpose of the first was to gain as much extra power that they could, before they could get total power with the much bigger second model. Their technology would be far ahead of ours. It looks like Earth’s technology is developing fast so we could be caught up to them in less than 1000 years. I don’t know if they use plasma or lazer for their guns. The light sabers use plasma. Depending if they use lazer or plasma in their guns, vehicles, air craft, and space craft could tell you how strong their material is for their ships in taking that type of gunfire. Is their aircraft their space craft, and can both enter and exit through the ozone layers. If so then their material may be a lot stronger. That can also be factored in. It didn’t look like they could easily just break into the Death Star’s material through gunfire or explosives. Also the Death Star’s material layer could be extremely thick so we don’t know the thickness.
How much does the first and second Death Star weigh, if the first Death Star is about 160km in diameter (about 2,144,660km in sphere volume), and the second Death Star is over 900km in diameter (over 381,703,507km in sphere volume). Steel right now only costs like 10 cents a pound in bulk, and in the future in bulk it might only cost 1 cent a pound. We’ll come up with strategies to extract these materials a lot more efficiently. With my concepts the Death Star can be built significantly faster with non-sentient programming just like how the master chess players worked with computer programmers to create the computer chess program you had access to since atleast the computers in the early 1990s. I could be wrong but I think graphite is 334 times tougher than steel, and if it were modified it could be as much as 16,665 times tougher than steel. That would mean from 334 to 16,665 times less material would need to be used. It would be a much thinner but much stronger layer. The Death Star would also weigh 334 to 16,665 times less at the same size. If it needs to weigh more in battle gravity can be added to the structure to give it more weight temporarily. Steel can also be modified to be much stronger but I’m not sure by how much. Almost all of the internal body of the Death Star can also be built of this much tougher material. They can use hologram projectors to save a lot of money. Endumax polymer fiber might normally be about 15 times stronger than steel, and with the modification it can be made to be about 339 times tougher than steel. Graphene and carbon nanotubes could each be about 333 times tougher than steel, and when they’re modified they could be 33,333 times tougher than steel. Carbyne is about 667 times tougher than steel, and when it’s modified it’s atleast 70,000 times tougher than steel. The literal term when comparing I think is toughness. As time goes on endumax polymer fiber, graphite, graphene, carbon nanotubes, and carbyne will become significantly cheaper. Energy can collect more joules, so the Death Star could be projected of pure energy that works as a material, and then a hologram fills the projection so it has a physical appearance. The energy can be recycled so it doesn’t get used up such as cold fusion, and it can also have a radar grid energy collection parameter to collect joules given off so it can also reuse those joules. It has cloaking technology. That could be the fastest way to build it with energy grids where the programming could be the size of futuristic CD’s that store a lot more information. Then the projection takes the complex form so it can be housed inside of. Energy has joules too, and energy can be concentrated much higher in joules than any other material found on Earth. Joules can do many different things. A neutron star at the size of 1 gram of water is 1 trillion kilograms so it’s the most dense material but it doesn’t have as many joules per a gram as other sources such as matter and antimatter. A neutron star (dead star) is only 20km (4188km sphere volume) and has 1.4 times the mass (2,759,151,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000kg) of our solar system’s sun Sol. The positive charge Absolute, the neutral charge Absolute, and the negative charge Absolute is the most dense and powerful type of substance, with the only thing more than that is Allness which is by far the most powerful type of substance but it’s beyond any of these realities including the highest reality below it. I don’t know about dark matter, ordinary matter, and dark energy which I think the 218 minerals/elements with 13 of those elements being ormus elements come from (it’s just taught of 120 elements in most sources but they’re saying 218, but there could be more found in the future).
http://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Triangles/Triangles.faq.question.117074.html
http://www.rkm.com.au/calculators/calculator-circle-sphere.html
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/pulsars.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
With those materials, the modification technique to make them much stronger, and nanites apart of a computer automated program the Death Star could be built so much faster, cheaper, and much higher quality. The gravity of the material in the entire ship could be altered to where they can generate more and less gravity in the material depending on the situation, while the gravity outside of the materials of the ship would stay the same to support the people in the ship. The ship’s gravity in the materials could be lowered to save life of the materials to where it just periodically increases the gravity temporarily of the materials based on the situation. The gravity in the ship outside of the materials would stay the same at all times to support the people on the ship. The people that wrote the message of the Death Star’s weight based the material that has Earth’s gravity pull of 9.78. The weight the people gave of the materials of the Death Star may be accurate. That would be the weight of the Death Star, not the mass. Mass is weight without gravity.
Another powerful energy source that can be used is Nikola Tesla’s teleforce. It can generate any amount of energy from anywhere in the world. I think he was able to generate electricity anywhere at any amount. It was an advanced form of a charge particle beam projector. He knew how to make it but he kept it in his head. He called it the peace ray and the death ray. It was meant to create unlimited energy, stop all wars, and create an eternity of peace for everyone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce
And just think, all that run by a Commodore 128!
Great work. I like thinking about things like this. Next project: identify how much energy the Death Star would require to spectacularly blow apart the earth. What are the candidates to create that energy? What storage methods would provide enough energy density to hold all that energy within the volume of the Death Star before projecting from the giant deflector dish at the Earth? and how long would it take using all the power plants on Earth to generate that much energy?
I dont think the human race would ever be able to build a reallife death star anyway
Facistpikl says:
Not with that attitude…
Paul Ynwa Davies says:
fire a laser into the planet to create a hole to the core, then blast in a few tonnes of anti-matter….
In the movies it was some kind of reactor core
Does the price include bulk discount?
probably not, but it should have a slave labor discount. the empire was evil.
Old Man says:
I have already started building my version. With 3D printers. Unfortunately my calculations revealed there weren’t enough 3D printers to complete it within my lifetime. As a result I will be printing 3D printers for the first 11 years. BUT THEN I will start on the trash compactor.
William R Brohinsky says:
Be careful: if the Trash Compactor in the Star Wars “long ago and far away” universe had been designed properly, the second Death Star wouldn’t have been needed…
I have already started building my version. Using 3D printers. Unfortunately my calculations showed there are not enough 3D printers to complete it within my lifetime. Therefore I will be printing 3D printers for the first 11 years. BUT THEN I begin on the trash compactor.
jodiefrench says:
about the new Star Trek movie. I’ve always found it really, really difficult to describe or articulate how this invisibility feels, how it affects you and the way that you view and experience media. I remember someone posted a one page article or so much wherein all of the actors .bye the way your page is so nice.thanks your posting.
Is this the ramblings of the dumbest human being on earth?
jon yi says:
no, because the dumbest human being on earth wouldn’t be able to calculate the math
Nutty says:
If you are talking about a fictional space station, then you have to use the fictional world. In the Star Wars universe, they wouldn’t need to mine steel from a planet’s core, as the organisation building it, in this case the Empire, have access to metals from millions of other planets. We can also assume that the empire takes tax from all the planets, so that would take care of the financial issues. The only real problem would be that it would take too long to make a difference in any war. That is unless someone else can come up with an answer to speeding up the build time.
prustage says:
I came here by accident – I stumbled here. I have always thought that most of the Internet was trivial and pointless but this page is the epitome of pointlessness. A hypothetical discussion about the present day cost of building a fictitious future artefact. I am overwhelmed by the number of levels on which this is nonsense and amazed by the number of people who have responded taking this seriously. Here’s a suggestion for a new discussion: How much of the current US military budget would have to be given up to guarantee the end of world hunger?
I read around 1 percent of the us military spending for 10 years could do the trick
What’s funny is you coming here acting like some holier-than-thou asshole when you can’t even spell “artifact”. We know it’s not serious, Johnny Raincloud. It’s just a fun conversation, for the fun of it. Lighten up, jerk. You’ll live longer. And even if all of the US military disbanded and we cut ALL the funding for it, that still wouldn’t even scratch the surface of the world hunger problem, you idiot. And then, of course, we’d be defenseless. Next time try thinking a little before your open your fat dumb mouth.
Also funny is that while calling someone an asshole and idiot and mocking their spelling, you’re completely oblivious to the concept of non-US spelling. Regions outside North America include an island near Europe called “England.” The Englandians use an archaic form of spelling in which “artefact” is in fact correct. You may also see words like “humour, colour, doughnut, through” and their alphabet includes the letter “zed.” Some people in Australia also write in Englandian – we aren’t all native German speakers.
The correct spelling is : ‘Arsehole’ .
‘Donkey-hole’ makes no sense, does it ?
I agree that was a jerk thing to do but he did have a point aboute the military we currently spend 3.8 trillion anually on military spending an the united nations estimates it would take 30 billion every year for ten years the US spends more on military than the next ten highest countries if we could just pull out of the wars and raise taxes a little we could accomplish allot. You are a jerk for leaving that comment of course the ideas impracticle it involves opening up the earths core. Us nerds just find these things fun.
yah but lets say we do disband the entire military. Then those starving people wouldn’t die from starvation but rather death by warlords, terrorists, dictators and any type of physco with an agenda. Also, don’t check my grammar, (not an English major).
Oh, so you (The US) would continue to manufacture weapons and sell them to any third-rate dictator with some oil to spare or what ?
If you don’t think that the Death Star is cool then fuck you.
yea what he said
Fukou Da says:
To end world hunger? I’d say it will cost around $852,000,000,000,000,000. No one on Alderaan is complaining of hunger.
What gets me about you hand wringing types is that you don’t understand basic humanity. To feed someone, someone else has to do work. Now if everyone is guaranteed to be fed, who will bother working?
Do you own work. Don’t force your charity work on other people.
Internets. Srs bsns.
and most of the people in the “world hunger” category are pretty much useless. this is why we don’t notice when they die.
also it not a future artifact as star wars happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and that was in the 70’s
Luke Anonwalker says:
This is not a future artifact. The Death Star was built a long time ago, and in a galaxy far, far away.
Whats the point? We cant travel faster than the speed of light so it would sit around our orbit until we blew ourselves up with it. To get anywhere worth annihilating, it would take centuries, if not millennia. Besides, who do we even want to blow up with a Death Star? As of yet, there are no alien species that has pissed us off bad enough. Or even said hi.
It’s just a nerdy conversation we’re having for fun. Lighten up, jerk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
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Sean Robert Meaney says:
Financing the Death Star (Stage One): https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/become-energy-producer-building-one-million-6-megawatt-wind-turbines-over-next-10-years-and-selling/JC63gjkl
Source_route says:
why don’t we just hijack Vesta and pull it into near earth orbit and start carving
mzk1 says:
I can’t believe this – the premise is all wrong. As my Dad (a corrosion chemist, actually)pointed put to me when we saw the original movie in the theatre way back when, the walls would need to be quite thin, which is why the Princess (I can’t believe I’m writing this) knew she could laser through the wall.
So what is the Death Star made of? Air, mostly. Flimsy plastic in the middle, except for occasional stronger sections to seal off in case of emergency. (Forgot the term.)
The whole issue is the weapon anyway. Doesn’t matter what it’s housed in.
Besides, can’t you just destroy all life on the planet – which is the goal, after all – with a few H-bombs with carbon filters? Or is that old thoery disproven?
Actually there are a few other mistakes.
First its not steel or iron. It’s synthetic carbon fiber, the same high strength, stronger than steel but produced like pkastic. For the filler. Second. It costs almost nothing for a company like DSI (deep space industries) to fish for steel in asteroids. If you knew what you were doing you could build a manufacturing plant and do it for under one mil.in space. I bet that guy who owns virgin and their space program could do it for the cost of renting s mining vessel.
Has anyone considered converting the moon into a heavily modified death star? The amount of iron required would be cut down massively. Most of the construction cost would be devoted to hollowing out the myriad areas beneath the moon’s surface required to house the power source, living spaces, control spaces, defensive systems, etc… Either way, likely cheaper that creating the actual death star.
Has anyone considered the gravitational effect constructing the death star would have on the earth? It would need to be built well away from both the earth and the moon, further complicating and extending construction time. As opposed to creating it by hollowing out the moon, which, while having dire consequences on the earth’s tides, etc, would still be more cost effective and timely than the actual death star.
What is it with the gravitational effects people keep mentioning? For the gravitational effect on earth, let’s do a quick reality check: It’s *tiny*! The diameter reported above is 140km compared to the moon’s 3500km. That’s exactly one 25th… (how handy). The volume is a multiple of the diameter to the 3rd power, so the volume of the moon is 15,625 times larger than that of the death star (earth vs. death star: ~750,000).
In addition, the average density of the death star would likely be lower than that of the moon… Iron/steel is not even three times heavier than the moon’s material, but of course it wouldn’t be (anywhere close to) solid.
So the gravitation of the death star would probably be between 1/20,000 and 1/100,000 that of the moon – unlikely to cause tidal waves on earth 😉 (unless it’s in low orbit maybe…)
Yeah, transforming the moon might be easier than building the death star “from scratch”, but it would have its own challenges… it would be hard to navigate… and a “stationary” death star is no fun… also, as you change the moon’s mass (assuming you do), it would come closer to earth or drift away… and given the masses mentioned above, it would be hard to do anything against that…
Also, I thought we’d want to use the death star not against earth, but against other planets so it would be good if we could move it. Maybe I’m naive… 😉
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çolibv says:
bueño mexicali ….los gringos soys vosotros americaños nosotros gallegos,,,
a) all very well, The first one is reported to be 140km in diameter and it sure looks like it’s made of steel.?
steel is iron and carbon….you can make a SPHERE of pure nano robots of C….or paper or rubber and take the iron of
and you paint all with gray pidgeon ink….
But how much steel? We decided to model the Death Star as having a similar density in steel as a modern warship….no a warship in the sea needs armour plating and in space you have a electromagnetic one or what shit is…ergo a thin armour is needed
less than the two or five inche’s of naval ships
one armour plating uni molecular …only one layer of molecules you know
After all, they’re no gravity in free space except the death star gravity
Scaling up to the Death Star, this is about 900,000 tonnes of steel.9 with six zeros.
a colossal mass like yours have a heavy gravity near the center of the death star 140 km’s below
remains the technology to make nanotubules of steel
but if you have nanotubules of pure carbon in you….is only a question of time
one 1,000,000 years or two hundred millenia
the volume…see avogadro number see the density of cast iron or steel
and put 20% for internal compartimentation
Connectivity and compartimentation of the death star accounts for 10 to 30% of total mass
and you can walk over magnetic fields……the connectivity and compartimentation can be made of electrical fields
Supersize me? Nah, downsize to a Borg Sphere says:
With that much mass in a Death Star, one wonders if today’s steel, or steel in general, can actually hold up to the gravitational pull that ensues in this sphere.
But money-wise: would not it be cheaper and quicker to just build a 600m-diameter Borg Sphere?
For modern warships, the cost of the hull structure (mostly steel) is only about 10% of the entire cost of the ship, including engines, systems and weapons. The actual cost of the Death Star would be therefore be ten times the reported value, in other words about $9 quintillion in today’s money.
Even more, because we’re talking about getting all this stuff into space, which today cost’s about $10,000 per pound to do, according to NASA.
Themblues says:
“In today’s money” being the key item. Since this will take nearly 900,000 years, at a rate of inflation of 3.5 (the average rate of construction inflation over a long period of time) the actual inflation-adjusted cost would be 14,000 times higher (escalated to the mid-point of construction) by the end of the project, or 126 Sextillion. Still would be 13,000 times the earth GDP as that rises that same 3.5% per year as well.
Umm… too bad this post is wrong both in the math and the reasoning… First: We really don’t care about the cost in some 900,000-years-in-the-future prices… I really doubt we’ll still have dollars by then. The “number on the bill” really doesn’t matter – what matters is purchasing power and that is best expressed in today’s dollars because those are the ones we know best… so basically, if anything, you should point out that it would be *less* in today’s dollars if it’s spend over a long timeframe.
Then, 900,000 years of 3.5% inflation doesn’t mean prices increase by a factor of 14,000 (they do *that* in less than 280 years), they increase by a factor of 10^13,500 (10 to the 13,500th power, i.e. a 1 with 13,500 zeroes… I’d like to write down the actual number, but it’s not even worth starting with that, it would fill the screen! Yes, 900,000 years is a long time…). It’s hard to convey the size of those numbers… people think you’re off by a factor of 4 or 4,000, while actually, you’re off by a factor of 10^13,495…
And that would *not* still be 13,000 times the earth GDP because that increases by 3.5% PLUS inflation (i.e. in “real” terms). If GDP increased exactly as much as inflation, we wouldn’t gain anything… IF GDP continued to rise like that, the pure dollar amount would be pocket change in 900,000 years. Might seem weird, but think back 900,000 years… value of just 1 pound of steel (in the right shape…)… or just about any item you can buy for 1-5 dollars now…
Last but not least, I think it’s safe to assume none of the above will continue for the next 900,000 years… But hey, you started the math…
Ben - Photo Booth Rental MN says:
The amount of power generation and fossil fuels needed just to power the ray would be insane. I’d like to see you guys come up with the required power source, batteries, etc. calculated out! That would be hysterical.
you could us a fusion reactor that would give more than enough power
Let us not forget a little thing called gravity. How big is this thing? The size of the moon? Well it wouldn’t have to be very big for it’s own gravity to crush it. So in order to have any cavities or quarters inside of it we would need some sort of force field or anti-gravity technology. Possible, but this is several hundred years into the future before we’ll have anything like that…
Why is everybody so obsessed with gravity?? The gravitation of the death star would probably be between 1/20,000 and 1/100,000 that of the moon (see just a few posts above). Actually, a little gravity would be quite handy on a spaceship…
And seriously: “Well it wouldn’t have to be very big for it’s own gravity to crush it.” – is that so? Does the earth’s gravity crush anything we build except for cardboard houses? Is it impossible to have any cavities or quarters under the surface??
Jason Rogers says:
There are several things wrong with your comment, respectfully. I’ll try to break them down one by one. First, where did you come up with your estimate of the gravity of 1/20,000 that of the moon? I’m not going to scour the comments above to look for it. Whoever said it was wrong… So that’s why I asked the question of just how big is this thing going to be? If it’s about the size of the moon, or larger, which is the indication in the movie, then yes, it’s own gravity would crush it. If you put a cardboard house 3,000 miles beneath the surface, yes, it would be crushed by all the rock above it. And metal is more dense than rock…
So you know that there are several things wrong with my comment but you haven’t even read the article we’re talking about? And you know that some comment is wrong without knowing the numbers it’s based on? I just mention that respectfully, of course 😉 And you cannot be bothered to check the comments above, which are FOUR (plus replies), btw… I can recommend Ctrl-F…
but oh well, back to the topic: The article we’re talking about says “We began by looking at how big the Death Star is. The first one is reported to be 140km in diameter”… Far from the moon, which is 3500 km in diameter. So the volume of the moon would be 15,625 larger than that of the death star. Sure metal is more dense than rock, but the moon is solid and the death star most certainly would not be.
Even without doing any math on your own, the article says that the metal in the earth would be enough to make 2 million death stars… that alone tells us a lot about its gravity…
Conor Kelly says:
Actually, it’s a simple force of gravity calculation. F=Gm1m2/r^2=m1g where m2 is the mass of the death star, r is the radius, G is the gravitational constant, and g is the acceleration due to gravity. Since the volume is given, using V=(4/3)pir^3, we can find the radius of the death star to be 182033-m and 1.08 x 10^15 tonnes is 1.08 x 10^18-kg.
Plugging this all in, g would be somewhere around 2.17 x 10^-6. Gravity on Earth would be about 4.5 million times greater than it would be on the Death Star, i.e. gravity would be mostly nonexistent.
les rayner says:
One question that no one has answered is how many toilets are there on the Death Star? Or is there just a communal trough ( Or was that the Equatorial Trench ) that fed into the 2m exhaust point?…
Ok, Deathstar? Its maybe a bit to much? But still a one Battlestar like Galactica will be possible. It has just a one million tons, like ten aircraft carriers. And have classic weapons, missiles, guns and some nukes. Just need FTL drive but we can still build a body, like Chinese with aircraft carrier, they token about 20 years to build it complete…
Anwalt says:
Since the petition reached over 25.000 signatures now, I think we can expect the construction of the star to begin shortly. Great! I would be willing to pitch in 50 bucks for the funding if that helps to speed things up.
Woking says:
Well, the White House isn’t going to build a Death Star, but they did link (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking) to this blog.
Micge says:
Transported to GTO by SpaceX (54 Million for 10692 lbs) the price for the transfer of the needed steel to orbit would be 10 Trilliarden Dollar. So better build a space elevator. Or build it from asteroids – theres only enough coal on earth to makethe coke to produce 568 billion tons of steel – not nearly enough for the death star.
The transport cost would be 10*10^21, i.e. 10 Sextillion Dollars, (“Trilliarden” is German for 10^21)
Marcos Marado says:
Well, thank you for your research, but I think we’ll have to think outside the box here.
If the project[1] goes ahead as planned, we’ll have to begin construction by 2016, so we’ll have to change some variables…
[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN
Yup says:
Make a death star.. put giant ass solar panels on the surface.. place it between earth and mercury. Make the Death Star into a profit.
cybermind says:
quiet weird how i end up here i was working on similar project 🙂 project is:We need to create new pay system as TIME(money)it is means we need to get rid off all money currencies, sample of TIME ERA if you work 160 hours a month any where in the World its means you will get to your (time account)160 hours, or any hours you work for-in this World all prices will be priced on (hours,minutes,seconds)sample bread cost 1 working second, water 1 working second, house 500 working hours, energy 3 working minutes and so on…All of us live in the moment which last only 70 or 100 years(remember what you buy what you own it’s only a moment when you die 95% of us saying we want that our children to have better future so after death we leave everything for them is important then to leave for our new generation good back ground or modern time system where the future generation can look forward in money-less system on which can improve even more) at present hard money system everything you work and live for, restricting your big ideas all ideas at present comes to budget, it makes you wonder how energy resource been used from our Earth which belong to all mankind not big corporations who decide price. As soon as possible we need to write off 50 trillion Worlds debt, make United World, all army needs us protect from asteroids which can strike the Earth no more wars as wars just speed up human death compare to natural human death. All of us we need create strategy for future generation to leave planet Earth as time running out and soon Earth will be not habitable to live, Buy creating time system all of us can rebuild complete new World system change the way we think (about money)and calculate how much is our life moment worth and start living science time with massive science and medicine projects with future education for life which able to humankind to live new era of space time. Remember first money was shells from Seychelles and our human minds progress them or made thousand years later to 50 trillion debt. Our human conscious is bigger than universe and faster than speed of light so do not tell me is not possible to live without money everything is possible but all of us on this have to work together… cybermind-Episode 1- if we build 100 km space ship it will be enough work for all planet as space ship will be round like” atom hydrogen” , earth pressure energy collectors from core will help easy to lift 100km anti gravity space ship…
floating factory in space, attracting asteroids for source, delivering water and oxygen or even producing from reactions in space.
Its could be even few times cheaper.
I’m giving about 1000 years for humanity to be capable to do death star, even 100 to start the saturn moon or our(joke or not as you will), I mean take look how big progress we have made in over one century, its just mind blowing.
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I think the Death Star would cost a whole lot more, because its made of more then just steel flooring.
The first Death Star took between 20 and 30 years to complete.
And that was organized by a galaxy spanning government with hyperlane infrastructure, in a culture that had mastered FTL space flight for like 8000 years. 🙂
If you where to build a DEATH STAR use it to blow up the star the planet it orbits around. It would cause much more damage. ☺☻☺☻☺☻§§
Ever heard of the Sun Crusher?
Kaner says:
If you drink coffe/tea/soda, you are using amphetamines to help your work.
Coffee does not have any amphetamines in it. Amphetamine and Caffeine are different classes of stimulant.
darth.vader says:
13.000 times would be if you’d pay it at once. But if you can spread the cost over 800.000 years, it’s just 1.5% of the worlds GDP / per year. And think about all the people that would have a job. No more ppl without a job for 800.000 years.
Lets’ start building one tomorrow.
Darth Halfmaul says:
13,000 times the GDP I guess these are not union workers. Sounds more like the real cost of Obama Care
hahahah funny =)
or just half of the US debt…
chosethewright@gmail.com says:
I have figured out how to fund this! Apple has more money in there reserve than the US, steal all Apple’s money and we are good to go!
Karohalva says:
Hollow out the moon to use as a Death Star so we can legitimately say, “That’s no moon, that’s a space station.”
Yoda says:
Man,it’s a good thing Dick Cheney never became president….this project would have been built by Halliburton.
mjw1750 says:
Why has not anyone thought of this. The Empire controlled mulitudes of planets in countless star systems right…then why in the hell are we concerned about Earth.. They have all the resources they need to accomplish this daunting taks
How about we colonize Mars first and use its iron. Hasn’t anyone thought of the fact that the red planet is red because of the ridiculous amount of iron there?
Excellent idea, plus the lower gravity will require less energy to lift the iron into orbit.
u could also use iron from aseroids
bbqr0ast (@bbqr0ast) says:
More importantly Mars has a very thin atmosphere so getting loads off the surface is much, much easier than on Earth.
Now we can build a Death Star with Ludicrous speed!
REI is great if you can get a deal.
frankthetank says:
All these figures are wrong, according to Wookieepedia, the 1st death star was 160 km in diameter and the 2nd was 900km in diameter.
Most of it will be for housing the reactor for hyper drive and laser.
So I believe using weight or mass to scale up cost is wrong.
I think volume will be better.
It will definitively not be made of steel.
I propose carbon fiber.
To scale up lets use the volume of a f-18 (most it is for the engine and made of carbon fiber).
Volume Death star = 2+e16 m3
volume F-18 = 355 m3
equivalent to 5.6+e13 F-18 @ $50 millions each.
cost of Deathstar = $2.8+e21
Let me see if I can get a loan.
I like your idea. We need to get this going.
thel says:
i shall back you! i have $25 in my piggy bank, and with a little ingenuity, we can get $30! ah HA! watch out (princes Laus home planet) here we come!!!!
Dude an f-18 isnt 355*355*355 m big that is a HUGE frickin plane
355*355*355 is 44738875 cubic meters because of math. 355 cubic meters is a 7m x 7m x 7m cube. sounds about right.
Could you share the calculation on how you found that the Earth could be used to make 2 billion death stars. I am getting a different number.
Here is how I am finding my number:
1 Earth Mass = 5.9742 × 10^24 kilograms
According to your source, 36.4% of the Earth is iron
http://www.worldofmolecules.com/elements/iron.htm
36.4% of 1 Earth Mass = 2.1746088 x 10^24 kg
By your own calculations, the death star is approximately 1.08 x 10^15 tonnes of steel (iron)
I believe you divided these number to get 2 billion. However, we need to convert kg to tonnes.
1 kg = .00110231131 tonnes
This means that the iron in the Earth is 2.1746088 x 10^24 kg x .00110231131 tonnes/kg = 2.22487075 x 10^21 tonnes
dividing this by the death star measurement gives us 2,060,065.51 death stars
Please let me know if I am missing something. I would like to share this with my students.
ur on crack
Dude that is my math teacher
NoneofYaBusiness says:
Dude, don’t be saying ppl r on crack. That’s just rude, and 2, he’s also my math teacher!
TheHorse says:
Come on man! Don’t go around saying people are on crack, ESPECIALLY not MY math teacher! He’s got a way better comment than yours. Let’s not bring drugs into this.
google paul erdos. he was notorious for his amphetamine use to help his work.
UdontNeedToKnowMe says:
Yo! that my teacher! Don’t call people like that! That ain’t cool!
He said that it was 2 million and not 2 billion and it was a mistake.
kloklon says:
ehm….
1t = 1000kg
==> 1kg = 0,001t
Legowarrior says:
Why are we using steel from the earth’s core. It seems that something like the death star is best built in orbit, and while we are imagining construction of a giant battle station, why not use the iron and heavy metals located in our asteroid belt? Seems like a lot less work than most heavy steel from earth into orbit.
Mike in NJ says:
The asteroid belt is VERY far away (betweeen Mars and Jupiter).
eyesoars says:
Well, yes it is far away. But it also avoids the problem of having to lift that iron to orbit, and, for bonus points, if an asteroid is moved to a near-sun orbit, it can be smelted much more inexpensively with some (very) large reflectors.
Alas, I don’t think it could be spin-cast, nor blown like a glass vessel.
In any event, there would be definite effects of scale involved.
pootisman2 says:
also as you lift the iron up into orbit you’r making earth that much lighter….
Jennifer in Maryland says:
I’m not sure I would take the iron from the Earth’s crust. There are plenty of Metalic Asteroids, which would actually be easier to use because it’s already up in space and wouldn’t have to be lauched. And the energy could come from the sun, which would mean you’d probably produce it a different place, which would be good for gravitational reasons. The great trick would be getting enough coal in space. We have lots of it, but getting it up there would be expensive.
I also disagree with the use of a warship’s statistics. The death star had large amounts of open space inside, whereas a warship is pretty tightly packed. I’m not sure about the hull densitiy, but there would also be no need to make the inside walls particularly thick.
As for why bother with the calcuation, BECAUSE IT’S FUN! 🙂
Cristian Menna says:
If living a Resource Based Economy, we could have less trouble. Why to build a Death Star in a RBE, anyway…
Sorry about the English.
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/film/article14415029.ab
I found this blog-post by reading this article on the biggest newssite in Sweden. This was acctually one of the few times I discovered something useful there….
I thought it would be really interesting to estimate how many workers the Death Star would require. If one uses the same comparisons you do( with HMS Illustrious) and relate the amount of workers to operate that ship, I would say that it would require more staff to manage the Death Star than now currently living on earth. Am I totally wrong here?
I don’t know I got a pop of 33 to 34 trillion which seems way too many. But I checked it with both pop/ton of steel and pop/volume calculations. Can’t tell what I may have done wrong. What did you get? Anyhow aside from that I would say that in “reality” the population density wouldn’t be analogous based on volume from and aircraft carrier to a deathstar. I think the pop density of the latter would be less. Even though it is so much larger I don’t think there would be an equal increase in things such as sensor arrays, communications etc based on logic of necessity and surface area/volume from a carrier to a deathstar. I mean the surface areas would be manned but what possible jobs could exist for the vast interior spaces other than some reactor personel and maybe hanger bays.
In the SW realm, there are tons of worlds and systems to take materials from. It doesn’t all need to come from one planet there. Empire used slave labor as well, and they built the thing out in space – no need to “launch it” to get it out there.
bigteks says:
Robot labor. Robots mine and refine steel from the asteroids. Robots build more robots. It scales itself up exponentially.
The cost is more about management and defense of the shipyards and the initial investment to start the work. The longer it takes the more it costs because the people who can manage a project of that size and complexity are really expensive and it will take a lot of really smart and motivated people to get a job that big done right.
Probably have to get a gigantic mining lease too, to get permission to extract that much ore from the system where it is built. So it’s not like the materials are free even if they do come from the asteroid belt, someone wants to get paid for them if you remove them from their system forever.
why go through the trouble of building a death star? the same technology to propel the death star can be used to propel the earth through space.once you got the reactor beam and deflector sheilds working,use the proplusion system to move the earth through space and start destroying planets.
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pawnman says:
Well, you have to encase the earth so we don’t all freeze to death after we depart our orbit around our solar heater (the sun).
>:^) says:
PWNing planets would be fun!
i like this guy!
once you destroy just one planet you could use the materials from the destroyed planet to build a whole fleet of Death stars, and you would have defenses for the capitol planet (Earth) in the Galactic Empire! MAWHAHA!!>:)
That’s pocket money to me
Sent at 10:50
Hey – who are you…Bill Gates? 🙂
Noone Ukno says:
You an evil despotic egomaniac bent on ruling the galaxy… Slaves… You are going to build your weapon with slaves working long hours, with little food, and privileges for the overseers who will keep the rest in line. This will greatly reduce your costs. Plus the iron will be mined from asteroids that no one owns. The only real costs would be the engineers and guards along with any fixtures and fittings that coud not be built by your slave labor force that you actually have to pay for. Slaves, a huge cost reduction benefit, just ask Apple.
You forgot the best building material of all,,,, Unobtainium.
Nazi Death Star
So the First Galactic Empire’s grand scale weapon might be beyond our grasp, but how about the earthly Third Reich of yesteryear. If pop culture has taught us anything, it’s that if the Nazi’s didn’t build the craziest, most sinister and weird stuff first, you can be damn sure it was at least on the drawing board: http://www.shockandahh.com/2012/02/even-nazis-had-death-star-almost.html
Why not building an entire storm of Executor (Darth Vader’s Big Dreadnought )??If you consider the quantity of Iron, commodities, troops and energy needed for Ds,building them will be very less expensive because of scale size production, very useful considering the warp-mode, and as destructive as DS. So build more with the same resources…more powerful spacefleet 😉
John Z says:
A better method of estimating cost is to use a similar structure then scaling it to the new project. The closest structure to the Death Star is not an Invincible-class light aircraft carrier, rather a Nimitz-class supercarrier.
Thus, with rounding to make the calculations simpler:
Death Star: 1.0e15 tonnes
Nimitz Carrier: 1.0e5 tonnes
1 Death Star = 1.0e10 Nimitz Carriers
Nimitz Carrier Cost = $4.5e9 ($4.5 Billion) or $45,000 per tonne
Death Star Cost = $4.5e9 * 1.0e10 = $4.5e19 = $45,000,000,000,000,000,000
Original Estimate: $852,000,000,000,000,000, about 50 times less than scaling a Nimitz Carrier.
This estimate is for the Death Star only and excludes support fighters and crew costs.
wouldnt technology advance enough to just build the deathstar-nano? If you build it smaller you wouldnt have to waste so much steel and you can even include an mp3 player etc
This is the very best comment so far.
CWrathall says:
does NASA know about this?
They don’t need to
Martel DuVigneaud says:
Admittedly I gave up and didn’t exactly read all the comments, but it seems obvious that the Death Star was built largely out of polymers and composites.
The Death Star was built primarily of permacrete and durasteel.
Some Dumb Guy says:
This is all very good and well, but I think the fundamental error in all of this math resides in the use of today’s GDP analysis and steel prices. It is clearly stated that all of this happened a long long time ago.
Also, it wasn’t anywhere near here. :p
McSorley says:
I really don’t get this at all… Why build the death star when the world is already scared to death that the polar ice caps might melt and drown us all. Wouldn’t it make more sense to calculate how much it would cost to build the “Laser” from the movie Austin Powers and then threaten to melt the ice caps in a couple of weeks? The cost to terror ratio would be far greater in this instance. Not to mention the thing looks like a gigantic penis so you could possibly find several congress members to allocate ear marks for the project as modern art before they realized what it was really going to be used for. You might also get sponsorship deals or naming rights from Virgin Galactic and Trojan as well. The irony of such a weapon would be legendary.
You just can’t beat the thrill of blowing stuff up.
So is this just the cost of the steel? What about lifting it into orbit (currently reported as $8800 per kg)? I suppose that as you dismantle the core the gravitational force will be reduced, but let’s be serious(!) for a moment:
You’re going to get your steel from the asteroid belt, not from the bottom of a gravity well. You’re going to smelt it in a solar furnace, not in an Earth-bound foundry.
So what was the point of this?
do something with your life Star Wars is just a movie just to let you know
obtain an imagination and don’t read things you don’t care about. problem solved.
You are typing on a personal computer, which is the product of the imagination of someone about 50 years ago. Connected to other computers all over the world, which again was imagined by someone about 45 years ago. Star Wars, Star Trek, the writings of Asimov, to name a few of the tens of thousands of fictional works out there with a science subject matter inspired nearly all the stuff you take for granted now. So perhaps YOU might should get a life by reading a book or two.
Luke actually said this..? :]
Don’t you have something more interesting in your life ?
Yep 🙂 Its shoving light sabers up peoples who name is lukes’, ass :). But that will have to wait. Right now, All I care about is reading through the logical comments of gravity wells vs. asteroid/lunar mining, GDP and steel prices, kilograms current rockets can lift to LEO, (btw, its volume you really need to worry about), and potential designs for power generation. I am sure you interesting thing to do is sit in front of the computer with one hand in a fried chicken bucket and the other on your dick. Ours is engineering, computers, and logistics. Please go back in your corner you friendless pity creating human being.
Bovski says:
This is silly the Iron isn’t the problem the carbon is, where are you going to get 5400000000000 tons of carbon & if it’s just made of steel wont it just rust away.
There are other problems like the cost of licensing the technology.
You wall also have the MAFIAA trying to take control of it like they are trying to take control of the Internet today.
an engineer says:
Bovski… do you know what rust is??
There is no oxygen in space. It cant rust.
Also I’m guessing that its probably not just regular carbon steel. More likely it’s some kinda star warsy space steel. Who knows what kind of alloys you can make once you’ve colonized thousands of star systems?
No oxygen? What do they all breathe inside the blasted contraption?
Space is a vacuum. There is no air. That’s why you need a pressurized space suit in space. But you can put oxygen INSIDE the ship. That’s how NASA does it fyi…
And guess what. Even with oxygen inside the ship, there’s this nifty stuff called PAINT. You might have heard of it. It makes your house and car all colorful. But it also prevents the metal on your car from rusting. There are industrial grades of paint that prevent the steel I-beams in buildings and factories from rusting. They use it on Naval ships too. That’s how they keep that aircraft carrier from rusting.
No oxygen in space= The outside can’t rust.
Inside is painted or coated= Inside won’t rust.
Obviously there isn’t much oxygen in the near vacuum of space. My point was that the entire inside of the Death Star is clearly filled with oxygen (and probably a lot of nitrogen.) The statement that it *can’t* rust is quite incorrect. The statement that it *won’t* rust is optimistic at best. Even with coatings, iron or steel will still rust, just much, much more slowly than without coatings.
What about copper there is gonna be miles of wire in this thing if it has lights and switches that crap costs 2.00 a lb or more
Holy crap. I wonder how much the paint costs? For that matter, what about the cost of floor coverings, furniture, light fixtures, tractor beam on/off handles (that sound is playing in your head now, isn’t it?), levitating syringe-laden torture bots, repairing blaster damage, fixing jammed trash compactors…
There are a lot of other problems with the scale of the Death Star. With an assumed diameter of 140 km, it would have approx. 3×10^9 km^2 of floor space, or about 20 times the land area of the Earth’s surface. Who is going to fill up all that space? I’m guessing it much be mostly empty. And even if only 1/10 of it is filled with air, that’s still 1×10^15 m^3 of air. The Earth’s atmosphere is 4×10^18 m^3, so filling the Death Star with air would require about 1/4000 of the Earth’s atmosphere. It seems to me it could be just as effective at a fraction of the size, and wouldn’t require billions of people to operate.
Cosme says:
ERROR: the term millennia means thousands of years, so in this case it would be 0.8 millennia
He said 800,000 years
.8 millenia = 800 years, not 800,000
ERROR says:
ERROR: You’re wrong and the article is correct, 800 thousand years = 800 millennia, which is what the article says. Fail.
Uh, no….833315 years/1000 years/millenia = 833 millenia. Learn how to use units
Byron Smith says:
Using this logic, the cost of the aircraft carrier would be only something like $17,355,000 (i.e. the cost of the steel). Since the actual cost of a new aircraft carrier (we were using today’s steel prices, remember, so not the original cost of the HMS Illustrious) is in the ballpark of $22 billion (with a ‘b’), then perhaps the Death Star cost estimate might also be off by at least three orders of magnitude. Oh, and this is before you consider operational costs, which come in at something like half a million dollars a day.
lionel says:
It’s strange! ….I work for a satellite systems provider and we did a study on this quite recently. Thing is, the money isn’t really that much of a problem (where do you think all those losses in the financial sector really went !?). The real problem is getting the staff! Finding people who are ready to push buttons and bring on armageddon just isn’t as easy as it used to be (we did have a few ex-politicians apply though). The pay’s OK, if you don’t mind your Ferrari being disguised as an asteriod, conditions not bad (if you don’t mind the company of droid clones and C3PO bleating in your ear all the time). Last I heard, there was talk of offering out laser swords as an incentive but the guy behind the idea accidently sliced his legs off in a whilst making an enthusiatic gesture! Watch this space – one day it will be where the Earth was!
Windows or Mac?, What will run the Death Star.
macman says:
Mac 🙂
Sexecutor says:
Linux!!!
Solaris!!! What else for a star…
TheWall says:
Damn right!
Illumos surely 🙂
N3k1dsk1llz says:
I’d say that an entirely new OS would have to be written. None of those would be able to handle that system.
Cheldric says:
It would give a whole new meaning to “Blue Screen of Death….”
Windows ME. Duh.
It could be run on a 486dx. I mean, NASA’s made it to the moon and back with less.
No it couldn’t there are a whole lot more systems that need to be run like shields, main weapon, secondary weapons, power distribution, tractor beam controls, lighting, hyper-drive, sub-light engines, radar, weapon aiming, fighter fueling, and targeting systems
True, it would probably require at least a 14-core 486CPU ..
Duh? It’s Droid!
But is it the Droid they are looking for?
☺☻☺☻LOL§
OS/2 Warp, duh
O Wildish says:
If it was possible, if we had the tech. how much would it cost to build an actual TARDIS?
Moo Birch says:
Nothing. Cause and effect have little significance when you can travel through time. If you spent money developing and building a TARDIS you could send it back to yourself before you spent a penny so it would be free or at the very most the cost of a cup of tea.
The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast intersteller distances in a mere nothingth of a second without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.
It was discovered by a lucky chance, and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government’s research team on Damogran.
This, briefly, is the story of its discovery.
The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood – and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molicules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.
Many respectable physicists said that they weren’t going to stand for this – partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sort of parties.
Another thing they couldn’t stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralysing distances between the furthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually imposssible.
Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particulary unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way:
If, he thought to himself, such amachine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one, is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea … and turn it on!
He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generater out of thin air.
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute’s Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynced by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn’t stand was a smartarse.
Tomy says:
But you should cite the source, which is the Douglas Adams’ book The Hitch Hiker’s Guide To Galaxy.
Most people reading this would probably know, but it’s just good manners.
NOTHING!!! If you actually have seen the show you would know that the TARDIS(s) are living.NOT machines!!! Id10t
The cost of steel used is the commodity price, not the production price, I would imagine with the volume of steel involved in a single project a commodities market wouldn’t function and it would revert to cost plus. Also the time and cost of conventionally mined steel isn’t comparable to core derived steel. Putting aside discussions on the composition of the Earths core, it is, in effect ready smelted iron, you just need to tap it off, treat, roll or cast it as you wish. Once you had access to the earth’s core steel would be cheap and freely available.
I was also thinking that core iron could be considered an energy source offsetting some of the costs.
My final thought for the day was not on the feasibility of construction, but on manning. As you would live within the volume of the sphere you could get rather lonely at your station, assuming 4m between floors and also assuming half the area was taken up by equipment, you would still have a greater area that the entire land surface area of the Earth.
Obi Win says:
We are just talking about steel here. What about electrical components, plumbing, and not to mention the trash compactor. While I do appreciate the fun in trying to “recreate” the economics of a Death Star, I think the math took a ride on the lazy river here. I mean come on, did the HMS Illustrious just cost what the steel and iron cost? No. In addition to all of the missing components that the new Death Star would have to be retrofitted with, you would still have to launch all of the supplies into space and assemble them.
Yes, fair enough to all that. But I’m not sure the Evil Empire would build it using money of any sort. I reckon it’s a ‘things get done or else’ and so there might not even be a cost of steel, all steel being property of the Empire etc. However, trash compactores cost money, no matter how evil your empire.
timg says:
You would be better-off using iron from a nearby body, like the moon, which has a much lower gravity. The technology is coming soon to be able to make atmospheric elevators to transport the materials outside of the gravitational field of the planet without using rockets. This would also be useful for getting workers up to the death star as it is being built.
I think the the focus on just the steel requirements served to illustrate just how bananas the idea would be to construct a Death Star. “If it takes all this just to come up with the steel, imagine how much everything else would cost!” That sort of thing.
After all, there’s the obvious stuff: sustainable atmosphere, artificial gravity, deflector shield, etc.
ChrisB1 says:
The real problem here is that the Empire had access to iron mined from the entire galaxy, not just one planet. If there is a higher supply of a product, the price will be less, if I’m correct. If we were using a galactic economy, the price of steel might be less. And then production would probably be mostly done by droids, with perhaps minimal human/organic supervision, greatly decreasing the cost of construction, and decreasing the amount of time required for construction (since you can always use a few million more droids and not have to pay any more money than before, aside from making the droids, I suppose, but yeah). Am I right?
Scifishop says:
Great fun and nice work guys!
JezZZZzzz says:
Now I wonder when that will build real lightsaber. Then I see advantage!
I Don’t thing a Lightsaber could deflect a death star super laser!
I Forgot to add the k in Think
Brick says:
I know no one is going to read this comment.
HOWEVER… that will not stop me from injecting my thoughts on the economic climate of a fictional situation. At last I checked the Empire had a near endless supply of slave labor (clones) coming out the factory gates. Has a free labor source been factored into the cost of the DeathStar?? I mean you would have to feed them I imagine but lets be real, you wouldnt have to feed them that well, they’re slaves and worse, they’d be clone slaves!
The cost they discussed was only for the steel. So it would actually go way up if you factored in the cost of room in board for however many millions of clones.
you would not have to pay for room and board for slaves.
I read your comment.
I READ YOUR COMMENT TOO!!!!!☺☻§§
Evil Goat says:
How much for JUST 1??? Why does this article keep discussing 2 billions death stars?
You can just divide the number by 2 billion.
Calculator says:
The cost *IS* for one, as are the time estimates. The 2 Billion only refers to how many Death Stars could be made out of all the iron on earth.
THANK you. That’s exactly what I was thinking. An interesting subject and all he talks about is raw steel cost and 2 billion death stars and how difficult it would be to get all that iron out of the earth. YOUR ONLY TRYING TO GET 2 DEATH STARS WORTH OF IRON OUT OF THE EARTH.
If you could use the moon as a foundation I think you could save some money.
What’s all this talk about steel? Advances in Lego technology will allow the Death Star construction to come in on time and under budget.
Captain Finlander says:
You are a bunch of negative nabobs bitching! We are talking about Darth Vader here! What DV wants, he gets!
Which one you value more, your ability to BREATH or your MONEY!? Yeah, you guys did forget that one, didn’t you 🙂 Plus he got hundreds of planets under his heavenly power, so if us bitchy earthlings won’t chip in, there are plenty of planets to choose from.
Leandro says:
What you actually meant was “What Moff Tarkin wants, he gets!”
Loki says:
Actually.. What Senator Palpatine wants… 🙂
*runs*
Drow says:
I just wanted to say to everyone that is saying that the Death Star wasn’t practical, it was never meant to be. It’s a weapon of terror. Show up, blow up a moon or neighboring uninhabited planet, demand fealty. End of discussion. Who’s gonna say no when your home is literally getting bombarded with meteorites that used to be part of your moon?
I just find the number of comments made interesting. And a lot of them are redundant. Almost as if the person posting didn’t take the time to read what others had already said. Maybe it’s just me, but knowing what’s been said already is important.
And my two cents:
Building a death star might possibly be good for the economy, but it might also lead to civil unrest. Even more so than now. All I know is I wanna work on building the thing if they ever decide to do it.
Elxaime says:
Regarding civil unrest, the easiest way to prevent that is to ensure that every Imperial world gets a piece of the contract for manufacturing one of the components of the Death Star. It also would ensure that the project will never get cancelled, never get held to budget, and never be required to prove it actually works.
Thorton Mellon says:
Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff…
First of all, you have to grease the local for the sudden zoning problems that always come up.
Then there’s the kickbacks to the carpenters.
And if you plan on using any cement in this building Im sure the teamsters would like to have a little chat with you, and that will cost you.
Don’t forget a little something for the building inspectors.
There’s the long-term costs, such as waste disposal.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with who runs that business, but i assure you its not the boy scouts.
now if you will excuse me, I have to cancel a check to Kurt Vonnegut
Keegs says:
Film Nerd says:
From one film-nerd to another; Kudo’s on incorporating Thorton Mellon’s business 101 from the “Back to School” film! Rodney Dangerfield rocks and would have made an awesome Dengar in my opinion! (See ESB, bounty hunter scene)
So – what part of malevolent Empire is unclear?
Darth Vader: “Chief Inspector, did it pass?”
Chief Inspector: “No way – your project planning and over site sucks!
<> ((Thud!))
Vader: “New Chief Inspector, did it pass?”
New Chief Inspector: “Yes, sir, with flying colors!”
Historical Reference – See: Great Wall of China – Ming Dynasty
Oh you left out a bunch of stuff…
First you got to grease the local politicians
First of all, you have to grease the local politicians
for the sudden zoning problems that always come up.
And if you plan on using any cement in this buildingIm sure the teamsters
would like to have like to have a little chat with you,and that’ll cost you.
And don’t forget a little something for the building inspectors.
Then there’s the long-term costs,such as waste disposal.
I don’t know if you’re familiar with who runs that business, but I assure
it’s not the boy scouts.
Now will you excuse me? I have to cancel my check to Kurt Vonnegut
Vinnie D Kator says:
So nice he had to say it twice.
Thornton Mellon says:
ah…that was a FAIL on my part. i didnt hit refresh the first time and thought it didnt post. so i had to retype it 🙂
This article is full of crap on so many levels, of which I will mention only a few on this forum.
1) There is no way that it would take 833,000 years to build the first Death Star because it was constructed within a single generation, as Darth Vader (formerly Anakin Skywalker) was a young man when construction began and in his mid-to-late forties when it was finished.
2) Titanium is lighter and stronger than steel.
3) Who in the hell made up the 140 km figure and how did they arrive to that conclusion? Since Luke and the gang seemed to cover the distance quite quickly, I have serious doubts about the final figures.
4) I doubt the effects of a proton torpedo veruses steel or titanium were considered.
5) You dudes need to get laid-BIG TIME.
5) You dudes seriously need to get laid-BIG TIME.
The second Death Star was built in only six years.
Will Robinson says:
well for starters, the empire had waaay more than one planet that they could simultaneously mine for resources, this considerably shortens the time needed for construction. along with this there are more people available simultaneously to construct it.
2. that has no application to this at all
3. there isnt a real figure, all the dimensions are based off of conjecture but 140 is about the middle of the spectrum
4. the proton torpedoes never hit the actual metal, the went straight to the reactor core, causing the explosion
5.quite possible
5.redundant but quite possible
Actually if you know your lore, it was only 4 years from the end of ANH to the beginning of ROTJ
Mege says:
If you know your lore, the Endor deathstar was started during the construction of the first one. (they weren’t built sequentially)
Anthony Duer says:
These numbers of cost/time to build a Death Star is based off of what we have here on Earth. Obviously it is easier and faster to build the Death Star when you have an inter-galactic empire at your disposal. Millions of planets and floating rocks to tactically acquire such resources. Lastly, it’s a movie. Until someone makes an actual lightsaber, then maybe I can belive someone can make a Death Star faster than 800,000 years.
Wait, are we talking union workers? If so, the cost just went up another 130 x GDP and the timeframe extended another 1-2 centuries.
MikeF says:
Explain how to construct a Death Star and/or why Star Trek is the better franchise to me, and I’ll explain what a vagina feels like to you. Tit for tat, so to say.
SteveG says:
Geek girl vagina is sooooo much better than bar skank vagina, so I’ll pass.
if you really think the spectrum of poon is limited to geek-girl vaj and skank vaj, you have not experienced the many wonders of the world my friend
So you touched your little sister when you were both little tykes – big deal. I can tell you how one TASTES, recently.
Heh – amazing that three decades into the high tech revolution someone still believes tech geeks can’t get laid
SarahXRT says:
The best part of this article is the comments. Star Wars is fiction, geeks!
Jonathan Scotsdale says:
There are so many unknowns, such as the actual main weapon itself, the power-core design, and the interface between them.
Also, the density figure could be refined by comparing shots form Star Wars revealing the interior of the Death Star, to shots of the interior of an aircraft carrier. We may find that the Death Star is indeed less dense, and actually less equipment-laden than a nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
By reverse engineering the weapon based on the discussion of it’s destruction-potential in Star Wars, we can take those figures and, with modern laser technology, find out what we would have to build, at minimum, to actually destroy a planet. That would help w/ the weapons system. Then the power system would follow in a similar way: what is the probable crew count, based on what we see in the movies/book? What is the average power consumption per person, assuming very efficient lighting? What is the requirement going to be to kep the weapon in standby mode, or provide the weapon with power enough to fire? All while powering the base? This will help give a ballpark estimate of the required power system size/cost.
For purposes of realistic build-potential… we could calculate the cost of building a DS one one-hundredth the size, which could be put into orbit around our planet, using our latest laser technology, nuclear power technology, and space technology. This mini-DS would provide elation to nerds, a quick-strike potential to hostel nations or incoming asteroids, and a steppign stone to the real deal.
One final thing- the statement that it would actually take that long to extract the necessary iron should not put us off from the goal… if the world agreed that we needed a Death Star… Iron Ore would see unprecidented extraction rates as nations united to develop/ship as much as possible to the build location (china). If the mini-DS were completed first, then nations could be forced to unite in the material provision for such an undertaking.
The main difficulty is getting all systems to integrate well. Again, the mini would help pave a way for something that could possibly scale up. Assembly would be difficult, and getting the components into space would require such a massive effort. One method would be to construct a machine that turns large iron slugs into beams… and send it into space. Then, design a railgun capable of sending slugs of iron into space. Predict the path of the round and use electromagnetic power to draw it to the receiving bay where it is transferred into an iron beam or some sort of component… just a thought. A nuclear-reactor powered electromagnet would do the job, along with a nuclear-reactor powered railgun of proper size, with advanced telemetry instruments, all of which we basically have or have the means to produce.
The way I see it, the cost is not in the materials but the construction. It would realistically take enslavement of nations to produce the weapon in a timely manner (under 300-1,000 yrs) through various full-time space programs… but not until the means of construction have been designed, prototyped, tested and proven (another 100 yrs)…
and then what? then the richest nerds would draw straws to see who gets to be darth vader… a new world order emerges, rebels take control of the railgun and start punching holes in the deathstar in an act of rebellion, and the death star cannot shoot back with full force for fear of destroying the earth that supplies it’s many commodities, troops etc…
Elmer Fudd says:
It amazes me that no one actually understands the construction techniques and materials involved.
The DS is actually a balloon made of super-elastic-metal-plastic. It is expanded using the flatulence of 1.089×10^24 invisible pink unicorns. The required gas is “harvested” by having “little people” gently squeeze the abdominal area of the unicorns.
As we all know super-elastic-metal-plastic is easily manufactured using common household chemicals. Please see our website at http://www.rentaunicorn.com for details on bulk unicorn rentals and sales.
According to the calcualtions of my scratch-built quantum computer (see “How to build a quantum computer using tinfoil and Llama spittle” on wikipedia), the total cost of construction is equal to the annual GDP of Greece or US$ 6.98 for those of us not yet on the metric system.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/?p=689
Texas Raider says:
It’s useless weapon to begin with. There a lot easier ways to destroy a planet than building a large slow moving target like the DS, especially one that was easily destroyed by a simple shot through an obvious porthole weakness. P**s poor engineering and design, I’d say.
Hell, in Star Trek Capt. Kirk killed a planet killer that was far more effective than the DS, it could travel at warp speed and fueled itself on planetary rubble so it could theoretically could go for centuries. It Kirk could could kill a successful planet killer using a wrecked starship, he’d of made short work of the illconceived Death Star.
Besides, for the price you could build a massive fleet of Constitution class Starships the would be far more effective. If the Death Star was such a great idea, the Klingons would have thought it up long ago.
Yes, another example of George Lucas’ crappy writing and plot construction and why Star Trek is superior to Star Wars.
And Why Star Wars has made so much more money and had so much more impact on society than Star Trek? But thank you for playing.
How much each franchise made is irrelevant. The article refers to the cost of a machine. Since the tactical use of such a device is relevant to the discussion, so within the context of the Lucas films, it is salient to point out the cost versus efficacy of such a weapon, which even according to the Star Wars films in which they appeared, they were hugely expensive and mostly ineffective. A waste of resources.
Sorry you missed the entire point, but I am happy to direct you back to the issue at hand.
If your desire to discuss the relative quality of a film as it relates to its box office receipts, I’d point out that ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Metropolis’, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, ‘Alien’ and even ‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (to name a few) were far better written, acted and filmed movies than Star Wars but were not as financially successful. I think the difference here is Star Wars appeals to a vicseral crowd that likes to see things blow up and buy toys as opposed to folks who appreciate good film.
Your comment clearly identifies which you group you belong to. Have a nice day.
Yes, Star Wars has made more $$ – much more, I believe. Cool, happy for George. But Star Trek has proved to be almost prescient with the tech that first started on the show and has since become reality. And that is still ongoing, as tricorders are being worked on and are almost here, for example.
Happy to have them both.
Mfufu says:
The cool thing about the original 3 movies was that it didn’t try to explain that which doesn’t need to be explained. It was a sword and sorcery adventure in space – merging two tired and creatively moribund genres together to form something new and exciting.
Startrek was in many ways the opposite: trying to explain every little thing with pseudoscientific sounding bull poopie, even where there is no need for such explanations to advance the story: a soap opera in space. Detected quantum fluctuations in the space-time manifold? Reverse the polarity! (This criticism applies much more to the next generation et al than to the original series).
But then along came the midichlorians. Ah well.
This doesn’t make any sense, it’s a work of fiction, genius. Lucas didn’t construct the DS himself.
I only commented on the thing in the context in which it appeared. If you want to throw barbs at folks for taking the time to note the absurdity of such an object, you’d be better off ripping the good folks at Centives and Lehigh University for taking the time to calcuate the costs of the Death Star.
In fact, Lucas did construct the thing in terms of writing and film making. And yes, it is fiction, as is the idea that George Lucas is a good writer.
Sorry, I like star trek but the only reason the ds was destroyed was because a Jedi used the force to make an otherwise impossible shot. So unless Jim or jean Luke Target wamprats back home and have the messiah of the jedi for a dad their probably not gonna do to well. Plus, the enterprise really wasn’t what you would call a warship and would probably be the first to go… If you wanted to stand a chance your best bet would be a tag team Klingon/romulin full frontal assault, and good luck with that…
buzz says:
It astounds me that people exist who believe they have to explain that 1.star wars is a work of fiction and 2. Lucus didnt build an actual death star. I bet the little kids love you around Christmas.
I wonder if Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas ever met. The Death Star may have been a rip-off of an early Borg prototype.
Effective? Nope. Practical? Hardly. But then Star Wars is a Flash Gordon-ish space opera filled with canyons that exist for no reason other than for our hero to swing across with the damsel in distress and Flying Castles in the air and kung-fu monks with laser swords and all manner of crazy shit.
Skydiver413 says:
And you can bet OSHA will be there telling you what you can & can’t do.
Also, what are the permitting costs for a project this big? Even after it’s done you will still have to wait two weeks for the building inspector to show up to give you your C.O.
Krang says:
You could use an easy loophole here, though. Space is outside of OSHA’s jurisdiction. Done and done.
Who says we even need to make it out of steel? I mean .. it’s not like anyone else would have something to counter attack it, well atleast not for long. Let’s just make it like a hyundai and stuff it with plastic.
CRAHL says:
I could get through the 124 comments and counting… What I did see was very strange approach to the scale of this creation. You are looking at it all wrong. There would be no contracting disputes, labor worries and supplies shortage as we would know it. This is the EMpire we are talking about. They have installed Imperial Govenors in every sector. They don’t just have a few ships they have hundreds of thousands of ships. The simple fact is because the empire is building this it would get done with little knowledge and without interruption. Whole systems would be dedicated to building this station… WHole systems would be mined to build the station. Don’t look at this as an enterprise of a free market. Look at it as if Nazi Germany had built the Death Star. Since George modeled the Imperials off the Nazi’s it is quite easy to use them as a scaled down model of what would happen.
Lots of good ideas about how to do it here… I just hope we invest in good exhaust port covers.
Bureaucratic says:
Can you imagine if the the public service was asked to build the deathstar.
First of all open tenders for construction, would go to the cheapest manufacturer, and then your problems start.
Sorry we can’t get the laser operational until we get a laser safety certificate, we don’t want anyone injured. Its a frikken laser that is supposed to injure people.
The issuing of pass cards to get on board for the sub contractors, Sorry we can’t let you on board, because we need to do a security safety check. Subbies employed who aren’t getting paid, dodgy Baklavian labor that are underpaid, don’t speak english and leak green goo everywhere.
As for the operational software /shudder. “Prepare the laser, FIRE ALL WEAPONS”!! “sorry, the weapon system is off line for tuesday night maintenaince”. The interface software doesn’t talk to each other, and the turbo lift system software is 2 years date, because it doesn’t interface with the security software, the weapons system causes the communications system to crash, and the work around is only one system can be used at a time, as for the internal public transport ticketing, forget it.
the TIE fighter fleet, “LAUNCH ALL FIGHTERS”, “er we are waitnig for part number x442 sdf w-mark 2 which are on back order for 18 months from the corellian ship yards and we have been canibilising the fleet and have only 3 available, the mark 3’s are grounded due to a incident taht air services are currently investigating, the report should be available in 3 months.
public sector catering? death star canteen comes to mind.
Unionised labor, good luck with that.
Electricians, welders, plumbers that actually turn up.
It would be an administrative nightmare.
Not to mention the fine for safety infringment for not building a rail near the operation control, its a long way down…
luxsoka13 says:
What would be cool is if there was a working Death-Star necklace (I could just blast people that bug me!)
pres says:
Beltbuckle! Then you could hip-thrust while blasting!!!
The Rev says:
Nano tubes most likely would be used and the Death Star probably was created out of technology that we as a race have not yet conceived.
tanker2k6 says:
Lest we forget:
“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away….a great adventure took place…..”
OK technology that does not yet exist in this part of the universe
But I think we can deduct that at least the Death Star is created out of technology that we don’t have. A death Laser would probably melt steel when firing.
Chen says:
Big is not better. Just as current size of Aircraft Carriers is outdaed, so was the Death Star oversized for Drama. All you need are several small mobile stations with maybe a larger Mother Ship that is defensable and even able to move.
Smaller Robotic Drones controled from a mother ship with smaller but more powerful weapons is the future of warfare. The smaller the craft the easier it will be to move,conceal, and defend. Also the more you can produce.
The most important defense will be of your computer electronics. A strong nuclear magnetic wave that is not shielded could disrupt memory and electronics. Also, the smaller and lighter, the easier to maintain orbet.
If you want to maintain your free society, you best get to work on this or we will control you and your activities from orbet with the system that we are developing.
hsolo says:
There are several assumptions here that need to be questioned. First of all, this assumes that private contractors will build the death star. I think this is probably wrong, because this has “government contract” written all over it — likely for job creation purposes as well. This means that there will be several cost over-runs at least 2x or 3x the original cost, and you will likely get a Death Planet or a Death Dwarf Star if your contractors are really good.
Secondly, you have to assume that in the time that the original Death Dwarf Star is getting built, private contractors will likely have built 200 Death Black Holes, rendering the technology and the iron obsolete.
Third, Galactic competitors will come up with alternatives that are faster, cheaper, and better, and cost less and our planet’s consumers will buy them and put all of our Death Dwarf Star workers out of work.
We haven’t even gotten to the engineering yet, the software systems, the weapons systems, the ongoing R&D, the faster-than-light drive (that’s a gajillion right there), and the funky humanoid robots.
Bobba fetta says:
Of course private contractors will build it … that’s what happens when government builds things anyway. 140km sphere of steel smacks of massive scope creep due to uncontrolled user requirements and a compliant contractor who sees every change as an opportunity to suck more tax dollars out of the Pentagon. Oops. Empire. I bet the original design was probably for something that could take an x- fighter down – maybe it was even meant to be the next model of the Tie fighter. JSF, anyone?
ZeroSignal says:
It was huge, not for drama, but because it was essentially a superstructure built around a hypermatter reactor to power the 64 different lasers that were eventually converged down to 8 main lenses positioned around the concave firing dish.
Also, they did not calculate the cost of producing said lenses (they are huge) or the reactor itself, which are costs that have no frame of reference.
Doodface says:
How many Fetts does it take to screw in a Death Star?
This article makes Special Education look like Mensa. The whole Death Star is not made of steel. Let’s talk about space-age materials for a change. And who said we would have to launch it into orbit?? AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA
Really?? You all have so little collective knowledge of logistics, mechanical engineering, and systems design that you can’t fathom a {relatively) realistic way to produce the Death Star. A degree really is meaningless in this country.
Assuming you’ve actually taken the time to design this thing (as opposed to just jettisoning the earth’s core into space and calling it a spacecraft), here’s how you start:
Step 1) Locate a small, iron-rich (or some infinitely more suitable material) asteroid or moon.
Step 2) Build the outer framework right on the surface. You can begin reinforcing this outer hull right away, to protect your project.
Step 3) As you work your way inward, you mine out the necessary materials, essentially turning the station into a self-consuming forge. This can be done fairly efficiently, because the process involves “siphoning” the molten metals out of the interior of the body, and directly into production centers.
This way you build on the stable foundation of a planetoid body, but when you are finished the station requires no launching. And the best part is that upon completion, you will have already destroyed your first heavenly body. Bravo!
This is from a performing arts drop-out.
Excellent envisioning from a performing arts drop-out. You’re hired!
I love it, it’s like eating turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread. Bread bowl George! First you eat the chili, then you eat the bowl!
There’s nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a Death Star.
Stoopid Monkey says:
DoodFace.. You basically just described a Dyson Sphere.. Larry Nivens Ringworld if you geeks wanna geek. Or Greg Baer Anvil of the Stars or Lucifers Hammer. And of Course A Mote in Gods Eye
Shayne says:
Can you say Kickstarter project?
pjthornton says:
“After all, they’re both essentially floating weapons platforms so that seems reasonable”.
That one sentence tells me everything I need to know about this analysis. And then, you econo-nuts actually get the numbers wrong, too. Why does this not surprise me. A job in government is waiting for the lot of you, no doubt.
I’m more curious about how the electricians kept all the wiring sorted out when they were putting it together.
separate systems. Simple, really.
gh says:
I’m in for $20. Now wait, just found another $3.17 in my other pocket. I’m in for $23.17.
Gus Lopez says:
This is the single funniest thing I have ever read.
Can we just build one 1/3 the size? It may still be able to blow things up and carry a military capable of invading some smaller distant moons or remote planets. If we privatize the effort and sold shares we could get it done fast! I’ll chip in!
That was called “Independence Day” and look were it got them.
Surf Movies says:
I think you misunderstand the difference between Aerospace (and space) vs. Naval engineering. That death star would have to be lifted
EngrStudent says:
I think you misunderstand the difference between Aerospace (and space) vs. Naval engineering. That death star would have to be lifted to orbit by rocket at $10,000 per pound (or so) meaning that 13,000x the world GDP = radical underestimate. Things are better if you use Aluminum and mine it from the moon. The moon also has other minerals – an iron core if you are looking for it [1].
One could argue anti-gravity technology for lifting, but if they are going to use ‘star-trek physics’ then why not feed a replicator with massive amounts of solar power (build near orbit of mercury) and compose the thing of sunlight?
[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070111-moon-core.html
We need to start thinking out of the box. We are missing one real possibility – to use the technology of the Star Forge. If Revan could build an entire fleet with it, why not as many Death Stars as one likes? Yes, I know it was destroyed but a piece survived and began to grow again. A decent chunk was found later on Nar Shadaa. By the time of Palpatine thousands of years on, it was probably huge again.
On using Star Trek physics, I would advise against it. Can you imagine the consequences if Dr. Moriarty got loose in the networks of a fully-armed and operational battle station?
isomorphisms says:
Exactly. From the wookieepedia:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Forge
The Star Forge drew energy and matter from a nearby star which, when combined with the power of the Force, was capable of creating an endless supply of ships, droids, and other war matériel.
Nobody has yet studied the economic benefits of Force Sensitivity, but we learn from canonical sources that the price of robots and ships must have dropped to what would today seem like zero during the Old Republic. (Just think about how nuclear fission energy was called “Energy that’s not worth metreing” – and we have sent approximately 1 vessel to explore the solar system, not the galaxy.)
Also think about the Clone Wars, only 2 decades before the construction of the Death Star. The cost of the Clone Wars dwarfs the single-project Death Star, just as the total cost of WWII dwarfs the mere $45bn the US spent on Nimitz class aircraft carriers or paltry $50bn per stealth bomber. Again from Wookieepedia, we learn that
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Separatist_Droid_Army
What would ultimately become a Separatist army originally began as several immense forces comprised almost exclusively of droids.[1] When merged, these formed a colossal army numbering in the quintillions.[2]
If in fact they outnumber the clones by only 100 to 1, that would mean that there were tens of quadrillions of clones.
Now this may sound like a lot, but that’s because you’re not thinking on a truly galactic scale!
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_galaxy
There were approximately 400 billion stars, and around 180 billion of these had planets that could support life. Ten percent of those planets developed life, while sentient life developed in 1/1,000 of those (about 20 million). … there were 7.1 billion truly habitable stars, … 3.2 billion habitable star systems, with only 69 million systems meeting the requirements for Imperial representation, and 1.75 million planets considered full member worlds. In total, the galaxy was populated by approximately 100 quadrillion different life forms.
(The 100 quadrillion life-forms number doesn’t include small stuff like lichens and bacteria; we have ~1 nonillion bacteria on Earth alone, so there should be more like a cattuordecillion life-forms that Yoda could meditate about. [American counting system])
We are talking about a war on a truly galactic scale here. Remember that these are people who jump into hyperspace on a whim and travel from one star system to another in an Augenblick. Earth might be totally destroyed in the course of the battle and that would only be a minor tragedy because there are so many other battles (300 billion star systems in the Milky Way).
Since their galaxy has 400 bn stars (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_galaxy) then the cost of the Death Star would only be $250 per planetary system. Come on, chip in, guys! This is going to be the Destroyer of Worlds!
Granted, only ten thousand worlds comprised the Separatist Alliance (confederacy) [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Confederacy_of_Independent_Systems#Astrography], but we’re not dividing $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 among ten thousand people, but ten thousand planets – and the quintillion-dollar figure assumes our planet’s benighted ways of obtaining iron and making it into steel.
Also think about it this way: $1,000,000,000 trillion might sound like a lot now – but world GDP today stands at $62 trillion, which is only 14 doubling times away from being $1,000,000 trillion. If the Earth experienced GDP growth of 2% for the next . (And how long do you think it might take us to colonise not just nearby star systems, but to have republics and trade federations that stretch all the way across 120k × 1k light-years of the Milky Way? Then add another 25,000 years to that because the Republic was established in 25,053 BBY – already a mature space exploration society by that point. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Republic)
If the Earth’s denizens grew the economy at 2%/year for 25,000 years (not even counting the time it took various planets to develop the technology to travel the galaxy, just the age of the already-mature Galactic Republic) then the world GDP would reach $14035922178528374107397703328409120821806021155655454250255643688895\
55231394382192264007935008343209192842427520010692106385097126013547\
256881844391709.238 trillion! And that’s not even counting the gains from galactic trade! Just intraplanetary growth.
That’s a bit too large of a number to comprehend so just think about this one. The GDP of Cambodia today stands at $32 bn or $2500 [PPP] per capita. Cambodia’s economic growth has jittered and started between 4.5% and 9% during the last few decades. But let’s just assume 3% stable growth to be conservative. If Cambodia’s economy grew at 3% per year for only the amount of time Yoda was a Jedi master (800 years) then Cambodia would be producing $955,724,857.68 trillion per year, in other words in very short order a few million life-forms occupying .12% of the earth’s land mass could buy a few Death Stars every year and still have enough money left over for food and beverage. Again this is just a miniature of the changes in economics and warship financing we could expect to see as Earthlings expand their demand curves out into the galaxy over future millennia.
Back to the Wookieepedia, of course you remember the Banking Clan is on the Separatist side — how else would you finance these projects?
This droid army drew upon of the battle droids of the Trade Federation[3], the Techno Union[4], the Commerce Guild[5], the InterGalactic Banking Clan[3], the Corporate Alliance[1], and other independent Separatist factions. These groups were subtly manipulated by Darth Sidious to expand their forces … Under his orders, these corporate giants began to purchase huge orders of battle droids from the millions of factories controlled by companies such as Baktoid Combat Automata, Colicoid Creation Nest, and Haor Chall Engineering over a decade before the start of the Clone Wars.[7] … Count Dooku deployed over a million B1 battle droids, one hundred thousand B2 super battle droids, and three thousand droidekas, plus many other types, at the Battle of Geonosis in 22 BBY…the Clone Wars had begun.[8]
(22 BBY is 22 years Before the Battle of Yavin, in which the Death Star was destroyed. Everything has a weak point. Many Bothans died to find out what it was.)
What I take away from the Star Wars allegory is that we had better spend an equal amount of research studying the political economy as we do on space exploration technology. Let’s say we built a Star Forge and the price of robots dropped effectively to zero. Then we would be incredibly f*$#ed if we lacked an incentive structure that prevents even a sleuthy, sly, slick Sith Lord from destroying life on the colossal galactic scale.
EgomaniacalEconomics says:
This would be the case if you only consider using current technologies, but a venture of this size becomes it’s own economic force. The number of supporting and spinoff ventures (i.e. “pick and shovel” companies) that would develop would create an economic subsystem that would not only support an expanding population, but most likely inspire multiple spin-off verticals within the “Death Star Industry.”
WOT? AFRICAN OR EUROPEAN?
I’m interested in just 1 Death Star not 2 billion
Everyone is crediting the Death Star to Emperor Palpatine. But wasn’t it Grand Moff Tarkin’s brain-child?
DarthPace says:
Almost. Actually, it was the same guy that designed the TIE fighter that came up with the idea for the death star. He was friends with Tarkin, and gave the idea to him to present to Palpatine.
And on a side note…The first Death Star was 160km, not 140.
::begin uber-nerd
One thing I forgot to mention in addition to the fact that the diameter of the first Death Star is 160km, and not 140km is the fact that it’s made of quadanium steel, which contains…quadanium. I’m going to assume that’s on some remote planet we’ll be able to go to once we uncover the prothean mass relay that’s near Pluto.
DooM says:
Ferris Bueller you’re my hero.
160 km? That’s it? Thats about 100 miles. When they compare it to a small moon on the movie, they must mean realllly small. The Earth’s moon is about 2,000 miles in diameter. For more comparison, the mother ship on Independence Day is 1/4th the size of our moon, or about 5 times this size and it’s extremely mobile!
Raith Sienar http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Raith_Sienar
Logic Man says:
I think it would be a lot more appropriate to build it from wood and nails, with perhaps a few nails and glue to hold it together.
This would take the weight down by about 600000 million tonnes as well as reduce costs by around $400.
This is a completely logical build of the death star. The wooden frame would support the 10 trillion degree heat easily. And any planet that is destroyed would add to the comfort of…
JDubya says:
You dummies forgot a couple things:
Energy production.
To think this think operates off of one of your green “technologies” (read: charlatry, or snake-oil), would be to assume your stupid “THE DEATH STAR’S MADE OF STEELLLL” is valid as well. The energy to drive this would be on the order of what mankind is capable of (from a SWAG statement) which is around 230TW. Remember, dummies, this is in Watts, so it is energy consumed, produced, lost. This would have to be increased, probably several orders, as it must command a station, as well as a gi-fuckin-massive death ray. [It obviously must be much, much more, as this station moved from one star system to another, yet Lucas provided no wicked proof of how this unit moves in ~43 minutes from Luke/Leia/Han/Carpet/gay-butler-robot left this galactic Winnebego, to the point Luke dueces the star]. This price would have to increase by ~$100Q USD.
Reason? The world’s econ is ~$50T USD. That is surface based. The star is volume base. Besides, the generator, like the one Lando destroyed, had to be union-made. Add another $100Q USD to facilitate that turd.
What about feeding these lifeforms? Beyond comprehension.
Nice you spent time looking at one sliver of a thing you attribute to our world, but it needs a lot more work.
Go back to the drawing board.
definition of the biggest virgin dork on earth
Yeah, they totally didn’t even consider the unique economy of the Death Star, as the implications of Big Government.
Punji 73 says:
i reckon the death star moved from system to system using warp speed travel, maybe a super warp speed travel but yes i see your point about its energy consumption but seeing that all the star destroyers had fusion reactors on board to generate their power, power similar to that of a small sun, i dare say the death star had a much larger version of that
ERROR: the term millennia means thousands of years so in this case it would be 0.8 millennia
“Economics students .. have figured out how much (the) cost to build the Death Star”. The question is; is this price the standard model or are all options included? Drive Away-No More To Pay? Registration included? Tow Bar? Has this costing model created by the (US) university, considered any additional costing for Right-Hand-Drive variants for use in most British Commonwealth countries and dependancies? Is NASA interested? Does NASA really care? What about the real cost to run after leaving the factory?
snarf says:
I find this part of the internet extremely difficult to masturbate to.
You have no idea how much you’ve made me laugh.
DinoMorose says:
But not impossible?
You’re doing it wrong.
This is the funniest thing I have read in a long time!
Thulsakhan says:
Thank you Thank you Thank you FUNNIEST comment ever!
Patrick Hume says:
Why don’t we just make a Borg cube instead?
Malakai says:
A agree! But then again, a cube actually has a far nigger mass by diametre than a sphere. And a cube is inherently structurally weaker. But what they hey 😀
RACISM ALERT!
I think he meant “bigger.” The “n” is right next to the “b.”
Greatest typo ever.
Seriously…I laughed SO hard at this typo.
blizzND says:
What if we built an econo sized (and massed) Death star like the traditional spoke wheel space ports, (only spherical) rather than just a single torus, use perhaps a hundred or so spoked tori at different angles then cover the gaps with solar panels to help keep our Mini Deathstar “Green”
keeping with the Green theory..
since aluminum is recyclable, what we first do, is take over all the beer companies, we drop the price to increase demand, then we collect the empties, and ship them to our moon base recycling center for processing into beams and struts for our Deathstar.
Our motto will be Have a Beer… Save the Planet! he he, little do they know Earth will be our practice planet! 🙂
Anonymoose says:
So… this article is about making a hunk of steel the size of the Death Star, but what about everything else?
Like Obama’s stimulus, it will all sort of pay for itself somehow, eventually, I guess, more or less… maybe if they give all the stormtroopers unemployment pay when the droids take over, it’ll all sort of work out…
Actually, on second thought, this thread should be closed. If Obama learns he can buy a Death Star with taxpayer dollars, he’ll make that the centerpiece of his campaign.
Better spent on republican wars and empire building, right?
Well we better start now. At the rate Washington moves, it WILL take 800 millenia to build an interstellar empire, and we wouldn’t want to need this Death Star and not have it, now would we?
your sugar daddy Obama didn’t end the war. Remember that. We left because the Iraqi’s told us to GTFO.
Death star construction might be an effective form of stimulus for the US. It will keep countless low skilled workers in steel factories and associated industries until the year 835327. This is the one thing the Republicans might agree to since it caters to their two favorite things: the military industrial complex and environmental degradation and destruction.
as it stands, right now in the real world, there are 3.2 million unfilled jobs in America, most of which are in the skilled labor fields, such as steel factories and welders… so I doubt it. People just don’t want to do hard work anymore.
Zem says:
I don’t care if its Obama or someone else, if they have a Death Star, they get my vote.
If they have a Death Star, why would they NEED your vote?
so you also mean laying all the carpets and tiles and installing all the lights and air circulation systems and also how to generate the artificial gravity for such a thing, something we dont even have the technology for as yet, then theres the matter of dealing with all the sewerage…
JohnE says:
A lot of people have commented on the Death Star creating it’s own gravity, but if we take the mass of 1.08 x 10^18 kg and the radius of 70000m as good estimates then the gravity at the surface of the death star is:
6.67×10^-11 x 1.08×10^18 / 70000^2.
I get 1.47×10^-2 ms^-2 or about 1/650th of the gravity experienced on the surface of the earth. Presumably inside the death star the net graviational force would be less, since some of the mass would be away from the center of mass, from the perspective of someone inside the DS. This would be especially true is the majority of the mass makes up the outer shell of the DS. In any case, the gravitational field of the DS is pretty much negligible, even at the 140km size. That might sound huge but is still only about 1/25th the size of our moon.
Mads Ahola says:
Planet mining in low gravity. In stead of lifting cargo from big planets like Earth, the logical step would be to tear an entire smaller planet apart in close to zero gravity and refine the stuff in space. Thats what I would do.
I only need to know if smaller planets might still contain iron and other heavy stuff?
Jeff S. says:
That, or mining asteroids. I can imagine a big ship with a “mouth” at one end, refinery in the middle, an iron-pooping back end. All done in zero-G with minimal effort (relatively speaking, of course).
Don’t you need oxygen for the refining process?
silent_count says:
Before spending 130 GDPs on building your Death Star, spend a little time on how you’d be able to protect your 140 km diameter planetoid from a swarm of nuclear-tipped missiles.
It’s not enough to stop most of the incoming missiles, you have to get them all otherwise you’ve got radiation problems at the very least.
Mark Jaquith says:
Duh: deflector shields.
Why do you think we’ve spent so much on the Star Wars Missile Defense System?
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Wouldn’t it be a lot faster/cheaper (and, dare I say, borderline _practical_) to “just” snag a stray asteroid, hollow it out, and put up nice paneling on the walls?
And this is why star wars is stupid and gay…because once you start asking questions you arent supposed to you realize that moze of the shit they built was impractical
Shut Up Pete says:
Which is precisely why its classified as science fiction champ…
It’s fiction…
Not real…
actually, time for me to be a literalist dork… it’s science fantasy, not science fiction. The difference being Science Fiction generally has it’s roots in reality, just projected to the maybes that tomorrow may hold. Science Fantasy just uses science styled things instead of magic and monsters and the like, otherwise it’s just standard fantasy, with not intention of being based off of real life. It’s about the story, not the probability of it being realistic.
Look up the Eye of Palpatine
Seriously, have none of you read John Ringo’s Troy series? Laser calibrated mirror lenses with solar panels and Ion Drives. Small sat can melt out the necessary material for creating larger sats until you have a network of large enough sats that you can hollow out a nickel asteroid.
Pack the asteroid with ice, cap the hole with the material cut from the hole and heat the entire object evenly across the entire surface. Sufficient slow heat will cause the interior to turn to plasma and expand without explosion. A solid mass of metal could expand to quadruple the size or more and retain sufficient thickness to provide significant protection.
Cool it off, cut a door and build whatever you want inside using any materials you want. Call Martha in to decorate.
Take another asteroid and melt it into a huge spring and a giant dinner plate. Fuse the spring ends to the habitat on one side and the plate on the other.
Propulsion provided by tossing nukes onto the plate for a reaction drive.
Made with solar power AND eliminates the world’s supply of nuclear weps. What’s not to love?
Allen K. says:
Presumably the Death Star is so huge because most of it IS the planet buster weapon. At which point, we don’t know whether it’s reasonable to guess that its density is that of iron. Not an especially fun answer I admit.
As another poster mentioned, the cost is hardly in the price of materials; it’s in creating such a highly ordered object. You’d probably get a better guess by proportionally scaling up the cost of the Illustrious, rather than just the cost of its steel.
There’s a number of technologies the Galactic empire could employ to reduce their cost. First being their apparent mastery of gravity field manipulation – gravity on their ships, floating vehicles. Second AI is clearly on an order well beyond our primitive computers so an orderly giant piece of tech shouldn’t be too hard for them to design. Third they have a seemingly endless supply of clones and or droids to slave away at the construction.
Their plan is not all that well thought out, plus does not include the cost of getting all that iron off the surface of the earth. A better i.e. faster and cheeper plan would be to use the moon which also has plenty of Iron is already in space. Moving people robots and initial supplies would be far cheeper. From a rough estimate including the technological advancements made during the extended time period plus that the project would after 500 years become self sustaining using robot labor and solar power, would be a little over 2000 years and 1500 years of Earths GDP.
Several D.S.s could built from the resources in the moon but it might be better to just turn the moon into a larger D.S. so it would not be necessary to escape the remaining materials.
You Stupid Earthlings.
I am on my way there. It will take in a lot less than 13,000 years travel time before we meet.
Moo-Hoo-Haa-ha
staffier says:
And if one uses -where possible- ceramic materials, stone and/or wood? It is more abundant and cheaper. Scaling up may not be correct. You also need large amounts of water. A ship hasn’t got that. Scaling up a cell -consisting of 80% water- is not correct either but something in between perhaps. You also need large amount of soil to grow vegatebles. Soil is much cheaper than steel.
I think they needed to spend some more money on security… after all, blowing it up was no more difficult than shooting womp rats in a T-16.
Most importantly, who does the catering?
Mystikan says:
As a manager myself, I have to ask: In determining the cost, have you factored in the cost of all the additional infrastructure besides just the steel to construct the frame and hull? There would also be the following expenses to consider:
1) Wiring, conduit and ducting to transport power, data, air and water around the entire structure;
2) Electrics/Electronics (interior and exterior surveillance cameras, sensors, lighting, air conditioning, automatic doors, consoles, servers, routers, and associated IT infrastructure.)
3) Ordnance (missiles, ammunition, turret cannon, beam weapons and power sources for same, TIE fighters [which I assume might cost about as much as say an F-22A], tractor beams and other munitions.)
4) Services (hydroponics for food and air production, tools and equipment for workshops and maintenance, fabrication plant, internal transport mechanisms [eg turbolifts, monorail tubes etc], material for clothing, uniforms, bedding, medical supplies – the list here is endless.)
All of these require materials other than steel – you need silicon, copper, titanium and other transitional metals, and rare earths for the electronics. You need cotton or other fabrics for the clothing and such, chemicals for the hydroponics and medicines and so on.
There’s also labour costs involved, not just in construction but manning the thing once operational. Besides command and assault crew, you need maintenance workers repairing damage, running the hydroponics farms and plant, managing the IT systems, and so on. You’d need a working crew in the tens or hundreds of thousands to run and maintain a vehicle of that size.
Granted, you could use robots in many of those roles, but robots are also damned expensive, not just to build but to maintain. There would be some roles where robots would be economically viable but there would still be many roles where human crew would actually be cheaper and more effective than robots.
In the end, I can see this lot costing a sight more than $8,100 trillion, not just to build but also to run. I’d be interested to know what the quarterly budget would be just for running this thing on standard ops!
You can’t build the planet. Simply put:
The blueprints you have for the planet won’t meet the city’s code, so you’d have to change them. Then the city would say you were violating zoning ordinances by building the planet in someone’s front yard. So, you’d have to get a variance.
Then the Forest Service would require tree-cutting permits! Then the EPA would request an environmental impact statement concerning the work. And the Army Corps of engineers would want a map of the proposed planet!
Of course, the Equal Opportunity Commission would jump in claiming you weren’t hiring enough minorities. The FAA would refuse to let you launch because the planet was not marked by an identification number. And, to top it all off, the IRS would probably decide to seize all your assets, claiming you were trying to avoid paying any taxes by leaving the country!
Cool name bro says:
And it’s 8.1 Quadrillion… not 8.1 Trillion…
Only a thousand times different…
huffer_mandaly says:
Genius read again…
“In the end, I can see this lot costing a sight more than $8,100 trillion”
I don’t see where they said 8.1 Trillion? Clearly it was 8,100 trillion, which equals 8.1Q…
Real Genius
If they build it like they do an aircraft carrier they will just use all the salvageable inside’s from any available decommissioned ship… Cuts down a lot of the cost…
ewa bro says:
What if the Death Star allready exsist and we don´t know…
So THAT’S what Greece has been up to!
Mustrum Ridcully says:
Well, they are paying for a lot of military contracts with European partners…
no gravity in space. less dense than battle ship.
The death star had artificial gravity, thus it must be as dense – and more.
Even without artifical gravity, that amount of matter will create its own gravity field.
Density is measured as the amount of matter divided by the volume the matter takes up.
In short, gravity matters not.
Anonymous Science Teacher says:
Actually there is gravity in space. Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation states that all matter exerts a gravitational force on every other object in the universe. Also, the strength of that gravitational force is determined by the mass of both objects and the distance between them. If the Death Star is the size of small moon, then it will have a pretty significant gravitational field. Our own moon exerts a force of gravity roughly equal to 1/6 of that felt here on earth.
no gravity in space. Death star is less dense than battle ship.
Dadevilish1 says:
How much to build a Tardis?
You could easily scale it down in my opinion. Is a 140km diameter really necessary? Scale it back to a 10 or 20km diameter and you’d still have a massive death star – which is more economically viable to boot!
It’d still be huge!
ShowKiller says:
It would be HUGE in Haggerstown.
Size isn’t just necessary for holding the equipment and personnel. The heat created by tunneling that kind of energy requires massive heat exchangers and a humongous store of liquids which can be converted to gas for heat absorption.
Even more important, though, is that the mere size of the thing is muy impressivo! Imagine how those Aldaraanians cowered when the shadow of the Death Star crossed their entire planet!!
I am a little concerned that anyone would want to build this. It basically has one weapon and must be used at a relatively short distance. Why not build something that could fire a long range weapon (missle)?
Wasa messa saying, It’s a freakin death star, I want 10!!!!!!!
wazman says:
They wouldn’t use iron anyway.. and the output of the thousands of worlds in the empire would be more than enough to fund it and resource it.
Thanks for the information but I’m concerned that one thing wasn’t addressed.
How many Bothans died to bring us this information?
dixon sider says:
many.
Admiral Ackbar, please?
Jack Greenwood says:
I believe that it is evident between Episodes 4 and 6 that they had been building a second one all along. Unless I’m mistaken, at the end of Episode 3, we see the skeleton of the Death Star, with a significant amount of construction already completed. It’s 19 years between the events of Episode 3 and Episode 4, and the Death Star comes online in Episode 4… the gap between 4 and 6 isn’t very long, so they must have been building a second one all along.
joel topf says:
the first law of government spending. Why build one when you can build two for twice the price.
Wow! You live in a country with a Beneficent Government! Ours (USA) believes in “Why build one when you can build four for eight times the price, then pocket 80% of it?” That may seem like faulty math, but substitute a little synthetic dura-plas for dura-steel in places where no one will notice, ‘forget’ to open a few hatchways (resulting in whole large rooms that don’t need expensive equipment), economize on blast-doors… why you could even leave the blast partitions off a vent conduit all the way from the surface to the power core, and who’d be the wiser?
Ianvl says:
Not that it makes a difference, but $8,000 trillion is around 130 times the world’s combined GDP (around $62 trillion in 2010), not 13,000 times.
Centives says:
Thank you for pointing this out – we’ve updated the article accordingly. We appreciate it and apologize for the mistake, good math Ianvl!
Chinaman says:
Think the reference “In context, it takes under an hour to get the steel for HMS Illustrious” is also incorrect.
At 1.3 billion tonnes annual production divided by 365 days, then by 24 hours and finally by 60 minutes is ~2.47 tonnes/min. In UNDER 10 minutes, there should enough steel to make one HMS Illustrious (22,000 tonnes.
CZZ says:
under 10 minutes means under 1 hour, isnt?
Darth Nihilus says:
But they use synthetic Durasteel in the empire so not so much. Plus, there’s lots of worlds to get materials from, not just one.
Yes, now it has been costed and an action plan drawn up, when do we get started, and where ?
Stormy Dragon says:
We decided to model the Death Star as having a similar density in steel as a modern warship. After all, they’re both essentially floating weapons platforms so that seems reasonable.
This isn’t a reasonable assumption. Based on the reactor attack sequence in return of the Jedi, most of the Death Star is a large central void, so their density is probably much lower than an aircraft carrier.
But the second death star in Jedi wasn’t even close to completed yet. We don’t actually know how filled in the original death star was.
William Hurley says:
Is it scalable … can I have just one death “asteroid”
Markc says:
I have some corrugated iron and a wheelbarrow in my back shed that I am willing to contribute as seed capital
Dick King says:
You don’t need nearly as much steel because the structure doesn’t ever see gravity and doesn’t need to be strong.
-dk
Won’t see gravity? Where in the universe would you build it?
You’d build it in space obviously!
Everything creates its own gravity, and it is directly in relation to its own mass. You can do an experiment by blowing bubbles in water which barely weigh anything and wait for them to eventually come together.
It’s hard to make a realistic assessment of gravity between bubbles in water, because there are _so_ many greater forces involved, including the gravity which holds the water in the tub. Surface tension, viscosity, etc etc etc. And if you’re talking about bubbles on the surface, you add the water-air interface, which also is not in Space.
According to one of the books in the annexed canon, things like Death Stars were built in space near small moons or asteroids so the gravitation on them would, indeed have been considerably less than if they had to deal with being real close to Earth. On the other hand, how close does a Death Star have to be to the planet it is Deathing in order to get the right Evil penache?
As for the claim that building a Death Star in Space means it doesn’t have to be strong, picture a Death Star made of aluminum foil: it doesn’t have to be strong, it’s in space…right up until the first time someone fires a big rock at it. I think the “doesn’t have to be strong” has to be taken with a grain of vacuum.
If you’ve come this far, then you could also question whether the deathstar platfrom has to come in a globe format at all.
All that surface covering ..for what ?
You only need the weapon support, protection for energy core, small defenses against X-wing attacks , a berth place for a number of tie-fighters… and presto, you can do with a lot smaller and denser space ship…kinda like ..a ..space craft carrier with a big gun on deck. 🙂
which brings us back to the first assumption of steel density of a naval air craft carrier. 😀
There was a prototype Death Star that was built first at the Maw Installation that consisted of just the necessary parts for the superweapon and hyperdrive.
Or just build an Eclipse class star destroyer that has a superweapon built into a super star destroyer.
Confusing – I’m interested in just 1 Death Star not 2 billion
Confusing – I only interested in 1 death star not 2 billion (looks like a big ship to me)
Given that some of the capital ships from Attack of the Clones could land and take off from planets, I’ve always assumed that they were made of something much, much lighter and much, much stronger than steel. But it’s definitely interesting to do the math on just how much sheer volume is contained within a structure of that size. 34 trillion crew members? Holy Cow!
MarcW says:
When you have what appears to be complete control over gravitational forces and nearly-complete control over inertial resistance, the rest is just math.
Of course, you’d have to be able to control it both ways so you didn’t, say, create a gravitationally-induced toroid and blow a big chunk of atmosphere into space every time you took off.
SkepticalReader says:
What about the copper for the electronics. How much Copper?
HL says:
They won’t use copper then, it will all be based on quantum lights. cost=1/100000 of copper
What about the copper for all the electronics. How much copper?
Take a look at the staffing requirements…Assuming the same crew per cubic meter yields 34 trillion crew members on a death star – I’d hate to be the paymaster.
fagfart says:
Solution = Droids
And the steel for the droids?
Right, now you see why it’s so easy to sneak around the Death Star — it was a little under-staffed. (Really amazingly fast and large elevators, though.)
Goodwin says:
Hey DC, good maths there. I get the same number of crew per cubic metre as you do, but wiki reckons the *real* figure as being a quarter of a million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Star. So I guess I agree with Ryan; understaffed!
Depending on which schematic you prefer, a large proportion on the interior volume is filled with power generation and distribution equipment. This would reduce crew estimates, but change the cost estimates.
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/magazines/starlog/ds1tj2.gif
http://www.dk.co.uk/static/html/features/starwars/locations_gallery/images/12%20Death%20Star%20Cutaway.jpg
THIS is the solution to current unemployment woes, YES WE CAN
Yes, working holiday in space
AM says:
You just need to find new ways to motivate them. The emperor is not as forgiving a I am.
Nipun Goel says:
nice read.. so when do we get started.. 😀
lazaruswarrior says:
one small question…. it blew up… there was a rather large design flaw… why would you want to recreate it in the first place?
Did you math in the cost of a cannon of that freakin big hole that let the buggers in?
The second design corrected the problem – which is why the rebels went to blow it up before it got completed.
fuck@idiot.com says:
thats correct!!!!
I like it very much so thank you.
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I liked this!
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Chelsea Make Approach for PSG’s Adrien Rabiot as Search for Cesc Fabregas Successor Continues
?Chelsea have made enquires about the possibility of signing Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Adrien Rabiot as the club look to find a replacement for Cesc Fabregas.
The 31-year-old left Stamford Bridge this week to join Thierry Henry’s AS Monaco side for £10m, with Maurizio Sarri keen to fill the void in midfield, having already been linked with Cagliari’s Nicolo Barella and Zenit St. Petersburg’s Leandro Paredes this window.
According to French media outlet ?L’Equipe though, the Blues have now turned their attention to PSG’s Rabiot as Fabregas’s possible successor, with the Premier League side making enquires about the 23-year-old.
Rabiot is almost certain to leave the Parisian club at the end of the season once his contract expires, with ?recent reports suggesting a deal had been agreed with Barcelona, although ?Bayern Munich have made a late effort to scupper that deal.
News of ?Chelsea’s apparent interest however could see the French midfielder’s head turned, with the prospect of ?Premier League football and regular game time under Sarri something that could entice Rabiot to move to west London, while his assured touch and good range of passing would certainly see him fit into the Italian’s plans.
Rabiot has scored twice and provided two assists in 20 games for PSG this season, although has found consistent minutes on the pitch under Thomas Tuchel hard to come by, resulting in him wanting to leave his boyhood club at the end of the campaign upon the completion of his current deal at the Parc des Princes.
Chelsea are currently fourth in the Premier League in Sarri’s first season in England, three points ahead of Arsenal, who could be level on points with the Blues by the time they play Newcastle this weekend.
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1977 Bandit Trans Am Owned by Burt Reynolds Consigned to Carlisle Auctions
The Carlisle Auctions brand was re-born in November of 2013 with an event in Florida and it’s only fitting that because of an event in Florida two years later, Carlisle Auctions has landed its biggest and most promising consignment to date. Crossing the block as part of the Spring Carlisle Auction (April 23-24) at the Carlisle Expo Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania is a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am owned by none other than the Bandit himself, Burt Reynolds. This car is one of 350+ consignments that Carlisle Auctions will move as part of the event which runs from approximately 3 p.m.-10 p.m. over two days.
Though one of 350+, this particular Trans Am will quickly turn heads when hopeful bidders walk up to it in the Expo Center. Purchased by Reynolds last year, it was meticulously restored by long time friend and Trans Am restoration expert Harold Murphy of Murphy Auto Body and Restoration in West Palm Beach, Florida. Since then, it’s been a part of the Reynolds collection, but it’s also the LAST of his cars to be auctioned as he transitions to a new chapter in his life.
With so many auction companies across the country, how does a piece of automotive history owned by one of Hollywood’s most beloved icons wind up with Carlisle Auctions? The answer is simple and it speaks to the value of doing business with Carlisle Auctions. As mentioned previously, the modern day version of Carlisle Auctions ran its first event in Florida and continues to run a pair of events annually within the Sunshine State (Florida Fall and Winter AutoFest in Lakeland). During the Winter AutoFest event, which took place in February of 2015, the Carlisle Auctions team and Director of Auction Operations Tony Cline had the chance to work directly with Murphy. It was that working relationship and positive experience that convinced Murphy and Reynolds to consign with Carlisle, where as the slogan goes, you’re not just a number, you’re a member of the Carlisle family.
In addition to being a fine piece of restoration work and a true tribute to one of the most iconic cars in all of film, the car has been autographed by Reynolds! His signature adorns the hood and can be found again inside on the dash board. Both autographs have been protected to assure a long lasting keepsake. Further, the winning bidder will receive the Florida DMV title that proves Reynolds is the current owner. Along with the title and autographs on the car, the winning bid takes home an autographed hat and jacket. The hat and jacket were worn by Reynolds during a photo shoot for the car. Those photos are available online at www.CarlisleAuctions.com, embedded within the document version of this release below, although higher quality photos are available by request.
With this being the last Reynolds car to cross any auction block, collectors will be quick to bid on this piece of automotive history. But, what does this particular Trans Am mean in the world of classic cars? Trans Am expert Rick Deiters of www.TransAmFlorida.com believes that given its lineage, it could bring top dollar.
“The 1977 Trans Am Special Edition, AKA the Bandit car is possibly one of the most iconic cars of all time. Unless you’ve lived under a rock, you have to be aware of Smokey and the Bandit and of those who starred in the film,” noted Deiters. “In the last 10 years, these cars have gained incredible attention, proving that iconic cars are desirable and collectible,” continued Deiters. “As such, a huge amount of fans of the car and the movie are out there looking for this important piece of Americana. To find an authentic black on black 1977 TA Special Edition proves to be a mission because only a limited amount of them were produced. In 2014 alone, ones in museum quality condition sold for over $100,000 and in December of 2014, another ‘77 Trans Am from Reynolds’ collection sold for $450,000…and in my opinion, that car wasn’t in as good a condition as some of the others I’ve seen. That speaks volumes to the demand for not only the car, but for ones owned by Reynolds. In my opinion, this last car from his collection is a really good and a correct one. I personally know the car as it was sold by my company to Mr. Murphy to do the project for Mr. Reynolds and I know the group who restored it. They do good work. The car is identical to the car driven in the movie; it’s a correct Special Edition Y82 model with Hurst T-Tops, black deluxe interior and a 6.6 liter engine. Hopefully bidders should do so with complete confidence and I believe this car will do quite well, making its future owner very proud,” concluded Deiters.
Enthusiasts looking for their first classic, next classic or just a way to spend a spring evening should look no further than the Spring Carlisle Auction. Powered by the Carlisle Auctions’ FREE UNLESS SOLD guarantee, the event has something for everyone. Consignments should range from four figures to six and with competitive buyers and sellers fees and a friendly staff, it’s no wonder why the Carlisle Auctions brand is the fastest growing collector car auction company in the business today.
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‘One Couch at a Time’ Documentary
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Devolver Digital Films to Distribute Epic Indie Sharable-Life Documentary: ‘One Couch at a Time’ Releasing in Select Theaters and VOD this Fall – What would you share with a stranger?
– Follow director/producer Alexandra Liss as she taps into the couch-surfing community and discovers a life[style] worth sharing –
Austin, Texas — August 24, 2013 – Devolver Digital Films announced today it has inked a deal to distribute One Couch at a Time, a new documentary showcasing the couch-surfing lifestyle as experienced by a young girl as she travels the world over, forever transforming her take on humanity as she discovers ‘”the shareable life.” Devolver Digital Films is set to run One Couch at a Time in several cities this September (full list to be announced here: http://www.tugg.com/titles/one-couch-at-a-time) for limited-engagement screenings at select theaters, as well as release the film via nationwide VOD and internet deliveries including Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, PlayStation, Xbox and a host of others.
Two years ago, San Francisco native Alexandra Liss set out across six continents armed with a backpack, a camera and one mission: to couchsurf around the world and document the people, cultures and experiences she encountered. Liss was forever transformed as she discovered a greater phenomenon of subcultures living “shareable lives” – people who value sharing resources over direct ownership. The documentary sheds light on how the simple act of opening yourself up to new possibilities can transform your entire life.
“I wanted to tape the world,” said Liss. “I’ve always been interested in film, but I realized that it was specifically the medium of documentary film that called to me – because in a world where moments are fleeting and constantly re-written by our subjective memories, I find video documentation can be the purest form of telling a story while allowing people to open their perspectives and walk in each other’s shoes.”
Liss says couchsurfing was her “gateway drug” to the shareable life; these days she shares her apartment, her car, and many other traditionally private resources with total strangers using the digital tools of the new sharing economy. She is a co-author of the upcoming book It’s a Sharable Life, a how-to guide to the lifestyle.
Devolver Digital Films is the indie film arm of interactive digital entertainment’s indie rock stars Devolver Digital, purveyors of fine independent content on the video game scene since 2009. Devolver Partner and Funslinger Mike Wilson said, “One Couch at a Time is an extraordinarily apt title to lead the label’s crop of Fall 2013 movie releases and we’re excited to share this unique title.”
“Alexandra’s point is that sharing resources elevates us all and puts the whole world into our hands, and that resonates so much with our philosophy as a distributor and strategic partner to indie film projects,” said Wilson. “We’re trying to encourage a generous, supportive ecosystem amongst our filmmakers and partners, and put peer-to-peer connections and new digital innovations to work, knocking down some of the barriers that used to keep great little indie movies from getting seen in the old (distribution) model.”
One Couch at a Time is set to hit VOD in major U.S. markets this fall.
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Golf in my Life: A Context
RonPrice
This is a short section from my memoirs.-Ron
Although I had broad intellectual interests as an adult, my pursuit of career, family commitments, simple lack of money and my involvement in the Baha’i Faith left little time for other activities: I did not play golf or follow sports after the age of 21; I did not take up painting or cooking or photography or anything one could call a hobby, although I did collect stamps in my; I watched little TV, had no TV from 1956 to 1976, although after I retired I watched over two hours a day; I rarely went to movies, to various forms of entertainment or ate out.
For 40 years I played the guitar and led sing-alongs. I joined the Baha’i Faith with its world of meetings and outings, lounge-rooms, conferences and clusters. I went for a daily walk of about half an hour among a host of other domestic, familial and social activities that are part of the lives of fathers and husbands in the west. I think it highly unlikely that aspects of my life will become legendary as did the lives of many a celebrity in my time. No series of iconographic images evoked from fact and fiction will ever produce a celluloid dream as has been produced for many a culture hero of these seven decades. There will be no fantastical caricature of my life with its inevitable exaggerations, bright colours and haunting themes and images created for the world of cinema and a mass audience. Mementos and mis-remembering, forms of pride and various prejudices, will never be mixed together and served up as legend to hungry fans in this or ensuing centuries. Every year hundreds, perhaps thousands, of visitors will never flock to some of the locales where I have lived. No one will ever have to locate or re-locate my legend in some tangled interweaving of history, myth and memories. The millions and billions of people in this and future centuries whose names, whose lives and memories are and will be excluded from history, will not be pulled into some vortex, some timeless world of myth and dream, legend and narrative associated with the places I have lived, my places of memory and my life’s experiences.
“Cinema is most akin to music, writes R.D. Crano, “insofar as it utilizes time as an elemental raw material in its sculpting of space.” I could say the same about autobiography--my autobiography--but the comparison and contrast is too complex to pursue here. Crano also makes another interesting observation about music and cinema which I will quote here for its implications for this my autobiography: “they have the potential to operate in a purely anarchic mode, as a temporal phenomena comprised of heterogeneous movements and recurring motifs.”
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married for 47 years, a teacher for 32, a student for 18, writer and editor for 15, and a Baha'i for 55 (in 2014)
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A list of Vendors that may be used on this website
Emerse Sverige AB https://www.emerse.com/privacy-policy/
Matching Data to Offline Sources
Linking Devices
AdMaxim Inc. http://www.admaxim.com/admaxim-privacy-policy/
Precise Geographic Location Data
BeeswaxIO Corporation https://www.beeswax.com/privacy/
TripleLift, Inc. https://triplelift.com/privacy/
ADventori SAS https://www.adventori.com/with-us/legal-notice/
Oath (EMEA) Limited https://policies.oath.com/ie/en/oath/privacy/index.html
Venatus Media Limited https://www.venatusmedia.com/privacy/
Exponential Interactive, Inc http://exponential.com/privacy
AdSpirit GmbH http://www.adspirit.de/privacy
BidTheatre AB https://www.bidtheatre.com/privacy-policy
Conversant Europe Ltd. https://www.conversantmedia.eu/legal/privacy-policy
Etarget SE https://www.etarget.sk/privacy.php
ADITION technologies AG https://www.adition.com/datenschutz
Quantcast International Limited https://www.quantcast.com/privacy/
Adikteev / Emoteev https://www.adikteev.com/privacy-policy-eng/
Roq.ad GmbH https://www.roq.ad/privacy-policy
Vibrant Media Limited https://www.vibrantmedia.com/en/privacy-policy/
Captify Technologies Limited http://www.captify.co.uk/privacy-policy/
NEURAL.ONE https://web.neural.one/privacy-policy/
Sovrn Holdings Inc https://www.sovrn.com/sovrn-privacy/
NEORY GmbH https://www.neory.com/privacy.html
AppNexus Inc. https://www.appnexus.com/en/company/platform-privacy-policy
Index Exchange, Inc. https://www.indexexchange.com/privacy
ADARA MEDIA UNLIMITED https://adara.com/privacy-promise/
Avocet Systems Limited http://www.avocet.io/privacy-policy
xAd, Inc. dba GroundTruth https://www.groundtruth.com/privacy-policy/
Tradelab, SAS http://tradelab.com/en/privacy/
Smart Adserver https://smartadserver.com/end-user-privacy-policy/
The Rubicon Project, Inc. http://www.rubiconproject.com/rubicon-project-yield-optimization-privacy-policy/
Dataxu, Inc. https://www.dataxu.com/about-us/privacy/data-collection-platform/
MediaMath, Inc. http://www.mediamath.com/privacy-policy/
Criteo SA https://www.criteo.com/privacy/
Crimtan Holdings Limited https://crimtan.com/privacy/
RTB House S.A. https://www.rtbhouse.com/privacy-center/services-privacy-policy/
Scene Stealer Limited http://scenestealer.tv/privacy-policy/
Blis Media Limited http://www.blis.com/privacy/
Simplifi Holdings Inc. https://simpli.fi/site-privacy-policy/
ShareThis, Inc. http://www.sharethis.com/privacy/
N Technologies Inc. https://n.rich/privacy-notice
Madison Logic, Inc. https://www.madisonlogic.com/privacy/
Sirdata https://www.sirdata.com/privacy/
OpenX https://www.openx.com/legal/privacy-policy/
GroupM UK Limited https://www.groupm.com/privacy-notice
Justpremium BV http://justpremium.com/privacy-policy/
Intent Media, Inc. https://intentmedia.com/privacy-policy/
RhythmOne, LLC https://www.rhythmone.com/privacy-policy
Sharethrough, Inc https://platform-cdn.sharethrough.com/privacy-policy
PulsePoint, Inc. https://www.pulsepoint.com/privacy-policy/website
Amobee, Inc. https://www.amobee.com/trust/privacy-guidelines
Sizmek https://www.sizmek.com/privacy-policy/
M32 Connect Inc https://m32.media/privacy-cookie-policy/
GumGum, Inc. https://gumgum.com/privacy-policy
Active Agent AG http://www.active-agent.com/de/unternehmen/datenschutzerklaerung/
PubMatic, Inc. https://pubmatic.com/privacy-policy/
Tapad, Inc. https://www.tapad.com/eu-privacy-policy
Skimbit Ltd https://skimlinks.com/pages/privacy-policy
adsquare GmbH https://www.adsquare.com/privacy
Adverline https://www.adverline.com/privacy/
Smaato, Inc. https://www.smaato.com/privacy/
Rakuten Marketing LLC https://rakutenmarketing.com/legal-notices/services-privacy-policy
Yieldlab AG http://www.yieldlab.de/meta-navigation/datenschutz/
Adform A/S https://site.adform.com/privacy-policy-opt-out/
NetSuccess, s.r.o. https://www.inres.sk/pp/
Fifty Technology Limited https://fifty.io/privacy-policy.php
The Trade Desk https://www.thetradedesk.com/general/privacy-policy
Hottraffic BV (DMA Institute) https://www.dma-institute.com/privacy-compliancy/
Taboola Europe Limited https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy
comScore, Inc. https://www.comscore.com/About-comScore/Privacy-Policy
LoopMe Ltd https://loopme.com/privacy/
Eyeota Ptd Ltd https://www.eyeota.com/privacy-policy/
Adloox SA http://adloox.com/disclaimer
Teads https://teads.tv/privacy-policy/
admetrics GmbH https://admetrics.io/en/privacy_policy/
SlimCut Media SAS http://www.slimcutmedia.com/privacy-policy/
Rich Audience https://richaudience.com/privacy/
Widespace AB https://www.widespace.com/legal/privacy-policy-notice/
Avid Media Ltd http://www.avidglobalmedia.eu/privacy-policy.html
LiveRamp, Inc. https://www.liveramp.com/service-privacy-policy/
ConnectAd Realtime GmbH http://connectadrealtime.com/privacy/
Nano Interactive GmbH http://www.nanointeractive.com/privacy
PIXIMEDIA SAS https://piximedia.com/privacy/
Ströer SSP GmbH https://www.stroeer.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Datenschutz.pdf
ShowHeroes GmbH http://showheroes.com/privacy
Confiant Inc. https://www.confiant.com/privacy
Teemo SA https://teemo.co/fr/confidentialite/
YOC AG https://yoc.com/privacy/
Beemray Oy https://www.beemray.com/privacy-policy/
MiQ http://wearemiq.com/privacy-policy/
ADman Interactive SL http://admanmedia.com/politica.html?setLng=es
Admedo Ltd https://www.admedo.com/privacy-policy
MADVERTISE MEDIA https://madvertise.com/en/gdpr/
Underdog Media LLC https://underdogmedia.com/privacy-policy/
Seedtag Advertising S.L https://www.seedtag.com/en/privacy-policy/
Snapsort Inc., operating as Sortable https://help.sortable.com/help/privacy-policy
ID5 Technology SAS https://www.id5.io/privacy
Adacado Technologies Inc. (DBA Adacado) https://www.adacado.com/privacy-policy-april-25-2018/
NextRoll, Inc. https://www.nextroll.com/privacy
IPONWEB GmbH https://www.iponweb.com/privacy-policy/
BIDSWITCH GmbH http://www.bidswitch.com/privacy-policy/
EASYmedia GmbH https://login.rtbmarket.com/gdpr
Outbrain UK Ltd https://www.outbrain.com/legal/
district m inc. https://districtm.net/en/page/platforms-data-and-privacy-policy/
Bombora Inc. https://bombora.com/privacy
Yieldmo, Inc. https://www.yieldmo.com/privacy/
TreSensa, Inc. https://www.tresensa.com/eu-privacy
Flashtalking, Inc. http://www.flashtalking.com/privacypolicy/
Sift Media, Inc https://www.sift.co/privacy
Sublime http://ayads.co/privacy.php
digitalAudience https://digitalaudience.io/legal/privacy-cookies/
Adkernel LLC http://adkernel.com/privacy-policy/
EMX Digital LLC https://emxdigital.com/privacy/
33Across http://www.33across.com/privacy-policy
Platform161 https://platform161.com/cookie-and-privacy-policy/
Teroa S.A. https://www.e-planning.net/en/privacy.html
1020, Inc. dba Placecast and Ericsson Emodo https://www.emodoinc.com/privacy-policy/
Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC https://www.media.net/en/privacy-policy
Delta Projects AB https://deltaprojects.com/privacy-policy/
advanced store GmbH http://www.advanced-store.com/de/datenschutz/
video intelligence AG https://www.vi.ai/privacy-policy/
Semasio GmbH http://www.semasio.com/privacy-policy/
Location Sciences AI Ltd https://www.locationsciences.ai/privacy-policy/
Zemanta, Inc. http://www.zemanta.com/legal/privacy
Tapjoy, Inc. https://www.tapjoy.com/legal/#privacy-policy
2KDirect, Inc. (dba iPromote) https://www.ipromote.com/privacy-policy/
Centro, Inc. https://www.centro.net/privacy-policy/
Rezonence Limited https://rezonence.com/privacy-policy/
Publicis Media GmbH https://www.publicismedia.de/datenschutz/
ORTEC B.V. https://www.ortecadscience.com/privacy-policy/
Ligatus GmbH https://www.ligatus.com/en/privacy-policy
Adssets AB http://adssets.com/policy/
Collective Europe Ltd. https://www.timeincuk.com/privacy/
Ogury Ltd. https://www.ogury.com/privacy-policy/
1plusX AG https://www.1plusx.com/privacy-policy/
AntVoice https://www.antvoice.com/en/privacypolicy/
smartclip Europe GmbH http://privacy-portal.smartclip.net/
DoubleVerify Inc. https://www.doubleverify.com/privacy/
Mediasmart Mobile S.L. http://mediasmart.io/privacy/
IgnitionOne https://www.ignitionone.com/privacy-policy/
emetriq GmbH https://www.emetriq.com/datenschutz/
Leadplace - Temelio https://temelio.com/vie-privee
adrule mobile GmbH https://www.adrule.net/de/datenschutz/
remerge GmbH https://remerge.io/privacy-policy.html
Rockerbox, Inc http://rockerbox.com/privacy
Bounce Exchange, Inc https://www.bouncex.com/privacy/
ZBO Media https://zbo.media/mentions-legales/politique-de-confidentialite-service-publicitaire/
Smartology Limited https://www.smartology.net/privacy-policy/
OneTag Ltd https://www.onetag.net/privacy/
LiquidM Technology GmbH https://liquidm.com/privacy-policy/
ARMIS SAS https://armis.tech/en/armis-personal-data-privacy-policy/
Audiens S.r.l. http://www.audiens.com/privacy
7Hops.com Inc. (ZergNet) https://zergnet.com/privacy
Bucksense Inc http://www.bucksense.com/platform-privacy-policy/
Bidtellect, Inc https://www.bidtellect.com/privacy-policy/
Adello Group AG https://www.adello.com/privacy-policy/
RTK.IO, Inc http://www.rtk.io/privacy.html
Spotad http://www.spotad.co/privacy-policy/
AdTheorent, Inc http://adtheorent.com/privacy-policy
Digitize New Media Ltd http://www.digitize.ie/online-privacy
Bannerflow AB https://www.bannerflow.com/privacy
Sonobi, Inc http://sonobi.com/privacy-policy/
Unruly Group Ltd https://unruly.co/privacy/
Spolecznosci Sp. z o.o. Sp. k. https://www.spolecznosci.pl/polityka-prywatnosci
Goodway Group, Inc. https://goodwaygroup.com/privacy-policy/
Netsprint SA http://spoldzielnia.nsaudience.pl/opt-out/
Mirando GmbH & Co KG https://wwwmirando.de/datenschutz/
Viralize SRL https://viralize.com/privacy-policy
Genius Sports Media Limited https://www.geniussports.com/privacy-policy
Onnetwork Sp. z o.o. https://www.onnetwork.tv/pp_services.php
Revcontent, LLC https://intercom.help/revcontent2/en/articles/2290675-revcontent-s-privacy-policy
Golden Bees https://www.goldenbees.fr/en/privacy-charter/
Triton Digital Canada Inc. https://www.tritondigital.com/privacy-policies
plista GmbH https://www.plista.com/about/privacy/
TimeOne https://privacy.timeonegroup.com/en/
Inskin Media LTD http://www.inskinmedia.com/privacy-policy.html
Jaduda GmbH https://www.jadudamobile.com/datenschutzerklaerung/
Converge-Digital https://converge-digital.com/privacy-policy/
Smadex SL http://smadex.com/end-user-privacy-policy/
Comcast International France SAS http://freewheel.tv/privacy-policy
McCann Discipline LTD https://www.primis.tech/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Primis-Privacy-Policy-GDPR.pdf
AdClear GmbH https://www.adclear.de/datenschutzerklaerung/
Codewise Sp. z o.o. Sp. k https://voluumdsp.com/end-user-privacy-policy/
ADYOULIKE SA https://www.adyoulike.com/privacy_policy.php
A.Mob https://www.we-are-adot.com/privacy-policy/
Steel House, Inc. https://steelhouse.com/privacy-policy/
Improve Digital International BV https://www.improvedigital.com/platform-privacy-policy
On Device Research Limited https://s.on-device.com/privacyPolicy
Keymantics https://www.keymantics.com/assets/privacy-policy.pdf
mainADV Srl http://www.mainad.com/privacy-policy/
Integral Ad Science, Inc. https://integralads.com/privacy-policy/
Sojern, Inc. https://www.sojern.com/privacy/product-privacy-policy/
Celtra, Inc. https://www.celtra.com/privacy-policy/
SpotX https://www.spotx.tv/privacy-policy/
ADMAN - Phaistos Networks, S.A. http://www.adman.gr/privacy
SMARTSTREAM.TV GmbH https://www.smartstream.tv/en/privacy
Knorex Pte Ltd https://www.knorex.com/privacy
Gamned https://www.gamned.com/privacy-policy/
Accorp Sp. z o.o. http://www.instytut-pollster.pl/privacy-policy/
ADUX http://www.adux.com/donnees-personelles/
PowerLinks Media Limited https://www.powerlinks.com/privacy-policy/
Jivox Corporation https://www.jivox.com/privacy
Connatix Native Exchange Inc. https://connatix.com/privacy-policy/
Polar Mobile Group Inc. https://privacy.polar.me
Clipcentric, Inc. https://clipcentric.com/privacy.bhtml
Readpeak Oy http://readpeak.com/privacy-policy/
Perform Media Services Ltd https://www.statsperform.com/privacy-policy/
Fusio by S4M http://www.s4m.io/privacy-policy/
Mobile Professionals BV https://mobpro.com/privacy.html
usemax advertisement (Emego GmbH) http://www.usemax.de/?l=privacy
Adobe Advertising Cloud https://www.adobe.com/nz/privacy/policy.html
The ADEX GmbH https://www.theadex.com/privacy-opt-out/
Welect GmbH https://www.welect.de/datenschutz
StackAdapt https://www.stackadapt.com/privacy
WEBORAMA https://weborama.com/privacy_en/
Liveintent Inc. https://liveintent.com/services-privacy-policy/
DigiTrust / IAB Tech Lab http://www.digitru.st/privacy-policy/
zeotap GmbH https://zeotap.com/website-privacy-policy
TabMo SAS http://static.tabmo.io.s3.amazonaws.com/privacy-policy/index.html
Adevinta Spain S.L.U. https://www.adevinta.com/about/privacy/
Permodo GmbH https://permodo.com/de/privacy.html
AdTiming Technology Company Limited http://www.adtiming.com/en/privacypolicy.html
Fyber https://www.fyber.com/legal/privacy-policy/
ad6media https://www.ad6media.fr/privacy
The Kantar Group Limited http://www.kantar.com/cookies-policies
Rockabox Media Ltd http://scoota.com/privacy-policy
Marfeel Solutions S.L https://www.marfeel.com/privacy-policy/
InMobi Pte Ltd https://www.inmobi.com/privacy-policy-for-eea
Telaria, Inc https://telaria.com/privacy-policy/
Gemius SA https://www.gemius.com/cookie-policy.html
Wizaly https://www.wizaly.com/terms-of-use#privacy-policy
Apester Ltd https://apester.com/privacy-policy/
Adelphic LLC https://adelphic.com/platform/privacy/
Aerserv LLC https://www.aerserv.com/privacy-policy/
Instinctive, Inc. https://instinctive.io/privacy
Optomaton UG http://optomaton.com/privacy.html
Digilant Spain, SLU https://www.digilant.com/es/politica-privacidad/
Orion Semantics http://static.orion-semantics.com/privacy.html
Signal Digital Inc. https://www.signal.co/privacy-policy/
Visarity Technologies GmbH http://primo.design/docs/PrivacyPolicyPrimo.html
DIGITEKA Technologies https://www.ultimedia.com/POLICY.html
Linicom https://www.linicom.com/privacy/
Acuityads Inc. https://www.acuityads.com/privacy-policy/
Mindlytix SAS http://mindlytix.com/privacy/
Permutive Technologies, Inc. https://permutive.com/privacy
Permutive Ltd. https://permutive.com/privacy
Mobfox US LLC https://www.mobfox.com/privacy-policy/
MGID Inc. https://www.mgid.com/privacy-policy
Meetrics GmbH https://www.meetrics.com/en/data-privacy/
Yieldlove GmbH http://www.yieldlove.com/cookie-policy
Seeding Alliance GmbH http://seeding-alliance.de/datenschutz
My6sense Inc. https://my6sense.com/privacy-policy/
Ezoic Inc. https://www.ezoic.com/terms/
Bigabid Media Ltd https://www.bigabid.com/privacy-policy
Free Stream Media Corp. dba Samba TV https://samba.tv/legal/privacy-policy/
Samba TV UK Limited https://samba.tv/legal/privacy-policy/
Somo Audience Corp https://somoaudience.com/legal/
Vidoomy Media SL http://vidoomy.com/privacy-policy.html
communicationAds GmbH & Co. KG https://www.communicationads.net/aboutus/privacy/
Getintent USA, inc. https://getintent.com/privacy/
mediarithmics SAS https://www.mediarithmics.com/en-us/content/privacy-policy
VECTAURY https://www.vectaury.io/en/personal-data
Nielsen Marketing Cloud http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/privacy-statement/exelate-privacy-policy.html
Digital Control GmbH & Co. KG http://advolution.de/privacy.php
numberly http://ads.1000mercis.com/fr.html
Qriously https://www.qriously.com/privacy
Audience Trading Platform Ltd. https://atp.io/privacy-policy
Triapodi Ltd. https://appreciate.mobi/page.html#/end-user-privacy-policy
Exactag GmbH https://www.exactag.com/en/data-privacy/
Affectv Ltd https://affectv.com/privacy-policy
AddApptr GmbH https://www.addapptr.com/data-privacy
The Reach Group GmbH https://www.reachgroup.com/en/privacy-statement/
Hybrid Adtech GmbH https://hybrid.ai/data_protection_policy
Mobusi Mobile Advertising S.L. https://www.mobusi.com/privacy.en.html
Oracle https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/marketing-cloud-data-cloud-privacy-policy.html
Duplo Media AS https://www.easy-ads.com/privacypolicy.htm
twiago GmbH https://www.twiago.com/datenschutz/
Pocketmath Pte Ltd https://www.pocketmath.com/privacy-policy
Effiliation https://inter.effiliation.com/politique-confidentialite.html
Eulerian Technologies https://www.eulerian.com/en/privacy/
Webedia http://www.webedia-group.com/site/privacy-policy
Seenthis AB https://seenthis.co/privacy-policy/
Nativo, Inc. https://www.nativo.com/interest-based-ads
Browsi Mobile Ltd http://gobrowsi.com/browsi-privacy-policy/
Bidmanagement GmbH https://www.adspert.net/en/privacy/
SheMedia, LLC http://corporate.shemedia.com/faq/ad-services-privacy-policy
Brand Metrics Sweden AB https://collector.brandmetrics.com/brandmetrics_privacypolicy.pdf
LeftsnRight, Inc. dba LIQWID https://liqwid.solutions/privacy-policy
AudienceProject Aps https://privacy.audienceproject.com
Avazu Inc. http://avazuinc.com/opt-out/
Cloud Technologies S.A. https://www.cloudtechnologies.pl/en/internet-advertising-privacy-policy
iotec global Ltd. https://www.iotecglobal.com/privacy-policy/
dunnhumby Germany GmbH https://www.sociomantic.com/privacy/en/
IgnitionAi Ltd https://www.isitelab.io/default.aspx
Commanders Act https://www.commandersact.com/en/privacy/
DynAdmic http://eu.dynadmic.com/privacy-policy/
SINGLESPOT SAS https://www.singlespot.com/privacy_policy?locale=fr
Arrivalist Co. https://www.arrivalist.com/privacy
Ziff Davis LLC http://www.ziffdavis.com/privacy-policy
INVIBES GROUP http://www.invibes.com/terms
Myntelligence Limited http://www.myntelligence.com/privacy-page/
PROXISTORE https://www.proxistore.com/common/en/cgv
Signals https://signalsdata.com/platform-cookie-policy/
Beachfront Media LLC http://beachfront.com/privacy-policy/
Proxi.cloud Sp. z o.o. https://proxi.cloud/info/privacy-policy/
Bmind a Sales Maker Company, S.L. http://www.bmind.es/legal-notice/
Neodata Group srl https://www.neodatagroup.com/en/security-policy
Innovid Inc. http://www.innovid.com/privacy-policy
Playbuzz Ltd. https://www.playbuzz.com/PrivacyPolicy
Cxense ASA https://www.cxense.com/about-us/privacy-policy
GDMServices, Inc. d/b/a FiksuDSP https://fiksu.com/privacy-policy/
travel audience GmbH https://travelaudience.com/product-privacy-policy/
Demandbase, Inc. https://www.demandbase.com/privacy-policy/
Solocal https://client.adhslx.com/privacy.html
Forensiq LLC https://impact.com/privacy-policy/
Adludio Ltd https://www.adludio.com/privacy-policy/
Adtelligent Inc. https://adtelligent.com/privacy-policy/
mbr targeting GmbH https://privacy.mbr-targeting.com/?optedIn=true
PREX Programmatic Exchange GmbH&Co KG http://www.programmatic-exchange.com/privacy
Bidstack Limited https://www.deepintent.com/privacypolicy
TACTIC™ Real-Time Marketing AS https://tacticrealtime.com/privacy/
Yieldr UK https://www.yieldr.com/privacy
White Ops, Inc. https://www.whiteops.com/privacy
Telecoming S.A. http://www.telecoming.com/privacy-policy/
Cybba, Inc. http://cybba.com/about/legal/data-processing-agreement/
Zeta Global https://zetaglobal.com/privacy-policy/
DEFINE MEDIA GMBH http://www.definemedia.de/datenschutz-conative/
Affle International https://affle.com/privacy-policy
AdElement Media Solutions Pvt Ltd http://adelement.com/privacy-policy.html
TAPTAP Networks SL http://www.taptapnetworks.com/privacy_policy/
hbfsTech http://www.hbfstech.com/fr/privacy.html
Targetspot Belgium SPRL http://marketing.targetspot.com/Targetspot/Legal/TargetSpot%20Privacy%20Policy%20-%20June%202018.pdf
Internet BillBoard a.s. http://www.ibillboard.com/en/privacy-information/
HIRO Media Ltd http://hiro-media.com/privacy.php
pilotx.tv https://pilotx.tv/privacy/
Ströer Mobile Performance GmbH https://stroeermobileperformance.com/?dl=privacy
Totaljobs Group Ltd https://www.totaljobs.com/privacy-policy
Madington https://delivered-by-madington.com/dat-privacy-policy/
Neustar, Inc. https://www.home.neustar/privacy
AdColony, Inc. http://www.adcolony.com/privacy-policy
SpringServe, LLC https://springserve.com/privacy-policy/
Adledge https://adledge.com/data-privacy/
Clicksco Digital Limited https://carbondmp.com/privacy.html
Arcspire Limited https://public.arcspire.io/docs/ARCSPIRE-PrivacyPolicy_v1.0.pdf
Automattic Inc. https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2017/12/04/updated-privacy-policy/
KUPONA GmbH https://www.kupona.de/dsgvo/
Fidelity Media https://fidelity-media.com/privacy-policy/
Sub2 Technologies Ltd http://www.sub2tech.com/privacy-policy/
Haensel AMS GmbH https://haensel-ams.com/data-privacy/
PLAYGROUND XYZ EMEA LTD https://playground.xyz/privacy/privacy-policy.pdf
Oracle AddThis http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy/
Triboo Data Analytics https://www.shinystat.com/it/informativa_sito.html
NEXD https://nexd.com/privacy-policy
Little Big Data sp.z.o.o. http://dtxngr.com/legal/
Lucid Holdings, LLC https://luc.id/gdpr
PubNative GmbH https://pubnative.net/privacy-notice/
Pexi B.V. https://pexi.nl/privacy-policy/
AdsWizz Inc. https://www.adswizz.com/our-privacy-policy/
UberMedia, Inc. https://ubermedia.com/index.html_p=6424.html
Shopalyst Inc https://www.shortlyst.com/eu/privacy_terms.html
SunMedia https://www.sunmedia.tv/en/cookies
Accelerize Inc. https://getcake.com/privacy-policy/
Admixer EU GmbH https://admixer.net/privacy
INFINIA MOBILE S.L. http://www.infiniamobile.com/privacy_policy
ATG Ad Tech Group GmbH http://advandeo.com/privacy-policy/
netzeffekt GmbH https://www.netzeffekt.de/en/imprint
ZighZag https://zighzag.com/privacy
ChannelSight https://www.channelsight.com/privacypolicy/
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Edinburgh Tram Facts
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Costs soar off the Graph … To infinity and beyond!
For the residents group the main objection to the Edinburgh Tram project is and always has been the heedless displacement of traffic it causes.
Because this leads to increased levels of pollution, and noise pollution, that will produce increased incidences of ‘bad health outcomes’—strokes, respiratory tract conditions (asthmas) and heart attacks.
The group feels this is unnecessary and caused by a need for size and speed designed into the project for reasons always suspect and now utterly insupportable in the new reality of the single track ‘Air link’. Given the resolve it would be possible to address these problems, even at this stage.
Persuading the wider public of the very large areas of the city that will be affected, and the need to alter the tram design specifications is the primary aim of this campaign.
The group believe that when more people do realise the issues and begin to exert more pressure ontheir councillors the political deadlock and games playing that has characterised this project’s governance will be swept away providing the possibility of real change for the better will coming about.
Alongside the health impacts from noise and air pollutionm there are of course all the other things that happen, a less liveable environment, more noise that while perhaps isn’t directly harmful to health in the way the excessive noise is, still has impacts on the lives of people living in houses…babies awakened from sleep, people awakened from sleep, constantly irritated by intrusive noise. The vibrations and rumble of the heavier vehicles, the damage to buildings caused by this, and the dangers of crossing or being near to suddenly far busier and more congested roads.
However because air pollution and noise pollution have clear ways of measurement and statutory limits set they provide the best ‘markers’ upon which to argue the case.
While the financial chaos that has engulfed the project is not the primary issue for this group, it is one that the residents have paid attention to because the same failures in oversight and governance processes that for so long denied the truth of the problems in the financial, planning and project management areas of the project, continue to deny any reason for concern in the Health impacts of the scheme.
Yesterday’s (12th April) revelations in the Scotsman newspaper that once again the money may be running out --
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-stories/edinburgh-trams-costs-hit-600m-with-two-years-to-go-1-2228972
-- has prompted John Carson a prominent critic of the flawed Edinburgh Tram scheme to release this graph he has produced.
This shows the original length of track in 2003 being 28 Kilometres and the original budget costing around £15Million per kilometre of rail… £445 Million divided by 28.
The initial project budget required no borrowed money, but to push from Haymarket the relatively short distance to York Place has meant a need for borrowing. Therefore interest has had to be added and as the red line on the graph shows, the cost per kilometre is now heading way past a projected £140 Million for each kilometre, now to be built.
The graph is open ended because of course if the Scotsman story is correct even more money, and even more interest will be needed, and so the price per kilometre for the system will rise even further.
As John Carson himself now says, echoing Buzz Lightyear the Toy Story character: “The line on the graph is near vertical already and adding more costs will take us to infinity—and beyond!”
A little maths shows that the present final capital cost of the proposed line, right now is over £3,000 for eachinch of track, and rising.
The truth is that the figures are already “Off the Graph” and consequently the business case is in ruins, preserved only by the desperately, crazy ruse of ignoring all money spent to date, when considering ‘refreshed’ business cases for the extra £231 Million (and possibly now more) needed to push past Haymarket.
Presumably when the extra £231M runs out, and more does need to be borrowed, this £231M too will itself be removed from the record; renamed as ‘sunk costs’ and the Benefit-to-Cost Ratio (BCR) will again rise and prove what an even more fantastic project this is!
In that fantasy world it really is true that the less we build and the more it costs, the better the BCR gets - but John Carson’s graph shows the reality.
And for the residents group the real danger is that in constantly averting a delicate gaze away from a financial reality too ugly to contemplate lest it disturb the voters, the council also continue to turn away from the similarly equally as ugly realities of the impacts of the displacement of traffic from historical main through routes into the densely inhabited domestic streets of the city.
Whether in the area of Finance or Health and other impacts the council must sooner or later face the facts and tackle the problems and not keep running away from them.
Slow down the tram and make it share road-space with traffic - The Business case is long dead nothing on Earth can make that worse than it already is.
Tackle the ‘wider issues’ while these can still be tackled
Establish a Judge led inquiry as soon as possible this year to get at the truth. Not just to rake over old mistakes and apportion blame, but in order to get at the facts to be able to make the best of a bad job while we still have time.
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Dream battery for your mobile and car is getting close to reality
From the heavy lead acid batteries to today's most widely used light and power-dense lithium ion batteries, the battery technology has seen improvements both in size and performance. The three important things to decide the performance of batteries are anode, cathode and the electrolyte. There is another factor of keeping the cost of manufacturing and material low. The material and the way they are physically built inside the batteries are the differentiators in the performance of the battery.
This article gives you an update on the latest technologies in improving the performance of the batteries.
One method to improve the storage capacity of battery is to increase the surface area of the anode and cathode by making them porous. Another method to increase the surface area is to have a 3D nano structured anode and cathode, kind of a self assembled nano wires or such nano structures bonded closely.
In the material research area, the material's electrochemical/ionic characteristics matter a lot. A graphite anode which is popularly used in present lithium batteries need six carbon atoms for every lithium atom, whereas one silicon atom can bond up to 3.75 lithium atoms. Silicon can have a theoretical storage capacity of 3.6 Ampere hours per gram. So material such as silicon are tried out as a replacement for graphite.
Start-up company called SiNode Systems is using a composite material of silicon nano structures and graphene, kind of a graphene drilled with tiny holes as anode resulting in tenfold increase in storage capacity. This structure is also expected to reduce the charging time by 10 times.
To learn more on their product visit:
http://sinodesystems.com/technology/our-solution/
The research team at USC Viterbi School of engineering have developed anode using porous silicon nano wires to solve the problem of what is called as pulverisation of electrode due to expansion and contraction. This team is working further to integrate the silicon anode with the sulfur cathode and other traditional cathode materials, in order to maximize lithium-ion battery capacity and overall performance.
To learn further visit the URL:
http://viterbi.usc.edu/news/news/2014/cheaper-better-lithium-ion-batteries-chongwu-zhou-silicon-anode-sulfur-based-cathode.htm
Researchers are trying out silicon-based nano nets. Basically researchers are trying to trap, coat, deposit electrode material on spongy structures.
Another important trend is, scientists are using less and less toxic material in future batteries, so that recycling them becomes less dangerous.
Rensselaer's researchers have tried to replace most commonly used cobalt, graphite in today's lithium batteries with all carbon lithium batteries with a higher energy density and also less toxic materials.
Find more on that at
http://news.rpi.edu/content/2014/04/23/rensselaer-researchers-develop-all-carbon-lithium-battery
Improvement in electrolyte: Researchers at the University of Tokyo and National Institute of Materials Science, Japan have developed a new electrolyte with higher concentration of lithium ion offering higher stability and fast reaction kinetics in the superconcentrated electrolyte far exceeding present commercial electrolyte. The new electrolyte can make the battery to produce 5 Volts and can be charged at 1/3 time compared to present Lithium batteries.
To know more on this visit:
http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/etpage/release/2014/2014032401.html
You see there are many research groups as well as companies working on to improve the performance of the battery. The successful company is going to be the one which produce high performance batteries at low price.
Even in the power electronics, there is improvement in making the charging faster. Tesla electric car uses a high voltage based fast charging technology to charge much of the battery within 20 minutes.
This technology called adaptive rapid charging is used now in mobile devices also. The power management IC inside the adapter/charger receives commands from the mobile device about the battery's capacity and other para meters so that higher voltage can be fed to the battery for faster charging. So it is real-time monitoring of the battery by the mobile charging device and communicating in real-time to the charger about the ability of the battery to withstand high voltage charging. The power management IC inside the mobile device or any battery-operated device/system continuously monitor the health of the battery both during charging and discharging to find out whether it can be charged at higher current/voltage.
There is a company called Qnovo which has pioneered this technology and has few patents. To know more on Qnovo visit http://www.qnovocorp.com/products/
QUALCOMM has developed similar technology called Quick Charge 2.0 which can charge up to 75 percent faster than products without this technology. There are already mobile phones in the market employing Quick Charge 2.0 tech.
The intersting starups in Lithium battery technologies include: Amprius, Prieto, Sakti3, Sila Nano, Envia.
But to tell you one big company which is already doing very good commercially is Panasonic, whose batteries are used in most selling electric cars such as Tesla as well as many electronic device applications.
So next time when you pick up a smart phone or electric car you can check whether it can be charged within 15 to 20 minutes to much of its capacity? Whenever you go for lunch or coffee break your phone/car can also charge like the way you charge your own internal bio-system, quickly and enough for the day.
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Ceri James
Album: Glass Walkways
Website: http://www.cerijames.com
Welsh Troubadour Ceri James is back with album number 6, melding together indie with blues to great effect. The former Zen bassist has had a busy time of it, racking up an impressive number of live shows over the last few years. He's come a fair way since his days of licenced busking on the London Underground in the mid-2000s, though his releases keep that raw energy you get from the kind of live performance aimed at capturing attention.
There's a rich vein of joy that fills the album; the pleasure James clearly gets from performing really shines through. He's also not averse to injecting a little levity into proceedings, with songs like Middle Of The Road Blues featuring a self-deprecatory and sardonic humour. That's not to say that he has nothing to say. One of the highlights of the album comes early on with The Sea Of Hate, a thinly veiled dissection of the current state of British politics.
There's a fascinating mixture of influences going on throughout the record. Blues is front and centre, and certainly James has a great bluesy vocal style, but there's a lot more going on here. Oh Your Careless Heart has a real country feel to it, while Angry Soul has elements of punk and some classic British pop within it. She's So Demanding marries together Brit-pop indie cool with some seventies era gritty vibes.
Pick of the tracks though is probably Without Our Love, with James' vocals featuring just a touch of a Jagger like inflection to it, and a beautiful violin accompaniment.
Glass Walkways feels wonderfully raw for the most part, as all good blues albums should be. There is plenty of heart and soul on display, and the indie sensibilities make this very accessible. If you like your music to demonstrate a little depth but to still be a fun and energetic listen, this is well worth checking out.
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Suite for Barbara Loden – Nathalie Léger
by Angela Woodward
[Dorothy; 2016]
Tr. by Natasha Lehrer and Cecile Menon
Nathalie Léger claims to have begun Suite for Barbara Loden as a brief entry on the American actress and director Barbara Loden for a film encyclopedia. Loden was married to the filmmaker Elia Kazan, had a brief acting career, and directed one movie, Wanda, in which she played the title role. Wanda was based on the true story of a woman drawn into a bank robbery. Her accomplice tells her that he will kill her and then himself if the heist goes wrong. Instead, he’s shot to death by the cops, and she is left to face justice alone. Wanda is a figure of overwhelming passivity, framed in the first shot of the movie as a tiny figure that dust “absorbs and dissolves” as she picks her way past a blurry pile of slag. She is an unresisting, pathetic creature, so panicked by her robber boyfriend’s instructions that she can hardly memorize them. She has them written out in a list: “14. Put the money in a bag. 15. Go to the car and leave.” Léger, assigned to write about Loden for the film encyclopedia, becomes obsessed with Wanda, and instead of finishing her entry, embarks on a study of coal mining and hair curlers, Polish immigration and the history of the self-portrait, spiraling out from her subject rather than honing in.
Suite for Barbara Loden becomes an urgent investigation of the vanished actress, her character, and of the woman Wanda was based on. Léger travels to the United States to view the landscape where the movie was shot, disregarding her rental car’s GPS to wander through coal country. She calls the governor of the prison in Ohio where the real Wanda, Alma Malone, had been incarcerated in 1960. She also relays Barbara Loden’s conversation with an earlier governor of the prison, who had refused her access to Malone. Loden had explained to him her interest in the inmate, but we see that her status as actress and director means absolutely nothing to this man of authority. Here is the real voice of power, in flat refusal: “No, said the governor, I don’t think it would be interesting, I don’t think that you should be interested in this story, I’m the person who gives permission for everything here, and that I will not allow.”
Léger’s book-length essay or film study or novel is a reaction to this judgment and withholding of permission. She dares to be interested. Women like Wanda seem pitiably weak, and yet their weakness is its own kind of strength. Loden played Wanda herself rather than assign the role to another actress because she strongly identified with her. Loden had been a runaway, a pin-up girl, a dancer in a nightclub, before getting cast in films. She told an interviewer, “I lived like a zombie for a long time, until I was nearly thirty.” She met Kazan when he was a successful director in his fifties, and she a mid-twenties blonde beauty in an acting class. He wrote a novel, The Arrangement, about their relationship, then let Faye Dunaway play the lead in the film version. Léger imagines this as a bitter betrayal. She questions her obsession with Loden, saying she herself has never been homeless, has never given her existence over to a man. Yet she remembers one bleak scene from when she was fifteen, when it was “impossible in moments like that to think that defending my body could be worth the effort.”
Here’s an admission of an intense degradation, that is however so run-of-the-mill for women that it’s not even worth describing in detail. The subdued anguish of the book resonates out from this admission, which seems central to the way violence against women is constituted: we can come to see our own bodies as not worth defending. Léger depicts herself in this book as organized and hard-working, caring for her mother while also having the wherewithal to fly across the Atlantic to do research. This accomplished, driven writer nevertheless shares a core of emptiness with Loden, and with Wanda. When the film came out, Léger writes, feminists criticized Loden for focusing on such a passive, subjugated woman. Yet this story we should not be interested in won’t stop its peculiar pull. Léger stubbornly sticks to it, magnifying Loden’s tale and making it her own. The book becomes an autobiography, “a woman telling her own story through that of another woman.”
Suite for Barbara Loden comes across as a dream, grounded in the women Léger researches but flowing into aspects she brings to life through fiction. She quotes Loden in an interview about her role in the Arthur Miller play After the Fall. Then the scene takes up as the door closes on the interviewer, and Loden sits in her dressing room. “She could hear noises backstage, the dresser going back and forth carrying costumes between the dressing rooms, the squeal of hangers on clothes rails, the echo of footsteps in the wing muted by thick carpet . . . ” The point of view has shifted without transition, a hallucinatory transposition of the narrator for her subject. Léger paints the bleak landscape of Pennsylvania and an improbable interview with the elderly baseball great Mickey Mantle with the same hypnotized attention, as if moving through the vacuum a deep wound has made. The book absorbs in its absorption, its willful fixation on a subject she should have passed over altogether, or at the least done less with. “It was understood that it was easier to fail than to succeed,” Léger writes, “the implication being that the most effective way to succeed was to fail.” Though she has failed her editor’s request to “stick to the subject” of the encyclopedia entry, the book is a quiet victory, reclaiming Barbara Loden’s persistence and nerve even as she is denigrated and misunderstood.
Angela Woodward is the author of the novel Natural Wonders, winner of the 2015 Fiction Collective Two Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. Her other works include the collections The Human Mind and Origins and Other Stories and the novel End of the Fire Cult. She can be found online at: www.angelawoodward.com.
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20th April 2018, 11:22 AM #81
Slings and Arrows
Graduate Poster
Hillary Clinton said on election night ‘They were never going to let me be president’
“I knew it. I knew this would happen to me,” she said. “They were never going to let me be president.”
They were the vast-right wing conspiracy. They were the patriarchy. They were the people of Wisconsin and James Comey. They were white suburban women...
They were Facebook algorithms and data breaches. They were Fake News drummed up by Vladimir Putin’s army. They were shadowy hackers who stole her campaign chairman’s emails...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/s...g-hillary.html (April 20, 2018)
And last but not least, "they" were the 62,979,879 American voters who didn't like or trust the annoying old hag and joyfully kicked her pantsuit clad rear end to the curb.
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21st April 2018, 11:38 AM #82
Review of 'Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling' by Amy Chozick
“Bernie’s supporters, Republicans, and garden-variety Hillary haters always told me it wasn’t about gender,” Chozick writes. “They’d vote for a woman, just not THAT woman. . . . I wanted to scream at every critic that thirty years of sexist attacks had turned her into that woman. That sooner or later, the higher we climb, the harder we work, we all become that woman.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.2f4f10cc142a (April 20, 2018)
"I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me, I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman." -- Bill Clinton
21st April 2018, 12:52 PM #83
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quadraginta
Becoming Beth
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Originally Posted by Childlike Empress
https://i.imgur.com/2VLr03l.jpg
Is the Hillary campaign suing someone?
Or is the cartoonist (and the poster) confused about the difference between the Hillary campaign and the DNC?
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
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Originally Posted by Slings and Arrows
Unbelievable isn’t it? A literall sexual predator and she is married to him!
If Bill gives you $130,000 will you agree to not mention this any more?
WilliamSeger
Originally Posted by quadraginta
The cartoonist is a ****-for-brains racist neo-Nazi scumbag who has a man-crush on Dear Leader and a fear of powerful women. Not sure why CE likes him.
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22nd April 2018, 04:56 AM #88
Originally Posted by WilliamSeger
So that would be a "Yes.".
23rd April 2018, 11:52 AM #89
mgidm86
I was in 2016 but that's just me.
Franklin understands certain kickbacks you obtain unfairly are legal liabilities; however, a risky deed's almost never detrimental despite extra external pressures.
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23rd April 2018, 12:14 PM #90
As others have pointed out, the cartoonist a noted bigot and is confused about Hillary's involvement in the latest Democrat lawsuit against the Republicans/Russia/WikiLeaks (hint: She's not involve).
Plus, if you look at some of the background details, they also talk about "suing Alex Jones", another lawsuit that Clinton is not involved in. (The parents of some of the deceased in the Sandy Hook shooting are suing Jones for claiming it was a fake attack; if the artist is criticizing that lawsuit, its suggesting they believe the conspiracy nonsense.)
SuburbanTurkey
Master Poster
Ben Garrison: The cartoonist who seems to manage to jam pack every cartoon with text. The man doesn't seem to have any interest in subtlety available in his chosen medium.
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Originally Posted by SuburbanTurkey
Surely, this is a strategic move. Subtlety doesn't do well with his intended audience.
He should add laugh tracks. As you mouse over the image, the track changes from chuckles to guffaws to gasps and eventually chants of "lock her up".
Or just the chants. Just to be sure. Whatever.
Last edited by phiwum; 23rd April 2018 at 12:44 PM.
As others have pointed out, the cartoonist a noted bigot...
Translation: He didn't vote for Madame Hillary.
Ref: Ben Garrison Cartoons
The Left: An Unhinged Mob
It's a visual, political Gish Gallop most of the time.
Trump supporters have nothing to juxtapose against Trump turpitude except a Hillary mockup they started building a long time ago.
Trump has been accurately described as "less a person than a collection of terrible traits." That's why Trump proppers need that Hillary mockup like a hog needs slop. Trump is literally such a repellent collection of terrible traits that there aren't any politikers of any stature who don't look good beside him. Not even in DC.
So they keep dragging the mockup out of their foldarol bag, like a flock of talking magpies.
Ironically, the crazed rat wing of the GOP originally constructed the mockup because they were afraid the GOP could not beat the old bat fair and square, so they went for the kneecaps. Which was cowardly and pathetic, and only got them Obama, and now Trump, who will almost certainly drag them down to hell with him.
But now they think they need Trump, which leads to them thinking they need the Hillary mockup to make Trump look good by comparison. But it's not working. They still can't make Trump look good, even by comparison to an evil mockup Hillary doll thing.
"I did not say that!" - Donald Trump
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I will not post in this thread again, I swear it. Hillary does not bother me now. I am done with her. It's so - freeing!
LMAO! This is pathetic: Clinton Stars as Central Villain in GOP’s Midterm Strategy
Almost 18 months have passed since Hillary Clinton lost the presidency. She holds no position of power in government. And she is not expected to run for office again.
Yet Clinton is starring in the Republican Party’s 2018 midterm strategy.
With control of Congress up for grabs this fall, the GOP’s most powerful players are preparing to spend big on plans to feature Clinton as a central villain in attack ads against vulnerable Democrats nationwide. The strategy, which already has popped up in races in Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Dakota, illustrates the resilience and political potency of Republican voters’ antipathy for Clinton. As difficult as it’s been for Democrats to move past the Clinton era, it may be even harder for Republicans.
Crooked Hillary is the gift that just keeps on giving. I hope the old battle-ax lives to be one hundred and twenty.
Goodbye blue wave, here comes Hillary.
Last edited by Slings and Arrows; 24th April 2018 at 01:33 AM.
Looking at the demographics, what you really need to hope for is that Hillary haters live to be one hundred and twenty.
24th April 2018, 05:20 AM #100
TheSupermeerkat
Critical Thinker
I like his cartoon “battle of the billionaires” - Bezo versus Trump, and the latter has a shield emblazoned with “better deals for America”.
Trump is dead wrong with his Amazon ranting on Twitter. Does Garrison know that?
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After doing a little research on Ben Garrison, it seems that some of his friends on the alt-right have been "improving" some of his cartoons by making them more racists and anti-Semitic, but leaving his name on them. In fairness, my accusations that he is a racist neo-Nazi were based on those altered images, and I have to retract them. Now I'm back to thinking that he's just an unfunny reactionary ******* playing to the same fearful and resentful audience as Trump's demagoguery, many of whom happen to be racists and neo-Nazis.
I think it's a common error. Anti-Semitic alterations of Garrison works are very common on racist channels. As far as I can tell, Garrison hasn't published anything racist. It's just conspiratorial and reactionary, which aren't exactly admirable qualities either. It doesn't take much to change globalist conspiracy to Jewish conspiracy.
24th April 2018, 01:57 PM #103
High Priest of Ed
Ben Garrison: The go to man when you want your wing-nut conspiracy theory illustrated.
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theprestige
Pragmatic? Sure. Cynical? Certainly. Pathetic? Not so much. Hillary Clinton is, for whatever reason, quite unpopular these days. It's a no-brainer for the GOP to keep her front and center for as long as possible.
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Originally Posted by theprestige
Well, yeah, but the pathetic part is that it probably is their best strategy, given what they have to work with.
Enh. You go to the polls with the candidates you have, not the candidates you wish to have plan to have at a later date.
It's not like the Democrats have anything better than "but Trump!". Which, when you think about it, is even more pathetic, right? I mean, a true-believing Democrat might unironically think, of course the GOP doesn't have anyone of Hillary's caliber, so of course all they can do is harp on her unpopularity and hope that's enough.
But at some point, don't those same Democrats have to start asking themselves when they're going to have something better to offer than "but Trump!"?
tyr_13
Trump is the President of the United States doing real harm right now. How is it more pathetic to run in opposition to the actual damage being done by Trump right now, than the hypothetical damage that is literally not possible? How is it more pathetic to be agreeing with the majority of the electorate?
This also leaves aside the specific measures Dems do advocate.
Circled nothing is still nothing.
"Nothing will stop the U.S. from being a world leader, not even a handful of adults who want their kids to take science lessons from a book that mentions unicorns six times." -UNLoVedRebel
Mumpsimus: a stubborn person who insists on making an error in spite of being shown that it is wrong
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Which, when you think about it (and have more insight than that provided by Trump TV), isn't anywhere close to being true.
Originally Posted by tyr_13
Real harm to the leftist agenda. Which is great for the US.
Roger Ramjets
Real harm to the US, which is great for those of us who hate America.
We don't want good, sound arguments. We want arguments that sound good.
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Hillary was right...
Turns out many Trump supporters really are in a 'basket of deplorables'.
Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds
Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to “economic anxiety.” Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.
Or so that narrative goes.
A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters weren’t driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk...
Losing a job or income between 2012 and 2016 did not make a person any more likely to support Mr. Trump, Dr. Mutz found. Neither did the mere perception that one’s financial situation had worsened. A person’s opinion on how trade affected personal finances had little bearing on political preferences. Neither did unemployment or the density of manufacturing jobs in one’s area.
“It wasn’t people in those areas that were switching, those folks were already voting Republican,” Dr. Mutz said.
...anxieties about retirement, education and medical bills also had little impact on whether a person supported Mr. Trump. In both cases, the findings revealed a fear that American global dominance was in danger... The shift toward an antitrade stance was a particularly effective strategy for capitalizing on a public experiencing status threat due to race...
Trump support was linked to a belief that high-status groups, such as whites, Christians or men, faced more discrimination than low-status groups, like minorities, Muslims or women, according to Dr. Mutz’s analysis
So the racist misogynist snowflakes voted for Trump not due to anything Hillary did, but to preserve their perceived status as white Christian males - just as we suspected. There's no way they were ever going to vote for a woman who threatened their dominance, no matter what she said or didn't say.
But should she have kept her mouth shut to avoid alienating other voters? I say no. It may have cost her the presidency, but it did something far more important - it destroyed the narrative that "It's the economy stupid".
Swing voters in a handful of of key states were taken for granted, and ended up swinging the wrong way. These are the deplorable Trump supporters you're talking about?
Originally Posted by Roger Ramjets
Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study FindsSo the racist misogynist snowflakes voted for Trump not due to anything Hillary did, but to preserve their perceived status as white Christian males - just as we suspected. There's no way they were ever going to vote for a woman who threatened their dominance, no matter what she said or didn't say.
It seems a little hard to blame it all on men, much less just Christian white men, when women supported Trump as much as previous Republican candidates.
Women supported Clinton over Trump by 54% to 42%. This is about the same as the Democratic advantage among women in 2012 (55% Obama vs. 44% Romney) and 2008 (56% Obama vs. 43% McCain).
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...der-education/
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The Misanthropic Mrs. Clinton
As a college sophomore, Clinton once described herself as a “misanthrope.” Her inability to hide that made her an amazingly poor candidate.
Amy Chozick writes, “She exuded a particularly icy aloofness and a how-long-do-I-have-to-talk-to-you-a**holes demeanor that made me feel as if I’d never been born.” Reporters felt so abused by the Big She during the 2008 campaign that when Clinton made an 88-second visit to the press bus proffering bagels and coffee, there were no takers. This is a bit like throwing raw filet mignon into a tank full of piranhas and watching it descend slowly to the bottom untouched.
You might expect Clinton to at least be sensitive to sexism. Instead she was a source of it. “She told aides she knew women reporters would be harder on her. We’d be jealous and catty and more spiteful than men. We’d be impervious to her flirting.” A running joke had it that the unofficial motto of Clinton supporters was, “I’m With Her . . . I Guess.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/...2016-campaign/ (April 25, 2018)
Hopefully, the misanthropic Mrs. Clinton will run again in 2020.
Poll: Melania Trump Is A More Popular First Lady Than Hillary Clinton
A new poll indicates that First Lady Melania Trump is a more popular first lady than Hillary Clinton was. YouGov reports that Melania is seen positively by 40 percent of America after being in the White House for a year and a half.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton was first lady for eight years and only registered a 38 percent positive rating.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/27/me...llary-clinton/ (April 27, 2018)
First Lady Melania Trump always looks stunning and rarely comments on politics, making her the exact opposite of disheveled never-shut-up Hillary.
Yes, because women should always be judged on how attractive they are, and not on their abilities, skills or intelligence.
Fudbucker
Well, she did plagiarize Michelle Obama's speech at the convention. But she looked good doing it, and looks are all that matters. I guess.
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It's not like the Democrats have anything better than "but Trump!".
Which of course is completely wrong.
During the last election, the Clinton campaign had a lot of very well thought out policies. You could go to their web site and actually see what their plans were on a wide range of subjects.
Compare that to Trump, who made promises which were incredibly vague (e.g. promise "great health care" without saying how it would be done), or completely contradictory (e.g. the cost of the wall, which seemed to change from speech to speech, or his immigration ban which turned into "extreme vetting", although he was vague on.)
Which, when you think about it, is even more pathetic, right?
What' pathetic is that there are republicans and Trump supporters who actually think that the "democrats had nothing but anti-Trump", while ignoring the fact that that label applied more to Trump and the republicans.
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Apple CEO: No Converged Toaster Refrigerator From Us
By Sean Michael Kerner | April 26, 2012
During the Apple's earnings call this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked if he thought the tablet and traditional notebook computing markets would converge. Intel currently is ramping up its Ultrabook concept, which includes hybrid tablet and notebook designs.
"You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user," Cook said.
Cook stressed that it is Apple's view that the tablet market is huge. The iPad has been successful in the consumer, enterprise and education markets so far and meaningful applications keep being developed. Cook noted that in two years of availability, Apple has sold 67 million iPads.
"To put that in some context, it took us 24 years to sell that many Macs and 5 years for that many iPods and over 3 years for that many iPhones," Cook said. "And we were extremely happy with the trajectory on all of those products."
As iPad shipments accelerate to the point where the number of tablets equal the size of the PC market, some lines of convergence might be crossed, according to Cook.
"Now having said that, I also believe that there is a very good market for the MacBook Air, and we continue to innovate in that product," Cook said.
Read the full story at Datamation:
Apple: Notebook and Tablet Markets Will Not Converge
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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Canadian sawmill destroyed in January blast could be rebuilt
The owners of the Burns Lake sawmill in British Columbia that was destroyed in an explosion last January said on September 17 they would rebuild it providing the province could follow through on commitments to ensure a timber supply was made available to feed the mill, according to the Vancouver Sun.
Operations to clear wreckage from the Babine Forest Products site are continuing
Steve Zika, chief executive officer of owners Hampton Affiliates, said the company wanted to rebuild the Babine Forest Products mill and would make a final investment decision in early December after a thorough evaluation of the timber supply situation.
"The decision taken by the Hampton family was not an easy one due to the precarious timber supply situation brought about by the pine beetle that has ravaged forests throughout British Columbia," Zika said at a news conference held at Burns Lake.
The loss of the mill in an explosion and fire on January 20 had a serious effect on employment in the area and the announcement that a new, if smaller, sawmill might be rebuilt was considered extremely positive news by the community.
To find the timber in the Burns Lake area, the government is prepared to take a number of steps, all of which add up to a much more managed approach to the region's timber resource, including harvesting timber that up until now had been considered uneconomic and pledging to find money for silviculture work in the region.
According to the Vancouver Sun, the main obstacle the new mill would face is lumber prices. It would require one million cubic metres of timber a year and has only 500,000 cubic metres in Hampton's existing licences. The government has found 600,000 cubic metres within the Lakes timber supply area, but 380,000 cubic metres is in forests that up until now had been considered uneconomic.
Pat Bell, minister of jobs, tourism and innovation, said on September 17 that the low-valued stands are economic at certain points in the lumber cycle, and that Hampton is confident lumber prices will be high enough when the mill is completed in early 2014 to justify harvesting.
John Allan, president of the B.C. Council of Forest Industries, said the industry's main concerns — that the province would take timber supply from one mill and allocate it to another, and that it would unilaterally open up forest reserves set aside from logging — appear to have been avoided in the proposal.
http://www.hazardexonthenet.net/article/53119/Wood-processing-in-British-Columbia--Under-the-beetle-s-shadow.aspx?AreaID=4
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Analysing The Chances Of Dortmund’s Move For Wilfried Zaha Coming Off
1 Posted by admin - January 24, 2019 - News
It wouldn’t be a transfer window if there wasn’t a story linking Wilfried Zaha with a move away from Selhurst Park but for once, it feels like the links between the 26-year-old and Borussia Dortmund may actually have some legs.
Originally reported in German sporting newspaper BILD and now picked up by The Guardian’s Ed Aarons, it sounds as though the Bundesliga leaders are keen to secure Zaha’s services in the summer as a direct replacement for Chelsea-bound Christian Pulisic. Whilst it wasn’t said in BILD, The Guardian’s report suggests that the Germans have already made contact with the winger’s representatives about a deal and whilst he is unlikely to kick up a fuss publicly, it is thought that Wilf is intrigued by the potential to participate regularly in the Champions League.
Weighing up the pros and cons of a move such as this is likely to leave any Palace fan feeling rather conflicted but in many ways, Dortmund’s apparent interest in the Eagles’ academy graduate is something of a perfect storm. Whilst it goes without saying that he currently acts as the club’s talisman, it’s become clear that no Premier League club are going to pay the sort of fee Palace would be looking for in order to sell, whilst Dortmund suddenly have cash burning a hole in their pocket.
Steve Parish, understandably given the journey he and Zaha have been on together since he took up ownership of the club in 2010, will want the best for the winger whilst also fretting about the prospect of him coming up against us in years to come; a conundrum solved by his potential move to Germany.
Finally and perhaps most importantly for Zaha on a personal level, a switch to Dortmund would enable him to challenge for titles and European honours in a fanatically supported league without the relentless abuse and scepticism he’s grown accustomed to from opposition fans on these shores. Playing in front of just under 80,000 people every other week and given a further platform to shine, he really could reach his full potential; it’s not necessarily something that Palace fans will want to hear but looking at it from his perspective, it’s a move which could make a great deal of sense, if he’s open to the lifestyle change that moving to a new country represents.
Palace will still demand a huge fee to let him move on, likely to be well in excess of £50 million and in fact probably closer to £60 million but there seems to be a genuine chance of Dortmund breaking with tradition and going big to land him during the summer window.
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tzcar January 24, 2019 - 9:04 am Reply
if i was wilf i,d go.his talents are superseeded above what palace have to offer.surely he can see a club with no ambition,and botched transfer window every time.to be honest with this clubs management we are slipping down the slope.what are they paying freedman for?this mysterious brazilian goalkeeper,where is he?no real sign of a quality outfield player coming in.this club is a shambles.u have a conservative manager picks same players every week.what about introducingour supposed quality young un,s.no chance their.this really is a shambles,what price for a bright future.see anyone coming in on the summer transfer time,no well what a suprise.what a load of crap.i wish someone else would come and buy palace,and actually invest in the playing staff.
Ben January 24, 2019 - 9:24 am Reply
Tzcar, just an innocent question and I mean nothing by it, have you ever owned a business?
Onto Wilf. When he does move, Germany or France would be great options for him. All of us of course would love to see him stay with us for his entire career but at the same time recognise what a great servant he has been to the club and wouldn’t begrudge him wanting to move to achieve higher honours.
Lawro January 24, 2019 - 10:54 am Reply
Very much agree with you Ben. He has done so much for us, if he were to go on, fair enough.
Also quick question Tzcar, are you actually a Palace fan? I mean I get that Palace fans tend to be a little pessimistic, but the constant level of unhappiness and criticism in your comments is really taking it that one step further. Has the club done anything that you’ve liked recently?
Eric The Ninja January 24, 2019 - 1:37 pm Reply
He’s irreplaceable. It’s take over £100 mil before I even thought about it if I were Parish.
Colin January 24, 2019 - 2:34 pm Reply
It would be a great move for Wilf and I hope he takes it. He is one of the stand-out stars of the Premier League and the Bundesliga is at a higher level technically and he would enjoy it there. He has been brilliant for us at Palace and I’ve enjoyed every minute of him. But he ought to be playing Champions League. He mustn’t stay at Palace all his career.
tzcar January 24, 2019 - 4:15 pm Reply
lawro,ben,i have loved this club for over 40 years.never wavered never will.but i do think outside the box.ive no problem with wilf going,i actually think for him this would be goodyou,ve not been noticing what,s being said on other forums.and belive their are plenty of fans who are fed up.my first thought is always about the fans.the genuine people who turn up no matter what,and for me do not get a fair deal.i have know problem in people disagreeing with me,just don,t be fooled im a lone wolf.i gather alot of my thoughts through other genujne fans WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE DIRECTION THIS CLUB IS GOING ON PLAYING MATTERS.lastly was asked is there anything ive loved about the team lately.well,the guts,spirit and bad luck they suffered at liverpool.football is at times an unfair sport.
I’m not that worried about the forums and the reason is that there is always going to be people who are unhappy at the way the club is being run, and they are going to be the ones shouting loudest. There will always be a whole collection of fans who think the club aren’t doing the right things because they aren’t doing exactly what they would do. Problem is those fans want a whole collection of things that in reality the club cannot get/cannot afford/are more difficult to set up than fans realise. The moment that fans start to expect more than the club can actually do then those fans get fed up. I’m not saying accept everything as it is, certainly not, but complaining about everything is just as unhelpful.
My point is that your comments are consistently negative. You say you love the club, fair enough, I’m just saying maybe show it once in a while.
You say that you are worried about the direction the club is taking and that you (and others) are fed up. What exactly are you worried/fed up about?
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User:JoeyDay
Revision as of 22:27, 14 July 2007 by JoeyDay (Talk | contribs)
Stu, Missy, Craig, and Joey
My current stress level: Just fine.
Welcome to the user page of Joey Day. Many people ask me if JoeyDay is some kind of codename or if it means something clever. Sometimes I wish I could say yes, but it’s actually my boring old real name, short for Joseph Nathan Day. Another common misconception is that I must be from Australia, as some have inferred from my kangaroo-crossing logo. The kangaroo connection actually stems from my first name, as joey is also the proper term for a baby marsupial.
1.1 My Homestar Runner experience
2 Wiki stuff
2.1 Projects I’m working on
2.2 Things I’m proud of
2.3 Committees I belong to
I am the proprietor of the Homestar Runner Wiki. I started the Wiki on October 7, 2003 and still technically own it, though I prefer to think of it as community property. I am not The Brothers Chaps, nor am I related to them in any way (yes, people have asked me this).
I don’t mind answering questions about the Wiki, but I get a little swamped sometimes. It’s best to direct support questions to the entire administrator team (support[at]hrwiki[dot]org) or post them at the FAQ talk page.
My Homestar Runner experience
I was introduced to Homestar Runner shortly after Strong Bad Email 51, “website”, was released (circa Nov. 18, 2002). Web-design has been one of my hobbies for a while and a friend of mine knew that toon would resonate with me. It’s still one of my favorite emails. Other favorites include “the basics”, “superhero name”, “guitar”, “techno”, “japanese cartoon”, “english paper”, “caffeine”, “different town”, “flashback”, “virus”, “do over”, “lady...ing”, “bedtime story”, “space program”, “technology”, “pop-up”, “isp”, and “the movies”.
I own the complete set of four Strong Bad Email DVDs, the Strong Bad Sings CD, a Trogdor polo, a Stinkoman blue ringer t-shirt, and a Support the Municipality t-shirt. I’d like to eventually own a Kick the Cheat (but those suckers are expensive) and the Everything Else DVDs.
Wiki stuff
PRO This user is the wiki proprietor.
ADM This user is a wiki admin.
SYS This user is a wiki sysop.
This user’s favorite character is The Poopsmith.
This user owns strongbad_email.exe Discs 1–3.
This user owns strongbad_email.exe Disc 4.
This user owns Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits.
This user owns a Trogdor polo shirt.
This user owns a Stinkoman blue ringer t-shirt.
This user owns a Support the Municipality t-shirt.
Projects I’m working on
Homestar Runner Network — I've got the Drupal installation up and running, but a lot of customization needs to happen before the site will be truly useable.
HRWiki:A History — I’m having fun contributing this. My todo list:
Evolution of the logo
Hosting timeline and server migrations
Write more about “The beginnings and early days”
Confirm the timeline for “Administration and Maintenance”
TriviaTime — TriviaTime is a bot capable of hosting a trivia game in the #hrwiki-trivia channel. Help me come up with more questions!
GrapeNuts — GrapeNuts is a python wikipedia bot capable of performing many automated tasks on the Homestar Runner Wiki. If you need help completing a task you think could be automated (like find and replace), let me know and I’ll be glad to lend his services.
Things I’m proud of
Stu and I went to a screening of Craig Zobel’s movie, “Great World of Sound”, when it came to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival always has a handful of screenings in Salt Lake, so we caught a screening at the Broadway Centre Cinemas downtown. Craig and two of the actors fielded questions after the show and Missy Palmer, who produced the film, was also there. The Chaps, both executive producers of the film, were apparently in town, but decided to catch a different screening that night. Craig and Missy were both really nice, and Craig’s movie was amazing—laugh-out-loud comedy at some points, powerful drama at others, an entertaining and educational exposé of a real scam that goes on in the music industry. One of the actors had high praise for Craig’s directing skills and remarked to any screenwriters or filmmakers who may have been in the audience that Craig is the man you want working on your project. I’m excited to see where “Great World of Sound” goes from here—crossing my fingers that it hits theaters and DVD—and really hope Craig brings more movies to Sundance in the future.
Due to a glitch in the html file, I was able to transcribe “Fall Float Parade” (using the swf file) before it was properly available on the Homestar Runner website. It was my first transcription in a long time and it felt a-pretty-pretty good to be back in the trenches.
I get my kicks pruning the Links page.
My wedding video blooper reel is a music video for “Circles” from the Strong Bad Sings CD.
My mobile phone ringtone is “The System Is Down” from the Strong Bad Sings CD, but when my wife calls me the ringtone is “Circles”.
I’ve carved a Bubs pumpkin (2004), a The Cheat pumpkin (2005), and a Trogdor pumpkin (2006).
On behalf of the wiki, I received a letter from Matt Chapman along with a small collection of original pencil sketches.
Committees I belong to
Welcoming committee
Validation committee
Joey Day : Syzygy — Blog about web-design, browser news, Christian theology and apologetics, and other hobbies.
Joey Day : Documentation — Personal wiki for note-taking and thought collection.
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How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck? (CD included)
Have you ever wondered how much straw could a strawberry bury if a strawberry could bury straw? With one author, 12 artists, a few musicians, and 12 verses, How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck is the book and song that answers that question (and more) while inspiring you to laugh and sing along. The book comes with a CD of the song, both with AND without vocals, so you can make up compound word verses of your own!
Written by: Danny Adlerman
Illustrated by: Kim Adlerman, Roby Gilbert, Megan Halsey, Ryan Hipp, Kevin Kammeraad, Jill Kastner, Judy Love, Michael Paraskevas, Lena Shiffman, Javaka Steptoe, Joel Tanis, and Liza Woodruff
Music By: Jim Babjak
Hardcover ISBN: 978-09705773-4-4
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9705773-5-1
Publisher: The Kids at Our House
Primary Age Level: 3 - 9
"This book/CD package takes a twist on an old tongue-twister and reinvents it in 12 different ways with art by 12 illustrators and a rollicking song. Two tracks—one with lyrics and one instrumental—allow creative freedom to express many more nonsensical verses. If you've ever wondered how much wood could a woodchuck chuck, the answer's still "as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck wood." But be prepared for many more curious questions that follow, such as "How much chi could a cheetah tie if a cheetah could tai chi?" and "How much sun could a sun bear bear if a sun bear could bear sun?" Ten active animals, a dainty buttercup, and a strawberry pirate take over this song adaptation. More than 50 hours was spent on the book's last spread, "The Could You? Spread," a collaboration effort to hide 53 compound words. The result is a wild and memorable story in sight and sound. Pictures include collages, photos, sketches, drawings, and paintings depicting the comical animal antics. The package can be used as a springboard for youngsters to come up with their own whimsical pictures and wordplay. For younger children, listening to the audio will reinforce phonological awareness, an essential early literacy skill and precursor to reading and writing. Danny Adlerman's jovial ditty, and Jim Babjak's guitar-playing will have listeners clapping, knee-slapping, and dancing along."
- School Library Journal, Ann Crewdson, Issaquah Library-KCLS, WA
"Illustrated by twelve popular children's book artists, How Much Wood Could A Woodchuck Chuck? is a whimsical picturebook that expounds on tongue-twisting variations of its title. "How much night could a nightjar jar if a nightjar could jar night? / As much night as a nightjar could if a nightjar could jar night! / How much sun could a sun bear bear if a sun bear could bear sun? / As much sun as a sun bear could if a sun bear could bear sun!" An accompanying audio CD puts the lyrics of the book to song, in a simple melody written in musical notation in the back of the book; the CD also has a music-only track so that readers can sing on their own. The final picture spread features representations of many compound words, which are listed in the back cover. A wonderful read-aloud or sing-along book for parents and children to share together."
-Midwest Book Review, March, 2006
"This colorful book, illustrated by twelve of Adleman’s friends, some of the top illustrators in the country, is filled with fun and laughter. You and your child will laugh as you experience the silliness as you turn each page. Each tongue twister is accompanied by a colorful, imaginative illustration created by a different professional artist. A CD accompanies this unique book; the words are printed on the last page for easy sing along fun. You will also find a list of compound words on the inside back cover, to be found in the illustrations, making this book educational as well as a lot of fun."
-Book Talk With Shirley LaBusier
The Ashley News and DuQuoin Evening Call, March 2007
Activity Guide (also includes activities for other books and music by Danny and Kim Adlerman):
Adlerman Books and Music.pdf
Edition: Hardcover
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Science says: A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided
WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.
Detailed computer simulations show that an enormous rock crashed into the seventh planet from the sun, said Durham University astronomy researcher Jacob Kegerreis, who presented his analysis at a large earth and space science conference this month.
Uranus is unique in the solar system. The massive planet tilts about 90 degrees on its side, as do its five largest moons. Its magnetic field is also lopsided and doesn't go out the poles like ours does, said NASA chief scientist Jim Green. It also is the only planet that doesn't have its interior heat escape from the core. It has rings like Saturn, albeit faint ones.
“It's very strange,” said Carnegie Institution planetary scientist Scott Sheppard, who wasn't part of the research.
The computer simulations show that the collision and reshaping of Uranus — maybe enveloping some or all of the rock that hit it — happened in a matter of hours, Kegerreis said. He produced an animation showing the violent crash and its aftermath.
It's also possible that the big object that knocked over Uranus is still lurking in the solar system too far for us to see, said Green. It would explain some of the orbits of the planet and fit with a theory that a missing planet X is circling the sun well beyond Pluto, he said.
Green said it's possible that a lot of smaller space rocks — the size of Pluto — pushed Uranus over, but Kegerreis' research and Sheppard point to a single huge unknown suspect. Green said a single impact “is the right thinking”.
The collision happened 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, likely before the larger moons of Uranus formed. Instead there was a disk of stuff that would eventually come together to form moons. And when that happened, Uranus' odd tilt acted like a gravity tidal force pushing those five large moons to the same tilt, Kegerreis said.
It also would have created an icy shell that kept Uranus' inner heat locked in, Kegerreis said. (Uranus' surface is minus 357 degrees, or minus 216 Celsius.)
Ice is key with Uranus and its neighbour Neptune. A little more than a decade ago, NASA reclassified those two planets as “ice giants”, no longer lumping them with the other large planets of the solar system, the gas giants Saturn and Jupiter.
Pluto, which is tiny, farther from the sun and not even officially a planet anymore, has been explored more than Uranus and Neptune. They only got brief flybys by Voyager 2, the space probe that entered interstellar space last month.
Uranus and Neptune “are definitely the least understood planets”, Sheppard said.
But that may change. A robotic probe to one or both of those planets was high up on the last wish list from top planetary scientists and likely will be at or near the top of the next list.
Uranus was named for the Greek god of the sky. Its name often generates juvenile humour when it is wrongly pronounced like a body part. (It's correctly pronounced YUR'-uh-nus.)
“No one laughs when I say Uranus,” NASA's Green said. “They have to mispronounce it to get the chuckles.”
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Jen in Bookland
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge
By Jen in Bookland - January 31, 2018
Available on Amazon.com * Amazon.de * Goodreads
After eight years in prison, twenty-four year old Jordan Kane is the man everyone loves to hate.
Forced to return to his hometown while on parole, Jordan soon learns that this small town hasn't changed since he was carted off to juvie all those years ago. He is the local pariah, shunned by everyone, including his own parents. But their hatred of him doesn't even come close to the loathing he feels every time he looks in the mirror.
Working odd jobs for the preacher lady, Jordan bides his time before he can leave this backwards town. But can distance erase the memories that haunt him? Trapped in the prison of his own mind Jordan wonders if the pain of living will ever subside?
Torrey Delaney is new in town and certainly doesn't behave in a way the locals believe a preacher’s daughter should. Her reputation for casual hook-ups and meaningless sex is the talk of the town. Add that to her budding friendship with the hardened…
Release Day: A Crack in Everything (Cracks Duet #1) by L.H. Cosway
We're celebrating the release of A CRACK IN EVERYTHING by L.H. Cosway!
Now available on Amazon.com * Amazon.de * Goodreads
Life used to be simple.
I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O’Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall and told me to stay quiet.
It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me.
For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you need just a tiny drop of something unsavoury to create every great scent.
Pretty deep for a pair of teenagers living in a block of council flats in inner city Dublin, right Probably. But we weren’t typical. We both had our obsessions. Mine was growing things, Dylan’s was scent. He taught me how to use my nose, and I introduced him to the magic of flowers.
I had no idea that one day he’d build…
Game of Hearts (Fandom Hearts #3) by Cathy Yardley
Kyla Summers has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime to get her cosplay business off the ground, and only one thing stands in her way. She needs someone to take over the auto shop, and there’s only one person she can think of to call…
Jericho Salomon hasn’t been back in his home town since he joined a biker gang and rode off nine years ago. When his best friend’s kid sister calls begging for help, he knows that he owes the family a debt and he intends to pay. This is easier said than done once he finds that the kid is all grown up…
She needs a pair of skillful hands. He needs to keep his hands off. When sparks begin to fly, can they keep things strictly business, or will their hearts get hopelessly tangled? No more games, it’s time to play for keeps.
Kyla Summers is one of those people who will do everything needed even if it means she doesn't get to do what she really wants/needs to do. That will take on the …
An Urchin of Means - The Baker Street Series, Book 1 by April White
Available tomorrow on Amazon.com * Amazon.de * Goodreads
Ringo Devereux knows far too much for a man of his times. There’s no simple explanation for it that doesn’t involve improbable conversations about the future, and Ringo’s advanced understanding of three-phase generators and the secret histories of his city are not things he can discuss with the Victorian Londoners around him. Even his origins as an orphaned street thief are far too dangerous for a young gentleman of means to reveal.
An encounter with a ten-year-old pickpocket, and a luncheon with Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle draw Ringo back into the shadows of his criminal past. A stolen gemstone, a suspicious pawnbroker, and a damning bundle of letters are mysteries that require Ringo’s thief’s instincts, his obscure facts, and the help of a little girl with the skills of deduction like his.
But are these crimes as random as they first appear? What do a covert affair and a blue carbuncle have in common? Ringo knows …
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Talia.
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Abdel-Malek R
Farag DE
Shohdy KS
Cox S
socioeconomic
» Patients and Methods
» Conclusion
» Article Figures
Availability of informal caregivers for palliative care patients with cancer: Is there a difference between higher- and lower-income settings
Raafat Abdel-Malek1, Dina E Farag1, Kyrillus S Shohdy1, Sarah Cox2
1 Department of Clinical Oncology, Kasr Alainy School of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
2 Palliative Care Team, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Date of Web Publication 17-Jul-2019
Dr. Kyrillus S Shohdy
Cairo University Hospitals, Al-Saray St., El-Maniel, 11451, Cairo
Objective: Family caregivers are the default caring personnel for terminal cancer patients. The characteristics, demographics, distribution, psychological burden, and socioeconomic standards differ between high- and low-income countries. We aimed to assess those factors and their direct reflection on both the patient and the caregiver. Patients and Methods: This is a comparative cross-sectional study for terminal cancer patients in the palliative care unit between the United Kingdom (UK) as a high-income community and Egypt as a low-income community. We assessed the different characteristics, demographics, living place, the degree of relevance, and the availability of caregivers. Results: We have recruited 216 patients from the UK and 117 patients from Egypt. Informal caregivers were available in 74.5% and 92.3% for these patients with a mean age of 71.5 (standard deviation [SD] 16) years and 50.9 (SD 15.18) years, respectively. There has been a statistically significant difference between the two countries' caregivers in being married, family, and living in the same household (P < 0.0001). Conclusion: Low-income countries are more common to have an informal caregiver who is a family member of different degree of relevance. Caregivers in low-income settings tend to be younger, of the female gender, married, and living in the same household than in high-income ones.
Keywords: Cancer, caregivers, developing countries, income, palliative care, socioeconomic
Abdel-Malek R, Farag DE, Shohdy KS, Cox S. Availability of informal caregivers for palliative care patients with cancer: Is there a difference between higher- and lower-income settings. Indian J Palliat Care 2019;25:379-82
Abdel-Malek R, Farag DE, Shohdy KS, Cox S. Availability of informal caregivers for palliative care patients with cancer: Is there a difference between higher- and lower-income settings. Indian J Palliat Care [serial online] 2019 [cited 2020 Jan 22];25:379-82. Available from: http://www.jpalliativecare.com/text.asp?2019/25/3/379/262845
The modern palliative care movement started in higher-income countries where palliative care models were developed to meet the needs of patients and their families. Although the principles of palliative care are the same, the ideal palliative care models in lower-income countries may be different from that in higher-income ones due to many variables related to culture and resources. Among the factors that need to be considered when developing suitable palliative care models in lower-income settings are the availability of informal caregivers and the degree to which they are involved in the care of palliative care patients.
The prevalence of chronic illness in the world comes with evident fact, that one may be a caregiver to one of his family members at least once during his lifetime. Cancer is of no exception, thanks to the improvement of survival rates and the increasing dependence on outpatient settings to manage some cancer patients on chemo- or radiotherapy protocols. That's in addition to the shortages of health-care resources and personnel. All these factors make the family caregiver a cornerstone of the long-term program of managing cancer patients. However, who cares about those caregivers.
A strong positive relationship between the country income and the survival rate of certain cancers does exist.[1] Given that the proportion of cancer cases in developing countries is increasing and that two-thirds of cancer deaths in the world occur in these countries, a global call to action for improving cancer care in the developing countries is becoming essential.
This study aimed to identify the characteristics and availability of caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients presenting to the palliative care unit of a cancer center in a developing country like Egypt and compare them with those of a developed high-income country with a different culture like the United Kingdom (UK).
This is a cross-sectional study which included all patients presenting to the palliative care unit at both Kasr Al-Ainy Centre of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt, and the palliative care unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK, during the period between May 2012 and November 2012.
Variables assessed for patients were as follows: age, gender, marital status, and primary cancer. Caregivers were assessed regarding their number, age, sex, relation to the patient, and living with the patient or not. The caregiver was defined as the person who conducted or coordinated the majority of the patient's home care needs.
Estimating availability of caregivers in high-income versus low-income country is 75% and 90%, respectively, and a minimum of 100 patients in each arm is needed to be able to reject the null hypothesis that the incidence between the two settings is equal with probability (power) 0.80. The Type I error probability associated with this test of this null hypothesis is 0.05.
Statistical analyses of the data were conducted using small Stata 12.1 software for Windows (StataCorp LP, College Station, TX, USA). A comparison between the two cohorts was done using the Student's t-test for continuous data and Chi-square test for categorical data.
This study included informal caregivers for 216 patients with advanced cancer from a higher-income setting in the UK and 117 patients from a lower-income setting in Egypt who were seen by the palliative care team in either site. The most common cancers in the UK group were lung (19%), colon (11.5%), and pancreas (7.9%) cancer and in the Egypt group, breast (28.2%) and bladder (8.5%) cancer. There was a difference in the demographic characteristics of patients between Egypt and the UK [Table 1]. Patients in Egypt were significantly younger than patients in the UK (mean age = 50.9 [standard deviation (SD) =15.18] years and 71.5 [SD = 16] years, respectively; P < 0.0001) and were more likely to be married (83.8% vs. 50.3%, respectively; P < 0.0001).
Table 1: Summary of characteristics of both populations of patients and their caregivers
An informal caregiver was available in 92.3% of the cases from Egypt compared to 74.5% of the cases from the UK (P < 0.0001), with a mean age of 38.7 (SD = 13.9) years and 59.2 (SD = 16) years, all Egyptian informal caregivers were family members, meanwhile 8% of UK caregivers were nonfamily, and 9.3% of the UK cancer patients had paid care in a hospice, such facilities are rarely available in developing countries. In the Egyptian setting, 100% of informal caregivers were living with the patient compared to 64.6% in the UK setting (P < 0.0001). In total, 92% of Egyptian palliative care patients with cancer had an informal caregiver living with them. In comparison, 64.6% of palliative care patients with cancer from the UK had an informal caregiver living with them (P < 0.001). [Table 2] shows the types of caregivers distributed in relation to the age of the cared patient. The Egyptian elderly patients were commonly cared by their offspring (65.7%), meanwhile the UK cancer patients were commonly cared by either offspring (33.9%), or spouse (26%), and in 27% of occasions there was no available caregiver for the UK cohort.
Table 2: Types of caregivers distributed in relation to age of the cared patient
With advanced medical care facilities, medical technologies, and aggressive treatments, cancer became more as a chronic illness with higher life expectancy.[2] Caregivers for terminal cancer patients are considered one of the most important rings of palliative care chain and quality of life enhancement[3] family caregiver are considered the default caregiver once a diagnosis of a terminal cancer is made, but many of them are not well-oriented to their role in the plan of management, emotional support, symptom relief, complication interval, and finally, the end-of-life place and preparation for “dying at home.”[4]
In 2010, a meta-analysis put some highlights on characteristics of caregivers among 29 studies that assessed interventions targeting family caregivers of cancer patients, but only one-third of these randomized controlled trials included advanced stage cancer patients.[5] Female gender and Caucasian race predominate 64% and 84%, respectively, with a mean age of 55 years. The interventions provided to caregivers were psychoeducational, skills training, and/or therapeutic counseling.
Communication between health-care providers, patients, and specifically caregivers has a key role in improving the quality of life for both patients and caregivers as they may suffer from psychological, social, financial, and mental health deterioration during the period of palliative therapy, such as lack of knowledge, loneliness, depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders.[6],[7],[8]
Many interventional programs have been offered for handling this point such as CSNAT,[7] CCP,[3] the booklet intervention,[9] CONNECT,[10] and interdisciplinary palliative care intervention[11] which proved their effectiveness in improving different aspects of caregivers life, psychologically, mentally, and socially.
Caregivers have different characteristics and distributions worldwide. Based on seven studies[8],[10],[12],[13],[14],[15],[16] conducted in different communities along with this one, they are mainly showing a high female to male ratio as outlined in [Figure 1], the mean age is lesser in developing countries as shown in [Figure 2], and most of the caregivers are partner/spouse as shown in [Figure 3] ranging from 41% to 61% of the whole caregivers numbers.
Figure 1: The high female: Male ratio among caregivers is evident worldwide
Figure 2: The mean age of caregivers across different studies along with the current one
Figure 3: Diagram summarizes results from different studies on the type of caregivers that is in most cases the partner
In lower-income countries, it is expected that the caregiver is almost always a family member. However, a significant percentage of caregivers may be nonfamily in high-income countries, for example, in the present study, this percent was 8% in the UK cohort not to mention a significant portion living in a hospice. When comparing the pros and cons of family versus nonfamily caregivers, many points of conflict are raised: the family caregiver is ill-prepared, the costs of specialized caring facilities or personnel, cultural norms, and negative social and psychological impact. For instance, Lkhoyaali et al.[17] surveyed 150 family caregivers of elderly cancer patients in Morocco, a country that is not different from Egypt regarding culture and society norms and socioeconomic standards. They have found that family caregivers become less social, spouses develop more fatigue and insomnia, and female partners, in particular, suffer more due to more depression. This is in accordance with several other studies conducted in higher-income societies.[18],[19] However, this study pointed out that the cultural norms in such societies disgrace and dishonor the act of putting a parent in a hospice or nursing facility. Another conflicting point is the distance of the caregiver. Is it favorable that caregiver being lived in the same household with the patient or not? Caring for a cancer patient consumes 8.3 h/day,[20] sure this time is cut from work hours of caregiver with negative financial impact.
The results of this study suggest that there are significant differences between higher-income and lower-income settings regarding the availability and characteristics of informal caregivers for palliative care patients with cancer. The palliative care models developed in higher-income countries may not be “universally” suitable for lower-income countries. Future research is essential to develop palliative care delivery models suitable for the culture and resources in Egypt and other lower-income settings. In lower-setting, the caregiver tends to be an ill-prepared family member that in most occasions lives with the patient.
Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Declaration of patient consent
The authors certify that they have obtained all appropriate patient consent forms. In the form, the patients have given their consent for their images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patients understand that their names and initials will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal their identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
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England Counties squad to tour Romania announced
From RFU Press Release -
THE England Counties selectors have named a twenty seven-strong squad for the two-match tour of Romania in June.
The squad has ten counties represented in all, and includes fifteen debutants, who will hope to make an immediate impact next week.
Players were chosen for the tour on the back of impressive displays in the recent county championships. Working with representatives from all counties, the selection committee was hard pressed to squeeze the squad down to twenty seven, due to such a high standard in this year’s competition.
Keith Laughlin of Blaydon and Northumberland has been announced as captain for the tour. Laughlin has played with England counties for a number of seasons on both spring and summer tours, playing blind-side flanker and in the second row when required. The outstanding player for Northumberland this season is rewarded with the chance to lead out the squad in June.
England Counties Team Manager Matt Long said: “Following the spring internationals which included a victory against Scotland Club XV at Fylde RFC and a hard fought win away in France, the squad are in a good place heading to Romania.
“We have a core of experienced players who know the set up well, but also with fifteen debutants coming with us we have plenty of new and exciting talent to showcase. Players have been selected from all across the country and we head to Romania very proud and confident we can perform well.”
Former Leeds and England Counties player Mark Luffman has joined the touring party as forwards coach. A highly respected player and coach, Luffman will bring a fresh approach after Steve Pope withdrew from the tour for personal reasons.
England Counties play CSM Bucuresti on Friday 05 June, and Romania A on Tuesday 09 June.
England Counties Squad:
Forwards: Matthew Beesley (Wharefdale/Cheshire), David Laverick (Hull Ionians/Yorkshire), Stephen Johnson (Hull Ionians/ Yorkshire), Craig Williams (Redruth/Cornwall), Andrew Berry (Old Albanians/Hertfordshire), Brett McNamee (Old Albanians/Hertfordshire), Samuel Wilkes (Cinderford/Gloucestershire), Ben Hilton (Launceston/Cornwall), Christopher Wearmouth (Blaydon/Durham), George Oram (Blackheath/Kent), Keith Laughlin (Blaydon/Northumberland), Gavin Jones (Blaydon/Yorkshire), Evan Stewart (Fylde/Lancashire), Harry Bate (Blaydon/Northumberland), Nyle Davidson (Caldy/Cheshire).
Backs: William Crow (Dorking/Surrey), Matthew Shepherd (Launceston /Cornwall), Alexander Gallagher (Blackheath/Kent), Sebastian Rodwell (London Irish Wild Geese/Gloucestershire), James Spiers (Old Albanians /Hertfordshire), Samuel Winter (Bishop Storford /Hertforshire), Leo Fielding (Cinderford/Gloucestershire), Albert Portsmouth (Cambridge/Eastern Counties), Nevaro Codlin (Coney Hill/ Gloucestershire), Jordan Dorrington (Fylde/Lancashire), Henry Robinson (Darlington Mowden Park / Hertfordshire), Michael Wilcox (Cinderford/Gloucestershire).
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NBIX: The Tiger’s Stripes
NBIX
“The Tiger cannot change his stripes”
– unknown
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We are short Neurocrine Biosciences (NASDAQ: NBIX). We see distinct risks that the company’s sales growth is fueled by the same type of kickback scheme that recently devastated Avanir Pharmaceuticals.
The architect of NBIX’s sales and marketing activities, Chief Commercial Officer, Eric Benevich appears to be “Executive 4” in the criminal information recently filed against Avanir by the government. Avanir is the disgraced subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, whose prescription volumes appear to have collapsed amidst investigations leading to a September 2019 agreement to pay $108 million in criminal and civil damages to the government. The government alleged that Avanir engaged in a wide-ranging fraud targeting elderly victims by paying kickbacks to physicians, disguised as speaker fees, to induce excess prescriptions of a drug named Nuedexta.
Benevich, who was “responsible for all aspects of marketing NUEDEXTA” at Avanir, appears to have brought “the band” back together to sell Ingrezza, NBIX’s flagship $70k per year treatment for side effects from anti-psychotic medications. NBIX has hired at least 64 former Avanir employees in primarily sales and marketing roles, including multiple alleged ringleaders of the fraud who are now identified in recently unsealed criminal filings or qui tam suits. NBIX’s current Zone Director (East), Denise Prindiville, appears to be “Executive 2” in the same criminal information filed by the government against Avanir. Detailed allegations of her role in the fraud, including an alleged scheme dubbed “Operation Barracuda”, have surfaced in the unsealed qui tam suits filed against Avanir. NBIX has not disclosed that one of her deputies, Frank Mazzucco, was just indicted by a Grand Jury in September 2019, while he was employed by NBIX as a Regional Manager, for allegedly engaging in a criminal kickback conspiracy while at Avanir. Even the longtime Chair of NBIX’s Audit Committee, who abruptly resigned last year, was also the former Chair of Avanir’s Audit Committee while the fraud was taking place.
Documents prove NBIX is now paying lucrative speaking fees to dozens of the exact same doctors that Avanir did, including alleged bad actors who appear to have now become NBIX prescribers. One top NBIX speaker even allegedly “was paid by Avanir to conduct sham speaker events”, according to a qui tam suit. Other qui tam suits have alleged that Avanir “systematically bribed” doctors and that Avanir “business managers consider use of speaking fees as the only way to produce prescription results that are acceptable to management” and “the only way to produce high-volume prescribers”. If many of the same Avanir managers and executives have migrated to hold key sales positions at NBIX, why should we believe their attitude to speaker fees would be any different? According to public disclosures, we calculate that NBIX paid $4.6 million in speaking fees in 2018, a total that exceeds the heyday of the Avanir fraud and includes a seamless transition of paid doctors from Avanir to NBIX that is uncanny. We calculate that of the top 20 highest paid NBIX doctors, each of whom has cumulatively received in excess of $110k from the company, 18 also have received money from Avanir/Otsuka. Of the top 40 highest paid NBIX doctors, each of whom has cumulatively received in excess of $50k from the company, 36 also have received money from Avanir/Otsuka.
The persistent allegations of illegal and unethical sales practices at NBIX that continue to swirl on an industry message board named Cafe Pharma only heighten our concerns. Avanir allegedly artificially inflated prescriptions of Nuedexta, a medication intended for a disorder marked by involuntary laughing or crying, by bribing physicians to “grossly expand” Nuedexta’s limited indication to more general behavior abnormalities, write prescriptions for off-label purposes, and even use the drug as a chemical restraint to sedate patients in nursing homes. Because Ingrezza is only indicated for Tardive Dyskenesia (“TD”), a condition that is also relatively rare, difficult to diagnose, and marked by involuntary muscle movements, we believe the drug could be susceptible to similar abuses by NBIX.
Avanir’s fraud appears to have enriched insiders at the expense of taxpayers, patients, and Japan’s Otsuka, who purchased the company at a premium valuation in 2015 apparently believing that sales would continue to grow strongly, only to be left holding the bag when the scheme unraveled. We believe the joke may now be on NBIX investors, who don’t appear to be aware of the risks we see building beneath the surface. As scrutiny of Avanir’s sales practices increased, documents indicate that payors began clamping down, Avanir’s prescriptions plummeted, and financial performance consistently fell far short of Ostuka’s expectations. Increased scrutiny of NBIX and its payments to doctors could prove particularly problematic since the company, by its own admission, is now facing “intense competition” from a Teva drug named Austedo that appears to have similar efficacy as Ingrezza. This also makes it easy for payors or physicians to switch away from prescribing Ingrezza, especially if a scandal were to develop at NBIX. With NBIX stock now trading near all-time highs and a premium valuation that anticipates Ingrezza continuing to grow rapidly, we believe that even the slightest miscue could lead to a massive re-rating of the stock price, which is precisely why we see so much downside potential.
Our Research Process
We investigated NBIX’s activities and the backgrounds of certain NBIX executives, managers, employees, directors, and doctors who have been receiving payments from the company. We reviewed and extracted data from thousands of pages of public documents including court records, qui tam suits, sunshine act disclosures, and CMS prescription records. We also engaged a former Assistant United States attorney (“ former AUSA consultant”) who has over 15 years of experience focusing on health care law as well as a nationally recognized expert in health care regulation (“regulatory consultant”), both of whom helped us assess the potential risks facing NBIX. We also spoke to several physicians who rendered opinions about Ingrezza and its market positioning.
In recent years, corrupt health care companies have deployed physician speaker programs as a clever method of disguising bribes to doctors as fees for “speaking engagements” or “training sessions”. As opposed to seeking out speakers based on their expertise, corrupt companies have artificially increased sales by strategically targeting physicians with these payments based on their actual or potential prescription-writing activity. Such payments run afoul of anti-kickback law, which prohibits payments to induce prescriptions provided under Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE programs. As a result, the regulatory consultant we spoke with explained that most pharmaceutical companies are acutely aware of the compliance risks associated with speaker programs and the government has mandated that such payments be disclosed. Indeed, a 2019 whitepaper authored by health care consultants at RSM states “in the last decade, more than five of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies were fined more than $2.2 billion in judgments, settlements and penalties by the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to speakers programs”.
In September 2019, the DOJ announced that Avanir agreed to pay more than $108 million in criminal penalties and civil damages. The government alleged that Avanir engaged in a wide-ranging fraud targeting elderly victims by paying kickbacks to physicians, disguised as speaker fees, to induce excess prescriptions of a drug named Nuedexta. In addition, certain Avanir managers allegedly taught employees to fraudulently complete pre-authorization forms for doctors with false diagnoses in order to secure improper reimbursement from payors. Avanir admitted to paying kickbacks by accepting as “true and accurate” criminal information (here) filed by the government as part of Avanir’s deferred prosecution agreement. Avanir resolved two qui tam suits, one filed in Ohio (here) and the other in Georgia (here), without admitting guilt. Two former Avanir employees were separately indicted along with two physicians (here). A third qui tam suit not mentioned in the DOJ press release was unsealed last week alleging Avanir “systematically bribed” doctors as part of a “massive” kickback scheme (here).
Senior NBIX Executives and Employees Allegedly Engaged in Fraud at Avanir
The architect of NBIX’s sales and marketing activities, Chief Commercial Officer, Eric Benevich, appears to be “Executive 4” in the criminal information recently filed against Avanir by the government. Prior to NBIX, Benevich worked for roughly a decade at Avanir and was appointed Vice President, Marketing in 2007, the exact same title the government associates with Executive 4 in the criminal information filing (below). Benevich was previously featured on Avanir’s website which stated he was “responsible for all aspects of marketing NUEDEXTA”. The criminal information filing cited text messages of Executive 4 discussing “changes in the payment for Avanir speakers and how that would adversely impact the company’s sales goals” that, in our opinion, demonstrate the executive’s detailed involvement with Avanir’s speaker program. For example, in one text message, Executive 4 declares “we will get past all this, I assure you” and that “I can personally call every single speaker that we are not extending a new contract to”. We find this revelation highly problematic because Benevich is now NBIX’s third highest ranking executive officer, and his NBIX biography states that he is “responsible for all aspects of commercial development, marketing and sales of the Neurocrine product portfolio”.
Source: Linkedin (Left section). Captures from criminal Information Filing (right section).
We found that NBIX has hired at least 64 former Avanir/Otsuka employees, including individuals who now hold key managerial and executive positions at NBIX despite certain of them being identified in criminal charging documents or qui tam suits describing the alleged Avanir fraud.
Source: Table prepared from internal analysis of Linkedin.
We wonder if NBIX and Benevich have intentionally hired bad actors from Avanir to promote Ingrezza, especially considering that the company has not disclosed that an NBIX Regional Manager, Frank Mazzucco, was just indicted by a Grand Jury in September 2019 for allegedly engaging in a criminal kickback conspiracy while at Avanir. The indictment specifically alleged that “MAZZUCCO arranged speaker’s bureau programs, many with little to no educational value” and “did knowingly and willfully offer to pay remuneration, that is, kickbacks and bribes” while at Avanir. The former AUSA consultant opined that doctors and individuals from a large company like Avanir getting indicted in a healthcare fraud case is “a big deal” because it doesn’t happen often, and the government doesn’t take it lightly.
Source: DOJ Press Release, Linkedin.
Mazzucco was a deputy of Avanir’s former National Sales Director, Denise Prindiville, who is now NBIX’s Zone Director (East) and was specifically identified in two unsealed qui tam suits that were filed against Avanir. One of the Qui Tam suits (here) specifically alleges that Prindiville was involved in “Operation Barracuda” to use speaker fees as a means to increase sales and describes a September 2014 email allegedly sent by Prindiville to sales staff. The qui tam further alleges that Prindiville “participated in Avanir’s kickback scheme” and “approves of Avanir’s use of speaking fees as inducement’s to physicians”:
Source: Linkedin, captures from qui tam allegations.
Although Prindiville has deleted her tenure at Avanir from her Linkedin page, we believe she is “Executive 2” in the criminal information filed by the government against Avanir. Documents show that Prindiville specifically held titles at Avanir matching the government’s description of Executive 2, including National Sales Director, Neuroscience and East Area Director. The criminal information filing specifically cites an email from Executive 2 to Avanir sales employees as evidence that “sales executives at Avanir intended for speaker fees to be used to induce prescribers” (below). The government also describes how Avanir executives even “sought to conceal communications from detection” referencing texts over Whats App (an encrypted messaging platform) in which Executive 2 asks “are texts not discoverable if deleted?”.
Source: Captures from Criminal Information filing
A current NBIX Account Specialist, Odelia Harel, is a former Avanir Area Manager who is also identified in a Qui Tam suit. The suit states that a relative of Harel, Dr. Idan Sharon, became Avanir’s second-highest ranked prescriber in exchange for speaking fees which Harel allegedly had the authority to arrange.
Source: Linkedin, captures from qui tam suit.
NBIX’s longtime Audit Committee Chair, Corinne Nevinny, presided as Chair of Avanir’s Audit Committee while the fraud was taking place from 2013 through the 2015 sale to Otsuka. The fact that Nevinny, who resigned last year from the NBIX board, was entrusted with overseeing NBIX as an independent “watchdog” for most of the past decade gives us no comfort. We also are not sanguine about the three current Audit Committee members. NBIX Director Richard Pops is also the CEO of Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS), whose shares have fallen more than 60% after drawing scandal in 2017 for lobbying efforts to profit from a treatment to opiate addicts. NBIX Directors Dr. Stephen Sherwin and George Morrow have lengthy ties to NBIX’s founder, Gary Lyons, having all previously served together on the board of Brickell Biotech (NASDAQ: BBI), an equity which has declined more than 97% in value since 2015.
NBIX Pays Millions of Dollars to the Same Doctors Who Reaped Windfalls from Avanir
In the heyday of the Avanir fraud, payments to doctors for speaking fees peaked at $4.3 million in 2016, according to sunshine act disclosures. NBIX began ramping up its speaker program in 2017 when it launched Ingrezza and has already surpassed this annual level, paying $4.6 million in speaking fees in 2018. A Qui Tam suit explained that Avanir “business managers consider use of speaking fees as the only way to produce prescription results that are acceptable to management” and “the only way to produce high-volume prescribers”. If many of the same Avanir managers and executives have migrated to hold key positions at NBIX, why should we believe their attitude to speaker fees would be any different?
Source: Open Payments, capture from Qui Tam suit.
On NBIX’s Q2 2018 conference call Benevich touted that:
“we’ve been doing a lot of work with our speakers’ bureau, bringing in, for example, neurologists to speak to psychiatrists’ audience, bringing psychiatrists to speak to psychiatrist audiences and so on”
What he didn’t explain is that NBIX is paying large amounts of money to many of the exact same doctors that Avanir did during his tenure. We calculate from Sunshine Act disclosures that of the top 20 highest paid NBIX doctors, each of whom has received in excess of $110k from the company, 18 previously received money from Avanir. Of the top 40 highest paid NBIX doctors, each of whom has received in excess of $50k from the company, 36 previously received money from Avanir. Are investors supposed to believe this is just a mere coincidence?
Source: Sunshine Act disclosure database found at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/. The “payments” columns reflect the disclosed “general payments” cumulatively received from each respective company through the end of 2018.
For example, one of the top earners is Dr. Romeo Isidro, who has cumulatively received more than $100k in payments from NBIX in 2018 alone, and became a top 20 prescriber of Ingrezza in 2017, according to CMS data tracking Medicare prescriptions (2018 data is not yet publicly available). A Qui Tam Suit alleges that Isidro “was paid by Avanir to conduct sham speaker events for his own staff. Avanir paid these speaker fees as an inducement to prescribe off-label” (below). Furthermore, a 2017 CNN investigation exposing Avanir’s misconduct in nursing homes specifically profiled Dr. Romeo Isidro, who received more than $500k in cumulative payments from Avanir, in a section titled “the pill pushers”. An unverifiable allegation on CafePharma states that a former Avanir employee is “running the same racket with Isidro and his facilities” at NBIX.
Source: captures from qui tam suit and CNN investigation.
Another top NBIX speaker is Dr. Jason Kellogg, who has received approximately $124k from NBIX. A qui tam suit alleges that from 2014-2017, “Dr. Kellogg received $624,968.16 from Avanir and Otuska. These payments were made to induce Dr. Kellogg to write (or to reward his having written) Nuedexta prescriptions off-label”. Furthermore, “in 2016, Dr. Kellogg gave sixty-six Avanir sponsored speaking programs in which he promoted Nuedexta, including during two Avanir funded trips to Hawaii”.
Source: qui tam suit
Dr. Gustavo Alva was a top Avanir speaker who “Avanir would send around the country”, according to a Qui Tam suit which also alleges that Denise Prindiville made sure Alva would be asked about off-label uses of Nuedexta at one speaking engagement. NBIX has paid Dr. Gustavo Alva approximately $57k, after he cumulatively received $597k from Avanir/Otsuka, according to OpenPayments data.
The regulatory consultant opined that the biggest single warning sign for regulators would be if many of a company’s speakers are also high-volume prescribers of the drug they are promoting. This could create the appearance that the company might be selecting speakers for their prescribing activity, rather than their scientific and subject matter expertise. We calculate that 8 of the 15 highest volume physician prescribers identified in the 2017 CMS Medicare prescription data received at least $14k in payments from NBIX. Because Ingrezza was launched in April 2017, this list reflects the “early adopters” of the drug and could look substantially different now. But at the time, one of the most prolific Ingrezza physician prescribers appears to be Dr. Robert Morton, who was paid $53k by NBIX after cumulatively receiving $254k from Avanir/Otsuka. Incidentally, Morton is the Medical Director at Rolling Hills Hospital, which we profiled in an earlier report as one of the worst facilities in Acadia Healthcare’s entire network, in our view.
The former AUSA consultant explained that a common defense from physicians is that they are speaking about a drug they prescribe simply because they believe in it. But, in our opinion, it strains credulity to believe that the seamless transition that has occurred here, with so many doctors who spoke for Avanir immediately switching to speak for NBIX, is not financially motivated. The AUSA consultant opined that, based on the facts we shared with him;
“If I were the prosecutor that’s something I would be salivating about, and if I were the defense attorney it’s something that would have me probably saying, again, if any other factors were there indicating wrongdoing. They’d have me saying, ‘We got to get in there and get ahead of this because that’s going to look real bad.’”
We See Significant Undiscounted Risks That NBIX Sales Have Been Artificially Inflated
After NBIX hired Benevich in 2015, CEO Kevin Gorman touted that Benevich “launched NUEDEXTA” and “brings a really important track record of success in an area that is not dissimilar to TD”.
Source: September 2015 Earnings Call
But the problem is that Avanir’s “success” appears to have been achieved by allegedly bribing doctors to expand Nuedexta’s limited indication, for a disorder marked by involuntary laughing or crying, to more general behavior abnormalities, write prescriptions for off-label purposes, and even use the drug as a chemical restraint to sedate patients in nursing homes. Because Ingrezza is only indicated for TD, a condition that is also relatively rare, difficult to diagnose, and marked by involuntary muscle movements, we believe the drug could be susceptible to similar abuses. The reality that Benevich and many former Avanir employees and speakers are now employed or paid by NBIX only increases the risk that NBIX has deployed Avanir’s playbook, in our opinion.
The existence of persistent allegations of illegal and unethical sales practices at NBIX that continue to swirl on an industry message board named Cafe Pharma heightens our concerns. Indeed, Cafepharma postings repeatedly allege that NBIX is seeking to expand the diagnosis of Ingrezza to cover other conditions with one posting stating that reps have been directed to “Don’t say TD just say Movement Disorders.” We suspect that other movement disorders could include akathisia, general chorea, Huntington’s disease, Tourette’s, Restless leg syndrome, and various tic disorders, none of which Ingrezza is indicated for. We note that even NBIX’s own 10-K warns that “We could face liability if a regulatory authority determines that we are promoting INGREZZA, or any of our product candidates that receives regulatory approval, for “off-label” uses”.
Source: Cafepharma captures
One post even alleges that NBIX reps are being coached to “comb through long term care facilities looking for defense-less patients that they can get a script from”. Others state “reps were doing patients paperwork” and “the things I have heard being done here are mind blowing”. Yes, Cafepharma posts should be taken with a grain of salt, but we note that Avanir was also the subject of serious allegations on CafePharma (see examples here, here, here) that later proved quite prescient when the indictments and qui tam suits were unsealed.
These factors strike us as highly problematic considering that NBIX shares trade at such a premium valuation and most investors, who appear to anticipate that Ingrezza sales will grow strongly in perpetuity, don’t seem to be aware of the risks we see building beneath the surface. This is precisely why we see such enormous downside potential. Indeed, when the fraud at Avanir unraveled, our research shows it had a devastating impact that extended well beyond the government fines and associated disruptions and reputational damages. According to Bloomberg data (from Symphony Health), which in our experience tends to be inexact but directionally correct, Avanir’s total prescriptions of Nuedexta have fallen by roughly 40% and units dispensed are down 35% from their peak in 2017 (below). The data indicates that prescriptions began to decline rapidly after October 2017 when scrutiny began to intensify after CNN published its investigation exposing malfeasance.
Source: Internal Graphic derived from Bloomberg Intelligence Data (Symphony)
After growing sales by more than 50% in 2014, Avanir was acquired by Otsuka in 2015 at a premium valuation that led to financial windfalls for Avanir’s management. Otsuka appears to have been fooled into believing that Nuedexta sales would continue to grow strongly well into the future, with documents showing that Otsuka’s management expected 40% growth in 2016. But instead, Nuedexta results have consistently fallen far short of Otsuka’s internal expectations and the business has languished. Even though Otsuka appears to have aggressively raised prices of Nuedexta in an attempt to combat falling prescriptions, revenues still fell in 2018 and our research indicates Avanir recently conducted another round of large layoffs.
We believe NBIX is now likely to face increased scrutiny over coming quarters, which could prove problematic. Just the recent unsealing of the civil and criminal lawsuits against Avanir, coupled with the indictments of two doctors, may create a “chilling effect” in the marketplace. According to the former AUSA consultant, based on the information we shared with him, “you almost have to assume the government’s going to be watching these people [former Avanir employees now at NBIX] from day one”. The consultant explained that “It’s easy for DOJ, it’s easier if the person has a history and they’re more likely to go show up on the radar in the first place”. Furthermore, because Ingrezza is quite expensive, priced at approximately $70k per year, commercial and government payors may also ramp up scrutiny of claim submissions. We note that less than a year after CNN published the results of its investigation, a subsequent article reported that payors began clamping down on submissions and the US government began “warning insurance companies to be on the lookout for suspicious prescriptions” of Nuedexta.
The other problem for investors is that, by NBIX’s own admission, Ingrezza is now facing “intense competition” from a Teva drug named Austedo, which came to market shortly after being approved by the FDA in April 2017 for TD and Huntington’s disease indications. An experienced psychiatrist we spoke to, who stated that he has not been paid by either company, suggested that efficacy of the two drugs is very similar for TD. A different physician we spoke to, who has received compensation from NBIX, described the comparison as “Coke versus Pepsi”. The existence of an alternative drug to treat TD means that payors and physicians currently prescribing Ingrezza could easily switch away, especially if a scandal were to develop at NBIX. Consistent with our view, in April 2019, Express Scripts placed Ingrezza on its preferred formulary exclusion list, and placed Austedo as its preferred alternative (which is slightly cheaper). While Express Scripts represents a very small portion of NBIX’s revenues, we see the exclusion as symptomatic of how easy it could be for such a switch to be made.
In recent years, the public markets have witnessed the rise of a certain underclass of predatory companies that have chosen to bilk the healthcare system at the expense of taxpayers and patients. Our research leads us to conclude that NBIX may prove to be the latest company to have embraced this ethos. We therefore believe that the risks facing investors are extremely elevated and see enormous downside potential.
All investors are encouraged to do their own due diligence into these factors.
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Turning Back the Clock - R3PLAY 2010 Report
By Ian Wilson - 14 Nov, 2010
R3PLAY the games from your youth!
The UK retro gaming scene seems to be getting bigger and bigger as each year passes, and thanks to magazines like Retro Gamer and websites like our very own Mean Machines Archive there's a real community out there who dedicated time to keeping those precious memories alive. After all, we can't just let it all be forgotten can we? (Someone needs to remind the youngsters there was life before Call of Duty!)
There have been several retro gaming shows over the years, none of which I've attended since I only reignited my passion for those 16-bit days in late 2008. Therefore, it was with a great deal of excitement that I made the trip to R3PLAY - a two day expo which took place on the 06th & 07th November 2010 and was organised by the CGEU - along with my brother.
The event was held in the exhibition & conferencing section of the Norbreck Castle hotel in Blackpool. It's probably fair to say Blackpool as a town is past its best - once a haven for British holidaymakers in the summer, it now seems to be kept afloat by aficionados of cheap lager and an irksome succession of hen parties and stag nights. However, it seemed fitting that it should play host to a retro gaming event - I'm sure we all have childhood memories of arcade gaming in our local seaside resort, and for many of you, Blackpool was probably the venue of choice. On a personal level I often frequented Pier Amusements in South Shields playing classics such as Street Fighter 2 and Final Fight. This venue has since been demolished in recent years and unfortunately it's an all too common story amongst retro gaming fans, so it's apt that Blackpool - which thankfully still has many of its arcade-packed piers intact - plays host to this event.
Doors opened on Saturday 06th at 10:30AM, and first impressions upon entering the hall were how big it was (it certainly had the 'wow' factor) and secondly how great the lighting was - a very well executed and subtle blue neon effect which created a fantastic ambience (like arcade halls of old). The attendance figures for R3PLAY were superb - according to the people in charge, a whopping 1,600 passed through the doors on Saturday and 1,200 on Sunday. There was unquestionably a real buzz about the place. Iain Lee hosted the show in the absence of the original host Gail Porter - whilst the male attendees were no doubt disappointed (I was!) it must be said that Iain did a great job and was a genuinely funny bloke. He's also got a true passion for retro gaming and so was naturally suited to the role.
One of the first things I noticed was a row of Japanese Candy Cabs which were in action, having never played on one before this brought a huge smile to my face! We proceeded to take ownership a machine which was running an interesting shoot ‘em up (didn't catch the name, regrettably) and, taking advantage of the free play, followed on to complete the game in co-op mode. A good start to the weekend! Splatterhouse was on display on the Sunday also and proved popular, as did all the machines in general. Patience was certainly an advantage in this area.
Speaking of “free play” this was another fantastic feature of R3PLAY - all of the arcade and pinball machines were set to this mode by default which meant you didn't need to scrap around for 10 pence pieces (or 50 yen in the case of the Candy Cabs!). Apparently some people complained about the cost of the weekend tickets (£20) but taking the above into account, along with the plethora of computers & consoles available, I genuinely considered it to be good value.
The beauty of R3PLAY is that it wasn't simply confined to retro gaming; the show spanned 30+ years of gaming history with machines featured like the BBC Micro (anybody else use these to access teletext on school lunch breaks?) right up to the current generation systems such as the PS3 and Move controller.
Retro-wise, there seemed to be an endless supply of tables set-up with a huge variety of consoles and computers all ready to play. Personal highlights include the PC Engine which was running Bomberman using the 4 player tap - this really was fantastic fun and it's a game that just doesn't seem to date. On the subject of Bomberman, there was also a 24-player game running at various points on the main stage in the hall! The joys of a retro classic combined with modern technology.
Steel Battalion on the Xbox was a very popular machine throughout the weekend also. Featuring surely the largest controller ever made, it can initially look like quite a daunting game to get to grips with. However there were useful instructions which explained the basics and with the help of a R3PLAY staff member (thanks Vinny) we soon got going, with our mech warrior trekking through the battlefield searching for targets. It's really quite a unique and immersive experience.
There was a Neo Geo running throughout the show (along with a CD system) and this was another console that drew the crowds. I remember these well as kid but never did own one - this was true early 1990's gaming exotica. We were therefore rather pleased to get our hands on some good old fashioned beat em up action with King of Fighters 98 - a great game and I honestly forgot how many rounds we played. Good times, indeed.
Amibay were well represented at the event and had a wide variety of Amiga computers including the interesting Minimig and CD32 console. There was also some LAN action taking place with Quake, which unfortunately we never got round to playing.
There were a huge number of other consoles and computers available to play due to the selflessness of the many collectors who loaned their machines for the weekend. In addition, many arcade machines were available to play and for most people this would have been their only opportunity to relive memories playing classics such as Star Wars Arcade, Donkey Kong and The Simpsons. Speaking of the latter, me and my brother (together with another two retro gaming fans) managed to complete the game from start to finish - I have fond childhood memories playing this as a kid so it was nice to finally see off Mr Burns! Again, all these machines were free to play (which is a bloody good job considering the lives I went through playing as Homer in The Simpsons!).
In a long corridor to the right of the main hall there was an area which became known as “pinball alley” due to the ten or so pinball machines sat together in a row against the wall. This was a very busy section of the show and a person queuing behind players engrossed in the machines was a regular scene. Terminator 2 stood out in this area and to me it was a machine which just hasn't seemed to age - it's still great entertainment hearing Arnie talk throughout! Others of note were Terminator 3, Back to the Future and Family Guy. Engineers (more than likely the people who kindly brought the machines to R3PLAY) were always at hand should anything go wrong - which bearing in mind their age, did happen occasionally.
As I've already mentioned this was also a show where modern gaming had a face. Sega were represented with a stand which included Crazy Taxi on the 360 (out later this month) together with the 2D rebirth of our favourite blue hedgehog in Sonic 4. Nintendo brought their Unleashed tour to R3PLAY and we got the chance to play the new reworked GoldenEye on Wii - this was cracking fun even if my brother (playing as Oddjob) did manage to kick monkey ass and defeat me (playing as Jaws)! There was also the chance to play other recent releases, such as the brilliant Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.
This meant there was a great mix of people attending the show - those wearing their rose-tinted glasses and reminiscing about times gone by mixed with those eager to compete on FIFA or Halo via the European Console League area.
Speaking of competitions, there were various events which ran throughout the weekend - highlights being the Sensible Soccer and IK+ tournaments, where the winners played creators Jon Hare and Archer Maclean respectively in the finals.
Talks were also arranged throughout the 2 days and it was a pleasure to listen to Jon Hare natter about developing old favourites of mine on the Commodore Amiga, such as Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder. These talks were held in the conservatory area of the hotel and proved a nice relaxing break from the noise of the gaming hall - definitely a welcome addition to the itinerary.
People wishing to make gaming-related purchases were catered for by sellers such as Console Passion (with a wide range of retro games and consoles) and RetroGT (selling their gaming related T-Shirts). Local retailer WHO also had a stand where they were selling sci-fi, movie and fantasy related merchandise. Some people attending seemed a bit disgruntled that there was only the single retailer selling retro games / systems (Console Passion) but with the sponsorship money involved I can understand this on some level as it was more than likely a factor in R3PLAY happening at all.
So in summary, R3PLAY was truly an event where the retro gaming community came together and there was a fantastic atmosphere throughout the weekend. If you were ever unsure on how to use one of the many consoles / computers there was always someone nearby to give you a helping hand. A hobby such as ours is still considered “geeky” by the wider public so it was great to be amongst people who shared a genuine passion and interest in retro gaming.
It's yet to be “officially” confirmed but a return to Blackpool next year for “R3PLAY 2” is almost certain to happen. Hopefully the tremendous success of this first expo will make this an annual event and I'm sure as many people would attend again if not more.
Finally a genuine thank you goes out to all of the people involved in organising the show - I for one thoroughly enjoyed it.
Photos courtesy of Chinnico (Retro Gamer forum)
Jamie O'Neill - 15 Nov 2010, 09:41 GMT
Whoa, I never knew that Ian re-established his passion for 16-bit retro back in late 2008, that means that he has built up a class Mega Drive collection in a really short period of time - Fair play!
Reading this makes me feel like I get to experience a bit of R3PLAY, even though I didn't make it. Free play arcade gaming sounds ace, and with 1600 people attending just for the Saturday, there were a shed-load of retro gamers to enjoy it.
Four player 'Simpsons Arcade' is always going to be boss, and just imagine getting to play Jon Hare at Sensi, or Archer Maclean at IK+, that would be awesome. I am disappointed that I did not make it to R3PLAY '10, I think that I would have enjoyed meeting other gamers from the retro community the most, especially all the people I chat with on forums and Twitter. Ah well, I'm defo defo going to attend next year's event!
Nice one Ian, this a spot-on R3PLAY report and great vid/photos too!
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Commented: What are the odds on an end to televised horse racing?...
TV horse racing fearful of a British government review of the rules for daytime advertising for gambling which is currently allowed during daytime televised sport
8th October 2016. See article from theguardian.com
The UK's horse racing administrators are preparing to fight tooth and nail to stop any plan by the government to limit TV gambling advertisements. The possibility of a pre-watershed ban on the adverts was floated in Friday's edition of The Times and, while the report was speculative and anonymously sourced, it was enough to send a shiver through senior figures, both on the turf and beyond.
Among those feeling anxious were the executives who negotiated a £30m, four-year deal to televise racing on ITV from 2017. The value of racing's terrestrial rights depends almost entirely on the huge sums that bookmakers will pay to advertise in the breaks. A ban on daytime advertising would blow a hole in ITV's business plan as wide as Newmarket Heath, and reduce the value of the rights in future deals almost to zero.
In fact the entire Channel 4/ITV racing programme itself could be considered as one long promotion for gambling.
The digital channel At The Races also depends heavily on bookmaker advertising. Other sports, football in particular, could also see a drop in the value of their TV rights, but only racing has a fundamental link to betting as a primary revenue stream and a daytime ban would be catastrophic for the sport's finances.
According to Friday's report, possible changes to the rules on gambling adverts will be added to a review of fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs), the controversial gaming machines that have turned what were once betting shops into outlets for roulette and other fixed-margin games which were once restricted to casinos.
Racing will also be concerned that any compromise proposal that imposed an early-evening cut-off point for gambling adverts would bar bookies from advertising during terrestrial racing coverage, but leave much of the televised Premier League and Champions League football schedule on Sky Sports and BT Sport relatively unaffected.
Offsite Comment: Is banning gambling ads censorship? You bet
26th October 2016. See article from spiked-online.com By Rob Lyons
Commented: Protecting their hides...
Australian politician takes aim at video games offering skins betting opportunities
1st August 2016. See article from dailydot.com
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2 are at the center of a proposed bill in the Australian parliament, which would define the titles as gambling and could potentially see them banned or mandatorily 18 rated .
Introduced by independent Senator Nick Xenophon, a veteran politician in Australia, he told the Sydney Morning Herald that the bill is looking to curtail what he considers to be the Wild West of online gambling that is actually targeting kids.
The concept of skin betting is a nominally no-cash betting entertainment where the stakes are game commodities eg skins, hides, cases, chests. Presumably the skins are made available in the games. The skins betting sites are quite professionally presented along the lines of cash sports betting sites. And several have been linked to games producers. Of course even if skins are nominally not cash, the fact that they are scarce resources makes them suitable for trading and purchases somewhere along the line.
Skin betting has been controversial of late with CS:GO and Dota 2's developer, Valve, eventually responding to the controversy by sending cease and desist letters to 23 of the most prolific third-party gambling sites, asking them to cease operations.
Xenophon argues that the in-game commodities known as cases (or chests in Dota 2) is gambling in and of itself, due to the differing value of the rewards players receive from them.
Should the bill become law, games providing such betting opportunities will be 18 rated, regardless of the level of content in terms of sex and violence etc. Furthermore if games become classified as gambling, Valve would find itself in breach of Australian law as only companies registered in the country are allowed to offer gambling services, meaning the games could get pulled from sale in Australia altogether.
Nick Xenophon's bill will be introduced to the senate next month as Australian Federal Parliament resumes.
Offsite Article: Xenophon's ill-judged counter strike
4th August 2016. See article from theconversation.com
Nick Xenophon plans to introduce a bill to Parliament that could stipulate a minimum age for playing first-person shooter games which include payment for mystery items. This is a feature of games such as Counter Strike: Global Offensive , Overwatch and indeed many mobile games that get revenue through micro-transactions.
News reports have inevitably represented the issue according to the same media effects model Xenophon has adopted. That is, first-person shooters groom kids for gambling and video games expose unsuspecting children and young people to danger and risk. It is the kind of half-story often told, one that reflects our tendency as a society to reductively demonise every new medium, to blame them for our problems, and turn them into scapegoats for our bad habits and antisocial behaviour.
For instance, book-reading was once considered a lazy, indulgent or reclusive activity, TV gave our children square eyes and being online all the time prevented young people from learning how to behave appropriately in face-to-face contexts. Oh, and video games turn high school kids into mass murderers (think Columbine or Sandy Hook), or at the very least make our children obese, more aggressive and lacking in empathy. They also have been said to cause learning difficulties, behavioural problems and now, according to Xenophon, early-onset gambling addiction.
...Read the full article from theconversation.com
Taking a spin at Quebec's government...
Consumer rights group fights Quebec law mandating internet censorship so as to protect its monopoly on gambling
See article from casino.org
Quebec's plans to force ISP's to block gambling websites not approved by the province is being put to the test by a federal consumer rights group. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) this week filed an objection to a law, passed by the Quebec legislature earlier in the year.
The bill's supporters claim that its aim is to improve public health by forcing state residents to play on the Quebec's monopoly gaming site, Lotto-Quebec's Espace-jeux.
But critics, which include net neutrality advocates , technology lawyers, and the ISPs themselves, have accused the Quebec government of setting a dangerous precedent by putting commercial gain above the freedom of the internet.
The plans, which were drawn up in the provinces March 2015 budget predict the scheme will boost government revenues by $13.5 million in 2016-2017 and $27 million in subsequent years. These gains will come at the huge expense of ISP companies, which have said that the disruption to their infrastructures would be enormous as they would have to redesign their networks from the ground up. The cost of this would be passed onto consumers.
The PIAC filing states that Quebec is in direct conflict with the1993 Federal Telecommunications Act, which prohibits a communications provider from control[ing] the content or influence[ing] the meaning or purpose of telecommunications carried by it for the public, unless it has approval from the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission.
Censors and taxmen join forces...
Polish government to introduce internet censorship to maintain revenue from its state gambling monopoly
See article from mappingmediafreedom.org
The Polish ministry of finance has announced an amendment to risk and hazard legislation, with plans to create a registry of illegal websites, as well as blocking websites with illegal content. According to the official announcement, the law is supposedly ntended to protect [online] gamblers to a high standard by eliminating grey zones .
In Gazeta Wyborcza, the bills authors explained that the project is actually designed to increase revenue from the state gambling monopoly.
Watchdog NGO Fundacja Panoptykon, warned that:
The idea to block websites containing illegal content raises many doubts. Just the mere creation of the tools to filter and block content of particular sites is dangerous. The Polish constitution prohibits preventive censorship.
According to the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the government expects the law to take effect in January 2017.
Going to the dogs...
New South Wales bans greyhound racing
See article from theweek.co.uk
The New South Wales government has banned greyhound racing.
The state's premier, Mike Baird says that the decision was down to chilling and horrific evidence of animal cruelty within the sport. Baird said an inquiry conducted by a special commission had found that the industry was incapable of reforming itself, leaving him no option but a ban. He siad:
As a humane and responsible government, we are left with no acceptable course of action except to close this industry down.
The inquiry found that between 48,000 and 68,000 dogs had been killed over the past 12 years in the state because they were too slow, or otherwise surplus. Around 10 to 20 per cent of trainers were indulging in the illegal practice of live baiting , which involves tying live animals to the artificial lure which is mechanically moved around the track to encourage the dogs to race. Live possums, rabbits and other animals were sometimes used in training.
Greyhound Racing NSW, the local governing body, says the industry had been left devastated by the decision and said there are many thousands of responsible participants who treat their greyhounds like family :
These people were as dismayed as others by the exposure of completely unacceptable and inhumane practices within greyhound racing,.
Update: Unbanned
2nd January 2017 See article from bbc.com
The government of the Australian state of New South Wales has reversed plans to ban greyhound racing. The ban was due to be imposed after an inquiry found overwhelming evidence of animal cruelty, including mass killings and the use of live bait in training.
State Premier Mike Baird said he had underestimated the desire to give the greyhound industry one last chance . He added:
We got it wrong - I got it wrong, cabinet got it wrong, the government got it wrong.
Watch sensibly!...
Ludicrous advice from the Thai government about watching Euro 2016 safely
See article from bangkokpost.com
Thailand's Public Health Ministry has ludicrously warned football fans to avoid getting overly excited while watching Euro 2016 lest those heart-stopping moments literally prove fatal.
The minsitry published advice calling on fans to ward off heart attacks by making sure they get enough rest and avoid long binges of football-fuelled excitement. Suwanchai Wattanayingcharoenchai, the deputy permanent secretary for public health, told reporters:
The ministry would like to advise all sport lovers -- teenagers, students, working people and the elderly -- to watch sensibly, Allocate appropriate time for watching and resting.
The ministry urged those with diabetes and heart problems to make sure they continue to take medication. It said those who work hard, even the young, should also take care. Suwanchai continued:
If your bodies are weak, fans should only watch the matches they are interested in or watch replays instead. Do enough rest, exercise, eat healthy foods and avoid alcohol.
Somehow the health and safety minister didn't mention the more pertinent advice of avoiding Russian football thugs.
Police said that during the 2014 World Cup, more than 800 football gambling websites in Thailand were shut down and almost 1,000 people, mostly gamblers, were arrested.
Betting on a state monopoly...
Quebec starts censoring online gambling sites to protect its monopoly on betting
See article from flushdraw.net
Québec's government-run lottery agency, Loto-Québec, is forging ahead with a plan to block roughly 2,200 online-gambling sites following last week's passage of the controversial Bill 74, which authorizes the state-run lottery to compile such a blacklist and to assess heavy fines against the province's ISPs in case of noncompliance.
The province's censorship plan, which has been heavily assailed as being unconstitutional and in direct violation of Canada's federal communications laws, is likely to face stiff legal challenges in the coming weeks and months. Bill 74, which is actually Québec's omnibus budget legislation, proved to be the vehicle through which Québec's lottery forced through the changes it desired -- a way to eradicate competition.
Whether a blacklist will be delivered by Loto-Québec to the province's ISPs in June, with an accompanying order to enforce the new law, remains uncertain. Loto-Québec is early in a 30-day period in which it is mandated to draw up the blacklist's targets, meaning that attempted domain blocking won't begin, at the earliest, until the latter half of June.
Loto-Quebec weakly claim that blacklisting needs to be done as a "public health" service for Québec' citizens. Of course, Loto-Québec hopes to get healthier as well... financially, that is. Loto-Québec openly admits that this is all about the dollars; as of now, the official Québec lottery is estimated to have only 10% of the province's "real" online-gambling market, and the lottery is willing to go the "Great Firewall of China" route to get the remaining 90% and thus the online monopoly it craves.
A passion for censorship...
Advert censor bans Boylesports advert on grounds of blasphemy
See article from asa.org.uk
An email for Boylesports Gaming, dated 25 March 2016, showed a hand nailed to a length of wood. Blood dripped from where the nail entered the hand and a desert scene was shown in the background. Large text stated BOYLESPORTS GAMING - NAILED ON BONUS . Text on a sign hanging from the nail stated BETWEEN 5 - 25 QUID . Text below the image stated Hi [recipient's name] - In memory of the dearly departed JC, we are offering you a sacrilecious [sic] Bonus this Easter weekend ... So don't just sit there gorging your own body weight in chocolate, that's disrespectful. Get on Boylesports Gaming and get your nailed on bonus .
A recipient of the email, who considered that the ad depicted a crucifixion and that it mocked the Christian religion at an important time in the Christian year, challenged whether the ad was offensive.
ASA Assessment: Complaint upheld
The ad showed a partial image of a crucifixion with a desert scene in the background and was sent to recipients over the Easter weekend -- the complainant received it on Good Friday. The ASA considered those elements and that timing, together with the references in the text to the dearly departed JC , a sacrilecious [sic] bonus and that's disrespectful , all contributed to the impression that the image was a reference not simply to a generic, historic crucifixion but to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Given that context, we considered that the way in which the ad made light of the subject matter, with the play on words NAILED ON BONUS ; the jokey language of BETWEEN 5-25 QUID , dearly departed JC and sacrilecious Bonus , and the cartoon-style image of blood dripping from the hand pierced by the nail, a particularly sacred image for Christians, were likely to cause serious offence to some recipients. We considered the offence was likely to be particularly strongly felt by those of the Christian faith at Easter, when the imagery would have a particularly strong resonance. We considered that the ad was likely to cause serious offence and concluded that it was therefore in breach of the Code.
We welcomed Boylesports Enterprise's assurance that the ad had finished its run. The ad must not appear again in its current form. We told Boylesports Enterprise to ensure future ads did not cause serious or widespread offence.
Update: Russian repression is a sure bet...
Russian region of Tartarstan proposes fines for users of gambling websites
Full story: Internet Censorship in Russia...Russia restoring repressive state control of media
See article from onlinecasinoreports.com
Tatarstan, a region in the Russian Federation, has proposed a bill that would bring significant fines for users of online gambling websites. The fines would be extended to parents or guardians that allowed their children to use gambling websites as well.
Proposed fines range between 10,000 and 20,000 roubles ($150 - $300) for users of online casinos. The bill also proposes a heftier fine in the sum of 150,000 roubles (approximately $2,300) for landlords that allow gambling on their properties.
Opponents of the bill however note that it is redundant as the current legislation in Russia completely forbids gambling even via the internet with very few exceptions.
Offsite Article: Political gambling...
A rare example of Britain being less censored than other countries
See article from ibtimes.com
Miserable Greens...
Australian political party proposes ban on gambling adverts
See article from gamingintelligence.com
The Australian Greens political party has proposed plans to stop the promotion of sports betting.
Greens leader and spokesprat on gambling and sport, Senator Richard Di Natale unveiled the Greens' policy to end the constant barrage of sports betting ads, by treating them in the same way as tobacco advertising.
Update: More internet censorship in the name of gambling prohibition...
South African government decides to maintain ban of online casino gambling
Full story: Internet Censorship in South Korea...Repressive new internet censorship law
See article from casinoscamreport.com
After a long debate, the South African government has decided to maintain its prohibition of online casino gambling. This was revealsed in a policy document released by the Department of Trade and Industry.
South Africa allows online sports betting though, and this will be allowed to continue. Now National Gambling Act amendments will order ISPs to ban all access to casino websites and forbid financial institutions to process any banking transactions. Enforcement responsibilities will be undertaken by the National Gambling Regulator.
Update: Canadian Losers...
Quebec seeks to censor the internet in the name of preserving a state monopoly of gambling
Full story: Internet Censorship in Canada...Proposal for opt in intenet blocking
See article from montreal.ctvnews.ca
A little-publicized bill that is making its way through Quebec's legislative process will put an end to the concept of a free and open Internet.
Bill 74 includes a provision that seeks to force Internet service providers to block Quebecers' access to online gambling sites that aren't approved by the government.
The province's finance minister claims the bill is necessary to protect the health and safety of Quebecers because illegal sites don't apply the same responsible gaming rules as sites run by the government and pose a risk to the population.
Critics explain that the Internet-censoring legislation is a way for Quebec's state-owned gambling authority to block competition and could lead to governments across the country deciding what citizens can and can't view online. Law experts say the legislation violates freedom of expression, contradicts federal telecommunications law and will likely be challenged in court by Internet companies and civil rights groups.
Quebec's government-run gambling authority, Loto-Quebec, has been losing money to online gaming competitors, according to the 2015-16 budget documents.
It's all just a Lottery...
The Gambling Commission reports on stats about the prevalence of gambling in the UK
See press release from gamblingcommission.gov.uk
New figures providing better insight into gambling behaviour in Britain have been published by the Gambling Commission.
Accompanied by easily digestible infographics the reports cover participation in gambling, perceptions of gambling and rates of problem gambling.
The research, for the first time ever, also includes information about how people gamble online -- the devices they use to gamble, where they gamble, and the number of accounts they use.
Findings include:
Participation in gambling has fallen from 57% in 2012 to 45% in 2015 - this can be attributed to National Lottery draw participation dropping from 46% to 32% in the same period.
National Lottery draws remain by far the most popular gambling activity followed by other lotteries and scratchcards
At 0.5% rates of problem gambling are static -- 2015 (0.5%) and 2014 (0.5%)
Those aged 18-24 are most likely to be problem gamblers (1.1%), and 1% of men were problem gamblers in 2015 compared with 0% of women
25-34 year olds are most likely to use mobile and tablet devices, bet in-play and gamble outside of the home
Laptops are the preferred devices among all age groups for online gambling while those aged under 45 are most likely to use mobiles or tablets to gamble in addition to laptops.
Paul Hope, Gambling Commission programme director, said:
It's vital that we monitor gambling trends and behaviour across society. Reports such as these are essential for us when developing regulations and for the Government when developing public policies on gambling.
Not so risk free...
William Hill online casino gamblers risk getting stung by terms and conditions
Two promotions on the William Hill website, www.williamhill.com:
a. A promotion seen on 11 December 2015 was headed £5 Risk Free* With Family Guy ... Play Now. Further text stated Get cosy with the Griffins this weekend and get a giggidy Risk Free! Claim Now and stake £5 or more on Family Guy until midnight on Sunday, and if the reels don't spin in your favour you'll get a £5 Risk Free to have another go and Family Guy £5 Risk Free Terms and Conditions: ... 2. The Promotions is only available to players who have claims and placed a minimum stake of £5 â?¦ 3. Refunded cash will be calculated as losses incurred less winnings on the Selected Games up to £5. 4. A minimum of £5 will be awarded during any Promotion Period. Any amounts less than £5 will not qualify.
b. A promotion seen on 25 December 2015 was headed Christmas Cracker - Get £10 Risk Free on The Pig Wizard. Further text stated Merry Christmas! You've pulled our cracker, now squeal with joy with this £10 Risk Free offer on The Pig Wizard! Simply, click 'Claim Now' and then stake £10 on this magical slot before midnight tonight, safe in the knowledge that if you're not a winner this time, we'll refund you up to £10 and £10 Risk Free The Pig Wizard Vega Millions Terms and Conditions ... 2. The Promotion is only available to players who have claimed and placed a minimum stake of £10 â?¦ 4. Refunded money will be calculated as losses incurred less winnings on the Selected Games up to £10. 5. A minimum of £10 will be awarded during any Promotion Period. Any amounts less than £10 will not qualify for bonus credit. Issue
The complainant challenged whether:
the claim Risk Free in ad (a) was misleading, because when they played the game they were unable to obtain the £5 refund without staking additional money; and
the claim £10 Risk Free in ad (b) was misleading, because they said they were refused a refund on the basis that they had only staked £9.80 of their own money and the 80p which they 'won' during the game and subsequently lost, did not count as their own money.
ASA Assessment: Complaints upheld
1. Upheld
The ASA considered that consumers would understand from the claim £5 Risk Free in ad (a) that they could stake £5 on the game without risk, meaning that if they lost that money on the game it would be refunded to them and withdrawable as cash. We noted that the T&Cs for the promotion appeared on the same page as the promotion itself meaning they were drawn to consumers' attention. However, we considered that the wording of the terms was unclear and contradictory. In particular, the third term stated that Refunded cash will be calculated as losses incurred less winnings on the Selected Games up to £5, but the fourth term stated A minimum will be awarded during any Promotion Period. Any amounts less than £5 will not qualify. We considered that these references to up to £5, a minimum of £5 and Any amounts less than £5 will not qualify would be likely to confuse consumers about what amounts would be refunded. We also understood that in the case of the complainant, when they played the game they were unable to obtain the £5 refund without staking additional money because they won 40 pence in the game and were therefore in credit to that amount in the game, which they were unable to stake without adding 10 pence of their own money due to a minimum 50 pence stake. We considered that this contradicted the risk free offer, because it was not possible in all cases to stake £5 and receive a refund without a customer staking some additional money of their own. We therefore concluded that the claim Risk Free was misleading.
We considered that consumers would understand from the claim £10 Risk Free in ad (b) that they could stake £10 on the game without risk, meaning that if they lost that money on the game it would be refunded to them and withdrawable as cash. We noted that the T&Cs for the promotion appeared on the same page as the promotion itself meaning they were drawn to consumers' attention. We considered that the ad made sufficiently clear that to participate in the promotion customers would have to stake £10 of their own money -- the text giving information about the offer stated Simply, click Claim Now and then stake £10 on this magical slot and the T&Cs also stated that the promotion was only available to players who have claimed and placed a minimum stake of £10. We therefore did not consider consumers would expect to be able to stake less than £10 and use any subsequent winnings for the minimum stake requirement for the promotion. However, we considered that the wording of other terms was unclear and contradictory. In particular the fourth term stated Refunded money will be calculated as losses incurred less winnings on the Selected Games up to £10, but the fourth term stated A minimum of £10 will be awarded during any Promotion Period. Any amounts less than £10 will not qualify for bonus credit. We considered these references to up to £10, a minimum of £10 and amounts less than £10 will not qualify for bonus credit would be likely to confuse consumers about what amounts would be refunded. We therefore concluded that the ad was misleading.
The ads must not appear again in the form complained of. We told William Hill to ensure that terms and conditions were clearly worded and unambiguous, so that consumers would understand how the promotion worked and what amounts would be refunded. We also told them not to describe promotions as risk free if the mechanic of the relevant game meant that it was not possible in all cases to stake the required amount and receive a refund without a customer staking some additional money of their own.
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Malaysia gets nasty about online gambling
Malaysia's deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zhaid Hamidi recently announced that he would use the government's next cabinet meeting to address online gambling.
Despite never introducing laws to govern online gambling, the Malaysian government considers the act to be illegal and intends to introduce legislation to clarify the situation. It appears that remote gambling operators might have to prepare for an exit from the Malaysian market after Zhaid said current laws had to be amended to include preventative and punitive penalties for online gamblers.
To limit online gambling, Zahid spoke of a need for action against internet cafes where players can go for access to the web. Thus far, many of the cafes have managed to avoid reprisals from the authorities by maintaining CCTV and having street informants who can deliver warnings before police arrive.
Zahid also explained that the government was training specialist policeman who would serve as anti-gambling experts tasked with bringing down online gambling in Malaysia.
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Lithuania blocks well known international gambling websites
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The Gaming Control Authority under the Ministry of Finance of Lithuania has announced that it has blocked further online gambling websites that do not adhere to new restrictions introduced in the country earlier this year.
In January, the Lithuanian gambling censor pledged to take strict legal action against operators that organise remote gambling contrary to the wishes of Lithuania. The Gaming Control Authority has followed up on this by blocking a number of companies that have transgressed the restrictions. Websites on the list include Betway, Unibet, William Hill, PokerStars, Marathonbet and 188bet.
Virginijus Dauksys, director of the Gaming Control Authority, said:
It is surprising that certain world-wide known companies, reluctant to legalise their activity, are blatantly violating the laws of the Republic of Lithuania.
Changing of the internet domain name in order to avoid the legal measures and to operate illegally in Lithuania can be treated as smuggling activity.
The Gaming Control Authority will continue by all means available to ensure the protection of Lithuanian gambling market from illegal offers and protection of customers of the Republic of Lithuania from uncontrolled gambling flows to prevent compulsive and minors gambling.
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Over 4K pounds of garbage collected at Scotland Bay
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A Queen-sized mattress, a tent, an inflatable kiddie pool and several rugs.
These are some of the items, along with over 4,000 pounds of garbage that were found and removed from popular beach and camping site, Scotland Bay. The activity was a part of the during the 2017 edition of ‘Beach Clean pUmP’ on September 16, also known as International Coastal Cleanup Day.
Held annually by the Green Circle (theGC) since 2015, the exercise saw a group of over 300 people from different walks of life mobilize together to clean up the litter-filled beach.
The Green Circle’s Scotland Bay Cleanup, one of 25 cleanups which took place across T&T, joined thousands of groups and millions of volunteers around the globe who, annually on the third Saturday in September, take to waterways and coasts to clean.
For the past three years, Green Circle founder Kerrie-Kim Kirton has conducted the Beach Clean pUmP, an activity which marries a good cause with a true Trini lime aka ‘pump’.
Kerrie explained, “I saw the need for a change in our society. The need to bring awareness to T&T, and particularly, my peers, about the harm we cause when we don’t dispose of our waste properly. In 2015, I invited and challenged groups of friends – entities like Scorch, Caesar’s Army and TRIBE – to make a difference. As movers and shakers in the field of entertainment, who better to show T&T that while we like to have fun, the youth can act responsibly too? Who better to set an example?”
“That year, we sailed to Scotland Bay with 70 persons from seven crews, including TRIBE and webetheFUN. Fourteen hundred pounds of trash was removed from the beach,” he added.
In 2016, 130 persons from 13 crews, like BessLime and TTHTI collected over 2,200 pounds at the site.
“Unfortunately, the amount of trash left behind by visitors to Scotland Bay keeps rising. This year, we collected over 4,000 pounds of waste,” Kerrie lamented.
The Green Circle head expressed great disappointment in the scant regard for the environment so vividly showcased by the amount and types of garbage collected at the site. “I am truly saddened. Although I was able to double the number of volunteers that came out to clean up in 2016, we almost doubled the amount of garbage collected in 2016 as well. Last year, we removed a toilet bowl from the Scotland Bay site and this year, while I’d hoped we would make no such discoveries, we found a Queen-sized mattress. We, the people of T&T, need to do more to reduce the amount of waste that we produce and especially, reduce the improper disposal of this waste. Our future depends on it” he warned.
Kerrie expressed gratitude to the 29 crews that participated in the Beach Clean pUmP 2017. Each crew got to the Harbour Master boat dock for 6 AM on International Coastal Cleanup morning to take a 1.5 hour-long journey to clean Scotland Bay. This year, with the large number of volunteers who expressed interest in the cleanup, the Green Circle required a larger vessel to get to Scotland Bay. Kerrie approached the Harbour Master, whose management offered a reduced charter fee, for which the young environmentalist was extremely grateful.
He also praised main sponsor Massy Foundation for its support for another year. “Without the Foundation’s help, this year and last, rental of the vessels used to transport our crews to Scotland Bay would be out of the Green Circle’s reach.”
The Green Circle (TheGC)
The Green Circle (TheGC) undertakes initiatives which promote environmental sustainability, events with a purpose, where young adults get involved in eco-friendly activities. For the third year, the Green Circle participated in Ocean Conservancy’s “International Coastal Cleanup Day” through its initiative: The Beach Clean pUmP.
Under the guidance of the Caribbean Network for Integrated and Rural Development (CNIRD,) The Beach Clean pUmP was one of a number of cleanups executed across T&T on September 16th. Entities like WASA, SWMCOL, and other corporate, private and NGO partners also took to the nation’s coasts to remove garbage in recognition of International Coastal Cleanup Day.
Participating crews included:
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All In Fitness
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This year, while theGC cleaned the surface of Scotland Bay, two other organisations took the cleanup underwater - the Trinidad & Tobago Eco Divers, an NGO whose aim is to protect marine life and the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Worldwide, during the 2016 ICC activities, more than half a million volunteers from 112 countries worked tirelessly to collect over 18 million pounds of trash.
In 2015, more than 18 million pounds of trash was collected by nearly 800,000 volunteers on International Coastal Cleanup Day. In the previous year, 560,000 volunteers in 91 countries picked up more than 16 million pounds of garbage.
International 2017 figures are still to be tallied, however, at Scotland Bay Trinidad alone, approximately 4,117 pounds of waste (including glass waste, plastic waste and general waste) was removed from the coastline.
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Seeking pinball wizardry? Get rolling at these local bars in Tamp Bay
Bruce Ng plays the Simpsons pinball game at New World Brewery in Ybor City.
Feel free to call Bruce Ng a pinhead.
Pinball is his passion, a rekindled pastime from the 37-year-old's childhood. But when he moved to South Tampa from Stuttgart, Germany, to work as a contractor at MacDill Air Force Base, he wanted to find a place to play here.
Thanks to some time meeting up with local pinheads he met on online forums — including Patrick Shatzer, the St. Pete-based webmaster of PinballHead.com — he found a few places to keep his paddle skills sharp. Since he just moved here last October, that made him a relative Tampa Bay pinball newbie, and certified him as the perfect guide to point out the best bars if you happen to tilt toward the games.
First off, while new games are still being manufactured today, it's pretty obvious most machines, like the hobby, hail from yesteryear. A stop at New World Brewery in Ybor City showed off a Simpsons pin that had seen better days. But it was part of an overall Duff theme at the bar, with signs and props touting the fictional cartoon beverage. That belies the copious craft beers on tap and homey decor.
Ng showed off his skills on the machine, pounding the cabinet and winning replays. "This is one of the most fun games ever made," he said. "It's so complex and there's so much to do, it's just a classic. That's why so many people like to play this one."
He did note that New World owned the machine, which likely leads to its less-than-reliable reputation — it had weak paddles that couldn't boot the ball as well as he liked, and the playfield was surprisingly dirty under the glass. Usually a bar rents machines from an operator, Ng said, splitting the quarters while the operator ensures the game is maintained.
To illustrate what he meant, he showed off the same game atMugs 'N Jugs in Clearwater, in all its serviceable sports-bar glory. Tucked in next to Big Buck Hunter and Super Bikes 2video game cabinets, this Simpsons machine was bright and cheery, fitting into a game room that was only one third of the strip mall destination. A sit-down eatery and a bar filled with TVs tuned to ESPN occupied the rest of the space.
"I actually come here the most," Ng said. "It's close to a friend of mine in Clearwater, and just feels like a good place. This is a better place to play, even if New World is the better bar."
He noted that if you're really into the pinball scene, you're liable to own several machines of your own, service them yourself and simply play in your friends' game rooms. It's a big investment, especially in an age where free pinball apps are available at the touch of a button.
But if it's public pinball in numbers you're looking for, downtown St. Pete is the place to be. A trip to Central Avenue led to Fubar, a wide-open space with a kitschy game room in back. The coolers and taps are filled with great beer selections, and the three pins are stacked alongside tables for drinks.
The hipster flavor of Fubar extended to the machines, too. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Judge Dredd and Police Force gave a history lesson in the evolution of cabinet design and play mechanics, but only if you could get them to work. At least $1 in quarters ended up being sacrificed to the pinball gods with nothing to show for it. Still, it would be a good place to meet up with others who want to play, too.
"You can chill back here and talk and play. When you're done, you can go get a pretty good beer," Ng said.
A trip across the street to Octave, however, had just the opposite environment. The bar had a few cheap domestics on tap and was mostly about the karaoke in the back. Right inside the door, though, was pinhead heaven.
Three refugees from the '90s stand guard behind the ID check podium, and they are doozies. Jurassic Park features a vibrating playfield and a Tyrannosaurus rex head that eats the ball. One of the objectives in Independence Day is to shoot at an alien exo-suit that opens wide and shrieks to lock the multiball. And Terminator 3 lets players fire the ball from a "rocket launcher" for a huge bonus. Plus, the machines are in immaculate condition.
That's a big deal for someone like Ng, who now owns nine of his own machines after getting back into the scene three years ago during a visit to a pinball arcade in Lyons, Colo. That's how he became engrossed in the underground pinball scene, which is enjoying a resurgence nationwide and features tournaments with hundreds of players in attendance.
"Mostly pinball players are a bunch of dudes, but I've been surprised at how many women and kids I see," Ng said. "That's the thing about pinball — the more you play, the better you do. Anyone can learn how."
658 Central Ave., St. Petersburg; (727) 424-1809. facebook.com/fubardowntown.
Mugs 'N Jugs Sports Bar and Grill
14100 U.S. 19, Clearwater; (727) 535-5847, mugstogo.com.
New World Brewery
1313 E Eighth Ave., Tampa; (813) 248-4969, newworldbrewery.net.
661 Central Ave., St. Petersburg; (727) 826-0820, octavestpete.com.
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Who the Fuck keeps money in an umbrella?
How would you answer this question?
Q: You are walking down the street and you come across an umbrella on the ground. Inside it is a large sum of money---cash. The money (or the umbrella, I can't remember) has someone's initials on it and you believe you know the proper owner.
a. First, take the money to the person you believe to be the proper owner? or
b. Take the money directly to the police?
Most of the time I want what I want when I want it. I am not alone in this. Unfortunately, more often than not, the desire I chase and when that desire is available for being caught does not align. The only problem with this is in my head ONLY. Apparently,* the cosmos has a whole other timeline outside of my own. Paolo Coelho, in his book The Alchemist, insists that the "universe is conspiring for our happiness." I don't know about you, but this is a tough pill to swallow at times. Could this be actually true?
Fortunately, it turns out this "Happiness Principle" is kind of supported through more than metaphysical principles or blind faith. In FACT, starting with Newton, and his limited gravitational descriptions, moving on to Einstein and his description of fourth dimensions and why gravity works the way it does, and then spiraling deeper and deeper into the nature of All Things and arriving at modern conceptions of String Theory; moving further and further into the building blocks of all life, down from cells to molecules to atoms to quarks, we are literally offered up a scientific explanation as to why the "universe is conspiring for our happiness."
(Look it up--just kidding, watch this:)
string theory quickie
The point is some of the most annoying platitudes in the world may be true including this winner: "You are exactly where you are supposed to be right now." (Not just referring to physical location.)
So, unless you are successfully fighting the very fabric of the Universe, you probably are "exactly where you are supposed to be right now." But even digging your nails in slightly can land you an a whole new world of despair.
Q: You are walking down the street and you come across an umbrella on the ground. Inside it is a large sum of money---cash. The money (or the umbrella, I can't remember) has someone's initials on it and you believe you know the proper owner. What do you do?
A: Who the fuck keeps money in an umbrella?
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*Apparently: The word apparently seems to commonly be used right before someone reveals a truth they only recently discovered. (Or after.) Apparently.
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In a move that cleared a lot of salary, the Timberwolves shipped O.J. Mayo, Antoine Walker, Marko Jaric, and Greg Buckner to the Memphis Grizzlies.
In a move that added a lot of salary, the Memphis Grizzlies shipped Kevin Love, Mike Miller, Jason Collins, and Brian Cardinal to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Who won the trade? Memphis. But it wasn’t much of a victory.
First of all, O.J. Mayo is the prize of the trade. His rookie scale contract combined with his talent and potential mean he’s going to be a pretty good investment for the next four seasons. So, in that light, Memphis is the big winner of this deal.
However – Memphis had to take on some pretty ugly contracts to make this deal. Antoine Walker’s contract (nearly $9 million a year for three more years) is a joke. Marko Jaric’s contract is pretty pricey ($6 million plus for the next three seasons), and it’s hard to imagine he’ll be getting much run in Memphis behind Lowry, Conley, Crittenton, and Mayo. Of course, it’s likely that Memphis is planning to move one or more of their guards. Miami is interested in Mayo, and this deal might just be a prelude to an even bigger deal with Miami. Maybe Miami swaps Beasley for Mayo and some contract shuffling…
Minnesota did OK. They dumped Antoine Walker’s HUGE contract off on Memphis, and all they had to do is take back Brian Cardinal’s deal. That’s a win. Kevin Love, while lacking athleticism, is a solid passer and can contribute off the bench at a minimum. Minnesota also got Mike Miller in the deal – an elite shooter that can provide some leadership. Of course, just like Mayo in Memphis, Miller actually playing in Minnesota seems far from certain.
It’s important to recognize that Mike Miller is a very attractive piece for a championship contender, and since Minnesota is in rebuilding mode, Miller can be had for nothing more than draft picks and an expiring contract.
It seems a little to premature to make a true judgment about this deal. It’s a near certainty that Memphis will trade one or more of their young point guards in the next couple of weeks. The Nuggets, for instance, had expressed an interest in Kyle Lowry. However, my guess is by the time the sun rises O.J. Mayo will be playing in Miami and Beasley will be teaming up with Rudy Gay and Mike Conley in Memphis.
Why else would Memphis take on all this salary? If there’s one thing we know for sure, Memphis HATES salary. Just ask Mitch Kupchak about that one…
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Walsh To Challenge Freeholder Incumbents
Howell Councilman Bob Walsh, second from left, and Freeholder Gary Rich, right, are set to compete for a 2014 GOP nomination. Andrew Lucas, left, then a Manalapan Committeeman and Wall Township Committeeman George Newberry, between Walsh and Rich. Photo from 2011 Freeholder nomination race. Photo credit Rhoda Chodosh
Freeholder Lillian Burry: “They (her opponents) should say what they would do better. Their negative attacks make them look like asses. They are asses!”
The By-Laws instituted by Monmouth Republican Chairman John Bennett as the fulfillment of one of his major campaign promises in 2012 will likely result in one of his most ardent supporters, Freeholder Lillian Burry, being challenged at the 2014 Monmouth Republican Nominating Convention in March.
Howell Councilman Bob Walsh said he will seek a nomination for freeholder when the Republican County Committee convenes next spring. Incumbents Burry and Freeholder Gary Rich both said they will seek the nominations for new terms…Burry’s 4th, Rich’s 2nd…and that they are prepared to fight back Walsh’s challenge.
“Tell him to wait his turn,” Burry said of Walsh’s challenge. “I’m running and I support Gary Rich for another term.”
“I’ve heard the name mentioned as a candidate,” Rich said of Walsh, “but I haven’t heard from him. It is interesting that he would challenge an incumbent like Lillian Burry who has such an exemplary record serving the taxpayers of Monmouth County. Lillian and I both work very hard to improve the county.”
“Freeholders are not elected for life,” Walsh, a former Howell mayor elected as an Independent, said, “my record speaks for itself. Lillian and Gary are both vulnerable. The Democrats are looking to take them out are excited about running against them. I am more electable than either of them and I would be a better freeholder than either of them.”
Walsh said that a Democratic mayor told him at the League of Municipalities Convention last month, “The only thing better for Monmouth County Democrats than Cory Booker on the top of the ticket next year is Burry running for reelection .”
Many politicos, both Republican and Democrat, expect 2014 to be a “good Democratic year” in New Jersey and Monmouth County due to U.S. Senator Cory Booker leading the ticket as he seeks his own full term with no Republican opposition yet to be announced.
Monmouth Democratic Chairman Vin Gopal has been vocal of his criticism of Burry since he was elected in 2012, even though she has not been on the ballot since being elected to her third term in 2011. Gopal considers Rich, a freshman from a small town, Spring Lake, vulnerable because he does not have a strong base of supporters or demonstrated ability to raise money. Gopal has told several people he wants to “take that guy out,” referring to Rich.
Many Republicans, some of whom are encouraging Walsh’s candidacy, are concerned that the Democrats will gain traction against Burry and Rich over their votes to approve the Andrew Lucas Farm Deal, despite the fact that Democrats have failed in every election, in Manalapan and on the county level, where they have made Lucas’s sale of the development rights to his farm for Open Space Preservation an issue.
Lucas was a Republican member of the Manalapan Township Committee when he acquired Burke Farm and throughout the process of selling the development rights to the government for Open Space. Soon after the sale was completed, Lucas, who was a GOP Freeholder nominee in 2006, announced that he would not seek reelection. In October, Lucas resigned his office just three months before his term was to expire.
Burry relishes the fight and the opportunity to defend her record. “Let them come after me,” Burry said defiantly, “I’m proud of my record over the nine years. The Lucas deal was approved by the Manalapan Township Committee, and the State, in addition to the county. There is no issue here. They should say what they would do better. Their negative attacks make them look like asses. They are asses!”
Rich is just as passionate, if less profane, in defending his record of two years. “I’m proud of what Lillian and I, along with the other freeholders have accomplished for Monmouth County taxpayers since I’ve been here,” he said, ” As the liason to Finance and Administration, we’ve brought our budget in with a ZERO tax increase over the last two years, and we’re working on doing that again in the upcoming budget.” Rich also cited efficiencies he’s spearheaded in the County’s IT department for purchasing and payroll processes, and an ongoing energy savings project.
“I may not be at all of the events and ribbon cuttings, ” Rich said, “but that is not the job. I am putting in 40 hours a week on for this part time job, finding ways to make our government better and saving the taxpayers money.”
Regarding the rap that he doesn’t raise money, Rich said that’s because he’s a team player. “Chairman Bennett said he was going to raise all the money for campaigns and asked office holders not to do so. Others have not complied, but I have, so far. But now that I’m up for reelection next November, I’ve got a fundraiser scheduled for January. We’ll see how I do.”
Under the Monmouth Republican Committee By-Laws adopted in September of 2012 any Republican can challenge the nomination of a County incumbent office holder at the nominating convention if 40 voting members of the County Committee endorse the challenger’s candidacy. No more than one-third of the challenger’s endorsements can come from a single municipality. Incumbent County office holders must present 25 County Committee endorsements to be considered for re-nomination.
Walsh was briefly a candidate for freeholder in 2011 and was a candidate to replace Assemblyman Rob Clifton in the 2012 Title 19 convention that Serena DiMaso won. Bennett, before he became chairman, supported Walsh over DiMaso in the January, 2012 convention battle. Former Red Bank Municipal Republican Chairman Jim Giannell, the Freeholder Maker, supported Walsh against DiMaso in 2012, Rich in his 2011 nomination race and Burry when she was first nominated in 2005.
Walsh said that if he is not nominated at the convention, he will not run in the primary.
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Posted: December 4th, 2013 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2014 Elections, Monmouth County, Monmouth County Board of Freeholders, Monmouth GOP | Tags: 2014 Freeholder races, Andrew Lucas, Andrew Lucas farm, Bob Walsh, Gary Rich, Jim Giannell, John Bennett, Lillian Burry, Monmouth Democrats, Monmouth GOP, Serena DiMaso, Vin Gopal | 29 Comments »
29 Comments on “Walsh To Challenge Freeholder Incumbents”
Bill said at 4:49 pm on December 4th, 2013:
As a Democratic this is very amusing.
@Bill said at 4:53 pm on December 4th, 2013:
As amusing as you constantly saying that Monmouth Dems would win? LMAO.
First Of All said at 5:37 pm on December 4th, 2013:
Can’t we just get past the holidays without the Monmouth County political world blowing up?
Now, here’s my big bone of contention…
While I do believe that maybe next time Lillian should retire honorably, Walsh is the LAST person I want to see ascend to a Freeholder position as he is a blowhard par excellence. Now, or never.
Proof?
Instead of talking about the positives of why he should be a Freeholder, he immediately broadsides with comments like:
“my record speaks for itself. Lillian and Gary are both vulnerable. The Democrats are looking to take them out are excited about running against them. I am more electable than either of them and I would be a better freeholder than either of them.”
What record would that be, as a blowhard that wore some clown suit to an event?
Mr. Walsh, STOP listening to Democrats picking our candidates and telling you who they would want to run against. That’s no different than the lame street media picking them for us.
The County Committee makes our picks.
Silence Dogood, Redux
? said at 5:43 pm on December 4th, 2013:
Who is Bob Walsh?
@ ? said at 5:49 pm on December 4th, 2013:
Bob Walsh, ex Mayor of Howell.
Charles said at 7:06 pm on December 4th, 2013:
Bob Walsh? Seriously? No way he gets elected county wide. We need serious people, not the class clown. Meet him and you’ll see — last person we need up there. Maybe Gary is not the strongest person and he should be replaced but NOT by this gas-bag!
Ok, deep breath, folks, said at 7:41 pm on December 4th, 2013:
let’s all be very careful about criticizing any fellow Republicans in public! Remember, “a house divided against itself cannot stand”… The last thing we need next year is a mini- version of the endless, volatile and UNsuccessfully painful GOP primary process in 2012!.. By the time we got done beating every new candidate down and got down to the last and most lib Romney, the Dems didn’t have to kill themselves much, to kick our butts and win it all, and look how we are suffering under them right now.. Each of these 3 Republicans are good and decent people, with much better RECORDS, than any of the recent lame Dem candidates, or would be better than any thus- far-mentioned Dems at county level,next year.. Agree we really need to collectively cool our jets and take a break,from all the intensity and name- calling, and speculation, til after the new year.. all I know is, 2014 will be very tough for us, top to bottom- focus: “Hollywood Cory “will be on every town ballot, and they want to ride it,all the way down.. I personally want to keep the lib and Dem wrecking balls OUT of Freehold.. Therefore, we need to make some smart political decisions, together as a party, and put up the TWO best, proven VOTE-GETTERS we can find in the spring, to hold the county,and keep it going well.. Word to the wise, please!
@ OK folks said at 8:51 pm on December 4th, 2013:
Normally I would agree with your thinking, but in 2012 we were dealing with Democrat lies and things being hidden from us both by the Administration and the media.
I think people already know better in Monmouth County and do split the ticket because the know the quality of life that’s been delivered by Republican Freeholders.
The problem though, is Bob Walsh himself. He’s a loud mouth bruiser that will campaign negatively. He’s already started off that way. So, it will be Bob Walsh dragging things through the mud.
He's also said at 10:25 pm on December 4th, 2013:
a big teddy bear with tons of community service, a sense of family and humor, loyalty,and a big heart- if dressing up for Christmas parties for his town service clubs, to give out gifts to poor kids,is something we Republicans now don’t appreciate, I am stumped to see the dif with cynical, eltist,hate- mongering libs.. if you have a vote and like someone better, swell- but don’t sink to disparage or gossip about people you don’t really know..
And ps: said at 10:31 pm on December 4th, 2013:
I,for one,will appreciate candidates who aren’t always “politically correct,” are “vanilla”in demeanor, and don’t have a set big enough,to really take on the Dems and that miserable rag of a paper,who consistently hates the Monmouth GOP! Time for a leader and a fighter, given what next year will likely bring..
charles said at 6:41 am on December 5th, 2013:
Look, we have to Freeholders who have done a good job. Why start a war and have a 3rd candidate take shots at them. It was Walsh that attacked them? Why do that? If you want to challenge them, fine but to attack them? Why? And is Christmas. Why now? As if the D’s won’t later use his words? Lets say Walsh gets one of the two seats as the R nominee — the D’s will suggest that even Walsh said his own running mate was not very good. His coming out party (3rd try I believe) is not off to a good start. He always winds up stepping on his you know what. Nice man but loud, over-bearing and not likely the best person to represent the county.
bill said at 7:49 am on December 5th, 2013:
That’s good keep calling each other names i’m loving it.
@Charles said at 9:23 am on December 5th, 2013:
EXCELLENT Point:
“Lets say Walsh gets one of the two seats as the R nominee — the D’s will suggest that even Walsh said his own running mate was not very good.”
And, if Walsh should win one of the two nominations, does anyone think the other nominee will play “cumbaya?”
Walsh is seeding the ground for divisiveness with his own words. He is a blowhard and gasbag.
Monmouth County County Committee watch this snake. He is not good for our party, and does not bode well for a united ticket.
Lillian may have her detractors, but do you want to create a situation where the two Freeholder candidates for 2014 do not get along and run as a united team?
bobwalsh said at 2:50 pm on December 5th, 2013:
I am very sorry if Art’s message caused anyone grief or harm in any way. Our conversation started out yesterday about me putting a business advertisement on his website that Art and I have been talking about for a few weeks. I had no intention of speaking about political venues when Art called me and had no idea he would be writing a story. I was taken back when someone showed me the story on this website while attending the tree lighting ceremony in Howell last night. Our conversation had turned to politics and though Art disagrees I was under the mindset that it was all off the record. My fault 100% although I believe some was taken out of context it was a lengthy conversation and his comments are what they are.
For the record I told him I had numerous conversation with the chairman about the process if someone was wanting to run for Freeholder in our county. The last one being on Sunday and from that conversation told Art that after the holidays I would probably sending out a letter to county committee members alerting them of my interest in running for the next term as a Freeholder. I had no intention of our conversation going to print at all and believe me if I did the message would not have come from Art in this venue.
Numerous reasons were spoken about during our conversation and many conversations I’ve had with many people over the last year. Will there be an opening ,I don’t know but if there is I would, “God willing”, be interested. In no way does this diminish the accomplishments of any of our current or past freeholder boards . I have said many times how great a place Monmouth County is to live in and to have been raised in. One of those reasons is the foresight and actions of those republicans who have governed us for many years and hopefully will for years to come.
I am proud of my record in government, as a businessman, and more importantly in my personal and family life. I live life to the fullest and have guided myself with the belief that God is watching at all times.. To serve others in many different capacities is truly what is in my heart and to bring joy or relief in any way to someone in need is where I feel the most gratified.
I have for years been a major supporter of the entire Freeholder Board and will continue to as not only are they competent and well meaning servants of the people but some are what I would call friends. In politics as we all know we don’t have that many.
The Utmost Sincerity
Bobby Walsh
p.s. I will be the elf on December 14th for the less fortunate and special needs children if anyone would like to attend. Dispariging comments about personal things I do to bring joy to children are not appreciated nor warranted.
So the million dollar question said at 3:30 pm on December 5th, 2013:
Bob-
Do you intend to run against Lillian and /or Gary?
Is a 4th contender in the background waiting? If so, how would that change it up?
Now Ladies and Gents be careful not to push the envelope. In doing do, you may just push a Democrat onto the board.
Who are you hurting then?
Yourselves and the Residents of Monmouth County.
Who are you helping?
Be Wise, Be True, Be Patient,
Only Unity Will Bring Wins.
Divided without clear purpose brings Democrats into the picture to win. Is it worth it ?
What is ones true motivation to run then if it divides? What will you do differently? What do you bring to the table ? What is your true motivation?
Go BOB said at 4:35 pm on December 5th, 2013:
I agree with you Mr Walsh freeholders are not elected for life. it is great you help special needs children to bad members of you party do not feel the same calling you a blowhard clown.
Still NOT said at 6:14 pm on December 5th, 2013:
The kind of Freeholder I want to see.
Mr. Walsh, you were talking with a member of the blogosphere and as a political person, you should expect stuff like that to be written.
If you didn’t then you indeed are not circumspect enough to be a Freeholder.
“Freeholders are not elected for life” Mr. Walsh? Those are comments that are divisive indeed.
You’ve lost all credibility.
truth hurts said at 6:51 pm on December 5th, 2013:
Bob seems like a solid guy to me. I agree with fact that Freeholders are not for life. Lets face it. Repubs dont have to be strong to win a Freeholder position in Monmouth County. Its majority R.. Great positive comments Bob. I support you. I like transparent challengers of status quo. Ie. Curley. Best of luck.
4 Terms said at 8:00 pm on December 5th, 2013:
Is not “Freeholder For Life,” Mr. Walsh
And Gary said at 8:25 pm on December 5th, 2013:
Been there 2 years!
Lillianmustgo said at 7:13 am on December 6th, 2013:
Lillian needs to go. Brings absolutely nothing to the table.
truth hurts said at 7:25 am on December 6th, 2013:
They should all go after a few years. We need change. The outragous salaries and pensions with the County prosecuter police officers still hasnot been addressed. The $120k to $130k a year salaries and overtime are so outragous and bankrupting our residents. The pensions are even more ridiculous. These people are the new upper class with benefits for life. And you can look in the mirror and call yourself a fiscal conservative??? Pathetic.
Bob Who? said at 9:54 am on December 6th, 2013:
Walsh? Who the hell is that guy? No one knows who you are buddy, get over yourself.
I’m all for a changing of the guard when it fits, but from what I’ve heard, this guy is a “loud” and thinks pretty highly of himself.
@so, said at 7:54 am on December 7th, 2013:
everybody would be running against everyone else.. top 2 amount of votes take the two open slots- simple.
Ok, lets try this again. The guy does not even now that he is speaking with a media person and he shoots his mouth off? Really? Is he that not in the know? Nice guy I am sure. Helps needy kids, donates money, etc. There is surely a place for him but at the dais in Freehold? Hold on there cowboy. It is Christmas for goodness sakes and the guys comes our shooting his own team? Not necessary. Walsh certainly thinks of himself as a legend. He comes up a little short.
Trust Issues Here said at 9:58 pm on December 7th, 2013:
So let’s get the story straight. Howell Republicans wouldn’t run him for council so he divided the Republican vote and ran as an Indpendent with the Democrats to get himself elected in Howell then threw all those that supported him under the bus to go back to the Republicans who didn’t want him in the first place. Now after two tries for Freeholder and losing he once again will try to divide the Republican vote (on the county level now) for his own best interest. What happened to there is no “I” in team. I agree that these positions aren’t for life but it seems this man will throw anyone under the bus for his own good. Seems almost like Deja vu. I don’t think this is the type of representation the Republicans need on any level. How do you trust someone like this?
MoreMonmouthMusings » Blog Archive » Elf on the shelf? said at 3:51 pm on January 27th, 2014:
[…] been almost two months since Howell Councilman Bob Walsh told us he would challenge Republican freeholder incumbents, […]
grace abramov said at 2:13 pm on February 13th, 2014:
Here we go again..Republican vs Republican and the “D’s” just love it. Remember the saying “united we stand, divided we fall”. I wonder who is behind this? It wouldn’t be the first time a public official switched parties for their own agenda. I know Freeholder Burry works very hard for the causes she believes in and is dedicated to doing the job as Freeholder with grace, dignity and honesty. She deserves our support and loyality.
grace abramov said at 12:47 pm on March 6th, 2014:
recvd a call from long time county committee person the other day wanting to know on behalf of Walsh if my husband I were still interested in being County Committee delegates to Dstrict #2..the same district he lives in. I said of course we were. I asked “what he isnt satified with just running for Freeholder he wants it all” Then I thought that maybe I misunderstood her request and sent Walsh an e-mail, well that was 2 wks ago and he hasnt responded and I’m waiting. He is only out for himself. I have watched him over the years and I must be blind because I do not see why anyone would want as a representative of this wonderful county
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German Masters 2014: Day One Wrap
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Today saw the start of the venue stages of the 2014 German Masters and it was not a day without shocks, as both of last season’s finalists suffered early exits at the Tempodrome.
Click below for a round-up of the stand out results, as well as links to the scores in full and updated ranking lists…
Poomjaeng Hits Maiden Max
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Just four days after Mark Selby made the 100th maximum break in professional snooker at the UK Championship, today saw Thailand’s Dechawat Poomjaeng follow suit with 147 number 101 in Barnsley.
Playing in the German Masters qualifiers against amateur Zak Surety today, Dechawat made his first career 147 break during the fourth frame, to take a 3-1 lead at the mid-session interval.
Poomjaeng’s effort earns him a bonus of £2,500, while he also went on to claim a 5-3 victory to book his place at the venue stages in Berlin.
The referee was also the first officiated by referee Greg Coniglio, who joins the list of referees to have presided over a maximum in professional snooker.
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UK Championship 2013: Day Three Blog
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Picture Perfect: World Games 2013
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One man behind this push in particular is WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson and when I caught up with him at the recent Bluebell Wood Open tournament in Doncaster, he was kind enough to provide me with a selection of his photos from the event for PSB.
Click below for a flavour of the event…
Mehta Strikes Gold In Colombia
July 31, 2013 matt2745
Congratulations to India’s Aditya Mehta, who tonight defeated Liang Wenbo to win the men’s singles event at the 2013 World Games in Cali, Colombia.
Having previously seen off Dechawat Poomjaeng, Joe Perry and Luis Lemus to guarantee himself a medal at the tournament, Aditya raced into a 2-0 lead against the Chinese number two Liang in the final, before completing victory with a break of 117 in the final match.
Succeeding Nigel Bond as champion, Aditya will be hoping that victory in the event will spur him on to even greater things on the main tour, not least at the upcoming inaugural Indian Open, a tournament which no doubt owes a lot to the success of both Aditya and countryman Pankaj Advani last season.
The bronze medal in Colombia went to Thailand’s Dechawat Poomjaeng, who defeated Brazilian Igor Figueiredo to win the third place play-off match.
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Patriarch Kirill’s Spokesman Regrets Incident at Kiev Airport
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Kiev, July 26, Interfax – A spokesman for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed his regret at an incident committed by a member of the feminist organization FEMEN during the Patriarch’s welcoming ceremony at the Kiev airport on Thursday.
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“It is very deplorable that people should be trying to mar Patriarch Kirill’s beginning visit to Ukraine by such escapades,” Deacon Alexander Volkov, the head of the patriarchal press service, said in commenting on the incident.
A woman belonging to FEMEN approached the patriarch topless while he was talking to journalists at the airport and shouted ‘Go Away!’ before security apprehended her.
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A rational, fair, comparison between SmartGauge and Amp Hours counters
This document attempts to fairly, and honestly, compare the installation and bare performance of SmartGauge with that of the more conventional Amp Hours counter when both being used for the purpose of monitoring the state of charge of deep cycle lead acid batteries.
Note that this document relates only to the SmartGauge installed alone. It does not relate to SmartGauge installed in conjunction with the SmartBank split charge system.
SmartGauge Operation
SmartGauge uses "computer models" of different types of lead acid, deep cycle, batteries. A "computer model" is a set of numerical values which attempt to represent the various parameters of a real world item. In this case a deep cycle, lead acid, battery. This model is then used by an "algorithm" in SmartGauge to calculate the state of charge. An algorithm is basically nothing more than a series of calculations, but rather than just performing a fixed calculation on a fixed set of figures, the algorithm continually calculates results, and some of these results are fed back into future calculations giving an ever changing, and self correcting, result.
This is a vast over-simplification but it does serve the purpose of explaining the basic operation of SmartGauge. For instance, the "models" used in SmartGauge contain 408 different numerical values, representing the various different parameters of the battery types. The "algorithm" performs in the region of 1.2 million calculations every minute in order display the state of charge.
There are certain measurements SmartGauge can make (and this is what makes SmartGauge so unique and accurate), but only at certain times in the charge/discharge cycle, where it is possible to actually measure the state of charge of the battery rather than relying upon the calculated state of charge. At these times, SmartGauge compares the results of the measured state of charge with the results of the calculated state of charge and uses this comparison to automatically adjust both the battery "model" and the "algorithm" so that future calculations will become more accurate. This is why it is so important to keep SmartGauge permanently connected to one battery bank. In addition, there is an advanced setup menu (totally hidden from the user), which enables a totally new battery model to be programmed into SmartGauge or an existing model to be "tweaked" for special purposes or new batteries that may be introduced in the future.
SmartGauge Programming
The only parameter to be set by the user in SmartGauge for the purpose of battery state of charge monitoring is the battery type.
Incorrect setting of this parameter will result in an erroneous state of charge display (by up to 25%) that remains at the same level of error i.e. it will not get worse with time.
SmartGauge Installation
For monitoring a single battery bank state of charge, SmartGauge requires 2 light duty cables to the battery posts.
Incorrect installation (i.e. reverse polarity) will simply prevent SmartGauge operating. It will not damage it. Correction of the reverse polarity will see SmartGauge fully functional.
Amp Hours Counters Operation
Amp hours counters operate in a completely different manner. Amp hours counters measure the charge current and the discharge current, integrate these over time (effectively adding up a running total) then subtract one from the other and, hopefully, the result will be the state of charge. This, again, is a vast over-simplification so a more detailed explanation is really required. An explanation by way of example is probably the best way to do so.
Assume the battery to be fully charged. The amp hours counter is set to zero by the user. A load of exactly 10 amps is now placed on the batteries. The amp meter measures -10A. After 6 minutes, the amp hours counter will have accumulated (integrated or "added up") -1Ahr, after 12 minutes it will have accumulated -2Ahrs, after 18 minutes it will have accumulated -3Ahrs and so on. After 1 hour it will have accumulated -10Ahrs (10 amps for one hour = 10Amp hours [Ahrs]).
Now when a charger is switched on it performs exactly the the same thing in reverse. Assume a highly accurate 10 amp charger. The amp meter will measure +10A. Remember we are starting from an accumulated figure of -10Ahrs so after 6 minutes the accumulated figure will be -9Ahrs, after 12 minutes it will be -8Ahrs and so on until after 1 hour the accumulated figure will be 0Ahrs, back where we started.
Well, that's the theory anyway. Several problems almost instantly rear their heads.
1. Firstly, there is the problem of a certain Mr Peukert (see Peukert's Equation). Peukert's equation quantifies how heavier discharges actually remove more power from the batteries than a simple "Amps X Time" calculation would show. What this means for the amp hours counter is that, assuming the example given above worked, then doubling the discharge current would give erroneous results.
For instance, discharging at 20 amps for one hour from a 100Ahr battery, the amp hours counter would have accumulated -20Ahrs. However, according to Peukert's equation the true figure would be much higher. Around 30 amps with a typical Peukert's exponent for a deep cycle battery. So now, after one hour of dishcharge at 20 amps, the amp hours counter reads -20Ahrs but in actual fact the battery is at -30Ahrs. When the charger is switched on (the same 10 amp charger as before), after 2 hours the amp hour counter will have accumulated 20 amps total charge so will be reading 0Ahrs, indicating that the batteries are full. In actual fact the batteries are at minus 10Ahrs.
2. Assume the amp hours counter is set up for a 400 amp hour battery bank. The 50% rule tells us we should be discharging to -200Ahrs on average, then recharging. (see the 50% rule). Regularly discharging below this level unacceptably shortens the life of the batteries and reduces their capacity. Just one or two discharge and recharge cycles below this level can reduce the capacity of a battery bank by 1%. So after 5 discharge and recharge cycles, this 400Ahrs capacity battery bank could actually be a 395Ahr battery bank. Discharging to -200Ahrs is now below a 50% discharge. So this has more and more effect on reducing the capacity of the battery bank each time it is cycled.
After a few months the owner of these batteries could actually be discharging to -200Ahrs, thinking they are doing the right thing by discharging to 50%, whereas in fact the battery bank is now 300Ahrs capacity and the owner, unwittingly, is discharging this to 33% thus greatly accelerating the death of the batteries.
3. A 1% error in readings is quite an acceptable figure for an ammeter (in fact it is much better than the specification of most amp hours counters - don't confuse resolution and accuracy). Let's assume the ammeter part of the amp hours counter is in error by minus 1%. In practice this means that during a discharge at 10 amps the meter will actually be measuring -10.1 amps. During charge at 10 amps the meter will be reading +9.9 amps. After a total time of 20 amps (average) discharge for 100 hours and 20 amps (average) charge for 100 hours (a typical weeks cruising on a 30 foot yacht or driving a medium sized RV) the amp hours counter will have accumulated a total discharge of 2000 amp hours and with the 1% error this will actually be read as 2020 amp hours. The total charge will have accumulated 2000Ahrs charge, which with the 1% error will be read as 1980 amp hours. The amp hours counter will be reading -40Ahrs even though the batteries are fully charged. Continue this for another three weeks (a one month holiday) and the amp hours counter is reading -160Ahrs indicating that the batteries are nearly discharged down to 50% and in need of recharging. In actual fact the batteries are fully charged.
Take this error the other way round and the effect becomes the opposite. i.e. The amp hours counter tells you the batteries are at zero Ahrs (fully charged) when in actual fact they are at minus 160hrs (nearly half discharged).
4. Batteries are not 100% efficient. A typical figure for the efficiency (known as charge efficiency) of a deep cycle, wet cell battery might be quoted as being around 90%.This means that for every 9 amps taken out of the battery, 10 amps have to be put back in to get to the same level of charge. Some amp hours counters have a user adjustable setting for this. The problem is that if it is set incorrectly, then clearly it will not work. Even if it is set correctly, the charge efficiency falls as the battery ages so it won't be long before this figure is, once again, wrong. Further, the charge efficiency changes depending upon the rate of charge and discharge and there is actually no way to calculate this effect. If it was measured, the result would actually be different for each and every discharge/recharge cycle (see the Charge Efficiency anomoly).
Some amp hours counters attempt to calculate their own figure for charge efficiency and show this to the user as a factor on how well the batteries are performing. They also attempt to use this figure to predict how many amp hours will have to be returned to the battery, following discharge, to return to a fully charged state. This wouldn't work, even if it was possible to track the state of charge of a battery by amp hours, however, as we have shown here, it isn't possible to do so, and therefore this calculated figure will be even more incorrect than it would be to start with.
For a more detailed explanation of charge efficiency take a look at the Charge Efficiency anomoly.
5. Amp hours counters require the user to input the battery bank size. This is all well and good with a new battery bank. Each battery states, for example, "110 Ahrs", four are installed so the battery bank is 440 Ahrs. Well it is when it's new. After 6 months it could be substantially less than this. After 12 months of very heavy use it could be down to around 200 Ahrs. Yet some amp hours counters continue to attempt to show the state of charge as a percentage of available capacity. They do this simply by dividing remaining amp hours by the declared battery bank size and multiplying by 100. So in this example, once 220 amp hours had been discharged the meter would show 50% charge status. This is, of course, correct when the batteries are new. After 12 months, when they are down to a total capacity of 300 Ahrs the meter will still show 50% at -220Ahrs. In actual fact -220Ahrs from a 300 Ahr battery bank is a state of charge of 26%. This could easily give the user a nasty shock. Not to mention the fact that the batteries are being severely overdischarged.
6. Batteries have a certain internal self discharge. That is to say, a fully charged battery, with nothing connected to it, will still run down in charge status. It will eventually go flat. The self drain of deep cycle batteries varies from type to type with wet cell, antimony/antimony deep cycle being about the worst at around 1% per day, the best being AGM at around 0.5% per week. These figures vary widely between manufacturers and increase as the battery ages. Amp hours counters simply cannot detect this self drain. A battery left with nothing connected (except the amp hours counter) for 6 months would still show the battery to be fully charged. In actual fact it would probably be very deeply discharged. SmartGauge would have detected this self drain.
These are the main problems with amp hours counters (there are many more). In effect they are useless for monitoring the state of charge of deep cycle batteries. We may have given the impression we do not like them and see no use for them. This could not be further from the truth. The engineer who designed the SmartGauge uses one on his own boat. But for completely different purposes.
The amp hours counter is handy in that it shows the actual current draw of a certain piece of equipment. This is something the SmartGauge cannot do.
A fantastic use for an amp hours counter is to get an idea of how much power certain equipment uses. For instance a light bulb is easy, just switch it on, measure the current, and that's it. Something that cycles on and off or that has varying power levels is not so easy. A fridge, for example, would use nothing when the thermostat has switched it off, but could be quite high when running. Without sitting there all day, monitoring when it switches on and off, there is no way of knowing how much power it uses. One could be left running for say 24 hours with an amp hours counter monitoring it's current draw. After 24 hours, the total amp hours consumed, divided by 24, gives an average current draw for that equipment in amps. Again this is something SmartGauge cannot do.
Amp hours counters are excellent for getting an idea of the performance one is getting from auxiliary charge sources such as solar panels or wind turbines. An amp hours counter could be set up on a wind turbine then checked after say one week. The total charge provided by the wind turbine will have been accumulated on the amp hours counter. The wind turbine could then be moved to a different position and tried for another week. The same idea applies to solar panels. Without averaging their performance over a long time, it is almost impossible to monitor their performance. This is one of the best uses for an amp hours counter and in all honesty, there is probably no other way of doing it. Again this is something that SmartGauge cannot do.
So, whilst we can praise amp hours counters for certain functions, the simple fact is, they are all but useless for the puspose of monitoring the state of charge of deep cycle batteries. They simply do not do what is required.
Most modern amp hours counters (not the basic ones and not the old ones) now incorporate full Peukert calculations in an attempt to compensate for the enormous errors this effect can introduce into the accumulated amp hours figuers. As an example, discharging a 400Ahr battery bank at 200 amps for 1 hour would put the amp hours reading out by roughly 200 amps without correction for Peukert's effect - that is half of the total battery capacity, an absolutely enormous error. Doing this would actually, almost, completely flatten the battery bank, but the amp hours counter would only have registered -200Ahrs indicating that it was still at 50% charge state.
The problem with compensation for Peukert's effect is that there is no way to get it to work reliably. The first drawback is that Peukert's exponent has to be entered manually. There is no way to measure it when relying on amps measurements. So it has to be entered manually from the data sheet for the batteries. Actually getting hold of this information can be difficult. If it cannot be found then it either has to be guessed at (rather pointless) or measured by discharging the battery several times at various discharge rates then calculating Peukert's exponent from the results.
The second problem is that Peukert's exponent changes quite drastically during the life of the batteries. So what worked reasonably well in the first month of use, will run further and further adrift as time goes on.
Finally, adding (an attempted) correction for Peukert's effect into the amp hours counter now means that the amp hours counter no longer reads correctly when being used as an "accumulated amps register" for monitoring equipment current draw or wind turbine/solar panel performance. At discharges around the 20 hour rate (i.e. 5 amps on a 100 Ah battery) the error won't be too bad. But a piece of equipment that draws heavier currents will accumulate enormous errors. For example, an item that draws 80 amps from a 400 amp battery bank should, after 2 hours, have accumulated 160Ahrs. With a typical Peukert's exponent, it would have actually measured around 240 amp hours. That is a 66% error.
Admittedly, the user could manually set Peukert's exponent to 1.0 so as to remove it's effect, but then the amp hours counter would be back to it's enormously erroneous readings as far as state of charge of the batteries is concerned.
As shown here, amp hours counters do not work as state of charge meters (even with correction for Peukert's effect there are too many other errors that accumulate with time), so actually setting Peukert's exponent to 1.0 and using the equipment to monitor current draw makes far more sense. In fact, that is the proper use for an amp hours counter. To monitor power usage and power return. Not to monitor the state of charge of the batteries.
Amp Hours Counters Programming
Amp hours counters vary between manufacturers in the parameters that need to be set by the user. Typically the parameters to be programmed would be:-
Battery bank size
Charged voltage
Charged current percentage
Peukert's exponent
Charge efficiency
Battery temperature (for those that do not incorporate a temperature sensor)
Incorrect setting of any of these will introduce enormous errors that accumulate and get worse with time.
Also consider that 5 of the above parameters change as the battery ages and, unless these are corrected by the user, further enormous errors will be introduced.
Amp Hours Counters Installation
For monitoring a single battery bank state of charge a typical amp hours counter will require:-
Breaking into the heavy duty main battery cable (sometimes +ve, sometimes -ve, sometimes either) to install the shunt.
Ensuring that all other connections to the batteries are removed from the battery terminals and connected to the load side of the shunt.
Typically 5 small cables to a combination of the battery posts and shunt.
Incorrect installation can result in wildy inaccurate readings, accumulated errors getting worse with time or damage to the meter.
I hope you have been convinced of three things.
1. Amp hours counters are incredibly useful pieces of equipment for monitoring power usage and power return (charging).
2. However, they are useless for the purpose of monitoring the state of charge of batteries and a SmartGauge does a far better job, more reliably and is simpler to understand.
3. The simplicity of installation of SmartGauge.
See also the explanation of the difference between amp hours remaining and energy remaining.
See also why amp hours counters are really guessing during the charge cycle.
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county. stick to the garden state parkway southbound instead. tam and erin. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> new developments overnight belgian police identified two brothers as the suspected suicide bombers in that brussels terror attack. >> at least 30 people were killed and hundreds more injured in two explosion that is hit the brussels airport. and a third ripped through a subway station at the belgian capitol. >> "action news" reporter katherine scott is live in our satellite center. she's been gathering everything as it comes n she's got the very latest for you. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam and erin. those two brothers were known to police for past crimes but nothing related to terrorism. the search continues today for a third suspect seen on airport surveillance footage with those two brothers. last night authorities were searching a brussels suburb looking for suspects connected to the explosions that killed at least 31 people. also new this morning, a belgian state broadcaster has now identified two of the attackers as brothers, khalid and brah
county. stick to the garden state parkway southbound instead. tam and erin. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> new developments overnight belgian police identified two brothers as the suspected suicide bombers in that brussels terror attack. >> at least 30 people were killed and hundreds more injured in two explosion that is hit the brussels airport. and a third ripped through a subway station at the belgian capitol. >> "action news" reporter katherine scott is...
street. you'll have to stick to arch street as your alternate matt and tam. >> thank you so much karen. >>> breaking news. fire damaged a dire and forced dozens of people who were out into an attached hotel, they were in the hotel, they were forced out of it. this happened in chester delaware county. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at the scene, the 1300 block of edgemont. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and since we last spoke, the hotel guests have been allowed back up to their rooms and a lot of fire trucks have left but now that the equipment has cleared away from here you can get a better idea of the damage of the grape leaves diner here in chester. you can see there's a hole in the roof and a lot of repairs will need to be made. this is called the grape leaves diana rocco, it's formally the sunrise diner. we're told it opened up recently here on the 1300 block of edgemont in chester. it's right near widener university. this fire broke out around 3 a.m. when fire crews arrived they saw flames on the exterior of the diner and they soon
street. you'll have to stick to arch street as your alternate matt and tam. >> thank you so much karen. >>> breaking news. fire damaged a dire and forced dozens of people who were out into an attached hotel, they were in the hotel, they were forced out of it. this happened in chester delaware county. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at the scene, the 1300 block of edgemont. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and since we last...
. we do have some rain on the way thursday night into friday morning. tam, when i come back with the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast we'll take a closer look at that. >> okay, thank you david. >>> a break through in brussels. officials confirmed overnight two of the bombers who killed themselves in the attack were brothers. they're identified as khalid and brahim bakraoui and raids continued -- they're going on for the unnamed suspect seen with them in airport surveillance. all that as makeshift memorials to dead continue to go. abc's molly hunter is live in brussels. she's got the latest. good morning, molly. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the threat level here in brussels remains at the highest level. more terror raids overnight as european officials brace for what's next. as the sunrises over the city of brussels, 24 hours ago, chaos here erupting right in the heart of the morning rush. the first target, the departure hall at the brussels international airport outside the security checkpoint. two bombs exploding around 8:00 a.m. tuesday morning. the terminal filled with smok
. we do have some rain on the way thursday night into friday morning. tam, when i come back with the exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast we'll take a closer look at that. >> okay, thank you david. >>> a break through in brussels. officials confirmed overnight two of the bombers who killed themselves in the attack were brothers. they're identified as khalid and brahim bakraoui and raids continued -- they're going on for the unnamed suspect seen with them in airport surveillance....
shortly on this wednesday morning. matt and tam. >> thank you, matt. >>> the parents of the young children seen in thisline video terrorizing riders on a septa train are talk about the incident. >> the video appears to show the children swearing spitting and hitting other passengers. the parents say they are not happy with this scene. >> "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live in olde city with more on the ugly ordeal and mom and dad's response. annie. >> reporter: matt and tam, that's right it was here at second and market that the kids and then a woman actually got onto the market frankford line. it was soon after that that one of the riders actually recorded the kids hitting cursing and even spitting at them. well, septa police said yesterday they wanted to track down the kids to make sure that they were safe and to see if they needed professional help. this is the video of a group of potty mouthed kids firing insults to a person recording them on the market frankford line last thursday. four boys and a girl traveling with a woman. the mother of two of the boys, eight an
shortly on this wednesday morning. matt and tam. >> thank you, matt. >>> the parents of the young children seen in thisline video terrorizing riders on a septa train are talk about the incident. >> the video appears to show the children swearing spitting and hitting other passengers. the parents say they are not happy with this scene. >> "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live in olde city with more on the ugly ordeal and mom and dad's response....
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later today. that's the latest in business news. back over to you matt and tam. >> thank maribel. >>> time to talk accuweather. great days are coming but we got to get through today. >> storstorm tracker6 live doube scan showing we're getting through the rain. that's issue number one. as we go a little bit closer you can see the rain is clearing away from sea isle and atlantic city. there are a couple little light sprinkles here or there, that little stuff around glassboro but that's nothing compared to what you see leaving us up around seaside heights and belmar. as we take a look outside, cloudy skies. the winds are picking up really shaking the camera down at the airport. haven't quite dried things out there yet, though so on the way in even though the rain has ended across much of the region you might still be looking at somewhat wet roads. 52 degrees in philadelphia. that's the official number. we were up into the upper 50's not too long ago and you can see how we're dipping down into the 40's in allentown reading lancaster and even trenton. cooler air coming in during the m
later today. that's the latest in business news. back over to you matt and tam. >> thank maribel. >>> time to talk accuweather. great days are coming but we got to get through today. >> storstorm tracker6 live doube scan showing we're getting through the rain. that's issue number one. as we go a little bit closer you can see the rain is clearing away from sea isle and atlantic city. there are a couple little light sprinkles here or there, that little stuff around glassboro...
at the nasdaq in times square. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tam. yeah, amazon is opening a second brick and mortar bookstore. that will open in the san diego mall and it's expected to open later this summer. the online shopping giant first opened a bookstore last november in seattle and analysts expect amazon to evaluate other locations around the u.s. and look to open ah additional stores later this year. >>> to stocks. it was a quiet trading session on wall street that ended with stocks little changed right now. futures are pointing to a lower open and an index of small businesses is the only economic report due out today. and that's the very latest in vis use, now back to you, matt and tam. >> vanessa thanks so much. >>> let's turn to karen rogers a little bit of rain but then good news. >> it's like a little sprinkle in one or two spots. but i've been watching it fall apart. look at the latest on storm stom tracker6. what you're seeing near doylestown that's ground clutter but near pottstown we had a more pronounced shower near reading and along 422. it's just a littl
at the nasdaq in times square. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, tam. yeah, amazon is opening a second brick and mortar bookstore. that will open in the san diego mall and it's expected to open later this summer. the online shopping giant first opened a bookstore last november in seattle and analysts expect amazon to evaluate other locations around the u.s. and look to open ah additional stores later this year. >>> to stocks. it was a quiet trading session on wall street...
. matt and tam. >> thanks, matt. >>> the parents of the young children seen in this online video that we should have there terrorizing riders on a septa train talk about the incident. >> the video shows the children acting out swearing spitting hitting other passengers and they found the parents then say they're not happy with what they see. >> "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live in olde city with more on the ugly ordeal and mom and dad's response. annie. >> reporter: and matt, those kids got on the market frankford line right here at second and market last week. it was soon after that one of the riders on the train took video of them cursing, spitting and spitting at one passenger. septa police wanted to see if the kids were safe and if they needed professional help. this is a video of a group of potty mouthed kids firing insults to a person recording them on the market frankford line last thursday. four boys and a girl traveling with a woman. the mother of two of the boys, eight and 10, says she's embarrassed. >> i just want to apologize to everybody that seen that video. i
. matt and tam. >> thanks, matt. >>> the parents of the young children seen in this online video that we should have there terrorizing riders on a septa train talk about the incident. >> the video shows the children acting out swearing spitting hitting other passengers and they found the parents then say they're not happy with what they see. >> "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live in olde city with more on the ugly ordeal and mom and dad's...
cause some restrictions as they try to tow that out of there, tam. >> thank you karen. >>> developing right now, an argument between two families led to two people being shot several times. katherine scott is live at east detectives in hunting park. she's been gathering details all morning. she's got the latest. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. police say this was a violent struggle that escalated. knives were involved and then someone pulled a gun. in the end, two men in their 20's were shot multiple times. one is in stable condition. the other is in critical condition. and police say both sides of the argument, the gun shot victims and the gunmen and several family members live in two separate apartments on the second floor of a row home on the 3900 block of north percy street in hunting park and just before midnight, police were called out for a report of a man with a weapon. when officers got there, the front door was wide opened. there was a.ma trail of blood along the walls and the steps. up on the second floor there were three knives on the floor, broken
cause some restrictions as they try to tow that out of there, tam. >> thank you karen. >>> developing right now, an argument between two families led to two people being shot several times. katherine scott is live at east detectives in hunting park. she's been gathering details all morning. she's got the latest. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. police say this was a violent struggle that escalated. knives were involved and then someone pulled a gun....
. we are live from bellmawr, katherine scott channel6 "action news." tam. >> thank you for that katherine. >>> it is 5:04. surveillance pictures of a suspect wanted for a shooting in atlantic city. the shooting happened on february 21st in the 1400 block of caspian avenue. one man was wounded. if you think you know who this is atlantic city police would like you to call them. >>> in wilmington police are also investigating a shooting that sent children at a park scrambling for safety an stray bullet into somebody's home fortunately it didn't get inside is that the family was not hurt. >> two delaware county parents are under arrest accused of leaving their three-year-old child alone in deplorable conditions. police pulled over the child's father stanley hampton in tredyffrin township yesterday. that led authorities to the regency apartments on creek drive in radnor where the child was all alone. police add the home was covered in trash and the burners on the stove were turned up full toilette the apted. both hampton and the mother brittany mcfadden have been charged recklessly e
. we are live from bellmawr, katherine scott channel6 "action news." tam. >> thank you for that katherine. >>> it is 5:04. surveillance pictures of a suspect wanted for a shooting in atlantic city. the shooting happened on february 21st in the 1400 block of caspian avenue. one man was wounded. if you think you know who this is atlantic city police would like you to call them. >>> in wilmington police are also investigating a shooting that sent children at a...
shut down. if you're in this area use potter street. tam. >> we're going that breaking news. the fire that damaged a diner and forced dozens of people out into the night. they were inside that attached hotel. again, this happened in chester delaware county. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at that scene, the 1300 block of edgemont. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. no one was injured in all of this. we're told the bulk of the damage is to the diner, so hopefully the hotel guests will be allowed back in pretty soon. you see the hotel next door had to be evacuated due to smoky conditions while all this was going on but again, the good news here, no one was injured. let me show you what's happening. you can see the fire crews remain on the scene here in chester. as they continue to work on the grape leaf diner where the fire broke out earlier this morning. this diner is formally the sunrise diner, that's what a lot of folks around here know it as and it's right next door to the day's inn on the 1300 block of edgemont. there's a fire station right next
shut down. if you're in this area use potter street. tam. >> we're going that breaking news. the fire that damaged a diner and forced dozens of people out into the night. they were inside that attached hotel. again, this happened in chester delaware county. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at that scene, the 1300 block of edgemont. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. no one was injured in all of this. we're told the bulk of the damage is...
friday morning, matt and tam. >>> there's new information about a deadly stabbing in philadelphia's frankford section. police think the victim might have been hit by an suv and right they are looking for the car. annie mccormick is live at police headquarters with the latest. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam, so far homicide detective's have not made any arrests in the case. they say the victim was stabbed multiple times. they are trying to figure out whether or not he feels a victim of a hit-and-run. -- he was a victim of a hit-and-run. the victim was discovered in the 1500 block of folkrod street. initially the call to police was for a gunshot victim. they learned that the man was stabbed multiple times in the chest. investigators believe the stabbing took place in the 4700 block of oxford avenue. when the victim ran a half block to where he was discovered he came in contact with an suv. police say they are not calling this a hit-and-run now, because they are not sure if the victim ran into the vehicle or the victim of a hit-and-run. they said the suv did take o
friday morning, matt and tam. >>> there's new information about a deadly stabbing in philadelphia's frankford section. police think the victim might have been hit by an suv and right they are looking for the car. annie mccormick is live at police headquarters with the latest. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam, so far homicide detective's have not made any arrests in the case. they say the victim was stabbed multiple times. they are trying to figure out whether...
of the woods just yet and for now the rest of the roads looking pretty good. tam and erin. >> thank you karen. >> new developments now. overnight belgian police identified two brothers as the suspected suicide bombers in those terror attacks in brussels. >> at least 30 people were killed and hundreds more injured in two explosion that is hit the brussels airport and a third ripped through a subway station at the belgian capitol. >> let's get you the latest on what we know now and and go to "action news" reporter katherine scott live in the satellite center. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam and erin. those two brothers were apparently known to police for past crimes but nothing related to terrorism. a search continues this morning for a third suspect seen on airport surveillance footage with those two brothers. last night authorities were searching a brussels suburb looking for suspects connected to the explosions that killed at least 31 people. also new this morning, a belgian state broadcaster has now identified two of the attackers as brothers khalid and bra
of the woods just yet and for now the rest of the roads looking pretty good. tam and erin. >> thank you karen. >> new developments now. overnight belgian police identified two brothers as the suspected suicide bombers in those terror attacks in brussels. >> at least 30 people were killed and hundreds more injured in two explosion that is hit the brussels airport and a third ripped through a subway station at the belgian capitol. >> let's get you the latest on what we...
hutchinson drive. stick to mercer road as your alternate for that one. tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> developing right now, an argument led two people in a household being shot several times. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at east detectives in hunting park with more on this investigation. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. police say a violent struggle escalated, knives were involved and then somebody pulled a gun. two men were shot in the end, one is in critical condition, the other is in stable condition. now, police say the people on both sides of the argument, the gun shot victims and the shooter and several family members live in separate apartments on the second floor of a row home on the 3900 block of north percy street in hunting park. just before midnight police were called out for a report of a person with a weapon. when officers got there the front door was wide opened, there was a trail of blood along the steps and walls. up on the second floor there were three knives on the floor, broken glasses, broken beer bottle, overturned i
hutchinson drive. stick to mercer road as your alternate for that one. tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> developing right now, an argument led two people in a household being shot several times. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live at east detectives in hunting park with more on this investigation. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. police say a violent struggle escalated, knives were involved and then somebody pulled a gun. two...
at georges lane. tam. >> thank you matt. let's go to that scene that you were talking about. a car speeding in the city's kensington section hit traffic lights and a corner business and then burst into flames. a man was found bound to death in that car. "action news" reporter katherine scott is at that scene. she's got details. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the body was burned beyond recognition but police do believe the body was a man and they're trying to figure out who he was. judging from the damage from this vehicle, the car was going very, very f and a flatbed truck just arrived to the scene here to collect this vehicle which you can see is smashed in the side of the building. there's deb brew strewn everywhere here. this happened around 1:30 this morning at second and cecil b. moore in kensington. the driver of a 2014 infiniti was traveling east on cecil b. moore from third while he was on the 200 block he somehow lost control, he hit a small tree. he jumped a curb, hit two street lights and a traffic light. then the driver struck a building and th
at georges lane. tam. >> thank you matt. let's go to that scene that you were talking about. a car speeding in the city's kensington section hit traffic lights and a corner business and then burst into flames. a man was found bound to death in that car. "action news" reporter katherine scott is at that scene. she's got details. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. the body was burned beyond recognition but police do believe the body was a man and...
the ben or any of your area bridges. looking good so far this morning. tam and nydia. >> thank you karen. >>> we begin with our breaking news out of brussels. at least one person is dead after a series of explosions across that city in belgium. >> information is still coming in. "action news" reporter annie mccormick has been following this story from the satellite center. you have the latest. >> reporter: here hearing multiple reports about the number of casualties and people injured we're only going with what abc news has confirmed at this time. they tell that you say one person is confirmed dead and many injured after two explosions at this airport. we have learned within the past half hour that there are also reports of several explosions at different subway stations in brussels as well. here are the images just coming in. according to abc news around 8:00 a.m. there were two blasts in the departures area of the brussels airport. we have heard one person is dead, more injured. brussels is five hours ahead of eastern standard time. now, all departures from brussels airport have
the ben or any of your area bridges. looking good so far this morning. tam and nydia. >> thank you karen. >>> we begin with our breaking news out of brussels. at least one person is dead after a series of explosions across that city in belgium. >> information is still coming in. "action news" reporter annie mccormick has been following this story from the satellite center. you have the latest. >> reporter: here hearing multiple reports about the number of...
to get around the accident still causing some restrictions there, tam. >> thank you karen. >>> and we continue to follow breaking news this morning. there is an all-out search going on right now for a suspect. he injured a philadelphia police officer after a struggle. let's go right on over to "action news" reporter annie mccormick. she's live in east oak lane with the latest. what a night for this officer, annie. >> reporter: and, tam, this all started around 12:30 with a frantic call to 911. a report of a domestic dispute happening in an apartment complex behind me here in east oak lane. that caller told police that the man had a gun. well, take a look at this video. this is one when police were there responding -- when they arrived they saw man who fit the description from the call on the front porch. there man they say refused to put his hands in the air. authorities tell us they needed to make sure he did not have a weapon and that's when things got heated. take a listen. >> so, when police went to frisk him for their own protection that's when the male physically became comba
to get around the accident still causing some restrictions there, tam. >> thank you karen. >>> and we continue to follow breaking news this morning. there is an all-out search going on right now for a suspect. he injured a philadelphia police officer after a struggle. let's go right on over to "action news" reporter annie mccormick. she's live in east oak lane with the latest. what a night for this officer, annie. >> reporter: and, tam, this all started around...
up from south jersey. looking live on the ben traffic moving okay, tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >> ♪ >>> and overnight another seismic shift on the political map. it was a big night for hillary clinton and donald trump but the talk of the contested gop goes on this morning. kasich won the gop in ohio. kasich be there at villanova for a town hall later this morning. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. right after his win in ohio kasich announced i'm going to philadelphia tomorrow. part of his trip to the philadelphia area will include here at villanova university where he expects to have a town hall at noon today. he's coming at the request of the villanova student government association. john kasich has a win in his home state of ohio. >> we are going to go all the way to cleveland and secure the republican nomination. >> reporter: frontrunner donald trump took florida illinois north carolina and is leading in a very tight race in missouri. he said his campaign is changing the party. >> and the people that are voting are democrats are coming in, independents
up from south jersey. looking live on the ben traffic moving okay, tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >> ♪ >>> and overnight another seismic shift on the political map. it was a big night for hillary clinton and donald trump but the talk of the contested gop goes on this morning. kasich won the gop in ohio. kasich be there at villanova for a town hall later this morning. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. right after his win in ohio kasich announced...
, tam. >>> developing right now, a 16-year-old girl is on the mend after being hit by a stray bullet as she sat on her porch in the hunting park section overnight. katherine scott is live in hunting park in east detective's with the shooting is under investigation. good morning, katherine. >>> good morning, tam, police do not have the description of the shooter or shooters, there are several surveil answer cameras they are hoping to pull footage that can help in the investigation. meanwhile, the 16-year-old girl remains in the hospital this morning in stable condition. officers were called out to 7th and luzerne in hunting park last night around 11:30, when they arrived they found the girl she had been shot in her leg. police say a 16 girl had been standing on the front steps of her home talking to her sister when several shots were fired nearby. she didn't realize she was shot in the thigh hit by a stray bullet. she ran into the house where the family members helped her until medics arrived. >>> it appear that the 16-year-old female is an infant victim. she was standing on the front st
, tam. >>> developing right now, a 16-year-old girl is on the mend after being hit by a stray bullet as she sat on her porch in the hunting park section overnight. katherine scott is live in hunting park in east detective's with the shooting is under investigation. good morning, katherine. >>> good morning, tam, police do not have the description of the shooter or shooters, there are several surveil answer cameras they are hoping to pull footage that can help in the...
turnpike they both look fine but 295 has those issues early on this tuesday morning. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. >>> a new jersey state trooper stopped at a scene on i-295 and then was hit by a vehicle himself. we're being told he's seriously hurt. we've been watching this story closely and gathering the latest details. let's go over to annie mccormack live outside cooper university hospital. that's where the officer is being treated. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. well, the accident happened last night. he was taken here. the trooper rather was taken here to cooper hospital. now aches want to show you some video that we took just within the past half hour. now, these are cruisers from new jersey state police and also camden county leaving the emergency room parking lot here at cooper hospital. now, those cruisers have been here since last night, since that trooper did arrive. but at this hour we are still not getting any updates from new jersey state police. the last update that we have gotten several hours ago was that the trooper is in serious condition
turnpike they both look fine but 295 has those issues early on this tuesday morning. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. >>> a new jersey state trooper stopped at a scene on i-295 and then was hit by a vehicle himself. we're being told he's seriously hurt. we've been watching this story closely and gathering the latest details. let's go over to annie mccormack live outside cooper university hospital. that's where the officer is being treated. good morning, annie. >> reporter:...
in chester, katherine scott, channel6 "action news." tam. >> katherine thank you. >>> and detectives this morning are also searching for a gunman. he fired on man standing on a front porch in olney hitting that man in the head. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live at einstein medical center in logan where that victim is being treated. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and that victim remains at einstein hospital in critical but stable condition and police say some of those bullets that were fired at him actually went into the home that he was sitting in front of at the time of the shooting. take a look at this video. we're told that this all happened around 9:30 last night in the 200 block of west grange avenue in the olney section of the city. it was there police say that the 22-year-old victim, a man sitting on a front porch, was shot on the left side of his head behind his ear. now, police took him to einstein hospital and police say at least one of the bullets went into the house. >> we found a bullet that went through the front door and landed in the
in chester, katherine scott, channel6 "action news." tam. >> katherine thank you. >>> and detectives this morning are also searching for a gunman. he fired on man standing on a front porch in olney hitting that man in the head. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live at einstein medical center in logan where that victim is being treated. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and that victim remains at einstein hospital in critical...
off this wednesday morning. tam. >> thank you matt. >>> a shooting in west philadelphia has a 14-year-old fighting for his life and police aren't even sure if that bullet was intended for him. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live outside of police headquarters. she's got the latest on the story. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and we're told that the 14-year-old boy was in surgery overnight and he remains in extremely critical condition at the hospital this morning as he is trying to recover, police are still trying to determine what exactly happened in west philadelphia last night. that were out gathering evidence. they say at least eight shots were fired from a semi-automatic weapon around 9:30 last evening. police say they responded to shots fired on the 200 block of north simpson street but the victim, a 14-year-old boy, was found around 60th and vine. how he got there remains under investigation. he was shot once in his back. he was taken to penn presbyterian hospital in very critical condition. and investigators are still trying to determi
off this wednesday morning. tam. >> thank you matt. >>> a shooting in west philadelphia has a 14-year-old fighting for his life and police aren't even sure if that bullet was intended for him. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live outside of police headquarters. she's got the latest on the story. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam. and we're told that the 14-year-old boy was in surgery overnight and he remains in extremely critical...
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robber catches up and stabs the victim in the head. 44-year-old paul tam, died on thursday after hanging on for a full month after the attack. abc 7 news reporter tells us the police officers association is now offering a $5,000 reward in the case. >> reporter: here's the surveillance video. you can see the victim paul tam trying to get away from the attacker. tam runs around an oncoming car but seems to trip and the armed robber pounces. >> it looked like punches but it wasn't, carrying some type of unknown object. >> reporter: tam is from manchester england, the project manager from a web company was visiting with a relative from southern california. we spoke to his family and they requested privacy right now. this brutal attack has residents here shocked. >> this neighborhood, never felt this is creepy. >> you hear about every once in a while something happening over on van as, some sort of scuffle but never a stabbing or homicide. >> reporter: we notice this is a busy area for tourists so we showed a couple the surveillance area. >> it's scary because there's so many people here from
robber catches up and stabs the victim in the head. 44-year-old paul tam, died on thursday after hanging on for a full month after the attack. abc 7 news reporter tells us the police officers association is now offering a $5,000 reward in the case. >> reporter: here's the surveillance video. you can see the victim paul tam trying to get away from the attacker. tam runs around an oncoming car but seems to trip and the armed robber pounces. >> it looked like punches but it wasn't,...
are sifting through thest. >> reporter: goodgood sifting th the evidence. >>> good morning, tam, there's been three shooting and one stabbing and police continue to investigate. homicide detectives were on the scene in kensington overnight. a man was shot multiple times in the chest and torso and died at the hospital. it happened at 1:45 a.m. on north front street near indiana. the suspect was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and fled on foot. at least 13 shots were fired. over in juniata park police had a different case on their hands. they were investigating after a woman was stabbed multiple times on whitiker avenue around 1:30 a.m. she was taken to the hospital in critical condition. police know who they are looking for. >>> and just before 1:00 a.m. in germantown, a man was shot four times at chew and locust. officers rushed him to the hospital in critical condition with gunshot wound to the chest, stomach and back. police are looking for a blue hyundai that fled south on chew without the headlights on. police believed five shots were fired. >>> the shell case casings were
are sifting through thest. >> reporter: goodgood sifting th the evidence. >>> good morning, tam, there's been three shooting and one stabbing and police continue to investigate. homicide detectives were on the scene in kensington overnight. a man was shot multiple times in the chest and torso and died at the hospital. it happened at 1:45 a.m. on north front street near indiana. the suspect was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and fled on foot. at least 13 shots were fired. over...
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out there tam. also slowing of course here on the schuylkill expressway eastbound side due in part to that sun glare from the blue route into the conshohocken curve again from the boulevard into girard. westbound back up from the boulevard out to gladwyne. have a crash in lower merion we're watching along old railroad avenue at lancaster avenue. route 30. there's also one now in upper gwynedd along welsh road, that's 63 at sandy lane and in new hanover by scotty's pizza watch out for a crash along middle creek road at swamp pike. in gloucester county on 295 northbound approaching thorofare a vehicle ran off the roadway but most of the activity with that is off to the right shoulder. and if you ride septa's west trenton regional rail line expect inbound delays of 20 minutes because of equipment problems. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. >>> we'll take a short break and can com come back to your accuweather after break. >> good morning. we've got a nice start to the day but we have a lot of clouds you up above. i want to show you satellite6 and action radar. psych quite a bit of cloud
out there tam. also slowing of course here on the schuylkill expressway eastbound side due in part to that sun glare from the blue route into the conshohocken curve again from the boulevard into girard. westbound back up from the boulevard out to gladwyne. have a crash in lower merion we're watching along old railroad avenue at lancaster avenue. route 30. there's also one now in upper gwynedd along welsh road, that's 63 at sandy lane and in new hanover by scotty's pizza watch out for a crash...
drive at strawberry mansion with some flooding so you might want to avoid that area. tam. >> thank you karen. we'll take a short break and come back to your accuweather. >> hard to believe it was raining on the terrace a few hours ago. we got bright sunshine but as you take a look at temperatures the numbers are dropping. we're down 40 in red, 39 lancaster, 41 allentown and that 49-degree reading in philadelphia actually came in at the top of the hour and i think we're very likely in the mid 40's at this point and the winds are picking up. it's going to be windy and colder today with temperatures continuing to drop through the 40's into the 30's by around dinnertime and then 27 overnight. winds gusting up over 30 to 40 miles per hour at times. brisk and chilly tomorrow 39. thursday night into friday morning some light snow, tam. >> okay. thank you david. that's it for us. we'll send you back to "gma" and we'll see you back here in 30. >> ♪ >>> welcome back to "gma." you are looking at the "anthem of the seas" right now. just moments ago it pulled back into port back in new jersey for
drive at strawberry mansion with some flooding so you might want to avoid that area. tam. >> thank you karen. we'll take a short break and come back to your accuweather. >> hard to believe it was raining on the terrace a few hours ago. we got bright sunshine but as you take a look at temperatures the numbers are dropping. we're down 40 in red, 39 lancaster, 41 allentown and that 49-degree reading in philadelphia actually came in at the top of the hour and i think we're very likely...
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ocean city. tam. >> thank you karen. >>> we'll take a short break and come back to accuweather. >> ♪ country americans can expect increased security at >> bright sunshine across the region right now. we're starting out cold. take a look. 35 degrees in the city. just 29 in allentown and still below freezing in trenton, reading, and millville, new jersey where you're in the mid-20's. your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows a nice bounceback dam we'll wind up with partly sunny skies later on. not as windy as yesterday. and a pleasant enough high of 57. tomorrow turning warmer. sun, some clouds, a high of 70. 75 near a record high on thursday. and then back to 64 on good friday with some morning showers. >> looking forward to that. thank you david. >>> sending you back now to "gma" and their continuing special coverage of the attacks in brussels. we'll see you back here in 30. >> ♪ he could install your ceiling fan.ce said he couldn't. and that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. yeah, it wasn't. so when ron said you'd never afford a john deere tractor, you knew
ocean city. tam. >> thank you karen. >>> we'll take a short break and come back to accuweather. >> ♪ country americans can expect increased security at >> bright sunshine across the region right now. we're starting out cold. take a look. 35 degrees in the city. just 29 in allentown and still below freezing in trenton, reading, and millville, new jersey where you're in the mid-20's. your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows a nice bounceback dam we'll wind up with...
with matt pelman. good morning. >> the sun is shining bright on this hump day morning tam but all is fine on the vine as we look in center city. no major delays. delays though on 95 of course. southbound side from academy through this point at cod edema past the betsy ross bridge into girard. on the big picture word of a serious crash along juniata park at m street. some people have been injured in that accident so watch out for the ambulance arriving on the scene. upper merion a vehicle fire along radnor road at radnor hill road with typical slowing. speeds in the teens on the schuylkill. lower sald from a crash along main street at old sumneytown pike. chester county lots of sun glare, lots of slowing on the 30 bypass bypass eastbound past reeceville road into 113. tam. >> thank you matt. we'll take a short break and come back to accuweather. >> ♪ >> i've got heavier winter coat on this morning and you'll see why when you look at numbers. in philadelphia we're down 38 degrees but a lot of spots are colder than. that 30 in trenton, 27 in allentown, 28 reading and 34 in wilmingt
with matt pelman. good morning. >> the sun is shining bright on this hump day morning tam but all is fine on the vine as we look in center city. no major delays. delays though on 95 of course. southbound side from academy through this point at cod edema past the betsy ross bridge into girard. on the big picture word of a serious crash along juniata park at m street. some people have been injured in that accident so watch out for the ambulance arriving on the scene. upper merion a vehicle...
mostly in the 50's. take your speeds down a little bit put on your low beams with the fog matt and tam. >> thank you karen. >>> pivotal primaries. more big wins for hillary clinton and donald trump but the end of the road for marco rubio. >> john kasich scored his first victory in his home state of ohio and it raises the chances a gop race will lead to a contested convention. >> annie mccormick is live outside of villanova university. that is where kasich is making an appearance later today. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam and 47 all right of that win in ohio kasich announced last night i'm going to philadelphia meaning today in his stop here in philadelphia he will be coming to villanova university. he's expected here at noon today for a town hall. he was invited here by villanova's student government association. john kasich is able to keep going in the race for the white house with a win in his home state of ohio. >> we are going to go all the way to cleveland. >> reporter: frontrunner donald trump took florida, illinois, north carolina and is leading in a very t
mostly in the 50's. take your speeds down a little bit put on your low beams with the fog matt and tam. >> thank you karen. >>> pivotal primaries. more big wins for hillary clinton and donald trump but the end of the road for marco rubio. >> john kasich scored his first victory in his home state of ohio and it raises the chances a gop race will lead to a contested convention. >> annie mccormick is live outside of villanova university. that is where kasich is making...
. this one on bethlehem pike at locust lane. matt and tam. >> karen thank you. >>> breaking right now a fast moving fire left a woman critically injured this morning. it broke out on the 5900 block of north lambert street in logan at 2:30 a.m. after putting out the the fire crews found a 60-year-old woman with burns and suffering from severe smoke inhalation. she was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. much more on this story in a live report on "action news." >>> a man is on the run after assaulting a philadelphia police officer. "action news" reporter annie mccormick is live where it happened in the east oak lane neighborhood to fill us in on the investigation. annie. >> reporter: matt, police responded to the apartment behind me after getting a 911 call about a domestic dispute that had involved a man with a gun. now, at this hour they do not have that man in custody but think who they're looking for. the man who fit the description from the 911 call was on the front porch and refused to put his hands in the air according to police and also according to police b
. this one on bethlehem pike at locust lane. matt and tam. >> karen thank you. >>> breaking right now a fast moving fire left a woman critically injured this morning. it broke out on the 5900 block of north lambert street in logan at 2:30 a.m. after putting out the the fire crews found a 60-year-old woman with burns and suffering from severe smoke inhalation. she was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. much more on this story in a live report on "action...
money. that's the latest in business news from the nasdaq market site. back over you to mark and tam. >> who is the guy in the commercials. >> yes. >> do the deal. that's what they should have done. >> a bird in the hand would have been better in that case. >> hindsight is always something something. storm tracker6 live double scan right now and we are dry across the region although as we take a look outside some areas are looking at some fog and it does look like there's some along the delaware river into the vicinity of the commodore barry bridge. if you happen to hit some of that, you do want to slow it down but in most areas the fog is thin enough where you can still get around in pretty good shape. i love these pictures we've been getting of the commodore barry bridge right along chester there. you can see how winds are light because the reflection of the bridge on the water really isn't moving around much. the water placid on the delaware. 41 degrees in wilmington, 44 in trenton, 42 in allentown. we have slipped into the upper 30's in reading and lancaster and the mid 30's now
money. that's the latest in business news from the nasdaq market site. back over you to mark and tam. >> who is the guy in the commercials. >> yes. >> do the deal. that's what they should have done. >> a bird in the hand would have been better in that case. >> hindsight is always something something. storm tracker6 live double scan right now and we are dry across the region although as we take a look outside some areas are looking at some fog and it does look like...
times on any lines just yet. just warnings matt and tam. >>> we have new developments in a murder investigation, a man was stabbed to death in the frankford section of the city. police are looking for a driver, because they think the victim was hit by an suv right before the attack. annie mccormick is live at police headquarters with the full story. annie. >> reporter: police are trying to sort it all out, matt. they say they are not sure if the victim collided with the vehicle or hit. they say he was stabbed several times and did die at temple hospital. take a look at the video. this is video from the scene shortly before 8:30 p.m. the victim was discovered in the 1500 block of folkrod street. initially the call was for a gunshot victim. they learned that the man in his 20s was stabbed multiple times in the chest. the stabbing took place on the 4700 block of oxford avenue. when the victim ran a half block from where he was discovered he came in contact with the suv. police are stopping short of calling this a hit-and-run. >>> when he was running in the 1500 block of folkrod he ei
times on any lines just yet. just warnings matt and tam. >>> we have new developments in a murder investigation, a man was stabbed to death in the frankford section of the city. police are looking for a driver, because they think the victim was hit by an suv right before the attack. annie mccormick is live at police headquarters with the full story. annie. >> reporter: police are trying to sort it all out, matt. they say they are not sure if the victim collided with the vehicle...
restrictions at 863. tam. >>> new this morning, a car flipped on to its side after a driver lost control getting on the eastbound schuylkill expressway. this happened at 1:00 a.m. on the city avenue ramp. we are told that the driver was checked out at the scene for injuries and they are expected to be okay. the accident is under investigation. >>> a crash at a delaware toll plaza sent four people to the hospital. the driver who police say caused the accident is being questioned. "action news" reporter, katherine scott has been working on this story all morning, she is live on i-95 in newark with the very latest details. good morning, katherine. >> reporter: good morning, tam, that's right, the driver of the striking vehicle was taken in for question. the circumstances remain under investigation. happened at the toll plaza in the northbound lanes of i-95 near newark. you can see the cars smashed into the toll plaza. three cars involved in all, two as you suvs is a does sedan. a vehicle was paying a cash stole, the struck vehicle went flying. when paramedics arrived, the woman was trapped
restrictions at 863. tam. >>> new this morning, a car flipped on to its side after a driver lost control getting on the eastbound schuylkill expressway. this happened at 1:00 a.m. on the city avenue ramp. we are told that the driver was checked out at the scene for injuries and they are expected to be okay. the accident is under investigation. >>> a crash at a delaware toll plaza sent four people to the hospital. the driver who police say caused the accident is being...
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here, matt and tam. >>> thanks our snow coverage continues with "action news" reporter, annie mccormick. >>> she is live along the black horse pike in runnymede, camden county. good morning. annie. >> reporter: good morning, matt and tam we're at 9th avenue at the black horse. let's look at the roads karen was talking about. you're seeing wet roads this morning. take a look on the sidewalks, you'll see a little bit of snow, it will remind you it's still winter. take a look at the video. this is video from runnymede from a different area along the black horse. at that point there were no flurries falling, salt trucks were out there laying down salt ahead of the morning commute. the car dealerships will have to deal with this this morning. they will see a half inch on their vehicles. cherry hill route 70. again, nothing dramatic, but a little bit of a nuisance people will have to drive through. back out here live, looks like things are moving smoothly as we were driving over here, 295 and 42 and into runnymede. we we have not had any problems at all. just within the past 20 minu
here, matt and tam. >>> thanks our snow coverage continues with "action news" reporter, annie mccormick. >>> she is live along the black horse pike in runnymede, camden county. good morning. annie. >> reporter: good morning, matt and tam we're at 9th avenue at the black horse. let's look at the roads karen was talking about. you're seeing wet roads this morning. take a look on the sidewalks, you'll see a little bit of snow, it will remind you it's still...
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good point, tam, those are details we don't know at this time. but basically the ceo of volkswagen america is out. michael horn resign effective immediately as the cheating emission scandal rocks the car maker. the scandal claimed the head of vw resign in september after the scandal broke. >>> to comes posted modest gains in trading as energy and tech stocks rallied. weekly jobless claims are due out later today. >>> looks like the price of your italian dressing will rise. olive crops were weak following an unusually hot summer and outbreak of disease has hit olive producers. olive oil prices will jump 20% for the second year in a row. consumers are looking for cheaper alternatives, because olive oil consumption dropped 7%. stay tuned to see how that affects prices at your markets. >>> avacado oil. >>> probably tastes different. >>> it's lighter and cooks well. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live showing there is no precipitation. sky6 live hd a little cloud cover out there this morning, high and thin enough where there are breaks in the clouds we'll get sun mixing with clouds. it wo
good point, tam, those are details we don't know at this time. but basically the ceo of volkswagen america is out. michael horn resign effective immediately as the cheating emission scandal rocks the car maker. the scandal claimed the head of vw resign in september after the scandal broke. >>> to comes posted modest gains in trading as energy and tech stocks rallied. weekly jobless claims are due out later today. >>> looks like the price of your italian dressing will rise....
as of 3:00 a.m. yesterday, tam is very happy about that back there, probably you are too. they did a great job finishing the construction. take the falls bridge. 422 westbound at 23, left lane blocked for another hour or so. you want to watch for the construction, but traffic can get by, tam. >>> developing this morning, a 16-year-old girl had a terrifying night she was shot by a stray bullet as she sat on her front steps. it happened before midnight in hunting park section. katherine scott is live outside east detective's with more on the story. >> reporter: good morning, tam, the 16-year-old girl is in stable condition in the hospital. police believe she was an innocent vick in all this, struck by a stray bullet. detectives at the east division continue to investigate. officers were called out to 7th and luzerne in hunting park after 11:00 p.m. a 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg. she was standing on the front steps of the home talking to her sister when they heard several shots. she was hit in the thigh and she ran into the house where the family members helped her until medi
as of 3:00 a.m. yesterday, tam is very happy about that back there, probably you are too. they did a great job finishing the construction. take the falls bridge. 422 westbound at 23, left lane blocked for another hour or so. you want to watch for the construction, but traffic can get by, tam. >>> developing this morning, a 16-year-old girl had a terrifying night she was shot by a stray bullet as she sat on her front steps. it happened before midnight in hunting park section. katherine...
easton road. watch for crews on the scene. take it easy with the roads being wet, tam. >>> an emotional picture coming out of maryland, police officers joining hands in memory of a murdered colleague this case has a direct tie to the area. jacai colson was born in delaware county and went to school there. police say he was executed that's the word they used in an act of evil. katherine scott is live in boothwyn where officer coleson graduated. >> reporter: good morning, tam, officer jacai colson was born here, he went to chichester high school and four year veteran of the prince county police department. police officers joined hands outside the hospital after jacai colson was killed in an unprovoked attack in high yatsville maryland. -- hiyattsville maryland. authorities say around 4:30 a gunman fired at the first officer he saw outside the district 3 station affirm gun battle followed with several officers firing back at the suspect. that suspect was wounded, but is expected to survive. a second suspect was arrested soon after. colson an undercover narcotics officer was prono
easton road. watch for crews on the scene. take it easy with the roads being wet, tam. >>> an emotional picture coming out of maryland, police officers joining hands in memory of a murdered colleague this case has a direct tie to the area. jacai colson was born in delaware county and went to school there. police say he was executed that's the word they used in an act of evil. katherine scott is live in boothwyn where officer coleson graduated. >> reporter: good morning, tam,...
last night's results. stephanie. >> reporter: tam, another big primary contest and another big win for gop frontrunner donald trump but a split decision in the two democratic primaries last night is making it an even tighter race for the white house. the hunt is on for delegates. >> in the last week we have won three caucuses and two of them were record breaking turnouts. >> reporter: bernie sanders with the stern, now adding a major victory in michigan a state both democrats and republicans courted. >> this has been a fantastic night in michigan. >> reporter: sanders already looking ahead to super tuesday part three with contests in florida, illinois, ohio and missouri. hillary clinton just as excited easily winning the contest in mississippi by a wide margin making it a clean sweep across the deep south. >> i want to be the president for the struggling and the striving. >> reporter: clinton walking away a winner last night earning more delegates than sanders. on the gop side, donald trump defeating his rivals in michigan and mississippi. >> thank you very much, everyone. this was
last night's results. stephanie. >> reporter: tam, another big primary contest and another big win for gop frontrunner donald trump but a split decision in the two democratic primaries last night is making it an even tighter race for the white house. the hunt is on for delegates. >> in the last week we have won three caucuses and two of them were record breaking turnouts. >> reporter: bernie sanders with the stern, now adding a major victory in michigan a state both democrats...
have packed up and gone home. do not fear they'll return tonight at 9 o'clock. tam. >> thank you, matt. >>> new jersey state police are anxious this morning, they're worried about one of their own, a trooper hit by a car on i-295. let's go over to annie mccormick live outside cooper university hospital with new details confirmed overnight. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. this all happened last night and i can tell you overnight they have seen new jersey state police troopers and also other members of new jersey state police going in and out of the hospital along with members of local law enforcement agencies from the south jersey area. but new jersey state police are saying little at this hour. they will tell us that that trooper is in serious condition. >> we have reports of a trooper that was struck by a vehicle. >> reporter: the emergency calls began flooding dispatch after a new jersey state trooper was hit by a vehicle while responding to a car fire. >> trooper is down. got a trooper down. >> reporter: monday night this all unfolded around 8:00 p.m. at 2
have packed up and gone home. do not fear they'll return tonight at 9 o'clock. tam. >> thank you, matt. >>> new jersey state police are anxious this morning, they're worried about one of their own, a trooper hit by a car on i-295. let's go over to annie mccormick live outside cooper university hospital with new details confirmed overnight. good morning, annie. >> reporter: good morning, tam. this all happened last night and i can tell you overnight they have seen new...
: good morning, tam, that's right, the driver was taken in to be questioned. it was an ugly scene, as you said. there were three vehicles involved at the crash at the toll plaza. it happened newark not too far from here, in the northbound lanes, you could see the cars smashed into the toll plaza. three carl's in all, two -- three cars, in all. two suvs and a does an. the car that stopped to pay a cash toll was rear ended. the when paramedic arrives the 51-year-old woman was trapped in the suv she was riding in. the fire department used the jaws of life and she was rescued in 15 minutes. she was in stable condition. three other people were taken to christiana hospital. a 19-year-old passenger of the does an who was in serious, but stable condition. and two others who is injuries were not life threatening. authorities are trying to determine if the driver of the striking vehicle was imairld in anyway. this all remains under investigation. live in newark, katherine scott channel 6 "action news." >>> thank you,. >>> maryland officials say a case of mistaken identity led to the killing of the
: good morning, tam, that's right, the driver was taken in to be questioned. it was an ugly scene, as you said. there were three vehicles involved at the crash at the toll plaza. it happened newark not too far from here, in the northbound lanes, you could see the cars smashed into the toll plaza. three carl's in all, two -- three cars, in all. two suvs and a does an. the car that stopped to pay a cash toll was rear ended. the when paramedic arrives the 51-year-old woman was trapped in the suv...
paul tam today. he died thursday after being hospitialized for more than a month after he was stabbed in the head during a robbery on february 18th. this security video released by police shows the attacker chasing tam onto a street, stabbing him while he's on the ground and taking his bag before running away. police have yet to make an arrest. it is now being investigated as a homicide. we already know he died. but what's new is he's been identified. a man who suffered a medical condition died while driving in san francisco today.resulting in a three car collision. it happened as the man was travelling north on guerrero street. emergency responders say they beileve he suffered a heart attack or maybe stroke and lost control of his vehicle. after crashing over the center median and into oncoming traffic.the car struck two other vehicles. one driver was send to the hospital with unknown injuries.the man was pronounced dead at the scene. in world news. a taliban splinter group is claiming responsibility for today's deadly suicide blast in pakistan. a member of jamat-ul-ahrar. a splinter
paul tam today. he died thursday after being hospitialized for more than a month after he was stabbed in the head during a robbery on february 18th. this security video released by police shows the attacker chasing tam onto a street, stabbing him while he's on the ground and taking his bag before running away. police have yet to make an arrest. it is now being investigated as a homicide. we already know he died. but what's new is he's been identified. a man who suffered a medical condition...
. colwyn avenue and fourth streets some alternates around that on this wednesday morning. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. we'll talk about that in a moment but first breaking overnight a car speeding in the city's kensington section hit traffic lights, ran up the wall of a corner business before bursting into flames. a man was then found dead burned to death inside that car. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live on the scene with the details and katherine it sounds like people who witnessed it just said it seemed crazy to them what they were seeing. >> reporter: yeah, they couldn't believe what they were seeing. the noise brought a lot of them outside and they said that they tried to help but there was really just nothing they could do. the body was burned beyond recognition but police do believe there was a man inside the car and you can see at this intersection it remains closed off. police are here and they are starting to clear this intersection. judging from the damage investigators believe this car was going really fast. there's still a bit of debris strewn everywhere. th
. colwyn avenue and fourth streets some alternates around that on this wednesday morning. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. we'll talk about that in a moment but first breaking overnight a car speeding in the city's kensington section hit traffic lights, ran up the wall of a corner business before bursting into flames. a man was then found dead burned to death inside that car. "action news" reporter katherine scott is live on the scene with the details and katherine it sounds like...
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-year-old paul tam. he died of his injuries on thursday just more than a month after the attack. police say tam is from manchester england was and visiting san francisco with a relative from irvine. >>> sky 7 hd over the san francisco bay as commercial fishermen were out catching dungeness crab. the season started today after being postponed for more than four months because the crabs showed high levels of a naturally occurring neurotoxin. fishermen are calling the quality of the crabs caught today decent. >> it's beautiful. there are two-plus pound crabs. full of meat. absolutely made my mouth water. >> results from this weekend's testing of those crabs won't be available until monday. >>> warrior fans, if you are taking b.a.r.t. north to oracle for tomorrow night's game against philadelphia, expect delays. the transit agency shut down service between the san leandro and bay fair stations. abc 7 news was in san leandro where riders are taking a bus bridge to get between the two stations. fans from fremont or dublin plonton should expect 30 to 60-minute delays. they'll be shutti
-year-old paul tam. he died of his injuries on thursday just more than a month after the attack. police say tam is from manchester england was and visiting san francisco with a relative from irvine. >>> sky 7 hd over the san francisco bay as commercial fishermen were out catching dungeness crab. the season started today after being postponed for more than four months because the crabs showed high levels of a naturally occurring neurotoxin. fishermen are calling the quality of the crabs...
are expected to be okay. >> reporter: tam that was gross, but true. >> reporter: let's go outside on the schuylkill expressway. you can see the snow on the grassy sides of the road. we have an accident that cleared approaching the curve. building volume here. we have an accident vincent town new road at route 70. police on the scene blocking a lane. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan is showing us the intensity of the snow through reading and allentown has diminished. we have white color over all delaware and south jersey where the snow is coming down more intensely. i'm only looking at less than a half inch of snow in philadelphia right now. most of the northern suburbs a little less than that. down here you're getting up to an inch or more. this is where the side streets and sidewalks and what have you are going to be more snow covered. in fact i have a twitter follower in stanton, delaware, said slushy sidewalks and side streets right there. dressing the kids you want to bundle them up, we have temperatures below freezing. 31 degrees by 7:00. 9:00 we're above freezing,
are expected to be okay. >> reporter: tam that was gross, but true. >> reporter: let's go outside on the schuylkill expressway. you can see the snow on the grassy sides of the road. we have an accident that cleared approaching the curve. building volume here. we have an accident vincent town new road at route 70. police on the scene blocking a lane. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live double scan is showing us the intensity of the snow through reading and allentown has...
exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. matt and tam. >>> we have breaking news out of west philadelphia. police have taken a person into custody after a barricade situation that started around 4:00 a.m. in the 5800 block of sansom street. police responded to reports of shots fired inside a home. the barricade situation is over and they the person in custody. several roads are blocked off, but we're getting reports that her reopening. >>> police are frantically looking for a woman abducted as she walked off a septa bus. a man was beating the woman as he forced her into the vehicle. katherine scott is live at the frankford transportation center that's where they have taken the bus. >> reporter: tam, that's right, after police spoke with the septa driver and witnesses, they believe the man and woman knew each other, they believe it is a violent domestic case. police are trying to figure out who the man and woman are on. the bus was taken to the septa transportation center. investigators are reviewing the different camera camera angles. police say the septa bus was going south
exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. matt and tam. >>> we have breaking news out of west philadelphia. police have taken a person into custody after a barricade situation that started around 4:00 a.m. in the 5800 block of sansom street. police responded to reports of shots fired inside a home. the barricade situation is over and they the person in custody. several roads are blocked off, but we're getting reports that her reopening. >>> police are frantically looking for...
details on the tragic story. >> reporter: good morning, tam, the friends and co-workers who work with the victim noticed she was not at work that day, they were concerned and came to the apartment complex a manager let them in, they made the gruesome discovery and called police. here's video from yesterday when police were on the scene including the crime scene unit. the victim, a 36-year-old woman was discovered dead left naked in the shower with the water running before 5:00 p.m. yesterday. now, police say it appears she was beaten and strangled. >>> preliminary -- preliminarily, it looks like there was no forced entry we'll leave it at that. when i say disarray, items were thrown around, tossed around, almost like it was some type of fight some physical altercation. >>> it's very peaceful, when i am home in the evening we sit out all hours of the night. you never experience anything like this. >> reporter: neighbors reported they had not seen anything out of the ordinary, just when police arrive, they saw them out here for several hours. they say the woman, the victim called f
details on the tragic story. >> reporter: good morning, tam, the friends and co-workers who work with the victim noticed she was not at work that day, they were concerned and came to the apartment complex a manager let them in, they made the gruesome discovery and called police. here's video from yesterday when police were on the scene including the crime scene unit. the victim, a 36-year-old woman was discovered dead left naked in the shower with the water running before 5:00 p.m....
. storm tracker6 live double scan right now tam and nydia shows us that we're dry as we take a look outside, we have sky6 and we are looking at clear skies overhead and the promise of plenty of sunshine coming later on this morning. lined up with a fair amount of sunshine this afternoon, too. you will need a coat heading out the door. for the second straight morning in the 30's, 35 degrees currently. winds are light though out of the west at just 8 miles per hour and your temperatures across the region below freezing in automobile can of spots like allentown and reading and lancaster wilmington at 31, millville 25 degrees, 33 in trenton and 41 in cape may. again, not a lot of wind but cold enough for coats. there's the lack of cloud cover so we'll see early sunshine. as the day goes on some of these clouds to the west will begin to filter through and we'll wind up with partly sunny skies through most of the afternoon. your day planner from accuweather shows a cool temperature of 34 by 8 o'clock. but we improve to 42 as soon as 10:00 and then 48 at noon and the afternoon we spend mai
. storm tracker6 live double scan right now tam and nydia shows us that we're dry as we take a look outside, we have sky6 and we are looking at clear skies overhead and the promise of plenty of sunshine coming later on this morning. lined up with a fair amount of sunshine this afternoon, too. you will need a coat heading out the door. for the second straight morning in the 30's, 35 degrees currently. winds are light though out of the west at just 8 miles per hour and your temperatures across...
norristown, tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. we'll take a short break and come back to accuweather. where should you start when you're told you have cancer? start with a specialist. start where you'll find advanced technology, precision treatment options and truly compassionate care. start here with a team of experts who treat only cancer. every stage. every day. its not one thing we do. it's the only thing we do. start at cancer treatment centers of america in plalphia. the evolution of cancncer care is here. learn more at cancercenter.com/expxpxperts appointments available now. >> look like a great start tomorrow. we've got lots of sunshine. take a look as we are up to 41 degrees in philadelphia. still in the 30's in a couple of spots but winds running very light this morning. your exclusive accuweather 7-day shows winds much lighter than yesterday. tomorrow really later this evening and overnight into tomorrow morning we have rain. that should end early and even though sun comes back a high of 49 in the morning and then very windy with temperatures plunge to go about 40 by dinne
norristown, tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. we'll take a short break and come back to accuweather. where should you start when you're told you have cancer? start with a specialist. start where you'll find advanced technology, precision treatment options and truly compassionate care. start here with a team of experts who treat only cancer. every stage. every day. its not one thing we do. it's the only thing we do. start at cancer treatment centers of america in plalphia. the evolution of...
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the month. look at this, mount tam, over 16 inches. been a loma, 18 inches. that is a lot of rain. you can see a little bit in santa clara valley, and some to the north, but overall the rainfall is tapering off rapidly after the rain yesterday. and it started on saturday afternoon and kept going with been loma getting 3.5 inches, san francisco 1.64, radio city had over an inch, and concord had over an inch, and a lot more than that in the hills. and burned bill -- guerneville and tapering off. as everything begins to drift, high pressure building in, and a little bit to the north. also, southern and central california and for us i don't think there's much left. it's very light. high pressure, we will see that in just a second. low 50s for some, and low temperatures across the board, all within a degree or two of each other, and not that much different from pittsburg or antioch. there was still be some partly to mostly cloudy skies, 34 for truckee, 46 in ukiah, and 56 in sacramento. today is the in between day. some of the rainfall over the weekend was pretty impressive for some, b
the month. look at this, mount tam, over 16 inches. been a loma, 18 inches. that is a lot of rain. you can see a little bit in santa clara valley, and some to the north, but overall the rainfall is tapering off rapidly after the rain yesterday. and it started on saturday afternoon and kept going with been loma getting 3.5 inches, san francisco 1.64, radio city had over an inch, and concord had over an inch, and a lot more than that in the hills. and burned bill -- guerneville and tapering off....
. your exclusive accuweather 7-day bright and still nice today so as tam mentioned today is a great day to get out there and get stuff done if you have stuff to do and then tomorrow we get rain early in the morning. sun coming back but it will be blustery and again that temperature falling. it will be cooling down during the day. brisk and colder then on thursday, a high of 40. friday clouds, 39 degrees and we're still watching that southern system down in the carolinas that could be just close enough to brush us with a touch of snow. doesn't look like it will be any more than maybe a coating to an inch or so but that again would be friday. and then some improvement on saturday, getting back up to 45 degrees there. on sunday, in the morning there could be aurin or snow showea rain or snowshower aroun. sunday afternoon's high is 46. monday we start to turn milder again getting unto 53 degrees. not bad. >> not bad at all. thank you david. >>> it is 5:40. developing right now the very late of the on the man who police say held california police at bay for hours after kidnapping a woman
. your exclusive accuweather 7-day bright and still nice today so as tam mentioned today is a great day to get out there and get stuff done if you have stuff to do and then tomorrow we get rain early in the morning. sun coming back but it will be blustery and again that temperature falling. it will be cooling down during the day. brisk and colder then on thursday, a high of 40. friday clouds, 39 degrees and we're still watching that southern system down in the carolinas that could be just close...
race. good morning, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, matt and tam. yes, ohio is always very crucial and it gives us some insight into how november will go. yes, florida and ohio are the big prizes today but other states voting today could really make the difference. it's here, the day that could be a critical turning point in the race for president. >> this is the place i want to win. this is the place, this is going to do it. >> reporter: gop frontrunner donald trump was in the winner take allstate of ohio overnight attacking its governor and his rival john kasich. >> kasich can not make america great again. can't do it. >> reporter: the stop trump movement is in full effect. >> this country's not about us tearing one another down. >> reporter: rivals spent election eve seizing on the recent violence at trump rally. >> look a bernie sanders sixty nine don't worry you're not going to get beat up at my rally. >> one difference between this and a donald trump rally is i'm not asking anyone to punch you in the face. >> reporter: trump's response to these images. >> there's no v
race. good morning, kenneth. >> reporter: good morning, matt and tam. yes, ohio is always very crucial and it gives us some insight into how november will go. yes, florida and ohio are the big prizes today but other states voting today could really make the difference. it's here, the day that could be a critical turning point in the race for president. >> this is the place i want to win. this is the place, this is going to do it. >> reporter: gop frontrunner donald trump was...
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Asian Pacific America with Robert Handa : KNTV : June 4, 2017 5:30am-6:01am PDT
information, go to nbcbayarea.com. and coming up, the director of a featured film, "warning shot," tina takamoto joins us next. mattress firmness? fortunately there's a bed where you both get what you want every night. enter sleep number and the semi-annual sale going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! only at a sleep number store... oh, and right now, save $200 on our queen c2 mattresses now only $699. ends sunday. go to sleepnumber.com for a store near you. robert: now, one of the short films being featured at frameline 41 is "warning shot". with me right now is tina takamoto, the director, as well as a multimedia artist who explores the intersections of race, queer identity, and memory through performance art and experimental video. and her work focuses on the hidden dimension of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality in asian-american history. welcome to the show. tina takamoto: thanks, thank you so much for having me. robert: now, i know i
information, go to nbcbayarea.com. and coming up, the director of a featured film, "warning shot," tina takamoto joins us next. mattress firmness? fortunately there's a bed where you both get what you want every night. enter sleep number and the semi-annual sale going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! only at a sleep number store... oh,...
Worldwide Exchange : CNBC : June 8, 2017 5:00am-6:01am EDT
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outcome, i'm joined by robert wright, a political analyst at the financial times and tina fordham at citi. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> thanks for joining us. tina, i'll start with you been what is your latest take on the polls? a big lead for theresa may initially. where do we stand this morning? >> it was a remarkable decline considering where we started out. but jeremy corbyn turned out to be a better campaigner than a lot of people expected and mrs. may seemed to struggle a bit in that department. most pollsters, a wide divergence, actually. six, seven-point average lead for the conservatives. of course, turnout is always the key variable. >> and, robert, your poll of polls, the financial times poll of polls has that lead this morning at eight. what is the swing factor that could lead to a surprise corbin victory? >> well, i think it's hard to imagine a corbyn victory at this point. i don't think most people really expect that to happen. but what has been remarkable is the way that jeremy corbyn has been a much better campaigner than people expected. and really,
outcome, i'm joined by robert wright, a political analyst at the financial times and tina fordham at citi. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> thanks for joining us. tina, i'll start with you been what is your latest take on the polls? a big lead for theresa may initially. where do we stand this morning? >> it was a remarkable decline considering where we started out. but jeremy corbyn turned out to be a better campaigner than a lot of people expected and mrs. may...
Eyewitness News at 11 : KYW : June 4, 2017 11:00pm-11:35pm EDT
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. they made dozen arrest, tina krauss has the latest from london. >> reporter: they hauled in at least a dozen suspects believed to be linked to the terror attack. targeted locals and tourists enjoying a saturday night out. they ran a van into pedestrians on london bridge, crash add vehicle outside a pub and got out and started stabbing. >> stabbing this woman nonstop three of them just stabbing her from every direction. this is for allah >> he had been taking to photos on the bridge with his girlfriend and said the van missed him by inches but many others hit >> i haven't seen anything like that. they were just -- do you think they were dead >> for sure >> officers continue their investigation here at london bridge on sunday, police say people should expect to see more armed police and security after this latest attack. police fired about 50 rounds to kill the attackers who were wearing fake suicide vests. in an east london neighborhood where police made arrests, he talked to one of the terrorists on the day of the attack. >> i asked him, where i got my van from, started asking questi
. they made dozen arrest, tina krauss has the latest from london. >> reporter: they hauled in at least a dozen suspects believed to be linked to the terror attack. targeted locals and tourists enjoying a saturday night out. they ran a van into pedestrians on london bridge, crash add vehicle outside a pub and got out and started stabbing. >> stabbing this woman nonstop three of them just stabbing her from every direction. this is for allah >> he had been taking to photos on the...
Newsday : BBCNEWS : June 12, 2017 12:00am-12:31am BST
us live from sydney is tina davis, a human rights specialist who has studied, and made an award winning documentary on modern day slavery and child labour. welcome to the programme. thank you for joining welcome to the programme. thank you forjoining us. firstly, why is it that you think that asia, more than any other region in the world, has this problem with child labour? well, one of the key factors is poverty. and it is a development issue. there are numerous sectors, low—paid sectors, that have not really grown much, and this is one of the labour problems that often end up in the informal sectors. lack of education, as you mentioned, there is conflict and natural disaster, so for instance, when you see the natural disaster in nepal, you also know that this will then escalate the number of children who end up in labour. also the more severe forms, like human trafficking, forced labour... you have been studying and documenting this for a number of years. i am keen to hear what your observations of years of work have been, and what you have concluded. it is a complex area. b
us live from sydney is tina davis, a human rights specialist who has studied, and made an award winning documentary on modern day slavery and child labour. welcome to the programme. thank you for joining welcome to the programme. thank you forjoining us. firstly, why is it that you think that asia, more than any other region in the world, has this problem with child labour? well, one of the key factors is poverty. and it is a development issue. there are numerous sectors, low—paid sectors,...
NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt : KNTV : May 31, 2017 5:30pm-6:01pm PDT
. >> reporter: in suburban cleveland, 44-year-old tina nowell struggled with glasses and contacts for most of her life. >> i feel like my glasses restrict me from doing things. simple everyday tasks. >> reporter: her doctor recommended a procedure called smile approved a few months ago in the united states. dr. ronald kruger prom the cleveland clinic says for some patients, it's more effective than lasik. >> a lot of people know about lasik, what is the difference between the two? >> i often say s.m.i.l.e. is like a laparoscopic incision. she was able to go back to work the next day. fewer patients report dry eye. >> because it's less invasive, it doesn't dry your eyes out as much. >> reporter: the procedure is fda approved for people nearsighted and do not have a stigmatism. and could be expanded to more patients down the road. for now it costs around $5,000 for both eyes. it's not covered by insurance. for tina noel, it was a good investment. >> it could just be in my mind, driving so much clearer, the sky seems bluer, the grass seems greener. >> reporter: freedom from glasses, than
. >> reporter: in suburban cleveland, 44-year-old tina nowell struggled with glasses and contacts for most of her life. >> i feel like my glasses restrict me from doing things. simple everyday tasks. >> reporter: her doctor recommended a procedure called smile approved a few months ago in the united states. dr. ronald kruger prom the cleveland clinic says for some patients, it's more effective than lasik. >> a lot of people know about lasik, what is the difference...
ABC7 News on KOFY 11:30PM : KOFY : June 2, 2017 11:30pm-12:01am PDT
in lafayette. also tina coramatis, whose son is in treatment for addiction, and joe megly, a young person currently in treatment. it's coratis. >> that's right. >> doctor, i've been following your work for years. we stayed in touch. you don't mince words, you say kids are abusing drugs so badly they're having seizures at 15 years old. >> a lot of peop talk about prescription drugs, refring to the painkillers, opiates, they are killing kids, that's a fact. the field changes. we're seeing a new explosion of the use of the drug called xanax, anld tranquilizer. it produces a form of physical dependence. if there's not careful attention to getting you off, seizures develop. kids as young as 15, 16 are presenting to emergency rooms with seizures. if we knew before they were trying to top, we could help them. once theyet seizures, it's late in the game. that's true for a lot of other drugs. we see kids coming in probably the most common painkiller now is vicodin. vicodin contains tylenol. tylenol kills livercells. people -- above eight tylenol a day you can get in trouble with the liver.
in lafayette. also tina coramatis, whose son is in treatment for addiction, and joe megly, a young person currently in treatment. it's coratis. >> that's right. >> doctor, i've been following your work for years. we stayed in touch. you don't mince words, you say kids are abusing drugs so badly they're having seizures at 15 years old. >> a lot of peop talk about prescription drugs, refring to the painkillers, opiates, they are killing kids, that's a fact. the field changes....
Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas : BLOOMBERG : June 22, 2017 7:00am-10:01am EDT
point. jon: tina fordham joins us now on the phone. we are talking about what a soft brexit could mean, what kind of scenarios we could see. what kind of scenarios do you envision? i think, first of all, we have to appreciate that these terms are being thrown around and even the british public isn't very clear on what they mean. , davidson won a lot of seats on open brexit. by that, she met a focus on jobs and the economy. soft brexit, hard brexit come starts tot, it all sound semi-pornographic. outcomeimportant in the of last week's election here in the u.k. is that nobody understands what the will of the british people is. there's no longer a parliamentary majority for so-called hard brexit. i'm sure you've already discussed the fact that soft going to be pretty difficult to pull off without allowing freedom of movement. we have to tear ourselves for a -- we have to prepare ourselves for political disarray. let's talk about the political dealings you have to read. typically, you're looking at the parliament trying to pass 20 a year. what does that tell you about the authority by mini
point. jon: tina fordham joins us now on the phone. we are talking about what a soft brexit could mean, what kind of scenarios we could see. what kind of scenarios do you envision? i think, first of all, we have to appreciate that these terms are being thrown around and even the british public isn't very clear on what they mean. , davidson won a lot of seats on open brexit. by that, she met a focus on jobs and the economy. soft brexit, hard brexit come starts tot, it all sound...
World News Now : WJLA : June 27, 2017 3:00am-3:30am EDT
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can tina. so they got married in las vegas after winning a contest, the love and tacos contest many the couple apparently met online, and their love of taco bell was a common factor early on. so they applied for this contest. >> at a taco bell they got married? >> they said i do at the taco bell can tina. >> that's a taco bell. >> you're dressed up like it's prom, and you had the fine, white china. >> so my friends may or may not have started a group called taco bell appreciate group, tbag for short. i tagged along. dressing up in costume and taco bell, like my favorite thing. >> and tbag for short. >> yes. >>> we might want to have a road trip to see an arizona diamondback game in phoenix. look what they have. they're offering the apple, apple pie nachos. starting july 1st, for the fourth of july weekend of course, cinnamon, sugar tortillas, vanilla, apple pie. >> that sounds pretty good. >> and whipped cream. >> it looks questionable but it sounds kind of delicious. would you eat it? >> oh, yeah, t would you e >>> this morning on "world news now." good news and bad news. as the sc
can tina. so they got married in las vegas after winning a contest, the love and tacos contest many the couple apparently met online, and their love of taco bell was a common factor early on. so they applied for this contest. >> at a taco bell they got married? >> they said i do at the taco bell can tina. >> that's a taco bell. >> you're dressed up like it's prom, and you had the fine, white china. >> so my friends may or may not have started a group called taco...
KPIX 5 News at 6:00PM : KPIX : June 8, 2017 6:00pm-7:01pm PDT
somebody wants to drive out of here in a brand-new car. [cheering and applause] give me tina, give me bree. ["family feud" theme plays] heh heh heh! top 6 answers on the board. here we go. if you literally had a bug up your behind, which kind would be the worst kind? tina: a bee! steve: a bee. saucedas: whoo! play! play! tina: we're gonna play. steve: they're gonna play. [cheering and applause] michael: whoo! steve: michael, if you literally had a bug up your bekind-- behind, what kind would be the worst kind? michael: the worst kind would be a spider, steve! steve: spider. zach: yeah, good answer. steve: zach, chug boy, if you
somebody wants to drive out of here in a brand-new car. [cheering and applause] give me tina, give me bree. ["family feud" theme plays] heh heh heh! top 6 answers on the board. here we go. if you literally had a bug up your behind, which kind would be the worst kind? tina: a bee! steve: a bee. saucedas: whoo! play! play! tina: we're gonna play. steve: they're gonna play. [cheering and applause] michael: whoo! steve: michael, if you literally had a bug up your bekind-- behind, what...
News4 Today : WRC : June 24, 2017 9:00am-10:00am EDT
to see how things are going for all state insurance agent tina halford. >> good morning to you. a partner with us teamed up with nbc 4 for a very long time. why is it important for your organization to be part of this? >> good morning, guys. here at montgomery college, all state is committed to the community by making sure we protect your identity. by shredding personal documents, that's the first line of defense. all state we can give you advice to protect your family and loved ones. >> tina, montgomery college's rockville campus. tell how long it's running and how many boxes they can br bring four boxes over. we've been here since 8:00 a.m. and we will be here until 11:00 a.m. >> you have to be in line with your car by 11:00 in the morning. >> yes, you do. please be in line at that time. >> thank you very much. tina for community shred, always a good event. >> you can't bring anything like binders, because people do. >> paper. >> bring paper. >>> up next, oh, gosh. >> oh. >> going to the dogs literally. not the most pretty pups some would say but still getting a whole lot of att
to see how things are going for all state insurance agent tina halford. >> good morning to you. a partner with us teamed up with nbc 4 for a very long time. why is it important for your organization to be part of this? >> good morning, guys. here at montgomery college, all state is committed to the community by making sure we protect your identity. by shredding personal documents, that's the first line of defense. all state we can give you advice to protect your family and loved...
ABC7 News at 6 : WJLA : June 24, 2017 6:00pm-6:30pm EDT
opened that door, i've never in my life seen smoke like that and had that smell. ryan: tina gardner ran out the basement with her five-year-old daughter, but she could hear desperate cries for help. >> they were saying, we need help. we were telling them there are people still in there. >> we had people hanging out windows, from the second floor. they jumped and firefighters caught them. ryan: mayor muriel bowser toured the damage after the roof collapsed. more than 200 people are displaced but thankful to be alive. any families lost everything. >> it was the scariest thing i've ever gone through, and i'm just so fo fortunate. one person and five firefighters were taken to the hospital, but they will be ok. investigators have not been able to get inside the building to determine the exact cause. they hope to gain more information tomorrow or monday. live in northwest, ryan hughes, abc 7 news. horace: r thank you,yan. -- thank you,ryan. the district and red cross sheltering residence at the emory center. they said this is one of the biggest fires they have seen in years. >> and the n
opened that door, i've never in my life seen smoke like that and had that smell. ryan: tina gardner ran out the basement with her five-year-old daughter, but she could hear desperate cries for help. >> they were saying, we need help. we were telling them there are people still in there. >> we had people hanging out windows, from the second floor. they jumped and firefighters caught them. ryan: mayor muriel bowser toured the damage after the roof collapsed. more than 200 people are...
kors number. chrissy teigen gorgeous. tina fey she is taking a fashion risk. >> lapointe. i've never worn anything like that. >> but the tonys red carpet really all about the blue. >> who are you wearing this evening? >> christian siriano. >> josh gad. >> cynthia nixon asking for a dress by rosie. >> amanda would never wear anything like this. it is completely charlotte. i went all charlotte. ♪ >> kevin spacey killing it as host. >> i love the theater. i love celebrating. >> telling us how he prepared for broadway's biggest day. >> i try to see every show on broadway. >> sense of humor poking fun of rumors about him coming out of the closet. ♪ i'm coming out -- no. wait. no. >> and this show-stopping moment. note to show producers, don't tryo musical with bette midler. >> shut that crap off. >> chrissy and her husband john legend packing on the pda backstage after his big tony win on stage. for everything you didn't see and all the gorgeous gowns, a full gallery at extratv.com. >>> up next, new pics. the first shots of christina el moussa with her new boyfriend. >> how does her e
kors number. chrissy teigen gorgeous. tina fey she is taking a fashion risk. >> lapointe. i've never worn anything like that. >> but the tonys red carpet really all about the blue. >> who are you wearing this evening? >> christian siriano. >> josh gad. >> cynthia nixon asking for a dress by rosie. >> amanda would never wear anything like this. it is completely charlotte. i went all charlotte. ♪ >> kevin spacey killing it as host. >> i...
Action News at 4PM : WPVI : June 8, 2017 4:00pm-5:00pm EDT
have breakfast any time of the day. we are here at duck donuts. tina is retiring as a teacher you get the first donut. grab one and pass it around! save one more me, i may bring you some back if we have any left. >> have fun down at the shore. restaurant week is from june 11th. have some fun guys. cheers to you tina. >> happy retirement she deserve its. >> still to come on "action news" at 4:00, a brooklyn man is giving new meaning to the word bait and switch. how he is ridding his home of pests. >>> and we are helping you clean house and cash in. and she is putting on sound tan location apparently. >> and bikini backlash, social media is lighting up with opinions about a photo of jessica simpson's daughter. >>> an suv got stuck inside of a house in st. louis, you see the vehicle wedged in the brick turn signal still blinking and the driver ran from the scene and now they are checking the plates to see if the suv was stolen. >>> and now a big debate over bikinis, particularly kids in bikinis and more specifically a celebrity's child wearing one sparked by this picture, jessica simpson
have breakfast any time of the day. we are here at duck donuts. tina is retiring as a teacher you get the first donut. grab one and pass it around! save one more me, i may bring you some back if we have any left. >> have fun down at the shore. restaurant week is from june 11th. have some fun guys. cheers to you tina. >> happy retirement she deserve its. >> still to come on "action news" at 4:00, a brooklyn man is giving new meaning to the word bait and switch. how...
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ET Entertainment Tonight : WUSA : June 27, 2017 1:37am-2:07am EDT
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mom, tina, was spotted arriving at the mansion on sunday. >> she couldn't wait to see her grand babies. we have been told she was present at the birth to often support to her daughter. >> beyonce and jay-z are about to get another star moving into the neighborhood and she has twins too. julia roberts. >>> and julia roberts has a fixer-upper. why is it selling for $4 million? julia's fixer-upper. it's a 1620 square foot model built in 1929. it could use sprucing up, but the price, $3.9 million. it sounds craz b zeros to this diamond in the rough. it's located in malibu. her neighbors include matthew mcconaughey and barbara streisand. it's accessible to the public near the dune beach. it's a nice piece of land for weekend getaways with husband, danny, and their three kids. the couple have two other malibu properties. >> by the way, julia par king lotted with a huge piece of property, an ocean-front home in hawaii which she sold for $16.2 million last november. >> she wants more fix-uppers. she can afford them. >> sounds like par advise. things are heating up in mexico mexico on the set o
mom, tina, was spotted arriving at the mansion on sunday. >> she couldn't wait to see her grand babies. we have been told she was present at the birth to often support to her daughter. >> beyonce and jay-z are about to get another star moving into the neighborhood and she has twins too. julia roberts. >>> and julia roberts has a fixer-upper. why is it selling for $4 million? julia's fixer-upper. it's a 1620 square foot model built in 1929. it could use sprucing up, but the...
ET Entertainment Tonight : KYW : June 5, 2017 7:00pm-7:31pm EDT
three, tina knowles gives us a beyonce twin update. >> she's very calm and she's very happy. >> but what queen bey question was offlimits? >>> plus, your "insider" bonus. >> you [ bleep ] me. >> how much of star jones "daytime divas" is based on her view? >> behind the scenes is the >> an affair behind the scenes the least of the scandal. >>> is paula abdul planning her "idol" return? >> is she vy
ET Entertainment Tonight : KYW : June 30, 2017 7:00pm-7:31pm EDT
? >> beyonce's mom tina ignored questions about the twins. there are more clues about the couple's name. they trademarked names yesterday. >> we'll be following every development all weekend long, go to etonline.com. >> we have also been tracking every new development of bachelor in paradise and there have been many. as "bachelor in paradise" resumes shooting, here's what we know now. >> season four of the reality show started filming less than a week ago, but three of the guys have already been given the boot. vinny, iggy, and alex all said adios to mexico. they documented their trip back to the states. the rest of the cast is still shooting. a source close to the show say s some love connections were lost when production halted on june 6th. warner brothers says no misconduct occurred. the host chris harrison spoke to cast about how things would move forward. the two-drink per hour rule was enforced. so, how will the show address the drama? according to our source, the incident is being talked about on camera. it has to be. as for corrine yesterday she released a statement saying her team's
? >> beyonce's mom tina ignored questions about the twins. there are more clues about the couple's name. they trademarked names yesterday. >> we'll be following every development all weekend long, go to etonline.com. >> we have also been tracking every new development of bachelor in paradise and there have been many. as "bachelor in paradise" resumes shooting, here's what we know now. >> season four of the reality show started filming less than a week ago, but...
Noticiero Telemundo 48: Fin de Semana : KSTS : June 25, 2017 5:30pm-6:01pm PDT
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lo que sus cuidadores llaman una "experiencia de enriquecimiento"... lucrecia -- esta tina de color azul, esta disenada para alentar a los animales a jugar, algo que estimula su bienestar fisico y mental.... juan francisco --y que mejor, que un chapuzon para sentirse fresco y lleno de vida paola hasta aqui esta edicion, lo esperamos esta noche a las once, que disfrute de su tarde... >> "ta-da". >> ta-da. >> ¡ta-da! >> ¡ta-da! >> ta-da. ¡ta-da! [vidrios rotos] ¡ta-da! [rÍe] >> ¡ta-da! >> [habla en idioma minion]
lo que sus cuidadores llaman una "experiencia de enriquecimiento"... lucrecia -- esta tina de color azul, esta disenada para alentar a los animales a jugar, algo que estimula su bienestar fisico y mental.... juan francisco --y que mejor, que un chapuzon para sentirse fresco y lleno de vida paola hasta aqui esta edicion, lo esperamos esta noche a las once, que disfrute de su tarde... >> "ta-da". >> ta-da. >> ¡ta-da! >> ¡ta-da! >> ta-da....
Documentary : RT : June 16, 2017 10:01pm-10:30pm EDT
i think it was it always. seems to be here's something else tina in the usa or she will see a new war plan to size less than trump has used social media and while i always our lead story goes it's garbage real genuine. i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the ugly side of the world from. corporate media written uses to talk about these carnies companies i'm going to paint a clear picture about how disturbing how cold blood corporate conduct has become a mom these are stories that you no one else.
i think it was it always. seems to be here's something else tina in the usa or she will see a new war plan to size less than trump has used social media and while i always our lead story goes it's garbage real genuine. i'm a trial lawyer i've spent countless hours poring through documents that tell the story about the ugly side of the world from. corporate media written uses to talk about these carnies companies i'm going to paint a clear picture about how disturbing how cold blood corporate...
CBS Weekend News : WUSA : June 18, 2017 6:00pm-6:30pm EDT
baby heir and afros. >> beyonce's moth err tina lawson seemed to be trying to throw off the rumors posting this cryptic video of herself saturday night. >> but grandma matthew knowles may have stolen some of the spotlight with this happy birthday post that appears to confirm the birth. just last week husband jay-z stirred speculation when he missed being the first rapper inducted into the songwriter's hall of fame. in a video tribute to the hip-hop mogul, even former president obama had baby fever. >> j and i are also fools for our daughters although he will have me beat when those two twins showed up. >> beyonce opened up about being a mother in this 2013hbo documentary titled life is but a dream. >> especially after losing a child, the pain and trauma from that just makes it mean more to get an opportunity to bring life into the world. >> the 35 year old rocked her latest baby bump at this year's grammies. amed. and since then she continued to share updates with millions of fans worldwide. beyonce and jay-z have been silent or their social media pages. with he did reach out but h
baby heir and afros. >> beyonce's moth err tina lawson seemed to be trying to throw off the rumors posting this cryptic video of herself saturday night. >> but grandma matthew knowles may have stolen some of the spotlight with this happy birthday post that appears to confirm the birth. just last week husband jay-z stirred speculation when he missed being the first rapper inducted into the songwriter's hall of fame. in a video tribute to the hip-hop mogul, even former president...
ET Entertainment Tonight : KRON : June 6, 2017 12:45am-1:16am PDT
protected by all this love. >>> and number three, tina knowles gives us a beyonce twin
Eyewitness News at 5 : KYW : June 7, 2017 5:00am-5:29am EDT
region. >> from the trenton ian tina accused of murdering a hamilton woman over memorial day weekend said he stabbed the victim in self-defense. eighteen year-old jose garcia told police that 48 year-old brenda garzio attempted to extort money from him at knife point following a consensual sex act. stabbing occurred in the area where under cover sting operations resulted in numerous prosecution arrests. >>> news journal tuesday delaware legislature approved a bill to guarantee abortion access. bill would ensure that abortion remains legal in the event it is overturned by the supreme court this positions delaware to be first state to guarantee access to abortion, since president trump what's electric. >>> in the times herald pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro announced charge is a begins three philadelphia men of taking part in the bank fraud scheme involving use of instagram, the scheme resulted in a theft of more than $50,000 from various financial institutions. >>> and that is the newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> coming up we have results from new je
region. >> from the trenton ian tina accused of murdering a hamilton woman over memorial day weekend said he stabbed the victim in self-defense. eighteen year-old jose garcia told police that 48 year-old brenda garzio attempted to extort money from him at knife point following a consensual sex act. stabbing occurred in the area where under cover sting operations resulted in numerous prosecution arrests. >>> news journal tuesday delaware legislature approved a bill to guarantee...
Bloomberg Real Yield : BLOOMBERG : June 16, 2017 12:00pm-12:31pm EDT
very sensitive to where we are. jonathan: tell me about where you are in the tina blackrock is relative to what is the price in the market. pablo: a couple of things are happening. i feel like there's this great misconception. 2%.ave to be at their mandate is not 2%, it is price stability. technology is pressing down. talking about m&a today in terms of what amazon did, taking some of the inefficiencies out of the system, dynamics happening today when you think about this inflation report, places like we show here, extraordinary things happening with services. the inflation around services has been stable. the only place trending down is wireless because of cuts. inflation pressing down on inflation. if you look at goods inflation, technology is pressing down. the central bank cannot lift, ,nd it is good for the consumer net disposable income. the pressure you have seen on wireless, these are all good things for disposable, whether .t is apparel we have to hit 2%, if technology is helping the consumer and lower income by pressing down on inflation. pablo: we need to think about a ed tha
very sensitive to where we are. jonathan: tell me about where you are in the tina blackrock is relative to what is the price in the market. pablo: a couple of things are happening. i feel like there's this great misconception. 2%.ave to be at their mandate is not 2%, it is price stability. technology is pressing down. talking about m&a today in terms of what amazon did, taking some of the inefficiencies out of the system, dynamics happening today when you think about this inflation report,...
BBC News : BBCNEWS : June 21, 2017 4:00am-4:29am BST
is too late for the village of varzeas, it's lost one in five of its residents. sisile tina told me she knew all the victims. she tried to count the dead. "two lived here", she said. "three, four, five and more." on saturday afternoon, the village watched the forest catch fire. "there was a massive noise", amal told us, "and then we saw the flames." "we'd never seen anything like it", said valdemar, "it all happened in just a few seconds." residents were then forced to take an immediate, terrifying decision — stay here and risk getting caught by the flames or drive off in search of safety. many drove. it proved to be a fatal mistake. on this road, flames engulfed many in their cars. mario pinhal told portuguese tv that his family tried to escape in two vehicles. his wife suzanna and their daughters joanna and margarita drove ahead, but they died in the fire. translation: i regret leaving home. everyone has been kind, but i just want my wife and my daughters back. mario and his parents barely escaped in the car behind. "we should have died", mario mother's cries, "nobody would miss
is too late for the village of varzeas, it's lost one in five of its residents. sisile tina told me she knew all the victims. she tried to count the dead. "two lived here", she said. "three, four, five and more." on saturday afternoon, the village watched the forest catch fire. "there was a massive noise", amal told us, "and then we saw the flames." "we'd never seen anything like it", said valdemar, "it all happened in just a few...
due any day. grandma tina shopping in beverly hills. and cindy crawford's son, graduating high school. the proud mama presented him with a watch for his big day. then on to the runway for him, and her daughter also on hand, looking very grown-up in a tube top and edgy leather skirt, cheering her brother on. >>> now, blake shelton surprises fans, dropping into bars in nashville. >> welcome to nashville everybody. ♪ the superstar was flying solo. no gwen stefani in sight as he posed at a meet and greet with fans. at one point, blake even went behind the bar to pour drinks. two nights ago, he was spotted behind the stage with a smithworks cup. he's a brand ambassador. ♪ i've been keeping all the letters that i wrote to you ♪ we were with him as he performed at an l.a. bar last year, and we know he enjoys adult beverages. i just don't picture you with alcohol. >> is that right? >> yes. >> have you been in a coma the last few years or what. i like vodka. so, this is like, that's a no-brainer for me. >> i think like every interview i've done with you, you've had vodka in your h
due any day. grandma tina shopping in beverly hills. and cindy crawford's son, graduating high school. the proud mama presented him with a watch for his big day. then on to the runway for him, and her daughter also on hand, looking very grown-up in a tube top and edgy leather skirt, cheering her brother on. >>> now, blake shelton surprises fans, dropping into bars in nashville. >> welcome to nashville everybody. ♪ the superstar was flying solo. no gwen stefani in sight as he...
Noticias Telemundo : KSTS : June 23, 2017 6:30pm-7:01pm PDT
pero al igual que la madre de krigs tina destacÓ que ha cambiado y que por las niÑa merece otra oportunidad. >>> tiene una vida hecha se su esposo e hijas, tenemos aquÍ 24 aÑos jackie, y mi hija vino de cinco aÑos. >>> christina sabÍa que tenia una orden de deportaciÓn en su contra pero aÚn asÍ se presentÓ ante agentes de ice a pedirles compasiÓn. >>> tuve problemas hace ocho aÑos a raÍz de una relaciÓn abusivo espero una oportunidad dijo en este video publicado antes de entrar al lugar en que acabÓ siendo detenida el martes pasado. >>> por eso que la gente no esÁa yendo a las citas de inmigraciÓn porque no se puede ir porque la dejan a uno de tenido ahÍ fue convicta de tres delitos menores y que al noir y la orden de repatriaciÓn voluntaria se convirtiÓ en orden final de deportaciÓn dijo ice, y estÁ vigente desde hace mÁs de cuatro aÑos. >>> ya pues cualquier cosa le puede pasar porque no tiene a nadie ella allÁ. >>> los chicas estÁn con la abuela ahora, que piden un milagro para que regrese la madre. >>> el gobierno mexicano negÓ que su paÍs sea el se
pero al igual que la madre de krigs tina destacÓ que ha cambiado y que por las niÑa merece otra oportunidad. >>> tiene una vida hecha se su esposo e hijas, tenemos aquÍ 24 aÑos jackie, y mi hija vino de cinco aÑos. >>> christina sabÍa que tenia una orden de deportaciÓn en su contra pero aÚn asÍ se presentÓ ante agentes de ice a pedirles compasiÓn. >>> tuve problemas hace ocho aÑos a raÍz de una relaciÓn abusivo espero una oportunidad dijo en este video...
Outside Source : BBCNEWS : June 20, 2017 9:30pm-10:00pm BST
village of varzeas, it's lost one in five of its residents. sisile tina told me she knew all the victims. she tried to count the dead. "two lived here", she said. "three, four, five and more." on saturday afternoon, the village watched the forest catch fire. "there was a massive noise", amal told us, "and then we saw the flames." "we'd never seen anything like it", said valdemar, "it all happened in just a few seconds." residents were then forced to take an immediate, terrifying decision — stay here and risk getting caught by the flames or drive off in search of safety. many drove, it proved to be a fatal mistake. on this road, flames engulfed many in their cars. mario pinhal told portuguese tv that his family tried to escape in two vehicles. his wife, suzanna and their daughtersjoanna and margarita drove ahead, but they died in the fire. translation: i regret leaving home. everyone has been kind, but i just want my wife and my daughters back. mario and his parents barely escaped in the car behind. "we should have died", mario mother's cries, "nobody would miss us." mario pinhal‘s ho
village of varzeas, it's lost one in five of its residents. sisile tina told me she knew all the victims. she tried to count the dead. "two lived here", she said. "three, four, five and more." on saturday afternoon, the village watched the forest catch fire. "there was a massive noise", amal told us, "and then we saw the flames." "we'd never seen anything like it", said valdemar, "it all happened in just a few seconds." residents were...
ABC7 News at 6:30 : WJLA : June 18, 2017 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT
childhood picture,tina naj ar says she is desperate for justice and to clear her son's name. >> he is not capable of it. ryan: police believe the 18-year-old was shot to death on the eve of his high school graduation as an act of retaliation. it is rumored he committed a drug-related robbery and stole an ipad from one of the suspect's girlfriend. his parents do not buy it. 24-year-old edgar garcia, 19-year-old roger garcia, and another have been arrested and charged with murder. najare believe they lured to montgomery village for revenge. of a largert network. i do not think they are the ones who committed this heinous crime. ryan: both boys were only children with bright futures. on this father's day, both families are filled with pain, anger, but relief with these three everest. -- three arrests. >> we are very proud of him. >> we miss him every day. ryan: all three suspects are due in court for a bail review hearing. the dad plans to be there and says he has no mercy and plans to see this case until the very end. in gaithersburg, ryan hughes, abc 7 news. a crime alert to in d.c., where
childhood picture,tina naj ar says she is desperate for justice and to clear her son's name. >> he is not capable of it. ryan: police believe the 18-year-old was shot to death on the eve of his high school graduation as an act of retaliation. it is rumored he committed a drug-related robbery and stole an ipad from one of the suspect's girlfriend. his parents do not buy it. 24-year-old edgar garcia, 19-year-old roger garcia, and another have been arrested and charged with murder. najare...
Fox 5 Morning News @ 4:30 : WTTG : June 8, 2017 4:30am-5:00am EDT
time a transgender model is grave the cover of paris vogue. her name is value tina sanpio. she says her cover is another step for transgender people in fashion. >>> what are your plans for>>> r includes a stop in georgetown. the fox5 team will be there including me. so it's me, tucker, caitlin, kevin. we would love to see you so again 6:00 to 11:00 tomorrow georgetown the washington harbor. please come out you happen to be in that area. love to see you. >> when i came outside it was a little chilly for me for june. >> yeah. >> 50 something degrees. so, mike, tomorrow when maureen and the crew go down to the zip trip what kind of attire should they wear. >> if you're there early, early, maybe a light jacket to start but once the sun comes up we'll warm up rather quickly tomorrow. it's going to be beautiful. you got a great day for georgetown. hopefully everyone comes out and sees the crew. we've cleared it out over overnight. couple clouds across southern maryland eastern shore and then over the mountains of virginia as well but that's about it. daily allergy report guess what,? mold
time a transgender model is grave the cover of paris vogue. her name is value tina sanpio. she says her cover is another step for transgender people in fashion. >>> what are your plans for>>> r includes a stop in georgetown. the fox5 team will be there including me. so it's me, tucker, caitlin, kevin. we would love to see you so again 6:00 to 11:00 tomorrow georgetown the washington harbor. please come out you happen to be in that area. love to see you. >> when i came...
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FOX 29 News at 11 : WTXF : May 31, 2017 11:00pm-11:30pm EDT
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into a liberal agenda. >> i'm not surprised. >> tina organized the story time season the biological sister of one of the shear sister. >> we wanted this to be a fun event for children to come learn about issues of diversity, inclusive have the and tolerance. >> organizers say that the event is already booked up and they say the shear sisters are volunteering their name. they're not getting paid for the event. lucy. >> all right, thank you much, dave. >>> prosecutors in camden county say they are will we try 23-year-old david creato in the death of the death of his three-year-old son brendan. the judge declared a mistrial after five days of deliberations jury could not reach a unanimous decision they deadlocked on the lesser charge of endangering the welfare of a child. prosecutors charged him with killing his son in october of 2015. they say he murdered his son to help his relationship with his then teenaged girlfriend. but they had no eyewitnesses, no clear cause of death and only circumstantial evidence. >> dj is upset. i mean he wanted -- he wanted to go home today. wanted to be
into a liberal agenda. >> i'm not surprised. >> tina organized the story time season the biological sister of one of the shear sister. >> we wanted this to be a fun event for children to come learn about issues of diversity, inclusive have the and tolerance. >> organizers say that the event is already booked up and they say the shear sisters are volunteering their name. they're not getting paid for the event. lucy. >> all right, thank you much, dave. >>>...
Washington Journal: Michael Konczal Discusses Financial Regulations : CSPAN : June 10, 2017 8:00am-8:31am EDT
calling in from greensboro, -- tina is calling in from greensboro, north carolina on our democrat line. caller: how does the repeal of dodd frank regulations make america greater, especially when banks cannot police themselves and some of their practices led to the crash of the financial crash of the united states, the worst that i have seen in my lifetime? it seems as the republicans are willing to take the country and create some type of chaos for reasons unknown to me. will it have on the dodd frank act? money that is not tax really takes away from the betterment of our country. think that a lot of republicans would argue that they are freeing up capital and capital markets will to -- will invest and once you get the investment going, people will be hired. it is hard to tell a story in which access to financing is a constraint. constraint is aggregate demand, that interest rates are incredibly low. this is not the 1970's. you also see slower growth across other countries that had different reactions to the financial crisis. and i think when you talk to republicans they say this
calling in from greensboro, -- tina is calling in from greensboro, north carolina on our democrat line. caller: how does the repeal of dodd frank regulations make america greater, especially when banks cannot police themselves and some of their practices led to the crash of the financial crash of the united states, the worst that i have seen in my lifetime? it seems as the republicans are willing to take the country and create some type of chaos for reasons unknown to me. will it have on the...
Action News 11pm : WPVI : June 1, 2017 11:30pm-12:06am EDT
of a brother and sister. florence pompe known around the neighborhood as tina and her 54-year-old brother raymond finny were found executed in their home on sunday. police say it appears they were killed by someone they knew. >> bucks county residents are looking for a bear in the woods. ed thought the dog was sniffing at the door of his business, but it was not his dog. >> i reached out to touch my dog, and then that's where the bear was. i jumped back and hit him. i punched the door in the nose and closed the door. i was backing o banging on the . >> the bear ran off and climbed a tree. place say a bear was spotted last night. until they are caught, it's unclear if they are one and the same animal. smyrna police arrested a employee on the rape of a underaged boy. brooks admitted to having sex with the boy several times when her children and husband were away in april. >> the judge in the bill cosby assault case says he will wait until the jury is sworn in before issuing rules about evidence that can and can't be used. cosby's defense team sparred about expert testimony regarding
of a brother and sister. florence pompe known around the neighborhood as tina and her 54-year-old brother raymond finny were found executed in their home on sunday. police say it appears they were killed by someone they knew. >> bucks county residents are looking for a bear in the woods. ed thought the dog was sniffing at the door of his business, but it was not his dog. >> i reached out to touch my dog, and then that's where the bear was. i jumped back and hit him. i punched the...
NBC10 News at 6pm : WCAU : June 12, 2017 6:00pm-6:31pm EDT
was stolen, tina of margate is stunned that her wedding band is back on her finger. the gold ring taken by a burglar from their former house. the couple's matching bands each with the others name engraved inside highly sentimental. >> when we got married, that was the last present given to me from my mom which she passed away right after our wedding. >> reporter: last month a call came out of the blue from ventnor police. >> i came across this case and there was a lot to it. >> reporter: that burglary suspect was arrested in 2012 and some of the items he allegedly stole were recovered during a recent accounting of unclaimed belongings in the evidence room. he found a watch he thought belonged to car lowe and it did. he asked if the ring with his name inside might be there too and sure enough, it was. >> it really was a miracle after ten years, that's a miracle. >> when i clean that ring up and i saw that name in there, i couldn't believe that we had it for all this time. >> reporter: the original police report had no mention of the rings inscription so authorities didn't know who
was stolen, tina of margate is stunned that her wedding band is back on her finger. the gold ring taken by a burglar from their former house. the couple's matching bands each with the others name engraved inside highly sentimental. >> when we got married, that was the last present given to me from my mom which she passed away right after our wedding. >> reporter: last month a call came out of the blue from ventnor police. >> i came across this case and there was a lot to it....
PBS NewsHour : KQED : June 19, 2017 3:00pm-4:01pm PDT
themselves. from pbs station wgbh in boston, tina martin reports. >> reporter: a toaster, a tripod and kettle, all in broken and need of t.l.c. and they're in the right place. >> this is number 207. we've had a bunch of "fix it clinics" all across the united states. >> brad started the clinics in 2009 to help people learn to help themselves and the environment in the process. >> 52 tons of waste diverted from the land phil. not just diverted, not recycled or upcycled but actually returned to service for their originally intended use. there is a sense they don't have a choice when it breaks, there is no repair people left anymore to do this stuff. >> the clinics are free and held three to four times a month and libraries and community centers across the country. peter and team of volunteer coaches train people like abby whose cet is out of commission. >> under normal conditions, it does this, then turns blue and boils water. >> she and i pud on goggles to learn about how to get it running. part of getting the kettle back together is pulling it awe part and testing electricity. >> we
themselves. from pbs station wgbh in boston, tina martin reports. >> reporter: a toaster, a tripod and kettle, all in broken and need of t.l.c. and they're in the right place. >> this is number 207. we've had a bunch of "fix it clinics" all across the united states. >> brad started the clinics in 2009 to help people learn to help themselves and the environment in the process. >> 52 tons of waste diverted from the land phil. not just diverted, not recycled or...
montgomery village. one of the victims, shadi najjar, he was tina najjar's only child. she believes someone knows something about the murder but is too afraid to go to the cops. today, her plea to that witness. >> please, you go to the police. you're young, you're very young, you're afraid to open your mouth, but you have to do the right thing. if you love shadi, if you have love in your heart, you love your mother, you love your daddy, you love your family, you have anything good, you should not have hate. go ahead and do the right tg. >> reporter: back at headquarters, police made a similar plea to that key witness. warning that silence could bring trouble. >> understand how brazen this case is, and how violent, that's obvious. they can take their chances that they know something and that they can go silent, or they can take their chances and come speak to us, do the right thing, and let us take these people off the street. >> reporter: for tina najjar, it's been the hardest of times. like mothers do, she keeps and collects things to remember him by. the origami shadi made for her
montgomery village. one of the victims, shadi najjar, he was tina najjar's only child. she believes someone knows something about the murder but is too afraid to go to the cops. today, her plea to that witness. >> please, you go to the police. you're young, you're very young, you're afraid to open your mouth, but you have to do the right thing. if you love shadi, if you have love in your heart, you love your mother, you love your daddy, you love your family, you have anything good, you...
CBS Evening News : WUSA : June 19, 2017 6:30pm-7:00pm EDT
. tina wyatt, a direct descendant of tubman, brought her grandchildren here to teach them about their heroic relative. what's it like to be a direct descendant of harriet tubman? >> it's really exciting. it's awesome. >> mason:>> reporter: awesome. wyatt took us to the buck village store where as a child tubman was hit by a heavy weight thrown by a slave owner. >> almost killed her. >> reporter: jay meredith turned the store enter a museum. his ancestors owned slaves. >> about five foot tall and hunted. when you think about tubman and the adversities she overcame, that's phenomenal. >> love, faith, family, human rights, that's her legacy. >> reporter: a descendant of slaves and a descendant of slave owners, both working to honor an american hero. chip reid, cbs news, church creek, maryland. >> mason: a conductor on the underground railroad, and she said, "i never lost a passenger." that's the "cbs evening news." i'm anthony mason. thanks for w >>> we will start with a yellow weather alert. storms blowing through the capital region. some impact in the area. we have more. >> south and e
. tina wyatt, a direct descendant of tubman, brought her grandchildren here to teach them about their heroic relative. what's it like to be a direct descendant of harriet tubman? >> it's really exciting. it's awesome. >> mason:>> reporter: awesome. wyatt took us to the buck village store where as a child tubman was hit by a heavy weight thrown by a slave owner. >> almost killed her. >> reporter: jay meredith turned the store enter a museum. his ancestors owned...
Red Eye With Tom Shillue : FOXNEWSW : June 25, 2017 12:00am-1:01am PDT
like you, what's your name? >> i'm tina. >> i don't understand what's going on in this country. but we need to focus on america as a whole, and not just one party or the other party. we knead to unite. judge jeanine: patty le own is not. hing. >> into. that doesn't make sense to me. i don't understand a performer who would not want everybody's money. judge jeanine: what did your boy do? he goes into that theater and patty la own patty lepone says she won't perform. >> she is going to throw her political views in the there, shame on her. i love you have, patty, but you lost a fan. maybe it's just him. but he's doing an awesome job. you keep it up, trump, you keep it judge jeanine: remember to follow me on twitter and on instagram at judge -underscore janine. thanks so much for watching. the greg got tell joe is next. plplplplplplplplplplplplplplplp. it'll be me sitting here however, it's been a while. >> maybe it's time. [inaudible] greg: kathy griffin has let herself go.
like you, what's your name? >> i'm tina. >> i don't understand what's going on in this country. but we need to focus on america as a whole, and not just one party or the other party. we knead to unite. judge jeanine: patty le own is not. hing. >> into. that doesn't make sense to me. i don't understand a performer who would not want everybody's money. judge jeanine: what did your boy do? he goes into that theater and patty la own patty lepone says she won't perform. >>...
The Big Picture : RT : June 19, 2017 7:00pm-7:31pm EDT
responsible people and that's always what it was always. seems to be here's something else tina in the usa or she. has used the social media site while i always always story goes it's garbage real. thank you. i do. love.
On Contact with Chris Hedges : RT : June 17, 2017 8:29pm-9:01pm EDT
to do you hear something else tina between the u.s. leadership you know you plan to socialize and trump has used social media like oil and always on the story goes it's garbage real genuine. joining straight calling on the british prime minister to resign over a response to the deadly fire at britain felt our. seven american soldiers are wounded sort of rolled off down the soldier opens fire at a military base in northern afghanistan. on the confederations cup kicks off in russia with the host meeting use even to nil in the opening match bringing the gold sound all the auctions running the football tournament.
to do you hear something else tina between the u.s. leadership you know you plan to socialize and trump has used social media like oil and always on the story goes it's garbage real genuine. joining straight calling on the british prime minister to resign over a response to the deadly fire at britain felt our. seven american soldiers are wounded sort of rolled off down the soldier opens fire at a military base in northern afghanistan. on the confederations cup kicks off in russia with the host...
America's Lawyer with Mike Papantonio : RT : June 21, 2017 7:29pm-8:01pm EDT
and that's always what was always. seemed to hear something else tina. you will see that you feel you want to see the shows united and trump has used the social media for the release of the story goes it's garbage it's real sure you see. the. news tonight u.s. and chinese officials meet to discuss north korea amid reports of new weapons testing and in two weeks two officers have been acquitted in police shootings from a summer filled with nationwide protests and disease is now spreading across the war torn country of yemen adding to the staggering death toll and famine created by civil war i'm going to chance sitting in for and reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching r.t. america. last summer saw multiple protests and right.
and that's always what was always. seemed to hear something else tina. you will see that you feel you want to see the shows united and trump has used the social media for the release of the story goes it's garbage it's real sure you see. the. news tonight u.s. and chinese officials meet to discuss north korea amid reports of new weapons testing and in two weeks two officers have been acquitted in police shootings from a summer filled with nationwide protests and disease is now spreading across...
BBC News at Six : BBCNEWS : June 20, 2017 6:00pm-6:30pm BST
of its residents. sisile tina told me she knew all the victims. she tried to count the dead. "two lived here", she said. "three, four, five and more." on saturday afternoon, the village watched the forest catch fire. "there was a massive noise", amal told us, "and then we saw the flames." "we'd never seen anything like it", said valdemar, "it all happened in just a few seconds." residents were then forced to take an immediate, terrifying decision — stay here and risk getting caught by the flames or drive off in search of safety. many drove, it proved to be a fatal mistake. on this road, flames engulfed many in their cars. mario pinhal told portuguese tv that his family tried to escape in two vehicles. his wife, suzanna and their daughtersjoanna and margarita drove ahead, but they died in the fire. translation: i regret leaving home. everyone has been kind, but i just want my wife and my daughters back. mario and his parents barely escaped in the car behind. "we should have died", mario mother's cries, "nobody would miss us." mario pinhal‘s home remains standing, it is a shatte
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Ones to watch in 2016
Every year on New Year's Day, we give you the names to look out for in the coming year. These are the ones to watch, the players who will light up the future of English cricket. Sometimes we get it right, sometimes our picks are stacking shelves in a supermarket the following year. Here we look at some of the brightest names coming through the ranks, and we are pleased to say that the future looks extremely bright. Happy New Year boys and girls...
Tom Curran...prospect
The Currans (Surrey) - Tom, Sam and Ben Curran are the sons of the late Kevin Curran. Many a Northants fan will be reading this and remembering him crashing the ball against the advertising boards in the shoe making town. Tom picked up 76 wickets last year despite one of the worst haircuts seen on a cricket pitch since Ishant Sharma modelled his mullet, Sam has been described by Alec Stewart as the best seventeen year old he has ever seen and Ben plays for the YC's. Big year and a big jump for them up in Division One this year but genetics show that they won't shirk a challenge.
Dewi Penrhyn-Jones (Glamorgan) - has there been a more Welsh sounding cricketer? He might sound like the sort of chap who would set fire to your holiday home in Snowdonia and he could well set fire to Division Two this year. I mentioned the likes of Aneurin Donald before who had a great year and here is another one coming off the SWALEC production line. Tall, he gets bounce and bowls at a fair old lick. This lad may have been born in Wrexham, and some of the batting in that division...as they say in Wales, he'll wrecks 'em.
Penrhyn-Jones...Welsh perchance?
Max Holden (Middlesex) - this stylish left hander was only old enough to buy an alcoholic drink the week before Christmas. He is that young that Tim Murtagh was just a senior pro when he was born! With the ability to bowl the odd off break he is a very useful cricketer and if Angus Fraser has taken a punt on the Cambridge lad in cricketing and not boating terms by offering him a new deal, he must have something about him. He will join the county full time after his A levels this summer. Rumour has it that his cover drive even brought a smile out of Gus...well perhaps a smirk.
Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire) - another quick who will have a big step up in Division One this year, this lad has genuine wheels. Last year he was named England Development Bowler of the Year and he will surprise a few people. Will this Rochdale lad be the most famous person from the town since Gracie Fields or Lisa Stansfield? If so, the Lancashire fans will certainly give him some Affection.
Mason Crane...not an American detective
Mason Crane (Hampshire) - this leg spinner made a few people sit up and take notice as he helped keep the county in Division One last year. Not afraid to give it a real rip, he is also accurate in one of the hardest skills to acquire. Whilst he may have the name of a 1960's American private investigator tv series, he'll be getting batsmen to nick behind as opposed to getting nicked. Oh and his middle name is Sidney. Definitely one to watch.
George Bartlett (Somerset) - the pick of some fantastic talent burgeoning down in the West, this lad is still not old enough to legally buy a pint. A pupil at Millfield, one of the finest schools for cricketing talent he has no better coach in nurturing young talent than Matthew Maynard. An excellent middle order bat, he had a good tour for England Under 19's recently. In the county famous for cider, there are some tasty apples growing on the Taunton tree. This lad is just one of the bunch.
Bartlett...one of several rising stars at Somerset
Daniel Lawrence (Essex) - this alumni of Chingford, the home of David Beckham made all cricket fans sit up and take notice last year. Assured, stylish and graceful not many seventeen year olds can go and score a 161 in county cricket. Rumours that to celebrate he drove his Ford Capri down to Southend sea front and performed wheel spins are completely unfounded. Essex may have had some grim times recently, but there is a star shining in the east and this lad will go a long way.
Ryan Davies (Somerset) - Kent has produced some wonderful keepers over the years; think Godfrey Evans, Alan Knott, Leslie Ames and here is another. Came into the Kent side when Sam Billings got the England one day nod last year, Somerset offered him regular first team cricket and they have got themselves a bargain. Not only good technically with the gloves, he can bat as the county skippered by Northeast lost a lad to the south west. Keep an eye on this one, he'll go far.
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Social investing sites are community-based web sites where investors post their opinions about stocks they think are buys or sells. These opinions are aggregated and every stock is then ranked using the investors' collective opinion as a sentiment indicator. Every investor also has their ratings (and overall return) tracked. And users can also rank (and track) the best investors (or track any investor that a particular user is interested in following).
Most of the social investing web sites are based on fake-money stock picks, but the more advanced sites integrate real-money trades, either by connecting to the user's brokerage account, or because the broker itself offers social investing functionality (such as Zecco and TradeKing).
It should be noted that "social investing" sites, where investors aggregate their opinions about stocks, is a completely different area than "socially responsible investing" (also known as "SRI") where investors only invest money in ethical companies and avoid investing in companies which engage in socially irresponsible activities (alcohol, tobacco, gambling, etc).
History of social investing sites
Marketocracy, created in 2001, was one of the first web sites created with the express purpose of aggregating and tracking investors in order to find the best ones. A few years later, in 2006, Motley Fool decided to leverage their already-large userbase to create their Motley Fool CAPS community where Fool users could share their stock picks. Around this same time, the "web 2.0" business model which utilized user-generated content became very popular, partially due to venture capital flowing into the industry. This led to the creation of many new social investing sites, such as Cake Financial, Covestor, SocialPicks, StockPickr, Vestopia, and BullPoo.
Although most social investing sites concentrate on specific buy and sell prices for stocks, there are a few which concentrate in certain niches.
WikiInvest is the only social investing site to concentrate on solely pure research where users post analytical information about different companies and industries.
Collective2 (also known as "C2") is another unique social investing site because it focuses on mechanical trading systems.
StockTwits, one of the most popular social investing sites, is one that has leveraged the Twitter business model to become successful.
eToro and Currensee, are both sites which concentrate specifically on forex traders.
The social investing sites that offered real money tracking of portfolios initially received a lukewarm response from the investing community because so many people were concerned with the security of their information when it came to connecting to their real-money account. But those worries seemed to have gone away. Today, some sites, such as Tradency, even offer "mirror trading" where you can have your account automatically execute trades based on other traders' strategies.
After so many of the stand-alone social investing sites became popular, online brokers realized that they were missing out on the trend so they many of them jumped into the game. Online brokers had an obvious advantage because they already had a large userbase of traders, so they didn't need to build a userbase. They also didn't have to worry about the security risks of allowing third-party companies accessing users' real-money information because it was done in-house. All the brokers had to do was integrate social investing functionality directly into their own sites. A few of the more popular broker-based social investing sites are the TradeKing Trader Network, ZeccoShare, and MyTrade, which is part of TD Ameritrade/ThinkOrSwim. Scottrade and E*Trade also have less-popular communities.
As competition in the sector grew, there was inevitable consolidation. StockPickr, started by James Altucher, was bought out by thestreet.com. Some of the weaker sites closed. Cake Financial was bought out by E*Trade and was promptly shut down. Vestopia seems to have disappeared for some reason unknown to me. Since the success of social investing sites is based on the "network effect", there will likely be more consolidaton in the future.
Social investing sites that focus exclusively on currency markets are popular simply because there are fewer markets to choose from, which makes it easier for users to form tighter social groups. The currency markets only have about 5 to 10 major markets which most currency traders monitor. The stock market, by contrast, has over 10,000 stocks, which leads the social stock investing sites to be a much more fragmented community.
Social investing web sites are one of the most useless resources available to investors, for many reasons. Some of the reasons are due to the design flaws of these sites, while others have to do with execution:
(1) The purpose of social investing sites is to create an arena where investors can aggregate their individual opinions in order to create a collective consensus, which can then be used to gain an advantage. But we already have an arena where a collective consensus is calculated - the stock market itself. These sites' key success factor is scale, but paradoxically scale is also the factor that will make these sites useless because if the sample size of users gets large enough then the sites will BE the market.
(2) Social investing sites reinforce the instinct of amateur investors to look to other investors for answers. Successful investors aren't successful because they follow other people's ideas and strategies. These social investing "communities" reinforce dependence on others and tend to be nothing more than security blankets for most users. In a BusinessWeek article about social investing, someone named Jim Collins, a TradeKing user stated:
"Just the fact that I'm seeing people in there buying calls and common stock has definitely given me confidence that the individual is buying on the dip, which is basically what I do, and it's always good to get some reassurance that other people are doing the same thing."
Similarly, in a MarketWatch article:
“Trading by yourself is a lonely thing,” said Dave Lemont, chief executive of Currensee, who says that collaboration can be valuable. “You can validate your ideas.” And, he said, you can commiserate over bad trades.
Sorry, but I don't agree with this kind of mentality. I tend to do worse when I listen to other traders, and the times where I do seek out other people's actions is usually when I am doing badly.
Ironically, the desire to gain a better return by mimicking other investors' actually leads to the exact opposite outcome. I've seen some writers (mostly financial planners) state that "investing isn't a contest." Well, it actually is a contest if you are choosing individual stocks, whether you want to admit it or not. A positive alpha for one investor must come as a result of a negative alpha from another investors, and making investment decisions that are in line with the majority of other investors leads to definitively average returns. Users of social investing sites harbor the naive opinion that all investors can sit around holding hands, singing Kumbaya, and make higher-than-average returns.
Even the successful traders you follow may end up not being helpful in the end. One of the benefits of social investing sites is that they offer up-and-coming talented traders a chance to build their reputation by building a successful track record in real-time and under the public's eye. But the truly talented traders will probably eventually move on to charging for their services. They too may be offering their advice out of self-interest in order to build their personal brand.
(3) Fake-money trades don't mean much at all. Being first on a list of paper traders only counts for so much.
(4) The research derived from these sites is very low-quality because very few of the users explain their rationale for buying a stock. This means users don't actually learn anything, which is what is most important.
(5) The overall quality of information on social investing sites is very low because of the sheer volume of information available. Whenever I search through a social investing site, I just see a blizzard of stock symbols, dates, and ratings without any meaning. Social investing web sites have one of the lowest signal-to-noise ratios of all investing resources.
(6) Social investing sites may reinforce bad habits. If you follow a successful trader, they may condition you to think that making money in the market is easy. Or if you are a successful trader yourself, it may keep you from doing valuable research and keep you from concentrating on trading.
(7) The investors who are most likely to post their investing opinions on social investing web sites are more likely to be bad investors. Most readers may think this is because successful investors are not interested in giving up their edge. I think a better reason is that successful investors simply have better things to do. The users of social investing sites, on the other hand, generally value talking more than learning. To a large extent, social investing web sites are just a more sophisticated version of the stock message boards of the 1990s like Silicon Investor and Yahoo Finance.
There has been some research done by Aite Group which shows that investors who use social investment networks earn higher profits by following successful traders. Their research showed that 50 percent of users of forex social investing firms were profitable, compared to 30 percent of US traders using traditional brokers. I do admit social investing may offer benefits under certain circumstances. For example, autotrading will be more successful than subjectively following successful traders because you have your own decision-making processes (which are probably bad) eliminated. Also, currency traders with successful track records will probably be more likely to maintain success than stock traders, given that the currency markets are simpler. I do, however, think that the overall benefits of social investing sites are vastly overstated.
Users of social investing sites should realize that these sites were created for business reasons. Because I am a webmaster myself, I know that the majority of these sites were created by entrepreneurial webmasters who simply wanted to cash in on the popularity of the new "Web 2.0" business models that utilized user-generated content. I myself had an idea for a social investing web site before any of the others came out. I didn't end up creating it because (among other reasons) I didn't think it would actually help investors - and I wanted to spend my time trading. Similarly, the brokers who have created social communities for their customers benefit from the higher volume of trades, even though they try to convince everyone of the benefits of these communities for their customers. In an article in BusinessWeek, Tom Sosnoff, president of thinkorswim.com stated:
[I believe] the reason people are communicating on thinkorswim.com is to learn how to be more effective traders, not to gain a sense of community for its own sake. "We build trading networks. Really what it is, we build technology that drives domain knowledge. The way you do that is you provide a network for customers to interact with you, as well as with each other," he says.
eToro, a popular currency-trading web site, promotes the tagline, "Social Trading - the smarter way to trade".
Sorry, but I disagree. I think improving financial literacy rates is a better solution than teaching people to simply copy other people. There are some other people who are signaling caution when it comes to the risks (and usefulness) of social investing sites as well. In a MarketWatch article, Lynn Ballou, managing partner with Ballou Plum Wealth Advisors LLC said:
“It doesn’t seem to matter to me whether it’s in a cool technology wrapper or a cool social wrapper, it’s still a basic investment and a basic personal-finance matter...We need to strip away the razzmatazz, so to speak, and just analyze it logically and figure out what it really is.”
In another article about social investing, Matthew Klein, chief executive officer at C2, says that it is important that social investing sites promote responsible investing, or else amateur investors might suffer large losses. "It does concern me a little bit that people are opening Forex accounts at very high leverage without really understanding what that means," he said.
To be fair, the industry is responding to these concerns. Yoni Assia, the CEO and founder of eToro, says the eToro trading platform has features in place to make sure inexperienced investors do not take inappropriate risks. Specifically, they do not allow people to follow gurus with more than 20 percent of their account balance.
The future of social investing sites
One of the obvious predictions is that social investing sites will become much more popular. Industry experts are predicting exponential growth over the next few years and are predicting that the number of social investing site users will grow into the tens (or hundreds) of millions. While it's entirely possible that this may come true, it's also possible that the opposite may become true - that the popularity of these sites will fade. These sites may become fads. Most investors, after all, tend to be very private with their information. They don't like to publicly admit their losses.
The whole category of social investing sites is very young, and many social investing sites still don't know exactly what they want to be and do. Some of them seem like they want to focus on research while, at the same time, want to segue into managing money (since that is more profitable). They also seem like they have been focused on just building their brands and userbase while not focusing so much on their strategic purpose. It's possible that these sites may morph into helpful resources in the future after they become more focused, but for now I recommend people don't waste their time.
The few social investing which have grown to become respected sites (such as Marketocracy) have expressed plans to manage real money portfolios based on the theoretical premise that their highest-rated users will outperform the market averages. There have been a few instances where well-respected researchers decided to get into the money management business. A couple of well-known examples are Martin Zweig's Total Return mutual fund and Motley Fool's foray into mutual funds. The resulting performances have tended to be disappointing. As the years go by, I think it will be interesting to see if the theory of these social investing outperformance is validated.
It's also possible that if social investing becomes popular enough, it could become regulated due to the fact that investment recommendations are being communicated to the public, and some trades are even being executed based on these recommendations. It doesn't help that the investors who taking advice from others on the internet are less-educated (financially) than customers at full-service brokers. The current environment of social investing reminds me of the hedge fund environment back in the early 1990s. Back then, nobody cared about hedge funds. But as hedge funds became more popular (especially among the masses) there was pressure to regulate them so novice investors wouldn't get hurt.
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#67 is another monster movie, but nothing like Caltiki. I have been waiting for Colossal since I heard about this movie playing the Toronto International Film Festival. I had seen a really cool Spanish film named Timecrimes (2007) by a director named Nacho Vigalondo that did some clever and fun things with a time loop plot. Well, he also happens to be the writer/director of Colossal, which boasts one of the more unusual plots to roll down the pike in some time. Y’see, Glo...ria (Anne Hathaway) is a mess. She’s unemployed, drinks too much and her boyfriend is so fed up with her that he packs her things and asks her to leave. With nowhere else to go, she goes back to her parents’ old house to crash (her parents aren’t there – no clue where they are) where she runs into old childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis). They hang out and she eventually starts working at his bar part-time. Meanwhile, in Seoul (!) a kaiju (giant monster) appears and causes all kinds of destruction there. Unrelated? I think NOT! Gloria eventually figures out that every morning at 8:05am, her walking through a local playground causes the monster to appear! By trying to figure out a solution to this craziness, Gloria slows down on the drinking and starts to gain some control over her life. That’s when we find that Oscar has a problem with control, too – in a way that’s not good for Gloria or the residents of Seoul! Colossal is all about control and how every little thing we do in our lives matters. Hathaway is solid, wearing bangs and looking unglamorous as all heck as Gloria, who’s just out of control and doesn’t seem to care a whit. But Sudeikis is really good as Oscar, who grows his character from nice guy to control freak in a slow build that will startle you as Colossal heads for its unorthodox ending. This film is not for everyone, especially if you like things linear, but we loved it.
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Beach Body, by C.A. Rowland
The seagulls. They landed near the surf every morning and evening. Anne had thought it was to feed, but they sat so still, as if watching, waiting for some signal, when they were to all take off again. As if they knew when it was the right time to leave the sandy area behind.
If not disturbed, the birds sat for at least thirty minutes. Anne wondered if they were just tired of flying and this was a moment of quiet for them. Or perhaps, they too were calmed by the crashing waves of blue-capped in white that raced to meet the light tan sand on Amelia Island, Florida. She hated raw fish and the slimy taste on her tongue but giggled at the thought of birds gathered to have sushi for breakfast.
She breathed in the salty air, feeling it fill her with the lightness of something so fresh and untouched.
She and James walked almost every morning since they’d moved here two years ago. Rain. Sleet. Sunshine. Only the outer coverings changed. This morning was clear and sunny for late December. A light windbreaker and sweatshirt underneath. Together with thick jogging pants, socks, and tennis shoes, the ensemble was more than enough to protect Anne against the elements.
A heavy rain with thunder and lightning, coupled with wind, had hit with a vengeance in the late-night hours the evening before. The sand was littered with bits of shells, seaweed and other debris brought in by the wind and surge of the tides.
James had worn his regular blue jeans, tennis shoes and a flannel shirt. The man never seemed to get cold. They could be in two feet of snow in Chicago, Illinois, as they had been last year, and he’d have on the same outfit. She wondered how it was men could dress in the same thing every day and be happy, when women constantly needed something new or different.
Anne looked down as James squeezed her hand, the cool breeze slipping between them, almost as if he knew she was thinking about him.
They were a picture of contrasts she knew. She, just over five feet tall, slender, fair with blond hair and freckles. James, with dark hair, eyes and broad shoulders that marked him as a man of strength that worked out regularly. His hand, tanned and leathered one from skiing, hiking and running their construction company. Her hand, a few shades of tan paler and softer, encased in light gloves.
Nearing the birds, Anne angled up the beach onto the rougher, drier area. It was this way each morning, her trying to leave the birds in peace. James walking, unaware he might be disturbing any other creature. She’d pointed it out a few times. James had simply said, “That’s the nature of their lives. If not us, something else will send them soaring.”
Secretly, Anne thought he just liked watching the birds take off. Or dive for fish. James loved hunting and fishing, although it was the hunt and skill rather than the killing of anything. He rarely came home with anything to show for his day in the wild. But always with stories of what he’d seen, or caught and released.
As Anne searched the beach for signs of overnight changes, she focused on a lump of sand ahead. Or at least that was what it looked like until she got a bit closer.
Black peeked through, like a rock or a tarp. Maybe hiding something underneath. “That’s new,” Anne said, pointing ahead. “Want to see what it is?”
James turned towards the mound. These side excursions were frequent, and he seemed happy enough to follow Anne’s lead on these daily walks.
However, as they got closer, he halted and pulled her back. “Let me check this out first. I don’t like the looks of this.”
Anne turned to face him. “Do you think something’s hurt or died? Like a seal?”
“I don’t know. Let me check it out first.”
Anne watched James looked around and picked up a twelve-inch-long piece of driftwood. He approached the lump, covered by what appeared to be a black tarp and sand. Using the stick, he pulled back a small part, exposing a shoe . . . connected to a leg with what looked like a butterfly tattoo.
Anne sucked in her breath, having moved closer but behind him.
“I told you to stay back.” James turned to look up at her with such anger that she took a step back. He pulled his ever-ready cellphone out of his pocket and dialed 911.
Anne was still shivering when the police arrived. Not that she was cold, but from the body and James’ attitude. She focused on what the officer was asking. The two cops were from the local town, one tall and blond, looking like he should be a lifeguard with trendy sunglasses, and the other almost as tall but thin, wiry with brown hair and a perpetual frown.
“No, we just happened to be walking by,” she said in answer to the black-haired cop’s question as to how they had discovered the body. “We go one way or the other every morning. Usually starting at the same spot.”
“We may have a few more questions,” the cop said as he moved off.
Anne turned her head, searching for James, only to find him staring at her. She shivered as it hit her.
James knew the dead woman. At least she assumed it was a dead woman from the shape of her slender calf and the pink and white tennis shoe-- too big for a child or even most teenagers.
She knew she was right. Another of his dalliances. Except this one was now dead. And from what she knew of his latest affair, this was not her.
The police had uncovered the body enough for her to see that this one had blonde hair. James’ latest was a brunette.
How long would it take the police to connect the woman to him? Another scandal. No matter if he did anything wrong or not. The shame of another humiliation had landed at her feet. And with that, they’d learn about the current affair. Double the trouble this time.
Anne wasn’t sure if her marriage with him or her reputation could survive another Chicago. Sure, he’d retired from his prestigious job with plans for them to travel and live for years.
But the truth was he was forced out–sexual harassment at the office with a subordinate little tramp who was hurt when he moved on. A minor blip in the news but one that all her friends and societal connections had heard and no doubt continued to laugh and gossip about behind her back. These events happened in the best of families, but most had the decency and ability to do it without getting caught or shamed in public. Or there being evidence shoved in the face of their friends and colleagues.
Not to mention their family. Her mother had lived through her father’s womanizing and survived without a blemish on the family. Anne had realized that she might have to do the same when she married James but had thought he could be discreet. She’d been wrong.
Mortified in Chicago. Leaving and starting a new life further south had seemed the sensible solution. She still wondered how the young woman had not seen that James would never abandon his wife. It was beyond Anne. James loved the prestige of his job, but he loved the money Anne had inherited more. It gave him a lifestyle he craved and Anne the husband that lent her a different kind of respectability, at least in her circles.
His little escapades? A rebellion that left him feeling in charge with the balance of power in his court.
A dead mistress though was quite another thing.
“You can go,” Anne heard the officer say to James.
James caught her hand in his and pulled her back down the beach, toward where they had parked their car. Neither of them saying a word.
The knock Anne had been expecting came two days later. Anne had found the cottage. Located a bit back from the beach so they didn’t have to deal with the summer crowds but close enough to a parking area so that they had access within five minutes of their house.
The cottage had three small bedrooms, one with blue walls and nautical figures, one with a green underwater theme, and one with muted yellow sunny tones. A living room with flowery upholstered furniture against the sandy walls and a kitchen overlooking the tiny backyard. All came with the house, which was fine with Anne.
Windows in every room let in lots of light, and breezy curtains floated in the wind. Anne had opted for what her friends would call a beach rental, leaving her furniture and memories in storage in Chicago, just in case they ever decided to return to the north.
This new place was easy to care for and meant their financial needs were smaller. While Anne had a trust fund, she wanted those funds for travel and vacations. They used James’ retirement package for everyday costs. The downsizing allowed them to eat out often although James hated the loss of the two-story walk up they had shared in their toney Chicago neighborhood. While the new start wasn’t exactly how either of them had planned to live out their days, it was a beginning.
Answering the door, Anne found the same officers were back, asking for James. Invited in, they sat drinking a cup of coffee, the aroma melding with the fresh sea air that wandered inland, while they peppered him with new questions.
“Mr. Rochester, we’ve identified the body you found as Charlotte Davis.” The blond officer that had taken the lead paused and getting no response, continued. “You told us you didn’t know the deceased, but that’s not quite true, is it?”
“Officers, I saw the bottom of a leg with a tennis shoe on it. That’s not enough to identify anyone,” James said.
“But you recognized the tattoo, right?”
“I didn’t want to guess. That tattoo seems very common and likely on any number of women’s ankles, here and everywhere. But to answer you, yes, I knew Charlotte.”
“And what was your relationship to her?” the blond cop asked.
“Anne, why don’t I handle these questions alone,” James said.
Both officers’ eyes turned to Anne. She sat for a moment and then said, “I think I’d rather stay.”
James hung his head for a few seconds and then raised it to face the blond officer. “We had a sexual relationship for two months.” Turning to Anne, he said, “But it’s been over for months.”
“And did the sex between you and Miss Davis ever involve erotic asphyxiation?”
“What? No. What are you talking about?”
“Ms. Davis was strangled.”
Anne watched James turn pale.
The bond officer turned to Anne. “And did you know about the affair?”
Anne stared at him. “My husband’s sexual needs are, shall we say, more than I care to provide. I am aware that he has had a number of affairs over the years. We have no secrets. And when we moved here, I assumed that would continue.”
“And what exactly are those needs as you understand them?” the officer asked.
“My husband has a high sex drive. He’d have sex six times a day if I were willing. I’m not. However, if you are asking me if he’s ever indicated he would like to try the erotic act–my answer is no.”
“So, Mr. Rochester, where were you the night before you and your wife discovered the body on the beach?”
“I was home, here with my wife. Tell them, Anne.”
“Is that true, Mrs. Rochester?”
Anne reddened. “As far as I know. Our sleeping preferences over the years have left us sleeping in different rooms. Snoring, his needs. I’d rather not elaborate if you don’t mind. And it is personal and would be embarrassing if this was made public.”
The officer nodded. “So Mr. Rochester could have slipped out while you were sleeping.”
“I don’t know about that. I am a very light sleeper and almost always wake up when James is stirring around the house. I feel certain I would have heard him leave … if he did.”
“And what about you, Mrs. Rochester? Where were you?”
“I was here with my husband, but as I said, I was in my bedroom from about ten o’clock until we got up to walk. There were some heavy storms that woke me about one or so, but I got up for a drink of water, then back to bed.”
“And did you know Miss Davis?”
“How would I know her? She was not in my social circle,” Anne said.
“Okay. I’ll ask that neither of you leaves town. We may need to ask you a few more questions.”
James was still not speaking to Anne two days later when the police arrived. Why hadn’t she simply said he was home with her all night? Didn’t she know that it made him a suspect? Or worse, was this her payback for Chicago? And why hadn’t they asked if he had heard her leave? Surely they could see she had a motive as well?
James didn’t seem to understand that the police were going to discover his history in Chicago. And they would then know that she was already the humiliated wife. If they talked to any of her friends, they’d gleefully report on their bedroom situation. Just as she would on them. Right or wrong, it was just the reality of how things worked in her world.
James had stormed out, only to return later in the day. Angry and unwilling to speak to her, just as she’d done when he’d betrayed her. All would blow over. Always did. In many ways, they were the perfect symbiotic pair.
The knock at the door was not unexpected.
This time the cops arrested James on the spot. Anne tried to ask what had changed, but they simply said they were taking him in and something about new evidence. James demanded she called a lawyer. She said she would.
Two days later, Anne sat in the office of Peter Keppler, a local attorney, with graying hair, an easy smile and a laid-back attitude that included leaving his plaid shirt unbuttoned. His office was modest as lawyers go. Comfortable chairs and a secretary/receptionist behind a pony wall. Located in an area of town outside of the tourist district, inside an older home, converted into offices.
Peter shared the house with three other lawyers. A large wood desk sat in the middle of the room, and two bookshelves filled with files of what she guessed were open cases dominated one wall. Pictures of old Myrtle Beach clustered on another. She expected a lawyer’s office to reek of old wood and law books, but here, it was a mix of lemon Pledge and seawater.
She’d turned to someone who knew everyone in town rather than a big city lawyer. Her reasoning was that a local might have better access and ability within the system. She still wasn’t sure if that was the right decision but it had made sense.
Anne listened as Peter outlined the case against James.
“It seems they have found some hairs on the victim that match your husband’s. DNA is allowable in court, and they seem to have a very strong case.” Peter had paused and Anne had let that sink in. “How long ago did James stop seeing the victim? Do you know?”
“I have no idea. I knew James had moved on to someone new. But the timing is not something I try to watch for. We have an arrangement. He doesn’t embarrass me, and I don’t ask,” Anne said.
“Got it. And about Chicago. Were they any threats of blackmail or anything like that?”
“No. Only the discrimination charge that we’ve already talked about.”
“And here? Did anyone threaten James that you know of?”
“I don’t know of anything like that, but you’d have to ask him. He and I never discussed his sexual partners and what they said. Can you tell me if that ever happened? Or could it have happened with the young woman who died?”
“All I can say is that he doesn’t understand what is happening or why. I may be able to argue that the hair was on her clothing due to the fact that James had been with her a few months before but that’s not a lot. It would help him if you could confirm that he was home that night.”
“I’m sorry, but as you know, we sleep in separate beds. With the storm, it took me a while to get to sleep, and I’m sure I slept soundly because I was tired. I know he was there when I went to bed and when I woke up.”
Peter sighed and laid his pen down on the yellow pad he’d taken notes on. “All right. That’s it for now. I’ll need to talk to you again but for now, let’s leave it at that.”
Anne straightened and laid a hand on her back to massage the ache from lifting boxes and packing. She grabbed the tape and closed the lid, securing it before she marked it for contents.
“This is the last one,” she said to the strapping young man with the muscular arms.
“Yes, ma’am. We’ll lock up the truck and be on our way. I just need you to sign here and initial in three places,” he said as Anne wielded the pen.
After the truck left, Anne locked the door, leaving the key under the mat for her real estate broker, Sherry. The closing would be finalized in the morning, and Anne had already signed the papers in escrow. What she wanted now was one last walk on the beach before she headed back to Chicago.
At the parking lot, she parked and locked the car. Then ventured down to the sand, turning in the same direction she and James had turned that fateful morning.
Everything was really as it should be. Charlotte the tramp was dead. Anne still didn’t understand how Charlotte could have thought she’d leave James for her. Anne had only wanted to experience what James had, maybe come to comprehend what the draw was. It wasn’t like Anne was a lesbian or anything, just curious.
But Charlotte had wanted more. And had threatened to tell James. Most likely she had threatened James too, but James would have told her Anne knew and it didn’t matter.
Telling James about Anne was another matter altogether. Anne could never let him have that kind of power over her, especially after Chicago.
Anne stared down at the area where she’d dropped the body. Really, the storm had been a godsend. Washing away the tracks of the wheelbarrow she’d used after she’d strangled Charlotte.
Anne had stayed for the trial as the dutiful wife, as she was expected to be, just as she’d given their marriage a new start here. Her Chicago friends were sympathetic and supportive. They encouraged her to return when James was sentenced after two years of waiting for a trial date.
She’s argued that she needed to stay while his case was appealed but they’d argued that she could do that from Illinois. And after just the right number of months of discussion, she’d agreed.
Smiling, Anne watched the birds flying, headed off in a new direction. She’d been discreet where James hadn’t, both in Chicago and at the beach.
That was really the issue.
The birds certainly understood there was a time for standing still, waiting, and a time to leave. So did she.
Anne turned and walked back to the car.
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Tally Ho, by William R. Soldan
Gordon Jurewicz had just pulled into the parking lot of the Fortune Moon, as he did most nights after work, when the rear passenger door of his repurposed Crown Victoria was yanked open and a young woman scrambled in shouting, “Drive, drive!” A black, short cropped bob with platinum streaks framed her narrow features. Her face was battered, her voice frantic, and through the Valley Cab taxi’s Plexiglas divider, she looked to Gordon no more than eighteen, maybe twenty. He was done for the night, wanted nothing more but to eat his Tuesday usual—a General Tso’s combination plate with egg roll and soup—then go home to give his mother her medicine and retire to his basement room to watch a DVD. In fact, on some level, the present scene reminded him of one of his favorite films, but the thought was gone before it could settle into focus. He saw no one pursuing her, but the apprehension on her face made him tense, and he had no desire to find out what had her so scared.
So he drove, heading south toward downtown. “So where is it we’re going?” he asked more than once, to which she always replied, “Just keep driving, okay?” He moved up and down the narrow one-ways off Federal and Commerce. Each time he looked back at her, she was checking her phone, texting, biting her nails. Though he knew she’d been beaten, he couldn’t tell how bad the damage was; in the orange cast of the street lamps illuminating the backseat in swift intervals, it was hard distinguishing bruise from shadow.
“Who did that to you?”
She looked up for the first time to meet his eyes in the mirror, and that’s when her expression of fear became one of indignation. At first he thought it was at the question itself, at the fact that he was prying, which is something he’d learned not to do with passengers. Part of a cabbie’s livelihood in such a small city was dependent on his willingness to turn a blind eye and not ask questions. But she wasn’t a usual fare, so he’d ventured out of character and meddled. Perhaps he’d live to regret it, he thought now.
But when she spoke, she did so openly enough. “I’ll tell you who,” she said, crying a little as she said it. “A nasty bastard who’d still be stripping copper out of houses and boosting car stereos if it wasn’t for me, the limp-dick motherfucker.”
Her phone buzzed and she read something on the screen, its cold, anemic light making her look like some lost spirit. And that was how he would go on to picture her after she jumped out of the cab at a red light and, without another word, vanished like a breath.
The next morning, Gordon replaced the poison bait in the cage traps around the perimeter of the two-story farmhouse. Rodents had been getting in the garbage again. Coons, rats. He’d found several of each over the last few months, but they kept coming back. When he was finished, he went inside and gave his mother her insulin before driving to fetch her a half-dozen Boston Creams from the Plaza Donuts. Despite the diabetes and having already lost one foot due to an infected ulcer that had festered for too long, she refused to give up her sweets—the Ho-Ho’s and Little Debbie’s and two-liters of Pepsi. She weighed nearly four-hundred pounds and only got up from the king-sized bed upstairs to hobble with her walker to the bathroom.
As she worked her way through the donuts, Gordon rubbed lotion on the foot that still remained, while the puckered stump of the one she’d lost pointed at him like a shiny, accusatory finger. She was by no means a loving woman, or even the least bit pleasant. There were days when he fantasized about leaving her there without her medicine, going about his day while her blood thickened and she slowly slipped into shock and then a coma, perhaps injecting her with a cocktail of some of his late father’s leftover pain medication. There were Oxycontin and Percocet and Vicodin lining an entire cupboard shelf in the kitchen. But he could never go through with it. She was his own flesh and blood, after all. Besides, he figured she’d do herself in before long.
“Where’s my damn cigarettes?” she barked, her voice like gravel in a tin can from decades of smoking two packs a day.
“I’ll have to go back,” he said. “I musta forgot.”
“‘I musta forgot,’” she mocked. “Christ, boy, you’s about as useless as your father was. Least he had the sense to kill himself and put me out of my damn misery.”
After the construction site accident, in which his father had shattered his pelvis and fractured several vertebrae, the man had slipped into a depressed state, eating his pills and retreating further and further inside himself until one day he took one too many, or perhaps the wrong combination of things, and never woke up. It was during times like this, though, that Gordon wanted to remind his mother that it was the settlement from his father’s injury, and the life insurance policy he’d had the foresight to take out, that had paid off the mortgage and allowed her to sit around here getting fatter and meaner with nothing but her disability check coming in. Of course, most of the money from his father was long gone, and Gordon had to pick up the slack, but that was beside the point.
“Sorry, Ma,” he said, slipping on her compression stockings before getting up. “I’ll go now.”
“Goddamn right you’ll go now,” she said. He was halfway down the stairs when she yelled after him: “And pick up some more damn Pepsi while you’re at it!”
The dining room of the Fortune Moon restaurant was deserted. This, along with the dim lighting, was one of the reasons Gordon came here. He felt much less self-conscious than he did under the fluorescents over at the Denny’s on the other side of the highway. Tonight he sat in his usual booth in the back corner with a spread of egg rolls, fried wontons, sweet & sour pork, and chicken lo mein taking up most of the table in front of him. He knew he really shouldn’t be eating so much of this stuff, at least not as often as he did. So far, he hadn’t grown fat, not like his mother, but at thirty, his metabolism wasn’t what it once was, and sitting behind the wheel of the cab all day didn’t help. In the last few years, he’d gone from a fairly lean two-hundred pounds to a soft two-fifty, his once flat stomach hanging over his belt like a bloated udder. The grease was hell on his complexion, too, which was already pocked with acne scars from his unfortunate youth. Still, at least three nights a week, he found himself here, feasting alone in excess and telling himself this was probably as good as it was going to get.
His shift was over for the night, though “shift” wasn’t really the right word for it. He was an independent and worked as much or as little as he wanted, day or night. Each month he paid the Valley Cab dispatch service a fee to use their name and logo and provide him with customers. The car, a decommissioned police cruiser he’d picked up at a salvage yard was his; he owned and maintained it. Someday, he hoped to have enough socked away for a deposit on one of the vacant storefront properties down on Federal, maybe beside the pawn broker. He figured he’d be a one-man operation at first, but in time he’d get a few more cars and a few reliable employees to drive them. He’d only managed to save up about five grand since the idea first struck him, but within a couple years, he might just be able to pull it off. Until then, though, he had little control over the fares he was offered, only whether or not he took them when they came through on the radio, so he took what he could get, mostly drunks leaving bars or people traveling through on business, needing lifts to and from their hotels. But he got his share of crazies, too, people you’d never expect to have money, much less be willing to fork it over for cab fare—bums, crackheads. Now and then, everybody needed a ride, and in a forgotten town like this, the buses weren’t always running.
He hadn’t been fully aware that he’d been thinking about the young woman from two nights earlier until the bell over the restaurant’s front door chimed and he looked up. She approached the cash register, and after exchanging a few words with the gray-haired Asian woman behind the counter, the woman disappeared into the kitchen through a swinging door. The young woman remained standing, and after a moment she sat on a bench between two potted bamboo trees and began playing with her phone.
Now that he saw her outside of the cab’s backseat, Gordon realized just how thin she was. Sickly even, fragile enough to blow away in light wind. She’d been living rough, there was no doubt. Her bangs were pinned back, and even in the subdued light thrown by the gilded lanterns above the tables, he could see the discoloration around her eye and jaw. She looked up and caught him staring. “Can I help you with something?” she asked, not unkindly. She had a slight drawl he hadn’t noticed before. Kentucky maybe, or West Virginia. He’d felt inconspicuous enough in the back corner, but now he felt exposed and awkward, which was more or less his usual state when in the presence of beautiful women, damaged or otherwise. “No, sorry,” he said. “It’s just, I wondered if everything was okay.”
“Fine,” she said. “Why wouldn’t it be?”
“Well, you seemed more than a little freaked out the other night.”
She seemed confused, but then there was recognition. “Oh, the cabbie, right? I didn’t recognize you. Shit. Sorry about skipping out without paying, by the way. I was going through some things.” She got up and joined him in the booth.
Finally he shrugged and said, “The meter wasn’t running anyway. I was off duty.”
She was amiable enough, but fidgety. The sleeves of her sweatshirt were pushed up, and he caught sight of several marks on her wrists and forearms, some of them scabbed over, some fresh and ringed with red.
“So anyway,” she said, “thanks for the ride, I guess.”
“Everything worked out then,” he said. “You found somewhere to go?”
“I’m at the Tally Ho next door. Got a lift back after Damien cooled down. He was on the warpath again. Gets like that when he hasn’t slept for a few days, but he tires himself out eventually.”
“Damien,” he echoed after a moment’s hesitation. Here he was prying again. What had gotten into him? He’d never been one not to mind his own damn business. But something about her had him transfixed and wanting to know more. “Is he your pimp or something?”
She laughed so hard at this that it startled him, and he looked around, even though there was no one else in the place to hear her outburst. “Pimp? Jesus, man. Where the hell do you think we are? This is butt-fuck Ohio, not the Big Apple. Pimp. That’s real cute.”
His face grew hot. He’d made an assumption, based on the track marks and the fact that the Tally Ho Motel was a reputed nest of drug activity and prostitution—at least twice a year, he’d see on the news that the DEA or some other agency had done a sweep of the place—and he felt not only presumptuous now, but foolish.
“Sorry, wasn’t my place to ask,” he said.
“No harm, no foul,” she said, and smiled at him. “He’s just my boyfriend.”
“He do that a lot?” Gordon asked, gesturing toward her face.
Her smile faltered, then she brushed it off like it was no big deal. “Just a misunderstanding,” she said. “I shoulda known to let him alone when he was spun out like that.”
He stopped himself before he could interrogate further, as much as he wanted to.
The old woman emerged from the kitchen carrying a takeout order with a receipt attached to it. She looked around when she saw the young woman was gone, and then she spotted her in the booth with Gordon. “Order ready,” she announced.
The young woman got up. “I’m Haley,” she said, but didn’t offer her hand to shake.
“Gordon,” he said, holding out his. She shook it. Her skin felt clammy but delicate in his palm.
“Nice talking with you, Gordon,” she said, then started away, stopping after a few steps. She turned back. “Say, Gordy. You wouldn’t have a few bucks you could spare, would ya?
Haley. Ha-ley. The name made him think of comets tearing through space, burning bright and dying fast. He couldn’t stop thinking about her. Another three days had gone by since he’d seen her at the restaurant, and he kept seeing her in his mind. The frail, abused figure. And that smile. He’d be driving a fare from the bus station to the Holiday Inn south of the city, or picking someone up from the sticks, and he’d remember that smile. It’s not that women had never smiled at him, just that most of them had felt like pity smiles, those given by schoolteachers to children too dumb to learn. But Haley—there had been warmth in hers, something that expressed an unspoken connection between them.
Finally he couldn’t take it anymore. After picking up a twitchy couple, who’d crammed into the backseat of his cab with a large flat-screen TV, and dropping them at the pawnshop downtown, he drove to the Fortune Moon. He parked and waited to catch a glimpse of her at the motel next door, passing up several calls from dispatch as he did so. After a few hours, however, he gave up, telling himself he was being ridiculous—she was just a junkie who’d needed a ride.
But the next day, he was sitting in his usual booth eating a Beef & Broccoli lunch special when he saw her crossing the parking lot with a plastic grocery bag. She returned to her room on the ground floor of the Tally Ho, and just the sight of her had made his stomach tighten, so he left his unfinished lunch on the table.
Outside, he watched from his cab as a man drove up about ten minutes later and knocked on the door. It opened and he entered, and after a minute had passed, a different man came out. Though he couldn’t be sure, Gordon believed this to be Damien, a lanky guy swimming in an oversized T-shirt, with a shaved head and a scraggly red goatee. Gray tattoos, which from this short distance looked like some sort of contagious infection, patched his arms and neck. He stood with his knee bent, one foot against the brick wall of the building, smoking a cigarette. Then he walked to the edge of the parking lot, paced there for a while, came back. A half hour later, the door to the room opened and the man who’d gone in left. In the doorway, Haley handed something to Damien, after which he hurried up to a room on the second floor. When he returned a few minutes later, he went into the room with Haley. Gordon stayed parked there for some time, waiting, for what exactly he didn’t know. They’d been in there for over an hour when Gordon finally started the cab and drove home to check on his mother.
Men came and went, and for days Gordon watched, feeling helpless, as she must have felt helpless, he told himself. It was the same routine, taking place every two or three hours: a man would come, enter the room. Damien would exit. He’d linger, smoking and talking on his phone, now and then crossing to the gas station and returning with a bottle in a paper sack. Thirty minutes would pass, sometimes more. He’d duck into another room after the man left, and he and Haley would remain holed up until the next round.
Call him what she would, Damien was whoring her out. Gordon had no doubt. And despite how nonchalant she’d acted when he’d made the assumption, or when he’d asked her about the bruises on her face, he knew she must want help. Each time the door closed, he pictured her behind it, half naked on a seedy mattress, buried beneath the weight of some sleazy stranger, strung out and afraid. No one would submit to such a life willingly. The drugs, sure. He watched the news, understood that there was an epidemic, especially in the Midwest. He knew there was a lack of funding for treatment centers, certain politicians pushing for stricter laws, more prisons. He knew it wasn’t as easy as just changing the course of your life. But if the right person . . .
The thought broke off. “And I suppose you’re the right person.” He scoffed at himself, a disgusted sound, much like the one his mother made when he forgot something at the store, or when he wasn’t prompt enough with her foot lotion. “You can go just ahead and forget that nonsense,” he said.
But he couldn’t forget.
Later that night, he parked at the Fortune Moon and walked over to the Tally Ho while Haley was inside with a large bearded man who’d driven up in a brand new Silverado.
Gordon was nervous, unaccustomed to such shady dealings, never more than a distant, passive observer. But all he had to do was think of her—Haley—and what she must be going through, and that steadied him enough to approach.
“You Damien?” he asked the guy outside.
Up close, he looked even rattier than he had from across the lot through the cab’s windshield.
“Who the fuck’s asking?” he said.
“Just heard you might have a girl. I’ve got cash.”
His ears seemed to prick up at this. A flicker in his beady eyes.
“You sure as hell don’t look like no cop, but who you been talking to?”
“Just a passenger. I drive a cab.”
Damien looked at him skeptically, then said, “Fifty bucks for half an hour, hundred for a whole.”
“That’s fine,” he said. “I guess I’ll take an hour.”
Damien checked his cell phone. “She’s indisposed at the moment. Come back in fifteen.”
Gordon nodded and returned to his cab. He listened to the static of dispatch on the CB and eventually shut it off. It was the longest fifteen minutes of his life. When the bearded man finally came out and left, Damien went inside and Gordon walked back over.
Haley opened the door. She looked exhausted but surprised. “Hey,” she said. “What are you doing here?”
“Come in and shut the door,” Damien said. Gordon did as he was told. Damien held out his hand, waved his fingers. “Money up front.”
Gordon gave him a hundred dollars and Haley pulled Damien aside, whispering something to him. “It’s cool,” he told her. “Ain’t gonna pass this up, are you?” She didn’t reply, just looked down and shook her head. “Then I’ll be upstairs. You can hold off a little longer, right?” She nodded, then he was gone, and Gordon was alone with her.
“So,” she said, sitting on the edge of the bed. “What’s it gonna be?”
At first, he didn’t know what to say, though he’d rehearsed this moment all afternoon. He thought they’d just talk for a while, get to know each other a little, then he’d ease into it. But his nerves caused him to just blurt it out. “I want to take you somewhere, away from here. Well, not take you away, just . . . I want to help you, I mean.”
Her response was not one he would have predicted. “Man, you watch too many movies.”
It was like a slap. “Huh?” he said.
“You want to help me, let’s do this and get it over with, ‘cause I’m not feeling too great right about now.” She got up and crossed to the small table by the TV, started searching for something among a mess of wrinkled foil squares and empty cellophane wrappers.
“But, I don’t understand,” he said.
“That much is obvious,” she said, and sighed. “Look, man—Gordon, right?—I bet you got some ideas about what life is like, driving around in that cab and all, but let me explain something to you. You probably think I run away from home ‘cause Daddy touched me or something, and maybe Mama let him, right? Probably think that if I only had enough money to get to California or wherever that I could start over, finally go to college, get a nursing degree or some shit.” She laughed. “Look, I’m sure you see yourself as a real noble guy. But this ain’t prime time, Gordy. Get with the fucking program. There ain’t no happy endings, only potentially less shitty ones. People do what people do, and I don’t do shit I don’t want to. Get it?”
“I didn’t mean to . . . I didn’t think that.” Only he had. He’d fantasized about saving her, and she’d somehow reduced his entire sense of what things were like, of how they could be, into a plot summary, then pierced it with holes until it deflated.
“I shouldn’t have come,” he said.
“You paid for the hour,” she said. “Take it or leave it. But we don’t give refunds.”
“I’m sorry,” he said.
He got back to his cab feeling stupid and hollow. It was nearly 10 p.m. Again he wondered what the hell he’d been thinking. What had ever possessed him to believe he should play savior? Suddenly he pictured his mother at home, a shapeless mound in bed, chain smoking and gorging on cupcakes, her legs swollen, tight with fluid. He started the cab, turned on the CB, and listened to the calls coming through dispatch. He should really go on a few more runs, or just drive out of town and never come back. But she would need her medicine soon, and like always, he would be there.
He’d just finished sponging the folds in his mother’s back and was now massaging her shoulders while she shoveled fistfuls of chocolate-covered pretzels into her mouth and watched one of those competitive cooking shows. It was like kneading a slick lump of dough, and when his hands began to ache, he took to digging in with his elbows.
“Ouch!” she yelled. “Not so goddamn hard, you dipshit.”
He’d been thinking about Haley and zoned out. “Sorry, Ma.”
She grunted. “Ah, just get the hell off me if you can’t do it right.”
Normally, he’d apologize again and continue rubbing her down, but tonight he left her and went down to his room to pop in a DVD. He decided on Taxi Driver. He re-watched the film every couple months or so, never grew tired of it. And it seemed particularly appropriate tonight. When it got to the scene where a young Jodi Foster jumps into the cab because she’s trying to flee her pimp, Gordon recalled the night a week previous, when Haley had jumped into his backseat, that sense of familiarity that had come and gone, and he found himself wondering: What would Travis Bickle do? It was laughable, but it seemed to cheer him up a little. What indeed. And the more he thought about it, the more absurd it was. First off, he would arm himself to the teeth. Gordon had owned a gun briefly, a .38 revolver, kept it in the cab for protection. But one night, he was held up at knifepoint while he was parked on a side street waiting on a fare. He’d pissed his pants and never even reached for the piece. The next day he went to firing range, hoping to get a little more comfortable with it. The booming sound of rounds exploding on either side of him made him panicky, though, and his hands wouldn’t stop shaking, so he sold the .38 and got a stun-gun instead. Fortunately, he’d never had cause to use it.
Besides, he thought, Bickle was unhinged, psychotic. He plans to assassinate a presidential candidate because Betsy won’t return his fucking phone calls, for Christ’s sake. “Travis, Travis, what a kook,” Gordon said to the screen. “But in the end? Nah, still a kook.”
By the time the movie was over, he had a new perspective on his own audacity, how utterly dumb he had been. Whatever had driven him to try and interfere in the first place seemed vague and insignificant. She’d been right: this wasn’t some drama in three acts, at the end of which the innocent are vindicated and all the villains slain.
This was the real world. And there were no happy endings.
He’d repeated this to himself, and had come to almost fully accept it as the hard truth when he came out of the Fortune Moon three nights later and found her sitting on the curb by his car, sobbing.
“Haley,” he said. “What’s wrong?”
She looked up at him through bloodshot eyes, mascara running down her cheeks. Her lip had been split. A fresh mark had purpled her jaw. At first she didn’t speak, just continued crying. Then she gained some composure and said in a phlegm-thick voice, “Hi Gordy, you got a minute?”
A light rain had begun to fall, so they got into the cab. She sat in the passenger seat, and in the close confines, the scent of her perfume or shampoo—something crisp with a name like Tropical Mist or Ocean Breeze, he thought—made his heart rate rise.
He let her be the first to speak. “I was thinking about before,” she said. “About your offer.”
A sudden rush spread through him, and he had a renewed sense that it had all been for a reason—her jumping in his cab that first night, his inexplicable meddling in things that shouldn’t have concerned him. “I guess you had another misunderstanding?” he said, looking at the gash on her lower lip. She didn’t appear to get his meaning at first, then understood and looked down, as if embarrassed. He said, “How can I help?”
“There’s this place,” she said. “Down by my folks, outside Lexington. A treatment center. There’s a bed available, and . . .well, I just need a little cash for the bus ticket and to pay some up front deposit or something—you know, because I don’t got no insurance?—and I’d ask Mom and Dad, but it’s just Daddy’s been out of work and . . .”
Her ramble trailed off and she looked out the window. The rain had picked up. It drummed on the roof. Fat drops swelled on the glass, broke, and ran down in jagged trails. She hadn’t looked him in the eye the entire time. Of course not, he thought. She was desperate and ashamed. It made more sense to him now, why she’d been so frustrated and quick to refuse his help the first time—she hadn’t been in her right mind. But she’d had a moment of clarity, however brief, and now she was here with him, asking for his help. Finally, her voice almost a whisper, she said, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t expect you to . . . you hardly know me, and I was such a bitch.”
“Don’t apologize,” he said. “I want to help you. Just tell me how much you need.”
Now she looked at him, eyes wide, so sad and sincere it made his heart hurt. “I don’t really know,” she said. “The bus ticket might not be that much, but the rest—maybe a few thousand? God, I know it’s a lot. I understand if you can’t.”
He thought again of leaving and never coming back, and he wished he could just take her himself, but he couldn’t leave his mother. This time, the realization filled him with a flood of resentment. He thought about how trapped he was, about the money he’d saved and how he really felt no closer to starting his own company. Five grand was nothing. It would help her a lot more than it would help him. Still, he needed to be reasonable. “I can pull together a couple thousand,” he said. “Will that be enough?”
She straightened up in her seat. “Yeah, yeah that would be great,” she said. “That would be fantastic, really.” She began to ramble on some more about how she’d been wrong to snap at him and how the dope had her so mixed up, something about fate and how he must be some kind of angel. And he, too, had felt something had brought them together, felt it now more than ever.
“How soon can you get in?” he asked.
“Right away,” she said. “I could go tonight.”
He couldn’t get the money until the bank opened in the morning, but he handed her what he had in his wallet to get some food. She looked unwell. It was only forty dollars, and part of him knew she’d buy drugs with it. But maybe she’d at least eat a little. If anything, he hoped it would keep her from having to turn tricks until he could come back for her.
“I’ll be here by nine-thirty tomorrow morning to take you to the bus station,” he told her. “You’re making the right choice. Everything’s going to be okay.”
The morning was overcast, but there was a brightness to it, the sky like a blank white slate that seemed to signal to him a new beginning for her, one he’d be a part of in his own small way. When she met him outside the motel, she had only a backpack and a purse, but didn’t seem to be nervous. She said Damien was passed out, so there was nothing to worry about. “He’s been speed-balling for a few days,” she said, “but he finally ran out of steam. He’ll be crashed out for a while.”
“I really wish I could drive you there myself,” he said as he pulled into the station and handed her the envelope containing two grand in twenty-dollar bills. There were people milling about outside the terminal doors, smoking and drinking coffee. A wino in camo pants and a trash bag poncho was yelling at a wall while a security guard chatted up a pair of young women waiting for one of the local buses. “Can I at least come in and wait with you?”
“That’s really not necessary,” she said. “You’ve done so much already.”
He was about to insist that it was no problem when a call came in on the CB. A fare from the Marriott clear out to the Youngstown-Warren regional airport. Being two thousand bucks lighter, he told himself he couldn’t afford to pass up the work. He hesitated for a minute, then answered the call.
“I don’t know how I’ll ever repay you,” Haley said. “But I will someday, Gordy. I promise you I will.”
“You just take care of yourself,” he said. “That’s payback enough.”
She smiled at him, and he drove off, watching as she entered the building. He held onto that image of her leaving for the rest of the morning.
Once the ball had begun rolling, it all happened so quickly. Almost too quickly. She was gone, and he’d probably never see her again. But he was in high spirits, just the same. His fare to the airport, a distinguished, WASPy looking man in a suit that probably cost more than Gordon’s cab, gave him a fat tip, and when he stopped back at the house to check on his mother, even her berating commentary couldn’t bring him down. He was Travis Bickle without the bloodshed. This made Gordon laugh out loud. Sure, Haley had been only one young woman among many pulled into a world of degradation, but they’d found each other, and now she was free. He rolled down his window and whooped at a field of lowing cows on his way back toward civilization. “He was a kook, but they made him a hero!” he shouted, and a solitary bull looked up from munching grass to grace him with a disinterested stare as he passed.
He replayed it all from the beginning and was lost in a sense of redemption, not for her but for himself, of having made up for, in that one act, an unremarkable lifetime of disappointment and regret, of never being or doing enough. Even if no one ever knew what he had done, he would know, and that would be enough. Yes, it would be enough. He floated through this unwavering reverie all afternoon.
But there appeared a schism, like a stress fracture in the surface of his elation, when he was driving home.
“What the?” he muttered, and cut the wheel into the parking lot between the restaurant and the motel, pulling in front of her.
She jumped back, then turned, as if to run, but stopped and stood her ground. “Shit, Gordy, you scared me. I thought you were someone else. I was hoping I’d see you, actually. You’re not gonna believe it.”
He examined her face for truth. He could see her wheels turning behind the mask she wore. And that’s just what it was, he realized—a mask. No. There was an explanation. There had to be.
“There was a mix-up with the bus,” she said. “The next one to Kentucky isn’t until next week.” She rolled her eyes. “Crazy, huh?”
“Crazy,” he agreed.
The door to her motel room swung open and Damien was striding toward them, shirtless and heated, the shadows of his ribs like smears of ash in the gray daylight.
“Well if it ain’t the punk who goes around tryna save people,” Damien said as he approached. He was amped up on something. He looked at Haley. “Get back to the room.”
She looked guilty, caught in something she hadn’t prepared for, then hurried back to motel.
Damien leaned down to Gordon’s level and peered through the passenger window. “Let me ask you something, motherfucker,” he said. “That bitch right there look like she wants saving?” They both looked at Haley as she stood in the doorway watching them.
Gordon tried, but he couldn’t read her. “I just want my money back,” he said. “That’s all.”
“Your money?” Damien said. “Motherfucker, you ain’t got no money. You gave it away, tryna be Superman. And it was just too easy.” He laughed at Gordon and backed away from the car. “And before you go thinking something wild, Superman, like calling the cops or some shit, ask yourself what you think they gonna do. You got nothing but your word, and in this world that don’t mean shit with no proof.”
He sat there behind the wheel, stunned as Damien strolled away. He felt like the biggest fool, like every low thing his mother had ever told him he was. Twice now he’d played the fool, it seemed. He tried again to convince himself that it had all been Damien’s idea, that Haley never would have betrayed him like this. She was a good person, just sick. He’d put her up to it. That was it. She’d mentioned his offer, and Damien had devised the entire scheme. But what was it she had said before? People do what people do, and I don’t do shit I don’t want to.
But she wasn’t in her right mind, he told himself, remember?
She played you. They both did. And you walked right into it.
He shook his head, but the more he denied what he knew to be true, the deeper the cracks ran into the picture he’d constructed of her, and of his own role in her story.
He turned the cab around, aimed it for the street, not knowing what else to do but drive. Before he pulled out of the parking lot, he checked his side view. There at the door to the room, Damien scooped her up and spun her. He kissed her and squeezed her ass, and they began to laugh.
He couldn’t call it a plan, not exactly. That would imply too much forethought. But he’d gone home and had two shots of bourbon, then a third, a fourth, and the idea had taken shape with all the detail of a wriggling fish in muddy water. And all he knew now was that he was here.
“Boy, you got some balls, dude,” Damien said when he opened the door. He squared up right away, ready to scrap. And though Gordon had plenty of weight on him, he was no fighter, and Damien was a springy little guy who was clearly shy a few screws.
Gordon held up the bottle of 80mg Oxycontin like an offering. Damien’s eyes, which had been half-lidded in spite of his apparent energy, widened. “I just want to talk,” Gordon said. He looked past Damien at Haley, who was unconscious on the bed, slouched on a mound of dirty pillows in ripped blue jeans and a black bra. This was to Gordon’s advantage. “I want to buy her from you,” he added. The phrase almost made him wince, as if she was a piece of property to be bought and sold, but he didn’t know how else to say it.
“You fucking crazy?” Damien said. “Who do you think I am?”
“Pills and money,” Gordon said. “Just let her come with me. She doesn’t deserve this.”
“And what would you know about what she deserves, Superman?”
He snatched the pills from Gordon before he could reply and stepped aside.
Gordon took this as a sign to come in. Damien shut the door and popped the bottle. He looked inside, nodded slowly, and replaced the lid.
“They’re yours,” Gordon said.
“How much?” Damien said.
“No, the money,” he said. “What you gonna pay?” Gordon reached into his pocket, pulled out a fold of bills, and handed it to him. Five hundred dollars he kept at home for emergencies. Damien counted it. “Man, this ain’t but a day’s work,” he said.
“I can get more. Tomorrow. I’m good for it. Just let me take her. Please.”
After a moment of staring Gordon down, Damien said, “Yeah, sure, all right, Superman. Go on and fly.”
Without thinking, Gordon moved toward Haley, picked up a hooded sweatshirt from the back of a chair and bent down to cover her with it. There was a charred spoon with an array of other paraphernalia on the nightstand, and she had a cigarette, burned clear down to the filter still between her fingers. He was about to pick her up and carry her out when Damien said, “Damn, you really are a stupid motherfucker,” and Gordon saw his shadow move on the wall as he came up behind him.
Gordon had envisioned some version of this going down, which is why he was able to turn in time, hit Damien with the stun-gun right in the armpit before he could break the beer bottle over Gordon’s head. There was a crack and a sizzle, and Damien seized. He dropped to the floor, still clutching the Oxy bottle in one hand. Gordon hit him again and removed the two syringes from his right jacket pocket, leaving the one he’d prepared for Haley in his left. He checked on her. She stirred and moaned but didn’t come to. Whatever she’d taken, it had been a lot. In the whirl of his head, he’d anticipated her being awake, maybe having to stun her, too, stick her with enough of the Oxy he’d dissolved to knock her out and hopefully not kill her while he dealt with Damien. He hadn’t thought much past that point, though. Once the idea of trying to barter for her had entered his mind, he’d been mostly on autopilot. In fact, he’d scarcely been aware he was following through with it until he was knocking on the door to their room, stomach doing flips, heart stuttering in his chest. But fate, or luck, or some force beyond his comprehension had seen fit to work in his favor. The hard part was over, he thought, removing the needle caps and plugging one into each side of Damien’s scraggly neck. He thumbed the plungers, and watched with numb fascination as Damien first convulsed, then began to froth and bleed. The rat poison doing its work. Gordon had seen the aftermath of what the stuff could do plenty of times, but a rodent of this size, up close and personal? It was a sight to behold. Gruesome. Nothing he could have braced himself for.
When Damien finally stopped twitching a few minutes later, red and milky ooze leaking from the various holes in his head, Gordon walked over to the wastebasket and vomited. One quick, burning heave. After that, he felt much better.
He retrieved the money and the pills. He tied up the trash to dispose of later. Through it all, Haley slept.
*** There was a pounding coming from upstairs. When her eyes finally opened, it took her a minute to focus and take in her surroundings, which were new to her. Then she began to scream and struggle against the restraints binding her to the armchair. He tried to get her to quiet down, but when she wouldn’t, he placed a strip of duct tape over her mouth. He hadn’t wanted it to come to this, but had suspected she wouldn’t understand, not yet. It would take a little time before she came to her senses. And once she had? No—he wouldn’t think about that just yet. Best to handle one thing at a time.
“It’s all right now,” he said, and shushed her, brushing one of her platinum strands from her face. “Everything’s going to be okay this time. Are you comfortable enough?”
He thought she looked terrified, naturally. Of course, the situation was not ideal. But she would come to see this was for the best. He only needed her to calm down so he could explain.
“I knew it couldn’t have been you,” he said. “No, I knew it had to have been him.” She continued to struggle and mumbled something. “Oh, you don’t have to worry about him anymore,” he said. “They’ll find him in the room. It was a mixture. I gave him a lot, wasn’t sure how much was enough, you know? I’m a bit new to these things. But I knew you’d never be free if someone didn’t do something.”
He zoned out for a moment, remembering Damien’s choked and spasming body on the motel room floor, the hemorrhaging eyes. The horror of it turned his stomach again and sent a shudder up his spine. But her movements brought his attention back.
Understanding crept into her pale eyes. She strained harder against the bonds and screamed behind the tape with renewed intensity.
“I’ll need you to be reasonable,” he said.
There was more pounding from upstairs, and he raised his eyes to the ceiling. It was time for his mother’s insulin. “That’s just Ma,” he said. “But don’t worry, she’ll quiet down soon.”
Haley continued to scream and thrash.
“Hey, you like movies, right?” he said, and grabbed the remote from the top of the TV. “Me too.” He started the DVD that was already in the player. It was one of his favorites, after all. Maybe it would be one of hers, too, in time. Maybe she’d even realize she’d been wrong about happy endings. Yes, he thought. She screamed and screamed but soon grew tired. “That’s better,” he said. He bent down and kissed her on the top of the head, then pulled up a chair and sat down beside her.
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Labels: fiction, tally ho, william r soldan
Day Planner by Matt Mattila
7:28 A.M. The Chef shows up early again. The truck door slams shut heavy behind him. The Kid curled behind the outdoor heat grate might've been startled a long time ago but now he waits in patient silence for the footsteps to crack across the gravel and the kitchen door on the other side of the restaurant to close before he moves. Waits another minute as the Chef starts his prep. Always wait for noises, The Kid reminds himself. A minute of patience beats a whole day spent looking for a new spot. The Kid is careful when he creaks the grate open. Shoes are already on his feet when he steps on cold gravel. The cold air blasts him as he looks around the corner to make sure no one is coming and walks off to start yet another day on this Earth.
7:32 A.M. Jerry's a panhandler who does his thing on the highway off-ramp five minutes away. The Kid stands near him and helps make it look like they're a family or something. Sometimes drivers get all sympathetic and stop and fork a few bucks over. Jerry collects it in his old soda cup and splits the take with him but never shows him how much they both get which is bullshit. Three hours of this for five dollars. The Kid says thanks. They go their separate ways.
10:37 A.M. The coffee shop down the road is chill and doesn't ask any questions as long as he buys. The Kid waits in line with the other regulars. He avoids the looks. They don't mean anything to him anymore. They know what he is and he doesn't care. He is an outside animal trying to adapt to an inside world.
10:39 A.M. Line grows and lets him hide away in the middle of the herd. Let it grow. Let their faces melt into each other for the cameras and the workers behind the counter. Let him hide. The girl is on this morning, too. Her black hair tied back. Silver eyes darting across the coffee filters and cups and order sheets. Don't look at her, he begs himself. Don't catch her eye. Of all people she'd be the first to say something. Give it a minute before you make a break.
10:42 A.M. The bathroom door is locked behind him but The Kid is quick anyway with his cup-and-sink-water shower over the drain in the floor by the wall. Doesn't use too much soap. Keeps his ears open but a round of Q-Tips makes it hard. He brushes his teeth. Slicks his hair back and makes sure it stays under the winter hat. His clothes are from the donate box and don't smell that much after his last laundry session in a different sink last week. Jeans are black and don't stain. The layers he wears are interchangeable. It's cold out which means if anything gets dirty he can hide it till he has to wash it. He only carries what he'll need for the day in the bag and stashes the rest in a few trusted places hidden around the block. At first glance he is a college student without a car. Nothing else. Nothing is wrong.
He is just in a place in between.
The Kid needs to stop staring in the mirror. Longer he looks the more he'll see wrong and the more paranoid he'll get.
Hurry up and get the fuck out.
10:48 A.M. Man in a suit waiting outside the bathroom door, face in phone.
It's good now, The Kid says to him, sorry I took a while.”
Man looks up at him, grunts, looks back down at phone. Walks through the door. The Kid thinks the man knows what he was looking at or had already tried the door and he simply didn't hear it. The Kid tells himself to calm the fuck down. This is the worst time to get nervous. He moves around the tables in this back hallway where no one ever sits . In fact the only people sitting are up front with its big windows and neo-soul music echoing from the speakers behind the counter. The Kid thinks he knows this song. Might've liked it once.
Three people in line get shuffled through easily. The Kid orders a large mocha latte, yes on the cream. She is the only one on duty. The Kid keeps his eyes on the back display and the menu and the counter and the stereo set on the nook in the wall.
Anything but her.
10:50 A.M. She stands at the other end with milk screaming in the steamer in front of her and his legs move closer to her while the rest of him follows along paralyzed. He stops himself at the counter, pulls his phone out, pretends to look at it. WiFi here means he can cruise through his social media and remember that there's a world outside of this fucking life. He doesn't have many friends, though, because he knows he could never bring himself to tell anybody. None of them would understand. They would fake their sympathy and look at him with pity for the rest of his life and when he'd man up and ask for help they would all say no. They always say no.
Phone's almost dead but the charger's plugged into the wall over there.
10:52 A.M. “Mocha large.”
She sounds annoyed when she puts it down on the counter. Purple polish and chipped nails stay wrapped around it. He steps up. She hasn't let go. He doesn't go for it. Her other hand is hiding behind the machine. She's probably scared and doesn't want to show it. He's a monster from the forest who's come into town for a drink.
Thanks, he says. Her head and the soft, bright face on it flashes from behind the corner. Her silver eyes are wide. She mumbles you're welcome and stares at him a second and then retreats behind the machine. She knows. Of all people for the love of God she knows. He says nothing else. He should be smart and get out but he grabs the cup and dashes over to the table. Safe. Around the corner. Hidden from prying eyes.
10:54 A.M. His coat still covers the bag and it is all undisturbed. He is alone in this section. He pulls old headphones he'd found on the ground a week ago out of his pocket. Finds the WiFi. Goes on YouTube hoping to find something good. Just a few hours in this place, he reminds himself, and then move on.
11:34 A.M. His legs are getting numb. The Kid needs to get up and stretch or they'll hurt like hell when he's outside again. The cup is half-empty. Lukewarm. He puts the phone back in his pocket and the coat over his bag and the charger under the table and trudges to the bathroom to pretend to piss. It's empty. He coughs again as the door slams shut behind him. His chest has been feeling heavy. His lungs vibrate like they're floating in water. He needs to get it checked out. He's smart enough to know a normal cough doesn't last for two weeks and clog his throat and take everything out of him. He needs to get it checked out. Jerry said it didn't sound good to him either. He needs to get it checked out. No insurance means no doctor but Jerry knows a guy at a shelter he stayed at once. He needs to get it checked out. He walks back to the table breathing in his nose and out his mouth like the medical website told him.
He sits down and takes a drink. It doesn't help.
12:20 P.M. The door chime is loud enough The Kid hears it from around the corner. There's heavy footsteps--boots--that go up to the counter. Kid cranes his neck up and looks through the window. No cop cars. Nothing in uniform waiting for him. He still has his headphones in but he hears the gasps and shushes clearly enough. He stays close to the wall and peeps around the corner. Boots is big. Boots has a mask on. Boots has a gun out on whoever's behind the counter. Another shriek. He retreats behind the wall and shoves his headphones in his pockets. Pulse thuds in his ears. No panicking. Boots is blocking the only way out. The shriek sounded female.
12:22 P.M. The thought clicks in place. She's the only one here. He is shook beyond all hell. If Boots shoots her she is close enough that she will die. Boots will come for him next. Boots shoots The Kid and he somehow fucking survives but has no insurance and he gets stitched up and sent back out on these streets with a bullet wound and a bill he will never be able to pay.
She's worth the risk. He has to do something. Boots hasn't seen him. His head's over the partition and The Kid is in his blind spot.
No point in not trying. He's overstayed his welcome here anyway.
12:24 P.M. The Kid steps towards him. His voice cracks but he hopes it sounds tough enough.
There's nuh'ing in that drawer, man, says The Kid. Not past noon.”
The Kid's voice quivers and time stops. The gun turns towards him--one swift, practiced motion.
Shut the fuck up and get back.”
The Kid stays put.
"Shooting won't help you none," he finds the balls to say. His breath has stopped. His chest spasms and he thinks for a second that he'll never breathe again.
No time no time no time no time.
The fuck you say to me? Boots asks.
Boots charges forward, easy steps. Dark eyes all glossy. Dude's cracked. Desperate. Keeps asking the same question. The Kid throws his hands up and says nothing and never loses eye contact because some movie told him once that he shouldn't. No twitching. No coughing.
Wait for him to get close and grab the thing.
Boots stops too far away.
12:27 P.M. Boots says the same line again. Behind him the girl is huddled on the counter holding a mop handle and giving The Kid a shhh. She's sly like a fox. Maybe she's seen the movies too. Maybe they could go see one together one of these days.
She moves with class, grace, bravery; all things The Kid knows he will never have. It's hard not to stare because the poor fuck knows he's in love but he also knows that'll tip the man with the gun off. Boots keeps chuckling under his breath, steps echoing on the linoleum. Kid still says nothing. Boots stops and keeps making tough talk.
Kid blinks and Boots takes a single hit to the base of the skull and his eyes roll back and he falls forward and lands with a thud that shakes the building. She puts her hands on her hips all triumphant and looks down at Boots then up at The Kid standing there in total awe.
Thanks, she says, for the help.”
Kid shrugs. Long as he didn't hurt you.”
She smiles soft. Looks down at the body on her coffee shop floor. Stops smiling. Says: Not the first not the last.”
The Kid knows not to press it. He nods and looks down with her. Blue lights pull into the lot and The Kid tries not to panic.
Finished with your coffee? she asks, turning back.
I'm just on my way out. I can take off now if you need me to.”
She scoffs and laughs a little. “I'm asking if you want another one, dumbass. It's on the house.”
He shrugs. Sure, ”he says, and she brings the mop to the door with her and lets the cop in.
It'll just be a sec, she says to The Kid with a hint of white teeth. The cop stepping in behind her is all tall and big with a hard face and hands on his belt and The Kid nods at him. The cop nods back. Goes on his radio to call code numbers. Looks at Boots on the floor. The girl leaps over the counter and gets to making his mocha latte . Cop steps up and pulls a pad out and starts asking her questions. Boots stays on the ground with his gun far from his grip and a hand twitching.
The Kid walks back to the table wondering if his phone number still works.
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The Third Jump of Frankie Buffalo, by Thomas Pluck
Frank drove the half-ton as fast as he dared up the rutted, snowy road. His breath plumed like a big shot’s cigar in the frozen air. So cold that they had shoved their booted feet into the campfires to keep toes from freezing solid and snapping off. Only thing colder than winter in Chosin was the fear deep in his gut. The two supply trucks sent before him hadn’t made it to the front. Artillery or ambush, no one knew. Frank held it in second gear and swerved around a bend. A moving target’s a hard target. A hard turn came up quick, one foot on the brake and one on the gas…
A horn blast broke Frank out of the reverie.
This wasn’t Korea. He was in a different truck, on a different run.
Nerves.
He didn’t wake up shivering anymore, but in a truck job, Chosin always came back to him.
He was stuck behind a stubby oil truck and a black new BMW at a railroad crossing. The traffic for the car wash and the flashing light ahead always made this a bottleneck, but it was the best way to get where he had to be. The tanker had stopped at the tracks, and the morning commuters were getting antsy.
Frank checked his Timex. Fifteen minutes, plenty of time to get the Mack cement mixer to Rifle Camp Road and hit the power pole. More than enough time to cut the fuel line and spill some diesel, shut down the intersection and keep Paterson’s finest occupied, waiting for the HazMat crew.
Honk.
It was the guy in the black BMW, one car ahead.
“He’s gotta stop,” Frank said to himself. “Law requires it.”
It was his job to know. The CDL in his wallet wasn’t in his name, and his no-work job at the port rarely got him behind the wheel anymore, but he knew all the rules and could drive anything over 10,000 GVW like nobody’s business. It was a safe job. Just another driver heading to the quarry who made the turn too tight. If he got cited it wasn’t even in his name, but the memories of the Frozen Chosin tickled in his gut.
Young Frank had never made it to the front. He could’ve made that turn, nothing for a fearless driver who’d cut his teeth bootlegging for Longy Zwillman, the Jewish giant who ran Newark. The cold inside moved his hands for him. The belly-cold had jerked the steering wheel, made him dive out the door with his rifle. All Frank could do was watch the half-ton spill its load of ammo and survival K-rations as it tumbled down the jagged stone cliffside. He connected with a new unit and told himself the two drivers before him had probably done the same thing.
Honk honk. This time it was the lady in the minivan behind him. Striped uniform, probably a waitress at some diner.
The tanker didn’t need to wait this long. Just pause, really. The fading paint on the back of the stubby little tanker read Hansen Fuel Oil, the kind a small business uses to fill up home tanks. It rumbled forward, then stalled out. Right on the tracks.
Now Frank got antsy, too.
The boys would hit the Loomis armored car in twenty minutes. All pros, longshoremen in name only. They’d stolen the cement mixer off a job site that had lost funding and sat dormant for months. They laughed when he signed on for the job. Old Frankie Buffalo wants in? When he could be collecting his pension?
The pension wasn’t enough. The job was barely enough. The medical plan’s pure gold but Dottie’s cancer cost platinum and diamonds, gutted his stake after putting their three kids through college. Now his grandchildren were near college age, and his kids had married for love, not money. For money there was always Poppy Frank.
To show the boys he could still motor, he got in a little yard hustler and spun it in donuts around their fancy German cars, parking it with a controlled skid. They kept their mouths shut after that.
Still plenty of time. All he had to do was get past the tanker. He checked the mirrors. The minivan was right on his ass. He cut the wheel hard left and eased forward. If the BMW gave him an inch he could squeeze by. He tapped the horn.
The BMW driver gave him the Jersey salute.
A decade ago he would have taken the breaker bar from under the seat and shattered this cafone’s windshield. Maybe taken the little snubbie he used to keep under the dash and rapped the guy on the head.
But he wasn’t what he once was.
The merciless Chosin winter had made his feet dead as bricks if the temperature dropped below fifty, like this morning. He could put on some speed when he wanted, but it looked funny.
Frankie’s gonna shuffle off to Buffalo, the dock boss had said. And it stuck, like those names always do.
Two guys got out of the tanker. Olive skin, clean-shaven. First thing he thought was trouble, then chided himself, remembering his grandfather telling him how the country hated Italians before he was born, because some were anarchists. They even lynched eleven Italians in New Orleans, after a Black Hand hitter whacked the police chief. So he didn’t like to judge. Even though he was Italian, and a crook.
Frank honked again.
The Beemer driver pointed at the tanker with his Starbuck’s cup. “Hello? I can’t go anywhere.”
Frank inched forward. The BMW disappeared under his hood, but he knew these Mack Granites like he’d known his wife Dottie’s body.
“You scratch my paint, I’m gonna—”
The lights of the railroad crossing blinked red. Train coming.
The BMW driver swore, then the car jerked back and forth, making no headway. He had pulled too close to the tanker in front of him, and now he was paying for it. Other drivers piled out of their cars.
They were running.
The Frozen Chosin cold spread through Frank’s belly. Run, it said. That thing’s gonna go off like a five hundred pound bomb.
Across the tracks at the car wash, Latino women stopped drying cars and stared.
Frank set the air brakes and got ready to shuffle. He jerked the door handle. Sorry boys, you’re on your own. They’d probably get cornered and mowed down before they made it five blocks with the money. There was no getting away from a betrayal like that. Frank would just wait for the hitter to come plug him in the head while he was home alone in the recliner, watching Wheeler Dealers.
The cold made a fist in his gut.
Then he saw the drivers, even the BMW jerk, shouldering the rear of the tanker. Like they could move it! If it’s got a full tank, good luck with that.
Then the diner woman pitched in.
Frank jabbed the horn. “Lemme push him,” he hollered. They used these trucks like tugboats in the yard all the time.
“You can’t get around the cars,” one shouted back.
Frank put the Mack in low gear. The cement mixer was spinning on an empty barrel, just for show. With no load, he could push the tanker and the car in front of him, no problem.
Frank the hero, not Frankie Buffalo. The woman in the diner uniform smiled and waved him on. She had a smile that took over her face, like Dottie had.
He eased the pedal down and they moved out of his way.
The BMW driver grimaced as Frank crunched his bumper and mashed the front end into the oil truck. For a second they all gasped, then the brake pins popped and the strange little train of tanker, crushed Beemer, and cement mixer began to inch forward.
The striped railroad gates slammed down on top of the tanker. Just a few more feet…
One of the oil men reached inside the cab and came out with something small and black, like the grease guns Frankie had seen at Chosin. It sounded the same, as a burst tore through the work shirts and the gal’s diner uniform and the BMW guy’s fancy suit.
The train horn drowned out their screams.
Frank ducked and the windshield blew out. Rounds peppered the cab and pocked the seat. What the hell were they doing? Nobody robs trains anymore. This was a commuter train, the double-decker diesel to Secaucus Junction. No freight worth a hijack.
They weren’t stealing. They were killing. Like the anarchists that Frank’s grandfather had told him about. Like the psychos who’d brought the Towers down.
Chosin ice gripped his bowels. Held off by the warmth that the diner girl’s face put in his heart. He’d seen the Towers built floor by floor, and like everyone else at the port that day, had watched helplessly from across the water as they crumbled into cigarette ash.
Nowhere to run, Frankie. Gonna shuffle off to Buffalo?
His feet were numb, but he would die standing on them.
No rifle. Not even the old snubbie. Just a breaker bar, two and a half feet of rusted iron. Blunt as a screwdriver, but sharp enough. He’d seen fights with them on the docks. Ugly ones.
He mashed the pedal to the floor with his elbow. The Mack ground its gears and shuddered. Two more bursts rattled through the engine compartment. Frank curled into himself, the cold moving his body for him again.
Steam hissed from a cut hose with the sweet stink of coolant, but the Mack kept nudging the tanker forward. The Mack’s front end rocked as it rolled over the tracks. Halfway there.
Between the short, imperative blasts of the train horn came shouting, then the clank of a boot on the step by the driver side door. He gripped the breaker bar like a short spear, waiting for a head to pop up.
Four fingers gripped the door. Then the black barrel of the gun, wisping smoke.
Frank stabbed for the root of the middle finger and shouted words his nonno reserved for the anarchisti. Frank rose up for another thrust, but the gunner fell back onto the tracks, blood sprinkling from his hand like a pinhole leak in a garden hose. The train bore down on them skyscraper huge and swallowed the gunman, its brakes in full scream.
Frank jerked the door handle and tumbled out as the world spun and flickered like an old home movie.. The detached barrel of the cement mixer rolled toward the car wash. The rest of the Mack truck was dragged along by the train like a Tonka toy.
The brakes hissed as the train screeched to a crawl. Commuters gawped out the windows. The washers peeked from behind cars.
Frank curled up in the weeds clutching the breaker bar, like he had cradled his rifle in the Korean winter.
The tanker had rolled ahead and butted into a wooden utility pole. Still close enough to the train to destroy it. The other oil man had the door open, bent over something.
Frank used the breaker bar as a cane and shoved himself to one knee. The killer swore to himself and jabbed at a little box behind the truck seat. Frank clubbed him in the knee, then brought the iron bar down until he lost his breath and the car washers covered their faces.
Frank saw what was behind the seat and dropped the bloody crowbar. Wires ran from a lockbox chained to the seat frame, out the door to the oil tank, which surely held something more volatile than heating oil.
Their backup plan.
Frank pulled himself into the cab and turned the ignition. Backed away from the pole and swerved, tires hopping, using the tank’s heavy load as ballast for the turn. Like he was running with Longy Zwillman again.
He would make it to the quarry on Rifle Camp Road in time. He had to.
The boys hitting the Loomis truck would get more distraction than they would ever need.
And Frankie Buffalo would jump one last time.
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CITP Spotlight: Rafael Ramos, CITP|FIBP – Import Coordinator
Earned his elite CITP®|FIBP® designation: Apr. 2019
With a relentless drive to pursue his career goals and constantly expand his skills, Rafael Ramos turned an internship after graduation into a successful import-export career a continent away.
Originally from Brazil, Rafael studied international relations and affairs in university. During his studies, he completed an internship with a maritime shipping company in Rio de Janeiro, preparing shipping documents and submitting them to the proper authorities to ensure loading, unloading and transport. Immediately after graduating, he then completed a second internship with a different shipping company. Taking on greater responsibilities, he handled some aspects of the crew exchange process, updated port lists of current ships and crews, and held financial control for services provided to crews on those ships.
With his experience from those internships, he then secured his first full-time job in international trade as an International Operations Assistant with Golden Foods Alimentos, also in Rio de Janeiro. He quickly took on responsibility for the import process and packing validation of the company’s meat, fish, beverage, appetizers and other seasonal products. Combined, these accounts represented nearly half of the company’s revenue!
“I worked closely with suppliers to develop private import labels for my company and some selected clients, which I was quite proud of,” he says.
Pursuing an international business education with a move to Canada
Looking to reinforce his experience with training specific to the practical needs of importers and exporters, Rafael moved to Vancouver to take the FITTskills program through Canadian College, one of FITT’s educational partners.
“I learned a lot about finance tools and how technology can improve my work experience, for example using EDI (electronic data interchange) to improve inventory control.”
My favourite course was Feasibility of International Trade. Learning how to create a feasibility study from scratch to penetrate new markets is extremely useful.
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Staying in Vancouver to expand his career
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He works directly with exporters on purchase orders for food and personal care products, negotiates ocean freight with maritime shipping companies, schedules container arrivals and manages related costs, and analyzes import data to forecast.
Taking a direct role in final negotiations, including the pricing, has been an aspect of his work he’s glad to have learned, and recommends new professionals prepare to handle such responsibility.
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Civil Engineering Research
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Theses in Civil Engineering
Mainly Soils Mainly Structures
Reinforced Soil
In-situ Testing
Sedimentation and Consolidation of Soft Clays
Unsaturated and Gassy Soils
Flow of Granular Materials
Environmental Applications
Structural Dynamics
Structural glass
Deployable Structures
Soils and Structures Fluids
Offshore Foundations and Structures
Tunnelling and Trenchless Technology
Distinct Element Modelling
Computational Hydraulics
Wind Engineering
List by date
Theses from other Universities
How to obtain copies of theses
Note 1: some theses may be listed under more than one heading
Note 2: the degree that in other Universities is usually called "Ph.D." is in Oxford called "D.Phil."
Unpaved Roads
Love, J.P. (1985) D.Phil. "Model Testing of Geogrids in Unpaved Roads"
abstract | thesis (5.37MB, pdf)
Burd, H.J. (1986) D.Phil. "A Large Displacement Finite Element Analysis of a Reinforced Unpaved Road"
Fannin, R.J. (1986) D.Phil. "Geogrid Reinforcement of Granular Layers on Soft Clay - a Study at Model and Full Scale"
Brocklehurst, C.J. (1993) D.Phil. "Finite Element Studies of Reinforced and Unreinforced Two-Layer Soil Systems"
abstract | thesis (20.3MB, pdf)
Other reinforced soil applications
Dyer, M.R. (1985) D.Phil. "Observation of the Stress Distribution in Crushed Glass with Applications to Soil Reinforcement"
Palmeira, E.M. (1987) D.Phil. "The Study of Soil Reinforcement Interaction by Means of Large Scale Laboratory Tests"
Pedley, M.J. (1990) D.Phil. "The Performance of Soil Reinforcement in Bending and Shear"
Tei, K. (1993) D.Phil. "A Study of Soil Nailing in Sand"
Morris, J.D. (1999) D.Phil. "Physical and Numerical Modelling of Grouted Nails in Clay"
Gue, S.S. (1984) D.Phil. "Ground Heave Around Driven Piles in Clay"
Evans, K.M. (1987) D.Phil. "A Model Study of the End Bearing Capacity of Piles in Layered Calcareous Soils"
Coop, M.R. (1987) D.Phil. "Axial Capacity of Driven Piles in Clay"
Chaudhry, A.R. (1994) D.Phil. "Static Pile-Soil-Pile Interaction in Offshore Pile Groups"
Dash, S.R. (2010) D.Phil. "Lateral Pile-Soil Interaction in Liquefiable Soils"
Beuckelaers, W.J.A.P (2017) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Laterally Loaded Piles for Offshore Wind Turbines"
Shallow foundations, jack-up units
de Santa Maria, P.E.L. (1988) D.Phil. "Behaviour of Footings for Offshore Structures under Combined Loads"
Bell, R.W. (1991) M.Sc. "The Analysis of Offshore Foundations Subjected to Combined Loading"
Martin, C.M.(1994) D.Phil. "Physical and Numerical Modelling of Offshore Foundations Under Combined Loads"
Thompson, R.S.G. (1996) D.Phil. "Development of Non-Linear Numerical Models Appropriate for the Analysis of Jack-up Units"
Ngo Tran, C.L. (1996) D.Phil. "The Analysis of Offshore Foundations Subjected to Combined Loading"
Mangal, J.K. (1999) D.Phil. "Partially Drained Loading of Shallow Foundations on Sand"
Cassidy, M.J. (1999) D.Phil. "Non-Linear Analysis of Jack-up Structures Subjected to Random Waves"
abstract | thesis (3.1MB, pdf)
Byrne, B.W. (2000) D.Phil. "Investigations of Suction Caissons in Dense Sand"
Nguyen-Sy, L. (2005) D.Phil. "The Theoretical Modelling of Circular Shallow Foundation for Offshore Wind Turbines"
Villalobos Jara, F.A. (2006) D.Phil. "Model Testing of Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines"
abstract | thesis (22.87Mb, pdf)
Hazell, E. (2008) D.Phil. "Numerical and Experimental Studies of Shallow Cone Penetration in Clay"
Cotter, O. (2009) D.Phil. "The Installation of Suction Cassion Foundations for Offshore Renewable Energy Structures"
Sandford, R. (2012) D.Phil. "Lateral buckling of High-Pressure/High Temperature On-Bottom Pipelines"
May, R.E. (1987) D.Phil. "A Study of the Piezocone Penetrometer in Normally Consolidated Clay"
Teh, C.I. (1987) D.Phil. "An Analytical Study of the Cone Penetration Test"
Nyirenda, Z.M. (1990) D.Phil. "Piezocone Studies in Lightly Overconsolidated Soil"
Schnaid, F. (1990) D.Phil. "A Study of the Cone- pressuremeter Test in Sand"
Yu, H.S. (1990) D.Phil. "Cavity Expansion Theory and its Application to the Analysis of Pressuremeters"
Nutt, N.R.F. (1993) D.Phil. "Development of the Cone Pressuremeter"
Smith, M.G. (1993) D.Phil. "A Laboratory Study of the Marchetti Dilatometer"
Yao, M. (1996) M.Sc. "A Study of the Effect of Length to Diameter Ratio on the Results of Pressuremeter Tests"
Nageswaran, S. (1983) D.Phil. "Effects of Gas Bubbles on the Sea-Bed Behaviour"
Wheeler, S.J. (1986) D.Phil. "Stress-Strain Behaviour of Soils Containing Gas Bubbles"
Gardner, T.N. (1988) D.Phil. "The Acoustic Properties of Gassy Soil"
Thomas, S.D. (1988) D.Phil. "The Consolidation Behaviour of Gassy Soil"
Sharma, R.S. (1998) D.Phil. "Mechanical Behaviour of Unsaturated Highly Expansive Clays"
abstract | thesis (15.8MB pdf)
Lee, K. (1979) D.Phil. "An Analytical and Experimental Study of Large Strain Consolidation"
Been, K. (1980) D.Phil. "Stress-Strain Behaviour of a Cohesive Soil Deposited Under Water"
Elder, D. McG. (1985) D.Phil. "Stress-Strain and Strength Behaviour of Very Soft Soil Sediment"
Bowden, R.K. (1988) D.Phil. "Compression Behaviour and Shear Strength Characteristics of a Natural Silty Clay Sedimented in the Laboratory"
Lee, M. (2000) M.Sc. "An Experimental and Analytical Study of Electrokinetic Consolidation"
Bartholomeeusen, G. (2003) D.Phil. "Compound Shock Waves and Creep Behaviour in Sediment Beds"
Lintern, D.G. (2003) D.Phil. "Influences of Flocculation on Bed Properties for Fine-Grained Cohesive Sediment"
Pipejacking and pipebursting
Ripley, K.J. (1989) D.Phil. "The Performance of Jacked Pipes"
Swee, J.L.K. (1991) D.Phil. "Pipebursting: Model Tests"
Norris, P. (1992) D.Phil. "The Behaviour of Jacked Concrete Pipes During Site Installation"
abstract | thesis (17MB, pdf)
Zhou, J.-Q. (1998) D.Phil. "Numerical Analysis and Laboratory Test of Concrete Jacking Pipes"
Marshall, M.A. (1998) D. Phil. "Pipe-Jacked Tunnelling: Jacking Loads and Ground Movements"
abstract | thesis (7.37MB pdf)
Psomas, S (2001) M.Sc. "Properties of Foam/Sand Mixtures for Tunnelling Applications"
Pena Duarte , M (2007) D.Phil. "Foam as a Soil Conditioner in Tunnelling: Physical and Mechanical Properties of Conditioned Sands"
Schupp, J. (2009) D.Phil. "Upheaval buckling and flotation of buried offshore pipelines"
abstract | thesis (251mb, pdf)
Li, Y. (2015) M.Sc. "Lateral Buckling of On-bottom Pipelines in Sand"
Tunnelling (general)
Chow, L. (1994) M.Sc. "The Prediction of Surface Settlements Due to Tunnelling in Soft Ground"
abstact | thesis (5.84MB, pdf)
Kim, S.-H. (1996) D.Phil. "Model Testing and Analysis of Interactions between Tunnels in Clay"
abstact | thesis (15.6MB, pdf)
Liu Gang (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Damage to Masonry Buildings Due to Tunnelling"
Augarde, C.E. (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Tunnelling Processes for Assessment of Damage to Buildings"
Bloodworth, A.G. (2002) D.Phil. "Three-Dimensional Analysis of Tunnelling Effects on Structures to Develop Design Methods"
abstract | thesis(3.85MB, pdf)
Pickhaver, J.A. (2006) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Building Response to Tunnelling"
Saperstein, L.W. (1967) D.Phil. "The Dynamics of Granular Solids"
Wilson, J. (1970) D.Phil. "Forces Exerted on Solid Bodies Moving Through Cohesionless Soils"
Harbottle, M.J. (2003) D.Phil. "The Use of Electrokinetics to Enhance the Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Soils"
O'Mahoney, M.M. (1990) D.Phil. "Recycling of Materials in Civil Engineering"
Nguyen, G.D. (2005) D.Phil. "A Thermodynamic Approach to Constitutive Modelling of Concrete using Damage Mechanics and Plasticity Theory"
Falati, S. (1999) D.Phil. "The contribution of non-structural components to the overall dynamic behaviour of concrete floor slabs"
Williams, D.M. (2000) D.Phil. "Numerical Modelling of Real Time Sub-Structure testing "
Neild, S.A. (2001) D.Phil. "Using Non-Linear Vibration Techniques to Detect Damage in Concrete Bridges"
Clément, D.E. (2002) D.Phil. "Seismic Analysis of Knee Elements for Steel Frames"
Grey, M. (2006) M.Sc "Finite Element Seismic Analysis of Guyed Masts "
Bonnet, P.A. (2006) D.Phil "The Development of Multi-Axis Real-Time Substructure Testing"
Sim, J.H.H. (2006) D.Phil. "Human-Structure Interaction in Cantilever Grandstands"
Ehland, A. (2009) D.Phil. "Vibrations of precast and partially prestressed floor systems under moving loads"
Ojaghi, M. (Makhzan Ojaghi, S. M.) (2010) D.Phil. "The Development of Real-Time Distributed Hybrid Testing for Earthquake Engineering"
Nhleko, S. (2011) D.Phil. "Human-induced Lateral Excitation of Assembly Structures"
Whittle, J. (2011) D.Phil. "Strategic Placement of Viscous Dampers for Seismic Structural Design"
Claff, D.E. (2015) D.Phil. "Pedestrian-Induced Lateral Excitation of Footbridges"
Del Gobbo, G.M. (2017) D.Phil. "Placement of Fluid Viscous Dampers to Reduce Total-Building Seismic
Damage"
Basagiannis, C.A. (2018) D.Phil. "Seismic Design and Evaluation of Moment Resisting Frames using Elastmeric Dampers"
Crompton, P.R. (1999) M.Sc. "Assessment of Design Procedures for Structural Glass Beams"
Porter, M.I. (2001) D.Phil. "Aspects of Structural Design with Glass"
Lengyel, A. (2002) D.Phil. "Analogy between Equilibrium of Structures and Compatibility of Mechanisms"
Chen, Y. (2003) D.Phil. "Design of Structural Mechanisms"
Kuribayashi, K. (2004) D.Phil. "A Novel Foldable Stent Graft"
Melin, N. (2004) D.Phil. "Application of Bennett Mechanisms to Long-Span Shelters"
Ma, J. (2011) D.Phil. "Thin-Walled Tubes with Pre-folded Origami Patterns as Energy Absorption Devices"
Gattas, J.M. (2013) D.Phil. "Quasi-Static Impact of Foldcore Sandwich Panels"
Li, Y. (2016) D.Phil. "Thin-Walled Structures for Energy Absorption"
Cao, Y. (2017) M.Sc. "Rigid origami of thick panels and deployable membranes"
abstract & thesis
Zhang, B. (2017) D.Phil. "Bistable and Mutli-stable Thin-Walled Structures"
Xia, Y. (2017) D.Phil. "Novel Self-Expanding Stent Retractors for Neuroendoscopy"
A number of other theses make use of Finite Element Analysis, but the following concentrate principally on this area of work.
Bloodworth, A.G. (2002) D.Phil. "Three Dimensional Analysis of Tunnelling Effects on Structures to Develop Design Methods"
Likitlersuang, S. (2003) D.Phil. "A Hyperplasticity Model For Clay Behaviour: An Application To Bangkok Clay"
Dong, Y. (2014) D.Phil. "Advanced Finite Element Analysis of Deep Excavation Case Histories"
Dunne, H.P. (2017) D.Phil. "Finite Element Limit Analysis of Offshore Foundations on Clay"
Yiu, W.N. (2018) D.Phil. "Finite Element Analysis of Short-Term and Long-Term Building Response to Tunnelling"
Boon, C.W. (2013) D.Phil. "Distinct Element Modelling of Jointed Rock Masses: Algorithms and their Verification"
Abstract | Thesis (8mb, pdf)
Modenese, C. (2013) D.Phil "Numerical Study of the Mechanical Properties of Lunar Soil by the Discrete Element Method"
Zhao, T. (2014) D.Phil "Investigation of Landslide-Induced Debris Flows by the DEM and CFD"
Kaar, E.T. (1991) D.Phil. "Curvilinear Systems Modelling of Pollutant Transport in Shallow Waters"
Akponasa, G.A. (1992) D.Phil. "Solution of the Contravariant Shallow Water Equations Using Boundary-Fitted Coordinate Systems"
Greaves, D.M. (1995) D.Phil. "Numerical modelling of laminar separated flows and inviscid steep waves using adaptive hierarchical meshes"
Saalehi, A. (1996) D.Phil. "Quadtree-based finite element modelling of laminar separated flow past a cylinder"
Cruz Leon, S. (1997) D.Phil. "Numerical Solution of the Shallow Water Equations on Quadtree Grids"
Chern, M.-J. (1999) D.Phil. "3-D pseudospectral model of free surface and viscous flows"
Park, K.-Y. (1999) D.Phil. "Quadtree grid numerical model of nearshore wave-current interaction"
Ohl, C. (1999) D.Phil. "Free surface disturbances and non-linear run-up around offshore structures"
Turnbull, M. (1999) D.Phil. "The numerical modelling of steep waves interacting with structures"
Gumley, S.J. (1981) D.Phil. "Tubing Systems for the Measurement of Fluctuating Pressures"
Green, D.W. R. (1983) D.Phil. "A Wind Tunnel Study of Flow Over Hills"
Rutledge, K.W. (1984) D.Phil. "Wind Tunnel Modelling of Buoyant Plumes"
Letchford, C.W. (1987) D.Phil. "Pneumatic Averaging and its Application in Wind Engineering"
Tasker, M.N. (1987) D.Phil. "The Effect of Heat Transfer on the Dispersion of Cold Dense Gases"
Parkinson, H.G. (1987) D.Phil. "Measurements of Wind Flow Over Models of a Hill"
Minson, A.J. (1993) D.Phil. "Use of Laser Doppler Anemometer Measurements near Model Buildings to Determine Wind Loading on Building Attachments"
Marwood, R. (1996) D.Phil. "An Investigation of Conical Roof-Edge Vortices"
Marshall, B. J. (1999) D.Phil. "Wind Flow Structures and Wind Forces in Forests"
Nelmes, S.J. (1999) D.Phil. "Design of Shetlerbelts"
Draper, S. (2011) D.Phil. Tidal Stream Energy Extraction in Caostal Basins"
McAdam, R. (2011) D.Phil. "Studies into the Technical Feasibility of the Transverse Horizontal Axis Water Turbine"
Consul, C.A. (2011) D.Phil. "Hydrodynamcis Analysis of a Tidal Cross-Flow Turbine"
Ferrer, E. (2012) D.Phil. "A high order Discontinuous Galerkin - Fourier incompressible 3D Navier-Stokes solver with rotating sliding meshes for simulating cross-flow turbines"
Belloni, C. (2013) D.Phil. "Hydrodynamics of Ducted and Open-Centre Tidal Turbines"
Serhadlioglu, S. (2014) D.Phil. "Tidal Stream Resource Assessment of Anglesey Skerries and the Bristol Channel"
Fleming, C.F. (2014) D.Phil. "Tidal Turbine Performance in the Offshore Environment"
Vogel, C. (2014) D.Phil. "Theoretical Limits to Tidal Stream Energy Extraction"
Schluntz, J. (2014) D.Phil. "Tidal Tubine Array Modelling"
Hunter, W. (2015) D.Phil. "Actuator Disk Methods for Tidal Turbine Arrays"
Cooke, S. (2016) D.Phil "Enhanced array design for tidal power generation"
Gao, C. (2017) M.Sc. "Analysis of storm surge and tidal resonance in the Bristol channel"
Muchala, S. (2017) D.Phil. "Impact of Tidal Turbine Support Structures on Realizable Turbine Farm Power"
Wimshurst, A. (2018) D.Phil. "Tip Flow Corrections for Horizontal Axis Wind and Tidal Turbine Rotors"
The following theses from other Universities are also available:
Houlsby, G.T. (1981) Ph.D., Cambridge University "A study of plasticity theories and their applicability to soil"
abstract | Thesis (Cambridge Univeristy repository)
Williams, M.S. (1988) Ph.D., Bristol University "The cutting of unbonded prestressing tendons during demolition"
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Closed Irish Whiskey Distillerys
Bow Street (1780-1971) John Jameson & Son
John's Lane (1796-1976) John Power & Son
Jones Road (1873-1945) The Dublin Whiskey Distillery Co Ltd
Located at Clontarf next to the river Tolka
Built by a consortium of seven businessmen DWD became Dublin Distillers Company merged with Thomas Street & Marrowbone Lane in 1891
Marrowbone Lane (1700's-1920s) Wm Jameson & Co
Acquired by the Stein Family around 1780 by 1802 had become Jameson and Stein by 1822 had become WJ & Co as above Area now municipal housing
Phoenix Park DCL (1878-1921)
DCL bought and converted an old spinning mill on the Liffey at Chapelizod Four miles up stream from the centre of Dublin
Thomas Street (1757-1926) George Roe & Co
Located virtually opposite the giant Guinness Brewery In 1757 Peter Roe purchased a small existing distillery on the North Side of Thomas Street
County Antrim & Belfast
Royal Irish Distilleries (1868-1938 or later) Built by Dunville & Co
Location Distillery Street Malt Street and Excise Street now covered by the M1 Belfast - Dungannon Motorway
Conneswater (1886 - 1929)
Founded By blender merchants Kirker Green & Co and Mitchell &co Ltd became Irish Distilleries Ltd
Avoniel William Higgins (1882-1929)
Ballymarrett Area Avoniel Leisure Centre is on part of the land.
Abbey Street A A Watt
Waterside A A Watt
Bandon (1826-1929)
Allman & Co Located on the Cork to Bantry road a half mile from Bandon
The Glen Distillery Company (1802-1925)
Around 1800 a Daniel Callahan was noted as a distiller at Dodges Glen Kilnap.
North Mall The Cork Distillers Ltd (1779-1920)
Said to have been started by Thomas and Francis Wise in 1779
The Distillery was built on the site of al old Dominican Friay called the Abbey of St Mary of the Island.
Midleton Original (1825-1975)
The Cork Distillers Ltd
Founded in1825 Three Brothers James, Daniel, and Jeremiah Murphy
Closed in 1975 when the new Irish Distillers Group distillery at Midleton is opened
Watercourse (1795-1975)
Partnership of Thomas Hewitt, John Teulon and Richard Blunt
Located in Watercourse Road Blackpool just north of the city of Cork Close to the Kiln River
The Green (1796-1980 distilling ceased in 1870)
Two Distillers Robert Allan and Denis Cororan are connected with the site during the 1790's
Location York Street Now Thomas Street Blackpool
Daly's Distillery (1807-69)
A William Lyons is recorded of having premises in John street early in the 19th century
James Daly is a recorded distiller in 1833
Located at 32 John Street on a site down stream to the Green and watercourse distilleries.
County Westmeath
Brusna
Kilbeggan (1757-1958 reopen 2007)John Locke & Co
Coleraine (1820-1978) RA Taylor
Around 1820 a mill in Newmarket Street owned by John Rennie was converted to a distillery. This distillery passed to Thomas Black who sold the distillery onto Michael Ferrar in 1837.
Ferrar sold the lease onto a James Moore. On his death the distillery was purchased by Robert Taylor.
Limavady (1805-1914)Young, King & Co Ltd
Limavady is a small town halfway between Coleraine and Londonderry
History records several distilleries in the town between 1750 and 1835 However a David Cather commenced brewing beside the Drumachose Church in 1805 This site passed to his son George Cather Around 1880 a James McLoughlin converted the brewery to a distillery for Young, King & Co Ltd a Belfast Blending Firm
Comber Upper/Lower Comber Distillers Ltd (1825-1953)
Upper converted from a brewery in Killinchy Street by George Johnson and John Miller in 1825
Lower converted from a paper mill by Messrs Bryne and Griffin
John miller bought the lower around 1860 and operated as one business
County Louth
Dundalk (1708-1926)
Malcolm Brown & Co
Established by Mr Gillehan in 1708 on the site of a former Tannery about 50 yards from Dundalks main church in Roden Place.
Purchased by DCL in 1912 the distillery was closed in 1926.
The buildings remained neglected until the mid 1980's when they were purchased by the Urban council who transformed them into the County Museum and Library
County Galoway
Nun's Island (1846 or earlier 1915) H S Persse
Stood on a small island in the river Corrib that separated it from the main town of Galway.
In 1823 a Patrick Joyce was recorded as running a small still on Nuns Island
A Henry Persse purchased the Joyce distillery around 1840 and converted it to a woollen mill However by 1846 it had been converted back to a distillery.
Still operating in1908 however the distillery had closed down by the start of the 1st World War
County Limmerick
Limerick Also Known as Walker's or Thomond Gate (1829-1905)
Archibald Walker
Located besides the River Shannon close to the Thomond Gate Bridge.
In 1802 three distilleries are listed in Limmerick By 1807 all three had ceased trading. In 1818 two distilleries were operating however 4 years later only a John Stein is listed.
In 1846 The Thomond Gate distillery was owned and operated by John Stein Jnr
Around 1879 The distillery was purchased by Alexander Walker who also owned the Vauxhall Distillery in Liverpool and the Adelphi Distillery in Glasgow.
Aw was affected by the whisky downturn around 1900 and sold his distilleries to DCL in 1902 who had closed all three distilleries within a year or two. Eventually the distillery was demolished in 1937 to make way for new homes.
County Kildare
Monasterevan (1784-1921)Cassidy & Co
In 1784 a John Cassidy purchased a Still and house from the widow of John Goslin who had died six years previous. After a fire allegedly caused by a dismissed employee in 1788 he went into partnership with a Dublin Merchant Robert Harvey.
The Company went into voluntary liquidation in December 1921
County Offaly
Birr (1805-1890)W & J Wallace Parsonstown
There were 4 Distilleries during the Middle 1700's However by 1802 this had been reduced to one. In 1818 a second distillery was in production with one of them folding by the mid 1840's the other purchased by the Wallace or Walker Brothers.
Located in Newbridge Street on the River Cam-cor and appears to have been run down by the time of Bernards Visit in 1887
Tullamore (1829-1954) Bernard Daly
Bishops Water (1827-1915) Nicholas Devereux & Co
Built By a consortium of local gentlemen opening in 1827 on the confluence of the Bishop's Water stream and the Horse River
The Company went bankrupt before the 1st world war and distilling had stopped by 1914.
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"UN privacy watchdog says 'little or no evidence' that mass surveillance works". Depends what you mean by 'works'. If it is intended as a method of political repression, it works just fine. As a method of keeping people safe and secure, it is a complete failure. In fact, as we've seen from the latest WikiLeaks revelations about the CIA, spy meddling has greatly increased the dangers from the internet. You reach the point of no return when all your politicians are so blackmailed that even the worst revelations elicit no political response (with the CIA rewarded for its treason and incompetence).
"Former US Diplomats Warn Russia Hysteria Undermining US Interests". "The Democrats’ Dangerous Diversion".
"Top brass dismisses Western media’s alleged ‘leaks’ on Russian special forces in Egypt". This (Rothschild) story doesn't fit recent Russian standards of diplomatic and military care.
More like it: "Russia Will Assist Egypt in Producing Nuclear Electricity".
"Soros Funded Think-Tank: Russia And Syria To Send Migrants Into Germany To Influence Election". "Turkey Says "Migrant Deal Has Ended", May Unleash Millions Of Refugees". The push is to increase the strength of Islamophobic parties in Europe.
"Iranian Spin On Purim: Persia Saved The Jews, Didn’t Want To Kill Them". Comments, and the Book of Esther, agree.
"Postcard from the End of America: Ann Arbor".
More incompetent propaganda from the UN (see also): "UN: Syria jets deliberately hit Damascus water supply".
Barry revisionism: "Scholarly Double Standards And The American Presidency". From mainstream news coverage you wouldn't know he falls in the bottom 20% of Presidents (I think his dragging his feet on some of the Wars For The Jews keeps him out of the bottom 10%).
"Why Saudi Arabia, China And Islamic State Are Courting The Maldives":
"Critics claim the Saudis have gone out of their way to silence opponents by greasing their palms. In one incident, journalists reporting on the potential deal were handed cash-filled envelopes during an event at the Saudi embassy in Male."
"How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing". When you send in your tax form the government just checks it against the information it already has, so it could just send you a bill.
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The Sword is an American heavy metal band that formed in Austin, Texas, in 2003. Since its inception, the band has comprised vocalist and guitarist John "J. D." Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt and bassist Bryan Richie, and currently includes touring drummer Kevin Fender following Trivett Wingo's departure in November 2010. Signed to New York-ba… Read More
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To Take The Black
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Normal! (2011)
After the December riots and the first peaceful marches in Algeria, while the Arab Spring begins in Tunisia and Egypt, Fouzi wants to gather his actors to show them the unfinished editing of the film he made two years ago on the illusion of a young man who seeks to express his artistic ideas. He seeks another point of view, especially an end, and he relies on the reactions of the actors to invent a new resolution of his history, in a country suddenly raised by a wave of disputes. During the projection of the film, the debate takes place: what is the place of art creation in Algeria today? How to create something without confronting censorship? How to resist ? By making movies or walking in streets towards a new revolution? Two stories intertwine, fiction and reality? A new vision of the Algerian youth of today in full political and artistic questioning.
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World|science|December 13, 2018 / 03:20 PM
Biologists are one step closer to creating snake venom in lab
AKIPRESS.COM - Labs growing replicas of snakes’ venom glands may one day replace snake farms, Science News reports.
Researchers in the Netherlands have succeeded in growing mimics of venom-producing glands from multiple species of snakes. Stem cell biologist Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, the Netherlands, reported the creation of these organoids on December 10 at a joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
If scientists can extract venom from the lab-grown glands, that venom might be used to create new drugs and antidotes for bites including from snakes that aren’t currently raised on farms.
Up to 2.7 million people worldwide are estimated to be bitten by venomous snakes each year. Between about 81,000 to 138,000 people die as a result of the bite, and as many as roughly 400,000 may lose limbs or have other disabilities, according to the World Health Organization.
Clevers and colleagues hope to harvest venom from the organoids, which produce more highly concentrated venom than snakes usually make.
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Besiktas JK Istanbul 66
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 65
Local time: 21:45 ABDI IPEKCI SPORTS HALL
Besiktas edges Rytas at buzzer
Besiktas JK Istanbul finished the Turkish Airlines Euroleague regular season in style by topping Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 66-65 in Group D on Thursday. Besiktas finished third in Group D with a 5-5 record. Rytas dropped to 2-8 and lost the chance to reach the Top 16. Daniel Ewing paced the winners with 14 points in his first game with the club. Serhat Cetin added 12 while Patrick Christopher, Curtis Jerrells and Gasper Vidmar scored 10 apiece for Besiktas. Dejan Ivanov led Rytas with 16 points. Leon Radosevic added 11 and 10 rebounds for the guests, who led 15-19 after 10 minutes. Ivanov starred as Rytas remained ahead, 33-39, at halftime. Christopher and Jerrells stepped up after the break, but the guests kept a 51-54 lead after 30 minutes. The fourth quarter saw as many as five lead changes. Rytas led 61-64 with three minutes to go and got its last lead, 64-65, on a free throw by Radosevic. Jerrells came through with the go-ahead put-back layup, but Rytas had a final chance to win the game with 12 seconds left. Janis Blums drove to the basket but the ball danced around the rim and did not fall in.
First quarter: Early run puts Rytas ahead
Mindaugas Katelynas got Rytas going with a three-pointer and Nemanja Nedovic copied him right after that for a 0-6 lead. Damir Markota stepped up with free throws, which Radosevic erased with a close basket. Katelynas kept pacing Rytas with a big basket in the low post, but Jerrells shined with a coast-to-coast basket. Besiktas toughened up on defense, but kept struggling to score at the other end. Both teams went scoreless for more than two minutes until Vidmar stepped up with a two-handed slam. Rytas could not find the way to the basket and Jerrells scored in penetration to get within 8-10. Ivanov scored down low and matched Cetin's three-pointer with a layup-plus-foul to give the guests fresh air at 11-15. Cetin hit 2-of-4 free throws, but Radosevic shined with a layup in transition for a 13-17 score. Cetin stayed on fire with a running layup, which Radosevic matched with a tip-in for a 15-19 Rytas lead after 10 minutes.
Second quarter: Ivanov steps up for the visitors
Both teams struggled to score early in the second quarter until Cetin took over with a fast break layup. Steponas Babrauskas bettered him with a three-pointer, but Randal Falker ignited the crowd with an off-balance basket to make it 19-22. Ivanov took over with a fast break slam, as Rytas started to use long possessions to find open shots. Ronnie Seibutis finished one of those with a wide open three-pointer for a 19-27 lead. A layup by Ivanov made it a double-digit game as Besiktas called timeout. Fikret Can Akin nailed a long jumper, but Predrag Samardziski took over with a put-back basket. Besiktas found a go-to guy in Vidmar, who shined with consecutive layups. Rytas did not panic, however, as free throws by Nedovic and a close basket by Ivanov gave the guests a 25-36 margin. Patrick Christopher made foul shots and a jumper by Ewing kept Besiktas within 29-36. Christopher and Ewing brought Besiktas even closer, 33-37, but a huge dunk by Ivanov fixed the halftime score at 33-39.
Third quarter: Rytas holds on to slim lead
Ewing shined with a driving layup right after the break, but Katelynas buried a three-pointer from the right wing and Seibutis added a mid-range jumper in transition for a 35-44 Rytas lead. Vidmar made free throws and Markota soon brought Besiktas within 39-44. Rytas improved its defense and Nedovic shocked the crowd with a huge jam in traffic. Radosevic soon scored around the basket as Besiktas called timeout at 39-48. Markota tried to change things with a jumper and Jerrells scored in penetration for a 43-48 Besiktas deficit. Radosevic stepped up with a jumper, but Cetin answered from downtown and free throws by Ewing made it 48-50. Blums silenced the crowd with a wild three-pointer, but Ewing quickly answered from downtown to keep Besiktas within 51-53. A free throw by Babrauskas gave Rytas some fresh air, 51-54, at the end of the third quarter.
Fourth quarter: Down to the last shot
Just as at the end of the third quarter, Babrauskas made 1-of-2 free throws early in the fourth period. Both teams went scoreless for more than two minutes until Jerrells buried a jumper. Christopher soon added his own shot to tie the game at 55-55 with six minutes to go. Babrauskas split free throws, but Christopher nailed a catch-and-shoot jumper to put Besiktas back ahead, 57-56. Radosevic rescued Rytas with a fast break dunk and even after Vidmar shined with a put-back slam, free throws by Seibutis and a backdoor layup by Ivanov gave the guests the lead, 59-62. Christopher scored in penetration, but free throws by Ivanov kept Rytas ahead 61-64 with three minutes to go. Ewing ignited the crowd with a layup-plus-foul to tie the game at 64-64 with two minutes to go. Radosevic split free throws and a put-back basket by Jerrells gave Besiktas a 66-65 edge with over a minute left. Ivanov and Seibutis missed from downtown and Rytas sent Markota to the foul line with 12 seconds to go. He missed both attempts, but Blums missed a driving shot which danced around the rim, but did not fall in at the buzzer.
Referees: GARCIA, JUAN CARLOS; GKONTAS, SPIROS; PEREA, OSCAR
Besiktas JK Istanbul 15 18 18 15
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius 19 20 15 11
Besiktas JK Istanbul
4 EWING, DANIEL 24:11 14 4/6 1/3 3/3 2 2 4 4 2 2 3 21
6 OZMIZRAK, KARTAL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10 AKIN, FIKRET CAN 19:09 2 1/3 1 1 2 2 1
13 VIDMAR, GASPER 24:44 10 4/7 2/9 2 4 6 1 1 1 1 1 4 7 10
14 FALKER, RANDAL 11:18 2 1/3 0/1 3 3 1 1 1 4 1
15 CETIN, SERHAT 22:29 12 2/2 2/6 2/4 2 2 2 2 3 2 4 11
22 MARKOTA, DAMIR 28:27 6 1/1 0/3 4/6 2 2 4 2 4 11
23 CHRISTOPHER, PATRICK 26:19 10 3/6 0/1 4/4 1 3 4 1 2 3 4 10
25 HERSEK, BARIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
35 NALGA, CEMAL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
41 OZER, CEVHER 15:31 0/1 0/1 1 1 1 3 -3
55 JERRELLS, CURTIS 27:52 10 5/12 0/2 1 3 4 1 3 1 1 2 3
Totals 200:00 66 21/41 3/16 15/27 13 23 36 13 7 11 2 3 20 25 70
Head coach: KUNTER, ERMAN
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius
4 DULKYS, DEIVIDAS 10:27 0/3 1 1 1 3 1 -3
5 BABRAUSKAS, STEPONAS 22:36 8 1/2 1/3 3/6 3 1 4 2 1 1 3 5 8
10 SEIBUTIS, RENALDAS 21:10 7 1/4 1/4 2/2 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 1 4
13 BUTERLEVICIUS, SIMAS 16:16 0/5 2 2 3 -6
14 SAMARDZISKI, PREDRAG 6:59 4 2/5 3 3 1 1 4
15 KATELYNAS, MINDAUGAS 9:15 8 1/1 2/2 1 1 2 3 7
16 NEDOVIC, NEMANJA 30:02 8 1/5 1/2 3/3 1 5 6 7 1 4 2 3 14
21 JOMANTAS, ARTURAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
32 REDIKAS, DOVYDAS 0:55
43 RADOSEVIC, LEON 33:01 11 5/13 1/2 2 8 10 3 1 5 3 1 3 3 13
44 IVANOV, DEJAN 30:45 16 6/8 0/2 4/5 3 2 5 1 1 1 2 5 20
45 BLUMS, JANIS 18:34 3 0/1 1/4 3 3 1 3 1 1
Head coach: MASKOLIUNAS, DARIUS
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Mapooro Cantu 69
Unicaja Malaga 86
Elan Chalon-Sur-Saone 62
Asseco Prokom Gdynia 95
Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 78
Laboral Kutxa Vitoria 97
Brose Baskets Bamberg 92
Partizan mt:s Belgrade 90
FC Barcelona Regal 75
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Live Your Best Life in Riverside, California!
The City of Riverside is a vibrant college town that welcomes and supports a diverse community. UC Riverside (UCR) shares the city with over 15 other higher education institutes. This makes Riverside home to a mighty collection of college students who are attracted to the city’s perfect balance of small-town friendliness and big-city fun.
We’re talking year-round Main Street festivals that celebrate everything and everyone. Thousands gather each year for our mesmerizing Fourth of July fireworks lit from the peak of our beloved Mount Rubidoux — and month-long wintertime "Festival of Lights," which was voted #1 Best Public Holiday Lights Display in the nation. (USA Today 10 Best, 2018)
For everyday excitement, Riverside has a heavy sprinkling of eclectic eateries, music venues, craft breweries, indie shops, and quaint boba and coffee houses — some owned and operated by UCR alumni.
But what people love the most about Riverside is the location! It’s in the heart of Southern California — only an hour's drive to beaches, deserts, mountains, and metropolitan cities.
Watch "UCR Students Celebrate Riverside's Festival of Lights"
A City for Fun-Seekers
Riverside offers art, adventure, nature, music, comedy, sports and just about anything else you can think of to feed your mind, body, and soul. Broadway plays fresh from New York? We’ve got that. Heart-pounding concerts with world-famous headliners? We've got those, too! Serene hikes that bring you magically close to candy-colored sunrises and sunsets? You better believe we've got that!
We have your kind of fun:
Downtown music, art, cultural and food festivals throughout the year, like the IE Taco Festival, Riverside Tamale Festival, Riverside Dickens Festival and Riverside Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) — just to name a few.
Monthly Riverside Artswalk, featuring art, music, and food.
Karaoke spots all over town.
Public art installations throughout the city, like Mariposa Alley.
LOL (laugh-out-loud) comedians showcased at the Fox Performing Arts Center, including Dane Cook and Jerry Seinfeld.
Affordable bowling and skating all over town.
Carnival rides, arcade games and mini-golf at Castle Park.
Miles of multi-level trails for hikes, bikes, and off-roading adventure.
Yoga studios, health food centers and many places for mindfulness meditation.
277 Sunny Days
79.5°F (26.3°C) annual high temperature
music, dancing, comedy and art venues around campus
movies and concerts at Fairmount Park in the summer
Come to Riverside to study but stay for the scene!
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Want to learn more about Riverside’s deep roots in the citrus industry? Visit the California Citrus State Historic Park, just 10 miles (17 km) from UCR.
A City for Foodies
There is no denying that Riverside’s diverse population plays a major role in the variety of cuisines offered around town. You'll find flavors to satisfy every cultural craving within walking distance of campus or quickly delivered to your door. Hungry for specialty food truck treats? They’re scattered all around the city. Keep your eyes (and noses) open.
Eats For Everyone
Quick and Affordable Bites
Whether you're looking for familiar flavors that remind you of home or want to try something new, Riverside definitely has it. You'll find 10+ pho/ramen spots, 20+ pizza places, 30+ burger joints or 40+ taco shops — all within two miles (3 km) of UCR.
Group Meals with Friends
Share a meal at one of the many fun restaurants that serve enormous plates of nachos, jumbo bowls of pho and all-you-can-eat Sunday brunches. Can't get the group to agree on one type of cuisine? Try Riverside Food Lab, a trendy food hall with 10+ different eateries to choose from.
Date Night & Sophisticated Palates
Treat yourself (or a special friend) to a meal at one of the many fine-dining restaurants that serve dishes like flambéed brie, bourbon maple glazed pork belly, cauliflower risotto, lobster bisque and goat cheese-filled squash blossoms.
In-N-Out has the best affordable burgers, fries and shakes, and it’s only 6 miles (9.5 km) from campus. Check out their "not-so-secret" menu for items like "animal style fries."
Grocery Stores + Farmers Markets
Whether your recipe is American, international or health-conscious, you’ll find a wide variety of ingredients at the 20+ fresh produce markets within 2 miles (3 km) of UCR. And don’t forget about the handful of farmers markets scattered around town throughout the week. This is where you’ll find local honey, handmade hummus, homegrown herbs and fresh-cut flowers.
Convenient Delivery Services
Riverside also participates in popular third-party delivery services like Instacart, Doordash, UberEats, GrubHub and Postmates — which can deliver foods and other necessities from just about any restaurant and store in the area within one hour. Perfect for students who don’t have a car or just want to enjoy the ease of these online delivery services.
Some pizza places deliver as late as midnight, while other restaurants around town are open 24/7 — which is perfect for late-night study sessions.
The Best City
Riverside was voted the best city to live in! (Press Enterprise’s Best of IE, 2017)
Riverside is ranked 3rd most moved to metropolitan area by millennials in the nation. (Time, 2017)
Full of Opportunity
Riverside is ranked 8th in the metro area for retaining college grads. (CityLab, 2018)
Riverside is the 14th safest metro city in America. (safewise.com, 2018)
Learn more about how Riverside is an award-winning city!
A City Full of Help & Resources
UCR is surrounded by many resources and businesses that college students need when starting a new stage in life. You’ll find all your banking, grooming, cell phone and vehicle needs met within a few miles of campus. Local businesses value students and they’re ready to help.
Need to buy some new sheets for your bed or new clothes for yourself? No problem. Riverside has many malls, outlets, flea markets, vintage/antique shops and outdoor promenades that are only a short distance from campus.
If you’re ever in need, on-campus medical services are available to all UCR students Monday-Friday, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. through Student Health Services. For after-hours care, check out all the hospital and health centers in Riverside.
We have two Target stores and one Walmart Supercenter within 5 miles (8 km) of UCR. These popular retailers carry everything from clothing, accessories, household necessities, kitchen appliances, furniture, food, personal care/beauty products, pet care, sports/outdoor equipment, video games, movies, music, books, electronics, school supplies and so much more.
A City to Call Home
We suggest that freshmen students reserve their spot at one of UCR’s many residence halls or off-campus apartments to get the full college experience. But if you’d like to venture out on your own, these are near-to-campus neighborhoods that are most populated by UCR students. Learn about all of Riverside’s different neighborhoods on RiversideCA.gov
University District “College Living”:
Population: Majority of college students.
Housing: Many standard apartment complexes and multi-resident (roommate-style) homes.
Amenities: Student-serving businesses and many diverse restaurants.
Canyon Crest “Suburban Living”:
Population: Mix of college students, young professionals and families.
Housing: Mix of luxury condos, deluxe apartments and single-family homes.
Amenities: “Everything-you-need” shopping center and parklike surroundings.
Downtown “City Living”:
Population: Artists, musicians, young professionals, college students and families.
Housing: Victorian homes renovated into apartments, luxury lofts and Craftsman-style homes.
Amenities: Music venues, art galleries, nightlife and many restaurants.
The cost of living in Riverside is much lower than metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. This makes renting or sharing an off-campus apartment or house a lot more affordable.
A City to Work In
If you are looking for an internship, seasonal, part-time or full-time job, you can start with Handshake, an online job search tool where you will find a list of job openings from local companies who are looking for students like you. Search from the comfort of your room 24/7 or, create a few search agents that will notify you via email when a match is made.
Find a job on handshake
Forbes ranked Riverside as one of The Best Places for Business and Careers (2018).
A City That’s Easy to Get Around In
Riverside supports many modes of transportation that are safe, affordable and convenient. Many community members walk, skateboard, bike or use motorized scooters*.
UCR students can use their R’Card (student ID) to get FREE rides on RTA busses. People who are venturing further away from campus or beyond the city can also pay for rides through taxis, Uber, Lyft, Zipcar rentals or Metrolink trains.
UCR also provides students with a FREE Point-to-Point Shuttle Service that takes students from a designated on-campus meeting point to their off-campus home, as long as it’s within the coverage area.
Please note that UCR has transportation policies that are separate from the City of Riverside:
*Motorized scooters are NOT permitted on campus. You can ride them through the city and to the edge of campus but not onto (or through) the campus.
Due to limited parking availability on campus, first-year/freshman students who are living in UCR’s Residence Halls are prohibited from bringing a vehicle on campus.
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Go solo. Grab some friends. Or, find out how UCR’s Outdoor Excursions can help you visit all of these places.
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National Orange Show
10 miles/15 km (from UCR)
Downtown Redlands
15 miles/25 km
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65 miles/105 km
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Advisory › Artificial intelligence: a matter of trust
Artificial intelligence: a matter of trust
We sit down at New York’s Bryant Park Grill to discuss how the combination of humans and machines will lead to improved accuracy, relevancy and trust.
Traci Gusher-Thomas
Principal, Data & Analytics and AI, KPMG US
Sreekar Krishna
Managing Director, Data & Analytics, KPMG US
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Dennis Mortensen: So any good assistant will have some understanding of the boss she works for, and Amy works for me.
Joie Chen: Amy is not a real person?
Dennis Mortensen: And she is not a real person.
Joie Chen: So we are in this era where machines are making more and more decisions even in a place like a restaurant, the Bryant Park Grill. Data drives what happens here, too, whether it's menu planning or produce buying…what’s the future for that?
Sreekar Krishna: Artificial intelligence is now coming into play to bring together data, analytics, and the human decision process. They're all coming together under the umbrella of AI and we are now transforming the way KPMG is doing our business.
Traci Gusher: There's a factor of trust and quality in the application of AI. I would say that that goes directly back to the trust and the quality and the data under the AI.
Dennis Mortensen: So we're a tiny company, right? We're a 150-man band, but we've got a hundred people doing nothing…
Sreekar Krishna: …But data cleaning
Dennis Mortensen: …But data cleaning.
Sreekar Krishna: Garbage in, garbage out. Right? If you don't clean the data, we are going to end up creating machines that learn the noise rather than the signal. How do we take the mistrust out of the loop … by building the confidence chain.
Adam Devine: So taking it out of the loop…by putting humans into the loop.
Sreekar Krishna: Into the loop.
Traci Gusher: Into the loop.
Adam Devine: You build the confidence in the machines.
Sreekar Krishna: Yes.
Traci Gusher: There is no such thing as I'm going to plug this in and, BAM, you've got great AI and automation. We're not at an autonomous self-learning appliance yet.
Dennis Mortensen: What we do at x.ai is we run a network. That means that when we service one person, we can do kind of okay. If we service 100,000 people, then all of a sudden we have this superhuman assistant that can learn from 100,000 people.
Adam Devine: The whole principle is pairing intelligent automation, machine learning robotics with people to handle the exceptions that machines can't do, and then making the machines smarter incrementally by taking in the information from a human interaction.
Traci Gusher: Yes. The more we interact with these devices, the smarter they will get and the better they will get over time. I don't think we've even begun to touch where it could go.
Adam Devine: So if you’re able to generate good quality data at scale, and you can automate the process of applying that data to an AI system, suddenly, if you're a giant bank, anti-money laundering is solved.
Traci Gusher: Right.
Adam Devine: Know-your-customer is solved.
Sreekar Krishna: At KPMG we are seeing the flooding of data, it is fantastic. I mean, this is the time to look at what AI can do and how it can bring greener pastures on the other side.
Traci Gusher: The most beneficial use cases for AI are in the back office and the middle office and machine-to-machine. There are financial benefits. There are creativity benefits. There are strategic benefits. There's so much there.
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Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Yerevan 1996/1997
Posted on January 16, 2020 January 16, 2020 by Brad Feuerhelm
“Armenia and Its role in the central Caucasus make its geography of special geo-political reference given its access point, along with Azerbaijan and Georgia to both the Caspian and Black seas and their lucrative conditions of speculative petrol potential”.
Yerevan, the Armenian capital is built from several considerations of the volcanic. In one sense, there are the tremulous associations with political and ideological changes of a city that dates as far back to the 8th Century B.C. to consider. Yerevan is one of the longest inhabited and therefore civilized geographies in the world. The walls of its oldest structure, The Erebruni Fortress (translated Fortress of Blood) still stands from the time of its inception in 782 B.C. by the city founder King Argishti I. The fortress overlooks the teaming and historically prosperous Ararat Plain and Aras River and Yerevan as a whole has been made home to numerous changes to the rule of its authority since its beginning.
Yerevan, due to its historical and geographical junction of the steppe region and its economic capital role has attracted the attentions of regional and international interests since its beginning. Historically, it has found itself mired between Iranian, Mongol and Russian interests and has also provided a shield for Armenians fleeing Ottoman persecution from its Western neighbor Turkey. Its historical importance more recently was that of being made a province mandated by Russia and claimed as Soviet territory until it challenged Russian authority 1988. It re-claimed its full independence in 1991. It has existed throughout with a pivotal sense of its borders and its potential to return to autonomous rule.
The second consideration of the volcanic is that Yerevan and many of its architectural and historical sites are crafted from a pink volcanic stone called tuff. Tuff is an igneous rock that is formed from the cooling lava of a volcanic eruption. It has been used since ancient times as a building material as its relatively soft and porous surface could be cut or re-formed with simple tools into large blocks and could be transported with relative ease compared to other natural rock to building sites and outposts. It is found throughout the world and has been used in this manner by a wide range of cultures. The rock itself differs in the color of appearance, but the tuff local to Yerevan maintains a pinkish hue that informs the city’s nickname “The Pink City”. This moniker has been adopted for the way in which the sun glints off the local stone casting the many buildings who have been built with its material into a pinkish glow. Some of the earliest architectural points of interest in the city are made from the material and it adorns most of the earlier important cultural sites such as the Erebruni Fortress and notably the Republic Square.
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Yerevan is again experiencing a change due to the increased economics of the region. Armenia and Its role in the central Caucasus make its geography of special geo-political reference given its access point, along with Azerbaijan and Georgia to both the Caspian and Black seas and their lucrative conditions of speculative petrol potential. Heavy investment has given the local authority of Yerevan the capacity to re-scope the city into a larger capital with contemporary interests aimed at tourism and the establishment of banking and investment. As money flows into the capital, vast transformations have swept through the city, notably the large amounts of construction and building works that have been erected or are in transit to completion. The third volcanic notion here is progress and capital. Since 2000, the capital has seen vast changes to both its infrastructure and its architectural heritage. Many former Soviet buildings, including much the Soviet housing in Yerevan have been razed to make room for newer, more modern high-rise flats within the city. Though a number of important UNESCO-oriented Soviet architectural sites and details remain, many of the common or unexceptional buildings are lost to history.
“Many former Soviet buildings, including much the Soviet housing in Yerevan have been razed to make room for newer, more modern high-rise flats within the city. Though a number of important UNESCO-oriented Soviet architectural sites and details remain, many of the common or unexceptional buildings are lost to history”.
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s fascination with exotic culture and its photographic example have the merits on one hand of being about seeing “otherness” for all its implied quantity of term, but is also about as a net positive, the documentation of “otherness” before loss or change can occur. She has photographed widely in the Middle East and Asia Minor. Her work is just now being examined for its dexterity of purpose, genuine elegance and spectacular technical form. Yerevan 1996/1997 (MACK) is a small, but well-timed book. It assesses a small look at the Armenian capital before the rise to progress that has swept through the city resulting in a loss of its Soviet ghosts since year 2000.
Though the book exceeds in not being strictly about Soviet Architecture per se, with its implied constructivism or irrationally conditioned brutality, the work is however about place in the hinterland of time between the shifting scope of Soviet ideology and Armenian independence. Within, the city itself still bears many of the hallmarks of Soviet diktat of social programming from housing to lack of common financial access and the general fugue state that occurs between two opposing goal posts of change is evident-corrosive and corrugated metal fruit stands and tinman auto repair sheds litter the terrain along with a cast of vernacular architectural vestigial tails such as the “Best Friends Air tickets” tobacco hut and the ever-precarious tramcar bridge over the rushing rapids of the Aras River. The obligatory Soviet bus stop does make an appearance, but it is short and its character completely in-line with the rest of the images in the book.
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What is makes the book really exceptional is its design and Schulz-Dornburg’s more casual attempt at image-making reflected within. As opposed to her larger opus The Land In-Between (MACK, 2018), Yerevan 1996/1997 is a smaller, less grand attempt to think through the indexicality of the photographic moment. Yerevan, or the image of it, is arrested here from a very particular moment and corroborates through the relaxed and diminutive design the notion of passing comment. The less formal concerns of larger cameras or larger conceptual frameworks promotes the condition that thee image have a vernacular use, a snapshot familiarity that is unconcerned with the pretense of artistic affair.
The small size of the book and the images themselves “pasted” to an Armenian school book remind the viewer of what instantaneous or quick 35mm images can look like if set to the correct size for viewing, nostalgic dimensions or not. It is as if these images came back developed in their paper envelope from the local drug store kiosk in Yerevan and their 4×6 inch size matriculates their aims, with their “scrapbooking” into an old educational book a point that reveals their potential for a more universal reading.
“The small size of the book and the images themselves “pasted” to an Armenian school book remind the viewer of what instantaneous or quick 35mm images can look like if set to the correct size for viewing, nostalgic dimensions or not. It is as if these images came back developed in their paper envelope from the local drug store kiosk in Yerevan and their 4×6 inch size matriculates their aims, with their “scrapbooking”
The repetition within the work of “The Twins”-the two large housing units with circular geometric windows that Schulz-Dornburg photographs from interior and exterior positions of elevation concern her fascination with the formal, but also how “to see” architecture with limited technical possibility. You will note that she takes a similar attitude to the tram bridge that crosses the Aras River. Here she approaches the vernacular metal passageway with some trepidation and curiosity photographing the yellow exterior in frame one, perhaps two meters from gaining access. In frame two, she photographs the river from the window of the tramcar from an adjunct position and in frame three of the sequence we see the tramcar bridge from further away, but on the same bank of the river from which she shot frames one and two. It is as if she did not make the crossing, herself filled with doubt, yet she needed by the strict accord of her fascination to photograph the interior.
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Further throughout the book, you see something fairly absent in most of her work-people! Though the immovable and architectural images remain her focus, on occasion you will see a face looking out a window, find empathy with the auto repair local and most (in her case) unnervingly find yourself gazing at a little boy on a tight rope-a picture that recalls the Parisian humanist tradition of Izis or Robert Doisneau. It is compelling to have these images of humans grace her book sparingly. Schulz-Dornburg stands at a strange precipice with her work as it is generally speaking completely about culture and the remnants of human civilizations. Conversely, most of her work refuses to employ people within the frame perhaps out of respect, but also likely out of formal interests. The few times that people enter the book, they serve as reminders of place and are considered the constituents of concern fathomed between the shifting tides of history and the visible architectural symbols that define their habitat.
Yerevan 1996/1997 is not about defining an artist’s career in the same manner that The Land In-Between did. It is a small book, priced economically that explores but one of the many presumed projects that Schulz-Dornburg likely has in her archives that should be seen in a wider remit than simply being a photography book. The material applies to historical enthusiasts as well as photographic and I am positive that the book fits on the shelves of architectural offices or libraries just as easily as photographic centers. It is a small book that crosses the potential to be examined by audiences outside of our own and we should see that also as a net plus. I think the design, with its mix of collaged or aggregated Armenian vernacular makes the book quite sweet. The letter in the back to Schulz-Dornburg’s daughter also emphasizes the personal and makes the book more of a caring letter to a family member-an insight into a loved one’s past, a fragment for contemplation and interior knowledge. Highly Recommended.
Soundtrack: Clock DVA-Buried Dreams
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Yerevan 1996/1997
(All Rights Reserved. Text @ Brad Feuerhelm. Images @ Ursula Schulz-Dornburg.)
Posted in Architecture, Documentary, Masters, Photobook, Photobook Reviews, Photography, Photography Essays, Politics, Reviews, Russia, Vintage and tagged Armenia Armenia & Photography, Brad Feuerhelm, brutalist architecture, Constructivist Architecture, female photographer, Fortress of Blood, humanist photography, humanist tradition, Izis, Mack, Photobook, photobook review, Photography & Architecture, RObert Doisneau, Soviet Architecture, Soviet empire, Soviet ghosts, Soviet Union, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Yerevan, Yerevan 1996/1997.
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July 13, 2016 · 13:45
Nintendo: Once and Future Overlords of Gaming (and the World?)
On July 6, Nintendo/Niantic released the “augmented reality” game, Pokemon Go. In this new instalment of the franchise, players are required to move around the world, the real world, in order to capture monsters digitally super-imposed onto the landscape around them and observed/detected/captured with their smartphone.
While an interesting idea, I was a little cynical when I first read up on this mechanism of the game. Why cynical? Well it seems to me that Nintendo has been trying to incorporate physical activity into gaming since the release of the Wii in 2006 (although in a broader sense they have been trying to get gamers out of the house more since the release of the Game Boy back in the 80s). While I appreciate this good intent, I remember that on the handful on occasions I played Wii, after the initial novelty had worn off, I kinda just wanted to play sprawled out on a couch in a dark room with the blinds drawn and wearing dirty track pants, like nature and God had intended.
But this is different. The memes tell the tale.
Or, most tellingly…
People are literally being mobilized to go out into the world in a way that video games have not been able to (nor sought to) make them thus far.
Far-Fetched? Maybe, Maybe Not…
Why is this incredible? Well, Nintendo, or more specifically Niantic has figured out a way to not only get people to move around in the world, but has theoretically also found a way to get mass groups of people to all congregate in certain places at certain times. If you look at Niantic’s last augmented reality game, Ingress, you see a world where people try and dominate the global-digital landscape with whatever colour they have chosen, blue or green.
They can “attack” and thus take over any region held by the opposing team provided they physically go to that area. However, beyond co-ordinated attacks or other such player-driven events, there is nothing driving people to be at a certain place at a certain time. In the case of Pokemon GO, all the Pokemon (at least those which have been released thus far) seem to be distributed more or less evenly in the countries where the game can played*, taking into account of course that certain types are only found in certain geographic conditions i.e. water-type Pokemon only found by bodies of water, etc. But as suggested by the above Bear Grylls meme, what’s to prevent Niantic from placing a Legendary (thus rare and prized) Pokemon like Articuno, somewhere inaccessible like Everest Base Camp? Nothing, save for the limitations of Google Maps.
But let’s take it a step further. What if Niantic released a statement saying that a certain incredibly rare Pokemon would appear only on the lawn of the White House, and then only for twelve hours? People would MOB D.C.!
Okay, this scenario is probably beyond a “step further” but I think you get my point. Even if Niantic did a 5-day Pokemon appearance event in a certain city, we could see mass-migrations of people. How serious am I about that? Well, according to Wikipedia, the app, after less than a week of being released, and then only officially in three countries, topped daily usage of Facebook, Tinder, Snapchat and Instagram. That means, it’s beating out people’s libidos and narcissism -no mean feat.
The effort put into capturing Pokemon may seem unbelievable to non-gamers, but is it that surprising? We take our games very seriously especially when there is a ranking structure and an opportunity to demonstrate our prowess and superiority. MMOs in recent years have seen this vulnerability exploited as people will stay indoors on a beautiful, sunny Saturday playing games online in order to take advantage of Double XP weekends. It’s about bragging rights and Pokemon GO differs only in one critical arena -your couch is the last place you wanna be.
Artificial Scarcity
I’m fond of talking about the power of scarcity to motivate people and games truly exploit that power. Whether it’s reddit karma, Pokemon in your pokedex or having a Vex Mythoclast in Destiny, these are things that take work to accumulate/acquire. It’s hilarious because they are digital constructs -lines of code, which by their nature are infinite. But, limit their available quantity or occurrence, attach some status to possessing them and all of a sudden people will scramble.
For now, this is all guess-work and hypothesizing on my part. But it seems foolish not to make the thought-experiment. Maybe this potential hasn’t occurred to Niantic/Nintendo or maybe they are just waiting for an opportune time to mobilize their willing army of Pokemon trainers against the regimes of the world.
All I know is, if it turns out that there are to be different Pokemon in different parts of the world, I will be on the front lines becoming the greatest Pokemon master of them all.
-Andre Guantanamo
*The game has at this point only officially been released in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, but lo and behold, here is a picture of me playing it in Canada…
Fuck the P0-lice!
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When employees at a store asks if they can help you find anything, it's usually a meaningless gesture, or at worst, a threat of surveillance, but when Dick Vivian asks you what you're looking for when you walk into Rooky Ricardo's Records, he wants to help you find the funkiest, silkiest tunes he has — of which he has a lot.
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Whore Next Door: Ashley Madison
By Siouxsie Q Wednesday, Sep 9 2015
Photograph by Isabel Dresler/isabeldresler.com
On July 20, a group of hackers who call themselves the Impact Team demanded the shutdown of AshleyMadison.com, the dating site for people looking for extramarital affairs. The Impact Team threatened a massive leak of private customer information, including names, addresses, credit card information, and sexual predilections. The hackers gave Avid Life Media (ALM), the company that owns Ashley Madison, one month to comply. After the deadline came and went, the hackers made good on their promise, and posted the site's massive database in late August.
The 37 million leaked user accounts show the world what those of us in the sex trade have known for centuries: Married men want to have affairs and will pay good money to do so without risk.
The site promised discretion and took great pains to perpetuate a fantasy for its millions of male users, namely that there existed a utopia of hot and horny women eager to engage in infidelity. Women could use the site for free, while men had to pay to initiate any kind of communication with the millions of (mostly fake) female profiles.
An incredible analysis of the data dump by Gizmodo's Annalee Newitz confirmed what the Impact Team had claimed in their initial mission statement: The number of actual females on the site was negligible. It turned out that a huge number of the interactions that straight men had on the site were with artificially intelligent fembots inhabiting fake profiles created by Ashley Madison employees.
A former employee even tried to sue ALM in 2012, claiming she suffered a repetitive stress injury from having to create such a large number of fake female profiles — 1,000 in just one month.
"The purpose of these profiles is to entice paying heterosexual male members to join and spend money on the website," she told Toronto courts.
"Ninety percent of actual users are male," Impact Team wrote in a statement. "Chances are your man signed up on the world's biggest affair site, but never had one. He just tried to. If that distinction matters."
In the wake of the Ashley Madison hack, people have lost jobs, resigned from public office, and — in at least two cases — committed suicide when faced with the humiliation of being exposed as a cheater (or someone who thinks about cheating). The Impact Team was hoping to target ALM, as they took issue with the fake profiles, as well as the $20 "full-delete" service that over-promised and under-delivered. But it's the users who faced the brunt of the consequences. (Curiously, this incident hasn't meant the end of Ashley Madison. ALM claims the hack has been a boon for them, with hundreds of thousands of new accounts created during the last week of August, 87,596 of them women.)
However it plays out in the end, the Ashley Madison hack shows us that the desire to cheat is common. It's the norm, not the exception.
Cheating can have unpleasant consequences, but so can divorce, and many choose the former in lieu of the latter. This hack is destroying lives, and for what? Is thinking about cheating really a crime worthy of suicide?
I have affairs professionally.
Many of my clients are married, and most have no desire to leave their wives.
Some are in sexless marriages for a variety of reasons (illness, postpartum depression, disparate sex drives or interests), and some have perfectly healthy sexual relationships with their wives, but like having the occasional crush or midnight tryst.
They say that seeing me helps them stay married.
Without exception, they all love their wives very much.
Sometimes they brag or gush about their wives so much that eventually, I grow to love those women a little bit, too.
When I hear them talk about their marriage and family with such tenderness and care, I understand how high the stakes are, and I feel as committed to keeping the secret as they are.
I know that my time playing mistress is what keeps them together and what threatens to tear them apart, should I be found out.
I take the trust they put in me very seriously.
The moral of the story is: Next time, hire a professional. You'll know she's not a robot (for now), and in all likelihood she knows how to keep a secret.
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September 24, 2011 June 9, 2015 alasdairstuart
DC Day 1-Stormwatch
The Warren Ellis run on Stormwatch was the first long term run on a series that I genuinely connected with. The idea of a UN-controlled superhuman crisis intervention team was always an attractive one but under Ellis the book became something tighter, more mature than it had been before. Ellis wrote Stormwatch officers as humans, people with ideals and agendas and flaws all struggling against a job which often seemed designed to stop them doing any real good in the world. That constant struggle, between what was right and what was necessary ultimately spawned the sequel book, The Authority, and indirectly changed the visual and intellectual grammar of Western superhero comics for most of the following decade.
For me though, Stormwatch was always a more attractive concept than The Authority. Stormwatch were mortals, normal people with abnormal abilities trying to do their best and often failing. They were human as well as superhuman and that humanity was one of the book’s most important elements. It’s also one of the elements that Paul Cornell’s relaunch of the book keeps in place.
Cornell reimagines Stormwatch as something closer to the Knights Templar, an organisation that has existed for centuries and which has tasked itself with protecting the Earth from superhuman and supernatural threats. Cornell cleverly weaves his other book, Demon Knights, into the background, establishing them as an early iteration of Stormwatch and in doing so neatly moving the book into territory closer to Jonathan Hickman’s excellent Marvel series SHIELD, than Ellis’ previous run on Stormwatch.
This historical context also provides a broader canvas for Cornell, and he clearly relishes exploring the idea of Stormwatch being something closer to a monastic order than a small fire team of soldiers. Adam One, one of the new characters is a good example of this. An immortal strategic advisor, Adam is equal parts priest and general, a man who has advised world leaders but can’t quite remember some of their names. History but with the corners knocked off, superhumans who were suits to work instead of capes. Stormwatch was always a curiously English type of superhuman comic and under Cornell’s reign that only looks like it’s increasing. He’s aided no end by Miguel Sepulveda’s clean, rounded, expressive art.
The first issue does a neat job of exploring what Stormwatch does in this new iteration, as one team is sent to Moscow to try and recruit a new member, a second is dispatched to investigate a mysterious artifact and, alone on the moon, Harry Tanner discovers something impossible just as something impossible discovers him. If the book has a weakness it’s that it tries to do too much in one issue as Cornell introduces established characters, a modified status quo and newcomers at the same time as moving three linked plotlines along. They all work, and will no doubt all dovetail but all three could benefit from a little bit of extra space. Harry Tanner, the splendidly named Eminence of Blades, in particular is a fascinating character in a difficult situation and I could have stood to read a lot more of him. I suspect, as the series goes on, we will.
Interestingly, this minor reservation actually gives the book a different feel. There’s a real sense of Stormwatch being a global organisation dealing with global threats and the fact that each of the missions presented here is equally important drives home how impossible their job is. Stormwatch are the line between us and chaos and the line as it’s presented here, is stretched pretty thinly, even with the addition of DC mainstay the Martian Manhunter and newcomers like Harry and Adam One.
Stormwatch feels idfferent to every other book in the launch. There’s a cautious altruism to the way the characters are presented, a desire to do the right thing even though they may not be thanked for it, that’s tempered with the pragmatism of working in the military. That’s ultimately the glue that holds the book together, through three plot lines, moments of gleeful pop culture invention and the combination of two universes’ worth of characters; the greater good. Stormwatch have been reimagined as the guardians of humanity and I can’t think of anyone better suited to the job.
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Great review! I enjoyed the first two issues and am looking forward to seeing where this series is going.
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Corbyn’s persecution and a song of defiance on the Occidental Express
August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018 Alison Chabloz
During the years I spent teaching in Swiss secondary schools, in-training days were often orientated towards how to motivate a class of musically mixed-ability teenagers to sing together tunefully and with conviction. One of these training days I remember in particular, given by a male colleague who, during a football World Cup championship, had filmed all the participating teams singing their respective national anthems. The lesson was clear: more often than not, teams who sang with passion and heartfelt conviction went on to gain satisfactory results.
International sporting events have long been one of the subtle ways by which Globalists have been able to implement their agenda of mass non-white immigration into European countries. Most noticeable in football, cricket and athletics, multiracial “national” teams have in recent decades become increasingly present on track, field and pitch. Can a cricketer, for example of Pakistani origin born in England, truly harbour the same patriotism for his adoptive country than an Englishman born and bred in England whose northern European genetic makeup is an integral part of his origin and identity?
Sporting professionals who happen to be British citizens born of foreign parents have the choice whether they compete for Britain or for the country from which their parents originated. Is this fair? Does this not raise questions of possible conspiracy? Would this be one reason why English national teams in so many disciplines tend to produce disappointing results?
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True Rookie Cards of Tony Gwynn
Posted by Victor Roman Sr on February 11, 2018 in Baseball Greats
My last post was on the newly inducted Hall of Famer and former San Diego Padre Trevor Hoffman. As a blogger, I often seek for something to inspire my next post. Hit with the flu and feeling a bit under the weather this past week or so, all I wanted was rest. I finally mustered up enough strength to defend myself from my family who accused me of being a baby when I’m sick, of course, I disagreed and opted to watch some television. I came across an MLB Network Premier. It was a documentary on Hall of Famer and also former San Diego Padre, Tony Gwynn.
As always “The Network” did a great job of portraying the man, the ballplayer, the accomplishments and shortcomings of Mr. Padre, a nickname given to Tony by beloved fans. Before we get into his rookie baseball cards allow me to make mention a few things you should remember about Tony Gwynn.
Tony Gwynn died at the young age of 54 of salivary gland cancer allegedly caused by years of chewing tobacco. His tragic death caused the hearts of baseball fans everywhere to mourn. Beyond statistics and accomplishments, fans mourned because Tony the man was a man full of life. His charismatic personality and big blustering laugh were contagious. He was transparent and personable. When he was around everyone seemed to be in a better mood.
Many consider him as one of the best and most consistent hitters in baseball history. Gwynn was a contact hitter and specialized in hitting the ball to the opposite field. He was able to expand the strike zone and consistently turned those pitches into base hits. His batting philosophy was to, “see the ball and react.” He focused his energies on being comfortable at the plate, having a fluid swing, and making solid contact.
His batting philosophy and disciplined work ethic produced these results: 15x All-Star | 5x Gold Glover | 7x Silver Slugger | 8x Batting Title Champion. He never hit below .309 in any full season, and he struck out only 434 times in 9,288 at-bats! And in 1994 he flirted with a .400 batting average, which no one had achieved since Ted Williams hit .407 in 1953, but the MLB Strike of 1994 cut the season short, he finished with a .394 that year. His career stat line reads: Lifetime Batting Average .338 | Hits 3,141 | Runs Batted In 1,138. Remarkable numbers by one of the most respected men in the game of baseball.
OFFICIAL ROOKIE CARDS OF HOF TONY GWYNN
1983 Donruss, Card No. 598 (shop eBay)
The 1983 Donruss baseball set was the third year offering given to collectors by the manufacturer but collectors quickly showed their disapproval of the product, the reason, lack of innovation. The sentiment was, “three years of the same old, same old.” Photo is outlined with a thick red line, shows the upper torso of Tony Gwynn but often times print was fuzzy and riddled with print spots. In fact, this one is notorious for having a print spot right at the tip of his nose. I’ve seen hundreds of these all with the same spot. The Donruss logo and year were moved to the upper left corner. The baseball bat and glove images give us player names and teams.
The card backs were identical to the 82 design except for the yellow text boxes instead of the traditional blue. One thing these card backs offered that others didn’t was the player’s current “Contract Status.”
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for $5.00-$10.00; graded mint copies (9’s) sell between $15.00-$30.00 and gem mint copies (10’s) sell in the $65.00-$85.00
1983 Fleer, Card No. 360 (shop eBay)
Like Donruss, Fleer also debuted in 1981 but the first couple of years were rough, they were overwhelmed with print run malfunctions, errors, and miscuts. However, practice makes perfect and by 1983 the Fleer brand worked all the bugs out. They offered collectors this beautiful, crisp, clean design. Portrait photo of Tony has rounded corners outlined with a thin black line. Team logo at lower left corner, Fleer brand logo on the upper left corner and simple font for player name and position sit on the lower right corner.
The card back gives us something new. A small black and white photo of Tony on the upper right-hand corner, this is the first time a photo was included in the back since the ’71 Topps set. Minor league stats are a plus too. A Did You Know? segment exists but to me seems unrelated and is utilized more as a filler. Another negative is Tony’s bio, it sits on the bottom of the card and appears to be disconnected from the rest of the card. Overall, a great product by Fleer.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for $5.00-$10.00; graded mint copies (9’s) sell between $15.00-$25.00 and gem mint copies (10’s) sell in the $60.00-$85.00 range.
1983 Topps, Card No. 482 (shop eBay)
The ’83 Topps set was a modern-day upgrade to their ’63 design. We get an action photo of Tony appearing to be coming out of the batter’s box en route to first base. The photo is outlined in a thin green line but please appreciate and notice the way the Topps brand logo, in the upper right corner, weaves its way into the photo outline. But what makes this design an all-time favorite among collectors is the small color portrait photo about the size of a quarter that sits on the lower-left corner of the card. Tony’s name, position, and the team sits on the lower right of card each with a different colored font, this lower section of the card is outlined in a thin brown line giving great eye-appeal and separation to the card design.
The card back is horizontal in design. The orange text boxes are printed on brownish cardboard stock with black font. Two vector images present player bio, minor league stats, and player highlights. The ’83 Topps Tony Gwynn RC is considered his favorite and most valued American rookie card.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for $7.00-$15.00; graded mint copies (9’s) sell between $40.00-$50.00 and gem mint copies (10’s) sell in the $450.00-$525.00 range.
1983 O-Pee-Chee, Card No. 143 (shop eBay)
The best way to describe this one, it is an abridged version of the ’83 Topps set, with some differences of course. Card design at first glance mimics the American Topps version quite a bit. But I typically like to quote Rafiki from the movie Lion King when he says, “looooook haaaaaaaarder” and you will notice: the primary difference is in number of cards in the set. This one has 396 cards as opposed to 792 cards in the Topps set. O-Pee-Chee is the Canadian version of Topps and primarily depicted full 25 man rosters of the late Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos of course, which were former Canadian MLB franchises. The remainder of the set only depicted partial rosters of the remaining teams. Also, notice wherever the name Topps was at, is now replaced with O-Pee-Chee and under Tony’s name is his position in both English and French. The card back wherever applicable is bilingual too and has a much lighter cardboard stock. In case it wasn’t obvious O-Pee-Chee is owned by Topps.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for $3.00-$12.00; graded mint copies (9’s) sell between $80.00-$200.00 and on October 18, 2016, a gem mint 10 sold for $1,302.00 respectively.
Tony Gwynn Stats | Baseball Reference.com https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gwynnto01.shtml (accessed February 8, 2018).
Wikipedia contributors, “Tony Gwynn,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tony_Gwynn&oldid=817355187 (accessed February 8, 2018).
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Boy hit by car in Fayetteville
Police said Darren Minor was hit while riding his bicycle just before 2:30 p.m.
Investigators said he was riding his bike down a hill on Barber Avenue and didn't stop in time at the stop sign at the intersection of Boros Drive and Barber Avenue. The child then struck the front corner of a Honda Accord.
John Hutchings told ABC11 that he saw the accident unfold.
"I turned around and saw the boy in the air hitting the ground," said Hutchings. "He wasn't moving at all and that's what scared us at first. I had my buddy call 911. I checked for a pulse. I got a pulse, ran back got some towels and a blanket then he started breathing, and we knew everything was going to be good after that."
Police said Minor was not wearing a helmet.
He was transported to Cape Fear Valley Hospital and was last listed in critical condition with head and leg injuries.
Police have not released the identity of the woman motorist. No charges have been filed.
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