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The open, social web
I was in Europe for the past week and half, ending up in Leuven, Belgium to speak at the Twiist.be conference. The topic of my talk was “The Open, Social Web.” (PDF)
http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=thedisoproject-090515121321-phpapp02&rel=0&stripped_title=the-open-social-web
At first I struggled to develop a compelling or sensible narrative for the talk — as there is so much to it that I could probably give a dozen or more 45 minutes talks on the subject. With some long-distance encouragement from Brynn, I eventually arrived at the topic I wanted to cover that lead to a conclusion that has largely been implicit in my work so far.
Continue reading “The open, social web”
Author Chris MessinaPosted on May 18th Categories Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, DiSo, Open source, Society & economy, Web buildingTags diso project, nascar, Tim O'Reilly, trim:key=fj_osweb6 Comments on The open, social web
Does OpenID need to be hard?
Prompted by posts by Randy Reddig and Tony Stubblebine and a conversation with Elliott Kember, I wanted to address, yet again, the big fat stinking elephant in the room: OpenID usability and the paradox of choice.
Elliott proposed a pretty clear picture of what he thinks OpenID should look like on StackOverflow, given the relative value of each provider to him:
Compare that to how it actually looks today:
I’m with him. I get it.
We’re at this crossroads where it really doesn’t matter which OpenID provider you use — because while it might save you the hassle of creating yet another password — there’s little else that you can do with an OpenID beyond that.
And, if you’ve already got more than one OpenID, not much exists to help you decide which OpenID provider you should use (many people tell me: “I hate OpenID! I’ve got like 15 OpenIDs and I never know which one to use!”).
So on the one hand, we’ve done a poor job of building out the value of using an OpenID, and on the other, have failed to explain what it means to have an OpenID (or several) or how to go about deciding which one to use and why (hat tip to OpenID Explained for taking a crack at it).
Meanwhile, there’s a tension between the convenience of having one reusable and durable identity against the desire to express many aspects of one’s identity with many separate IDs, resulting in complex user interfaces.
Fortunately, OpenID as a technology can serve both needs, but communicating and demonstrating that effectively has remained a challenge.
Putting OpenID in context
For my part, I’ve used the metaphor of credit cards to try to explain OpenID:
Online identity is moving from its “cash and check” era to the era of “credit cards”.
Before the advent of charge cards, payment systems were decentralized — inefficient, cumbersome, and prone to fraud. There were a number of different, non-interoperable payment mechanisms that took 30+ years to get straightened out. Indeed, the credit card system that we take for granted today (so much so that airlines have moved to relying on them as the sole form of in-flight payment) only came about in the late 90s, a good 70 years after Western Union began issuing the first credit cards.
Imagine OpenID taking 70 years to get mass adoption!!
Taking this metaphor at face value, it’s clear that we’re in the neonatal stages of the build-out of the OpenID network and still have much work ahead of us. Fortunately, adoption cycles have also accelerated — I don’t have the actual numbers off-hand, but I can tell you that it took longer than four years to get the first 500 million credit card users!
As with credit cards, you can have as many OpenIDs as you like for different purposes. I presume that common divisions will fall along work, personal, and affinity lines:
…and of course there are cases I’ve not even considered yet
To close out this metaphor, picking an identity provider should be like picking a bank or credit card provider: as a fourth-party service provider that advocates for your interest, since you’re their customer! Today, to Elliott’s point, there are not many obvious differences between providers; over time, I expect this to change and for this relationship to become core to one’s experience on (and enjoyment of) the web.
Instead of agreeing to terms of service that disclaim all responsibility to you, the customer, I hope that competition in the identity space will lead providers to actually take responsibility for their services — charging good money for doing so. If your account gets hacked — no problem! — your identity provider can put back the pieces and make things right again! You could even take out online identity insurance in case your identity is ever stolen — so you can always get back to your life and recover your data without the hassle and interruption when it happens today.
Which credit card company would you give your business to? The one that automatically credits back false charges on your account and investigates them or the one that harasses you when you travel and presumes the worst of you? I know which one I’d pick — and I’d apply the same decision heuristics to whoever provides my online identity.
The OpenID “NASCAR”
Apart from confusion over having multiple OpenIDs, the user interface that has resulted from having many top-tier providers in the space also causes confusion.
Elliott’s criticism of the StackOverflow OpenID interface is really aimed at the noise of the brand logos displayed as buttons — intended to help people sign in using an account they already have. This kind of interface is what Daniel Burka refers to as the “OpenID NASCAR” because all the logos look like a NASCAR racecar covered with brand stickers, all jockeying for your attention.
He’s got a point. Since he’s logging in with his Google account, he really only wants a Google button:
For all he cares, it could look like this:
…and the result would be the same thing.
Indeed, it is this kind of lack of choice that makes Facebook Connect so seductively compelling.
And dangerous.
It’s a frigging button. You can’t mistake it. If you argued that reducing choice increases the likelihood that the user will “get it right” and be able to sign in to your site, you’d be correct.
But, that kind of restriction of freedom of choice impairs healthy competition in the marketplace. And lack of competition is, generally, bad for the health of an ecosystem, and ultimately bad for the consumer.
The harmony in the Yin & Yang of Simplicity and Choice
Ignoring your actual preference for Coke, if this were the universal experience for buying soda, one might argue that simplicity and fewer choices are better:
But having choice is a better overall condition. Even when a popular brand is made more prominent, having alternatives means at least maintaining the illusion of control over one’s destiny:
(Original photo by Bryan Costin shared under the Creative Commons license.)
So the question is, how can we simplify OpenID so that anyone can use it without reducing freedom of choice? Well, what if the backend technology was fundamentally interoperable, but every site simply supported a button, like this:
…and upon clicking it, a new window would pop open and you’d be presented with a box, in which you could type just about anything: an email address, a URL, the name of a social network, your phone number… heck, you could even type your name (and if you were signed into a site like Facebook that leaks basic aspects of your identity), you could select yourself from a list of names and photos and then proceed through the typical OpenID flow to prove that you are who you are, completing the sign in process.
One problem that I’ve observed with OpenID input boxes, to date, is that they look far too similar to another solitary but familiar input box. Namely — the Google search box! …where anything goes:
Given the training that people have learned from using Google, we must balance the need for simplicity with the ability to make an informed personal choice about which identity to present to a site. Needs which are, in many respects, at odds. Yet, the future of OpenID depends on us unraveling these issues and developing suitable interfaces that are streamlined and straight-forward that also enhance individual freedom.
With the recently approved User Interface Working Group, headed up by Allen Tom from Yahoo!, and with the involvement of folks from Facebook and other organizations, I’m optimistic that we will make considerable progress this year.
And that ultimately, no, OpenID need not be hard. Making it so just won’t happen overnight.
Author Chris MessinaPosted on Apr 6th Categories Citizen-centric Web, Digital Identity, DiSo, Technology, Web buildingTags nascar, openid, Usability44 Comments on Does OpenID need to be hard?
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RLP 5: Locality Research Part 2
Today Diana and I are going to wrap up our discussion of locality research. In last week's episode we talked about the first two question to ask: "What happened?" and "Where did it happen?" Today, we are talking about the last question: "Why did it happen?" This episode is all about the historical context that affected our ancestors lives. What is your favorite way to learn about historical context? We suggest several ideas, including county histories, biographical sketches, periodicals, and newspapers. Diana tells how she found a county history that explained why her ancestors moved around so much within Indian...
Do We Know What Don’t We Know? Learning at the BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy
When is the last time you went outside of your genealogical comfort zone and learned something unrelated to your usual research area? One of my favorite sayings is, "you don't know what you don't know." That statement especially holds true for genealogy. Attending the BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy last week, I decided to try out some classes in areas where I’m not a specialist and find out what I didn't know. I attended classes by experts Peggy Lauritzen, Curt Witcher, Paul Woodbury, and Dan Poffenberger. Topics included Ohio Land, Native American research, Best Practices for DNA, and...
Today we're talking about preparing to research by learning more about the where your ancestor lived. Doing locality research is absolutely essential! Previously, we talked about objectives in epsidode 2, and analysis in episode 3. Those are the first steps in a research project. Today, Diana and I are going to dive in to the next step, locality research, and talk in depth about all the ways you can learn more about a location. Before creating a research plan and digging into sources, it's so important to prepare by learning about the location. Diana will tell about a mystery in...
Introducing…The Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast!
Diana and I decided to start a podcast to be able to share with more people our research methods and strategies. We are so excited for you to join us! In the Research Like a Pro podcast, we will discuss how to take your family history research to the next level and uncover more of your family tree. Learn about research objectives, analysis, locality research, research planning, source citations, report writing, case studies, and more. Not familiar with listening to podcasts? That's okay, you can listen right here on our website with the podcast player above. However, if you have...
RLP 3: Analyze Your Sources
Today, Diana and I are talking about analyzing your sources - the next thing to do in your research project after creating an objective. In order to establish what you know and determine how reliable it is, you must analyze the source, information, and evidence on a record. Start by gathering up all the sources that you've already found. Talk to close relatives who have knowledge or information about the project. Check online family trees including Ancestry, RootsWeb, FamilySearch Family Tree Genealogies, etc. Diana tells about how it's easy to make a timeline in google sheets or excel with the...
Behind the Scenes at the Utah Archives and Diana’s Probate Presentation Materials
Have you wondered what is behind the scenes at an archive? Any idea what work goes into preserving the records that we use for our genealogy research? I recently presented a class on using probate records at the Family History Workshop sponsored by the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service and was treated to a tour of the archived records. My guide opened an innocuous door and when I entered the archive I was shocked to see the boxes extending five stories high! Glen Fairclough, the Utah Public Notice Website Administrator, has worked at the Utah Archives for over...
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RLP 2: Research Objectives
Today, Diana and I discuss research objectives. Focusing your research with a question is an important step when getting started in any research project. We'll talk about the three types of research objectives (identity, relationship and actions) and the best type to start with. Diana talks about writing down your objective and including unique identifiers. This is so important when you're doing a project to identify a person. When I started my first project in the Research Like a Pro study group, I had a large objective covering three brothers. I tell about why this was a problem and what...
RLP 1: Introduction
We are so excited to share our brand new podcast with you. We will be discussing the Research Like a Pro method and how to take your genealogy research to the next level. Learn about research objectives, analysis, locality research, research planning, source citations, report writing, case studies, and more. Show Notes: Diana and I talk about our background in family history and give an overview of the Research Like a Pro process. Diana got started in genealogy research when her father gave her a suitcase full of family history papers. Diana shares her journey in accreditation and tells about...
The Value of Family Search Hints
Would you like some help with your research? How about getting a notification when someone in your family tree has a possible new genealogical record? If you don't have your family information on FamilySearch, you might be missing out on free research assistance. I received an email over the weekend that a relative had a new record hint on the FamilySearch FamilyTree. Intrigued, I clicked on the link and discovered a hint for Wilford Royston in a recently indexed database, "Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936." I hadn't explored this newly indexed set of records, so I viewed the record image and...
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Movie Review: MacBeth (2015)
December 9, 2015 festreviews 2015 movies, movie, Uncategorized justin kurzel, macbeth 2015, marion col, marion cotillard, michael fassbender, movie review
MACBETH (USA/UK/France 2015) ***
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan
Review by Gilbert Seah
It does to seem that long ago (1971) that Roman Polanski, in top cinematic form directed his version of MACBETH with Jon Finch in the title role. His was an unforgettable MacBeth complete with old nude witches brewing around a cauldron and ending with the MacBeth’s head paraded on a stick.
No such luck in Justin Kurzel’s MACBETH. (Kurzel is the Australian director best known for THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival years back but not released.) The troubled King of Scotland does die at the end but his head is intact. The witches look like normal human beings, more like Scots women, wearing normal garments. But his version is a Shakespearean film concentrated more on poetry, both verbal and visual than on shock tactics.
Running just under 2 hours, Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy is still a lengthy drama, spoken in Old English Shakespearean prose, which takes some minutes before the ear gets accustomed to. The story that needs not be reiterated in detail, which almost everyone is familiar with, concerns MacBeth and his wife usurping the throne of Scotland from King Duncan (an excellent David Thewlis), after murdering him. All this is foretold by three witches, and a child in the case of this film, to MacBeth who seems to believe all their predictions.
It is clear right from the film’s beginning that director Kurzel wants to take the Scottish play out in the open. The witches appear in the open countryside instead of a room with a cauldron. The epic battle which MacBeth wins to gain favour with the King of Scotland is expensed in all its gory and bloodiness. The battle scene looks something right out of 300. Together with cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, Kurzel keeps most of the action outside thus displaying the ruggedness and stunning beauty of the Scottish terrain and mountains.
One disadvantage of pulling the camera back from the characters results in the audience feeling more distant from MacBeth and Lady MacBeth. They seem less evil. When the camera shows the surroundings of the execution of a mother and her kids, Kurzel opts to show sympathy in the face of Lady MacBeth, thus making her more sympathetic and less ambitious and evil, and taking away the main spirit of the MacBeth play.
Performances-wise, every actor dreams of playing the titular roles of MacBeth and Lady MacBeth. Fassbender and Cotillard can do no harm but they are not exceptional.
Kurzel’s MACBETH works as another adaptation of the Bard’s work, still worth a look and a good film for those studying the play in school. At least it is not a modern interpretation like the recent HAMLET with Benedict Cumberbatch wearing Jeans thus bastardizing the Hamlet play. But Polanski’s 1971 adaptation remains my favourite MACBETH.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgH_OnrYlCk
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McCoole's at the Historic Red Lion Inn Upscale Atmosphere For The Working Person's Wallet
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Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps”
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From the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock
Directed by Ara Barlieb
The 39 Steps won Tony and Drama Desk Awards, 2008 and the BEST NEW COMEDY Lawrence Olivier Award, 2007!
The 39 Steps is an incredibly fast-paced and inventive comedy adapted from Hitchcock’s classic spy thriller with a small group of actors playing over 150 roles while romping from London to the Scottish Highlands and back.
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Paul Barry and the Ace Tones Great Blues Synthesis This Monday at Lake Harriet in Minneapolis
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The University of Missouri Flagship Council Political Action Committee was formed to support elected officials who support Mizzou, our flagship university, and public higher education in the state of Missouri. The PAC is governed by a board of directors separate from the Flagship Council Board. Both boards meet periodically throughout the year. Money for the PAC is provided by dues paying members who designate a percentage of their contribution for the PAC. Primarily during election years, the PAC Board meets and approves donations to candidates running for the General Assembly.
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During the 2018 election cycle, the PAC Board voted to make contributions to a total of 16 candidates, both Republicans and Democrats, in Senate and House races for the November General Election. The decision on which candidates to support was based on the members of the General Assembly who have demonstrated not only their support for higher education, but who understand and appreciate the value of our flagship institution to the state of Missouri. Contributions from our membership in support of the PAC is a contributing factor in our success.
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Obama Accuses Romney Of Dishonesty In Debate
Posted 10:29 am, October 5, 2012, by Staff
(CNN) — A day after losing the first presidential debate, President Barack Obama and his campaign accused his Republican challenger Mitt Romney of being dishonest about tax policy and other issues.
“If you want to be president, you owe the American people the truth,” Obama said at a campaign rally Thursday in Denver. “So here’s the truth: Governor Romney cannot pay for his $5 trillion tax plan without blowing up the deficit or sticking it to the middle class. That’s the math.”
The president’s top aides were even more blunt.
“Romney’s performance was one that’s probably unprecedented in its dishonesty,” senior adviser David Plouffe told reporters.
Still, senior campaign adviser David Axelrod acknowledged Obama will examine his debate strategy for the next two contests — on October 16 in New York and October 22 in Florida.
The president opted against “serial fact-checking with Governor Romney, which can be a never-ending, exhausting pursuit,” Axelrod said. “Obviously, going forward, we’re going to have to look at this, and we’re going to have make some adjustments.”
Meanwhile, Romney continued to push his debate theme that there’s been much federal spending under Obama, complaining of “trickle-down government” that has failed to solve the nation’s economic woes.
“Trickle-down government that the president proposes is one where he will raise taxes on small business, which will kill jobs” he said in an unannounced visit Thursday to a conservative conference in Colorado. “I instead want to keep taxes down on small business so we can create jobs.”
He and his vice presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, then appeared together Thursday night in Fisherville, in western Virginia. Ryan touted the National Rifle Association’s endorsement earlier in the day of the GOP ticket, adding that he’s looking forward to when “after we elect Mitt Romney president, I can take my daughter deer hunting.”
Both the Wisconsin congressman and Romney, who followed him onstage, referenced the previous night’s debate as demonstrating “a clear choice” for voters.
“Last night was an important night for the country, because people got the chance to cut through all the attacks and the counterattacks and all the theatrics associated with the campaign, and instead they were able to listen to substance,” said the former Massachusetts governor.
“As a result …, the American people recognize that (Obama) and I stand for something very different,” he said, before vowing, “I am going to help the American people get good jobs and a bright future.”
His supporters crowed about his debate performance, saying it reshaped a race that Romney had appeared in danger of losing.
Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, who played the role of the president in debate rehearsals for Romney, said the GOP candidate had a “terrific night” in discussing Obama’s record, talking about his own policies and setting “the record straight on … misleading ads.”
“He did exactly what he had to do for the undecided voter in Ohio or around the country,” Portman said.
To Ed Gillespie, a senor adviser to Romney, the GOP challenger brought focus to the sharp contrast between the candidates by showing voters that “we can’t afford four more years like the last four years.”
While both sides were in full spin mode Thursday, it was widely felt that Romney won the debate itself.
“A week ago, people were saying this was over. We’ve got a horse race,” said CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, who called the debate Romney’s best so far after the 22 the former Massachusetts governor took part in during the GOP primary campaign.
Alex Castellanos, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, expressed surprise at Romney’s strong performance, saying he “rose to the moment” and seemed to benefit from the multiple primary debates.
“It looked like Romney wanted to be there and President Obama didn’t want to be there,” noted Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville. “The president didn’t bring his ‘A’ game.”
The CNN/ORC International poll of 430 people who watched the debate showed 67% thought Romney won, compared with 25% for Obama.
Obama joked Thursday that a different Romney appeared at the debate from the conservative candidate who won a grueling primary campaign to challenge him on November 6.
“When I got on to the stage I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney,” Obama said told the crowd of more than 12,000 at a Denver park. “But it couldn’t have been Mitt Romney because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy. The fellow on stage last night said he didn’t know anything about that.”
In Denver and later in Wisconsin, Obama also went after Romney’s pledge during the debate to cut funding for public broadcasting, referring specifically to the popular Sesame Street character Big Bird.
“He’ll get rid of regulations on Wall Street, but he’s going to crack down on Sesame Street,” Obama joked about Romney’s pledge to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act that reforms the financial sector.
“Thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird,” Obama added. “It’s about time. We didn’t know that Big Bird was driving the federal deficit.”
During Wednesday’s 90-minute debate, neither presidential candidate scored dramatic blows that will make future highlight reels, and neither veered from campaign themes and policies to date. Moderator Jim Lehrer of PBS had trouble keeping the duo within time limits for responses, especially Obama, who ended up speaking four minutes longer than Romney.
Romney criticized Obama’s record and depicted the president’s vision as one of big government, while the Democratic incumbent defended his achievements and challenged his rival’s prescriptions as unworkable.
But Romney came off as the more energized candidate overall by repeatedly attacking Obama on red-meat issues for Republicans such as health care reform and higher taxes, while the president began with lengthy explanations and only later focused more on what his opponent was saying.
The former governor’s strongest moments came in criticizing Obama’s record, saying the nation’s high unemployment and sluggish economic recovery showed the president’s policies haven’t worked.
“There’s no question in my mind if the president is re-elected, you’ll continue to see a middle-class squeeze,” Romney said, adding that another term for Obama also will mean the 2010 Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, “will be fully installed.”
At another point, he noted how $90 billion spent on programs and policies to develop alternative energy sources could have been devoted to hiring teachers or other needs that would bring down unemployment.
Obama argued his policies were working to bring America back from the financial and economic crisis he inherited, and that Romney refused to divulge specifics about his proposed tax plans and replacements for the health care law and Wall Street reform that the Republican has pledged to repeal.
In one of his strongest lines of the night, Obama said Romney lacked the important leadership quality of being able to say “no” when necessary.
“I’ve got to tell you, Governor Romney, when it comes to his own party during the course of this campaign, has not displayed that willingness to say no to some of the more extreme parts of his party,” Obama said in reference to his challenger’s swing to the right during the primaries to appeal to the GOP’s conservative base.
Romney rejected Obama’s characterization of his tax plan, insisting it won’t add to the deficit, and criticized the president’s call to allow tax rates on income over $250,000 for families and $200,000 for individuals to return to higher 1990s rates as a job-snuffing tax hike on small business.
Romney repeatedly went after Obama on the health care reform bill, criticizing the president for focusing so strongly on a measure that passed with no Republican support instead of devoting more attention to creating jobs.
“I just don’t know how the president could have come into office, facing 23 million people out of work, rising unemployment, an economic crisis at the — at the kitchen table, and spend his energy and passion for two years fighting for Obamacare instead of fighting for jobs for the American people,” Romney said.
“The right answer is not to have the federal government take over health care,” Romney added, quickly noting his plan would include popular provisions of Obamacare such as allowing children up to age 26 stay on family plans and preventing insurers from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
With polls narrowing less than five weeks before Election Day, Obama and Romney launched a new phase in a bitter race dominated so far by negative advertising as both camps try to frame the election to their advantage.
Whether it matters is itself a topic of debate. According to an analysis by Gallup, televised debates have affected the outcome of only two elections in the past half century — Nixon-Kennedy in 1960 and Bush-Gore in 2000.
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>News > May 2019 > In To America brings arts, conversation into middle schools
In To America brings arts, conversation into middle schools
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This spring, a grant from the Performing Arts for Youth fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region helped the Fox Cities P.A.C. bring the arts into classrooms of five middle schools, including some who don’t often have the opportunity to engage with the Center.
In To America, a touring production put on by Griffin Theatre Company of Chicago, had plans for an April 25 Bemis Company Education Series performance, but ahead of that show, five cast members arrived in the Fox Cities to bring their powerful message to middle school students in Tigerton, Gresham, Hilbert, Appleton and Neenah.
This residency was designed to reach schools that have not had the opportunity to engage with the Center on a regular basis due to distance or other barriers. It also engaged local schools that showed interest in diving deeper into the topics the show explores.
At each stop they performed an excerpt from the show, which features the stories of immigrants to America from Jamestown to present day. Monologues feature stories from men, women and children from all walks of life and backgrounds and provides a reflection on their difficulties and celebrations of creating a new life in America. After the performance, students had the opportunity to ask questions and have open discussions about history, diversity and the commonalities we all share while celebrating our unique differences.
“The kids have done nothing but talk about the experience today. Other teachers are hearing the stories in their classrooms. I am writing up a blurb for the social studies/English teachers so they know what areas of immigration were covered to stir conversations,” said Cindy Easter of Gresham School District where seventh and eighth graders were part of the experience.
For Wilson Middle School, it was a chance to preview the performance and start conversations before viewing the entire show later in the month.
“(The residency visit was) very intimate, educational and the kids go a lot out of it! They learned so much and now are more prepared to view the full production because their background knowledge was increased,” said Appleton Area School District educator Shayne Porter.
For Tigerton and Hilbert, the cast stayed to participate in theater games to further explore the arts as a way to tell stories and work together. And each school was ultimately most affected by different parts of the engagement. For many, it was the stories in which they could see themselves, their friends or their educators reflected in that made this experience such a impactful lesson to remember.
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R | 146 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
R | 170 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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3. Casino (1995)
R | 178 min | Crime, Drama
A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
4. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Not Rated | 100 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
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5. The Boondock Saints (1999)
R | 108 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
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6. King of New York (1990)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
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Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo
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7. New Jack City (1991)
R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
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8. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
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9. Menace II Society (1993)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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10. Juice (1992)
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11. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn
12. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
R | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
13. Pulp Fiction (1994)
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
14. The Usual Suspects (1995)
R | 106 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
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The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Joel Edgerton
16. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation, which turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
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17. Serpico (1973)
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
18. The Untouchables (1987)
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Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith
19. Carlito's Way (1993)
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20. Donnie Brasco (1997)
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21. A Bronx Tale (1993)
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24. Blow (2001)
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25. Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
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26. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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30. Jackie Brown (1997)
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Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
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Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield
32. True Romance (1993)
In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the Mob, track them down in an attempt to reclaim it.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer
33. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
34. The Godfather (1972)
100 Metascore
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
35. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
36. The Godfather: Part III (1990)
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York City and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia Don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins, while taking his nephew Vincent Mancini under his wing.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire
37. Se7en (1995)
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38. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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42. Léon: The Professional (1994)
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Wild Style Breakbeats (7" Casebook)
Kenny Dope
Kenny Dope in collaboration with Get on Down, announce the first release in the Kay-Dee Book Series:Wild Style Breakbeats a seven 45 record set in a unique Kay-Dee casebook packaging.
The book features the following elements:
- 13 songs total, spread out over seven 45s(each with a different label color)
- Re-edited and Re-Eqed extended audio versions of each song, from original reels
- Extensive liner notes in a 28-page book, including dozens of images – from Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn, among other sources – as well as interviews with Fab 5 Freddy, Chris Stein and GrandWizzard Theodore
- The 14th side (the B-side of the seventh 45) features unique etchings with different Wild Style graphics
- Unique Kay-Dee Casebook packaging – all seven 7-inches fit into a book as self-contained pages
KAY-DEE RECORDS, the online store and label owned and operated by Kenny Dope, takes things to the next level with the debut of its Book Series. Kennys vision for Kay-Dees first book was to create a premium set with a mix of well-known and never-before-seen Wild Style photos, in addition to liner notes detailing the stories behind the music of one of his favorite films.
The year was 1981 and young, New York City-based filmmaker Charlie Ahearn was working on what would become one of the most important artifacts in the history of hip-hop music and culture: Wild Style. He was scraping by to fund his efforts, which were far from a surefire money-making enterprise. Hip-hop wasnt even called hip-hop at the time, and it was still viewed as a fad, by both nationwide music listeners and a majority of the press.
As Ahearn and his crew continued to film scenes from Wild Style (which starred graffiti writers Lee Quinones and Lady Pink, among many other hip-hop and Downtown luminaries of the day), they reached an interesting juncture: what music would DJs in the film use in the soon-to-be-legendary live performance scenes?
The director – making a visionary move more than a half-decade before any sampling or music clearance lawsuits would appear – decided that he wanted to control the music to be used in these scenes. They would create their own breakbeats, instead of using known cuts of the day; for instance, The Incredible Bongo Bands Apache or James Browns Funky Drummer.
While Ahearn headed off to film more scenes, he left these important musical production duties to an up-and-comer who, thanks in part to his crucial role as Phade in the film, would grow to be one of hip-hops and graffitis most important ambassadors of the 1980s: Fred Fab 5 Freddy Brathwaite.
Over the course of a weeks time in the late summer of 1981, the Wild Style Breakbeats sessions were completed and mastered. None of the three principal musicians who played on the Breakbeats were ever in the studio at the same time. And the final number of white-label-only Breakbeats 12-inches was, according to Freddy, only 100, making them some of the rarest Holy Grail pieces of vinyl in music history.
The original Breakbeats vinyl was given to the DJs in the film – including GrandWizzard Theodore, Charlie Chase and Kevie Kev Rockwell – who used them in live performance scenes, most of which were completed in the spring of 1982. Interestingly, out of 13 Breakbeats given to DJs, only five were ever used in these performance scenes or on the films much-revered soundtrack.
For this premium Wild Style Breakbeats set, renowned DJ, producer, and lifelong Wild Style fanatic Kenny Dope obtained the original reel-to-reel tapes from director Charlie Ahearn and went about re-EQing and extending the length of each Breakbeat [most were originally about one minute long]. Thanks to these efforts, all 13 Breakbeats are presented here with top-level audio quality that has never been heard before. Additionally, since only bootlegs of the Wild Style Breakbeats have ever existed, this is the first time they have ever been presented on their own, as an official full album release.
This stunning set with unique Kay-Dee Casebook packaging – officially licensed from Charlie Ahearn by Kenny Dope and Kay-Dee Records, and packaged by Get On Down – is a hip-hop junkies dream. It presents a crucial rap artifact with the respect it has always deserved but, until now, has not been given. It is sure to sit on your shelf alongside other trophies from the music and culture that has touched the lives of so many over the past four decades.
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The Deadline Shakes
Ralph has given The Deadline Shakes a spin on the Radio KC Indie Show a few times now so it's no surprise he was relishing the release of their album Zealots.
From the lead track, the bright and bouncy Bad Spot In A Bad Year to the closer Boy they've created a beautiful soundscape of sonorific light and shade.
It's like a squidgy mix of Prefab Sprout and Deacon Blue, but with a sometimes quirkier, more contemporary feel as The Deadline Shakes plough their own furrow.
<a href="http://flowersinthedustbin.bandcamp.com/album/the-deadline-shakes-zealots">THE DEADLINE SHAKES - Zealots by The Deadline Shakes</a>
With thanks to davidbaxendale.com
The Deadline Shakes have released the album on Glasgow's Flowers In The Dustbin Records, the album's full of radio-friendly tracks, some of which have a familiar feel, like an old, favourite jumper.
Frozen Out; which was released as a single, is a case-in-point with its uplifting chorus which seems to draw on folkier Waterboys-like themes.
The Deadline Shakes take a sharp turn with the jazzier A Little Waiting While and follow up with the funkier, heavier Don't You Be Too Cool which has a more Alt/Pop feel.
For some, there may be too much going on throughout this album of 13 tracks, but for me each track peaks my interest anew.
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Magazines No Longer the ‘Center of the Universe’
Filed under: digital content pricing,digital media micropayments,FOLIO magazine,magazine publishing,print advertising,publishing — gator1965 @ 12:38 pm
Print advertising profits are declining due to all the new upstarts in digital media. Publishers are having to re-think their place in the media food chain and design new business models to move forward and survive.
More on this topic by Jason Fell in November issue of Folio magazine:
Publisher Survival, especially for those supported mainly by print advertising, was the topic of debate, and some contention, during a Folio: Show Virtual panel discussion last month called “Big Ideas and New Opportunities for 2010 and Beyond.”
“The magazine business, particularly if you’re dominated by print advertising, is going to continue to be no-growth to a declining business—probably forever,” said panelist David Nussbaum, CEO of enthusiast magazine and book publisher F+W Media. Other panelists included Mann Media CEO Bernie Mann; Eric Biener, Nielsen Business Media’s vice president of business development; and Daniel McCarthy, chairman and CEO of Network Communications, Inc.
While some print magazines will survive, publishers “can’t bank on them being the driver” of their business, Nussbaum argued. At F+W, magazine publishing depends largely on subscription and newsstand revenues. “Advertising, which we love and we want, will be gravy on top of that,” he said.
Mann, who publishes North Carolina’s Our State, countered that losses in print don’t pertain to the entire industry. “Trust is very important and is hard to find. How many people trust television today? How many people trust their daily newspapers,” he said. “If you can build trust in magazines, you have some long, long legs.”
Growing Competition
With bloggers and other online publishers are continuing to pop up and take market share, traditional magazine publishers in the future won’t hold sole ownership of the markets they serve, the panelists largely agreed. Publishers now should focus more on core products, the panelists said, and on being “active participants” in the markets they serve.
“I don’t think we’re ever going back to the day when we were the center of the universe. We have to recognize that,” Nussbaum said. “We now are part of the overall community. If we can grasp that role then we can begin to get back to levels of profitability.”
The Paid Content Debate
And, of course, what’s a panel discussion today without talk about charging for content online? “Allowing people to parse out the pieces of content they find valuable, and to make nickels on those pieces on an economy of scale is one of the future models we are looking at for our businesses,” Biener said. “I think micropayments are going to play successfully in the future of media business, specifically content.”
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Aims and scope of the journal
Ethics Considerations
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R. Liang, Yan, X. X., Lin, Y., Li, Q., Yuan, C. L., Liu, Z. H., Li, Y. Q., Liang, R., Yan, X. X., Lin, Y., Li, Q., Yuan, C. L., Liu, Z. H., and Li, Y. Q., “Functional polymorphisms of the cyclooxygenase-2 gene and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma - a cohort study in Chinese people”, vol. 15, p. -, 2016.
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Conflicts of interestThe authors declare no conflict of interest.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSResearch supported by grants from the Basic Scientific Research Fund of YSFRI (#2060302201516054), the Zhejiang Provincial Top Key Discipline of Biological Engineering (#KF2015005), and the Independent Innovation Funds of Shandong Province (#2013CXC80202).REFERENCESFukushiro M, Takeuchi T, Takeuchi Y, Hur SP, et al (2011). Lunar phase-dependent expression of cryptochrome and a photoperiodic mechanism for lunar phase-recognition in a reef fish, goldlined spinefoot. PLoS One 6: e28643. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028643 Golombek DA, Rosenstein RE, et al (2010). Physiology of circadian entrainment. Physiol. Rev. 90: 1063-1102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00009.2009 Hardin PE, et al (2005). The circadian timekeeping system of Drosophila. Curr. Biol. 15: R714-R722. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.019 Ikegami T, Takeuchi Y, Hur SP, Takemura A, et al (2014). Impacts of moonlight on fish reproduction. Mar. Genomics 14: 59-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margen.2013.11.007 Levitan DR, Fukami H, Jara J, Kline D, et al (2004). Mechanisms of reproductive isolation among sympatric broadcast-spawning corals of the Montastraea annularis species complex. Evolution 58: 308-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01647.x Levy O, Appelbaum L, Leggat W, Gothlif Y, et al (2007). Light-responsive cryptochromes from a simple multicellular animal, the coral Acropora millepora. Science 318: 467-470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1145432 Li DY, Wu N, Tu JB, Hu YD, et al (2015a). Expression patterns of melatonin receptors in chicken ovarian follicles affected by monochromatic light. Genet. Mol. Res. 14: 10072-10080. http://dx.doi.org/10.4238/2015.August.21.14 Li J, Grant GR, Hogenesch JB, Hughes ME, et al (2015b). Considerations for RNA-seq analysis of circadian rhythms. Methods Enzymol. 551: 349-367. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2014.10.020 Lowrey PL, Takahashi JS, et al (2000). Genetics of the mammalian circadian system: Photic entrainment, circadian pacemaker mechanisms, and posttranslational regulation. Annu. Rev. Genet. 34: 533-562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.533 Pairett AN, Serb JM, et al (2013). De novo assembly and characterization of two transcriptomes reveal multiple light-mediated functions in the scallop eye (Bivalvia: Pectinidae). PLoS One 8: e69852-e69852. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069852 Panda S, Hogenesch JB, Kay SA, et al (2002). Circadian rhythms from flies to human. Nature 417: 329-335. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/417329a Parsons GJ, Robinson SMC, Chandler RA, Davidson LA, et al (1992). Intra-annual and long-term patterns in the reproductive cycle of giant scallops Placopecten magellanicus (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from Passamaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick, Canada. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 80: 203-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps080203 Schrago CG, et al (2006). An empirical examination of the standard errors of maximum likelihood phylogenetic parameters under the molecular clock via bootstrapping. Genet. Mol. Res. 5: 233-241. Shi M, Zheng X, et al (2013). Interactions between the circadian clock and metabolism: there are good times and bad times. Acta Biochim. Biophys. Sin. (Shanghai) 45: 61-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/abbs/gms110 Shoguchi E, Tanaka M, Shinzato C, Kawashima T, et al (2013). A genome-wide survey of photoreceptor and circadian genes in the coral, Acropora digitifera. Gene 515: 426-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2012.12.038 Sugama N, Park JG, Park YJ, Takeuchi Y, et al (2008). Moonlight affects nocturnal Period2 transcript levels in the pineal gland of the reef fish Siganus guttatus. J. Pineal Res. 45: 133-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-079X.2008.00566.x Sun X, Yang A, Wu B, Zhou L, et al (2015). Characterization of the mantle transcriptome of yesso scallop (Patinopecten yessoensis): identification of genes potentially involved in biomineralization and pigmentation. PLoS One 10: e0122967. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122967 Tessmar-Raible K, Raible F, Arboleda E, et al (2011). Another place, another timer: Marine species and the rhythms of life. BioEssays 33: 165-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201000096 Vize PD, et al (2009). Transcriptome analysis of the circadian regulatory network in the coral Acropora millepora. Biol. Bull. 216: 131-137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/BBLv216n2p131 Vize PD, Embesi JA, Nickell M, Brown DP, et al (2005). Tight temporal consistency of coral mass spawning at the Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico, from 1997-2003. Gulf Mex. Sci. 23: 107-114. Wager-Smith K, Kay SA, et al (2000). Circadian rhythm genetics: from flies to mice to humans. Nat. Genet. 26: 23-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/79134 Zhang G, Fang X, Guo X, Li L, et al (2012). The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation. Nature 490: 49-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11413
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Love Me Right
Produced by Andrew “Pop” Wansel & Amber Mark
Album Conexão - EP
Love Me Right Lyrics
Tell me because I've said it all
I've got a feeling we must've hit a wall here
And baby boy, please tell me like it is
'Cause you talk love but you never act on it
Because the drive it is alive and honey, it is calling you
And I'm numb, you're tryna hide it, baby, I need more from you
So could you please respond to me because I'll never understand
I give you the keys and while you gladly take 'em you, don't use them
You tell me all the time, baby
I'm the light in your life
And you love me more each day
You are starting to drive me crazy
Why won't you realise you gotta love me right, baby
(All night, come love me right)
Help me I feel I've lost myself
It's just this one thing, we're great everywhere else
Or is it just me? Am I not what you want?
'Cause if that's the case baby, why lead me on?
(Why won’t you)
You tell me all the time, baby (babe)
You are starting to drive me crazy (say, ya)
Why won't you realise you gotta love me right, baby (why won’t)
(Come on, you’re in the zone, I need you here right next to me)
(Come on, get off your phone, I need to feel your body)
Why won't you realise you gotta love me
Ohh, that I’m the light in your life
And you love me more each day (Come on now, baby)
Why won’t you realize (You got to, you got to, my baby)
You gotta love me right, baby
You tell me all the time, baby (Love on me, love on me, you love me)
(I want your love on me, love on me, you love me)
I’m the light in your life
(Love on me, love on me, you love me)
Why won't you realise you gotta love, right right right
You’re starting to drive me crazy
Why won’t you realize
Ohh, love
About “Love Me Right”
“Love Me Right” is Amber Mark’s first single of 2018 following her 2017 debut EP 3:33 am.
The song deals with a relationship crumbling and Mark trying to hold onto it.
What have the artists said about the song?
Mark told Billboard
I wanted to write about that connection you build with someone and how close you get with someone. Obviously there are some ups and downs and drama – that’s where “Love Me Right” comes in. But I just wanted to touch on different aspects of relationships and things I had gone through.
She also told Red Bull Music:
"Love Me Right" Track Info
Written By Amber Mark & Andrew “Pop” Wansel
Programming CJ Branch, Amber Mark & Andrew “Pop” Wansel
Keyboards CJ Branch, Amber Mark & Andrew “Pop” Wansel
Engineer Joe Gallagher
Studio Personnel Zvi Edelman, Sarah Shelton, Joe Gallagher & 3 more
Production Coordinator Sarah Shelton, Zvi Edelman & Andrew “McMuffin” Luftman
Mixer Mark Ralph
Mastering Engineer Chris Gehringer
Additional Production Andrew “Pop” Wansel
Remixed By
Love Me Right (ADP Remix) by Amber Mark
Conexão - EP Amber Mark
1. Conexão
2. Love Me Right
3. Love Is Stronger Than Pride
4. All the Work
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MARK page 2
MARK page 10
READING JOHN
JOHN 1 – 3: Strange Brew
JOHN 3 – 6: Renegade Rebellion
JOHN 6 – 8: From Abraham to Zen
JOHN 8 – 9: Jesus and Judaism
JOHN 10 – 11: Lost Sheep Meet Lazarus
JOHN 12 – 13: Love and Hate
JOHN 13 – 20: Passion & Doubt
JOHN 20 – 21: In My End is My Beginning
READING JOHN: Coda
CONNOR’S CORNER
what’s a gospel?
Taking Mark Seriously
BERG’S BUNKER
Particles and Authorship
gospel renegades
JOHN 13 – 20: Passion and Doubt
The Passion According to John
W. ROBERT CONNOR 4/24/14
Here we are at the heart of the New Testament — the Passover meal, the Last Supper, the Holy Eucharist, the memorial he told us to make of him, whatever one wants to call it. In Matthew (26:26–29), Mark (14:22– 5) and Luke (22:19–20, closely paralleled in First Corinthians starting 11:23), Jesus takes bread and wine and gives them to his disciples as a new treaty/covenant/testament (diatheke). He is then betrayed and soon thereafter crucified.
Not so in John. Instead, Jesus washes his disciples’ feet and tells them they should do the same for one another (13:14). There’s a dinner, but no talk of bread and wine, let alone of a new diatheke, which is eclipsed by betrayal — by Judas, of course, but implicitly by Peter as well (13:37). There is something else off about this section, seemingly trivial but perhaps revealing about John’s strange gospel. It’s a word that does triple duty in Greek — λαμβάνω, meaning “take” or “accept” or “receive.” That’s the verb Jesus uses in Matthew and Mark when he takes the bread (and later the wine) and tells his disciples to “take, eat, this is my body…”. Take it; receive it; accept it.
Last Supper, Judas front right, Hagia Sophia, Trabzon, Turkey, 13thC
Despite the absence of a first eucharist in John, the verb keeps recurring like a tune or a phrase one cannot get out of one’s mind. It’s not a consciously chosen repetition, or motif, but something in the subconscious somewhere that breaks out now and then, whether or not one wants it to. It’s redundant in 12:48: “He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge” (RSV). The verb is back again a few sentences later, in the sense of physical taking: when Jesus gets up from his dining couch and prepares to wash the feet of his disciples, he “rose from supper, laid aside his garment, took a towel and girded himself with it” (λαβὼν λέντιον διέζωσεν ἑαυτόν 13:4). Once the washing is over, he doesn’t simply return to his place but first “took (ἔλαβεν) his outer garments” (13:12). Then in 13:20 the same verb occurs four times in a single sentence: “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives anyone whom I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.” And in 13:26, some manuscripts have it, even though it is unnecessary: “So dipping that morsel, he [takes it and] gives it to Judas” (13.26). That’s not a scribal blunder that has intruded itself into some manuscripts; it is, I believe, the recurrence of a word that John, for some reason, cannot get out of his head.
What is that reason? Could it be something that John knows full well but has let become eclipsed in his narrative — the words Jesus used according to Matthew and Mark, “Take (λάβετε), eat, this is my body, given for you”?
You may be on to something with λαμβάνω, though it’s one of the most common verbs in the Greek language, like our “get” and “take,” not to mention “with,” which the participle λαβών often signifies. Yet its forms do occur eight times in chapter 13, beating out the six occurrences in 19. Of course, half of those eight are in a single verse (13:20 ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὁ λαμβάνων ἄν τινα πέμψω ἐμὲ λαμβάνει, ὁ δὲ ἐμὲ λαμβάνων λαμβάνει τὸν πέμψαντά με), which you quote.
Immediately after that, in 13:21, Jesus suddenly interrupted himself and ἐταράχθη τῷ πνεύματι (21), “was shaken in his spirit”, his innermost self. The sudden flash, the foreknowledge of betrayal overwhelmed his flesh. Why do I have this feeling of déjà vu? Oh, right, shades of his reaction to the death of Lazarus: ἐνεβριμήσατο τῷ πνεύματι καὶ ἐτάραξεν ἑαυτόν (11:33) — again, as I doggedly maintain, a flash, a vision of Jesus’ own fate. It’s beyond me how Lattimore could have misconstrued so badly here. “Raged at his own spirit and harrowed himself”? When he had the exact equivalent of ἐνεβριμήσατο τῷ πνεύματι looming up in 11:38 (ἐμβριμώμενος ἐν ἑαυτῷ), and our phrase here at 13:21 should have settled all doubts as to the function of τῷ πνεύματι. Finally, if Jesus were actually “harrowing” himself (unthinkable anyway in John), it would have been an intentional act without justification. “Shaking” himself, by contrast, is an involuntary act, understandable and attributable to the weakness of his human flesh.
Judas takes the bribe, Giotto, Arena Chapel, Padua, 14thC
In John, Jesus gets to engineer his own betrayal. He gives Judas the bread with Satan attached: over the gums and into the tum, and Judas is out the door (13:26-30), robot-like, still galvanically clutching the bread. Once Judas is gone, Jesus can announce “Now the son of man has been glorified, and God in him” (Νῦν ἐδοξάσθη ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ ὁ θεὸς ἐδοξάσθη ἐν αὐτῷ! (13:31). Where’ve I heard that before? Oh yeah, back in chapter 11 again …
RICHARD McKIM
Bob, I think Bill’s point about the ubiquity of λαμβάνω, like English “get” or “take”, means we can’t lean too hard on a few occurrences of that all-too-ordinary verb. You imply that John is somewhat haunted by his omission of the first eucharist, but mightn’t it be aggressively polemical? It must be closely related to his disagreement with the synoptics over the timing of Jesus’ last hours relative to Passover. The synoptics say the Last Supper was a Passover meal, crucifixion the day after, whereas John says Jesus was crucified on Passover. Seems to me this discrepancy is sharply pointed, especially if John is writing later — some sectarian dispute about dating that’s lost on us. “There was no Last Supper because it wasn’t Passover yet!”
More importantly perhaps, Bob and I have already discussed John’s chapter 6 passage where Jesus takes the disciples to task for thinking he means they should literally eat his flesh or drink his blood. John seems a bit squeamish about this. Was there some dispute about the centrality or meaning, or even the propriety, of the eucharist? Did John’s sect maintain that Jesus would never say “Take, eat” and so on, since that would imply a literal interpretation of what John’s Jesus insists is merely a spiritual metaphor? This would give John a strong motive for omitting the cannibalistic event that his predecessors had made such a fuss about.
More rough seas ahead in John’s version. Chapter 13 ends with Jesus’ prediction of Peter’s betrayal. Then we get a gargantuan Johannine interlude, chapters 14 through 17 — essentially yet another christological monologue by Jesus (14-16), only this time even more endless, followed by a chapter-length prayer addressed by Jesus to his father (17). After that, in chapter 18, the Passion narrative picks up where it left off, following the prediction about Peter with the story of Judas’ betrayal and the arrest — as if nothing had intervened! Hard not to think that somebody crammed the 14-17 disquisition into the middle of a narrative text that originally didn’t contain it. Either that, or John has carried his patented narrative clumsiness to a climactic extreme.
Jesus instructs the disciples, Duccio, 14thC
BERG 4/25/14
There are other grounds for seeing different authors at work in 14-17 and elsewhere in John. In Berg’s Bunker I detail the comings and goings of the Greek particles in various parts of the text — mainly oun, kai and de, used to mark coordination, opposition or transition between phrases or sentences — and the possible significance of their presence, absence, or co-existence as clues to multiple authorship. Of course, we can’t infer that different dates are implied by the behavior of the particles, but it seems safe to say that different hands are at work here — something we’ve already intuited when comparing the narratives with the diatribes. I think we can distinguish, say, a more “Hellenized” hand (liberal use of all three particles, as normal in Greek) from a more “Palestinian” hand (using only or primarily kai as an all-purpose connector analogous to the Hebrew/Aramaic waw) — even, on some occasions, a “more” Palestinian from a “less” Palestinian hand.
Through my reading of John, I’ve learned to bite my tongue when the word “interpolation” threatens to intrude — even where the consensus of scholarly opinion weighs in its favor. I’ve learned to imagine an eclectic composer working under the name of “John” who more or less skillfully patches together his source material without radically reworking it. Some of the narrative scenes — like the first meetings with the disciples in Ch. 1, Jezebel at the well, and my favorite, the woman taken in adultery — seem to me extremely early and smack more of reportage than of folklore. On the other hand, I’m suggesting that in 14-17 we have an example of borrowing more or less verbatim from a body of work that could properly be called “The Sayings of Jesus.”
CONNOR 4/27/14
Bill and I have been chatting in his Bunker about the significance of the stylistic differences in Greek between chapters 14-17 and the rest of John. I was at first inclined to explain the differences in the use of particles as a function of direct quotation, where they seem less frequent than in narrative. Maybe. But when I came to the triadic exposition of 16.8 I began to weaken. I haven’t seen anything like this elsewhere in John’s stream-of-consciousness style.
So now I have started asking the “So what?” question. Does it matter if these were stitched into the text by someone other than the author of the main body, or if the whole text is a pastiche of Jesus stuff that was floating around? Would our understanding of Christianity be any different if we dropped 14-17 altogether so that 18.1 followed directly on 13.38? As Rick points out, that does make the narrative flow more smoothly. Would there be any loss? For example, is it only here that we hear of the paraclete, the Holy Spirit, in its role as advisor and protector of Christians once Jesus has disappeared and turns out not to have returned immediately in glory? Without chapters 14-17 there would be little basis in the gospels for the Holy Spirit. True?
Holy Spirit at Pentecost, illuminated gradual, Unterlinden, 14thC
Chapter 16 envisions a situation where the followers of Jesus might be “entrapped”. How? Leaders of the synagogues might ask why Jesus had not yet returned in glory after his resurrection. Those who believed Christ was the Messiah might find that a difficult question. Chapters 14-17 provide them with a post-Pentecost answer — that Jesus has sent to us in the meantime, as he promised, a “consoler” who inspires and guides us. If that is correct it would make sense for someone (John himself, or the not-so-inept Bearbeiter) to meld this material into the narrative.
Another possible loss: Sin in the OT is what pollutes, and what removes pollution is ritual purification. True? But starting at 15:3, John’s Jesus has quite a different view of the matter. His disciples are already pure (katharoi, with “already” in emphatic first position). How is this possible? There seem to be two answers — one is “You are in me and so if I am pure you are too; therefore, remain in me.” The other is contained in the grapevine analogy (15:2). The father takes the vine branches that have already borne fruit and kathairei them so they will bear even more. Here kathairei must mean “prune/cut back”. That’s the way you do it; I’ve tried with mixed success. What an interesting idea — purification comes not from ritual but from being pruned, cut back, reduced to just one purpose — bearing fruit and that in turn from the ostensibly simple commandment to love one another.
Yup, I know. Even moderately productive branches in this analogy get thrown into the fire. Ow! Hellfire with no brimstone is bad enough.
But (WHACK!) Jesus had already (13:10-11) pronounced his disciples katharoi (all but one, of course), in close association with the feet-washing ritual, when he hadn’t yet given them the new commandment to love one another. That doesn’t come until 13:34. One more indication, it seems, that ch. 14-17 are out of synch with the surrounding text. Or is the logos of 15:3 not the “new” command to love one another, but rather the earlier, all-encompassing command, “Believe in me”? Does it somehow produce the purgative “washing” effect of baptism as Jesus practiced it by the Jordan in the third chapter of John, where βαπτισμός and καθαρισμός seem to be interchangeable (3:25)?
Greek painted panel, 16thC
Finally, do we have to translate kathairein here as “prune”? LSJ offers it as presumably the only possible translation for John 15:2, without citing any parallels; and this of course forces us to translate the adjective in the next verse as “pruned”, which in turn has forced commentators over the centuries into all sorts of acrobatics to try to explain exactly what is going on. (Not ol’ Jerome, though. He don’t care; he blithely translates καθαἰρει as purgat and καθαροί as mundi). Some sort of purification is meant, of course, but does it have to involve a Snipper?
I don’t know of any parallel to katharein in this sense but context seems to demand it, so I am not troubled about it. What does trouble me now is 16:25, where Jesus says that, so far, he has spoken of “these things” in parables (ταῦτα ἐν παροιμίαις) but the hour is coming when instead he’ll speak plainly (παρρησίᾳ). Please tell me what “these things” are and what “parables” means here. He hasn’t been talking recently in parables, unless one counts the analogy to childbirth in 16.21. In fact, the only full-scale παροιμία in John seems to be the business about sheepfolds at the beginning of 10, called a παροιμία in 10.6. Any others?
No wonder the disciples are perplexed (16.29). They are like us. Everything he has been saying in chapters 14-16 seems straightforward enough; even the metaphors are routine. They think it’s all been parrhesia — speech that doesn’t fool around, plain talk that you can reduce a fable or a metaphor to.
WHACK! Wrong again. When Jesus speaks of speech in this way, I get sent back to the drawing board. What if one can’t reduce the metaphors to non-metaphorical language? What if the whole thing has been a grope for non-reductionist language? What if the metaphors are irreducible?
By “the whole thing” I don’t mean just chapters 14 – 17. I mean the whole text, beginning with the “Word” in 1:1 and running through the repertoire of pronouncements that “I am + ____ ” — fill in the blank: light, road, vineyard … It’s all metaphor, trying out one after another, seeking for language to approximate a reality that goes beyond words. Is that “John,” i.e. whoever put this text together, or is it Jesus? Was Jesus searching for metaphors to understand who he was, or to convey that understanding to others, or both?
And where does the metaphorical language stop, if at all? Is the incarnation a metaphor for our flesh-bound brains? Is father/son metaphor? Is pneuma/parakletos metaphor? Is king/messiah metaphor? Is death/resurrection metaphor? Where does one draw the line? WHACK. Should one?
And what, pray tell, would the same things be if told plainly, with parrhesia? The hour is coming; it’s here. So it is time for now-speech, speech without the constant comparison of present to past. It might be very different.
McKIM 4/28/14
I think John lacks a clear concept of parable, confusing it with metaphor. I argued before that the sheepfold is just a metaphor, not the parable John claims it is. And like you, Bob, I can’t think of any other candidates. Parables are a species of allegory, aren’t they? There’s always a story element, missing in the sheepfold passage. Mark’s sower is a borderline case, close to simile: “The kingdom of heaven is like …” But even that has a kind of storyline. None such in John. Assuming he knew the synoptic parables, he either thought this form of Jesus’ teaching superfluous, or thought his readers wouldn’t understand it, or couldn’t understand it himself (shades of Mark’s outsiders, whom Jesus deliberately flummoxed!).
So the paroimiai John refers to in 16:25 may simply be the metaphors of the mansion with many rooms, which governs chapter 14, and of the true vine, which governs 15. Alternative: 16:25 starts a patch from a source that did recount parables, grafted onto the 14-15 patch from a different source that did not — but this wouldn’t jibe with Bill’s particle count, where 14-17 are a unit.
Excellent suggestion on 16:25, Rick, and thankfully it does jibe. I’ve already suggested that there’s some patchwork within the 14-17 unit, referencing that passage (16:17ff.) specifically, where οὖν again crops up. Then there’s the “false ending” Ἐγείρεσθε, ἄγωμεν ἐντεῦθεν — “Wake up, let’s go!” — at the end of 14. And who knows where 17:3 is coming from — “This is eternal life, that they may know you as the one true God and Jesus Christ, whom you sent” (ὃν ἀπέστειλας Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν). A scribal gloss? Nowhere else in the New Testament does Jesus get away with calling himself Christ!
Pentecost, Giotto, Assisi, 13thC
Far as I can tell, Bob, “these things” refers as usual (16:1, 6, etc.) to what’s been said just before, which in this case, give or take an “interpolation” (I prefer “insertion”) or two, is the lore of the parakletos or “spirit of truth.” Your question about speaking in parables (παροιμίαι) has touched a sensitive nerve with bible scholars in the past, many flinging their arms into the air, or just shrugging: “Oh well, all language is metaphor, isn’t it?” I think you’re right to take the high ground here, though I’m finding it hard to catch my breath at the altitude of your exegetical level. Puff, pant.
I’ll give it a try, though: maybe Jesus refers to a time when the Holy Spirit does all the talking, in its own metalanguage, and we’ll understand, and none of us will have to use our own tongues. Communication in the fullest sense. Παρρησία and beyond.
At any rate, it’s hard for me to ignore the absurdity of the disciples’ response starting 16:29: There now, you’re speaking openly, you’re not talking in any metaphor! Now we know that you know all things, and that you have no need for anyone to make a request of you. That proves it: we do believe that you came from God! Of course Jesus hasn’t stopped talking in metaphor; he has only predicted a time when he will stop. How does that prove that he “knows all things,” or that he “came from God”? The poor guys don’t get it, but want him to think they do. We’ve all had students like that. Jesus ignores this and refers only to the faith they’ve just professed: “Are you just now believing?” After all, in this and other religions, as Rick remarks, reason springs from faith, not the other way ’round.
Bob’s deepest question is “What if the metaphors [or parables] are irreducible?” What would the non-metaphorical version of Jesus’ message be like? What, if anything, would be left if they were all translated into parrhesia, plain talk? Would parrhesia be Wittgenstein’s silence in face of that whereof we cannot speak? And/or would it be embodied in action instead of words — the resurrection, the second coming? Or are those actions themselves metaphorical tales, not things that really happened but attempts to image something that did, but that goes beyond words?
I suspect this is more a problem for us than for the evangelists. WE feel the need for some way to take things like the resurrection as metaphorical in an effort to find some sense in which we can believe something ineffable but analogous really happened. I don’t think the ancients felt the constraints of “reality” to be as tight as we do — reality as circumscribed by science — or the line between reality and metaphor to be as sharply drawn. Compare Paul’s “body of Christ”, a metaphor for the community of believers, but maybe not “merely” a metaphor in our sense. For Paul, I’m quite sure, the community really was the body of Christ, in some sense of “really” that our scientistic culture has lost its grip on.
Bob’s Jesus, testing metaphor after metaphor in search of an accurate image, doesn’t sound like John’s. If father/son talk counts as metaphorical, then the umpteen pages of John’s christologizing would be self-consciously so. But I imagine John thought Jesus really was the son, really was the logos, that God really was the father, again in a sense of “really” that we can’t access anymore.
Kirillo-Belozersky monastery, Russia, 16thC
Rick harked back to Anselm: Believe first and then (maybe) understand. I think that is probably the thought frame we are expected to enter. Not easy! As the scripture says somewhere, “It is easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a camel than for a high brow to get framed.” Particularly when the camel is parabolic. But eventually, if I am right, the paroimiai give way to parrhesia. Talk without riddles. Is the whole thematic of belief a build up to 20.29, where Jesus says to Thomas, “You saw me; you believed. Blessed are those who believe without having seen.”
McKIM
Bob, the Thomas story definitely reinforces the theme that those who demand reasons to believe (or in this case empirical evidence) are on a lower spiritual plane than those who don’t. Here Jesus doesn’t explicitly bar them from the fold, as he does when he says that the purpose of parables is to keep them out. Still, there’s an unmistakable put-down. After he offers to let Thomas stick his finger in the wound, and Thomas simply replies “My Lord and my God”, Jesus says “You believe in me because you’ve seen me? (ὅτι ἑώρακάς με πεπίστευκας) Blessed are those who haven’t seen and believe.” (20:29) In other words, “Belief based on evidence isn’t worth much to me. The faith I value is faith in the absence of evidence.” (Bill, do the aorist participles have some nuance my translation misses?)
Ivory panel, Roman sarcophagus, circa 4thC
Like most people, including Christian artists from time immemorial, I’ve always assumed that Thomas went ahead and stuck his finger in. But the text is as clear as can be on this point — he didn’t! Before Jesus appears, Thomas insists to the other disciples that he won’t believe “unless I stick my finger in the nail-holes and stick my hand in his side,” but in fact all it takes to make him a believer is to see Jesus. “My Lord and my God” is an immediate response to Jesus’ words, no finger-probing required. Jesus says “You believe because you’ve seen me”, not “because you’ve touched me.”
Hearing Jesus make the offer also helped, we can assume, but Thomas doesn’t take him up on it. Thomas is just like Mary at the tomb on Easter morning when she mistakes the risen Christ for a gardener. All Jesus has to do is speak and she says “Rabbi”, instantly seeing him for who he is.
There’s artful dramatic irony in the way that Thomas’s adamant refusal to believe without touchy-feely evidence evaporates at the mere sight of the risen Jesus. However, even the need to see with your own eyes is too rationalist a prerequisite to please Jesus. The story works to reassure believers who have no empirical reason to believe that they are specially blessed for not requiring one.
Memorable as the story is, doesn’t it feel concocted? I mean, in order to teach a kind of illustrated lesson to the many who must have balked (and still do) at the resurrection — the most essential yet most incredible article of Christian faith. “Don’t be like Thomas, refusing to believe it just because there’s no physical evidence to show you. Believing without evidence is the spiritually superior state, the road to salvation.”
I’m not denying that it’s an effective fable. It certainly is, and placing it at the very end as the climactic moral of the whole story — if we discount the second ending (more on that anon) — is a masterstroke in a text I’ve so often criticized for its stumble-bum narrative; but partly because it’s such a perfect deal-closer, it does feel like deliberate fiction to me.
“Concocted”, Rick? A put-down, other belittling things? Maybe but what impresses me is that Thomas has the guts to come back with the disciples at a time when nobody knew what might happen next. Followers of Jesus had good reason to be afraid. The easy course was to lie low. But Thomas comes back to the disciples and it is then (not at his initial grammatically emphatic expression of doubt) that Jesus shows him the wounds. So the negative moral is: Don’t be so skeptical. The positive one is: Have the courage to be part of this community. Two sides of the same coin, I guess.
Verrocchio, Orsanmichele, Florence, 15thC
“Concocted” wasn’t meant pejoratively, but in the sense that aetiological myths are concocted — after the fact, to explain something, in this case why belief without rational or empirical justification is far from a foolish thing. I do think there’s a “put-down” of Thomas for demanding evidence, but everything you say about the story is also true. My point was just that it seems deliberately invented for a purpose — as distinct from many other gospel episodes, which may be fictional but arise organically from oral tradition within a community, without anyone consciously making them up.
BERG 5/1/14
No nuance really in those aorist participles, Rick, at least none that can be easily conveyed in English. If Jesus had described those who are blessed for believing without seeing as οἱ οὐκ ἰδόντες, we could literally translate “those who haven’t seen”; but that innocent-looking little μὴ, for “not” (instead of οὐκ) removes the temporal frame, takes it out of time and space, generalizes the principle: “Those (whoever, anytime, anywhere) who have not seen and are convinced.”
Help me with one detail. It seems to me that everything in the gospel up to 20:28 aims to show that Jesus is (a) the Messiah, and (b) the son of god. Right? But Thomas’ response when Jesus addresses him is “My lord and my God.” Nothing about sonship. Maybe that was too wishy-washy for no-nonsense Thom? He lays it on the line. Am I right in thinking this is the first time in this gospel (or the others?) that Jesus is declared to be “God,” pure and simple?
Thomas certainly outdoes Mary’s down-to-earth honorific on recognizing Jesus in the garden: “Rabbi.” But his double “my” seems emphatic — “My lord and my God” (ὁ κύριός μου και ὁ θεός μου). Maybe “You are lord and God to me“? Thomas would be acknowledging that, for him as a Christian, Jesus and God are one. His need to stick his finger in the wounds evaporates in the light of the true faith that Jesus’ invitation inspires. Thomas sees the light and no longer needs empirical proof — a dramatic lesson for Christians that faith, to be worthy of the name, must abide without evidence to support it. To invoke father-son christology at this climactic moment might strike the tale-teller as muddying the water.
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The Book of Fate
Written by Parinoush Saniee • Translated by Sara Khalili
Published August 31, 2013 | ISBN 9781770893832
464 pages | 8.5 in × 5.5 in
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Parinoush Saniee • Sara Khalili
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Spanning five turbulent decades in Iranian history, from before the 1979 revolution, through the Islamic Republic, and up to the present, The Book of Fate is a powerful story of friendship and passion, fear and hope.
A teenager in pre-revolutionary Tehran, Massoumeh is an average girl, passionate about learning. On her way to school she meets a local man and falls in love, but when her family discovers his letters they accuse her of bringing them dishonour. She is badly beaten by her brother, and her parents hastily arrange for her to marry a man she’s never met. Facing a life without love, and the prospect of no education, Massoumeh is distraught, but a female neighbour urges her to comply: "We each have a destiny, and you can’t fight yours."
The years that follow Massoumeh’s wedding prove transformative for Iran. Hamid, Massoumeh’s husband, is a political dissident and a threat to the Shah’s regime. When the secret service arrive to arrest him, it is the start of a terrifying period for Massoumeh. Her fate, so long dictated by family loyalty and tradition, is now tied to the changing fortunes of her country.
Parinoush Saniee is formally trained in Psychology and has extensive research experience in social studies. She was formerly manager of the research department at the Supreme Coordination Council for Technical and Vocational Education in Iran. Her first novel, The Book of Fate, won the Boccaccio Prize in Italy, the Euskadi de Plata Prize in the Basque Country, and was selected as one of World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2013. I Hid My Voice is her second novel that has been translated into English.
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How common was travelling before the invention of the steam engine?
I've read someplace that before the invention of trains people rarely traveled, and it was common for them to never even leave their home towns or go as far as 20 miles from them (there is the famous story that Immanuel Kant never left his hometown, and he died the same year that the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive was built, although that might be unrelated). But the source didn't specify if that applied to everyone or only to farmers and serfs. Did city dwellers travel? Also, after the invention of trains and widespread construction of rails, how long did it take for traveling to be considered 'common'?
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BBC history magazine has dealt with this several times. Pilgrimages were common. Merchant travel was common – Mark C. Wallace♦ Oct 15 '16 at 17:31
All of sailors, fishermen, students, pilgrims, merchants, master craftsmen, journeyman craftsmen (travel required to obtain experience for Master's papers), clergy, courtiers, soldiers, groomsmen (of horses not bridegrooms), all frequently travelled more than a days journey from their homes. Basically, nearly everyone except farmers and children. – Pieter Geerkens Oct 15 '16 at 18:26
The roads in England were not that bad, and to some extent explain why Britain was the first country to industrialise. But a stagecoach journey from London to Norwich (108 miles) took two days in summer and three in winter. In Norfolk, there was a sail-boat service from Kings Lynn to London that operated twice a week in summer. The canals were mostly used for goods, I don't think there was much passenger traffic. The railways certainly transformed all this from the 1840s. – WS2 Oct 26 '16 at 23:12
People, even common people, traveled when they needed to. Usually as the result of war, famine, or persecution. The "Great Migration" is only one fairly well documented such event.
The 'Great Migration' 1629–40 saw 80,000 people leave England, roughly 20,000 migrating to each of four destinations, Ireland, New England,[4] the West Indies and the Netherlands.
Colonization as a goal encourage people as far back as the Romans to pick up roots and settling new locations. Within U.S. history the Oregon trail and the general expansion westward into new territories seeking that better life and the lands of 'milk and honey'.
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Think this is spot on. Most travel was by Sea in North America (the Yankee Clipper) and "those damn Yankees" really got around back in the day (all the way to China.) So initially yes...we travelled by Sail. – Doctor Zhivago Oct 16 '16 at 14:37
Traders, soldiers, officials. If we confine things to Europe, those are the only people who traveled a long distance.
Taking them in turn, travelling by sea took you the furthest, and it was traders who did this the most. Wars generally happened between neighbouring countries or within a country, so soldiers usually did not travel much, although they did occasionally have to go long distances. Officials might have to travel within a country to assess taxes and the like, or occasionally (rarely) on diplomatic missions to foreign countries.
So, everyone who was not one of these didn't travel much. You would need to find out the proportion of people who were not traders, soldiers, or officials. It will be most people.
Wandering day labourers, friars and thieves would have to move about a fair bit. They would generally stay within one area, but their life would involve a lot of walking.
A couple of un-ordinary groups are missing from your list: colonists and re-settlers (although they tended to stay put once they got there), university students (amazing how far some went for their education), clergy, pilgrims (not just to the famous pilgrimage destinations), nobles (especially if their estates were far from the court or capital). – bgwiehle Oct 15 '16 at 14:50
You forgot pilgrims and scholars. – Reinstate Monica - M. Schröder Oct 19 '16 at 21:50
Even after the invention of the steam engine most common people never traveled. It depends on the country, of course. But in countries like Russia or Turkey or China, even in the early 20th century, most people were peasants, and they did not travel long distance. Mass travel developed in 20th century. Until the early 20th century, the most common way for a peasant "to see the world" was to serve in the army or navy.
If you mean common people it is probably right. The only transport, apart from walking, was horse or mule and boat, and these were not cheap.
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It would be better if you could include some references for this answer. – Rathony Oct 15 '16 at 9:54
This is a bad answer because it is pure opinion. No supporting references, postulates, explanations or authority is given. – Stuart Allan Oct 15 '16 at 16:26
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Douglas Kolk
By Douglas Kolk (editor), Uwe Fleckner (contributor) and Oliver Zybok (editor)
Publisher Hatje Cantz Pub
Publication date November 1, 2006
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Fragmented and morbid, yet full of an inspiring, adolescent sensitivity, Douglas Kolk's drawings and collages feature seductive, abject figures who seem to be at odds with themselves and the world around them. Influenced by Pop art and contemporary media images, Kolk's delicate, confessional works have titles like A Boy Named Deth, A Girl Named Sic, and Hi Sunflower! and deal intensively with popular youth culture. Perhaps the artist's personal history lends some insight: born in Newark, New Jersey in 1963, Kolk grew up in a senior citizens' home led by his father, a Baptist preacher. After studying graphic design, he worked as an assistant to Robert Longo, and then as the curator of a corporate art collection. In the mid-90s, increasing artistic success brought enough pressure to cause Kolk to stop working for a while. He recently resumed drawing, and has had solo shows at Team and David Zwirner galleries in New York.
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About: Fragmented and morbid, yet full of an inspiring, adolescent sensitivity, Douglas Kolk's drawings and collages feature seductive, abject figures who seem to be at odds with themselves and the world around them.
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Two Albums from Bands Led by Israelis Get Grammy Nominations
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Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c, November 24, 2019
Two sophomore albums from groups from Israeli musicians’ bands have received nominations for the upcoming 62nd annual Grammy Awards.
The Anat Cohen Tentet, fronted by Israeli jazz clarinetist Anat Cohen, received a Grammy nomination in the Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album category for “Triple Helix.”
Southern Avenue, a Memphis-based soul/blues/R&B band cofounded by Israeli guitarist Ori Naftaly, received a Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category for “Keep On.”
Commissioned by New York’s Carnegie Hall and Chicago’s Symphony Center for live world premieres earlier in 2019, “Triple Helix” features a centerpiece three-movement concerto composed by Cohen’s longtime collaborator and Tentet musical director Oded Lev-Ari.
This is the third Grammy nomination for Cohen, one of three noted musical siblings from Tel Aviv. Her 2017 albums recorded in Brazil, “Outra Coisa” and “Rosa Dos Ventos,” received nominations in the Best Latin Jazz and Best World Music albums categories, respectively.
Naftaly, 31, originally went to Memphis in October 2012 with his Ori Naftaly Band to represent Israel at the annual International Blues Challenge. The band became the first Israeli act to make it to the event’s semifinals and sold more CDs than did any other contestant in the challenge.
A year later, Naftaly relocated to Memphis. In 2015, he and gospel-singing sisters Tierinii and Tikyra Jackson joined forces to create Southern Avenue. The band was signed by Concord Music’s Stax Records and released its self-titled debut in 2017. “Keep On” came out in May 2019.
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IoT meets pharmaceutical logistics
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The era of the “connected refrigerator” may have arrived, but Mark Roemers, co-founder of Netherlands-based AntTail, has simply given up on consumer refrigerators, smart or otherwise. They don’t cool evenly, with a dozen or more degrees Fahrenheit temperature difference between storage in the door and storage in the back of a typical refrigerator — more than enough to allow for degradation of certain medications. And AntTail, which focuses on pharmaceutical logistics, is all about keeping medicines fresh. Part of its partnership with one of the major pharmaceutical suppliers in the Netherlands is to supply small drug storage coolers to individual patients to use in their homes.
Using refrigerators, more than 90% of patients don’t store their medications within the safety margin. Using the dedicated cooler turns that statistic exactly on its head. AntTail knows this because it tracks the temperature continuously and monitors when the drugs are accessed for use.
The company has developed a small sensor that fits inside the sealed package in which pharmacies deliver drugs to patients. The sensor device, which looks somewhat like an overgrown SD card, not only tracks temperatures, but also incorporates a light sensor so it knows when the package it resides in has been opened. With a life between battery changes of 18 months, it’s something of a textbook example of these sorts of communications and power-consumption issues that real-world IoT devices must deal with.
AntTail’s sensor device is matchstick small. Note ant on match head. We’re pretty sure the ant is important.
The first casualty of power requirements for AntTail, Roemers says, was industry standards. The company really couldn’t use conventional wireless standards such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee or Z-wave– it’d have only managed six months or so of life from the CR2032 batteries that its sensors use — and thus have invented its own proprietary network. “There’s a big need for someone to come up with a standard for very efficient wireless communication,” Roemers said.
The proprietary AntTail protocol is unusual in that it doesn’t use addressed-based routing the way IP-style networks do. Instead, each device monitors the hop counts of packets traversing other nearby units (this is a mesh architecture) and sends packets to devices that it knows are “upstream” in relation to an aggregator (think, roughly, of a Wi-Fi access point). The aggregator then uses a cellular data connection to send the sensor data to the cloud. If the company had chosen a standard protocol for local connection to the sensors, Roemers said, it would have been Zigbee, but then “all the equipment would be six times larger” because of the extra batteries needed.
Data from the sensors is collected in the cloud and, of late, some of it is shared back to patients by way of a smartphone app, which helps with reminders to take medicines on schedule. At present, there are only about 1,000 sensors in the field, but the deployment is doubling monthly. One downside: fully one half of the sensors are thrown away by patients who forget that they are inside the foil pack containing the medicine. AntTail notes that they do typically get a couple of trips to the end user and back before they go astray. Still, at thirty euros a throw for the sensor units, IoT medicine delivery is still a pricey proposition.
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Rio Tinto Has High Hopes for Iron Ore in 2020
Sasha Dhesi - October 31st, 2019
Diversified miner Rio Tinto has upped its iron ore shipment guidance for 2020 by 5 percent, with high hopes for its Pilbara project.
Diversified miner Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO,LSE:RIO,NYSE:RIO) has announced its expectations for 2020, with high hopes for its iron ore asset, the Pilbara project.
In a press release on Wednesday (October 31), Rio Tinto forecasts that its shipment guidance could increase by up to 5 percent between 2019 and 2020, subject to market conditions. The company will announce those numbers officially in January 2020.
Rio Tinto expects the capital expenditure for its iron ore business to be somewhere between US$1 billion and US$1.5 billion per year from 2020, as opposed to its earlier guidance of about $1 billion.
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“We are not complacent, and will step up our operational performance to fully optimize our assets and maintain strong cash delivery,” Rio Tinto CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques said in a press release.
“We will continue to create value by strengthening relationships with our customers and with other partners, both of which are crucial for our future success.”
The Pilbara project has struggled to produce iron ore in 2019 due to cyclones and other poor weather incidents, which have negatively affected production output. In April, Rio Tinto adjusted its yearly shipment guidance because of these weather conditions, dropping it from between 338 million and 350 million tonnes to a range of 333 million to 343 million tonnes.
In addition to iron ore, Rio Tinto offered an update on its Oyu Tolgoi mine, which it claims will be one of the top copper and gold mines in the world. The miner announced that construction of Shaft 2 is complete, and it expects to release a definitive estimate for the project in the second half of 2020.
Iron ore had a hot summer, but prices have since fallen slightly and stabilized as supply increases. Iron ore saw a decrease in supply due to unexpected disasters like Pilbara’s weather conditions and Vale’s (NYSE:VALE) dam collapse in January.
FocusEconomics‘ analyst panel expects iron ore to gradually decline from the peaks it hit during the summer, but maintains that prices will remain higher than they were in 2018.
On Thursday (October 31), Rio Tinto opened at AU$52.20, declining 2.65 percent from the previous day.
Iron ore opened the markets at US$89.80 per tonne, a 0.34 percent decrease over the past week.
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5 Red Hot Housing Stocks Sprinting to Decade Highs
Housing stocks have been on fire this year, but the rally for many homebuilders may be on its last legs
By Luke Lango, InvestorPlace Contributor Sep 23, 2019, 2:23 pm EST September 23, 2019
Throughout 2019, I’ve been ringing the bull horn on housing stocks — see here and here — claiming that recession fears which killed housing stocks in late 2018 were overstated. And that a plunge in rates on trade war fears, but against the backdrop of favorable labor conditions, created picture perfect conditions for the housing market in 2019.
Fast forward a few months. We are now nearly 10 months in 2019, and things have played out as expected. Rates have plunged. The U.S. labor market has remained healthy. The housing market has bounced back in a big way. So have housing stocks. The SPDR S&P Homebuilders ETF(NYSEARCA:XHB) is up 33% year-to-date, with many housing stocks having sprinted to decade highs in 2019.
Will the rally in this red hot group continue for the foreseeable future?
Probably. But at a more muted pace. The fundamentals here remain favorable. Sure, rates have crept higher over the past few weeks. But they remain well below where they were a year ago. The labor market remains healthy, supported by low unemployment and big wage gains. Credit is good. Homebuilder and consumer confidence remain healthy.
Net net, the fundamentals support further upside in housing stocks.
But the valuation underlying these red hot stocks already reflects this. That is, many of these stocks trade at decade high valuations. Are those rich valuations supported by strong fundamentals? Yes. But the multiple expansion driver that has underpinned the huge YTD rally in housing stocks should dry up soon.
As such, while I remain positive on the group going forward, I am less positive today, than I have been all year long. With that in mind, let’s take a look at 5 housing stocks which have sprinted to decade highs, and see where these stocks will go next.
LGI Homes (LGIH)
YTD Gain: 80%
One of the hottest housing stocks in 2019 has been U.S. homebuilder LGI Homes (NYSE:LGIH), with LGIH stock up 80% year-to-date to fresh decade highs.
The story at LGI Homes is simple. The company builds affordable, new construction homes in 26 markets and 16 states across the country. This gives LGI Home broad exposure to the low- to middle-income demographic across multiple geographies. This demographic tends to be very economically confident when the U.S. labor market is doing well and tends to spend big on big ticket projects when rates are low. That’s exactly what we have today. Thus, it should be no surprise that as rates have plunged and wages have gone up, LGI Homes has sold a lot of homes.
All of this should continue for the foreseeable future. The only problem is that LGIH stock trades at 14-times trailing earnings. That’s nearing a decade high valuation for this stock. Before, spikes towards a mid-teen earnings multiple have been unsustainable for LGIH stock. This history of volatility at these valuation levels gives me pause.
As such, on the heels of an 80% year-to-date rally, LGIH stock may be done rallying for the foreseeable future.
PulteGroup (PHM)
When it comes to homebuilders, very few can match the breadth and depth of PulteGroup (NYSE:PHM), which has rallied nearly 40% this year to decade highs.
PulteGroup is big. They are the nation’s third largest homebuilder. PulteGroup also has healthy geographic diversity — they build homes across 25 states and in nearly 50 major markets — and equally healthy demographic diversity — their demographic portfolio breaks down roughly into 30% entry-level buyers, 30% move-up buyers, 15% luxury buyers and 25% active adult buyers.
Because of this wide exposure, as goes the U.S. housing market, so goes PulteGroup’s numbers. Thus, as the U.S. housing market has gained momentum in 2019 amid plunging rates and improving labor conditions, PulteGroup’s numbers have similarly gained momentum. As they have, PHM stock has soared.
The attractive thing about PHM stock? It only trades at 10-times forward earnings. Sure, that’s up big from where it traded at the beginning of the year. But it’s still just about average for a homebuilder, with the average forward earnings multiple in the homebuilding sector hovering around 10. It also comes against what analysts see as 13% EPS growth over the next few years.
In other words, despite a near 40% rally year-to-date, PHM stock is still cheap — too cheap considering its favorable growth fundamentals. As such, this stock can and should head higher going forward.
NVR (NVR)
Up 50% year-to-date and now trading at decade highs, homebuilder NVR (NYSE:NVR) has been a huge winner as the U.S. housing market has sprung back to life in 2019.
This should be no surprise. Much like PulteGroup, NVR is a big homebuilder with broad demographic and geographic diversity — the company builds homes in 14 states and 32 metro areas. Consequently, also much like PulteGroup, as goes the U.S. housing market, so goes NVR. So, as rates have plunged and incomes have climbed in 2019, NVR has sold a ton of homes at healthy profit margins — sparking a 50% rally in NVR stock.
Favorable growth drivers will remain in place for the foreseeable future. But valuation is a risk here. NVR stock trades at 18-times forward earnings. That’s nearly double the homebuilder market’s average 10-times forward earnings multiple. Also, that 18-times forward multiple is being awarded to NVR for reporting just 5% revenue growth and 8% net profit growth through the first half of 2019. That isn’t big growth. But 18 is a big forward earnings multiple for a homebuilder.
As such, the valuation on NVR stock seems too extended here. Further upside in the near term seems unlikely.
D.R. Horton (DHI)
The number one homebuilder in America by closings volume — D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) — has naturally been a big winner in 2019 as the U.S. housing market has materially improved. Year-to-date, DHI stock is up 50%, and it presently trades right around decade highs.
There’s more to DHI than just being big. Specifically, DHI has dominant and leading market share in rapidly expanding metro areas like Phoenix and Dallas Fort Worth. Leading exposure to those hyper-growth markets gives DHI more growth firepower than most other homebuilders, and as such, DHI reported an impressive 11% revenue growth rate last quarter.
Despite being one the most impressive growers in the space, DHI stock trades at a fairly cheap 12-times forward earnings multiple. Sure, that’s above the homebuilder average multiple. But DHI is also growing more quickly than the average homebuilder. Indeed, a 12-times forward earnings for double-digit revenue growth seems like a steal.
Net net, DHI stock — despite being up nearly 50% year-to-date — may not be done rallying just yet, since the valuation here leaves room for more upside.
Meritage Homes (MTH)
The biggest gainer on this list, and one of the hottest housing stocks in 2019, is Meritage Homes (NYSE:MTH), with a year-to-date gain of over 90%.
MTH stock is up big in 2019 because the U.S. housing market has sprung back to life, and that has recharged the Meritage Homes growth narrative. But MTH stock is up more than other housing stocks in 2019 because of favorable demographic tailwinds. That is, the big growth area in the U.S. housing market is Millennials finally moving out from their parents and buying their first home. This is what Meritage focuses on — building affordable, energy-efficient homes that are attractive to that cohort. Indeed, entry-level and first move-up purchases accounted for 90% of order volume in the second quarter of 2019.
As such, favorable demographic tailwinds have coupled with positive macro-economic housing conditions to turn MTH stock into a big winner in 2019. Can the rally continue? So long as those favorable demographic tailwinds drive better-than-industry growth, then yes. But as soon as those tailwinds dry up, MTH stock could drop, since it is trading at an above-sector average 13-times forward earnings multiple.
As of this writing, Luke Lango did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2019/09/5-red-hot-housing-stocks-sprinting-to-decade-highs/.
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Obama puts focus on emerging Asia
by Arno Maierbrugger - Nov 12, 2012
Newly re-elected US president Barack Obama is steering the focus of his second term towards Asia. From November 17 to 20, the president will embark on a round trip to Southeast Asia including Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand.
The White House confirmed details of his first trip in his second period on November 8.
Obama is expected to land in Bangkok on November 18 and meet with Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on the first leg of his trip. Thailand is the oldest US ally in Southeast Asia, and the visit will be in the light of 180 years of diplomatic relations and to “reaffirm the strength of the US-Thai alliance,” the White House said.
The US and Thailand will hold their annual joint-military exercise, Cobra Gold, next year for the first time with observers from Myanmar, a symbolic act that obviously is also a message to China that the US is going to enforce their presence in the region.
On November 19, Obama will be in Myanmar. The visit to the newly opened country, the first by an acting US president, will give Obama a chance to hold talks with President Thein Sein and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to encourage the country’s “ongoing democratic transition,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
The anchor of the visit will be the 21st ASEAN Summit and 7th East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he is expected later on November 19 and will hold talks with Asian leaders on November 20.
“During his interactions in the region he will discuss a broad range of issues including economic prosperity and job creation through increased trade and partnerships, energy and security cooperation, human rights, shared values and other issues of regional and global concern,” Carney said.
Economically, the three-nation Asia trip by Obama is part of his effort to refocus in the most “rapidly growing and dynamic” region of the world, the White House said.
Under the Obama administration, the US has made a major shift towards Asia and the Asia-Pacific region in general, which has been articulated by him and his officials several times in previous years.
“For the US, this reflects a broader shift. After a decade in which we fought two wars that cost us dearly, in blood and treasure, the US is turning its attention to the vast potential of the Asia-Pacific region,” Obama said during his trip to Australia last November.
“Here, we see the future. As the world’s fastest-growing region — and home to more than half the global economy — the Asia-Pacific region is critical to achieving my highest priority, and that’s creating jobs and opportunity for the American people,” the president said.
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Ombuds Benchmarking & Research Resources
The following resources have been compiled by IOA's Title IX Committee for your reference. Some of these document have been produced, written or initiated by IOA. Other documents were obtained from media reports or other sources, but permission has been granted to share them on our organization's website. All files are PDF files unless otherwise indicated.
Survey of Higher Education Ombuds Reporting Under the Clery Act and Title IX
Government Guidance Documents
IOA Resources
Ombuds' Roles: What ombuds do
Other Charters
Ombuds Confidentiality
Reports on Sexual Assault
Posted April 2017: Survey of Higher Education Ombuds Reporting Under the Clery Act and Title IX
A survey of the Clery and Title IX reporting landscape across campuses in the United States. This document is an attempt to help ombuds facilitate conversations with their institutions about the ombuds confidentiality and reporting status.
Response to the ED: In July 2016, IOA responded to the Department of Education’s “Handbook for Campus Safety and Security Reporting 2016 Edition” published in June. IOA's response to the ED can be read here.
In August 2016, the DOE responded to IOA rejecting the clery act arguments. IOA President, Reese Ramos, reached out to the membership summarizing the news. You can re-read Reese's email here.
Wilmer Hale Memo & Background
Campus Ombuds as Confidential Resource for Purposes of Title IX and Clery Act Reporting
In 2014, IOA's Ad Hoc Title IX Task Force determined that a legal memorandum from a highly respected law firm, making the case for the ombuds confidentiality in the contexts of both Title IX and Clery, could be extremely valuable to the advancement of understanding and acceptance the ombuds as a non-reporting, confidential resource. In March 2016, the law firm of WilmerHale produced this memo to address whether higher education institutions that have an academic organizational ombudsman (“ombuds”) may treat the ombuds as a confidential resource in light of federal laws that require certain campus personnel to report information about sexual violence incidents to institution officials.
Department of Education Handbook on Campus Safety and Security
Violence Against Women Act Amendments to Clery — Infographic (.png file)
Violence Against Women Act Final Rule
Dear Colleague Letter Fact Sheet
Q&A on Title IX
Sexual Harassment Guideline — January 2001
Title IX and Clery Act Comparison Chart
U.S. Department of Education Dear Colleague Letter
Benchmark Table of Ombuds Charters/Survey of Higher Education Ombuds Reporting Under Clery and Title IX - updated April 6, 2017
IOA Response to Department of Education Proposal regarding Violence Against Women Act
IOA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice
IOA Best Practices Supplement
Overview and Comparison Table for Title VII, Title IX, and the Clery Act for Ombuds
Chloe Lew: Sexual assault policy needs more transparency (Daily Bruin, February 9, 2015)
Colleges Call in Legal Pros to Handle Sexual Assault Cases (Chronicle of Higher Education, February 16, 2015)
Official campus statistics for sexual violence mislead (Al Jazeera America, July 14, 2014)
Oregon Quarterly Sexual Assault, "It's On Us" (March 10, 2015)
Quiet No Longer, Rape Survivors Put Pressure on Colleges (Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12, 2013)
The Stanford Undergraduate and the Mentor (The New York Times Magazine, February 11, 2015)
Ombuds' Roles: What ombuds do:
University of Maryland: Different ombuds for different categories
University of Colorado Boulder ombuds: What they do
Montana State University Roles and Services
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Other Charters:
Lewis and Clark Charter
Oregon State University Charter
University of California-Irvine Charter
University of California-Riverside Charter
University of California-Santa Barbara Charter
Federal Privilege in the Ombudsman's Process (Charleston Law Review, Fall 2013)
Justification for Creating an Ombudsman Privilege in Today's Society (Marquette Law Review, Winter 2012)
No Notice Is Good News (Journal of Dispute Resolution, 2005)
The Ombudsman Confidentiality Privilege; Theory and Mechanics (The Ombudsman Association, 1996)
Universities, Corporations, and States Use Them--Now It's Time to Protect Them: An Analysis of the Public and Private Sector Ombudsman and the Continued Need for a Privileged Relationship (Southern Illinois University Law Journal, Winter 2003)
Twenty Students Per Week: The Report of the University Senate Task Force to Address Sexual Violence and Survivor Support (University of Oregon, November 5, 2014)
Addressing Sexual Assault and Interpersonal Violence: Athletics’ Role in Support of Healthy and Safe Campuses (NCAA, September 2014)
Brown University Sexual Assault Task Force: Interim Report (December 2014)
Report of the University of Oregon President's Review Panel (December 9, 2014)
Report to the President and Fellows of Yale University of the Advisory Committee on Campus Climate(September 15, 2011)
Infographic: Confronting Campus Sexual Assault: An Examination of Higher Education Claims (2015)
Assessing Institutional Responsibility for Sexual Harassment in Education (Tulane Law Review, 2002)
Burying Our Heads in the Sand: Lack of Knowledge, Knowledge Avoidance and the Persistent Problem of Campus Peer Sexual Violence (Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Fall 2011)
Chuck Howard Excerpt on Title IX Notice
Climate Surveys: Useful Tools to Help Colleges and Universities in Their Efforts to Reduce and Prevent Sexual Assault
Decriminalizing Campus Institutionalized Responses to Peer Sexual Violence (Journal of College and University Law, 2012)
Institution-Specific Victimization Surveys: Addressing Legal and Practical Disincentives to Gender-Based Violence Reporting on College Campuses (Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 2014)
Know Your Rights: Title IX Requires Your School to Address Sexual Violence (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)
Limiting Gebser: Institutional Liability for Non-Harassment Sex Discrimination Under Title IX (Wake Forest Law Review, Summer 2004)
Masculinity and Title IX: Bullying and Sexual Harassment of Boys in the American Liberal State (Maryland Law Review, 2014)
Not Alone: The First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students From Sexual Assault (White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, 2014)
Occidental College Report of External Audit and Assessment of Title IX Policies, Procedures and Practices (October 22, 2014)
Title IX: Beyond Equal Protection (Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Summer 2005)
Top 10 Things We Need to Know About Title IX (Whitepaper by the NCHERM Group, LLC and Atixa, 2013)
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Archive for the ‘suyamariyadhai’ Category
Black magic, transfer of spirit and all sorceries carried on in the Land of Dravidanadu, where Periyar was born (1)
The Dravidian totalitarian and rationalistic rule during 1960-70s: In Tamilnadu, the Dravidian politicians used to claim about their “rational atheism”, “analytical wisdom” and so on, but in actual life, most of them have been God-believers worshipping God stealthily or by proxy i.e., through their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters. Some of them used to worship gods stealthily in their houses also with puja rooms. However, they say that “I am an atheist, but, I do not interfere with the belief of our family members”. How then, they could interfere with belief of crores of people of Tamilnadu? In public and platform, they pour abuses with the worst filthy language on Hindu religion, Gods and Goddesses and practices that no woman could bear. Yet, they have earned the titles of “Periyar” [big / great person among others or all], “Aringnar” [the only person who knows all], “Kalainjar” [the person who has been expert in all arts / subjects] and so on! Thus, the superiority complex that has been working in their mind set, makes others always to listen to them, accept what they say and none should or could ask any question. During the 1960s, if anybody would question them would be thrashed down.
During the LPG regime / Internet age, questioning started: This is the way, they have been reigning supreme for the last 60 years. Only their views made public and circulated authoritatively[1]. However, when, internet came, the people started understanding their ambiguous dogma, hollow philosophy and dubious ideology of these groups. The youngsters could easily understand their selective, biased and pre-conceived propaganda carried against one particular religion i.e, Hindu religion[2]. As a ruler, the Dravidian or atheist Chief Minister has to administer and perform his duties as per the Constitutional and other statutory provisions treating all believers. However, in the case of Hindu religion, temples, temple administration, lease and rental of temple and mutt properties, conduct of rituals, rites and ceremonies, they interfered and spoiled many times. Though, the recent past is suppressed, the beating of Rama with chappals and other incidences make the youngsters to realize the duplicity of the Dravidian protagonists. The ganging up of splinter groups of Communists, anti-Hindu ideologists, particularly the Christian and Muslim groups joining them raise questions and they have understood that it is only anti-Hindu and secular or “Paguttaravi”, as being claimed. Under such circumstances, the recent happenings in Tamilnadu exposes their another ugly face of them.
Annadurai suddely died in 1969: C. N. Annadurai from high caste Mudaliar community was in power during the period 1967 – 1969. However, he fell ill due to excessive usage of tobacco substances. In September 1968 Annadurai went to New York for medical treatment and admitted in the hospital. After diagnosis, it was found out that there was malignant growth in his gullet and hence he was operated for Cancer in the gullet at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center. He returned to Chennai in November 1968 and continued to address several official functions against medical advice. His health deteriorated further and he died suddenly on 3 February 1969 within three months returning from USA after sugery and treatment. His cancer was attributed to his habit of chewing tobacco. However, some of the family members doubted about his sudden death. When Karunanidhi immediately took over as CM, people resented about his haste action. They questioned why the senior pontiff Sri Chandrasekhara Saraswati of Kanchi Mutt wore spectacles as to why God could not have rectified his eyesight without glasses. But, here, none questioned as to why the science allowed man to die in that way in spite of the treatment etc. Later, MGR was also subjected to similar conditions. M. R. Radha attempted to kill MGR (on January 12, 1967), of course, he was not in power. After becoming CM, he was also not having proper health (in 1983 kidney problem developed), admitted to Brooklyn hospital US, returned after kidney transplant on February 4, 1985, but had to get treatment again and again in US and died on December 24, 1987.
Dravidian brand of astrologers, predictors and magicians: When the DMK came to power, the first thing, they did was to legalize the marriages performed under the “Pakuthtarivi” / “Suyamariyadhai” categories, as such marriages were held null and void in the courts. The rationalism did not work with the scientific judiciary system. Thus, they became cautious in dealing with social issues. The Dravidian politicias have been interested in astrology, auspicious time and date, black magic and all sorts of such superstitious practices, irrational rites and credulous rituals. Though, they denounce everything in public, in private, they practiced and hence their brand of Dravidian astrologers, predicting experts and magicians have been developed in due course and they have to keep the secrets in person, not to tell anybody in public and carry on their business, to safeguard their interests. That is why Karunanidhi used to hesitate to enter the Brahadheswarar temple, but wear yellow shwal as per the advice of his “asthana jyodhidar”, court / personal astrologer. Under such circumstances, the current events are to be analyzed.
The antics, gimmicks and counter-rituals of of Dravida Kazhagam and allied groups: The Dravidar Kazhagam used to play gimmicks by imitating the ritual of coconut breaking, fasting during eclipses, firewalk, carrying pots of burning coal, spiking one’s tongue and body with iron hooks, the concept of auspicious time, astrology, palm reading etc[3]. Though, they used to criticize only Hindu religion for the so-called “ritualism”[4], they close eyes, when they themselves follow such “ritualistic” practices, i.e, respecting the statues of EVR, Maniammai, celebrating birth and death days, garlanding and showering the idols with flowers. However, they never reenact the “crucifixion” of the Christians and bleeding beatings of “Shia Muslims” exposing their hypocrisy. Again, when Jayalalita was in hospital, the followers carried on all devoted rituals and rites praying all gods to save her. Incidentally, they were carried on in the most “secular” way, in the sense, Christians and Muslims have also participated. Therefore, tactfully, the DK groups kept silence to prove their ideology!
Was Jayalalita died because of black magic?: The Daily Mail, UK carried a news item as follows[5]: “A leading astro guru in Chennai has said that Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is a victim of black magic which has left her hospitalised since September, 2017. Not willing to identify himself for security reasons, the spiritual guru said Jayalalithaa has suffered from bad health because she has too many rivals. “It’s not just people from the rival party (DMK) who have spent huge money on tantriks to damage Jayalalithaa’s health. “I have no hesitation in saying that she has detractors even within her own party (AIADMK) who wanted to see her suffer,” he said. News on the health condition of Jayalalithaa is being kept a top secret. She is admitted in Apollo hospital in Chennai. Apart from a team of in-house specialists, doctors from the AIIMS New Delhi and a critical care specialist from London, are also involved in ensuring the CM is now stable. The astro guru also said it was quite possible Jayalalithaa’s arch rival M Karunanidhi could also be suffering from bad health due to tantrik spells. “Rivalry in political circles is very common and it would be wrong to say only one political party indulges in black magic and sorcery. This is noholds barred…,” he said”.
The position and condition when Jaya was not feeling well (September to December 2016): What we can understand from this, are the following points[6]:
Not willing to identify himself for security reasons, the spiritual guru said Jayalalithaa has suffered from bad health because she has too many rivals.
“It’s not just people from the rival party (DMK) who have spent huge money on tantriks to damage Jayalalithaa’s health.
“I have no hesitation in saying that she has detractors even within her own party (AIADMK) who wanted to see her suffer,” he said.
News on the health condition of Jayalalithaa was being kept a top secret.
Thus, the nexus between the Dravidian politicians and the tantriks came out publically in the media. Ironically, none of the Dravidian ideologists like K. Veeramani, Kali Pungundran, “Viduthalai” Rajendran, Kolattur Mani and others refuted this, but, kept quite. Whom they were meeting, how the money paid, where the rituals taking place – the details – nothing known or revealed to anybody. Under such circumstances, the black magic affairs of one Karthikeyan came just after the death of Jayalalitha on 05-12-2016.
[1] In 1956 August first, Dravidia Kazhagam asked the volunteers to bum pictures of Lord Rama as the organization considered Ramayana as anti-women and anti lower castes etc. one Dravidia Kazhagam leader in the name of Thiruvarur Thangarajan wrote a new version of Ramayana way Rama was portrayed as a villain. The Dravidia Kazhagam film star M.R. Radha staged the play throughout the state. The Government led by the Chief Minister Kamaraj immediately banned the play but Dravidia Kazhagam after obtaining court’s pem1ission staged the play in selected towns.
[2] At the instigation of Thiru E. V. Ramaswami Naicker, the Leader of Dravida Kazhagam, several tableaus depicting the picture of Gods Rama and Muruga were being beaten by a chappal in a procession held at Salem on 23rd and 24th January 1971. When one individual printed the photos of the procession, the DMK government banned and seized the posters. The Government of Tamil Nadu issued a Notification G. O. Ms. No. 491 Home dated 12-2-1971 directing the posters to be forfeited to the Government on the ground that the said posters contained matters which promote or intend to promote the feelings of enmity and hatred between different classes of citizens of India or which is deliberately or maliciously intended to outrage the religious feelings of any such class by insulting the religion or the religious feelings of that class.
Madras High Court – Chinna Annamalai vs The State Of Tamil Nadu on 24 February, 1971; Equivalent citations: AIR 1971 Mad 448, 1971 CriLJ 1569, (1971) IIMLJ 158; Author: K Reddy; Bench: K Reddy, Ganesan, Maharajan.https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1710030/
[3] Frontline, Going backward, R. Krishnakumar in Thiruvananthapuram and In Dravidian land, R. Ilangovan in Chennai in Frontline, Print edition : October 4, 2013.
[4] http://www.frontline.in/cover-story/thriving-business/article5137608.ece
[5] Daily Mail, ‘Her enemies are making her suffer’: Top Astro Guru says CM Jayalalithaa is a victim of BLACK MAGIC, By MAIL TODAY BUREAU, PUBLISHED: 23:52 BST, 26 October 2016 | UPDATED: 00:16 BST, 27 October 2016
[6] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-3875860/Her-enemies-making-suffer-Astro-Guru-says-CM-Jayalalithaa-victim-BLACK-MAGIC.html
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The Economy Has Hit The Wall: Oil above $ 140, Consumer Confidence Falls, Retail Sales Slump
June 27, 2008 by Infinite
June 27 (Bloomberg) — European confidence dropped more than economists forecast this month and retail sales plunged, signaling that economic growth is continuing to cool even as the European Central Bank prepares to lift interest rates to a seven-year high to tackle inflation.
An index measuring sentiment in the euro area fell to 94.9, the lowest since May 2005, from 97.6 the previous month, the European Commission in Brussels said today. Separate reports showed European retail sales plummeted, while inflation accelerated in Germany and Spain.
Stocks fell in Europe today as oil climbed to a record above $140 a barrel and Carrefour SA, Europe’s biggest retailer, scaled back its earnings forecast. With soaring food and energy prices boosting inflation, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet has said the bank may raise the benchmark rate next week by a quarter point to 4.25 percent.
``The economy has hit the wall,” said Ken Wattret, senior economist at BNP Paribas SA in London. ECB officials “run the risk of tipping the euro area into a recession” as the inflation outlook increases the risk that the central bank “may need to go beyond one rate rise.”
Confidence among the manufacturing, construction and retail industries across the 15 nations that share the euro declined this month, as did consumer sentiment, according to today’s commission report.
The Bloomberg retail index, based on a survey of more than 1,000 executives compiled by Markit Economics, fell to 44 this month from 53.1 in May. A reading below 50 indicates contraction. Europe’s manufacturing and services industries also contracted this month.
Export Growth
The euro has increased 17 percent against the dollar in the last 12 months, threatening export growth, and was at $1.5770 today. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 index fell 1.3 percent to 284.67 as of 11:29 a.m. in Brussels.
Separate figures today showed France’s economy expanded less than initially estimated in the first quarter as household spending, the driving force of growth, stagnated. U.K. first- quarter growth was revised lower today.
ECB council member Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez said today a July rate increase is not a certainty.
“Nothing is inevitable in life,” Ordonez told reporters in Rome today. “What we said was that the increase is not certain, but possible.”
Still, the ECB remains focused on consumer-price growth, according to ECB Executive Board member Juergen Stark. He said yesterday the bank sees its primary aim as being to “firmly anchor inflation expectations.”
16-Year High
Euro-area inflation reached a 16-year high of 3.7 percent in May. In Spain, inflation accelerated to 5.1 percent this month, the fastest on record, according to data today. Inflation in four German states also accelerated this month.
Oil prices have doubled in a year and Libyan National Oil Corp. Chairman Shokri Ghanem said yesterday that $150 a barrel may be “around the corner.”
Companies expect to raise prices more than previously anticipated to recover soaring costs, the commission report showed. A gauge of companies’ selling-price expectations rose to 18 in June from 16 in May, which compares with an average reading of 6 over the last 18 years. Consumers also expect prices to rise more sharply than they did last month.
The “worrying combination” of falling confidence and rising price expectations, “will add to fears of stagflation in the euro zone,” said Martin van Vliet, an economist at ING Group in Amsterdam.
`Remain Elevated’
“Inflation is likely to remain elevated for a longer period than we initially expected,” EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in London today. It “should only begin to show a significant deceleration around the end of this year, although further possible rises in the price of oil and agricultural products cannot be ruled out.”
Europe’s largest companies are feeling the pressure. Paris- based Carrefour SA, Europe’s biggest retailer, yesterday scaled back its earnings forecast, saying operating profit will increase at about the same pace as sales this year. In May, it said profit would exceed the pace of revenue growth.
Ryanair Holdings Plc, the region’s biggest discount airline, on June 3 said it expects to break even this year, having previously predicted net income of as much as 500 million euros ($788 million).
Recent data show few signs of a recovery yet. A gauge of manufacturing orders within a monthly survey of purchasing managers fell in June, dropping further below a 50-point level that signals contraction. In the services industry, new business also declined this month.
The jobs outlook may also be deteriorating after unemployment fell to a record low 7.1 percent this year. UniCredit SpA, Italy’s biggest bank, yesterday said it plans to cut 9,000 jobs, or 5 percent of its workforce. Aviva Plc’s Irish unit and Belgium’s Bekaert NV also announced plans to shed jobs this week.
To contact the reporter on this story: Fergal O’Brien in Dublin at fobrien@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: June 27, 2008 05:57 EDT
By Fergal O’Brien
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Tracey, John Vincent Harry
Consecon, ON
At the Belleville General Hospital on Wednesday, June 7th, 2017. John Tracey of R. R. #2, Consecon in his 65th year. Son of the late Robert & Jessie Tracey. Beloved husband of Lynette Tracey. Dear father of Rachael Tracey at home, Patrick Tracey of Belleville, Matthew Tracey of Frankford, Chris Dunst (Brandi) of Belleville, Gregory Tracey of New Brunswick. Brother of Laurie Tracey of Nanaimo, BC, Steve Tracey (Linda) of Belleville, and Shaun Tracey (Donna) of Belleville. Predeceased by his sister Debbie Lawson. Ever remembered by grandchildren Amanda, Thomas, Jordyn, Luke and Jovie.
Arrangements in the care of the John R. Bush Funeral Home, 80 Highland Avenue, Belleville (613-968-5588). At the request of the family, there will be no visitation or funeral service. Cremation has taken place. If you would like to make a donation, please send a stuffed animal to a family member so that it can be donated in John's memory to the Children's Wing at BGH.
Charitable donations in John's memory may be made to:
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Custom Language Plugin Development Follow
Nick Pratt
Created July 23, 2009 17:14
Are there any simple custom language plugin examples/tutorials around. One that explains more than just "use JFlex"...
I often have to work with custom languages, some simple, some complex, and I usually have an ANTLR grammar definition around, or can put one together. Converting this knowledge in to a plugin does not seem easy right now.
After reading the custom language plugin doc on the IntelliJ website, I was following along nicely, up to the point of "go use JFlex". Darn. I had that whole language file type registration down along with its pretty little icon.
Yes, I've seen the monster Javascript plugin source code (and the Clojure one). It would be *awesome* if there was a simple, complete, IntelliJ project that defined a simple 5-10 keyword grammar with numerics (+ and - ops) that I could open up, compile (Ctrl-F9) and then run the plugin that used the aforementioned JFlex (and its provided Adapter class).
It would be really nice if I didnt have to wait 4 hours (ok, a slight stretch of reality, but it sure feels like it) for a fresh new instance of IDEA to start up just to test my plugin - why cant I load this in to my current running editor?
With a simple, complete plugin project I could see the basic syntax highlight, variable definition, and some of the simpler validations and operations, and how to go about changing them. If the project requires an Ant script to do the JFlex integration, so be it, just add it in there.
I'm truly amazed that anyone outside of Jetbrains have developed a custom language plugin given the docs and examples around.
With that said, the file type syntax highlight options (in Settings-->File Types) are very nice for simple highlighting, so thanks for that. However, I'd like to progress to syntax validation and variable definition lookup etc.
Max Ishchenko
Hello, Nick.
I totally agree that javascript plugin code is bloated with some complex logic. The javascript language itself is pretty complex.
Try looking at nginx plugin ( http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=4411 ). Lexer is pretty simple there and parser is simple as well. Some basic Some annotator routines are implemented as well.
Don't forget to install PsiViewer plugin to view resulting PSI.
Source code for nginx plugin is available on http://code.google.com/p/idea-nginx/
My advice is to disable all plugins for sandboxed IDEA instance and creating as empty project as you can. That can minimize the harm of restarting IDEA on substantial changes. Don't forget to use hot swap if your code changes are subtle (e.g. editing method body only).
One needs patience and some Sherlock Holmes skills to develop plugins for IntelliJ . I wish Jetbrains paid more attention to documenting/opensourcing idea classes.
Colin Fleming
I agree, some more documentation around this would be great, it's currently really difficult to develop a language plugin and it's a shame, because it's possible to do such awesome stuff with it. I've just started working on one for Scheme, based on the Clojure one. I was pretty lucky because Scheme is so close to Clojure, so a couple of days ripping stuff out and it's come out pretty nicely. But particularly implementing the whole parser and PSI by hand is prohibitive for a lot of people I think, it's a huge amount of work. I think language support is one of the areas where IntelliJ could really stand out from Eclipse and Netbeans, but it's so difficult I don't think many people bother. I'm working on mine in my (limited) spare time, if/when it gets frustrating I'm not sure how far I'll be able to take it, realistically. I think small examples like the nginix one are essential for people getting started, IMO Jetbrains should take a couple and clean them up as examples of how to get started.
BTW does the PsiViewer plugin still work in IntelliJ 8? I didn't even install it since I saw it hadn't been updated since v5 and saw some comments on the plugin that people had problems with it. If so, I'll give it a go.
Well, I'd say that parser implementation is the easiest part of writing a really cool language plugin. It's hard to start, but as soon as you get the point, you write parsing code automatically. The problem is it's hard to get the point right for the first time.
The hardest part for me is formatter stuff - i haven't understood yet how these funny blocks/indents/wraps etc work.
PsiViewer does work in 8 (didn't check 9) and it's a miracle. In fact, I don't know how to debug parser without it. Maybe with some println stuff, but that doesn't deliver much fun.
Sometimes I think some plugin writers have at their disposal all IDEA's source code. I have none, but i got intellijad instead )
Many thanks for the tips. Are you still involved with the JFlex plugin for IntelliJ? I know the API has changed in Maia, but it would be nice if... :-)
Ill try and develop a simple language plugin and write a tutorial on it, then enhance the "language" once I get to grips with things.
However, my point about not being able to load a plugin in to a running IDEA instance still stands - the code/test cycle is painfully slow. Im still amazed to think what some plugin authors must have endured to get their plugins working and as functional as they are.
Ok, I'll try to fix Maia issues for JFLex plugin.
However, you can still develop plugins for Maia in Diana, just use the appropriate SDK.
BTW see the Clojure plugin for a way to test parsers outside the IDE. I haven't had time to fully understand the code yet, but copying it and substituting my own tests works nicely.
The PsiViewer plugin is indeed awesome :-)
Im just going to repeat this in the slim chance that anyone at Jetbrains missed this point - the documentation/SDK for writing a custom language plugin in IntelliJ is pitiful.
We have all this potential power and ability in IDEA, but you make it almost impossible to use and gain serious benefit from. The same comment can be directed at Structural Search and Replace, but I'll leave that for a different day.
These are one of the most powerful features of the editor, give some examples and a step by step tutorial:
1.) Here are the basics of the language plugin process- you have that covered in the opening paragraph.
2.) A tutorial on writing a highlighter for a simple language (a couple of keywords, basic arithmetic on ints and floats, curly braces and parenthesis), along with all the supporting classes and implementations of the lexer/parser/whatever
3.) Move on to brace matching, code folding
4.) Error highlighting - the code as written is just syntactically wrong, so here's how you make IDEA do this...
5.) Writing a simple intention - for example, if the language uses := for assignment, and the developer wrote a = 6; then write a tutorial on how to make this work
6.) Embedded languages - how do you make your custom language useable from within a Java program - similar to how SQL / HQL works, so that the various error highlighting etc all works.
The "language" doesnt have to do anything - just show how to get this up and running, see the keyword highlighting, code folding, error analysis etc. Being able to open a file in IDEA, have it recognized, show the syntax highlights, and basic syntax error analysis would be awesome. Cover points 1-4. Intentions, and all the rest are just icing on the cake.
Taking any of the existing plugins, and trying to pare them down to a simplified case not workable. Ive spent many hours now trying to strip down the JavaScript plugin to something useable, and Im lost in the maze of lexers, parsers and support classes, and stuff just isnt working. Learning this would be much better from a simple example, buildling up to a more complex one. Taking a fully implement language plugin with all the bells and whistles might be good as a reference for an experienced language plugin developer, but its useless for a beginner.
I fully appreciate that this is a very complex task. But knowing this fact, please provide some better examples and docs/tutorials for the complex and very powerful parts of the IDE. There's no reason why we couldn't use IDEA for any language we came across - that certainly seems to have been a significant push over the last few releases, but with the current state of the single tutorial/document to assist anyone thinking about developing a language plugin, Jetbrains is missing out on a huge boost to the language support.
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Combination of canister and solid adsorbent sampling techniques for determination of volatile organic hydrocarbons
Balázs Tolnai, J. Hlavay, Detlev Möller, Hans Jörg Prümke, Hansjürgen Becker, Martin Dostler
Pannon University
A canister-based sampling technique was combined with solid adsorbents to develop a method for the determination of 52 volatile organic hydrocarbons (VOCs), including alkanes, alkenes, aromatics and terpenes, in ambient air at pptv levels of concentration. The volatility of components ranged from propane to that of 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene. The samples were collected into stainless steel canisters. A 200-ml sample volume was drawn through a multilayer adsorbent bed. Three different adsorbents, 300 mg of Carbosieve S-III 60/80, 300 mg of Carbotrap 20/40 and 300 mg of Carbotrap C 20/40 were used for collecting large variety of hydrocarbons (C3-C10). Qualitative analysis was carried out by combining thermal desorption and cryogenic enrichment with high resolution gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The technique was suitable for determination of low pptv-concentrations of VOCs. A detailed description of working procedures and methods is given including blanks, calibrations, limit of quantification and reproducibility of measurements. Ambient atmospheric sampling was conducted in Berlin in July, 1998. n-Hexane, benzene, toluene and m-, p-xylene presented in the air at the highest concentration at ppbv level, the concentration of the other compounds were in the order of 10-100 pptv level. Precision of parallel measurements was calculated. As expected, the precision was deteriorated with decreasing concentration. At concentrations > 100 pptv, most duplicates differed by ± 10-30%, below this value they were larger.
Microchemical Journal
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-265X(00)00113-2
Alkanes
Canister sampling
Volatile organic hydrocarbons
Tolnai, B., Hlavay, J., Möller, D., Prümke, H. J., Becker, H., & Dostler, M. (2000). Combination of canister and solid adsorbent sampling techniques for determination of volatile organic hydrocarbons. Microchemical Journal, 67(1-3), 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-265X(00)00113-2
Combination of canister and solid adsorbent sampling techniques for determination of volatile organic hydrocarbons. / Tolnai, Balázs; Hlavay, J.; Möller, Detlev; Prümke, Hans Jörg; Becker, Hansjürgen; Dostler, Martin.
In: Microchemical Journal, Vol. 67, No. 1-3, 2000, p. 163-169.
Tolnai, B, Hlavay, J, Möller, D, Prümke, HJ, Becker, H & Dostler, M 2000, 'Combination of canister and solid adsorbent sampling techniques for determination of volatile organic hydrocarbons', Microchemical Journal, vol. 67, no. 1-3, pp. 163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-265X(00)00113-2
Tolnai B, Hlavay J, Möller D, Prümke HJ, Becker H, Dostler M. Combination of canister and solid adsorbent sampling techniques for determination of volatile organic hydrocarbons. Microchemical Journal. 2000;67(1-3):163-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-265X(00)00113-2
Tolnai, Balázs ; Hlavay, J. ; Möller, Detlev ; Prümke, Hans Jörg ; Becker, Hansjürgen ; Dostler, Martin. / Combination of canister and solid adsorbent sampling techniques for determination of volatile organic hydrocarbons. In: Microchemical Journal. 2000 ; Vol. 67, No. 1-3. pp. 163-169.
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IL-24 sensitizes tumor cells to TLR3-mediated apoptosis
R. Weiss, M. Sachet, J. Zinngrebe, T. Aschacher, M. Krainer, B. Hegedűs, H. Walczak, M. Bergmann
Interleukin-24 (IL-24), a member of the IL-10 cytokine family whose physiological function remains largely unknown, has been shown to induce apoptosis when expressed in an adenoviral background. It is yet little understood, why IL-24 alone induced apoptosis only in a limited number of tumor cell lines. Analyzing an influenza A virus vector expressing IL-24 for its oncolytic potential revealed enhanced pro-apoptotic activity of the chimeric virus compared with virus or IL-24 alone. Interestingly, IL-24-mediated enhancement of influenza-A-induced apoptosis did not require viral replication but critically depended on toll-like receptor 3 (TLR3) and caspase-8. Immunoprecipitation of TLR3 showed that infection by influenza A virus induced formation of a TLR3-associated signaling complex containing TRIF, RIP1, FADD, cFLIP and pro-caspase-8. Co-administration of IL-24 decreased the presence of cFLIP in the TLR3-associated complex, converting it into an atypical, TLR3-associated death-inducing signaling complex (TLR3 DISC) that induced apoptosis by enabling caspase-8 activation at this complex. The sensitizing effect of IL-24 on TLR3-induced apoptosis, mediated by influenza A virus or the TLR3-specific agonist poly(I:C), was also evident on tumor spheroids. In conclusion, rather than acting as an apoptosis inducer itself, IL-24 sensitizes cancer cells to TLR-mediated apoptosis by enabling the formation of an atypical DISC which, in the case of influenza A virus or poly(I:C), is associated with TLR3.
Cell Death and Differentiation
https://doi.org/10.1038/cdd.2013.15
Influenza A virus
Death Domain Receptor Signaling Adaptor Proteins
Human Influenza
oncolytic influenza virus
TLR3
Weiss, R., Sachet, M., Zinngrebe, J., Aschacher, T., Krainer, M., Hegedűs, B., ... Bergmann, M. (2013). IL-24 sensitizes tumor cells to TLR3-mediated apoptosis. Cell Death and Differentiation, 20(6), 823-833. https://doi.org/10.1038/cdd.2013.15
IL-24 sensitizes tumor cells to TLR3-mediated apoptosis. / Weiss, R.; Sachet, M.; Zinngrebe, J.; Aschacher, T.; Krainer, M.; Hegedűs, B.; Walczak, H.; Bergmann, M.
In: Cell Death and Differentiation, Vol. 20, No. 6, 06.2013, p. 823-833.
Weiss, R, Sachet, M, Zinngrebe, J, Aschacher, T, Krainer, M, Hegedűs, B, Walczak, H & Bergmann, M 2013, 'IL-24 sensitizes tumor cells to TLR3-mediated apoptosis', Cell Death and Differentiation, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 823-833. https://doi.org/10.1038/cdd.2013.15
Weiss R, Sachet M, Zinngrebe J, Aschacher T, Krainer M, Hegedűs B et al. IL-24 sensitizes tumor cells to TLR3-mediated apoptosis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 2013 Jun;20(6):823-833. https://doi.org/10.1038/cdd.2013.15
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Leaky gut in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and inactive ulcerative colitis
Krisztina Gecse, R. Róka, Teréz Séra, A. Rosztóczy, Anita Annaházi, F. Izbéki, F. Nagy, T. Molnár, Zoltán Szepes, L. Pávics, Lionel Bueno, T. Wittmann
Background/Aims: Defective epithelial barrier has been implicated in the pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel diseases. The aim of this study was to investigate gut permeability in patients with inactive ulcerative colitis (UC) and in patients with IBS. Methods: IBS patients of the diarrhea-predominant (IBS-D) and of the constipation-predominant subgroup (IBS-C), patients with inactive UC and healthy subjects were enrolled. Gut permeability was evaluated by measuring 24-hour urine excretion of orally administered 51Cr-EDTA. Clinical symptoms were evaluated in IBS-D patients and correlated to colonic permeability. Results: There was a significant decrease in the proximal small intestinal permeability in IBS-C patients compared to controls (0.26 ± 0.05 vs. 0.63 ± 0.1%; p <0.05). Distal small intestinal permeability showed no significant difference in the studied group of patients compared to controls. Colonic permeability of IBS-D and inactive UC patients was significantly increased compared to controls (2.68 ± 0.35 and 3.74 ± 0.49 vs. 1.04 ± 0.18%; p <0.05, p <0.001). Colonic permeability of IBS-D patients correlated with stool frequency. Conclusions: Elevated gut permeability is localized to the colon both in IBS-D and in inactive UC patients.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000333083
Intestinal barrier
Gecse, K., Róka, R., Séra, T., Rosztóczy, A., Annaházi, A., Izbéki, F., ... Wittmann, T. (2012). Leaky gut in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and inactive ulcerative colitis. Digestion, 85(1), 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1159/000333083
Leaky gut in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and inactive ulcerative colitis. / Gecse, Krisztina; Róka, R.; Séra, Teréz; Rosztóczy, A.; Annaházi, Anita; Izbéki, F.; Nagy, F.; Molnár, T.; Szepes, Zoltán; Pávics, L.; Bueno, Lionel; Wittmann, T.
In: Digestion, Vol. 85, No. 1, 01.2012, p. 40-46.
Gecse, K, Róka, R, Séra, T, Rosztóczy, A, Annaházi, A, Izbéki, F, Nagy, F, Molnár, T, Szepes, Z, Pávics, L, Bueno, L & Wittmann, T 2012, 'Leaky gut in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and inactive ulcerative colitis', Digestion, vol. 85, no. 1, pp. 40-46. https://doi.org/10.1159/000333083
Gecse K, Róka R, Séra T, Rosztóczy A, Annaházi A, Izbéki F et al. Leaky gut in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and inactive ulcerative colitis. Digestion. 2012 Jan;85(1):40-46. https://doi.org/10.1159/000333083
Gecse, Krisztina ; Róka, R. ; Séra, Teréz ; Rosztóczy, A. ; Annaházi, Anita ; Izbéki, F. ; Nagy, F. ; Molnár, T. ; Szepes, Zoltán ; Pávics, L. ; Bueno, Lionel ; Wittmann, T. / Leaky gut in patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and inactive ulcerative colitis. In: Digestion. 2012 ; Vol. 85, No. 1. pp. 40-46.
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Adapting to changing groundwater policies
January 25, 2019 Andre Laforest
Helping to preserve and sustain the supply of BC’s clean water for future generations
One of the things British Columbia (BC) is most known for is its fresh and pristine water. It’s an important commodity—essential for promoting public health, nourishing local communities, and creating sustainable environments. To preserve and sustain the supply of BC’s clean water for future generations, the Water Sustainable Act (WSA) was brought forward in 2016.
The Water Sustainable Act
The WSA paved the way for changes to the management of water in BC. It also called for the addition of two specific groundwater requirements. The first of which is licensing groundwater use. The second applies fees and rentals for groundwater use. As such, existing groundwater users—someone that uses groundwater for almost any purpose except for household use—are required to obtain their license by February 2019.
Although the WSA is a relatively straightforward policy, it has faced a great deal of opposition towards these applications—an estimated 85% of groundwater users are operating without a license despite regulatory requirements. Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD) and the British Columbia Ground Water Association (BCGWA) have determined that the widespread push-back could be a result of two challenges.
Firstly, there may be a gap in information communicating why groundwater licenses are important to BC communities. But there also appeared to be a clear resistance to a sudden change in the process for those that have been utilizing groundwater for decades. Not everyone likes change!
Overcoming obstacles and public perception
To combat these challenges, the BCGWA has requested FLNRORD to further extend the grace period for submitting applications. Why? Because they hope that a longer adjustment period will encourage more applicants to take part in the new process. In the meantime, FLNRORD is pulling their resources to continue educating impacted stakeholders on the importance of groundwater licenses.
When the March 2019 deadline hits, the government will begin to take necessary steps to enforce license renewals and applications of groundwater through inspections and fines. In addition, other consequences that could befall a groundwater user without a license are as follows:
One may lose the right to use groundwater: All unlicensed existing groundwater users will lose their right to access groundwater, regardless of the purpose.
One may lose priority to water: Access to groundwater in BC is based on first come first serve basis. It means, that a long-time, existing groundwater user is granted with a priority level on groundwater access if water become a scarce resource. Users who have not applied or renewed their license by March 1st, 2019 will face the risk of being deprioritized on the water-access list, regardless if you have been a past license holder for decades.
One might be fined for using unlicensed water: Like a driver who’s fined for driving with an expired license, the same applies for groundwater users operating without or with an expired license after March 1st, 2019.
One may lose the opportunity waive application fees: The grace period came along with waived application fees for existing groundwater users. However, come March, fee waivers will be non-existent for all users—new and old.
The long-term challenges an unlicensed groundwater user will face are frustrating. Coupled with significant direct and indirect costs, not obtaining a new license doesn’t seem worth the headache.
With the need to preserve one of British Columbia’s most important commodity, the new regulation to support the Water Sustainable Act is more crucial than ever.
Andre Laforest is a hydrogeologist and engineer with over 30 years of experience. In his role, he helps with business development, coaching and mentoring, and assisting with technical support and quality review on projects.
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Ella and Abe can’t keep their stories straight
Ella’s latest interview, produced by “Sean” of the oddly secretive Russia-philic “gold and silver trading” site SGT, may be the hottest thing on the American #Piece-o-hate lovers’ horizon, but that’s probably because it’s fresh new fodder to them. To us, it’s old hat…in this case a grease-stained, smelly old flat cap that’s been chewed by the family dog.
We’re all too familiar with the lurid details of the Hampstead SRA hoax, so it didn’t take much effort to pinpoint the inconsistencies between Hoaxtead version 1.0, released circa February 2 2015, and Hoaxtead version 3.5, released two days ago.
For example, only a minute and a half into the video, Ella states that Hoaxtead involved “an array of counterintelligence operatives connected to child trafficking, snuff movies, organ trafficking, ritual sexual abuse, torture, and money laundering“. Later in the video, she states that there were “38,000 shell companies [at a building] on Finchley Road in Hampstead….Some parents in the cult are involved in this money-laundering operation”.
Well, hold the bloody phone just a minute here: since when were snuff movies, organ trafficking, and money laundering part of the Hoaxtead narrative? Clearly, Abe and Ella have been doing some work on the hoax since we last checked in with them. We recognise the money-laundering allegation as one of Charlotte Ward’s lies from her old Hamster Research blog, but the rest seem to have been invented from whole cloth.
Then at 25:45 in the video, Ella claims that “the children were being made to touch animals”: where did this come from? Again, bestiality certainly wasn’t part of the original story. It appears to have been added in to create that extra frisson of disgust in a new audience.
But we thought the cult members were ‘elites’?
Contrary to Abe and Ella’s original claim that the cult was run by incredibly wealthy and powerful “elites” in a posh London enclave, Ella now describes RD in very different terms.
At 35:24 she says, “He’s coming from a family of miners, so total poverty—I’ve been to their house…they don’t have much money at all….” How does this square with the allegation that RD’s entire family, going back generations, has been involved in cult ritual abuse? Surely there must be a fundamental disconnect between “they’re all doing it because they’re rich and powerful and can get away with it” and “he comes from a poor working-class family”?
‘Why didn’t they arrest me?’
We confess that we laughed out loud at the end of the video, when Ella pouted, “If I’ve committed offences, why didn’t they arrest me?”
All together now: “Because you jumped out the window and ran away when the police came!”
‘She stared into my eyes…’
One of the most glaring inconsistencies, though, comes close to the end of the new video, at 53:35, when Ella describes how the alleged “special children” want out of the “cult”:
A told me that her friend she came to our house, they wanted to tell. But she was scared—they were threatened that their entire family would be killed. Their mum would be killed, their grandparents would be killed even if they said anything. So the girl got scared and never said anything. And I knew, I felt it, I mean the girl was like looking into my eyes like she wanted to say something. And obviously they knew I’m not part of it….”
Such a touching story—a little girl, terrified and pleading with her eyes to the one woman she knows isn’t part of the cult, who might be able to help her.
But compare and contrast to the following:
Some of you who’ve followed this hoax from the outset might recall a post on Charlotte Ward’s Hamster Research blog titled “Message from Abraham”, published 1st June 2015. While the blog is long gone now, we were able to find the post in its entirety on the David Icke Forum’s never-ending Hampstead hoax thread:
And then, just in case we were wondering who “M” might be: So amazingly, Abe and Ella both had exactly the same experience of a young child looking imploringly into their eyes, silently begging for their help in freeing them from the murderous cult? Funny how this story, once belonging to Abe, has now been given to Ella, the new spokesperson for the couple.
And quite fascinating that their story, far from remaining static, seems to be developing new twists, turns, and angles, the longer they are able to sit and mull about it in their Spanish hideaway. We can think of only one way to stop them at this point: this pair really wants arresting.
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176 thoughts on “Ella and Abe can’t keep their stories straight”
great work EC
Thanks, Barchon. 🙂
Hey, EC – haven’t you heard? Reboots are all the rage! 😀
Fresh plot. New backstory. New characters…And if they can get Abe to fuck off, we’ll even get an all-female cast à la Ghostbusters and Ocean’s 8!
LOL! Pity their new audience never saw the original, though. 🙂
Snuff movies are trending, it seems. Abrella have timed their marketing strategy well.
(Thanks to Barchon for this screenshot.)
Not only did Abe and Ella “jump out the window and run away when the police came” but as I recall, they’d also spent some time beforehand refusing to let them into the house to question/arrest them. How do we know this? Because Abe & Ella uploaded the recording themselves! Same mistake that they made with the ‘coaching’ videos. Word to the wise, Abrella – if you’re going to tell lies on the internet, it’s probably best not to upload videos that disprove what you’re saying. Sit back and leave that to us, haha.
There’s something very creepy about the image of a little child “looking deeply” into Abe’s eyes.
And are they sure the kids’ eyes were green or will they change to brown for the reboot? 😀
I do seem to remember very early on, it being mentioned about the children touching the dog in one of their interviews but I don’t think they ever mentioned it again.
The two of them are so easy to see through! Ella’s new video was obviously revamped to appeal to the pizzagaters who swarm around it like flies to the shit that it is. Abe and Ella knew exactly what they were doing and saw it as a chance to make money.
They didn’t bank on us getting their fundraising page shut down though..:D
Any description or involvement with children that comes from Abe is always disturbing.
He is a predator of the vunerable whatever their age.
Kudos on your thorough research, EC. You must have spent ages trawling for such obscure, long lost evidence. There are certain troofhoaxers who could learn a thing or two from you.
Well, let’s face it – all of them!
The Whistleblower Nun says:
Speaking of sick lying fucks…
Thanks to BM for drawing my attention to this perverse video. I’ve made my feelings known to Titarse Frost, who uploaded it:
Anyone any suggestions on how I can segue seemlessly from the current topic to my latest Angie meme without looking contrived, random or irrelevant?
OK, let’s try this…
Ah, Abe & Ella – the couple from Hell.
Speaking of weird fruitloop pairings….
I love you comic strips.
Guy on the left is Woody Brown, Benidorm tribute act to Chubbs.
introducing Corey Steele the kids.
Thanks, WN–in fact this one wasn’t hard, as I vividly recalled my disgust at Abe’s description of the event (first time round, that is). My filing system is a bit eccentric in that it’s ranked by Revulsion Levels.
Yes, I thought the same.
Yes, this lot are so keen to document every moment of their misbegotten lives, it makes it easy for us to find the great gaping holes in their lies.
Yep, I remember the dog, plus one of the children or both was/were alleged to have touched a younger child.
I just laughed and scared my cats.
I’ve met two-year-olds with more rational self-control than Corey.
Honestly until this SGT Report and pizzagate nutter came on the scene I have never heard such utter lunacy, their ideas are beyond stupid.
https://postimg.org/gallery/jpberw3g/
Ye i remember hearing the kids saying they had stopped touching each other and ella saying about the dog ? While they were all in morroco abe said their was a little one the kids molested but my questions what happend about that were never answered , ie did the child receive hospital treatment and now that the kids are molesting others what steps are taken to keep them and others safe – and the poor dog
Asks 5 times, then says he won’t ask twice. How does that work?
Thanks, Barchon:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/main-players/trolls/#comment-62142
Angela Power Disney; Ella Draper; Abraham Christie… top 3 targets that I think the legal authorities has to make a bigger effort to arrest before someone gets hurt.
Honestly you can’t make this stuff
Angela on her latest video says she was “intellectually trained” ( STOP that giggling up at the back Spiny Norman. I’ve got my eye on you) and learned karate where she used “kanakas” (presumably nunchucks).
Ref : Sugar slaves | Queensland Historical Atlas Development › Exploitation
These peoples were collectively referred to as Kanakas, but prefer to be called South Sea Islanders as the word ‘kanaka’ is considered derogatory by Islander communities in the Pacific and Australia.
She says this to a black man she is interviewing. University education shining through again.
Haha Angela must mean those “toys” we had in the early 70’s I think called nackers/knackers of something like that.
What a load of hog wash as usual.
I wonder what belt she claims to have been because she said it wasn’t a black belt.
Lol you just couldn’t make her tales up, honestly, pure fantasy.
The only equipment she uses is t-squares, garden rake, bamboo sticks and the bottle of gin in her hand.
My tolerance with the internet companies such as Patreon has run out.
https://satanicviews.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/on-liberty-and-responsibility/
Yes agreed SV.
Angela is too prolific at getting people to do her dirty work, encouraging and manipulating them.
It might not be long before one of her stooges takes things into their own hands and becomes physically violent.
I mean Heifer seems to be getting a bit wound up, with her threats of knowing where Sheva sleeps.
No you don’t Heifer plus her intending to pay a visit to Erith and also Jockney.
Not good Heifer, all 3 are threats and intimidating.
Even Angela recognises that.
Do we have any news about Neelu’s home repossession?
Also thanks to Angela Power Disney, the Heifer has approached Barnet Social Services for information about the RD children putting their wellbeing at risk.
Well it certainly wasnt a chasity belt given her tales of dalliances with anyone in whose who in the past century and a half.Might have been a fan belt mind.
I’ve missed that.
They are not her children, it’s none of her damn business where they are!
Why on earth did this busy body think she would be given that sort of information??
Talk about arse licking Angela.
Angela must love it having a new donkey to do all the dirty work for her.
What a fool Heifer is.
I’m suspecting though that when Angela turns on Heifer and/or when Heifer gets fed up of us not being able to hear what she has to say, Power Disney will get Heifer’s wrath.
Heifer tell Angela to shut the f up because I actually want to hear what you have to say, you’re a damn sight more interesting than that old has been Power Disney.
After all, if Heifer does indeed have a son and it looks increasingly like he doesn’t want to have anything to do with her, as he’s 25 years and not 18, then she must be a bit peeved that someone like Angela, a self confessed drinker, pot head and someone with all these Mental Health diagnosis’ managed to keep all of her 3 children, despite Angela’s own family knowing Angela was not good enough to bring up the daughter let alone the 2 boys.
Neelu Berry is the type of individual who will fight to the bitter end, i.e. will have to be carried out screaming from her house. There is unlikely to be any immediate results today as the baliffs will have to be used to remove Neelu Berry requiring several more days delay i.e. nothing major will happen until next week.
The following link provides information on the eviction process:
http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/eviction/court_action_for_eviction/court_orders
I am unsure what results the Heifer got from their enquiries, but evidently an idiot in Barnet Social Services gave out some information they should not have, and Angela Power Disney is making claims (true or false – unknown) on the internet based upon this.
I appreciate they need to build a solid case for Crown prosecution to give the nod to proceed in securing conviction etc but all three in anyones book surely have passed every test for slapping the cuffs on.
Also appreciate shortage of manpower particularly in light of yesterdays appalling events.The thing is investment now in bringing these prime movers to book will save a fortune long term yet alone potentially save an incident and future inquiries etc etc. Be some serious squirming before a parliamentary committee by those attempting to justify such inactivity if some unhinged lunatic inspired by Angie et als hate speech chose to go on a cause celeb rampage.
It only takes one after all.
All parts crossed things are plodding along behind the scenes and an operation will soon be swooping to lance this horrendous boil.
“grease-stained, smelly old flat cap that’s been chewed by the family dog.”
That’s getting a bit personal and close to home if you don’t mind. 🙂
A nice little collection of..collective madness,
Good grief.If someone in Barnet SSD did gave away any confidential information they will definately get hauled over the carpet or much worse.Major carpet fire if any such is subsequently emblazoned across internet.
Might well be hyped up attention seeking bollox of course.
There is enough resources, enough evidence to pull Angela Power Disney, Ella Draper and Abraham Christie into custody inside 48 hours; what the legal authorities lack is willpower, and thus this farce of a hoax spins and spins further out of control causing misery, fear and further illegality wasting more and more public money dealing with it. There is no excuses, it is pure incompetance, complacency, laziness and stupidity on the part of the legal authorities, drinking too much tea dunked with chocolate digestives, and avoiding the key actions that can put an end to three of the largest promoters of this hoax. If there is any legal person reading this, get off your arses and start doing something about this.
We’ve made some inquiries about this, and it seems that Heifer is lying about having received any information from Barnet Social Services.
Great to hear.
What the whistleblower nun said, with a side order of extra insults.
Thanks SV.
I think Angela should support Neelu on the next Bailiff’s visit and the police who will probably be called can arrest her at the same time.
This was the occasion ella was shouting “No speeky English” through the door wasn’t it?
I imagine the effect of looking deeply into Abe’s eyes is something like this:
‘She can’t keep her story straight because it didn’t happen.’
This is why she’s never shown any emotion when talking about the children. In Abe and Ella’s earlier interviews they talked more about hemp than they did about the kids and Ella could be heard giggling and chatting like nothing happened and that’s because…er….she knows nothing happened.
Abe: ‘Naively or otherwise I decided to trust and go to the authorities.’ Let’s remember that this is from a man with more than 30 previous convictions who has spent time in prison. I don’t think he has a naive bone in his body. Incidentally it’s a matter of debate whether he went to the ‘authorities’ because what he actually did was tell his brother-in-law who is a ‘Special’ (volunteer) policeman and was off duty at the time. It was the brother-in-law who reported this to the Police.
p.s. I know I’m preaching to the converted here but I’m repeating the above information in case someone uninformed happens to stop in and have a look. If you are the ‘uninformed’ please click on ‘Hampstead Hoax FAQ’ above. This is an incredibly useful part of this blog.
I personally must have missed the mention of a “dog”, something like this would not happen unless a child had been encouraged to do that. As I recall an incident happened at the school involving a pupil encouraging other children to show or/and touch private parts, but something that is not necessarily sinister. The sinister part is how much involvement Abraham Christie has played in encouraging or even participating in any sexual situations with those children. I am going from the small facts I am aware of and intuition, but I think there is a lot the police have not said involving Abraham Christie, I am thinking whilst he is running around free, many other children may be at risk from him.
A certain Mr Hopkins does a great impression of Abe and is available for weddings,funerals and bar mitzvahs (allegedly).
you don’t think she will move in with Belinda?
She had David Shayler as a house guest. That must have been pretty weird.
Fixed mate, fixed.
I had my doubts as Heather is not too bright in the detective dept, and Angela is a liar and a fantasist. The source was probably a friend of a friend she used to know who had a cleaning job for round the corner from barnet council who once overheard a woman talking about children whilst queing for a tuna mayonnaise panini on her lunch break.
Or she just made it all up cos she wants Angie to like her and loves the attention of doing a show, as she can get pissed up, talk bollocks, and sit in the dark whilst listening to the sound of someone else’s voice other than her own for an hour to stem the lonliness.
It’s beyond a joke. There have been cases where people were arrested or sued over a single tweet or social media message, justnone single one if it applies to a public figure.
But its okay for mindless hate filled witch hunters to send daily threats to the father and others.
The Pizzagate, JA and Podesta, if it was one or two people they would have nipped it in the bud but tens of thousands all saying the same and it will just snowball if they try and deal with them all, like that yank flouride blank eyed ghoul at the pizzagate rally crying about censorship on twatter and reddit, OMG, like the evidence is so ummm, overwhelming, like, on social media, voat, just so much evidenzzzzzzzz.
All the fruitcakes should move into Bellenders home including that crazy stalker lady who was posting belindas address and saying belinda was keeping the tunnels for herself when the meteors hit.
They can all sit around and have a mad hatters tea party, dave sharter can come round dressed as Alice and they can all go down the rabbit hole/bellenders tunnels.
FS, I think that was Ella’s Mother who shouted that. Her Mother and Father were in the house at the time too.
Re: Patreon
One of my team have given Patreon a couple of days to remove the Ella Draper campaign, and then we will take action against them on a political, media and internet level. I don’t know what the hell is going on in their heads, they either refuse or are incapable of enforcing their own terms and conditions. If anyone has not done so, or if they can do so again, a straightforward referral can be made here:
http://bit.ly/2bRmQJX
Barchon Mad, I am seriously pissed off that the legal authorities can pursue me for a legal complaint of harrassment by RQ, but apparently do nothing against people like Angela Power Disney, Ella Draper and Abraham Christie who are saying and doing as they please without any apparant legal counter-action. My frustration is being taken out on the social media companies such as Patreon.
Fanny, I think you mean Clackers. You don’t want to be banging your knackers together, although that hazard increases with age and baggy underwear.
Is that Cory a reincarnation of Kane S?
FA, go to 2:17 of this video. This is the false information which Angie gave out regarding the children.
You’re right that the family dog was mentioned at the beginning, but to my knowledge there was never any suggestion that the so-called cult had mandated anything to do with animals. This was added in after the fact, along with a number of other embellishments, such as the story that the children had assaulted a young child.
If the conspirasheep wish to truly “believe the children”, they might want to consider that nowhere in any of their recitals on video to Abe and Ella, nor in the illegally released police videos, did the children mention that bestiality was part of the alleged cult, nor that they had attacked any child not previously named. So Ella’s addition of bestiality to the catalogue of alleged “cult activities” is clearly an after-the-fact creation of her and Abe’s imaginations.
Memories of 2015..
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The pizzagaters who are jumping aboard the hoax really need to listen to the Jean Clement Recording. Abe is shown up for the piece of shit he really is on it. Constantly coaching the children with ridiculous claims.
The reason for starting the hoax and the timing of it is also evident when Abe says to Jean Clement (regarding Ricky Dearman) “He’s taking their Mother to court as he wants to see his children, we can’t let that happen and he must be arrested.” Abe and Ella wanted to cut Ricky off from his access rights.
Nobody ever looks at what went on just before the hoax started, the answers are all there. Their disagreements with Social Services, with other parents, with the School staff, etc.
It’s also worth mentioning to them that Indiegogo has made the correct decision and include a link to the Indiegogo Generosity page. That could make them see that other online fundraising platforms are banning Abe and Ella from fleecing the gullible.
She’ll do a Tom Crawford, hero of the Freeman movement and probably perch on the roof Lucy Jordon style until she is inevitably carted off.
I find no joy in anyone being evicted but Neelu should have paid more attention to things that really matter, like trying to pay her mortgage instead of hanging around churches and demanding judges be lynched for treason.
It will be interesting to see which of the fruitloops turn out to support her – if they can possibly put their indifference’s aside. After all they love a bit of a hullabaloo but then they usually slope off to the pub or McDonalds once the party is over.
Nothing odd about an utter creep careering down the highway and recording into his phone a false tale about – a dreadful incident in London where a man drove a car at high speed at pedestrians. God help us.
And once again, the concept of a CSA and murder “snuff” film industry is just a fantasy.
Not only has a genuine “commercial” child snuff film NEVER surfaced, from the 1950’s to 2010, the whole idea is inherently nonsensical. The idea is supposed to be, such a film would have a high value because it would be very rare, with restricted distribution. But there would be nothing to stop a buyer from making 500 copies themselves, and re-selling them on the cheap or even giving them away – destroying the rarity value overnight.
But there’s even better evidence that this “snuff” idea is bullshit. My little network of historic CSA video victims includes some persons who were allegedly “child snuff” victims. I can personally assure you, those persons are still very much alive today.
Thanks Jake Blake.
I haven’t managed to catch up with that video yet!
They are coming in so fast and furious, I haven’t got enough hours in the day.
This claim is as true as Angela’s claims about Ella masturbating the small boy.
Poor old Dave, believing it all.
Why does she make this rubbish up?
I expect it’s for the “attention” and to feel important.
As for Dave, I think he is Schizophrenic.
One of my son’s has a friend that comes out with similar tales.
The nearest thing to real snuff movies seems to be the Peter Scully case. That was in the Philipines; and it was uncovered, and he was prosecuted. It is hard to imagine such things occurring in central Washington or London without anyone noticing.
Whoopsie daisy!
Must be clackers then, never mind I was near (ish).
Great post as always EC. I can just picture Abe & Ella sat watching pizzagate videos on Youtube all day and looking out for new subjects to add to their original lies. They’ve got to keep attracting new conspirasheep all the time otherwise their story will be left behind while yet another conspiracy suddenly takes all the headlines and the conspirasheep with it.
Will Belinda really be able to put up with Neelu and her Mum 24/7?
I suppose that is the obvious solution in the short term, but what will happen with Belinda at 8am tomorrow?
I shall think about her as I’m driving at that time…
And then tune in for the Updates later.
Yeah and she’s still got his cat!
Yes, the Peter Scully case was sickening.
Barchon I think they actually already do that.
Funny how none of their believers ever mention Ella & Abe running away from the cops. Innocent people have no reason to run from the law whereas guilty people certainly do.
The conspirasheep really despise that fact that Hoaxtead Research exists. I’ve seen a few comments on Youtube now saying how people’s computers would play up after visiting this blog. Obviously a ploy to try and scare folk away from visiting this blog and reading actual facts with evidence to back them up as opposed to the lies and fantasies they prefer to believe in.
We’ll have ring side seats as we watch the inevitable videos.
But I suppose it would probably be more interesting to actually be there.
Will Neelu’s love interest, Mr. Andy Peacher come down all the way from Scotland?
I very much doubt it.
I predict Kevin Wearechange Weaver, Barry backpack, maybe Lee Cant after all Neelu did go in search of him to the Police Station and promptly got herself arrested, Yet again, grrr…
They might as well reserve a cell for her.
Tracey Morris is going to court tomorrow to represent someone against Social Services.
I think I read it on Gayle Fawkes fb page.
Yes Spiny, i think they could all learn a lot from EC and others. But that would be boring to them as they prefer to believe wild stories told to them by fruitloops on Youtube.
The rat/mouse on the right in that picture reminds me of Tracey Morris.
Ah the Fat Slags from Viz comic, there’s a blast from the past indeed. The pair of them along with other characters such as Sid the sexist and Postman Plod gave me so many laughs in the past.
He’s certainly no Carol Vorderman when it comes to mathematics.
What an Ass Hat that “Titus” character is! “Pizzagate March” WTH? ffs! Stupid as dirt. I hope they all get arrested…Ella and Abe have hit a new low. I agree with S.V.. If they can take the time to question him due to R bloody Q’s crappola and paranoia, they can arrest them lickity damn quick, it is complete BS. Are they waiting for a crazier Edgar Welch? I was reading about this “Shayler” person. Very strange guy and story. He probably met agony Abe at the “eco-squat” commune of weirdos or one of three prisons? Bizarre as hell. Was his “info” on Col. Ghadaffi true in re: 1996 Newspaper reports in UK?? What is his ex-partners deal? Anybody have a good link or source on these two? Sincere condolences for yesterday’s Tragedy. RIP
The additions must be the result of more “brainstorming”. I used to hold some sympathy for Ella, taking her as someone caught up in Abraham’s web of destruction. However, she sat back and watched Abraham beat RD’s children and is now making these scam videos for a quick buck, exploiting her own children. She knows exactly what she is doing.
Haha! Their computers play up after visiting a WordPress.com site? Do they realise that the “.com” version of WordPress doesn’t allow any sort of code changes or plug-ins that one would have to use to do anything nefarious? So even if we wanted to, which we don’t, it couldn’t happen.
Eddy! 🙂
Thanks, AP. I was particularly amused by their “big (green) eyes” story, which is apparently interchangeable between Abe and Ella.
Yes, this has been my understanding too. The concept of “snuff movies” originated in the 1970s or 1980s, and was HUGE for a while, until people began to realise that no one had ever seen a real one.
Yes they aren’t the type of people to let facts such as that stop their stupid lies.
Yes, sadly the truth is much less melodramatic than the lies they’re being fed.
Yes, when it boils down to it, she’s quite willing to sell her children to make a bit of money. That says it all to me.
Patreon has until Tuesday to remove that content, then I and others will initate the process to get politicians to roll out legislation to regulate social media. A member of parliament is now aware, and on standby.
How did she meet her husband Mr. Draper?
Was she a mail order bride?
Thank you, EC 🙂
Looks like TC has actually googled hoaxsted, finally. ffs MKD? lol
I can imagine in order to make any semblance of what the hell this catalogue of abusers,grifters and plain mentally bonkers individuals are up to,some creative process of collating, prioritizing and generally sifting serious criminality from gibbering verbal masturbation is inevitable.The saying “necessity is the mother of invention” has no doubt held some sway in regards keeping tabs on events.
Mr Einstein somehow created order from chaos and back again amidst papers sliding about all over the shop but no doubt he had contrived some system that at least worked for him in attempting to fathom the workings of everything.Not convinced he could have come up with a general theory of fruitloops though.
Sterling stuff and clearly the revulsion method is prooving just the ticket.
Great to see the new batch of interns settling into their positions btw. 😉
Abe’s website is disgusting. Someone named DOCTOR_MOEBIUS has left this comment on it, this month:
“I would hunt down this ‘father’ and blow his genitals off. If anyone out there feels compelled to do so, I’m sure it’s a worthy cause.”
MKD’s on form today! 😀
“Bellenders tunnels-The movie” would almost certainly attract a “restricted18” by the British Board of Film Classification.
Because I do not live in the Hampstead area covered by the MP Tulip Siddiq, please can anyone who lives in that area contact her when they feel ready. This MP is Labour and a Muslim. The issue is regulation of internet social media companies to force them to remove abusive, hateful, illegal and harrassing content in a reasonable time of notification, preferably by an independent body. Highlight the problems encountered trying to get social media such as Facebook, Google and Patreon to remove content, and the distress, fear and other negative impacts this has had on its victims.
Although arrests and convictions help, it is by forcing social media companies to remove content that will bring to an end this hoax and protect the children at the heart of this hoax from the psychological harm it will do when they start to read and see it when they are older.
For an MP to act, you must live in the area they serve. You must include personal contact details such as your address and contact number. If the MP is different in your area, then please consider contacting them.
The details for Tulip Siddiq is:
By phone – Call on 0208 127 5525 (This line is open 10am – 4pm, Tuesday – Friday)
By email – My address is tulip@tulipsiddiq.com
By mail – Write to Tulip Siddiq MP, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
At a Constituency Surgery – If you would like an appointment at a constituency surgery then please call on 0208 127 5525 or email tulip@tulipsiddiq.com
Enraged here about too about Patreons stance.Will contact again venting disgust at flaunting their own T&C + inactivity.They could at least have suspended account pending enquiries.
The lack of regulation enables the more disreputable and unprincipled platforms to effectively flick a V at complaints possibly because they dont like reducing their user figures or of course they are simply inept and simply cant be arsed with such triffling matters that doesnt bring in $$$.
Great you have initiated upping the ante to political arena SV.This whole area is going to become massive over the next few years and politicians worth their salt will get stuck into these shysters.
The political and media climate is perfect to refer the Hampstead hoax as a whole to the politicians as a good reason to regulate against the social media giants.
The fact this is going on, and internet companies do nothing about this is why I am now on the warpath.
I understand, SV, it’s getting out of control. That person is talking about shooting an innocent man in the genitals. I honestly fear for RD’s life sometimes.
It was Eddy who gave the game away.
Where’s Lord Ashtar, that’s what I want to know.
Bob needs to get back to his seat and stop licking the office carpet, he’s on his last warning.
..and there’s always one, isn’t there? Jasmine on the right, waving to the camera, I see you! Get back to work!
People tend to forget that once the Police get a warrant almost anyone can be traced.
David Shurter, seems afraid of Hoaxtead. I am impressed with El Coyote that he has such power to shake the Dark Jesus, Messiah, Dark Lord or whatever dark master demon this Shurter has become to his very abyssmal core, backed by the most powerful magicks of Satanism, and who has defeated all the fallen ones, and created a new hell for all those who oppose his will. Do dark ones like Shurter bleed and die?
I think probably Shurter lacks the master ring that is supposed to control the other rings, and a certain creature living in Kent might have it.
Also, I speak on occasion with Dr Michael Aquino over at 600Club, Shurter should come over and talk there sometime.
Shurter reminds me of this guy in his video:
I absolutely love that movie. Nicholson and Duvall were excellent in it.
By the way, SV. Your comment under the video will be seen by him as a threat.
Just became aware of its meaning, whoops.
EC… please edit removing Red Rum part… I woud not have posted that had I known its meaning.
Done. 🙂
No trigger warning needed but McKenzie’s Devils should have included a Sensitivity Warning. Can you die from blushing?
No matter how long ago..
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39361147
“Cheryl Grimmer: Man arrested over girl’s 1970 disappearance”
Hi Jake!
I was gloating about McKenzie’s Arrest on tOm Cahill’s yt channel and apparently spurred on a flurry of activity. Sorry Hoaxsted! ffs! omg ….sigh
Such a shame her parents never lived to hear the news. The killer would have been 16 at the time too.
LOL! How wrong can t0m Cahill be?? 😀
I was glad to see that Generosity finally took down their page (although it took long enough, my first reply from them was 1/3/17), whereas I never even got a reply at all from Patreon and they still have their page up despite many complaints being received (as was logged here)
(plus the nightmare involved in actually reporting pages to these companies- what a kludge their reporting systems are)
Hi Steved, like you I have had to navigate a reporting system designed to put people off from complaining about content. These internet companies hale largely from Silicon Valley in USA with the same attitude of money over any other concerns. They don’t care about the innocent people of Hampstead, or the children, if it brings in money, thats all that matters to them.
Yes do it.
As one who has been trying to remove hateful and shocking lies for over 5 years now, about a woman who passed away in the meantime (aged 85) it can be a very debilitating and frustrating experience.
I’ve had some successes and failures: the failures are that even though the posts etc breach the rules of an internet entity’s own rules, we all know from Youtube experience they take an aeon for them to act if at all.
And then of course the stuff pops up again posted by someone else.
The US election has now shown. whatever the truth may be, that Fake News (and that is what Hampstead is) can be a very dangerous thing.
I’ve joined a group who have set themselves up as internet ‘vigilantes’ – not to attack anyone, but to use any legal means to get hateful, spiteful lies removed. We have 3 lawyers aiding but as anyone knows, a legal process can take years as well.
I believe the EU Parliament will be one of the main aids in this campaign as they generally seek to look after the welfare of their own citizens. Several countries are enacting legislation such as the ‘Right to Be Forgotten”. France has demanded this apply worldwide now for any French citizen. They have fought a fierce battle with a cashed-up Google on this but succeeded but it really takes the power of government to win.
And what a slap in the face it is from these internet giants that are all tax avoiding entities leaching off other taxpayers and then using their might to prevent citizens having rights to privacy without being harassed.
However the world is waking up to the dangers of internet defamation and while MPs can often be the last to act, once a politician comes aboard a cause they can wield considerable power.
I mean really- he looks unwashed, unshaven, unkempt and his teeth are stained and you can almost smell his hideous bad breath..but he puts on a clean shirt and bow-tie to make a video? It looks like a fake shirt & tie as well, like something with no back that you just wrap around your front.
GOS Fashion Tip of The Day.
LOL – “You can suck all the dick you want and still be a virgin”.
GoS, that is another thing, my business has to pay so much tax, yet these internet giants escape. It is totally wrong that kids and innocent people of a London community suffer because of what is essentially greed by foreign internet companies. Bottom line, all these companies are interested in is money, they have no interest in freedom of speech etc, they are just as quick to shut someone down that they disagree with.
ISIL make snuff movies which the media are only too happy to promote (although they refuse to in France) but the Hoaxers of course think they are ‘false flags’ and MI6 / CIA productions.
LOL! Apparently he doesn’t like it that Scarlet Scoop has pointed out his virulent anti-Semitism from time to time. So his way of disproving that…is to accuse us of being “Jewish cointelpro”? How does that work?
Noam Chomsky describes the problems well:
LOL! Love it. 🙂
How does that work? EC, it doesn’t! LOL
Tom and Cody are both obsessed with “cointelpro.”
Just like the hoaxers see paedophiles around every corner, they see cointelpro everywhere. 😀
Snazzy tie. 🙂
They are based in Silicon Valley when it suits – repeating that tired old mantra of Free Speech when confronted with internet libels.
They are based in The Caymans when it comes to (not) paying tax despite just having an unmanned office and their funds in a US or UK bank.
They have become all-powerful and basically bullies because they can get away with as politicians have been too slow to realise what is happening.
There should be a Fiddler on the Roof HH Meme Spiny!! LOL Abe and Ella Escaping…
Well, if I can get some sort of badge and a pay cheque out of it, I’m in. Not sure how I’ll sort the Jewish part though. Are there any Jewish coyotes? If so, how do they keep their yarmulkes on? Tis a puzzlement.
Fake News Alert !. Cats do NOT work and never have.
Very true, G0S. Those filmed murders aren’t intended to provide sexual titillation, but as far as I’m aware they’re the only real “snuff” movies out there. And the conspirasheep don’t believe they’re real. Go figure.
It was indeed. And he played a pivotal role in the “Hoaxtenders” cartoon series. 🙂
Too right, MC.
I wouldn’t wait : any politician needing a platform should jump on this ASAP and get in early.
Fugitives from the law Draper & Christie are breaching Patreon’s own rules (so much for their claim to be aiding those in the arts) but Patreon is also breaking the law and need to come to the attention of the FBI.
I would NOT give entities like Patreon the slightest wriggle room.
Amusingly they go on at length about how the poster indemnifies Patreon for any breaches of copyright etc but this is a ruse.
Patreon is liable for such breaches themselves for civil breaches of copyright and criminal law. You cannot be indemnified for such things. And considering they do minimal checks on authenticity (as exampled by hosting Draper’s criminal fundraising) it is a matter of time before events and the law catches up with them.
# This reminds me very much of a long conversation I had with a lawyer nearly 5 years ago about Uber. He was acting for a Black Cab driver in an unrelated dispute as conversation got around to how governments were falling over Uber’s seductive campaigns. He said they were breaching laws in dozens of ways which. despite the fact people may like the service, it was just a matter of time before it all came down in a heap. That included matters like whether they were employers, complicated liability insurance, VAT etc etc and likened the whole idea to a very sophisticated Pyramid Scheme. Now the whole edifice is beginning to crumble as directors bail out having made $Millions in the meantime.
A prime example of how the law and governments can become bamboozled by how the internet is being used.
@GoS
I get the impression that Patreon is as arrogant as Uber.
One of my associates jumped the gun and contacted Tulip Siddiq MP, but do not live in Hampstead. Since there has been one contact to this MP already, it is ideal to contact them now.
You are probably right. Why Wait?
Stop the Rot and End the Hate
Against the Innocent Victims
of the Hampstead Hoax and Pizzagate
Conspirifruit Episode 2 – Legend of the Fail – https://youtu.be/LauMBymTTVk
Conspirifruit Episode 3 – Really Disgraceful – https://youtu.be/M-EOu3WMoKc
Loving the Conspirifruit series BM.Keep them coming 🙂
If someone like the deliciously mental Sandie Bergen-Whatever-Whatever came round to ‘blow my genitals off’, she would be more than welcome… Anytime…
The added benefit of course, being it would stop her whiny, insane utterances.
All after the obligatory ‘implant check’, of course 😉
Chuffing Pizzagate.
Mad https://youtu.be/qSP7wZ2l95s
Sensible https://youtu.be/2OrX0U4qwTM
Cheers mate, I can only do them when the house is free of infidels as they would think I really am Barchon Mad.
🙂 😀 XD
They are beyond hope. Thank you for the links mate.
These people truly are Sheeple who cannot think for themselves including that Loon Wolfe.
MKD’s on a roll tonight 😀
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When Heifer eventually turns on Angela, I confidently expect Angela to shout about how she’d always had her doubts about her. She really does excel in the arts of back-pedalling and back-stabbing.
Would it be an underground movie, Mik?
Hostel: real
Westminster attack: fake
Ah, the mind of a troofer.
So nice to see an American with stained teeth, Sam, after all they’ve said about ours 😀
Mik, you never need to apologise for upsetting Tom Cahill. I can almost hear the Jewish community applauding you.
I completely dispute Tom’s wesearch.
“Vanilla Scoop”
I love it! 😀
Your wish is my command…
No two ways about it, BM – you’re a fucking genius!
21:09 – “We know basically most of science is just made up.”
Wow. Just…wow 😮
So he’s not just into Hegel for Dummies, he’s an anti-science proponent too? This just gets better and better.
“All day long I’d diddle diddle dum, if I were a wealthy man”…takes on a whole new sinister tone, doesn’t it?
Hehe. Thanks, EC. Plus it all scans too 🙂
Moaning bastard says:
Mr Draper would be well advised to read the T&C as he could well be in line for a full refund under goods and services act.I am sure trading standards would be very interested if UK residents are being flogged dangerous,inflammable materials under false pretences.
I am not sure if there is an ombudsman for the mail order bride/grey import industry but if not the Ombudman for Ombudsmen should bloody well pull his finger out and make one sharpish.ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
What on Earth is the world coming to???
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The best-laid plans of mice and chimps
Sometimes we just have to laugh.
Out there in the foetid swamps of TrooferBlogLand dwells a rancid rag of a blog, a hangover from a previous hoax involving false allegations of sexual abuse against a number of innocent people. The Hollie Greig hoax had much in common with the Hampstead SRA hoax, including the aforementioned false allegations, a great deal of overlap amongst its key players, an innocent young person used as a pawn in the adults’ game of “fill those donations coffers”, and more.
The blog in question, HollieGreigJustice, is owned by a person from Manchester named George Kouris, aka George Greek Trucker; it is…well, not written, exactly…perhaps “scribbled upon with chimpanzee-like enthusiasm” by one Malcolm Konrad Ogilvy, a person who looks as though a good bath would not go amiss.
We’ve mentioned him here before, but you might be forgiven for forgetting him, as he is eminently forgettable. He did eke out a wee bit of fame at one point, when as one of our readers pointed out, he allegedly “failed the very same scam as Draper and Christie did in an attempt to frame his daughter’s grandfather. The mistake he made was to actually hand the phone over to the police who quickly discovered evidence of him coaching her!”
In general we don’t pay much attention to Malkie, except to smother a smirk each time he tries to link a post on his blog to a comment on this one. This happens about five times per day, leading us to wonder whether he actually has his own blog, or it’s just a shadowy mirror of Hoaxtead Research.
One of our team members wandered over to Malkie’s place yesterday to check out this hypothesis, and came back laughing. “It’s basically a string of our quotes from our commenters, with bits of gibberish thrown in”, they informed us. Gibberish like this:
How wid you know are you say the cops gave you evidence?So the cops KNEW i wis perverting the course of justice in a child abuse case yet STILL didnt interview me never arrested or charged me was never sent to trial was never found guilty …strange
Don’t laugh, that’s some quality gibberish right there. We have no clue what he’s on about, but it seems to keep him busy, so who are we to complain?
One of the odder features of that blog is that Malkie appears to genuinely believe that everyone who comments on Hoaxtead Research is either Matt Quinn, Maggs Shaw, or…no, that’s really about it. Just those two people.
It’s the same sort of shortsightedness which leads many of the Hoaxtead mobsters to believe that everyone here is RD, despite all signs to the contrary.
But we digress.
Aside from the amusement value in having to consign half a dozen “trackback” requests from the HGJ blog each day, and noting that that blog is basically a gaudy, unreadable version of ours, we confess to allowing a tiny smirk to cross our lips at the fact that each day, Malkie’s blog sends us several readers, some of whom seem to appreciate what we offer.
We have to suppose that this is not what George and Malkie had in mind…er, brainstem…when they revived their blog last spring. Ah well, lads. Can’t win ’em all.
Form an orderly queue, ladies!
17/09/2017 in Assorted knobheads. Tags: blog, Hollie Greig hoax, troofers
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127 thoughts on “The best-laid plans of mice and chimps”
Ethel the Aardvark says:
Nice write-up, EC.
And speaking of chimps, here’s the second hissy fit of the night from Mad Moo. Thumbs at the ready…
Debs appears to be convinced she’s the second coming. Oh dear.
So is Kouris George’s real surname? On Farcebook he goes by George Antoniou.
“…Malkie appears to genuinely believe that everyone who comments on Hoaxtead Research is either Matt Quinn, Maggs Shaw, or…no, that’s really about it…”
Actually, to be fair, he fancied a change a few nights ago and veered off into “Everyone is Ricky Dearman” territory. It doesn’t appear to have lasted, though.
This is how Malcolm speaks to ladies (in this instance Maggs and Sylvia, both of whom he’s been harassing and slandering for several years):
He makes a death threat just before the end.
I believe so, yes.
He’s a lovely chap really.
Raymond Throatwobbler-Mangrove says:
Well, bugger me! 😮
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nnqpg7/stereotypical-paedophile-look-189
I knew I’d seen him somewhere before!
Mad Moo’s been re-posting all those posts containing innocent people’s names and illegal images of the children, on the Believe the Bollocks page. That’s the third time she’s posted them. I did report every single one of them when she posted them on her own page and again when she posted them on the BtB page but I’m still awaiting an outcome. I’ve now reported the re-postings too.
Yep, that’s him:
An Alan Smithee Meme says:
Maybe Moo has a wider audience than the regular dozen or so thumbs down she gets on her videos but I reckon she has her work cut out if she thinks one billion Muslims are going to take a blind bit of notice of her.
Well I’m not either of those two people and I’ll reveal something here for the first time: Ghost of Sam is not my real name! It’s the one on my birth certificate but that’s a legal fiction.
In daily life I’m known as Prudence Tricklebank-Hawshaw. Of course that is before I had gender re-assignment. Before that I was Major Tristram Fotheringham-Brimble of the Salvation Army, Catering Corp.
I am not and never have been El Coyote, Deborah Mahmoudieh, Spiny Norman or Ethel Aardvark but I believe the Throatwobbler-Mangroves are distant cousins.
# Must go-Nursie says she wishes to speak to me urgently.
A real charmer. Not. What a yob/
His hair looks really rank.
I hope it’s wet and not greasy but if that is grease, yuk!
I bet it really stinks…
And that looks awful too.
Looks really sticky and crusty.
I would have told the Moron to FCUK Off.
Yeah as if the 2 women would go any where near his daughter.
Jeez another one that thinks the world revolves around him!
“Maybe Moo has a wider audience than the regular dozen or so thumbs down she gets on her videos”
No, she doesn’t. Apart from KSC, APD and a handful of creepy nutters from her Farcebook page, most of her views are from us going there to thumb her down or report about her on here. The fact that so few people listen to her is one of the things she’s always whining about. LOL
I’m pretty sure that’s grease, Babs. Plus there are several other pictures confirming it. He’s proud of it too.
Shit, I’ve just seen he has a picture of some poor sod hanging dead from a tree on his FB page (from March 2015). Reported. F*cking pyscho.
If anyone’s a danger to his daughter, it’s him.
Ah yes, the lovely Malkin, who hung on to Bellenders every word. He even used to hand out leaflets in Aberdeen on her behalf. Listened to her garbage about the so called Violate club. Child like dolls with diamond eyes that never existed, but Blender said they did so it must me true. Apparently, they had a van outside the club at night spying on who went in there, they claim it was full of judges and MP’s, funny that because Malkin and his merry men didn’t even know where it was. He wasn’t even clever enough to coach his own daughter into admitting she was abused because he forgot to remove from his mobile the said checking. Silly silly boy. In the early days he started his page with his brother, but even his brother got board with it. Oh yes another thing. Some one one the Hollie Hoax team turned informer to Malkin so he really wet him self over that one, and decided to print everything about them on what ever social media out put he could.
LOL, another pair of mentally unhinged sad-acts:
Hey Angel, here’s that iron fist you ordered:
You’ll like this one, FG – Bellender and Paedogilvy were not happy 😀
Nice reaction from the creepy fecker near the end of the video:
Oh yes I remember that one, I think it was one of the times, the two ladies went out the back way so Malkie shout child abooce like he usually did. But the two ladies drove past him outside the court, waving at him.
And the black eye looks almost as unpleasant.
Ugh I hate to think what his arm pits smell of then!
Utter filth.
Bet where he lives is disgusting too…
Even Belinda seemed to walk off in disgust from him.
Good to see some enterprising soul has noted the copious reserves of oil and has already given the boring cnut a sound exploratory fracking.
No she upset him once because she told a lie as usual, as to who actually abused his daughter. poor Malkie was beside him self with rage what Bellender had said. She actually said that she had no objections to people using bad language if it ever made a difference to stopping child abuse.
Just posted on Angela’s Farcebook page:
Er…nope. We proved categorically that the photos you’d pretended were of the London protest were in fact of the Dublin fuel protests from several months earlier. D’oh!
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/will-angie-show-her-face-at-todays-protest
Oh and the protest that took place in Parliament Square that day, as one of our on-the-ball commenters (Eye Spy) pointed out, was for…er….refugees. NOT child abuse. Double d’oh!
Oh and lest we forget that you then thought it would be a really good idea to dig yourself even deeper into your hole (a bit like what you’ve done again today), and give us all another big laugh:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/rupert-spills-the-beans-on-angie/#comment-43544
By the way, when I say “we” and “us”, I’m not referring to the aforementioned “trolls”, whoever they are. It’s just that when I checked in the dictionary, it didn’t define ‘troll’ as “anyone who politely questions Angela Power-Disney’s false claims”. In fact, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, a troll is “a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post”. Ring any bells, Angie?
PS: I have absolutely no earthly idea why she’s mentioned the Holborn Police Station interview, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the non-existent London child abuse protest, even less to do with the refugee protest and certainly nothing to do with the Dublin fuel protests!
There was meant to be a CSA Rally on 17th September but only about 4 people turned up.
Where was Angela from 29th August 2016 Bank Holiday Monday when Sabine was at Holborn Police Station until Saturday 17th September 2016?
Staying at Jockney Rebel’s?
In a car with Jockney and Rupert going to the Psychiatric Unit in Luton to harass Mental Health Nurses?
Also outside Hampstead Christchurch taking photos with Rupert?
A tenner on each…
Plus correct me if I’m wrong but the photos of her in front of Big Ben etc. were from some event a year earlier, weren’t they?
LOL – good luck with that, Nelly 😀
Google Hoaxtead says:
Neelu would be pretty pissed off if she knew that Melanie is vehemently opposed to the Hampstead hoax. I do hope no one tells her, hehe 😀
Say what you like about Mel, she’s no fool.
It’d be more accurate to say he’s from ‘Greater Manchester’. The Cheshire end I believe.
Unlike most of the Hoax mob, I think that there is evidence that Mel suffered some real abuse and has had issues as a result. That is probably why she can see through the whole thing.
We need to get Malcolm and Wesley together. They could make an honest living advertising PG Tips.
What’s incredible is how Sylvia and others have managed to retain their dignity throughout this.
I have nothing but admiration for them, because I know I’d have been tempted to use the F word in his direction.
I’m not sure about that, she actually may have gone last year but it would have been a complete waste of time as it just didn’t get the numbers.
Ah she’s probably trying to “prove” she is an Investigative Journalist, but Epic Fail on that as the Rally came to nothing, no admittance to see JC at the Luton Mental Health establishment and standing outside Holborn nick on a dull August Bank Holiday Monday with a bunch of other old woman plus Rupert isn’t great. Btw Rupert also told me she grabbed him there but no one saw!
Gates McSprocket says:
His bog is full of inappropriate images Liza, including nudity and child abuse. If you actually were on the side of decency you just wouldn’t re-publish images like that under any circumstances but as others have often said, I think this is a kind of ‘porn’ for weirdos like Malkie.
I think that’s right, yes.
Yes, but then that would destroy the sales of PG tips! Besides which, I laik Moonki
I’m shocked, GOS…or should I say, Prudence.
At very least.
As a general rule, I think Hoaxtead mobsters should try to refrain from poetry.
More accurate that what, MC?
Dear Sam, won’t you come out to play?
Let me explain to you Malkie, why you’re talking bollocks about what Jack Boyle said, and I’ll use the very image you did to debunk you:
The first five or so lines actually say that in general kid’s don’t make up this type of story, it’s hard to tell with kids who have learning difficulties and that Hollie doesn’t have past form for this sort of thing. They also say that perpetrators have good motivation to make shit up and distract from the truth.
What they don’t say is anything whatsoever about the truth or otherwise about the allegations “Hollie” made. And I put that in inverted commas Malkie because it wasn’t Hollie that made up the allegations at all, it was her Mother, we know that now. Dr Boyle then goes on to question Anne Greig’s mental health, and with very good reason, the record reflect that she’s as mad as a box of frogs!
So Malkie, are you really just so fucking stupid you don’t understand a letter? Or are you just one of those perps making shit up to distract attention from the truth? It’s really an either-or question.
Indeed, EC. They’re not a patch on the Vogons.
It’s a pity she still believes every word Brian Gerrish tells her. she sees him as a kind of father figure. Successful grooming of a vulnerable woman by Gerrish, it seems.
Damn it- I thought I was talking to a real ghost…
(note to self- cancel the million dollar proof of supernatural email to the Randy Foundation)
bugga- and I’d already ordered the new gold plated Ferrari…
Thanks a lot Sam….
Well played, CM 😀
I see I have 10 notifications waiting, so fingers crossed for some more like this.
Which is the very reason why the authorities barred him from contact with her, always projecting his own weird sexual fantasies onto other people is Malkie.
More accurate than “from Manchester”? At least that’s how I read it.
Well done, Captain Mainwaring (and Steved and Sheva) 😀
I note that all of the evidence presented to her washed right over her and she’s dishonestly claiming that we accused her of photoshopping the photos. Hey, Angie – lies make Baby Jesus™ cry, you know.
Another bizarre Paedogilvy hissy fit, this one from March 2016:
# Wanker
Struggling to read that mate, but I get the idea I think. He’s right, just jailing Green for a breach really didn’t give the people who were defamed their day in court and their names properly cleared, not that anyone with any sense believes all the shit that was put about anyway, but still. All the crown office achieved was was to make him a hero among his peer group of wasters, stoners, morons and downright bloody con merchants.
A lot of people (myself included) would like to see the sex trade shut down completely, in my book if you take any part in it you’ve basically failed at being a human being. It’s like drugs, people argue that cannabis is harmless but it’s obviously not, and it is just a gateway to more harmful things that ultimately mean people all over the world having their lives destroyed.
Matt has a very good point I think when he argues that people like Ogilvy, Green. and others are just working to create distractions around the issues. But another point I think he’s made is that people shouldn’t be punished for stupid mistakes they’ve made in the past. I don’t think there is any interest in “exposing” people that appeared in VHS swingers movies 30 years ago, but as you say, what is going on out in places like Portugal and Morocco (oddly, the sort of places favoured by the likes of APD, Christie and their chums) is pretty sick, pretty serious, and tracks back to the worst of organised crime at a local level.
Another thing to consider is how political the Holliehoax has been made. What is the agenda there? It went from a story about high level child abuse, to being all about the SNP and Alex Salmond before finding its final resting place as a tale of Satanic ritual abuse! What next? Maybe it was the Martians? The thing with Malkie is, we know he’s a prize idiot, but he must know he’s lying through those rotten teeth of his, and that people are literally laughing at him in the street. Why carry on lying when it’s obvious nobody believes you and you’re just making yourself look even more stupid and bent?
EXCELLENT work! 🙂
Video unavailable it says – I saw it earlier, has the fanny actually taken it down? ROFLMAO!
No, it’s still available and plays fine. It could be that you’re blocked by him on Farcebook.
It turns out that I made a total of no less than 38 reports between Friday and Saturday. Two or three have been actioned, only one removed according to what FB told me, the rest are under review. When you are asked how satisfied you are with the outcome do you submit more information as to why a post should be removed if it hasn’t been i.e. argue your case?
Can’t see how, I don’t have a Facebook account of any kind and have never been signed into it, especially not from here, but it was playing just fine a little earlier on this page.
The Tinfoil Twatwagon™ says:
Surprise surprise – Nathan Stupidman has jumped on that particular bandwagon too – and bangs on about it for over two hours. Toot toot!
By the way, he says that his main channel has been banned.
What no one realises is, yes there is a grain of truth in it, no one ever asked Hollies uncle what he did to Hollie. No one ever questioned Anne Greig. Certain things went missing just before an 18th Birthday party, only Anne knows where they are. Even Robert never really wanted to know the truth. Indeed at his trial, no evidence came to light, just a piece of paper Robert had written on. So Brian Gerrish could of saved his neck with all that evidence he had in his cupboard, eledgedly. Oh and another thing, Robert Green had long since fallen out with Anne Greig anyway. There was a YouTube video of him slagging Anne off, but it has long since gone.
Would you like me to have a bash at paragraphing that for you, Anon?
# Déjà vu
A very interesting conversation from 30th May:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/more-on-holliehoax-and-hoaxtead/#comment-70304
Very fair points FG, well made. I know at one point the notion that Roy had no problems was debunked by MQ. Apparently he was up to his neck with some fairly dodgy sorts. I’m not going to get too far into naming names though, even if they have already been published.
There was a school of thought that said Robert Green was basically trying to get into Anne Greig’s knickers, and that’s one of the main things that motivated him. He certainly had plenty of relatively face saving opportunity to back out of the hoax element, fly right and “go for the grain” as it were. He chose otherwise, something similar seemed to be the case when Belinda was leading him around by the nose like a bewildered bullock. And yes I see it’s well noted he presented no real defence and didn’t even really address the actual charges he was facing, he simply blustered about along tangents waving bits of random rubbish around.
Anyone surprised to know that Paedogilvy has gone into frenzy mode as a result of this post? 😀
https://holliegreigjustice.wordpress.com
Eddie N. Burrow says:
Ye have tae laugh when someone dedicates about 200 posts in a row to us then says that us dedicating just one tae him means he must be daeing something right 😀
ROFLMFAO No, not at all CP.
You really are as thick as ten day old pig shit aren’t you Ogilvy? What the fuck are you actually on about? Where the hell do I “admit” that “Anon” is Matt Quinn? Or is this just you in full retarded troll mode trying to paint pictures you think other people will believe (they won’t cos other people aren’t as stupid as you). As far as I can see Malkie, Matt Quinn hasn’t written a single solitary word on the subject of either Hollie Greig or Hampstead in over six months! Whirrr whirrr whirrrrrr Malkie, your projector’s badly broke but it’s still running wild.
Get it through your thick head Malkie, the man you tried to frame has made bloody sure Aberdeenshire knows exactly what you are and the word about you has spread far and wide from there. Matt Quinn is the least of your problems, the worst he’ll do is see you get a nice cosy jail cell along with your old buddy Mitchell. Seen any good fillummms lately Malkie?
No Malkie, that’s at least another two lies added to your total. I’m not Matt Quinn and I wrote nothing about Jack Boyle not counting. What I did do was explain what Jack Boyle actually wrote, and that it’s nothing like the complete bullshit you’re trying to hang onto the man’s words.
It’s a pity you didn’t make it past primary seven reading and comprehension level Malkie. But them I hear you know so much better than all the world’s teachers put together!
Yes I came to the conclusion he was trying to get in her knickers too. Aparrently he quite liked Belinda too, being seen playing guitar for her one night in a restaurant
Another kiddy rape fantasist.
#Self-projection
Lawful update from Debs:
More people watch the antic of these people than regularly comment anywhere on the internet. People in positions of professional trust cannot comment. Others chose not to take the risk Mr Quinn has; his home business and family having all been subjected to attacks.
He seems resilient, and people have his back, but at the end of the day who wants to be Aunt Sally? Especially when even “radio silence” is not enough to quiet these fools. Ogilvy seems like a very worried man.
Let’s just say, in some circles, there is a degree of convergence of opinion as to what went on, who is involved and how these cases connect. the objective is to see those responsible face the courts and pay the price.
“Lawful suspects…who devote their time to trolling an slandering…as well as spreading lies and disinformation…regular barrage of abusive insults and malicious lies…”
Full of something….. But not law!
I do, fill in the review…..subimit more info, I highlight what I hope are relevant points, links….. but recently reporting options have changed again. ‘
According to FB, they look also at how many of a persons posts have been hidden …. difficult to hide, what some of us want to be able to monitor…….. I have had little to no tech for yonks, but will try & catch up on the reviews…… Lately, I reported lots of Deborah Moody’s posts but none actioned, so far,, I’ve reported her YouTube too.
I’ve moved on to ‘Believe The Children’….. angered at their mockery of how we began our campaigns, decades ago, ….things have moved on and in the meantime, unfortunately people like Malkie Ulglyville & Angie., Belinda, etc noticed an opportunity, carved from the courage of early survivors speaking out.
If anyone can figure why the page that Wes Pgate Hall Opdeatheater, one of Angela Power Disney’s packdogs, was taken down so quick ? That might be useful……
I know it used to be a case of no.s of reports…..Thankyou to everyone, but I wish we could make it be that swift for others ????
Seeking ideas to really challenge the platforms on this case still being able to be promoted. ????
“As well as spreading lies and disinformation about the lawfully evidenced facts of this case”.
No Madmoo, it is YOU who is guilty of doing that.
The behaviour of those people is so bad, it’s inexplicable to me. I remember here in Ireland when lone voices began to emerge in the late 80’s describing the abuse those individuals suffered in industrial schools and at the Magdalene laundries…more and more people spoke out because people were ready to listen. But if they didn’t speak till today, they’d probably be dismissed amongst the SRA hoaxes etc.
Can someone share the link to that part of Judge Pauffey’s summing up where it says images and names are not to be broadcast please…otherwise I might be ages looking for it. Thanks.
Listen up, Rassclaats – it’s time for your daily dose of Debs…
LMAO! If I laugh at this video description, am I a bad person?
Jealousy, Debs???
Oh that third dog’s face is priceless! 😀
If it does, then I’m worse, because I pissed myself at 54:53 when she started crying 😀
You mean your throat didn’t wobble with compassion, Mr Throatwobbler-Mangrove?
Another twat to report. I think this is originally from SGT Report.
Take a look at the amount of videos she’s uploaded lately..
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyqiUH_T3wNkoyveRU95SEw/videos
Most of the videos there are SGT ones. I suspect “Team Mia Katy TV” is SGT..lol.
Wow, what a mad bint. One of her vids is called ‘Red Alert: And Then They Came For Me’. I hope she’s referring to the men* in white coats, as it’s long overdue!
*People in white coats, I mean. I am an equal opportunities troll 🙂
Yeah and it’s another SGT video. Looks more to me like it’s an SGT back-up channel.
Chris Fay And The NAYPIC – London Scam
(dedicated to all the UK journalists, politicians and abuse victim activists who allowed a con-artist to lead them around by the nose like a herd of trained ponies)
CHRIS FAY was all over the UK news, from 2013 to 2015, making allegations about historic sexual abuse of children on an industrial scale, and also child trafficking, prostitution, pornography…even torture & murder captured in ‘snuff films’ -audaciously naming prominent persons living and dead as perpetrators of these horrors, apparently with impunity.
But why was he taken seriously, why was this odd little man granted the public platform of the press to impress all of these accusation on the minds of the public? Why was Chris Fay perceived to be a credible source of information on these subjects? What credentials of experience, training and knowledge did he possess to put him on par with the likes of Scotland Yard’s top child sex crime specialist investigators?
Apparently, it was his self-professed status as “Adult Advisor to the National Association of Young Persons In Care (NAYPIC)” – because that’s how he was habitually described in press coverage, and by political figures, commentators and other victim’s advocates.
So, what was NAYPIC?
Was it a government agency run by Social Services, specially appointed to investigate child sexual exploitation and abuse, staffed by the nation’s most experienced Child Protection social workers? No.
Was it a registered national Child Welfare charity, venerated for a long history of investigating, documenting and raising awareness about child abuse, run by academic experts on the subject – like the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children? No.
NAYPIC was a “youth rights movement group”, founded in Leeds in 1979. It was intended to be a social-political organisation lobbying for the rights of Young Persons In Care, composed of and run by Young Persons In Care. It’s purpose was stated to be:
To improve conditions for children and young people in care
To make information and advice available to young people in care
To promote the views and opinions of young people in care
To help start, support and develop local groups.
So, what’s an “Adult Advisor” to such an organization? What does it mean to be “Adult Advisor to NAYPIC”, what qualification would a person need to be Adult Advisor, and exactly what would their role be? – given that by definition they could not be a Young Person In Care themselves…
I puzzled over such questions every time I saw Chris Fay in the news yet again, and always with that phrase attached. I knew he was supposed to have been a social worker at one time, but I didn’t recognise Adult Advisor as a job title or professional classification in the social work field in North America. Nor, I discovered, has it ever been used as such in the UK. The only references to Adult Advisor were what you’d expect to find – as a teaching staff volunteer who advises senior high school, “Student Body Councils”. Nor was there any mention of an “Adult Advisor” in the original NAYPIC proposals.
“Adult Advisor to NAYPIC” turned out to be an imaginary title, presumably invented by Chris Fay himself. Therefore the necessary qualifications to be Adult Advisor were…nothing! The qualification to be Adult Advisor was – nothing – the role of the Adult Advisor was – nothing – and the expertise implied by holding such an imaginary position with a youth peer support and rights advocacy organization was – nothing!
Just more advertising for this blog 🙂
There was the fact also that Hollies own mother had been coaching her to say stuff too. It’s all long ago now but it has a Base for a lot more hoaxes too
FG, I must confess that I’m no expert on the Hollie hoax and I’ve learnt a lot about it this weekend thanks to people like you and Babs. Thank you 🙂
Does the name Timothy Rustige ring bells? He was involved in the Hollie Greig hoax.
I found this today – is it the same guy?
http://altrincham.today/2017/08/08/altrincham-man-68-charged-daubing-race-hate-graffiti-bollin-aqueduct/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/07/gwen-james
Fantastic information on Chris, as well as his well known criminal life.
I would just like to point to someone who did actually do good work for children. This women stayed close to my mother and her siblings, as she helped them escape from hell. All to often we hear the worst of social workers, i would like more people to know of the good work Gwen did in her lifetime.
Yes, Manchester is a city. Greater Manchester is the county.
Well the name, location and age are right.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/462261/Cyber-pest-s-campaign-against-former-Lord-Advocate-Elish-Angiolini
The 40 Year Old Horse says:
Good News. LTV’s Main channel and all his illegal child abuse videos are gone.
Seems he’s at it again then!
That’s good news. 🙂
Please believe me, Reverend, I understand very well the heroic work and self-less dedication to it, that characterizes most people in that profession.
But Chris Fay was not even “a bad apple” – he was a poisonous prune masquarading as a bad apple!
There were these NAYPIC reports, published by Moss & Fay in the early 1990’s, which were hailed by some in the Social Work profession as “ground-breaking” reports of abusive treatment, from residents of various care home facilities.
THE THERAPY OF FEAR
“A Report on Complaints Received by NAYPIC from Young People in Adolescent Psychiatric Units, both NHS and Privately Run. By Mary Moss, London Development Officer & Chris Fay, Adult Adviser, 1990”
was one of these. It’s possible that some of this information really was instrumental in bringing about a review of systematic violations of young people’s rights – including instances of sexual abuse by staff members – in Adolescent Psychiatric Units of that time. Moss & Fay really were in contact with some teens from such facilities, and the “reports of abusive treatment” from them appear to be legitimate and supported by documentation such as hand-written letters of complaint.
But most of the “reports of abusive treatment” data in their reports wasn’t what it was claimed to be.
I became aware of this, when I came across this notation alleged to have come from the NAYPIC “logs” between 1989-1991:
– Peter B. sexually abused/child porn – in Grafton Close, in care of Richmond
which was clearly a reference to Peter Bornshin aka Peter Hatton-Bornshin, whose tragic tale was highly publicized in recent years (but, that tale is also full of falsehoods)
If the “report of abusive treatment” concerning Peter B was “received” by NAYPIC 1989-1991, then it was a report from an adult former care resident, because Peter Bornshin would have been 22-24 at that time.
And this one, titled: the account of GL1:
“The following statement was given to me by a girl, then aged 19, on 2nd April 1990. I refer to her as GL1 (Green Lane Children’s Home resident 1).
GL1 would only speak about this once as she had now left care and put it behind her….”
Well, fair enough to collect some accounts from adult former residents in care homes – so long as they are identified as such, and kept separate from first-hand reports by minors still in care at the time of the “report”. But in the GL1 account, the young lady talks about witnessing very young boys 12-14 from her former facility acting out sexually, or being sexually exploited/abused. I knew right way, when I read that – Fay had assigned names to these boys, written up summaries of this woman’s story about them, and entered them into his database as independent reports FROM THE BOYS in question.
And sure enough, I was able to extricate evidence from formal reports and informal statements Fay had made over the years, suggesting that MOST of the reports in his database were really this type of second-hand account. In other words, whether they really were the truth of the matter or not, Fay’s “reports of abusive treatment” were really rumor & gossip about abuse, that he had collected from former care residents who claimed to have witnessed it. But the Social Work academics and professionals reading and praising his “groundbreaking” reports were clearly under the impression that all of this data was first-hand accounts, from minors in care at the time the report was “received” by NAYPIC.
KSC's Worst Nightmare says:
Yes. She should investigate her “Secret Soursez”, they All have so much in Common. They delight in describing false abuse and making false allegations! One source of hers tried to get her own Father (old enough to be her Great-Grand Father, btw) to finance her Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride of an parental armed Fed. kidnapping from FL to MI. Good thing SOMEONE heard and recorded(?) the Stupid little bitch’s LIES and FOILED the Plot! HAHAHAHA! Yes. THEY will make a fine story on a slow news day E.C.! ffs
P.S. And yes, the little fraud says she is an “Indigo Child”!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
No more words for these creeps!
Who knows. Innocent until proven guilty. And, I mean that!
Hallelujah to that 🙂
HoaxerNazi says:
SGT is a notorious “Sandy Hoax” poster and Vile Individual! Who is that chick? Another Cathy O’Brien wannabe crazier? HAHAHA!
Expect the usual bunch of creepy child abuse addicts to re-upload them.
I mean he’s at it again getting arrested for things. 🙂 Be interesting to see the outcome of this!
@Eliza D. Little I just saw you asking for this ? …. https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/evidence/court-order-february-2015/
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Yesterday we discussed how former Metropolitan police officer Jonathan Wedger, currently the darling of the troofer set, played a key part in demonstrating to police that the Hampstead SRA case was in fact a hoax. Given ex-DC Wedger’s current affiliations with Hampstead hoax pushers such as Bill Maloney, Lou Collins, and Brian Gerrish, we very much doubt that this news will be welcome in some circles.
Some of our readers asked us yesterday whether we thought Mr Wedger is as dodgy as his conspiranoid friends. This is an excellent question, and deserves a longer answer than we could provide in the Comments section of this blog, so we’ll give it a go today.
How valid are ex-DC Wedger’s allegations?
Since mid-2016, Mr Wedger has been trying to gain publicity for his claims that the London Metropolitan police are engaged in a wide-spread cover-up of child trafficking (formerly known as “child prostitution”) and that as a whistle-blower, he was targetted and bullied by his superior officers. He says that this bullying caused him serious psychiatric injury, that his pay was cut in half, and that he was forced into early retirement.
First, let us emphasise that there is nothing inherently wrong with his attempting to publicise these concerns.
Child trafficking is a very serious problem, and as Mr Wedger notes, many trafficked children do come from the care system: from September 2014 to 2015, 167 of 590 children who were suspected or identified as child trafficking victims vanished from foster and care homes across the country. Worse, 20% of local authorities contacted in that time frame were unable to report how many children were formally identified or suspected of being trafficked—so there are major gaps in the available data.
Police response to this issue has been tepid at best, according to a report issued by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services in October 2017. According to the report,
Victims are not always identified and investigations are closed prematurely….
Failings in the approach left victims exposed and allowed perpetrators to continue to exploit the vulnerable, it added. In one case, the inspectorate was told: “The public view is, they are not our girls.”
Wendy Williams, the inspector of constabulary, said: “While modern slavery cases can be complex and require significant manpower, many of the shortcomings in investigating these cases reflect deficiencies in basic policing practice.
“We found inconsistent, even ineffective, identification of victims and investigations closed prematurely. As a result, victims were being left unprotected, leaving perpetrators free to continue to exploit people as commodities.”
These reports do bear out at least some of Mr Wedger’s allegations. For example, in his 2016 interview with Brian Gerrish Mr Wedger stated,
So I went on to this job and I was, I got a job with what they call the Street Offences Unit, and street offences relates to the old Street Offences Act of the last century which refers to prostitution, street prostitution. And our job was to go and sort of arrest street prostitutes really but also we had governance for juveniles. So if a juvenile was found on the street in a red light area late at night believed involved in it, they were to be sort of brought in, taken in to protective custody. And every now and then a child would be found, usually a girl, and our job was to then bring her in, inform Social Services, the kid would then be placed into protective police custody whilst Social Services work out Emergency Protection Orders, E-P-Os. …
(W)e would find these, these kids and take then into custody and everything else but the problem then was that it was a competitive environment, so it was number crunching, so you were given a target of each car that was put out, three cars were put out per night, and you would have a competition, who could arrest as many prostitutes as you can, and ten would be a good figure, and if you did that every day of the week you was the top team. So there was competitions, and you could process a prostitute very quickly via the custody, and it, it was pointless cos all of them were drug addicts, all of them had come from the care system. And if you brought a kid in that was your night finished. The car was taken off the road and that was it, so that you wouldn’t get the figures, so you was encouraged not to deal with them.
Mr Wedger was clearly very dedicated to his work, and this institutional neglect of a vulnerable population must have been highly distressing to him.
His dedication to serving the public was such that he received a commendation for his outstanding work on the horrific “Baby P” case, in which a 17-month-old boy died after suffering more than 50 injuries over an eight-month period. Strangely, though, Mr Wedger doesn’t seem inclined to mention this case in his various interviews.
A few odd notes
While we were very impressed with Mr Wedger’s obvious passion for the work he did, and his determination to do right by those our society has failed, a few things about his interviews struck us as strange.
In his interview with Brian Gerrish, for example, he described a woman called “Foxy” who was pimping out young girls. One girl was named Zoe:
And she’d made an allegation that this woman Foxy had been pimping her out; and she’d made a couple of allegations, and they hadn’t gone anywhere. So what I was told was, ‘Can you look into it? She’s made allegations before; she’s a bit of a nightmare; she might be lying, she might not; but she’s a bit persistent; see what you can do.’ So I went, ‘OK.’ So I, I went to see the girl, made an appointment and was told she’s very anti-police, you know, and she is a bit of a handful.
Mr Wedger described how he built a trusting relationship with Zoe, and was able to convince her to do an ABE (Achieving Best Evidence) interview:
And, we sat down, we had a chat. We..interviewed her, and she told me the story start to finish. And she’s the product of broken family: her mother was a drug addict, the father was absent, and it, the mother was buying drugs off this girl Foxy, and Foxy then started to groom her, because her mother was unable to look after her. She then ended up living with the grandparents but the grandparents lived in a red light area. And so Foxy would go and pick this young girl up, and, basic grooming; look after her, show her some attention, a bit of love, do her hair for her, give her make-up – but then introduced her to cannabis; got her smoking cannabis, and then, would then take her to hotels.
These were bottom-end hotels; these were the sort of places where a lot of the builders would go to, you know. So there’d be like converted Victorian houses, or whatever. In one, one area of London there’s a big row of them. And a lot of them were, were maintenance and building workers from the North would come down and stay in these hotels. So Foxy had an agreement with the night porters, and the night porters would make a room available for her. So she would take her clients in there; so she’d go in there with a client, start having sex and have this young girl there watching, and then encourage the young girl to get involved. And then from there, she would then start giving the young girl the bigger drugs, so the Class A drugs is what they want the kids on. Once they’ve got them on the Class A drugs – especially the crack cocaine – it’s got a, a real grip on them, you know. And this girl had no way of getting these drugs, so she relied on Foxy as her medicine lady, you know. So she got her on crack cocaine, and then she started then pimping the young girl out, getting the young girl involved. And then she would then get the girl to introduce her friends to it.
So she was then introducing her friends – also come from families that, parents were drug addicts, or absent or whatever. And so, or in the care system; in fact all the kids we dealt with were subject to care orders, whether they were residential care orders or, or just normal care orders, you know. But they’re all known to Social Services and from ‘At Risk’ backgrounds. And so, she gave me the name of another kid. So I went to see that girl; the story was identical, and the other thing was they used to say, ‘Well what about the police? Do the police ever get involved?’ And both girls said,’Well, we would get hidden in a bush; if we was put on the street, if the police came Foxy would hide us in a bush; but she, she knew the coppers anyway, she’d just flirt with them and they would just let her go.’
And she said, ‘But also there’s a judge, there’s a judge involved.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She went, ‘Oh, judge at the magistrates’ court. So when Foxy’s charge goes before the judge, the judge is her client anyway. So the judge lets her off.’
So I checked this out; I went through the disposal history, the criminal history of this girl, and found she keeps getting bind-overs, this Foxy. So, I thought,’Right, well, there’s something in this.’
This story has the ring of truth, right up to the final detail: Mr Wedger says Foxy got let off when she went to court because one of the judges was her client.
We find this part of the story hard to believe for two important reasons: when a person is sent to magistrates court, they don’t have a choice of judges. And the judges there don’t choose their cases; they take what’s assigned to them.
Even less believable, however, is Mr Wedger’s description of his interactions with his bosses, who seem drawn from “B” grade police thrillers.
For example, at one point, Mr Wedger drafted a report on the issues facing police who dealt with trafficked young people. He pointed out that investigations weren’t being followed up by police, and children were being failed as a result. He submitted it to his superior officer, who he said responded in a surprising manner:
And, I then get a phone call, within about an hour of the report going through, and it’s from the governing Detective Inspector. And he said to me, ‘Jon, about this report you put on.’ And I was thinking, ‘Good, brilliant; I’ve now shown them the goose that is giving the golden eggs, and hopefully, this’ll move forward,’ you know – I really thought I was going to get praise for it. And then what happened was he said, ‘We need to talk now; get in my office, now.’ I went, ‘OK.’ So I went down to see him, I was in a different building, I travelled down, went in his office, and, it was like someone had set a pit-bull on me. He started swearing and shouting and, ‘What have you done? You can’t do things like this, I’m taking,’ he’s shutting it down, ‘I’m taking you off.’ So he withdrew me straightaway from the operation – and that really upset me, you know, cos I was moving forward, you know…
Shortly afterward, his Detective Chief Superintendent told him to take the summer off; when he returned, there was another surprising conversation awaiting:
I said, ‘Well, what have I done?”…’I, you know, I really thought I done well; I’d exposed this’….
And he turned round to me and he said, ‘Well that’s a problem; you’ve exposed it.’ He said,’We knew you could dig, but we never knew you could dig that deep.’ He then said, ‘What you’ve exposed is gonna F us, past, present and future. This cannot, and will not, ever get out.’ He said, ‘If you mention a word of this, you will be thrown to the wolves.’ He then said, ‘You will lose everything – and that means your job, your home, your kids, you will lose it all. You need to shut your F-ing mouth.’ And I was just dumbstruck. I was like, ‘For real?’ And he said, ‘We never thought you would dig this deep. You have no understanding how deep this goes.’
Now, colour us cynical, but this conversation does not have the same ring of truth as Mr Wedger’s descriptions of his work with trafficked children. In the non-conspiranoid world, people don’t say things like “you have no understanding how deep this goes” or “we knew you could dig, but we never knew you could dig that deep”. It seems more likely to us that if Mr Wedger had truly caused concern in the upper echelons of his department, he’d have been quietly and discreetly reassigned.
We’re not saying that Mr Wedger was never subjected to bullying, but this part of his story just doesn’t strike us as realistic.
Post-traumatic stress disorder and police
Mr Wedger has claimed that he developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a direct result of the bullying he received when he was in the Met.
This is of course possible, but judging from his descriptions of the work he did—good, dedicated work, with some of the most vulnerable populations one could encounter, fighting against seemingly insurmountable institutional barriers—it seems likely that he might have begun developing PTSD as a result of his job.
We tend to think of PTSD as related to a single intensely stressful incident which leaves deep scars on the psyche. However, police and others who work in high-stress jobs are susceptible to “cumulative PTSD”, which results from multiple stress-related experiences. While we cannot presume to say whether Mr Wedger’s PTSD symptoms arise from the cumulative stresses of his work, bullying he received from his colleagues, or even the trauma which must have resulted from working on the tragic Baby P case, it does seem plausible to us that at least some of his beliefs—that his superior officers were plotting against him, for example—might stem from the paranoia and hyper-vigilance which can be hallmarks of PTSD.
And then there are his friends. As we’ve seen in countless instances, the conspiracy community which surrounds the Hampstead SRA hoax seems to create and reinforce its own vortex of paranoia and muddled thinking. Mr Wedger has said he’s been good friends with people like Bill Maloney for a number of years; frankly, we cannot imagine that travelling in such circles would be good for anyone’s mental health.
Bottom line: it appears to us that while Mr Wedger has done a very good job as a police officer, and has raised some important issues which should be addressed, he does himself no favours by associating with troofers. And we do have concerns about some aspects of his narrative, which seem confabulated to us. It’s a pity, because clinging to the conspiranoid bits of his story can only serve to dilute the importance of his overall message.
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99 thoughts on “How credible are ex-police detective Jonathan Wedger’s corruption allegations?”
Do you think he may of been bullied because he kept chatting shite, may be not bullied but may be because he over egged some story’s exaggerated stuff, that it made other police officers jobs impossible. I’m remembering Maloney deliberately not wanting people to feel comfortable who had been abused, telling their own story because he was all too keen to talk about the Queen Mother, The Houses of Parliament paedo ring, Hollie Greig blah blah blah.
From what I’ve read about him he’s a good guy who’s had a hard time and the work and the institution (right or wrong) has got on top of him. Good points above about how some of it doesn’t ring entirely true and it may be his perception of certain events that’s the problem. Imo his telling his story on the conspiracy circuit just confirms he can use poor judgement. As mentioned above though the authorities have a long way to go to deal with child prostitution and trafficking and he’s spot on with that. Somehow I just don’t think the situation is being helped by him doing interviews with pseudo journalists who talk bollocks about so many things.
I think may be he was a bit short on the judgement front, if he got caught with the conspritards what was he trying to prove, and anyone who at first believed the Hampstead Hoax in the first place must live on another planet. The thing is, police officers are just the same as everyone else. There is a certain amount of corruption in the police force and there are also police officers who get away with murder and then get promoted. Also anyone who takes Maloneys word as gospel is a bloody idiot.
I am not totally sure on the law, but I did not think it was illegal to be a prostitute, why does he talk of targets to arrest x number of prostitutes a night?
Good question. I wasn’t sure of this myself. Apparently prostitution is not illegal, but other activities—soliciting in a public place, owning/managing a brothel, etc.—are illegal.
I listened to the Lou Collins interview and as I recall he didn’t talk about ‘targets’. He says the police had ‘competitions’. I came away from that bit feeling confused because he didn’t explain whether it was Police imposed targets or something the police did between themselves for fun.
Where prostitutes are concerned, Wiki says you’re not allowed to solicit in a public place and those are the people Mr Wedger would have been arresting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_the_United_Kingdom
Yes, I have just done a little research, it’s the ‘loitering and soliciting’ on the street part that is illegal.
I can’t say that I have ever heard of a prostitute being prosecuted, it seems it is more likely to be the person looking to pay for sex, a ‘curb crawler’ for example.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201617/cmselect/cmhaff/26/26.pdf
‘The number of sex workers in the UK is estimated to be around 72,800 with about
32,000 working in London.’
‘In 2014–15, there were 456 prosecutions of sex workers for loitering and soliciting.’
His claims about arrest targets seem to be just a little exaggerated to me.
Happy new year everyone! ☺
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1rGfnJTJ0
Well I just found this on YouTube. New comments on George the Greek Trucker’s video are alarnlming as commentators are asking where the kids are? George speculates either in Kent with foster parents or their dad in California. Creepily someone offers their rental home as they live in California and someone called Terri wants Ella’s people i.e. supporters to go to Hampstead school every Wednesday and watch the parents entering the building and dropping their kids off as it high s.e.x day. That was the creepiest comment and I flagged it.
Also Drif Loud is renaming innocent Hampstead folk again to drum up hate and fear. When will this stop?
https://mobile.twitter.com/drifloud/status/943500677518589953
Also is InterPol looking for Abe and Ella because these sick perverted degenerates need to be behind bars for all the evil they have done?
That’s entirely possible of course, but we have no way of knowing what happened, other than via what we can infer from his interviews.
Yes, the police are the same as any other people—good, bad, or indifferent. I agree that casting his lot with the conspiracy crowd showed bad judgement, but I can see how they would seem to offer him support he wasn’t receiving elsewhere. A bit like the way “Foxy” groomed vulnerable children—if Mr Wedger was feeling cast adrift at work, he could easily have turned to the troofers for affirmation and approval.
Yes, that’s a good point. In one interview (with Gerrish in 2016) he specifically referred to targets; but a year and a half later in his interview with Lou Collins it was “competitions”, which seem much less like official policy and much more like informal police culture.
Thanks for letting us know about the George GT video, PinkIvy. I’ll be sure the comments are passed along to police. I’ve reported Drifloud to YouTube multiple times, but they seem unwilling to act. 😦
Oh shit, the GCHQ lizard people are on to Angie again 😮
Awww, bless Bleurgh…
I’m pretty skeptical about this man’s claims.
Firstly, while I recognize police officers (and for that matter firemen like my nephew) are very susceptible to PTSD I’m not buying that an officer involved in policing prostitution could possibly end up suffering as this man claims.
The police who do suffer are those involved in investigating terrible murders or attending dreadful accidents (my nephew had to resign before he had a breakdown after just one too many horrific auto accident where the car exploded into flames with the occupants still inside).
I’d say this copper was susceptible to PTSD long before his job and when he eventually succumbed he created a reason- prostitution.
His claims also defy reality which is: while many young people are “seduced” into prostitution- and the use of the word “child” in these case is an emotive exaggeration as those working the streets or in brothels are not 10/12/13 year old girls or boys as the term implies but generally older teens (perhaps a legally underage teen) and there are a whole range of situations, from those who prefer to sell their bodies for the money instead of low-paid job, those addicted to drugs and those who are pimped.
It’s a highly complex matter and has been for 1000s of years.
I’m also not buying his superior officer’s claimed attack as the ridiculous “you’ve exposed it..”..another favourite of the hysterical “truther” mob who have basically co-opted the term “whistle-blower” and reduced it to a meaningless term (and yet this mob scream their conspiracies from the rooftops whilst claiming they are whistle-blowers and are being silenced..if only they would shut up for once).
While I have no doubt this copper is suffering from some mental condition and deserves sympathy and help, I reckon there are probably a whole lot more personal matters that have brought him to this point.
Is that the Angie “Send me a Fiver” Power-Disney?
I should qualify that with : the stresses of any job can get on top of a person and they can suffer badly. This guy has a claim in against the police and may well deserve to be recompensed. Possibly he was over-loaded with work.
But I’ve never met a copper yet involved in vice who hasn’t been pretty down to earth and wordy wise about their work. They can be as cynical as journalists. Other police may be far too sensitive for the job.
You would think after the experience of Rupert attending a school (with or without a knife) these people would be a bit more discreet.
I can’t imagine anyone hanging outside a school when they have no reason to be there. The whole notion is very creepy.
The chances are however, they would never move away from their PC and enter the real world.
Cops working vice tend to be actually on the side of the working girls (or boys). I was friendly with a number of ladies who worked from flats around Bayswater in the late 70s, early 80s.
They were often visited by cops who were checking that there was only one lady in the flat. The law was that if there were two females the flat, it was legally (an illegal) brothel. However they could have a maid who took phone calls and received clients, handled the money etc.
The police much preferred the ladies to be safe.
He was under stress he says at home being a single parent to 4 children and finding child care was a problem.
No it’s Angela (‘dangerous’ and ‘not a nice person’*) Power-Disney.
*Quotes from the barrister and Rupert in the Crown Court.
Have made a number of reports and seemingly largely fallen on deaf ears to date.My angle is slanted towards potential for future massive laws suits against such platforms,bad publicity etc as I (perhaps erroneously)believe this may prove the optimum way to eventually elicit evasive action from these cumbersome giants.
It is easy to resist reporting the likes of google tube et al appear to ignore clear and flagrant abuses of their terms of service.I would guess there may be some system/algorithm where a matter gets flagged for human attention when a files “weight of complaints” is arrived at.
I dont know if any journos have ever attempted an undercover investigation into how social media platforms deal with illegal material but it would be a fascinating reveal for some brave determined souls to have a crack at.
PS. Another insightful,balanced header post of remarkable quality EC.You are at serious risk of becoming a national treasure if you keep this up.Mind them corgis though if invited to any future tit bit chucking fest/cuppa tea ritual in her majesties back garden,could get messy so have a well planned escape strategy like a handy time/space portal mapped out 😉
Betting exchanges have already paid out on the “No good will ever come of it” wager.
Its hardly beyond the wit of some folk to seek a “tidy” settlement in or out of court to resolve on going “embarrassing administrative difficulties”when shit insists on colliding with fans.I am not suggesting any particular evidence that this is the primary motive here with Mr Wedger but hey #jusaying 😉
The nearest thing ive ever witnessed regarding “spontaneous combustion” has been when listening to the Moos rapid fire,bullshit over load,crescendo monologues.
Forgive me if this question has already been answered; but is that Angie or is it a publicity shot of the 1970s actress she once vaguely resembled and whose reputation she borrowed for many years?
Yes, sex for gain itself is not illegal, its the incidents of the trade, soliciting on the street, kerbcrawling, pumping etc. Loitering and soliciting are not imprisonable: the only possible sentences are discharge, fine and a specific sentence only available for prostitutes, called an engagement and support order. A bind over is theoretically possible but highly unlikely, as there are better options to prevent misconduct now (CrimBOs, restraining orders etc). Bind overs are extremely rare now except in neighbour disputes. It may be sloppy terminology for a conditional discharge ( or ESO maybe) which is a fairly common solution as fining only compounds the problem. So it may well be the case that a certain judge responded in that way but there would be nothing unusual in that, and he would certainly not be the only one. But the assertion that she kept getting bindovers as she was a client is not credible for all sorts of reasons the reasons as El C had pointed out.
Thing is that people who have a grievance and are not listened to do tend to ramp things up, we saw that with the false allegations about Lord McAlpine, made by someone who i’m sure was abused but when he felt he wasn’t being taken seriously started making the allegations more interesting. There is also a well documented Finnish case of a man suffering from querulant paranoia (where a belief in huge overarching conspiracies is common) who had genuinely uncovered corruption; the strain of being disbelieved led him to behave so irrationally he was eventually sectioned.
But her video’s are shit, so people put thumbs down on them.
Breaking Mad says:
Just another ex (insert profession) in a long line of creepy ex (insert profession) seeking attention from demented fruitloops. Nice little song dedicated to all these people.
“our magnosphere (what that?) and the impacts of our wi-fi technology”
..Moo uses both these (whatever the first is) but certainly wi-fi when making her videos so that may explain why she builds up to a screaming finale. I bet she’s puce in the face as well.
Who knows- she may well spontaneously combust near the end of one of videos. I hope someone is around to upload it though when they find a little pile of ashes and a pair of slippers.
(I mean that in a caring and sharing way)
I love this. And I was around when it first came out. We used to dance to it. In the institution.
1970’s actress? Try 1940s.
I’m sure she will be carrying a fire extinguisher in her handbag from now on.
Angela Power Disney stars in “What Ever Happened to Veronica Lake”!
That’s an interesting point about the tendency to make the story more interesting when one feels unheard.
Handbag? How very dare you. Handbages are a bourgeois construct imposed upon women in this decadent neo-capitalist society, and Debs eschews them. With vigour. Also she can’t find one in the coveted “sackcloth and ashes” colour.
Glad I can help. ☺ EC
So now we are being attacked by the DEW’s as well as the Jews are we Debs?
The odds against her making a worthwhile video are remote but if she ever managed one admitting to her vast catalogue of venomous cruel deceptions,made something of an apology to those she has wronged and repaid her ill gotten gains I would be minded to give it a thumbs up.Flicking her hair and scratching the nose to accompany each item of bullshit would also help.
I did once give her a like when she forgot to plug in her microphone,if she can develop that theme by failing to turn on the camera or even dumping all her tech in the nearest skip that would be a real bonus.
Knitting for her grandkids is definately the way forward for Angie even if she does bill them top dollar and occasionally dip into their moneyboxes for “essentials”.
That’s exactly what i was going to say EC 😉
That song should accompany Neelu every time she leaves the house on one of her crusades.
Haha that’s a real cracker Mik7777 🙂
When I was a store detective a few years ago, I was working in North Londondon and a police officer stole a sandwich, he claimed he had PTSD that’s why he did it. I really don’t think people understand what PTSD really is, it does tick me off a bit from some one who has PTSD, I’m not saying why I do but I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but it definitely isn’t caused by stress alone.
I think you mean the 70’s actress who is Scottish that APD was impersonating?
Hahaha just what I was thinking, though I have to remind myself that Neelu is acting the majority of the time and probably having a good laugh.
The second half of this fine timeless classic takes me back to days spent suspended upside down in a Russian correctional gulag.Ah the memories. 😉
I googled and got this – Magnasphere: Advanced & Effective Switch Technology. I guess if it’s so advanced it could be operated by wifi, but the link with spontaneous combustion is still not clear. I haven’t gone into the lady’s posts myself as I suspect it’s an experience somewhat like putting you’re brains in a bowl and stirring them round with a fork, so maybe all is explained. Mr Google also tells me that there was a case last September, well reported last month in the Telegraph, who aren’t quite ready to drop the spontaneous combustion theory altogether but were doubtful.
From a historical viewpoint, it should be noted that Charles Dickens was the person who introduced the phenomenon of ‘Spontaneous Human Combustion’ to the mainstream in his 1852 novel ‘Bleak House’. Dickens himself had researched the subject and was aware of at least 30 cases. The most famous being the death of Grace Pett, the pipe-smoking wife of a Cornish fisherman in 1744, which he described in his book ‘Letters on Natural Magic’.
Is she really Sacha Baron Cohen?
Yes, I can’t remember her name, but she has been mentioned before. Didn’t APD use a vague resemblance to her to con people when she liver in London. Rather like all the slightly pudgy ginger blokes who convince girls in bars that they are Ed Sheeran.
Judith Sweeney?
You might be right but I’d assumed she was thinking of ‘magnetosphere’, defined as “the region surrounding the earth or another astronomical body in which its magnetic field is the predominant effective magnetic field”.
Yeah thanks for the chuckle! Who would have thought the queen could ride on her corgis mik7777 LoL
Good times hey Mik7777, good times indeed. 🙂
That is probably the one.
Also guys are Ella and Abe still together? Do the police believe they are still at large in the UK or hiding out in Europe somewhere, possibly in Spain or Russia?
I bet Belinda and Angela know where they are plus how are they being supported financially surely money is being funneled to them some how? Following the money can help locate and arrest them. Additionally are there arrest warrants out for Abe and Ella to be arrested internationally? I’m asking because since they may not be in the UK InterPol can arrest them I abroad. I feel police are not doing enough to find them. I know there is an arrest warrant in the UK for them but are police following any line of inquiry to bring them in if they are still here in UK? Some of the conspiratards day they are here in the UK, Spain or Russia? But who knows?
However I really hope this year will be the year Abe and Ella are captured. Plus how the hell did Abe and Ella escape from Ella’s place with the police at the front door?
Anyway I believe this hoax will only come to an end when police arrest Abe and Ella and they are tried in court and sent down to spend many years in prison. I’m glad HoaxteadResearch haven’t stopped reporting on this creepy and crazy community that seem to be mad, bad and sad. Keep up good work!
So are you guys all ready for World War 3?
Google “Deborah Mahmoudieh needs a lobotomy”
What the feck is a “dingo berry”?
Excuse me? Did Trump really say that or is it another one of their countless lies? I bet it’s a lie! LMFAO
He never said anything remotely resembling it, mate. They don’t even bother to try to make their lies credible any more, do they?
Totally agree PinkIvy.Whilst a number of vociferous hoax supporting self publisists have slowly,slowly found the long arm of the law feel their shoulders for continuing to threaten the wellbeing of innocent folk,the prime movers somehow slid out a rear window and have scuttled off into some hidey hole.
I suspect things may be fairly grim for them and one way or another and one or both may well attempt reentry to the uk under one guise or another.Another distinct possibilty is that Abe in particular may shit on the wrong person and find himself in the equivalent of a deep desert hole as he threatened the children with to “encourage” them to sing the company tune.Not advocating violence but justice comes in many guises and only a fool believes any lunch is entirely free and not eventually have to be paid for in one form or another,with interest included.
The conjectural permutations are of course endless until some evidence of this or that development comes to light.
If the police are making on going inroads into lifting these disgraceful scum,for obvious reasons they will not be making their enquiries public.If I was a direct victim of Abe and Ellas shameless crimes I would certainly be seeking assurances that the matter had not been effectively shelved ad infinitum.
Not only will Abe and Ellas eventual arrest be the final nail in this hoax coffin but it will go a massive way to preventing future bastards from trying their hand at copycat activities for a quick sheckle and a day in the limelight.
As well as the human damage Abe and Ella wreaked,the financial costs to the tax payer all told must be immense and anything that sends out a clear “dont even go there” message will be well worth it in the final analysis.
What ever happened to good old fashioned bounty hunters? 😉
Donald J Trump says:
Very,very fake news,bigly.But I am considering playing Mad Moo videos at extreme volume at the North Koreans until they do as they are told.
Thanks mik7777 for replying. I hope these terrible garbage people are caught this year and deffo agree more idiots might start another hoax believing that they too can escape justice. I’m shocked Ella is still with Abe. I hope they haven’t had a child since these two are not fit to be parents. They are dangerous and could harm the poor child. Lord please I am praying.
I wonder what can be done regarding these fruitlonies who lie, deceive and con people. Plus they are so detached from reality it’s scary. We need to re-open mental health asylums where they can say whatever they want but kept away from good people and participating negatively in society because they can’t cope or manage living in it.
The internet sadly has allowed these lonies to meet other lonies and make new friends and be confident in their inappropriate behaviour and spouting of dangerous and hateful rhetoric. Aka Neelu for example. The stuff on that women’s Facebook is astonishing. I honestly would like to contact the mental health team in her borough as she has been allowed to remain unstable for a long time.
“Rockefella”? Shouldn’t an “award-winning journalist” be able to spell the names of people she’s writing about, or is it just me?
THE OUTLAW (@outlawjimmycom) says:
http://outlawjimmy.com/unexplained/an-old-flame/
Lol. another one for the fruitcake quotes methinks.
Already done, mate 😀
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HB says:
Just stopping by to wish El Coyote and all this wonderful contributors a fantastic new year. Keep doing what you do, guys – you’re making real progress while the swivel-eyed loons on the other side just chat shite.
Sorry, my mistake, it was Sir David Brewster in 1832 who wrote the book ‘Letters on practical magic’
I always say it: there needs to be a law of Criminal Defamation. Needed more than ever now. The Oz state of South Australia has one.
Thailand has pretty strict laws on defamation and defamers can face jail.
They say a few Generals have replaced The Don’s Big Red Button with one that when he pushes it – as he may well do- a butler appears with a can of Coke & a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken,
After consuming that he may have calmed down.
If Brexit does actually go through, this pair may be in difficulties if they travel on British passports. Europe may no longer be the safe haven they think it is.
Always guaranteed to cure a bad back,
I think you might want to separate Mental health/Illness from criminal and malicious intent.
I doubt I am the only person posting on this blog who has suffered poor mental health, coincidentally in my case from from stress at work.
Mental Health Units/Hospitals are just that a hospital, a place for ill people to be treated. They are not places to punish people or hide them.
A nice clear, succinct reply from Jake as always:
He really is staring to sound like Nathan Barley! Peace and fucking yeah!
I can’t wait for them to be caught. They need to answer for all the pain and hurt that they have caused others especially RD’s children.
This is the way to go Ghost of Sam. Thanks for posting this, it’s about time Social Media giants who allow horrendous and hurtful rubbish to stay up on their sites to face prosecution or pay fines for malicious communication just like the person who directly posted or uploaded it.
Hi Captain Mainwaring. You can’t always separate mental illness from criminality as some criminals commit crimes beacause of their mental illness like Son of Sam. I find that the only time people are in mental institutions indefinitely is when they have committed a violent crime and they are too dangerous.
However non-violent mentally ill people who cause others distress and alarm don’t get sectioned or cared for in the community. They are just allowed to continue their frightening and unacceptable behaviour. I’m not saying that being put in an asylum is a punishment but to protect people and society.
Like Arthur Kaotal is constantly sectioned but still comes out doing wrong things to others. I think he needs to be sectioned and kept away from others until he is safe and well enough. I hope I explained myself a bit better.
Plus just being looking at Neelu’s Facebook again, she has posted many videos about her friend Patrick Cullinane faked his death and everyone should call home office and coroners office because he is not really dead. My brother is a mental health nurse and he was saying she needs to be reviewed as she might not be taking her meds of developing another mental illness because she’s refusing to grasp the reality of her friend dying. I think sadly the conspiracy community are a bunch of crazy people who have fallen through the net and need help.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/19000-pound-space-station-falling-uncontrolled-back-to-earth
Seems tragic that the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 is being bought back down in March via a controlled crash somewhere or other.Such a pity as it would have been just the ticket for these oxygen thieves to stick their heads up each others backsides in their very own,self-contained,zero gravity echo chamber in low Earth orbit.
The International Space Station itself is going to be derelict from 2028 though. 😉
Agree Sam!
Jake still bent on developing his career deep into the inner circles of the internet arsehole cult.If he can sustain his current level of utter shoite he might even achieve lower ubend commander status by this time next year.
Thanks, PI! Yes, I agree that this will only end once Abe and Ella are arrested and tried. I think a great deal will come out that has not been revealed yet, and I think their supporters will get a nasty shock when they see who and what they’ve really been supporting.
I agree, Capt. M. Many of us have suffered from mental health problems of one sort or another in our lives, from anxiety or depression to problems with substance abuse and the like. Unfortunately, the era of asylums is not too far behind us; and it seems that we’re not yet very good at delivering the vaunted “care in the community” which was supposed to have picked up the slack after the asylums were emptied.
As you say, mental health units aren’t places to hide or punish the mentally ill, any more than general hospitals are places to hide and punish the physically ill.
I do understand the impulse to send the Hoaxtead mob somewhere where they can’t continue to hurt others, but we need to think carefully before invoking the bad old days of the asylums as a solution.
Thank you HB, and a happy New Year to you as well!
Omg I didn’t think of a pregnancy.
But 1. Isn’t Ella getting on a bit now?
And 2. Unless a child is going to be a source of income, it would be unlikely.
Ella is hardly the maternal type having abandoned 3 children, the 1 + 2 and Abraham has sired how many and abandoned all of them, though I reckon all the children must be glad that neither of these 2 degenerates stuck around?
Agree El Coyote!
Sadly, I think they all know deep down what and who they’ve been supporting. It’s group denial, as Norm the Manger once put it.
Another day, another sad pathetic death threat from that greasy bloke who abused his own daughter:
Ella is too lazy and self absorbed to want another child. Unless of course that child secures her a meal ticket when the going gets tough. Not with Abe, the honeymoon is well and truly over for that. She’s not that crazy. Of course, mistakes do happen.
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Columns, Congress, Constitutional Law, Criminal law March 26, 2019 March 26, 2019
Mueller’s Mixed Message: The Special Counsel’s Shrug Over Obstruction
Below is my column in The Hill newspaper on the Barr summary of the Special Counsel findings.
Here is the column:
After millions of dollars and two years of investigation, the summary of the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller is out. First and foremost, Mueller found there was no established conspiracy or collusion between anyone in the Trump campaign and the Russians. Second, Mueller made a curious type of prosecutor “declination” — not declining to prosecute, as he did on collusion, but declining an opinion either way.
That’s right: After more than 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, interviews with hundreds of witnesses and almost 300 judicial orders for records and surveillance, Mueller simply offered a collective shrug from his team regarding the question of obstruction of justice.
That was understandably not sufficient for Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who hold the quaint notion that prosecutors are supposed to reach conclusions. That is what they did in a matter of two days, finding that the evidence was clearly insufficient to establish the crime of obstruction.
Special counsels are not supposed to end investigations like “The Sopranos” TV series, leaving it to the viewer to guess whether Tony Soprano survived his final scene. In reality, the answer is abundantly clear. While the evidence of obstruction was always stronger than collusion, it would be a laughable case to bring in a court of law.
For two years, legal analysts and politicians convinced voters there was a strong case of collusion-related crimes. The drumbeat of “bombshell” disclosures and “smoking gun” stories was disconcerting and, frankly, disgraceful. At the time of Mueller’s appointment, I wrote that there is no such crime as collusion and little chance that a collusion-related crime like conspiracy could be established. With each new “speaking indictment,” that view was reinforced.ADVERTISEMENT
Yet, in this age of rage, people were eager to believe experts explaining that a strong case for criminal charges was already established on collusion and they just had to “wait for Mueller” to set things right. Those of us questioning such analysis were painted as “Trumpers” and apologists, even though we criticized Trump for his conduct and comments.
The plain fact is that fostering the collusion delusion meant windfall ratings and benefits for pundits and politicians alike. The Democrats used the investigation — and the threat of impeachment — as a rallying cry to retake the House. CNN, MSNBC and others made massive profits off the echo-chamber coverage of the deepening collusion case supposedly to be made by Mueller.Indeed, when I detailed the glaring legal flaws in the collusion theory in February 2018, CNN legal analyst and former White House ethics attorney Norm Eisen assured viewers the criminal case for collusion was “devastating” and Trump was “colluding in plain sight.” Eisen recently was hired by the House Judiciary Committee to help direct its investigation of the president.
He was not alone. Cornell Law School Vice Dean Jens David Ohlin declared Donald Trump Jr.’s emails on the infamous Trump Tower meeting were sufficient for criminal charges as “a shocking admission of a criminal conspiracy.” MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler identified the crime as “conspiring with the U.S.’s sworn enemy to take over and subvert our democracy” and declared that “what Donald Trump Jr. is alleged to have done is a federal crime.”
Even after some of us noted that the absence of additional indictments clearly showed Mueller had not found criminal collusion, many rushed forward to keep the delusion alive. On Sunday, House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) went on CBS’s “Face the Nation” to insist there is ample evidence of collusion — even though not a single person was charged with it. He also insisted Trump might be guilty of collusion but Mueller simply could not indict him under existing Justice Department policies.
That, too, turned out to be untrue. Mueller found no evidence of either Trump or his campaign colluding with the Russians.
While Mueller can be commended for reaching a conclusion on collusion, his position on obstruction was incomplete and, frankly, irresponsible. Mueller simply says that “While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
What does that mean, exactly? Law is not supposed to be an impressionistic art form in which some see a criminal and others see a crank.
Yet, Barr reported that “The Special Counsel… did not draw a conclusion — one way or the other — as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction.”
Of course, we all knew there was evidence on both sides of this issue. As Barr notes, most of that evidence already has been publicly discussed. Yet, Mueller seems to have left the public with a lingering Sopranos-like finale of “What do you think?”
If Mueller believed Trump’s conduct constituted obstruction, he had a duty to say so. What makes his position all the more maddening is that the question does not appear a close one. As I have previously discussed in columns, it is possible to charge someone for obstructing an investigation into a nonexistent crime. While it is hard to do, Trump made his best effort with a long series of inappropriate comments and actions viewed as hostile to the investigation.ADVERTISEMENT
However, the question of a criminal charge comes down to motivation and state of mind. Trump’s comments on the investigation are not isolated departures from the new normal of his administration. He has ignored widespread calls for restraint in his public statements on subjects ranging from immigration to North Korea to NATO. In these areas, he has incautiously attacked cabinet members and fired a slew of officials, from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to multiple chiefs of staff.
Mueller concluded that Trump was not hiding collusion but was taking steps that could be viewed as obstructive. That is obvious.
However, to bring a criminal case on the actual crime of obstruction would be absurd. Trump could simply argue that he viewed the collusion investigation to be a deep-state conspiracy and refused to stay quiet about it — but he never fired Mueller, destroyed evidence, or forced an early conclusion to the investigation. Indeed, even fired FBI director James Comey said Trump agreed that the investigation should be allowed to continue, to reach its own conclusions. Trump objected that Comey would not tell the public what he was telling Congress: that Trump was not a target of that investigation.
None of this moves Trump out of legal jeopardy. He just pulled free of the gravitational pull of Jupiter but is now entering the asteroid belt of multiple smaller investigations across a broader expanse. From the Southern District of New York to various congressional committees, these investigations likely will continue for much if not all of his remaining term.
It is not clear if Trump has learned from this experience. He almost “counterpunched” his way into an obstruction prosecution. It also is not clear if many voters have learned the countervailing lesson about rage and reality in analyzing alleged crimes.
For two years, “Wait for Mueller” has become an increasingly desperate mantra. Many viewed Mueller as the anti-Trump who would finally rid them of this meddlesome president.
Well, Mueller has come and Trump is likely to remain. That is the reality, and all the rage in the world is unlikely to change it.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
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118 thoughts on “Mueller’s Mixed Message: The Special Counsel’s Shrug Over Obstruction”
Comey in interview questions both Mueller and Barr:
Mueller (same point made to me by DOJ source):
“Speaking to “Nightly News” host Lester Holt, Comey said he couldn’t “quite understand” why Mueller didn’t come to a conclusion regarding obstruction when the “entire rationale for the special counsel is to make sure the politicals aren’t making the key charging decisions.”
“So the idea that a special counsel wouldn’t reach the question and hand it to the political leadership doesn’t make sense,” Comey said.”
Barr:
Mueller’s probe did not conclude that Trump’s campaign had conspired with Russia ― which Comey called “good news no matter what party you’re associated with.”
“It’ll be important to read the entire report, but, based on what I’ve seen, this is a good thing,” he added.
Still, a lack of an underlying crime doesn’t automatically absolve Trump of possible obstruction, Comey noted.
“The notion that obstruction cases are somehow undermined by the absence of proof of an underlying crime, that is not my experience in 40 years of doing this, nor is it the Department of Justice’s tradition. Obstruction crimes matter without regard to what you prove about the underlying crime,” Comey said.
talk about beating a dead horse. Looks like the dems have nothing else to run on
Health care, gun control, immigration, the environment, restoring our place as a leader in NATO and other alliances with our fellow democracies, and get the pig out of the WH. I’m expecting that the confirmation of sleaziness that will come out with the Mueller report will also help. In short, same as we did in 2018
RDKAY says:
Mueller’s “shrug” on evidence of obstruction by Trump may be because Mueller does not want to cast doubt on a possible forthcoming prosecution by the NY State prosecutor.
Bill Martin says:
RDKAY, One word to describe your theory: Lunacy. Bye y’all.
This is absurd x 3 says:
be because Mueller does not want to cast doubt on a possible forthcoming prosecution by the NY State prosecutor.
The New York State Attorney-General and the DA in Manhattan are going to prosecute Trump for obstructing federal investigators and prosecutors? Which gambit are they going to use, the Comey firing or the mean tweets?
Mr Kurtz says:
no its just because he’s a bitter old fart who is headed back into retirement and spat a goober at the president. very unprofessional.
Michael Aarethun says:
What happened to the bird was far more interesting since it involved a missing link at the minimum when the answer was probably at the finger tips of most of us.
I first saw three cranes the the fourth. bottom right corner on one of the near to view pilings. But I never saw the missing link to report the find. Instead I sent it straight to the Professor.
The key is an old hunters or recon trick to look for something out of place. Example No such thing as a straight line in nature. look for curves
But having double magnification helped.
As for the actual subject we had the answer two years ago using the same tip and the rest is now ho hum and further strengthens the resolve to never vote for those who deal in crooked versus straight verbiage which of course means those who prevaricate the obvious…
Such as claiming Our Democracy in and for a country that has never been a Democracy. no for that matter used all that much of democratic principles in it’s political system.
or KISS principle works too. Look it up If it isn’t there it doesn’t exist.
Tom Nash says:
A valid example of what Anon is referring to is the Scooter Libby case.
The prosecutor knew at the outset who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to the media ( Robert Novack).
I think it was Richard Armitage who immediately admitted that he was the one who let it slip to Novack that Plane was with the CIA.
Armitage later was asked how he knew that Plame worked for the CIA, Armitage was quoted as dayon “because her husband Joe Wilson tells everyone his wife works at the CIA.
Armitage was not charged, but the prosecutor wanted to see if he could catch anyone lying about Armitage’s role.
The ostensible purpose of the investigation and the special prosecutor was to find out who ‘leaked” Plame’s name to the media.
The prosecutor learn that almost immediately, and there was a weak case against Armitage, who cooperated early and fully.
The controversy over Libby’s “perjury trap” and sentence stemmed from the prosector’s eagerness to “find a crime” once he found out the information he was appointed to find out.
Once a prosecutor knows what happened and there are no criminal charges, it seems like overkill to go out and try to “find a crime” related to an investigation that found no crime initially.
I’m not 100% sure of the special Prosecutor’s name so I don’t want to mention it; I know that the way he handled the Libby case did not enhance his reputation.
SteveJ says:
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh wanted Starr to pursue an absurd interpretation of obstruction against Bill Clinton. After Kavanaugh changed jobs and a Republican entered the White House, he “changed his mind” as to what it meant to obstruct. In an eerily similar manner, it looks like a number of people on Mueller’s staff wanted to do the same thing against Trump. You’re not supposed to adopt absurd legal principles based on who is in the White House.
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Through a glitch in the flow of time, 2019 is already half over. What have I been up to? A mix of cosmic horror, Martian exploration, preternaturally evil dating apps, and late-stage capitalist elves.
I spent many months writing for Moons of Madness, a moody horror video game set on Mars. Think of it as an unholy marriage of Cthulhu Mythos and The Martian. The game is developed by Rock Pocket Games and published by Funcom. It takes place in its own special corner of The Secret World universe.
Tender Beta Project
One of the more unique writing projects I’ve worked on was this ARG (alternate reality game). I teamed up with Paradox Interactive and Alice & Smith, writing everything from text for a sinister dating app, to fake conspiracy theory articles, to internet influencer Twitter posts. All of this took players through online mysteries (as well as clandestine encounters in the real world), leading up to a live event in San Francisco. The entire caper served as a transmedia guerrilla marketing campaign for the announcement of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2. What is an ARG? What does it all mean? Nick Nocturne breaks it all down with a deep dive over at Night Mind (including an interview with me).
Chicago Folios
My work with Vampire: The Masquerade continued with Chicago Folios, a stretch goal for Chicago by Night (5th edition). I got to work with a setting and characters I first discovered as a teenager (bringing my inner goth geek full circle).
The 500 Days of Ms. Between
I’m a longtime listener of The Drabblecast, so getting one of my stories recorded there was on my bucket list. My story “The 500 Days of Ms. Between” can be found on their premium B-Sides show. It’s a Cthulhu Mythos tale and my first time travel story.
Pirates of Pugmire Actual Play
I’ve been itching to do some live-play online tabletop gaming and finally got my chance. This game was set in the delightful world of Pugmire, to promote their upcoming Pirates of Pugmire book. Follow the links to watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the play session.
Midwinter LARP
I wrote up some twisted characters for an upcoming game by Avalon LARP Studio. Midwinter is a LARP (live action roleplaying game) with a dark holiday theme, featuring elves as late-stage capitalist slaves to a mysterious workshop. Here there be candy canes, lost souls, and stolen memories. Ho. Ho. Ho.
East Coast Games Conference
I attended this year’s ECGC as a speaker, giving a talk about the branching trunk of a story arc in interactive media like video games.
Unannounced Mystery Thingy ???
I wrote a little something for iLLOGIKA Studios for an upcoming game project of theirs… and I can’t say much more than that.
Anyway, it’s been an interesting year. The best is yet to come, sweetlings.
You’re Dead and Out of this World
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When you smile and it tears your face
It’s time for the inhuman race
Before I made my intrepid journey to China, I had a weird night with the pink penguins… But that’s a story for another time. Tonight, I saw my first set of bats in Beijing, flapping overhead, on my walk to dinner. I took it as an omen — so tonight, I want to talk about another intrepid figure sporting a fedora and satchel.
I’m talking about the vampire Beckett.
Those familiar with the table top RPG Vampire: the Masquerade, will recognize Beckett. He is the globe-trotting, Gangrel vampire scholar. He’s a fan favorite, certainly one of mine. Recently, I got to write him.
The ooky-spooky folks over at Onyx Path Publishing are currently running a kickstarter for Beckett’s Jyhad Diary. Visit the link for a more complete description of that book — but it is a chronicle of Beckett’s adventures and misadventures around the world, digging into the mysteries of the metaplot. Becket is a sardonic voice and a skeptical pair of eyes. He’s an ideal point-of-view character.
Click HERE and you can even read the entire chapter I wrote, taking place in Chicago (in the un-pretty manuscript format). Chicago By Night was one of the earliest books I picked up for the Vampire game as an impressionable teenager. All of those plots and undead have been crawling in my brain for nearly two decades. And I got to revisit some of them!
And my proudest easter egg — the one that makes my inner fan squeal? Malcolm. If you dig back into the 2nd edition of Vampire: the Masquerade, the sample character they use for the character creation example is a Gangrel named Malcolm, a vampire narcotics cop (so deliciously 90s). I dug up old Malcolm. If we are celebrating this game and its 2+ decades of growth and development, why not take the very first statted character I (and I’m sure others) encountered and see how he’s grown and changed? Malcolm was made a vampire just when this game started. The histories are parallel. So take a peak at what Malcolm and the other Chicago vampires have been up to.
Also…tons more lovely chapters, by talented writers, taking Beckett through his paces.
What are some of your favorite past Vampire characters? Let me know. Till next time…
Goodnight out there, whatever you are.
Lore of the Clans and True Detective
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Once upon a time, when I was 16 or 17, I went into a bookstore and opened Vampire the Masquerade (2nd ed.). I’ve never been the same. I’ve done some writing since then. Fast forward. There is a new book available that I’ve contributed to: Lore of the Clans. You can listen to Eddy Webb talk about the development of my two chapters at the following links (the Followers of Set and the Tzimisce respectively).
I’ve done the math. I’ve been reading White Wolf books for longer than I have not been (yikes!). Since the beginning, if you crack open one of those books, you’ll find, in the opening credits, a little Special Thanks section. Contributors and other people involved are given thanks via little nick names. Even if I didn’t know the context of these inside jokes, the section always added a little warmth. So now, all these years later, of all the things I’ve done in this fictional world I’ve played in, I find this little bit tickles my inner teenage fan the most… Getting my own nickname.
You can read the intro fiction to my Tzimisce chapter HERE.
Below, is the opening fiction to the Follower’s of Set chapter. Have you heard the legend of Haint Blue?
I’m rolling down the outer-roads, somewhere near the Okefenokee Swamp, edging on the static of “Black Snake Moan,” when the phantom signal comes in.
The car radio croons, “Mmm-mmm! Black snake crawlin’ in my room.” Then it says, “Zzzzzzzshhhhhhhhhh!” Then the music. Deep. Bottomless. Filled with the primordial blues of reptile sex. Music that taught people new ways to revel and kill. The music of Haint Blue.
The fuel needle does a heroin shiver over E. Sold my homicide badge to some kids for gas money three truck stops back. It was just the relic of a dead religion. My lost history. The cult killings—the gaudy headlines—crime scene photos—the screaming eyes of cadavers—the dead eyes of interviewees—the tendrils of conspiracy—the warnings from above—my lost vocation—lost marriage—lost. Empty context. An amphetamine stew of memories.
How long had I been chasing Haint Blue?
Static. Lost the music. My knuckles form a row of white tombstones on the wheel. I jerk left. Right. The music crackles back, filling my brainpan with sizzling eel afterbirth. His music.
Haint Blue. The Conjure Man. The walking mythos. Everyone knows somebody who knows somebody who heard his music live. Did a deal with the Devil at a crossroads, they say. His music shows you things, they say. His coffin-shaped guitar case holds secrets. For a trade, he’ll show you wonders. When the six-string priest plays, the dead dance.
In all of the twisted paths of the investigation—from prostitutes to deacons to drug dealers to government officials—the one constant was Haint Blue. Georgia truckers will vomit apocrypha about the rogue radio signal that comes in the late hours, Mesozoic lyrics you can’t quite make out. The sound virus.
No leads. Nothing left. All I had was the music. I don’t know how I know, but I know where to go. All roads lead to Haint Blue.
Just like that, he appears in the cyclopic glare of my last headlight. A dapper holocaust with his coffin guitar case. I’m out of the car, gun drawn. I aim for his heart. Gators bellow and eyes gleam in the dark off the road. Under the brim of his hat, Haint Blue smiles at me the way mushroom clouds smile at the sun. I drop the gun. Bullets are just an unnecessary rudeness.
All the terrible things I saw to find him, the things I did, just rungs down the ladder. Every clue teasing the ultimate secrets of the cosmos, like humming a song you can’t quite remember.
“More,” I say through the tears, “please show me more.”
He nods. His pale blue tie glows in the black, like a river of souls dribbling down his chin to his belt. He offers me a straight razor. I cut along, not across.
Frogs croak prayers to the void. The smell of rotting peat. The feverish crossroad pavement.
When did I lay down? That’s when I notice the bottle trees—small, dead trees with blue bottles stuck on the ends of the bare branches. Used to see them in yards, when I was a kid. Mama’d say some hoodoo about the bottles trapping roaming night spirits until the morning light destroyed them. The wind blows piping music through the stained glass branches.
A cold palm presses my mouth. Baptism tastes like unlucky pennies. “See you on the other side of Duat,” Haint whispers like a kindly psychopomp. Then he strangles his six strings down to revenant whale groans. He sings, but I can’t catch all the words.
“…I was angry with my foe—I told it not, my wrath did grow—and I watered it in fears—night and morning with my tears—and I sunned it with smiles—and with soft deceitful wiles—and it grew both day and night—till it bore an apple bright…”
The gators become crocodiles. The sky opens wide, showing the convoluted pantheon that is its teeth. The godmonster menagerie—all perched in the branches of the Poison Tree of Souls. Before the river of death carries me away, I hear the breaking of blue glass. Haint cackles, “Come out! Come out! Meet your new sibling.” Funny thing, as the bottles break, the mad piping does not quiet. It grows louder.
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Signed Books II: the Reckoning
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Elizabeth Báthory had a dwarf accomplice named Fickó.
That fact has nothing to do with the rest of this post. Books! Specifically, my novel! I recently sold a small box of them I stumbled upon, and they sold fast. In fact some people who contacted me were not able to get one. So, I’m going to do a second round of signed copies of my novel, Strangeness in the Proportion.
You too will smile as big as this happy reader…
A physical copy of the book! All three dimensions (plus a bonus dimension). Look at that creepy cover by Christopher Shy.
Autographed, with anything else you’d like scrawled in it.
A genuine toe tag bookmark (never mind how I got them!).
The price (which includes shipping) is $25 to ship to the US and $45 to other countries (sorry, shipping nailed me last round). You can also buy the book cheaper and in electronic format (but sans signature and toe tag) at the link above.
I’ll accept payments through Paypal. If interested, email me at scrivnomancer@gmail.com (that’s not my paypal address, email me first) for details. I’ll get a shipment of the books in October, which means I should be able to have shipped to people before Halloween (a perfect time to read it!).
Want a taste of the novel? This is my short and sweet synopsis:
Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back…one piece at a time.
Want a deeper look? The dynamic duo at The Booked Podcast does a lovely review of it.
A Toe Tag From Me is Like a Valentine
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UPDATE: My copies of the book are sold out, but more can be bought HERE.
The last few weeks saw a lot of road trippin’. A visit home to my parents’ house turned up a forgotten box of copies of my novel, Strangeness in the Proportion. Behold!
I will be moving soon and must shed the weight of as many earthly possessions as possible. That’s where you come in! I will be taking online orders for copies of the book. $20 will give you the following:
A genuine toe tag bookmark* (never mind how I got them!).
Shipping (if you live in some far flung place, we can talk about how much that’ll cost).
I’ll accept payments through Paypal. If interested, email me at scrivnomancer@gmail.com (that’s not my paypal address, email me first) for details. First come, first serve. Only a small handful of these.
*And If I already owe you a toe tag, that’s coming soon!
No Instruction Manual For Being Dead
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Nosferatu – “1337”
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Fangs are fun when you don’t miss the sun.
Gaming and roleplaying have done a lot for me. They pushed me to meet friends, travel, and learn some of my earliest lessons in storytelling. It’s even led to a career. And one of the games that had the most profound effect on me was Vampire the Masquerade. Now, in its V20 (20th anniversary) guise, I get to play with some of those toys professionally.
The Kickstarter for the Deluxe V20 Lore of the Clans has begun. I’ll let that page tell you about the book. I got to do the write ups of two of the clans therein: the Followers of Set and the Tzimisce. The Kickstarter has some fun pledge rewards, and a nifty achievement system (involving some vampire-themed selfies). You can even download the pre-layout text of the 99% finished manuscript.
Here’s a little sample of what I wrote in it, the opening fiction from the Tzimisce chapter:
The Hospitality in Clay
With the ghoul’s corpse at my feet, I knew I was dead. Because, years ago, the Countess had vowed to end me, and the spirits of the angry earth hear her promises.
Had the Cardinal sent me to die? A gift-wrapped soul to squeeze the juices out of? He said it would be a fine gesture, an old enemy welcoming her to the new world. I was the one, the only survivor of my pack, or any of the other packs for that matter. All that prestige, but it was just dumb luck. My Romanian nights. The bad nights. The kind of hell you can only enter by pissing off an ancient, entrenched Fiend. I still wake to blood sweats in the day, pulling the grave dirt over myself like a safety blanket.
I drove up the long driveway, in disbelief that a creature like the Countess could uproot and move to New England. We never actually beat the crafty Koldun. One night, she offered peace and to play nice with the Sword of Caine. She had a very specific list of demands. We agreed to every one.
Approaching the manor, I caught memory fragments, thought I recognized trees, stones, brickwork, and statues. I could smell it — in the potted plants and garden — soil from the old country, aeons of blood and loam. That’s the thing about earth: it smells like birth and decay, and you take on the dreams of those who died in it. The Countess was the land, and she had brought it with her, piece by piece.
I waited for a servant to formally invite me inside before stepping over the threshold. Old memories haunted the manse. In the dining hall, I found a woman weeping. Mortal. Dinner. Then I found a dead man on the luxuriant carpet, throat vacated. I recognized him, a revenant ghoul, the Countess’s favorite.
A door burst open. “My lady, come quickly!” a voice called out. Another familiar face, Janos. We had flesh-ripping history. We flashed mutual fangs.
I flinched. Didn’t see her enter. Just a gust of wind, and then her stark face, cheekbones raised like guillotine blades.
“Countess,” I stammered. When did I learn to bow? She was resplendent in her frock coat. I felt suddenly self-conscious in my leather and body mods. I’m a child of the night. A badass skin-flaying, fang-kicker. Wherefore this fucking shame?
“He killed one of yours, in your own home,” Janos said.
A deadly dark eyebrow arched. The rest of her was statue still, except those long, powerful fingers. Her hands never stop moving. She looked at me. Through me. Dying moths fluttered under my skin.
Then she looked at Janos.
“No,” she said. “That is not what happened.”
“He killed Mircea!”
“That is two lies, Janos.”
Her grandchilde’s mouth opened. Closed. Then he whispered, “I did it for you, Baba. Now we can kill him.”
“That is not what must happen now.”
“No….” Janos looked hurt. “I am your blood. He is the enemy. They killed so many. Him, him, him!” Janos foamed, knife in hand, and leapt at me.
Then the Countess was there, shielding me, the knife in her chest. Her face was still, but the rats raged in the walls, the wind shrieked, and the windows blackened with thousands of leathery wings.
Janos cowered. “No, Baba. Don’t kill me.”
“Shhh,” she said, a finger on Janos’s lips, and he froze. “I honor enemies with death, not trespassers.” She then whispered old words into his ear. I heard the name “Kruchina.” Janos wept, full-bodied sobs, till he was nothing but blood tears and blood snot.
The Countess swallowed Janos with her eyes and said, “Go now and tell Fickó to give you thorough tenderness.” Janos’s head darted about in terror as his Judas limbs carried him away.
The lady of the manor then gently took my arm, pulled out my chair, and sat me down at the dining table. She placed the living girl before me.
“He was right,” I said. “That was a perfect opportunity to kill me.”
“You are my guest,” the Countess said, as if explaining gravity to a child who dropped a toy down a deep well with no echo. “Perhaps one day we will honor one another, but for tonight, I will sacrifice every drop of my blood and every pound of my flesh to protect you.”
Taking her seat, she opened an ornate music box. It played a twinkling Romanian lullaby. Inside was a handful of the ancient earth. Praying, she opened her wrist and bled upon the soil. Then, she began to eat.
My smartphone vibrated and burned in my pocket, but I dared not answer it. Outside, something howled. Somewhere, Janos screamed. That’s when I knew I was dead. Sooner or later. The Countess keeps every promise.
She looked up from her supper of crimson clay. “Are you not hungry?”
WEIRD LOVE –or– Valentines With Ventricles
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So the romantic weekend is concluded. Chocolates have been eaten. Flowers passed. Cards. Perfume. Heart-shaped everything.
Now you want some unorthodox romance. Some strange love. Valentines that beat. Look no further!
A sweet romance between a forensic pathologist and a cadaver (my novel Strangeness in the Proportion).
A hot and heavy romance between a teenager and a frog in the Everglades (my short story “Harlow’s Fairytale” in the Weird Romance anthology).
A romance between recovering lunatics, riding on a train through the Lovecraft mythos (my short story “Stained Windows” in the Madness On the Orient Express anthology).
Bloody Love
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Here are some lovely words that have already been laid down regarding Blood & Smoke from various sources:
“Blood & Smoke is like V:tR and V:tM came together, had a revenant baby and it grew up to be a blood drinking fiend of pure awesome.”
–@AlienStoneDog, Twitter
“I’m so enthralled by this release. There’s this casual, powerful confidence to the writing that continues to wow me and drag me in. Seriously, hats off.”
–Leetsepeak
“Blood and Smoke is clever, sexy, and stylish. The tragedy is still there, in the subtext. But it’s all delivered with smooth smiles, confident strides, celebratory grotesqueness, and blood-stained cool.”
–ArcaneArts, Onyx Path forums
“I really love the energy that the writers put into this. It’s clearly a labor of love that makes reading it a joy.”
–Aiden, OP forums
“That aside, the book is gorgeous. Not just the art (which is fine), but the words are so well done. I’m only 25 pages in and I keep stopping to go ‘Wow, that was a pretty turn of phrase.'”
–BitterOldJoe, RPGnet
“The language and artwork of the book so far has so much flavour with better descriptions and different points of view that it quickens the original EVEN without using the rules. So Bailey and co for the win.
“Interestingly one of my first impressions is that there is a mechanical and narrative shift to night by night play. Not that it dissuades from the longer term but there is so much ‘juice’ in what could happen over several nights that you would hate to miss even one drop!”
–VampDT
“And, overall, the names were correct & rest of the terms properly applied. I think this is a first ever for an RPG book referring to modern Greece. I’m impressed.”
–Yo! Master, RPGnet
“I’ve been reading more. You know what? I’ve been a WoD fan since almost the beginning, and this is the first Vampire game I have seen that works for me. I want to run a game of it. I’m going to try selling my group on it when I see them. I haven’t had that experience before. I’ve pretty much stuck to the other, non-Vampire gamelines.”
–Dionysos, RPGnet
“This book remembers everything I remember about vampires.”
–Tiresias, OP forums
“‘Vampire is about sex and murder’ is a hell of a ballsy way to open a book.”
–Stephen Lea Sheppard, RPGnet
“So I’ve almost read the whole thing now, and, well, it was as I had expected: A masterpiece. Cover to cover a marvelous piece of Darkness.”
–sikker, OP forums
The Endless Night: a bloody valentine to fanged noir
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You’re not human tonight… Maybe I never was or ever will be… Maybe we all get like this in the cold half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right. …you’re not human tonight.
That dripping, noir morsel is from Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister.
Back in the mid 90s, a sixteen-year-old me opened up Vampire: the Masquerade. I’ve never been the same. That’s the short-hand version. Today, Blood & Smoke: the Strix Chronicle was released. I’ve written for White Wolf (and Onyx Path) before. I wrote a novel, a short story, and a little game writing on the side. But this book is the thing that tickles that teenage fan boy rattling my ribcage.
I wrote the vampire clan chapter and the “All Night Society Chapter.”
This book is an overhaul of the Vampire: the Requiem game. Rose Bailey, the developer, gave the book the most focused and relentless vision of any group creative project I’ve ever worked on. I’m a writer who benefits from an editor who works me. She worked me, and I’m proud of the result.
One of the things that Rose did with the line (and that I felt very comfortable diving into) was dousing it all in Chandleresque noir. And if you need a little foreplay to get in the mood, I have just the thing.
Howzabout a teaser sample, loveling? Here’s a little micro-ficiton for each vampire clan.
Something dead approaches…
Daeva: the ones you die for
He warns you. You’re going to do it anyway. You both know that. Eyes like TV ads that enslave you to debt. Voice like the fast food jingle talking you into suicide by tiny bites. The wanting. Every happiness you already have turns to bile. You smile. “Yes,” you say. “More,” you say. “Anything.”
Gangrel: the ones you can’t kill
Wasn’t the howling. Weren’t the claws or magnesium eyes or the lizard brain keening, “Run, run, run!” Was the change. Like them trashy drive-in horrors, only on rewind. Monstrous bulk shrinking — snout flattening — fangs dulling down to pearls — fur receding to a naked obscenity. The smiling little girl walking towards you on filthy feet. That’s what did it. Ten thousand beasts pressing out on her belly like it’s a theatre curtain on opening night. That’s what emptied your bowels and sanity.
Mekhet: the ones you don’t see
That shit-eating grin. The shit-heel prick. How’d he get into your game? “Not playing the cards; I’m playing you,” he croons. He’s not wearing shades, but you can’t see his eyes. Chuckle. “Always wearing shade,” he says. Did you talk out loud? The fucker is playing the cards, because you just did a bottom deal, a triple lift, and two moves that ain’t got names. You know his hand. He’s already lost. Bastard’s not even looking at his cards. He knows. He doesn’t say, “Fold.” Says something else. Says your secret. The thing no one else knows. The thing you sit up at night praying no one ever finds out. The table flips. Loud noises. Your poker buddies beat you bloody. Through it all, you see his grin. He just fades away, and the last thing floating in the tobacco smoke is that grin.
Nosferatu: the ones you fear
“Shhh.” The voice behind you sounds like a squeezed handful of grave worms. It tells you that it will follow you home. It tells you that if you can make it to your front door, by the long path or the short, without turning around or nary a peep, it won’t kill you. When did you lose your shoes? The pavement turns to tongue meat, tasting your bleeding soles with every step.
Ventrue: the ones you can’t deny
“Let’s make this interesting,” she says. She tells you all the heinous things you are about to do. You laugh in her face. Ridiculous. Then, one by one, all of your limbs betray you. You see everything. You see it all through the socket windows of your Judas body. You try, and fail, to scream through the frozen smile fracturing your face.
That guy . . . whatsisname . . . Banderstatch Cumberbun?
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Maybe, if Strangeness in the Proportion was ever to be made into a movie, we could convince Benedict Cumberbatch to play Simon Meeks.
Any other casting choices you’d make?
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Beermen fall to Flying Leopards in Macau
MACAU – Champion coach Leo Austria believes San Miguel Beer’s stint in the East Asia League Terrific 12 will go a long way in the team’s bold bid to complete a PBA grand slam.
Austria said there’s no better way for the Beermen to prepare and get ready for the final piece of their Triple Crown campaign – the season-ending Governors’ Cup – than to play against some of the best players and ballclubs around Asia.
“We’ve gained a lot of knowledge and experience in this tournament. It was a great opportunity for us to learn,” said Austria of the Beermen’s first ever stint in the Terrific 12.
Too bad, the franchise fell short of advancing to the finals as it suffered a sorry 111-89 loss to Lance Stephenson and the Liaoning Flying Leopards in their semifinal encounter Saturday night to the disappointment of the huge Filipino crowd at the Tap Seac Multisport Pavilion.
The highest San Miguel could achieve is to finish third place against the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions, who the Beermen are playing as of presstime.
“We’ll take it seriously (third place) because as we’ve said we’re here not just to participate, we’re here to compete,” said Austria.
“This will help us in future tournaments, especially with the third conference just started,” he added. “We have to develop the team’s winning attitude so every game is really important for us.”
The Beermen kept pace with the Flying Leopards early on and even held a 28-26 lead on eight straight points by Von Pessumal bridging the first and second quarters.
But Stephenson and former fellow NBA player Salah Mejri began to wax hot as Liaoning outscored the Beermen the rest of the way, 25-2, and found themselves trailing by a huge margin at the half, 51-30.
The 29-year-old Stephenson, who was with Lebron James with the Los Angeles Lakers just last season, poured 23 of his 35 points in the first half, which he capped by draining a long three pointer to beat the halftime buzzer. He also finished with 10 rebounds.
Mejri, who was the starting center of the Tunisian team that beat Gilas Pilipinas in the last FIBA World Cup, added 21 points and 11 rebounds as he dominated the Beermen inside.
Liaoning (111) – Stephenson 35, Mejri 21, Gao 14, He 13, Liu 9, Guo 9, Wang 4, X. Liu 3, Yu 0, Y. Liu 0.
San Miguel (89) – Romeo 19, Wells 16, Prosper 15, Cabagnot 9, Standhardinger 8, Nabong 6, Ross 2, Santos 0, Tubid 1, Vigil 0, Ganuelas-Rosser 0.
Quarterscores: 26-23; 51-30; 85-63; 111-89.
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by Robert on August 4, 2015 at 12:00 am and modified on July 12, 2018. at 3:36 am
Chapter: Story 8: I Dream of a General
Characters: Araceli, Jean, Neil
I really like Jeanie’s look in this page. He hairstyle is cute, and her outfit is hot!
EDIT: For those who like seeing Jeanie look a bit like Cutie Honey, here’s Honey (from CD Rudd’s other comic, SailorSun.org comic) looking like the classic version of Cutey Honey.
└ Tags: Araceli, costume, costume-change, Jean, Neil, Poof
Doggypoo
August 4, 2015, 12:11 am | # | Reply
Genies new top kinda looks like the one Cutie Honey wears in some versions of that anime
August 4, 2015, 4:24 am | # | Reply
THAT’S where I’ve seen that design before. It was on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn’t place it.
Mulgarath
August 4, 2015, 4:49 pm | # | Reply
What anime are you referring to?
August 5, 2015, 12:41 am | #
Cutie honey is a 70’s go nagai anime about an android girl who was dressed sort of like that, it was remade in the 90’s in shin cutie honey and honey flash, my favorite version is the 2004 gainax version Re: cutie honey directed by hideaki anno who also did evangelion. There have also been two live action versions of cutie honey.
I think Cutey Honey was the first magic girl who had a regular transformation sequence featuring brief nudity. CD, are you up to some more animation?
August 7, 2015, 10:23 pm | #
Depends on what. I’ve never been good at animation, so I can’t promise how good it would be.
Jayessell
I only just now noticed her costume change.
Shouldn’t her skirt have changed also?
Jean’s new look is great, i hope he keeps it.
Th3Go
August 4, 2015, 8:56 am | #
new look is the best
The outfit may be “hot,” but that hat remains “not.”
Xanxus
Looks like Jean’s chances are reduced to 1%by going in that bottle. It’s too bad she didn’t poof to Melvin’s genie Kazom for help. I don’t trust Araceli ‘s advise at all. Remember, she did cross her fingers.
I trust Araceli advise as being the real deal, it is Araceli that I don’t trust and she standing ready to do the double cross on Jeanie when she follow her advice. That the thing about Araceli, she has ulterior motive and she will act on those motive to get what she want too.
Like the fact that genie has changed outfits so many times. I hope that trend continues. Also, I hope we see another episode this week.
I don’t understand why Neil just doesn’t tell Aracelli about Jean’s origin and that they are best friends and not just master and genie.
Probably just hasn’t come up yet. Besides, where would the plot complications be?
Personally I don’t think she’d care. Guano should know all about her origin and he definitely doesn’t so I think Araceli wouldn’t either. This seems to be a fairly standard way of making new genies given the loads of blue Aladdin style ones comment earlier and she knows Jeanie and Neil are in at least some sort of relationship so I think she’d still try to break them up and imprison Jeanie unless someone can get multiple genies and even that’s unlikely given Jeanies growing femininity.
I think thats because Neils not too slick when it comes to stuff outside of engineering
The new look does seem simpler and quicker to draw while remaining sexy. No braided hair, a skirt ending just below frame, fewer details on the waist… definitely less trademark infringing. I wonder if Rudd got a letter from someone’s legal department? lol
Uggh. This new look is SOOO 2010’s. Not haremish at all.
Did Araceli just poof up a bassinette for cute little Neil?
I think it was meant to be a cradle.
inuyahsha1950
If Neil is going to return to his adult self, as Areceli told Jeanie he would, what need is there for a bassinet/cradle?
Well between the time that he turn back into a man, she need someplace to put the baby. Neil tuning back into a man is in the future.
Of course he will return to his adult self.
It will just take 25 odd years 🙂
Maybe a little longer.
Wait just a minuet, can she decide who is master, what about the Carlie?
August 4, 2015, 12:58 pm | # | Reply
She cut a deal with Guano awhile back if Jeanie mucks up she gets to be Neil’s genie and she’s pretty much convinced it’s just a matter of time even if she wasn’t stirring the pot to ensure that outcome.
It’s kinda like law of attraction; by calling Neil her master, she’s trying to make the notion come true by some sort of means.
However, there isn’t anything guaranteeing that Araceli will get to stay with Neil as his genie if it were to happen. Neil may not want to have someone like her in his life, especially with seeing how far she’s willing to treat others in her way. Neil, at least is assertive enough to speak his mind and stand his ground when it comes dealing with someone’s awful behaviour. Though Araceli probably’s the crazy girlfriend type that can’t take no for an answer. In any case, as long as Araceli keeps her way of thinking the same, she has no true chance of winning Neil over.
jaimehlers
Yep. Ironically, Aracelli’s best chance to win Neil over is to stop playing these stupid games of hers. But that isn’t how she thinks, and as a result, she’s going to end up alienating him permanently, perhaps to the point where he wishes that she can never come within a hundred miles of him, or something like that.
Up yours Araceli. She is single handily the most conniving, double-crossing, lying bastard I know in this comic.
She is cold blooded when it come to getting what she wants, that for sure. You definitely want to be in the way a where she want to go, especially since she has Genie powers to work with.
Regreme
Love Jeanie’s new top and skirt. Wonder if any of the sneezes effected her mind too? Regardless, love all her sneeze effects.
Hmm, that’s an interesting question, actually. Genies are barred from affecting free will… so does that prevent accidental magic from affecting their own will? Heck, maybe genies are just immune to mind-altering magic. You’d think that Araceli would have tried that against Jeanie already, though, if it had a chance to work.
Teerack
Her hair and outfit should just stay like this.
Agreed! Though that’s sadly not a unanimous opinion around here, as other commenters above have made clear. I’m also not expecting CD to stray too far from the comic’s roots. Not for very long, at least.
August 7, 2015, 9:23 pm | #
If you every creator listened to their fans no story would ever get anywhere.
Bad Taiming71
I am not afraid!
Jean/jeanies EGO is bigger than her whole body.
People like that are so easy to manipulate. If they are a problem all you have to do is double
Dog dare them, and they will screw them selves over. No heavy lifting on your part at all.
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Collision Course: Captain America vs. Superman vs. Batman
April 10, 2014 May 15, 2016 / Jeff Winbush / Leave a comment
There are plenty of reviews for Captain America: The Winter Soldier that opened last weekend to kick off the summer movie season (in April?) and pocketed a tidy $93 million dollars even before I sat down in my seat. This isn’t another one of them. It’s just a few thoughts I had that aren’t spoilers, but one might be “spoilerish.”
Saw the fuck out of the flick on Sunday. It’s really good, though I wouldn’t go so far as some to call it “Marvel’s Dark Knight.” Pump ya brakes and slow ya roll. It is a fun time in the dark, but there’s no Heath Ledger performance anywhere in sight. Certainly not from the Winter Soldier.
If Kevin Feige reads this, it is time for a Black Widow movie. I was surprised by how much screen time Scarlett Johannson had but this was far and away her best turn as Natasha Romanoff. If we wait for DC to finally give Wonder Woman her shot, we’ll be waiting around for another five years or so. I’m convinced the audience will turn out for Black Widow kicking ass in her own movie.
Come on, Kev. Make it happen!
DC/Warner Bros. is in a completely reactive mode where they have squandered their advantages of having a line of iconic super heroes, yet have utterly and completely failed to exploit that edge into successful franchise films without Batman or Superman.
Over the next two years movies featuring Marvel properties include The Amazing Spider-Man 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past and the Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man(?!) and The Avengers: Age of Ultron all up and taking swings at box office supremacy before Superman vs. Batman finally get up to deck in 2016. Two years with nothing to offer is an eternity for a genre of films that has to peak sometime (but hasn’t as of yet).
Oh, and Captain America 3 is already claiming the same 2016 opening week as Supes vs. Bats (does Cap die and Bucky/Winter Soldier pick up the shield as it played out in the comics?). You would think Marvel has to be nuts to go mano a mano against DC’s biggest guns, but they claimed the release date first.
Both of these 500 pound gorillas can’t occupy the same weekend without one being severely wounded by the other. Someone is going to blink and move out of this opening week and I’m willing to bet it will be the one that already moved once already.
Cap ain’t afraid of no Superman and his Bat-Buddy either.
I would expect in a head-to-head competition, Captain America 3 would falter against the joint might of Superman-Batman-Wonder Woman and whomever else the hell DC stuffs into the movie, but if blunts their box office momentum and it doesn’t open to somewhere in the $100 million range, Warner Brothers will need real superheroes to catch all the falling bodies being tossed out of hi-rise office towers.
The trap DC is in is they have bet their entire superhero film future on one movie. This movie can’t underperform or fall short the way Man of Steel did which barely edged out Thor: The Dark World in profitability. If you’re a Superman fan, how does a Thunder God most people associate with their high school class on mythology give the Last Son of Krypton a run for the money?
It’s because Marvel has followed a plan to build a universe where even it’s “B”list characters can battle DC’s “A” list heroes to a virtual draw.
Marvel has been able to load its gun with several bullets so even if Thor misses they still have Iron Man, Captain America, and The Avengers locked and loaded with more possibilities for The Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow and the Falcon. Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige says they have their movies planned out to 2028! The fact that actors like Sebastian Stan (Bucky/Winter Soldier) are signed to do six to nine pictures makes it clear than when Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and others “age out” or are done slipping on the spandex, the franchises will go on and on and on…
I don’t see a similar game plan from DC/Warner. They are dealing with a recast Batman, David Goyer and Zack Snyder turned loose without a Christopher Nolan to reign in their worst excesses (and Nolan disagreed with their decision to have Superman kill Zod).
Nolan is gone to pursue his own vision and while the hope is Snyder/Goyer will successfully set up a Justice League franchise it all hinges on Supes/Bats doing billion dollar business.
It could all come together as planned. But if it doesn’t DC isn’t as well-positioned as Marvel to overcome a cinematic setback.
As for Captain America: The Winter Solider, it’s really good. Easily the best superhero movie I’ve seen since The Avengers. Chris Evans has really grown into the role of Steve Rogers/Captain America. Anthony Mackie’s Falcon is good. Samuel Jackson finally gets to do more as Nick Fury than stand around and glower. Scarlett Johannson surprised me in how central her role was in my enjoyment of the flick.
I give it a solid “B+” and I’d take my wife with me for a second viewing.
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Nursing Facility CEO Resigns After Woman in Vegetative State Gives Birth
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The CEO of the Arizona nursing facility where a woman recently gave birth, despite being in a vegetative state for over a decade, has resigned.
The company Hacienda HealthCare told the New York Times that the resignation of executive Bill Timmons was approved by the entire board of directors. A vice president for the board said in a statement that they would “accept nothing less than a full accounting of this absolutely horrifying situation, an unprecedented case that has devastated everyone involved, from the victim and her family to Hacienda staff at every level of our organization.”
But the problems pervading the facility won’t be solved by firing a single executive. Given that the woman was in a vegetative state from a near-drowning incident and thus incapable of communicating consent or that she was pregnant, the pregnancy was clearly the result of sexual assault. Not only are there questions about how the woman was impregnated, but how nobody on staff was aware of the pregnancy up until the moment the patient started to go into labor and began moaning. The woman reportedly delivered a healthy baby.
The NYT reports that Arizona Department of Health Services says it will conduct an inspection of the nursing facility and detectives in Phoenix have already opened a sexual assault investigation. Arizona Department of Health Services found that in 2013 a male employee at the facility was making inappropriate sexual comments about patients bodies and was subsequently fired, and in 2017 the facility was reported for not offering privacy for patients while showering.
Police Open Investigation After Woman in Vegetative State For Over a Decade Gives Birth
Today in Horrifying: A Hospital Janitor Raped and Impregnated a Mentally Disabled Patient
World's Worst Paramedic Sexually Assaults Woman While Heading to Hospital
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On New Year’s Eve, My Inner Clown is Full of Hope
Posted on December 31, 2018 by jimfriedrich
12th-century saint effaced by time, Cloister of Saint-Trophime, Arles, Provence.
In “Last Song,” the opening cut of her album Impermanence, Meredith Monk chants a list of finalities over a series of wistful piano chords: Last chance, last dance, last minute, last laugh, last round, last inning, last exit, last ditch, last rites, last supper, last days, last judgment, last words, the last word, last rose of summer, last goodbye, last ditch, last time, last breath . . .
Some of these are repeated quickly, over and over, as if to hold on to them just a little longer. Sometimes Monk’s voice erupts into a staccato of syllabic non-sense, as if language is breaking under the strain of mortality, dissolving into the chaos from which new meaning may be born. Then her final words: last breath, last breath, last breath. . . The voice surrenders to silence. The piano continues on briefly, then it too makes its last sound, fading to nothing.
At year’s end, I sometimes lapse into a retrospective melancholy, thinking of people, moments, experiences and places that have come and gone in my life, some for the last time. My sense of future will revive at midnight, when we will go outside to bang gongs, beat drums and blow kazoos and whistles to welcome the New. But until then, impermanence shall be my partner in the year’s last dance.
Pont du Gard, Provence (40-60 A.D.). Some things last, most things don’t. At least these stones from a vanished empire made it to the future.
I have written about temporality every New Year’s Eve since I began this blog 4 years ago. Thinking about time, memory and hope seems a ritual proper to the turning of the year. Here are links to a couple of those reflections:
The Angel of Possibility (2014)
Tick Tock: Thoughts for New Year’s Eve (2015)
But this year, anxious to get outside to enjoy the last sunny day of a rainy year, and not wanting to detain you too long from your own last things, I will simply share a bit of poetry which I discovered this week in Edward Hirsch’s marvelous survey, Poet’s Choice (2006).
In “I Take Back Everything I’ve Said,” Chilean poet Nicanor Parra offers a renunciation well suited to the New Year’s spirit of tossing out the old to make room for the new. Its brave act of repentance (more than mere regret) isn’t just for writers!
I’m supposed to get a last wish:
Generous reader
burn this book
It’s not at all what I wanted to say
Though it was written in blood
It’s not what I wanted to say.
No lot could be sadder than mine
I was defeated by my own shadow:
My words took vengeance on me.
Forgive me, reader, good reader
If I cannot leave you
With a warm embrace. I leave you
With a forced and sad smile.
Maybe that’s all I am
But listen to my last word:
I take back everything I’ve said.
With the greatest bitterness in the world
Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Two Cousins (detail), 1716. Is she gazing at memory, or a gathering future?
Catherine Barnett’s “O Esperanza” lifts my spirit after a very rough year in the history of our country and our world:
Turns out my inner clown is full of hope.
She wants a gavel.
She wants to stencil her name on a wooden gavel:
Esperanza’s Gavel.
Clowns are clichés and they aren’t afraid of clichés.
Mine just sleeps when she’s tired.
But she can’t shake the hopes.
She’s got a bad case of it, something congenital perhaps. . .
Look at these books: hope.
Look at this face: hope.
When I was young I studied with Richard Rorty, that was lucky,
I stared out the window and couldn’t understand a word he said,
he drew a long flat line after the C he gave me,
the class was called metaphysics and epistemology,
that’s eleven syllables, that’s
hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope hope.
Just before he died, Rorty said his sense of the holy was bound up with the hope
that some day our remote descendants will live in a global civilization
in which love is pretty much the only law.
The Creator bestows a blessing above the baptismal font in Eglise Saint-Michel, Roussillon, Provence.
And finally, in “A Flame,” Adam Zagajewski provides a fine New Year’s blessing, which I share with you, dear reader, on this last day before whatever comes next:
God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride––before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.
All photographs taken by the author in 2018.
This entry was posted in Anglican spirituality, New Year's Eve, Poetry, Time and tagged "I take back everything I said", Adam Zagajewski "A Flame", Catherine Barnett "O Esperanza", Hope, Memory, Meredith Monk "Last Song", New Year's Eve, Nicanor Parra, Temporality, Time by jimfriedrich. Bookmark the permalink.
2 thoughts on “On New Year’s Eve, My Inner Clown is Full of Hope”
keebslac1234 on January 29, 2019 at 9:32 pm said:
I love the thought: “hope” attached to every syllable. That might just be the calling of poets everywhere. In another new year’s musings (very tardily so), I read about T.S. Eliot’s words. They come back now with an image of a bedraggled clown: “a raid on the inarticulate, With shabby equipment always deteriorating.” I’m imagining this incantation with “hope” in every syllable. Brings a smile.
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Geology Scholarly Works
Provenance of Cretaceous through Eocene strata of the Four Corners region: Insights from detrital zircons in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado
Provenance.pdf (2.094Mb)
Pecha, Mark E.
Gehrels, George E.
Karlstrom, Karl E.
Dickinson, William R.
Donahue, Magdalena S.
Gonzales, David A.
Blum, Michael D.
Geological Society of America
Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript
This paper is published under the terms of the CC-BY-NC license
Cretaceous through Eocene strata of the Four Corners region provide an excellent record of changes in sediment provenance from Sevier thin-skinned thrusting through the formation of Laramide block uplifts and intra-foreland basins. During the ca. 125–50 Ma timespan, the San Juan Basin was flanked by the Sevier thrust belt to the west, the Mogollon highlands rift shoulder to the southwest, and was influenced by (ca. 75–50 Ma) Laramide tectonism, ultimately preserving a >6000 ft (>2000 m) sequence of continental, marginal-marine, and offshore marine sediments. In order to decipher the influences of these tectonic features on sediment delivery to the area, we evaluated 3228 U-Pb laser analyses from 32 detrital-zircon samples from across the entire San Juan Basin, of which 1520 analyses from 16 samples are newly reported herein. The detrital-zircon results indicate four stratigraphic intervals with internally consistent age peaks: (1) Lower Cretaceous Burro Canyon Formation, (2) Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma) Gallup Sandstone through Campanian (83.6–72.1 Ma) Lewis Shale, (3) Campanian Pictured Cliffs Sandstone through Campanian Fruitland Formation, and (4) Campanian Kirtland Sandstone through Lower Eocene (56.0–47.8 Ma) San Jose Formation. Statistical analysis of the detrital-zircon results, in conjunction with paleocurrent data, reveals three distinct changes in sediment provenance. The first transition, between the Burro Canyon Formation and the Gallup Sandstone, reflects a change from predominantly reworked sediment from the Sevier thrust front, including uplifted Paleozoic sediments and Mesozoic eolian sandstones, to a mixed signature indicating both Sevier and Mogollon derivation. Deposition of the Pictured Cliffs Sandstone at ca. 75 Ma marks the beginning of the second transition and is indicated by the spate of near-depositional-age zircons, likely derived from the Laramide porphyry copper province of southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. Paleoflow indicators suggest the third change in provenance was complete by 65 Ma as recorded by the deposition of the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone. However, our new U-Pb detrital-zircon results indicate this transition initiated ∼8 m.y. earlier during deposition of the Campanian Kirtland Formation beginning ca. 73 Ma. This final change in provenance is interpreted to reflect the unroofing of surrounding Laramide basement blocks and a switch to local derivation. At this time, sediment entering the San Juan Basin was largely being generated from the nearby San Juan Mountains to the north-northwest, including uplift associated with early phases of Colorado mineral belt magmatism. Thus, the detrital-zircon spectra in the San Juan Basin document the transition from initial reworking of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic cratonal blanket to unroofing of distant basement-cored uplifts and Laramide plutonic rocks, then to more local Laramide uplifts.
https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01485.1
Geology Scholarly Works [213]
: Pecha, M.E., Gehrels, G.E., Karlstrom, K.E., Dickinson, W.R., Donahue, M.S., Gonzales, D.A., and Blum, M.D., 2018, Provenance of Creta‑ ceous through Eocene strata of the Four Corners region: Insights from detrital zircons in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado: Geosphere, v. 14, no. 2, p. 785–811, doi:10.1130/GES01485.1.
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The Gift of the Magi (World Premiere)
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Herald the arrival of the holidays with our annual selection of treasured carols and songs, plus a special treat: the world premiere of The Gift of the Magi, a setting of O. Henry's charming tale of love and giving, by Swan Family Artist-in-Residence Eric Whitacre.
Eric Whitacre, conductor
100 voices, piano, organ
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Della. . . . . . . . . . . . . Laurence Servaes
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Sheila. . . . . . . . . . . . Suzanna Guzman
Mrs. Sinclair. . . . . . April Amante
Shopkeeper . . . . . . Mark Edward Smith
This program is made possible with generous support from The Blue Ribbon.
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EBSCO successfully tests ONIX for Serials Format for transfer of A-to-Z Holdings
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Abstract: EBSCO has successfully tested the ONIX for Serials Online Holdingsformat for communicating detailed holdings information between systems.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A., October 24, 2005 - EBSCO has successfully tested the ONIX for Serials Online Holdings (SOH) format for communicating detailed holdings information between systems.
Implementation of the standard, developed by the Joint Working Party of NISO and EDItEUR, will allow customers of EBSCO A-to-Z� to use the title listing service as a knowledgebase for managing their online resources, including link resolvers, e-resource management systems and integrated library systems. This allows administrators to have a single knowledgebase for their online collection holdings (e.g., EBSCO's A-to-Z service), which will, in turn, update the knowledgebases for their other services.
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Our Song by Ashley Bodette – Release Day Blitz
May 31, 2016 lindasbookbag 7 Comments
I’m pleased to be bringing you a release day blitz post for Our Song by Ashley Bodette whose novel is out today, 31st May 2016. Dealing with a controversial issues of attempted rape and mental health problems, Our Song is a young adult book.
Today you have the opportunity to gain an insight into Our Song through a range of images.
Our Song
Becca:
I broke up with Trip four months ago. But with the exception of my parents, I haven’t told anyone why. Not my friends, not my little sister, not even Asher.
Asher:
I’ve been missing my best friend every day for the last nine months. Even though Becca broke up with Trip months ago, she’s still been distant, even when we’re in the same room.
Trip:
She thinks she can break up with me and then go on a “family” vacation with him? I’m going to prove to both of them that she never should have left me.
You can find more about Our Song and purchase it through these links:
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About Ashley Bodette
Ashley Bodette is a soon-to-be MA publishing graduate from Kingston University London. She started her venture into the book world as a book blogger, never imagining that one day she’d write a book. Now, you couldn’t stop her from writing if you tried.
Along with writing and providing editing and other author services, you also might find Ashley crocheting, watching British television shows on Netflix, playing piano, singing around the house, or, of course, curled up with a good book.
You can find out more about Ashley Bodette through these links:
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Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventure by Natalie Page and illustrated by Chris Rivers Nuttall
I’ve featured a few children’s books on Linda’s Book Bag and when Natalie Page asked if I’d like to be part of the launch celebrations for Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures: The Petal Planet, I readily agreed as it is a wonderful book. I have a review as well as a guest post from Natalie and you will find a Zak and Jen personalised bookmark giveaway at the bottom of this blog post too.
Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures: The Petal Planet is published by Austin Macauley today 31st May 2016 and is available for purchase from Amazon and Austin Macauley.
Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures
The Petal Planet
To Jen, her life was a terrible bore. She wished she had more than the landscape she saw… Jen lives alone on her solitary sand planet, until one day, a boy named Zak comes to visit. Through a little of Zak s magic and an unusual umbrella, Jen is transported to a beautiful world, and her new friend helps her learn a valuable lesson along the way.
From Rock Bands to KidLit
The Story behind Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures
A Guest Post from Natalie Page
The Background – you never know why some people come into your life
Imagine this, you are out one evening watching a rock gig with your boyfriend and you happen to see this extremely talented band play. In a fit of over confidence you decide that you want to invite this band to play as part of a charity gig you are organising for Help for Heroes, so you make the call to the band’s management and amazingly, they agree!
Several months of planning later and you are chatting to the band after a very successful charity concert and a friendship is born. This is story of how I met Chris Nuttall, drummer for rock band Heaven’s Basement and now illustrator of Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures.
That charity concert took place back in 2010 and somehow, despite extremely busy lives and both having children, Chris and I have managed to stay in touch.
As the years rolled by I got to know Chris a little better and soon discovered that as well as being a talented musician he was an exceptionally talented artist. I was particularly struck by two characters that featured heavily in some of his paintings. They resembled rag dolls and in each piece they were pictured against a beautiful night sky. The imagery was so ‘other worldly’ it was captivating, and I wasn’t the only one who thought so. I often wondered about the background to the characters, who they were, why they were in space. But that was all I ever did.. wonder.
In 2014 my life changed forever, I gave birth to my daughter and found myself on maternity leave. For the first time in over a decade I had head space to be creative. I had always loved to write. However, school, university and my career took over and I lost the ability to simply ‘write for fun’, swapping my fiction stories for PowerPoint presentations and business proposals. Suddenly that wasn’t the case anymore and my brain was alive with hundreds of stories that I just couldn’t wait to get down on paper.
It was during this time that I saw Chris post another image on Facebook of one of his rag doll paintings and my brain went into over drive. I called him and asked whether it would be ok for me to write a story featuring the characters he had painted. Strangely enough he told me he had been looking for an author to write some stories about them and the partnership was born!
Either unluckily or luckily for me, I had a baby who was not fond of sleeping, so I often found myself up in the middle of the night trying to settle her whilst sat in a chair. I soon found that this was my most creative time, and one night, when my daughter was taking a particularly long time to settle, I pictured the characters coming to life in my head. As I sat, watching my daughter drift off my brain became filled with ideas and rhyming sentences and once my daughter was back in bed I was scribbling them down. For the first time in ages the story flowed out of me and within 45 minutes I had a first draft.
I sent the draft to Chris the very next day and he loved it. From then on we embarked on the long journey together to try and achieve one goal… get published.
We agreed up front that this was an entirely joint project with all credit being split 50 / 50. This makes things a lot easier as we never argue over who contributed what.
If I can give any upcoming authors / illustrators any advice, it would be that if you decide to partner up, be sure to have the conversation up front about how things are split. Don’t forget to include discussions about if your book becomes hugely successful and you have things like merchandise to consider. It may not happen, but at least you will know where you stand if it does.
The journey to being published
Our journey has been a somewhat unconventional one. Despite what you might think, we have found that traditional publishing agents are not keen to take on an author / illustrator partnership. This is apparently because big publishers prefer to match authors and illustrators themselves, often pairing an established author with a debut illustrator and visa versa (you don’t always see Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler together!).
It soon became clear that if we wanted to get the book produced as per our joint vision, then we would either need to self-publish or approach independent publishers directly (the big publishing houses don’t tend to accept unsolicited manuscripts directly from authors).
Thankfully for us, Austin Macauley were willing to take on our project and have been very supportive in allowing us to dictate how we wanted the book to look and feel.
The finished product is one that we hope will inspire children. We have tried hard to combine a simple, yet thought provoking story with some magical characters and we hope that people will enjoy what we have taken the time to create. Fingers crossed we will get to continue and turn these characters into a series!
My Review of Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures: The Petal Planet
I loved this little book. It is beautifully illustrated by Chris Rivers Nuttall as some of the images elsewhere in this blog post show and the text works so well with the pictures. Zak and Jen are cartoon like which will appeal to children, but also they are not conventional looking children so that I feel an important issue of appreciating people for who they are, not how they look, is subliminal in this story.
There’s a really well constructed story with a defined beginning, middle and end that would satisfy all children, but with the potential for future stories to come. Indeed, I think it would make an excellent talking point with younger children to discuss what might happen next and to develop their oracy through making up new adventures for Jen and Zak.
I thought the rhyming prose was pitch perfect, especially as it is hard to construct a narrative in rhyme without it feeling contrived but Natalie Page does this brilliantly. There are so many useful ways the story could be used by teachers and parents too. Exploring the rhyme scheme, looking at homonyms and homophones would all be fabulously exemplified in Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures.
I also really liked the messages behind the text with Jen coming to appreciate what she has in her own life and with the potential for children to try to grow plants too so that they are emulating Jen’s activities.
It sounds as if I’m just reviewing Zak and Jen’s Astronomical Adventures with my ex-teaching head on, but the bottom line is that this is a wonderful story, well written, fabulously illustrated and perfect for children of all ages!
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Bridezilla’s Book Birthday with Amy Lynch
May 30, 2016 lindasbookbag 1 Comment
It gives me enormous pleasure to be joining Amy Lynch in celebrating the book birthday of her novel Bride Without A Groom which has just turned one! You can buy Bride Without A Groom in paperback and e-book on Amazon UK and Amazon US.
You can read my review of Bride Without A Groom here, but just so that you can see why Bride Without a Groom has been so successful, Amy has kindly provided a short extract for you to read here today.
Bride Without A Groom
Single, coupled-up or married, this laugh-out-loud summer read is the perfect anecdote for the wedding season!
Rebecca has chosen the most luscious, five tiered, wedding cake. The engagement ring that she has selected is celebrity inspired. The wedding singer is on speed dial. He doesn’t usually do Michael Bolton, but as it’s for a first dance he’ll make an exception. Father Maguire is checking dates for the parish church as we speak. The deposit on the white sand honeymoon is paid for in full on Barry’s card. She has fallen for an ivory lace couture gown that is to die for. The down payment may require her to sell a left kidney, but it will be worth it. Isn’t that why you have two?
There’s one teeny tiny problem. It’s nothing, really. No need to panic! It’s just that Barry has yet to propose. Says he’s not ready! He can be a bit of a kill joy that way. In fact, he’s gone away on a business trip and says that he needs some space. Meanwhile, Barry’s tie loosens, the Tiger beer is flowing, and his colleague Shelley is providing more than a shoulder to cry on. Back in Dublin, Rebecca worries, putting Operation Win Back Barry into action. But who is the mysterious dark haired woman that is so keen to talk to her, and what is it that Barry wants to get off his chest?
An Extract From Bride Without A Groom
Speed date number three is now beaming at me, white teeth sparkling all in a neat row.
‘Rebecca. Hi. So…’ This is starting to feel like a job interview.
‘What do you do, Brian?’
Yes, I know, unoriginal. Shush!
‘I’m a solicitor. And yourself, Rachel?’
‘It’s Rebecca…’
‘I’m a solicitor’, my mind plays on a loop as my heart pangs. A solicitor. Just like Barry. A sneaky thought takes shape. This man could be a stand-in, you know? A little switcher-oo. He could be like an understudy in a play. People might not even notice! Sure, I could call him ‘Barry’ as a pet name. He’d grow to love it. The wedding plans could still go ahead, just with one minor substitution. I could still keep the ‘B&R’ monogrammed bath towels I have ordered. He could be Barry version 2.0. Not quite the original model, I’ll grant you, but a toothier, sexier upgrade.
‘I work for a PR firm, Brian. Sloan Publicity?’
‘Oh? You might know my brother, he works in PR too? Our surname is Ramsbottom?’ Brian continues.
‘Oh.’ I try hard not to snigger, really and truly I do. But you must understand that Malibu makes me decidedly giddy. It’s like dosing an orang-utan with laughing gas.
Mrs Rebecca Jane Ramsbottom. Dear Lord! The deal is off. I couldn’t possibly marry someone with that kind of surname. My friends laugh at me enough as it is. I’ll have to call the Actors Casting Agency, and tell them that I no longer require their boyfriend substituting services. Anyway, he might have straighter, whiter teeth than Barry, and he might fill that suit very nicely indeed, but I think I prefer the original, crooked-toothed Barry. Don’t ask me to explain it.
We’ve stopped for a halfway break, so good old Pam has ordered me a tequila slammer, and a pint of Guinness. That should help things along nicely. As I sit at the bar, I picture myself balanced on a stool next to Cilla Black in a special edition of the TV show Blind Date. ‘Say hello to our Becky, all the way from Dublin,’ the permed Liverpudlian grins as the audience cheers. ‘Our Becky enjoys wine, OAP makeovers and planning weddings. And now, here’s our Graham with a quick reminder.’
Graham sums it up during the theme tune. ‘Well, Cilla, behind screen number one is Dan. He likes surfing, but you’ll have to … wave… goodbye to a two-way conversation with this one!’
The audience claps with glee.
‘Behind screen number two is Brian. He’s a solicitor, but it’d be a …crime… to take that surname!’
The audience howls with laughter. I’d forgotten how witty ‘our Graham’ could be.
‘Behind screen number three, it’s Farmer Fred. Fred has a cattle farm. But will Becky be …moo-ved… by him?’
Cilla is beaming at me, and wants to know which one I choose. She wishes me a ‘Lorra lorra luck, chuck.’ I try to explain that none of them measure up to Barry.
About Amy Lynch
Amy Lynch is an Irish author of humorous romantic women’s fiction, but not always with fairy tale endings! She has been working in the charity sector for many years, is married and has two young children. When she is not writing, she can be found juggling school runs, packing lunch boxes, tackling the laundry mountain and walking two large rescue dogs who stare at her until she walks them. Talk about multi-tasking!
Her debut novel Bride Without a Groom is a laugh out loud Bridezilla comedy, was published by Avon, Harper Collins in May 2015.
You’ll find Amy on Facebook and you can follow her on Twitter. You can also visit her website.
Four Weddings and a Fiasco by Catherine Ferguson
May 29, 2016 lindasbookbag 15 Comments
I recently took part in the cover reveal of Four Weddings and a Fiasco by Catherine Ferguson which is published by Avon Books in e-book and paperback on 16th June 2016 There are two lovely covers for the paperback and e-book and I am delighted to have had the opportunity to read it too now. You can order Four Weddings and a Fiasco on Amazon, or directly from Harper Collins.
Four Weddings and a Fiasco
Katy Peacock lives a life as colourful as her name.
As a wedding photographer, she spends her days making other people smile as she captures all sorts of fun and capers at celebrations that range from the wacky to the wild.
But her own life isn’t looking quite so rosy. Her mum is acting out of character, her menacing ex is back on the scene, and she is torn between two gorgeous men. And that’s before we even get started on the trouble her sister is causing . . .
As Katy weathers the ups and downs of the season, she revisits problems from the past, discovers new friendships and finds that four weddings and a fiasco have the power to change her world beyond measure.
A funny, feel-good read, perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond and Jenny Colgan.
My Review of Four Weddings and a Fiasco
Katy Peacock is struggling. After a major fall out with her sister, she is finding her debts are mounting, her wedding photography business is demanding and her ex-boyfriend Dominic is threatening.
I have a confession. I did not like the title Four Weddings and a Fiasco and probably would not have read it had I not received it for review. Had that been the case I would have missed out on a lovely entertaining story that brought me considerable pleasure.
I thoroughly enjoyed Four Weddings and a Fiasco, partly because I’ve worked as a wedding photographer and Catherine Ferguson’s portrayal is absolutely perfect so that I could really relate to the scenarios presented.
I thought the characterisation was super. Whilst typical of this chick-lit genre, there is sufficient variety of personality to give a warm, humane and realistic cast. Katy is especially well depicted and I thought she came across as the kind of person any reader could relate to.
The plot is carefully and satisfyingly constructed with the iterative theme of weddings acting as a cohesive force that works brilliantly. There’s an underlying mystery that gives depth too, as the reader tries to work out just what did happen between Katy and her sister Sienna.
Alongside the complications of romance you’d expect from this genre, there are other themes presented to make the reader think – grief, betrayal, family, deception in many forms – so that even the most chick-lit averse reader can enjoy Four Weddings and a Fiasco as an intelligent and absorbing narrative.
I thought Four Weddings and a Fiasco was brilliantly entertaining, well written and perfect for a beach read or a cosy winter’s afternoon. I will be looking out for more from Catherine Ferguson as her style is effortless to read, engaging and thoroughly lovely.
You can find all Catherine’s books here and follow her on Twitter.
Cold Calling by Russell Mardell
My grateful thanks to the author Russell Mardell who sent me a copy of Cold Calling in return for an honest review. Cold Calling is published by Troubador in paperback and e-book and is available for purchase on Amazon, Troubador, Waterstones and WH Smith. Readers might like to know that the Kindle version of Cold Calling is only 99p until Thursday 2nd June.
I so enjoyed reading Cold Calling that I had questions that Russell agreed to answer and you can see his responses after my review.
Still reeling from the break-up with the love of his life, insurance firm cold-caller Ray English has become a bit of a screw up. Cynical and withdrawn, Ray is aimlessly drifting through life in London with his long suffering best friend, Danny.
However, once he is asked to reform his college band for a friend’s wedding, Ray is soon forced to face up to his old life, and the hometown he had tried so hard to turn his back on.
Anya Belmont is a woman with a secret and a history that continues to shape her life. A coffee shop owner in Salisbury, Anya is successful, yet bored; married, yet lonely. She is also slowly being driven to distraction by her highly temperamental friend, the child-hating children’s author, Eva Cunningham.
Through fate, coincidence or just bad timing, Ray and Anya’s lives begin to change when Ray cold-calls Anya and the two strike up a seemingly innocuous conversation. Against their better judgement, their conversation is soon the start of a relationship played out over the phone.
But can there ever be anything real in a phone call? A sharp-witted, saccharine-free, thoroughly modern tale of lost loves and found friendships.
My Review of Cold Calling
There is a depth to Russell Mardell’s writing that surprised me. Whilst the story is akin to many other multi-perspective narratives based on the difficulty of relationships, Russell Mardell manages to provide a distinct, literary style with human and convincing characters that come across as real people.
Although all four perspectives are told in the first person, the voices are so clear and well balanced that each is definitely a believable character. Eva evoked the desire in me to shake her hard and, perhaps wrongly and saying something about my own personality, I hoped she would get her comeuppance until the very end of the novel when my attitude softened towards her.
I really cared for Ray, Anya and Danny, finding I identified with elements of all of them. The secondary characters play a vital role in developing Ray et al too. They also give layers to the themes that weave in and out of the narrative.
I thought the way the settings were described gave a perfect amount of detail so that I could picture the scenes vividly, especially when described through Ray’s eyes. The writing has humour and wit as well as thought-provoking themes and dialogues that really made me think. I also found the issues presented interesting and absorbing – just how do we deal with end of life care for the elderly with dementia? How many of us do settle for good enough rather than chasing our dreams? How many of us cling to the past at the expense of the present?
What I also found highly effective is that we never really know what Anya and Ray look like. This cleverly underpins the fact that their relationship is conducted over the phone rather than in person so that the reader can use their own imagination. I like the conceit of Eva’s thoughts about being a writer too and her concern that, once in the box of children’s author, she’ll never be able to escape. Russell Mardell obviously thoroughly understand the writer’s angst!
The plot is tightly structured so that there is a satisfying ending that enhances the quality of the novel further. This not all about happy ever after but is more about truth, realism and identifiable feelings that I could relate to and understand, giving me real pleasure in the reading.
I really enjoyed Cold Calling. I thought it was extremely well written, entertaining and interesting and I will be looking out for more from Russell Mardell.
A Few Questions Arising!
Thanks for agreeing to answer the questions I had as a result of reading and enjoying Cold Calling, Russell.
The dedication is to your Mum because she wanted you to write something a bit nicer. Was she satisfied with Cold Calling?
She was! It’s funny, it has become a little bit of an in-joke between us over the years, as much as she has enjoyed my previous, darker, books, she has always said ‘can’t you write something a little bit nicer?’ Though I should say that is not something she says just because of her own preferences, it was always more a case of her thinking a nicer book would sell better. We will have to see if mother knows best!
Adding the additional words in the dedication also allowed me to subtly suggest to people that enjoyed Cold Calling, that should they wish to have a read of my backlist, they would be reading very different sorts of books. I felt that was important too.
I’ll be one of those readers checking out your backlist too, but if readers want to see for themselves they can look here.
Music underlines a couple of key scenes. How important a role does music play in your own life?
Hugely. I am a complete music geek; in fact if music shops still existed in my hometown, I would probably be hounding them for a job. I dearly wish I had even a tiny fraction of musical talent, but I proved with some long ago guitar lessons that wasn’t the case. I always write to music, I can’t stand silence when I’m working. Though it is very important to get the right sort of music to fit the right sort of writing – I probably put too much thought into it! A lot of the bands mentioned I am very fond of, naturally, and I was very fortunate to be allowed to use lyric quotes from one of my favourites, Augustines.
Although Cold Calling is a relatively light read, you also explore some important issues, such as how we deal with elderly dementia sufferers. How did this theme arise? Did you intend to provoke debate in the reader’s mind or did you intend to show another facet to Ray’s character?
I’m always a little wary of covering such subjects, and in fact, in the first draft that storyline was left out. You have a responsibility when you cover such things, and I didn’t want it to ever appear like I was trying a cheap manipulation of the reader. But it became obvious that we needed to see another side of Ray. So much of his story is his struggle to move on from a broken heart. To see a character that can slip into self-indulgence, do something so automatic and unquestioning out of duty and out of love, like caring for an elderly relative, was an important contrast to make.
(And it works brilliantly – hence my question!)
It is an issue that has affected my family, which again made me think twice about going there. But I’m glad I included it, it is only a small part of the story, but a very important one, I think.
I found the four main characters completely convincing. How did you plan for Ray, Danny, Eva and Anna? Did you complete full character profiles, use visual stimuli, or some other system?
I wish I could say that I planned them out extensively. I’ve never written a character profile, I’m not sure I ever could. There are parts of me in all of them, I suppose (though in some cases wildly exaggerated, I should add!) I don’t like doing too much before I start writing, and I very rarely do treatments. It’s not a perfect way of working by any means but I do like the element of surprise when you are writing, to let events and characters be free enough to take you somewhere you didn’t know they needed to go. I always start with basic outlines for characters and events. More often than not, a beginning and an end, but I like the journey I take to get them there to be open to new ideas. The idea of having things planned out before, I think, I would find too constricting and would make the process slightly dull. You only get to know your characters when you are writing, so sometimes they change, and you need to be free enough to let the writing dictate, not the planning.
That said, Cold Calling was originally a film script, many years ago so I have lived with these characters for a while. They have changed a bit since then, but starting this novel I knew them better than any other characters I’ve written.
Are there plans to explore the lives of these four people in a future book?
Maybe. I haven’t any plans at the moment, but I do like them and wouldn’t mind writing for them again. I’m not sure it would ever be a direct sequel though. Often with my books there are character or location crossovers, little things that regular readers might pick up on, so we may meet them again, but only as supporting characters. In fact the book I am writing at the moment may have a few nods and winks to Cold Calling. There will certainly be similar locations, so you never know, they may find there way into this story too.
I do hope so – I’d like to know more about them! Thanks so much for responding to my questions Russell.
Russell is a novelist, playwright, producer and sometime director based in the south west of England.
His first published book was Silent Bombs Falling on Green Grass a collection of twelve weird and wonderful short stories centered around the town of Mewlish Lull. His follow up Stone Bleeding is a dark dystopian satire of reality TV and celebrity culture. More recently he has published Bleeker Hill a dystopian horror, as well as its sequel, Darkshines Seven. His latest novel is the comedy, Cold Calling.
All of Russell’s novels can be found for purchase here.
Russell has also written for the British stage with the plays Cool Blokes: Decent Suits, and its sequel Suits 2: Back From the Cleaners performed at the Salisbury Playhouse, and The Seventeenth Valentine and Freestate playing at The White Bear Theatre in London.
Having studied film production in London he has written and directed a couple of short films, and continues to develop a number of screenplays.
A music obsessive and film geek, he drinks too much caffeine and still, despite being given many reasons not to, retains a lifelong passion for Everton football club.
You can find out more about Russell Mardell by following him on Twitter, finding him on Facebook and visiting his blog.
Two Types of Writers with Peter Best
I’m delighted to be featuring another author I’ve ‘met’ online today. Peter Best’s The Burden of Truth is the first part in a trilogy and is available for purchase here. Today Peter tells us all about different types of writers and how he plans his writing in a fascinating guest post.
The Burden of Truth
On a cold day in March 1987, egocentric Brent Sandler makes the decision to change his life for the better. Years later he’s still not happy with his lot but not for the want of trying. Now he has hit rock bottom, penniless and in deep trouble. But little does he know his troubles are only starting as he discovers an awful tragedy unfolding. The problem is, he knows this tragedy is all down to him. Now he is determined to put things right.
Meanwhile in Bodhgaya India, Peter Canon has just made a discovery that will change his life forever. Now, like Brent, he must come to terms with his very own guilty secret of the past. Not only this, his life too is going to get worse as the woman he loves is slowly hunting him down. And when she finds him; questions are asked!
The Burden of Truth is the first installment of a three-part saga of how these two men are pulled apart and then drawn together as each man tries to fulfill his own quest for happiness. But they are soon to find out this quest is thwart with love as well as danger.
Two Types of Writers
A Guest Post by Peter Best
To me there are two types of writers. No matter what genre a writer may choose, whether it’s romance, a crime novel or even fantasy most novelists chose to write in two different ways. The first group could be described as the ones who simply sit down and write by the seat of their pants until their novel is complete.
Now I must admit I’m completely in awe of these authors. I believe Ian Rankin is one of these types. I’m sure I read somewhere that he goes off to his house on the north east coast of Scotland, sits down and simply writes until he has his first draft complete. No planning ahead, nothing. Apparently he doesn’t even know how the story is going to end or even who the guilty party is until he gets to the big reveal. This, he says, keeps the story exciting and it also lets the creativity of the writer flow.
So all in all I’m not going to disagree with the man. I mean let’s face it he’s one of the biggest and most successful writers around with millions of fans, so really he can’t be wrong, can he?
Anyhow, I’m going to put my hand up and say I have tried this approach to writing a number of times and failed miserably. The problem is for me I just to get into a story only to find I just grind to a halt as my story runs out of steam.
Because of this I have made the decision to join the ranks of the second group of writers. This second group being the ones who plan their work from start to finish trying to keep within the so-called narrative ark.
So this leads onto my book, The Burden of Truth and how I planned it. I will also tell you how, quite often, my best-laid plans do not work.
When I first sat down and decided to write my novel I asked myself, What do I want from all of this?
The answer I gave to myself was probably what many authors would answer anyhow. Interesting characters, great settings, and a good strong plot with lots of twists and turns to keep the reader interested. So really no surprises there.
With this in mind I started on planning my novel and after two months of hard plotting I finally had a good idea of what I wanted to put into my book. Everything was worked out from the layout of the chapters to what the characters were going to do and even how they were to interact with each other. Everything was sorted from page one right to the end.
Now, with this plan all laid out I sat myself down and started to write, and all in all I was quite happy on how it was going at the start. Now I can’t really say how far into the book I was when I realised this happiness was somewhat dissipating rather quickly. Deep down I knew the book was not working. It needed more; as a matter of fact it needed a lot more. I knew deep down this story did not have a heart never mind a message.
So once again I looked at the plan. I also started to think again. Why was it not working and how was I going to add that little extra and make this story work and give it the heart it needed?
Then it came to me; the protagonist Brent. He wasn’t developing as a person. He was not moving on with his life in the slightest. Perhaps he was just going through the motions of life but not moving on with it. Now I knew where I could give the book some heart but the question was, how?
So there I was once again with my thinking cap on. Where can I get this heart? Then it came to me; Shantie! She’s one of the characters who Brent meets just after he has caused a bit of trouble so to say. Now let me tell you a little about Shantie. She’s a beautiful half English, half Indian lady who was brought up in the town of Bodhgaya in India. The town where the Buddha gained enlightenment. It was here where she learnt many Buddhist teachings from the monks around her.
Now I had an idea. Perhaps she could somehow pass some of these teachings over to Brent. With this he would have the chance to build and develop as a character.
Now I was happy again. Now I could move on and finish the story and give it the heart it deserves. However, to finish the story, I had to start again right from the beginning. Because I had made these changes to Brent’s character the original plot fell apart. Anyhow, I knew it was going to be a lot of extra work but I didn’t mind though because it was what I wanted and so it was, a year and a half later I had my first draft copy and obviously nothing like the first plan.
However, all in all I’m quite happy of the end result and I think my readers are too, even though the story took on a totally different identity as I expected.
Take care all and don’t forget. Live, laugh and love.
Great to hear how you plan Peter and thanks for the wonderful advice – we should all ‘Live, laugh and love’.
About Peter Best
Peter Best was born in North Shields in the North East of England in the beginning of the sixties. Albeit the son of a shipyard worker, Peter was brought up in a mining community until the age of eight when for some reason or another somebody made the decision that the community should be uprooted and moved to a place called Cramlington New Town on the outskirts of Newcastle.
After his time in school he served an apprenticeship working mainly on building sites working as an electrician, which he hated by the way! However, as Peter always looks on the positive side of things, he was pleased he did, as it was on these building sites where he came across many different characters who he was pleased to call his friends. “Real people,” he called them. And so it turned out that many of these so called real people, and others of course, featured quite strongly in his novels.
Of course it was not just the people he met on the sites; Peter has over the years come across many different characters on his travels who have all played their part in working their way into his mind.
In 1996 he married for the second time to a young German girl and soon after moved to the south of England. Soon after that he upped sticks again and moved to Wiesbaden in Germany to help support his wife as she pushed at her career as a doctor.
Peter fell in love with the culture of his new surroundings, especially the culture of one of his neighbouring counties Bavaria. However as they say all good things come to an end and he moved back to England. It was at this time when his writing started to come together. Over the next few years Peter started to string together his thoughts and ideas for The Burden of Truth and its sequel. (The name remains a secret for now.)
He now lives with his wife and daughter in a small seaside town in Essex called Frinton on Sea. Frinton, along with its neighbouring town, Walton on the Naze, both feature in his novel, The Burden of Truth.
You’ll find Peter on Facebook, Goodreads and Goodreads Burden of Truth and on his website. You can also follow Peter on Twitter.
Putting the Myth into Mystery with Virginia King
I’m delighted today to be featuring another author, Virginia King, whom I’ve met through the Facebook group Book Connectors. Not only do I have a guest post from Virginia, and my review of her book, but she is also giving away a prequel to the Selkie Moon stories, a stand alone short story Laying Ghosts. You’ll find the link below. Even better, is the chance to win a signed copy of The First Lie or an audio version plus a $15 Amazon Gift Code. One Grand Prize lucky winner will $100 Amazon Gift Code. See the information at the bottom of this blog post for more details.
The First Lie, the first book in the Selkie Moon series is available for purchase on Amazon US and Amazon UK. It is currently only 99p for a limited time.
Putting the Myth into Mystery
A Guest Post from Virginia King
A few years ago, serendipity played a trick on me. I’ve always loved mysteries grounded in the real but on the flipside I’ve had a passion for folktales and their ability to touch me at a symbolic level. Two new authors and a crisis later, these two interests collided, changing my career as a mystery writer forever.
The Girl in a Swing
Richard Adams (of Watership Down fame) came first. In this psychological thriller he weaves the mystical into the real to create something very powerful. The unseen brings profound insights to the seen as the clues to a dark secret creep up on the main character and the reader through a series of psychic happenings. I’ve read the book ten times, trying to figure out how Adams laid bare this human tragedy with such finesse, and every time the clues have the same effect on me even though I know what’s going to happen. But deconstructing the narrative and marking the clues with post-it notes didn’t reveal the alchemy at work between the lines. What was going on? Can words alone show us the truth about ourselves with such power?
All she had to do was jump …
This sentence got me started on my own psychological mystery. Soon Selkie Moon turned up, a modern woman with a mythical name – the ‘selkies’ are the Celtic seal people who peel off their skins and dance in the moonlight in human form. I hoped Selkie’s name might ‘mysteriously’ create depth in the story, but balancing the horizontal momentum (What happens next?) while excavating the layers of the puzzle resulted in many drafts.
Landing in the labyrinth
The book was set in Sydney, my home town, so to find a deeper connection with the story I grabbed my camera and spent a whole day visiting all the locations. But I returned home in tears because none of the places ‘spoke’ to me.
Serendipity intervened. I dropped Selkie into a strange place – Hawaii – and her role as a malihini (a newcomer) brought an amazing dimension to the story. Selkie is escaping a destructive relationship in Sydney but she lands in a mythological nightmare in Hawaii. The events are so bizarre and terrifying that she’s forced to delve into the past and face the shocking truth about herself.
My editor and I still chuckle over her initial reaction: You’ve got an Australian main character in a Hawaiian setting, but you’re drawing on Irish/Scottish mythology (selkies); it’s difficult to make those disparate elements fit together cohesively.
Understatement. It was a mess. But cultures have mingled for centuries in Hawaii – ho’ohihi, interconnectedness – surely it was the perfect place for mythologies to collide and merge … Luckily I met an author who can forge a ‘mythical mess’ into something akin to magic.
In this coming-of-age novel Haruki Murakami reacquainted me with the power of mythology. By weaving magic realism into suspense and popular culture, he takes the reader into a labyrinth of symbols that evoke the layers of human experience. As the description promises:
Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder.
He also plays with an Oedipus complex, a journey into a time-slip forest, a mystical stone that must close an invisible doorway … This mess of symbols from around the world is complex and strangely satisfying – because we catch glimpses of our secret selves.
In interviews Murakami also hinted that, like the reader, he wasn’t always sure what was going to happen next. At some level he let the mythology call the shots and create a mysterious journey into the human soul.
Poltergeists and surprises
I now found the courage to weave some magic into my own realism. With Hawaii as my inspiration I allowed mythical elements to drop into The First Lie like poltergeists and create havoc until I figured out why they was there. I discovered that I love this kind of writing because I can never lose the capacity to be surprised, taking the mystery beyond the predictable.
Interconnectedness
Connections started forming themselves, often while I was asleep:
In Hawaiian mythology, Hulu the monk seal is a spirit guide that reunites us with ancestral knowledge – the perfect talisman for Selkie’s journey of discovery.
I created a fictional Hawaiian beach with an Irish name, only to realise in the middle of the night that Sydney has a place with the same name, right near Selkie’s childhood home. Spooky!
A scientific study into monk seals wonders if their moaning inspired the mythical Sirens in the Odyssey. The experience of Odysseus hinted at a dramatic scene for Selkie – a scene I could never have planned without messing with mythology.
Now I’m hooked, exploring far-flung places full of secrets where Selkie delves into psychological clues tangled up in the local mythology. The Second Path is set in France (watch out for a Perrault fairy tale) and in Book Three (coming soon) the folklore of rural Ireland is helping her unravel an old murder.
My review of The First Lie by Virginia King
I have to say I wasn’t sure what to expect from Virginia King’s writing, but it surprised me by the intensity of its presentation. Virginia King weaves the symbolism of the world into a fast paced and exciting story that is part mystery and part mysticism, providing several strata of meaning in a very absorbing and thought provoking story. Indeed, the story can be read as a thriller but also as a kind of self-awareness manual as the reader has much to learn from the journey that Selkie makes for herself. The traditional stories surrounding selkies, the sea, voodoo and magic give a supernatural depth that is absolutely fascinating.
I felt The First Lie was essentially a love story, but not in the traditional sense of a conventional male/female relationship. Whilst there are these conventional relationships, Selkie also needs to learn to love and value herself and love is portrayed through memory, friendship and family relationships too. I thought this exploration gave real warmth to the book that I enjoyed immensely.
If I have a criticism, it is that I would have liked more descriptive narrative as there is so beautifully at the very beginning and end, as the book is very dialogue driven. However, this does allow a deeper insight into Selkie’s personality. So too does the first person storytelling and I found what Selkie thinks equally as informative and important as what she says. By the end of The First Lie I felt I had come to know a real person.
I really enjoyed The First Lie and I think it’s a book that would reward more than one reading to appreciate fully the nuances of metaphor, myth and spiritualism. I’d really recommend it and I know I will be returning to it again.
A Free Ghost Story – Laying Ghosts
The above experiences inspired Laying Ghosts, a 24-page modern ghost story with mysterious links to a murder ballad from the 1700s. It’s a standalone story but also the prequel to the Selkie Moon Mystery Series, explaining to the reader (and the author!) just why Selkie suddenly ran away to Hawaii. Download your free copy here.
About Virginia King
When a voice wakes you up in the middle of the night and tells you to write a mystery series what’s a writer to do? That’s how Virginia King came to create Selkie Moon, after a massage from a strange woman with gifted hands was followed by this nocturnal message. Virginia sat down at the keyboard until Selkie Moon turned up. All she had to do was jump, the first sentence said. Soon Virginia was hooked, exploring far-flung places full of secrets where Selkie delves into psychological clues tangled up in the local mythology.
Before Selkie Moon invaded her life, Virginia had been a teacher, an unemployed ex-teacher, the author of over 50 children’s books, an audio-book producer, a workshop presenter and a prize-winning publisher. These days she lives in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney with her husband, where she disappears each day into Selkie Moon’s latest mystery. Bliss.
You can find out more about Selkie Moon and Virginia on Virginia’s website, on Facebook and by following Virginia on Twitter. You’ll also find buy links for all Virginia’s books here.
Fantastic Virginia King Giveaway Opportunity
To enter to win a signed copy of The First Lie or an audio version of the book and a $15 Amazon Gift Code with the opportunity to win a $100 Amazon Gift Code click here.
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Are Audiobooks Preparing to Overtake Ebooks?
Column by Joe Daly May 17, 2012 4 comments
If you were the CEO of a large company and your board of directors earmarked $20 million to be allocated at your discretion, what would you do? Build a new office complex? Increase marketing costs? Install one of those fancy toilet seats with a built-in heater and satellite radio?
How about give it away?
That is precisely what Audible.com is doing and unsurprisingly, it has nothing to do with altruism.
In 2012, the Amazon-owned Audible.com offered authors a $1 "honorarium" for every audiobook sale made through their website. If attracting the attention of authors is your goal, free money is a slam dunk way of achieving it. There is, however, far more to the offer than its attractive financial component—authors who agree to make their titles available in audiobook format through Audible.com not only reap a buck for every sale, but they additionally receive the expertise and manpower of Audible's sales and marketing divisions, as well as additional advertising materials for promoting their work. And just for the heck of it, authors get a free copy of their audiobook.
Notice that the preceding paragraph made no reference to the role of the publisher in this financial arrangement. This is because the publisher is cut straight out of the deal. The buck passes freely and without encumbrance from the teeming coffers of Audible to the back pocket of the grateful author. While such an arrangement cannot impede or alter publishing rights previously negotiated between the author and publisher, it nonetheless offers writers a substantial incentive to cut their own side deal. Which introduces the other odd man out—the agent. Because authors sign up for the deal at Audible's site, where terms are fixed, the need for agency is nullified. Whether to bestow any consideration on their agent is entirely left to the discretion of the author.
If this sounds like a pricey gamble by Audible, think again. This Wild West-style free-for-all would not be possible unless the tea leaves indicated sky-high potential for the audiobook market. Make no mistake—while the Kindle-versus-Nook battle gorges on titanic marketing budgets, the audiobook industry continues its rapid commercial ascent. Thanks to your friendly neighborhood broadband service, audiobooks have become massive business. The media has exhaustively chronicled how the digital revolution has treated traditional hardcopy titles much in the same way that General Sherman treated the fields of Georgia. For audiobooks however, the digital revolution hit like a shot in the ass of pure HGH, making it easier than ever to market, sell and transfer titles. With a market share of audiobook loyalists already in place and technology introducing legions of new users to the joys of the genre, the only way to go is way up.
Readers have enjoyed audiobooks for decades, starting with books on tape and morphing into books on CD. Like their printed counterparts however, to purchase an audiobook, listeners had to drive to the bookstore or pay for shipping. Moreover, the audio form of certain titles proved more cumbersome than the original books. Les Miserables, for example, required an eye-watering 60 CDs to digest. With cable modems and outlets such as iTunes and Amazon, literature's biggest titles are now a mere mouse click away, with zero shipping and packaging hassles.
The appeal to users extends far beyond the ease-of-purchase. From a quality perspective, audio-enthusiasts are enjoying a Golden Age not unlike the one unfolding in the world of videogames, where new games receive the budget and resources of blockbuster movies. Likewise, audiobook producers can no longer compete in their space by throwing someone into a recording booth to simply read a book. Audiobook production now entails protracted casting and audition processes, state-of-the-art engineering, and in some cases, licensing of other media, such as music. "Here in Harlem," winner of the 2011 Audie award (the audiobook world's equivalent of the Oscars), boasts 13 narrators as well as period-specific music, which required costly licensing deals with music publishers and record labels.
Also, as with video game production, the audiobook industry now invests heavily in celebrity narrators. The Keith Richards autobiography, Life, captured the top honors at the 2011 Audies, due in no small part to Johnny Depp's narration, which invoked Keith Richards' inimitable cockney cadence without suggesting cheap mimicry. Curiously, Life switches narrators midway through, with New York City vocalist Joe Hurley jumping in with his own take on Richards' drawl, and finally Richards himself rounds out the narration duties to conclude the audiobook, which arguably translates better in audio format than in the original print format.
As audiobooks attract larger audiences, voiceover actors have taken on far greater importance, proving critical to the success of the audiobook versions of Unbroken, the Hunger Games trilogy and Here in Harlem. In fact, the narrators themselves are entering a minor circle of celebrity. Audiobook forums reveal that audio enthusiasts are as prone to buying a book based on the narrator as the author—an interesting twist for producers, who will surely find themselves paying a premium to recruit golden-throated narrators to read their titles.
The obvious end game for Audible is to entice authors to self-publish through their parent company, Amazon, and they have revealed a deadly-serious intent to do precisely that. At a higher level, the sheer audacity of their $20 million offer, open through the end of 2012, establishes that audiobooks are the sleeping giant of the publishing industry. While eReaders fight their war on two fronts: changing the way people think about the physical act of reading; and competing with other eReader manufacturers for a piece of the pie, audiobooks are gathering like a supernova. With expanded production, high-profile celebrity narrators and military-sized budgets, the competition will be fierce and the war bloody, leaving only one certainty: fans of audiobooks have a lot to look forward to in the next few years.
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Author: Keith Richards, James Fox
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (2010)
Binding: Audio CD, 20 pages
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Live Oak Media (2010)
Binding: Audio CD, pages
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brianb18 from Honolulu is reading Lions of Kandahar May 17, 2012 - 1:09pm
Very interesting article, thanks Joe. I had no idea that much work and production went into Audiobooks. Sounds like a great opportunity for indie authors.
Joshua Chaplinsky from New York is reading Stories of YOUR Life May 17, 2012 - 1:25pm
I found this super interesting as well. It's a whole different world you don't hear a lot about. Good stuff.
Zackery Olson from Rockford, IL is reading pretty much anything I can get my hands on June 7, 2012 - 1:53pm
Ah, something I can shed a little light on because it's my area of expertise.
I have no doubt that the production and sale of audiobooks will overtake the production and sale of eBooks in the future, and the reason is babyboomers. As the boomers get older, more and more of them are going to end up with age-related visual disabilities like age-related macular degeneration (both the wet and dry forms), glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and others. Braille will not be a viable literacy medium for most of these people, especially those with diabetic retinopathy, as persons with that particular visual ccondition ccan also develop diabetic neuropathy--meaning that the nerves in their extremities will not function well. Diabetic neuropathy eliminates a person's tactual sensitivity and therefore makes braille a no-go. Also, past a certain age, it is much more difficult for a person to learn and master braille to a degree that would allow them to use braille as a medium for reading anything more than simple labels created for household objects. To illustrate this: I am twenty-seven years old and learned braille in my late teens. At that point it was already too late for me to master the code and attain a braille reading speed of more than sixty-five to seventy words per minute. Persons who are taught braille from early childhood as their primary learning and literacy medium can attain braille reading speeds of up to two-hundred-fifty words per minute and higher. For them, using braille as a medium for reading things like novels and magazines is perfectly feasible. For the rest of us slow bastards, it's not.
One common alternative to braille is eBooks read with a synthesized voice either on a computer equipped with screen reading software like JAWS or Window eyes, or other blind-specific listening device like a Victor Stream, Booksense, or other DAISY reader. Amazon's Kindle is basically a useless, overpriced piece of shit for people with severe visual disabilities or blindness. The ability to adjust font sizes makes it feasible for persons with mild to moderate forms of visual impairment (albinism, severe corneal abnormalities, early stage cataracts, etc.), but it's just a paperweight for people like myself. also, many people find it difficult to read books via text-to-speech synthesis, as the voices do not always sound great. Some voices are pretty good these days, but they still lack the nuances of human speech. . For this reason, many persons with visual impairment and blindness )myself included) prefer audiobooks over eBooks.
Some companies and authors have already started allowing their commercially produced audiobooks to be downloaded for free by persons with documented visual disabilities via the National Library Service's BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Downloads) service. I just downloaded Bernard Beckett's book Genesis from BARD and found that instead of the book being read by one of the regular NLS volunteer readers, it was an enhanced version of the original Brilliance Audio production. also, Audible's iPhone/iPod/iPad app is fully accessible via the Voiceover screen reader that comes standard on all specified Apple devices. There are also third-party audiobook player apps for iDevices that can be downloaded for little or no cost.
I also think that authors may be more willing to have their works presented in audiobook format rather than eBook format for several reasons. One tip that I have always heard for writers it to read your wirting aloud to make sure that it has the right cadence and/or fluency that you wish it to have, so audiobook performances make sense based on that. Also, using different 3D audio effects can sometimes duplicate the literary versions of special effects. For instance, I was reading an eText version of Mark Z. Danielewsky's book House of leaves recently and found myself imagining ways to recreate things that he did in the paperback like striking out passages and making the word "house" identifiable in the foreign language passages by coloring it blue throughout the book Things like these can be recreated via audio effects and still pretty much maintain the effects that the author intended to be created in the original text version of the novel. You can put some sort of static behind the reading of passages that are stricken out. You can have a specific echo effect each time the word "house" is read. You can recreate the disorientation of the section of the book in which each page has only a single word intended to be flipped through quickly by smashing words together in the audio recording. In the case of a book like Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the pictures in the book can be easily described by the reader of an audiobook. In ways like these, I think that the audiobook is a more authentic way of presenting literature than the eBook.
For anyone interested in the technology I mentioned, here are a few links.
DAISY book technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAISY_Digital_Talking_Book
Victor Stream:
http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/dtb_players/compact_m...
Booksense:
http://www.hims-inc.com/products/booksense/
JAWS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAWS_(screen_reader)
Window eyes:
http://www.gwmicro.com/Window-Eyes/
Michael J. Riser from El Cerrito, CA (originally), now Fort Worth, TX is reading The San Veneficio Canon - Michael Cisco, The Croning - Laird Barron, By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends - J. David Osborne August 10, 2012 - 2:36pm
Interesting article, this really should have gotten more love. And Zack's followup post is very interesting as well
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An Act relative to stabilizing the Commonwealth’s nursing facilities
By Mr. Golden of Lowell, a petition (subject to Joint Rule 9) of Thomas A. Golden, Jr. and others relative to stabilizing nursing facilities in the Commonwealth. Health Care Financing.
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Marketing Day: Facebook rights manager, pixel upgrades & earnings reports
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How well do you know Search Engine Watch?Following the success of our previous Easter trivia quiz, we decided to mix it up again this Friday with another quiz – this time testing how well you’ve been paying attention to the content we’ve been publishing on Search Engine Watch this week.All of our questions (bar one, for fun!) are drawn from the past week’s worth of content, including last week’s search news roundup. So brush up and give it your best shot!
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Someone reposted your Page’s Facebook video? You can now take some of their ad $
Publishers, Page owners and video creators can now make some money when their copyrighted videos are reposted by other Facebook users.That’s one of several new options for video creators/owners that Facebook outlined this week. Users of the Rights Manager tool are getting an expanded set of choices for handling copyright violations. Facebook now offers four actions, including the opportunity to dip into the pockets of the offending user and claim some of the ad revenue generated by the offending video:Claim ad earnings: Allows rights owners to claim a share of the money generated if an Ad Break runs in a piece of content that matches the rights owner’s reference file. We’re still early days with testing Ad Break, but this option may be something rights owners want to use in the future.In addition to that, video owners have three other options: block the offending video from being visible on Facebook; keep it viewable but monitor the video metrics and choose a different response later;…
How to secure buy-in for your content marketing program expansion
While you understand the importance of content marketing and the potential it has to drive business, do those above you? If you’re struggling to secure buy-in from your management or executive team to expand your content marketing program, here are a few tips that can help.Understand their positionMost executives are responsible for a budget and, in turn, proving ROI on the expenditures they approve. To secure buy-in for your content marketing program expansion, you need to make it easy for them to see the return they’re getting.If you want to expand what you’re doing today and need extra help, new tools or a bigger budget, you must make the case but explain it in terms that matter to the executive team. Can you tie your efforts to the bottom line somehow? That’s probably what matters most to them.Many higher-ups aren’t as familiar with the day-to-day work involved in running a successful content marketing program. They don’t have the time to be in the weeds with the details. They are…
Are you grateful for digital? Part 2: Q&A
In my most recent column, I challenged you to ask if you were grateful for digital. I argued that while marketers claim to be customer-centric, our campaigns rely more on our need to meet sales goals than any objective of the customers.Well, it got me thinking, do others have similar feelings? Are they grateful for digital? I asked Lynn Wunderman, Director at Pebble Post (my employer), how she feels. Wunderman is a seasoned marketing professional with over 30 years’ experience in direct marketing, database marketing, communications, consulting and general management. Turns out, she has some strong opinions herself, and she shared her insights below:Q: Are you grateful for digital?From a data perspective, I find it’s a mixed blessing, and as you touched on in your column, many of my colleagues feel the same way. I am grateful, because all the data we have access to today gives us the potential to make digital marketing really timely and relevant. However, I’m not grateful because there…
Amazon beats expectations in Q1 2017 with 23% jump in revenue
Amazon crushed expectations with its Q1 2017 earnings report Thursday.The company reported net sales revenue of $35.7 billion, a 23 percent spike from Q1 2016’s revenue of $29.1 billion. That’s just slightly above what analysts expected. The bigger surprise was earnings per share (EPS) of $1.48, way above the $1.13 that analysts had predicted. Amazon’s EPS a year ago were $1.07.In Amazon’s earnings announcement, CEO Jeff Bezos specifically called out the success of his company’s recent investments in the Indian e-commerce market:“Our India team is moving fast and delivering for customers and sellers. The team has increased Prime selection by 75% since launching the program nine months ago, increased fulfillment capacity for sellers by 26% already this year, announced 18 Indian Original TV series, and just last week introduced a Fire TV Stick optimized for Indian customers with integrated voice search in English and Hindi,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “We’re grateful that …
Microsoft reports $23.5 billion in revenue but misses Wall Street expectations
Microsoft announced quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, with earnings that beat expectations, while revenues just missed Wall Street consensus estimates.The company reported $23.5 billion in revenue and earnings of $0.73 per share. Financial analysts had expected $23.6 billion in revenue and earnings of $0.70. Shares were down roughly 1.5 percent in after-hours trading.Here are the company’s three business segments and their respective revenues:Productivity & Business Processes — $7.96 billion (up, driven by LinkedIn and Office 365)Intelligent Cloud — $6.76 billion (up)More Personal Computing — $8.84 billion (down)LinkedIn contributed $975 million in revenue to Productivity & Business Processes.More Personal Computing was the source of the revenues miss and was down 7 percent overall. In particular, Surface revenue was off a surprising 26 percent. However, Windows OEM revenue grew 5 percent. Search ad revenue was up 8 percent. More detail, including the earnings slides, ava…
Facebook pixels get upgrade to track actions & page data
The engine behind Facebook’s tracking and targeting just got an upgrade. The Facebook pixel helps track conversions, optimize ad spends and retarget users. An upgrade to the pixel was just rolled out that will now capture more information, including actions and page structure and data.The biggest area that marketers should pay attention to is the ability to track actions based on site use. These actions include clicks like an “add to cart,” “click to call” or “purchase.” This should help advertisers gather more data on their site without having to implement custom events. The page metadata that will now be passed along includes Opengraph or Schema.org data included on the page.According to the Facebook for Developers page, you can also turn off this new upgrade by implementing the following instructions:If you’d like to configure the Facebook Pixel to not send this additional information, you can add the line fbq(‘set’, ‘autoConfig’, ‘false’, ‘FB_PIXEL_ID’) above the init call in the …
Alphabet reports $24.75 billion in Q1 revenues, beating expectations
Google parent Alphabet Inc. announced revenues of $24.75 billion for the first quarter of this year, a 22 percent increase year over year. That’s above analyst expectations, and the stock is up in after-hours trading.Ad revenues were $21.4 billion, a 19 percent increase over Q1 2015. Google site revenues were $17.4 billion (up 21 percent), and network revenues were $4 billion (up 9 percent).Paid clicks were up on Google sites and network properties, 53 percent and 10 percent respectively. The trend of lower YoY CPCs continued, with Google site CPCs down 21 percent and network CPCs off 17 percent.Alphabet made some changes to the way it reports paid clicks and CPCs this quarter: “In the first quarter of 2017, we refined our methodology for paid clicks and cost-per-click to include additional categories of TrueView engagement ads and exclude non-engagement based trial ad formats. This change resulted in a modest increase in paid clicks and a modest decrease in cost-per-click.”The follow…
SMB trust survey: Amazon No. 1, Google No. 3, Facebook No. 20
Small business (SMB) networking site Alignable has released its latest quarterly SMB Trust Index. The rankings come from net promoter scores (NPS) from 23,000 small businesses.There are 86 brands in the index. The company does not screen for verified customers as a prerequisite for rating the companies on the list.Each individual category has leaders and laggards. However, the following is the overall list of most trusted brands, based on the NPS survey data:Top 20 most trusted brands
AmazonWordPressGoogleAppleFedExAuthorize.NetStripeUPSPayPalLinkedInTwitterVistaprintSquare1&1MicrosoftDropboxMailChimpIntuit QuickBooksPinterestFacebookThere’s a fairly high degree of volatility in these ratings. For comparison, the following is the top 10 list from November of last year:AmazonWordPressAuthorize.NetGoogleMailChimpFedExInstagramSquareTwitterLinkedInOne of the more interesting observations of the report is that “less than half (44 percent) [of brands rated] earned positive brand sentime…
Audiences: It’s not just ‘who’ — it’s ‘where’ and ‘when’
Direct response marketers think that brand marketers have it easy (not really), because most brand marketing plans are centered around discussions of audience demographics, psychographics, personas, or even household-based consumer lifestyle segmentations. These elements — all of which focus on the “who” — combine and become a primary focus of the media plan, and then ad placement is layered onto that; they’re also heavily relied on when drafting the creative briefs for online and offline ads, and they often shape the landing page user experience.But in today’s dynamic — and often highly confusing — media environment, “who” needs to be considered in terms broader than its classic demographic, psychographic or persona-based definitions permit. “Who” can (and should) include time and place — both geographically and contextually (what a given individual is doing) and should also be considered in terms of adjacency (“who else” is vying for the audience’s attention at the time they consume…
Marketing Day: iSpot analytics, Oracle chatbots & Quora ads
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.From Marketing Land:The modern marketer’s guide to machine learning algorithms
Apr 27, 2017 by Sean Zinsmeister These days, every business is in the data business, and columnist Sean Zinsmeister explains that to make better decisions, leaders need to use machine learning and analytics to find actionable patterns in the data.Simple tips to get your app indexed, ranked & installed
Apr 27, 2017 by John Lincoln Got an app you’d like to promote? Columnist John Lincoln provides some basic tips for helping your app to appear in Google’s “app pack” search results.What is the value of a ‘Like?’
Apr 27, 2017 by Brad O’Brien Brands welcome social Likes, but what is their true worth? Columnist Brad O’Brien dives into the impact of a Like on a company’s bottom line and how to incorporate it into your marketing strategy.Oracle adds chatbots, smarter recommendation engine t…
The modern marketer’s guide to machine learning algorithms
Most marketing (and sales) teams have seemingly simple goals: identify your best customers, target prospects who look like them, facilitate a positive buying experience, and bring these prospects into your customer community.The challenge with this is that companies are faced with an onslaught of data, making it impossible to economically throw humans at each of the aforementioned objectives. Much business learning and many routine tasks can be done faster and better with automation and AI. People simply will never be able to sift through all that data at the same rate as machines, and certainly not with the precision that well-designed algorithms can bring to the table.These days, every business is in the data business, and in order to make better decisions, leaders need machine learning and analytics to find actionable patterns in the data. But first, it’s important to clearly define the problem you’re trying to solve. For example, if your company struggles with customer churn issue…
Simple tips to get your app indexed, ranked & installed
Do you have an app that you’d like to rank in mobile search engine results? If so, you’re going to need to make room in your SEO strategy for app optimization.For apps, there are distinct ranking factors. Although they are similar to ranking factors for a standard web page, there are differences that you need to know about.Here’s how you can optimize your app to get the best possible rank.Yes, you need to optimizeAccording to a recent Google report, 27 percent of users find apps through a search engine. That’s up from 2 percent to 3 percent in 2014.That trend will likely continue. Why? Because Google is emphasizing app downloads from search results while brushing aside Google Play as a search engine. Google has also become better at ranking apps, a trend we can expect to continue.Even though 40 percent of people still find apps by searching in an app store as of now, it’s still a great idea to plan for the future and optimize your app so people can find it with a search engine.[Read t…
What is the value of a ‘Like?’
I remember the days when you could only run Page Like campaigns within Facebook advertising. Brands and advertisers poured tens, often hundreds, of thousands of dollars collecting Likes, and Facebook had us convinced there was value in doing so. Today, there are various advertising opportunities and objectives, but Likes are still widely considered an indicator of brand loyalty and growth opportunity.The question remains, however: What is the value of these Likes? This is the million-dollar question, and it’s one that few marketers dare to dive into. We’ve been accustomed to avoiding it, only going so far as to concede that “there’s gotta be some value there.”In my opinion, there is value in a Like, but maybe not in the way you might think. Without further ado, let’s dive in.Correlation vs. causationIt can certainly be stated that there is relationship between a follower Liking a brand on a social platform and that follower spending more on the brand than non-followers. But is that re…
Oracle adds chatbots, smarter recommendation engine to its Clouds
This week, Oracle is livening up its Clouds with chatbots and other kinds of intelligent apps.First, it is bringing chatbot creation, management and hosting for the first time to its Customer Experience Cloud Suite.The Suite is the uber-brand for the constituent Clouds of Marketing, Sales, Commerce, Configure/Price/Quote, Service and Social. (Plus Oracle has announced a new Content and Experience Cloud, which centralizes the tools for content production, management and delivery.)The chatbot introduction means that marketers now have Oracle tools for specifying responses in an Oracle-connected chatbot conversation on Facebook Messenger or Amazon Alexa.An on-board conversational engine will help determine the human’s intent and context, or it will automatically hand off to a live agent if the back-and-forth becomes too complex. Chatbots include specialized ones for customer self-service and assistance with such sales tasks as account search.Second, Oracle is introducing something called…
Why B2B needs artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is more than a stylish trend. It goes beyond rules, providing the ability to understand content or language, find patterns that can be applied to the future, digest all kinds of information and make reasoned decisions.One by one, B2B vendors are rolling out their AI chops — targeting platform Demandbase, CRM and marketing platform Salesforce, account engagement platform YesPath, conversational platform Conversica, and B2B predictive marketer CaliberMind, among a growing list of others.To get some insight into what this means for businesses selling to businesses, we talked with Raviv Turner, CEO and co-founder of CaliberMind. (Turner will be co-presenting “A Scientific Look at B2B Buying in the Age of AI” at our MarTech Conference next month in San Francisco.)At the top level, he said, AI helps to solve key challenges that are particular to B2B.First of all, selling to a business is complicated.[Read the full article on MarTech Today.]
Facebook Marketplace update: 8% more spend is being pushed to Audience Network
Facebook has made no secret of its aggressive plans for broadening the market for its Audience Network. In a bid to attract publishers, the company officially adopted header bidding in March, and it has tweaked some of its stances on transparency to better court brand-oriented advertising dollars.But for many direct response advertisers, Audience Network is already a major piece of their advertising strategy — a development that stands to continue. In the latest quarterly Facebook benchmark report (registration required) I drafted for Nanigans, my employer, it’s clear Facebook is also increasing the amount of ad spend going to off-Facebook sources.This expansion has impacted long-term Facebook ad pricing trends, helping flatten cost increases thanks to increased supply, and it has created additional opportunities for direct response advertisers to gain particular advantages.The statsExamining an identical set of advertisers that chose to activate Audience Network over both Q4 2016 and…
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With new funding & a growing userbase, Quora makes its pitch to advertisers
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Facebook begins retargeting potential travelers with ads featuring flight info
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Marlo Chandler
Marlo Chandler-Jones
Harpy, Death, "Mars"[1]
Elsa Chandler (mother);
Ray Chandler (brother);
Keith Chandler (brother);
Rick Jones (ex-husband)
Incredible Hulks
Formerly Reno
Aerobics and swimming instructor
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(March, 2011)
Marlo Chandler was an aerobics and swimming instructor and a love interest for the casino security enforcer "Mr. Fixit", in reality the Hulk, believed dead, and now living incognito, his true identity unknown to Marlo. She ended their relationship after seeing him brutally kill an enemy. They later reconciled after Hulk reached out to her in a rare display of emotion and their relationship was able to end in a more amicable way.
She later became Rick Jones' girlfriend, the Hulk's perennial sidekick, and best friend to his alter ego, Bruce Banner. She met Rick while he was on a book tour promoting his memoir, Sidekick.
It was only when Rick, not knowing of Marlo's previous relationship with the Hulk, introduced her to Bruce and his wife Betty, that Marlo discovered that Mr. Fixit was really the Hulk, and that Bruce was not merely his friend, but his alter ego.
Shortly after this introduction, Marlo assured Betty that she had nothing to be jealous about as Bruce and Joe were two distinct people and Bruce had been unswervingly loyal to Betty, the psychiatrist Doc Samson managed to integrate the various personalities of the Hulk, resulting in a being that now possessed a permanent Hulk body with Bruce's face and intelligence.
When Betty expressed skepticism of a continued relationship with this new version of her husband, she moved in with Marlo, with whom she became best friends.
Marlo was stabbed to death by Jackie Shorr, a deranged woman who claimed to be Rick's biological mother who had abandoned him at a young age. Rick eventually employed the technology of the Hulk villain known as Leader, who managed to revive Marlo. She did not come back all the way at first and spent some time in a near vegetative state.
Rick and Marlo eventually married, although the wedding was nearly called off. At his bachelor party, Rick discovered a soft porn film that featured Marlo stripping nude at the beach, one of several such films she appeared in, just after she had finished high school. The couple quickly reconciled, thanks to the Hulk's intervention, and they went on with the marriage.
Every super-villain from Kree to Mephisto appeared at her wedding, due to the machinations of the Impossible Man. The two even became famous while hosting a successful talk show called Keeping up with the Joneses. During this time they would drift in and out of the Hulk series, making numerous appearances.
Marlo and Rick separated for a time, and she occupied herself with running the couple's Los Angeles-area comic book store. She and Rick reunited shortly after he was bonded with Genis-Vell the son of the original Captain Marvel, who took on that mantle himself. Soon after, Marlo was menaced by the Wendigo, a cannibalistic monster. She was saved by the Hulk.[2] It was also revealed that Marlo was possessed by the personification of Death.[3]
The large amount of cosmic powers left her with a literal death wish, which manifested itself as reality changing to suit Marlo's desires. Later, after coming to understand the situation, this talent went away when she wished for it to be gone. The comic store itself often had stories featuring real-life incidents happening to Marlo and Rick. Marlo spent much of the time annoyed by a chain-smoking, female ghost only she could see and hear. This was the spirit of the girl killed during the Wendigo debacle. Marlo played a major role in the Captain Marvel series.
Moondragon
At one point she developed an attraction for the super-heroine Moondragon which surprised the pair. At first both were unsure of what to do and before they could explore the possibility Marlo is whisked away by her husband. When the truth eventually came out Rick stood aside to let Marlo and Heather figure out what may be.
After some time past Marlo and Heather broke up when Marlo realized that whatever feelings she had, they were stronger towards Rick. Heather, brokenhearted, stated she must have subconsciously used her telepathy to enamor Marlo. This is not true, just Heather trying to make the split easier for Marlo.
As the Captain Marvel series ended, Rick, now separated from Captain Marvel, and Marlo were last seen happily in love and giving their marriage a second chance.
Harpy and the Incredible Hulks
Until recently Marlo has been missing for some time and was revealed to have been kidnapped by the Leader. She was turned into a new version of the Harpy by the Leader. After telepathically manipulating her, Leader sent her to battle Bruce Banner and Skaar. Afterwards, when she recognized Rick she returned to normal and reunited with Rick (now called A-Bomb).[4]
When the Rock Troll Ulik resurfaced and went on a multi-state drinking binge, Harpy helped A-Bomb put an end to the Rock Troll's chaos. After Ulik started choking Marlo, she was saved by A-Bomb, who proceeded to defeat Ulik.[1]
After the souls of the deceased were unleashed on Earth as a consequence of the Chaos King's actions, Doctor Strange revealed to the Hulk and his allies that Marlo was a crucial factor in the war against the Chaos King. Due to her time as a host of Death, Marlo could serve as a 'Death substitute' if she was discovered, which would result in everyone currently immobilized by Hell being killed by the hellfire.[5]
Marlo soon used her connection to Death to bring Doc Samson, Jarella, and Hiroim from the dead to help the Hulks in their fight against a resurrected Abomination, a Zom-possessed Doctor Strange, and the forces of Amatsu-Mikaboshi.[6] Zom and Abomination storm the bunker Marlo was hiding in and attempt to remove Death from her body. Marlo released Death, but she was able to free Dr. Strange from Zom's possession and to send Abomination back to the afterlife. This also sent the allies Marlo brought back to life to return to the afterlife as well.[7] Marlo's current whereabouts and activities are unknown.
Marlo's powerset has been incredibly inconsistent to say the least. As the host of Death, her most commonly displayed power is the ability to communicate with the dead. During the Chaos War she was able to use her connection to Death to briefly raise the dead, free Dr. Strange from Zom's possession, and send Abomination back to the afterlife with just a touch. She also had a "death-wish" power but this was removed when she wished it away. However she still retains her connection to death, and in extreme circumstances such as during the Chaos War, can use it to channel the powers of Mistress Death herself.
At different points she has displayed powers which have not been seen before or since such as immense strength and the ability to shoot intense beams of heat from her eyes.
As her one-off mutation into the Harpy, she had super strength (in line with your standard gamma mutate) and wings which enabled her to fly. She also had talons and could fire some form of energy from her hands. However, the Harpy mutation by the Intelligencia was only temporary however and she can no longer transform into the Harpy.
Marlo is also an athletic woman, a talented swimmer and gymnast.
Strength level
She is fairly strong from working out.
Marlo once hosted her own talk show, Keeping up with the Joneses.[8]
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MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia and Abkhazia will consider creation of transit railways between Moscow, Sukhumi, Tbilisi and Yerevan, TASS reports.
“If all the parties agree, we believe it is possible to jointly consider this project and then construct transit railways, connecting Georgian cities of Sukhumi and Tbilisi with Armenia on one side and Russia on the other”, Putin told the media.
“The implementation of such projects will contribute to the creation of conditions for the development of relations between all interested parties,” the Russian president added.
Armenia, which will become a member of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union beginning next year, has no land connection with the rest of the Union members, also including Belarus and Kazakhstan.
Putin made the statement after Russia and Abkhazia signed the Treaty on Allied Relations and Strategic Partnership.
The new treaty is based on the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation of 2008 that fixed Russia’s recognition of Abkhazia.
Georgia does not recognize Abkhazia as an independent country and considers it to be still part of its territory.
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Days and Nights of Love and War
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Feasibility of multi-contrast imaging on dual-source photon counting detector (PCD) CT: An initial phantom study
Shengzhen Tao, Kishore Rajendran, Cynthia H McCollough, Shuai Leng
Radiation Physicists
Purpose: Photon-counting-detector-computed tomography (PCD-CT) allows separation of multiple, simultaneously imaged contrast agents, such as iodine (I), gadolinium (Gd), and bismuth (Bi). However, PCDs suffer from several technical limitations such as charge sharing, K-edge escape, and pulse pile-up, which compromise spectral separation of multi-energy data and degrade multi-contrast imaging performance. The purpose of this work was to determine the performance of a dual-source (DS) PCD-CT relative to a single-source (SS) PCD-CT for the separation of simultaneously imaged I, Gd, and Bi contrast agents. Methods: Phantom experiments were performed using a research whole-body PCD-CT and head/abdomen-sized phantoms containing vials of different I, Gd, Bi concentrations. To emulate a DS-PCD-CT, the phantoms were scanned twice on the SS-PCD-CT using different tube potentials for each scan. A tube potential of 80 kV (energy thresholds = 25/50 keV) was used for low-energy tube, while the high-energy tube used Sn140 kV (Sn indicates tin filter) and thresholds of 25/90 keV. The same phantoms were scanned also on the SS-PCD-CT using the chess acquisition mode. In chess mode, the 4 × 4 subpixels within a macro detector pixel are split into two sets based on a chess-board pattern. With each subpixel set having two energy thresholds, chess mode allows four energy-bin data sets, which permits simultaneous multi-contrast imaging. Because of this design, only 50% area of each detector pixel is configured to receive photons of a pre-defined threshold, leading to 50% dose utilization efficiency. To compensate for this dose inefficiency, the radiation dose for this scan was doubled compared to DS-PCD-CT. A 140 kV tube potential and thresholds = 25/50/75/90 keV were used. These settings were determined based on the K-edges of Gd, and Bi, and were found to yield good differentiation of I/Gd/Bi based on phantom experiments and other literature. The energy-bin images obtained from each scan (scan pair) were used to generate I-, Gd-, Bi-specific image via material decomposition. Root-mean-square-error (RMSE) between the known and measured concentrations was calculated for each scenario. A 20-cm water cylinder phantom was scanned on both systems, which was used for evaluating the magnitude of noise, and noise power spectra (NPS) of I/Gd/Bi-specific images. Results: Phantom results showed that DS-PCD-CT reduced noise in material-specific images for both head and body phantoms compared to SS-PCD-CT. The noise level of SS-PCD was reduced from 2.55 to 0.90 mg/mL (I), 1.97 to 0.78 mg/mL (Gd), and 0.85 to 0.74 mg/mL (Bi) using DS-PCD. NPS analysis showed that the noise texture of images acquired on both systems is similar. For the body phantom, the RMSE for SS-PCD-CT was reduced relative to DS-PCD-CT from 10.52 to 2.76 mg/mL (I), 7.90 to 2.01 mg/mL (Gd), and 1.91 to 1.16 mg/mL (Bi). A similar trend was observed for the head phantom: RMSE reduced from 2.59 (SS-PCD) to 0.72 (DS-PCD) mg/mL (I), 2.02 to 0.58 mg/mL (Gd), and 0.85 to 0.57 mg/mL (Bi). Conclusion: We demonstrate the feasibility of performing simultaneous imaging of I, Gd, and Bi materials on DS-PCD-CT. Under the condition without cross scattering, DS-PCD reduced the RMSE for quantification of material concentration in relative to a SS-PCD-CT system using chess mode.
https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13668
Whole-Body Counting
dual-source CT
multi-contrast imaging
multi-energy CT
photon counting detector
spectral CT
Tao, S., Rajendran, K., McCollough, C. H., & Leng, S. (2019). Feasibility of multi-contrast imaging on dual-source photon counting detector (PCD) CT: An initial phantom study. Medical physics. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13668
Feasibility of multi-contrast imaging on dual-source photon counting detector (PCD) CT : An initial phantom study. / Tao, Shengzhen; Rajendran, Kishore; McCollough, Cynthia H; Leng, Shuai.
In: Medical physics, 01.01.2019.
Tao, S, Rajendran, K, McCollough, CH & Leng, S 2019, 'Feasibility of multi-contrast imaging on dual-source photon counting detector (PCD) CT: An initial phantom study', Medical physics. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13668
Tao S, Rajendran K, McCollough CH, Leng S. Feasibility of multi-contrast imaging on dual-source photon counting detector (PCD) CT: An initial phantom study. Medical physics. 2019 Jan 1. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.13668
Tao, Shengzhen ; Rajendran, Kishore ; McCollough, Cynthia H ; Leng, Shuai. / Feasibility of multi-contrast imaging on dual-source photon counting detector (PCD) CT : An initial phantom study. In: Medical physics. 2019.
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Human Trafficking-The Urban Institute
April 3, 2014 by CSOSA
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The program addressed Human Trafficking. Our guest is Colleen Owens, a Research Associate with the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center where she directs several national and international research projects on human trafficking — spanning eight countries and five continents. She currently serves as co-Principal Investigator leading a National Institute of Justice-funded study to examine the organization, operation and victimization of labor trafficking in the United States.
See http://www.urban.org/center/jpc/projects/Victims-of-Crime.cfm for an overview of research.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vO9dDndhGxc for an Urban Institute video on Human Trafficking.
The show was produced by Kate Villarreal, Communications Manager, Justice Policy Center, The Urban Institute.
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A top priority for Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is to invest in scientific research to ensure that the Department is both tough and smart on crime. The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice.
A new website lists and evaluates prisoner re-entry programs nationwide. Launched yesterday by the Urban Institute, the Council of State Governments, and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Prisoner Reentry Institute, the “What Works Clearinghouse” can be seen at http://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/what_works.
The National Reentry Resource Center is a project of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, US Department of Justice. Please see the Center’s website at http://www.nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/. Please see “Federal Interagency Reentry Council Launches Website, Releases Myth-Buster Series” on the front page of the site (see announcements). CSOSA is a member of the Council.
Several requesters have asked for national research on reentry. The Office of Justice Program’s National Institute of Justice reentry research portfolio supports the evaluation of innovative reentry programs. To access these studies and NIJ’s entire reentry research portfolio visit www.nij.gov/nij/topics/corrections/reentry/welcome.htm .
The Office of Violence Against Women offers stalking response tips for corrections, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement, victims and victim advocates. They are posted on OVW’s website at www.ovw.usdoj.gov .
The National Institute of Corrections Information Center is one of the largest repositories for corrections research and information in the country. See www.nicic.gov/Library.
Correctional Social Media:
The Pew Center on the States Public Safety Performance Project offers a video on research to reduce recidivism as well as brief but powerful overviews of reentry and sentencing research. See http://www.pewstates.org/projects/public-safety-performance-project-328068 .
The U.S. DOJ Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships recently held two successful webinars on Faith and Community Based approaches to Reentry and Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives. Click the links below to watch/listen to these informative webinars.
Faith and Community Based Approaches to Responsible Fatherhood and its Impact on Delinquency Prevention, see https://bjatraining.org/2012/04/10/faith-and-community-based-approaches-responsible-fatherhood-and-its-impact-delinquency
A Look at Faith & Community-Based Approaches to Offender Reentry, seehttps://bjatraining.org/a-look-at-faith-community-based-approaches-to-offender-reentry
The Louisiana Department of Corrections/Division of Probation and Parole is offering radio shows on offender reentry. Please visit their website athttp://doc.la.gov/pages/reentry-initiatives/reentry-radio/ .
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services offers podcasts at http://www.criminaljustice.ny.gov/pio/podcasts.html.
The Minnesota Department of Corrections offers a YouTube channel at http://m.youtube.com/user/minnesotadoc .
The Facebook page for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections ishttps://www.facebook.com/pages/Rhode-Island-Department-of-Corrections/400377866663063
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Facebook Page is http://www.facebook.com/cacorrections .The Twitter page is http://twitter.com/cacorrections .
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The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barns
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Filed Under: Domestic Violence, Police, Sex Offenders, Victim Services Tagged With: human trafficking, Urban Institute
Victim Assistance and Cyber Crime in America-NOVA
February 12, 2014 by CSOSA
Transcript available from http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2014/03/victim-assistance-cyber-crime-america-nova/
The program interviews Will Marling, Executive Director, National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA). Will addresses a proposed US Constitutional Amendment for victim rights, a new effort to provide distance learning training to victim advocates throughout the world and Nova’s involvement in fighting cyber crime.
The website for NOVA is http://www.trynova.org .
Filed Under: Internet Crime, Victim Services Tagged With: constitutional amendment, crime victims, cyber crime, NOVA, victim
Crime Victim Compensation and Services in Washington, D.C.
January 16, 2014 by CSOSA
Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2014/03/crime-victim-compensation-services-washington-d-c/
The program interviews Laura Banks Reed, Director of the Crime Victim’s Compensation Fund of the D.C. Superior Court and Bonnie Andrews, Victims Services Program Manager of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.
The program addresses crime victim services and financial assistance in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country.
In the District of Columbia (and all states) crime victim compensation programs provide financial assistance based on eligibility criteria.
All criminal justice agencies in the nation’s capital and most state and local agencies throughout the country have dedicated specialists to provide victim services and compensation.
The website for the Superior Court for the District of Columbia is http://www.dccourts.gov .
The website for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency is http://www.csosa.gov .
Filed Under: Victim Services Tagged With: crime victim compensation, crime victims
Victim Rights in the US and Europe-A US Constitutional Amendment-NOVA-DC Public Safety Radio
October 31, 2013 by CSOSA
We received 1.4 million page views in 2012.
Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2014/01/victim-rights-us-europe-us-constitutional-amendment-nova-dc-public-safety-radio/
The program interviews Will Marling, Executive Director for the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA).
Will offers updates on victim rights, cooperation with European Union countries as they explore enhanced victim assistance and the possibility of a US Constitutional Amendment for victim rights.
NOVA’s toll free number is 1-800-TRY-NOVA
The website for NOVA is http://www.trynova.org
The Louisiana Department of Corrections/Division of Probation and Parole is offering radio shows on offender reentry. Please visit their website at http://doc.la.gov/pages/reentry-initiatives/reentry-radio/ .
Filed Under: Victim Services Tagged With: NOVA, Victim Assistance, Victim rights
Cyber Safety-National Organization for Victim Assistance-DC Public Safety
June 27, 2013 by CSOSA
Transcript available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2013/08/cyber-safety-national-organization-for-victim-assistance-dc-public-safety/
The program addresses cyber safety. We interviewed Will Marling, Executive Director of the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA). NOVA’s efforts to promote an amendment to the US Constitution to protect victim rights was also discussed.
The website for NOVA is http://www.trynova.org.
A brochure on cyber safety is available from NOVA, see http://www.trynova.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AWARE-trifold.pdf .
The program is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barn
Filed Under: Interviews with Policy Makers, Technology, Victim Services Tagged With: computer safety, computer security, cyber safety, cyber safety tips, cyber security
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metrhispanic
On cities, land, …
About Javier Barros and this blog
Biblio- selected readings
A long post
Biblio (4) UK National Planning Policy Framework
It is quite possible that a large share of the readers of this blog will never practice urban planning in the UK. But the document that is commented is interesting in comparative terms and by its enunciation of public policies (a literary corpus in itself…).
The European Union is composed of countries with very different legal traditions, usually grouped in two families: southern countries have usually Latin origin systems, highly codified, while the Northern Countries are rather based on the Germanic law tradition. In the case of the British system there is a tradition of Acts passed by the Parliament and of documents exposing the policies of the current government. The electoral platforms, considered as mere political marketing tools in the Latin countries, can gain in Britain a certain legal status without going through the Parliament (although usually subject to public consultation). So are formulated the Planning Policy Statements and other documents compulsory in a variable degree.
The National Planning Policy Framework formulated by the current Liberal- Conservative coalition government has been published in march 2012.
Sustainable development is configured as the main aim of the system, to be attained through these lines of action:
1- Building a strong, competitive economy
2- Ensuring the vitality of town centres
3- Supporting a prosperous rural economy
4- Promoting sustainable transport
5- Supporting high quality communications infrastructure
6- Delivering a wide choice of high quality homes
7- Requiring good design
8- Promoting healthy communities
9- Protecting Green Belt land
10- Meeting the challenge of climate change, flooding and coastal change
11- Conserving and enhancing the natural environment
12- Conserving and enhancing the historic environment
13- Facilitating the sustainable use of minerals
The document defines the principles for plan- making:
– Local planning authorities should positively seek opportunities to meet the development needs of their area;
– Local Plans should meet objectively assessed needs, with sufficient flexibility to adapt to rapid change, unless:
Any adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits, when assessed against the policies in the Framework taken as a whole
Specific policies in theFramework indicate development should be restricted
Decision-taking principles are also established:
– Approving development proposals that accord with the development plan without delay
– Where the development plan is absent, silent or relevant policies are out‑of‑date, granting permission unless:
Specific policies in the Framework indicate development should be restricted.
These policies must be read on the context of the precedent acts of the coalition government, which previously suppressed the regional planning system (but for London) and has given greater power to local governments. Some parts of the document remind the basic principles of the Spanish Land Law of 1998
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged A long post, Biblio, United Kingdom, Urban Planning on August 17, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
The Seine embankment on the Saint Louis Island
The historical core of Paris is the most complex zone of the metropolitan area. Despite its continuity as the urban core since roman times, the substantial transformation during the XIXth century under Baron Haussmann and the subsequent works during the XXth century make it in many places a somehow recent urban tissue.
Under the reign of Napoleon III and for a not that long period (1853-1870), Haussmann directed a radical urban transformation. As well as Cerdá in Barcelona or the English reformers, he associated the old urban tissues from the middle ages to epidemics and social problems, and thought that transforming these areas was an urgent need.
Central Paris prior to Haussmann’s works. Carte d’Etat Major, available at http://www.geoportail.fr
Central Paris today
Some of the transformations introduced by Haussmann
a- Demolition of buildings on bridges
b- Embankment building
c- Demolition of buildings on shores, leaving an open view from the upper streets.
d- Opening of the Boulevard de Sebastopol
e- Opening of the Boulevard Saint Michel
His approach to the problem is similar to what can be seen today in many cities: a combination of a search for administrative efficiency that sometimes forgets any other goal, and a new paradigm. If today the paradigm is the idea of sustainable development, Haussman is the first example of what late will gain traction to reach its zenith around the first world war under the name of hygienism.
Fueled by new management techniques (which make him suspect of financial scandals), Haussman is not limited to the urban extension problem as Cerdá in Barcelona (whose ideas about refurbishment of the existing city never fully gain traction), as he also defines, with a central role in his urban model, a transformation of the central core by opening many boulevards that ensure a consequent streets grid. The sanitation and sewage system is an innovation in its days, due to its design and ambition, and the Seine shores receive embankments.
The sewage network defined under Haussmann. Taken from Distribution d’eau et assainissement, Georges Bechmann, Editions Baudry et Cie, 1898, available at http://www.egouts.tenebres.eu/livres.php
The romantic image of the XIXth century Paris that is transmitted by tourist guides is an abrupt change for the people that live these transformations. Elements that today have been integrated to the urban landscape and can be seen as unmistakably Parisian by tourists are in the beginning just mass- produced urban furniture fixtures that are placed in an uniform way on the public space.
Paris today is still marked by the Sebastopol and Saint Michel Boulevards, what was the large market of Les Halles (substituted by a large retailing mall in the 1970s and a large transit exchange, and nowadays again subject to substantial construction works for a new radical transformation) and the new embankments, plus the building of a large number of monumental scale buildings that are designed to highlight the axis of the new boulevards.
The difference between this experience and that of other cities is the high technical and aesthetical quality of the designs of these elements, as well as the inner coherence of the urban project, that would not be completed until after the fall of the second empire. The lack of a geometric basic system allowing for an extension ad infinitum of that new urban tissue, as Cerda’s grid, is not an obstacle to the continuity of the tissue, as that role is played by the Thiers Wall. While Barcelona and Madrid tear down their walls in 1860, in 1844 Paris opens a new external wall, in that moment far away from the urban area, but anyway a rigidity condition. These walls are demolished between 1919 and 1929, and later their vacant site becomes the location of the peripherique beltway, but to this day the 1844 wall marks a discontinuity in the urban fabric and is the administrative limit of Paris.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1 km, A long post, Paris, sustainable development, Tourism, Urban Planning on July 29, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
Tourism spaces (3c)
The Cathedral on the Obradoiro Square
Santiago de Compostela is a municipality (pop 95.000 in 2011) which is the capital of Galicia, the northwestern region of Spain.
The burial site of the apostle Saint James is discovered in the IXth century; according to some legends he came to Spain to spread the gospel, but other sources say that his disciples transported his remains from Palestine to Galicia in a boat. The discovery brings pilgrims, and the sanctuary gains political force and urban size. A large part of Spain is occupied by muslims, as well as Jerusalem, and the rise of a relevant shrine in one of the ends of the known land appears as an opportunity to expand the catholic religion.
Saint Peter in Rome (left) and the Cathedral of Santiago and its urban surroundings
The Cathedral becomes with the time one of the biggest in Europe, although far from the size of Saint Peter in Rome. The firs element is a small chapel. Works for a major temple begin in 1075, and in 1211 a Romanesque cathedral is consecrated, becoming the basis of the present building with some later alterations (mainly the baroque façades).
Obradoiro square from the north
The Cathedral from Azabachería square
Stairs on Quintana square
The building sits on a complex ground, with sizeable level changes, and so the Cathedral is surrounded by squares and large stairways. Today it is possible to visit a space that is almost an additional square: the stone roofs of the central building, allowing for good view over the historical center.
View from the stone roofs
The Cathedral and most of the buildings in the old city are in granite; the quite rainy climate and the condition of the stone have it often covered in part by moss, and the effect of pollution is also relevant for conservation. The building is subject to periodical conservation works, and from the 1980s there has been a strong conservation activity in relevant historical buildings and also in more domestic architectures.
Pilgrims mean a communication and innovation current during the middle ages, as well as the emergence of a network of churches and inns in the different parts of the Way of Saint James. The most relevant section is the French Way, that goes through northern Castille, crosses the Pyrenees at Roncesvalles and has in Paris a relevant node, with ramifications towards other parts of Europe.
The Diocese becomes powerful as one of the main actors in the region due to the pilgrim’s gifts, and keeps that power for centuries. The University is established in 1459, being one of the oldest in the world. In the XVIth century a part of the political power is transferred to La Coruña, 60 km to the north. The new quasi-federal regime of today’s Spain means that Santiago becomes the capital of the Galician region in the 1980s, and the old city is inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1985.
Tourism is one of the main sources of revenue in the city, along with its function as regional capital and the University. A part of the tourists still come by the Way of Saint James, be it walking, biking or astride their horses, meaning a low carbon tourism (despite the fact that their trips back home are often in motorized modes). The municipality has less than 10% of the provincial population, but its touristical index (a synthetic indicator calculated by the Anuario Económico de España 2011) shows it concentrates 38% of its tourism activity. There is a wide array of prices and qualities, from the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos as the most emblematic hotel to low cost youth hostels. Tourist arrivals multiply on holy years (those in which the festivity of Saint James is on Sunday).
Cathedral: http://www.catedraldesantiago.es
Tourism office: www.santiagoturismo.com/
Posted in Tourism and tagged 1 km, A long post, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Tourism on July 1, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
Some numbers about Madrid (3)
What is the use for an automobile? This seemingly simple question, whose answer seems evident, lies at the base of a relevant part of the debate on urban planning in many countries, even if it is almost never asked in those terms.
We own a car, used essentially for out of city travel; I am lucky to live near the center of Madrid, at just half an hour’s walk from my job, so I walk nearly all days. It’s faster and way cheaper than to use a car or even public transit (which is common for such short distances). Sometimes we use our car to go to peripheral big box retailers, but most of our food is bought in the neighborhood, and for more specialized items we usually at least browse the central Madrid stores, a convenient collateral of working in the area.
Sometimes I use my car to get to working meetings in places in which there is no convenient public transportation link, but I usually prefer to take a train or a bus, because travel time is better and I can work during the journey, something quite useful to manage my working time.
But not everyone does things as I do. The car is quite used in metropolitan Madrid. A sprawling growth pattern for housing and jobs contributes to that. Even if the classical planning theory says that there should be a balance between jobs and working age population in all municipalities, this goal is hard to attain when contracts are not kept for long times, a growing issue these days. Besides, shopping systematically in big box peripheral retail centers also increases the car traffic. On the other side, a sizeable group of citizens prefers their cars to public transit to avoid lengthy transfer times, or simply to avoid “smelling the sweat” of other travelers.
Madrid municipal statistics show that in 2010 there were 2.541.000 vehicles on the street on an average day (a bit more in june, but 25% less in august). Most of this traffic (nearly 20%) concentrates between the M30/Calle 30 Beltway and the inner avenues subject to traffic lights. The average speed is on the whole 24,16 km/h (less than half in the older part of the city, up to 67 km/h on beltways).
Average daily intensity of traffic in central Madrid, by streets
Average daily speed in Madrid, by street
Vehicles paying local taxes in 2010 were some 1.740.000 in Madrid (some 2 citizens per car), 78% of which were cars. Using cadastral data there are 0,93 cars per housing unit as a municipal average, with lesser values in the scope of the Proyecto Madrid Centro, while in 2005 New York (but for central Manhattan) had 0,59 cars per dwelling, and París’s 2006 figure was 0,47.
Cars by 1000 habitants in Madrid and the surrounding municipalities in 2010
Cars per household in the parisian region in 2006
Cars in all existing housing in New York (excluding central Manhattan)
During that year 865.000 cars used public parking. In the streets subject to park meters the average parking spot was used by two cars a day, each staying less than an hour.
In 2010 road accidents killed 34 and injured 11.744 in Madrid.
Also in 2010, municipal buses moved 439 million people, and the subway moved 632 million. Long and mid distance train stations were used by 21 million, and 300 million metropolitan train stations (nearly half used Atocha station). Some 50 million used Barajas Airport.
The relation with the car varies from country to country, but essential issues defining it include urban pattern, availability of alternative transportation, available income and normative framework. Cities in emerging countries as Mumbai have car ownership rates much lower than in Europe or North America, but they are growing; and even with such low car ownership rates vehicles can be a nuisance, as the citizen group Casablaklaxoon shows in Casablanca (Morocco).
The requirement for parking inside buildings is still enforced in central Madrid, while in central Manhattan there is a less straining specific rule since 1982.
How do you use your car?
Madrid municipal statistics on mobility: http://www.madrid.es/portales/munimadrid/es/Estadistica/Areas-de-Informacion-Estadistica/Trafico–Transportes-y-Comunicaciones?vgnextfmt=detNavegacion&vgnextchannel=f205c6bfec025210VgnVCM2000000c205a0aRCRD
New York Residential parking study: http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=residential%20parking%20study%3A%20automobile%20ownership%20rates%20and%20off-street%20parking%20requirements%20in%20portions%20of%20new%20york%20city%3A%20manhattan%20cds%209-12%2C%20the%20bronx%2C%20queens%20and%20brooklyn&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fdcp%2Fpdf%2Ftransportation%2Fresidential_parking.pdf&ei=daHlT8GhMZSLhQfrxa3PCQ&usg=AFQjCNEzqfwyW4k9VZDb5ujMlgv7JCASUA&cad=rja
Paris car ownership study: http://www.apur.org/etude/equipement-automobile-menages-parisiens
Casablaklaxoon: http://www.casablaklaxoon.com/
Posted in Car and city, French cities, Spanish cities, US cities and tagged 10 km, A long post, Cars, Casablanca, Madrid, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Urban Planning on June 27, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
Tourism spaces (2)
Badajoz is a city (pop. 151.565 in 2011) on the Spanish-Portuguese border. Some days ago I went there to a congress on an European transportation project, Axis 16, whose investment priority has been reduce, leading to protestations from the concerned regions. Axis 16 would configure a high capacity freight rail link between the Portuguese port of Sines and the French rail system through a new tunnel under the central Pyrenees mountain range.
Beyond the interest of the Axis 16 project (which implies a substantial refurbishment for an existing infrastructure currently obsolete, and therefore a reduced environmental impact), one of the surprises in this travel was the venue: the Badajoz Congress Palace.
Here the tourist space is not related to holidays but to business. The convention tourism is a specific dimension, implying a chance to get substantial revenue and to show the city to clients that can later come back for leisure. Most of the sizeable cities in Spain have specific convention venues, but organization abilities are at least as relevant as the built infrastructure. In this case organization was reasonably good, and 60 euros gave right to the convention and good quality food for the two days.
On a XVIIth century bulwark, occupying the site of the former bullfighting ring, the building constitutes a volume with a clear presence, but despite its size and visibility there is a hermetic dimension due to the access configuration.
You enter the building through a descending staircase covered by a strong orange color element, that is out ouf the cylinder defined by an open structure similar to a large basket. From there you enter a foyer in which the orange color and natural overhead lighting are the main element. The congress hall is marked by translucent wall which are back-lit. The volume of the hall is separated by a courtyard defined by both cylinders from the smaller reunion spaces. The building plays with transparency to variable degree.
The result is interesting, even if a question could be raised by the energy used by the back-lit walls in the congress hall. The emergency exits and the disabled access routes are out of sight, but they are surely as simple as the rest. The access route in a descent to later rise to the congress hall creates a spatially rich itinerary but is not tiresome. Some materials are not as well finished as they could, but the whole is spatially quite satisfactory. The circulation spaces and the halls can seem large in the photographs, but in your average congress they are soon filled.
The lot has an area of 14.291 sq m, with a floor area of 10.453 sq m.
Some links :
The architect’s web: http://www.selgascano.net/
Good photos: http://www.jesusgranada.com/selgasycano/
Axis 16 Convention web: http://www.orexco.net/Gesconet/Portal/InicioPortal.asp?ConID=110&NombreC=Congreso%20Transnacional%20del%20Eje%2016.%20Corredor%20Prioritario%20de%20la%20Red%20Transeuropea%20de%20Transportes&Idioma=E&Apartado=Inicio&Pagina=Bienvenida
Extremadura Regional Convention Centers network: http://www.palaciosdecongresosdeextremadura.es/
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged 100 m, A long post, Architecture, Badajoz, Convention, Extremadura, Spain, Tourism on June 25, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
As summer approaches, it is a good moment to begin a series about tourism and its meaning in terms of architecture, urban and regional planning.
Tourism is one of the main economic engines of Spain (nearly 10% of GDP in 2011, and close to 12,5% in jobs), and it contributes to balance external payments. In 2010 Spain was the fourth country in the world in number of foreign visitors (after France, the USA and China), and the second in dollars spent per tourist and day (996) after the USA. With a population over 46 millions, the country received in 2011 nearly 57 millions of international tourists, and the number of internal tourists was also noticeable.
This situation is by no means an accident, but the result of a state policy started in the 1950s as a part of a broader plan to revive the national economy after the 1936-1939 civil war and a long international isolation period during the 1940s. tourism had an effect on economy, but its influence was also felt strongly on landscapes and territories. This state policy rested on a preexisting tourism sector that was hardly developed, and reinforced it with strong expenditures in advertisement in foreign countries that was successful in a moment in which tourism became popular, European families began a long high spending period and enjoyed an increase in mobility due to cars and planes. Beaches where the main object of advertisement and of desire for many Europeans, and the Mediterranean coast was subject to an intense transformation, as well in urban terms as in terms of economic or political weight in the national scene, a clear symptom of the force of tourism.
With time, tourism has also grown more complex as an economic branch. The sun and beach tourism has been joined by urban tourism, and rural tourism has become during the last decade the fastest growing segment, even if it is still as small part of the total.
Vineyard landscape in Olmedillo, near Tórtoles de Esgueva
This first log corresponds to rural tourism. Last weekend we visited the Posada Real- Monasterio, a hotel in the municipality of Tórtoles de Esgueva (province of Burgos). The firm was constituted some five years ago with an aim to exploit a hotel in parts of an ancient enclosed monastery. The building is near a small hamlet (population 501 in 2011) which suffers the regressive demographics so common in inner Spain. Despite that, the statistics of the municipality are somehow improved (41 under 16 years in 2011) and the presence of foreign migrants can be felt, as in many areas during the last decade, with 98 foreigners in 2011, mainly Romanians and Moroccans.
Ribera del Duero’s Designation of Origin area in Spain
One of the main reasons to locate the hotel in that municipality is its inclusion in one of the most dynamic wine growing areas of the country in the last years: Ribera del Duero, an area that gravitates around Aranda de Duero, a city on the A1 freeway, which links Madrid to Paris and Northern Europe. A quality policy joined by a Designation of Origin have contributed to good sales, but also to promote the cultivation land in tourism terms. This association of quality production and cultural and rural tourism shows the innovations in the tourism sector, and is also one of the claims of the plans and policies concerning these inner regions often threatened by depopulation.
Tórtoles de Esgueva hamlet and Inn’s location
The visited hotel follows these patterns: it creates local employment not subject to the cultivation times, generates tax revenues for the municipality and contributes to the image of the area. With a quality hotel offer and a price range on par with similar hotels, it focuses promotion on the building itself and a combined high quality food and wine offer.
The hamlet of Tórtoles is on the slope road linking the Esgueva Valle to the upper plateau; the Posada (Inn) is on the upper area, towards the plateau. It shares the building of the old monastery with other uses, a fact that makes it difficult to see it from the road. The architectural qualities of the Inn include two chapels and a chapter hall of interest, surrounded by a cloister and the old residential structure of the Covent, with more domestic qualities, but of interest. The original structure is maintained, and the architectural integration of such new elements as the elevator is satisfying.
Access to the Inn
Chappel and room 14
Inn’s Garden
The food and hotel offer is interesting and shows high quality, as the personalized attention to clients.
The clients are tourists visiting the Ribera del Duero and its wine-tasting routes, urbanites from Madrid or other cities that come for a weekend out of the city, and marriages and all sorts of social events. The contraction of the Spanish demand can harm the midterm results of the business, as in many parts of the country; this would also influence the sustainability of the small rural hamlets network.
Tourism in Figures (Ministry of Industries, Energy and Tourism): http://www.iet.turismoencifras.es/
Designation of Origin Ribera del Duero: http://www.riberadelduero.es/
Royal Inn Monastry Tortoles de Esgueva: http://www.posadamonasterio.es/
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged 100 m, A long post, Architecture, Food, Holidays, Ribera del Duero, Spain, Tórtoles de Esgueva, Tourism on June 20, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
Madrid has a dense public transportation network. An essential element is the metro (rapid transit) network, opened in 1919 and counting today 12 lines, 296 km of track and 238 stations. The network is managed by the Regional Government, and is integrated in a Regional Transportation Consortium that has a unified fare system. In 2010 metro sold 630 million tickets, the highest figure among the elements of the transportation system.
As in most rapid transit systems, it is focused on core- periphery relations; the network extensions have reinforced the nodal role of the historical city core through the links among confluent lines. Not having a fixed limit for the core center, and taking as a reference the limit of the scope of the Proyecto Madrid Centro, 48% of that area is at less than 300 m of a metro station. That figure is similaire to that in Paris; Manhattan seems to present a similar figure. Mumbai, a city that plans to introduce a rapid transit system in the next years, uses the rail network as the backbone of its public transportation system, with a less dense coverage. Buenos Aires combines a low density rapid transit network with the railroads. The following maps show the described networks of those cities at the same scale, as well as the 300 m radius from the stations.
The network finds its best efficiency through its exchanges with other public and private transportations modes. The city is served by several high speed and conventional rail lines, long distance buses and the Barajas airport; the metropolitan scale transportation rests on the suburban rail network, along conventional rail tracks, and some recent extensions of the metro network.
Line 12 (also known as Metrosur) (A) is noteworthy among these extensions. It is a circle line linking the southern metropolitan municipalities (historically those less favored in economical terms). It is linked to the rest of the network through the suburban trains and a single connection to a metro line.
Three tram lines have been added recently to the network. One covers the new residential developments on the northern part of the Madrid municipality (B), and the two others cover the low density developments to the southwest (C,D); a still reduced occupation rate at the northern housing areas and low densities on the southwest make for a complex economic management.
Some references:
Metro de Madrid: http://www.metromadrid.es/en/index.html
Consorcio Regional de Transportes: http://www.ctm-madrid.es/
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged 10 km, A long post, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Proyecto Madrid Centro, Rapid Transit, Subway on June 16, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
These are some numbers related to the density of the urban core of Madrid, based on gross floor areas as tabulated in the land registry in 2010. The area covered is the scope of the Proyecto Madrid Centro, including 36.833 lots with an agregated area of 33,829 millions sq m and an agregated gross floor area of 101,434 million sq meters; the average floor-area ratio is 2,99.
The first map shows the gross floor area of each lot, in sq m
This map shows the location of the 10 lots with the highest gross floor area; for those knowing Madrid, they are sometimes conventional buildings, but they are located on very large fiscal lots.
The floor-area ratio map shows that the highest ratios are on average on the dense extensions of the 19th and 20th centuries
The ten highest floor-area ratios correspond generally to large department stores or towers
Added gross floor area of the lots adjoining the Gran Vía, a large avenue (1.300 m long) open through the central core at the begining of the 20th century.
Added gross floor area of the lots adjoining the Puerta del Sol square (225 m on its long axis), the central point of the urban core.
Added gross floor area of the lots adjoining the retailing core of Madrid (the commercial streets linking the Puerta del Sol to the Gran Vía), an area with a combined land area of some 150.000 sq m.
Added gross floor area of the lots included in Azca, the northern business district on the Castellana Avenue (the number is set to grow due to the reconstruction of an arsoned office tower), an area with a combined land area of some 190.000 sq m..
Floor-area ratio in Azca is not substantially higher than in the retailing core of the city, but a different architecture and management scheme has produced a completely different tissue.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1 km, 10 km, A long post, Architecture, Madrid, Proyecto Madrid Centro, Urban Planning on June 10, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
Explaining an architectural or urban proposal requires transmitting its aims and the context in which they will be deployed. To that end it is common to use a set of numbers than, in the end, are aimed to compare. It is common to state that a building has a surface of x sq ft, or a new neighborhood will occupy x acres, or even that it will have a certain number of dwellings. These figures have a sense only if they can be compared to other known magnitudes, but this part is often omitted, specifically in technical articles.
In this time in which numbers have a great relevance and their management must take into account their real meaning, it seems relevant to talk millions. A million square meters (10,763 million sq ft) are 100 hectares, and the Spanish press often equates that to a 100 soccer fields; it is also common to see references to sports fields in other countries. But the size of a soccer field can go from 45×90 m (less than half an hectare) to 120×90 m (1,08 hectare). This surface encloses the turf area, not taking into account the athletics racetrack around it common in many stadiums, or the stands. A mid-sized stadium can be easily over 3 hectares, and the ancillary parking spaces can add large dimensions.
Madrid’s Retiro Park is slightly over 1 million sq m (1.092.395 sq m without the built up areas), which is almost a third of New York’s Central Park (3.399.322 sq m, including the 56 buildings) (in both cases land registry data). In both cases the perception of the dimension of these spaces is related to the landscape design of the parks, and to the visibility of the buildings around the park.
The Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid occupies a 43.688 sq m lot, in which the gross floor area (including annex retail elements) is 114.105 sq m. The Riazor Stadium at La Coruña occupies a 42.828 sq m lot, with a gross floor area of 40.499 sq m (in both cases, land registry data).
The Alberto J. Armando stadium in Buenos Aires (also known as La Bombonera) occupies a lot of some 23.000 sq m.
Large stadiums for other sports also have different space requirements. The Sydney Cricket Ground occupies some 50.000 sq m, while Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium is in the 31.000 sq m category. The new (2009) Yankee Stadium in New York is in a 314.000 sq m lot, with a gross floor area of 261.312 sq m (data from the environmental assessment).
A million square meters is a large dimension, difficult to see “piled up” in a building. Beyond large stadiums, big box retail venues, and industrial or logistic buildings sometimes reach quite large dimensions with low heights; this is the case of some asian malls and of FloraHolland in Aalsmeer, the largest auction hall for flowers in the Netherlands, with a gross floor area of 990.000 sq m (one of the largest buildings in the world).
Reaching the million sq m category in other building typologies is difficult, as regulations and quality requirements usually favor a division of volumes. The Cuatro Torres Business Center in Madrid concentrates the four highest towers in the city, with a combined 486.159 sq m gross floor area on 30.000 sq m (four lots). But there is no need to articulate towers to design a huge surface building. The mixed use (retail and offices) L’Illa Diagonal in Barcelona (Architect Rafael Moneo) sits on a 20.352 sq m lot with a gross floor area of 199.246 m2 (land registry data), with only eight floors above ground.
On a similar height range, but on a larger lot (116.223 sq m), the New Ministries in Madrid have a 184.396 sq m gross floor area (land registry data). The Louvre Museum in Paris has a 200.000 sq m gross floor area (according to its greenhouse gas emission control plan).
New York illustrates high densities: Macy’s East department store sits on a 12.483 sq m lot, with a 194.361 sq m gross floor area, resulting in a floor-area ratio of 15,6, and the Empire State Building sits on a 8.486 sq m lot with a gross floor area of 261.312 sq m (land registry data in both cases), resulting in a floor-area ratio (FAR) of 30,7. These FAR are possible with land uses with limited demands for natural lighting and ventilation, as in department stores or, in the second case, offices conceived according to what today are dated standards.
The FAR concept itself cannot be compared without knowledge of the context: in Madrid’s four towers the FAR (measured on lot) is similar to that of Macy’s East, but in the first case towers have 50 levels and sit on a common basis, while in the second the building façade is aligned with the lot line with a maximal height of 19 levels.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1 km, A long post, Aalsmeer, Architecture, Barcelona, Baseball, Coruña, Department Store, Madrid, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Soccer, Stadium, Sydney, Urban Planning on June 9, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
Urban freeways (4 and final)
Management systems and operational budgets in projects concerning the creation or substitution of urban freeways vary according to local conditions and to the ideological orientation of government officials in place.
Comparing the economics of this kind of projects in different countries and cities is utterly complex: exchange rates, differences in the materials and labor costs, accounting principles and technical requirements diverging, debt payment terms, inflation… Dividing the project in tranches and packages makes it even more complex, and unified data is scarce.
Anyway, some conclusions from the three cases seen and some other.
The cost of works in Europe is substantially higher than in emerging countries, as much for environmental or safety requirements as by the cost structure. According to a 2007 report of the Comptroller and General Auditor of India, the Bandra- Worli new construction project (5,8 km) had an estimated cost of 13,06 billion Roupies (about 200 million Euros). According to Paris city documents the covering of 10.000 sq m of freeway at the Porte de Vanves for less than 500 m of length had a cost of 58 million Euros. Nevertheless, taking into acount the average disposable income of local citizens, the situation is the opposite.
Urban integration and underground works in Europe are on a similar cost scale per km. The higher technical complexity of the M30 tunnels in Madrid was compensated by a greater freedom in traffic diversion schemes layout during works, while the Boulevard Peripherique projects had to be executed with much less margin and over a functioning original right of way; the tunnel security rules create an increased cost, having to monitor a series of small tunnels instead of a long single one.
The debt burden caused by these works varies. In Mumbai the Bandra- Worli Sea Link, a project of the State of Maharashtra, has been defined as a 30 years concession contract with a toll which should allow it to self-finance. Paris counts its costs in its general budget, without a separate chapter, and benefits from a strong participation by the central State and the Region Ile de France. In Madrid the city alone bears the cost, having constituted a public- private partnership; Madrid Calle 30 (80% municipal) has a separate accounting scheme, showing that the debt caused by the project is slightly larger than half the added remainder of the municipal debts.
The budget problems are not an exclusive of the right or the left; Boston’s Big Dig (similar in many instances to Madrid Calle 30) was an initiative supported by official from the Democratic Party, and in Mumbai the city and the State of Maharashtra have different governments.
Economic and Financial Plan of the Madrid City Council for 2012-2016, with data regarding the Madrid Calle 30 debt:
http://www.madrid.es/UnidadesDescentralizadas/Presupuestos/OtrosContenidosPresupuestarios/PlanEconomicoFinanciero20122016/FicherosPEF/PEF_2012_2016_con_informes.pdf
2004 Report by the Comptroller and General Auditor of India, including references to the Bandra- Worli Sea Link: http://pibmumbai.gov.in/English/PDF/E2008_PR1050.PDF
Paris City budget for 2012:
http://labs.paris.fr/commun/budget_primitif_2012/
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged A long post, Cars, freeways, Madrid, Mumbai, Paris on June 3, 2012 by metrhispanic. Leave a comment
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The many islands within this huge atoll are crowned with natural beauty. The outer barrier reef is punctuated with idyllic sand spits dotted with coconut palms. The high islands in the central lagoon rise into the blue island skies. Lush vegetation and simple living punctuate the lives of the lagoon. Fishing, weaving and tending garden supplant the subsistence lives that many sustain on their individual islands. It is not unusual to see women waist deep in the mangroves hunting for a special delicacy or men walking the reefs by torchlight at night looking for baby octopus. Boat makers create vessels high in the hills of the inner islands and take them down to sea when finished. Open hearth fires are still used to cook the daily meals. Life here is close to nature and lived in conjunction with the land and the sea. Local carvers are also famous for using beautiful local woods to carve warrior masks and busts. And the Chuukese love stick is part of a legendary practice of courtship unique to this island group.
Chuuk, with its vast, shallow, beautiful lagoon is a Mecca for wreck divers. A major shipwreck site from WWII, Truk Lagoon is unquestionably the world's best shipwreck diving destination. Here, more than 50 hulks have been transformed into shipreefs, holding the very best of the undersea world and maritime history at one site. Hard and soft corals in a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes attract divers worldwide for both daytime and night diving. The vast selection of artifacts still found on the wrecks after five decades are testament to the unique history of the Micronesian Islands. The historical aspect of Truk Lagoon is not totally hidden by the jungles. Japanese lighthouses, perched high atop the lagoon's finest overlooks, can be reached by hiking or driving. Old runways, command centers, gun emplacements, cave networks, hospitals and libraries can be found with the help of a knowledgeable guide.
Visit Chuuk
In Chuuk, the pace of life slows and tropical nature is easily observed and appreciated. Many of the islands offer lush vegetation that harbors rare and migratory birdlife. Enthusiasts have been known to camp high in the hills to observe these special avians. Wild orchids and other flora are found in the scenic and sometimes rugged terrain of the islands. Traveling by ocean kayak from island to island is one way to enjoy Chuuk. Often overlooked are the outer reefs where a great variety of fish, both pelagic and reef dwelling, venture near cascading coral walls that stretch into the blue abyss of the Pacific Ocean. Windsurfing and sailing in the lagoon passes is also done during tradewind season.
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How to Get to Chuuk?
Travel to Chuuk is provided by United Airlines.
Where to Stay in Chuuk?
Christopher Inn RS Plaza
Email: xstore@mail.fm
Chuuk Pacific Resort
E-mail: GOCPR@mail.fm
Chuuk Star Hotel
Tel: (691) 330-2040-44
Email: Chuukstar@mail.fm
Falos Beach Resort
Fax: (691) 330-2606/2706
E-mail: TPGardenMRVB@mail.fm
Foun Nukunumwar Apartment
Isauo Kuena Apartment
Island Motel
Kurassa Hotel
E-mail: Kurassa@mail.fm
Pacific Gardens Hotel
E-mail: jnpisi@mail.fm
Truk Blue Lagoon Resort
Tel: (691) 330-2727/2438
Email: blresort@mail.fm
Website: www.bluelagoondiveresort.com
Truk Stop
Email: TrukStop@mail.fm
How to Get Around in Chuuk?
Chuuk Star
Email: grmori@mail.fm
J & R Rentals
P.O.Box934
E-mail: jrent@mail.fm
Kurassa
Moria U-Drive
Chuuk offers so many Activities and Adventures…
Scuba enthusiasts regard the Truk Lagoon Underwater Fleet as one of the world's most intriguing dives. More than 60 submerged vessels and several downed aircraft rest in the depths of the lagoon, forming the world's largest underwater museum. In 1971 the legislature established the entire area as the Chuuk State Monument.
Built by the Japanese in the early 1930's, the Sapuk Lighthouse was constructed atop a hill commanding a panoramic view of the strategic Northeast Passage. Below the lighthouse are huge guns used to prevent American ships from entering the lagoon. The abandoned houses of lighthouse guards stand nearby in eerie silence.
The Japanese Wartime Communications Center is the principal structure in the complex of buildings that now comprise Xavier High School. Built of reinforced concrete with walls three to four feet thick, the massive building sustained little damage despite direct hits from U.S. Bombers.
The property on which the building stands had been purchased by the Catholic Church prior to the war, and when it was reclaimed, decided to repair the structure and use it as a nucleus for a Jesuit high school. Today the complex includes classroom buildings, a chapel, living quarters and offices for staff members, a study hall, gymnasium, workshop, mess facilities, and student dormitory.
The Tonata Guns and Caves serve as other reminders of wartime. Japanese Forces fortified many natural caves on Weno and other islands in Chuuk. Sometimes, as on FeFan and Tonowas, they enlarged the caves to install guns, or rails for the transportation of munitions and stores. The Tonata installations are typical of those found throughout the former bastion of Chuuk.
Tonachau Mountain Iras is, at 229 meters, the loftiest peak on Weno. The mountain is the legendary home of the God Souwoniras and his divine son. Situated by the Wichon River and Falls, the Wichon Men's Meeting House is the spot where Weno chiefs are reported to have met with Poomey, eldest of the six brothers who were the first chiefs of Chuuk. The shallow pool at the base of the Falls is still used for bathing and sport, just as it was in historic times. The site of Poomey's dwelling on a mountaintop may be seen From here and his gardens are nearby. Numerous petroglyphs are etched in the exposed basalt above the falls.
Nefo Cave, just 50 meters From the Governor's residence, is about 10 feet wide, 6 feet high and 78 Feet long. The cave contains a gun used by Japanese soldiers to guard entry to the north pass, and many of the soldiers lived there.
Other islands in the Truk Lagoon have historic and scenic sites well worth a visit.
Nemwes and Fouman Rocks, in Tunuk and Onip on Udot Island, are associated with the tales of the ancient rivalries between Chuuk and Yap, an island group that lies to the southwest. Legend has it that Nemwes, the daughter of a Yapese high chief, disobeyed her Father's wishes and came to Udot by walking across the sea. But when the priests of Udot destroyed her power to walk on water, Nemwes died of grief.
Chuuk Atoll, in the Caroline Islands, encompasses 15 large islands, 192 islands, and 80 islets and has one of the largest lagoons in the world. It measures 85 kilometers at its widest point and encloses an area of 822 square miles.
What lies beneath the blue waters is a submerged museum of World War II wrecks, for there are more than sixty ships of the Japanese wartime fleet encrusted with coral and lying at various depths.
On these wrecks are fighter planes still transports, trucks still lashed to the decks of freighters, and officers' china and utensils with brand names still recognizable.
The lagoon has been declared a monument, and salvage and souvenir taking of relics are prohibited by law. Divers must obtain a permit before diving around the ships.
One of the two top scuba diving locations in the world. Chuuk's water temperatures are 29 degrees C and incredibly calm between December and May. Average temperature above water is 30 degrees C.
Chuuk's Time Zone:
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Current Population:
Weno
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Official Languages:
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Flying distance from Guam to Chuuk is 1 hour and 50 minutes and from Honolulu to Guam, 12 hours and 15 minutes. United Airlines is the sole carrier servicing Chuuk and the Micronesia Islands.
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Home page of PinoyKubo.com
I’m wondering what Canadian company Astraqom, describing themselves as “a world leading provider of online community platforms leveraging IP communications,” is doing playing a “me, too” venture with the Facebook vs. Google+ world of social media networking by coming up with PinoyKubo, its social networking platform beta-tested in June this year. Here are some of the quips I’ve seen so far:
PinoyKubo is home to several online games, Filipino e-cards, chat, blogs, videos and more.
PinoyKubo is a global online meeting place reaching people of the Philippines around the world.
PinoyKubo offers the following applications: Chat, Video Chat, Photo and Video Uploads, Online Games and a lot more!
“The online community’s audience, membership, and market include Filipina and Filipino expatriates, business people and students who are in the Philippines as well as abroad. It also is popular with those who are in a position to develop business with those in the Philippines and those who wish to learn Tagalog or just be immersed in the exciting Philippines world culture.” I do hope it’s not one of those Match.com-wannabes touting “Filipina” (notice that was the first word description talking about membership).
What does it have that Facebook doesn’t have? That should be one of the first few questions that comes into mind. PinoyKubo has an answer:
“You can record your own audio and then save it and load it as message to your friends. You can enjoy a lot of our OPM songs or choose and play with something like 20,000 games. Take a test or make a test. But most people really love how they can draw and write a message literally and send it via the PK chat! Sing-along on the Karaoke! Make friends and have endless chatting, gaming or listening fun.”
PinoyKubo touts groups, too, but it relates it to businesses and organizations becoming popular, or as champions, via sponsorships, ads, partnering options, and special events. Add the phrase “…and be an important part of 2011 and future image and branding.” The list of companies who are taking part in the new Filipino social networking site are Astraqom (obviously, the creators of PinoyKubo), Manuel S. Enverga University, Virtual Phone Line, Globe Telecom, Smart Communications and Sun Cellular.
There’s an e-commerce component mentioned by PinoyKubo. “Any PinoyKubo member can start and operate his or her own electronic store and sell services and products online. Because of the company’s emphasis on empowering Filipinas and Filipinos in the Philippines and abroad and also those who enjoy the culture, there are no fees for transactions. Payments are made via Paypal.” (Again, the emphasis on Filipinas. Why not use a generic, non-gender term?) Their PR.com publication writes, “The PinoyKubo e-store is available to retail brand names or home hand-crafted items. The PinoyKubo community members do not have to buy their own store website, nor do they have to install anything to get started. With a minimal few minutes of effort, they are up and running with their own stores.” Click here to watch a YouTube video of a demo in setting up an e-store.
Jonathan Sowah is the founder of PinoyKubo and AstraQom. He is reported to say that the PinoyKubo social network’s stores is an effective way to expand entrepreneur and businesses’ reach into the benefits of social media.
TMCNet contributor Rahul Arora writes that with PinoyKubo’s features and tools, the participants can easily meet long-term social and entrepreneurial goals. They can make friends to collaborate with, get appreciated for one’s talents, accomplishments and abilities, and discover and employ new methods and tools to reach social and business (also may be entrepreneurial and financial) goals. But most of what he writes are copied from the Astraqom website.
Let’s summarize. PinoyKubo is:
Social networking site, like Facebook (photo, links, chats, etc.)
Online gaming site, like Friendster;
Blogging site, like Blogger or WordPress;
Meeting place, maybe like LinkedIn Groups
e-Cards? Plaxo.com comes to mind
e-Store, like Multiply
Video uploads, like YouTube
Anything else I missed?
PinoyKubo today has about 50,000 members (they call it “friendships”) after three months of beta-testing. They are planning a comprehensive game archive with over 14,000 different games and activities, plus social-oriented ones.
AstraQom Corporation merged with Aon Communications (Canada) Inc. in 2009 and has operations in Ottawa, Montreal, Maniwaki, Toronto, Miami and Mexico City (Mexico). It is a member of the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA).
I salute a Canadian company offering a service for Filipinos, worldwide. I advocate cloud-based applications and social media for the workplace. I’m not much of an online game afficionado but maybe it’s a carrot to the younger generation who are prospective buyers of its e-stores. So, join http://www.PinoyKubo.com and see what a predominantly Filipino market can do for you and your small business.
Sources: Facebook Page | PinoyKubo Info & Fansite | SGE Entrepreneurs | PR.com | TMCNet.com | American Banking & Marketing News
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MM Jaye's HEAs
Category: Urban fantasy
Black Rook by Kelly Meade (Paranormal romance) – Review
Published on July 26, 2014 by MM Jaye1 Comment
Black Rook, Cornerstone Run Trilogy #1
By Kelly Meade
Available July 15th from Intermix
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Brynn plucks up courage she doesn’t have to enter a loup garou town. The charmed pendant hanging around her neck helps as it covers her Magus smell. Because if the man she intends to stop from killing her father takes a whiff of her true scent, then she’s dead meat!
But killing a handsome loup on his turf to show to her demeaning father that she’s worthy to be called his daughter and save his life, proves to be a lot more difficult than she thought. Especially when she finds out first-hand that the loup are hardly animals, as she was brought up to believe, and definitely not the villains in an impending war that could lead to their extermination.
Rook is the third son of the run’s alpha, but as a black wolf he’s entitled to take his father’s place instead of his older brother who’s been training his entire life for leadership. Falling for a Magus and mating her will instantly banish any plans to become the leader. Does she mean that much to him and, most importantly, can he trust his enemy when his world is falling apart?
Although I’ve been on a paranormal hiatus lately, and I’m not a big werewolf fan, I enjoyed this book. Not much emphasis is laid on the actual shifting and animal form of the loup, but Kelly Meade manages to seep their human form with all the loup traits that give them their distinct behavior—from natural aggressiveness, distrust, loyalty and team-spirit to the acute sense of smell and the mouth-watering physique you’d expect of a loup garou.
Their physical differences from the Magi, the ancient, tall, slim and pale creatures, led to inevitable racism that turned to hatred when the loup numbers kept increasing. Without wanting to give away too much of the plot, the element of eugenics with a military intent, creating deadly killing machines, is part of the story and that in itself held great interest. Let’s just say that vampires are thought upon as pawns, but they develop their own lethal agenda.
Initially, the story was quite slow building as a number of characters with backstories had to be introduced, but the impending clash with the conflicts, twists and culminating drama towards the end compensates. There were parts especially where the vampires were involved that had me devouring the pages! Another aspect that’s worth mentioning is that the romance takes the back seat here. It’s slow and tentative with an explosive climax (pun intended) but it’s not the main driver in this multi-faceted story.
Clashing races, preternatural skills, power struggles, an intricate plot and a love that grows strong are the elements of this promising new series.
For a hearty excerpt, read the book’s first chapter as presented in my excerpts’ blog here.
Raised on a steady diet of Star Wars, Freddy Krueger and “Fear Street” novels, Kelly Meade developed a love for all things paranormal at a very young age. The stealthy adolescent theft of a tattered paperback from her grandmother’s collection of Harlequins sparked an interest in romance that has continued to this day.
Black Rook is the first novel in her Cornerstone Run series, a paranormal romance trilogy from Berkley Intermix that also includes Gray Bishop and White Knight. It follows three loup garou brothers who will do anything to protect their town, their family, and the secret of their existence—and maybe fall in love in the process.
Writing as Kelly Meding, Three Days to Dead is the first book in her Dreg City urban fantasy series. The series follows Evangeline Stone, a paranormal hunter who is resurrected into the body of a stranger and has only three days to solve her own murder and stop a war between the city’s goblins and vampires. Additional books in the series, As Lie the Dead, Another Kind of Dead, and Wrong Side of Dead, are available in both digital format and mass market paperback from Bantam. Book five, Requiem for the Dead, is available digitally through all platforms.
Trance begins the story of the grown-up children of the world’s slaughtered superheroes who receive their superpowers back after a mysterious fifteen-year absence, and who now face not only a fearful public, but also a vengeful villain who wants all of them dead. Trance and Changeling are available now in both digital format and mass market paperback from Pocket Books. Tempest and Chimera are available in digital format only via Pocket Star. All four MetaWars books can also be purchased as a digital bundle.
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Legally Undead by Margo Bond Collins (Review)
Published on July 22, 2014 by MM JayeLeave a comment
A reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can.
Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.
But those plans disintegrate when she walks in on a vampire sucking the blood from her fiancé Greg. Horrified, she screams and runs–not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a wooden letter opener.
As she slams the improvised stake into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment. Turning around to face them, Elle discovers that Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.
When doctorate student and bride-to-be, Elle Dupree, comes home one Monday evening, the last thing she expects is to kill a vampire. She had good reason though: he sucked her fiancé dry.
The next thing Elle knows is that she’s on the fast track to become a vampire slayer. She joins a team of vampire hunters employed by her fiance’s boss who has his own dark agenda. But Elle is more worried about her ex’s agenda as it turns out he’s not entirely dead, and he drags her into a nocturnal, sickeningly alluring world of unnatural beauty and nauseating vices that can seriously mess with a human’s head … and blood pressure.
Margo Bond Collins does a great job in this action-packed urban fantasy. Her writing is lean, and nothing feels out of place. The upbeat tempo is kept throughout the book, and that helped me stomach the gory scenes because a couple of time they toyed with my limits.
In fact, that’s the element that surprised me and not in an all positive manner. The title and official blurb had prepared me for a vampiric read on the lighter side, but this one was gruesome at times. Elle turns into such a vampire hater, she even resorts to sadism. To be honest, I’m not so sure I sympathized with her aims. After all, the vampires really did not do anything they weren’t asked to do, and then she goes after them guns blazing so, naturally, they react the only way the can to defend their, well, existence. I do admit, though, that this could be subjective. Ahh, vampires: old loves die hard… (literally).
But apart from sort of rooting for the vamps instead of the heroine, I must say I enjoyed this read—especially the clever writing.
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Margo Bond Collins is the author of a number of novels, including Waking Up Dead, Fairy, Texas, and Legally Undead (forthcoming in 2014). She lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
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Another Rangers riddle – three European away games, three different kits
denishurley August 21, 2018 August 22, 2018 2 Comments on Another Rangers riddle – three European away games, three different kits
Recently, we looked at Rangers wearing a fourth kit against NK Osijek in the Europa League second qualifying round, following a tradition of ad hoc red and black strips in Europe.
That was their second European tie; against Shkupi in the previous round, they had worn all-white in the away leg.
Coupled with all-blue at home to Shkupi and their default first kit against Osijek at Ibrox, it meant four kit combinations in as many games.
The reason given for the use of the red kit in Croatia was that the rules there prevented the advertising of their shirt sponsor and so it wouldn’t be worth having a special set of their orange third shirts made.
So you can pretty much guess what was worn away to Slovenian side NK Maribor in the third qualifying round:
To be fair to Rangers, the fault lies with Hummel, who appear to be having problems delivering kit to a lot of teams in this still-nascent season.
As Alex Anderson pointed out to us, it may be some kind of record to have worn three different change kits in as many consecutive away games in the same competition. Not even Chelsea in their five-kit 1990-91 season managed it.
Unfortunately for those of us who like multiple combinations of the same kit, the all-blue was back for the home leg against Maribor.
Russian club Ufc provide the opposition for Rangers in the play-off round this week and next – they wear all-red so it’s unlikely Rangers will need an alternative kit. But you never know.
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First British side to compete in the Champions League proper, the European Super Cup and the final of the Cup-Winners’ Cup;
Holders of the record for the biggest ever aggregate defeat in a European semi-final and biggest aggreagate quarter-final win (Achieved in successive seasons);
Scorers of the first official Champions League goal on German soil – first winners to be banned from defending a European trophy:
Celtic’s “first non-Latin side to win the European Cup” might roll off the tongue easier, but Rangers’ collection of continental records is far more interesting for being far more convoluted and often more unsavoury.
So I’d beg the help of all MoJ readers in validating this latest Ibrox claim on Euro history.
Before I write to Uefa, demanding they commemorate this unique feat with some sort of trophy presented to our legendary kit executive Jimmy Bell – (perhaps a miniature golden hamper set on a mahogany plinth studded with mother of pearl discarded jock straps) I want its veracity subjected to laboratory test conditions; i.e. can you all try really quite hard to remember if any other club has worn three totally different away kits in three straight European away ties … in the same season.
Give it a good two, three minutes thought and let me know if you come up with anyone (fucking Barcelona I’ll bet – they always ruin everything).
I also want Rangers to wear their trad “European kit” in Ufa next Thursday: All-blue wouldn’t be an “away kit” but it would mean four successive European away games in which our outfield players have worn four totally different colours of shirt, shorts and socks.
Now that’s a record almost as catchy as First British Club To Reach The Final of a Uefa Club Competition Because While A London Select XI and Birmingham City Reached European Finals Before Rangers Those Were In The Inter-City Fairs Cup Which Didn’t Come Under the Auspices of Uefa Until 1971 When it Changed Its Name To The UEFA Cup.
And if we’ve heard that stat once …
neil gray May 5, 2019 at 12:01 pm
rangers played a european tie in austria[bjorkland was no 6] wearing a red top.When? Strip only worn once
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Experience the moment
Maurice Boon Musgrave, grandfather of founder Simone Musgrave, left Plymouth in 1949 bound for Africa to start a new life exploring and discovering the people and land of Africa. Three months on a ship with a small baby, a measles outbreak and many a day of seasickness and the adventure that would change the shape of his family had begun.
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Piano song played with three hands, heard in romantic films
I'm currently looking for a piano song which is heard in multiple films. I can't remember the name of those films although. The piano song is played with three hands.
The song is often played in a romantic scene where the man play the piano with two hands and a girl will just play some notes with the right hand (one finger should be enough though). I can't exactly remember the tones but for the girl the three first notes are the same.
So I'm looking for the name of this song and the name of some movies where the song is played.
identify-this-song piano
Brahadeesh
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Pretty confident you're looking for Heart And Soul.
I remember they played it on an episode of Lost, and at least on Stuart Little.
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“Denying Extremists Another Recruiting Opportunity”: Kid Gloves For Homegrown Extremists Are Part Of A Strategy
Soon after a bunch of white guys with guns holed up at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon in protest against the federal government, wags took to social media to deride them.
“Y’all Qaeda,” “YeeHawdists” and “Vanilla ISIS” are some of the clever put-downs circulating on Twitter.
Critics also decried what they perceive as a double standard in the seeming lack of response from law enforcement. If the gun-toting men were black or Muslim, went the typical argument, they would have incurred the full, militarized wrath of law enforcement.
So it might appear, but if you think law enforcement agencies are being deferential out of fear, you couldn’t be more wrong. Be very grateful that federal officials know exactly whom they are dealing with: troublemakers just itching for an excuse to claim that the federal government provoked them first.
As of this writing, things are still calm at the wildlife refuge, nearly 30 miles from the nearest town. But this bunch has itchy trigger fingers and enough conspiracy-addled emotion to take their standoff to the next level of danger.
In this desolate location, these guys are more likely a danger to each other than to the local population — although they have irked nearby residents and the Burns Paiute Tribe, who deem the siege a desecration of sacred land.
Ammon Bundy — the son of the Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who had his own standoff with federal agents in 2014 over $1 million in unpaid grazing fees — and the other men occupying the wildlife refuge splintered off from a protest of several hundred people, a gathering that drew Oregonians concerned about longstanding issues with rules for land overseen by U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Bundy is from Arizona. How’d he wind up in Oregon? He smelled an opportunity for the limelight.
Bundy calls his Oregon crew Citizens for Constitutional Freedom, and it includes his brother and an Arizona man, Jon Ritzheimer, who has gained renown of late for staging armed anti-Muslim protests.
The presence of Ritzheimer and other idiosyncratic “patriots” led the Daily Beast to dub the occupation Wingnut Woodstock. These anti-government activists have come out of the woodwork at a time when some Americans have become hyper-focused on Islamic terrorists, Syrian refugees and other perceived threats to the nation.
Indeed, America faces multiple threats, including homegrown extremists. This month, Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization reviled by extremists, issued a report noting that the number of militia groups in the U.S. leapt to 276 from 202 in 2014.
In October, the Justice Department announced a new office to focus entirely on homegrown extremists. In doing so, the department acknowledged that it had taken its eye off the ball domestically, consumed as it has been with threats of overseas terrorists since 9/11.
Law enforcement authorities closer to the street haven’t been as easily distracted. A June survey by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University found that police were highly aware of the homegrown threat. Surveying nearly 400 departments, it found that 74 percent were more concerned about anti-government extremists than the possibility of an attack inspired by or actually the work of al-Qaida or the Islamic State.
A colleague of mine, Kansas City Star reporter Judy L. Thomas, has spent decades chronicling such movements. She has written extensively on Posse Comitatus, Christian identity groups, white nationalists, militias and now the growth of the sovereign citizen movement, loose networks that see the government as dangerously corrupt and out of control.
Part of the problem, Thomas said, is that we don’t have a consistent definition of domestic terrorism. And the term is sometimes abused for political gain. It can be difficult to determine who is a mere conspiracy theorist with an arsenal and who is likely actually to act out his revolutionary fantasies violently.
The homegrown extremist groups often see themselves as soldier-saviors of America, armed and ready to do battle with the evil federal government that is taking away constitutional rights. Thomas’ sources, including past federal agents, say that much was learned after Waco, where more than 75 people died, as well as in other encounters with militia members. Authorities prefer methods to defuse rather than spark confrontation. That will surely save lives, in Oregon and elsewhere. And it will, one hopes, deny extremists another recruiting opportunity.
Ritzheimer said this in a widely viewed video he posted online from Oregon: “I am 100 percent willing to lay my life down to fight against tyranny in this country.” Authorities are taking him at his word — and not giving him his chance for martyrdom.
By: Mary Sanchez, Opinion-Page Columnist for The Kansas City Star; The National Memo, January 8, 2015
January 9, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Anti-Government, Domestic Terrorism, Homegrown Extremists | Ammon and Cliven Bundy, Anti-Muslim, Burns Paiute Tribe, Conspiracy Theorists, Jon Ritzheimer, Law Enforcement, Malheur Wildlife Refuge, Militia Groups, Waco | 3 Comments
“Describing White-On-White Violence”: Reporting On Waco Biker Gang Killings Reveals Disparities In News Coverage
Nine people have died after a shootout between rival motorcycle gangs in Waco on Sunday, when gunfire erupted in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant in the central Texas city.
I use the terms “shootout” and “gunfire erupted” after reading numerous eyewitness reports, local news coverage and national stories about the “incident,” which has been described with a whole host of phrases already. None, however, are quite as familiar as another term that’s been used to describe similarly chaotic events in the news of late: “Riot.”
Of course, the deadly shootout in Texas was exactly that: A shootout. The rival gangs were not engaged in a demonstration or protest and they were predominantly white, which means that — despite the fact that dozens of people engaged in acts of obscene violence — they did not “riot,” as far as much of the media is concerned. “Riots” are reserved for communities of color in protest, whether they organize violently or not, and the “thuggishness” of those involved is debatable. That doesn’t seem to be the case in Texas.
A riot is not simply a demonstration against police brutality. It can also be what happens when scores of hostile white people open gunfire in a parking lot. And when that happens, it can be described as anything but a “riot.”
Here are some synonyms different outlets, as well as law enforcement officials, came up with:
CNN:
Waco Tribune:
altercation
biker gang shooting
“What happened here today” (Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton)
“gun fights” (Swanton)
melee (Swanton)
scuffles and disturbances (on the issue of related violence around the city)
very dangerous, hostile criminal biker gangs (Swanton)
something akin to a war zone
KWTX:
turned a local restaurant into a shooting gallery
a rival motorcycle gang fight
absolute chaos (Swanton)
a situation like happened Sunday afternoon
By: Jenny Kutner, Assistant Editor at Salon, May 18, 2015
May 19, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Protests, Riots, White on White Violence | Gang Violence, Law Enforcement, media, Motorcycle Gangs, Thugs, Twin Peaks Restaurant, Waco | Leave a comment
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Deciphering the Age names?
Post subject: Deciphering the Age names?
I have been pooling over my D'ni guides and searching on the internet for stray bit of info with which I might carry out a sacred quest:
To attempt to Decipher the names of the D'ni-named ages.
I became inspired while reading the Book of D'ni over again- I was curious as to what the name "Terahnee" could mean, and I did a little research.
"Terahnee" seems to come from "Tehra," a noun meaning Tree, and "ahnee," a verb meaning to take/get. It therefore seems that Terahnee translates loosely as the tree-getting age, which makes sense, I guess, since it was the primary age that the people of Ronay fled to.
Looking through my guide, I found the word "Tahg," which means to give. I realized, then that "Tahgira" must mean something about giving. I realized that what was missing, -ira or maybe Gira, may then explain Eder Gira's name as well. Well, I thought about it and a common theme of both ages is ventilation of some sort.
Eder means to rest, or resting, so
Eder Gira may mean The rest age of ventilation
Tahgira may mean age of ventilation-giving, or something of that sort.
"Kemo" means fish, making Eder Kemo the fish rest age.
We still do not know what "Delin" means, so there doesn't seem to be any way of telling what Eder Delin, the apparently new age whose pictures I have fallen in love with, may have in store for us.
Eder Tsoghal seems to mean the rest age of ground/earth but may also mean caves or tunnels, as Gahlpo is a cave.
I can't figure out what Noloben means, but we do know that it was used as a museum age. That doesn't seem to help us, though.
Teledahn seems to be a word fused from pieces of two words: Tel, meaning guild, and Geh’Dahn, meaning wisdom. Maybe during the combination of these two words the G is dropped, forming Telehdahn. Thus Teledahn seems to be the age of the wise guild.
Kadish Tolesa. Well, took me a while to find out and I think I’ve surmised a reasonable answer: Kadish obviously refers to King Kadish. Took me a while to find out, but “to” means “place” and “lesh” means rule. To-lesh, and then with an extra “a” vowel at the ends for apparently no reason. Kadish Tolesa could therefore be Kadish’s place of rule, but could also mean Kadish's main place. Very iffy, but it makes sense.
Gahreesen- this is a weird one. Gah means and, Rees means to eat and ehn is a suffix turning rees into the third person. Basically it means “And it eats.” No idea why it’s named that. Maybe because it used to be a prison, who knows.
So, I know that there are a lot more but I'm sort of beat right now...so feel free to contribute if you have anything to add! Let's let this topic "toolehn!"
"Your choices, Maurus. Free will is an incredible gift." -Dr. Watson
BrettM
Location: Ethereal Plane of Atrii
You might be interested in a couple of threads at the D'ni Linguistic Fellowship. This one deals with the names of the Ages, though much is still unknown, and this one deals with Tolesa specifically.
BTW, Kadish was not a king. The era of the kings ended about 2,400 years before the Fall, when Kadish fled to his vault. Kadish was a former guildmaster in the Writer's Guild, then he became a merchant and ran an art gallery.
Noloben was not a museum Age. I think you have it confused with Negilahn.
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Oop, that's right. I meant Todelmer.
DOesn't mean I know what Noloben means, either. /shrugs
Eh, Guildmaster, King, What's the Difference?!
I do get Kadish confused a lot. I keep forgetting that he wasn't a king.
I looked at that topic about Kadish Tolesa. Kind of interesting.
I have this theory, though, that the D'ni may have taken bits of different words when naming things, similar to the way we do today.
For example, we have many prefixes and suffixes today that are based off of root words which are much longer, as opposed to using all of the full words to describe something. Perhaps The D'ni did something similar?
WHo knows. But I still can't get over "Gahreesen." >_<
Nonetheless, my main concern for this topic really, was to determine what "Gira" meant as it appeared in more than one name of an age.
THe topics you sent me are interesting. Very similar to some of my arguments, and yet they forgot something very important when considereing the naming of Taghira- that Tahg means "to give."
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TakuaKaita600 wrote:
DOesn't mean I know what Noloben means, either.
Actually, we think we're pretty close to pinning down Todelmer. "To" means "place" and "mehr" means "watch", so "Todelmer" could be something like "place of star watching". But, we still need confirmation on the "del" element.
AH, yeah.
Actually, what had happened was, I had no idea what noloben meant, so moved on, and then forgot which age noloben was later on. >_< But that's interesting about Toldelmer. That's probably it.
WHo knows. But I still can't get over "Gahreesen."
The problem with your theory is that the name is more likely based on "gahro" (great) than on "gah" (and). The D'ni often dropped the "o" when forming words: gahrtahvo (great tahvo), Garternay (great tree root), etc.
Post subject: Re: Deciphering the Age names?
According to the DRC, "Terahnee" means "The New Tree". It's on the DRC site in the D'ni Essentials section, under "Pre Earth" (4th Paragraph). The same article says that "D'ni" means "New Start".
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"deh" = "re-", & "nee" = new
"deh'nee" = "d'nee" = "D'ni" = "Renew" (a symbol of a "new start")
"ter" = "tree", "ah" marks the direct object of a sentence, & "nee" = "new"
"ter-ah-nee" = "Terahnee" = "The New Tree"
"to" = "place", & "mehr" = "watch"
Todelmer is an observatorial Age, so it's speculated that "del" means "star/sky" or something to that extent, so:
"Todelmer" = "Place of Sky-Watching"?
Both Eder Gira & Tahgira have steam, so it's supposed that "gira" means "steam". As for "tah", that's the D'ni word for the noun "it", but I don't think that's quite right in this context.
For Eder Tsogahl, the D'ni Linguistic Fellowship has a fascinating thread about the possible relationship between "gahl" & "gahlon", & the possible meaning of "ohn".
"Gahreesen" literally sounds like "gah-rees-en", which means "and it eats", but this is probably a coincidence, like "therapist" looking like "the rapist". "Gahreesen" also looks suspiciously like D'ninglish for "Garrison" *twitch-twitch*. Hopefully, it's actual D'ni, in which case it's probably a contraction of "gahro-reesen", meaning "Great [Something]".
"to" = place
Kadish Tolesa was written for the purpose of protecting Master Kadish's hoards of wealth. "lesa" most likely means something like "protection", "wealth", "treasure", etc, so:
"Kadish Tolesa" = "Kadish's Place of Treasure"?
"tehl" = "guild", but I don't think that's the case with "Teledahn". "-ahn" is suspected to be a suffix that makes something a place-name; not that it literally means "place", like "to", but more akin to adding an "a" to the end of words in English (Example: "serene" + "a" = "Serenia" = "a serene place"). I'm guessing the active word in "Teledahn" is "teled" (whatever that means).
K'laamas wrote:
"tehl" = "guild", but I don't think that's the case with "Teledahn".
I think it might well be the case. Remember that the Age was originally written as a birthday present for a guildmaster.
Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:18 pm
I'm of the opinion that Teled is D'ni for Mushroom or a specific form of muchroom and the ahn is the 'ahn thats found on Laki'ahn.
I wonder if reesen is not a term for fortress or something, but then the sen on the end could be sehn
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While I generally leave these kinds of mysteries alone so you all have things to discuss, debate, and discover on your own, I realize that it's also sometimes nice to occasionally get a confirmation.
So, in that spirit, here's a small present:
<garEsen> "Gah-ree-sen" is derived from three D'ni words:
<garo> "gah-ro" - adj. great, mighty
<arEu> "ah-ree-uh" - v. to protect
<senaren> "sen-ah-ren" - n. building/structure
So, basically, it's a mighty structure for protection. It would more accurately be translated as "fortress", but since it sounds so similar to "garrison", it has been generally translated as "garrison".
Hence, those two terms ("gahreesen" and "garrison") are used interchangeably by the majority of the DRC members, and when someone (who shall remain nameless) says anything about the difference, he is generally dismissed as being needlessly pedantic.
Not that he's bitter.
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RAWA wrote:
Are you feeling all right? In case you hadn't noticed, that was a lucid explanation without the least hint of cryptic ambiguity. And it gave us TWO new words! I'm glad I'm sitting down ...
Eleri
Well, it is the holiday season. The penguins are all tucked, snug in their beds, visions of sugar-herrings dance in their heads. Or maybe the eggnog's been fglowing freely at Cyan HQ.
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Now this begs the question whether the -sen is a productive suffix or not. It certainly seems fun enough to be used frequently. Can you form new words with it rather freely, or is it a closed class of words, praytell?
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Mister Cee Resigns from Hot 97 Amidst Controversy
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Mister Cee has officially resigned from Hot 97, reports MTV.com. He told listeners on-air yesterday that he was resigning against the wishes of the station. “I have been denial with this for a very long time,” Cee told listeners, although he says he does not consider himself gay. He admits he’s addicted to strippers and transexual prostitutes and has received oral sex from them.
The legendary DJ, who has worked with rappers including Big Daddy Kane and The Notorious B.I.G., took to his daily show on NY radio this afternoon to announce his departure.
“Today is my last day on Hot 97…In reality, I kind of knew this day would come,” said Cee.
The announcement came several hours after audio was posted of him allegedly soliciting sex from a popular cross-dressing video-blogger named Bimbo Winehouse. Winehouse said he was dressed in drag and turned on his phone after he was picked up off the street by a certain New York DJ with a penchant for male prostitutes. The pair drive around and negotiated prices, settling on $100 for sex, before the man drops Winehouse off on the street without anything happening. The cross-dresser said he recorded the video “about a week or two ago.”
Fans were shocked by Cee leaving a station that he helped to shape over the past two decades. “Damn mister cee’s last day djing #hot97 smh,” tweeted J Mula. “mister cee has been part of some of the greatest hip-hop ever. he quit @hot97 today. all that should matter is the music. just leave him be,” added Waffles Media.
Many felt that the admission meant that Cee had indeed solicited Winehouse’s services. “Mister Cee is on Hot97 right now talking about his resignation ,that means that audio/video was really him,” The 23 chimed in.
This is not the first allegation of this kind. Earlier this summer, Cee came under fire for supposedly picking up a male prostitute in New York. Cee went on the air to denounce the rumors that he was gay and instead, claimed that he picked up a cop he thought was a female prostitute.
“I am not gay,” Mister Cee told program director Ebro Darden on the station’s morning show. Cee further explained that the NYPD and media were blowing the entire thing out of proportion. “They tried to turn it around and say the female officer was a male officer. It was a sting operation,” said Cee.
Today, Cee admitted that he has made mistakes that have hurt Hot 97, without going into any detail at the time. “I’m far form perfect. I have made my mistakes…I love this station with all my heart.”
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HBO Max Could Pay $1.5 Billion for ‘Big Bang Theory’ Streaming Rights!!!
August 14, 2019 · by Mirza Baig · in Features, TV. ·
In a deal that would dwarf the mega-bucks recently shelled out to land the streaming rights to beloved sitcoms The Office and Friends, HBO Max (i.e. the upcoming Warner Bros. streaming service) is preparing to pay an insane amount of money for the streaming rights to two highly rated sitcoms that have never before been available online.
Per Deadline, HBO Max is currently in conversations to secure the streaming rights to the CBS sitcoms The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men. The rights to The Big Bang Theory alone—which has thus far never appeared on any streaming service—were expected to fetch $1 billion, but Deadline notes that the deal for both of these CBS shows could reach as much as $1.5 billion.
That puts into perspective the $425 million HBO Max recently paid to bring Friends to its streaming service starting in 2020, when the Netflix deal expires. Similarly, NBCUniversal paid north of $500 million to secure the rights to The Office once that Netflix deal expires in 2021. But whereas Friends and The Office had already been streaming elsewhere at the time those deals were struck, The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men would be brand new to streaming when those rights land someplace, which is why the price tag is so high.
HBO Max reportedly wants these two shows to be available to stream alongside Friends when the service launches in Spring 2020, and they’re wiling to pay serious money to have them. While The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men don’t have the critical or awards clout that Friends or The Office had, they’re two of the most-watched sitcoms of the 21st century, so this deal is incredibly valuable.
Additionally, as HBO Max looks to lock down TBBT and Two and a Half Men, Sony Pictures Television is looking to shop the streaming rights to Seinfeld. The beloved sitcom is currently hosted on Hulu, but when that deal expires in 2021, Hulu is said to be uninterested in working hard to keep it put. Part of the reason is that now Disney owns Hulu and simply sees it as yet another distribution arm for its own content and that of FX Networks.
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Alaska Resource Data File (ARDF)
Prospect, Inactive
Commodities and mineralogy
Main commodities
Ore minerals
Gangue minerals
Quadrangle map, 1:250,000-scale
Quadrangle map, 1:63,360-scale
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Location and accuracy
The Kami prospect is at an elevation of about 2,750 feet on a glacier-covered mountaintop about two miles southeast of lake 1410 at the head of Little Kamishak River. This is location 3 of MacKevett and Holloway (1977). The site is in the NE1/4 sec. 14, T. 15 S., R. 32 W., of the Seward Meridian; the location is accurate to within one-quarter mile.
Geologic setting
Geologic description
The Kami prospect consists of chalcopyrite-bearing quartz veins in a roof pendant of sedimentary rocks of the Jurassic Naknek Formation that are above a Tertiary(?) quartz diorite stock. There is little information on the mineralization but there is a geochemical anomaly in copper (values unknown) in stream sediment and rock samples (MacKevett and Holloway, 1977; Cobb, 1980; Church and others, 1992). Bear Creek Mining Company investigated claims in 1971.
Geologic map unit
(-154.557262885213, 58.8752117935946)
Mineral deposit model
Polymetallic vein (Cox and Singer, 1986; model 22c).
Mineral deposit model number
Age of mineralization
Late Jurassic or younger; chalcopyrite-bearing quartz veins cut the Naknek Formation.
Production and reserves
Workings or exploration
Bear Creek Mining Company investigated claims in 1971.
Indication of production
Church, S.E., Riehle, J.R, Magoon, L.B., and Campbell, D.L., 1992, Mineral and energy resource assessment maps of the Mount Katmai, Naknek, and western Afognak quadrangles, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF 2021-F, 22 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:250,000.
Cobb, E.H., 1980, Summaries of data and lists of references to metallic and selected nonmetallic mineral deposits in fifteen quadrangles in southwestern and west-central Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-909, 103 p.
MacKevett, E.M., Jr., and Holloway, C.D., 1977, Map showing metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous mineral deposits in the eastern part of southern Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 77-169-A, 99 p., 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000.
F.H. Wilson, S.E. Church, and D.P. Bickerstaff (U.S. Geological Survey)
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10 Things to Do in Playa del Carmen with Kids
Best Family-Friendly Places in Playa del Carmen
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Playa del Carmen attracts families with its pristine beaches and gentle waters, where kids can enjoy hours of swimming and snorkelling while their parents get to relax at a safe distance. Considered to be the laidback sister of Tulum and Cancun, the sandy expanse of Playa del Carmen’s main beach is a hub of recreational activities that appeal to visitors of all ages.
If you’re looking for things to do beyond the beach, the town has several parks with pleasant walking paths, picnic benches, and playgrounds for the little ones. Adventure parks just outside Playa del Carmen are suitable for older kids as they can enjoy thrilling obstacle courses within lush jungles. Check out our guide of family-friendly places in Playa del Carmen.
Parque Fundadores
Watch traditional Mayan performances in the evening
Parque Fundadores is a recreational park overlooking Playa del Carmen’s main beach. It’s one of the town’s most photographed locations thanks to its 16-metre-tall bronze arch, which has a whimsical design of a man and a women holding hands. There’s a playground built in the shape of a pirate ship, and a stage that hosts live shows all year round. A must-see is the Danza de los Voladores (Dance of the Flyers), which is a Mayan performance featuring acrobatic skills and traditional music.
Lokasi: Av. Benito Juárez, Centro, 77710 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
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Check out souvenir shops along the beach strip
Quinta Avenida is a trendy avenue that runs parallel to the main beach of Playa del Carmen. This touristy avenue contains plenty of souvenir stalls, grocery stores, and shops selling beachwear, Cuban cigars and handicrafts. It’s also a good place for checking out street performances, including celebrity impersonators, dancers, and musicians. Come sundown, Playa del Carmen becomes a lively hub of nightclubs and mescal bars with views of the ocean.
Lokasi: Centro, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Bujang
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Jungle Place
See endangered spider monkeys at this wildlife sanctuary
The Jungle Place is a wildlife sanctuary for spider monkeys in Quintana Roo. The centre is only open for guided tours, which cost around $80 per person. All proceeds go towards the rehabilitation of these endangered animals, including medical care, food, and shelter. Most of the spider monkeys are free to roam at Jungle Place, and you can see some of the staff’s day-to-day duties during the hour-long tour. Located in Chemuyil, the Jungle Place is about 47 km south of Playa del Carmen.
Lokasi: Rumbo Pozos De Agua Est. 13, Chemuyil, 77760 Chemuyil, Q.R., Mexico
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El Acuario de Playa (Aquarium Beach)
Check out exotic reptiles and marine animals
El Acuario de Playa (Aquarium Beach) is an aquarium displaying over 200 species of native fish, reptiles, and amphibians from the Mexican Caribbean. It spans 3 levels of exhibits within Plaza Corazon, about 1.5 km northeast of Playa del Carmen Beach. The staff here can provide information on each exhibit in English and Spanish. The ocean enclosure is divided into several tanks that are home to marine creatures like jellyfish, sharks, coral reefs, and stingrays. Another popular feature is the terrarium, which is built to resemble an ancient Mayan site.
Lokasi: Calle 12 Nte 148, plaza corazón, 77720 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
Buka: Daily from 11am to 10pm
Xaman Ha Aviary
See tropical birds at this walk-through aviary
The Xaman Ha Aviary houses about 200 tropical birds from 30 different species, most of which are indigenous to the Yucatan Peninsula. The bird sanctuary spans almost 130,000 sq m in size, and is decorated with rock pools, waterfalls, and beautiful plants. A stone pathway leads you through the aviary, where you can see colourful toucans, flamingos, and parrots. Admission to Xaman Ha Aviary costs around $22 per adult and is free for children under 12 years old.
Lokasi: Paseo Xaman-ha, Galaxia del Carmen II, Playacar, 77717 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
Buka: Daily from 9am to 5pm
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Xel-Ha Park
Cycle along the jungle path at this theme park
Xel-Ha Park is an all-inclusive aquatic theme park that sits around a natural inlet with many marine animals. You get to enjoy a variety of nature activities throughout your visit, including bike rides, ziplining, and encounters with manatees and stingrays. The Children’s World features a wading pool with waterslides and a playground with rope climbing and hanging games. For expansive views of Xel-Ha Bay and the Caribbean Sea, climb to the top of Scenic Lighthouse, which is 40 metres tall.
Lokasi: Carretera Chetumal Puerto Juárez Km 240, locales 1 & 2, módulo B, 77780 Quintana Roo, Mexico
Buka: Daily from 8.30am to 6.30pm
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Cenote Chaak Tun
Swim and snorkel in this natural cenote
Cenote Chaak Tun is a beautiful swimming location about 7.5 km northwest of Playa del Carmen. This freshwater cenote consists of 2 underground rivers, with hundreds of stalactites and stalagmites. There’s a diving platform and plenty of rope swings for you to enjoy as well. Daytrips to Cenote Chaak Tun cost around $60 per adult and $50 per child, which includes transportation, admission fees, helmets, snorkeling equipment, and locker rental.
Lokasi: Av. Juárez prolongación km 4.7, Ejido, 77723 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
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Xplor Theme Park
Zipline across a Mayan jungle
Xplor is an adventure park with underground caves and 2 zipline circuits overlooking a lush jungle. Located 9 km south of Playa del Carmen, adventure seekers get to enjoy hours of outdoor activities, including spelunking through a natural cave, driving through the jungle, and swimming in an underground river. There are several restaurants and quiet zones with hammocks for parents looking to relax while their little ones are enjoying Xplor’s attractions.
Lokasi: Carretera Cancún -Tulum Km 282, Puerto Juarez, Solidaridad, 77710 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
Buka: Monday–Saturday from 9am to 5pm and 5.30pm to 10.30pm (closed on Sundays)
3D Museum of Wonders
Take fun snapshots at this interactive museum
Playa del Carmen’s 3D Museum of Wonders attracts families with its eye-catching paintings of animals and historical buildings that seem lifelike when photographed. The interactive museum has about 50 displays of optical illusions, including a gigantic portrait of a zebra seemingly protruding outside its frame. One of its most beautiful exhibits is the Ancient Rome room, which features colourful angels ‘flying’ across the hall. Admission to the 3D Museum of Wonders costs around $30 for adults and $25 for children (3 to 11 years old).
Lokasi: Calle 8 Norte, 10 Avenida Nte., Centro, 77710 Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Buka: Daily from 9am to 10pm
Telefon: +52 1 984 181 7782
Parque la Cieba
Enjoy a variety of events at this family-friendly park
Parque la Cieba is an eco-friendly park where kids get to play and learn about environmental issues in Playa del Carmen. It features plenty of picnic spots and walking trails, as well as an onsite playground made of recycled goods. Parque la Cieba also hosts a variety of activities all year round, including outdoor movie screenings, yoga, and music concerts. Many locals visit the park for its craft market, which takes place every third Saturday of the month. You can shop for natural products and handmade items by local artists in Playa del Carmen.
Lokasi: Calle 1 Sur, Ejidal, 77712 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
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Harry Styles' second solo album titled "Fine Line" was released this past Friday and it debuted No. 1 on the iTunes Charts. This former boy-band member turned rock soloist has delighted fans with his newest 12 track record. It explores an artistic deep dive into Styles’ newfound musical freedom. The...
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Microsoft’s M12 invests in AI semiconductor company Syntiant
Oct 29, 2018 at 7:25 GMT 1 year ago
Microsoft’s VC arm M12 today announced its latest investment in Syntiant. Syntiant is an AI semiconductor company that is creating a new class of ultra-low-power, high-performance, deep neural network processors for edge computing. Apart from M12, Syntiant’s Series B funding came from the Amazon Alexa Fund, Applied Ventures, Intel Capital, Motorola Solutions Venture Capital and Robert Bosch Venture Capital. Syntiant also named Samir Kumar, managing director of M12 as its board member.
“We are both humbled and excited to be supported by several of the world’s greatest technology companies,” said Kurt Busch, CEO of Syntiant. “With participation from existing and new investors, and deeper guidance from our expanded board with the additions of Samir Kumar and Bret Johnsen, we will be able to commercialize Syntiant’s neural network technology for battery-powered devices to truly enable pervasive artificial intelligence.”
“Syntiant’s architecture is well suited for the computational patterns and inherent parallelism of deep neural networks,” said Kumar. “We see great potential in its ability to enable breakthroughs in power performance for AI processing in IoT [Internet of things].”
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Partnering with Promising Startups
Autonomous Cars for the mass market: DeepScale plans to decrease the unit of measure for required processing power from kilowatts to watts, which would dramatically reduce system costs and size, while improving reliability.
Next47, Siemens’ global venture arm, is partnering with promising startups. An example is a company developing technology designed to cut the costs and energy requirements of the processors in autonomous vehicles by a factor of 1000. A look at Next47’s current portfolio illustrates how the firm is investing in innovations and partnering with leading entrepreneurs to understand the megatrends shaping the digital economy.
The future of mobility, shaped by connected e-mobility and autonomous vehicles; the future of manufacturing with 3D printing and accelerated entry of products to the market; the future of buildings and cities based on increasingly intelligent infrastructures – as a conglomerate focused on our digital future, Siemens is involved in shaping these major technological trends. In a world in which the pace of emerging innovations has tremendously accelerated and the manner in which they come about is faster, more agile and, in a certain way, more frenzied, Next47 has internalized a startup-inspired way of working in many of its areas.
Next47, Siemens’ global venture arm, invests in the kinds of startups that promise to create the industries of tomorrow – startups whose technologies can be magnified through the power of the Siemens ecosystem. The partnership between Next47 and its portfolio companies extends far beyond venture capital. With the support of Next47 and Siemens, startups can create new opportunities where reality sometimes glaringly lags behind possibilities. The result is an innovation pipeline that feeds Next47 and Siemens with the insights they need to stay knowledgeable about tomorrow’s shifting industries.
Autonomous Vehicles for Mass Markets
“Today, when you open the trunk of most prototype autonomous vehicles, you find GPUs or tensor processing hardware worth $10,000 or more,” says Forrest Iandola, CEO and co-founder of DeepScale and one of Next47’s newest entrepreneurs. “That’s more power than you need for such vehicles. It also takes up too much space, and costs too much.”Over the past several years, Iandola’s company has specialized in making precise, efficient, deep neural networks (DNNs). Such DNNs offer the intellectual horsepower behind autonomous vehicles. They are responsible for the interpretation and classification of data that these vehicles collect through sensors. And everything they do needs to happen in real-time so that vehicles can react to surrounding circumstances.
“We are unusual in this space because we already understand how to make deep neural nets efficient,” says Iandola. “Instead of using a datacenter-style computing platform in the trunk of a car, we are squeezing state-of-the-art DNN accuracy onto low-cost, energy-efficient processors for the automotive market.” DeepScale’s goal for driver-assistance is to run DNNs on <10W processors to fit the cost and size requirements that will allow the latest collision avoidance and convenience features to reach as many vehicles as possible. For autonomous driving, DeepScale plans to decrease the unit of measure for required processing power from kilowatts to watts, which would dramatically reduce system costs and size, while improving reliability. Providers of connected infrastructure and e-mobility such as Siemens would benefit from this step.
Professionals in the field of surveillance cameras: Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan und James Ren (from left) from Verkada
Leaving the Competition in the Dust
Verkada, a manufacturer of intelligent surveillance cameras and another Next47 portfolio company, is also confident in its ability to set itself apart from the competition. “Our competitors concentrate on camera hardware and ignore software, resulting in an experience that’s like recording to a VCR tape,” says Verkada co-founder and CEO Filip Kaliszan. Standard security cameras operate in isolation, each on its own, and recordings are only analyzed when something happens, after the fact. Verkada’s objective, on the other hand, is to allow scene analysis to be integrated and available in real-time in modern IT infrastructures. Kaliszan says this will be possible thanks to his cameras, which are software driven and intelligent.
Our competitors concentrate on camera hardware and ignore software, resulting in an experience that’s like recording to a VCR tape.
Verkada’s platform can already be used with a smartphone to search precisely for incidents, such as a door opening, without having to watch entire video recordings from multiple cameras. As Verkada continues to improve its platform, its goal is to provide software that will automatically send an alert to a smartphone in real-time with precise information about what is happening. That would enable users to take action regardless of their location.
“I’ll give you a funny example of how we’ll get there,” says Kaliszan. “Each of our cameras has an accelerometer in it. We built it in to provide tamper detection and prevent interruptions or gaps in security. But we’re also located in California. Because we have accelerometers on every camera we can also detect when an earthquake happens, and then take action on that data - notifying the customer and authorities.”
For Siemens, a leader in intelligent building technology and infrastructures, the integration of such cameras in a comprehensive IT infrastructure would be a complementary technology for its existing palette of smart services. Hilton, Airtable and the Vancouver Mall are some of the businesses that already use Verkada cameras.
Bottom-up Digital Transformation
Next47’s portfolio also contains several startups that use digital tools to open up new potential in industrial manufacturing, whether in additive manufacturing or in specific issues that arise due to the automation of production. Three of them – Markforged, Tulip and Identify3D – presented their technologies at the Hannover Messe in April.
“We want to enable digital transformation from the bottom up and give people in production the means to digitally optimize their processes,” says Tulip CEO Natan Linder. Tulip offers apps with multi-industry applications that integrate and visualize production processes. “On the factory floor, the reality is that a great deal of paper and other manual tools are still being used for monitoring and controlling processes. There is a huge gap between reality and what is possible,” he says.
Identify3D steps in at another position in the manufacturing process. According to Joe Inkenbrandt, CEO and co-founder of Identify3D, manufacturing is increasingly being separated from engineering. Often, what is shipped and transferred is not the finished commodity stored in quantity and later distributed. Instead, the knowledge about how something is produced is digitally transmitted and items are produced as needed (manufacturing on demand) – two topics that are very current for Siemens. “Along the digital manufacturing process, companies are therefore vulnerable in terms of quality assurance, for instance, or protection of intellectual property,” explains Inkenbrandt. His company offers protection for the entire digital thread by creating a sort of digital container where production processes can be stored and securely transmitted.
A look into the Lab: 3D printing by Markforged
Prototypes: 50 Times Faster and 20 Times Cheaper
Markforged has used digital methods to open up tremendous opportunities in 3D printing. The company now has major customers worldwide and promises that its technology can make it possible to produce metal prototypes 50 times faster and 20 times cheaper than with conventional methods. Prototypes are one benefit, final products the other. According to Andrew de Geofroy, vice-president of application engineering at Markforged, the company's printers can now make parts for less than $10 that previously took more than $30,000 to produce. “This has far-reaching implications for our target industries, from automotive and aerospace to healthcare and energy,” says Lak Ananth, CEO and Managing Partner at Next47. “We see customers embedding Markforged into their product development and production processes, tremendously improving speed to market and addressing new opportunities in their industries.”
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Karan Johar follows Varun Dhawan to regret for anti-Kangana
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Karan said he "obviously doesn't think that nepotism rocks.' "Of course I don't believe that 'nepotism rocks". And I think we went a bit too far with the Kangana mention". ' Karan also said that the less Kangana talks the better, referring to her remarks on him in Koffee with Karan where she'd called him a 'movie mafia'. It's the energy you bring to your job. He said that he doesn't believe "nepotism rocks".
According to a report in Firstpost, originally attributed to NDTV, Johar said that the act was meant to be a joke but "misplaced, misunderstood and went wrong". No matter what my thoughts or personal issues on this, I should not have repeatedly brought up this issue. In the latest episode, Saif Ali Khan, Karan Johar and Varun Dhawan took on actress Kangana Ranaut during the recently held IIFA awards in NY.
Karan Johar further said, "No matter what I say or feel about my issues with what Kangana said on my talk show Koffee With Karan, I think I was raised to be a dignified, a chivalrous, and a decent person". However, he added that it is the last he would be talking on the subject of nepotism and Kangana because he did not want to be "disrespectful" to her. Karan, Saif and Varun's "nepotism rocks" was a dig at the National Award-winning actress. "Nepotism is easy access, nobody can deny that, but what you do with that access is what moulds you into a professional".
K Jo made a decision to have the last word on this whole nepotism debate which erupted when Kangana Ranaut was on his Koffee with Karan show. "For that I am deeply regretful".
Saif Ali Khan, who was also a part of the act clarified that it was not meant to hurt anyone. All three men then said, "Nepotism rocks".
Speaking about Kangna Ranaut, Saif praised her saying he has a lot of respect for her and he is aware about the hard way she has achieved her position in the industry. He said that they have a mutual admiration for each other. Host of the evening, Saif Ali Khan, joked that the actor had made it big in the industry because of his father, director David Dhawan. He added that he understood her stance on nepotism but he has a different take on it.
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Home / News / Foreign manufacturer misclassifies Mass. sales rep as contractor
Foreign manufacturer misclassifies Mass. sales rep as contractor
By: Eric T. Berkman May 28, 2019
A Massachusetts resident who provided outside sales services to a Taiwanese manufacturer was misclassified as an independent contractor and entitled to Wage Act protections, a U.S. District Court judge has found.
In a 2002 contract, defendant Powertech Industrial Co. agreed to pay plaintiff William Valle on a commission-only basis to generate orders for its products from U.S. companies.
They entered a new contract in 2009 that did not specify Valle’s commission rates. Instead, Powertech informally relied on a spreadsheet of commission rates from the prior contract, and Valle generally accepted payment at those rates.
“This is how the independent contractor statute is supposed to work.”
— Hillary Schwab, plaintiffs’ lawyer
A dispute later arose over Powertech’s attempt to lower Valle’s rates unilaterally and he brought a misclassification claim, alleging that he was an employee entitled to Wage Act protections for commissions he claimed had not been paid in full.
Powertech argued that Valle was not an employee because his sales services fell outside the usual course of the company’s manufacturing business.
Judge Denise J. Casper disagreed.
“Although Powertech’s ‘Core Competence’ as described on its website does not include ‘sales,’ Powertech has a sales division with seven employees that makes direct sales to customers or commercial resellers,” Casper wrote, denying the defendant’s motion for summary judgment. “[T]he differences between Valle and the employees in the sales division are that Valle, unlike the others, could not provide quotations to customers, could choose which customers to pursue …, was expected to work ‘quicker’ in forming customer relationships and sometimes travelled with customers. … He was also paid through commissions.”
“Unfortunately, the Massachusetts [independent contractor] statute has taken on a life of its own and [the judge was] boxed in, literally, by the letter of the law and precedent that gets ever-broader in scope.”
— Travis J. Jacobs, defense lawyer
Casper also rejected Powertech’s argument that the 2009 contract was unenforceable to begin with because it was missing a material term — namely Valle’s commission rates.
“The Massachusetts Uniform Commercial Code … permits a court to consider the course of dealings between parties to the extent such dealings explain or supplement existing contractual terms,” Casper wrote. “Although Powertech did not formally incorporate the spreadsheets as an addendum to the [2009] agreement, it is undisputed that both parties continuously relied on the rates listed in the spreadsheets for at least six years.”
The 28-page decision is Valle v. Powertech Industrial Co. Ltd., et al.
‘No surprise’
The plaintiff’s attorney David Himelfarb of Boston, declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation in the case. Suzanne Elovecky of Boston, who represented defendant Powertech, could not be reached for comment prior to deadline.
Boston attorney Hillary Schwab, who represents plaintiffs in misclassification cases, said she agreed with Casper’s analysis.
“The court properly considered the fact that the company itself had represented sales as being central to its business on its own website and also looked at what the company actually does and the nature of the work provided by the plaintiff,” Schwab said. “This is how the independent contractor statute is supposed to work. The company has products to sell and hires people to sell those products, so those people are the company’s employees and have to be paid consistent with the requirements of the wage laws.”
Nicholas F. Ortiz of Boston, who also handles misclassification cases, agreed. Specifically, he referenced Ruggiero v. Am. United Life Ins. Co., a 2005 decision from the federal District Court, which Casper distinguished in the instant case.
In Ruggiero, the judge found that a pair of insurance agencies had not misclassified an agent who sold insurance products because the agencies themselves were not in the business of selling insurance; they were in the business of determining which products to make available, the structuring and drafting of policies, and investing policy premiums.
“Defendants have often cited Ruggiero as a sword in trying to oppose a misclassification claim, but I don’t think it makes sense because you need to sell your product in order to have a business,” he said. “The fact that [Powertech] had its own internal sales operation was a fact that allowed [Casper] not to make the formalistic distinction that the Ruggiero court made.”
Ortiz also said it would be interesting to see what will happen in future cases in which a company with no internal sales operation — but that relies on sales to be a viable business — tries to classify outside sales reps as independent contractors.
Travis J. Jacobs, a Boston attorney who defends misclassification cases, called the ruling a “disheartening” development in Massachusetts independent contractor jurisprudence.
First, he said, the plaintiff, Valle, contacted Powertech first, offering up a business opportunity with a potential client, and signed his contract with Powertech as an authorized representative of his own presumably pre-existing, pre-registered company.
Additionally, Valle performed sales work, however minimal, for other clients too, through that entity and others.
“By any reasonable ‘smell test’ type of non-legal assessment, Valle was an independent operation seeking independent opportunities and operating independent of any supervision and control,” he said. “Unfortunately, the Massachusetts [independent contractor] statute has taken on a life of its own and [the judge was] boxed in, literally, by the letter of the law and precedent that gets ever-broader in scope.”
Meanwhile, Schwab found Casper’s ruling on enforceability of the contract significant in that it allowed for gaps to be filled in with evidence of prior dealings.
“Workers should be able to rely on their previous compensation rates and count on being compensated in that same manner going forward,” she said. “Hopefully this decision will make employers think twice before unilaterally lowering employees’ pay rates.”
Course of dealings
In September 2002, Valle approached Powertech and its president, defendant Jonie Chou, with an opportunity for the company to manufacture surge protectors and similar products for American Power Conversion, a U.S. company in the power products space.
The parties negotiated a contract that Valle signed in the name of his own corporate entity, United Power Products. The agreement called for Valle to receive a 5-percent commission on all products sold to APC. Valle also brought other customers to Powertech for which he was paid a 5-percent commission.
In 2008, Valle agreed to lower his commission to 3.5 percent for APC sales.
A year later, Powertech and Valle negotiated a new agreement. The 2009 agreement did not specify a commission rate, only that all payments would be made to an entity called William Valle Associates, Inc.
For each sale, Powertech would send an invoice for Valle to sign, identifying the proposed commission. The amount was typically based on a spreadsheet of commissions for particular customers and products paid under the 2002 contract. Valle generally signed the invoices and sent them back.
However in 2015, tensions grew as Powertech allegedly began changing Valle’s commission rates. In late 2016, Valle signed his name to an invoice and, for the first time, wrote “accepted as partial payment” to indicate a dispute over its amount.
Over the next year, he and Powertech were unable to resolve their dispute over the amount of commissions owed. Meanwhile, Powertech made no further payments. During that time, Valle sued Powertech and Chou in U.S. District Court alleging Wage Act violations and breach of contract.
Powertech moved for summary judgment on grounds that the 2009 contract was unenforceable because it was missing material terms and that, as an independent contractor, Valle was not entitled to Wage Act violations.
Core business?
Casper found that under the Massachusetts independent contractor statute, G.L.c. 149, §148B, Valle was, in fact, an employee.
The judge noted that the statute requires an employer that has classified a worker as an independent contractor to show that the worker is free from control over the performance of the service; that the service falls outside the “usual course” of its business; and that the worker is engaged in an independently established trade of the same nature as that service.
Specifically, Casper determined that Powertech could not show that Valle’s sales services fell outside its usual course of business. For example, she noted, the “Customer Care” section of its website and its sales catalog touted its “prompt replies” to customer requests.
Additionally, she said, Powertech had an internal sales division responsible for most of its sales, and Valle’s role did not significantly differ from that division’s employees.
“Here … Powertech’s sales were not merely incidental to its business,” Casper said, finding that because Valle was an employee, he was eligible for Wage Act protection.
Regarding the breach-of-contract claim, Casper concluded that the parties’ own conduct rendered the contract enforceable despite the absence of a specific commission rate.
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Jeffrey Innes
October 25, 2017 by Nineteen Questions
Interviewed by Kaylan Mackinnon
Jeffrey Innes is the lead singer and writer in Yukon Blonde, a Vancouver indie rock band. Since starting the group in 2008 he has gained an international following and acclaim for hits like “Saturday Night.” The band, originally from Kelowna, BC, are currently working on their fourth album. I was inspired to interview Jeffrey Innes because his songs tell such beautiful stories, and it is incredible knowing that Yukon Blonde belongs to our very own Canada. I talked to Jeff about his writing process, how it all got started for him, and
advice on how you can jumpstart your own writing career.
Yukon Blonde is an internationally acclaimed band! You must be happy with the success you’ve had. Would you say there was a song the band and you wrote that put Yukon Blonde on the map?
I would say our song “Stairway” did pretty well for us, but both “Saturday Night” and “I Wanna Be Your Man” would be the two songs that helped get us out there much more that any others.
For readers who haven’t heard your music yet, please describe your sound and style in a few words.
This is always the hardest question for any songwriter. Either you compare yourself inaccurately to your influences and inspirations or, in my case, you feel you’re constantly changing and don’t want to pin yourself down. I mean, ok, I recognize that we’re an alternative indie pop/rock band with electronic or psychedelic tendencies and sometimes we’re pastiche. What does that even mean? I think it means we just sound however we want to whenever we want to. In the past, we’ve had guitars, drums, harmonies, cool bass lines and synths.
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Arushi Raina
Interviewed by Dominika Lirette
Arushi Raina is a young adult fiction writer who lives in Vancouver. A consultant by day, she fills her remaining hours with writing. Arushi grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa but, at 25, she’s a citizen of the world. So far she has lived in Egypt, Nigeria, India, the US, UK and now Canada.
Her first novel, When Morning Comes, was published in June of 2016. Publishers Weekly described it as “a riveting and accomplished debut.” The book centres around the fictional lives of four teenagers living in Johannesburg in 1976, right before the Soweto uprising. I caught up with her over the phone.
I read that you’ve been trying to write a novel since high school. What drew you to wanting to be a writer from such a young age?
To some extent, escapism. I think most people who start wanting to write, especially early on, they’re very attracted to living in alternative worlds. That’s one thing.
And then two, I think there’s just an overpowering need to have stories turn out a little bit different or characters say something a little bit different than they did. So you start creating your own versions of stories that you love in the way you’d want to tell them.
Filed Under: Interview Tagged With: fiction
J.B. MacKinnon
October 6, 2017 by Nineteen Questions
Interviewed by Stefan Labbé
J.B. MacKinnon is a non-fiction writer steeped in deep-dive book research and a fair share of shoe-leather reporting.
His most recent book, The Once and Future World, was a national bestseller and won the U.S. Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. MacKinnon is widely known for co-writing The 100-Mile Diet (with partner Alisa Smith) which chronicles the personal dietary experiment that helped spark the local food movement. His first book, Dead Man in Paradise won the Charles Taylor Prize for best literary non-fiction. The story traces the assassination of his uncle, a priest gunned down in the Dominican Republic as the country struggled under the heel of dictatorship.
When I first met MacKinnon, he struck me as a freelancer’s freelancer. Part of that has to do with the fact that he has won 11 National Magazine Awards and has written for publications ranging from National Geographic to The New Yorker. But he has also avoided the milieu of a traditional newsroom. Instead, he seeks that clean break from day to day life, slipping away to his broken-down cabin in Northern British Columbia or punctuating his day with rock climbing or birdwatching.
Naturally, I asked MacKinnon for an interview over an outdoor pint. It was December and the nylon awning overhead bulged with winter rain. He agreed on the spot, as long as it didn’t interfere with a whirlwind of reporting trips to Japan, Iceland and Arizona. Several weeks later, we swapped rain and beer for sun and tea in a lazy café in central Vancouver.
How did you get started in this kind of work?
When I went to university I was looking around for something extracurricular to do. The student newspaper seemed intuitively appealing to me, so I signed up with The Martlet and I just really enjoyed it. I did more work for the newspaper than I did for my classes.
I never learned how to do journalism, so from the get-go I would over-report everything. I mean quite literally, among my first stories for The Martlet, I would be trying to get comments from the ministers responsible for the areas I was writing about, or the premier. I mean, ridiculous—things that I would never do today. And sometimes, oddly enough, I actually got them. I would just follow the stories as far up the line as I could take them every time and then write them way too long. So I was feature writing pretty much immediately.
And then two years into university I had a mix-up with my student loans and I wasn’t able to go back for my third year. Circumstances forced me to try to turn freelance writing into a paying gig. It didn’t pay well, but it worked and that was the end of my university career.
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Home » CUNA calls for hearing, add’l steps to curb frivolous ADA suits
CUNA calls for hearing, add’l steps to curb frivolous ADA suits
Congress should help credit unions and other small businesses address lack of clarity with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that is resulting in abusive litigation, CUNA wrote to Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) Wednesday. CUNA wrote in support of Poe’s bill, the ADA Education and Reform Act (H.R. 620), which is scheduled for House consideration this week.
Credit unions have faced mounting legal threats due to uncertainty over how the ADA applies to websites, and CUNA has made it a top priority to find a solution. Poe’s bill doesn’t directly address the threat, but CUNA believes it is a good step forward.
“H.R. 620 will ensure those protected by the ADA will continue to benefit from that important protection, but will take the right steps to curb predatory litigation that harms all consumers and credit union members,” the letter reads. “We encourage you to expand on the work of this legislation and consider holding a hearing, and taking other steps to address other frivolous ADA related class action litigation including website accessibility.”
During a House Rules Committee meeting Tuesday, Rep. Rob Woodall (R-Ga.) pledged to work with his fellow members of Congress and credit unions to find a solution.
During its advocacy efforts to find a solution, CUNA has:
Conducted a members-only webinar, recordings of which can be viewed for free;
Written to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees;
Met with senior leadership at the Department of Justice;
Spearheaded efforts that resulted in 61 members of Congress raising ADA concerns in a letter to DOJ; and
Scheduled a breakout session at this year’s CUNA Governmental Affairs Conference with the latest developments, scheduled for Monday, Feb. 26 from 2:45 to 4 p.m. (ET).
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