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CATE Issues in Agriculture
Scientist Panel, Research Seminars & Campus Events
Each fall, as part of the Issues-360 program seminars, the Office of Academic Programs and Agricultural Communications host a panel of Purdue Agriculture faculty to share their areas of research expertise with our undergraduate students. The group of scientists vary each year based on the subject-matter topic selected.
In 2015, Class III students in Issues-360 attended a panel discussion titled "Science Communication: What Does the Public Hear?" Three scientists - Candace Croney, associate professor of comparative pathobiology and animal sciences; Charles Santerre, professor of nutrition sciences; and Tom Turpin, professor of entomology - shared their experiences and advice in engaging the public on science issues. Scientists, media and the public each have their own values and culture that can present communication challenges. Scientists may not view communicating with the public as part of their mission and may avoid working with media. Media professionals may view themselves as watchdogs when reporting science knowing that their job is not to advocate for science, but to serve their audiences and uphold the First Amendment. Science information prepared for the public must, in Dr. Turpin's words, be "dolled up" so that it is interesting, understandable and relevant to non-scientists.
In 2017, the scientist panel, entitled "Politics, Public Opinion and Science," was hosted in October and featured panelists: Linda Pfeiffer, assistant professor of science communication; Wally Tyner, James and Lois Ackerman professor of agricultural economics; and Andrew Whelton, assistant professor of civil, environmental, and ecological engineering. The focus of the panel: People make many decisions about controversial issues - and science is only one factor in their decision-making. Learn how public opinion and politics impact science issues and how engaging the public can lead to better decisions.
Each department in the College of Agriculture hosts regular Research Seminars featuring faculty experts and scientists in their respective fields. Review your departmental e-newsletters and our weekly WAS-UP e-newsletter for the dates and times of individual seminars. Seminars featuring topics related to the Grand Challenges of Agriculture, Food, Science and the Environment will be featured here throughout the course of the academic year.
Animal Sciences Seminars
Biochemistry Seminars
Botany & Plant Pathology Seminars
Entomology Seminars
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Seminars
Discovery Park Seminars
Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy & Science
Purdue Lectures & Guest Speakers
Giant Leaps Series - Barrier-Breaker - Beth Ford, President & CEO of Land O'Lakes, Inc. - 9/17/19 * 1:30-3:00 pm * Fowler Hall, Stewart Center
What If? You Are the First to Fly to Mars - Amelia Earhart Aerospace Summit - 9/21/19 & 9/22/19 - Registration Required
What If? The Next Pandemic is Inevitable - 9/23/19 * 10:30 am - Noon * Loeb Playhouse (Stewart Center)
What If? Purdue 2050 Conference of the Future - 9/26/19 & 9/27/19 * 8:45 am - 4:30 pm * Honors Hall (Honors College) - Registration Required
Giant Leaps Series - An Evening with Dr. Ellen Ochoa, NASA Astronaut & First Latina in Space - 9/26/19
Giant Leaps Series - The Ethics of Eating: Personal & Global Choices - 9/30/19
Condoleezza Rice - Thomas & Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution - 10/9/19 * All Day * Purdue Convocations
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Roger Vivier, called the ‘Fabergé of Footwear’ (part 2)
After ending the collaboration with the house of Dior, Roger Vivier opens a new boutique at 24 rue François Premier, across from maison Dior. He consults with aeronautical engineers on the design of his swooping “comma” heel, that became another one of the most copied styles in footwear history.
Comma heel
Roger Vivier’s collaboration with Yves Saint Laurent
He also creates shoes for top designers and couturiers, like Emanuel Ungaro, André Coureges, Cristobal Balenciaga and features risqué crocodile thigh-high boots for Yves Saint Laurent, who is now designing under his own name.
Another shoe debuts in Yves Saint Laurent’s “Mondrian” collection in 1965. The design has a square heel and a pilgrim-buckle placed on the extreme tip of the shoe, unlike the seveteenthe-century version where it was positioned on the top of the foot.
In 1966 Roger Vivier designs transparent-plastic shoes and boots for Yves Saint Laurent.
Crocodile thigh-high boot
Pilgrim buckle shoe
Transparent-plastic boot
In 1967, French siren Catherine Deneuve pairs her Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe with Rogier Vivier pilgrim shoes in the movie Belle de Jour by Luis Buñuel . The movie becomes a cult hit right away and the pilgrim shoe becomes a runaway bestseller, two hundred thousand pairs are sold in one year and is the best sold modelfor Roger Vivier ever…..
‘There’s nothing like a movie that celebrates the Madonna-whore conundrum to get hearts racing and tongues wagging. Throw in English subtitles and Catherine Deneuve in various states of undress, and you have a winning cinematic equation. But while the guys were salivating over Deneuve’s sexy siren scenes, the women were likely captivated by her classic Roger Vivier pumps. Although Vivier had already established himself as a footwear master by the time Belle de Jour came out. The elegant Pilgrim pumps paired with the sleek Yves Saint Laurent wardrobe, and juxtaposed against Deneuve’s character’s sordid double life, elevated the shoes to instant cult status. But trust us when we say you can’t go wrong in a black mid-heel variety. Look what it did for Deneuve’s sex appeal.’
In 1968 Roger ads scarves and gloves to his collection and a year later Monsieur Vivier men’s department opens in the Vivier boutique, which offers made-to-measure shoes.
Among Roger Vivier’s biggest fans were Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor , who enshrined his exquisite creations in a custom closet; and the cinema femme fatale Marlene Dietrich, who haunted his boutique almost daily and was rewarded with custom black satin pumps held up by glittering rhinestone balls. Vogue’s editor, Diana Vreeland, insisted her maid polish the soles of her Viviers with rhinoceros horn. Included in her vast collection were a dozen each of his pilgrims and rock-star vinyl boots. Vreeland was among the many who regarded Vivier’s work as true art; in her 1977 Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibit, “Vanity Fair,” she contrasted examples of his craftsmanship with that of 18th-century artisans.
Diane Vreeland wearing Roger Vivier boots
Wallis Simpson closet with Roger Vivier shoes
In 1994 the 86-year-old Roger Vivier signs a new licensing agreement with Rautureau Apple Shoes, which in turn allows him to open a shop in Paris the following year. The Rautureau venture gives Vivier the backing to continue doing what he loves the most—designing shoes. Yet three years later, in October 1998, Vivier dies in Toulouse, France. He is remembered by many, including fellow shoe designer. “People try to copy him, but it’s impossible to find that mix of technical skill and design.” Kenneth Jay Lane, who has worked with the master , declares,
“He was the world’s greatest artist of shoe design.”
Random collection of Roger Vivier heels, shoes and boots
Roger Vivier book by Rizzoli
A gorgeous tribute to the legendary shoe and accessories designs of Roger Vivier. Master designer Roger Vivier elevated both the form and decoration of ladies’ shoes during his sixty-year career. His innate Parisian style embodied a sense of perfection and craftsmanship, and his work was coveted by style icons from Elsa Schiaparelli to Jackie Onassis. Described by Yves St. Laurent as bringing to his work a “level of charm, delicacy, refinement and poetry unsurpassed,” he created the first stiletto heel for a ready-to-wear shoe line with the house of Dior in 1955. His shoes are legendary, and the tradition of his innovative spirit continues with the revival of the house by current designer Bruno Frisoni, who has updated Vivier’s concepts, bringing his own touch to signature shapes and embellishments (including the buckle pump made famous by Catherine Deneuve in Belle du Jour). This lavish volume celebrates the history of the venerated house and charts the current evolution of the fantastic haute-couture designs that keep Roger Vivier at the top of every well-dressed woman’s list. With gorgeous new photography of the house’s collection of vintage shoes, beautifully rendered sketches, and details of the amazing accessories coming out of Roger Vivier today, this book is as chic as the shoes that fill its pages.
Virgule, etc… in the Footsteps of Roger Vivier
A RETROSPECTIVE paying tribute to the life and work of Roger Vivier is coming to Paris. The exhibition will be staged at the Palais de Tokyo in October, to coincide with Paris Fashion Week, and was curated by Olivier Saillard – director of the Musée Galliera.
The showcase is titled Virgule, etc… Dans Les Pas De Roger Vivier (Comma, etc… In The Footsteps of Roger Vivier), so named after the designer’s famous comma-shaped heels. The exhibition will take the form of “a pastiche of a museum dedicated to shoes”, explains a press release, featuring about 140 footwear designs.
The retrospective will pay tribute to the brand’s eponymous founder, who died in 1998, as well as tracking the more recent history of the footwear label. Roger Vivier was revived in 2000 by Diego Della Valle, chairman of Tod’s SpA, and Bruno Frisoni joined as creative director in 2002.
The exhibition will run from October 2 to November 18.
Special thanks to http://www.thehistorialist.com/
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3 Responses to “Roger Vivier, called the ‘Fabergé of Footwear’ (part 2)”
Milo Bandini 4 November 2016 at 10:20 #
we spotted a few pictures taken from TheHistorialist without proper credits: it’s easy because in most cases you left the names as they were or – like the collage of Vivier’s heels – we made them.
So, please be nice and give credits where credit is due.
Milo Bandini
A.G.Nauta couture 4 November 2016 at 10:26 #
Hello Milo,
sorry for not giving the credits where needed!!!!!
I’ll credit today,
Yes, friends
Netty Nauta
The French Dressed Woman | Designing Mimi - 3 April 2019
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Alumni in the Field: Craig Hendrix
During some of his first clinical experiences as a medical student, Craig Hendrix, MD (M’84), witnessed the tragic conditions for AIDS patients, with Washington, D.C., an epicenter of the epidemic in...
Alumni in the Field: Eric Daar
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Alumni in the Field: Robert Redfield
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Based in Seattle, Shireesha Dhanireddy, MD (C’95, M’99), completed her internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship at the University of Washington.
Progress in Neonatal Seizure Pharmacology
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Georgetown Alumni Dentists Recognized for Humanitarian Work
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After Concussion, Rest Is Best
"Studies have shown that almost all people with single concussions spontaneously recover, but athletes who play contact sports are much more susceptible to lasting brain damage."— Mark P. Burns...
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Plans Facility Expansion
Through a series of key building enhancements and accessibility projects, the proposed expansion addresses the urgent age, capacity, and technology issues of the hospital today.
Patients as Teachers
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The Huntington Disease Care, Education & Research Center at Georgetown has been designated as a Center of Excellence by the Huntington's Disease Society of America.
Did You Eat Your Broccoli?
Georgetown researchers have developed a quick test to evaluate specific food compounds in urine.
Addressing Oral Health in D.C.
A Georgetown researcher is taking on oral health disparities in Washington, DC.
Students Meet With White House Medical Team
On a wintry day in January, the White House medical unit opened its doors to 25 Georgetown medical students and faculty.
A Thread of Hope
Lauren Kingsland, a professional artist with the Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program, created the prayer flag project to benefit patients, family members and staff.
At the Intersection of Faith & Healing
How do Catholic, Jesuit values shape Georgetown's medical education, research and patient care?
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dos vulnerability Archives - Am I Safe?
Tag: dos vulnerability
Posted on August 19, 2019 August 19, 2019 by aarvee
Netflix has discovered several resource exhaustion vectors affecting a variety of third-party HTTP/2 implementations. These attack vectors can be used to launch DoS attacks against servers that support HTTP/2 communication.
Netflix worked with Google and CERT/CC to coordinate disclosure to the Internet community.
Today, a number of vendors have announced patches to correct this suboptimal behaviour. While we haven’t detected these vulnerabilities in our open source packages, we are issuing this security advisory to document our findings and to further assist the Internet security community in remediating these issues.
There are three broad areas of information security: confidentiality (information can’t be read by unauthorised people), integrity (information can’t be changed by unauthorised people), and availability (information and systems are available when you want them). All of the changes announced today are in the “availability” category. These HTTP/2 vulnerabilities do not allow an attacker to leak or modify information.
Rather, they allow a small number of low bandwidth malicious sessions to prevent connection participants from doing additional work. These attacks are likely to exhaust resources such that other connections or processes on the same machine may also be impacted or crash.
The Weaknesses:
HTTP/2 (defined in RFCs 7540 and 7541) represents a significant change from HTTP/1.1. There are several new capabilities, including header compression and multiplexing of data from multiple streams, which make this attractive to the user community. To support these new features, HTTP/2 has grown to encompass some of the complexity of a Layer 3 transport protocol:
Data is now carried in binary frames;
There are both per-connection and per-stream windows that define how much data can be sent;
There are several ICMP-like control messages (ping, reset, and settings frames, for example) which operate at the HTTP/2 connection layer; and,
This is a fairly robust concept of stream prioritization.
While this added complexity enables some exciting new features, it also raises implementation questions. When implementations run on the internet and are exposed to malicious users, implementers may wonder:
Should I limit any of the control messages?
How do I implement the priority queueing scheme in a computationally efficient way?
How do I implement the flow-control algorithms in a computationally efficient way?
How could an attacker manipulate the flow-control algorithm at the HTTP/2 layer to cause unintended results? (And, can they manipulate the flow-control algorithms at both the HTTP/2 and TCP layers together to cause unintended results?)
The Security Considerations section of RFC 7540 (see Section 10.5) addresses some of this in a general way. However, unlike the expected “normal” behavior—which is well-documented and which implementations seem to follow very closely—the algorithms and mechanisms for detecting and mitigating “abnormal” behavior are significantly more vague and left as an exercise for the implementer. From a review of various software packages, it appears that this has led to a variety of implementations with a variety of good ideas, but also some weaknesses.
Most of these attacks work at the HTTP/2 transport layer. As illustrated in the diagram below, this layer sits above the TLS transport, but below the concept of a request. In fact, many of these attacks involve either 0 or 1 requests.
Since the early days of HTTP, tooling has been oriented around requests: logs often indicate requests (rather than connections); rate-limiting may occur at the request level; and, traffic controls may be triggered by requests.
By contrast, there is not as much tooling that looks at HTTP/2 connections to log, rate-limit, and trigger remediation based on a client’s behavior at the HTTP/2 connection layer. Therefore, organizations may find it more difficult to discover and block malicious HTTP/2 connections and may need to add additional tooling to handle these situations.
These attack vectors allow a remote attacker to consume excessive system resources. Some are efficient enough that a single end-system could potentially cause havoc on multiple servers. Other attacks are less efficient; however, even less efficient attacks can open the door for DDoS attacks which are difficult to detect and block.
Many of the attack vectors we found (and which were fixed today) are variants on a theme: a malicious client asks the server to do something which generates a response, but the client refuses to read the response. This exercises the server’s queue management code. Depending on how the server handles its queues, the client can force it to consume excess memory and CPU while processing its requests.
These are the attacks which are being disclosed today, all discovered by Jonathan Looney of Netflix, except for CVE-2019-9518 which was discovered by Piotr Sikora of Google:
CVE-2019-9511 “Data Dribble”: The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and stream priority to force the server to queue the data in 1-byte chunks. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9512 “Ping Flood”: The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9513 “Resource Loop”: The attacker creates multiple request streams and continually shuffles the priority of the streams in a way that causes substantial churn to the priority tree. This can consume excess CPU, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9514 “Reset Flood”: The attacker opens a number of streams and sends an invalid request over each stream that should solicit a stream of RST_STREAM frames from the peer. Depending on how the peer queues the RST_STREAM frames, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9515 “Settings Flood”: The attacker sends a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9516 “0-Length Headers Leak”: The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9517 “Internal Data Buffering”: The attacker opens the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint; however, they leave the TCP window closed so the peer cannot actually write (many of) the bytes on the wire. The attacker then sends a stream of requests for a large response object. Depending on how the servers queue the responses, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both, potentially leading to a denial of service.
CVE-2019-9518 “Empty Frames Flood”: The attacker sends a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag. These frames can be DATA, HEADERS, CONTINUATION and/or PUSH_PROMISE. The peer spends time processing each frame disproportionate to attack bandwidth. This can consume excess CPU, potentially leading to a denial of service. (Discovered by Piotr Sikora of Google)
Workarounds and Fixes
In most cases, an immediate workaround is to disable HTTP/2 support. However, this may cause performance degradation, and it might not be possible in all cases. To obtain software fixes, please contact your software vendor. More information can also be found in the CERT/CC vulnerability note.
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Dragon Ball Multiverse/YMMV
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Weasel Mascot
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The recent popularity of ferrets has created a new kind of animal sidekick character, in addition to the old standbys of the loyal, dull Dog and the smart, snarky Cat.
The weasel (or ferret) is a cute, mischievous, playful mascot who nonetheless looks out mainly for himself and can be very critical of people around him. He's nowhere near as clever as he thinks he is, and swears up and down he doesn't have to be fussed over. Until he wants to be, and frankly he's not about to turn down free food or attention if it's offered.
Animal mascot personalities normally fall into the Cat or Dog stereotypes even if the author has tried to use a more exotic animal, like a bird or mouse -- it'll still act like a Cat or a Dog. The Weasel Mascot personality, likewise, may apply to non-mustelids (such as a mongoose or even a squirrel) -- but weasels, otters and ferrets are most common.
A major benefit of the Weasel personality is that it largely reflects the behavior of the real animal. This personality also applies to many positive cat depictions, especially in Japan where cats are hugely popular. The Weasel can make a good ironic deadpan snarker, without the nasty or untrustworthy streak westerners associate with the Cat. (Anyone who knows how weasels fare in older Western works should appreciate the deep irony of the previous sentence, but hey, times change.)
Many magical animal guardians are Weasel mascots, and most Weasel mascots are Talking Animals.
Examples of Weasel Mascot include:
Uzume the ferret in Ai Yori Aoshi.
Kero-chan in Cardcaptor Sakura
Yuuno, from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is another actual ferret. He's an exception to the character type, though—he's a bookish, shy mage that gets nervous and blushes around Nanoha. This is mostly because Yuuno is not actually a ferret, but a human who poses as such.
Hippo the penguin in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.
Japolo from Shamanic Princess.
Artemis's playful relationship with Minako in Sailor Moon's (versus Luna, who acts slightly more "parental" to Usagi).
Hisashi Sakisaka, an occasional recurring character in the Midori no Hibi manga, has a weasel sidekick, Tomahawk, on his shoulder at all times.
Although the series is realistic, and he is an actual ferret, the anime Ichigo Mashimaro has John, who belongs to the unbelievably-adorable Matsuri. John is cute, mischievous and playful, but that seems the extent of his Weasel Mascot traits.
Mepple in Futari wa Pretty Cure has an incredible attitude, and is greedy, picky, and likes to guilt Nagisa into doing things for him.
The manga Peach Fuzz, where the ferrets are the main characters... at least,they think they are. Their owners think they're just cute pets.
Used in Spirited Away, not that you'd be able to tell: the "Art of" book tells us that the character Lin is supposed to be a transformed weasel. She's sarcastic but sweet and quite cute.
Chamo from Mahou Sensei Negima! (with Dirty Old Man tendencies to boot!).
He would like to remind you he's an ermine, thank you very much.
There is a specific punishment for mages in Mahou Sensei Negima!: temporary transformation into an ermine. It is never stated directly, but some lines may imply that Chamo-kun did undergo such a penalty. Nevertheless, Chamo-kun always claims he is a regular ermine and mentions about his ermine family. He also revealed that he was banned from his home country for stealing panties from his girl ermine companions. This may be somewhat true. Just don't try to make a definite claim.
In the manga, he's pretty specific at several points in explaining he's an ermine sprite, which is where most of his powers -- such as forming pactios and being able to read peoples' emotions -- come from. He fled to Japan to find Negi to get him to hire him as a familiar so he wouldn't be punished for his panty theft.
What? But he stole them to build a warm nest for his sister...
Rafra from Infinite Ryvius.
Pokémon: Arguably, Ash's (previously Dawn's) Buizel is one of these despite the actual mascots being the Rodent of Unusual Size and the adorable yet overused Penguin. It initially followed in the tracks of previous Badasses Charizard and Sceptile, and did a very good job of it early on despite being a Ridiculously Cute Critter. Unfortunately, it hit a losing streak later on.
In its first appearance, Buizel was the mascot of the traveling troupe in Pokémon Ranger and The Temple of The Sea and was the most prominent Pokémon until Manaphy appeared.
Oshawott is the new mustelid on the team in Black and White.
Okojo San from the titular manga and the anime Siawase Apartment's Okojo-san is an ermine. He can't talk to people, but he can to the other animals in the apartment complex.
Bleach: While technically not a weasel, Kon sure has the personality for it.
In the new manga adaptation of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Minmay has one of these, a bizarre rabbit/weasel hybrid that probably not exists in nature.
Naruto: During her Big Damn Heroes moment, Temari uses her fan to summon an eyepatch-wearing, scythe-wielding weasel named Kamatari that brings with it a massive swath of destruction against Tayuya.
which to anyone who knows japanese is a pun on the word "Kamaitachi" which means "slicing wind" but "Kama" and "Itachi" means "sickle" and "weasel" respectively.
Popotan has Unagi, who also turns into an Anthropomorphic kemonomimi. Ironically, despite being the likely cause of the surge in ferrets-as-anime-characters, Unagi is actually a Hondo Stoat, a close relative to the ferret with rather distinct winter markings and a nebulous connection to faeries and magic in folklore.
Einstein the ferret in Alien from the Darkness, whose main hobbies appear to be searching for fish and molesting its female owner.
Candy from Candy Candy has a pet raccoon called Clean.
Kyubey from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Given the nature of the show it's a subversion. There's a good reason that a good chunk of the show's fans don't trust him at all. Wicked Weasel, after all. He seems to be less of a subversion by the end of the show.
Weasel, the techie/hacker sidekick from the mainstream comic Deadpool. Not an actual weasel, but merely a man of shifty moral integrity who has his own weasel-head logo. Exists to get Deadpool both in and out of trouble.
Seamus the pooka from Blue Monday.
Spip, Spirou and Fantasio's snarky squirrel.
Played with in Get Fuzzy with Bucky's silent ferret nemesis, Fungo Squiggly.
In reference to his Baleful Polymorph in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, some fan fiction makes Draco Malfoy a ferret animagus.
Guardians of Pokémon has a pair of these, Jupei and Ki. This is not surprising as the author has stated that the fic was inspired by three anime: Pokémon (of course), Sailor Moon, and Cardcaptor Sakura.
Films -- Live Action
Kodo and Podo (aka "The Weasel Hankies") from The Beastmaster are a ferret duo that aid the main character Dar on his quests.
Along Came Polly features a pet ferret that often appeared in promotional material, despite having very few scenes in the movie.
Mr. Kimble has a pet ferret (pronounced "fyeuwr-it") that he uses to calm down his class in Kindergarten Cop. Said ferret even saves his hide by putting a well-timed bite on the Big Bad in the climactic showdown.
The weasels, ferrets, and stoats in The Wind in the Willows are loud and boisterous and take over Toad Hall, but they serve mostly as anti role models; in Terry Jones's (yes, that Terry Jones) film version they also serve as the Foil to Mole.
In Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Lyra's shapeshifting dæmon, Pantalaimon, often takes the shape of a weasel; he settles as a Pine Marten.
Harry Potter has Jarveys, smart-talking (very large) magical mustelids.
Mr. Weasley's Patronus is a weasel.
His twin sons, Fred and George, have otters for their patronesses.
Ladies and Germs, Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing Ferret!
The Areas of My Expertise: "Let's use my ferret to steal that diamond."
"New ferret, same old con."
Ozzie from Avalon: Web of Magic is an elf who was magically transformed into a ferret. Besides being more goofy than snarky, he's pretty much this trope exactly.
The title character of Zucchini is a boy's pet ferret. The book was later adapted on CBS Storybreak.
In Spellbent, Jessie Shimmer's magical familiar is a Deadpan Snarker ferret named Palimpsest.
Live Action TV
The announcer on Late Night Liars is a weasel.
In Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide an actual weasel supposedly infests Polk Middle School (whose official mascot is a wolf), and is the bane of the janitor's existence. It turns out to be pregnant and looking for a nest; it and its young are then adopted as second mascots by the moved janitor.
The weasel ends up elected class president, over several more-qualified human candidates. (Actually, "more-qualified" is debatable...)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: "Do we have a picture of me with my ferrets?"
"Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Albuquerque" features him being attacked by rabid weasels. Al gets his revenge in "Weasel Stomping Day".
Poink on The Funday Pawpet Show is sleazy, low down, and basically the show's comedic Chew Toy.
Koppa from Shiren the Wanderer.
Daxter, after being turned into an ottsel, from the Jak and Daxter series. While he's not technically a weasel, he is a combination of two different kinds of mustelid: a weasel and an otter.
Torchlight launched with the choice of a dog or a cat as the character's animal partner, but a later official mod added a ferret as a third option.
Kiki from Sluggy Freelance. Although her Genki Girl attitude may make her a subversion.
Wendy Weasel from Cwen's Quest plays straight (wo)man/big sister to titular character Cwen and keeps Cwen humble.
Menjou from Candi -- who adds the "embellished" to the comic's Life Embellished nature due to being telepathic, telekinetic and at war with the local Squirrel Mafia. His "girlfriend", Snowflake the albino squirrel, is his Distaff Counterpart (swapping psi powers for Eye Beams).
Corasyn from Nothing Comes Naturally.
Annie from Demon of the Underground. She was found in Pogo's pants and took on a group of mooks while he was busy.
Rufus from Kim Possible, though actually a naked mole rat.
I Am Weasel!'s titular character is, unsurprisingly, a weasel.
Though really more of a "Winged Lemur", Momo from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Behaviorally, there's a lot of cat in him -- specifically, Bryan Konietzko's cat.
Pabu from the sequel series The Legend of Korra is a fire ferret -- a combination of a ferret and a red panda. Yes, it's as adorable as it sounds.
Weasel Stomping Day from Robot Chicken and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
On the Darkwing Duck episode "Paint Misbehavin'", Freddie the Ferret is Launchpad's favorite comic book hero, famed for his "Friend Power."
Nils from the series Nils Holgersson has a hamster sidekick called Krumel who usually provides the voice of reason.
The Animals of Farthing Wood features the character Weasel, who is actually a rather sarcastic, selfish deadpan snarker.
An early episode of The Simpsons featured a Chuck E. Cheese expy called Wally Weasel's, complete with a literal weasel mascot and the slogan "we cram fun down your throat!"
Literally a weasel mascot, the ferret from Blind Ferret Entertainment.
The website Play It Cyber Safe has a ferret for its mascot. It gets funny when they start saying piracy is theft when the word "ferret" means "little thief".
The Queensland Police in Australia are catching some flak due to their new anti-fraud mascot aimed at children: a ferret. Despite a) the previously mentioned meaning of the word, and b) ferrets are illegal to own in the state of Queensland
Dancing Ferret Discs, an alternative music label, has a stylized ferret as part of its logo.
Ferrets do indeed tend to have very hyperactive and playful personalities in real life, with a special emphasis on hyperactive; something to keep in mind for households with small children. They also like to chew on things, so by all means don't leave your leather goods within their reach.
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“We all soon had a change of mind, back to the Mountains we rode, with our maps.” ~ Alice Bradshaw Butler
I recently stopped by the Dorchester County Library in Cambridge, Maryland. I entered into the M. Virginia Webb Memorial Maryland Room to revisit the work of author Alice Bradshaw Butler. On my last trip to the Eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, I discovered this poet’s book called “Reflections.” I wanted to explore it some more.
This writers’ life seems to mirror mine in many ways. She, too, was an East Coast gal whose life changes eventually brought her west. Alice Bradshaw Butler was born and bred on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She was educated at Towson State Teachers College (now referred to as Towson University); in the town of my native roots. In 1909 she left her life in Maryland, traveled and settled in the Western plains of Montana.
I’ve gotten got a strong sense that we would be kindred spirits, were she alive today. She seemed to find fulfilling things in both the East and the West. I find myself having conflicted feelings about which part of the country I like best. Our own shared personal values, life travels and travails can be summed up in many of her poem’s titles. Here are just a few, all written by Alice Bradshaw Butler:
Life Full of Wondrous Things
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Gold in them thar Hills
Let’s Walk this Land
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A Different Road
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[Aaron] Jacobson [of FAAN], now 31, spent “a lot of time imagining space” as a child in Cleveland, Ohio, and remembers being ecstatic when his parents gave him graph paper, which he’d fill with blueprints for dream houses. He studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis and received his master’s degree from University of Toronto before moving to Beijing to work for a small Chinese firm. A half-year later...he first tried his hand at garments... — New York Times
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Title: Nathan Ford Giffin Personal Papers, 1864-1992
Acquired: 9/9/1998
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Giffin, Nathan Ford (1873-1923)
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Description: Nathan Ford Giffin (1873-1923) personal papers, including biographical data, commencement programs, manuscripts of speeches and other writings, correspondence with family, scrapbooks, newsclippings, photographs. Also included is correspondence with Giffin's niece, Florence Giffin Johnson, about her uncle's life history. Griffin was initiated at St. Lawrence University in 1891. In 1904, as president of the New York Alumni Association, he handled arrangements for the 19th Congress. In February 1912 he was appointed chief of Province V. At the 23rd Congress in 1912 he was elected Worthy Grand Chief and served until 1918, when he went onto the High Council.
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Pistons 91 - 102 Bulls
Rose leads Bulls over Pistons
Rose Returns, Bulls Win 102-91
Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Derrick Rose played for the second time in six games since spraining both of his ankles and scored 24 points to lead the Chicago Bulls to a 102-91 win over the Detroit Pistons on Monday night.
The Bulls held on down the stretch after leading by as many as 19 points in the second quarter and 17 in the third, winning for the fifth time in their six games since Rose was hurt against Cleveland on Oct. 31.
Rose, who sat out the previous two games, set up a key basket when he drew a double team near the paint and threw a no-look pass back to Jimmy Butler for a 3-pointer that gave the Bulls a 95-88 lead with 1:56 remaining.
The former NBA MVP had seven assists in 32 minutes and Butler scored 19 as the Bulls beat the Pistons for the 22nd time in their last 24 meetings. Pau Gasol added 17 points and 15 rebounds and Joakim Noah scored 13 with 14 boards.
It was the first time this season that Chicago had its five starters on the court at the same time.
"It was great to have everyone," said Gasol. "I hope we can keep it that way."
Josh Smith had 19 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Pistons, who have dropped their last two. Greg Monroe added 16 points and 10 rebounds and D.J. Augustin added 16 points off the bench.
Caron Butler's right-corner 3-pointer got the Pistons within 87-84 with 4:41 remaining and they were as close as two minutes later on Augustin's bucket, but scored just three points over the last 2:43.
Gasol's jumper and Jimmy Butler's 3 gave the Bulls a cushion.
"The second half tonight was a positive for us by and large," said Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy. "But, when you give away the first half and then play better, but still come up short, I can't accept it. You have to play to win."
Earlier, Rose scored eight points in eight minutes in the first quarter and Gasol and Noah combined for 12 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bulls carried a 27-21 lead into the second and used an 11-0 run late in the half to go up 16. Jimmy Butler sparked the burst with a 3 and Gasol scored four, including a jumper that made it 53-37.
Rose had 13 points in the half, shooting 5-for-10 in 15 minutes, and Chicago led 60-44 at the break.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Smith combined to score 17 points in a big third quarter for the Pistons, who shot better than 55 percent in the frame to pull within 78-70 going into the fourth.
Pistons center Andre Drummond's name was misspelled as "Drummund" on the back of his jersey ... Aaron Brooks had 10 points off the bench for the Bulls, who play in Toronto on Thursday ... Brandon Jennings scored 11 for the Pistons, who continue a four-game road trip on Wednesday in Washington. Caldwell-Pope scored all nine of his points in the third quarter.
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Military to investigate decision to certify the Falcon Heavy rocket
ranthog
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:24 am
UncleNine wrote:
The cushy, buddy-buddy, corrupt, inbred Federal Government relationship between Boeing, ULA, Lockheed Martin and the rest is hopefully coming to an end. It does a huge amount of damage to our democracy. These guys will use any corrupt trick in the book to save their butts. Any Trick.
Normally, the way to beat an entrenched incumbent, for any player in any industry, is to be better AND cheaper. SpaceX is both. Falcon Heavy can deliver any payload to any orbit, in some cases two payloads, for 1/3 the cost. I can't believe the Delta IV is even still in business. But, Lockheed Martin is the single biggest lobbyist on Earth.
I agree with some of the commenters above that someone in the stinky, dusty, dark hallways of Pentagon procurement is angling for a job with ULA or somewhere. And the two politicians who signed this letter are angling for huge campaign money and the votes of Lockheed Martin workers. I hope to god that SpaceX sues the Air Force again, and again.
The Delta IV Heavy is still in business because the DoD has a strategic interest in having two launchers available for their orbits. The Delta IV Heavy has a limited life at this point and basically will only be around until the new options arrive.
trimeta
Kanshii wrote:
From the SN article linked:
With LSA funds, the three winners can defray the costs of meeting the government’s unique launch requirements. Meanwhile, “non-LSA awardees will be either required to bear the brunt of those costs on their own or find themselves unable to compete for future launches as a result of the unreasonable unrecoverable costs required to compete,” says the letter.
The Air Force is right to invest in new suppliers to make the industry more competitive, the lawmakers write, “but we are concerned that the LSA decisions and Phase 2 proposal will create competitive unfairness by placing undue financial burdens on companies that were not selected by LSA and will eliminate continuous competition through the long-term allocation of missions.”
If SpaceX decided to not compete in EELV Phase 2 because of the significant expense, the result would be a “gap in access to space in the near term or a continued reliance on Russian rocket engines,” the letter adds. “Neither outcome is consistent with the LSA original goals or with national security.”
So it is more about why SpaceX didn't get an award than anything else. So this may actually be good news for SpaceX as they may get funding for their next vehicle SuperHeavy or supplemental for FH.
The investigation by the OIG is not about why SpaceX didn't get an award. You seem to be conflating two things
1) Feinstein & Calbert are asking the AF to investigate the EELV Phase 1 awarding processing.
2) The OIG is investigating the AF procedures on certifying the Falcon Heavy for national security payloads.
It seems likely, and certainly implied by the article, that there is perhaps a causual relationship between those two though.
I mean, it's not like this is the first time we've seen local pork influencing space stuff.
The only sense in which a causal relationship is possible is if the OIG inspection is intended as backlash/punishment for Feinstein and Calvert's letter. "Oh, you've got a couple of politicians on your side; we have the DoD OIG office on our side, and they can do a lot more than just write a letter."
Geekmeister
It's sad that our country has become so dysfunctional; Good news for our adversaries though. Let's just keep chasing our tails and their work will be done for them.
fl4Ksh
This is a standard bureaucratic move. Feinstein and Calvert complain to the USAF over the award of those recent "Launch Services Agreement" contracts to competitors of SpaceX. So the USAF says "OK". We'll check into those awards. And, by the way, we'll also check into the previous certification that the USAF did for launching DoD payloads on Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. Just another slap fight between Congress and DoD with SpaceX sandwiched in the middle.
Imbrium wrote:
It seems like SpaceX is being forced to jump through more hoops than Boeing, both in the military and NASA side of things. SpaceX is doing an abort test, Boeing is just presenting NASA with models of how Starliner would survive an in-flight abort. New Space is a threat that Old Space just laughed at a few years ago, but now that their lunch is getting eaten, it's time for them to take the gloves off and use their years of bribery, er.....campaign contributions....to deal with the upstarts. Just wait until Bezos joins the action. What will they ask to get New Glenn certified? Fly around the Moon 10 times in a week?
It is likely that SpaceX thought it would be cheaper to meet the requirements by doing an in flight abort test, and Boeing thought modeling would be cheaper. It is likely a reflection of the fact that Boeing's rocket is more expensive than SpaceX's.
Matthew J. wrote:
How often do these sort of shenanigans result in adverse findings? Are any of SpaceX's missions in jeopardy? Or is this usually just a formality?
If they get decertified prior to launching AFSPC-52 then they might not be able to launch that.
greybeardengineer
ranthog wrote:
And Boeing is expertly well versed in NASA's paper safety mentality.
greybeardengineer wrote:
OK which lazy fat fucks in the old space country club did SpaceX piss off?
Well basically all of them.
OK which ones spend far more money on lobbyists and congress critters than innovation?
This could be a tough case to solve.
Its quite possible the DoD again broke their own procurement rules when they certified the FH. The DoD seems to have a very bad habit of doing this in general, and SpaceX has been on the other end of this when the DoD tried to give all the launches to the ULA.
If they really did violate the rules then it is the job of the inspector general's office to investigate this. Just because the rules this time benefited SpaceX doesn't make it right. Everyone's rocket should be subject to the same certification process. It wouldn't be fair if Blue Origin late on had to go through a more rigorous process than SpaceX.
Nor is it likely that this is going to seriously affect SpaceX's business this time around. It may mean a little more red tape before they're allowed to fly.
Where is the audit of Delta IV Heavy's certification? It only did one unsuccessful demo before certification for NSS missions.
blackhawk887 wrote:
Did we have the same certification and procurement rules at the time the Delta IV Heavy went into production?
If STP-2 and Arabsat6 are successful they will be certified. That's 3 successful flights.
Nor is it likely that this is going to seriously affect SpaceX's business this time around.
Depending on how long the audit takes and the results SpaceX could lose the AFSPC-52 launch contract. It is possible that the AF would just delay AFSPC-52 and not cancel the contract in that case though. Using Falcon 9 over an Atlas V 551 would save them ~$100M.
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ZaCTiC
Scrutiny is good. It makes sure that things are being done correctly, even if it may infuriate the Air Force and further strengthen their relationship with SpaceX. SpaceX may take this and continue fueling their desire to prove everyone wrong. We'll shall see.
Both are under the EELV program requirements. I'm no aware of any changes in certification requirements since DIVH, but there might have been. If they were, that should be explicit in the reasoning for looking at one certification again.
Both methods really are inadequate in a lot of ways from a human safety perspective. A single launch abort test working only tells you that you got lucky. The real way to do this would be to run a statistically significant number of launch abort tests at various points in the launch process. Unfortunately even with reusable rockets it is cost prohibitive to do so.
Both methods are valid ways of verifying the design if you're not going to run those cost prohibitive tests. Both modeling and testing have their own strengths and draw backs.
chudan wrote:
One also has to consider if this is some attempt at throwing monkey wrenches into BFR/SS/SH development by tying up SpaceX on as many fronts as possible. SpaceX is also having to deal with NASA management looking over their 'corporate culture' shoulder as well. When the Starship and Super Heavy go online, big Old Space launch services and the Orion/SLS pork troughes are going to look pretty ugly to Joe and Jane Q Public.
I think the advantage SpaceX has is that it is a private company. Corporations and nations want to send satellites to space. SpaceX has a launch system that is incredibly cost friendly and opens the doors for new opportunities. I think because of this, they are the monkey wrench in the space launch world.
mpetty423
the Delta IV Heavy ... has a spotless record
Well, spotless other than the partial failure on its first flight, when all the boosters cut off with a significant velocity deficit due to a LOX level sensor issue, leaving the demosat stranded well short of the target orbit. So not really spotless.
Yeah, Iwas on that mission, downrange. Was seriously doubting myself about my memory since Eric is usually pretty solid...
Azethoth666
Does anyone have a spotless record? Even ULA "we never screw up" is cherry picking the later blocks of their rockets post merger and completely ignoring the fireworks that went into developing them.
DanNeely
This is very much the case. NASA told both that they could either do an in-flight abort to demonstrate the function or create simulations good enough to demonstrate that it would work. Atlas V is relatively expensive and Boeing doesn't have a smallish solid rocket division (like what NASA is doing to demo in flight abort for Orion); so they chose to go the simulation route.
SpaceX has a cheaper rocket and originally intended to use a stripped down once flown Block 3(?) booster to cut costs even more. Plans have changed and they'll be using a Block 5 instead that's much closer to being a complete rocket which is presumably pushing their costs up. But expending an F9 is still a lot cheaper than expending an Atlas; and SpaceX still doesn't have as much institutional knowledge at creating paperwork that ticks all of the expected govt boxes as companies that have been doing it for around a century so doing an actual abort demo is still the best option for them.
peragrin
The Taxpayer wrote:
Basically ULA is pissed off, because it lost the monopoly on Military Space Launches for all orbits...
They hate that, specially because Heavy Falcon is three times cheaper...
Competition sometimes sucks... for ULA.
For US Taxpayer, it's wonderful news...
That's just it SpaceX is being investigated because it didn't receive air force money for development of the falcon heavy. That should be a bonus not a limitation.
prb123
Not really. You always model, but when you do a launch abort test you prove that your model is accurate.
Azethoth666 wrote:
Yeah nobody does. Even 100 consecutive successful launches isn't statistically significant to prove a 0% (or even 0.1%) launch failure rate with any reasonable confidence interval. The most reliable cohort of rockets includes the Ariane 5, Atlas V, Delta IV Medium, Soyuz-FG, H-2B, and Falcon 9. They all have roughly the same level of reliability with a projected future launch success rate of >95%. Any minor difference in mission successes aren't statistically significant at current launch histories.
The next group of reasonably reliable launchers includes the Vega, Proton, Delta IV Heavy, Soyuz-2, Minotaur 1, and PLSV. They tend to have projected success rates in the 90% to 95% range. Most everything else is junk and not commercially viable.
Some stat stuff follows (you have been warned):
The Falcon 9 may be the one launch vehicle that if it continues to fly with no failures we could say with statistical significance that it has a lower launch failure rate than 5%. That is because it has a very high cadence and could get up to the large number of trials needed. The Falcon 9 v1.2 (all blocks) so far has flown 46 times with zero launch failures and one pad failure if you include the Amos-6 pad anomaly. It is debatable if that should be included so I provided numbers both with and without Amos-6 as a failure.
Assuming no further failures at 60 total flights we can say with a 95% confidence interval that the actual failure rate is less than 6.0% (9.0% w/ Amos-6). At 100 flights it would be <3.6% (@ 95% CI), <5.4% w/ amos-6. At 150 flight it would be <2.4% and <3.7% respectively. At 200 flights 1.8% and 2.8% respectively and at 400 flights <0.9% and <1.4%.
So even excluding Amos-6 it would take 400 flights of the Falcon 9 v1.2 with no failures to say with a 95% confidence interval that the Falcon 9 has a less than 1% failure rate.
TheFu
Tribus: Metro Atlanta
In addition to fuckery from ULA, one wonders how much of this was prompted by Musk smoking marijuana on video. The Air Force is significantly infiltrated by evangelical Christians.
The federal govt doesn't like it when Federal Laws are violated, publicly. Musk smoking marijuana was illegal according to US Law.
Many federal contractors have periodic drug tests and can lose their jobs over it. Musk risked huge contracts and the livelihood of all those employees.
This has nothing to do with religion. It has to do with US Federal laws.
"Spotless" is a pretty high bar. Even ignoring the pre-ULA history, Atlas V has a partial failure and at least one very near miss.
prb123 wrote:
Both companies may have models, but Boeing is likely having to do a lot more verification of that model than SpaceX is doing. Both methods are valid and both have their limitations.
One test launch can't prove these models correct.
LtKernelPanic
Tribus: A suburb of BFE; Sioux City, Ia. USA
So IOW someone at SpaceX forgot to send the monthly kickback check to someone on time.
mhalpern
jcloggins wrote:
Belisarius wrote:
No bucks, no Buck Rogers indeed. This decision couldn't be more blatantly political if it somehow gained sentience and ran for office.
Sentience is required to run for office?
When did this happen?
I hear it's a new amendment in the works...
How interesting! SLS development cost were paid by the Air Force and yet it cost three times as much as SpaceX Falcon Heavy! I already knew this but it is great to see the statement in print. SLS cost three times as much as Falcon Heavy. Is that extra cost because the Air Force paid the development cost and the company did NOT have to be better engineers to build a better rocket because the Air Force was paying for it? Or was it because the Air Force forced this design upon the company? In either case this shows how inefficient government paid research is. This also exposes the fact that a political group who has increased its presence in the US house and who wants to put the government in charge of the economy (even they don't at this time claim that goal) what the results would be. Now there are conditions where the government can do it best. Projects where time and not cost is the limiting factor such as the Manhattan Project. When the government gets involved the cost automatically increases multi-fold. Just how much further would the US Space agency be if it had allowed the private industry lead out. NASA may will have have already put people on the surface of Mars and even more.
Curly4 wrote:
Um the SLS was not paid by the Air Force. After Challenger the Air Force said never again about putting national security payloads on a NASA launch vehicle and restarted development of expendable launch vehicles.
The SLS has a projected launch cost $1B possibly $1.5B so 10x to 15x that of a reusable Falcon Heavy.
I think that the first launch or maybe the first couple can probably be given a pass, especially when it was only a partial failure. Its a very good record for reliability as far as any launcher.
Not that it is probably statistically significant if the rocket had one or two actual failures where the payload was lost. The US doesn't have any launchers that we've launched enough to really know what the failure rate is.
So while the Delta Heavy IV is spotless, we don't know if it would be spotless after 1000 launches or 10,000 launches.
To an extent any rocket has to be treated like an experimental vehicle.
Yeah nobody does. Even 100 consecutive successful launches isn't statistically significant to prove a 0% (or even 0.1%) launch failure rate with any reasonable confidence interval. The most reliable cohort of rockets includes the Ariane 5, Atlas V, Delta IV Medium, Soyuz-FG, H-2B, and Falcon 9. They all have roughly the same level of reliability with a projected future launch success rate of >95%. Any minor difference in mission successes aren't statistically significant.
H-2B doesn't have enough launches yet to hit 95%+ using Lewis Point Estimate. It's at 89%. The H-2A is at 95% with its 39/40 actual rate. Most of the Chinese launchers appear to be fairly reliable. The CZ-2C, -3B & C, and -4 are all between 93% and 95% LPE, and only the CZ-3A has enough failures for the low LPE to be related to performance rather than lack of launches, but they're not commercial competition for most users.
Not_an_IT_guy
Here is my question. In my experience an OIG audit takes 2-3 years to complete, at least. Is the intent to not let SpaceX launch any military sats until the OIG gives them a clean bill of health?
If this is the case, even if the OIG says everything is kosher (and they won't, regardless of how good SpaceX is, there is no chance that the auditors won't find something. That still keeps SpaceX out of the loop for 2+ years (I'd guess 4-5 years). This would give the ULA time to catch up.
wvmikep
So many of the commenters seem to have missed the last three paragraphs. They suggest that the IG investigation started as a result of CA lawmakers complaining that SpaceX got hosed.
Cathbadhian
Essentially, it boils down to who got government subsidization for development, and who didn't. In this case, the AF is funding SpaceX's competitor, which is a serious interference in free market competition if you look at it a certain way.
Not entirely sure how you avoid that however if the policy is to have >1 provider, and all other providers are THAT far behind SpaceX...
Imbrium
Nothing has a spotless record. Can anyone name an airliner that has a spotless record, no crashes, no in-flight emergencies after more than a few years in service? We know that no car has a spotless record. Even ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 standards say that with a sample of 80, you can only have a confidence of 99.85% that there will be no failures if you have no failures in that sample of 80. It's all a matter of what level of risk you are willing to accept, and with manned spaceflight, that level of risk is very, very low, especially after the loss of 2 shuttles.
wvmikep wrote:
It 'may' have started as a result of that but that would mean it is just political payback. Is that really a good thing in your opinion?
To be clear the OIG is NOT investigating if SpaceX got hosed. They are investigating if the Falcon Heavy was improperly certified. So the best outcome from this is SpaceX gets nothing. The worst outcome would be the FH is decertified for national security launches, SpaceX loses its existing national security launch contract, and is excluded from bidding on any future national security launches that exceed the capabilities of the F9 until such time as the FH is recertified in the future.
chudan
Interesting read of the memo itself. The OIG is not investigation SpaceX at all. They are investigating the AF office that certified the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy. All requests for documentation in the memo appear to be aimed at the AF staff itself.
TheMortallyWounded
My fault guys, sorry, my bad... I was wearing a Falcon Heavy polo to work when the SLS team came down to talk to me Friday at work (no, I don't work for Boeing). My wife bought it for me for Christmas. It's so comfortable. And it was Casual Friday. I should have been wearing my lab coat but I wasn't near flight hardware at the time.
Not_an_IT_guy wrote:
As I understand it, the decision to keep the certification active during the audit is up to the USAF. Just because there is an audit does not mean there is anything wrong. Audits happen all the time as a matter of course and are not a reason to suspend day to day business.
IMO this is unlikely to affect any contracting activities in the meantime.
Einstein76
Account Banned
TheFu wrote:
Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with religion, but it has everything to do with racism and pharma profits.
It's not really that low. pLOC on CC vehicles is only ~3x better than the Shuttle, and they are having a hard time hitting that. Any time you launch a rocket there's a good ~1% chance that things go sideways.
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Social-Practice Artist, Maria Gaspar, Screening & Talk About Mass Incarceration at ArtYard
Oct 15, 2019 | NEWS | 0 comments
Please join us at ArtYard this Saturday, October 19th, 7:30 pm for an evening of art as social, transformative practice, featuring a screening of Radioactive: Stories Beyond the Wall, followed by an audience Q & A with Maria Gaspar and facilitated by Bennington professor, Vanessa Lyon, PhD.
The United States has the largest known incarceration population in the world.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime.
“Mass Incarceration is but one symptom of systemic oppression.” -Maria Gaspar
Photo from Radioactive: Stories Beyond the Wall.
Social practice-artist and educator Maria Gaspar responded to the severe injustice and racism of the U.S Criminal Justice system by leading workshops with incarcerated men at the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, the largest single-site jail in the United States and located a few blocks away from where Gaspar grew up. Through collaborations in drawings and audio recordings in response to the question: “what would the jail say if it could speak?” Maria and the inmates “imagined the jail as a massive amplification device,” resulting in Radioactive: Stories Beyond the Wall. With its debut in September 2018, as a large-scale public art event, Radioactive translated past and current detained individuals’ stories into audio and animation, which were projected on to the north-end wall of Cook County Jail.
In Maria’s own words: “to better understand these detainees’ experiences makes a different mode of caring possible.” ArtYard is honored to host an interdisciplinary social-practice artist who champions expression through communal engagement, and exhibits the transformational power of art as means towards radical care.
Maria Gaspar is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses issues of spatial justice in order to amplify, mobilize, or divert structures of power through individual and collective gestures. Through installation, sculpture, sound, and performance, Gaspar’s practice situates itself within historically marginalized sites and spans multiple formats, scales, and durations to produce liberatory actions. Gaspar’s projects have been supported by the Art for Justice Fund, the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship, the Creative Capital Award, the Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant, and the Art Matters Foundation. Maria has received the Sor Juana Women of Achievement Award in Art and Activism from the National Museum of Mexican Art, and the Chamberlain Award for Social Practice from the Headlands Center for the Arts.
J. Vanessa Lyon, (PhD, UC Berkeley) teaches early modern art with an emphasis on gender, race, historiography, and post/colonial relationships in Spanish, Flemish, and British visual representation (circa 1400–1800) at Bennington College. Selected publications include: “Full of Grace: Lactation, Expression and Colorito in some Early Works by Rubens” (in Medieval and Renaissance Lactations, J. Sperling, ed. Ashgate, 2013), and “‘A Relic from the Cave of Pope’: Drawings of the Grotto in an Extra-Illustrated Plan of Pope’s Garden in the Huntington Library” (Huntington Library Quarterly, June, 2015).
ARTFORUM, September 11, 2018:
Maria Gaspar discusses her collaborative work with incarcerated communities.
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iHeartRadio Podcasts
Turkey And Tradition: Thrillist's Best (and the Rest) Debates Thanksgiving
posted by Diana Brown - Nov 26, 2019
Thrillist’s Best (and the Rest) host Wil Fulton talks turkey in this episode, debating all things Thanksgiving. Along with Thrillist executive food editor, Nicole Taylor, senior editor Adriana Velez, and senior news editor Tony Merevick, Wil will drink wine, eat cheese, and answer the important questions: which is better, stuffing or dressing? Is gravy a side dish? What’s the best time to eat? From the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to the National Dog Show, from the best pie to the best side, from the time Tony ate an edible before dinner to the time Wil ate an edible before dinner, the Thrillist team leaves no stone unturned in their pursuit to determine the best of Thanksgiving - and the rest.
First, Wil asks about stuffing versus dressing, and Nicole says stuffing is too bland. “I'd rather have the cornbread dressing in a casserole dish with the crisp edges. So when you bite into it, you kind of have that crunch...it's really great.” Adriana agrees; “you want that variety of textures, otherwise it's so bland. The only thing that gets to be that uniform in texture are the mashed potatoes.” But Tony points out that pretty much everything on a Thanksgiving plate is mushy, “so it all gets mixed, and it's delicious.” Nicole’s not into her food touching, and Adriana describes her plate “like the EU, they're all adjacent, there's some visiting. Some foods get along better than other foods, so I keep them near each other and so they can enjoy each other's fellowship. And then there's salad, which is England, which wants to be separate.” What about real cranberry sauce versus the kind that comes from a can? Wil says he’ll “die for canberry,” but Nicole swears he’ll change his mind if he tries Kitchenista’s homemade cranberry relish recipe. Tony keeps it simple: “I don’t touch that s**t.”
Nicole stuns the group by admitting that she’s never had a slice of pumpkin pie in her life. “I grew up where's all about the...sweet potato pies and that's what you eat. I never ever saw cans of pumpkin nor a whole pumpkin being roasted for a pumpkin pie. If I have to buy or make a pie for Thanksgiving, it's going to always be sweet potato.” Wil loves a slice of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving; Adriana likes bourbon pecan the best, and Tony says apple. But of course, it all depends: “Pie is really easy to get wrong,” Tony says. “If you have a bad one, it’s really bad.”
Another tradition Wil asks about is Thanksgiving Eve, one of the biggest bar nights of the year. Do any of the Thrillist team go out the night before Thanksgiving and bump into high school friends? Tony tells us that he did go out one year, with his mother to a barbecue restaurant, and “there's this huge line snaking out of a bar across the town square from us,” he says. “And then it hit me, I realized that it's the annual Turkey Testicle Festival,” which is a real festival in Huntley, Illinois. Some time is spent Googling turkey testicles (apparently, they look like fried oysters) before they get back on track, telling some terrible travel tales, like when Tony’s cab ride to LaGuardia the day before Thanksgiving took three hours and the driver confessed that he was afraid he was going to pee his pants. “I hope he survived.”
Find out Wil, Nicole, Tony, and Adriana’s picks for the best things about Thanksgiving, and hear more about their own family traditions, turducken, Friendsgiving, the best places to eat out on Thanksgiving, and more, on this episode of Thrillist’s Best (and the Rest) – and have a happy Thanksgiving, no matter how you celebrate!
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Talks continue between Grand River Transit, Unifor as strike looms
Kevin Nielsen GlobalNews.ca
A Grand River Transit bus travels down Krug Street in Kitchener during a winter storm.
Kevin Nielsen / Global News / File
Negotiations continue between Unifor and the Region of Waterloo in an attempt to avoid a strike at midnight but the president of the union representing Grand River Transit employees told reporters Monday that the two sides are far apart.
“We have already had some preliminary discussions and the objective is to get a deal,” Unifor President Jerry Dias said.
“Our objective is to get a deal and to be sure that commuters in Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge have a way to get to work tomorrow but it takes two to come to an agreement so as we sit here now, we are still miles apart.”
Region, Unifor to meet throughout weekend in hopes avoiding Grand River Transit strike
The transit workers will be in a legal strike position as of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Dias said that deadline will be pushed back until 2 a.m. to accommodate those who need to get home on Monday night.
“We’re going to make sure that all of our customers are taken care of and those that are requiring transit will get taken home safely tonight,” he said.
A region spokesperson confirmed that talks are expected to take place late into Monday night.
They suggested that commuters watching for news should keep an eye on the region’s social media channels which will start pushing out updates later Monday.
Commuters can also call the GRT Information Line at 519-585-7555 (Deaf and Hard of Hearing (TTY): 519-585-7796) for information on the status of transit services.
Grand River Transit bus drivers in position to strike next Tuesday, Region of Waterloo says
If there is a strike, the region said, service will be disrupted on conventional buses as well as Bus Plus and MobilityPLUS services.
According to the region, “every effort will be made to provide transportation for pre-scheduled dialysis trips. MobilityPLUS customers can continue to use TaxiScrip services provided by Kiwanis Transit.”
ION trains will continue to run, although if there are any service disruptions, there will be no shuttle buses.
The region has created a page to help you plan on how to get around in the event of a strike.
Kilt ban for bus driver was not discriminatory, Ontario rights tribunal rules
It suggests carpooling, walking, cycling and taxi or ridesharing services as alternative means to get around in Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo.
The region also suggests asking your boss about the possibility of working from home.
GO Bus, Coach Canada and Greyhound will continue to offer their bus services in Kitchener and Waterloo as well.
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Giuliani Time
Film Reviewed by Kam Williams
Documentary Portrays Presidential Hopeful as Racist Mayor
Click to order via Amazon
DVD Release Date: November 21, 2006
Studio: Cinema Libre Studio
DVD Extras: Deleted scenes, extended interviews, trailers, and a commentary track.
DVD Review by Kam Williams
Excellent (4 stars)
Rudy Giuliani was catapulted to a secular sainthood for his handling of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, leading many to forget how, for eight years, he had ruled New York City with an iron-fist, bitterly dividing it along ethnic lines by implementing policies which favored whites and the rich over minorities and the poor. Relying on code words like ’Zero Tolerance’ and ’Quality of Life,’ the mayor had given the NYPD the go ahead to intimidate and mistreat not only squeegee guys and the homeless, but anyone who wasn't white with such impunity and contempt. The result was a Wild West atmosphere in which minority communities were turned into police states where trigger-happy detectives could shoot an innocent, unarmed black man, Amadou Diallo, 41 times, knowing that Rudy had their backs and they’d get off scot-free.
This informative biopic suggests that the source of Giuliani's penchant for brutality and strong-arm tactics was his having been raised by his father, Harold, a gun-toting Mafiosi enforcer who broke kneecaps with a baseball bat for a major gambling operation in Brooklyn. His dad even served time in Sing Sing, though Rudy is apparently not one to acknowledge his mob roots.
Giuliani Time includes damning interviews with folks like Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew (1995-1999) who criticizes his former boss for implementing education policies which he says were ’racist and class-biased.’ Giuliani's predecessors David Dinkins and Ed Koch weigh-in, too, the latter referring to Rudy as ’a combination of Pinochet and Caligula’ because ’he accepts no dissent and uses his power to punish.’
Ralph Nader, the ACLU's Norman Siegel, Reverend Al Sharpton, Attorney Ron Kuby and a host of other luminaries pile on, taking turns to remind us of an administration which deserves to be remembered not for the clean-up of the Twin Towers, but for its utter lack of compassion for the impoverished and working classes.
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Fri Feb 10th 2017 by abagond
It is two and a half minutes to midnight.
The Doomsday Clock (1947- ) marks how close the world is to self-destruction in the judgement of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with input from 15 Nobel Prize laureates. It uses:
“the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet.”
In 2017 it now stands at two and a half minutes to midnight, the worst it has been since the 1950s.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by scientists who created the first atom bomb. The founding editor was concerned not just with an atomic end of days but more generally with the “Pandora’s box of modern science”.
They set the clock according to not just the in/action of political leaders but stuff like the number and kind of nuclear weapons in use, how much carbon dioxide is in the air, the acidity of the oceans and how fast the sea level is rising.
The clock through the years, showing some of the highlights:
1947: It is 7 minutes to midnight when the clock first appears.
1949: 3 minutes: The Soviet Union gets the bomb.
1953: 2 minutes: US tests the first hydrogen bomb.
1963: 12 minutes: Partial Test Ban treaty, signed in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
1974: 9 minutes: India gets the bomb.
1981: 4 minutes: Soviets invade Afghanistan.
1984: 3 minutes: arms control talks are just for show.
1988: 6 minutes: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
1990: 10 minutes: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
1991: 17 minutes: START treaty.
1998: 9 minutes: India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons.
2007: 5 minutes: Climate change, North Korea gets the bomb, Iran is close.
A chart showing all the changes:
Of 2017: A week after Trump became US president, they moved the clock a half minute closer to midnight:
“events surrounding the US presidential campaign – including cyber offensives and deception campaigns apparently directed by the Russian government and aimed at disrupting the US election – have brought American democracy and Russian intentions into question and thereby made the world more dangerous than was the case a year ago.”
Of Trump:
“He has shown a troubling propensity to discount or outright reject expert advice related to international security, including the conclusions of intelligence experts. And his nominees to head the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency dispute the basics of climate science.”
North Korea is also a concern.
The way forward is to cut nuclear arms and carbon emissions, which in turn will decrease global warming and the likelihood of nuclear war. In 2016, carbon emissions were flat, while the number of nuclear weapons increased.
A good first step for the US:
“the Trump administration needs to make a clear, unequivocal statement that it accepts climate change, caused by human activity, as a scientific reality. No problem can be solved, unless its existence is recognized.”
What ordinary citizens can do:
Learn about climate change and nuclear weapons.
Share what they learn.
Inform government representatives of their concerns.
The Bulletin:
“Facts are indeed stubborn things, and they must be taken into account if the future of humanity is to be preserved, long term.”
Update (January 26th 2018): The clock has moved forward 30 seconds to two minutes before midnight, the worst it has been since 1953. BBC.
website – see where the clock is now
The 2017 Doomsday Clock statement (PDF)
Republican Bubble
Clock of the Long Now
Muzak – somehow I am reminded of Muzak.
on Fri Feb 10th 2017 at 23:55:24 Solitaire
“The way forward is to cut nuclear arms…”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-putin-idUSKBN15O2A5
In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.
When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said.
Trump then told Putin the treaty was one of several bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration, saying that New START favored Russia….
New START gives both countries until February 2018 to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear warheads to no more than 1,550, the lowest level in decades. It also limits deployed land- and submarine-based missiles and nuclear-capable bombers.
During a debate in the 2016 presidential election, Trump said Russia had “outsmarted” the United States with the treaty, which he called “START-Up.” He asserted incorrectly then that it had allowed Russia to continue to produce nuclear warheads while the United States could not….
In the phone call, the Russian leader raised the possibility of reviving talks on a range of disputes and suggested extending New START, the sources said.
New START can be extended for another five years, beyond 2021, by mutual agreement. Unless they agree to do that or negotiate new cuts, the world’s two biggest nuclear powers would be freed from the treaty’s limits, potentially setting the stage for a new arms race.
With Orange Hitler at the helm and his adlepated brain this could be any day our days are numbered he is the one with access to send us to a nuclear holocaust.
on Sat Feb 11th 2017 at 12:10:04 nomad
Keep repeating this myth often enough and it becomes fact. There is no evidence that Russia hacked US election. The nation that has moved us closer to Doomsday is the US under the leadership of Barack Obama. Trump has had the opposite effect with regard to Russia, resisting the Obama/Hillary agenda of pushing for war with that country, though he has on the other hand been belligerent towards Iran and China. That too can lead to nuclear war but not as certainly as a military clash with Russia. When Hillary lost the election the Doomsday clock should actually moved back a minute. She was more prone to war with Russia than Trump.
no mention of shift in US leadership opinion from MAD to a belief that war with Russia is winnable nor of expelling Russian diplomats and sending NATO troops to Russia border in December 2016 under Obama as having any effect on the Doomsday clock.
on Sat Feb 11th 2017 at 15:24:53 Fan ...
“3. Inform government representatives of their concerns.”
Ha! You got jokes.. But you forgot to mention that you better bring a big bag of cash with you while INFORMING those representatives of your concerns because THAT’S HOW Amerika’s system works. Money talks.
Concerns? lol Not so much! In one ear (if you’re lucky enough to get an audience) then out the other ear.
Cash gets stuff done in a lobbyist fed system.
At least Putin cares something about the Russian people should a doomsday scenario occur. They have prepared underground cities/bunkers for ordinary Russian people (not just for the elites) to avoid complete death and annihilation. Russia may or may not win a nuclear exchange, but they have insured that at least a good amount of their people will survive a holocaust!
Can the same be said of the Amerikan (Democrat/Republican) leadership?
No. I think they want us dead.
on Sat Feb 11th 2017 at 16:01:14 sharinalr
If we are dead then who can they use and abuse? Then again our death is a sick pleasure to them so…
@ Nomad – Sharina
I think the satanists’ plan is to keep just enough people/servants alive to serve them. Everyone else, according to them, are just useless eaters.
Be polite. Use a calm voice. In the face of Armageddon.
on Sat Feb 11th 2017 at 19:29:57 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
I’m ready for oblivion
on Sun Feb 12th 2017 at 16:52:27 blakksage
There are those who are still (insert Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) attempting to make God out to be a liar (1 John 5:10); that a nuclear war will not take place (Zechariah 14:12) and therefore, averted by mortal men; that the so-called elitarians amongst us aren’t prepared to temporarily escape to their Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBs, Cheyenne Mountains) at the initial stages of Armageddon (Revelation 6:15).
They’ll be safe for a little while. But after the nuclear dust settles, they better brace themselves because the hunters will be tearing the doors down. Personally, I hope and pray to God that I’m selected as one of His 144,000 hunters to exact terror on the elites that will survive. (Revelation 7:4)
It is unquestionable that a large sum of humanity will die, but not all of us, due to radiation exposure. Those who believe in Him will live and those who think otherwise will die (John 11:26). The Most High will put the warrior Spirit on his hunters and send them to every mountain (bunkers) in order to finish off the so-called elites who have wreak havoc on this planet (Jeremiah 16:16) in an attempt to supplant themselves as being G-d.
To me, it’s truly comical that mortal men (Atomic Scientists) with their diminutive level of wisdom would even attempt to prevent something from happening that’s already been prophesied to happen and WRITTEN by the Most High true God! (Wisdom of Solomon 17:7-8)
All of the Lord’s prophecies will come to pass and not even one of them will fail! (Isaiah 34:16)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2oxLR-e2bI)
Revelation 6:15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
2 Esdras 16 Like as an arrow (missiles) which is shot of a mighty archer returneth not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall not return again.
John 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Zechariah 14:12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:7-8 As for the illusions of art magick, they were put down, and their vaunting in wisdom was reproved with disgrace. 8 For they, that promised to drive away terrors and troubles from a sick soul, were sick themselves of fear, worthy to be laughed at. (the Bilderberg Group; the Illuminati and the Atomic Scientists)
Revelation 7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
2 Peter 3:10-15 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail,
on Mon Feb 13th 2017 at 15:36:34 nomad
Did I say ‘sending NATO troops to Russia border in December 2016 under Obama’?
It was US troops. That’s even more provocative. It’s a curious Doomsday clock that does not take into account US efforts to bring about conflict with Russia, Especially the US engineered Ukrainian coup.
on Tue Feb 14th 2017 at 01:48:05 v8driver
on Wed Feb 15th 2017 at 17:22:47 nomad
Well, there you go. Both the Hillary road and the Trump road led to the same end, didn’t it. Potential war with Russia and inevitably WW III.
I didn’t think Trump would capitulate so soon, giving his campaign rhetoric about getting along with Russia. Obviously there has been some behind the scenes arm twisting going on, leveraging this manufactured Mike Flynn scandal.
The controllers of this nation, whoever they may be (the president is only a figurehead), the real Big Brother, want war with Russia. The ones that gave Barama his marching orders. They would have gone with the Hillary fork. They would have gone to war with Russia with no resistance. But Hillary lost so they went with the contingency plan of coercing Trump into following through on that agenda. Both forks in the road led to the same end.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/02/trump-declares-war-russia.html
on Wed Feb 15th 2017 at 17:37:17 abagond
Your deep state paradigm explains nothing because it explains everything. It has no predictive value. And it can never be proved or disproved. It is a conspiracy theory par excellence.
If anything was going to disprove it, it was the election of Donald Trump. But nope, you keep right on rolling. It has all the intellectual rigour of a wet noodle.
Thank you. I intend to. In spite of your disapprobation.
“Your deep state paradigm explains nothing because it explains everything.”
Your dismissal of it explains you.
So let me be sure I am interpreting you correctly. It is a conspiracy theory that cannot be proved or disproved. Therefore what? It doesn’t exist? Is this what you are saying?
on Thu Feb 16th 2017 at 07:13:43 Solitaire
How do we know that Putin doesn’t want a war with the U.S.?
Here’s a conspiracy theory: Putin wanted Trump in as president to soften us up before launching a conventional war against us.
Here we are, less than a month after the inauguration, and the White House is almost paralyzed due to scandals, incompetency, and in-fighting. Trump’s already alienating key allies, hasn’t yet filled many ambassador positions around the globe, and looks to be gearing up for a witchhunt against his own intelligence community.
Trump has also said (think it was quoted on a different thread) that he wants to tear everything down so he can build it back up again. But what if after he tears it all down, Putin picks that moment to invade?
on Thu Feb 16th 2017 at 12:18:45 nomad
I would call that Russophobia and Trump hysteria.
Russia has giving no indication of wanting war with the US.
The witch hunt is obviously the Intelligence Community’s against Trump. The stuff yall smoking is dangerously absurd and an inversion of reality.
no response? I’m going to assume my interpretation is correct.
BTW, in the comment you were responding to, I did not mention the Deep State. Doesn’t even sound like a term I have used. But I’m not adverse to using it.
I said “The controllers of this nation, whoever they may be (the president is only a figurehead), the real Big Brother”
We could call these controllers the Deep State. Or perhaps the Deep State is their means of control. We know there are people working behind the scenes to set the agenda. There are names of people of considerable political influence thrown about. Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger. Maybe bankers are a part of the Deep State cabal that controls presidents. We know for example that a banker chose Obama’s cabinet. And since much of what our government does is secret, the Intel community plays a large roll, along with the driving engine of the Deep State, the MIC. Who knows who these controllers are?
Because it is hidden does not mean it doesn’t exist.
“I would call that Russophobia and Trump hysteria…. The stuff yall smoking is dangerously absurd and an inversion of reality.”
Except that I don’t believe it, any more than I believe Hillary Clinton wanted a nuclear war with Russia.
All I’m saying is if you fit certain pieces of a puzzle together in a certain way, you could equally argue that Putin wants a war with us as long as he can have it under his terms with a good chance of winning. That doesn’t mean I believe it to be true — I’m just saying.
It is probably more likely that Putin wants to see the US weakened and destabilized economically and militarily but has no intention of attacking. And even here, I’m not saying that he definitely wants a weakened America or that I thoroughly believe he does. I think it’s a possibility; it would make strategic sense. But it is equally likely not to be true.
“The witch hunt is obviously the Intelligence Community’s against Trump.”
Trump is currently planning to investigate the intelligence community and root out those he doesn’t like.
“Who knows who these controllers are?”
So in your opinion, is the US government the only one being controlled by secret players behind the scene? Or does this apply also to England, Canada, Germany, etc.? Is it possible that Putin is also being controlled?
If you disregard empirical evidence you could. Nate has been tightening the noose around Russia since the end of the Cold War. The US has surrounded Russia with military basis. The US has provoked an anti-Russian coup in Ukraine. Sent US troops to the Russian border and expelled Russian diplomats on the basis of allegations not yet supported by evidence. And the anti Russian hostility that issues from the mouths of our elected officials, which BTW contrasts markedly to the restrained rhetoric of Putin. All Russia is has done is defend itself from US aggression. Any objective observer can see who the war mongering state is here.
You’d have to deny reality to argue that Putin wants war.
on Thu Feb 16th 2017 at 17:42:15 resw
“Any objective observer can see who the war mongering state is here.”
That’s the problem. Few are objective observers. Most, like abagond and his retinue, can’t even see the New York Times’ anti-Russian propaganda for what it is.
I gave a clear example of it, and the first thing out of abagond’s mouth was another unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. There really is no reasoning with people who don’t want to deal with the facts.
“The US has provoked an anti-Russian coup in Ukraine.”
And Putin’s response was to invade an independent, sovereign nation and annex part of its territory. He had other, less aggressive options open to him, but he chose not to take them.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I get the impression you think if someone disapproves of Putin’s actions, they must approve of the US and NATO. I disagree. I believe they are all jockeying for power. I believe that all parties view their questionable actions as necessary for their self-defense. I believe this mindset puts the world in danger. The Cold War may have ended, but the old lines are still in place and the old mentality still holds sway. All parties share the blame.
You don’t have to answer this next question if you don’t want, but I’ll ask it a second time in case you missed it because I am interested in your opinion: Is Putin also a puppet of unseen masters, or is he his own man?
resw
I was just thinking about the Trump/O’Reilly factor, where O’Reilly called Putin a murderer. Of course any head of state that has ever caused the death of anyone can be accused rightly or wrongly of murder. But here he is speaking from a MSM platform, MSM complicit in the murder of tens of thousands, in a government that reserves the right to murder anyone anywhere in the world. If any leader there is who is specifically known for murder it is Barack Obama; the guy who claimed to be good at it and bragged about killing Osama bin Ladin. O’Reilly cries ‘Putin is a murderer!’ Why does this astound him? He has just had a president who famously personally chose persons to be assassinated by drone on a weekly basis. Did O’Reilly, at any time during this eight years call Obama a murderer? (Somebody knows the answer to that.) The Russophobic double standard is mind boggling.
He didn’t invade. He was invited by Crimea to defend them from Russia hating Nazis, which Obama supported. Imagine that. A black president supporting Nazis. I don’t think Putin’s other options, whatever they may have been, were feasible. Or beneficial to Russia. Why should he bow to US hegemony on his doorstep?
Bottom line. Russia would have taken no action in Crimea had it not been for the coup sponsored by and provoked by the USA. As I say. Russia is only reacting to US aggression.
” …O’Reilly called Putin a murderer…. But here he is speaking from a MSM platform, MSM complicit in the murder of tens of thousands, in a government that reserves the right to murder anyone anywhere in the world. ”
Right, if anyone’s a murderer it’s O’Reilly and the msm executives/faux journalists who conned Americans into supporting the Iraqi invasion based on completely false pretenses, leading to the deaths of at least 100,000.
“Did O’Reilly, at any time during this eight years call Obama a murderer? (Somebody knows the answer to that.)”
Abagond usually knows what happens on Fox News, so maybe he can answer that.
“And Putin’s response was to invade an independent, sovereign nation and annex part of its territory.”
More msm propaganda.
The US gov’t is the one with troops stationed in Ukraine, Poland, Norway, Latvia, Lithuania, etc., not Russia.
US supported a coup in Ukraine, not Russia.
Several UN polls conducted over 3 years well before the referendum showed the vast majority of Crimean voters wanted to join Russia.
Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to secede from Ukraine and join Russia.
Ok ‘deep state’ is neospeak for a good old fashioned ‘5th column’ or ‘fourth estate’ but extremely anti-populist
on Thu Feb 16th 2017 at 23:46:52 abagond
Sure it could be true, but without proof or without any predictive value, it is idle speculation.
on Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 00:44:09 v8driver
My cynicism was inculcated before i could walk, pretty sure, and the british/scottish sarcasm didnt help matters at all eh {insert moderatable comment here}
on Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 00:45:28 nomad
I suppose the implication is that The New York Times, Washington Post and NPR are doing their best to report the truth and the others, including RT, are purveyors of falsehoods. That, as regards RT, is a lie. More propaganda. More subtle Russophobia, but propaganda still. That’s not likely to restore MSM’s credibility, so ignominiously surrendered during the Hillary election debacle. The cynicism didn’t just arise out of nowhere. MSM brought it upon itself. This finger pointing is not going to help restore that credibility. I don’t really know if MSM is redeemable. I’m certainly getting my news from somewhere else and a lots more people besides me. These charlatans can F off for all I care.
Oh an btw being the recipient of my cynicism non est sui generis
on Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 01:06:25 Afrofem
@Scribh
I wrote a response to your Frum comment on The Trump Era thread:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/the-trump-era/#comment-365369
There is a large body of literature on this subject and various branches of it, as I indicated, from MIC to CIA to banksters and NGOs and groups like Bilderbergs, Skull and Bones and on and on.. To say it is not worth investigating is simply wrong. In fact it’s absurd. You will not be able to determine a ‘predictive value’ until you have examined the evidence. There is nothing idle about revealing the truth.
on Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 01:59:44 abagond
I never said it should not be investigated.
“I never said it should not be investigated ”
Sure you did.
“without proof or without any predictive value, it is idle speculation.”
Proofs are available in the various literatures that I mentioned. Predictive value emerges from research in those areas. Investigating rather than dismissing as conspiracy theory, in all the pejorative sense of that label.
“BTW, in the comment you were responding to, I did not mention the Deep State. Doesn’t even sound like a term I have used. ”
Huh? You have been using the term regulary since Trump won. You first used it here on November 20th 2016:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/its-not-about-racism/#comment-358657
Michael Jon Barker uses it regulary too. So does Breitbart News:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/15/virgil-deep-state-bumps-off-general-flynn-whos-next-target/
“I suppose the implication is that The New York Times, Washington Post and NPR are doing their best to report the truth and the others, including RT, are purveyors of falsehoods. That, as regards RT, is a lie. More propaganda. ”
If the New York Times is propaganda, then RT most certainly is. When has RT ever broken a scandal on Vladimir Putin? But to their credit they did denounce PizzaGate as fake news.
oh I stand corrected. but as I say I have no qualms about using the term.
on the merits of RT versus MSM, MSM is not even in the same league. it is much more propagandistic than RT. as I say MSMs job is to hide geopolitical realities from Americans. RT is the antidote to that mind control because they report what MSM won’t. I think that’s their motto.
on Fri Feb 17th 2017 at 05:58:43 michaeljonbarker
Abagond said : “Michael Jon Barker uses it regulary too. So does Breitbart News:”
That uncomfortable feeling you get when you see your name in the same paragraph with Breitbart news. lol
To clarify when I use the term “the State” I am using it differently then Breitbart news and president Trump.
Trump and friends see the deep state as some kind of shadow government thus they wants to go after intelligence agencies that they imagine are behind it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_within_a_state
When I use the term “the State” I am referring to the apparatus of the State and it’s monopoly on violence. “War is the health of the State”.
Most governments around the world have States structured like the example above. Citizens think that a State is like a car. If there political party or idiology comes to power they will be able to steer the State to do the good things that they belive in. So they participate in political theater not realizing that the State is the collective “id” of their culture (in the West, white supremacy) and functions instinctively to preserve that. The State works in partnership with banks, corperations, the rich ect. to protect, maintain and expand that wealth at the expense of the average citizen.
States continue to expand until they collapse. Then a new set of thugs take over. Rarely has revolution brought real political change. The Arab Spring is a good example of that.
@MJB
I just want to be sure I’m interpreting this correctly. What you seem to be talking about is the state, not the deep state. So, I ask you like I asked Abagond, Is there a deep state? With all the Intel originating attacks against Trump, the legitimately elected president, from P gate dossier to the Flynn assassination, are you really going to assert that there is no deep state? With an agenda in this case that contradicts the president’s?
“The intel community is a government unto itself.” Michael Maloof.
People in debates like to change the terminology of the discussion to take control of it by getting their opponent to use their words. I’m just pointing out that that is what has happened here. I tend to guard against such shifts in terminology, just to be sure people aren’t distorting what I’m saying. Controllers was my term. At least for this thread. However, I have no objection to using the term you substituted. It doesn’t seem to alter the discussion any.
aaahhaahhaahaaa…
trump changes opinion about cnn being fake news.
now he thinks its VERY fake news.
“So [citizens] participate in political theater not realizing that the State is the collective “id” of their culture (in the West, white supremacy) and functions instinctively to preserve that. The State works in partnership with banks, corperations, the rich ect. to protect, maintain and expand that wealth at the expense of the average citizen.
States continue to expand until they collapse. Then a new set of thugs take over. Rarely has revolution brought real political change.”
Well said. That is also my understanding of modern nation-states and real effects of most revolutions.
Glenn Greenwald indulges in idle speculation.
Greenwald asserted in an interview with Democracy Now, published on Thursday, that this [Flynn situation] boils down to a fight between the Deep State and the Trump administration.
According to an in-depth report by journalist Mike Lofgren:
“The Deep State does not consist of the entire government. It is a hybrid of national security and law enforcement agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department. I also include the Department of the Treasury because of its jurisdiction over financial flows, its enforcement of international sanctions and its organic symbiosis with Wall Street.”
As Greenwald explained during his interview:
“It’s agencies like the CIA, the NSA and the other intelligence agencies, that are essentially designed to disseminate disinformation and deceit and propaganda, and have a long history of doing not only that, but also have a long history of the world’s worst war crimes, atrocities and death squads.”
http://sorendreier.com/chilling-warnings-about-deep-states-war-on-trump/
Thank you. I saw that interview and posted it on my Tumblr:
(http://abagond.tumblr.com/post/157349443149/greenwald-empowering-the-deep-state-to)
I will be doing a post on the deep state.
cool. looking forward to it.
Trump versus the Deep State. What a quandary. Who to root for? The racist or the police state? It’s only fair. The elite have been pitting us left right people against each other for so long, it’s about time for the shoe to be on the other foot. The president against the Deep State. Let’s you and him fight.
Just read an excellent 2014 essay on the Deep State by Mike Lofgren. He describes the Deep State this way:
“It is the red thread that runs through the war on terrorism, the financialization and deindustrialization of the American economy, the rise of a plutocratic social structure and political dysfunction. Washington is the headquarters of the Deep State, and its time in the sun as a rival to Rome, Constantinople or London may be term-limited by its overweening sense of self-importance and its habit, as Winwood Reade said of Rome, to “live upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face.” “Living upon its principal,” in this case, means that the Deep State has been extracting value from the American people in vampire-like fashion.”
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/21/anatomy-of-the-deep-state/
on Sun Feb 19th 2017 at 22:24:25 nomad
“the Deep State has been extracting value from the American people in vampire-like fashion.”
Sucking the blood of the sufferers. And like vampires doing evil under the cloak of darkness, taking possession of people’s minds and doing evil. Deep state might be the Babylon system.
on Sun Feb 19th 2017 at 22:31:54 Fan ...
^^^^^^
Did I hear kiwi’s (nick)name mentioned????
Wait a second, deep state is as i described but wnd is saying ‘pro-obama’ ie [tacitly] democratic or maybe overtly even, calling it that but my gut is a ‘top tier’ military-industrial complex bubble or something, ‘presidential curiosity is not sufficient… Like making the regular govt the congress as opposed to the senate, and grooming the populace’s not only conscious nut experience vis a vis controlling news eh whatever
damn. i had a more thoughtful comment but lost it in trying to insert a link.
basically Obama is the last in the dynasty of CIA presidents and actually works for the CIA. you can tell by his policies that he wasn’t a real democrat. he was a DINO. he’s staying on to help the Deep State overthrow Trump. to orchestrate the coup actually.
Is an American Coup d’etat in Progress?
“Have you asked yourself the question of why Former President Obama is hunkering down in a secure fortress in DC to lead the new “Regime Change” against duly elected President Donald Trump? ”
https://geopolitics.co/2017/02/20/is-an-american-coup-detat-in-progress/
It’s skewed right wing, but makes an important point.
oh yeah. I also said that the fact that Trump is in acrimony with the Deep State indicates that he is not a part of it, as has been every president at least since Reagan and possibly since Kennedy. And I also said, that’s a good thing.
‘Sources say maybe’
like maybe the sun will rise tomorrow?
Like magic 8 ball, the toy that is, just in case it was confusing…
on Wed Feb 22nd 2017 at 02:23:59 abagond
By the same logic, Hillary Clinton was not part of the deep state either given the way Comey, the FBI director, broke with protocol and said he was still investigating her email scandal.
on Wed Feb 22nd 2017 at 05:10:19 michaeljonbarker
I don’t see the “deep state” the same way as has been described. I belive their is a corporatacracy that includes the media and is driven by corperations but I’m not convinced the “deep state” is as entrenched against Trump as Breitbart and the Alt Right describe it.
They see the deep state as interfering with Trump ect but what they really want is to control those institutions within government that deal with intelligence and enforcement. They wish to use the state as a mechanism to enact violence lawfully against their perceived enemies as well as against immigrants and non whites.
They want to harden the facism we already have.
on Wed Feb 22nd 2017 at 13:06:03 nomad
“By the same logic, Hillary Clinton was not part of the deep state ”
Oh yeah. Like the Deep State would not throw one of their own under the bus when they become a liability and too carelessly crooked even for them. Hillary never challenged the Deep State, as Trump is doing. That would be a sign that she’s not a part of it. The fact that she was following the Obama agenda says that she was in alignment with the Deep State.
“They see the deep state as interfering with Trump ” and so do I.
That’s because they are creditable and have journalistic integrity sorely missing from MSM. Instead of smearing RT as propaganda you, as a commentator on black culture, should be praising them for their coverage of black issues. Today I watched a segment on Watching the Hawks “Remembering Malcolm X” featuring his daughter. When has MSM done such reporting?
on Thu Feb 23rd 2017 at 03:53:55 abagond
Huh? RT has journalistic integrity? They are Putin’s little lapdog, just like Fox News is now Trump’s little lapdog. Neither speak truth to power within their own country. Both are political hacks.
RT, from what I have seen of it (mainly the headline news), seems to have a White nationalist / Clash-of-Civilizations theme. Its stories strangely track Fox News and Breitbart News. In fact, you first came off as a Fox News viewer to me. And some of what you say is echoed in Breitbart, like about the Deep State and the profound corruption of the Democratic Party.
RT seems to run stories about Blacks in the US for the same reason East German television did back in the 1980s: to make the US look bad. I doubt they do it out of any concern for Black people.
After all, what Black commentators and reporters does RT have? Every time I watch it, all I see is White people telling me the news. Why is that?
on Thu Feb 23rd 2017 at 05:24:09 nomad
“In fact, you first came off as a Fox News viewer to me. And some of what you say is echoed in Breitbart, like about the Deep State and the profound corruption of the Democratic Party.”
I guess great minds think alike
tsk tsk. so cynical. and such a true believer In the uprightness of US. US dont need RT to make US look bad, too bad you’ll never see whats just outside the blinders you wear.
“After all, what Black commentators and reporters does RT have?”
as we know from Obama, black misleaders and news regurgitaters, black skin does not mean black friend.
“Every time I watch it, all I see is White people telling me the news. Why is that?”
I don’t know. I guess ’cause they’re white. you gon’ hold that against them?
You like to make these unfounded equivalencies. E.g. Because one is a hack, the other has got to be a hack. By definition, Russia’s has got to be worse than America’s. Whatever America’s guilty of, Russia is even more guilty. Face the fact. Our media are the propagandistic even criminal hacks, in that they lie us into wars that cause the lives of millions. They hide news. RT reveals it. US media is not in the same class with RT.
And you keep making these claims without backing them up. Show me the proof that RT is Putin’s lapdog.
I know you’re blind to Wearechange too, but he articulates the truth about the propaganda mill called MSM.
(https://youtu.be/RKhSg2uVVB4)
on Thu Feb 23rd 2017 at 17:11:43 resw
“And you keep making these claims without backing them up.”
Propagandists don’t need to back up claims.
“Face the fact. Our media are the propagandistic even criminal hacks, in that they lie us into wars that cause the lives of millions. They hide news. RT reveals it.”
Like what? What great truths does RT reveal that are hidden by the US media?
” US media is not in the same class with RT.”
Right, because RT is directly controlled by the Russian government.
I will be doing a post on RT.
So then Trump is part of the Russian deep state, since he freely compares the CIA to Nazis and yet has never a bad word to say about Vladimir Putin and even ran on a strangely pro-Russian platform.
You’d think between abagond’s provincial Univision Communications and Breitbart news “diets”, he’d actually want to go on an RT “diet” so he can actually know what he’s talking about instead of spreading propaganda.
I’m tellinya. Go on an RT diet, abagond. Get cured.
I’m sure you have name for this fallacious argument type. Where can I find it?
-never a bad word to say about Vladimir Putin
I don’t know if that’s true or not and if it is its a good thing, but only by wildly stretching the imagination does that make him a part of the deep state. please return to sanity, abagond. your credibility is taking a hit.
-ran on a strangely pro-Russian platform
this a lie and pure propaganda straight from the hoary womb of Hillary Clinton, midwifed by Barack Obama and delivered to the Deep State.
“please return to sanity, abagond. your credibility is taking a hit.”
I am mocking your logic. You are the one who needs to return to sanity.
The video. It doesn’t get any clearer than that. The scion of Zbigniew Brzezinski says that the job of the MSM is to control what people think. She inadvertently let the truth out the bag. MSM is propaganda. I didn’t need her to tell me that. I discovered it on my own. But perhaps you do, since nothing for you can be true unless it comes from the official news source. Well here it is. Delivered by MSM itself.
‘Well, Russia is too.’ I know. The all sides do it argument.
Well no. RT isn’t. These are reporters with journalistic integrity. Not like our sycophantic warmongering media.
“I am mocking your logic.”
people living in glass houses should not throw stones
Off the top of my head that ISIS as prosecuted by Obama was a phony war.
The US provoked the coup in Ukraine. Americans believe Russia invaded. The rest of the world knows this is not true. already discussed above, numerous things, many of which I have posted to this blog.
“RT is directly controlled by the Russian government.”
I’ve already refuted it. Resw has already debunked. And yet you’re going to make that statement as if it were a proven fact. Your credibility is crumbling.
What you and resw debunked and I was wrong about is that RT is OWNED by the government. It is not. I agree. But it still gets most of its money from the government.
“Americans believe Russia invaded”
Huh? Are you and RT saying Russia did not invade Ukraine?
Just to be clear, some parts of the MSM are clearly propagandistic, like Fox News and MSNBC, meaning that they are more interested in pushing a particular political message than in seeking the truth. RT is in the same class, from what I have seen. CNN, the BBC and the New York Times, on the other hand, do seem to make a serious attempt at getting their facts right. That hardly means they are always right or that they are without bias. All three, for example, have a clear pro-Israeli bias.
‘Huh? Are you and RT saying Russia did not invade Ukraine?”
some bright spots amid the blight spots. on the whole its mind control. that’s why you can live in an alternate reality where Russia invaded Ukraine.
the government does not control its content, as you repeatedly assert,
you make it sound like putin issues talking points to Chris Hedges, Jesse Ventura, Larry King and the lesser known journalists and news people, every one of the journalists there that i observed were independent thinkers. every bit as abby whatshername that you have mentioned. no. no more than Obama issued talking points to cnn abc and cbs. which by the way still carried water for the his administration, well aware that they were the propaganda wing of the federal government.
Back to the machinations of the Deep State.
http://theantimedia.org/cia-coup-us-government/
“These wartime developments are not necessarily the work of a democratically elected government, but a shadowy cocktail hybrid of a number of different agencies who will oust anyone they view as a threat to their agenda.”
“Americans believe Russia invaded. The rest of the world knows this is not true.”
The rest of the world??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reactions_to_the_annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Federation
The so called invasion of Ukraine.
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/15/6006281/russia-ukraine-war-what-we-know
PRESENTATION OF THE CASE
“Obama-Trump economic sanctions against Russia are based upon the lies that are to be exposed as lies, in the links here. So too are the NATO movements of U.S. troops and missiles right up to Russia’s very borders — ready to invade Russia — based especially upon the lie of ‘Russian aggression in Crimea’. All of the thrust for WW III is based upon U.S. President Barack Obama’s vicious lie against Russia: his saying that the transfer of Crimea from Ukraine to Russia was not (which it actually was) an example of the U.N.-and-U.S. universally recognized right of self-determination of peoples (such as the U.S. recognizes to apply both in Catalonia and in Scotland, but not in Crimea) but was instead an alleged ‘conquest’ of Crimea by Russia. (As that link there documents, Obama’s allegation that it was ‘Putin’s conquest’ of Crimea is false, and he knew it to be false; he was well informed that the people of Crimea overwhelmingly wanted their land to be restored to Russia, and to be protected by Russia, so as not to be invaded by the Ukrainian government’s troops and weapons, after a bloody U.S. coup by Obama had — less than a month earlier — overthrown the democratically elected President of Ukraine, for whom 75% of Crimeans had voted. Obama’s own agents were behind that coup; they were doing his bidding. The aggressor here is entirely the U.S., not Russia, despite Obama’s lies.)”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/02/things-will-get-worse-u-s-stops-lying-crimea.html
on Fri Feb 24th 2017 at 19:06:58 resw
“CNN, the BBC and the New York Times, on the other hand, do seem to make a serious attempt at getting their facts right.”
And that has nothing to do with whether or not something is propaganda. An article can be full of errors and not be propaganda, and one can contain mostly factual information and still be propaganda.
A perfect example is NYT’s article, “A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories” which accurately says Swedish officials found no links to Russia, but still talks about Russia anyway, and even includes a photo of “unidentified soldiers” in Crimea, as if that has anything to do with fake news in Sweden.
And using abagond’s own standard regarding RT, BBC shouldn’t be trusted because it’s “controlled” by the UK government. And you need look no further than its coverage of Brexit, Syria and Israel to see that it too engages in propaganda.
It is a fact that BBC editor instructed staff to be pro-Israel and not blame Israel for its attacks in Gaza. It is a fact that he said ““Please remember, Israel doesn’t maintain a blockade around Gaza. Egypt controls the southern border.” Forget the fact that Israel with US help built a wall on that southern border, patrols it, and only allows one entrance between Gaza and Egypt.
And CNN? Don’t make us laugh. Its election coverage proved it has a clear agenda. But of course you’re going to defend the network that shilled for your boss, and I don’t blame you since you’re still collecting a cheque.
You live in an alternate reality created by MSM.
@An Scríbhneoir Gael-Mheiriceánach
No. Nobody nor nothing is controlling everything you do. Just your thoughts about geopolitical realities. To the degree that you passively accept the programming. And while somewhere along the line Bilderbergs and lizard people may play a roll, your outlook on the world is primarily being controlled by the CIA and MSM. That’s why you believe that Russia hacked the election, installed Trump, and invaded Ukraine. You believe what the state tells you to believe. Its 1984. How many fingers am I holding up?
Trump being briefed by the deep state
“Greetings, Mr. President. Thank you for taking a few minutes to see me today. I understand your time is valuable, so let me get to the point: …
You need to pull a Mukden maneuver. A Tonkin trick. A Swedish stitch-up. A Gleiwitz gambit. A Lavon lark. A Moscow machination.
You know, a false flag.
I know most people would balk at the idea of telling such a brazen lie, but that’s what I like about you, sir. You’re not afraid to lie, and lie bigly. That’s what this country needs. And the way you got Sean Spicer to straight up lie to the public’s face and tell them that Iran has fired missiles on a US naval vessel was masterful. Who else could think of taking a Houthi rebel attack on a Saudi frigate and turning it into an Iranian attack on the US Navy? It’s so unbelievable, only the American public could buy it!
Now, Mr. President, among your many excellent choices of warmongers, banksters and establishment hacks for your cabinet, I have to especially congratulate you on the choice of Rudy “Butcher of New York” Giuliani on the position of cybersecurity advisor. It’s brilliant on every level. First of all, he has no education, training, experience or displayed interest in technology or cybersecurity, so he won’t get bogged down in actual issues. Secondly, he’s a legitimate 9/11 suspect! He helped illegally clear the 9/11 crime scene! He admitted to foreknowledge of the towers’ collapse! Who better to cover up the next false flag then the man who covered up the last one! It’s like poetry, it rhymes.
…I’m sorry, what’s that? Your opinion? Hahaha. You really are a character, Mr. President, I’ll give you that. Do you think you get an opinion on this? Do you think I’m here to solicit your suggestions? Oh, that’s rich, sir. No, I’m here to let you know some of the options we’re considering. So that, when the time comes, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, even if you’re sitting in a classroom full of kids reading a story about a pet goat, you will know to sit quietly and await your further orders.
Do I make myself clear?”
https://steemit.com/news/@corbettreport/what-will-be-trump-s-reichstag-fire
on Sat Feb 25th 2017 at 18:08:58 Solitaire
Don’t be silly. Putin didn’t invade Crimea, he liberated it! /s
Reminds me of Reagan’s “freedom fighters” rhetoric.
on Sat Feb 25th 2017 at 18:20:01 v8driver
@nomad that’s interesting/wierd coincidence? that the uss cole is involved in that mess.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/world/2017/02/03/uss-cole-patrolling-off-yemen-after-iran-backed-rebels-attack-saudi-ship.amp.html
So, yall still buying that Russia invaded Ukraine crap? That’s why America is so exceptional.
Yes — just like the U.S. invaded Mexico to take over territory. Regardless of how we sought to justify that (e.g., protecting Americans living in those regions), it was still an invasion.
Putin’s actions in your opinion may be justified, but it still constitutes an invasion. Crimea was legally part of Ukraine, a status recognized internationally and by the United Nations. Putin used military action to take Crimea away from Ukraine.
Ukraine (not just the region of Crimea) has a history of being subsumed by Russia and its independence movements repeatedly crushed.
There’s opinions and then theres facts. Ask the Crimeans if they think it was an invasion.
Yes, and, according to RT, Assad in Syria “liberated” eastern Aleppo after bombing it to bits. Something else the do-no-wrong Russians had a hand in.
Well, that would be people’s opinions, wouldn’t it? And I expect the opinions of “the Crimeans” would break largely across ethnic lines.
What’s really sad is the Crimean Tartars are the ethnic group who have the strongest and oldest claim to Crimea, but they have been virtually ignored in this controversy.
Stalin exiled the entire Crimean Tatar population and forcibly removed them from Crimea in 1944. It’s only been relatively recently that any Crimean Tartars have been allowed to return, but they now constitute an estimated 12% of the Crimean population.
After the annexation, the Russian government told the Crimean Tartars who live on the coast that they would be relocated to other parts of Crimea, whether they want to move or not.
So the people to whom the land belonged for hundreds of years have no voice in this argument between Russia and Ukraine, no autonomy, and not even enough power to prevent their forced removal from their coastal homes.
They’re also Muslim, and we can see from Chechnya what they probably have to look forward to.
“the do-no-wrong Russians”
So much dichotomous thinking in this thread. The U.S. is bad, so therefore Russia must be good. They can’t both be bad. And anyone who points out Russia’s faults must automatically think the U.S. is faultless — no matter what they say to the contrary. It’s all good/evil and no shades of gray allowed.
“Well, that would be people’s opinions, wouldn’t it?”
They are the ones who would know. Did the Russians rape and pillage and firebomb while they were invading? Or did the population of Crimea petition Russia for annexation?
“The U.S. is bad, so therefore Russia must be good.”
You’re the one making it dichotomous. The only reason you think I’m saying Russia can do no wrong is because you believe they can do no right. So it seems odd to you that they can. And they have. They are defeating ISIS where the US couldn’t. Or wouldn’t. And They’re news media is better.
Yes, and, according to RT, Assad in Syria “liberated” eastern Aleppo after bombing it to bits.
Sorry, given your bias against Russia, you need a link. Not saying its not true. Just not taking your word for it.
You guys are such faithful supporters of the government that has abused, murdered and exploited you so. I bet yall stand and put your hand your heart when they play the national anthem.
Unbelievable! So the US funding of ISIS is a conspiracy theory too?
Oh say can you see
True Americans you do be.
“alleges it was intentional – and by Clinton and Obama.)”
It was! Has it not been clear what an evil bunch of malefactors we have running this government? This. is. what. they. do.
even if you go to the gov’t of ukraine’s websites it’s not clear about not crimea the ukraine itself east ukraine
and really? ‘top of the pack’ like as in cards or wth?!?!?!? front of the pack, leader of the pack a trumpism for sure
on Sun Feb 26th 2017 at 00:30:03 Solitaire
” you believe they can do no right.”
Not true at all. For starters, the Russians defeated Nazi Germany.
Can you name one thing you believe Russia has done wrong?
“Or did the population of Crimea petition Russia for annexation?”
Some of the population of Crimea petitioned Russia. The Crimean Tartars didn’t, and look what’s already starting to happen to them.
This is ethnic conflict. There is nationalist foment on the part of both ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians who wouldn’t even be in Crimea except for the past colonialist policies of failed empires.
on Sun Feb 26th 2017 at 01:59:37 abagond
This is the very sort of dichotomous thinking Solitaire was talking about. Anyone who is critical of Trump, Russia or RT is assumed to be a mindless follower of Hillary Clinton, the US or the MSM.
There are tons of RT stories about the “liberation” of East Aleppo. For example:
Syrian govt forces liberate about 40% of east Aleppo from terrorists …
https://www.rt.com/news/368400-east-aleppo-civilians-liberated/
Liberation of E. Aleppo from militants complete – Russian military …
https://www.rt.com/news/370510-aleppo-women-children-evacuated/
Liberation of E. Aleppo has allowed ‘genuine’ separation of ‘moderate …
https://www.rt.com/news/370628-russia-aleppo-separation-militants/
Civilians return to ‘normal’ life in liberated, ruined E. Aleppo (VIDEO …
https://www.rt.com/news/370717-aleppo-vide-locals-return/
Aleppo liberated, country-wide ceasefire now possible – Russian …
https://www.rt.com/news/371427-aleppo-evacuation-syria-truce/
‘Only road’ to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo liberated – Russian MoD …
https://www.rt.com/news/368713-aleppo-castello-road-liberated/
UN stopped offering aid after 40% of east Aleppo liberated from …
https://www.rt.com/news/369027-aleppo-un-russia-aid/
“They wanted us to invade” and “We were protecting them” is classic imperialistic apologetics.
I find it telling that nomad, who has no trouble seeing through the hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton, cannot see through the hypocrisy of Vladimir Putin.
I guess I should be flattered that I rate at least two Russian trolls.
Don’t be flattered. You’re Russiaphobic and paranoid. Anybody who doesn’t buy the propaganda you and the US government is pushing is a Russian troll.
I see the links there. Which one accuses Assad of bombing it to bits? Was he bombing his people or ISIS?
And I see nothing about a “liberation”. I see liberation. You use quotes to deny that they did what they actually did do. The same kind of denial you use regarding Russia. They like Russia can do no right. You are as exceptional and as American as lynching.
*Got to go back that far, huh? They haven’t done anything right in 72 years?
*Why should I? They’ve actually earned my admiration these past eight years.
“I did a Google search for “US funds ISIS.” What I found:”
Counterpunch? Fake news? Come on.
Here’s another fake news site claiming US funded ISIS.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/obama_clinton_created_isis
Thus, a year after Obama and his European and Arab friends brought down Libya’s Gaddafi and shifted their proxy war of regime change to Syria, U.S. military intelligence saw clearly the imminent rise of ISIS — and that “this is exactly” what “the West, Gulf countries and Turkey…want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”
Yes, Obama created ISIS, with the enthusiastic assistance of Hillary Clinton, and he is still nurturing al Nusra, the erstwhile affiliate of al Qaida
“Got to go back that far, huh? They haven’t done anything right in 72 years?”
How shall I say this? Oh yes, let me quote your phrasing: “Why should I?”
You claimed that I believed Russia couldn’t do anything right. I gave you one example as proof that your belief about my sentiments was incorrect. You then moved the goalposts on me while simultaneously refusing to give similar proof that you don’t believe Russia is perfect. Just one fricking example, even from 70 years ago. You simply refuse.
So why should I? You’ll just find a reason to dismiss anything I say because apparently you need to continue thinking of me as a mindless brainwashed supporter of the Murican gummint.
Although you know what? This is quick and easy, so here’s example number two: Run up to the top of this thread, take a look at the very first comment, where I copied and pasted a long quote about nuclear disarmament.
One of the two world leaders in that article was trying to do a good thing, and one sounded like a deluded fool. Putin and Russia are being far more reasonable about extending the treaty and continuing to reduce the nuclear weapon stockpile than our current leader.
And I shouldn’t have had to spell that out for you, because it’s my first post on this thread. Right there this whole blankety-blank time.
‘I shouldn’t have had to spell that out for you”
don’t know why you felt you needed to, I can read, I’m just not jumping thru your hoops. you feel you’ve got to make a list. go ahead. that’s your agenda. not mine.
you are the one who characterized my thoughts as dichotomous.
when actually its yours.
So much dichotomous thinking in this thread. The U.S. is bad, so therefore Russia must be good.”
Because I said Russia was justified in this case you asserted that I think they can do no wrong. That is dichotomous thinking on your part. I feel no need to engage in the straw man argument.
The first sentence of this post states:
“The Doomsday Clock (1947- ) marks how close the world is to self-destruction in the judgement of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, with input from 15 Nobel Prize laureates.”
You got that blatantly wrong.
Amerika IS THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK!
There would probably be no such thing or thought of such a thing (as a doomsday clock) if not for how Amerika conducts it affairs (hegemony) throughout the world!
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Dick_Cheney_Poisoned_Hundreds_Of_US_Troops_In_Iraq._Now_They%E2%80%99re_Dying%2C_And_The_Media_Is_Silent/57022/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Confronting these evil treacherous merchants of doom.
(https://youtu.be/H8SycdU3QDk)
Abagond’s view of RT is typical of Americans, the victims of their own MSM propaganda.
Huh? RT has journalistic integrity? They are Putin’s little lapdog
But it’s wrong.
The U.S. view of Russian media is that it is all propaganda all the time to keep the Russian people in line, but it actually encourages diverse and even hostile opinions, says Gilbert Doctorow.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/26/assessing-diversity-on-russian-tv/
on Mon Feb 27th 2017 at 20:30:21 resw
The propagandists already know the US funded ISIS, as I have proved on this blog several months ago:
John McCain said back in 2014:
“Hillary Clinton has described already the meeting in the White House over 2 years ago. Everyone on the National Security team recommended arming ISIS.”
And as they know, Obama admitted to training ISIS or ISIL as he likes to call it: (https://youtu.be/mOYm_CCxxKk)
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard even told us that Syrians “expressed the question, why is it that the United States, its allies and other countries, are providing support, are providing arms, to terrorist groups like Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, who are on the ground there, raping, kidnapping, torturing, and killing the Syrian people? Children, men, women and people of all ages.”
Then she introduced the “Stop Arming Terrorists Act”: (https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/video-rep-tulsi-gabbard-urges-support-stop-arming-terrorists-act)
on Tue Feb 28th 2017 at 13:50:33 nomad
It’s as if proof doesn’t matter.
on Tue Feb 28th 2017 at 15:36:20 resw
Proof be damned. Abagond, et al. need to see it on CNN for it to be true.
Oh. Well CNN. I see. That’s definitely not fake news.
on Thu Mar 2nd 2017 at 04:56:44 nomad
Well dam. I guess I was wrong. I thought the existence of the deep state was an uncontroversial issue. Got to stay off the alternative media. They are misinforming me. The New York Times says we don’t have a deep state in US. That’s something that only happens in other less savory countries. Like Egypt, Turkey and probably Russia. What appears to be deep state activity has only emerged with the Trump presidency, the intel community having no recourse but to resort to leaks to undermine him. But its not really a deep state. Even though most of what our government does is secret, i.e. classified. That’s not really deep state.
As Leaks Multiply, Fears of a ‘Deep State’ in America
WASHINGTON — A wave of leaks from government officials has hobbled the Trump administration, leading some to draw comparisons to countries like Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan, where shadowy networks within government bureaucracies, often referred to as “deep states,” undermine and coerce elected governments.
So is the United States seeing the rise of its own deep state?
Not quite, experts say, but the echoes are real — and disturbing.
Though leaks can be a normal and healthy check on a president’s power, what’s happening now extends much further. The United States, those experts warn, risks developing an entrenched culture of conflict between the president and his own bureaucracy.
And you can believe the New York Times. They are not propaganda trying to disguise whats actually going on. And they are definitely not fake news.
Right-wing pundit Bill Kristol believes in the existence of the deep state. He tweets:
Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.
The long hidden Deep state surfaces to meet the threat of Trump.
Both conservatives like Kristol and liberals state “publically, that the “deep state” should take out Trump. Both believe, without evidence, that the Russians intervened to try to get Trump elected. Therefore, both no doubt feel justified in openly espousing a coup d’etat. They match Trump’s blatancy with their own. Nothing deep about this.
Liberals and conservatives are now publically allied in demonizing Putin and Russia, and supporting a very dangerous military confrontation initiated by Obama and championed by the defeated Hillary Clinton. In the past these opposed political factions accepted that they would rotate their titular leaders into and out of the White House, and whenever the need arose to depose one or the other, that business would be left to deep state forces to effect in secret and everyone would play dumb.
Now the game has changed. It’s all “obvious.” The deep state has seemingly gone shallow.”
*The Deep State. Not so deep anymore.
https://off-guardian.org/2017/02/28/the-deep-state-goes-shallow-a-reality-tv-coup-detat-in-prime-time/
forgot link. while I’m adding it might as well quote this passage
Obama, CIA groomed, was smoothly moved into power by the faction that felt Bush needed to be succeeded by a slick smiling assassin who symbolized “diversity,” could speak well, and played hoops. Hit them with the right hand; hit them with the left. Same coin: Take your pick – heads or tails. Hillary Clinton was expected to complete the trinity.
But surprises happen, and now we have Trump
on Fri Mar 3rd 2017 at 06:24:02 nomad
The Deep State’s Hatred of Trump Is Not the Same as Yours
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_deep_states_hatred_of_trump_is_not_the_same_as_yours_20170302
on Tue Mar 21st 2017 at 23:04:17 nomad
I used to think there was a deep state. but some mainstream sources are saying there isnt. And I know these sources are not propaganda or fake news. So it must be true. These sources could not all be under the influence of the CIA. That would be, like, wrong. You know. Brainwashing. ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ kind of thing. ‘These are not the droids youre looking for’. Jedi mind tricks.
Last week the New Yorker, and yesterday Salon magazine, published editorials arguing against the very existence of an “American Deep State”. The arguments presented are very…interesting. Both are, perhaps, classic cases of protesting too much
So two…
…wait, did I say two? I meant three four five six seven. [links provided]
Seven non-members of the non-deep state are so enraged by the idea that people might think the totally fake American deep state might be real, that they accidentally publish seemingly coordinated attacks on the very idea. Under very similar titles. All within the same few days. Citing the same “counter examples” of Egypt and Turkey. All acting with symmetrical umbrage.
https://off-guardian.org/2017/03/21/there-is-no-american-deep-state-it-just-looks-like-there-is/
Yeah. There is no deep state. That’s just a conspiracy theory. Worse. It’s a conspiracy theory created by Trump.
on Wed Mar 22nd 2017 at 12:04:11 nomad
on Wed Mar 22nd 2017 at 12:33:17 abagond
Fair enough, but let me post on Neil Gorsuch first.
no sweat. just thought you might have forgotten.
on Thu Mar 23rd 2017 at 20:36:37 nomad
I do like it when people get right to the crux of an issue, as Eric Zeusse does here. Here’s the problem in a nut shell; beginning with the Obama lie that was then enshrined in MSM and implanted into the American mind. That’s how propaganda and social control works and how they funnel us down the path to war.
If the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia was based upon the overwhelming desire by Crimeans that Crimea become again a part of Russia such as Crimea had been until 1954, instead of upon Russia’s ‘conquest’ of Crimea such as Obama has charged, then the economic sanctions that Obama placed against Russia on the basis of that annexation is on false ground, and has no authentic justification in law or in fact. Also, in that case, NATO’s subsequent military buildup against Russia, purportedly to protect NATO against ‘another such conquest by Russia’, would be based upon this same lie: the lie that Crimea’s becoming again a part of Russia was something other than a legitimate carrying-out of any people’s sovereign right, of self-determination of peoples — a right that the West recognizes for Catalonians in Spain, and for Scotch in UK, but not for Crimeans in Ukraine. Consequently, essential to addressing this crucial matter is forthrightly to address misrepresentations that are commonly asserted regarding it, and also to address in a credible way what the motivations might be for any such commonly asserted misrepresentations of this historically crucial matter. In other words: an unusually frank discussion is necessary here, which does not mince words where outright lies have been stated and become widespread in The West, and which instead presents the facts that stand forth the most clearly upon the basis of the evidence that is of the very highest reliability and credibility concerning each respective point in question in the matter. The most reliable evidence is presented here, and is consistently in favor of the Russian position, and against The West’s (the U.S. and its allies) position, on this crucial, even mega-historical, issue.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/06/are-us-economic-sanctions-against-russia-based-on-obama-lie.html
@ nomad, etc
I will be doing a post on the deep state soon. If you have any links you particularly recommend, please let me know.
on Fri Mar 24th 2017 at 21:56:05 nomad
Nothing in particular. Just various interesting articles. Washingtons Blog does a good job covering the subject. Here’s an interesting MSM piece.
Mr. Giraldi, executive director of the Council for the National Interest, a foreign-policy advocacy group in Washington, called the American deep state of today an “unelected, unappointed, and unaccountable presence within the system that actually manages what is taking place behind the scenes.”
on Fri Mar 24th 2017 at 22:36:20 Afrofem
@ Abagond (and @Deb)
I recently heard a podcast on Project Censored that went in depth on the subject of the Deep State. The show hosts were joined by Peter Dale Scott and David Talbot.
Peter Dale Scott is a retired Canadian diplomat, professor, and a prolific author on politics and history. His books include Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Drugs, Oil and War, and The American Deep State.
David Talbot is the founder of Salon.com, and now writes for the San Francisco Chronicle. His most recent book is The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government.
In little under an hour they briefly give a history of the Deep State, define the sectors of the Deep State and discuss how factions of the Deep State are working against other factions to control the US and global economies.
They also discuss how groups as disparate as scientists, seniors and BLM are all facing the same adversaries and how they could mobilize and build effective coalitions to fight various right wing factions.
http://projectcensored.org/peter-dale-scott-david-talbot-2/
The podcast where the book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. was discussed:
http://projectcensored.org/14779-2/
If you have time to listen, both podcasts are utterly fascinating and deeply disturbing.
on Sun Mar 26th 2017 at 14:29:03 nomad
The Ministry of Truth
U.S. government developed its sophisticated psychological operations capabilities that – over the past three decades – have created an alternative reality both for people in targeted countries and for American citizens.
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/25/how-us-flooded-the-world-with-psyops/
that’s the alternate reality you live in.
your outlook on the world is primarily being controlled by the CIA and MSM. That’s why you believe that Russia hacked the election, installed Trump, and invaded Ukraine. You believe what the state tells you to believe. Its 1984. How many fingers am I holding up?
bunch of good info in this article. Rupert Murdoch, Fox News mogul, part of CIA media control? part of deep state?
Another figure in Raymond’s constellation of propaganda assets was media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who was viewed as both a key political ally of President Reagan and a valuable source of funding for private groups that were coordinating with White House propaganda operations. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Rupert Murdoch: Propaganda Recruit.”]
Aint it funny? The Ministry of Truth, as I call this perception management bureaucracy, begins around 1984. How appropriate.
The more recently released documents – declassified between 2013 and 2017 – show how these earlier Casey-Raymond efforts merged with the creation of a formal psyop bureaucracy in 1986 also under the control of Raymond’s NSC operation. The combination of the propaganda and psyop programs underscored the powerful capability that the U.S. government developed more than three decades ago for planting slanted, distorted or fake news. (Casey died in 1987; Raymond died in 2003.)
Over those several decades, even as the White House changed hands from Republicans to Democrats to Republicans to Democrats, the momentum created by William Casey and Walter Raymond continued to push these “perception management/psyops” strategies forward. In more recent years, the wording has changed, giving way to more pleasing euphemisms, like “smart power” and “strategic communications.” But the idea is still the same: how you can use propaganda to sell U.S. government policies abroad and at home.
are you with me so far?
on Mon Mar 27th 2017 at 12:21:37 nomad
I see why people here don’t know about the deep state.
the info is readily available.
you don’t know because you don’t want to know.
its called willful ignorance.
on Tue Mar 28th 2017 at 16:07:52 nomad
Ukraine Annexed Crimea in the 1990s
Something else “our” government and its media whores did not tell us is that under the Crimean Constitution of 1992, Crimea existed as a legal, democratic, secular state. Crimea’s relationship with Ukraine was based on bilateral agreements. In 1995 Ukrainian special ops forces and Ukrainian Army troops invaded Crimea and annexed the territory.
Here is the report from Arina Tsukanova: http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/03/28/so-who-annexed-crimea-peninsular-then.html
The Autonomous Republic of Crimea was established by the 1991 All-Union Referendum in which 94% of Crimeans voted in favor of re-establishing their status as an autonomous republic. Crimeans repeated the vote in 2014 by an even higher percentage, and this time prevented another Ukrainian invasion by reuniting with Russia.
Why didn’t you know this? [’cause MSMs job is to hide it] Why instead do you hear nothing but lies about a “Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea”?
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/03/28/ukraine-annexed-crimea-1990s/
US in Iraq “liberated” Mosul after bombing it to bits.
on Wed Mar 29th 2017 at 09:33:39 nomad
and viet nam. got to do that too. very important for the crisis we are facing.
lol. did I say ‘crisis’? the first article I read today talks about ‘crisis’. I seem to be right on target.
By Bill Binney and Ray McGovern.
Binney is the NSA executive who created the agency’s mass surveillance program for digital information, who served as the senior technical director within the agency, who managed six thousand NSA employees, the 36-year NSA veteran widely regarded as a “legend” within the agency …
McGovern is a 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials.
Although many details are still hazy because of secrecy – and further befogged by politics – it appears House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes was informed last week about invasive electronic surveillance of senior U.S. government officials and, in turn, passed that information onto President Trump.
This news presents Trump with an unwelcome but unavoidable choice: confront those who have kept him in the dark about such rogue activities or live fearfully in their shadow. (The latter was the path chosen by President Obama. Will Trump choose the road less traveled?)
What President Trump decides will largely determine the freedom of action he enjoys as president on many key security and other issues. But even more so, his choice may decide whether there is a future for this constitutional republic. Either he can acquiesce to or fight against a Deep State of intelligence officials who have a myriad of ways to spy on politicians (and other citizens) and thus amass derogatory material that can be easily transformed into blackmail.
This crisis (yes, “crisis” is an overused word, but in this highly unusual set of circumstances we believe it is appropriate) came to light mostly by accident after President Trump tweeted on March 4 that his team in New York City’s Trump Towers had been “wiretapped” by President Obama.
The Surveillance State Behind Russia-gate
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/03/surveillance-state-behind-russia-gate.html
on Fri Apr 7th 2017 at 14:23:45 nomad
Move that clock ahead 2 minutes. Trump has become Hillary Clinton. It happened a lot faster than I thought it would.
they are marching us inexorably into WW III. Both forks in the road led to the same place.
(https://youtu.be/HuvgyTnmUZ0)
Update: The Doomsday Clock has moved forward 30 seconds to two minutes before midnight, the worst it has been since 1953.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42823734
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UNC chancellor ready to fix university's image
The university has been in the national spotlight since the NCAA announced in the summer of 2010 that it was conducting an investigation of the school's football program.
With allegations like plagiarism, tutors who violated rules, and faculty who failed to provide oversight, UNC has been trying to clean up the mess.
The chancellor said he wanted to make it clear that they will continue to work with the NCAA through the investigation, while fully supporting the football program.
"Both [UNC Board of Trustees Chair Wade Hargrove] and I just stated our strong support for Carolina football and our interest in making sure that everything goes smoothly moving forward as we work with the NCAA and as we work through the various steps that we've laid out for the future," Thorp said Thursday.
UNC recently announced self-imposed sanctions - vacating wins from 2008-2009, dropping several scholarships, and paying a fine.
"We think it's going well and we think, we're really committed to the success of our football program financially, on the field and academically and the success of our students athletes," Thorp said.
Football aside, Chancellor Thorp also said he was very concerned about the possibility of a tuition hike for students.
"We're cutting finance in administration by 30 percent," he said. "We don't feel we can operate the university if we have to cut that much more."
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Houston Texans cheerleader finalists: Sarah R.
HOUSTON The video above is of Sarah R., who was one of the 50 finalists vying for a spot on the squad. Watch the clip of her above and then give her a rating in the poll to the left, with a rating of '1' being the best you could give her and '5' being the worst.
Texans Cheerleader Coordinator Alto Gary will then check out these pages and use them as one of the factors when choosing the final cheerleader squad.
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BREAKING NEWSNOW | Trump holds impromptu news conference
NOW | Trump holds impromptu news conference
Jimmy Kimmel returns to host 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after opening up about son's heart condition
In this Jan. 3, 2017 image released by ABC, host Jimmy Kimmel appears during "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in Los Angeles. (Randy Holmes/ABC via AP)
LOS ANGELES -- Jimmy Kimmel returns to host "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Monday, one week after giving an update about his newborn son.
RELATED: Obama, celebs support Kimmel after son's health scare
During an emotional and heartfelt monologue, Kimmel explained, "They found that Billy was born with a heart disease."
The late night talk show host took last week off, after telling viewers about his son's open-heart surgery. The family says Billy is doing great.
sincere thanks for the outpouring of love & support - Dr. Jane is keeping a close ear on Billy, who is very well - XO pic.twitter.com/QgSUminhmg
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 2, 2017
On Monday, the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" team tweeted a sweet photo of Kimmel laughing during rehearsal at the desk, surrounded by mariachi musicians. They wrote, "He doesn't like when we make a fuss, so we did anyway..."
He doesn't like when we make a fuss, so we did anyway... pic.twitter.com/uOJUdPOYmB
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) May 8, 2017
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Gruesome discovery in truck after woman vanishes from flight
Yahoo News Australia and agencies
Yahoo News Australia 13 January 2020
A woman’s body found wrapped in plastic, cardboard and duct tape inside the back of an abandoned rental truck has been identified as a 29-year-old who was reported missing by her family two months ago after a cross-country flight.
Investigators are still trying to find out if Ashley Manning’s death was a homicide after her body was found in the vehicle at a U-Haul storage facility in Fullerton, 40km southwest of Los Angeles, local publication Orange County Register reported.
Manning, of Anaheim, the city directly south of Fullerton, was identified during an autopsy, Anaheim police Sgt Shane Carringer said.
The body found has been identified as Ashley Manning. Source: Anaheim PD / Facebook
“Her cause of death is still pending … toxicology could take weeks,” he told the publication.
Staff at the facility found the body last Wednesday while conducting inventory on the truck.
Manning’s family reported her missing in November.
According to a Facebook post by her sister seeking help finding her, Manning flew from Dallas to Los Angeles International Airport on November 13, but was never seen again.
“We have confirmation that she made it to LAX and are working with police to pull video footage to see what car she got into (and) run licence plates,” Taylor Manning wrote in the post.
The woman's body was found in this U-Haul truck, southwest of LA. Source: ABC News US
Manning had most recently been staying in the Anaheim area with friends, Carringer said.
The truck had been rented in nearby Anaheim and was found abandoned in that city after the rental agreement expired.
It was towed by a third-party company to the Fullerton facility, according to the Register.
Following confirmation the body found was her sister’s, Taylor Manning took to Facebook to share several photos of Ashley.
“It is with a very heavy heart that I share with everyone here that my sister’s body was found,” she wrote.
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A working library collects reading and writing from Mandy Brown
Words Are My Matter
Writings on Life and Books
Mariner Books
In this late volume, Le Guin reflects on many of the things that animated her thinking throughout her life: the ways in which genre matters (and the gendered elitism inherent in those who sneer at it), how writing works, the ills of the publishing industry, and the knowledge of women. A few pieces offer glimpses into her own life: a tour through the unique architecture of her childhood home, and an address to NARAL in which she reflects on her own abortion. Included also is her internet-famous speech to the National Book Foundation in which she dealt a death blow to capitalism, imbuing so many of us with the hope of its demise. In the first essay, she notes that while “you’re usually alone when you read, you are in communion with another mind” (6). Few minds are as delightful to spend time with then hers.
All prose is fiction
Here’s Le Guin, responding to criticism of The Dispossessed:
So The Dispossessed, a science-fiction novel not only concerned with politics, society, and ethics but approaching them via a definite political theory, has given me a lot of grief. It is generally, not always but often, been discussed as a treatise, not as a novel. This is its own damn fault, of course—what did it expect, announcing itself as a utopia, even if an ambiguous one? Everybody knows utopias are to be read not as novels but as blueprints for social theory or practice.
But the fact is that, starting with Plato’s Republic in Philosophy 1-A when I was seventeen, I read utopias as novels. Actually, I still read everything as novels, including history, memoir, and the newspaper. I think Borges is quite correct, all prose is fiction. So when I came to write a utopia of course I wrote a novel.
I wasn’t surprised that it was treated as a treatise, but I wondered if the people who read it as a treatise ever wondered why I had written it as a novel. Were they as indifferent as they seemed to be to what made it a novel—the inherent self-contradictions of novelistic narrative that prevent simplistic, single-theme interpretation, the novelistic “thickness of description” (Geertz’s term) that resists reduction to abstracts and binaries, the embodiment of ethical dilemma in a drama of character that evades allegorical interpretation, the presence of symbolic elements that are not fully accessible to rational thought?
Le Guin, Words Are My Matter, page 22
It occurs to me that to read everything, including the news, like a novel—to be cognizant and accepting of discontinuities and conflicts, of multiple interpretations, of symbol that sits alongside more objective truths—is maybe the skill we most need to employ in navigating the world of news today, when there is so much news, and so few ways of making it all cohere.
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Is Bumble Really the Best Dating App For Women Who Want Control of Their Love Lives?
By Bonnie Awesu
When my friend Marne told me she was getting married and expecting a baby and that this had all happened via a dating site, I decided to get serious about online dating. I signed up for a few dating apps and had a lot of fun talking to and meeting with guys, until another friend Claire told me about Bumble. “It works the same way as Tinder — you swipe right for the guys you like and if you’re a match, you start a conversation,” Claire told me.
Bumble differs from Tinder and all the other dating sites out there because it only permits women to start the conversation. Founded by Whitney Wolfe, Bumble has been referred to as the “feminist app.” It’s easy to set up — all you have to do is download the app, write a short blurb about yourself and upload your pictures and you’re good to go. Another unique feature about Bumble is that matches expire after 24 hours so it forces you to start a conversation sooner rather than later.
I took a stab at it. The first 20 or so guys that popped up on my screen were really attractive. They were nicely dressed, had chiseled faces and sculpted hair. Another absolute plus is that they were all mostly well-educated. There were quite a few doctors on my Bumble account, as well as founders and CEO’s of startups. A lot of them tended to be active adventurers that were into bike riding, surfing and traveling. And like Tinder the whole selection process was effortless.
However, the app had its downside. There were only so many characters you can use to describe yourself, which leads to the whole concept being kind of superficial. There really wasn’t much ethnic diversity on the app either — most of the guys seemed to look the same and were into the same three activities I mentioned previously. And like Tinder, men seemingly swipe right out of laziness to get as many matches as possible and when a girl matches up with them that they don’t like they wont respond to her message — ouch. That lack of response didn’t feel very empowering.
There also wasn’t a great selection filter, so it meant all of the guys were not properly matched to me and it became clear we just didn’t have enough in common to connect us. When I complained about this to Claire she asked me what my problem was and did I not want a great guy. My answer was of course I want and know I deserve a handsome well put together, educated man, but how likely is a doctor who graduated from Harvard going to find me, a part-time waitress, part-time performing arts dancer and freelance writer, a “suitable” match? That mentality wasn’t being produced by not valuing myself — but it came from the way society operates.
I love feeling empowered but for me, Bumble was only great in theory. As a BAUCE woman, or someone who wanted to take control of her dating life, I felt that it leaves us responsible for the most awkward part of dating, which is making the first move. I have asked out guys in the past, but online dating is a different arena where you can’t read someone’s body language or intentions for you. We all know that the online dating world is a game of chances — there are a handful of normal guys out there who are who they say they are and then there and a lot of dishonest guys out there who have lied in one way or another on their profile or their only intention with a woman is a casual encounter.
Bumble is a great idea for women that want to take the initiative and have thick skin. But for the rest of us rising ladies who are still coming into our own, stick with the lakes that you’re used to. Conversations should go both ways and in my perspective a feeling of empowerment does exist in a man’s pursuit and “the chase.”
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON INTERVIEWS KEITH RICHARD
Posted on December 30, 2013 by hobo hippie
Double Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson interviews Keith Richards
Keith Richards and Hunter S. Thompson muse on The Beatles, the afterlife, getting a full blood transfusion and using the Hells Angels for concert security.
Wayne Ewing, who shot this video, writes of the behind the scenes goings on at the Hunter Thomson Films website:
The interview itself was, like most of Hunter’s interviews, quite disappointing. You can begin to see why it took me so many years to shoot and piece together enough material with Hunter to make intelligible films – Breakfast with Hunter & the work-in-progress Breakfast with Hunter: Vol. Two. Old television interviews with Hunter like these abound on the internet, except this one has Keith.
At 4am we stopped shooting, and I urged the crew from Denver to wrap as quickly as possible. Rather than splitting asap as you expect, Keith hung around while we wrapped, sitting on the couch in the kitchen, not wanting to leave the inner sanctum of Gonzo quite yet. Hunter clearly wanted to get the Denver crew out so he could have more private time with Keith, who by now had fallen asleep on the couch, looking exactly like the famous 1972 Annie Leibovitz shot of him splayed out in a chair. As the crew endlessly wrapped cables, an unconscious Keith began to slide off the couch onto the floor.
Good luck understanding much of what the good Doctor says. Keith speaks the Queen’s English compared to mush-mouthed Thompson.
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Fear and Loathing 40 Years Later Hunter S. Thompson’s outrage-stuffed, anti-cynical campaign masterpiece.
By Matt Taibbi
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Illustration by Matt Kindt.
Following is an excerpt from Matt Taibbi’s introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, out now from Simon & Schuster.
I doubt any book means more to a single professional sect than Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 means to American political journalists. It’s been read and reread by practically every living reporter in this country, and just as you’re likely to find a dog-eared paperback copy of Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop somewhere in every foreign correspondent’s backpack, you can still spot the familiar red (it was red back then) cover of Fear and Loathing ’72 poking out of the duffel bags of the reporters sent to follow the likes of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Barack Obama on the journalistic Siberia known as the Campaign Trail.
Decades after it was written, in fact, Fear and Loathing ’72 is still considered a kind of bible of political reporting. It’s given birth to a whole generation of clichés and literary memes, with many campaign reporters (including, unfortunately, me) finding themselves consciously or unconsciously making villainous Nixons, or Quislingian Muskies, or Christlike McGoverns out of each new quadrennial batch of presidential pretenders.
Even the process itself has evolved to keep pace with the narrative expectations for the campaign story we all have now because of Hunter and Fear and Loathing. The scenes in this book where Hunter shoots zingers at beered-up McGovern staffers at places like “a party on the roof of the Doral” might have just been stylized asides in the book, but on the real Campaign Trail they’ve become formalized parts of the messaging process, where both reporters and candidates constantly use these Thompsonian backdrops as vehicles to move their respective products.
Every campaign seems to have a hotshot reporter and a campaign manager who recreate and replay the roles of Hunter and Frank Mankiewicz (Karl Rove has played the part a few times), and if this or that campaign’s staffers don’t come down to the hotel bar often enough for the chummy late-night off-the-record bull sessions that became campaign legend because of this book, reporters will actually complain out loud, like the failure to follow the script is a character flaw of the candidate.
Some of this seems trite and clichéd now, but at the time, telling the world about all of these behind-the-scenes rituals was groundbreaking stuff. That this is a great piece of documentary journalism about how American politics works is beyond question—for as long as people are interested in the topic, this will be one of the first places people look to find out what our electoral process looks like and smells like and sounds like, off-camera. Thompson caught countless nuances of that particular race that probably eluded the rest of the established reporters. It shines through in the book that he was not merely interested in the 1972 campaign but obsessed by it, and he followed the minutiae of it with an addict’s tenacity.
For instance, there’s a scene early in the book when he confronts McGovern’s New Hampshire campaign manager, Joe Granmaison, badgering the portly pol about having been a Johnson delegate in 1968:
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail by Hunter S. Thompson.
“Let’s talk about that word accountable,” I said. “I get the feeling you stepped in shit on that one.”
“What do you mean?” he snapped. “Just because I was a Johnson delegate doesn’t mean anything. I’m not running for anything.”
“Good,” I said.
Now, not many reporters would bother to find out what a lowly regional manager for a primary long-shot candidate was doing four years ago, but Hunter had to know. The whole book reeked of a kind of desperation to know where absolutely everyone he met stood on the manic quest to find meaning and redemption that was his campaign adventure.
The obsession made for great theater, but it also produced great journalism. Hunter knew the geography of the 1972 campaign the way a stalker knows a starlet’s travel routine, and when he put it all down on paper, it was lit up with the kind of wildly vivid detail that only a genuinely crazy person, all mixed up with rage and misplaced love, can bring to a subject.
But saying Campaign Trail ’72 is a good source on presidential campaigns is almost like saying Moby-Dick is a good book about whales. This is more than a nonfiction title that’s narrowly about modern American elections. If it were only that, it wouldn’t endure the way it has or resonate so powerfully the way it still does.
Hunter had such a brilliantly flashy narrative style that a lot of people were fooled into thinking that’s all he was—a wacky, drug-addled literary party animal with a gift for memorable insults and profanity-laden one-liners. The people who understood him the least (and a lot of these sorry individuals came out of the woodwork, bleating their complaints on right-wing talk shows and websites, when Thompson died) had this idea that he was just the journalistic version of a rock star, an abject hedonist with a gift for the catchy tune who was popular with kids because he stood for Letting Loose and Getting Off without consequence. I particularly remember this passage from someone named Austin Ruse in the National Review:
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Author Hunter S. Thompson.
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[Thompson’s] famous aphorism, “When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro” was the font of more ruined GPAs than any other single source back in the 1970s. “When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro” meant that you could stay up all night doing every manner of substance and in the few milky hours between sunrise and the start of morning classes churn out a master term paper. Almost all of us discovered this was not true. Some, like Hunter himself, never learned it.
People like this either never read Hunter’s books, or they read them and didn’t understand them at all. All the drugs and the wildness and the profanity … I’m not going to say it was an act, because as far as I know it was all very real, but they weren’t central to what made his books work.
People all over the world don’t identify with Hunter Thompson because he was some kind of all-world fraternity-party God who made a sexy living mainlining human adrenal fluids and spray-painting obscenities on the sides of racing yachts. No, they connect with the deathly earnest, passionate, troubled person underneath, the one who was so bothered by the various unanswerable issues of life that he went overboard trying to medicate the questions away.
People who describe Thompson’s dark and profane jokes as “cynical humor” don’t get it. Hunter Thompson was always the polar opposite of a cynic. A cynic, in the landscape of Campaign Trail ’72, for instance, is someone like Nixon or Ed Muskie, someone who cheerfully accepts the fundamental dishonesty of the American political process and is able to calmly deal with it on those terms, without horror.
But Thompson couldn’t accept any of it. This book buzzes throughout with genuine surprise and outrage that people could swallow wholesale bogus marketing formulations like “the ideal centrist candidate,” or could pull a lever for Nixon, a “Barbie-Doll president, with his box-full of Barbie Doll children.” Even at the very end of the book, when McGovern’s cause was so obviously lost, Thompson’s hope and belief still far outweighed his rational calculation, as he predicted a mere 5.5 percent margin of victory for the Evil One (it turned out to be a 23 percent landslide for Nixon).
When I read this book now, it reminds me a lot more of vast comic epics like The Castle or The Trial than one of Fear and Loathing’s smart nonfiction thematic contemporaries (like the excellent The Selling of the President, 1968, for instance). Just like Kafka’s Land Surveyor, Hunter in Campaign Trail ’72 enters a nightmarish maze of deceptions and prevarications and proceeds to throw open every door—bursting into every room with a circus clown’s theatrical self-importance and impeccably bad timing—searching every nook and cranny for the great Answer, for Justice.
What makes the story so painful, and so painfully funny, is that Hunter chooses the presidential campaign, of all places, to conduct this hopeless search for truth and justice. It’s probably worse now than it was in Hunter’s day, but the American presidential campaign is the last place in the world a sane man would go in search of anything like honesty. It may be the most fake place on earth.
Both now and in Thompson’s day, most of the press figures we lionize as great pundits and commentators seem to think it’s proper to mute our expectations for public figures. We’re constantly told that politicians should be given credit for being “realistic” (in the mouths of people like David Brooks, “realistic” is really code for “being willing to sell out your constituents in order to get elected”) and that demanding “purity” from our leaders is somehow immature (Hillary had to vote for the Iraq war; otherwise she would have ruined her presidential chances!).
To me, the reason so many pundits and politicians take this stance is because the alternative is so painful: If you cling to hope and belief, the distance between the ideal and the corrupt reality is so great, it’s just too much for most normal people to handle. So they make peace with the lie, rather than drive themselves crazy worrying about how insanely horrible and ridiculous things really are.
But Thompson never made that calculation. He never stooped to trying to sell us on stupidities about “electability” and “realism,” or the pitfalls of “purity.” Instead, he stared right into the flaming-hot sun of shameless lies and cynical horseshit that is our politics, and he described exactly what he saw—probably at serious cost to his own mental health, but the benefit to us was Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72.
We can easily imagine how Hunter would have described people like Mitt Romney (I’m guessing he would have reached for “depraved scumsucking whore” pretty early in his coverage) and Rick Santorum (“screeching rectum-faced celibate”?), and all you have to do is look at his write-up of the Eagleton affair to see how this writer would have responded to whatever manufactured noncontroversy of the Bill Ayers/Reverend Wright genus ends up rocking the 2012 election season.
But more than anything, this book remains fresh because Thompson’s writing style hasn’t aged a single day since 1972. Thompson didn’t write in the language of the sixties and seventies—he created his own timelessly weird language that seems as original now as I imagine it did back then. When you read his stuff even today, the “Man, where the hell did he come up with that image?” factor is just as high as it ever was. There’s a section in this book where he’s fantasizing about the pro- Vietnam labor leader George Meany’s reaction to McGovern’s nomination:
He raged incoherently at the Tube for eight minutes without drawing a breath, then suddenly his face turned beet red and his head swelled up to twice its normal size. Seconds later—while his henchmen looked on in mute horror—Meany swallowed his tongue, rolled out the door like a log, and crawled through a plate glass window.
I’ve read every one of Thompson’s books three or four times, and I’ve probably read hundreds of passages like this, but this stuff still makes me laugh out loud. Why a plate glass window exactly? Where did he come up with that? On top of everything else, on top of all the passion and the illuminating outrage and the great journalism, the guy was just one of a kind as a writer. Nobody was ever more fun to read. He’s the best there ever was, and still the best there is.
Excerpted from Matt Taibbi’s introduction to the 40th anniversary edition of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72, out now from Simon & Schuster. Copyright 2012 by Matt Taibbi.
Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He’s the author of five books, most recently The Great Derangement and Griftopia, and a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary.
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GARY BUSEY REFLECTS ON HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Posted on November 13, 2013 by hobo hippie
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON- AN AMERICAN OUTLAW
Posted on August 29, 2013 by hobo hippie
Was born in Louisville Ky in 1937.He was an outlaw and literary figure. He loved guns and books. He was arrested at a young age for stealing a wallet with two other people.
He was part of a street gang of pranksters. He came from a poor family.
He was best know for writing “Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.” and creating Gonzo Journalism.” This is when a reporter gets so involved in the story he writes himself in the story. He was an alcoholic and drug user and always looking for a controversial story.
He became very interested in the counter culture of the 60’s.
He was married to Sandy Conklin in 1963 and they had one son, Juan. They were divorced in 1980.
His first book “Hells Angels A Strange And Terrible Saga” was published in 1967. He also wrote for “Rolling Stone” about the presidential campaign of 1972.
He was notorious for his outrageousness and being an anti authoritarian. He constantly terrorized his neighbors in Colorado.
Thompson was ill for several years and in 2005committed suicide by shooting himself. His ashes were shot from a cannon to “Mr. Tamborine Man” by Bob Dylan.
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Readers Write In #60: Thugs of Hinduston is a fantastic tribute to Masala cinema and its leading men
On why thugs of Hindostan is no lazy rehash of the masala formula , but a well constructed modern tribute that echoes back to best of the genre.
Thugs of Hinduston has flopped badly at the box office. Neither the big star cast, nor the lucrative diwali weekend could save the film. The film critics have universally panned it. Many are calling it the worst film ever made and such. It goes without saying that I stepped into the theater with great trepidation. But I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. I found it to be a very enjoyable and satisfying movie for most of its running time that worked more successfully as a post modernistic tribute to masala cinema and its iconic leading men and perhaps a less satisfying yet not an embarrassing stab at masala cinema itself
Obviously the film had a lot of problems starting with the title. I have no idea why it was called Thugs of Hindustan. If at all, it should have been called just Thug , standing in for Aamir Khan’s character who goes around conning people in the early eighteen hundreds. The Title also brought about allegations of it being a poor copy of Hollywood’s pirates of the Caribbean franchise, something that the film can do without. For whatever its worth, the inspiration for the film is not any Hollywood franchise, but our good old masala cinema.
Right from Tashan , Vijay Krishna Acharya has proven that he is a die hard fan of both masala cinema and Amitabh Bachchan. In Tashan, it looked like he wanted to make a full on postmodern masala movie but was forced to change track in the second half to make a more straightforward film. So the film remained uneven, With the first half being a Po Mo exercise and second half aiming to be a regular masala film. Still I found the film quite enjoyable. In Dhoom3, he cut down on the Po Mo aspect to concentrate on making a regular masala film. But the issue here was that the basic template of dhoom franchise borrowed from Hollywood’s bikes and babes pictures was too shallow to hold the masala universe. With Thugs, he seems to have found just the right balance – or at least a more acceptable – in making a masala film which can contain the post modernistic references and tributes without disturbing the main film and yet provide the adequate pleasure to a true masala movie geek
The most likeable aspect of the film for me was the performances of Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan apart from the many movie tributes that is scattered throughout the film, how they played off each other and how their respective characters are conceived in relation to each other. they are what i call the yin and yang of the masala universe. Khudabaksh is from the more serious masala film world of Salim javed, Rajkumar Santhoshi, JP Dutta and all, while Aamir’s character firangi is from the manmohan desai’s light masala universe. Bachchan’s greatness in his hey day was that he could effortlessly straddle both worlds.
Aamir, from lagaan to Dangal, has championed a form of neo masala cinema, where he reworks the masala universe into a less larger than life, more realistic universe to go with our times. The physical violence in Bachchan has mutated into more cerebral nonviolent action in Aamir. Both Vijay and Bhuvan are heroes, but what sets them apart is their modus operandi in tackling the enemy. So its fitting that Aamir plays the younger, more cerebral version of what Amitabh used to play so well in his heydays
Take the character of Khudabaksh played by Amitabh Bachchan, its less a character, more an accumulation of his most iconic moments. Yet it did become a fully realized masala hero for me. His introduction scene in the film references his most massy introduction scenes in three of his earlier films, Coolie, Khuda Gawah and Thoofan. He comes out of nowhere like a god riding a horse to save the life of young Zafira’s who would be played as an adult by Fatima sana Sheikh. Cut to 11 years later, now he is like Don with his own army and his own private hideout. Like in the film Don, when we first meet him in a full on dialogue sequence, he is seen executing a traitor within the gang. Its also fun to see him spit out names of his comrades like Sawant, Akbar, Bhima etc, which are the names of characters he was associated in the past – Akbar was Rishi kapoor’s name in Amar Akbar Anthony and Bhima being the character he himself played in Aaj ka Arjun, one of his more successful movies from the late eighties period where he had a welcome return to the mythical masala roots , as opposed to more comic book masala stuff he was doing – but also to a secular movie past where they tried to include all religions, even if stereotypical, into the movie’s fabric. Khudabaksh itself seems to be a callback to the iconic muslim characters that Bachchan himself has played, like Sikander, Iqbal, Badshah Khan and so on.
What about Aamir’s Firangi?,As I said already it’s a nod to Bachchan’s More lighter masala characters. Think of his son character from Desh Premee . In that film Bachchan put on blackface and sang gore nahin hum kale sahi, here Aamir puts on a blonde wig and impersonates a white man in the surayya song. His manner of speaking with broken English words and his self introduction seem to be inspired from the Arjun singh character from Namak Halaal
That’s not all, Adding one more dimension to the character, It’s also referencing the gallery of lovable rogues that Aamir has played from Jo jeeta wohi sikander to 3 idiots. His introduction scene is a mixture of his dus ka bees , dus ka bees act from Rangeela as well as his iconic Lagaan. This is a more physical, more over the top performance than anything he has given before. But I liked Aamir in his over the top mode mainly because of the kind of actor he is. Someone like Shahrukh Khan is by his nature a very physical performer, a very busy performer. So when he take the hammy route, it becomes intolerable to watch, on the other hand if he could hold his energy and his hamminess just a little bit he is able to deliver striking performances as in Swades or Chak De. Aamir is exactly the opposite. By nature , he is a very subdued, very subtle performer to an extent that his performance fails to register sometimes. He is very enjoyable here most of the times and sometimes I see him falling flat trying too hard, but he is still tolerable.
The main plot point of Aamir infiltrating Bachchan’s gang at the instigation of the British authorities can be attributed to Don. The film is also heavily inspired by the masala pastiche template of Sholay. Very serious scenes interspersed with more lowbrow humor. Aamir even does a chaplinseque nod as Asrani does in that film. You can see the symmetry in characters too. Bachchan- fatima duo standing in for is sanjeev kumar jaya bhaduri duo. Aamir is mixture of veeru and basanti, conning & fast talking gibberish. there it was dhanno the horse, here its nawab the ass. Gabbar and bandits morph into Clive and the east India company.
Post his accepting Aamir into his gang, there follows a rather in your face masala scene of Bachchan working the field on a barren land. The dialogue that follows between Him and Aamir about his obsession, is a fine nod to a similar scene in Sholay between Jai and veeru. These 2 hardened criminals have decided to give up a life of crime to settle down in the village and become farmers. Veeru has doubts whether they can adapt to the new life style, Jai convinces him with the immortal line, Burai ne bandook chalana sikhaya that , ab neki hal chalana sikhayegi. In thugs, Bachchan’s character was a farmer, before love for his country forced him to pick up weapons and become a rebel. His act is to keep the dream alive for himself and others of returning to farming and a peaceful life.
More tributes follow just before the interval point. Once Aamir betrays him to the british, both of them are locked in a duel reminiscent of the Bachchan –Dara singh duel at the end of Mard. There, a revelation of them being father and son changes the nature of the duel and they decided to join forces to fight the british. Here its more of a awakening of conscious in Aamir that changes the course of the duel, when he saves Bachchan from death. Bachchan decides to embark upon a suicide mission to destroy the british ship, handing over the protection of Zafira as well as the reigns of the film to Aamir. In an echo of the first scene with Bachchan saving the young Zafira, here Aamir saves her from the british and take her to safety, while Bachchan reminiscent of his most iconic scene in Agneepath rams his burning ship into the other destroying it and perhaps killing himself in the process . The famous aswa shweth rakth se latpat poetry recitation becomes sheesham ke ghode pe aayeg sawaari shaamt gunehgaron ki
Undoubtedly this first half of thugs is the most entertaining, most absorbing and most fun. Once Bachchan is presumed to be dead, the film goes dead for a time too. Post the interval, the film loses its momentum. The tributes disappear and it becomes more of a straightforward masala film, and without Bachchan’s character the film becomes off balance. Even more grating is the filmmakers obsession to Jack sparrow-fy Aamir’s character, where its repeatedly hinted that Aamir has no control of his nature and he himself is afraid when he would become bad again. That’s strict no-no for a masala hero. It’s a good tactic to turn the central avenging angel in a masala film into a female character, but here Fatima’s Zafira is so badly conceived and even more badly enacted that it leaves a big whole in the masala heart of the film. It also points out to the fact that we don’t have masala film heroines of the caliber of Rekha, Reena roy, etc anymore who can convincingly pull off the requirements of the masala universe
But once Bachchan returns to screen, all shackled and angry in his Kaalia mode the film springs back to life. The final forty minutes of the film again becomes a masala treat with nodes to Kranti, Shaan etc. the film also brings back the tradition of the climactic song sequence which was a must of very popular masala film, even though , here the song is not as rousing or spectacular as say the one in Kranti, it still makes an impact
So all said and done, there was lots to love in the film. I understand why a large part of the audience did not get it. Today’s audience are very removed from the masala film culture . Beyond that they look down upon them with derision as a lot of modern Indians do to a lot of the traditional aspects of Indian culture. In the end, the film turned out to be a satisfying, if not totally fulfilling, exercise, in creating a deserving tribute to the legacy of masala cinema and its leading stars.
(by MANK)
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This is glorious piece, MANK.
I am one of those who thought the masala callbacks were just… callbacks and didn’t amount to any significant world-building.
But I can see how you felt the callbacks themselves formed a sort of world-building.
” Today’s audience are very removed from the masala film culture . Beyond that they look down upon them with derision as a lot of modern Indians do to a lot of the traditional aspects of Indian culture. ” – I think it’s more the former than the latter. Batti Gul Meter Chalu worked for me but didn’t for many others. Due to lack of exposure, we have perhaps lost the taste for masala. I would argue that ADHM was an old fashioned love triangle tragedy in KJo Armani. It didn’t work for either of us but it did for others. I think the fundamental problem is people don’t communicate like that anymore (if they ever did but earlier all films were dramatised and there was no ‘real dialogue’ alternative) so there’s always going to be a section of the audience that finds masala style dialogue too dramatized. And then, for many of us, things like love triangles trigger the memory bank of a zillion masala movies previously watched and we start going deja vu. We have got used to Bollywood trying to innovate on content rather than form. This naturally disadvantages masala because masala by its nature revolves around varied treatment of a set of time-worn stories. If it wasn’t, then it wouldn’t be masala anymore. That is also why the masala treatment still works in grand historicals or fantasies (i.e. Padmavat/Baahubali) because there the opulence and heightened pitch both feel appropriate and the visuals are very compelling and by themselves invite people to come watch it in a cinema hall.
Wow. Makes me think that art is more about what we see in something than what it is. Very well written. But do you think an elaborately constructed world of references works as a movie without a conscious “justification” from the viewer’s side? More so for the younger generation that did not grow up with Bachchan/True masala culture as part of their childhood?
MANK – 🙂 Boy, that was some deconstruction. And I agree with a lot of what you say as well – to me, this was an ode to the masala universe.
By the way, ‘Khuda Baksh’ was Danny’s character in Khuda Gawah, where Bachchan played Badshah Khan.
I agree with you about Fatima’s character – Zafira was so poorly written; the young Zafira had more fire than Fatima did, but the character arc did her no favours either.
I disagree that the Aamir’s character’s dilemma about turning bad again did not work. To me, he’s worried about turning good. His inherent nature is to deceive and he doesn’t really suffer many pangs of guilt about being bad. In that, he’s ‘All for me, and I for myself as well’. Actually, I liked that scene – for the first time in his life, he’s doing something that does not profit him. And the payoff may be death. His ‘kameenapan‘ is his armour.
I really loved Firangi – if it hadn’t been for the fact that I knew he was going to be ‘good guy’ in the end, I would have loved him even more. Just imagine what a Sriram Raghavan could do with such a conniving character.
I did like the film. I’m glad I didn’t back out of going and watching it on my own. It really was worth the price of the ticket, and the big screen experience.
AdhithyaKR: But do you think an elaborately constructed world of references works as a movie without a conscious “justification” from the viewer’s side?
Great question, Adhithya, and this is where I’d differ from MANK. For me — again, this is a personal thing, so others may differ — references work IF supported by appropriate world-building. The new Star Wars movies fail in that regard. They are so busy referencing and echoing that they forget to build THEIR OWN world.
For me, this is why I said (in my review): “To stave off the predictability, the film reaches for masala echoes: Amitabh Bachchan’s eagle from Coolie, Hema Malini’s dance in the villain’s den from Sholay (here, too, a character is shackled in chains), and even Kamal Haasan’s stunt from Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, where a statue comes to “life”. But without strong writing, echoes are just a lazy wink, the cinematic equivalent of a Throwback Thursday photo on your Facebook feed.”
The references are no doubt fun. But they cannot BECOME the movie (for me). Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, for me, is a very good example of how to take the masala flavour (though the Nasir Husain brand of masala, not the Salim javed or Manmohan Desai brand), modernise it and still make YOUR OWN MOVIE.
Here, I felt there was so much winking that the film itself never came into its own.
PS: All this, of course, depends on how seriously you take masala. Ad I’m glad TOH provoked MANK to write this piece.
???? (that is fixed raised eyebrows). Someone yearning for masala movies. Reminds me of an article by Mukul Kesavan where he was longing for 80s. Hmm as someone from that era, let me recap
1 – Waiting for 8 yrs to get a phone connection.
2 – 2 yrs for Gas Cylinder
3 – 5 yrs for Maruti
4 – 2 yrs for Scooter.
Masala movies of 70s and 80s are unwatchable today because they are badly dated. Why would they like a new movie of the same template. The taste of a common man has improved. WHy would anyone wish a decline ?
What a wonderful piece MANK, take a bow. Maza aa gaya.
Excerpts from your piece which I really enjoyed-
1.Khudabaksh is from the more serious masala film world of Salim javed, Rajkumar Santhoshi, JP Dutta and all, while Aamir’s character firangi is from the manmohan desai’s light masala universe. Bachchan’s greatness in his hey day was that he could effortlessly straddle both worlds.
2.His introduction scene in the film references his most massy introduction scenes in three of his earlier films, Coolie, Khuda Gawah and Thoofan. He comes out of nowhere like a god riding a horse to save the life of young Zafira’s
3.What about Aamir’s Firangi?,As I said already it’s a nod to Bachchan’s More lighter masala characters.His manner of speaking with broken English words and his self introduction seem to be inspired from the Arjun singh character from Namak Halaal.
4.The famous aswa shweth rakth se latpat poetry recitation becomes sheesham ke ghode pe aayeg sawaari shaamt gunehgaron ki
5.But once Bachchan returns to screen, all shackled and angry in his Kaalia mode the film springs back to life. The final forty minutes of the film again becomes a masala treat with nodes to Kranti, Shaan etc. the film also brings back the tradition of the climactic song sequence which was a must of very popular masala film, even though , here the song is not as rousing or spectacular as say the one in Kranti, it still makes an impact
Matlab what a tribute penned by you to Masala Cinema and Bachchan Sahab.
One small thing though- it’s Toofan not Thoofan. LOL !!
“Masala movies of 70s and 80s are unwatchable today because they are badly dated” – Some (ok many), not all. AB’s 70s canon is still pretty decent and watchable coming up to maybe Khuddar. From Naseeb/Namak Halal onwards, it’s a shitshow. I agree with your broader point that it’s easier to reflect on only the good things/good movies now with the benefit of hindsight and forget about how bad the median was. The 80s did produce some great Hindi movies, some of the best of all time. None of them, unfortunately, were masala movies – JBDY, Ardhsathya, Arth, New Delhi Times.
To my mind, Sarfarosh was the last true masala blockbuster that was also pretty well made. KNPH ran mostly on the freshness of Hrithik and Amisha while being very predictable as a story, Gaddar had a gripping first half and fell off the Sunny cliff in the second. After that, DCH happened and changed the vocabulary of Hindi movies before. It’s been a long time. Masala isn’t coming back, ever.
“Some (ok many), not all. AB’s 70s canon is still pretty decent and watchable coming up to maybe Khuddar”
Not sure. I was in my teens when Suhaag (1978), Natwaral (1979), Laawaris, Naseeb Kaalia (1981) all released. I have not seen them till date. And I missed most of his 80s movies. The one movie I liked was Ek Hi Raasta (remake of Oru Kaidian Diary).
I can safely 90% of AB’s movies are unwatchable. He has a bad ratio of good to bad movies.
Ha Ha ! MANK was bristling at the non-striker’s end and now that chetaa has got the strike he’s really cut loose !
My spidey sense was tingling and i knew a MANGling of all the TOH trolls was round the corner
Thanks everyone, especially you Brangan.
Actually it’s the combination of the two actors and the references that worked to make the universe for me
They are the two towers on which it stands and the directors previous work in tashan. I don’t think I would have bought it with any other set of actors. I feel the work the director has invested in creating this universe, rightly or wrongly
And no, it’s not some Clarion call to return to the utopian eighties. Even I don’t watch those horrible Mithun Dharmendra movies. Or even Bachchan films like yaraana, khuddar, jaadugar and so on
Anu, that’s right about khudabaksh. Azaad comes from main azaad Hoon. I think he even say the line from the film,main azaad Hoon, tum aazad ho, hum sab azaad Hain
Regarding Firangi, he will fit perfectly in Sriram ragavan film, but he would not make a good masala hero. The character has to be someone who is bad on the outside but good inside and he traverses an arc from bad to becoming good.. but if being bad is something out of his control, then he will not behave consistently so good. the way he does in the second half. All the cons that he pull, all his volte faces is to favor the good side. He first cons the British in coming to the island and destroy their ships. They then go to kill Clive, but realize that Azaad is still alive. So he acts like he I s switching sides so that he can free azaad, then the final showdown. So that Jack sparrow style quirks about being unpredictable were unnecessary and are inconsistent with the character. It was just a bad attempt at making the character a little hip.Yes if he was truthful to his character, he would turn bad at the end and sell everybody out 😀
Madan, actually 80s produced some of the greatest masala movies. Ghulami, yateem, hathyar, dacait, naam, Arjun, perhaps even some good ones like mashaal, kabzaa, tezaab. There were also the Subhash ghai films depending upon your taste
But the rest were horrible. Even Bachchan films became very bad by the end of 80s. can’t believe Prakash mehra who made muqaddar ka sikander and laawaris would make jaadugar. Even manmohan Desai lost his touch in his last few movies
Rocky thanks yaar.anx yes, Toofan it is😀
Madan: What about MHN?
munis syed
cinephiles are going to find more layers (cinematic and social) in this film in coming years. critics who rubbished the film with generic contempt invented by trolls, unwittingly killed a smasher of a big screen film,
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“Today’s audience are very removed from the masala film culture . Beyond that they look down upon them with derision as a lot of modern Indians do to a lot of the traditional aspects of Indian culture”
Salman Khan is the biggest star in the country. Down south, it is Rajnikanth, Vijay, Ajith, Junior NTR, Ramcharan etc. If not masala movies, what other genre of movies are these actors making? A section of audience that frequent english blogs might hate these movies and prefer niche cinema but vast majority of folks will not watch a Merku Thodarchi Malai even if you offer free tickets but eagerly await the next masala movie from their fav star.
PS: I haven’t watched a lot of 70s Bollywood movies except the super popular ones. But I have seen the tamil remakes of many of these movies and I don’t think the current masala movies are significantly different from these 70s/80s movies.
Mank: No one is doubting whether the 80s movies you listed were watchable at that time. They were good at that time. The question is, are they watchable now
I can tell that except for Arjun and Dacait, the answer is unequivocal now.
Even Arjun and Dacait are watchable in parts only.
Even Sholay is unwatchable except some bits and pieces.
Bite your tongue, Sir! 🙂 Or rather, ‘speak for yourself’. I can still watch Sholay. Even when I know every single dialogue by heart. And I still find a lump in my throat when Jai dies and Radha shuts the window.
It’s a film that, three decades after its release, I could show my son (brought up here). He loved it. And he’s now shown it to his friends – Americans all – and they love it. Some of them have watched it three or four times. 🙂
Now if I can persuade my younger son to sit still and watch it with me, I will have successfully indoctrinated the next generation into Amitabh-and-masala-love.
@MANK, but bad is not out of his control. Even that conceit is deceit. Firangi is not really ‘good’ inside. And he would have sold everyone out if he could have.
In fact, he does – at one point. He gets pulled into this caper against his will. Guilt, perhaps? Sort of a payback for the salt eaten or something. Then he goes right back to being bad – witness the last scene. He’s still a charlatan and will continue being so.
Hence the exasperation when he turns ‘good’. There is a very self-aware irony in the way Aamir says that.
Anu: You are talking about a character-driven movie. The character you envisage is simply not possible in a masala-universe “hero” — i..e. ONCE the transformation to “good” has happened, there can be no going back.
Take Jai/Veeru. They want to take the Thakur’s money and run. But once they are convinced, there can be no going back. The universe won’t allow it. And we won’t buy it either. Plus, the hero’s stardom won’t allow it either. (In a Talaash kind of movie, Aamir can act shify. That is out of the masala universe.)
I said as much in my review.
The only way this story would have worked is if we were constantly kept on edge about whether Firangi Mallah is a rogue or a nice guy — and with a superstar like Aamir Khan, it’s never in doubt that he will feel a twinge of conscience and rise against the British. He did it in Lagaan. He did it in Mangal Pandey. Are we really to imagine that, this time, things will be different?
Anu: I agree totally with you on Sholay. It stands brilliantly.
Here are some older pieces on the film (including a tangential reference in the ‘Aag’ review).
https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/those-days-we-could-afford-to-launch-a-film-without-a-script/
https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2007/09/02/review-ram-gopal-varma-ki-aag/
https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/lights-camera-conversation-back-on-the-big-screen/
Of course I am speaking for myself or do others in this blog speak on behalf of their neighbors :-). Why do obvious things have to be mentioned repeatedly ?
MANK bhai saab!! Thank you! You said whatever I felt and wanted to!!…You have used the most precious resource, time, superbly.
Here you go..a ‘chota’ tribute to masala and Bada B.
http://bollybrit.com/reviews-blog/movie-review-thugs-of-hindostan-2
@Tambi Dude: Guess I got the chronology a tad wrong as I used to think Me Natwarlal was 80s too.
@MANK: Of those films you mentioned, I only like Arjun. To be fair, haven’t watched a couple of them. Becomes difficult to as many of these have dated badly.
“The taste of a common man has improved. WHy would anyone wish a decline ?”
Woh Salman Khan karke koi actor hai. Bolta hai main aise hi picture banoonga. Samajh mein nahi aaya, toh dil mein aa jaata hoon..
Madan, I saw both ghulami and Hathyar recently. They still hold up. Ghulami delved into some serious issues of caste and class struggles. Hathyar, even in it’s huge masala universe, was more of a polemic on how movies are corrupting the youth in turning to crime. Both the films boast some extrodinary acting performances from Dharmendra, Rishi Kapoor etc
Agreed about sholay, some scenes like the train fight sequence are yet to be bested on indian screen. I think all Salim Javed movies hold up. Deewaar,thrishul, they all had some thing modern and timeless about them
Thanks an jo Saab. Your piece is fantastic
One more thing about Aamir’s bachchan homage. Aamir and his soft romantic love stories started out as rivals to then aging Bachchans masala heroics. He even made some rude remarks against bachchan at that time for influencing the youth wrongly. But soon we saw Aamir himself changing tracks. And with ghulam and sarfarosh he was firmly in bachchan territory. After that, he would become the torch bearer of masala films , albeit a more subdued, sophisticated form of masala .through which he achieves an incredible hundred percent success rate . Something very similar to what happens to them in the film.. Now when he tries to do a full blooded masala film in the old bachchan vein, he tastes failure. His last flop Mela was also a similar attempt at old fashioned masala.
Masala is dead? Tastes have “improved”?
Ok I do not want to fight over this issue about tastes but if masala was dead, then how is it that “Dabangg” (which I loved btw, the first movie, not the second) did so well? And Singham, Rowdy Rathore, hell almost every Salman blockbuster – isn’t that Masala?
And yes, some movies are dated but it sounds a little elitist to be so dismissive – I still love watching “Amar Akbar Anthony” , Sholay, Don and Namak Halal.
We are too embedded in our mobile screens right now. And are getting influenced by collective loud thinking that comes with new consumer technology. Early years of cinema too, saw propagandists lapping it up and using ownership to canvass their political/ideological agendas. So im not worried about the explicit or implicit right wing tones of deriding films and film stars.
People are consuming spoofs more than films in theatres. We consume news (through whatsapp, twitter, fb feeds) to reassure our biases, not because we care (so no effort to listen to a different viewpoint without posting abuse).
What’s worrying is just like tv news anchors started picking their cues from twitter et al, pre 2014, many of our film critics who’ve found audience post social media are not considering the factor that trolls could piggyback them, and feed it back to professionals who video write on popular culture at a time when video journalism is still finding its grammar in the new media space.
The success of Padmavat at the begining of the year, and failure of Thugs of Hindostan towards the end of the year has a resounding message for those who care for a certain kind of nation building.
The difference between mobile screen content and traditional big screen content is that mobile is all about amplifying our own lives, and the big screen has more scope of experiencing new worlds. Big screen make us more open due to its nature of communal viewing. We are killing it unwittingly.
Yes, 80s alternative cinema was great. It put focus on realism. But it didn’t last – and the hardcore realism had to be blended with the dramatic grammar of ‘masala films’. In what measures depend on the storyteller. Films like Parinda, Saaransh and many more attempted deep entertainment quite successfully. And gave us filmmakers who’ve lasted long and remain relevant even now.
At the end of the day, cinema is a mass art to be enjoyed with strangers, in a dark room. I feel the excitement for the filmmaker is to evoke collective emotions, and find a connect. And subconsciously also reveal the times we are living in. Salim-Javed have repeatedly said in interviews, that when they were writing those films/characters, they didn’t think about the sociology of the film at all. It just happened.
Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra in an interview once said (I think he was quoting his mentor Saeed Mirza, or maybe he said it himself) – “You are not making films about details. You make films about people.”
The failure of Thugs of Hindostan is crushing for me because it shrinks the scope to experiment with the screenplay in a tentpole film. Despite the fact that the film flows seamlessly, is visually stunning and overall watchable. Is thoroughly entertaining in parts, and has got a cut loose Aamir which was so refreshing and my take away.
TOH sequel would be worth it.
@MANK —Loved your review. And many of the comments that have followed. I have been saddened that this film failed. Can understand to an extent,younger audiences not connecting … but our esteemed critics too have let me down by dismissing a genre of Indian film, Bachchan’s classic masala. And as an Aamir fan since his exquisite Sarfarosh… the rejection of TOH was heartbreaking. This film is obviously a nod to masala. Plus there are so many references to well loved seventies cinema.
I loved the mix of humour, drama, the delicious Firangi and his sudden spurts of conscience…. and the last scene was a hoot! Katrina inside a container, showing herself into the boat…. We left the hall laughing. Zeeshan Ayub playing Firangi’s childhood friend was was a surprising delight. And that map showing ‘Inglistan’…😄
Despite some stiff parts, post interval, the film came alive again, left me satisfied. Maybe the Manzoor e Khuda song sequence needed to be pruned. But the final scene left me smiling. Pity the way this film has been demonised as the worst Bollywood film ever. I could make a list of films far inferior, intolerable.
“Films like Parinda, Saaransh and many more attempted deep entertainment quite successfully. And gave us filmmakers who’ve lasted long and remain relevant even now.”
Parinda !!! Never amazes me how the ravages of time magnifies a rank mediocre movie as a classic.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an insufferably boring movie maker. The only movie I some what liked was the first half of Eklavya, which I felt was brilliant.
@Anu W- Now if I can persuade my younger son to sit still and watch it with me, I will have successfully indoctrinated the next generation into Amitabh-and-masala-love.
So true, both my daughters love AB’s movies like Yarana, Sholay, Namak Halal, Coolie, Toofan .
They like the funny side of him better than the serious side.
@tambi Not called Parinda a classic. Yes, it could be polarizing coz it certainly tried to be creative. What I meant was that there were filmmakers then who tried to make films that may have a typical plot, but they tried to mount them in a way which is fresh – reason some films people keep revisiting. It could be the cinematography, music, performances or just moments. One thing or more than one thing.
I think 1942 and Mission Kashmir were engaging. Don’t know why would you call him boring.
Rockstar, Tamasha were not worthy for many. For me, they are worth revisiting. Especially Tamasha. What a classic!
The character you envisage is simply not possible in a masala-universe “hero” — i..e. ONCE the transformation to “good” has happened, there can be no going back.
So both you and MANK are arguing is that FIrangi was not true to his universe? Hmm… yes, I can see that. For me, Firangi was true to his character. He knows how easy it is to slip back into deceit – so that scene where he has a moment of introspection worked for me.
I still love watching “Amar Akbar Anthony” , Sholay, Don and Namak Halal.
Apu, same here! And Satte pe Satta, Trishul, Parvarish… oh, so many to count.
@LS, Munis Syed – I feel your pain. I too wondered at the all-out bashing of this film. Seriously, I enjoyed myself.
@Tambi – ‘speak for yourself’ was a joke. But yes, there is ‘speaking for oneself’ and there’s ‘making definitive statements’. And your comment about Sholay seemed like the latter. That is, you’re of course still speaking for yourself but you’re making a sweeping generalisation about something – an opinion that countless others don’t share.
Madan: Arth Satya is essentially an “art” movie which attained box office success and hence should not be counted as a mainstream 80s movie. The director Govind Nihalani also made Aakrosh (1980), Party (1985 – bad movie), Aaghat (1986), Tamas – TV serial (1987) and none of which were a commercial success.
Speaking of Aakrosh, it was the first “art” movie which made me realize that how pathetic are our commercial movies made by the likes of Manmohan Desai. The caste oppression, which we are now seeing in movies like Pariyerum Perumal was shown so well and IMO better than PP. It was great to watch in 1980 and it is great to watch in 2018 also.
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@Munir Syed – Loved Parinda and 1942; not so much Mission Kashmir, but I’m so glad to have found someone else who love Tamasha.
Rocky, yaar I love the first hour of yaraana with bachchan in comic mode and some great songs, but I never figured out how both bachchan and amjad Khan ends up in a mental hospital in second half 😀
Rakesh Kumar must be the craziest bachchan director. His do aur do paanch also was breezy comedy with bachchan and Shashi Kapoor one upping each other for first couple of hours, but what the hell happened after that. Teachers chasing students through the playground to keep them awake or something.
Btw, this is how Aamir Khan reacts to failure according to Anupama Chopra
If a film doesn’t work, it hurts….it hurts like mad. I still respect that decision because that’s the audience I’ve made it for and they haven’t liked it. I usually go into depression and I cry a lot. I’m a person who doesn’t hold back emotionally. I feel that you have to live through failure or loss. You have to allow yourself to feel so you can put it aside. If you deny it, it remains with you all your life.
https://www.filmcompanion.in/bollywood-movies-success-flops-befikre-thugs-of-hindostan-kareeb-saawariya-anupama-chopra-column/amp/
Like I said in the 2.0 thread, it would be nice to have a wiki with definition and canonical examples of masala films from every decade or era, the different shades of masala and their exponents etc. It doesn’t have to be comprehensive at the beginning, I’m sure that the readers will pitch in if the page is put up.
Munir Syed , parinda was a great exercise in style.there are some great scenes like when Anil Kapoor goes for his first kill or shooting of Anupam kher. But the film loses track after a point. The first half was taken from on the waterfront, then it takes a detour. The second half problem is there in all VVC films. 1942 is also like watching 2 different films. That climax looks like it belongs I n some other film
I liked eklavya though, that’s up until the final scene where Sanjay dutt appears with the suicide note. That was terribly contrived. Otherwise it is one of the most visually stunning movies ever made
MANK- Yarana first half is gold, second half has huge editing issues but is still enjoyable. Do aur Do Paanch was a really stupid movie ( it was like Bhai making Race-3 for his near and dear ones).
Aside- The kind of hype “HUM” had back then, I have never seen for any other film, not even Shehenshah.
I like Anupma’s article , was too short though.
The biggest overhyped failures ( Lag gaye la###) that I can remember are-
Razia Sultan, The Burning Train, Dayavan, Roop Kee Rani and Mrityudata,
Tambi Dude: Never said Ardh Satya was mainstream. In fact I specifically said those films which were the pick of the 80s were not masala. My favourite masala film of the 80s is probably Mr India. Salim Javed got back to entertain us one last time. I don’t think anybody else really figured out how to entertain and still strike a deeper chord quite like this duo.
When I was living in Toronto, Mr. India was shown in the cable TV and I found it horribly silly. This was around 2003/04. I even asked in RAMLI newsgroup (that’s where I met BR) whether it is a movie meant for kids 🙂
Thinking back, few mainstream tamil movies aged better. Few movies I still love watching
Kadamai Kanayam Kattipadu (mercifully Kamal did not act, he would have been no match to Satyaraj)
Poovizhi vasalile
Apoorva Sahodargal
80s was an era when Tamil movies were clearly better than Hindi movies. I am talking about only mainstream movies. Tam movies never had a concept of art movies or movie makers like Govind Nihalani. Their market size did not permit space for alternative movies. It was only in the second half of 90s Hindi movies started catching up and the decade of 00s they were better than Tam. Resurgence of tam movies only started in the last 10 yrs or so and now I looked forward to them more than Hindi movies, which seem to have stuck in a rut. Of course I look forward to movie like Pariyerum Perumal and not over-rated shit like CCV. I saw both movies last weekend.
If we go back to 50s 60s and 70s, the stark difference between tam and hindi movies was in the style of acting. HM had actors like Ashok Kumar and Rehman whose style does not look dated even today, but god one has to be a tamil to appreciate Sivaji Ganeshan.
Rocky, the hype about hum started almost a year before it’s release when Amitabh performed jhumma chumma at his US concert. That was an unheard of thing back then. But the film worked in a big way at the box office didn’t it ? It had 3 house full weeks or so. Those 3 films with mukul Anand was Bachchan trying to graduate into more mature, age appropriate roles. But he was disappointed with his films repeatedly underperforming and just quit for 5 years.
Madan, Ardh Satya was the rare art film that worked commercially. Post the success, even Amitabh bachchan was planning to work with Nihalani, but it didn’t work out. They had to wait for 20 years before they made Dev
It’s true what you said about Salim Javed. Btw Mr India was made after they split and only Javed Akthar was involved with the shooting process. The split affected Salim Khan severely. Apart from Naam, nothing he wrote worked, while Akthar went from strength to strength as a writer – even though nothing he wrote matched their combined work- and then as a lyricist
Tambi Dude: Of course I look forward to movie like Pariyerum Perumal and not over-rated shit like CCV. I saw both movies last weekend.
I may have asked you this before, in which case forgive me. But I have a genuine question here.
You clearly think Mani Ratnam is overrated. You don’t like his films, his sensibility — his very name seems to send your BP soaring (from your comments).
So why would you waste 2.5 hours of your life watching CCV, which got mixed reviews?
This is not just you. I know people who hate Bhansali’s aesthetics or Rohit Shetty films, and yet, will watch the new one, have the exact same experience, and come and rant about it.
After the first few films, you know if a filmmaker (or a musician or whatever) works for you or not. Why keep going back to the ones who DON’T work for you?
We all have have a limited time allotted to us. Wouldn’t this time be better spent watching a film you actually WANTED to watch, from a filmmaker you ACTUALLY like?
Unlike me, you guys have a choice — you don’t have to see ALL films. Which is what baffles me.
Why put yourself through this?
As I said, this is a genuine question. I have never understood this phenomenon.
It is called family obligation (read earning brownie points from begum). When you are in front of TV and deciding what to watch, sometimes it is OK to knowingly go for a movie from which you have little expectations.
Actually after Guru I have avoided practically all movies of MR. I have not seen Ravanana, Kadal, Kaatru Veliyidai and may be other movies he made. Saw OKK with begum and disliked it too, but not as much as CCV.
Same thing happens when you are on a long flight and in-flight entertainment allows you to pick movies like Race-2.
(read earning brownie points from begum).
Er, if you watched a movie with her to earn brownie points, and then spent the next lifetime calling it silly/ over-rated shit, etc. wouldn’t those brownie points soon slide into the negative?
As BR says, there are certain film-makers whose work my husband doesn’t like. He appreciates SLB’s operatic aesthetic for instance, but he would much prefer ‘for a dentist to be drilling’ than actually watch his films. So I go for those movies with friends, or alone. If he were to come with me to earn brownie points and then condemned the films (and by extension, my tastes in film watching), we would return home to the mother of all wars.
BR is on target here – don’t watch a movie you don’t like; don’t watch movies by film-makers you think silly or over-rated. Just don’t rain on our parade. 🙂
Disclaimer: General ‘you’ here. Only the initial para is my direct response to Dude. The rest is just riffing off BR’s comment.
Not with her. At the end I just say whether I liked it or not and move on. We never fight about movies. Cmon movies are the last thing to fight on.
The flames are reserved for this blog where it is more likely to be appreciated 🙂
Other movies I have seen for brownie points
1- Dil to Pagal hai
2 -My best friend’s wedding
3- Jab We Met
Needless to say, hated all three of them.
MANK- Re.-The split affected Salim Khan severely. Apart from Naam, nothing he wrote worked,
True, however Naam was such a well written film, Akeyla was also good but bombed unfortunately.
Aside- he dot really mad at Bachchan when Bachchan credited getting the role of Jai in Sholay to Dharmendra. Salim was like- AB is being dishonest , and it was actually S-J who convinced Ramesh Sippy to take Bachchan.
“80s was an era when Tamil movies were clearly better than Hindi movies. ” – No argument there as far as the mainstream head to head goes. Even late 90s Hindi wasn’t too great. As in the 80s, the impetus came more from left field, with films like Satya or Nihalani’s Thakshak. Sarfarosh was taut and overall well made but not until DCH did I think Bollywood was going somewhere where Tamil wasn’t. Even today, it’s largely only these ‘multiplex’ films that are well made (or better than Tamil); as others have pointed out, the commercial action films of today in Hindi are terrible. And I would not say the multiplex films are necessarily better than small budget Tamil treats like OAK or even a kinda middle budget film like Theeran Adhigaram Ondru. The problem in Bollywood right now is action has been left completely to the big star projects (usually starring Salman or Tiger). Only John Abraham is trying and he is hedging his bets by connecting it to some modern history event of India that the public would remember (Madras Cafe, Parmanu).
TambiDude: Aiyo, Dil Toh Pagal Hai must have been really awful to get through. Hated it even at the time. On the other hand, I could tolerate My Best Friend’s Wedding and do like JWM. I know lot of people were turned off by Kareena’s vaayali act in the first half though.
The problem with tam movies is that the scope for experimentation is very less. They are force to add elements to ensure BO success.
You mentioned Theeran Adhigaram Ondru. It had so many useless masala ingredients. I absolutely hated the so called love scenes between Rakul Preeti and Karthi with all those maama maama songs [seriously are they encourage Consanguineous marriage ]. Highly irritating. It diluted otherwise tight script. Now compare this with A Wednesday, or Manorama 6 feet under.
In Hey Ram Kamal tried to eliminate all BO requirement of tamil movies and he learned his lesson.
However I love tam movies in one aspect. They make rural or semi urban movies much better than Hindi. In Hindi , a good movie has to be highly urbanized (exceptions are there like Gangs of Wasseypur, Barelli Ki Barfi). In Tam, Paruthi Veeran, Subramania Puram, Visaranai etc has shown that you don’t need urban themes like DCH to make a good movie.
Lastly, as Kamal pointed out in an interview, the whole concept of acting in Hindi movies has seen incredible improvement and tam movies can learn from them.
I never thought a day will come when I will enjoy acting by Dharamendara, as he did in Johnny Gaddar.
Rocky, the villain in Akayla was terrible.there was also problem with Bachchans characterisation , a mixture of drunken tragic lover and masala hero. It didn’t help that Ramesh sippy too had lost his touch by that time
Salim sahab didn’t have to make such a big issue of Bachchans comment. He has always given due credit to Salim Javed for the contribution to his career. If he thinks Dharmendra had something to do with him getting that role then there must be
Madan, that’s very true about Hindi multiplex cinema. Apart from an Andhadhun here and there, they just make safe comfortable films. Badhai ho, sui dhaaga that doesn’t disturb the audience too much. Tamil cinema has the dark myshkin films, vetrimaran films, there are now good urban crime thrillers being made like D16 or iravukku ayiram kangal. There are the big budget and middle budget masala films. You never get to see an unusual B masala film like thimiru pudichavan in Hindi.Tamil cinema is much more interesting and versatile than Hindi cinema today
Movie viewing is very subjective. So, we need to be a little careful and say ‘I did not like it.” or “I think…” instead of “It is a bad movie”. (This is specifically to Tambi Dude. and generally note to self)
While on Masala movies, Hum is one of my favorites – I watched it on TV though and still can watch it when it comes on – love the scene where Amitabh brings his brothers home from the bar and admonishes them for fighting, and his brothers tell him that he will not understand because he never gets angry and never fights.
I am sure it is not all original – but frankly, movies are make believe, and I will use BR’s arguments here (sorry BR): if it can make me believe in what happened, all for it.
Not going into Hindi movie maturity etc here, there are many more readers who know it better than me, though sometimes I think the region we belong to in India matters in how we view movies.
Btw, watched Thugs of Hindostan yesterday – weekday matinee show in a hall in US – husband and I had the whole auditorium to ourselves, so that worked out great. As for the movie – some parts worked for me, some didn’t, more details later.
MANK/Anu/Rocky/An Jo: thanks for making me watch it.
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Thank you MANK for a wonderfully engaged reading of Thugs. This is particularly creditable in our times when many critics are finding it difficult to enter or even recognize the world that directors are making for their audience.
I think a song of the film (Suraiyya) could provide a clue to your question – why thugs and not thug? In that song, it’s clear that the East India Company (EIC) and its officials are thugs too. As you know, the EIC is known as the world’s first multinational corporation – ergo the corporation is a thug. This has resonance in our times and is also in tune with the director’s depiction of banks in Dhoom 3 and the political thrust of many masala films of the 70s and 80s that you have listed.
There is of course a delicious irony in all of this. The producers of this film, YRF, is a big media corporation that hiked ticket prices for the viewers to enjoy the game of one -upmanship with the first corporation.
Apu: we need to be a little careful and say ‘I did not like it.” or “I think…” instead of “It is a bad movie”.
But this generally understood, no? I always tell people to mentally add two words before every line in my review: “I think” – this is MY review, these are MY thoughts, not some oracular pronouncement.
You could even go further and add: “I think, at this point, after this viewing…”
For a year later, I may view the film very differently. So “I think” you can apply this rule to the comments too 🙂
If he thinks Dharmendra had something to do with him getting that role then there must be
MANK, true. Because Amitabh personally approached Dharmendra and begged him to recommend him. The initial choice was Shatrughan Sinha. Dharmendra has gone on record to state that Shatru was very miffed with him (they were good friends) but he had promised Amitabh that he would. And so the die was cast.
I’m sure Salim-Javed had recommended him too but it was Dharam paaji’s recthat tipped the scales.
It was Prakash Mehra who took SJ’s word and cast AB for Zanjeer.They had seen him in the fight scene in Bombay to Goa and were impressed.
AB has always credited SJ for making him the ‘Angry Young Man’. So I don’t know what Salim’s beef with him is. He has also credited Mehmood for giving him Bombay to Goa (AB was friends with Mehmood ‘s younger brother), Dharmendra for helping him get Sholay, Hrishida for giving him the roles he did, and Yash Chopra for helping him in the dark days after the ABCL debacle.
This is a terrific piece MANK. Do not have anything specific to say because I haven’t watched Thugs. But I think as someone who saw a lot of movies in the 80s , would like to defend the masala offerings of that period. There were many legit good film makers -will name a few like Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul Rawail, Subhash Ghai, Bapu etc. who made quite wholesome and sophisticated masala fare – we can call it restaurant level stuff. But I think even the street food level masala stuff served by people like Anil Sharma (Hukumat,Elaan-E-Jung,Tahalka), Umesh Mehra (Ashanti – my favorite, Kasam, Mujrim), Arjun Hingorani (Katilon Ke Kaatil,Karishma Kudrat Kaa) was highly enjoyable. The latter category i think deserves to be written about more so as to make them accessible to a newer generation of cinema goers.
Also, if you compare the acting chops of the 80s stars like Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Sunny, Mithun even Sanjay Dutt, i think the khans and the newer actors do not match up.
I think the thing about Masala is that it has to evolve with the persona of the leading men. All three leading stars of the 90s – the Khans, did not start off in characters that would fit easily in 80s single screen masala fare. its only in the latter half of their careers have they pivoted. If we can get a good star who can do masala well then it will make a come back. Mohit Ahlawat in James was promising but presumably he lost interest in movies. The vacuum was filled by a different kind of masala by Aadi chopra and k jo stable of film makers.
@Tambi Dude: A Wednesday was a very focused film but many Hindi films aren’t. And most of the momentum of the mid-late noughties phase has been lost. Year after year multiplex films become tamer and tamer even as Tamil films get better. You might possibly compare TAO unfavourably to Wednesday but Wednesday itself is no match for films like Anjaathey or OAK. I don’t see that kind of technique or audacity at all; as MANK says, multiplex films increasingly slot into a comforting, urbane mileu. This is also the part I liked about TAO in spite of those masala elements; that it shows the fringe elements of society, far from metropolitan safe spaces. Films like Satya did this once in Hindi cinema. But those days are gone. Only the Kahaani franchise holds promise but the second wasn’t as good as the first Kahaani movie either.
Thanks everyone again. Honestly I was concerned while writing this, whether it would connect . I am glad that a lot of people got it
Apu, yes there is lots of it that doesn’t work and this piece is no way to justify the quality of the final output. Acharya and Aamir are great masala cinephiles and they have created the world of this film with lots of love and respect . This piece is basically to acknowledge that.it goes without saying that Acharya is not as good a director as a masala movie lover he is
Anu, there never has been more generous superstar than Bachchan in acknowledging the contributions made by his fellow artists , in front or behind the camera, in his success. He still says that Deewaar is the greatest script ever written and it would have been successful irrespective of who played the character of Vijay, which of course is not true. But that’s how he looks at these things. I think that Salim Khan has some other beef with him. We never hear Javed Akthar complain about it
I think filmmakers are basically film lovers, who get up and start doing something about it.
If you read about most celebrated American filmmakers of recent decades like Scorsese, Tarantino, Nolan – you’ll find that they are passionate film lovers and can speak film history and anecdotes for hours.
I remember Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra saying in an interview that he could only understand what screenplay is after working 5 years in the industry including Aks. I feel that’s a truly humble statement to make, and shows filmmaking is a learning process.
It’s just that some filmmakers are more adept and gifted than others. But irrespective, a film lover will find a way to tell his next story.
If Acharya loves films, he will find his language. And I think ToH is a film where he seems to be finding his voice, but may require a little more flair and confidence. What’s unfortunate is that the film will be perceived as his ‘biggest disaster’. So I think his challenge would be to make his next film of his choice, and the way he wants to.
On the other hand, as an admirer, I’m really curious how Aamir will ‘bounce back’. After Mela, he gave us Lagaan. Post Mangal Pandey, he came back with Rang De Basanti. Both benchmarks.
@Madan, may I know what are OAK and TAO? Thanks
Rahul, what was great about those 80s actors that you mentioned, better actors or not, they had an effortless machoness, an unadulterated masculinity to them. That would help them ace those larger than life masala film roles. This is a quality that’s missing in today’s actors. They are all such girly men. Apart from Ranveer Singh, the rest like Varun dhawan or tiger Shroff has built mountains of muscle, but absolutely nothing masculine about them, they look rather weird. Compare them with someone like Anil Kapoor,. Who didn’t have a muscular body, in films like tezaab,awaargi or Meri Jung, you see the difference. That was one issue I had with Ranbirs potrayal of Sanjay dutt, Dutt for all his boyishness possessed a masculinity which was beyond his muscles. Ranbir could never put it across in his performance.
munis syed , I don’t know if acharya will get another chance, after this big a failure. But he should immediately move out of the Yashraj fold and try an make a smaller film to fully find his voice. Like Sriram ragavan did with badlapur after Agent vinod debacle
Btw what happened to our great Aamir Khan fan sanjana?. She has not been seen since the release of things. Hope the failure of this film hasn’t disappointed her enough to quit commenting
munis syed: If Acharya loves films, he will find his language.
It’s clear he loves cinema, but that’s not the same as writing and directing. Tarantino doesn’t just love older/niche cinema — he channels that love into terrific writing and great directing, while still retaining a “voice.”
So far, VKA has shown he can do winks and nods and references — but he needs to learn to channel these elements into writing first (or hand over these references to another writer to do the job). Otherwise, we are left with just an empty homage.
Enigma: TAO = Theeran Adhigaram Ondru. OAK = Onaiyum Aatukuttiyum.
MANK: Fully agree that the heroes of the 80s had a natural masculinity which I certainly cannot find in today’s heroes barring Ranveer. And I do think it changed with the Khans. Salman eventually found a masculine masala tone but in the 90s he did more romantic films and had a large female fan following. This happened in my 10th standard coaching class. The prof said he had seen Mission Kashmir and found it disappointing. All the girls rejoiced. Reason being they were Salman fans and resented Hrithik stealing pretty much everybody’s thunder with KNPH. Hrithik again has a great physique but looks too maasoom and nadan. None of the ruggedness of Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff or Sanjay Dutt.
And how can I forget Sunny paji while talking of masculine heroes? That scene in Gadar where he just roars angrily and the Pak soldiers beat a retreat. Yappa!!! 😀
MANK, totally agree with you about today’s heroes lacking that inherent masculinity. Today’s stars are boys masquerading as men.
I think the ‘metrosexual man’ sort of became popular with SRK. I mean, which other star until then would have dived into a bathtub filled with rose petals and come out shining?
I really don’t mind the fitness fad. It is the steroid-pumped muscles that make me want to hurl. That’s why people like Akshay Kumar / Milind Soman are still attractive. Fit without being the Hulk.
A friend and I were recently rewatching Kala Sona (which is great entertainment – really! 🙂 ) and realising that Feroz Khan and Danny Denzongpa didn’t need gym-toned musculature to be macho. Neither did Bachchan or Vinod Khanna or Dharmendra. Or go back even further – Dev/Dilip/Raj were all Men.
“Year after year multiplex films become tamer and tamer even as Tamil films get better”
“but Wednesday itself is no match for films like Anjaathey or OAK.”
I fail to see your point. They are not of the same genre . I will not say Satya is a better movie than say Aanand. Also keep in mind, the “art” movies has pushed the envelope decades back. For example Drohkaal was superb.
BTW I have noticed that every Hindi movie Kamal made into tamil, was worse
Arjun->Satya
Drohkaal->Kuruthipunal
A Wednesday->UPO
The last one was murdered in the tamil version just to play to the gallery. In the Hindi version the relationship between the CM and Commissioner of Police (AKher) was shown to be professional. In tamil there was unnecessary ego wars between Mohalal (Comm) and Lakshmi (CS). Why this unnecessary drama?
A tam friend cynically told me “illata cinema odadu” (otherwise the movie won’t run).
@Tambidude – disagree about Drohkaal being better than Kuruthipunal. I thought Kuruthipunal was better, especially the action set peices and the performance of Kamal and Nassar.
Madan, sunny paaji is the quintessential 80s actor. Intense, a little gawky, very masculine and couldn’t dance to save his life. Which is the reason why he couldn’t hold on by late 90s. Gadar was a massive fluke. Post that, his career went down pretty quickly. He was perfect for those JP dutta Rahul rawail and Rajkumar santhoshi films, but once NRI movies became the norm, he couldn’t adapt
Anu, ah kala Sona, that’s the first feroze Khan film is saw. It was shown on TV. He was like the ultimate macho Man, the man’s man. He was a very solid masala film maker as well. He was making these Hollywoodish masala films which were very slick. Dharmatma, jaanbaaz and of course his most successful qurbaani.those movies had such terrific music.
Yeah Shahrukhkhan was the first to go the metro sexual way, which is very ironic. Because he was the most unconventional looking of the 3 Khan’s, he was also doing more unconventional movies than the others. He was the most theatrically trained of all the 90s actors. I think Karan johar and co had a big hand in metrosexualising Shahrukhkhan. How Aamir Khan became the most versatile performer inspite of his chocolate looks and how an unconventional looking and theatrically trained Shahrukhkhan managed to type himself as a romantic hero will remain the big irony of our times
MANK, I partially agree with you . I think projecting on screen masculinity is also a part of acting . For example , there is not much inherently masculine about Amitabh. If you pass him on the street, you would not probably look back. He was tall and gangly , but he actually came to typify the angry young man archetype.
Also, these macho 80s stars we speak of, taking an example of Sunny, he could look vulnerable in his love stories and could shout at the top of his lungs in action.
I cannot place my finger on where these newer guys are lacking – maybe its also about a different universe that the older stars evoke.
“I fail to see your point. They are not of the same genre .” – That being my point too. No more are TAO and Wednesday of the same genre. Wednesday struck a chord with audiences and did way better than it should have for a film with its cast, otherwise it’s nowhere as mainstream as TAO. On the other hand, mainstream crime thrillers in Bollywood are not generally as good. Again, a Kahaani franchise might be at a different level but these successes only seem to happen through serendipity in Bollywood.
I think VKA is getting some unnecessary flak for TOH . We all know that Aamir gets the all the credit if the movie is a hit ( even rumors of him ghost directing ), then why VKA alone is being thrown under the bus here.
Trial shows bhee hue hongey, why did AB or AK or AC not speak up then ?
You may have a point. I don’t recollect seeing a mainstream good thriller in Hindi in a long time, with the possible exception of Talash and Kahani-1. Not seen Kahani-2.
@Rocky – ah, they didn’t have trial shows for ToH, did they? Also, I don’t think that other than on this blog, VKA is getting thrown under the bus. If you look at social media, the one taking the most heat is Aamir. It is he who is being asked about his much-vaunted script sense. It’s he who’s shouldering the blame for the film’s fate. Because it was always pegged as an ‘Aamir film’. And the hate has been directed at him.
Re: his ghost directing. This is one of the myths that will never die, no matter how many directors go on record to say that he is absolutely non-interfering once he’s on set. All his discussions are during script readings or rehearsals.
Even for films he produces, and for first-time directors like for Secret Superstar – the directors have gone on record to say that Aamir never even showed up on sets when he was not shooting. Nitesh Tiwari after Dangal, Rajkumar Hirani after Three Idiots, every single co-star from Madhavan and Siddharth to Fatima Sana Sheikh and Sanya Malhotra have said the same thing.
The man gets pilloried for being interested in the film as a whole. And that’s rather unfair.
FWIW, he’s also foregone his profit-sharing from ToH, which basically means he doesn’t get paid. Because he doesn’t take any money beforehand. His fees are a percentage of the profits.
And before anyone tells me that ToH didn’t make any profits and that’s why he can forego the money – YRF made its money alright. From overseas and the Chinese market – the rights have been sold for 2 billion. (Last I heard.) It’s the distributors who have lost money.
Tambi Dude: Kahaani 2 is worth a watch if you liked the first one. Not as good as the first but still good.
@MANK – don’t forget that Aamir has done pretty unconventional roles too; <>Raakh was released the same year as QSQT. And honestly, Aamir’s negative roles have been darker than SRK’s.
In Baazigar SRK walked away with audience sympathy even after he’s shown to be a psychopath.
In Darr too, the audience sympathy was with him; why do you think Sunny Deol never worked with SRK again? Interestingly, the first choice for that role was Aamir; he refused to sign because YRF wouldn’t give him a joint narration with Sunny.
And in Anjaam, by the time Madhuri finished with her revenge, the audience sympathy had turned firmly to SRK. My MIL was like, ‘Oh he’s repented, why can’t she forgive him? Women shouldn’t be so angry!’ head to desk This, when SRK’s character murdered Madhuri’s husband, framed her for murder, she suffers a miscarriage, etc., etc., etc. Ugh!
I’d to remind her that had Ranjeet been in that role, she would have gladly helped Madhuri kill him.
Whereas have you seen Aamir in 1947 Earth as the ice candy man? Do you remember that scene where he reveals Nandita Das’s presence to the mob outside, so they can assault her? How he coolly walks off from the scene when the mob rush the house? The look on his face still haunts me. There was no backstory about mad mothers, or deprived childhoods to excuse his behaviour. Aamir’s character is a jealous, vindictive man.
I really feel sorry about the Chopra-and-Joharisation of SRK. He’s an immensely talented actor who has become the ‘madari’s monkey’ as he once characterised himself.
Rocky, I don’t know what changes they could have made. They couldn’t have rewritten and reshoot the post interval portions or recast Fatima , which are the weakest points in the film.its a very big film that cannot be changed with few edits here and there.
Again Aamir was not wrong in doing the film. He did his work in the conception stage. It did not fully translate to screen. Secondly this wasn’t his production. Aditya Chopras Hollywood style franchise ambitions were much damaging to the film.
Anu, agreed about Earth. That was an extraordinary performance by Aamir. When it was shown in foreign film festivals, he was even compared to Al Pacino
Then again that’s my point. It should have been SRK doing these films and Aamir who should have been stuck in DDLJ kind of films. All credit to Aamirs courage and convictions. Not doing Darr and breaking away from Yashraj was the best thing he did.he turned his back on big banners and big filmmakers and started working with new filmmakers and different subjects. Which star would turn down offers from Yash Chopra and Subhash ghai and back a flop director like ashutosh gowarikar or a new director like John Mathew .both Sarfarosh and lagaan became milestones in his career. He started the process of doing one film at a time when actors where doing 10 Films or more
Satyameva Jayate also had the ingredients of the old masala movies but that movie took itself too seriously. It lack the vision and the right writer-director.
My take on ‘Thugs of Hindostan’:
https://m.rediff.com/movies/column/did-thugs-of-hindostan-deserve-the-flak/20181126.htm
Great writeup by MANK. It was a revelation for me to see those hidden meanings. Good support by Anu and An Jo.
Satyameva Jayate went overboard with the violence. it had some solid masala moments though.
Rohit, when did you start writing in rediff?
Aaah, there you are Sanjana. i was wondering what happened to you. Its been a long absence particularly with an Aamir release . and Thanks
Rohit : Superb review !
“No logic, you’re out too — the British officers would rather slog it out in an acquired tongue than speak in English.”
Just like Indians who would rather slog it out in an acquired accent than speak comfortably in own language or in an Indian accented English.
This applies mainly to NRI who make an effort to acquire local accent because of low tolerance of Americans/Canadians for foreign accent. They call it “thick accent” and it is a pejorative. At my work place, we have consultants from a neighboring state of TN and their communication skill is something which my American colleagues find it hard to understand. I won’t blame them if they make an attempt to acquire American accent.
As for Indian accented English, that is frowned upon even in India and is usually an object of ridicule. Remember the good ol days of Doordarshan news. All English newsreader had non-indian accent. Sasi Kumar, P C Ramakrishna etc.
In other words, it is our own inferiority complex which is forcing us to do this. Add to it, west has its own double standards when it comes to accents. Australians, Britishers have “thick” accent too, but they are not ridiculed to the same extent like accent of Apu.
In India false american accents are ridiculed more than Indian english accents. For example Priyanka Chopra’s. Apu is a north Indian character as far as I know.
True, but why are Indians even ridiculing indian accent
‘True, but why are Indians even ridiculing indian accent’
Because some accents are too thick. Difference between vernacular school education and top English Medium school education.
All English newsreader had non-indian accent. Sasi Kumar, P C Ramakrishna etc.
That’s not true. People like Sasi Kumar, Komal GB Singh, Salma Sultan, Tejeshwar Singh, Geetanjali Iyer, Rini Simon, Neeti Raveendran, Meenu, et al spoke perfectly decent Indian English. The difference was that they all followed received pronunciation and it was absolutely fantastic to listen to 30 minutes of excellent English. None of them affected accents.
Re: NRIs in America. There are plenty of us who haven’t changed our accents to suit American ears. I’ve lived here 20 years now, and my accent is the same as it was (and so say my family and friends in India). So is my husband’s. We are not unique.
I think – and this solely a guess on my part – that if you thought/spoke in English when you were in India, you tended to keep the same accent throughout. Whereas if you were more inclined to speak in your mother tongue or a regional language except when necessary in India, you are more likely to pick up an accent when you come to the US. (I am not talking about people who develop an American accent the minute they step into the US embassy for their visas.)
While I can – and do – code switch when necessary, I find it rather odd to deliberately change my accent to a put-on one. (Again, not talking about people who come here to do their undergrad; it’s very easy to pick up accents when you’re young – my son is full-on American with his friends, and not so much with us.) There really isn’t a unique ‘American’ accent either; a Southerner will speak differently from a North-East American; a person in the mid-west has a completely different accent. And if they can deal with English accents and French ones, and East European ones (none of whom change to become ‘American’) I don’t see why we should either.
I’m perfectly fine with my Indian accent. I do tend to follow received pronunciation myself, but that I did while I was in India as well.
Indians living in India don’t ridicule Indian accents. It may be specific words like say zero which Malayalis and North Indians murder in different ways. That’s different though. That’s wrong pronunciation, not accent.
“hat’s not true. People like Sasi Kumar, Komal GB Singh, Salma Sultan, Tejeshwar Singh, Geetanjali Iyer, Rini Simon, Neeti Raveendran, Meenu, et al spoke perfectly decent Indian English. ”
You are right. I should have called it convent school accent. Non Indian accent gave a wrong impression of fake firang accent like that of Priyanka.
As you grew up in India, you must be aware of a clear difference in English spoken by those who studied in Govt schools (including Kendriya Vidayala) vs DPS, Modern School type.
Madan: What matters is, someone with a non-convent school accent has a higher bar at work. When a job description demands “excellent communication skills required”, it is a code word for “non convent school type need not apply”.
In my college hostel , they were called HMT (Hindi Medium Type).
The whole concept of group discussion in IIM and other MBA colleges is to filter out those who are not good in English. Is it a coincidence that I am yet to meet one MBA from a reputed college who speaks English with a lousy accent.
When simple laughing becomes laefing, I feel like baenging my haede.
The accents maybe due to genetic factors and mouth and tongue coordination in different races. An Indian will be self conscious at first when he or she tries to get this accent due to job requirements. When he or she uses this strange accent(strange because it lacks a certain naturalness) with his or her Indian friends in India, he or she may get some sniggers.
One can understand(for example) Bachchan’s english perfectly because it still sounds Indian inspite of its sophistication.
Non Indian accent gave a wrong impression of fake firang accent like that of Priyanka.
LOL, Priyanka is the gold standard for fake firangi accent 🙂
Britishers talking to each other in hindi was not the problem. the issue was that it wasn’t fun. Like our good old Bob christo saying, hum hindustani ko tabahi kar dega 🙂
Helen, Bob, Tom alter,Hercules,the dude who played Zebisco in AAA…….. they were an integral part of our masala cinema
People like Sasi Kumar, Komal GB Singh, Selma Sultan, Tejeshwar Singh, Geetanjali Iyer, Rini Simon, Neeti Raveendran, Meenu, et al spoke perfectly decent Indian English
Jeez Anu, that took me back to another time. As a kid i was most intrigued by the rose on Selma sultan’s hair. Meenu was my favorite of them all.Maybe because she looked exactly like My favorite second std class teacher 🙂
Mank Chetta,
What a fantastic write-up, isliye toh hum aapke fan hain.
It has sparked an interesting discussion. I still think ‘masala films’ can be relevant but it is in dire need of reinvention. The principles and tropes can be familiar but they to offer a fresher perspective atleast in terms of the form to be more relevant to the younger audience. In that sense, Gangs of wasseypur was probably the last great masala film in hindi.
shukriya fan bhai. aapki tareef hamari himmat badati hi
masala film culture has to be preserved. its our indigenous cinema, like western is for American cinema, wuxia is for chinese. its a combination of masala and star system that has stopped hollywood from making inroads into our film industries. the hollywood films for all their technical wizardry are cold films, emotionless, while ours burn with emotion . of course , we have to adapt masala for our times. another major issue is the high ticket prices. the real connoisseurs of masala are not the upper class multiplex audience but who belong more to the lower strata of the society. film viewing has become unaffordable for them. one of the main reasons why thugs folded so quickly was the high ticket prices charged by YRF
Btw, Gangs was not a masala film, it was a film that critiques masala films, as is evident from the final speech given by Tigmanshu dhulia about hindi cinema screwing the brains of every youngster in the heartland, making him beleive he is a hero in a film.. Anurag Kashyap is the typical Hollywood film guy who looks down upon masala films. RGV on the other hand is a great lover of masala cinema. even though he re mixes masala tropes with hollywood narrative techniques in his films. i enjoyed both GOW films though
Tambi Dude : I will have to know which region, which field you are referring to, to corroborate it. In Mumbai I have not encountered this accent snobbery and there are people at high levels who still have an accent. I have a mild Tamil accent myself. In fields like manufacturing, finance and law or even more ‘blue collar’ services like oil drilling, there isn’t much accent snobbery (if anything, even bad English is tolerated if the person has good technical skills). In marketing and advertising, yeah you might encounter it. But that doesn’t really define all of India or even corporate India.
Anu Warrier: Right, my aunt has been living in the US since 87 or so and still doesn’t have an American accent. It’s a neutral accent basically, the one that most Indians fluent in English speak. On the other hand I haven’t yet met an American born desi who didn’t have an American accent and that’s not only fine, it’s sensible IMO.
Anurag Kashyap is the typical Hollywood film guy who looks down upon masala films.
This, I don’t agree with, MANK. Kashyap’s sensibilities are more European than Hollywood. And he doesn’t hate masala cinema at all. He still counts himself a big Bachchan fan.
It’s just that with his sensibilities he finds it hard to integrate regular masala tropes into his films. But he does reference them — quite ingeniously where he can. GoW is full of such referencing. And so is a film like Manmarziyan.
He does have a certain kind of aesthetic which is at odds with regular masala cinema — but whenever he references it in his films, he does so lovingly. Not in the kind of mocking tone adopted by the likes of Farah Khan who seems to both love and hate masala at the same time. I have severe reservations with the latter approach.
Viktor is also a big adherent of masala cinema but in trying to update its registers he indulges in a lot of winking. This self-awareness displayed, especially in a film like Tashan, robs the narrative of a strong emotional core. That’s been his problem all along.
This is a comment on ToH I wrote elsewhere
Now that I’ve had some more time to think about ToH, I’ll jot down a few more thoughts on the debacle.
1) The problem with Viktor isn’t about his intentions. On paper, this sounds like a real fun project. The problem lies with his incompetence – as An Jo has pointed out (also NyKavi), he knew what he was attempting; he did not misuse Bachchan’s presence in the film at all. And Bachchan isn’t just another character in the film. There is a justified, albeit misguided, attempt to recapture his past glory; to relive some of his most iconic moments in this film – but, and this is a big but, it’s quite a superficial exercise. The gesturality does ring hollow because there is no strong emotional core behind it. Khudabaksh, at best, is a mighty and glorified presence – there is nothing else beyond that. With all due respect to Baahubali, you don’t sign up Amitabh Bachchan to play Katappa’s role – and then try to relive his past through some signature moments. That does sound as hollow as it appears hollow on screen. I agree there are financial considerations and Bachchan isn’t the Box Office draw he once was – but that’s all the more reason to use someone else in his place.
2) This might sound controversial but you can’t make a character like Firangi Mallah the focal point in a masala universe. Beneath the laughs and the character’s idiosyncrasies, there lies a deeply duplicitous person. One whose actions cause a loss of lives and it just makes no sense that everyone from the British to the gang of Thugs treat him with such warmth and affection. Even after he is found out, multiple number of times. This is just bad writing. In a true-blue masala universe, a character like Firangi would occupy a side hero’s role. Think Mithun Chakraborty in Ghulami. Firangi would be a very interesting side character but one doesn’t see reluctant heroes in a masala movie, let alone double-dealing ones. Of course, Firangi’s character ties in with YR’s long list of duplicitous romantic heroes (all the Rajs, be it Malhotras or Aryans), but that’s a different can of worms.
3) I agree that Aamir probably had the time of his life playing Firangi Mallah. But for some reason, he misread the scope of his character. Firangi isn’t a hero, he’s an anti-hero, much like Jack Sparrow (this is where the PoTC reference finally comes to life) but ToH is by no means a Hollywood fantasy-adventure. ToH is decidedly a masala film, warts and all, and in this universe, one simply can’t connect too much with such a character. When the stakes are set up high and the spoils include revenge and independence from the British Raj, one needs a hero as the chief character, not a buffoon. Again, this doesn’t mean Aamir has done a bad job or anything, it’s in fact the opposite, but this is contrary to the film’s own initial build up.
4) And so, ToH ends up being a massively confused film. It’s mostly about a Thug-like character (Firangi Mallah), who isn’t exactly a Thug but imbibes some of the characteristics associated with the erstwhile Thugs. However, it also tries to up the ante by attempting a revenge-fuelled melodrama, and this is where the chickens come home to roost. It’s not the first time this has happened to a Viktor film. He’s had this problem since Tashan.He doesn’t realize that his wink-and-nudge tactics creates a massive imbalance for the audience. And no one can blame them either – it’s difficult to laugh and deeply care about a serious cause at the same time.
Madan: Like your aunt, I have seen Brits retaining their British accent despite living in US for decades. I think it all depends at what age one moves to US. If it is in their 20s or later, by then the original accent is quite hardened to change.
“It’s a neutral accent basically, the one that most Indians fluent in English speak. ”
But this is not the accent I was talking about.
Another (older) comment on Kashyap, with reference to ToH & Viktor
Kashyap doesn’t make masala films though. His films are a curious mix of world cinema and native Bollywood (masala) registers. I really like his sense of humor — it’s dark, irreverent and caustically funny. And compared to others, he genuinely cares about his characters. It helps that he was a script writer before becoming a director and his directorial craft is just top-notch.
Even in Manmarziyan, there’s a scene where both Robbie and Rumi are drunk and they mouth off all the cliched Bollywood lines (Tum Nahin Samjhoge Rahul…Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and then Robbie corrects her — Rahul nahin Robbie; Gaaon Waalon is a reference to Sholay; Mukhtar Singh to Kaalia & Shehenshah). He’s not making fun of Bollywood. He’s referencing it in a way that suggests he likes these aspects of Bollywood but can’t quite fit them into his films. At least organically. But I very well understand that his films are not for everyone. He doesn’t use mainstream stars; shies away from popular (or populist) subjects and regularly tries to subvert genre tropes. His films are unsettling, first and foremost.
I’m not snob enough to look down at masala cinema while enjoying Kashyap’s brand of film-making. There’s nothing quite like a well-made masala film. Done right, it gets the heart soaring, lips smiling and one’s body ripe with emotion. Unfortunately, it’s a lost art in Bollywood. What we get is half-baked attempts with an eye on generating quick bucks. It needs a rooted director to pull it off — a breed that’s rarer than the fabled unicorn, in present day Bollywood.
@Saket: and his directorial craft is just top-notch.
I agree with almost all you say about Kashyap, but I find his direction a tad underwhelming. Because, somewhere, In. Every. Film. he loses direction (pun unintended) towards the end. He has a problem with the finishing touches – he just doesn’t know how to pull all those various strands together. The strands that he so lovingly picks apart to show us the warp and weft of his character. They remain undone and frequently, I’m left feeling, “Damn, this could have been the perfect film if…’
You haven’t felt that?
Anu Warrier: I think Saket is talking about directing and your points are about the writing.
It’s a neutral accent basically, the one that most Indians fluent in English speak.
That’s exactly it.
On the other hand I haven’t yet met an American born desi who didn’t have an American accent and that’s not only fine, it’s sensible IMO.
My sons code-switch. Their accents are totally American when they are with their friends. (My second son is US-born.) But not when they are speaking to us. My [totally invalidated] guess is that if the [Indian] parents quite naturally speak English at home along with their mother tongues, then the kids end up learning to speak neutrally. Most Indian kids I know, who have very pronounced American accents, have parents who only speak their own languages inside the house.
As you say, it’s fine – they live here. Most of them were born here. How else would they speak?
@MANK – I remember that rose! And yes, I remember Meenu – she was the weakest news anchor of that lot, though. But what I remember her for is that huge grin of hers; even when she was reading the news of a tragedy, she grinned. 🙂
Re: fake accents – I’m not too sure that Priyanka’s accent is completely fake. She studied here in the US. Coming at that crucial age where one stands out due to the colour of her skin, she must have moulded herself into fitting in where she could. Kids pick up accents very quickly. And it’s pretty darn difficult to get rid of that unless you really work hard to do so. Besides, now she’s working here (and has been for many years) – it is very easy to fall back into old patterns when that’s what she’s hearing around her.
BR, no. Even the direction – he seems to lose focus towards the end. I can’t put my finger on what it is but there seems to be the lack of a finishing touch.
@ Mank chetta, GOW was a reinvention of the ‘masala genre’ – the themes were familiar but he wasn’t interested in making it the centre of his narrative, using all the popular tropes to subvert them.
I am not sure of Kashyap’s contempt for masala films, he infact is a massive of Bachchan and has professed his admiration for films like Zanzeer and sholay.
MANK Chettan: As of now it’s just a one-off Chettaa. Have been in contact with Sreehari Chettan from Rediff since the last 2 months or so. Things just fell into place that way. Hope I’ll get to build on it
Ravishanker Sir: Thanks a lot!
sanjana, TambiDude, Anu Chechi, Madan: Not to quell what certainly is an interesting offshoot of a conversation, but 2 British officers talking in Hindi (when their plans must not be heard by locals) and Indians choosing to speak in US or Brit accented English abroad ain’t really the same thing right?
And as for the latter, it does boil down to how people want to get understood faster and better, right? Not saying that it is THE right thing to do, but doesn’t their confusion and (possible) lack of knowledge about India complicate matters too? Isn’t that why the so-called ‘uniform Indian accent’ (a misnomer especially when each Indian language has each share of unique vowels and consonants) is assumed to exist? It isn’t even like what we know as ‘General American’ right, which is considered to be derived from the TransAtlantic Dialect? And there could also be the fact that we don’t take too kindly to how people from other parts of India talk right? Certainly there should be more to the trend than all the sweeping generalisations and easy answers like ‘inferiority complex’ and ‘national pride’ suggest
but 2 British officers talking in Hindi (when their plans must not be heard by locals) and Indians choosing to speak in US or Brit accented English abroad ain’t really the same thing right?
I’m confused. Did anyone say it was the same thing? I was commenting solely on Tambi Dude’s comment, not on this post, or on your article. So was Madan.
Two, no one (so far as I’m aware) said anything about a ‘uniform Indian accent’. Madan did, however, mention a ‘neutral Indian accent’ (and I agree) which is a completely different kettle of fish.
I honestly don’t know where you’re getting that “that we don’t take too kindly to how people from other parts of India talk ” or that we were making ‘sweeping generalisations’. About what, exactly? I certainly didn’t do any such thing.
To me, English is a language like any other. I make the effort to speak it correctly. As I do any of the other languages I speak. Pronunciation, diction, all make a difference. I certainly appreciate good language skills in anyone, irrespective of the language they speak. Other than that, I don’t judge people on how they speak English – unless, of course, they are interviewing for a job as an editor. Then, yes, since excellent English is a pre-requisite, and so are editing skills (they are not mutually inclusive), it makes a difference to whether I will hire you [general you] or not.
To me, English is a language like any other. I make the effort to speak it correctly. As I do any of the other languages I speak. Pronunciation, diction, all make a difference.
yes they make a difference, the difference in not reaching a top position at MNC, IT companies or hedge fund companies. The natural indian accent you mentioned applies to those who live in cities and metropolis. In other parts of India the accent is like the girl shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp85e6gGjLA
The cynic in me thinks that many like the status quo because it is a competitive advantage in a country where too many people are chasing few jobs. The easiest way to keep millions away from competition is to ensure the “english” advantage.
He has a problem with the finishing touches – he just doesn’t know how to pull all those various strands together. The strands that he so lovingly picks apart to show us the warp and weft of his character. They remain undone and frequently, I’m left feeling, “Damn, this could have been the perfect film if…’
Apart from Bombay Velvet, which was thoroughly underwhelming, no, I didn’t really get this feeling while watching most of his films.
As BR says, perhaps it’s the writing that disappoints you. When I talk about his craft, I refer to mostly his command over the medium. His staging of scenes, his visual mastery — notice how he makes films within a budget of 3-4 crores, but they never look cheap. They are replete with great shots. When he’s making mood pieces like Raman Raghav 2.0, the lighting reflects his thinking. No one, literally no filmmaker ever, has captured Bombay as he has over a multitude of films. Think Black Friday, Raman Raghav 2.0 and more recently, Sacred Games.
The 12 minute chase sequence from Black Friday, which was part funny, part realistic, was mimicked by none other than Danny Boyle in Slumdog Millionaire.
He understands sound and economy of movement. Even when he goes full meta, like adding mysterious dancers who pop out of nowhere in Dev D, Mukkabaaz & Manmarziyan, it seems like a nice touch because they seem to gel with the flow of the story.
The overhead shot that acts as the climax for Ugly is a visual masterstroke. Nothing else needs to be spoken. And by God, that hits you hard.
I could go on and on but suffice it is to say that he is, indeed, a virtuoso filmmaker. One who knows his craft well. He also goes all out (perhaps too hard at times) to subvert genre tropes, but that’s a topic for another day.
@Saket, I like Anurag Kashyap’s films. I think he’s one of the more interesting filmmakers we have today. And I agree with most of what you said. My problem is, as I posted in response to BR, that he just doesn’t seem to know how to finish. Somewhere, he has a problem and I’m trying to tease out what it is that bothers me about his films. Why I feel, well, not totally satisfied when I walk out of his movies. Perhaps I expect more from him? I’m not sure; there are things I will forgive other filmmakers for, but not Kashyap. Does that make sense?
Tambi: One can speak the language correctly but what about our skin color, height and face? That also can be overcome by careful grooming to some extent.
Some americans are furious when they hear fake american accents by call centre employees from India and with english friendly fake names.
Ultimately it is all about race. We can blend and surrender ourselves to the culture but it is painful when they still call us those Indians.
“yes they make a difference, the difference in not reaching a top position at MNC, IT companies or hedge fund companies.”
So does it mean anyone with good English and become a CEO? It takes more than that. In fact many people are groomed for the role, which is why you don’t see people in the top management talking accented English.
We know the slights. We know the dangers. We know the realities behind surface politeness. Yet we try to be in denial and carry on for a better life.
Odiyan Gonna Be Flop
notice how he makes films within a budget of 3-4 crores, but they never look cheap.
^^ Some of the credit goes to Rajiv Ravi…But all your other points become evident when you watch Rajiv Ravi directorials — he is only able to replicate the technical aspects, as a director he is not a patch on Kashyap…Maybe it’s the opposite – Rajiv Ravi learnt to make cheap movies look polished from Kashyap…
Tambi Dude: I am going to say that perhaps your experience reflects more how MNCs in America react to Indians with a strong accent. My career isn’t a very long one but it’s been long enough to have met people from different walks of life. At hedge funds etc Gujaratis and Marwaris dominate as in other finance oriented roles. I am talking about Mumbai but it IS the financial capital. Most Gujju /Marus speak average, functional English at best and with an accent. That’s a generalisation but as a chartered accountant in Mumbai, I have met more than enough of them to understand the trend. I have also met and made acquaintances with people from IT and those from a technical background don’t exactly have awesome English again. If proficiency in English is the gateway to exciting sectors like hedge funds/IT, I wonder what I am doing in boring manufacturing. 😀 It’s the sectors that require ‘soft skills’ where there is a high emphasis on the quality of English you speak. So, if you work for consulting firms like McKinsey, BCG, Roland Berger etc then yes there a strong Indian accent is a negative. I will return to this notion of a strong accent in a bit but anyway for these firms, it is important to impress decision makers in blue chip firms (the only clients who can afford their fees), so this preference is understandable. In pure back office roles (NOT voice based call centers!), no, even if it is an MNC, the accent is not important and even faulty English will often be tolerated.
Coming to strong Indian accents, the problem is less of accent but of bad pronunciation. We do take liberties with how we pronounce words. While English even as spoken in various parts of US and UK (Some UK accents are the worst way to speak the language, no kidding) has many variations, pronunciations have to fall within a narrow band. This isn’t about accent snobbery, it’s about being understood. Plain neutral Indian accent the way DD newsreaders or Prannoy Roy speak is the best from that point of view IMO. No undue inflections, no sing song lilt like the British and no nasality like the Americans, just crystal clear albeit dry. Do you HAVE to go to a convent for that? As somebody who did not go to convent schools and who knew classmates with a perfect accent, I am going to say no. Does it help to live in the metros? Yes but it depends.
“So does it mean anyone with good English and become a CEO? It takes more than that. In fact many people are groomed for the role”
I clearly mentioned MNC and other public companies and not family run business. No one expects T Series to appoint an outsider as CEO and hence it does not matter whether Gulshan Kumar or his progenies can construct one sentence in English correctly.
” which is why you don’t see people in the top management talking accented English”
No I see them fluent in English, which begs the question. Why have we made it a requirement in the corporate world.
More than the accent , what really bothers me are the pictures on my FB wall of kids of India returned parents’ in Pune, Banglore or Mumbai dressed as Spiderman, Wonder women etc. on October 31st .
What is the option? What common language can you think of that will fit the bill? Whichever language you choose, you will need to be fluent in that if you want to succeed, no? Try speaking bad French (if that becomes the common language) and see how far you can go.
As for speaking it well, it is not only in India that there is an issue with speaking fluent English in the upper echelons. George Bernard Shaw made a pitch for it well in the middle of the last century. Here’s the clip from the movie based on his work.
Besides, why is fluency in a language (any languag?) derided? Actually, scratch that – it is only fluency in English that is always derided.
Rocky : From back in the 90s, when I grew up, Spiderman /Superman costumes were coveted by kids. So I am curious as to why it should bother you now and why you think it is a particular trait of children of India returned parents. In the early noughties, any kid whose parents could afford it was reading Harry Potter. While autowalas in Mumbai forced you to listen to Himesh Reshamiyya. Different things turn different people on.
“What is the option? What common language can you think of that will fit the bill? Whichever language you choose, you will need to be fluent in that if you want to succeed, no? ”
Why should fluency in English matter for a company like Proctor and Gamble or Hindustan Lever which sells personal hygiene products. It is impossible to find anyone there in upper management who speaks English like Narendra Modi (he speaks reasonably well, but with terrible accent). Not everyone works in the communications dept.
I have met doctors in small towns like Ambala and Shimla [ they were small towns 30 yrs ago ] who were professionally competent , but avoided talking in English as much as they could. They were just not good at it and no one cared as they were good Doctors. If self employed like them can succeed, I see no reason why it is a critical qualification in large corporations where English has least impact in the products or services they offer.
As I mentioned earlier, “English” advantage works well for certain people to keep out competition and they have no incentive to change the status quo.
Rocky: What’s wrong with celebrating Halloween in India ? What next? Ban Valentine’s day. You sound like those pissed off tamilians 25 yrs ago who were aghast at celebration of Holi in Chennai and considered it as an unwanted north indian virus to be eradicated.
Anu Warrier: It’s the fault of English itself. It’s so flexible and adaptible that it lends itself to eloquent expression even without much vocabulary. This also makes it more susceptible to populist impulses. It’s not only in India indeed, lot of Britishers dislike RP accents and in US too, posh accents are disliked by those who don’t use it.
Tambidude : My current CFO is from HUL and while he is a fluent English speaker, his Tamil accent is unmistakable. That said, I think the filtering is about IIT+IIM, not specifically English. And the vast majority of people in IIT IIM club are from a privileged background, hence have studied in English medium in good schools and are fluent in English. It is this club mentality that needs to be attacked. It’s not about whether or not people who aren’t good in English can perform well in MNCs but rather whether people not from the IIT/IIM club are really so unqualified for the job.
Just a history lesson detailing “English” Advantage. Until mid 60s, English was not only a compulsory language in IAS examination, but was also counted in overall ranking. In other words screw up in English, and either you won’t pass IAS or will be ranked low ( a virtual death sentence for career). Guess who were most happy. South Indians and specially Tam Brams. By 60s, Hindi speaking states started protesting and English was removed from the overall marks. If I am right, one had to still pass English, but it had no bearing in overall marks. The effect of that change was visible within few years when UP started sending IAS pass in large numbers. Allahabad univ was so famous that if someone was preparing for UP State Services it was considered as a come down or a desperate measure.
I remember I was talking to a retired IAS officer (tambram) who said “that was the beginning of the decline of IAS”. What arrogance.
Madan- Re.-So I am curious as to why it should bother you now and why you think it is a particular trait of children of India returned parents.
Because they dress as the Characters and go door to to door asking for treats on Halloween day , I was talking to my bhabhi who too is an India Returned attorney , she goes people give out Ghajak, Rewri, chikki too..LOL
I guess bother was the wrong word , should have used “amused”.
Tambi – relax dude, no one is talking about banning anything .# Kuch bhee!!
@Anu: any particular movie ending you have in mind?
Dude, i don’t know if you’re being purposely obtuse or you’re just beating on the same drum for effect. So a doctor (or a cobbler, or a pharmacist or ‘insert self-employed profession of your choice here) in a small town providing medical (or comparable) services in that small town is the same as a corporation that employs people from all over India?
So all the employees need only speak in their own language, and somehow they will all understand each other? You need a common language to communicate – it is up to you [general you] to decide which one to use. It will have to be one which everyone, or at least everyone understands. Which of India’s official 27 languages do you propose? Fortunately or unfortunately, English is the only common language that we have in India.
Secondly, if you’re good at your job and it is one that doesn’t require much ‘communication’, there aren’t very many companies that ask for perfect diction. Fluency, yes, but not neutral accents.
I really don’t get the ‘English is a way to keep out competition’ argument. You live in the US. Are you arguing that immigrants who come from all over the world should speak only in their own languages here? And if not, the US is ‘keeping out the competition’??
“So a doctor (or a cobbler, or a pharmacist or ‘insert self-employed profession of your choice here) in a small town providing medical (or comparable) services in that small town is the same as a corporation that employs people from all over India?”
The example I gave of a Doctor was for a reason. Here is a highly qualified field where the medium of instruction is only English. Yet because of the cultural milieu in small towns, those Doctors just do not opportunity to be fluent in English. Yet it has no impact in their success.
And a company selling sanitary napkins requires English because some mallu may be posted in Kolkata and English will be his only lifeline in office. So how will he survive outside office ?? How many people get posted in a state where local language is different. And compare that number with the number of people, who find their career screwed because they are not good in English. One has to be a
Phd in English literature to conclude that people belonging to the former is much larger than the latter and hence should be given importance.
Madan: ” And the vast majority of people in IIT IIM club are from a privileged background, hence have studied in English medium in good schools and are fluent in English. ”
IIT hardly gives importance to English as a communication and filtering criteria, but IIM and other top MBA institutions has a clever group discussion concept to weed out undesirable folks.
Guys. This discussion is coming around in circles now. If you want to continue, I will start an OTT thread. Let me know via a comment. Not allowing any more comments on this thread. Thanks.
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The Epic Thames Waterbike Ride has raised over £202,000 for Ben so far
Three automotive leaders cycled over 171 miles on the River Thames, raising over £202,000 so far for charity, Ben
The trio cycled from Thames Head to London with a fundraising target of £300,000
Water-cycling challenge has raised money to support automotive industry people going through tough times
Three automotive industry leaders have completed the Epic Thames Waterbike Ride, raising £202,000 so far for automotive industry charity, Ben, but this amount is set to keep rising.
Tim Tozer, CEO of Allianz Partners UK & Ireland; Jon Wakefield, who heads up Volvo’s Swedish national sales company and Darren Guiver, Managing Director of Group 1 Automotive, literally cycled on the River Thames from its source to London during 4th-7th July.
The challenge was over 171 miles long, with an average of around 12 hours cycled each day, with just enough time for quick comfort breaks and snacks! The challenge, which started at Thames Head in Gloucestershire, was a true test of strength, fitness and stamina from start to finish. The longest day consisted of a gruelling 13.5 hours in the saddle – from Folly Bridge in Oxford to Caversham Lock in Reading. They cycled on water alongside boats and through a total of 45 locks.
To donate: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/benilc2019
The trio cycled on water on self-propelled Schiller waterbikes until they reached the tidal Thames at Teddington, where they continued the last leg of their journey cycling on land until they reached the Thames barrier – the finish point.
On their journey, they took in many iconic sights such as Folly Bridge, Bisham Abbey, Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace, Teddington lock, the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge. A particular highlight was cycling next to the boats at Henley Royal Regatta. Using TRACKER technology fitted on their bikes, supporters were able to follow their progress in real time online.
All funds raised through this challenge will help Ben to support automotive industry people through life’s toughest challenges.
Tim Tozer said: “This was such an incredible challenge – I’m so pleased I was part of it. It really was extremely epic and we’re all exhausted now, but it was worth every moment in the saddle. We saw some incredible sights, tested ourselves physically and mentally and, most importantly, raised money for our automotive industry charity. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has donated – we couldn’t be happier!”
Darren Guiver said: “What a truly amazing event to be part of – it’s definitely something I will remember for the rest of my life! I can’t believe I’m still smiling after 171 miles in the saddle – it was completely exhausting but an unbelievable experience. Thank you so much to all who have donated and helped us along the way, we couldn’t have done this without your support.”
Jon Wakefield said: “I can’t even put into words how it felt to be part of the Epic Thames Waterbike Ride. It really was the experience of a lifetime but also the toughest thing I’ve ever done. We pushed ourselves harder than ever before to complete this and raise as much money as possible for Ben. Huge thanks to everyone who donated, your support means the world to us, to Ben and to everyone that Ben supports.”
Matt Wigginton, Business Development Director at Ben, said: “We are in complete awe of Tim, Jon and Darren for taking on such an epic challenge to raise money for Ben. Cycling on water for over 10 hours a day on one of the busiest rivers in England is extremely tough! We really appreciate the support from all at Volvo Car UK, Allianz Partners UK & Ireland and Group 1 Automotive. I would like to say a heartfelt thank you from everyone at Ben, you guys are all amazing! The next Industry Leader Challengers (for 2020) have big shoes to fill that’s for sure.”
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First look: New raised bikeway on Couch curve at Burnside bridgehead
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on November 29th, 2016 at 2:59 pm
PBOT has given riders a raise on Couch as it winds onto the Burnside Bridge.
For years now the Portland Bureau of Transportation has tried to keep people from driving into the bike lane on the Couch curve at the eastern end Burnside Bridge. They’ve used buffer stripes, reflectors with LEDs inside them, and even rumble bumps — all without much success.
The curve. Note that the vacant lot on the right will soon be a new office building.
Have they finally figured it out?
Their latest attempt is a new concrete surface that’s raised a few inches above the adjacent roadway and that looks more like a sidewalk than a vehicle lane. We reported on this back in June and took a closer look at the finished product yesterday.
This section of Couch is a high-volume bikeway (especially during morning rush-hour) that collects traffic from inner southeast and northeast neighborhoods and then feeds right into Old Town/Chinatown via the Burnside Bridge. The road cross-section includes two standard vehicle lanes along with this new bike lane (which is the standard width of about five or six feet). Due to the curves (a design that was agreed upon in order to make the lot on the northwest corner of MLK and Burnside as large as possible for development), long buses and trucks need plenty of room to maneuver (see photo below).
The raised bike lane begins right at the start of the “s” curve after Couch crosses Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Bicycle users take a gradual ramp onto the lane and there’s a mountable curb with a very slight angle between the bike lane and the standard lane. Between the bike lane and the sidewalk there’s a three-inch curb that isn’t rounded at all. The width of the bike lane isn’t wide enough for side-by-side riding and, as local urban planner Nick Falbo pointed out on Twitter last week, it’s barely wide enough for a freight delivery bike.
Before we share more feedback and images, it’s important to know the urban context at this location. The area around the Couch curve has, quite literally, grown up a lot in the past few years. In every direction there are new developments that have brought hundreds of new residential units and well over 100,000 square feet of office and retail space. That means the future demand for space on adjacent public spaces (which includes streets) will grow considerably in the years to come.
It seems crazy to me that we have two lanes of motor vehicle traffic bisecting a thriving new neighborhood in our central city; but I digress.
The good news is that the raised bike lane and all the development have already slowed road users down. That’s a natural reaction to the built environment that we hope continues.
As for the new bike lane design, it’s a nice step forward. We’d love to see physical separation, but making the bike lane a different color and texture than the other lanes and raising it up a few inches is an improvement. One puzzling thing about the design is how the mountable curb is between the standard vehicle lanes and bike lanes, instead of between the bike lane and the sidewalk. This means people on bikes who want to pass will leave the (relative) safety of the bike-only lane and enter a lane shared with motor vehicles — instead of using the sidewalk.
The issue we’ve heard a lot about since this new bike lane was installed is the big puddle that has formed where it transitions back onto the Burnside Bridge (see photo below). The puddle was still there on Monday and the people I observed left the bike lane to go around it. This puddle needs to be fixed.
Here are more photos…
Another thing to keep in mind is that there will soon be a new, carfree road that connects to the Couch curve from NE 3rd Avenue. This will create a potential conflict point where people on bicycles merge from the new road onto the existing bike lane. As with all the changes around the east side of the Burnside Bridge, we’ll be watching that closely.
Have you ridden this new raised lane? What do you think? Would you like to see more of them in the central city?
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Mixtieme November 29, 2016 at 3:11 pm
Funny thing is that on Friday my partner and I rode by by and there was a white Mercedes all beat up and stuck in the straight away of that curve, what’s supposed to become a plaza of sorts. The raised couch bike path was poured by then so this car had to have hopped the bike lane and sidewalk and launch into the soft gravel on the other side. The tow truck was having a hard time getting them out (blocking the bike lane) they were still there two hours later scratching thier heads. Rather amusing.
MaxD November 29, 2016 at 3:14 pm
The Fair-haired Dumbell project frequently closes one of the motor vehicle lanes and slows the people driving down A LOT! I think having that building there will permanently help slow drivers a little bit. I have ridden this a couple of times. It has slowed me down a bit. The raised concrete is pretty narrow. The part where it unexpectedly drops for the crosswalk then ramps right back up for a short distance is very surprising but not hard to navigate. I have not observed any people driving on the raised portion, and the adjacent traffic seems generally slower and more careful. It is not perfect, but it is a significant improvement. I would like to see the street trees planted along this section.
dan November 29, 2016 at 3:23 pm
This treatment makes it easier/more likely for cars to drive up onto the sidewalk, no? Seems less than ideal from that perspective.
rick November 29, 2016 at 5:47 pm
Yes ! Now more dangerous.
I wear many hats November 30, 2016 at 12:48 pm
Now drivers don’t have to bunny hop up to kill pedestrians. They can use the launch ramp PBOT provided. This does nothing to stop encroachment from the vehicle lanes, and it makes it more likely that people will jump the curb.
wsbob November 30, 2016 at 5:16 pm
“This treatment makes it easier/more likely for cars to drive up onto the sidewalk, no? …” dan
Yes. Definitely. Someone must have felt that a bike lane slightly elevated a couple inches above the grade of the main lane, could somehow offer a higher degree of safe road use to people riding bikes. What that higher degree of safe use is, isn’t clear from studying the photos.
One thing good the elevated and ramped bike lane does, is allow people riding to more easily get on and off this infrastructure.
Hello, Kitty November 29, 2016 at 3:37 pm
I noticed that they took space away from the bike lane to construct the mountable curb. Is the lane still a standard width?
Nick Falbo November 29, 2016 at 3:47 pm
It meets all official (NACTO, AASHTO) standards. The lane has a clear width of 5 ft, with a 1 ft mountable curb. I do wish it were wider, but it gets the job done.
Buzz November 29, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Why didn’t they build this all the way out to the buffer stripe?
From my understanding, the buffer stripe is an area that transit vehicles need to use to make the tight turn onto the bridge.
Buzz November 29, 2016 at 11:10 pm
bad road design, they knew transit vehicles would be using it.
James November 30, 2016 at 10:11 am
Do you think taking one foot of the sidewalk would have been a better approach?
Sorry, but I’m not impressed at all by this, and I’m glad it’s not on my commuting route.
joel November 29, 2016 at 4:06 pm
ive only ridden this a couple times, and again it falls into my “meh, whatever” category. doesnt really change anything about riding this section for me.
um, you mean the “thriving new neighborhood” that was built up AROUND two EXISTING lanes of motor vehicle traffic? PULEEZE, jonathan, thats a *bit* of a stretch.
“One puzzling thing about the design is how the mountable curb is between the standard vehicle lanes and bike lanes, instead of between the bike lane and the sidewalk. This means people on bikes who want to pass will leave the (relative) safety of the bike-only lane and enter a lane shared with motor vehicles — instead of using the sidewalk.”
we dont like it when cars move into the bike lane to pass, why are you suggesting that we ourselves pass by shifting onto the sidewalk? maybe, just MAYBE, we could consider NOT PASSING in a stretch of bike lane that clearly is not an ideal or safe section to be passing in? please? im flat out tired of my fellow cyclists in this town riding their bikes like they drive/drove their cars – and seeing the suggestion on bikeportland that they do just that doesnt sit well with me. (and i have words for people who pass on the curb side, and they arent acceptable here 🙂 )
or, perhaps, we could just ride through a puddle every now and again. youre not gonna melt, people. and its probably raining and youre probably already wet anyhow.
its not a perfect new bit of bike infra. it doesnt match any other infra i know of in town, its only a block or two long, and doesnt *really* solve anything – so its a perfectly portland piece of bike infra.
when puddles freeze..
Hello, Kitty November 30, 2016 at 12:10 am
Not to worry… we can just adjust the climate to avoid that problem.
Spiffy November 30, 2016 at 11:39 am
there’s going to be so much shade from all the tall buildings that the entire curve will freeze… we’ll need that lip against the sidewalk as a wheel rut to keep us from sliding out…
Beeblebrox November 29, 2016 at 6:20 pm
Well said all around! This is not a place where anyone should be passing anyone else. The curve is really tight, and it’s appropriate to expect bicyclists to travel single file.
B. Carfree November 29, 2016 at 6:47 pm
So you’re fine with squeezing bikes into a narrow space that precludes any passing while we dedicate beaucoup space and then some so cars can pass each other in this “tight” corner? I can’t say I share your perspective.
David Hampsten November 30, 2016 at 4:55 am
You can always ride in the car lanes, to pass other cyclists, if you are in a big hurry. There’s no law against that.
soren November 30, 2016 at 1:47 pm
what is a “car lane”?
Kevin November 30, 2016 at 2:07 pm
OrganicBrian December 3, 2016 at 4:10 pm
I agree with this comment, but what’s a phrase to distinuish the lanes to the left of the bike lane?
Adam H. December 3, 2016 at 4:17 pm
A lane I’d rather not cycle in because there are too many cars.
jered bogli November 30, 2016 at 7:03 pm
well…take the lane.
Spiffy November 30, 2016 at 7:19 am
“it’s appropriate to expect bicyclists to travel single file.”
no, it’s not… people are social and so our modes of transport are generally made to facilitate side-by-side travel so you can converse with your companion…
cars are 2 seats wide…
sidewalks are 2 people wide…
bike lanes should be 2 bikes wide…
The nature of bicycle movement is not single file and orderly. We should study the actual paths riders take and try to design infrastructure that accommodates it. Swarm mentality.
peejay November 30, 2016 at 10:27 am
The curve is just as tight for cars. Why does the logic not hold for them?
im flat out tired of my fellow cyclists in this town riding their bikes like …
i’m flat out tired of my fellow cyclists calling people out who do not follow their rigid personal set of “rules”. as long as someone is not endangering others what’s it to you if someone wants to pass here?
John Lascurettes November 29, 2016 at 6:38 pm
Indeed, I like to race cars through the chicane since a bike can maneuver those curves faster than they can. 🙂
SE Rider November 29, 2016 at 7:24 pm
Passing on the right on the sidewalk isn’t endangering anyone?
As long as they pass on the left, sound their bell, and leave me enough space, I have no problem with people passing me along this stretch.
sound their bell?! ha! good luck…
I walked across the Hawthorne on Monday… about 16 cyclists passed me and not a single one gave an audible warning even though they passed within a foot of me…
I don’t think people know they’re supposed to give an audible warning… whenever I’m riding across the Hawthorne, sounding my bell for every person I pass, the riders in front of me often look back and then move over thinking I’m wanting to pass them…
Passing that close, with or without an audible signal, is both rude and dangerous. Just as we want drivers to give us room, we can’t be blowing past others with inches to spare.
I always try to hug the left edge of the Hawthorne path… gives peds the most room, makes cars slow down because they’re nervous I’m so close, and allows more room on the right for fast cyclists to pass between peds…
Buzz November 30, 2016 at 11:25 am
My solution to this is to always walk facing the oncoming cyclists on the Hawthorne bridge, that way no surprises.
more often than not i do not give an audible warming because people tend to turn into the direction of sound. i scope riding style/obstacles ahead and pass.
can you explain why someone riding fully within an adjacent lane should signal a pass?
If they’re fully in an adjacent lane, they shouldn’t signal a pass. Take the car lane, and pass silently at will.
and doesnt *really* solve anything
it has largely stopped drivers from cutting into the bike lane.
joel November 29, 2016 at 10:27 pm
i havent really noticed drivers cutting into that bike lane since they buffered it with paint quite some time back.
Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) November 29, 2016 at 10:37 pm
I agree that there’s no need to pass. However I addressed that issue in the story only because I know people will pass each other. I try to represent all perspectives in my post – not just my own.
As for passing in the vehicle lane or on the sidewalk. Why do you and others assume that passing on the sidewalk would endanger people on foot? It’s completely possible to mix biking and walking as long as the bicycle rider has common courtesy, uses a bell, and is going a reasonable speed. And IMO it’s MUCH more pleasant to mix vulnerable users together than to mix vulnerable users in with motorized vehicle users.
And I do think this will be/is becoming a “thriving new neighborhood”… And having cars run through it is completely absurd to me.
A cyclist going fast enough to pass another is *probably* going too fast to ride on a sidewalk in a safe and courteous manner.
Especially in a “thriving new neighborhood”.
Even in the shadow of the Death Star.
nowhere in that post did i say/assume passing on the sidewalk would endanger people on foot. i was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the suggestion being made that cyclists move up on to the sidewalk to pass another rider, when we get all up in arms (rightly) when cars move over into the bike lane to do the same. that being said, if theyre using the sidewalk to pass someone traveling in the bike lane, id wager they arent moving at a “reasonable speed”, at least as far as sidewalk riding is concerned. and “common courtesy”? ive largely given up on expecting that from my fellow cyclists in this town.
and again, when you build a “thriving new neighborhood” up around an existing roadway that just happens to be the westbound ramp to a major bridge… well, guess what? you have cars driving through your thriving new neighborhood, and youre pretty much stuck with that. you may as well complain that the willamette flowing through the middle of portland creates a major drowning hazard.
soren December 1, 2016 at 6:15 pm
i was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of the suggestion being made that cyclists move up on to the sidewalk to pass another rider, when we get all up in arms (rightly) when cars move over into the bike lane to do the same.
sidewalks are a designated facility for people riding bikes (unless otherwise specified). a bike lane is not a designated facility for people driving.
todd boulanger November 29, 2016 at 4:39 pm
Jonathan – the best practice expectation – would be for cyclists, as bikes are vehicles, to detour into the roadway and not onto the footpath if the bikeway was obstructed…especially for low to moderate speed facilities (not highways) and what with the narrow sidewalk there.
I will have to crack open the NACTO and CROW bikeway design manuals to check the curb heights (the remaining vertical curb height seems a bit high for a curved facility and one where buses track over the bikeway (nice photo!)…
The whole problem is the “bikes are vehicles” philosophy. Because what it means is bikes are vehicles when it comes to keeping them out of footpaths, but then they magically become non-vehicles when it comes to keeping them off the streets.
Hello, Kitty November 30, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Your thinking is too Newtonian. Bikes are both a wave and a particle. Both a vehicle and a not-vehicle. Schrodinger’s bicyclist is both dead and alive.
resopmok November 30, 2016 at 1:38 pm
I nominate this for comment of the year.
I’ll both win and lose.
bikes are vehicles
this car-centric point of view justifies crappy infrastructure and its associated carnage.
My initial 2 cents (until I ride it): would be I hope the project manager adds some reflectorized raised pavement markers (RPMs) along the inside of lane line separating the cars from the bikes…just to keep drivers from straying into the bikeway what with the tight curves even with he raised pavement…
Especially if those RPM’s can be made four feet tall and composed of concrete-filled steel.
Anna G November 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm
I, too wish the city would use more RPMs especially since green paint is all but invisible in the evenings in the fall/winter months. It would be especially welcome at busy crossover junctions like Williams and Killingsworth, and bike lanes that routinely have cars driving in them such as SW Oak and Stark, RPM bike stencils would be even better…….
Eric G November 29, 2016 at 4:45 pm
The puddle needs to be fixed. Mistakes happen, and that is a definite engineering error. We’re accustomed to bad drainage, but that has zero drainage. When there is no puddle it’s a slippery glob of sediment at the end of a curve.
It looks like the puddle has formed were the County’s bridge meets the City’s new pavement – both are sloping downward to each other…meeting without a catch basin…or a gap in the expansion joint to allow the water to drain…perhaps the daily bike commuters can chime in and tell us if this was a preexisting condition or post project fault.
Mark November 29, 2016 at 8:12 pm
Post project fault.
I contacted the city about it on November 15th. They said it was a county issue. When I contacted the county, they looked into it and determined that it is indeed a city issue. The guy I was in touch with at the county did follow up and report back to me, and it sounds as if the city is at least planning to look at the issue.
so how are they going to fix the puddle? that requires drainage, the easy thing would probably just be to drill a hole in the pavement but the city and county will probably either ignore the problem as long as they can or spend thousands for some other less than perfect ‘fix’.
The traditional engineering approach to wet areas is to fill them; perhaps using landfill. Then we could sell the reclaimed land to developers for micro apartments for miniaturized people.
BradWagon November 29, 2016 at 4:46 pm
I am having a hard time figuring out why this piece of road even exists…
Why was this S Bend even created? Why not keep it how it used to be and just upgrade the turn lanes from MLK onto Burnside to still allow for streetcar? I get turning Burnside one way here and re-configuring lanes, that still could have been done too. Dead ending Couch at MLK instead of making this weird turn would have likely saved project costs and valuable land. If Couch was Left Turn Only at MLK we could still have a safe bike crossing as well.
Now we just have a headache for road users and …well, unconventional, to say the least, buildings fit into this awkward area.
Why does this exist? This is a relatively new project which resulted in the creation of the Burnside-Couch one-way couplet, where these streets were both previously two way.
This was first and foremost a project designed to enhance motor vehicle capacity, and the bike lanes were afterthoughts, which is why they suck so bad.
BradWagon November 30, 2016 at 11:36 am
Yes, I am aware of “why” it was done… I am just questioning why it was done so strangely as opposed to Couch traffic using MLK for one block then getting onto bridge. Streetcar could have easily been jogged over a lane to allow for turn lanes and the stop moved a block North.
Your proposal puts all (a considerable amount) westbound Burnside traffic onto MLK for one block. This would cause backups on both Couch and MLK, especially during peak hours. I’m no traffic engineer, but the chicane makes a lot of sense in that light.
I hear what your saying but… I’d be very skeptical that the impacts would justify the chicane. Traffic on MLK is stopped when Couch has the light regardless if they are crossing or turning left. Right turn lanes from MLK don’t have to merge with any other traffic so they could be free flowing right turn only lanes. The Couch lanes would turn left into them directly so MLK thru traffic wouldn’t be sitting in them. Save for maybe a pedestrian crossing signal this traffic would clear in the time it takes to drive the block (provided the Bridge itself isn’t completely backed up).
Very vaguely similar to Grand turn lanes onto Morrison. Or how in Spokane Division St Bridge *kind of* merges with Spokane Falls before turning to Browne (think opposite traffic direction).
Tim B November 29, 2016 at 5:01 pm
I have to agree with joel and todd on the mountable curb allowing passing on the left by merging with motorized traffic. If cyclists feel it is necessary to pass, they should only endanger themselves, not the pedestrians on the sidewalk.
the problem is that somebody has to be endangered due to the narrow design…
Not if you don’t pass… we would never have a conversation about whether it is ok for cars to use the sidewalk to pass slower drivers.
CaptainKarma November 30, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Hopefully we will see more bike freight deliveries, and as mentioned, the path is *barely* wide enough for them, so I could see the need for someone to pass in that case. Of course, yeah, people could chill for that little distance. I am sure this whole interchange will need major adjustments in the future.
fourknees November 29, 2016 at 5:01 pm
For the amount of trial and error, labor and materials costs that have been wasted at this point the city could have, on the first attempt, extended the sidewalk(same height) to the edge of the buffered lane and have been done with it. Probably with initial savings of doing it “right” the first time a barrier could have been put in between bikes and traffic too.
This “sidewalk-like” solution seemed to work well for the bike lanes on SW Moody by Tilikum crossing. Not sure why everything has to be “creative”. Simple works.
If not enough room for bus – post sign that says “Bus may use both motor vehicle lanes” so they can drive down the middle. Problem solved.
And a better solution would actually make the city look like it’s trying to accomplish vision zero……and make it easier down the road to say, hey let’s extend this protected bike lane over the burnside bridge…
PBoT would need a new stencil: a bus sharrow (a”barrow”?) for the bus to straddle the 2 lanes…
the bus can already take both lanes… it does it coming down the Sheridan/3rd/Arthor curves and on most of Hawthorne…
It is easy to drive nearly any car over this new piece. Something better is needed.
it’s tactile feedback, not protection…
but yes, a short wall and a wider bike lane is needed…
Adam H. November 29, 2016 at 5:36 pm
The mountable curb should be a straight one instead. Otherwise people can drive into the cycle track too easily. Also the cycleway should be wider. Otherwise a decent piece of infra.
not a fan (not a fan of most of the new infrastructure on my route*). the puddle at the end of the raised section (second to last picture) is going to be a deathtrap when we get freezing temps. well intentioned but poor execution!
*15th and ankeny has poor visibility and sw 2nd begs a left hook.
David Lewis November 29, 2016 at 7:06 pm
Nice to see they chamfered it so vehicles don’t dent as they slaughter cyclists in case of loss of control.
Another case of minimizing positive impact.
Champs November 29, 2016 at 9:40 pm
I came. I saw. I said “meh.” So much up-down for so little distance.
The up-and-down, combined with the mud portion at the end, makes for a nice bit of urban mountain biking. Ask, and ye shall receive!
Eric Leifsdad November 29, 2016 at 9:59 pm
Nice that they made plenty of room for cars and trucks and nothing to cause any distracted driver any dents or scraped paint. That was the main goal from the looks of it.
Adam November 29, 2016 at 10:30 pm
My thoughts on this are mixed.
While it’s certainly better than nothing, I still think it’s a mediocre solution.
Why is the striped buffer at road grade and not cycletrack grade? The raised bikepath portion feels VERY narrow on a bike, particularly because of the sharp turning radius.
I drive this section fairly often too, and I’m an exceptionally careful driver. But I worry about taking the turn too widely in a car, and clipping a cyclist. Most drivers aren’t even aware of this potential, let alone care about it.
As for a solution? My wish would have been for the entire cycletrack to be at sidewalk grade. They should have just extended the sidewalk out six feet, and delineated pedestrian (inner) and bicycle (outer) lanes. Just like they have on the Hawthorne Bridge. I feel so much safer being raised up on a curb somewhere with both high volume and high speed traffic.
I should also add, the cycletrack is obviously too narrow for passing, and because of the buffer being like four inches lower, will make it awkward and dangerous for cyclists to do so on the curve.
But despite this, I know many faster cyclists WILL be passing slower cyclists on the curve. It’s just how it is. They get stuck behind a slower person at the light on MLK, and as soon as it turns green, want/need to pass the slower riders. I’m nervous how this will play out with the cycletrack being so narrow.
Even if that lane were a foot or two wider, it would probably not afford room for a legal pass.
clarification: the Hawthorne bridge doesn’t have a bike lane, it has a shared sidewalk with a suggestion on which side each mode should stay on…
the approaches on each side have bike lanes… but once you get to the actual bridge you’re free to cycle on the metal grate if you want to take the lane… sidewalks/MUPs aren’t required side-paths…
Peter Hass November 29, 2016 at 10:51 pm
Personally, I find this new raised path unnecessary. I ride it nearly every morning and have never had a problem with the vehicles in the curve. There’s still a risk of a right hook on Grand…even with the green box and flashing yield sign. But even more concerning for me is the unprotected bike lane on both sides of the Burnside bridge. It seems like as soon as vehicles make it through the curves they gun it and drive very fast over the bridge. I don’t know how big of a safety risk it poses but It’s very uncomfortable to have speeding cars passing so close off my shoulder. I wouldn’t want one of those drivers choking on a soda! I’d love to see some improvement with that…maybe lowering the speed limit, enforcing it and/or creating physical separation like other bridges have.
“It seems like as soon as vehicles make it through the curves they gun it and drive very fast over the bridge”
25 on Couch, 15 through the curves, 35 on the bridge, 25 on Burnside…
so yes, people ARE gunning it from 15 mph to 35 mph just so they can slow down again to 25 mph…
when I’m driving over it I usually don’t go over 30 mph because it just seems like a waste…
I’ve complained to the county about their bridges all having a higher speed limit than the roads around them…
John Lascurettes November 30, 2016 at 8:35 am
35? You’re awfully nice. I regularly see drivers exceed 40 and sometimes 50 on the bridge portion of Burnside
they also drive that fast on the Morrison where the speed limit is 25…
we all know most drivers are speeding…
Eugene has one of these. Local kids horsing around get a kick out of driving their cars along the slope of the curb, up and down, up and down.
You still have to watch your back.
BradWagon November 30, 2016 at 9:03 am
Sadly, that last picture of the bus overhanging a portion of the raised cycle track with cyclists on the sidewalk speaks volumes…
Hopefully that doesn’t become a trend and Trimet drivers take the turn a bit tighter.
Zaphod November 30, 2016 at 10:09 am
I ride it most days. It’s good. And the notion of passing on the right well damn… that does create confusion at the least and danger at the most. There are many sections of road for all users that require waiting to pass. I bear witness to many a close call when people execute a pass-on-the-right on Vancouver as it passes the freeway entrance near New Seasons. You get autos abruptly braking to prevent injury/collision. Of course separated infrastructure is ideal but this raised treatment is a good one and I hope to see it utilized more.
Bob K November 30, 2016 at 11:15 am
It is all window dressing until there is a Burnside Bridge where there is more than a white stripe separating you from cars going in excess of 40MPH.
todd boulanger November 30, 2016 at 12:49 pm
Sadly PBoT (and development review) should have sought (purchased?) more street width in this curvilinear section due to the propensity of turning vehicles from encroaching into the bike lane – even if the lane is the wider of the two and the bike lane is raised. [I do not know if they tried and failed.]
Other than traffic calming this section down to 15 mph (due to safety issues with HGV and buses) perhaps PBoT will have to now drop the southern car lane and require this Couch traffic going across the Burside Bridge to jog for a block on Grand (perhaps the signalisation would change to facilitate this by clearing out this block before the Couch traffic filled it).
Ian Stude November 30, 2016 at 6:58 pm
I ride this section daily and I would strongly encourage PBOT to make the following corrections:
* Add green paint/thermaplast and bike lane symbols to the raised portion of the bike lane. If applied only to the flat portion of the lane, it would greatly improve cyclists ability to discern where the slope down to the roadway is located. Also, it would help prevent use by Uber/Lyft drivers who are frequently stopping here.
* Remove the raised section after the crosswalk and provide drainage. This last section is unnecessary, as turning vehicles are moving away from the bike lane as they accelerate out of the of the corner. The puddle mentioned in this post is a serious issue that needs to be addressed before the freezing temperatures begin. This bridge in particular gets very frosty in the morning (which will be last longer now due to the shadow of the new buildings). These conditions, combined with the right hand curve and the vertical transitions for the crosswalk create a much more dangerous experience in the winter weather than what existed previously.
Lastly, I want to echo the other statements above about the incongruity between this new treatment and the bikeway conditions that lead to it and away from it. Unless MultCo is seriously considering improvements to the bike lanes on the bridge and City of Portland is ready to provide something more than a disappearing bike lane next to 35mph traffic on downtown side of the bridge, then this seem like a misapplication of effort and resources.
bottom bracket November 30, 2016 at 11:23 pm
In the photos the raised bike lane looks dirty. Almost looks like cinders have been put on it during icy weather. They need to clean it and the street next to it.
Also, the bus bumper is actually over the bike lane as it sweeps around the curve. I’d stay as far to the right as I could when riding this section.
Mark smith December 1, 2016 at 8:33 am
Wow haters gonna hate. We should be showering pbot with thank you notes…not whining here. Pbot puts in an overengineered facility..many what do we do? Complain.
Wow. It’s no wonder things don’t get done faster.
Jeff G December 1, 2016 at 8:47 am
Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
Do you realize how ridiculous the statement that ‘having cars run though this area is completely absurd to me’ truly is? This roadway feeds onto one of three major river crossings to the central business district of a major American city. In order to accommodate new development that has sprung up around it, we should stop using one of the three crossings? I am all for improving the safety of bike transit in Portland, but that is just utter nonsense.
Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) December 1, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Keep in mind I wouldn’t think that if there weren’t options available. We have Burnside and MLK. This is essentialy an extra cut-through. I also think that we should absolutely begin to cut off auto access onto some bridges and roads in the central city. Cities work best when they are designed around people and not the use of private autos.
Skid December 1, 2016 at 6:19 pm
I think a rumble strip would work better.
The problem with raised bikeways is that they resemble sidewalks, which many ignorant motorists think we belong on.
JBC December 2, 2016 at 8:42 am
The city of Portland’s ‘separated bike facility’ policy leading to problems. The area is really too narrow for the raised facility that was created. The extra section past the pedestrian crossing is totally unnecessary, and has lead to a large puddle forming. Just wait until it gets colder and that puddle ices up. People are going to get hurt. The truth is the simple stripped bike lane worked better in this area. This project is like tryng to fit a square peg into a round hole.
alex December 3, 2016 at 1:07 am
the should really just demo the whole raised part after the crossing where the puddle is. i think that would solve most of the issues.
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The role of mucin-educated platelet activation in tumor invasiveness: An unfolding concern in the realm of cancer biology
Akbar Shoukat Ali1* and Arzoo Ajaz2
1 Senior Research Assistant, Maternal and Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
2 Pharm. D Student, Department of Pharmacy, Jinnah University for Women, Karachi 74600, Pakistan
* Corresponding author. Flat # B-107, Al-Noor Co-operative Housing Society, Block-K, North Nazimabad, Karachi 74700, Pakistan. E-mail address: akber.shoukat.ali@gmail.com (A. S. Ali).
Received: 8 May 2017
Metastasis is a complex and well-coordinated phenotypic transformation of cancer cells governed by aberrant genetic and molecular pathways. It has been approved as the most consistent cause of cancer death. With emerging insight into the genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics, progress has been made and reasonably large number of molecular pathways of metastasis has been forwarded, but our understanding of precise underlying molecular mechanisms remains largely scarce. It has been well-known for around a decade and more that platelets are intriguingly contributing to the cancer metastasis. However, it is only recently that cancer cells can activate platelets have started to become apparent. Surprisingly, platelets in response to cancer cell activation, supported by research observations, allow cancer cells to escape immune removal, prolong survival in vascular compartment, increased cellular adhesion and develop new cellular niches which eventually help to favor cancer metastasis. Although a widely acknowledged plausible explanation that cancer cells activate platelets to facilitate in their distant spread, the description of this remains to be confirmed. In recent years, mucins, heavily glycosylated peptide structure, have been introduced to be released by several types of cancer cells. They account for poor prognosis in wide array of malignancies, because of their significant ability to induce metastatic process. The mechanism responsible for their increased metastatic propensity remains uncharacterized, but recent work suggested the role of cancer expressed mucins in initiating platelet thrombus. The association of cancer yield mucins, platelets and metastasis therefore suggests a pressing need to explore novel molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets thereafter.
Key words: Mucins / Platelets / Cancer / Metastasis
© Author(s) 2017. This article is published with open access by China Medical University
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Cancer is an umbrella term used to designate a number of diseases originating from oncogenic tissues that overcome the normal cellular mechanisms by overexpressing self-renewal and resisting growth inhibiting and death promoting signals. Cancer is recognized as a chronic, non-healing wound that strikes millions of lives around the globe.[1] Based on the WHO cancer statistics, approximately 14.1 million newly diagnosed cases and 8.2 million deaths were accounted to cancer in 2012. Further, the incidence of cancer is gauged to rise exponentially by 70% over upcoming two decades.[2] The globalization of cancer is prominently the consequence of adopting cancer-enriching, modernized lifestyle patterns such as substance abuse (smoking and alcohol use), cessation of physical activity and unhealthy dietary habits (low fruit and vegetable intake).[3] The impact of cancer extends beyond the physical and psychological realms with significant financial consequences. In addition, it enormously influences the quality of life (QoL); as a consequence the behavior of cancer patients and their family member’s decisions with regard to their treatment. [4, 5]
Metastasis entails a complex cascade of cellular and molecular events that mediate cancer cells to circulate and form secondary niche within distant tissue systems through ongoing bidirectional interaction with the host microenvironment in a manner that is conducive to survival and proliferation of cancer cells. [6] The expression of necessary characteristics such as genetic and epigenetic instability, presence of cancer stem cells, immunoevasive self-defenses, positive interaction with foreign (host) microenvironments, sustained cell cycles and chemotherapeutic antagonism sets in motion the lethal phenotypic facet of cancer; metastasis.[7, 8] Metastasis contributes to nearly 90% of cancer related deaths.[9] Patients who are diagnosed with cancers that are metastatic at presentation tend to have poor outcomes; an improved understanding of this phenomenon might provide an additional prognostic marker. Furthermore, the poor outcomes for these patients emphasize the importance of deciphering biological pathways contributing to metastasis as a means for developing novel anti-metastatic therapies. Nonetheless, the underlying molecular mechanisms governing these interactions are yet to be deciphered.
Since the discovery of Trousseau’s syndrome in 1865, platelets have been extensively trialed for their potential in advancing cancer through metastasis.[10] Platelets, besides their established role in hemostasis and thrombosis, facilitate tumor invasiveness upon activation. The reciprocity of cancer cells and platelets is critical for development of cancer metastasis. Review studies supports the published evidence that thrombocytosis is directly proportional to the increased propensity of cancer cells to express metastatic behavior and poor prognosis and life expectancy among cancer patients.[11] Studies have also documented that formation of 'platelet cloak' around cancer cells to evade immune cell cytotoxic lysis is at the mercy of activated platelets. Additionally, platelet releasates carry diverse vasogenic, mitogenic and chemotactic factors that nurture the tumor growth and support metastasis.[12] Likewise, platelets have also been implicated to gather leukocytes through chemical signals at the site of platelet-cancer cell interaction, thereby mediating smooth survival of tumor in vascular compartment and penetration to distant organs. [13]
Mucins, biochemically, are abundantly glycosylated proteins of high molecular weight with defining feature of serine and threonine amino acid tandem repeats.[14] The promising physiological functions of mucins such as cellular differentiation, cellular adhesion, cellular signaling and immune regulation make them an important part of proteomics research.[15] Conversely, their deviant expression in diseased states including inflammatory and cancerous conditions has been well reported on several occasions.[16-18] Mucins expressing human carcinomas are prone to increased metastasis and foreshadow poor clinical outcomes.[19] With the major breakthrough in molecular attributes of cancer, mucins and their association with platelet activation and cancer metastasis has assembled a lot of awareness over past few years.
Cancer cells expressing abnormal cell surface molecules, specifically the altered mucin glycoproteins are remarkable for their interaction with E, L and P-selectins. Notably, selectins also carry the potential to recognize and bind the altered carbohydrate molecules expressed by cancer cells. Certainly, such associations allow cancer cells to interact with blood borne cells including endothelial cells, leukocytes and platelets and mediate their aggressive metastatic phenotype.[20-22] Previous studies have attempted to ascertain the link between the trio of mucin, platelets and metastasis.
Platelets can be activated by mucins in a selectin-dependent manner, emphasizing the importance of mucin-selectin interaction, P and L-selectins in particular. The proposed mechanism of platelet activation by mucin is indirect and facilitated by leukocytes via interaction with L-selectin. P-selectins and their role in cancer metastasis have been the subject of extensive research over the last few years with P-selectin expression demonstrated in activated platelets.[23, 24] Furthermore, the ability of P-selectins to aggregate platelets cannot be underestimated.[25-27] A literature review suggested both in vivo and in vitro interaction of platelets with cancer derived mucins reliant on P-selectin availability. In addition, the platelet-mucin interaction without external thrombin utilization is supported by in vivo observation. Experimental removal of mucin from cancer cell lines significantly reduces the strength of metastasis and studies have demonstrated that tumor cell-platelet aggregation as well as establishment of tumor metastasis was attenuated in P-selectin-deficient mice.[28] This demonstrates the crucial role of hidden molecular pathways harmonized by cancer derived mucins to augment the metastatic process. Despite these exciting strides made over the last two decades, the precise mechanism of mucin platelet interaction and their role in cancer metastasis remains to be ascertained.
Taken together, metastasis still represents the major cause of cancer related mortality. Unfortunately, the concealed molecular pathways guiding the primary tumors to invade distant organs remain to be elucidated. Mucin, until recently, is emerging as a new accessory source for cancer to unfurl their metastatic terror. Screening of tumor with metastatic constitution is a growing concern and demands aggressive measures to attenuate its negative prognostic impact on active cases. On this account, experimental analysis will be of immense value to identify the intensity and precision of mucin contribution towards metastasis and its sensitivity and specificity both as prognostic and diagnostic molecular marker. A step towards development of accurate and reliable relationship among mucin, platelets and metastasis will eventually yield unprecedented new insights into the future therapy.
Conflicts of Interest Statement
The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.
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Metamorphosis | Butterfly Wings Recap
November 5, 2019 Ravynn K. Stringfield Leave a comment
This week’s episode of Black Enough, “Butterfly Wings,” showed many of the characters in struggle– or in the words of creator Micah Ariel Watson, in metamorphosis. Amaya endeavors to find a new look that encapsulates who she is becoming; Jaheem finds that his big bro, Dre, doesn’t rock with his rapping; and Lena stumbles in her engineering classes. Even supposedly self-assured Vaughn lets Amaya in on a little secret– she’s been rejected recently, too. The poetry that provides a narrative through line in this episode is about becoming, and it is decidedly not pretty, easy, or smooth. It is difficult and complicated, and we have to believe that it will make us into something better, otherwise the process will break us.
Perspective is hard in that moment when you are flooded with sadness, anger, anxiety…all the feelings that course through “Butterfly Wings.” In the moment that Dre tells Jaheem that perhaps rapping isn’t for him, he can’t hold on to the feeling of limitlessness that he associates with music and that viewers see just moments before in a bright shot of Jaheem rapping, surrounded by greenery like a Kehinde Wiley portrait. Lena cannot find the self-assuredness she normally exudes when thinking about her path as she cries in the bathroom after class. Only Vaughn manages to find a little perspective when Amaya compliments her hoops during their check-in, and seeming to remember herself, she replies, “You’d be surprised how much power they hold.”
“Butterflies grow wings, but Black girls? We grow hoops. Gold ones.”
This episode is about growth; it’s about detaching ourselves from notions about who we believed we were and giving ourselves completely to the journey towards who we will become. It is about sitting in that hard, uncomfortable space where there is no one but ourselves and God, and being still. Then, we work to understand the power of everything that came to a head for us to be who we are in that moment. As Dr. Stephanie Crumpton says so poignantly in her interview, “your grown woman self might be like ‘I remember when I was little I wanted to take over the world’ but your grown self is the one who has to show up.” Dr. Crumpton is insistent on the battle to become– it is not magical, it is work, and one cannot forget that.
And I’m interested in that, as a scholar– how we understand, communicate and transform the battle to become. In my interview clip that’s used at the end of this episode, I discuss my interest in how we as Black people, and especially Black girls and women, take the weight, the chains, or the battles that create us and turn it into wings. I think Dr. Crumpton is absolutely right to insist on making our battle to become visible, but I want to push past this into an even more beautiful plane of existence. Where can Black girls go to become the fullest version of themselves? Where can we exist beyond our wildest dreams, and then some? Where can we take all the battles that make us and craft them not into anchors but wings that propel us higher and further? What are Black girls in our imaginations, when our imaginations are not forced into one conceptualization of the world and the beings in it? When we are allowed to take up as much space as we want, what do Black girls imagine themselves to be?
In short: What does Black girlhood and womanhood look like when we can fly?
I think Watson takes up these questions in the entire webseries, but in this episode in particular. While we may not have comprehensive answers, I do think that Black Enough as a webseries, a form of digital Black self-making, constructs the beginnings of an answer. Despite the many shortcomings of the digital, I find the self-making possibilities in this space infinite and deeply satisfying.
So it makes sense to me that Amaya would begin her journey to feeling whole in the digital.
To modify Shange, “I found God in myself [online] and I loved her fiercely.”
Check out Tanisha C. Ford’s non-exhaustive list of key texts on fashion, beauty culture and body politics in an African Diasporic context: http://www.tanishacford.com/resources/
Becoming, Michelle Obama
“Alter Egos and Infinite Literacies, Part III: How to Build a Real Gyrl in 3 Easy Steps,” Jessica Marie Johnson & Kismet Nunez
Ravynn K. Stringfield is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at William & Mary. Her research focuses on Black women and girls as creators and protagonists of futuristic, fantastic and digital narratives in new media. She often likes to say she writes about Black girls flying. When she’s not researching, you can find her writing for her blog, Black Girl Does Grad School; learning new yoga poses; or bullet journaling.
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Captain Fantastic'scostume design melds the two
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The following article was orginally published by The New York Times
If Ken Kesey and Alessandro Michele of Gucci had a passel of kids, their offspring might look something like the high-spirited ménage of Captain Fantastic, about a family living off the grid in the densely wooded Pacific Northwest.
In the movie Ben, the patriarch (Viggo Mortensen), and his rambunctiously inventive brood, dress in a giddy pastiche of homespun togs and hand-me-downs: country plaids, fringed ponchos, thrift-shop sweaters and patchwork vests — a visual hybrid, in short, of Kesey’s Merry Pranksters (minus the drugs) and the recent Gucci runway.
Set firmly in the here and now, Matt Ross’s film, with its queerly rusticated look, is a hymn just the same to a hippie-frontier ethos that has persisted since the ’60s, having long since woven itself into the national psyche.
The look is largely the handiwork of Courtney Hoffman, the movie’s 31-year-old costume designer. But any connection to a backwoods Gucci is purely coincidental, Ms. Hoffman said. Still, she said, her costumes do share a mood with that of Mr. Michele, who once offhandedly confided that his signature fashion mash-ups were inspired in part by the inmates of a local asylum outside his native Rome.
“Our costumes, too, come from a place of freedom,” said Ms. Hoffman, who was the costume designer on Quentin Tarantino’s frontier slash-fest The Hateful Eight. “Our idea was to have the cast make wardrobe choices not influenced by what anyone they knew would wear.”
A spirit of improvisation governed those choices, lending Ben, his wife, Leslie (seen in occasional flashbacks), and their clan of six a touch of whimsy intermingled with a rough-hewed practicality. Cast members, especially the children, were encouraged to select what they would wear from a raffishly assembled communal wardrobe.
“We would pile the clothes on the floor in the fitting room and let them choose,” Ms. Hoffman said. She encouraged them to pick out a beefy sweater here, a zanily embroidered jeans jacket there, and put the items together in the way the denizens of early hippie encampments might have done.
“I had to keep asking the 16-year-old twins, ‘If your spirit wanted you to wear a dress, what would it look like?’” Ms. Hoffman asked. “I’d say, ‘Don’t pick a dress because your friend would wear it.’”
“I got them to stop shaving their armpits,” she added. “Shaving is a choice you make, because society says you’re obliged to.”
Society only belatedly intrudes on the family’s hermetic world, in which the children, who bear mythical sounding names like Bodevan, Rellian and Nai, chatter in Esperanto and are conversant in Karl Marx, the Bill of Rights, hunting and extreme rock climbing. “Nothing, down to their socks and underwear, was not part of telling their story,” Ms. Hoffman said.
Style and character are fused in the towheaded person of Zaja (Shree Crooks), who alternately wears a boiler suit and a gas mask (“She has this fascination with genocide,” Ms. Hoffman said matter-of-factly) and, at other times, a bobcat hat made from roadkill, which the designer had an Etsy vendor stitch and repurpose.
Other items were culled from thrift and vintage stores in or around the film locations, Washington state and the Arizona desert. The floral-and-weed garlands worn by the children in key scenes “we found on the side of the road wherever we happened to be,” she said.
More ruggedly functional items — overalls, chambray shirts and the like — came directly from the archives of Carhartt, Filson and other standard-bearers of authentic American work wear. Ms. Hoffman’s objective was to imbue the production with realness, down to the garment Ben wears to his wife’s funeral: a jauntily patterned red Western shirt that Mr. Mortensen wore to his own first wedding.
The film’s mostly earth-tone palette is punctuated here and there by burned scarlet, magenta and the kind of bilious green that was known in the ’70s as avocado.
“This story is so colorful, these kids are so colorful, with such an exploratory, questioning, philosophical spirit,” Ms. Hoffman said. “I thought, ‘Why would you ever want to mute that?’”
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Name Index for “Bookmarking Book Art”
Curated by Robert Bolick
On “The Book” (MIT Press, 2018)
2018/06/07 2019/08/10 Books On Books1 Comment
With apologies to the preacher: Of making many books [on books] there is no end.
(Ecclesiastes 12:12)
With the choir of its forebearers, Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book (MIT Press, 2018) sounds an “amen” to that truth. The proliferation of degree programs in book studies covering the history of the book, the book arts and even book art ensures The Book will not be the last. What distinguishes Borsuk’s book are her perspective as an artist and the book’s breadth and depth despite its brevity.
The book has a long history of existential crises. What is a book? Is the end of the book nigh? For more than a century, those questions have returned again and again. The most recent recurrence stems from the ebook’s threat to dematerialize the book and the online world’s threat to take us into a post-text future. Even before these latest threats, book artists have long lived and worked with their own existential questions, a kind of higher existential calculus, or derivative of, the book’s crises: What is an artist’s book? What is book art? Stephen Bury, Riva Castleman, Johanna Drucker, Joan Lyons, Stefan Klima, Clive Philpott and many others in the last quarter of the 20th century dwelt on defining and categorizing book art.
Borsuk belongs to a later generation of book artists that has embraced these existential crises and recognized that the book’s existential crises are what make the book a rich medium in which and with which to create art — from bio-art miniature to the biblioclastic human-scale to large-scale installations and performances. Even to the digital.
The Origin of Species (2016)
Dr. Simon Park, Guildford, Surrey
“The small book shown here was grown from and made entirely from bacteria. Not only is the fabric of its pages (GXCELL) produced by bacteria, but the book is also printed and illustrated with naturally pigmented bacteria. ” Posted 27 March 2016. Photo credit: Dr. Simon F. Park
Silenda: Black Sea Book (2015)
Jacqueline Rush Lee
Transformed Peter Green‘s translation of Ovid’s Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
H9.5″ x W12″ x D6.5.” Manipulated Text, Ink, Graphite
Photo credit: Paul Kodama. In Private Collection, NL
Enclosed Content Chatting Away in the Colour Invisibility (2009)
Reproduced with permission of the artist
Field (2015)
Johannes Heldén
Produced, and premiered, at HUMlab, Umeå University
Performance artist and academic as well, Borsuk brings that later generational and creative perspective to the existential question — What is the book? — and, with an artist’s perception of her medium of choice, displaces the old companion existential question — Is the end of the book nigh? — with an altogether more interesting one — Where next for the book?
To see where books might be going, we must think of them as objects that have experienced a long history of experimentation and play. Rather than bemoaning the death of books or creating a dichotomy between print and digital media, this guide points to continuities, positioning the book as a changing technology and highlighting the way artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have pushed us to rethink and redefine the term. (pp. xiii-xiv)
In The Book, the future is not far from the physical past. Where once we had text on scrolls, now we scroll through text (albeit more vertically than horizontally). Where once human consciousness changed with the invention of the alphabet and writing, now it may be altering with our reading and writing through networked digital devices. Like the many historians before her, Borsuk starts with cuneiform (those wedge-shaped accounting marks on baked clay), hieroglyphics and the invention of the alphabet to set the scene for the advent of the book and its ongoing physicality:
its shape (scroll, accordion, codex)
its material (papyrus, vellum, paper, charcoal or mineral-based watercolor and ink)
its manufacture (scribing, printing by woodblock and movable type, design and typography, illumination and illustration, folding into pages, methods of binding)
its constituent and navigational parts (cover, book block, title page, table of contents, page numbering, index).
But Borsuk reminds us — from Sumer’s clay to Amazon’s Kindle, from Johannes Gutenberg to Project Gutenberg — the book as human artifact exists in a social, political, technological, economic and even ecological context. Who is allowed to make it, how it is transacted, how and where we use it, how we perceive and speak of it — all have affected the physicality of the book object and are reflected in it.
In the first half of The Book, Borsuk steers us through these interdependencies to a turning point. That turning point is where the pinnacle of the book arts — Beatrice Warde‘s and Jan Tschichold‘s vision of the book as a crystalline container of content — and the book’s commodification combine to cause the book’s physicality to disappear because it is so taken for granted, leaving us with “the book as idea”.
With the perception that books are ideas bestowed on readers by an authorial genius whose activity is purely intellectual, the book’s object status vanished for much of the reading public as we raised a glass to happily consume its contents…. Even though innumerable material elements come together to make the book, these features have been naturalized to such a degree that we now hardly notice them, since we have come to see content as the copyrightable, consumable, marketable aspect of the work. (pp. 106-9)
At this turning point — where “the historic relationship between materiality and text is severed” (p. 112) — the second half of The Book introduces book art. It is telling that the longest chapter in the book begins the second half, that it is called “The Book as Idea” and that it comes before any extended engagement with the digital dematerialization of the book. It is a wry pivot: the artistic genius supplants the authorial genius; what the latter takes as invisible background, the former re-makes as self-regarding foreground. As Borsuk shows and her book’s cover neatly demonstrates, works of book art are inevitably self-referential and self-aware.
As such, works of book art
have much to teach us about the changing nature of the book, in part because they highlight the “idea” by paradoxically drawing attention to the “object” we have come to take for granted. They disrupt our treatment of the book as a transparent container for literary and aesthetic “content” and engage its material form in the work’s meaning. (p. 113)
Rather than offer a chronological history of book art to explore what “artists’ books have to teach us about a path forward for the book”, Borsuk offers “flashpoints” that represent “the energies motivating artwork in book form”(p. 117). These “flashpoints” are William Blake, Stéphane Mallarmé, Ed Ruscha and Ulises Carrión. Following these flashpoints, Borsuk organizes the rest of the chapter into “key themes that recur throughout artists’ books of the twentieth century: spatiotemporal play, animation, recombinant structures, ephemerality, silence, and interactivity” (pp. 146-47).
Oddly, Blake as flashpoint does not illuminate these six particular themes. Rather Borsuk notes three other recurrent themes or “energies motivating artwork in book form” that Blake and his work represent: centering or re-centering the production processes on the author/artist; using the book as a sociopolitical and visionary platform; and redefining, developing and challenging the relationship between word and image.
Blake refers to himself as “The Author & Printer W. Blake,” making clear the union of creativity and craft in his work. (p. 121)
Blake’s engagement with the social issues of his day, and his use of book form to respond to child labor, urban squalor, and slavery, established an important trend in both artists’ books and independent publishing—the utility of the book as a means of spreading social justice. (pp. 121, 124)
Blake used his craftsmanship to develop the relationship between word and image (p. 140)
One need not look far among twentieth and twenty-first century book artists for resonance with those themes. That Blakean union of creativity and craft resurfaces in artists such as Ken Campbell (UK), Cathryn Miller (Canada), Pien Rotterdam (Netherlands), Barb Tetenbaum (US) and Xu Bing (China) — some of them even to the point of carving or setting their own type, making their own paper, pulp printing on it themselves or binding the finished work themselves. Vision and sociopolitical observation have risen up in the works of artists such as Doug Beube (Canada), Julie K. Dodd (UK), Basia Irland (US), Diane Jacobs (US), Anselm Kiefer (Germany) and Chris Ruston (UK). Blake’s redefining the relationship of word (or text) to image often reappears in book artists’ abcedaries and their children’s books such as A Dictionary Story by Sam Winston (UK). As for emulators of Blake in technical innovation, consider the analogue example of Australian Tim Mosely’s works created with his patented pulp printing process, where the “ink” is actually colored pulp, or the digital example of Borsuk’s work Between Page and Screen, where the pages contain no text—only QR codes that, when scanned with a webcam, activate the text’s appearance on the reader’s browser screen.
For her second flashpoint, Borsuk selects another visionary, Stéphane Mallarmé, who like Blake was reacting to his own perceived Satanic mills draining poetry of its spirituality. Mallarmé’s Satanic mills dispensed rigid columns of newsprint to the masses and bland expanses of poetry and fiction set by Linotype machines in the neo-classical Didot font. With his famous visionary dictum — “everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book” (p. 135) — Mallarmé nudged the book toward pure concept and opened its mystical covers to the Dadaists, Surrealists, Futurists, Vorticists, Lettrists, Conceptualists and biblioclasts. With spatiotemporal play — mixing type sizes and fonts, breaking up the line and even breaking the page — Mallarmé used text to evoke image and, in his view, remake the book as a “spiritual instrument”. His post-humous book-length poem Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance), published in 1897, embodies that vision and continues to cast its flashpoint light across multiple generations of book artists’ efforts. From Marcel Broodthaers in 1969, we have his homage to Un Coup de Dés. From Jérémie Bennequin in 2014, we have his serial “omage” to Broodthaers’ homage. And, most recently, we have the 2015 new bilingual edition A Roll of the Dice by Jeff Clark and Robert Bononno, for which Borsuk provides a perceptive reading.
Where Mallarmé’s flashpoint enlisted his vision alongside the cry “épater le bourgeois” from Baudelaire and other late nineteenth-century poets, Ed Ruscha’s later flashpoint illuminates a democratic counterpoint, a Zen-like vision and a very different way of changing the relationship of text to image. Ruscha’s self-published photobooks were cheap and distributed outside the gallery-controlled channels of art. As Borsuk shows — directly with Ruscha and indirectly with the many book artists influenced by him — the text is restricted to the book’s title, which interacts with a series of deadpan photos and their layout to deliver a wry, tongue-in-cheek work of book art. Ruscha’s spatiotemporal play manifests itself across the accordion book format and out-of-sequence juxtapositions. Ironically Ruscha’s works now command thousands of dollars per copy, and one has more chance of seeing them in an exhibition than in a roadside stop’s rack of newspapers, magazines and mass-market paperbacks.
Display of Ruscha’s Various Small Fires and Milk, 1964, at the Gulbenkian’s Pliure: Prologue (la Part du Feu), 2 February – 12 April 2015, Paris. Photo credit: Robert Bolick
Reflected in the upper right corner, the film clip of Truffaut’s 1966 Fahrenheit 451; in the lower left hand corner, Bruce Nauman’s 1968 Burning Small Fires; and in the upper left, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s 1974 La bibliotheque en feu.
Mexico’s Ulises Carrión — polemicist, European bookshop owner, conceptual artist and Borsuk’s fourth choice of flashpoints — is a counter-flashpoint to Ruscha. Where Ruscha reveled in self-publishing commodification, Carrión sneered at the book in its traditional commercial form. Where Ruscha has resisted the label “conceptual artist”, Carrión played the role to the hilt. Where Ruscha’s work has elicited numerous homages (see Various Small Books from MIT Press in 2013) and achieved a high profile, Carrión’s work, much lower in profile, has provided a more compelling range of hooks or influences on which to hang many different manifestations of book art (or bookworks as Carrión preferred). In fact, Borsuk’s six stated key themes or “energies motivating artwork in book form” come from Carrión’s manifestos (pp. 146-47).
The first theme — “spatiotemporal play” — comes from Carrión’s initial definition of the book as a “sequence of spaces”, which Borsuk traces to tunnel books, pop-ups and even large-scale constructs, the latter illustrated by American Alison Knowles‘ inhabitable The Big Book (1968). One more possible future of the book implied by spatiotemporal play manifests itself in Borsuk’s own augmented-reality (AR) works, those of Caitlin Fisher (Canada) and Carla Gannis’ Selfie Drawings (2016), in which portraits on the hardcover book’s pages animate and change when viewed through smartphone or tablet.
Borsuk takes the second theme, that of “animation”, from Carrión’s dictum: “Each of these spaces is perceived at a different moment— a book is also a sequence of moments”. As her several examples illustrate, much book art is cinematic. Borsuk’s exposition of Canadian Michael Snow‘s Cover to Cover (1975) comes closest to reproducing the experience I enjoyed of “watching” that photo bookwork from cover to cover several times at the now closed Corcoran Art Gallery. Borsuk is quick and right to remind that the cinematic future of the book has been with us for a long time, even before the cinema. She bookends her exposition of Snow’s book and and the text animation of American Emmett Williams‘ Sweethearts (1967) on one side with Victorian flip-books and on the other with American Bob Brown‘s 1930s The Readies (presumably pronounced “reedies” to follow Brown’s comparison of his scrolling one-line texts with the cinema’s “talkies”).
A forgotten modernist, Brown declared the obsolescence of the book, predicted a new form of reading and technology to enable it, an optical projector emitting text into the ether and directly into the eyeball. But what does this tell us about the future of the book? Borsuk notes Craig Saper‘s resurrection of Brown’s Roving Eye Press and how he even put together a website that emulates Brown’s reading machine. In her phrase describing the machine’s effect of “turning readers themselves into a kind of machine for making meaning” (p. 168), Borsuk hints at a future of digitally interactive books, which she takes up in the next section and more extensively in the next chapter. At this point, however, the reader could use a hint of practicality and skepticism. Linear-one-word-at-a-time reading, however accelerated, eliminates affordances of the page, ignores graphics and strains against the combination of peripheral vision and rapid eye movement we unconsciously (even atavistically?) deploy as we “read” whatever we see. Although in the next section Borsuk does bring on more likely examples of the book’s future exploitation of its cinematic affordances (manga, graphic novels and children’s books), this section’s treatment of animation misses the chance to cite actual recent successes like Moonbot Studios‘ The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2012) and others.
Once into the third theme — “recombinant structure” — it is clear that Borsuk’s chosen Carriónesque themes overlap one another. Like the cinematic, the recombinant structure manifests itself in accordion books. It extends, however, to something more interactive: volvelles (or medieval apps as Erik Kwakkel calls them), interactive pop-ups, harlequinades (flap books) and more. Borsuk uses Raymond Queneau‘s harlequinade Cent mille milliards de poèmes ( One hundred thousand billion poems, 1961), Dieter Roth‘s slot books and works by Carolee Schneemann to illustrate book art’s celebration of the concept. The fact that Queneau’s book is still easily available on Amazon vouches for book art’s predictive qualities. The example of Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1 (Éditions du Seuil, 1962), “a box of 150 leaves printed on only one side that the reader is instructed to shuffle at the outset”, goes Queneau one better —ironically. In 2011, Visual Editions reissued Composition No. 1 in print and app forms. Alas, the former is out of print, and the latter is no longer available for download.
Composition No. 1 (2011)
Marc Saporta
Translation by Richard Howard, Introduction by T.L. Uglow, Google Creative Lab, Diagrams by Salvador Plascencia and Designed by Universal Everything Photo credit: Robert Bolick
Borsuk draws her fourth theme — ephemerality — from Carrión’s dictum:
I firmly believe that every book that now exists will eventually disappear. And I see here no reason for lamentation. Like any other living organism, books will grow, multiply, change color, and, eventually, die. At the moment, bookworks represent the final phase of this irrevocable process. Libraries, museums, archives are the perfect cemeteries for books. (p. 145)
To illustrate, Borsuk begins with the physical biblioclasts — those who in Doug Beube‘s phrase are “breaking the codex“. They include Beube himself, Bruce Nauman (see above), Brian Dettmer, Cai Guo-Qiang, Marcel Duchamp, Dieter Roth and Xu Bing. While some of these artists reflect a twenty-first century surge of interest in altered books and book sculpture, “facilitated by the overarching notion that the book is an artifact not long for this world” (pp.82-84), others have taken a more generative archaeological approach — erasing or cutting away a book’s words to reveal another. Examples include Tom Phillips‘ A Humument (1966-2014) and Jonathan Safran Foer‘s Tree of Codes (2010). Phillips’ bookwork serves multiple purposes for Borsuk’s arguments. Not only does it represent the book art of “erasure”, its success across multiple editions, digital formats and presence in art galleries supports her notion of book art’s predictive qualities.
There is a variant on her theme that Borsuk does not illustrate and is worth consideration for her next edition: the self-destructing yet regenerative work of book art. Examples could include American Basia Irland‘s series ICE BOOKS: Ice receding/Books reseeding (2007-), which gives a formidably tangible and new meaning to “publishing as dissemination”; and Canadian Cathryn Miller‘s tail-chasing Recomp (2014); and Argentinian Pequeño Editor‘s Mi Papa Estuvo en la Selva (2015), which after reading can be planted to grow into a jacaranda tree.
Recomp (2014)
Cathryn Miller
Copy of Decomp, Collis and Scott (2013) nailed to a tree. Photo credit: David G. Miller
Photo credit: David G. Miller
Recomp vandalized (2015)
The last section in this chapter expands on the fifth theme — silence — drawn from Carrión’s statement:
The most beautiful and perfect book in the world is a book with only blank pages, in the same way that the most complete language is that which lies beyond all that the words of a man can say. Every book of the new art is searching after that book of absolute whiteness in the same way that every poem searches for silence. Ulises Carrión, Second Thoughts (1980), pp. 15-16.
Among her several examples are Pamela Paulsrud‘s Touchstones (2007-10), which look like stones but are books sanded-down into stone-like shapes, and Scott McCarney‘s 1988 Never Read (Opposed to Ever Green), a sculpture composed of stacked library discards that narrows as it ascends. Paulsrud’s, McCarney’s, Irland’s and Miller’s works are what Borsuk calls “muted objects”, but they speak and signify nevertheless:
Muted books take on a totemic [metaphoric] significance…. The language of the book as a space of fixity, certainty, and order reminds us that the book has been transmuted into an idea and ideal based on the role it plays in culture…. Defining the book involves consideration for its use as much as its form. (pp. 193-95)
Never Read (Opposed to Ever Green) (1988)
Scott McCarney
Borsuk is a superb stylist of the sentence and expository structure. The words above, concluding chapter three, launch the reader into Borsuk’s final theme of interactivity and her unifying metaphor: “the book as interface”. Owners of Kindles, buyers from Amazon, perusers of Facebook — we may think we know what’s coming next in The Book and for the book, but Borsuk pushes the reader to contemplate the almost real-time evolutionary change we have seen with ebook devices and apps, audiobooks, the ascension of books to the cloud via Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and Google Books, and their descent to Brewster Kahle‘s physical back-up warehouse (to be sited in Canada in light of recent political events) and into flattening ebook sales of late. Chapter 4 is a hard-paced narrative of the book’s digital history from the Memex in Vannevar Bush‘s 1945 classic “As we may think” to T.L. Uglow‘s 100-author blockchain collaboration in 2017, A Universe Explodes from Visual Editions’ series Editions at Play.
Borsuk reminds us:
Our current moment appears to be much like the first centuries of movable type, a cusp. Just as manuscript books persisted into the Gutenberg era, books currently exist in multiple forms simultaneously: as paperbacks, audiobooks, EPUB downloads, and, in rare cases, interactive digital experiences. (p. 244)
Borsuk weaves into this moment of the book’s future a reminder that print affordances such as tactility (or the haptic) and the paratextual (those peripheral elements like page numbers, running heads, ISBNs, etc., that Gary Frost argues “make the book a book”) have been finding fresh ways into the way we read digitally. The touchscreen enables us to read between the lines literally in the novella Pry (2014) by Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizaro (2014). Breathe (2018) by Kate Pullinger, another work in the Editions at Play series, uses GPS to detect and insert the reader’s location, the time and weather, and when the reader tilts the device or rubs the screen, hidden messages from the story’s (the reader’s?) ghosts appear.
At this point, an earlier passage from The Book should haunt the reader:
Artists’ books continually remind us of the reader’s role in the book by forcing us to reckon with its materiality and, by extension, our own embodiment. Such experiments present a path forward for digital books, which would do well to consider the affordances of their media and the importance of the reader, rather than treating the e-reader as a Warde-ian crystal goblet for the delivery of content. (p. 147)
Borsuk convinces. Art, artifact, concept — wrought by hand and mind, hands and minds — the book is our consensual tool and toy for surviving beyond our DNA. So now what? Metaphor, hints and historical flashpoints may illuminate where we have been, how it shows up in contemporary books and book art and where we may be going with it. In ten or one hundred years though, how will a book publisher become a book publisher? Given the self-publishing capability today’s technology offers, will anyone with a file on a home computer and an internet connection consider himself or herself a book publisher? Borsuk thinks not:
The act of publication — of making public — is central to our cultural definition of the book. Publication might presume some cultural capital: some editorial body has deemed this work worthy of print. It might also presume an audience: a readership clamors for this text. But on a fundamental level, publication presumes the appendage of elements outside the text that help us recognize it as a book, even when published in digital form. (pp. 239-40)
How will future book publishers learn to master the appendage of these elements outside the text (the paratext) that make a book a book “even when published in digital form”? Borsuk’s commentary on the ISBN as one of these elements sheds oblique light on that. She points to the artist Fiona Banner’s uses of the ISBN under her imprint/pseudonym Vanity Press — tattooing one one her lower back, publishing a series Book 1/1 (2009) consisting of sixty-five ISBN’d pieces of mirrored cardstock and then collecting them in a photobook entitled ISBN 978-1-907118-99-9 in order to deposit those one-offs with the British Library as required by the UK’s Legal Deposit Libraries Act. What can a future ebook publisher deduce from this?
That the use of a globally unique identifier (GUID) matters.
The backstory of the transition from ISBN10 to ISBN13 and that of ebooks, ISBNs and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) might provide interesting fodder. The notion that the book industry was running out of 10-digit ISBNs was a red herring used to convince industry executives to adopt the more widely used format of unique identifiers overseen by GS1. The real reason for moving to ISBN13 — reduced friction in the supply chain — was too hard to sell. About the same time, some major publishers proposed incorporating the ISBN into the DOI for an industry-standard ebook identifier. The DOI offered an existing digital, networked infrastructure already being used by most of the world’s scientific, technical and medical journals publishers. It is an offshoot of the Handle System, established by Robert Kahn. Sad to say, few book publishers adopted the DOI for their ebooks; still fewer used the DOI’s application- and network-friendliness to enable their ebooks to take advantage of the network’s digital affordances.
The DOI shares with the ISBN a feature that Borsuk points out as a limitation to more widespread use: it is not free. A significant percentage of ebooks exist without ISBNs, much less DOIs. If a digital GUID is to be used in ways that help us recognize the identified digital object as a book, future book publishers and their providers of a network ecosystem supporting ebooks, linking with the print ecosystem and reducing friction in the supply chain still have wide gaps in commerce and knowledge to close. Perhaps this particular paratextual element is unnecessary for the book’s digital future, but until those gaps are narrowed, the ecosystem for eBooks will remain balkanized by Amazon, Apple, Google, Lulu and the more digitally literate denizen of the print publishing industry. In the meantime, as Borsuk’s examples throughout her book show, there are boundless other print and digital affordances with which publishers, authors, editors, designers, typographers, developers and readers can play as they continue to shape the book.
The Book‘s publication month, June 2018, is auspicious, being the same for the Getty Center’s exhibition “Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists“, June 26 – October 28. The Center and MIT Press would do well to have stacks of The Book on hand. The Book will also serve as an excellent introductory textbook for courses on book art or the history of the book. And by virtue of its style and artist’s perspective, Borsuk’s book will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in this essential technology of civilization and its growing role as a material and focus of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Book Art, Book Art/Book Arts, Book Trades, Future of the Book, History of the Book, PrintingAlison Knowles, Amaranth Borsuk, Anouk Kruithof, Anselm Kiefer, Barb Tetenbaum, Basia Irland, Beatrice Warde, Bob Brown, Brian Dettmer, Bruce Nauman, Cai Guo-Qiang, Caitlin Fisher, Carla Gannis, Carolee Schneeman, Cathryn Miller, Chris Ruston, Clive Philpott, Craig Saper, Danny Cannizaro, Diane Jacobs, Dieter Roth, Doug Beube, Dr. Simon Park, Ed Ruscha, Emmett Williams, Erik Kwakkel, Francois Truffaut, Getty Center, Internet Archive, Jacqueline Rush Lee, Jan Tschichold, Jérémie Bennequin, Jeff Clark, Joan Lyons, Johanna Drucker, Johannes Heldén, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julie K. Dodd, Kate Pullinger, Ken Campbell, Marc Saporta, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Michael Snow, MIT Press, Moonbot Studios, Pamela Paulsrud, Pequeño Editor, Pien Rotterdam, Project Gutenberg, Raymond Queneau, Riva Castleman, Robert Bononno, Roving Eye Press, Sam Winston, Samantha Gorman, Scott McCarney, Stéphane Mallarmé, Stefan Klima, Stephen Bury, Tim Mosely, Tom Phillips, Ulises Carrión, Visual Editions, William Blake, Xu Bing
Bookmarking Book Art — Emma Taylor, updated 20190818
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The fate of the book is becoming more and more critical as digital replacements ingrain themselves deeper into our society. To me the possibility of the end of the book is a tragic one; I appreciate books as an object as much as I enjoy the stories and knowledge which they hold. I predominantly work with antiquarian books as they often show evidence of their own personal story, perhaps through an inscription on the cover or a drawing on a page which adds a new layer of narrative. The theme for each sculpture may be inspired by a number of things including the title, size, shape or cover of the book. I work with wire, wadding and strips of book pages to create the impression of the sculpture emerging from within a book.
Emma Taylor, From Within a Book
Ironic that Emma Taylor’s site had its main life on Facebook, to which one must subscribe to read the great number of comments on her bookworks. Her Tumblr website, however, displays many, if not all of her sculptures in the series From Within A Book, and in her posting of 29 March 2013 (here from the Wayback Machine), you can find reference to an article from the Cambridge News covering her work as displayed in the local shop Plurabelle Books.
Of course, the bookwork above (made from Poor Folk in Spain by Jan and Cora Gordon, published by Bodley Head in 1922) represents what appears to be a store clerk taking down a book but could just as easily be a housekeeper dusting the bookshelves (after all the chapter in which it appears is named “Verdolay — Housekeeping”). Why “of course”? Small sculpted books created “from within a book.” Tending and caring for the physical artifact by altering the physical artifact. (A touch more irony could have been had with the addition of a tiny computer, iPad or Kindle.)
One direction Ms Taylor’s craft may take to evolve further into art would be to recognize and reflect that the fate of the book and ebook are as likely intertwined and separate in many respects as have been those of the many forms the codex has taken — from incunabula to paperback, bookkeeping to fiction or reference to textbook.
Paratextual devices such as the manicule, footnote, running heads, etc., have their “analogues” in ereaders, ebooks and books-in-browsers such as navigational icons, hyperlinks, breadcrumb trails, etc. Through the W3C’s open annotation specification, even marginalia may be finding a place in the so-called digital replacement to the printed book. With the insights of Matthew Kirschenbaum and others into digital forensics, the digital replacement and its “perfect” copies may yet yield the “evidence of their own personal story.” And if “social reading” takes deep root in the individual reading experience, the reader’s relationship to the author (and vice versa) could be enriched by the reader-to-reader relationship in ways hard to articulate. Ways that will offer the book artist new opportunities to “make it new.”
View My Modern Met article here. 18 August 2019
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Stage Combat with Teen Theatre
Posted on July 8, 2019 by briandanieloglesby
I’ve been tweaking the website to make my “Theatre-for-Teens” page a little more user-friendly. I haven’t focused on publishing (MFA Playwriting programs emphasize producing and networking), so I want to make my page for teens accessible and approachable.
And as I tweaked, I realized I probably should address something – there’s something of stage combat in every play. This is intentional. I swear.
Swords: And Then, She Picks Up the Sword, The Untitled Pirate Play, Space Carl (plus lasers), [a different] Romeo & Juliet, Nameless in the Desert, Third Street, Basement Demons, Icarus (ish)
Hand-to-Hand: Two Truths and Lies, Icarus, Deleted Scenes from Fairy Tales, Very Best Coffee, The Twelve Huntsmen, The Jungle Book
A couple years ago, after we spent hours choreographing a sword fight, a student told me, “I thought I trusted (her scene partner) before, but now I REALLY trust him!” And at that moment, she articulated something I had a sense of, but hadn’t put into words myself – that stage combat required and, thus taught, trust.
And I do love it. Spectacle. Conflict. Tension. If done correctly, if done safely, it’s undergirded by trust. Stage combat teaches the opposite of what you’re pretending to do.
Theatre is, of course, built on trust, so this is hardly a revolutionary thought; however, it does highlight that the dramaturgy of purpose for doing a play goes beyond the audience. Theatre for teens is about the art, it’s about theme and story and character, and about the experience of the actor.
Dramatic Structure
I’ve been obsessed with this clip of a little boy asking Pete Buttigieg a question. I realized why: this video is a masterclass on dramatic structure
Starts in medias res
Illustrates characters through voice and action. Everything anyone says or does shows who they are.
Quickly establishes world and stakes with the parental request, “Ask your question.”
Introduces complication.
Escalates the complication
Has a strong, surprising turn at the climax (the boy jumps from the stage), which is fitting with the ‘bunny’ theme
Aces the dismount with Pete’s “button” line.
Note: Chasten, Pete’s husband, is a gay middle school theatre teacher.
In honor of Pride Month, I was on Jimmy Chrismon’s THED Talks again to discuss the LGBTQ+ Romeo & Juliet.
Note to self: never read the transcript of your own interviews. The marbled mess of incomplete sentences and dropped in ‘likes’ will make you crazy.
Pride Month is over.
Long live Pride!
Praise for THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN
Posted on June 16, 2019 June 16, 2019 by briandanieloglesby
This email from a theatre teacher / director is better than any review I could have gotten. Note: I redacted the teacher’s name out of an abundance of caution for someone who mentions having LGBTQ+ kids in their school.
(Find the Twelve Huntsmen here.)
I just wanted to let you know that we recently closed our middle school production of The Twelve Huntsmen up here in MA, and it was a huge success. We had an all-middle school tech crew (and cast, of course), and we managed to work out the randomization of the text and all the exciting challenges that provided…and stage it on a 3/4 thrust, all of which were new experiences for our young actors. The audience and family members were completely impressed, our students absolutely blew your fantastic script out of the water, and they were SO proud of themselves for taking on such a unique script.
I wanted to thank you, especially, for the work you did in creating this script and getting it onto NPX. I read MANY plays written for this age group and I am consistently disappointed in what I find. It’s a rare playwright who is tapping into the unique voice and views of this generation. I work at a school with a large population of young women and a large population of students who identify as LGBTQIA+, trans, or gender non-conforming. I feel like your script was a magical unicorn in a forest of mediocrity that was the perfect mix of smart, sassy, dark and hilarious, and I am so grateful to you!! Looking forward to following your future work, and just know you have some big fans up here in western Massachusetts.
(Theatre Teacher)
Happy Pride!
On ye olde facebook, someone in the theatre education sphere asked the community about creating a supportive environment for LGBTQ students, especially if the parents are not accepting. There were some fantastic responses, such as getting a “Safe Place” sign, which is easy and effective. And the person who said, “Love your kids. They will know” makes a graceful point. I had a cross-country flight ahead of me, so I had the time to think and come up with my contribution.
I am posting it here. I want to be able to look back on it and hold myself accountable, and I also think that much of this holds true for making a space for other underrepresented groups. As a mixed-Latino playwright, I also see how only a few of the bullet points below would not apply to, you know, work by mixed-Latino playwrights.
Again, other theatre professionals had some fantastic thoughts that I was adding to, so this is by no means a comprehensive guide.
Some Thoughts on How to Be Supportive of LGBTQ+ Theatre Students
1. Mention the gay people in your life. For a gay kid seeking a trusted adult, this is code for ‘this person is cool with gay people.’
2. Look at how your program can be supportive of gay and trans kids.
– Are there gay characters in your plays? How are these characters treated? (While I love The Laramie Project, it’s also about dead gay kid. What impact do you think you’re having if the only gay representation in your program is as a victim of a hate crime?)
– Are you producing plays by gay playwrights, and if so, are you examining how their identity informs the play? (If you’re doing The Importance of Being Ernest without acknowledging that it’s making fun of straight folks from the point of view of someone who was later jailed for being gay, you’re missing a HUGE piece of the play.)
– Are the plays you’re picking strictly from a straight person’s POV? Even plays with gay people are so often lensed through a straight person’s point of view. I love Rent, but this queer world is through (straight male) Mark’s eyes. I’m not cautioning against doing this, but I am suggesting that you make the space to acknowledge this.
– Does the play rely on stereotypes and assumptions? What shortcuts is it making? (Our Town literally has the line, “Almost everyone get married” – which was exclusionary to gay folks when we couldn’t get married and REALLY HURTFUL TO HEAR – is the play making a statement, intentionally or not, that’s built on the assumption that everyone in straight and cis?)
– Are you relying on canon plays, which are generally written by people with an antiquated notion of gender and orientation?
– Are you doing gender-blind or cross gender or gender-conscious casting? What is your casting saying about gender and sexuality? Do you have an idea of what a “leading man” and a “leading lady” is – if so, what assumptions are you making?
– If you have a trans kid whose parents are not accepting, are you casting them in gender neutral parts, or are you casting them in parts that will aggravate their dysphoria? (Here, too, can gender blind casting help.) Is the program and/performer bios honoring their pronouns (or intentionally avoiding this when it will trigger transphobic parents)?
– Are you thinking about the production process from the ground up? I am a playwright, so I make the plays with my students, and so pretty much every LGBTQ+ character we have came from the students originally. This is obviously not feasible for every school, but you can create spaces for LGBTQ+ students to advocate for their stories and help make creative choices.
– Are you creating the space to have the conversations? These conversations could be about what the play is saying or doing. These conversations could be about the kids negotiating their identity and experience in relation to the play.
Now, I wrote a gay Romeo and Juliet for and with my middle schoolers, which we produced, and this was a big deal. But you don’t have to make LGBTQ+ identity at the center of your work to make a play that’s inclusive. I wrote a play where most of the characters are aliens (and I realized aliens can have one, two, or ten genders) and the humans have gone through body switches. I did this so literally anyone could play any part and this would reveal nothing about any character’s gender or orientation. This is not what the play is about – it’s a dorktastic science fiction hero’s journey romp – but the world of the play is intentionally built for gender blind casting. It’s a play that is neither about gay people nor does it make heterosexuality the default.
Space Carl page is LIVE
Posted on June 3, 2019 by briandanieloglesby
The SPACE CARL page is now up.
And the play is on the New Play Exchange.
I haven’t quite figured out the best language to describe it. It’s a campy, comedic romp through the stars, but I also have moments where characters are devastated and vulnerable.
I also don’t want this link to my interview on THED TALKS to disappear from the top of the page yet.
Posted on May 23, 2019 by briandanieloglesby
I had a blast chatting with Dr. Jimmy Chrismon on his theatre education podcast.
Take a listen:
https://thedtalks.com/2019/05/22/1-9-a-conversation-with-briandaniel-oglesby/
SPACE CARL has launched
And thus, there’s a new play for teens in the world. Battle tested, it works, though I’ll still revise it based on our production and post the final chapter to Carl’s story this summer.
Y’all. I love this one. I love them all, and this one is a particular kind of awesome in the key of “I care about this kind of thing.” A poem in an alien language stops a battle. Every time someone dies, they talk about how they met the love of their life. There’s an element in the play that is 100% random and improvised every night. We have aliens who share hearts and brains, aliens who can switch bodies, a ship that’s a total jerk, and so much more. The heroes on their hero’s journeys even miss the climax of the play. I love that.
The Apocalypse Project – NPX
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II Gwindy Farmhouse with walls and railings to garden
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II Old Stable Block at Gwindy
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II* Panteg farmhouse
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II St. David's Parish Church
Situated in a small churchyard on ground sloping to the S, reached from the village by a lane S via Plas Crwn and Cwmllan. Isolated from present-day settlement.
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II War Memorial
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Isla Fisher mocks Donald and Melania Trump while claiming her AACTA Trailblazer Award
By Brandi Fowler| 3 years ago
Isla Fisher kept the jokes coming at the AACTA Awards.
In perhaps the best acceptance speech we've heard all year, the 40-year-old actress took jabs at both Donald and Melania Trump while claiming the AACTA Trailblazer Award. If her husband Sacha Baron Cohen, 45, didn't give her a major assist with the jokes, she could be the next comedy superstar.
Her three best bits:
"Wow, thank you. That's amazing. Thank you to AACTA. And I really have to thank my fellow actors Nicole Kidman, Naomi Watts, Margot Robbie and Toni Collette, all of whom were no doubt offered this award first, and they couldn't make it here tonight, so yay!" she said after hitting the stage.
And she was just getting warmed up. Then she went after the soon-to-be US First Lady.
"From a young age my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in this life, that your word is your bond, you say what you want to do, and you keep your promises. And that you treat people with respect," she said.
"Those are actually Michelle Obama's words," she said as the audience erupted in applause. "But I figured if Melania Trump can use them and have success I should try.
Thanking her mum, her management, her husband and their three children, she saved the funniest for last.
"And I do need to thank Donald Trump because I don't think I'd be here without him showing the world that unqualified orange people can win things," she said.
Someone please get this lady a leading Hollywood gig worthy of an A-lister. Or better yet, maybe she can sub for Amy Schumer on her recently cancelled Australia and New Zealand tour.
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HP won’t sell or spin off PC division
October 28, 2011 by Steven R. Gerbsman
Article from SFGate.
“Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman announced Thursday that the company has decided not to spin or sell off its PC division, another repudiation of a controversial plan proposed in August by her ousted predecessor, Léo Apotheker.
Whitman said an internal review showed it would be more costly to sell or spin off the unit, called the Personal Services Group, than to keep it within the Palo Alto company.
“HP objectively evaluated the strategic, financial and operational impact of spinning off PSG,” Whitman said in a statement. “It’s clear after our analysis that keeping PSG within HP is right for customers and partners, right for shareholders, and right for employees. HP is committed to PSG, and together we are stronger.”
The plan to spin off or sell the division was one of the major factors that led HP’s board of directors to dump Apotheker in September and hire Whitman. The PC unit is HP’s least profitable, but accounts for about one-third of the company’s revenue.
In a news release issued minutes after the close of trading on Wall Street Thursday, HP noted the unit generated $40.7 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2010.
HP said the internal review “revealed the depth of the integration that has occurred across key operations such as supply chain, IT and procurement. It also detailed the significant extent to which PSG contributes to HP’s solutions portfolio and overall brand value. Finally, it also showed that the cost to recreate these in a stand alone company outweighed any benefits of separation.”
When she took the helm, Whitman said her appointment wasn’t a signal that HP was shifting its strategy away from the course set by Apotheker.
But at an economic conference earlier this month in San Francisco, Whitman was asked whether HP would continue Apotheker’s software expansion strategy following the company’s $10.3 billion purchase of British software maker Autonomy Corp.
“It’s certainly the end of big acquisitions,” Whitman said.
Stock in HP closed at $26.99 per share, up $1.24, on the New York Stock Exchange.”
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Those who have spent time in idyllic Cape Cod, Massachusetts, know that it is one of America’s most beautiful summer destinations. What most people don’t know is that during the winter months, after the 500,000 summer folks depart, year-round residents of “The Cape” struggle with addiction. In fact, residents find it much easier to resist the drug cravings in the summer mainly owing to the people’s ability to find steady employment and social engagement, The Guardian reports. Once the colder months arrive, options disappear and maintaining a program for recovery become even more of a challenge.
A few years back, HBO presented a documentary called Heroin: Cape Cod, USA, directed by Academy Award-winner Steven Okazaki (HBO's White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). One of the points the film was to show that if the epidemic could wash ashore in Cape Cod, it could rear its head anywhere. HBO writes:
“Known for its quaint villages, lighthouses and beaches, the picturesque summer vacation destination of Cape Cod has been struck with an epidemic of young people hooked on affordable, easily acquired heroin. This harrowing film takes an unsparing look at the lives of eight heroin addicts in their early 20s, living a seemingly endless existence of getting high while cycling through stages of rehab, recovery and relapse.”
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Many people living with mental illness find the summertime less difficult, including those living with the disease of addiction. There are at least three reasons why staying clean and sober in the summer is easier: warm weather provides more significant opportunity to keep busy, there are more employment opportunities, and people are often better able to seek treatment during the summer. In places where the economy is seasonal, one’s options diminish come winter.
A large number of people head to the southern coast of California because the weather is pleasant year-round, there are scores of treatment centers and sober living homes, and employment opportunities abound. We can't say the same for Cape Cod, the difference being the long winter that hits the cape each year. Cold weather and few addiction recovery resources for women is likely one of the factors that led to Massachusetts becoming one of the top 10 states in the US with the highest rate of opioid addiction.
Many women get sober in jail and prison, according to the article. If such people receive parole during the winter, many are unable to stay sober for the reasons pointed to above. Melissa Peace moved to Cape Cod in 2010 after her release from jail; while she has managed to keep clean with the help of the program, she says that she has a front row seat to the opioid epidemic.
“I didn’t think anyone did drugs on the Cape. I thought the Kennedys lived here!” says Peace. “But there are so many deaths on the Cape. It’s unbelievable. It’s just not published in the papers the amount of homelessness and addiction here, and how it’s a bigger problem in the wintertime. Even so, I’m terrified of getting high, and that’s what keeps me. I am terrified of not making it back.”
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Details for: Black on the Block :
Black on the Block : The Politics of Race and Class in the City
By: Pattillo, Mary.
Material type: TextSeries: eBooks on Demand.Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (402 p.).ISBN: 9780226649337.Subject(s): African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions | Community life -- Illinois -- Chicago | Gentrification -- Illinois -- Chicago | North Kenwood (Chicago, Ill.) -- Race relations | North Kenwood (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social conditions | Oakland (Chicago, Ill.) -- Race relations | Social classes -- Illinois -- ChicagoGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Black on the Block : The Politics of Race and Class in the CityDDC classification: 305.896073 Online resources: Click here to view this ebook.
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. 4432 Berkeley -- 2. The Black Bourgeoisie Meets the Truly Disadvantaged -- 3. White Power, Black Brokers -- 4. Remedies to "Educational Malpractice" -- 5. The Case against Public Housing -- 6. The Case for Public Housing -- 7. Avenging Violence with Violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo-a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century-uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. There was a time when North Kenwood-Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the ground
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In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo-a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century-uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. There was a time when North Kenwood-Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the ground
<p> Mary Pattillo is professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class , also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration .</p>
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Fat molecules released with exertion could explain metabolism boost
A new study led by Kristin Stanford of the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Centre, and Laurie Goodyear of the Joslin Diabetes Centre and Harvard Medical School, revealed that the power of exercise in boosting metabolism could arise from a fat molecule with an unexpected source.
According to the study, which appeared on Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism, lipids released from fat, or lipokine produced by brown fat, was shown to surge in the bloodstream after exercise. The researchers found that brown fat sets itself apart from ordinary white fat in its ability to generate heat. It is what keeps hibernating bears warm and it is known to be a powerful calorie burner. Some call it “good fat.”
Until 2009, scientists thought brown fat was only in human babies, who benefit from its warming nature. But in recent years, brown fat has been recognised as a small part of adult fat stores and has become a focus of researchers seeking a better understanding of metabolism.
Stanford said that “before this rediscovery of the role of brown fat, we were focusing our efforts on white adipose tissue—the fat most people think of when they think about obesity and ways to improve weight loss.”
In the study, two study groups underwent blood testing to evaluate changes in their lipids after bouts of moderate-intensity exercise. One group rode a stationary bike for 40 minutes; the other ran on a treadmill for 45 minutes. The 56 study participants included people of different ages and activity levels. “One lipokine just shot right up to the top,” said Stanford.
The researchers found a consistent pattern of increasing levels of a lipokine called 12, 13-diHOME post-exercise. That fat molecule had previously been linked to exposure to cold temperatures.
“We know that exercise is great for metabolism, but we don’t fully understand why that is on a cellular level. This study shows that burning of brown fat and this lipid in particular likely play an important role,” said Stanford.
According to the co-author of the study, Laurie Goodyear, most research suggests that exercise does not increase brown fat’s ability to use up fuels such as carbohydrates and fats, nor does the exercise increase brown fat’s ability to burn more calories—and this makes sense because the fuels are needed instead by the exercising muscles that are rapidly burning calories.
“It’s fascinating that rather than burning calories during exercise—which is what occurs with cold exposure—brown fat is functioning to signal the muscle to take up more fatty acids to use as fuel,” she said. “During exercise, all the different metabolic tissues, surprisingly including fat tissues, ‘talk’ to each other, which enables the muscles to use energy, contract, and perform.”
To confirm the connection to brown fat, the researchers conducted a study on mice. When the animals exercised, they also had increased levels of lipokine in their bloodstreams. But after surgical removal of brown fat stores from the mice, there was no evidence of an exercise-induced increase in the fat molecule—a finding that suggests that brown fat is the source of the lipokine, researchers said.
“This shows that these lipokines can be regulated by exercise, and it highlights a new role that brown fat could play in the metabolic benefits of exercise,” Stanford explained, adding that the results were surprising because previous studies have shown that exercise leads to a decrease in brown fat activity. Those studies found that brown fat takes up less glucose during exercise, which makes sense because it likely does not need fuel during exertion, she said. In this new research, fat molecules are shown to be released during exercise.
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Second country expected to adopt group paywall later this year
Three months on from Slovakia’s group paywall going up around nine news outlets, with “promising results”, means a second small country is expected to adopt the model before the end of the year, according to Piano Media, the company which signed up the publishers and put up the paywall.
Tomas Bella, chief executive of Piano Media told Journalism.co.uk that the paywall generated €40,000 in the first month. The company aimed to sign up around 1 per cent of Slovakia’s 2.5 million internet uses in the first 12 months. He said that after three months the company has achieved two thirds of the target for the first year.
Piano expects to launch one more country this winter and it is likely that a few more countries will follow next year.
Bella did not reveal which countries are expected to follow Slovakia’s model explained that serious discussions are talking place.
We are now thinking about some of the smaller to medium-sized European countries which maybe some of the Scandanavian countries.
We’ve also had interest from France and from Australia.
Bella explained that Piano’s first foray into the bigger markets, such as France and Australia, is likely to trial group paywalls for regional news sites or parts of sites, such as sport.
Slovak paywall model
Nine major publishers with more than 40 websites entered a joint paywall deal in Slovakia which went up in April.
Users are charged €2.90 a month to access content – a bit like paying a satellite or cable TV subscription to view channels owned by different broadcasters.
Piano developed an algorithm that times how long a reader spends on a site, with content weighted accordingly. So the longer a reader spends on a publisher’s site, the more revenue that publisher generates. Video therefore pays more than editorial and the model does not encourage crafty headline writing to generate clicks.
Different sites in Slovakia have opted for varying restrictions with some being extremely porous paywalls with just one article behind the wall, some charge people to access comments or to participate in forums, other sites have much stricter Times-style pay-to-view.
Some Slovak sites opted not to sign up to the paywall deal, Bella explained, but said the “the number of readers for the sites that went behind paywalls is basically very comparable to the sites that remained outside of the paywall”.
It didn’t cause any big drop in the number of readers, it caused only some drops in traffic to specific areas of the sites that went behind the paywall.
Bella also said visitors are moving between paywalled sites, a benefit of the joint model.
Funnily enough in June and July the news sites that are inside the Piano paywall were even doing a little bit better in traffic than the ones that are outside the paywall.
Bella has talked to 10 publishers in the UK and explained from next month the company will be negotiating a deal for a UK publisher with websites abroad.
He told Journalism.co.uk, he thinks adoption in Britain requires wider use elsewhere, with English language sites being far more difficult to sign up to a group paywall deal due to competition from abroad.
I’m not saying it won’t work in Britain but we have to prove it in two or three more countries first.
In Slovakia companies that opted out of the paywall initially will be joining next month.
Publishers that are already part of the group are now “fine tuning” what they put behind the wall. Additional content will go behind the wall and a small amount will be brought in front of the wall.
Changes will be made both ways but much more content is going behind the wall.
The funny thing is some of [the companies that did sign up] said we didn’t want to tell you before but we never thought it would work.
Bella said Piano Media had not heard of any publishers losing advertising revenue due to the wall.
Advertisers and media agencies might be a little worried as publishers are getting a little bit independent and less dependent on their revenue.
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“In Slovakia companies that opted out of the paywall initially
will be joining next month”
it means who really joined? why there are no news about it at their page?
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Houston Astros’ World Series game-used memorabilia still commanding big money via MLB Auctions
December 7, 2017 BlowoutBuzzLeave a comment
It’s been more than a month since the Houston Astros won the World Series but the action is still relatively intense over on MLB Auctions.
Or at least some of the bidding and instant-purchase prices look that way.
Dugout lineup cards for Games 5-7 are up for auction at the moment via the site and end in three days. Game 7 leads the way at $911 after 18 bids, while Game 5 is $810 after 14 bids and Game 6 sits at $520 after just two.
Those have nothing on some of the other game-used items, though.
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LiAngelo Ball joins Thunder's G League team as practice player
Ben Weinrib
Yahoo Sports Contributor
Yahoo Sports December 30, 2019
LaVar Ball is one step closer to fulfilling his dream of sending three kids to the NBA. Well, kind of.
LiAngelo Ball, the middle son best known for getting caught shoplifting while on the UCLA Bruins basketball team, has joined the Oklahoma City Thunder’s G League team as a practice member, a team official confirmed to the Oklahoman’s Joe Mussatto on Sunday.
Ball, 21, is not officially part of the Oklahoma City Blue’s roster — teams are allowed to bring in players for practice — but he has been with the team since the G League Winter Showcase, which kicked off on Dec. 19.
The connection to the Thunder is not necessarily surprising, as Ball divulged in an episode of his family’s reality show “Ball In The Family” in September that Oklahoma City was one of three teams interested in signing him for their Summer League roster.
Unlike his brothers, LiAngelo was never considered a highly touted brother. Lonzo, 22, starred at UCLA and was selected second overall in the 2017 draft, while Yahoo Sports projects 18-year-old LaMelo to go No. 2 in next June’s draft.
LiAngelo briefly enrolled at UCLA under scholarship, but his skill on the court has not matched up with Lonzo or LaMelo. LaMelo also previously committed to play for the Bruins until LiAngelo dropped out in December 2017.
Ball was infamously involved with a shoplifting incident in Hangzhou, China, days before the Bruins' regular-season opener and was suspended indefinitely. Ball did not face any punishment from the legal system but caused an international incident, with help from his dad.
Since then, Ball has bounced around various minor professional leagues. He briefly appeared in the Lithuanian Basketball League before being passed over in the 2018 NBA draft. More recently, he spent time in LaVar's short-lived Junior Basketball Association.
LiAngelo Ball joined the Oklahoma City Thunder's G League team as a practice member. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Make sure to check out our for further details on its contents, ways to gain access, and its expected release date. Don't look now, but the apocalypse is upon us. In fact, the executive said he believes Nintendo has set the innovation bar with its Wii U, and Microsoft and Sony cannot rely solely on more advanced technology if they wish to succeed. While game publishers often spread preorder bonuses between retailers, Fallout 76 preorders guarantee access to the beta across all major stores. The Fallout 76 Standard Edition game disc currently across all platforms. Fallout 76 releases later this month on Nov 16.
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Be the talk of the town when you emerge from Vault 76 fully prepared and patriotically styled in the new frontier! No pre-order bonus is included in this offer, but the straight-up discount is solid. Yes, Fallout 76 didn't exactly receive wide spread praise, but at 41% off it may be worth checking out. While the standard version is recommended for average gamers, diehard franchise fans can pick up premium editions. Speaking to Game Informer via Kotaku , BioWare Edmonton and Montreal general manager Aaryn Flynn said it would be impossible to create a role-playing game today without acknowledging and reacting to Bethesda's award-winning game. Be the talk of the town when you emerge from Vault 76 fully prepared and patriotically styled in the new American frontier! For the full patch notes, check out the post on Rockstar's website. You can even set up shop to trade goods with other survivors.
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A landing page at the company's website confirms the earlier reports. The system is not compatible with GameCube discs, with controller ports and memory slots stripped from the system. The Wii Mini does not include Wi-Fi support, and according to the retailer, will not be able to connect to the Internet at all or make use of online features in games. Be the talk of the town when you emerge from Vault 76 fully prepared and patriotically styled in the new American frontier! All-new graphics, lighting and landscape technology brings to life six distinct West Virginia regions. This person also said those who had previously purchased the game but deleted it, were not able to re-download it.
Please note that your order details will not be visible to the associates at your pick-up location immediately. These are Jailbreak and Redemption and will take place where the original six co-op chapters left off. Be one of the first to emerge! No mention was made of a release in other territories. It will come bundled with a red Wii Remote Plus and matching Nunchuck controllers. Tomb Raider campaign spans 12-15 hours Developer confirms estimated length of new action game; protagonist Lara Croft has regenerative health; sequel dependent on success of first game. The shots focus on a character at right who does not appear to be Agent 47, the protagonist of past entries in the series. New Hitman concept art released Square Enix shows off artwork for next entry in series created live at Montreal International Game Summit this month.
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Midfielder Set To Become Highest Paid Player On Chelsea’s Books
Date: 21st November 2018 at 4:38pm
Written by: Merlin
Lurking in the pages of a tabloid publication this morning is the inference that one of Maurizio Sarri’s regular starters is set to commit his future to Chelsea Football Club.
Whilst we still have high hopes that Eden Hazard will silence the pundits and declare his undying love for the club by putting pen-to-paper on a new deal that is still something we’ll have to wait for.
Instead, we’ll have to raise a glass, or two, to N’Golo Kante, with it being revealed the 27-year-old is ready to sign a new five-year deal that will see him collect a cool £275,000 a week salary.
That sum elevates Kante to the position of being the highest paid player at Stamford Bridge, yes, higher than our jewel-in-the-crown, Eden Hazard.
For Kante it is a just reward for the performances he continues to put in, even though, this season, Sarri has played the played in a position that could, previously, have been decreed as alien to him.
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Ex-Miss Uganda Stellah Nantumbwe on Championing Entrepreneurship
Dedan Kimathi September 8, 2019
Stellah Nantumbwe
When Stellah Nantumbwe aka Ellah won the 2013/14 Miss Uganda crown a lot of opportunities opened up, the world flung its doors open.
In 2016, she scooped a lead role of Isabella Arroyo in the Ugandan version of telemundo soap El Cuerpo del Deseo which went on to be
nominated at the Uganda Entertainment Awards in 2017 for Best TV Series.
Instead she chose not to bask in glory but embarked on a daunting task not many celebrities or socialites would gladly accept, upgrading her books with a view of steering social entrepreneurship.
It is upon this background that the 28 year old has been pursuing a Master of Science degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC
Paris institute situated in Jouy en Josas to further equip her change the narrative.
Established in 1881, the institute is ranked second in Europe as far as business studies are concerned.
“The goal is to foster innovation through the establishment of innovation centers to equip young business owners with the necessary
skills to build sustainable businesses. As an aspiring social entrepreneur, the businesses that I create and support should target
social inclusiveness and aim to illuminate social issues.”
Ellah had earlier obtained a BSc in Business Computing at the University of Greenwich in England.
In a recent interview with State owned New Vision newspaper, she disclosed that although Uganda is one of the most entrepreneurial
countries in the world, the business mortality rate remains scary.
“Our new businesses have a short lifespan and present a significant absence of innovative ideas and poor business management techniques. This can be attributed to myriad reasons,” Ellah said.
Ellah further revealed that she believes formal education with an extension of practical learning to encourage and boost innovation
would create a conducive environment to effectively address the unemployment issue.
Specifically, she partly attributed joblessness to a lack of understanding of proper business principles and opportunities to apply
the techniques in practical situations with minimal real-life repercussions.
Additionally, Ellah intimated that female entrepreneurs are confronted by the age-old problem of defying social expectations in the business world.
“There’s unseen pressure exerted on women to take on a generally ‘male
persona to be able to fit into the any male dominated industry,” she said.
Asked how she has been able to scale heights, Ellah attributes it to a few events in her life such as; moments where life has forced her to
rebuild, situations that have challenged her, loss, failure and adventure.
“I’m inspired by my mother mostly. I believe she deserves all the accolades. I’m also inspired by the uncertainties the future holds.
Due to this, I have no reason to get comfortable with any of my achievements,” she reveals.
“This is the reason I have always been a hard worker and a strong believer in doing my absolute best with the resources made available to me and reaping the benefits of consistency and determination,” Ellah sums it up.
According to the 2018 Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) statistical abstract, although the total working population increased by 1 million from 2013/14 to 15 million in 2016/17 year, overall unemployment rate was at 9.2%.
At 13 percent, females experienced higher unemployment rates than males who fared slightly better at 6% as of 2016/17.
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Distant Worlds Starport Operational
The first starport constructed in the Galactic Centre region has officially opened its doors.
Explorer’s Anchorage, an Orbis starport, has been built in the Stuemeae FG-Y d7561 system as part of the Distant Worlds II expedition.
Councillor Magnolia Gill, the starport administrator, announced its operational status:
“For the last four weeks we have watched our new home take shape, using materials delivered by many hard-working pilots. Now it spins in the galaxy’s heart, a monument to humanity’s ingenuity.”
“As well as serving as a safe haven for future explorers, Explorer’s Anchorage is a scientific research installation. We hope to learn more about the supermassive black hole at Sagittarius A* and other astronomical phenomena in the Galactic Centre.”
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Compact Review: Twin Shadow’s Eclipse
Andy Stone March 26, 2015 March 25, 2015 Review
Twin Shadow – Eclipse
Rating: 64/100
I have a soft spot for artists who unapologetically swing for the fences. It’s intoxicating to hear someone try to live up to their own expectations, even when they miss the mark. On his third album Eclipse, George Lewis Jr. aka Twin Shadow sounds hell bent on performing in front of sold out arenas and though the scale of his work is there, the foundation seems too shaky to support his master plan.
Eclipse occupies hazy territory between the mainstream synth fueled pop rock of Imagine Dragons and the more subtle nuanced touch of indie electronic acts like Washed Out or Passion Pit. The flashes of greatness are blinding on the albums opening track “Flatliners” and the bouncy dance floor gospel of “Old Love/New Love”, but they are exceptions on an album riddled with forgettable tracks that feel simultaneously overblown and undercooked. The man has vision and he comes close to fully realizing it a few times but ultimately the simplest tracks are the ones that stand out on Eclipse.
Every year there seems to be a indie crossover band that makes the leap to the mainstream and Twin Shadow might just be that artist some day. On “Half Life”, a marching mid-tempo synth ballad, Twin Shadow shows he is capable of writing radio friendly melodies undiluted by misplaced grandeur and overproduction. He has a lot of the right instincts to get him to the largest stages in the world but Eclipse feels overpowered by a desire to make the sound bigger and cleaner and more accessible. I have no doubt that Twin Shadow will release a great album one day but Eclipse is not that album.
Top Tracks: “Flatliners”, “Old Love/New Love”, “Half Life”
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Een land van woorden
Ours is a Country of Words
A Documentary by Mathijs Poppe
donated of €4.000
LOCKLINE"Coming from a place that was filled with anxiety and bitterness, they were now heading to a new place, a place they had dreamed of their whole life."
Ours is a Country of Words takes place in Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, that was built when thousands of Palestinians fled their country in 1948. The story we want to tell there takes place at an unknown moment in the future, when the dream of the Palestinian refugees to go back to Palestine becomes reality. The film balances on the thin line between fiction and documentary, between dream and reality. We get to see how families are preparing for the fictional return, but through the scripted events, it slowly becomes clear that their dream is far removed from their daily life in the camp.
'A Country of Words' is a politically engaged documentary, but can also be considered a work of fiction. With the help of the people that I got to know in Shatila, I wrote a script which adds a fictional layer to the film. This fictional layer is a visualisation of the desire that lives in many Palestinians' hearts: to return to their home country. The deeply rooted desire for the return is like a dream that many Palestinians cling to. By turning this dream into reality within the film, we want to ask the spectator to think about the duality of the existence of Palestinians in the refugee camps in Lebanon. As any people in exile, Palestinian refugees’ identity is defined by Palestine, their home country on the one hand, and Lebanon as a temporary residence on the other. By involving the residents of Shatila in the creative process as actors, we hope to provide a free space in which they can formulate their own questions and answers about the world that surrounds them. The scripted scenes in the film are used to obtain a better understanding of the reality of Palestinians in Lebanon. It is exactly through the words they use, as actors, to talk about the fictional return to Palestine, that we can understand more deeply what it means to them personally to live in exile.
Director's declaration of intent
I travelled to Shatila for the first time in 2011 with the motivation and the belief that documentaries can show the world as it really is, expose oppression and rebel against the ruling powers. But I soon understood that a camera is not a neutral interpreter. Slowly I felt I was slipping into a similar approach to that of other photographers, documentary makers and journalists who had come to Shatila. With every image and every question, I pushed the people, who were so hospitable, further into the role of the victim. The images I tried to make of Shatila only had meaning in a culture where Palestinians are shown as victims. Although it is not my intention to deny that the inhabitants of Shatila are living both a political and humanitarian crisis, this is not how I want to show them. It is my role as a filmmaker to question the images I make of a place and how these images have an impact both on the one that is portrayed and the spectator.
When I returned to Shatila in January 2016, I wanted to search for a new role for myself as a director behind the camera, but also for the people I had become friends with in front of the camera. By sharing the production process with them, we can tackle this project as equals and find out what kind of film we can make together. This time, the director is not the sole source of knowledge, but rather the one who helps the actors in their search of the story they want to tell themselves and the words they want to use.
After the withdrawal of the British from Palestine, the Independent State of Israel was declared in 1948. The surrounding Arab states immediately invaded Israel and the war that followed forced more than 700.000 Palestinians to flee their country during the Nakba, the Palestinian exodus. During the war of 1967 between Israel and different Arabic States, the number of refugees increased considerably and today the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East) registered more than 5 million Palestinian refugees. Although the UN declared from the beginning that all Palestinian refugees (both first generation and their descendants) have the right to return, the Israeli government continues until today to deny this right.
The vast Palestinian refugee population is routinely forgotten and ignored in much of the Middle East. Not so in Lebanon. Unlike in other host countries, the refugee question remains at the heart of politics, a recurrent source of passionate debate and occasional trigger of violence. The Palestinian presence was a catalyst of the 1975-1990 civil war, Israel’s 1982 invasion and Syrian efforts to bring the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to heel. Virtually nothing has been done since to genuinely address the problem. Marginalized, deprived of basic political and economic rights, trapped in the camps, bereft of realistic prospects, heavily armed and standing atop multiple fault lines – inter-Lebanese, inter-Palestinian and inter-Arab – the refugee population constitutes a time bomb. Until the Arab-Israeli conflict is resolved, a comprehensive approach is required that clarifies the Palestinians’ status, formally excludes their permanent settlement in Lebanon and significantly improves their living conditions in the camps.
What will this crowdfunding serve for?
The shoot in Shatila is completed and we started the postproduction of the film. To be able to finish image and sound of the film in a professional way, we are still looking for financial support. If you believe this project is worth finishing, please do not hesitate to make a contribution. We are happy with every donation and besides our eternal gratitude, we also want to give you an reward for your help! You can be amongst the very first to see the film, you can get some exclusive digital and printed photos of the shoot or attend the premiere of the film on the big screen. Thank you very much!
"Isn’t cinema the privileged space to question the relationship between real life and ghost-stories, escaped from the past or another world?"
Mohammad Abbas
Naim Abbas
Mohammad Zayat
Jamal Hendawi
Mona Hendawi
Farah Hendawi
Hanan Hendawi
Jihad Hendawi
Nidal Hendawi
Mohammad Hassan
Omran Kablawi
Writer/Director/Image: Mathijs Poppe
Producer: Elisa Heene
Sound: Ernst van Hagen, Ben Raes, David Slotema
Translation: Angela Ulens, Mohammed Hassan, Manal Makieh
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I can't wait to see and listen to this story!
Succes Mathijs, ik ben benieuwd!
Veel succes met de film. Grt wim
Documentaire film is sowieso uiterst waardevol. Veel succes met je project, en hopelijk volgen er nog. M.I.
I'm supporting your gift that is to capture this unseen moments, that many of us pass next to without sensing it. But you have something special to bring to this world, this sensitivity that is to me calling for care among each other. : ) Much Love
Veel succes met het maken van de film! very inspiring your courage and your passion.
So proud of you Mathijs. I wish I would bump into you somewhere and have a conversation about now. I miss you, now that I think of you. As for the film I know you want to do this more than everything else and to feel that way is such a blessing..Go tiger!
Yeah Mathijs! x
Goe bezig Mathijs, succes nog ! grts uit Mortsel , h-w-k-a
So refreshing to see that you are producing something of value with the subjects, not of the subjects. I look forward to seeing the result, and at the same time will, I hope, find something different to my usual reaction on seeing material 'From our correspondent' - which is 'What can I with this?' - other than just add it to my sense of hopelessness.
Ik hoop dat jullie het halen, zou moeten lukken met zo'n een goede productrice :)
cant wait to see it!
Een prachtig project! Veel succes! N.B.
Veel succes met je project
Dag Mathijs, ik kijk er al naar uit ! Groeten, Alex
Veel geluk gewenst met je film !
Mooie film maken hé. Succes!
Mathijs, Go for it! Paps en moeke
Shariff
Klinkt als een erg tof project, maak er een prachtfilm van!
We kijken er naar uit !
Good luck! K&A
Heei Mathijs, fantastisch wat je weer gedaan hebt. Ik ben fan! Groetjes, Sarie
Mathijs, Ik kijk er naar uit! geniet nog van de laatste stukjes werk! x
veel succes Mathijske!
Good luck Mathijs8 I wish you all the best in your wonderful life adventure ;-)
Zet 'm op Mathijseke! Wij duimen dat alles goed verloopt in de editing room en sturen je veel liefs!
I'm looking forward to see the final film, the extract look not inly interesting but also emotionally involving ! Maybe see you in August on the bike ? :) Greetings from Berlin ! Léna.
I love what you have done so far. Very beautiful. I look forward to seeing the entire film. Thank you for serving our humanity.
Succes Mathijs!! Ziet er veelbelovend uit! Liefs, Anne
Doent da goe eh maat!
Veel succes ermee, ik ben benieuwd naar de film, groeten Nadia
All the best, dear Mathijs!
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Veel succes met de film Mathijs! Ana, Domien, Melissa, Jurgen Earlybirds Films
Dag Mathijs, veel succes met de montage. We kijken heel erg uit naar het resultaat. Veel groeten van Christine en Bavo
Jallah, habibi!
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Thank so much for your contribution! You will receive a personal digital postcard of the film and a digital "thank you" package with 3 hi-res photos, the poster and an information booklet of the film. You will also receive the online screener of the film!
This is great, thank you! You will receive a personal digital postcard of the film and a digital "thank you" package with 3 hi-res photos, the poster and an information booklet of the film. You will receive the online screener of the film. You will also be invited for the premiere of the film!
Wow! This is really great, thank you so much! You will receive a personal digital postcard of the film and a digital "thank you" package with 3 hi-res photos, the poster and an information booklet of the film. You will receive the online screener of the film. We want to give you a printed "thank you" package, with 3 printed photos, the poster and a dvd of the film. Your name (or your company's name/logo) will appear in the end credits of the film. You will get a duoticket for the premiere of the film!
Wow! We can't believe it, thank you so much for this great contribution! You will receive a personal digital postcard of the film and a digital "thank you" package with 3 hi-res photos, the poster and an information booklet of the film. You will receive the online screener of the film. We want to give you a printed "thank you" package, with 3 printed photos, the poster and a dvd of the film. You have a chance to get 1 of the 3 pieces of the limited edition of imaginary passports containing collages of visa applications, etc. by Jana Traboulsi. Your name (or your company's name/logo) will appear in the end credits of the film. You will get a duoticket for the premiere of the film!
This is amazing. Thank you eternally for this enormous contribution! You will receive a personal digital postcard, a digital "thank you" package with 3 hi-res photos, the poster and an information booklet and the online screener of the film. We also want to give you a printed "thank you" package, with 3 printed photos, the poster and a dvd of the film ánd 3 big framed pictures. You have a chance to get 1 of the 3 pieces of the limited edition of imaginary passports containing collages of visa applications, etc. by Jana Traboulsi. Your name (or your company's name/logo) will appear in the end credits of the film ánd on all online and offline communication! You will get 4 tickets for the premiere of the film!
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On May 5th 1993 West Memphis, Arkansas, when three 8 year old boys go missing, it leads to frantic search that becomes one of the most shocking child murder cases in history. When it becomes apparently clear that this was a ritualistic crime, three outcast teens who purportedly dabbled in the occult become center for a media storm as the general public is whipped up into a frenzy and a modern day witch hunt starts to play out.
Based on the case that would become known as [WM3], with the homicides to this day currently remain unresolved
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W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, N. A. Sinitsyn, and D. A. R. Dalvit. Quantized beam shifts, Phys. Rev. B Rapid Communications, 2016 (to appear).
A. K. Azad, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, M. Sykora, N. R. Weisse-Bernstein, T. S. Luk, A. J. Taylor, D. A. R. Dalvit, and H.-T. Chen. Metasurface broadband solar absorber, Scientific Reports 6, 20347 (2016).
W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, B. Amorim, G. Bastos, F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa, N. M. R. Peres, and C. Farina. Active magneto-optical control of spontaneous emission in graphene, Phys. Rev. B 92, 205415 (2015).
T. Cysne, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, D. Oliver, F. A. Pinheiro, F. S. S. Rosa, and C. Farina. Tuning the Casimir-Polder interaction via magneto-optical effects in graphene, Phys. Rev. A 90, 052511 (2014).
W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, P. I. Caneda, F. S. S. Rosa, and F. A. Pinheiro. Enhancing near-field heat transfer in composite media: Effects of the percolation transition, Phys. Rev. B 90, 140202(R) (2014).
W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, F. S. S. Rosa, F. A. Pinheiro, and C. Farina. Tuning plasmonic cloaks with an external magnetic field, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 215504 (2013).
W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, F. S. S. Rosa, F. A. Pinheiro, and C. Farina. Spontaneous emission in the presence of a spherical plasmonic metamaterial, Phys. Rev. A 87, 023837 (2013).
C. Farina, W. J. M. Kort-Kamp, Sebastiao Mauro, and Ilya Shapiro. Dynamics of the Laplace-Runge-Lenz vector in the quantum-corrected Newton gravity, Phys. Rev. D 83, 124037 (2011).
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A day workshop on philosophy, legal theory and the question of property
142 and 308, Richard Hoggart Building
Contemporary philosophy has undertaken sustained interrogations of its relationship to law and, to a lesser extent, capital. This has been less true of its questioning of its relationship to the crucial nexus of law and capital: property. Inversely, while critical legal theory has appropriated a welter of concepts and methods from contemporary philosophy, it has often avoided a sustained critical appraisal of the images of law within philosophy itself, and of the place of property within these.
Responding to a resurgent critical interest in the question of property, and especially to contemporary inquiries into the logics of dispossession that subtend capitalism, this workshop will stage a trans-disciplinary dialogue on the legal and philosophical powers – as well the limits and impasses – of property.
Speakers: Étienne Balibar (Kingston), José Bellido (Kent), Brenna Bhandar (SOAS), Robert Nichols (Humboldt), Alain Pottage (LSE), Stella Sandford (Kingston), Bev Skeggs (Goldsmiths), Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths), Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths), Mikhaïl Xifaras (Sciences Po), Hyo Yoon Kang (Kent)
Organised by Brenna Bhandar (Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, SOAS) and Alberto Toscano (Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths)
Étienne Balibar (Kingston)
José Bellido (Kent)
Brenna Bhandar (SOAS)
Robert Nichols (Humboldt)
Alain Pottage (LSE)
Stella Sandford (Kingston)
Bev Skeggs (Goldsmiths)
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths)
Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths)
Mikhaïl Xifaras (Sciences Po)
Hyo Yoon Kang (Kent)
Organised by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano (Co-Director, CPCT).
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Exclusive: Edgar Wright Has Been Asked to Direct an Episode of THE WALKING DEAD Season 2
by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub March 13, 2011
Yesterday at SXSW, Scott Wampler (our Austin contributing writer) got to sit down with director Joe Cornish, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost to talk about Cornish’s first feature film, Attack The Block (which played huge during its midnight premiere last night). While we’ll have the whole interview online later today, one of the gems that came out of their conversation is that Frank Darabont has asked Wright to direct an episode of The Walking Dead season two! While Wright made it sound like he probably won’t do it, it’s still awesome to think that one of my favorite directors might helm an episode of the hugely popular AMC show. For exactly what he said, hit the jump:
Even though Wright says that, “I really enjoyed the first season, and I wouldn’t wanna be the guy that comes in and fucks it up,” it’s hard to think that he could do such a thing. After all, Wright has demonstrated that he can helm any type of scene and I’d love to see what cool shots and zombie busting moves he’d showcase if he helmed an episode of The Walking Dead. So while he makes it sound like he isn’t going to do it, perhaps if enough of us tweet him and write about it online…he might change his mind. After all, they haven’t started shooting the next season yet and I’m sure if Wright told Darabont that he would do an episode they’d find a way to schedule him.
Here’s the part of the conversation that covered Walking Dead. Again, look for the entire interview later today.
Collider: Do you have any interest in getting back into TV? I was a big fan of Spaced. Would you be willing to take something like that on again?
Edgar Wright: Yeah, I think, if it was the right thing. Especially because American TV is amazing at the moment– and so is some British TV. But it’d have to be the right idea. If it was something like, “Oh, I have to do this”, sure, or if it was the right idea…something more in an episodic form.
You wouldn’t want to commit to something long-term, then?
Edgar Wright: Well, I– (stammers)
I’m not offering anything.
Nick Frost: Yeah, whatta you got?
Edgar Wright: (Laughs)
Nick Frost: Would you (direct an episode of) House?
Or The Walking Dead would be good.
Edgar Wright: Frank asked me to do a Walking Dead, actually. But I feel that there’s some subject matter that, like, even though it’d be great– and I love that show: I actually watched four of the six episodes uninterrupted in one run; it was like zombie Pringles– I think that with something like that, with some TV shows, you wanna be in on the ground floor.
So you don’t feel like…did you say no?
Edgar Wright: Well, I really enjoyed the first season, and I wouldn’t wanna be the guy that comes in and fucks it up.
Nick Frost: You probably would, too.
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C-one PAL core
A new update of the C64 PAL core by Peter Wendrich. Finally, games can be played! Sprites work, collisions between sprites and sprite/characters are properly recognized, and it should be cycle-exact now. The flickerfixer has been improved, and should work with all monitors now that support 50Hz vertical rate.
DTV-2 Filesystem creation tool
Adam released a tool to change the Flash-ROM in your DTV-2. This (DOS) program will build a FLASHFS.BIN containing files in the text file you specify. But be careful flashing your DTV. One mistake and you will have a paperweight.
2006-07-31 - 12:00:00 - Week: 31 - Item number: 359 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Program
C-one update
Peter Wendrich has finished the next Alpha version of his C64 core called FPGA64. The new core can now be switched between PAL and NTSC by pressing F12 on the PS2 keyboard. Also, there has been a change in the VGA display that should get rid of the "rolling picture" phenomenon. The MMU of his CPU has also been debugged, it now works as described in the docs. The core still has no correct sprite display, but Peter is getting close. As always, Peter is giving out his complete source. Follow this link to the download page, where we have prepared two archives for you; One with only the binary, and the other with binary and source files for the free Altera Quartus FPGA development software.
2006-02-20 - 12:00:00 - Week: 9 - Item number: 256 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Hardware
DTV - Ask me a question!
There is a new site to ask questions about the C64 - DTV and the Hummer game. You can send your question to Mr. Latch-up. For those who don't know Mr. Latch-up. It is a famous person in the DTV world and don't be fouled by the Mr. There are about 20 questions already answered on this site.
2006-02-06 - 12:00:00 - Week: 6 - Item number: 239 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Web page
DTVMON
DTVMON is a machine language monitor for the C64 DTV (currently only V2). Features (version 0.2): Boot Menu. Installs as resident at 018000-$01BFFF. Simple, efficient and compact... Handles full memory banking (ram and flash). Additional DTV V2/V3 opcodes. NTSC version for the Hummer Game included.
2006-01-23 - 12:00:00 - Week: 4 - Item number: 228 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Program
PAL DTV
When the sale started of the PAL version many people started the hacking. Daniel Kahlin did some fine work in discovering the secrets of the PAL DTV. He has written a program to change the ROM inside the PAL DTV. But how is it possible to change the ROM? It's actually a Flash ROM like the memory in a digital camera. The program works but be careful. If you use it the wrong way it will erase your entire DTV.
2005-12-26 - 12:00:00 - Week: 52 - Item number: 207 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Web page
PAL - C-one
Jeri Ellsworth announced on retrogaming radio that, in her spare time, she is porting over her DTV PAL core to the C-one. She is hoping to have something ready in a month or two. If you want to know more about the C-one then join the CommodoreOne mailing group on Yahoo.
DTV Demo
Style has released their final version of the first demo for the DTV (v1), originally shown and released at SWRAP 2005 on September 17. The demo is a showcase of the cblast technique and offers a glimpse of some of the new effects possible with the DTV hardware. Style is a North American demo group, active on c64 since December '90.
2005-10-21 - 12:00:00 - Week: 47 - Item number: 180 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Demo
PAL DTV Hacked
It had a bit of a slow start. But the PAL version of the C64 DTV is hacked. On the forum of dtv-hacking you can see where the connections of the disk drive and keyboard need to be made. Booting to BASIC is a bit different, hold down the CTRL instead of the K while turning on your DTV. Check the forum for more news about the C64 DTV.
C64 DTV - Version 3
Yes there is a third version of the C64 DTV. After the NTSC and the PAL they came up with something very different. Some one made a Hummer simulator with the use of DTV technologie. It's sold by RadioShack for about 25 Euro's.
The first PAL DTVs are seen in the UK. The companies Argos and Amazon are selling the second version of the Commodore C64 in a joystick through their websites. The new version has a number of different games. The price is about 30 - 35 euro. The PAL-DTV is expected in the rest of Europe in the coming months.
PAL core
Peter Wendrich has published a new Alpha version of his C64 core. This time the CPU has experienced a few updates (decimal mode and a few illegal opcodes), and an experimental MMU is included now that will be useful for future expansions like using the SD-Ram, which is much bigger than any 6502 processor can handle without additions to the hardware. Still no sprites in the VIC.
New PAL core for the C-one
The Dutchman Peter Wendrich had already published a PAL C64 core for a Xilinx FPGA but now he has ported it to the C-One with a bit of help from Tobias Gubener. There is a long way to go as this is still an alpha version. It's missing sprites but has a working IEC bus and can access the real SID.
C-one - Turbo CPC
The Turbo CPC by Tobias Gubener has experienced another update, this time with a new graphics mode that is provided by a new version of the system flash V0.47. The new mode increases the pixel rate to 33Mhz (before: 25Mhz), giving the possibility to display a higher resolution.
2005-06-13 - 12:00:00 - Week: 24 - Item number: 90 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Hardware
VIC 20 lives inside the C-One
Tobiflex has transfered the VIC20 PAL Core from MNikeJ into the C-ONE. The IEC Support is included.
2005-03-21 - 12:00:00 - Week: 12 - Item number: 46 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, VIC-20
Finaly a word about the PAL version of the DTV. Basicly is it's the same as the NTSC version but the games are different. New games are Alleykat, California Games (full version), Head the Ball, Marauder, Maze Mania, Mission Impossibubble and Netherworld.
2005-01-10 - 12:00:00 - Week: 2 - Item number: 7 - Category: 8-Bit NextGen, Web page
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James Campbell is currently Chief Executive Officer and President of Rockwell Diamonds Inc. Prior to this he was Vice President - New Business for Lucara Diamond Corp, following Lucara's acquisition of African Diamonds plc, where he was Managing Director for four years.
Preceding this, James was with De Beers for over twenty years, culminating in being General Manager responsible for advanced exploration and resource delivery in the Global Mining and Exploration group. During his career with De Beers, he also led a number of diamond exploration and evaluation programmes and small-scale mine development as well as being involved in corporate and strategic management and being Nicky Oppenheimer's Personal Assistant.
James holds a degree in Mining & Exploration Geology from the Royal School of Mines (Imperial College, London University) and an MBA with distinction from Durham University. James is a Fellow of the Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Materials, Chartered Engineer (UK), Chartered Scientist (UK), a Professional Natural Scientist (RSA) and a member of the Institute of Directors of South Africa. He is also a director of Bugeco sa, Swala Resources Inc and Stellar Diamonds plc.
As part of James' social commitment to South Africa, he serves as vice chairman of the South African Ballet Theatre ('SABT'), chairman of the South African Ballet Theatre Trust ('SABTT') as well as chairman of Common Purpose South Africa. He is also a licensed Lay Minister in the Anglican Church of South Africa and an accomplished Ballroom and Latin American dancer. James lives in Irene with his wife, who is a ballet and ballroom dancing teacher, and two university going daughters.
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Your Blinks Communicate More Than You Think
Written by Mae Rice
As a species, humans don't think hard about blinking. It's just not the central drama of our days. However, a recent study found that blinks are important non-verbal communication — and that when we're talking to someone, we subtly and subconsciously respond to the length of their blinks.
Related Video: How Long Can You Maintain Eye Contact Before It's Awkward?
Blinking is more impressive than you might expect. It's the fastest motion the human body can do, and it happens an average of 13,500 times a day — just shy of 10 times a minute. That makes it the action you do most frequently with your face. It's not for purely utilitarian reasons; you blink far more than you strictly need to for lubricating your eyeballs.
Humans don't blink at a steady rate throughout their lives, either. As infants, we barely blink at all, but as we get older, our blinking accelerates until it levels off at that 13,500-a-day rate. This gels with research that suggests blinking and a complex social life generally go hand in hand. Primates blink more when they live in larger groups; humans specifically blink more when they're mentally stimulated, and they blink most during face-to-face conversation.
Previous research has found that people don't blink at random in conversation, either. Though you blink subconsciously, you nevertheless tend to do it toward the end of a conversation partner's "turn" in a chat. Researchers believe that it's part of an array of gestures, like nodding, that you use to signal you understand what someone is telling you. Blinking is like nonverbal shorthand for "Got it!"
But are all blinks created equal?
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The Power of Long Blinks
A new study started with the hypothesis that no, not all blinks are equal. Specifically, the researchers at the Netherlands' Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics hypothesized that short blinks meant something slightly different from long blinks.
To test this theory, they asked 35 people to converse with a digital avatar projected on a screen. This female figure would ask subjects open-ended questions — like "How was your weekend, what did you do?" — and then listen as they responded. She signaled her listening with nods paired with either long or short blinks. (When researchers observed organic human conversations, they found that nodding and blinking typically went hand in hand.)
Both of the avatar's blinks lasted for less than a second; the short blink was 208 milliseconds, and the long blink was 607 milliseconds (translated to music, this would be a sixteenth note and an eighth note, respectively, played at around 60 beats per minute). That timing made them read as basically unremarkable; when asked about the avatar's blinking afterward, subjects said they didn't notice anything special about it. Nevertheless, the length of the avatar's blinks had a measurable effect on conversations. Short blinks led to longer, more detailed answers; long blinks prompted subjects to respond much more briefly.
Why? The researchers think that long blinks may signify understanding more strongly than short blinks. So if a short blink means "I'm following what you're saying," a long blink means, "I totally get it." Perhaps this is because long blinks read as more intentional; conscious blinking takes longer than blinking done instinctively.
More broadly, this study shows that we're always subconsciously interpreting each other's body language. Even when we're speaking, we're "listening," too — to our conversation partner's gestures. And when a friend tells you someone "seemed to understand" or "seemed to be losing interest," but can't put their finger on exactly why, they may be talking about blinking without even knowing it.
For the ultimate how-to guide on human communication, you'll definitely want to check out Dale Carnegie's classic, "How to Win Friends & Influence People." The audiobook is free with an Audible trial. We handpick reading recommendations we think you may like. If you choose to make a purchase, Curiosity will get a share of the sale.
Written by Mae Rice January 22, 2019
Here's Why You Unconsciously Copy Other People's Mannerisms
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After nearly 50 years, SF Symphony gets around to Lutoslawski’s cello concerto
Joshua KosmanJanuary 25, 2019Updated: January 25, 2019, 7:18 pm
Cellist Johannes Moser (left) performs Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto with conductor Christian Reif and the San Francisco Symphony. Photo: Stefan Cohen
On Thursday, Jan. 24, Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto from 1970 — a work of extraordinary wit, invention, theatrical vibrancy and expressive weight — finally took its place in the San Francisco Symphony’s repertoire. It got a magnificent performance featuring Johannes Moser as soloist and led with panache by the orchestra’s resident conductor, Christian Reif.
So that’s good.
Now, some might suggest that almost half a century is too bloody long to wait for an orchestra to finally perform a piece this important. They might insist, with a note of impatient asperity, that all those performances of the familiar cello showpieces by Dvorák or Saint-Saëns or Tchaikovsky in the intervening decades were just filling time with repetitious folderol.
But let’s take a sunnier view of things, and instead exult in the fact that a historical omission has finally been rectified. Some things are simply worth waiting for, and Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto is one of them.
It’s remarkable, for one thing, how the composer was able to rework the traditional power dynamic of the concerto — one against many, soloist against the machine — in ways that are simultaneously orthodox and completely innovative. Few concertos are quite so explicit about the struggles of a lone instrumental voice facing an oppressive mob, and yet few approach this narrative with the kind of vivacity that Lutoslawski musters.
The piece begins with what seems like a droll, poker-faced joke, as the soloist plays the same single note over and over with mechanical regularity. But the effect is neither impersonal or rote — it’s placid and serene, with a sort of Zen-like stasis that bespeaks deep contentment.
Then little tendrils of musical material begin to sprout in the interstices, like weeds pushing through the bricks of buckling pavement — a spray of light-footed notes placed high in the cello’s upper register, or a whimsical growl from down below. For a solid four minutes, the cello inhabits this private arcadia, alone with its gently happy thoughts.
Naturally, that can’t last, and soon the piece’s designated villains — first the trumpets, then their thuggish comrades the trombones — arrive to brutalize the cello into silence. From then on, the drama follows a consistent pattern that gets increasingly darker, as the cello’s expressions of self — everything from short interjections to a broad, beautiful melody in the third movement — are squelched by the orchestra.
It’s hard not to interpret all of this as a political fable about life in an authoritarian regime. Lutoslawski’s career, after all, was dogged by the limitations of the Polish political system, and — like just about every major cello work of the 20th century — the concerto was written for the Russian virtuoso and political activist Mstislav Rostropovich.
Yet Thursday’s performance in Davies Symphony Hall revealed just how far beyond mere political allegory the piece extends. Moser gave the music an emotional urgency that moved steadfastly from theatrical clowning — this is a rare instrumental piece that boasts a vein of laugh-out-loud comedy — to dark-hued ferocity. By the end of the performance everything felt painfully real (a gorgeous, rich-toned encore, the Sarabande from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1, was a welcome palliative).
Conflict, in fact, was the consistent theme of Reif’s program, which began with a buoyant, slightly garish account of Strauss’ “Don Juan” — one in which tempos and dynamic levels were often pushed almost to the breaking point — and concluded after intermission with Prokofiev’s capacious Fifth Symphony.
In both pieces, Reif seemed intent on playing up the music’s turbulence, which made for a gripping account of the first movement of the Prokofiev, but robbed the second and fourth movements of a little of their creamy elegance. No matter — any program that includes the Lutoslawski must count as a success.
San Francisco Symphony: 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan 25-26. $50-$225. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 415-864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org
Joshua Kosman
Joshua Kosman Joshua Kosman is The San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic. Email: jkosman@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JoshuaKosman
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Marc Newman
Verified marathon swims by Marc Newman.
1985 Sep 9 English Channel England to France 33 16 11:58:00
1986 Sep 7 Faros Marathon Swim Stari Grad Bay round-trip 16 17 03:33:07 (5/37)
1986 Sep 27 English Channel England to France 33 17 08:35:00
1987 Aug 6 English Channel England to France 33 18 08:55:00
1988 Jul 31 Traversée Internationale du lac St-Jean Péribonka-Roberval 32 19 07:23:58 (1/NA)
1990 Jul 29 Traversée Internationale du lac St-Jean Péribonka-Roberval 40 21 10:36:40 (10/16)
1990 Sep 12 English Channel France to England 33 21 09:23:00
1991 Feb 6 Rottnest Channel solo Mainland to Rottnest Island 19.7 21 04:55:13
1992 Jul 26 Traversée Internationale du lac St-Jean Péribonka-Roberval 40 23 10:31:34 (7/18)
1993 Aug 1 Traversée Internationale du lac St-Jean Péribonka-Roberval 40 24 10:17:51 (15/22)
2016 Jul 23 English Channel England to France 33 47 16:09:00
Channel Swimming Association - Fastest Solo Swim (1986)
Channel Swimming Association - Most Meritorious Swim (2016)
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Sarah Jackson Randall
Name Sarah Jackson Randall
Born 28 Feb 1824 Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island
Died 21 Dec 1914 Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
Buried Joseph Farnum Lot, Homestead Avenue, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
Last Modified 30 Jun 2015
Father Rowland Robinson Randall, b. 12 Apr 1780, North Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 27 Mar 1873, , , Rhode Island (Age 92 years)
Mother Alice Keene Olney, b. 23 Apr 1795, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 13 May 1870, Allendale, Washington, Rhode Island (Age 75 years)
Married 30 Oct 1814 Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
Family Edwin Farnum, b. 26 Dec 1820, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 21 Apr 1853, , , Rhode Island (Age 32 years)
Married 31 Oct 1844
1. Alvin Randall Farnum, b. 12 Oct 1845, prob, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
2. Eleanor Farnum, b. 19 Dec 1847, prob, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
3. Edwin Harris Farnum, b. 17 Oct 1849, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 30 Oct 1943, Graniteville (Johnston), Providence, Rhode Island (Age 94 years)
+ 4. Herbert Ruthwen Farnum, b. 19 Aug 1853, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island , d. 13 Dec 1901, Georgiaville (Smithfield), Providence, Rhode Island (Age 48 years)
Born - 28 Feb 1824 - Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island
Died - 21 Dec 1914 - Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
Buried - - Joseph Farnum Lot, Homestead Avenue, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
!SOURCE: GEDCOM file sent by Clayton J. Olney to Weldon Whipple, 16 Apr 2002. Gives birth 21 Feb 1824 in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island. Gives marriage 31 Oct 1844.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Phebe Harris," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 25 Jun 2015. Cites Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950 (birth 28 Feb 1824 in RI, death, burial). Gives marriage Bef 1846.
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The Best New Music in Rock, Alternative, Hip-Hop, and More
Expertly Curated by the CoS Staff
Tim Hecker contributes “Veil Scans” to Adult Swim Singles Series — listen
Electronic musician turns in his second track for the annual program
on September 07, 2016, 3:28pm
The Adult Swim Singles Series is known for calling on a wide range of artists for their annual program. This year alone they’ve had contributions from Protomartyr, Earl Sweatshirt, Against Me!, HEALTH, and Vince Staples. But just because they have access to an embarrassment of talent doesn’t mean they’re above returning to the well every once and awhile. That’s why they’ve once again tapped Tim Hecker for their latest release.
Hecker previously delivered “Amps, Drugs, Mellotron” for Adult Swim in 2014. This time, he’s handed in “Veil Scans”, an abrasive bit of ambiance that is sure to raise your anxiety levels like a well-scored horror flick. Check it out below, and download it via Adult Swim.
Hecker released his excellent new album, Love Streams, earlier this year. Find the “Veil Scans” single artwork below.
“Veil Scans” Single Artwork:
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M.I.A. shares new version of “Foreign Friend” featuring Dexta Daps — listen
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Do You Remember Me?
by Andy Pratt
This Is Love 04:14
Bereft 03:22
Everything Is Gone 03:10
Chasing Shadows 04:33
The Snake Charmer 05:27
Gonna Love You Til The Day I Die 02:59
Avenging Annie 05:00
Home Of The Brave 04:28
Walking In The Air 03:39
No Yer Not 03:45
How Are You 03:45
The Sun Is My Desire 03:42
Do You Remember Me 02:51
Slippery Slope 04:37
Dog Days And Crazy People 04:49
"Do You Remember Me" contains 15 tracks, all recorded and produced by Fernando Perdomo over the last couple of years. None of them have really had an official release and 6 of them have never been released at all. This (fruitful) collaboration between Andy and Fernando ends a period off many years where Andy seemed to have disappeared from the musical fore front, although he had always continued towrite and record.
First time Andy Pratt caught the public's eye was with 'Avenging Annie' his 1973 hit single, long after the release of his first album, "Records Are Like Life" (now available in digipak format with a bonus track). The song, set partially to the tune of Woody Guthrie's 'Pretty Boy Floyd', was included on his album 'Andy Pratt' and became a timeless FM classic and Pratt's calling card. He never scored another hit like 'Avenging Annie' (Later recorded by Roger Daltrey finding itself on no less than 6 of Daltrey's albums; Pratt's version became the B side of Bruce Springsteen's 'Blinded By The Light' on a highly collectible CBS promo disc. Bette Midler phoned Andy personally to discuss possibly recording the tune.
Andy next recorded two albums, produced by Arif Mardin, for Atlantic, each one to critical acclaim and helping to develop his reputation as one of rock music's most unique and meaningful songwriters and artists. Rolling Stone critic Stephen Holden wrote in 1976 'By reviving the dream of rock as an art and then re-inventing it, Pratt has forever changed the face of rock'. That alone could have been the end of a fairy-tale story. However the Big Time appeared to be just around the corner. Pratt and his intermediate label Nemperor Records, moved to CBS/Epic for the fourth album that contained a lighter, jazzier feel while lyrically sporting Andy's new-found Christianity. On that disc Pratt worked with ELP/Yes engineer Eddy Offord.
Andy Pratt returned in 1982 with the mini album 'Fun In The First World' (included in 'The Age Of Goodbye') on Boston's Enzone Records. Produced by Modern Lover Leroy Radcliffe, it is his finest and most compact rock 'n roll work up to that point in time. Pratt's religious overtones hampered some of his earlier work, but here he uses his beliefs and his vision to deliver an exceptional science-fiction epic in the title track. 'Fun In The First World' is a really magnificent and forgotten work that deserves a better fate' (AllMusic.com).
On the strength of 'Fun In The First World' Andy Pratt got a deal offered from Lamborghini Records in London. The label that also signed Stiff's Joana Lewie, fellow-Bostian Peter C. Johnson and reggae artist Jack Miller, started with great media hype, but unfortunately never got off the ground and thus that Andy Pratt album got shelved. In Europe the Lamborghini recordings (with Rhythm tandem Andy Newmark and Tony Levin) were briefly available on the album 'Not Just For Dancing' on EMI/Aztec Records in Holland and Megadisc in Denmark.
Since then Andy has released a dozen or so albums that reflect, more often that not, his spiritual beliefs, but has returned to the high standards he set for himself long ago with recent releases like "I'm Alright" and "Masters Of War." Andy is in a constant state or writing and recording and you can expect a new album from him at any given point in time.
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Hermes.CoI Map1 #278436
Systems scientists join hands with knowledge media researchers and developers, social entrepreneurs for thrivability, communication designers and other stakeholders, to make an incisive step toward universal thriving (bootstrap re-evolution of key societal systems)
An idea emerged during the 57th conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences "Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet: Systemic Leverage Points for Emerging a Global Eco-Civilization" in Haiphong, Vietnam, last July. While we were discussing the systemic leverage points that can open up a way to universal thriving, it became transparent that we were in the midst of a paradox:
There are no systemic 'ears' that are ready to hear our insights; and there are no systemic 'hands' that are ready to implement them.
The goal of Hermes is to dissolve this paradox.
The same paradox plagues research and knowledge work in general (see for ex. Alex Wright's "Glut" and David Weinberger's "Too Big to Know").
The same paradox marks many of our 'problems', including the global or sustainability-related ones—they tend to be results of our habitual ways of perceiving and doing, or in other words of our societal systems. But this means that trying to understand them and handle them as problems—that is, within the confines of our conventional ways of perceiving and doing—cannot lead to solution.
As ubiquitous as it might be, this paradox is most naturally dissolved exactly on the terrain of the systems sciences, because what is needed to break its spell is a change of self-perception: Are we only what our culture told us we are (academic researchers, whose job is to observe the world 'objectively', and write articles)? Or can we also perceive ourselves as a systemic component in a larger system—and hence take responsibility for our function in that system? And for the functioning of that system as a whole?
The paradox has not remained unnoticed in the systems community. Indeed, the 'curation' of "Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet" before the event—in particular the CIEL and GELL initiatives—combined with various other developments within systems sciences and beyond, brought us a single step away from initiating a potentially sweeping or snowballing remedial trend.
The purpose of Hermes is to take that step.
What follows is a minimal concrete proposal how this step may be realized in practice. We introduce Hermes by describing its vision, mission and organization—with the following caveat: Faithful to the spirit of ISSS57 Vietnam, Hermes embraces design for evolution (as Erich Jantsch called it) or design for emergence (as we might call it today) as its core principle. What is presented here is a rough sketch, whose intended purpose is to initiate a dialogue leading to a completely open co-creation. To that end we use DebateGraph—a dialog mapping tool—to initiate and conduct an open, Bohmian dialog. Even the procedure for co-creating Hermes (or whatever the project or projects we may create together might be called) is experimented with and co-created, by the Community of Impact, which is now being organized to develop this way of working.
The key challenge to which this proposal aims to respond is to streamline the work on an attractive grand vision through a well-defined, small and feasible project.
The vision that motivates Hermes is a cascade of new paradigms developing in key areas of society and culture, following each other in a society-wide domino effect.
The rationale is that:
this is what our condition is calling for (see the Vision node)
in systems sciences, as well as in other disciplines and traditions (sociology, political science, cognitive science, physics...), insights have been developed that are ready to ignite such change—provided they can be publicly known and understood
information technology has been developed that can enable such change
Our vision is not new; a number of systems scientists shared it and advocated it and worked for it: Erich Jantsch until his passing away in 1980; and then Erwin Laszlo, Bela Banathy and numerous others. But not only systems scientists! While it is obvious that Web-interconnected information technology can play an enabling role in social-systemic change, it is less known that the development of significant parts of this technology has been motivated with exactly that goal in mind:
“Many years ago, I dreamed that people were talking seriously about the potential of harnessing a technological and social nervous system to improve the IQ of our various organizations. What if, suddenly, in an evolutionary sense, we evolved a super new nervous system to upgrade our collective social organisms? Then I dreamed that we got strategic and began to form cooperative alliances of organizations, employing advanced networked computer tools and methods to develop and apply new collective knowledge.” (Doug Engelbart, a leading inventor, explaining his 1951 vision in an interview with Valerie Landau and Eileen Clegg.)
What is still lacking is:
a way to bring the systems (thinking) from the blind spot into the focus of the public eye
a functioning societal 'nervous system' that can make the condition of the systems, and the way they influence our daily experience and our future prospects, seen and understood
a societal 'arm' that can re-configure its key systems, when such re-configuration is called for
The mission of Hermes is to develop what is lacking; i.e. to bootstrap this development, or metaphorically—to flip the first domino, by being the first domino that has flipped.
Our first and most important step is to dissolve the paradox. Our point of departure is the insight that no amount of talking and writing will do; the dissolution properly begins with a co-creative act—of a completely new kind!
"We need to be the systems we want to see in the world," proclaimed the rewarded students on the closing ceremony of the Haiphong conference. The mission of Hermes is to initiate a systemic self-organization within the systems movement. Think of Hermes as (evolving):
an 'ear' within the systems community, capable of hearing everyone's most relevant insights and turning them into most relevant and agile messages to the larger community—and making sure that those messages are heard, and put to use
a 'hand' within the systems community, capable of configuring new structures within the systems community, to make it capable of performing this and other new tasks
a visionary research projects, funded from multiple sources
a game-like environment, where key moves toward global thriving are being made—and where a thriving culture is already taking shape, and being lived
From an academic point of view, the mission of Hermes is to evolve a new paradigm in the systems sciences. It its context, the described paradox has the role of an anomaly that motivates the new paradigm. Within Hermes, we no longer simply inherit the ways of working and the paradigm of conventional science —where we consider ourselves as 'objective observers of reality'; and where we consider our work as 'known', once it's published; we see ourselves and our profession as systemic components within the larger system of the society, or within a hierarchy of larger systems; and we self-organize as it may best suit this role. A thorough change of priorities and values naturally follows. And from it, a vast new field of action.
From the point of view of the ongoing initiative to apply the collective intelligence-related and more broadly Doug Engelbart's ideas to the systems movement, that is being realized through the CIEL and GELL projects, Hermes proposes to introduce a slight broadening of scope, and perhaps a small declination of focus, which we point to by using Doug's keyword 'augmenting'. The subtle but key point is to use technology-enabled self-organization to augment the intelligence of not only our own community, but also—and indeed primarily—of the larger community, where our insights can make a difference.
On the pragmatic side, Heres undertakes to vastly augment the positive social impact of the systems movement. And on the academic side, it extends the visionary meta-scientific impulse that was conceived by Ludwig von Bertalanffy and other founding fathers, by initiating a new paradigm and a new notion of basic research (where the core task is to co-create a knowledge work that truly works).
There is, however, also a third, evolutionary or social-psychological view, which points to a key challenge that Hermes must be able to overcome. As Bela Banathy observed, among others,
we have arrived at the threshold of the third revolution: the revolution of conscious evolution, when it becomes our responsibility to enter into the evolutionary design space and guide the evolutionary journey of our species.
As it has always been the case when revolutionary changes were under way in society, we are held back by our outdated socialization: We have been socialized to accept our societal systems as reality, and to seek the betterment of our condition and the solutions to our problems within their confines. Reversing this means changing our social psychology. It means first leaving, and then reconfiguring our comfort zone. That requires both inner and outer work. The key challenge of Hermes is to evolve a new way of being. We do that by being the change we want to see in the world. We do the inner work by working through the resistances we meet while transforming our own practice.
Hermes distinguishes itself from other similar initiatives such as the EUCLID and the FuturICT by its primary focus, which is not on creating information that can be remedial or useful, but on evolving knowledge-work culture and infrastructure by which remedial or useful information can be created, brought into public awareness, and applied in core systems and conventional practice.
Hermes profiles itself additionally by instantiating three most potent synergies:
between (systems) science and knowledge media research and development
between (systems) science and communication design
between (systems) science and social entrepreneurship
Hermes champions a contemporary or scientific approach to contemporary issues and to societal systems, where systems scientists provide systemic know-how, and knowledge media researchers and developers provide the tools and the building materials. Hermes bootstraps this development. Since Doug Engelbart presented their famous demo in 1968, information technology in general and the knowledge media technology in particular (of which DebateGraph is an example) have been developed so much that they now have potential to revolutionize our society, by providing a 'nervous system' that will allow for completely new forms of communication, coordination and co-creation. But we still need to learn how to change the systems! Already a brief analysis will show that we have hitherto simply been adding the information technology to speed up the routines that have been developed around the old technology (paper and lecture hall, see the blog post Information Age coming of age), and in a society that had entirely different challenges and information needs than ours! Conversely—we predict that systemic innovation will open up large new markets for information technology, invite creation of new technology, and vastly augment the positive social impact of new media.
Creative communication design has been largely abandoned to commercial and superficial interests; it is all too often used as an instrument of counter-culture, or to manipulate our consumer and political preferences. Hermes instantiates a synergy through which the communication design, and corresponding media and techniques, are composing the top of a knowledge pyramid connecting systems scientists and other experts and stakeholders, where the key insights that are synthesized through knowledge work are communicated in a way that secures their society-wide understanding and impact.
Social entrepreneurship is traditionally not part of the academia. This naturally changes when systems scientists embrace the cause of updating key societal systems; and when social entrepreneurs embrace updating key societal systems as often the best—and sometimes the only—way to further the causes that they wish to serve.
From the point of view of sustainability (or thrivability or world problematique or resilience), Hermes fosters a new way of working—it makes systems capable of autopoiesis or evolution—hence capable of handling, or better said of not creating what we now identify as problems.
To each of us personally, and to other humans whose conditions and future prospects we wish to improve, Hermes offers an alternative way of dealing with whatever problems might be claiming our attention. It is as if we have been trying to carry or pump the water out of our flooded cellars—or helping other people carry or pump the water out of their cellars; and then we learned how to join hands and regulate the riverbed, so that flooding no longer occurs.
Hermes offers to create synergies that vastly augment the impact and prospects for success of each of its protagonists—both individuals and organizations— as (will be) detailed in the corresponding nodes.
The (initial prototype of the) 'engine' that moves Hermes is given in the Vision node, where we co-create the ideas we want to contribute to the world—which are then used as material for pieces and moves, as explained below. The Vision node orchestrates our work on three central and closely related goals:
co-creating a vision—of a thriving society, of the contemporary society (showing what hinders it from thriving), and of a way from the latter to the former
co-creating a way to co-create a vision—where (systems) scientists collaborate together, and with the 'crowd' and with creative communication designers
co-creating a way to co-create systems—by co-creating or bootstrapping an instance within the systems sciences
The rest of Hermes may be imagined as an infinite collaborative board game:
infinite, because it has no limit in time; and because the allowed pieces and the possible moves are unbounded
collaborative, because in this game there are no losers—or better said, globally, either we'll all win, or we'll all lose.
In the nodes adjacent to this one, Hermes is described in terms of its:
protagonists, which are the invited or participating people and organizations
vision, where we co-create our vision and the 'engine' of Hermes, as already described
pieces, which we create or co-create to enable moves
moves, which we make to improve everyone's position on the board, and enable new moves
people stories, where we tell the stories of historical people who saw and developed parts of our mission and way of working
our story, where we explain how Hermes undertakes to forge a missing link between the systems movement's present and its much larger potential social impact
dictionary, where we explain or define our keywords
The presented initial configuration is minimal— just barely sufficient for illustration, and to seed the game. In addition to the already described work orchestrated around the Vision node, the central piece is "It's the systems!". There our goal is to 'make the news'—create moving, even shocking
evidence that it's really the systems where our political, environmental and even persona sensibilities need to be focused
expressed in media-rich and attractive form
ready to be placed into the media, used in political campaign, or sent as part of an application for donorship or funding (i.e. used for making a variety of moves)
We begin by:
weaving our web of relationships and aligning our intentions, by writing CtC's, the commitments to collaborate (or by critiquing or changing this way of working)
weaving together our vision
creating pieces
inviting participants
editing the dictionary
And not the least—by discussing and improving Hermes, by editing this graph and making comment nodes.
a story introduction to the project vision in the blog post Ode to self-organization—Part One
an academic introduction to the project theme in Dino's ISSS57 article Bootstrapping Social-Systemic Evolution
Hermes.CoIHermes.CoI☜Systems scientists join hands with knowledge media researchers and developers, social entrepreneurs for thrivability, communication designers and other stakeholders, to make an incisive step toward universal thriving (bootstrap re-evolution of key societal systems)☜F1CEB7
Our Vision »Our VisionOur Vision☜Co-creating a vision of a thrivable world.☜5CD992
Pieces »PiecesPieces☜We co-create pieces to enable moves☜DE7179
Moves »MovesMoves☜Strategic moves planned or made, to improve our position☜5CA4D9
Questions »QuestionsQuestions☜Questions—such as How shall we be? or What shall we do? to make a difference that makes a difference—that in a natural way introduce Hermes☜FFB597
Dictionary »DictionaryDictionary☜Meaning of our keywords☜9FDDBE
Participants »ParticipantsParticipants☜Aligned people and communities☜D3B8AB
Visionaries »VisionariesVisionaries☜To enliven our cause ☜D3B8AB
Our story »Our storyOur story☜How it continues the history☜00CFE4
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1. About Dinosaur Hunter Game Survival
2. How to play Dinosaur Hunter Game Survival
3. Tips and Tricks Dinosaur Hunter Game Survival
About Dinosaur Hunter Game Survival
Dinosaur Hunter Game Survival is a new online shooting game that we added today on the Dinosaursgames.net site. You can come here to enjoy this game today with your friends. Similar to some other dinosaur hunting games, your mission in Dinosaur Hunter Game Survival is to hunt huge giant dinosaurs. Try to survive to accomplish the goal that the game offers.
In this game, you play as a hunter. You will shoot and kill huge dinosaurs, you will use a gun to complete the missions required by the game. The game has 6 levels, with each level will bring your own tasks and challenges.
In the first level, in front of you is a target board and your task is to shoot 5 dinosaurs. Complete all the goals at this level, you will be unlocked at level 2. To unlock the next level, it requires you to complete the goals in the previous level. Look around and shoot carefully because the dinosaurs appear suddenly, and they can attack at any time.
On the left of the game, the screen will show your health, once you are attacked by dinosaurs, this health will be reduced and the game will be over.
It can be said that this is a game about Naruto being a hunter. When you play at a higher level, the challenges will be harder. I played Naruto Dragon Hunter for hours and the furthest I ever reached was level 10. I enjoyed this game because of its classic graphics and simple gameplay and I believe you will like it too. Good luck and have fun!
Use the WASD or Arrow keys to move
Left-click to fire
Right-click to aim
Use the space key to jump
L to switch cursor lock
- Shoot the target exactly
- When hitting the target, you need to pay attention to other targets
- Look around if you don't want the dinosaurs to attack you again.
- Try to fulfill all the goals that the game sets
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Dinosaurs are a special theme that appeals to most children across the planet. There is something about these extinct creatures that attracts and holds the attention of kids. You will surprise to see that they can recite all Dinosaur Names and facts about each one through Dinosaur Pictures. And they always learn and finding everything about These prehistoric creatures. So what are dinosaurs? "And why are they so much concerned? What are the precise definitions of dinosaurs that make dinosaur lovers always want to learn about them?
1. What are Dinosaurs
2. When and Where did dinosaurs live?
2.1 The first Triassic period (252 to 201 million years ago)
2.2 Jurassic Period (201 to 145 million years ago)
2.3 Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 million years ago)
2.3.1 Velociraptor
2.3.2 Triceratops
2.3.3 Stegosaurus
2.3.4 Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex)
3. Physical Features, classification of Dinosaurs
3.1 Physical Features
3.2 Classification of Dinosaurs
3.2.1 Ornithischian Dinosaurs
3.2.2 Saurischian Dinosaurs
3.2.2.1 Theropods
3.2.2.2 Sauropods
4. Why dinosaurs extinction?
5. Dinosaursgames.net, the best place to bring awesome dinosaur games for kids!
What are dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs are living creatures on our planet more than 150 million years ago. The name Dinosaurs means "terrible lizard" and has many meanings because they were big creature and scariest. They have a variety different of sizes from a chicken to others over weighing nearly 100 tons. Their diets are also very different, one of them being herbivores while others carnivorous and others an omnivore eats both plants and meat.
Scientists have not yet discovered how dinosaurs are extinct. Their fossils were first discovered in 1800. By studying these fossils, researchers know that dinosaurs are ancient cousins of some species like crocodiles, snakes, bird, and lizards today.
When and Where did dinosaurs live?
Scientists have studied that dinosaurs lived from about 245 to 65.5 million years ago during the Mesozoic Era. And they divide the Mesozoic into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous.
The first Triassic period (252 to 201 million years ago)
This is a time when the climate is relatively dry and hot and especially without polar ice as it is today. This is also the environment where dinosaurs first evolved. With this dry climate, some reptiles have heat-resistant skin, such as the skin of some mammals "Therapsids", some flying lizards like Pterodactyl, Pteranodon...others Coelophysis that have "hollow form", Plateosaurus.
Jurassic Period (201 to 145 million years ago)
The Triassic period is a mass extinction of terrestrial animals. However, some dinosaurs still survive. The more they grow and increase in quantity. During this period, the temperature was cooler due to more rainfall. These changes lead to a number of large grow plant species such as ferns, and ponytail. This vegetation is the main food for some herbivorous dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Diplodocus, and Brachiosaurus.
Cretaceous Period (145 to 66 million years ago)
The dinosaurs at this stage grow very diverse and are present almost everywhere in the world. Besides, a number of other groups of organisms also develop diverse. However all dinosaurs do not have to live at the same time, they can live together and not extinct together. They live in all different environments, from tropical forests to arid deserts.
In this period dinosaur development was very diverse. For examples some dinosaurs that live during this period include
Velociraptor (aka Raptor): This dinosaur is about 3.3 meters tall, weighs 60kg and it has a smart brain to plan and attack prey. Its bite force reaches 8000 newtons equivalent to today's spotted hyenas. It is a formidable predator in the wild world.
Velociraptor is not only the obsession of small dinosaurs like Zephyrosaurus but also brings fear to even larger dinosaurs like Tenontosaurus. Therefore, the Raptor is also known by the scientific world as speed bird of prey, to describe their ability to destroy prey quickly. And it is considered one of the key factors contributing to the brand's success of Jurassic Dinosaur Games. Especially is the Jurassic Park Games game.
Triceratops is a herbivorous dinosaur. It is 3 meters tall, 9 meters long and weighs about 10 tons. Triceratops is one of the familiar dinosaurs in a series of Dinosaur Coloring Games. Despite its scary shape, it's a dinosaur gentle and herbivorous species. It only uses horns to fight predators like T-Rex. And it's also one of the most commonly found fossils.
Stegosaurus belongs to the family of dinosaurs eating benign plants. Like the bison, it prefers to be fed with ferns or sesame trees rather than fighting. Stegosaurus's name means a roof lizard. Stegosaurus children who love dinosaurs can easily recognize Stegosaurus thanks to the thorny horns growing on its back in Dinosaur Coloring Pages. Besides, It appeared in some famous games like Dino Run 2, Dino Run 3 ...
This herbivorous dinosaur possesses a height of up to 10.1m and weighs 3,500kg, equivalent to the size of a large bus. They appeared at the end of the Jurassic period, about 150 - 148 million years ago.
Despite its size, Stegosaurus is the lowest IQ dinosaur. According to scientists' research, the Stegosaurus dinosaur's brain is very small, just as big as a walnut, equivalent to a dog's brain. So Stegosaurus dinosaurs are classified as the species with the proportion of brain correlated with the lowest body rate.
Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex)
Tyrannosaurus rex appeared from about 68 to 66 million years ago. It weighs 7 tons, has small characteristic hands and is a violent predator and predator with their powerful bite. T.Rex's biting force is equivalent to a pressure of 8,000 pounds, 10 times the bite of an adult crocodile.
Based on the bone structure, scientists estimate they can run at 25 miles per hour, but some other scientists think this number is up to 32 miles per hour. Fossil samples show that the average life expectancy of Rex is 30 years
Tyrannosaurus rex is probably the most popular dinosaur in all species. It appears in most dinosaur-related games, including "Jurassic Park Games", "Dinosaur Robots Games", iconic games that cause destruction and death like "Miami Rex", "NY Rex" ...
Physical Features, classification of Dinosaurs
Scientists have classified dinosaurs based on many different factors, but mostly their fossils. Everything involves dinosaurs like fossil dinosaur bones, dinosaur eggs, and other trace fossils like footprints and muzzle rocks.
Dinosaurs come in many different sizes and body shapes. Some are giant creatures, weighing more than 100 tons. Others are as small as the bird.
Most skin of dinosaurs has scales. We still don't know what color the skin of dinosaurs is. However, some scientists believe that dinosaurs are usually gray and green. Others think dinosaurs have vivid colors. With these colors, they can hide predators, and maybe males want to catch the attention of females.
Some large dinosaurs, they move slowly on four legs to support their huge weight. Others can move with their hind legs and stand upright. Because they have lightweight, hollow skeletons and allow them to move quickly.
Some types of carnivorous dinosaurs have sharp teeth. They use this set of teeth to tear flesh and prey. Others have long necks and eat vegetation and leaves.
You may know that dinosaurs are egg-laying creatures. Currently, scientists have not yet studied how long dinosaurs live, but based on their fossils, scientists show that some may have survived for a hundred years. And they can live in herds. They were able to protect themselves in many ways such as using their horns to protect them, others using their sharp teeth.
Classification of Dinosaurs
Scientists have classified dinosaurs into two groups. A group is based on the structure of the hip bones of the dinosaurs - Ornithischia dinosaurs. The other group is lizard - Saurischia dinosaur.
Ornithischian Dinosaurs
This is a dinosaur that looks like the birds today. Ornithischians are people who eat plants. They can move on their two or four feet. They have flat teeth to crush hard vegetation. Stegosaurus is an example. It's a plant-eating dinosaur with a small head's. It has large, triangular bones protruding from its back. Or another dinosaur is Triceratops, with horns like a modern rhino.
Saurischian Dinosaurs
This species of dinosaur is very similar to that of reptiles today. They are one of the largest creatures that have existed on our earth. Some species have some common characteristics with today's birds. The first bird discovered by scientists is Archaeopteryx - a Saurischian species. And then they divided them into two species: the carnivorous theropod and the plant-eating sauropods.
Theropods
These species of Theropods are comprised of all carnivorous dinosaurs. Theropods go on their hind legs and they use sharp claws and teeth to catch and tear prey flesh. They can hunt alone to catch and eat smaller plant-eating dinosaurs. Occasionally, they hunt in groups and attack larger dinosaurs. Theropods include some species such as Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, and especially Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur.
Sauropods
Sauropods are the largest terrestrial herbivores ever living. They move on their four legs and are considered the largest of all species. An interesting thing about this dinosaur is that they have very small heads and brains compared to their giant bodies. Sauropods all have long necks, which allows them to take food on the tallest plants. Some species can also stand up with their hind legs to rise higher into the tree. In addition, they use long and muscular tails to hold equal when standing. Examples for some Sauropods are Brachiosaurus, Wikimedia Focus, and Apatosaurus.
Why dinosaurs extinction?
There are many reasons to think that dinosaurs are extinct. Extinction dinosaur is still a mystery and controversial for many scientists. They came up with different theories.
Some scientists believe that dinosaurs died because temperatures on Earth were too hot or too cold for them.
Others believe that an asteroid has fallen to earth. The falling meteorites can create dust and block sunlight. Plants will stop growing and lead to food-eating dinosaurs that will die from lack of food. And they become prey to other dinosaur meat eaters.
Other scientists maintain that dinosaurs can turn into modern birds like ostriches today.
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Tag: SegWit
SegWit versus Bitcoin Unlimited
In the operation of Bitcoin, there is a crisis brewing. Bitcoin mining pools are restricted by a feedback-control loop which they defined, in the days of the inception of Bitcoin, only to be able to “mine” 1 Block every 10 minutes, which is inserted into the block-chain when that has been achieved, and which acts as a slate, onto which all Bitcoin transactions must be recorded. A block currently occupies 1MB of data, and the size of individual transactions to be recorded in it, can vary greatly, but averages 500 Bytes for the simplest types of transactions.
What this means, is that 1 Block can typically hold 2000 transactions, but will only be mined every 600 seconds, on the average, so that a global rate of available transactions of 3 /second would seem to follow. Because the world that uses Bitcoin is presently trying to conduct transactions at a faster pace – because in some parts of the world, Bitcoin is a currency – there have sometimes been escalations in the transaction fees, which are charged according to how many KB of one block the transaction consumes. Recently, the transaction fees were around 2 milliBits/kB, or 0.002 BTC/kB. That counts as extremely expensive, since 1 BTC is approximately worth CAD 2000 right now, meaning that the transaction fee could be around CAD 1.- . Many items and services people might want to buy, would not cost much more than the CAD 1.- of my country’s real currency.
Bitcoin operators recognize that a problem exists, and there exist two camps who are in conflict right now, over what to do about it:
Bitcoin Unlimited
Out of these two groups, Bitcoin Core represents the status quo.
What Bitcoin Unlimited is proposing, sounds straightforward: Increase the block-size, and allow for it to be increased again, as the demand for transactions increases in the future. But there are some problems with what Bitcoin Unlimited is proposing. Changing the format of the blocks, and/or the protocol, would essentially create two types of currencies:
The legacy currency, which might be referred to as BTC -units, and
A new form of Bitcoins, which might be referred to as XBT -units.
If one mining pool was unilaterally to adopt a new Bitcoin block-format, this would be called a ‘Hard Fork’. In the event of a hard fork, people who held Bitcoin-amounts on the legacy block-chain, would see that that legacy block-chain has been imported into both newly-forming block-chains. Wallet-holders would therefore see, that they have a double-dipping; they’d have their present amounts both as BTC and as XBT. But, if they were to mix their Bitcoins into a new block, using a type of transaction that has more than one input, those Bitcoin-amounts would become invalid on the other, newly-differing chain.
There would be a bigger problem in the event of a hard fork, which is known as the risk of a Replay Attack. Because the legacy chain was not designed with the possibility of two future continuations in mind, after a hard fork, if a wallet-holder was to pay for a service in, say, XBT, then the payee – or somebody else – would be able to use the credentials the wallet-holder used in his own transactions, which worked for XBT, and could replay those transactions – actually signing the same inputs as before surreptitiously – but this time, pay out the amounts to another public address, as a BTC -amount. So the payer would see both his XBT and his BTC coins disappear, while only having authorized one of the two transactions himself, out of the legacy-chain.
As an alternative to a hard fork, Bitcoin Core is proposing a short-term solution named “SegWit”. This is a proposed solution, that will cause fewer bytes of data to be written to the block, per transaction, and which it is hoped, will allow the increased number of transactions to be served, that the world is asking for right this instant.
This is a video, which describes in storybook-form, what SegWit proposes. Essentially, a Bitcoin transaction possesses a list of inputs, and a list of outputs. No public address really owns the transaction, but the transaction proposes to use unspent outputs, made to the person who holds the private key, for the public key the outputs were made to – that constitute his Bitcoin balance – as an input or as inputs, and to state somebody else’s public address as the recipient of the outputs.
What Bitcoin experts know, is that the inputs-list of a transaction takes up much more space, on average, than the outputs list does. The reason for this, is the fact that in order to specify an input, Bitcoin is so restrictive, that one specific output must be identified, and not just one public address, to which the output was received. This means, that the complete Transaction ID must be stated in the inputs-list, as well as the sequence-number, the position of the output received, in the outputs-list, of the specified transaction, so that the current wallet-holder can use it as an input. This is expensive in the number of bytes used, because in addition to that, the public key of the recipient must be embedded in the inputs-list, as well as the signature with which the holder of the public address authorized the received output be unlocked.
Transaction ID : 32 + 4 Bytes
Sequence Number : 4 Bytes
Public Key : 33 or 65 Bytes
Signature : ~72 Bytes
Additional Bytes used for script-instructions: (?)
But there is an added twist to how Bitcoin works. We might expect that this information is simply entered by software, into fields that belong to a transaction with a specific syntax. But as it stands, only the fields (1) and (2) above exist statically in a transaction. The rest is embedded as literal constants, in a very scaled-down forth-like language called “Script“.
The way script works in general, is that the piece of script in the inputs-list of the recipient, is executed before the piece of script in the outputs-list of the sender. The script of the output defines the conditions that need to be met, in order for the recipient – in another transaction than the transaction that states this script as an output – to be able to claim the amount. In order to satisfy those conditions, the script of the recipient – in his inputs-list – leaves a number of objects on a stack, which the script in the outputs-list of the sender can use as input.
According to the way Bitcoin has traditionally worked then, was that the input defined by the recipient, would place his public-key, and his signature onto the stack, in expectation that this is what the output of the sender requires. The input does this in the form of an embedded public key, and an embedded signature, in its actual script, which were placed there by software running normally on computers, and not running through script.
But the output script of the sender would then expect these data to be on the stack in a predefined order, and would verify that two conditions were met:
When hashed, the public-key must equal the public address of the intended recipient (Those are not really the same thing), ( :1 )
The signature must be decrypted by the same public key, to equal a hash of the transaction being claimed as input.
In order for the outputs-script to verify this, it must also receive the Transaction ID of the transaction it belongs to on the stack, but this is not the responsibility of the inputs-script of the recipient to place there.
What SegWit proposes, is that the inputs-script should neither need to state the public key of the recipient anymore, nor his actual signature, thus making the transaction shorter. Thereby, something needs to signal, that this public key should be taken ‘from the side’, from the “Extended Block”, but fed to an established output script.
While this is all very fascinating, it reveals two very serious problems of its own:
Continue reading SegWit versus Bitcoin Unlimited
Posted on July 17, 2017 July 21, 2017 Tags Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Script, Bitcoin Unlimited, Block-Chain, Block-Size, Full Fork, Hard Fork, Malleability Bug, Public Keys, SegWit, SegWit2x1 Comment
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Enterprise Insights
Data Protection: Survey Reveals Cracks in Readiness
What data protection issues and trends are the most important to enterprise IT pros? According to a new survey from Sepaton, a data protection provider, disaster recovery and regulatory compliance topped the list, a shift from “improve disaster recovery,” 2010’s top issue. “Data will be unrecoverable in the event of a disaster” and “Regulatory compliance issues (retention, restore, etc.)” were the top backup/data protection fears.
Given that a quarter of respondents are protecting 200 terabytes or more, and another 10 percent manage between 100 and 200 terabytes, it’s easy to understand why recovery is key. What’s more interesting to me is that though many releases I see these days give vague descriptions of the rate of data growth, the Sepaton survey actually quantifies that growth. Nine percent of respondents say data is growing more than 50 percent annually, and eight percent say growth is between 41 and 50 percent. Another third (36 percent) peg the figure at between 21 and 30 percent. That’s a lot of growth.
How are organizations protecting their data? Sixty percent use a mix of tape and disk-based backup technologies; 57 percent are using tape libraries at their main data centers; about 48 percent use disk-based backup with deduplication; onsite snapshots on NAS filers is popular at 44 percent of these enterprises. For remote/branch offices, physical tape is used at over half of surveyed enterprises; disk-based backup came in second, followed by replication, onsite snapshots, and cloud backup applications. When asked what technology they’d be using in a year, the trend was toward disk-based backup and using less physical tape.
I asked Joe Forgione, senior vice president product operations and business development at Sepaton about his reaction to these numbers -- for his take on tape and disk media in the enterprise and what trends he sees.
“Large enterprises are tiering their data protection based on the value of the data. The most valuable data in the data center is retained on disk and replicated to a remote site for a retention period of weeks to months for fast recovery from disk. At that point, the data may be expired or vaulted to tape utilizing existing consolidated tape infrastructure in one data center for deep archive (based on long-term retention requirements).
“The trend is to leverage/consolidate existing tape infrastructure in data centers for deep archive purposes but utilize disk for day to day data protection operations which ultimately reduces the need for more physical tape infrastructure. With the ability to dramatically reduce WAN bandwidth with deduplication technology, branch offices are now deploying automated disk based data protection locally for fast recovery of data onsite while replicating to the data center for DR and deep archive on tape.”
Larger data volumes take their toll on backup windows. Although just one in ten enterprises (11 percent) say they need no more than five hours, over a quarter (26 percent) say they need more than 24 hours to complete a full backup. It takes more than just time to complete a full backup -- it takes more hardware. Fifty percent of respondents said they added 1 to 3 new disk-based data protection systems in the last two years; 12 percent added 3 to 5 new systems.
Following “unrecoverable data” and “regulatory compliance” as top concerns comes “adopting/migrating to new technology will cause disruption” as a key concern, which should have vendors concerned. After all, providing higher service levels with any new product -- let along new technology -- can be cause for worry.
Nearly seven in 10 respondents concede that their enterprise “fell short on data protection.” Part of this is likely due to the “do more with less” mantra, which could explain why “insufficient budget” was reported by 32 percent of respondents as the primary reason for inadequate data protection; 21 percent say their team is understaffed. Nearly a third (32 percent) say their data protection doesn’t fall short. Lucky them.
There are clearly key issues that need IT’s attention. For example, only 43 percent of respondents said their disaster recovery testing “is frequent enough and reflects a realistic DR scenario.” That leaves 57 percent not fully prepared. Worse, 35 percent of remote or branch offices are unprotected.
The survey, conducted in April, focused on the 168 enterprise IT professionals in companies with a minimum of 1000 employees and 50 terabytes or more of data to protect in North America and Europe out of an original survey size of nearly 600 people.
You can read the full survey results here (short registration required).
-- James E. Powell
Editorial Director, ESJ
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WEF at Davos: Thunberg calls for end of fossil fuels while Trump promotes them
Michelle Lewis - Jan. 21st 2020 11:45 am ET
The 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos launched its annual meeting today with an agenda focused heavily on climate change. This year’s theme is, “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.”
EGEB: Hawaii’s solar capacity soared in 2019
- Jan. 21st 2020 11:00 am ET
Electrek Green Energy Brief EGEB Green Energy
In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Hawaii’s solar capacity grew by 21% in 2019, its largest-ever annual increase.
The 50th World Economic Forum launches with conflicting messages from Trump and Thunberg.
Enevate announces an extreme fast-charging lithium-ion battery.
Here are some of the most innovative cleantech companies in 2020
- Jan. 20th 2020 11:23 am ET
Cleantech Group, which supports the development and marketability of clean technologies, has released its annual report, “Global Cleantech 100: Leading Companies and Themes in Sustainable Innovation.”
The report highlights the top 100 private cleantech companies expected to make the most significant market impact over the next five to 10 years.
EGEB: Qatar builds a solar farm that will meet 1/10th of its energy needs
Electrek Green Energy Brief EGEB Green Energy Solar power Lithium-ion battery
Qatar to build an 800 MW solar farm with Total and Marubeni.
A Tokyo University of Science team are developing potassium-driven rechargeable batteries.
Cleantech Group announces its Global Cleantech 100, the companies most likely to make an impact.
Climate Crisis Weekly: Indonesia loses two Unesco islands to sea-level rise
- Jan. 18th 2020 9:00 am ET
Climate Climate Crisis Weekly
Two islands in an Indonesian Unesco world biosphere reserve have disappeared due to rising seas.
Microsoft announces it will be carbon negative by 2030.
Australian firefighters saved the world’s last remaining “dinosaur trees” from the bushfires.
EGEB: GM names chief sustainability officer to lead net-zero emissions efforts
GM names chief sustainability officer to lead carbon-neutral efforts.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban describes his new climate policy as “Christian Democratic.”
Richmond, California, a key export route to Asia, bans the shipping of coal from its port.
Digitimes: Backlit Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro coming later this year, 13-inch MacBook Pro…
Upcoming Apple Podcasts expansion into original content will include companion content for…
EGEB: Natural gas growth will slow while green energy rises in 2020, says EIA
- Jan. 16th 2020 12:00 pm ET
Natural gas growth is predicted to slow in 2020 while green energy is predicted to grow.
Investment giant BlackRock pulls out of financing thermal coal.
Indonesia is to get its first floating solar plant.
BlackRock, world’s largest investment manager, drops thermal coal
Michelle Lewis - Jan. 16th 2020 11:54 am ET
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, announced that it will no longer invest in thermal coal. It also said it will drop company directors who fail to act on financial risks from climate change.
Tesla director James Murdoch attacks family’s media over climate-crisis denial
- Jan. 15th 2020 2:55 pm ET
Climate Climate change
Tesla independent director James Murdoch, the son of News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch, has publicly criticized his father’s media outlets, including Fox News and News Corp, for promoting climate-crisis denialism.
EGEB: Rhode Island puts solar panel systems — on diesel public transit buses
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority launches 33 diesel buses with solar panel systems.
The European Commission has budgeted €1 trillion for European Green Deal.
A new $5 million cleantech impact fund — LACI — launches in Los Angeles.
European Commission budgets €1 trillion for European Green Deal
Michelle Lewis - Jan. 14th 2020 4:03 pm ET
The European Commission announced today that it will be budgeting at least €1 trillion of investment over the next 10 years to make Europe carbon neutral.
EGEB: IBM is developing a seawater battery prototype, more
IBM tests batteries made with seawater components — and they look promising.
Ocean temperatures hit a record high in 2019 — and finance is going to alter due to climate change.
Scientists at a Scottish university have developed the world’s first recycled brick.
[Update: S9/S9+] January 2020 security patch now rolling out for the Galaxy S8/S8+, Note 9
WhatsApp finally gains a dedicated dark mode in latest app beta update
[Update: Now available in US for $129] The Nokia 2.3 unveiled with Android One, 4000mAh…
Latest Twitter for Android update crashing immediately on launch
Scotland scientists invent groundbreaking low-emissions, recycled building brick
Scientists at Heriot Watt University in Scotland have developed the world’s first building brick that’s made from 90% recycled construction and demolition waste.
The K-Briq uses less than one-tenth of the energy in its manufacture, creates one-tenth of CO2 emissions of a traditional fired brick, and can be made in any color.
EGEB: Budweiser’s parent becomes largest corporate green energy buyer in consumer goods industry
Electrek Green Energy Brief EGEB Green Energy Wind power Solar power
Anheuser-Busch InBev is going to be powered by 100% solar.
London mayor Sadiq Khan has formally launched London Power, a new green energy company.
Construction starts on what will be the Netherlands’ largest offshore wind farm.
London’s mayor launches City Hall-owned green energy company
Michelle Lewis - Jan. 13th 2020 9:54 am ET
London mayor Sadiq Khan has today formally launched London Power, which is owned by City Hall. It will provide 100% green energy to its customers.
London Power is powered by Octopus Energy, the only “Which? Approved” energy supplier in the UK.
Climate Crisis Weekly: Young activists tell Davos leaders to dump fossil fuels
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Greta Thunberg and 20 other young activists are calling on world leaders to abandon fossil fuels.
London has installed three awesome “City Trees,” which are moss towers that eat pollution.
This tiny house is not only seriously cute, it’s also eco-friendly and resistant to natural disasters.
EGEB: Texas used more green energy than coal in 2019, more
Texas’ use of green energy surpassed its use of coal in 2019.
JetBlue announces that it will offset emissions for all domestic flights from July 2020.
Everon and Arcadia announce a new partnership to drive clean energy charging.
Hydraloop has won Best Startup and Best Sustainable Project at CES 2020.
JetBlue will offset emissions for domestic flights from July 2020
JetBlue announced this week that it will offset emissions from jet fuel for all domestic flights from July 2020.
It is the first major US airline to go carbon neutral on domestic flights.
EGEB: Trump ignores climate change in rewrite of US’s core environmental law
- Jan. 9th 2020 10:00 am ET
EGEB Green Energy
Donald Trump is expected to announce the overhaul of the National Environmental Policy Act today.
Bruichladdich Distillery Company in Scotland is switching to 100% green energy.
France delays decision on new nuclear reactors until the end of 2022.
Here’s how this Scottish whisky distillery will be 100% green by 2025
Michelle Lewis - Jan. 9th 2020 8:00 am ET
The Bruichladdich Distillery Company is on the island of Islay, the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides off Scotland’s west coast. Bruichladdich distills three types of single malt whiskies and a gin.
And by 2025, the distillery intends to be 100% net zero. Here’s how.
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Canadian students reject Justin Trudeau’s attack on Palestine activism, free speech
Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 15 March 2015
Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau digs for votes by attacking students who support Palestinian rights. (Adam Scotti/Flickr)
A vote on divestment taking place today at Montreal’s McGill University has attracted national attention in Canada after Liberal Party leader and would-be prime minister Justin Trudeau attacked student organizers and questioned their right to free speech.
“The BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] movement, like Israeli Apartheid Week, has no place on Canadian campuses,” Trudeau tweeted. “As a @McGillU alum, I’m disappointed.”
The BDS movement, like Israeli Apartheid Week, has no place on Canadian campuses. As a @McGillU alum, I’m disappointed. #EnoughIsEnough
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 13, 2015
Trudeau added the hashtag “#EnoughIsEnough” in his tweet, signaling support for a similarly headlined Montreal Gazette op-ed which alleges that the divestment resolution would “marginalize Jewish students.”
Campaigners for the campus vote are hitting back in defense of their freedom of conscience and expression.
“Freedom of speech is a core Canadian value that has been enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and perhaps much to politicians’ dismay, that does not only mean the protection of popular speech,” Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights McGill (SPHR McGill) said in a statement emailed to The Electronic Intifada. “Once again, Israel is being singled out with unconditional support from government officials.”
“The only way that we will be able to remove the intentional suppression of discussion around Palestine that scares spineless politicians such as Trudeau and others is to refuse to be sidelined by their attempts to harass students at one of Canada’s foremost universities,” the statement adds.
Rex Brynen, a professor of political science at McGill, also responded that he is “disappointed” that Trudeau “apparently opposes free speech rights of Canadian students.”
The Liberal Party has governed Canada for much of its history, but lost power to the Conservative Party in 2006. In 2011, the Liberals suffered their worst defeat in decades, collapsing to just 34 seats in Canada’s 308-seat House of Commons.
The party has pinned its hopes on Trudeau to lead it back into government at national elections in October.
Trudeau’s most significant achievement to date is being the son of Canada’s legendary late prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
While no one accuses Trudeau of having his father’s political acumen, charisma or wit, supporters hope that name recognition and nostalgia will carry the Liberals to victory.
SPHR McGill asks: “why would Justin Trudeau even bat an eye at campus politics? Because the work we are doing is impactful enough to scare privileged authoritarian centrists who cater to a demographic not fully representative of Canadian citizens.”
Outside backing
The student organizers also charge that opponents of the divestment resolution have failed to win support on campus and have thus turned to the “voices of external mayors and government officials to interfere with campus politics.”
On its Facebook page, the “No” campaign – urging students to vote against divestment – boasts of support from Trudeau, the mayors of two Quebec towns, and from Montreal member of parliament Irwin Cotler.
The SPHR McGill resolution – similar to many others that have been put before student bodies in North America – calls on the university to “divest and refrain from investing in companies that pose social injury by contributing to the continuation and profitability of the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.”
Backing BDS crackdown
With his intervention, Trudeau has effectively lent his support to the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper which recently signed agreements with Israel to repress the BDS movement.
In fairness, Trudeau is not the first Liberal Party leader to attack Palestine solidarity activism on campus for political opportunism and expediency.
In 2010, then Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff issued a statement calling on Canadians “to join with us in condemning Israeli Apartheid Week.”
But as critics noted, Ignatieff was engaging in the ultimate hypocrisy.
A few years earlier Ignatieff had written in The Guardian about a helicopter tour he had taken over Palestine.
“When I looked down at the West Bank, at the settlements like Crusader forts occupying the high ground, at the Israeli security cordon along the Jordan river closing off the Palestinian lands from Jordan,” Ignatieff wrote, “I knew I was not looking down at a state or the beginnings of one, but at a Bantustan, one of those pseudo-states created in the dying years of apartheid to keep the African population under control.”
SPHR McGill notes that “McGill took a stand and divested from South African apartheid in 1986 against the will of those in positions similar to that of Trudeau’s. This motion is no different.”
This post will be updated with the results of the vote, which is underway.
Voting underway for whether to vote by secret ballot, due to some students feeling uncomfortable voting openly pic.twitter.com/Ayxxt1rR6o
— SPHR_McGill (@Sphr_McGill) March 15, 2015
The divestment motion was defeated by a vote of 276-212.
212 for, 276 against. Very close margin. This is an uphill battle, thank you to all who came out. Definitely more to come.
Full statement from SPHR McGill
We are unfortunately not surprised to see that leaders in our government have spoken out against the right of free speech that their “liberal” rhetoric advocates for. Freedom of speech is a core Canadian value that has been enshrined in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and perhaps much to politicians’ dismay, that does not only mean the protection of popular speech.
As a pro-Palestinian student group in Canada, it seems that our voices do not matter, even if we are advocating against injustices and violations of human rights that have already been condemned internationally.
Once again, Israel is being singled out with unconditional support from government officials. So why would Justin Trudeau even bat an eye at campus politics? Because the work we are doing is impactful enough to scare privileged authoritarian centrists who cater to a demographic not fully representative of Canadian citizens. And while we put in relentless effort to network with students and student groups by advocating inalienable human rights and speaking out against oppression and apartheid, the opposition has failed to win over students and has privileged the voices of external mayors and government officials to interfere with campus politics. This motion was drafted by a grassroots student organization with integrity and perseverance in dorm rooms and cafes, and will not be silenced by the opposition’s external endorsements and endowments. We will stand up for what is right. McGill took a stand and divested from South African apartheid in 1986 against the will of those in positions similar to that of Trudeau’s. This motion is no different.
The only way that we will be able to remove the intentional suppression of discussion around Palestine that scares spineless politicians such as Trudeau and others is to refuse to be sidelined by their attempts to harass students at one of Canada’s foremost universities.
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Israeli Apartheid Week
Permalink Nabil Al-Murabit replied on Sun, 03/15/2015 - 19:33
Living in Murika, it's a given that your politikal representative is a stooge for zionist interests. What's most surprising is that it seems that sickness has migrated to Canada. But to my brothers north of the border, keep fighting. There were those in Murika that didn't want divestment from South Afrika, but it happened
Permalink Raphael Uribe replied on Sun, 03/15/2015 - 20:21
This motion failed.... Guess they didnt have the most support on campus.
Give it time
Progress is being made. Five years ago a vote wouldn't have even taken place. Two years from now, thanks to the ongoing efforts of these students, this outcome will have been reversed.
View from Canadian left
Permalink Everett Coldwell replied on Sun, 03/15/2015 - 21:00
When Mr Trudeau came into the political spotlight a couple years ago as leader of the Liberal Party, many of us had high hopes for this young, well educated politician, that spoke his mind.
Over the last year that has changed. Like most politicians in Canada Mr Trudeau shamelessly caved into the Israeli lobby. At first ,in a state of denial, I tried to tell myself that Mr Trudeau really does not believe what he says regarding the besieged Palestinians. Now I'm having my doubts.
In 2011 election I was a strong supporter of the Liberal Party. In 2015, I'll be looking at the NDP and Green Parties.
Everett - Halifax, NS
Truthy Alert
Permalink Nadine Lumley replied on Mon, 03/16/2015 - 15:54
No way JT doesn’t know truth; his brother Alexandre did a doc. re Israel apartheid http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/...
Justin Trudea
Permalink Guy replied on Mon, 03/16/2015 - 17:02
"In 2011 election I was a strong supporter of the Liberal Party. In 2015, I'll be looking at the NDP and Green Parties"
So will I .I was sort of looking at the lead now option ,of voting strategically ,in order to get our present dictator in chief out of office,but now with Justin Trudeau's support for Bill C-51 and now this .No way am I going to even consider the Liberals .I have been supporting Elizabeth May financially for years and would seriously consider the NDP if I think that they have a small chance of winning in my riding.
Shame on Justin Trudeau for caving into the Israeli agenda.
Trudeau Weasel
Permalink Zionism Is Not Judaism replied on Mon, 03/16/2015 - 00:49
In the old Jim Crow South whilst Harper and Kenney would openly have been Dragons, Titans or Kleagles in the KKK, this slimy weasel (Trudeau) would only have the "courage" to be a member of the White Citizens Council. Nonetheless, racist he is.
Mulcair
Permalink Raphael replied on Mon, 03/16/2015 - 03:22
Madame Coldwell
By all means vote NDP especially since Mulcair has been and still is pro Israeli and a known Zionist . I think you should go Green and vote May.
Permalink T Bennett replied on Mon, 03/16/2015 - 12:40
What's surprising about former colonialists states supporting other colonialist regimes? Wasn't Reagan a fan of South Africa?
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Theroux Paul
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip, via pretty Central American towns and the ancient Incan city of Macchu Pichu. Shivering and sweating by turns as the temperature and altitude rise and plummet, he describes the people he encountered — thrown in with the tedious, and unavoidable, Mr Thornberry in Limón and reading to the legendary blind writer, Jorge Luis Borges, in Buenos Aires. Witty, sharply observed and beautifully written, this is a richly evocative account of travelling to ‘the end of the line’.
Язык: en
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Pharma marketers should use storytelling to improve the industry’s reputation
By Patricio Robles April 14th 2016 16:18
Times are tough for pharma marketers.
Their websites are offering up a poor UX, and the American Medical Association has called for a ban on direct-to-consumer ads that pitch prescription drugs and medical devices.
Throw in public outrage over drug prices and it’s clear that pharmaceutical companies face an uphill battle in winning consumers over.
But the challenging environment could prove to be beneficial as it forces the industry to be more instrospective.
As Medical Marketing & Media’s Jaimy Lee detailed, officials and attendees at the upcoming Lions Health Festival are urging pharma to improve how it communicates with consumers.
“We neglect the origin story. Instead we run these dumb ads,” Alexandra von Plato, group president of North America for Publicis Healthcare Communications Group, told Lee.
While issues like drug pricing are complex and emotionally-charged, pharmaceutical companies can take cues from the growing number of brands that are becoming excellent storytellers.
Storytelling isn’t easy, and many brands simply don’t have Virgin Media-like stories.
Fortunately pharma brands aren’t relegated to “dumb ads”; they do have stories to tell. These stories are often compelling and filled with emotion.
After all, despite the fact that the industry finds itself increasingly panned by critics, drug companies are improving and saving lives.
But their television ads, often the butt of jokes, are far more widely discussed.
In other industries, companies are frequently adept at telling stories about how they’re helping to make the world a better place.
Toms, a shoe and eyewear manufacturer that has incorporated philanthropy into its business model, is a good example of this.
So what’s holding pharma marketers back? According to Josh Prince, CMO of Omnicom Health Group, “We don’t push our clients enough.”
Coupled with underinvestment in key digital channels, pharma’s reluctance to tell its most compelling stories has created a void that could become more and more difficult to fill as the industry faces an increasingly challenging and even hostile environment.
For more on this topic, see:
Healthcare Study: Organizing Marketing in the Digital Age
Blog Advertising Content marketing storytelling US
10 funky digital marketing stats from this week
This week’s stats include YouTube ads, emojis and email, product descriptions, digital budgets and much much more.
They’re funky, because I’ve run out of good adjectives.
For more statistics to build a business case or simply impress your friends, see the Internet Statistics Compendium.
April 21st 2016 14:43
The Facebook ‘context collapse’: how decline in personal sharing might affect brands
Facebook is evolving, and one of the trends has the attention of the CEO of the world’s largest social network.
Facebook users are sharing less about themselves and Mark Zuckerberg is personally imploring his staff to reverse the trend of what the company internally refers to as “context collapse.”
April 10th 2016 08:21
Digital marketing in Asia: Spotlight on Malaysia
For many global brands, trying to drive business through digital marketing in an unfamiliar country is a hefty challenge.
There are local languages, media platforms, and cultures to consider and so often it’s best to use a local or global agency, or not bother at all.
But in our digital age, it is possible to at least test a new market and decide on its potential with hard statistics.
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Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
by Gregory J. Privitera
SPSS In Focus Screencasts
Multimedia links
Summarizing Data: Frequency Distributions in Tables and Graphs
Summarizing Data: Central Tendency
Summarizing Data: Variability
Probability, Normal Distributions, and z Scores
Probability and Sampling Distributions
Hypothesis Testing: Significance, Effect Size, and Power
Testing Means: One-Sample and Two-Independent Sample t Tests
Testing Means: Related Samples t Test
Estimation and Confidence Intervals
Analysis of Variance: One-Way Between-Subjects Design
Analysis of Variance: One-Way Within-Subjects (Repeated Measures) Design
Analysis of Variance: Two-Way Between-Subjects Factorial Design
Linear Regression and Multiple Regression
Nonparametric Tests: Chi-Square Tests
Nonparametric Tests: Tests for Ordinal Data
SAGE Journal User Guide
Johnston, J. C., McCann, R. S., & Remington, R. W. (1995). Chronometric evidence for two types of attention. Psychological Science, 6, 365-369.
Parallel processing in the human brain is subject to severe attentional limits, but it is unclear whether such limits arise from a single attentional process or multiple distinct attentional processes We provide new evidence that two candidates, input attention and central attention, operate at different temporal stages of processing This conclusion is supported by chronometric analyses showing that the same reference stage (letter identification) operates after the stage at which input attention operates, but prior to the stage at which central attention operates The finding that attention operates at different temporal loci provides new support for the existence of distinct attentional processes
Hanoch, Y., Johnson, J. G., & Wilke, A. (2006). Domain specificity in experimental measures and participant recruitment: An application to risk-taking behavior. Psychological Science, 17, 300-304.
We challenge the prevailing notion that risk taking is a stable trait, such that individuals show consistent risk-taking/aversive behavior across domains. We subscribe to an alternative approach that appreciates the domain-specific nature of risk taking. More important, we recognize heterogeneity of risk profiles among experimental samples and introduce a new methodology that takes this heterogeneity into account. Rather than using a convenient subject pool (i.e., university students), as is typically done, we specifically targeted relevant subsamples to provide further validation of the domain-specific nature of risk taking. Our research shows that individuals who exhibit high levels of risk-taking behavior in one content area (e.g., bungee jumpers taking recreational risks) can exhibit moderate levels in other risky domains (e.g., financial). Furthermore, our results indicate that risk taking among targeted subsamples can be explained within a cost-benefit framework and is largely mediated by the perceived benefit of the activity, and to a lesser extent by the perceived risk.
Robertson, M., Rushton, P., Batrim, D., Moore, E., & Morris, P. (2007). Open trial of interpersonal psychotherapy for chronic post traumatic stress disorder. Australasian Psychiatry, 15, 375-379.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of adapting group-based interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT-G) for patients with chronic post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Methods: Thirteen subjects with DSM-IV-defined PTSD, with symptom duration greater than 12 months, entered the study, an 8-week treatment programme conducted in a clinical setting using IPT-G modified for the treatment of PTSD. Data obtained were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively.
Results: All 13 subjects completed the treatment programme and showed significant improvement in social functioning, general wellbeing and depressive symptoms. Treatment completers demonstrated a moderate reduction in the avoidant symptom cluster of PTSD. These improvements appeared stable at 3-month follow-up. Benefits appeared to be associated with perceived intra-therapy progress in resolving identified IPT problem areas. Qualitative analysis found that themes of ‘reconnection’ and ‘interpersonal efficacy’ were core parts of the experience of the treatment.
Conclusion: IPT-G modified for PTSD appears to be of modest symptomatic benefit, but may lead to improvement in social functioning, general psychological wellbeing and enhanced interpersonal functioning. Further studies are indicated.
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Assessment of adverse drug event recognition by emergency physicians in a French teaching hospital
Lucien Roulet1,2,
Françoise Ballereau2,3,
Jean-Benoît Hardouin4,5,
Anne Chiffoleau6,
Leïla Moret4,
Gilles Potel1,2,
Nathalie Asseray2,3
1Emergency Department, Teaching Hospital, Nantes, France
2UPRES EA 3826 ‘Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics of Infectious Diseases’, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Nantes, France
3MEDQUAL, Medical Information, Evaluation and Public Health Unit, Teaching Hospital, Nantes, France
4UPRES EA 4275 ‘Biostatistics, Clinical Research and Subjective Measures in Health Sciences’, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nantes, France
5Plateform of Biometry, Teaching Hospital, Nantes, France
6Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Teaching Hospital, Nantes, France
Correspondence to Dr Nathalie Asseray, Mailing address: EA3826, Faculté de Médecine, 1 rue Gaston Veil, Nantes 44035, France; nathalie.asseray{at}chu-nantes.fr
Objectives The frequency and the severity of drug-related visits in emergency department (ED) make the improvement of adverse drug event (ADE) recognition a crucial issue. As part of a research project aiming to improve the diagnosis and the management of ADEs in ED, the authors conducted a pilot study whose primary objective was to assess ADE recognition by emergency physicians.
Methods The patients presenting to the ED were included at randomised time periods between 1 October 2007 and 31 March 2008 in this prospective cross-sectional study. The primary outcome was the frequency of ADEs that were attributed to a medication-related problem by the emergency physician.
Results A total of 423 patients met the inclusion criteria, of which 95 experienced an ADE (22.5%; 95% CI 18.6% to 26.7%). Emergency physicians correctly attributed 33 of these cases (34.7%; 95% CI 25.3% to 45.2%) to a medication-related problem. Of the 28 cases in which the ADE was considered as a ‘direct drug effect’ (29.5%; 95% CI 20.6% to 39.7%), 16 were correctly identified by emergency physicians (57.1%; 95% CI 37.2% to 75.5%). Of the 67 cases in which the ADE was considered as a ‘drug involvement in a multifactorial pathological condition’ (70.5%; 95% CI 60.3% to 79.4%), 17 were correctly attributed (25.4%; 95% CI 15.5% to 37.5%).
Conclusions ADEs are frequent in EDs and are not well recognised by emergency physicians, especially when the drug is involved in a multifactorial pathological condition.
pharmacoepidemiology
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2011-200482
Prior presentations Part of these results were presented in the ACCP congress, April 2009, Orlando, USA.
Ethics approval The project was approved by the GNEDS (Groupe Nantais d'Ethique dans le Domaine de la Santé).
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Entertainment International Life News
Bill Cosby accused of 3 more sexual assaults as deposition looms
by EMTV Online 10/01/2015 12/02/2018 102
Image: Comedian Bill Cosby performs at The Temple Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado January 17, 2015. REUTERS/Barry Gutierrez/Files
By Daina Beth Solomon
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Three more women came forward on Wednesday to accuse veteran comedian Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting them decades ago, charges that come a week before Cosby is scheduled to give a sworn deposition in a separate sexual assault lawsuit.
Sharon Van Ert, Pamela Abeyta and Lisa Christie appeared at a Los Angeles news conference and alleged that Cosby assaulted them. They were teary-eyed as they gave their accounts.
The news conference with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred came a week ahead of a deposition that Cosby, 78, has been ordered to give in a lawsuit brought by another Allred client, a woman accusing the comedian of sexually abusing her at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles when she was 15 years old.
Allred said she is opposing Cosby’s motion for a protective order to restrict public release of the deposition he is set to give Oct 9. “There should be transparency,” she said. A court is expected to decide the matter ahead of his deposition.
Allred said that while the statute of limitations prevents the three women at Wednesday’s news conference from taking legal action, they wanted to add their voices to the more than 50 women who already have come forward with similar allegations.
Van Ert said she met Cosby when she was a waitress at a Southern California beachside jazz club in 1976. She said Cosby offered to walk her to her car one night and got in with her. She said she blacked out, woke up later alone and suspected Cosby of drugging and assaulting her.
Abeyta said that in 1975, when she was 25 and aspiring to appear in Playboy magazine, she arranged to meet Cosby and was taken to a Las Vegas hotel and given her own bedroom in his penthouse suite. She said she believes her drink was drugged when she attended a show with Cosby and his friends. She awoke later in the comedian’s bed.
Christie said she met Cosby when she was a model and aspiring actress aged 18, and he cast her as an extra on “The Cosby Show.” She said she viewed him as a father figure and maintained a platonic relationship with him for two years, but then he attempted to coerce her into sleeping with him.
Cosby’s lawyers have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing by the 78 year-old entertainer. A representative on Wednesday said Cosby had no comment on the latest allegations.
(Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon, writing by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by David Gregorio)
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Home Materials The first $109 Sunday Million winner was announced
The first $109 Sunday Million winner was announced
Last week PokerStars announced about the decrease of buy-in in one of its most popular tournaments that is called Sunday Million. If earlier players paid $215 for the entry, now this price declined to $109. The guarantee remained at the same level ($1,000,000) and the players’ pool significantly increased because of such changes.
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The first Sunday Million event at PokerStars for $109 collected 15 550 entries and total prize pool reached the mark of $1 550 000. The winner was supposed to get about $140 000 which is a good amount for the bankroll. The Ukrainian poker player under the nickname “555AU” was able to achieve such result and won Sunday Million. The guy beat Brazilian poker player under the nickname “kamarao-vix” in heads-up and after it the runner-up of this event got $ 99,000 for the second place.
The player “555AU” hid his statistics at sharkscope website, that’s why we cannot give an exact amount of his winnings at PokerStars.
One thing is for sure: the guy significantly increased his bankroll by investing $109 and won $139,000.
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Vicarius is a Latin word, meaning substitute or deputy. It is the root of the English word "vicar".
Originally, in ancient Rome, this office was equivalent to the later English "vice-" (as in "deputy"), used as part of the title of various officials. Each vicarius was assigned to a specific superior official, after whom his full title was generally completed by a genitive (e.g. vicarius praetoris). At a low level of society, the slave of a slave, possibly hired out to raise money to buy manumission, was a servus vicarius.[1]
Later, in the 290s, the Emperor Diocletian carried out a series of administrative reforms, ushering in the period of the Dominate. These reforms also saw the number of Roman provinces increased, and the creation of a new administrative level, the diocese. The dioceses, initially twelve, grouped several provinces, each with its own governor. The dioceses were headed by a vicarius, or, more properly, by a vices agens praefecti praetorio ("deputy of the praetorian prefect"). An exception was the Diocese of the East, which was headed by a comes ("count"). In 370 or 381 Egypt and Cyrenaica were detached from the Diocese of the East and made a diocese under an official called the Augustal Prefect.
In the eastern parts of the Empire, dominated by Greek language and common use of Greek terminology, vicarius was called exarch.[2]
According to the Notitia dignitatum (an early 5th century imperial chancery document), the vicarius had the rank of vir spectabilis; the staff of a vicarius, his officium, was rather similar to a gubernatorial officium. For example, in the diocese of Hispania, his staff included:
The princeps (i.e. chief of staff) was chosen from among the senior agentes in rebus (couriers or special investigators, 'men of affairs,' from the ministry of the interior headed by the master of the offices), from the salaried class of the ducenarii (those earning 200,000 sesterces a year - the highest regular pay grade in the Roman civil service; the highest officials, governors and above, were not civil service).
A cornicularius ("chief of staff").
Two numerarii (chief accountants).
A commentariensis ("keeper of the commentary," the official diary).
An adiutor (adjutant; literally "helper," an assistant).
An ab actis ("acts-keeper," archivist).
A cura epistolarum ("curator of correspondence").
An unnamed number of subadiuvae ("deputy assistants").
Various exceptores (lower clerks).
Singulares et reliquum officium (various menial staff).
^ P. R. C. Weaver, "Vicarius and Vicarianus in the Familia Caesaris" The Journal of Roman Studies 54.1 and 2 (1964:117–128).
^ Meyendorff 1989.
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Last day to bid for auctioned shares of IME General Insurance
Mar 14, 2019 Merolagani
Today is the last day to bid for auctioned shares of IME General Insurance (IGI). The company is auctioning 102,365 units of unsold right shares from today, March 6.
The company issued 80 percent i.e. 4,320,000 million units of right shares from January 1- February 4 in a bid to raise its paid-up capital as per IB requirement. After allotting 4,217,636 units of shares to valid applicants, the company is auctioning the remaining 102,365 units of shares including 1,598 units of promoter and 100,766 units of ordinary shares.
The interested investors can bid for the shares from Global IME Capital along with Nepalgunj, Surkhet, Dhangadhi and Pokhara branch of Global IME Bank.
The bidders can bid for minimum of 100 and maximum of all shares at a minimum price of Rs 100.
Currently, the company has a paid-up capital of Rs 540 million. After capitalization of the right issue, the paid-up capital will totals Rs 972 million.
In order to meet the minimum paid-up capital requirement of Rs 1 billion, the company still needs Rs 28 million.
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“There has been a great list of players who cut their teeth in Europe.”
Peter Uihlein, golfer
There are all across Europe small creatures active in the weird business of collecting teeth. These mysterious creatures work under cover and usually strike at night, when everyone is already asleep. Their existence is a secret for most, even if their reputation worth just as much any other famous Christmas characters, popular monsters or well-known superheroes. Some think these creatures are fairies, others argue they are mice, some support they are crows and few even say they are leprechauns. But all of them can remember the times when they were little and when their milk teeth started to fall out. They all remember they had to put their teeth under their pillow, so that a certain Tooth Creature could come during the night, take the tooth and leave money for it…
Fada dos dentes
A Portuguese proverb says “Antes dentes que parentes” which basically means “It’s better to lose teeth than relatives”. If no one would honestly disagree with that saying, one could also add that loosing a teeth actually brings you a new relative: the Fada dos dentes. This Portuguese variation of the Tooth Fairy, comes at night with a small payment to replace a lost tooth placed underneath the pillow. Crazy business!
In Spain, do not expect a kind fairy to come at night and replace lost tooth while you are asleep: this role has been given to a nice mouse instead, whose full name is Ratoncito Pérez. Among all European countries, Spaniards are almost the only ones to actually give a name to their Tooth creature! Ratoncito Pérez first appeared in “Cuentos, oraciones, adivinanzas y refranes populares” (1877), as the husband of “La Ratita Presumida” (The Vain Little Mouse). This character later inspired Luis Coloma, who made him part of the Spanish traditional folklore by turning him into a sort of Tooth Fairy… A true celebrity!
France as well has its little mouse! The most likely origin of the Petite Souris comes from a French tale of the seventeenth century by Madame d’Aulnoy: La Bonne Petite Souris. It tells the story of a fairy that turns into a mouse to help a queen defeat an evil king, hiding under the pillow of the king and making him drop all his teeth. As it is so often the case, the tiny French mouse will procure teeth left under pillows, replacing them with either cash or sweets…
Tönn ævintýri
The Icelandic Tooth Fairy is not really original. Children put their lost teeth under their pillow at bedtime, the Icelandic tooth fairy, Tönn ævintýri, will come while they are sleeping, take the tooth and leave some money instead. Parents on the island use Tönn ævintýri to recall their children the importance of taking care of their teeth by brushing them every day and to not eat too many sweets…
Tooth Fairy – White Fairy Rat
The Tooth Fairy is a long-lasting tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries. The idea of relationships as well as financial exchanges between people and benevolent fairies has been around for many years, especially in English literature. But during the Middle Ages, there were other superstitions surrounding children’s teeth. Children were for instance instructed to burn their baby teeth in order to save the child from hardship in the afterlife. Children who didn’t consign their baby teeth to the fire would spend eternity searching for them in the afterlife. In the lowlands of Scotland, the tooth fairy can be replaced by a white fairy rat who purchases lost teeth in exchange for coins.
Anna Bogle
In Ireland, the Tooth fairy is sometimes known as Anna Bogle, who appeared in a recent fairy tale. Anna Bogle is a mischievous young leprechaun girl who was playing in the forest one day and, to her dismay, knocks out a front tooth! She thinks she is ugly and tries everything she can think of to put it back, until she has an idea…to get a human child’s tooth to put in its place. But leprechauns are not creatures who steal, so Anna leaves a piece of leprechaun gold behind for the child whose tooth she takes…
Tannfe
In Norway, children drop their tooth in a glass of water on their nightstand. It is much easier for Tannfe, the Norwegian Tooth Fairy, to find the tooth in clear water than in opaque pillows — her eyes are so very old and tired. In the morning, sunk in the bottom of the glass, children will find a silver coin. Interestingly, the tradition of the Tooth Fairy may come originally from Norway. The character is first recorded in writings as early as the Eddas, which are the earliest written record of Norse and Northern European traditions. The Old Norse term “tannfé“ meant initially a present given as a reward to a baby for its first tooth – not a fairy.
Tandfe
In Sweden, there is no reason that the tradition of the Tooth Fairy be different from Norway. Just as for its direct Norwegian neighbor, the Swedish baby tooth is placed in a glass of water where it is mysteriously replaced overnight with coins. In Sweden, it is common to give children a ten-crown coin as a replacment of the lost teeth. Did you know by the way that Swedes do not “dress to the nines”, but is “dressed up to his teeth”!
Tannfe (and her evil friend Hammaspeikko)
In Finland, the Tooth fairy, the “Tannfee”, shares her celebrity with another funny tooth character: the “Hammaspeikko”. Translated as “The Tooth Troll”, this evil character is a metaphorical device for explaining tooth caries to children. Eating candy lures tooth trolls, which drill holes into teeth and look scary. Brushing the teeth scares them away. It is not clear whether the tooth troll is a single entity, or if there are many. This funny character appeared back in 1949 in a classic of Norwegian children’s book Karius og Baktus written by Thorbjørn Egner.
Tandfeen
Danish children put their tooth under their pillow and wait for Tandfeen, the Tooth fairy, to come give them some money. Children are lucky as Danish parents have also another weird traditions: Would you put your baby or toddler outside in the freezing cold for their lunchtime nap? Most Nordic parents wouldn’t give it a second thought. For them it’s part of their daily routine, due to the belief that the cold air actually helps babies sleep and eat better. The Danish National Board of Health even recommends this practice…
Tandenfee
Children in Netherlands certainly cannot “sit with the mouth full of teeth” or in its original version “met de mond vol tandem staan“. This funny Dutch expression means to be completely exhausted. On the contrary, Dutch children are all the most existed when they lose their first teeth, they know that the Tandenfee, the Dutch Tooth Fairy, will come at night and put a coin underneath their pillow in exchange of their teeth.
Tandenfee – La Petite Souris
Mice aren’t just big business around Spain and France: the French-speaking Belgians also abandon their teeth to their mouse. According to an ancient belief, when an animal ate a baby tooth, the permanent tooth took the characteristics of this animal. Parents used then to give the lost teeth of their children to rodents in the hope that the children will get hard and sharp teeth. In the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium however, the Tooth mouse is not welcome, and Flemish parents prefer to talk about the Tooth Fairy, Tandenfee, just as in the Netherlands.
Germans recognize that their Tooth Fairy, the Zahnfee, does not come from their country. The German Tooth Fairy originates from the British and American folklore, from which the Zahnfee is said to come at night and leave a gold coin in exchange of a failed milk tooth. Normally, German children collect their baby teeth in a small box – so the Zahnfee may just leave a coin without keeping the teeth! That’s so generous! To remind us of the importance of the tooth fairy for children, there is even an annual day in honor of the tooth fairy since 1980 – it is on 22nd of August!
Besides the tradition of Zahnfee, Austrians used also to have a very peculiar tradition related to children milk tooth. In the past, the tooth could be made into a key ring, or thrown under the house. The tooth was also sometimes buried in the garden or in the field’s surrounding the child’s home. It was done so that a new tooth (permanent tooth) would grow in its place. Another reason for this ritual was the superstition, that if a witch got a hold of the tooth, a curse would be placed on the child. So by burying children’s teeth, this unfortunate curse was prevented from happening. Hopefully…
La Petite Souris – Zahnfee
Without surprise, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, children give their lost tooth to the Little mouse, la Petite Souris. But of course, in the German speaking part of Switzerland, children have more trust in the Tooth Fairy, Zahnfee, to take care of their teeth. In any case, the scenario is the same, the lost tooth is hidden underneath children’s pillow and the Tooth creature comes at night to exchange it with a coin or a candy…
Fatina dei denti – Topolino dei denti
Italians could not choose between the Tooth Fairy and the Tooth mouse. They just kept both! The Fatina dei denti is said to live in a corner of the earth where all nature is pure, lush and full of enchanting scents. This world exists thanks to the imagination of children, so are the children of the world rulers of this magical place. In Italy, the Tooth Fairy has her faithful helper, Topolino dei denti, the little mouse. He lives in a royal palace and directly takes care of the baby teeth of children all over the world, so it is possible that Topolino replaces Fatina and takes your tooth under the pillow or even… under the leg of a table. It is said that, that way, it’s much easier for the mouse to take it! Last but not least, in Veneto, in North-Eastern Italy, the one who collects teeth is, according to the tradition, Saint Apollonia, the patron saint of teeth. St. Apollonia is said to be coming on a chariot made of teeth and pulled by mice!
Czechia – Slovakia
Zoubková víla
Czech and Slovak parents have to wrack their brain to explain their children what their Tooth Fairy, the Zoubková víla do with the tooth she collects. There are many stories, so it is up to parents to choose the one that suits them best. Most often they say that the lost teeth is used to build castles, some will say the Tooth Fairy make necklace with them, others say it will be placed in shells, and some even say that other children will inherit the lost teeth for them to grow their own tooth… The most important is that children get their little coin or gift at night…
Zębowa wróżka
The myth of the Tooth Fairy, the Zębowa wróżka, also arrived on Polish soil, and in particular in children’s literature such as in Joanna Olech’s Dynastia Miziołków. A Pole explains what happened to his teeth when he was younger: “Just as in other countries, in Poland, you put a tooth under the pillow before falling asleep and when you wake up in the morning, you will find a coin, some money or a little gift. And of course the tooth disappears… After a few years you find out that your mother has a whole collection of your milk teeth” For sure it’s the Tooth Fairy who gave them back to his mum…
Kisegér
In Hungary people used to put the baby tooth into a bottle of water or even wine! That way the tooth melted in about two years… But the tooth creature also exist in Hungary, and it’s a mouse there! Actually, children in Hungary may be the only one to have a poem for their Tooth mouse! “Egér, egér, kisegér/ Van-e fogad hófehér/ Adjál nekem vasfogat/ Én meg adok csontfogat!“. These lovely rhymes would be translated with something like: “Mouse, mouse, little mouse/ Have you got snow white teeth?/I’ll give you milk tooth/ Give me an iron tooth in return”.
Pelytei
Lithuanian children keep their teeth as a souvenir. Parents make the teeth into keepsakes of a sort. Either necklace charms or earrings, or put it in a special box. But the tradition of the tooth mouse exists also in Lithuania where children are advised to throw their lost tooth behind the stove and say: “Mouse, mouse, take from me the wooden one, bring me the iron one”.
Zobu feja
There is also a Tooth Fairy for Latvian children! And she is called Zobu feja there. Dziesma, a Latvian bloger, found back the heartful letter she wrote to the Tooth fairy when she was a child. She shares her discovery: “Dear Fairy, Because this is one of my last teeth, I would like more than 25 cents (75 cents would be good). Thank you very much, Daina“. It couldn’t be cuter!
Hambahaldjas
In Estonia, the Tooth fairy is translated as Hambahaldja – one can already feel the magic in her name! This Tooth fairy is very meticulous in Estonia. Each tooth is washed and polished very carefully until it is all bright and white. The Tooth Fairy collects many teeth and put all the teeth into a bag. She has then all the material needed to build magical castles in Estonia and elsewhere…
зубная фея
We don’t know much about the tooth tradition in Belarus. It is commonly said that children in Belarus put their lost teeth in mouse holes in the hope that the mouse will give them a strong tooth as a replacement. The tradition also says that teeth can be given to the mouse everyday of the year except on Christmas day. If the tooth is given on Christmas day, the mouse is doomed to die…
In Ukraine, in a corner of your home which light cannot find, you tuck your tooth in a tissue and leave it in the darkness. You whisper, “Take my old tooth and give me a new one,” but you are not sure to whom you are whispering. It is said that the tooth shall remain there so as to let time for the new tooth to grow. This amazing tradition still continues nowadays. Children don’t get any coin or sweets, but it’s maybe better like this…
Romania – Moldova
Cioara
In Romania and Moldova, children have a very funny tradition to comply with when they loose their tooth. They throw them over the roof of their house, and say: “Crow, crow, take away this milk tooth and bring me a steel one!” (“Ia cioara un dinte de lapte si adu-mi unul de otel“). Nobody never said if it works… Unless maybe, Jaws, the bad guy with steel-capped teeth in James Bond’s movies…
Zobna Miška
In Slovenia, a mouse called Zobna Miška replaces the baby tooth under the pillow with a candy at night. A Slovenian company is selling online small bags to put the teeth inside and facilitate the work of the mouse when she comes at night. It even says that the Tooth mouse will be safe and won’t risk an aggression from the dog of the house. Sleep well children, the mouse takes well care of your teeth in Slovenia.
Croatia – Serbia – Bosnia-Herzegovina
Zubić vila
In Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Tooth Fairy is called Zubić vila (pronounced: zoo-beach vee-lah). The NGO SOS Children village gives the testimony of a young Bosnian from Sarajevo after the visit of the Tooth Fairy: “I had a loose tooth for several days. Mum took me to the dentist who got it out,” says eight-year-old Tajra. That evening, she carefully place the tooth under her pillow before she drifted off to sleep. In the morning she woke to find her tooth replaced with a delicate box that was filled with beads. “I made a necklace with the beads the tooth fairy gave me,” says Tajra.
Bulgaria – North Macedonia
феята на зъбките
What a funny tradition! Bulgarian children simply throw their tooth on the roof of their house. And when they throw the tooth, they say: “На ти Вранке костен зъб, дай ми железен” which means “Great Raven, I give you my bone tooth, give me an iron tooth!” Throwing up the tooth is actually a symbol of walking up, progress, good future and prosperity… ¨Give me an iron tooth¨ means here that the children wish not to have problems with his/her new tooth, that it shall be strong like iron. But children’s in Bulgaria are not given money or candy in exchange… What a selfish raven!
Zanash dhëmb
We don’t know much about the Albanian tooth fairy, or at least, the Albanian tooth tradition. We just have its name, Zanash dhëmb. It is said that the Albanian children have the same tradition as in Bulgaria and Greece by throwing their lost tooth on the roof of their house and recite a little poem saying “Take my tooth and give me an iron one”. If you have more information on the Albanian tooth tradition, please contact me!
νεράιδα των δοντιών
Children in Greece throw their teeth on the roof for good luck. Then they make a wish that their adult teeth will be healthy and strong. They also recite a little rhyme which comes out to something like, “Take sow my tooth and give me an iron one so that I can chew rusks.” In some regions of Greece, it is a mouse not a sow which is invoked. Greeks have also adopted in the last few years their own version of the American Tooth fairy. But there, we know already the story…
The parents of children in Turkey believe that their child’s lost tooth holds within it their future. If they want their child to become a great soccer player, they will bury the tooth in a soccer field. If they wanted their child to become a surgeon, then they would bury the child’s tooth around a hospital.
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Swedish advanced materials start-up Sol Voltaics has raised a record round of USD 17 million in new equity investment and grant funding to accelerate the roll out of its nanowire solar film tandem-layer technology.
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By, James L. Thornton
2 Peter 1:16. “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
17. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
18. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
“We were eyewitnesses of His majesty” (Verse 16) —eyewitnesses of the mystic glory in which the Lord was arrayed, and by which He was possessed upon The Mount of Transfiguration. The passage has reference to the superlative splendor which shone about the Lord upon what we call the “Mount of Transfiguration.”
At the top of this page we have before us one of Raphael’s greatest paintings of The Transfiguration of Jesus. We see our Lord suppended in the air with the glory of God surrounding Him. The grandest scene ever to be witnessed by mortal man. It was an hour or two of our Lord as He assumed His former glory He possessed in heaven.
“We were eyewitnesses of His majesty.” When I had written that phrase upon my computer I thought of Munkacsy’s great picture of “Christ before Pilate,” and the contrast between the mount of glory, when the majesty of the Lord was witnessed by the Apostles, and the shame and the ignominy of the judgment hall, was to me positively startling.
Jesus In Pilate’s Judgment Hall By, Munkacsy
In the picture there was Pilate, bullet-headed, with short-cropped hair, with lusterless eyes, with effeminate mouth, and a most irresolute chin—Pilate, clothed in the garment of a little brief authority, disposing of the Maker of the world.
And then the crowd! Fierce men with clenched fists in an attitude of threatening; faces made repulsive by passion; Pharisees in long, tasseled garments, yelling “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” other Pharisees bowing before the Lord in profound but mock obeisance; and other Pharisees, with curling lips of scorn and contempt, looking on with sheer disdain; two or three women, with babes in their arms, gazing with the fascination of terror; one woman fainting, supported by a man who has the only gentle face in the crowd; and there, hiding in the very thick of the fierce mob, Judas Iscariot, with a face all alert with fear, and eyes in which there is already visible the flame of remorse; and added to all this a ring of impassive Roman soldiers, and one or two wondering little children, and a stray, terrified dog!
And before all this mass of yelling and blood-seeking fanatics there stands the Lord! Upon His breast there are the welts of the scourge. The plait of thorns is crushed down upon His brow; His hands are manacled; they bear the reed, the mock symbol of sovereignty; His face is perfectly white, wearied, sorrow-stricken, and yet there is an upward look, as though His eyes were piercing the gloom.
I thought of that when I read Peter’s words, “We were eyewitnesses of His majesty;” and I say the contrast was perfectly startling, for there seemed to be little radiance or glory as He stood there, bound and helpless, the victim of the tyrannous crowd.
But, in reality, is the radiance of the transfiguration in any way dimmed by the ignominy and the tragedy of the later days? Has the glory which shone upon the Mount been in any way eclipsed by what is now taking place before Pilate? By no means. In Pilate’s judgment-hall the glory and majesty of the Lord had not departed; and it came to me, and I knew it as I thought upon the picture, that somehow that picture of the tragedy had to help me to explain the Transfiguration. The Transfiguration upon the Mount finds its explanation in the Passion.
THE JOURNEY UP THE HILL:
Luke 9:28. “And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
29. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.
37. And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.
What preceded the journey up the mount? What had taken place before the disciples and the Lord took their journey away to the mount? Can we get at their mind? If I may use a somewhat common phrase to-day, what was their “psychological mood”? What was their mental content when they began to climb the hill? What had been the last emphasis of the Master’s teaching? Had they any fear? Had they any special hope? How had they begun to climb the mount with Jesus? What were the last things in His private expositions which probably filled their minds?
Happily for you and for me the matter is made perfectly clear. The very last thing we are told about our Lord’s converse with His disciples is this a little while before, and for the first time, the shadow of the Lord’s death was flung upon their sunlit and prosperous way. “From that time”—this was only just before the climb began—
“From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day (Matthew 16:21).
I want you to think of that as suddenly entering into the program. It had never been whispered before, and now, when the way was becoming more and more sunny, and the crowds becoming more and more loyal and multiplied, when the day was just dawning, and the Lord’s kingdom just appearing, He begins to talk about His own suffering and death.
I do not wonder that the announcement from the Master’s lips startled and staggered and paralyzed them. Why, the teaching darkened the whole prospect! “That shall never be unto Thee, Lord,” cried the ardent and impulsive Peter. “Get thee behind Me!” (Matthew 16:22-23).
I think there is no preacher who can say that word in the Master’s tones, “Get thee behind Me!” It was not said in savage severity, but in the pleadings of love. He felt the allurement of the disciple’s words, “That shall never be unto Thee, Lord!” “Don’t, don’t, My beloved friend! Tempt Me not away from the gloom; thy friendship is seeking the victory of the evil one.”
And then He gathered them round about Him and began to expound unto them the law of life. “Whosoever will take thy way, Peter, whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it.” He began to expound unto them the law of life through death, fullness through sacrifice. If we would live we must die; if we would find ourselves we must give ourselves away.
He began to say unto them that He would suffer and be killed! And then He laid down for them the great condition of fellowship: “If any man would come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.”
Well now, that is the mental load, that is the psychological mood which possessed the disciples as they turned to climb the slopes of the mount. They were under the shadow! To them had just been made a suggestion of the coming death of their King. They had had teaching about crosses, and losses, and sacrifice; and yet, through it all, a wonderful promise woven of ultimate victory. We must go back to that word about the cross, and self-denial, and the law of life; and when we climb the mount of transfiguration we must take it as a key to the glory, and to all that awaits us there.
“And then,” we are told, “Jesus taketh with him Peter,” with his mind filled with these things, “and James,” and his mind filled with these things, “and John.” “Jesus taketh!” That word “taketh” is an exceedingly feeble and unsuggestive English word. The word that lies behind it is full of powerful significance. It is precisely the same word which, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, is translated “offered.” “He taketh with him.”
It is not an ordinary journey. It is the solemn beginning of a walk which is to end at an altar, and that an altar of sacrifice. “He taketh with Him Peter, and James and John,” and they begin the solemn walk leading them up to the great surrender, the place of glorious sacrifice. “He taketh them into a high mountain, apart,” and this too, in the evening time. Let us pause there for a moment. There is always something so solemnizing about the evening.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,
And all the air holds a solemn stillness.
Somehow in the gathering twilight God seems to come very near. And this experience receives emphasis when it is evening time upon the heights, when the clouds are coming back like tired vagrants to rest awhile upon the summits; when there is nobody near, and nobody can be heard, except, perhaps, some belated shepherd, gathering his flock together for the night.
He led them unto a mountain apart, “and He prayed.” Let us get the scene well fixed in our imaginations. The Master is away up in the mountain; the heavy dews are lying upon the grass: that breeze is softly blowing, the breeze which seems to be always moving upon the lower slopes of Hermon, perhaps cooled by the snows beyond. And there He kneels, the Master, the Lord, and He prays!
I want us to realize that all prayer is more than speech with God. Prayer is infinitely more than pleading. I sometimes wish, I say it with the utmost deliberateness—I sometimes wish we could drop the word “plead” quite out of our religious vocabulary. We so frequently pray as though we had got an indifferent and unwilling God with whom we have to plead.
The cardinal necessity in prayer is not pleading, but receiving. I do not believe—I say it with, a full sense of responsibility—I do not believe we have any more need to plead with God to bless than to plead with the air outside to come into a building. It is not so much pleading that is required as the making of an inlet.
God is willing. Prayer is simply communion; the opening up of channels of companionship; the opening out of mind, the opening out of will, in order that into the open mind and will and conscience there may flow the Divine energy and the Divine grace. “Jesus prayed,” and I know that when it is said “Jesus prayed,” it means that He was absolutely open to the infinite. Surely that is the meaning of prayer.
When a man prays, if he prays aright, he is simply opening himself out to the incoming of God. God says: “Behold! I stand at the door and knock; I enshrine and surround you like the atmosphere.” Prayer is conscious receptiveness in the presence of the Divine. Jesus, upon the mountain height, in the evening time prayed, He opened Himself to God, the Infinite, and the Infinite began to possess Him.
“And as He prayed He was transfigured.” I am not surprised at that. Even among men we have seen the ministry of transfiguration, even though it is in infinitely smaller degree. You remember that Moses had been so opened out to God, and so possessed by the Divine light, that when he came down from the mount his face shone with mystic radiance.
We are told concerning Stephen that he was so opened out to the Infinite that they saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. He was simply possessed and pervaded by the Divine power.
And surely one may say, as I can say, that in far humbler life than that of Moses, in life in which there has been little of what the world calls “culture,” little of mental furniture, little of dialectical power, but in which there has been great spiritual receptiveness, in the lives of the illiterate there has shone “a light that never was on sea or land.”
But here with the Master, whose life was absolutely and uninterruptedly opened out to the glory of the God-head, the inflow of glory transfigured and transformed Him, and in superlative and supreme degree “His face did shine as the sun.” The very expression of His countenance was altered.
And then the historians go even further, for we are told that the glory, the energy, I scarcely know how to describe it—one uses an almost violent phrase in seeking to give expression to it—the Divine effluence which flowed into the Lord not only transfigured His flesh, but in some mystic way transfigured even His outer vesture.
“His garments became white as snow.” All of which just means this: that this man of Nazareth became so absolutely filled with God that His very material vesture was transfigured and transformed. “We were eyewitnesses of it.” This was the Glory that He had before He came and was born in Bethlehem’s manger, the Glory He laid aside to become the Lamb.
WOULD THIS BE THE PICTURE OF MAN IF HE HAD NEVER SINNED?
Now, I would like to pause there a moment, to offer an opinion for which I cannot quote Scriptural authority. “This say I, not the Lord.” I would venture to ask: What would have happened if man had never sinned? I think, just what happened on the Mount. I have a conviction that this experience on the Mount was just the purposed consummation for every life. I have a conviction that if there had been no sin you and I would never have known an open grave. We should have known a transformation, a transfiguration; there would have been a consummation in which the material would have been transfigured and transformed through the importation of the Divine glory.
The corruptible would have put on incorruption, but not through the ministry of decay and death; just by the ministry of an inflow of Divine glory. I think that was our purposed end, and our purposed glory. I think that from the very day of our birth our road would have led ever forward and ever upward into light. There would have come a certain moment in the temporal life of everybody when the glory of the Lord would have absolutely possessed us, when the material shrine would have been transfigured, and we should have reached the higher plane of the immortal life.
But sin came, and that consummation could never be. Instead of on some quiet evening just being transfigured into the immortal, we have now to take the way to the shadow, the way of the grave. But Jesus never sinned, and therefore I think that upon the mount His life was naturally consummated, and He could have entered into the permanent glory which then possessed Him.
JESUS LAID ASIDE THE GLORY AND CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN:
But now, mark you, I say that our Master, with a perfectly holy life, came there to a natural consummation, in which His life was transfigured, and He might, I think, then have passed into the state of enduring glory. This was the glory that He once possessed, and He could have remained in that glorified state if He had willed it.
But He divests Himself of the glory, lays it aside, turns His back, as it were, upon the natural consummation, and takes the way to the grave
He turns from the appointed way of glory, the glory of sinlessness, and He takes the way appointed of sin. That is what I call the great renunciation;
And I sometimes think that instead of calling it the Mount of Transfiguration we might call it the Mount of Renunciation. He would not claim the natural consummation. He would not claim the transfiguration. He takes up the cross even upon the Mount; He takes the way of His brethren in sin; He came to do it; He leaves the glory, and He comes down the Mount that by coming down the Mount He might make for you and for me a new and living way by which we, too, can reach the consummation. “See, He lays His glory by!” He turns His face towards the grave. He comes back down the Mount to bear the cross to the top of another Mount.
Do you think there were no dread, no fears, in His renunciation? I very frequently wish that we did not so divest our Lord of all attributes common to the flesh. Do you think our Master was altogether delivered from the common fears of man in the prospect of death? No fear of death, and that a death of such absolute abandonment, and of so un-speakable and un-thinkable isolation? I think when He turned His back upon that glory, glory to which He had a right, and faced towards the grave, He felt a chill, the chill of a nameless fear.
I know that on another mountain, when the devil came and tempted Him, and He then turned His back upon the offered sovereignty, “angels came and ministered unto Him.” And I do not wonder that now, when, upon the mount of another renunciation, He turns His back upon the glory and contemplates death, there appeared unto Him two other ministers—Moses and Elijah: Moses who died no one knew how, and was buried no one knew where; and Elijah, who was translated that he should not see death. And then we are told in just one phrase, which although it does not satisfy, yet relieves our wonder that they spoke together of the decease that He should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Perhaps it is permitted us to indulge in a little reverent imagination? Here is the Lord turning His back upon glory and facing the chills of death, and there appears to Him from the other side of death Moses and Elijah, and surely their conversation about His decease would be heartening! It would be feeding speech, and sustaining speech, by which He would be able all the more boldly and all the more fearlessly to take His journey into twilight and night. And so, I say, our Saviour began His descent from glory to grave. It is not the going up the mount that cheers me, it is the coming down! Every step He took in that descent gives confirmation to your hope and to mine. Our ascent becomes possible in His descent.
And as He turned to go, and laid His shining glory by, behold! a voice, “This is My beloved Son” (2 Peter 1:17). It was a great renunciation on Christ’s part, but it was a great gift on God’s part, and I think that on the mount of renunciation, when our Lord begins His descent, and the Father says, “My beloved Son,” we can in all reverence and truth add the other great word: “God so loved the world that He let Him lay His glory by;” “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.” Down the mount He comes, on to Golgotha and the grave! Did not I say that the Transfiguration finds its explanation at the Passion?
When I see Him coming down the mount, I can say with Paul, “He loved me and gave Himself for me.” It is through our Lord’s renunciation of glory that we become glorified. When I turn my face to the mountain-height, where the Apostle Peter was an eyewitness of the majesty of God, and when I think that that glory was the purposed consummation for every life, that I, if I had never sinned, might have been similarly transfigured into the immortal state, I wonder how the blest estate can be regained. And here is the answer:
There is a way for man to rise
To that sublime abode:
An offering and a sacrifice,
A Holy Spirit’s energies,
An advocate with God.
These, these prepare us for the sight
Of holiness above;
The sons of ignorance and night
May dwell in the eternal Light
Through the eternal Love!
He came down the mountain that I might climb another with Him.
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Single Customer View (SCV) Overview for 2019
Insights Sep 04, 2018 Samuel Kellett 8 min read
This article was originally published in 2018. It has been updated with relevant information for 2019.
Single Customer View (SCV) is a term that has been bandied about in marketing circles for over a decade. However, it’s hard to lock down a universal definition due to other variables (how the data is sourced, the speed of profile updates, etc.) that are often overlooked or omitted.
With customers purchasing from multiple different devices, and the move toward omni-channel communication, a method of cataloguing all that data is required. At its simplest, a Single Customer View is a database with customer profiles (purchase history, site activity, product recommendations) for every individual person.
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A true Single Customer View is that customer database, but scalable, flexible, and updated in real-time. This last point is a crucial difference. SCV data is used to enable segmentation and marketing automation; if the system is out-of-date, your customers could be seeing the wrong messages. Despite this, many companies with a rigid framework and time-delayed updates still discuss their Single Customer View as though it’s the same thing.
This article will explore the history of customer data management that led to the Single Customer View, the importance of having one, and actionable examples of a true Single Customer View in use.
It’s not only about building the Single Customer View, but about having the ability to really use it in a way that makes it beneficial and profitable.
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Head of Product at Exponea
History of Database Management System
In the 1970s, companies began storing their customer data using Relational Database Management (RDBM) systems. These systems allowed companies to store data as individual pieces of information in different fields (first name, last name, customer ID), and then access that data through SQL queries. As the popularity of computers continued to climb, this method of managing customer information became the standard.
The internet continued to grow, and companies continued to invest in their RDBM systems. These systems could still handle the customer information being gathered, and most companies saw no need to change their methods. Until about 2008 – when Big Data started hitting hard. The amount of customer info that could be gathered increased exponentially, and the formerly superior RDBM systems could no longer efficiently handle all the details.
The idea of a Single Customer View was born then out of necessity. Customer data was far richer and more detailed than ever before. Customers were starting to make purchases from all different directions: in-store purchases, phone, tablet, PC. All that customer data was going to different places, often managed by different departments, and even using different software. There was no way to effectively track the customer throughout their lifecycle, and communicate with them in a relevant way.
Introduction of NoSQL Databases
NoSQL databases began to be seen as the solution. NoSQL is built to handle large amounts of unstructured data. It’s more flexible, scalable, and faster than SQL when dealing with something like Big Data. Unlike SQL, NoSQL systems can track any piece of data at any time, with no need to prepare the structure for it. New data sources can be tracked without the need to set anything up. In short, NoSQL was better for using the data these companies now had access to.
Unfortunately, decades had been spent building Relational Databases– countless man hours and piles of cash – and this widespread system was now showing its limitations. In addition to the previously mentioned issues of collecting more detailed data and customers that connect through multiple devices, all methods for the company to interact with customers were disconnected as well! Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems were in one data silo, email management was in another, analytics in a third, and on and on.
The Legacy companies that had invested early on (Oracle, IBM, Emarsys) were now at a disadvantage. With all the time and money spent on their now out-of-date RDBM systems, they couldn’t just start over from scratch. Instead, they tried to convert their Relational Databases into Non-Relational Databases (NoSQL). This required pushing together a number of different data silos and pointing them all in the direction of the customer, hardcoding something that looks like a Single Customer View, but doesn’t function with the same flexibility or speed.
Adobe tried a different approach: rather than build their own SCV, they purchased several companies that were each working on a different part of the technology and hacked them all together into Adobe Marketing Cloud. This works to a point, but as the systems were all built separately, they don’t work as well together as a whole.
This stumble on the part of market leaders allowed for market disruptors like Exponea to introduce new solutions.
Exponea’s Single Customer View is representative of all the data in Exponea, in real-time, granular and customized. In order to process individual granular data entries our platform sits on an In Memory Framework that runs all calculations in milliseconds, meaning that all segmentations and customer calculations are always up to date.
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Rather than altering existing tech to face a new problem, Exponea had the opportunity to look at the problem first, then create the tech around it: a customer is interacting with my company right now; I need to qualify them and take action. This approach allowed Exponea to create a truly customer-centric system; an all-in-one customer data platform built around NoSQL, rather than one adapted to work around the limitations.
CRM system, Email management, campaign building and automation, real-time predictions, analytics, etc. all available within one dashboard. With data updating so fast you can actually watch a customer profile update itself as the customer clicks around.
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And it’s not just about speed. The flexibility of this customer-centric system, built around NoSQL and using In Memory Framework, creates new opportunities for communicating with customers. With a system parsing each individual action that every customer takes, in real-time, Exponea has been able to develop powerful customer recommendations that adapt and interact with the customer, even as they browse the site.
Picture it like this:
Legacy Database: You’re dropped in the ocean, and you manage to scrape together a raft from what’s floating around you. It keeps you from drowning for now, but it’s not ideal.
Exponea: You’re given a boat designed for the ocean. Not only does it keep you afloat, it’s the optimal method for navigating the seas.
Finally, another advantage of an all-in-one platform is how quickly the software can be implemented. Exponea’s basic software can be set-up and running within days. The most bare-bones version can be installed in minutes, as it only requires a single code integration. Compare that to the weeks or months required to integrate all the disparate parts of a Legacy company.
We’ve talked a lot about what a true Single Customer View is and what the differences are between companies. This section will show the importance of achieving a true Single Customer View through examples of its actionable use.
Optimal Send Times and Custom Tools
One of the most important (and underutilized) tactics to improve open rates and conversions is to send the email at the right time for that customer. When Exponea began working with fashion retailer Missguided, one of their goals was perfecting optimal send times. Within seven days they were up and running, able to send over one million emails to customers.
Using Exponea’s real-time predictive analytics, Missguided was able to automate their emails to send at the optimal time for each individual user, leading to an uplift in open rates, click-through rates, and conversions.
The flexibility of a true Single Customer View also makes it simple to create custom tools within the software. For Missguided, an html editor and custom fonts were built to their specifications.
Watch this video to learn more about Exponea’s work with Missguided.
Personalized Customer Journeys and Ease of Testing
A true Single Customer View should be capable of personalizing every stage of a customer’s lifecycle; something customers are now starting to expect. When Exponea started working with fashion retailer Eye for Fashion, the main focus was to increase conversions on the website.
Exponea’s analytics tool searched Eye for Fashion’s data to identify which customers were most likely to buy. These customers were targeted based on their history with the site (through use of Exponea’s recommendation engine). This group was then segmented, and each segment was shown a different, highly personalized banner, testing each stage of the customer journey: recommendations, view count banners, exit banners, cart abandonment banners, etc.
Using Exponea’s tool for A/B test creation and measurement, Eye for Fashion was easily able to identify their most successful banners.
This integration achieved:
79% increase in Revenue Per Visitor (RPV) for the Low Stock Notification Segment
64% increase in RPV for the Exit Banner segment
45.5% increase in RPV for the View Count segment
Read a Success Story about Exponea’s work with Eye for Fashion.
Segmentation and Real-Time Personalization
Companies with diverse customer bases and numerous products often have trouble communicating with their customers. They can’t design a homepage message that works for everyone, and creating hundreds of different, changing versions would be impractical without the right tools.
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London cyclist who hit a mother is cleared of manslaughter
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Charlie Alliston (pictured today) was 18 years old when he hit Kim Briggs as she crossed Old Street – the now 20-year-old has been cleared of her manslaughter
A thrill-seeking cyclist using a Olympic-style track bike without front brakes who crashed into a pedestrian who later died was today cleared of her manslaughter.
But former McDonald’s worker Charlie Alliston has been found guilty of lesser ‘wanton and furious driving’ when he hit Kim Briggs as she crossed Old Street, east London, on February 12 last year.
The 44-year-old HR consultant, who had been on her lunch break, suffered ‘catastrophic’ injuries when the pair clashed heads and she died in hospital a week later.
Alliston, now 20, later blamed her for the collision in posts online.
Today an Old Bailey jury found him guilty of causing bodily harm to Mrs Briggs by ‘wanton or furious driving’ under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act.
In a legal first, he was also accused of the manslaughter of Mrs Briggs, of Lewisham, south London, but he was cleared.
The former bike courier, wearing a top with ‘Anti Social’ on it, had been on his way to buy food for his girlfriend when he crashed into Mrs Briggs during her lunch break.
As she crossed the capital’s Old Street, he twice shouted for her to get out of the way but failed to stop or avoid the head-on collision.
He sprang up and continued to shout at his victim as she lay in the road with catastrophic head injuries. Mrs Briggs died in hospital a week later.
Kim Briggs died of catastrophic injuries she suffered after she was knocked down
Alliston was riding this track bike which was illegal for road use as it had no front brakes
Alliston criticised Mrs Briggs and claimed she was responsible for the crash in a string of posts on social media in the days that followed.
In a comment on an online news article, he claimed he had shouted out to her but she ‘ignored me’, looked back at her phone then ‘stopped dead’ in his path.
He wrote: ‘I feel bad due to the seriousness of her injuries but I can put my hands up and say this is not my fault.’
On an internet forum for fixed-wheel bike enthusiasts, he later described how he twice warned her to ‘get the f*** outta my way’.
He wrote: ‘We collided pretty hard, our heads hit together, hers went into the floor and ricocheted into mine.
‘It is a pretty serious incident so I won’t bother saying oh she deserved it, it’s her fault. Yes it is her fault but no she did not deserve it.
‘Hopefully, it is a lesson learned on her behalf, it shouldn’t have happened like it did but what more can I say.’
He complained: ‘Everyone is quick to judge and help the so-called victim but not the other person in the situation, ie me.
‘It all happened so fast and even at a slow speed there was nothing I could do. I just wish people would stop making judgments.
‘It’s not my fault people either think they are invincible or have zero respect for cyclists.’
Alliston, 20, (left today) arrives at the Old Bailey, where Mrs Briggs’ widower Matthew (right today) attended every day of the trial
Jurors heard Alliston’s trendy ‘fixie’ bike was not legal to use on the road without being modified to add a front brake.
He bought the £700 Planet X bike second-hand for £470 in January last year, telling the vendor he wanted to use it for track cycling.
In a reference to an American bike stunt film-maker, he tweeted: ‘The time when you first take your brakes off and feeling like you’re in a @lucasbrunelle movie.’
Crash investigators who studied CCTV of the incident concluded Alliston would have been able to stop and avoid the collision if the bike had been fitted with a front brake.
But giving evidence in his trial, Alliston, now 20, from Bermondsey, south London, claimed not to know the bike was illegal on the road and told jurors he was not riding recklessly.
He said: ‘At all times I would know what I’m doing and completely responsible for my actions. I did not get a kick or enjoyment out of not being safe.’
Mrs Briggs’s widower Matthew, from Lewisham, south London, sat in court throughout the trial, during which the CCTV footage of the crash was played several times.
‘Wanton’ cyclist was first to be prosecuted for manslaughter
For the first time, the CPS brought a charge of manslaughter against Alliston, who was riding a fixed wheel bike with no front brake fitted.
It is a legal requirement that bikes have a front braking system.
Track bikes not intended for road use can be sold without a front brake, but it is a legal requirement to fit such a bike with a front brake before using it on the road.
The law is currently restricted to charging cyclists accused of dangerous or reckless cycling to an outdated ‘wanton and furious driving’ charge.
In Alliston’s case, the charge includes wilful neglect in that he was riding a bike that was not legally fit for use on the roads.
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A Look at Line and Nomura’s Zero-Commission Online Brokerage in Japan
by Fintech News Hong Kong September 11, 2019
Line Securities Corporation, a joint venture between Asian financial services group Nomura Holdings and Line Financial Corporation, the financial services arm of Internet firm Line Corporation, has launched a new mobile investment service targeted at younger, digital-savvy generations.
The new service aims to make investing more accessible to a wide range of clients by providing users with an easy and convenient securities and trading service that’s accessible from the Line messaging app. The Line platform counts some 165 million monthly active users.
According to a press release, dated August 20 from Line, the service was designed to offer maximum simplicity, requiring only six taps from the Wallet tab to complete an order.
Line Securities, purchase process, via Line
Line Securities is available on both Android and iOS devices, and, at launch, lets users trade stocks of 100 leading Japanese companies, including Toyota Motor Corp., Mizuho Financial Group Inc., SoftBank Group Corp., and Seven Group Holdings, in amounts as small as one share.
Users also have access to nine domestic exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking indexes such as TOPIX, real estate (Tokyo Stock Exchange REIT), the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, gold, and crude oil, in amounts as small as one unit. Line Securities also offers instant buy/trade until 9 pm on weekdays.
Additionally, the service offers categories and top rankings so that users with no or little trading experience can easily select their desired stocks. Line said that several of the stocks available on the platform can be traded for under JPY 3,000 (US$28), making investing accessible to users with smaller budgets.
Line Securities 100 Stocks, via Line
Line Securities 9 ETFs, via Line
Opening an account with Line Securities is easy, and straight-forward. After making an account opening request through the Line app, users receive a simplified registered postcard by mail within the following four business days. They then simply need to scan to QR code on the postcard to access Line Securities.
Line Securities, account opening process, via Line
Moving forward, Nomura and Line said they will work together to further enhance Line Securities’ service lineup to deliver “greater convenience to working people,” Nomura said in a separate press release.
The joint venture with Line Financial, established in June 2018, is part of Nomura’s strategy to appeal to younger populations. Nomura already has an online service with about 3.5 million customer accounts, reports Bloomberg.
For Line, the initiative is part of the group’s broader push into financial services, which began with the launch of Line Pay in 2014, a service that sits within the Line app that allows users to request and send money from users in their contact list and make mobile payments in-store.
Since then, Line Pay has expanded to allow other features such as offline wire transfers when making purchases and ATM transactions like depositing and withdrawing money. Earlier this year, it introduced its own credit card with Visa.
Recently, Line has been looking to expand its fintech business across the broader Asian region, investing in and collaborating with Asian counterparts from countries like Indonesia and Thailand.
One of the group’s most notable ongoing initiatives is its upcoming Internet-only bank in Taiwan, for which it received the green light from the country’s financial regulator in July.
The company said in a press release that Line Bank will leverage technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to provide “innovative and secure personal finance experiences that can truly improve banking for all consumers.”
Line Bank is supported by a consortium of industry players, which, alongside Line Financial Taiwan, the group’s Taiwanese financial arm, includes Taipei Fubon Bank, CTBC Bank, FarEasTone, Standard Chartered Bank, Taiwan Mobile and Union Bank of Taiwan.
Line isn’t the Internet firm in Asia that’s leveraging its massive user base to expand into financial services. In China, Internet giant Tencent has been providing the country’s financially underserved with an array of services through its popular multi-purpose “super-app” WeChat. Southeast Asian ride-hailing giants Go-Jek and Grab have been pursuing similar strategies.
Featured image: Line Securities, via Line.
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Mohammad Nawaz Khan, Iquila Begum Khan, Mohammad Shahbaz Khan, Gurdev Kaur Johl, and Kewal Singh Arrested by the FBI in an Alleged $5 Million Fraud Scheme
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 1, 2012 released the following:
“Five Arrested in Sutter and Yuba Counties for $5 Million Fraud Scheme
SACRAMENTO, CA— United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that five individuals have been arrested in Sutter and Yuba Counties for their participation in a long-running unemployment and disability fraud scheme.
Mohammad Nawaz Khan, 56, and Iqila Begum Khan, 31, both of Live Oak; and Mohammad Shahbaz Khan, 56, Gurdev Kaur Johl, 67, and Kewal Singh, 74, all of Yuba City, were arrested today. They are scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall J. Newman at 2:00 p.m. today. Also charged in the complaint, but not arrested is Mohammad Adnan Khan, 32, of Live Oak.
According to the criminal complaint, the defendants began forming a series of companies with the Employment Development Department in 1989. The most recent company was formed in 2011. All of these companies purported to be farm labor contractors that provided labor to harvest various agricultural crops in Sutter and Yuba Counties.
However, undercover operations by a number of confidential sources showed that these businesses were in fact selling wages to hundreds of individuals in Northern California. The defendants would charge an individual approximately $250 for $1,000 in wages. The purchaser, who never performed any work for the defendants’ companies, would then claim to be laid off and file for unemployment benefits, disability benefits, or both.
When interviewed by EDD, the individuals who claimed to have worked for these companies would oftentimes not know the location where they worked, or the name of their supervisor. Sometimes they would report earnings that greatly exceeded the agricultural norms for the area. Many of the employees reported by these companies were between 50 and 70 years old and claimed that their duties consisted of picking peaches and harvesting walnuts, physically demanding work.
According to the criminal complaint, in order to further the fraud, the defendants used the name “Mohammed Khan,” used each other’s business addresses, repeatedly hired and laid off each other, and continually changed the names of the businesses.
The investigation is ongoing in order to determine the full extent of the fraud. A preliminary analysis of EDD claim records has found more than 2,000 potentially fraudulent unemployment and disability claims and more than $5 million lost.
This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, and the Investigation Division of the California Employment Development Department. Assistant United States Attorney Jared C. Dolan is prosecuting the case.
If convicted, the defendants face a maximum statutory penalty of 20 years in prison. The actual sentence, however, will be determined after conviction at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables The charges are only allegations. Each of the defendants listed is presumed innocent, unless and until proven guilty.”
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The author of this blog is Douglas C. McNabb. Please feel free to contact him directly at mcnabb@mcnabbassociates.com or at one of the offices listed above.
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Fran Casanova, filmmaker born in 1977 (Tenerife, Canary Islands, SPAIN)
Fran Casanova was born in Tenerife (Canary Islands) in 1977. In 2001 he began his audiovisual studies in Madrid where he studied in different cinema schools widening his knowledge on the fields of directing, screenwriting and cinematography, amongst other disciplines.
He has ability to coordinate the work in team members, to be calm under pressure, to solve problems and find quick solutions, patient, creative and communication skills. He get 100% involved in all aspects of the project and make the most of the available budget and feel real passion about what I do.
In his wide experience, he has worked in television, cinema, advertising, music videos and has tackled the field of teaching. Since 1999 until the present he has carried out more than 10 short films, proving to be a versatile director in different film genres. Amongst his work we can point out his short film Oportunidad (2003), which made it to Sitges International Film Festival, inside Brigadoon section. Merry Christmas. This short film was in Medina Film Festival in 2007. In 2011 he filmed Campo de batalla and participated on the 14th edition of Málaga Film Festival. In 2012 his short film Ayúdame a recordar selected in Zaragoza Film Festival.
His short film, Hay algo en la oscuridad (Something in the Darkness), is being distributed at film festivals around the worldand it has received a great international recognition. It has won 20 awards and has 120 official selections up to date. Highlighting its official selection at the Bermuda International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Leeds International Film Festival and St. Louis International Film Festival (2018), these festivals qualify for The Oscar Awards. Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival (2018), the Melies D’Argent qualifying festival, Sitges International Film Festival, inside Brigadoon Paul Naschy Award (2018), Aesthetica Film Festival (2018), Bafta recognized festival, Octubre Corto (2018) this last festival qualifies for the Goya Awards and Best Film Award Shadows Shorts Competition in Transilvania International Film Festival (2018).
His lastest horror short film titled Mask of Sanity (2018) starring by Paola Bontempi and Rubén Tobías starts his distribution.
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Wisconsin -2.5 / Texas -1 4.4% Teaser of the Week
Wisconsin now @ 8.5 - 6 point tease to -2.5
Wisconsin getting just 33% of the tickets as the public all over the big dog with a low total. I disagree here.
Iowa is Iowa whether it is off a bye or not, they are going to be the same team. Try to out play the opponent in the trenches don’t make mistakes, and rely on their veteran QB to make adjustments. Iowa needs Stanley to play well, just like Wisconsin needs Jonathan Taylor and the running game to play well. The problem in this match-up is Nathan Stanley has not played well, and Jonathan Taylor has. Last year Taylor ran for 25 carries and 113 yards vs. an Iowa run defense that ranked 16th against an average rushing offense ranking 50th. This year he goes up against a run defense that ranks 14th, but they haven’t faced anyone that can run the ball with an average opponent rushing offense ranking 82.5 more on this later. The year before when Wisconsin was at home TAylor ran for 157 yards and Wisconsin won by 24. In those two games Nathan Stanley did not play well at all, completing just 14 passes a year ago and throwing an interception to a down Wisconsin defense that ranked 50th in ypp defense, 69th vs. the run, which is a key because Stanley needs the running game to be effective. The year before he completed just 8 passes and threw an interception in their 38-14 loss at Wisconsin. However, over STanley’s career he has posted good #’s on the road - 27 TD’s to 11 interceptions, but this year he has just 1 passing TD, to 3 INT’s. He just is not even close to being the same QB against quality defenses on the road. Teams that rank in the top 50 vs. the pass and run over Stanley’s career he has just a 46.9% completion rate on the road 1 passing TD to 7 interceptions, and he threw interceptions in 4 of the 5 games. I see another similar performance on Saturday against a Wisconsin defense that ranks 2nd in YPP, 10th in rushing defense, and 1st in passing defense.
The other thing I looked at in this match-up is the fact that Iowa played two similar teams to Wisconsin in Penn STate and Michigan. They scored a grand total of 15 total points and 12 of those came at home against Penn State. Both of those offenses rushed for over a 100 yards, and I think Wisconsin can do the same and better. When you factor in Wisconsin does have a balanced attack with Jack Coan, and they are off a bye which means they’ll be fresher, and also off 2 losses with this being a Big Ten West elimination game I think Wisconsin roles here as they are more balanced against tougher competition than both Michigan and Penn State, and they are home which also helps a team that relies heavily on beating its opponents in the trenches. I totally expect a game where Wisconsin gives up 10 or fewer points and scores 21 or more.
**Texas -1**
I think we are getting a cheap price with Texas of back to back poor performances and Kansas State off back to back great performances and only 33% of the tickets are backing Texas making this a fade the public backing the dog. This is just a different match-up for Kansas State’s offense, and I know everyone is going to be pointing to how bad Texas is on defense of late, but they are getting 3 safeties back for this game, a linebacker, and 2 of those safeties are veteran leaders. They also are one of the bigger teams up front led by a NT Keondre Coburn who is 340lbs, and both ends come in at 300lbs, which is key going up against Kansas State’s running game that tries to bully you. I don’t see Texas at home getting healthier as a team that’s going to get bullied here. I’m not shocked with the success Kansas State had on Oklahoma’s defense. Oklahoma changed their defense in the off season asking defensive linemen to lose weight to increase the speed, and they gave up a lot in that game against Kansas State who plays a physical brand of football. Kansas State struggled against teams who featured a big NT or run the 4-3. Baylor features a 333lb NT, and want to play a physical brand of football, TCU runs the 4-3 with several guys on the DL weighing over 300lbs, and both teams held Kansas State’s rushing attack in check. Oklahoma State, another team that runs the 4-3 and is bigger than Oklahoma held Kansas State’s rushing attack in check.
Offensively Texas is getting some guys back with their down field threat Brennan Eagles probably returning. They get a key guy in the running game back Jordan Whittington, who I think is going to have some big plays on Saturday. Kansas State is 78th in rushing defense success rate, and 119th in explosive plays allowed in the running game. If you start allowing Texas to have success on the ground that’s just going to make Sam Ehlinger that much better. The last two games were off games for Ehlinger where he felt like he had to put the team on his back to win, and now with guys coming back on both sides of the ball, and a week to prepare I think Texas will have a more complete game against a Kansas State team that has played their best possible football in back to back games. I don’t think they can pull it off for the third week in a row. They have only faced one elite QB in Jalen Hurts who had 395 yards passing 96 yards rushing. Sam Ehlinger is a more complete QB, and he obviously has tons of weapons to throw to. Also, Kansas State lost their top DB AJ Parker who will miss this game. When Kansas State pulls an upset - TCU, Oklahoma, Miss State they forced 5 TO’s I just don’t see them being able to do it here again.
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Juan Cole’s war on anarchism
Posted on August 13, 2011 by Charles Davis
As a liberal supporter of invading Iraq who apparently believed the Bush administration’s rhetoric about freedom and democracy, and felt that bombs and military occupations would be the best means of promoting it, Juan Cole sure has a lot of nerve attacking anarchism as philosophy that depends “on a naive reading of social interest.” And while I have my own criticisms of right-wing libertarianism, I can’t help but note the incongruity of attacking folks like Ron Paul on the basis that their beliefs will lead to privatized, corporate warfare when the wars Cole has supported and continues to support depend on legions of private guns-for-hire and defense contractors like Halliburton and KBR.
Nominally about the recent GOP presidential debate, Cole’s attack on anarchy — from “anarcho-syndicalists like [Noam] Chomsky” to the aforementioned Paul — is perhaps a sign that liberals like him are fearful the anti-state position is gaining traction, especially given the conspicuous lack of change since liberal savior Barack Obama moved to the White House. Indeed, that would explain why, instead of addressing the world we live in now, where a Nobel laureate is waging war in at least half a dozen countries with the help of an army of private war-profiteering corporations and their mercenaries, Cole focuses our attention on a scary future where, without the state, “warmongering corporations [could] pursue war all on their own.”
“The East India Companies of Britain and the Netherlands behaved that way,” Cole writes. “[And] India was not conquered by the British government, but by the East India Company. Likewise what is now Indonesia was a project of the Dutch East India Company.”
However, while intended as a critique of anarchism, Cole’s examples only bolster the critique of the state. The East India Companies, after all, were chartered by the British government, granted trade monopolies by the British government, and had their claim to properties, most of which were looted from poor foreigners, protected by the British government. And while I won’t claim to speak for Ron Paul, most anarchists — and it shows Cole’s muddled thinking that he lumps “limited government” advocates like Paul in with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon & Co. — don’t just oppose “the state,” they oppose the use of violence and coercion. It just so happens that states with their claims to a “legitimate monopoly on the use of violence” tend to be the greatest purveyors of it.
If in some future anarchotopia a private corporation — let’s not get into the fact that corporations are created by the state — should wage war, then they would be acting like states and would be opposed just as vigorously. Indeed, to an anarchist the distinction between corporation and state is the same as a Christian’s distinction between God and Jesus: though taking different forms, they’re one and the same, the difference academic.
While Cole’s fixated on a future of corporate war, he seems unaware that a world of Big Bad Corporations waging war on the world exists right now and that, rather than checking this aggression, the state is aiding and abetting it. Liberals can rail against Blackwater/Xe all they want, but in the end its Hillary Clinton’s State Department that’s giving them millions in tax dollars.
Speaking of oblivious, Cole writes:
Right anarchists seem not to be able to perceive that without government, corporations would reduce us all to living in company towns on bad wages and would constantly be purveying to us bad banking, tainted food, dangerous drugs, etc.
It’s almost as if he’s unaware we already live in a world where Goldman Sachs exists and where wages have been more or less stagnant since the 1970s. Instead of scaring his readers away from an anarchist world, he likely just left them wondering what the difference would be.
(My Saturday afternoon ruined via BDR)
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33 Responses to Juan Cole’s war on anarchism
mtraven says:
I think you're a little hard on Cole. Anarchists ARE naive, that's part of their charm. Cole is not saying he loves warmongering, he says that that is what governments do and that it would happen in a different form even if you somehow magically deleted government from the earth.Aside from giving Democrats a pass, what's wrong with this? (his concluding pgraph):Unfortunately, the Republican Party’s various constituents add up to a party of Islamophobia and warmongering (munitions corporations, Big Oil and Gas, right wing Evangelicals, Right wing Zionists, white nationalists). The anarcho-syndicalist theory that capitalism naturally produces wars and imperialism is too broad, but certainly some groups within capitalist society will plump for those opportunities. Paul is likely right about the sixth war looming.
Charles Davis says:
There's nothing naive about fighting for a world free of violence and arbitrary authority. It would be naive to think the path toward that world will be easy — almost naive as thinking powerful centralized states are the last thing standing between us and a world run by warmongering corporations.As for Cole's last paragraph, his description of the Republican Party is accurate, but ultimately of little value given that it's an implicit argument for the Democratic wing of the Islamophobic and warmongering establishment.
Anatole David says:
Juan Cole's naivete reached new heights with his support of the illegal, and foolish, US/NATO bombing of Libya. He naively thinks it is a humanitarian effort. This bombing, oddly, noting Cole's recent polemic contra anarchism, has sowed destruction, death, and division in Libya. US/NATO is supporting anti-state rebels in a Civil War. Juan Cole is with them! Amazing how his budding love for aggressive war fades in time. He loved the Iraq War until it became displeasing. Shock and Awe was a beauty to behold. But then the mass murder, torture, and corruption(sigh). Alas, Mr. Cole is an Imperial Aesthete. He wants his wars to be pleasing. As a refined ideologue, Cole supports state wars for corporate advantage, but does not wish to place the cart before the horse(That'd be ANARCHISM!). Corporations prefer the all profit no expense model of present wars. How this escapes Mr. Cole's analysis mystifies even the naive. Hasn't Mr. Cole heard the adage "Warfare is corporate welfare"? Know General Smedley Butler? Dare he even allude to naivete with his public record? (can't do accent aigus, me pardonne)
There's nothing naive about fighting for a world free of violence and arbitrary authority…Well…there kind of is. Violence is a human universal. States happen to be the predominant form that such violence takes in today's world, but it is the height of naivety to suppose that that means that eliminating the states (were that possible) would eliminate the violence. It would come back in new forms, which was part of Cole's point.You can check my blog for more musings an anarchism from a sympathetic but alas-it-cant-work perspective (there's also an approving cite of your posting on Ron Paul, FWIW).
Violence is a human universal.There's no disputing this. What distinguishes anarchism from other philosophies, however, is not a belief that violence can necessarily be eliminated, but that it must be challenged in all instances — even when that violence is perpetrated by states under the guise of the law.In short: Anarchism, at least the way I see it, is an ethos, not a utopia.
davidly says:
Anarchists ARE naive…Jesus, all f-ing politics are naive. Especially democracy.
Marcel Dubois says:
There's no disputing this.What?! Maybe you can take a minute to peer through your window. I myself don't see people attacking and killing each other 24/7.
"However, while intended as a critique of anarchism, Cole's examples only bolster the critique of the state."As does every other example statists use when trying to explain why society "needs" a group of people with the authority to commit crimes. Whether it's Standard Oil, the United Fruit Company, National City Corp., Brown Bros. or any of the others that have used government to do things they could not have done otherwise, there is a certain irony in someone using an example of the state being used to subsidize and legitimize crimes as the backbone of their argument that we "need" the state."If in some future anarchotopia a private corporation — let's not get into the fact that corporations are created by the state — should wage war, then they would be acting like states and would be opposed just as vigorously."Not only would they be opposed just as vigorously but they would have no mechanism to make a profit. Waging war is a wealth-consuming activity. Without the state to coercively extract wealth from the masses to purchase bombs, tanks, guns, soldiers, etc., who would foot the bill? War becomes profitable to a few because the state socializes the cost of war. Look at what the invasion of Iraq has cost US taxpayers so far. From 2003 through 2006, the low number — because it excludes all sorts of war-related expenses — is $317 billion. For those same years, the company that got the biggest chunk of that money is Halliburton's own, KBR Inc., whose share was $17 billion. Would KBR start a war so they can hire themselves? Based on Cole's example, he's either intellectually dishonest or he's not much of a thinker.
"Violence is a human universal."Agreed."States happen to be the predominant form that such violence takes in today's world, but it is the height of naivety to suppose that that means that eliminating the states (were that possible) would eliminate the violence."Strawman. In all my years, I have never heard an anarchist claim eliminating states would eliminate violence. In fact, the argument is usually the opposite. It's the statists — those that think we "need" rulers — that claim that because violence can't be eliminated, we need an institution that is authorized to use violence in order to protect us from violence. How is that for naivety?"What distinguishes anarchism from other philosophies, however, is not a belief that violence can necessarily be eliminated, but that it must be challenged in all instances — even when that violence is perpetrated by states under the guise of the law."In other words, anarchists are people who understand that no one is authorized to commit crimes. Most anarchists know the state is unnecessary. All anarchists know the state is illegitimate.
Don't forget Cole's support of bombing Libya. The guy has a romantic view of military intervention, as you noted with his support of Iraq. Anarchists are no more naive than abolitionists were in their time, or usurpers in the time of feudalism and absolute monarchy.I am amused at the commenter who says he has explained why anarchists are naive, and then put forth several pieces of straw as a conversation starter. I'll offer up this 101 as a counterpoint.As for Cole, I would say he mostly is unaware. Priveledge does a funny thing, even when aware of crimes going on all around you, if you are unaffected, then they remain in the abstract and you can acknowledge them in one breath and then completely over look them in the next. I had a friend claim that our police are not nearly as bad as Brittains with their treatment of the underclass. He said this in spite of the fact that I know he knows a lot about the war on drugs and incidents like Oscar Grant's murder. Its all still abstract to him, so when it came time to explain why it (riots and uprising) can't happen here, that abstract information was easily put out of mind.
From Cole's piece…"As Right anarchists, they want the least government possible, and see government as a distraction for businesses, who succumb to the temptation to use the government to distort the eufunctional free market. In essence, government is a scam whereby some companies are seduced by the possibility of manacling the invisible hand that ought to be magically rewarding enterprise and innovation."Does Cole think Ron Paul is an anarchist? You'd think that Ron Paul calling for open borders would have received some coverage on the internet. Second, WTF is a "Right anarchist" (and why is "right" capitalized)? Anarchism is as far left as you can go on the historical left–right spectrum. Then again, I guess if you consider Woodrow Wilson and FDR as "on the left" — as Cole most likely does — then "Right anarchist" doesn't seem as absurd.Cole should start with Carson's The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand but I doubt he really cares. If he did, he wouldn't have made such weak arguments in the first place.
The Hero of Crappy Town says:
There is a point where what looked like naivete begins to look like cynicism. Cole has long passed that point. He speaks fondly of interventions in the Balkans, he is one of the most belligerent advocates of bombing of Libya, he always argued against an immediate withdrawal from Iraq (even as he critiqued the conduct of the war), now I learn that he also supported the invasion of that country. He takes time off from arguing to have the US military kill people to try to dismiss Paul and Chomsky — far better men than himself — as unrealistic and not worth listening to.Yepp, I think I will posit that Juan Cole is not so much naive as he is cynical and evil, albeit in love with himself and convinced of the goodness of his heart. I think the above remark by Anatole as him being someone interested in 'Imperial aesthetics' is spot on.
ergo says:
Great post, great thread. Cole is an embarrassment, and I hope he embarrasses himself further by responding.
Anarchism as an ethos or ideal is something I have no problem with. But it gets tiresome to be nothing but oppositional, or to live only for a very distant ideal. At some point, you have to have some ideas about how to manage real-world conflict, from the kind of petty issues that go to small claims court to armed violence. Unless anarchism has answers for that, people will stick to the devils they know.And yes, it is states that commit almost all of the massive armed violence. So what? Oppose them in your heart as much as you like, or with civil disobedience, or with angry blog posts. Sometimes that works! But the state remains, and ultimately if it isn't strong it just gets replaced by a different state or set of states, or the kind of violent anarchy that serves nobody.Sorry, don't mean to be a downer. I share the anarchist impulse, but can't really share the vision any more.Actually the real thing that bothers me is how the anti-government rhetoric of the left from the sixties (that I grew up on) has been co-opted by the right and helps to legitimize it. Do you want to be on the same side as Grover Norquist, who wants to "drown government in a bathtub"? Probably not. But you are in effect helping him, and the result is a diminishment of the decent functions of government while the evil ones remain firmly in place.
Karl Franz Ochstradt says:
Juan Cole's a pompous, statist, GooGoo cruise missile liberal whom "progressives" mistake for being wise, balanced and compassionate.Charles, you nailed it with this observation:Cole's attack on anarchy — from "anarcho-syndicalists like [Noam] Chomsky" to the aforementioned Paul — is perhaps a sign that liberals like him are fearful the anti-state position is gaining tractionChomsky's not an anarchist. He's a zionist statist gatekeeper. Ron and Rand Paul aren't anarchists. They're minarchists.Juan Cole was only correct when he was angry at Bush-Cheney. Hell, who wasn't correct on that point?
mtraven,you're pretty courageous and fierce when you stare down those scarecrows you've built.
mtraven: At some point, you have to have some ideas about how to manage real-world conflict, from the kind of petty issues that go to small claims court to armed violence.What are examples where use of coercive force "manages real-world conflict"?But the state remains, and ultimately if it isn't strong it just gets replaced by a different state or set of states, or the kind of violent anarchy that serves nobody.Which "violent anarchy" has existed that does not involve some form of organization which uses coercive force, aka NOT anarchy?I'm more bothered by the use of pro-government rhetoric being co-opted by all wings of the establishment in order to legitimize its evils, which vastly outweigh the "decent functions of government".
Ochstradt: I have no idea what you mean, nothing I've said here could possible be construed as "fierce".ergo asks: What are examples where use of coercive force "manages real-world conflict"?Pretty much everything. If two people have a dispute about a piece of property, it will ultimately get settled by coercive force, either between the parties or by taking the matter to court and letting the coercive power of government make and enforce the decision.This is not to say that sometimes compromises can be reached without resorting to force. But it is the implicit threat of force that underlies all property claims, without which a modern society can't really function. I say this as someone who in my younger days dreamed of a kind of anarcho-socialist utopia. But then I figured out that until you can breed the assholery out of the human species, such schemes aren't really workable.
mtraven, the key to my observation about you is the scarecrows you built. The "fierce" characterization is hyperbole, satire, sarcasm. You're about as fierce as a puddle of goo.But you sure impress yourself as bravely assessing a straw-man version of pseudo-anarchism, which you suggest is the same as anarchism. You sound a lot like Chris Hedges, who recoils at that thought of anarchism like a cartoon housewife shouting "EEK!" and jumping onto a chair when she sees a little mouse.Okay, you're afraid of anarchism and you hide behind a gross general statement that it's "unrealistic." Instead of fleshing out this "unreal" quality, you simply dance around like Ben Vereen wearing tap shoes.I suppose we're supposed to be either impressed with your refusal to be pinned down, or amused by the irony of your pretending to be a critic, yet not criticising what you pretend to examine.I just find it pathetic, but really, pathetic is standard fare in e-discussions, where posing and preening makes up 95% of people's posted words.Or, in your case, 100%.
in my younger days dreamed of a kind of anarcho-socialist utopia. But then I figured out that until you can breed the assholery out of the human species, such schemes aren't really workablestraw man built, straw man destroyed.bravo, fierce warrior! attack those windmills, don Quixote! clearly, the solution to Person A disagreeing with Person B is an elaborate State with punitive bureaucracies. I mean, that's the ONLY solution ANYONE can see!
Since there are not very many real anarchist societies to draw evidence from, anything said about them is so much straw. If some dude with a blog has invented a system that purports to allow people to get along without a government while maintaining the necessities of a 21st century civilization, that's really nice, but until it's been put into practice, it doesn't prove much of anything.As I said on my blog recently, I suspect that anarchism functions much like religion for some people, which helps explain why they get so pissy if their fundamental belief system is challenged. Arguments about religion are pointless, so please continue to worship at the church of your choice.
If two people have a dispute about a piece of property, it will ultimately get settled by coercive force, either between the parties or by taking the matter to court and letting the coercive power of government make and enforce the decision.So your solution for a property dispute is an independent third-party empowered to make an impartial judgment. Not likely to get that from the modern state! Just look at the foreclosure situation here today. Here is a mass problem of property disputes and what is clear is that the Law is used as a tool by immense financial interests against the powerless.Look, I can't stop two people from killing each other over a piece of land. But what you are positing as a solution to this is a huge concentration of power with not only the ability to deal with such petty disagreements but also with the ability to go to war, a massive and far more destructive exercise in adjudicating property claims.maintaining the necessities of a 21st century civilizationThis needs elaboration and then justification as to how the state is the vehicle to maintain these necessities. Also it's not like power and authority have never been devolved in history. Please offer an example where the devolution of power was a mistake in your view, and we can evaluate it.
ergo, I don't think I ever said that the state was "impartial". The law has pretensions to impartiality, occasionally achieves it, and more often is on the side with the most resources. I tend to think that despite its flaws, that is better than utter lawlessness, where the winner is *always* the side with more resources (and yes, there may be other alternatives, but I haven't found them very convincing).You'll have to start off with examples of devolution. The only ones that come to mind are breakups of empires due to war or internal collapse. Such breakups are never pretty, and its unclear if they are improvements or not (the Roman empire was brutal, but was the disarray of warring tribes and kingdoms it left behind any better?) I don't think it is meaningful to label such things "mistakes", as if somebody just made a wrong choice somewhere. It's part of the dynamics of history.
I tend to think that despite its flaws, that is better than utter lawlessness, where the winner is *always* the side with more resourcesHow is that not what we have now? When is this not the case? When some poor guy on Judge Judy wins a $200 claim against his landlord? When some rich dude spends $100,000 on attorneys in a vain attempt to beat a murder rap? The state is really the best mechanism you can think of to deal with these issues?Empires are the perfect argument for anarchism, and for devolving power sooner rather than later. (Full Disclosure: I came to anarchism from anti-imperialism.) Because empires are concentrations of power that unsustainably amass more power to themselves until they collapse, usually violently, and with long-term negative consequences. A state, once empowered, will seek greater power. The larger ones tend to be the most violent. How do you limit this unjust use of violent power? Via the state? Or do you just say, oh well, it would be worse without it. Meanwhile how many millions of people are we killing and incarcerating?
The breakups of empire are remembered as especially tragic and ugly by the people who stood to lose the most from their break up. I expect that if Donald Trump's reality show got cancelled, his autobiography would record that cancellation as a tragic event in a chapter, at least, possibly a whole section. Maybe a volume if he had a pliant enough editor.I imagine for the subjects, slaves and oppressed and other payers of empires wages, the story would be told quite differently.
How is that not what we have now? When is this not the case?Oh, it happens.I just watched the HBO documentary Hot Coffee, which is about the eating away of the right of individuals to bring torts against corporations. So the present trend is just as you say, in favor of the powerful, but on the other hand, at least there is a tort system that has worked in the past and still works on occasion to allow the weak to obtain redress from the strong. Without the state, or something like it, there wouldn't even be that.I didn't say the state is the best mechanism I can think of, but it is the mechanism we have. It seems like it is the responsibility of anarchists or anyone else who wants to change the system to demonstrate that their alternative is at least plausible and is better than the existing system. Reciting the flaws of the current system is not enough.
but on the other hand, at least there is a tort system that has worked in the past and still works on occasion to allow the weak to obtain redress from the strong. Without the state, or something like it, there wouldn't even be that.So if a repressive system contains within itself an avenue for pitifully minimal compensation for malfeasance–basically enough to keep a mob with pitchforks from burning McDonald's or whoever to the ground–then the forms of tyranny and power concentration inherent in that system are justified? Who grants corporations their charters. And backs them up with force of law?It seems like it is the responsibility of anarchists or anyone else who wants to change the system to demonstrate that their alternative is at least plausible and is better than the existing system. Reciting the flaws of the current system is not enough.I don't think the planet should be under the thumb of a hegemonic American imperial system. Now how am I supposed to demonstrate that the alternative would be superior? There is no Bizarro Earth to offer to people as a point of comparison. Is this a justification for the global garrison?
mtraven's just another pseudo-intellectual who likes to dance around ideas, instead of committing himself to something and following through with advocacy of that something, supported by reasoning and logic.I'm glad you found Charlie Davis's blog a great way to waste your time tap-dancing around, Ben Vereen EmmTraven. It sure is enjoyable for you to evade committing yourself to an idea, isn't it?I'd invite people to go read mtraven's blog and laugh at the name of the thing — talk about self-impressed and pompous!
Everything I've written here has been perfectly straightforward. I think what you call "dancing around ideas" is what most people refer to as "thinking", but if you prefer to avoid it, it's no skin off my nose.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© says:
…since liberal savior Barack Obama moved to the White House.Funny, I don't remember voting for a liberal savior. In fact during the primary, I distinctly recall thinking "which of these two corporatist dirtbags am I going to vote for?"So now I know!~
Jack Crow says:
mtraven,There's nothing "distant" or "ideal" about living as an anarchist, right now. Just because we don't have the means to abolish every state on the planet doesn't mean we are obligated to be non-anarchists. We also don't have the capacity to prevent every rape. That doesn't mean it's naive to live as a man who never rapes.What's truly idealist, and which also simultaneously pushes the resolution of human made problems out beyond the ass end of infinity, is the belief that people will behave nicely once they aggregate land, weapons, armed staffers, sanctity, wealth and moral sanction to behave for the good of others.What's truly naive – and I mean, stupidly, insanely, assclownishly naive – is believing that you can live another person's life if you aren't willing to also die his or her death.
mike flugennock says:
"Right anarchists?" Y'mean, this doorknob Cole thinks there are anarchists on the right? Believe you me, gang, Ron Paul and the Paultards may be a lot of things, but anarchists they're not.Dude's fucked up. Sounds like he's developed his idea of what anarchism is from media images of Seattle and old Sex Pistols records."What an ultramaroon! What an imbessle! What an ignoranamus! What a ta-ra-ra-goon-de-yay!"–bugs bunny.But, aaa-aaaanyway… anarchists, naive? Bite your tongue. Some of the most clear-thinking, realistic people I know are anarchists. Now, your libertarians, on the other hand, seem to be thinking about as realistically as Little Orphan Annie.
Rojo says:
"Violence is a human universal."Getting in very late on this thread, so not expecting anyone to see this, but I had to say that the above is utter nonsense. As comments above have observed, take a look out your window and observe that not everybody is out there stabbing and killing each other.And beyond that, take a look around the world today and in the past and witness the near-infinite variability of human cultures. Some of which are characterized extremely low (to the point of nil in some cases) levels of violence and some of which are characterized extremely high levels of violence.Assuming you live in the US, as do I, I would advise that you not mistake the culture of violence that surrounds us with "a human universal."
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SONY Platforms
By Spacemonkeyham, April 14, 2014 in Let's Talk About Double Fine
Spacemonkeyham
Dear Double Fine:
Allow me to express my ongoing love for Double Fine and all its games. I'm very gratified to see you exercising your newfound creative freedom with such awesome results.
Which is why I hesitantly ask, have you considered porting your work to Playstation systems? I understand the importance of not being tethered to AAA backers, but as a gamer who plays primarily through his console, I sometimes miss out on your work.
I invite the community to either chime in with a "here here!" or chastise me for my naiveté.
As for you, Double Fine, may you live forever.
Spacemonkey Ham
Leroy Octopus
Tim Schafer's Secret Lover
Well the only games they have that aren't on Playstation systems are mostly games that can't be ported. The Kinect games need the Kinect to work, the smart phone games are made for smart phones, and Iron Brigade was published by Microsoft, so they have no say over it. Other than that, there's Broken Age, which would be pretty crazy if it didn't get ported at some point.
Ash735
Forum Commander
There's the VITA, which people always say doesn't have any games, but for Indies it's one of the highest attach rates around, having the ability to play games like Costume Quest, Stacking, Broken Age, etc, on that would be a smart move and one more edge towards "Hey, maybe the VITA does have games".
ncocchiaro
There’s the VITA, which people always say doesn’t have any games, but for Indies it’s one of the highest attach rates around, having the ability to play games like Costume Quest, Stacking, Broken Age, etc, on that would be a smart move and one more edge towards “Hey, maybe the VITA does have games”.
You can also stream any PS4 game to the Vita via PS4 Remote Play, if you own both consoles. Porting to PS4 then has an added bonus.
Well, my wish came true in a way I hadn't dared hope.
I've been waiting to play Grim Fandango on something, ANYTHING, for years, and here it comes to my favorite platform.
I'll keep my fingers crossed that your indie and AF titles will keep making the migration.
By the way, the official line is that Double Fine want all of their games to be on as many platforms as possible. It's not always possible to do that, but there's basically no platform that's off-limits for them, so if there's a budget for it, it'll happen.
Yup - what KestrelPi said
In an ideal world, every title would be on every platform, but no port is free, and every title has it's own special journey!
Your explanation is especially relevant with the news that the Massive chalice port will be an XBox One Console exclusive.
I was disappointed to know MC won't come to PS4, but I'm glad Microsoft and Sony are smart enough to fight for dibs.
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Stagger eel Moderator Staff Member
I think Bartman summed it up extremely well on his reccomendation in post 9, but just to expand on it slightly, I'd say it would be imperative to try and promote and fill level 3 every night/day of the week by staging activities such as Trivia, poker nights, karaoke, luncheons with guest speakers, fight nights (already touched on by PF) raffles, shows and comedy nights.
Stagger eel, Jan 27, 2009
Twizzle Administrator Staff Member
bartman said: ↑
Thanks hellsy, didn't know. Still it doesn't take much to get a DA approved, you just have to follow the rules under the DCPs and go about re-zoning in the right way.
not that simple, you would need to check the DCP first, pretty sure it wouldn't allow such rezoning
you cant get recreational space rezoned just because you apply and go through the right channels
Twizzle, Jan 27, 2009
Parra Future said: ↑
I know this might sound crazy, but I don't know, it may work. Suity, your a builder aren't you? Couldn't the club go and build a carpark under the ground and dig down about 5 or 6 levels under the existing carpark. Something like the much smaller carpark inside Northcott (I think its called that). Do you think that is feasible??
would probably cost 2 or 3 times as much as an above ground carpark
parra pete Coach
Yes, keeps the personal remarks out of it. Really, they are doing you no favours at all.
Good advice. Just because someone doesn't agree with YOUR point of view, it doesn't mean they are WRONG. Ray Price has a habit of doing it also, and it doesn't mean he is right. Isn't it better if all sides can have a say? or do you think it better to paralyse resistence with persistence
Eels81236 is obviously hitting a nerve centre with his comments.....
"When judging others, people will work overtime with no pay" - C Carruthers
parra pete, Jan 27, 2009
parra pete said: ↑
Unfortunately though pete, Eels81236 has admitted an ulterior motive, therefore, his comments lack credibility.
Twizzle said: ↑
mickdo Coach
Pete & 81236, please just piss off to another thread with all your bitching and continued attempts to derail everything. Lord knows there are enough of them open already. It's pathetic.
Back to the topic at hand. Regarding the car parking, if Northcott has a large underground carpark already, would there be any possibilty of entering into a proper sharing arrangement with them? There might not be a lot of overlap between the 'business hours' of the two organisations, so something might work out?
mickdo, Jan 27, 2009
strider Post Whore
With the large trees now established around the edge of the current carpark area, I personally don't see putting in say a tasteful 2 story carpark as a problem for the asthetics of parramatta park .... but I guess the tree huggers would have a different opinion ...... I don't think there needs to be a massive carpark - just roughly doubling what is there now would help
strider, Jan 27, 2009
johnkolc Juniors
The hall of honour (not 3rd floor). Needs to be more prominantly displayed in the club, not on the 3rd floor, and not at the back of Sterlos either. The reason given for why it was moved from its central location on the lower floors was that it was getting too big to fit. Pity then that they just stuck up a TV screen basically showing a DVD on rotation in the new location... they could have done that in it's existing location, but they fed the members lies. Move some of the pokies form the front entranceway and make everyone walk through the f**king thing every time they come in, so they remember who they have to thank that they can be in the place to play their blessed pokies.
Best thing that's been said in this thread I reckon.
johnkolc, Jan 27, 2009
TheRam First Grade
Lucky last post eels81iamagoose and then I will start ignoring them due to the fact you seriously bore me to tears and I am sure not just I but many are sick of all the crap hitting these threads at this point in time. Can we atleast try to keep one free of BS for a while. Post whatever the hell you want, but I ain't biting no more.
If you honestly believe the rant you have made above maybe your last point should have been that we strategically picked a fight with someone on the site who was an outright moron that would end up getting the moron to fight with us as you did. Thanks. Maybe then we would win a sympathy vote. Cut the X-files paranoia out and get with the times. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE eels81lostcause.
My apologies all. Just couldn't hold that one in. Ram summed up the situation much better than me in a previous thread and he hit the nail on the head too on why I didn't go to such lengths. By the way Ram, Thanks, I did agree with it 100%.
No problemo PF, and I think you too are 100% right also, most ARE sick of these turnstile turkeys, who come in and out of here to just be negative with anything to do with progress and change.
TheRam, Jan 27, 2009
mickdo said: ↑
Clique go the shears boys, clique clique clique.
"Whilst I may not agree with your opinion, I'll defend to the death, your right to express it."
eels81236 said: ↑
I will not put my name to posts here as it may affect my business dealings with those in and around the club, be it positive or negative.
this to me tells me that you currently have a vested interested with the current LC board, and that's cool..I just wished that you gave us another side of the arguement rather than continuelly attacked Col who I might add has put his neck on the line in this whole saga.
I'd love for someone to get out of the blocks and convince me why I shpould turn in this, why not come out and reveal yourself in the way that Col has? afterall we're all in it together.
Solve this problem first.....
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkOmcIl79s
and then get stuck into the task at hand....
To be perfectly honest I hope one day we win another premiership and this time burn the club!!! - :sarcasm:
I do like a couple of the ideas put forward. Someone suggested improving Parra Heaven. I would suggest turning it into a Peter Wynn score mini store. They wimply dominate the Parra merchandise market and the club could benefit by coming to an arrangement with Wynny IMO!
I would think Poker Tournaments with player participation would be great. I know that the majority of our current players are regular players. Why not use their out of footy interest to improve club relations??
For me the TAB is a big thing and I have heard the arguements about why the current board removed the TAB facilities, but I can tell you that is a load of bullshyte!! The truth is the club has a mentality of "if there is no TAB, the punters will be forced to play the pokies and they have better returns". END OF STORY!! - This is so far from the real story it isn't funny. All they have done is forced TAB punters to head to other facilities in the area.
A sports club without a TAB is like having a Fish bowl without fish!:x
I like the idea of creating a more family friendly club as well, but I respect the need to make every last square inch of the club profitable. I'm not confident of a perfect solution there....
In the end a good club is created on the back of having good branding and culture. The current board have turned the current club into a mini china town operation with the sole purpose of running at a profit. I'm not suggesting that this is wrong or right but for me as an individual who has grown up going to the club regularly I am dissappointed with the progression of the club and the path made. The choices that have been made are quite simply solely based on survival and profit margins.
Freak2 said: ↑
I like the idea of creating a more family friendly club as well, but I respect the need to make every last square inch of the club profitable.
If that's the case, Level 3 must be costing them a bucket load. There's a few square inches up there.
Jake the snake Coach
Forget about Level 3, They need to knock the whole damn thing down and rebuild again. The place is out dated and stale.
People should head to Mounties, Canterbury, Panthers and Bankstown Sports Club. They are really professional clubs who have always updated. Parra Leagues is a dinosaur and no wonder nobody goes there.
Jake the snake, Jan 27, 2009
Jake the snake said: ↑
I don't disagree with your opinion of the club - in fact, it's on the money, but finance for such a proposal?
forward pass Coach
Having skimmed briefly through this thread, it is obvious that Level 3 needs to be a carpark.
Over to you PF.
forward pass, Jan 27, 2009
forward pass said: ↑
Oh FP, you are so perseptive - Well Done Sir! :lol:
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By nkam, September 9, 2009 in General Questions
nkam
I was so happy to see that SuperAntiSpyware still supports Windows 98, as we still have one old computer which has it as the OS.
So, I downloaded the free ware edition of the program, but when I went to install it, it told me that it couldn't register "SASWINDO.dll" and gave me the options to "Abort", "Retry" or "Ignore". Retrying didn't do anything, so I tried to manually register the dll in the Windows "Run" box, but got an error, probably because it needed to be extracted from the install program. So, not being sure how important the file was, I chose "Ignore" and let it go ahead & install the program, which it did.
Then, I tried to start SuperAntiSpyware, but I got two error messages that say, "The C:\PROGRAM FILES\SUPERANTISPYWARE\SUPERANTISPYWARE.EXE file expects a newer version of Windows. Upgrade your Windows version." and another window that says, "C:\Program Files\SuperAntiSpyware\SUPERAntiSpyware.exe. A device attached to the system is not functioning." I assume they probably have something to do with the failed dll installation, but am not sure.
So what gives? Do I need to download an older version of the program in order for it to work on Windows 98? If so, it would be nice if you put that somewhere in your FAQ or on the download page or something.
Please advise as to what I need to do to get the program installed on this computer. I think it has some type of malware infection and I'm sure there is some spyware/adware on it, so I really need a program that can find and fix the problems. I guess I probably need to uninstall the failed install version first, but will wait for a reply before I do anything further.
lightning slinger
The version most suited to Windows 98SE is 4.24.1004, get it from filehippo.
There are later versions which will run on 98 but very poorly and the latest version does not even install as you have found out.
It really is about time that SUPERAntispyware updated the information on the website, it has never changed in years!
Thanks for your suggestion, lightning slinger. This machine is running the first, but fully updated as far as it could be, version of Windows 98 (I can't remember whether it was called SP2 or what and I'm at a different machine at the moment), not Windows 98 SE.
Do you know if the version of SAS that you are recommending will also work with non SE Win 98 OS?
Now I cannot tell you if any version definitely runs on 98FE but if 4.24.1004 doesn't I cannot see ANY version doing that.
If you get it going don't forget to go into Preferences, Update tab and uncheck all otherwise you will download program updates which you don't want.
Sadly with 98 we don't have much choice in malware scanners just SAS which is very good at it's job or Spybot S&D which isn't.
Damif
Thanks Lightning Slinger, it used to work fine. Maybe I will try that version but I have found another program that is very light. Indeed, the last version doesn`t work unfortunatly.
Hi Damif,
Version 4.24.1004 seems to be inflicted like all the later version with excessive CPU usage on opening the program, it used to only take 5 seconds to open on both my 98SE boxes but recently when other posters raised the same problem with the other versions, I timed this version again and it now takes around 30 seconds to open the program, so I am assuming the problem lies with the size of the definitions loading.
If the latest version does open quicker then it seems we are stuck with what we have already, still at least it does still work but with a slower CPU and less RAM I think many will be struggling.
Jaheira
Just curious to know, LS, why, with a setup like yours, you don't upgrade to XP?
I'm another 98SE holdout, so I'm not criticising you!
It's a shame that SAS doesn't make the effort to develop their product on 98SE boxes any longer; only 1/3rd of 1% of people use 98 now, but if all of those people used SAS as their spyware checker (since there's no other choice other than Spybot which is now sh'ite!!) then that would constitute a large number of potential users.
Since there's a huge hole in the Port 139/445 that's critical and showing it's private parts to the whole web at the moment, it looks like us 98SE holdouts are the most secure users on the net!
Bump to the top.
Since SAS are now letting down their 98 users, their shortsightedness should be noted.
SAS isn't the best product out there. Mlawarebytes craps all over this solution. So why not support the people using 98, since for XP and Vista, this product is 3rd rate?
normanishmael
Please ,Jaheira,Malwarebytes does what?
The only thing Malwarebytes beats SUPERAntiSpyware in is the number of false positives in critical system files,
and the surliness of their forum.(there you would be either ignored or banned for such a remark)
In any event it does not even offer token support of legacy operating systems.
Those of us who are die hard XP fans will soon enough be in the position of 98 users now.
I hope we remain a little more gracious.
SAS_Dave
The Windows 98 platform would not benefit from the majority of application changes in 4.29. 4.24 is as good in Win98 as 4.29 would be with detection and removal. We have much greater control over the scanning process on NT-based operating systems. I would highly recommend upgrading to Windows 2000 if you can find a copy to buy; it usually doesn't require greater system specs than a 98 PC and should be cheap. Win2K fully supports our latest release, and was a great OS for computers of that time period.
SoCalifTechie
LocationSo Calif
I am running Win98SE and am able to use Superantispyware version 4.26.0.1002 without any problems at all ( other than being a little slow when started up and exited from). Checking for updates can take some time too.
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Produced by Weezer
Album Weezer (The Red Album)
Automatic Lyrics
How am I going to
Deliver you a mountain size of love?
How do oceans connected by a straw
Get something through?
I might need some time to remember
Need some time to remember
Hey, It's automatic when you know it
Hey, It's automatic when feel it
When do I lay down
And get to see the world inside your eyes?
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I got some
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About “Automatic”
This song is written and sung by the drummer of Weezer, Patrick Wilson. Wilson has stated that this song is simply about how much he loves his family.
What have the artists said about the song?
According to Pat Wilson in the Red Album deluxe edition liner notes:
I’ve rewritten that song a couple of times. I stumbled onto that riff in the chorus and I realized, ‘Now I’m gonna have a chorus.’ This song is interesting, it’s a big rock tune but it’s kinda got a vibe to it, and the lyrics are just about me wanting to give as much love as I can to my family. So it’s kinda like family rock. It feels a little corny to say, but that’s what it is. […] The heaviness of love meets the heaviness of rock. It’s love rock. But somehow Love Rock is the opposite of Rock of Love.
Who plays lead guitar on this song?
Unlike most Weezer songs which feature Rivers Cuomo on lead guitar, “Automatic” has lead guitar by Pat Wilson, Weezer’s drummer who also wrote and sang this song. According to Cuomo in the Red Album deluxe edition liner notes:
Pat played all the guitar on that song. It’s really ironic that most of the ripping guitar on this album is played by the drummer. He’s just such a great guitar player.
Wilson would go on to be Weezer’s lead guitarist for live shows from 2009 to 2012, with Cuomo wanting to feel more free as a frontman and Josh Freese manning the drums.
"Automatic" Track Info
Written By Patrick Wilson
Backing Vocals Scott Shriner
Lead Vocals Patrick Wilson
Keyboard Brian Bell
Percussion Rivers Cuomo
Bass Guitar Scott Shriner
Rhythm Guitar Brian Bell
Lead guitar Patrick Wilson
Release Date June 3, 2008
Weezer (The Red Album) Weezer
1. Troublemaker
2. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)
3. Pork and Beans
4. Heart Songs
5. Everybody Get Dangerous
6. Dreamin’
7. Thought I Knew
8. Cold Dark World
9. Automatic
10. The Angel and the One
11. Miss Sweeney
12. Pig
13. The Spider
14. King
15. It’s Easy
16. I Can Love
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KING: A FILMED RECORD
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student’s Journey
RESTORING TOMORROW
A profile of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, the man behind the anti-vaccination movement.
Emmy Nominated LIGHT IN THE WATER
Alex Honnold completes the first free solo climb of famed El Capitan's 3,000-foot vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.
A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.
If you had nothing left to lose, what would you be willing to go through to find more meaning in your life? Have you ever worked a job as risky as firefighting, or considered it? How much can your mind, body, and spirit bear in the face of nature’s most extraordinary force?
The Doctor From India
An Indian doctor introduces the West to an ancient health care system called Ayurveda.
Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
Vaxxed
An investigation into the CDC's destruction of a study linking autism to the MMR vaccine.
livescream
A magazine journalist interviews real people living dynamic and harmonious lives in communities around the world.
I Am MLK JR
This documentary explores the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his impact on civil rights through present day.
Kuleana
A soldier returns to his native Hawaii after being wounded in Vietnam.
Normal is Over 1.1
Gayce deals a hallucinogenic drug called theta, facilitating an audience for her friends' all-girl rock band. When Gayce's friends are brutally murdered, she must solve the mystery behind the murders and protect herself from the killer.
Documentary filmmaker R. Scott Cooper, on a mission to expose the dark side of Christian culture, infiltrates a small group.
A cinematic journey into the world of a monastic community that practises the art of mindfulness with Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Generation Found
Faced with an addiction epidemic, the Houston community comes together to create a youth addiction recovery support system.
Medical students and families of physicians touched by suicide come out of the shadows to expose this silent epidemic and the truth about a sick healthcare system that not only drives our brilliant young doctors to take their own lives but puts patients lives at risk too
Filmmaker Tom Donahue examines the superficial understanding of war trauma.
Defining Hope
Nurses guide patients and their families at fragile junctions in their lives.
A filmmaker seeking treatment for her daughter's migraine attacks discovers a confounding neurological disease and learns why a devastating condition, afflicting nearly a billion people worldwide, remains so deeply misunderstood.
Filmmaker Matt Embry, who has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, journeys from Italy to Canada to examine the politics of treating the illness.
Life in the Doghouse
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Intelligent Lives
Young adults who have intellectual disabilities challenge perceptions of intelligence while navigating high school, college and the workforce.
3100: Run and Become
What if running could lead to enlightenment? 3100: Run and Become follows an unassuming Finnish paperboy in the Self-Transcendence 3100 Miler – the world’s longest race. His quest takes viewers around the world to the Kalahari Desert, the mountain temples of Japan and the Navajo Reservation
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The film documents Bill Bennett's journey to find the source of a mysterious voice which saved his life. It features some of the world's leading experts on intuition spanning the fields of science, religion, and spirituality
Mantra: Sounds into Silence
This exploration into the social phenomenon of chanting focuses on the people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together.
Suicide: The Ripple Effect
At age 19, Kevin Hines attempted to take his life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Seventeen years later, he still struggles with many of the same symptoms that led him to attempt to take his life,...
The Surgery Ship
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Creative essay doc inspired by Lewis Hyde's classic bestseller The Gift. Chronicling gift-based cultures around the world and challenging the logic of global capitalism, the film inspires the question: is life about getting or giving?
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Scholtes, Mark and Batorowicz, Beata (2019) Practice-led Research and the Myth of Rigour. NiTRO: Non Traditional Research Outcomes, 23. pp. 1-4.
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Baguley, Margaret (2015) Learning to see differently: the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. In: Cultural essentialism in intercultural relations. Frontiers of Globalization Series. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, pp. 81-98. ISBN 978-1-137-49858-8
Lawson, Alexandra (2015) Magnificent monsters: a place for the social artist in visual art. [Thesis (PhD/Research)]
McDonald, Janet Alison (2014) Connecting arts to the school curriculum project. Project Report. University of Southern Queensland / Flying Arts Alliance . [Report]
Fergusson, Lee and Bonshek, Anna, eds. (2014) The unmanifest canvas: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the arts, creativity, and perception 1970-2006. Maharishi University of Management Press, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. ISBN 978-0-923569-47-1
Hammer, Sara and McDonald, Janet and Forbes, Melissa (2014) Three perspectives on a collaborative, whole-of-program process of curriculum change. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 5 (1). pp. 47-62. ISSN 1838-3815
Jones, Janice K. (2014) Weaving words: personal and professional transformation through writing as research. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. ISBN 978-1-4438-5452-8
Barton, Georgina (2014) Encouraging productive arts-literacy dialogues: a call to action. In: Literacy in the arts: retheorising learning and teaching. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 287-293. ISBN 978-3-319-04845-1
Barton, Georgina and Freebody, Peter (2014) Literacy and knowledge: classroom practice in the arts. In: Literacy in the arts: retheorising learning and teaching. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 93-110. ISBN 978-3-319-04845-1
Barton, Georgina (2014) Literacy and the arts: interpretation and expression of symbolic form. In: Literacy in the arts: retheorising learning and teaching. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 3-19. ISBN 978-3-319-04845-1
Barton, Georgina, ed. (2014) Literacy in the arts: retheorising learning and teaching. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland.
Moffatt, Amanda and Ryan, Mary and Barton, Georgina (2014) Reflexivity and self-care for creative facilitators: stepping outside the circle. Studies in Continuing Education, 38 (1). pp. 29-46. ISSN 0158-037X
Baguley, Margaret and Barton, Georgina and MacDonald, Abbey (2014) The formation of the Australian Arts Education Practice and Research Special Interest Group (AEPR SIG). Australian Art Education, 36 (2). pp. 8-21. ISSN 1032-1942
Akenson, David (2013) Curiouser and curiouser: studio research at the University of Southern Queensland. [A Creative/Applied Media collection]
Batorowicz, Beata and Di Mauro, Sebastian (2013) The curious art of falling down the rabbit hole. [A Creative/Applied Media collection]
Batorowicz, Beata and Williams, Megan and Klos, Agnieszka and Ludwiczak, Beata and Stringer, Richard and Franzidis, Evie and Stubbs, Katrina and Van Ooyen, Vanessa (2012) Tales within historical spaces (bilingual artist book). [Other Creative Art collection]
Lee, Jihyun and Stankov, Lazar (2012) Large-scale online writing assessments: new approaches adopted in the national assessment of educational progress. In: Writing: a mosaic of new perspectives. Taylor & Francis (Routledge), New York, United States, pp. 384-401. ISBN 9781848728127
Gibson, Sarah and Maslin, Sue and Batorowicz, Beata and Draper, Rose and Jakovsky, Sharon and Ferris, Greg (2011) Re-enchantment: not all fairytales are for children. [A Visual Arts collection]
Saito, Akihiro (2011) Methodology, the Western, and myself: the West/non-West binary in a non-Western educational researcher's pursuit for a PhD. In: Beyond binaries in education research. Routledge Research in Education. Taylor & Francis (Routledge), New York, USA, pp. 17-26. ISBN 978-0-415-88512-6
Baguley, Margaret (2010) Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference: an early career regional researcher's narrative journey. In: AARE 2009: Australian Association for Research in Education Annual Conference 2009: Inspiring Innovative Research in Education, 29 Nov - 3 Dec 2009, Canberra, Australia.
McDonald, Janet (2009) Fostering an interdisciplinary learning environment through core 3rd-year courses in a revised BCA. In: Curriculum development in studio teaching. STP Case Studies of Effective Practice (4). Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Sydney, Australia, pp. 29-36. ISBN 978-0-7334-2825-8
Lee, Christopher (2009) The country of unspoken feeling: an interview with Jean Kent. Antipodes, 23 (1). pp. 47-51. ISSN 0893-5580
Hewitt, Pamela (2009) Don't be depressed or editing your way out of a recession. In: 4th National Editors Conference (IPED 2009): Getting the Message Across, 8-10 Oct 2009, Adelaide, South Australia.
McDonald, Janet (2008) Cultural catchments project final report. Project Report. University of Southern Queensland , Toowoomba. [Report]
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Gehrmann, Richard (2006) Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood [Book review]. Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts (10). pp. 92-94. ISSN 1321-1021
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“I don’t want to fight anymore. I’m just too tired. I have to just be me.”: I Kissed a Girl (3×07) Gleecap
tags: gleecap, I Kissed a Girl, Santana, season 3
Sometimes I really do think that Glee is best when it’s messy. “I Kissed a Girl” was all kinds of messy, from Santana’s storyline, to Puck/Shelby/Quinn’s storyline, to Beiste/Sue/Cooter’s storyline, to Rachel’s storyline…and while I’ve seen several reviews of this week’s episode that condemns it for its messiness, I thought it all worked surprisingly well. Sure, I’m getting a bit tired of the Puck/Shelby drama, too, but I thought that their complex drama was fantastic to watch, just like it was to see all of the emotions Santana went through this week. The main storylines that are currently on Glee aren’t ones that can or should be wrapped up in pretty, little bows, and I’m pleased to see that the show is properly acknowledging that. Quinn’s story, in particular, is an excellent example this – even two seasons later, Quinn still hasn’t fully recovered from the hell she went through in the first season. Even though this was frequently glossed over in season 2, I’m happy to see that the show is embracing its mess, and making much more well-developed characters in the process. But enough about the hot messes from this week, let’s break this episode down a bit more, shall we?
Favourite Character: Santana just keeps consistently blowing me away, week after week. The range of emotions she showed this week were stunning, and her scene with her grandmother was flawless. That speech…that speech! Getting to see so much of Santana’s true feelings about life and love was tear-worthy in and of itself, but watching her break down after her grandmother’s rejection was truly heart-breaking. Props must also be given to Puck this week, who gave a killer performance, delivered hilarious dialogue, and had some incredibly lovely scenes, particularly the one in Quinn’s bedroom, and his speech about how they all abandoned her.
Favourite Song: Do I really have to pick just one this week? I thought that this was a particularly strong episode musically, with “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” being the only exception – I really liked the idea of it and it was definitely emotional to watch, but I just don’t think that Finn’s voice was right for the song. All of the other songs really worked for me though, especially Beiste’s solo debut with “Jolene”. Woman just knocked that song right out of the park! “Constant Craving” and “I’m the Only One” were also especially awesome.
Favourite Quotes:
Rachel: I haven’t been this worried about a vote since Lambert vs. Allen.
Rachel: They’re all so lost in their own worlds that they can’t see how important this is to me.
Sue: Better luck next time, David Boreanaz.
Puck (to Quinn): I see you somewhere warm and glamorous like L.A. or Miami or Toronto.
Beiste: If I had to bench press a wildebeest just to prove to you how much you mean to me, I would do it.
Artie: Where’s Rachel? She never misses applause.
Sue’s Corner: How happy was I to see Sue’s Journal make a reappearance in this episode? SO HAPPY! That scene was completely hysterical, and Sue was once again really strong this week. It’ll be really interesting to see how she handles all the losses she suffered this week, and I really hope we get to delve into that story.
Student Election and “Real Election”: I love that there was actually a sign that said “Real Election” over the polling area for the congressional seat. Amazing. As for the results themselves, I was surprised how little I actually found I cared about them in the end. I’m happy for Burt, of course, but I think what will be more interesting is Sue’s defeat, rather than Burt’s triumph. (Which, by the way, is hilariously unrealistic that a write-in candidate actually won!) And it’ll be hilarious to see Brittany as president, of course, but obviously I’m also sad for Kurt…so I would’ve felt both happy and sad, no matter what the outcome.
Weak Point: I’m really getting quite tired of the whole “if I don’t have twenty billion awesome things on my resumé, NYADA won’t accept me” storyline. It’s getting almost as old as the “Figgins is shutting down the glee club” storyline. I’m hoping that now that Kurt has actually sent in his application, we won’t have to hear him or Rachel whine about that quite so much.
Next week: It’s Sectionals time! New Directions vs. Troubletones – who will come out on top? Also, it’s the return of White Chocolate! Don’t know who White Chocolate is? You will once you watch the preview…
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Hey, i loved the episode! And I so wish that Dave Karofsky had a story line [and screentime] like this. I agree with most of what you said in your GleeCap here, but I don’t think that the NYADA-nagging is a weak point. Au contraire – Kurt’s story should continue in a satisfying way – that he get the freakin’ thing he needs for the school. and gets in, of course.
great episode, must say.
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2/7 Highlights: Discussion of Potential Parcel Tax
Natalie Walchuk | February 6, 2018
Click here to see WCCUSD’s minutes for this meeting.
Welcome to Board Watch for WCCUSD’s February 7th Board of Education meeting!
This week, our board members are scheduled to discuss the possibility of placing a new parcel tax on the June 5, 2018 ballot. In addition, the board will receive initial bargaining proposals between United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) and the District. Lastly, the board is recommended to approve costs for Richmond High’s Robotics Team to compete at the regional FIRST Robotics Competition in Utah.
Click here to see the full meeting agenda.
1. Discussion of Potential Parcel Tax Measure to Attract and Retain Quality Teachers
Discussion Item F.1. The Board will discuss the possibility of placing a new parcel tax of 7.2 cents per square foot of total building area to support teacher compensation on the June 5, 2018 ballot. Seniors and the disabled would be exempt from the parcel tax.
This parcel tax would go specifically towards recruitment and retention of highly qualified staff and would be shared with District students attending West Contra Costa charter schools for the same purpose. If the Board chooses to advance this to an action item, the District will have an attorney write a resolution and ballot language for consideration at the upcoming February 28thmeeting. A public hearing would then be held and the Board would vote on whether to place the parcel tax on the June ballot.
In 20014, District voters passed a parcel tax that has helped to fund reduced class sizes, counselors, librarians, custodial services, and extracurricular programs. This parcel tax was renewed in 2008 with 79% of voters supporting it, in 2012 with 75% of the vote and in 2016 (Measure T) with more than 76% of the vote.
In 2016 polling, 75.4% of voters indicated that attracting and retaining quality teachers would make them more likely to support the extension of the parcel tax.
Each year, the parcel tax brings about $9.8 million into the District each year. Over the last 14 years, the District has spent the parcel revenue prudently and in alignment with the measure with full accountability through review by citizen committees and the District’s annual audit.
If approved by voters, the two parcel taxes would mean property owners would pay a total levy of 14.4 cents per square foot and bring in nearly $19.6 million to the District annually.
Click here to view the Parcel Tax Survey Report from polling in 2016.
2. Initial Bargaining Proposals Between WCCUSD and United Teachers of Richmond (UTR)
Discussion Items F.6 and F.7. The board is scheduled to receive the initial bargaining proposals for labor negotiations between UTR and WCCUSD. This is an information item only. At the next board meeting, this item will come up for public hearing and adoption.
Click here to see UTR’s proposal.
Click here to see WCCUSD’s proposal.
3. Richmond High Robotics Team to Compete at FIRST Robotics Utah Regional
Business / Consent Item D.8. Seventeen students from the Robotics Team at Richmond High will be visiting West Valley City, Utah to compete at the FIRST Robotics Utah Regional from February 27 to March 4, 2018. This competition involves high schools from the western United States, Texas, and Chile. The team will test the robot they built in alliance against other teams. Students learn scientific and mechanical skills as well as the ability to think critically, improvise, react to unforeseen circumstances, teamwork, and orally present their robot to judges.
Learn more about Team 841 at Richmond High.
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Night has a Thousand Desires at 366 Weird Movies
Posted in Film, horror, jess franco, movies with tags jess franco, jesus franco, lina romay, night has a thousand desires on February 22, 2017 by goregirl
Long time no see! I have actually contributed a few reviews to 366 Weird Movies but have been lax in posting links here on the site. Naughty! And speaking of naughty, you will definitely want to see Lina Romay; that vivacious vixen of sleazy cinema give one of her all-time best performance in Night has a Thousand Desires. This one is a must-have for Franco and Romay fans. Read my review here.
And check out my tumblr archives for the film here.
Goregirl’s Dungeon on YouTube: Carmen Dragon – Suite from Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Posted in Goregirl's Dungeon on YouTube, horror, movies, USA with tags Carmen Dragon, don siegel, invasion of the body snatchers, pod people, science fiction, score, soundtrack on March 5, 2014 by goregirl
Music and images from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) directed by Don Siegel; Suite: Main Titles, You’re Next and Finale from the compilation Things to Come: The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Volume Two.
Lobby Cards for Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Favourite Five Series: DAVID CRONENBERG
Posted in Canada, Favourite Five Series, horror, movies with tags 1977, 1979, 1983, 1988, armpit vagina, art hindle, barbara steele, david cronenberg, dead ringers, james woods, Judy Davis, Lynn Lowry, Marilyn Chambers, Max Renn, mutation, naked lunch, oliver reed, Parasite, Peter Weller, rabid, Roy Scheider, samantha eggar, the brood, They Came from Within, Videodrome, william s burroughs on March 3, 2014 by goregirl
David Cronenberg has forty director credits listed on IMDB; twenty-one of those credits are feature films. I have seen twenty of those feature films; Maps of the Stars has not yet been released. I think they outta start naming some Canadian monuments after David Cronenberg, or at very least a school or two. David Cronenberg Elementary; they can do a musical version of The Brood each year in his honor. Before compiling this list I went to the effort of seeing Cosmopolis, which I found Comme-ci, comme ça. It certainly wasn’t changing anything on this list. The only film I feel really strongly about from Cronenberg’s last decade of filmmaking is Eastern Promises. Don’t misunderstand, I have actually quite enjoyed Cronenberg’s entire body of work but it is his horror films that will always have a special place in my heart. Cronenberg’s early horror films are the perfect combination of the physical with the psychological. The term body horror or venereal horror has been used to describe his early genre films and an apt description it is. The term body horror basically represents a complete and graphic breakdown of the human body from any number of causes; disease, parasite, cerebral manifestation to note a few. Cronenberg’s films are complimented by strong stories, perfect casting, amazing performances and gag-worthy visuals. This was the easiest list I have ever put together; the only real struggle was leaving Dead Ringers off the list. As much as I love Dead Ringers and Jeremy Irons brilliant performance it is not a film that I revisit nearly as often as the five included below.
Videodrome is about a struggling cable television station run by Max Renn. Renn is always on the lookout for programming not offered by the competition and shows soft-core adult films late nights. Renn is looking to step up his game and one night his engineer stumbles upon a grainy barebones production called Videodrome. Videodrome appears to be simulated snuff but as Max soon discovers it is all very real. Videodrome is more than torture, it is an addictive mental mindfuck with the ability to transform the human body. Videodrome is both a warning about the dangers of technology taking over our lives and our desensitization to violence. It also has really bloody amazing effects by Rick Baker that hold up as well today as they did back in 1983. Really ghastly and original stuff. Despite a mainstream cast and major distribution Cronenberg holds back nothing and creates a gritty, disturbing and uncompromising film. James Woods is pitch-perfect as station owner Max Renn. Woods Renn character is cocky, tactless and intense; watching him lose his grip on reality is Shakespearian. Deborah Harry was an impeccable choice as Nicki Brand; she is sexy, kinky and completely believable in the role. Renn has a sexual relationship with Brand who becomes drawn into Videodrome and eventually becomes one of its victims. Videodrome is without a doubt my favourite David Croenberg film and one of my favorite horror films of all time. “Long live the new flesh!”
THE BROOD (1979)
The Brood is about Nola Carveth who is being treated by Psychotherapist Dr. Raglan. Dr. Raglan is using an unconventional treatment called Psychoplasmics. The method encourages the patient to work through their emotion until it physically manifests itself. Nola has become a primary focus of Dr. Raglan’s therapy due to her extraordinary adaptation. Nola receives weekend visits from her daughter Candy important to her therapy; but after her ex-husband Frank finds Candy bruised and scratched he puts an immediate end to the visitations. Shortly after, Nola’s abusive mother is found brutally murdered. Even more disconcerting they discover the dead body of a mutated child who appears to be the one responsible for the death. The ability to materialize your anxiety, fear or anger would be a pretty unsettling ability to have. I can’t imagine what mad nastiness my mind would concoct! The little mutant children featured in The Brood are creepy as hell. The effects are impressive and the makeup on the mutant kiddies is beautifully grotesque. Large groups of children in snowsuits scare me to this day. One of my favourite scenes in the film takes place in a kindergarten class with a bunch of child actors who probably grew up seriously traumatized thanks to Cronenberg. The best visual effects assault however is courtesy of Nola Carveth in the film’s finale. You can find pictures of it all over the place, but I am not going to be the one to spoil it for you. It really is freaking spectacular! Another top-notch cast that includes legend Oliver Reed who plays Dr. Raglan with charisma, strength and authority, the exquisite Samantha Eggar who plays Nola Carveth with disturbed psychosis, rage and a touch of empathy, Cindy Hinds who plays Candice Carveth a quiet, solemn little girl with an adult-like numbness that is chilling and Art Hindle who plays the voice of reason Frank Carveth. Mood and atmosphere, well paced, steadily building tension, amazing effects and stunning performances; The Brood is a suspenseful, intense and chilling experience.
Naked Lunch is loosely based on William S. Burroughs’ novel of the same name. Cronenberg turns the story into a semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs life. Characters are based on Burroughs real life acquaintances Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joan Vollmer and Paul and Jane Bowles. Bill Lee is an exterminator whose wife Joan is addicted to the insecticide he uses to kill bugs. Bill too is affected by the substance which causes him to have severe hallucinations. So severe are his hallucinations that Bill believes he is a secret agent for an organization called Interzone and is assigned tasks by a giant insect! Although I included Naked Lunch on my top ten horror film list for 1991 it really is not a horror film; although Cronenberg definitely includes horrifying images in the film. There are some downright gross visuals that are on par with any of the horror films on the list. As noted, Cronenberg never intended his film to be a straight up adaptation of Burroughs book but I think he does a superb job of capturing the general vibe while maintaining a distinct David Cronenberg flavor. I love Cronenberg’s approach with the inclusion of facts from Burroughs fascinating life. The shooting death of Burrough’s girlfriend Joan Vollmer is worked into the plot of Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch. Burroughs says of the incident “I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would have never become a writer but for Joan’s death”. Naked Lunch is a strange, hypnotic, and sublime trip into another world. The film is accented by some truly exceptional performances from Judy Davis, Roy Scheider, Ian Holm, Julian Sands and Nicholas Campbell and most notably Peter Weller who plays Bill Lee. When I think of the most iconic acting roles of the past few decades Weller’s Lee is one of the first that comes to mind. Naked Lunch has withstood countless viewings and always leaves me feeling a little disoriented but awestruck. It is truly a one of a kind experience that, like a lot of Cronenberg’s films, elicits strong opinions of love or hate; I happen to think it is a masterpiece. “Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to.”
RABID (1977)
Rabid focuses on Rose, the victim of a serious motorcycle accident. Rose becomes the beneficiary of a radical surgery performed by Dr. Keloid involving tissue grafting. The surgery has an unexpected side effect in the form of a vagina-like orifice in her armpit that craves human blood. Rose runs amok in an effort to sate her cravings. Rose’s feedings not only cause bodily harm but they infect her victims causing them to go into a rabid state and attack and infect others. Doctors in horror movies have caused so much mayhem over the years haven’t they? If Rose had been taken to a regular hospital instead of a plastic surgery clinic none of this would have happened. Needless to say the infection spreads like wildfire and martial law is declared. The infected move quickly and attack viciously; fortunately they are easy to kill. The effects are solid although Rabid is not especially graphic. Rose’s armpit vagina is the film’s coolest effect and it is quite a unique one too! There are some particularly well-executed action sequences. My favourite is a scene that takes place in a mall during Christmas time and a security guy goes on a crazy shooting spree and kills Santa! Another scene that takes place on a subway is also delightfully chaotic. Marilyn Chambers does not speak much in her role as Rose but she is lovely and intense and a pleasure to behold. Chambers brings a good balance of strength and vulnerability to Rose. Frank Moore is natural and likable as her boyfriend Hart. Rabid is well-paced with evenly distributed violence throughout. Rabid is smart, well-written, intense and seriously entertaining.
THEY CAME FROM WITHIN (1975)
They Came from Within aka Shivers is about an experiment conducted by Dr. Emil Hobbes using parasites. The parasites cause the patient to have an overwhelming sexual appetite. Hobbes implants his girlfriend Annabelle with the parasite who is living in The Starliner a self-contained, exclusive high-end condominium. Annabelle quickly spreads the parasite throughout the building. Hobbes then kills his Annabelle and himself and the case is closed. Meanwhile residents of the building are getting sick and parasites are running loose and attacking the residents. The condominiums on-site Doctor Dr. St. Luc uncovers information about Hobbes research and tries to contain the parasite in the Starliner condominium, but will it be too late? Shivers is an intense, intelligent, claustrophobic tale full of sexuality and violence. Shivers opens with the death of a very young woman by the hands of a middle-aged man who then cuts his own throat. The next bit of yuckiness comes from a resident named Nick who leaves work early feeling sick. He vomits out a parasite and it is not long before all hell breaks loose in the enclosed space of the condo. The violent and deviant scenes to follow are unique and effective in that very special Cronenberg sort of way. Shivers has sex, nudity, incest, violence and even cannibalism. There is a ton of crazy shit going on here! Repulsive, erotic, nasty, “even dying is an act of eroticism”. As is the case with all the films on this list there are great performances here from Paul Hampton as Dr. St. Luc, the feline-esque Lynn Lowry as Nurse Forsythe, Allan Kolman as Nicholas Tudor, Susan Petrie as Janine Tudor, Joe Silver as Rollo Linsky and Barbara Steele as Betts. Cronenberg creates an excellent mood of paranoia and includes plenty of subtle and not-so-subtle commentary on contemporary 70′s culture. Shivers was Cronenberg’s first horror film and is one of his best.
FATHER’S DAY (2011) – The Dungeon Review!
Posted in horror, movies with tags Adam Brooks, Amy Groening, Astron-6, Billy Sadoo, Brent Neale, Conor Sweeney, Falcon Van Der Baek, Garrett Hnatiuk, Jeremy Gillespie, Kevin Anderson, Kyle Young, lloyd kaufman, Mackenzie Murdock, Matthew Kennedy, Meredith Sweeney, Murray Davidson, Steven Kostanski, Zsuzsi on February 23, 2014 by goregirl
I was making an effort this year to see some horror films from the past decade if it killed me. I thought I would kick off my viewing with a horror-comedy from a Canadian production/directing outfit Astron-6. The film was produced and distributed by Troma and even features a cameo appearance from Lloyd Kaufman who plays both God and Satan. Good fucking news! My first newish horror film in ages was a shitload of fun! All hail the Fuckmanus!
In the pre-credit prologue we get a glimpse of the father’s day killer. He has just killed a dad. We know this because they show us a DAD mug. He is noshing on the dead dad as Ahab makes his way up to the room. We know his name is Ahab because his license plate says AHAB*666. Ahab chases the killer down and wishes him a happy father’s day before he shoots him in the head.
A really nifty animated credit sequence follows.
We meet Twink who is being questioned at the police station about his father’s death. There has been a rash of fathers raped and killed. Father John Sullivan is waiting for Twink to offer him solace but Twink isn’t having any of it.
“Stay the fuck away from me Jesus freak.”
Father Sullivan visits Father O’Flynn and relays Twinks cold reception. O’Flynn tells Sullivan about “The Fuckman”.
“Many fathers were killed at that time. Not one was safe from the beast. Then one day he found Ahab’s father. I raised that boy as I would raise me own. He tried to kill The Fuckman. You must find this man Ahab”
Sullivan makes the long journey to Ahab’s remote home where he taps trees for maple syrup.
“Sorry, I’m tapping this maple tree.”
“It’s not a maple tree.”
Ahab is initially unreceptive but eventually agrees to meet with Father O’Flynn.
Ahab seeks out the last crime scene and runs into Detective Stegel. The two men have a history on account of Ahab’s vigilante past. There is no love lost between Stegel and Ahab. Stegel threatens to take Ahab and his little sister down if they interfere.
Ahab goes to see his little sister Chelsea who he has not seen since she was a child. Chelsea is working as a stripper in a bar run by Ahab’s former lover Sleazy Mary.
Ahab walks into the club’s dressing room to find this angry stripper with a chainsaw.
“How’d you get in here?” -Stripper
“Your doorman took a break.” -Ahab
“My god Artie, you got shot again?” -Stripper
Little sister Chelsea is understandably bitter about having to grow up in a nun-run orphanage. She tells Ahab to fuck off.
Twink and Walnut meet up with Chelsea. Twink is pretty choked up about his father and Chelsea invites him to stay with her. Suddenly the power goes out and Fuckman is in Chelsea’s apartment. Chelsea shoots the hell out of him but not before he rips out walnuts throat with his teeth. Ahab shows up too late. They need to take this Fuckman bastard down! But first they have to deal with Detective Stegel who is knocking on Chelsea’s door.
Twink and Ahab leave out the front door incognito as two of Chelsea’s girlfriends and head to the grave of Ahab’s father. They dig up the grave of Ahab’s father which is actually a coffin full of weapons.
“All hail Fuckmanus!”
Father Sullivan finds Father O’Flynn’s head in a box.
Father Sullivan joins Twink and Ahab on their mission to kill Fuckman.
They go to the strip club to retrieve Chelsea but Fuckman has been there and has laid waste to the staff. Chelsea is nowhere to be found.
Some shit happens and Ahab is badly injured. They are forced to lay low for the night. The hungry Twink and Father Sullivan finds some berries in Ahab’s pocket which they eat. The berries make them trip balls.
Ahab is just fine and dandy in the morning and the trio head out to find Fuckman and Chelsea.
“Did you guys see that?!” Things take a weird and supernatural turn at this point.
The film is presented as a television late show complete with Commercials. I wasn’t sure how I felt about this detail on my first viewing of the film. On a second watch however I thought it suited the campy comic book feel of the film. Also, the commercial is pretty damn entertaining.
Father Sullivan finds the ancient tome “The Fuchmanus”.
Hold on. Why is Ahab fucking his sister Chelsea? You are going to have to see the film to find out!
“I own upstairs and downstairs. You give the illusion of competition and it raises morale. Kinda like the movie business.” – Lloyd Kaufman as God and Satan.
They all end up in hell and have to fight a giant demon! I really could have lived without the Princess Leia and Jabba the Hutt Shtick. I thought this sequence was fabulous but I am so freaking sick of Star Wars references (and by the way I know Jabba the damn Hutt is from The bloody Empire Strikes Back and not Star Wars).
Father’s Day would have been a lot of fun to see at a festival with like-minded folks. It is campy, comical and its story and characters are outrageous. Creating visuals for your film that make it look like it was a seventies or eighties production seems to be a popular trend from the last few years. A trend that seems to have been inspired by Tarantino and Rodriguez’s Grindhouse. I’ve read a few negative opinions on the subject but I actually dig it. Granted it isn’t always done very well but when it is I enjoy it lots. Two of my favourite films from the past decade fall under that umbrella; Jason Eisener’s Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) and Scott Sanders’ Black Dynamite (2009). Father’s Day is made to look aged and doesn’t do too bad of a job of it but where it really succeeds is in the effects department. The giant demon in the film’s finale is super neato and there is plenty of gore. There is a delightful head-stomping, baby-stomping, a throat-ripping, explosive shot to the gut, blood/entrail vomiting and a few really nasty looking dead folks. Not all the humour made me laugh but there was more than enough that did; some great prop comedy and enjoyable performances too. I always enjoy religious folks doing sacrilicious stuff and the film’s two Father’s use the work fuck more often than Joe Pesci (okay, not more often than Joe Pesci but lots). Three of the film’s directors play central characters; Adam Brooks is Ahab, Matthew Kennedy is Father John Sullivan and Conor Sweeney is Twink. Twink was definitely my favourite character and would have been at home in any Troma film. I dug his Loverboy headband! Clearly the Astron-6 team are fans of low-budget eighties horror and Father’s Day fits the Troma label like a glove. I really look forward to checking out Astron-6’s Manborg now! For those of you who like corny, campy, gory fun you might enjoy Father’s Day as much as I did. Highly recommended!
Dungeon Rating: 4/5
Directed By: Astron-6 (Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, Conor Sweeney)
Starring: Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Garrett Hnatiuk, Brent Neale, Kevin Anderson, Meredith Sweeney, Zsuzsi, Lloyd Kaufman, Mackenzie Murdock, Billy Sadoo, Falcon Van Der Baek, Kyle Young, Murray Davidson
THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976) – The Dungeon Review!
Posted in horror, movies, USA with tags Barry Cooper, Gene Rutherford, George 'Buck' Flower, Jean Pierre Camps, Lonny Chapman, Lynne Guthrie, Mark Livingston, Matt Cimber, Millie Perkins, Peggy Feury, Richard Kennedy, Rick Jason, Roberta Collins, Stafford Morgan, Stan Ross, Vanessa Brown on February 16, 2014 by goregirl
I was completely unfamiliar with the title The Witch Who Came from the Sea until I picked it up at Black Dog Video last week. I did not read the back of the DVD to see what it was about only the comment written on a piece of paper taped to the front of the case; “This film is freakin’ awesome. It’s weird. It’s fun. It won most popular film at Cinemuerte 2004!” I lived in Vancouver in my twenties and moved back to Ontario for ten years. While I was away a short-lived film festival was concocted by former Black Dog employee Kier-La Janisse who was a huge horror fan. Black Dog Cambie was practically my second home back then. In a large part that was due to Kier-La’s presence. To this day I have met very few women who are passionate about horror films the way I am; very few women or men for that matter. Of course online I have connected with loads of folks but I am talking my everyday reality here. I used to enjoy just chatting with Kier-La, and she was always good for a solid recommendation. Unfortunately, I missed out on the awesomeness that was the Cinemuerte Film Festival which ran from 1999 to 2005 and featured such films as Massacre at Central High, School of the Holy Beast, Let me Die a Woman and Poor Pretty Eddie. I moved back to Vancouver in 2007 and while Cinemuerte was defunct I am happy to say that Black Dog Video is one of the few rental outlets still left standing. I rented The Witch Who Came from the Sea based on the aforementioned comment and what a fucking treat! What an unusual, hypnotic, fascinating journey this trippy psychological horror-drama was! I can’t thank the good people over at Black Dog Video enough for this brilliant recommendation! It’s just like old times.
Molly is spending some quality time with her nephews Tripoli and Tad at the beach. Molly is staring intently at two men working out. She is admiring their physiques. As Molly continues to admire the men the music becomes more frantic. Images are shot at the viewer like bullets as Molly eventually pictures both men dead. There was an animated image of blood drops pouring from one of the men’s heads that was so fantastic! The bloody image is flashed so damn quick however I was unable to catch it. I tried! For half an hour I tried! It just about drove me nuts!
Aunt Molly stays to watch the football game with the kids. Sam “the electric man” Walters and Austin Slade are the boys heroes. Molly speaks lovingly about her father to Tripoli and Tad. He was a Captain and according to Molly was lost at sea. Her sister Cathy, the kids mother has some different thoughts on dear old dad who she says was a real sonofabitch, an abusive alcoholic and an evil bastard. We learn early that Molly is in complete denial; powerful denial!
Molly has “episodes” but they are actually not really “episodes” at all. In Molly’s warped mind she believes she is imagining these events but in reality the are recollections of events that actually happened. Voice distortion is used when Molly is wigging out or recollecting an event which gives these scenes a particularly warped vibe. Molly picks up the two football players Sam “the electric man” Walters and Austin Slade. The trio go to a hotel together where they get naked and smoke pot. Molly ties them up and kills them. As a Captain’s daughter Molly knows how to tie a good secure knot.
“Do you shave with a straight razor? Or is this all going to be agonizingly slow?”
Molly works as a waitress at the Boathouse. The bar is owned by Long John who Molly is also sleeping with. Molly spends the night with Long John and is woken the next day by a newscast reporting the deaths of the two football players Sam Walters and Austin Slade. Molly is very upset and worried about her nephews. Molly is also becoming obsessed with a handsome man in a shaving commercial.
Molly has regular flashbacks to childhood. These flashback gets progressively creepier as the film roles along. In this flashback her and dad are building a boat and dad gets uncomfortably intimate.
Billy Batt is a movie star and regular customer at the Boathouse and has invited Molly and Long John to a party at his home. This scene explains the origins of the film’s title.
“Who is she?” -Molly
“She is a witch who came out of the sea.” -Billy
“She’s not a witch, she’s beautiful.” -Molly
“Venus.” -Billy
“Why did she come out of the sea?” -Molly
“Venus was born in the sea.” -Billy
“Why?” -Molly
“Her father was a god, they cut off his balls, his sperm got into the ocean and the sea was knocked up and Venus was the kid.” -Billy
Molly ends up in Billy Batts bedroom and bites his lip. Billy slaps her and Molly ends up getting pushed out the door by him into a room full of people. To those in the room it appears that Billy Batt was the aggressor; little do they know of Molly’s psychosis.
Back at the bar Molly complains she has a bad headache. Fellow waitress Doris offers her some pills.
“…and they’re two colors I’ve never seen in pills before; shocking pink and electric blue, and they’re a knock out.”
Molly meets the man in the shaving commercial, Alexander McPeak along with his girlfriend Clarissa.
“Do you love him?” -Molly
“McPeek? Gee, why?” -Clarissa
“Because I do. I want him.” -Molly
A very odd thing to just come out and say, but everyone seems to think Molly’s childlike wonder is charming. Well, Clarissa did not think it was terribly charming.
Molly gets a tattoo of a mermaid on her stomach; one just like dad used to have. She chitty chats with tattoo artist Jack Dracula and shares with him the name she gave herself as a child; Molly Contiki Polynesia Easter.
Molly will not get undressed in front of Long John on account of her new tattoo. Molly and Long John have a conversation about when Molly first had sex. Molly does not know the answer to that question. “How could you not know Molly?” Long John asks. This triggers a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious trip out to an event where it appears that Molly has killed and chopped up several men on a boat! It is a very lovely and cool looking psychedelic colored-tinted segment!
Molly goes to see Alexander McPeak.
“Who are you? Did you shave this morning? I never see your face in color, I only see it in black and white.”
As she is speaking these words, warped circus music is playing in her head as a creepy looking clown is making silly gestures.
Long John wakes up to see Molly lying beside him covered in blood.
No one knows better than her sister Cathy what ails Molly.
Tripoli and Tad come by Long Johns for a visit with Aunt Molly. Molly’s facade of sanity if finally slipping.
The final and most disturbing childhood flashback.
All drugged up and Molly is floating on a calm sea.
I knew in the first five minutes that I was going to love The Witch Who Came from the Sea. The wacky opening scene with Aunt Molly and the kids at the beach was totally one of a kind! We are completely aware of Molly’s severe psychosis and there is no mystery for the viewer of who killed the football players. It is however a mystery to the film’s characters. Although we are aware of Molly’s mental state there is much we still need answered. The film leaves no loose ends and offers a few surprises also. Despite being completely loco, Molly is a likable and empathetic character. Molly appears to genuinely be unable to control her actions and her back story is so distressing it is easy to understand why her mind has become such a prison. A huge part of this treasure’s charm was the strange and compelling lead performance from Millie Perkins who plays Molly. Perky Perkins quirky performance, her child-like wonder and natural beauty had me enthralled. Molly is the film’s focus but there are some fun and eccentric supporting roles that are worth noting; especially Long John and the foul-mouthed waitress Doris. They add some humor to the proceedings. The Witch Who Came from the Sea has several surreal and hypnotic moments. Although I included pictures for several of these scenes they really can’t do them justice. It is the voice distortion, the camera tricks, the tinting, the sound effects and the music that accompanies these images that intensifies the trip. The Witch Who Came from the Sea is horror of the psychological persuasion and the violence is not graphic. It certainly offers up an array of disturbing moments but they are of the variety that get under the skin and messes with the psyche. The Witch Who Came from the Sea is definitely my favourite film of the year thus far, I don’t think I’ve ever felt so sad about returning a rental. Why isn’t this mine?! I am supposed to be easing off the DVD purchases to save up for a trip to New York later in the year but I MUST have this film in my collection. The Witch Who Came from the Sea gets my highest of recommendations; a perfect score.
Directed By: Matt Cimber
Starring: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Peggy Feury, Jean Pierre Camps, Mark Livingston, Rick Jason, Stafford Morgan, Richard Kennedy, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Roberta Collins, Stan Ross, Lynne Guthrie, Barry Cooper, Gene Rutherford
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It’s bird’s eye view in Paris!
The tennis season’s second major starts in Paris this weekend with big names missing from the women’s draw and one major omission from the men’s tournament. It’s a chance for lesser lights and up-and-comers to showcase their talents but there will probably be at least one very familiar name on a trophy in fifteen days’ time.
Men’s favourites
The absence of Roger Federer won’t be felt too keenly. His resurgence in the early part of the year should not be underestimated or discredited but he simply would not be the threat on clay that he was on the early hard courts of the year; the Swiss clearly recognises this himself hence his decision to skip in preparation for Wimbledon. Instead, it falls to his oldest and longest rival Rafael Nadal to draw the biggest crowds to Roland Garros where the popular Mallorcan will go for his tenth French Open crown. Nadal has a tricky opening match against the once-touted-future-number-one Benoit Paire but no serious money should be put on the Frenchman to get a set never mind the win. From there on, it is not until the semi-finals that Rafa will face a stiff test when he will be expected to come up against Novak Djokovic. The Serb is in fairly decent form as he comes into his first tournament working alongside new coach Andre Agassi but would come up short against the King of Clay again. Djokovic should be applauded rather than condemned for ripping up his coaching team in an attempt to get back into the majors picture but positive results will come later on in the year if at all.
Federer’s absence won’t detract
Where will the challenge come from the other part of the draw? There is a potential blockbuster third round tussle on the horizon between Andy Murray and Juan-Martin del Potro, with the Argentine possibly slight favourite at this time. Murray has admitted his bemusement at his current lack of form on the orange dirt and don’t forget that whilst he reached the final last year, he twice had to come from two sets down in the early rounds. Add into that the savage battles these two have had in the past and del Potro might be ready to take another step back to the top. It is 20 year old Alexander Zverev who could provide the fireworks in the top half of the draw. The German has long been predicted to reach the top and his form going into this event (wins in Munich and Rome) point to him as Nadal’s biggest threat. A run to the final would be a minefield, but it would not be a shock if he successfully negotiated matches against Del Potro, Kei Nishikori and Stan Wawrinka. Wawrinka can never be counted out as he is capable of beating everyone on his day but there is nothing in his current form to suggest a second Roland Garros title is in his grasp – worth remembering though that his other title wins have all come from under the radar too. The only other guy in with a shout is Dominic Thiem; the young Austrian reached the semi-final last year but was found lacking when up against Djokovic; another year of experience will see him as a bigger threat and a recent runner-up display in Madrid serves notice of his chances here. Expect him to put up a better shout this year but still go down to Djokovic in the quarters.
The women’s tournament is lacking traditional star power but has the allure of unpredictability written all over it. Last year’s champion is here but Serena Williams is pregnant, Victoria Azarenka is not yet ready to return after childbirth and Maria Sharapova’s ranking is not yet high enough to qualify after her doping ban. Those three names are all top draws for fans but it is up to the women who are there to put their names and games to the forefront.
2016 champion Garbine Muguruza will be fairly confident that she can win a second major in Paris as she has been gifted a fairly stress-free draw but there is a potential banana skin in the form of in-form Kiki Mladenovic in the Last 16. The French doubles specialist has really upped her singles game in the last nine months much like Sam Stosur once did and with the backing of a fervent Parisian crowd she could cause major trouble for the defending champion. If Muguruza comes through that, expect her to make her way into her third Slam final.
Lazy Paris days 🙂
Simona Halep has a niggling ankle injury which may cause her to pull out before her first round match but if she is cautious with it over the first few rounds she has time to play herself into fitness. A finalist in 2014, Halep would fancy her chances against the likes of Dasha Kasatkina and Carla Suarez-Navarro, before a possible winner-takes-all quarter-final clash with the bang-in-form Elina Svitolina, which would be a repeat of the recent Rome final, Svitolina coming out on top on that occasion. I am reticent to predict a first major for the Ukrainian as she is one of my favourite players, but bookmakers make these two the favourites so there has to be something in that. Halep, however, won the Madrid final, besting Kiki Mladenovic so, fitness permitting, definitely looks the one to beat in Paris. Karolina Pliskova will be well-placed to take advantage should these favourites fail to live up to their tags, but it must be said that clay is not her preferred surface and her golden time should come later in the year. Spare a thought for Petra Kvitova too. Just six months after being attacked by a knifeman in her Prague home, she is set to open up proceedings on Philippe Chatrier Court tomorrow morning. There were fears that she would never play again so this will be her biggest victory so far in an already-stellar tennis career.
Is Svitolina really ready to win a major? 🙂
Predictions: Nadal to beat Alex Zverev in final.
Halep to beat Muguruza in final.
Most likely to disappoint: Andy Murray and Dominika Cibulkova
French players to go furthest: Kiki Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia
Filed under Roland Garros
Tagged as Alexander Zverev, Andy Murray, Dominic Thiem, Elina Svitolina, Garbine Muguruza, Karolina Pliskova, Kiki Mladenovic, Novak Djokovic, Petra Kvitova, Rafael Nadal, Roland Garros, Simona Halep
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